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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF GO HO NS, March 31 (Continued from our Atternooa Edition of 3 esterday.) TENA.N I'-RIGHT (IRELAND) BILL Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented a great number of petitions from various parts of Ireland in favour of tenant right in that country. He then moved the second reading ot the Bill, and said that in doing so he felt a deep and weighty responsibility rested upon him, for he was not bringing forward a puppet of his own, nor standing there as the organ of any sect or party, but Si the messenger of a nation. He asked their assent to the principle of the Bill because it had received the sanction of the nation. The number of petitions presented from various parts of Ireland in favour of the measure justified him in making that assertion. He was in the remarkable position of not having a single petition presented against the Bill.—(Hear, hear.) Such a circumstance was nearly unoaralleled on a question of such viral import ances to a country. The preamble of the Bill recited that it was the practice in Ireland to let lands to tenants without the necessary buildings, and that in the event of their quitting, they could not obtain any allowance for the improvements they might have effscted on The hind. This was proved to be the case by all the evidence adduced to the House on the subject of tenant right in Ireland. If a tenant made any improvements in his land he had no alternative but to rely upon the honour of the landlord for compensation; for there was to taw in Ireland to secure to him the value of the capi tal'and lanour he had expended. Now he proposed to remedy this anomaly.—(Hear, hear.) Land was the chiet means of existence to the Irish population, and it was necessary that some fair pretectiow should be given to the poor occupiers for the outlay of their labour and capital. The prit c'p's he proposed eith the view ot attaining that object he believed would be gene rally acceptatl , for it was that improvtrg tenants should have a fair and full — compensatiou awarded to them, having regard to the custom ot the particular dis trict in which the land was situated. In case of a difference an arbitrator was to settle the terms be tween the landlord and tenant. The provisions of the Bill were entirely consistent with the civil law of the land. The Bill recognised putting the onu, upon the tenant of proving the custom which existed and the value of the tenant's goodwill. He proposed to do nothing more than assimilate the law of Ireland, in regard to tenant right, to that of England. In some counties in England the tenant was recteired to prove the local usages and customs, and the value under them. He would fairly state to the House that the objet of his Bill was to give the tenant a legal property in the im provement which he effected up •n his farm, and if the Bill did not accomplish that he had no hesitation in declaring that it would be worthless. The other day, the Noble Lord the Secretary for Ireland, at his election for Coleraine made a speech, in as hich he acknowledged the justness of that principle, and he now called upon the Noble Lord to support his own views, and vote fur the second reading of this Bill. The Noble Lord distinctly stated that the obj ct of the present Government ought to be to hold out to the te nant farmers some inducement to improve the land; and as that was the main purpose of the Bill he thought the Noble Lord was bound to take it up. If, however, he would consent to tae second reading of the Bill, he should be quite ready to postpone its future stages until such time as Government should hale decided whether they would adopt it, or introduee some measure of their own, as they had promised to d a.—(Hear) Tne tnbu naliwnich the Bill would establish for the settlement co disputes between landlord and tenant, when they could not be adjusted by amicable arbitration, was of a simple and inexpensive character. In cases where the compen sation claimed was under 1001., he proposed that the dis pute should be referred to the revising barrister of the county, and in all other cases the reverence should be to the judges of assize, whose decisions should at all times be final and conclusive.—(Hear, hear.) He thought there could bo no objection to that provision, nor indeed could there be any objection urged against the next clause, which made provision for the adjust ment of contracts entered into previous to the repeal of the corn-laws.—(Hear, hear.) The 13th and 14th clauses did not originally form part of the Bill, but the altered circumstances of Ireland had rendered their in. troduction necessary. The first of these clauses would prohibit evictions for a limited time of tenants who were in arrear of rent, while the other clause would make provision for the pre ventii in of that suffering which '''had recently attended the eviction system. by securing the tenant some relief or some alternative in the place of the misery and starvation which otherwise would inevitably overtake him.—(clear, hear.) He, however, did not urge these claims upon the attention of the House as a matter of right due to the tenant, but as a law rendered necessary by the dictates of humanity, and im peret►vely called for to avert that scourge of extermination which was now raging amongst that portion of the Irish tenantry who were the least able to protect themselves from wrong or oppres sion.—(Hear, hear.) Let the House remember that a whole nation was interested in the success of this mea sure, and in the name of justice and humanity, and as they. valued the prosperity of Ireland, he implored the House to allow this Bill to go to a second reading.— (Hear, hear.) The landlord's right could never be sate, so long as those of the tenant were neglected or despised by the law ; and, as a landlord d reply interested in the maintenance of his own rights, he wished the House to do tardy justice to the tenant in passing this Bill.—(hear, hear.) It was ridiculous to telt him that this Bill would confiseate the property of the landlord, because it could not possibly do any such thing.—(Hear, hear.) It would, however, take care that while the improvements in the land were secured to the landlord, the tenant should be secured his share through the medium of a money value. Apologising to the House fur having trespassed so long upon its time and attention, he begged leave to move the second reading of the Bill.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. NAPIER could assure the Hon. Ma mhet for Rochdale, and the House, that there was no zuhj.:et m ire worthy of the consideration of Parliament teen thie—(Bear. hear.) It was of the utmost importance that the cultivators of the soil in Ireland sheu d be en couraged to the fullest possible extent, but at the sum time he hoped the question as it now stood would be discussed clearly and dispassionately, and without any reference to party feelings or party motives.—(Hear, hear.) He allowed that the Hon. Member for Rochdale was entitled to great credit for the manner in wnich tie had persevered with this Bill, and he could assure him and the House that for years this very subject of tenant right had commanded his constant atrenri )n.—(Hear. hear.) Every mo ment he could tied had been devoted to it, and nothing gave him a greater pleasure, when he was called in - o `'ices than the prospi-ct which it opened up to him of being on e d ay a w, to give his labours a practical shape. —(Hear, b ear. ) H e h a d, therefore, no hesitation in telling the Reuse that be hoped at n o distant p eri od to be able lay the table of th e House a Bill which should wwtl6f' actoril yreform the law of landlord end tenant in Ireland equitable rights.—r hear) secure to each p art y his j ust sad He had always been an advocate for compensatingtenant for unexhausted improvements. Th e tenant h had te nothihg but his labour and small capital to appl y so he ought to reap, a nd'y;fto his farm there • ' • ' when he left the l an d, and as he sowed was any portion of his laboureo unrealised, he th w e a h s an en d: titled to demand some money compensation at more of his landlord.—(Hear, hear.) cal culated to improve the social conditiholiengofwlre land than e the settlement of this question, and he was rejoiced to ° able to tell the House that in his attempt solution ot this momentous question he to obtain a should be as sisted by two gentlemen who had the honour of serving on the Devon Commission.—(Hear, hear.) il however, could produce more evil than raising isg h()n'thioes' which never could be realized; and he trusted, and it r ot he r therefore begged to impress upon the House, that wh it the present Government intended to do i n this m m rni,,s , e g would be based upon the report of the D4von The measure which he hoped to have the honour of in troducing would be made as simple as possible, or it would be better to leave the matter alone, as it would only serve to create unnecessary agitation if the measure was of a complicated and cumbersome character, and he requested that the House, in its legislation upon this very difficult subject, would take care to render its enactments as simple and as fri e from c implication aiscl restriction as possible.—(Hear, hear.) With regard to the Bill immediately under discussion, the principle was no doubt good, indeed, no one could diapute that ; but still its provisions were nut sufficient to amend, simplify, and consoli date the landlord and tenant code of Ireland. Tne• Bill in its provisions was not sufficiently simple or general in its scope, and that was the great objection which he entertained to its details.—(Hear, hear.) Whenever these objects could be carried out by agreement ,o much the better, for though legislation could do much, it could not by itself make a good land lord.—(Hear, hear) But in eff- - cting this there were some difficulties, one of the principal of which was the Imitation of property for family purposes. In such cases it was most important that they should be regulated in such a beneficial mannner as not to interfere with the cultivation of the soil. It was more consistent, however, with the commercial system of the country and the temper of the times to act as far as possible on a system of contracts. One of his principal objections to this Bill wag that it was a dealing with the existing state of things, for the purpose of perpetuating by Act of Parliament the custom—atter all not a legal one—which was not calculated to work any important improvement. If they could get a system arranged by which the tenant would receive a co mpensation for unexhausted improvements, it would very much tend to increase the prosperity of Ir.-land. The course to be taken was this, to secure to each tenant such gt period of erijoyment of the imp to roved soil sir as enabl e him fairly to reap the fruits ot every improve ment which ha might have made ; and if it were neces sary, f rom an v i reas on, to interrupt the possession, that, at the e l nee ' n of his possession, calculations should be fe a d - r e -- t a l :d he should still be able to reap the benefit o'r, his improvements.—(Hear, hear.) That in his opini on was the plain justice of the case— (Reav)—a fair princi ple inst which no rig hteou s tenant or landl or d hear.) But the presentee a'i could Bill did not go consistentlyg b a °ll t j u ec e r' I the proposition s which it right t entained were such as to startle men f rom a view of the cas e. It in terfered with existing contra c t s , and that, in __ his opinion, Parliament ought not do. It was not by the violation o f to the right s property that Ireland was to be b ene fi ted, with the fixed principles o f property,'or by en couragement of industry, by inviting of f inierfering t hut by the he Application cr.pital, and by promoting the spr ea d o of agricultural knowledge.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentr an then : e ue state • • proceeded to analyse and animadvert on certain uer merits which had been put forth by the Tenant Right League, which he showed to be tt without f oun d a tion. He was perfectly willi ng to invitel fall and fair discussion ou this important subject, but he THE SU thought it would be allowed that to pot forth statements of thii nature would only have the effect of rcusieg an us fouuded s pirit of bitterneas, end retard 'he uliimate settle ment of tees great question.—(Hear.) He objected to the section of the Bill which related to the power of dispossession, because he thought it confounded good and bad landlords together, and mixed them all up in one universal measure of com pulsion. Whatever measure might be adopted on cats subject ought to be bused en the great principles of property, which all were equally interested in maileain ing, and which were the right of the poor es well as of the rich. They were about now to a certain extent to provide for the wants of the future, and they ought to do that in a spirit of justice and fairness to all parties. How was it likely that they would encou rage persons from this eountry to lend money in Ire land, for the purpose of cultivating the soil, if there was to be a continual change of legislation on this sub ject? In his opinion the fixed principles of pro perty must be the same in every part of the United Kingdom, although he did not deny that there might be certain special cases in the circumstances of Ireland which would require special arrangements. He quite agreed with the Hon. Gentleman opposite, that they ought to provide just compensation to the tenant in ail cases of nnexhausted improvement, and that when a tenant did make improvements he should have a full and fair enjoyment of them. but to effict this benefit for the occupier of the land he was not ready to go out of the fixed limits of the rights of property. They had now an opportunity to i ffsct for Ireland a great and permanent good, and he believed that all Hon. Members were sincerely ectuated by that desire; hut the subject was a difficult one, and though he believed that with the assistance and co-operation of his friends he had arrived at a safe and satisfactory conclusion on the subject, he was placed at' the present moment in a very peculiar position. At the beginning of the session. and after ascertaining the intention of the th. n Govern ment not to propose any legislation on the subject, be nad prepared the outline of the measure wtsicti he in• tended to ley on the table of the House, and as an in dependent Membar of the House to ask their co-opera %ion in passiug it into a law. Being now, however, a member of the Government, he thought that any men sure which was introduced ought to be under the responsibility of the Government. It was but right that the Government should have ao opportunity of consi dering such a measure, and he could assure the House that the measure which he had prepared should be sub mitted to the Government at the earliest period. He had shadowed forth the principal points of this measure, and talked with his colleagues on the subject, though he bad nut yet submitted his plan to them in a formal way. Tne first. was a 811 by which no less than sixty Acts of Parliament relating so the subject of landlord and tenant would be consolidated.—(Hear.) Secondlt , there would be a complete investigetion of all the remedies of landlord and tenant un both sides, arid the third would be a measure having reeard to those cases in which no agreement had been come to betweee landlord and tenant; for though it would be better in all instances to have an agreement concluded sponta neously, yet where such was net the case, it was but right that the law should step in, and say what would be a fair and reasonable arrangement. At present ha had consolidated and arnsnded no less than 104 statutes. He should be able to reduce the complicated law of landlord and tenant to three statutes. —(Hear, hear.) The first would be for the con solidation of existing laws ; the second would provide for a ready means of investigation and appeal, for the purpose of detieing agre ments, and the third would give compensation fur improvement where no agreement existed. These were the great outlines of the measure, which, if passed, he believed would go as far as legislation could go to benefit the tenantry of Ireland. There was no exertion, no in dustry, no means of information which ho would not use deigently, and with •ut any unnecessary delay, in: order to bring this question to a complete and satisfactory conclusion. In regard to agrarian dis turbances in Iretand, the Learned Gentleman stated there was no power he could wield in his office which he would not wield tearlessly, to put down all criminal confederacy with a high hand and a strong arm.—(Hear.) He concluded by expressing a hope that, with the aid of the measures he proposed, aid the blessing of God, the condition of Ireland might be greatly improved, and a better feeling promoted between all classes of the people.—(Cheers.) Mr. E. B. ROCHE ag reed in sayingthat, in the name of justice, mercy, and f air play, let the law be the terror of evil doers; but all the evils of Ireland were not confined to the Ribbon lodges. T he Learned Gentleman said they could not make a good landlord by an Act of Parliament, but they might prevent a bad landlord from being mischievous by it,—(Hear, hear.) Though he listened with great attention and pleasure to the first p a rt o f the Learned Gentleman's speech, he was sadly disappointed at its conclusion, for if he ever heard good and sound reasons alleged for going into Committee upon a Bill, they were those mentioned by the Learned Gentleman.—(Hear, hear.) In the present unhappy state of Ireland it was of the utmost importance that the principles enunciated by the Secretary for Ireland (L• ,rd Naas) at Coleraine, repeated by toe Learned Gentleman in his speech, and contained in the Bill of Mr. Sharman Crawford, should be embraced in an Act of Parliament,—(Hear, hear.) The mainspring of all the evils in Ireland was to be traced to the unsatis factory state of the land question. These evils might be divided into three classes—first, the frightful decrease of the population; secondly, the agrarian disturbance, out of which arose the insecurity fur life and pro perty; and thirdly, the vast accumulation of local taxa tion. The great increase of emigration and the dimi nution in the Lumber of houses iu Ireland clearly proved the decrease of population. In regard to agrarian crimes, he denied that the people did not respect life, for why did tenants not shoot labourers, or labourers shoot tenants? Though ho denounced the perpetrators of agrarian crime as rank and base murd rers, he thought instead of strengthening the law they ought to try and remsde the evils which gave rise to these proceedings. lie was one who be lieved that the increase of local •tuxation would never be stoppod unless the Legislature inter fered. Tenant farmers were the only class of people in Ireland who had capital to ley out on improve ments, though he admitted they did nut possess it iu sufficient ahuodance. There was, however, an immense amount of property in the savings banks; but this would re ver be applied to land except some security were given to tenants for the alley of the capital. No measure would, therefore, be satisfactory which did not give ample compensation for all improvements on land. The Government took no objection to the principle of the Bill, but only to some of the details, and if they refused to ge into Commi t t ee u p on i t, th e p eo pl e of' Ireland would say that all their declarations and professions as to the settlement of the question were mere sham. Lord CASTLEREAGH said it appeared to him that if any difficulty more than another had arisen on that side of the House, it was that the Government had not solved the dilemma in which the country was placed in reference to this question by positively bringing in a Bill at once on the subject.—(Hear.) A popular journal had termed the Bid of tiseillen. Alemper an annual claim for the purpose of obtaining a false popularity, and net with the view of benefiting the tenant farmers, but it Was his earnest conviction that, the calamities of Ire land were mainly to be attributed to the unsettled state of the question. It was the duty of the Government to allow the Bill to go into Committee unless they pro posed to do more than simply delay the question, and cast it into the dim future. He would not bind himself to the details of the measure, because he thought some parts of it were objectionable. He scporronmediseths,eainddeaofofocb,t,ztiej,n,iinng from ten mth 4 e l2 M t ar as inrß up e port by w f h a i l c s h e he did not deserve. It was sea s net his wish to treat the question as a tenant's one eiim p:y for the settlement of it, he thought it was neces for the good of the landl or d as we d es the tenant.— (Hear.) There Was now a ray of sunshine and hope f ur Ireland which he had not seen fur a length of time; and he trusted that the Members around him who were nor be toss severe in finding fault, A th t e pz i n i t )n , t anxious re i etowsseutptl,einthi question would not adopt, any ex posed to brin in when t h e measure which the Government pro posed e n : t g h , i i e t E i m h a ' t t h e House to done for Ireland. °hat ; r l i:li lie criticising vwtt the heehrdio'est he ; ee g t a 1 li a :ll 3 t ea rn estly woai gt iuns . i 0 0 Cni's"ncli:teiet'neuts to vote for the Mr. G secem e refusing, duty REENE urged uPon the House the necessity of having the Given s went: Bill laid upon the table and s s i ' i ikrn'ds carnetahli all g ;af b or e rt referred to the c onsideration of 3 Self,ci. Committee. Mr. V. SCULLY could bear testimony to the im• portanco which the psalm 'lreland attached to this e of . question, and the disappointment-would feel which they if this Bill was defeatect.T e of Cork stood in the same relation to Ireland that . e did towards Yorksbir . England, and he knew fur a ft leraine down to the city of Cork the people. ct that from Co favour of the Bill. No doubt there wers: der, were in details, but he believed they were all cis in its i agreed as : to its prlociP e t and he therefore insisted that the Bill ought to be read a second time, and its clauses left for discussion and acuendtn-nt. He was at a loss to the speech of the Attorney-General for Ireland, from reland, whether Government support. d or opposed the of the Bill, and he hoped the Member who addressed reading 1 from the Ministerial bench would tell the House th e e :, what course they intended to pursue with regard to the Bill itself At all events, whether they r s e u 'l - , -- Sup po rt e d it or not, he insisted that the promised Bill of iie"6e vernment ought to be introduced at mince or imensdiatelY after Easter. A judicial move might depri ve t h e House of the services of the Learned Attorney-General, and then what would become of the. pledges and declaration s with regard to his proposed Bill. Why the Government would treat them as mere moonshine; and again he urged the House to press for the immediate pr duction ot the Bill. He admitted the d , ffioulty of legislation upon this subject, but it was by no means im practicable or impossible, and it was therefore the duty of the House to attempt it if the Government was not disposed to do so.—(Hear, hear.) As he understood this Bill its principle was plain and simple; it provided indeed for no more and no less than thin, that when a tenant wished to terminate his tenancy on account of the extravagance of the rent which he paid, i his laualord should compensate him for the improvements he had made in the land, or continue his tenancy at au equal zed rent.—(Hear.) That was what the Bill provided, and seeing much of the distress and crime which prevailed in Ireland was attribut able to there being no law in existence of this nature, he was at a loss to understand now the House could refuse to read the Bill a second time.—(Heir, hear.) Sir 'EMERSON TENNEN r bore his willing testi mony to tie perseverance and ability wile which the H on . Member for Rochdale had from time to tim e introduced this subject to the House, and he regretted 1 that i tro his efforts would have to be followed up by a Bill of other parties.—(Hear , hear.) He at once admitted • that the principle of compensating the meritorious te nant " flu; soun d and just, but the Bill, in attempting to Lownolki,„ THURSDAY grriSTING A P T t 1 t4git put that principle in operation, encumbered it with so many novel istel cut/Pierian:le p °visions that he was bound to rip , ,,,se it pissing in.o a law.—(flear. heat) The tenant right of Litt-t W4a believed, and he concurred in the bylipf , to be based upon equity and ja-tice, but tho.e who enjoyed it were apprehensive that it it was ex ended to certain parts of Ireland that could not sympathise with it the system would be evenoially cripp'ed, if not abolished.—(Hear.) The Lict was this right or custom niuld not to mate the subject of a law, and in attempting to legislate upon it he was afraid, if they did not proceed with ex tr, me caution, they would render the existing state in Ireland more disagreeably complicated than it had ever been .—(Hear, bear.) For instance, this Bill at tempted to solve in a few words a problem that had oc cupied years in its discussion, and upon which volume upon volume bad been written, namely, it defined the meaning of the term of " a fair rent." It must have required some courage to induce the Hon. Proposer of the Bill to venture upon that definition, and although he Admitted the ingenuity of the definition he was bound to confess that It was so indefinite that it would of itself render the Bill inoperative, supposing it was carried.—(Hear, hear.) It would, however, be impossible to work such a Bill without some such definition, and he confessed that be was not prepared to propose a better than the one contained in this Bill ; but still this defi nition was extremely uncertain, being liable to various constructions, and again he repeated that as the success of a Bill of toil nature must depend upon the simplicity of its prov;sions, it was useless to pass a Bill the very mainspring of which must inevitably give rise o endless discussions and disputes.—(Hear, hear.) Looking, therefore, at these defects, he did not think it would be prudent to pass the Bill, because it would disturb the stability of landed property, if it did not in fact altogether destroy its value; and if the House wished to see the land maintain its position in the estimation of investors, it would unhesitatingly with to its sanction to this Bill.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Viscount the Member for the county of Diwn had taunted the Government with a want of courage to meet the question with a direct negative. Viscount CAS'IsLEREAGEI did no such thing-- what he said was this, that in the absence of the Go vernment Bill the House had a perfect light to adopt its own.—(Henr, hear.) Sir EMERSON TENNENT repeated that the Noble VI-count threw out a taunt. Viscount CASTLEREAGH rose to order. An Hon. M tuber had no right to make an accusation against him when he had disclaimed the imputation which it conveyed. Sir EIIERSON TENNENT had put a natural c-in struetion upon the language of the Noble Viscount, but as the Noble Viscount disclaimed the meaning which they conveyed, why, of course, there was an end of the matter.—(Hear.) But he was authorised to state that the Government measures were t o b e i ntro duced with a+ little delay as possible, and, in conclusion, he begged leave to move that the Bill be read a second time this day six months.—(Hear.) Mr. KEOGH said that had it not been for the speech which they had just heard he should not have felt it necessary to address the House. He had heard with great pleasure the conciliatory speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Attorney-General for Ireland, but the speech of the Honourable Gentleman had been marital with so much asperity . that he could not help throwing b a ck the insinuation that on that side of the House there was any desire to treat the subject in any but a conciliatory tone. The specch of the Lion. Gentleman had been directed en tirely against t he details, and not, as it ought to h ave he re la a w lly e f e o t r E theeglmahod neen, against the principle , and he could not help sus pecting that the sP e I Cm e Committee. inte nded tee. T and tiou lertelgand going into were very different ; in E ng l an d l an dl or d s were accustomed to let their firm s j ust as th ey wou ld furnished houses, while in Ireland tenants were I hrown on a naked soil, and everything which they could get Out of the soil by their own industry was extracted from them in the shone of rent, and no compensation whatever provided. He appealed to this country whe ther in a time of expected invasion they would not put a sop to a system which in a space of ten years had diminished the population of a fertile island by more than two millions. Mr. H. GRArTAN was astonished at what had taken place. be thought it was unknown in the pro ceedings of Parliaments that the principal liw officer of Ireland should come forward and approve of the principle, and another subordinate member get up a short time atter and find fault with that principle. All that the Right Hon. Gentleman the Attorney 'General had said had been ruined by his friends, and it was a great pity that there had not been some one on the Treasury bench to keep down the Hon. Member for Lisburn. Mr. B. OSBORNE regretted that a debate which had commenced so auspiciously should, in some way or other, he knew not why, have turned all at once into a spirit of bitterness. As a friend to Ireland and her in terests he should vote for the second reading of the Bill. He wsa not, however, so steeped in party prejudice as to resume his seat without expressing his admiration of the wise and sincere statement of the Right lion. Gen tleman the Attorney-General for Ireland, and if the subject were taken up in the same spirit by the other members of the Government, he did not despair of seeing the question of tenant-right effectually settled. If he could hear from that Right Hon. Gentleman an assurance that a Government Bill would be laid on the table of the Hou,e at as early a period as possible he should then consider it better not to press for a division on the present occasion; it not, however, he should certainly vote for the second reading of the Bill now before the House. Mr. WHITESIDE said that, with all due deference to the Hun. Gentleman, he was called on now to give his vote on the merits of the Bill before the House. He (Mr. Whiteside) quite agreed that some measure on the subject was necessary, a measure which ought to be founded upon a just appreciation of the rights of property. The present Bill, however, had no such foundation, but was, in fact, completely opposed in almost every one of its cleusee to the fixed principle or the rights of property.—(Hear.) The ground of his objection to the Bill was, not that he was unwilling to do what was fair and equitable to Ireland, but bt'ceuse it was an incomprt•nensible and impracticable measure, unjust to landlords and unjust to tenants. It was the earnest object of the Government to introduce not a flimsy Bill, but to pass as soon as possible a law on the subject, such as would be beneficial to the country and creditable to the HOUSE'. Mr. BUTLER moved the adjournment of the debate. Mr. KEOGH hoped the Hon. Member would not per sist in his motion, but allow the Howe to go to a division. Th.! motion was then withdrawn. Mr. CONOLLY (who was rectived with loud cries of " Divide," which rendered him for some time inaudible) was understood to say the question was nut whether a compensation should be given to tenants for any improvements which the tenant might effect in the land. on which all were agreed, but whether or not that compensation should be fixed by one-aided arbitration. Tne Hon. Gentleman was addressing the House when the hour of six o'clock arrived, and the Speaker declared the House adjourned. FRANCE. THE FRENCH CHAMBERS. The following is the opening speech delivered by M. Billault " Messieurs and dear Colleagnes,—Our presence in this place marks a new era for us and for the country. Saved from most terrible eventuali.ies by a hand whose calm energy is slow in thought (mediter lentement) and rapid in action, France looks upon her, chief with a con fidence which is unprecedented in history. " By a vote whose astonishing (ictstant) numbers stand unparalleled, she has asked at his hands strong and pro'ective institutions, which will restore her security and her greatness. " Placed under the invocation of the great principles of 1789, tortifi d by that Governmental spirit which marked the Consulate, these insiturions have received an evident consecration by the scrutin by which we are elected —ours is th.s duty to lotus(' into them practical life. That is the commencement of our mission; and that rniesian, whatever may be said of it, is certainly not altogether without grandeur and authority. " We shall not, indeed, see the Legislature surrounded by parties, which incessantly hold the Ministry in check, compelling it to concentrate all its forces upon its own preservation and defence, and by so doing not un frequently enervating the power of the State. When ever, as Ministers or Deputies, we may employ these Parliamentary tactics, it is to business now that we shall be obliged to consecrate them—serious and practical basins ss. This is our part in the Constitution. It consists in voting the taxes, the discussion of the budget and of the laws. It implies not merely the right of deliberating freely and publicly, of adopting or re jecting, but also that of amendment, no longer, un doubtedly, with the same facility of improvisation, against which previous Assemblies vainly endeavoured to defend themselves, but with a d egree o f maturity w hich c en only prove tatal to utopian projects. ~ I n such functions there i 4, believe me, a great and if we use it, as I am certa i n we shall, sen °tidy, wi rtal t er t real pow nit Y reservation, with l o y a l fideli, to the electoral sentiments which have se n t us here. This power Wi ll constitute in our new G overnment one 01 those active forces which are the must usefully effi carious, " It is in order to proceed with you on this p a t r i o ti c path that the Chief of the State has called me t o t h e ,eahonour of presiding t ov er you. Grunt me, my d ear col "Ps, as mu ch good-will as I offer you devotion, and, being allt he united in holy love of our country, let us e rive 0 the world n but of a van -0 longer the spectacle of an assembly ef impaetlioned men, c..ntinU3lly agitated, table Assembly ot• Le gislation, celnaly and gravely as the law itself enacii are submitted tonguss!utes upon the great interests which At the conclusio'n of the sitting the President an nounced that there would be held a private sitting, to decide whether th e I wear the uniform Members should be required to on the occasion of public sittings. The following is the collective letter addressed by General Cavaignac, xi, Carnot, and M. Henon , to t he President of th e L egislative Corps : “ M. le President,_The electors of Paris and Lyons sought us in our retreat, or in our exile. We thank them fir having thought that eur names would serve as a protest against the destruction of public liberties and the rigours of despotism. " But we do not admit that they meant to send us to sit in a legislative body w hose powers do not extend to the point of repairing the violation of rights. We repudiate the immoral doctrine of silence, or of mental reservation ; and we refuse to take the oath required on admission to the Legislative Corps. We pray you, M. le President, to be so good as to communicate to the As4embly this' deeleration. (Signed) 4 CAN' kIGNAC. " CARNOT " LIENoN. " Stroh 29. 1852 " PRICES OF SHARES iN i - tANKS, ASSURANCE, ANI) ()Tarot 01)g- PA N lES' STUCK. From the Offiaal List. THE UNITED STATES. The tca - ouuts from New York by the America show iecteasitig activity and confidence. The fresh arrivals of geld fret') California, together with moderate impor tations of European goods anti the temporary suspension of specie remittances, were producing a powerful in flutnce on the mat ket. utichecked by counteracting ances ot any kind. Under those citeumatet ces,it,in addi tion to the largi, Ittn,':.unt of thiited ti• a es' stoAs lately purchased on this site, there had els ) been au incautious di-Too - don to take all the railway mid ether bonds that, have been off-tred, there would have been considerable danger of inflation. At present, however, there is no reason to apprehend any such result. In addition to the accounts from California, the papers contain renewed particulars of gold to be obtaiaed elsewhere. In New Mexico a person, who has had two years' experience in California, is said to have formed a party of 38 to proceed to some deposits which he alleges he has discovered on a branch of the river Gila, about 350 miles from Santa Fe. Accounts from Oregon also revive the rumours as to the existence of rich quartz on Queen Charlotte's Island. The speci mens shown were brought by one of the crew of the Una, a vessel lately wrecked there. Another statement has ap peared that a mine of auriferous quartz has been found in Virginia, about 80 miles west of Richmond. " The vein," it is std.'. " is exceedingly rich in threads, thickly sprinkled with the metal, while the rock itself, in which none is visible, contains eleven dollars to the ton." the tract comprises about 1,300 acrss, but it is a sus picious circumstance that the parties proposing to work it were endeavouring to raise capital in New York instead of in their own State. It appears that the engineers sent out by the Nouveau Monde Company had arrived at San Francisco on the 11th of February. They were twenty-four in number, but one of them died of fever shortly after leaving Panama. Three others had also been attacked, but were now re covering. The superintendent reports that he was about to proceed at once to the mines. The de mand at NO York for passage to San Francisco was unabated. The vessels by both routes were full up to the end of May, and through tickets. vial Nicaragua, were sought at 100 dolls. premium. It was announced that a portion of the Panama Railway would open on the 15th March. There had been one or two small failures at New York, arid another of larger amount at Savannah. The merchaets' Exchange in Wall-street was to be sold on the 16th March. It was built after the great fire, but the returns have not been sufficient to pay the interekt on its bond', end the mort gagees hid at length resolved to foreclose. An applies non for postponement, with the hops that the requisite sum of 850,000 dollars, or the greater part of it, might be raised by loan in London, had been made and refused. At Philadelphia au adjourned meeting of thestockholders of the United States' Bank had been appointed for the 17th March. A report from a committee on the best mode for speedily closing all its affairs would then be sub mitted. The struggle in Congress on the question elan increased subsiil to the Collins line of Liverpool steamers was still unfinished. Among the public grants awarded by the House of Representatives was one of 100,000 dollars to Dr. Morton for his discovery of the eaimathetic properties of ether, A Bill authorising an organization for the construction of a crystal palace had been passed by the Legislature of New York.— Times. HEALTHOF LONDOIV DURING THE WEEK. (From the Registrar-General's Report.) The mortality has been great in the London districts during the whole of March. Iu the first week of the month the deaths registered were 1,128, in the two fel lowing they rose to 1,232 and 1,21 , 8, and in the last week, as shown by the present return, they were 1,219. It must 1).1 observed, however, that the small increase which now appears over the preceding week arises from more than an average number of coroners' case?. Ex cluding from the returns deaths from poi.on, injury, at,d other external causes, or which inquest cases principally consist, the numbers in the last three weeks stand thus: —1,160, 1,183, and 1,161. In the ten corresponding weeks of 184251 the aver age number of deaths was 1,126, which, if raised in a certain proportion according to increase of population, is 1,239. The deaths registered lust week differ, there fore, little from the calculated amount; but this as a comparative test of the actual mortality is disturbed at the end of the quarter, when cases on which inquests have been held, and many of which occurred at previous dates, are entered in more than a fair proportion in the register books. The effect of the coldness of the season is still very apparent in the mortality produced by diseases of the respiratory organs. This class, which comprises bronchi tis, pneumonia, asthma, and a few less fatal maladies, num bers this week 243, while the average is only 193, or with a correction for increase of population, 212. In the re turn for the week preceding the number was 269; there has, therefore, been a reduction in the interval, but it will be noticed that while pneumonia and asthma have decreased from 83 and 29 to 72 and '22, bronchitis continues quite as fatal, the numbers being 126 and 128. Consumption (in the tubercular class) is also fatal at present, 151 lives having been destroyed by this disease in the previous week, and 160 in the last, which is more than in any corresponding week, with one exception. There were 3 from laryngitis, 5 from laryngismus stridulas. Seventeen children and six persons of 15 years and upwards died of small-pox; in three cases, at the ages of 14, 19, and 29 years, vaccinatio❑ is reported to have been previously performed. Thirty-eight children died of houping-cough, which is less tha❑ the average, and -ight of croup. From scarlattna thirty-one deaths oc curred, and from typhus, remittent fever, &c., forty-seven. t'ne unusual number of nine persons, eight of whom were children under 1 year, are recorded as the victims of syphilis. STATE OF THE WEATHER DURING THE PAST WEEK. SUNDAT.—One-fourth part of the sky was generally covEred with cloud during the morning and afternoon, at night the sky was clear; cirri and fleecy clouds. Electricity —Positive, and tension moderate generally throughout the day. kONDAY.—The sky was clear till lh. P.M., three-fourths were generally covered with thin stratus till sh. r.m., and the whole was clear afterwards. Electricity—Positive, and ten sion strong throughout the day. TURSDAY.—Th e sky was for the most part one-half covered with stratus. Thick haze prevailed during the morning. Electricity—Positive, and tension moderate throughout the day. _ _ VVEDNISDAY.—The sky was free from cloud until noon, and overcast during the remainder of the day; cirrostratus. Chick haze prevailed during the earlier portion of the morning. Electricity—Positive, and tension moderate at noon. THURSDAY.—The sky, with slight exceptions, was free from cloud tail I Ih. A.M., and generally covered during the remainder of the day ; cumuli, cirrocumuli, and cirrostrati. r.lectpcity—Positive, and tension moderate during the morning and afternoon. FRIDAY.—The sky for the most part was covered with cloud throughout the day; cumuli, cumulo.trati, and cirro strati. Electricity—Positive, and tension weak during the afternoon. SATURDAY.—The sky was covered with cloud throughout the day ; eumulostratus and cirrostratus. Electricity— othing was shown throughout the day. The mean reading of a thermometer placed on the main mast, and read each day at 9h. A.M. was 45.3' , ; and the mean reading at 9h. r.m. was 41.7' ; the mean readings at the Royal Observatory for the same times were 46.0 a and 40.8 44 respectively. The reading of the barometer increased from 29 . 99 in. at the beginning of the week to 30.03 in. by 9h. A m.on the 22d ; decreased to 29•74 in. by noon on the 24th ; in creased to 29.90 in. by 9h A.M. on the 25th; and decreased to 29.49 in. by the end of the week. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGIS'CERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1552. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases —. 5 204 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... ... 47 Tubercular Diseases ...............221 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 118 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 53 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ... 243 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver , a nd other Organs of Digestion... ... 80 Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. ••• 19 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. 15 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 8 Diseases of the Skin, Sto. ••• M a lf orm ations... ... 3 ° Premature Birth ... ..• ... 28 Atrophy Privation, Cold, and Intemperance O v l i d ol A en g c e e. Sudden ••• ••• ..• ..• ••• 15 62 Causes not specified ... •‘• DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... ... Populatien Deaths in eorre- Enumerated, sponding week 1,219 Dentt a In the Week. 191 221 204 273 330 1851. West Districts.. Ditrict 4 3 9 7 06 6, 3 4 9 2 7 North Central Districts 393,256 r:ast Districts ... 485,522 South Districts.. 616,635 of tits:. 202 289 231 299 397 . Totals.... 2,3E2,236 ... 1,418 ... 1,219 Males ••• ••• ••• ••• .. 615 Females ..• ••• ••• ••• ... 604 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males SOO ... ... .., ... 814 Females ... ... ... ... 793 Total ... ...1,607 *ln this number are included 31 by Scarlatina, 42 by Typhus Fever, and 13 by Diarrheas. has been very extensively disseminated in the provinces. It explains (with patterns of the article produced) pre tended patent for the manufacture of a fabric in universal GULLIBILITY.—We were shown a circular, which demand. It promises to each subscriber for one share, price paltry 5L (to b sent, of 4 course, ()o p er cent., . ,m buton e y - a o r dgeoro)d, round d a v theythe p i r n e v c e is e e t, words of the realize fron t returno e f 300 or income.7 Pr s i / n . t t e o d 3 bait.oo.‘ "Subscribers," sterling eirili,b efpir': w eeryqOuso.te annum !" t o be paid, it is politely stated in another part of the prospectus, qu arterly Nowt rational people will say that the wild extravagance of such a promise, exceeding all possible guliibility, Would be its own defeat. The said rational people, however, Will b e (as they sometimes are) in error. Credulity has no bounds. It is a 1 factthat since the issue of that golden circular, the Post-office authorities have paid to its eoncoctor—not hundreds,. but thousands of pounds. Post•office orders have poured in from ," believers in impossible profit at such a rate that s ° l ' f we n t e handed over to the successful s Schemer in the co urse o o single week.—Dickens's Household Words. Two fires occurred in Lo n don yesterday, one at a Lucifer - match manuf ac t ory in Bethna l- gre en, which was de stroyed; and the other at a fluor-cloth factory in Lambeth, which was considerably da maged. The origin of both fires WM accidental. • Ie.ETI4I UTII k: .1 U,S7'IC.E (From tar; S pee:l,7l°l.o The actual position of th:• of parties ia'full of vci,lulble instruction. L ! ;4ad.tion of disappointment and tratible. Taltior: Lore I)44rhy, Lord J. ilasacll, Lord Anerdeen, or tits Duke of Nave:tido, ail l Mr. Cohdeo, as chiet'a of the parties into which the country is divided, not one of the four can ne eithor 14.tiAe4 with the pre,:e•,t or hopeful as r4"gards the future. On the et4ntrary, 4'very :mu of them 1.; in a and wit.h4 . ar... any cite prospc:t of getting Out of it. Anti, whet is of tn.ire importatico, because it contains the moral of the le son, ceon else one of retributive j'istice; the discotnfori endured being in the nitture of a punishment justly incurred try - the suf. hirer's wilful misconduct. Lord Derby has to swallow free trade. Tnst is ine vitable. He cannot do it at a gulp, as naustioue doses are taken with the least inconvenience, but must needs sip, and suck, and taste to the uttermost the gall and wormwood which the nature of things has pre scribed for him. And why? why cannot he embrace free trade, like so many before him, without this pain ful loathing and slow torture? Because of his own behaviour in 1846, and down to the time when the Queen sent for him the other day, at Lord John Russell's suggestion. He was the author and has been the stay of the Protectionist party. If he is not a Protectionist, he is nothing. His rash quarrel with Sir Robert Peel, his leadership in the persecution of that tree statesman, his delusive promises to landlords and farmers and shipowners, his professions of confidence in the triumph of a lost cause, his rais• leading eloquence—all these things now rise up against him, it not to torment his conscience, at least to sting his pride, by making his recantation itself shameful, and so compelling him to recant in a doublefaced, shameful manner. In leading an Opposition for fun or spite, he could pretend what he liked with impunity; but the responsibilites of power at once unmask the impostor, and without relieving him from the necessity of going on with the detected sham. Our first simile is not quite exact: he has not merely to swallow bitterness sip by sip, but to swallow it and bring it up over and over again , till truth shall be fully avenged. No wonder that Lord Derby should have avoided office as long as possible. He might have avoided it alto ge th er but for Lord John Russell's parting advice to the Queen. That ad vice was unconstitutional and improper, after constitutional ea- F eeetuisity had ceased. But anoth.L responsibility attaches to Lard John Russell in this matter. He is still responsible to his party; and he appears to have done them a great disser vice. He probably imagined that Lord Derby would not swallow free trade, and would therefore have to repeat last year's process of in and out again; the Whig chiefs getting back to office, "as you were," with the advantage of having this time seriously fright ened the least thoroughgoing of their supporters. It was a sad miscalculation. Lord Derby, really aban doning Protection with whatever wry faces, may keep the government fur a long while. Any change would be endurable atter Russell-Grey rule for six years; and the actual change, as it pro mises the benefit of useful Whig labours in opposition, has merits independent of the mere novelty. Lord John, accordingly, is now reproached by many of his party with having b'-trayed them by his awkwardness, or perhaps through the singular jealously of his dis position. They ask why, if he took oa himself to pro pose his successor, he did not name somebody who might perhaps have restored the Liberal party to the position, which his Government never heid, of being supported by a majority of its own in the House of Commons. And this question suggests a welamerited reproach. For years the ex-Premier was urged to strengthen the Liberal party—to obtain for it the con fidence of the country and 4 majority 4* its own in the Commons—by getting rid of the most inefficient and unpopular of his colleagues, and calling to his assistance such Whigs as Lord Clarendon, and such former colleagues of Sir Robert Peel as the Duke of Newcastle, Mr. Gladstone, and Sir James Graham. But no; his inordinate but feeble self ~utficiaury, combined with his belief in the indeteasibte right of certain Whig families to govern, could not stetnach the proposition that his Ministry needed impriiv,-mint. he went on, depending on the frail support of being squeezed between two Oppositions, till the general in capacity of his Government became too manifest for longer toleration. Deserted by his adherents, turned out of office by himself, and disregarded by the country, he is provoked by the consequences of his blunder in proposing Lord Derby as his successor into making a plunge or two in Opposition; but having been justly reproved for quarrelling with Lord Derby's Government because, like his own for six years, its party is a minority in the Commons, for threatening to stop the supplies, and for otherwise seeking to embarrass the Government of which he is the principal author, he is now pretty quiet and seems to be conscious that he has " made a mull of it." If his party know their own in terest, they will keep him as inactive in Opposition as he was ib power. As intending to be again Prime Minister of England, he is a heavier encumbrance to them than their own errors sad neglects in having allowed him to . make a Tory Government for some years to come far from improbable. The colleagues of Sir Robert Peel cannot be much better pleased with themselves than Lord John Russell and Lord Derby. Their great chief has been gone nearly two years, and they have not yet even chosen a leader, They have seen the Russell Government slowly dying out for want of a policy, and have themselves neglected to promulgate, it may be even to construct, a policy of their own. They must know that what the country at large has needed and desired for a long while is statesmanlike purpose in the leaders of parties; of any party , it may be said; for the old party distinctions and associations have been almost extinguished by the struggle about free trade, and a large preponderance of public favour would be given eithi r to Lord Derby, or to Lord John Russell, or to any of the Peelites (they have no leader to be named), or to Mr. Cobden, if he would declare a sufficient policy of Conservative reform, and give evidence of possessing the will to carry it into effect. The Peelites have had ample opportunity of satisfying the country in this respect, and they have almost entirely n eg l ecte d it. They had a great prestige to work upon, and many other advantages; but nave neither done, nor even said, anything of consequence. Self-imposed obscurity is the d fect of their position. If Sir James Graham, the only one of them who has not appeared asleep since 1846, lied lately taken a more distinct line of his own, a course more independent of the Russell-Grey Whigs—..till more, if Men of the ability and patriotism which private circles attri bute to the Duke of Newcastle and M r. Gladstone, acting in concert with the respected Lard Aberde e n, had formed a clear view of the public ex i gencies, and had made it known by actively sharing in the businesso of fo n t have taken Par liament, the Queen, it is very likely, would Lord John Russell's advice about sending r Lord Derby. In the politics of a free country inaction is a personal dis ability. And the Peelites caria,it se 6f w he they were not warned long ago of the cunsequeucesy t hey regret a general election upon sirortttsnollot issues, and the prospect of a new Parliament without fixed ideas, led by a Government f w of pretenders without a policy, they must feel guil ty op portunities of action by having neglected Whichthoe mischief might have been averted. The Manchester gentlemen are out of court. Though they have not been deficient in l a bustling kind ut ecti city, their views ofohnl_ati,o7a policy e insist of vague generalities suited theplatform. They may enjoy a triumph in seejing4Lord Derby swallow free trade ; but when that spectacle shall be over, they will have no function or distinctive character. In deed, they greatly resemble the Protectionist party in having but one idea, and one which is on the point of disappearing from our politics; so that, in two or three months, they will probably break up through differences of opinion on other subjects. There would have been just the same prospect for the Derbyites if any of our parties were now capable of supplying the country with an acce p tabl e Policy, and the Queen with a man qualified to carry it into effect. WHY DOIVT YOU CRY, YOU FOOL! The trial at the Salisbury Assizes, lately, of an unlucky Wight, who had been helping himself to his neighbour's goods, gave rise to a piece of ingenuity on the part of a well-known lawyer, which to us, who chanced to witness it, was somewhat amusing. The prisoner had been defended by counsel, and every thing that could be said on his behalf had been said, but the case against him was too palpable to admit of a shadow of doubt, and a verdict of guilty was pronounced. The Judge seemed to look upon the culprit, who was a rough-looking lellow, destitute alike of friends and cha racter, with some degree of pity, and previous to passing the sentence of the law upon him, commenced giving him a few words of advice. The benevolence of bis Lord ship'i tone was not thrown away upon the lawyer, who sectned to feel that so long as there was a chance of helping his client he was bound to do his utmost. Unob served, therefore, he at once whipt behi ,i i i id sa t v h e e a d —Ymias standing as Un putting his hands to the sides of his mouth, whispered to a women the prisoner as loud as prudence would perreit_o W hy mo d ock , t ha and d t don't you cry, you fool! Be quick least!" rhe culprit, who betore :h th l i th s ra w ysot moved as a statue, immediately took the hi nt, rubbed his eyes with his knuckles, and for over come by a sense of the degraded situst. t s.eemed. stood. The dodge answered , ship) that the sense of shame lon in which he his Lord prevent you from appearing, a v i • situation in a court of justice, and in that ti nin suc u h I am induced to pass upon you a much lighter sent ( saidn ow feel will hope than I should other wise do, which is that of Correction , in this of one ca , is county, for tbe space' lendar month." The you be sente nce muperisoned is the House fellow, we were afterwards in formed, is a mos! hardened rascal.--Devizes Gazette. T HE COST OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS, Accordin g to Mr. Bray ie y , io " Brittou's Public Buildings o f Londoo," wh ich contains a plan and five v iews of the structur e, full halt a million of money was Ultimately expended upon Somerset House, and it was then left unfinished. The whole of the accounts, we m a y mention, have recently turned up, and will probably ter for publication. That Chambers was not his judgment as to the probable cost of taninsome architects (f ui-dern days, is prove:d more a t hgr h wd e ocr:D : kr i ra r LAtratce that, in a revrt presented by him by t to t h e House of Commons, he said he thought, though there were difficulties which provsoted accurate e , ,m puta don, that the cost certainly would not exceed 250:000t What do we now cite whether it cost a quarter of a m illi on o r half a million ; and how much do a the question offcct the opinion we form et the builein4 and i.s designer? Nothing. Nor will :any ask fi century some ir‘f the buildings " run hence, when contemplating up" in our time (it they apt so looe), - t arse cost, or find in the small otitis), if to, -y enithl , k n , ‘ reason for withhulning condemliatiou. Pruu..nce tittu circumstances must, of course, regulate expenditure. If we must have a building for a particular purpose, and hare only a cortaia ma of IntaleY l the balldwg am PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING i.ONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 30. SOINT-STOCE BANKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ------- --- Australasia •••••••• • • 51. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 - BritshNorth American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 - Commercial of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 2514 Colonial .• •... Gloucestershire -.• •• 151 per cent. - - - lonian ••••••.. • • •• •• 61. pr cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - London and County - 61. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 - I..ondu and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 29 3 London Joint-Stock ... 61. per cent.' h 0 0 0 10 0 0 18 Proviucialof Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Ditto, New..... -•• 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 - National of Ireland .. 41. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 1734 Nat. ProvnCial of Eng. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 40% Ditto, New. •-•• • • 61. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 - Oriental Bank Corpora. 111.p.ct.& bs. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - South Australia .....• 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Union at Australia - Cl. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 36% Ditto •••••••• •• •• •• 61. per cent. - 210 0 - Union of London •• 1 171. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 - Union of Madrid - ------._ INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per I of Annum. Share. --- -. Albion •••••••• •• - • • 81. 10s. 5 4 00 a o • 0 0 . 150Pais;. Price 4 0 . 86 Alliance Brit. and For. 71. 14 3.6d.ba.'100 0 0 11 0 0 22 Ditto Marine. •• •• • • 61. p.c.& ba. 100 0 0 25 0 0 41% 4tla.s. ••••••• - - • • • • • 138 . 6 d. 50 0 0 510 5 1 7 Th Argos Life •• • • • • • • 41. per cent. 100 0 0 16 0 0 British Commercial •• 7e. 60. 50 0 0 50 0 6% Clericl,Med.& Gen. Life spr ct.& WI. 100 0 0 10 0 0 25 41. 100 0 0 10 0 0 97 Crown •••••• „ „ „ .. 14a. 50 0 0 5 0 0 1614 Eagle E 4% per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 47 ug t.i 10s. 20 0 0 All paid. 12 - 5 0 0 ~6% G 1 Ibe PP 127 Guardian .... ••.•• • •• 51. per cent 1 0 0 0 0 45 o 0 5 h34 6t°YP General a ndea Life .. Law .• .. .i ..... . ... . . unperia , Ft ,. „.• • • 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 256 1 upertai Life -•••• •• 13s, 100 0 0 10 0 0 1914 ' Indemnity Marine.• • • 11.0. &he 100 0 0 20 0 0 49 Law Fire . .....• •• •• 2s. & 2s. bs. 100 0 0 210 0 354 Law 1ife.............- -•• •• - 100 0 0 10 0 0 46% Legal and General Life - sO 0 0 20 0 514 London Fire ........'°B , &bs. 25 0 0 12 10 0 - London Ship ...... •• 10s. & bs. 25 0 0 12 10 0 - idarine - ..... ...... 15s.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 1514 Med. Invlid&Gen.Life 4341. Per ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2% Monarch .....• •... .. - 5001 1 0 0 225. Gd •iational Lean Fund•• 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2% Palladium Lite 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 2% Phcenix - - 161 Professional Life • • 51. per cent. 6 5 0 010 0 153.0 d Provident Life •••••• •• 11. ss. $ bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 30 Rock Life.- --•• •• ss. 5 0 0 010 0 7% Royal Exchange . 6l. p.m & be. Stock. all 227 Sun Fire - 9P 213 Dim Life . • •• - 48 United Kingdom ...• 4/. p. ct. & b e . 20 0 0 4 0 0 4% Universal Life.... •• - 10% ct.& Us. 100 0 0 10 0 0 39% Victoria Life. 5l. per cnt. - 4 12 6 634 BRIDGES Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ----- - - ------- X. 8. d. X. s• g. Hungerford • • • • • • •• • • - - - - 6outhwrk --•• • • • • - 100 0 0 - - Ditto Nw of 7% p. c. 70s. per cent. 50 0 0 - 16 Waterloo -.•-•• •• • • - 100 0 0 - 3 Ditto Old Ann. of 81. 21. Bs. Od. - 60 0 0 24 1 4 Ditto Nw ditto 0f•.71. 21.28. Od. - 40 0 0 22 Vauxhall .... .• • Av. 21. 70 10 8 - 18% 1 1 , 72LT1E1N,M 170747 " Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ---- -- - --- X 3. d. A a. d. East London..• ••••• •• 81. per cnt. 100 0 0 - 155 Grand Junction •• •• •• 41. per cnt. 50 0 0 - 67 Kent.........• •• -•• 41. per mit. 100 0 0 - 80 Lambeth - 97 New River Company.. 21. 10s. - - 60 Southwark & Vauxhall 51. per cut. 100 0 0 - - West Middlesex •• •• •• ,61. Os, pr cut. - - 10234 DOWEJIN Dividend Amennt Name of Company. per of I Paid. Price. Annum. Share. -..-- ---- ------- .£ a. d. # I. d. Commercial .... -•• .. 42. pr cent. Stock. - 903% East and West India ...'6%1. pr cent. Stock. - 154 East Country -•••• •• .' 20s. per ah. 100 0 0 - - London ... •--•• • • •• 5/. pr cent. Stock. - 12139 Ditto Bonds.• •• .• •• 41. per cent. - - - 1 St. Katharine .... •• •• 334 per cent. Stock. - 82 Ditto Bonds- .... • • ,4%/. pr cent. - - - Southampton •• •• -•• 1 1/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 Ditto 80ndi........ Southampton ........ CANALS'S. 4 1 1 , .Q Dividend 4.) Names of e, ,Dividend Price. Names 01 ' r CoMpanies. .4 I per Companies. 2 \ An pe nura . Price " 4c ' --1 Annum. c --.---..... -- -- -- ..€ i Ashtn& Oldh 98 71. p. et.L 140 Macclesfield • 100 ' 21. 10s. 50 Barnsley.... 160 Neath •• •• • • 100\ 161. lilrknk&Abrg 150 51. Ea Oxford.. •• • • 100 , 1 3 • 13 5 Birmingham 40 41. Peak Forest. 7g 31. 18.. 10 Coventry..•• 100 251, 200 Regent's.... 88 11. 3s. 16% Derby ••• • • 100 61. 63 Rochdale.... 85 21. 42 Ellsmre&Chs 69 2% p. ct. 33% Ssmrset Coal 150 GrandJunctn 100 3/ pr.ct. 48 Do.LkFd St 12 :Do., 6 pr. Ct. 10 61. pr. ct. 1 44k Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 405 Grand Surrey 100 21. Os. 31% Shrewsbury.. 125 ,rand Union lOO 11. 10s. 24 Stoarbrldge.. 43 201. 290 Sennt& Avnl 39 4s. Od. 5% Severn and 1 ` Lancaster .1100 Wye Rail. t 26 21. Os. 2 4 Leeds& Livrp 100 201. 455 Warwick& 1 40 Leicester ...• i 100 51. 66 Ilirming. 1 100 4/ ' Leleotr &Nth 183 41. 44% warwickBs ] LoughboroBhl42 701. 510 : i W N B o r: ic:sintinng.&.. 100 31. 78 31. 33 28 sionmouthsh r 100 Nintr,4mrysh 100 5f altn M wbry , 100 Wilts & Brks , lls. 6d. 7% OAS-LIGHT AND CONN COMPANIES^ Dividend i Amount Name of Company. per I of PAM. Price. Annum. ; Share. 1 Z. a. d. X. s. 01 British •••••••• •• • • •• 11. '4O 0 0 18 0 0 10% Ditto Provincial- - U. 88. 20 0 0 20 0 0 IS Brighton ••••..•• • • • • 51. 20 0 0 - 15% City of London .. •• • • 61. 100 0 0 150 0 0 128 CorltinentalConsolidat. 503. 75 0 0 31 5 0 - F:ouitable ••••• - • • • • 509. 50 0 0 50 0 0 274 Great Central'...... • b& 0 0 0 10 0 0 135 imperial • • ...... •• •• 31. 50 0 0 50 0 0 66 Independent ....... - 61. 40 0 0 40 0 0 46 London- .... -•••• •• - 5 0 0 0 50 0 0 - Do., Parl. Preference 61. 25 0 0 710 0 - ehcenia .••.. • • 3al. per cent. 50 0 0 49 0 0 253( Ratcliff .. •• • 5l. 100 0 0 90 0 0 - United General ll. 50 0 0 50 0 0 1 6 3 4 Westminster Chartered 5;. per cent. 50 0 0 - 39% Ditto, New .... - 5:. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 754 LIST' or SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES ____________ __--- Dividend Amount same of Company. per of paid. Price. Annum. Share. 8. d. X s. Bank of Scotland British Linen Company 3/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 201 Caledonian Bank City of Glasgow Bank CI. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 Clydesdale Bank -• •• •• 54 per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 121 ss Corhmercial Bank •. •• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 180 Eastern Bank ••-•• •• 61. percent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 9% Edinb.kGlasgow Bank 31. per cent. s 0 0 5 0 0 3% Exehangeßnk of Scot.. - 1100 0 0 38 0 0 478 National Bank ' l% Per cent. 1 50 0 0 10 0 0 15% Notthof Scotlandßank 51. percent. 20 0 0 210 0 2% Royal Bank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 • 100 0 0 132 Union Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 85% Western Bank .• .• - - 71, per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 66 Alliance Fire and Life .1%2.pr cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 213(, British Guarantee Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 15 City of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 41. Is Colonial Life Edinburgh Life Incur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 1 21% Eng.& Scot, Law Life 51. percent. 50 0 0 217 6 1 3% Life Assoc. of Scotland 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 110 0 31. 15s National Fire and Life 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 o' i 275.6 d North British Timm •• 61. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 ' 31 Scottish Union Inernce. 7541. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 305.00 itandard Life United Dep.Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 20s Cd MISC ELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. X. E. d. X. s. 41. Assam Tea ••..•• • • • • - 20 0 0 20 0 0 7% &mutton M art •••• • • • • 21 . 5 3 , 50 0 0 - 264 tustrallan Azrictilturl 11 ' 100 o 0 35 0 0 16 % Australian Trust •• .. 6/. per cent. - 35 0 0 21 knglo-Mexican Mint II. 10e. 10 0 0 10 0 0 23% Ditto, Ralf Shares.. - - 210 0 - British American Land - 3 g 10 0 - Canada ... • • ........ 61. per cent. 100 0 10 0 49 Do. 5 per cent Bonds - - - 100 Dian, 6pr ct. Bonds 61. percent , - - 109., : City Navigation Bonds 31 per ce n t . - - 93% _8 0 i li _ 1 Gen. Revers. & Invest. 5 p.c.& b s , 2 / 100 0 0 100 0 0 94 Equitable Reversionry 51 pr. cent. Ditto Kew ........ 10 0 - fien.Steam Navigation 10 p. e t . 15 0 0 14 0 0 - Hudson's 8ay...... • • - St o ck. - 2 06 Hungertord ...... •• .. 21. ss. 100 0 0 47 _ 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 010 7 0 0 0 119 - London Institution .• • - - 78 15 0 5 New Zealand Company - Ditto, New ........ -. asset Institution.. - - 26 5 0 - 2 2 5 5 0 0 0 0 25 12 1 5 0 0 5 - - - Peninslr&Orient.Stm. 41. p, e. &In., 50 0 0, 50 0 0 73 devorsionary Int. Soc. 4541 , 0 0 0 101 rtoyal Mail Stearn•• .. IL p, s h am 1 00 0 0f 60 0 0 64% Bomb Australian .... • 11. pe r eila y - 2 5 0 0 25 0 0 24% Pr cent. , )00 ianDleman's Land.. 1 ..... e-h oe 0 20 00 p - . 0 0 ;10 THE S UPPOSED M URDER 'NEAR , B ARNSLEY. —O n Saturday an invest was op ene d before Thomas Lee, Esq., coroner of Wakefield, and a repect Smith, aged 23, and Emily Wood man Inn, Smithies, sear BarneleV. on the bodies of Annie able jury, at the Wood who.were found lying in Carltc n-lane, Smithies, on the with whom Annis previous Wednesday, with both the iir throats cut. The ha quiry lasted the whole of Saturday , a nd was adjourned to her info child, aged 10 months, Tuesday. The bodies having bee! .1 discovered under very suspicious circumstances, aman named James Gleadhill, twelve months, was taken • t mist nay on a charge of being concerned in the appaiiili i d n e o ed j Ifier a lengthened inves tigation (nineteen been examined), the witn g esses h . avi. qg jury brought in the following verdic ,t:—"The deceased, An- Smith' had been i cohabiting for the last found with their throats cut, and quite dead, on th morn ing of Wednesday, 24th March, but by whom the act was di me we have no evidence to :how." The prisoner G-1 leadhill, is under remand .---30ne James Emily Smith, were by the magistrates. ' OLD M AIDS AND BActiELoi ts. — ThP North Fri aisns are very unmerciful to peop l e w h o d on ' t marry. O re of their legends says, that after des th old maids are doomed to cut stars out of the sun when it has sunk below the horizon, and the ghosts of the old I Nichelors must blow them up in the east, running, like lamplighters, all night up and down a ladder...,Dichnes liouschc id Words. nfft:esszirily be j But those who build f bat wa can f i r !h-,t foor; the upprobln . :l ;,.' illus . (i;., 03, mug"`. c•:.re n best, so far s. t(lty go, and leave i tho,i finiA it. i' :sterity will not abk, Whit did it eustJ Builder. FATAL SHIPWRECK. On of tl!e 231 insiatit the ship Ear of 1., , ,;Ai0n, 430 toms regts.er, fr ,en Honduras to Q v,iti.sble ea:' o of wain struck ko., a suhlt,ot rock a Hale to eas'u; oi Ft!' creel Bay, Dun worley, and incatily b=n 4 wreck, when, rueiarch , :ly to relate, 15 out of 18 hsfid.; innircl wet wi"O water . ) , graves. It sees from what can be gathered from the survivor', hat tb was a head wind at. tau f arty hour that morning, which co pelted them to tack. end a dens , beg prevailing at ' same time prevented them seeing where they vir until the vessel, with the weight of 800 tuns co thumped with dreadful violence, and then speedily iv to pieces. As soon as the crew perc.-ived their d ger they all ran on deck, and were all collected o n poop, when a terrific sea caught the vessel and ho her right amidships, at the same time capsizlng poop and its living freight into the surge. , Al being kt ooked about amid the heavy baulks . mahogany aid the furious seas, three poor d r ippi halt-nak.d and sorely bruised sailors made their to a rock, from which they were cast back three four times by the angry waves, but at last they s ceeded in holding on (in one instance a poor fell had to catch the moss with his teeth) until sistance was procured, which was speedily rendered Messrs. Hawkes Leary, and Tresilian, of %1:0 worley, whose intimate knowl e d ge o f t h e coast soundings rendered their proffered aid invalua The coast guards from the Fileareel station is also promptly on the spot, and by means of haws , &c., the poor survivors were quickly rescued ft their perilous position. The vessel was complel smashed and her valuable cargo strewn over waters, but we are happy to say a great deal of mahogany (we believe 97 baulks) have been saved, , are now being salvaged ou Dun worley strand. The st paper also, and a large sum of mouey, have been re vered by Mr. John Heard_ ono tuuments connected with this melana catastrophe is one particularly remarkable. While b . ( ing out of the bay of Honduras some of the crew du vered something which excited their attention in water. Having put out a boat they discovered, mud their amaz:ment, a poor sailor lashed to a plank. T quickly put him on board, and having applied rests tives, they soon bad the satisfaction of seeing him ri ver. His story was a short one. He had been 5 1 wrecked, and lashed himself to a plank, in hopes escaping a watery grave. He did escape, but to a similar fate on the iron-bound coast of the solid Ireland.—Cork Examiner. RAILWAY ENTIILLIuENCE. LONDON AND SOU NI-WESTERN. The secretary of this company, Mr.ii.ll4rding, addressed a long letter to the chairman of the 4 Markets Improvement Committee on the advantage , establishing the proposed Metropolitan Cattle-ma near to the above company's line at Brentford. He st that the relative distances from St. Paul's as a cot point in the City to the different sites for the New tropolitan Cattle-market are—to Blackwell, 4i ai to Bow-common, 4 miles; Hornsey, 5f miles; Fiect 8 miles; Forest-gate, 6 miles; Oak-mientnon, 7 ra Brentford, 9i miles; Barnes, 7f miles; and Copenhel fields, 2f miles. In the event of the cattle-ms being placed at the proposed site at Brentford, • company would be prepared to lay down a short bri line of 300 yards in leegth, iu order to connect cattle-market by railway wi h the tideway ef the The and the*, at a pace free from the intlurince of the' but will webie reach of its agency when neeted; at Brentford being lucked off from the river : catle-rearket, if placed et the sire sue gested, wit tnenediately adjecelit to the Seuth• Weetern Bail including its Witidsor and other branches, and in itt diate communicati it with the whole narrow-g , railway system of England, also with the river Ths and with the Grand Junction Canal. That the Lot end South-Western Company will undertake run market trains at any hour of the night or which may suit the frequenters of the market, direr Brentford in 15 minutes. The present fares are,' double journey by the first class, Is. 6d., and by second class Is. Id. The company would make second-class double journey fare by these market fl Is. from the Waterloo station to the centre of the' k.t at Brentford. From the Waterloo station 4 ; Paul's or Farringdon-street is one mile; to Hunger' market half-a-mile; and to the steamers on the rive the Hungerford and Waterloo piers, about half-al After stating that 240 omnibuses each way commtiol with or near to the Waterloo station, he states the means of the North and South-Western Junction way and the new East and West India Dock line, t' will be from and to Brentford frequeet and •1 communication to Willesden, Acton, Camden-towot lington, Kingsland, Hackney, Stepney, Bow, and wall; and that 32 omnibuses also run daily from City to Brentford, the best of them doing the distan t 65 minutes. He maintains that no one of the other ! enumerated can present anything like equal eeeessw from London generally, and the City especially aier l Brentford. He then proceeds to show bow precise proposed site at Brentford meets the requiren3o7 ferred to by the Commis s i oners i n their report o f as essential to a new site for a cattle market. I ll ' elusion, Mr. H a rdi ng states that he is autbor i s' , say to the Mark e t s I mprovement Committee, 41351 company are able and willing to give every faciliti accommodation if the Metropolitan Cattle Mark o fixed at Brentford. RAILWAY SHARE MARKET ' BRISTOL, Ilancir 31. • ( 101 STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was little or nothing the share market to-day. The only sale reported " Bristol and Exeter, 9014. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 31. tiTOCR EXCHANGE.—The business to-day was pith' 'lilted, and prices had a downward tendency. The trap Lions were as follow : —Ambergate and East Junction dis.—Caledonian, 18 3 4—Eastern Counties, 9 3-16- 1 ) 8 shire and Yorkshire, 71 1 A i —Liverpool, Crosby, and port, 19 ;: f : 1 ••". Midland, 64—North British, 8 5-16 - Eastern and Dover, 2144—Great Southern and Western, ference, 37. MANCHESTER, MARCH 31. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market opened 11 _, e1 this morning, but afterwards improved, and a fair e! of business was done at better prices. The transw were as follow—Blackburn ( No. 1), 5 1 *—Caledonian' —Eastern Counties, 9 5-16—Lancashire and Yorkshire , —Ditto, '2O/. F, 1 dis.—West Riding Union, 06 dis! ham Alliance, 29 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 22•'", Anglian, 7 per cent., 2 7-16—London and N or th-W' New Quarters, 5 p.— Manchester and Birminghael . Quarters, 2 1-16 p —Manchester, Sheffield, and I , i . , " 41 shire, .i4—Ditto (No. 1), 11 1 ,11—Ditto, Preference, ", Ditto, New Preference, 11-16 p. ---Edinburgh and Glasr c.—York and North Midland, 25. THE C,OUNTRY r,VIARKETS NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, MARCH F:o. SUP! beasts 724 head. Trade brisk at 3d per stone on last all sold. Number of sheep, 4,380; the better q ua litie!, making last week's prices, but trade was slow, and Pt, mained on hand. Pricer—Beef, 4s Od to 5s 6d pet r sheep, 4/c1 to 6d per lb ; lambs, 7d to Bd. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET. MARCH 30.—There f r the meal market to-day 8 sacks oatmeal, ea c h ve e p 2801bs. imperial, whereof 6 sold thus at 33s 00/_, 32s 6d, 3at 32s Od, and 1 at 31s 6d; average price r whole 11 12s Od 10-12ths. 5 sacks pot-barley, whiCo thus: —1 at 32s 6d, 1 at 31s, 1 at 28s, and 2 at 27s tid. EDINBURGH HAT AND STRAW MARKET, MAAckt v Oat straw, from 8s Od to 9s 6d per kemple of 16 stone ! , wheat ditto, Sc 6d to 9s 6d ; barley ditto, 78 Od to Hay, from 9d to 11 d per stone. . DALKEITH MEAL MARKET, M ARCH 29. Therl v, in an d the of market p o t barley to-day ; 3 4 sales bags rea d o f oatmeal, 18 o f b a rle y and Oatmeal th e sam e r i week ; barleymeal sold at about previous rates; parr unsold. Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second t i imperial •• ••• 31s Od 30s Od 2' Barleymeal, per ditto Peasemeal ... 23s Od 22s 31 .." 1 —s Od ... —3 Od —e Od .e. Od. od ) 1 . F p l o o t u i r mit;, s COAL MARKET. .....-yff.srxßDAY. ~ Prices of Coal per ton at the close of the market . 0 Carr's Hartle y•••• 12s 9d l Pensher .- ............... . 0 Chester Main l2s 6d l ßussell's Hetton ...... !g. 0 3 :I, N c, r t II llart ie p poo 1 ....... .. .. s i Dean's Pritnros.e. .... il 'South Hartlepool Holywell Howard's W. H. Neth 12 e.... • i 4: 12s 9d Seymour Tees .. - 1 234 rantield Moor Butes... r i anfield Moor ....... 11.1113224iesses Od South i SH o teee u luwi : g h aehr K til' e s .4 1 . 1 1 0 :1: .. .. .: I t l i 41v4; ; I Whitworth Wall's End, Aso. 10 1 13s OdlTee Gosforth ...- 12s 6ctVireSt Cornforth .... .. ,§ 1 14 2: 0 6 d d , BWirocohdgh.oGusreaiCg.lo(sehp.d... s •iv ' s iseHl I : b r t b o u n r n ..........................: i 9 Northumberland L a mbton Primrose Braddyll Elettou Walker iii . n ...... .. .. ... .. ............ Lambton Ships at market, 83 ...... Sold, 56. BIRTHS. On the 28th u lt., a t F A 80N. Upper Berkeley-st ree t, Poi t° square, the wife of A. Henriques, Esq. On the 28th ult., at Cleve -grange, Kingston-on-TO Surrey, the wife of W. M. Cochrane, Esq. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 29th ult., at Lawshall Rectory, Suffolk, the 10 the Rev. Evan Bailiie. On the 27th ult., at Whatcroft4all, Che s hi re , the - William Maxwell , Esq., of DalAaitth, Scotland. MARRIED. On the 30th ult., at St. Mary Abbot's, Kensington, Cti D i youngest son of Professor Cowper, of King's Colleges a don, and K ens i ngton - park-villas, to Isabel Agnes, yo d ij daughter of J. Thompson, Esq., of Campden-hill, Kenn' On .the 30th u l t., at Hampstead, Middlesex, Gribble, jun., Esq ,of Lombard-street, and Weshourne - P , road, to M argaret, eldest daughter of E. Toiler, EVP DIED. On the 24th ult., at Malmesibury, Wilts, aged 58, the William Flel cher. vicar of Harwell, Berke. rat On the 25 t h u l t., at L eam i ngton, aged 75, Margare t" of the late J. Hanhury, Esq. fa On the 27th u l t ., at Cheltenh am , R o b ert I ng li s, Bgi • ' merly of Canton, aged 58. On the 29th ult., at Brighton, Eliza, widow of Montague, Esq ll te On the Rothnit. at Tiathie , i Distort. Sorrey, Harriet , of die late 13. Gitmet,, 4.-L,i4Ltu i'uuLslit, AIUItDO iit it No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the cos' — Middlesex. Thursday ? April 1 102.