Aug. 17,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



noured bis bereft with his presence, and bis reception 

 in the character of Macbeth was most enthusiastic. The 

 Canadian papers are full of elaborate critiques Mpon this 

 performance, as well as that of the characters of Riche- 

 lieu, Werner, and Hamlet. Mr. Macready's success 

 appears to have been complete. — Accounts had reached 

 New York, stating that the mail steamer Tay, while on 

 her way from Kingston to Havannah, with the mails from 

 EnglanJ, on 2d June, went ashore on a dangerous reef of 

 rocks on the Havannah side of Cape Antonio, called the Co- 

 loradoes. The mail agent, immediately after the accident, 

 started in an open boat, and delivered the bags on the 

 15th July at Havannah. A Spanish Government steamer, 

 and the Mail schooner Lee, then went to her assistance. 

 The steamer succeeded in getting her off, and she 

 entered the harbour of Havannah on the 17th July, 

 making 3 feet of water per hour. All the quicksilver, 

 anchors, cables, and heavy stuff on board, with the ex- 

 ception of about 20 tons of coal, had previously been 

 thrown overboard.— The intelligence of the loss of H.M. s 

 steim frigate Gorgon, with eight other vessels, brought 

 over n few weeks since by the mail packet from South 

 America, has been confirmed by dispatches subsequently 

 received at the Admiralty. It occurred on the night of 

 the 11th May last, during a terrific storm, off the coast 

 of Monte Video, but we are happy to state that the 

 whole of the officers and crew were saved. H.M.'s 

 steam: r Ardent was very nearly meeting with a similar 

 fate. She parted with her anchors, and the strength of 

 the current was carrying the vessel towards the shore, 

 when she came in contact with another ship of greater 

 bulk than herself, which stopped her progress,^ and 

 enabled the crew to secure her. _ During the same'gale, 

 further up the coast, at a place called Bucco, no fewer 

 than fourteen vessels were stranded, two of which are 

 reported to be ships of war. 



New South Walks.— The Sydney Herald states 

 that three ships at the date of the last advices were 

 loading with horses for different ports of India. A 

 thousand good, serviceable, horses can be procured in 

 Sydney for 10,000/., or at most 12,000/: the value of 

 these in India are estimated at 60,000/. The cost of 

 transport and agency expenses would amount to about 

 35,000/., leaving a clear profit to importers of 25,000/. 



parliament. 



HOUSE OF LORDS. 

 Friday.— After the division in favour of the Irish Law Courts 

 Bill, several conferences took place with the Commons, but 

 nothing of particular interest transpired. One or two other 

 subjects were afterwards shortly discussed, and their Lordships 

 then, upon the motion of Lord Wuarncliffb, adjourned until 

 the 2d of September. 



HOUSE OF COMMONS. 

 Friday. Wc grave in our laat a brief notice of LordJonv 

 Rl'ssbll's speech on the close of the session ; and in order to com- 

 plete our record, we now give a more detailed summary. His 

 Lordship said, that during; the late administration it was cus- 

 tomary, at the close of each session, to distribute a pamphlet, pur* 

 porting to be a speech of Lord Lyndhurst, and setting forth the 

 little which Ministers had done. This he himself had never 

 thoughta very fair proceeding; 1st, because no Ministers could 

 so control the Legislature as always to insure the passing of their 

 measures; and, 2d, because the Peers almost all belonged to 

 the political party which opposed the late Administration. If 

 he were now disposed to follow that example, he might do 

 it less unfairly, because the present Ministers had in 

 both Houses a majority placing confidence in their Govern- 

 ment ; but the practice seemed to him to be*productive of no 

 - public good, and he should decline to follow it. It might not, 

 however, be useless at this period to take a general view of the 

 state of the country as it now was, and as it probably might b» 

 when Parliament should re- assemble. Sir R. Peel had for- 

 merly said that his chief difficulty would be Ireland, and, after 

 that declaration, it was surprising that the Government had 

 never taken the state of that country int j their serious consi- 

 deration with a view to improve its condition. In the last 

 year they would have done well to issue an early proclamation 

 forbidding the repeal meetings, and announcing an intention 

 to adopt measures of improvement and conciliation. Instead 

 of that, the popular leaders were allowed to go on for many 

 months unchecked. At length they were interrupted, and the 

 chiefs were brought to trial ; not, however, for their latest 

 acts, but for the whole course of their proceedings during eieht 

 , or nine months. They were tried by a jury not including a 

 single Roman Catholic, but comprehending several violent 

 Protestants. What good effect upon the public mind could be 

 expected from a verdict given by a body of men, not one of 

 whom professed the religion of the great majority of the Irish 

 people? He hoped that during the recess Government 

 would reconsider this important subject, would adopt the prin- 

 ciple of the Union— that Ireland should be governed by the same 

 laws with England. Whatever might be the opinion of the 

 Judges or of the House of Lords, the wisest course for the Go- 

 vernment, as a matter of state policy, would be the discharge 

 of Mr. O'Connell. They should consider that, whatever his 

 proceedings might have been, he was the man who had won 

 tne political franchise for his country, and that he was now, at 

 W years of age, approaching the close of his political career. 

 nLJf* -^ hlm forthwitn Government would prepare the 



&e eoodT** I^'h^k d t0 receive with durable dispositions 

 2 ttSrnow Si*?' be f J ntende « fo' them, instead of carping, 

 naturaI^^ d a f° 0ftCn ' with an unfortunate, but perhaps 

 of Slind. He wo?d^n Si i; Cerely intended for ""welfare 

 believe that heS EfJSEt *° meanly <* Sir R. Peel as to 

 fearof alienati n gS d ^ n d e ^ r J ed from a sound P°"<* ^ the 

 foreign relation! was such M ♦ ° P artisans - The state of our 

 catefnd an important • h i? 1 ?;? is 6ub J ect both a deIi ' 

 On both these subjects he con^rp?!*^^" 1 and to Tahiti « 

 pledges, which Padiamen?, onts r t^LLf'* l ° h * Ve S * en 

 to see fulfilled. With one or w , excenS . II 6 ' W u° uld expect 

 period since the peace when our ^ foreign kf?" 6 had been no 

 anxious a position. Though Englandshouidnn5 air \v Were in so 

 Army and the strongest Navy, there wi^nVh thc f tronBrest 

 strength, which it was still more 2it r e,ement of 

 united feeling of Her Majesty's subjects A«c5h. 8eCUre " the 

 portant topic was the general condition of the nJST K" 

 scanty means and severe toil of the labouring nS ' 

 cialJy in the manufacturing districts. The c 1 5pe " f 

 the labourers had not improved with the increase £V f 

 luxury of the higher and in the comforts of?h| Sid.!! 

 classes. Unless Government should in the next .«$«« 

 propose some measure, removing at least all restriction upon 



oriiw anS c . m P 1 °y |nent and subsistence, he would himself 

 originate a motion on that subject; not seeking to repeal the 



jrcsent Poor-law, nor to maintain the poor by a state chanty, 

 hut tending to give them the means of maintaining them-e»ves. 

 The great question of the import duties ought to he considered. 

 The new constitution of the currency was a wholesome pro- 

 ceeding; but the Corn-law required the attention of Parlia- 

 ment though not without a due and fair regard to the rights or 

 the agricultural interests, who were especially pressed by the 

 malt-tax and the county rates. The emigration question also 

 was of great importance, and he hoped it would not escape the 

 attention of Government. He must observe too upon the 

 waste of time at the beginning of each session, and the hurry 

 and pressure of business at its end. Bills were sent up to the 

 other House and down to this without sufficient time for either 

 assembly to deliberate upon their contents. He had made these 

 observations in no party spirit, but with a sincere desire to 

 point out important public objects upon which both sides of the 

 House might agree.— Sir R. Pbbg gave credit to Lord John 

 Russell for the absence of party spirit in his speech. He 

 agreed in several of his observations. He thought there was 

 little advantage in the modern protractions of the session. Mr. 

 Burke had expressed an opinion that it was not desirable to 

 retain Members in London during a very large part of the 

 year, to the neglect of their local duties. He was not without 

 hope that, by a concurrence of parties some better arrange- 

 ment might be devised; indeed it had really become almost 

 impossible for Ministers to give so long an attendance as at 

 present in the House of Commons, and at the same time satis- 

 factorily to perform their official duties. He regretted the 

 vague intimations which the noble Lord had thrown out with 

 respect to the condition of the people, because such language 

 tended only to excite expectations which it was impracticable 

 to fulfil. The increase of population in every couutry had a 

 natural tendency to accumulate difficulties on this subject. The 

 noble Lord had held out some hopes to the agriculturists of 

 what he would do for them ; but, for his own part, though he 

 was glad to hear this acknowledgment, from such a quarter, of 

 the existence of burdms peculiarly pressing upon agriculture, 

 he must decline to give any pledges for the remission of that 

 particular impost to which the noble Lord had.especially ad- 

 verted—the malt tax. There never had been a session in which 

 more of useful business had been done than that which was 

 now about to close. The Ecclesiastical Courts Bill, indeed, had 

 not been carried through ; but other measures of great value 

 had been completed. As the noble Lord had declined to enu- 

 merate them, he would specify them himself. First, there was 

 the Poor Law Amendment Bill, debated with the greatest 

 temper, and brought to a conclusion satisfactory to most even 

 of those who at first were adverse to it. There was the measure 

 for regulating factory labour; there was the measure for reduc- 

 ing the Three and a Half per Cents, by which 1,200,000/. of 

 annual taxation had been saved to the country, mainly through 

 that hon est adherence to public faith which he called on other 

 countriestoimitate; there were themeasuresrespecting Currency, 

 Joint-stock Banks, Joint-stock Companies, and Abolition of 

 Imprisonment for Small Debts. There were other measures of im- 

 portance, touching religious questions; the Dissenters* Chapels 

 Bill, which had superseded so much useless litigation ; the Irish 

 Presbyterian Marriage Bill, and the Irish Charitable Donations 

 Bill. Measures, too, had been passed, less, indeed, in import- 

 ance, but adding to the aggregate of good effected -relating to 

 | Railways, to the Duchy of Cornwall, and to Metropolitan 

 Improvement. Reference had been made to the recent jury 

 process in Ireland. On this subject he appealed to the decision 

 of the Irish judges themselves, Mr. Justice Perrin included. 

 He denied that Government had forebornc from an earlier sup- 

 pression of the Repeal meetings with any view of entrapping the 

 culprits into further offence. As to the recommendation for re- 

 mission of punishment, that was a matter of prerogative, upon 

 wh ch he would observe a total silence ; but he denied that there 

 was any wrong which it lay on the conscience of Government 

 to repair. The adjournment he had proposed was partly, but 

 not wholly, owing to the writ of error on those Irish trials. It 

 was not just to give out that nothing had been done for Ireland. 

 A most important step had been taken in the appointment of the 

 Land Commission; and it was the intention of Government, 

 during the recess, to consider the important questions of Aca- 

 demical Education and the state of Maynooth. The Irish Muni- 

 cipal Bill had not indeed been carried, but it had been intro- 

 duced, at all events, with the sincerest desire to do good ; and 

 he trusted that if the honour or interest of the Crown should 

 require an appeal to the people, the Irish nation would be found 

 the cordial and united defenders of the crown of their Sovereign. 

 In respect to revenue, trade, employment, and general comfort, 

 the state of this country was greatly improved since the 

 year 1841 ; and he made this observation, not for the sake 

 of a party contrast, but of a substantial congratulation. — 

 Mr. Beli.kw made some observations on the state of Ire- 

 land. — Mr. Hume said that, though there might have 

 been some change for the better, the state of our population 

 was not one with which Sir R. Peel would be content. Tna 

 working classes were still in a suffering condition, and the 

 question was, whether that suffering might not be mitigated? 

 Let Government consider the proportion of taxation borne by 

 the poor, if they would remove all duties upon raw materials, 

 and give full scope to British capital and industry, he should 

 himself have little apprehension. As to Mr. O'Connell, he 

 believed the general opinion to be that, from the composition 

 of his jury, he had not had a fair trial. It was gratifying, how- 

 ever, to see the spirit of conciliation which, during the latter 

 part of the session, the Government had evinced.— Mr. Coch- 

 rane had nothing to regret but that Sir R. Peel had held out 

 no hope of further amendment In the Poor-law. He gave 

 credit, however, to Sir J. Graham for his temper and courtesy 

 in the conduct of the new Bill. He lamented the distresses of 

 the people, and intimated an opinion that a Bill for regulating 

 the wages of labour would do something to relieve the 

 existing evils. — Mr. Villiers observed, that Mr. Coch 

 rane thought too much about providing for pauperism, 

 and too little about preventing it. He protested against the 

 opinion in which Lord J. Russell and Sir R. Peel seemed to 



sltHP? hT that , thts bre *d-tax question would evef be 

 2 2 n/Jhi S? m ™ Up thcir minds that lt should be "tiled 

 SnmSv«^ H- The f ma8treiluce their rents ' the farmers 

 \htw hl^uZV £ dlscouten tedatthe perpetual interference with 

 s RT««ap^rpl 7 Pr° m »M of legislative protection-Colonel 

 Sibthorp agreed with S.r R. Peel, that there had been more 

 real business clone in this session than in the ten preceding 

 He would not follow Mr. ViUiera into the Corn-law argumeaf; 

 but he would congratulate the country on the nourishing state 

 of the harvest, and the declining state of the League— Lord 

 Ebringtov thought Colonel Sibthorp very forgivin- for that 

 gal ant officer had opposed almost every one of the measures 

 which Sir R. Pee had taken credit for carrying-ThT mo«on 

 for adjournment to IJiond^^^jr^hen agreed to. 



city: 



. M TK «J?' kett r> F S iday - - Consols for account 

 closed at 98 J. Reduced Three per Cents 90 



Three-and-halt per Cent. Red. 102g ; New Three-ana- 

 199* e * ch equer Bills 73 75, pm . ; Bank Stock, 



g££ KRUPTCY ANNULLED-EwrAW Ran, Stratford-upon-Avon, 



SCOTCH StlQUESTRATIONS^J. BROw.xiKo.Kiim^rnocx - 

 row, warehouseman— K Crawkord. Greenock, farmer. • ****** 



he New Houses of Parliament.— The followin* i, 

 )stract of the second Report from the Lords' i c fect 



jWetropolis atrti its Ftcinitn, 



Th 

 an abstract 



committee on the progress of the building of the Housei 

 of Parliament. That the committee appointed last sets 

 recommended that the architect should so conduct his 

 operations as to secure the occupation of the new l!ou<e 

 of Lords, with temporary fittings, at the commencement 

 of the session of 1844, and if he should find that mere 

 time would be required, that he should report the same 

 to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, in order 

 that such report might be communicated in due time to 

 the House. That instead of the new House of Lords 

 being covered in by Christmas last, as was stated to be 

 practicable by Mr. Barry, in his evidence last year, v.\% 

 now only in course of erection. That Mr. Barry no* 

 states, that if great exertions are made, the House of 

 Lords, the lobbies at each end of it, the corridors con. 

 necting the same with the front building and the libraries, 

 the committee and other rooms belonging to the House 

 of Lords, may be coTered in before winter; and the com- 

 mittee having examined the building, with the clerk of 

 the works and one of the contractors, are of opinion tuat 

 the whole of these apartments may be prepared for the 

 uie of the Lords by April next. That the committee do 

 not recommend that any temporary fittings should be 

 prepared, but that all the works connected with the 

 buildings above mentioned should be advanced with the 

 greatest possible speed. And the committee have exa- 

 amined Mr. Barry with respect to the style of internal 

 fitting and decoration, and he has distinguished those 

 parts of the building to which he considers the more 

 costly and elaborate style should be applied. Iii respect 

 to the remaining portions of the internal arrangements, 

 the committee entertain the strongest opinion, both in 

 reference to economy and despatch, that the committee 

 rooms and secondary apartments should be completed in 

 the most simple and solid manner consistent with the 

 character of the general building, but not involving any 

 extraordinary expenditure. In respect to the deviations 

 from the original plan, it has been satisfactory to learn 

 that they have not been of a character to vary or affect 

 the builder's contract; and that no future deviations are 

 to be allowed, without the previous sanction and authority 

 of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests. 



New Royal Exchange.— At the meeting of the 

 Common Council on Friday, Mr. R. L. Jones said that, 

 from all the information he had been able to obtain, 

 there was every possibility that the Royal Exchange 

 would be opened before the expiration of the present 

 shrievalty, that is, before the end of September. He 

 was not aware that anything was likely to prevent it. 



Statue of Prince Albert.— A marble statue of His 

 Royal Highness, executed by the sculptor \\ olft>a. landed 

 at the St. Katherine's-docks last week, out of the ship 

 Mary Ridgway, from Leghorn, and forwarded to \\ mdsor 

 Castle, without being previously opened and examined Dy 



the officers at the docks. . 



Captain Warner's Invention.— Zn^. Warner ^has ad- 

 dressed another letter to the daily papers, in which lie 

 states that, " to satisfy the curiosity of all those who 

 profess to disbelieve my power, in order that they may 

 worm out my modes of operation, or to remove the real 

 doubts of many others, would be alike equivalent to a 

 surrender of secrets which it has cost me the greater 



«■ i-r_ -„j _n _-~ fU-f.,no fn attain. iJUC J 



I had accepted the offer 1 denoerawiy «.- " f 

 tinctly made to them in May last, and taken the Jobn 3 

 Gaunt into their own custody, I should have been saved 

 much inconvenient expense, and none of the douo 

 upon me, as to a secret communication with uer 

 time of her destruction could have been rais w- u 

 reference to the Shoreham pilots, whom Lapt. ^ r 

 mentioned in Parliament as having seen several susp^ 

 ropes, &c, about the vessel, Capt. ^ arner „ sa J 8 * ,, id not 

 I can unfold to the public what Capt. Pechel jhd a* 

 represent to Parliament— the source of the am 

 of his worthy informants. These very men coo j 

 took possession of two best bower anchors ^ an 

 chain cables which I had left with buoys •"acbea 

 them in Shoreham roads ; and when I insisted on t 



restoration, they had the imp« dence , t0 ^ ls P U ^ t [ ve co- 

 to my own property ; and it was only by we a 

 operation of Lieut. Pratt, of the Coast Guard, and ^ 

 men, and also of the Custom-house officers, wai rf 

 gained possession of any portion of them, w i 



our e 



boats 



fforts, the wreckers managed to steal one o 

 _„„, the gig ; and I had the utmost difficulty^ 

 rescuing the launch from their rapacious grasp. . d 

 tow-rope which they picked up, and which has p ^ 

 them and their worthy representative so mucn. ■ ^ 



anchorattached to it when cast off, ^Jhem^V 

 aving it, I having paid 25/. for the tow-rop ea a 

 s before. Will Capt. Pechell, or any other ■ se 

 . , i. <.- *~n ««« ;« n-i,ai- ntlipr wav i co« iM _„ . 



anch 

 of s 



be kind enough to tell me in what other way - - _ (| Tbc 

 saved my tow-rope ?" He concludes by • J^Comm^ 

 Hon. W. Cowper asserted in the House of Co^ . 

 that I have offered the invention, which 1 ex 



ff 



that I have ottered cue invention, wu.v~ - my 



Brighton, to the Prussian Government, ana . ^y 

 offers were rejected. I most d.stinctly andu.^ ^ ^ 

 deny that I ever offered the inventiu.: in questw ^ ^ j 

 Prussian or any other Government than itj o* 



