The Sun. — London, England, 1846-03-04 00:00:00

theß on. - ~...c ------.............. i<lember for Durham (Mr. Bright) ought at the ian act of injustice towards Canada. That country hest not ~;;• tii be re reernbtiredenarnely, whether they (eight no , isle ti tneient time to express its esertifill Ort the measure, net lesion o ''''' tiv,e eeiseerneet, to exiend ilie •r..•., `ti_ , me ead ~ .r+ ?sae's thz •IYry tedi‘ , ll, , 1103,,te. whieil seerand likely to ei r. Nc t 4 teivirittele groutte s for ad. - retires measures te, d o en ief. in . net-action in the price te vpiu;n. --(Laughter. ) Ile tetio n , s, - 1) " 6: 't l'£ sere 1. , never c mtempi e e d ey el, i ileitis:set teas - wee., she fisget Hoc:. Berotiet eyelid tell the neagh, it would extensive an impairer as some Hon. Members Prussian Minister that he intended to make a large reduction great t woulii lead to. He (Mr. Newdegate_) knew that a in the tariff of the country, be would receive a hearty shake s ei se number e t of electors bad been dealt with, bah in Warwick- of the hand from him ; but he would receive a shake of the ele ng r t i n Staffordshire, but under the circumstances be head, when he asked abeut any reduction in the Prussian tariff. The t evould be useless to pers e vere in his motion. ffi 'notion was withdr awn acc ne r dingly. He did consider that the measure was hurried on with su cient grounds, and certainly it mast be, he thought, admitted kr., FoR • • RAILWAYS. that they should first of all have a financial statement. The en s bee ,re ORS TER moved for returns of all the railway , schemes malt-tax, it was hoped by the agricultural classes, would be te en n e ,it. the House, together with returns of the list , of ee abolished, line there was, he feared. little chance of such t ebertl w et r , et n had been constructed, and the ein the course of being tee case. He lb night it witule be very proper to say. The seo u' ti that at the cenclusion of three years, that tax al=e should o . rl was agreed to. cease. There was a 'sum of 50e,000 . retee tewaris the ex- GAME-LAWS. penses of the navy, and he could reit but believe there would eettron.C.elle.AVEN 13 e RKELEV. in moving for a select be ann a lar ge a mount required for the army. There was te e "' . which had been asked for in a petition from Chen -500,000 e voted for public unless in Ireland, and a remission of bete' begged to nay that he had been accused by a Mem- taxation was proposed to the amount of half a million te eniri lte , Anti Corn-law League, of making a diatribe against more, so that, after all, he believed they would the garu e'a 'new to carry his own motion for an alteration in be placed in the position of having, not with far e e , e etaies. Now, he must beg to assert that in moving standing the income-tax,a deficient revenue, 4ntally inadequate lee e „,e_ennmittee, he had not the slightest h stile- feel- to meet the expenses of the country—(Hear, hear)—and teneei n ust the Anti-Corn-law League, or against any insti- that there was in consequence great chance of having- an in e iel the country • crease ot taxation. Under those circumstances he thought IliWi ani mittee was then appointed, consisting of Mr. Craven that before the measure was carried 'through the House, t P err e e e ieY ' A ', ! r• Blight, Mr. Nevrdegate, Mr. T. Duncombe, M r . the financial statement should be made; and he also saw no rea 4,idy ' ' r • Ridley Colburn, Sir R. H. Ifiglis. Mr. Red- son why the acids of the Bill should not be neutralized by a ptt u sn a , n e k l e r s .. M. Gibson, Mr. Villiers, Lord discussion of tee sugar duties.—(Laughter.) The Right Ifciersrtit.iiiittritken,dee;ir.R; Hon. Baronet would give them much greater satisfaction if ° THE:ITON objected to the appointment of the he had introduced a discussion of the sugar duties. There was '• Th e n ee, on th e groun d s o f t h e expense. anot h er reason , too , f or d e l a yi ng th e que s ti on ; it wait the pre e•ornusittee was appointed. carious state in which they were with respect to America. Sire . re GRAND JURIES. Why he thought that freetrade under the present circumstance s ked tIia 'RATIAM, in reply to an Honourable Member, would not he' introduced by the humblest tyro in legislative reed that the information received by the G o vernment of the knonledge, for it did appear to him that as matters at present ' ' orte e n gs of the gran d j ur i es , es p ec i a lly th a t o f t h e coun ty o f stood, instead of free trade a war tax would be impos e d; they s hOuld I stive ee nTh erlend, was at present insufficient to base any legis- he feared, have to re-establish the beer tax, and they would be "sures for their improvement. . in a position of having broken up a great party in the country, Joel n ne INDIAN ARMY. and be obliged is the end to retrace their steps. Under all 'Vest to eeTZRO y wished to know how the Ministry in- these circumstances he thought it would be expedient that some t serenC Proceed with regard to giving medals to the seve r al of the business connected with the financial statement should ' 4 06, 4 ? of the Indian army who had been g enea ed in the late be first introduced, but be must say, in conclusion, he pre ps tt ,„ ferred the measure brought forward by the Right Honourable n y wte e t ir r e.EL could not say exactly what course would be Baronet than the total and immediate repeal of the corn-laws. 'etief,e leele knew that medals were in preparation for the of- Mr. WARD rose and said, that the Hon. Gentleman who '•%t e n e army but did no t k now w h a t th e me d a l s wou ld had last spoken, accused them of hurryi n g nu that question, of fur the ' other mem of the service. end that the landlords were intitled to be heard, twenty or The ADJOURNED DEBATE. thirty of whom had not yet spoken. Of the whole speech o ttiorder o f t h e day having b een rea d , w hi c h h e i n fli cte d on t h e H ouse, not one wor d b ut t h e l ast te ethe ' NKEei said that he was anxious to make a state- sentence bore on the question. It seemed that one half • eneen t PEW, that farmers wished that there should be ar of the Ht nourable Gentleman's argument was corn .s`if 14 e repeal of the corn-laws. He could not understand plaiting of her Majesty's Ministers, and the other half was on the hes sei f ,t advant age would result to lieland from oeening the subject of protection. The Hon. Gentleman complains of N ee, i:`)' the Government did not proceed to open them et taxes, and talks of the abolition of the malt-tax, as a boon to kt th a t i it would be for the great benefit of Ireland, why was the farmers. But he thought that every Gentleman in that it tati ef e e_iirse pu rsue d, If the opening of the ports was for Huse would admit that ninety-nine parts out of every t tts s 11 ,1 1 that country as was said, why was it not dome, when hundred was paid by the consumer. That is the boon which i' s soe so r t ii known that every gentleman in that House was in the farmer's friends propose, and in which they all concur. f i e st kii "eh a measure. He thought the measure should net He had always heard of an old saying, which was " God pre ltentloned by that Parliament if sanctioned at all, because serve me from my friends, for I shall preserve myself from my a'ttNiel b e carried by a majority of 112, who had pledged enemies." Such he thought may now be the feelings of the w ki or tes to vote a different way. If it passed that house in. agriculturists.—( Hear bear.) It was said that the present Litt sew one, the Noble Lord, the member for the city Parliament was incompetent to decide the question, bur he s, -o ,n, considered that it stood more chance of was of opinion that what the Reform Bill did fur the rotten 1111 11e11:" House of Peers. He denied that this boroughs, the present measure would do for the corn-laws. • s et k was tenable, because, when the Peers looked For six years that question had been forcing itself iele e s t i " 'ryes of that House, and found that on the common sense of the House, and it was . Oeti eo ° for five years before Lad voted in an exactly opposite now to he considered what was to be done. For his own part, ire tin to the way they had latterly done, he wished to he had never given a vote on any question in which be so en , e t he eth it iefluence their opinion would have on the decision tirely concurred. His constituency were satisfied with the n t ite ee e r House of Parliament ? Surely a fresh Parliament measure of the Government, and were most anxious to see it 1. et ee naree because the sentiments of the people might not carried, and he had formed his opinion from what he had heard '4 u • Why was he afraid to app-al to the country ? to that House, and he should say at once that they shouldeake 14 '14 th decision io n „ e would be an adverse ore, for, m his the meaure of the Government, -which was right per se. His e e tilie e ; li te House of Peers would pay more respect to a new Noble Friend near him said he preferred the. Government esie ns e ut than to the present one. ' Suppose, if after they had measure to any other,and said that he would vote-for it and for 'eae n 'tll the measure of the Right. Honourable Baronet, the rio other; but he did not see why his Noble Friend_ should not LPN t ° ' Lords were to the it out, and that there was an Tree for the immertime repeal. He (Mr. Ward) had an ad. ir%t ti t he constituencies afterwards, and if they decieed vantage which few in that House had. ' He did not 0_ wh o " Measure, what then would Honourable Gentlemen pass the whole week there, for .he . mingled with Stthe v e . now supporting the Ministry without consult- men oho had nothing to do with party feeling or fee lings of their constituents ? He thought, however, with party polities ; and who were not interested with regard thelteference ht be given to the measure propounded to the measure, and who differed with him on the question of bs ett et i ov ernment o , u4 which hewaseure would never have been in- protection. They were all rejoicing when they heard of the sit by them hutfor the unnatural coalition which had taken large majority by which the question was decided, for . they ee n e kialition which he never recollected without regret. considf'red it would have the effect. of putting_ an end te the e to le.4 ; I :er, would be perfectly satisfied when the motion was pr,ent uncertainty which . was felt by the country- 1 , Hear, ~, . ta ct the he denied that the Goveremen t had an d y right to heat:) —fir theyt fresh looking forward Weise time _when they esettle,,a7 and dhe if f eelings of the people were cliang a e ken on p t l h at a „ , thereul,dtaetnetderditnstinfertelsyhtabrarentramte was s s w ti r te th gtehneierrallanfedelloirndgs. in the the elections which had t e. t/t eiee efe rred to, it would appear that a contrary country amongst men who did not pass their Saturday's and as entert a i ne d. With res p ec t to th e d e t a il s o f th e S u nday' s a t c l u b s an d o th er pl aces o f resor t. Th ere were man y ,7 bee w e e would h ave an o pp or tu ni ty of speak in g h e re a fter, elembera of that H o use who s e opinions had undergone a Onpapt k :"Id not therefore make 'any further observations change within a very short time, for they sail in resisting the i d etitse r egards one part of the measure which was of a most present motion, their reason for opposing it was for fear the i „stit natur e . H e did h o t thi n k th a t h e en ti re l y un d er - measure o f t h e G overnmen t wou ld b e en d angere d. Th ere :NCI provisions of that measure, because, at one time, he was a great change now come over them from that which they n ° told that it would not confer a right to settlement, felt when they said it was better to.have at once the repeal of e tti lf o 4 , 4° ther time he had been informed that it would provide the corn-laws, than to have it hanging over them foe three Ora alaim to relief. He trusted that the Government years, but they had-such short memories that they did not re eeleesVon the table, in a few days , the proposed.measure in collet!, the statements, which they expressed a few days ago. l ' e steZted form, He would not at present go further into Every man among them (the protectionists) then said, that if he t a n of the general policies of the Government, being the repeal was to take place, it would be better it should he ' ne ...t at the second reading of the Bill he should have a immediate. If they could but consult their understanding— N ei : i t trivenient opportunity. There were at the present if they could but get rid of those odious party feelings. and look eq,_ e ta "Vo propositions before the House, viz., that which at the question in a plain nnbaissed point of view— ell me l t e d from the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton, for ( Hear. h..ar)—tlaere was doubt, that such changes as he en Ho e mediate repeal of the corn-laws, and that of the lied alludeil to would not have so often taken place. e e l tin s , ' Baronet, which proposed their abrogation in three If the result should prove that they were right, arid that the Vl:be t ei ti 'els own opinion was, that before the quieter.: protectionists were wrong, .in all their future arrangements i mately and properly adjusted, it would be necessary .with their tenants their own speeches would be quoted against 4 eti el "to • • "f h ved . the constituencies o. tee country. He had recently them. They would justly say," You told us that we were all Ste no i'sso letters from his own constituents, in which they lestroyed, and that we had not a chance of competing with e^ s % e n d th e i r reso l ut i on to ma i nta i n protect i on as l ong as th e P o l e or R uss i an , an d th a t Engli s h c apital an d En g li s h Is e and he should feel it his duty to support them in that science would go for nothing in the race, how then can you ' tS it . expect us to enter into competition where the race is decided e'ne ets PEEL had understood f rom hi s H on . F r i en d (M r . b e f ore i t i s r i m ?" This would be their language, and it would :Zlld./ ... tbat the Hon. Member f or Somersetahire had inti. be quite natural. For himself he believed that the terrain - esti 0 7 !pinion, that he cons id ere d t h e t o t a l and immediate armerse were rejeiced at the decision which had ben arrived int eo ' 'lle corn-laws would be preferable for the interests of at, and wished the question decided in order to 1~!ie teted in agriculture, than a protracted delay of three be able to meet them ( the landlords) on fair and ii e n s ee n "J (Sir R. Peel) had assumed that it was so, en the rational terms.—( Cries of " Hear, hear.") If he considered Cte sei 'en, because he had heard the statement with his that by supporting; the measure of his Honourable Friend he lOtte se 4 nd be thought it had been assented to. That state- would risk the measure of the Government, he would vote e in e Oin n tiow contradicted. He had made the observation on the against it —(Hear , hear from the protectionists.) Yes, he , nr , , ,,0f the debate—be had repeated it two nights after- considered the measure of the Government as a great boon . tesi lee the Presence of the Hon . . Member for Somersetshire , conferred upon the country, but at the same time he . thought Cee tad e ttnwed him to speak without any correction what- it would further its own object better by being immediate than C s lei ta n s gsw he heard from his Hon Friend (Mr. Bankes) gradual. -- ( Hear, hear.) Tses et lge a complete mistake as to the Hon. Member for Mr. LIDDELL could not possibly receive the opinions of , tl 4 ‘ si tor s t urre's real opinion. the Honourable Member who had just sat down without con 1i Y.Pti . conversational explanation here ensued betwesn Sir sideiable hesitation, because they were preconceived opinions, 'e s 4 nd Mr. Bankes, but was carried on in so low a tone. witch the Honourable Member had ever held, and to which he If Pu it. r, ne ePort was not audible in the gallery. was clearly prejudiced. The question for the House to consider \4'44,,,‘IGHT intended to explain a misconception which eras, whether they were prepared to accept the modified corn : „Int to M ember fur Somersetshire had fallen into with law, or whether they should consent to an immediate repeal. , 11 11 2tfe et s'what he (Mr. Bright) had stated about the The lion. Gentleman had quoted from some papers which, he Nof . a ge on an estate near Bigswell. The estate con- said, he had received from a most respectable firm of met - - 't- .i, 1 • 0 00 acees, a great portion of which was not culti- chants but were that Hon. Gentleman in the House a few t ro l g he valuation was made, and had been made, for years heurs earlier, he would have heard a question put by the Hon. 'kt te let e VPon thy portion which was under grain cultivation. Member for Wolverhampton to the Vice-President of the e bele In e i , that the sum of 916/. had been paid in the Board of Trade, as to whether wheat had not been thrown eb e llle n , °, Y the Duke of Rutland for damage done by game, into the Thames because of the high rate of duty it had ete it Nt ee tihation was made on no other part of the estate but placed on i•.— ( Hear, hear. ) 11 (te es lett was under grain cultivation, consisting of about Mr. PETER BORTHWICK, having heard many corn • h• iie wo u ld show his Hen. Friend indisputable proof plaints made as to the length to which the debate hart run, I s es je c re t e„out of doors, if he still felt inclined to doubt it. rose to ask the House, as also her Majesty's Ministers , to t t eele te eve ARD was of opinion, that the proposed measure whom the country was indebted fur the present protract e d ,le t tl t e e t , More capital to be employed, and better wages discus-ion ?—( Hear, hear.) In the month of October, 1845, s%LielA t : ° * cultivation of land, The farmer would fine in they had been told that the country was quiet, the Exchequer neseagi n e t teh better protnctiou than any that the Legislature overflowing, trade prosperous, and labour employed ;in fact.. ' siOhttte,'"ee He regretted that the Right Hon. Baronet had in no respect in which the country could be regarded did it :•te 4 fn e v °, l o the ad v ice of the, Noble Lord the elember for the not present a most satisfactory appearance.—( Hear, hear.) 214 11 Z i tton. He (Mr. Howard)thooght that the present was But in that month a certain organ 'of public information 1:. 1 ,e, in s T e i t inae for the immediate repeal of .the corn - laws eummunicated- the startling intelligence that it was 10 ,7, L 'ord had told them last night, that there existed the intention of her Majesty's Government in the •: - Qtse 'ergs !took of corn in foreign ports. Would it then se end week in January of the present year to propose an im .)0411,.. it three years to give foreiers an opportunity of mediate and total repeal of the corn-laws. ii e begged to ask \Siti t 't,se : 4 t heir snuck's, so as to flood t his country at the ex- every Gentleman acquainted with the commerce in the coup. l i ttl,e,tiq the . period, with their produce. It was try, whether, from that moment, the state of commerce in eren 4 t the . ferener should be suddenly called upon to corn- Engle e d bad not been utterly paralyzed?--(Hear, hear, end N %II 4 large influx of foreign corn. The Hight Hbn. k ts, a laugh.) He further asked, whether Hon. Gentleman 'did ohe te t t a asked for the opinion of the country gentlemen on not believe that, if_ her _Majesty's Government, instead of ret t e ' and he for one had given his advice. He should verifying, had falsified that statement, and come d wn. to 'the Ver JiAro n otron for the total and immediate repeal. House with ',time practical measure to meet the, famine pre i t ie " HANDIER would support the Government valent in Ireland, whether the commercial condition of the is e *h; -: ' t otie e 'ea provided protection for three years, rather than country would not be as prosperous in Mares', 18e6, as it was Went o eute d P r° Posed by the lion. Member for Wolverhampton. in October, 1845? He put the question, and if it could not 4 L e e .- look at the question merely as an abstraction, he be answered by Hon. Gentlemen on the Treasury benches, let Nenenclined to recommend the entire re p e al, but the he would put it to the House, and ask, .were they—who were , ` i •lti i ht had to consider the general effect of this measure engaged in resisting measures of innovation, of a revolutionary .R A„ if erent bearing s , and it was necessary to this end nature—were they to blame for protracting the discussion? lli zie eli te.. . lee. e should provide ag inst every contingency.. The —( Loud cries of " Hear, hear," from the protectionists. ) 'IV ." °PPosite had expressed a desire that the settlement T h ey must show him that land in England was more lightly ? she a t t li te tteli tionshoul t l. be definitely accomlished. He could burdened than land in any other country, before he could agree erPNoble Lord, that were be in office, he (Sir John in the principles of free trade. It was said by the Right Hon - k m would have still retained the same opinions as he now Baronet, that if the ports were opened to relieve the distress of t(te, t o si niuld• have voted in the same way as he now in- the moment, who could again close them? i=s would rather be 1i41,,t, v ote „ etre te • ,tee wou ld sup p or t th e measur e of Govern- convinced by the experience of the opening of the , ports of , --1. - as his humble capacity would go, whether as a the necessity of free trade, than by the three years experi %hz!..itiZl3Prietor or as a Member of Parliament. once of the Right Hon. Baronet, upon which he came to the ' l li‘Nits F ' P ATT thought that the d e bate had token a most resolution of making so great a change as he had done by;the .st ee te teati t rY turn. The heads of the three contending par- present measure. One other word upon the question, why seine l'lq' , tpuil ° be agreed on the point, that after all immediate Hon. Members on that side of the House cheered the idea of i'llltie; - ~" be for the best, but when his Hon. Friend had i mm e diate repeal its preferences to a repeal at the end of three Seg e feet the question •to them. all three seemed to years. If they had had no choice between the one and the k i Nrei t t i t. Th e Ri g ht Hon. Baronet hid set the example, other, then he certainly would prefer immediate repeal, but ,Nl t , v ie : s ay. that.the Noble .Lord the Member for London, they had a choice. t , he Right Hon. Baronet himself gave C s e ntel44 eager to follow in his steps. He (Mr. Moffatt) them three years, and who could calculate the changes that eeen7'tio'eet t ations to make. He had always supported the meths arise before thee period had expired ?—(Cheers. ) • •"ster7 the e . "' d'lties, and the repeal of the corn-laws. He would Mr. HUME said he was very much surprised that any Hon. ;4, l di th e gentlemen opposite to consider how deeply they Member in 'that House should have demared his intention of %t e tte eiLl e r.iteg the whole property of the' couetry by their confining himself to the question before the House,- when to , t sttn 4 , Le t ra' t tion. Let teem look.at the diffetent corn mar- the very last paragraph of his speech he had never once re ' ee'. : ). 0.. - "em go down to Mark.lane, and see how the un- ferred to the matter before them. His Hon. Friend the Mem ; ‘neSenTn e aliened by the three weeks' debate, had paralysed ber for Durbem hail congratulated the House that protection eet t , t 79y lei "'Let there. The country markets were to a was dead and buried, but he had not anticipated that proeec tetl4it .the }'sod condition. Did they consider their tenants eon would have arisen in the person of the lion. Member for ,14 4 sit, " lwould endeavour at ense to put an end to the Evesham, like a giant refreshed .—( Laughter .) The Hon. e mene't,eu e !„,agitated the agricultural districts ot the country. Member had produced strollg allegations from the writings of 1 4tii - ` 0: 4 7...a.° 1 e gentkmaii - concluded by urging on the prone- political economists , but he salt not one of them had referred to i lp fsp Ahe l the necessity of succumbing to superior numbers, the policy of the Right Hon. Baronet. Hew the deuce could they ? ' t'le ir c'eln interests and for the good of the country. ste kt le I The Right Hon. Baronet had come forward in these latter t /o r tlg a would prefer having protection for three years, days, very much to his own honour, and very much to his I ' the Right Hon. Baronet would allow them to (Mr. Hume's) at measures have i lk- e._ t :n enti nth e event of the measure proving injurious, three ing a teedency towards free trade. Protection, which was at yat- l ed goadle time for the Government to retrace their best a system of robbery, would never have been passed but for A les I n, esagainst the evil. The country had, since the this reason. The House of Commons had been altogether ti e et ; ied oe 're great improvements in agriculture in some composed of landed proprietors, and until a year ago no en ', 14 ithe4 r. ,it had almost arrived to a state of perfection.— divieual would sit in the House who had not a qualification in L e ase % i e . He considered it therefore very unjust in the land, and therefore it was they passed a measure which en " ilei s - cerh e _,:elitievement for the Hon. Member of the League &bled them to take out. of the pockets . of others for the purpose w bother it illeoltsee to ado farmers as lazy drones, ignorant, bigoted , an" of putting into their own. The question now was, l k tlei i : for. b ad °,i't any modern improvement. The Hon. was just to allow one class to levy a tax for their own exclusive t ee w e tie s Gee pt any (Mr.- Bright) had stated that if her benefit upon all others? He (Mr. Hume) denied that justice; e n s e n e ten at ernment would immediately repeal the corn- h e contended that the landed interest hed plundered !the re,atit the t w e ° of the Anti-Corn-law League should cease ; rest of the community, and the whole object of the Right O fe the he would net inflict upon the House at a later Hon. Baronet's measure was to remove this injustice, e n e Vtiesth) e Te,'"itin another debate on the corn-laws. Ile to give to all classes an equal degree of justice. If that mea llteeiY h eneoi ' , sitter is e 1, e- teat tee agitation ef the League was sure were passed, the artisans of England, of France, o f Bel. QIN r e titleere It had mat been attended by any tumult. gium, and of Holland, would be placed on the same footing with t e t ee , t o ti c k, eu discussions, to which the public were ad- regard to food, and therefore the English manufactuaer would not tiLt ei e Zde ?,,Onle, even at Covent-garden Theatre had suffer as heretofore from the inequality of competition. They e t 7. l o7e' saga 4". n° more disturbance than when upon ' alter- had heard in that House of nothing but the landed interests, st i leen 4 (3 tini i ghbourtng theatre the public attended to see as if they alone combined every interest in the country. Hon al p o %i in ver hadrs ~, re , seen emixote. He was sure that the Members very well knew that they were only a fractional part— fetentatiroled te t e''''‘ no objection to their agitation. and if one- titth or one-sixth of the whole community Let Them Stt ea l te e !" had - ca ll a meeting of 5,000 for the purpose of take the Parlienientary return to which an Honourable Mom (4 4 ia,, N the n° doubt but that the same number might b- ber referred last night. That Honourable Membenetated this tie t !anh e se and egriculturisis, partisans ould make equally as important fact, that the whole population employed in agricul , eeettien,er.) t he to as the of the Iseague.e' tore were only some eight per cent. But they were told this 144 t n i epe e t ' it s to his promise that he (Mr. Bright) would was an unfair statement. Let them look at the income-tax. N s o l ; _ 4 ° hn the e e li s " s e another eeltate on the corn-laws. he It appeared that the whole income tax of 5.000,000/. had been tt h tl a les e f si dens'etember that there were at least ' fifty Mern- levied upon 200,000,0000 .of property, but only :32,000,000/. out * at d b ee IN T , ` , ne Howie who were suffering from ad the o f thi s sum was returned for the whole property of England. he e 't lane 4 s aid e a t et sPeeches.—( H e ar, hear, and laughter.) t Hear.) And yet it was asked thatevery other class in the coon tisee to 1 °ree l elletii the course o f t hi s d e b a t e th a t th e resent try should contribute to this monstirrus system of protection. t - fie l 'etit he I 'i/int tict • He denied that it wee so, but if it He had been led away from the question before this House liy 11:4;) el! the instead that they had an equal right with the this incident, but he would now apply himself to it, and that I,,, t4 hes v coal k"otaeturer to press his grievances .—( Hear, question was, how he should vote upon the present occasion. oh end met uut sm s t ti "' 'l4 S obl 1e at the simplicity &the Right Hen. Be loiiked upon the 'measure of the night Hon. Baronet' as 9144 . '44 0 1 ed tic y the Member for the City Itf' it very immetant and comprehensive one, ' and much more to tie ta i n ott weo t ie ihe ceten ; ,. ) consider that the present would be a the per pose than he could have expected or anticipated, and P w es t eu e ,,, i ‘l e be a gain n • . He could assure them that the' therefore he would not run the risk of losing it by adopting any titl ,It p eei ,? o Wa s ire ° Penes' at the general election. The other course, and therefore he would vote for it now, Cheers.)a then sek ee eto p enes .ated . in an entirely erroneous manner. see how much more could be got afterwards.—( °es :he - 7 11i eed, sePin---it was assumed to he a good ques- Loud GEORGE BENTINCK said that the Honourable eteeeteretnnunoo.eowever, that it was not so ;he believed Member had called the agricultural Members a selfish tt.4)the agricultural and manufacture party. and that they were not contenewith a fair share of the °kr eu ee °Untry natue,, e ,_, .• • He believed that it would be of no Goveromerit of the country ; but he begged to tell the Hon. ,‘,. " 4 r elations with America, and that it was ' Member that if that party had a fair share of the Government of the country, there could be little doubt as to the mode in which the present measure would he dealt with.--s( Hear, `vies.r. ) He thought friar the landed interest had inc , :e than a sir share of the publi'e burdens. But with resoect to the -r,,,ti00 now before the House, he begged to say lei thought his Honourable Friend had misapprehended what had been said upon it by the agricultural Members. He. could assure the Hon. Member that there were many Members on this side the House who would prefer a total and immediate repeal of the corn-laws to having that measure hanging over them for three years.-( Hear, hear.) It was a saying of Napoleon that the British troops knew not when they were beaten; and he (Lord G. Bentinck) begged to tell the House t h a t his party would now stand in the same position, and that it they were beaten they would retreat and rally their forces ( Cheers)-and keep the question before the country, and show ,he people the manner in Which some Hon. Members had kept the pledges they had mnde at the hustings.-( Cheers. ) They would do this until they would at. length compel her Majes'y's Government to quit office, and go again before ter Majesty's people-(Cheers)-and restore things once more to what they were before.-(Cr:es of " Hear, hear.") The average price of corn at Dantzic was 255. 4d. per quarter. He would take all expenses of freight, &c., to the port of Lon. don to be about 65., and that would give a price of 3ls. 4d., the price at which corn could be sold here. The price during the whole period of five years, front 1833 to 1837, averaged 23,. ; and taking five other years, from 1823 to 1827, the average price was 275. Id. Other ports fro n which returns had been given, via., Bradenburg and Pomerania, and at which the price was 6d. higher than at Dantzic, and yet the corn could be bought for a very low price in the port of London. He had other communications, one of which was from a constituent of the Hon. Member for West Riding. The name of his col rt spondent was Mr. Taylor, a gentleman who had been for 40 years engaged in the corn trade. That gentleman said that he had bought beans in Hamburgh at from 10s. to lls. per quarter, and wheat from 18s. to '23s. per quarte-. The gentleman commenced his letter by stating that he had seen what he (Lord Bentinck) had said on the subject, and in his opinion it was perfectly correct. The difference of the duty now payable by law, and the duty proposed to be allowed would be pocketed by ejse holder of corn and by the importers. He had another stateni#t .of prices from another gentleman aiso forty years in the trade. He said that in 1826, he pur chased large quantities, of wheat-in fact to the amount of several thousand quarters, and though the wheat was as fine as could be grown, the price varied from 18s. to 21:. The freight of that wheat to the port of London would be 35.. 6d. per quarter, making a cost of 245. 6d., so That it would be clear to the farmers of England at what price foreign wheat could be brought into competition with their home produce. The last letter, to which he should call the attention of the House, was from a Norfolk farmer, and it related to the price of corn during the very last year. He stated that he had purchased 807 qrs. of wheat in June last at 265. 4d., and he had the offer of 3,000 q• s. more at the same price. file expense of freight to the port of London, including lighterage, cartage, &c., was 6s. per qr. more ; 6s. and 265. 4d. made 325. 4d., an that was the price at which, on the Ist of June last, wheat weighing 62Ibs. per bushel was imported into London. If gentlemen would take the trouble to add the present duty of 17s. to the cost of corn in Mark lane, they would find that the ins porters could afford to pay 17s. per quarter duty, and have clearly 14s. profit.-(" Oh, oh," from the Opposition. ) Was that not a strong proof that the measure going to be in troduced by Ministers was injurious ? He had promised not to detain the House, and he was not going to do so, but he would advert to the distinction drawn by a fellow-labourer of his who was engaged with him in a committee on the game laws. That Hon. Member thought fit to take a little diversion in game, and he had heard evidence given as to the extent of damage done to the Duke of Rutland. One of the principal witnesses on the question was a Quaker.-(Heat, hear, and laughter.) That witness carried his aversion to bloodshed further that, the gentlemenof Reading, who would not give to the British army the thanks due to their service. He bad such an aversion of bloodshed, that he was astonished how the Duke of Rutland could take any delight in the killing pheasants and partridges.-(Laughter.) He had such pre judices on this question relating to the damage done by the game, that he went the length of stating that the damage in one ',stance on meadow land was at the rate of 30s. per acre. Now be (Lord G. Bentinck) ascertained that the rent of the land referred to was only 255. an acre. This argument respecting the damage of game had been set forth as an argu inent in favour of free trade, and it was stated that the damage done to the farm in question was 9541. in 1833 ; and 951/. in 1844 ; but on this subject he had the testimony of h.s Noble Friends behind hien the sons of the Duke of Rut land, who stated that a new valuer had made an estimate of the damage at between 200 e to 300/. He (Lord G. Bentinck) trusted therefore he had answered the observations on this point. made by the Hon. Member for Durham. Mr. COBDEN rose and said, that the one part of the speech of the Noble Lord who had just sat down related to how cheaply corn could be imported into the country, and the other part had reference to the opinions of the farmers in relation to immediate or delayed repeal. He should not refer to the first part of the speech, further than to repeat what he had said before on this question, relating to the price of food, a matter of great import ance to the people of this country. The . Noble Lord has said that grain could be supplied at 31s. 2d. per quarter; that is that wheat of good quality could be had in large quantities at this price.-( Hear, hear. )-Indeed, but that was nothing to what the Hon. Member ior Sunderland had stated, for he said that lie could supply wheat from foreign countries at 255. per quarter. --. Hear, hea .) If that were sit, be ( Mr. Cobden ) was sure tnere was not a navigator in the country that would not buy from that Hon. Member.- (Laughter and cheers.) Now, the question before the House was a very narrow one, and he would not deviate from the strict lire) of the question -it was, whether it was better 'hat the revel of the corn-laws should be immediate, or be abolished three years hence. This was the question to be con sidered. tie must say that the motion of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton (air. Villiers) was unfortunately brought forward at the present moment, but that Hon. Gentleman had Ito other course left him. The forms of the House left him no other alternative, he must either bring forward his motion in that manner or not at all.-( Hear, hear. ) But his Hon. Friend had not considered the temper of the House in bringing forward his motion, when he heard Hon. Members below the ,angway state that they would pre:er an immediate settlement of the question to the proposition of the Right Hon. Baronet. -( Hear, hear.) Nor had he (Mr. Cobden) heard any argu ments advanced against t he immediate repeal, either from states men, politicians, or farmers' friends ; but on the contrary he heard the Hon. Member for Sumersetshire, (Mr. Miles) make the distinct assertion, in the name of the argricultural party, in which he was cheered by the gentlemen behind him, that of the two propositions he would prefer the immediate re peal. He said, if the question of delayed repeal or immediate repeal was proposed to the farmers, that they would declare for the repeal being immediate-( Hear, hear.) The Duke of Richmond said the same in another place Not tone man said it would be better to delay the settlement of the question. And he (Mr. Cobden) defied any gentleman on the opposite side of he house to say that the' farmers would prefer the delay to an immediate refusal.-(Hear, hear.) They, j(the protec tionists) at their meetings, had made a parade of tend agents, representing them as farmers, and getting them to make speeches on behalf of protection. (Cries of " No no")-he said yes, for he knew that at. all those meetings land agents and auctioneers were brought fOre ward to speak on behalf of the farming interest. He admitted that they might be holders of land, but from their professions, they had an interest in the delay and uncertinty that arose from the present system. He challenged any Hon. Gentleman to say that the farmers preferred a delay of three years to' an immediate repeal. A reference had been made to the decision that was likely to :trite from a division in another place, con trary to the conclusion at which that House was likely to .ar rive. He could say that in his opinion, a great difference had been made and that a great mistake had occurred in the mak hig of the motion. Had he been consulted upon the matter, he should have said the motion itself was unwise, anti that it would have been - better to have ;left ,he matter 'in the hands ef the Government, . for he would not hesitate to say that the opinion which had been expressed respecting the 15th clause was altogether a mistaken one, and that if the conclusion at n hich the Hon. Member had arrived was correct, the public opinion seas a nullity, and that the exertions of Hon. Members were altogether set aside. He wished the minds of lion. Members should be. disabused of the opinion that public feeling was justified on this point. The sympathy of the people was not destroyed, and he begged to give this warning to the Members of the Govern. ment, in order to show them that they had another difficulty to contend with which they had not possibly ' contemplated.- ( Cheers.) He would take example by the Right Hon. Baronet, and assert that it would be necessary to evince their opinions ey their votes, and he would assure Hon. Gentlemen that the Anti-Corn-law League would not gainsay any one of their posi tions. He would say there what he had often said elsewhere, that the interest on this question was not in the slightest de gree diminished. They were ready to take 17s. 6d., with:the full expectation that they would obtain the other halfecrown by an appeal to the House. He would say this, that there had been a grievous misrepresentation of the line of conduct which he had pursued, and he thought that a better course might have been pursued before the House. The main principle appeared to be, that in the question before the House, it was impossible to allay the agitation that had been excited throughout the coun try. He believed that the endeavour which had lately been made to support the corn-laws had been based upon' the supposition that the corn-laws would cease in two-and-a-half to three years. But he thought they were mistaken on this point, 'and had treated the Hon. Member for Durham (Mr Bright) with no little discourtesy, and had treated his suggestions with con tempt.-( Cheers.) An endeavour bad been made to alter the course which bad been devised, but he thought the pro ceeding of his Hon. Friend highly injudicious, and he trusted therefore the House would take into serious consideration the circumstances which be had laid before there, and that they would adopt such measures as would be advantageous to them selves and to the country. If they were to appeal to the country, they would find that the people were eagerly anxious to pass the measure, although they were quite ready to forego any claims that might arise from the passing of it. Well, now, he saw very great danger to the measure of the Right Hon. Baronet in that step--(Hear, hear)-because the Right Hon. Baronet had very properly stated, that we should go on from day to day with the question until it was disposed cf.-(Hear, hear.) But he could apprehend the chance of some little delay in another place. He could foresee the chance of the Government being out of office before this measure passed through the other House.-(Protectionist cheers.) He did not know whether the tenure of office of the present Ministers was worth six weeks or two months' purchase.-( Loud laughter and cheers from the protectieniets.) But he did not see very great wisdom- (Opposition cheers)-- or any great policy in the course by which' they proposed to turn out the Government of the Right Honourable Gen tleman.-(Continued cheering.) But that was their (the protectionists') business.-( Cheers. ) His business there was to keep this question complesely out of their powsr, and completely out of the reach of their touch.-(Hear, hear. ) Now he would say . that this question with the country was safe.-(Cheers.) Why, they were united 'on the principle of total and immediate repeal of the corn-laws, and the e was no power on earth that could prevent the carrying out of the abolition of the corn-laws.-(Cheers.) And it war, therefore, because he foresaw dangers-because he foresaw the course of vexatious policy towards the present Ministers-a policy which he would not bind himselt to follow-(Cheers)-because he saw in those insidious amendments and proposals, as well as the amendments that were spoken of in another place. dangers arid pit-calls to this measure. It was therefore, and therefore alone, that he was anxious that they should preserve themselves intact with the country-( Hear, hear )- and Hon. Members on his side of the House would not oppose the measures of the Right Hon. Baronet if they were even ten times stronger than they were.-(Cheers.) Now, after the division on this question, I will give as cordial a support to the measure of the Government, as any gentleman in tins House.- ( Hear, hear.) And now I ask Hon. Gentlemen opposite those who have taken an enlightened view of the necessities of the country, and have agreed-some, I have no doubt, in op position to their own feelings- ( Hear, hear)-to give their support to the measure of the Government, when they see that in the free trade party there is no disposition to oppose, but every 1 disposition to aid them. I hope that we shall unite here cordially and if there is a dissolution, I hope that when we go to the ceutitry, if there must be a dissolution, that we shall go united -( Hear, hear)-and that they would see that their motion for immediate repeal, instead of having at all tended to diminiSh the acrimony and the intensity of Hon. Gentlemen opposite, it would be rather increased. He hoped that if a dissolution . must come, Hon. gentlemen who had come forward in sup port of the measure of the Goveroment, , would then go to-, g-ther as a united body.-( Cheers.) And he sincerely hoped ' and trusted that every vestage of the late Tory and Whig t • • • r " - Jr ,c - r• . I, .1 • , TELE SUN, LONDON WEDNESDA Y MORNING ) MARCH 4 3 • Iparties would be thrown aside until this question was fairly disposed of in the country. Now, he did not intent!" to go hies an argument, and show why the farmers would be benefited by having on immediate repeal, llis enieiens were before the country. He thought that those (spinier': lied been pretty well read and canvassed, and he did not intend to repeat what he had already said to them. He sincerely hoped, after this question had been merely divided on, that they would see that this measure was inevitable. He also hoped that' in another place they would see that this measure seas inevitable. He did nut despair, notwithstanding all this irritation and excitement, when they found that the farmers 'would prefer immediate and total repeal-. ( Hear, hear)—arid that this measure was disposed of by that House. He did net despair that befit, e the end sf this session the princiele of an immediate repeal of the corn-laws would be established by Act of Parliament.—(e beers.) And he did think if Hon. Gen tlemen would for a moment reflect upon what they were going to enceunter in the promoting, and compelling, and coun tenancing this agitation—if they would but candidly and cooly consider what their position was in undertaking this conflict, why, he, as one of the members of the League, should really be almost ashamed to enter the field of battle under such lead ers.—(Cheers.) They were broken up, and dispersed, and without leaders—in fact, he really believed that the ghost of the League would be more powerful-than the flesh and blood of the members of that party. —(Loud lan thter. ) But he hoped that gentlemen would take a cooler view of the case ; and he did hope in another place, where there was 5) much hope that all the areumeres that they had used, would be very well ap ace' by Noble Lords who belonged to the agricultural interest. He hoped that the Lords would take his advice.—(Laughter from the protectionists.) Yes- (Opposition cheers)-,he would undertake to say, if they would, in their place, instead of taking their (the protectionists') advice, which, if it were Parliamentary, he should almost say was insane—(Laughter) .they would take his, and, instead ot throWing out :he measure if they would graciously say, " the country seems to. prefer repeal, and the farmers seem to prefer immediate repeal— ( Hear, he ) Arid we will not only pass this measure, but we will make the measure our own."—(Cheers.) Then would the House of Lords be restored to its pristine respect and authority—(Laughter from the protectionists)—and, as an in dividual, he at once said, we might thank Heaven that there was still a House of Lords.---(Loud cheers.) Lord Master, Sir Twoetes ACLAND, and several other Members, rose together, at the conclusion of the Hon. Mem ber's speech, to address the House, but there being loud cries fur Sir Thomas Arland, Sir THOMAS DYKE ACLAND accordingly pro ceeded to address the House, in opposition to the amendment, and in favour of the Ministerial measure. He thought that the Anti-Corn-law League having so nearly attained the object for which they had been striving should not slow endanger the safety of the present measure iu order to sst-tsfy their consciences, or because they might appear consis tent, having always agitated for a total and immediate repeal of the corn-laws. He preferred the proposal of her Majesty's Government to an immediate repeal, because he thought that the immediate abolition of ,those laws would be like going down a steep incline instead of a moderate descent. He considered that when the proposed measure was once passed it would be as difficult to repeal it again as it would be to turn the course of a mighty stream back to its fountain.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) It might be true that the Right Hon. Baronet was conferring a great advantage en the country, and they could not say that his measures would be attended with very great success ; and if so, he for one thought that the Right. Hon. Baronet would have the benefit of such success, but if it should turn out otherwise, as he very much feared it would, why, then the re sponsibility should rest with him, and, for his part, he would not be answerable for any portion of it.—(Cheers. ) Mr. THOMAS DUNCOM BE rose and said that he would give an unqualified and consistent support to the measure proposed by her Majesty's Ministers, and his vote should be a practical, and not a popular one; and in op posing his Hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, it was more his duty than his pleasure tocio so. Wishing to sea the corn-laws repealed, he felt called on to give his vote in favour of the Government measure ; for they had required of the Government to stand by thee plans; and if he now de serted them they would have a right to say that you left us on the three years' question for that of an immediateand total repeal of the corn-laws, and we now in return will not stand by you with regard to the settlement you propose, respecting the inanufac ing distriets. Under those circumstances, he said, he felt it his duty to vote with the Right Hon. Baronet, and in doing so he begged to state that long betore the Anti-Corn-law League was in existence he voted far a repeal of those laws. He locked on his vote as a practical one, and did not give it with a party view. Many of the Members who had expressed a wish ter an immediate repeal, bed now changed their minds and said they were not prepared for an instant alteration of the kind; for now, when they were pat to the test, they would go out into the lobby with the Right Hon. Baronet, and he very much questioned whether the Right Hon. Gentleman was perfectly safe in such company.—(Cheers and laughter). He considered tha: the motion of the Hon. Member for Wol verhampton was brought forward from a conscientious mo tive, as he had pledged himself to the Anti-Corn-law League to bring forward the question far a total repeal ; and although his vote may be considered by the League as unpopular, yet he should give it in favour of the Government measure. The Earl of MARCH then rose and said that it had been remarked by the Hon. Gentleman opposite that. the Govern ment were nit safe in going into the lobby with his (the Earl March's) friends, but he confessed he was at a loss to know where they would be perfectly safe.—( Cheers and laughter. ) The Bon. Gentleman tells them that the Right Hon. Baronet was not safe at his side of the House, and he thought a circum stance had taken .place which would make the Right Hon. Baronet the S. cretary for thb Home Department not par ticularly safe on that question.—( Great cheers and laughter.) But be (the Earl ot March) thought that the Governm , nt might go out into the lobby of the House without meeting with any particular inconvenience.—( Laughter. ) He would not trouble the House with any further observations, but for a remark which had fallenfrem the Hon. Member for Stockport. He states that a noble relative of his had expressed a wish to vo'e for an immediate repeal of the corn-laws, e Lich state ment he begged leave distinctly to contradict. His noble rela tive stated, Veit supposing it was inevitable that the, measure of her Majesty's Gevernment were to be carried, and perma nently adopted, his Noble Friend said that he woult prefer the total and immediate repeal to the repeal in these years time.— ( Loud cheers from the free-traders ) That was what his noble relative stated, that the total and immediate repeal would be better than the repeal in three years, supposing the measure were to pass permanently into a law—( Cheers ) He should maintain that it was incumbent on the Government of the eountry, and the ministry, brought ferward as they were by a majority of 91 in favour of protection of industry; that before they brought forward such a measure as the present, they should in common justice and honesty appeal to the people of the country—( Hear, hear. ) Mr. HUDSON said that reference having been made to him, he would trouble the House for only a very few moments. The Hon. Member for Stockport had stratigely misrepresented what had fallen from him (Mr. Hudson) on a former averring. On that occasion he stated most distinctly that in his belief the probable average of the price of wheat would be from 35'. to 40s. per quarter. The Hon. Member had threatened them with the ghost of the Anti-Corn-law League. Now he had the honour of meeting the Anti-Corn-law League in Sunder land, arid he believed he had routed them there.—( Protectionist cheers.) He then wished to warn that body that there was nothing which the people felt more jealous of than the pro ceedings of that body, acting as it was in the endeavour to manufacture voters, and pra c ti s i ng i nt i m id at i on an d d ece ption. He felt it his duty to state that when the question came to the vote, he would be with the Right Hon. Baronet. He did not know where the Hon. lklember for Stockport spent his Sun days, whether with market gardeners or others, gleaning his information, but he (Mr. Hudson) had formed his views from the experience of men well acquainted with the subject. Now he thought the three years would give the farmers time to sow their land, and make such improvements as Would enable them to meet the competition of the continental produce. Indeed he hoped the Right Hon. Baronet's measure would be successful. He also hoped that if carried, the farmers, who were proved to be injured by the change, will have some compensation. For this reason he would give his support to the measure for'the three years. Lord WORSLEY rose, but - from the noise which prevailed in the House he was limperfectly heard ; be was understood to say that the farmers were most anxious that a settlement should take place upon the question, and that an immediate repeal should take place. Colonel SIFITHORP and Mr. VILLIERS rose together, but the latter gave way at the call of the House. The Hon. Gentleman said that he would not presume to trespass on:the time of the Ileu-e, having . occupied so large a portion of it on a previous evening, were it not that he had one or two obser vations to offer, and he thought that the Hon. Member opposite was about replying, previous to a division.—( Hear, hear.) He wished to take this opportunity to deny emphatically that the tenant-farmers were in favour of immediate repeal. He con sidered that they ought to restore the franchise to Sudbury, in order that the two rejected Members of the Government might have seats in that House—( Roars of laughter )=or, in the event of their rejecting his proposition, they might adopt the practice which existed in France, of electing certain Members of the Government without any appeal to the constituent body.—( Hear, hear.) At any rate he could only say that Sud bury or the French system seemed to him to be the only refuge ' for the destitute.—( Laughter.) However, he considered that their constituents hart acted properly in rejecting them, 'be cause, like the Ministers, they had acted fraudulently' to their constituents. Mr. WALLEY and Mr. NEWDEGATE rose together amidst Loud cries of " Withdraw," and ." Divide," but the latter gave way to the Hon. Member for Finsbury, who pro ceeded to say that, he regretted exceedingly to find that the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton, intended to persist in dividing the House on his motion.—( Hear, hear.) However, much he might approve of his intention, and however lightly he aright commend his motives, he could not conceive that a more inexpedient course than this could be pursued by any Member who was friendly to the prepositions of the Honoutable Gentleman. He believed, however, that the Hon. Member persisted in his intentions in conformity with a pledge which he had given elsewhere, and consequently that lie did not feel at liberty to abandon the course which he had hitherto pursued. He deemed this, however, most inexpedient, because out of doors it must cause an impression that those who were favourable to the measure of the Government, had a divided opinion on this great question, but in reality there was no division, and he knew, that after a. short deliberation those who would now vote with the Hon. Member would be, iithey were not now, determined advocates of the measure proposed by her Majesty's Government.—( Hear.) Hon. Gentlemen might consider tkat a contrary opinion was entertained, but he knew from the attention which he had given to the subject that they were wrong, and that the people were dissatisfied with them. The Noble Lord had claimed the election of Westminster as a proof of public opinion on this subject. Why there were two candidates for Westminster, one of Ahem had been long in favour of the repeal of the corn-laws, the other had but lately Laughter.) Did they ( hat might be deemed a c g h o r t io s s ' e nne th n e ew on li e ght whoon the had q adopted . transitory opinion? or did they elect the one who had for years advocated the principle of a total abolition of the corn-laws ? They elected the latter —why then claim this election. The Whigs had no right to claim it as decisive in favour of their views, for only two years since Westminster had three candidates. The Hon. and Gallant Member who had been lately chosen, was one of the three, and the Whig, Tory, or Radical might be said to be represented in one or other of the candidates. The electors chose the Radical then, and Hon. Gentlemen might be very sure that Radicalism was in the ascendant since. He re gretted that this motion had been brought forward chiefly because it might lead those out of doors to suppose that there was a division on the subject of this great measure. He could state from his intercourse with the middle and the working classes that the impression was almost universally abroad that the Right Hon. Baronet had done all he could do on this sub ject. Everybody was full of this exclamation, and they added that when they reflected on the position, in which the Right Hon. Baronet was placed, they were of opinion that he could not do more than he had already done, and that they owed him a debt of gratitude for it. An, Hon. Gentleman opposite said they must go to the country. Another Hon. Gentleman said they must go to the people. But they know very well that they would not'go to the people. If they really wished to know what was the opinion of the people, let them look to the elections—let them look to the show of hands.—(Laughter from the protectionist party.) They spoke of going to the people, why, the people had hands as well as they. Instead of going to the people, they went to those who had the selling of -the food at their command, but they would not appeal to ,the. poor . ignerant classese when:-were , obliged to-create that food. What could be more unjust than this? If the House was desirous of deferring this discussion to ASSIZE IN TEL LIGENCE. WESTERN CIR CU 1 T.- - Winchester, March 2. another night he would have no objection, though he was most unwilling that it should be put forward any longer, because up this time ail the arguments at the ether side had substan-,. 3 proved the of this. at this side.—(Hear, hear. ) Mr. NEWDEGATE said that the Hon. Member for Lin coln had given his opinion that the tenant-farmers of this coun try were In favour of total repeal. He had had the pleasure of meeting many intelligent farmers W ithin an hour before he . entered that House. He admitted that many of them felt bitter disappointment at the sudden and unaccountable change which they witnessed in the feeling of those whom they trusted, and that under the Influence of such feelings,• such an expression might have escaped them ; but he denied that the opinions of the tenant-farmers in this country were in favour of total and immediate repeal, as more beneficial to their interests. With . reference to what h a d • been said by the Ho n . M em b er for Finsbury, he would confirm what that Tlon. Member had said, that there was a democratic and radical feeling arising in this country.—(,Gear, hear.) - Mr. VILLIERS said that the Hon. Member for Warwick shire had denied what had been positively asserted on that side of the House, and told them what hid passed between himself` and his tenants —( Mr. Newdegate, " Oh. no.") He would prove that the principle of protection had nothing to do with the interests of the tenant farmer, and they did not at all trouble themselves about it. The Hon. Member for Finsbury could , certainly not teach him what protection was, for he had advised the House to take the sense of the country by a show of hands, as did also the Hon. Member for Aberdeen. On the policy of bringing forward this motion at the present time he must exercise his own judgment. Ever since he had been in the practice of submitting this proposition to Parlia ment, he had been told he was in the wrong in the course he took, but judging of the events of the present session, it would seem as if he had taken the right course. He would say nothing against Honourable Members on this side of the House supporting the measure of the Govern scent in preference to the amendment, and he did not think that the Hon. Member for Finsbury would loose any popu larity by the course he intimated he should take. There was no popularity to be gained whichever side he might vote on, as far as the two propositions before the House was concerned. He was astonished at the Hon. Member for Lynn saying he would not support the amendment, as he had told them (the free traders), they dare not bring it forward against the Government measure, lest they (the protectionists) should support it. Now, it seemed the delay was considered valuable, as it would enable them to have an election before free trade could come into operation, and that they might succeed in defeating it. They need not calculate on that, as it was in vain for them to expect the restoration of the present system of protection if once the Government measure was carried The farmers were indifferent to it, as a proof of which, he would refer to the fact, that on Saturday last, when the account of the division was sent to the country, the farmers in various places where the news was carried did not seem to care a straw about it. The Hon. Member, having referred to some other points, referred to by previous speakers, coeclnded by pressing his amendment on the Home. The gallery was then cleared for a division. On our re-admission into the gallery there appeared— For the Amendment 7B Against y - Majority ......... -187 THE COAL-WHIPPERS' ACT. On the motion of Sir GEORGE CLERK, leave was ob tained to introduce the Bill to continue and amend the Coal whippers' Act. Captain LAYARD asked if the Government was prepared to lay upon the table of the House any returns of the number of suicides committed to the end of the year 1845? Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT said that as there was no dis tinct register of them there would be some difficulty in obtain ing the returns alluded to. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at half-past One o'clock. The Judges going this circuit, Mr. Baron Rolfe and Mr. Justice Erie, arrived here on Saturday last. They were met by the High Sheriff, John Beardmore, Esq., and his train, at about two o'clock, and immediately proceeded to open the commission with the usual formalities. igYesterJay (Sunday) both the Learned Judges attended Divine ser. vice at the Cathed.•ai. The business of the assizes commenced this day. . The cause list contains an entry of fourteen causes, of which two are marked for special juries. Mr. Baron Rolfe, who presides in the' Civil Court, disposed of eight of the common juries this morning, of which several were undefended. The special juries are fixed for Wed nesday. _ . _ - - • The calendar is very heavy, containing the names of ninety-five prisoners. The crimes with which they are charged are also in many instances of a very serious character, there being two charged with murder, one with manslaughter, one with attempt to murder by poison, four with unnatural offences, three with rape, twelve with burglaries, and a like number for highway robberies. It is a circum stance deserving of the greatest attention that in this long cata logue of crime, out of the whole ninety-five prisoners only one is pos se,sed of superior education, fitly-two can read and write imper fectly, while thirty-two con neither read nor write at all, so that it would seem that more than the usual amount of ignorance to be found in rural districts exists amongst the poorer inhabitants of this county. There is a report prevalent in the town that Lieutenant Hawkey, who, eur readers may remember, was one of the principals hi the un happy duel which took place some months since, near Southampton, the result of which was the death of Captain Seton, will surrender to lake his trial at the present assizes ; but we believe the fact to be that Lieutenant Pym, who was Mr. Hawkey's second at the duel, will surrender and be tried, bnt that Mr. Hawkey will not do so at present. We understand that Mr. Cockburn and Mr. Sergeant King lake are retained for the defence We need scarcely say that the above report has caused considerable excitement, as the parties are so well known in the neighbourhood. Nothing of importance has taken place in the Crown Court to-day. 7. OXFORD ClRCUlT—Reading. March 2. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PLATT.) Charles Ford, aged 27, was indicted for having, on the night of the 20th of December last, unlawfully entered some land, the pro perty of the Earl of Falmouth, armed, and in pursuit of game, and fur assaulting William Wood, one of Lord FulmeutlfF gamekeepers. Wood and two other gamekeepers went out on the night in linea tion to a opla-e crated' Bannister's coppice, and at about 25 minutes to one In the morning they heard the report of a gun in the direc tion of Chaplin's coppice, between which and the spot they then . were watching in runs the River Kennet. They immediately went towards the coppice whence the sound proceeded,' and befoie reaching it heard two more reports, and actually saw the stock of the gun in the last instance. Ou going farther they perceived three men under a tree. Wood, who was the foremost of the three, tried to take them, and, although two got off, he laid hold of the smock-frock of the third, which tore in his hand, and this man also made his escape. A close pursuit was the consequence, and on Wood coming up with the poacher he fotind him fighting with Saunders, one of the other gamekeepers. A scuffle ensued, and Wood was thrown down, and his assailant also fell ; a man whom the poacher called " Bob " joined in the tray. and Wood was severely beate❑ with a short gun. Wood identified the prisoner as the party wh , was fighting with k;auuders, and by whom he himself had been struck. Another cir cumstance corroborating this evidence was, that in the scuffle the man had lost I;ia hat ; a hat was afterwards fOund nuar the spot in which the prisoner's name was written, and which was clearly proved to have belonged to him, . Mr. pros, with whom was Mr. Somerset, pros,ccuted ; and Mr. J. J. Will defended the prisoner. The Learned JUDGE having summed up, the jury found, after a short deliberation, the prisoner Guilty Mr. Baron PLATT passed sentence of transportation for ten years. No other case of interest came on in this Court to-day. Edward Spicer, accused of having murdered his wife, will be tried at the opening of the Court on Wednesday next. In the Nisi Prins Court the Lord Chief Baron was occupied the greater part of the day in trying an action of trespass, in which the defendant was alleged to have erected a pig-stye on land not his oivn. It possessed nothing of interest. CJRTHERN CIRCUIT, Newcastle-upon •Tyne, Feb. 27. (Before Mr. Justice ComtroGx.) MURDER. Ralph Joicey, .a young man of 24 years of age, was indicted for the wilful murder of his father, Robert Joicey, by admi nistering to him a quantity of arsenic. Mr. Otter, Mr. Grey, and Mr. Selby conducted the prose cution ; the prisoner was defended by Mr. Matthews. Mr. OTT= addressed the jury, and stated the fasts if the case, as subsequently detailed by the witnesses. Isabella Joieey examined by Mr. Orrsa—l am the widow of the late Robert Joicey, who was sixty-seven years old at the time of his death. Came to Cockle Park in Max, 1845. My husband was bad with pains in his arms fast summer, . In October he and I were attended by Dr. Hadley, of Felton. We have had medicine left for us at the Portland Arms. At the latter end of Nov. my husband went to Felton, and brought a box of pills and some powders home with him, which he took. I remember getting a parcel from: Isabella Brown on Monday, the Ist of December, between nine and ten in the morning. I took it into the house, and laid it upon the table, while my husband was shaving. He opened the parcel, and read one direction, which was in the inside. There were two powders, the large one of a slate colour, and a smaller one of a snuff colour.. -I do not know what was done with the outer paper of the parcel, as I never saw it after the powders were taken out. I cannot read. I saw my daughter give to Dr. Hedley the paper which was contained in the parcel. I cannot say whether the paper produced is like the one found in the parcel. On the same day my husband went out and returned with some gin to mix the powder with. When he went to bed, at nine o'clock, I gut the medicine from the shelf, and laid it beside him with the gin, and a teaspoon and a cup. , He mixed it himself and drank it. He took the larger powder, which was the slate coloured one. He had got his supper, stud went to bed after taking the medicine. When I wen* to bed shortly after, be was sleeping. I fell asleep, and was awoke by him, as he was making a work, and said he was sick.: 1 got up, and before 1 could get out of the bed he began to vomit, and vomited a good deal. There was once a little blood in his vomit. He continued by turns vomiting all night, till.about four o'clock in the morning, when it abated. During the night he was also purged, and complained about being sick. I gave him water to drink when he desired it, and tea and coffee, and' anything he wished for. He took a deal of cold water. In the morning I said that, as he bad been so poorly after taking the powder, I would 'burn the other. He said I might, if I had a mind, and .1 put it in the fire. The next day he was sick by turns, and complained of a pain at his breast. He drank little water that day. He got some powders from Dr. Hedley on the same day, my ton bringing them in the afternoon, according to my directions. He got a dozen powders. I told my sou to tell Dr. Hedley that my husband had had such a night of throwing after taking the large powder. My husband died on Monday evening, the Bth of December. During that interval he did not throw, so that what he ate be kept in his stomach. He took the powders every four hours, according , to Dr. Hedley's directions. I remember Dr. Hedley coming over on Sunday evening, the ith December, having been fetched by my son, at the desire of Mr. Dickinson. The doctor saw the old man, but I did not hear what was said. On Saturday, the 13th of December, Mr. Weallens came to our cottage, when mrson and daughter were in. I cannot. say whether my son (the prisoner) made a statement to Mr. Weallens, nor can I say who sent for him. Sarah Thompson, a neighbour of the Joicey's who saw the deceased frequently between the time of his taking the powder and his death, described his symptoms. He said the skin was off the inside of his throat. He could not rest, but rolled about the bed and kept asking for drink. He said, he thought his entrails were out. At the latter end of last Aagust—just after the " kirn supper"—the prisoner came into oar house, and said to my husband, "he wished to God his father was gone from the place a corpse —he would not shed a tear." The prisoner used often to say that his father was such an out-of-the-way man. Walter Weallens, farm -steward at Cockle-park, said—On the lbth I was in Joicey's house, having been told that Mar garet wanted me. When I went in, Margaret, her mother, and the prisoner were there. Margaret setme a chair, and I asked her what was her will. She made no answer, and Ralph, the prisoner, then said he had sent for me to confess. I asked, "confess what?" he said "I did the deed;" and I replied, " what deed ?" He said, " I poisoned my father." I said I was sorry to hear that, and he said that no person ' was guilty but himself: Every other person, he added, was. clear.: I then asked what was his motive for doing so, and Le said he was so agitated by the old man almost pushing him into the,fire one night, that he made up his mind ti:* go . 16 Morpeth to procure some stuff. I then asked what he got, and he said arsenic; and jalap. I think he said it was on gor peth horse-fair night. He also stated that he went straight through the fields, as fast as he could go, to the Portland Arms and gave it in, and then came round by Tritlington, and called at James Ord's on his way home. He said it wanted' twenty minutes to eight when he got home. •He further Said that when he saw the old man suffering so much he would willingly have shared his Sufferings, but it was:too late—. He tßld me that a , part of- the • stuff -was in a• -thorn hush on the west side of the road near the Helm-on-the-Hill turn. He said he got it from Mr. Creighton, of Morpeth. to r'''lo l thO t , ery " 0 100 tou g y P thl tads " 00 1 to 0 10 0 ' 1/ 0 b f el tap yi p (Or ' 64 c t died O NI bd. co o d ortit, d 100 r, Cl ! , r k 1846. .noi!orry JIDV'ELT:IOi. i never gaie direCtions tone - prisoner to procure arsenic. ! I ha` seen theptisprier,Wl'itt. 01:1.1'ar.M4leYAe:Icribeft the` old i i a and`the'syniptottli w co, I t iimed—A - piece of iiiper was' giiento me by' the, daughter, having something written upon it. I gave it badcl6lllir garet. I did not - See the 'old mart - vomit. M$ opinion Vfas that he was suffering from metallic of irritant poison ; arsenic is both. 'I suspected that mortification was going on, and gave him the powders I had With me, When I left' to go to Mr. Dickinson's, the bailiff, the son went with tine.' I then told him that 'his - father as dying from the effeCts. of the powder be had.takett. The prisoner 'seemed sorry. Mr: Dickinson and I returned to the honse some time afterw& naid, when the paper I had formerly se e n w a s egaingiven to s, and 'I handed it to Mr. Dickinson The motier, daughter, and the prisoner w er e t a lki ng t o me , w h en ' th e soilsaid 'that berre . tris father'toOleihe'poWfieliehsifi seen it, and wo*ld not have taken it, it had a curious look ; and the mother said that.was correct. On the 10th December, Mr. Hudson and I made a post mortem examination of the body. The gullet ira; highly inflamed; a portion of the stomach, about the size of a 'hand, was gangrenous ; the rest of the stomach And the small intestine' were highly inflamed, and just beginning to ulcerate. This was caused, in our opinion, by a metallic irritating poison. I have no doubt that that was the case of d Cross-examined—l cannot say his death was caused by alseLic, but by some metallic irritant poison. In another case in which arsenic caused death, it was fatal in about eight or nine hours. The dry parched tongue is usually a symptom of typhus. Catching at the bed-clothes freqnently aceumpantes typhus in its later stage's. Calomel is a metallic irritant drug. In very large quantities it might prodUce similar symptoms. Re-examined—On the 27th of November and the 7th of December, when I saw Joicey, I think he was not suffering frein typhus. Supposing a large quantity of calomel to be administered, if time were to elapse in this case salivation would ensue. The post mortoii appearanees found in Joicey's body could not have resulted . from typhus: It was proved that no medicine had about the time in question been sent from Mr' fledley's for the Jeiceys to tke Penland Arms. George Pringle—l am apprentice with Mr. Creighton, surgeon and druggist, Morpeth. In the latter end of Oc tober I sold some arsenic to a young min about twenty-four or twenty-five years of age. I cannot say that the prisoner is the man. The persea got about an ounce of arsenic, which was wrapped in blue paper, with the word " poison" on it. I asked the man where he came from, and he either said from Causey Park or Cockle Park. A young man named Embleton was in the shop, and some conversation took place beiween him and the person who bought the arsenic. I have seen a piece of paper in Wigham's (police man) possession, the writing en which is mine. We sell a good deal of arsenic, in quantities of one pound and up wards, to use for sheep. Thomas Brown—l am a hind at Cockle Park, and on the Monday following old Joicey's death I went to Newton, for lime. Mr. Weallens told me to look in a bush on the west side of the Little Helm. I did so, and found a small par cel ; inside a white paper was a blue paper, containing a powder. Chariton was with me, and on bur road home we met Wigham, .the policeman, and I gave the parcel to him. I live next door to Joicey's, and have heard great noises in their house. On the day before finding the parcel, I went into the stable where the prisoner's horses stood. Charlton was with me, and Thompson came in, and found something in the prisoner's great coat, which was hanging over a stall. John Thompson—l am a hind, living at Cockle Park. On Tuesday, the 2d of December, the prisoner and I went to Newton- on-the-Moor. He went to Earsdon by a bye-road, and I went by the Portland Arms. He had to pass by Helm. Hill, where there is a bush. On Sunday evening, Dec. 14, I went into the stable, and in as old coat belonging to the prisoner I found a paper, which I afterwards gave to the wit nose Dickinson. Ann Richardson, the bandager, deposed to the fact of the prisoner and his father living on bad terms. John Wigram—l am a police officer at Morpeth. In con sequence of information I received, I went in search of the prisoner on the night of the 13th December. I came to New castle, and apprehended him at his brother's house, in Hut ton's-yard, Pilgrim-street. It was about three 'o'clock on' Sunday morning. I'charged him with having poisoned his father, and he replied that he knew all about it. Robert Hawdon, surgeon, who assisted at the post mortem examination, gave a similar account to that given by Dr. Hedley. Gave the stomach and its contents to Dr. Creighton. Some other medical evidence was then produced, to prove the existence of arsenic in the contents of the stomach of the deceased. Mr. MarniEws then addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner. Several persons by whom the prisoner had been employed were called, and gave him a good character. Ilia LORDSHIt sutnineil up with great care and minuteness, and the jury, after a consultation of about a quarter of an hour, returned a verdict of Guilty, recommending the pri soner to mercy. Sentence of death was passed upon the prisoner. IRELAND. SIR JAMES GRAHAM AND THE " BLOODHOUND" DEPUTATION. DUBLIN, FEB.2&—The ill-timed answer given by Sir James Graham to one of the queries put to him in the House of Commons on Monday evening by the Hon. Member tOr Cork, respecting Mr. John O'Connell's " bloodhound" depu tation, has elicited a most indignant rebuke, in the form of a resolution, unanimously adopted by'the grand jury of the county of Westmeath, repudiating in very temperate lan guage (considering the provocation) the assertion that the magistrates and:gentry had gone'en a deputation to Lord Ileytesbury, for the " bloody" purpose of preventing the extension of the prerogative of mercy in the case of Bryan Seer!. following is a copy of the resolution : We, the foreman and the members of the grand jury of the county of Westmeath, assembled at spring assizes, 1846, have seen with regret a statement reported to have Ikea made by the Home Secretary, Sir James Graham, in the House of Commons, that a deputation from the county of Westmeath had waited upon the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, calling upon his Excellency to carry into execution the sen tence of death pronounced . upon Bryan Seery, at the late Special Commission.- • " Ve utterly deny having in any way interfered in the matter, and declare our entire ignorance of any deputation from our county having waited upon his Excellency fur such a purpose." In addition to the signatures of the grand jury there are appended to the foregoing document the names of eighteen magistrates of the county. ASSIZE INThLLIGENCE. WICKLOW, FEn. 27.—The Hon. Mr. Justice Ball took his seat in the Record Court yesterday, at ten o'clock, and pro ceeded to try the ftllowing • • EXTRAORDINARY SEDUCTION CASE. • MARY CARROLL V. JOHN LADAVEZE ARABIN, EX-LORI? MAYOR OF DUBLIN. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, to recover compensation for the seduction of her daughter, Mary Anne Carroll. Damages were laid at 5,0001., and the defendhnt pleaded Not Guilty. Mr. DWYER stated the case, from which it appeared that in the year 1812 the defendant lived with his father at Cl6n dalkin, in the county of Dublin, at which period he was about 21 years of age, and seduced the plaintiff herself, Who was then a young girl residing with her father, who lived: in the same neighbourhood, and he had by her three children— a son, who was born in 1818 ; a daughter, the girl alleged to be seduced in the present action, born in 1824 ; and a third child, also a female, born in 1834. The defendant, he sOid, reared this family well and respectably, and educated his eldest daughter in the best manner up to the year 1842, when he also seduced her from the paths of virtue, and had a child by her in 1843. The. Learned Gentleman, in conclusion, said he would prove these facts by the unfortunate girl hersplf, and read a number of letters which were written by Mr. Arabia to her. Mary Anne Carroll, examined by Mr. Roux-max—l ism daughter of the plaintiff. My mother lives in Bride-strpet, and has lived there for four years. We lived 'there in 1842, . during the summer, at the time the occurrence took place, and we lived before that in French-street, and previously in Cumberland place. My father is John L. Arabin. I saw him at my mother's place. He always came wherever ;we were. MY mother kept no servant in Bride-street in 1542. I had a brother and one stster. He is older and she is younger than I am. I went to school to Miss Lord's, in Stafford street, and to Mrs. Allen's, in Stephen's-green. My father paid for my education. He paid Miss Lord, and 2/. to Mrs. Allen by one of the witnesses . I used to do the work in my mothers house. My father wanted me to be a boarder at Miss Lord's, but my mother did not wish it, and I was only sent as a day scholar. My father bad a country house at Corkagh, near Clondalkin. I was often there. Whenever I wen to the country he used to bring me into town in his car. .He often brought me home from Clare-street to my mothbr's when it was late. It was his own house in Clare-street, and his brother, the counsellor, lived in it. I was frequently in that house. I remember making an appointment with my father, the defendant, in the year 1842. I appointed to meet him in Sackville-street, or a little street off Sackville-street, the name of which I forget. He made that appointment in my mother's house. The defendant did not tell me what he wanted with me, for he often before met me and brought me to ilarvies', on Wellington quay, and other places. I met him, according to the appointment, about five o'clock in the evening. It was summer time. Mr. Arabia was in the house when I arrived. He was in the parlour, and, he brought me up to the drawing-room. We had some conver sation there. I forget what it was. I don't remember much what he said or did on that occasion. He told me I was Ilia own property, and he could do what he liked with me. He did de what he liked with me. No man ever acted to me as he did orethat. occasion, befbro or since. I had a child by Mr.. Arabia, which ;a' alive. -My mother has it. She is in this town. The defendant told me not to tell anybody what - had occurred, and he sent me home in a car. I often saw my father after that. I was never in that house again with him, but he was *house afterwards with me, and treated me in the same way . He was very sorry for hat occurred. He used to call me Mary and Polly. He frequently gave me money, and always gave me presents of money both before & meaner this transaction until lately. He often wrote to Ise since the seduction took place, but never before it. (The Wit ness here identified the several unsigned letters, which were read by counsel, and swore that they were in the defendant's handwriting.) The child I had by Mr. Arabin was a female. I H lr e tn ol u te n n g sa fo w r it th an e d n et u ad. rsed it. I never spoke to him about father of that child. Upon thy oath the defendant is Cross-examined by Mr. HaTemtee—lt was in the house or cottage in Bride-street that I was delivered of the child. It will be three years old next June. I had left school. at the time I went to the house off Sackville-street. lam cer tain of it. It was not found out that I was with child for a long time ; not for four or five months. I then teld my mo ther. Upon my oath the defendant never asked me who was the father of this child. I did not say that it was a young gentleman in Harcourt-street, and that I was sworn not to tell. I told my mother Mr. Arabin was the father. She was very angry with me, and treated me very badly after I told her. Sue has the child, and is very fond of it. The child was christened in Westland-row, in my presence, in the chapel, &mime Arabin. My mother was present. The christening took place in about a month or so after it was born. Mr. Arabia gave me 1/. to get the child baptised. After I left Glasneviu I went to live with my mother. I first saw Mr. Walsh, the plaintiff's attorney, since last Christ mas; my mother went to him. I bid her go because I saw his picture in the Mansion-house.—(Great laughter.) A woman told me that it was his picture, and that he was a good man. My mother wanted to have Mr. Fitzgerald. Mr Walsh told me that my dada disliked him, and I heard after wards from Mr. Dunne that he had been suspended by him, - and- not allowed to practice in the court. Mr. Walsh has elven money to my mother within the last month; a little. He gave me money also, lent it was all for my mother. I _got my share of it to he sure.--(Laughter.) I did not gt.a letter 'from England upon my oath a few days lifter I w ent to Glasnevin, from a person named Thomps i. o t n ; but I got a 'fetter every week from my lather, with 11. in h w er i e th a t r i e lem th . ose l ldeitdterisioPt give them t d o on; f t • r. k i ts i o ,a w lsh w . hat I d l i N c; to my knowledge,. but my she at e him some letters. n mother g adid.Ne himwasanps;esleentttersw She g ave them to him in her own cottage. I don't know 'hen g h ow ma n y she gave him, but she gave him a bundle. Mr. :Walsh was often at the cottage—constantly for the last two months ; and I was at his residence in Harcourt-street. I never went to his house with ray mother; and I seldom went at all, for he called on us almost every day. ,~.. ~,. ~. l • >• Re-examined by Mr. RoLursirosta—Mr. Phi li'stls :). us 1/. 17s. and solve money since. I can't say how trktiehaft %MI has given Hll. 1 lett my mother's house because she treated - 4 4 me batily. I told tny dada-so.- -My motheranted-t•-upbraid me about hitt. My father ' told Me to go by some other name besides Arabin, and my .mother bid me call 'myself Thompson. I said, my father used to ;write to me- - (letter produced)—that is one of his letters to nie. • ,-• Elizabeth Arabin, a girl about 12-years Old,- was then put on the table, and having answered faeveraliquestiotir to his Lordship to show that she' Was acqiiaintecl*itia the nature of an oathovas examiaedhj ita follpjys a :Mater o! Mr. Krabin, and sister witness ; the plaintiff is my mother. I often. saw Mr. A41;0 in my mother's. house. -in Bride-street ; have, gone to!'hlm for money for my mother, and got it p he paid for my schoiding. The landlord of the house in Brid&styeet alluded to hi the principal witness's testimony, was next- called,. hut 'as it ap peared that he was 'in Court all day, although an order was made to exclude witnesses on both sides, Mr. Dw,yer declined to examine him. John Smith, examined by Mr. DWYER—I know William Murphy. Was the proprietor of No. 12, New'Bride-street, and is so, I think since September, 1841. He built the cot tage in which the plaintiff resided, and it became occupied by her iu September, 1842, and her two daughters, Mary Anne and Elizabeth Arabin. The inmates of Oat cottage were all, l' believe, wall conducted. I never heard. anything against them.. Mr. Arabin, the late Lord Mayor, paid the rent- He paid it to me last year in the Mansion -house. I gave him receipts for the rent for Mr. Murphy, and put the plaintiff's name in them as paying it. • The letters read by plaintiff's Counsel in opening the - .MSS were then given in. The plaintiff's case then closed, and Mr. MITCHELL, Q.C., proceeded to address thi jury for the defence. He stigmatised the entire case as a foul and malicious conspiracy, got up by a party behind the screen, to wreak upon the defendant vengeance for something he had done towards him, or .supposed he bad done; m fact, be said he was prepared to show that the plaintiff was nothing more than a tool in the hands of others. The defendant, however, 'night safely rely upon the case for the prosecu tion, and call upon a : jury for a verdict , ; but lee would not be satisfied without showing his perfect innocence of the crime imputed to him, for he was enabled, under' Providence, to remove all imputation from his character that he ever' was the debaucher of his own child. The case, if true, would. have been tried before a Dublin jury, but it was not; and. why not? Because all the parties were well known there. The defendant, who filled the office of Lord Mayor last year, was no doubt well known there and respected by all; and he (Mr. Hatchell) should inform the Court that there were other parties in the case deeply mixed up in the transaction, who also were well known in the metropolis, and perhaps better known than trusted. That was one reason for leaving the city; and very probably the additional Fasts that would be thus incurred were expe c t e d to assist ~compromise of a suit which there was no foundation for, for it was a well known fact that such cases—such conspiracies --were often the means of extorting money from innocent parties, who, in_ many instances, would, from fear, pay any amount of money rather than that such a case, although false, should come before a jury. Mr. Arabin would uot, however, be imposed:en, and therefore he boldly defied the conspiracy. He did not, and could not deny, that when a young man he had formed a connexion with the plaintiff, lived with her, and had some children by her, amongst whom was Mary Anne Arabin; but he repudiated the atrocious allegation that he washer seducer, and that was clear from the evidence, documentary and otherwise. The true state of the case was this—it was a conspiracy got up by some underhand party, who urged on the plaintiff to make this charge for the purpose of extortion, and she was easily worked upon from jealousy; for Mr. Arabin, from her conduct, • was obliged to dis continue all intercourse with her. She became a per son of the most abandoned character, being constantly intoxicated, and in the habit of annoying him in the public street; so much so that he was obliged to give up rendering her any assistance, and she •then com menced her attacks upon him, and accused him of keeping company with a female named Betsy Asking. As to the letters proved to be in his handwriting by the first witness, no doubt they were written by.him, but not to her; for they were addressed to her mother, Mary, and were Lot shown to be addressed to any one else. The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to read a great number of threatening letters from the plaintiff to Mr. Arabin, accusing him of infidelity towards her, and of his acquaintance with a female named Ashins— written within the last few years, and particularly last year, when he was Lord Mayor, in which she threatened to expose him to the public; but she never in any one of those docu 'Bents insinuated in the slightest way his having acted towards her daughter in the manner she sought hy..her case to establish. In conclusion, Mr. llatchell read a great num ber of letters, written since the action was brought by the plaintiff, wanting him to compromise the action and " come on terms with fr. Walsh," her attorney; and submitted that the proof of his client's innocence was established beyond all doubt. The defendant's case having closed. Mr. ROLLESTONE replied for the plaintiff. Mr. Justice BALL charged the jury, and in doing so de sired them to weigh well the evidence on both sides, and consider if they could fairly find a verdict and damages for the plaintiff upon it, after the admission and testimony which went to show the case to be an attorney's action, and that that attorney was influenced by bad feelings towards the defendant. He said that the plaintiff herself also ap peared enraged against him ; and it was, therefore,_ for con sideration if her story was worthy of credit, when in all her letters threatening Mr. Arabin she never once alludie to the alleged seduction of her daughter, which it was most probable she would have spoken of if tree. These were the Principal considerations in the ease ; independent of which i t wou ld be necessary to conside r f there were not inaccuracies al ready shown to exist in the principal witness's testimony; if other witnesses might not have teen examined in support of the story, if well-founded, and whether it was possible that the defendant could be so base and degraded as to have had an incestuous connexion with his own child, for he did not attempt to deny his parentage of her. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—l,oool. damages, and Gd. costs. The result of this case seemed to have surprised almost every one in court. It - is the intention of the defendant to move, at the ensuing term, for a new trial. TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. , ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MARCH 3, 1846. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Major-General Sir Edward Bowater, K.C.H. to be one of the Grooms in Wait ing in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of Captain the Hon. Arthur Duncombe, of the Royal Navy, resigned. WHITEHALL, MARCH 2. The Queen has been pleased to direct lettem patent to be passed under the Great Seal, appointing Charles 'John Viscount Canning, Alexander Milne, Esq., and Charles Alexander Gore, Esq., commonly called the Honourable Charles Alexander Gore, to be Cummissioners of her Majesty's oods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings.' FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCII 2; The. Queen has been graciously pleased . to appoiut Richard Stephens, Esq., now British Consul at Samsocm, to be her Majesty's Consul at Tabreez. The Queen has also been graciously phased to appoint Benjamin Barrie, Esq.. now British Consular Assistant at Madrid, to be her Majesty's Consul at Alicante. CROWN-OFFICE, MARCH 2. MILDER. ILILTURNED TO SIRTI IN TKIS rtzuniT PARLIANERNT. County of Gloucester, Eastern Division—The-Hon. Henry Charles Fitzroy Somerset, commonly called Marquis of Wor cester, in the room of the Hon. Francis Charteris, whii has accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds. County of Nottingham, Sonthern Division—Thomas Blackborne Thorston Hildyard, Esq., in the room of Henry Pelham Fynes Clinton, commonly called Earl of Lincoln, who bas accepted the office of Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Commissions by the Queen. Bedfordshire Militia—Captain T. J. Smith to be Adjutant , Feb. 7, 1846. West Suffolk Militia--J. M`Gregoi, Gent., to be Asbutant, Jan. 24, 1846. Flintshirs Militia—Lieut. F. R. M‘Gregor Dawson t 0 be Adjutant, vice Roberts, resigned, Feb. 3, 1846. ". Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex. The Right Hon. Col. G. S. Byng, M.P. to, be Deputy Lieutenant; L. T. Flood, Esq., to be Deputy, .Lieutenant; F. P. Barlow, Esq.. to be Deputy Lieutenant; J. Whiskin, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; C. Devon, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Feb. 25. Royal East Middlesex 'Regiment of `Militia—The Hon. W. 3": P. Gore, to be Captain ; J. M. Gambier, Esq., to be Captain ; J. G. Ogilvie, Esq., to be Captain ; H. Spicer, Esq., to be Captain ; N. Cumberlege, Esq., to be Captain ; H. Wood, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; H. Rice, Gent., to b. Lieu tenant ; C. T. Hyde, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; S. .May• Gent., to be Lieutenant ; F. Dalton, Gent., to be Lieuletiant : F. A. Fox, Gent., to be Ensign, Feb. 25. Royal West Middlesex Regiment of Militia..-G. M..C. Byng, Esq., to be Captain; J. G. De Burgh, Esq., to be Captain ; A. C. Tupper, Gent., to be Lieutenant, Feb. 25. Royal Westminster Regiment of Middlesex Militia—The Hon. C. L. Butler to be Major; J. J. Glossop, Esq., f,o be Captain ; H. Penton, Esq., to be Captain, Feb. 25. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Glarnorganshire. To be Deputy-Lieutenants—J. Hewett, Esq.; R.: Basset, EN.; H. Lewis, Esq., Feb. 25. Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Battalion of Militia — To be Second Lieutenants—G. Chapman, Gent:, Feb. 17 ; F. W. Austin, Gent., Feb. 20. . ... Commission by the Lord Lie u t enan t 'of Lancashire. . Second Regiment of the Duke of Lancaiter's Own, Militia —Major J. H. Ford to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Entwiale, re signed, Feb. 23. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of' Warwickshire. Warwickshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—C. H. Okeover, Gent, to be Cornet, vice Lord Feilding, promoted, Feb. 20. , WHITEHALL, Fin. 27. The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Hanasley Podmore, Gent., of ,Sparkbrook, near Birmingham, is the county of Warwick, to be a Master Extraordinary in the ilizh Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor has also appointed Edward ittissell Ingram, Gent., of Stourport, in the county of Worcester, to be a Muter Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. James Wilson, c a bi ne t- ma k er , Ch e l sea , 'to lirreader March 11, at half-past twelve, and April 21, at , tro, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee , 13 aliinghat-sfreet ; Surr and Gribble, Lombard-street. William John Haddan, brewer, Tottenham, Middlesex, March 10, at two, and April 17, at twerve, 'at the:Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee; Peachey, SalOurY" square. Abraham Stevens Syer, grocer, SudbU l rY, 'S - yffedr4 10, at half-past one, and April 22, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, ,Colemanstreet-build- March ings ; Fry, Loxley, and Fry, Cheapside. Hem bien, grocearttwueid,sos:aotrtthh, Court of Stephen Henry March 18, at eleven, and April . 7, Abcburch-la e ne, Lom.. Bankruptcy. Groom, o ffi cial Roll's a'si f nee ' Chancery yard s . bard-street ; Abbott and Wheat y, King-street, Stepney, March assignee, Abehurch-lan e, Lombard. at one, at the Court of Bank_ Ba lane lBjoa ; ste M pthw i I el Smart,el Miller and an i Son, A watchmaker , pril 7 Norwich. Coleman -s t ree t , C i ty. James Nunn, haberdasher, Baker-street, Portman-square, March 12, at eleven, and April 7, at twelve, at the Court or o a ffi nd cia Ntratts, Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-streret; r s street; Goodm a n Groom , Pain and Hatherley, Basinghall-street,, A ugu stus John Halero, dealer in linen cloths, teed', March 17, and April 6, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman, official assignee, Leeds ; Williamson itiid, Co., Ve k4Apell 15, rularn-buildings, London ; Ca r i ss , L ee d s. •,, ~ George Gillard, grocer, Plymouth, Mar c h, , anid_ at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. - gerrtan.lith Al licial assignee, Exeter ; Turner, Exeter ; Spyer, :13r0K-td.reet buildings, London. . ~.1 John Audky H orace Jee, insurance bixiker, r ivet pool, March 20, and April 17, at eleven, at the Liverpool Distri ct Court. Bi r d, o ffi c i a l assignee, L iverpool,;: Smith and Co.. 13edford- row, London ; Greatley, Liverpool. .: George Dardier, merchant, Liverpool, Ma u' - April 17, at eleven, at the Liverpool Diatri" ," " . nove, official assignee, Liverpool; 'r . • Rowsell, Verulam-buildings, Gray's r [Dividends, &c., j- wow -; - N 4k E , • ' /-• , 1 ~' ~j!