The Sun. — London, England, 1846-01-30 00:00:00

.A. 17 Jr4d Oli .LN, _LAVIN DON, . - _____--_-_------ ......... of her Majesty's Counsel learned in the Law, in the room of COFFEE.-This afternoon the Ttr l k 3 et 3 _w b as a beger b s m upgied i r b IFbittton of Right ofe H r le a. f e w st ar , t s Gd r a i c n is c t i i p m a e eg w ec h r e et DOWNING-STREET, JAN. 30. h an a% s acc of ep s t t e i Lthe office ta wi t t i h on C w ey er lo e n o Lo re ffee. ; ' cl ttiet public tradew s e a re e more 'd incliSnell ' o opera n t n e, and the whole sold at an advance on former rates of is to 2s SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. The Queen has been pleased to appoint George Frederick per cwt. _____,....._. e s ,a;k 3 2:;'l,"' s ? , ) Z#, CHEPSTOW, FOREST OF DEAN, ) Street, Es q,. to be Puisne Judge for the province of New COCOA.-West India has been purchased with caution this Brunswick ; and William Wright, Esq., to be her Majesty's week, and the rates ta ken were rather under those previously There has been a falling off in the demand in cen- Advocate-General and William Boyd Kinnear, Esq., to be qu T ot E ll. - g. 2. r ei tte T e'pe4 .-, 4 ( b i AND GLOUCESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY.- her Majesty's Soli citor-General, for that province. tie`'s e ss es e''.l, lite is ~ (THIS DAY.) Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint Samuel sequence of no change being proposed to be made in the duty, ei . eyel Tete ' ' ei• A sp ec i a l general meeting of the directors and share- Turner Fearon, Esq., to be Registrar-General and Collector and which has occasioned much disappointment amongst the ' 1 fe.., , i lee trade generally. Holders, however, still show firmness, and __. s e iseen e es e . el e. s , holders in this railway was held at the London Tavern, at of Chinese Revenue for the island of Hong-Kong. Ses'el‘a.V/siii' t le' three o'clock this afternoon, for the purpose of considering tel WAR OFFICE, JAN. 30. r• train from offering any at public sale, but 10,000 pkgs are eseeeee e- ss , a.. e• eas. c e > a, - the position of the Company, and its chance of success in 2d Dragoon Guards-Major W. C amp b e ll t o b e Li ee t enan e- declared for Feb. 5. Congou . is held for full rates, but the "s •- :'" ' ''',.. , tir. Parliement. A considerabl e num b er o f shareholders were Colonel, by purchase, vice Charleton, who retires ; Brevet business _ transacted has been limited during the last few days ' ..,:-___ e a , Lf.l - ,4:_f : •,.....,,, , , . - "ne present. E. F. Dayrell, Esq., High Sheriff of Buckingham, Major Power Le Poor Trench to be Mr or, by purchase, rice The parcels of Pouchong sold have been at 6d to 9d tor .-- ., - ...34 ,:, --- of anlcbheairinan advertisementthe bocaorndv convening idnigrecttic3i.ers,pres mee ti ng ided . Campbell ; Lieutenant F. J. me et ," to b e Captain, by pur- clean, and a . t gad to lld for better quality. The stock in having been chase, vice Trench ; Cornet V. Carter to be Lieutenant, by first hands is nearly exhausted. Twankay is not so much in react, purchase, vice Ibbeteon ; E. S aun d ers , Gent, to be Cornet, t f ii u es i ku: e s r t. ris H e y in onh has been disposed of to a fair extent, but no the value can be quoted. Holders of gun- The CHAIRMAN rose and said,-Gentlemen, if I have delayed by purchase, vice Carter, Jan. 30. ti little in taking the chair, it was for the purpose of assem- 6th D ragoon Guards-Capt. W. N. Custance, f rom half-pa y powder insist upon previous rates. For other descriptions of hling abo u t as l arge a body of the shareholders as we could Unattached, to beCaptain, vice J.H. Dickson, who exchang es, Tea prices generally remain the same, but there has been collect togeth er . I must b eg yourattent i on to the statement Jan. 30. 0n1y a limit e d b us i ness transacted since our last. lam about to make, and to the motives which have induced 4th Li g ht Dregoons__Major W. Parlby to b e Lieut.-Colo- RICE.-This raacufwcttetiro:nnoommni.dedrßeliei sold,nggla6wlh.amitteetafenwtcaihtdheld,anaitectesen6ottondiolnf6o,srmia_6nsdedr: r l rtes o o b f a 6 g d s the directors to summon you to this meeting. They have nel, by purchase, vice Daly, who reti p re a s r ; ib C y apt L . ie Lo ot re G l G . B . r A o . w t o '. a4gtbedc,lalssst,ciloagsst,olls2sstplou cwt. eon class, 14s t o 5 , performed their duty to the present moment; they have Paget, to be Major, toy purchse, complied with all the requisites required of them, and they to be Captain, by purchase, vice Lord vice G. Paeleevtic;oCßorronievtoL;oirid. 3rdsea damaged, pi Ineno, SPICES-There andfm has r a been t. ar e little ba re desire sustained.show n to B l a p e u k re p h e a p s purchase now in the course of performing another duty in calling A. Churchill to be Lieutenant, by p urchase, eon together to receive further confirmation of what they N. Cholmeley, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Lord A. have done, and to receive suggestions as to the future course Churchill, Jan. 20. which they ought to adopt. We do not come to Bth Regiment of Foot-Lieut. L. G. Cox, f rom the R oyal per is not offered upon lower terms; although white can be you for the purpose of stating that, after having Canadian Rifle Regiment, to be Lieutenant, v i ce Youg, who obtained at the low rates of 3 1 / 2 sl to 6a ; still few buyers expended a portion of y our cap i ta l, we are not i n exchangs, Jan. 30. are to be m e t w i t h . Cassia Linea is little wanted. a position to com pl y w i t h a ll t h ose requ i sites eete Foot-L ieut. C. F. Fordyce to be Captain, by par - P r i ces have not further given way for Nutmegs, but little which may b e requ i re d o f us; we have done everything chase, vice Caldwell, who retires ; Ensign C. C. Villiers to business has been done. Cloves have been purchased with which could be required of us as directors; we have lodged be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fordyce, Jan. 30 ' Gentle- caution, and prices are with di ffi culty kept up. Mace is dull your plans-the money re qu i re d f or th e paymen t of the de- man Cadet . G. . W. Ar a from the Royal Military ' College, of sale Ginger has treen purchased with caution Setarrs.- or all descriptions of Jamaica Ruin holders are posts to the Accountant-General is ready, and we are pre- to be Ensign, without m p i purchase, vice Gordon, appointed - to • P - * pared to go into Parliament if you intimate that such is your the 80th 1.094 Jan. i, 29 ; T 30 oper, Gent., to be Ensign, by asking former rates, but there has been a falling off in the wish; but the altered circumstances of the lines-circum- purchase, vice i 'ere, Jan . demand; the business transacted has been extremely li stances which it was not i n th e p ower o f the Directors to 5d th Foot-G entleman Cadet J. Stewart, from the Royal mited. Demerara has been purchased with caution, but forse have rendered it a p aramoun t d u ty with them to Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice prices keep up. For Leeward Island former rates are asked I but few buyers eto be t with. For Calcutta the de- I take your opinion as to the course which you think it Annesley promoted, Jan. 29. advieeable they sho u ld p ursue . Wh en th e project of this 68th Foot-Lieutenant H. G. Wynne to be Captain, by mend has been only for small parcels, at is lid to 2s proof 1 Company was first submitted to the directors we purchase, vice Johnston, who retires; Ensign F. C. P. A. with certificate. had no notice-no kind o f i n f o rmation that any other part , Stuart, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wynne ;F. S. Hollders of Brandy manifest much firmness. Although I intended to tak e th e groun d w hi c h the line was prepared to Savage, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase, vice Stuart, Geneva, it is proposed, should come in the reduced rate of i traverse, or to occupy the position which the Company does Jan, 30, 1846. duty, still no mate r ial a d vance h as ta k en place at present ; G ( at present. I k now th a t the South Wales Company had 79th Foot-. M. Miller, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, there has, however, b een a muc h b etter demand. British t been thrown out last year in their endeavour to obtain a vice Robertson, who retires, Jan. 30. Corn Spirits are in good request, at 108 6d per galloe net I Bill to construct a railway from Chepstow to Hopp Crib ; 80th Foot-Lieut. S. T. Christie to be Captain without cash. For Gin prices remain as previously quoted. 1 but we had not the smallest intimation of their intention to purchase, vice Lightbodv, deceased, Aug, 28 ; Captain, R. INDIGO.-At public sale on Wednesday I l cheats of Manilla . t pursue the matter further, and were strengthened in this H. Boxer, to be Lieutenant, vice Christie, Aug. 28, 1843; Indigo were sold, but at further reduced rates; low went at /I supposition by the fact that the Admiralty had been op- E ns i gn S. A. Kershaw, to be Lieutenant, by purchase , vice Is ed to is 3d, b e tt er sort Is 5d to is 8d; of 23 serons of t posed to this project, and that they had been def ea t e d Gorman, who retires, Jan. 30; Ensign R. C. Gordon, from Guatimala a small part only sold at Is to 2s for low, and at t principally on this account. It was not, h owever, until the 47th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Boxer, Jan. 29; W. D. 2a ad to 3s 9d for better s orts . fi within the last fortnight that their real intentions were Freeman, Gent., to b e Ensign, b y purchase, vice Kershaw, caemeleete-The supply is on the increase, and a decline b known ; they were certainly not known to us before this Jan, 30 .0 f Id has taken place; a good demand, however, has been it time. This may at least be some justification for the directors 99th Foot-Gentleman Cadet F. W. Despard, from the experienced, and the parcels submitted to public competition ti having entertained your project, and for having taken all Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice were all disposed of. 'I the steps necessary for its submission to the Legislature. It De Winton, promoted, Jan. 29. SALTPETRE. -Holders of Rough have shown more ness ti was impossible for them to foresee that a powerful Comp an y R oya l C ana di an Rifl e Regiment-Lieutenant G. A. Young, this week, and refrained from offering any at auction; pi like the South Wales, intended to take up a project on which from the Bth Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice L. G. Cox, who ex. purchases to a fair extent were made privately, but not at e. they had been previously defeated. It will be unnecessary changes, Jan. 30. higher rates. tl for me to describe the course of our line, becau,e Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex. Otes.-Prices have given way for Cod Oil this week, but at te you are no doubt well acquainted with its geographical po- Lieut.-Col. G. G. Tuite to be Deputy Lteutenant: Lieut.- 25'. 10s. to 261. per ton-purchases to a large extent were st sition, and that between Chepstow and Gloucester it is a Col. C. Ramsden to be Deputy Lieutenant; J. W. Fresh- made. Seal is little wanted by shippers or the home treas. :isi link in the 'ine of railway between tw o gr e at Companies- field, Esq to be Deputy Lieutenant ; 11, pownaie B sq ., t o For Seetbern the demand has been only for small parcels, at and previous rates are not obtainable. Sperm, however, has 3a the Great Western and the South Wales, which have since Deputy fieurenenie, re. P.wton, Esq., to tie Deputy Lieu• been more largely dealt in, but better prices cannot be obtained. re amalgamated. It then became a question with us whether tenant, Jan. 22 , we should enter into a contest with them, and whether we Royal East Middlesex Militia. Ihere has been strong desire manifested to in should sacrifice the funds i n our h an d s i n fi g h t i ng a contest, G . G . T a i te, Esq. to be Lieutenant -Colonel ; W. P. Snell, p urchase Linseed Oil, an d an advance in the as which I cannot b ut i n my conscience believe to be hopeless, Gent, to be Lieutenant; E. B. 0. West, Gent. to be Lieu- value has taken place. Rape Oilis little wanted, and Hi because it is scarcely to be supposed that Parliament, after tenant; F. G. H. G. Williams, Gent. to be Lieutenant; E. prices are on the decline. Cocoa Nut is not much wanted. in the declaratio n o f Si r R o b ert P ee l , w ill perm i t an i nde- D . Cole, Gent, to Lieutenant; M. V. Maher, Gent. to be In Palm sever a l p urc h ases h ave b een made, but not at better be pendent Company to s t e p i n b e t ween t wo p ower f u l Compa n ies Li eutenant. Jan. 22, quotations. In Olive only a limited business has been trans in order that it may endea vo ur to defeat their line from Lon- Royal We s t Middlesex Militia-Major C. Ramsden to be acted, but holders generally are unwilling to reduce their don to P em b ro k e an d Liskeard.- (Hear.) I say it is im. Li eutenant Colonel; Sir J. Gibbous Bart,, to be Major, rice prices. In Lard Oil ther e h as b een noth i ng doing, ca possible to b e lieve th a t su ch a pr o p os i t i on w ill b e enter- C. Rarnsden ; J. Le Poer Bookey, bent., to be Ensign, Jan. Taer.ow.-P r i ces i n the early part o f the week declined ed su tallied by Parliament. It may natur a lly b e as k e d b y t h e 22, 1846. to 9d per cwt for Russian, and only a limited businesss was :a shareholders why the d r ctors had not been in- Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Herefordshire. transacted. For other sorts the demand has been good, but to f .rmed of this before? To that question I would Herefordshire Regiment of Militia-Sir V. Cornewall, prices have not advanced, alth oug h t h e duty is to be re- hi ref ly, that it is only within th e l ast fortnight, Bart., to be Captain, vice Yorke resigned ; H.E.C. S. Stan- di ced, Ho me made has been in excellent request at 42s ed vii when we attempted to open a negot i at i on with these cone hope, Esq , to be Captain, vice Burr, resigned, Jan. 27. to 43s net cash. ~..........,-.._„seeeee....,---. panics that we became aw are o f t h e i r determination to con- COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. pu test the line with us. On remonstrating with them on the Hilary Term, in the 9th year of the reign of Queen Victoria. LATEST PRICES OF SHARES dit secrecy which thew had shown with regard to their project, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 1846, LN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER C 03.! they replied, "We are not bound to make a statement of This Court will, on Monday the 23d day of February next, VANIES' STOCK. th: our intentions to the public, we are not bound to let all the hold a Sitting, and will proceed to give Judgment in certain world -are-- know what we propose to do, and, therefore, have of the matters standing over for the consideration of the kept our secret up to the present moment." I think that, Court. N. C. TINDAL. From Ile Official List. gentlemen, will be a justification, as far as it goes, WHITEHALL, DECEMBER 24, 1845. PJBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY A-ND FRIDAY EVENI.NG fur our having adopted a project which it was impossible for The Right Honorourable Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30. s us to foresee wo u ld b e con t es t e d b y so p ower f u l a Coin- Knt., Lord Chief J us ti ce o f h er Majesty's Court of Common pany. You are aware o f the funds which ar e a t our di e - 'l eap, h as appointed Thomas Llewellyn, of Tunstall, in the JOINT-STOCE. BANKS. il t posal of the amount of the deposits, and y ou are a l so aware county of Stafford, Gent., to be one of the Perpetual Corn- Name of Company. p er of Paid. T' ' n g of the powerful machinery against which we sh ou ld h ave to m i ss i uners for taking the acknowledgements of deeds to be _ rice. wit, Dividend Amount contend. "I hat machinery has been so powerfully o r g an i se d executed b y married women, tinder the Act passed f or t h e - , , „ see __ - ne that ac' west with us would not cost 500/, whilst it wou ld a b o li t i on of fines and recoveries, and for the substituti on o f s_ - .£ S. d. X s. C•ou Australasia .......... 6/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 o 26% hen a vallow up nearly the whole of the deposits you have placed more simple modes of assurance, in and for the county ot in our hands, and I therefore ask whether we have not acted Stafford. Brash North American 41. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 441 i pre, Commercia of London 51. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 23 honestly anti justly, and whether we have not adopted the WHITEHALL, DEC. 24. '_7olostial 51. per cent. 100 0 0 23 0 0 1G any proper step in seeking your advice as to the course which The Right lion. Sir Nicolas Conyngharn Tindal, Knt. Lord eolion and Westminstr 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 2614 ( the you thin:: it advisable to pursue ?-(llear, hear.) We hive Chief Justice of her Majesty' s Court of Common Pleas, has , ondon Joint-Stock ••• 61. per cent. 50 00to 0 0 13% on I not spent any of your money on an useless project appointed John Jcseph Wise of Ashbourne, in the county of metropolitan - 25 007 10 0 Dur Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 46 regi which seemed to have no chance of success. We have Derby, Gent., to be one of die perpetnal Commissioners for saDtitotnto.,l something to show for the portion of the money we have taking the acknowledgments of deed to be executed by mar- " N o .e f w ir:el • a • n • d • •• •• 50 0 0 2-c, 0 0 17% nos, 5i. , ,. per e c c e e i i i i t t . . 10 0 0 i 0 expended. As I have said, we are in a condition to go to ried women, unde r th e A c t passed for the abolition of fines Nat. Provneial of Eng. 51. p er cent. 100 0 0 35 0 9 35 i f°l Parliament, it' you think proper, but we must leave the and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes Ditto, New.- -.• • • 5/. per cent. 20 0010 0 0 atnr matter in your hands. I think it would be scarcely ex- of assurance, in and for the county of Derby. : Union of Australia.... - 25 0024 0 0 24% Tho disable to contest this project, because we are perfectly WHITEHALL, JAN. 21. Union of L0ud0n...., 51. per cent. 50 0 0 , 10 0 0 I 111,„ 82/. atrars that these companies have declared their inten - ion The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Philips, of erre INSURANCE COMPANIES. to give that accommodation to the public which this Corr- Helmsley, in the county of York, Gent, to be a Master 82/. we- tease organised to afford. I believe that if our scheme Extraerdinary in the High Court of Chancery Dividend Amount lie a had not been projected it is possible they never would have BANKRUPTS. time of Company, per of Paid. Price TeY , contemplated renewing their application to Parliament, Thomas Ellis, wine and bottle merchant, Great Saint were i - ------- - non -( Hear, hear.) I say it is my opinion, that had we not Helens, to surrender, Feb. 10, at half-past twelve, and March Z s. d. , X s. 41 funned the Chepstow and Forest of Dean Railway, had we 13, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official Albion .........• •• • • 3/. 108 500 00150 0 0 . 74 Loki not made the eemonstrations we have, the South Wales assignee ; Starling, Sackville-street, Piccadilly. Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 01 11 0 0 19% upon _, party would not have carried out a scheme in Alfred Oakley, seedsmans, Southampton, Feb. 10, at Ditto Marine... •• • • 6/. per cent, 100 II ois 0 0 6% L• O I , A its own integrity. We all know that the twelve, and March 17, at. half-past eleven at the Court of Atlas . • 138.6 d. pr sh. 50 001 5 0 0 16 stole public have, fur some time past, been amused Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, ' Coleman-street ; iiritish Commercial .. 7s. per share 50 001 5 0 0 7% out I leriel,Med.&Gen•Lift Si. per cent. 100 00'2 10 1 65, - , l s t with a project which is to pass under the Severn. Hill and Matthews, Bury-court, St, Mary-axe. amount 31. 100 00 1 10 0 0 This, however, appeared so imeracti-able that it did not William Curtis, builder, Croydon, Feb. 10, at twelve, and Eagle • r es. and 1 Milli, create any diffidence in our minds as to the opposition which March 17, at eleven, at time Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, S 6l ss. bs.i 40 0 0 50 0 - snort its promo ors would be enabled to offer to our line With official assignee, Coleman -street ; Phillips and Son, Laurence this difficulty staring us in the face, and the impel -tame of Vountney-lane. Economic Life. was ( 1000 0 9 '250 0 0 coming to an inanediate decision as to whether we should go Frederick John Ablett (otherwise Frederick Ablett) and En g & Scot. Law tBt 30s.bs.i Well 51. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 3 „f. es ; Parliament, and enter into a contest in which we con- William Henry Ablett (otherw'se William Ablett), drapers, European Life •• • • • • ‘ • • • •• 5 1 peerrcceenitit. 202 0 0 0 A . ll paid. 20 ceived we should fritter away the funds in our hands, High Holborn, Feb. 10, at eleven and March 6, at twelve, Freemasons' •• ••••• • • • 5 Globe • ..• •••••• • • • • • 61. • Per cent. Stock. 4 - 0 138 i•rem it occurred to us to endeavour to effect an amalgamation at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Ba atten with the South Wales Company. We accordingly opened a singhall-street ; Ilensman, Basing-lane. Guardian .. •• .. ••• • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 48 lord, I t in e Perlal i t l L 'i i r fe e :•. :: :.• :: 121. p l e 2 r .. cent. 5 1 00 00 0 0 o o 5 10 0 0 0 0 0 24 16 0 1, t tr h a a te: communication with that company, and have had several Joseph Nail, builder, John-street, Tottenham-court -road, le sh.& bs. 100 0 0 113 I 29 , r , interviews with the directors ; but at length no amalgama- Feb. 11, at half-past two, and March 11, at two, at the Court t i n n de e i r n i ll y Marine lion was effected. I believe they would have been happy to of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman street-build- Law Life. IL ss. 100 0010 0 0 • 51 tor, :- (10 so but it was not in their rower, for after investigation ings; Thrupp, W inchester - buildings• Broad-street. Legal and General Life - 50 002 0 0 6,1 they found they had rot a tithe of the shares necessary to Benjamin Thompson, innkeeper, Aldeburg, Suffolk, Feb. London Fire ........ 10s. 25 00;12 10 0 15% soots take up our capital. 'therefore, after two or threeuselessmeet- 7 and March 13, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Fol- London Ship ; .i ll lc a el ri . n l e nv • lid • Get; • Life ings, we separan d with good feeling on both sides, and eith lett, Sambrook -court, Basinghall-street, official assignee 57. per cent. 100 00115 0 0 lON here a full determinatien not to carry out our project. We then Wright, Smith, and Co., Gulden Square ; Palmer, Norwich , National Loan Fu'isl- 51. per cent. n I N " 0 0 0 0 0 0 r turned our alt ration elsewhere, in order to obtain an amal- Sydney Pilling and Robert Green Watson, wine and spirit National Life .. ..' 422 100 0 g o : 3 t tivehrnsel gamation which would cz place son in an equally good posi- merchants, Gateshead, Feb. 13, and March 17, at ono, at the Palladium Life.. ..... . 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 • 0 21. 2 2 . hat e: , 51. par cent. 10 2 0 0 0 0 lion with regard to your interests, and with a coin- Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official Phcenix .. •• • • ..... •• • 3/. p. ct. & bs. - i cr o o , tlc ie to u r t Life...... ., - 205 .4 .uct , pany not very distant from the scene of our contem- assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne •; Harle, Newcastle-upon-0e , 10 1 0 0 0 o i /.2335. offererof his plated operations. We entered into communication with Tyne; Chisholine, Hall, and Gibson, Lincoln's-inn- fields. Nock Life ... II ::: :: :: :: the West Midland, a project as well known to You as to us. William Fordyce, bookseller, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Feb, Royal Exchange ..• ... 5/. pe4rBc•ent. t t 0 k 0 010 0 41% never I believe no one will disp to the credibility of that under- .5 and March 24, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Sun Fire.. ••.•• . • • • • 6/. los. oc . - 180 Pell's un D iv it e t n o a L l i L fe ife ...... .. 10% 1 1 1 .. pr cut. 100 0 - 210 taking -no one will question the respectability of the parties District Court. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle-upon- - - 49 tion, connected smith it, aed the large number of influential per- Tyne; Plumptre, Temple, London; Cram, Newcastle-upon -615 0 18 W.Ym , sins who give it their support. I believe the line is one Tyne. which will meet with th e appro b at i on of Parliament lions, or SCOTTISR COMPANIES' PRICES and h They George Watso n , b oo k se ll er, Gateshead, Durham, Feb. 5, LIST were not in a conditi o n t o g i ve us shares in the and March 24, at one, at the Newcastle District Court Dividend Amount -- Loke Welsh Midland itself, but they offered us shares Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Plumptre, Name of Company. per of Paid. I Price ings ' I in what I consider the more valuable portion of their Temple; Cram, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Annum. Sh are . benefit line-I mean in the West Midland and Heref or d J unct i on, Aaron Shipton, clothier, Piteheorabe, Gloucestershire, was a _ 100 00 , 171 belief and we entered into an arrangement, on which it is for you Feb. 9, at twelve, and March 16. at eleven, at the Bristol Rank of Scotland 61. er cent Lawns leo o e i 162 to decide. The terms; of amalgamation between this Come District Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol; Paris, Royal Bank of Scotland 6/. per cent. pithy and ourselves were these-that we should each pay our Stroud, Gloucestershire, British Linen Company Si' per cent. - 100 00 ' 221 all ;hi National Bank expenses up to the present time, and that they should give Robert Penhey, the younger, grocer, Stonehouse, Devon- Commercial Bank sass - 100 0 0 IGO and him 4. shares in the Welsh Midland Extension for shire, Feb. 10 and March 11, at eleven, at the Exeter Dis- 6/, per cent. - 10 0 0 15 other, :/ 1 . per per c en t . cent. - 50 0 0 84% the remaining portion of our capital-that we trio Court. Hirtzel, o ffi cial assignee, Exeter; Lavers, jun., tliv(eilsotnertstreotland 7341. pr cent. -- 50 00 95 fabrics should go into Parliament together, and with ou: Plymouth ; Drake, Exeter; or Pontifex and Co., St e An- North ofSc•otlancilian"k tie the - 5 0 0 74, machinery - well organised. No doubt we should obtain great drew's-court, Holborn. ilydesdale Bank.... • • 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 14% ceived, advaliteges by having their aid in a Parliamentary combat; John Peter James, draper, Truro, Cornwall, Feb. 10, and Eastern Bank. .. . Si. per cent, - 10 o 0 I 11, Octobe for if v e were to go into Parliament separately, I have no March 11, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Herne- : . aledonian Bank ••.•• 7%1. pr cent. - 210 0 5% a gross t er- ;ity of Glasgow B an k , Si. per cent. - 0 - 0 il ::,dinb &Glasgew Bank 61. per cent. - hesitation in saying that a great portion of our funds would man, official assignee, Exeter; Soles and Turner, All • ' a 0 0 71 4 to rale 18 0 14•)4 be :squandered. It is not proposed to diminish the awount maritime,; Stogdon, Exeter. north sott is h Union Ins. Co. Si. per cent. eo r attorne c*: wit* capital after the payment of the expenses which, John 'Brown, oilier. Liverpool, Feb. 13 and March €, at asrcnies Insurance Co. 7/. per cent. 100 00 10 ( 0 ) 14 1 % 14 den "; r a i n t!s F h ire in i s n ur su .. i. under the cif cu Instances, you would have to pay, eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official as c c e e n ii t t „ . 2 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2248 justice Insur. Co. of Scetlnd•• Si. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 10 incalcu and which would amount to one-fifth share. They signee, Liverpool ; Nethersole, New Inn, London ; Oweu and Caledonian 513041.1Pperr are not, however, to give us four shares for every five Co., Liverpool. you now hold ; they only ask, pani passe, that each should , PRICE OF SUGAR. Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0010 0 0 18N &lin. &Ulan. Railway 6/.per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 77 s h ou ld ITy their expens .sup to the time of going to Parliament. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, the Ditto, % Shares.. .• 61. percent. 12 10 0 All paid. 19 an oftic lon are to censider whether their shares are not of equal produce of the British poesessions in America, computed ecun., Leith, Se Grantn - 20 0020 0 0 211, value to our own. This is the second proposition of the three from the returns made in the week ending Jan. '27, 1846, is nasew & Ayrshir Hail. 51. 120 50 0 0 All paid. 70 The I - which 1 have to submit to you for the settlement of our affairs. 345. 101 d , per cwt. i]laseav &Greenek RaiL 2/. per cent. 25 0 0 ;if! paid. 21 woollen sisgw&Garnkirk Rail. Si. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 45 We have, as directors , conscientiously fulfilled our duties at day w a. the present time. There is, we believe, no spot to be found COURSE ()F EXCHANGE. I-- - (THIS DAY.) i?undee&A . rbroth Rail. 6/. per cent. ,25 0 0 All paid. 35% Th e standard Life Assernee.lsl per cent. 50 0012 10 0 8 upon the proceedings which we submit to your moat search- A to bets, Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 9% Gibraltar. - ing scrutiny. We are ready to lay ourwhole course of conduct cone uct Ditto, at sight • • .... 12 ”,,. L eg h orn ........ • • •,. 30 75 - DOCKS. to arnou before you, and that you may please yourselves as to the third Rotterdam ... .••2U. 12 10 Genoa . The a uroporsition which is open to the Shareholder t, namely, Antwerp ........ - about 41 dissolving the scheme and then returning your monef Ilaniburgh ..•.•.ILE. 13 15 Veniee.... •• •• • ..... subject to the expenses already incurred, gentlemen, Naples ..... .... .. •• 40 Annum. ' Share. .. j Price. The a Paris, 3 (lays' sight .... 25 75 Palermo, pe 1 Overvm think that no observations are required on this point. We D.tto, 3 months ... ••. 26 Lisbo - . r • ° . z .::: • •• •• 119% ____ -_--- --.......- are now met to hear any party who maybe disposed to address Marseilles .. •• . ..... • . 26 10 0p0rt0.... . ... . ..: .. :: 5 4 Commercial ...X s. d. A s. d , ' trust. any one of those propositions, and we only trust that Bourdeaux.... -•• • - 26 10 Rio Janeiro • ....... •• • 24% - e cent. ' East andOlfai l t Dei.-. - . Stock. -A pro, you on Frankfort on 3faine.... 122% Bahia ....... .......... ! -:as+ . eriantrY ••• • • ••• :1 11. • p p e r - c is e r • 10r ock• - 135 34 Bank, to whatever may be said will be in good temper. We trust also Ptrbr•h 31.7 eeB u „ , 5.... •• - Buenos Ayres ........ ...., '...*Mdon ....... - 21 was o bi e that, as your Directors have endeavoured to deserve your Berlin .......... .. •• - - New York, 21 days' sight - St Katharine , 3 per cent. Stock. - 116 ~„ upon th contif' ence, they will be honoured with it to the end. Vienna, effec. flo •.••• . 10 8 Philadelphia ~ „ ... Southampton •• •• •••• • • • 1 4/. per cent. 80 00'50 - 0 0 I I '''' drawers Mr. Pinsues wished to know if the Directors possessed any Trieste, ditt0.....• .. -10 9 pewe e o r ent.u. ,7 .. ~L an - o z " Mr. C information as to the position and prospects of the other Madrid •- ... ..... .... 3 3 6 6 Foreisen Gold in bars .. X.. 3 17 9 • CANALS. admitted Company, with whom they proposed to amalgamate? If he Cadiz_ .. ... : .... - - Portugal Gold Coin .• 317 5 I 1 as they i _ New Doubloons ... 00 0 . 4 understood aright, the Welsh Midland was not the Company i n Barcelona ibao• •: .... ,sass . - New Dollars ..... •• • ••• 0 4 9 Names of i e ;Dividend 1,. % Companies. I ••• . "Ca' Names of Dividend apply th . per Price. they were negotiating with. 5evi11e........ .....• • • - Silver in bars .... ••.• 0 4 ilk h. : per Companies. Mr: L The CHAIRMAN explained that the Gloucester and Here vi i Annum.' ? 2, Annum. the bank --- __ .........______ ......: .na1c....... ............. ford Extension, with which they proposed to unite, was (althouga. coming into Parliament assn independent scheme) BANK OF ENGLAND. II A Ashtn& Oldh 197 51.55. p c 70 I%fonmouthsh 100 Si. 160 really an offshoot from the trunk line. (From this Night's Gazette.) Ashby -d-la-Zll3 41. 172 3lntgomrysh 100 51 98 ( Before ] The SOLICITOR could Lot state what the available capital -en Accout, pursuant to the Act 7th and ash of Victoria n 1 , esp. 32, for erns ey.... 121. 1 180 3faccleefield. 100 • • - 95 of the other Company Was, but this he knew, that th • had the Week d' n Saturda y , the they on Ingo 24th day ofJauuary, 1816. Basingstoke..;loo' -; - Neath • . complied with the provisions of the standing orders. . ISSUE DEPARTMENT. illtilkBritbrgj 150; 51. 1 86 'slotting /nun ISO 121. - Newingtc Mr. Pmenrs thought that the Directors had shown a col- .f. Z. Cromford....lloo l 181, 180 Peak Forest .78 X 40 the use of pable precipitancy in entering into the proposed arrangement, Notes issued.... •• •• 26,525,025 Gorernment debt .• 11,015,100 Dudley 11001 4/. - Regent's -.• 33 1/. 26N i f malt or without having first ascertained the real standing of the ether securities ...• 2,984,9(10 Derby ...• • •11101 8/. 73 Rochdale ...• 85 41. b 4 other line. lie should, therefore, propose, "That the meeting Gold coin and bullion 10,974,471 Ellsmre&Chs;l33l 4/. 65 Shropshire • . 125 81. - each of du not deem it judicious or expedient to consent to the _____ Silver bullion .. _______ Forth & Clyel, 100 4/. - Do.LkFd St 12 61. p. c. 11 opinion of amalgamation." X 2 e,525,025 X 26,525,025 GrimdJunetnlloo 71. 95 Stffrd&Wore 140 281. 300 articles th Mr. PAYNE seconded the proposition. M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Grand Unionlloo 11. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 15/. 230 teary to After a few words from Mr. Saapefts, in support of the Dated the 29th du ofJanuary, 1846. Glamorgnsh -1721 13%1. 210 Stourbrldge .. 145 20/, 270 tllstr & Brklyl , 001 - - Strtfrd on Ay 79 11. 10s. - against h resolution, RANKING DIPARTMENT. Grantham • 1150; 121. 100 Severn and 1 given to t A SHARP:IIOI.I3ER asked what the expenses already incurred .Z. A. Huddersfield:l 571 - - Wye Rail.s 26 11. Bs. 32 gate the ti might amount to, and what proportion of the deposit would Pr oprietors' capital.. • 14,553,000 Government Recall- Kennt &Alltj 39; 7s. 6d. 22 Tait &Mr -1 CA UTIO: Rest ... • 50 301 - be likely to be returned? ..... •• • • 3,356,690 ties (including Dead Lancaster ..• I 47; 11. IL - s t y, % sh.j • Lower Ti The 61, mm:ix-From 13,000/. to 14,000/. of expenses are Public ileposits .(1n- Weight Annuity). • /3,137,047 Leeds& Livrp;loo' 341. 520 Thams&Med 19 - - electing Exchequer, Other securities •• • • 18,381,010 Leicester .. • •1140 10/. 105 Worcetr & e ee 21. with retail incurred, and the Shareholders will probably receive florn 44 There w C , 3lnrnissioners of Notes ........ ••• • • • 5,416,380 eeicstr& Nth I 8•1 1 41. 60 Binning. I l ° 28s. to 30 3 . per share. National Debt, Say- Gold and silver coin.. 6 77•( - 55 Loughborogh.l42; 70/, 850 Wilts & Biks 67 IL i I pleaded gu ?;,N.:OME-Let's have it.-( Laughter.) ings-banks, and Dl . 4464,886 Cot .n • CHAIRBIA ' x said he had only now to submit the reisee. Othervidend accounts).. 4,464,806 WATER-WORICS lutions to the had been t meeting, de posits ...... 14,208,609 -- Mr. LEE said he-,Seven day and other Dividend Amount should fine company wa e in would o b serve . that he knew P e at no bi 1 1 5.............. 1,0 2 g 458 Name of Company. per et paid. p r i ce James B Parliament but the w a better position than they were to go to --- Annum. Share. Thames-st ________ the Great Western.y He not in a position to corsitend with X 37,611,492 X 37,611,492 - ---------- ----- 'l - - renewing h Company should be dissorvoeill.d, therefore, pm:Soso that this M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. e;ast London... ...... • ' As, d. S. B. Sin 8/. 100 0 • - 221 .Mir. STitt7T seconded the resoluti Dated the 29th day of January, 1846. was also fir Grand Junction -- •• 31. 46 13 4 ; - 90 Mr. PAYNE said he was of opinir. Kent .... . - 66 Henry C be afforded them to decide as t „ th a.....nat some time should MARKET INTELLIGENCE. Vauxhall ..• ••• • . . ..........Si. per cent. 100 I 0 ' - b 7 for a like oi which it was proposed they stenuiCleaTnnelt aof the line with (From the London Irew Price Current of Jan. 30 Wait Middlesex .... • • 4/. 16s. pr et. 63 12 9I - 130 A considi came to the resolution of dieeolving th e ( so famate, before they • • SUGAR.-To- day there was less activity in the West India small pehal • A SHAREIIOLHLR said he thought, when M aa r Y. e wyeso far Sugar market, anti which was to be attributed to the public LAW INTELLIGENCE. sadeduction as one tilth . ro be made from the deposits, , 14e sales of other home trade kinds ; nevertheless, merchants COU.R7' OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Jan. 29. P( aught to have a committee to investigate the accounts, an e i r t evinced firmness, and obtained fully former rates for all de. (Sittings in Banco.) ;to see that the directors bad done their duty, not that he aeriptions. 'Wished to cast airy aspersion on those gentlemen. REPINE D TIIE QUEEN t". GREGORY. Mr. Char ~„ . .-A much better demand has prevailed for all This was an indictme ta ' n gamst the defendant, for a libel The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution that the Company lona:.`scriptI ona: . ` s cript of refined Sugar, answer a ch h uld be dissolved, which was unanimously agreed to. uesdaY,the refiners f or home consumption since on the Duke of Brunswick, importing, among other things, i s o tallied prices r h have manifested more firmness, and ob- that lie 1,,,,1 ..,,,,,,.,1„.._,, e.,,__ .-• • The meeting then separated. e. at Pr fah....- ~ n' Dividend Amount be Name of Company per of P a id. Price. Annum. Share. !le _____ of £ s. d. £ s . d. ... of Australasia • • • • 6/. p er cent. 40 8 0 40 0 0 2634 Brash North American 41. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 44 la ..:oinmercia of London 51. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 23 Colonial.. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 I it rd ~,nuln and Westminstr j Cl. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 2614 as - ,ondon Joint-Stock... Cl. per cant. 50 0 0 10 0 0 13% o f Metropolitan - 25 0 0 7 10 0 )r Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 46 Ditto, New.- - .• • • 81. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 1714 r' National of Ireland .. 51. er cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 IA s Nat. Provncial of E ng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 9 35% 's Ditto, New... • • • • 5/. per cent. 120 0 0 10 0 0 Union of Australia.... - 25 0 0 25 0 0 2 4 % Union of London.- .• 51. per cent. 50 0 0 , 10 0 0 I 113, E )f INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount woe of Company. per of Paid. Price t Annum. Share. ii---;---- it Albion .........• • • • • £ s. d. £ s . 4 1 . 3/. lOs 500 0 0 i 50 0 0 74 Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 1 11 0 0 1918 , ,t Ditto Marine - • • 6/. per cent, 100 II 0 5 0 0 6% ,f Atlas . . 138.6 d. pr sh. 50 0 0 1 5 0 0 16 British Commercial .. 7s. per share 50 0 0 1 5 0 0 'N , , ;lericl,Med.&Gen.Life. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 1 2 10 1 6 County .. % 31. 100 0 0 I 10 0 0 :Town 9s. and "I 1• j r 61. ss. bs. 5 40 0 0 5 0 0 - e ~ e .agle • Economic Life. 1000 0 0 250 0 0 /8t 30s.bs. I Eng. & Scot. Law-. • • • Europeansl. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 3 , uropeau Life • • • • • • 514 per cent. 20 0 0 A ll paid. 20 Freemasons' .. • • • • • • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 Globe ..... - - • • • • • • 6/. per cent. Stock. - Guardian .......• • • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 138 48 imperial Firs •••••• • • 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 240 • imperial Life t indemnity Marine•••• 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 5 13 1 29 • Law Life...... Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 6% London Fire ........ 10s. 25 0 0 ; 12 10 0 1534 London Ship ... ..... Marine.. 10s. 25 0 0 i 12 10 0 15 Med. Inviid & Gen. Lif e % ..... • • • • 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 1 15 0 0 lON - 50 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 National Loan Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 2 10 0 2% National Life • . • • • • • • • 81. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 934 Palladium Life.. Phcenix .. • • • • ..... • • • 3/. p. ct. & bs. - - ,5 Protector Life•••••• • • 51 . per cent. 20 0 II , 1 0 0 11. 0 35. , Provident Life.. • • .. • • 1/. 58, 100 0 0 10 0 0 23 f Sock Life , 4s. 5 0 0 0 10 0 4 1 4 , Royal Exchange • ......Si. per cent. Stock. 1 Sun Fire ...... - - • • • 6/. 10s. - - 2 180 1 Ditto Life . . - - 4 0 9 1 Universal Life .....• • 10%1. pr Ent. 100 0 6 15 0 18 LIST OP SCOTTISR COMPANIES' PRICES a Dividend Amount --- ! Name of Company, per of Paid. I Price 1 Annum. Sh are . ! I B A 3. d. X s• d v [lank of Scotland Royal Rank of Scotl an d 61. per cent. - 100 British Linen Company Si' per cent. - 100 0 0 0 0 221 162 a Commercial Bank - National Bank 6 l. per cent. - 100 10 0 0 0 0 160 15 0 a Union Rank of Scotland 7341 . pr cent. - 50 0 0 5 Western Bank • . - • • • • 6/. p er cent. - 50 0 0 8 ft 4 1 ) , _North of Scotland B an k 61. per cent. - 5 0 0 7 / 5 ' ,;lydesdale Bank.... • • 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 14 % c' Eastern Bank. .. • Si. per cent. - 10 0 0 ! 11 i ft , 0 ;aledonian Bank •••• • 7141. pr cent. - 2 10 0 534 a Edi ii b.& Glasgew Bank 61 . per cent. - 5 0 0 714 t ;ity - of Glasgow Bank . W. per cent. - C 8 15 0 143, . •cottish Union Ins. Co. Si. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 114 A , a tl, liacitles insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14% ' Incur. Co. of Scetlnd• • 51. per cent. , 10 0 0 All paid. 10 in North British Incur. • • 5341. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 2834 a Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent.'loo 0 0 10 0 0 24 % jit Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 5i &clin. &Ulan. Railway 6/.per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 18 E1) 77 Ditto, 1 4 Shares.. . • 61. percent. 12 10 0 All paid. 19 a: =din., Leith, & Gra n t n - 20 0 0 20 0 H 0 2119 asgw & Ayrshir Hail. 5/ . per cent. 50 0 0 i;lasov &Greenek RaiL 21. per cent. 25 0 e .lAll paid. 70 .11 paid. 21 W Asgw& Garnkirk Rail. Si. pe rcen t . 25 0 0 All paid. 45 da to to , Dundee & Arbroth Hail, 6:. 2 p ) er o ce c i: c . s . 25 0 0 Al] paid. 353, Standard Life Assernce. I 51 per cent. 1 50 0 0 1 2 10 0 8 Name of Compa k y. Dividend Amount per of , , , Share. i p.ta ab Annum. ' - •"".. i Price. , . ,- , £ s. d. , X s. d. trt CEoumtmanereid..Walea.t.w. _.,a, 63 1 4. ii.eprreceenntt.. Stock. 135 U Ba r•atqa enntrY • • .• • • • .1 ft. per eh. 100 0 0 - 21 wa '.;)ndon ....... • .. • • 4%1. pr cent. Stock. : - 116 St Katharine - 108 % up Southampton • • . • • • • • ' 4/• per cent. 80 0 0 50 0 0 1 RA des MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London :few Price Current of Jan. 30.) SUGAM—To-day there was less activity in the West India Sugar mark e t, an d w hi c h was to be attributed to the public sales of other home trade kinds; nevertheless, merchants evinced firmness, and obtained fully former rates for all de• acriptions. d it EFINED.—A much better demand has prevailed for all tailied7,!icthes. rraetterrs a bov e hve thosemanifested previously ~.ensecarniptions of refined Sugar, for home consumption since M A (AUTRY& This of Mauritius Sugar, all sold at fully former rate , 48s. brought 6d , per cwt. more ci fi u r o m te n d e . ss, and ob anar 9 rn , oon there were eager purchasers 02 . bags 32 casks at auction were adva m n d ne eed the kinds at and under EAST INDIA. —This afternoon the market w supplied with Bengal Sugar, fou r parcel., amou n t ing tin much bett er bags d to public competition, the trade 5,785 e inclined to oper a t e , an d nearly tI4 old sold at full rate ei * re deed the better sort o f white brought a small advance .la- FortElGN.—Holders of Foreign Sugar have manifested firmness since our last report, although no change is to b e made in the duties, and they refrained from offering any at auction ; there, has, however, been a f a lli ng o ff in the de mand by private contract. MOLASSES.—To-day West India met with attention ; sales of Antigua were made at 23s 6d, and Demerara at Ws 6 c i per ten, being very full rater. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Jan. 29. (Sittings in Banco.) THE QUEEN V. GREGORY. This was an indictment against the defendant, for a libel on the Duke of Brunswick, importing, among other thingp, that he had murdered Eliza Grimwood. The jury Lad con victed the defendant. Mr. COCKBURN now moved for a new trial, first on the ground of the improper reception of evidence, and secondly, un that of misdirection. The evidence improperly admitted was the inquisition on Eliza Grimwood. As to the objec tion on that point, there was a case in East's Pleas of the Crown. which showed that an inquisition ought to be taken on parchment, and not on paper, and the inquisition on Eliza Grimwood having been taken on paper, was not a valid inquisition, and ought not, therefore, to have been received in evidence in this case. This objection was confirmed by the 6th and 7th of Victoria, which was passed to ob viate objections of a formal nature to inquisitions ; and among the insta nces there mentioned as those in whic the defect would vitiate the inquisition, was thitt of its being taken on in par. invalid this objection wntas valid, then th e paper i nquisition, in evidence, It w was!beg peaninstrume, ought not to ha ve b een admitted Pot admissible on another :ground, ' 11IE LONDON GAZETTE (THIS LVENIN'G•) [The following article is substituted for that which ap. poared in last Friday's Gazette.] CROWN-OFFICE, JAN. 22. :Ir MBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PA RLIA3IENT. Borough of Buckingham—John Hall, Esti , Liautenant- Colonel in her Majesty's lst Regitnent of Life Guards, in the r4om of Sir John Chetwod-, Bart. deceased. C ROWN-OFFICE, JAN. 30. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Borough of Newark -upon-Trent—John Stuart, Esq., one ENJ N amely, that it was a proceeding between other persons than those concerned in this indictment, and therefore could not be evidence for or against either of them. The other point was, that the prosecutor was described as Charles Frederick Augustus NVilliam Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg. This was a wrong description; the prosecutor was 'no longer Duke of Brunswick. He was not, there fore, entitled to be so called. But even if that was his proper description abroad, he ought here to be described as an esquire. In Lord Coke's "Institute" it was stated that the description of rank and title of a party to an indictment should be truly stated, and if the parties were noblemen of foreign countries, they were to be described as armigeri, un less they were knights. The prosecutor was not a reigning sovereign, and therefore ought, in our courts, to have been described as an esquire. He quoted several authorities in support of this proposition, and contended that this descrip tion of the prosecutor being bad, the indictment could nut be sustained. Lord DENMAN—I think that in this case there ought not to be any rule. The indictment states what is certainly quite unnecessary; it states as a distinct fact that there was a murder committed on the body of Eliza Grimwood, and then it goes on to allege that an inquisition was held upon the body, and a verdict of murder by some person unknown was pronounced It is quite immaterial whether this was so or not. The real question is, whether the libel spoke of her as a person who had been murdered. Notwithstanding this unnecessary allegation, and the proof unnecessaril3 °fret ed upon this point, I think it was quite sufficient to show that there was an inquisition held on the body of a murdered person, called by the name of Eliza Grimwood. Mr. Carter, tie coroner, proved that he held the inquisition. lie pro duced a paper, which would not be admissible as an in quisition taken by him in order to found other pro ceedingspon it, but whi c h was per f ect l y admissible to sh ow that u atat the in qu i s i t i on held under him lie had noted (l i t iow wn what had occurred; so that supposing it had been • necessary to prove the allegation on the indictment, that there had been such an inquisition, the evidence of Mr. ( arter would have been sufficient to establish that fact. The paper thus produced was not made the foundation of any other proceeding, but Was a mere mode of identifying the persons and the names mentioned at the inquest; so that the ob jection raised to the admissibility of the paper does not apply here. With respect to the other part of the objection, I was much struck by the objection when made at the trial. Lord Coke's authority goes a great way to show that the descrip tion English here e r e e n givencourts, ts, a N n v d as t a h n e improper descripti o n ; f or , f rom hi s e been to call safer way would ha k Institute it appears th at foreign titles cannot be noticed in the prosecutor by hi s name, and to add the title or desig nation Esquire or Armiger. I own I was at first disposed to think, that though this was merely a technical objec tion, it ought to be further discussed; and I should there fore have thought we ought to grant a rule, had it not been for the case of the King v. Sully, which occurred in 1799. The prisoner there was indicted for stealing cer tain articles, the property of Selina Victoire Baroness Turkheim ; and the prosecutrix said that that was her title, and not part of her proper name, and that she was re puted to possess, and did possess that title, in right. of an estate she bad received from her father. The Court said, that all that the law required was certainty i to a common in tent, and, therefore, h e ld h er description n the indictment sufficient. There the mere title of the party appeared, and yet the court held amt, mat was sufficient, for she was con stantly known by the title given her in the indictment. The same circumstances exist here. The prosecutor is not a reigning prince, and there is another person who is the reign ing prince, still lie is constantly known by this description, and the case I have referred to seems to me a direct autho rity for saying that he has properly described himself in this indictment. I am, therefore, of opinion that there ought be be no rule. The other Judges concurred.—The rule was refused. Mr. COCKBURN then applied for the postponement of the case on the ground that the whole of the last term had been suffered to elapse without the defendant being called on to :ome tip for judgment, and the notice he had now received to be brought up for judgment having only been given on Tuesday evening, he had not had time to prepare the affida vits he wished to lay before the Court in mitigation of punishment. Mr. Sergeant TAIYOURD (Mr. Wordsworth was with him) did not oppose the application if the Court thought it proper. The COURT did think it reasonable, and the case was, therefore, ordered to stand over to next term. BANKRUPTCY COUUT, Jan. 29. (Before Mr. Commissioner FANE.) IMPORTANT JUDGMENT.—IN RE THOMPSON. The Learned CtensiissioNEß said, this is a case in which have a painful duty to perform, that of refusing a certifi cate to an attorney. I did not give my decision at the hear t •rig, becaus e I w i s h e d to examine the proceedi ngs , t o see whether there was anything in the general complexion of , -ne case which could justify me in taking a more lenient course. I have found nothing. Mr. Thompson took the benefit of the Insolvent Debtors' Act in 1838, and though 14 pressed, he could not venture to state that his estate paid anything in the pound. He now owes 854/. to unsecured cre ,44 ditors, and 4621. to creditors having some security; his estate on this occasion will just pay one farthing in the pound. During his examination before me, he showed himself utterly regardless of the sacred obligation of an oath. It is not, % however, on these general reas:ms that I found my decision. 1 found it principally on his conduct to Mr. Pell, of North % ampton. Mr. Pell was employed by three clients to sue Thompson for sums which, kith the costs, amounted to 821. 10s. ; upon which Thompson requested Mr. Fell to enable him to get rid of these demands by advancing him the 82/. 10s. on the security of some cottages and property which he alleged he had bought of one Loke. The deeds of con ice a-eyance from Loke to him, dated the 21st of August, 1844, were produced, and no other title- deeds, the excuse for their non-production being that they had been lost or stolen from Luke many years before. Mr. Pell required evidence of this; )"s upon which Tho m p son produced solemn affirmations from ; % ' s Loke and two other persons, stating that the deeds had been stolen, and stating such other facts as were necessary to make out Loke's title. These affirmations were dated the 18th and ;ii 21st of September, 1844, and producing their natural effect, induced Pell to advance the 821. 10s. on the security of a mortgage deed, dated the 17th of October following. Now, I A on the 7th of October, only ten days before the mortgage was executed, Luke had attended before the magistrates at Wellingborough to procure their assistance, under a late Act of Parliament, in ejecting one Wyman from part of the ITeinises comprised in the mortgage deed Wyman had attended with his solicitor, a Mr. Sharman, of Bed ford, and had Shown to the satisfaction of the rnagis -0 !rates that he claimed a right to the property, and 'li the magistrates, o f course , h ad declined to inter :ere. Thompson was present, apparently as a specta .. tor, though, if the deed of the 21st of August were rot a tctitious deed, got up for some fraudulent purpose, he, ac :ording to his own account, ought to have been, not a si riere spectator, but the principal actor. Mr. Sharman con versed with Thompson after the business was over, and told 2him that Loke appeared t o b e act i ng under a delusion, for a that he had executed a d ee d to Wyman's grandfather, a hich he (Sharman) held with the title deeds for a client 3s. of his, who claimed as mortgagee under Wyman, and he I offered to show Thompson the deeds. Thompson, however, never called upon Sharman, but ten days after obtained Pell's 821. 103. on the security of the property in ques tion, without saying one word to Pell about the claim by Wyman. Thompson, after much fencing with my ques tions, was obliged to admit, not only that he was present and had heard what passed, but that he bad insisted on Loke, an old man almost in hi s dotage, taking the proceed ice ings he had before the magistrates for his (Thompson's) benefit, so that his afterwards obtaining Mr. Pell's money was a plain cheat. It was suggested by his solicitor (Mr. Lawrence) that he had been deceived by Luke. My own belief is that he had never bought the property of Loke at all; he could produce no evidence of any payment to Loke, and his story and Loke's were utterly inconsistent with each other. I believe that the d ee d of the 21st of August was fabricated originally to deceive a client of Mr. Pell's; but ' 72 be that as it may, even if Thompson was originally de ceived, his obtaining the money of Pell on the 17th of October, without disclosing that his title was disputed, was 134 a gross fraud. Under these circumstances, lam compelled ta to refuse Thompson his certificate altogether. The office of ;')i,4 attorney is an office unavoidably o f great trust and confi ',lC deuce; and if a s o li c i tor i s a dishonest man he can effect 12 incalculable mischief, add the public have, as I conceive, s„4 a right to require that no man once proved in a court of justice to have been guilty of an act of plain dishonest) 3i should be enabled by public authority again to exercise sucl an office. IN RE EVILL AND DOUGLAS. The bankrupts in this case carried on business as wholesale I woollen merchants in Vigo- street, Regent-street, and this day was appointed fr th- 11-* for .tie choice of assignees. The debts and liabilities during four years' trading amount to between 70,000/, and 80,0001., and the assets were stated to amount to about 30,0001. The debts proved in the course of the day amzuntcd to about 40,000/ The assignees chosen were Messrs. Leukin, Griffiths, and Overvuary, all iu the woollen trade, and they accepted the trust. A proof was tendered, upon the part of the North-West Bank, to the amount of '7,000'. on bills of exchange, which was objected to by Mr. Dickens, as solicitor to the assignee?, upon the ground that cloth had been deposited with the drawers of the bills. Mr. Commissioner FANS, after reference to several cases, admitted tieproof, allowing the assignees to take such steps as they might consider expedient to realise the securities and apply them in discharge of the bills. Mr. Lawrance, of Bucklersbury, appeared as solicitor to the bankrupts, and Mr. Wryghte as accountant. COURT OF EXCISE, Jan. 29. (Before H. F. STEPHENSON, Esq., CHARLES Ross, Esq., and C. J. HARRIES, Esq.) Maria Sbephard, of the King and Queen, High-street, Newington, was charged with the adulteration of beer by the use of a liquid material and preparation, as a substitute Yg for malt and hops. The information contained six counts, each of which involved a penalty of 2001. After hearing the evidence, Mr. Commissioner Stephenson said it was the opinion of the Court that there was nothing injurious in the articles that had been put into the beer, but as it was con trary to law they had no alternative but to give judgment against her. In consequence of the excellent character given to the defendant by the officers, the Court would miti gate the tine to 5/. CAUTION TO EATING•HOUSE KEEPERS.—Job Ford, of 87, Lower Thames-street, eatir;g-house keeper, was charged with retailing beer a n d spiritous liquors without license. There was a second information, to which the defendant pleaded guilty. The COURT gave judgment, and said that as the defendant had been carrying on this illegal trade for nine years, they should tine the defendant in the penalty of 251. on the two cases. James Best Coleman, of the Bean and Wheat sheaf, Lower Thames-street, was fined in the full penalty of 1501., for not renewing his licenses. S. B. Simmons, of the Rising Sun,Castle-street, Long-acre, was also fined fora similar offence in the penalty of 1001. Henry offence. Gander (place tf residence not stated) , fined 100 / fora like A considerable number of licensed Yictuallers were fined in call penalties for similar offences. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mr. Charles Cahill, described as a gentleman, appeared to answer a charge made against him by Mrs. M‘Donall, for robbing his ready-furnished lodgings of a sheet, a blanket, and some other articles, valued at 255. From Mrs. M'Donall's original statement, it appeared that at the latter end of the year 1844, Mr. Ruthven, M.P., a friend of the accused, took the lodgings for the family of the accused at a stipulated, rent. The accused remained with her about ten weeks, during which period so much unplea santness arose between them, that she was obliged to give him notice to quit. The accused left without her cognizance, and on gaining entrance into the apartments, she discovered that, independently of considerable damage to the carpets and furniture, a blanket, sheet, two tumblers, and a German silver knife and fork were not to be found She made in- quiry after the accused, but wss unable to meet with him until Tuesday last, when, seeing him in the street, she gave him into custody. Mr. Cahill attempted to show that the charge originated in a refusal on his part to pay 7/.los. for alleged damage to firs. BrDonall's carpet an d hearth rug. He said he was re- ' 4 Parliament ought to do was to see that the partie.s..o4 power to make a railway really had the capital scl a c r o t fessed to have. Next, that the capital was gn u object in view, and that the object, if °5 attained, ficial to the public. r ot isefY Lord REDESDALE—That shou ld be the fret , Earl GREY—That should be the first conside.rrolool they should inquire whether the prepared ssart,.,,,Del'ii fere unnecessarily or injuriously with privatehrea those inquiries were answered satkfactoriff, ibi te .fetsni not see that it was right for Parliament to in tbet on Thole parties who subscribed the capital Wese jjo rsied as to whether that capital ought to be ineest`" , o l6snit not. In his opinion, Parliament would be steprlekeri proper functions if it attempted to decide hoe felt the nation ought to devote to the construction. .0,1.: That which affected private interests must at IL c o o ts . if the e y , : jo : o bs o d affect the interests of the public. It could rotn n 00 1 0 0 the projectors were in a position, with a s ui t te li aa rlit full means, to carry forward their work, then la r It interfere and stop their proceeding fur ther ,;(o l only remain for the Legislature ffs,, - 0 bore mentary powers, where such power dug"' 0 dies e t .l It would lead to no useful conclusion, tors only a hasty and artificial consideration. ~10i0bts° necessary to make these remarks, in order that it n isle suprosed that, in giving his concurrence to the% of this Committee, be meant to recognise th e if the ptinciples that that Committee intended id loose,. considered it desirable that the Committee shda_',. the esl i , into the means by which they proposed to ditd w o ot bes of the proceedings, and ;he great labour which • si lo posed upon these Committees. There had her r o lose'f thrown out last year, and he considered it very 8 1 ots o he was anxious that their Lordships should ta k d e tv l o it consideration. In the separate Committees ~0-,boeit, Year, it happened that, where there were comP e ` i 0 5 1 0 0 01 of them was sanctioned by the Committee of tha rw i t ool e s and the rival line was sanctioned by the CI stet House. Thus both were lost to the parties, fbetb,e, was incurred. Now, he should like to ky r both °fir could net have a joint Committee, a cting su r ao e° This would certainly diminish the labour throw' no sibS it r dual Member of that House, and he thoug ht every technical difficulty could be got rid df- , ble Lord ASHBURI ON thought that consiaer,los would be found in ascertaining which s chemes " 0(0 0 1 0 capital, for all they had before them was a list a - Wade of whom, from A, B, and C downwards, got sr 'Or went into the market for the p urpose of selling its to t l h t e w r o e u a l c d h , sicnhhemiseophiandioan,subffiecaiebnscoylutelv ityr ssibl —r ° si; 64. lfr Lord MONTEAGLE said that t o b f ey ea c p ° i u taldi t: l7 ll4t osse itYl' 7 . ject desired by the Noble Earl as long mons dealt with railways and ith mono} tbs o li terly inspo , sible that their Lordships could 07;bbiP 1 ness which would come before them. Their t . ' ° recollect the late period at which the 11 33 .1? r a„ f , 1 , 1 1 ,11 came before them. In March, April, and ' "Ito rg,"" Bills came up to their Lordships' House' from • tr a y Commons; in June, 81 ; and in July, 2 . 5 ; ° tr i be /I° V generally to deal with private business at a tidse - 0 011 0 ): tl/ lie business before their Lordships was the 1 1 1 A ,,, tP lIall i ;/' House of Commons had the exclusive right ar t 11 6 0 e ,' taxation of the country, and God forbid Est Lords should ever interfere with this branch of fAcsr It was upon this principle that a railway 03 1 5 0 — come before their Lordships before it had as the , of House of Commons, because it was looked arn,i,iirl ioe y a money Bill.—( Hear.) But, in his opinions L-ra to railway Bills was most pr eposterous: 10 „" A l„ 2 1P 101 1 communications he had had with several the „of' House of Commons, he knew that many men "c t betl experience were disposed to take the same view of trr ormerly a certain class of criminal measures sr•diftestifre dr m o: o n n ned e d y . üßtui,ll.sadn; Under ti u th t ews teahsen circumsta n ces,oabsur sooneri di o s f c ro le ot t vh h ee e rne,d hi hic. „ . ::i oailid e o , that, in the existing state of the people of 11 1 psf to food, the labours of Parliament as ' 1 ",,„ -° sonable and just, be directed to thesencouragetl° measures. • to i_ te .lo Lord BROUGHAM—They should be east 1 % . 11 t Lord MONTEAGLE—Just so; and for tl'a„ t s pr ;?' would suggest for the consideration of Governroe" kit whose duty it would be to consider the matter, t r o in9 l not the necessity, of dividing equally the railway / 0.0 ea , 4 4 session between the two H ouses o f P ar li a ment.'" Lord REDESDALE s a id, a ft er a ll, the ques` l b eSkt! sidered was this—could the Legislature get thrt:tblie in the course of one session. For his pert , 11. 00 , was absolutely impossible, and th ere f or e he thong of .fr was adopting a very proper cour se i n appointi, , n g b :01 4 ,,0 to consider the subject. If th e y h a d pursue d ' A sr the good and bad schemes would be jostelling enotti l o ir into the Committee first, and at the end of the be disagreeably discovered that seme o f the Bilis " Co o ,o° the utmost importance had fail e d i n ge tting tbroollpotrot He wished to say a few words upon a remark w,. ; ,b100,0 4 the Noble Lord, with reference to the opinion sgy f 00 . t_ 0 ( the public had entertained of the Committees ° ,,e_ k ie —that they were not a fair Committee. He did nv t i o toroi thing that he had heard could induce him to be d. Ov# —( Hear, hear.) Committees of that House AO l O very nature, uncertain, as all other tribunals ere t ' o ,r, he knew, the Committe es had ac t e d acc ording of lr considered the merits of the case, and in no no ts be eo feeling o f p r i va t e i n t eres t, or any ot h er m otive, to influence their deeision. t The Earl of KINNAIRD sa id t h a t he We s° 'ent were not competent j u d ges —th a t t h ey h a d not 5 ; ( 4 4 mation before th em t o ena bl e t h em to come to a ?Itbe He looked upon the Committee s o f th a t House IsP k ii est respect. He had heard eminent leading el v r.fill reference to matters brought b e f ore th em , " Tu t- ir the Common=—it will not do for the Lords." tol eet Earl DALHOUSIE th en move d t hy aPP°a 3 Committee. t ebei Lord BROUGHAM considered that every' bild f Committee should so l emn l y prom i se not t o or", to with reference to the d ec i s i ons lik e l y t o be C O gl3- Committee. rio* The Duke of WELLINGTON asked if the sio would like it to be a Secret Committee? Earl ELLENBOROUGH t h oug h t t h a t there ‘lasure°?... sity for maki n g it a S ecret C omm i ttee. lie was otbLiwe Noble Lord would all ow any i n f ormat i on to come f ro 0 1 Earl DALHOUSIE stated that the Commitr t s s c ole l sent their reports t o th e H ouse as soon as t h e y b decision. Their Lordships then adjourned until Monday nes t ' _ v , JANUARY 30 184 spectably connected, and when in Ireland held the rank of magistrate, and therefore it was very unlikely he would be guilty of the petty offence laid to his charge. A man named Bingley, who had been l e ft b y th e accuse d in the apartments to deliver them up to Mrs. M'Donall, said he (lid deliver the rooms up, and when Mrs. M'Donall looked over them she made no complaint, then of lost pro perty. Mrs. M'Donall said the statement of the accused was an invention. If time were allowed, she would produce the re quisite evidence in support of the charge. Yesterday was the day appointed for further inquiry. Mrs. M'Donall, however, did not make her appearance, and Mr. Cahill, through his solicitor. applied for a retnthid for a few days, in order to enable him to get certain papers from Ire land, which woald completely exculpate him, and show the true character of the charge. Mr. HARDWICK, however, said, as there was no one i n court to press the Charge, the accused must be liberated. A STEAM-ENGINE BY POST.—Mr. G. Cartwright re ceived an order, on Friday week, for a miniature steam engine, on the high-pressure principle, for which he sent to Messrs. Chadhurn Brothers, Sheffield ; and, strange to say, though the engine had to be built, he received it enclosed in a letter, by post, on Tuesday morning ! Thu engine was com plete in every detail, accompanied by a boiler and a fire-grate containing fuel. At the request of several of the astonished beholders, it was kept in motion the whole of Tuesday.— Preston Guardian. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS, Thursday, Jan. 29. TOLL-BARS (SCOTLAND) BILL. On the motion of the Duke of RICHMOND, this Bill was read a second time. CORN-LAWS. Lord ASHBURTON, who was scarcely audible in the gallery, ventured to apologise for the warmth of the language contained in the petitions which might be presented to their Lordships upon this subject, considering that the petitioners believed that their whole fortunes, and almost existence de pended upon this measure being rejected. Government would never be able to carry out the principles so ably advocated by the Noble Earl. If, indeed, that free trade could be esta blished, then he said, as the Noble Earl had said, that it was the principle of common sense. But how could they, in a country where such complicated interests existed—a country in which such artificial systems were fighting against the regula tions sought to be enforced by the Noble Lord—how could they, he said, expect to carry free-trade principles into effect, despite of this artificial system of Society. It must be recol lected that they had, in addition, a debt of 800,000,0001. on their shoulders ; and again he said, how was it possible then to carry out the principles of free trade ? He (Lord Ashburton) should like to have the opinion of a Committee of Ways and Aleans on this subject. They might perhaps find it a difficult matter, with diminished resources arising from the abolition of protection, to maintain the credit of the country. '1 he Noble Earl had stated that the British farmer could beat the foreign grower, but they could not fight the foreign farmer with their hands tied.—( Hear, hear. ) While the men on the shores of the Baltic were paying for labour 6d. a day, the British farmer was paying 2s. It re quired no great skill in political economy to foresee, that so circumstanced, these two classes could not cope with each other. The burdens peculiarly pressing upon the British farmer should be rescinded, for he maintained, whatever might be said to the contrary, that tithes were unusually oppressive on the landed interest. Then the poor-rate came more immediately upon the country, for towns were comparatively exempted. Much as he admired the general principle of frea trade, he con ceived that it would be impossible to establish it in England in its present peculiar position. They had had no wise man who had ever said any other thing. If they took Huskiason, they found him saying, " When it is not necessary to want to raise sixty millions of taxes then you will have cheap bread, but not before. So Mr. Ricardo also admits that on every principle of justice the British farmer was entitled to compensation. In the present state of the country it was perfectly Utopian to endeavour to bring about a systetu of free trade. He did not complain of the League subscribing money for the purpose of watching the registration of voters, but he did complain of the League opening, in every county and town throughout the country, what be might term shops for the sale of what he must certainly consider fictitious votes. —( Hear, hear.) The advertisements of the League state that, for the sum of 401., any person may qualify himself for a voter in the county elections. As a proof of their success in this business, they stated that they had created as many as three thousand votes in one county. He considered that if the Government did not bring forward some measure to prevent this wholesale creation of votes, they would be acting in a very injudicious and improper manner. Lord MONTEAGLE wished to know upon what doctrine his Noble Friend founded his statement ? Upon a doctrine which he had heard elsewhere no doubt, and he ( Lord Monteagle) had heard it frequently advanced by persons who were most eager advocates for the repeal of the corn-laws, and who car ried in their doctrines with respect to the protective duties, and with respect to the doctrines of the freedom of trade, just such arguments as had been used by his Noble Friend, who had put forward the revenue duties as being obstacles to the freedom of trade.—( Hear, hear.) His Noble Friend put for ward, with his accurate knowledge upon this subject, arguments which recognised no distinction between a maintenance of the revenue and a freedom of trade. But protection of the re venue he would hold was perfectly consistent with entire free dom of trade.—( Hear, hear ) Until we were producers of tea in this country, and until we were producers of tobacco likewise, the tea and the tobacco duties had no more relation to the advance of trade than the state of our foreign relations at the present moment with India or elsewhere. He would not refer to the old doctrines upon this subject, for he thought that such a course would not be either just or agreeable in arguing such points as these, because he would venture to say that the opinions of the wisest men in the kingdom had under. gone great changes on the question of corn. But then he must say, that with a very strong exception, all the variations of opinion had been in one direction.—( Hear, hear. I Per sons who had previously advocated the doctrines of protection and the restriction of commerce, had abandoned those doc trines by degrees. Noble Lords themselves—the Legislature of the country—had ut.dergone great changes upon this sub ject. From the year 1815, up to the present time, there had been a gradual progression towards the doctrine of free trade in the Government of the country,—( Hear, hear.) Let Noble Lords compare the year 1815 with that year in which the ninth Act of George the Fourth passed ; and again the Act of 1842, and they would at once see a manifest and con siderable change in favour of free trade. They would find that they had been steadily advancing towards the doctrine of free trade since the year 1815. But without referring to by gone opinions, he was surely entitled to refer to the opinion of that great body—the merchants of London—on this all-impor tant question. A petition from that body was Presented in the other House of Parliament, which laid down the princi ples of free trade, and prayed for the removal of all burdens from the commerce of the country, and that peti tion was supported, at the time of its presentation, by a host of his friends in the other House of Parliament. He utterly denied that these laws were imposed for revenue, but suppose he granted that they were more heavily taxed in this country than elsewhere, that was an argument why com merce should be left unshackled, and the enterprise of the merchant, the production of the farmer, and the industry of the manufacturer freed from any restrictions which fettered them. It was, perhaps, wrong to discuss the measure by an ticipation, as the details were not as yet before them. With regard, however, to the three years' limitation, he believed it would be prejudicial, rather than advantageous, to the interest which it pretended to protect. He took the measure, how ever, as a whole, and while he said that it gave him great pleasure to see such an approximation to free-trade principles, he confessed that he would have preferred the measure if it bad come into operation at once. He thought the protectionists themselves would see that a limitation of three years would be more prejudicial than otherwise; and if they objected to it, he considered it quite possible even yet to amend it so as to obviate this objection. He denied that the land had any right to peculiar protection. His Noble Friend had referred to the doctrines of Mr. Ricardo on tithe, but that ceased to be re garded as formerly, since it was made a permanent charge on the. land. As there was no question before the House, he would now present a petition from Stranraer in reference to— ( Interruption, amidst wh'ch the Noble Lord handed the peti tion to one of the clerks. ) Lord ASHBURTON rose to explain. The Noble Lord went on to say a few words in reference to the growth of tobacco, which, he said, was one of the luxuries.of the poor, and which the countrymen of the Noble Lord who had just sat down had got into a knowledge of the growth of just at the time when it was prevented by an Act of the Legislature. The Duke of RICHMOND said he thought it was rather a strange proceeding to enact a law by which the farmers were compelled to employ men when they did not require their ser vices. Why should that be done? If the farmer was to be compelled to sell his corn cheap, why should he not be at liberty to buy his labour cheap? If he employed a man for the best part of his life, was that a reason why he should be com pelled to give him in old age the same amount of remuneration he paid him while in the vigour of life, when his labour was of value to him? He (the Noble Duke) had heard a great deal said about the reduction of the duty on brandy as a means of preventing smuggling; but he conceived this very measure to be a means of encouraging smuggling, for those who smug gled were no more free-traders than those who caused free trade by legal enactments.—(Laughter.) If they reduced the malt tax, a sum quite equal to that now realised would be obtained from the increased c msumption which could not fail to take place. But the members of the League were strongly opposed to the removal, and cried out, "If you take off this tax you will give a boon to the farmers." The recommendation in her Majesty's Speech respecting the removal of protective duties, in order to ward off the danger of famine, was the opinion of Sir Robert Peel in 1839, when he was en deavouring to obtain place and power. However, he had stated that he would not be amenable for the opinions which he had for merly gave utterance, but if he abandoned his language, those who were consistent might he permitted to take it up, and would not be driven from the opinions they entertained by any order, and who not only ought to maintain protection to agri culture, but to the domestic manufactures of the country. It, perhaps, was not rigLt to take up the time of their Lordships with this subject at that period, but he could not avoid addres sing them when presenting petitions signed by thousands of the tenant farmers of this country ; he was sure, therefore, that their Lordships would rather promote than prevent discussion, and regretted that they had not an abler advocate than himself. For his own part, he would rather have had free trade at once,_ than measures which only partake of that principle. Their Lordships should remember that the principle of protection hail existed in this country for a great number of years, and, as Sir Robert Peel had said, had kept pace with the progress of manu factures, and had been of advantage instead of a disadvantage to them. All the farmers asked for was, that they should not destroy a system which had worked well, and which ought therefore, to be continued. R A ILWAYS. The Earl of DALHOUSIE then rose and said—ln rising to move your Lordships to appoint a Committee to consider what steps should be adopted with reference to the railway husint ss of this session, I shall endeavour to bring as briefly as I can be fore your Lordships the f cts of the case with respect to the amount of that business, and to state the grounds upon which it appears desirable that there should be some departure from the ordinary mode of dealing with this class of Bills. My Lords, in previous years the Bills brought under the consideration of jthe House have, until very lately, been few in number. In the session of 1845 the number of plans and sections deposited with the Board of Trade was 248. Your Lordships will recol lect that at that time it was a matter of consternation to the House, and it was then supposed that such an enormous mass never could be presented again. Daring the present year, that is, on or before the 30th of November, there were deposited at the Board of Trade 815 plans and sections of projected rail ways, of which 606 were for the formation of railways in Eng land, 121 for railways in Scotland, and 88 for railways in Ire land. On the 31st of December there was a considerable re duction in this number, as the number of plans and sections deposited at the Private Bill Office on that day was 687. Now, my Lords, I do not Mean to say that all these Bills are likely to come before the House. Some have already disappeared, others will form a junction with each other; and the extreme haste, and extreme inaocuracy of a great number of the schemes that have been prepared for the consideration of Parliament, will cause them to fail before the Standing Orders Committee. Nevertheless, making every ded uc ti on for these contingencies, making every possible allowance for these causes of failure, there , can be no doubt that a great number of railway Bills will come tirder the consideration of Parliament—a number far ea- ceeding anything which has appeared in any previous session. And, when your Lordships consider that, even with the corn paratively limited number which csame before us in the last year, the great difficulty we had in dealing with those, and the excessive difficulty which the other House of Parliament had to encounter, a n d w h en i t i s remembered that all this business —this enormous mass of legislation, is in addition to the ordi nary private bill business, so great that. it will be almost abso lutely impossible to find Committees for these Bills—l think there is sufficient ground for some interference. But a still greater difficulty is involved in this matter in the shape of the capital which will be required for these undertakings. I have the amount of the capital of nearly all these Companies, ob tained from their own official documents—and in those cases where I have not been able to obtain the information from the Companies themselves, I have had it supplied from other sources; and it appears that for these 687 Bills the amount of capital required will not he less than 370,000,0001. 1 do not, however, wish your Lordships to suppose that this amount will actually be required, for, in addition to those lines which may not have complied with the standing orders, there are a vast number of competing schemes, one only of which, under any ciicumatanees, can receive the sanction of your Lordships' House. Making every deduction, therefore, and taking the very lowest estimate furnished by those who are in terested in making the sum required as small as possible, I con ceive that 100,000,000/. will be the amount required. To show your Lordships the amount of obl gations imposed upon yourselves, I may inform you that in the past year not less than 118 Bills received the sanction of the Legislature, involving an expenditure of nearly 60,000,0001. ; and the previous year forty Bills were sanctioned, requiring an expenditure of 14,000 000 e Up to the last year, Parliament authorised the expenditure of 70,000,000/. But your Lordships will recollect that this curie is only to be gradually expended ; but inasmuch as it is necessary that many of . those schem es should be pr esse d f orwar d, an d as t h e construction of them dotes not extend over a larger period than three yea's, this sum will be fully demand e d i n t h ese t h ree years. Your Lordships will, therefore, perceive that, in the years 1846, 1847, and 1848, the average expenditure will be 2",000,0001. The sum, there fore, taking the smallest estimate, which will be brought before the consideration of your Lordships' House will be 100,000,000/. I think, therefore, that it would be well for your Lordships to take into your consideration whether the diversion of this enor mous amount of capital into the one channel of railways, may not be at variance with the public good; whether it may not interf ere w i t h l a b our and industry, and whether some limita Lion ought not to be placed on this extraordinary expendi ture. It is perfectly notorious, I appeal to Noble Lords from all parts of Great Britain, that already the price of labour is enhanced to an inconvenient degree. Now. my Lords, I will go further than that. I believe that it is for the interest of railway enterprise itself that the un bounded sanction of Parliament should not be given to this im mense number of schemes. It is well known that the prices of labour and materials - have already, as I have just stated, risen to an enormous extent ; and of course this rise of prices will of necessity be considerably increased if we sanction this large number of projects. Well, then, what will these promoters do in this state of things ? It must be remembered that the par ties acting under these Bills of incorporation will have a great and large amount of capital in their hands, while, at the same time, they will be armed with great and inconvenient power, which, for the cause I have stated, or perhaps from some other cause, they may not think proper to exercise. And thus these great and inconvenient powers will be kept suspended over the heads of all those whom the Bill may affect, and the public will be deprived of those advantages which the public might derive from the completion of the undertaking authorised by the Bill, and which, in fact, was the consideration which in duced Parliament to give to the promoters the im mense powers which the BR itself contained.—( Hear.) On the other hand, suppose the promoters go on with their un dertaking; and, notwithstanding the increased cost of materials and labour, they carry on their works as rapidly as it was pos sible for them to do, is it not more than probable that they will have expended all their money before they have by any means concluded their undertaking ?—( Hear, hear.) Consequently in either cases the railway people will not be benefited, but most unquestionably in neither case will the public be bene fited. —( Hear, hear.) Now, after all these considerations, and the many difficulties which are in the way of carrying out this immense number of projects, I ask your Lordships, whether you can safely now pursue your former mode of proceeding, or whether you ought not now to place some limit to the extent you will go in legislating upon railways ?—( Hear, hear.) It has, however, been observed by a Noble Marquis, whom he did not see in his place now, that the Government ought to take upon their own shoulders the disagreeable functions of decid ing what railways should come before their Lordships, and which should not, but it must be recollected that it was not in the power of Government to take upon themselves this duty, be cause they had not the means or the power of deciding the question so satisfactorily as a Committee will have. The Government have, however, at the earliest convenient opportunity directed the attention of Parliament to the matter, in order that it may be settled to the satisfaction, if possible, of all parties. The Government have made prepa rations for laying before these Committees such information as they have been enabled to collect, and which they consider will tend much to remove the amount of their labours. They have caused maps to be prepared, showing the lines already constructed, those in the course of formation, and those which are involved in the projects before the House. These will be arranged in such a manner as to show the districts which are at present without railway convenience. This information will be laid upon the table of the House for the guidance of the Committee, and he considered that had the Govern• ment come down with any settled plan to be pursued as to railway legislation, it would have been productive of no good consequences. The best plan they could adopt was to propose the formation of a Select. Committee to take these matters into consideration. The Right Hon. Baronet at the head of her Majesty' s Government has proposed that a Select Com mittee be formed in the other House. When the report of that Committee shall be presented, the Government will then be prepared to submit to the House their opinions as to the course which they think wise to adopt. There are other matters which will then come under the con sideration of the Committee, which I think will materially conduce to the benefit of the parties more immediately in terested.—( Hear, hear.) Under these circumstances he begged leave to move that a Select Committee be appointed for the purpose of taking into consideration the mode of re gulating the railway business before the House. Lord BROUGHAM quite agreed with the Noble Lord in the feelings o f a l arm w i t h w hi ch he considered the question of the amount of capital. God forbid that he should entertain the opinion that Parliament should not interfere in the sub ject of this enormous outlay of er pital. But when Parlia ment was called upon to give some extraordinary, and he would call them extravagant, powers in any case—(Hear) —without which there could be no such investment of capital as was asked for—it would not be proper for Parliament to grant those powers without a due regard to the dis posal of the capital of the country.--( Hear, hear.) . Parlia ment had no right to interfere with the natural employment of the capital of the country, but when it was sought to dis pose of that capital by an unnatural employment thereof, the Legislature was then bsund to step forward and appose the attempt.—( Hear, hear. ) He did not see that there was arty thing morally wrong in the grants that had already beer, sanctioned for railway purposes, nor would he say that they had been made with an abstinence of all providence and cir cumspection ; but when he was called upon to make more grants to such an amount as would increase the expenditure from 20,000,000/ per annum to 53,000,000/. (for that was the calculation) he did think it the duty of Parliament to put a stop to such an extraordinary diversion of the capital of the country into one particular channel.—( Hear, Lear.) He hoped that, before the House would proceed headlong into the sanctioning of fifty-three millions of money being granted for the formation of railways for each of the succeeding thirty. three years, they would give the subject the most serious con sideration. He apprehended that out of that House his argu ment would be misapprehended, but he certainly did hope to be heard before their Lordships on this subject when it should come in a proper shape before the House. He certainly did consider that the Railway Committee should undergo great alteration, and that its powers should be abridged.—( Hear, hear.) That body dealt with questions a hundred-fold more important than all the questions which came before the Courts of Westminster, or any other court of law in the kingdom, although it of course possessed none of the skilful experience possessed by the judges of those courts, With all possible respect for both Houses of Parliament, he did not consider any Committee which they might appoint a proper tribunal for the disposal of business of such vast importance as that involved in the railway business which it was proposed to bring before them. God forbid that be should wish the privileges of either House to be inter fered with, or that he should sanction any attempt that might be made to transfer those privileges to any other quarter —(Hear, hear)—but he was morally persuaded that the rail way Committees were the very worst tribunals that existed in the country. He hoped, therefore, in conclusion, that thei r Lordships would afford hi m an opportunity, on a 4ture occa sion, of speaking more at large on this important question. The Earl of KINNAIR D said that it was generally'con sidered by the nubile that Parliamentary Committees were not the best judges of the railways which were submitted to their idecision. Oftentimes two lin es i n th e same course were sanc tioned which worked against each other, and in one case two companies clashed so much with each other that the public were frequently misled in consequence of the confusion of tickets. Some combined system should be adopted by which they and other evils, from a similar cause, would in future be prevented. He would give notice for a motion on Monday next for a return of the fees on the different railways, and their I appropriation. On one railway the entire expenses connected with Parliamentary extension amounted to 8,0001., and 3001, of this sum was fur fees. This he considered wrong, and should meet with the attention of Parliament, with a view to its remedy. Lord ASHBURTON, who, from the low tone of voice in which he spoke, was almost inaudible in the gallery, approved of the appointment of the Committee. He agreed with the pro position of the Noble Lord, because he conceived it would be necessary to put some limitation to the call for labour upon railways in this country. Many of those projects, it was well known, were got up by attorneys and engineers in country towns, who got up those schemes for their own private pur poses ; at the same time he would say it would be better to have the millions squandered away in these railways in England, than in speculations in Russia. The Duke of MONTROSE said it was very necessary that a Committee should be appointed to consider the best means to adopt with respect to the number of projects now before the country, in order that they might consider whether it was in cumbent that the large amonnt of capital which might be re quired to construct them should be expended or not. He was, however, of opinion, th a t great i nconvenience would arise unless the course proposed by the Committee for the adoption of Par liment was known at an early day. They must recollect that the deposits would have to be paid to the Accountant-General in a very short time, an d th at very soots after th a t p er i o d , t h ose projects, who had complied with this order, must be submitted to the Standing Orders Committee, and unless the Committee reported on the subject before the time of paying the deposits, they would pr even t a great number of schemes from paying their deposits at all, so that great inconvenience would result from the money being locked up. And then, again, if the Committee we re o bli ged to report in a hurried' manner great difficulty could n o t f a il to arise on acocunt of its being impes s;ble to decide on the immense mass of Bills which would be submitted to them, notwithstanding the facilities which the Government would give to them for the purpose of facilitating their labours. Then he could not understand the principle on which the Government could recommend that some schemes should be entertained and others objected to—what railways would be required in some parts of the country, and which scheme out of the many projected in the same district should be selected. It was true there could not be much doubt in determining on a project traversing a district suffering from the present inefficient means of communication ; but it wee, possible, on account of the variety of interests to be consulted, and the difficulty in deciding justly on them all, that a railway got up by' attorneys and persona of no property or in fluence, might b e se l ecte d i nstea d o f one in which landed pro prietors and others, whose interests would be materially affected, and which had the advantage and recommendation of being Lorca fide. He only mentioned these things to show the diffi culties with which the consideration of the subject was sur rounded, and the great necessity of taking measures to give all the railways of a b ona fide character mature and serious consi deration. Earl GREY entirely concurred in the propriety of appoint ing this Committee, but he hoped that they would not be con sidered as pledging themselves to the very novel principle of limiting the amount of capital which Parliament chose to con sider the country could afford for the construction of railways. The mere he heard that principle explained and discussed the more doubtful did it become. It appeared to him that what 110 USE OF COMMONS, Thursday , ji RAILWAY DEPOSITS. 10 g Mr. JIASTIE rose to ask wh e th er the staute of 1839, respecting railway deposits, was to ° net S o l into effect, as, if it was , t h e secur i ty o f 1 ° t ip should be paid up, and it would embarrass regulations of the country, as deposits to a profrer - 0 amount had already taken place this year. ePot tations had been made t o h er M a j esty ' s GOl, O OOO this head to the effect, that money s h ou ld beloun o sai!, Court of Chancery, and ifit stopped the ra ilwai o je#.l had no obj ec ti on t o see suc h representat i on s at e o r Ho should mention to the House the WI re/ these orders were operating upon the colwr o ds A l tercets. It must be perfectly well known to ege ol ' o eivi her of this House, that the whole of the L e ., ° ,l transactions of this country are carried on to uf t....nibv bills of exchange. If goods were consigned the globe —to India, South America or Chint i be se drawn, and they are paid for by bills ; now t diger.) it has been the practice of merchants t° d a e,dl. thereby occupying the floating capital in 1 - 43° 0510 enablingour merchants to buy largely and leer' j • In consequence of the necessity of making these ra it has been almost impossibie to obtain acc olo a J$ for bill s of exchange for the last t ri b re , - , 0 0 4 . And should this continue, he (the P ° Member) assured the House that or der °ll quenees would b e most ru i nous. In ;$ll/ the House might be enabled to forra n osi l y idea of the extent to which these bills run; h e n tielfi them that 150.000,0001. were occupied in di sol/ ,: 0 0' - e 0 bills exchanged in their commercial transael e t I ' o o the West Indies, South America, and China. woad he stop those exchanges for a day, and ''"01, 0 1 no knowing what the consequences v r° o3l l 7o lie, therefore, complained of these c oe tr y orders, as embarrassing the commerce of th e w to He thought an Act of Parliament ought to b pd• duced which would alter ;the present sY ste l lt e would press upo n h er Majesty's Government"oeints sity of making some a l terat i on i n the stan;lin v isl3-' The CHANCELLOR o f t h e EXCHE(E' 103411/ Hon. Memb e r w h o h a d j ust spo k en ha d take (the Chancellor o f th e E xc h equer) thoug ht t° incorrect view of the question. What he had cerl' os pi e of had not only reference to railway speculat i° s ole, i but to all other speculations having th e d of Parliament. The standing orders regal 11r A af certain sum should be paid into the Bank °. colP; e r • in the name of the Accountant-General of th e dter - s Chancery. The money being so placed, wa s ' - purl; tain preliminary conditions, available for the ( t,e of the speculation for which it had been 1,0 rh o was quite true, that without the sanction e` A t countant-General, money so placed could n° be ;V drawn. tie doubted very much whether ~f Member could propose any evtl P'"" he had complained. night / 101. remedy for the Mr. HASTIE wished to explain. The ",,'" Gentleman had misunderstood him. Wt o n b ef;is Ilastie) complained of was, not that the m - the bide lodged with the Accountant. General, but of - to be ,- delay, after it was so lodged, which teo.k 0 0 it could be withdrawn. k of The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE 4 . - ) 3513 , - ed that if the deposits paid were placed in th e , p , „ 6 th e England, the person in whose name it eint• would be able to draw it at an hour's notice, '',..," tt 0t . 5 . 0 money was placed to the credit of the A e ' - u General, it would take a period of a week or t!' in order to withdraw it, as several documet itg have to be p re p are d . h a ye Mr. P. M. STEW ART said, supposing t"" o f ' e to be pl ace d i n t h e Bank in the names said of the prosisional cominittee, they had the t ei° ° i i power over it as a single ndividua bu , have were it pl ace d i n his name o f al bs ' it was placed there under the authoritY o nly House it would rema i n i n the Bank, and 00 111 u pt ea`i drawn by parties possessing certain official d°? t, The parties lodging it bad no power to draw l l o d became available to the Bank of Lng eban c v erj e commercial purposes. The Court of subjecei would have no power over it purpose of the law that had been made 0 11 11; r erPe ;. ; was to secure the public from injury, an d t " litad ' - t; would be amply effected if the Bank of Eng oth e ni ti ceived and kept the money, with d ea l jos from the proper quarter. No pra c tr or Bank of England director would °n ol him when he said that if tle etrai n et t ' 16 were placed in the Bank of England under r ;s. ).'" • would not be available for commercial Parr were •e be 100 Hon. Friend, the Member for Paisley, 1 . e ,, ts he practical man, would know that all the in° d ll t r p in from the circulation of this country and locked of Ch a Bank of England, in the name of the eery, would not be available for commercial or a 24i3 Money to the extent of six or seven millions, Court porp ose al of the circulation, would be thus withdrawn' t better ,r Mr. GISBORNE said that the money mi gi b n terest invested. The Bank of England gave n° t he any money invested. to Ch i a tl n r c . e l i l l U or D o S f O th N e would Eh offer a prhaice t i i i ca h l e su w g a g s e , s i t : t : il e sti t ‘ a .o d ui ed , xc equer, f t would obviate the difficulty complained 0 • _ n oel v . parks seeking to obtain the consent of Far_sit Esc de w r i eld 1791 1,130 railway Bills, were, in piace of money, to quer.bills on stock, the above ciiffieultY .ienot itti He saw no objection to the placing .of . -- - _ _...------- !h e