The Sun. — London, England, 1846-02-11 00:00:00

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Extension ••..15 .. • • 33% .... to 32 ilo FOREIGN RAILWAYS. 1;1., Tonlonse, & Celtte (Mackenzie) 2 ... 2 1 , 8 , .. •.to Nt tnu t Lt o, ditto (Esrelete) .. .• . 2 .. • . 2 .... to ... telt Rhet•iish • • • • • .. .. .. ss. .• • • %.. '. to -- .... 4',,, ee t at inti N o l a n • • •• •• .. •• 7. .. .. •• •• 5 5 s . •. •. : •. 7 1 %.• .• •• -• t t oo India — steal rlhern of France Constituted 5 .... 15 .... to tt Peninsular .. .. .. bs. •• • • %.... to d intt Iveßteut Canada • • 3% .. •3••• • to I,lisea &nit li Midland Ju , iC'iot; .. 1 •• • • (*l ear% (l ,i ( ' l gn° , l .. .. .. .. 2 .... 2 7s , %..to . _ n., . Bordeaux • • • . .. 6 .... 11% •.• • to 11,72..! a n Rouen Bolt I am Have ' • •• • • •• 20 .. • • 28 .. • • to 14 tido ' B tb..._ •11nd 11 We t 1 - .lt of A o ., tra letinster JOlN .T -STOCK . . • • . 20ANKS. .... 26% .... to -- Beal d c lifo, „ ;.. 3 IINES. • s"..v, unregistered 4 .... to tbi rE , , t lit kr„, ---,mi._ . s. ' 4 ' C 'lt AND HOLYHEAD behalf RAILWAY(THIS DAY.) I, ilw v earlY meeting of the Chester and Holyhead 'qtapaai), 'PaD3') was held to-day at the offices of the the chair, 1 !, door as W. Collett, Esq., M.P., in !oils, and a 101, attendance of the shareholders was nume 'fug, lin;eihand interesting 'Ili: 1 1 44 1g th report was read to the nieet • e e Plan proposed by the Company's . engineer -- 'ie proposed- cclnniunication across the Menai Straits. e tlual in .): to effect by the means of a large iron tube, thi ine:rilleter to an ordinary tunnel, and supported by Ptuaic nk e.,,0f roads and chains, in the way of a sus alill the cerluge, but with this difference, that whilst f oo ll l: tyro ~, of suspension bridges there are usually towt -P P °t .ts, Mr. Stephenson here proposes to erect the was are r t 111 .the Water,. to which the chains - mssa go uDe tied, so that the great vibratory effect of 44 ...1itt1e • • °f beav3' maye or rendered slered ol8•1Ielltklurious and trains ea wring v as possible.neutralised The objection -'ucktoli a Plan as this by the failure of the bridge at Nipositio;:ttaofebviated by the savin of that oscillation and htu e fc ' t ees) to whi I that g bridge was subjected in Z tla tt e g g , e o n ie„uf the use, l a' 'fie tr)g uP p ort s c b l eingcontinnallyaffected by the the a 4ll ll th e ' The report was received with much for ac were plan was adopted. Through . an omission th t the priut,not reau to the meeting, but it was stated 14e uti reports would be distributed shortly after Thee g• 4 1 : nit &11124-01 then said that he was happy to c,ongratu lieitPtohabill!:tlll3' on the forward state of the works, and on Iveri.. c ukul at Z uf great future success. According to the lact;',Won d Is 11 that could be made, he believed that t e tiQ 0 14 1 ,1 1 " e completed in the course of the summer of Allot n le, or tther the line would be opened in portions before Nest er 84 :1111. 4 e l o t° g e the' ) the directors had not yet decided. iT.oln— tin, of con gratulation was derived from the cir :rl.;Zittliat the tk, Company had been able to make a con ote Itaifue London. arid Birmingham and the Grand bet'er 1; 43 ' 8 7 through which they were sure to obtain th e In . a tond,..c than they had anticipated. As they were 4.2 l l!•e otora tou to raise cal ital f rom ex t rat eou •is ;ources, 0/314--413111H.!1(1 resolved upon l o t r eply t making a call of '2l. 10s per relleimig July a nd another o f 51. per share in the course ital, „ .k.eud,ti;sttn inquiry of Mr. Sergeant Stork, the CHAIR.. 4 'Z a ', b Y th e 1 1 , 1 "gh he perfectly agreed in the opinion ex- Ndrutir of earned Proprietor that the construction of th tt "r by% tr,efuge was a national okeeli, and ought to be thrtold ,4:zovettnnent, yet. as there was no compulsion . iltherel2ge them to enter upon such a work, and it e oi - 4 t it 1,47) liot be done for the next twenty years, he 4 41 et by as f°l'l3? Prudent, on t} _e part of the Company, to tib iti Z to Killer the formation of such a harbour would be det tler ti lti be t ri the ir Own interests. That it would do so %a „it 4,1_4 question, and the clitectors, therefore, Q,143.471 able to share the cost with the Government, übj ej s. " keen). ) 111:4..ti --.) pay.hi-ingly devoted the sum of 200,000/. to Iptatilvo‘"; th e t he course of three years. b a 3 adv an ce 0 report was then put, and it was una- Nos Oftsktu,A"' 'l 4 ,3 frere t i" h e .. ta : then announced that, according to the ' 141 3') Mr. Prebbla, the auditor, had retired, ttri:lbat Ronuemself for re-election ' ettZaaniostnatt's retention of office was unanimously con -1,„. were voted to the Chairman, and the meeting 41 1/ -4-Ei ...4.le:St, A Lk,' faandSOUTHA.IIIPTON 11 41 %eti ng of ti :I4INrAy.—(THIS DAY.) t asi N., s , n 'iva t , lll ; 4 gh ~ ,Vi e gates from the principal towns along "'.ctre 0.,, 1 ge1d lit j f 4 it is proposed that this railway should e t3' of; cl e,lt to..4`e King's Arms Hotel, Palace-yard, at 14 00 4 0 4 0 f '4 l ,; t a itig 0 4 3 '4 to take into consideration the pro- A T- L .!, t r „,''''' v ed Dalhousie, the President of the lett es h lN , bu r , - T w aY ° ~'"t:r e sent to his Lordship the value of the Stia - V out, `: s i t,: ia - n - tl oo nY to the severe . l localities repre th .otlth titteet generally—forming, as it would, if t.tie 'rel . a:, inteerizt% of rp m .unication between the northern the so ce 44 e the ,ers of p.,_ r engdolll; also to urge upon A rno ess Cf theUtpOytatZiailent.coirne d et . ed with the towns k ayo ngst th e Proj ect i. , of taking active steps to ensure ttitio.r of soothgehtlemeng question. Present 1'4 3'10',. 1- "es y 4lll Pton were—Joseph Lobb, Esq., ''. trick tats rier, E' C aptain Griffiths, late mayor of 11.1.r:Ige ; --- h ina.,.....(1, Mayor of Romsey . ; Frederick - F 4°4 las Iv ' ° lvell, E.`'' ,ate -- Whether, Esq., bailiff of took . t t s . b ol f , . wfliiiii.hill, Eu:(.l., ward of the lord of the manor , 4 itt, l 3 )) , ' N. t 1 : 14 111: 0 1 4 41 3'or of Poole ; Captain Parrett, If No te, ' l il t urn aslTPleeancilltri l ' it ; T1: 1 ' , ditiO/loirtimer, E::lfsingS.a:taruroYf' • S J al . is L b . u A rY l - fo ; Alford, Esq., tittol;hihiPtit Stro tig t alderman n ofAndover ; John. Taylor, Esq., high-bailiff of Crick ch,,,e, t, h q cirenee'steui r9f.ditto ; Thomas Byrch, E . sq . , 1111 341144.' 4 f ditto r A illiam Miller, Esq., of ditt . o . , T. 1411.,. 1 41,4 1 ; Captain George Rowe, Esq., high-bailiff of . e ~,o e t B t oy th„ a eptu Llo . ya, of ditto. We could not catch in 1 1 1 4 hab 1 te xig se emed l e clo b li for Marlborough. c the part of bl le i e t t ' 4 4 l lay, 4, 1e (4. the townesaonsiThie lin e e7 s to a i t ns o u n re, as far as 7 , m, krtaece to of a measure which they deemed of to ti t l ePli Lehi) "e districts with which they are con- Citeitir. E 'cl the Mayor of Southampton, was called 11 4 '414 l'a Le:l:e rratt was r _ tl env e 4t4 alts tAx b . equested to act as secretary. . th;‘P.,o4 4 ,Drese nt it r leflY stated the object for which the ), • Setr,ootila be :,t-i ssembled, and suggested that a de ,_tiela l'ilvY to th once appointed to wait on . Mr. Hop!, ' ret t i.7 con ve „, e Board of Trade, to ascertain when it Th e .e th e genie he for the Noble President of that Board t % it Pggegi o e Putatio n . torem .ep utati 11 of the Chairman was immediately acted on, h . iti shout °n proceeded to the Board of Trade, and !T- N 41...Q4441 half an hour, when 5,,.. (.4,21AN announced that the depuation had waitel 1 •7 0 4; 4;;!, the Member for Cirencester, in the House of '‘401 ) ., t llo a „" he had very kindly joined them in their visit `q th, i 'alh o - u - mof had ; where, upon communicating with I tIly," 5pk,,,,,1e Private secretary, they learned that, owing %ii. the I,_rtlent of the recent Select . Committee . on rad- II Drojetoard of Trade had now no connexion with rail illot t ,ef th e ' and such being the case, the Noble Pre '4. r„.''' ' l soard of Trade had come to a determination , thi,;eretelve any deputation, however constituted, 1 41 4 ` 1 / 4 t, to railways. The deputation having ascertaine t d o 4, Nth :etired. It was now for the gentlemen t present tri Ne t te t's as might seem to them proper . o forward a._ iol t n .. -upt io: itr k . OW under consideration. Representing ,. as the e ): ` 4 tv s'oli-,14 t oOst't cv he was sure that thcir repr ~,I L,'• al44"obtild receive due ' weight in any quarter to which ' t h v e - e 4 'i t f il t atlaressed. The Chairman that, then i n a t l lined evented to 44 d t „'ret o i e ? Proposed line, and showed . tttitteent dutie s rB plea respecting the alteration in the customs c ot b l,4 h , of homing into operation, the utility and im , eoe e Manchester and Southampton Railway tliZe._ Nit ibt3'orl question rial, ,„ nl otiou o f tit' it resolved that a t, .:iil ue - - inboth, i ,. .....r. ALFORD, was Ward the",althe views of the deputation respecting t * ohm wi th :: T racle Y an i d n question, should b; iem tr b an er s s mi co t n ed_ Th at i l l ess t _ . tluti ft and to the several le pstat v. " 'were th, a towns through which the line givo n tASent , to the chairman, and the meeting A / 11311 \, IN Cf,C.....•..ti Lott „ 'sual halt% crat isi c: P lES RAIL WAY. !'lmPaillY a n d half heD arl Y tlie4 DAY.) llll y k „ • sq., li 1 ,- to.d a , e ting of the proprietors of this ditty u ltatr ota • H :, in he a t. the London Tavern, George ThP .° P r ietor' s. '" largo chair. The attendance was exceed kr, i l t s B nel orm ai . . r eoln of the tavern being crowded ,theThi,,-Xtty - 4,14 h a been gone through, t ree., 'oetnne seers 44,7 ,had be IA set , ut 3:, read the report of the directors. the traffic for the past b ., t4 f, p r _ . ice n pia . 'with stating that a considerable in- Qt, i Inl tt 13 ' r e : 11411 Y frO tt " IN t .'ltat th e lici t'n, and th a t bring of the line to Cambridge, lit ei tecr ease trarne be jiat nc, coupled with the half-year, bho p , I rere con tn ,ight b e e°ut Partially developed, and that a itil!?t.te t - i ' ie l 4 eted, gavz_Pected. vihdn the several junction /f 111 1 Elead ' as to the v.promise of the fulfilment of the ki xt 164. iliPropoaetbliutur.e prospects of the Company. ttq, ,Par %a the sortsolt 34 le directors was 9s. on each share Itthe ,P 4 stated that_ted stock of the Company. The , ~.'isif, ‘ terto s uf ~_ cuti u-„..., the irate resolutions creating the extension hqt,%t,kk'll th e e_lrest on linestock is payable out of w ili tte et Et shall h a a r t e e b of the to be constructed with 'Bete. he and peterboeren finished. At present the line 1 45 , 1 ready to be ough is incomplete and probably t f ,7 4 :ge th e i ever, durin opened before July next ; the di il.eott „, ra _, the current half:year intend to e ,,, t ztk att 11 : 1 111 the interest on so mlich ' of that ex. i tt 14 rEtel4itibeid,3,.e°7ll, applied to the construction of the 00e44 i.„thi r P o t v e e f ( ll fulll'al3f:,eand Brandon, because they . will cliat,t,r .the inl an d more wars traffic from those extensions, ttlt,tAtt t o tv ,erest on productive state than hitherto. L o rt ,. rattle dui ~t extension stock, No. 1, has been Zetz,.7.',oere not; g the last half year, as the above ex '%Ott..._ -`4,4h, cont,oP bed until the month of August, and i t nes, , h. 4.l _ .e th e lr y, fro m - e great deficiency of carrying r it 7T .es `,l . noe b e e n P letite state of the lines, and other Itvgitco4.7lally j„`" ' 4 ktNivam ,tate, •• goods traffic, which they are capable of latt,tathe NO'rthat satisfactory arrangements had been made Aid th et ,_(l . h .ee ti tt le nt e and Easlern Company which arrange -1..N1 ,' 4 / 1 11ap g r eed to at a • -" P°' the - esoluti meeting of the proprietors, lit,, 4 rli a , e feint Pres cul? would be submitted for the ap ri,"eli t ine ettng. Ap lication had been made , Z e etin"' in Bills for their!' several extensions and 94 .. Rii; „,,greettient. With teastr i l eps ~;I'. resolution resolutions come to at former t , hrih Itch the directors s would be Enbmitted sanctioning 13, he ev er qated tha t had taken in this respect. It I,l„ttd .; it or. then ti ..e directors had under c,msideration, R. B%(,tw „ettatheet arwich Extensi, n, branch beinr , sane y4 eti it ee. that his, year, to establish a line of'ste - tlei,tii,... was ,e i Port and Northern and Central Europe, the stew 1 ('-'ged would be ittioktitZith tilaia-hoat Compaertysit.eurtiof considerable re ry :rl4ilwaY• In conclusion, ite °l;giarTsedi that '"""4411144/1 Were being 1114401 with Bated Zastem 9 6 10 A , 91 r , 0 4 '40' ) 31 40' I d qft, , THE SUN LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, 18-16. Canities and Thames Junction Company, the North and Woolwich Rail way C ompany, and the North G ravesen d hal way Coin pany, which saould tend greatly to the ads vantage of th e E astern C ounties Company, and iftcrease Cie goods traffic on tliQ Cambridge and Colchester lines. the statement of accounts ftp,crided to the report, showed thy' raecipts of tla; half-year to be 173,1661. 15s, ld., which after meeting all expenses, interest of loans and interest to the Northern and Eastern Counties Company, left an avail able suns for the dividend ef 84,4671. 12s. 4d. The Cliainsiars then rose to move the adoption of the report, and in so doing said, that it would be necessary fbr him to just somewhat into explanation, as otherwise the g report read would h a ve raZrei e ired to have been much longer if einbociyi . n all that it was necessary to detail. it ssis his dcsiee fairly and honestly to give them a clear view of the present posLion of the Company and its future pro spects.—(Cheers ) In declaring a dividend of Os. per share, the directors felt they were not declaring one that was to be considered by the shareholders as founied on the anticipa ta!zis of what the future traffic might bring, but as actually arising snit of the past half-year; and in doing so, the point to which the directors would particularly call their a ttentim was the fair prospect before them when the lines in connexion with theirs were completed and open to the public. There were two of these lines which he was satisfied would be of great advantage to their interests He referred to the lines proposed between Peterborogh and Ely and between Ipswich and Colchester. 'These, in addition to the Eastern Union Company, would be the means of augmenting their traffic in a very considerable degree.— (Hear, hear.) The arrangement submitted to them at the last meeting for an amalgamation with the Northern and Eastern had witk sonic very little alterations been agreed to by the shareholders of that Company. The only alteration made was, that parties not chosing to embark in the under taking should have the liberty of selecting 6 per cent. in perpetuity on their shares, but should receive no allotment of new shares, or be allcwed to participate in the extensions of the Company. Of the proprietors of the Northern and East ern Company, but one-fourth of the holders of original stock bad se:ect d 6 per cent., fully three-fourths; having accepted the propositions of the Eastern Counties Company rather than take the proferred guarantee.—( Hear, hear.) This was some proof of confidence in the future pains of the undertaking.—(Cheers.) In evidence of this he could give figures derived from data supplied by those who knew e country well, and those figures bore him out in saying, that when all the extension lines were opened, the receipts of the Company would not be less than 10,0001. a week. The pre sent income was about 6,5001. a week; but he was fully satis fied when the traffic was fully developed, it would be at least 10,0001. a week. That even now they had not done so well as might have beets expected, arose from their deficiency of locomotive power, and the difficulty in meeting that defi ciency from the great demand for power of that kind, arising from the opening of new lines. Though as yet they had not obtained locomotive power to work the line with satisfaction to themselves and to the public, still that was a difficulty they were gradually overcoming, and 'lie was not over sanguine in saying that, before their next meeting, if their two extension lines were opened, to show at least a receipt of 10/.—(Cheers)---which, after making payments of guaranteed interest, would show a reserved annual sum for division and expenses of 450,0001. He was satisfied he was giving a statement that would be borne out by the results. It had been said that theirs was a bankrupt concern, but to that he would answer, that he had given facts and figures, which, as far as men of experience and judgment were to be relied on, might be trusted, and they showed a result of 7 per cent. on the consolidated stock, as also on the stock of the Northern and Eastern Company. He was satisfied that, ere long, with the extensions, the undertaking would be second to none in the kingdom. A company in such a position, and with such prospects, had no right to be looked on otherwise than as a solvent and legitimate undertaking.—(Hear.) He could not say what the Legislature would do relating to the London and York line, though he had the strongest confidence in the success of the measure, if the Legislature was, as it pro posed to be, guided by the principle of supplying the greatest extent of country at the least amount of expense.—(Hear, hear.) That measure would be of great service to them, as it would give them the chance of constructing another trunk line to York, which he was persuaded could be constructed at nue-half less than the London and York scheme.—(Hear, hear.) And if they were successful they would have the satisfaction of holding out the olive-branch of peace to the London and York, which had been refused. The Hon. Gen tleman, after referring further to this topic, and expressing a hope that even in Parliament a reconciliation might be effected, went on to point out the great advantages of a line of packets from Harwich to the Continent, in con nexion with their scheme. No resolution, however, he said, would be submitted on the subject at the present meeting, but the matter would be taken up by the Directors, and matured before being brought forward in that shape. In conclusion, they hoped to make a considerable reduction in the expenses of the Company, or at least with the increase of traffic to take care that there should be no increase of expenditure. The Hon. Gentleman, after refer ring to the services of the directors, especially those of Mr. Waddington, in high terms, sat down amidst loud cheers by moving the adoption of the report. In answer to certain questions from Mr. WISHAW, The CHAIRMAN said that the directors might congratulate themselves on the freedom from all accidents which had dis tinguished the Eastern Counties line. From the hour that they had accepted office there had not been a single life lost. With respect to the expenditure, he must confess that that appeared to him extraordinarily large, but they were doing their best to reduce it, and be would venture to promise that with an increased traffic the expenses would not exceed, if they equalled, the present amount.—(Hear, hear.) With respect to the irregularity of trains on the line, he had since he had been elected a director taken means to ascertain the exact time taken by each train, with the view of ascertaining some better system than bad before existed; but they had, in consequence of defective locomotive power, to encounter many difficulties. They, however, expected to be able in a short tune to bring about improvements in this particular. After some observations from Mr. Scorr recommendatory of the efforts made by the directors, Mr. LOVE said that lie found no sum in the treasurer's report placed to the account of depreciation. He wished to know why this omission occurred in the statement ? The CHAIRMAN said that lie was no advocate for a depre ciation fund. If they wanted new engines, he thought the better way was to pay for them at once, and then place the amount expended to the general fund. The report was then carried unanimously, as were several formal motions. After thanks had been voted to the directors and the Chairman, the meeting broke up. RAI LW AY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) Sub-Committee No. 1. The Commitee isat this day at twelve o'clock. Mr. Strutt chairman. THE TAW VALE (EXTENSION) RAILWAY. Air. Parkes, of the firm of Dyson, Hall, and Coates, ap peared for the promoters. The formal proofs of the deposit. of the plans and sections, and books of reference, were then put in. Mr. VENABLES appeared on a petition against the Bill. Mr. PARKES objected to the petition being received, on the ground that the name of the Bill was not stated on the back of the petition, in conformity with the standing orders. The CHAIRMAN said that he had consulted the Speaker on the bearing of that standing order ; and his decision ww, that as there were several petitions presented prior to his having given notice of the enforcing of that standing order, it would be unfair to the parties concerned to subject them to that opinion. It was, therefore, only to be enforced against all petitions presented after the date of the Speaker's order. The Committee were, therefore, of opinion that the petition should be received. Mr. VENABLES said that the allegation which he had to submit to the Committee was against the datum level of the line. There was no fixed point at either termini which would agree with thG datum level on the plans and sections. Mr. PARKES submitted that the allegation could not be sustained inasmuch as the objection was not specifically stated in the petition. Mr. VENABLES considered that the objection was properly set out in the petition. He would prove that error existed. The CHAIRMAN thought the allegation should have been specified by one or other termini. ,rhe po r i o t o t angl a hw t ea e s,, i , t to l ti l u e el r nd p t L e r. l r mo eared,ei l n t i a and error. that he considered was sufficient, fixed VENABLES said, that a ll egat i on was t h at t h ere was no , error. and upon the return of the parties, The CHAIRMAN said he had to inform the agents that Committee were o f op i n i on that in this ease the materc the andom plained of was not s p ec ifi cally stated in thepetition, there the allegation could not be sustained. The standing orders were then declared to have been com plied with. YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND (LEEDS EXTENSION) RALIVII7AIre Mr. VENABLES, on behalf of the promoters, stated ;the case and called the several witnesses. The Bill was unop posed, and the standing orders declared to have been com plied with. YORE AND II ORTH MIDLAND (EAST RIDING BRANCHES, No. 1) RAILWAY. Mr. Venables appeared for the proMoters. The deposit of the plans, sections, and books of reference was then proved. Mr. DYSON appeared on the petition of a Mr. Whitaker, a landowner on the line, complaining that the standing orders had not been complied with, inasmuch as he had not received notice for certain lands in the parish of Drypool, in the county of York. Mr. VENABLES objected to the petition being heard, on ,he ground that the petitioner had not specified the property in the petition. The CHAIRMAN was of the same opinion ; and ➢ir. Dyson having abandoned the petition, the standing orders were declared to have been complied with. COLCHESTER, STOUR VALLEY, sunnurair. journed till twelve o'clock to-morrow. The nature of the alle gations was hot stated, that being a subsequent proceeding to the receiving of the petition by the Committee. TnE EXEI ER, Irk; OVIL, AND DORCiiEfITER RAILWAY. Mr. Ellicombe appeared for the promoters. The deposit of the plans, sections, &c., was proved, after which Mr. PBITT presented several petitions against the Bill, from the owners of land and other property on the line complain ing that the standing orders had not been complied with in Many instances. Mr. ELLICOMBE opposed; the receiving of the petition, on the ground that the name of the Bill did not appear on the back of the petition.: The CHAIRMAN said that he had already decided in a another case that the petition having come to them after the opinion of the Speaker a few days ago, he would reserve the decision on the point till he should again consult the Speaker The Committee then adjourned till twelve o'clock to' morrow. Sub• Committee No 2. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) GLASGOW, PAISLEY, ILILII.O.ENOCK, AND AYR BRANCHES RAIXAVAY. A petition against this Bill was presented from Mr. Maher, which stated that it was with the approval of Lord Douglas, through whose estates the line was to pass, complaining of a non-compliance with the standing orders, inasmuch as the plans were i of deposited on or before the 30th of November, as required by the Act of Parliament. Mr. GRAHAM supported the petition against the Bill, which was defended by Mr. Pritt. The formal evidence having been gone through, from which it appeared that 43,0001., one-tenth of the Amount sub scribed, had been deposited in her Majesty's Court of Exche quer, in Scotland, and that the length of the line was 18 miles Mr. GRAIIA3I contended that the datum line as described by the engineer, Mt. Miller, was not the same datum line as that the Company had laid down. The CHAIRMAN was of opinion that Mr. Graham had no right to raise that question it not being an allegation in his petition. The question was however discussed, but no other plan being adduced, the question fell to the ground. Mr. Pitirr said that he admitted the allegatic n of the pe tition but what were the facts of the case. The petitioner Mr. Maher was the agent of the Cale donian Company a competing line, and it stated that he had the sanction of Lord Douglas. There was an inter dict obtained by Lord Douglas, to prevent surveys being made on his estate, and he now complained of a non-compliance with the standing orders, which was occasioned by his own conduct. The CHHIRMAN said, he considered that if gentlemen would prevent persons forcibly from entering their grounds, they had no right to complain of a non-compliance with the stand ing orders. Mr. Miller was examined, and proved that he had received obstruction in surveying Lord Douglas's ground. The supplemental notice was pioved. The CHAIRMAN said that the Committee were of opinion that the standing orders of the House had not been complied with by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr branches Company, inasmuch as the plans and sections had not been deposited in the Sheriffs' office on or before the 30th of November, but that the supplemental notice stating that such would be deposited on the 81st of December, was duly served. GUILDFORD, CHICHESTER, POTRSMOUTH, AND PA.REHA.M ILAXIMJAY. The object of this Bill was to construct a line of railway from Guildford to Chichester, and from Fareham to Ports- mouth, with branches to Peterfield and Itchnon. The length of the line was seventy miles, including the branches, and the amount of capital was 250,000/. There were two petitions against the Bill, which were referred for further instruction, no one appearing in their support. In the absence of one of the witnesses the further conside ration of the Bill was adjourned till Thursday next. Engineer, Mr. Joseph Locke ; Parliamentary Agent, Mr. Ellicombe ; Solicitors, Messrs. Bircham, Dalrymple, and Drake. GLASGOW, DUMFRIES, AND CARLISLE RAILWAY. The object cf this Bill was for the formation of a line of railway from the terminus of the Glasgow and Ayrshire Railway Company's Railway, at Cumnock, to the Caledonian Railway, near Carlisle, with various branches. The extent of line, not including the branches, was sixty four miles, and the capital 1,200,000!. There were two petitions against the Bill. The first was from the Caledonian Railway Company, complaining of inaccuracy in the books of reference, and where tunneling was substituted for open cutting. THE CHAIRMAN said that in the present case the standing orders had been complied with. The next petition was from Mr. Jackson, which complained of inaccuracy in the schedule served on him in the sections 44 ama 46 of the cuttings. Mr. Graham appeared for the petitioners. The CHAIRMAN said the standing orders had been complied with in this case. There was another allegation of a similar nature which was not sustained. The Committee were of opinion that the standing orders had been compliad with. Parliamentary agent, Mr. Burke; solicitors, Messrs. Hunt, Bannatyne, and Kirkwood, Glasgow. The Committee adjourned shortly before Four o'clock to Twelve o'clock to-morrow. Sub-Committee No. 3. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) dras; Plantagenet, Bird, Calcutta; Prince George, Eorster, Valpa raiso ; Mervede, Hassell, Surinam ; D'Auvergne, Bradley* damatta I Frances Ann , . Wright, New Orleans. BRISTOL, FEB. 10.-6 id; Eleanor, Rees, Barbadoes ; St. Vincent, Fitrieng, ,tatnalcd. DiSLIN, FEI3. 9.—Arrd. Charlotte; Betts, John's, New Brunt wick. Sld. Pearl, Cowles, ditto ; Enterprise, Boitenhauser, ditto. KINGSTOWN, FEB. 9.—Wind N.N.W., moderate.—Arrd. Jam , s, Moran, St. John's, New Brunswick ; 11,,nry Duncan, Kent, ditto. RAMSOATE, FRB. 10.—The Anne, Castivlia, bound to Syracuse, put back Bth just., with loss of sails and leaky. Pool,B, FEB. 10.—The Alert, Brevet, of POrtSlDolltt., stone laden, came on shore hers this morning, but will be got off; the Wind moderate. _ _ BIDEFORD, FEB. 9.—The Venus, which was on shore on Northam narrows, was got off yesterday without much damage; cargo dis charged, and will be sold. _ . PILL, FEB. 9.—The George, of Chepstow, water-logged and aban doned, was picked up off Hallam yesterday, and taken to a place of f.afety ; nothing known of crew. CAERNARVON, FEB. 111.-3 great portion of the materials and cargo of the Heywood were saved yesterday. HULL, FEB. 9.—The Orwell, from St. Joku's, New Brunswick to Hull, is on shore near Grimsby, with loss of anchors. WHITSTABLE, FEB. 10.—A billy-boy, or ketch, sunk last night, or yesterday, on the Cant, supposed to be store laden ; her main and mizen sails have been landed here ; the first is nearly new, maker's name " Sadler, 13rIghtlingsea." _ COWES, FEB. 10.—S1d. James and Thomas, Forrest, Monte Video ; American, Lampton ; New York ; Experiment, Cape de Yards. The schooner Vesper, in getting under weigh yesterday, came athwart-hawse of another vessel, and carried away her foremast. Has come into the harbour to repair. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 10.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Lloyds, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sld. H.M.S. Harpy, Rio de la Plata ; Emily, Erring, Cape Coast Castle; United Kingdom, Foster, Demerara. FALMOUTH, FEB. 10.—Wind E., fresh.--Sld. Monarch, Shanghae. GUERNSEY, Farr. 3.—Sld. William, Machon, Laguna. Coax, FEB. B.—Wind N.W., light breeze.—Arrd. Lucretia, Stead burg, Mauritius; Ellen Wood, St. John's, New Brunswick. HULL, FEa.9..—Arrd. the Orwell, Colburn, St. John's, New Bruns wick. Ski. Rumney, Ward, St. John's, New Brunswick. HARWICH, FEB. 10.—A billy-boy schooner, reported to belong to Boston, was ashore on the Shipwash Sand yesterday. Crew sup posed to be lost. DARTMOUTH, FEB. 10. —The Ventris, Halter, . from Drontheim to Barcelona, which put in here on the, Gth inst., with damage, has been surveyed, and will discharge part of her cargo. MILFORD, FEB. 9.—The Bezaliel, Barron, from Swansea to Palermo, which sailed hence yesterday, put back this morning very leaky ; expected must discharge. THE FUNDS.-(CLOSING PRICES.) ONE CLOSING BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Three per Cent. Annuities .. • . 97 1 % 9714 Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 9674 %97 96% 96% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anna. 994 % 99% Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10% 10 11-16 India Stock .. . • • • • .. .. 260 260 India Bonds, 1,000/. .. ~D itto, under 1,000/. .. South Sea Stock ~ Ditto, Old Annuities .. 97 1 4 Ditto, New Annuities .. 96% 96 Consols for Acount 97 96% Exchequer Bills. I%d. . I%d. 1,0001. , •• • . •39 37 40 pm. 40 5091. • • • 39 37 40 pm. 40 Ditto, Small ...., .38 40 pm. 40 ONE CLOSING FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Columbian Bonds .. , 17 17 Danish, 3 per Cent -• • • • • •• 86% 88% Grenada, 1 per Cent .: 22% 22% Ditto, Deferred .. —5% Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. 30% 30% Ditto,-Deferred .. .. • • •• ' 16%% 16% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. Ditto, 3 per Cent .. • • • • 60% Russian Bonds .. 112 1 % Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 28 Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent • • • • Ditto, Deferred .. • • • • • • Dividends on the above payaisle in Loudon. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent .. 97% Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 60% Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 951,E BUSINESS PRICES OF PAID. DONE AT CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES. ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. ... 10% 1034 . • • -• . .. 45 60% 112% 27N Aberdeen .. .• • • Amber., Notting., Boston and Eastern Junction .. 2% •• • • 2% ...... • • 2% Birmingham and Gloucester. ..100 •• • • 1 30% . 130% Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 •• • • 2% 234 Bristol and Exeter .. .• 70 -• ••90 89 Ditto New .. .. 5 .• 12 34 13 12 1 13% 13% Caledonian .......... 10 •• • • 14% 14% Ditto Half Shares 2% .... Extension.. 2 3434 ..... Chelmsford and Bury .. . • • • 1 % •• • • •74 •••• • • .. Chester and Holyhead .. 20 • • 22% . 24 Cork and Waterford .. .. • • 1 34 •• • • 1% % Cornwall .. .. • • • • • • 5 •• • 4 % • 4% Direct Manchester (Remington's) 2%.... 1%4 1 Direct Northern .. .. • • 234 •• • • 2% Dublin and Galway .. .. • • 4 •• • • 4% % Eastern Counties .. 141. 16s. .• • . 22% . Ditto New .. .. • • 81 . 188 . •• • • 7 % P•• • • • Ditto, York Extension .. 10s. .... 2 1 1 East Lincolnshire .. • • • • 1 %• • • • 2% Edinburgh and Glasgow .. 50 •• • . 79 7g14 Ditto New 34 Shares.. .. .• 10 •• • • 16 Goole, Doneast., and Sheffield, &c. 425. % p Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1% •; • • 1% % Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 15 22 Ditto, Extension .. .. • • 12 3 ••• • Great North of England .. 100 .... Ditto, New • • • • • • • • 5 •• • • Great Western .. .. • • • • Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 50 .... 93 Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 5 •• • • 19% %•.. . Ditto, Fifths .. 20 •• .. 36% „ „ hull and Selby .. .. 50 •• .. „ „ Ditto, Half :,hares .. • • • • 7 • • 273( Ipswich, Norwich, and' Yarmouth 2 • • 1% _ Lancaster and Carlisle .. 35 .... 57 Leicester and Bedford ... ...... . 225. .... % p.. • . .... % p Leicester, Tamworth, &c. 425. •• • • % die . Liverp., Manch., & Newc. Junct. 236 .... 2% 2% London an Birmingham ..100 .. „ Ditto Thirds .. .. 16 .... 5336 53 Ditto Quarters .. .. 2 •• • • 27% 28 Ditto Fifths 2 .... 25 London and Blackwall .. 161. 13s. 4d. 934 „ Ditto New .. 234 .... 43 e . . London al Brighton .. 50 •• • .68 68...,., Ditto:ditto Fifths .. 20 .... '3l - % . London and Croydon .. .. 131. 15s. 9d. 2214 % London and South-Western.. 411. 6s. 10d. SO ..... .•• .. Ditto, Consolidated Eighths 28 .... 43 Ditto, New .. 12% .... 24 23% ...... Ditto, New .. .. 10 .... 18 London and York .. 2%.... 3% Ditto, Half Shares • • .. 234 - • .. 2% London, Warwick, & Kiddennins. 2% .... . Manchester and Leeds .. .. 82 .... Ditto, Fifths .. 1 12% . Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 .... Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 4 .... Ditto, New Quarter Shares .. 2 '...• Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425..... Manchester and Southampton 2 .... p 22 184 914 4% 68 31% 21% 3% 2% 1% 135% 1234 • •••••••• I %Ye P•••••• "VA% 1% r ...... f__2% Midland .. .. • • .. .. ..100 -- ..152 156........ 'lso' - Ditto, New , .. .. .. .. 12 .... 28;4 28 28% .. 28% Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 ....122 Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 25 .... 4534 46 Ditto, New, Brandling .. • • 28 .... 40 3934 Newcastle and Berwick • • • • 10 .... 224 22% Newark, Sheffield, and Boston .. 2% .... 2% ....... North British .. .. • • • • • • 17 ~ .. 25% 25 Ditto, Hall Shares • • • • • • 3% .... 7% 7 74 Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 14 .... 3 Ditto, Dalkeith • • • • • • 25 .... 32 . ...... North Kent and Direct Dover • • 2%,,,, 314 34 North Staffordshire . • • • • • 425..... 3% .... p.. •• 3% p Nerwich and Brandon .. • • • • 13 .. .. 26%4 . ... 264 Northmpton,Banbury,&Chelthin. 2 .... 2 2 Oxfd.,Worcester,& Wolverlimptn. 12% .... 15%.......... 15% Perth and Inverness • • .. .. 2% .... 136 1% Rugby and Huntingdon .. • • 2 .... 1% ..... ..... 1% Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 234 .. .. 34 4 . South Midland • • • • • • • • 425..... 2ki 1% p.. • • 134 p South Eastern and Dover .. .. 33% .. .. agli D o ., New (do. 151.) • . No. 4. 2%.... 354% ...... • • 3% South Wales • • • • • • • • •.' 5 ...• 6% 6 ~._. .. 6 Trent Valley • • • • • • • • • . 5 .... 21% Waterford and Kilkenny .. .. 3 .... 24 % Watertd., Wexfd., Wick., & Dub. 1% •• .. 1%% Wexford, Waterford, & Valeatia 1%% Welsh Midland .. • • • • .. 2% York and Carlisle .. • • • . .... 2%. York and Lancaster .. • • • • 2%.... 1% York' and North Midland .. 1031% •• .. Ditto, Extension .. • • .. 15 .... 33% 32 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bord., Toul., & Cette kMackenzle) 2 .... 2% Ditto, ditto (Espelete) • . 2 ....2M .• Ceylon • • • • • • • • • • • ss. .... Dutch Rhenish ~ ..5 7 East Indian .. • • • . 55. .... 1% ••••• • • • • • Ort. North. of France Constituted 5 .... 15 .... • • Great Indian Peninsular , s s , „ „ „ „ Great Western Canada 3 3 Jamaica South Midland Junction 1 .. • • 3 Ye • . Lyons and Avignon .. 2 .... 2 1 ,4 5 A ........ NIIMUI and Liege .. - 4 .......... Orleans and Bordeaux 6 .... 11% . Paris and Rouen •• 20 .... 38% . ...... Rosen and Havre . 20 .... 28 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. London and Westminster .. .. 20 .. .. 26 Union of Australia .. • • .. 25 .... 26 MINES. 22 2% 1% 2 1 4, 1% 101% 22 2% 34 38 Real dcl Monte, Unregistered 4 MARKET NE W S.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY The present week's arrivals of English Wheat from Essex have been on a fair average scale. Those from all other quarters limited. The number of samples on sale here this morning was small ; yet the demand was somewhat inactive, at about Monday's quotations. Holders of free foreign Wheat being firm, very little was doing in that article, at unaltered figures. Corn under lock remained nominally as on Monday. The supply of Barley exceeding the wants of the buyers, the trade was dull, at the late depression in value. The Malt trade was again dull, and the, inferior samples were selling on somewhat easier terms. Oats, Beans, Peas, and Flour very dull, but not cheaper. _ ARRITALS. Wheat. 1 Barley. Oats Flour. English ••- • • - 1,660 qrs. 2,510 qrs. 3,G40 qrs. 1,250 sks Irish -- ---- 2,210 ---_ Foreign •• • • • • 4,340 1,130 - - Malt. 3,600 qrs. , • -A-large collection of Italian sculpture, recently arrived • from VOlterra ; ho been removed to Robins' Auction Rooms for public sale. It embraces numberless tamps and figures, exquisitely sculptured in alabaster; presenting beautiful orna ments for the drawing-room, whilst the varleiy'fif lbrih of vase and tazza cannot fail to ,please the connoisseur, copies from all the celebrated models in the numerous galleries at Rome, Naples, and Florence, enriching this extensive 'con signinent. The sale is on Thursday. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, nesdO, Fth, 19. THE CORN - LAWS. —ADJOURNED DEBATE. fiord EBRINbI'ON and Mr. HINDLE% presented peti tions against the repeal of the corn-laws:. Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN (in continuation) said— The Right Honourable Gentleman said that the law had failed in 1842, and the word " failure" might be under stood in two ways. He would wish to tall to the recol lection of his Right Hon. Friend what he said to the farmers of Wiltshire, in February, 1845—(-Tear, hear) —when he made the announcement that he had become a convert of free trade. He would wish to ask whether, if the law failed in 1842, the Sidney Herbert of that year would have corresponded with the Sidney Herbert of this ?—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) He would also wish to ask him, if it was possible for any ingenuity in human nature to concoct a law which would answer both those gentlemen ?—(Great laughter.) His Right Hon. Friend in 1845 would find that law failed for the letting in of corn freely—his Right Hon. Friend in 1846 would find that the corn law failed in the re striction of the free importation of corn—therefore, highly as he thought of the legislative powers of his chief, and sincerely as he might believe that he was apable of effecting anything—and certainly the House had seen that he was capable of effecting great things—still that Right Hon. Gentleman asked of him too much, if he expected that the law of 1842 could succeed in pleasing gentlemen of both sides of the House. But the question of averages was all that disappointed the ex pectations of his Right Hon. Friend. He could not see the cause of that. His Right Hon. Friend might re member, that even if he were obliged by this failure to give up the question of the sliding scale, there was a fixed duty for him to fall back upon.—(Laughter.) He conceived that the argument of the Right Honourable Baronet, viz., that be cause the sliding scale had failed in one out of three years, it was not a good one; was not in his opinion a sufficient reason to induce him to give up, not only his favourite measure, but even the principles of all his life. His Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Sidney Herbert) had said that this was not a question of delegation. He (Mr. S. O'Brien) should say it was not a question of delegation, but the Members of that Howe were the representatives of the people, and when they voted against the interests of their constituents, then they betrayed those interests, and were unfit either to be delegates or representatives. It was not merely a question of import which sent this House before the country, and it was not merely a ques tion of import which placed the Right Hon. Gentleman on the Treasury benches. He would not attempt to treat this question as a trifling one. He would not treat this question in that light manner that the Right Hon. Gentleman who had spoken last had atterhpted to treat it. It was a question of the greatest importance to the agricultural interests of this country. The Right Hon. Baronet at the head of her Majesty's Government had said that the great potato failure in Ireland had almost led him to throw open the ports. He (Mr. Stafford O'Brien) did not underrate those evils ; he knew they -lid exist, and he was glad to find that the Hon. and Learned Member for Cork intended to bring forward the evils pending that failure in Ireland the following day. But he thought her Majesty's Ministers would have clone better by throwing open the ports temporarily for a temporary relief, than to adopt die present measure. How had the free trade question been received in Ireland ? The gentleman who stood next to Mr. O'Connell iu that country had re probated the measure; he said plainly that a re peal of the corn-laws would work great evil to the farmers of that country, and would but add to the distress which now threatened her. He was in England when he was called back again by the dreadful accounts which he received of the progress of the potato disease, and he would tell the House that those accounts were so far correct, that if the disease had progressed as it had commenced, there would not have been a single vegetable in Ireland at the present moment. On my return, 1 found the dis ease rather mending, but it has again commenced, either from the late wet weather or some other mysterious arrangement of Providence. He assured them that there never was a country which called for more urgent measures than Ireland, and he firmly believed, there never was a Government more anxious than the present for the welfare of that country. But he should tell the Right Honourable Member for Oxford, that the famine in Ireland re quired more immediate measures for its alleviation, and he did not see how, if he would pass his Bill, Ireland would be benefited by it one single quarter of wheat.— (Cheers.) My Hon. Friend, observed that when ee looked round Wiltshire be was surprised how the poor people could exist there. All he could say was, that he generally found that the poverty of the agricultu ral districts was greatly to be attributed to the owners of the soil. When they found wretched cottages, and women and children half-clothed, they were naturally led to inquire the name of the owner of the soil. He had conversed with some Wiltshire farmers that morn ing, who bore him out in the statements he had made, and he would do them the justice to say they believed him to be conscientious in his opinions. But he (Mr. S. Herbert) had totally failed in the case which he had brought for ward to show the necessity of a repeal of the corn-laws, .ti order to remedy the evils under which the country was labouring, which was simply only saying that em ployment and the wages of emp!oyment tended to the happiness of the labourer, . but if he had followed up his argument, and really shown that a repeal of tho corn laws, and an extensive cultivation of poor soil would effect all this, he would have made his arguments com plete. He would have given an argument in favour of the repeal of the corn-laws, which had never yet been urged. —Cheers.)--But if the Hon. Gentleman had visited Northamptonshire, the county which he (Mr. S. O'Brien) had the honour to reps sent, where the la bourers received wages amounting to 13s. or 14s. a week, he would find that the people were not in the abject state he had represented. If he would go and visit that part of the county with which he was connected, he should be able to show him well built cottages and a state of comfort which would satisfy him that a repeal of the corn-laws was not so much required. He should, in the course of their ramble together, be able to show him cold clay lands of such a nature as even to affect the intellects of those engaged in their cultivation—(Hear) and, he might add, that the Noble Lord the Member for the City of London, in his address, looked to the Member for Northamptonshire when he talked of the advantages which the landed proprietors of that county would derive from a relaxation of the duties on corn and other articles of commerce. The address laid down three propositions for meeting the wants of the country at the present moment, the long and short of which was, that British industry required no pro tection ; and in the latter part of his speech he said that protection was neither wanted by the agriculturist nor by the manufacturer, and would leave their protection to the energies of the country. It was not treating him improperly if he (Mr. S. O'Brien) assumed that this principle had been publicly enunciated. The Noble Lord assumed that these propositions were true, because all political economists were of the same opinion. Notwithstanding the charge of their having old fashioned prejudices and clay intellects, he for one dis sented from those propositions, and he said, that even if all political economists were agreed in this manner, there would still be higher considerations on the settle went of the question. Honourable Members on the other side of the House were very apt to confound the science of political economy with the science oflegislation. His own notion of political economy was, that it was a science which treated of the amassing and distribution of wealth, and if the science of legis lation consisted of the amassing and distribution of wealth, then he should say that both political economy and legislation were synonimous terms.--(Hear, hear.) He, however, took a higher standing ; he said that the distribution and accumulation of wealth was only one element in the science of legis lation, but even if both the science of le gislation and political economy consisted only of the accumulation and distribution of wealth, it was not sufficient to prove the case of the Right lion. Baronet. —',Cheers.) The Noble Lord the Member for the City of London had sneeringly declared that agricul tural protection societies were established solely for the purpose of opposing the Anti-Corn-law League. Now, he denied that these agricultural societies had been recently formed, and so far from their object being the overthrow of the Anti-Corn-law League, he believed they were established for the promotion and improvement of agriculture.—(Hear, hear.) Honour able Members were too much accustomed to throwing out taunts in reference to these protection societies, but on a future occasion he might find it convenient to enter into their history, and he would say now that there was nothing in them he. was ashamed of.—(Hear ' hear.) It was said that labour was the property .of the poor man ; he did not know whether it was right to call things by their wrong names, but the Noble Lord the Member for Lancashire called the agriculturist a manufacturer, and upon the same principle labour was called the property of the poor man, and this definition of one of the Right HOD, Baronet's dogmas went forth to the world. But they ought not to stop there. It would not do for them t o meet six months every year for the protection of their own property, and at the same time to tell the poor man that labour was his property, but his property was not to be protected. The poor man would not understand such a system ; the poor man would say that they met to protect their own property, and the conclusion he would come to was, that the property of the poor man must be left to take care of itself The question of protection wa s a very mil; i rt imate one to emanate from a legislation who sonic S ' 111 . 3 ag o boasted of the extent to is likb they cou ld as ail thei:"- selves of the labcur of children. That legislation now found the labour of the poor a difficult thing to deal with. They had re , ,orted to the moat discreditable methods to protect. prope r ty. T reat i se upon treatise had been written on the subject, and the decision they came to at length was that they should let it alone. He did not speak of the shop keeper, but of the man who had amassed money, and who, the moment he found himself in pos session of it, found it his interest to be a convert .to the system of buying in the cheapest market and selling it, the dearest one. He would take the case of the duties lately spoken of by the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government, because they- would serve as an il lustration,,and because they were fresher in the memo ries of the Members of that House. Supposing that he had been in the cheapest market, he could furnish his house with splendid French paper or silk banging, and could ride abroad in a foreign carriage. He could look out of the window of his smart hbuse, and drive abroad in his foreign car riage; and he would tee neither of labourers standing idle. hie might ask them what they Were, and the reply ' Would be, that they were, perhaps, English paper-stainers, hardware-ttlehufaettirere from Birmingham, and coaeh makers. Ile might then say---" My good fellows, I havd done my best to make yen Idlt, but not from any selfish Motive, for on the 27th of Januaf't 1846, the Government proposed the withdrawal of the pro tective duties, and that prOpesition was received With eheers by all political economist; in order that th elf doctrines might have fair play."—(Heat', hear.) Would any man say that the feeling in the hearts of the People would be one of reverence or attachment to our institutions in such a case they had that proianio, for the feeling would be decidedly against the Goverement. When they took into coneidesetion the number of persons so employed, whose employment Would be taken away by the want of protection,. they must coeskier how much their ancestors had laboured to give them that protection ; they would see that the way to benefit the poor was to protect them against foreign competi tion, and against the madness of themselves. In this House they were all rich men—(Great laughter)—at least he assumed the fact, and such Hon. Members as were not, might laugh at the notion.—(Laughter.) But one thing was quite certain, and that was that they all had had a breakfast that morning, and they all expected to have a dinner that evening—(Laughter)—and they might rest assured that such is the position in which they would be held by their poorer ft-Dow-creatures ; and, therefore, he was right when he asserted that they in this House were rich, while the classes he al luded to outside were poor. Well, now it would go forth to-night to those classes, that in this House the question propounded was not corn against cot ton, but the question of buying in the cheapest market and selling in the dearest, and therefore he would ask them. why they taxed the poor ? He was not now argu ing against the poor-law, but he was contending against this House attempting to propound a harsh and imprac ticable dogma, which would look odious in the eyes of the poor.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") He had never stood up in this House as the champion of exces sive duties, or to contend that no alteration should be made in the corn-laws, but he was contend ing that the Government was enunciatitig a dogma which the poor people could not understand. There was another reason why he objected that this dogma should be promulgated here, and that was that this assembly was no longer the representatives of the poor man, for that had been done away with by the pa:sing of the Reform Bill. Adam Smith had made two exceptions where other considerations might enter besides political economy. But there were so many other exceptions in addition, that it would be extremely unwise and unsound to propound such a rule, and extremely dangerous to act upon it. He thought that one of those cases was agriculture.—(Hear, hear.) He would not then go into the question of the corn-laws, as he had so frequently expressed his opinions on them; but he considered, that if there was a calling which, more than another, had peculiar claims on protection—which contributed to the health, longevity, and morals of the community—that calling was agriculture.—(Loud cheers.) He protested against any change being made under such a complex state of things which existed in this country. He must I say that he had been engaged in studying the state of the question during the last four years in all its bearings, and he could not find anything to materially alter the opinions which he had formed on the subject. One change, however, had come over his mind ; he began by believing it a landlord question, and he was of opinion that the effect of a sudden repeal would be to throw large quantities of land into the market, and consequently the price would be greatly deteriorated.—(Hear, hear.) From all that he had read and seen he could not but consider that this question was a question of the small landed proprietors, not of the large landed proprie tors ; they :are able to weather the storm.—(llear, hear.) It is a question of the small landed proprietors, who, upon the faith of previous legis lation, have burdened their estates to nearly the full value for the sake of effecting improvements on their lands.—(Hear.) lie believed the present was essentially a farmers' question, and it was upon this ground that he took his stand; and because he thus considered it a far mers' question he refused to consent to any changes which would bring in their train nothing but distress and misery. —(Hear, hear.) Now suppose the case of a tenant farmer, and he would give an illustration, because he considered that would have more weight than mere abstract arguments. Suppose, then, in this case, the prices to be rather low, arising from a large importation of grain or some other cause. The tenant farmer comes to the landlord, he says to him, " I hope you will allow some abatement in the rent. I have expended large sums in draining and fencing, my family have held under you for several generations, we have weathered together many hard, difficult, and stormy seasons. I have worn your colours, and I should be sorry , to leave the spot where I and my family have lived so long to seek a home elsewhere."—(Hear, hear.) The landlord says to him, " My good fellow I am sorry for you, you have invested your money in drains and fences, you invested that money on the faith of my as surances, and I have made those assurances, and invested my capital on the faith of the legislature.—(Hear,lear.) We are now told that we are to buy in the cheapest, and sell:in the dearest markets.—(Hear, hear.) There is a gentleman, a manufacturer in this district, ready to . invest his capital in your farm. I must now look to my oven family arrangements ; I am sorry I can do 'nothing for you.—(Hear, hear.) You look back at the feudal times, those times we are now told are old and exploded notions—(Hear, hear)—and as for colours, God bless you, my good fellow, there is no ' such thing as true blue now. —(Prolonged cheering.) The tenant farmer then goes away from his land, the manufacturer with his immense capital comes in, and by the application of. that capital, the land, which before yielded but three-quarters then, yields six quarters, and the great increase of the produce will then be used as a set oil to the injurious effects of a large importation of foreign corn.—(Hear, hear.) A few months ago a farmer mentioned a circumstance to him, the relation of which would help to explain this question better than anything he could say. A farmer went to his landlord and stated that he had just had a large fortune left him ; his landlord advised him to leave the mild, clayey ground which he then held, and invest his capital in some good ground, and make his fortune. He said " the graves of four generations—of my father, grandfather, great grandfather, and great great grand father are in this neighbourhood ; and I have worked that farm, and I will stick to it."—(Hear, hear.) There were hundreds of thousands of men like that man, who had not fortunes in their pockets, but who had the same hearts in their bosoms—whom now they were driv ing forth by their legislation with broken hearts, and whose bitterest recollection—whose bitterest association, would be with the name of Cobden.—(Hear, hear.) We, continued the Honourable Gentleman, will not aid you, Sir, in your triumph over these poor men. We do not envy a triumph in which we do not parti cipate,-and though we are small in number, and may be uninfluential in debate, we will raise our voices against the injustice that is proposed. You are now preparing a triumph against a body of men who are petitioning that table in vain ; and who see ruin staring them in the face ; who have been moderate in prosperity and patient in aversity ; whose virtue and whose mis fortune is, that they are poor, and, as I said before, whose fatal fault was, having trusted, you.—(Cheers.) You are prepared to triumph over them, for I will give it no more milder term—you are prepared to triumph over them by a strange coalitioa with men who, true to their principles—(Loud cheers)—can neither welcome you as friends, nor respect you as opponents—(Voci ferous cheering)—of whom, I may say, in conclusion, that the best and most patriotic amongst them will least rejoice in the _ruin and the downfal of a great constitu tional party, and will most deplore the loss of public con fidence in public men.—(The Hon. Gentleman sat down amidst the most boisterous cheering from his own party.) Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD rose to address the House, but was some time inaudible on account of Mem ' hers leaving. Ile said that the whole argument of the Ilonourable Gentleman who had just sat down was that the Right Honourable Baronet at the head of the Government was a traitor. The Honourable Gentleman professed great regard for the wor k in g classes, for whom he professed protection was require I. He (Mr. Sharman Crawford) eould not understand the Hon. Member asking the House to continue protection while they refused cheap food to the working classes. Cheap food was the foundation of national prosperity and pro tectionwas inj urious,because it enhanced the price of the necessaries of life. He thought the arguments heretofore used in the debate tended to confuse the question, the main points of which were exceedingly simple. The agricultural body demanded that the nation should pur chase its food at their market price, but would they consent to proffer to the working classes wages equivalent to the prices they sought to obtain? They had never yet done so. Were they prepared to do so now? Yet this seemed an es sential element in the case. Could they engage that all the working classes should have their wages made com mensurate to the price they wished to keep agricultural Produce at? By the old poor-law wag es were raised in proportion to the pri ce o f f ood, but the new poor-law had done away with that. It was not so now. In the election of 1841, two points w One as raised, w in order to return a maj or it y t o that Hou:er.etheper petuation of protection to the agricultural interest, and the other the restoration of the old poor-law; the latter especially was much dwelt on as an electioneering cry against the Whigs - who were charged with the odium of that measure. Had the pledge then given been fulfilled? No; they bad kept up prices by the corn-laws, and yet had done nothing to mitigate the evils of the new poor-law He was more particularly anxious to address the House on that occasion, on account of the question of Ireland having been raised. It was raised by the Hon. Member who spoke last, and many other lion. Members who preceded him. He must acknowledge s that he disagreed with the great majority of Irish landlords on this question, and so far troru his thinking that agricultural protection was a benefit to Ireland, it had, in his opinion, proved a curse to that country. — (Hear, hear.) It was used as an argument in favour of thecontintlance of the corn-laws in England, that England had been in a prosperous state ever since their exist ence ; but this argument could out, at all events, be applied to Irelind, for ever since the corn-lasys had- been extended to that unfortunate country nothing 'but misery had prevailed there.—(Hear, hear.) 'He thought that this measure was a matter of deep con cern to the whole of the Irish community. 'He had :lad great hopes of the results whieh might arise froum, the Commission tinder the Earl of Devon. _oil:t he was disappointed, for he found • that th l i n t te C rests mission had a reference only ' of the landlords, 'and had no r eference w ha tever th e e to the d It was evident condition of the tenantry l i r . e r,l that the condition from the report. of test Commission in n the extreme. Now, b of the tenantry was wrete— an. in l ay i n to the relatioa. 9between Andlord an tenant, he found that there was a decided advat tae o the side of the proprietor of the soil—a remarkable;dvan tage, for he gave asingular evidence of the relation bete, ten landlord and tenant, and of the advantag es which Wee - e likely to arise to b ot h i n consequence of their several positions. By that return it appeared that the whole of the benefit derived from the soil of Ireland was not more than 14s, 2d. per acre, and that the gross revenue of the country from that. source was not more than 6,000,000/ per annum, whereas it was known that although the soil of Eng land was not more than that of Ireland, that at least 40,000,000/. per annum were reali-ed. There was a part of Ireland in which the protection of agriculture Was not considered to be of any benefit to those cone cerned in agriculture—he meant Ennisfail. Agriculture and manufactures were then in a perfect union, and the people were prosperous and happy—every class of society was in the enjoyment of the comforts of life. For his Own part, he dreaded not the repeal of the corn-laws ; he dreaded not the lowering of the price of food. H e did not believe that the repeal of the corn-laws would damage the interests of the agriculturists. In fact, he was perfectly convinced that the lowering of the price of food would increase the profits of the agricul turist, and that that increase would be followed by in creased employment; and the geeeral prosperity of the people of this kingdom would • follo w in such a manner as could not be created ky the main. tenanee of protection to agriculture. Ile Wished to see Ireland cease to be a land in which vier:lture was protected; and he wished to see Ireland dependrel,g on her agricultural produce as well as her manufactures. It was said that the corn-laws opened a market for her agricultural produce in England and other countries ; but of what benefit were such markets to the agricul turists of Ireland ?—(Hear, hear.) He admitted that vast quantities of food were sent from Ireland to Eng land, the purchase of which cost the English millions of money. But did Ireland benefit by such sales ? The exports of the provisions from Ireland instead of hiving conduced to her wealth, had led to her wretchedness and misery. Those exports were not the exports of her superfluities; they were the exports of her means of existence ; they were the exports of those things which the people should have to support ex istence and a comfortable life ; theywere taken from her comforts, and they did not therefore benefit the people of Ireland. The poor in that country were at the pre sent moment 'suffering under privations which no man could at all conceive, and that fact, he submitted, was a proof of the justice- and correctness of his position. It was found that the number of acree in Englani were not sufficient for the relief of her inhabe tattle, and yet from Ireland, the acres of which were'pro portionately far less, they annually exported most im mense quantities of provisions. They were therefore exporting the life and blood and substance of the people of Ireland. The injury done or the people of Ireland by this means was incalculable. Such a system produced the most barbarous murder's and assassinations in various parts of Ireland. They fell into those horrid crimes because they were without employment, and deprived of the means of existence. Such were some of the effects of agricultural protection. When they go to Ireland, what do they find? They find the people, except where those murders of an agrarian nature took place, obedient to the laws. They find the landlords living among their tenantry in peace and in security; and if the landlord., of Ireland gave up the system of agricultural protection, and turned their thoughts and energies on the development of the country, those crimes which he alluded to would be heard of no more. Nothing would promote the happiness and com fort of the people so much as cheap corn, a,nd, therefore, he was most anxious to see the tax on that necessary' article of human food totally abolisteed. There was an other great fault committed by the rultsee of Ireland, in not doing somethiug to enable the People to get a better description of food. - 1.1 ey are now compelled to subsist on the potato, which is the one of the lowest articles amongst all descriptions of vegetable diet. But if they once made corn cheap by removing all restrictions on that article, the people would be enabled to procure it, and .thus secure for themselves a proper description of food, for they could then command the corn market. The potato was an article of food liable, from various causes, to periodical injury, and he was therefore anx ious that a substitute should be provided for it by the abolition of the corn-laws. If the landlords of Ire land, by a repeal of the corn-laws, were forced to adopt other means for increasing their incomes than that which land afforded, it would be better both for themselves and for their tenantry.—(Hear.) They could also, by culti vating and, improving their land, increase to a consider able extent their present incomes. —(Hear.) In the greater part of Ireland land at present is not more than half cultivated, and lie was certain, if the tenants were induced to improve the farms, the produce , might be double that which it at present _is. He (Mr. Sharman Crawford) would not refer to par ticular cases, but would address himself to the general condition of the people of Ireland. There was no period or season of the year at which a great por tion of the poorer class of the people were so reduced as not to be able to procure food; He did not mean to say that they were actually starved to death ; but there the insufficiency of fo id, and the bad ness of its quality was such, as to produce the most alarming consequences. Knowing such to be the case amongst a large body of the poorer • classes, he could not reconcile it to his conscience, indeed he would hold himself accountable for the results, if he did not protest against any mode of raising the price of food.—(Hear, bear.) He considered it the bounden duty of every landed proprietor to use his best exertions to procure cheap food for the peo ple, and to counteract the many grievous calamities that were consequent on a scarcity of food—the least amongst which was not typhus fever. With reg ard to the scarcity of food, he should say, that that very day he had received a communication from districts with which he was connected, infi,rming Liao that the potatoes—the staple food of the poor—were en tirely destroyed, and that the people were obliged to have recourse to oatmeal. Therefore, se.. itig all that, he could not be indifferent to the great l , enetit that was certain to be derived from the measure then introduced by the Government ; and he should, therefore, feel it his duty to give his most cordial support to the Guvernment. proposition.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. BAILLIE (whose opening observations were wholly inaudible in the gallery) was underetoed to say, that the Noble Lord the Mernber,for the City of Loudon, in his address to the House last night, seemed to assume and to take it for granted that free trade must prove most beneficial under any circumstances, If that was the opinion of the Noble Lord, how would be reconcile it with the fact that foreign nations knew well enough the value of protection to their national pro ductions? Foreign nations were well aware of the great advantages which England possessed for manufactures. This country had large manufactures and every facility for production. We had rivers, and ships, and - every means of carrying out our trade at a cheap rate ; and we also could produce articles of manufactures of a very fine quality which would . compete with them. It was for that reason that foreign countries had erected barriers in the shape of protection for their manu factures ; and if that was the case, how was it was pos sible for this country to have all those advantages from free trade that they were led to exrect? France had manufactures of her own, and if the manufactures of this country were introduced into that country, we should be competing with them to the injury of their own trade. In India we had introduced our manufactures of cotton goods, and that did away with their own beau tiful fabrics , to the great injury of the people of that country.—(Hear, hear.) Ever since the dominion of England in India, there was more injury done by the introduction of our manufactures there than bye which all the s blood which had been shed or all t he itmhassaer their staple had taken place. By doing awayw o f employment production, we had thrown out thousands of the people, who suffered by starvation. This was the result of our f re e trade-doctrine there, And having failed therefore, in all our endeavours to induce foreig n r ations to adopt free trade, s h a ll we try the experiment upon our own people ? They had only to refer to the occurrences of the last ne w years in order to be convinced of the intimate connexion which existed between their agricultural and co.nmercial prosperity. They need not look farther back than 1848. It was in the recollec tion of every one what was the state of the country in that year. Their trade and cote inerce was stag nant ; their manufacturers in the deepest consternation ; thousands of their operatives thrown out of employment ; the revenue fallen below the expentl.ture and threatening the utmost commercial difficulties. Such was the state of the country—to what was that state 'to be attributed? It had succeeded several years of unexampled manufacturing prosperity. He alluded to the period commencing in 1838. Let them look however at the present state of things in the country. All their;operatives were in full employment, they were working on good and sufficient wages ; they were happier and better: off than at any former period in their history. To.what was this to be attributed? lie did not wish to take away, and he was fully pre part d to do justice to the talent of the Right Hon. Baro net, but he was not prepared to give him the sole credit of restoring the country. That altered state was to be attributed to the three abundant harvests, commenc ing from the year 1841.—(Hear, hear.) How clearly then, did not these facts demonstrate to us how careful we should be to preserve the causes that produce this prosperity and success ?—(clear.) It was.not, however, his intention on that occasion to enter into a discussion as to whether there. were Pecuniary or 4gniry, burdens 'on the agriculturalpbrtion of the community , tiecause he thought he • should be that able to show the agriculturists laboured , under a greater disadvantage on account of the_ competition with the foreigner than from the peculiar and bea'f, burdens on land. This disadvantage had not been duly appreciated or considered in the course of tbeee sionsi; but there was another disadvantage ( I, ,, l;_p id : ( 7 t of the advocates of free trade prinell'l's _ uh 7 ch rid of. He . meant the dis"lntag"laboured the inhabitants of 'this .ctouno.ry;_ier climate under on account of the inferiority of i l w : dlie4la to that of other eele , " 4 ":', , , j ij ou t they finer description of grain. t , e s of r,ar tn . 1 . ei had any reason. to believe slriifol isti itigeet than this country were . 17:" lie had heard it stated that tho 4 of other eetintrreie to the arts of sgri;;Lti. foreign cou ntries ture, and he believed we there Wiwe intrur pint, of Germany not inferior t o our own. In Poland the Wages of those eng aged in agricultural eat. if.ts were as much as the wages paid to those engaged in Athilar pursuits in England. The soil was equally fertile, and the corn realised 10 to 20 per cent. more in the markets of England than our own. He knew that.samples of wheat might be produced in 'Essex and in some of the southern counties of England equal to the wheat grown in Poland, but he spoke of what constituted the whole produce of this country, which was ofii,sery inferior quality, a,nd varied with the segaane.. - inferiority arose , f rom the . : vat ' . ,heat 74' the COlatriel t 9 , 114 alludedi_W-thilAtetura ~ • ~-'s~, Fyn WAVENEY VALLEY AND GREAT YA.R- MOUTH RAILWAY. The inquiry on this petition was resumed and the standing orders reported not to have been complied with, inasmuch as the alteration of a publiz, road was not specificially stated, the company having reserved to themselves the alternative of going under or over the said road. But the Chairman in timated that the objection was a proper subject for the con sideration of the Standing Orders Committee. EDINBURGH AND NORTHILEN RAIL- WAY BRANCHES. These were the petitions of the Edinburgh and Northern Railway Company, who obtuined the Act last sessiox fur leave to introduce Bills to make the following branches and extensions. _ _ _ No. 1. A branch from the Cupar Junction to the Low- Water Pier, at Newport, a distance of fifteen miles and three furlongs. ; capitall 210,050/. ; deposit 25,005/. ; No. of shares, 16,670. No. 2. A b.anch from tha latter to St. Andrews, a distance of four miles and six furlongs ;, capital 40,000/. ; the deposits and shares in the former case apply to this branch. No. 3, a branch from Ladybank to Kinross, a distance of fourteen miles, one furlongs, and seven chains, with an alter native line of fourteen miles. A branch from Junction, with line from Ladybank to Kinross, at Woodmill, a distance of three miles and four furlongs, and a branch from Denmills to Newburgh Harbour. Capital 211,500/. ; deposits 21,150/. ; no shares 14,000/ No. 3. A branch from Markinch to Leslie, a distince of three miles, four furlongs, and five chains. A branch from main line, near Kirkaldy to Lochgelly Minical field, a dis• tance of six miles, seven furlongs, and eight chains. Capital 112,050/. ; deposits, 11,205/. ; shares, 7,470. No. 4. A branch from main line near Newburgh, by Bridge of Gavon, to the Scottish Central Railway, near Hilton, a distance of nine miles. Capital, 112,2001.; deposits, 112,200/.; shares, 7,480. No 5. A branch from main line, near Thorkton to Dun fermline, a distance of 14 miles and 7 furlongs. Capital, 18947501.; deposits, 189,750/. ; shares, 12,650. No. 6. A branch from the Tay to the station of the Dun dee and Arbroath Railway at Broughty Ferry, and a branch from the Tay to junction with the Dundee and Arbroath Railway at Lord Panmure's property. Capital, 985,650/. ; deposits, 985,6504. ; shares, 65,710. No. 6. A branch from the main line west of Kinghom to Pettycur Harbour; a branch from Kinghorn to Pettycur Pier; a deviation between St. Claintown and Orr Mill, of two miles in length ; alteration of line contiguous to South Inch of Perth, and a branch to the harbour of Perth. Capital, 70,050 1 .; deposits, 7,005/. ; shares, 4,670. No. 7. A Railway from the Dundee and Perth Railway to Kinross, a distance of 17 miles. Capital, 1,055,7001.; de posit, 105,570/. ; shares, 70,380. In each case the necessary proofs of the deposit of plans were put in, and the Committee declared that the standing orders had been duly complied with. SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. This was the petition of the South Eastern Railway Com pany, for leave to bring in a Bill to authorise the construc tion of branches between Tonbridge \I ells and Rye and Hastings, and between Reigate and Dorking, the considera tion of which had not been concluded when the Committee rose. The Committee adjourned at Five o'clock until to-morrow. Sub-Committee No. 4. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) EXETER. AND EXMOUTH RAILWAY BILL. The length of the proposed line is Hi miles, and the cost is estimated at 1 60,000/. The engineers are Mr. Lockart and Mr. Whitaker, the agents Messrs. Elliscombe and Co. The Committee reserved a point of form for further con sideration. NORTH AND SOwrit zurrvrxorz RAILWAY This was a Bill to form a a iL lin L e . from Ilalifax to Keigbly, and to connect Sheffield and Huddersfield with the Keighly and Skipton Extension line. The estimated cost of the line was 400,0001., and the length of the Rae thirteen miles. Mr. Hawkshaw is the engineer to the line, and Messrs. Dorring ton and Eliscombe the Parliamentary agents. As certain witnesses were not in attendance, the Committee ordered the Bill to stand over until they should appear. - - PSA22 CHESTER, BUXTON, IMI.TLOCX, AND MIDLAND JUNCTION. This was a line to connect Manchester and Buxton with London, having a Junction with the Midland Countirs. Estimated cost 1,650,000/. Length of lina 47 miles. Engi neer, Mr. John Lowe. Parliamentary Agents: Dorrington and Elliscombe- The Committee decided that the standing ordnrs had been complied with, in this Bill and also in the preceding, (North and South Junction), the witnesses being now in attendance LONDON, .HOUNSLOW, AND WESTERN (RAILWAY BILL. This line is to have a terminus at Waterloo-bridge, and to pass through Battersea, Fulham, Hammersmith, .Brentford, and Hounslow, terminating at Staines. The estimatedd cost is 710,0001., and the length of the line 16 miles. Engineer, Captain Moorsom ; Parliamentary agents, Parkes and Co. Standing orders complied with. GREAT 'WESTERN AND lIXERRIDGE RAIL, WAY BILL. This was a Bill for the making of a branch from the sta tion of the Great Western Railway, at West Drayton, to Uxbridge, and was promoted by the Great Western Com pany. The length is between two and three miles, and the cost is estimated at 50,0001. Mr. Brunel is the engineer, and Messrs. Parkes and Co., the Parliamentary agents. The Committee decided that, as it. was not proved that the line had been advertised in any newspaper published in Middlesex, the standing orders had not been complied with. NORA' OMR RAILWAY EXTENSION (DE/M -ILANI, WELLS, AND IBLAILENEY BRANCH). The length of this line is 30 miles; the cost is estimated at 300,0001. Engineers, Messrs. Stephenson ; Parliamentary agents, Messrs. Burke, Venables, and Co. The Committee decided that the standing orders had been complied with. 'flip Committee then adjourned. LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.--(THIS DAY.) LotiDaN, FEB. 11.—Wind W., light breeze and fine, with frost. -- ualisna•u, FEB. 10.—Wind E. to N.E., strong.—Sld. Noard Hal lam, lieryl, Surinam. DEAL, FEB. 10.—wind E.N.E., strong and squally.—Arrd, British American, St. John's, New Brunswick. Arrived from the River and sailed, Emperor, Jones, Bombay ; Bosphorus, Tregarthen, St. He lena; Clio, Mules, Demerara; Warrior, Taylor, Jamaica; Cahaiobs, Sherman. New Orleans. roaTiimouill. 1%5. 10.—Wind N.E.—Ski. Emma Eugenia, Beach, Hobart Town ; Bangalore, Acton, China ; Mary Ann, Darke, Ma- AND HALSTEAD RAILWAY. Mr. Parkes appeared for the promoters. The formal proofs for the plans and sections and books of reference were put in. Mr. WEBSTER appeared on a petition against the Bill. Mr. PARKES objected to the petition being received. The names attached to the petition were not signed by the par ties themselves, and it was therefore contrary to the standing orders to present such a petition. . Mr. WEBSTER said he would prove that the promoters were authorised by the petitioners to sign for them. The pe titioners were obliged to leave town before the petition was quite ready for signing. The CHAIRMAN wished to know if the authority was by letter or merely verbal? This certainly was a petition sent from the House. Mr. WEBSTER—Some of the parties had authorised ver bally, and some by letters. Mr. PARKE.S would object to the petition on the ground that it was not prepared at the time the parties had authorised it to be signed. Mr. WEBSTER said that in law a bill of exchange signed by the verbal authority of a party, was held to be a good • bill, and to be recovered upon- Mr. PArates—ln that case the party should be cognizant of the contents of the bill, but here it was admitted that the petition was not ready when the parties authorised their names to be signed. How could it be maintained that they knew anything of the contents of the petition ? It was tin possible for them to know whether there was or was not matter in the petition which they, if cognizant of, would not allow their names to be used. The room was then ordered to be cleared, and the Chair man went to consult the Speaker. After some time spent in considering the question, the par ties were called in. The Car craziaN said that he had been to consult the Speaker upon the question raised by Mr. Parkes as to the validity of the signatures to the petition. The petition having come to the Committee through the House of Com mons, it was not to be rejected without the opinion of the Speaker. He had, however, left the House, and therefore the decision of the Committee would be postponed till that opinion was had. The further consideration of the Fs . 1.11 was accordingly ad- WNXTECX/APZZ. We had only a moderate supply of each kind of meat on sale, while the general demand was firm at very full prices. Beef from 2s 8d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, Es 6d to 4s 10d ; Veal, 4s 8d to 5s 8d ; and Pork, Es 10d to 5s 2d per Bibs. 1)3 the carcase. CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY) The Lord Chancellor sat t o -day in the Old Hall, Lincoln's Inn, it il behr , the first seal after Hi lar y Term. His Lordship took appea motions,the wholebut no nciTh as; i of ally - public interest came before the Court duringn• g. VICE-CHANC ERY•— ( THI S DAY.) (Before the Vics-CIIANFELLOB. Of ENGLAND. moTthioisnsw.-as the first seal after Hilary Terra, arid the C our t took a book, called the Europe an Library, ifc of Lorenzo de Medi c i, written b y BORN V. DOHN -LORENZO DE M EDIEL An application in this sas s for an injunction to restrai n the defen t the whole day, containing a. t E f t r no o isn m cgo e p e, u x b o et r l cc s u h tp i e g f rdo o tm r h s ee thecl l o i nutr a "certificate" or " direction " •1 BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY ' Mr. p a rry, who was lately charged at this Court with forging receipt I l r . of Smythe, uny office tcheecolciescouonfttanyto-(dirmnerael,nattdviaz"Bank of England receipt fur a sum of money, represented to have been paid into the Chancery the former:c o a f sion e office, at the Bank, in pursuance of such direction, appeared to-day for examination. the case of the Rev. M. E• a clerk in the Chancerpollice at the Bank of England, was about to give evidence as to the contents of the cash-book of that office, when it was objected to by Mr. Parry (on the part of the prisoner), that this It will be remembered that on cash-book ought to be produced in Court, and the case was adjounied in order that it might be produced. Mr. Smythe now produced the Franks. An examined copy of a ledger In the Accountant-tlenerai's office, was also produced, and contained no entry o f b su o c o h k, s a n i m id assho2vi:resl,96lllla7tst.hteorethr acwin,iitntnoofeitt the receipt of any such sum. The prisoner was remanded till to-morrow. MARLBRO-STREET.(THIS DAY.) John Riot', a young man, was tined 205., or fourteen days' imp, i sonment, for extinguishing one of the street gas. lamps i n a hit . ] ~, as it is termed. Caroline Stecens, a young woman of respectable appearance, was charged with causing a disturbance at the Haymarket Theatre, and assaulting the police constable (No. 77 of the A. division) on duty there. It appeared that about 9 o'clock last evening the defendant, accompanied by a child of about three years of age, presented herself at the pit entrance and produced two cheques of the evening. As it is contrary to the regulations of the theatre to giv e cheques to temalt , s, it was at once known that she . had not .previously b een in the theatre, and she was consequently refused admission, on which be became extremely violent, and attempted to force his way past the cheque taker. She was prevented fro m doing so, and g i ven Into the charge of the constable, whom she violently assaulted. The defendant said the cheques Were given to her by two genic men, friends of h2TS, and she thought she had, h by virtue of them, a right to enter the theatre. Mr..Mai.TaY said he should tile her seven shillings, or Seven days imprsonment, for assaulting the constable, The fine was imnaliatelypal4, ,=.l ' t