The Sun. — London, England, 1846-01-17 00:00:00

LORD J. RUSSELL IN GLASGOW. On Monday last the freedom of the city of Glasgow was conferred Upon Lord John Russell by the Town Council in the City Hall, in the presence of upwards of 3,000 individuals. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in acknowledging the compli ment paid to him by the Town Council of Glasgow, said, after a few introductory remarks, ho would not deny that, although he thought it his duty in public life to pursue that course, which, in his conscience, he deemed best fitted for the public welfare; yet he did feel depressed when the approbation of his fellow countrymen did not follow that conduct; and he felt proportionably proud and gratified when he received the marks of that approbation. His Lordship then referred to the Test and Corporation Acts, and several other im portant measures, after which he proceeded as follows: — "I will not detain you by touching on these measures; but I must refer to two questions in which I have taken a great interest, and upon which. I have met with great opposition, but with respect to which I expect, as with regard to others, to see public opinion firmly and de cidedly pronounced in their favour. The one was, that as Scotsmen ought to have the privileges of English men, so Irishmen ought to have the privileges of Eng lishmen and Scotsmen. I consider that the union was but a parchment, an unsubstantial union, not to be trusted to in the hour of difficulty and distress, unless you showed Irishmen that you were prepared to allow them to participate in all our rights and privileges, and to treat them exactly as if they were the inhabitants of the same island.—(Cheers.) I therefore could never listen to the assertion that they were to be considered as aliens'—(cheers) —nor could I consent to any laws which were fotliaded on that unjust presumption; and yet the end4v6fir to obtain these privileges, with re spect to corporations for instance, the simple power of Irishmen being allowed to govern their own municipal matters, to regulate their own local affairs, even that privilege cost us session after session of endeavour to enforce. lam happy to say that at this time of day the principle appears to be generally allowed, and the ques tion in dispute is only hew it is to be carried into effect. For my own part, I must say that I thought I could do me greater benefit to the country than to endeavour to cement Ireland to Great Britain in affection, both in peace and war. Far, however, from having obtained any strength from this effort, it has been a source of re peated calumnies—calumnies which you all have heard, which at the time I despised, but which were felt mate rially to impede the public usefulness which might have been in other circumstances. I proceed now to the other question to which I have referred, namely cora mercial freedom.—(Flear, hear.) It is not the place to argue whether the general principles which Adam Smith has laid down on this suhject arc the true prin ciples. I believe men who belong, whether to the pre sent Cabinet, or whether to the late Cabinet, or who have been thought worthy, from their eminence in either House of Parliament, of attempting to rule this country, are generally agreed on this subject—that legislation cannot do so well as the free intelligence, the free skill, the free industry of the inhabitants of this United King dom. But Mr. Adam Smith, Mr. Ricardo, and others who have written on this subject, have all said that if a vicious•system of monopoly or proteetion has been long embedded in the. legielation of a country, that it re quirLd caution; that it required deliberation, to consi der in what manner such restrictions could be removed. Upon such principles, and upon such advice, was founded the general outline of the measures which were pro posed by the Ministry which lost office in consequence of this proposition in 1841. You all know that part of this proposition was, that there sheuld be an admission of foreign sugar with a differential duty of les. It was an other part that the differential duty on colonial tim ber should be dimjniehed ; it was another part of the scheme that the.' duties on corn; instead of proceeding on what is called the sliding . scale, a houel be regulated according to a uniform fixed duty of Bs., subject only to suspension by an Order in Council in case of necessity, of which her Majesty's ad visers were to be the jiidges. Now, gentlemen, in con secptence of that proposition, the Government of that day were assailed as being the most violent enemies of the landed and agriculture! interest. I was held up myself to all the .fareaere as an enemy of the agriculturists of the finite:l Kingdom. They rejected my proposition, and it was prevented from linsig carried in Parliament. - The friends of protection—the friends of monopoly, as I may call thein—thought they had obtained a gretr triumph in defeating that (Je.ernment, and returning Another more favourable to their views. Do they now rejoice that the Si. duty was rejected ?—(Cheers.) Are they now prepared to say that the es. duty, which would have prevented much of the misery, and mitigated many of the evils of oar mantifecth inn towns in the y !are 1841, 1842, and 184 e, would not have heen a to npromise most favourable t' those who were calling for protection? I was represeeted as an enemy to the landed interest, and to the fernier. Upon my word, upon reflecting on my conduct, the only doubt I have is, whether that duty having been rejected, peremptorily rejected,. with every mark of indignation and contumely, I ought not to have at once said that I would make no further proposition of the kind. But I proceeded ; I still said that I thought it would be wise on their part to seek for a fixed duty. I went on, an when there was a surplus in the revenue, I said that it they could prove that there were taxes that pressed ua th rit, then was the time to ask for an equality of taxation, along with the abelitien of the corn-laws ; but I was again treated with indignation, and as an enemy to the lareLed interest. But let us consider what has been the effect of the rejection of these terms. Is there any man now, who as a Nleohi r of Parliament—as a Mi nister to his Sovereign, would propose terms equally faveurable to these advocates of protection as thte.e which I proposed in lett? I believe not—ellear, hear, and loud cheers)—and for my part, when .1 saw this obstinate and continued rejection, I reflected that that confined proposition of mine, while it was not accepted by the landed interest, was really an obstacle is the way of those who asked for the complete freedom o! trade on the subject of corn ; and rather than put that cbetacle in the way, and believing that the present corn laws are, as I have stated, injurious to agriculture as well as to commerce, I withdrew that propesition, and declared my opinion in a letter to the electors of the city of London, whom I have the honour of representing, that these corn-laws ought to be totally repealed.— (Cheers.) Gentlemen, it is not for me in this place to refer to occurreneee of which you must all be aware, and of which the day of explanation will arrive as soon as Parliament meets ; but this I will say, that when that day of explanation arrives, I .trust you will find that I did not shrink from the assertion of the principles con tained he that letter to the electors of the cite , of Lon don.—(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, the question of the proposition with regard to the corn-laws is now in the hands of Sir Robert Peel. I know no more than your selves what his proposition may be, or how he has agreed with the remaining colleagues from whom he had differed, and who have again consented to serve under him ; but of this I am fully convineed, that if Sir Robert Peel wishes his measure to be safe-Lsafe to propose and safe to carry—it must be founded upon broad and extensive principles.—(Cheers.) I am persuaded that, unless it contain total repeal, the friends of monopoly and protection will rejoice at the proposal of a measure which will not satisfy the country, and that they will take heart to defeat that which otherwise they will not have the means of ,epposing—l say they will not have the means of opposing.—(Hear, hear.) Not that I do not believe but that they can make some struggle if they choose on behalf of proteetion—not but that I believe that if they stand on the ground of pro tection, and we stand on the ground of freedom, there may not be a formidable opposition to the"measure, of the Government in the House of Commons—not but that it is within the range of possibility that there may at first be a defeat of that measure; but if it is such - a measure as I should wish it to be, I feel confident that defeat will be a temporary and not a final one—(cheers) —that that defeat will only be the commencement of a struggle which I should indeed regret to see, but which I should infinitely prefer to the carrying of a measure which would not settle this question—(cheers) — which would not at once, for ever and ever, settle the question, and leave the people of this country that which they ought to possess, the power and the privilege to obtain their food as cheap and as good as it is possible for them to obtain it.—(Cheers.) I believe that now the people of this country, to whom these questions were presented some time ago in a shap e difficult for them altogether to see th e bearing of them —I believe they now stand in such a shape that the peo ple of this country will give their support to no measure which does not entirely rid them of the corn-laws. — (Cheers.) Sometime ago, in the year 1841, it was said by those who advocated protection, that the interests of the labouring classes would be injured, that their wages would be lowered, if the price of corn was dimiuished by free importation. It,. was said.likewise that we should be exposed to scarcity' from time to time were the restric tions removed from the importation of foreign corn. This is another of those assertions which now obtain no belief. Sir Robert Peel said in the House of Com mons that he did not give his assent to : the proposition that the labouring classes would he injured by the low price of , food ; and every intelligent man who can think h on the subject, is now -of the same opinion. — tit ear.) And with regard to the opinion of those stah7eeetqhui who maintain that we should be exposed to periods of seareity by removing the restrictions on the importa tion of foreign corn, I think the principle is well stated by Adam Sinith, that if the kingdoms of a continent have free communication with each other with regard to food, the prices will be more' equal in all of them than if each ki ngdom T w h e is re governed by separate laws upon that subje c t, priaciple, therefore, if appli cable to continental countries, is equally applicable to a free communication with f t e r h o e e r s h w' whole world. If we cannot get a su ffi cient supply o, ti e i s m Dantzic or from Po , land, we may obtain it from or if not, we may obtain it froth So diet the fr ee United States of Atnerica.—(Cheers.) . 131 a importationck S ea'; of food is sure to lead to a more general and a general provision of the people of this count ry, o l F.P t sice s s ' a better mode tean any law can afford. say, t hat -11 law can afford; fur we have tried what some of the wises t Supplied rnen in this country have invented as artificial sch eme s by which the country might be more equally with food. We have tried the scheme of 1815, of which Lord Moen. was the proposer. We have tried the scheme of 1828, of which Lee] Liverpool and Mr. Huse kirsoa were the original;,; and peihnotere ; and wee have had the scheme of 1512, of which Sh. Robert. Peel was the author, eter having gib' ;11 tine Winos; attention to the subject. W e d o not say that the propesers of these schemes were unskilful or unitise is the invention of ar tificial schemes, but we do say that no artificial scheme whatever w ill so supply the people of this country with food, as leaving it tree and unfettered; to p u r sue its na tural course as an import of the country country,—({;re branch of tie commerce and If I am right TWIRL ' the ( preeo"ptleaPPolfause th i s country, that vivi this co untry, take this view of the e any Gee. to tell me whether he 41tte the - pub lic men of this country that can resist The peopl e o f overnettei be formed 7 'thst: 46;1,4A:4, od sheerin g .) • this country are used to toil—their labour is often protracted—frequently it is of the most skilful nature. The curse that was pronounced, that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, is submitted to ; and whether in the country in agricultural occupations, or whether in the towns in mechanical and manufacturing operations, you see men, not from sunrise till sunset, but for far longer hours, giving all the strengh of their sinews to labour — to hard labour—with the view of ob taining their daily bread. They submit manfully—they submit with courage to that toil, in the hope of keeping themselves and their families in sustenance, if not in comfort ; and if they wish that their bread should not be farther stinted—that man should not make that more difficult by legislation which the eternal doom of the Almighty has already made difficult in regard to the natural course of things—where, I would wish to know, is the House of Commons, elected by the people, which will long resist such a wish ?—(lmmense cheering.) Gentlemen, there is another advantage which I think will accrue from the total abolition of the duties on the importation of grain—lthink it will bind us more closely in relations of peace 1,311 amity with foreign States, and more especially with one—l mean the United States of America.—(Cheers.) I think nothing of the questions which may now be in dispute—questions of territory, in which, as they now stand, the honour of neither nation is engaged, and upon which calm men, representing the Government of her Majesty, and representing the Go vernment of the United States, may, as I believe, by calm and fair discussion, come to an amicable agree ment. I see no prospect of war arising out of this difference—if we on this side are determined with regard to the importation of the produce of the United States, and if the Government of the United States is determined with regard to the manufactures of this United Kingdom, that there shall be free intercourse— that they shall be permitted to feed as, and we shall be pemitted to clothe them.—(Loud cheers.) I believe that if no unhallowed and partial legislation should stand in the way of such exchange, that these two nations— they being of the same race and the same language as ourselves—are formed to continue for centuries together in the bonds of amity—united in a family compact—not such a compact as that between France and Spain, aris ing from the mere relationship of the reigning families and their courts, but a compact arising from feeling our selves to be of the saute blood, and admirers of each others institutions--they respecting . the freedom of our monarchy, and we admiring their republic. I be lieve such a union may for centuries endure for the lasting happiness of the world. I have now to thank you, not only for the honour you have conferred upon me, but for the indulgence with which you have listened to the e xpression of my political opinions. It will be my duty before long, in the House of Commons, to declare my opinions upon some of the most important questions that were ever agitated in that community. I fear not the discussion. I should have little fear of the opposition or the arg uments of the men to whom I may be opposed—even though they should think, as a gentle man who was lately proposed as a Member of the House of Commons did, that the fittest comparison of me was that of Satan.—(Laughter.) I say I shall be very little afraid even of so brilliant a comparison as that, if the gentlemen of the douse of Commons, who represent protection, will only employ such arguments as they adopted last year.—(Laughter.) You will hear Sir Robert Peel accused of treachery to the landed interest. I will not enter upon that question now; but I would here just say, that he was very unkind to the landed interest, for he allowed them to speak for themselves, ind make out their own cause.—(Laughter.) And such an exhibition as it was—such a melancholy show of bad argument, and worse declamation, I have never heard. One day we had a gentleman for an hour ar.d a half, with a number of statistical documents, to show that beef would be one penny and mutton a halfpenny a pound cheaper, all of which he attributed to the tariff, and asked how can you possibly support any law so disastrous in its results? There is no saing how cheap beef and mutton and lamb may become if you go on in ;his ruino4s policy of free trade.—(Laughter.) Another day the Minister proposed that a number of articles should be free—he proposed, not indeed corn, or oats, or maim, but a number of unpalatetble articles, such as rhubarb aid senna, and all those drugs whose names themselves are very nauseous.—(Laughter.) But diese protection genalemen were still afraid. Though assured that these laws really allowed nothing of human food to ha admitted free, they were always on the look-out, and harmed lest some fund should come in,—(llear, hear.) And when they came to the article of grease, they were under great apprehension. They said—ls not grove butter ? and may not some persons import this grease for the purpose of eating it ?—(Laughter.) And Sir George Clerk, Vice President of the Board of Trade, was obliged to get up with great solemnity—for he does most of these things with great solemnity— and assure these gentlemen, all the county Members, and a vast phalanx at the lower end of the House, that this grease meant butter spoiled for human food by tar—(Great laughter)—and he confidently assured them that no human being would attempt to eat it.—(Renewed laughter.)—New, if they will but use such arguments as these, which, as I say, Sir R. Peel most unkindly al lowed them to use for themselves, and did not stand forth in their behalf, they may cal l me by any terms they please. Ido not know they can call me worse than the devil—(laughter)--but if they use such ridicu lous arguments as these, I shall be sure of a triumph over them.— (Cheers.) I hope I may be entitled to say, having received this homiur from you, anti being the representative of the city of London, that the great cities of England and Scotland are determined that this monopoly shall last no longer, and that commerce shall be free."—(lnunense cheering.) The Noble Lord, on sitting down, was greeted with thre e tremendous rounds of applause. The meeting then separated ; and his Lordship, on leaving the hall wes loudly cheered by the immense multitude assembled outsid, sprung from the emancipation of the human mind ; but if I were to speak of such men as Martin Luther and John Knox, and look to what is recorded of them, or the words they sometimes used, I will not find their expressions of that soothing kind, and of that mel lifluous sound many fastidious persons would like. lam not astonished, therefore, when everything is considered —when I think on the time and energy which many spend in the promotion of this cause, and of the frailty with which everything human must be conducted—when I hear harsh language, and even some misconstruction of the motives of the men who oppose them. You will for give me for making these observations. After all that has passed today—after the honours conferred upon me —and after the speeches we have heard, I thought it would be something like a wilful blindness, something like a pettiness on my part, were I not to acknowledge the great services which such men as Mr. Villiers and Mr. Cobden have rendered in forwarding the important question of commercial freedom.—(Great applause.) The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. MANCHESTER, JAN. 16. STOCK EXCPIANGE.—The sales are—Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, New, 1 /e p.—Chester and Manchester Direct, 12s. dis.—Dudley, Ironbridge, and Sheffield, IA dis.—Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, &c., 2 1 4 p.—Grand Union, IA p.—Hud dersfield and Sheffield Junction, 15 p.—Leicester and Bir mingham, I A p.—Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 2 p.— Manchester and Southampton, 1 1 4_ p.—North Eastern, 1 / 4 dis.—North Staffordshire, 3 3 j q p.--Nottingham and Boston, % dis.—Nottingham, Erewash, and Ambergate, % p.—Shef field and Manchester, Quarters, No. 1,6% p.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 1 p.—Shropshire Union, 3s. 6d. p.—Trent Valley Continuation and Holyhead, % dis.—Trent Valley, Midland, and Grand Junction, I 4 p. —West Lancashire Coast, par—West Riding Union, 43/0. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM. MANcHmEn, TTURSDAY.—To-day, at noon, a meeting, of the Scripholders in this Company was held at the Star Hotel, Deansgate, in this town, to consider the announzement lately made, of an amalgamation with the Dudley, Madeley, and Broseley. At the time appointed, about thirty-five Shareholders and solicitors, representing shares to a very large amount, were present. Mr. HARRISON BLAIR moved that Mr. Todd take the chair. Mr. BLAIR moved that the "proposed amalgamation between the Shrewsbury and Birmingham, and the Dudley, Madeley, and Broseley line is highly injurious to the interests of the Shareholders of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Company, and that the following gentlemen be appointed a Committee, to protect the general interests of the Share holders." He would not propose that resolution, but he would propose the appointment of a deputation, and he would suggest that they be specially instructed to ascertain whether the Dudley and Madeley plans had been completed and de posited according to law, without which they would not be in a position to go to Parliament. Mr. SAVERY said that the effect of the proposed amal. gamation would be to reduce the value of their property by one-third, giving the defunct company three shares for two. Mr. Aniswogrx, of Bolton, and others, thought that a deputation should go up to London or Birmingham, as the case might be. Mr. JAMES WOOLLEY, druggist, proposed as an amendment, that Mr. Blair should write to the seal tary for official in formation on the subject. The amendment having been seconded, was put and lost by a large majority, and Messrs. Mawdesley, Davies, and Blair were appointed a deputation for • the purpose before re ferred to, and they were directed to report to a meeting of shareholders to be held at a future day. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN. A numerous meeting of the rate-payers of the parish of Christ Church, Surrey, was held at the vestry-room, yester day, for the purpose of receiving a communication from the board of highways with reference to the railway proposed to be carried through the Blackfriars.road by the London and South-Western Railway Company. Mr. Pegg, churchwarden, was called to the chair. Mr. liollsoN said they were no doubt aware that it was proposed to construct a railway through their parish, and that it was intended to pull down some of their houses. There were two companies who had this in contemplation : one of these, the London and South-Western, had served them with a notice; the other, the North Kent, had not. The Board of Surveyors on last Friday, held a meeting, and resolved, that as the meeting of the parishioners, which was fixed for last Thursday to consider this subject, had not taken place, to dissent from the proposed railway, from a conviction that it would be injurious to the interests of the parishioners. The VESTRY CLERK then read the notice, which stated that the Company intended applying to Parliament next session for leave to amend the Bill they had obtained for a line to Waterloo-bridge, and that they intended to-subtitute one which would pass through William-street, York-street, Gravel-lane, and Jane-street. He also read the resolution re ferred to by Mr. Hobson, The CHAIRMAN said, the line proposed by the London and South-Western would affect very seriously their in terests, and would reduce the property in the parish about 5 per cent., by the pulling down of 163 houses assessed at 2,6481. It was now time for them to see what steps they should af.lopt to prevent that; or should they succeed in getting that railway, to attend to the interests cf the parishioners. The South-Western proposed an embank. ment, and the North Kent a viaduct, to be carried across the road. Mr. Bowpnett said that they were met to consider what would bi advantageous to. the Collective interests of the country, as well as what affected the parish. It was certain that one-eighteenth portion of the house property in the parish would be destroyed, and that, consequently, fifteenpence in the pound would be added to their rates, or the difference between 8501. and 9001. The effect would be, that all the property in the parish would suffer materially, and he would propose a resolution to that effect. But it was not confined to the parish to be opposed to this railway; the public feeling was in general against it, for it would destroy the beauty of the road without effecting any adecivate benefit in the transit of goods, which would have been effected much better by the line.befere proposed. That line would have been carried, but that the Company could not agree with Mr. Alderman Humphery as to the compensation to be given him if they were to go to London-bridge. By the Bill that was obtained last year they proposed to make Waterloo-bridge the terminus, and that place had the approbation of Mr. Hawes. Mr. WEBB concurred in the opinion of the last speak!r, for he was satisfied that wherever viaducts were erected the neighbourhood was invariably injured. He was also of opi nion that the line from Kennington would be more desirable, for the traffic came chiefly by that way to the west-end of the metropolis. He, therefore, believed that it would be more consistent with the interest of the public were that line adhered to. Mr. Witsox said that the householders in the neighbour hood of Waterloo-bridge had suffered the Bill to pass from a conviction that the district would he materially benefited by the railway to that bridge, and that the rental would he con siderably increased. And the Corporation of London had permitted the Blackwall Railway to come to Fenchurch-street from a similar conviction. They had even proposed that two of the largest railways should come through Farringdon street. It would be a perfectly futile attempt for any Com mittee they might appoint, to seek to prevent the passing of the Bill for the proposed railway. It would be more ad visable for them to work with the South-Western Company, and Government would take care that the interests of the parish were not sacrificed pending the time of their treating with that Company. They would also derive great benefit during the construction of the railway by the employment of labourers, and it was unwise for them, a small, metropolitan parish, to offer opposition to an important and useful under taking. Mr. HoesoN conceived that, on public grounds, it would be better if they paid it out of their own pockets. The houses that would be pulled down were not old, but most [of them new, and all of which paid rates. - The rental with these houses was 3,3271., which would be reduced Ito 2,6481. And again, the viaduct that was proposed to be erected would be but 90 feet in width, while the road was 80 feet broad, and the footpath 40 feet. _ _ In the evening, Lord John Russell dined with the Lord Provost, in the Town hall, when there were also pre eent-e-Lord Belhaven, Sir T. D. Lauder, Hon. Fox Maule, M.P., Andrew Rutherford, Esq , M.P., W. Gibson Craig, Esq., M.P., J. Campbell, of Craigie, Esq., the Marquis of Breaclalbane, D. Ross, Esq., M.P. Lord JOIIN RUSSELL, in proposing the toast " The cause of civil, religious, and commercial freedom all over the world," said—You are all well acquainted with the toast given in former times by Mr. Fox, and afterwards by Mr. Canning, and I have no doubt but you have heard that toast on many occasions, and have heartily responded to the sentiment of " Civil and religious liberty all over_ the world." But there is another kind of freedom now more in question, upon which the immediate fate of most im portant measures depend—l mean commercial freedom. —(Cheers.) And when I say commercial freedom, Ido not mean that it is to be any partial or unfair applica tion of that principle. I have never looked upon this question but as upon one which required the careful deliberation of statesmen, and 'upon which particular measures, from time to time, in a particular state of a manufacture or a colony, may not demand special con sideration. But I have always considered the object to be obtained, not partial, or to be applied to one interest, but to be general commercial freedom ; and that any duties to be imposed should not be imposed with the view of protecting any class against another class of the community. (Great applause.) . Now, thin principle has the merit of rendering, what I am sure is very de sirable, all our legislation far more safe and satisfactory than it would be otherwise. We have subjects enough and more than enough to occupy. the time, the atten tion, and the ability of the Members of both Houses of Parliament, and it will be the means of easing es of some of our labours, and of facilitating every other subject of legislation, if any part of the bur den borne by us were taken off our shoulders, and the most sin?ple way to accomplish this is to save Par liament the trouble of maintaining this system of protection. The subject of taxation should be viewed only in the light of making it press lightly on the community, and give the largest return to the Exchequer. It was only in this view that any jus tification can be offered for the protection of what is called native industry. But, in my opinion, native industry will do much better without any protection ; and if I may be allowed to confess an error, it is in not having sooner come to this conclusion. I will give you an example which will justify me in making this confes sion. The late Dr. Bailie, of London, to my knowledge, attended a patient affected with consumption for many weeks, and at the end of the time, he said to his patient that he maturely considered his case, and had come to the conclusion that he had been entirely wrong in the medicines he had given him ; that instead of doing him good, they had done the reverse, and that he would have been much better if he had left him alone at the com mencement. Dr. Bailie was a man of skill and great ex perience, and could afford to make that confession; and I say it would be well for us legislators to do sometimes the same.—(Cheers.) And I certainly believe, that if, at the commencement of these corn-laws, the patient, suffering as he was, had been left alone, he would Dow have been found in a far better state than after having undergone the various courses of medicinal preparations to which ho had been condemned. This question, I trust, of com mercial freedom is about to receive its solution. The principles have been amply iiiecussed, and are appeovet: by men of the greatest rese arc h— suc h as Adam- Smfeh, Ricardo, Malthus, and a great host of British and Con tinental writers on economical science. The public mind has been deeply imbued with correct views on this question through the works of,these authors; but when I speak about the state of the question with regard to the public mind, I would be doing an injustice to the persons belonging to that association which is held up as a bug bear to the country, and the members of it stigmatised as revolutionaries and Jacobins.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) It would not be consistent with fairness if I did not say that the progress this question has made, is very much owing to the persevering exertions, the instructive statements, and the lucid arguments employed by the mpinber3 of what is called the Anti• Corn-law League.—(Applause.) I do not think it would be just to speak of this great question, and to speak of its resent position, and fur me or any other person to talk of our efforts on this subject, without rendering duo i w n a te r, r i e , et t ca. : justice to them. And, having done so, I will say also eliket, with respect to much of the language of par tieulae members of the League with regard to the landed i d an % d vi l t o h rd r i espect to the harsh terms used to tted differ :eon its' l o p a gret b, i i t t , w l h d en I say dispute its justice the not I ' vTrin o t f h tfloscr° 4111,ap e s u ti i l s' oy3;s this, I aa; persoas who, because in t h f e n : question fa tl used, will, w hzirsh language, which t I disapprove of, ce justice of the cause, in' irrespectiveo tspersoit l ol w . ou th id e at issue, make that an excuse for my turnilto my back upon it altogether. ( I.pplatiee.) If I was shrink from more than one goed cause to which civil and . religious liberty is deeply indakt...d, instead of following it with admiration and respect I will only refer n t g o one example. All of us must adurke those efforts which were made by us for religious fret - I[km, and to obtain liberty from spiritual bondage in the sixteenth century. Individually, I view with great admiration the efforts then made, the gallaat spirit which was ready t o encounter martyrdom, and the ; glorious fruits which After some further discussion, it was agreed that a corn mittee of sixteen persons, consisting of the overseers, church wardens, and other parishioners, should be appointed to watch the progress of any railway Bill affecting the interests of the parish, and to report the same to the parishioners, who would take the necessary steps to oppose it effectually. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING-, JANUARY 17, 1846. barren rock, with a possibility before us of a second risk of starvation ; it was, therefore, unanimously agreed to run on to Port Essington, 600 miles to leeward of us, and there await the Fly, leaving a letter to inform Captain Blackwood of our proceedings. In six days, being again favoured by kind Providence, we reached Port Essington on the 2d of June. Great was the surprise of the officers, on hearing of our adventures, and unbounded was their hospitality. How grateful were our hearts for this happy and delightful change from the stern sheets of a boat, wildly tossing on the restless ocean, with starvation in prospective, to that of a good bed, good food, and sound roof for a cover. "On the 14th of June the Fly hove in sight. The two officers in command of the boats were immediately put under arrest because their proceedings had highly displeased Capt. Blackwood, who had been looking for us a month among the natives, thinking we had been taken by _them, or cap sized near the shore. A multitude of natives had been killed in this search, none were spared who showed the least hostility, the men thinking they were avenging our deaths. " When we reached Singapore, the captain offered to let the officers off if they would take from him a public re primand ; they refused, and the Fly went on to Malacca, where the admiral was stationed, and a court of inquiry (which is a disgrace to the naval service) was called on the two officers who were in command. The consequence was a "severe reprimand ;" thus proving that, according to the opinion of those who composed the " court," we did wrong in not waiting without provisions, in an unknown sea, for an unknown peroid, to meet the Fly, which strong winds, and heavy seas (as is to be proved) obliged her to run away from us, and whose position was of course unknown to us. No time or place was specified for us to meet her, and with starvation staring us in the face we ran to a place where there was a probability of getting some provisions, and in doing their best to save the lives of fifteen men, these two officers were severely reprimanded for having been guilty of disobedience of orders." LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jan. 16. (Sittings in Banco.) FRITH V. ROTHERAM. This was an action of assumpsit, brought to recover 1,0001. en a bond given by the defendant to the plaintiff, who was the manager of the Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Bank, as a security for the repayment of his account current with the Banking Company. The bond was upon a 61. stamp. and en the trial of the cause it was contended for the de fence that the bond included accumulated interest and com mission on the 1,0001., which made the amount received by the instrument indefinite, and therefore the bond ought ti have been upon a 251., instead of a 64 stamp. The Learned Judge who tiled the cause, however, overruled this objection, and the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. Mr. MARTIN now moved for a rule nisi, to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside and a nonsuit entered on the same ground as that urged upon the trial. The Learned Counsel relied, in support of his argument, upon the case of Dixon v. Cass, which was similar to the one now before the Court. That case was argued by Mr. Baron Alderson before Mr. Baron Parke, who gave judgment for the defendant, and he urged that judgment in support of his present motion. Mr. Baron PARKE said he delivered that judgment in an early stage of his judicial career, and on subsequently look ing into one or two cases on the point, his judgment under went a material change. Mr. Baron ALDERSON said he thought at the time he was too successful. The LORD CHIEF BARON ruled that commission and in terest was not so included in the bond as to render it neces sary to increase the amount of stamp duty, and the rest of the Court concurring in this opinion, the motion was ne gatived. SECONDARIES' COURT, Jan. 16. (Before Mr. Commissioner JAMES.) KREKELLtft V. KNIGHT. This was an action brought to recover damages for an assault. _ _ Mr. PEARSON stated the case for the plaintiff, who is a saddler and harness maker in London-street, Greenwich, and the defendant a lieutenant in 'the Royal Marines, on board the Grampus. In October last, during the holding of Horn Fair at Charlton. the defendant, with many others, went masked, defendant representing a bear. There was also another masquerader, a young lady, dressed as a boy, and all the parties afterwards met at the George Inn, Maize-hill. It would probably transpire that there was some degree of jealousy in the case, but at all events the defendant struck the plaintiff without the slightest provocation, and when plaintiff was wholly unable to defend himself; the blow was very severe, and the plaintiff was for a long time confined to his bed, and under surgical treatment. Mr. Wm. Farmer, broker, of Straits Mouth, Greenwich, examined—Knew plaintiff, and accompanied him to Charlton fair. They were not masked. On going to the George they saw defendant at the bar; he had a mask on and was dressed like a bear, and looked very ferocious as he walked about.—(Laughter.) had seen him in the fair in the same dress. Witness saw a Miss Doughty drinking at the bar with defendant. Defendant had run away with her about a fortnight before. Witness said, " Miss Doughty, your father is up stairs." Said that to prevent any disagreeable meeting, and Miss Doughty thanked him. Defendant, however, took offence, not at witness, but at plaintiff; and struck him a violent blow on the head with the stick produced •(a complete bludgeon). It felled him to the ground. and left hies insensible. Wit ness thought plaintiff was killed, and seized defendant, who made his way to a carriage, and got into it ;• but the police went up. Plaintiff had not uttered a word. The young lady dressed as a boy told him Miss D. was at the bar. Defendant said he would pay all expenses. Other witnesses deposed to the extent of the injuries. Thomas Spurn, R 55, found plaintiff lying on the ground, and went after defendant, who was in a carriage. A friend was expostulating, and endeavouring to induce him to make peace, observing, " You gave him a devil of a good blow ;" and defendant replied, "I know I gave hint a good crack." The identity of the defendant in disguise was rather diffi cult, and the Secondary, in his notes, described him as " the man in the bear-skin." Defendant, however, gave his right addreAs to the officer. The SECONDARY said it appeared to him a wanton, un provoked; and cruel assault. It was the province of the jury to mark their indignation of such conduct resulting from such freaks and foolish indulgences, by giving proper redress to the plaintiff to check such conduct —Damages 401. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. THE ALLEGED ROBBERY OF LETTERS OF ALLOTMENT.— Robert Thompson, charged with having stolen a letter of allotment of forty shares in the British and Irish Union Rail way Company, and a banker's receipt for 1201., paid as a deposit on the shares, which were at the time in the market at 3/. premium, was brought before the Lord Mayor for further examination. It was obvious that Capel-court, and the neighbouring places of resort for casual speculators, had poured its masses into the Mansion-house to witness the exhibition. Mr. Humphreys appeared for Mr. Hitchin, the prosecutor, a dealer in 'shares " outside," who stated that the document had been worth 2601. to him at the time the prisoner stole it. Mr. Humphreys said he had received, since the last examination of the prisoner, the identical letter of allotment to which was attached the banker's receipt for 120/., and which had been stolen from Mr. Hitchie. The prisoner's solicitor objected to the production of the receipt without the production of all the witnesses to it. The production of the receipt was calculated to prove the validity of the defence rather than strengthen the case for the pro secution. Mr. Hitchin, examined by Mr. Humphreys, said that the letter of allotment and receipt produced were those which he had given to the prisoner when the prisoner called upon him with a pretended authority from Mr. Gibbons, also a share dealer, to apply for the documents. Witness had applied to Messrs. Dean and Dunlop. the London agents of the railway establishment, to send to Scotland for them, and immediate attention was paid to the request. The prisoner's solicitor (having examined the papers pro duced) said the letter was no letter of allotment at all. Mr. Humphreys—We don't care anything about any letter of allotment. The banker's receipt, which there cannot be the least doubt was a valuable paper, is everything. The prisoner's solicitor—That is not your client's property at all. The shares were allotted to the Rev. Mr. Fletcher. I have to request that the Lord Mayor will postpone the case for a week, in consequence of some heavy engagements which press upon my time and prevent me from giving at present the attention to this case which it requires.. The LORD MAYOR consented to postpone the final exami nation till Friday next, but intimated that he should then commit the prisoner for trial at the Central Criminal Court. Vierraossiso TAVERNS.— William Thompson, alias Burgess, was charged with having feasted expensively in several taverns and eating-houses at the cost of the waiters. The prisoner is a very notorious fellow about town for bilking public-houses of all kinds. It was stated by several policemen, that he had been thirty or forty times before th e Magistrates, upon charges of running scores, and that mul titudes of complainants had declined to take the trouble to appear against him on account of the ridicule to which they supposed they would have been subjected. The prisoner having been put to the bar, desired, in an authoritative voice, that all the witnesses against him should go out of Court, so that one should not be able to guide him self by the evidence of another. The first charge was that the prisoner had dined heartily upon turkeys, tarts, and stout, and was sneaking out when the waiter, suspecting that he had stolen a silver spoon or fork, seized him and searched him. No property of any kind was found upon him. Another case presented him sitting down at the Baltic Coffee'-house, at six o'clock, to mock-turtle, rump-steak, and a jorum of stout, and brandy and water, lie had entered independently enough, but as his appetite became appeased he exhibited a certain kind of uneasiness which did not escape the keen eye of the waiter, who collared him as he was sliding towards the door, but was obliged to submit to the plunder, as the police refused to take the charge. In a third case the prisoner made the landlord of' a tavern in the Old Jewry a victim, having de posited a large quantity of • rump-steaks, stout, bread and cheese, and brandy and water, without paying a farthing for the accommodation. The Loan MAYOR expressed his astonishment that land lords and waiters did not keep good strong whips in their houses, and whip such fellows as the prisoner, until they made them dance to their own roaring. —(Laughter.) The prisoner —I insist upon it that I have been illegally detained, and that the waiter who made the first charge had no right to accuse me of stealing. Every one knows that, after all, the thing is nothing but a mere small amount of debt, and I am willing to pay. The LORD Mavoa—When ? The prisoner —Oh, as soon SS possible, of course.—( Laughter.) I must say, however, that I deny the Old Jewry debt altogether. I acknowledge the two other debts, and I shall pay due attention to them; but your Lordship knows as well as myself that these in dividuals have all along been acting illegally. Nobody is justified in detaining me here or elsewhere. There seems to he no respect for the laws in this place at all.—(Laughter.) The Loan MAYOR—I shall see whether we can't find some law to meet you. If we cannot, then we must endeavour to procure e e on e for you. In the mean time I shall remand you f The prisoner —I protest against any remand. It is against the spirit and the letter of the law. The Loan MAYOR—Take him away. I hope the tavern keepers will get a likeness of this fellow to hang up in their houses, and I hope, too, they will keep each a good whip in the bar to lay across his shoulders, to enable him to digest his dinner, or to prepare him for one if he should be previously detected. _ _ told by, the police-sergeant who had taken the charge, that the amount was 40s. - Mr. HENRY, - as well - as those present, seemed somewhat startled at the lowness of the bail; but, on inquiry, it ap peared that this is the amount fixed by the Commissioners of Police for bail on charges of mere drunkenness, and ordered that the recognizances be estreated, upon which the applicant at once paid the 2/. The case was thus disposed of without'exciting any obser vation beyond a slight surprise that 40s. should have been paid as the penalty for an offence for which the utmost fine, if the party appeared, that could be inflicted was ss. • It has since been rumoured that the party charged, in stead of being Mr. George Spencer Frevill, as he described himself at the station-house, was no less a personage than George Spencer Churchill, Duke of Marlborough. It appears that about eleven o'clock on Monday night the attention of police-constable 112 A was called to a gen tleman who was lying on the floor outside one of the boxes in Astley's Theatre, and who appeared to be labour ing under the effects of excessive intoxication. The con stable, with assistance, conveyed his drunken charge to the station-house in Tower-street,tambeth ; and on reaching that place he appeared so far gone, that the sergeant on duty felt it necessary to send for Mr. Wagstaff, the divisional surgeon, who promptly attended, and by his assistance the patient became sufficiently recovered to be conscious of his situation, and gave a fictitious name and address. He, however, sent for the Marquis of Blandford, but the Noble Marquis was from home at the time. The intelligence of the awkward situation of his master had, however, it is said, reached the ears of Morris, the Duke of Marlborough's valet, and that person instantly hastened to the station-house, gave bail for the prisoner's appearance the next day, and was the person who attended and paid the money. Mr. HENRY, as has been before stated, was] ignorant of the rank of the party charged when he disposed of the case, but had he been made acquainted with it, he had no power whatever of compelling the attendance of the Noble Duke, and in entreating his recognizances he imposed the highest penalty the law permitted. IRELAND. LAW APPOINTMENTS. DUBLIN, JAN. 14.—Matters remain in statu quo; and it is not likely that further arrangements will be announced until the wishes of Sir Robert Peel shall have been communicated to the Lord-Lieutenant. This day, doubts are expressed as to the certainty of Mr. Brewster's appointment to the Solicitor-Generalship; and various rumours are afloat as to other appointments ; but, under present circumstances, it is unnecessary to repeat them. There seems to be a serious difficulty as to providing a seat in the House of Commons for one of the Irish law officers. METROPOLITAN LINES. A meeting of the inhabitants of Isleworth was held this week, in the National School-room, Isleworth-square, Mr. William Day in the chair, to receive a report from the com mittee appointed by the vestry to inquire which of the pro jected railways would be most likely to benefit the parish. Mr. Charles Stanbrough was the chairman. Mr. Holum DAY read the report, from which it appeared that only seven of the projected lines out of the fourteen or fifteen originally announced, had proceeded so far as to deposits their plans with the clerk of the parish.—( Hear, hear.) That four out of the seven were objectionable, as not affording the local advantages the parish required, and of the remaining three, viz., "the London, Hounslow, and Western," " the Staines branch from the Great Western' at Ealing," and " the Great Western, Brentford, and Central Terminus Junction," it was considered the Staines branch was deci dedly the best for the interests of the parish ; next the London, Hounslow, and Western ; and then the Great Western, Brentford, and Central Terminus Junction. It was to be distinctly understood that the report was based on the advantages to be derived by the parish of Isleworth, that being the limit of the instructions of the committees, and that it was highly necessary, if any line were to pass through the parish, that the one which appeared to offer the greatest advantages should be supported. The reasons assigned for the preference of the Staines branch from the Great Western were, that it would ac• commodate nearly every part of the parish—that it would contribute more than any other towards the paro chial rates—that it was much more easy of formation, con sequently cheaper, and would be more readily carried out, and although the Paddington terminus was objectionable, it was I upposed the Great Western line would be shortly ex tended to the City. Mr. Dixon moved that the report be received and adopted. Mr. H. POWNALL moved as an amendment to that motion, " That the thanks of this meeting be given to the Committee for the careful report they have made, but that the meeting did not consider the branch from the Great Western the best for their interests."--(Hear, hear.) Mr. HARRISON then addressed the meeting on behalf of the London, Hounslow, arid Western, and Major Bon,EAti on the part of the London and Windsor. The amendment proposed by Mr. POWNALL was ultimately carried, a discussion having first arisen as to the right of non parishioners to vote, When the Chairman decided that as the call for the meeting invited the inhabitants of the district it was open to them to do so. lAMALGAMATION OS' TIIE SEREWSIILTRY AND BIR MINGHAM WITH THE LONDON AND BIRMLNGIIAM.—We un iury and Birmingham with the Lon ,: crstand that arrangements are in progress for an amalga mation of the SlLreivst h an - t 1/4tilway Company, and that an agree .iißi,iremiyingto be G. 911 m tn nt nci s eluded mutually advantageous.— Birmingham Correspond:*• TILE 6OUTRZIAN Ex T.C.Noci.ss• Yesterday a meeting of the inhabaants of th g parish of St. Saviour, Southwark, took place in the vestry '.,room, to take into consideration " the notices given tly th e several railway companies of their intention to construe t railways in different parts of this parish, and also, more . particularly, such of them as interfere with parish propel 'Lb and to adopt such steps thereon as may be thougbt most desirable." Mr. W. S. Hinton, the senior warden, II al 'ing been called to the chair, the vestry clerk read the I *ol. l owing report from the paro chial authorities with referen% 14'. to the subject :—" We the churchwardens, report that 1 uttices have been given, and plans and sections have been de ',wilted by the fillowing com panies, viz.: —The S ou th-W es t, Nrn, the North Kent Line, and the City Extension and Nort h Kent Line The North Kent Line, and the City Exte. tsioll and North Kent Line, as far as the parish is concerned,, are pearly the same , both being promoted by one and the t same ,;00pany. The three line., it will be seen by referent f• to the Pacliamentarj plans, will interfere with the pariah. 'The South-Western Exten sien is the line which is of more carious consequence to the parish, and is the only one prop osi:1 4to take parish property. The South Eastern Extension Coi . npany has also given us notice of an intended line duet igf i Dartford, taking a por tion of the parish property, and try I have also returned our dissent." The report having been e i lopted, a long discussion ensued, and, finally, a committee WI A appointed to oppose the various companies. ALLEGED ATROCITIES ON 2 HE HIGH SEAS: William Straker, master of the Maria Elizabeth of Sunder land, was charged on Wednesday, at t 1 le policy-court, before the Mayor and other magistrates, with having, on the high seas, within the jurisdiction of the Ad= ;rally, feloniously cut and wounded Alexander Pickers, of that vessel, with in. The case x sited t intent to do hi m some gr i evous b o dil y hal . Considerabl e ohsiderable interest, and terminate d i n , !ommitting the cap tain , for trial Bail was subsequently 'A • epted. ‘• LEEDS, JAX:-T6. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—East Lancashire, No. 2 (late Accrington), 4% p.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 10 1 4 —Huddersfield and Sheffield, 21 1 4—Leeds and Brad ford, 52 1 4 -Liverpool and Bury, New, 2 3 4 p.—Newcastle and Berwick, 23 1 %—North British, New Carlisle Branch, 31. ls,—North Wales, 14%—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Pres ton, 4 1 4—West Riding Union, 6 3 %—Chelmsford and Bu 7, 3/. le.—Grand Union, 2s. 6d. p.—Lancashire and North York shire, 20s. p.—Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North Eastern, 911. dis.—Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 225. 6d. p.—Man chester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 2 1 4 p.—Northum berland and Lancashire Junction, 10s. dis.—North Western, 3—Nottingham and Boston, 6s. p.—Nottingham. Erewash, and Ambergate, ss. 6d. p.—Nottingham and Grantham, ss. p. —Shropshire Union, 55...11- 1 -Wakefield and Bradford, 6s. die. SHEVFIELD, STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Grimsby and Shef field, 10—Ditto, Extension, 3/. 35.—G001e and Doncaster, 41. ls.— Leeds' Wakefield, and Midl an d, 21.13 s .—Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, 2 1 4—Manchester and Lincoln Union and Canal, 21. 4s. 6d.—Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 3/. 19s.—Sheffield, Wortley, Silkstone, and Wakefield, 11. 17a. HILL, JAW. 16. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Hull and Selby, Half Shares, 206—Newcastle and Berwick, 224—Axholme, 21. 16s. 3d.—Derby aid Gainsborough, 21s. 6d.—Dudley, Madeley, and Ironbridge, 2%—East Coast, 375. 6d.— Grand Union, 30s.—Great North and South Wales and Worcester, 35.—Hu1l and Barnsley Junction, 42s,—Leicester and Bedford, 1/. 17s.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 4M —London and York, 4—Manchester, Buxton, and Mat lock, 3/. 17s. —Nottingham , Erewash, &c.,325. 6d.—Notting ham and Boston, 358.—South Midland, 41. 17s.—South Mid lands Junction, 31s.—Wakefield and Bradford, 2%. YORK, Jeir. 16. Swim EXCHANGE.-The sales are-London and York, 4 1 4 -Leicester and Bedford, 2 %-Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 4 1 4-North British, New Carlisle Extension, 2%-Newcastle and Berwick, 22 1 4-North Staffordshire, M. 18s. 9d.-Welsh Midland, 2 1 4-York and North Midland Extension, 41. BRISTOL, Jan. 16. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The only sale is-Bristol and South Wales Junction, 3/. ls. 3d. • EDINBURGH, JAN. 14. STOOK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, 325.- Airdrie and Bathgate, 475. 6d.-Banffshire, 325. -Caledonian, New, 695. 6d.-Ditto, Extension, 605.-Direct Northern, 42s -Dundee and Perth, 8-Ditto, New, 505.- Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumfries, 18s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Granton, 21%-Edinburgh and Northern, 835.-Ditto, Newport, 265.-Ditto, Lochgelly, 325. 6d.-Edinburgh, Por tobello, and Musselburgh, 335. 6d.-Forth and Clyde Junc tion, 455.-Glasgow and Lesmaliagow, 605.-Great North of Scotland, 675.-Great North and South Wales, Bs.-North B. itish, Extension to Carlisle, 565. 6d.-Scottish South Mid land, 455.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 50s. GLASGOW, JAN. 16. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-British and Irish Union, 655.-Caledonian, E x tension, 60 3 .-Dundee and Ar broath, New, 18%-Dundee and Forfar Junction, 565. 6d.- East Lothian Central, 475.-East Indian Railway, 225. 6d. -Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 17s. 6d.-Edin burgh and Northern, Lochgelly, 325.-Glasgow General Ter minus, 11 1 4-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 475. 6d.- Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 635.-Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 455.-Great North and South Wales. 65.- Inverness and Elgin. 325. 6d.-Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct, 455.- Lesmaliagow, 575. 6d.-Scottish South Midland June -155.-Slamannan and Bo'ness, 414. RAILWAY RETURNS. RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year:— Last week. ax • 0-5 Q LAMBETH. On Tuesday last, while the night charges were being dis- I used of, a person of respectable appearance got i nto the :vitness-box, and, addressing Mr. Henry, said, that on the preceding night a gentleman had been charged at the Tower street station-house with being intoxicated, and being ad mitted to bail was so ill on that morning as to be quite unable to attend before his Worship, and as it was not his intention to appear, he (the app l .icant) had come prepared to pay the amount of the rccognizances which had been en tered into. Mr. HENRY replied, that as the party had declined coming forward, he certainly should estreat his recognizances. He (Mr. Henry) then asked what was the amount of the recog nizance entered into for the appearance of the party, and was COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, JAN. 14. THE QUEEN V C. G. DUFFY, ESQ., PROPRIETOR OF THE "NATION" NEWSPAPER. At half-past two o'clock the grand jury came into Court: The Clerk of the Crown intimated to the bench that the grand jury were then in Court, and desired to communicate with their Lordships respecting the bill of indictment which bad been sent up to them in the case of the Nation news paper. . Judge BURTON (to the grand jury)—What is the nature of your application, gentlemen? Have you found true bills? A juror —We have come to a conclusion, my Lord. The foreman then handed down the bills, and the Clerk of the Crown having received them, he read aloud from the foot of the document—" We find true bills.—For self and fellow.jurors, J. Croker, Foreman." The SOLICITOR-GENzam.--My Lords, the grand jury having found true bills, I now call upon your Lordships to order that the traverser . should be bound to enter into re cognizance.. The Court assented. Mr. O'lLionrr on the part of the traverser, moved for leave to plead the averment. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL did not oppose, and the Court assented. The ordinary plea of not guilty was recorded. Mr. O'HAGAN moved for copies of the bill of indictment, which were granted. HORRIBLE MURDER. Our Limerick correspondent furnishes us with the sad de tails of an awful murder, which was perpetrated under circumstances of appalling atrocity, within a few miles of the city of Limerick, on Sunday evening. It appears that, on the evening in question, the house of a respectable farmer, of the name of Laurence Leahy, was en tered by an armed gang of miscreants, who at once called on him to kneel down. Leahy is the father of a large family of eleven children, and he has enjoyed through life a fair and respectable character. It is impossible ex actly to state how he became obnoxious to the sanguinary miscreants by whom this cruel murder was planned aad executed with a desperate and diabolical resolution ; but the fact appears to be that having entered his dwelling and the murderers having called for him, the party attacked and fired at him at his door, and murdered him in the bosom of his truly afflicted family. We have heard that he was a tenant of Sir Matthew Barrington, Bart. Another account assures us that he lived near Cahirnarry Church, and was tenant of Mr. John Cripps, formerly an Alderman of Limerick. The murderers not content with dispatching their victim, also fell upon the domestic servants and such members of'the family as came within their reach ; but it is a feature in the transac tion somewhat consoling, that the miscreants met with a warm reception from the faithful servants of poor Le thy We have heard that the servants encountered the villains with a most determined bravery, and actually made prisoners of two of the banditti, who were handed over to the police, and brought on Monday evening into Limerick gaol. It is stated to us also that the assassins have been identified as the same who, a few years ago, were tried for the murder of Mr. Shine, at Carrig parsons, not far from the same neighbourhood, and who have been prowling about the country ever since. ATTACK ON A POLICE PATROL IN THE COUNTY OF LIMERICK. Sunday night, as the police of Ahane, a parish adjoining and in the union of Castle Connell, were on patrol, they came up with an armed party, consisting of four or five men, near General Burke's gate at Ahane. The police, it appears, as in duty bound, called upon the armed party to stand and surrender; but this they resolutely refused to do, bidding defiance to the constables, and calling on them to come on! Constable Collins, a very active and efficient member of the force, immediately stepped for ward, accompanied by three other policemen, when a fire was opened on both sides, and continued for some time with unceasing briskness between the police and the banditti. The shots were heard at a very great dis tance, and considerable alarm was created throughout the district—the people not knowing from what the shots proceeded. We deeply regret .te state two of the policemen—Collins and another, whose name we haVe not heard, were dangerously wounded—one through the jaw and neck, the other in the chest, in which, we learn, two balls were driven. It is needless to say that the recovery of the policemen is extremely doubtful. The assailants, it would appear, escaped, nor has it been discovered whether they were seriously injured in the rencontre—except from traces of blood which were found in the direction they proceeded, on the fol lowing morning. Since the above was put in type, we have learned that the unfortunate constable has died of his wounds, and another account states that a second policeman has also died, whilst a third is severely wounded. The party on patrol belonged to the Anacotty station, and consisted of four men only, including the constable. The armed banditti, we are told, numbered fourteen, and proceeded with desperate determination to work. The utmost dismay and consterna tion pervades the entire district in consequence of this truly awful outrage. INSURRECTIONARY MOVEMENT IN LIMRICK. On Friday last a large number of people assembles on the lands of Sir Capel Molyneux, Knocksentry., near Castle connell, to prevent the service of ejectment,. Many of them were armed with pitchforks and eeyttes, and they had a large number of fire-arms whieh tl i ey had piled on an old fort, a la militaire. They nitre regularly encamped; had their watch-fires, and bi_vouacked all night in the fields. They fired several slats for the purpose of intimidation and defiance. The v:,tiiice were brought out, but we re afraid to encounter ttem on account of their superior numbers. Mr. Tracy, stipendiary magistrate, went to them on Saturday, when they asked him if he had come to enforce the service of ejectment? He said he did not. They then asked what brought him there? He replied, "To send them home." They then gave three cheers for Mr. Tracy. They did not, however, take Mr. Tracey's advice, and ultimately the mill *try had to be sent for, and about two o'clock on Saturday two hundred men of the 24th and 83d Regiments, with a troop of the 13th Light Dragoons, left this garrison for Knocksentry, under the command of Colonel Mansel. Upon the approach of the military the greater number of the in surgents dispersed, while the remainder still kept their ground, notwithstanding that the Riot Act was read two or three times. Among the more violent and contumacious were John Burke, Patrick Ryan, and John O'Brien, who were arrested by the police and lodged in the City gaol. This proceeding on the part of the peasantry has struck consternation into the peaceable and orderly portion of the community ; and every good man, every man who loves his country, and wishes to see her groat and prosperous, ought to unite to put down such an atrocious system of vio- lence and anarchy.—Limerick Reporter. THE MURDER AT j3ALLYNEETY. D,nuie, Jr.A 15.—Yesterday (Tuesday) James Bennett, Esq., held an inquest en the body of Laurence Leahy, at Ballyneety. A respectable jury was empannelled. Croker Barrington, and William a Barrington, Eaqs., sons of Sir M. Barrington, Leahy's landlord, attended the inquiry. From the statement of the wife of deceased, it appeared that on Sunday evening an armed party knocked at the door, between live and six o'clock, and demanded admittance, which was granted. On entering the kitchen where Leahy was sitting with his family, four men armed attacked him ; yet Leahy knocked down the four, one after the other. At this time the attention of Mrs. Leahy was attracted by another of the party, who was running towards an adjoining room, and on her return to the kitchen, she found the party with whom her husband was engaged, beating him heavily on the head. Leahy soon fell on his back, and the wife threw herself over his body to protect him. They next struck him violently on the legs with a gun, and fired a shot, which penetrated his thigh. They struck Leaky's wife on the head several violent blows with a blunderbuss. The man whom Mrs. Leahy followed from the apartment in which she was at the time the party first entered, ran into the room after her daughter, and struck her several blows, compelling her to swear that she would not divulge who they were. On their first entrance to Leahy's dwelling, the assailants called out, " heads down," and as they passed on to where Leahy was, they struck his servant-man on the head, who, from the effect of the injuries received, now lies dangerously ill in the County Infirmary. According to the testimony of Doctors Wilki nson an d P ar k e, it appeared that Leahy's right leg was d rea df u ll y f racture d , as well by the gun-shot wound as by the blows received. The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder. An awful murder was perpetrated on Monday last, at Anglesborough, in this county, six miles from Mitchelstown, and connected with the letting of land, when a respectable farmer named Lynch was shot dead on the public road, and within twenty yards of his dwelling, at mid-day. Mr. Knaresborough, S.M., Major Hill, 54th, Dr. Phelan, and the police, were in a few hours on the spot, when the corpse of the murdered man presented an awful appearance, having four wounds on the body. The shots were heard by his family and neighbours, and the assassins were seen running off. The police of the district cautioned him about his farm, as he was a marked man. At Rishyquirk, within a few miles of this city, the houses of the following farmers, all tenants of the Earl of Clare, in that district, were attacked by armed men on Friday night, and who took a gun each from William Donnelly, Thomas Collopy, Thomas Collopy (William), Patrick Lynch, and John Finucsmo, The same marauders attacked the houses of John laaopy, Thomas Fitzgerald, and Matthew Bourke, also tenants of Lord Clare, but did not succeed in their search for arms. Sunday evening, at an early hour, a Rock notice was affixed to Peatield House, near this city, •the residence of Mr. William Roche, threatening him with Captain Rock's ven geance, unless he remits the rent of potato ground which he had set at 30s. an acre under the general rate, and subse quently reduced 40s. the acre; but this was not sufficient. Mr. Roche gives liberal and constant employment in the neighbourhood at Is. a day to farm labourers, besides food, yet such is his reward. DESTRUCTIVE COMBINATION ON RAILWAYS I The Irish Railway Gazette contains the following : " We mentioned some short time ago that the Directors NAME OF RAILWAY. Week ending Jan. 10 Arbroath and Forfar •••• • • • •••• • • • • Bristol and Birmingham . Chester and Birkenhead . • • • • • • • • • • • • Dublin and Dr0gheda............ Dublin and Kingstown • ..... • • • • • • • • Dundee and Arbroath . • • - Durham and Sunderland . • • • • • • • - • • • • Edinburgh and Glasgow . •• • ••• • • • • • Eastern Counties and North Eastern • • Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • • 0111e;ow and Greenock. • • • • • • • • • • • • Grand Junction .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Gravesend and R0che5ter............ Great North of England • • • • • • • • • . • • Great Western . • • • • • Ilartlepool • • •• • • .. London and Birmingham, &c. • London and Blackwall. • • • • • • • • • • • • • London and Brighton... • • • • • • • . London and Croydon .•••• • • • • .. • - London and Greenwich. • • • • • • • . London and South Western ......... Manchester, Bolton, and Bury • • • • • . Manchester and Birmingham.. ...... Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc.. Midland Counties . • • .• • ...... • • • •• Newcastle and Darlington • • • ..... Newcastle and Carlisle.. • • • • •.. . Newcastle and North Shields.• • • • . North Union and Bolton and Preston Paris, Corbel], and Orleans • ..... • • •• Paris and Rouen Preston and Wyre...• • • • • • • • • •• Sheffield and Manchester.. 50uthEa5tern...................... Ulster . • • • • • • • • • • .. Yarmouth and Norwich York and North Midland 588 2,556 6,547 1,892 702 124 15,328 1,292 29,434 705 3,203 1,084 5,719 4,09) 5,541 13,256 2,339 1,617 439 1,187 4,670 5,020 394 524 735 255 818 2,134 3,673 1,328 696 .423 1,468 5,719 1,139 12,800 24,916 708 2,829 863 4,648 861 3,088 5,084 11,901 986 1,536 198 1,519 4,077 4,053 6sB 3,342 865 544 4,017 4,337 PERILOUS SITUATION OF THE BOATS OP H.M.S. FLY. (From the Devonport Independent.) We have been favoured with a copy of a letter from her Majesty's ship Fly, Captain Blackwood, containing the fol lowing interesting details : "After the Fly's refit at Somabaya, December, 1844, we proceeded on our surveying ground, and having finished Torres Straits, went on to do a little to the south coast of New Guinea, which coast is crowded with a dense population of naked savages, whose arms are bows and arrows, stone headed clubs, &c., and who are a mos t h os til e race.... On the 3d of May, two boats in command of Mr. Harvey, mate, and Mr. Pym, second master, were dispatched along shore to finish the coast line, which the Fly could not get close enough to do, in consequence of the shoal soundings. We had also our clerk on board, Mr. Millery, who, from love of enterprise and the interest he felt for the natives of those unknown seas, had requested to accompany us ; in fact, he has been very useful in compiling a vocabulary of their lan guage on a most excellent plan, which will be published on the Fly's return to England. The second day after we left, six canoes, each containing about ten men, paddled off to our two boats. The ship was then out of sight, and we close to the shore. Being accustomed to the Torres Straits natives, who are wore peaceably inclined, we allowed them to come alongside, imagining their purpose to be barter. As soon as four canoes had ranged up alongside, and astern of us, they let fly a shower of arrows; and, fortunately, all hands on our side were armed with muskets,wand each was loaded and ready. We let them have it, and great was the murder done. The natives, scared with the noise of our fire arms, and evidently unaccustomed to the sight of such a vomiting forth of flame and destruction, jumped overboard, but the noise once over, they were in their canoes again, dis charging flights of arrows at us with inconceivable rapidity; some remained in the water, and, strange to say, under cover of their canoes, the left arm supported by the gunwale, actually fired at us in that position ; luckily none were hurt, although there were some very narrow escapes. About a dozen arrows passed through our sails, and three were picked up which were found sticking in different parts of the pinnace. " Six days' provisions were in the boats, and after the fifth day we began to get anxious for a sight of the Fly. The next day, as we could see nothing of the ship, we ran down among the smaller islands, keeping clear of the larger ones, which were thickly inhabited, for although the natives are peaceable enough when the ship is in sight, they have too frequently proved—most fatally—their treachery to boats crews, for us to trust them. We, therefore, ran on to an uninhabited island, hoping to shoot birds, and collect shell fish enough to carry us on to Booby Island, which is also uninhabited, where the Bramble had deposited a supply c salt meat and bread, to succour any of the crews of the numerous ships annually lost in attempting the passage of Torres Straits. We landed, each man with a musket and plenty of slugs made of bullets, cut up, with intent to murder all the feathered warblers who were presumptuous enough to hover near our vicinage, for to tell you the truth, we had eaten nothing for three days, and were getting rather hungry, indeed it was only on this morning we discovered our exact position in the Straits, the currents having carried us out of our reckoning. But the shooting and shelling party were very unsuceessful, two lanky herons only being shot, and a couple of buckets of very coarse shell fish collected—rather a sorry sight for fifteen hungry men. We got into our boats at dark, and went supperless to bed, that is to say, laid down on the stern sheets. Next morning, long before daylight, we got under weigh, and at half an hour before dawn ran ashore, in the pinnace, on a rascally patch of coral, which, unfortunately, lay right in our course. Here the tide left us high and dry, and as in those parts there appears to be but one rise and fall in the twenty-four hours, we passed the whole day in this most miserable condition ; before the tide rose sufficiently high to float us off. The next night we anchored half way to Booby Island, and at eight o'clock the next evening, by the blessing of that God who presides over all, and who, in his righteous judgment, saw fit to preserve us from that most awful death, starvation, we arrived safely in both boats off Booby Island. Anxiou were the feelings that possessed each breast as we beaded to look for the provisions, for no one of our party knew in what part of the Island the Bramble had lodged it, and as Booby is a large rock with innumerable caves in it, each of which might have been the one selected for the purpose, the search in the dark, for we had no lights, was likely to be long and wearisome. There was too another horror that presented itself to our imagi nations, the probability that the natives of Endeavour Straits had visited the island, in which case they would undoubtedly have removed, or destroyed it all. We had then only a little biscuit dust left full of maggots, and some indifferent suet; those who partook of it did so with evident disgust ; in fact some of us had eaten nothing for five days, and so reduced by . hunger and anxiety as to be unable to sit up many minutes at a time ; yet, notwithstanding the debility thus experienced, the excitement which the uncertainty of food produced, lent us all strength in searching, for it. Thank God, kind f irtune in one of her good humours soon led us to Vie spot. The provisions consisted of a cask of bread, one of pork, another of beef, and a barrel of sixteen gallons of rum. We opened the bread and pork immediately and all commenced a small repast of bread, and raw salt pork. We took off the pinnace a supply of bread, pork, and the barrel of rum. Most acceptable was a fried rasher and a glass of grog. Ungrateful indeed must we have been who did not thank the Omnipotent Spirit for this providential succour. Next day a merchant vessel passed ; we frightened him not a little by shoving off and boarding him. His ship called the Munro (Scotch), Captain Balfour. When he heard of our distress he gave us a live sheep, and two bags of potatoes. Vociferous were the rejoicings on our stood d rn ijo ' e f i h m e ne s e h ; eep ren w le a m s i k )e i r lle t d h , er a e n w d eirneufitt ft on een an o d f m us u . rp T hi e e n s days passed, and the Fly had not made her appearance. Grub was again getting short. A consultation ensued, and we all decided that it would be madness to remain on "------''"--"---------"---------- L' wer ° of the Dublin and Belfast Junction Cou3PsL'etcoo. forced to postpone the letting of the Boyne vitiontrscl tract, in consequence of combination. T" t c ool' involves a great deal of mason work, and the c oat 0 0 did not consider themselves safe in estimating fi°l - than 30s. per cubic yard, owing to the coon among the masons, who were content to do ta: rd. work a twelvemonth ago for ss. and Bs. a c ubic Y of tir " Since then we have been questionable evidence to prove that a combinatioui; $ all persons employed on railways has been orga n ' a grand scale, for the purpose of raisin.' f ull/ the wages. The increase that is to be demanded iS fgr t advance of one-third on present prices, a nd we Oil understand that the Ist of March is the day 0 ° lc is agreel this demand is to be enforced. liev e ~ put in possessioft a. 04 We confess at first we were disinclined to be but eil such a conspiracy against public compan ie3 ; to d i evidence that has reached us leaves no room t here;t oLd touon the subject we consider it our dugY , Ol warn public companies in time, so that Owl', , 0 prepared to encounter and crush such a consPlW' soon as it begins to develop itself." i • -____-------- fir 0 0 DIED. near d', On the 12th inst., at Creedy-p rk, ,,,i0 Humphrey Phineas Davis, Bart., aged a 7 1 - d 16°' #O l On the Ist inst., at Plymoutb, Mrs. I ,l °Y„' f ,610 „ o p neral Vaughan Lloyd, of the Royal Artil' e 'l e le ''' On the 12th inst., at Brighton , Charles, v 't , ' sii V. T. L. Blundell, surgeon - dentist. g s rt o ic tj On the 12th inst., at Dalstont Mrs. r , IS ° ) 1I relict of the late Mr. John King. dale iii On the 12th inst., Francis, second son -- E' 0 , Neale, Esq., of Mincing-lane. On the 12th inst., Benjamin VirilliatnsPi ll°4 01, fide ness Bank, Pendleton, M anc h e ster. Or.. 0 0 , On the 12th in,st., A nne , the wife of A r 'ses, fil On the 13th inst ., a t St . L e onard's -0 ' Oar it p' e wife of John - Reid, Esq On the 13th i ns t., a t . a nt g ' Peckham, Lieuteli r .D 0 0 e of the Roal Navy. On the y 14th ' 1 -st Maidstone' Thou) 5 o rs Di ret Al 1 a .ie _ inst. a tim.ber-merehant, aged 75. vad°' On the 14th inst., at Newcastle-co urt, fit . i p" 4 Whittaker. ? rderls' $- On the 15th inst., in Hyda-park - g Compton, Knight, late Chie(Justice of "„°' , On the 15th inst., at Brighton, ga rco, daughter of R. Fellowes, Esq. • On the 15th inst., at Clapton, Alfr ed I Beck, aged 18. 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Waghorn then gave a narrative of th which led him, at the instance-of Lord EllenZ e ille ol ;i s i range a plan, and to ultimately adopt the '",_• - iater c a pointing out in the course of his statement the sated l a 0 1 time consumed in travelling from point to In gr ioily trasting them with the long and wearisome,A c ti dt former times. Certain - alleged acts of the r oda 00 meat as to the detention and opening of letterat este , 9° 01 to propose's second scheme-by way of Tri $ the kingdom of France should altogether be 32000510 he stated that this new route was nearer by cosi g rot l that it posseses already more th an 300 rn iles the JOl railway-an advantage a t p resen t wanting in , g 49, by Marseilles. Prince Metternich, he said, `well 0040 the Trieste route, and had undertaken to adjubt,, culties that might arise among the smaller eta reehagu'o in the transit. Of the liberal and enlighten ed t ioti g t( Pacha of Egypt he spoke in emphatic terms h bs •0 he had always countenanced the passage thre n g„,to oo ,o tories, even when by Lord Palmerston 's 0 1: 1e ', were murdering his subjects." With other. l' er e e oe sio t nected with the benefits likely to flow fron t t° o ol° munication with the East, Lieutenant Wag h w hich that he was prepared to reply to any questionsirollv be put to him by the company, having Pr e .. Aa tesve i , some statistical ficts as to the divisions of the . ' ce olti e ' sb e pressed his conviction that before longrailwarbst we across the entire breadth of Germany, and t d T r ill te soon perform the distance between London an t io) hours. The inquiries which were then made were ofe `Free The subject of the detention of letters by , it / vernment occupied some time; and Lieuten a t - o hid Jr spoke of dispatches from Australia belonging hate r had lain 21 days at Paris, and might not then P tf o t e,s, o lo livered if peremptory measures had not been _ e a 1) .10 1 subsequent questions related to the railroad bet%co Trieste; to the convenience and inconven le re atiq journey over the Desert; to the possibility of s oy Persia; to the recent Post-office delay, W hen e o o ,, elapsed between the arrival of the Herald ' °,.„ th e express and the public delivery of letters; " e c ooli o t the Desert afforded for a line of railways; t° th economy of the Austrian route when compa re " a i•V o tr, the French ; to the probability of the Pope's a route through the Italian States; to the de-!, 090 of a totally independent one by Falmouth a ni t he- 4 0 ", and to the special considerations growing out of ea, so, things. Lieutenant Waghorn, as we have hint , til°9; to.the persevering queries of the company I , 4,-‘4. big o'. complacency, and answered them to the beg . - t s : 1 ledge; and it may be added, he was seldon4ere o , s ' ci 4 o unable to give the information sought for. . 1. L ae P o6 4' little disposition manifested to protect the r° tlo .hie st' France in opposition to the line through Gerin a l;t ov .,,ic member very properly called attention to the recohrety merit by the former, and drew some pregna nt frola,..So ll . to the advantages which would probably ari 3e ,,, t abo` tition, and the likelihood that France, by the '; l3 ce'V: of certain contemplated railways, and the in ti ° elit s directed exertion, would finally triumph-so nt l ° his i s 7 were echoed by a French gentleman, u'll° , ,Z r eoc s3 tongue, gave several reasons for continued Pr' 1 7 route by Marseilles. sq„, ,;,, oro At the close of the " discussion," Mr. B 110 ''1,0" 4 0,, teered an eloquent address, on the social, poilb e „ - 0 0 Y , advantages growing out of our rapid corre.°P.; !e ilieV, India, pointing out how it brought the great n ' - derea earth together, promoted civilisation, and eng, e , to s o( s oo l o . of peace and concord which nothing was likely 0 0 0 , 0 c 1 ; alluded to the scanty accounts which the nen' sl) ,, - ;roPy l . of Oriental news a few years ago, when a fla t , 15; t 7 was all that could be hoped for, after long int er ' "or," compared the present state of thing, when tvr ° ,rio°,l. Herald and the Times-spend, yearly, thousanuib3tic sti tion of the mail, and spread huge masses of th e of li9 vate intelligence over the length and breadth way. • This address, delivered with pleasant flueneY, to with great attention. The thanks of the then bestowed upon Lieutenant Waghorn for "Moe and the seconder of the proposition, Mr. Gre° t + g h e °b n, e, took occasion to advert, in felicitous terms, to he ": under which the country lay fur the services d e ef'o l 4 dered, and for the determined courage s he "a - 'so° I t' combatting and subduing obstacles. Many e ° ,,, ta „ c o deed, were showered upon the Lieutenant 1 11 '",_."., evening, and they were, one and all, honestly e'"" EC / ii? It LEEDS AND BRADFORD RAILWAY Dt 5t fa ;• important meeting was held on Tuesday. A la s " ea tiltr, B. 'rroughton, E sq ., i n th e c h a i r , m any owners and landholders being present, when It I X in favour of th e a b ove li ne were adorte'6 the line is cont em pl a t e d t o pass throng" 'lacesr; townships of P u d se y, Armly, and other P e y, Th y o r e , sent without railway accommodation- n admit of locomotive power, but it is °° , - t t e e st l '4o l adopt the at mosp h er i c pr i nc i p l e, w i t h the 0 ments. Th e meet i ng separate d w i t h Ware tient , :oice. to de, e o il STATE OF TRADE.—The bobbin-ne t „„"roe v joe l most stagnant state, an d th e s it ua ti o n of the .1 4 ble;"IF'" many of the machine owners is truely tories being shut up, and the hands wandering defr x t alms for bread. In the midst of• so inu cil e 0 ;4 ;;' it is reviving to hear that many of ~ gi ft, g . ? chanics exclaim, " Well, it does not sic. 0 1 ,0 go back to the old ground," meaning t- c 0 . 9 4 4 1, of traversed net, which is fully equal P o d ' t f; tl and will wear and wash equally as well, T he jacquard applied would be even handsome r ',,tiont o°,o' warp machines have certainly felt the re-,a-,„ sae prejudice against machine nets, but that ' l3 'o B Str, $O.l measure recovered, though they have at 6102 4 01; grouuds. The pushers are almost forgotten , h ` es I'o l extinct, though they labour under diaadva a e - Deia;bl l .oo; much speed, when the flower the net, 13 °''A e pProa, 4 0: throw in thick gimp threads. However,: g teS present prospect is, we hope the meeu'i Oa:0V chine-owners will not forget that bobbin n et !t e e capable of producing cloth, velvet, silks, ~o r p''''t f r,t i . three times the speed of the loom. The hito.nole especially the tatting branch, has fallen nearlioill;e‘et' state as the straight down bobbin-net trad e ' tor of c / „ 1 0, the other branches are very dull. The inven'l e rigt A '' lace, after an harrassiog opposition, has a t , t el‘V r paten( sealed. This is the most beautifu l lace trade that has hitherto been produced, 0 0,, $ hand or machine, and we hope it will rol a : rited patron of the manufacture.-Nottia9 4l7- 1 , 0,c 5 f 0 / [ADVERTISEMENT.] HOLLOWAY'S " 5 ' t 11, OINTMENT.-A REMARKABLE CURE or Pim: A : ll e f t , AND BEARINGS-DOWN.-A half-pay lietitenail, rel6 l , ding at St. Heliers, Jersey, whose none , ilex omitted, had for three years suffered froinit'res7,olo;ir besides a general bearing down of the most no 1 4 4 1 " e; He had twice undergone an operation , but to . h ol i te d at last gave himself up to despair. Yet, llotal t iebilW complication of complaints, together with $ in 6rOdy stitution he was completely cured of all b ia o ll° ' f il i restored to the fullest enjoyment of health by p r of° and Ointments-Sold by all druggists and a / loway's Establishment, 244, Strand, Londaa BIRTHS. tee, t) ( 11 On the 13th in s t., a t Oriental-place, Dwe ll 0 0/ ' ti ° Dr. James A rno tt, o f a d aug ht er. p.l 8 01 ,1 On the 13th inst., at Sundridge, •Eur a ' daughter. I drs ' y , On the 14th inst., i n Hyde-park-stre e Gibbs, of a son. o' MARRIED. te, to On the Ist inst., at St. Michael's, Wgu i g s die*,.. t o Esq., surgeon, late of Singapore, East„,1111 111 ' go) Matilda, youngest daughter of the late Al" `o', / Russ, of Rose hill, Oxford. )3e0.1 a 5.1 3 .0 V On the Ist inst., at Whitechurch, pe °° %ty , t° ,,tai ° I I . son, Esq., of Tullimaar, in the Jayne e°, ll- „ ,C o r Kempe, eldest daughter of Peter KenlPe , t oll bc~ E. I. C. service. c.notb Ar9 t P lO g On the 13th inst., at Albion Chapel, - l c , aro Forbes, of Southampton, to Rebecca, yvnl''setibi[ott'e, the late J. Lankester, Esq., of Stowmarliet,,,h9pe,h On the 14th inst., at the ladependen c t.' d ' i nou l lY Mary, Devon, Mr. Matthew Hall, of °, l e sarn e ' Jane, daughter of Mr. Samuel Evans, of 01 .4,011