The Sun. — London, England, 1846-02-17 00:00:00

nquires to 198 families. We are utterly unable to describe the ex tent to which the destruction has gone on in this part of the country. Many families who have planted sufficient for their ordinary wants, including a portion for seed, have not had a potato for the last month. This is the month of February, and it will be at least five months be fore we can receive any supply in the ordinary natural course. Other families have lost nearly all, and the stock still remaining is totally unfit for human food ; in fact they are a mass perfectly disgusting to look at. We have examined many, but the results are always the same-there are no potatoes remaining in the country." These are letters received by me during the last two days. There is another from the county of Waterford, written by Lord Stuart Decies. "Your Excellency will find the announcement of the alarming fact, that in two districts of the union there are at this early period of the year no less than 300 persons whose stocks of provisions are on the point of becoming extinct, and the disease is making great ravages among the potatoes. Those persons have no hope but from parish assistance. It was the general impression in the district, that a rise in the price of all kinds of grain would take place before the spring, and that although foreign supplies were hail even now, they would be far short of meeting the evils of the case ; unless the Government, as far as the interests of Waterford and the surrounding country was con cerned, established corn stores where the people might be supplied at wholesale prices. The writer was of opinion that in Yougl'al, Waterford, Clonmel, and other towns in that part of Ireland, the establishment of these stores would be of the greatest benefit and could be easily kept open, as there was an adequate military force in them all for their protection. The next letter I hold in my hand (continued the Right Hon. Baronet) is from the county of Kerry, and is dated the 9th of February. The gen tleman who writes it was Sir Thomas Dillou, a gentleman whose statement was estitlei to the greatest respect. The Right, Hon. Baronet then read an extract, to the effect that very set tense ravages had been made in the potato crop by the prevailing disease. Ile (Ste Thomas Dillon) had gone round the district during the last ten days, and he had had every opportunity iof hearing and witnessing the destruction which h ad been made i hr t te le potato crop ; the disease was gaining ground rap idl y , and exe tde the greatest alarm among all classes, as to how t he p eople were get a supply of food. The House (resumed t he Right Hon. Baronet) to mt. will recollect that some time ago a Commission W as appointed in Dublin, and to carry out an inquiry as to the extent of the p°tatotel disease in different parts of the country ; that Commission has t ia lre y . made its report, and this official report em b race s every parto the land, or I may say every electoral district of that country, w tt i ie l exception of 99. From all these distr icts, with tieo e thy x e ,e i reveal ? have named, returns have been made. And what d i I find in four electoral districts the loss on We potato crop has been not less than nine - tenths of all the produce. That out of ninety-three electoral districts the loss has been not less than from seven-tenths to eight-tenths. In 125 electoral districts the loss is seven-tenths on the whole crop. In 16 electoral districts the failure is six-tenths. In 596 electoral districts about one-half of the crop has been destroyed, and In 582 electoral districts the loss has been four-tenths in the amount of the produce. These are the returns made to us, and acting on its dates and the re commendations we have received, the Government has deeided on the establishment of stores of corn-( Loud cheers)-to be sold at low prices, or given in remuneration for labour.-(Renewed cheers.) But though we might establish stores sad receive supplies of foreign grain, to get potato seed from foreign countries was next to impos sible. One-eighth of all the potato crop was required for seed for the ensuing year. An acre of land required a ton, or at least three quarters of a ton of potatoes for seed, so that at this rate it would require a supply which cannot be had from any part of Europe. To reselve a apply in that manner is almost impossible. It is therefore necessary that we should look to save a supply of seed from the present crop for the ensuing year.-(llear.) But to do this it is necessary to encourage saving from the pi esent crop by the substitution of other supplies of food.-(Hear, hear.) Unless this is done the danger of the coming year may be forgotten by the people. The Government must endeavour to prevent famine and at the same time to preserve a - stock of potato-seed for the next year by substi tuting other articles of provisions under wise arrangements, taking potato seed in exchange.-(Hear, hear, and cheers) If we asked you forlarge votes of public money, or were we to recommend ap peals to Roman Catholics or to the Established Church fsr charitable assistance in order to meet the case -if we asked you for a vote of from 200,000/. to 300,0001.-how could we stand before you while at the same time we maintained the duty on corn?-(Cheers.) Such a proceeding on the part of the Government I tun sure would not have been tolerated by the House.- (Hear, hear.) How could I have blinked the statement that in Ireland, in 586 electoral districts, seven-tenths of the potato crop were destroyed, in 600 more the crop half gone, and in some the crop eight-tenths destroyed, and yet have maintained the corn-laws inviolate? Under these circumstances, supposing the persons anxious to keeep up the present system, I do not believe that the conduct , of the landed aristocracy would warrant the Government in not proposing that the corn-laws be repealed.-(Hear, hear.) Fidelity to the landed interest leads me to that supposition. I would relieve you of the odium of supposing you would maintain the duty on cern in the face of such a state of things. In Holland and in Belgium steps had been taken at an early period to provide for the coming !scarcity. The Belgium Executive Government had taken the pre caution of opening the ports. The Government of Holland at the beginning of the season, by an order, re pealed the duty on foreign cons, anti the Legislative Chambers of that country immediately on meeting (though Belgium is an agricu ltural country), unanimously indemnified the Government for what they had done. The report which I have brought before your consideration shows that the state of Ireland is worse than any of those countries; under such circutn stances then what course was opea for us to propose to the Par liament of England, interested though it was in agriculture? What, but to appear before you, and ask you to support a similar remedy? In every view of the case nothing remained for us but to propose a repeal of the duty on corn.-(Loud cries of " Hear, hear," and cheers.) I come to that part of the question now-I rejoice in that cheer-I look upon it as an unanimous assent, or at least an appa rently unanimous assent to the course I have proposed.-(No, no, from the Conservative benches.) If not, I recognise it at least as a very general assent to the policy of a free importation of food to meet the wants of the people.-(Hear, hear.) If so, I ask you to expedite the passing of those Bills the Government has introduced, so as to enable us to meet the difficulties of the country by every means, by deciding that the duty on every article of provision shall henceforth cease.-(Cheers.) I am only asking you to do that which has been done in other countries, and if I did not do so, I should be chargeable with that unfaithfulness and treachery to the interests of the country and your Interests, which you have so often charged me with. A great deal had been said about my treachery to the cause of pro tection, about my flinging protection overboard ; and a great deal had been said about rousing the British Lion-(Loud laughter)-in mahitenanoe of the corn-laws,-(hear, hear.) To all this I can only say I have been guided solely by a sincere desire to advance the best interests of the country, having not only the interests of the many of the people, but also the landed interests steadily in view. If such a measure had not been proposed, would it have been stipulated that no objection would have been made to the present duty ; that maize, and oats, and barley, should not have been admitted duty free, and that wheat would have been maintained at 17s. per quarter? In 1765 there was an ap prehension of famine, and the very first net of the House was, I think, a foolish one-they preserved a duty, but by the second act they admitted the importation of foreign corn duty free. We also were apprehensive of famine, and we determined to admit corn duty free. In 1791 the old law was abolished and a new corn-law was established. In 1793 there were apprehensions of a second famine, and notwithstanding the new corn-law the first act on the statute book was to remove all duty on the importation of foreign corn. In 1795 there were again apprehensions of farniue, not ro severe as we have now reason to dread, but measures were taken to meet it. In 1796 the same remedy was applied, namely the removal of all duties on foreign corn. In 1799 the same coarse was again pursued, and with these precedents before us, would it be wise for Government to pursue a different course than that whirls was then pursued? Would it be wise to determine en the maintenance of protection? If Govern ment maintained the law as at present enforced, I will ask what de gree of odium would attach to us if we were doing so ? Could we offer any defence for our measures ? It would be impossible. It was on the very same grounds that Government had universally acted in every period, not only when corn was at a 100 s. or 80s. a quartele but whets it was only 60s. The remedy was then, as now, to open the ports. Let It he remembered that there was then no other re medy; there was no sliding-scale than. When corn was 645., foreign grain was admitted at a duty of Gd. Now, why did Parliament interfere then ? It was in order to give a guarantee that a high duty should not attach to any sudden importation. Well, under these circumstances, I advised, as did three of my colleagues, an immediate suspension of the law. But you ask, what is it you recommend now ?-by your measure the law is not merely suspended. It would be disreputable towards Par liament to recommend a suspension. It would be impossible to do it. It Is not in the power of the Crown now to do that which I Invited you at one time to do. But it may be true that the most fitting time has passed away-that may, indeed, be true. It may be true that when we were first informed of the progress of the evil it woule have teen the better time to avert it. But admitting the necessity for doing so by an order in Council in December, is it not a greater reason-is it not an increased reason-why it should be done ou the 16th of February ?-(Cries of " Hear, hear," and great cheering.) True, the supply might have been greater then, but we have six months yet to come. But you may cetne to this ; you may say maintain the existing law, and make some other provision by in creased facilities for supplying the country. If, therefore, on account of this temporal and unforseen necessity, we are obliged to refer to precedents, they are in our favour. Reason argues that we should suspend tile existing law, but it may be said, suspend the existing law for six mouths. What are you then to do? This is a question which any man, having to examine the subject, would be required to consider. But our conviction is strong, that it is utterly impos sible, after establishing perfect freedom of importation for the pe riod of eight months to permit the corn-laws to come into operation at the end of that period. I repeat that my conviction is perfectly strong that such a course would be impracticable. But you say further, give us a temporary suspension, but give us a guarantee that at the end of eight months the present corn-laws shall be re. newed. I say it is impossible to do so. It is an utter misrepresen tation of the state of public feeling to suppose it to be probable, that after this country for the period of eight months should have tasted freedom from all duties on the importation of Mod, for Government to renew those restrictions, either by its own principles or by the enactments of foregone statutes. When you refused the admission of maize in the course of last Session it was a matter of consideration to my colleagues and myself, whether we should at once suspend the law or rather bring some modified measure. I ad mit that some of you were of opinion that maize should be admitted, but that protection should be kept up upon other things. Do not disregard public opinion on those things --do not slight that feeling-for, depend upon it, that when a question tot* the , character is involved, public feeling cannot be disregarded. By the present corn-law, the ditty on maize varies with the duty on corn. It was desirable to admit maize free of duty, but as the prices of corn rose the price of maize rose also. Yet it is remarkable that in the last sessioir of Parliament it was proposed by some of you that maize should be Imported duty free, because it was desirable to have it fur the feeding of cattle. You think it advisable not to recommend the repeal of the cons-laws, and yet you admit the principle that maize should come in, because such admission will be for the benefit of the farmer in the feeding of his cattle. But you forget that there are other articles necessary for hman sustenance, upon which you say protected duties ought to be maintained. What do you advise us now ? I may assume that it is necessary now that this law should be sus pended. I will assume it is suspended. Would you deliberately advise us, to give you on the ground of any public or private necessity, a , guarantee that the corn-law, at the expiration of eight months should be renewed. Do you not feel that the fact of the suspension would constitute a new element in the consideration of things ; that the fact of the suspension would give tenfold energy to the agitation at present existing. Would you invite us to fight the battle? What is the state of the feeling you invite us to oppose, by asking us to grant this renewal ? I ask you to look to the public expression, and of the sincerity of which Honourable Members have given ample proof. Did the Noble Lord, the Member for Ik , esetehire, vacate his scat front any unnecessary motive ? - eMr. Stunt, did Mr. Wilson Patten avow their change ot opinion from eny dishonest motive ?-(Cheers.) Did Mr. Egerton, the et ' other theamnber for Cheshire-did Lord Henniker entertain any time wary e a real change of opinion, and a real conviction that the House ,mr. eine for a settlement? Did that young Member of this ever anmmt e ,A la t rteris, who has shown as highs and noble a spirit as great acuteness he breast of an English gentleman, combined with abandon his se Z ith great promise of excellence-did Mr. Charters rupt motives? _ ti M r . D owney oioucestershire from any dishonourable or con mon., ? ni why, e y resign his seat through corrupt who had undertaken not these conclusive proofs that that Minister laws would have had a n t r ,:neeension, to guarantee the existing corn let us take the cour t or the difficulties to contend with ? But, stens, the expressions or o;l°,l),r:seat debate- let us take the admis -01, the n of Mote who have been the loudest in their condemnation _le.i‘vernment. The first instance is the Filember for Ilantinge mi corn-law. • time is just urprisod at some of the op e i f ni t i e W e oat r it s t . a ) ine W it e h l y i, e co i li o fe n s . s ci th ,n a t t le l n ev ta as ii with respect to the policy of the ex's the Hon. Gentleman follow me in a el e r ,t ne nt• - (Cheers.) Will that rrom that, the IlOn. Gentle after suspension?-(Heat, hear.) g o e e ar —e man thinks that this is just the time That means a m tine corn-law att ng a cetomgp:oarmanisteeewtiltlle; respect to the corn-laws. abandon me if, after suspension, I should urcier if ever there s et y He would existing corn-laws. That is quite clear. Berta kc arrived fora compromise. Why, Moment for a compromise this is It.-(Cheers.) x%vhaart is t mifortunate ing of a compromise but a new corn-law ? And what i the me4n for the maintenance of that ?-(Opposition cheers.) Whats touts security security? What says every Hon. Gentleman who has appeaueleedi he the part of the agriculturists ? Why it is this- , What we agr i esn e a ls t l l7 wish is permanence a s to corn." Well then, can any on e who thinly the agricultural interests will be promoted by a permanent syst em of corn-laws advise a Mere alteration of the corn-laws to take effect tiger a period of suspension ? I am now considering that question • and it would be impossible for a prudent man, after suspension, having the responsibility of Government, to advise the continuance of the corn-laws. What would b e the state of parties ? I will only take the loudest and most vigorous advocates for protection. Now, I am truly convinced that it would he impossible to restore the corn• laws after a suspension. What sa y s the Hon. Member for Rox burghshire ?-(Cheers.) He was the loudest in his denunciation. The Hon. 3lember for Roxburghshire has a curious notion of the relations between the country and its Ministers--and the Ministers the Sovereign. The lion. Gentleman likens me to a hired advocate - a particular counsel who had thrown up his brief. Perhaps the Hon. Gentleman is net aware that the Minister takes an oath, and that constitutes the material difference between his position and that of an advocate. The Minister takes an oath that in all matters to be debated and ells? cuseed In Council he will truly and unreservedly deliver his opinion according to his heart and conscience -(Hear)-and I apprehend that that obligation constitutes a material difference between his position and that of an a d voca t e .-( L ou d c h eers .) I w ill as k the Hon. Gen lnanwho says he stands here to advocate the old corn-law, and that b I had made a terrible breach in 1842, but that I was bound, at any rate, for considerations • of consistency and honour, to maintain the corn -law of 184 lion. Gentleman 2-I will ask what was the admission which the said, „ must made before lie got to the close of his speech ? He three years, th ad ee mit that in my own county, within the last in the roads- have l been such improvements made such facilities fo r th Pro tt e rructions of science, and indeed is that the time is come i g cheap corn, that my opinion feted."- Loud Opposition Whencheers.) the present corn-law should be al tieman, e whom are you ee e e e n rs.) Well, I said to tleman was perfect sel for ?" Of ly i ndignant at being the Hon. (sen course, the Hon. Gen for any one, and he claimed for himself that motive t° be an advocate =enact - lands Clootz-he was the Attorney -G eneral which animated race.-(Cheers and laughter.) Both the Me ener4 r'r lime human Mber ai were counsel, and when I toted him for wievus he id the Minister 4.3 emend, the TIIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARN 17, 1846.1 Hon. Gentleman said, " Counsel ! That is an imputation on my honour. lam counsel for the agriculturists—l am counsel for the commercial interest—l am counsel for the whole country—l am coun sel for humanity."—(Loud cheers and laughter.) All I claim is to be counsel for all the great interests of the country. have obliga tions superior to any which party engagements impose—namely, to give that advice which is repaired of me according to my heart and conscience, and which I believe to be the best for the country."— (Cheers.) Well, then, there is the Member for Newcastie-under- Lyne. He informs me that hereafter, and for ever he must with draw his confidence from me, and on this ground, that I establish no gi eat principle in respect to the corn-laws. Ido not know whether the Hoe. Gentleman has shared in my mis fortune, and read the pamphlet of John Colquhoun.—(Great laughter.) I n 11l now refer, with greatresPect, to a Noble Lord who has not yet spoken. I mean the Noble Member for Newark.-- (Hear.) But would it be possible for the Government to rely on his support if they had taken the course of adopting a new and modified system of corn-laws ?—(liear, hear.) I know not what course he will take with respect to this measure, for though be says he is in favour of a repeal of the corn-laws, yet he thinks that the present Parliament is not the one to enact it. Surely that is no satisfactory reason.—(llear.) The Hon. Member for Maidstone said he would not ask whether the measure was right or wrong, but that he would quote extracts from my speeches to show that I was not con sistent. Sir, .the question for the country is this—is the measure right or wrong? If it be right and necessary I call on you to pass it; if it . be wrong, then withdraw your confidence from the Government. —(Cheering.) You cannot justify an adverse vote If you believe that we are right.—(Cheers.) The lion. Member I t illuGimbeuectenierit":el.meoomucirotatuinertd shall s. for Huntingdon is in favour of the continuation of the present measure ; and be further gave me notice that henceforth I cannot calculate on him as a supporter. I implore of hint to visit all consequences on the Ministry which he may think we merit, but not to injure the measure we now o ff er to the country.—(llear, hear.) if you believe the measure to be necessary, pass it at tile resisted a I sofg l t teertadet touch.—(Cheers ec h elh e a.w. a si r t Hs . ycemenhla i r t ee t t s l uta i ah e svneltdt course clinnaet um tgalaiitoni laughter) f eui dr i sr a au) s cius t t e sujiiiiroeoeoal manufactures, present crisis ; but take any opportunity that may o ff er for punish ing the greasebglground proposed, de w s ihejodou Grease said he, though grease may be introduced for the benefit of maanfac: tares, yet I doubt the vigilance of the Custom-house officers, and some persons may introduce and use the grease intended for manu factures as butter. Ido assure the Hon. Gentleman that It is rather hard to devolve upon me the duty of defending protection, after such meantres as that ; and I do not believe that the Hon. Gentleman, by taking this stand upon grease—(Laughter)—did so much injury to the cause of free trade as to the cause of protection.--(Cheers ) Mr. MILES—I merely stopped the, discussion in order that it migh' go on the next day. I was not present at the division. • Sir ROBERT PEEL—I think the Hon. Gentleman has shown his qualification for the past of leader, by the discretion which he used in being absent from the division.—(A laugh.) New with regard to cattle and meat, the Hon. Member opposed the introdectlon of foreign cattle, because he said it would tend to reduce the price of home produce, but the fact is the price has increased rather than decreased, and yet the Hon. Gentleman voted for the corn-law of 1841, but strenuously opposed the admission of foreign cattle.—(Hear, hear) And what is it the Hon. Gentleman does now ? Why, while exulting in having opposed the prohibitory duties imposed on the admission of foreign cattle into this conutry, he says, in the year 1843, we suffered severely from a. defectivesupply of meat, and in the course of the last six months he says the quantity of sheep brought to Smithfield has been 250,000 less than in the half-year pre ceding—that the average weekly supply of sheep in the London markets is 16,f00 less, and that the cattle bought in Smithfield in consequence of deficient food weighed from 7 to 10 lbs. less than in former years, and were extremely' lean and ill favoured.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) Now, in the course of the last six months this deficiency of 250,000 sheep had been supplied from abroad, and with this fact staring in the face ought be not to regret having opposed the carrying out of this anti-protective principle.—(Hear, hear.) But how does he think it is now possible for him or me to maintain that law, when from diseases and defective fodder we are often compelled to go abroad for our supplies.—(Hear, hear.) Was It not a strong fact against the motion which the Hon. Member brought forward some time ago to restrict the importation of fo reign cattle, that from the defective food produced by the land of this county, 250,000 head of sheep were prevented Rom coining into the English market? Did this not show that it was against the interest of the landowner to restrict the free importation of wholesome and healthy fodder? Mr. MILES—My motion was not to prevent the importation of grain. My motion relative to cattle was to tax cattle by the weight, and not by the head. Sir R. PEEL—Whatever the motion of the Hen. Member might have been, his words were that he was disappointed with the work ing of the corn-law, and he wished to Impose a further restriction on the importation of cattle.—(Hear, bear.) Now the Hon. Gentleman must excuse me if I refer to flax? And what do we learn from the history of flax ? When there was a duty of 101 per ten upon the im portation of flax, there was a certain parish in the county of Somerset which grew flax, and let us take that parish for drawing our compa risons. In the parish of Chiselborough there were 100 acres of land devoted to flax, and the Hon. Gentleman says the growth of flax on that land was abandoned in consequence of the withdrawal of protection. Now, I wk. the Hon. Gentleman at what period was that ? Mr. MILES—At the removal of the last duty. Sir ROBERT PEEL—WeII, then, the last removal of the last duty was only 2s. per cent. ; the higher duty on flax having been removed in 1824. The duty upon foreign flax in 1821 was 101. per ton. It was reduced in 1824 to the nominal duty of 25. per cent., and in 1812 it was removed altogether. Now, by the removal of this duty you say 100 acres of land in the parish of Chisleborough were thrown out of cultivation, and that is what you call withdrawing protection from native industry. But let us see what has taken place in other parts of this great empire, in consequence of this withdrawal of protection of native industry. You will find that the growth of flax in Ireland has become a very flourishing trade since the with drawal of protection. Some Honourable Members are very fond of taking particular localities, and saying, what has been the consequence of your policy here; and the Hon. Member for Somersetshire had done the same to Chisellsorough, but let us look at Ireland and see what has taken place there. What has been the consequence of the withdrawal of protection in that country where manufactures were very much restricted, why you will find that the growth of flax is mach more profitable than wheat. F.ax without protection affords a better return than wheat with It ; so much for agricultnre.—(flear, hear.) Now what has become of the manufactures in Ireland since the withdrawal of protection. Previous to the withdrawal of protection the importation of cambric Into this country from Ireland was as 6,000 to 1,000 from France, New, since the withdrawal of-protection, has there been any increase or not? In the year before the withdrawal of protection, the num bers were 10,000 French, 110,000 Irish. In the next four years the increase of the Irish importations in London was 300,000. In the next four years from 1838 to 1842, 400,000. And what said the great manufacturers of cambric, in London, who waited on me the other day, when they said ten years since three-fourths of the cambric handkerchiefs Introduced into the London market, came from France and four from Ireland ? Since the reduction of the duty, they state that three-fourths come . from Ireland, and the remaining fourth from France.—(Cheers,) Then, whatever that parish of Chiselberough may have suffered in consequence of this alteration, the culture of flax in Ireland has prospered, and the linen manufacture in that country has long had a degree of prosperity which its most sanguine friends could hardly have expected.—(Cheers.) Well, now, will you restore this duty upon flax ? (Hear.) This debate has chiefly turned en the corn-laws; but it is not necessarily a corn-law debate.—(Hear, hear.) I pro ' pose that we should go into a Committee of the whole House for the purpose of considering the principles of our commercial policy— (Hear, hear)—and no doubt the corn-law will come before that Com mittee. But it is perfectly open to you to reject the measure for the cern-law and yet to consent to these measures. Sir, so much has been said on the subject of the corn-laws that I cannot pass it by. Her Majesty's Government have proposed, after the lapse of three years, that the duties upon corn should be repealed, or at Mast re duced to a nominal duty. I proposed that measure on the part of the Government from a sincere belief that it would be more ac ceptable than any other to the agricultural interest. I proposed it from a belief, not merely that It would be more accptable to them, hut that they would prefer it to immediate repeal. We combined with the measure of the cern• laws—we combined, I say, for en couragement in the improvement of land by advancing money for the purposes of such improvement.—(Cheers.) I certainly thought it would be more probable that with respect to many parts of this country we should be in a much better position to compete with foreigners if the corn-law repeal were postponed to the end of the next three years. I thought there would be more opportunity for arrangements between landlord and tenant.--(Cheers.) But, above all, we seriously considered what could be done with respect to drainage, and what advantage could be taken of that proposal of the Government. I certainly also thought that the consideration that Canada has at present, the advantage of a repeal in the admission of her corn compared with the corn of foreigners—l thought that it would be much mere like to be acceptable to Canada and more for the interests of Canada, and that some time should elapse before their corn came into competition.—(Hear, hear.) It was for that purpose bona fide, and believing the ar rangement upon the whole much better, believing also that it would be more for the advantage of the agriculturists, that on the part of her Majesty's Government I make that proposal. Believing it to be the best, it is my intention to adhere to it —(Loud cheers)—that is to say, it is my intention to propose it--(Cheers)—and to use all the means—the legitimate means I can, for the purpose of giving effect to it. But it was intimated the other night by the Hon. Gentleman, the Member for Suffolk, that he greatly preferred (speaking en the part of the agricultural body) that he greatly preferred immediate repeal to the measure wtich I have proposed. —(Protectionist cheers.) And when he uttered that sentiment he turned round to his friends, and it received apparently their general concurrence.—(Cheers.) Now, as I stated before, it is the inten tion of the Government to adhere to their proposition.—(Cheers.) They have stated the reason why they propose it, and why they are Inclined to prefer it.—Considering the advantage of the oppor tunity that there will be afforded for an improvement of the land. But I stated this, that if the agricultural body are not of opinion that it is for their advantage—(Protectionist cheers)—and if they think that immediate repeal will tee preferable to the deferred repeal —(Great cheers and laughter on the Opposition benches)—and if they place the in the minority, then the only consideration that I shall bear in mind will be this—What course can I best take to give effect to the law as amended upon your instance ?—(Loud and re peated Opposition cheers, and laughter.) I will do all that I can to carry thy; proposition of the Government.—(Cheers.) I prefer it, and I will persist in believing it to be favourable to the 4ricultural interest. I do not say what course—speaking for myself I am to pursue. My opinion with respect to the final adjust ment of the corn-laws will remain unaltered, and I shall decidedly prefer immediate repeal to the confusion of the country.—(Cheers.) Sir, it is right carefully to consider what course we should pursue on this question. This I do believe, that the final adjustment of this question has become paramount to all other questions.— (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Now, Sir, I was asked in the course of this discussion what price I calculated for corn in the year after the proposed repeal.—(Hear, hear.) I thought it, too, natural to say that it would be very difficult for me to give a positive answer to that question—that I thought the price of corn must be affected by seasons, and by other considerations, and that therefore I could not undertake to give an answer, and I am afraid that past .experienee induced me to avoid giving any guarantee to any price whatever.— (Laughter, and cries of "Oh, oh.") But this I will say, that I think nothing can be more ruinous than to suppose that the interests of agriculture are necessarily and intimately connected with the price of wheat.—(Cheers.) Now I will own that I do not anticipate that when the Hon. Gentleman talks of countless miles that are ready to be cultivated, I will only ask the Hon. Gentleman to consider that in Germany there has long been a free trade, and that corn from Bgypt and Odessa is plentifully admitted, subject to a nominal duty. The price of corn is dependent upon Its quality. Corn brought to Malta from Egypt and Odessa, bears what is there called a fair price of 31s. per quarter. It is stated that the same corn will bear a price of 10s. less in the markets of England, on account of its infe riority ; and, therefore, it is impossible to draw an inference from the merely nominal price of corn, or to ascertain the real value which should be fixed upon that article. I entertain the hope that a re duction in the price will be caused by a more extended importation. What I want to show, however, is this, that agricultural prosperity is not necessarily connected with the prices of wheat. It is ad mitted upon all hands that there never was a time when science has been so much applied to agriculture, or the cost of production so much reduced as for the last three or four years. Now what has been the prices of wheat? We shall see that it has a natural tendency to decline in price.—(Hear, hear.) Now we will just take the decennial period commencing with the year 1805. In 1805, the price of wheat was 81s. 24. ; 1815, 975, fid. ; 1825,785. id. ; 1835, 565, 74. ; 1340, 575. 1 Id. And during the last four years, which have been years of great improvement in agriculture, the price has been only 51s. 10d. So that the price ef wheat has fallen from 975. fid. to the comparatively small price of 515. 10d., and yet It is generally admitted that persons employed in agriculture are in a state of greater prosperity than at any period before. And if there should be a still further reduction in prices it will be the result of scientific Improvements. The price of wheat, therefore, cannot be taken as a criterion of agricultural pros perity. There is another circumstance to which I will also allude. The rental of land. As taken from the returns made to this House, makes the gross rental of land in England, in the year 1815, the sum of 32,500,0001.—the price of wheat for the five years ending 1815 was 102 c. 2d. Now, this is very remarkable, for in the five years ending In 1842 the price of wheat had fallen to 625. 7d., and the toss rental of England had increased to 37,000,0001., so that, coin cident with pri c e has been the increase of rental.—(H ear , h ear .) N ow, I am perfectly ready to admit the benefit which you might claim with reference to the difference of currency ; but, remember that if must and still it reduction, You take 10 per cent off the price of wheat (102 s. 2d.), you also take wit 10 prosperity . Hon. Merriblirlir; were the a per cent:off the amount of rental ( 32,000,0001.) audislieave no question but that concurrent with the great t there has been a great increase of agricultural hear.) New I must refer to the speech of the arguments Northampton (Stafford O'Brien). Nov, what after these corn -laws sh:l ( l l°Pted? " Now (says the Hon. Member) to his landlord and he will have landlord, " I cannot afrorP hitherto—the bones of my forefather churchyard of this ancient of quitting the residence of Passed, the tenant fanner will come t t o h r ay a t tl e r e s s a s in h e i m r . c n tH,ethwi which l Is haveay t to the aid my ancestors, painful for me to think parish—it:l 8 have been collected I" the fathers, and the home of my family, and att:setteihn;iyochurch of my fore fathers, Memberttl i i , e , p t a e t . h t al e , i t l i nt c tone place." And it will be rememberedconscq..., nfo.rctiettliteuieninaaustrmanadges a great impression on the House in in which the seech was delivered. The 11e%! posed that the and ,,3i l y or a d eed s sh fe o l t l i e ld w, ta ( k r e ea a rs sp e e f e i c , h m t og Makes him say, liter) "It is . mite e true that your forefathers have lived In this parish, that thero ha been an intimate relationship between your ancestors and mine, that the principles of free trade are prevailing. I can purchase articles ef Consumption at a cheaper rate, and I must deal with you upon the same principle. It Is quite true that the land you now occupy pro duces only three quarters, whereas by the application of a little capital and skill it might be made to produce fire quarters, and there is a gentlemen close by who is connected, landlordwith the Anti-Coni l law League."—(Cheers, and cries of "No, no, from Stafford O'Brien.) If I have not correctly quoted the 's speech, I wish the Hon. Member would make the landlord's the speecha a g l a l i u n d . e — d (Roars of laughter.) The Hon. Member says gentleman t to was not necessarily a member of the League. pellr,cieteadnsyinrahles, he meant a person with large capital. The landlord speech to the tenant to say he must sell in the Rea* of dearest market, and mast, therefore, give the preference to him (the capitalist). Now, Sir, if the Han. Member win allow me, [ I will suggest a better speech for the landlord.—(Hear, hear.) " My good fellow "—, laughter)—" your forefathers have been buried in the churchyard ad joining, your forefathers have had their fortunes interwoven witb , tile tbrtlmes of my mmeitom. It is POOSIDIC (flat a stranger may overbid you in the market. Under this protecting law, your laud, which should produce five quarters, produces only three, and public opinion will hardly tolera.e this, or accede to our desire that no foreign cattle shall be imported. We must therefore take some measures to increase the production of the land ffom three quarters to five. I have the advantage of the new tariff, and I pro pose to apply that advantage to your assistance.—(Hear, hear.) I will not turn you out ; I won't let the manufacturer conic in to re place you. It is my interest as well as yours that the produce of the land be increased from three quarters to five. I will lend you ca pital, I will assist you, and let you and your son, to whom this land will descend, keep out this foreign invader. I, by my capital, and you, by your industry, will remain by the land, and let it be handed down to our posterity with all the improvements which we respectively can give it." But if the tenant should say this is a labourers' question, I should make him say in reply to that—" If we make this land produce five quarters instead . of three, surely more employment would be created, and all this by the application of that saving which the rich shall derive from the benefit of the land so improved. That was how he should be ad dressed. This was the question her Majesty in her speech had said, " I recommend you to take into your early consideration whether, after taking a review of the laws relating to protection, some altera tion might not be made so as to benefit the agriculture and the com mons of the country." The address was so worded as to give no pledge on the subject. It said that the House would take into con sideration whether it would not be advisable to make such further reductions in those laws as might be compatible with the interests of the country. How then do you fulfil that assurance? You ref Use to go into the question at all. I expected from the early notice which the Hon. Member gave of his intention to move an amendment, that it would have been either that the Government was not entitled to their confidence, or that no change should take place in the protection to Industry. Now what was the amendment? Why, not a great pr:xciple was involved in it. You refuse to take the question at all into consideration. Do you decide then against the admission of . . . foreign brandy? Do you decide against the admission of foreign silks? This amendment proceeds so' far. The question for you to consider, with regard to our commercial policy, is, will you advance, or will you recede?—(Loud cheers.) You perhaps say, you will stand which is the effect of the amendment—to postpone the cowl ieration of the subject for the next six months. I say to that, that there is no stationary point—to stand still is to retrograde.—(Cheers.) I do hope that this Parliament, which passed the law of 1842, which simplified the Customs, which consented to a change in the tariff, which passed the Canada Corn Bill, which assented to the tariff of last year. I hope that this House will net accede to the proposition that this question be postponed for six months.—(Leud cheers.) The question at issue simply was, whether there should be a relaxation of duties and of protection, or whether they should restore prohibitory duties and increase protection.—(Cheers.) I offer this challenge—l never said that it was upon the experience of the last three years that I was induced to propose the alterations now under consideration of the House. What i said was, that .uring the last three years I have seen coincident with low prices great prosperity, great contentment, diminution in crime, improved health, and increasing commerce, and that experience of three years has convinced me that cheapness and plenty were the concomitants of relaxation in our prohih!tory duties, and were the foundation of our commercial greatness.—(Loud cheers.) I did not take credit to myself for the tariff. What I said was, that it was a measure which had conduced to the general interests of the country. This is the challenge which I throw out with respect to the . _ tariff. Show me a taxation that on removal did not create some unnecessary apprehension. I will go further; show me any removal of a taxation that has not contributed to the general interests of the country. Why, I was ashamed when I heard of many of these petitions against the present measure. Why, here is a petition sent from the shipowners. They invoke the wisdom of Parliament to support the general interests of the community, and to prevent all further rash experiments on the mercan tile interests ; and, above all, to continue the timber duties—and this is a petition from the shipowners—the builders of ships.—(Hear, hear.) You reduced the timber duties from 455. to 255., and the reduction did not work that injury which the opponents of that reduction would have made •ut. There is one branch of the timber-trade which required to be improved, and to which good timber ought to be supplied. So trifling was the supply, that, at the present moment, there was not, in one of the greatest maritime ports in the kingdom, a single block of foreign wood of that descrip tion which was the most valuable for ship-building. I propose increased facilities for procuring timb, r, in order that good ships may be built. I relaxed the duties on timber, and with that relaxation as enormous increase of Canadian timber had taken place, in the same manner as a reduction on the duty on woolsaused a vast increase of the importation of that article. That reduction increased the demand for Canadian timber, in which we are so defflcient,and which is so useful in the building of ships, that in the port of Liverpool was none to be found. So much for that. The Noble Lord the Member for Liverpool made a long speech about the colonies. What am I proposing ? lam not proposing an immediate repeal of everything. I ain not proposing that you should sweep away the customs' duty on spirits and ether articles.—(Hear, hear, and cheers) I am not for doing away with all protective duties for revenue. With respect to the colonial interests, I know that very great interests are involved. The Noble Lord the Member for Liverpool proposed that discrimi nating duties should be at once repealed, but it was not his policy to diminish protection, where it was necessary. That was the prin ciple of the policy of any Honourable Friend. What did we do in 1842? We permitted the colonies to get the produce of this country at a trifling cost. We said with respect to the colonies, that the time was come for relaxing those principles of restriction which had marked our policy for many years, and which could not any longer be maintained, with the sustainment of the liberties of th's country. Has it injured the colonies ? You are wrong to say that the affection of the colonies for the mother country depends on the amount of supply. Look at Australia—what is the great benefit derived from her ? I propose to proceed on the path that leads to prosperity and abundance, by gently reducing the protective duties. My Hon. Friend who spoke on the first night of the debate was very severe on the removal of the protective duties on foreign carriages.—(Plear.) I really lo not know anything in this country to prevent it. I knew that there was a duty of a farthing per yard on printed paper, and I proposed that there should be a cus toms duty of 2d. per yard on foreign paper. Why is it that we can not compete with France in paperhanging? The patterns are not so good, but a limited competition would give the trade a stimulus and the talent would increase. I know of nothing in the physical consti tution of an Englishman that would hinder him from drawing a proper pattern. Tile Hon. Gentleman had said that when he looked out of the window of his foreign carriage he would see a number of people standing idle, and he would be obliged to say to them, "My good friends I have been obliged to sacrifice you. When has there been as alteration made in any protective duty that this argument has not been used—(Laughter)—that the same anticipations have not been indulged in ? In the tariff of 1842, I proposed to let in potatoes at 2s. per cwt., and the potato growers of Yorkshire came to me in a body, saying that the potato cultivation would be rained. With regard to hops, in 1842, I reduced the duty from Si. lOs to 41. 10s. All Kent and Sussex were in arms, saying that the trade would be injured. What is the fact? Since that time only two cwt. of hops have come in, and yet the hop growers had feared the influx would be so great and inju rious as to throw a great many persons out of employment. Mr. Huskisson let down the protective duties on silk, and Mr. Baring, the present Lord Ashburton, resisted it to the utmost of his power. He said that hundreds of thousands of poor honest men, knowing nothing whatever of political economy, would be thrown out of employment. He had said that a duty of thirty per cent. was n sufficient protection against foreign competition, and that an admis sion of silk at that duty would drive all the workmen from the trade. Mr. Huskisson said, in reply to the clamours raised against his course of proceedings, " I have been assailed by ungenerous appeals to my feelings, appeals calling on me to commune with my feelings, and asking me if I am not open to the visitations of sorrow. I hops I am not wanting in the duties of a man or a Christian. But at the same time that I entertain these feelings, I have a duty to perform as a Minister." That was the language of Mr. Huskisson.—(Hear, hear.) He, however, persevered and removed the prohibitory duties. What has been the result ? Have the hundreds of thousands of silk manu facturers been thrown out of employment? Have the poor-rates been burthened further for their support ?—(Hear, hear.) Have we not been able to compete with the foreigner?—(Renewed cries of "Hear, hear.") In ten years ending in 1823, the import of raw silk was 19 million pounds, ha the ten years following it rose to 30 million pounds, and finally increased - . to 52 million pounds. Now which was the true philanthropist—he who silk " Keep out French silk, their patterns are superior to ours ; yon will never be able to compete with them ; you will ruin thousands of workmen ;" or the Minister who said, " Good God, do you charge me with apathy? I am not insensible to the miseries of my fellow-men. I have ascertained that Spitalfields is threatened with devastation by famine. Let me try whether or net, by bringing in the free all of competition, I may not improve the condition of my country." (Great cheers.) Have we been enabled to compete with foreign powers ? Why you have sent more silk manufactures into that country which is said to be the head of the manufacture you have sent in the last year more silk manufactures into France than you exported to the whole world in any year under the old system.—(Cheers.) Now, I can go over the whole of these articles. I can enumerate timber,silk—l can even refer io inferior articles, and I may men tion one reduction in 1842. In that year we reduced the duty on foreign feathers.—(Laughter.) It seemed to me a small article, made up by an aggregate of small articles—(Continued laughter)— but a manufacturer came to me and said, "Oh, this is the most hard-hearted measure you could have passed. It will ruin the Irish farmer—(Laughter) —l have a house of call for feathers; the Eng lish farmer is very careless of his feathers, but the Irish farmer finds his profit in their trade. He added, " I take all my feathers from Ireland. I use 200 tons of feathers, at 20s. a stone. This trade will be destroyed." The duty was reduced. Another letter was received, stating that there never was such a stimulus given to their trade as by the reduction. He had been able to import 300 tons from foreign countries, and 150 tons from Ireland, and in stead of 20s. per stone, he had been obliged to pay 225. 10,1. Ile said also, that the greatest demand had been from Cornwall, and the Cornish miller had been enabled, by these feather manufactures, to rest himself from the labours of the day, without being obliged to expend the greater part of his earnings. I offer you that chal lenge, that you cannot show me—l won't say some small manufacture, there may be some which will be injured—but I offer this chal lenge that, looking for the last thirty years, to the re laxation of your Colonial policy—to the relaxation of your protec tive policy at home—l challenge you to produce an instance in which the consumer has bees injured—l challenge you to produce an instance in which the producer has suffered. You have to make your choice, and vote on this question. It is a question of confidence in the Government. It ought not to be. Reserve that for a separate motion. The question is, will you advance in the path you have hitherto pursued, or will you retrograde.—(Cheers.) Just look at the amount of force you use for the purpose of prevent ing smuggling, and don't refuse to consider whether it may not be right to reduce protection on Writs. Reduce the duty en foreign spirits. I only ask you to reduce the present duty on French brandy to 15s. On English spirits the duty is 9s. I am only asking you to cut up the trade of the smuggler by the roots. I ask you to permit French silks to come in at a duty of 15 per cent. Is it not possible for a benefical result to follow this ? Thirty per cent. is now levied, and smuggling is going on. A further reduction in the duty en silk would cause the manufacture to increase. Vivify your manufactures by a spirit of free competion, and see if a beneficial result will not follow. But then you will have to decide by a vote upon this question. Will you advance or will you recede ? What is the policy best suited to this great commercial empire ? I ask you to look at the advantages that God and nature has given you. Look to your geographical position on the confines of Western Europe, the connecting link between the North of Europe and the great continent of America The improvement in naviga tion and the application of science have brought you within ten days of St. Petersburgh on the one side, and ten days of New York on the other. Look to your physical advantages. The nerves and sinews of manufactures, iron, and coal abound in this country. Look to your acquired advantages—yen have ten times the amount of eapital possessed by any country in the world. Look to the advantages derived partly from the innate tendency of your own character, and partly from a constitution reconciling per fect liberty, with an absence from licentious rules.—(Cheers.) Look to all these things. Look to your physical —your geographical posi tion. Your physical resources, your capital, and skill, are immense. You have every advantage. Your powers are beyond any of the other nations of the globe.—(Hear, hear.) And will you allow it to be said that ether countries on this question are in advance of you ? There are countries that are so, from whom I least expected such conduct, and to whom I did not refer. I did not refer to Sardinia, where the duty on the importation of foreign grain has been re pealed. Naples is stated as likely to follow.—(Hear, hear.) Prussia is shaken in its present course, and France was desirous of following; the only objection to that course being from the aristocracy of ma nufactures and commerce. The Executive are fully alive to the question, but at present are restrained by the parties I r e f erre d t o in the Chambers ; but the opinion of all sensible men is, that before long, the question will be settled in favour of a more liberal system.— (Hear, hear.) The leading men of the United States give us great encouragement to proceed, and by carrying the measures of the Government we will be strengthening the hands of the party in that country who are desirous of establishing coin - mercial freedom. But whether these countries act in a liberal com mercial spirit or not —whether or not they relax the principle of pro tion, do not punish yourselves because others choose to do so. For the sake of your country, and to show a good example to other , countries ; let the decision of the present debate be in favour of com mercial freedom.—(Loud cheers.) Let your vote be for a principle, based, not on three years' experience, but on the experience derived from every relaxation of protective duties.—(Loud cheers.) Set the glorious example to other nations, and you will force them to follow in your wake ; but if even there is an uncertainty in that, pass the measure, and believe me that in so doing you will be taking that step which of all others will be most conducive to your own security—(Hear, hear, and cheers)—and at the same time:by doing that, will settle a question that will lead to the contentment and happiness and willing obedience of the great body of the people.—(Loud cheers) It must be clear to all, that after the measure is passed, there will be no certainty that pros perity will be generally secured, or that periods of distress in the ma nufacturing or agricultural districts may not arise. It will not make a state of prosperity certain, though it will do much to prevent the recurrence of distress. We shall have, no doubt, as before, seasons cf scarcity following on seasons of plenty • or it may be that a return of manufacturing distress w ill b e coincident with a season of agricultural scarcity. You all recollect the times of 1841 and 1842, those are periods that may occur again.—(Hear.) Let me revive the recollection of those sad years. The memory of the wiuters of 1841 and 1842 never can be effaced from my recollection.—(Cheers.) wiin Recollect the course that we pursued on every occasion on which the come. And if the n ; Sovereign met her Parliament when there was an expression of the dLeoeaat cheers.) ) by AN T - i i l th osebu pr t i i v m at e i s on and suffering—recollect that ex pressionifliethhe Is t ha o rm s. est ff ad er n i i h ir g a s tio w n er fo e r and h tl ( r rh p e att h e y nce the p f e o o r p ti l t e u . d — e sYmathy With sutTer ceme,o don ask every man here r d ..y come, and t m he ay y y w th suffering mhtsteelf.thls question : p it a i th a conaolatio—n itefhaawhrstaevmmoe.efulasgitdo:eers,sirtieptlypetilhmaesesedoyi-rataalhsrreo-s of plenteousness and if it be our duty again to express , to and again to exhort the people to patience, li‘nothour exp :—lf with his own heart, and to ask to tortitupdreetws7l i these calamitous times do come—if we must offer exhortation selves, from the beau be ? (Cheer s food of the people.—(CheesePrese,Pl-71 of regulating, be more consolatory ressiens of sympathy tude be more inspressive, if vn at tahe-ilimnot the e xhortations to right fully,ford. that urged by no necessity, and ylellave ; a ? , and say anticipated those d if ficulties . — (Cheers)—a n d re—m— m n o clamour s we ment to the free circulation of the bounUeosv-Of e t verY imPedi -(Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) Will it not be a greathean Creator. consolation to us to be enabled to say to a sufferlug people, fi t i b l are the chastenings of an, all-wise and beneficent Providence, sent for same dreadful lina to abate our pride possibly, and convince us of Qui tiothiuglisse—to Aram us to n sense of our openctene e ou our God; they are to be borne without murmuring, and the dispensations of Providence have net been, aggravated by human institutions which I prevent the supply of food.—(The Right Hon. Baronet resumed his seat amid the loudest cheering, which lasted for some minutes.) Lord J. MANNERS moved the adjournment of the debate, which was atones agreed to. COUNTY WORKS PRESENTMENT BILL (IRELAND). • The House then went into Committee on the County Works Pre sentment Bill. Atter some discussson, in which Mr. Redington, Mr. F. French, Sir J. Graham, Sir R. Ferguson, Mr. Sharman Crawford, Lord Clements, and other Hon. Members took part, the clauses were agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be reported. THE FISHERY PIERS, &c. (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion of Wl' JAMES GRAHAM, that the Fishery Piers and Harbours. (Ireland) Bill be read a third time, Mr. WYSE said, that at many of the harbours the people were so poor as to be unable to get boats to pursue their trade. Ile suggested that loans should be allowed from the Government for that purpose. Lord CLEMENTS asked why the 5,000/., granted in 1822 for that Purpose, had not been applied to that purpose ? Sir J. GRAHAM made some observation in reply, which was quite inaudible in the gallery. The third reading of the Drainage (Ireland) Bill was then postponed. The report of the County Works Presentment (Ireland) Advance of Money Bill was then read and agreed to. The House adjourned at a Quarter to Twe o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS, From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Comnzons.) MONDAY, FEB. 16. The following Petitions' for Railways were reported, and the Bills ordered to be brought in ! , 37 the undermined lion. Members : Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle—Lord James Stewart, and Mr. Ewart. Cheltenham and Oxford—Mr. C. Berkeley and Mr. G. Berkeley. Lancashire and Yorkshire North-Eastern —Mr. B Denison, Sir G. Strickland, and Mr. Cayley. Blackhurn and Preston and ,East Lancashire Amalgamation—Mr. Patten and Mr. Walker. London and Croydon (Thames Junction Branch)—Mr. Kemble and a (E nt a i s 3 t ir ßi H dl i ng ison. Mr. Antrobus. Branches-No. 2)—Mr. Great North of England and B orou ghbridge Branch=—Mr. 0. bun combe, Mr. Lawson, and Mr. Hudson. Midlandth r, Great North of England Purchase—Mr. 0. Duncombe, Mr. Lawson, and Mr. Hudson. West of Scotland Junction—Mr. Oswald and Mr. Hastie. Great North of England and Bedale Branch —Mr. 0. Duncombe, Mr. Lawson, and Mr. Hudson. Midland (Syston and Peterborough Railway Deviations and Branches)—Sir J. Troliope, Mr. Fitzwilliatn, and Mr. Farnham. Glasgow Harbour Mineral—Lord J. Stuart and Mr. Baird. WESTMINSTER ELECTION. NOMINATION.-(THIS DAY.) To-day, at twelve o'clock, the nomination of a Member to repre sent the city of Westminster in Parliament, consequent on the resig nation of Captain Rous, by his appointment as one of the Lords of the Admiralty, :took place in front of St. Paul's Church, Covent-garden. The number • of persons assembled before the hustings could not be less than 5,0C0. The candidates were the late Member, Captain Rous, who again offered Muse f, and General Sir De Lacy Evans. When these gentlemen, accompanied by their respective friends, came on the platform, the crowd, wh!ch seemed pretty equally divided in opinion as to the merits of the candidates, expressed their partialities by the most discordant noises ; and one clique, whose begrimed faces proclaim.d that they belonged to the genus coal-heaver, favoured ti* company with a series of yells that would have done honour to an Indian war dance. A strong body of police were in attendance to preserve order, but it was soon very evident that they were insufficient for the purpose, and after gal lantly withstanding for nearly half an hour the efforts of the assail ants to get close to the platform, they at last, by command of Super intendent Pearson, retreated in good order behind the breastworks, from where no effort of the enemy could dislodge them. This ma noeuvre was beautifully effected, with only the loss of one policeman's baton. Among the gentlemen who accompanied the candidates we ob served Lord Francis Egerton, Lord James Stuart, Lord Marcus Hill, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Lord Elphinstone, Lord W. Bruce, Lord Can talupe, Colonel Fox, Mr. Bouverle, M.P., Mr Tennyson D'Eyncourt, M.P., Mr. B. Hawes, M.P., Mr. Ellis, M.P., Colonel T. Wood, MT, Hon. F. Byng, Mr. Merryweather, &c., &c. Mr. SMEDLET, the High Bailiff, then came forward, and, as well as we could hear him, for the gentlemen who composed the crowd were too much engaged in listening to their own sweet voices to attend to the speakers, said that he had that day the honour of attending there as the returning officer for the city of Westminster. The electors were assembled to express their opinion as to who of the two gentlemen who solicited their suffrages should be their representative in the Commons House of Parlitunent. The electors were no doubt aware that the present vacancy had taken place in consequence of one of their representatives—he meant Captain Bout— having accepted office under Govermuent —(Cries of " 31ore shame for him," from one section of thocrowd, and cheering tom the Gallant Captain's partisans.) That gentleman was, however, eligible to be re-elected, and he was there to offer himself to them. The other candidate was General Sir De Lacy Dvans. He need not point out to them the importance of the privilege they were met that day to exercise—(Shouts of" We know it")—but he would at once conclude by causing the writ to be read. The preliminary forms were gone through amid much interruption, when Mr. J. C. WOODS rose to propose Captain Eons as a fit and proper person to represent the city of Westminster. The speaker's aktiress could, however, only be heard by the favoured few who stood beside him ; when shortly afterwards Lerd F. EGERTON seconded the nomination. lie was equally in audible, the terrific noises which issued from the persons in from completely drowning every sentence. Mr. BOUVERIE then rose to propose General Sir De Lacy Evans. He said that the electors were met that day for the purpose of returning a Member to Parliament, and it was with great pleasure that he proposed to them General Evans.— (Mingled cheers and hisses.) They had unfortunately elected a Tory and monopolist once before, thus rendering the city of West minster a nullity in the House of Commons; for if one of their . . Members on all of the great questions which concerned the happi ness of the people said " yes," the other ➢fember as invariably said " no." (Cheers.) If the one sought to advance every great social and political reform, the other opposed him. If the one contended that these reforms were ne- cessary, the other maintained that they were not. The city of Westminster had at one time always been considered in the front ranks of liberalism, and the period was now come when she should resume her former position—(Cheers)—when she should show that she had within her the first, the most liberal, the most enlight ened constituency in England.—(Cheers, laughter, and cries of " Don't come over us," &c.) They had that day a place at their disposal, and they had two applicants for it. It was no place of emolument, althOugh, judging from Captain Rous, it was a mode by which a place of emolument could be obtained.—(Cheers and great confusion.) One of the applicants had always been a free-trader and lie was so still (Cheers) --he had always been against the present corn-laws and he was so still ; he had always been a Reformer and he was so still.—(Contlxued cheering.) They had one who had always been on the side of popular rights and he was so still. But the other applicant what had they bad to say for him ? He had been a Tory. What was he now ? He was a most extraordinary combination of opposite opinion. He seemed a sort of amphibious animal, a kind of horse-marine, not one thing or another. They had been asked the question by Sir Robert Peel, would they have free trade in the country ?—(Cheers.) Let them, as elect;rs, answer yes.—(Cries of " Yes.") Then let them return General Evans for he was a staunch Liberal.—(Cheers.) Would they have Captain Rous ? Let them loudly answer "No."— (Commingled cries of " No" and " Yes.") They had no confidence in the fixity of his opinions. They would rather that Westminster were represented by one who was for the people and not against them. Let them, then, be early , st the poll and return General Evans to Parliament. Dr. ilataieernoe seconded the nomination of General Evans, and he now appeared before them for the sixth or seventh time, to pro pose or second the nomination of the long-tried friend of the people, General Evans - (Cheers)—a gentleman who had always been op posed to the corn-laws, and a stern defender of the rights of the people.—(Hear, hear.) He was a supporter of free trade principles when they did not lead to place or emolument, and he was still the same.—(Cheers.) His Hon. opponent (Captain Rot's) had told them that he was still unchanged. He came into Westminster as the child of the Tories and the Opponent of free trade.—(Cheers and hisses.) On a former occasion, on these very hustings, he spoke against free trade, and told *the electors that it would be carried out, and send the labourers and artisans to live on bread and onions and a sack at the pump.—(Cheers and laughter.) Latterly, however, he had made a change, and he (Dr. Bainbridge) must say, judging from that, that the Gallant Captain's judgment must be very defective, or he must be acting dishonestly. If he has not changed his opinions, and is in favour of a repeal of the corn laws, then he must in the previous election have spoken in opposition to his convictions—(Hear, hear)—and thus have acted dishonestly, or he must have laboured under an aberration of judgment, and did not know what he was doiug. In either view of the question such a gentleman was not a fit representative for a great and intelligent city like Westminster.—(Cheers and uproar.) He (Dr. Bainbridge) would leave him on the horns of this dilemma. Just before the as sembling of Parliament, a great meeting of the electors of Westminster was held on the question of the corn-laws, which was then so extensively agitating the country, and a requisition was sent to the Gallant Captain, most numerously and respectably signed, inviting him to attend. But he refused to do so, because he (Dr. Bainbridge) supposed the Gallant Captain did not then know the course the Ministry would take.—(Hear.) Was such a persona proper representative for them ?—(Cries of " No, no," and " Yes, yes,"from the suppporters of the respective candidates. lie might add many other reasons why they should vote for the Liberal candidate—(Cries of " So we will,") — and reject Captain nous, but he would leave them to be given by the Gallant General himself; who was much more able to enter into en explanation of those reasons than he (Dr. Bainbridge) was. He now called on them to emancipate themselves and this great city from the disgrace of being represented by an apostate Tory— (Loud cheering, and great uproar(—whom no one can understand—a nondescript politician, who is neither fish, flesh nor fowl, but a sort of marine monster with a long tall and 1,0001. a-year tied to it— (Laughter, cheers, and hisses)—who comes to Westminster expecting the electors to help him to a good place.— (Cheers.) Ile (Di. Bainbridge) trusted that they would rescue their fair fame, and restore the city to the former high and proud position from which Jihad been hurled; and to enable themi to do so, he begged leave to second the nomination of Gen. Sir Le Lacy Evans.—(Cheers.) Captain Roos then came forward to address the electors, and was received with loud hisses and groans from the supporters of General Evans, and cheers from his friends. The Gallant Captain, who was much interrupted in the course of his speech, spoa e to the following effect :—He came forward at the present crisis to take the sense of the electors of the city ofWestminster on the measures of the Govern ment. He considered that it was the duty of all who wished well to the measures of Sir R. Peel to unite and say we will support no half-and-half men, who desert their colours every day, but men who will labour faithfully to serve their country, and also will support measures calculated to advance its true intereste—(Hear, hear.) In 1841, when he was first sleeted, there was a great stagnation in the commercial, manufacturing, and agricultural interest of the country ; they were engaged in two wars, the funds were low, and a general despondency pervaded all classes. When Sir R. Peel accepted office such was the state of the country ; but under his Administration trade amended, the wars were brought to an end, the funds rose, and general prosperity pervaded all ranks of society.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) To what but to the policy of Sir Robert Peel could he (Captain Rota) attribute the change. In 1841 and 1842 he was a protectionist—(Hear)—but the events that had taken place during the last three years had caused an alteration in his views. What had taken place since the alteration of the tariff in 1843, had shown him the great advantage of the working of the free trade principle, and therefore he could come to no other conclusion than to advocate free trade now, and support the Government in its endeavours to carry them into effect.—(Cheers and hisses.) Upon the pre sent occasion it would be necessary for him to state that in the House of Commons, he proposed that Australian corn should be admitted at a greatly reduced duty. In September last, when in Suffolk, he told his friends, not only that a free trade in corn must soon come Into operation, but he went further, and said that as population increased, it would be necessary to give a bonus on the importation of foreign corn. That disposed of the asser tion that he had changed his opinions in order to serve Sir Robert Peel. His (Captain Rous's) opinions had been changed long before the proposition of Sir Robert Peel had been submitted, or perhaps before that Right Hon. Baronet had himself changed.— (Hear, hear.) • And now he (Captain Rona) supported the Govern ment of Sir Robert Peel, because he believed no man was so well calculated to carry oat free trade as that Right lion. Gentleman. He considered that no person could more effectually carry out the principles of free trade than Sir Robert Peel. The electors of West minster will recollect (continued the Gallant Speaker), that, in no single measure calculated to promo' e their interests had he been unfaithful to his duty.—(Tremendous uproar and confusion.) He had supported a motion for the repeal of the window-tax, and he had opposed the contemplated alteration in the Vestries Act. He would support the present measures of the Government, as being, in his opinion, likely to conduce to the welfare and promote the hap piness of all c'asses of the country.—(The confusion at this time be came tremendous, and a combination of the most discordant sounds entirely drowned the voice of the speaker.) In conclusion the Gal lant Captain stated that whatever should be the issue of the contest nothing should erabe from his :mind the memory of that confidence which four years since had returned him as the representative of a constituency which, for a quarter of a century, had not been represented by a Conservative Member. The electors of this city had brought him for ward ; they turned the current of opinion in his favour, and he defied kis opponents to point out a single vote or act of his during the four years he had been their representative which was not for the benefit of his constituency and the people at large, and he felt convinced that he had not for feited that confidence which had been so honourably reposed in him. Re had accepted office, not to promote his own advantage, , but for the simple reason that he thought he should, however humble his abilities, be made useful in effecting those much to be desired re forms in the office of the Admiralty to which her Majesty had been graciously pleased to appoint him.—(Great cheering and uproar.) To-morrow will decide the question ; and, he repeated, that whether beaten or victorious, ho should continue to feel an into rest in the welfare and prosperity of the city of Westminster, and to remember with feelings of gratitude the confidence they had hitherto reposed in him. General EVANS (whose appearance was the signal for most voci ferous cheering from his own supporters, as well as groans and other marks of disapprobation from his opponents) then said that although it was not Isis first appearance before the electors of West minster, he never felt a greater interest in their prosperity or more desire for the success of a measure than for the one which now affected not only their interests but the interests of all classes of the community. The returning officer had saved hint the duty of declaring the reason that they were now met upon such an occasion as the present. They had been told that it was becadse his Gallant Opponent had ac cepted the office of one of the Lords of the Admiralty. In all fairness to his Gallant Opponent, he must bear witness to his excellent personal qualities, to his unblemished and manly character in society, and begged tc say that if any remarks should fall from him calculated to wound the feelings of his op ponent, he at once disclaimed all intention of doing so. His opponent had stated that he would support hir R. Peel ; and he (Captain Bons) believed that the measures proposed by him were calculated to promote the interest and happiness of all classes. Sir Robert Peel had not always had the interest of these classes at heart; he had for years opposed the measure for the emancipation of the slaves, and also his Roman Catholic fellow subjects. Ile also opposed the Reform Bill, and even when that measure was carried, has he not since opposed to his utmost by the technicalities of the Registration Courts, and he extended the opera tion of the benefits to be derived from that measure to the commu nity at large..—(Cenfusion apd uproar.) The Gallant speaker said that he had supported the principles of free trade for upwards of twenty years, and would continue to do so. He considered that the true test of sincerity in change of opinion was that laid down by Sir J. Graham, lie said that they should consider whether or no any advantage or emolument would result from this change of opi nion, if not, it was pretty clear that the change of opinion was according to the dictates of conscience. Applying' this test to his Gallant opponent, he could hardly give hint credit for disinterestedness in his change of opinion. For was he not receiving advantage or emolument from this change of opinion ? He had obtained by it the situation of one of the Lords of the Adnai ralty.—(Tremendous uproar.) His Gallant opponent, previous to his appointment, had stated with no very great national taste, that the removal of the corn-laws would give them only bread and onions, and a suck at the pump.—(Great laughter.) If he were to seek the office it was not for emolumentary porposes. He was always the friend of the people—he was always the oppo nent of restrictions on trade—and he would now tell Captain Rous and his party that the question of free trade did not depend on them. Itdid not depend on either Sir Robert Peel or Lord John Russell— that amiable and enlightened nobleman—but it depended on the will and the disposition of the)people.—(Tremendous cheers.) Yes, the people of England had decided on free trade, and it mattered not who were the parties in power, that free trade would, and should be carried.—(eireat cheering.) His honourable opponent now said that he had among his supporters many of the aristocracy. In the election of 1841 he said nothing of that kind ; it was not then fashion able to entertain such principles. But he (General Evans) could also boast of having some of the aristocracy at his side—those illustrious families who were an honour to this country—be respected and ad mired; but he did not at the same time, like his gallant opponent, boast of the glitter of the aristocracy. (Hisses.) But what do the exponents —the representatives of that high free-trade party—say? What does the Standard and the herald newspapers say ? Why, that it was necessity that drove them to these measures of free trade. lie lately met a Member of the present Parliament, a man of as high principles, of as high character, and of as honest independence as was new in Parliament, that man said to him (General Evans) he was glad he was going to stand for Westminster, for although he had voted against him at the last election ho would give him (General Evans) his cordial support on that occasion. This gentleman was a high Tory, but he was disgusted with the party who pro fessed liberal principles, but did not feel them.—(Loud cheers.) That friend said, that in common wills the English people, he loved and honoured consistency. He felt obliged to that gentleman, and he (General Evans) hoped that they would all vindicate, mid prove before to-morrow eveutus how much they re vered the great principles of civil and religions liberty. He (General Evans) supported free trade measures when it produced no profit to do so.—(Cheers.) When office was not procured by doing so—(great cheering)—when it brought no rewards, but, on the contrary, when it brought indignities.— (Loud cheers.) His Gallant opponent came forward on free-trade principles, but he (General Evans) had always been the staunch supporter of poplar rights, and-he hoped his conduct would be estimated as it desek - ed by returning iiiin to Parliament on that occasion. —(Cheers.) . On a show of hands for Captain Rous a few-were held cp, amidst the shouts and laughter of the assembled thousands ; and oe a similar display taking place for General Evans, the immense assembly, with a few exceptions, declared in his favour. A poll was then denlanded by the friends of Captain Row, and the time fixed for its commencement was at eight o'clock to-morrow morning. After which the Yost multitude quietly dispersed. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. In the Liverpool Cotton market yesterday the sales were 3,000 bales. The market was dull, without change in prices. There was but little done in Railway Shares. The debate in Parliament is almost the exclusive subject of con versation here to-day, and all are hopeful of the free trade measure being carried. The English Funds have been very unsteady, and there has been not only a very decided disinclination to buy, but an absolute decline in prices in most instances. The bales are not large, but the continued absence of purchases by the Chancery broker, and the protraction of the corn-law debate, have a marked influence on the quotations. Consols have realised 96% to 95%, and are 96 again for present transfer: time bargains have been made at a decline to 9631 and 96. The pre mium on Exchequer-bills has been down to 395. and 365. Bank Stock is dull at 20731, and India Stock 258 to 260. The New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. have been 98% to 97%. The Foreign Investments have been heavy. Spanish Five per Cents., owing to the change of Ministry, have declined to 27, and the Three per Cents. to 37%. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been at 59. Mexican Bonds are worth 30% ; and Grenada, 23%. Railway Shares are flat in most instances, and there is not much doing. ONE CLOSING BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock .. .. • • .. 2074 20731 Three per Cent. Annuities .. 97 95 % 963 Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 96% 96 95% 96 963 New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Arms. 98% 97% 98'4 Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 9-16 % 10% Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10U 5-16 10 5-16 India Stock .. . .. 260 258 258 - Bank Stock for Account .. 20714 20734 _ . . Constls for Account . 96% 96 96% 964 Exchequer Bills. I%d. I%d. - 1,0001. .. .. .. .. 36 39 . pm. 39 5001... . .... 36 39 pm. 39 Ditto. Small .... 36 39 pm. 40 ONE CLOSING FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Danish, 3 per Cent •• • • • • • • 88% 88% Grenada, 1 per Cent .. .. .. .. 23% 23% Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 30% 30% Ditto, Deferred .. .. .. .. 16% 16% Portuguese Four per Cents .. .. 59 49 Russian Bonds .. .. .. .'. .. 111 1 A 111% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. • • - 26% Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 27 27 1 A Ditto, Passive Bonds .. .. .. 6 1 /, 6% Ditto, Deferred .. .. .. .. .. 16% 16% Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. .. Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 37% 37% Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian Four-and-I-Half per Cent .. 98 Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 59%X 59% Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 94% 95 95 BUS INESS CLOSING PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. DONE AT PRICES. ONE O'CLOCK. Aberdeen .. 10 .... .......... 10% Birmingham and Gloucester.. .. 100 ....128 ex die..... 128 x d Ditto New (issed at 7% dis.) .. 173 . 3l Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 2% 2 3i Bristol and Exeter .. 70 ...... . Ditto New .. .. 5 .. • '12% .. • • ...... 1234 Caledonian .. .. 10 .... —..........— Ditto Half Shares .. 2% .......... 3% Chester and Holyhead .. .. 20 .... 21% ........ • • 21% Chester and Manchester .. 425. .... % dis (its Direct Manchester (Remington's) .... 13h Direct Northern 2%.... 2 1 4 .......... 2% Dublin and Galway .. .. 4 .... 4% • • ........ 414 Eastern Counties .. .. 141. 16s. .... 22% 21% 22 Ditto New .. 8/. 16s. ... 7 p.. • • .... 7 1 4 p Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. I. 61 13s. 4d. % p...... % p Ditto, York Extension 105..... 1 5 4% .. •• .. East Lincolnshire .. 1 1 4 2% % .. 2 %,4 Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... 79% •• • • Glouc., Aberyst., & Cent. of `Vales 13s .... %.. Goole, Dousast., and Ateffield, &c. 425. %34 p. 1% p Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1%.... 1% ..... 1% Great Eastern and Western .. 2% .... 1 .......... 1 Great North of England . ..100 ....220 ex div...... 221 x d Ditto, New .. .. 5 .... 52% 52% Great Western .. 85 .. 155 ex div .. 155 x d Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 5 .... ..........17% d Ditto, Fifths .. 20 .. 343 ex div. ..3436_ x d Guildford, Fareham, &Portsmoth 5 .. .. 5 ••••• • • • • • 5 16 Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 35 .... 57 • • ..... 57 . Leicester and Birmingham .. 225. ••••• • • • • • 'A di Leicester and Bedford 225..... par .......... i,fi dis Leicester, Tantworth, &c. London and Blackwall .. 161. 13s. 4d. 9 London and Brighton .. .. 50 .... 66 65% ex div 66 1 A xd Ditto ditto Fifths .. .. 20 .... 30%.......... 30% London and Croydon 1 31 15s. 9d. 22% London and South-Westent.. 41/. 6s. 10d. .. • • Ditto, New . 12% 24 1 ,E •• • ... 2414 London and York .. • • .. 2%.... 43% • • 3 7 Ditto, Half Shares • • • . 2% • .. 2 34 . % •• • • • • 2% Lynn and Ely .. • • • . •• 5 ••• • • • • ...... • 6 A Manchester and Leeds .. .. 82 .. Ditto Extension .. 425..... 3% p• • ...... 3% p Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 - • • ••. 79 Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 4 .... 12%. 12% Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .. • • 1 % A p•• .. 1% p Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 2% Midland ..100 ....152 .. 152 Ditto, New .. • . .. 12 .... 28 1 , •••• • • .... 28 1 ,E Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 ....122 .......... 132 Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 25 .... 45 45 Ditto, New .. 1 .... 10% •• • • ...... 10% Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 10 .... 22% ••.. • • .... 22% Newark, Sheffield, and Boston .. 2%.... 1% •• •• 1 34 North British .. 17 1 / .... 24% 25 .• .... 25 Ditto, Half Shares . 3%.... 7 1 ,! Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 1 1 A .... 3 3 North Kent and Direct Dover • • 2% .. • • 3 . ...... 3 North Staffordshire .. .. • • 425. •• .. p p Norwich and Brandon .. 18 .. • 25 1 34 xd Northmpton,Banbury,&Cheithm. 2 .... 1 3 / 2........ • Oxfd.,Worcester,& Wolverlunpto. 12%.... 15%1A • • ...... 15 1 4 Portsmouth ldreet .. 3%.•.• 4........ 4 Rugby and Huntingdon .. 2 ...• ...... 1 1 ,4 Scottish Central . • • • .. 734 •• .. ••• • • • .... -- Ditto New • • • • • • • 2% •• • 9% •••. • • • 934 Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2% 3% •• ..... 3% Shropshire Union .. 421..... dis.... % dis. South Devon .. 35 .... 36% • • • 36% South Midland 425...... _234% p • ..... 2% p South Eastern and Doror .. •• 33% .... 38S .......„ iiis / i Do., New (do. 33/. 65.8 d.) No. 2. 10 .... 121 i • • ..... .. 12 51 110., New (do. 301.) .. No. 3. 10 .... 1051 Do., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 2 1 A .... 3%.70 /2 ...... 3 51 South Wales .. .. .. .. • • 5 •• • • T ••!• ••• • • • 6% Trent Valley .. .. 5 .. • 25% 25 ...... 25 Trent Valley and Holyhead June. 2% .......... 1% Warwickshire and London • .. 425. % dis. ••• • .. !4i dis. Wexford, Waterford, & Valeatla .. • • ...... 1 g York and Lancaster .. • . • . 2% .... 1% ..... ••• .. 1% York mid North Midland . • . • 80 • 101 Ditto, Selby .. • • .. .. 30 .... 74 75 .. • • .... 75 Ditto, Extension .. .. 15 .... 33 33 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens : • • 10 .• .• 1 1 % ...... 11% Bord., TouL, Cette k iackenzie) 2 Ditto, ditto (Espelete) .. 2 .... 2% • 2% Central of Spain .. • • .. .. 2 .... 1% 1% Dutch Rhenish . • .• • . .• 5 .• • • 7% • ... • • 7 1 ,6 Grt. North. of France Constituted 5 .... 14% ...... 15 Great Indian Peninsular ss. .... Louvain and Jemeppe •• .. 4 .. . .......... 1% Luxembourg .. • . .. 4 .... 2% Madrid and Valentia .. 2 .... 1% • • ........ 1% Namur and Liege .. .. 4 .... 3% .... •.• . • • 3% Paris and Orleans .. 20 .... . . 39% Rouen and Havre . .. 20 ....28% 29 28% 29 29 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. British North American .. 50 .... 45 45 National of Ireland .. 20 .... 20 ••• • • •• • • 20 ------- - MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered .. .... 4 ••• • • • •• • LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY. LONDON, FEB. 17.—Wind W., light breeze and hazy. DEAL, FEB. 16.—Wind N.N.W., light.—Arrd. Sirius, Mulder, Ba tavia, for Ilollang“ Arrd. from the River and sailed, Eleanor Lan caster, Lodge, Port Phillip ; Richard and William, Brigstock, Singa pore ; Aner. Dunker, Cape of Good Hope ; Portland, Charleston. OFF TORBAY, FEB. 14.—Isle of Wight, Betsey, Mauritius; William Duke, Pitts, Denia. PEirmouxn, FEB. 16.—Wind variable.—Sid. her Majesty's ship Grampus, South America. BRISTOL, FEB. 16. —Wind N.W., light.—Sid. John Hullett, Chris topher, Mauritius ; Neptune, Bevan, Jamaica. PILL, FEB. 14.—Sid. John Hullett, Christopher, Mauritius. CARDIFF, FEB. 14.—Sid. ICdward Thurne, Johnson, Valparaiso; Pandora (of Cork), Martinique. LIVERPOOL, FEB 16.—S1d. Athena, Ogg, Calcutta; Nelson Village, M`Lamie, Savannah ; Fredonia, Lunt, New York ; Perseverance, Bennett, St. John's, New Brunswick. Coax, FEB. 12.—Sid. Lewes Castle, Florence, Port Talbot. The Effingham has been towed to West Passage, to discharge, having eight feet water in her hold. LONGIIOPE, FEB. 9.—Shi. Rolla, St. John's, New Brunswick. HULL, Ens, 15.—Acrd. Forrester, Steele, Monte Video. SHEERNESS, FEB. 14.—The Nymph, Roberts, from rwllhelli to London., got on shore on the Shoebdry Knock Sand, during a fog, but was assisted off yesterday and proceeded. LIMERICK, FEB. 14.—The Susan, Jones, hence to Liverpool, in proceeding down the river, 12th instant, got en shore; assisted off and put back here, with pumps choked, and is-discharging. NOTICE TO MARINERS. The agent to Lloyd's at Vince!, states that by late observation made it had been ascertained that the current caused by the Great Jetty across the Bar formed at the mouth of the port of Malamacco, had already cut a channel across it of about 40 fathoms from the edge of the Jetty, the uniform depth of water on which was about fifteen feet and a half at mid tide, decreasing abruptly at the termi nation of the 40 fathoms to about 12 feet. The pilot had received in structions to avail himself of this channel in bringing vessels into port. CHARTS OF THE LEVANT, &c. The agent of Lloyd s at Smyrna, mentions that few masters of vessels going that way appear to be aware that the Charts of the late survey, made by Capt. Greaves, in the Grecian Archipelago, Lc., have been published. LOSS OF TWO VESSELS. - Isle Jeremie, King's Posts, Hudson's Bay, Deo. 190845. Sir,—Letters received from Captain Edwin Penheath, of the ship Jane Morrison, of Quebec, and ,from Captain Donald Campbell, of the ship Sir Richard Jackson, from Montreal, bearing date, Mascicongan Shoals, 7th December, inform me of the loss of both these ships on the night of the Ist to 2d instant, and that they had at the time the ships struck cut away the main and mizen-masts of both ships seve rally to ease them. The boats of the former having been all stove in or washed overboard, the crew were saved on a raft constructed by them of deals, of which consists the cargo, and the crew of the latter ship, after having been a day and night fast in the ice in their boats at last get on shore, where both crews were without provisions, and In the former case with hardly any clothing. "An Indian whom they met relieved their temporary distresses out of a scanty quantity of provisions, which afforded only about half a meal a day to these crews, numbering with master and one pas senger (Mr. Midleton, from Liverpool), about forty souls. This Indian brought, after a few week's delay (on account of two large rivers intervening between this and the wreck, which were not strong enough frozen to cross) the above intelligene, conveyed through the letters from the masters, and lost no time in repairing to their assist ance, and am happy to thank the Almighty that thirty are now safe here ; five are in charge of Indians, with slightly frozen feet ; two elderly men have died ; and four, at their own choice, were left on the wreck of the Sir It. Jackson, which does not appear to be break ing up ; but which, I fear, will be carried off by the Ice, as is invariably the OEM with vessels cast away on these shoals. This vessel is laden with provisions and grain. The Jane Morrison I did not see ; but understand that she is much damaged about her bows. " Wm. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's." MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) EAT MARKETS. SMlTrinELD.—Meadow Hay, 3/ 5s to 4/ lOs ; Clover ditto, 41 5s to 51 lOs ; Oat Straw, 11 lOs to 11 12s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 13s to 11 lis per load. Both Hay and Straw, the supply of which was good, mend off slowly, at about last week's quotations. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 31 88 to 4/ 128 ; Clover ditto, 41 5s to Si 88 ; Oat Straw, 1/ lis to 1/ 138; Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 11 16s per load. A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand. WRITECIIAPEL.—Meadow Ray, 31 5s to 41 lOs; Clover ditto, 4188 to Si 15s ; Oat Straw, 1/ lOs to 11 12s , Wheat Straw, 11 12s to 1/ lbs per load. Supply tolerably good, and trade dull. SUDDEN ATTACK OF ILLNESS.—T. H. Phipps, Esq., the Chairman of the Quarter Sessions held at Warminster, Wilts, was attacked with a tit of paralysis on Monday, and remains in a very alarming state. Mr. Phipps was at the same time sitting at the Petty Sessions at Westbury. MELANCHOLY SUDDEN DEATH.—We regret to an nounce the sudden death of Mr. Edward Jorey, clerk in her Ma jesty's dockyard at this port. Deceased was in the act of preparing to go to the evening service of St. John's Chapel on Sunday last, when he complained that he felt a pain in his chest, and almost instantly expired. He was universally respected. De von p or t Telegraph. Yesterday morning the remains of Jeremiah Spence Stark, and Helen Stark, his young wife, whom he murdered, after wards destroying himself, were buried in one grave in the Tower llam.lets Cemetery, near Bow. The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges the receipt of a 501.-note (No. 51,567, 21st May, 1844), from " Con science." This money will be placed to the public account:—Dowil b3l-tialte Feb, 16, • M 111141,111 QUEEN'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN and a Special Jury.) BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. SMITH V. LORD FERUERS. The Court sat this morning at half-past nine o'clock , and, as O;I: the previous day, the Court became crowded to excess. Several ladies, relations of the noble defendant, were accommodated with seats on the bench. l'rudence Scott was the first witness called — I am the daughter f the Postmaster of Shirlyweek. I did not assist in the post-office. ~ knew that Lord Ferrers had a post-bag there. I kept th e key. who!! e the bag comes it is locked, ar d I open it, and take the letters out. !; have done this for the last two or three years. I have seen" Ferrell on the corner 01 his Lordship's letters, and knew the handanting: Within the last IS months I have observed a change in the writing, and it appeared to be rather larger. I know a person named Leadbeater: He is Lord Ferrers' house-steward. About half a year ago, sin e ' Lord Fcners' marriage, Leadbeater called at the Office. I never saw Lord Ferrers write, but the writing now shown me is a great deal like the signatures I have seen. The letter No. 9 is like . NO. BI S not so much like. No. 7is much like it. No. 6is like it, but rather smaller. No. sis rather smaller than he is in the habit Oi Will now. The same answer applies to letters No. 4, No. 2, and No. •• The letter marked "A" is rather like ; that market letter "B" 1 great deal like it. end Cross-examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL —My father _ mother are not here. The'reason I began to notice the wr iting ife r because Lord Ferrers used to write to my father, requesting nth register letters. I have seen perhaps half a dozen of those, u_y;ct the inside and the outside of them ; this was during a Pe " spread over two or three years. I did not look at the letter s for the purpose of identifying the 'writing, I merely picked them up look t them i . ent Re- a examined—When Lord Ferrers lived at Chartley he sent letters constantly to the post-office. I have seen a good many lettege during that time ; he has sent fewer since his marriage. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then asked if the Solicitor-General AS prepared to accede to the proposition he made yesterday ? eon to Mr. CHAMBERS said he did not think he should be calle d do this until he had heard the case for the defence. It appeared ur_, the offer to inspect all the letters was made to defendant's eons. several mouths ago, but they denied that any such offer was rnade,',.. His LORDSHIP could not see what objection there could be to ur Inspection of theletters, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL raid he would not now accept thefavenre as it had been refused. eetiee Frederick Hilyard, clerk in the General Pest-office—Thep r- „ a , in the Post-office with regard to refused letters is to open t hem, 11 possible, return them to the writers. They are not registered uni: they contain value. If they happen to be letters addressed to lit; men, they are selected and sent out ; and if all efforts to find , 8 : 4 3 fail, they must be opened. I have examined the register for and 1844, and find no register of such letters to Lord Ferrero. Wi ll ; a letter is opened and the writer cannot be found, then the lett er destroyed. ei James Hatton, postmaster and parish clerk at Appleby — . —li fe say that more letters passed through my office for Mr . Atkin'. atal 1843 and 1844 than usual. They were generally letter s on f affairs between Atkins and his wife. Not so many as two or torl. a week, or four or five a month. The post - mark on the letters ni; " Hammersmith," and on ethers " Ashby de la Zouch." Sin ce t i l e middle of 1844 I have received lone letter from :Atkins, with not postmark of " Ashby." I did not notice them particularly" , having any suspicion. ,ne Mrs. Perry was called, but the answer was that she was ill and could not attend. me Into A clerk In the Will-office produced a copy of 'the will of de. Lord Ferrers, by which It appeared that the estates, &c., 10.- • seended to the defendant. ~e Mr. CHAMBERS called upon the defendant's counsel to produ— • letter of the 24th of June, 1844, from Mr. Smith to Lord Ferretag The Register read a copy of the letter, which was one esr e .,ic. the pleasure the writer felt in the expected alliance, and his co n tion that the defendant's happiness would be secured by his eiwene, though the writer had no hope of seeing the plaintiff married Fete peer of the realm. The Register then read the letters , which " ten in number. •e•l 4 Mrs. Elizabeth Perry was then called. — l recollect being en -co te . with Miss Smith's father, in the month of April, 1844, at Ste' 01 Mrs. and Miss Smith were there one or two days. They returned sooner than I expected. While I was there MIS° o ot gave me a letter to put in the poet. It was directed to the , c tbe lion. Earl Ferrers, Chartley Castle, 6taffordshire. I did not 6 ' t beY contents of the letter. Ladies do not generally show the letterset write to gentlemen.— (Laughter.) I put that letter in the Pettree Lichfield. I was lu constant comm ucicatio:i with kliss Snit o f 6 her contemplated marriage with Lord Ferrers. lam the oir , c clergyman of the Church of England, and reside in Oxfordshi re. Here the case for the plaintiff closed. for tl2, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then proceeded to state the eel defexdant, when our report left. COURT OF REVIEW--(THIS PO) (Before Vice-Chancellor W IGLUS.) FRANK V. WALLER. _ A case of some interest to Benefit Societies came before hisbB tbsti on a bill, filed by the plaintiff and six others, m embers of A ed society, called the " Welwyn Club." These seven com Pla in f iii they had been illegally deprived of all share in the benefits lei' club by the remaining seven members, there being but fourteen , r uco r hers in all. The Welwyn Club was formed in 1824 with ten,. ip43 , - bers, some of whom are plaintiffs, and continued to exist up t: o tto when there were fourteen members, and the funds O w , gat to 2701. Con=ols, and 401. in hand. In January of that Ye a ';, e 'setO' quarterly meeting of the club, when all the members were PO — except one of the plaintiffs and one of the defendants, it 1 . 1 ,,, d0 00 1 posed by the plaintiff, Frank, that 101. apiece should be WD se pre!' from the funds of the club; of those present adhere d to the poser, and the sixth did the same by letter, read on the ,4,', a4' The recusants to this proposition considered that 1 . 7 pro' hereuts had violated the rules of the society, 87,1e6:", ceeded to expel them, on the ground of the follow ing Rule 19 says that the society shall not be dissolved, so long a';,4 10. members are willing to support it, and any member proponiug., be 10' solve shall be expelled ; and Rule 27, that any alteration 11 131 firdit troduced into these rules and be binding, if agreed to by fott_r i ; of the members, always provided that such alteration nUny dissolve, or tend to dissolve, the society. Under the authos'Pfb these rules the defendants acted, and contended they 115 d 0 0 0 , to act. It was contended, en the part of the they had done nothing to merit expulsion, and the ground of a verdict by Lord Eldon, they ' 1 ; - ,,p 01 . ; right, if they so wished, to withdraw, :and take the ir 'e ro ) .`: tion of the funds. It was remarked on in court that tleco . ,' in the present case were absurdly stringent, and even cont rA l‘ss " and it was deprecated on all hands— by his Honour as till it the counsel engaged—that the case had been pressed ,on‘Ze came a suit in Chancery. The counsel for the pininth" ;ad Romilly and Mr. Walford ; for the defendants, Mr. rarleer Tremenheere. Judgment was deferred. MURDER IN DRURY-LANE' BO W. STRE ET.— (THIS DAY.) ..,,ote r : Thomas Wicks, who stands charged with the murder of hie—rl.l) dames Bostock, was this morning placed at the bar before 31:0'013,1_,:, ford as soon as the night charges had been disposed of. T . be. g ditio P nation, of which we shall give full particulars in our Tiila' '" had not concluded when we went to press.. MURDER AND SUICIDE AT Cali BERWELL. soo i otir Shortly after seven o'clock yesterday morning' the neigh t .- - o ste of Southampton-place, Camberwell, was throwd into the g oo consternation by the screams of a woman, who had Jos t Scoitr t o escape, by the back door of No:s, Wellington-place, st residence, only two stories high. The first person WM p d the spot was Mr. Pratt, a surgeon, who resided at No. s,ito",„ upen entering, was horror-struck at the scene which prestdt.: In an upper room, upon the floor, lay the lifeless body oft or rote Moreau, a Frenchman, aged 53, with his throat cut froTitiist; ear ; on the bed, his son, aged 13, quite dead, shockinglYr i otn l o about throat ; and in a lower room another son, aged l rw - throat the cut, a wound on the cheek, and his hand muchlacera to ili o. t o at first supposed to be dead, but afterwards showed some sr u i of t o, life, but totally unable to articulate or give the least accotolv offf In dreadful catastrophe ; and in a short time afterwards a foultral aged eight months, was found dead in a water butt which i 5 the garden, but having no wounds whatever about its nerl o n ittle pears that the unfortunate man had resided at No. 5 %es. .0 twelvemonth, supporting his family as a teacher of langula, °i o 0 had been in the habit of rising about seven in the Ive ll :00 ° O O usually took down stairs with him one of the twin infant e, ril ing: J o in the same bed as he and the n : other . Yesterday Ln e .,,,'"itri , t ee dressing himself, he did the same thing, taking one child zairto, and leaving the other in bed with the mother. In a fe c t , the mother, being alarmed, by a loud shrieking, went t o t bo ile";a1 and on opening the door was met by the younger boy , 2 1 t.,11 0 01 diately ran down stairs bleeding, at the bottom of which be ro w ' O O apparently lifeless ; and on entering the room Mrs. l'f, r ost , „ t a her unfortunate husband in the act of cutting his ovo 100 p ot before she could interpose he had fallen down a corpse' - coul d ifif farther, she discovered her eldest son dead in the bed , bat sil o t perceive any traces of her infant child, who was, bow eN l e a r ter e t ' i afterwards discovered to have been drowned in the rot There is no doubt whatever but that the unfortunate fathe r r‘icit to the garden instantly on leaving his bedroom, and 1 10114 ,,iter e ' t An the child, then ascended to the children's room, where he - 0 00 ge io perpetrated the other murders committing suicide the P, o pe , ef alarm was raised. As no vital: organ has been severed, entertained that the youngest boy's life will be saved, -- , D o ri• course, there is great danger that he will not survive. ' the ir r tD ie There seems to be little , doubt but that owing to .., 4 e of for vations, temporary insanity was the immediate CO' . DO po shocking affair, as his pecuniary embarrassmeo t to. some weeks past induced great depression of oPL! to PicS widow states that she believes it was her husband's inteol ' f; murdered her, and all the children, before he destroyed hunt cos efgis he doubtless would have done, had it not been for the ser e , g to or - 1 to son Philarete. Such precautions had he taken, that the , doe ;,0 was found so twisted that she could not open the streelo escape, had he made an attack upon her life. She sass 1a(00V been married nearly twenty years ; that the deceased A schoolmaster at Leicester, but had of late been obtailo;',7oo °Jo subsistence for his family y teaching the French and ltd, eliere guages. In the back room, first floor, were a crib beds t l, Ole mattress, and scarcely any clothes to cover the child_rero, were neither chairs, tables, or any other article of furrlit . .,ol ll. Ki , adjoining room was an old mattress, on which the inao v 7O e' c oof fortunate wife, with her twin children, slept. There of the stead, only three old chairs and a table. The wh ole " rooms were perfectly empty. . . . RAILWAY SHARE MARiivr Stt d , MANCHESTER, FEB. 16. r. . osstti p re 'R . l STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are -Birkertheaci, - - ,, n a m e 'lit , ' Cheshire, 4 p.-Blackburn and Preston, 6 p.-Eastern ,I , so l ...ti irei --Goole, Doncaster, and Sheffield, 1% p.-Fluddersfiel.l y0r78.10 cheater Railway and Canal, 7% p.-Lancashire ani7 s °,l f erre,„o ols % p.-Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 9% P. -- ''',..rid r ',.1 ,0r Bury, New Shares, 3% p.-Liverpool, Ormskirk, ""i; p• 4 p.', 3% p.-Liverpool, Preston, Manchester, and Stockpor t, tiocic , ; ro ot don and York, 1% p.-Mauchester, Buxton, and 3 ,0 13 010 f Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (A), 8% P• - • - pitt°'.:astf y i (C), 6% p.--Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 11% P. „ or al ..A - O/c: sion, 3% p. c.-Manchester and Southampton, % P. -- Oa P• O W' % dis.-North Staffordshire, 3% p.-North Western, 3. lancl i Or field and Lincolnshire Junction, 2% p.-Shelßeltl and rieve r ' No. 2,6% p.-Ditto, No. 3,3% p.- South Eastern au solidated Halves, 1% p.-West Riding Union, 3P. O P LEEDS, FEB. 16. , iirti iitg i oN Szoca EXCHANGE.-The sales are altcy d 'pte ob afP New Quarters (C), 6% p.-Great Grimsby and Shett le „d D esc iO s t ' s 14 p.-Huddersfield and Manchester, 6% p.-Leeds 4 ,„1i01c, :or, 16% -Ditto, New Branches, 3 % p.-Leeds and . ~ 11 - 7 . _o'e . Ditto, New, 53. dis.-Lancaster and Carlisle, New t'il utreb 2 1 ,i ..-// 1' - o rn, , 4.. British, New Carlisle Branch, 21. 19/1.-Direct Not . _ - V• k 4 slid Riding Union, 5/. ls.-Lancashire and North Yorkg 1 1 0 '0:, n'', 2 .„17 , ceder and Bedford, par-Manchester, Buxton, .3 13 `.,,, 21. 1 _,,6 land, 343. p.-North Staffordshire, 4 p.-North Wc st° 4 , :', HULL, FEB. 16. - r olls 1 0° ,„i v. e,1 3 STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales F are--DerbY+ " --l i i i i s phi ..--, 43 Grimsby, 18s.-East Coast, 305.-Grimsby and She ' e - In alia Cti r 17s. 6d.-Hull and Barnsley Junction, 365. Briti"l' fleet, SO.-Newcastle and Berwick, 22% -North Branch, 3-West Riding Union, 5. ,apld l'1 ,0 .:'". SHEFFIELD, FED. 1 6 . A she.- - c olo +3. STOCK Exeffahoz.-The sales are -Grimsby all" ~......1.1 11, ;il. ',. sion, 21. 168.-Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland. 2 1 . • 1 0 '; 1 can , , , .. lot - Walnfleet, IL 1 Is.- .Manchester and Lincoln Union au - Sheffield, Rotherham, Wakefield. and Goole; 2 '3 ~.., sh!re Coal Railway, 21. ls. 205,,,i, HUDDERSFIELD, FED. 16 ' d crold,,l- 1 ,. /v o ld STOCK EXCHANGE.-The Bales are-Lcndon an, ro. 4, x ,eier sit ls . South Eastern and Dover, New (issued at 1tr.), , ,',1 111 _h, ? A , dersfleld and Manchester Railway and Canal, 7YI and p0ru5......0,- and Sheffield Junction, 21% -Armagh, Coleraincileato, 30 -North Western, 2%-Goole, Doncaster , and b an d gow and Dumfries, 465. ~....n . 3 NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE , 1, flan"' 10 1 ,f• STOCK Excites/oz.-The sales are-LiverPoO _- and .. (C liu N1 " 1 " 10 1 " Newcastle Junction, 11s. p.-Manchester. 1% p.-North British, Halves (Hawick). , i• -- e 1 lisle), 1%. Os. Ps 11. fl ' YORK, FEN+ 16 . d r a w, _s a ito „ad , STOCK ExCHANGE.-The sales are-Gran___,., 44 an 11d rito s, tester and Bedford, 11. 223.-London and ). or" lc NatlO C ' trtil 15 ter Driffield Junction, 2%-Manchester, Buxtoniah ~,s z_ _;. . .. ..,, i p 6 3/. 195.-Newcastle and Darlington Extensio North ydidt'w 25 IA -Ditto, Carlisle Extension, 3 -york and 0 11 , P sion, New (East and West Riding), 'oe) , DO -1, Jol ~ 0 1 Ai P' t ourd e 'otoP Y " Margaret Joicey (the sister 0 the y ou ,, in t he _ t t he . 4 11.-Pitte, imprisoned in Morpeth gaol, charged witil` tun t,orian c .,..„ tr ial o! father, Robert Joieey, at Cockle Park, I`T° r "" committed taue'eessorlolto of December last, by arsenic), has beet! she wA s all, i.e tio Coat th forthcoming assizes. The charge is. thaeL ter to spe fr odr e,.... the fact. It appeared from the e videnb;other to ~,a or P t ortel l ,, ing magistrate, that she assisted her __ 43 ,t e scriP . ...„,o tba , :se' hands of justice, by giving his pursuersafatilue oot intrY rod s. and directing them to a different part , th e ca lie s w tle a , s nn ga t/ let " .0- bfeoiunngdt;heitn owiiilhilbserorecadottl.eeictedeswiltl,Fratui,.l:__c 7 5_ ;: st in r o d i a .ta i' e li OFFENCES IN ST. J in AD t l iep ' usual notices of offences 8:u ;: h , in ' clo t s h i ler°P." 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PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16. PRIVATE BILLS. Motion made, and Question proposed, " That it be an instruction to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills, and to all Committees upon Private Bill', not to hear parties on any Petition hereafter referred to them, which shall not be prepared and signed in strict conformity with the Rules and Orders of this House :" Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " hereafter :"—Qaestion put, " That the word ' hereafter' stand part of the Question." The House divided : MAJORITY-AYES, 105. Acland, Sir T. Fielden, John Patten, J. W. Heinle, William Ferguson, Sir R. Pattison, James Baine,.Walter lineh, George Plumptre, J. P. Baldwin, C. B. Forbes, William Price, Sir R. Baring, F. T. French, F. Ptasford, Robert Barrington, Lord Gaskell, J. M. Rashleigh, W. Bateson, Thomas Gore, Montague Ross, David It. Bell, Matthew Grogan, Edward Rutherford, A. Bennett, Philip Halsey, T. P. Seymour, Lord Bowring, Dr. nestle, A. Shaw, Frederick Brotherton, Joseph Hawes, B. Sheppard, T. Buller, Sir J. Y. Hay, Sir A. Sheridan, R. B. Christie, W. D. Hayter, W. G. Smith, It. V. Clayton, R. R. Hindley, C. Somerset, Lord G. Clerk Sir George Hodgson, F. Sotheron, T. H. Cochrane, A. Hodgson, Richard Stansfield, W. R. Colebrooke, Sir T. Hope, Sir J. Staunton, Sir G. Collett, John Howard, C. W. G. Stuart, Lord J. Colquhoun, John Howard, P. H. Strickland, Sir G. Connolly, Colonel Inglis, Sir It. Strutt, Edward Courtenay, Lord James, William Thornely, T. Craig, W. G. Jones, Captain Trelawny, J. S. Crawford, W. S. Layard, Captain Vane, Lord H. Darner, Colonel Lemon, Sir Charles Villiers, Viscount Davies, D. A. Lindsay, Captain Vivian, J. E. Dodd, George Leng, Walter Walker, Richard Douglas, Sir C. Lygon, General Warburton, H. Drummond, H. Mahon, Lord Wawn, J. T. Duncan, Lord Maitland, Thomas Williams, W. Duncan, George March, Earl of Worsley, Lord Duncombe, T. Miles, William Wrightsou, W. B. Duncombe, A. Mitchell, T. A, Yorke, Henry It. Hondas, Admiral Neville, Ralph Young, John Ebrington, Lord O'Brien, A. S. TELLERS. Esmonde, Sir T. O'Connell, M. J. Greene, Thomas Estcourt, T. G. Ord, William Heathcote, Sir W. MINORITY-NOES, 63. Aekers, James Duckworth, Sir J. Masterman, John Ainsworth, P. Duncannon, Lord Mildmay, U. St. John Anson, Colonel Ellice, Edward Moffatt, George Archbold, Robert Elphinstone, H. Mostyn, E. M. Arkwright, G. Escott, Bickham O'Connell, Daniel Bailey, Jcseph Etwall, Ralph Paget, Colonel BaiHie, Colonel Fitzgerald, R. A. Pandarves, E. W. Beresford, Major Forester, G. C. Plumridge, Captain Blake, M. J. Gibson, T. M. Repton, G. W. Blawitt, R. J. Gore, Robert Ricardo, J. L. Broadley, Henry Grimsditch, T. Scott, Francis Butler, Colonel Hamilton, Lord C. Shelburne, Earl of Carnegie, Captain Hill, Lord M. Smythe, George Cavendish, G. H. Hope, G. W. Tancred, H. W. Clive, Viscount II ouldswortli, T. Trotter, John Colborne, R. H. Hudson, George Troubridge, Sir E. Collett, W. R. Humphery, Ald. Wall, C. B. Compton, H. C. llussey, Thomas Winnington, Sir T. Copeland, Alderman Lowther, Colonel Wyndham, Colonel Corbally, M. E. Mangles, R. D. TELLERS. Dickinson, F. F. Manners, Lord J. Entwisle, W. Douglas, Sir H. Marsland, Henry Gisborne, Thomas SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. From the opening of the room to its close, Mermaid was the most prominently in demand of the Chester Cup horses, and she ultimately closed an equal if net a better favourite than the Best Bower ; at all events, if not quoted at less odds, she had by far the most powerful party. Several others were backed, but no changes of any moment resulted. The Derby transactions were of some importance. 1,000 to 200 laid against Sting in the early part of the afternoon was fol lowed by several bets, at the same prices, and 11 to 4 having been totted against him In conjunction with Brocardo and lago, it was inferred by some that the horse or his nomination must be amiss ; the layers, however, were constant, and, at the close, 5 to I was ob tainable. Brocardo "came again," that is, 15 to 1 was taken several times, the layers, nevertheless, being willing to go on. 1,000 to 30 was taken, nine or ten times, about Tibthorpc, and 500 even offered nonottilzof itweuaagainstuSpritihnetaedres. interest. Latest a be te t s t t in p g ri , ether respects, preBented ces CHESTER CUP. 8 to 1 agst Wadlow's lot. 22 to 1 agst Lord Howth's Mermaid (—taken. 22 to 1 Lord G. Bentinck's Best Bower—taken. 25 to 1 agst Mr. blerry's Whinstone —taken freely.. 25 to 1 agst Mr. A. W. Hill's Sweetmeat —taken. 25 to 1 agst Mr. E. R. Clarke's The Baron. 30 to 1 agst Mt. Irvrfn's Mickey Free—taken to 501. 35 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Cataract—take 40 to 1. 35 to I agst Mr. llesseltine's Fitzallen—take 40 to 1. 40 to 1 agst Mr. Thonapsow's llope—taken. 40 to 1 agst Mr. Copeland's Arthur-50 to 1 laid once. 40 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklant's Inheritress. 50 to 1 agst Mr. F. Ongeley's Roderick—tak en . 50 to 1 agst Mr. H. Stebbings's Billy Purvis. 50 to 1 agst Mr. E. R. Clarke's Mervis. NEWMARKET HANDICAP. 16 to 1 agst Mr. Goodwin's Dexterous, DF.RET. 11 to 4 on the fi e ld agst three—taken to 1001. 5 to 1 agst Lord E. Russell's Sting—taken to a large sum. 15 to I agst Gen. Shnbrick's Brocardo—taken and aft offered. 22 to 1 agst Col. Anson's lago—taken. 30 to 1 agst Mr. Bamsay's Malcolm—taken. 1,000 to 30 agst Mr. W. Scott's Tibthorpe— taken several times. 1,000 to 25 agst Sir J. Hawley's Humdrum —taken. 50 to 1 agst Mr. Forth's Nutleaf—taken. OAKS. S to 1 agst Forth's lot—taken to 50/. 11 to 1 agst Sir C. Monk's Vanish—taken to 50/. 20 to 1 agst Mr. Gulley's Mendicant 20 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Cuckoo—taken 33 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wilderness—taken. LIVERPOOL STEEPLE AND HURDLE RACES.—BY a corrected return of the acceptances for these events, we perceive that the Coiner is struck out of the steeple-chase, and that Crcesus accepts for the hurdle stakes. COVENTRY. RACES. Nominations for the Craven Trial Stakes—lsabella, 3 yrs ; Salo plan, 4yrs; b c by Touchstone out of Laura ; Amazon, 3 yrs ; High_ field, 3 yrs; Pantasa, 4 yrs; Buttress, 3 yrs; Astonishment, 3 yrs; Symmetry, 4 yrs. Handicap of 10 soya. each, 5 ft. To declare, March I s t —Billy Purvis, 3 yrs ; Pleasure Tri p , 3 y rs ; Fan cy Girl, 3 yrs ; Ya r dl ey , 6 yrs ; Porto Bello, 6 yrs ; Brother to Beaumo n t , 3 yrs ; Godfrey, 5 yrs ; Reliance, 4 yrs ; Kilgram, 5 yrs ; Butt ress, 3 yrs ; Astonish- The City Stakes of 5 sovs . each, an d 20 added—Silversides, bl m 6 m y en rs t,. 3 yrs; Wild Roe, 4 yrs ; Europa, 6 yrs ; Que en o f the Gipsies, by Ransom out of Emma's dam, 5 yrs ; Powick, 4 yrs ; Kitty Wee by Advance, 4 yrs ; Niobe, 5 yrs ; Master Downes, 4 yrs ; Isabella, aged ; Pot Boy, aged ; Sir Harry, 4 yrs. The hurdle Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added—Little Johnny, aged ; Isabella, aged ; Mayflower, aged ; Tom Tough, 6 yrs. The City Handicap of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added —Marian Ram say, 3 yrs ; sailor, aged ; Bendigo, 6 yrs ; Exhort ; Europa, .6 yrs ; Fama, aged; Niobe, 3 yrs. 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Immediately they are placed before imper fect vision, that mist and dullness which appear before the eyes is at once removed; every object becomes clear and distinct, so that the most aged and imperfect sight becomes bright and brilliant, and is brought to its youthful, natural, and original state. Also, Achromatic Telescopes, Opera Glasses. Micro scopes, Invisible and all kinds of Acoustic Instruments, for relief of most extreme deafness. Caution—Not in any way con nected with a person of the same name in their immediate neighbourhood. To prevent mistakes, be cautions, and observe— On y to be had at 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and 25, South Castle-street, Edinburgh. [ADYERTISEMENT-]—The Earl of Aldborough and Holloway's Pills.—An astounding Cure by this miraculous Medicine after every other means had failed. See extract of his Lordship's letter dated Villa Messina, Leghorn, Feb. 21, 1845. "To Professor Holloway. Sir, —I beg to acquaint you that your pills have effected a cure of a disorder In my liver and stomach which all the most eminent of the faculty at home and all over the Continent had not been able to effect. Nay, not even the waters of Carlsbad or Marienbad. (Signed) Aldborough."—These wonderful Pills will cure any disease of the liver and stomach.—Sold (also Holloway's Ointment) at Professor Holloway's establishment, 244, Strand and by all medicine vendors throughout the civilised world A fourth edition of " The Crescent and the Cross," by Eliot Warburton, Esq., has just been P ublished, in twoso, truly vols., price 21s. bound. This deli g htful work (as the Morning p observes) is one of the most readable books of travels that peregri nator ever penned. It is, from first to last, a splendid panorama of Eastern scenery in the full blaze of its magnificence. It is impossi ble to read " The Crescent and the Cross" without being transported for the time on to the sedgy banks of the eternal Nile, into the country of our old friend Ilaroun Al Raschid, with all its delightful delusions, which, though partly dispelled, can never be forgotten. Moreover the crowning merit of the book is that it is evidently the production of a gentleman and a man of the world, who has lived in the best society, and has been an attentive observer of the scenes, incidents, and infinite variety of characters which have passed be fore him during his joyous existence. To a keen sense of the ludicrous he joins a power of sketching and grouping which arc most happily demonstrated. To Gentlemen who shave themselves the following query is proposed.—Why do all the first cutlers of Europe use and recommend Saunders' Four-sided Tablet Razor Strop ? The answer is, simply because it is the only one that gives to a razor a keen and smooth edge. Manufactory, 25, Strand, THE MURDER IN DRURY-L ANE.—APPREHENSION OF TILE SUPPOSED Assessitt.—The boy Wicks was apprehended shortly after ten o'clock last night by Thompson and Pocock, two constables of the F Division, at a small coffee -shop in Little Queen-street, Hol born. He was immediately removed to the chief police station in Bow-street, where the charge was formally entered against him. We are requested to contradict a paragraph, copied from a morning contemporary, which appeared in The Sun of Satur day last, headed " Capt. Williams and the Norwich Gaol," which, with the exception of a mandamus having been threatened, is wholly untrue. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager has transmitted the ansu of 201 . W the hulas of St. Paula Bardera. Uc l . Ili n , CB of lilam ' 4 Dtain dery Fr *Ph 1.. C lEttle s L'‘ll t tir kt th e ) ( 3 litt4 .l qts Of p of 11 14; - , 44, ary p 4 Der 44 14;1 4 k is a e at)l (4. 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