The Sun. — London, England, 1846-07-31 00:00:00

9711 I 4 _ ._ t .___.,....e.......--.. to : r tli t s riet of penury, poverty, and want ; but that ki h an think' hive reminiscences of another nature, he g t bet ter ,at all events, his declining health would be lee I , ;flvigorated by fresher breezes than those which I N, at meet with in a workhouse in the heart of a lity l ie (Mr. Bankes) insisted upon the neees -4cl of the insertion pro • of the clause which he !t ett !"'ted unless the Government came forward ks ta i o 'e and plainly stated what was their Kr 4 With re,pe ct to t h e rom.wahility of those 11 11 l !'en %110 formerly belonged to agrieui- Nr cliPtriets. As the Bill at present stool a hP ii rarnall would first have to act de part of a 4 4 4 and v aga b ond b efore he was ent i t l e d to a .et -1,14414' Re called upon the Government to declare I '' 4 3 'their intention on this head.-(Hear, ie ) Sur ely that House was as able as any other le tt ! to decl are, e i t h er i n wr i t i ng or in sp,ech, of th.. w as their intention. The judges oft( n complain( d were, hr of Acts of Parliament, and he thought wer e, 1: ?' had very great reason for so doing.- that was ea r.) Let them in this case speak plainly )(te ch _ their intention, and remove the difficulties k. r r ight hereafter arise in the carrying out of this ‘tt th . i t appeared from the answer of the Government I ,is 0 I S Bill was not to be in accordance with 4 %1 i t b i g which he proposed,' he should certainly bid u t s duty to oppose the Bill, for he should then th e: it to be a great injury. instead of a boon, tte 'l,l 11 r e Peopl e o f t hi s country - (H ear , h ear )- heli he quitted the place in which h e h a d been fiv e ,t. 11 Y fbr a short time, he had no power of return itllttfeett . 4t was the main question as affecting himself,, a t , e ta• his comforts, and as affecting his interest. „ 4 ey I , as the difference between the new system, which ‘ty h e . r e setting up, and the old system, with which the oleo the been so long acquainted. He did assume , t kle orn t r i_te poor man it would be more satisfactory '" , p o -ur table to have relief in the form in which he `hea t 'cssed it, when if he should have been absent for %le to order to seek employment elsewhere, he Ne t 3t i l l . come' back to the same place, whereas, It the - ~ ntt, hew system, when he once left, he left for k oit T heY did th ~ not say whether a day, or a week, or a nth:Ballbe the term of absence. It was right ‘ th e Itan should have the option of remaining Ilti e ` Place I eli ei ace which during five years he had dee' with his labour, or of going to the L Irn ~-. t b -n1 'which he 'originally went. He hoped poi la T' e te matters would be taken into the „na l * et usideration of the Government, and that the ke ltee lli , g ltt would be prepared with a measure early in Let te e m • session, to be submitted to the Select Com ;7. /i",. n e t alight be appointed to inquire into the mat h‘tsta " 4 !t Government would zealously and honestly t.__"oss,2?,the subject, they would find that there would be .75ep - ' 4 „ 'al difference of opinion on it when it came Zttoe 't°,llsderation ; and he hoped that in any propo• 'Aca e " e Y might offer they would be prepared to ~„eertain portions of the new Poor-law, and t. I t . Y that part relating to the Commissioners. Dlte lg t e ht _. a Hon.. Gentle , the Home Secretary ought 'tch g ie g: ssis cl t m an in c i e st o ra r ti m on a f ar theor' those f ' the ai ds l a h we into mig his own hands, ht think neces hoe purpose. When the order of the day was " 3 re them he weuld propose the clause, of which ?e . g iv en notice, which, so tar from contravening the 4 the Bill, was calculated ,to carry out its in , .boy kFO GREY said, as they were merely on non for r ea di ng t h e or d er o f t h e day, they would him if he did not enter at present into the 40'74 referred t o by t h e H on . M e mber. He begged, t et e , It ,to assure him and the House, that the points : 1 9 ve referred nm er to w 0 til w o d u b l d e p m r e e e p t ar t e h d e t patient e andthe courseat t en - t ansideration of the Government, and that they lose no time in entering upon the question. „a the Select Committee was appointed next session, intended to pursue, and would lay before the ,;'tee' an outlive of the measures they deemed ne :,111.11VIE thought the speech of the Bight Hem t. shovved sutlicient reason why this. Bill should aqahead a t a iird time at all.- (Hear, hear.) He line undeestand upon what grounds the Bight Hon. silk:„,„ 'iressed it forw ar d, ex c ep t th a t h e h a d rea d a k ti "Atri an Hon. G ent l eman oppos i te, request i ng hi m }7itti, , I ,_ with it, at once . Th e quest i on was o f too Z, to importance to be taken piece-meal. It ought Title ri l sidered a s a w h o l e . L oo k at t h e papers on t h e Lttt t he tih t e Hou se , an d H onoura bl e M em b ers wou ld see kNee l ° use of Commons had become the executive tio e. v et it fer carrying out the poor-law which, in his 0/.0 4 " contrary to every thing that ought to be.- C44C44 of 4r .) There was no other mode of marking his ll t he proceeding e x cept by a di v isio n , and he Nt 44' the refore, er efore, move that the Bill be read a third time tili l: t f, Si months.-(Hear, hear.) ti k tafa;‘‘ I CHOPE perfectly concurred in all that hail 14 1 ,, 1a,,1 the Hon. Member for Montrose. Hitherto ilstlkert4 settlement and removal had been connected liZt . l. ~; 4111 ,(1 this was the first time in the histsry of the b 4,4 tn at it had been proposed to disunite it. etlNPight re e in • 'd th r -at the measure, passeu its present state, V rot e every parish in the country into confusion. eptie, mended that the law of rating and of settle . e l `tat qll ti both be considered together, and all referred A 1, 43 , 0 i . VVli i IL 04,, LIAMS concurred with the Hon. Member Te e keep t t', and hoped the Secretary of State would tei tt ;.P . oe r•l 'ae legacy left him by the late Government. N B 0 awe as administered at present, entailed great Zeriy, r n the poor, and unnecessary expense on the 10,( till . 11 8 1 He urged the postponement of the mea . Ileat session. Ti t Ike er in thought the present measure would put `l4,:efe eet - 0 4 f werse condition than they were at present. IN te sac it would be, that the farmers would dis ke„„ b ,lf s ervants, lest they should acquire a claim of likt b„ 4 ' ll ,t3a He expected great benefit from settle k: t w .1 unzons for emigration, for he thought that one t e , °ll aions might combine and fit out ships to carry Ai t ki'Lßrants to the colonies. ~,s0 1 ) 0 0NER thought the Hon. Member had given la t '° ll gest reason possible for passing the measure te- N e , Ile said that expectations had been excited, and ,"t' 4 „ t letitly it was of great importance to pass the 'k 7t '-' immediately. He conceived that, after the dis ail L to which had Wien place, great injury would be VNI Ina nY parts of the country if this measure was V„ s ed• In fa',t, the reasons and arguments urged Nt t '°n• Get - Wienan who had just sat dowa, showed uereessitY e' the House immediately adopting this ''ar e e bs ' BeF:ides, this Bill did not interfere with any 11 0 , : rePt.s'ares on the subject of providing relief for i. le e!1 and which they might reasonably expect t . kik fiend forward during the next session. His of had said that this was not a measure of ' !le t the agriculturists, but he (Mr. Spooner) con 'that it was most clearly a relief to the agricul k l 4 4 -- (ilear, hear.) But the House of Commons 4 1 1 et to consider that question in the discussion of 4, it ; it ought to be considered on its own merits. I t s e ° f l ight to consider simply whether it was a measure L) , good or evil. This measure in itself he be t'," t o ,s very good, but it was a reat hardship to a e7e 0, De removed from a town whore he had been Or e, " D 'IP to a county which he had long since forgotten, ti,N' from his habits, he was totally unfitted for 'a t', tpr 4- te thought that a poor man should have the op -7 ' of haying ite the town where he had spent the best t k " T i o s strength, or being removed to the place of his la '''` the trade failed in a manufacturing town all 14t,, Jorb \,-,,,. -ouses would be filled, if a man had not that op rietk:" th e Bill stood they could not give him that ' s a lteu e l le would not argue - that question at any length 044 .4 , because that was not the question which was •o)li?' h under the consideration of the House. How . i t t it te 40 ;.`e Proposal of the Hon. Member for Dorchester Ite", e a ßrced to he (Mr. Spooner) should feel it his p, i v.°ve a clause of a similar nature. s e ttee OCITHERTON said the Hon. Member for i'Cvreta e h aci stated that they never found the law of ,0 1 /41i n I A separated from the law of removal, but 10 tril l . Gentleman must be aware that, with regard to ' "' 4 6(1 Scotch, the law of settlement had been s t eed fro m that of removal. He (Mr. Brotherton) t te l jeti that this was a measure of humanity, and he 11) ei f ‘ t , think that it would inflict those grievances upon tr eth e rent parishes which many supposed. He found Iteer r its which he had seen, that the cost of the re ettae ° f a poor family by a union was 5/., and if the N, a Would look at the returns made to the House, 'll 4l , h w ould find that the great bulk of the removals were 1 ,11 an d Scotch, and not English. Very few were Eng / "tad h believed that if this Bill were passed, they a sio e ,Il k ,' ~" 'find that there would be a greater disposition to Ir]) oyessons in the places where they were gene lellem-P He believed also . that they would not t1 05 ,k.,.., much of that cruelty which had been hitherto Nr"ed towards the poorer classes. Although this :ha ' l ,_ _id not go to the extent which he . should N c ,p for one would not throw any obstacle in the 1 7, ti , 1 ite passing,-(Hear, hear.) Ile hoped that by Ztl 4 ; ll ,R, he would afford the Government an opportu- NLtecertaining from experience what permanent l l N'7,.,,_thould be introduced on this subject.-(Hear, ' la k a tte, therefore, considered that this Bill might h `tte c ra with safety, without being necessarily con 04'd o Ivl ,_th the other branches of the poor-law question, ' te ll ro teese grounds he should give his vote for the li s ,r. lit fad a si.IGIIT said he was wishful to state, after what kt tee , • 4 4 1, 4 said, for the information of the House, one fo r Jok,Zpect to the manufactures ich he thought , T v‘ h 'h e Hon. Member 1 ) , Qalr tv earing on the question : . ' • 0 h 7 4 ill 0 4 proposed that this Bill should be allowed to latirte rtl ar to afford the Government and the House an a: 4 4 eV er ,, nt Y of gaining some experience on the subject. ith,l no% ' °lle must know that the demand for labour tti e 'etilt v 4l ,', o great, both in the manufacturing and t kr , Rr ear n i districts, owing in a great meAsudre theto ts - e e tioe '' Principles which had recently receive 1 1 ,,' is 1 , J 3 r the House, that it could scarcely be met, a b ,t,_tie' ; ; (14 plain that between this time and the . 'ty'gd. s- :', 4 of Parliament the applications for relief at ttb a'"? e l ew that the desired experience would be 1, 11 ,- .-.- -zikcie Government and the Members of that , talPe s ra` sli a . he took it for granted that the trade and • el: a t , 3 : of the succeeding years would be even greater eon 's tiir w r esent, and he believed that if for the present t ck ~tcl4 , era rejected it would not create the slightest pk t ,` ; ‘t iff ee l e .s to suffering humanity. With respect the lt 6 "h 14 which Promoting litigation, he could speak of ti z the else's he lived. For the purpose of ascertain -11- r '„, a e?a of settlement of the poor in that town, „, e a tse a - layers were subjected to much ex : h 'ou l . ofnci trouble.-(Hear, hear.) He spoke in ' t} ° / „*es- al th is measure' when it was first introduced, aria fife Poo, Tin favour of it now. He- had no wish that t 4 • "Ould be removed from the manufacturing to 110 t Petlitural districts • but he thought that it would • kttee e light ) r .,essa aii t , declared to be so ill-considered that it must a ' 4 14 i r , Y i u y e altered in the next session of Parliament. , ii c to _ tise i: t o ...}3,I7ARRIS would support this measure,. be bena eat ' , eyed that it would tend in a material degree poorer classes during the succeeding six %. t7llths, ~the e _ aa,,,,, .--Le thought that many removals in the time tqt 'r were ' -, o w. e attended with' severe hardships to • 40 Gestaialy had •alway uaderatood 'el ~, ~~, that the Poor-law Commission, when first established, was to have become a temporary board fur the purpose of establishing a 'poor-law throughout the country. That system hail proved to be so cru le, harsh, and ill digested, that it was found necessary to alter it in every succeeding session of Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) He believed that the system now proposed was capable of much improve ment, but he accepted it as an instalment to the poor, and would accordingly vote in support of it. Mr. EWA RT slid he was one of those who were very strongly in fav-ur of the principle of this Bill, but he did not agree entirely with the remarks of the Hon. MemlaA. for Salford. ile regretted not to see the Noble Lord the Member for Liverpool in his place, nor the ocher Hot. and Gallant Member for that town, because he could have wished to have made some remarks in reference to the heavy manner in which this Bill would op rate on the ratepayers of Liverpool. His Honour able Friend the Secretary for the Home Depart ment, if he had not already, would very soon eceive a deputation from the rate-payers of that town, 1 complaining of the hardships which this Bill would entail upon them. He had made these observaions to the House because he considered it his duty. Sir W. JAMES said that this Bill would also press very heavily upon the rate-payers of Hull, which be had the honour to represent. He believed tha it would at least double the rates in Hull and Liverpool. He would, however, give his support to the measure, hoping, at the same time, that the Secretary for the Home De partment would be prepared with some more well-con sidered plan in the next session. Mr. WRIGHTSON regretted that the Government should persist in pressing this Bill forward at the very moment that they had pledged themselves to take the question of settlement into consideration, for the purpose of introducing a more comprehensive measure during the next session of Parliament. He considered the Bill to be objectionable on many grounds, and would withhold his support from it. Captain PECHELL said this Bill was a most ill-con sideretd piece of legislation. One of the main features of the Bill was the rich harvest it would bring to the lawyers. The litigation .which would ensue before the next ses sion of Parliament, from the provisions of this Bill, almost induced him to agree in the amendments of the Hon. "Member for Dorsetshire, as he believed that they would preclude a great deal of the inconveniences which were likely to arise. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD did not regard the present Bill as it affected the interests of town and coun try, but merely as it affected the interests of the Bill. He would support the Bill. The Bill was then read a third time. Mr. HUME said, that before any further steps were taken, it would be advisable to hear what were the . amendments proposed to be made on the Bill. On the motion that the Bill do pass, Mr. BANKES rose, and moved the following clauses: —" That if any person, upon examination by the jus tices to whom application may be made for an order for his or her removal to a place of previous settlement, shall si_anify to the said justices his or her consent thereto, then it shall be lawful to remove such person to the place of his or her previous settlement, although such person may have resided for the five years last pre ceding in the parish from which such person is so re moved. And it is hereby declared, that nothing in this Aot contained,shall have the effect of, restraining magis trates from acting and adjudicating in respect of orders of removal, where such removal shall be applied for and adjudicated upon with the consent of the person who is the subject of such order." Sir G. GREY said, to the principle of the clause he was not opposed, but as it would open the door to col lusion, he could not assent to it. It' the House thought that it would not have that effect, he had no objection to assent to it, but, otherwise, he would oppose it. Mr. SPOONER said that as the Right Hon. Baronet had no objection to the principle of the amendment, but to the practical working of it, he did not see what evil could arise from its insertion in the Bill. For his own part, he did not think that any collusion would result (rem it. The, collusion might arise as the Bill now stood, but the addition of the amendment would be a check which otherwise did not exist. He hoped, there fore, that the clause would be allowed by the Right Hon. Baronet to be added to the Bill. Mr. FLOYER, thought that the overseers would neither apply the public money nor their own money to lacilitate removals, and he, therefore, would support the amendment, believing, as he did, that it would be advis able to give the poor the option of removing, if they pleased. ' Sir W. JOLIFFE would support the clause if the words "voluntary consent" were added to it. Mr. BROTHERTON opposed the amendment. Mr. HENLEY supported the amendment. He did not believe that any collusion would result from it, for the overseer was not likely to pay money out of his own pocket to carry out the design apprehended by those who opposed the clause. Mr. B. ESCOTT said that in his opinion, the present mode of proceeding was not the way to alter the Poor. law Bill at all. The question was to be cesidered the en suing session, and he did not think, therefore, that the present Bill should be carried. It bad been said that the question of the time of residence necessary to entitle parties to relief would be a fertile source of litigation, and the answer to that was, that if the clause was con• strued by common sense, the meaning could not possibly be mistaken. He objected altogether to the carrying on the Bill under those circumstances, for he thought that they had done enough of important legislation the present session, and their persisting in this Bill would not at all benefit the poor. Mr. BODKIN objected to the introduction of the clause, as it would open the door for very many abuses, and would allow the parochial officers to exercise an undue influence to obtain the consent of the poor people to their removal That would in future litigation raise the difficult question of whether the consent of the poor person to the removal was entirely voluntary or not. After a few words from Mr. REDHEAD YORKE, The House divided, when there appeared — For the clause Against it •I 62 Majority —47 Mr. P. SCROPE then moved the following clause:— " Provided always, and be it enacted, that the five years hereinbefore mentioned shall be construed to mean a residence of not less than one-half of every year of the five during which such person shall have exercised some industrious calling within the said parish or union." Such a clause would have the effect of completely estab lishing the residence of the party, he would be known to all the neighbours, and if his case should afterwards become the subject of litigation no difficulty could arise on that point. If, as the Right Hon. Baronet who introduced the measure had said, the residence meant by the Act was to be an industrial residence, the adoption of the present clause would secure to such parish or union the benefit of the labour of the indi vidual. Sir. G. GREY said he thought that the clause intro duced by the Hon. Member would rather have the ef fect of increasing the litigation consequent on the Bill than of diminishing it. Mr. B. ESCOT f thought they ought to have the opinion of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Attorney General upon this clause. Upon a former occasion he was called upon to give an opinion upon a particular Bill, but, no doubt, exercising his discretion, he de clined doing so. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said there was no doubt the construction to be placed on the clause was, that it referred to the last five years of the pauper's life. That was it referred to the place where the pauper had resided during the last five year, of his life. After. a few words from Mr. P. SCROPE, Captain PECIIELL wished to know if a person going to sea, and leaving his wife and:family at home, in a resi dence which he had provided for them, would be en titled to relief, notwithstanding this interruption to the five years had taken place. The ATTORNEY. GENERAL was understood to reply in the affirmative. The clause was negatived without a division. Mr. W. H. BODKIN proposed the insertion of the following clause :—" And be it enacted, that all expenses which shall be incurred for the maintenance, relief, or burial of persons hereby exempted from the liability to be removed, shall, in every parish which is included in an union, be charged, and continue to be charged, to the common fund of such union, in the same manner as the expenses of purchasing, building, or providing work houses in unions are directed to be charged by an Act passed in the sth year of the reign of his late Majesty king 'William the Fourth, intituled, 'An Act for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws re lating to the Poor in England and Wales.' " There could be no doubt that this clause was just and equitable. It was not fair that all the expense of maintaining a pauper who had resided in a particular parish, should fall upon the funds of that parish alone, but it ought to be spread over the whole union in which the paris h was situated.—(Gear, hear. It was this feeling which bad induced him to place a clause to that effect on the notice paper. Sir G. GREY surrgested that it would be better to postpone the consideration of this question till the larger measure was brought forward, next session. Mr. P. SCROPE thought if they tried the experiment proposed by the clause, they would have experience for their guidance on re-considering the whole matter next year.—(Hear, hear.) After a few words from Mr. B. DENISON, Mr. BODKIN said he would not press his clause ; and it was therefore negatived without a division. The Bill wa; then read a third time. On the question being put that the Bill do pass, Mr. HUME said they were told, by the promoters of the Bill, that it was to be an experiment, and if it failed they would grant an inquiry. Now this appeared to him to be an exceedingly just mode of proceeding, and he should therefore take the sense of the House that the Bill do pass. Mr. P. BORTHWICK did not approve of the Bill itself, but he did of the course proposed by her Majesty's Government. He had confidence in them, and he should vote against the amendment.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. WODEHOUSE said, if the Member for Mont rose pressed the matter to a division, he would certainly go widi him. But, if the Bill should pass, he begged that the Government would impress upon the Poor law Commissioners to proceed with great caution, and that in the case of every application for relief, whether in door or out-door, it was their bounden duty to attend to it, from whatever quarter it might come. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when there appeared.— For the Bill passing 56 Against elajority for the Bill passing The Bill passed accordingly JOINT-STOCK BANKS (IRELAND AND SCOTLAND) BILL. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the late Government brought forward this Bill last year, for extending the provisions of au Act already in operation England to the joilltretc4 boalis Scotland ' • SUN, LONDON,_ PRIDAY EVENING, JULY 31, 1846. and Ireland. But the session terminated more abruptly than was expected, and in consequence this was post poned to the present session. When he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) was appointed to the situation which he at present held, he found this Bill lying before the Llett,e, and he announced to the House that it was his intention to proceed with the Bill. After that, how ever, he had intimation that the Scotch bankers wished to see him, and on Thursday last he appointed to bring in the Bill to-night. On Tuesday last he saw these bankers, and they were all satisfied that the measure, as it at present stood, should pass into a law.—(Hear, hear.) As these parties had withdrawn their opposition, he eves in in pis that it would have passed unopposed ,• but by the paper he saw that an Hon. Member had given notice of his intention to oppose the Bill going into Committee. Ile would, however, reserve himself till after, and at present more that the Speaker leave the chair. On the question bring put, Mr. FOIII3ES rose to move that the further conside ration of the measure be taken that day six months. He said he would, .at the wishes of his constituents, and from a sense of public duty, do all that lay in his power to oppose this Bill, which he regretted the Go vernment should have had anything to do with. He thought it unusual to bring forward at that period of the session a measure of this kind—a measure which had slumbered for months—a Bill of the very greatest im portance. The House would recollect, or he would remind it, that this measure was introduced so quietly that imbed) , heard anything of it till it passed the second readin". At that ti:ue the Scotch Members, Scotch Peers, and Scotchmen residing in London, became alarmed. Meetings were held of nn ri of all shades of *Men, of Peers, Members, and bankers, and the uni versal feeling was in opposition to the Bill. It was said Oat the bankers were satisfied with it, but those who had constituents, and who looked to the interests of the country were not. He recollected that many most eminent individuals expressed a hostile opinion, and among the rest the Right Hon. Member for Perth and the Right Hon. Member for Russ-shire. A deputation waited upon the late Prime Minister, and memo rials were presented on the subject, after which they heard no more about it. He thought, and many were with him in Scotland, that the Bill ought not to pass. He had canvassed the public opinion in Scotland when he was there, and found it generally hostile to the measure. Ho earnestly hoped her Ma jesty's Government would not proceed with so im portant a Bill at so late a period of the session. The motion was negatived without a division. The House then went into Committee. On the first clause being read, Mr. HUME said, he thought it would be better if the bankers of Scotland were not interfered with by the Legislature. The interference with the monetary system in Scotland was pernicious. He had been in duce to support that interference as relative to England, hut he now thought the principle of legislative inter ference in these matters was injurious. He would there fore F a npport the motion. Mr. DUNCAN said he represented a large manufactur ing community, he felt bound to oppose the motion. Mr. GJULBU RN said, it was found necessary in a former session to introduce a measure to subject joint stock bank companies to certain restrictions in this country. It was found expedient to introduce a similar measure for Scotland. The measure was not then pressed, but it was on a distinct understanding that it should be introduced in the present session. —(Hear, hear.) lie had given an intimation of his intention with respect to this measure, and the Hon. Gentleman oppo site was one of those who was aware of his intention. Where, then, was the ground for the Hon. Gentleman's complaint ? The Right Hon. Gentleman might have been asleep, but every other Scotchman was wide awake on the - subject.—(Laughter.) What infraction was there in the provisions of this Bill of the principle of free trade.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. BAINE said the Bill did not propose to affect in the slightest degree the present system of currency in Scotland. It did not propose either to interfere with ;,he existing bankers of Scotland. There was another provision of the Bill to which the bankers of Scotland objected, and upon some just grounds, that was, the ad vancement of money. He considered that position was• very reasonable. Mr. NEWDEGATE asked why the late Chancellor of the Exchequer had not introduced this Bill in the last session of Parliament. Mr. GOULBIJRN replied that he had not a fair op portunity of so doing. Mr. NEWDEGA thedsaid that the Bill ought not to be proceeded with this session, inasmuch as many Hon. Gentlemen had left town, under the impression that it would not be pressed forward during the present session. —(Hear, hear.) Besides he did not see any ne cessity for any legislation of this sort. The present system of banking in Scotland was secure, safe, and comprehensive, and the people of that country were perfectly satisfied with it.—(Hear, hear.) At present he would not enter further into the subject than by simply saying that this Bill put into the hands of the Govern ment the power of sanctioning or refusing the establish ment of banks in Scotland, a power hitherto unknown in the history of banking in Scotland. He had no doubt that the late Chancellor of the Exchequer had intro duced this measure with the purest motives, but it would certainly, in his (Mr. Newdegate's) opinion, lead to the worst results, and he sincerely hoped that it would not be persevered in by the present Chancellor of the Exche quer. The most experienced men in Scotland had stated that in their opinion, if this measure were passed, the people of that country would be up in arms. He re joiced to find that the Hon. Member for Montrose (Mr. Hume) and the other Scotch members, were on their guard, and were determined to offer this measure their most decided opposition.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. BOUVERIE also opposed the Bill. The banks at present existing, no doubt, were not opposed to this Bill, but that was very natural, because it would confer on them a monopoly which they did not at present enjoy. —(Hear, hear.) This Bill would create banks of the weakest kind, and would prevent the establishments of the safest and most creditable description.—(Hear.) It was a hard case that banks possessing large capitals in Scotland should be deprived of the advantages of re ceiving public funds, trust moneys, and infant's estates, &c., which the chartered banks had the advantage of receiving, but they were not responsible to the Govern ment for those funds, nor were the partners of those banks published, nor could the public compel the pub lication of them. The public had therefore no security against them. Under these circumstances he should vote against the Bill.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HENLEY said it was rather strange to see a free-trade Government adopting such a monopolising scheme as this.—(Hear, hear.) The fact was that " free trade" was sheer humbug; free trade meant, in reality, cheap commodities, and an increased value of money. — (Hear, hear.) The Scotch Members had told the Go vernment that the present system of banking in Scotland was as safe as could be desired; he wished to know why the Government persisted in pressing this ill-considered measure on the House?—(Hear, hear.) It was first in troduced in February last, and had not been again noticed until July, and the consequence was, that the ma jority- of the Scotch Members had left town, under the impression that it wonld not be again brought under the consideration of the House during the present session. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER con• tended that no one had been taken by surprise with re spect to this Bill, and then proceeded to speak in favour of the principles of the Bill, which, he said, were most wise and just. He did not think that the present banking system in Scotland was quite so safe and satis factory as had been represented by Hon. Gentlemen. — (Hear, hear.) Indeed he contended that that system was most unsafe and unparalleled. Sir R. FERGUSON said the system of joint-stock banking hail not been fully tested. There was, at pre sent, but one joint-stock bank in existence, and it was upon the precedent of this one bank that the Govern ment proposed the present Bill. Mr. FORBES said that he formed one of a deputation who waited upon the heads of the Government upon this question. He stated upon that occasion that he would oppose the Bill to the utmost of his power. He had gone to Scotland, thinking that this Bill had been given up, and that the labour of the session was over ; to his surprise, he saw that the Bill was about to be revived, and he hastened up to London, for the purpose of op posing the further progress of the Bill. Mr. STUAIetT objected to a Bill of so much im portance being brought forward at the present period of the session. The Bill was introduced last session; it was not then proceeded with, but it was pro mised by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer that the Bill should be brought .forward at an early p?riod of the present session. By this period the suspicions of the people had been lulled. He would most strenuously re- , sist this mode of smuggling Bills through the House. He called upon the House to pause before they passed the Bill. There were now only two or three Scotch Members in town, who were alone supposed to be ac quainted with the subject, All of theta objected to this Bill being proceeded with at this late period of the ses sion. He did not believe that a single English Member had read through the whole fifty clauses of the Bill, and understood their application to Scotland. If the House passed the Bill in this manner, he charged the Hon. Members with a gross neglect of their duty.—(lronical cheers.) It had been stated by the present and former Chancellors of the Exchequer, that they had received deputations from Scotland upon the subject of this Bill. But those deputations consisted exclusively of Scotch bankers, who wished to establish a monopoly for themselves. The Members for Scotland declared against the Bill, and it would be indecent to press it forward under the circumstances of the case. The bequest of the late Government to the present of this Act was a bequest of a monopoly. He did consider that they would expose themselves to serious reprobation if they proceeded with the present measure. It had been too much the habit of the Legislature at the ends of a ses sion to crowd the statute books with Acts not properly discussed nor even properly worded, and the people of England would not suffer such conduct ; he would, therefore, support the motion of his Hon. Friend. Sir GEORGE CLERK said that he had listened with great attention to the speech of the Hon. Member, but not one word against the principle of the Bill did he hear during the whole of his discourse. The only point he made was that the House was taken by surprise. Now, he asked the House was such the case ? The Bill had been before the public since the commencement of the session, and there were only four petitions presented against it. Why, if it was detrimental to the people of Scotland they were sufficiently awake to their own inte rests to cover the table of the House with petitions against it, but such had not been the case. Mr. FORBES explained. Mr. HUME said it was no wonder that the Hon. Member did not enter into the merits of the Bill, for it did not possess any, and he would undertake to prove that such was the case. The Committee then divided, when there appeared— For the clause. 53 Against it Majority , o_ The remaining clauses of the Bill were then agreed to, and the report ordered to be brought up to-morrow. The Rateable Property (Ireland) Bill, the Eject meats (Ireland) Bill, and the Leases (Ireland) Bill went severally through Con:in:due-. ART UNIONS BILL. This Bill was read a third time. CONSOLIDATION FUND (4,000,0GOL) BILL. This Bill went through Committee. BATHS AND WASIIiIOUSES (IRELAND) BILL. This Bill went through Ciliviiittee. SUGAR DUTIES. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in reply to a question from Mr. Hume, said that the first business proceeded with to-morrow uould be the reso lutions on the suzar duties. - NEWFOUNDLAND BILL. On the motion of Mr. HAWES this Bill was read a ;hird time and pascetl. BURIAL SERVICE (No. 2) BILL. This Bill passed through Committee, and was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow, The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter past Eleven o'clock, LITERATURE. THE MODERN ORLANDO. Cantos I. to VII. Very recently we have had the satisfaction of noticing a revival in the appreciation of poetical literature, or possibly we should have said a re vival of poetical excellence among our contem porary bookniene Both. have been singularly mani fest of late : excellence in the writers, generous appreciation in the readers. For a considerable time there had been an actual decadence on both sides—a decadence of originality and nerve in the bards, and a consequent decadence of enthusiasm in the public. And, saving one illustrious exception, there had been an abso lute hiatus in the history of English poetry. Campbell, after a protracted silence, was dead. The poet laureatewas the more venerable from that inactivity of the pen which concentrated the attention of his admirers upon the effusions of his youth. Southey had dwindled into im becility and died. " The tenth muse" wrote but little, and at long intervals. James Montgomery had alto gether vanished from the observation of the world. Robert Nicoll edited a provincial newspaper, and breathed his last with the feeblest mockery of sympathy from his fellow men. Robert Browning falsified the promises of his first composition, and disappointed the few who hoped to become his admirers. Buliver's " Eva ; or, The 111-omened M arr i age " was treate d slightly, and justly so, because it was unworthy of his genius. Of dramatists, there was indeed no positive deficiency while Sheridan Knowles and the author of Money continued industrious; and while Talfourd was still in the full vigour of his intellect. But of poems for the closet there was either nothing, or something pos sibly even worse than nothing. Macaulay's " Lays of Ancient Rome" possessed, it is true, a golden beauty, but they were merely of the loosest description of poetry ; they were fragments of music. A few occa sional pieces of verse were also thrown from the press, intermittently, by Mr. Milnes, Ebenezer Elliot, Thomas Miller, and others There were, however, two volumes published during this period which gradually acquired for themselves the admiration of the multitude, unpuffed, almost unnoticed by the critics, and scarcely aided through the medium of advertisements. Nor did they acquire for themselves merely the idle admiration of the multitude, they charmed even the most fastidious minds, and grew upon the partialities of cotemporary men of letters. They were welcomed with a heart enthusiasm by a few, like those dainty poems written long ago by Hood ; they euntained lyrics, also, which soon became as familiar headings to the chapters of a new novel as the lyrics composed by Barry Cornwall in his younger days ; they were placed on the book-shelves side by side with the " Lamle" and the " Hyperion" of Keats. These were the two volumes by Alfred Tennyson. The Government under Sir Robert Peel's administration has since then held out a boon to poets in pensioning Alfred Tennyson. We are rejoiced at this for a hundred reasons, but especially because it will act as an encou ragement. AlreadY we would fain believe a change is developing itself 04 what is commonly called "the. world of letters." Aspirants for poetical honours are starting forth, and with a prospect of receiving a generous wel come, if they merit such a reception. People are be ginning to see now that it is as frivolous and childish to condemn a book merely because its covers are not worm eaten or its leaves mildewed, as it is to reject foreign corn and foreign cattle because they happen to be foreign. Foremost amongst those poetical aspirants is the author of " The New Timon," and upon his merits and demerits we have already explained ourselves at considerable length. In the volume now lying before us, we observe a new aspirant for the same favour. " The Modern Orlando," in its very title, is suggestive of the work last mentioned. Like " The New Timon," it is also anonymous. Like " The New Timon," it is of a satirical character. Like " The New Timon," it contains some political pasquinades upon several of our most eminent statesmen. Beyond this, no compa rison whatever can be drawn between these two pro ductions. Unlike its predecessor, " The Modern oe lando" has neither a plot nor a single character : it might, for ought we can as yet perceive to the contrary, have been christened the Modern Heliogabalus, or the Modern Stagyrite, as " The Modern Orlando." This, however, may be unravelled on its continuation. To describe the work simply, we should call it a kind of pil grimage through a portion of the Continent (after the fashion of " Childe Harolde"), interspersed with anec dotes and sarcastic reflections upon men and things. The descriptions are conveyed in the stanza peculiar to " Beppo," and a glorious stanza it is, too, for comic writing, and even sometimes for pathetic. Occasion ally the reminiscences, or anecdotes, as we have called them, are not suggested in the most natural man ner by the context ; and in two instances the anecdotes introduced are most wretchedly be-hackneyed, having appeared in half a dozen guide books and gone the round of the newspapers more than once. We mean the story of the Three Monarchs at Canto 1., stanza 43, and of The Penitents, at Canto V., stanza 40. Never theless, this is not the case throughout, as the incident of the supposed typhoon in the Indian Seas, and which ulti mately pi oyes to be the mercury dropping through a crack in the barometer, is capitally told. There are, however, two remarkable blemishes in the composition of this poem, blemishes the more egregious, because they are more of the manner than of the matter, and might have been avoided by a moderate exercise of taste and discrimination. The first is a most intolerable partiality for italics—every stanza is sprinkled with a little shower of them. They form not merely an eyesore in the letterpress, but they deteriorate the piquancy of the writing. By endeavouring to be especially forcible and pointed, in thus putting so many of his words into italics, he has "overshot the mark," and rendered his composition singularly feeble. In straining so inces santly, his real vigour has been almost entirely frittered away. To prove that our estimate in this respect is not exaggerated, we have been at the trouble to count the number of words thus nullified by italics, and in the mere portion of " The Modern Orlando" already published, tnere are no less than five hundred and seventy-four! Again, there are a profusion of parentheses, sometimes four or five in a single stanza. In these seven cantos, there are no less than 213 ! Surely 574 instances of the employment of italics, and 213 parentheses, in so brief a piece of metrical composition, is sufficient to fritter away a thousand opportunities of success. In using these very dangerous instruments of author-craft with such reck lessness, the writer has not done justice to his own (or her own) capabilities. We particularise these blemishes, because they are so readily avoided, and because we hope to see the continuation of "The Modern Orlando" relieved from their incumbrance. The defect, indeed, of the entire production is that of exaggerated hilarity; the pleasantry of tone is so violent and pertinacious, the "nods and becks, and wreathed smiles" remind one,froni thidr intenseness, so much of the contortions 'produced by galvanism, the persiflage is so unceasing, and the witticisms are so importunate in their demands upon our risibility, as to render the perusal of the whole literally exhausting. The author has no lack of capacity, indeed he (or she) has, if possible, an exuberance of it; but it wants modulation. There is too much glare, too much gaudy colouring, too much blazonry of conceit at present : there is a want of subdued tones and neutral tints. Nevertheless it is impossible, amidst so much of extravagant sprightliness, not to light upon some few keen and epigrammatic sentences. The author has some thing of the real satirist under his masquerade, and his satire is as often genial as it is pungent: ex. gr. the sub joined allusion. to BroughliA Russell, Lyndhurst, and Melbourne — I like Br—gh—in's vigour, terseness, vehemence, " When his fierce jests around the House he flings; " (Provided always—not at my expense), " His hurricane of words, shrewd wit, and bile intense. " Jack R—ss-11 charms me, with his quiet air, " His simple phrase, and purpose undesign'd ; " Smooth without languor, polished without glare; " Feeling his way, until his coil is twined; " Then, darting all his meaning on the mind ! " L—ndh—rst's is peerage-language — proud and bold; " Yet proud howe'er the tongue, the heart is kind ; " (I know it, and the tale shall yet be told), " A heart unstain'd by power—a tongue unsway'd by gold. " Ah, M—lb—rne! pleasantest of pleasant men! " Without an enemy, though born a wit. " Nl l h n at F c a a s g n e in d n t ,s hy ga p y i e n s io t sunshineninthe Treasury den, formed to flit? thou would'st have spoil'd th y sty l e, " Grown statesmanish, and never o o cc ' s Apolloix months saved t ee f ro m the fate of Pitt. Inmore, " Nay, parted with (if possible) thy w he sm ile n m he humour s a ys that_ almo s t " Earth's a teetotum whirls o ld Mammon's f in ger spins ! " osrteaotev,earnhelasyteonree,in peaNwirdly the sparkle both est i m e inster's old pil e. " a oH m is o nA u ceon n wnd t n s eseel t sie o tspst l a v inin i n t d . o F f o r instance a satirical or again where he calls— "—• the silver sound of w o man's tongue, Life's sal ea:tile—a Lyre for ever strung ! or again where ho terms Mirabeau— "-- the hot marrow in Rebellion ' s b olls p > There are likewise discover able in sev eral parts expres uesa inquiry u h r ie d i n o c— u h fs sions of exceeding beauty , a s in the c ouplet.— "No Eschylus now shoc ks our ' fell of hair,' Smiting the spirit whit his grand despair ! " and a 1 , 5 ,0 in the tiss wmdenwtiliohntiojef a T woodbilzes n porch any merit t blushing trail." Wear. few c cannot, e o x n tr t a h va. contrary,ge:,?_ b riece nature of diamonds— "TellOr me, glittering what du a s r t e from comets coach-whe e l s fil e d ?" , They are actual anomalies b eside a question so nobly conceived as the following: — " if each nation had a Mar ath on , Think you the world would v e g et ate with slaves ?" There are sundry blunders in " The Modern Orlando " which we can only attribute t o a ver y careless and pre cipitate style of coraposittios. For ezeuvle, the author, i si a perceive sn rec the made a m eiv s l n a cle hit; crystalized, y to the when attributing the phrase (page 19), " what is written is written," to the Turk, must have entirely forgotten the Quod scripsi, scripsi, of Pontius Pilate. And like wise where he remarks (page 148), that England "never made a glass of wine," he must have overlooked the tact that Gloucestershire was former!) , the vineyard of this island. We must take leave, moreover, to differ from him in the elevated estimate he gives of Beau Bruminell in a note to Canto VI. He there considers that re nowned fop to have been something above a mere trifler in fashionable life, and actually applies to him the cha racteristic of " genius !" We beg to call to the recol lection of the author of the Modern Orlando, a passage which we remember to have met with in Martial, and which bears very pertinently upon this matter. " Bellus homo," says Martial— " l3ellus homo, et magnus vis idem, Cotta, videri ; Sett qui bellus homo est, Cotta, pusillus homo est !" Brummell was the greatest fribble, and perhaps the most heartless fribble that ever existed, but beyond that possessed no other title to greatness. Indeed, we are ready to give the aphorism of the Roman poet the widest application, and to bow to his utterance,—qui bellus homo est, pusillus homo est,—as something oracular. Regarding this poem as a whole, it is faulty from its en deavours to be over brilliant. Its uninterrupted effort at smartness renders it wearisome rather than entertain ing ; and we think that the author, in struggling to at tain the facetiousness of the style of " Don Juan," should have remembered that the excellence of that won derful work arose principally from its alternation of pathos and drollery, sentiment and satire, and not from one unflagging play of jocoseness. Notwithstanding, however, its many glaring deficiencies, " The Modern Orlando" evinces no inconsiderable capacity for better things. In its very effervescence we can detect a flavour which may mellow and ripen with practice. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen, accompanied by her august visitors, the King and Queen of the Belgians, promenaded yesterday forenoon in the pleasure grounds of Buckingham Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert left Buckingham Palace at twenty minutes before six o'clock yesterday morning for Liverpool. His Royal Highness was attended by the Marquis of Abercorn, K.G., Groom of the Stole; Mr. George Edward Anson, Treasurer; Lord George Lennox, Lord in Waitinc , ; Captain Francis Seymour, Groom in Waiting ; and Lieut.-Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour, Equerry in Waiting. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty yesterday. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena, took .airings yesterday in the garden of the Palace. The royal dinner party yesterday, at Buckingham Palace, included their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Excellencies Mons. and Madame Van de Weyer, the Lord Chancellor and Lady Cottenhatn, Countess Vilain XIV., Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Baroness de :ipeth, the uke and Duchess of Norfolk and Major A. d'llanins de Moerkerke. _ _ The band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards was in attendance during dinner (under the direction of Mr. J. R. Tutton), at the Palace, and performed the following pieces : Overture and Selection, "Domino Noir "—Auber. Waltz, " OrientaleC—Labitzky. Selection, " Linda de Chamouni "—Donizetti. Die Fanenwacht—Lindpaintner. The Hon. Miss Napier has succeeded the Hon. Miss Devereux as one of the Maids of Honour in Waiting to the Queen. Their Royal Highnesses Prince George and the He reditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz left town yesterday morning for Goodwood. Mr. Andrew Tennant and Mr. Peter Drew, of the North British Bank, Glasgow, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his offi cial residence in Downing-street. The Metropolitan Improvements Commission had a meeting on Wednesday, at the office in Whitehall place. The Commissioners present were Viscount Mor peth, Viscount Canning, the Earl of Lincoln, the Lord Mayor, Mr. Alderman Humpherey, Sir Robert Inglis, Sir Charles Lemon, the Hon. Charles Gore, and Mr. A. Milne. Mr. Murphy, the Mexican Minister, transacted busi ness yesterday at the Foreign-office. Mr. Mayers, agent for Barbadoes, had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office. Mr. Warburton had also an interview with the Noble Earl. The Attorney-General had an interview with Sir G. Grey yesterday at the Foreign-office. CHOLERA IN THE METROPOLIS. The Lord Mayor, in consequence of information his Lordship received publicly from Sir Peter Laurie, im mediately gave directions for the following letter to be sent : " TO THE SECRETARY OF THE NEW RIVER.WATER COMPANY. " Mansion-house, July 30, 1846. " Sir,—l am directed by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor to state that, as chief magistrate of this city, he has recived information that the cholera has made its appearance in some part of the suburbs of London, and that it is, therefore, of urgent importance for the safety of the inhauitants, that every measure which prudence can suggest should be adopted with the utmost prompti tude. Under these circumstances, the Lord Mayor considers it advisable that you should, with the least possible delay, submit to the Board of Directors of the New River Company, the propriety of directing their engineers to let out water during the night, so as tho roughly to flush and clear the several gulleys and drains within their districts, and thereby prevent in a great measure those noxious exhalations in the atmosphere which are constantly emitted from the decayed animal and vegetable matter in the sewers, and which are con sidered by the highest medical authorities the chief cause of the formidable disease above referred to. " I have the honour to be, Sir, " Your obedient servant, " S. R. GOODMAN, Chief Clerk." To which his Lodship received the following answer: " New River Office, July 30, 1846. " Sir,—Your letter of this day's date, by direction of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, came just as the Board had broken up. Be pleased, therefore, to assure his Lordship that I will lose no time in communicating his wishes in the proper quarter, and that every attention will be paid thereto. " I have the honour to be, Sir, "Your most obedient servant, " FREDERICK INGLIS, Clerk. S. R. Goodman. Esq., Chief Clerk, &c." CONSUMPTION OF ARTICLES. The following account, taken from the tables pub lished by the Board of Trade, of the deliveries of the first four months of the present and two preceding years, ending on the sth of May, is important, as providg the increased prosperity of the labouring classes : " The quantity of sugar delivered in the first four months of 1844 was 1,181,747 cwt. ; in the correspond ing months of 1845, 1,496,404 ; and in the present year, 1,617,084 cwt. " The tea consumed in the same periods was respec tively, in 1844, 12,445,527 lb. ; in 1845, 14,191,359 lb. ; and in the present year, 15,214,806 lb. " The coffee entered in 1844 was 9,452,254 lb.; in 1845, 11,757,881 ; and in the present year, 12,121,396 lb. " The currants entered for consumption in 1844 were 71,788 cwt. ; in 1845, 72,269 ; and in the present year, 86,830 cwt. " The eggs entered in 1844 were 24,265,975 ; in 1845, 25,172,480 ; and in the present year, 29,121,067. " The cheese entered in 1844 was 60,865 cwt. ; in 1845, 88,103 ; and in the present year 92,332 cwt." Other articles may be added bearing upon the same point, but enough is above shown to clearly establish the fact that the power of consumption by the aggregate of the population, so far from being diminished or in abeyance, has been progressively in active developement. SALE OF AN ESTATE IN DORSETSIIIRE.—Wednesday at Garraway's, Mr. Alderman Farebrother offered for sale a valuable estate, situated at the western extremity of Dorset• shire, and bounded by the river Axe, about three miles from Axmin3ter. It was divided into several extensive farms. containing nearly 1,000 acres. With this was to be sold the extensive manor of Chardstock, with heriots, quit rents, &c., farmhouses. and lands, the whole about 2,000 acres, many being held by the copyholders, on advanced lives, and extensive commons. The entire property formed about 3,979 acres, yielding rent now payable of about 1,5461. Per annutn; but the estimated annual value of the copyhold estates, for which head rents were paid, was about 2,6991 The first offer was 21,0001., and the highest bidding was 29,900/. ; but at which sum the auctioneer said the property was unsold. MEDICAL MEN AND LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICES.-At the Provincial Medical Association, now meeting at Nor wich, several professional gentlemen complained of having been put to great inconvenience, and injured in their calling, in consequence of the authorities of life assurance offices giving up the confidential communications required from medical practitioners, as to the health of their patients about to effect insurances on their lives. The members present debated the subject of the propriety or impropriety of fur nishing the necessary statements, and eventually resolutions were unanimously adopted, to the effect that the members were of opinion that the insurance offices had no claim what ever on the private medical attendant of any candidate for life assurance for an opinion on the state of his or her health, every office having medical referees of their own, on whose opinion they ought to rely. It was also resolved, that copies of the resolutions should be sent to all the offices for life assurance. DEATH OF A FEMALE IN A SEDAN CHAIR.—On Wed nesday Mr. W. Carter held an inquest at the Cooper's Arms Tavern, Russell-street, Bermondsey, respecting the death of Sarah Kendall, aged 94 years, lately residing at No. 4, White's-gardens, Bermondsey. The deceased was the wife of a Greenwich pensioner, but for some years had been in the receipt of parochial relief. She was very infirm, and had been confined to her bed for the last fortnight in consequence of her bodily weakness. The deceased consented to be re moved to the workhouse of St. Mary Magdalen, Ber mondsey, and on Saturday last the medical officer, Mr. IL T. Tovey, granted a certificate for her removal. About four o'clock four men proceeded to her resi dence with a sedan chair, in which she was placed by her daughter and others. Tbey proceeded with safety to the workhouse, and on opening the door of the sedan chair she was found to be quite insensible. The deceased was carried into the house, and was seen by one of the surgeons, but life was quite extinct. The deceased had died on her way to the workhouse from her extreme age and infirmity of body. The jury being satisfied that every care had been taken by the parochial officers in the removal, unanimously recorded a verdict of" Death from natural causes." . [ADVERTISEMENT.] —A GENTLEMAN EIGHTY YEARS Or AGE CURED OE A vat BAD LEG BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINTMENT,—Mr. Richard Stephen, residing at Saxmundham, Suf folk, had a very bad leg, which he was apprehensive would cost him his life, although attended by an eminent surgeon ; yet the danger became so great that it was deemed necessary to use Holloway's Pills and Ointment under the surgeon's inspection. By these cele brated remedies alone a perfect cure was effected in a few weeks. The age of the gentleman makes the cue most extraordinary ; but he is well known, and the fact may be inquired into, as he is even new a clerk to the commissioners of taxes. These medicines are sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 344, Stroud, Loudon. TH IRELAND. DISTRESS IN IRELAND—SIR ROBERT PEEL. DUBLIN, JULY 29.—After the city of Cork grand jury bad been sworn in on Saturday, Mr. BEAMISH, one of the jury, rose to submit for their con sider.aion some resolutions which he had drawn up on a question upon which, he believed, there would be little difference of opinion —viz., the judicious measures taken by the late Government, and the strong apprehensions now en tertained of a similar aid being required from the present Government during the ensuing year. The present salutary state of things was mainly attributable to the large supplies of wholesome and nutritious food distributed amongst the people by the late Government ; and he, therefore, anticipated no opposition to his resolutions. Whatever some people might have said as to the exaggeration of the potato disease, and who consequently stigmatised the measures of the late Government, no persons would deny that if those supplies of food had not been introduced into the country, the price of the ordinary food of the people would have risen to an alarm ing height.—(Hear, hear.) This he conceived to be a con clusive reply to the sneers of those who, for interested pur poses, would make light of the potato disease; and he also trusted it would be considered a conclusive argument for the gentlemen of the grand jury adopting the resolutions which he was about to propose.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) " Resolved unanimously, That the sincere and grateful acknowledgments of the Grand Jury of the city of Cork be respectfully presented to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel and the members of her Majesty's late Government, for the timely aid afforded to the distressed population of Ireland during the period when a deficiency of their ordi nary food threatened them with serious privations; but which the wise arrangements of the Government, aided by the generous exertions of our benevolent citizens -and other charitable individuals, have, under a benificent Providence, happily averted, and the beneficial effects of which may be traced in the diminution of disease, the lightness of the criminal calendar, and the peaceful demeanour of the people. " That having too much reason to apprehend a similar cause for the active agency of the Government during the ensuing year, we would respectfully direct the attention of her Majesty's present Government to the impending cala• mity, and respectfully suggest that extensive employment for the labouring classes by the construction of useful public works is the best means adapted to alleviate the privations and distress which must otherwise invariably follow a defi ciency in their ordinary food. " That copies of the foregoing resolutions be forwarded by the Chairman to the tight Honourable Sir Robert Peel, as also to Lord John Russell." Mr. SPEARING seconded the resolutions, which were car ried unanimously. Mr. SEWARD said, that if it were not for the aid of the Government there would have been nothing but starvation throughout the country. Mr. BEAMISH remarked, that though nearly 200,000 sacks of meal had been taken from the Cork depot alone, the price of potatoes in the market that day was exactly 100 per cent. higher than last year. COUNTY OF KILKENNY ELECTION. KILKENNY, WEDNESDAY.—Mr. Richard Smithwick re pealer, was this day elected for the county of Kilkenny, in the room of the late Colonel Butler. ADDRESS TO THE LORD-LIEUTENANT. The requisition calling a meeting of the nobility and gentry of Kilkenny county, to address the Lord-Lieutenant, of all parties, in that county, includes the name of Mr. John O'Connell, M.P. for the city of Kilkenny. An abstract of the following report appeared in The Sun of yesterday REPEAL ASSOCIATION ADJOURNED MEETING, YESTERDAY. WITHDRAWAL OF MP.. SMITH O'BRIEN AND THE YOUNG IRELAND PARTY. Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL (in continuation) proceeded to de monstrate the dangerous tendency of certain articles in the Nation, and which, if passed over by the Association, might possibly compromise its very existence. His father had pointed out these articles in committee, and it was therefore needless for him to produce them then. What was the au thority quoted by the Nation as stimulating them to go on in advance of O'Connell? No one less than the blood-stained miscreant of the French Revolution, Danton. But they would nct adopt his principles ; and those who wrote for the Nation should instruct themselves in the school of peace, before they undertook to instruct others. Mr. O'Connell would accomplish his objects by moral force alone — A Voice—Hurrah for Dan ! _ . A tremendous cheer was here given, the audience rising, and cheering Mr. O'Connell's name with great enthusiasm. The Lord Mayor called for " one cheer more," and another was given, louder than any which had preceded it. Mr. J. O'CONNELL then concluded his address, which oc cupied more than two hours in the delivery, by asserting what he had already stated, that he should protest against the Nation, and that in his opinion and judgment it would be unsafe for the Association to be any longer connected with a newspaper which promulgated such pernicious doc trines. Mr. Mrrcneer. (of the Nation) then proceeded to answer the " indictment' preferred against that journal by Mr. John O'Connell, and concluded his observations (which were frequently interrupted) by asking whether every member of the Association was not entitled to the free exercise of his own opinion, save and except on the question of repeal. No one could ever dream of opposing 'Va.. O'Connell in what he (Mr. Mitchell) might call his own association; but if he were compelled to withdraw himself from it he would struggle in any field that might be left open to him for the redemption of his country. Mr. STEELE said it was impossible to expect that tran quillity could be restored in the disturbed districts of Ire land if such pernicious doctrines as those contained in the Nation were allowed to be disseminated. Mr. Mitchell had said " that no one thought they wanted to excite war;" but as he (Mr. Steele) knew what was lurking in the abyss of his mind, and in young Mr. O'Gorman's mind—it had been avowed by Mr. Meagher—he would put to them a test; he would ask them would they make a solemn ad juration that in no case, or under no contingency, except that of being attacked, did they meditate a recourse to physical violence.—(Cheers.) He would call for that test, and if they shrunk from it, he would tell them, with all manner of private respect, the sooner they retire the better, for they were not with them.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Steele then proceeded to show that good effects would prevail from moral force alone, and called on the meeting to place reli ance in Mr. O'Connell, who would be able, when England was in difficulty and needed their assistance, to make his own terms for Ireland.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. MEAGIIER then rose, and said he cordially con curred in the sentiments of Mr. Mitchell, that the most comprehensive measures that a Whig Administration could bestow upon the country would fail to elevate it to that position which it had a right to occupy and the power to maintain. The Whig Ministry could improve the province, but could not restore the nation; franchises, liberal ap pointments, tenant compensation Bills, and equal justice, as it was called, might ameliorate, but would not exalt. They might meet the necessities, but would not call forth the abilities of the country. They might repair the evils of the past, but could not realise the anticipations of the future. With a vote in one pocket, a lease in the other, and full justice before him in the shape of a restored magis trate, the humblest peasant might be regarded as a freeman, but he would not have the characteristics of a freeman, or the spirit to dare, and the energy to act.—(Cheers.) These were not the crude sentiments of youth, although mere com mercial patriotism might satirise them; for age had uttered them, and the experience of eighty years had preached them to the people.—(Cheers.) A few weeks since stood in the Queen's Bench an old and venerable man, to teach the country the lessons he had learned beneath the portico of the Irish Senate-house, and which he treasured up in his heart as the costliest legacy which any citizen could be queath to the land that gave him birth.—(Cheers. A voice —He voted against O'Connell.) He cared net if Mr. Holmes had given a Conservative vote; he had national sentiments and aspirations.—(Cheers.) The speaker then quoted pas sages from the speech of Mr. Holmes to which he referred, and continued—A new Government might redress griev ances, but it was a strong people alone that could raise up a great nation.—(Cheers.) A slight interruption here took place. Mr. MEAcnasu then proceeded. He was glad of the in terruption, because it had given him an opportunity of say ing that anything he had to say he would say there that day, and because he conceived that the issue which the Hon. Member for Kilkenny so pointedly insisted upon would soon come to hand, and he perhaps would not have again the honour of meeting them in that hall. He then went on to say, that modern politicians seemed to think that when the pacification of the country took place, there would be an end to repeal.—(Cries of" Name.") Captain BRODERICK called upon Mr. Meagher to name to whom he referred, and added, that he ought to keep to the point, and not come there to make displays of oratory. Mr. O'Baius here rose, amidst loud cheers. He should say one word with great xeluctance. Mr. John O'Connell had addressed the assembly for upwards of two hours without any interruption. It would, therefore, be much better that every gentleman should be allowed to proceed with his line of argument in the manner that presented itself to his mind, and that those who differed in opinion with him should reply to him.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. MEAGIIER then proceeded. He drew attention to the vagueness of Lord John Russell's promise to ameliorate the condition of the people, in which he said that the Ministry considered the social grievances of Ireland to be the most prominent, and they would afford some remedy, some kind of improvement, some kind of hope that in ten or twelve years hence this country would be in a better state than at present. After that consolatory declaration let those who had the patience of Job and the poverty of Lazarus wait upon Providence and the Whigs—(Cheers)—but let those whose hearts and minds had not been =penalised continue to undo that work which forty-eight years ago knocked down the independence of the country, dishonoured the ancient peerage of Ireland, and reduced the country to servitude.—(Cheers.) Let him not be told that he was ungrateful for the services of that great man, O'Connell, to whom they were so much indebted. He never before thought it necessary to say so much. He hated unneces sary praise, and he scorned to receive or bestow it (Cheers.) It was he who struck the fetters from his hands when he was a child, and by his influence his father was the first Catholic who for 200 years sat in the civic chair of an ancient city--(Cheers)—but the same God that gave that great man the power to annihilate an old and odious ascendancy, gave to him a mind of his own to make use of, but not to surrender.—(Cheers.) It was in the exercise of that right and privilege that he appeared there that day, and stood up in defence of his friend, Charles Gavan Duffy, who suffered for them and with their leader in Richmond prison,—(Cheers.) He begged to say that he had no more connexion with the Nation newspaper then be had with the hear.) He believed that the character of the Nation was above suspicion, as he knew that • the ability with which it was conducted had won European fame ; nay, more, he believed that the people would not ratify the censure which had been pronounced upon it that day in that hall.—(Great cheering.) He confessed that, in the present circumstances of the country, an appeal to arms would be not only senseless but wicked ; to talk of repealing the union by force was to poetize. He was for the peaceful policy of that Association ; it was the only policy they should adopt, and he did firmly believe that If it were worked out with truth and earnestness it would ultimately end in the attainment of their glorious object : but he dissented from the resolutions. He did not concur in the opinion that no political amelioration was worth a drop of blood. He did conceive that there were. ameliorations which were worth more than many drops of blood.—(No, no.) He was not stating their opinions ; he was merely stating his own.—( Hear, hear.) He did conceive that there were occasions when the weaponed arm of the patriot should ,prevail against battalioned despotisui.— (Cheers.) From the day in which the Almighty nerved the arm of the Jewish girl to smite the drunken tyrant in his tent, to the rtsur in which ha blessed the insurgent chivalry of the Belgian priesthood, his protecting arm was stretched forth to consecrate the flag of freedom, and 'to ble'r,S the patriot's sword. Be it in the defence or assertion of a na tion's liberty, he looked upon the sword as a sacred weapon —(Dissent)—and if it had reddened the shroud of the op pressor, it had at other times blossomed into flowers to deck the freeman's brow.—(Cheers.) Abhor and stigmatise the sword ! No. Remember that it cut in pieces the banners of Bavaria in the passes of the Tyrol, and that a nation, a great nation, sprung up by its magical influence from the waters of the Atlantic, wad colonies became a daring free . , republic! Abhcfr and stigmatise the sword! Not , . -11:4 ` it scourged the Dutch. He had learnt its power, and t hat it was the right of nations to govern themselves, while hers ' timd upon the ramparts of Antwerp where liberty was HO '' „ Y appreciated, and its possession was purchased by an et re sion of noble and generous blood. Abhor and stigmatise A le sword! No. Mr. Join , / O'CONNELL rose to order. He had several time checked his desire, which he felt to be stron g, of interruptinA the eloquent speaker during the latter - portion of his speech, because he had said to himself that although these were dan gerous doctrines, which should not even bespoken in that as sembly, that he would perhaps qualify or modity his senti ments. He did not think that he was wrong in saying, that instead of modifying his expressions, he had increased them in vigour and violence.—(Cheers.) It was to him a source of the deepest annoyance that he was obliged to interrupt him, but at the same time the deepest conviction upon his soul was, that such lancruige was not safe.—(Cheers . ) He feared iat the time had come when the test should be aye or no.—(Cheers.) The expression of such sentiments coming from so gifted and talented an individual was the more dan gerous. He thought that the time had come to the point — yes or no? He could act upon the point of form that the man who denied assent to the resolutions adopted on Mon day week was ipso facto no longer a member, but he did not wish to press a point of form upon so serious and sad an oc casion ; but for the safety of the Association, if there was a doubt about it.—(A voice—There is no doubt) —the better way would be to put the question.—(Cheers.) It WM sug gested that the resolutions put in that Association should be maintaineJ.. He was in a puzzle how to act, but there watt; no puzzle abo•ut this, that the language just uttered by Mr.. Meagher could is of be safely listened to by the Association — (Cheers)—and that the sentiments which he had avowed were sentiments diroctly and diametrically opposed to the sentiments of the founder of the Association; there fore, either he or Mo. Meazher should ceas.t to be a member of that Associatio.7. If the meeting were oPPos.e" to him (Mr. John O'Connell , he would leave the Associa tion ; but the time had come ws_en'either he or Mr. M: Nagher should cease to be connected witii it, for he could not con tinue in the same Association with hi.n after the utters tics of such sentiments. Captain BRODERICK—Nor can I remain any longer.— (Cheers.) Mr. STEELE—Nor I.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Salmi O'BRIEN then rose and said—l am afraid that the alternative presented to us is of such a nature as neces sarily to compel a termination of this discussion, but I can not allow the meeting to separate without expressing my opinion of the course that has been pursued towards Mr. Meagher in his fair and legitimate argument.— (Cheers, and confusion.) We have been invited here for the purpose of deliberately considering whether any gentleman can con tinue a member who entertains the ppiuion that there are occasions on which nations must of necessity have recourse to arms for liberty. Mr. Meagher advocNes peaceful means, but neither he nor I consider, when invited to discuss a. question, that we are not at liberty to state 011 t opinions in vindication of the sentiments that have been arraigned.— (Cheers and confusion.) You should well consider this, for this day produces an event in history. You are charged with never giving fair play to an adversary. You are charged with being slaves to any despot who holds the reins. —(Loud cries of a No, no," and confusion.) It is not my opinion, and I should designate as a traitor the man that said so; but are you going to justify that opinion by putting down a man who is dispassionately discussing a question to which he has been invited? If the discussion is to terminate,. I shall have the satisfaction of having recorded my protest against the manner in which Mr. Meagher has been put down by Mr. John O'Connell.—(Cheers.) Mr. J. O'CONNELL—The question is not, as Mr. O'Brien states, whether a young man shall be put down, but the real question is, shall a young man put down the Association-- (Cheers)—for Ido declare ,it is my firm conviction that his language was most dangerous. We have not invited this discussion—it has arisen accidentally. There were certain resolutions on the books, which were based on the opinions of the founder of the Association. If gentlemen entertained different opinions let them drive him twit from amongst them. —(Loud cheers, and cries of "O'Connell for ever.") The question was, would the Association stand by those resolu tions or adopt another leader? Great cheering, accompanied by groans and hisses, fol lowed this declaration, and a scene of the u tmost contusion • ensued, during which Mr. Smith O'Brien, accompanied by Mr. Meagher, Mr. Mitchell, and all the me. - ca era of the " Youg Ireland" party present, left the hall. •.:rh eir depot , ' tore was the signal for an enthusiatic burst of .`applause from the supporters of Mr. O'Connell, which was, how ever, immediately suppressed by that gentleman. % When silence was somewhat restored, Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL said—lt is no source of joy to me; that we have witnessed this departure. There cannot be a feeling of triumph—there cannot be one single pleasurable feeling in my heart at witnessing the loss to the Association of such a man as Smith O'Brien—at witnessing the depar ture of those excellent men from amongst us. I know the country will deplore it, and I know - the country will hold me blameless when it believes that I NYould rather give my life's blood than risk the loss of such a man, and the men who went with him. This is not s time to speak it is a time to weep. Let us, then, retire from this hall to mourn over the loss we h,ave sustained.. Let us not think of meeting till Monday next, when. I hoe Mr. O'Connell will be here to try tai repair the breach that has inevitably occurred. But I do im plore those kind friends who have cheered me to-Cf.sy to' use no angry word—no term of insult or reproach temarde the men who have now left us. Conciliation and peace are our mottoes, even with our enemies. Should it not be so sith our friends? We deplore their loss, but we will not increase the bitterness of our hearts by using towards them one single term of reproach, or exhibiting any feeling of triumph. Mr. J. A. O'NEILL then addressed the meeting, deploring the course pursued by Mr. O'Brien and his friends, and eulogising Mr. O'Connell's conduct • after which he was called to the chair, and a vote of thanks passed to the Lord Mayor. The meeting then (at :ix o'clock) adjontsezi until Monday next. RAILWAY SIiARE MARKETS. MANCHESTER, JILT 30. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate, Nottinhanit he • 1% dis.-Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool, 1% dis.-13...". 1 .,, uurn Darwen, and Bolton, New, 7-16 dis. - Cambridge and Oxford, tu"•- Derby and Crewe, 4 3-16 p.-Direct Northern, % dis.-East Wm"' shire, 6% p.-East Lincolnshire, dis.-Edinburgh and GlasfW w , o Halves, 8% p.-Exeter and Exmouth, 9s. 6d. dis.-Fleetwoot._• Preston, and West Riding, Its. dis.-Grand Union, 14s. 6d. dia. Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bedford, 2% p.-Huddersfield and Man chester Railway and Canal, I t c. p.-Ditto, Extension, 3 p.-Lara. cashire and North Yorkshire, 14 dls.-Leicester and Bedford, dls.-Leicester, Birmingham, and 'Trent Valley Junction, 19a. dia. Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 1% p.-Liverpool, Manchester, and Southport, % dis.-North British, Carlisle Branch, 2% p.-North Staffordshire, 3% p.-North Union, 154 - Oldham Districts, 1% dia.- Oldham, Birkenhead, &c., 3.16 tits.- Preston and Wyre, 35%-Ditto. Halves (A), 5 p.-Preston and Wyre Extension, 11. 9s. dis.-Shef field and Lincolnshire Junction, 3-16 dis.-Sheffield and Manchester,. Quarters, N 0.3, p.-Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 5-16 p.-Shrop.-- shire Union Railway and Canal, 1 3-16 dis.-Sou stern and Dover, Halves, No. 4, 15-16 IL-South Midland, , Riding Union, 2 7-16 p.-Whitehaven and Furness, - 5 , LEEDS, JULY 30. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Blackburn L , ton, 614 p.-Eastern Counties, York Extension, 28s. p.-E Tuicashirthr p.-Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 2 dis.-Ditto, Extensions,. 325. dis.-Iluddersfield and Manchester, 2 p.-Ditto, Exensions, bs. p.-Huddersfield and Sheffield, 7 k 5 p. cash-Leeds and Bradford, 46% p.-Leeds and Dewsbury, 4 p.-Ditto, Extensions, 68. 6d. dis.-Leedo p.-Ditto, Extensions, 2 1 .4 p.-Newcastle and Berw ick, 13% P.- and Thirsk, New, 3% dis.-Mauchester and Leeds, Fifth Shares, 8% Newcastle and Darlington Junction Extensions, 10141 p Nortla British, Half Shares, 5% p.-Ditto, Carlisle Branch , 445. p.-South .- Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 175. 6d. p.-York and North Midland, East and West Riding, 12. 4 ,1 p. -Ambergate, Nottingham, and Bos ton, 1% dis.-Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham, 17s. dis.-Direct• Northern, 75 dis.-East and West Yorkshire, 331. dis.-Glasgow and' Dumfries, 15s. chs.-Great Eastern and Western, 295. Gd. dis.- Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North Eastern, 425. dis.-Leicester and Bedford, 13s. dis.-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 235. p.-Lon don and York, 7s. 6d. dts.-Ditto, Half Shares, 114 dis.-London and Portsmouth, 17s. Gd. p. -.Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, lost Midland, 15s. p.-North Sttafordshire, 3% p.-North Western, 10- dis. -South Midland, 13s. Gd. p. -west Riding Union, 41. 10s, 6d. 11ULi„ JULY 30. STOCK ExcitatioE.—The sales are —North British, Carlisle Branch, 67s.—York and North Midland, East and West Riding, 13—Black burn, Darwen, and Belton, 6 - Ambergate, Nottingham, and Bos ton, 262.—Direct Northern, 325. 6d.—Leicester and liedlord, 85. 6d. —London and York, 345. bd.—London and 3lanchesteg (Rem). 93. —Malton and Datil eld Junction, 475. 6d.—Mancli ester, Bu/ti;nl. IM at lock, and Midland, 3/. Os. tid.—North Western, 235. —North Stat . . fordshire, 5/. 15s bd.—South Midland, 12s. p.—Sheffield, Potteriee, and-Crewe, 17s. 3d.— West Riding Union, 41. 14s .6d.— Sou ih-EastCrit, No. 4, p. SHEFFIELD, Juts 20 STOCK ExcitatioL.-The sales are Newcastle and Darlington Junction, New, 10%-York and North blidland, East and West Riding, 121. i- Grimsby and Sheilieli, Extension, 21,5. dis Ditto, Railway and Dock, 2 dis.- Huddersfield and Manchester Extension, ss. p.-Newcastle and Berwick, 28% -Derby and Crewe, 4 1 4 p.- East Lincolnshire.. 19s. 6d. dis.-Grand Union (Nottingham and Lynn), 14s. 3d. dis.-North Western. 1 p.-South Midland, % p. YORK. JULY 30. STOCK' EICIIAmoK.-The sales are Ipswich and Bury Extension (Norwich), London and York, 11. 165.-,'t;al cheater, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 21. 178.-;Newc,th. ; I'd Berwick, 27%- Newcastle and Darlington, New, ill. 3s 9d.-North British, Car lisle Ext,nsion, 31. 68. Staffordshire, 51. 138.-Nortls Western, 1/. 2s. -West Riding Union, 41. 1 is.-York and .North land, East and West Riding Exto 13/.65. 3d. .11. - LY 29. STOCK EXCHANoa. -The es are- Airdrie and .latligate,66V- Bimffshire, 155.-Bridge of 495.-British and Irish Union FF .: -Direct Northern, 31s. I .1461 bi , :mn d Ayr, 75/.-Glas-• -Caledonial Extet.sion, 325.- CaledoniK.aliDiwirzt Northern, 403 Gd_ 37r. -Glasgow , Kilmarnock, and A. gow, Damages. - and Carlisle . lee Junction, 335.-Kilmarnock and Belfast Union, 435. 3d. -Glasgow, Kilmarnock , an 9sG • lasg _ an .. d : drossan, 295. -Glasgow and Bunt aBNII4O-. juS4n,ecOtatitloissnh:_Gnsorsat.in_thd Ayr Direct, 358.-Larne, BLlgast, and Ballymena, JOS.-Manchester ), and Southampton, 275.-Scottish Central, Cin sd. tr a a ct l, ai N ieds e lo w . -Scottish 335.- South-Eastern til l -I n a ' st e l () r a n . Midland, 525. Cid. SAIX OF THE KEAitNSEY ESTATE, DOVER. -- Yes terday, at Garraway's, the Kearnsey estate, situated near Dover, was disposed of by auction, by Mr. Leifcbild, tho property having been formerly in the possession of Mr. J. Minet Factor, merchant, of Dover. The estate consisted of about 938 acres, and was divided into several farms, all of hich, together with the wood and timber, were to be pe remptorily sold. There were seventeen lots. The first con sisted of the family mansion of Kearnsey Abbey, and 112 acres of arable and meadow lands, &c., and including 40 acres of woods and plantations. This went for 9,200/. Lot 10, the manor of Kearnsey Court, with its manorial rights, privileges, and quit-rents, and about 280 acres, was sold for 8,2501. The whole estate was disposed of for 35,660/. There was an active competition for the various lots. ConDEN TESTIMONIAL AND THE Right Hon. Lord John Russell has sent 1001, BEtOMithE— eß. h Cobden testimonial. THE WATERMEN'S PIER, GREENWICH.--The war in respect to the Watermen's Pier, at Greenwich, appears likely to be carriell'on with great spirit, as, although on Tuesday evening, and yesterday morning, the embarkation was effected at a gangway a few yards above Garden-stairs, yet at high water yesterday, directions having been previously sent from head-quarters, the men in the employ of the Watermen's Company brought back from the middle of the stream the dumb lighters which formed the old floating pier at Garden-stairs, and, placing them in their original position, at five o'clock the gangways were in combination with the stairs, and passengers were embarking and re-embarking as usual. Several of the inhabitants of Greenwich have taken up the cause, and a requisition on the subject having been pre.,ented to the lligh Constable, he has convened a borough meeting to consider the matter, which is to be held in OA Lecture-hall this evening. It is said that the embankment Wrea, near Carlisle, on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, is from seventy to eighty feet in height. There have from time to time been several clippings on this embankment, in consequence of which it has lately been upheld by a sub: t antic] wooden frame work ; but it is yet in so unsatisfactory a state that the pro priety Of having the whole of the framing moresecarely fixed previoo.s to the opening of the railway has been recommendol by a contemporary to the notice of the directors.— Cumbet. land racquet. PETWORTH WOOL FAIR, SIISSEX. — This annual wool fair was held yesterday. A very large quantity of wool was brought in. The fair was well attended with buyers, and business was rather lively. The average, price of wool was 30s. per to , , which is a trifling increase on the general price of this ear's produce. 4onte fleeces of short-woolled sheep made l3ld. per lb. ; an a sample of wool shorn off come Southdown, waters wgc336. per rod, u i hundred fleeces, - • / / t _-.,,.~