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

1846. is letter m y in 'aye for 13 . , a nd ceedings , as first 3 to the r oditbe ngB of f pct upon of Coln the G" rentiy office to throug h oniPtt* ;e of th e orePa 9 ,, ) ' ery Was not e brog b v il eve, are ner e3s r A the eh'!" nienr ive ly o f w' fro : cog iw t - be ,a l4 in wpt 0 s tt i , one ev er j • n or •- lside — t i t er AD O do c' 1 tbs" pt Del ic h r , I IS betle t o i e . ,o to Pr or ay p ot 4 1 ,, 41 03, "" IS' itt Ses'aio t. r. Wat- chuster. e, Capt atter of 'eferecce show . of nd there td Bill, • C • Eaq. .Y. yuTS- k f l s : .rtf rPTE ES % E 6 ~ii.tjAA.) . __..,..,__.. ,' likkeo4ll Sah-CoiiiinL!ee N, - .. 1 l ti : t.l.r. m Initte e;: to• day at I.' ' • • . ' 4 C ''Z'Z 0.27, :Ere737.37.!'i.', 1.121 - 3 EA TIE I tte, ZIi.I::LV.f.EII-. Dflunittce proece•eea eith t*.e.e edjeurnett cese. . , li-. eiele-e• _o f !10,,,. 'I74K: Sairlittel ,eVil',l 11 :! 0 -4 , 1.'-' ; I t 11441. decided. agaitiet tem y,. 5 , e.: , :,,Y, 1,11 . t .he (: ,, i ; i i i i; . • .:"Ineexpes,.ee tie.•ir disappru:, ,ti .1, id rr- op- ti. 6 it,,: t 1 . 1- 'ielt .weethl avail ient euthitee the ~the, aLega ,;,,,N,,m w,tt , thi,,,i i , w,...., rill t ' . nit'' decided teat the ..taiitline-, • Tilers lad been k ik *j ib, with the exception oft le caee o,' Mrs. :711,41:14:1h ilk to"G.ZCZI Zs o.:i . .is, C 7 - p 4nui.te, then eelied en ,Lie ease. 14.e4:IcKs epoe.e.e., ' fir the peen edi.,: 43 J• Ci.k.s amteared to m :.• :•.1 , ....i., : i ion to the gte si 4 T, wi th the Bid. Ile i% , i ~.seil. a peitioiler 1 ' e r , 1,, T ,.;:!. Prel••ct eat, was pre •: :•• . :••• ,fit peesen•ing ,otet''.,,eeeits aeeiir•t it th - uee t • - •• • ~..t., of tiie pro {es te, te lt `e - •• • .; . ie,, c:.,.,„ 'ad given Lotto, . e 1 e e , , .: liebr,,a,y Lac I, 'lA:;,'''ee give , it ~.: i, • -': :, ',,, thet the peti eiliii ---.• iiierwi.e 1, e,.',. , ~.. ,-. : • •••1. • e e; eed ~g-int 'fkie,:tt't,7 ahelie eke ei : , 45 '111 1 ,,: 1- . e to here :• :t :•;' , :-: , ,1,.,1. I hey eliould, in ,'t O ka ; 'lt tie! stie;,, .• er.:ees, le. -.- givt.ii the public Itqanthi, 4•1.1'' w;tiee of !h -s e si• ting (.1' I ....,.: rub-Coniinitiee, I, ls •.,,, _, ~,,, to, r , 'v , ui•ne. Ile thei•efore ••libinitted that they 41,, c.: ,' . .:t eo. - - I tt , ‘-',1.11,,, i t C,,,,, .i - said that the pstpentment of the eitting l ie to e • • at I tee front the 2d to that day wad not unfavour lir 11,,trub.'le, itiasinu?h has there was more time given (lo c . e• Petitioos which they might wieli to present. ‘1,, , ,e c f c'',3boinot oceeFioned by thee pronn,ters, but by the 1 1 n otie e i, t e e ns. As to not baying given three clear otatiwa4, the first instance, that non- compliance with • 0 1 ' ettt et • lets . was got ever by the subsequent pest geled. the Inquiry. - The o' ,- tieetion was, therefore, I tk! l'4ll1- -S ti 1:. pla i , len called wite.es.see to .prove the depositing ikt *4l - al'tisect i' 4l 3, and the bcoks of reference. After ;I N Br S.kit said he had to object to the promoters' con kett- said II the 4o - ` ti t:p...:t .itailtr4et a contract deed before the Committee • - ' e d Lreught before the Hoase last flofllte, niing thot the biil had been part-heard last ; et at t i:e . ;: 1 1. 1 ) t.. The F tudiag order was imperative k II t reed ,7 1 ,9 f; brought furward again where a Bill ti kt ; li oe w e. aei'll Part.h,ard. IL te, b `` 10 been seta fur by the Chairman of another It i . %Lk% t 4 liad the 2,ll)portd the objee'ion The contract of this t i , 4"leti • t4ate seaLa as that ' of last year, but the sum ,S 6 o 2 3'; ')/ . ill i t e e. ll ,t i _ re , of patties who were only bound for , th Ze e th t . ';:et deed amounted in the presel,d d ,.. t _ t '," parties had rineer subsc: i-e ha 1:18. ki : uut4, he re : et tene been paid in their names by other Vi ftlee LI •X said it mattered not who had paid the Itkil'lkePjs-%8 complaieed of ' were bound; the money l iej ot e l torl,";Pte,•by sonie of Their frienthi, but that wai nut Iv tfti le - . , , t eg t.O iiiqui l e lit lt was tiii:r, , fore the ""d ki t h . laaltue.tee that the standing orders hid been Llit ll le Zs live.. 'erft.,.'l4aceeti„,4•ll Xuzicirzoil r—eaL771172% ,Iva,rt of ,h,:;,aPrieared for the promoters. The witnesses Nier.lls'itt - .° ' l ' 2l3l eoiets having .erin called, .m With. ee eteided that the standing orders had been le, r . . 0 ,.. 4 Ntik,'" l :loze• e - , 1 43-r . 31 ,X( , /,., , i ' j a''' D It 07:Z. 27,1S.ZLVI.LYT 3.:XLM , V t - /31-;.r)---'IEX.I Ok".11,11'.. CAAIPAIGN—TILL Zee , V lie„ 1 1 2 8 1! - Itt i l l t 4 3t * l! t 4 i t leo t i t -- , ted ' d4 r 4 ig the temporary absence of Mr. , take the c , ,air. T!,(‘ dill). Member 4 '41. 4 it' I, 2°ll4 ''t it hut tit.iit t•b state to the par,i , 's pre ktiitt,, ailia3 hirnself a Promoter ;4 the London aid York kt , li i 4 b. 4l) 'eti t 4 ,,, 4 .I,e h ate:ened to t,e in ti.' clear during 11r. 3 1 -ev e ,it Le a , _ iw r • ~, L e 41 d mere than probable that runny re tbtul t); Nee I. 1144 3 l/r leett I. ''° appeared for the opposition, said he 4 t ilt, tie h sati,tied with the (lon. Member's decision t.t trat t tt ,bald()vetle,irt N i - l i: , ai t o his ( ; 1 r. Park,,'s) in tei eit. appeared ' Ott a petition against the 41 14th Vert t * in cou,t-qt•e• tiee of the dttieie of the Com e4.alt• 'iwite-.llplee'' a eont ' lli e Dile-et London and Ports • k'' '3 • e'34l.4' Sli lv°4l " , net press his pe , ition. e ' - '--tel t, it' • Baxter, apne.,,rs,d for the pro tiotim, ~t 11.3 ,• ...Li. I pro s 1)0411.7,i, S UPPOft of the l : 4lr -41, 4ai - "''rerer. l , e tl.•, . awl gave their k, .0,, • b„, - 0p,„,. , 0 - lc, erew then called, . 01., 1 1 , ,t a , 4, qtair,ed ogitiroir ti plans and see of ~.ee•e ,x,,-.'1!1 if. •••0,,,c, t o - m en ir , , i by Mr.Co.IT!ES . it i t , uta loris ; -0...(t0il to York A% ••,, ),‘• g Is sane ;'l -- 1 -I : h u is li ß t i i l i l ittf ur th a e Ibt 4 re 'fas th e ' 4B t year, by AViI;C:I T 1011,41 it w: , t 1 ~,4,1 . , E st n taken '' ' .34 .., 1 t fiint . lee, the . H.,,, 50 of Lortb*, where tl 4 • ,j ordhe ,, , end the further ei - nsideration poet ti 4 4,4 e x • •oe. I ''4 % 1°11 : 4 aniit " by Air. CO kTEs---lle witnessed the t 4 i l lle to t e‘ele eh " co fitted ()tet • 'l'h; v were all genuine save ~ ,t itiottt) to jzillaa,/%4: 'ii..neid-losieph N'ash. ~hitt .Ptari,ja si m og e I in....e ( l ee , es, an. prouuced a cert Meat. au ... k t 4''lla , lr'tta hi s ' lie executed the ciintrnet, bnt witness r th , e t k i iud were luar.iner that t i•ere was something wroii...,! , 4 heh. I ' I'll 4 e lted, and he ached Nash if he ii-As the iNL, 4.l s l d.„ lllc es for winch he bad eizned. asw,e.ecl :11,41t•ttlLtIlathwilitiluinetsttiti:ellft4edllt•ied p ui l a r i t t • e •d . 'Ol :1 •rool many. Nt, it tk„, ge e 4 at tjt t 011141 Coat Na i i '' l g i lu' h i a r; dn a ( b ) i ' n u t t e r r l :s e t i . n u a i t l t a e t r : -1 . 11" ) Por Y a s'oekh ii• r iii the City to impose hrto ee , ,y fo r ~ , ft ..e ~ • se c e :t .tti, ,4, i ne very purpose vf eil ' e se ' lidt %Il lation the Company refused to re In% al . idat4,g the . Ikr , to il • tore, 'eh that . tint were still sie e ‘ let in ~• e shares to amount velf, 4. ,,, .1.e," . i.kaa 'nPo e ' ell--NVes present when hash presented eNcLe,o444,rtlr•,rie-cd4t7FPicio.ti having been crew_cd, Mr. Jor -031-',. let: l r .- 4 l ai n rea ke inquiries. e l, t 4 et thi e i rere, e r ci eVel ‘ e r i a Ll h to t s o tate im t p l o ie se noanme the Clll .„ e ' It . „ 11 ' 1 ,4 11111 (here the name was . given. t t) , -, 1 e, 1 , 15 , „-I'lltt t N D° ' l , l ble - - - amount to an action Illt t - " e : in - p" r eP e l', Th ''' ire, however (said Mr. lih i k r• .ts, u , k - e. 2,l4erec;- `,.° l :es ev * s• C ci ml eiifliciert capital with -li-.,;t Ifire t- ;" :4- -.1 tL' ,:, ° I; 'which Nash bound himself. with ii' to th-4,8 l alLe s i - ,,," 4 , like to ask the last two witnesses k"e• C. - u etd. -"' ' l nsure the correctness of the other Le eete l fiLe, sat l ' lt---I te• , Iti,i,,et te,„ etainte,,,,7l,,nK tech a question is out of order. t.. 71 14 • - ‘`and• --6 ura Committee have to do is to to, d •I. - -ete r , lug ord er rer liiiL ls cl wi t.t e we e re „ e have been complied ei . ith. Now •ti tb i4 to ; but " 4. nPinion that they base not been tie 4 et tis how thZeehall report that the case was ex tto.' tLat the -e lls i, , S'Enpany were imposed on, and their tl it lea of , Corn e_ r Y mg to set it right.. We . shall also "to. t ?e et '''as. 1 13 , 421 •7 1 have sufficient capital without the ih:i t tle t urcireu,ristan as riot for the Committee to go into l 'iti. ttl es 4 ''• -•it .. f4 4 ef the case rot bearing k,'• -4 ndin k . 0 „," XS sufficient for thein to be ofopinion . i ce 1 , '' 'U . t.rs in, Ellis instance were not complied 11 le . e.„ k4kl t--b Lri red b i St ig ,,, - W ent a e ' - '-' to submit to the Committee that . his th e s' e(4l -- re:ln fist the contract deed. .After the dec.sion fei n „ e t go into 1 • t question, but he would, er , kitknilllke atlt ic l(' ln ' t i t,"l.•. tn it r eh tee, t :t a n te: t 'le !•os ' i . l inn in wh !cb t a f• ". `wY stood The Bill v, as.last session br N 4ftri" ' ' er b•-iP" • time in the House of lir 4 aa, tr. ed t o 0 i ':. r ead a tirst ~,tti,t4e ilort :t , ( ~:'0 ,? 1 . - rnrn 'The'rl e c e e o n ni n nl ap n e t t et oe furg i . ,k,,,trit h i : ',? the House th.,t the a h l i n al s . t il t i h g e valy sat some Bill should not be pro- IZl.,! l ee wiiillt!he; molly sliuulu conclude. . Now, that til e torit ra s . ' a ;eta, ad, of corse, they sup ...flak, thin ,t -t (It ell, when,-ac the contract: d ch i now sub h;tert4i eatit;eear aiteee 13 quite a n'w deed. , v. , is t ~.,,,_ , . . . N;1-4' 4, 1g 41 In the Your ease is 011e'el;eil ro doubt, be i,,,N111 a h . 'Lie i lous e of Lord, bu• 1,..,r,we con ,have not! , :" tle, -3111 ;n 2; but that which i ' ela . i . cs •-• to the standing r'44,,tioai ,iiii!, FNrhVh, 41g orders were then declared to have been corn eet e is the th, r lei• ei" t 4 ; tie has yet, however, to b , e eiught. The A . tle, Per, 'is day e ere merely of a tinned chard -ter, " 4 th''''''" -of jibtaieing a new contract deed, and pp,,``,, At e In is or t , , motels have been signally uccessful, * jlie :as 4 ' eat ihe most interesting period to all L' . l, kt„ - ,Rt'ai ',.t • ar I ivul, we may 0 .,i0t to the absence 4 4,, e •th.,' 0 1• the competing- line , , thou ,h we may as 1; 1 4 t , i . Itaa` one , f the :Tents for the lnrect Northern , t e, - ti t e ':• s:.:1;i. in mg. Wo may d..te th !. comnie_oce nPp -4 410124,1,in from thi:: dee—the field has been -4.1-•.'i'est (7utp, , :it, established. 4 4. . la C11.17.7AS '.. E Itp b t l , orr, rur-::::77.55, LIN- Tlu, L 'tlrk„ „ ~, lit X:LT,T.,........ • tla,; hil l " ttp l ),_ sq tot fires I, e•ered ter rife proreutere. la ve i •Il'lPpoeed, a:id the standing orders were de lit.kk ft. fie" complied with. .1:::&;1..Ela - 'll4 l 4-t ?s i. :4,i 13131 VS 4..-u . iz . ,-.r, ATT.D. '17:,..n.r:cE7....- Ti t rs ),. :Walt (Imp -.-?7,43,/zaan h t l ',..urk 4 tr.,,lk:Nl eared for I • ^ Trete ~, titre e d ec d t i:s C ot- pang. t o. - aee Ith --aged that the standing orders had been al. '''utn.' 4 %yin vt - % ,. 1tt,,,, ad' a few iii,tal.ces. le journed at four &deck till twelve o'clock ve o'clock ; Strait 11.1171., r .72:7,:5r,:2 rir . 4,1,2:, .Cornolitt 64. tih• Commits ee No. 2. Sr J. Y 11 %.1tk ii : t I, kl , f t` tt to—J..ly at twelve o'clock: - 4 4. i . b ~. „,..-) tr.- Tile f 14 ''.....'4'4%;5i1a ( atTZ:CiErt7esd-,,' . 1 Oaishe4pal ev ~i4 e 4 p ' rae 10) :c ,: p lii,:t4/11.:3:" i o t ' l tilsr; slite c.;; ,P s et t :' ti t ? I s : ~.4 i '4l ir ai, - t o ll r .3 r, to[iltihl‘ea.et,ielt i.iHtlieroo.nartrit..l:::::.mbe:: 1 ,:., appeared *Ilk!, cf ti,e - 'e firm 0 7 D . , on Pl'leti ar gc l 4 Pe"ti°l7l of 11I..es'ss. Wa rd and ill 7 . ' It r. qn g th e ~•It tLer t mission in the naive of 11l Pin 1111 e i, was an ° e i, • eFt k. .rt, ~, 4. the Look of reterenc . ..,,e,,,,.. Lie s ... er ~ ~ae.ent for the of t c o o b n e te a n e d listc°ll",t'ed r a ! ! - tot 01 ‘12r 3 of property Point ~CHAIitN- t 43-• 1,. _ er e ~ , .41.1 considered that the petitioners on this iitle ne).• ''' if court e e c d t ed t h b a y t 11 14 . P 4 t ' it,' catitoh ;r as, tl s.t there had been a deposit of Stitiki f'lo.l-1, -t'' ,P,"".811 of Erl,4olce. bki ll, th e .• ~ ,! e. d for proof that Erlstoke . e t , e 4,-,'. Ilet!. it ao if t ls Cole in . "2 given pro and con, was a parish, as torel, a pa r i B ("tee were of opinion that Erlstoke was not of , 4 ,, 5 '" h of teists4etna,;,. ~!. filarBl allegation respecting the y eanricse not 'll ad 'ltte e ‘iiell ot suqained, competent evid l'ks e h eNt !ij . ' bpdll4tifael ..eUtto t 11 Was, that the notice in the news.Paer.s. r ise t -t-,..alid ealeultited to rnizlead, inasmuch as it 44Gia, with different schemes, the oue the 13erks . and k ,14,,bri. ii,ee, te_xtension from nungerford to r t e h a e t t_e_rm es inus w tem .iturl e , ' f,etti. teatoeteor liti:trecr from the G ! IN, tai, e'tr-1:! ''s.efontended that t his was clearly of a nature to I,l,arlita ;- 11.1,1c,rarrie,1 wen% be of .iocalcplable.m . is hi r 1r . , P 14 . 1. 1 , . 1 c , r , ~,11 w, ho,eliropert7 hues might p . . 5.. .! 1,.77:t Ito ,„; , :).1t::.,1,.ed, that witnesss should mix e been . pro .B -•-• his atle;Salion. Ily an Act of last session a ~,.I ..e r. t ,, , r , I n I , Z4....tte kith , iren to ,the lielics and Hants Railway to inco,r-t Zier,,i,, patt:i? the Great Western, of which line it was a par . er it, IN' ith r.!terence to the line being brought out t , by ti. Ther nuine, it V 01.4 mathin4 moc e than what was "ett,, ti`" London and Birmingham Compaiiv acct) refer- Ti e e , :,..;orthainpton aucl Peterborough Railway. %es te pi itiItATAN said the Committee were of oninion that Ne, t e a `ut 11 .Tders had beea complied with in ihe present 1 . 4 .. k o r s , t p ` 'we was no complied contravention of any stand s"' 11l ~the ~ ., , h; et adr,:rter to \roan I .cwre matter estiite-.', ship,, le n .A i‘l C,,rnmatee on tle Pill. i l elit, i :illegatioo wa.s,, , ;-,, a :-o insuffi !aio co.h 40uuch as it sa! e:1 thlt the Corip.nv int , nclw ititin."f !ct bra7:clics to ii,ll;ing -them-, -instead of ,i?ia.4l; t z.: . 1.1 Lirifori, natio:l to owners othe !Topewty to 4, 4 , 4 o ab,:ert:o2l !nay they would be affected by th . e 411ttee‘t:, ' 'lig to adopt the necessary tteps to protect their The 6 , . ~.;--:,.14,,) 0 11 021titcee leci(lel (argumPnts I , '' -g 11,,,Ard for and 'e , f :ilgl..s 1,...:-•. , 1.;i 1 wil‘. ti, 14,44 at intailling all itle 5.,,, '.: •:., : iH .',.:` ' i'o , !' kr, ( ; ' 1,,, ill ,oicrts said the next allegation was that the notice 114,444, T!cient, because, it stated that' it (the Great '''' winP4llY) intended to raise 850,0001., withat S .tin t 7 that t! ! ,.. v -,,( to ql the G, Mr. l'Errr :t ui ices bad been given in every parish through which the lire would pass the o*c:dm way unteutaii. . The room was cleared, mid in about half an hour we were dniitted, ie ellAlit3l.lN s.lid that the Committee were of opini ,, n that in this ca!e the sT,.inding oickrs had not been complied with, anti ilirect, , d the s:lort-hand writer to read the tesolu don to which the Compaoy had arrived, which was as fol lows: " Inasmuch a 3 the notice of r.pplication to Parliament to make a railway eatninciniag from the line of the Befits and Hants Railway to or near the town of Hunzerford and connzy of 'eerlc-, teralin4ting by a junction with the Wilts, me tt, Wevinotith Railway, does not state the inten tl, I the Grent WI-stern Railw::y Company, though V stated to the owues of the said Beek% aim Hants - to amend their acts by raising a further min of money, but a sepal - Ate notice of the same dates respectively was given by the Greit Western Railway to amend their Art. but ye! such last-mentioned notice does not contain the names of the place.:t through which the works are intended to mad Mr. CoATEs said, he appeared on the part of other peti tioners, owners of the in op-rty ihmogh which the line would as: ; I,:t he woldfl not press a great pertion of the allege! ions. TheCotn►uittee adjourned at four o'clock, till twelve o'clock to-1116rrow. Sub- Committn, No. 3. This Committee resumed its sittings at the utair.l hour this mornir;, air, :%glionl , y in the cb:,ir. ES:' , EantritGlit 117.73 a. I. I I:I 7 MVZS This was the petition of an independent Company far leave to bring f a Bill to make a railway from a point on the Dalkeitit Branch. of the NLrth British Railway to Pee- Ni.s. Tim line, which was hid out by 31r. D. StnThenson, is propo9ed to pass through Lasswadt., Loanhead, Roslin, and Gree»law, by the vale of Eddlewone Water to Peebles: The estimated cost of the line is 317,0001., which is divided into 1.0.000 shares, of 251. each. The engineer of the line, in the course of his evidence ex plained that the section of the line exhibited a trifling error, which was occasioned by a mistake of the engineer, who'had transposed or misplayed a couple of figures, having reference to a gradient on one portion of the line. No one, however, could be mislead by this inadvertance, inasmuch as another measurement on the section, and relating to the same incli• nation on the line, would supply the exact information re quired. The Commit!ee decided that in this respect the standing orders had not been complied with, but in all others they had. The CHAIRMAN, in announcing the decision of the Com mittee, remarked that as the err tr could mislead no one, he had no doubt the objection would be overcome in the Stand ing Orders Committee. 0.7-INEZZAL TrfainST.ATUS 'A: ND Gid..I.SSOVir EzI.ZOSOUII This was a petition for leave to bring in a Rill to make a general railway terminus in Glasgow, and extending the lines running into it, to the harbour of that city. Th e schem,, has ben planned by Mr. Neil Robson, who esti mates the cost of the project, which includes a branch to the Glasgow and Ayr Railway, and another branch to tie Glaigow, Barrhead, and e Ncilston Railway—a line passed list ses-ion—Pt 111,732/. Ihe customary f Trial ploofs having been put in, the Conmitte , l declared that the standing ort:e.ls had been nom plied with. 13 'LIZ G T CN, LEVIES, AND nAsTzn GS 112A2JCZIES. This was the petition of the London and Brighton Railway Company, who are -the proprietors by purchase of the Brigi.ton, Lewes, and Has:ings Railway, f.r leave to bring in a.B;ll to make ceviations in surre of their existing lines, and tp nrtke branches to I.2a:itbonrn , , Newhaven, and Seaford; the estimated capital f,r is 136,8001. The Committee ; after hearing the cthtomary formal evi dence, decided that the standing orders had been.complied with. 23.V.IGHTON .112;:n c 71C1EM57:2112, 17,21ISAVAIr. This was another petition of the London and . Brighton Compa:.y, who are The proprietors by purch2se of the Brighton and Chichester Railway, for leave to bring in a Bill to make a branch line of that railway from Bognor to Little hampton. The customary formal proof; having been put in, proving the usual deposit of plAns, and that the estitnat, d cost of the works was 45,000/., the committee decided that the standing ordas bad been complied with. 5T7.21 NXIVG 732,A.NCE. This was another petition of the London and Brighton Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to authorise the con structi.in of a branch from a point on the Brighton and Chi cbe,ter line to Steyning. in the county of Sus ex. The customary fortn4l pro ...lot having been gone thr,ugh., Committee decided that the standing orders had been corn plkd with. The estimated cost of the branch is 44.0001., and the aggr, gate estimated cost of all the works comprised in these Loin on and Brighton Bills is 271,000/. a~sv;lC 11.7." , 311:17?."Sd ST. EDIM37.ID'S 2111.11.- VZ.Ct'r EXTEMISXOAT. This was the petition of the Ipswich and Bury St. Ed ..nund's Railway Cfmtpany, for leave to bring in a Bill to ex= tend their line to Norwich, and thus complete an entire chain of uninterrunted railway communication between the metro polis ant• the city of Norwich by means of the Eastern Counties line to Co;che3ter, the Eastern Union Extension to Jpawiuh, the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's to Bury St. Edtnund's, and the present extPw-ion of the latter line. The three last lines were laid out by Mr. Locke. The estimated cost of the extension was 550,000!., and the length of the lice was 31 miles. The Committee decided that the standing orders had been complied with. I.I7MINIEIr V L EY 1117 D TREAT TAR.. rcr OUT El • This was the petition of the Waveney Valley Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to authorise the con struction of a railway, of thirty-four miles in length, from Diss to Southdown, West Town, and Little Yarmouth. The line was laid nut by Captain Moorsom, who estimated its cost at 419,500/. The Committee took the usual formal proofs, and after wards declared that the standing orders had been complied with.—The Committee then adjourned. Sub-Committee No. 4. This Committee met to-day, at twelve o'clock, in room No. 11, when there were present, Sir IV. ilcatbeote, Chair man, Mr. Evans, Mr. Home Drummond, and Mr. Hope Johnstohe. iIYLEEZITE,Yi 2JD W.:117,M ZIINCTIOZT 56C,1131LV111Y =MX.. This was a Bill to make a Railway, in continuation of the ASiesbury branch of the London and Birmingham Railway. The standing orders were complied with. The length of the line is represented as 10i miles, and the cost is estimated at 100,0001. Mr. Robert Stephenson is the engineer, and the agents were Messrs. Wright, Smith, and Co. ETANCDESTER, SHEITIELD, AND DUD LAM TD JUNCTI:ON ZAILwAY ZSZL:L2' By this Bill it is proposed to form a railway from Shefficl.d to Chesterfield, and from Dronstield, through Chatsworth to Bakewell. The cost of the line is estimated at 1,C.50,000/. for .1 length of twenty-three and a half miles. The engineer is Mr. Vignolles, and the agents, Dorrington, Ha ward, and Co. There N . vas no opposition, and the standing orders were complied Iv ith. WISBE CR, ST. IVES, AND cAivzmazz.crn nlxxx.w.a.w BXLL. In respect to this Bill the standing orders were complied with. The length of the line is 274 miles; estimated cost, 2Gtt,ooo/.; the engineers, ssts Stephenson and Borth ; agents, Dorringt.n, Hayward, and Eilicomhe. nnzsr.oL AND selrim WALES nar.:.';v.rAr .712 Tlltt standing orders were complied with in respect to this Bill, the object of which is to form a connexion between the South Wales Railway and Brhtol. The length of the line is twelve miles—estimated cost 300.000/. ; the engineer, J. Brunvl, Esq.; Parliamentary agents, Dyson and Co. There was no ~ppositi.n. LAX:C.O.STITIZ AND cAnr.ZSII.%.7I (EXTYINSION TO C1i.LED02.7r.A7.;1 Arm LAN.. CASTe.2?..(I...WM ZRESTO.Dt,YUNCTIO:a 7.:111 1— * Antal, GAlt.ra t MAXI:WAY n In the !nutter of this Bill there way no opposition, and the standing orders were complied with. The estimated cost of the extcrsion is 80,000?. Alr . Evrington is the enAineer, and Messrs. Burke and Co., the Parliamentary agents. 7," r-DS. mortv_ numx, AND MANCHESTER (DEAT T ATIL.N arzm =dui MIES) RAZZAV.A.IC II MS.. The object of this Bill is to make certain deviations from the original line which has already received the sanction of Parlia ment, for the purpose of effecting ajunction with the Manchester and Leeds line in the neighbourhood of Dewsbury, and also to form a branch to Iloldenclough with other branches. The cost is eA heated at about 100,000!. The engineer is Mr. Gminger, of Endinburgh. The Parliamentary agents are Itlers. Burke, P. itt, and Co. There was no op positicn, and the qanding orders were complied 1. , ith. 70'217. AND N'07.Z.T.11 MIDLAND. (WEB :UN AIXID au:aim:cr.:ND B.CLIMWAY 7.4 there was no opposition to this Bill, in respect to which the stantling criers here pronounced to have been complied leitii. The ext eat of new railway proposed to be formed is about fifteen miles ; engineer, Mr. Birkenshaw ; agents, Messrs. Burke, Pritt, and Venables. r;on,Trz UTZION .V.AXIARTAIL The object of this Bill was to effect the amalgamation of the North Union, Graud Junction and Maucheater and Leeds Railway Companies, or rather to authorise the sale of the th Union line to the other two Companies as amal gamatPd. The standing orders were complied with. The Committee adjourned till twelve o'clock to-morrow. REVOLTING OccunnENcE.The neighbourhood of Farringdon-street and its vicinity has been for the last two days thrown into a state of considerable excitement from a rumour which gained credence in every quarter, that a young woman of the name of Taylor had sold her illegitimate child, a little boy of the tender age of three years, under circumstances as singular and romantic as they evince a total want of feeling. It appears that in the course of Thursday last a lady, bearing ell the outward indications Of the highest respectability, drove into Farringdon-street in her carriage, which was pulled up at the end of Harp-alley. There she made score inquiries with respect to a child, of which she express: l a desire to become possessed. The lady introduced herself to a fume° relative of the young woman Taylor; and on finding that Taylor had a male child of the ege stand, she desired to see it, and for that purpose returned to, and waited in her carriage while the female first addressed proceeded to the mother of Taylor, who With her husband, is in charge of an unoccupied house, No. 90, Farringdon-street. The in ,ther instantly set out to fetch her dangLer and the chihl from their domicile in Chanties street, at the West-end, and on their return together the child, a smart, intelligent, and prepossessing little fellow, was exhibited to the lady, who at once made overtures for his purchase. The unnatural mother of the child, and her equally unnatural parent, consented to the sale, and received the earnest of half a sovereign. The carriage drove off with the lady and her newly-acquired purchase, but returned in a brief srce of time, and showed the unconscious boy denuded of the dirty rac.s with which his limbs bad been encased, but now superLly clad in new clothes, an hat and feathers of the most tests ful and expensive kind. They again drove off, the lady promising to renew her visit on Monday next, and then to pay any sum, from 91. to 51., they might regain. The grandfather of the child was only made acquainted with the occurrence: late on 7rithly night, and the poor old man, who exhibits more of than either his wife or his !laughter, is lou!r it, his tlebunciations of their conduct., and detertnint,tio , U, trace the matter to the hnttem. At Lnost ptriZet :t The Hun. V Warm Lewis Denman, son of Lord Denman, has entered bioly orders, and was orditijted toy the pishop of Dtutam On Sunday. • TLIE SzJN, I,oiNirsW Iv ale any applcation to Pailiament Tn Act. Filf`E;`trAL PARLIAAENT. HO& SE t.).F LORDS, Tuesday, Feb. 10. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at the usual hour. AS`USSINATIONS IN MELAND. .Lord DUNCANNON gave notice, that on Thursday, he sh •uld move fur a return of all the murders or at tempts to murder, in Ire!and, since the year 1842, as also the amount of the rewards offered for the disco- very of th,se offenc.:s since January 1842 ; the nature of cach offence ; the number of rewards claimed, and the number of convictions which followed. C.OHN- LAW S. A NOBLE LOUD presented a petition from Wigton prayi:ii!- for the repeat o;' the corn-laws. The Duke of BUCKINGHAM presented petitions from the counties of Buckingham, York, Monmouth and Brecon, against any change in the present system of UM • Lord CAMPBELL prev4tted a • petition very nume rously and respectably signed at Birmingham, praying for a reduction of all (1.•.,.,y en the importation into this country of copper ore. The petition stated that an im mense (inanity of copper ore was imported into this country and was still subject to a Urge duty, though the duty had been reduced. It also stated that during last year the price of copper had risen 12 per c,nt, which impeded the work of t' , c manufacturers coniolerelsly. Lord KINNAIRD presented a petition from Allea, for the abo.iiien of ali protective duties on agriculture, and also oue to the same effect from the county of Forfar. NUNS OF MINSK. Tho NOBLE EARL proceeded to say, that on a pre vious evening he had given notice to the Noble Lord the Secretary of Forein Affairs of his intention to ask him a question on a subject which had excited a great sensation throughout all civilised countries. It bad been stated that in a state in Europe the most barbarous and savage acts, which it was possible to conceive, had bedn committee ; and thoueh it might be questionable how far they were entitled to interfere in the internal relations of other countries, he still thought that an in terference by peaceable means, and peaceable remon strances, with regard to such acts as he was about to call the attention of teeir Lordship's, so far from being at variance with national proprietiee,was perfectly justifiable. He alluded to what had especially been brought under their attention lately, and of which they had read and heard much. He referred to Lithuania, where scenes had taken. place so incredible, that it was with the greatest difficulty they could be led to believe them. He had taken great pains to arrive at the truth of the facts alleged, and the result was that they were too true. lie had learned from the most Undoebted au thority that that country had witnessed barbarities of a most atrocious character. He would not harrow up their feelings with a deecription of the horrors and cruelties which had been cernmitted in Lithuania on un peetecteil flees, and person; hokqeg the Roman Catholic faith. He would . be content with stileirg shortly the leading_ frets of the case. In 1837 it appeared that the principal of th.- Roman Ca tholic Church in that district became cenverted from the Roman Catholic to the Russian or Greek faith, and in consequence he obtained an unlimited power from the Emperor of Russia to. use every means for the conversion of the Roman Catholics hitherto under his direction. Ile made his first attempt et conversion upon the sisterhood of Minsk, and, after obtaining the conversion of the prin cipal or head to his views, proceeded to use his Hie eines with the nuns to change their religion. Having failed in his attempt, ho gave them three months to ' consider his proposition, at the end of which time he expected them to give an answer. Fail ing to obey this injunction the principal, at the head of a body of sol3iers, seized upon the sisterhood and took them into custody. They were then put to every kind of servile and menial employ ment, and ebliged.to associate with the lowest dregs of society. After two years servitude of this kind, from fear that the bishop of their church would influence the people of the town to rise in their favour, they were removed to a neighbouring town, where they were put to labour which no female ought to, or could endure. They were obliged to serve the masons engaged in building the palace, and so hard was the labour that eight of them died at the work, and three others immediately after. The cruelties ,inflicted on them we: e such as to make their Lordships' blood shud der. They were given salted herrings with the object of increasing their thirst, and denied a cup of water to quench it. while they fed on alternate days upon breadand water. They were brought to the lowest possible state, and then, when they would not abandon their religion, they were made to receive fifty lashes twice a week Under this treatment several of them died. Not only were they made to suffer this treatment, but were sub jected to other treatment which he could not mime. He did think that a worse spirit was never evinced by the most rethlese of the Roman emperors, or that acts more horrible were ever committed by them. There were four brought forth and placed under a flow of water until the water was concealed, and kept tin re until they were frozen to death. These facts appear so marvellous that some think such barbarities could not be committed by a civilised people. Such cruelties do indeed appear almost incredible, but he (Lord Kennaird) was much • afraid that the statements which ho was making were too true. They w ere forced to drink salt water, and out of eighteen eleven only survived this treatment. He did feel very anxious on this subject, as there had been assertions made against the Emperor of Russ:.a•, and as this Government were on amicable terms with that sovereign, he hoped an inquiry would be instituted into the affair. He was sure it would not be considered that this Government were improperly; or for a hostile reason, interft ring in this matter, but that it was interfering for a humane purpose. The cause of charity ought to induce their Lordships to make an en deavour to mitigate the sufferings of these unfortunate nuns. The question he would ask of the Noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs was, whether he had received any information on the subject, or would he have any objection that some information should be procured on the subject. He was sure it could not be considered a hostile inquiry by the Emperor of Russia, or that it was created by any hostile feeling. Lord ABERDEEN said that he had read, in common with others, the reports in question, and he could not say whether they were correct -or not, as he had nor received any information from her Mej , sty's Envoy about the transaction. He had no urther knowledge of this subject than what he now stated ; but lie could not believe that the ac counts that had been received of this transaction could in any degree be relied on. No doubt reli gious persecution of any sort was greatly to be deplored ; bus the barbarities enumerated by the Noble Lord, lie (Lord Aberdeen) really did not thinkcouhl have been perpetrated. The difference between the Creek form of worship and the Roman Catholic was, that one acknowledged the supremacy of the Pope, and the other did not, but there was no difference in doctrinal points. When the Emperor of Russia was in Rome recently, the Pope asked him if those statements were correet, and the Emperor assured him that he had no knowledge of them whatever, but they should be rigidly inquired into immediately, and if found to be correct, the perpetrators should be visited with the severest punishment. And this course he (Lord A.) thought would be better then any attempt of this Go vernment to interfere in the matter.—(Hear, hear.) RAILWAY INVESTMENTS. Lord BROUGHAM gave notice that he would move for a return of all the moneys that had been paid into the account of the Accountant General on account of railway property to be brought before Parliament this session. CORN-LAWS. The Duke of RTcH M I) presented a petition from a place in the county of Southampton pra) ing that no alteration sh.mld be made in the existing corn-laws. The petitioners stated that it was the confidence they hai in the protection afforded to the agricultural produce of this country that had induced them to invest their capital in extensive improvements, the loss of whieh they appre hended in the event of the removal of that protection. LOCAL TAXATION. Lord BEAUMONT said that there was a notice standing in his name on the paper relative to the pecu liar burdens on land. Ho begged to state that he would, on Monday next, move that the House resolve itself into Committee on the subject. THE HIG II CONSTABLE (SCOTLAND) AND TURNPIKE (SCOTLAND) BILL. The House then resolved itself into Committee on these Bills, when the several clam, were read and passed withent discus ion. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved that Tuesday Aril 21, should be the last day . for receiving petitions, on private Bills, and that Tuesday, June 18, should be the last day for receiving the reports of the judges.— Agreed to. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Tuesday, Feb. 10. The SPEAKER took the Chair at a few minutes before Four o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. JAMES STUART WOItTLEY, who has recently been appointed Judge-Advocate-General, took the oaths and his seat for the county of Bute, for which place he has been re-elected. RAILWAY BILLS. Mr. HUDSON brought in the York and North Mid land (with extens:ons) Railway Bill, which was read a first time. Mr. W. PATTEN brought in the Preston and Black burn Railway Bill, which was also read a first time. CORN•LAWS. Mr. DAWSON presented a petition from the in habitants of Knaresborou4h, expressing their disappro bation of the free-trade measures of the Government. The Eton. Member also presented a petition from the inhabitants of the North Riding of Yorkshire . against any alteration in the existing corn laws. Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET presented peti tions from sixteen parishes in the county of Kent against any alterations in the corn-laws. Sir JOIN EASTLIOPE presented a petition, signed by 50,000 of the inhabitants of L e i ces t er , i n tivour of the repeal of the corn-laws • and also petitions from several parishes in the neighbourhood of Leicester to the same effect. Mr. BERKELEY presented a petition from the city of Bristol, signed by 17,981 persons of all rauhs, in which OP) , express their satibLetion at the free-trade rof , asurc [roposed by her Majesty's Government, but wishing f9r a total and immediate repeal of the. corn lawe. Mr. PLUMPTRE preseittel a within from the West Piling of Yorkshire, pritying"that the Ten Hours' Bill might pas: into law. Mr. lIUDSOI.7 preetltPcl a petition from Sunderland Mr. B aNKES prezented a petition from the county of Dorset in favour of the Ten Hours' Factory Bill. Au HOT. Mum= preaulted tweutpuinc pegtipus DNESDA MORN] NG, FEBRUARY 11, 1846, from parishes in BarksLi") praying that protection to agriculture should take place. Another lioN. MEMBER presented a petition from Manchester in favour of the Ten Hours' Labour B 11; and al o petiions of a similar nature from factory dis tricts in Lancaihire. ,o abolition of Lord RENDLESHAM presented 124 petitions in fa vour of aKricultural protection from districts in Suffolk. Mr. HUME presented seven petitions in favour of the present measure of her Majesty's Government ; one being from Mfoatrose, and signed by the bankers, mer chants, and other inhabitants ; another from Arbroath ; another from Kerriemuir, signed by 1,160 of the inha bitams ; another from the linen manufacturers of lieniemuir, who stated that they desired no protection themselves, and, therefore, pretested against any pro tection being extended to other interests ; another was from the farmers of Kerriemuir, praying the House to abolish the corn-laws, for they wanted no protection to agriculture. Mr. MITCHELL presented a petition, numerously signed, praying for a total repeal of the corn-laws. Colonel RICHARDSON presented two petitions from South Cheshire deprecating the present measure of the Government. to place them in their present position. But he could undertake to say, that if ever an opposition was con ducted upon party principles, that opposition was which aas marshalled, headed, and led by the Right :ion. Ba ronet at the head of the Government.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) The disappointment was too bitter.— (Hear, hear.) The subject -of his conduct was one which was far too annoying, or else he would enter into it with perfect willingness. But he did not wish to give personal offence to his friends, the officers of the Government, otherwise he would subject the occu pants of the Cabinet to the reprobation of the House.— (Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Gentleman had said— and that he thought was the sum and substance of his speech—that inasmuch as the law had failed in the year 1842, he should, therefore, entirely aban don those principles on which he had come tato office. The Right Honourable Gentleman said that the law had failed in 1842, and the word "failure" might be under stood in two ways. He would wish to call to the recol lection of his Right Hon. Friend what he said to the farmers of Wiltshire, in February, 1845—(Hear, hear) —when he made the announcement that he had become a convert of free trade: He would wish to ask whether, if the law failed in 1842, the Sidney Herbert of that year would have corresponded with the Sidney Herbert of this ?—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) He would also wish to ask him, if it was possible for any ingenuity in human nature to concoct a law which would answer both those gentlemen ?—(Great laughter.) His Right Hon. Friend in 1845 would find that law failed for the letting in of corn freely—his Right Hon. Friend in 1346 would find that the corn law failed in the re striction of the free importation of corn—therefore, highly as he thought of the legislative powers of his chief, and sincerely as he might believe that he was capable of effecting anything—and certainly the House had seen that he was capable of effecting great things—still that Right Hon. Gentleman asked of him too much, if he expected that the law of 1842 could succeed in pleasing gentlemen of both sides of the House. But the question of averages was all that disappointed the ex pectations of his Right Hon. Friend. He could not see the cause of that. His Right Hon. Friend might re member, that even if he were obliged by this failure to give up the question of the sliding scale, there was a fixed duty for him to fall back upon.—(Laughter.) He conceived that the argument of the Right Honourable Baronet, viz., that be cause the sliding scale had failed in one out of three years, it was not a good one; was not in his opinion a sufficient reason to induce him to give up, not only his favourite measure, but even the principles of all his life. His Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Sidney Herbert) had said that this was not a question of delegation. He (Mr. S. O'Brien) should say it was not a question of delegation, but the Members of that House were the representatives of the people, and when they voted against the interests of their constituents, then they betrayed those interests, and were unfit either to be delegates or representatives. It was not merely a question of import which sent this llcepe before the country, and it was not merely a ques tion of import which placed the Right Hon. Gentleman on the Treasury benches. Ho would not attempt to treat this question as a trifling one. He would not treat this question in that light manner that the Right Hon. Gentleman who had spoken last had attempted to treat it. It was a question of the greatest importance to the agricultural interests of this country. The Right Hon. Baronet at the head of her Majesty's Government had said that the great potato failure in Ireland had almost led him to throw open the ports. Ile (Mr. Stafford O'Brien) did not underrate those evils ; he knew they did exist, and he was glad to find that the Hon. and Learned Member for Cork intended to bring forward the evils pending that failure in Ireland the following day. But he thought her Majesty's Ministers would have done better by throwing open the ports temporarily for a temporary relief, than to adopt the present measure. How had the free trade question been received in Ireland ? The gentleman who stood next to Mr. O'Connell in that country had re probated the measure; he said plainly that a re peal of the corn-laws would work great evil to the farmers of that country, and would but add to the distress which now threatened her. Ho was in England when he was called back again by the dreadful accounts which he received of the progress of the potato disease, and he would tell the House that those accounts were so far correct, that if the disease had progressed as it had commenced, there would not have been a single vegetable in Ireland at the present moment. On my return, 1 found the dis eese rather mending, but it has again commenced, either from the late wet weather or some other mysterious arrangement of Providence. He assured them that there never was a country which called for more urgent measures than Ireland, and he firmly believed, there never was a Government more anxious than the present for the welfare of that country. But he should tell the Right Honourable Member for Oxford, that the famine in Ireland re quired more immediate measures for its alleviation, and he did not see how, if he would pass his Bill, Ireland would be benefited by it one single quarter of wheat.— (Cheers.) My Hon. Friend, observed that when he looked round Wiltshire he was surprised how the poor people could exist there. All he could say was, that he generally found that the poverty of the agricultu ral districts was greatly to be attributed to the owners of the soil. When they found wretched cottages, and women and children half-clothed, they were naturally led to inquire the name of the owner of the soil. He had conversed with some Wiltshire farmers that morn ing, who bore him out in the statements he had made, and he would do them the justice to say they believed him to be conscientious in his opinions. But he (Mr. S. Herbert) had totally failed in the case which he had brought for ward to show the necessity of a repeal of the corn-laws, in order to remedy the evils under which the country was labouring, which was simply only saying that em ployment and the wages of employment tended to the happiness of the labourer, but if he had followed up his argument, and really shown that a repeal of the corn laws, and an extensive cultivation of poor soil would effect all this, he would have made his arguments com plete. He would hare given an argument in favour of the repeal of the corn-laws, which had never yet been urged. —Cheers.)--But if the Hon. Gentleman had visited Northamptonshire, the county which he (Mr. S. O'Brien) had the honour to represent, where the la bourers received wages amounting, to 13s. or 14s. a week, he would find that the people were not in the abject state he had represented. If he would go and visit that part of the county with which he was connected, he should be able to show him well built cottages and a state of comfort which would satisfy him that a repeal of the corn-laws was not so much required. He should, in the course of their ramble together, be able to show him cold clay lands of such a nature as even to affect the intellects of those engaged in their cultivation--(Hear) and, he might add, that the Noble Lord the Member for the City of London, in his address, looked to the Member for Northamptonshire when he talked of the advantages which the landed proprietors of that county would derive from a relaxatioa of the duties on corn and other articles of commerce. The address laid down three propositions for meeting the wants of the country at the present moment, the long and short of which was, that British industry required no pro tection ; and in the latter part of his speech he said that protection was neither wanted by the agriculturist nor by the manufacturer, and vvouki leave their protection to the energies of the country. It was not treating him improperly if he (Mr. S. O'Brien) assumed that this principle had been publicly enunciated. The Noble Lord assumed that these propositions were true, because all political economists were of the same opinion. Notwithstanding the charge of their having old fashioned prejudices and clay intellects, he for one dis sented from those propositions, and he said, that even if all political economists were agreed in this manner, there would still be higher considerations on the settle ment of the question. Honourable Members on the other side of the House were very apt to confound the science of political economy with the science oflegislation. His own notion of political economy was, that it was a science which treated of the amassing and distribution of wealth, and. if the science of legis lation consisted of the amassing and distribution of wealth, then he should say that both political economy and legislation were synonimous terms.—(Hear, hear.) He, however, took a higher standing ; he said that the distribution and accumulation of wealth was only one element in the science of legis lation, but even if both the science of le gislation and political economy consisted only of the accumulation and distribution of wealth, it was not sufficient to prove the case of the Right Hon. Baronet. —',Cheers.) The Noble Lord the Member for the City of London had sneeringly declared that agricul tural protection societies were established solely for the purpose of opposing the Anti-Corn. law League. Now, he denied that these agricultural societies had been recently formed, and so far from their object being the overthrow of the Anti-Corn-law League, he believed they were established for the promotion and improvement of agriculture.—(Hear, hear.) Honour able Members were too much accustomed to throwing out taunts in reference to these protection societies, but on a future occasion he might find it convenient to enter into their history, and he ,would say now that there was nothing in them he was ashamed of.—(Hear, hear.) It was said that labour was the property of the poor man ; he did not know whether it was right to call things by their wrong names, but the Noble Lord the Member for Lancashire called the agriculturist a manufacturer, and upon the same principle labour was called the property of the poor man, and this definition of one of the Right Hon, Baronet's dogmas went forth to the world. But they ought not to stop there. It would not do for them to meet six months every year for the protection of their own property, and at the same time to tell the poor man that labour was his property, but his property was not to be protected. The poor man would not understand such a system ; the poor man would say that they met to protect their own property, and the conclusion he would come to was, that the property of the poor men must be left to take care of itself. The question of protection was a very unfortunate one to emanate from a legislation who some years ago boasted of the extent to which they could avail them selves of the labcur of children. That legislation now found the labour of the poor a difficult thing to deal with. They had resorted to the most discreditable methods to protect property. Treatise upon treatise had been written on the subject, and the decision they . came to at length was that they should let it alone. He did not speak of the shop keeper, but of the man who had amassed meney, and who, the moment he found himself in pos session of it, found it his interest to be a convert to the system of buying in the cheapest market and selling in the dearest one. He would teke the case of the duties lately spoken of by the Right lion. Baronet at the head of the Government, because they would serve as an il !ustration, and because they were fresher in the memo ries of the Members of that House. Supposing that he had been in the cheapest market, he could furnish his 129ttso with splendid French paper or silk hanging, and• could ride abroad in a foreign carriage. He could look out of the window of his smart house, r.nd drive abroad in his foreign car riago, and he would see a nuieber of labourers standing idle. lie might ask them what they were, and the reply would be, that they were, perhaps, English paper stainers, hard ware-manufe.etnrers from Birmingheon, and coach makers. lie might then say—" My good fellows, I have done my best to make you idle, but not from any selfish motiee, for on the 27th of January, 1846, the Government proposed the withdrawal of the pro tective duties, and that proposition was received with cheers by all political econot&, - ts, in order that their:dcetrines might havefair play."—(flear, hear.) Would any man say that the feeling in the hearts of the people would be one of reverence or attachment to our institutions in such a case they had that pretanto, for the feeling would be decidedly against the Government. W hen they took into consideration the number of persons so employed, allow employment would be taken away by the want of protection, they must consider how much their ancestors had laboured to give them that protection ; they would see that the way to benefit the poor was to protect them against foreign competi tion, and against the madness cf themselves. In this House they were all rich men—(Great laughter)—at least he assumed the fact, and such Hon. Members as were not, might laugh at the notion.—(Laughter.) But one thing was quite certaimand that was that they allhad had a breakfast that morning, and they all expected to hare a dinner that evening—{Laughter)—and they might rest assured that such is the position in which they would be held by their poorer fdlow-creatures ; ' and, therefore, be was right when he asserted that they in this House we re rich, while the classes lie al luded to outside were poor. Well, now it would go forth to-night to those classes, that in this House the question propounded was not corn against cot ton, but the question of buying in the cheapest market and selling in the dearest, and therefore he would ask them why they taxed the poor ? He was not now argu ing against the poor-law, but he was contending against this House attempting to propound a harsh and imprac ticable dogma, which would look odious in the eyes of the poor.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") He had never stood up ill this House as the champion of exces sive duties, or to contend that no alteration should be made in the corn-laws, but he was contend ing that the Government was enunciating a dogm a which the poor people could not understand. There was another reason why he objected that this dogma should be promulgated here, and that was that this assembly was no longer the representatives of the poor man, for that had been done away with by the paasing of the Reform Bill. Adam Smith had made two exceptions where other considerations might enter bssides political economy. But there were so many other exceptions in addition, that it would be extremely unwise and unsound to propound such a rule, and extremely dangerous to ' act upon it. He thought that one of those cases was agriculture.—(Hear, hear.) He would not then go into the question of the corn-laws, as he had so frequently expressed leis opinions on them; but ho considered, that if there was a calling which, more than another, had peculiar claims on protection—which contribured to the health, longevity, and morals of the community—that calling was agriculture.—(Loud cheers.) He protested against any change being made under such a complex state of things which existed in this country. He must say that lie had been engaged in studying the state of the question during the last four years in all its bearings, and he could not find anything to materially alter the opinions which he had formed on the subject. One change, however, had come over his mind ; he began by 'believing it a landlord question, and he was of opinion that the effect of a sudden repeal would be to throw large quantities of land into the market, and consequently the price would be greatly deteriorated.—(Hear, hear.) From all that he had read and seen he could not but consider that this question was a question of the small landed proprietors, not of the large landed proprietors; they :are able to weather the storm.—(Hear, beer.) It is a question of the small landed proprietors, who, upon the faith of previous legis lation, have burdened their estates to nearly the full value for the sake of' effecting improvements on their lauds.—(Hear.) He believed the present was essentially a farmers' question, and it was upon this ground that he took his stand; and because lie thus considered it a far mers' question he refused to consent to any changes which would bring in their train nothing but distress and misery. —((fear, hear.) Now suppose the case of a , tenant farmer, and he would give an illustration, because he considered that would have more weight than mere abstract arguments. Suppose, then, in this ease, the prices to be rather low, arising from a large importation of grain or some other cause. The tenant farmer comes to the landlord, he says to him, " I hope you will allow some abatement in the rent. I have expended large sums in draining and fencing, my family have hehl under you fisr several generations, we have weathered together many hard, difficult, and stormy seasons. I have worn your colours; and I should be sorry to leave the spot where I and my family have lived so long to seek a home el-ewhere."—(llear, hear.) The landlord says to him, " hly good fellow I am sorry for you, you have invested your money in drains and fences, you invested that money on the faith of my as surances, and I have made those assurances, and invested my capital on the faith of the legislature.—(Hear, hear.) We aro now told that we are to buy in the cheapest, and sell in the dearest markets.—(Hear, hear.) There is a gentleman, a manufacturer in this district, ready to invest his capital in your farm. I must now look to my own family arrangements ; I am sorry I can do nothing for you.—(Hear, hear.) You look back at the feudal times, those times we are now told are old and exploded notions—(Hear, hear)—aud as for colours, God bless you, my good f e ll ow , there is no such thing as true blue now."—(Prolonged cheering.) The tenant farmer then goes away from his land, the - manufacturer with his immense capital comes in, and by the application of that capital, the land, which before yielded but three-quarters then, yields six quarters, and the great increase of the produce will then be used as a set off to the injurious effects of a large importation of foreign corn.—(Hear, hear.) A few months ago a farmer mentioned a circumstance to him, the relation of which would help to explain this question better than anything he could say. A farmer went to his landlord and stated that he had just had a large fortune left him ; his landlord advised him to leave the cold, clayey ground which he then held, and invest his capital in some good ground, and make his fortune. He said " the graves of four generations—of my father, grandfather, great grandfather, and great great grand father aro in this neighbourhood ; and I have worked that farm, and I will stick to it."—(Hear, hear.) There were hundreds of thousands of men like that man, who had not fortunes in their pockets, but who had the same hearts in their bosoms—whom now they were driv ing forth by their legislation with broken hearts, and whose bitterest recollection—whose bitterest association, would be with the name of Cobden.—(Hear, hear.) We, continued the Honourable Gentleman, will not aid you, Sir, in your triumph over these poor men. We do not envy a triumph in which we do not parti cipate, and though we are small in number, and may be uninfluential in debate, we will raise our voices against the injustice that is proposed. You are now prenaring a triumph against a body of men who are petitioning that table in vain ; and who see ruin staring them in the face ; who have ben moderate in prosperity and patient in adversity ; whose virtue and whose mis fortune is, that they are poor, and, as I said before, whose fatal fault was, having trusted, you.—(Cheers.) You are prepared to triumph over them, for I will give it no more milder term—you are prepared to triumph over them by a strange coalition with men who, true to their principles—(Loud cheers)—can neither welcome you as friends, nor respect you as opponents—(Voci ferous cheering)—of whom, I may say, in conclusion, that the best and most patriotic amon g st them will least rejoice in the ruin and the downfal of a great constitu tional party, and will most deplore the loss of public con fidence in public men.—(The Hon. Gentleman sat down amidst the most boisterous cheering from his own party.) Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD rose to address the House, but was some time inaudible on account of Mem bers leaving. He said that the whole argument of the Honourable Gentleman who had just sat down was that the Right Honourable Baronet at the head of the Government was a traitor. The Honourable Gentleman professed great regard for the working classes, for whom he professed protection was requtehre He (Mr. Sharman Crawford) would not understand Hon. Member asking the House to continuo protection while they refused cheap food to the working °lasses. Cheap food was the foundation of national prosperity an d protectionwas injurious,because it enhanced the price of the necessaries of life. He thought the arguments heretofore used in the debate tended to confuse the question, the main points of which were exceedingly simple. The agricultural body demanded that the nation should pur chase its food at their market price, but would they consent to proffer to the working classes wages equivalent to the prices they sought to obtain ? They bad never yet done so. Were they prepared to do so now? Yet this seemed an es sential element in the case. Could they engage that all the working classes should have their wages made com mensurate to the price they wished to keep agricultural produce at? By the old poor-law wages were raised in proportion to the price of food, but the new poor-law had done away with that. It was not so now. In the election of 1841, two points were raised, in order to return a majority to that House. One was the per petuation of protection to the agricultural interest, and the other the restoration of the old poor-law; the latter especially was much dwelt on as an electioneering cry against the Whigs, who were charged with the odium of that measure. B a d the pledge then given been fulfilled? No; they had kept up prices by the corn-laws, andyet had done nothing to mitigate the evils of the new poor-law He was more particularly anxious to address the House on that occasion, on account of the question of Ireland having been raised. It was raised by the Hon. Member who spoke last, and many other Hon. Members who preceded him. He must acknowledge that he disagreed with the great majority of Irish landlords on this question, and so far from his thinking that agricultural protection was a benefit to Ireland, it had, in his opinion, proved a curse to that country. — (Hear, hear.) It was used as an argument in favour of thecontinuance of the corn-laws in England, that England had been in a prosperous state ever since their exist ence ; but this argument could not, at all events, be applied to Ireland, for ever since the corn-laws had been extended to that unfortunate country nothing _hut misery had prevailed there.—(Hear, hear.) He thought that this measure was a matter of deep con cern to the whole of the Irish community. He had had great hopes of the results which might arise from the Commission tinder the Earl of Devon. But he was disappointed, for he found that that Com mission had a reference only to the interests of the landlords, and had no reference whatever to the condition of the tenantry of Ireland . It was evid e nt from the report of that Commission that the condit ion of ndttaon of the tenantry was wretched in the eztrem . _NOW, b y inquiry i nto the r estips between 19019 and THE MILITIA. Sir J. Y. BULLETI, presented a petition from the inhabitants of Staley bridge, praying the House to take no steps for the enrolment of the militia. CORN-LAWS. Mr, FOX MATJl4hpreSeTitcdaPetition from the in habitants of Aberdeen approving of the pr‘ sent measures of her Majesty's Government, and praying for a total anditnalediaterereal of the corn-laws. Mr. FERRAN.D presented petitions from Bradford and several other places in Yorkshire praying for pro tection to labour by passing the Ten Hours' Factory Bill. Mr. ESCOTT presented a petition from Broadway, Somersetshire, approving of the measures of her Ma jesty's Government respecting corn. Lord J. RUSSELL presented a petition from the in habitants of London, signed by 64,000 persons, praying for a total and immediate repeal of the corn laws, and in favour of free trade generally. NEW WRIT. Mr. YOUNG moved for a writ for the city o Westminster, in the room of Captain Rous—(Hear)— who had accepted the office of a Lord of the Ad. miralty.—(Great laughter.) Colonel SIBTHORL' moved for a return of all per , sons who hold Government situwions of over 5001. a. year, since the year ninety-five.—(Much laughter.) CORN-LAWS. Mr. BRIGHT presented petitions from Gainsborough, from several perishes-in Yorkshire, from Hawick, in Scotland, from Nutsford, Darlington, and a number of other places, praying for a total and immediate repeat of the corn-laws. INDIAN CORN. Mr. F. FRENCH asked the Chancellor of the Ex ear quer at what port in Ireland it was intended to dis embark the Indian corn, which he understood the Go vernment hid in their possession? He would also cik the Secretary of State whether there was any truth in the reports which had been circulated in some of the Irish newspapers, to the effect that the Poor-law Commissioners had taken upon thernseivos to exercise a power vested in them, and had dismissed the guardians of two poor law unions in Ireland ? Sir J. GRAHAM hail not had an opportunity o making the proper inquiry upon the subject. PUBLIC WORKS. The CHANCELLOR - of the EXCHEQUER, in answer to a question put to him by an Hon. Member, stated that the amount applicable to the purposes of public works was 300,000. for Great Britain. Upon this sum a demand might be made in aid of the public works in Ireland. But, independent of that sum, there was placed under the management of the Board of Works (Ireland) a fur ther sum of 60,000/. There was also the sum of 57,000/. remaining in hand applicable to public works in Ireland. THE TARIFFS OF THE BRITISH COLONIES. Mr. HUME moved that an humble address be pre sented to her Majesty, that she will be pleased to direct copies of the existing tariffs and commercial regulations of each of the British colonies and possessions to be laid before this House, in the same manner as the tariffs and commercial regulations of Europe and America have been laid before thki House. That there be laid before this House copies of the existing tariffs and com mercial regvlations of B:itish India and the depen dencies thereof, on exports and imports, in the same manner as those laid before:the House of the European and American States. It was highly important that the House should be in possession of this information in order that they might perceive how great a burden the colonies were to this country, and that they might take measures to relieve themselves of much of the expense. 1)r. BOWRING seconded the motion, but he could not do so without bearing his testimony to the great talent which these returns evinced in their compiler, who he believed was Mr. M'Gregor, of the Board of Trade. Lord SEYMOUR was understood to differ from the Hon. Momber for Bolton. The returns, in his opinion, here dull romances, and full of inaccuracies. Sir G. CLERIC could only say that if the Noble Lord would point out the inaccuracies, he would take care to have thcm corrected. Mr. lIUME denied that the returns were dull ro mances, and declared that they were of great service to the country. Lord SEYMOUR (as we understood) expressed his dissent from the Hon. Member for Montrose. Mr. HUME rose to explain. He said th2t it would be very unfair to reject ten or twelve documents because there might be an error in one of them. Mr. AGLIONBY concurred with this remark. He thought it was hard to attack the documents in that man ner. If there were any serious doubts as to their correctness they ought to be referred to a Select Committee. He felt great pleasure in finding thii motion before the llouse, and in finding that it bad been. seconded. He was glad to see Hon. Members turning their attention to the affairs of our colonies, which had been too long neg lected. Government had not turned sufficient attention to their commercial interest, and that was the reason why they had always been a burthen to the mother country.—(Hear.) He was convinced that if a proper course were adopted with regard to our colonies, they would become an assistance instead of a burden. Sir G GREY said that if these documents contained valuable information, ho thought that the Members had not sufficient access to them; and he would, therefore, propose that they should be referred to the consideration of the Printing Committee, with a view to their greater dissemim.tion. After a few romarks from Sir R. H. INGLIS, COURT OF APPEAL IN CRIMINAL CASES. Mr. EWART wished to put a , 11;;StIont; Solici tor-General or the Secretary for the Acme Department. On a former occasion the Hon. and Learned Solicitor • General bad brought in a Bill to give a court of appeal in criminal cases in thii country. He begged to ask whether it was the intention of the Government to remedy the defect ; - 4!. present existing with respect to the want of a court of appeal in criminal cases. Sir JAMES GRAHAM was understood to say that it was the intention of the Government to bring in a Bill to give a power of appeal in certain criminal cases. INDIA. Mr. HUME rose to more for certain returns con nected with the affairs of India.' He thought that the necessity for giving that information was sufficiently ap parent, and he would therefore throw out the suggestion that those reports ought to be printed. During the last ten years he had always entertained that opinion, and he trusted that the Government would adopt that sug gestion, as it was likely to conduce to the general benefit. Ho would therefore suggest the propriety of printing those reports which had any concern .with Indian affairs. THE CORN-LAWS.—ADJOURNED DEBATE. Lord EBRINGTON and Mr. HINDLEY presented peti tions against the repeal of the corn laws.. On the mention being pnt for the resumption of the adjourned debate, Mr. S. O'BRIEN said, that in resuming this debate, he could not help feeling that, in the consideration of this subject there had been a great disregard of the interests of the commonalty, and that before the repeal of the corn-laws the Ministers ought to have consulted the farmers respecting the mannner in which that repeal was likely to affect them. Whether such may be the• general opinion he did not take on himself to say, neither would he express any opinion of his own on the subject. However, in refe rence to the question, he should say that, whatever might be urged against the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of her Majesty's Government, he (Mr. O'Brien) had nothing to retract or explain.—(Hear.) He had rot changed his opinion, and what he stated before he was then prepared to state again.—(" Hear, hear," from the Ministerial benches.) A Noble Lord who spoke last night had not only felt it his duty to announce an alteration in his opinions in reference to the present great ques tion, but also to deliver himself of a sentence, upon which, as it formed the salient point of the Noble Lord's speech, he hoped to be permitted to comment. The purport of the sentence was, that the law of 1815 was the greatest error ever committed.—(Hear, hear.) That might be the case ; but ho turned to that side of the House, and begged to ask who the parties were that urged the landed interest of the country not to explain or retract, but to persevere in and maintain an oppo sition to that law ?—(Cries of " gear, hear.") The Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government says he has given an opportunity to Hon. Members to retract their opinions as regarded that measure. He felt much obliged to the Right Hoe. Gentleman, but ho should say that opportunities were not wanted, as the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton had given ample opportunity year after year.—(hear, and a laugh.) That brought him to another part of the question. His Right Hon, Friend (the Premier) had said, that "if be had changed his opinions and not declared such, he should be ashamed of himself." Now he (Mr. O'Brien) should be ashamed of him also. But he wished to know on what principle parties in this country could in future be kept together ? It might be said that that was an old story, and that they were attacking the Pre mier and making .speeches in a bad cause. He found that this country had hitherto been governed by party, and it might be considered to be absolute pre judice, but he was nit ashamed to own himself a party man.—(Hear, bear.) It had hitherto been the custom of this country to believe that a discussion of ques tions upon party principles was advi sa bl e ; that a rigid adherence to those principles was on the whole, with all its imperfections and all its anomalies, the better way of eliciting the truth, and conduced to a sound legislation.—(Hear, hear.) But he might observe that not only had the Government changed its princi • • ples since it came into office—(Hear, hear)—but it had •. .'!: d. clr.red thqt it would be b , lund by no strict principles whatever.—(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. S. O'Brien) . was not in the House before the present Government came into office ; the first Tote Which he ever gave was t 1 is ;ant, he found that there was a decided advantage o k I , ',"\k i e", , ... - the side of the proprietor of the soil—a remarkable adv /.:i? 11, T rnrievtCetiodrnnSfer from ; Ea tage, for he cave a singu tar evidence of the relation betwe - . t.e:ia..'' l _ 1 7: likely to aris ß e bye to ne b trii o lta tl t i de i landlord and tenant, and of the advantages which we t". ' '.4: ‘•' , -"' , ... , : e . :•; e :2,1 81 4 wb()i whole positions. o f the k\s i t ei t l a h e p e e p s e c o a f i r l e t d h o e f i t r h i a s r e t e v : a t r n h:::4XL . : -;- was not more than 14s. 2d. per acre, and that' l ly.a. the gross revenue of the country from that el ksi 4 , source was not more than 6,000,000 L per annum, whereas it was known that although the soil of Eng land was not more than that of Ireland, that at least 40,000,000/. per annum were realised. There was a part of Ireland in wllich the protection of agriculture was not considered to be of any benefit to these con cerned in agriculture—he meant Ennisfail. Agriculture and manufactures were then in a perfect union, and the people were prosperous and happy—every class of society was in the enjoyment of the comforts of life. For his own pertehe dreaded not the repeal of the corn-laws ; he dreaded not the lowering of the price of food. He did not believe that the repeal of the corn-laws would damage the interests of the agriculturists. In fact, he was perfectly convinced that the lowering of the price of feod would increase the profits of the agricul turist, and that that increase would be followed by in creased employment; and the general prosperity of the peopl e of this kingdom would follow in such a manner as could not be created by the main tenance of protection to agriculture. He wished to see Ireland cease to be a land in which agriculture was protected, and he wished to see Ireland depending on her agricultural produce as well as her manufactures. It was said that the corn-laws opened a market for her agricultural produce in England and other countries ; but of what benefit were such markets to the agricul turists of Ireland ?—(Hear, hear.) He admitted that vast quantities of food were sent from Ireland to Eng land, the purchase of which cost the English millions of money. But did Ireland benefit by such sales ? The exports of the provisions from Ireland instead of having conduced to her wealth, had led to her wretchedness and misery. Those exports were not the exports of her superfluiti,:s; they were the exports of her means of existence ; they were the exports of those things which the people should have to support ex istence and a comfortable life ; they were taken from her comforts, and they did not therefore benefit the people of Ireland. The poor in that country were at the pre sent moment suffering under privations which no man could at all cone-ive, and that fact, he submitted, was a proof of the justice and correctness of his position. It was found that the number of acres in t E a n n g t s l , a a n d dw yet•e r f e afi n r. o o r t : es Ireland,t.,ffitehi esn,ta the eru acresa t l h ly e reeoxl of which rht o iec f dh h e ‘mi r . eoirsneth pro portionatelyai mbi im mense quantities of provisions. They were therefore exporting the life and blood and substance of the people of Ireland. The injury done to the people of Ireland by this means was incalculable. Such a system produced the most barbarous murders and assassinations in various parts of Ireland. They fell into those horrid crimes because they were without employment, and deprived of the means of existence. Such were some of the effects of agricultural protection. When they go to Ireland, what do they find? They find the people, except where those murders of an agrarian nature took place, obedient to the laws. They find the landlords living among their tenantry in peace and in security; and if the landlords of Ireland gave up the system of agricultural protection, and turned their thoughts and energies on the development of the country, those crimes which he alluded to would be heard of no more. Nothing would promote the happiness and com fort of the people so much as cheapcorn, and, therefore, he was most anxious to see the tax on that necessary article of human food totally abolished. There was sn otts !. great fault committed by the rulers of Ireland, in not doing sornethiug to enable the people to get a better description of food. They are now compelled to subsist on the potato, which is the one of the lowest articles amon g st a ll descriptions of vegetable diet. But if they once made corn cheap by removing all restrictions on that article, the people would be enabled to procure it, and thus secure for themselves a proper du scription of food, for • they could then command the corn market. The potato was an article of food liable, from various causes, to periodical injury, and he was therefore aux- • ious that a - substitute should be provided for it by the abolition of the corn-laws. If the landlords of Ire land, by a repeal of the corn-laws, were forced to adopt other means for increasing their incomes than that which land afforded, it would be better both for themselves and for their tenantry.—(Hear.) They could also, by culti vating and; improving their land, increase to a consider able extent their present incomes. —(Hear.) In the greater part of Ireland land at present is not more than half cultivated, and ice was certain, if the tenants were induced to improve the farm s , the produce might be double that which it at present is. Ile (Mr. Sharman Crawford) would not refer to par ticular cases, but would address himself to the general condition of the people of Ireland. There was no period or season of the sear at which a great por tion of the poorer class of the people were so reduced as not to be able to prccure food. He did not mean to say that they were actually starved to death ; but there the insufficiency of' food, and the bad ness of its quality was such, as to produce the most alarming consequences. Knowing such to be the case amongst a large body of the poorer classes, he could not reconcile it to his conscience, indeed he would hold himself accountable for the results, if he did not protest against any mode of raising the price of' food.—(Hear, hear.) He considered it the bounden duty of every landed proprietor to use his best exertions to procure cheap food for the peo ple, and to counteract the many grievous calamities that were coniequent on a scarcity of food—the least amongst which was not typhus fever. With regard to the scarcity of food, be should say, that that very day he had received a communication from districts with which he was connected, informing him that the potatoes—the staple food of the poor—were en tirely destroyed, and that the people were obliged to have recourse to oatmeal. Therefore, seeing all that, he could not be indifferent to the great benefit that was certain to be derived from the measure then introduced by the Government ; and he should, therefore, feel it his duty to give his most cordial support to the Government proposition.—(Hear, hear.) . Mr. BAILLIE (whose opening observations were wholly inaudible in the gallery) was understood to say, that the Noble Lord the Membelor the City of London, in his address to the House last night, seemed to assume and to take it for granted that free trade must prove most beneficial under any circumstances, If that was the opinion of the Noble Lord, how would he reconcile it with the fact that foreign nations knew well enough the value of protection to their national pro ductions? Foreign nations were well aware of the great advantages which England possessed for manufactures. This country had large manufactures and every facility for production. We had rivers, and ships, and every means of carrying out our trade at a cheap rate ; and we also could produce articles of manufactures of a very fine quality which would compete with them. It was for that reason that foreign countries had erected barriers in the shape of protection for their manu factures ; and if that was the case, how was it was pos sible for this country to have all those advantages from free trade that they were led to expect? France had manufactures of her own, and if the manufactures of this country were introduced into that country, we should be competing with them to the injury of their own trade. In India we had introduced our manufactures of cotton goods, and that did away with their own beau tiful fabrics, to the great injury of the people of that country.—(Hear, hear.) Ever since the dominion of England in India, there was more injury done by the introduction of our manufactures there than by all the blood which had been shed or all the massacres which had taken place. By doing away with their staple production, we had thrown out of employment thousands of the people, who suffered by starvation. This was the result of' our free trade-doctrine there, And having tailed therefore, in all our endeavours to induce foreign i ations to adopt free trade, shall we try the ex periment upon our own people ? They had only to refer to the oc curr ences of the last few ' ears in order to be convinced of • a/ and coaamerci state t in he the country inthe intimate connexion which e xisted between their agricultural al prosperity. Th ey need not look farther back than 1848. It w recollec tion of every one what was the of a that year. Their trade and commerce was stag nant ; their manufacturers in the deepest consternation ; thousands of their operatives thrown out of employment; the revenue fallen belOw the expenditure and threatening the utmost commercial difficulties. Such was the state of the country—to what was that state to be attributed? It had succeeded several years of unexampled manufacturing prosperity. lie alluded to the period commencing in 1838. Let them look however at the present state of things in the country. All theirloperatives were in full employment, they were working on good and sufficient wages ; they were happier and better: off than at any former period in their history. To what was this to be attributed? lie did not wish to take away, and he was fully pre pared to do justice to the talent of the Right Hon. Baro net, but he was not prepared to give him the sole credit of restoring the country. That altered state was to be attributed to the three abundant harvests, commenc ing from the year 1841.—(Hear, hear.) How clearly thee, did not these facts demonstrate to us how careful we should bo to preserve the causes that produce this prosperity and success ?—(Hoar.) It was not, however, his intention on that occasion to enter into a discussion as to whether there were pecuniary or heavy burdens on the agricultural portion of the community, because he thought he should be able to show that the agriculturists laboured under a greater disadvantage on account of the competition with the foreig ner than from the peculiar and heavy burdens on lan. This disadvantage had not been duly appreciated or considered in the course of these discus sions ; but there was another disadvantage which none of the advocates of free trade principles could get rid of. He meant the disadvantages which laboured the inhabitants of this country under on account of the inferiority of the clima te to that of other countries, whic h not p r think they finer description of grain. He the farmers o f this country were less had any reason to believ e that did skilful or intelligent tha n _ h eard it stated th at those of other countries. H had e foreign countries w ere superior i n the arts of agricul ture, and he believed there were ma n y parts of Germany not inferior to our ow n . In Poland the % • ages of those engaged in agricultural pursuits were as much as the wages paid to those engaged in similar pursuits in England. The soil was equally fertile, and the corn realised 10 to 20 per cent. more in the markets ,of England than our own. He knew that samples of wheat might be produced in Essex and in some of the southern counties of England equal to the wheat grown in Poland, but he spoke of what constituted the whole produce of this country, which was of a very inferior quality, and varied with the seasons. This inferiority arose from the great heat of the countries to which he had alluded, end the Wm! 3 ,1 1 0,06 .0 ; 0. r i ' e l4 ; 0 4 ' I. :3130. 44 ,f ' i A ~~ri~ 1 ' 4; 1 I 1 'or ~r . e 0!)