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and admitted you to all the secrets of my. heart? Do you
not participate in a mighty design, conceived for your sole
benefit? Why suddenly turn upon your only friend and
leader—why band yourselves together ,against your lawful
head—why dally with the treacherous toe?" We do not
exaggerate a bit. Such was Sir Robert's teem. " Sir (says
he, addressing the Speaker), if it be a matter of tuumportance,
we cannot consent to accede to the proposition." The Right
Hon. Baronet, we are told, pronounced this with more than
usual emphasis, and proceeded, after a pause, in a tone forcibly
expressive of wounded feeling—" It was carried by a combi-
nation of those who are our general supporters with our political
opponents. If the measure, I repeat, be an unimportant
one, in proportion to its unimportance it is significant of a
want of confidence in our Administration." * * * " I
may be wrong, but my impression is, that it was a precon-
certed arrangement between some of those who usually op-
pose and some of those who usually support us." In fact,
everything—everything, that is to say, in the speech itself—
was tending to a scene. It is impossible to say what we
might not have had; Sir Robert on his knees, perhaps, un-
baring his bosom to the shafts of calumny, ingratitude,
treachery, and all the rest of them, protesting his integrity
to the skies, and flooding the house with his tears. But some
very unkind interruptions spoilt the affair. " Ironical cheers
and laughter" came in very awkwardly at the end of the sen-
tence, and broke the beautifully gradual descent of the
pathos. So the worthy Baronet, unmanned for a moment,
remembered his magnanimity and his figures. From affec-
tions unrequited, and confidence withdrawn, he returned with
double energy to sugars, foreign and colonial, slave and free,
clayed and refined. Indeed, in the very depth of the pa-
roxysm it must have occurred sometimes with rather a ludi-
crous force that a question whether a certain duty should be
20s. or 245., or whether a certain reduction should date from
to-morrow or the 10th of November, or should be levied equally
on all kinds, was hardly theme enough for so moving a
declamation. If Sir Robert Peel's measures were the best
ever conceived by the most consummate wisdom, inspired by
the highest virtue, he would have no claim to the absolute
confidence, the utter prostration of judgment, which he de-
mands ; for this plain reason—that his supporters are the
very last persons in whom he reposes confidence. No confi-
dence can last which is not reciprocal. Sir Robert does not
communicate with his supporters—does not prepare them—
does not identify himself with them-does not stand by
them—does not protect them—does not give them the small-
est credit, or the smallest share in his successes, such as they
are. On the contrary, every step in his course is their hu-
miliation and confusion. He deals with them as with his
most open enemies. He takes them by surprise at every
turn. All his measures are coups d'etat. He brings them
into a defile, with the enemy in their front, and some dread-
ful extremity in the rear, so as to cut off all retreat, and then
says, " I don't trust you ; but you must fight or be destroyed
to a man." Sir Robert acts like a Premier, and affects to
talk like a friend. Will he just attempt to think and
feel as a friend for one moment, while we beg to suggest the
following topics of meditation ? He talks in heartrending
terms of a measure "carried by a combination of those who
are our general supporters with our political opponents."
Does he not regularly lay himself out for the support
of " political opponents ? " Does he ever fail to
overawe his "general supporters," whenever need be,
with some Whig contingent, which he is always able
and ready to purchase at the expense of those " gene-
ral supporters ? " Every Conservative knows that the
moment he ventures to think for himself, he may expect to
find the Whigs on his flank. Nay, more. As soon as Sir
Robert finds a supporter troublesome, he does not scruple to
deliver him,. bound hand and foot, to any particular " politi-
cal opponent "he may find ready for the work. With a
glance at the other side of the House, he strikes a compact
that has all the force of " preconcerted arrangement," and
forthwith his too conscientious supporter finds himself in the
hands of his bitterest enemies, without either rescue or com-
miseration. A man must have a wonderful power of sponging
conscience and memory who can act as Sir Robert has never
failed to do when convenient, and yet can talk as he did on
Monday evening.
POSE—In the performance of pantomimes and ballets,
when it is found convenient to convey to the audience some
piece of information beyond what the powers of gesticulation
can impart, it is usual to resort to the expedient of a printed
placard. Thus the rule against plain-speaking is not in-
fringed, nor is the auditory left in the perplexity of ignorance.
We respectfully recommend a similar device to her Majesty's
Prime Minister in the House of Commons. After what has
happened, he need not be very delicate, and his chief aim
ought to be the saving of time and trouble. Whenever a
doubtful question Comes before House, therefore, let him have
a large placard erected behind his seat, stating that he does,
or does not, intend to carry the question as he has proposed it
to the House. Honourable Members (very Honourable in-
deed !) will thus be saved the trouble of coming down on a
subsequent evening to rescind the vote to which, in the sim-
plicity of ignorance or misapprehension the House has pre-
viously come. It is clear that, with regard to the sugar duties
question, a good ,Ininy Members shared in the opinion
avowed with so truth naivete by that independent weekly
journal the John :Milk that Ministers would be very well
content to be, Itato.7. They had great confidence in the
duplicity and „iplikepritty of their friends on the Treasury
bench, and felf well assured that their friends, when pro-
posing theie,xote, of Friday night, wished for nothing, more
than to make .an appearance of an inteution, while in reality
their views accorded with the views of Mr. Miles. This
turned out to -"be a mistake but it was a
mistake at which- we are not at all surprised. Some
men are slow 'to shake off impressions and to
acquire new ones. Gentlemen who had listened to the Pre-
mier in 1841, who had heard the contempt expressed by him
for the cant of "cheap sugar ;" who had listened to the
great concern he expressed for the West Indies ; who had
witnessed his extreme anxiety about the moral and social
condition of those colonies ; who had been elevated into an
enthusiasm of indignation against the Whigs by Sir Robert's
denunciation of the policy which might render it impossible
ever to raise sugar at a profit by free labour in those colonies
—gentlemen, we say, whose memories were full of
these statements, and who are not quick to catch
up new views of things, might naturally suppose
that Sir Robert Peel could not be quite in ear-
nest at the present time. No doubt they said to
themselves that though the Premier might have reasons of
expediency for appearing to have lost all concern for the in-
terests of the West India colonies, yet his views of 1841—
those views upon which, and by the declaration of which he
obtained office,must be what he really wished still to promote ;
but they were in error. Upon this occasion they finessed too
much, and have been obliged to contradict themselves. Upon
such a class of men, however, Sir Robert Peel ought to have
mercy. Let him remember that they have been very busy
ever since 1841 learning the lesson he then taught them, and
trying to "soak into their brains," as Lord Palmerston would
say, the wisdom which he then imparted, touching the cant
of cheap sugar, and the necessity of taking care of West
Indian interests. All that he has to complain of is that they
cannot unlearn what he has taught, quite so fast as he can ;
but this may be because they received his opinions with more
respect and more earnest belief than he received them himself.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—It is expected that in a few days a deputa-
tion will wait on the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the
subject of the Savings-bank Bill. This deputation will
consist of Sir 'Henry Willoughby (Chairman), Mr. F.
Shaw, M.P., Mr. Wilson Patten, M.P., Mr. Brother-
gtoenn,tl M.P., Mr. Gregory, M.P., and
t savings-banks,—viz , Mr. Has.
frDolmr. Vdieffeierye,n
tam (Dublin), Mr. Besnard (Cork), Mr. Boodle (St.
Martin's-place), Mr. Marsden and Mr. Neild (Manches-
ter), Mr. Robinson (Hull), Mr. Davies (Lambeth), Mr.
Aeml.Pen"
Maitland (Edinburgh), Mr. Lee (Devon and Exeter),
Mr. Dawe (Devonport), and Mr. Mason (St. Clement
Danes). The whole will represent the deputations from
thirty-five savings-banks, comprising 219,280 depositors,
and 5,514,889/. amount of deposits. The deputation
will urge the injustice of so small a rate of interest as
2/. 15s. being allowed to depositors, and will contend for
3/. Os. 10d. (2d per cent. per diem) as the maximum to
the depositor, and 31. Ss. 50. (21-11. per cent. per diem) to
to trustees of savings-banks. At the same time they
intend to show, that if the funds had been duly admi-
nistered, they would have yielded an interest of 3/. 12s.
2d., or at any rate, according to general admission,
31. 7s. Bd., and that such interest, which is more than
they claim, might have been produced by the savings-
bank fund, supporting itself. They will also suggest
that no alteration be made in the existing law as to the
liability of trustees, except by declaring how a manager
or trustee may discharge himself of all future liability,
if so disposed ; and will attempt to obtain from the
Chancellor of the Exchequer some assurance that he
will not connect savings-banks and loan societies.
This latter course is very much to the credit of the parties,
inasmuch as great efforts are made by persons, evidently
proceeding upon interested motives, to graft the loan system
upon that of the savings-banks, and intimations have even
gone abroad that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was dis-
posed to make this a part of his general plan. There could
be, however, as, we have before shown when treating of this
subject, no effectual control over such operations, and hence
the greatest danger of having the funds wasted or misapplied,
which ought to be, above all others, the most sacred from any
jobbing or speculation. The members of the deputation act
wisely in putting forward prominently that point of the mal-
administration, of the funds of the savings-banks, though
they seem inclined to treat the affair with a good deal of deli-
cacy, lib if fearful of offending the Treasury. Upon this, we
think, they and their advocates are bound to speak out
boldly; but it is satisfactory, on the whole, to observe, that
the interests of the savings-banks are sure to be so well
looked after as now appears to be the'case.
The premium on gold at Paris is 121 per mille,
which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. loid. per
ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25
46 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short
being 25 50, it follows that gold is 0.14 per cent.
dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4351
per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10itl.
per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 ;
and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short
being 13 Bi, it follows that gold is 0.75 per cent.
dearer in Hamburgh than in London.
The course of exchange at New York on London is
109 per cent., and the par of exchange between Eng.
land and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows
that the exchange is 0.58 per cent. against England.
But the quoted exchange at New
.York g beim for bills
at 60 days' sight, the interest must be deducted from
the above difference.

Mr. Thomas Hudson, well known for his comic
song. s, died yesterday at his residence in Museum-street.
IiESERAL POST-OFFICE ORDER.—On Tuesday, the
following notice was issued by command of the Earl of
Lonsdale, the Postmaster-General :—" Notice to the public,
and instructions to all postmasters, sub-postmasters, and
letter receivers. On and after the Ist of July next, the
British rate of postage of 6d. the half ounce, on letters ad-
dressed to or posted in the city of Bremen, conveyed by the
Hamburgh packets, will be combined with the Bremen rate
of 2d. the half ounce, and such combined rate of Bd. the halt
ounce, &c. &c., may either be paid in advance, or left un-
paid, at the option of the sender; but the payment of the
British rate only, according to the existing practice, will not
be permitted. Ais regulation applies only to letters trans-
mitted between the United Kingdom and the city of Bremen
by the Hamburgh packet. Those conveyed by private ship,
or by way of France, Holland, or Belgium, will be chargeable
with the same rates of postage to which they have hitherto
been subject.
FLOWER SHOW AT THE SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GAR-
dens.—The South London Floricultural Society held their
first exhibition of flowers and fruits for the season on Tuesday
at the Surrey Zoological Gardens. The weather was re-
markably fine, the flowers were exceedingly beautiful, and
the gardens were crowded by persons who seemed to enjoy
the delightful exhibition. In the evening there was a grand
fete in the gardens, which continned to be crowded up to the
conclusion of the fete. The conflagration of 31d London,
which took place at dusk, was very grand, and the general
conduct of the entertainments of the evening reflected the
highest credit on Mr. Tyler, who has, by his management
hitherto, shown hirashlf a most judicious caterer for the
public.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEENS BENCH, ,Tune 19.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius before Lord DENMAN and a Middlesex
Common Jury.)
M'CARTMY V. VARTY. _ _ _

This was an action to recover damages for an alleged false
imprisonment. The plaintiff had been employed by Mr. Dun-
can to cut some trees on Buckingham-terrace, in front of his
residence. The defendant, one of the trustees of the terrace,
claimed to have a right in that capacity to prevent any person
meddling with the trees, and he gave the defendant into
custody, who was taken to Bow-street, and subsequently
discharged. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—
Damages, 51.
Mr. Platt conducted the case for the plaintiff, and Mr.
Knowles appeared for the defendant.

THE QUEEN v. ANN HAMMOND.
This was an indictment for perjury. The case, however,
went off, in consequence of a technical error in the indict-
ment, and the defendant was acquitted, without going into
the merits of the case.
Mr. Platt was for the prosecution, and Mr. Whately and
Mr. Huggins for the defence.

SECONDARIES' COURT, June 10.
CRIM. CON.—BARBER V. GRIMWADE.

This was a writ of inquiry to assess the damages in an
action for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife.
The defendant allowed judgment to go by default. The
damages were laid at 1,0001. The following are the facts
of the case :—The plaintiff is an omnibus proprietor
living at Clapham, and the defendant resided within a
few doors of the plaintiff, and being an old friend who
had seen better days, was employed by him as a driver.
Amelia Barber, the plaintiff's wife, was a lady of very
prepossessing appearance, about twenty-four years of
age. The intimacy commenced in June, 1843, and con-
tinued until the commencement of the action, a few
months since. An immense number of letters were dis-
covered, many of them being of a very artful nature, and
the fact of the defendant being a married man, with a
young family, threw the plaintiff in some measure off his
guard. The criminal conversation was always carried
on in the house of the plaintiff.
Mr. BALLANTINE, who appeared for the plaintiff, said
the jury would be spared the necessity of hearing details
of a most painful nature, as the plaintiff had agreed to
take a verdict by consent for 501.—The damages were
then assessed at 50/.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MARYLEBONE.

Ishmael Quintin, landlord of the Jolly Farmers'
public- house, Munster-street, Regent's-park, was brought
before Mr. Rawlinson by virtue of a summons issued at
the instance of the Commissioners of Police, for allow-
ing gaming in his house, contrary to the terms of his
spirit license and the Act of the 9th Geo. IV.
Jacob Farey said that he left Bath on Tuesday week
last, and arrived in town on Wednesday morning. He
stoped on that day in Mr. Quintin's house, and observed,
in an up-stairs room, a policeman in his official dress and
the landlord's potman playing at bagatelle. They played
some games with varied success, and the cash lost was
spent in drink. The potman left off play, and the
policeman then said to witness, " Perhaps you will have
no objection to play." Witness then played with the
constable, and lost a shilling; he also lost one, and they
then played for threepence, which witness won; then for
another threepence, which he won also, and the police-
man then said he would put sixpence down to witness's
sixpence, and they would play for the shilling. Witness
put down his sixpence, which the policeman covered "
with another, and they played for it, and witness won.
On going, however, to take his money he found that it
had disappeared, and on his taxing the policeman with
the robbery, he called him a d-- thief, and a b--
rogue. There was another person in the room, a man
who had been discharged from the police force on the
day before. He (witness) was so frightened at the lan-
guage used to him that he went down stairs and told the
landlord that he should not stop an hour longer in the
house, and he forwarded on the succeeding day a com-
plaint to the Commissioners of Police, who suspended
the constable and ordered a summons to be issued
against the landlord. The landlord had entered the
room while the policeman and himself were playing, and
asked how they were getting on.
W. Wells, 339 S, the constable, was put in the box.
He admitted the playing at bagatelle, but denied the
making use of bad language, or stealing the shilling. He
was off duty at the time, and did not think he was com-
mitting any offence.
Mr. RAWLINSON said his conduct was most disgrace-
ful ; but the case before him then only applied to the
landlord. He had no excuse for permitting a policeman
to play in his house, and he would, therefore, fine him
forty shillings.
The policeman will probably be examined before the
Magistrate for his part in the transaction.
William Hotham, alias Sir William Hotham, a fashion-
ably dressed young man, and one of the supporters of
the " turf," was finally examined on a charge of stealing
a mare from the stables of Mr. John Dart, of Crawford-
street. The prisoner had hired the animal on the sth
inst., but had forgotten to return it. It was attempted
to be proved by Mr. Horry, who was retained for the
defence, that the mare had been purchased. The evi-
dence, however, did not bear out his argument, and Mr.
Rawlinson committed the prisoner for trial. He was,
however, admitted to bail.
CLERKENWELL.

Mr. George Saville, a cheesemonger, residing in Soho,
was charged with an assault of a very unprovoked chit-
racter on the person of Mary Anne Coleman, the wife
of a labourer living in Bloomsbury.
The complainant, a decent-looking, poor woman, had
a severe contusion under her left eye.
The complainant deposed that she was returning to
her home on that morning, between one and two o'clock,
when the prisoner came up to her as she was crossing
Vernon-place, Bloomsbury-square, and asked her if she
would fight him. She told him not to interrupt her,
upon which he struck her a violent blow on the eye
with his clenched first, producing the contusion, which
was visible. The prisoner had just come out of Mr.
Young's public-house, at the corner of Vernon-place.
She had given him no provocation whatever.
In answer to a question from the Magistrate, witness
accounted for being out so late by having been in at-
tendance on her sister in Bishopsgate-street, who had
been recently confined. She was going home as quickly
as she could.

Police-constable, 164 E, said the prosecutrix and pri-
soner were perfectly sober.
The prisoner, who assumed an air of great importance,
stated that the complainant had solicited him as a woman
of the town, and
.grasped him round the breast. He
acknowledged having pushed here away ; there were
four or five other women of bad character with her.
The complainant declared, in the most solemn manner,
that she never touched him ; that she was in company
with no person, and that she had not spoken a word.
Mr. Hopkins, residing in 56, Wigmore-street, Caven.
dish-square, was called for the defence. He deposed
that he believed a young woman solicited his friend and
afterwards caught hold of him ; she spoke to him, but he
could not tell what she said.
Jane Hardinge, an unfortunate girl living in Easton-
street, deposed that she was standing at the corner of
Vernon-place, when she saw the complainant crossing
the street—had never seen her before. She was alone
and muoffending when the prisoner struck her a blow on
the yye—she had never .addressed him. _

MI:. GREENWOOD said it was evident the complainant
was a married woman, and that she had given no provo-
cation whatever. He would fine the prisoner 11., or a
week's imprisonment.
The fine was paid at once, and the offender set at
liberty.
John Stewart and Sarah Pattison, alias Stewart, alias
Browne, alias Thompson, with whom were four children,
two of them infants, were brought up by Horsford, the Men-
dicity officer, charged with obtaining money on false pre-
tences from Mr. James Beale, No. 1, Tavistock-place,
Russell-square; also on several other charges of a similar
uature—the victims being Members of Parliamemt and
several of the most distinguished of the nobility. The
prisoners were attired plainly, but with scrupulous
cleanliness. The woman had a babe in each arm, and
wore a mournful and dejected look. The male prisoner,
who is her husband, affected an air of the greatest sim-
plicity. Both are among the most artful, successful, and
incorrigible of their class. They refused to give any
address.

It appeared from the statement of Horsforkl that on
that morning he saw them visiting several houses in
Tavistock-square ; they then went to the house of Arch-
deacon Potts, 20, Woburn-place, and were about pre-
senting their forged letters when he arrested them.
Witness having received numerous complaints from per-
sons of high and humble station who had been defrauded
by them, at once took them into custody. He produced
a bundle of letters, all written in the same handwriting,
and certifying to the excellent character and reduced
circumstances of one or both of the prisoners. In one
instance the female represented herself as a widow whose
husband had lately died, leaving herself and children des-
titute ; in another she was the wife of a decayed ma-
riner, who had been bedridden for two years. There
was a little red book found on the female prisoner,
which, when apprehended, she attempted to destroy, and
which, on examination, was found to contain the names
of Viscountess Palmerston, Sir George Cayley, Lieut.-
Colonel M'Donald, Mr. Ley, clerk to the House of Com-
mons; Mr. Hoare, Mr. Gladstone, M.P., Mr. Tristram,
of the Yorkshire Society ; the Earl of Enniskillen, and
those of other distinguished individuals, with sums of
money affixed to each. They have been practising their
artful mendicancy for the last ten years, but not with
impunity, as will appear by the following return :
February, 1836, before Mr. Chambers, the male prisoner
one month ; ditto, 25th November, same year, before
Sir F. Roe, one month ; ditto, June, 1837, Mr. Dyer,
one month ; ditto, 7th September, 1837, Mr. Hoskins,
three months ; ditto, May, 1838. Mr. Broughton, three
months ; ditto, at the Middlesex Sessions, nine months ;
ditto, 13th May, 1840, Mr. Hardwicke, six weeks; ditto
14th July, 1841, Mr. Hall, one month ; ditto, 14th
April, 1843, Guildhall, one month. The female priso-
ner had been committed still more frequently. On the
17th of April, 1843, she was brought before Mr. Bond,
charged with endeavouring to obtain money on false pre-
tences from Mr. Gladstone, M.P., brother to the Vice-
President of the Board of Trade. On that occasion she
gave her name as Pattison, and Mr. Gladstone produced
the letter she gave him, purporting to be from Mr. T. G.
Fuller, of 28, St. James's-street. She said she was a
native of Fettercairn, in Scotland. _ _

Mr. Beale deposed that he gave the female prisoner 55.,
on her producing a letter of high recommendation, pur-
porting to be written by Mr. Keale, a gentleman residinc,
in Garlick-hill, Croydon. Witness was deceived by the
handwriting, which was like Mr. Keale's. She also pro-
duced a letter, purporting to be from Mr. Tristram, of
the Yorkshire Society, and speaking in the same high
terms of her character, and forcibly depicting her for-
lorn and destitute condition.

Mr. Keale's clerk said the letter was not in his em-
ployer's handwriting.
The prisoners were remanded, Horsford stating that
Mr. Denison, M.P., the Earl of Enniskillen, and other