The Sun. — London, England, 1852-03-17 00:00:00

N., tip o r tt ed t oxn obtaining the consent of Parliament to a grant the °_ 4 o, 00/. out of the Coesolielated Fund for facilitetieg ta?l,....e?repletion of three Irish railways. To one of those , o nyB there had been allotted a sum of 480,0001., and 10,,..73:c0u1d doubt but that the motley hail been wisely Ireland, Lord Clarendon, the late Lord-Lieutenant of epe r i r .. ; While assisting at the festival by which the l ti l ee l s of the Midland Great Western Railway of toe ;SQ, Which was one of those three liars, had been th e Attal—Lord Clarendon congratulated himself on % %1 , 1 74? had beem able to give to the promoters of the te seet 7mg, and expressed his satisfaction at its perfect ) 11 - 1 7 . _lt appeared from a report which had been e zp .: n ur i l to the House last session, that there bad been ft 4 the of late earsy a sum of more than 8,000,000/. t e d th unprovement of the communications in England, hied, at !, sum of 2.450,000/. had been expended iu Ire leen' while in the Highlands of Scotland there had not t e l ft e Pended One f ar thi ng . Of the sum expended in N ut t! not less th an 973,0001. had been devoted to the ee "letten of railways; and a great part of that sum au been db t repaid, and the whole of it would, he had no 4 0114 z be ultim a t e ly returne d. In the year 1846 the Rae had passed an Act for the construction of a rail oheanWhich would facilitate the cemmuuicatien between le e° atid Glasgow; but that project was one of a very li tie :Plete and unsatisfaetory character, and the cease Of r ee *Was that it had altogether failed. Instead h et, :orrei ng a complete railway communication fo r s ett Oban and Glasgow -that was to say, forma distance of 80 miles—it would merely w ~,. a railway communication for a distance Ni e or 46 miles to Loch Lomond, along which the li et to e was 4'7 to be carried by steam navigation. He be that what was wanted was a complete system of of t 7OY communication, which would develope the traffic e l .? Western Highlands. But that was an undertake i ti lueeend the resources of the proprietors (if the dis 4citt Before the passing of the Act of 1846, surveys of been made from which it appeared that the expense , Ipt. C.' bstructing the 45 m il es of railway to Loch Lomondet a amount to 265,000/. It had since been estimated Est the cost o f construct i ng t h e 80 miles of railway 0 7 , Oban to Glas gow wou ld am ount to nearly 500,000/. that sum the proprietorsof the district were pre -414t1 to provide be. two-fifths, the Government a 're prepared to advance, by way of loan, the remain it three-fifths and they would offer the undertaking as 'ker ' Now, ,, et -Y for the repayment of that loan. esow, he *beget e tt was a modest demand, and one to which the Gos u i tea ,ent might be expected to give a favourable consi thettl°n• He did not ask them to pledge themselves on i i ?eoesion to adopt the proposal; he would leave it e u , to appoint an officer of their own to inquire the feasibility and the expediency of the pro et,,,2 slid then they mi g ht tak e th e course they should *i t ' l l: advisable; in the matter. He had been told that %w e ar' outlay of between 1001. and 2001. they might th ere g,alsch intormation on the subject as would enable a that determine whether or not they ought to agree th et t 'l l ' i resolution. He should only state, in conclusion, tee e i k a inhabitants of the district in question possessed lhet It ' t claims on the favour of the Legislature, and lxisted more patient and peaceable people had never kr, e--(Hear.) tivi ne MACGREGOR was in principle opposed to h at 2ablic money to advance private works. no matter atet e d'ir nature. But there were circumstances con !tact . w ith the Western Highlands which should at -41(1 been of the attention of that House. Ireland tlet ßt „ e e l l said to have received large sums, and be did Ilres 'tugs them ; but Ireland was always largely re a•enten eue in the government of the country ; whilst of lien'' t had only her Lurd Advocate, who spent most Nei e l A ul e in London and was to a great extent unae- MORTMAIN COMMITTEE. `st e , a - • with the wants of the country. It should also Mr. HEADLAM moved that the Select Committee °I th -eath ered on the present occasion that three-fourths on the laws of mortmain do consist of seventeen Mem lith e i' ll blie revenue of Scotland was paid into the Eng- bers t and to nominate the following Menshere:—Mr. %Met e zc haquer, while the remaining one-fourth was Headlam, Lord John Manners, the Attorney-General for tee s lit to defray the military ,and civil expenses of the Ireland, Mr. Hatt, Mr. Marshall, Lord_ Harry Vane, m 11,, 4 1, as also the expenses a collecting the revenue. Mr. &tato Adair, Mr. Anstey, Mr. Drummond, . .r. %v et t : aware that if this matter was taken up by the Pitzpatriek, Mr. Hardcastle, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, %4tre, l:lle nt the landed proprietors in that district would Mr. Heald. Mr. Keogh, Mr. Philip Howard, Mr. Mon 'thew,4w'" lould hargely ave ; andat he believe traffic as d tbe ltheine, London if con- sel Mr. HUME thoul, and Mr. Meag ght there was a rule fixing the num her. tel jl e r . s. e ii , 4 ton, ber of . Members at fifteen, unless th ere were special. rea 41tie • STRICKLAND protested against the under- sons for it. k 'ne t Il fe lt °e. - ether. The principle of advancing public Mr. HEADLAM said his reason for adding thrfe.ad „Nei f ur Private projects had already gone ton tar. Ho ditioual Members was that there was . net a . safficient al'ild et,--- told that private property in the Highlands number of Members o f th e Roman . Catholle religion. ONO improved ; but were such means justifiable to Mr. WALPOLE said the question was whether the nte said to f or that urpose?—(Hear, hear.) It had Committee were to meet merely to make a report, or '141211 4 - Z that alread 13 1 0 , 00 °.C" of money had been whether they intended to examine further witnesses. If tt - tte,,,Tto improve er y ivateintereete. But he should pro- the former, he had no objection;. but if the latter,. these 'ear‘"itst Wh a t right had any Hen. Gentleman new Members had not had the advantage of hearing the pi s ,such, neit i i 'or a grant of public money to improve his own previous evidence. Zoete L lirelperty ? He might be answered that the sums Mr. HEADLAM said there was only one witness to nte t i "" paid by mortgage; but even in that way they be examined, but of cour s e he would not object if it was leer s Let be p a id i n 20, in 30, or it might be in 40 found necessar y to exa mine other s . khe ..... e ; (Rear, hear.) As to Lord George Bentinck's Mr. ANSTEY said if the Hon. Gentleman intended icy, if e ter promoting to close the labours of the Committee, he was not taking railways in Ireland, he should atl itt ever there was a country in the world which had the best means of doing so. If any of the new Members t ) ttel 'to relief of the kind it was Ireland at that pe- required it, it might be necessary to go over the evidence ' 4 4; 1 , a nd yet the House was reluctantly compelled to again° (14, t the advanc e which that Noble Lord applied for.— Mr. P. HOWARD supported the additions proposed t a ti le ' h ear.) At presented there existed no such claim to the Committee, as it wa s essential t hat so lar g e and lha ti re did in the case of Lord Bentinck, and be should imp ortant a class of the c ommunity shou ld be re p ro- Te: n te , a oapose the application.—(Hear, hear.) seated. te Nild C HANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he Mr. DRUMMOND, as a member of the Committee, protested against any further evidence being taken. i t trite: e a s t hre the Hon. and Learned Gentleman the of i,'" Newark that he had not mistaken the feel- Mr. SCULLY said the constitution of the Committee, h ere L e a ni t .i lottse or of the country when be assumed which showed so largo a preponderance of members of te-emtt tea House be considerable sympathy with the inhabi- one class of opinions, had caused great dissatisfaction in I ,(lee tl fi lle Western Highlands; and if he (the Chan- Ireland. Aelee .the eexchequer) saw there ware any means by The committee was then appointed. a Ni e i os e advantage of that portion of her Majesty's OUTRAGES IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND. th lle tt ta r could b e leitimately secured, he should be. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL for IRELAND moved tk - Dre.„ - -4 ° ll who would throw'obstacles in the way of for a Select Committee to inquire into the state of those C, Z. t PrOposition. But when he had to consider parrs of the counties of Armagh, Monaghan, and Louth, e .eteet a l en raised by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, which are referred to in her Majesty's speech; into the 17 0.. 1 1 . 4;7 0 _co . nn t ec r ted as he was with that part of the immediate cause of crime and outrage in those districts; Cu t that. w .n. beto e the House, and who _from his p i- and into the efficiency of the laws, and of their adminis e ", h e ee ' ' , Louse was eminently entitled to considera - °8 tration, for the suppression of such crime and outrage. Pike 17 4 bound to say that Hon. and Learned Gen- The Learned Gentleman said that his motion was sub 't - ba d failed tojstablish hs position.—(Hear.) stantially the same as the one he intended to make be lt (the e t / it dCh of the Exchequer) did not mean t o fore the change in the Government took place.—(Hear, itiitt:eserrn as a rule that the State should not assist pri- hear.) On the first night of the session he drew atten te 'he y, P r ises or advance capital for the improvement o f lion to the subject, which was alluded to in the Speech ha f 'rgt e t r t a t,P_ e rtY. The Hon. Baronet opposite_ seemed . from the Throne, a paragraph of which spoke of the' 11 tee chat capital so advanced was no alone repaid, crimes and . outrages in the three counties of the north of 'tin Pai d withe xce llent hear.) Ireland, included in his motion. The Noble Lord then 1 , 4 , g the . i . interest. -(Hear, httett the State which might be easily adduced, in at the head of the Government informed him that inas "li t e , - ,, t _t 3 tate had made advances in furtherance o f m uch as a Special Commission was sitting, and had not a t t eee e l ' i t e late he was aware that in principle it should finished its proceedings, it would l be premature to go tt.,,t'lle ad with caution, and never applied but u n d er into the subject at that time. __ he Noble Lord was un -1)-ei conditions. He was ready to admit th e r e doubtedly right, and be could not . proceed with the 4 , , e ste _ . 5. . Ill' Jeee Ll ees in which it might not only be expedient, matter then. But when the Commission had terminated, .% e 4tsble hte i 50 tate to make these advances.. He would not h . e gave notice of a motion for a Committee to inquire th„ 11 0 f ' any lengthened investigation of the propo- into the causes . why the law had proved insufficient in e 'aid Q ae whose loss he would ever deplore. But he the counties of Louth, Monaghan, and Armagh, for the Is tl t ta l tea ‘ i nd th House that it ought not to be looked suppression of crime. The Right Honourable Baronet it:it: 4 Z a nie re statistical proposition, but one brought the then Home Secretary, put a motion on the paper as 114 ,Fiel d ~_, moment of great emergency, and as such an amendmentad to his, the terms of which he (Mr. adopted, because he found on looking at the It ell ' .. lf i te u t !t„ be mixed up in the common category. Napier) h eh tniek, took .that measure of the late Lord George amendment, n that there was no real difference between tl i ZlSt , , t i l which he (the Chancellor of the Ex- I them. .He conferred with the Right Hon. Baronet on te u se wan a warm supporter, as a precedent for I the subject, and the Right Hon. Baronet, with the coure w ile 6 , 4, '• Proposition, he should also remember that tesy which always distinguishes his intercourse with e ll :Lete,;, -e rns formerly propounded by that lamented members on either side of the House, in expressing his lt; t le esv th .ere were to be found come matters of k n . concu rrence in the object in view, said ho should . make ti, 'ltch did not appear in the present pro- no opposition to his taking any step to bring the subject t" t e ts (Hear,,,7 hear.) In the case of the Irish railways before the House. He need not say that it was a sub (*) es a Op M . large advance o f pdblic money ject . of the deepest interest . to the Irish people, or that it t a-- te _t but there was also this important condi claimed the most serious atttention from the House, be isercle t tel Y , that there should be a previous outlay cause there could be nothieg of greater moment than the tt telie t , he State should be called upon to advance any security of life and property in Ireland, which, however_ i g t e.tU„'"( e Rear, hear.) It was clearly understood that they might differ on matters of policy, was, after s all, h the :te ti i "u of the capital employed was to be laid out be- substratum of good government. Now, the pare from Nth ) . e State should be called uporato advance . the re- the Throne adverted to the state of those districts, and it t t :C two-th* l i _ k _ irds; so that if the State advanced 2001. he thought he was entitled to lay before the House such tltt " security the capital of 3001.—(Hear, hear.) clear and unambiguous evidence of a very . startling . .4), .he could not Emmert 'n that there had been any out- natu re, respecting the state of those very districts of le the preseat al. ! t r. STUART i nstance. ye the country, as would at least call upon the House to hp a ll / 4 411 t 1 be advan7Z- by -t t e li P a cesition . ' is, that two-fifths pause well, to consider it, and to lend every con- T i t iont were called upon, proprietors before the Go- s titutional assistance to inquire into, and remove if possible, the causes which produce a . mat; . .. . lli tn i '' CHANCELLOR of the 'are ttll, .attile, if the proprietors hadluabs,scorai ----CHEQUER said in of things at variance with the preservation . o cas e position to TOt e ' t a vi Pital, they would then be ; he?el two•fiftlas of life and property, with the introduction of capital, n come be- with employment, with industry, and with every 14 te t -e House and state their 1 11 Circumstances he did not know whether _owe• But even under thing of importance either to the owners or to the men- Nte " recommend an advance; for as to or not he piers of land in this portion of the country. In the Iti rtt ilees of money, and then calling ou:the s ta t e -`) hY othetical course of last year, the grand jury of. the county , • of to be patting to come Louth, of which Lord Claremont, an extensive landed ifi such appeared to him g the oar be- orietor in the county, was foreman,: presented a me te6,the hors Hear.)( If there had been* great outlay ki h -(11 4., e.-- ublie work in a district i tw o , on a great p mural to Lord Clarendon, in which they drew attention s an organized system of crime of the to what struck them a , tit ti to Which afforded prospect of remuneration. m e . Other mending 4 e Government would he de • earnest investigation. It suggested that the tit l a e'e circumstances the ti, advancing ,‘t f in ., money. But at present nothing-what. most able police_ officers should be sent into the country -tv ea It s acknow ege h a d 1 d there to acquire a knowledge of the "Ribbon" system, and Leo ee beepbeen done. via and the H alone durin g two tt. th ct even a survey of the place; an d matters relating to the administration of the law, not now necessary to enter into. He (Mr. Napier) a ; terwards got a return of the state of crime in that county be :Pr Glasgow, who seconded the present motirn I, q•ip. - '. they had no maps or p 1 511 90 all 4 4 • • tt cited CIeREG OR— What I sa id was, that a few netted with the Ribbonsy' ' overt acts of a ears selecting only the cases con ystem. So startling were these o he was (3 4,1 0 . a should be expended ,in this way before this cases, g re at d c o onfederacy, which, if not put down, perfectly conscious that they were the was call fl ue eon.. called upon. _ th t e a - ` 43, NCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER admitted would put the law. est eas mannidzedwecroenisnpifraaectyinagoaipennstcolinfe ie,ti ere t oni a survey from Loch Lomond to Oban, but flict with the law — ea w o n r . g embraced the period between to naurde'rine p ei ßtit. th 'lY to the extent of come fifty miles' He and property. The return 'tee • " r e should be a survey of the whole before any the 20th of April, 1849, and the 2 9th of December, 1851. ucli.ng mur d twent -th Y ree separate cases • l ' Ik ti l ? . l'i l t il l n was made. He should repea . t, if he saw It embrace lep‘aots t i l l' ,a , proposition in .which Baste . anco would dors, shooting with intent he would wounding, threatening notices, actin , cutting and It e Port i t; e interests of a suffering community, kind. of unlawful assemblies, administering a s members i 4 4 613 0a1 4 but the present was not a case of that e and preventing prosecutionran-f unlawful 4;41 0 , also remind Hon. Gentlemen there was an oates, te hL ags o ; t i a e t which was legitimately available for under- And he found that out of those "line. cases, in five instances only there had b twen tee's • b ad t' 4ll kind. The Loan Commissioners for public three . .. in all the rest, the law not having beeenenabl°- lli t - ''Y te e 4 Nod that might be applied, in case the se- victions. eto e vr e i ke the criminal. Shortly before the meet i ng of th t% legitimate and the object proper. Now, if overtake 0b.., eet „, s • l Commission was issued to the et i f ta tter() an imrtant work for the country, he Parliament a Special bag nil tt no ti n -Gentlemen put . themselves in a position county of Aloneg a 9 h o which was proceeding at the • time Special Com • - th e „.. t tecet apply to the Commissioners of Public Works the session commenced; and thatmission, e t elo .`'e that assistance which they now s I ►ote, testa le.Government , marked its sense ought from issued on the part of the . of . . . of the peculiar state criminality 'NC' b He doubted not the construction of the lineof its coneciousness Member for : the h . 'to e U seful, but the Government was also bound to of the district. The Hon. Windsor, epee h tt,te Population He could assure Solicitor-General for Ireland, attended on that . Chin 'ell. and .. of the district. h. tt se Learned Friend it gave im tel e liaei to mission, great pa n and he was bound to say, from all the inquiry the cases. at that t Ot t 4be proposition brought forward by him; but he he had made, that he had conducted But no convictions were i tih tL ot th„ a PPy to receive any memorial from the projec-Commission with g,reat ability. 41 4 " , h e - u ndertaking, and if the claims were legal- had, and the cases remaining were removed out of the we another it hoe ter ~..u ld be happy to give it all the assistance in Queen's Bench, with a view of being taken 10 f te‘r. ti .. 4 (Rear, hear.) a • LT part of the country, where there was a probability o ti t a t e .- CE believed it was the duty of Government getting a better class of jurors. At that Commission a l e 'ir e a - districts which were in a position to develope judge, inferior to none in learning and judgment, pre ll re a rs t3i1 14 3, t ot OlreeS, which, in the present case, could . sided. As the cases remaining were to go down to be the next assizes he allude to tlehou'llieY„ ttually done. by the construction of a line of tried at . would not further . _ 'le t hel ee 'rwever, be should say the preliminaries the Commission, the men being untried. The Right R eu e l ne tiht et been taken . before applying to that House. H on . G en tl e man then referred to the charge delivered t 's -ti ziotailtlinge he hoped her Majesty's Ministers by the Learned Judge to the grand jury, in which pr eel get their faces against the project, as it was in he stated it was too true that Ribbonism prevailed it epee+ N I tt e c e t worthy of the deepest consideration. iu all its terrors in that district. He next alluded to ta t 4 4%4 ' 4l l•PBELLaupported the motion of his Hon. the murder of Mr. Bateson, and said he had a very illi e f elle4teed Friend, whoa, ho thought, had made out an portant document which had been submitted to the late liar Ca se to entitle the project to the consideration Chief Secretary for Ireland (Sir William Somerville), Ii r. teny'. Ministers, an laii and to which 160 signatures were appended. Among hree lieutenants tit e ar ca me should admit that the present, as all such them those of t . . . ,twenty-seven deputy e t es re , was one of great difficulty to be dealt with, lienterents, and the magistrates of the three counties he tt,: 4 N e. guded Which it was impossible to lay down a h a d nmac d. The statement in. that document coerce. itet i ?ald et_ however, he could not see what advantage ponded. with what ha been said by the present Lurd - 'll4 C*4 the .Highlands to have the present pro- Chancettlet of leeland, of murders. and attempts at war ituatraeted, lie thought their only hope- 17 0r, The iymPathy that prevailed in favour of-th e eon ..ecZi I tr-4 ic; ,:-Pao it 4.1-=•%l=4)i--- LON DON, :SUN, of itnprovernOt lay, in system of well-diredted emigre tiove—(llear, hoar.) He did not know whether there might not be cases in whic h grants of public money might not be made, but he would advise the Chancellor of the Exchequer to be. very ciatitious. It appeared to him that this did not &elan to be one of the eases in which such a grant ought to be made. Mr. TRELA WNY said if they bad any spare cash in the public Treasury there were other portions of the kingdom in which the money might be more advan tageously laid out than in the Highlands of Scotland. For instance, they had at preSent no direct communica tion between Portsmouth end Plymouth, although that was most essential to the national defences. Then, they required an extension of the electric telegraph. It'' should be borne in mind that they had only 2,000 bayonets in Portsnaoutb, and if art enemy suddenly ap peared on the coast the whole of the 'ships might be de stroyed and the arsenal burned. It was also, he thought,. essential that they should have a line of railway between Plymouth and Falmouth, which it might be advisable to carry out. It appeared to him that this was an attempt to adopt Protectionist principles by encouraging, by means of public grants, those particular uudertakinge. Sir D. NORREYS reminded the lleuse that they were aware, from the blue books that bad been pub lished, that there was great distress existing in the west of Ireland, but it was utterly impossible to aid them by moans of these grants. If a commission were ap pointed by the people of Scotland to inquire into the best means of relieving the existing distress, the Government might perhaps be induced to interfere. Mr. BOOKER said it appeared to him that the Chan cellor of the Exchequer had overlooked one very im portant consideration--namely, that there was extreme distress existing in the Highlands and Islands of Scot land. He did think that it was an object of the first consideration with a parental Government to afford pro fitable industrial employment to the people, without the necessity of their transporting themselves from the shores of their native country. He thought the Hon. and Learned Member for Newark was entitled to the beat thanks of the House for the able and lucid state ment he had put betoro them. It was impossible to calculate the effect of the construction of a railway, as the traffic rapidly developed itself as soon as facilities wore afforded. He should like to have the assurance of the Government that they would be prepared to con sider the matter in the event of the parties themselves raising a portion of the capital. He understood the in habitants had offered to defray two-fifths of the expenses of the preliminary survey. Mr. F. SCOTT thought the case that had been brought forward by the Hon. Gentleman presented pe culiar features, not only with regard to the amount of the distress, but with regard to the extensive tract of country over which its benefits would extend. He had hopedthat the Right Hon. Gentleman would have afforded more countenance to the project than he seemed inclined to grant, and it appeared to him that the matter was deserving of further and more attentive consideration. Mr. P. HO WARD hoped the Commissioners would not persist in his motion at present. The Right Hon. Gentleman had not entirely negatived the motion of the Hon. Gentleman, and it might he advisable to submit to him a more matured plan. He did not think it would be possible to induce the landed proprietors to subscribe unless they had some anterior encouragement from the Government. As ho thought the matter deserving of further consideration, he should move the adjournment of the debate to Tuesday, 30th March. The motion having been seconded, was put and agreed to. federacy throughout tho population, that murders were perpetrated in open day, that jurors were intimidated, and that though a Special Commission had been ap pointed, these men had not been put upon their trial. Such a state of things required a calm, a searching, and grave investigation.--(Hear, hear.) The present was no party question. He had , m a a previous occasion stated that he would not stoop to degrade such a question to that position. He had so said when he was an indepen dent Member of the House, and that he would give every, aid to the executive Government in such a manner. After he had given notice of a motion on the subject, he had received information of what had occurred to, a gentleman whose name he would not mention. The Ribbon confederacy had met and sat on trial on that gentleman, for they had a judicial body- 7 - they had tried him and condemned him to die.—. (Hear, hear.) The offence he had committed was that a Ribbonman, who had, been a tenant, had left or was obliged to leave, and the farm being unlet he re turned and required tcrlbe let in again as itenant, which the gentleman would not permit. He also referred to a similar case on the Glenny .eitate, and asked was that a state of things to b e p erm i t t e d?—(Hear, hoar.) The law was set at d e fi ance , and life and property were without sec u rity. Th ere were a s et of laws in Ireland which mad e cons pi racy an d mur der a capital offence in that country, but such a law did not apply to England, and in the Munster circuit a man had been se ntenced to death for that offence. In 1810 a law was passe d about the ribbon system, and Mr. Justice Blackburne and the late Commissioner said no one could read that Act with out seeing that the crime it aimed at was at the very root of the disturbances of the country, and the cause of their assembling that day. It was a mistake to call such a matter a land question. The system had its own code of laws, and they were ready to carry them out even to the death of the party obnoxious to them. There was great difficulty in getting evidence .under the law of 1810, and it was a rule in the confederacy that not only the party who administered the oath and the man who took it should be present on the occasion. In 1816 the Insurrection Act passed, one of those Acts justified by extreme necessity, as he (Mr. Napier) was of opinion that it was better always to ex haust the ordinary powers of the law. In 1824 another Act was passed, and one also in 1839, and the Chief Jus tice, in referring to these Acts, said, undoubtedly the ordinary laws were sufficient, if they could be efficiently administered. By referring to the difficulties they would see how it was the law could not be executed, and what means: should be adopted to break down a confederacy so dangerous to the peace and prosperity of the country. If they could only secure safety to life and property there was no reason why capital should not flow into Ire land, and why the resoures of Ireland, which God had made so abundant with a benignant hand, should not be fully developed. The Right Hon. Gentleman then re ferred to the case of Jones, who was tried before Mr. Justice Ball, when a great body of evidence respecting the ribbon confederacy was produced—their signs in short-hand, and their rules and regulations. The con federacy it must be known, may not be confined to Ire land. It had spread into England, and was to be found at Manchester and other places, and it had also made its way into Scotland. He next referred to a trial at Ar magh before Mr. Justice Crampton, and the charge de livered by that Learned Judge, and also to the opinion expressed by the late distinguished Chief Justice Bushe, a man of whom Ireland may be proud, who presided at a Special Commission at Maryborough in 1832; and nothing he said could be read with more advantage than the charge of that eminent Judge. Mr. Justice Burton said the confederacy had its own code of laws, which they endeavoured to carry out; and the question was, whether the laws of the confederacy or of the laud should prevail. In 1822, Mr. Plunket, then Attorney-General for Ireland, prosecuted in one of these cases, and the object of the prosecution was to bring before the public the ramifications of the confederacy, a matter which was thought even more important than the conviction of the prisoner. It was to be observed, that the class of persons in the confederacy was not the poorer class of persons, but the comfortable and the better class.—(Hear, hear.) In 1824, there was a Committee of the House of Lords on the subject. Mr. Justice Blackburne was examined before that Committee, and the evidence he gave on that occasion showed his knowledge of the people and the state of the country. He showed what were the objects of the society, its efforts to get possession of the soil,and the intimidation it exercised over the poorer classes and he (Mr. Napier) thought that when they saw the better classes bending under the operation of the confederacy they ought to sympathise with the poorer classes.— (Hear, hear.) ' The case of the poorer elasses ought to be regarded in a fair and temperate spirit. The next inquiry was in '32 before a Committee, which numbered upon it many of the most eminent members of the House. That Committee, in their report adverted to the Special Commission of the previous year,when there were 99 cases for trial, out of which there were 38 con victions; and the reason for the convictions being so numerous was attributed by the Attorney-General to the fact that he only brought forward cases in which he was certain of getting verdicts of conviction. That Committee of Special Commis sion was followed by the Coercion Act of Lord Grey, which expired in '35. After alluding to the system of Crown challenges in Ireland, in setting aside jurors, he referred to an important Committee of the House of Lords in '3B, before which Major Warburton gave evi dence confirmatory of the views of the judges. The present course of the confederacy was, that when any of their party was dispossessed of a farm, the land should lie waste, poor-rates and other rates accumulating, and at length the land was obtained on their own terms. Formerly the law enabled them to convict parties having passwords in their possession, but that law being re pealed they could no longer conviet for that offence. Now he thought, that a law that nipped such a conspi racy in the bud was a wise and just law.—(Hear.) If the Legislature could do anything on that subject it ought to do it. Let it be said that the Legislature could do nothing, and meet the question with a direct nega- ,1 stye, On the contrary, if anything could be done for the protection of life and property iu Ireland, then whatever is necessary should be done. It was his intention to bring the matter before the House, and now that hie had the honour of standing in his present posi tion, he felt himself bound to take up the subject with out delay. It was his intention to bring before the House a code of laws for the regulation of the relations of landlord and tenant, and he hoped the measures he would introduce, would have the effect of simplyfying and improving these relations.—(Hear.) Nothing was more necessary than to put down these, for the purpose of promoting the peace and prosperity Of Ireland. There was what, by a desecration, was called a cute- chimp; one of the principles inculcated was to discoun tenance any man taking land over a tenant to assist in robbing landlords. There was a series of murders: be ginning in April, 1849, which were committed, and for which the parties had not been convicted. It was not a matter of religion, for some of those who fell victims were Catholics, and some Protestants. The first was the case of two brothers, who were care-takers of land which lay untenanted, and for which the parties going out of possession were compensated. These two men were murdered in open day, and the murderers had never been brought to judgment. There was another case of a murder committed in Armagh upon Mr. M'Avila. He was agent to a property in that county. The party was brought to trial, but acquitted. The jury, although they acquitted the prisoner, declared that they thought he was guilty. What he meant to say was, that the jury, al though they had not what they considered sufficiently conclusive evidence to find a verdict of guilty, yet had no moral doubt that he was the party who committed the crime. This man went to America, and on his deathbed confessed that he was the person who com mitted the crime. In 1850 a gentleman was fired at in open day, and in 1851 Mr. Coleman was murdered, and his body found covered with eighteen wounds. The party accused was taken up, and afterwards admitted to bail, upon the surety of two parties at 101. each. This man absconded to America. A young man named Maclary was murdered going to mass. His sister accompanied him and sought to protect him. She threw herself over him, but the assassins beat him to death with cudgels. His crime was that his 'father had an addition made to his farm of some land, which had been given up by the , tenants. The parties were tried by a jury exclusively of I Romau Catholics;.' seven were in favour of condemning, and five for an acquittal. From these instances he hoped that an alteration would be made in the consitu tion of the juries which tried these cases, and that a better class of jurors should be impanelled to try them. It was anomalous that a superior class of persrs should by the present law - have. to try cases df i civil cha racter, and that these criminal cases should be tried by jurors of a lower grade. In one case a party aahe ca me out of the court said—" I'm the boy who did the job." Then there was the murder of Mr. Bateson. This gen tleman had a model farm, in the cultivation of which he s pent 4601. a year in wages; thus g ivin g em p lo yme n t to the people. Ample , testimo n y was paid `to the excel-, Lena() of his character; a journal, entertaining' opposite politics , to him, described him as a good man , ' perhaps the best landlord in the c o unt y who g ave em p loyment which murder to the people throug hout the y ear. There was the of Mr. Ea s t wood, the perpetrators of were never brought to trial.. Mra, qhambre . was the last case. This gentleman bad never dispossessed a tenant; he spent 600 1 . a year i n wages for labour. What, then, was h is crime?- He .had. made himself active in putting down the system of Iti Ile had se l ec t e d these cases as specimens, and in none of which ea conviction had been - obtained. The assizes passed over, but no conviction. It was a frightful thing that these murders should be committed with impunity, agnedutni o em th l i tr :g re d s o id a i e n by winh is t a h e a lta c m ou e n e t t y se_e ffect a remedy.. It to o as known that Id *these cases assessments were made defend the prisoners. He received a letter from a he had reduced upon the price of eons fostathteed monaghan, with whom he was acquainted , his rent o s. That he had made is valuationi one-third for himself al lowedLthtat:thtroeenieyeetattill:e.antidmes, valuation to the tenants, re servingor- ganization, that though some two-thirds upon th r ee y o e f t that such was the' them were willing, yet they dare not pay it. This gentleman said e that Ribbon ism was at the bottom of all this elrd eo r ci i 7 hteheethfeeimralesof their feelings in teh h i x. o r e m a t e s n w b e a r d e families r whow e Y couldlla held out against all those who resisted, courage to threatened.t o disregard This few who o n h could r e at e resist . xp e ri Captain enee in Wsuacrhbtimrt9tae Major Brown !), en sent down by the Government into these' districts,ad and give the Committee valuable information. rigg could also give information, and bad already drawn u p a paper suggesting some improvement in the law to meet the evil.—(Hear, hear.) It was objectionable to have the constables returning` the jurors. In one case a constable had himself been placed in the dock for one of these c • , f fi sua a s , It was of great importance that they should have a proper class of jurors, and when the 'sir cumstances were such that they could take theta to other c a s uists, there ought to be a power to do so, in order to Ihave a trial free from those local intimidations. Those thugs could be b g b r ought before the Committee, and then WEDNES ;2/A he would expect the concurrence of the House in pro moting a remedy and thereby advancing industry and protecting honest men, and putting down crimes so dan gerous to society. This result wouid be beneficial, not only to Ireland but to the empire at large.—(Cheers.) Mr. HATCHELL did not object to the motion; in deed, it was perfectly plain, from the statement made by bis Right Hon. and Learned Friend, that it ought to be 'acceded to generally by the House.—(Hear, hear.) Neither did he object specially to the form of that mo tion, as it was clear that the mischief for which a remedy should be discovered id' these three counties would be equally met in every other part of Ireland. It would appear to the House that the crimes and outrages alluded to have not sprung up of late'date in Ireland, inasmuch as there had existed ha that country analogous societies for at least thirty 'years. The Governments of Lord Grey, Lord Melbourne, and Sir R. Peel had endeavoured to keep within the limits of the law, and meet the dis turbances by special commissions. Ho (Mr. Hatchet!) would apply himself to some of the late outrages adverted to by his Right HOuourable and Learned Friend. It would be clear to the House that any party who held the office of Crown prosecutor in Ireland was placed in a very difficult position. It was i times to obtain convictions under any c i rcumstances . With respect to the two ineffsctu a l still standing special commission, over in the tutrpiaoltssibwlehie(h)f were he would not speak of them minutely, but he would say, in one case, he did adviS e the special com mission; it was a case which ought to be prosecuted, as t e "'e Lord-Lieu we eele e t e e n a r n e t, a t p h o e u e a v i i h d l e e ne fo e r w th a a s t g a u d ffi v e ic ie e n , t i l l y nt st t r h o e ng la , as had been incorrectly' asserted. The case, however, had been transferred to the Queen's Bench, there to be tried according to the paper forms of the court. In the case of the outrages at Louth, in one ease of outrage a second trial had to take place. At that second trial the sister of the murdered man came forward and contra dicted the previous evidence of the young woman who had sworn to the identity of the prisoner, and thus pro cured the acquittal of the prisoner. In the case cif Mr. Eastwood he had advised the postponement of the trial, because he was not in a condition to produce a material witness. The gentleman was now in a condition to produce that witness,,and the case might be removed by certiorari if the Honourable and Learned Gen tleman wished. His general instructions were to get proper jurors, and not to take p er sons who were respected the fundamental under hfeeataut rt ea thereleyf deniedt i h n e f j u u e r n yh c e al av v o n. f g Hv f ie e n a hl a r at vet throughout g t n h hf e ot r uh to causes. But the Purpose of a principles of the jury law in all his p roceedi ngs. , There was o a wide con spiracy one particular purpose, but for a variety of obj ects. In O ne case the in ttathnaft Ireland,Rib bon iam not efxerist anyed as eßniabrci I n n g c t o r n a f d e e d , e and r a cy in nkaade mur dered who had not conformed to , t he rules of that con federacy. At pr e sent the confedera c y dire cted its views b in ee st n an u ce se a d for m anhd been to the relations of landlord and tenant. He hoped the Select Committee would prove of advantage l y inquir ing into the cause of crime in the counties referred to. Mr. HALLE WELL said the question involved not only the material improvement of that country, but the very character of the people- There was no country in the world which presented such a state of things as Ire land. He was satisfied unless the law was made to be the terror of evil-doers, that evil-doers would becom e a terror to the law. He strenuously advised a rigid en forcement of the law. Mr. McCULLAGH concurred in the remarks of the Right Hon. Gentleman with regard to the prevalence of crime in Ireland and its debasing effects on the popula tion. But if this was admitted on one hand, th e s, were bound to bear in mind on the other hand that, equality and law bad never been the same in Ireland as in other portions of the empire. With resp ect to the tenure of land several di scu ssions in that House had taken place, and though nothing definite had be en decided u p on, yet most Hon. Members were agreed as to the expediency of making some modification which it was anticipated would soften the asperities between tena nt and l andlord. It had alr ea dy been urged on the House the propriety of altering the law of ejectment in order to give som e advantage to the Irish tenant; but it was opposed on the ground that it would not be right to give the Irish tenant more advantage than the Scotch and English tenant enjoyed. Since that proposition was refused, a large number of evictions bad taken place, and this had led to the increase of crime and the impossibility of obtaining justice. He did not think it would answer any good purpose to have a Select Committee, if they w ere to narrow their ob ject to that class of witnesses only which the Honour able and Learned Gentleman proposed to call before it. In 1817, the present Lord Chancellor of Ireland, then Chief Justice Blackburne, succeeded without any extra ordianary measures in vindicating the law in the county of Limerick, when a worse state of things existed at the time than lately prevailed in the north. Since then Limerick was perfectly tranquil. Let not the House, therefore, be led away by the belief that it was neces sary to change he fundamental principles of the law in Ireland, because in certain districts there had been no convictions. In the first trial, that for the murder of Mr. Bateson—there were four justices of the peace on the jury, and amongst its other members were se veral owners of property—the jury, in fact, was not composed of doubtful persons, or of men of the inferior class, and yet nine were for acquittal, and,three for con viction. On the second trial, seven were for acquittal, aad three for conviction. The evidence was of a character to raise great doubts in the mind of any man— the whole question being one of identity. It was not, therefore, by altering the constitution of juries that they could effect an improve ment. There was much in the management of pro perty, and is the state of society, which caused great irritation. and it was an improvement in that source of action they shouldilook for an amelioration of the subject matter of complaint. He did not, how ever, in the observations he had made, mean to raise any question about the appointment of the Committee, but ho had thought it his duty to express his -.dissent from some of the views of the Hon, on. and Learned Gentle man opposite. MrAiIIOGAN, in a voice scarcely audible, protested against any attempt on th e part of a Member of that House to palliate the outrages which had been committed in the recently disturbed districts of Ireland. The motion was then agreed to. THE ANNUAL INDEMNITY BILL. On the mution of Sir W. JOLLIFFE, leave was given to bring in this Bill, and it was accordingly introduced and read a first time. T E COMMITTEE ON EXPIRING LAWS. On the motion of Mr. G. A. the fol lowing gentlemen were nomi nate d a Select Committee on Expiring Laws:—Mr. G. A. H am i lton, Mr. Mackenz i e , Mr. Attorney-General, Mr. Bernal, Mr. Stafford, Sir IV. Julliffe, Mr. Freshfield, Mr. Ilutne, the Marquis of Chandos, Mr. Greene, Lord H. Lennox, Mr, Aglionby, Sir J. Young, and Mr. Hay ter. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. Oa the order of the day for the second reading of this Bill, Mr. SOTIIERON said that his object in seeking to legislate on this subject Was to render permane nt the Act which had been passed two years ago, as a tempo rary measure, respecting it, an d theretore he bogged leave to withdraw the present Bill, and gave notice that he would to-morrow (this day) move for leave to bring in a Bill to continue the present Act for a couple of years longer; and, if he should have a seat in the next Parliament, he purposed bringing in a measure of a per manent character on the subject. The order of the day for tho second reading of the Bill was accordingly discharged. SUPPLY. The report of the Committee of Supply was brought up, and the following resolutions were agreed to:- 1. That 39,000 men be employed for the sea service for the year ending the 31st day of March, 18 53 , in cluding 11,000 Royal Marines and 2,000 boys, and that a naval reserve of 5,000 men be established for the like period. 2. That a sum not exceeding 1,469,0541. be granted to her Majesty, to defray the charge of wages to seamen and marines, including the naval reserve, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on 1 the 31st day of March, 1853. 3. That a sum not exceeding 506 ,5781. be granted to her Majesty, to defray the charge of victuals to seamen and marines, in her Mt , jesty's fleet, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1853. The report of the Committee of Ways and Means was brought up and agreed to. The report on the Suitors iu Chancery Relief (Stamp Duties, &c.) Bill was agreed to. Adjourned at Eleven o'clock. THE REV. MR. GLADSTONE IN THE ARCHES' COURT. The Arches' Court was yesterday the scene of unusual excitement. So mmch public interest has not bceoernhex cited hi any case pending in this court since th e case. The doors were no sooner opened than the spacee appropriated to the public was immediately fill e d, noticed some of the clergy present. The Reverend " Gentleman had previously met a few of his more imna diate supporters at the Craven Hotel, Cr --e -au-street, Strand. , Dr. Bayford appeared on behalf of the Bishop, and Mr. Gladstone defended himself. Dr. BAYFORD having briefly opened the case, and de tailed the steps which had already been taken, r a i sed the question as to whether the articles which were admitted in the Consistory Court, in the case of Dr. Dillon, were admissible in this case. The Learned JUDGE directed Mr. Gladstone to keep to that point first, as it must be d etermin ed before an thing else could be gone into. 3 7 -- Mr. Gladstone, on the understanding that he should have a fair opportunity o f g oin g into the g e neral ques tion on a future day, proc eeded to deal with the p o i n t in hand, and to take up several points in which he con sidered the articles in question to be inapplicable ; but on being reminded by the Court, that by admitting the articles he did not adm it the truth of them, that it wo uld effect a considerabl e reductioninthe costs o f the suit if he ; admitted cert ain things, which other wise be proved at a g reat expense — an expenselwhicb, if must the case went against him, he would have to m eet—the Rev. Gentleman admitted Inc articles. ed till Friday ,ve, Adjourn , Pill [ADvErcrisEmENT.]--1-iolloway's --la an unfaili ng Rem e dy f o r Liver Complaints a nd Indigestion.—David Ca rter , Esq, proprietor of the Ballysh ar ount Herald, published in his p a p er o f the 16th Janua r y , 1852, the following ex _ traordinary cure which lately came under his notice. t 1 A gen tleman of the Barony of Tyrhugh had suffered for years from a disorde re d li ver , acc ompanied by a dreadful cou g h. He had medical advi ce f or three years with out derivin g an y benefit. At length h e h a d recours e to Holloway' s Pills, and this excel lent m e di c i ne soon gave hi m re lief by easing the cough an d permitting him to enjoy sound and re freshin g sle ep. After continuing th e i r use a little time, they effected a perfect cure of his malady and restored him to good health.—Sold by all Druggists and a t P ro f es sor li o llowsy's Establishment 244, btraUdiLWltios. EVENING ) TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. (CONTINUED ,ON MONDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS.) Sir,—On Monday the 15th, attention was on the stretch, to hear the questions and answers touching the measures to be pursued by the new Government. The answers, stript of much skilful arrangement of words to conceal the ideas, were,—That ,the more the new Government is asked what it means to do, the more it will not tell;—That it is not pledged to impose a five-shilling ditty, or :do any other given thing, unless it likes it better; —That its present idea is, not to reverse but to modify the policy of F ree T ra d e , by " reversing" meaning taking away the whole, and by " modifying" taking away . ninety-nine hundredths or any other frac tion. This is what the oracle vouchsafes to leave to be gathered from the interpretation of its words; and there is no doubt that the oracle has every claim to success which superior cleverness can give. One other thing- is distinctly to be collected from the oracle; and that is, that the oracle desires to postpone a General Election. A reason which in the near balance of motives pro and ontra, justly determines the opposing parties to take the other &ides. The Protectionists, although immeasurably the ablest players on the hoard, cannot avoid letting out, that they count on the progress of the influence which attends possession of the government. Another point which they probably aim at, is to try their hands on next year ,Registratiou. As they have been allowe.l to win the greater piece which is the having the Election, they will probably win the less, which is the Registration. One enormous advantage the Protectionists have always had, and entirely owing to their own supe rior generalship. They never allow a debate, how ever remotely connected wall the question of Free Trade, to pass without making a full and formal parade of their theory of Protection, such as it is. IR this manner they drill one another into the best attainable knowledge of what is possible to be said for their cause, and impress on the public, and especially on waverers, that they .are the men who can render a reason for what they demand. And their opponents, or those who ought to be, take the precisely opposite course. They throw up their brief and refuse to answer, on the plea forsooth that it is not the question before the House. It is this which has lost the Free Trade cause; to the extent at all events of replacing the enemy in the citadel. And this will be sufficient to keep it lost, or to lose it over and over if some interference of Providence should re store the chance of trial. The strange thing about this coarse of conduct, is that it is so diametrically opposite to what obtained the po. pular victory of the Anti-Corn-law League. The League obtained its success, because young men and maidens were put in possession of the reasons why Pro tection was a babyism as well as a cruelty. They were accustomed to see the 'reasons on one side weighed against those on the other, and the result was that Pro tection kicked the beam. There is no wonder that when the process was inverted, the result should be also. It was gratifying on Monday to perceive an outburst of something like a different policy, and from the quarter where of all others it is most capable of being made effective. Lord John Russell spoke of the in creased export of manufactures, as " implying an in. crease of native industry and capital, and thereby just the contrary of the statement of the supporters of Protection." There is the " Open, Sesame, " which if applied in time wou ld have prevented all the mischief. And there is the secret, which it would be a pardonable outbreak of ill-humour to say, has been as religiously kept by the Free Traders in the House of Commons, as if to utter it were treason against God and man. If the Noble Lord would listen to an old practitioner, on the same principle that he would do so to a dentist, a n oculist, or any other who had attached himself for a series of years to a particular branch of business, he should be counselled to do by himself, what apparently nobody else will do for him, and push the Protectionists with this the grand infirmity and inherent rottenness of their entire system, consisting in requiring of men to ignore the fact that things obtained through foreign commerce are just as much the results of British industry as things created at home, and with the further re sult u p on the final balance, of giving an advantage to the consumer measured by the difference of price. One industry may reside in one county and the other in another; and the childish fallacy of the Protectionists consists in re prosenting that the industry of Lancashire and the West Riding is not British industry, and ought to be put down whenever anybody else can be found to say they would profit by it. The war is in fact against Foreign Com merce, or against all that part of it which consists in bringing goods cheaper from abroad than they could be made at home. It is a war against the trade with Por tugal for wine, to favour those who say they could make it in hothouses at home. The Protectionists dare not face this example; all they can say on it is, that though it might be impolitic to lose four or five hundred per cent on the price of wine, it is politic and expedient to lose forty or fifty on the price of corn. I repeat it, with all imaginable respect, that if the Noble Lord desires to try his opponents at close quarters, he must say this for himself, for it is experimentally i proved that nobody will say it for him. He tried the key in the lock last night, and if he will try it again as shall be required, he may walk oat of Protection's castle of Despair, and set poor pilgrims dancing about the giant's head upon a pole. But to return to you and yours, to whom I feel more certain of access, I see distinctly that the trust of your opponents is in a new Election. They wish to post pone it, and therefore the other side wishes to bring it on; oa which, since you can do nothing either to promote or hinder, there is no more to be said than that the longer it is postponed, the readier you must be. The lion has been let in, and it is left to you to turn him out again. You are to go to the Election with a power of ten to one against you; that is to say, your opponents, in the aggregate, are to have something like a vote among three or four hundred, and yours among three or four thousand. Your opponents are to pull at th 0 long end of the steel-yard, and you at the short; and if you can so beat them, you are to win. I know of no help at the present moment; but neveit forget it in time to come, and the time is coming when you may remember it with advantage. For the present, do what you can to make your horse win, though he is to carry ten stone to your adversary's one. Remember that all you aro ever to have, in : every possible way, depends upon it. If you have desires be yond corn, as doubtless you have, remember that you might as well hope to gain those objects from Louis Napoleon's grenadiers if they were installed in the House of CODIIIIOBB, as ask for them from the pre sent tenants of power. If there are simple men among you, they will run some one way and some another as was done in France, and leave the Elections to go is favour of the.general adversary. Exactly in preportion as you are free from such, will be the unanimity with which you will use the chance you have. You are acting against those who will give you nothing you want, and take away everything you have. You are pulling for ; your lives, and there is no use in stopping to say you have, got . a leaky boat. Get home in her to Plymouth, and another time you may have a better. But the thing is, to get home now. Work therefore while there is the chance. There is no body but can do something; and many a little makes a mickle. Stir vigorously, stir all; or by-and-by you will lift up your eyes where stirring is of no use. On one point I want to enter a protest, in the name of as many Free Traders as shall agree in opinion; and as I am not likely to have the opportunity of doing it anywhere else, I do it here, and ask you to put it for ward and support it. Oar opponents have a tolerably firm persuasion, that if they are beaten in the next Elections, their chance is over for ever. But it does not follow that if we are beaten our chance would be over for ever; on the contrary, we should from the first hour set ourselves to work heart and soul to recover the lost ground by every means that time or chance should ever place within our reach. It is therefore quite natural that the opponent should be anxious to include our side in an agreement that the decision shall be final; but it is not at all according to the rules of the wars, that our side should agree to it. I therefore protest against having ever made any such agreement, and declare the directly contrary intention. Ido this in the name of so many as shall think with me; and if the time comes, we will not be slow to act upon it. 1 '- - On Tuesday the mast note-worthy proceeding was a movement from the Ministerialvide, for a grant of public money to make a railway in the Western Highlands; which their own Chancellor of the Exchequer, with the feelings natural to a purse-bearer, would not support. So the debate was adjourned fOr a fortnight, to -be em ployed in overcoming his resistance. Blackheath; lam March, ,Sir,yours very sincerely, AN OLD REFORMER. 17th 1852. COURT CIRCULAR. *OSBORNE, TUESDAY. Her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and the Royal Family, did not leave the grounds of Osborne yesterday. The Royal dinner party included Sir Charles Eastlake, the Dean of Winchester, the Hon. Colonel , and Mrs. Grey, tlnd the Rev. Mr. Protheroe. Lord Maidstone had an interview with the Earl of Derby yesterday, at his official residence in Downing street. Mr. Doyle, from the Bahamas, had an interview with Sir John Pakington yesterday at the Colonial -office. Sir William Codrington had also an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet. A deputation from the grand jury of the county of Monaghan, consisting of Mr. Matthew John Anketell, and Mr. Edmond Perciva l Mor p h y , accompanied by their Parliamentary agent, Mr. Bryden, transacted business yesterday at the railway department of the Board of Trade. Lord Redesdale had an interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole yesterday, at the Home.offion. Gentlemance. Mr. Deedes had also an interview with the Right H. The Cambridge University Commission had a Pie eting yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. Present: the :Bishop of Chester, the Dean of Ely, Sir John Herschel, th e Rev. Professor Sedgwick, and the Rev. W. H. B etesou (Secretary). Dispatches were s ent from the Colonial-office theof West Indian day to the y ester. ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AN D NORTH-W ESTERX RAILWAY. — On Saturday evening, a b out eight o'clock, just as an engine which had left the Longsight depot of the London and North-Western Company had got upon the down line to Manchester, and before the driver could get a fair see y d i ron it, the Ma cclesfield train t o Manchester came up at a consinerable pace and ran into it. The shock was so v iolent, that f our teen or sixteen person s were much shaken and bruised, but no person was killed or seriously injured. Dr. Harrison and his partner, Mr. Cook, surgeons to the com pany, were very early in attendance, and dressed the wounds of the injured passengers, which co ns i s t e d pr i nc i pa lly of bra i zes of the knees against the seats. All the parties were removes to their homes. 17, ~?'-: ~~_ MA it Ii OVERLAND MAIL INDIA AND CHINA. We have received our correspondence and files of newspapers from India and Chiva. The dates are-- Calcutta, Feb. 8 ; Bombay, Feb. 17 ; and China, Jan. 30. (From the Overland Bombay Times, Feb. 17.) Sumeater.—The Governor-General arrived at Cal cutta on the 29th ult. He is .said to have approved generally of the conduct of the Commodore, but ex cepted to the abduction or the Burmese ship of war. If DOW appears, however, that it was not on this account that the Fox was fired upon. The governor told him that if he attempted to remove British property from Rangoon be would be assailed from the stockades; and the commodore replied, that if so much as a pistol were discharged at him, he would level the stockades, and he accordingly when attacked, kept his word. The Gevereor-General is slid to be most anxious to see and !sting the Bur see'se to their senses without jesorting to hostilities, and to avoid a war if possible. Reinforce- mente end munitions are meanwhile being dispatched in ' abundance to our se t tle u. meots o the frontier, and every preparation made to repel assault and revenge insult, or eater upon hostilities it necessary. No further steps have been tt,ken, so f ar as i s kaoteu, by the Burmese , w to pro oarey await to see what we propose. Ali Moored bar yielded to his fate without the nwe,ity of a resort to force), mud the troops ordered to assemble at Sukkur, to coerce if necessary, are now ou their way back to their cautonments. A proclamation dated Rorer, the 2h: of January, has beau issued by the commissioner under di rection of the Government of ludia, premulga wag the grounds of our offeuoe. Jr is thus sot forth : When the Khyrpore chief found that he had got' Sir Charles Na pier fully into his toils, and induced him is takeefrom his brethren their dominions with the view of ex:ending his own, the territory afterwards to be occupied by him was defined by the treaty of Nownahur, consisting of certain additions to that supposed previously his own. The extent ofahis was described in a leaf of the Koran. This he removed, and substituted another in its place, describing larger dominions as his, and claiming a portion of that which had belonged to his brethren, and ought on their fall to have become ours. The freed was fully esta blished against him, and ultiMately admitted, and he is now stripped of what in reality never was his—of the Rais ship or chieftainship—the grounds of oar quarrel, and re duced hereafter to the rank of a nobleman inthe possession of his hereditary estates. There has been something like a rebellion in the Portuguese territories of the Goa, occa sioned, it is said, by resistance to some unpopular taxes lately imposed by the Governor. The troops were called out, and some bloodshed ensued, and it was supposed at one time that assistance would be required from us by the Goanese authorities, their own army amounting in all to about two thousand, and of those a thousand are now in the field. The Punjaub continues tranquil, and profound tranquillity prevails throughout all our do minions. On the 9th inst. a splendid meeting, presided over by the Governor, took place in the Town Hall on the presentation of prizes to the most distinguished of the alumni of the Elphinstone College. There were above 2,000 persons assembled in the room, of whom 1,500 were pupils at the various seminaries in the island under Government. The chairman of the Board of Education, Sir Erskine Perry, reviewed the progress of education, and stated that when the first professors of the Elphinstone College, of whom one—Principal Hark ness—was present, arrived twenty years ago, they were obliged to lecture to empty benches—their only want was pupils. By a report recent.y published there appear at present to be 51 apprentices being instructed at the School of Industry; there are amongst them 26 Hin doos, 21 Mahomedans, 3' Palettes, and 2 Portuguese Christians. Twenty-seven are orphans—the parents of the rest aro in a large number of cases absent from Bombay. At the last meeting of the Bombay Geographical So ciety a paper was read by Mr. John Smith on the dis coveries made by the East Atrican missionaries of what appear to be the sources of the Nile. This mysterious river is said to arise from two lakes, one of which is of great dimensions nearly under the Line, and they seem fed by the melting snows of the gigantic range, which rises to the altitude of 22,000 feet at least, close by. The description of this long-looked-for locality coincides exactly with that given of it by Ptolemy 2,000 years ago. The new Small Cause Court at Bombay has now been fully established, though not yet in operation. Messrs. Crawford, Johnson, and West are the judges, on 1,8001. and 1,2001. per annum respectively. Some curious statis tics have of late been published in reference to the move ments of the governors and commanders irk chief of Bom bay, with the presidency, st a f f, and attendant subordi nates. When en what is called " a tour of inspection," from two to three months are spent by them at the Cool hill station of Mahabuleshwar, until lately in the domi nions of Setters, and nearly the worst place in th e presi dency for the transaction of business. About as much more is enjoyed at Poona; and this constitutes the tour. No commander-in-chief ever was in Soinde since it became ours; and the northern and southern divisions of the army have not once been visited since 1837. The direct loss in travelling allowances on these journeys of plea sure amounts to about 5,0001. a year; and the State pays in all about 30,0001. a year for the services of a couple of gentlemen who spend eight months of the year at Mahabuleshwar or Poona, and might, for all the use they are, take out the remaining four where they pleased. Their chief function seems at the present to be the retardation of business, by breaking up all the public establishments during their wanderings, and requiring the form of reference to be gone through. The custom has been going on for years, and now-a-days seems to have reached its height. It will, we trust, show the people at home that if we take no harm from governors and commanders-in-chief, who spend their time in amusing themselves, we would be none the worse were we deprived of them altogether. The Calcutta jour nalists have memorialised the Court of Directors against the enactment of a law conformable with the recommendations of the Post-office Commission, which continue newspaper postages at the present excessive charges, and impose a postage on English newspapers equivalent to their exclusion from the interior altoge ther. The ship Kelso, a Bombay and Calcutta trader, was destroyed by fire off Calcutta on the 24-25th ult., the origin of the fire having on this occasion been purely accidental. Colonel Outruns, late resident at Baroda, returns home on sick leave, and in official disfavour, by to-day's steamer, carrying with him the homage and respect of all honourable men. Our readers are already aware of the circumstances out of which the displeasure of Go vernment has arisen—having, in standing up for the ful filment of the British pledge formally made in favour of e lady who has been robbed of her only son, stripped of her fortune, and maligned by miscreants who have con fessed their crimes, discovered a frighttul amount of cor ruption, in which Government servants seemed deeply implicated. Desirous of purging the Augean stable and redeeming our good name, he was considered by Go vernment to have gone too fur—such inquiries were troublesome—misdoings of this sort were better hushed up—the wrongs of an injured lady of rank, of a house that enjoyed our protection, not worthy of our notice! Wo shall watch with some interest the reception these things meet with at home, and whether our anxiety for the welfare and good government of India is confined to the construction of roads supposed likely to supply Lan cashire with cheaper cotton, while we suffer a blot to rest upon our name, and wrongs to be inflicted by our sanction, which must ruin our character and influence in native eyes for ever. This question has caused Baroda politics to be more deeply inquired into than they other wise would have been. We believe the hands of the heads of departments in these matters to have all along been clean. We now await the production of papers before Parliament, which will, we trust, be insisted on before the present session is over. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. -- - CASUALTIES EY DEATH IN THE ARMIES OF INDIA. SINCE THE DEPARTURE OF THE MAIL, FEB. 3 HER MAJESTY'S TROOPS.—Lieat.-Colonel Tonikins, Commanding . R.A., in China, Dec. 29, 1851; Lieut. Lugg, ILA., in China, Dec. 28,1851. MADRAS.—Lieut. Henry 'Bell, 2d Native Veteran Bat talion, at Wallajahbad, Jan. 28. BENGAL.—Ca r ptain W. G. Don, 43d Regiment Native Infantry, Commanding Mill Rangers, at Baugulpore. APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTIONS, &C., ANNOUNCED SINCE DISPATCH OF THE LAST OVERLAND MAIL, FEB. 3. HER. MAJESTY'S TROOPS. LEAVE OF ABSENCE.--Bth Foot—Ensign Macpherson to England, via the Cape of Good Hope, for two years from date of embarkation, at the recommendation of a board of medical officers, subject to the confirmati on o f his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief in India. 78th Foot—A board of medical officers, assembled at Aden, having recemmended that Lieut. M. E. Smith may be permitted to proceed to England for the recovery of his health, his Excellency Lieut. General Sir John Grey, grants leave of absence to that officer for one year from the date of embarkation, subject to the con firmation of his Excellency the Commandera-nind:Cfohrietfwino India. 83d Foot—Lieut. Metge, to England, years from date of embarkation, at the recommendation of a board of medical officers, subject to the con firmation of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief in India. COMMERCIAL REPORT. THE CALCUTTA MARKET., The Government express, with London dates to the 24th and t h e Oriental arrived on th e morning of the 31st inst.,' _ Oriental steamer, with the bulk o f the ma i l, was a nchored o ff town about twelve o'clock on t h e following d ay Amount of bills d rawn b y the East Indiaa Ccml pa ny on this Presidency f rom the Bth to the 23d December was 77,7351. 14s. 10d., at 2s. per rupee. One or tw o further failures were announced. Respecting exp or t s f rom th i s t h ere is 'not mu ch change to note. A la rge quantit of indigo was, eve r, shipped in the course of last mon th , g nd 4,334 chests for France. Th e s hi pments o f s ugar chests of whi c h were for G reat B r itain, a were on a most moderate , reaching to 11 1 ° 374 91 chests, 8,816 y entforward was consider able,scale. Of raw silk the quantit y and ship men t s to some - liali2 ' s ilk pi e ce goods, bu s i ness h as tie.t-teent are still in progress. I n torahs, and ind ee d all kinds of continued on a limited scale. S a ltpetre has been in exten. e i ca , whilst for other p arts very little demand has show sive request for North itself. Anni Shipments of rice t o G reat Britain haveco ntinued on s a most ample scale. L ac d ye h as g only been shipped to mo derate extent, but th ere has been more freedom s hown reg arding shell lac,both f or G reat B r i ta i n Americ safflower is out of s eason , and very li tt l e b us i ne ss has been and North done. Hides have be en f reely shippe d to Great Britain, a nd rather a large amo un t o f trausactions for North Americ a, • as well as other pla ces , h as ta k en place. Exports of linseed have been chiefly confined to Grea t and the United States. Mustard seed hag bee n _ dto England. Castor oil appears to ha ve than usual. Of jute, 6o 83 5 maun d less attention attracted A go w ere shipped to Great Britain in January. .. on h as been ,-.,-- h has gone forward, but only a small porti largely shipped shiPpe %Ate ' I sent to England. be held on the I The second opium sale of th e season will A good deal 1 loth blatant. Since the last sa l e th e re has been i of time bargain speculation going on in the Bazaar, and prices have consequently been subjected to fluctuations. Quota- s Lions for Patna in the Bazaar were yesterday Co.'s Rs, taeagy, Ito 4022 per chest. Benares is nominal, there being none's,. 1 from the first sale left in the godowns. Oar money market remains with scarcely any alteratio n ., , I Previous rates of interest at the Bank of Bengal are main- ; tained but in other quarters it is said rather more stringent .: rates are not unfrequently imposed ; and altogether there is. still considerable difficulty feltin respect to financial matters,. both here and. throughout the country, amongst all classes. In the Bazaar amongst the tiarwarrie dealers there is hardky i , : i any improvement whateves. The several houses which gaval way some few months back have not been supplanted by ep ; quotations others with any pretension to wealth and influence. The f 01... lowing ompan are y,s t Rs.hresent for Government Securities: Transfer Five. er Cents. Rs., 3 to t=B-0 prem. ; - New }lves,. t F o o l u 6 r - p o e_r o C d 2-8-0 t o 3-0-oprem. ; Sicca - ditto, 2-8- 0 to 3-0-0 , discount, C t ; o ß l a 3 n - k 8- discount; o o fßenal sh S a icc res a Rs. ditto, 15.8. 0 are quoted C ompany ' s Rs. 2,400 prem.; Agra B an k (500 paid. up), Company's R s . 490 to 495 ; Bonde d W are h ouse sh ares , Cent., discount; Y2O to 230 each. The import market has continued dull, and had ever since the departure of the overland mail, notwithstanding which, however, a large amount of sales are reported, both in piece goods and mule twist. Prices chew but little, if any, varia tion during the period under notice. Low reed grey shirt ings have not been quite so readily sold as they were; while medium qualities .appe ar t o - have come into rather better favour. Forty lice inch and wid er goods have been saleab l e to a moderate extent. Grey rnadapsilams have moved off less freely than they did, although Priem' can hardly be :ma to have retrograded. Jaeonets, uoth grey and white, have been rather freely disposed of ,at the late current rates. Bleached goods are almost stationary inn sss„ White figured shirtings are saleable to a fair extent. White twills continue much neglected. Low white shirtings are only moveable at former miserable low prices. Whi te madapol3-: lams bring hardly so much as greys. Whit e cambrics are in no sort of demand. The sales of Turkey red goods have been considerable, but without any amendment in value. p r i nt , l sell very badly, and the chief buyers at present are the Ne ' peal and Cabul dealers, who buy mostly in a retail fa.shion, [ and make but little impression on the enormous stocks of this class of goods. Woollens are getting out of season; and they have sold very badly all through. Light Scotch fabrics have attracted a little more atten tion, and the sales of mulls and lappets reported are con siderable. Book muslins at present are quiet, and likely to. remain so until business with the Burmese is again resumed. Mule twist has sold to a fair extent. 20's and 30's are rather lower; other Nos. continue without much change, while the tendency of 60's is upwards. Coloured yarns are very dull. Turkey red remains difficult of sale at our late miserably low prices, and stocks are exceedingly heavy. Metals continue at about former low value, with abundant supplies. Copper, however, is rather more valuable during the past few days. Spelter is dull, and again down in value. Exchange has fallen 4 or 5 per cent. since the last mail left. Current rates for the present dispatch are as follows: —First-class credits, 2s. 0 3 4 d. to 2s. id. per rupee; ditto documents, 2s. o%d. to 2s. Id. per rupee. - Freights—Tonnage continues more than ample for the wants of the port, although many of the first-class large ships have taken their departure. Quotations are—Sugar to Lon don, 11. 17s. 6d. to 2/. ; Rice, 21. ss. to 21. lOs ; Saltpetre, 2/. 12s. ed. ; Jute, 2 /. s s. to 2 /. 7 s . Gd. p er ton. 1/. 10s. ; Oilseeds, 21. ss. to 21.. 10 s.; Hides, 21 . 10 s. to CHINA. - Hortc-KONG, JAN. 30.—0 n the 15th of the month the mail arrived, bringing advises from England to the 24th of November. We alluded last month to the destructive fire that had occurred here, and to the death of Colonel Tomkyns, and Lieutenant Lugg, of the Royal Artillery. Lieut. Wilson, of the Royal Engineers, and the two gunners who were in a. precarious state, are and recovering rapidly. Respecting the Kwangsi re b e lli on, reports, as usua l, quite out of danger are rife. Seu, Governor of Canton, is still absent. He has invited all loyal subjects to come forward with their contributions to defray the military expenses of the ex pedition, and motives of interest or of fear will no doubt induce most of them to respond to the appeal. All is quiet at Canton, and the inhabitants seem to have no apprehension of the rebels approaching nearer and creating disturbance. From Shanghai we have accounts to the 22d of the month. A formidable piratical fleet in the neigh bourhood of Ningpo causes much apprehension to the people and Government of that district. The Mandarins and the chief of the pirates have had an interview, but negotiations were broken off in consequence of the latter refusing to show the respect due to the Governor of the district. Her Majesty's brig Contest, at the request of the Chinese authorities, was stationed at Ningpo. Her Majesty's steamer Spyns ar rived at Shanghai from this on the 15th, and afterwards proceeded to Ningpo to relieve the Contest and to ren der such assistance as may be necessary. The emigration of Chinese to California is greatly on the increase. During the past month six vessels have sailed; 10 are preparing to leave, and more are required. Many who had previously emigrated have returned with substantial proofs of their success, and the Chinese are not slow in following the example of their countrymen when money is the inducement. Seventeen American whalers have lately arrived in our harbour. The fishing during the past season has been unprofitable. In imports a fair business has bebn doing at rather improved rates. At Shanghai the market continues dull. In tea there has been little alteration. Rather lower prices have been paid at Shanghai. About 75 to 80 chops Congou in all have been settled. The excess of export compared with last year is little more than 4,000,0001 b. For silk the demand in the north had be come more active, and prices had advanced 4 to 5 per cent. In the export to this time the decrease is equal to 1,390 bales. - In Harbour—Her Majesty's ship Hastings. Her Majesty's surveying-vessel Royalist, lately arrived. Captain Bates, when surveying near one of the Phil lipine Islands had a very narrow escape of being cut off with his boat's crew by eight large piratical prahus which gave chase for five miles. At Whampoa—Her Majesty's steamer Salamander. At Canton—Her Majesty's steamer Nemesis. At Amoy—The brig Lily. At Ningpo—Her Majesty's brig Contest, and the steamer Sphynx. The latest dates from England are to the 24th of No vember; Calcutta, December 8; Bombay, December 18; Sydney, October 20; Manilla, December 13; and Sin gapore, January 5. P.S. We have just received advices from Canton, mentioning that a report was current of a battle having been fought between the Imperial troops and the rebels, and of the former, in particular, having suffered severely. It has caused some uneasiness among the Chinese. Were the provincial city of Kwangsi to tall into the hands of the rebels, Canton might bo placed in some jeopardy. CANTON MARK ETEPORT. lION R G-KONG, J&r. 30. 3r o.3aTlsllreodadnio The business done in imports during the month has been of a more satisfactory nature than that of last month. CottOn—The business done in this article has not been so extensive as that of last month, and dealers have been unwil ling to pay previous rates. Bombay quoted T 7.5 to T 9.1; Bengal, T 7.8 to T 9.3 ; Madras, T 7.9 to T 9.5. The sales are estimated at 18,000 bales. Stock, 36,000 bales against 43,000 bales last year. Cotton Yarn—The imports continuing light, prices show an advance. .IsTos. 16-24, 31 dolls. to 33 dolls. • No. 28-32, 39 dolls. to 41 dolls. • Nos. 38-42, 39 dolls. to 42 dolls. Shirtings—There 'has been demand for these goods, and prices have improved.. Grays are quoted 1.85 dolls. to 2.65 dolls. • whites, 1.60 dolls. to 2.85 dolls. About 52,000 pieces in all 'have been sold. 2 7 5 a 'l O l dol rod , is ; 2.10 small ail dolls , round, to 2. 2 30 .45 dolls . dolls,; dolls. Woollens —Sp. stripes remain as last quoted, 70c. to 9gc. - 12::ash5eddl€';icoulilis:13edts'os done during the month has been trifling, long ells, 6.50 dolls. to 6.75 dolls; camlets, 18 dolls, to 21 1 / dolls. for English, 15 dolls. to 20 dolls. for Dutch. 2 square, 1.85 dolls. to 2 dolls. ; flat, 1.90 dolls, to 2.5 ;bar p B r s ev d i o o l us ls. to 115 d T ol h ls e . settlements of C - oil - gO - u .j t . o Turkey Opium-410 dolls, to 435 dolls., and s ome innuiry date have been about 450 chops, ' and Cochineal-85 o a c t h i , a n b e f o i u l — t new greens about 111,000 packagesagainst 560 last year. Of has yet been done in this description have arrived, but nothing Export from Canton from 1 for the home market. Ist July, 1851, to 25th lbs. of January , 185') “ Shanghai - - - - ... ... 27,900,00 0 from Ist July, 1851, to 22 d of Januu r y, 1852 .. 23,000,000 50,900,000 Export from Canton from Ist July, 1850, to 25th 3100,000 of January, 1851 " Shangai from Ist of July, 1850, to 15th of January, 1851 15,000,000 4s Ntfi ci i . ange on England 46,800,000 o p e ned at, for American credits, , but declined to 4s. 10d., 4.5. 90., and 4s. 94., at 'which the principal transactions were done. Oriental Bank drew a little at 4s. 9d. On India Company's paper, accepted, 235 r. tcl i 230 r., and at 229 r. to 228 r. Freights—Owing to vessels being required for the con veyance of Coolies to California, rates are firmer, and may be considered 2L 10s. • From Shanghai our advices are to the 22d inst. The import market was dull. In exports the transactions had been moderate. Silk was in demand. Tea—i•Of Congou about 45 had been settled for, atjfrom taels to!12 1 i taels. In greens little had been done. Silk-rßemained much as last quoted, to within a week previous to the date of our advices, when more activitY ap peared in the mar ket, a nd an advance of 1 5 doll s. per pecul was established in the sorts offered. For Nos. 3 and 4 Tsatlee 390 dolls. is asked ; N o . 3 T sa tieo, 37 dolls. to 380 dolls. ; and for the best description, 400 dolls. to 405 dolls. i n ferior, 350 dolls. to 360 doll s . Of TitySiaol there was little offering. Common, 289 dolls.; f a i r , 300 dolls , to 310 dolls. ; fine, 330 dolls. nominal. Expo rt from China to date, 13,600 b a les against 13,900 bales, and 1,100 bales last year. Longcloths—Grays show a trifling advance, and quoted 2.30 dolls. to 2.75 dolls. , w hit e s in barter ha ve been taken at 1.60 dolls. to 2 . 75 . . Sales estimated at 120,000 pieces in all. Woollens—Spanish stripes had been quitted in barter at 88c. to dolls. 1.8 ; long ells sold at dolls. 7.10 and dolls. 6.85. Exchange on England declined latterly. First class paper quoted 4s. 10,4 d. 5s Oriental Bank 'ls 11%ci. to • , , , • American credits; on India Company s accepted paper 230 rs. 31. 10s. for silk. Only one v esse l Freights-3/. 3 s , fo r tea ; cn the berik• -_,--- Tha GISEAT GLOSE.—D.d!.. Wyld has added to his . Geographical Exhibition . in Leicester square a instructive . . es well . as those . that lie contiguous to y interesting model of the . AFctic regions. It is about emery feet in diameter, and exhibits in relief the districts of them : indeed it takes in so extensive a sweep of the northern hemisphere as to comprehend the whole of Great Britain and part of France. The scale is large enough to allow of the indication of the minutest .. islands, lakes, and rivers. All the lands are raised in relief . and excellently modelled; the the Arctic regions, mountains andy . valleys being distinctly marked, and the whole appropriately coloured. Not only great manual l a bour and dexterity have bee n b estowed o n t hi s m odel, but it has required for its execution immense resear ch and con summate geographical knowledge • and it gives to a ll who s pectator may survey it the clearest and most complete idea of the Ar ct i c regions. Upon this extensive model the easily follow the tracks of a ll t h e ce l e b ra t e d Polar in naviga tors, and find entertainmentspeculating of solving the great geo grap hi ca l pro bl e m of a north - west M ~J '_'•. .5~; -i