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LONDON, THURSDAY, JUN F' 27, 1844.

The Lords did not sit last evening.

In the Commons Mr. Braoirr gave notice that he
would this day call the attention of Sir JAMES GRA-
HAM to the formation of a troop of yeomanry in the
district of Rochdale.

The order of the day for the second reading of Mr.
KELLT's Bill for appeals in criminal cases was post-
poned till Wednesday, when the Hon. Member would
take the sense of the House on the subject.
Mr..T. DUNCOMBE gave notice that on Tuesday
' next he Would move for a Select Committee to inquire
into that department of the Post-office called
the Secret-office. Mr. DUNCOMBE deserves the
support and gratitude of the public in his
praise-worthy endeavours to bring the Home Secre-
tary to justice, and put an end to the spy-system.
We hear but one opinion on the subject. Every man,
and woman too, denounce a practice which gave
FOUCISE such unenviable notoriety, and which, we
trust, will not disgrace this, free country...,,
Mr; S. O'BRIEN resumed the debate' on the repeal
of the corn-laws; he directed his attacks' chiefly
against the League, and protested against its narrow,
selfish, and unconstitutional policy.
Captain LAYARD, though he would prefer a small
fixed duty, supported the motion. Lord RENDLE-

After two nights' discussion, remarkable for no speech
of any particular moment, with the exception of that
delivered by Lord Howsea on Tuesday, who gave
utterance to some weighty and significant truths,
which will not be speedily forgotten by those who
heard, and those who read them, the debate on the
corn-laws was last night brought to a close, when
the majority against Mr. VILLIERS'S motion was 204.
This, it must Le confessed, was a large majority,
but when we come to consider the constitution of
the present House of Commons, how completely
it has surrendered its independence into the hands
of Sir ROBERT PEEL, ar.d how imperfectly it
represents and gives expression to the wants
and wishes of the vast mass of the people, we
cease to be surprised at the triumph of the monopolist
'party, awl are only the more confirmed in our con-
viction that these sort of triumphs cannot be of long
continuance. The League has no reason to be dis-
mayed by the result of last night's division ; rightly
considered, it has not in the slightest degree thrown
back the cause which that great national confederacy
has so much at heart, but will even have been pro-
ductive of good, if it shall be the means of stimu-
lating the free-traders to still further exertions. They
must now see, that for some time to come at least,
they have little to expect from Sir ROBERT PEEL and
those who act according to his bidding. He told them
distinctly last night—and is case there should be any
misapprehension of his meaning, he twice repeated
the assertion that it was not his intention
to make the slightest alteration in the pre-
sent corn-law. " I prefer the principle of the
Bill of 1842," be said, "to the principle of the
Bill of the Noble Lord, and I have only to repeat
the declaration which on the part of her Majesty's
Government, I made at the commencement of the
present session, that we do not intend, and that we
have not intended, to diminish the protection which
the existing corn-law gives to the agricultural in-
terests." In these few, but emphatic words, the
PREMIER clearly throws down the gauntlet of defi-
ance to the League, and dares them to do their
worst. He will not advance an inch nearer to them
in the way of conciliation or compromise, but
will maintain the position which he now holds.
But not only this, in the conviction of his own
strength, and the inability of the League to grapple
successfully with him and force him to change his re-
solution, he actually taunts Mr. COBDEN and some
other free-traders who supported him the other night
on the Sugar Duties, with the vote which they gave
on that-occasion. " I hope," he sneeringly observed
—and no man sneers with such a smiling, well-bred
bitterness as the Premier—in reference to the empty
state of the Opposition benches, at an early period of the
evening, "I hope that the assistance which the Hon.
Gentleman and his friends gave to me at my benefit the
other night, has not been the cause of depriving
them of a fuller audience." It is thus Sir It. PEEL
acknowledges and repays the services which Mr.
COBDEN—most ill-advisedly, as we must say—ren-
dered him a night or two since on a question in which
the Government were most dseply interested, and on
which, otherwise, they must have sustained a most
humiliating defeat ! Henceforth, we suspect, the
Hon. Member for Stockport will be cautious how he
applies his shoulder to the wheel, in order to lift
the State-waggon out of the mud, seeing that his as-
sistance is taken quite as a matter of course, and is re-
paid only by a quiet supercilious indifference. We have
said that Lord HowicK's speech was the only redly
remarkable one that was made during the discussion,
ft was indeed eminently so, if for nothing more than
these important truths :—" All experience proved,"
said his Lordship, " that if justice were too long
withheld, more than justice would be demanded, and he
thought there were significant symptoms abroad that

we were not far from that end. It was true the Go-
vernment was all powerful in that I-louse, but he
should look with alarm to any sudden or violent dis-
tufba.nce of the political institutions of the country, and
he warned the House that theirfoundations were sapped
from the moment when the persuasion became general
that those in whose hands poWer was placed, perverted
that power to their own benefit, to the oppression of
the rest of the communay. That persuasion was fast
gaining ground." There is much more trath in
these remarks than it would suit the convenience of
Sir ROBERT PEEL and his Conservative tools to
allow. The existence of Chartism, so general among
the operative classes, if not quite so noisy us
it has been ; the discontent of the agricultural
classes made manifest in the wandering va-
garies• of SWING, who, we believe, has now, with
the torch in his hand, paid a visit to every county in
England :—these, to say nothing of a hundred minor
ones, are significant symptoms, which indicate the
deep and growing discontent of the masses with the
system of class legislation, and prove, also, that that
false and purblind system of legislation is, of neces-
sity, drawing, slowly indeed, but surely, to a close.

Madrid journals of the 19th have been received
Most of them have articles on the proposed conces.
sions of Don CARLOS, alluded to in the House of
Commons, and we are glad to find them in genera]
opposed to the marriage of his son to the QUEEN.
The Ileraldo gives the following account of the finan-
cial arrangements just concluded by M. Mori :

" Yesterday the arrangement between the holders of Trea-
snly-bills and the Minister of Finance was happily con-
cluded. The former accepted Three per Cents. at 35 percent.
in exchange for the bills to fall due, the liquidation of the
contracts whence they arose taking place. This piece of news
contains the whole prospects of our country. The conversion
of the floating debt into Three per Cents. yields from this
day to the Government above 60,000,000 a month, with
which it will not only be able to provide for the most press-
ing engagements of the Treasury, but also to assist the in-
dividuals to whom it is indebted, and who have had so much
to suffer from our revolution. We also know that M. Mon
thinks of settling with the San Fernando bank and the Cen-
tralization, provided their intentions be moderate. Lastly,
yesterday the money required for the payment, in the French
and English capitals, of the half-year's interest on the Three
per Cents. due at the end of June, was transmitted to Paris.
All these occurrences have exercised a favourable influence
over the Madrid Exchange, and we think that our paper will
reach, both in Spain and abroad, the rate it should have."
The Barcelona journals state that the Secretary of
the Engl'sh Embassy had taken 11;s departure for
Paris and London, with important dispatches, in re-
ference to a modification of the present Spanish tariff.
On the Madrid Bourse the Three per Cents. closed
at 27i for cash, and 281 at 60 days, and the Five per
Cents. at Di for cash, and 201 at 60 days.

The Paris porn of Tue.,day contain a telegraphic
dispatch from Toulon, announcing that the fleet, under
the command of the Prince DE JOINVILLE, had set sail
on Sunday, the 23d, for Oran. The squadron was
composed cf the three sail of the line, Suffren, Jern-
mapes, and Triton, the Belle Poule frigate of GO,
Asmodeus man-of-war steamer, the steam-corvette
Pluton, and the steamers Phare and Rubis. Twelve
hundred troops, including a company of engineers
and three companies of marine artillery, have been
embarked. Several regiments have received orders
to march to Toulon to re-inforce the troops under
Get:eral BUGEAUD, on the frontiers of Morocco. A
Government journal thus describes the position occu-
pied by the French army in that quarter :

" The camp of Lillis Maghania, at which Marshal Bugeaud
now is, and before which the Mor-,cco troops have twice
come to give battle, is nine leagues from Tlemcen, six leagues
from Ouehda, the first town in the kingdom of Morocco,_ and
between two and three leagues of the frontier. The boun-
dary of the two States is well defined both by the topography
of the country and historical records. The bad faith of the
people of Morocco, and their insensate passion for making
war against the Christians, have been their only motives for
their pretending to drive us to the left bank of the Tafna,
five leagues back. This camp, established by General de
Lamoriciere, is defended by a terraced inclosure, with flanking
bastions, mounted with cannon. Within are barracks in
timber-work for field hospitahr, magazines, and offices for
the staff. It forms the general depot of provisions, ammu-
nition, and stores, and is the rallying point for all the troops
assembled on the frontier, amounting to between 8,000 and
9,000 men. This corps is composed of General de Lamori-
ciere's division, General Bedeau's brigade, and a brigade just
brought by Marshal Bugeaud from ()ran."

On Monday, the motion of the Government for an-
milling the vote carried on Saturday by a majority.
of 1; or rather, for delaying the further considera-
tion of the question, whether the rails on the Paris
and Lyons Railroad, should be laid down by the State,
was carried by a majority of 28, there being for the
motion, 182, and against it, 154 ; and on Tuesday
the Bill was passed. The Rouen and Nantes Railway
Bill was also passed by a great majority, and the
sum of 28,000,000 f. voted for forming the line.
Several domiciliary visits were made on Sunday

SHAM opposed it. A number of speakers followed,
but we see few arguments adduced by them that re-
quire notice. The only important feature in the
debate was the determination of the Government to
adhere, for the present, to the sliding scare.
The House divided, when the numbers were—For
the motion, 124; against it, 328.
The other business was disposed of, and the House
adjourned at a Quarter to Two.

by the Paris police; on the ground that there was
some plot in agitation, it favour of the Duke of
BORDEAUX. Th, following is the account given of
the affair, in the Carlist jo.trnal, the Quolidienne ;

"Oa Sunday the police pail a visit to the office of the
Charitable Society of St. Louis, and found there and carried
off some prospectus indicating the conditions on which. re-
lief may be obtained, and thebooks of accounts. To com-
plete their petty persecution trey removed to, and still keep
at, the Prefecture M. de Lerinois, the Secretary. At the
same time the police made a descent at the house of Prince
Gaston de Montmorency, whois absent from Paris, forced the
locks of his furniture, and urried off the rapers, his manu-
scripts, and a certain number of busts of henri of France.
Yesterday ( Monday) a long ::earch took place at the house of
the Duke d'Escars, who, wilt the Pri..ce de Montmorency,
is one of the protectors of the Clrtritable Society of St.
Louis. The police seized the printe I. rapers of the -Society,
some private letters, and a great Lumber of pamphlets rela-
tive to the liberty of instruction, which is now, as every one
knows, a very factious thine!.., ar.d, therefore, the letters of the
Bishop of Langres and the pamphlet of
.M. de Ravignon
were seized, as necessary elenients of the grand plot."
THE BOUASE-,--TuEsDAY, JUNE 25.

First Highest Lowest Last

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Fire pere':nts•• •••• 17.'2 25 .• 122 30 122 20 .. 122 30
Four-and-a-Half il3 23 .. 113 25 .. 113 23 •• 113 25
Three per Cents... •• S 2 40 .. b 2 45 .. 82 50 82 30
Bank of France••.•• •..• 1060 ..3060 . 3060 —3060
Belgian Bank. ..... ••• • • • 660 • • 660 • • 660 .• 660
1841•••••••••1110 —lllO ..1110 ..1110
Bergian Fires, • ..... • • 103 .. 103 .. 103 103
1840 ••••••.• 104 .. 1041 .. 104 •• 1041
1842 •••• •• 1081 •• 1081 •• 1081 •• 10's
Threes.. •• ....
Spanish Active .
Threes .. •• •• •• •• •• .. 35 .. 35 .. 35
Portuguese Five per Cents 47 .. 47 .. 47 •• 47
Netr.01itan.......••••• • •• 99 GO .. 99 GO .. 99 55 .. 99 GO
Ron-.an ...... ..... •• 1041 .. 1041 .. 1041 .. 1041
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain ..
Versailles, R. 8.• • • ..• • • 410 .. 410 .. 402 50 .. 407 50
L. 13.•• •• •••• •••• '273 .. 275 .. 270 .• 273 15
R0uen..............920 .. 090 .. 990 .. 990
Rouen to Havr:•• •• •• •• •• •• 772 50 .. 772 50 .. 772 50 .. 772 50
Orleans •• • •• •••••001 25 ..1106 25 ..1001 25 ..1005
Strasburg to Bale•••••••••• 243 75 .. 245 .. 242 50 .. 212 AO
Avignon to A1ar5ei11,...... 772 50 .. 772 50 .. 761 50 . 767 50
RAILWAY SILUES FOR 30. at JUNE.
St. Germ,- •• •••• •• •• •••• 897 50 930 .. 897 50 .. 9‘:'o
Versailles, 11.11 •• •• •••• 420 .. 420 .• 405 .. 411 25
L. 8.• •• •• •• •••• 295 .. 300 .. 267 50 .. 275
R0uen.•.••....•.•........ 995 .. 993 . 990 .. 990
Rouen to Havre. ••
Orleans ....
Strasburg to Bale•• •• •• •••• 245 .. 245 .. 243 73 .. 243 75
Avignon to Marseilles•••••• 773 75 .. 773 75 .. 767 60 767 50

RUMOURED D AATII OF MR. JUSTICE ERSKINE.—
It was currentiv reported in Westminster Hall that
Mr. Justice Erskine died t'lis morning. The report
is without foundation.

We are glad to learn, that Mr:Percival Bankes, the
barrister, is likely to be appointed successor to the
late Mr. O'Hanlon, as Counsel to the Irish Go-
vernment. 1k belongs, of course, to the party
which support the Government, but he is Inot a man
of bigoted politics—he has ever been consistent, he
has distinguished himself by many excellent articles
in a periodical publication of high eminence ; but,
what is of more importance he is a gond lawyer ; he
is on the best terms with the leaders of the Liberal
party in Ireland, and his appointment would meet with
the approbation of his opponents. Mr. Eneas M`Donnell
is said to be the only candidate that stands in his
way; but will Sir James Graham give another
im-
pulse to public feeling apinst the Home7office—Will
he add oil to the flame which burns with.such vigoUr
in Ireland—by giving his support to one who was-in
former times the most determined friend of the Irish
Catholics, and is now more hostile to them than even
Lord Roden or Mr. Plumptre?
MORTALITY TN THE METROFOLIS.—There has been
a considerable increase in the number of deaths during
the last week. The total number was 920, while
during the previous week it was only 855. This in-
crease has been caused chiefly by deaths from small-
pDx, scarlatina, croup, and violent deaths. Of the 30
persons who died from small-pox, 16 had not been
vaccinated. The following is the analysis of the
violent deaths :---Fracture or contusion, 23 cases, of
which 13 were from falls, 6 from animals and car-
riages, and 1 from machinery ; burns, 7 ; scald, 1 ;
drowning, 8 ; and 6 from suicide. The thermometer
was highest on Saturday, 79.6, and lowest on Mon-
day, 46.8 degrees. The total amount of rain in inches
was only 01.

THIS DAY'► NEWS.

AEWCASTLE RACES.

YESTERDAY.

(BY EXPRESS.)
The Gateshead, or Lcttery Stakes, of 10 sous. each, pp. Tin

- -
miles. (22 Subs.)
Mr. St. Paul's Telemachus
Lord Zetland's Co-heiress
Mr. Bowes's T'Auld 'Squire......,. 3
Mr. Critchley's His Royal Highness 4
Won easy.
The Northumberland Plate of 200 sous., added to a Handicap
025 sovs. each, 15 ft, and 5 only if declared. Two miles.
Mr. H.' Johnstone's Era, by Plenipo, 4 yrs, ist M.—(1.3,e) 1
Mr. Meiklam's The Best of Three, 3 yrs, sst 111'o
Mr. J. Scott named Bay Momus, 3 yrs, sst 101 b P
Mr. Cuthbert's Queen of Tyne, 5 yrs, 7st 81b
Mr. Ramsay's Whistle Binkie, 5 yrs 0
Lord Miltown's Scalteen, 5 yrs
Major Yarburgh's Dumpling, 4 yrs
Lord Eglinton's Pompey, 4 yrs
Mr. R. Bell's Reviewer, 4 yrs
Mr. Harrison's Hippona, 4 yrs
Mr. Jaques's Advice, 3 yrs
6to 5 agst Bay Momus, Bto 1 agst Era. The Era went in
front at the distance, and won in a common canter.
..... .

The Corporation Plate of 60/., added to a Sweepstakes of 5
sous. each, pp., two miles, was won in two heats, by Mr.
Scott's Little Hampton, 3 yrs (Francis), beating Mr. Meik-
lam's Godfrey, Captain Boyd's Lara, Sir C. Monck's Glossy,
Mr. Salvin's Beeswax, and Mr. Walker's Ravensworth, by
several lengths.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.)
Their Lordships sat to-day in a Committee for privileges.
The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of
Shaftesbury Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, the Earl of
Ridesdale, Cord Sudeley, the Earl of Fortescue, Lord Clburne,
and Lord Monteagle.
THE WHARTON BARONY.
Mr. KELLT proceeded to sum up in this claim, in the course
of which he took an objection to the outlawry of the Duke of
Wharton with which the Committee decided they could not
deal, and in consequence thereof the matter was ordered to
stand over sini (lie, in order that proceedings might be taken,
in the Queen's Bench to set aside the outlawry.
Their Lordships then proceeded to hear Scotch appeals.
ADAM V. FARQUHAR.
Mr. KELLY resumed his arguments on behalf of the ap-
pellant in this appeal, the arguments of which occupied their
Lordships the whole day.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before the VICE-CIIANCELIAM of ENGLAND.)
His Honour sat in Lincoln's Inn to-day.
ROBERTS v. MADDOX.
The further arguments in this part-heard motion, occupied
his-Honour the whole day. The object of the motion is to
commit the defendant for a breach of an injunction granted
by the Court.

CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.)
George Bathy, alias Floatan, a cab-driver, badge 687, was
charged with being drunk, and assaulting police-constables
72 G and 223 G. _

It appeared from the evidence that, this morning between
one and two o'clock, the constables tbund the prisoner lying
drank in the carriage-way, and fearing he would be run over,
they aroused him. The rufliian, instead of feeling grateful
for the service done him, had no sooner got upon his legs,
than he aimed a desperate blow at 72 G, and such was his
violence that it required the combined exertions of four con-
stables to take him to the station-house. On their way to
the station-house, the prisoner struck 223 G such a violent
blow, that he reeled over to the other side of the street. He
then aimed a kick at a delicate and vital part of the person of
the other officer, but a smart blow of the truncheon on the
shin prevented its taking effect.

The prisoner, when asked for his license as a cab driver,
sail his master had it, bat, upon search, it was found in his
pocket.
Inspector Fletcher said the prisoner was well known to
the police c,f the 31 division as a very formidable character.
Police-constable 82 G added that the prisoner had threat-
ened to murder him.

The prisoner was sentenced to pay a tine of 1/, or suffer
a commensurate term of imprisonment. The Magistrate also
suspended his license for a fortnight.

UNION HALL.-(THIS DAY.)
Susannah Jupp, a respectable-looking elderly woman, was
charged with stabbing her husband, who, however, was not
in attendance.

The policeman stated, that hearing a cry of "murder" pro-
ceed from a house in Wootton- street, Lambeth, the preceding
night, he entered and found a man bleeding from the arm,
and he pointed out the prisoner, who was sitting crying in a
corner of the room, as the person who had wounded him.
The policeman added, that he then took the prisoner into
custody, but the husband had this morning expressed his
intention not to appear against her. She was under the
effects of liquor at the time.
Mr. TRAM. said that the prisoner had placed herself in a
most perilous situation, for if her husband attended, she
would be committed for trial, and if convicted, sentenced to a
severe punishment. Under the circumstances, therefore, he
was compelled to discharge her.