The Sun. — London, England, 1837-02-15 00:00:00

......., A Liberal Members who negket attendance in the House of Commons upon important divisicns, I must say one word in excuse for absence on the Stafford discussion. By order of the House,- a copy of votes and proceedings, with notices of motion, &c., for the ensuing evening, is laid tipo i the table of every Member daily, to inform and remind him. In Monday's list the notices of motion stood thus . No. I. Mr. W. Williams's Return of Exchequer Bills, &c. 2. Lord J. Russell's Irish Poor Laws. • 3. Mr. Maclean's Petition of Mr. Mulholland. 4. Captain Chetwynd's Stafford Writ. 5. Mr. Divett's Suspension of ditto. Now, I Will state my own case, and perhaps it may be iden tical with that of others. • I fixed to go to the House by nine o'clock, by which time I was cei lain this question could not be disposed of, and when I should be in time to vote in favour of Mr. Divett's amendment. • On reaching the House at a quarter before nine, I found that •' No. 3,4, 5 of the notice paper had been taken out of turn, be fore No. 2,. and had been concluded before 7o'clock. Now, let me ask, what is the use of a notice paper, if its effect is only to mislead?' What the use of arrangement in turns, if such are to be departed from by other understandings between parties ? We, Liberal Members, have sufficient to contend with, and must claim fair play in our behalf from the public censors, especially from those of our own party. • I trusted to an official list, and this confidence prevented my taking part in a division—here was no inattention or indifference, but simply a misleading by the irregularity of others. With sincere respect for your laudable and honest efforts in the slowly progressing cruse of liberty arid good govern ment,--I am, &C. In the House of Commons, last night, Mr. O'CoNNELI. asked, and obtained leave, to bring in a hill for the amend ment of what Lord BitouoitAm well denominated "our atrocious system of Libel Law." No Member of the House of Commons is better able to deal with the abuses of this law than the Hon. and Learned Member for Kil- Icnny, but so repeatedly has he brought the subject of them before Parliament, only to suffer the question to slip through his fingers, that we begin to fear that the country will not have to thank him for the accomplishment of so very im• portant a measure of Law Reform. We have a just right — to complain of the conduct of Mr. O'CONNELL with re spect to the amendment of the Law:of Libel. In justice to the country he ought either to have carried the Bills which he introduced in former Sessions—which we are per suaded he might have done had he pressed them upon the House—or lie ought to give up the question altogether, in order to afford other Liberal Members an op portunity of carrying it. We are confident that but for the Honourable and Learned Gentleman's motions and Bills respecting the amendment of the Law of Libel, the Honourable Member for Middlesex would have secured the passing of a good Bill in the Session of Parliament preceding the last. However, we shall wait patiently till we see what steps Mr. O'CONNELL will take to accelerate the passing of the Bill which he is now about to bring for ward. In the success of the future we will willingly omit all further unpleasant reference to the disappointments of the past. The country will be grateful to Mr. O'CONNELL if he succeed in reforming the Libel Law, even now ; but if he again permit the measure to be lost, we candidly tell him that he will be regarded as an obstructor of the very measure of which he charged himself with the leading ad vocacy. On Dr. 13owntNG moving for the returns of the amounts not paid into the Exchequer, but deducted for costs of col lection, and all other purposes, from the gross amounts received by the Customs and other departments of revenue, which were azreed to after some remarks by Mr. BARING, Mr. WALLACE observed that the public accounts and the application of surplus revenue would never be in a satis factory state, or intelligible to the public, until the finan • cial year should be closed, on the sth of January, instead of the . sth of April ; and he gave notice that he would bring this subject before the House, soon after the production of the Budget by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER in April, unless some strong grounds were shown for adhering to the present system. The Paris papers of Monday contain no news of any moment but the following telegraphic dispatch from the Mouiteu:•, and the accompanying extracts : " Don Carlos went to Hernani on the 9th with four batta lions, and returned to Tolosa in the evening. The Carlists have ten battalions on that frontier. The English and Spanish have twenty-one battalions at St. Sebastian, with five steam boats, and a numerous force of artillery. It is not expected that any attack will take place before the 12th." PARIS, FEB. 13.--We have the following letter from Oran of the Ist of February :-" The general subject of conversa tion here is the treaty of peace, which I lately mentioned to you, and which at present seems to be no more than a project. However, it may-now be stated that the reports which have been circulated on the subject, were not destitute of founda tion. According to these reports, the celebrated Jew, Ben Durand, is commissioned by Abdel Rader to represent him at Paris, where the treaty of peace will doubtless be concluded. Welll This same Jew, who usually resides at Algiers, has just arrived by the Ramier steam-boat, which anchored in the road on the 31st January."-Constitutionnel, Feb. 13. The Phare, of Bayonne, confirms the news of the arrival of the troops commanded by General Ribiero at St. Sebastian and Passage. Part of these troops were to take possession, on the 7th, of two villages near Renteria and Lopez, which are occupied by the Carlists. The terror of the inhabitants was great on learning the arrival of these troops, and their in tention of advancing to put an end to the insurrection by a decisive blow.-Journal de Paris, Feb. 14 BAYONNE, FEB. 8.-The troops of Ribiero and Narraez, under the command of the former, which arrived at St. Sebas tian yesterday, arc 6,000 men ; 2,000 more were expected in the evening ; that makes up the 8,000, which were announced. The revolutionary troops were to attack Rentaria and Leso this morning, in order to try to lodge some troops there, St. Sebastian and Passage being crowded. The attack seems to be definitively fixed for the 10th. The Carlists are ready to receive the attack, which will be made by 13,000 combatants. Besides 8,000 volunteers used to war, that General Guiba lalde has at his disposal, he has received a reinforcement of three more battalions ; all the peasants are placed at different points to take the arms of the killed and wounded, and to 'fill up their places in the ranks. All the points are provided with ammunition. An English officer of engineers arrived at Behobie yesterday; he went along our frontier as far as to Hindaye, to examine the positions of the Royalists at hurt and Fortarabia.-Gazette de France, Feb. 14. , Five pe Vi c r a. C . H l g/ Tr .je l:A o it o t e i . , FEB. 13. Four per Cent., 101 l Three per Cents., 791. 4Cc. 35c 45c. 40c. 541 .1 , 10 , Bank Actions. 2,49n1. 2,395 f. 2,39011 de Naples, (ISf. 45c. 4.4 °H . L ent ma e n Five per Cents.,l) 102!;, 7. l u z u „ Activess , otlc ,ttut S i p l anish Passives. 7k 1 ,.6% Belgianss loan, Five 1,e50. C e nts, 1 0 3 25e. 1,552 f. 50c. u h i : Portuguese Loan, Three p, Cents, 31 1 A• ilaytian Loan, 355 f. 2001. 365 f. )91 KXCDANCP. ON LONDON. , One month, paper, 25c. 30c. ; money, 251. 4 27!“ Three months, paper, 25f. 10c. ; money, 251. ioc _ -Cours Authenligue. LAST PRICES Five per Cents., 109 E 35c. '!l , 4fti t .. • Three per Cents. ;91. 60c. Bank Actions, 2,3901: Bente de Naples, 98E 55c. Roman Five per Cents., M.N. Belgian Loan, 103. Portuguese Three per Cents., 31%. Haytian Loan, 34;5f. • Spanish Actives, 27. Spanish Passives. 7%. Spanish Difleres, 8%. New Differes, 11'. Belgian Society, 1,552 f. 50c. The Irish Attorney-General, Mr. Woulfe, was re elected for Cashel, on Friday last, without any opposition. The Courrier du Gand of the 7th inst. has the following The arrest of a young medical student of Paris, who belongs to a respectable family of this department, has given rise to much conversation at Nimes. This young man is said to have uttered the following seditious language in 41 , public place at Connaux, in the Arrondissement of Uzes : % Alibaud was a man of firm character; but Meunier was a stupid fellow, upon whom we had no reliance. The Associa tion is composed of nineteen members, of whom I am one. We have no hopes from No. 3, who is no better than Meunier ; but No. 4 is quite a different being, and the King will be fortunate indeed if he escapes him I' The question is whether this treasonable language was uttered in sober se- Ifiousness, or whether it was merely the bravado of a repre hensible vanity. Be this as it may, the strict investigation which will be given to this affair, should it tend to the dis covery of a new accomplice of Meunier, may very probably lead to important revelations !" The .Tournal des. Debats, after enumerating all the embellishments and wcrks of public utility made in Paris in_ the c ourse o f t h e year 1836, publishes the follow i ng return of the su ms squan d ered in feasts under the Empire an d Resto ration, to sh ow h ow t h e money of the peop l e i s more profita bly employed now than in those times : The coronation of the Emperor c05t...1,745,646 francs. The marriage of Marie Louise ....2.670,932 The birth of the King of Rome The christening of the Duke of Bordeaux 668,000 The feast of the Trocadero BOO,OOO The coronation of Charles X 1,164,097 Total 7,648,6 75 THE WEATIIER IN 1836.—From the register kept at the Horticultural Gardens at Chiswick, it appears that the quantity of rain was 28:f inches, or about four inches !tore than the average of the ten preceding years. The barometer was th e hi g h est, or 30,733 inches, on J anuary 2, and 28.655 inches, the lowest, on March 28. The greatest _te4at was on J u l y 5, when the thermometer in the shade was 5 deg., and the lowest on January 1, when it stood at 13 1 , The averag e mean of the barometer was 0.072, and of thermometer lf deg. less than the preceding year:, CHAINCEItY COURT.-('THIS DAY.) SOUTIIBY V.• HUTT. The LORD CITANCELLOR gave judgment to-day in this case, which was an appeal from the decision of the Master of the Rolls. The bill was filed by the plaintiff for the specific per. foe manse of a contract for the purchase of certain premises which the defendant declined to complete, on the ground that all th e rartiinlar3 of sale had not been complied with, espe cially with respect to the production and verification of certain deeds. On the case coming on before the Master of the Rolls, his Lordship declared the defendant was bound to accept the conveyance, and against that judgment the present appeal was brought. Ills Lordship, after going through the case at some length, varied the Master of the Rolls' judgment by declaring that the purchaser had accepted the title, and directing an en quiry whether the vendor could verify the title set forth by . the purchaser in the abstract. VIVIAN V. IIIiMPEIRIES The further arguments in this case, which is a motion for a new trial, were resumed, and appear likely to occupy the whole day. ROLLS' COURT.-(TITIS DAY.) BEHREN PAULE-JUDGMENT. In this case Lord LANGDALE was of opinion that the judg ment which had been obtained in the Lord Mayor's Court was a valid judgment, and therefore the plea which had been put in to the bill must he allowed. VAN V. CORPH. This case came before the Court upon exceptions to tl:e Master's Report. The case was part heard yesterday, and is likely to occupy the whole of to-day. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have received Cape of Good Hope Papers to the 15th December; and Buenos Ayres to the 27th November. We extract the following from the Cape Papers : " We are happy to observe, that an open sub-Committee of the Legislative Council will meet on the second Wednesday after the recess, to inquire into the taxes and expenditure of the Colony ; and to report on such alterations as they may deem advisable, up to the date of the last Commission of In quiry. The finances of the Colony appeared on paper to have been in a very flourishing state. The accounts exhibited a surplus every year from 1806 ; but on a minute investigation, several errors were detected, and the Commissioners found that in four years, from 1821 to 1824 inclusive, the average annual revenue had not been equal to the ordinary expenses of the colony." • _ _ _ . _ _ We have accounts from Swan River of the Ist June. The Perth Gazette of 18th June states—" That 40,000 acres have already been applied for to the northward of Northam ; that, during the expedition, further information was obtained by Mr. More of the great lake or inland sea—a question which had long been pressing on his mind, and we trust he will have an opportunity of solving it, in the course of a few months." (From the Buenos Ayres Papers.) " A mail from Chili arrived in town on Saturday last, bring ing- papers of the 15th October. They do not confirm the intelligence before communicated, of the departure of a Chi lian squadron, to blockade the ports of Peru, although it is certain that the President of Chili had refused to ratify the convention concluded on board his Majesty's ship Talbot, at Callao, for reasons which have not yet transpired. That con vention was, in a great measure, brought about by Gen. Miller, now a Grand Marshal. What appears to have given rise to the rumour of a blockading squadron having left Chili for the coast of Peru, is the fact of the newly appointed Minister- Plenipotentiary to Lima, Senhor Egana, being about to sail with a convoy of several vessels of war—a pacific mission, with such a cortege, appearing rather unseemly in the eyes of the Bolivian Envoy at Santiago, he took occasion to re monstrate with the Chilian Government on the subject." The accounts from Rio Grande, by way of Monte Video, speak of renewed disturbances in that province. The highest price of doubloons, 123 dollars ; lowest, 117 ; highest price of Exchange upon England, 71; lowest, 7d. (Extract of a letter from Savannah, dated Jar,. 15.) " Our weekly Price Current was published yesterday. The substance is this—out of a stock of cotton of nearly 13,000 bales here, the greater part of which is on shipboard, not cleared, leaving only a stock of about 1,500 bales actually for sale. At Maran ham there is a stock of 14,000 bales, only 500 for sale." Our arrivals this morning are the French mails, and ship leiters from Demerara, Oporto, Singapore 10th October, Ma dras 25th October, and Cape 14th December. THE FUNDS. Consols, which closed yesterday at 893 a for the Account, opened at the same price this morning, since which they may be quoted at 894 f; Money the same. Exchequer Bills, 27 29 ; India Bonds, 22 24; Bank Stock, 207 208; India Stock, 257 258. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, which left off yes terday at 26 has improved to 26a.t, owing to the great preparations making for the attack on the Carlists, as well as their coming higher from Paris; Portuguese, 481 4 ; Three per Cents., 31i ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 53A- - HALF-PAST ONE O' C L a If. - It appears that the settlement of the Foreign Account is proceeding favourably, as we do not hear of any failures at present, although a great scarcity of money prevails in the British and Foreign Markets. It happens that the settlement is not of an extensive nature, and most of the first-rate specu lators arc provided with the needful. Little business is doing, with the exception of paying and receiving their differences. Spanish Active not so good as in the previous part of the day, when it was 261, at present 26;1 ; Deferred, 111 ; Portu guese, 48'1; Three per Cents., 311; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 54. Consols, which were 897, may be quoted 8.91 for the Ac count; Money, 89a; Exchequer Bills, 27 29 prem. ; India Bonds, 24 22 prem. ; Bank Stock, 2071; India Stock, 256,1. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 89i. Major Gwynn Holforde has declared himself a can didate for Brecknockshire whenever a vacancy arises in its representation, in opposition to its present Tory Member, Cul. Wood. He declares himself a stanch supporter of the present Government, and of sound, well-considered, and rational Re form. With regard to the' Memorial signed by 230 of the wealthiest and most respectable freeholders of the county," we have authority for saying, that names were inserted in it with out 'permission. Indeed, it can hardly be deemed a source of pride or confidence, that Colonel Wood, after having repre sented the county for thirty years, should find himself sup ported by 230 electors out of a constituency of 2,295. Major Holforde's success is confidently anticipated. On Tuesday afternoon a sheriff's officer and his assistant went to take possession of a house at Highworth, under process from the sheriff, when, on attempting to force an en trance, the daughter of th' woman residing in the house came to the premises armed with a bean hook, and attacked the officer and his assistant, and on the arm of the latter inflicted a severe cut just below the shoulder-joint, completely dividing the muscles and exposing the bone. The officer and a con stable, who had then arrived, were unable to take possession or capture the woman, owing to the interference and threats of the people assembled; and she still remains at large, threaten ing vengeance against any person who may attempt to take her.—Salisbury Herald. A frightful murder of a whole family was recently committed at Feurs ( Loire), in France. The murderers hav ing, finished the dreadful business, set fire to the house and burnt it to the ground, in order to destroy all traces of their crime. Nothing was found but the body of a fen - ale servant, from which the head had been separated. Two men have been taken into custody on suspicion of being concerned in the trans action, but nothing as yet has been proved against them. On Sunday morning the congregation of Christ church, Surrey, were thrown into great alarm and sensation by the Rev. John Mapleton being attacked with a severe fit of apoplexy while delivering his morning lecture. He fell back on his head in the pulpit with considerable violence. Several individuals went to his assistance, and he was conveyed out of church to his residence in Stamford -street, Blackfriars-road, in an apparentlylifeless state. We are glad to hear that the Rev. Gentleman is nut of danger. The public should: be upon their guard against a most vile and dangerous fraud which still continues to be prac tised in the metropolis. Many respectable persons have re cently been alarmed by the sudden intelligence that a member of their family—generally the housekeeper himself—has met with an accident at some distant place, and is unable to return home until he has received a change of clothes. The fellow, of course, purports to come in the greatest haste, at the express desire of the invalid, of whom he has prepared himself with a pretty accurate description from the neighbourhood. These swindlers appear in various forms, sometimes assuming the character of a cab-driver, or a waiter or barman at a public house. It is needless to state that the whole transaction turns out to be a gross fraud, which, in some cases, may be attended with the most serious results. 'filE COFFEE TRADE.—The recent failure in this town seems likely to lead to important alterations in the mode of doing business in some of the leading articles of im port from the East and West Indies. Coffee has, up to the present period, been sold by the importer to the dealer at one and three months—that is, if paid for at the end of the first month, the seller allowed the buyer three months' interest. This made the trade here, during the past week, come to a resolution to change. Henceforth, we hear, coffee will be sold at two months prompt and I per cent. discount. The ef fect of the change will be, to make the trade in coffee almost a ready-money business, and to throw it more into the hands of capitalists than it is supposed to be at present.—Liverpool Albion. Yesterday afternoon, at three quarters past two o'clock, the Newcastle coach, from the Bull and Mouth Inn, arrived on its down journey, at the Cherry Tree Inn, Kings land-road, having on the front of the roof a gentleman named Backhouse (nephew of the •eminent coach proprietor of that name, at Tadcaster, in Yorkshire,) apparently in the full en joyment of perfect health ; he was merely going for a ride a few miles, purposing to return by the up coach in the evening, and descended to take some trifling refreshment ; he had scarcely reached the ground when he staggered, and would have fallen down had not a moveable hay-rack or stand, placed in front of the house, prevented him. He was immediately assisted into the inn, a surgeon sent for, and the most prompt measures, bleeding, &e., resorted to, but within a quarter of an hour he was a corpse. Au inquest will be held to-morrow. Too much praise cannot be given to the highly respectable landlord, Mr. Wilson, for the alacrity and humanity displayed by him on the melancholy occasion. It is considered by the medical attendant that death was caused by a fit of apoplexy. The deceased was a One handsome young. man, and not quite years of age. TIIE SUN, LONDON, WIMNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1837. THE MA►C Fills DAY ) CORN EXCHANGE. There are small arrivals of English Corn this week, and a good quantity of Oats from Ireland. The return of Flour is considerable. The Wheat trade • remains fit in at Monday's prices. In Barley and Malt the late dulness c:mtinues. Beans and Pease are unaltered. The trade for Oats is rot brisk, and Monday's terms are utivaried. There is still a slack trade for Flour at the late quotations. English Irish Fin ARIIIN'AI.S, Wh cat 13 rley. 6 :(llrs I ,tio( I 31) Oats. Flour. I qrs. :3,.<j-i0 sacks 111,4;s1 CORN LA WS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. QUANTITY OF LAND IN CULTIVATION IN ENGLAND, IRELAND, SCOTLAND, WALES, BRITISH ISLES, &c. About 47,000,000 acres, averaging a rental of 30s. per acre, or 70,500,0001. per annum. Now supposing the whole of the 47,000,000 acres, for the sake of elucidation, for one year to produce nothing but wheat, or 34 quarters per acre, the nett quantity of wheat thus pro duced would be 164,500,000 quarters, which at the following prices would be productive as stated below, viz. : Quarter. per quarter. X. 164,500,000 at 40s. Ditto Ditto 475. 6d. Ditto 505. Ditto 525. Gd. Ditto 553. Ditto Ditto Ditto 625. Gd. Ditto 655. Ditto 675. 6d. Ditto 70s. Ditto 755. Ditto 80s. Rent, management; cultivation, house keeping, servants, la bourers, poor's rates, county levies, and other expenses inci dental to farming, losses of stock, &c., to be deducted from these sums—consumption of produce on the farms by horses, &c. Every other kind of agricultural produce corresponding in price with wheat, let the calculation be made on barley, oats, hay, cattle, sheep, &c., the result in point of value will prove nearly the same, all other articles of agricultural produce being governed generally by the price of wheat. N.B. It is necessary to observe that the whole of a years' produce is not consumed or brought to market that year, one fourth being consumed by the agricultural population, by cattle, horses, &c., and another fourth left on hand for seed, and for sale the next year, so that only one half of any years' crop or produce is sold or brought to market. Divide the amount of any of the above sums, and it will show the amount of our general consumption, &c. Take one half of any of the above sums, the consumption from harvest to harvest, and contrast the amount of the same with continental prices, say France, and it will at once prove or show the annual amount of bread tax : for instance, suppose French, or other wheat, could be sold in England, with ship ping, other expenses and profits at 5 .455. per quarter, while that of this country sold for ts7s. 61, the tax would be 51,406,0001. per annum ; and so in proportion to the ad vanced price of wheat. So that from the passing of the Corn Laws in 1815 to 1837, the people, those not connected with agriculture, have been made to pay no less a sum than 1,130,932,000/ , and also that they have been made to pay a much larger sum in time of peace than war, in corn, state taxes, by many millions, and for what, and whom ? Nottingham, Feb. 12, 1837. J. CLAYTON. STAFFORD WRIT DIVISION. the Members who were Absent ien it divided on the question of 'Johnston, Andrew—Cupar Johnstone, J. J. 14 —Pemfries.shire Johnstone, Sir J. V.—Scarborough Keariey, John Hodson—Wigan Ker, David—Downpatrick King, E. B.—Warwi,•l: Knatehbuil, Rt. Hon. Sir E.—Kent (Knox, Sir C.—Northamptonsh, Hon J.—Dungannon Larnbton, IL—North Durhan. Langton, Wm. Gore —Somersetshire Law, Hon, C. E.—Cambridge Uni. versity Leader, John T.—Bridgwater Lee, J. Lee—Wells Lcfc'.re, C. Shaw—North Hants Lefroy, A.—Longford Lenuard, T. 11.—Maldon Lewis, David—C,:rmarthen Lincoln, Ear! of—South Notts - long, W.—North Wiltshire Lopez, Sir Ralph—Westbury Lowther, Colonel—Westmoreland Lowther, Viscount—Westmoreland Lushington, Right Hon. S. R.—Can. terhnry aishington, Dr.—Tower Haml, Mackenzie, J. A. S.—Hess-shire Il 4 l'krgart, John—Wigton .11 andeville, V ise.—Huntingdonshi re Manners, Lord C. S.—Leicestershire Mangles, J.—Guildford ' MarAhail, Marsland, Thomas—Stockport Martin, John—Sligo %tart in, Thomas—Galway Co. Matthew, Georg. IL—Athlone \Mansell, I'. P..—Northamptonthire Maxwell, Iliry—Cavan Maxwell, J,Fin—Lanarkshire M les, Wm.—East Somers tshire Miles, Philip John—Bristol Miller, Wm. H.—Newcastle under. Lynne Milton, Lord—Malton Moreton, Hon. A,—Gloucestershire Morgan, C. Morgan—Brecon Morrison, J.—lpswich Mullies, F. W.—Kerry Murray, Ilight Hon. J. A.—Leith Musgrave, Sir R —Waterford Neck!, Jo,eph —Chippenham NeAd, John—Cricklade Noel, Sir G. N.—ltutlandshire O'Connell, Maurice—Trake O'Connor Don—Roscommon Co. O'Neill, lion. General—Antrim Co. Oliphant, Laurence—Perth Or], W. 11.—Newport, Isle of Wight Ord, IV.—Newcastle.upon.Ty lie Oswald, James—Glasgow Owen, Sr J. B.—Pembrokeshire l'aeke, Chas. Wm.—Leicestershire Paget, Frederick—Beauinaris Palmer, General—Bath Pahnerston. Viscount—Tiverton Parker, Mantagu—Devon Parnell, Sir H.—Dundee Parry, Sir L. P. J.—Carl arvon Pc..., Joseph—South Durham Pechell, Captain—Brighton Peel, Col. Jonathan—Huntingdon Peel, Edmund—Newcastle-under. Lyme Peel, Right Hon. W. Yates--Tam. worth Pelham, lion. C. A.--Lincoln,hire Pendarves, E. W. \V.—Cornwall l'enriuldocke, J. 11.—Wilton C. M.—N. Leicestershire Penney, W.—Lyme Regis Plunkett, Hon. R. E.—Drogheda Frederick—Bedfoitt 'Pollen, Sir J.—Andover Pollingten, Lord—Pontefract Pensolibr, lion. NV —Dorsetshire Powell, Colonel—Cardiganshire Poyntz, W. a—Midliurst !'rice, Richard—New Radnor Price, Sir le—Herefordshire Pryse, Pr' se—Cardigan l'uscy, Philip—Berkshire Rae, Right Hon. Sir Wm.----Bute Ramsbottom, J.—Windsor Itickford, William—Aylesbury • Robarts, A. W.—Maidstone Ilooper, J. B.—Huntingd , nshire Russell, Lord—Tavistock Russell, Lord C.—Bedfordshire Rundle, John—Tavistock Russell, Charles—Reading Ryle, John—Macclesfield &anion, Lord—Liverpool Scott Lord John—Roxburg' shire Scholefield, Seott,.Sir:E. D.—Lichfield Seale, Colonel—Dartmouth Shell, K. L.—Tipperary Simeon, Sir 11.—Isle of Wight Smith, Hon. R.—Wycombe Smith, J. A.—Chichester Smith, 'Benjamin—Sudbury Smith, A.—Hertfordshire Smith, A.—Carnarvonshire Smyth, Sir Henry—Colchester Somerset, lord E.—Cirencester Speirs, Alexander—Richmoud Spry, Sir S. T.—Bodmin Stanley, Edward—Cumberland Stanley, Hit. H. T.—Preston Stewart, I'. M.—Lancashire Stormont, Viscount—Norwich Stuart, Lord D. C.—Arundel Stuart, Lord J.—Ayr Surrey, Earl of—West Sussex T,ilbot, C. It. M.—Glamorganshlre Talbot, J. 11.—Newilloss Talfourd, Mr. Serjeant —Reading Tapps, G. W.—Christchurch 'Velment, J Emerson—Belfast Thompson, P. B.—East Yorkshire Thompson, Ald.—Sunderland 'follemache, Hon. A. G.—Grantham Tooke, W.--Truro `Townley, H. G.—Cambridgeshire Townshend, L,.rd J.—Helston Tracy, C. H. —Tewkesbury Trelawney, Sir W.—East Cornwall Troubridge, Sir T. E.—Sandwich Turner, %V.—Blackburn Tynte, C . K. K. —Bridgewater Tyrrell, Sir J. T.—North Essex Vernon, G. H.—East Retrials Verner, Colonel—Armaeh Co. Vivian, John Ennis—Truto Vivian, Major Charles—Bodmin Vivian, John Henry—Swansea Walker, 11 —Bury, Lancashire Wallace, Robert—Greenock Walpole: Lord—Norfolk War.i, H. G.—St. Alb.ins %Vason, Rigby—'veich Welby, Glynne Earle—Grantham Wemyss, Captain—Fifeshire Westenra, lion. 11. R.—Monaghan Weyland, Major—Oxfordshire Whitmore, T. C.—Bridgenorth Wigney, J. N.—Brighton Wilde, Mr. Serjeant—Newark Wilbraham, Hon: 13.—Lancashire Wilkins, Walter—Radnorshire Williams, Tito oas —Marlow Williams, W. A,—Monmouthshire Williams, Sir J.—Carmartliceshire Williamson, Sir H —North Durham Veihnot, Sir J. E.—Warwickshire Wilson, Henry—Suffolk innngton, Sir T.—Bewdley Wood, Charh's—Halifax %Vinare, Mr. Serjeant—Cashel Wrottesley, Sir J.—Staffordshire Wyndham, Wadliam—Sllisburx Wynn, Sij w. -L.l.lelibighanre Triontas—Waterford Yorke, Eliot T.—t'ambridgeshire Young, John—Cavan Young, Sir W.—Buck4 BRIGHTON-TUESDAY. Their Majesties took a carriage drive this afternoon. The calls at the Palace this day included Prince and Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, Count Waldstein, the Countess Dowager of iNlulgrave, and the Ladies Phipps, Lady Frazer, Mr. and Lady Sarah Bailey and Miss Bailey, Lieut.-Gen. Shrapnel, Captain James Morgan, Mr. Cutlar Fergusson, Marquis and Marchioness of Thoinond, and the Countess of St. Gerinains on leaving. _ The Duke of Dorset left the Palace this morning for London. Prince Esterhazy, Prince Nicolas Esterhazy, and Count Waldstein, arrived last night at the Norfolk Hotel. His Majesty gave audience to Mr. Cutlar Fergusson, the Judge-Advocate, yesterday evening. Lord ,Adolphus Fitzclarencc arrived at the Palace last night, on a visit to their Majesties. The Marquis and Marchioness of Thomond kayo on Thurs day for their house in town, after a sojourn of upwards of three months. Lord and Lady Dc Lisle and Dudley take their final de parture for the season either to-morrow or• Thursday, for Ken sington Palace. Yesterday the King conferred the honour of knighthood of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic order on Major-General Bo water. Sir Edward left this morning for Hampton- court. The royal dinner invitations yesterday evening comprised Lieut.-Gen. Sir W. Pringle, General Sir C. Colville, Ad miral Sir James Witshcd, Col. Madox, the field officers of the Grenadier Guards, Marquis of Bristol, Lord and Lady G. Seymour, Prince Esterhazy, Prince Nicolas Esterhazy, Count Waldstein, Sir Hamilton Seymour, Hon. W. and MN. Ashley, Admiral Sir J. Wells, Sir W. Wood:. Col. Sir James Reynett, Mr. Cutlar Fergusson, Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, Lord Burgher* Hon. Capt. Paulett, and Hon. C►pt. Dundas. The Queen's band and the band of the Enniskillen dragoons played during the evening. COURT CIRCULAR. The Tithe Commissoners had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer yesterday, in Downing-street. Messrs. Collier and Bewes, the Members for Plymouth, and Lord Hatherton, had interviews with Viscount Melbourne yes terday in Downing-street. A meeting of the Church Commissioners was held yester day, at the office in Whitehall-place. The Marquis of Lans downe and Viscount Melbourne were among the Commission ers present. The Archbishop of Dublin and the Recorder of London bad interviews yesterday ', ith the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Marquis of Lansdowne had a dinner party on Monday evening, at Lansdowne House, Berkeley-square. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday. Dr. Lushington was heard in reply in " The Herm Granite Company, v. Mac Culled' ' Guernsey." Mr. NVigram was beard for the appellants in " Kert Chun der Roy v. the East India Company and Mohunny Mohun Thakoor." An appeal from the Court of First Instance of Civil Juris diction, at Trinidad ; " Henry Davidson and another v. Ca therine Johnson, widow, and another" was then heard. Dr. Lushington and Mr. Turner appeared for the appellants ; Mr. Wigram and Mr. R. Crowder for the respondents. Lord Brougham, on the part of their Lordships, reversed the sentence of the Court below. The Court then adjourned. ORDNANCE ESTIMATES. The following is the result of a view of a comparative ab stract of the, Estimate 1837-8, with 1835-7 : " The' Ordinary' estimate for the present year exceeds that of 1836-7 by the sum of 9351. " The total of the Extraordinaries' is 16,511/. less fur 1837-8 than that in the preceding year. " For the Service of this year there will be required 1,302,0141.—which is more by 38,5651. than was voted last year. " The official estimate of the ' Ordinary' charge of the Ordnance at the Tower, Pall-mall, and Dublin, amounts to 66,9751." The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry are now at Berlin, where they arrived on the 25th ult. from their tour in the Northern States of Europe. The Duke of Wellington arrived at Apsley House last evening, from Strathfieldsaye, to be present at the so lemnization of the marriage between Miss Bao-ot and the Earl of Winchilsea; the ceremony is expected' to be per formed to-day. The Dowager Duchess of Roxburgh and Colonel O'Reilly have left town for Dover. Lord Hatherton has arrived at his house in Grosve nor-place from Teddesley, Staffordshire. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury are expected in Grosvenor-square on Thursday next from Brighton. An express arrived at the Clarendon on Saturday for the Earl of Errol, with the intelligence of the decease of his Lordship's sister, Lady Harriet Gurney, wife of Daniel Gurney, Esq. The Earl and Countess and their daughter, Lady Adelaide Hay, who was to be bridesmaid at the ap proaching nuptials of Miss Bagot, left town, on Monday for Mr. Gurney's seat, Runcton, in Norfolk. . _ . Lord de Roos left town on Sunday last by the Rot terd:lm steam-packet. Colonel Burdett, son of Sir Francis, has arrived at Mivart's Hotel from a tour. The Marquis of Camden has paid into the Bank of England the sum of 17,2471. 3s. 4d., for his contribution to the public service for the last year, which sum we have reason to believe will make the whole of his contribution amount to 273,00a-11/Or :ling Paper. Lord Castlereagh has arrived in Chapel-street, Park-lane, contiguous to Holdernesse House, for the season. Lord Ashley is announced as the Chairman at an intended meeting to be held in London, on the subject of the present aspect of the Church of England. A Brussels journal states that the Queen will leave for Laeken in the beginning of March, where , it is said, he r Majesty will remain till after her continement,which is expected to take place about the latter end of April. The Queen of the French is slightly indisposed._ Galiy nani. Three failures were on Monday announcA in Li verpool. The first failure is of a house engaged in the Irish trade, and whose liabilities are said to amount to 1 4,000/. ; the second of a manufacturing chymist ; and the third of an individual engaged in the East Ineia trade: The two last failures were not for any very great amount. On Monday were presented, by appointment, to Lord Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Colonel Prince Andriantsithollaina ; Lieut.- Colonel Prince Ra Harolahy ; Lieut.-Colonel Ramanan Reraisina ; LieuC.: Colonel Andriantscheno, Officer of the Palace ; Major Ra nera ; and Major Rasatranabo, forming an embassy from the Queen of Madagascar, accompanied by Captain Garnot, of the French Marine, who recently arrived with theta at the Havre, from that island ; the latter gentleman havin g very lately made an interesting journey to the capital, where he was presented to the Queen, and who engaged his services to accompany the above gentlemen upon their embassy to the Courts of E igland and France, and afterwards to return with them to Madagascar. DEATH OF THE EX-KING OF SWEDEN—CARLS RUIIE, FEB. 3.—The Ex-King of Sweden, Gustavus Iv., known for many years past under the name of Colonel Gus. tayson, expired suddenly on the 7th inst., at eight in the morning; in the town of St. Gall. Gustavus was . born on the Ist of November, 1778. Though under age he succeeded to his unfortunate father, Gustavus 111., under the guardianship of his uncle, the Duke of Sudermania. On becoming of age, on the Ist of November, 1796, he assumed the reins of Go vernment, and married on the 31st October, 1797, the late Queen Frederica Dorothea Wilbelmina, a Princess of Baden, the daughter of Prince Charles Lewis. Later, he was crowned at Noukceping. ,After various calamitous events, both to him and his kingdom,? he abdicated on the 29th of March, 1809, and on leaving Sweden lived since November, 1813, under the title of Duke of Holstein Gottorp, and sub sequently as Gustavus Adolphus Gustayson, alternately in Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, the three last years at St. Gall. He has died of a disease in his chest, the gravity of which he did not suspect.—Carlshrue Gazette. An entirely new mode of warming St. James's Church has been adopted, and is now in full operation, pre paratory to its re-opening, on the sth of March. A wild hog has been presented to the Dover Mu seum. On its being skinned by Mr. Gordon, of the Canter bury Museum, a bullet was found in the loins, and several swan shot in various parts of the body, over which the skin had quite healed. Underneath the bristles, and close to the skin, is a kind of woolly hair. The animal was killed in the forests of Germany.—Kentish Gazette. On Monday a public meeting was held in St. Al pliage's, Greenwich, for the purpose of taking into considera tion the best means of raising a sufficient sum to build a new church on Blackheath.hill. The Bishop of Rochester in the chair. A subscription of more than 11,000/. was an. nounced by the Chairman. Amongst the donations was one of 101. from her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester. We have been credibly informed that, in the district of Biackwater, in Perthshire, there are two fields of corn standing► uncut I—Scotsman. The Oldham Radicals are in communication with W. Sharman Crawford, Esq., the representative of Dundalk, on the subject of his appearing as a candidate for Oldham at the next election. —Manchester Guardian. On Sunday night last John Minter Hart, the noto rious bill stealer and forger, together with twenty-four :other convicts, were removed from Newgate in the largo van gene. rally used for the purpose, and which was strongly guarded, to Portsmouth, and put on board the Leviathan hulk, preparatory to their bein. , transported for life. Yesterday morning, at six o'clock, when the detach ment of the Coldsteam Guards at the Bank of England was mustered on retiring from duty, one of their number, a stout, healthy man, aged about forty, who had been in the regiment upwards of seventeen years and who had been relieved from duty at twelve o'clock, was found dead in his bed. There is still such an increase of fever, that the Royal Infirmary cannot receive another patient ; and a very groat number of refusals are tapin g place daily. The mana gers of the institution feel entbarraisect for want of 4GCornrog, dation ; and it is thought that addition a l wards will have to bF prQvided,_.►Qks'oio Cbronick, The following is the list of from the House on Monday, w the Stafford Writ : Acheson, Lord—Co. of Armagh Adam, Sir C.—Clackinannanslaire Ainsworth, I'.—Bolton Aglionby, H. A.—Cockermouth Alford, Viscount—Bedfordshire Alston, Rowland—Hertfordshire Angerstein, J.—Greenwich Andover, Vise.—Mahneshury Anson, Colonel—Stoke-upon-Trent Anson, Sir G.—Lichfield Archdall, Gen. M.—Fermanagh Astley. Sir Jacob—West Norfolk Attwood, Thos.—Birmingham Attwood, M.—Whitehaven Bagot, Hon. W.—Denbighshire Balfour, Thomas—Orkney Barclay, David—Sunderland Barclay, Charles—Surrey . Barham, John—Kendal Baring, F.—Thetford • • Baring, H. B. —Marlborough Barnard, K G.—Greenwich Barneby, Jolor—Droirwich Barron, H. W.—Waterford City Ilateson, S:r 11...-Londemilerry Beauelerk, Majar—East Surrey Beaumont, T. \V.—South Northum. erlaud Bellew, Sir Patrick—Louth Ileuctt, J.—South Wiltshire Berkeley, Hon. F.—Gloucester Be• keley, Hon. G.—Glotteeatershire Berkeley, Hon. C.—Cheltenham Blackburne, I. J.—Warrington Blackburne, J.-1 - hirldersfield Blunt, Sir Charles—Lewes Bolden), Henry G.—Ch ppenham Bo w es, John—South Durham. BrabazOn, Sir William—AaN Broeklenurst, J.—Macclesfield ilruce, Lord E.—Marlborough Proderiell, Lord —Northamptonshire Bruen, Colonel—Carlow County Moen, F.—Carlow Buhver, H. L.—Marylcbane Bulwer, E. L.—Liireoln Burdett, Sir K—Westininster Burden, W. W.-I,ll:.vmouth Burrell, Sir C. Shoreham Butler, Hon. P.—Kilkenny Co Buxton, T. F.—Weymouth Ityng, George—Middlesex ltvng, Right Hon. G Calcraft, John Hales—Wareham Campbell, Sir John—Edinburgh Campbell, W. F.—Argyleshire 'arter, J. 11.—Portsmorvh Cartwright, W. R.—North Nor thamptonshire Castlereagh, Vise.—Down Care, Robert Otway—lipperary Cavendish, lion. G. IL—Derbyshire Chaplin, Colonel—Staintirial Chapman, M. L.—V.estineath CliSrltorr, E. L.—Ludlow Chichester, Arthur—l loniton Child am John W.—Malton Churchill, Lord C —Woodstock Clayton, Sir William—Marlow Viscount--lall C )(trim:Jon, C. W.—Gloucestershire Codrington, Sir E.—Devonport Cole, Lord —Fermanagh Couyughain, I.ord A.—Canterbury 'Copeland. W. 'F.--Coleraine Cooker, 'l' H.—Worcestershire Cooper, Hon. H. A.—Dorchester Cooper, E. J.—Sligo - Co. Corbett, T. G —Lincolnshire Cowper, Hon. W. F.—llertford Crawford, W. S.—Dundalk Crewe, Sir George—Derbyshire Cri,.ps, Joseph—Cirencester Crompton, S.—Thirsk • Curlers, H. ll.—East Sussex Darner, G. L —Portariington 1) trlington, Earl of—Shropshire Davenport,John—Stoke-upon - Trent Denison, W. J.—West Surrey Denison, J. E.—South Nottingham. ; shire Denistoun, A.—Dunbartonshire D'Eyncourt, Right Hon. Chas T, — Lambeth Dick, Quintin—Maldon Dillwyn, L W.—Glanoorganshlre Dobbin, Leonard —Armagh Dottin, A. R. —Southampton I)owdeswell, W.—Tewkesbury Outfield, T.—Abingdon Dugdale, W. S.—Warwickshire Dunbar, George—Belfhst Duneambe Hon. A.—Eait Ret ford Dundas, lion. J. C.—York Dundas, Hon. T.—ltlehmond Militias, J. Deans—Devizes . Dunlop, John-Ayrallire East nor, Vlseount--Iteig te Edwards, 'dOtnt.;- oft matter*: • • Egerton, W. Tatton—Cheshire Egerton, Sir P.—Cheshire Ellioe, Right Hon. E. —Coventry Elphinstone, Howard—Hastings Elwes, John Payne—Essex Estcourt, T G. B.—Oxford Univ. Estcourt, T. Junior—Devizes Et wall, Ralph—Andover Euston, Earl—Thetford Evans, W. De Lacy—Westminster Fazakerley, J. N.—Peterborough Fellowes, Ho)). N.—North Devon Ferguson, Georg .—Banffshire Ferguson, Sir R. C.—Nottingham Fergusson, Right Hon. R. C.—Kirk cudbright Fielden, John—Oldham Fitzgibbon, Hon. R.—Limerick Co. Fitzroy, Lord C.—Bury St. Edna. Fleetwood. P. H.—Preston Fleming, John—Hampshire Foley, E. T.—Herefordshire Folkes, Sir William—Norfolk Forbes, —Stirlingshire Gillon, Wm. D.—Linlithgow Gisborne, T.—North Derbyshire Gladstone, T.—Leicester Glynne, Sir S. M.—Flints:lire Goodricke, F. 11.—Stattlirdshire Goring, H. D.—New Shoreham Goulburn, Right Hon. H.—Cam bridge University Goulburn, Mr. Serjeant—Leicester Grant, Hon. Colonel—El hoinshire Greene, T. G.—Lancashire • Greisley, Sir Roger—Derbyshire Grey, Hon, Colonel—Wycombe Guest, J. J.—Merthyr Tydvil Hale, It. B.—Gloucestershire llalford, lienry—Leizestershire Hallyburton, Hon. D. G.—Forfar. shire liaise, J.—St, Ives Hamner, Sir J. —Shrewsbury Hanmer, Henry—Aylesbury Mastic, Archibald —Paisley Ilawkes, Thomas Dudley Hay, Sir J.—Peebles-shire Heatheoat, J.—Tiverton Heatheote, Sir o.—Rotlandshire Ileneage, Edward —Grimsby Herbert, Hon. S.—'outli Wilts Heron, Sir 11.—Peterlyiroagh Hill, Sir Rowland—Shrop.diire Hillsborough, Earl of—Down Ilindley, Charle4— Ashton Hoblionse, Right lion. Sir J. C.— .. - - Nottingham Hodges, T. T.—Rochester Hodgson, J —Neweastle-upon.Tym Hoskins, K.—Herefordhhire I louldsworth, —lcottingluinshirt Howard, R.—Wicklow Co. Howard, Hon. Edward—Morpeth 14 1 , Jams Barlow,Southimpton ii44014X, I nrst, It: H.—Hor;hinn I Sir R. H. —0)04,1 University Jormn, gart- , Bury 4 Sufrolk IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. O U SE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY 14. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his scat on the Woul-sack ul Five o'clock. ABOLITION OF CHURCH-RATES. Lord SUIT' E LD presented a petition fron► the Dissentin l Congregation of Leigh iey, in the County of Leicester, pray ing for the Abolition of Church-rates. The Noble Lord als; presented a petition from the Mayor and Aldermen of Grea Yarmouth, in the County of Norfolk, to the same dfect. Mr. Morton, from the Ecclesiastical Court, Lo►,don, thet b. ought up the proceedings of that C just, in the case o " Gardiner a. Gardiner," for a divorce. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. Lord SII tkI.I'ESBURY moved that no petition relative to a private Bill, be received after Weddesday the 22d da) of March ; and that no report on a private Bill be re ceived after Thursday the . 2oth day of Ap-il. MESSAGE FROM ThE COAMONS Messengers from the House of Commo the: hr, ught a Bill to suspend the Operation of the Births, Deaths, and Marriages Act, passed last Session. Lord lIATIIERTON presentel a pet;Con from Sabury, and ;mother from a place in the county of SAtfolk, prayitz for the abolition of Church-rates. Lord ABERDE EN' presented a petition fr,m Glouces ter, in support of Church-rates. Lord HOLL AND presented petitions from Newpert, Monmouth, Wallingford, and several other places, praying for the total abolition of Church -rates, and praying that those who attenckd particular places of worship should pay the ex pence thereof. RAILWAYS. Lord COVENTRY presented a petition from an As sociation formed for the protection of property in (as we understood) the town of Brentford, complain ing that the persons who are employed on the line of the London and Birmingham Railway, as well as on many other lines of Railway, are for the most part of the most de praved and abandoned character, stating that many riots had taken place on the London and Birmingham Railway—that many aggravated assaults on unoffending persons, thefts and depredations had been committed by those labourers,and praying that whenever the Bill incorporating that Company came before their Lordships for revision, the House would insert a clause by which the Company should be compelled to support a police force, not only during the operations of the work, but while the line of Railway should.be in operation. The Noble Lord then read extracts from a ,private letter which he had received, which stated that many sheep had been destroyed, great quantities of poultry stolen from farm-houses, and many robberies of houses had been committed by the lab,urers cm ployed on the Birmingham and London Railway. The Marquis of SALISBURY was glad his Noble Friend had brought forward this subject, and lie rose to give the petition his entire support. As a magistrate he knew there were perpe tual complaints of this class of persons, and yet it was impossible for the Magistrates of the different counties to impose extend ing posts of police to suppress the depredations, as that would impose a heavy rate on the inhabitants of the respective coun ties. The jails in the country were crowded with the offend in., parties, and the inhabitants were in perpetual fears ' of riot and injury. —k Hear, hear.) It was his intention, on the first occasion on which a Bill of this description came before the House to move the insertion of a clause, by which the Magistrates acting in the different Counties (the clause also to apply to all public works of this description conducted by Companies), shall have power to appoint such a police force as shall be necessary for the peace and protection of the coun try, the expence of which to be charged on the Company dui% ing the period the undertaking existed. The evil complained of was a growing evil ; and he hoped his MiijiNt)'s Government would not object to some en.:ctment calculated to operate as a remedy. Lord WINO-lIIL SEA expressed his satisfaction that this question had been brought under the consideration of the House by his Noble Friend. Ile should give his ready sup port to the prayer .of the petition, as he should do to every measure calculated to protect property. He begged to observe, that a great evil attending these speculations was, that many of them, if not all of them, were undertaken originally solely for gambling purposes. He believed that in reference to this very line of railroad it was in contemplation to apply for a further sum of nearly 2,000,000/. of - money beyond that which was stipulated for in the first instance with which to complete the line. Now, the House was in duty bound to protect the public against such a gross fraud. Many who took shares in the London and Birmingham Railway w ere induced to do so, from the respectability Of the names advertised as the promoters of the work ; but when the price of the shares advanced, it was found that the names of those indi viduals had disappeared, and that they had nothing more to do with the subject ; whereas he was prepared to contend, that those who became the original undertakers ought to be bound to complete, and liable to the end for the completion of the work. He believed that whenever public works of this de scription were investigated, it would be found that they fell short at least a third of the advaatagcs held out to the public by the original projectors. For instance, he believed that the original proprietors of the Waterloo-bridge, it having passed to a second and a third set of persons, had not the least chance of ever receiving one farthing, either of interest or capital, and surely nobody could say that the public ought not to be protected against such proceedings.—( [hear, hear.) there was another point to which he had to allude. By many Railroad Companies bonded securities were given to individuals, that in the ensuing Session an application would be made to Parliament for leave to deviate from the line which was originally adopted by them.—( Hear, hear.) And he knew one instance of this which had occurred in the county of .Kent, in which case he had pressed the solici tor, until he acknowledged that a bond for 10,0001. had been given to a gentleman there, through whose property the original line was to have passed, that leave would be sought from Parliament for a deviation I‘liich would remove the lice,,, so: that it would pass through the property of a gentleman in his neighbourhood.—( Hear.) He was informed that such an application' would be made, and if it were, he would then bring forward the question, and would be able to give an account of as gross a fraud as had ever been perpetrated.—( Hear, hear.) He had said so much considering that he owed it to the public to do so. He was however, no enemy to railroads; on the contrary, he wished to support the establishmelit of them wherever it was prudent to do so. ( Hear.) The Noble Marquis then proceeded to state that he had to present a petition which was numerously and respectably signed, from Canterbury, in which the petitioners • stated their sense of the blessings which had flowed to the nation under the presefa Constitution, and trusting that no attempt would avail to fetter the independence of their Lordships' House. The petition prayed that their . Lordships would con tinue to watch over and to apply their attention to every mea sure which came before them, with that legal knowledge and integrity which had distinguished them. The petition was ordered to lie on the table. ABOLITION OF CHURCH-RATES. Lord BROUGHAM said that a petition had been entrusted to him by a numerous body of his Majesty's subjects, and it had been drawn up under circumstances so peculiar that they rendered it necessary to state them; and also to allude to the parties from irhom it came.--( Hear.) The petition pur ported to be that of the ministers and laymen assembled in London, deputed by their congregations, and other bodies, to effect the extinction of Church-rates. The persons who signed it were about 300 of the deputies sent from all parts of the, empire, as was described, for the purpose of effecting by legal and constitutional means the object he bad mentioned ; and although the petition was only signed by two or three hundred persons, yet he was informed 400 individuals had been present when the petition was agreed to, and it was only from the accident of nearly a hundred persons having been compelled to leave town that it was not more numerously signed.—( Hear, hear.) He would also state in what way these delegates came empowered to London.—( Hear. )—They came to represent, not in a technical, but I believe in a strictly popular sense, the congregations and other bodies by whom they were dele gated. Those congregations had met to the number of 500, and had seat persons to represent them, although not more than 400 came. They, however, represented persons than whom no portion of his Majesty's subjects were more entitled to considera tion, whetehr as regarded property, intelligence, or re spectability.—(Cheers.) He had said that they represented those by whom they were deputed, in a popular sense, but there was one • other sense in which tliey also strictly represented them.—( Hear, hear, hear.) They spoke the unanimous and strong opinion of all those composing the assemblies by whom they were deputed. He begged therefore that the petition should be read. The petition was then read, and the House adjourned until Thursday. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEBRUARI' 14. The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. Mr. DOUGLAS appeared at the Bar, and presented Re turns from the Commissioners of Paving for the Parish of St. Pancras, which were laid on the table. Major BE AUC LE RK presented a petition from the Lon don and Croydon Railway Directors, praying for leave to bring in a Bill to extend their powers ; also a petition from the Lon don and Blackwall Railway to the same effect. Mr. GEORGE PHILLIPS presented several petitions, the purport of which we did not hear, from the low tone of voice in which the Hon. Member spoke. Mr. C. RUSSELL brought up a Bill for altering and improving the line of the Great Western Railway. Mr. HARCOURT brought up a Bill for making a railway from Oxford to join the Great Western Railway. Mr. H. FLEETWOOD presented a petition for leave to bring in a Bill for making a railway, to be called the Preston Wyre Railway. MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY. Lord STANLEY brought in a Bill for altering and amend ing the Bill of last year, by enlarging the powers given to the Company. WESTERN METROPOLITAN CEMETERY. Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition from Messrs. Green, Knowles, and others, praying the House to pass a Bill fur the Establishment of a Cemetery in the Western parts of the Metropolis PARISH OF, ST. PANCRAS. Sir S. WHALLEY presented a petition from the parish of St. Pancras, praying for leave to bring in a Bill to repeal certain arts of the Act for lighting and paving certain parts of that parish. SOAP DUTY. Mr. GULLY presented a petition fl'Oat Pontefract, pray ing for the repeal of the duty o n soap. ellUlt(2;thltATES. Mr. BAINES presented a petition from a congregation of Protestant Dissenters of Hoxton, praying for the total repeal of Churoh7rates. The llon. Member also presented a peti. tip to, the same effect from a congregation at Plymouth. aPU4M'at itutuirod wiether there were any otlwr petitions on the sulject of Church-rates? About a dozen Members started offend advanced towards the table with pe titions in their hands, and presented them without making observations, so that it was impossiLle to know where the peti tions came from amongst them. Amongst the Members who thus presented petitions were Mr. Cnyley, Mr. G. R. Philip ,s and Mr. Pattison. Major BEAUCLERK pre , eilted a petition from Cladham, praying for the total repeal of Church-rates. Mr. BROWNE psesented petitions from Arran,. Westp;.rt, and several other parts of Ireland, praying tor Corporate Re form, the abolition of Tithes, ;IA the vote by Ballot. Mr. LEADER presented petitions from Bridgewater, • Burton, Knowlc, Northallerton, and several other places, for the abolition of Church-rates. Mr. WILKS presented similar petitions from Miston and Long Creden in Buckinghamshire. Sir T. FREMANTLE presented a petition front Win slow, in Buckinghamshire, in favour of Church-rata. The Right Hon. Bart. cordially supported these petitions. Mr. RUSHBROOKE presented similar petitions from places the names of which we could not catch. Mr. HARDY presented similar petitions from Bradford, signed by 2,400 persons. FIRE INSURANCE. Mr. HENRY WILSON presented a petition from Stow market, signed by all the merchants and banker;, complaining of the duty on tire insurances, and praying fur its reduction. MEDICAL CHARITIES. Mr. VESEY presented a petition from the Medical Prac titioners of Queen's County, praying for an alteration of tho system of Medical Charities. POOR LAW AMENDMENT ACT. Mr. HARDY presented a petition from Bradforcj pr ay i ng for an alteration of the new Poor Law Act. Sir EDWARD KNATCIIBULL presented a petition from a place in Kent, complaining of the operation of the Poor Law Amendment Act. DUTY ON SOAP. ____ Lord F. EGERTON presented a petition for the repeal of the duty on soap. Mr. P. SCROPE presented a petition to the same effect. Sir W. MILES presented a similar petition from the con sumers of soap at Bristol. The Hon. Member also presented a petition praying for leave to bring in a Bill for the inclosure of certain land at Clapton in Somerset. MANCHESTER AND CHESHIRE RAILWAY The HON. MEMBER then presented a petition from certain occupiers of land in Cheshire, against the Manchester and Cheshire Railway. POOR LAWS—(ENGLAND). Mr. D. W. HARVEY, while' he was willing to recognise the salutary rule enforced on most occasions when petitions were presented, would yet hope that the circumstances detailed in those he was about to lay upon the table of the House would be found not only as an excuse, but as a justification, for a departure from the general practice.-. 4 Hear, hear, hear.) He begged to call the attenthre of the House to the contents and objects of the petitions. He had heard with great regret the intention of the Noble Lord, the leader in that House of his Majesty's Gove nment, to restrict the mo tion of which notice was given by the Hon. Member for Berk shire, to such an extent as greatly to impair its efficacy, if not al together to destroy it. There were two petitions, each of which contained the same matter, and had in view the same object. The one has signed by 10,000 inhabitants residing in the town and neighbourhood of Merthyr Tydvil.; the other by 1,500 persons ut the same class, resident in the town of Kendal. They both complained of the operation of the New Poor-law Act, especially of that part of it which empowered the Guardians to make, create, and enforce a rate. As the subject was one which would shortly undergo considerable discussion he did not intend to go at length into the question ; but when he called to mind the cireumSrance that the petition ers, who formed the great mass of the valuable industry of the country, had no direct represetitati ve in that House----thev were connected with it only by the slit ht tic of a suspicious sympathy---he was sure there would be no attempt to interdict their voice, The law as it stood previously affected the petition ers. It cruelly, and, in his mint), unjustly interfered with them. lle would not go into a farther illustration of what he said, than to say that the facts stated were such as fully to war rant him in that observatio►t, The object of the petitioners eas not to harrow up the feelings of the Home and country by exciting a false sympathy. They did not wish to resist the operation of what they considered an oppressive law, but called on the House to give to their case its most attentive considera tion. In the parish of kendal aged persons, who had long passed that peilod of life when all was sorrow to man, per son; who bad arrived at the ago of So or 90 years, the labour of whose youth had enriched their country, were cut down fully twenty-fiv e per cent, on their allowance of 2s. The S A K git suggested that the Han. Member should confine himself to the prayer of the petition. Mr. H A RVE Y would observe, that if he was compelled to contioe himself to the statements in the petition, he should occupy a longer time than by'stating one fact connected with it. He should on all occasions bow to the decision of the Chair, although he should be extremely sorry if' it went forth to the world n hen the poor, the piteous, and the houseless came be fore that House, their humble advocate was interdicted from ad►ocating their cause, With these observations he should bring up the petitiong. BE AUCLERK had been requested to support the prayer of one of the petitions. He perfectly an - reed is many of the sentiments that had been broached by the Hun. Member who preceded him, The law as it at present stood was too harsh in its enactments, and lie regretted that his Ma jesty's Ministers were determined to resist the appoint ment of a Committee for the purpo , e of inquiring fully into that subject. He should give his support to that Com mittee, and ho trusted that' a change would take place in the opinions of his. Majesty's Government. Jr. HARVEY presented a petition front the rate-payers of the borough of Lambeth, praying for universal suffrage, vote by ballot, annual parliaments, and a removal of the qualifi cation for Members of I arliament. Mr. J. A. SMITH presented a petition from Chichester, praying for the abolition of Church-rates. Mr:JAMES gave notice that on the Ist of March he should move for certain returns relative to the Commutation of Tithes. Mr. GREENE brought up the Report of, the stand►ng Committee upon the petitions presented by the Apothecaries' Company of Liverpool, for leave that they might sue and be sued in the name of the Chairman, the Worcester and Wol verhampton Railway Company, the Leeds and Derby Company, for leave to amend their Bill of last year ; the Preston and Lancaster Railway Company ; the Merthyr Tydvil and Jitff Railway Company; the Liverpool. and Manchester Railway Company, praying for leave to raise more money ; and the Whitby Improvements petition—the Committee reported that In ail those cases the standing orders had been complied with, and leave was given to bring in the respective Bills. Mr. POWER presented a petition from Wigan, praying for the total abolition of Church-rates. CHURCH RATES. Mr. HUME said he had four petitions to present on the subject of Church-rates; one included opposition to the grant to Maynooth College. He concurred in the fist part of the petition, which prayed for the abolition of Church - rates, but he could not object to a grant of money which afforded education to his Majesty's subjects. He had also petitions from Protestant Dissenters of Plodden, in Essex ; of Soutliwold, in Suffolk ; and the congregation of Queen Anne-street Chapel, Dumfermline, praying the House spee dily to relieve thens from Church -rates. LONGFORD ELECTION. The SPEAKER informed the House that he had received a letter from Luke White, Esq., who had been returned a Member to serve in Parliament for the County of Longford, stating'that a petition having been presented from Charles Fox and Lovel Edgeworth, Esqs. against his return, it was not his intention to defend his election. MEDICAL CHARITIES—(IRELAND.) Mr. NT. SE Y wished to know from the Noble Lord, the Secretary for Ireland, whether it was his intention to alter the system of Medical Charities in Ireland. His object in putting the question was to ascertain the views of Government on the subject, as nothing wa3 stated last night by the Secretary for the Home Department of a definite nature, and though it was im portant that those institutions, which were productive of good to the poorer classes should be maintained. Still there was a strong feelinr , on the subject that an alteration in the system should be made. Lord MOR PET II said, that by the Poor Law Bill these charities were placed under the confront of the Commissioners of Poor-laws. Probably some separate and distinct legislation would be requisite upon the subject; but lie could not say whether Parliament would'be able to take up the subject that Session or not. Mr. MACLEAN asked a question across the table, which, together with the answer, was totally inaudible. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT. Mr. RICHARDS begged to ask whether any Hon. Mem b.N- on the other side could inform him what course the Attor ney-General meant to pursue upon the Bill for the Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt, which stood for second reading that evening. The country at large was deeply interested in the fate of that measure. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, in the absence of his Learned Friend, could no t g i ve hi m the desired information. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. The SPEAKER observed that this was one of the days on which notices of motion took precedence. He under stood, however, that the Noble Lord (Morpeth) wished to proceed to one of the Qrders of the Day, if the House had no objection. GRAND JURIES . (IRELAND.) Lord NIORPETH said the motion was one to which he expected no sort of opposition, and he hoped the House would grant its indulgence, in order that th e Bill b e carried into effect p: evibus to the approaching Assizes, which commenced next week. He would therefore move that the Order of the Day for the child reading of the Grata' Juries (Ireland) Bill be now read. Mr. O'CONNELL said there were some mistakes in one of the clauses which it would be necessary to correct. Sir E. KN ATC lIBULL thought it was exceeedingly ;.m. portant that the rule laid down should be adhered to. The Noble Lord had stated that he apprehended no oprmsition to the third reading .of the Bill ; but he had scar..:ely said so, when the lion. Member for Kilkenny informed him that there were two or three points which required. amendment. It was therefore extremely ne2essary that the, rule laid down by the House should be adhered to.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. O'CONNELL was exceedingly obliged to the Right Lion. Baronet for the great care ho took of him—for his ex ceeding kindness in taking his (Mr. O'Connell's) part—(A laugh)—and the mero especially, as when the Bill went through Committee there were tire English Members in the lim‘se ail the others being Irish. Lord MOl PET II would for the present waive the motion. QUALIFICATION OF MEMBERS OF PARLIA- - M ENT. Sir W. MOLESWORTH rose to move for leave Um