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LONDON, FRIDAY, JUN 1: 28, 1844.

The Bishop of LONDON presented upwards of
ninety petitions to the House of Lords against the
Dissenters' Chapels Bill, and expressed his firm con-
viction that the amendments made in the Commons
would not do away with the mischievous tendency of
the measure. It is a great rarity to find the Wool-
sack deserted by the bench of Bishops.
Lord BROUGHAM postp med the second reading of
the Privy Council Bill till Monday. This Bill has
been so long in abeyance, that the public thought it
was given up.

The Marquis of CLANRICARDE moved for certain
returns relative to the manner in which the Poor-law
Commissioners had carried out the Act for providing
relief to the poor in Ireland.

After a few words from the Duke of WELLINGTON,
the motion was agreed to, and the House adjourned.
In the Commons, a brief discussion took place re-
lative to the right of Members to vote on Bills in
which they had a direct interest. Mr. ESCOTT cited
a variety of instances against such a right, and moved
a resolution to that effect. After some remarks, how-
ever, from different Members, the motion was with-
drawn. As there seemed to be some doubt, however,
whether the standing orders of the House applied also
to Committees, Mr. GLADSTONE moved that the rules
of the House relating to the votes of Members having
an interest in a question applies to Members in Corn-
mittee. The resolution was adopted.
Mr. CoLgunoux gave notice, that on the motion
for the third reading of the Dissenters' Chap?ls Bill,
he would move that it should be read that day six
months.

In answer to a question from Mr. M. GIBSON, Sir
JAMES GRAHAM if aid Le did not think it advisable to
appoint a Special Commission to inquire into the
causes of incendiarism in Essex, Suffolk, and Nor-
folk. A number of persons were already in custody
charged with the crime of incendiarism, awl as the
ordinary assizes would commence in a short time, al!
the circumstances would be inquired into.
Sir ROBERT PEEL, in reply to a question from Mr.
`NYSE, said that after the Counsel for the Crown had
made their statement in the [louse of Lords, relative
to the writ of error on the Irish State Trials, the
motion of the Hon. Member should come on upon a
Government day.
Lord ELIOT, in answer to a question from Mr.
Ross, said he had received no information from the
Lord Chancellor of Ireland that Mr. O'Dniscom. had
been reinstated as a Magistrate of Cork.
On the motion, that the Sugar Duties Bill be read
a third time, Mr. IliwEs briefly addressed the House,
for the purpose of showing that slavery existed in
Java and China to as great an extent as in Brazil and
Cuba. Mr. P. M. STEWART expressed similar senti-

ments, and neither Mr. GLADSTONE nor Lord STAN
LEY could refute them.

After speeches from Mr. WAnnunzos, Mr. BRIGHT,
Sir ROBERT PEEL, and Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the
Bill was read a third time.

The House went into Committee on the Bank
Charter Bill, when the principal clauses were agreed
to and the House resumed.

The Dissenters' Chapels Bill was postponed
;o-dad•.
The House adjourned at Half.past One.

The rumour gains ground—and we have every
reason to believe that it is a well-founded one—that
Lord HEYTESBURY, late Sir WILLIAM A'COURT, will
succeed Earl DE GREY as Viceroy of Ireland.
Though a Tory, his Lordship is known to be a states-
man of enlightened and comprehensive views, com-
pared at least with the majority of his party, mode-
rate in his politics, of an active and vigorous turn of
mind, and of regular business habits; and as he has
had much practical experience in public affairs,—
having commenced his career upwards of forty years
ago—we are willing to hope that his administration
will be attended with advantage to the interests of the
sister country, for an astute veteran diplomatist such
as he is known to be, cannot but have perceived long
since that the time is for ever past when Ireland could
be governed successfully on any other than moderate
and tolerant principles. Earl DE GREY—in ac-
cordance with the trimming and plausible PEEL system
of policy—tried finesse, evasion, and lip-liberality,
and a precious business he has made of it; and Lord
HEYTESBURY, warned by the fate of his predecessor,
will, we hope and trust, legislate in a directly oppo-
site spirit, and try what is to be done by adopting a
frank, manly, liberal, and conciliatory course of can-
duct. The Marquis of NORMANBY, and, after him,
Lord FORTESCUE, both adopted this equitable plan of
action, and their success was unequivocal; and to
follow in their track should be the object of every
Viceroy, who is really desirous that his Government
should be a blessing rather than a curse to the sister
country. But, whatever is to be done in the way of
conciliation must be done quickly, otherwise it will lose
all its grace, and wholly fail of its effect. The pre-
sent condition of Ireland can no longer be safely
regarded with indifference. It is full of inflam-
mable materials; is becoming daily more and more
estranged from England; and more bent—notwith-
standing the manifest injuriousness and absurdity of
the scheme—on the restoration of its own domestic
Parliament. The following is the emphatic 2anguage
used by the Dublin Pilot, a paper thoroughly ac-
quainted with the feelings of the majority of Irish-
men, which speaks their sentiments, and is in full pos-
session of their confidence :—" The imprisonment of
O'CONNELL has infused into the hearts of the Irish,
in exchange for the buoyant light-heartedness of pub-
lic assemblies, a deep, brooding, self-restrained, but
for that reason more intense, hatred to England—a
hate silent from its excess—silent from a determina-
ti an to make its vengeance sure—silent, but for
that reason more terrible than if it heard once more

the words of peaceful wisdoin with which the
Liberator was wont to cheer the hopes of suffering
men, and to extract from their hearts any black drops
of hate or animosity that found a place there.
O'CONNELL out of prison, Irish agitation was
associated with a balmy hope, a cheerfulness
which mitigated its bitterness. Within the dungeon
walls, there is abroad, we tell our rulers, a deadly
rancour, a gloomy determination, enduring but
fierce, which makes us, who have always had the
greatest confi fence in the virtues and forbearance of

Irishmen, tremble !" These are impresSive words,
and we have not the slightest doubt that they express
with perfect fidelity the bitter, vindictive, exasperated
state of the Irish mind. Will the Tories—or
Conservatives, as they prefer calling themselves—
never awake to a sense of what they owe to the sister
country ? Will they still continue to slumber on in
selfish, contented apathy, regardless of the little black
speck that already appears on the verge of the horizon,
and announces the coming tempest ? We warn them
to take heed in time. We warn their leader, in par-
ticular, since he has seen fit to change his Irish Lord-
Lieutenant, to change also his system or Irish policy
—to substitute conciliation for coercion— -settled prin-
iple for shifting
expediency—things for words—
the solid substance for the mere empty
shadow of liberality—otherwise he will not only
be hurled from his own present high eminence, and
involve all his party in his fall ; but, what is of a
thousand times greater moment, he will run the risk
of bringing about such a state of things in Ireland as
it will be impossible to put down without bloodshed.
We are still willing to hope, however—notwithstand-
ing that we have been so often disappointed in our
expectations—that the appointment of Lord llErrEs-
Bum to the Irish Viceroyalty announces the dawn of
a more impartial and comprehensive system of Irish

The coercive plan of action having noto-

riously failed, it is but reasonable to infer that

Minieters, made wise Ly experience, are not unAil-

ling to attempt the novel experiment of conciliation.
We repeat, therefore, that we hail the appointment of his
Lordship as an omen of good to the sister country.
It is a difficult task he is called on to fulfil ; but with
patience and sagacity, and perseverance in a liberal
course of policy, he can scarcely fail of success in his
efforts; and it will be a glorious close to his long
political career, if he shall be able to say, when his
Irish administration is at an end, that he found the
country agitated and left it tranquil—that he found
it estranged from, and he left it reconciled to, Eng-
land—that he found Repeal a living principle, and he
left it a mere caput mortuurn—that he found the coun-
try overrun by horse, foot, and artillery, and he left
it sufficiently protected by one or two regiments and
the usual police force.

We perceive that the Marylebone Vestry has set a
becoming example to other similar bodies in the
metropolitan districts. It has manifested a consistent
and spirited resistance to the most un-Christian and
eminently un-English mania of the Right Hon. the
Home Secretary for pulling down the existing prisons
of our capital, and re-constructing them expressly
with a view to adapt them to the purposes of soli-
tary confinement, on his "model plan." Our readers
are aware of the reckless spirit of innovation in which
Sir JAMES GRAHAM has pressed upon the county and
municipal magistracies, throughout the kingdom, the
adoption of his favourite "silent system nostrum."
He has urged it month after month, day after day,
utterly " regardless of the expense " (as Mr. GEORGE
Rontsis would say) which his project may entail cm.,
the locality it is to be inflicted upon, and still more
regardless of - the feelings of those unhappy victims
who are to be experimented on by the terrors of that
system. The objections which the Marylebone Vestry
have expressed to the plan regard the jobbing cha-
racter of that plan ; its immoderate expense; the
inequitable distribution of that expense ; and, above
all, the stupendous inhumanity of the punishment
itself. On all these grounds we earnestly exhort the
magistracy of this kingdom to resist, by every con-
stitutional means that may be available to them, the
baneful application of the Government on this subject.
And first, as to the character of " a job" attaching
to the scheme for sshich Sir JAMES so ostentatiously
proffers himself as sponsor. Sir PETER LAURIE, at
the Marylebone Vestry meeting of Saturday last,
described this prison-reconstructive scheme as
" Concocted by the Government and the Chairman of
the Middlesex Magistrates, to give the latter a salary,
and carry out the obnoxious principle of solitary con-
finement to an extreme never before contemplated in
this or any other civilised country."
This is quite after Sir JAMES'S way. Whatever he
does must be " a job." It a repeal meeting at Clon-
tarf is to be watched, he must confer with a spy to
have it reported "au secret," and for an accurately
defined consideration. If intelligence be wanted in
Downing-street as to the proceedings of some friend-
less foreigner, nothing so apropos to this great politi-
cal genius as a little Cabinet spy at the Post-office, to
break open his letters. So long as it is a job, dirty or
not, it is put in hand without hesitation. Sir PETER
alluded to the report which had been published by the
Middlesex Magistrates since the last meeting of the
Vestry. The obsequious Magistrates therein
"Approved of the plan of the Government, that the
whole of the New Prison should be pulled down, and
have solitary, or, as Sir James Graham was pleased to
term them, sleeping cells for prisoners erected. '
A whole paradise of jobbing must have opened on the
rapt vision of the Right Hon. Secretary here. What
patronage to exercise on the distribution of governors
and sub-governors, inspectors, gaolers, housekeepers,
wardens ! What a field for adroit recommendations
of favoured gaol architects, builders, contractors!
Next, as to the immoderate expense of this pet
scheme of the Home Secretary. The same speaker
said—

" From the Parliamentary return it appeared that the
cost of every prisoner in the New Model prison was 401.,
in consequence of the nature of the diet they were com-
pelled to give to support them under the solitary system."
And another parishioner observed that—
" Prisoners under sentence of seven years' transporta-
tion were placed there for a period of eighteen months,
and what was the fact ? Why, that the authorities were
compelled to give the wretched prisoners an extravagant
dietary to prevent their constitutions sinking under the
dreadful ordeal of solitary confinement for that period."
Originally, it seems, the Government plan was
still more wildly extravagant. It had been intended—
" To extend this principle to the House of Correcti.,ll
and the Westminster Bridewell, and no less than 1,491
cells would have to be erected, the cost of which would
entail upon the county an expense of some hundreds 0:
thousands of pounds.—(Hear, hear.) The attempt to
carry the report recommending this monstrous principle
fortunately failed, and he (Sir P. Laurie) hoped it would
be entirely defeated."
The next point—the inequitable distribution of all

the enormous expense inseparable from the design of
Government—was clearly illustrated by several
speakers :
" Mr. G. Daniell said he had received from Sir B.
Hall a return which showed that the assessment of Mid-
dlesex to the county-rate was upon a rental of some
7.000,000/, End Marylebone was called upon to pay con-
siderably above its proper share."
We all know the enormous number of criminal
prisoners at all times under confinement in the Metro-
politan prisons. Sir P. LAURIE showed that—
" The proposed Bill would take three-fourths of these
prisoners from Nea gate, and bring them to trial at
Clerkenwell at an enormous increase of expense to the
county.
"Mr. Biers said, if the plan was carried out as pro-
posed the cost of the prisoners at 401. each would entail
on the county an additional expense of no less than
60,0001. annually.—(' S -tuner) Marylebone was rated
at one-eighth of the entire county-rate, and thus their
additional share would be 8,0001.
"Mr. Joseph consider, d that no public Board repre-
sen!ing the feelings of the ratepayers ought tacitly to
submit to the enormous increase likely to Le inflicted on
the county-rate."—(Hear.)
So much for the matters of the jobbing involved
in this scandalous scheme ; the enormous expense to

be incurred by it ; and the arbitrary working of its
unequal distribution. But we must once more direct
attention to the atrocious inhumanity of the object
which all this machinery is Get in motion in order to
carry out. What is this monstrous and superhuman
penalty which our puny legislators presume to affix
to crimes, the penal price of which the law of the

land has already ascertained and fixed, by, as it were,
a graduated, but plain, intelligible tariff of punish-
ments ? What is this " model system" to do ? What
are the ends proposed by this gigantic establishment
for the indefinite refinement of human agony, after
its righteous infliction, to a certain and positive ex-

ent, by that law ? On what plea of constitutions;

legal, or moral expediency, is the soul-and-mind-de-
stroying discipline invoked against those who, in the
loss of their own personal liberty—in fine and amerce.
ment—in hard labour—perpetually or for various
terms of years, are already undergoing those sen-
tences which the law deliberately subjects them to as
the several vecific atonements for their several

specific offences ? Whatever the system was in-
tended to do, whatever the ends anticipated from it,

whatever the pleas alleged in its justification, the
results to which it tends are—idiotcy, and despair,
snd madness—suicide, or a more protracted but not
less certain death.

" That this model system," said the Magistrate before
quoted, " That such a system was most inhuman had
been fully established by the fuct that three poor crea-
tures had already been Lent from the New Model Prison
to Bethlehem on account of solitary confinement pro-
dncing insanity."
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But will it be believed that parties are subject to
this cruel infliction even before trial—under their
still unremoved legal presumption of innocence ?

" The size of the-proposed cells were 11 feet by 7, and
9 f et high ; but, he would ask, was it not monstrous
that poor creatures, innocent or guilty, before trial as well
as after trial, should be immured in these solitary dun-
geons."

Ani is it thus, that, in a free country, the heartless
administration of mere official pedantry is rermitted
to assume the terrible attributes of that vengeance
!‘ which is the LORD'S ?" To attempt to rai-e that

eternal veil which shrouds the secrets of the

human heart from all perceptions but those of
its CREATOR, and to apportion human punish-
ment to the guilt of intentions which human
judgment can infer only from responsible acts ?
Whether most to deprecate the folly or the wicked-
ness, the presumption or the stupidity, of a system
like this, we know not. The most direct, positive,
and peculiar evidence of the diviner nature of man, as

compared with other animals, is surely the distinctive
faculty of speech—that godlike faculty by which he

expresses his affections, his emotions, his hopes, his
fears, gives embodiment to the creations of his mind,

Language to his passions, effcct to his will. With a

:yranny more execrable than the brutal violence

wherewith an oriental despot tears out the tongues of
the victims destined to become the silent itiitruments
hiz, future crimes, the coneoctors of this model

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 28, 1844.

system make the prisoner himself at once the instru-
ment and victim of a similar privation. Through a
long and maddening night of years he is forbidden to
speak. The " human voice divine" shall escape only
in his permitted groans, or those frantic execrations
of despair that will but bring down aggravated in-
flictions on his devoted head. Caged like a wild beast
in his dreary den, which Sir J. GRAHAM, with feli-
citou3 mockery, calls a " sleeping cell;' one of two
moral annihi!ations await him. If of a rough
and brutal nature, he indulges his imagi-
nation to an unknown, and therefore unrestricted
extent in the most hideous pollutions of a prurient
imagination. If of a more contempl,ative or cul-
tivated mind, he broods over his intolerable isolation
and voiceless weariness, till, goaded to madness by its
long endurance he cherishes, with a maniac's per-
tinacity, an implacable, intense hatred to man and all
his institutions, or rebels, in the accumulated bitter-
ness of his despair against the majesty and the dis-
pensations of Crop himself, Educated minds, which
have within themselves intellectual resources to feed
upon, break down in hopeless, drivelling imbecility

under the hideous infliction of such torture. Unin-
formed minds, destitute of all such aliment, degene-
rate into an appalling brutality, which imparts only
additional intensity to their sensual appetites, and
ungovernable fury to their vindicive passions. Such
are the animals, once men, whom the transformation
of your " model system" of prison discipline con-
sumes within its cells; or remits to the " incurable
wards" of your madhouses ; or turns loose, at the
expiratio❑ of their imprisonment, to vex and prey
upon that soci,ty which has compelled them to be-
come monsters, by disowning them as men.

The intelligence from Madrid which is to the 20th,
is of an unfavourable character. "Rumours," says one
of the journals, "are afloat as to various conspiracies
having been formed against tl.e present state of
things. Although some of these reports appear to
to us unfounded, it cannot be doubted that at Seville
a revolutionary scheme has been detected, in conse
quence of which several officers of the regiment of
Aragon have been arrested. We do not believe in
the proclamation of the Estatutor Real at Algesiras,
but the Seville plot proves that the enemies of the
State do not slumber. The Government must
have its eye on conspirators of all classes,
and rigorously chastise them. The first want
of a country is that a stop be put to
the risings and riots, under the miseries of which we
have been writhing for years past, to the scandal of
Europe. The Government will do well to forward
the severest orders to the Seville authorities. The
letter from that city of the 15th, which mentions the
conspiracy, does not enter into details, but represents
it as being a most extensive one."

Another event is the departure of all four of the
Ministers for Barcelona, whither they had been sum-
moned by the QUEEN. Some coup d'etat was antici-
pated.

The Three per Cents. were done at 27} for cash,
and 28f at 60 days. The Fives 201 fur 59 days.

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

VISIT OF HER MAJESTY AND PRINCE ALBERT TO
WESTMINSTER HALL.—Her Majesty, Prince Albert,
and suite, visited Westminster Hall to-day, for the
purpose of inspecting the Cartoons. Her Majesty
arrived at the Hall at one o'clock precisely, and was
received by Sir Robert Peel and Sir James Graham,
and the other members of the Government, Lord
John Russell, &c. Her Majesty and suite occupied
three. of the Royal carriages—that in which her
Majesty and Prince Albert were in being open.

Mn. JUSTICE ERSEINE.—On inquiry at the resi-
dence of his Lordihip this morning, we were in-
formed, that the Learned Judge, although confined to
his room, passed a comfortable night, and is considered
much better, and that all apprehension of danger has
ceased to exist.

NEWCASTLE RACES.

YESTERDAY.

(BY EXPRESS.)

According to an account in the, Paris journal, The
Massager, which appears to be from authority, at-
tempts had been made to tamper with the troops in
the neighbourhood of the capital ; and as it was sus-
pected that the Prince DE MONTMORENCY and other
legitimatist chiefs were implicated, the police were
directed to make the domiciliary visits announced in
the journal of Tuesday. The following is the Go-
vernment version of the affair. " For several days,
some sappers of engineers at Issy were the object of
frequent efforts on the part of two individuals to
-educe them from their duty, either by speaking to
them of projects of the Carlist party, and
announcing attempts which were made, or by
shossing to them and wishing to distribute
amongst them pamphlets, autographed letters,
and medals with the effigy of the Duke of
BORDEAUX. These soldiers, giving on this occasion
a new proof of their fidelity to their colours, and of
their attachment to their duty, informed their officers
of these proceedings, and the officers in their turn
communicated them to their superiors. In conse-
quence of this information, and a surveillance of seve-
ral days, a man named TOUTAIN, who was condemned
for a political offence in the affair of the rue des Prou--
vaires, and CAUCIIARD DESMAIRES, a literary man,
13 was also N. DE LESPINOIS, a Sub-Prefect under
the Restoration, and Director of the Association of
St. Louis, were arrested; and afterwards a search
took place, in virtue of legal warrants, at the houses
Jf the Prince DE MONTMORENCY ROBECQ and the
Duke D'EscAas. Several documents, and a quan-
tity of busts and medallions representing the
Duke DR BouaDEAUX, have been seized. The
affair is undergoing the regular legal process."
After tedious debates the Chamber of Deputies
are now proceding at railroad speed with the Bills
for new lines throughout France. In the course of
Monday and Tuesday they passed three important
Bills relating to the Paris and Lyons, the Tours and
Nantes, and the Paris and Rennes railroads. They
afterwards proceeded to discuss the Bill for the for-
mation of a great northern line, with branches, to
Dunkirk, Calais, and Boulogne. We are glad to
find that a clause for making a branch road to the
latter place has been adopted. It will pass through
Abbeville. The Members of this Chamber deserve
great praise for the spirit with which they advocate
such vast undertakings, and the liberality with which
for constructing so many lines.
they vote money
%Ve give the following clauses of the Paris and
Lyons Railroad Bill, as a specimen. The sums
voted for this alone, it will be seen, amount to nearly
seven millions sterling :
" Art. 1. A sum of 71,000,000 of francs is appropriated for
the construction of that Part of the railroad front Paris to the
Mediterranean comprised between Paris and Dijon, and the
part comprised between Chalons-sur-Saone and Lyons.
"The lines shall be directed by the valleys of the Seine,
the Yonne, the Armangon, and the Saone.
" Art. 2. There shall be established a branch line front
Montereau to Trozes, by the valley of the Seine, A sum of
15,000,000 is apportioned for this branch.
" Art. 3. Un the grants mentioned in the preceding arti-
cles, there is opened to the Minister of Public Works, on the
estimates cf 1844, a credit of 4,000,000 of francs; and on the
estimate of 1845, a credit of 10,000,000,
" Art. 4. A sum of 62,000,000 is appropriated to lay down
the rails on the whole extent of the line from Paris to Lyons.
" Art. 5. There shall be provided the expense authorised
by the present law conformably to article 18 of the Bill of
July 11, 1842."
The following letter has been received from Oran,
dated June le :--

The Grand Stand or Tyne Stakes of 10 sow. each, with
25 added. T.Y.C. (21 Subs.)
Mr. Hesseltine's Marion Ramsay 1
Mr. Bell's f by Romulus, dam by Vanish 2
Mr. Kitching's br orb f by Voltaire, out of Priscilla Tom-
boy's dam
Mr. Headlam's fby Tomboy, dam by Dr. Syntax
Mr. Osbaldestoit's f by the Saddler, out of Miss Etty
Mr. A. Johnstone's ch cby St. Martin, out of Marchioness 6
Won easy by three parts of a length.

I lately announced to you the departure for Tangiers of
the steamer Vautour, with urgent dispatches from the Go-
vernor-General. She reached her destination without any
impediment; but, in returning with the answers of the Em-
peror and the Consul-General of France, she sustained da-
mages, which forced her to put into Gibraltar, where she ar-
rived on the 12th. However, the answers entrusted to her
were impatiently expected by Marshal l3ugeaud, and, as the
Vautour could not continue her voyage, application was made
to the English authorities, who at once placed at the disposal
of the Captain of the Vatour the English steamer Vesuvius,
Captain Ommaney, which tcok her departure immediately,
with an officer of the Vatour, bearing the answers from Tan-
giers, with which she arrived at Mersel Kebar, near Oran.
This officer hastened on to the Governor-General with the dis-
patches, the purport of which has not transpired. The column
formed at Oran, and placed under the command of Major-Gen.
Thierry, Las not yet moved. It comprises no more than 600
infantry. A post is about to be established at Ghazonat,
near the mouth of the river Nadrana, where a store of pro-
visions and ammunition for the army will be formed, and
where all kinds of foreign produce, except woollen and linen
cloths, will be admitted duty free."
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The Gold Cup of 1501., by subs. of 10 sous. each, the surplus

The Presse publishes the following from Tunis,
June 6 :

in specie. The second to receive 20 sows. Two miles-
(2l Subs.)
Mr. M. Bell nd Alice Hawthorn, 6 yrs
Mr. Bell's Winesour, 4 yrs
Betting 5 to 4 on Alice, who WOO, pulling hard, by half a
neck.
The Members' Plate Handicap of 10 sows. each, with 50 added ;
once round and a distance. (23 Subs.)
Mr. F. Walker's Ravensworth, 4 yrs, 6st 51).....( Abdale) 1
Mr. Meiklim's Poussin, 4 yrs, 6st
Sir C. Monck's Flagsman, 5 yrs, 7st 1111, .
Mr. Allen's The Wasp, 5 yrs, 7st 211,
Won by two lengths

(Templeman) 1

The Victoria Whip Stakes of 5 NOVZ4. each, and 15 added ;
one mile, were won in four well-contested heats, by Mr. I'.
Walker's The Nobbler, 3 yrs, (Wintringham), beating Mr.
Ayres's Inheritress, Mr. Chilton's Sheet Anchor filly, Mr.
Lamb's Lady Flora, Lord Normanby's Lorimer, and two
others.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
LUDLOW RACES.—WEDNESDAY.
The Ludlow Handicap of 25 sovs. each, 5 ft, if declared, with
30 added. Once round and a di-tance.
Mr. Wadlow's Tippoo, aged, walked over.
The Maiden Plate of 50/. Heats, as above.
Mr. Flintoff's Countess of Lichfield, 4 yrs 2 1 1
Mr. G. Ongley's The Mouse, 3 yrs 1 2 3
Mr. Jones's fby Jupiter, 3 yrs 4 0 2
Mr. W. Andrews br g by Dr. Faustus, out of Dr
Allen's dam, 3 yrs - 0
Mr. Minor's Sinbad, 4 yrs .. 3 0 0
The Oakley Park Stakes of 10 sovs. each, and 25 added,
Heats. LudloW Stakes' Course.
Mr. E. Herbert's Tariff, 5 yrs
Mr. Skerratt's Intrepid, 3 yrs
Sir C. Cockerell's Niobe, 3 yr 5..... ......
Mr. Flintotrs The Exciseman, 4 yrs ....

" The sentence of death pronounced on April 12 upon the
English subject, Paul Xuereb, was executed yesterday. The
man was strangled in his cell, at the prison of the Goletta.
None of his fellow-countrymen being willing to be witnesses
of his execution, Sir Thomas Reade was obliged to content
himself with the employment of the brotl_er of his own valet-
de-chambre to be present, and testify in due legal form the
fact of the proceeding. The triumph was complete, and Sir
Thomas must now be satisfied. Happily, our flag has not
been stained by a deed so disgraceful to Christianity, M. de
Lagua having taken care that it should not be hoisted during
the day, either in the roadstead, from which the Cameliou
went expressly away, or over the office of the Consulate-
General at Tunis."
THE BOURSE—WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price. I
French Five perentts 122 15 .. 122 15 •• 122 10 •• 122 10
Four per Cents.• 108 20 .. 108 20 108 20 • • 108 20
Three per Cents.— 82 40 • • 82 40 .. 82 40 82 40
Bank of France• • .• • • 3Oll 25 • • 3015 • 3011 25 ••3015
Lafiltte Bank, I,ooof. Shares 1110 • • 1110 —lllO • • 1110
Belgian Bank.. •
Belgian Fives,lB3l• lO3 • • 103 .• 103 • • 103
1840
Spanish Active
Portuguese Five per Cents.• 461 .. 461 •• 461 • • 461
Neap01itan•.•...•......
Roman 104 .. 1041 .• 104 1041

0 1 1
1 2 dr.
2 3 dr.
0 3 dr.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS DAY.)
THE DUKEDOM OF SUSSEX.
Their Lordships sat to-day in a Committee for Privileges,
to hear the further evidence on behalf of Sir A. D'Este, on
his claim to the dukedom of Sussex. The judges, as usual,
were summoned to attend. Among the peers present were
the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Earl of
Redeseale, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, Lord Denman,
and Lord Bexley.
Among the judges were the Lord Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas, the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Mr. Jus •
tice Patteson, Mr. Justice Williams, Mr. Justice Coltman,
and Mr. Baron Parke.
It was not till eleven o'clock that their Lordships were able
to form a Committee, in consequence of the absence of peers.
Counsel having been called in, copies were put in of the
Decree of the Council of Trent, as far as it related to marriage,
also the Bull of Pope Benedict XIV., andseveral other works.
Dr. Thomas Brown was Vicar Apostolic for Wales. Had
the authority of the Pope there. There were dispensations
the Pope could grant which witness could not. It was not
necessary to hold the office of bishop to have a delegatingau-
thority. Dr. Wiseman had not the authority he had. The
question of marriage came under his jurisdiction, and his
judgments were acted upon in Rome. Had had occasion to
go to Rome to consult. the tribunals of the Propaganda. Knew
well the law of Rome with respect to marriage. The head
of the Propaganda was a Cardinal, and all the judges were so.
There were no pleadings viva voce before that Court, they
.were all written. There were officers of that Court who were
called consultors, who were ecclesiastics. It was not neces-
sary that they should take a degree in the civil law, but it
was usually conferred upon them. It was not necessary that
they should study law, but they usually did. The Propa-
ganda was the authority to which the officers of the
Church appealed on any difficult question. There was
no appeal from their decision, except to the Pope.
There was another tribunal, called the Congregation of the
Council of Trent: it was formed of Cardinale, mid hail jurisdic-
tion over Roman Catholics living in cAanitiieß not Catholic,
while the Propaganda had jurisdiction over Catholic States.
There was also a tribunal called the Holy Inquisition, the
head of which was the Pope himself. This was the first tri-
bunal in Rome. There were several other inferior tribunals.
If any question came before the inferior tribunal,,, on the sub-
ject of marriage, there was an appeal to the higher tribunals.
Was acquainted with the Council of Trent in all its pro-
visions. There was nothing in that Council with respect
to the marriage of Protestants at Rome. According to the
best of witness's belief, a marriage of two Protestants at
Rome, by a Protestant, would be held valid, and the issue of
the marriage would be entitled to any property which be-
longed to the parents.
By the LORD CHANCELLOR—If it was not for the Council
of Trent a contract of marriage, per verloa de presenti, between
Catholics, would be held good.
By the SOLICITOR-GENERAL—If any doubts are enter-.
tained as to the validity of a marriage in witness's district,
the case came before him for judgment, and that judgment
would be acknowledged at Rome. Knew the practice of the
Courts at Rome, as lie had been on appeals there. An
appeal from witness's decision would go to the Propaganda.
A marriage between Roman Catholics and Protestants would
not take place before the parish priest. Witness was in a
condition to become a Cardinal, if the Pope thought proper to
make him one.
Sir TED3Las WILDE said they had made a search for the
class of pen ons to which their Lordships had referred, but
none, he believed, were to be found in London.
A letter was put in from the Secretary of State to Lord
Grenville, by which it was proposed to allow Lady Augusta
Murray an annuity, provided she would not use the Royal
arms.
A clerk, from Coutts and Co.'s, proved the payment of an
annuity of 1,800/. a year to Lady Augusta Murray.
This closed the case for the claimant.
Mr. EMI,: then proceeded to sum up the case on the behalf
of the claimant. It had been exhibited that a marriage de
facto existed between the parents of the claimant, and if
there was any law probiting it, it was for bis Learned Friends
to bring it forward ; and should it not be brought forward,
the case of the claimant, he should submit, was made out.
The only point now was as to the validity of the marriage of
the claimant's parents. The Learned Gentleman then pro-
ceeded, at some length, to detail the facts of the case, as it
had been detailed in the evidence. The rule as to the exclu-
sion of declarations offered in evidence did not apply in cases
of pedigree. In the establishment of a general public
right affecting a large portion of the community, such
as a right of way, hearsay evidence was admissible. In
cases of pedigree, the law had made an exception in favour of
the declarations of relatives as to specific facts, and their de-
clarations were admissible in evidence, provided those decla-
rations were made with an undisturbed mind, and not in
contemplation of any suit. Provided such was the
case, declarations were admissible in cases of
birth, marriage, and pedigree. Now, if the de-
claration of parties was sufficient to establish
the fact of marriage, it was also sufficient to establish the
place where and the manner how that marriage had been
solemnised. That had been the doctrine laid down by, Lord
Kenyon and by Lord Chief Justice Pratt. The Learned
Counsel then quoted several cases in support of his argument,
that in cases of pedigree, the declarations of deceased parties
were admissible in evidence. He thought, therefore, he
might take as established that these parties be-
lieved that they were legally married at Rome,
and that they considered that marriage as binding.
His Learned Friend, as he understood, would contend that,
according to the law of Rome, and the decree of the Council
of Trent, this marriage would be considered void at Rome.
Now he was prepared to submit to their Lordships two an-
swers to that objection—first, that, according to the opinions
of persons learned in the laws of Rome, who had stated their
opinions at their Lordships' bar, the marriage would be a
valid marriage according to the laws of Rome. Secondly, he
would submit that, even if their Lordships should be:of opinion
that the marriage would not be valid according to the laws of
Rome, still it would have been morally impossible for persons
situated as Prince Augustus and Lady Augusta were situated at
Rome to comply with the provisions of the Council of Trent,they
were fully authorised to marry ex necessitate, and that such
a marriage would be valid. With regard to the first point,
he would refer their Lordships to the evidence of the learned
persons who had been examined before, and he would also
refer their Lordships to several jurists who had written before
the promulgation of the Bill of Pope Benedict, in order to
show that the Catholic Penitentiary had held that marriages
contracted between Protestants, and celebrated by ministers
of their own persuasion, were valid. (The Learned Counsel
then proceeded to quote the authority of several jurists in
support of his argument.) With regard to the argument of
the marriage ex necessitate, he rather contended on that
ground for the purpose of meeting the Royal Marriage
Act. It was clear that no Parodies could lawfully attend,
nor could the parties be called upon to go through
the process of a sham conversion to Catholicism.
There was, therefore a necessity. They had
_done
all that they could do to be married according to the law of
England. The necessity was apparent; there was the
verbena de presenti. All was done that could be done
under the circumstances, and therefore the marriage
—as a marriage ex necessitate—was a valid one.
The Learned Counsel then proceeded to cite authorities. in
support of his argument. In the case before their Lordships,
it was quite clear that his Royal Highness and Lady Augusta
never contemplated that they could make a valid mar-
riage by going before a Catholic priest, and it was also clear
that they intended to contract a marriage in the form in
which they did, under the supposition that it was perfectly
valid.
(The case was proceeding when we went to press.)
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EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, )
The cases which came before the Court this morning were
devoid of interest except to the parties concerned.

RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, R.B.
L. 8,.... ...... .. 260 •• 265 .. 255 .• 257 50
Rouen 982 50 .. 982 50 .. 982 50 .. 982 50
Rouen to Havre 770 •• 770 .. 762 50 .• 762 .50
Orleans .• • • • •• • • • • ........ 995 995 .. 990 •• l'3o
Strasburg to Bale 245 •• 24.5 .• 243 75 .. 243 75
Avignon to Marseilles.— 765 •• 765 .. 765 • 763

RAILWAY SHARES FOR 3Orn JUNE.
n.n.
L. 8.•... 275 .• 275 .. 251 25 .. 282 50
Rouen 9n2 50 •• 992 50 . 982 50 .. 985
Orleans •• •• ••.•• •• lOOO ..1000 .. 990 .. 991 25

Strasburg to Bale.. %. 247 50 247 60 .. 242 50 .. 242 50
4vignon to Marseilles-- 760 15 758 7:7 762 7e6 25

CHANGE or REGIMENTS.—The following changes
in the Household Cavalry Regiments will take place on
Monday next, the Ist of July. The Ist Regiment of Life
Guards from Windsor to Regent's Park Barracks; the 2d
Life Guards from Regent's Park to Hyde Park Barracks; and
the Royal Horse Guards (Blue) from-Hyde Park Barracks to
Windsor.

CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.)
A respectably-attired man, nwed Henry Pouncer, was
charged with the following gross misconduct :—On the pre-
vious night Police-constable 281 N took a young woman into
custody for being drunk and riotous, and was conveying her
to the station-house through White Lion-street, wheu the
prisoner came up, and in a bluteriag manner asked the
constable if the woman was his wife, and when he replied in
the negative, the prisoner. exclaimed, "Then I'll be d—d if
you shall take her to the station-house," and so saying, he
struck the complainant a violent blow on' the breast, and re-
peated his violent endeavours to rescue the prisoner from his
custody. At length both prisoners were secured.
Mr. GREENWOOD—What are you? Prisoner—A billiard-
marker.

Mr. GREENwoon—What have you to say to the charge ?
Prisoner (jocosely)--Oh, I was drunk, and knew nothing
about it.

He was sentenced to pay a fine of 2/., or a fortnight's im-
prisonment.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY.)
Three half-naked children, named Margaret Smith, aged ten
years, Louisa Penny, aged eleven years, and Caroline Day,
aged eleven years, were charged with having been found in
the area of the mansion of Lord Dinorben, in South Audley-
street, Grosvenor. square.
Police-constable, No. 107 C, stated that between six and
seven o'clock last evening, as he was on duty passing by his
Lordship's house, he saw the girls crouched up in the corner
of the area, endeavouring to conceal themselves from his ob-
servation. As numerous robberies have lately been com-
mitted in that neighbourhood by children going down the
area under the pretence of begging, he took them into custody.
Wilks, the gaoler, said the prisoners had been committed
several times from that Court. They were sent out by their
parents ostensibly to beg; but, in fact, to steal everything they
could lay their hands on.
The children, on being questioned, obstinately refused to
disclose the residence of their parents.
Inspector Plume, of the C division, said that they made a
considerable disturbance when locked up in the *cell at the
station-house, and used obscene and disgusting language.
They were ordered to be detained until inquiries could be
made respecting them.

MOINE 17* AN D CuMME awl. NEWS.
CITY, QVAR7'ER TO THREE.
A large business was done in Cotton, at Liverpool, yes-
terday. Sales 9,000 bales, including 3,000 on speculation,
chiefly at rather higher rates than last week. Shares were
dull and quiet, at the following rates :—Birmingham and
Gloucester, Quarter; 2211 ; tliester and Holyhead, 5; Grand
Junction, Half, 1091 ; Liverpool and Manchester, Half, 109 ;
London and Birmingham, 217 ; Ditto, Quarter, 24i ;
Midland Counties, 94; North Midland, Half; 47*; South
Eastern, 34 ; Lyons and Avignon, 2/. Os. 6d. ; Paris and
Lyons, 2h ; Paris and Rouen, 3Si ; Paris and Strasbourg, 21.38.
The state of the produce markets here is still satisfactory
as regards the extent of business doing, while in reference to
prices it cannot excite surprise or regret that they should
rule lower upon receipt of such large supplies. The settle-
ment of the sugar question, even for a twelvemonth, and upon
so unsatisfactory a basis, is a relief to the dealers and im-
porters. . _ _

- Accounts from
_,_the Cape of Good Hope to May 4th,
state, that at Natal all was quiet ; but that it
was apprehended the Dutch farmers would again
abandon the country and go higher up, having
an unconquerable repugnance to British rule. The only re-
medy, we are told, is to declare all South Africa under our
sovereignty, and leave the farmers at liberty to withdraw,
trusting to civilisation and increase of population hereafter to
effect a re-union. There had been sales of Government lands,
but which had gone off indifferently, as the following ex-•
tract will show :—" The Crown lands situated in the divi-
sions of the Cape, Stellenbosch, George, Clanwilliam, Graaf-
Reinet, Cradock, and Somerset, were put up to auction, ac•
cording to notice, on the 23d March last. The result is as fol-
lows :-1,705 morgen were sold in the Cape district at 2s. per
acre, the upset price, and 1/. in addition upon the lot. In the
Stellenbosch district 90 morgen fetched 2s. 6d. per acre, bein g 6d.
more than the upset price; and 457 morgens in the Clanwil-
liam district realised 2s. per acre, the minimum price. No
land was sold in any other district.
These Crown lands are now advertised for private sale, but
upon the same terms upon which they were put up to auc-
tion, that is, at an upset price of 2s. per acre in every district
excepting that of Somerset, where some of the lots are as
high as 15s. and 20s. per acre. There are still complaints of
locusts.
The Funds have been quiet, and prices are not quite so
buoyant. Consols for the opening realise 98a to The Re-
duced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have obtained 1021 to *.
Bank Stock is worth 1981. Exchequer Bills still 728. to 745.
premium.
The foreign settlement is going off with tolerable ease.
Spanish Active Bonds are still 23h *; but the Three per
Cents. have gone back to 35 aid 344 This arises from the
differences on the account. Mexican are supported at 35 to
Dutch Two-and-a 'Half per Cents. are worth 62i to
The Railway Shares are inactive, but Croydon and South-
Eastern are flat since.the settlement yesterday; the former
owing to the Gravesend project.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT. ONE O'CLOCK
(From the Official Dot.)
Bank Stock II?S
_ . . . .

S per Cent. Reduced Annuities
33 per Cent. Reduced Annuities lO2 lA,
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 12 -lc%
Consols for Account 00000000000000000000 138.5,6%
India Stock
Exchequer Bills, I%d. I 4cl
1,0001. •••••••••••••••••••••••• 00000 ••••••• 72 pm.
500/ 74 pm-

r 74 On.

Ditto Advertised.... ... . . pm.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 27:-.-There has
been a quiet market to-day, without any material aii,Tration
in prices. London and Birmingham, Quarters, 25; MaQ-,
cheater and Leeds, Balf-shares, 434 • Chester and Holyhead,
11; Manchester and Buxton, 325. ed. pr.mium.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH I. CND'S.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Ned
3 per Cent. Cons. ......
.3% per Cam. Red ... ......
New 3% per Cent — Ex. Bills, 1,04511. 130 .„. 72 pm
New 5 per Cent. — Ditto 5001
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 74 pm.
Jan 1.41 ii ls% Bank Stock for Acct....
Oct. 185 . — Consols for Opg. VS%
Jan. 1860 lndia Stock for Acct.... 284
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per'Cent ...... .. !Portuguese, 5 per Cent —
Belgian, 5 per Cent lt3!Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian Winds
guenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... 'Russian, 5 per Ccnt —
1 hllian, 1; per Cent .Di t to, Metallic .
Colombian, fi per Cent ...... 13% Spanish, 5 per Cent 23
Jitto, I$ I 4 — Ditto, 1 per Cent 35%
Cuba Bonds, ii per Cent Ditto, Deferred 13%
D.lnish, :3 per Cent
Greek, IH 5, 5 per Cent...... Exchange —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Ditto, /1 per Cent., 1837 — Dutch, 2% per Cent 62
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent... Ditto, 5 per Cent lOO%
SHA 'Ms.
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) 93
Bristol and Exeter (i 0 paid) ..
Biletol and Gloucester, so paid
Chester and Holyhead ( paid)" 4
Eastern Counties (23 paid);
Ditto Registereu (8/6s tiu paid)
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent., 13.3.4 d. paid
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Half Shares, 1.0 paid 7S
Ditto Fifths, 2 paid
London and Birmingham (Stock)

Dui° New Quarters ( -:paid) . 24%
Newc istlo and Darlingron Junction. 21 paid 4ls¢
North British, 256 paid A
York ..nti North Midland (50 paid) 1.,7
(Meal s, Tours, and Boutdeaux, 1 paid l%
Paris and Rouen, CI paid