The Sun. — London, England, 1846-03-06 00:00:00

BARK RETURNS. (From the London Gazette of Tuesday.) An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes, of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 21st day of February, 1846 :- Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amoun t. Abingdon Bank, Abingdon-Knapp and Co 25,553 Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and Co 14,037 Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jemmitt and Pomfret 11,678 Aylshain Bank, Aylsham-R. and E. Copeman 5,274 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Rickford and Hunt 37,777 Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank, Baldock-Wells, Hogg, and Lindsell... 32,719 Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple-Drake and Co 14,020 Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke- Cole, Seymour, and Co. Bedford Bank, Bedford-T. Barnard Bedford and Bedfordshire Bank, Bedford- Trapp, Halfhead, and Co. Bewdley Bank, Bewdley-Nichols, Baker, and Crane Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester-Tubb, Wootten, and Co. Pirnitrigham Bank, Birmingham-Attwoods, i'Fooner, and Co Birmirgham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming ham-Lewis, Moilliett, and Co 17,025 Blandford Bank, Blandford-Bastard and Oak Boston Bank, Bosten-Garfit and Co 57,110 Boston Bank, Boston-Gee and Co 10,517 Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater-E. &J. Sealey 8,855 Bristol Bank, Bristol-Miles, Harrold, and Co. 39,958 Broscley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley-Messrs. Pritchard 94,696 3nckin"ham Bank, Buckingham-Bartlett , l'arrott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Market Bank, Bury-Oakes, Bevan, and Co 73,951 rani ury Bank, Banbury-Gillett and Tawney. 34,402 Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Messrs. Cobb 44,062 Bat . . - . City Bank, Bath-Moger and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard-Bassett and Grant 34,593 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-H and A. Harris Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 65,601 Bridport Bank, Bridport-S. and W. E. Gundry 23,752 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington llarding, Smith, and Co ••• Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- J. and Co. Bromsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromagrove-Rufford, Briggs, and Co. Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock and Sons Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge-Messrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and Co • 30,364 Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen-Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey-Messrs. La Coste Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round, Green, and Co. 19,580 Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester -Mills, Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little and Wood -9,243 cock City Bank, Exeter-Milford and Co 21,584 Craven Bank, Settle-Birkbeeks and Co. Christchurch Bank, Christchurch-Tice, Welsh, and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff-Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow-Bromage, Snead, and Co. Derby Bank, Derby-Messrs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby-Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby-Crompton, Newton, and Co 25,412 Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devisea-Hughes, Locke, and Co 19,299 Disc Bank, Diss-Oakes, Fincham, and Co 10,345 Doncaster Bank, Doncaster-Leatham, Tew, and Co. 12,730 Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster- Cook and Co. Dover Union Bank, Dover-Latham, and C 0.... Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington-Backhouse, and Co Devonport Bank, Devonport-Hodge and Nor- 7,891 23,054 - 10,862 3,042 - 15,530 2,614 6,885 56,325 8,422 84,926 9,326 man Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester-Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard-Robins, Foster, and Co. East Riding Bank, Beverley-Bower, Hutton, and Co. Ewa Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford-Walford. and Co. 51,260 Exeter Bank, Exeter-Sanders and Co 33,084 Fultenham Bank, Fakenham-Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co. Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon-Barnes and Medley 7,530 Farnham Bank, Farnham-Messrs. Knight 13,372 Faversham Bank, Faversham-Hilton and Co 4,780 Godalming Bank, Godalming-Mellersh and Keen . 6,727 Grantham Bank, Grantham-Kewney and King 17,126 Guildford Bank, Guildford-Messrs. Ilaydon... 14,436 Grantham Bank, Grantham-Hardy and C 0.... 24,214 Hastings Old Bank, Hastings-Smith, Hilder, and Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford- Matthews and Co. Hertfordshire Bank and Ware Bank, Ware- S. Adams and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull -Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don-Rust and Veasey Harwich Bank, Harwich-Cox, Cobbold, and Co 4,855 Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead- Smith, and Whittingstall 22,892 lloniton Bank, Honiton-Flood and Co. Hart ro rd shi re, Hitchen Bank, Hitchen-Sharples and Co. 34,269 Ileroford, Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and A rchenfield Bank, Hereford-Morgan, Hoskins, ant; Co 25,850 Ipswich Bank, Ips.7ich-Bacon and Co. Ip4wich and Needhain. Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich allexanders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone-Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington-J Davies and Co Knighton Bank, Knighton-J. Davies and Co 5,970 Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough-Terry and Co 19,985 Kendal Bank, Kendal-Wakefield, Crewdson, and Co. 44,366 Kettering Bank, Kettering-G etch and Sons... 8,425 Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End-C. llarycy and Son 49,976 Leeda Bank, Leeds -Beckett and Co Leeds Union Bank, Leed6-W.Williams, Brown, 34,419 and C ). Leek and Staffordshire Bank , an d Leek and Con ;Teton Bank,Leek-Fowler,Gaunt, and Co. 3,534 Leicester Bank, Leicester-Pagets and Kirby 27,984 Lewes Old Bank, Lewes-Molineux and C 0.... 43,635 Lichfield Bank, Lichfield-Palmer and Green... 18,986 Lincoln Bank, Lincoln-Smith and Co 76,399 Llandovery Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando very-David Jones and Co. Loughborough Bank, Loughborough-Middle tons and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington-C. and S. St B 4,448 arba Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis -Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis- Massey and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield-Brocklehurst and Co 11,671 Manningtree Bank,Manningtree-Nunn and Co 5,935 Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough-Tanner and Pinckne y 15,110 Marlborough aad North Wiltshire Ne w Bank, Marlborough-Ward, Merriman, and Ward, Hillier 9 , 817 Id er i o nethshire Rank, Dol ge ll y -J ones an d Williams • rn Millers' Bank, T ruro-Willyas and Co 8,448 B i on ooutlisbire Agricultural and Commercial 17'395 B and co ani - , Abergavenny-Baileys 26 , 530 3lonnwtith Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, B recon B a nk, Chepstow B ank . Che p st ow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth • --Bromage and Snead 14,438 m ol a moathshire Newport Old Bank, Newport ,lir. Williams and Sons 8,113 Newark Bank, Newark-Godfreys and Hutton 27,25 4 Newark paid Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark .Bank, Newark -Handley, Peacock, and Co 31,629 Newbury Bank, Newbury -Bunny and Slocock. Ne..virarket Bank, Newmarket -Eaton, Ham wont]. and Son Nor:a , ik and Suffolk Bank, lliss-Taylor and 2,029 Dam, u Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich-Harveys and 40,650 Hudsons .. Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich-Gura 68,001 noys and Co, Vottingliam and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham-Hart, Fellows, and Co Nmaeaton Bank, Nuneaton-Craddcock and 102,734 81,578 33,558 7,163 9,577 5,766 Cu •o Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Harris, and 22,594 C( New S,-rum Bank, Sarum—Hetley, Everett, and Co Notti cight,:ra Bank, Nottingham—Smith and Co 28,113 Oswe, ury Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os lyirt-;------Croxon and Co 15,612 O 1, :i1r.„ Oxford—J. and R. Morrell 13,020 '2 ,Basik, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, ;yen 31,527 bridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge ink, Tonbridge and Tonbridge venoaks Bank, Tonbridge— inso ' - - 12,387 Average Amount. Oxfordshire Witney Bank Witney—Williams, Clinch, and Co 11,121 Peasr's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 45,353 Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co 10,394 ?bterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—Messrs. Yorke Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson, White, and Simpson 10,700 Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven, and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co 37,255 Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co 40,950 Richmond Bank, Richmond—Stapleton and C 0... 6,031 Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood—Ledgard and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, _ and Co 3,386 Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches ter—Day and Nicholson 9,336 Romsey and Hampshire Bank, Romsey—Foot ner and Son Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons 16,015 Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son 13,950 Rye Bank, Rye—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co 24,166 Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and Co 13,664 Ross (Ad Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard and Allaw ay 4,112 Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Co 17,E42 Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall and Co 23,846 Shrewsbury and Market, Drayton Bank, Shrews bury—Adams, Adams, and Co 9,574 Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons, and Co Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Son 4,800 Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddison and Son Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co. St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's—J. S. Story 2,235 Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie 21,780 Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and _ King 8,935 Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherly and Fall. Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 7,030 Stourbridge Ban's, Stourbridge —Rufford, Wragg, and Co 16,881 Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 13,061 Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley, and Co. .„ 30,224 Stourbridge Old Built, Stourbridge—Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. 22,545 St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib son and Stuart 2,278 Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock 26,517 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and Co 10,947 Thornbury Bank, Th ornbury—Rol ph, Yates, and Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns ford and Barne 11,972 Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland 10,994 Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co. 15,471 Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and CO. v 23,854 Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Wells and Co. 10,769 Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. 24,611 Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox, . Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and Co. Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co 1 3,505 Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham and Co 6,081 Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co. ..... 34,031 Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good riche and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender, and Co. 13,153 Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 84,836 Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley and Turner Whitby Bank, Whitby—Frankland and Wil. not reed, kinson Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Foster and Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster— Everett and Co. Wrexham Bank, Wrexham -J. and S. Kenrick 2,070 Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton- Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth-Gurney, Birkbeck, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth-Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart, and Co 9,943 Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil-E. and J. Batten York Bank, York-Swann, Clough, and Co 43,812 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of 'Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 45,321 Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford .. 17,093 Burton, Uttaxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry Coventry 'Union Banking Company, Coventry 11,384 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 18,973 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 19,121 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington 24,585 East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 143,579 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 16,946 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 31,063 Hull Banking Company, Hull 27,138 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 12,658 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax 38,430 Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,475 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 90,110 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 25,721 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 4,185 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 64,374 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 37,680 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Leeds and West Riding Banking Company, Leeds 2,488 Leeds Commercial Banking Company, Leeds 10,774 Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,063 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 27,138 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 63,177 National Provincialißank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 58,287 Northamptimishire Union Bank, Northampton 76,486 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 43,755 Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei cester . Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 3,786 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 34,518 Stamford, Spaldi ng , an d Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford . 48,053 Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, a n d Somerset;hire Bank, Lang port Shropshire Banking C ompany, Shiffal n Stourbridge and Kidderminster Bankingl.. C . o . m 44,814 pany, Stourbridge 83,984 Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking C ompany, Sheffield Sheffield and Rotherham . Joint-Sto c k B an ki ng Company, 51,296 Swaledale and dalejßanking C ompany, Richmond.. pa n y, Stockton and Durham County Banking Com pany, Stockton...... Storey. and Thomas's Bankin g Company, 9,1255 Shaftesbury .• Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield 2,157 Ipswich Suffolk Bankins. Comp an y , field .. 34 ................e 34,076 pany, Wolverhampton ........... Wolverhampton and Sta ffordshire Banking Corn -076 Whitehaven Joint •Stock Banking Company, Wakefield and Barnsley Unio n Bank, Wakefild 11,659 30,744 Whitehaven .. „ .......... Warwick and Leumitgtou Banking Company, 34,843 Leamington West of England and South Wales District 80,570 Bank,Brtstol. Average Amount. Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 66.04" West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch . . 5,480 Worcester City and County Banking Company, Worcester... . , 5,184 York Union Banking Company, York 69,539 York City and County Banking Company, York 87,179 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leed.4 P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns. Stamps and Taxes, Feb. 28, 1846. RAILWAY COMMITTEES (YESTERDAY.) Sub-Committee No. 1. LONDON, WARM/TM LEAMINGTON, AND ICIDDERMINSTER. . _ (Contimated from cur Afternoon Edition efyesterday.) The next allegation of any importance against the Bill, was that the plans and sections deposited with the clerks of the peace differed from those 1040 at the Private Bill- office. After some discussion on both sides, it was agreed upon by the parties to go through the allegations between themselves, so as to save the time of the Committee. This arrangement was concurred in by the Chairman, and the further coaeideration of the case was adjourned to Mon day next. THE EAST AND WEST INDIA DOLES AND BIRMINGHAM JUNCTIGN RAILWAY. Mr. Gregory appeared for the promoters of this Bill The formal proofs were gone into, and the further hearing of the case was adjourned till Monday. Sub-Committee, No. 2. GLASGOW, PAISLEY, HILIV/ARNOCZ, AND AYR, AND BRANCHES. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) At the suggestion of the Chairman, the respective agents retired for a short time to effect, if possible, some arrange ment, and after an absence of about a quarter of an hour, returned without having been able to enter into any set tlement. 4 The first petition was from Mr. Andrew Do of Hill House in the county of Ayr, complaining gener c( non compliance with the standing orders in various pa culag, Mr. Prurr said that before proceeding with that pet/lion he would call the attention of the Committee to the fact that various interlineations had been made in the petition. Mr. LAING said that the terms of the agreement autho rised them to make any alterations in the petition they required. He had to call the attention of the Com mittee to a fact material to the present case. The second allegation was, that certain portions of the plans de posited by this Company were not their plans, but those of another Companyof the same name, No. 6, but which proposed to construct quite a different railway. He had applied at the Private Bill-office for the Bill he alluded to, but was informed by Mr. Strutt that it would be produced by an order from the Chairman of the Commit tee.before whom any of the Bills of the same designation 'might be considered. The Cturamax having sent for the Bill in question, Mr. Pitrrr proceeeded with the allegations in their correct order. The first allegation was, that no plans or sections of the proposed railway, which was to pass through the Abbey parish of Paisley and Leigh Kirk parish of Paisley, had been deposited with the sheriff's clerk of the county of Renfrew on or before the 30th day of November, which were applicable to the said parishes. Evidence pro and con, being heard, the Committee found that in this case the allegation was not sustained. The second allegation was to the effect that in the proposed branch of railway through the parishes mentioned in the pre ceding allegation, a similar error had been committed, inas much as the plans and sections as regarded these parishes were the plans, or a portion of them, deposited ( in the Private Bill-office by the promoters of the Paisley, Barrhead, and Hurlet Railway. The CHAIRMAN considered that if it were even as alleged, it the plans were correct It would be no matter. Mr. LUNG said he would under these circumstances pro seed on the merits. The first class of allegations was that there was great in accuracy in the plans and sections deposited with the sheriff's clerks of the respective counties through which the line was to pas. The first allegation was with reference to the county of Renfrew, which was sustained, and with respect to the other counties it was admitted that the inaccuracy alleged was correct, and the Committee found accordingly, that in these cases the standing orders had not been complied with. It was next alleged that on the 13th - mile of the terminus at Paisley there was no figuring, which•`was sustained. Some otherallegations of a similar nature were abandoned. It was next alleged that from Nos. 85 to 107 the proper ties were not delineated in the plans deposited with the sheriffs' clerks. The Committee found that the sections in question had not been numbered. Some similar allegations were admitted, and some were abandoned. It was next alleged that there was a difference between the plans and sections deposited with the sheriff's clerks and those in the Private Bilt-office. The first of this class of allegations was that there was an error in the datum line, which the Committee found to be sustained. The Committee then adjourned, at four o'clock, till twelye o'clock to-morrow. Sub-Committee No. B. stroznvaxam (TR,ING TO BANBURY). (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) In all other respects the standing orders were corn plied with. -__ CHESTER AND BXRXENHEAD. This case was pestponed. BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER. AND RIR. MINGRAM AND GLOUCESTER. The object sought by this Bill is the amalgamation of the above-named companies. Parliamentary agents Messrs Dorrington and Co. Solici tors, Samuel Carter, Esq., Birmin4am, and Addison, Glou cester.—Standing orders complied with. NEWCASTLE AND DARLINGTON 7UNC TION (PONTOP AND SOUTH SHIELDS PURCHASE.) The Atanding orders in this case were declared to have been complied with. LONDON AND DIRIYErNGNAM (DIMMING- HAM EXTENSION). The Parliamentary agent in this case stated the Bill was very much opposed, and as he had released the witnesses from attendance (not expecting the case to be called en to day), he should be obliged if the Committee would allow the matter to stand over to some future day. The Chairman complied with the request. LEICESTER AND BIRMINGHAM This was the next case called on; but a messenger from the House of Commons having announced the Speaker was at prayers, the Committee stood adjourned until Monday. STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEE. HOUSE OF LORDS. This Committee resumed its sittings this day at twelve o'clock. NEWRY, ARMAGH, and LONDONDERRY RAILWAY. The Committee decided, after hearing the usual evidence, that the Company in this case had complied with the stand ing orders. THE WEXFORD, CARLOW. AND DUBLIN JUNC TION RAILWAY. The Committee reported that in this case also the Com pany had complied with the standing orders. CORK, BANDON, AND KINSALE JUNCTION. In this case the Committee reported that the standing orders had been complied with. One objection was merel% of an engineering character, and the other was that the plans deposited were not duplicates; neither was the datum line taken from a public point. CORK AND PASSAGE (IREIRND). - - - In this case the Committee reported that the standing orders had not bean eomplied with, several important no tices not having been served. IRISH NORTH MIDLAND. The object of this Bill is to connect Dublin with Ennis killen and the immediate towns, with a branch frona Cavan to Munighan ; the whole length of the line is 99 miles, and the estimated cost is 1,066,6601. The Committee, after a lengthened investigation, decided on reporting favourably on the line, though the standing orders had not been complied with. THE DUBLIN AND BELFAST JUNCTION (NAVAN EXTENSION.) The Committee reported, that in this case the standing orders had been complied with. The Lords present were Lords Shaftesbury, Hood, Itches• ter, Redesdale, Hawarden, and Rosebe•ry. The Committee adjourned at half-past four o'clock. FASHIONS FOR MARCH. (From the London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.) White damas is much worn - for evening or bridal dresses ; lace dresses are also very fashionable, either with flounces or forming tunics; organdy embroidered or tarlatane over coloured skirts, is also warn, particularly by young ladies; gimp trimmings are as much used in dress as en e6zlige, for the latter in silk and for former in gold, silver, steel, silk, or beads ; shaded fringes are very fashionable for carriage dresses, as many as three, four, and five rows are placed on the skirt to within a small distance of the body ; the trimmings of ball dresses are rather bouffante—if flounces, they are made very full, and bouillons of tulle or gauze have frequently nceuds of ribbon inside ; flounces are headed by narrow gimp, in gold or silver ; embroi deries of ♦elvet are very pretty on morning dresses. Coiffures of hair are worn higher and always rather wide ; some young ladies adopt light ringlets rer sembling those a la neige, but all ringlets are shorter than they were last 3 ear ; bandeaux bombes are also fashionable, and short enough to allow the earrings to be seen ; wreaths and detached flowers are equally worn ; diamonds are frequently mixed with flowers, particularly with foliage ; the Hayde wreath is cissite the rage in Paris ; feathers are very fashionable ; some cotffures are entirely composed of feathers, mixed with WI age. The Pamela form of bonnet is being replaced by capotes with bavolets ; velours epingle has much de placed the plain velvet. Satin capotes are ornamented with feuillage of velvet ; pale primrose is a favourite colour. Dross bonnets are mostly of crape. AUCHINLECK. The disturbances which have recently revived the fame of Lockerbie, and which more recently, were ex ceeded at Penrith, bid fair to be rivalled in this, previ ously quiet place. For some time past the bile of the Irish labourers, engaged upon the Kilmarnock and Cumnock Extension Railway, and at the Iron works now erecting in this neighb our h oo d, h as b een disturbed andin creased by some commotion agitating their own ranks. Every spare corner and every extra bed, in Auchinleck, has more than its proportion of Irishmen; and, what ever the causes, the scenes which have daily and nightly occurred of late are anything but pleasant. On the night of Saturday, the 21st ultimo, a number of these dissolute and regardless men paraded the streets, and committed a violent and unprovoked assault upon a person of . the name o f F oggo, a gardener, residing at Dumfr ies House Gate-house, striking him several severe blows, and otherwise abusing him. On the ,same evening the house of one of the landlords of the Irishmen, Terrance Lovel, was entered for the purpose of maltreating one of their countrymen, who was aceom modated there. The landlord, having endeavoured to divert the storm about to burst upon his lodger, was himself assaulted, the inmates severely beaten, and turned out into the street. The mob then proceeded to wreck the interior of the house. On the Sunday fol lowing, while the sober and serious part of the com munity were in attendance upon Divine worship, another riot took place in the streets of the village ; but, through the activity and courage of the inhabitants, who powerfully seconded the efforts of the police officer who had arrived from Cumnock, six of the rioters were apprehended and conveyed to Cumnock gaol, and thence to Ayr, on the following morning. On nday, one of the gangers —himself an Irishman— hav'ng become obnoxious to the labourers, the whole of the Irishmen struck work, and demanded that he should be dismissed. Such was the state of alarm into which the village was thrown, and such the fears entertained by the inhabitants, that a meeting was held on Tuesday evening, and a body of the population patrolled the streets throughout the night. A petition, setting forth the state of matters, was also got up and numerously signed, and forwarded to the sheriff of the county ; and, in the meantime, arrangements were made for raising a small body of resident policemen, for the se curity of life and property. Such a state of matters cannot long be tolerated. The works of the railway are proceeding in the immediate vicinity of the village ; and a rainy day has ever been dreaded, since the com mencement of these works, as something worse than an Egyptian plague. Driven from their work by the wetness, idleness gives opportunity for a display of all their brutal appetites. Of course, matter; are worse since the strike. It is so far gratifying to think, that the Highlanders upon the line—who, unfortunately, are a small though able body of men—keep themselves en tirely apart from the Irish, and from these riotous pro ceedings; and that they voluntarily offered to assist the inhabitants in preserving order and the supremacy of the law. _____ .._ .. On Tuesday last, four of these rioters were tried be- fore the sheriff, and sentenced to forty days' imprison ment. On Thursday, two were tried for assaulting Foggo and Lovel, and received fourteen days' imprison ment.—Ayr Observer. A CONTRAST. THE REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE, By THE BARON CHARLES LUPIN. In 1816 the British Government, in perfect peace, victo rious, and tranquil, spent 86,000,0001. sterling, no part of which was applied to the extinction of the national debt. In 1814 its expenditure still exceeded 67,000,0001. In 1844, the latest period to which the accounts have been completed, its expenditure was reduced to 55,000,0001. In 1816 the interest of the national debt amounted to 83,500,000/. ; it is now reduced to 26,000,000/. and 4 000,000/. of temporary annuities, which are gradually disappearing year by year. Whilst Great Britain was obtaining these splendid results she was effecting a vast reform in the manner and extent of her public burdens. Between 1815 and 1841, a balance being struck between taxes increased and taxes diminished, this power has abo lished an amount of 24,000,000/. of taxation, and last year has suppressed a further sum of 6,000,000/. The taxes abolished are those especially which paralyse induitry, and oppose obstacles to the superiority of British commerce over that of other nations. In effecting this, do not imagine that England has ab stained from carrying out gigantic enterprises, sustain ing mighty struggles, and defending her wide spread domi nions with an armed hand. She possessed in India, in the year 1816, 80,000,000 of subjects ; she now numbers 100,000,000. Canada revolted ; the revolt was suppressed by force. Her will was contested in the Syrian question; her ships decided the matter. China resisted the odious commerce in opium ; an expedition after the fashion of Cortes subdued the Celestial Empire. Two seas existed, the entrance of which was not under the command of England, the Chinese Ocear. and the Red Sea. Aden and Singapore have completed the chain of forts which bind the commerce of the world. I admire this at the risk of being accused of Anglomania, the more that these results have been accom panied by a wise reduction of expenditure and taxation, dating from the peace to the present moment. In 1816 England was, without exception, the state most heavily burdened by the weight of taxation. She is now, in proportion to her wealth, less taxed than France. Thirty years ago England spent 80,000,0001. sterling, while we spent but the half. In 1844 England spent 55,000,000/., whilst we have ex pended 57,500,0001. Let us observe, at the same time, from one single fact, the enormous difference in the resources of the two countries for the supply of such heavy public burdens ! Looking still at 1844, as a means for comparison, I find that the commerce of England, favoured by a skillful system of taxation, is so great, that the mere amount of the produce of the soil and industry of Great Britain sold to foreign nations, in eleven months, is equal to the total annual expenditure of the Treasury. On the other hand, in France, we only behold an unlimited increase in the taxation, and we have reached a point at which it would require the amount of 23 months of the sale of our produce to foreigners:to pay our expenditure, whilst eleven months only suffice to the English. DUTCH MAIL. THE HAGUE, FEB. 28.—A royal message was presented to-thy in the sitting of the Second Chamber of the States General, accompanying a project of law for in creasing the 9th chapter of the Budget, for 1846, with an explanation of memorial. Tns HAGUE, MARCH 2.—ln the sitting of the Second Chamber of the States General to-day, was opened the project of law for transferring to the budget for 1846 sums granted for the Budget of 1845. Some objections were raised by two Members, which were answered by the Minister of Finance. On the question being put, the Bill was passed by a majority of 48 to 4. THE HAGUE, FEB. 28.—Our accounts from Java to the beginning or January, inform us, that his Majesty's brig Zualuw (the Swallow) left the roads of Batavia on the 3d of December, to return to Holland. It has on board the present of the Emperor of Japan to the King, accompanied by an autograph letter of the Emperor. The report that the pirates had plundered the public coff,rs at Riouw, of 30,000 florins, appears to be un founded, no notice of such an event having been received by the Colonial department. This being the anniversary of the birthday of his Royal Highness Prince Frederick, his Majesty's brother, it has been observed in the usual manner. His Royal Highness completed the 49th year of his age. UTRECHT, FEB. 26.—We receive from many quarters, accounts of the forwardness of vegetation this year. The shrubs are in full leaf ; the peach and apricot trees in bloom. The strawberries are not only in bloom, but in some places have fruit of the size of a pea. BERLIN, FEB. 23.—Our merchants and manufacturers are busy with questions and guesses respecting what the German Customs Union will do in consequence of the proposed measure of Sir Robert Peel. Those who have hitherto been clamorous for higher import duties, to pro tect German manufactures, consider the modifications in the English tariff afford additional reasons for com plying with their wishes ; for, say they, as England will obtain corn and raw material on lower terms, it will be able to sell its manufactured goods at lower prices, and therefore still higher import duties will be necessary to protect German manufactures. daiE g ba io ck a tohaerglsa bellaLawrence, OTA of CROP.-For thi spor, m h assoheeea taking potatoes for the London market. It was lately deemed expe dient to call in the local company of pensioners here, in case of any outbresk, but it was conside re d unnecessary to re tain them longer than Monday. Th e price of po tatoes in Inverness may, in the me an ti me , b e stated at N th a a ir t n, port. epariantorythattofrom 14s. to 16s. Potatoes are not keeping i n pit s so we ll as prthewas expected, and some parties are appreh ens i ve o f su ff er i ng from the murrain, though we know of only t wo we ll. mar k e d cases in this neighbourhood. We learn th a t no f ewer than seventy-four special constables w ere sworn i n shipmentby the o f authorities potatoes o f from neigh bourhood potatoes are s'ild at 12s. per boll, and the • price in the town is 14e. per boll. We regret to learn that the po tato malady has appeared in the Isle of Skye, and also at F'raserburgh, in Aberdeenshire. The disease prevails in the district of Buchan also. Large quantities are annually shipped from that quarter for seed to Yorkshire, and the dealers refuse to take them at present, even at the low rate of 10s. per boll. It is, however, consolatory to learn that Professor Johnston has submitted to the public the result of the investigation entered into on this most important subject in October last. He states that " the information elicited went to show that not above one-sixth of the crop would be totally lost, and that as the crop had been nearly one-third above an average, it followed that, after all the losses, there would remain, in Scotland, an average crop of potatoes."—lnverness Courier. REVERSION OF THE CORPORATION IN THE BIRKIN HEAD DOCKS.—We understand that the arbitrators who were appointed to fix the value of the reversionary interest of the Corporation of Liverpool in the Birkenhead Dock estate, have decided that the value of the reversion is one hundred and thirteen thousand pounds! We have also heard that the arbitrators have decided that the Woods and Forests are entitled to from fifty to sixty thousand pounds for the property which they surrender to the Commissioners of Birkenhead.—Lirerpool Times. APPOINTMENT EXTRAORDINARY. — We congratulate the Government upon their having adopted Lord Mor peth's suggestion to infuse, in imitation of our trans atlantic brethren, a little more of the democratic prin ciple into our institutions. Southampton has been chosen as the field for the first display of the new-born love of democracy, and it is to the Iron Duke we are indebted for the great fact. His Grace, as Lord Lieu tenant of Hampshire, has just been pleased (we hear) to confer the dignity of Deputy-Lieutenant upon two worthy tradesmen of our borough—Mr. Lobb, citizen and haber dasher, our present Mayor, and gr. Le Feuvre, packet agent. &c. We understand that the a ppointment, gratifying as it is to the gentlemen and their friends, is by no means pleasing to the majority of their confreres, who look upon these honours as the exclusive privilege of the landed gentry. —Hampshire Independent. THE NEXT POTATO CROPS.--At the ordinary meeting of the Horticultural Society, held on TnesklaY. Dr. Lindley exhibited several specimens of new frame potatoes, as well as those grown in the open ground, hem various parts of the country, which prove the lamentable fact that the disease will be greater in the ensuing than the past season. In addition to the trials made at the gardens of the Society at Chiswick, experiments with regard to the prospects of the crops under every variety and th e best advantages of skill, cultiva. ties, and soil, had been undertaken, amongst other places, in the gardens of Lady Rolle, and Sir Thomas DYke Arland, in Devon shire, and Mr. Meyrick, in the Isle of Anglesea, specimens of which were laid on the table. The details were vet) , lengthy, but the substance may he conveyed in the statement of a few diets. The potatoes from Anglesea were from sets of 1844, when the disease had not made its, appearance; but although they had not exceeded the size of marble's, they were in a lamentable condition, the disease being Billy developed in the interior. From some sets new potatoes in an ap parently sound condition had been produced, although the decayed and blighted haulm showed that they could Hot continue so. Tire pro- • motion of the disease was of an ambiguous character, as, although potatoes without apparent disease had been produced from diseased sets, those in which it was apparent it had not existed had produced diseased issues. Experience and science had gone hand in hand without producing any result, and no general practical remedy had been suggested. Dr. Lindley further stated that on Saturday he had received from L ,, rd Aberdeen the correspondence with the different British Consuls ; amongst the most interesting of which was that from Washington, in which it was stated that the disease first ap peared in 1843, and had gone on in Intensity the succeeding two years. 'the same might be expected in this country, and it required the utmost caution to guard against its effects. That the disease was not confined to potatoes was apparent from some carrots exhibited by the Marquis of Lansdowne, which were placed on the ' table. It had shown itself also in onions, which would not keep this and nearly all the Dutch hyacinths are in a similar ad'ected • IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. !MUSE OF LORDS, March 5. ROYAL COMMISSION. Their Lordships assembled at Five o'Clock to hear her Majesty's assent given, by commission, to several Bills. The Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury, and the Earl of Haddington. The House of Commons having been summoned to the bar, the royal assent was given to the following Bills :—The Public Works (Ireland) Bill ; the Drainage (Ireland) Bill ; and the Grand Jury (Ireland) Present ment Bill. THE LATE VICTORY IN INDIA. The Duke of RICHMOND said he took the earliest opportunity of calling the attention of the Noble Earl at the head of the Board of Control (Ripon), to a mistake which he had made the other night in moving a vote of thanks to the Indian army, but a mistake which he (the Duke of Richmond) wet certain was altogether unintentional, and which he was sure his Noble Friend would thank him for correcting. The error to which he alluded was in reference to the Noble Earl stating that Colonel Wood, the aid-de-camp of the Governor- Goner. I, having headed a regiment in the late engage ment. Now he (the Duke of Richmond) did riot mean to cast the slightest reflection on Colonel Wood, who had been 12 years in the army, and who must on this occasion have been in advance of his regiment, but who certainly did not head is. Though he believed Colonel Wood to be a most promising and gallant officer, he was not the officer who headed the 80th Regiment in the engagement referred to. The officer who did so was Colonel Bun bury, an officer who bad been thirty years in the service on full pay, and six years on half pay, and who had taken a part in the leading engagements of the Peninsular war. and who had been wounded in the late engagement in India. This was the officer who led the regiment. and not Colonel Wood, who might have accompanied the regiment, and he (the Duke of Richmond) was sur prised that the Noble Earl had not mentioned his name in alluding to the meritorious , ifficers who had served on that occasion. Lord RIPON said he could have no hesitation is complying with the request of the Noble Duke. In speaking upon the subject he (Lord Ripon) took his notion of the services of the gallant officers from what he had seen reported in the public prints, and not being a professional man he did not know the difference. Had he been aware of it he would have been most happy to mark the distinction ; and now that he had been made aware of it, he could have no hesitation in expressing his warmest admiration of the services of ()Glom.] Bunbury. He begged to say he felt obliged to his Noble , Friend for having afforded him the opportunity of mak'n g this cor rection. IRISH COERCION BILL. Lord STOURTON said he hoped that his Noble Friend opposite, who had introduced a Bill for the sup presiion of crime in Ireland, would also introduce a measure, pari passu with it, for the preservation of the lives and liberties of the tenant-farmers in that country. The Duke of RICHMOND said he understood the Noble Lord to refer to the corn-laws, and not to the )utrages which bad been committed in Ireland. Lord STOURTON disclaimed any reference to the corn-laws in his address. his observations simply re ferred to Ireland. The Duke of RICHMOND was about to address their Lordships respecting the Bill, but he gave way to The LORD CHANCELLOR, who said the Noble Lord was not in order, as there was no notice before the House. If he were allowed to discuss the Bill under these circumstances, it would be competent for any other Noble Lord to do so. SIR J. M. DOYLE AND THE GOVERNMENT OF SPAIN. The Duke of RICHMOND rose to present a petition from Sir John Milley Doyle, praying their Lordships to refer the consideration of his case to the law officers of the Crown. He stated that he had served under the Spanish Government as one of the general officers of the Legion, who he complained had not done justice to him, but particulary that the Commission which had been ap pointed had not tr...ated his claim in a proper manner. He further stated that the representatives of this country in Spain acknowledged his claim. There was a clause in the Act under which the Commission was appointed, that if any difference arose with respect to the claims of the officers who had been in the service of Spain, that it should be referred to the law officers of the Crown. He was an experienced officer, and had served this country in Egypt and in the wane s.f the Peninsular. His Noble and Learned Friend (Lord Brougham) was of opinion that his case should be so referred. He (the Duke of Rich mond), therefore, trusted that their Lordships would resort to that course in this case. He was ad vised by his friends to take as much as he could get, and to memorialise the Government for the rest. He (the Duke of Richmond) did not think he was asking too much if he o❑ly asked that this matter should be referred to the law officers of the Crown, and that they should decide whether he was entitled to this claim on the Spanish Government or not. Lord BROUGHAM supported the prayer of the petition. The Earl of ABERDEEN said that he was not disposed to deny the valuable services of the officers who were engaged in the army in Por tugal, but at the same time he imagined that claims were made on the Spsnish Government which were not at all in proportion to the services ren dered. Various commissions had been appointed, but they had failed to give satisfaction. The parties could not agree as to the amount, and the conse• quence was that the officers and men interested were continually applying to the English Government to see justice done. Their Lordships would recollect that the British Government were no parties to the contracts made, but at the same time they were bound to endeavour to obtain justice for any or every party having claim on the Spanish Government. These claims were entirely of a private nature, and this Government was no party in the contracts. In the year 1840 his predecessor in office, Lord Palmerston, agreed to form a mixed' commission, which should take cognisance of these claims, and decide upon them in such a manner as that there should be no appeal to the Government of either country, and if the Commissioners differed in their opinions it was to be decided by an arbitrator, the Minister of the King of the Belgians, who has in that capacity given several decisions. He felt therefore precluded from opening the question. He believed the Commissioners had taken a full and a fair view of all the cases laid before them, and had given their decision accordingly. Re felt thsttle had, no power to interfere in regard to these claims. He had enamined into the claims of Sir John Milley Doyle, and he eonsidered that the Commis sioners had come to a right decision respecting it. Even had he (the Earl of Aberdeen) tho power, he did not feel at all disposed to re-open the question. That officer had volunteered his service to the Spanish Government in 1832, and it was accepted by Don Pedro with a great laudation of his noble cond mt. Sir J. M. Doyle after wards admitted( that he entered the service without a contract, therefore he could make no claim on the Portu guese Government for services performed under a contract. It appeared, from the returns he now held in his hand, that Sir J. M. Doyle had received sums of 2,000/, and 50/. from the Spanish Government, and passed a receipt in full of them. Then the report of the Spanish Commission was to the effect that they did not consider that Sir John Doyle had any claim upon the British Government, not having entered the Portu guese service under any contract, and, therefore. he (Lord Aberdeen) did not consider that the claim could be enter tained. Under these circumstances he was of opinion that no advantage would be gained by re-opening the case. Besides he had no reason to complain of the Spanish Government, as he had been treated ex tremely well by them. His Noble Friend (the Duke of Wellington) would perhaps recollect that some years ago he received 5,000/. or 6,000/. from that Government for an injury he stated he had received. Lord BROUGHAM complained that a surgeon had been appointed one of the commissioners, whereas some of the law officers of the Crown ought to have sat upon it. On the same principle he supposed that the Noble Earl (Earl of Aberdeen) would refer a medical point to a lawyer. The Noble Lord then referred to documents which set forth that the Spanish Government admitted the claim, and consi dered that it ought to be paid out of the money devoted to the British Government fur the liquidation of similar claims. The Duke of WELLINGTON said it occurred to his recollection that such a transaction as the one re ferred to by the Noble Earl, took place whilst he was serving his King in Spain, but he did not recollect enough of the circumstances under which it took place to be able to speak with any certainty on the subject. He, however, recollected the name of Sir John Milky Doyle, but he could nut call to mind why he was employed—at any rate he was in the service of this country during the Peninsular war ; and he had the reputation of being a brave man. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY thought that Sir J. M. Doyle had no claim against the Spanish Government, having given a receipt in full for all de mands. He (Lord Londonderry) knew that that gallant officer had been paid very handsomely for his service?, more handsomely than either he or the Noble Duke opposite. The Duke of RICHMOND said that Sir J. M. Doyle had given a receipt in full, because the Commissioners told him that unless he did so he would not receive a farthing. The question is, was the petitioner entitled by his agree• meat and order to receive the amount he claimed. He believed that he had not received a sufficient remuneration for his services, and it was therefore inflict- ' ijeg great hardship on the lion. Baronet. He hoped that he would have, with every other British subject, the protection of the law. GREAT COUNTY DOWN RAILWAY. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY presented a peti tion, which he hoped would receive the support of the Noble Duke who had just sat down. It was a petition signed by Lord Arthur Hill, and other noblemen and gentlemen of the county of Down, in the north of Ireland, praying this House to suspend the standing orders in the ease of the Great County Down Railway. They had suspended the standing orders the other even ing in a case similar to the present, and hoped they would do so now, as the measure would be a great boon to the whole of Ireland, and give employment to a con siderable number of people. Lord REDESDALE objected to granting the prayer of the petition. He said that the Committee found the plans, which were lithographed, as many other plans were, very incorrect. The lithographing was altered in the levels, the height, and the arching, so that it was hardly possible to make out what they meant. The excuse made for this incorrectness was the want of time, but the answer to this would be if the projectors had not time to get up efficient plans by the 30th of November, why not wait for an other year ? There was no hardship in this. On every occasion when a decision was given against a Bill interested parties came forward in order to get the decision reversed in their favour. There was no use in hearing standing orders at all if this practice was to be carried out. Ho had resisted the motion the other evening respecting the Wexford, Carlow, and Dublin Junction Railway, and he would resist the present, he hoped with greater success, as not a word could be said in defence of .the plans which had been got up. The merits of the Bill was a totally different question, and if the project was a good *no it would stand so much the better chance next session. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said, that as they had done the same in respect to other lines of minor im portance, he trusted that they would aot hesitate to do so in one of such great magnitude, and which would prove of such great benefit to that part of the country by giving employment to the poor in this season of distress. In the case of the Wexford, Carlow, end Dublin Junc tion Railway, there was no practical irregularity, be cause the parties who received the notices came with them in their hands ; therefore, admitting their service. There was no analogy between the cases. Earl of WICKLUW could not conceive the use of standing orders at all if they were not to be adhered to. The errors were entirely owing to the neglect of the solicitors. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY did not wish to press tee matter further, after what had fallen from Noble Lords. They had consented to the perpetration of a little sin, but were determined to re sist a great one.—(Cheers.) Lord REDESDALE slid it was competent for the Standing Orders' Committee to report on the schemes suinnitted to them, and to suggest if they thought proper that the standing orders should be dispensed with. He would resist any application of this kind in the same way that he had resisted the application made by the Ntible Earl the other evening, because if it were ac ceded to, it would give rise to very great carelessness on the part of solicitors and agents in Ireland. After a few words from Lord MONTEAGLE The Marquis of LONDONDERRY withdrew his motion. The Duke of RICHMOND moved for the County Treasurers' returns for the counties of England and Wales, from Michaelmas, 1844, to Michaelmas, 1845. The House then adjourned at a Quarter past Six o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 5. The SPEAKER took the Chair at a few minutes before Four. SECOND READINGS. The following Railway Bills were severally read a second time, and ordered to be committed, viz., Kent Atmospheric Railway Cockermouth and Workington Extension Railway East Lothian Central and 'Fyne Valley Railway Yorkshire and Glasgcw Union Railway Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct Railway GREAT NORTH AND SOUTH WALES RAILWAY. 111 r. MORRIS moved the second reading of this Bill, whin Sir DE LACY EVANS said that he should oppose it, in consequence of the surreptitious manner in which the petition had been taken before the Standing Orders' Committee. It was quite clear, that the Company had come to a resolution that, if in the opinion of the Solicitor-General they could dissolve themselves, they should do so : the opinion of the Solicitor-General was in the affirmative, but the resolution had not been rescinded by the Committee ; therefore, iu coming before the Standing Orders Com mittee, the Company had acted surreptitiously. He would propose that the second reading should be post poned till Monday nest. Mr. DUNCOMBE would second the motion of his Hon. and Gallant Friend. He thought the best way to put an end to the discussion would be to postpone the second reading of tLe Bill. The House would, in that case, have sufficient time to decide whether or not the Bill should be proceeded with. After some furlher discussion, it was ultimately re solved that the second reading should be postponed till Monday. Mr. GREENE moved that the House do rescind pa. ragraph 20 of standinz orders No. 87—Motion agreed to ENROLMENT OF THE MILITIA. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented several petitions from different places against the enrolment of the militia. CORN LAW 3. Mr. BRIGHT said that he wished to call the atten tion of the Rouse to a petition from the inhabitants of the Shetland Isles. It was signed by almost every adult male inhabitant in the whole 46 islands—to the num ber of 7,000. They were all fishermen, and they complained that they had great difficulty in disposing of 'hair produce. The were also obliged to pay unna turally high prices for what they consumed, as the islands did not produce halt enough food for them. They therefore prayed that the corn-laws mightbe abolished, as during the 30 years they had been in existence they had deprived the fishermen of the fair reward of their labour, He also presented a petition from Mr. Arihur Ander son, a merchant of Loudon, but a native of the Shetland Isles, which stated facts corroborative of foliose stated in the former petition, and prayed for the immediate and total abolition of the corn-laws. COUNTY ELECTIONS. Mr. H. ELPHINSTONE said that he wished to give notice that ho would, on that day forznight, move for leave to bring in a Bill to limit the polling at county elections to one day. THE NEW POOH LAW. Mr. FERRA ND gave notice that he should move as an amendment to the motion of the Hon. Member for Andover, " that they also inquire into the administra tion of the New Poor-law throughout England and Wales In answer to a question from Mr. V. SMITH . , Sir B. PEEL said, that before the conclusion of the debate on the corn•law question, he ,hould lay upon the table of the House a Bill fora new law of settlement, and also a Bill for the levying of parochial rates. He did not wish, however, to take any discussion upon them until afterwards. ROYAL ASSENT. Mr. Pullman, deputy usher of the black rod, ap peared at the bar of the House with a message from the Lords, requesting the attendance of the Commons, for the purpose of hearing her Majesty's Commission, and giving the royal assent to several Bills (for which see Lords' report). THE CORN-LAW DEBATES. Mr. FOSTER said, tke corn-law debates had now been so long, protracted, that groat inconvenience was felt from the question remaining so long unsettled. There were a great number of notices of motion on the paper for this evening, whick must, if persevered in, be disposed of before the Committee on the corn-laws could be resumed. He therefore hoped that those Hon. Gentlemen who had charge of those notices would con sent to postpone them. Mr. ETWALL said that this motion had been before the House ever since the beginning of the session, and he was surprised at the request which the Hon. Member had just made. He could not but demur to accede to his request, for he believed there was an understanding with the Government, that his motion respecting the Andover Union should be brought before the House to-night. He was not aware that any thing had occurred to prevent that course from being followed, but if there was, he was quite ready to submit to any treason that might be assigned from the Treasury benches.—(Cries of " No, no," from the Ministerial side of the House.) Sir J. GRAHAM said that certainly no under standing had been entered i n t o w i th the Hon. Member; but if the motion were to be p ersevere d in, he should cer tainly feel it his duty to move an amendment, for the production of all the papers connected with the affair of the Andover Union. But he thought a better course might be pursued, and he proposed to place in the hands of the Hon. Member, and every Member of that House, copies of all the papers which had passed relative to the transactions e bleb the Honourable Member referred, which would pro e all the infor mation which rh o G ()vat- .tovnt required on the subject. In additj,en to le, papers to which he understood the likm Mithaber alludtd, he intended to print aid forward to each of the Members of the House the report of Mr. le ,rker. as well as all tht, tatters which had passed between the Poor-law Commissioners relative to the Andover Union, between the Ist of September, 1845, and the Ist of March, 1846. This would place the House in possession of all the inf4mation which the Government had re ceived, and he thought it would satisfy the Honourable Member. Mr. FERRAND hoped that he might be allowed to make a few remarks. The SPEAKER (interrupting Mr. Ferrand)—The House must first know whether the Hon. Member was inclined to withdraw his motion. Mr. ET WALL was quite ready to withdraw his, and would do so, but he thought that in the event of his pursuing that course, other Hon. Members who had notice of motion on the paper ought to do the same. Mr. NEWDEGATE was understood to say that, owing to the importance of his motion, he could not con sent to withdraw it. THE ANDOVER UNION. Mr. ETWALL rose to move for a C omm it tee o f inquiry into the work ing o f t h e poor -l aws in the Andover Union. He was certain that it was the feeling of that House that the poor. laws should be administered fairly , impartially, and kindly, and th a t t h e unfortunate inmates of such d ne. as dig lu e nis e_ should be treated with ki n d ness an d in hear.) He felt certain that there was no hope for the poor, nor did they expect a redress of grievances from any quarter, save from that House. The Hoe. Member then proceeded to read some extracts from the minutes of the proceedings before the Poor law Commissioners at Andover, but, in consequence of the perpetual hum of conversation carried on in ali parts of the House, it was impossible to catch even the purport of the extracts. He was afterwards under stood to say, that the Commissioners during their inquiries evinced the greatest anxiety to de prive the public of the benefit of their proceedings. He would not touch further upon the subject, but it ap peared to him that the Poor-Jaw Commissioners took great pains to keep the public from knowing the result of their inquiries, and if they were desirous of administering the law in a way which would be becoming to them, surely it was their duty to make themselves perfectly familiar with the characters of their officers and depen dents. The late master of the Andover Union, who had been discharged, had received an excellent cha racter from Mr. Parker, a Poor-law Commissioner. He hoped that the Right Hon. Baronet would, in all future investigations respecting the poor-law, see that they were presided over by impartial persons , and by judges in no way mixed up with the administration of the law. He could not but feel surprise that the papers connec ted with the Andover case had not been presented ea r l ier . The bones, which were seized with so much avidity by the paupers, had lain in a state of decomposition in the workhouse yard for two or three months. There was no such instance of ill-treatment of the poor on record as that _ ...........---_ which occurred at this union. When anew bone was tboos 0 into the yard, there was a general scramble f or it!_°..atn man, in one instance, bad been fortunate enough. tl;', two bones, and he had to scamper off with the m alter i manner of a dog.—(Hear, hear.) The poor peotl e appeared from the evidence, were a long whil e no they could eat the filthy marrow out of the Is' . ae All the witnesses at the inquiry stated that there T A . awful deficiency of bread. Mr. Mundy stated t . hs vr t g w ro paupers were accustomed to eat potatoes whi° ll o , o o dug out of the ground after the first crop — 6 - 1 lb , paupers were employed in carrying weights, tr, ( l of to 201b5., and feeling that the labour to could'wulteete were subjected was more than their strength cr they had applied to the master for an, I n d i re ct to their allowance of food. Now this was i n by contradiction to the rules of the Commission ers, and do were the paupers placed in such a position, op either their health must suffer, or the 0 00 of the Commissioners be violated. Tbis ore s had been brought under his notice during the iss',, me A or four years ; for about the beginning of that _.‘" e s new church was begun to be built on the site et ro s" uo e s . one. During the progress of layina the o tr tion-stone, a great number of bones''had iv e to ol moved. Part of these had been sold to t he of collector of bones in Andover, of wbOml the had been purchased by many of the farmers 1 . 3 „ as neighbourho )d, but a large portion was carried " o lt workhouse, where the paupers were employed to . too them. It was easy to perceive the difference betwee n mo d human bones and the bones of horses. Nothiagoto revolting could have been imposed upon then 11 e ets The witnesses collected for the board's ine r Y 09 collected by the master of the workhouse. 2 4 1 ! ) Poee notice was given of the inquiry, and hat Etwall) was in a condition to prove thst e , aft' of the persons examined were constraint*" dos nesses on the occasion. If such matters a s A bed were allowed to pass over, there was no kno win g the system would end; and therefore he felt it 11 ,7:; re tt' to move for a Select Committee to inquire into tn) els ing of the system of poor-laws.—(flear, hesr tee sla s i would not go into the details of the second c aseo eo e the object of his motion was not to disgrace the°wof 00, the union, but merely to call the attention 000 House to the subject. The gentleman Wh o beeo for these inquiries to be brought forward ha d t oisa some years the medical attendant i n the . 0 1 • He was elected in March, 1842, and r eee e l iss ° higher salary than was usually given. For Or a j et Mr. Westlake had suspected that the aged ; In m ate°, paupers id not receive the full allowanceallottea"" ar ei, and in April, 1844, he suggested to th e board de boot' - that these allowances should be entered i e n e s iefol! It might be asked, why did not Mr. Westla"" t 0 0 ' the board of guardians of what he suspected, h f u ee o, ol was every allowance to be made for his not suspecte d or he alleged as his reason that, until he had a str e _ielet ° vincine case to lay before them, it would be ilnr — i n eis o° l persuade the Board of the correctness of his su er be He should rather consider it was the duty of tu re e f e e of guardians to look into the allegations Piteeisl against the master, and not have shown such 011 et ess el to avoid inquiry. ' He could quote numerous 170111 of hardship committed on the unfortunate Ps ij j,fet I° , the servants of the Commissioners—he 0 , eld 00 7 0 the case of William Lawless, an old man, ad se le ek e six years, and twenty-one days in the woo" - e pee was charged with all those little extras of te s y '" forth, to which he was entitled without any P, 1 , 1 1,10.1 There was also the case of William Norris, sa ki leods" nearly blind, who was set to the work of o' o ,o men, and who chopped his own hands in vides ( to perform it. He would also allude to the case ( l i le e ea r Webster, who was charged with extras which 6 if7o received, and to which she was entitled. 14 , ° % t etit ° e . frauds were practised upen the poor, simp l e' -„, ole infirm paupers, they surely ought to consent te de st .l query, with the view of preventing such c e i n o 0 7 future. But he found that those fr a i h et hsis dift: b, -en committed, and the paupers - te pity defrauded at the expense of the r s— r eel e j There was a certain number of paupers w h° t eer broth on certain days of the week, but whe t ° t ee , 0 le t the broth they were allowed no cheese; an d Del if and infirm, when they received the broth, "T.,f ths e ,o* - beer nor cheese. He was not quite awar e t i e eks7,4 gredients of which this broth was made, for: o ose many things of which the paupers in this " e " e ess'',/ partook which was a perfect mystery. Larg, e ,,,' O h o of the butter allowed were saved by the sae.7:ll l . d ee' the bacon pot, and sometimes they were treateu ed e 17 water, and as a luxury were occasionally ail° iess w e e salt. He found, on reference to the books, t, li g ii e e . 0101 the quarters the paupers had been put onha" " ei t • b e and it had been reduced as much as lir oz. of tefsr .4 , whether it was 2 oz. or 1 oz. it was iminat e % ian t i only object was to show thee there was a B re- he rrof racy in the master's books, which was altog et ' erg over in the Commissioner's report. At e v „ er e di, o dr e k osl meeting of the guardians the master was " r ar - 10 before the board an estimate of the stock of 116 required fur the ensuing week, for which e e ll e ec ee lt°7 e ll be given by the clerk and entered in the e, l t he l of Now the check books were never filled up na t e" 'P e el after the goods were delivered and consun T ieib v ? was one fraud arose out of that practice whi e ee ela:oil mention. The teas and sugars sent to the " b ei were made up in parcels of half a pound etc :, 0 ( 1 . 1 was not unusual for the master to return Ms i n c i r io,,v*) parcels, and get them exchanged for better l i e 0 ,11 6 Ye which he converted to his own purposes.- - ( Pe 4 There was also another species of peculatict s , m os peered that out of 901bs. of Chedder cheese . o " v TO to were converted to the purp ,ses of the unkt i pl o l,o happened to be. a man named Watt who was 4 , -- 0 0 . .0' at the union, and this man, when his day' s "iksti r 4 t over, went home to his family, and said t hat be; 00 ,... 1 the inmates of the workhouse eating raw Pt sl o o o 7l, neighbour of the man heard the story, and it "be). abroad until it reached the ears of th e helr:at guardians. The man was summoned before t o pee t o when, on being spoken to, he confirmed his i d : 4 1 00 01 He was then told that he would be ernPlT h e et ti union no longer, and that if he wanted retie' to n - o e go into the house and eat r a w p o tatoes with a _o'lo the paupers. He had never witn e ssed a or e it e ditd dinary state of irregularity than was exh.e; fe .t 7 o o manner in which these accounts had been icePi o rys, r , l o l , had received sums varying from ss. to 1 2 s• " r eline! attendances, for which no accounts had he eli te e a' e of Nothing was more detrimental to the chars c h efrA Poor-law Commissioners than these freeplen t e c e eer'es° cruelty and incompetency. He trusted thatLetel e ei investigation would be instituted into the s irici if he could assure the House that nothing hat 1 4 ,j - dilli e s,' of the important nature of these charges e ° ",:i i tentif duced him to undertake his present disagre e la9 o : 4 - 14 Sir JAMES GRAHAM confessed he e ° , t/. of ea r br regretting that under the present aspec t 0000 affairs, so much of the precious time of o ° o o been consumed in a matter, which after all , P e i, better than a workhouse squabble.—(CheeraiGetios be his duty very briefly to follow the Hoe. wh iell, with reference to some of the statement s ' e A w eo . l ., been advanced with reference to the affnhe Pr o ct ne t s o a t t h e Andover action had some time since been stated to : 0 011 4 0 f t e n e e lin e g ru s s w hi i t t l h g re n s f p b e which at the time left a very strong imprellee r(sit employment le me • 0 044 James Graham) had in his place expresso. b oa objections to the poor being employed in tba: 00 . 1 kind of labour, and his regret that it s houl d p erti.`ol . o put in force in so many Unions. When th is oe glik oe et . overnio'i bilos, transaction had been mentioned, he had th 0 00 1 _ A d11. duty to call the attention of the poor-law had Oveli to the subject. The Hon. Member who f the 0 0 1 present motion, had referred to the report ° ,jr lie or mis.ioners in 1833, in which they stated t e h ep el °A I the species of labour in which the poor su e v t Ore of played. He (Sir James Graham) thou:11'000y labour of the pauper should not be of a de the v io revolting character. So far from vindicetaed of: J d of actions at Andover, his previously coneei v tesvinor had been strengthened. He h a d now th e ? th e o stating to the House that by a ge n e ral order 00 1 4 .0 law Commissioners, notwithstanding the r! ta o .psorpt A i' of nearly 100 unions, the sy s t em o f e mploYte.le j er: bone crushing had been suppressed from the 15 ate rsr and, with the exception of 10 or 12 parishes, the of t , order had been maintained, and he trust would never be renewed. H e b e gged to e t hst s e SI tion of the House t o t hi s remar k a ble fat e ", o pie lift abuses which had been complained of vrer e a , th i re: the to al m anagement. H e did not possel tbs ) e ti power of cont ro ll ing th e manageme nt wh!, t itatr A d'" law Commi s si o n e r s m i g ht thi n k proper to lobe 0 1 ;0 0 addition to other objections which migh t , it 001 the employing of paupers in crushing bon% per eett ew mode of labour exposed to many abuses. :1 g' - f 0 1 , it led to local jobbing; and therefore on e ' e tars i , e ;eb, l ; whether on account of the objectionable P t° sw",: i gtl . y, labour itself, or because of the local a buses os ‘," gri led, this method of employing the Paul o lion_ d ' - o ° . objectionable. He had already stated to t sop prs7 effectual measures had been taken t° l , o ne :00i employment. But bone crushing was ° ° , 1 1 ,001 " f eile ° , o many abuses, of which the Hon. Ge n ' t - h e ias u b etl •-• scribed a great number. There was r oe)) 0: 1 ,1 1 state of the dietary. He (Sir James L'*" mad e et d been 0 0- r state that a material alteration had wee k sst e dietary, and that during one day in the ~e 01 fed been substituted. Then, with respect been 0 „101 the workhouse at Andover, he had beenrnot.s,iO4 this situation by the poor-law guardians, and f . tha t in % Commissioners. During the progress °. t ioa, ,- es l n t) Pee the master had sent in his r g 1 d t ° ga s of when he had been again cal led w go o f A office of master by the poor-06 order, t er. and had subsequently been removed bY..orepliSof.ol Commissioners. This was not all. A, ' o ffi c ers et lis:" . been made of the conduct of the medical t he Owe"; union. In this case it was not doubtful tn e ,, int- e r re d officer had been to blame, and had improp.ery.stiostser Among other complaints which had been ..b ln a r the ? • 111 300 1 the Poor-law Commissioners, one Wa.s t j e t et for t P _ ibet; of the relieving o ffi cers was not sun! e eeeire d o! . . o f , quate performance of the duties which a Z utm eog o e oe The evil had been remedied by the aPP" t hell f oaf' the . o obi additional relieving o ffi cer. ,He believed e xt° e s u 0 mentioned all the objections, with th e . whic h tb or , le , and that was, the insufficient m anner in t. _ lot y . og y . of accounts was conducted. During ta° wee titai bea, e connts ditor° ot was of opinion that the audit of a - et an r ge f ficient for the Poor-law Unions. Distri „ d i ec h, 0 0 • the fa" inu e t ot been appointed, and were now in and the of .1 their functions throughout England : 11 _ art ook e a v Andover, as well as other unions, n ow y com ploP . , bol a benefit.. The lion. Gentleman had ais° t An doT et ee the mode in which the second inquiry:l_, did no. _ t lo ll been conducted. He (Sir James tha t in ineelethet there to vindicate the mode in which tnab f °peso hod g eth 0 ( certainly was ° had been conducted. He certa , in t hem Ol displaie" e g i o t o good judgment had not been that the r f „ t o „ ee ls conducting it. He would not say arose °,,-a Mr. Parker from his situation .gation abed Y mode in which that investi t h at the thew conducted. It would appear oe c on lie • e onsequen • won law Commissioners, in the i n eestig re inquiry into into the manner in which. data , IQ pato been made bad coeidered it thdr "I"J I • THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1846,