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this question he observed many Noble Lords who differed from biro, shake their heads and others express their dissatisfaction in various ways. The opinions which he then expressed were the opinions which he maintained that night. He had for the eleven years of his public life advocated nothing at variance with those principles. In the other House, when he had the honour of a seat there, his vote :was always for a restriction of the duties. The first vote which he gave in their Lordships House was for the Canada Corn Bill. He felt that it would be imprudent of him, at that late hour of the night, to proceed to express his feelings on this question at any l eng th. He felt that he ought to go into many of the points of the speech of his Noble Friend the late Secretary of the Colonies, but he would not go into it in detail.—( Hear, hear.) Now, he had heard many persons complain of a tariff of 1842. It reminded him of a:Noble Friend of his own who complained of the immense increase in the price of butter. There were two reasons advanced in justification of this complaint; first, that the duly had been unnecessarily lowered, and secondly, that the importation had been increased ; but it was clearly shown that the duty had not been lowered, and that the impor tation had not been increased. He regretted that the Noble Lord (Stanley) was not in his place, because it was ex ceedingly distasteful to himself to reply to matter which the Noble Lord could not possibly hear or reply to. One of the statements of his Noble Friend was, that his Right Honourable Friend at the head of the Government bad made it his boast that the tariff of 1842, by lowering the duties, had effected a rise of prices, and he asked how it was possible th a t com p e titi on s h ou ld raise the prices. But that had been met by his Noble Friend (Earl Grey) at an early hour in the evening, but he (Lord Dalhousie) would merely advert to the fact. That statement had never been made by his Right Hon. Friend. All he said was that, not withstanding the alarm exhibited by the agricultural Mem bersi about the tariff lowering the prices, the effect of it had been to create a still increasing rise of prices. Then the Nobl e Lord asked what had been the effect of the tariff on the p rice of wool in the year 1834, during which there was a protective duty of ls. 4d. ? He held in his hand a paper, which had been laid upon the table of the House , in which the q uant it y and prices of the different ' wools was set before their Lord ships. Thiy extended from the year 18 . 15 to the year 1845 inclusive, and it comprehend ed three different rates of duty. In the year 109 he found a protective duty of 3 %d. per lb. In the period ending 1835 he found 61. per lb. charged, and he found also that a protective duty of Id. was charged after wards, which was finally abolished in the year 1844. When it was proposed to impose 6d. per lb., the House was informed this would certainly be followed by a lowering of the prices. The result fully justified the expectation. In the year 1800, when the duty of ol d. was proposed, the importation was 24,000,0001b5. and the price was 2s. 6d. Under the low duty, the amount of wool imported increased to 39,000,0001b5, and the price was Is. 3id. He should like to have been permitted to have gone through the various statements, but, at that late hour of the evening, he would not trouble their Lordships with the details. His Noble Friend, however, referred to the price of timber, and he would take leave to mention to the House one or two of the circumstances connected with the trade. The number of their ships had increased greatly within the last few years ' • and on a compa r i son ma d e w ith respect to the number of foreign ships employed in the timber trash!, he could assure their Lordships of the fact 'hat those were unfit for any other purpose, and were kept afloat merely by the loads; besides, they freighted themselves for the merest trifle. He would beg to read an extract of a statement made at a business meeting without any other object than business. It was at a meeting of the dock companies in Liverpool. The Cha'rman observed that surprise had been expressed at an in crease of one hundred thousand in the shipping in the docks, but he had to inform the proprietors that they had then to deal with hundreds of thousands, and that if there was a more politic tariff instituted by the Government in place of the pre sent one, no one could be able to say to what extent they should have to increase their accommodation for their shipping, and that when the duties were further reduced it would not be in the power of man to divine what accommodation it would be necessary to aft:rd. At present Liverpool was the only place boasting of 200 acres under docks with but 15 miles of quays. His Nobb Friend had made some observations upon other points connected with the one he was now discussing, but as he saw that his Noble Friend was absent, he would not fur ther allude to them. But his Noble Friend had made come observations upon the subject in the reference to the laws affecting the trade in corn, ss hieh he felt called upen to reply to. His Neble Friend had laid it down as a general principle that there were hieh authorities in favour of a continued sys tem of protection to corn ; and he instanced ro less an autho rity than the late Lord Chatham. Now he (Lord Dalhousie) begged to say, that though he entertained the highest possible respect for the opinion of so great a man as Lord Chatham, yet be should sac, that neither that Noble Lord, nor the equally illustrious - Air. Pitt, could in the present day, under the present circumstances, stand up in defence of these protective laws; nor did he think could any other man, capable of taking a dispassionate view of the subject. He (Lord Dal housie) would appeal with confidence to the memorable work of Lord .Landerdale, a nobleman whom he considered as one who had admirably adopted the doctrine of the present day.— (Hear, hear.) He might also adduce examples of men equally eminent, and in moee modern times. So soon as those restrictions were removed the restrictions for the protection of cern should be removed also.—(Hear, hear. ) Then the Noble Baron who sat near him that erening (Lord Ashburton) repeated the statement which was made last night. He said, " You are going to do that which no country on earth has yet attempted; you are going to have free trade in corn ; and solve me this question," said his Noble Friend—" what rill you do in a cheap year. when the ports of thia country are the only ports that will he open for the importation of fo reign corn?"—( Hear, hear.) His Noble Friend on the last night asked a similar question. Now he wished to remind his Noble Friend that no country•in the world except England imposed duties on the importation of corn merely for the sake of protection; and if their Lordships would permit him, he would read a statement which had been very carefully drawn up, showing the amount of the protective duties imposed in each of the other nations of the earth. It appeared that the duty on the admission of corn in the corn-growing portions of Turkey was 3 per cent., and in the other portions 5 per cent. Now, he begged their Lordships to observe, that theieorn-grow ing portions insisted on the duty being but 3 per cent. instead of 5 per cant. Now, he wished to ask his Noble Friend what argument he could draw from that in favour of free -trade. In the two Sicilies there was a duty of about 8. per. quarter. In Sardinia it teas about ss. In the small Italian states, the duty was about 3d. In Tuscany there was no duty. In Greece it was about 9 41. per quarter. In Austria it was 3d., although Austria bad been quoted as a corn protecting country. In Spain prac tically there was no prohibition. He would ask their Lord ships' permission to mention one simple fact which would show the advantage or disadvantage of that description of protective duty upon corn. It was a fact which was upon record, that corn had been purchased in the port of New York at 4s. 6d. per euarter, whilst wheat was selling at Castile at Is. per bushel. Such was the case with regard to Belgium. The sliding. scale had no place there. In Holland, the duty was Es. per quarter. In Oldenburgh it was 5 to 5i per cent. per cwt. In Naples it was 3s. 21. In France it was merely a protecting duty. The other duties might be ascertained by the returns which had been made to the House. The only correct method of forming an estimate was by making observations from the actual state of things at various periods. He had a statement of the amount of grain imported into the country from 1761 to 1844. In that return he found that during the first fourteen years was the average about 94,000 quarters in each year. That quantity greatly increased up till 1810, when the average for the ten years following was 421,000 quarters. From 1831 to 1840 the increase had taken place still further, to 928,000 on the average in each year. From 1841 to 1844, inclusive, the amount imported in each year was 1,879,000 quarters, of which a large amount was entered for consumption. If this were true, how could it be made to appear that the produce of this country kept pace with the consumption of the country. He had shown that for a long period of years, the importation of foreign corn had increased year by year, until it had reached in the average of the last five years to 1,879,000 in each year. How then could they think they could maintain themselves independent of foreign countries ( Hear, hear.) He would now proceed to consider thi s posi tion of being dependent on foreign countries. Why, there was not a single trade in which they were not dependent for sup plies from foreign countries. Look to the wool trade, in which they were dependent on foreign countries for large supplies. Perhaps it was. not exactly the same as the corn trade, but it was analogous. It was the same whether they took away the life or the means of living.—( Hear, hear.) In regard to the wool trade, large supplies of foreign wool were used up every year in manufacturing operations There was not a coat they wore that was not dependent on foreign supplies. There was not a footman in their service but what would give them notice to-morrow, if they proposed he should wear clothing without the employment of foreign wool. The same principle applied to the cotton trade. A Noble Lord on the opposite site had represented the quantity of cotton wool used at 721,000 lbs. annually, and for this they were dependent en tirely on foreign countries.—( Hear, hear.) So it was with all articles that made up the necessaries of life. They could not even carry on the art of war without being dependent on foreigners for one of the principal means of carrying it on. They had not a single ounce of sulphur in this country, and they could not fire off a single shot without being dependent Upon a foreign country.—( Hear.) Now let him remind their Lordships that they were not merely dependent Upon the foreigner for these articles of use—they depended through the medium of the exports for the revenue and main tenance of the credit of the country. But it was asked wh a t were t h ey to do for supplies in time of war ? Let them see if this were so. Take the case of cotton. In the year 1812 and 1814 this country was at war with the United States of America, f rom when c e was almost all the co tt on use d i n N this country came.th ere a stoppage in consequence of the war? No such thi ng ; for in 181 2 there were 60 ,100,00 lbs. introduced ; i n 1813, 50 , 900,00 0 lbs .100 n1814 0 , 53,771,000 lbs. But . l e t t h em come down to a.l and later • and take the case of China. They were at war a shorlleodt r i l mn , with China, one of the mo s t restr i cted nations on the age of the earth, and who it was supposed would have stopped every export to this country. Did she, however, do so? No, she did not ; and in 1833 there were imported into this country from China 32,000,000 lbs i of tea, in 1839, 9;n5d5,h00e0,0, in 1840 22,000,000, and in 184 " main tained that the same principle as was thus appli e dto cotton and tea in these instances wsuld . be applied to corn. Price seemed to have nothing to do wit h whether in time of war this h this question, which was confined to the consideration as t country could get supplies of corn from abroad. Upon that point he certainly thought they need not trouble themselves; for even while they were at war with all Europe there was always a supply of corn from abroad, and in 1810 the largest importations came from Franc;:. —( Hear, hear.) He maintained, then, that should it ever so happen that this country wanted a supply of corn from abroad, it would always be got.—( Hear, hear.) He was called on by the Noh:e Lord who last addressed their Lordships, and by others, to state on the part of the Government what will be the price of corn tinder the new system. He certainly was not prepared to com ply with any demand a, unreasonable, and to say what should be the definite and specific price of corn under the system now to be pursued. He might be permitted to ask, with great respect to their Lordships, whether they were entitled to demand that information at his hands? Were they who advocated the main- tanance of protection on corn prepared to say that they could predict what would have been the price of corn ? He could say one thing for the information of his Noble Friend—he would ask, Gould there be a greater fallacy than to say that the rice of corn could be so much in fifteen years hence? Would it be any consolation to prt die any such price, when, during that per;orl, the prices might fluctuate from one end of the scale to the other ? In the year 1832, the price of c,irn was SBs. per quarter, and in the neat year bat one it was 395. In the year out one after that it was 64s ; and in the year follow ing it was 70s. ant 37 a. Was it possible that when, und,:T the present system of prweetive duties, of which the object was anderAond to Le to prevent fluctu-i• :uela great fluctuations occurred, that they could, with any reason, ask him to name tha specific price of corn in future ? The Duke of RICHMOND —Look at your last Bill. Lord DALIIOUSIE—The Noble Dude requested him to look into the la.t Bill, if his m:raory s..rved him so as to carry him back to 1842, the N0b1.., Duke predicted the same somequence as the result of that Bill. The DUKE of RICHMOND said that he did not do anything of the sort; be did not much like it, and he did nut rote .pon it. Lord DALHOUSIE said that perhaps he was labouring under a ani3apprebension, and he was sorry for it. He said that the present law during the last six months had proved by its administration that the whole system of average was a fie. tlon —( Hear, hear.) What was the case ? The Noble Lord opposile hoisted that during the last three years of the existence of the lalr, great steadiness in the prices had been the result. During those three years the price in the first was said to be 535.; in the seeond, 525.; and in the third, 50s. 10d., and that fact was also adduced to prove the abundance of corn in this country to the , absurdity of proposing to go on with this measure. He held in his hand a return from the different market-towns, which gave the highest and lowest prices in the different towns throughout the country. In January, 1845, the highest price was 555., and the lowest 40s. In February of the same year 555., the lowest 335. In January, 1846, the highest price 645., the lowest 395. he Duke of RICHMOND—What are the prices of the present year? Earl DALHOUSIE would give the Noble Duke the re turns for the present year. In November, 1845, the highest price 685., lowest 48s. ; on the 29th of November, h i g h e st price 695., lowest 38s. January, 1846, highest price 6 95 . , lowest 445. ; September, hig hest price 675., and lowest o owe t st be price 445. But, perhaps, it would had ll e would been give the differences 255., 265., 265., 275., 295.7 1 p 3ls., ri 3 c l e s s. 315., 365., 28s. Bs. Lordshipsrito s In 4 thelpBri37 ty s at 9s. whi ch 3d wheatrneodwca ll t thehad a t b t e e e n n t isounp supplied, e t their ir contractre prices . 1844, 2/. 17s. 10d. ; 1845, 21. 6s. 10d. ; 184 , i, 3/. ss. sd. However he did not intend to answer the question which had been put to him with reference to the price of corn, after this Bill had received the sanction of their Lordships, because all former predictions with referenceto the price of corn had failed. Many of the speeches which had been made very ably and pathetically described she injury which would be occasioned to the country by the passing of this law, in consequence of the great importation of foreign corn which would follow the pass ing of this Bill. But they had not stated where the quantity of corn was to come from. In the year 1828, a gentleman was sent to the north of Europe for the purpose of inquiring into the subject, and although not favourable to the importation of foreign corn, he stated that no quantity beyond that already imported could be brought into this country. In the year 1841, another gentleman was sent to make similar inquiries. ' The returns which that gentleman made were before him. The total amount of corn which could be introduced into this ' country from all parts of Europe was 2,200,000 quarters. From Russia there were 1,230,000 quarters. From Prussia there were, from 1835 to 1814, 635,000 quarters, and so on with respect to other places. It was said, however, in contra diction of this, that there might he an immense quantity of grain cultivated from districts were there was none at present ' grown. He did not dispute that there were millions of acres that might be cultivated, but of what value were they ? As well might they refer to the plains of South America as a source of supply for cattle under the new tariff, because they at present ran about there wild. He would not allude to the carrying charges, because he believed that the means of con veyance in those countries precluded the possibility of their being able to send the grain here at such a rate as to undersell the British farmer. The Noble Lord read a table of statistics to prove that the im portation of corn into this country would not be so great as an ticipated by these who opposed this measure, inasmuch as the population of other countries would be increasine. ; and even if it were to come in, the price at which it would be sold would not be much if at all below the price of grain in the home market. There were a number of ether figures, with which he would not trouble their Lordships at that late hour, but there was one consideration which had not been sufficiently dwelt upon. He meant the increase of their own population at home. It was a fallacy to say that they cculd bring into cultivation a sufficient quantity of land to meet this enormous annual increase, and he would take- 'seise to read a short extract from the report of thd sanatory Committee. The Noble Lord then read the extract, which stated that an extent of new territory, equal to the counties of Surrey, Hereford, and Cambridge, would be annually required to meet the wants of this increasing population. There were in the three kingdoms 2,3,090,003 at least, who, in the three years, encreased at the rate of 15 - per cent. in ten years, or 300,000 a-year ; or since this measure was introduced before Parliament an addition of 1,000 souls. Then when Noble Lords spoke of new lands being brought into cultivation for the purpose of meeting the demand, they must be perfectly well aware, that it was a matter of impossi bility. It was usual to treat of the United Slates as unbroken ground, from which any quantity of wheat could be imported into this country. But it was well-known that all the wheat dstricts were limited within one portion of the country, the whole lying to the extreme west, and no quantity could be shipped to this cos :try, exceptinw at a very considerable cost. The r'ob'e Lord also read an exit aet from some statistical do cuments to prove that according as the populat ion increai_ed in the United States so did their exports diminish. It had been obieeted that they were not to try this great experiment on this great country. Why it has been tried, from 1766 to 1791 we had a practical free trade in corn. Taxes were not as heavy, to be sure, then as they were now, but they weighed every bit as heavily on the labourer; and it was an historic truth that the labourers of this country were mere heavily burdened than those of other countries. Was agriculture then in a depressed condition ? On the contrary, large quantities cf land were taken into cultivation. He knew he would be met by the argument, that if ;here was a time when those who now advocated the measure were against it, they would say why propose it now ? But in answer to that, he would say that the circumstances cf the country rendered it necessary, and because they concurred it would act as one of the best stimulants to employment. The Noble Duke on the cross benches shook his head at this assertion ; but he (Lord Dalhousie) begged to remind the Noble Duke of this fact, that during the railway fever of last year every deputation that came, no matter from what railway company, met with a favourable reception solely because it was stated that the proposed line of railway would afford easy access to the manufacturing districts. Ever by the deputations from Goole and from Norfolk, and fron. all parts of Scotland, and even from Ireland, the argument continually was that those lines were intended to afford additional facilities for the transit of manufactures.—( Hear, hear.) Now, he would ask, why this longing for the prosperity of manufactures? Was it not because upon them depended the prosperity of every other branch of commerce in this country?—(Hear, hear.) Was it not because it was a well known fact that every manufacturing engine that was stopped working had the effect cf stopping 20 ploughs.—( Hear, hear.) These were the reasons that induced him to support this measure, for he felt perfectly con vinced it would result most beneficially for this country. His Noble Friend, the Noble Baron who sat near him (Lord Ashburton), in his speech that evening, spoke of the colonial system, and he said " Have you antinipated the effect which this alteration in your policy will have upon your c enexion with the colonies ? And he said, " What is the use of the colonies if they are not to be markets for your manufactures ? " Now he ventured to think, very humbly, the; the colonies were and ever would be an advantage, although they had a compul sory market there.—(llear, hear.) But the advantage would be greater if the market were nct compulsory. Their Lordships would permit bins to remind them that that questicn was no longer open. The colonial question to which the Noble Lord had alluded, was broken down long ago.—(Hear, hear.) There were now no longsr the differential duties which for merly existed with respect to the admission of manufactures. The maximum rate of differential duty with the exception of a very few articles, including tobacco; the differential duty never exceeded 71. per cent. The constant struggle of this country was to advance the interests of the colonies. The colonies imposed higher duties than even the Imperial legislation, but the colonial system, as described by the Noble Baror, no longer existed. Well, now, what was the state of the case with regard to the colonies as to the alterations which were now about to be made? If his Noble Friend the late Se cretary for the Colonies had been present, he would, no doubt, bear in mind that the only two articles which it was feared by some might be injured were timber and corn. His Noble Friend who sat near him (Lord Ashburton) had said that they were about by this measure to discourage mer chandise in the colonies. Now, with respect to corn, what was the amount of the carrying trade? He held in his hand, a return to which he begged tie Noble Lords atten tion. On the llth of October, 1843, the importation amounted to 11,480 quarters. In 1844 there were 14,060 quarters. In June, 1835, there were moret han 13,00 D quarters. He did net trust simply in these returns, but he relied upon a ditpatch which had come from his Noble Friend, Lord Cathcart. That despatch was dated the 26th of March, 1845. It would be impossible to decide the duty of these returns. Mr. Baldwin said they wished for no foreign interference, as they wished the connexion with the mother country to contiue. He believed that whatever the country might have suffered from British rule in former times, it was much better now, and that there was a disposition to do justice.—( Hear, hear.) These, with the other circumstances he bad alluded to, were sufficient answers to the alarm which was said to exist in Canad.a in relation to those commercial principles He would, however, mention two other facts with reference to the colonies. In the Legislature of Nova Scotia, when a mes sage was delivered in reference to the defences of the country, the answer was, " Take the sum you want—the whole revenue if it is necessary." In New Brunswick, 12,000 i. was voted for the same purpose, and the whole revenue was placed at the disposal of the Executive for the et me purpose. This showed the feeling in the colonies. For himself he entertained a deep interest in these colonies. As he had spent, though not in an official capacity, many years of his life there. He had no ;car from any want of loyalty on their part, and he was sure, should the time come when their services might be required, they would be as prodi gal and loyal of their blood these as they were of their treasure now. He had now touched on the various points of this great question, hut before sitting down, he would address a few words in reference to what had fallen from some Noble Lords regarding the conduct of her Majesty's Ministers. They had been called upon to accouut for the adoption of the preamble of this Bill. He, for one, admitted that it would have been better if the measure had proceeded from other hands, and none regretted more thail o he did that the Noble Lord who lead been called upon to form a Government (Lord John Russell) ih order to carry a similar measure, had failed in the attempt. This was the measnre they were called upon to give effect to. on the conviction that treachery would be charged to them, if they failed to act. Their Lordships may cause her Majesty's They might ruin them be r f e e Government to change. They might charge re respectfully l e them people with va cillation.for iueonsistedey—but he would submit points s ly h to their Lordships, that even though all thosesP;rci made, it would not justify such a word as treacher y . The re was no man in that House believed mote than he did in the e high necessity of governing this country by party. He zenog uised the influ ence o f party, b ut h e recognised a higher oblige ion ion still. He had not the honour of a seat in the Cabinet at the time when it came to a decision • with respect to the measure then before them, but he had no desire to avoid the responsibility which rested on his Noble Friend near him, for that responsibility he would have recognised as his right. Would any one say what course he should have taken had he been a member of the Cabinet at that time ? Because no roan who was acquoa;tnudhts;plwes.itviahotuhledfancotts he was, that occurred could tell what course h e e time. That h ta e k t e ii n i d sfayt;h and facts s e think it presumptuou, ap opinion known en ndi vua I e a s t had d tste b d that their L of the Cabi net of the First Minister when he stated, that inhis there was no difference in the responsibility There ryas no difference between the ' Minister snagez:ing a measur . e ,. to his Sovereign,end one who in a meanest individual in it. subordinate capacity a Should it ever be his fate to in which the alternative to party, and of giving et . - ^dnering was placed before him, be placed in a positioaadgtscuu,cth kind, 'ed. e feet to a determined and salmiconvict ion. he should adopt the course her Majesty's Ministers al advis' H e bound to admit that if he a dhered to party while he was bound by duty teen to live did walk the earth branded as a traitor to party in soother way, it would be a thousand times better that he in the coissciousn ss that if, in adhering to party, he had done that which was rieht in the eye of the law, while he enter tained the cen.,eiousnesa that he was a traitor to Isla Sovereign, or to the responsibility imposed on him. —( Hear, hear. ) Ile lolled that he might isever be placed in so painful a po-ition as that, but if he were, and he £11,,u1.1 be so compelled, it would not be vasumptuous in a public man, whose character, like those of all other peblic men, belonged to the public. He should be beued not to loose himself from the responsibility be longieg in so g reat a measure to his Nob:e Friend near hint. He should do so as he had already done and he should submit to the penalty.—(licar, henr. ) The Noble Earl then proceeded—l should give my counsels to my Sovereign and act to the best that which was in my so vereign charge. Whenever . I had done to it is most true that I might be exposed to the indignation of party, but 1 should be entiLled to stand upright before the high tribunal of my conscience. Now I have done, but I have to thank your Lordship s f or t h e pat i ence with ich you have listened to me.—( Ch eers. ) I have only one word more. I wish I could command the eloquence which was made in this House the other night, by a Noble Friend of mine not now present, for I would venture to point out the consequences of a rejec tion of this measure, and the evils which would arise from such a course. You must not misunderstand me, to wish to appeal to your fears, for I know well that fear is the last passion of the human heart, which would in any degree in fluence the decision of the House of Peers. I appeal to your prudenee and your justice. I appeal to your prudence that you will not, without the most solemn and sufficient conviction, reject a measure of the importance of the one at present before your Lordships.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) I, continued the Noble Earl, appeal to your good sense, to your justice, not to adopt the recommendation which has been put to you of a different character, and that which I have been re lating to you, and by which you will declare yourselves fixedly resolved to maintain a particular commercial and fiscal policy, the effect of which is, say what you will, and must always be, to impose burdens upon the many for the benefit of the few.--(Loud cheers.) I do adjure your Lordships to search closely your hearts before you come to a decision upon this great question ; I do adjure your Lordships, in considering it, to blot out from the inner most recesses of your hearts every lurking feeling of self-interest; I do implore you to dismiss from your minds every lurking prejudice, and satisfy yourselves that you are sincerely and purely anxious for socuring the common good.—(Cheers.) if your Lordships adopt that course, I can anticipate with confidence the result ; and I do fully believe that if your Lordships pass this measure you will ere long look back with alarm to the time when you doubted what could be its effect, and certainly look back with satis faction to the :day when you gave your sanction to it. —(Cheers. ) You will look back upon it with satisfaction, because you will then be able to feel and to con template that you have done all that in you lies to remove a reproach upon the legislature of this country; that you have done all that in you lies to sympatise with the poor in their rug ged path through life; that you have done all that in you lies to mitigate the primeval cause—that you have done all that in you lies to soften the hard fate of those whose lot it is to earn their bread by the sweat of their brow.—(The Noble Earl' sat down amidst tremendous cheering.) The Duke of BEAUFORT apologised for obtruding himself upon their Lordships at that advanced hour of the morning, but be felt it to be his duty to state the course he intended to pursue upon this most important occasion. He objected to the present measure on two grounds, first, because obviously impolitic; second, because it was unjust. He considered it impolitic, because it left the country de pendent for the supply of food upon foreign countries. Had the measure been brought forward by Noble Lords opposite, he would not have felt so strong an objection to it. He objected to the tariff when that measure was brought forward, but he was told at that time that he knew nothing at all about it, and to have patience, and he would get his boots, and gloves, and every thing else cheaper; that the rents would be the same, and that corn would remain untouched. There was one case where this Bill would ope rate most unfavourably. He had an estate in one part of the country which brought him in 5,000/. a year. His tenants were all small farmers, and he could not turn them off. One family had been for three hundred years on that estate, and the other had been for four hundred years. He felt prouder of those tenants than of any ancestral honours he could boast of, and he would rather cut his arm off than part with one of them.—(Cheers.) The Noble and Learned Lord, who spoke on the other evening, said that the tenant farmers were perfectly indifferent in this matter. The Noble and Learned Lord was a great authority on most questions, and he (the Duke of Beauford) was always very willing to concede to his opinion ; but in this instance he must dissent frem him. They proved that they were in earnest in the South Nottingham election, where they formed themselves into a Committee and returned the Hon. and Gallant Member who now repre sented them, free of all expenses, and most bitterly did he lament that the name which would go down as the brightest of that age would be associated with a measure which he be lieved would inflict irreparable ruin to the country. The DUKE of WELLINGTON—I cannot allow my Lords that this question should be put from the Woolsack with out addressing a few words upon the vote which you are about to give. I address you under many disadvautages ; under that of appearing before you as a Minister of the Crown pressing this measure on your adoption, which I know to be disagreeable to all with whom I have been living in terms of personal intimacy and friendship. But I felt myself bound in duty to my Sovereign not to with hold my support upon an occasion like the present. But I have taken part with my Right Hon. Friend in this measure, because I was aware it was one which he was resolved to carry out. It is n , ,t necessary that I should enter further into a detail of the circumstances connected with this transac tion. I know that I rise here to-night with a considerable degree of prejudice against me ; be that as it may, I beg to tell your Lordships that the same course which I then pursued I would again pursue if the same thing was to be done over again, and it is a course which I conceive I, in gratitude to her Majesty, in whose service I have the honour to be, am bound to take. It may he true, and perhaps it is true, that I ought to have no relation with party in this House, and that party ought to have no relaticn with me. That, my Lords, is just as you may think primer, but I feel satisfied with the justice of the motives by which 1 have been actuated ; and I would be sorry to think they caused any dissatisfaction in your minds. I know I have no claim upon Sou for the confidence you have reposed in me for many years past—a confidence which enable me to transact the business of this House, that has been intrusted to me from time to time. But, my Lords, I will not omit even on this night, possibly the last i n which I shall ever venture to address to you any advice again —1 will not omit giving you my counsel as to the vote which you should give on this occasion. My Lords, my Noble Friend, whose absence this night I lament, and who addressed you a few nights ago, urged you in the strongest manlier to vote against the measure, and told you in terms which I cannot imitate that it was your duty to step in and protect the public from rash and inconside rate measures which might he passed by the other House of Parliament, and which should in your opinions be inconsistent with the views and opinions of the public. My Lor. s, there is no doubt, whatever, that it is your duty well to consider ail measures that are brought before yon, and that you should give your vote upon them as you think proper, and most particularly to vote against those which appear to me rash and inconsiderate. But 1 beg leave to point out to your Lordships that it is your duty to consider cell the consequences of any vote which you may give upon any sub. ject in this House, and to consider well the situation in which roe place this House by the vo'es which you give. My Lords, this has been the practice of the House or, previous occasions, and I have myself more than once pre vailed upon the House to vote for measures upon which the Members of the other House have pronounced positive op;nions. Now, my Lords, I beg you to look a little at the measure upon which you are going to give your vote, and look at the manner in which this measure has come before you, and at the consequences which are likely to follow from your rejection of it.—( Hear, hear.) It should be recollected that this measure was recommended in the Queen's speech, that it had been passed by a large maja rity of the House of Commons, that majority comprising more than one-half of the whole of the House of Commons. This is the more valuable, because it does' not interfere in any way with her Majesty's prerogative. Noble Lords might say that in consequence of this decision of the House of Commons, the Government might be in danger. But that was not the subject of consideration, and it mattered little whether this fact was proved by the re sult or not, and the real consideration was whether this House would approve of the decision or not. It should be recollected that decision came from the recommendation of the Crown, that the Bill was unopposed, and that it came on upon the re commendation of the other branch of the Legislature. The House of Lords stands alone, and I think that in the considera tion of this question that deference ought to be paid to public opinion. If the Lords refuse to take the course of the Com mons, the effect will be to reduce the power of the constitu tion. Let 11.3 take the effect of the rejection of this Bill. I believe that the results of the rejection of the measure will be infinitely useful in bringing up the opinions of the other House of Legislature. I must conclude in that case that another Governm en t wou ld be formed, but whether there was another Government or not, this measure would again be brought before you during the next Administration. What would you do in that case ? Would you reject it a second time ? Do you mean to go on that way, discussing the measure in another Parliament three or four months longer ? But the Noble Lord (Lord Stanley), And the Noble Duke (the Duke of Richmond) have said that Parliament should be dissolved— (Loud cries of " Hear, bear," from the cross benches)—in order to see whether the constituencies that re turned another House of Commons agreed to the measure.—( Hear.) If the Noble Lords have really so much confidence in the results of another election, and think public opinion is as much in their favour, why should they not rely on the election which in the ordinary course of the law will take place in a little more than twelve months ? You might test the principle of the law which will not come into operation till after three years —in 1849. that Parliament can take into consideration this measure, with out interfering with the prerogative of the Crown, or calling on the Crown to dissolve Parliament immediately. You hrve before you two alternatives. You may dissolve Parliament, and have the Bill again brought up before you, or pass the Bill now. You shall have an election before it comes into operation—when will be the proper time to appeal to Parliament to prevent the provisions of the measure coming into operation at the end of three years.—( Cheers. ) - Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and their Lord• ships divided, when there appeared, Contents Present . 138 Proxies.. 73 -211 Non Contents present Proxies 3B —164 Majority for the second reading The Bill was then ordered to be committed en the 11th of June. Their Lordships then adjourned at five o'clock to the 4th of June. HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 28. The SPE A XIER. took th e Ch a i r at F our o ' clock. Several R a il way Bills were advanced a stage. The Manch es t er and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction Railway Bill was withdrawn. The Railway Companies' Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed. THE ANDOVER UNION. Lord COURTENAY moved that the Select Committee on the And over Union should have leave to report the minutes of evidence taken before them from time to time. After some discussion the House divided upon the motion, when there appeared— For the motion 16 Against it Majo r it y aga i nst the fiction 81 ...... —65 BRID PORT ELECTION. On the question, that the decision of the Committee on the Bridport Election should ha reconsidered, some considerable di-cussion took place, in which Mr. llindley, Mr. Bankes, the Solicitor-General, Mr. T. Duncombe, Sir W. James, Sir De Lacy Evans, Sir R. Peel, Mr. flume, Mr. Law, Mr. Stuart Wortley, and Mr. Wakley took part, and upon a di vision thea majorityg estion of f 3,2 r e, ;: t o h n e i r i d e e b r e i n in g g thefor the decision reconsideration w as neg a 46'4vT.rdiaienbdyn'egptnt'toift 6 th o e . Committee of Supply on the Aliseel lar,e.; us Estimates was brought up and agreed to, and the other the day 'leing disposed of, the House adjourned at orders T s . ie nty of lliLutes to Eight o clock. .v., , at his record the decease of one of the oldest baronets In IT,: DEATFI OF SIR JOHN TREVELYAN P e ttis pii d .e y si t r o i —Anr John Trevtlyan, who expired on the 2 3t r i o i nets in seat, Netilecombe Court, Somerset, at the advanced a^e was the soli of the fourth Baronet by the daughter of P. s B ' He Esq. Ile succeeded to the title in 1828, having Previously married the daughter of Sir T. S. Wilson, Bart., an eminent city merZied lie was a Deputy-Lieutenant for Northumberland, in which county, as well as in Somerset, he held estates, which, with the title, go to his son, Walter Calverly, born in 1797. The baronetcy was created in the reign of Charles the Second, being conferred by that monarch ova a member of the faintly in ret , :rn for the. services rendered by them to the royal party in opposin:g the republican forces_under Fairfax and Cromwell. Lord Stanley is suffering from slight indisposition, and was in consequence prevented front dining with the Duke nod Duchess of Beaufort, on Wednesday last, 1 TEE SUN, LONDON, PRIDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1846 , lIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO - MORROW EVENING Will be tor the second time th ese t wo years ) , Cima rosa's ch(ef d'lEuvre, in Two Acts, en titl e d, performed IL MATRIMONIO SEGRETO. Carolina, Madame Grisi ; Fidalma, Madams Sanchioli ; Elisetta. Madame Castellon ; Paolino, Signor Mario ; Count Robinson, Signor F. Lablacho ; Geronimo, Signor Lablache. To conclude with the admired Ballet Divertissement (composed by Mdlle. Cerito), entitled LA VIVANDIERE. Introducing the Redowa, or, Original Polka of Bohemia, by Mdlle. Cerito and M. St. Leon. Kathi, Madame Copere; La Vivandiere, Mdlle. Cerito ; Postillion, M. St. Leen ; Mayor, M. Bertrand ; a Traveller, M. Venerra. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully in. formed that there will be an EXTRA NIGHT on THURSDAY NEXT, JUNE 4, When" will be performed Mozart's ch e f d' oeuvre , IL DON GIOVANNI. . _ Donna Anna, Madame Grisi ; Donna Elvira, MdPe, Sanchioli ; Zerlina, Madame Castella.n ; Don Giovanni, Signor Fornasari ; Leo porello, Signor Lablaclie ; Masetto, Signor F. Lablache ; Il Coin mendatore, Signor Botelli ; Don Ottavio, Signor Mario. With various Entertainments in the BALLET Department. Comprising the talent of Millie>. Cerito, L. Taglioni, Moncelet, Dc melisse, Cassan, and Lucile Grahn ; M.M. Perrot, Gosselin, Di Mattia, and St. Leon. Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at the box dflice, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven, the Opera to com mence at half-past Seven o'clock. TkIILATKE ItuYAL, Dit UK Y-LANE. THIS EVENING _ Will be performed the popular Opera, called MARITANA. Charles the Second, Mr. Borrani ; Don Cmsar de Bazan, Mr. W. Harrison ; Don Jose de Santarem, Mr. Stretton ; Maritana, Miss Homer ; Lazarillo, Miss Poole. Between the first and second Acts of the Opera, will be intro duced the popular Allemande, by twenty Danseuses Viennoises ; and between the second and third Acts, twenty-four of the celebrated Danseuses will execute the famous National Polka Paisans. After which, the celebrated Ballet of LA GISELLE. Duke of Silesia, M. Mathis; liilarion, Mr. W. H. Payne ; Prince of Cour land, Mr. Howell ; Wilfrid, M. Adrien • Giselle, Mdlle. Sall ; Mirtha, Nldile. Louise; Princess Bathilde, Mdlle. St. Louin ; Bertha, Mrs. Payne ; Principal Willis, Mesdames Adele and Giubilei. During the Ballet will be introduced the Standard Galop, by forty-eight of the Pupils of Madame Weiss. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Comedy, called MR. PETER PIPER ; or, Found Out at Home. Mr. Peter Piper, Mr. Farren ; Sir C. Fairsex, Mr. Tilbury ; Major Garry Owen, Mr. Hudson ; Facias, Mr. Buckstone ; Mr. P. Piper, Mrs. Glover ' • Busk, Mrs. Humby. The Band will perform the Overtu res , " Cenerentola," and " Due d'Olonne," the " St. James's Polka," " Philomel Waizer," and the " Chatsworth Quadrilles." To be followed by a New and Original Comedy, called, A BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK. Cyinon Foxall, Mr. Webster; More -.raft, Mr. W. Farren ; Sir John Coverdale, Mr. Tilbury; Ernest Coverdale, Mr. H. Holl ; Horace Waidgrave Mr. Hudson ; Schnei dermann, Mr. J. Bland ; Thomas, Mr. Brindal ; Lady Coverdale, Mrs. Glover ; Selina Coverdale, Miss Julia Bennett ; Emmeline, Mrs. Seymour. To conclude with the Comic Drama, entitled THE IRISH POST. In which Messrs. Bland, Tilbury, Hudson, and Mrs. Glover, &0., will appear. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. ENDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. Another brilliant Triumph ! " Robin flood and Richard Cceur de Lien" every Evening. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Farce, entitled, A FRIEND INDEED. After which a new Farce, called SISTER AND I. Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, A. Wigan, Emery, Turner, Kinloch, and Bellingham ; Miss E. Daly, Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, and Miss Forster. To be 'to:lowed by A MODEL OF A WIFE. Characters by Messrs. Wigan, Meadows, Turner ; Miss Farebrother and Mrs. Woollidge. To conclude with a New Crand Operatic Romantic Burlesque Spec tacle, founded upon certain St riling and hitherto Unrevealed Pas sages in the Histories of ROBIN 11001) AND RICHARD mint DE LION. Characters by Mrs. Keeley, Miss Fairbrother, Miss M. Keeley-, Miss Villars, Miss E. Daly, Miss Howard, Miss Bromley Miss Laidlaw, and Miss Grove ; Mr. A Wigan, Mr. 1. Matthews, Mr. Keeley, Mr. Turner, and Mr. J. W. Collier. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Drama, entitled THE MEMOIRS OF AN UMBRELLA ; or, The Silent Observer. In which Messrs. La - nbert, Howe, 80yc.2, 0. Smith, Wright, R. Ryan, P. Bedford, Selby ; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Yarnold, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. F. Mathews, &c., will perform. After which, the interesting Drama, entitled TIIE CABIN BOY. In which Madame Celeste, Miss W)olgar, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. 0. Smith, &c., will appear. To be followed by the Burlesque, entitled PETER WILKINS ; or, rite Loadstone Rock and the Flying Indiana. Principal characters )3 , Misses Woolgar, Emma Harding, Chaplin, Brooks, Taylor; Mr. '2,,t1 Bedford, Mr. Munyard, Mr. Mitchenson, &c. PRIIv(E 3'S T I F, ATRE, 0:;:FOLD-SHEET. T IS EVENING Will be performed a new Historical Illy, in five Acts, entitled THE KING OF THE COMMONS. James V. of Scotland, Mr. Macready; Sir Adam Weir, Mr. Ryder ; George Weir, Mr. Cooper ; Malcolm Voting. Mr. Murray ; Laird Small, Mr. Compton ; Mingo Small, Mr. Oxberry ; Lord Kilmaurs, Mr. Roxby ; Madeline Weir, Mrs. Stirling; Widow Barton, Mrs. Fosbroke. To be followed by an Original Comedietta, entitled THE. COLO NEL'S BELLE ; or, the Non-Marriables. Count do Ruse, Mr. J. ; Major Vidette, Mr. Murray ; Capt. Fonfaron, Mr. Roxby ; Mahelle, Miss E. Stanley. To conclude with a ew BaEet, entitled LES CONSCRITS DU VILLAGE. In which Messrs. Gilbert, Marshall, Flexmore, Harris; Miss Bailin, Miss Marshall, &c., will appear. ASTLEY'e ROYAL AMPIIITHEAIRE, Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the especial patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty, and their Royal IPghnesses Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Alice. Last Week of the present successful spectacle, which must be withdrawn to make way for the Whitsun Holiday Entertainments, " The War in the Punjaub ; or, Our Indian Victories.", . THIS EVENING Will he performed the Grand Asiatic Drama of THE ARAB AND HIS DESERT STEED; or, the Pearl of the Euphrates. With magnifhent effects, and intro,thcing the double stud, &c. The SCENES of the ARENA will he of the most varied and lasing description, introducing the new Artistes, whose wondrous performances are nightly crowned with the most enthusiastic applause. The En!ertainmenta will terminate with a new and laughable Arr ERIIECE. Mr. BATTY has much pleasure in stating, that in obedience to the wishes of several of his patrons and heads of families, he has made arrangements to give, during the ensuing holidays, four mid day performances, the hrGt of which will take place on THURS DAY, June 4, and each succeeding Thursday until the nnmhcr are complete; on which occasion the Entertainments will embrace those recently performed by royal command, and so highly eulogised by her most gracious Majesty. The repreentations will commence each day at two o'clock, and terminate at half-past four. Roc-office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six aid commence at seven o'clock. Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. EVERY MONDAY, TUESDAY - , WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY. VIEW of NAPLES, ERUPTION of VESUVIUS, DESTRUC- TiON of HERCULANEUM and POMPEII, in the year 79. This isiagnificent spectacle is revived in an unprecedented scale of grandeur, the picture being more than twice the size of the fortner, and represents, as accurately as can possibly be done, the Great Eruption of Vesuvius hi the year 79, when the Destruction of Her culaneum and Pompeii took place: produced under the direction t Mr. Danson. A richly ornamented GOTHIC BRIDGE of STATUES has been constructed, which will be brilliantly Illuminated at Night. The PROMENADE CON2ERTS are again confided to Mr. God frey. The Band is most complete in all its departments, and includes many eminent native and foreign musicians. The PYROTECHNIC DISPLAYS, by Mr. Southby, are on the most complete and effective scale. Preceding the Volcanic Display a novel exhibition will be intro duced, representing the Descent of Phoebus in the Chariot of the Sun. Mons. Farinelll will descend from a Chinese Pagoda, seventy feet in height, to the surface of the lake, where a Naiad's Car will rise to receive Lim, and bear him to his chrystal home. An Illuminated Marine Cave, and the Glass Conservatory, splen didly ornamented with festoons of lamps, enabling the visitors to view the matchless collection of Carnivora by gas-light. Feeding of the Carnivora at five; the Pelicans, &c., at half-past live ; Concert at six ; audr he Eruption at dusk. Admission, Is. THE COAST DEFENCES.—The armament for the de fence of the ships of war on the Canadian lakes being com pleted, and the advance-ships being for the most part equipped, orders have been received to expedite the supply of ordnance for the coast defences at home. The giant scale on which these defences are to be formed may be judged of from the annexed details of the supplies of guns, carriages, and ammunition which are to be forwarded to the following places :—For the additional defences at Sheerness, one 56- pounder, 97 cwt. ; 17 8-inch, of 65 cwt. each ; 28 32-pound ers, of 56 cwt. each ; and 12 24-pounders, of 20 cwt. each ; total for Sheerness, 53 guns. The 21-pounders a• eto be mounted on iron-carriages; all the heavier guns on carriages with traversing. platforms. For the additional defences at Tilbury Fort, 50 32-pounders of 56 cwt. each, on carriages with dwarf traversing platforms ; 19 32-pounders of 33 cwt. on iron carriages; total additional guns for Tilbury Fort 69. Additional guns for Gravesend, 15 32-pounders of c 6 cwt., on carriages with dwarf traversing platforms. Guns, car riages, and traversing platforms for the defences at Ports mouth, Gosport. Portsea, and Priddy's Hard, in addition to the existing armament :-2 50- pounders of 97 cwt. ; 17 8-inch guns of 65 cwt. ; and 15 8-inch of 50 cwt. ; 61 32- pounders of 56 cwt. ; 39 24-pounders of 50 cwt. ; 36 8-inch howitzers and 1 24-pounder carronade. On iron carriages, 75 24-pounder guns of 20 cwt. Total for Portsmouth, Gos port, &c., 246 pieces of ordnance. Grand total for Sheerness, Tilbury Fort, Gravesend, Portsmouth, &c., 388 pieces of ord nance of various sizes. A small armament of light pieces of ordnance, consisting of 6 6-pounder guns, 6 3 -pounders, 8 4 2-5 howitzers, and 8 4 2-5 mortars, is ready for shipment for Quebec. This armament is to be forwarded to the various forts of the Hudson's Bay Company in the north-west terri tory, to be ready in the event of hostilities occurring in con nexion with Oregon, as guns of this kind will, in the event of war, have to be conveyed over mountain districts. A contrivance has been invented by which the guns can be carried between a given number of men. Several trials of the invention have been made here, and it has been found that it is quite practicable. FATAL AND FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENTS RETURNING FROM Ersom.--On Wednesday evening the following fatal and fearful accidents occurred while returning from Epsom Races :—The first case was about one mile on this side of Epsom. A four-wheel chaise, in which were seated four persons, while they were in the act of do seending a hill they came in collision with another vehicle, when the driver, Mr. John Winter, a cousin to the ex-Champion of England, was thrown to the ground, the force of which broke his hack. The other persons in the chaise were likewise most seriously injured. Mr. Winter was c arr i e d t o t h e neares t su rgeon's, who dres se d th e wounds, and su b sequently ordered h i m to b e conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he was found to have received the most extensive injuries of the back, which was completely broken. He was put under the care of the house-surgeon, but he expired in two hours atter his admission.—Another accident, of a frightful character, occurred while descending a hill, situate about three miles from Epsom. A van of unusual size, belonging to Mr. Mathews, carman, of Guy-street, New Weston street, Bermondsey, was on the way home very heavily and injudi ciously loaded, th ere b eing upwards of 35 individuals riding with the driver (Mr. Mathews), i ndependent of a l arge quantity of luggage. The van, was proceeding at a steady pace towards town, in a narrow lane, when one of the near wheels ran into a deep hole, which broke it into atoms; the vehicle consequently swerved, or turned completely over, throwing the passengers into an adjoining field, atal some into the hed ge. The striver was lost fur a few seconds by fall ing among the horses, which were all in confusion, and plunging furiously. After a few minutes had elapsed, Mr. Barnes, landlord of the Two Brewers, Rederess-street, Southwark, was discovered with fractured ribs and contusions over various parts of his body. Another gentleman, landlord of the Rose Tavern, Snow's-fields, received a fracture of the left arm end severe injury to the head. Mr. Windsor, of King-street, Borough, also sustained a lacerated wound ofthe scalp. A STURGEON IN THE THAMES.—Ye,terday morning a large sturgeon of seven feet in length, was discovered near the Adelphi Pier, rolling about in the mud and water, the tide having receded so far as to leave it no hope of escape. The discovery was made by two men on board the Twilight steamer, who secured the prize and carried it to the Lord Mayor, when his Lordship presented them wills N. His Lordship intends forwarding the fish to Bucki ng _ ham Palace, as a present to her Majesty. ASSAULTING A TOLL-KEEPER.—Lord Dillon was yes terday charged at Lambeth Police-court, before Mr. Norton, with as s milting the toll-colle c t or of V:tuxhall-bridge, by thrashi ng hi nt with a whip. His Lordship, who was driving a four-in-hand back frcw the Derby, was inconvenienced, alto the toil had been paid, by th e son of the c omp l a i nant seizing the horses ' hea d s. Mr. Norton con sidered the collector the awgressor, and dismissed time case. GRAND ENTERTAINMENT AT GLOUCESTER ITOTJSE.— Her Royal Hignness tle Duchess of Gloucester gave a superb h snqttet last evening, at Gl oucester House, to their Royal Ilignesses the Duke cud Duchess of C am b r i dge, his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and a distinguished circle of the nobility. The Duke and Duchess of Cabridge arrived front Cambridge House shortly before eight o' c l ock, attended by Mr. E. St. John Mildmay. His m Serene H Edward Highness P rince of S i xe Weimar had previously reached Gloucester Reuse- Ti Sir Robert Pe e l entertained a select c i rc l e of political friends at dinner on Wedne s d ay, at th e f a mily residence in White hall-gardens. We have to annou nce t h e d eat h o f the D u k e d e M on t, Ti n banquet was served at eight o'clock. mOrency, Peer of France. He was one of the minority of Ul2 Court of Peers en the trial of ALArsll4l Ney.—Gatignoni. ...~ THE NEW NOVEL. Now reldv at ail the Libraries. MABEitLY'S " In 3 vols. post Bvo. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. LADY BLESSINGTON'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready, at all the Libraries in 3 vols., VITMOIRS OF A FEMME DE CHAMBRE, By the COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON. " We will not undertake the invidious task of pointing out the originals of clever portraits hung up for public exhibition in these volumes, nor intimate the domestic dramas from which the well painted scenes are taken ; they who know aught of the world of ton will have no difficulty in assigning the likenesses and the pictured events to their proper prototypes; but we cannot refrain from re marking that the author has shown artistic judgment in her admix ture of the gay and grave, and that her light colours of satire and comedy are rendered more effective by contrast with the sombre hues of sentiment and pathos."—Morning Post. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THE ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN ON THE DANGER OF DEBATING SOCIETIES. WITH A PORTRAIT OF WASHINGTON IRVING, BY GREATBATCII, AND AN ILLUSTRATION BY LEECH. The June Number, price Half-a-Crown, of BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY contain : BRIAN O'LINN ; F OR, LUCK IS EVERYTHING. By W. . MAXWELL, Es., Author of " Stories of Water H loo," " Wild Spor q ts of the West," Stc. WITH AN ILLUSTRATION BY LEECH. CHAPTER XlL—Love-lane—Mr. Hemsgate makes a new acquain tance and renews an old one —Evening conference—Suppers and symposia. Jaff Linton's Oak ; or, May-day. By J. P. Palmer. Legends and Traditions of Lewes. By Miss Costello. THE ARCHBISHOP of DUBLIN on the DANGER of DEBATING SOCIETIEAIYOUNG MEN. The Boys in the Streets. By Albert Smith. Romancing. By A. Gibb. Mackinnon on Civilisation. A Treatise on the Pump. By Paul Prendergast. TATTERSALL AND TATTERSALL'S ; - With a Glance at the Lions and Legs of the Betting-ring. Sketch of Washington Irving, with a Portrait. By Greatbatch. The Albigenses and the Troubadours. By Dr. W. C. Taylor. TIPPERARY HALL. The Tipperary Skiff—Flowers of Transatlantic Eloquence— Yankee War Song on the Banks of the Rio Grande—John Bull's Navvies giving Settlers to Uncle Sam—The Beauties of a Richmond Tide—Ladies on Land and Water—Apologia Levitatis—The Triumphs of an Irish Jaunting- car—Serenade—A Poetical Legend of Kildare, " How the Devil rode out with Lord Luttrell and his Stag hounds"—The Witch of the Fens—A Derby Day—Dithyrambic on King Pyrrhus' last victory. Richard Bptley, New Burlington-street. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. TESSRS. LAMOND , SMALE, AND LAAIOND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street,. London, to which place favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully requested to be addressed. _ Ali Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited for exa mination at least one day previously to their being offered; and advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, awl the proceeds - immediately disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London. WEATHEIL—SUN OFFICE, MAY 29. LIERMONETER, Lowest, 49; Highest, 65; Noon, 63 BAROMETER, 30. 38.-WIND ; 31 . 1 WATER AT LONDON-BRIDOE TRIS DAY. •• 19 minutes after 4. ! Evening .. 33 minutes after 4. T om ti ~51‘., '.,.1. 1 .,...4 1. ''' ....,,,a , ..." . 0 •,,, A ,• - —,--7.--q. > ~ „ft e 1 . 4 4... _4..4.... - . ~.. . ~.„- 7,7 ' ! 1 6 t' L t ~:- - ' .N.,L4cti,:tl-5) e l't . 4 '- .. 41:.1 I,''!.. I , , ,- ' ... , A - • U ' %'' . • ;,,,fy" 1- . A W , ' , : .... ,ors .. A -4ApTAr Ai A , i,%,-,-;17,„,„ #.• ek.141149. LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1846. Not, as the scion of Derby would imply, because they blindly consult class interests and party aggrandisenient; not be cause they foster their rent-roll by taxing the meal bag, and prefer the lustre of a feudal coronet to the lustre beaming from the countenances of a con tented population. Thank GOD, rather, that we possess a House of Peers ! because those Peers are giving evidence of a desire to obliterate by one decision the avaricious impo licy of bygone generations, because they testify a due sense of the sanctity, the grandeur, and the strength of the national will, and are ready to consult the interests of the people, not those alone of some exclusive coterie. By their determina tion in favour of the second reading of Sir RORERT PEEL'S Bill, our nobles have stabilitated their class, and renovated their influence, and popularised their councils more than by any resolution possibly that has ever been pronounced within the walls of their Right Honourable Cham ber. Whatever decadence may have encroached upon their political character by a very notable ancestral selfishness, however much their over-con servation of exploded statutes may have deteriorated from their original popularity, and have caused those favourable opinions in their regard to fall into desuetude—the majority of forty-seven Peers in favour of a free-trade policy will dissipate all such sentiments, and tend very considerably to the establishment of a respectful affection between the people and their aristocratic Legislators—an affection arising ballad of a sense of mutual dependence. As the ancient of "Chevy Chase" was wont to influence the poet CAMPBELL, ." In expectations have been realised, all our most distinct an nouncements f k a e t m r a a m nn p e e r t the all h o e a u r r t m o o f s t t h a a e n i g v a h i o o l o e have been fulfilled. The Peers have relieved tnatio n his ma , j , o b r k i themselves from a somewhat onerous responsibility, an d majority y the l v l o in c e that responsibility (unless, as we sincerely trust, they will perceive the futility of persistance) will altogether devolve upon the clamorous supporters of the protective system. Convinced that the time has ar rived when the proposed measure will alone suffice, and actuated by their own rational conclusions, not by any in timidation from without, the aristocracy have washed their hands of a denial. They have dispassionately weighed the merits of the question, and their ultimate opinion as to its advisability is more eloquently conveyed than by the most elaborate flourishes of rhetoric, in the cabalistic numerals 47. Although this only signalises the second reading of the Bill, the divi sion is in every essential respect conclusive. We look upon the Great Measure as already accepted by the Legislature; I and, animated by the ardour of that thought, it is with a lthreefold earnestness that we offer our congratulations to the eague, to the Liberals, to Parliament, to the Prime Minis ter, and to the People. The commercial code of England is henceforth free trade. The Emperor of RUSSIA, accompanied by Count Onr.oFF, arrived in Warsaw on the 17th of May. Madrid papers to the 21st have been received. They contain no intelligence whatever. It being the fe;st of the Ascension, the Bourse was closed. We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday. They are principally occupied with comments on the escape of Prince Louts NAPOLEON from Ham, an event at which they almost all express satisfaction. - The Chamber of Peers heard the report of M. FRANK CARRE on the case of LEcoarrE at the sitting on Wed nesday. Although transactions were not numerous, there was some fluctu tion on the Paris Bourse on Wednesday. The rise in Consols on our Stock Exchange produced a corresponding movement at the com mencement of business. A fall subsequently took place, but the Funds rallied towards the close of the market. The Three per Cents. closed at 84f. 15c.; the Five per Cents., 119 f. 75c.; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,237 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,017 f. 50c.; Itavre, 753 f. 75c. ; Great Northern, 747 f. 50c.; Avignon, 880 f. ; Vierzon, 625 f. ; Bordeaux, 612 f. 50c; Boulogne, 490 f.; bieppe, 415 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 5051.; Tours and Nantes, 5181. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons, 541 f. 25e. PROMISES OF MARES. Lyons and Avignon, Delinitives, 515 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, Der'naives, 510 n BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK Eli CHANGE, May 28. Boulogne and Amiens, HA—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Espeleta), 2—Central of Spain, I)4—East Indian, li—Luxem bourg, I%—Namur and Liege, 3% —Orl,ans and Vietzsn. 15-I•aris andL} 5 . Lyons Constituted, G%—ltouen and Havre, 28778— Sam bre and Meuse, THE ACCOUCHEMENT OF HER MAJESTY. The following bulletin of the Queen's health was issued this morning : " Buckingham Palace, May 29, 184 G. " Nine o'clock A.M. " Iler Ma'jesty's recovery goes on without interruption. " The infant Princess is well. (Signed) " JAMES CLARK, M.D. • " CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D. " ROBERT FERGUSON, M.D. " No bulletin will be issued till Monday next." Co A " Constant Reader" wishes us to correct a state znedt which appeared In our paper, that the Dowager Countess of Dunmore was not the last sister of the Date of Hamilton. liacly.A.nn Hamilton is still alive 411 a well. Cordially do we congratulate every individual in the country upon the result of this morning's division in the House of Lords, by which the aristocracy accede to the na tional will, and acknowledge the justice of the proposed measure. The momentous changes in our commercial policy recommended in her MAJEsTY's Speech from the Throne, and demanded by the intellectual and numerical prepon derance of the Commons, has now obtained the acqui escense of the only remaining division of the Legislature. That anxiety which, during so many eventful mutations of authority has been extending itself throughout the land, has now developed itself in every quarter of our social sys tem ; it has elicited the accordant intimation of the SOVEREIGN ; it has called forth the most beautiful, because the most peaceful, enthusiasm of the multitude, the noblest of the moral and mental capacities of our statesmen, the fecundity of our insularoratory, the pre dominating approval of our representatives, and, finally, it has evolved the distinctest sympathy of the aristocracy. What Lord STANLEY falsely appli e d t o th e converse o f th e division may be appropriately notified as the spontaneous ebullition of popular gratitude and popular satisfaction, in the exclamation, "Thank GOD, we have a House of Lords!" MONEY and COM - MERCIAL NEWS. CITY, 9?. ~RTEI? TO . The sales of Cotton At Liverpool yesterday were 5,000 to ()MO bales, at previous prices, the market being unsettled.—Shares were firm, and good stock realised fuller prices. The accounts of the American markets are not considered favour able, nor could they be expected to be so, now the war with America has commenced. From Canada we are advised as follows: " The weather has been dry and warm at 3.tontreal for some days past. To-day the thermometer is at 72 deg. in the shade. Wind south, cloudy, with appearance of rain. The progress of vegetatiort has been rapid, and the seed time favourable. The plum and cherry trees are in full blossom, and the flowers begin to show themselves on the early apple-trees. The Lombardy poplars are now green, although not in full leaf, and the forest trees on the mountain begin to look green. So far there are indications of a favourable year. " It is singular, with all the appearances of summer, to see ice lying on three or four of the wharves, where it was lett by the sudden fall of the vater last month. " The communication with the upper part of the river and lakes, is now completely free. Propellers are daily arriving in the port with loaded barges from Upper Canada, and they return by the Beau harnois and Cornwall Canals, and may go to Lake Michigan, pass - through the Welland. The passage from St. John to Whitehall is now down to 2s. 6d., breakfast included. They come from New York in 41 hours."' There is a very sensitive market for the English Funds, in conse quence of the intelligence from Mexico, and the reaction in Consols is % to % per cent., money bargains having been effected as low as 9614, and time transactions at 96%. The .premium on Exchequer bills has been steady at Iss. to 19s. ; New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 97% to 973. East India Bonds are worth 275. pre mium. This is " pay" day, and it goes off tolerably well. The Foreign Bonds have been more animated. Spanish Actives for account have realised 24 to 243(, and the Coupons of 1846, 18%. The Three per Cents. have been 36% to 37. Mexican Stock suffers materially from the warlike state of affairs in the republic. The Five per Cents. have been done at 30% and 29%, and the Three per Cents at 17% and 16. Grenada Deferred Bonds have been done at 4M. Russian Stock is worth 110 to 1093, Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are marked 60. Shares aro flatter today, as might be expected front the reaction in the other markets. BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. Yitic Es. Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 95% 34 95 95% Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. • 96% %IA 96% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anna . . 97% % 9734 Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 3-16 % 10% India Stock .. .. • • • • • .. .. 265% 264% India Bonds, 1,000/. .. .. .. • • .. 27 p 27 p Ditto, under 1,0001. .. .. .. .. Consols for Account •• •• .. • • • • 97% 96X Exchequer Bills. INd. I%d. 1,0001... .. .... 15 19 p m . Ditto. Small .... 20 —— pin. Ditto, Advertised .• • • 17 12 17 pm. ONE O'CLOCK: FOREION FUNDS. Grenada, 1 per Cent Ditto, Deferred .. Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent Ditto, for the Account Ditto, Deferred 17% 16 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent. 39 Ditto, 3 per Cent .. Russian Bonds •• .. 110 1e93 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Ditto, for the Account .. 24K Ditto, 5 per Cent. '38,39,40, div.lB4o 24 Ditto, 1841 .. .. • • • • .. 23% Ditto, 1842 .. . • • . • • 22% Ditto, .1843 .. .. • • .. .. 21% Ditto, 1844 .. . • • • • .. 20% Ditto, 1845 .. .. • • • . 19% Ditto, 1846 .. • • • • • . 18% Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. 37 363 i Ditto, for the Account .. 36 3 4 Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates CLOSINI PRICES 41 / 4 4 M, .. 3 29% 29% .. .. 60 .. 92 PRICES OF BUSINESS CLOSING DONE AT RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. PRICES, ONE O'CLOCK. Buckinghamshire 425. .... % p.. •••• • • . Caledonian .. • • • • .. 10 .... 11% 3 4 % • • Ditto, Extension 252 • 1 % % • • Cambridge and Oxford.. .. 1.... % . ..... Derby and Crewe .. 2 % .... 65% Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .. 5%..., .......... Direct Northern -2%..,. 1 3 4 % Eastern Counties .. 141. 168..... 23% 23 Ditto New .. 8/. 165..... 734 Ditto, York Extension .. 108..... 134 3a ..... •• • Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... 75 ..••. • • • .. Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 20 .... .......... Great North of England . ..100 .. Ditto, New .. 10 .... 39 .. Great Western .. .. 85 .• ..147 146.. . Ditto, Quarter Shares: 5 .... 17 1632 ••• • . Ditto, Fifths 20 .... 33M32 ..... Hull and Selby .. .. 50 ....103 ......... Ipswich, Norwich, and Yar mou th 2 .... 1 .......... Leicester and 13ed:ord 225. M p.. • ..... Lyndon and Birmingham . • .100 •• • • • • Ditto Fifths 2 .... 25 . London and Brighton .. .. 50 .. • 65 34 • 6434 Ditto ditto Fifths • • • .. 30 41 ..... London and South-Western •• 411. 68.10 d... • • • • Ditto, New :. •• • • • • • 1734 •• • • 29 1 i London and York .. 2 3Q.... % London, Salisbury, and Yeovil . 2 32 Londonderry and Coleraine .. 10 .... 6 Manchester and Leeds .. .. • • 82 Ditto Extension .. 428. .. • • 3 p Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 . 81% Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) 1 .. • • 934 % Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .• • • 107 Manchester and Southampton 2 .... ....... . Blidiand .. • • .. ..100 ....150 ...... Ditto, New .. • lB .. .. 313 e 31 Newcastle and Darlington Junet. 25 ...... Ditto, New . 1 .... 9% M • • 9 1 4 Newcastle and Berwick .. •• 15 • • • • •. 25 94% 25 25 1 North British .. .• • • 22% •• • • 30% 29% Ditto, Half Shares .. • • • • 8% •.• • ..... 11% Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 1% .... 2 •. • • 2% North Staffordshire .. • • • • 425. .. • . 434 3% p.. P Oxfd.,Worcester,& Wolverhmptn. 12 %...• W% .....• 8 Preston and Wyre .. • • •• 25 .... 30% . aog Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 236.... 3 •• • • 3 Shropshire Union .. .. 425..... 134 di5...... 154 dis. South Midland 425. % dis dis South Eastern and Dover 3334 .. 39 38.3 e, • • 3832 Ditto. New (iss. at 32/0 No. 1. 16 ... 19% ......... 19% Waveney Valley .. • . .. 2 .. • • ••• • • West Riding Union 425. p•.• • . • • 2% P York and North Midland 983 Ditto, Selby .. 30 .... 74% ......... . 74% Ditto. Extension .. 15 .... 3334 34 , 34 Do. E. and W. Riding Exten... 1 ...- 113 3I ...... FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bordogna and Amiens .. .. 12 .... 11 3 ,4! 4 . Dutch Rhenish .. .. 6 .... 7a 7;.) Louvain and Jemeppe .. 4 .. . Luxembourg .. 4 Namur and Liege .. 6 .... 3% Orleans and Vierzon .. 10 .... Paris and Lyons Constituted .. 5 .... .. Sambre and Meuse .. 8 Tours and Nantes Constituted .. 5 4 '.. .. .. .. .. MIRES. British Iron .. .. • • • • 10 •• • • -- • . Real del Monte, Unregistered .. 3 3 4 : . . Santiago de Cuba .. .. 10 .... LLOYD'S SH IPPIN Gr.-(T XS DAY.; LONDON, MAY 29.—Wind variable, light breeze anal. cloudy. DIAL, MAY 28.—Wind N.N.E. to E.N.E.—Sid. Ea/ illy, Rampach. St. Thomas's. Arrd. from the River, and sld., Herse,t tel, Robertson Mauritius ; Stefanino, deculorich, Rio Janeiro ; Itos a 1 ie, Boyes, An , tigua ; Susan King, St. Kitts. BRISTOL, May29.—Wind E.S.E., fresh.—Aml.. :28th, Glenelg Cother, St. Vincent. Sid., 26th, Englishman, Dye r, Africa; 28th, Dechfour Backe, Quebec. LIVERPOOL, May 28.—Wind N.N.E., Cambria steamer, Judkins, Boston, left 16th inst., and Halifa. r 18th; Haabet, Iceland ; Julius, Iceland. Sld. 28th, Bellairs, Webb, C; Ilcutta 3 Har vest Home, Carlyle, Calcutta; Orissa, Smith, Bo: ml )ay ; Gypsey, Mitchell, Rio Janeiro; Princess Victoria, Thom. ss„ Maranharn ; Frances, Corkhill, Barbacloes ; Burley, Cooper, Jam at ca; Cornelia, French, New York ; John R. Sklddy, Luce, New Yell; ; Springfield, Roy, tßichebucto; Tamerlane. M‘Leary, Montreal; Lima packet, Robinson, Quebec ; Niagara, Tilley, Quebec. DUBLIN, MAY 26.—Ski. Foigh. a-Ballagh, Brawl, St . John's, New Brunswick. Conic, MAY 26;---Wind N.W.—Sld. Albion, WallacA, , Boston. EPSOM ItACES. (THIS DAY-BY EXPR THE OAKK The Oaks Stakes of 50 sovs. each, hft for three yrs old fillies, Bst 71b each ; the owner of the second filly to receive 100 sovs. out of the stakes, an tvl the winner to pay 100 sovs. towards the police regulations f the course ; last mile and a half. (140 Subscribers.) Mr. Gully's Mendicant 4 :S. Day) 1 Mr. Gratwicke's Laundry Maid 4 (F. Bell) 2 Lord Glasgow's Emilia filly ff; Holmes) 3 The following also started, but were not pls ced : Mr. Bowes's Mowerina (17 . Butler) 0 Mr. Bowes's Ukraine Sir C. Monck's Vanish (C.sx twright) 0 Mr. Preston's Osprey. ( Marlow) 0 Lord G. Bentinck's Princess Alice Mr. Gratwicke's The Fitch (H. Bell) 0 Mr. Gratwicke's Lady Cecilia... ....... . .(Crouch) 0 Mr. Bristow's Marietta (J, Howlett) 0 Mr. Combe's Octavia filly (Barth olomew) 0 Lord Orford's Prussic Acid ....(Sly) 0 Mr. Treen's Astonishment . ',Burke) 0 Mr. Matthews's Chamois' (Mann) 0 Lord Albemarle's Nell Cook (1 obinson) 0 Mr. Drinkald's Ohio ...................(Wri itohouse) 0 Mr. A. Johnstone's Fair Helen a ,Marson) 0 Mr. Osborne's Hopeful I Bumby) 0 Mr. Death's Camelia Lord Chesterfield's fby Elis, out of Morelle ...(Nat) 0 Mr. Littledale's Fantastic (G. impson) 0 Mr. Bartley's Miss Verb ( .Bartley) 0 Mr, J. Day's Miss Slick 24 ran. Won easy •by two lengths. CORN EXCHANGE-FRI/ )AY• MARKET NE THIS I )AY.) The present week's arrivals of English Wheat haw g been mode rately extensive, we had a lair average number of samples of that article on sale to-day, owing to which, the fineness of the weather, the result of the division in the House of Lol - ds on the ( Awn Bill, and the thin attendance of buyers, the demand wa s exces sively heavy, at, in some instances, further depressed rates, say of 1 s. per quarter. In foreign Wheat, tree as well as in bond, so little was a do v i e n r g y t d h u a l t l t i h n e .. quotations were almost nominal. Barley was a yen dull inquiry, and prices were with difficulty supported. 111alt 2;5 w 2 as ocm 1. 5,730 ski. quiry, but not cheaper. Although the supply of Oats vl as small, that article commanded very little attention, at late rates. Beans, Yeas, and Flour were a mere drug. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. Oats 5,890 qrs. 1,980 qrs . 4,520 Flour. 2,580 English -• • • • • Irish •••• • • • • Foreign • 5,570 Alan, 7,330 qrs. SMITSCE'IM737O. The supply of Beasts on sale to-day was very li m i ted; the demand for chat description of stock was in a depre ssed state,, and previous rates were with difficulty supported. Th ere were in the market 30 Oxen from Prussia ;50 Oxen and Cows, together wit li 220 sheep, from Holland and Germany; as, also, 350 horned and polled Scots from Scotland. The number of :Sheep being considerabl yon the in crease, the mutton trade ruled heavy, at barely an Mondari ; quotations. From the Isle of IVi g h t, about 300 Lambs came fresh to hd, while the arrivals from other quarters were extensive. All breec ',5 moved off slowly at unaltered figures. Calves, Ur; supply of whin a was good, were a dull inquiry, at a decline hi value of 4d per 81bs ; Pigs very dull, and 2d. per bibs. lower. Ankh Cows heavy, at from 16/, to 18/. each ; .uckling Calves, 18s. to 3.5.; and quarter old stor to 18s, each. Beasts, 67 3 ; Cows, 139; Sheep and Lam Calves, 356 ; Pigs, 239, b e s P , igz,„90161. Incurmaxi: AND I.7OIIDENLTAIi We had a very dull tracts, and, in seine instances, the quotations had a downward tendency. • THE SUMMER CIRCUITS. Yesterday mol "nine* the Judges chose their circuits as follows :—North Wales, Lor J Denman ; South Wales, Baron Rolfe ; Oxford, Lord Chief Justice ! findal and Mr. Justice Manic; Home, Mr. Baron Parke and Mr. Jt !stice Colt man; Norfolk, Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Justice Willi. mu; Mid land, Mt. Justice Patteson and Mr. Justice Coleridge ; Northern Mr. Justice Brightman and Mr. Justice Cresswell ; Nit*4 'stern, Mr. Justice Erie and Mr, Baron Platt ;at charafers in km , the chief Baron, P “ I ,WAY li"ltmrnivc(4 HOUSE OF LORDS. GROUP I. LONDON .8.7.VZ yonn, (7. 1 33 L EASTERN COUNTIES). , The Committee met at eleven o' c l oc k thi s morning; the E a rl of Lovelacc, chairman. The Committee intimated to the parties, that when the ca.e for the Eastern Counties closed, they would, after hearing Mr. Ansel - Vs. speech, take the case for th e C am b r id ge and Linci.ln, and Leeds ana York line. Atter hearing that case they would then call - on Mr. Ser geant Wrangham to reply to the whole case for the Eastern Conn tios, after which they would come to a decision on the trunk line. Mr. Hudson was then called and briefly re-examined by 3 ft - HOPE—The lion. Member stated that he could compete with the London and York line supposing it were made; he could also carry the public and good s at a c h eaper rate and quite as speedily, if not more so. The offer he had made the London and York shareholder s was that - which subjected them to the abandonment of the wai n line and placing Cambridge on the trunk line. The Eas tern Counties Company did net court the proposed connexion with the London an d Y or k ; i t was complained of by persons repre senting about forty tho usan d s h ares in the London and York l a i c, that the Eastern Counties had not made an o ff er t o them f o r the purpose of an amalgamation. Soon after this complaint was made a," public meeting he i mme di ate l y wrote a letter to the directors of the London and York, proposing terms of amalgamation. The negotia tion ended in nothing. Mr. Stephenson, civil engineer, was then called and examined 10 Mr. AUSTIN. GROUP X. The Committee met to-day at one o'clock, in rcorn No. I (gouge °l' Commons) ; present, Mr. Dcedes, chairman, and the usual Newhal l ' They were at first occupied with some arrangement resrectillg the new clauses of the GLASGOW, Aanzuzi., 1?1-71) IVIONELAND ZUNCTIOLT, respecting which, as far as the reporter could understand, there had been some slight misconception. They then called on the parth s in the CALEDONXAN (GLASGOW, fir" ARNEVZICI AND COATERTD E rinawcans), in which, yesterday, the Committee decided that the preano l o was not proved, as far as co ncerne d the Airdrie and Coatbriege P°ndr, tion of the line. The.part o f th e preamble remaining to be diSPos' of relates to what is l nowu as the GARTCASH BRANCH. Kr. GsArum, agent for the promoters, informed the Committee that there was only one opponent to the measure, whose consent to the Bill had, however, been obtained, and final arraugementa were proceeding to allow the Bill to pass unopposed. After some conversation the Committee adjourned to three o'clock , to gire time for preparation of the clauses, according to the arrange ment stated. GROUT XVII. mazAwcn,:msTnn !IND SOUTITAIVIPTOMY 4,.NV norasxrr nmi lm2t/I3GE 231Z./1.27C/1 (siOUTEI—IOVMS T. ER 11). The Committee met at one o'clock this afternoon, the Hon. E. Yorke in the chair. ROWISEIT AND REDMIXXIGE nnANCIE. Before the transaction of any business, the Chairman ordered the room to be cleared. On the admission of strangers, The CHAIRMAN (addressing 11r. Hill, who appears for this branch) said, owing to the, course of examination pursued yesterday, soul thing like an imputation was cast upon the Great Western 011 count of some discrepancy with respect to the charges for goods and passengers. It was the wish of the Committee to hear some e deuce on the p ar t o f t h e South Westtin to explain this discrepancy, and a witness was to be examined this Xncf. ing on the subject . That was the first point ; and i"'" Committee having considered the two Bills, as far as they were , ah le . , . had come to the conclu s i on t h at the promoters of the Manclheest?' and Southampton should o p en t h e i r case, and that a general rep should be given to the p romoters of the Romsey and Rahn 16 branch. --- Mr. HILL said the promoters had complied with the wishes o f the Committee, and witnesses were iu attendance to give evidence. XXII. 111 This Committee met to-d a y at GROUP the usual hour ; Sir O. Grey' the chair. ICOP . IPSWICH AND EMMY ST. EDMUND'S (-- WIC:a IiZIETENSION). The preamble of this Bill having been passed yesterday, the 'eau.° were considered to-day. As there was no opposition to them, they were passed T1'0. 01 ' 34 and the Bill was ordered to be reported. The Committee adjourned till Wednesday, the 10th of June. GROUP XXIX. EAND The Committee m et t h is is morning at 12 o'clock, the Hon. I' r , VILLE WILSON in the chair, with Mr. Knight, Mr. Ackers, Borthwick, awl Mr. Trail. - to After some delay, in consequence of the desire of the Comah"Coly obtain another room, th e one now occupied being rema- - phthisical, when of Mr. J. P. Smi.h was called to speak to the s ti e communication between the t wo t owns. There are, it apPear4,lll.• malting establishments. There is in the neighbourhood of the nation of the line a species of earth which contains carbon and ch!' j , but more of the f ormer th an the latter, and the " clunch," ast called, is therefore nearly oval to cement. The district wrie r° " clunch" is found Ely and Fordha. Te the CHAIRMAN -The witness replied tha m t this stone is of derable hardness, and that it resisted the action of the atinosphcar-jo such a way as to render it a desirable stone for building. Ills gra t bo ut are situated at Fordham, but he resided at Ellie half the corn brought to Newmarket, as well as y. bought ' 3 " ji pd l arg ely at Bul71,1oto• Ipswich, and exported t o o th er p l aces i n every part of the kin. _ et /. The inhabitants are certainly in favour of this line, althoug lr of trailt,';-. Cons might have been presented against it. The majority from the district to Lynn, whence it is transferred by to different parts of the country. Lynn supplied at least seven_ ties, so that the inhabitants were enabled to send goods bach!?Y. ijis a water car eo l th return at very low freights. Corn is frequently sent to the .I . ol± sei f, and Bristol Channels, of which a great portion Is shipped hY a rf this To the CHAIRMAN the witness replied, that he thought drat e the line were formed the inhabitants wou ld go by way of Ipswich a' coast, becauseJt saved time, although it cost money. GROUP LIII. o f ° This Committee met to-day at half-p as t one o ' c l oc k , in'roo the New Houses of Pailiament ; present, th e Eon. E. ,m 2 (chairman), the Earl of Ar un d e l an d Surrey, Captain Dairril." Mr. Ifildyard, and Mr. R. Clayton. zrs•Se6ll2 sunoPsnTscr, ur, ..sozr Awn CPS IX) iC .• .---- T2ICI WOLVIS 2 .III3.II O IV'reI7)• The traffic evidence in thi s case was resumed. air. Chance,Mf the firm of Chance, Brothers, wholesale chemists and glass iniluAilac turers near Birmingham, being the first witness. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS- (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commilli.) THURSDAY, 3IAY 28. THE ANDOVER UNION. Wee Motion made, and Question put, " That the Select Coning on the Andover Union have leave to report the minutes of tile jhe deuce taken before them from time to time to the Ilouse.. " House divided : MINORITY—AYES, 16. Archbold, Robert Hamilton, Lord C. Somers, J. P. Armstrong, Sir A. Hill, Lord Marcus Stanley, W. 0. Bagge, W. Hume, Joseph Bow ring, Dr. 31 orris, David TELLERS. Collett, John Pechell, Captain Etwall, Ralph Dawson, T. V. Plumridge, Captain Wakley, T. Duke, Sir James Sheridan, R. B. MAJORITY- NOES, 81. . , ti nt Baillie, H. J. Feilden, William Northland, 'VOW Baine Walterl Fuller, A. E. . O'Brien, A. S. Bernal, Ralph Goulburn, Henry O'Connell, DI. J. Bouverie, Edward P. Graham, Sir James Pattison, James Bowles. Admiral Greene, Thomas Peel, Sir It. Bramston, T. W. Hamilton, G. A. Pennant, Colonel nromerton, J. Hamilton, W. J. Philips, G. R. Brownrigge, J. S. Hastie, Archibald Phillpotts, John Bruce, Lord E. Hawes, Benjamin Plumptre, J. P. Cardwell, E. • Hayes, sir E. Richards, Richard Carew, W. P. Henley, J. W. Round, C. G. Clerk Sir G. Hodgson, R. Smith, Benjamin Cockburn Sir G. Hope, Sir .1. Smith, Vernon Colebrooke, Sir T. Hope, G. W. Smythe, George Collett, W. R. Houldsworth, T. Somerset, Lord 0. Craig, W. G. oward, C. W. Spooner, Richard Davies, D. A. James, Willi am Trollope, Sir J. Denison, E. B. Jocelyn, Viscount Trotter, John Dennistoun, John . Kelly, Sir Fitzroy Turner, Edmund Dickinson; F. H. Kemble, 11. Vane, Lord H. Divett, Edward ' Lincoln, Earl of Vesey, Hon. T. ... Douglas, Sir C. E. Lind sa y, C ap t a i n Wadd i ngto n, H• ° Drummond, H. Lygon, Gen. Wood, Colonel T. Duncan, George Mackinnon, W. A. Wrightson, -Iv• B. Duncembe, 0. Mangles, It. D. Young, John Dundas, David Mines, R. M. Trunas. Egerton, W. T. Mitchell, T. A. Duncombe, T._ Elphinstone, H. Morgan, 0. Bakington, J. D. FLANDERS and HAM BURG MA US ' BRUSSELS, MAY 26.—The average price of wheat in the week ending on Saturd a y, th e 23d of May, was 23f. 82c.p that of rye 18f. 61c., per hectolitre. M. de Theux p resen t e d t o th e Ch am b er o f Representativaes; in its sitting to-d a y a p ro j ec t of law, which was evenexpecte the object of it is to p ro l ong t o th e I s t o f O c tober, an d ri i the Ist of December, the a llo w i ng th e importation of co duty free. The Chamber then commenced t he discussion of the Pr ject of law relative to the canal from De raze to Schipdotb"e After M. Donny, M. de Roo spoke at great length agains t , ol . project of the Government and thist of the central sT,. I Le He expressed his opinion that the Ivorks proposed weul in .. insufficient to prevent inutdations that the canal of Sy s , e , donk is only an experiment, which - will lead to exPe n ses , every year, and will in the end occ:ision heavy experts which the Chamber is now unwilling to incur. The opinions of the Central Section were then defended l g M.'Delahaye, who desired that the cat tal of Shipdonk terminate at the sea, and not stop at Deynze. £ 1 1 . M. Maerlin spoke in favour of thdeefieail:roNf-attliioorre in the Donny and M. Desmaisieres, and in Central Section. ; a d c e k n e n n e. on Monday, re' The discussion will be continued to -morrovr. The King, K ye i e n t g e , rd w ay ho fre w m as i e d x s the • • reignin g Empres s VIENNA, MAY Majesty . turn ' to Luna. k ' ess morrow evening by a steamer stay th to meet the EinPr accompanied by the Archduke Francis Charles will go to of Russia, who may probably ere three days --4 10 e mein Zeilung, 24th May. _ peesctatetde aatt ourt A D y AGAIN.—At • the Thames Police -e sr . iT' EP° is somewhat notorlcus impostor was charged before. o. yesterday .. B r ' ader ":. tra . be, safer a lengthy inquiry, considered it to he 1 1 ',,°,0 A ori, ion , a . tter before a Jury f t ta*" had ao with defrauding through lettel. bur r, aof sprious inf.r r nitif , and as there s ido to sena the m . former conviAton of the prisoner, he shoold return the dePt 4e, t Wa r to the Central Criminal Court. As the offence was baila r . e - t io o sureties of 1001. each were accepted, :sad having giv e " su 2001. himself, the prisoner was eischargttcL sta te A lutt‘T from Rome, in the Augsburg Gazelle , „dor u —,-,- that the Papal Government has received ccpntidentiat coma'' 11,',„ pagz.ndists in tho.e capitals are actively eLert S ing tions from London and Pa ris , •announeing Met the revolutionary._ .00 t h e m,elPCO W . the attempts at insurrection in Italy. ~„. li r°lll' ACCOUCHEMENT OP THE MARL .7HIoNESS , -7 .., dt,ro4,. CESTER.—The OF of Worcester, of ;er acute suirelaltn: guar, a period of upwards of twenty hours, gave 7 oirth to a se,ndenee 4n der" to five o'clock yesterday morning, at the family keley-square. We regret exceedingly to ad 3, that the __,,/, eaP _,., only a short time, having to the great g rief of the !' , 7 e " s : s ' , we : en "?' infantsol h eel Within two hours alter its birth. The I , io b/e 3{,ircT:__, the Queen glad to learn, is progressing satisfactorily. lier,3.lajmu,, D A P Dowager and several of the nobility sentyest erday b. , a after tbe health of the Marchioness. ;-------- BIRTHS li. Mrs. ward On the 22d inst., in Thurlow-square, Brat rapten, we l i a ll, Denison, of a son of Arro - On the 2•2 d inst., the lady of J. R. Sha.' sC, Beg* , Cheshire, of a son and heir. yrs . Joger li On the 23d 'fist , at Newington-place, ;,K,Nanington,. Freeman, of a daughter. ' os at, On the 23d inst., at Leamingtnn, the lady r g Captain J* P. lith Bengal Cavalry, of a son. On the 24th inst., at F.ffra Cottage, Brt stop, t he wir e of flugil Taylor, Esq , of a daughter f fi t ' On the 24th inst., at Victoria-road, W. 11. Pott, of a son. t y of Da 9 °ll On the 25th inst., tile wife of John K F e . 7 B in a gt con, ll : : 'wig' °I Rise, of a son. D. 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