The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-02 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THuRsDAY

In reply to a question from Mr. DIVETT, as to the present
state of the proceedings of the joint French and English
oommission on the claims of certain English merchants, for
serious injuries to their ships and property by French ships
of war in the Bay of Portendic,
Sir R. PEEL said he hoped if he used temperate and for-
bearing language in answering this question, it might not
be therefore supposed that he did not deeply feel the justice
of those claims. Although he could not confirm the expec-
tations of many, be must say that he had held out no expec-
tations which he was not justified in doing in accordance
with the professions made to him. He thought, however,
that the feelings of the British government could be better
conveyed to the government of France through the medium
of its ordinary communications than by means of speeches
in that house. He still entertained a confident belief that
France, actuated by a sense of justice, and by a regard for
its national honour, would make a speedy adjustment of
those claims.
In reply to a question from Mr. FIELDEN,
Sir J. GRAHAM complained of the reports of the inter-
views between deputations and the ministers of the crown,
and said that such reports tended to destroy the confidential
nature, and be might say the familiar intercourse, which
usually prevailed at those interviews.
Sir R. PEEL said that he would not charge those reports
with absolute mis-statement, but the whole view which they
presented was very different from the reality.
Captain FITZROY obtained leave to bring in a bill to re-
quire and regulate the examination of all persons who wish
to become masters or chief mates of merchant vessels.
Mr. ROEBUCK then brought under the consideration of
the house the report from the select committee on election
proceedings, and moved the following resolutions :
" That the compromises of election petitions, as brought
to the knowledge of this house by the report of the select
committee on election proceedings, must, if for the future
I they be allowed to pass without punishment or censure, tend
to bring this house into contempt with the people, and
thereby seriously to diminish its power and authority.
" That allisuch practices are hereby declared to be a vio-
lation of the liberties of the people, and a breach of the pri-
vileges of the house, which it will in all future cases strictly
inquire into and severely punish.
" That whereas in the late elections for Harwich, Not-
tingham, Lewes, Reading, Falmouth, and Penryn, and Brid-
port, the present laws have been found insufficient to protect
the voters from the mischievous temptations of bribery, it he
ordered that Mr. Speaker do issue no writ for any election of
members for the said towns till further legislative enactments
have been adopted to protect the purity of elections."
The hon. member said that the house upon the subject of
bribery was a band of hypocrites, and had it not been for the
manner in which Sir Robert Peel stood by him he should
never have been able to have brought the inquiry to a satis-
factory conclusion. He narrated and commented upon
many of the proceedings which had tran3pired before the
committee, and said it was to be regretted that men who, in
private life, might be trusted with untold gold, yet did not
hesitate to debauch a whole constituency by the debasing
acts resorted to at an election. The hon. member concluded
by saying that he would move the resolutions seriatim, and
he therefore moved that the first of them be agreed to.
Mr. C. RUSSELL entered his protest against these most
unjust and most unprecedented proceedings. The inquiry
had done no good, for although they had established the fact
that compromises had been entered into, yet that fact was
perfectly well known before, and they had not approached at
all nearer to legislation in consequence of its being established
before the committee.
Major BERESFORD said he was innocent of bribery and
corruption, nor could he find in the evidence anything which
could implicate him in such charges.
Mr. H. FITZROY complained of some errors contained in
the report.
Mr. Escorr was not prepared to say that the practices
laid bare should escape all check aad all punishment because
the proceedings were not precisely in conformity with his
own views of what they ought to have been. He should,
therefore, support the two first resolutions. The third re-
solution he could not support, because it was an indefinite
disfranchisement of the boroughs implicated, which was a
power that the house, in his opinion, had no power to ex-
ercise. _ _ _ .

Capt. PLUMRIDGE said, that after what had transpired
before the committee he would have put a question to Sir
R. Peel, had he been in his place, as to whether he (Capt.
Plu►nridge) should accept the Chiltern Hundreds now that
it was ascertained that a compromise had been entered into
by other parties, and thus enable that corrupt compromise
to be carried into effect.

Mr. AGLIONEY could see no use in investigations of the
committee if they were to lead to no result.
Sir W. FOLLETT contended that the Bribery Bill, which
went through committee on the previous evening, was calcu-
lated to meet all the evils referred to in the report, and he
therefore opposed the resolutions of the hon. member for
Bath as unnecessary. The last resolution was one he could
not at all assent to, for he much doubted the right of the
house to suspend writs for an indefinite period ; and he
thought it monstrous that no less than twelve seats should
be placed in this position. He should, therefore, move the
previous question, as an amendment to the resolutions of
the hon. gentleman, and hoped that in so doing he might not
be exposed to the unfair charge of wishing to screen bribery
from punishment.
Sir R. INGLIS also objected to the resolutions, and should
have been better pleased if the Solicitor-General had met
them with a direct negative.
Mr. HUME complained of the dilemma in which the Soli-
citor-General had placed the house by moving the previous
question, which if carried would prevent the house from
expressing its opinion upon the transactions revealed in the
report of the committee.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE wished to know if government meant
to give the Chiltern Hundreds to Major Beresford, Captain
Plumridge, and other hon. members, in order to enable
them to carry out their compromises as exposed in the re-
port?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the
stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds was in his gift, and
when the applications were made to him, he would decide
upon the subject.
Captain PLUMRIDGE immediately applied for the office,
but was as quickly called to order amidst considerable
laughter.
Mr. A. B. COCHRANE defended his conduct, after which
Sir R. PEEL said that he had supported the appointment
of the committee in order that the prevailing system might
be reformed, but not with the intention of branding indivi-
duals for pursuing practices well known and tolerated. He
thought compromises bad, because their tendency was to
conceal the truth. The house itself had, however, been in
some measure a party to encouraging compromises, by spd-
dling parties with costs in cases of frivolous and vexatious
defences. He thought it necessary to put an end to these
proctices by law ; but while he advocated the necessity for
an enactment on the subject, he could not be a party to the
suspension of the writs of the boroughs named in the third
resolution, not thinking that sufficient grounds had been laid
for so stringent a proceeding against so many boroughs.
Mr. LASCELLES bore testimony to the impartial manner
in which Mr. Roebuck had conducted the proceedings of the
committee, but said, if the second resolution were agreed to,
the house would find itself under the necessity of taking some
step which might interfere with the understanding amongst
the committee, that its recommendations should refer to
future proceedings, and not to the past.
Lord CHELSEA bore testimony to the courtesy with which
Mr. Roebuck conducted the inquiry, but that courtesy was
not sufficient to hide the bitterness of the pill which he com-
pelled him (Lord Chelsea) to swallow.
Mr. WARD said, unless future proceedings were to be
adopted he could see no useful result from all that had
hitherto taken place in reference to these compromises.
Mr. HAWES said, as member of the house, he would sup-
port the resolutions, if it were not that lie felt himself bound,
as a member of the committee, to adhere to the original un-
derstanding on which th^ committee was appointed—namely,
that it should report as to facts, and not recommend legis•
lation.
After some further discussion, in which Mr. V. Smith, Mr.
Aglionby. Mr. S. Crawford, and Mr. Turner took part,
Mr. ROEBUCK replied, and the previous question was
carried by a majority of 136 to 17.
Mr. Hume asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he
would grant the Chiltern Hundreds, to enable those corrupt
compromises to be carried out?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied that, if the
hon. member applied on his own behalf, he would readily
grant the application. (Great laughter.)
The second resolution was then moved by Mr. ROEBUCK,
but, being met by the previous question, it was negatived
without a division, as was also the third resolution.
The other business before the house was then disposed of,
and the house adjourned.

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HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY.
On the motion of the Duke of BUCCLEUCII, the South
Australia Bill was read a third time and passed.
On the motion of the Duke of WELLINGTON, the Poor
Law Commission Continuance Bill was read a third time
and passed.
on the table a bill for the
The Earl of RADNOR laid up
repealwas read a first time, ordered to be read a second
time on Thursday next.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDR said, that at this late pe-
riod of the session he could not expect to carry into law the
Sudbury Disfranchisement Bill, and he should therefore
move that the order for its second reading be discharged.
The motion was agreed to.
Some other business was disposed of, and the house ad-
journed till Saturday at twelve o'clock.

HOUSE OP COMMONS.—FRIDAY.
Mr. lityrT announced his intention of withdrawing his
motion relative to the Danish claims for the present session.
Nlr. HUME commented on the injustice done to the
claimants by the long-continued resistance to these claims.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER denied the justice
of these claims.

Sir R. PEEL, replyin to some observations from Mr.
Thornely, said he had little
doubt but'that a considerable
quantity of flour would be imported from the United States
declaration.
under the existing corn
lw.
Mr. EwART hoped that if this
the case, the right hon. baronet
should turn out not to be
would hereafter admit his
error when reminded of his presetnt
The house then went into a committee
Mr. WILLIAMS objected to an item of of supply.
6, for conveying
the Bishop of Exeter to the Scilly Islands, as being paltry
in character and extravagant in amount.
Col. SIBTHORP commented on the salaries of Mr. Row-
land Hill and Mr. Henry Cole, arising out of the new post-
age plan.
After a few words from Sir C. NAPIER in support of tle
objection,
Sir G. CLERK said that the charge yras for a visitation
made by the bishop in 1838, and it. was in proportion to the
established scale for persons of his rank. With respect to

On the vote of £59,934 for South Australia,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the ex-
periment of a self-supporting colony had proved in this in-
stance a total failure.
Lord STANLEY, however, expressed a hope thst the co-
lony would ultimately prosper, and be enabled to pay back a
portion of the money advanced by this country.
Mr. HUME opposed the vote, but the committee on a di-
vision affirmed it by a majority of 75 to 13.
On the vote of £217,951 for the expenses of the land
forces in China, a laughable collision took place between
Mr. Hume and Sir C. Napier. The gallant officer told Mr.
Hume he knew nothing about the navy, and was continually
moving for nonsensical returns respecting it.
In reply to this Mr. Humn logically proved that Sir C.
Napier, by saying that he moved foi nonsensical returns,
called him a fool—for nonsensical returns were foolish re-
turns, and no one but a fool would move for foolish returns.
He also insisted that the man who supported a fool must be
a greater fool still, and Sir Charles had continually supported
him in the returns he moved for. The hon. member then
retaliated by saying that if he had moved for nonsensical re-
turns Sir Charles had made very foolish speeches.
In reply to a question from Mr. M. PHILIPS,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the
6,000,000 of dollars paid by the Chinese for the ransom of
Canton Teas applied to the expenses of the war with China.
Mr. D. ISRAELI said that the war was waged against the
government of China rather than against the people. This
he thought wrong. If it had been waged against the people,
so far as to destroy their commerce, the war would have
been over before now. . .

Sir R.• PEEL said that in waging war against the commerce
of the people of China they would be at the same time
waging against the commerce of the people of England.
Mr. O'CoNNELL said it was less desirable to do this as
the justice of the war was somewhat questionable.
The vote was then agreed to.
Some other votes being agreed to, the house resumed.

Mr. S. CRAWFORD thin moved, in pursuance of a petition
from a large number of electors and inhabitants of the
town of Nottingham, that a new writ be issued to elect a
member for that borough in the room of Sir G. Larpent.
Dr. BO W RIN G seconded the motion; and Mr. HOME said
that it was useless to resist the motion after the course pur-
sued on the preceding evening. They were enacting a farce,
and it was useless to continue any longer.
Mr. BERNAL said it was a more serious reflection than
any resulting from the mere issue of these writs that, at the
close of the session, they would leave the house without
having advanced a single step towards suppressing these
enormities. For his own part, this reflection filled him with
the deepest disgust.
Mr. R. YORKE opposed the issue of the writ, for he could
not suppose that the bill of Lord John Russell against bri-
bery had not yet passed into law.
After a few words from Sir R. INGLIS,

Sir R. PEEL said he had assented to the suspension of the
writs in the first instance, in order that inquiry might be
made, but now the committee had made its report, and that
report contained no recommendation of any ulterior mea-
sures, it would, therefore, be unconstitutional to suspend the
writs for an indefinite time, and for no apparent object. He
hoped to see some clauses introduced into the Bribery Bill
to prevent head-money and treating, and he entertained no
doubt but the House of Lords would, in deference to the
House of Commons, pass the bill. At all events he would
in no way be a party to its defeat.
Mr. WARD supported the issue of the writ.
Lord PALMERSTON would rather the writs had been post-
poned until the Bribery Bill passed into a law ; not that he
bad any doubt about its passing, but he knew there was a
great difference in the impression on the minds of electors
between a bill already passed, and one in transittz through
parliament. He should not, however, oppose the issue of
the writs, though he would rather they had been postponed
for a week.

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The writ was then issued.
The orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
house adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-SATURDAY

On the motion of Mr. GREENE, the report of the com-
mittee of supply was brought up and agreed to.
On the order of the day for going into committee on the
Newfoundland Biil.
Mr. G'CoNNELL moved, as an amendment, that the com-
mittee on the bill should be postponed until that day three
months. His object was to delay the bill until a communi-
cation could be received from the parties interested. He
could not see the necessity for this alteration in the consti-
tution of the colony, when, according to the statement of the
governor of it, the trade of the country was flourishing, and
the revenue ample and increasing. There was nothing what-
ever to justify such a proceeding, and he believed the real
reason for interfering was, because the majority of the people
of the island were Roman Catholics.
Lord STANLEY said, that at the last election in New-
foundland great excitement was produced by the conduct of
some of the Roman Catholic priests, and this it was led to
the suspension of the House of Assembly, and the present
bill was intended to restore that body with some modifica-
tions. He denied that the majority of Roman Catholics was
so great as the right hon. gentleman appeared to suppose.
On the contrary, he believed the population were pretty
equally divided as to religious belief, and this bill would give
no advantage to any one party over another.
Mr. HUME said, there were 70,000 Catholics, and only
30,000 Protestants. He protested against the measure as
one of gross injustice.
On the motion of Mr. PAKINGTON the debate was ad-
journed.
Mr. P. M. STEWART brought up the report of the
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mended that no new writ should be issued until the evidence
should be printed and laid upon the table of the house.
Mr. ESCOTT gave notice that he would this evening move
that a new writ be issued for Ipswich.
Adjourned.

THE NORTH AMERICAN STEAMERS

(From the Nautical Magazine.)

We lay before our readers, from an authentic source, a
statement of the time occupied in making the passages be-
tween Liverpool and Halifax, being all those made by this
successful line since its commencement to the month of June
last. The document is a most important one in steam navi-
gation, first, as not only showing the certainty of a quick
communication across the Atlantic at all times of the year,
but the average rate at which it may be made. The passage
out gives 7,86 miles per hour, while that home, influenced by
prevailing wind and current, gives 9.3 miles.
The mean between these may be taken as the average
speed obtained at sea, or what may be calied the sea-rate.
In this case the sea-rate is 8.58 miles per hour. It will be
seen in our volume for 1837, p. 752, that the sea-rates of the
Atalanta and Berenice, in those comparatively-early days of
miles,
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the average of
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passages of the British and North American line have all
been made across the stormy Atlantic, while those above
quoted were, at least two-thirds of them, in moderate
latitudes, there is every reason to congratulate the proprie-
tors on the result.

Passages to and from Liverpool and Halifax of the British
and North American Royal Mail Steam-ships, from July
4th, 1840, to June 4th, 1842.

Ships'
Name

THE PROROGATION.— Her Majesty and Prince Albert
are expected at Buckingham Palace about the 10th of Aug.,
for the purpose of enabling the Queen to prorogue the
houses of parliament ; and her Majesty will return to the
castle on the following day, if not the same evening, by the
Great Western Railway, as the ceremony is over by half-past
three o'clock.—Herald;

CONSISTENCY.—In Leeds an active gentleman has lately
spent a considerable sum, out of his own pocket, to prove the
prevalence of distress. When the whigs were in power he
spent a still larger sum in getting up facts to show that no
distress existed. At the late meeting of shopkeepers the
political friends of the gentleman alluded to declared that
the distress had been in existence more than three years.—
Leeds Conservative Journal.
We have hitherto refrained from making any comment on
the " scandal" which has lately been rife in the clubs, re-
specting the abstraction of a noble lady's jewels by a lady of
high rank, her intimate friend. In adverting to it now, we
do so merely for the purpose of stating that, however deeply
the fact is to be regretted, but one opinion is entertained of
the delicacy and forbearance of the noble lady whose confi-
dence was so sadly misplaced.—Morning Herald.

IMPUDENT FRAUD.—On Thursday a fraud was discovered
at the Exchequer-office, in Lincoln's Inn-fields, of an im-
pudent character. It seems that for some time the commis-
sioners of the Insolvent Debtors' Court, in consequence of
persons having got into prison without the issuing of a writ
against them, have required on all petitions an office copy
preecipe to be lodged in order to show an existing action. A
pra'cipe was on Thursday brought back to the office, when it
was discovered that the names of both plaintiff and defend-
ant had been altered to represent other persons, and was
consequently a forgery of the proceeding, so that no such ac-
tion was in the office. The plan adopted appears to be for a
copy pr&cipe to be obtained in an action which had been
commenced, and then to alter the names to represent the
parties whose names might appear on other proceedings—for
instance, a detaining creditor and a person about applying to
the Insolvent Debtors' Court. The detection was easily
made, but it is feared that the system has been practised to
some extent. By holding the altered paper to the light it
was perceived that the original names had been written over,
and made to, represent different persons whose names, it is
believed, were required in the proceedings of the Insolvent
Debtors' Court for the purposes above mentioned.
THE JURISDICTION OF JUSTICES' ACT.—The following
summary of the act will explain its design and illustrate its
importance :—" That, after the passing of this act, neither
the justices of the peace acting in and for any county, riding,
division, or liberty, nor the recorder of any borough shall,
at any session of the peace or at any adjournment thereof,
try any person or persons for any treason, murder, or capital
felony, which, when committed by a person not previously
convicted of felony, is punishable by transportaion beyond
the seas for life, or for any of the following offences ; (that is
to say)-1. Misprison for treason.-2. Offences against the
Queen's title, prerogative, person, or government, or against
either Houses of Parliament.-3d. Offences subject to the
penalties of priemunire.-4. Blasphemy, and offences against
religion.-5. Administering and taking unlawful oaths.-6.
Perjury and subornation of perjury.-7. Making or suborn-
ing any other person to make a false oath, affirmation, or
declaration, punishable as perjury, or as a misdemeanour.-
8. Forgery.-9. Unlawfully and maliciously setting fire to
crops of corn, grain, or pulse, or to any part of a wood, cop-
pice, or plantation of trees, or to any heath, gorse, furze, or
fern.-10. Bigamy, or offences against the laws relating to
marriage.-11. Abduction of women and girls.-12. Endea-
vouring to conceal the birth of a child.-13. Offences against
any provision of the laws relating Co bankrupts and insolvents.
—l4. Composing, printing, or publishing blasphemous, se-
ditious, or defamatory libels.-15. Bribery.-16. Unlawful
combinations and conspiracies, except conspiracies and com-
binations to commit any offence which such justice or re-
corder respectively have or has jurisdiction to try when com-
mitted by one person.-17. Stealing or fraudulently taking,
or injuring or destroying, records and documents belonging
to any court of law or equity, or relating to any proceeding
theirin.—Stealing or fraudulently destroying or concealing
wills or testamentary papers, or any document or written in-
strument being or containing evidence of title or any real
estate or any interest in lands, tenements, or hereditaments.

The league having propounded that an increase of exported
manufactures from this country is a symptom of bad trade at
home, it must of course be taken as a melancholy fact that
the exports of cotton yarn in the first six months of the pre-
sent year have greatly exceeded those of the corresponding
portion of last year. From Burn's " Commercial Glance."
a work published periodically at Manchester, we find that in
the first six months of 1841 the cotton yarn exported
amounted to 43,959,8621b5., and in the same period of 1842,
the exports were 57,726,9061b5., showing an increase of
13,767,0441b5. upon the former amount, or about 30 per cent.
Upon fourteen different classes of cotton goods exported,
the comparison is reversed, not however so as to show a
very serious decrease. The aggregate export of these goods,
in the first six months of 1841, was 355,567,527 yards; and
in six months of 1842, 350,141,569 yards : decrease 5,425,958
yards, being less than 14 percent. Altogether these facts
would leave us to infer a favourable degree of steadiness in
these baanches of our foreign trade ; but the leaguers will
doubtless have ingenuity enough to draw disagreeable con-
clusions both from the increase and decrease stated above.
WESLEYAN CONFERENCE LONDON.—On Wednesday
morning the preachers assembled in the City-road Chapel, to
commence the business of the ninety-ninth annual conference.
The religious services being concluded, the names of the
preachers constituting the legal cederence were called over,
and they took their places, as usual, according to seniority.
Inquiry was then made as to the vacancies in the legal hun-
dred which bad occurred during the year,.by death or su-
`perannuation. These were four.
d:to be eight—six in Eng-
land and two in Ireland, and they were filled up as folli?ws.:
—Messrs. William Evans. John Bustard, John Radfora,
George Cubitt, Thomas Garbutt, and. Joseph Pretty were
M and Roert as-
elected from the English
saroon and William Crook, inisters I
from reland.Messr. AftT. theseM pre-
liminaries, the conference proceeded to the election of a pre-
sident for the ensuing year. On the votes being taken, it
was found that the choice had fallen upon Dr. Hannah,
theological tutor in the Wesleyan Institution at Hoxton.
The Rev. Robert Newton was then, in the usual manner,
elected to be the secretary. We subjoin the number of votes
for each candidate :
FOR PRESIDENT. FOR SECRETARY.
Dr. Hannah ..... . 129 votes. Robert Newton... 124 votes.
John Scott .......118 ~ John Scott . 123 „
Both elections were duly confirmed by the hundred.
MURDER OF AN INNKEEPER AND HIS WIFE.—On
Friday information of a burglary, attended with murder,
which was committed so far back as the 25th June, was re-
ceived in London, and forwarded to all the metropolitan
police-stations. On the night of the 25th of June last, the
house of Mr. James .Mawdesley, of the Oak-tree Inn, in'
Coppal, Lancashire, was , broken and entered by three or
more persons, who stole 13s.in silver and a pistol. Two of
them beat and wounded the said James Mawkesley and
Fanny his wife so as shortly afterwards to cause their deaths.
Inquests were held upon their bodies, and verdicts of " Wilful
murder" returned against persons unknown. The tallest of
the three men is about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, and wore a
dark-coloured dress coat and a hat. The two others were
about 5 feet 5 or 6 inches high, and wore dark-coloured fus-
tian jackets and caps. It is believed that the men had been
in the neighbourhood for some hours previously, and had
found means to ascertain the defenceless state of the occu-
pants of the inn. Two bludgeons were left by the murderers
on the premises ; one is a cart-rail painted red, the other is
of ash, and appears to have been cut from a collier's sinking-
pick, and has a string at one end to go round the wrist.

THE LATE DUKE OF ORLEANS.—Mr. Duval has pub-
lished the following account of the death of the Duke of Or-
leans :—" When I arrived at the house where the Prince lay,
M. Not was there, and M. Ley came at the same time that I
did. We were the only medical men about him from half-
past eleven till one o'clock. The Prince was stretched on
two mattresses. His head, reclined on his chest, waved
from side to side as his body was stirred ; his respiration was
deep and difficult, his eyes half shut. There was no sign of
outward fracture, merely some severe contusions, with blood
on his right eye and ear. Blood was first let, and produced
little effect, except that the Prince tried to remove the band
on his arm from the bleeding. We imagined the Prince
might have some consciousness of his state, but the autopsy
has shown this to be impossible. The violence of the shock
had been such, that if not broken by the disarticulation and
breaking of the bone, it would have killed him on the spot.
Cold lotions were applied to his head, and stimulants to the
respiratory organs ; friction was employed ; still no sign ap-
peared of intelligence, but merely automatic movements. At
midday the Royal family came in. The Queen flung herself
at the foot of the bed : never did a mother's grief burst forth
in expressions more full of grief and distraction. The King
asked, was there a fracture ! We gave a negative answer,
though with some hesitation. On this the King tried to con-
sole the Queen, stating that accidents of a similar kind had
occurred to himself.; The patient, however, grew worse.
60 leeches were applied to the back of the head, when the
Prince uttered a few fugacious words in German. He tried
to tear off the leeches. At half-past one sinapsims were em-
ployed ; the pulse became bet ter, but the respiration worse.
The involuntary motion of the limbs ceased, and a convul-
sive trembling began. This by-degrees subsided into tension
and stiffness. Anxiety and despair were on every counte-
nance. The Queen, in agony, supplicated the Almighty for
one gleam of consciousness to ba given to her son. She
offered her existence for such a boon. The Duke d'Aumale
said—' What will Joinville feel on such news ?' The King's
resignation was more poignant than the louder agony of
those around him. The physicians durst not look up ; they
had no hope to give. Several more physicians arrived ; and
at two o'clock the curate of Nenilly came to give extreme
unction to the Prince. Convulsioes renewed. At three
o'clock there was no pulsation but of the carotids. Medica-
tion was suspended. In this the King and Queen saw the
announcement of the approaching end of their son, rushed
towards him, embraced him in sobbings, and paid him the
last adeus. How announce such a misfortune to Hena ?'
exclaimed the Queen. At half-past four O'clock the illus-
trious patient expired."
REVERSE OF FORTUNE.—Among the instances of the
wreck of property brought about by the crisis in monetary
and commercial affairs in our Australian colonies, the case
of Majot Lockyer may be cited as one of the most remarkable.
This gentleman, as a correspondent states, is a retired officer
er
of the British army, who, after sving ith honour, adopted
the life of a settler and sheep farmer in New South Wales.
After undergoing the various privations incident to this life,
and residing in the bush 300 miles in the interior of the
colony, he had increased his flocks to nearly 25,000 head, his
stations were complete, and his establishment of shepherds
and cattle was considered one of the best in the colony. In
1839 the Major resolved to sell his property in the colony,
and to return to his native land, and therefore went to
Sydney, and placed his possessions in the hands of Mr.
Blackman, the government auctioneer, with instructions to
sell tqe whole. At this time Major Lockyer had liabilities
,E 3
to discharge to the amount of,ooo, the price of sheep was
about £1 a head, and it was the opinion of the auctioneer
that the property if sold, would, after discharging all liabilities,
leave him £20,000. The property was advertised, but before
the time of selling by auction caine on, Mr. Chas. Boucher,
who represented himself as the " acredited agent of the
British and Australasian Bank of London," came forward
to treat for the property by private contract, when the sum
of £25,000 was asked and agreed to be given. This, ac-
cording to the custom of the colony, was to be paid by in-
stalments, the first instalment of 15,000 by a bill at three
months. Reference was made to a respectable mercantile
house, who confirmed Mr. C. Boucher 's statement, and ac-
cordingly a conveyance to him of the property was executed.
The bills given to the Major were never paid, and he en-
deavoured to extricate his property from the hands of Mr.
C. Boucher, but the panic came on, the price of his stock
fell 500 per cent., and before he could effect sales sufficient
to satisfy his creditors, executions were issued against him,
and the sheriff sold the whole of the property at prices so
ruinous as to leave the Major penhiless and even in debt.

THE DUKE OF CAMBRlDGE.—Extensive preparations are
being made at various places to pay a suitable compliment to
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, on his con-
templated visit to the Marquess of Londonderry. The in.
habitants of Durham are making arrangements for giving an
eclat to the visit of his Royal Highness to the University.
On Sunday, a boy, named Henry Price, nine years of age,
engaged to ferry Mr. Evans, shoemaker, across the Monnow,
near Monmouth. Mr. Evans took his seat with his back to
the boy, and when he stood up on the boat reaching the
land, he found that the poor lad had fallen into the middle
of the stream. Before he could get to the spot the boy had
sunk.

At Milford, on Sunday week, off the Smalls, a young man
named Keeffe, a native of Youghal, a seaman on board the
Alexander, of Youghal, fell from the main crosstrees, a
height of forty-five feet, on deck. The captain ran to him,
and asked him if he was much hurt, when he answered,
" The devil a bit,—was not that a clean trick, captain ?
Five Ribbonmen were prosecuted to conviction at Armagh
Assizes by the Attorney-General, and Judge Crampton sen-
tenced them to seven years' transportation. One of them
(Rice) was in most comfortable circumstances.

A NEGRO BURNED.—We learn from the clerk of the
Highlander, that while wooding a short distance below the
mouth of the Red River, they were invited to stop a short
time and see another negro burned. They were informed
that the fellow who was prepared for the exhibition was ano-
ther of the gang recently mentioned as having committed
enormities, and fled to the swamp, one of whom was burned,
as already published. The last fellow, it was ascertained,
had killed a man, and carried off women, one of whom he
had violated ; and for this they bad him well chained, and
the fagots ready, with a view of giving him a foretaste of his
inevitable fate.—New Orleans Bulletin.

DISTRESSING ACCIDENT—TWO LIVES LOST.-011 Thurs-
day last, a herd-boy of the name of Raining. residing at
Loch-bank, went to bathe at Kelton, tempted like many
others by the extreme beauty and warmth of the weather.
The tide which was not a high one, came rippling to the
land with the greatest gentleness ; and as the unfortunate
boy could not swim, he kept proty close to the side from
getting beyond his depth. But in wading forward it is sup-
posed lie had tumbled over one of the little brows excavated
a little by spates and tides ; and in that way suddenly lost his
footing. But, be this as it may, he in a few minutes was
seen struggling by some females stationed at the side, who
immediately called loudly for help. Their cries brought to
the spot the son of Mr. Crosbie, farmer, Kelton, a youth
who, on being thoroughly urged, entered into the water with
his clothes on. But very unfortunately, from inability to
swim, he speedily became as helpless as the other; and to
the deep consternation of all onlookers both sunk to rise no
more alive, within a short distance of one another.— Dune-
fries paper.
A family, residing near St. Cloud, was robbed about six
months ago of money, plate, jewels, linen, and other pro-
perty, amounting together in value to about 20,000 f. Sus-
picion fell upon a man and his wife, who had previously
lived in it as servants, but were discharged. These persons
were arrested, and found to be in possession of a sum of
6,000 f., for the acquisition of which they could not account.
They were detained, and subjected to repeated examina-
tions, being constantly kept from any communication with
each other. At length we learn they have admitted the
robbery, and confessed that they had hired a lodging, un-
der a false name, at Meulan, about 28 miles from Paris,
where they had buried the treasure under the hearth of the
kitchen fireplace. Here on a search it was all found, except
part of the money which had been spent. These thieves
had two accomplices, who have been arrested.
THE WEATIIER.-With gratitude to Divine Providence
for its beneficence towards us, it is our pleasing duty to
announce the continuance of fine weather, calculated in every
way for the accomplishment and fulfilment of that beautiful
prayer in the liturgy—" That it may please thte to give and
preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth; so as in
due time we may enjoy them." Nothing can be more pro-
pitious. The markets already afford a sensible indication of
the appearance of the crops ; and yesterday new potatoes of
the very finest quality were selling for 9d. a stone. We have
received the following communication from a most intelligent
and well-informed correspondent, who has recently had an
opportunity of personally witnessing the appearance of the
country and the crops over an extent of 1,800 miles, snd who
thus writes his impressions :—" I have travelled during the
last six weeks from 1,600 to 1,800 miles in Ireland, and
never, within the memory of the oldest man living, was the
bounty of Providence more manifest than in the extraordi-
nary luxuriance and abundance of the crops than it is this
year. During the whole of so long a journey I have not seen
a field of corn prostrate by wet or storm, and scarcely the
top of a potatoe injured. Verily, the old times and seasons
have returned to us."—Dublin Evening Mail.

TRANSLATIONS OF THE LITURGY.—The intention of the
Committee of the Society for promoting Christian Know-
ledge has been directed during the present year to the pre-
paration and completion of several new versions of the
Liturgy. The first or these is a version of the Liturgy of
the Church of England into the Amharic or modeiln Ethiopic
—the language of a great part of the country of Abyssinia.
This has been translated by the Rev. C. Isenberb, a clergy-
man of the Church of England, in the service of the Church
Missionary Society. A translation of the Liturgy into the
Turkish language has been undertaken by the Rev. Mr.
Fieldshed, of the Church Itlissionary Society, assisted by a
native of Constantinople. Portions of the Liturgy have been
translated into Armenian. Modern Armenian has been
chosen in preference to ancient Armenian, or Armeno-Turk-
ish. The Prayer Book has been translated into modern
Greek, and a large number of copies distributed. It has also
been translated into French. Portuguese, Dutch, and por-
tions of it, at the request of the Bishop of New Zealand,
into the language of that distant country.
The Times of Friday defines a statesman. The subject-
matter of the article is Mr. Duncombe's motion on the sub-
ject of the distress of the country ; and the Times observes,
that " what a man is in private life, such, in intention at
least, will be his public politics. If he seeks out and relieves
distress—if he never breaks a promise, never leaves a debt
unpaid, nor even defers its payment; such a man, though he
may err in judgment, will yet be legislating for the good of
the people . • • But !! ! . if
he be an idle, careless, self-indulgent spendthrift ; who
lives it puzzles the world to say
how . . . _ . who does nothing, makes no-

thing, earns nothing, gives nothing ; who throws away money
in horses, or in gambling, or in debauchery ; such a man is a
HUMBUG" . . . " But," continues the Times,
" we are wandering from Mr. Duncombe."
TRADESMEN'S BILLS.—A correspondent makes an appeal
to the monied classes, in this time of manufacturing distress
and commercial difficulty, to assist in relieving that distress
and removing that difficulty by paying their tradesmen's
bills as soon as possible after they are presented. We would
certainly urge the consideration of this matter upon the at-
tention of our more wealthy readers, and beg of those papers
with whom we exchange to do the same. They who have no
difficulty at any time in providing for their wants, know not
the value of ready money to the trading classes. To the
man of wealth it is of little or no consequence whether he
pays his bills one week or another; but the payment of them
a few weeks or months earlier than usual may relieve the
tradesman from difficulties, and be a means of saving indus-
trious artisans from being thrown out of employment. We
can even conceive of cases, and not improbable ones either,
in which the payment of a few pounds may save several
small tradesmen from utter ruin. Paid to one, it enables
him to meet his engagements and satisfy, perhaps, the de-
mands of another, whose engagements are equally pressing;
and so on with others. We offer these remarks in anything
but a spirit of dictation, and trust they will be so received,
and meet with the consideration their subject demands ; and
shall conclude by reminding those to whom they are ad-
dressed, that many tradesmen who are really more than sol-
vent, are, at such seasons as the present, broken up, and
have their families reduced to beggary, merely because they
cannot, at the time when needful, realize their capital.—
Birmingham Advertiser.

A RETURNED TRANSPORT: EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—
Stephen Nash was arraigned, at the Waterford City Assizes,
for returning from transportation before the term was up.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and added a most impressive
and remarkable detail of the " horrors of transportation."
He said he was put to work in a dockyard gang o: labourers,
and because he would not join in a plan to rise and escape,
he was not sure of his life for a minute, his mind was mi-
serable, and he preferred death to remain there any longer.
He determined to escape at any risk, and he made his way
to a vessel by swimming. He told the captain that he ran
away from a man-of-war in consequence of which the cap-
tain.would not take him. He was then backwards and for-
wards three weeks on the beach, and swimming to the vessel
through water that was full of sharks. one day hungry and
another day thirsty. The vessel was Ift mile from the shore,
and his only food was a musty biscuit and an old muscle that
he found on the beach. At the place where he was at work,
if a man was only found with a hit of tobacco in his month,
he was taken out, tied under a triangle, and got fifty lashes.
As for Norfolk Island, he could call it nothing but the
Island of Sodom and Gomorrah. " 11Iy Lord," said the
prisoner, in piteous terms, amidst great sensation in court,
" have mercy on me. I care not for my body, but for my
soul, and I would as soon have you pass sentence of death
upon me as send me again to New South Wales." The
Judge : " I really feel most distressed, but I believe I am
left no discretion." Prisoner : " Oh! my Lord, do not send
me back." The Judge : " I wish to God that the unhappy
people who are putting themselves into circumstances that
make it necessary to send them where you come from knew
what you, and others like you, had to suffer. It always
gives me a degree of pain equal to what I feel in pronouncing
the capital sentence of death when it is my duty to send
people to that rigorous country. I feel this pain not alone
on account of their feelings, the anguish of their being torn
from their family and country ; but on account of the dreadful
fate that sentence of transportation is, of the frightful
punishment and suffering that awaits them, of which you
have had experience. I wish to God they heard you here
this day, and, taking warning from your statement, would
avoid crime in future." The prisoner was then removed
from the bar, still imploring mercy.

" SHOOT THE PREMIER "!—A HINT FROM THE LEAGUE.
—We have had handed to us the following startling details,
which, as showing the diabolical spirit that animates the
dissppoiuted members of the League, we think of sufficient
importance to deserve a prominent place.—We shall proba-
bly soon get at the truth of this diabolical business, not-
withstanding the sedulous attempts which have been made
by the League, here and elsewhere, to have it hushed up.
It now appears that some desperado in Manchester is the
guilty party. On Thursday night last, there was a meeting
of shopkeepers to receive the report of a deputation which
they lately sent to London. Only some dozen persons
attended, and the proceedings were of the most unimportant
character, except in one respect. Mr. Abel Heywood, one
of the deputies, in the course of his speech, declared that
he had conversed with one shopkeeper in Manchester, who
had refused to subscribe to the expense of the deputation,
and on being told that Sir Robert Peel would not give the
delegates an audience, he said—" I'll subscribe to a deputa,
ti on to go up to shont Sir Robert Peel, but I'll not sub-
scribe towards any deputation which seeks to make en im-
pression upon him by argument." So, after all, it appears,
notwithstanding the violent protestations of the League,
there are wretches sufficiently abandoned seriously to enter-
tain this demoniacal intention. Who the villain is is known
—to Mr. Abel Heywood. at all events ; and we call upon
that person, if he at all affects to lay claim to the title of si
patriot, to give up the name of the miscreant, and let him
be held up to that public execration and punishment which
he so justly merits. In such a case, concealment is scarce
a-less atrocious crime tdan that attaching to the blood-thirstd
wretch himself.—Manchester Courier.

A WOMAN IN A TRANCE.—On Monday morning, the
18th instant, an aged widow, named Betty Butterworth, of
Wolstenholme Fold, Spotland, near Rochdale, after eating
a hearty breakfast, lay down and fell fast asleep, and conti-
nued in that state until Friday following ; all attempts to
awake her in the mean time proved unavailing. When she
awoke, she asked for some porridge, which, being furnished,
she ate with apparent greediness. It is stated that about six
months ago she slept upwards of a week in a similar manner.
She is in a good state of health.
FATAL DUEL.—" A duel took place lately at St. Peters-
burgh," says a letter from Berlin, " between Prince Dol-
gorouki` son of the Russian general of that name, and Prince
Jaschwill. Prince Dolgorouki was killed. They were both
officers of the Imperial Guard."—Galignani's Messenger.

There were in 1841, 288 troops of yeomanry cavalry in
Great Britain, comprising 840 officers and 13,434 men, or a
total force of 14,274 ; the expense of which in that year was
£82,026,

The largest gun ever made in this country has just been
completed at Woolwich for the Pacha of Egypt. It is about
12 feet long, with an immense quantity of metaal at the
breech. The diameter of the bore is within about one-tenth
of 16 inches. The weight of solid shot with which it will be
fired is 455 lbs., and shells of 330 lbs.
COMMERCE OF SYDNEY.—We perceive, by the shipping
intelligence in a late Sydney paper, that there were, at that
time, 81 vessels in the harbour; 95 vessels expected ; and
21 colonial whalers at sea. In the same paper, three steam
boats, with the hulks and other property of the Steam Navi-
gation Company, are advertised for sale.

NOBLE BEQUEST.—The entire property of the late Mr.
Moore, of Liverpool, New South Wales, amounting to above
£20,000, has been bequeathed for the promotion of educa-
tion and advancement of religion in the Colony, in connexion
with the Church of England. The building and endowing
of a college is the principal object ; and the Lord Bishop of
Australia is one of the trustees appointed by the will to see
the truly Christian designs of the testator carried into effect.

The following are the receipts of railways for the past
week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective
returns are made :—Birmingham, £17,788; Great Western,
£15,507 ; South Western, £BO9l ; North Midland, £4760 ;
Manchester and Leeds, £4BOl ; Birmingham and Derby,
£l4OO ; York and North Midland. £1756 ; Great North of
England, £1435 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, £2464 ; Black -
wall, £1316; Northern and Eastern, £l6Ol ; Hull and Selby,
£1059 ; Eastern Counties, £llB2.

ARRESTING THE DEAD.---011 Friday Mr. W. Ellis, of
the firm of Ellis and Co., of the Lower-road, Deptford,
furnishing undertakers, appeared before the sitting magis-
trate, at Greenwich, to ask his advice under the following
circumstances :—Mr. Ellis stated that he was employed to
bury the body of a poor man, named Taylor, late a convict
keeper on hoard the Thames, lying off Deptford Dockyard,
who, at the time of his decease, happened to owe a person
residing in the neighbourhood £l5. The tender-hearted
creditor had called upon the widow of the deceased, at No.
3, King's Head-row, Deptford, demanding the amount of
his claim, and, in a short time afterwards, she mustered £5.
which she gave him. The creditor had insisted on being
paid £lO. He, however, went away, and said that he would
call again for the residue. He came again on Thursday
evening, and insisted upon being paid £5 more, and that, in
the event of its being at once paid, he would leave the re-
maining £5 to pay the funeral expenses of the deceased.
The mother, brother, and widow of the deceased were pre-
sent, and, with tears,' assured him that it was out of their
power to comply with his demand. The creditor then went
away, threatening that he would arrest the body the next
morning. The mother of the deceased, a respectable woman,
told him that he might use his discretion ; the body was in a
putrid state, and begged him to remember that the coffin,
&c., were the property of the undertakers. The creditor re-
plied, that he had a man waiting at the adjoining house who
was ready to take the body in execution. Mr. Ellis told the
magistrate that he feared he should be interrupted in the
discharge of his melancholy duty, and wished to know if the
party could legally stop the corpse on its way to the place of
interment. Mr. Grove said, that he must hesitate in giving
an opinion. He remembered, however, that the body of the
celebrated Sheridan was arrested on its way to the grave by
the joint legal proceedings of a large number of his creditors,
but that was for a large amount. Mr. Grove recommended
the applicant to apply to Mr. Mallalieu, the superintendent
of the R. division of police, who would afford him all the
protection within his power, and prevent any infringement
of the public peace. Mr. Ellis thanked the magistrate, and
went at once to Mr. Mallalieu, who told him that he knew
nothing about the law of the case, but that he would send a
sergeant with a police-guard, in order to prevent any violence
or confusion tending to a breach of the peace. Mr. Ellis
then withdrew.

There was a sentence in Mr. O'Connell's speech on Mon-
day evening which will not a little nettle his obsequious
auxiliaries. For months past, his friends of the press,
through lack of something substantial to growl about, have
been abusing the Irish Government for its hard-hearted
indifference to the wants of " the starving poor." Many an
indignant denunciation have we had of its inhumanity, and
many an admiring ejaculation at the patience of the people
under its disregard of their sufferings. Well, Mr. O'Connell
spoke on Monday evening, and what did the Liberal "Leadefr"
say ? We quote from the report of the Morning Post :
" He felt bound to give his testimony to the promptness and
readiness with which the present Government conducted and
afforded their power to distress. He did not know any
locality where distress existed that had not a share of their
bounty."
COLLIERY DISTURBANCES.—A fresh turn-out of the
colliers in south Staffordshire. The men have paraded the
towns in the neighbourhood of Bilston, in bodies of from 20
to 50, demanding provisions from the shopkeepers, and some
bread was .aken from several shops. A leader of one of the
gangs who has been taken into custody is an old offender,
having been committed for felony on a former occasion.
When arrested he had in his possession the handle of a
miner's pick, a formidable weapon in itself, but rendered
still more dangerous by being loaded with lead. He was
brought before the Magistrates and committed in default of
sureties. The Magistrates have adopted measures for putt-
ing a stop to these breaches of the peace, and we hope their
efforts will be successful.

STATE OF THE POTTERIES.—SOVOraI of the col:ieries in
the neighbourhood of Burstein, are now in work again, but
many of the " turn-outs" still refuse the terms offered by
their masters. An unfortunate occurrence, one of the melan-
choly consequences of the suspension of work in the mines,
occurred in one of the pits in this neighbourhood on Tuesday,
from the explosion of fire damp, by which one poor fellow
was killed on the spot, and four others were dreadfully in-
jured. This deplorable accident will, it is hoped, induce
greater precaution on the part of the men, in adopting the
necessary measures for excluding the foul air which has ac
cumulated in the pits before they re-commence operations.

A PATRIARCH.—The following letter appears in a Cork
paper, addressed to the editor :—" Ballinawoona Castle,
July 26th, 1842.—1 think you will not have any objection to
insert in your next publication the death of a very old man,
my poundkeeper, on part of the lands of Clogker, near Do-
neraile, named Louis Wholehan. He died yesterday, at the
age of one hundred and eighteen years and seven months ;
he was married to his first wife more than fifty years, and
had no offspring. He married a second wife at the age of
one hundred and nine years, by whom he has had a son, a
fine boy, and very like the father. From his great age, I
have given him his house and the parish pound, many years
rent free, which made him comfortable, and prolonged his
life. He never lost a tooth, nor had he a grey hair on his
head. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
GARRETT NAGLE."

SYMPTOMS OF IMPROVEMENT.—After the most severe
and prolonged distress which this country has known in
modern times, it gives us heartfelt satisfaction to see a few
rays of light break in upon the gloom. The exhaustion of
the resources of all classes will make a revival of trade
both slow and precarious ; and we see no reasonable ground
for expecting durable prosperity until our manufacturers arc
put upon an equal footing as to the chief necessaries of
life with their foreign rivals, whose goods are now com-
peting with them in the principal markets of the world.
But it is certain that the fearful stagnation of the last
three or four months has been in some degree owing to the
suspense about the tariff, and to the consequent locking up of
some considerable classes of foreign commodities in bond till
the reduced duties cameinto operation. That event having
taken place sales of goods are resumed, and the seaports begin
to display greater activity. The very favourable weather,
also, not only cheers the spirits, but affords substanlial
ground for hoping that food may become cheaper and more
abundant, in which case manufactures and trade cannot fail
to receive a stimulus. The markets of Liverpool and Man-
chester have experienced a decided improvement within the
last fortnight. At Liverpool, where prices and operations
are governed by the barometer more than by anything else,
and where as corn falls cotton rises, and vice versa, there
has been a material revival, both in the cotton maket and in
most other branches of trade. We wish it were in our power
to state that an improvement was already obvious in the con-
dition of the manufacturing districts of Yorkshire, but there
appear to be no grounds for such an assertion. All we hear
would lead to an opposite conclusion, and this is borne out
by the reports of the state of trade during the week at the
seats. of our staple manufactures—except, perhaps, at Brad-
ford. At Derby the distress is unmitigated. The increased
commercial transactions in the seaports may be expected,
however, to act favourably on the manufacturing districts,
and to relieve them from a portion, at least, of the depres-
sion which is at present almost overwhelming.—Leeds Mur-
cury.

ARREST OF A NOBLEMAN IN MONTGOMERYSHIRE.—
One day last week a carriage and four drove up furiously to
the door of the Wynnstay Arms Hotel, at Machynlleth, and
three persons, who were conveyed in it, stepped into the
parlour of the hotel, whilst fresh horses were attached to
carry them on to Aberystwith. A gentleman was seated in
a room into which the travellers were shown, whom one of
the strangers immediately recognised as Lord Huntingtower,
the nobleman against whose person they had an execution
for debt. He had arrived at Machynlleth from Aberyst-
with a short time before, and thereby saved his pursuers a
stage of their long and hasty pursuit. His lordship, after
being taken into custody, despatched a messenger with all
speed, with a detail of his case, to his mother, the
Countess ofeesart, and be was then transferred to Montgo-
mery gaol.—Shrewsbury Chronicle. The Chester Courant
says, " The arrest of Lord Huntingtower has led to a series
of disclosures in the courts of law, of which the following is
a detail. Lord Huntingtower was removed to London from
the custody of the gaoler of Montgomery on Wednesday,
under a writ of jzabeas corpus, obtained at the instance
of his lordship ; and on being taken before a judge, to
an order for his cornmittment to the Queen's Bench, gets
lordship's solicitor and counsel objected to the validity i
the bench warrant, upon which he was first taken in Mont-
gomeryshire f
; first, on the grounds that the nature of the
offence with which he stood charged was not sets forth in the
warrant ; and secondly, that the magistratebefore whom
he was taken by the police-officer who effected his caption,
not having drawn out a commitment (for want of bail), that
his
the goaler had no power to detain lordship ; and it fol-
lowed that if the bench warrant and the detention under it
were adjudged to be invalid, then that the whole of the sub-
sequent detainers lodged against his lordship (amounting to
Several about £8,000) would be bad also. subsequent hear-
ings took place between the respective counsel and attorneys
for the contending parties (the sheriffii of Montgomeryshire
being ably represented by Mr.
J. Lloyd), when the mat-
ter was ultimately settled on Tuesday last, by his lordship's
counsel and solicitors giving the contest up, and consequent-
ly the bench warrant and the detainers were adjudged to be
good and valid, and his lordship having put in bail to the
fermer, the judge (Coleridge) made out his lordship's com-
mitment, and he was consigned to the Queen's Beach."

Ebr Eibtrpool gslanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1842

On Saturday last the committee upon the Ipswich
election came to a decision, and the sitting members,
Lord Desart and Thomas Gladstone, Esq. were un-
seated on the ground of bribery. The committee
found, however, that neither of the candidates in ques-
tion had been cognizant of the illegal practice, on ac-
count of which their seats were forfeited; and they are
consequently eligible to be elected again in the present
parliament.

We must confess that we were not prepared for this
result. From what we have noticed of the evidence
brought before the committee, the case of the petition-
ers appeared to us to be singularly weak ; and we
are satisfied that nothing but an excessive prudery,
on the parts of the honorable members composing
it, could have induced the committee to such a
decision. Such a ridiculous affectation of virtue, if
persisted in, will shortly render it impossible for a
House of Commons to be elected at all ! Men will
be afraid even of paying their just debts, lest common
honesty should be termed bribery. Candidates had
better make an assignment of their effects to trustees,
or to Mr. Roebuck as provisional assignee, before
going upon their canvas, lest a stray shilling' should
find its way into a voter's hand, and afford food for
a Coppock conspiracy. Even this resource will scarcely
avail them ; for by the decision in the Ipswich case,
any indiscreet friend or marked enemy can void an
election, in despite of the determined honesty of the
candidate himself

We regret deeply this decision, not only because in
Mr. Gladstone the Protestant cause has lost a staunch
supporter—a set off, by the way, against the acquisk
tion of Mr. Colquhoun to its ranks—but because it is
calculated to stultify and even falsify the notion that a
committee of the house of Commons is a tribunal fit
to be entrusted with the liberties or lives of English-
men. The most valued portion of our constitution is
fast being wrecked by the veriest ape that ever entered
its portals—JOHN ARTHUR ROEBUCK ! Shame upon
English gentlemen, who can permit themselves to be
thus fooled and betrayed by a thing so contemptible.

It is really a hard case when a public journal canno
afford to be, or dare not be, HONEST. In such a piti-
able plight appears to be the Manchester Guardian.
Upon a recent occasion, that influential organ of the
Manchester millocracy gave—by misadventure, we sus-
pect—a report of the improved state of the Manchestei--
market. The report in question was in inopportune. It
was thrown in the teeth of the veracious deputations
which were at that moment badgering the Govern-
ment with representations of an entirely opposite state
of things; incontinently a hurricane of reprobation
was poured upon the offending journalists; and
annihilation—had the power of his denouncers been
equal to their will to injure—would by this time have
been his portion.

We might have sympathised with our contemporary
could we have convinced ourselves that this casual
lapse into the practice of truth-telling was likely to be
the forerunner of a permanent inaintainance of that
practice, in defiance of the dictation of the League
Agitators. But the Guardian is a slippery journalist.
His virtue is akin to the valour of Bob Acres; and in
the very publication in which he is dilating upon the
value of " honesty" and " veracity," and the iniquity
of "petty misquotations;" in reply to his league tra-
ducers, we find him going the whole hog of literary
theft, to suit his own purposes, and petty misquota-
tions to restore his credit as a discreet journalist with
his offended masters.

Of the theft in question we think little, although it
is committed upon ourselves. We are used to such
things. But when a journalist thinks it worth while
to steal a whole column of matter, without acknow-
ledgment ; when he adopts it so unreservedly that he
cannot find time to correct a very obvious error—one
would scarcely imagine that, if honest, he could find
time to cut out trifling passages, and to garble quota-
tions, merely because they are not likely to be palatable
to this or that faction amongst his supporters. Yet of
this littleness of conduct was the Manchester Guardian
guilty in his publication of Saturday last.
At a late hour on Thursday night—so late, indeed,
that we apologized to our readers for any inaccuracies
or omissions which we might commit in giving the
news which she brought us—we received our advices
from America, by the mail steam-ship Caledonia, in
time, with the aid of a little exertion, for our post
edition. The news in question the Guardian copied,
errors and all, and amongst the rest the very obviously
erroneous statement, that papers had been received
from New York to the 17th instant, when the steamer
left Boston on the 16th ! We do not complain of this,
although an acknowledgment would have been cour-
teous. Of course the bulk of our news was extracted
from the American journals. That fact was stated
distinctly; and the Manchester Guardian had no right,
in copying our quotations, to garble them for his own
purposes. We give the passages, for the purpose of
shewing the animus of the omissions, premising that
they are stated by us to be from the New York
American :

" It is almost too early to form an opinion as to the result
of the crops, but our advices lead us to anticipate large pro-
ducts, far exceeding what can be disposed of at profitable
rates to the producers; thus affording little prospect of a re-
newed demand for manufactures, either domestic or foreign.
The supply of both descriptions is abundant, and sales can-
not be effected except at enormous prices. MANUFAC-
TURING DISTRESS, therefore, it will be seen, is not confined
to Great Britain.

" IVlost of the American manufacturers have already stopped
their mills, and the rest will probably soon follow their ex-
ample. Great numbers of the labouring population have
been thrown out of employ, and were it no for the constant
demand in this country for agricultural labour, great want
and distress must have been experienced. We commend
this picture to our free-trade agitators."

In the first paragraph, it will be observed, the
American journalist expresses an opinion that neither
foreign nor domestic manufactures can be sold except
at enormous sacrifices. We pointed attention to that
fact (in a line or two, which in the hurry of writing or
composition was not marked by the usual typographical
sign of its not being a portion of the original text), as
proving that " MANUFACTURING DISTRESS WAS NOT
CONFINED TO GREAT BRITAIN." This remark,
however, although, from the omission which we have
pointed out, the Guardian had no right to know, and
we dare say did not know, to be a remark of ours, he
omitted. It would not suit THE CASE of the. Anti-
Corn-law League

Again, in the next paragraph, in. noticing the fact
that most of the American manufacturers had closed
their mills, and that " great numbers of the working
population had been thrown out of employ," the Awe"
rican journalist added, that " were it not for the con-
stant demand in that country for agricultural labour,

Wan t and distress must have been experienced,"
We called attention to this remark by placing the
p ,ssage in italics ; and we added, (again, however,
ithout the usual typographical sign,) a commendation
o the picture to our free-trade agitators. Yet the
111101 e of these passages the Guardian discreetly sup-
presses ! That the American manufacturer regards
the native agriculture of his country as a valuable
support to fall back upon, is a fact which the league
oracle, who would fain persuade the British people to
destroy their native agriculture, is not desirous to
obtrude upon the notice of his readers.
We should .not perhaps have noticed these petty
meannesses, but for a rather obtrusive flourish of his
Own excessive virtue, and dislike of " petty misquota-
tions,,, exhibited by the Guardian in the same publica-
tion in which he thus offends, added to our wish to
address a few remarks to the gentlemen of the Anti-
Corn-law League, upon the very passages which their
organ has chosen to garble. \Ve are told by these
gentlemen, on every occasion, that America only wants
a market for her agricultural produce, to become a
large purchaser of our manufactured goods. The
American market is a losing market, exclaims the
league manufacturer, bee-awe you will not enable him
to buy by taking of his abundance of corn. But what
says the American journalist? 'Why that unless we
take the corn of America " at profitable rates to the
producer," there is " little prospect for a demand. for
manufactured goods, DOMESTIC or foreign"—that
there is little prospect of American mills and American
manufacturers being re-employed ! In other words,
the modest demand of America, and of the league, is
this : take the surplus corn of the republic ; destroy
the British farmer; leave England without that source
of strength to fall back upon which a prosperous
native agriculture affords;—in order that AMERICAN,

not British, manufactures may GO AHEAD !

At a meeting of the Dock Committee, on Thursday,
a reference was made by the surveyor to " a report on
'Change," to the effect that the transit sheds on the
West side of Prince's Dock were " giving way;" and,
in answer to a question from a member of the com-
mittee, with respect to the party upon whose authority
the report in question was circulated, Mr. Hartley is
reported to have said that " the subject had been men-
tioned to him by Mr. Chapman." A copy of a letter
addressed by that gentleman to the chairman of the
Dock Committee, explanatory of his real share in Mr.
Hartley's " report on 'Change," has been handed to
us for publication, which, as a matter of justice to
him, we now lay before our readers ; and we are, in
addition, authorised to state that not a syllable, directly
or indirectly, has passed between the surveyor and
himself upon the subject of the sheds alluded to.

Liverpool, July 29112, 1842.
MY DEAR SlR,—When you spoke to me yesterday about
the transit sheds, I scarcely knew what your drift was. My
attention, however, has been called to the proceedings of the
Dock Committee, wherein it appears the Dock Surveyor
(with his usual want of accuracy) stated I had told him the
transit sheds were giving way.
, For his information, and yours, I beg to state what I do
know of the report mentioned ; it is as follows :—W hilst
Passing along the west side of Prince's Dock some time ago,
gentleman pointed out one of the transit sheds as having
sagged, and which certainly has that appearance. I have
always been opposed to the erection of the transit sheds, con-
sidering the expence would be a waste of money ; and I have
declared my opinion to be, that ultimately they will have to
come down, or be granted to the public free of charge, for the
Purposes of export, and not import, as instead of expediting
the business of the latter, they will only impede it. With
respect to the design of the transit sheds, or the specification
for the contract, I am quite satisfied that the Surveyor, al-
though anxious to do his best, would be sure to botch every
thing, as he has done the graving docks.
As Your Surveyor is fond of " reports on 'Change," will
You be kind enough to ask him if he did not discharge one
of the head foremen of the dock yard for having laid down
the nevv works railway according to the Surveyor's section,
4 feet Si in the centre, (instead of 4 feet Si in the clear;)
and had not some of the rails to be taken up again ?
I. hope you will give the Surveyor an opportunity of ex-
Plainin• He has always been so very accommodating 'to
the He
and shipbuilders, that I, as one of the fbr-
;nen watch him narrowly, in order that he mar,, receive at
the hands of the public the reward due to his merits.-1
remain, my dear sir, yours faithfully,

HENRY CLEAVER CHAPMAN
To Thomas Sands, Esq.,
Chairman of the Dock Committee.

Of course Mr. Hartley will be able to explain how
this discrepancy between himself and Mr. Chapman,
upon a matter of fact, has arisen. In the supposition,
however, that the defects alleged to exist in the con-

struction of the transit sheds had been noticed by no
better an authority than Mr. Chapman appears to he
regarded by a portion of the Dock Committee, we
really cannot see that the exclamations of " hear," and
the " laughter" with which the surveyor's flippant
allusion to that gentleman is reported to have been

received by the committee, were in the best possible
taste. Mr. Chapman, we are aware, is not one of
those who are in the habit of regarding as the per-
fection of wisdom or skill every dictum or every con-
struction of the dock surveyor. But the committee
may believe us when we say that there is a large body
of the public who are similarly incredulous; and it is
`carcely safe for gentlemen who are, or ought to he,
representatives of the interests and the opinions of a
large community, to sneer at the judgment of portions
of that community, however unimportant they may
imagine them to be. On the present occasion, it
appears that the " report on 'Change," so flippantly
disposed of by the surveyor, does not rest upon the
authority of Mr. Chapman; and we venture to say,
that if any half dozen members of the committee will
take the pains to examine the erections complained of,
it will take some better authority than that of the sur-
veyor himself to satisfy them that the report in question
is without warrant, or that the sheds are such as the
trustees of the Dock Estate ought to be proud of ! We
state this deliberately, after having viewed them
throughout, that they would be disgraceful to the
architect of a cow-shed ; and that any engineer for
wham they had been built by a responsible contractor
would not do his duty if he did not require them to
be Pulled down again ! They are, in fact, A BOTCH
throughout.

With respect to the subject mentioned in the con-
cluding paragraph of Mr. Chapman's letter, we can of
course know nothing, or what amounts to nothing.
We have, however, heard of the matter before—that
an old and valuable servant of the Dock Estate was
dismissed at a moment's warning, because of the mis-
construction of the railway mentioned ; and it cer-
tainly does appear to us, now that the affair has
assumed the shape of a tangible charge, made by a
known and responsible party, that the Dock Committee
are bound to put it to rest by instituting an enquiry
into its correctness. Difficulty there can be none in
theib matter, even under the peculiar management of
the Public works of our Dock Estate. Had the laying
of the railway in question been let to any respectable
contractor, the
expense of any error of construction
Must have
fallen upon such contractor, and there
Would have been an end of it. But as such was not
De case; as the work was done by a servant of the
nck Trust
and done so incorrectly that that servant
was discharged ; as the expense of the mistake must
have fallen upon the Dock Estate, and it is broadly
charged that the mistake itself lies at the door, not of
the poor man who has been made the victim, but of
the surveyor himsef;.—itis certainly the duty of the
committee to ascertain in what quarter the blame is
justly chargeable.. The discharged man must have
had a section of
111c...railway to work by. Let that
section be produced to
as 4
the
are there laid down committee; and if the rails
the width of nearly feet 81 inches in the clear—
every railway in the kingdom—
then
charge M
falls tor.art
the ground cated, and Mr. Chapman's
We may have something to say on a future occa-
sion respecting the recent order of the committee, to
appropriate the western side of the Prince's
Dock to
vessels discharging. At present our space is limited;
but we venture to hazard an opinion, nevertheless,
that a more absurd project was never attempted to be
carried out by any public body, and that it can never be
Worked for six months !

TESTIMONIAL OF THE BRAZILIAN MERCHANTS
TO DR. DUNDAS.

On the 16th of March, last year, a general meeting of the
British merchants, resident at Bahia, was held in that place
for the Purpose of expressing their attachment and esteem
tawards Dr. Dundas, late surgeon to the British Hospital
theer, previous to his leavinv that city, after a residence of
two-and-twenty years. Richard Latham, Esq., was in the
chair, and the following. resolutions were unanimously
adopted :-
Ist.—" That a service of plate, value three hundred gui-
neas, with a suitable inscription, be presented to Dr. Dundas,
late surgeon to the British Hospital, in testimony of our es-
teem, for his talents as a physician—Ms virtues as a wan—
his value as a friend—displayed in the zealous and successful

discharge of arduous and important duties, throughout the
long period of two-and-twenty years."

2nd.—" That the following gentlemen be requested tc
undertake the performance of the foregoing resoluthm, an
that the amount he remitted to their

--:s.tinticl Johnston

Abraham Crabtree, and James Mellor, Esqrs."
On Tuesday last the above resolutions were carried into
effect by a presentation of a handsome Service of Plate,
value £350. The chief piece consisted of a chaste and mag-
nificent Candelebrum, designed and manufactured by our
townsmen, Messrs. Wordley and Mayer, Lord-street. The
service was presented to the worthy Dr., at his residence,
Upper Duke-street, by the committee of merchants, nomi-
nated in the second resolution.