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London, England, 1842-07-19 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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FOREIGN.
The French Regency is to be given to the Duke of Nemours,
eldest brother of the late Duke of Orleans,• and in the event of
his death, to the Prince de Joinville and the Dukes d'Aumale

and Monpensier in succession.
M. Thiers has returned to Paris, and is already in the thick
of the intrigues upon the Regency question. He is very eager
that the King should advise with him about it.
Belgium has reduced the import duty on French wines and
salt, and increased the import duty on English thread.
The great Hamburgh Banker, Mr. Solomon Heine, is gone
,stensibly to the baths of Pyrmont, but, it is generally under-
stood that his real object is to proceed to Cassel, to-meet the
Baron Rothschild, from Frankfort, and to concert measures with
him relative to the forthcoming Hamburgh loan.

PAILLIAfrIENTIC.R.Y.
Among the many petitions presented last night in the House
of Lords were some against the Collieries Bill, and one from
females employed in the Elgin collieries, setting forth the
hardships and injury the Bill would inflict on them should it
pass into a law. These women would rather be without Lord
Ashley's kindness.
In reply to the Earl of Radnor, Lord Wharncliffe said that
he hoped the revival of trade would give relief to the people.
The Lords were occupied till ten o'clock by a discussion on
the second reading of Bills to extend the jurisdiction of
Bankruptcy, to improve County Courts, to provide for the
care of Lunatics, &c. Only law Lords took part in the dis-
cussion. The measures, as far as they go, were generally ap-
proved of, only Lord ampbell hoped they would not be
pressed. They are nearly coincident with Lord Cottenham's
Bills on the same subjects, if not borrowed from them. They
therefore met with no opposition, and were read a second time.
Their Lordships adjourned a few minutes before Ten.
In the Commons Mr. Roebuck obtained permission to plead
as counsel at the Bar of the House of Lords, in support of the
Sudbury Disfranchisement Bill.
In compliance with a request made by . Mr. Hawes, Sir R.
Peel stated that were Sir R. Inglis to bring on his motion for
Charch extension he should vote for it, and should follow up
his vote by an address to her Majesty, drawn up according to
his own views. At the same time he pledged himself on the
part of the Government, to give the subject his best considera-
tion, and hinted that the Hon, Baronet who was to bring for-
ward the subject might not find it convenient or proper to do
so at this late period of the session, when so many gentlemen
had left town. Sir Robert Inglis took this hint, and professing
himself satisfied to leave the matter in the hands of his Right
Hon. Friend, he intimated that he would not bring forward
his motion for Church extension this session.
In reply to Mr. Roebuck, Sir J. Graham admitted that a
Mr. Fry has been imprisoned at Cheltenham with serious
irregularities.
On the motion for going into a Committee of Supply, Mr.
Shiel brought under the notice of the House the conduct of
the Government in Ireland respecting Mr. St. George, the
appointing partisan Judges, the excluding Catholics from
juries to obtain party convictions, the unseemly prosecutions
of the Press, the injudicious language of Mr. Justice Penne-
father, &c., and concluded by moving for the correspondence
relative to the restoring Mr. St. George to the Magistracy.
?Jr. Shiel spoke at great length, and Lord Eliot defended the
Government, and went through most of the cases which had
been quoted or referred to by Mr. Shiel. A long and regular
debate on the mode of governing Ireland ensued, in which
the Ministers and the ex-Ministers took part, and in which
Sir Robert Peel defended his conduct. It is impossible, 'now-
ever, to advert to the many topics that were introduced. We
have hitherto been spared much discussion' about Ireland this
session, and must esteem ourselves happy to be quit with one
night's discussion, embracing all possible topics. In the end
the House divided, and themotion was lost by 146 to 75. The
House afterwards went into Committee of Supply, transacted
some ordinary business, and adjourned at Two o'Clock.
PUBLIC OPINION. _

In an article suggested by the present distresses of the coun-
try, the Chronicle makes the following remarks :—" Every
night in the House of Commons brings stronger indications
that the session verges upon its close; and the news of every
day from the country brings stronger proof that the session
ought rather to be at its commencement than at its conclusion.
During the present Parliament, the sufferings of the great
mass of the population have been augmented in unbroken pro-
gression. There have been no alternations of good with evil,
of hope with despondency. Net even partial and temporary
revivals of trade have intervened to chequer the gloominess of
the prospect. No person in business remembers a depression
so strictly continuous and uninterrupted. In our large manu-
facturing towns distress has advanced from street to street,
from one kind of occupation to another, from one class in so-
ciety to a higher class. The symptoms are all those of a fearful
and grossing calamity, becoming more portentous by every
week's delay. And in this state of things it is that the Legisla-
ture prepares, and is practically beginning to disband itself, and
to seek amusement in the coming season of field sports."
The Post insists that the Anti-Corn-law League is responsi-
ble for much of the present distress in the country :—" That
the distress of the country is very great, is only too notorious ;
but it is scarcely less notorious that the distress of the country
has been caused chiefly by the prevalence of that system of in-
dustrial policy which the schemers of the Anti-Corn-law
League desire to ' carry out ' to results even more appalling
than those under which we are now suffering. Not merely,
therefore, is the free-trade faction responsible, in a general
sense, for the prevailing poverty and want of employment ; but
the jobbers of the Anti-Corn-law League are responsible, in an
especial manner, for a large portion of that wretchedness which
exists at this moment in the manufacturing districts. It is now
the object of these selfish schemers to aggravate, by all possible
means, the amount of distress, in order to ' produce an action'
en Parliament and on Ministers. With that view the manu-
facturers of the League are on all sides reducing the wages of
their opera•.ives, and discharging their hands.' Nay; at an
Anti-Corn-law meeting held in Yorkshire about a fortnight
ago, it was stated by the lecturer, Acland, that the object of
the ' Anti-Corn-law Conference,' now assembled in London, is
• to arrange a plan for stopping simultaneously all the mills in
Yorkshire and Lancashire.' If these men should be indicted
for a foul conspiracy, see might chance to hear less afterwards
abtut • leagues, and conferences,' and 6 closings of mills.' "
The Herald says—" If the members of the British Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of Science flattered themselves
that they were to be exclusively honoured by the denunciations
of the Times, they have by this time discovered their mistake.
They must. perceive a formidable rival for its favours in the
Royal Agricultural Societe; but neither the Assoc ation nor
the Seciety need be jealous of our modest Cotemporary's at-
tention to the other, for he seems to have an ample store of
abuse for them both. Indeed, it is inexhaustible, and it ought
to be ; for he 'lets fly' indiscriminately at every body of men
who aim at assisting each other to become wiser than their
fathers were before them. This propensity' to associate for
the study of their common interests and the advancement of
their common pursuits is his abomination. It is a conspiracy
against the prejudices of habit and error which he cannot en-
dure. In the acquisition of ne'a ideas he can see nothing but
the uasettling 'of men's minds, and in the adoption of improved
methods nothing but the exchange of the old magic lamp for a
worthless new one I How profound would be the bliss (pro-
found as the ignorance) of a man who can thus be content
with no higher aspiration than to leave the world as he found
it, if he was not disturbed by the startling realities with which
the spirit of discovery is continually exciting his envy and his
apprehension."
In. an article on the subject of a Regency in France, the
Times observes—" The principle of monarchy in France
derives ;As chief strength from the personal character of the
Sovereign ; but the person of the Sovereign must draw its
authority from something besides the principle of monarchy ;
and the adherence of the people to the present institutions of
the country appears to rest, not upon the predilections or the
confidence of loyalty, but rather upon the dread of further
change, and the distrust of other forms of Government, which
could not tail to draw the Stale once more into the fatal vortex
of revolution. Such we believe to be a fair and dispassionate
view of the state of the public mind in France; -and all we
venture to hope at the present moment is, that the sympathy
'of the people for the King's affliction may carry them along
with the Government, and that the measure now about to be
submitted to the Legislature may not come into operation until
a course of yetrs has ratified its provisions, and prepared the
nation to support them, if necessary."
VIONZIY—TRADE—COMINCERCE.

The Pharmaceutical Society has already enrolled upwards of
3,700 members and associates during the first year of its estab-
lishment.
By the passing of the recent " Act," whereby the use of
stake and bag nets are no longer permitted to remain at the
mouth of the River Tyne, the salmon fishery has become highly
productive, and Newcastle may again be expected to become
as famous for salmon as it wrs in the middle of the eighteenth
century.
A resolution has been come to by the flax-spinners of Leeds,
whereby it has been determined that all their mills shall com-
mence working short time, or four or five days in the week.
This decision will affect nearly 10,000 persons, who are em•
',loved in this branch of trade. The payments have been from
3,0001. to 4,0001. weekly, and the diminution will be about
800/. from that sum.
LAW AND POLICE.

The capture of the gang of highwaymen, who had constructed
and inhabited fur some time past a cave in Epping Forest, has
naturally led to the inquiry of what has become of Lord Warden,
Deputy-Warden, Master-Keepers, Verderers, Reeves, &r., an
enormous staff, which is appointed by the Crown to guard its
rights, as well as those of the public, and supported at a con-
siderable expense to the latter.
An action was brought at the Maidstone Assizes by Mr. Bur-
ton, the owner of a jetty at Northfleet, against Stevenson and
others, owners of a coal brig, for running foul of the jetty, and
damaging the house erected on it. The damages were laid at
6,11., but the Jury returned a verdict for the defendants, on the
ground that the jetty was an obstruction to the free navigation
of the river. _ _

A decision, under the General Turnpike Act, of considerable
importance, was come to by the Magistrates of the Kensington
Police Com t yesterday. Hitherto, it appears that several Ala-
gistratea have convicted parties, who, leaving their chaise, cart,
or vehicle outside the turnpike, have themselves gone through
on foot and done their business, afterwards returning to their
cart. The ground of conviction has been that by this means
they have evaded the toll. The Kensington Magistrates, how-
ever, in the case before them yesterday, overruled these deci-
sions, and gave it as their opinion that such cases as the above
were not contemplated by the clause in the Act.
I.ITEILSRY AND SCIENTIFIC.

On levelling some ground to the south of Scone, near Perth,
large quantities of bones in stone coffins were found. These
either mark the burial of the Norsemen, who here fought
several battles, or the interment of the members of the Monas-
tery, which stood he THEATRICAL.
At the English Opera House, a "grand burlesque ballet"
was performed for the first time last night. It is entitled
Griselle, or Dancing Mad, and grotesquely takes off the
dancers and " Willies of the Opera.
COURT---FASLIXONABLE.
One of the most superb fetes of the season was given last
night by Lord and Miss Foley. Almost all the leading fa-
shionables in town were present.
Earl Delawarr, the Lord Chamberlain, arrived at Windsor
on Friday last, for the purpose of inspecting the progress of
the works of the Castle.
The illness of the Right Rev. Dr. Sandes, Bishop of Cashel,
has assumed so serious an aspect, as to cause great apprehen-
sion for the ultimate recovery of the venerable Prelate.
The Earl oft Sefton's spacious new mansion in Belgrave-
square.will not be completed until the beginning of next year.
IY/XSCEIMANEOUS.

A prize fight was fought near Staley-bridge, Manchester, on
Monday last, between Norley and Russell, for 501. aside, when
the latter was so injured that he died on Friday. Another en-
counter of the same kind took place in a field on the Eccles-
road; in this case one of the combatants was captured, and
two of the seconds, by the authorities.
The Wesleyan Conference holds its annual assembly on the
27th instant.

Sir Charles Metcalf last week underwent the ope-
ration of having a tumour removed from his cheek,from which
he has suffered for many years past. Sir Benjamin Brodie,
Dr. Chambers, and Mr. Martin attended, when the tumour
was skilfully removed by Sir Benjamin. Sir Charles is going
On very favourably.

TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 19, 1842.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUAR TER TO THREE.
The Funds continue to show a disposition to advance,
though no business of particular moment has been done, al-
though, being as it is termed the second opening day, several
parcels for Stock have been transferred. Consols are 90190*
for Money, and 904 91 fur the Account. Three per Cents.
Reduced, 914 914; Three-and-a. Half per Cents. Reduced,
1001 100* ; New Three-and-a-Balt per Cents., 994 993;
India Stock, 249 251 ; Bank Stock, 166 167 ' • India Bonds,
26 28 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 45 47 ; New, 43 45 premium.
No alteration in the prices of Foreign Securities ; Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been sold at 51514, and the
Five per Cents. 1014. Mexican Bonds are quoted 364.
In the Share Market the sales have been limited and con-
fined to South Western, 614 62; North Midland, 601 h; Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, New, 3% ; and South Eastern Scrip, 334.
The Bands quoted to• day are--Portuguese Five per Cents.,
334; the Three per Cents., 19a; Spanish Five per Cer.ts.,
21 ; and the Three per Cents., 203.
In addition to the meetings of the Joint-Stock and Union
Banks, which were held a few days back, the Proprietors of
the Commercial Bank assembled yesterday for the purpose of
receiving the Report of the Directors. It appeared that but
one-fifth of the capital, or 80,0001., has been yet required,
but with this small amount sufficient business has been done to
yield a profit of 7,2031. 165., after paying the current expenses,
and deducting all bad and doubtful debts, from which a dividend
of 5 per cent. is to be paid, and the balance carried to the guarantee
fund. Although commercial depression has existed for some
time, yet it would seem that those institutiens, instead of suf-
fering to the extent which might have been anticipated, have,
on the contrary, rather increased their business, and with pro-
fit. Each of the three which has lately published a statement
of their affairs, has shown that its transactions have greatly ex-
tended themselves, showing the increased favour with which
joint-stock banks are viewed by the public.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RA I LWA YS. Paid. Per Share.
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O
Ditto New .. 3 .
London and South Western 41% . . 62
Northern and Eastern
Paris and R0uen...........
South Eastern and Dover... 5O .....
Ditto,Scrip
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia
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Provincial Bank of Ireland
LivsitrooL COTTON MARKET, JULY 18.—A good business
was done in cotton to-day, and the market had a strong tone.
The rates of Friday were realised without difficulty for 6,0..0
bales, viz.: —l4O Egyptian 63d. to 74d.; 1,000 Surat 33. to 4d. ;
and 4,860 American 33d. to7d.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JULY Ig.—We have
had a rather better market, and several transactions took place
in the undermentioned : Eastern Counties, 84 ; Edinburgh
and Glasgow, 464; Edinburgh and Glasgow New, 34 ;
Grand Junction, 1884 ; Paris and Rouen, 184; ditto, New, 34.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 18.—There has
been no arteiation in our market to-day, and very little busint as
done in consequence of a scarcity of stock. Our only sales are
—Lancaster and Preston, Three-quarter Shares, 194 ; Man-
chester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 44.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red. .... 91* Ditto Bonds ....... —pm
3 per Cent. Cons 904 Ditto Old Annuities ... 894
34 per Cent. Red 1004 Ditto New Annuities...
New 34 per Cent 991 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 43 pm
I‘l,m• 5 per Cen: Ditto 5001...... 45 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small
Jan. 1860 ...... 121 Bank Stock for Acct —
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860 Consols for Acct....... 903
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent. ... Portuguese, 5 per cent. 55
Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto 333
Brazilian Bonds... 64 Prussian, 5 per cent —
BuenosAyres6 per cent. Russian, 5 per cent —
Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic ...... .
Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent...... 21
Ditto, 1824 213 Ditto, Deferred.... . 94
Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —e.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange —f —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent 363 'French, 3 per cent. —f. —c.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 24 per cent. 5l
Peruvian,lB2s, 6 perct. Ditto, 5 per ten:. 1014
SHARES.
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... 464
Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid
Great Western Railway (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 62
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Blackwell ( paid) ... 94
London and Birmingham (90)
London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 614
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
North Midland Railway (100)
Paris and Rouen (16 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)
Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid)
York and North Midland (50 paid) ...... 86

POLICE IrqNTELLIG ENC E.

MARLBOROUGH. STREET.
(THIS DAY.)
Win. Morris, a young man, fashionably dressed, and Roger
Morris, wearing a blouse, and having the appearance of a
farmer, were charged with being drunk and riotous, at half-past
four o'clock this morning, in Cranbourne-street, Leicester-
square, and assaulting police-constable, No. 178, of the C divi-
sion, in the execution of his duty,, and making use of obscene
language.
The complai.nant stated, that hearing a great noise in Cran-
bourne-street, be went there, and found the defendants both
very much intoxicated, attempting to hold each other up, and
rolling against the shutters of the shops there. He bugged
them to goon quietly, on which they both commenced abusing
him, using obscene and abominable language, and at last the
defendant, Roger' Morris, put his fist in his (complainant's)
face, and threatened to as,ault him ; he therefore took him into
custody, when the other defendant threatened and attempted to
rescue him. On another police-constable coming up, he was
alvo given in charge.
The defendant, William Morris, who, at his own request was
sp•.kesman for himself and friend, alleged that the charge was
from beginning to end entirely false—it was quite a trumped-up
thing altogether, and neither of them was so much intoxicated
as had been represetved ; in fact, as for himself, he was perfectly

sober.
Inspector Plume, of the C division, stated that when the de-
fendants were brought to the station-house they were both
drunk.
Mr. MA von- said the charge against them had been fully
proved to his satisfaction.
Defendant, Will. am Morris—l shall certainly carry this
matter further.
Mr. MALTBY--Pray, what cre you, Sir? Defendant—l am
a gentleman, and any friend is an agriculturist.
Mr. MALTBY—I fine you 40s each, or, in default of pay-
ment, one month's imprisonment in Westminster Bridewell.
Defendant William Morris—l beg your pardon, Sir, but
will you favour me by making the fine 51. instead of 40s. I had
much rather so.
Mr. MALTBY—I shall not al,er my adjudication.
Defendant—Well, I must submit, but I vtould rather pay
the Si. than the 40s.
The fines were immediately paid, and the defendants
liberated.

THE ANTI-CORN-LAW
CONFERENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

The Delegates re-at-sculled at Twelve o'clock this
day at the King's Arms, Palace-yard. P. A. Taylor,
Esq., in the Chair.
The CHAIRMAN opened the lroceedings by reading
the following address of the Loyal National Repeal
Association of Ireland, to the members of the Anti-
Curn-law Conference in London :
Committee-room, Corn Exchange, Dublin,
July 15, 1842.
Gentlemen—lt affords the Irish people no small satisfaction
to offer you the tribute of their approbation and praise, for the
energy with which you have sought for the repeal of the Corn-
laws—laws the most oppressive and monstrous that ever dis-
graced any code, Christian or Infidel—laws too bad even
for any class of unbelievers laws founded upon a
principle manifestly repugnant to, and directly contra-
dictory of, the most sacred doctrines of Christian charity.
It excites sorrow and indignation to find that in any
civilised country there should exist a law to tax the food of the
multitudinous poor, for the exclusive benefit of a small class of
landholders. It would be iniquitous policy to tax the food of the
labouring classes by a taxation levied for the benefit of the en-
tire State ; but it is truly wicked that the food of the starving
poor should be enhanced in price without any benefit to the
State, and for the sole profit of a comparatively small and very
avaricious class, composed of the monopolising aristocracy.
This we loudly proclaim to be an atrocious impolicy, almost
unendurable, and imperatively demanding immediate legisla-
tive redress. In your struggles to obtain such re-
dress, we offer you the heartfelt sympathy and cordial
support and assistance of the people of Ireland—a
people tranquilly but fixedly devoted to tho carrying
out the great principle of liberty, religious, civil, and commer-
cial. But while we thus offer you our support and assistance,
and duly appreciate your exertions for the repeal of the Corn-
laws, we cannot but anxiously deplore that you have not placed
your exertions for that repeal on a broader, and we think, a
wiser basis of practical utility. We exceedingly regret that
you should confine your patriotic exertions to that subject alone
—we doubly regret that you hare not directed your views, and
employed your great powers to promote also the extension of
the Parliamentary suffrage, so that every adult male, undo-
graded by fatuity, and unstained by crime, may have his just
right to vote for a Representative in Parliament, recog-
nised and enforced. We do not mean to say, or to insi-

nuate, that you ought) to relax, much less to give up
your exertions to obtain a repeal of the Corn-laws ; but we do
say that you might easily, and, as matter of right judgment that
you ought, combine with your exertions for the repeal of the
Corn-laws, ahealthy agitation to obtain that right of voting which
is called by some " Complete suffrage," and by others " Uni-
versal Suffrage." Recollect, we conjure you, that the present
Parliament consists of class legislators,they belong to one class,
the aristocracy of wealth ; and whether they have obtained their
seats, as many of them have certainly done, by coercion and
corruption in the agricultural districts, or by bribery, debauchery,
and perjury in many towns and cities, yet the result is, that
the Parliament instead of being the representatives of
all, is constituted as the representation, and in the
interests, of the landlord and wealthy classes exclusively. Until,
therefore, you set about in earnest to seek for a broader
basis of Parliamentary representation, you never will be able
to coerce the present occupants of power into an abandonment
of their selfish and grovelling, but most oppressive monopoly.
Besides. you cannot expect that those who consider the exten-
sion of the suffrage a paramount object will consent to aid you
in looking for the repeal of the Corn-laws, until you, on your
part, consent to assist them in working out that extension.
We do not by any means laud the conduct of the Chartists,
who refuse to assist in seeking for cheap bread until
their political tights are obtained ; on the contrary,
we deem it entire folly on their part so to refuse. But do not
they allege that the example of exclusive actii.n is given by
you who struggle for that which should be the end—namely,
" cheap food," whilst you neglect the means of obtaining that
cheap food, namely, the extension of the franchise to the la-
bouring classes ? Will not many declare that there is a want
of practical good sense upon both parts—we do not say
so, but others will proclaim it—a want of practicability
on your parts in refusing to look for political rights,
until you have got cheap food—a want of wisdom on the part of
the Chartists in refusing to insist on cheap food until after they
shall have attained their political rights. We do therefore
conjure you to consider these suggestions maturely and deli-
berately ; they come from ardent friends of. your cause, from
supporters of the abolition of all taxation upon human food,
strong in their convictions of the iniquity of such taxation, and
ready to join the voice of millions with yours to
destroy that robbery of the poor, which has for its object to
advance the interests of a sordid aristocracy. Anxious as we
are to combine all classes of those who seek for political ame-
lioration, we conjure you to meditate attentively upon the ad-
vice we respectfully offer you, and to assure you that you shall
always meet the entire sympathy and ardent and unrelaxing
support of the people of Ireland.
( Signed by order)
DANIEL O'CONN ELL, M.P., Chairman,
T. M. RAY, Secretary.
To the Secretary of the Anti-Corn-law Conference, London.
The CHAIRMAN then read the following letter, which
had been prepared by the Executive Committee, as a
reply to that of the Repeal Association :
THE CONFERENCE OF PEPUTIES or THE NATIONAL ANTI-
CORN-LAW LEAGUE TO THE LOYAL NATIONAL REPEAL
ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND.
Gentlemen,—We beg to acknowledge the receipt of your
address, and to assure you that the approbation you express of
our object and our exertions is exceedingly grateful to us.
We have maturely and deliberately considered the purport of
your Address, and beg to offer the following remarks, which
are tendered in that spirit of honesty and brotherly feeling by
which your communication to us is distinguished.
The Anti- Corn-law League was organised for the accom-
plishment of oNE object—the entire abolition of the Corn-law.
By its constitution and rules, it is absolutely prevented from
engaging in any other agitation. We believe that any departure
from this fundamental principle would give occasion for great
rejoicing to our opponents, and would annihilate the League,
and be in reality—as it would certainly be held to be—a victory
on the side of the monopolists.
We believe the Corn-law may be repealed—nay, must be
lepealed by this Parliament ; and that the ground of past failure
is no good reason why we should abandon our present course.
We have not failed. Our progress has been one of continued
success, and at this moment the supporters of the famine-laws
are staggering, and their ranks are giving way. To say that,
because by the labours of four years we have not wholly de-
stroyed the Corn• laws, we must conclude that our present mode
of action is insufficient, appears to us a view which our ex-
perience does not lead us to adopt. It is probable that no other
great agitation has ever made so much real progress in public
opinion in so short a time, and the instance of success in the
pursuit of the noble cbjeet of Catholic Emancipation, under the
guidance of the distinguished patriot who still presides over
you, stands forth to encourage us to proceed, and demonstrates
to us that our complete success can riot be far distant.
We do not interfere as a League with any other good object. We
do not oppose it in anyway, nor do we ostensibly forward it ; but
every man must perceive that to lay bare the iniquity of the
Corn-law is to further the objects of Parliamentary Reformers,
and the public well know that many of our warm friends are
anxiously assistieg in the_ prosecution of every good and pa-
triotic undertaking.
We thank you for the offer of your co-operation. We shall
rejoice to have it. We know how the Corn-law grinds
down the noble people whom you represent, and we wish to
unite with them in determined efforts to procure its abolition.
We assure you that we sympathise with the objects of every
patriotic institution, and with every rr an who labours for his
country's good. We feel that, with our cause is indissolubly
bound up our country's welfare, and we are resolved not to relax
in our exertions until the inhuman , Corn-laws be entirely
abolished. On behalf of the Conference,
P. A. TAYLOR, Chairman.
King's Arms, Palace-yard, London, July 18, 1842.
Mr. BRIGHT rose to propose the adoption of the above
reply. He thought it would be easy to convince any
person who looked dispassionately at the question, that
the dissolution of the Anti-Corn-law League would neither
promote the cause of Corn-law repeal nor the exten-
sion of the Suffrage. There appeared to him to be great
unfairness in the course pursued by the Chartists and
others. They created a dissension and then made that
dissension a ground for dissolving the League. The re-
peal of the Corn-law might be obtained without a junc-
tion of parties having different objects, and it was not fair
to argue as though a junction of parties was ab-
solutely necessary to its success.—(Hear, hear.) He
maintained that the repeal of the Corn-laws would
give to the working classes a great increase of power,
which they might exert in obtaining an extension of the
Suffrage, and in other ways to improve their condition.
It was well known to those who were acquainted with
them that nearly all their political institutions were
powerless for want of funds; that their lecturers were
scarcely able to support themselves; that the sale of their
publications was greatly diminished, and that their
children were growing up in a state of ignorance, which
would render the Suffrage of little use to them, if at some
future time it was placed in their hands ; and they were
made thus helpless by the monopoly which the Anti-
Corn-law League were endeavouring to remove.—
(Hear, hear.) In all attacks it was desirable first to
bring their force to bear upon the weake,t
part. The course which they were advised to take was
one which would give the aristocracy the assistance of a
large portion of the middle classes.—(Hear, hear.) The
'progress which they had hitherto made could not but be
satisfactory to all the frier.ds of the cause, whilst, if
they dissolved, in order to seek a change in the re-
presentation, a degree of injury would be inflicted on
the country before that object could be attained, which
no after legislation would be able to repair. He believed
that the Anti-Corn-law League had been a pioneer in
the work of national regeneration; that by removing the
Corn-laws they would remove the obstacle to the attain-
ment of other political rights, and that they would pro-
mote the extension of the Suffrage itself by persevering
in the course which they had pursued; and on these
grounds he begged. to move that this answer be sent
from the Conference to the Irish National Repeal
Association.
Mr. T. WOOLEY seconded the motion, which was
adopted unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN then read the following letter from
Mr. Joseph Sturge
TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE MEETING OF DEPUTIES IN
LONDON, FOR PROCURING THE ABOLITION OF THE CORN
AND PROVISION-LAWS.
Though I have for some time ceased to contribute any aid
in promotion of the objects of the Anti-Corn-law League, I
have received an urgent request to promote the appointment of
Deputies from this place to the meeting in London, but, on in-
quiry of the Secretary of the Anti-Corn-law Society here,
I find that no meeting is likely to be called for this purpose.
With regard to myself individually, I can assure the Deputies
that my absence is not caused from any alteration in my
opinion of the enormous evil of these laws, but I am persuaded
that there is no 'prospect of obtaining their abolition, except
through a full, fair, and free representation of the people, and
that it is for the attainment of this great object alone that" a
general and hearty co-operation of the working classes can be
obtained.
Should the failure of the present efforts of those with whom
I have long acted in the promotion of the abolition of the
Corn-laws lead them to the same conclusion, I would respect-
fully appeal to them seriously to consider whether they are not
called upon actively to co-operate with the exertions now mak-
ing to procure, a full, fair, and free representation in the House
of Commons, a large proportion of the present Members of
which House have obtained their seats by commission or
sanction of acts of a far deeper dye than those which they enact
laws to punish. I am respectfullly,
JOSEPH STURGE.

Birmingham, 7th month 4th, 1842. ----
[(The Meeting had not concluded when we went to Press.)

When Frys and Chapman, the Quaker bankers,
failed, a member of the Society of Friends took his account to
Jones Loyd. "We think von right Friend," said the senior
partner ; " It is wiser to place thy money with a rich sinner
than a poor taint,"—Dr. Hardcastle's Bank and Banking,

GREAT AND GLORIOUS ESCAPE .
FROM BRITISH TYRANNY.
It is with great ph asure that we have to announce
the arrival in this city of the first of those poor fel-
lows who, taken in Canada for rebellion, and trans-
ported to Van Diemen's Land, has been enabled to
make his escape back to this country.
The person we allude to came into our office yes-
terday, with his cheek flushed with health and delight,
his eye beaming with pride and pleasure at once more
eaching his native land, and his heart full of gratitude
to God for his escape from British tyranny.
His name is James Gammell. He is about 28
years of age ; was born in New York, brought up in
.Canada, and during the troubles there, was taken
under Colonel James Monroe, at Short Hills, Upper
Canada, in the summer of 1838. Monroe was
hung ; Gammell was sentenced to be hung on the
25th of August, 1838, but was reprieved, sent to
England with John S. Parker, and twenty-two others,
And thence transported to Van Diemen's Land for life,
with about seventy more Americans.
Gammell and eleven others were sent out from
England, in the ship Canton, to Hobart Town, on
the 22d September, 1839, and reached there
January 16, 1840. They were all sent one
hundred miles into the interior, to work on
the great road leading across the island from
Hobart Town to Launceston. Here •they worked
in irons for two years. After that, Lord John Rus-
ell sent out orders to mitigate their condition.
They then recived each a " ticket of leave," and were
allowed to work at their respective trades, on their
own account, but still to be kept confined to the in-
terior, and never allowed to go to any seaport on the

island.
Gammell, however, was allowed a pass by the
Magistrate of the district to go to Hobart Town to
get a model for a stump machine. And with that he
stumped the British authorities ; for by the assistance
of some American sailors, .then at Hobart Town, he
made his escape on board of an American whale-ship,
and reached this city in fine health and spirits on
last Wednesday at high noon, being the first of the
American prisoners who has made his escape from
Van Diemen's Land.
His numerous hair-breadth escapes we will give at
length hereafter. In the meantime the poor fellow
wishes us to state that the following American pri-
soners have died there since he went out :—Peter
Williams, of United States ; Alexander M'Leod,
Gerard Van Camp, of Canada ; John James M'Miller,
of Canada ; Mr. Priest, Jefferson County, New York ;
and Mr. Curtis.
The following have been sent to work in the coal-
mines for two years, for trying to make their escape
from the island :—Symes W. Miller, Chatauque ;
Joseph Stewart, New York ; W. Reynolds, do;
Horace Cooley, London, U. C.; Mr. Murray, do;
Jacob Paddock, Kingston.
In these coal-mines there are 1,000 men at work.
Gammell says that he left 76 prisoners still there of
the patriot party, mostly united States' citizens, and
all in bondage, employed by released convicts in vari-
ous trades.—New York Paper.

THE REGENCY IN FRANCE.
The law of regency has been the cause of infinite discussion
ever since the earliest ages of the
_French monat chy. In no
country of Europe have there been so many regencies—in
none have the principles on which regencies are appointed re-
mained so long uncertain—and in none have they been attended
with more disastrous controversies. _ _

It would appear that under the Kings of the earlier races
the established practice of the realm (if anything in those rude
ages was established) gave the guardianship of a minor King
to his mother, and the political power of the Regent to his
eldest male relation. But these rules were constantly violated.
The Capetian race mounted the throne by a usurpation of the
powers of the regency of Louis V. When Philip Augustus
succeeded to the Crown, it appears probable that the regency
and guardianship were divided between the Count of Flanders
and the Queen-Mother. The minority of St. Louis was un-
doubtedly protected by the regency of his mother, Queen
Blanche, in spite of the opposition of the King's uncle. In
the 14th century, however, after the deaths of Louis-Hutin
and Charles-le-Bel, the regency passed to the eldest male rela-
tive, next in the order of succession to the Throne, and this
principle was sanctioned by no less than four ordinances of re-
gency in 50 years.
The, first and only law of the French monarchy, however, on
the. subject, is the perpetual and irrevocable edict of 1407,
which enacted that Kings, during their minority, should go-
vern by the " good advice, deliberations, and counsel of the
Queens, their mothers, if they were alive, and of the nearest
in lineage and of the blood royal, who might then be living."
In spite of the occasional violation of this edict, its provisions
were generally confirmed by the testamentary orders of dying
Sovereigns, and the powers of the Regent have usually been
exercised in France by the Queen-Mother. On the death of
Francis 11. in 1560, the regency devolved on Catherine of
Medicis, mother of Charles IX., in spite of the adverse claims
of the King of Navarre. The rights of a Queen-Mother to
the regency in Franee were never more solemnly recognized
than after the assassination of Henry IV., and Maly of Medicis
a,sumed, with the full consent of the Parliament, the chief au-
thority on behalf of her son. At the close of the reign of Louis
XIII. the same power was exercised by Anne of Austria, and the
Duke of Orleans was appointed Lieutenant-General of the
Kingdom, under the orders of that Princess, with the assist
ante of a council. The last important regency in France was
in a manner usurped on the death of Louis XIV. by the Duke
of Orkans ; but it is a remarkable fact that for more than 250
years almost every reign either began or ended by a regency,
and in almost all eases the Queen-Mother was the person who
held that high trust.
A positive law on the subject was at length passed by the
Constituent Assembly in the constitution of 1793, which en-
acted that the " Regency belongs to the King'skinsman nearest
in degree according to the succession to the throne, provided
he he 25 years old, a Frenchman, and an inhabitant of the
kingdom ; and that he be not the heir-presumptive to another
throne; and that he have before taken the civic oath. Fe-
males are excluded from the regency." This enact-
ment was confirmed as respects the exclusion of women
by the senatus-consultum of 1804 ; but in 1813 Napoleon
appointed Maria Louisa regent of the empire during his ab-
sence ; and in his abdication in the following year he declared
for the rights of " the Regency in the person of the Empress"
during the minority of his son. But this case, like the nomi-
nation of Louis Philippe himself to the post of Lieutenant-
General of the Kingdom in 18.30, was the result of a fatal
emergency, and was instantly frustrated by the course of events.
Thse precedents have, of course, no paramount or irre-
fragable authority on the question, which, after all, must be
decided, as it ever has been, and will be now, by a legislative
act pro re nata. But, without attempting to prejudge the
course which the French Government will recommend on this
momentous occasion, the circumstances have induced us to
look back to the annals of the French monarchy, which are but
too replete with instances of a similar necessity, and, it must
be added, with the deplorable consequences of these calamities.

DERBY.

•
SPO RTIN(j INTELLIGENCE.
TAT'FERSALL'S—YESTERDAT.
THE Goonwoon STAKES.—The Knight of the Whistlso
was backed freely in good quarters, and at the close of tile
betting had a clear lead of at least three_points ; the takers
would have gone on at the price quoted. Two or three bets 01
b to 1 and 13 to 2 agst St. Lawrence were followed by offers to
lay 7 and Bto 1, but by none "to take." Helpmate began
at 20 to 1, and was backed to win a large stake .at
those and other odds, the lowest being 1,000 to 80 ; the last
bet was at 15 to 1. Retriever was also introduced at 20 to 1,
and in spite of his defeat at Liverpool, and of his engagement
this day at Southampton, those odds were taken to win several
thousands. Daddy Longlegs had a strong party at an iniproc-
ing figure, offer!, of 10 to 1 each agst Tupsley and Rhodanthep
were made repeatedly and in vain.
THE GOODWOOD CUP.—Takers of 5 to 1 about Thel
Squire, of 12 to 1 about iMarshal Soult, and 12 to 1 (15 to
laid at starting) about Sleight of Hand ; the only bet we heard
agst St. Lawrence was 1,100 to 100. Moneeda had two or thee
friends at 10 to 1, but neither Aliddlekam nor Priam (the ea-ee
mew horse) were in demand. The general prices at the finish
were as under :

GOODWOOD STAKES.
5 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Knight of the Whistle.
8 to 1 agst Mr. John Day's St. Lawrence.
10 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Rhodanthe.
10 to 1 agst Mr. Griffiths's Tupsley.
•
15 to 1 agst Graydon's Helpmate—taken.
15 to 1 agst Mr. Shelley's Daddy Longlegs—taken.
15 to 1 agst Mr. Clarke 's Corsair—t. and afterwards off.
15 to 1 agst Captain Harcourt's Arnagill—t. and af. off.
20 to 1 agst Sir. Forth's Lucy Banks—take 25 to 1.
20 to 1 agst Major Hay's Retriever—taken freely.
GooDwoon CUY.
5 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's, the Squire—taken.
10 to 1 agst Duke of Bedford's Monceda—taken.
10 to 1 agst Mr. Ramsay'i Middlehatn.
11 to 1 agst Sir. John Day's St. Lawrence—taken,
12 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Marshal Soult—tiken.
12 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Sleight of Hand.
12 to 1 agst Mr. Theobald's Seamew horse.
ST. LEGER.

•
12 to 1 agst Mr. Ramsay's Cabrera—taken.
20 to 1 agst Mr. J. King's Cattonite—(take 25 to I.)
,000 to 30 agst Mr. Bell's Eboracum—taken.

25 to 1 agst Mr. G. Clarke's Philip.
40 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Aristides—taken.
The Duke of Grafton's three-year old filly the ;Era, engsP4
in the Nassau Stakes at Goodwood, died two or three dsr
since.
NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING, 1842. e
,
Mr. Payne's Johnny, Bst 71b, is matche.d against the .1)0I
of Bedford's Monceda, Bst 41b, for 300, h ft; D,M., dad 1w
bye, to run on Monday in this meeting.
( RECEIVED THIS DAY.) ...A.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.—WouvanslAstrrotrs
ftt
Handicap for the Hulyoake Stakes of 20 sovs.
and 5 only, if declared on or before the "vith inst.:—.Charles the
Twelfth, 5 yrs, 9st 1 11b—Hyllus, 6 yrs, 9st 61b—Vul can, 5r
9st 41b—The Squire, 4 yrs, Bst 41b—The Knight of the
tle, 4 yrs, est 21b—Marshal Soult, 4 yrs, Bst—Bellonat, Or,
Bst—Fitzroy, 5 yrs, bst—Tamburini, 6 yrs, 7st—lrxtsoe`e,'
6 yrs, 7st 1 llb—Fieschi, aged, ist 81b—The Dean', 61,1;
ist 81b—Portrait, 4 yrs, ist 71b—Prince Caradoc, 4 yrs, 7."'
—Rhodanthe, 5 yrs, 7st 61b—Tubalcain, 6 yrs, 7st Du%
' Millepede, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—Ernest the First, 6 yrs, 7st 5l 113
worth, 5 yrs, 7st 41b—Thirsk, 4 yrs, 7st 41b—Peter the
4 yrs, 7st 21b—Our Nell, 3 yrs, 7st—The Maid, syr 591.71
The Young-un, 5 yrs, 7st —Lna, 4 yrs, 6st 121b-17011*t
aware, aged, Est 101b—Sybarite, 4 yrs, Est 81b—Image
6st 81b—Viola, 4 yrs, 6st 81b—Seahorse, 3 yrs, Est 81t;.
-"--„,fr
num Banana, 4 yrs,fis 61b—Jaak, 3 yrs, 6st 41b—Canary,118;
bit—ch c by Cam; out of Miss Chester, 3 yrs, sst 71b.
winner of the Wolverhampton Stake! 4lbs extra.
WARWICK, 1842.
Acceptances for the Leamington Stakes :—Chaalles:.
Twelfth, 6 yrs, lOst 21b—Hyllus, 6 yrs, 9st 131b—Sleig1,e
t:wr
Hand, 6 yrs, 9st 111b—Satirist, 4 yrs, 9st—The Cur! :
6 yrs, Bst 71h—St. Lawrence, 5 yrs, fist 71b—Fitiroys b.
Bst 71b—Welfare, 5 yrs, Bst 71b--Tamburini, 6 yrs, Bst 5
Monops, 5 yrs, Bst 21b—Chance, 5 yrs, Bst—lsaac, aged; V
Nautilus, aged, Bst—Ernest the
,First, 6 yrs, 7st 121b--41;
shal Soult, 4 yrs, 7st Mb—Retriever, 6 yrs, 7st
Young-'un, 5 yrs, 7st 101b—Sister to Ferneley, aged, 7st 91'10
Chilson, 6 yrs, 7st 91b—Thirsk, 4 yrs, 7st Sib—Peter.
Great, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—Arnagill, 4 yrs, Ist 71b—Wings, 6 rg,
7st 51b—Brother to Plenipotentiary, 6 yrs, 7st 41b—Rhoc10111;
5 yrs, 7st—Tupsley, 5 yrs, Est 121b—Esperenza, 4 yrs, tist.l,4l
—Pharold, 3 yrs, Est i lib—Una, 4 yrs, 6st 1 Ilb—Fitzisin,;
4 yrs, 6st 91b—Vakeel, 3 yrs, Est 91b—Jack, 3 yrs, 6st d,L,
The Golden Rule, 3 yrs, 6st 61b—Snowdrop, 4 yrs, 654
f by Buzzard. out of Emma, 3 yrs, 6st—Solomon, 3 yrst
The Rover, 3 yrs, sst 1 !lb—Coral, 3 yrs. sst 1 11b—Eagles4,
3 yrs, sst 91b—Albion, 3 yrs, sst 91b—Cheops 3 yrs, 54
'rs'
Sister to Alexandrina, 3 yrs, sst 41b—The 6onqueror, 3 „Y
sst. The winners of the Gloucestershire, Goodwood, Brier-d
Wolverhampton, or Holyoake Stakes, to carry 41bs extra
any two of them, 71bs ; or if three of them, 91bs extra.

GREAT FOUR-OAREDCUTTO
MATCH.
LONDON v. NEWCASTLE-UPOIsT-TYNE. at{
This great event, which has been the subject of converfOlt,
in the aquatic circles for the last few days, came off on Sa.tu •
day at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. This match ot, iginated
challenge from the Newcastle men to all England, in obL,
they undertook to form a four-oared boat-crew agaiL'st anytb;
that could be found afloat for 50!. or 1001. a side. The ce sg
brated Robert Coombes, a nine-stone man, PiYingini
Vauxhall-bridge, who, it will be remembered bah to
succession of victories, rowed his way right liPerei
Charles Campbell, the champion, immediately tux' jr.
the challenge, and, after some correspondence, it untegop
ranged that the match should be for 100/. a side, to could
of
Saturday last. On Wednesday the London crew, consisting*
H. Coombes (stroke), J. Doubledee (3), Robert Doublel,
(2), and Robert Newell (bow), with James Parish as coxstwo;r
left town, and at ten on Saturday morning, the harbour-111p
having kindly undertaken the office of referee, both crewCs. ho
looked confident, went away for a five-mile distance. het
then quarter of a mile they went oar and oar ; the Lond,°
then took the lead, maintained it the entire distance, and ardp
witnessed,one of the severest races ever won by
Betting was brisk at 5t04 on the Londoners. nli.Ttirse
same Thames crew that carried off the irize at Livcirj.c. vier
years ago ; and, with one exception, the same that
rious against eight-oared boats of all nations at. Havre de toll
in the grand regatta there in 1840.

1/6
INQUEST.—An inquest was held last week A 0
,
Lord Nelson, Old Kent-road, on the body ce Mt. Wilioir
Railton, ned 49, a gentleman who for many ~veass °_,4%aer
netted the Bank of England, whose death ocN:urreuldes
the following singular circumstances :—" From tilt' eloOst
adduced it appeared that the deceased had been for a, nA the
of years employed in the Bank of England, and throvliere
ability and talent displayed, he had been selected by the
tors of the Bank to go down to Birmingham, and there 1.11,0
the branch department. As a reward for the services ...gall
deceased, a short time since the Bank sent down a notifict,ois
that his salary had been increased either to 5701. or 59a 'Jo:
being unexpected, 11r. Railton came up to London for tllAils
pose of communicating his good fortune to his family.
he was talking about his future prospects he was noticed 11,11_,Pr
to fall back, at parently in a fit. The family became Ono.

and medical aid was instantly procured, but it was of r drol
His death was by apoplexy, produced by excitement, tin,,,
ceased having previously had two fits, which had been onsicii.
by similar causes. The jury accordingly returned a vefcr