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turns, that, in 1824 and in 1825, advertisements were put firth from Maecteetield, stating that an immense num ber of new silk tnilis had been started, and that the pro. prietors wire ready to give employment to several thousand hands ; and from the report of the Commis. sioners . appointed to inquire into the state of the -metiufacturirig districts, it would be seen that in 1844 there was a scarcity .of hands in the silk trade of Derbyshire, and a consequent increase in the wages of artisans. The Hon. Member for Macclesfield suggi steel that the Government ought to treat silk ma nufactures as luxuries, only, to be used by the rich, and piece duties upt e n them with a view. to revenue.. Now, the Hen, Member forgot -that even under the present low rate of duty the law was evaded with impunity, and he could assure the lion. Member that there would be as - eneueli revenue derived from the duty now pacipesed as any that could posSibly result from the imposition of he mier restrictions. - Under these circumienices he hoped that the House would have no objection whatever to the measure propoied. by his Reek II ea Friend. .Hon. Members had brought forward the' cae...of silk, to show that that trade had been injured by the. removal of protection, but le hoped he had shown that. they had not made out their ca•se, lle hoped, thee, that the amendment which had been props sod would not be adopted, and that the mea sures propistal be the Government would be passed by a terge enijori te e Mr. NEWDEGATE rose for the purpose of rebut ting eieae *tat. talents which had been made by the Right Hon. Gentleman .who had just sat down, with r .p• et to the present state of the silk trade in Co vetory. The. Right Ilen.,Baronet had referred to the evielteic s which hid been taken before a Committee of that 110 iu the year 1832, with regard to the state oF the silk trade, hut he had misquoted the statement o fiefs, as then given. It was clearly shown before tee Me ',hers of tenet Committee, that after the re moval of protection. trade was injured in the most material manlier. The Right Honourable Baronet, in the coarse of his argument, referred to the increased numbs'. of spilidlee. There was no doubt there had be• n an increase in the number of .pividles used in that trade. But h. (M:r. Newdegete) did not think that that was a proof that a cerresponding increase in wages had been the result. He (Sir George Clerk) confirm( d his statements, which they had heard from the Hon. Mem ber for Macclesfield, namely, that there had been a great reduction in wages.--(Proteationist cheers.) The Hon. Member for Leicester had asked how it was possible that that trade was able to Compete with foreigners whilst. their wages were high ? It was, because they worked harder, and he (Mr. Newdegate) thought that that was a sufficient anew. rto his eiention. They em ployed improved machinery, and they We're able to compete with the foreigners by dint of increased exer tion. Had they not evidence before them of the increased exertion of the silk manufacturers of this country ? And his was proud to say that, in his own local district, Coventry, notwithstanding the present - heavy rents, heavy taxation, and all sorts of increased expenses to which the labourersof this country were liable, he gave proofed' this energy by the .fact that under all the dis advantages. in comparison with his adversaries, he was yet able succesefully to compite with them.—(Hear.) And whit did they infer-from this? They inferred from this state of things, that trade was flourishing. Granted —what better,rsason could ... there be for not persisting in this measure ?—(Protectienist cheers.) And then he would advert to cite point a hich had been touched by the lion. Member for Leicestershire. He made a state ment, from-which it was clear that the result of this measure would-be the reduction of the operatives' wages. He did not 'wish to detain the House much longer. But he wished to advert for a few minutes to the statement of the Hon. Member for Macclesfield. .He held in his hand in abstract, which clearly showed that both the importation of the raw material as well as manufactured silk,. had • decriased ' since the removal of protective duties' it 'least 25/. per cent. They had clearly shown that the inevitable result of the carrying out the free-- trade principlee was the reduction of wages, and if this measure were passed, they .would still further increase the distress of the ,working classes. The Right Hon. Baronet had deelt much - upon the d:flicultiee of collect ing protective duties. He (Mr. Newdegate);did not wonder at' that. Ile himself had to coreplain that the leening of-the officers engaged in the collection of those, dare severe , eo • much in favour of free trarie—(Loud cheers from the protectionists) —that they could riot dee tingeish tweeti etriped goods from plain ; and in many cases e IneSer the gpods were figured or plain. Up to this very, tune striped' `ribbons wore aczwelly received, as Whitt ribleins. It was 'not . wenderful that the duty was not:yeller:fed as it should be, when snob practices were sanetioned. Ile had made application himself to: her Mejestv's Government to appoint more qualified men. but gia application had always been unsuccessful. TheGovertiment always complained that the duty did net come iii, read yet they did nothing to remedy the evils of which die complained. He really thought that if the officers 'of - the Custom-house did not look so much to rr.akiug out cases for the adoption of free traie, which now appeared to be so great a favourite with the leaders of the House, they would per form their duty much more faithfully. He would conclude' by repeating, that the greatest possible exertions lied been made in Coventry and the adjoining district, with which e he was intimately acquainted, which stio wed that the statement of the Hen. Member for Lei ceeter were incorrect. He (Mr. Newdegate) prayed that if they were about to reduce protection to agriculture, and produce pressure upon the agricultural Members of this constituency, they would not - add to the difficulties by the retrieval of protection from the labours in which the maatinfacturing portion of the constituency were em ploy ed.' 'He was sorry to see the false feeling for con sistency, a hich formed the greatest plea on this occasion for the GovernMent and their supporters. Mr. B. HAWES attached very considerable import. ance to, and he was, therefore, sorry to see the effects of the delay which had taken place in this discussion.. Aird yet he did Mot at all complain of this delay. , On. the contrary, he rather rejoiced in this discussion than otherwise, inasmuch as, though it seemed to him some most inconvenient argumerits -had• been brought forward the mea,ures adopted-by the Right Honourable Baronet would undoubteitly • tend -to the general prosperity of, this country. But' he looked forward that night he owned with very considerable -interest to the result I , f that discussion, because he expected that the challenge of the Right Hon. Gentleman; would bemet upon a simple question.' Ile (the Right Hen. Baronet) had challenged , n. Gentlemen oeposite,•who were opposed to his mea sures, to show one single instance in which either the producer or - the consumer had been injured by a gradual relaxation of those duties. And he (Mr. Hawes) did presume therefore that in the course.of this debate they should have had some evidence to show they had retro gaded, and that the consumer had derived 119 benefit by the relaxation of duties upon trade. At present he owned that he had no fee s to lay before the House upon this question. The Hon. Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Brockchtiret) had talked about revenue. Why the revenue had been impaired by the redaction of the pro- . ctive dull. s, and the c insequence was the increase of the general trade of the country. But he was prepared to a-Is' lion. Gentlemen opposite .who opposed this measure whether they were prepared to go upon the present - iinPort of the raw material. or the amount of ex p rtr if the manufeeturedwirtiele? Oa which would they s•,tal ? lie would rake them on the one or the other. lie w e s prepared t prove that the import hail lareeiv increased, and that the export of the manuacturcel ar • ti hail else great:y irrereased. Dill lion. Gentlemen reeelleet the arguments teat were used at the time that Mr. Ileskision introduced his measure? That argument %:.a =u it as he (Mr. El %wee) was at presentpreperea to tree. But how stoiel the fact, as laid before them in the paper, pi teed upon the• table' of the Rouen? If they could not show Olt exports had declined, and if, on the contrary, it eiml l be proved that- consumption has increased, 'he would call them to show how their manufacaires hal decline-I. tie had heard that the wages of the hiperativie - bad materially declined since the con -test with the foreign manufacturer. It was not quite clear that such was the fact, but he was quite willing to admit that wages for hundlootu weaving had seriously diminished. But what was that owing to? He woul show that it was under the influence of protection tha wages had fallen. He could show, from conclusive evi dence, provided trade was differently conducted, the higher wages would be paid to the workmen tha were now. In the report which had been mad by the C. immission, instituted to inquire int, _the calves of manufacturing. distress—that din tress was not attributed to foreign competition but to the competition of one manufacturer with Mt other, and the total want of economy in tht conduct of the trade. He did not wish the Hown v.) rely on . his „authority, and he • would therefore refer to what was stated by Ma iggeei lice, the Commissioner appointed, to examine into thesis facts. He stated that worktnetesuffer a mate rial lo'zs of time iti having to go for their work and to re i t l e , r ‘ r . n• again to their houses ; and that h e f oun d th w .e train were: joined together in the manufector • systern thrt _wages increased from f o ur a nd fiv_e e e et • toen and eighteen shillings a reel. le e dist►illind, therefere say that there was no trade so mit chievohely protected, or that suffered so much as . Ott . silk trade. Mr. Deacon flume was that not hisan interests pariy, and lid had a right tostatemen s we-e accurate. He contended that the challenge oft e Bight Honourable Gentleman opposae had been produce was not injured e g i c u r l ; anewered, and the place in the protecteite I ,e; rtion which had already taken dare,;... • - Mr. BROCKLEHURST explained. Mr. A DDERLEY appealed to the House whet,l4r :the principles upon which they supported protection io agriculture at all applied to the questiou before Or Howe. He received a letter from one of his consti tuents in Lecke, which stated- that he, and those manu facturers with whom he hal converseJ, apprehended au iejary from - the contemplated alterations proposed the Right lion. Baronet. Under these circumstances he coubl not consent to support the amendment. • Mr. ELLIS was of opinion that it was always neces• nary to consider well those measures which had for their o`ject any alteration in the silk duties. That had ben hip .opinion at fir.,t, and it was his opinion now. ..They had first made a slight redu :tion, and- they now. proposed . comparathely to remove the protective duty. His cin . btituenti had instructed him to express their doubts as to the result of the reduction on silk.—(Hear, hear.) Yet they were of opinion thatit was better,the_alteration eli .;old take place, than to continue a protection' hich did not secure them against the inroads of the smuggler. . lie as afraid that the silk manufacture would be itOto •tter a condition than they-were at the time mentioned by many of. the Hon. Members who had spoken on the decrease of that trade:- Certain classes of the satin and pun ribbons were-fast falling into decay . in the manu• fractures of this country, from the great linprovereents of the foreigners in the manufacture of the articles. The Hoive might n,t km aware that there was a vast compe• with the foreigner in the articles of silk, and . Mher . .nniall articles.. F or this and whet • r fz.7 ,- its - liTlaid.tiolie - Cotfideni.:e . in ails branch - of the YqU PPM 14 4P41? W l4O vi cams ; ING tie; his constituents were so satisfied of the many benefits which would result from the other parts of the .' measure of her Mejesty'e Ministers that they would support the present reduction of duty on silk in the . opinion that the whole-measure would make. up for the • injury likely to result frem . the present question. There *as no Member of that House who had a greater in terest 'n the measure than himself, for his constituents had taken the deepest interest in the measure before the House, and for that reason he would give it his support. Lord G. BENTINCK might say that the - best test of protective or non protective legislation was to be found in the state of wages. An Hon. Member had shown the House how ereatiy the number of epinilles_had been re- , duced, and this in his opinion was an incontrovertible argument in favour of protection to the silk trade. An Hon. Member had 'said that fax 50 years, iii 1816, the silk trade of this country had not more thah doubled, and. that since the reduction of duties, after that Tern:id, it had more than trebled its then amount. Now he did not consider this a_ fair comparison, This wait -•tt comparison made against protection, at a tittle, too,- when Napoleon had the whole silk trade in his hand-- - ---at a time when the trade was in the hands of our enemies—at a time that we were deeply involved in war=-whereas it is well known that that trade depended on peace for its prosperity. Dnring the continuance of the tlutv. it had been pawed to that House that the silk trade had progressed ninety per cent. in the course of six year. Could that be said of it subsequent to the reduction of the duty ?—or. the contrary, it was seen that it had not so increased, while the weges of the operatives hal most materially duniaished.—(llear.) The Hon. Member for Lambeth had said that the trade increased to a very great extent after the reduction of the free trade principle. How the, lioni Mentber would make that out, he (Lord G. Bentieck) was at a loss to account. It surely was not by the evidence adduced by her Majesty's Government in giving their compari sons of the exports and imports of the article of silk ; for while they had given all the exportation of that ma nufacture, they had not given one importation of the amount of silk from India. Now, he found that in the five years,. up .to 1840, the importation of manufactured silk from India was over 25 3 00011e5., and surely this vast amouat of importation should not have been kept back. All this he would contend, for it went to afford strung proof that this country was stilt not in a position to con- tend with France in her silk manufacture, even taking into consideration .the fact of the advantage we had of thirty per cent. The Honourable Member, fur Staford. hod argn d that this country should not in terfere 'in this matter ; , but he (Lord George Bentinek) contended that that was no argument at all, because the statistical facts already adduced, showed beyond all doubt, that the silk trade of this couniry could not com- . pets' with that of France. Coventry could not stand ' against France with a duty of 275., notwithstanding which they were about to reduce. that same duty to 164. —( 11 ear ; hear.) What did the gentlemen who called on him yesterday -till him respecting the rate of wages at Ceventry ? . Why that it would be reduced 20 per cent.—(Oh, oh !) He spoke on the authority of the gentlemen, who assured himahat since 1826 the wages cf- the silk weavers had been reduced 20 per cent. ; and were they going then to grind the unfortunate crea tures more heavily?--(Cries of: "Hear, hear.") The un fortunate people were, formerly allowed to work ,at 'home, surrounded by their families, but of late they were . dragged to the factories.—(Bear, bear.) . By - the measure proposed •. to the house the silk manufacturers and weavers . were not the only par ties that would be affected. They should also look to how the Milliners and dressmakers would be circum-' stanced.---(A laugh.) He could prove that the number of dressmakers, in the kingdom .amounted to 106,000, the 'amount of .proWetion to whom .would be reduced from '2l. 10s. to IL. 10s, a (Hear, hear) , There were in London alone 15,000,deessmakers, and he etiptioa- d they were going to leeee ,these , unhappy. creatures to starve, or take. their chance, because' they could not, come to,. that ,House, and knock, as they were -entitled , to do, at its deers.-- Hear, hear.) These millions had no votes, no influeitce over that Hope, end therefore they were to be left_ tietheir fate. The protectiotenow afforded to, w them es to be reduced to one-fourth of what it now was, and they might starve, or- do what else they . thought fit., Such would be the caultenteuces of the present measure, and there for he askedahe Hoese .ap,pause before .!boy passed it into a law, It. was a , measure , that, would cause the ruin of thousands of pour persons, who %I-tee not, in a po sition de protect theieselvese- and it was to be passed bele coalition of Members of that llouse,,of a most extreordiaitry character. Thepractical effect of these preceedinge would be to cause, thimSands of unfortunate Seihales to be drivento,preetitution to make up for what they werildlose from the operation of measure ; and the consequences would be such as all would have ocea si n to,deplere.—{Heer.), . . : it H. PE EL rose and said, Sir, I hope parties before .p sin g.a judgment on our commercial policy in aepli ca)-ion_. to the silk-trade,. will maturely con sider' the. .facts within their , reachaawill consider before coming to a conclusien, the subject' fairlyand dis , passionately, I : teust you. will take . ..the, opportunity of contrasting, the state of things, not under a system of free- trade, but under a system of protection, with what his been the eondition of . the silk trade since the repeal of prohibitive duties, and, the admission of fureign silks irj . competition with ,domestic produce;; that you will fitrly contrast thie latter period with that previous one In which, :so far as the law was concerned, absolute and unqualified protection existed. You have had the oppor tUnity of leer , ing what tbe effect s. have been resulting from unqualified protecLiou in that most favoured seat of the silk trade —Spitalfields.—(Hear, hear.) There you had complete prohibition ; there you relied on laws that actually not only, imposed a duty that tval" high, but a duty that was absolutely prohibitory. Nov, what has *en the state of things under this much-lauded system? *en you wish me to revert to it ? Doei protection tend to the advantage of the mapufacturing and working lasses, for which you express so much sympathy ? .You talk of the withdrawal of protection, from 'females, as leading ,to prostitution. - What has been the state of t a kings under the. system you, support ? In Spitalfielde, Thile 'that, system was iii. operation, there occurred, en rapid succession, examples of suffering and distress, such as it,will be difficult for you to find' a parallel to elsewhere.—(Heer, hear.) ; In .1826 a letter was written by Mr.. Hile, who was well acquainted with this . trade, . and addressed to Mr. Whitbread, T idling upon him. to make an.appeal to th.: Legislature gainst that state of things then. Six years afterwards, n 1812, such was the state of the distress in Spitalfields, - hat-it-b.ecame necessary to appoint alocal C imrnittee ; nd it is . stated in the report that was made by that ogueittee, that a large. proportion of those who were falled upon :for .the poor-rates were the m selves in n ee d f assistance. The utmost . pittance that could be dealt put to . the e indigent was insufficikt to sup port , existence, .and the distresS became ex treme. fsebscriptione were then raised, and a temporary, nitigatioe was giveh to the existing dis tress. .In the year 1816 it brume necessary to te-ap ipeint. the 'Committee. l'hey, speak particularly or the weavers. .They said that they are inoffensive and quiet in their demeanor ; are, industrious in prosperous times, i and patient iii distress-, In 1816, what ae.s their posi tion ? The Committee said of that class; that two-third, of them were not employed 'wit h,werk to support them - selves„ They said that ehe Committeecim,ird«l i..f . 01 e hundred memhers,, which tiiiinle.e was di , ,il«l into 33 sub-committees, each of which ntidertook one di;trict. They distributed 8561. in - slims of one shiliing and three shillings among 3,66,fienilies, c ietaining 14 400 indivi duals. They said that pauperism was Spreading, and teat all the weavers were in arrear of their rent. The ) were alai in debt ,for the enuruon, necessaries of •life. That was the report of the Co,i.mittee in 1816. Sir Feae-11 Buxton, at a, meeting convened in the city of Len lon, give an account of the state of Spitaqields under .that. system of protection. He said, "We have all been ; .plueated, to . belieive that the necessity of going to the 'workhouse is - the last for the poor to look to, and yet Such is the state of Spitalfields "that the workpopie . .there actually canvass our interest in their favour:" Sir Eovvell . Buxton on that . occasion ' made an appeal to . the ladiei then attending the meet ins, and that . showed how delusive was this ~„ protection. He said; "The. cause' of the distress in Spitalfields is the importation of French goods, and the, wearing thUse French gOods by the ladies of this town ;" and he made a forcible appeal to them, and called upon.theni to discourage contraband trade, which was so :injurious to the working classeS ,of Spitalfields. Now that ,was under a syitem of prohibitory detiei. Let me .cepipare that account of 1816 with the report made by ': Mr; Howell, in October, 1845." Mrc Howell said, in his report, thau t litm was a general scarcity of hands in the silk districts, and that in Consequence there had been a rise in wages; and he had been inlermed that children who only worked half time, could now earn as much as they did before when they worked for ten hours. Now 1 that ta a. coMparison with a time in which you professed i to give absolute protection: I wily ask you by what test ..you will determine the flourishing state of manufactures ? Why it is by the importation . of the raw material. " Oh," but you say, " the raw material in eludes certain descriptions of waste silk, called ' knubs' and ' husks.'" It 'may not suit refined lips to use such tetins, but it must be remembered that your skill and capital concert these things into . very beautiful fabrics. —(Bear, hear:) You greatly increase the value of that material. What was the reason Mr. Huskissen did not take the advice of the Hon. Member for Macclesfield ? Why, ,figures AO facts induced him to reject it. In 1819, or 1820,the quantity of raw silk entered for home consumption was about 1,300,000 lbs. From 1814 to 1823—1 afn speaking now of raw silk, rejecting alto gether the waste silk—on the average of ten years, the annual consumption was 1,521,000 lbs. Mr. Huskisson, therefore, stibstitnted a 7rtUderate duty for the then .existing duty, which amounted to prohibition. And ha was the result ? Why, the average consuinption of raw silk, from 1834 to 1843, had risen from 1,621,000 to 3 74') 000 1 of ihe-,lb-4. This, therefore, exhibits the wisdom . eet u n r , ,u t e f ; troisa b ni r tmehae Mr. Huskisson.—(Hear.) si course tti e abuse N° has been thrown gGaoinvsetrnitm?entCfoonrsaitdteermabplte. . an e ( a i siire, but from the trade at the v to injure the trade by itself I hear no accusations per rent,,nture to f say that if Coventry felt real alarm reduction Cov e tr protection from 3O per cent. to 15 pendence and intelligence enough to make lou y d al'' represen tations against us: Coventry, however, argues that it is not a proposal simply and abstractedly to diminish the duty on silk. No, Coventry connects with th e re d uct i on of the duty on silk - the 'total reduction of the duties on beef, the admission of maize free of duty, and the great reduction that will be made upon articles of clothing a n d food generally. :Looking at it in . that point of view they ' are perfectly content with the measure. I am supported in this opinion by what has recently taken place at Leek. My Honourable Friend the Member for Staffordshire says, be went there as a thprowth protectionist, but to his great surprise, he was told by the people of Leek that, although they hal a silk manufactory - , they were perfectly ,content with the Measure of the Government - Nocvitti regar:l to Macclesfield—it istrue-i petition has. 624 pieett - eci from 2:04 dela agaiuot liaopeiteuro,, but in the letter Which accompainied that petition, I am in formed that the people of Macclesfield are perfectly content to have some reduction of the protective 'ditty on silk— that Macclesfield would •be cont nt with a - reduction from 30 to 20 per cent s _ Now, we propoie 13 per cent. There is only therefore a difference of 5 per cent. be- - tween our opinion, and the opinion of the people of ,Macclesfield. Spitalfit Ids comes next, and I cannot 'say that I have received many representations against it ,from Spitalfields:. Connecting it with -- the other meas . sures, I believe it is adopted there, for I am not Aware that the people of Spitaltields are at All opposed to the gene ral proposal of the- Government. Therefore. as far as She trade is concerned, judgingfrom the opinions ..f pat ties engaged in it, the trade gener.illy speaking are .setified • with the whole measure. Now niy Noble Friend has adopted a channel forarriviag at conclusions. upon this.subject which 1. think is not at all sathactory, namely, the qoatitity of raw material taken for house consumption. lie takes the declared value of the export's for the last five years,,, and compares it with the de clared value of the importi of the five preceding years ; but that is an erroneous test. Alth rman Webb w:t s constantly ins i sting on it that this country was ruined, becaUse the declared value of the manufactured .exports did not keep trace with the imports. But he was told that this was neither . a -safe nor' a just test to go by, because as there was ,a great a eduction in the cost Of production, the value of the manufactured articles sold and exported year by year was diminished. It did not, however, follow that because the declared value of ma. nufitetured exports diminished yearly that their should be an increase in the imports over the exports. So it is with silk. The cost of silk manufactures - has been - diminished within the last five years ; improveinents in maeufactnres and the exercise of greater skill has di minished the cost of production within the last five years, and it would be. strange indeed if the declared value of the manufactured exports of the - lest five years had not - diminished:as compared with the declared value of the manufactured exports of the preceeding five years; but this by no means indicated that the silk manu facturers of this country had not flourished during the last five years. The cost of preduction may have decreased, and must haye decreased in Consequence. of the diMinished cost of ;raw material; so ins the cottonitrade; and woollen-trade, as in the silk-trade, and therefore the declared value is - necessarily no indi cation •of - the quantity of the article exported. -But I am asked, how do you account for so much of the raw material being consumed at home? Why, the fact is, there is a growing taste for silk manufactures in this Country, and we cannot do better than encourage it. Cottons and woollens have hitherto been the formidable rivals of silk, but we nevereake into account what for midable competitors cotton and wool are to silk. It is not foreign competition that has diminished the silk trade, but it is the wool and cotton-trade ; but there is a growing desire in this country to consume silk in preference to these articles, and you cannot do • better than encourage it. There has, therefore, necessarily been an increase in the quantity of foreign articles brought into this country. In the five years preceding the last five, there was an extensive system of :smug gling carried on. But within the last five years there has been some check put upen it, and in consequence of that check, the customs - show an increase in the amount of silk imports.—e(Hear, hear.) Silk was. growing *upon the' domestie manufactures of the country, and it is therefore desirable that you should use every means to put a cheek Upon smuggling. It is presumed by some that smuggling does not exist under a duty of thirty per cent. ' but there is no denying it, smuggling does ex ist. It is now three-ana• twenty-years since the attention of the House - cf Lords 'was called 'to this subject. A Committee was then, appointed to inquire into the state of our foreign trade, and that:is - the tribund to which:my Noble Friend alluded when he called upon the House.or Lords to oppose this measure in the event of its passing this House. The liaise of Lords appointed a Coin - mittee upon the foreign trade of this country, and silk • Was one cf the articles to which they referrsd. Now, What conclusion did the House of Lords come to in the year 1821 ? Why, that if a wrist' duty of from twelve to fifteen per cent. were place:l upon the introduCtion of the raw material, 'it would enebte the British manufac turer to compete with the foreigner; while it would di minish smuggling ;' and ye; aelloble Lord calls upon , the House of Lords to reject this measure is d gnantly, 'as tending to undermine the -interests of the •inanufac- • turer, and as sowing the seeds of vice and immorality: lie calls upon the House of Lords to do this after eine of its tribunals lad maturely conaid4ed this subject ; ex • amined wittie - sses interested - in the don:test:o silk mane fsctures of the country, and declared that the: public interest only required the existence of a 'duty from twelve - to fifteen per cent,• Supposing also—which- was•thenin contemplation.imthe , House of e etcfs eevre • reduce the dirty upon the- articles of,subsistedceland • so-enable the-manufacturer of this , country .to compete; with - the foreign manufacture,• we: pay not 121. but 'lsle per cent. ;' and when the House of Lords dorefer to their own recommendation, I-shell bes 'surprised indeed if they do' reject; the measure which her Majesty's Government proposes. Sir, my Noble Friend has referred, and naturally has excited the sympathy of those who - placed confidence in his statemont with re spect to the position of the- unprotected -classes of the milliner:rand dressmakers. - Sir, I think I could show that if there be any,. class'that suffers from the illicit introduction of goods,- it is that very class—(Hear, hear) —to which my Noble Friend refers.. I believe, in respect to all those articles, that they are introduced in a con trabmid Manner .; that there is a false reliance placed' upon pretection ; - that at -any time you 'can• insure' the introduction of silk goods (Rear, hear) — and silk dresses—(Hear, hear)—for an ameurit, the extra cost not being greater than the duty which is placed upon that article. And if the system be so—if the taste for silk goods do advance in this country—you will promote and encourage the price of- that article you will give the manufacturer the advantage of ccm peting in the open day with the duty-paid article ; but if you subject him to that unknown disadvantage, he can take no precaution against the smuggling of goods pay ing no duty, and the honest trader stiffs re the greatest loss and the greatest injustice by competition with the dishonest trader. - 'lf you will permit the manufacturer fairly to compete at a known advantage with his foreign rivals, and if you will discourage among the higher classes the use of those contraband articles; by fecili eating the adniission of them at moderate prices —(Hear, hear)—then; I say, the manufacturer of silk ; the opera tive employed in the silk manfacture, the dress-maker, and the milliner (to whom my -Noble Friend refers), has a better chance in' honest employment .of gainieg an honest subsistence, as they ought to' be enabled to gain by continuous labour, than any advantag, they - can now derive from' high nominal duties. which you 'cannot r'enfarce against the evasion -of your own . laWs..- —(Hear,'hear.) Sir, these are the con siderations which insetted her Majesty's Government to propose this measure, feeling that it was for the interest of the revenue that we should admit . goods at a moderate rate of duty, -believing it to. be kir the interest of the manufacturer that ice should compete under ascer tained - terns, belit-ving it to be f,-r the interest of those employed in . the manufacture, -that. we should, it it were poitt:.b'e; pluck up by the reot the system el smugg!Mg,•vvhich, while it profee-es -to .protection, is r:ally delusive, and which inflicts a much kseetet injery upen initriiifactureesi then:any - that can-be infreteo oy a fair arid honelt torripetiten.—(Glieers.) Mr. DISRAELI sail he should not detain the Hott,e above two mil.utes--•-•(Hear, hear)—while he Made a few oh'servations with -rep.-et to those made bydhe Right lion. Gentleman in answer to his Noble Friend; and whilst he Made one More ffort to induce Hon. t emen to enter inns the Isamu lonby as he himself should, be calm he -believed •thet the case which his Honourable Fri.nds -were advocating that night was really the' object of the working classei.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") The Right Hori)uruble Gentleman had in his pe roration laid the greatest stress upon the temptation which the 'trade was liable to, in' regard .to smuggling, as well as the responsibility which her M a j esty ' s Go , - iernrilint, possesed instruggling with that dark powe-, which with the protection of 30 a p n was,erthe cent.,yh ,i t baffledhow they to in-' c • ey a s s u i would seem all the efforts of her Majesty's Minist e r s .— ii (l li l i e r a e r o , b r e th a e r, R an ig d h l t a li g o h n t , er 6 laughter.) Bat what cessfully struggled against the smuggler, who!had an inducement to- carry' on his trade by the 1200 per-cent. placed upon tobacco, and 250 per cent. which was plaCed upon tear--(Protectionist cheers.) When they heard of those stories of- the extraordinary power 'and achieve ments. of the smugglers, with respect to the silk trade ha was :at a - loss to know where the Right lion. Gentle• map obtained his information, unless it were from that celebratedindividual--(Hear, hear, and laughter)—who he (Mr. D'Esraeli) obievred had lately paid a visit to the-Vice-President -of the , Beard of Trade(Great laughter)—he "meant the fortunate Mr. Campden. He (Mr. Disraeli) , knew to`, whether t er Majesty's At toeney-Geeeral had assisted at that -interview, but it seemed quite clear that the Treasury Bench on this•and on previous discussions had profited by that acquaint ance.—(Hear, arid laughter.) Now the Right Hon. Gentleman had turned to the situation—the too pitiable situation—of the silk. trade in •1812, and While 'he had dilated upon the miseries which-the operatives of that trad6 had endured in the year 1812, he had turned round to the House and - said; ", , See what protection has prodaced."—(Hear, 'hear.) He had said to the Hon. Gentlemen on his (Mr, Disraeli's) side of the Hopes do you wish to bring back or rather to perpetuate such a state of things us this ? Why, the working classes Of this country he said had nothing to suffir so much from as .protection. Why, it was during the period of the terrible war, 'he belieVed, that wheat was sold at 1203. the . q' tarter.—(Opposition cheers.) It was a period almost as unfortunate for all trades as that 'Very period W which the Right Honourable Gentle Man hid refk•red-he meant the period 1816, which remained as unprecedented for the general commercial depression of the'country —(Hear, hear) and those were the instances, the answers, and the arguments that were brought fee ward against his Noble Friend (Lord George Bentinck). and thus he supported his argument by economical prin ciples, as flagrant as his historical fallacies, which were opposed by all the social experience they possessed.— (Cheers.) The lion. Gentleman referred to knubbt anti husks, and while dilating on the importance and the value of that article, he said what does it signify if it employs labour and produces a great demand.—(Hear.) Observe, in the first place, knubbs and husks are no more to be aecounted silk, than -a sheep-skin is to, be accounted wool.—.(Cheer..) B u t t o wor k up 2,0001 be. of raw silk would employ per week 800 people, 'and 'concluding from this datum, to: 'Which he be lieved he might pledge himself: for its accuracy.: to . work up the whole- 1,700,0001b5. imported. welsh' occupy in one year billy 1 ; 200, while to manu facture the same quantity of the gbod material would etnpl.oy for the sante length of time. 13,000 personi—i (Rear, hear.) 'Now he would leave it to the- House to make its own deductions on the relative value of the two articles in the trade and their respectiveproJittv,—( war.) 'then the Hon. Gentlemen accounted for the increase of their exports by alleging that it brat the effect of the dnoreasolduty on t he.rawmateeial...,Weatoves the fact? That iactogasaplounted te the Gue•twctlieth of a PQI3O v. --(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman asked if the manufacturers were discontented, why did they not petition? Now, the reason they. had non complained, was • just for the same reason that gentlemen opposite were equally indulgent.—(JLar, hear.) They wished the Corn Bill to pass.—(Cheer. , .) But the ma nufacturers of England would yet find some sympathy, 'when no great object- would intervene to prevent oral •cisrn-TI economical blunders from being too critical.— (Laughter and•cheers.) • . • The House then divided, when the numbers were— For the At»endinent ll4 Against it • • 11f*jOrity for Cm. erpp, , ition Sir PEEL trustt-41.the.11oose would go on with the; ariff to-morrow nizht. Lord G..BENTINCK wished lo know it the piestion for to morrow night had •any.reterence .to the Limbo* duties. • Sir R. PEEL was of opinion that, as soon as .the tariff was disposed of, there would be a suspension of the stagnation:in trade, and hi wouli'. therefore, propose that they should f 4 o on .with.the tariff the. next evening.. —(Hear, hear.) , He did.. not know. whether his. Hon Friend meant spirits us well as timber.-,(l.atighter.) Loki G. BENTINCK said,- it was the intention of his Hon. Friends near him to divide on the spirits and limb-4. ditties. •• • - •• Sir R. PEEL—Then with. regard to the article of silk gut there would be no objection. . • Lord G. BENTINCK said,..that .as it was then one o'clock, ho would not expre' a any opinion Gn that article. It was then understood that the tariff should be taken ',o-morrow night. ... Seveml orders of the day were .then disposed of, FEVER HOSPITAL (IRELAND) .13:ILL Oa the 'notion that the BilCbe reed a second: time, Mr. WAKLFX said it was his opinion. that, .notwith standing the lateness of, the hour, there should be some diseussiun on the second reading of the Bill, if ever so brief. - • Sir J. GRAIIAM thought it should pass the second reading thaOnight, and the discussion could be taken on Wednesday next, on the conitnittal - of.the Bill. , Mr. S. CRAWFORD could see no objection in taking the discussion on the day proposed. - Ile considered that the Bill was of that importance to persons of property in . Ireland that it was highly necessary it should be dia. cussed in detail. - Sir JAMES GRAHAM said it was of the greatest necessity to have the Bill read a second time, that even ing, and such a proceeding would not prevent a discus sion at a future stage of the Bill. • Lord JOHN RUSSELL thought that the course sug gested by the lion. Member (Mr. S. Crawford) was un objectionable, the Bill was certainly of great import ance, and it could be fully discussed on the day proposed, Mr. WAKLEY thought the Bill, if read a second time that evening, could be committed on the next day (Tu-sday). The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Tuesday. ANDOVER UNION. Mr. ETWALL moved the appointment of the Com mittee to inquire into the Andover union affair.— Agreed to. - An llox. MEMBER, whose name we could not learn, Presented a petition against the South Staffordshire Railway. Captain PECHELL moved that the petition against the Chichester Railway Bill he, reiered to the Group • who had charge of that line.—Agreed to. The other orders of the day were then dispoied of, and the House adjourned at twenty minutes, past One • o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY DI V ISIONS. (From the Votes and PrOieedings of the House of Comnums.) _ - FRIDAY.-• MA ROI 13. . GRAND - TRUNK OR kTAFFIItI) AND PETERBOROUGH ' - UNION RAILWAY BILL. Order for Second Readi ng rea d ; 3lotion made, and Question -pro posed, " That the Bill he no . vr• read a second tithe :" — Amendthent d to the leave 'a liono proposed, ai .orodut: "uponthe Nvord th 'i's , day six months:"—Questi on p u t, now," and at the eta! of the Ques " That the word 'now' stand part of the t.;Atestlon." The House divided : MAJORITY-AYES. 60. -. Battle, Walter' Etwall,'ltalph Mitcale; 11. BarMg, Y. T. • ' F., , ,tins, Sir De Lacy . 3lostyn, E. M. Barnard, Edwar d G. Ewan, William O'Connell, Daniel Beitett, J. }..wear, Wi l li am . O'Connell, Jolla v Burring, Dr. Fitzrald, It. A. ' ()shortie, Ralph lirldgetnan, Malin .-. Forster, Matthew • l'almer,•G. Brotherton, J. • Gibson, T. M. " • . Rawdon, Colonel Christie, W, D. - Alin, Thomas •, • ' Smit h. i• A. Colelirooke, Sir T. Greene, Tho Mas Somerville, Sir W. Collett, John' Mistie,•A. . Staunton, Sir G. Craig, W. G. Hill, Lord M. Tancred, 11. W. - CrawfOrd, W. S.. Hodgson, k'. Thorilely, T. Da)•yinple, Captain flume, Joseph Tufnell, Hoary Derilatoun, John ' James; William Walker, Itichard Dlvett, Edward Loch, James Wakiey, T. Duncun,.Lord: - Macaulay, T. B. Ward,•ll. G. .. Dutican, George Macnainara, alajor WftWII, .1. T. Duncombe; 'P. lit`Cartliy, Alexander Toting; John Dinidas, Admiral M.Taggart, Sir J. Tr.Litaa. Elree, Edward ' Matjoribanks, S. - Fe'ehelli Captain ElylMistone, H. Mathesim,, J. _ Berkeley, H. F. MINORITY-NOES, 40. ... _ Arkwright, George . Ddneombe, A. f Manners, Lord C. • Rogge, W. Duncembe, 0. Neeld, John Baukes, G. Frewen, C. 11. O'Brien, A. Stafford Baring, Henry Ai taken; J. M. • Sinollett, Alexander Bennet, P. Core, W. It. 0. SotheroniT. H. Berkeley; Craven , Raiford, Sir IL Strickland, Sir G. Broadley, H. Rildyard, T. 11. Trotter; John Bruce, Lord E. Hinds. J. H. Tyrrell, Sir J. T. Bruce, CL L. C. Hodgson ' It. ' Wall, C. B. • 'Cochrane, A. liornby,John . . Wrightson, N. B. CoThetrne, IL H. Jocelyn, Viscount .. Copeland, Ald. Kelly, Sir Fitzroy TELLERS. Douglas,'./..D. S. Lockhart, W. ' Mundy, Edw. Miller Drummond, IL Mackinnon, W. A. Paeke, C. W. Duncannon, Lord ;gallon, Yiscotult PARLIA MEN TA R Y BUSINESS. (From the-Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) COMMITTEES ON RAILWAY BILLS. 'MONDAY, 2dAndll 23. London and South-Western (Ilamptort Court Branch).. Laudon and South-Western (Chertsey and Egham Branch). London and South-Western (Epsom Branch). . London and South-Western (Alton atutFarnhani Branch). London and South-Western Ratlway Acts Amendment. London and Brighton (Dorking Branch). • TUMDAY, 3tAncit 24. Exeter and Exmouth. . • London and Oxford: • ' ' • Eastern Union and'Hadiehzin. Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead. Harwich and Eastern Counties Juuction Rail - way and Pier. ' Maldon. Witham, and Braintree. Eastern Union (Ardicigh to.Colcheater). Eastern Union and Harwich. THE ,CORN TRADE. - Hutt, TansDAy.,-;We cannot report any more briskness iu the.corn trade during the past week. At to-day's market there was a fair show of wheat .from the farmers, and the condition improved. Last week's Priees . wer e fully main tained. In free foreign nothing doing. There 'area fevi in quiriee for bonded,'withont, flowerer, leading to business. N.. :alteration in the Value,of 'spring co!n. In linseed there has been very little' passing. • Linseed cakes are very chill of sale, at rather lower rates. Rapeseed is un a lt ere d ; the ar rivals continue very small. Rape cakes are very scarce, and maintain their price. Bones are inquired. for, but nut much act ual business pjssing. Guano goes otf in retail.. NVAKEFtzu), Fittt)Av.—We hare a small supply of each article to this daystnarket, at which there is an improved u w n i n t o h tie l d e . ex T clit demand tbr all dt-lciiptions of gr,.tin. The finest qualities of continue Wheat are scarce, and obtain 15..t0, 28.' abbye list Friday"s inferior qualities, rate's' Other swi m s :1 11V i b n est °f sorts tl of barley are 14. higher; With more business 'don's, in other qualities. Oats are id. per stone; and shelling fully ls. per load•higher. Ni alteration in beans or other articles. , TREASERE FOUND IN A MISER'S Hovel:.—Some months since, it will be recollected. that a commission of lunacy was issued upon..a .maiden Jody named Sarah Carey, whose age was • , upwards of eighty, and whose singular penurious habits had, rendered her notorious in the neigh boarhood of her residence in the Cannon-street-road. Al though possessed 4f .considerable property, with, it is sa id, a s herself -este n invested in iintifillthy rag s , and deniedseclusion, herself even' nsidered the common necessaries of life.. w )f ii l a s t, b a ot) lre. dressedicno' She had resided in the same-dwelling. for a period of forty years; and when the inquiry was held in the course of' November last, the jury could only gain access by forcing the pannels of the chamber, when •.the unfortunate lady was found in the most deplorable state of filth and wretchedness. The jury having found her of unsound mind, she , wasl speedily removed and placed under care. The house has' since been undergoing repair, and for some time after her removal search. sea* made for supposed treasure, but first without effect ; and it was not till very recently, upon a more diligent search, that a discovery was made of what appeared' to be waste paper, behind a beard in a closet, but which proved to be Bank 'of England 'notes consisting of fives, other fifties, and hundiede(some-of Abraham Newland, • and coma of the date of 1808), amounting to no les s th an 4,160/. I n places v aiue .0t 1, doubloons, ooo., a o n l d d 450 guineas, oz. and plate, worthold gao. d l 7 ins, a t he the whole being worth six or seven. thousand Rands. On tbe ' report recently made to the'Lorcl Chancellor, the gold and plate were ordered to lie sql4ind the produce, with the other cash, invested. FIRE IN A COAL-PIT.—On Tuesday forenoon last, about ten o'clock, a fire was discovered in an air-pit belong ing to Mrs. Bullock, near Kenyon-lane, Wigan. The pit ip question is an old air-pit, at the bottom of which is a fur nace, to draw- the damp air from the other pit; - and it is supposed that the flirnace was.left in •an insecure state, and must have ignited some coals. The workpeople commenced filling up the mine with. earth, and pouring water down the shaft in order to extinguish the fire, which had risen to a 'considerable height above the level of the mouth. Fertu nately the fire was con fi ne d to the one spot, but it will pre vent the miners frOm folloWing their employment . until the earth has been re mov ed, or another pit open 'for air. Al. though the fire appears at present •to be extinguished, it is feared it will again break out.—Afeenchester Examiner. Contents of the enhrged Observer of Sunday, March 15.—Latest news from America by five days, brought by the steam ship Cambria, which arrived at Liverrel on Saturday; .contents of Boston and New York papers to 2a and Ilalifax to the 4th of March ; names of 41 passengerd. -Windsor' e l e ction of Mr. Neville on Satur day. Arrival of news on Saturday from Poland; Cracow oveupied by the Austrians. •Marylebona meeting,-nn SaturdaY, on the Metropo- Buildings Act. Contents of two official despatches from the Earl of Aberdeen' to the British Minister in Switzerland. Four columns of the trial at Bedford, " Coultas e. the Rev. Dr. Bowes." . column on the subject of the pioneers of civilization at Liberia, on the Gold Coast of Africa; and 32 columns of the latest miscellaneous , ; news, A Monday afternoon (*server is regularly published. Broligham gave an elegant entertainment on Saturday last, at the Noble Lord's residence in Oraftou-street. CALITIoN As To POTATO • SToraNc.—Professor lienslow communicates two . coriowt instances of spontaneous ignition having nearly taken place in consequence of fibrous mate riots being used to st ore p o t a t oe s. In one case a labourer at Ilitchin, observing that some potatoes intended for seed were sprouting, stored two bushels in perfectly dry bean-dust, the refuse after thrashing and removing time stalks ; but the moisture from the potatoes so maturated the hean,dust, that it heated and became charred ; some of the potatoes were half reasted, and had it remained unnoticed a few days longer the &Atage would probably have been burnt down. In the other case, Mr. Joseph Rand, of flturilelgh, in October last, laid tip a quantity of potatoos in a small chamber olds malt-house, care fully packed in lay ers w ith d ry " ma l t d us t," which tails through the kiln tiles. About a fortnight ago the Excise officers, in making thelr inspection, lighted upon this heap, and happening to stir it up, found the interior hi a state approaching to ignition, the potatods par boiled, or half baked, and the malt-dust perfectly charred. Imme diate steps were tak en t o r emove t h e h eap ; the potatoes being chiefly rotten, were thrown away, an d th e malt-dust was laid on another,of the same materi a l, be carried upon the land ; but in a Short time it heated again so p o werf u lly, that no time was lo,t removing It from the affected by the heat. premises, the walls and floor of Which had been visibly EXTRAORDINARY LITTER OF PIGS.- Mr. Rayner, of Enfield, a sow which littered down t wenty-slx pig* and twenty four:are now alive, .ancor a five, weeks old, ,Jhey, wr.re gx,the fdus!, a1"414 1941$ 4t414 ',very ousaka ultfalifo l 7 1) 7 tt,g 495 v. LAW ISTELLIGENCE. 1101/SE OF LORDS, March 16. The HouSe sat to-day.in a Committee fur PrivilegeF,:Tip .Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl ot Shaftt , s bury, Lord Brougham, L ird Hood; the Earl of Ranfurlv, Lord Byron, the Earl of Rtdesdale, the Earl of Falmouth, Lord Colchester, and the Earl of Selkirk. . CRAWFOKD AND LINDSAY rESAAGI?:. The further examination of witnesses 'on behalf of the claimant, to this Peerage, took place this morning, snd occu pied their Lordships the At hole day. Tile further consider tiou of the eto,, , r...t four Q . clock was adjourned sine VICE- CHANCE ILO S COURT, . March 1•6. (iiefure the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) DUNCOMBE LEVY.• , The proceedings M tl►is case, which were appointed to be proceeded with to-day, were postponed till to-morrow. T,ll ATTOR\ICI-GESERAL V. PETERIIOUSE. This case came before the Court upon the petition of the Professor of Casuistry in Peterhouse - -College, Cambridge, praying that certain scattered pieces of land belonging to the Professorship might be sold, and. their produce converted into -stock for the benefit, of the Profevor. Part of the land, it appeared, had, been purchased by the Comsnercial Railnay Company, at sutn of 6001., and it was considered fnr the benefit of the Professorship that the other. land should be sold and converted into stock. Mr. 14; - r1Lsu, appeared fOr the petition, and The Court made the order as prayed. TII? ATTORNEY-GENERA[. V. HODGSON. • This case came before the Court upon a general demurrer to an information filed by her Majesty's Attorney-General under the following circumstances. It appeared that as long ago as the year 1805 a hatter of Little Russell-street, named Christopher Flattery, by his will, after giving a few legacies loft the resfclne of his propert y to his executors in trust, to, found a charitable receptacle for twenty-seven poor old men of England and the like number ,of Ireland, on which they were to be maintained.during the remainder of their lives, the institution to be under the management of the Roman Ca tholic Bishop of Dublin; and the testator further provided 4 that in case it should not be convenient to form such a receptacle, then the amount was 'to be given away in charitable . donations. The executors, one of whom was the late Mr. Th,mas Wright, tl - e banker,. of Henrietta -street, Covent-garden, renounced the will, the consequence of which was that administration was applied for and granted to Miss Mary Flaherty (the lady, we believe, who sometime since by her will left to Lord Brougham about 20,0004) The information alleged that this lady had never applied any part of the property she re ceived under the administration to the purposes of the .charity, but • continued in the enjoyment of it up to her death, in November, 1841. Upon application to the ex ecutors after her death they refused to apply any of the testator's property to the purposes of the charity, and .the information. was then filed to which ; the present demurrer was put _ in. . . . His HoNoun, at the conclusion of the case, gave judgment allowing the demurrer, considering that the gift of Christo pher Flaherty came within the provisions of tke law of mortmain. BANKRUPTCY COURT, March 16. (Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.) IN RE ELSTON. This insolvent, whe carried on business in New Church street, L'sson-grove, as a china-dealer, came up for his in terim order. Mr. 13 tictlAxAlt opposed, first, that there was an informality in the schedule ; next, that he had unfairly parted with his property ; and thirdly, that he had" vexatiously defended an action at the suit of the opposing creditor. It appeared that the insolvent had actually parted with his property within a day or two of the three months 'linked by the Act before the insolvency, and that point wa3 at once admitted by the Learned Commissioner to be fatal to the ap plication, although at the same time, he did not.consider any fraud was intended. STuncr;oN . aaid that the insolvent:had paid, the oppo sing creditor 500/. in - less than five yeats, and the action - had now been brought fir 31., the plea had :been put in on good grounds, and had the ease gone to trial no doubt e verdict would have gone in favour of the insolVent. ' It appeltred to be a hard case, and should the• Learned 'Commissioner de tide on adjourning-the ease, he -trusted protection -would be giv9iaga ink, Mr, Levy at all events, or the remaining property would be abs - it bed. under a judgment. aid order under the Small-Debts Act. The insolvent had been paying off all his old debts. .The Learned CsptlussrosEß that _the petition was evidently wrong, and he thiivt;ire could' not grant the protec tion ; but he co,uld come up in three months. • Mi. BUCHANAN then put in a written examination of the insolVent fur his. signature. Mr. STURGEON (to insolvent)—Do not sign IL • Mr. BUCHANAN-. -Then I apply to your Honour to compel him tudo -so. , • . The 'Learned CommisatosEn—You may take an exainina tiian writing; hat 'I cannot compel him to eign is—he has sworn to his schedule. Mr. STVII.OKON-- I xio not know what use may be .mage of it, and therefore I object. The caw was then adjourned for three months. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. IVO II THE 1? tY CIRCUIT.—York, Ilfarch 13. CROWN COURT.—( Before-, Mr. Justice CCH,ERTE.) • _ John Webster and .4aron Shaw were charged with-having, en the 23d of January, at Sandal Magna, violently,assaulted Richard Haigh, and robbed him of 20s. and a half-crown. Mr.,Hall and Mr. Stanhope were counsel fur the prosecu tion; the prisoners were undefended. The prosecutor is a farmer and maltster. residing near Bretton, and on • Friday, the 23d of January, he attended Wakefield market.' He left the Little Bull Inn about seven o'clock, and on reaching a place 'called Striker's-hill, about five miles• and a quarter from Wakefield, ,-he observed three men a short distance in advance of- him. On coming up to the party, his horse was seized, on each side by two of them, whilst their accomplice endeavoured to knock hirp draw animal, by inflicting several severe blows on the back part of his person. The prosecutor successfully resisted their intentions tbr a short time, and on finding he had no chance- any longer to encounter them in that posi tion, he dismounted. in order that he might better enter into' the contest. He was immediately surrounded by the three ' highwaymen who were all armed with thick sticks, with which -they beat him unmercifully, and eventually knocked him down. During the struggle a number of stabs were made at the prosecutor, but none of them were attended with any serious consequences. Whilst on thee: ground Mr. Haigh was robbed ,of his money, and at this juncture two , neighbours came up, one of whom, named Stephenson, was knoCked down, and his companion, pro bably thinking discretion - the better 'pert of valour, ran away.' Mr. Stephenson pursued the party who had struck him, and coming up to the prosecutor he found Webster in castody, of Mr. Haigh ; it then turned out that Webster, after having knocked Mr. Stephenson down, ran in the direction of the prosecutor, who instantly secured him. Mr. Haigh and his friend next took Webster prisoner to the Beaumont Arms, atßretten, where he acknowledged that he was the person that had robbed Mr. Haigh, and. produced the whole . of the money, amongst. which was ,a ha l f-crown which the• prosecutor ha d had in his possession for about fourteen years. On the place where the attack was made being subsegnently searched a loudest pistol, with a split cap on the nipple, a knite;'and some - sticks were found ; and on -examining Mr. Plaigh's great coat upwards of a dozen incisions were thund ;about the back and breast. Shaw WAS also captured the SAM-i night, ;and, on being taken to the same house where Webster -was in custody, they affected total ignorance 'of • each other, . On the next day they wer , remov,d to the House of Correction at Wakefield,, where it was discoveral that Webster-had a jacket, having the name " A. Shaw" marked..on the sleeve lin.ox. It was then admitted Oa; the in;isoner's had changed their jackets 'on Woolley- Edg-t, preNliins to . the - robbery, at which ..time they.agreea to rot, the first pe6on tkey met ou.homback, but not to attack any one on foot. The jury found the prisoners Guilty. • . Iu ordering sentence of death to be recorded agiimt prisoners; hisLottoslttu observed that they had teen of thews been convicted of an offence which still, by law, remained punishable with death. However, in their case, that punish ment would probably not be carried into effect, but they must prepare themselves for the next severe punishment, that of ,being banished from their native land for the re maining period of their lives. The Judge then ordered 51. to be paid to Mr. Haigh for the valour he displayed in re senting the attack upon him. - Mr. Justice Couctimtai proceeded to.pass sentence upon prisoners whose cases stood over fur judgment. Amongst others were the following imprtant cases :—• - Isaac Martin, who had been found guilty of stealing wear ing apparel from his employers, Messrs. Levi, of Sheffield, was sentenced to 14 years transportation; and John Martin, a brother of Isaac, cOuvicted .of receiving part of the same property, received the same sentence. James Taylor, a .ser rant of the same firm, who was convicted of . stealing other articles from his masters, was sentenced ,to 18 months' im-' prisonment. - Thomas . Sledding, aged 29, .convicted of having, at Northowram, made a savage attack upon John Mitchell, feloniously cutting and wounding him, was sentenced to 15 years' transportation. • MIDLAND CIRCUIT.-IVolitinghain, Mardi 13. CROWN COURT. —(Before Lord Chief Justice TINDAL.) Joseph Rollinson, aged 84, and William Longdon, aged 18, were arraigned for the wilful murder of Thomas Soar. Mr. Wildman appeared for the prosecution; Mr. Macaulay for Rellinson, and Mr. Wilmore for Longdon. On the-2'2d August last Re Hinson was the engine-man at the Cinderhill Colliery, in the parish of Nuttall, and Long? don stoker and occasional Assistant. The latter for the last three months had been permitted to draW up coals, and being a very attentive lad he had been allowed for•the last two months to.draw up the men. It was the engineer's duty never to let the engine go bn without the signal, which was given by means of a bell, the handle of which was in the pit. If the bell rang once while the• engine was still, he was to set it in motion ; if it were going on, to stop it. These signals wei & perfectly well understood in the pit, and the•enginemen had repeatedly. received strict orders to attend to them. When a man at the bottom put his foot on blie cage he was to cry " held on,"- which, words were to be repeated by the man at the:top to the enginenian. This was a sort of warn ing to theengineman to be,more than usually particular, and nobody ought to get upon the cage, on any pretence what ever, without shouting those words. On the day in ques tion the deceased was employed in pushing off the empty waggons froM the cage, and from the evidence of Amos Wardle it was necessary for hini to put his foot on the cage. Wardle swore also that the deceased had shouted, but that was denied by a boy named., Smith, who was at work close by, and the banksman, nry Stair. The bell, however, was not rung, but the cag' started up. When it had gone about four or five feet, 'the deceased was knocked off by the "brow" of the pit, fell against Wardle, knoCking him backwards, and 'then dropped into a sumpli of water. lie could not be got out fer nearly a quarter of an hour, and then he was quite dead—drowned. The pit, is 220 yards deep, and the wire to the bell was naked, and worked in staples. The prisoners were Acquitted. The Learned JUDGE said he thought the verdict a proper one, but he hoped this investigation would have the effect of tasking man, whether employed in this or any other pit, extremely careful. They could not be too particular, nor the law. , too strict. March 14. (Before the Lord Chief Justice TINDAL.) MURDER.— William Horner, a butcher, aged 18, was placed at tia bar charged With the wilful murder of Mary Ann Perkins, a prostitute, at the borough of Newark. The pri.soru•r had been seen in company ,with the deceased a.shorttime before she was drowned- • „._ • • The Counsel fur the pri. , oner made a very elaborate speech in. defence, after which The JUDGE summed up, and The jury, without leaving the box, Acquitted the pri loner. This terminated the criminal business in this Court. (Before Mr. Justice CourstaN.) . • Marlay Bell, alias Maday Barrottylig; aged 16, was in dieted . tOr unlawfully and maliciously stabbing William Hayes, on the 12th.of December last, at Kirkby-in-Ashfield; wit Iv intent to maim, disfigure, or disable him or to do min, 4110, add Willkl4 AgeO f eo!ne grievous bodily berm, • • The fury returned verdict of Guiltyon up the tu last count . body was, at a subsequent hour of the day remov—od to St ,e of the ii;dictezit. Luke's workhouse, where it will remain until the woos § ralenaar _ _ • inquest i , held The There wal not a sior o l, .cans o enter-ed for trial at the asz,izes citlntr for ti c, town or county; s circumstince quite unprecedented•within the recollection of the oldest person li ink. The assize businf , ss terminated at half-prat four o'clock this (Saturday) , dr , ro-on. of time went in -ear t h of J er Mugs; and succeeded in app.( bending him in the neight"ie j hood. He was forthwith conveyed to the station-luw e, " e r• the charge of haying caused the deceased's death s"" ce p tered against him. - tie was locked up in one oftill per and constetbles placed therein to watch him. He mists in stating that the &cased 1 . 1,4 robbed him. 1 " h c a nJ that whilst she was sitting on his knoi. she placed in his pocket and abstracted the s . :iling. It is stated list the deceased s left three childr en. pri hi es, 15‘ , is a man. her NO RFO LK CP? Ut r.—Lambridge, March 14. hQjwlges of :Issiza arrived in this town at two o'clock \- , sterttav, when th ,, was opened, and Imes - kW - ice - „ th€4n au, '•iversity Church.• Both the Courts were-ovned ; -,t one o'clock, th ere. bein entry of 9 CaliieS, :1_ fii-r, for Lnil by special j:n les, and ti calendar kiatnes: of 40 prisoners for he county, raid 10 Far tltl borOUgli ; among the finwer are to be found 4 eases of amn, 2.0 manslaughter, 2 of rape, 6of sheep stealing, 2 of night pcaelking, 1 of burglary, and 2 cases of stabbing. The only care in the borough cdendar is one 'of assault arising out of the recent "town and gown" ion s, the, proi.ectuor being Mr. \Vali', of Tri , •ity College, the son of it John Walsh, and the defendant one of to poliCeforce of the town Mr. Itaron Parke has been engagtd utarly all day in try ing two c.anton-juty catt,es, one of which was teieired, while the other inv“lved inatlers do mome , A to any one save the parties concerned. _ _ MARKET NE IV ti.-(YE -u TERt• ),) COIN-EIEVILI.A.I4-GE. During the last week the arrivals of Engllth Wheat eoas typt4. well as by land carriage, wi re somewhat on the increase, :M`l pat aviaage quality. Of Barley the receipts were rather linutt"..,,,,irt• those of Mall, Oats, Beans. and Peas, were seasonablyre?`,o,l; Very few arrivals of any Grain took place front Ireland 7; i4 13 91e but front abroad the fresh stt: ply of Wheat was large, yet l „,"•010 1 of it, was :mated in bond. Fresh up, only limited quatit•tY•.,.,ol of home produce carte to hand ; yet on the whole, the stain:;:cort; fairly supplied with samples of both Red and White. Sti ll ,' aft' as file attendance or buyers, most of whom were ser. 7 Be d stock, was good, the demand for the finest qualities of bo White was steady, at fully, but at nothing quotable ilclr „ l ,3o` • prices obtained on this day selmight, and at which a fa ir ` g Willi 4. of such qualities was effected by the factors. In the m cm . „ Inferior kinds alair amount of business was doing, and th roe' reticles were steadily snvorted. The accounts which WT I . 0 t r ,_ us to-day from our agricultural districts are very favourA : fo e lir spects the appearance of the winter wheats. The show O. tt racb reign Wheat (arising from the very small' quantities w- tr ove , t lately passed the Customs at the prevailing duty) e,tntt ba limited, consequently the transactions in it were linitneo r '",,tol , prices were very firm in every instance. Itt Wheat and Trteo te , articles of Grain under lock there was rather more doing , 3t et: The show of Barley being trifling, the best malting Pa' t oe; manded a very steady demand, and the currencies had ammd., at l tendency. The other kinds of Barley were tolerably 3 10 1' 4 0 1 5 rates, and at the close of the - market very few parcels ren',,:oceil' sold. Having, a good supply' of :Halt at market, that gra in ola slowly, yet the factors were firm, and would not subrult terms. On the whole, fhe supply of Oats was small, hence ,` 10 ,,14! trade was very steady at prices about equal to those paid liitist4 last. The best Old Beaus were quite as dear ;in other clu ; ceedingiy little was doing, though we cannot call them chea;isll,' Peas we had a fair demand at previous figures. Then , ' c o g. more tieing in Flour, at Jul/ prees.- R e d, Cl oy ". seed St other kinds of Seids very few sales were reported. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE 6 44t0 ° Wheat—Essex & Kent, alt —Chevalier • • • • • , Reel, New.... sls to 6.5 s Oats —'Y or k s hire and Di tto, White, Old.. b 7 s 70s Li nco l na h. • Fe": 3 - 6 5 Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe .• ...... • coin, Red... h2s 65s Youghtwand Cork , 111 ILI Ditto, White...—. 55s 685 Black. ••• • ' • 2 41 Irish, Red.. ••• • • • 5I 5 54s Cork, White ••• •, 261 Ditto, White . 538 17s Scotch, Feed. •• • 311 t at stye—Old • Vs 38s Beans—Tick . ...... • 4 35 4 3 New. ••• • • 38s 40s Pigeons .• ••• • • • Barley —Grinding ... • . 24s 25s Pease—Grey. •••• • ' ' 4ls Malting , ........ 3le 34s Maple. •• ,• •• " • 455 Chevalier 38s White .•. • • ••• • • • 54s p Malt—Suffolk and Nor- • Boilers • ... ... 555 CIRJWN COURT.—(Before Mr Justice Mautx.) Robert Bowtell . was inoicted for stealing a 20 7 . Bank of ' England note from the person of the Rev. E. Warters. Mr. Bureham conducted the case for the pros , cation. and from his statement, connected with the evidence of the pro- Secutor and others, it appeared that the note in question was lust, together with a pocket-book, from the pocket of the prosecutor, on the occasion of the recent " town and gown " rows. On that day the prosecutor deposited the note in his pocket-book, at the bank of Messrs. Mortlock, intending, no doubt, to place it in some place of security ; but the riots coining upon the " dons" rather suddenly, he rushed from his college ( Magdalene), of which he was president, fellow,' and tutor, in order to allay them by his preSence. Ile• was thus occupied for some time, in. various parts of the town, • and on his return to the college missed his pocket-book. Notice was given to all the banks early on the following day, and (specially to that of Messrs. Mortlock, from whom the prosecutor had received this note, and not without effect, fer that establishment had not been opened many minutes befote the prisoner, who keeps the Boar's Head, in .the market place, presented himself with the. missing note, which he requested change for, stating that he had taken it in change on the previous night from Mr. Baker, a Member of Trinity College, or a gentleman who represented himself so to be. This account not. bring quite satisfactory, inquiries were made, and there being no such - individual as " Baker, of Trinity," - the prisoner was taken into custody on suspicion of having stolen the note. On way to gad, he @ailed out to his wife, and told her not to forget to make his daughter all-right as to her having brought him down 191. 10s. in change for the note on the night before. On the part of the prisoner, it was Contended that there was no proof that the rote had been stolen by any one at all, much less by the prisoner, whose conduct throughout had been that of a man who had given value for the note. As for there not being any " Mr. Baker, of Trinity,' it was not to be wondered at, for it might very well be that the pocket book, being lost or stolen ' hat been changed by the prisoner for the thief or finder, who had assumed the Larb of an under graduate, and thus put off upon the.prisoner the property of the prosecutor. His Lordship having summed up the case to the jury, left • it to them to say whether they thought the account given of his connexion With the note ry:is the true one or no, _ folk ••• . • ... ..,.. Ms 62s Flour—Town-made •• : i s§ Brown ..... ...... 573 603 • ..... • ' Kingston and Ware 63s 65s St Su la oc ffolk n • & Nor11)11' 449 FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND; 3 9,;0!, Wheat—Dantzic • • • • • • 57s to 635 • Beans .. Ilamburgh ....... 56s 62s I Yease ••••••• , • • " ' • ' 5 . 1 Barley ...... .. • . 226 28s .I Flour—American •• • " _A Oats--New ... .. ••• • • • 25s 27s I Baltic .•• • • ..... Feed . SPACX sPXET D. oa 4 10 Owing, we presume, to the near approach of that peri,„piiS reign stock will be admitted for consumption free of MAY , `,loos`,, trotn abroad during the past y eek have been small, v ie ; t ve* 46 Cows, and t9o r - w Sheep from Harlin.gm, and 30 Oxen O w ' geslo getheith 24 Sheep, from Rotterdam. To-day very re a or 1 1 , Sheep iniported from abroad were on sale, yet the dentanoppooo. was in a sluggish state, and their prices were na t io ge l i es Ity advices received from Holland, we learn tha t .„t !t o r bers of both Beasts aNal Sheep are ready for shit s et) e nd The supply of home-fed Beasts on offer 'this morning ‘.... ‘ u " ,:g 0 11. 10 r Berate, but of full average quality., The dead market .Th.,rf tile attemiance of buyers limited, the Beef trade wa s in e n f oot r it t gish st:tte, and, in some instances, the quotations were 'over •t. the buyers—the highest figure fir the best Scots being; 411 OOP From .Norfolk, Suffolk. Essex, and Cambridgeshire, ‘ v ` s; o r 3 about 1,600 Scots, hesnebreds -and- short I ";oefe e p 4 the northern districts, 20n short horns ; from the • InFtland counties, 500 Hereford, Runts, neve m ,t) n it other parts of England, 4(10 of various kinds ; and front Scots. The numbers, of Sheep 'were again email. Ye t gi bti trade - was dull, at a decline in prices ef 211 per Slbs. L e . 0 8 00 off steadily at from 5s lid to 7s per Sibs. In Calves v e ,fi t isde doing, yet last week's prices were supported. The fors inactive, at previous figures. /. 4 to; I The jury remained in consultation for nearly half .an hour, whin thefrAillnea - a verdict of anilty, and the pri soner was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, with hard labour. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. y , t.ing man, named Joselih :11gers,.who, is what is called a general deater,..and resiiks iu Spitaltields,'was apprehended by Datdel I'orre.4,r. the officer, upon the Charge of having be-n in possession of wane 'lO/. notes of the Warwick and LeamingtOn .Banking Company, which had been stolen in the year 1845. the firm of Bush and Mullins, solicitors..to thin Committee of Bankers for protection against forgery anti fraud, at tended npn the part of the benketa. The Warwick. and Leamington backing-house was plun deriAl on the 4th of July, 1845, of 100 10 . . notes, dated Lea miagton, Ist of January, 1844, by, as was supposed, one of tha clerks, who i. now in custody in that place. The Bank y have, in con,equence of the robbery, issued an entire new circulation' of notes, dated the 14 of September, lit-15, and a handbill has been sent- round, calling upon per son, who may hold any of the old notes to present them for payment, and stating the fact of the discovery that some of the stolen notes have been lately passed in London to grocers and othrt xradesm . Per tilbs. to sink the offal. O. 6 : 4 " 4 inferior Beasts ••.. 2 in 3 2 Second quality ditto ,pi 5 1 Aecond ti al ity ditto. 3 4 3 6 Coarse-woolled ditto Prime large Oxen.. 3$ 4 0 Southdown Wetbers 4 I Prime Scots ...... 4 2 4 2 Ditto ounifthe wo° l 3 d lt Large coarse Calves 1 . 10 5 6 Large Bogs •• • • 4 6 1 , Prinfe i sinall ditto .5 8 6 0 Small Porkers. • ••• :0 ' Suckling Calves .18 0 31 0 Quarter old Pigs • 5 Inferior Sheep .. . 310 4 - 4 Lambs •••••• • • •' SU PPLT AT 51.5.11KET. 1 Beasts. . Sheep.. :Calves. 31 ' I 2,529 17,700 I _6o - Matt/GATE AND LEADEN/ 00. '1 elit, L p., Since this day s,'nnight the arrivals of slaughtere'V, 1,0; theie markets, from Scotland and most parts of Elig lln ostr,,, on a moderate scale, hut of very superior quality, e cl ui •tli. o 4. 4 , those a many former seasons. The supplies kille d O t e r of polls have been by no means extensive, yet tbe gen e- .„10 day was inactive, and last week's, quotations were " c op' supported. Several carcases of foreign Beasts have be posed of. . „ Strperinten,lent. W. Shirley ROberg, - of the Leamington lice, produred : a .warrant signed by Mr. W. C. Revnall, magistrate of the county of Warwick, and backed by the bird Ma% or, fur the apprehension of ie prisoner, and other partia, Aare:ell with having feloniously received bank-notes of the establiShment which had been stolen, and which were represented to be the property of Mr. Henry Somerfield, the registered public officer of the. barking concern. Witness stated that tic believed he 'should be able next day to identify. the ,priqmer as .one of the. parties named in the warrant, so As to be justified in taking him down to Leamington. The Loup MAYOR—Does the prisoner wish to say any thing?—The prisoner declared that he knew nothing at all about the offence he was accused'of having; committed. .The I.otth Mlvon—The superintendent has told vou what vou were charged With ? The prisoner —Yes, my Lord, but am wholly - ignorant of the busine,s. Mr. Mullins said that some of the stolen notes had been stopped. Within the last few weeks persons had gone about with them. to.'grocers; distillers, and other tradesmen, and having made small r uralises, offered thentin payment. to , ' , At per stone, by the CUMIN. ~ 4• s', IL d. to e. d. { 1 3 . I Beef, inferior...". 2 6 2 $ Mutton, inferior •• 4 0 I 1 middling .... 210 3 0 • mideillOg" 4 6 I , prime large ..3 2 3 4 pilule •'.• 3 6 , ) prime small .. 3 6 3 8 1 Pork, large •••• " 4 ' Veal ••• • • .'• •:.•• • • 4 8 510 I small •••• • • •• Lamb. N Od to Os Od. ARRIVALS DURLN v G THE PAST ri; te" ^ ' beasts Sheep L"* . "Z! 40 400 --- 0 I,orkshire 25 50! jOd Lincolnshire • 30 200 ...... .00 . . It will he recollected, that s, on after the robbery was com mitted, Daniel. Forrester traced Blaney, one of the clerks of the banking-house, to Calais, and there, with the assistance of the French authorities, succeeded in' apprehending him. Blaney was detained in prison until it was ascertained that the case. did not come under the 6th and 7th of Victoria, en titled, "An Act for giving etr•ct to a Convevtln between her. Majesty and the King of the French, for the apprehension of certain offenders." That Act status, "That the high con tracting parties should, on requisition made in their name, through the medium of the it respective diplomatic agents, deliver up to justice pers ,, ns who, being accused ot the crime of murder (comprehending the crimes designated in the • French Penal Code by the terms assassination, parricide, in fanticide,_ and poisoning), or of an . at-tnipt to - commit murder, or of forgery, or of fraudulent bank-uptcy, committed within the jurisdiction of the requiring party, should seek an asylum, or be found within the territories of the other," Sze. The result-oftheinvestigation at Calais was, that Blaney was discharged from custody, although there existed not the Slightest doubt of his guilt. Since_ that time the police au thorities in. England have been actively engaged in watching suspected-parties. , . , The Lunn MAYOR regretted that the A&- did net com prehend robb:ries of so - extensive and desperate a kind. as those which had been committed upon banking houses by . the persons employed in them, and - remanded the prisoner until this day, when it is . expected he will be removed to Leamington in the charge of the superintendent. Two very little boys, named George Thompson and -Thomas Owen, were brought up, charged with having picked poCkets. Norfolk • • • • • • • • • • • • • 20 100 Suffolk •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • 20 . 90 /1/ Cambridgeshire Es•ex •••••• . • • • • ....... 30 110 80 P Surrey ••••••• • • • • • • 40 230 11 ) Devonshire .• .• .••• • • • 40 JO° Wiltshire. • - ~--•- 30 100 - 80 / Other parts .• ••••• • • • • ........ 50 3 00 ---- ILI" , po S i d .. •. - , Total • .. Previous vreek's arrival...... 383 2,350 33° fill ......-----' I - ''..... Difference since oar last •• • • 71 210 80 j e si a so o ' te"f i . BOROUGH Al* D SPXTAL F X A ,. 0, 1 4 4 1 Very limited supplies of Potatoes have arrived st 1 7, 4 1se'r f.. during the past week, hence we have to report a stead: o gy must descriptions, at, in some instances, enhanced eur r , e l , S l: ii , Wsls. 80e. to 1403.; York Regents, 70s, to 110 s. ; S ca A ` n oc g j to 100 s. per ton. The above prices are for the se lects " ' BOROUGH litOP MA to LS I ' l at The finest parcels of Kent Hops are in steady deariM°' prices, otherwise the demand Is in a sluggish state. e WOOL. t 141$ o , (1 . ,11,,S The imports of Wool during the past week page. b t i; Pi;tir, fling, they having amounted t 6 only 300 bales, c, ble ves o South Wales. Privately a fair business is doing 10 at full priees. Otherwise the demand is heavy. tiOli TALLOW. 0°0;404 This market is firm, notwithstanding the falling4/70 t of i t very; on the spot, there is no tine Yellow Candle„. 401T` tinder 435.; and In new Y. C. for the autumn, A l 'r u Dew . been done during the past week at 425. per oil. . Tallow Is 43s net cash for good fresh fair melted. A. -... de ~ 1. . . - - ---- -----.., lecl - , :,) CHILD KILLED By A BuLLocit. -1 "Willo w , 1,4 held at .Burnhain on TuesdaY last, before ' i t, of - i, i':( jun., Esq., deputy coroner, touching the cl es t hat e yes',) Stephens, aged eight years. It appeared b all b a ps previous Thursday . Mr. Thomas' lindilt irr ',lo o ,,icli 41 Burnham, ;was driving, up the street a ; 10 . 401 0 / , bullock, - knee-handed in the usual fria nDe- :eil t . 41' 2 had driven from" the marshes, and it ‘E tl , e • v i 4! c el* „et along until it arrived at ahtut the midw e bs . it , 0 , ' 0 It seetits to have been then frightene d ,I , sr '`) ,I a 4 h e ~ py qe• pig, and when opposite to the rail of t. 1 ., 6 ta t o j which the deceased-anti nro,thtt • little girl. w e bt i t the f ir, ran at thent. The deceased tied into the P rd ' r - tbr ee h o P r ) billowed, and to--ed her a height of 1,"°,, „.as ho! itribe She tell under a four-wheel chaise, al'u , , r jate l ,.` ~0 1 :6 ,pi tected from further iiiir.ellief. . The in_ l ' n - ,.50 1.- ell" 6. „la • u te made;fott het attempts to get at her gild in dv , '; ; ,- rt ,_ , rl .- ii „ 1' , chaise. It then rook to the fit,ith., where it " . "4 0 10 1 / 1 01',, eventually killed. The deceased was s° se ,; a rtie l l,,co9 that she died on Saturday last. Iler con't" "1',,,0 escaped with only slight bruises,--Nrerdic!i.,fr / death," with a eeo . cland of Is. up,n the htlil ° ' ri,f;/ Claronirle. Fo g 1.11 ,, 5 0 " fixB/811AL ANNUAL LICFNSING PA Y jin gle', ki: v l ,l Y•este day morning a general annual licensing 01ee,,, — , r Ai11 . ,, lirDe : London was held at Guildhall, before the Lort Pl ° 1,p1;1 1 °,0114 There was a long list of houses against whic h `.!, the Pie , s ''' ' made, but' t,e, nature of which did not transP.r),, 0 0 o pt . told AS they applied that they must come tIP ' 1 ,3 be /l e. 50 ' es w• ; do es 1 meet day, when the petitions tor new Wens ' at t ,O adjournment day was.fixe for Monday next, Al. oc ' Pi p FINI cu at 0 I i [ApvERTISEDINNT ] - SIGHT AND ____ r ojer,,,r, [ er., . 0 1 MONIAL, 39, ALSEMARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY. .. li t ':, 1 0 , 0 , Howard Elphlnstune begs to say that the spectse7o ol . :j0 0 Some time in use, have 'fully redeemed the ass ll ";: n d f0 0 : 4 -eff ~ S. and B. Solotnons as to their excellence, and 1 110 ",; to . ' t ite al s o comfort and advantage from their use, far Pref era .„,p o ,'WiP i p• kind of glasses. 13, Norfolk-street, P a rk-laile:. o. „-.6 c 00 , 0 e , George Cavendish, to Messrs. S.. and B. Sol olo l' oo o I , s of 0). approve very much of the spectacles I put - 01 10 1' e , wittl ic evN made use of glasses for inanyyears, and neYel, u ' e _, L oven,g,'9 , able me to see equal to yours, and with less ..inopCs' - , 0 0 1 f0.7,0 es.,--I am yours' obediently, G. Cavendish , I, e.!. esi the y , •1,,1', i i -General Browne Cl.tyton feels desirous to OP! seve n . 'etsK. advantage he has derived at his ell anced egg ° 1 ,., s td f o'," d after two years' trial, from the use of 31essr:•_f,ionito;Atekw newly invented sped tcles. Their valuable in 'ef"Hall•:.ae. , ; 4 , patronage they have received. Address, Adlingio n l ie ros , e' e ltoi a j , Improved achromatic telescopes, opera glOs ee _ : vet I ° 4 ( ..et tire' the same kind of tenses,' to surpass any e''.,.. oic,,, A : , ,,a Messrs. S. and B. Solonions' invisible op to re j!efer4 /W f ,, sound magnifleri , , for deaf persons, ,11vePu na l l )-. L :rs. :".et , ing extteme eIIIS . S of , deafness. Caution --- e5 - wit h f r e i t t o l 2lP mons, oie Mans, are not in any way e ol ' l " ect To Pr e ...,O r a same name, in their immediate neighbortrhoooi 39, Alt , - - I'r be cauil..us, and of sees - Only to be 1 10 a it s'S , 1, '‘'‘.4 ~ Piccadilly, opposite the Yo - k Hotel. - nislP" „ -„,.' l' , ''o 0 [ A DVERTIS h MEN Tl—, HE MoSi r 4e , I 0,;0 0 ;sroi MEDY FON COUGNS AND COLDS IS HOLLk"" i n eDei s lii" t ii, 'Ol brated and extraordthery medicine is not 01 11 Y but , WI, lasi ...s cee 4 01 .., 1 coughs, cOlds, hoarseness, or even loss of i i l or teeS , , sio , te r e it certain remedy in all cases of wheezing-, stn t o P e a ' test e'' 0, astluams. Pt rsone who may be so bad as not w ain e eit,/ IP i ts on their beds lest they should be choked with e P_., 6 wt.'. i . 0 ! ,,,!, ,, rally cured by these pills when every other in,,f,:, gre:! OP, 01 ' latter class of sufferers may depend upon get_P_';,,,st f , igl u first three days, and in ten days will sice , l' . : ve ndo o t they did in their lives.—soht by al ined r r , Lend a o f ff . 5=11211,3' ...... way's Es te1 .......... 21 .., „ o ff ' - - -01. i lia O f Bams. , _ tw it, . fo e On the 11th inst., at Hellyer Cottage , i-s -' 1841° 00 Colinsn Rashleigh, Esq„ Ma son. .„.,„by, th • ~. il'" V r°' .0 . Dr o . l , t rai th t e , olf3tandiantswt.h,taetr.the School Ilouge , ..• 11 1 ` v of 1 0 0:: t t h h e e l i 3 i t t h ii l i n n s s ti ~. aions,,t theT .RTeecatpore,y,of;milienne: on, 0 seta. ~ .00 , p Webb, of a son. tilt On he 12th inst., at FinellleY• 31r; Gacrge io, t l ' s street, Hanover-square, of a daughter. South Li , lo op of On the 12th inst., o e, / James Thorne, Esq., of a son. . a eston' A 40' On the 13.11 inst., Mrs. Parnell, of Ile o f $ 1 , P1„1 1, at Mawbey Bongs , U 1 MA fita ED. A• 713 "; - 114 . • V Ael On the 12th inst., at Witteham, W. Turn'' , 1- ,jillY , 0 , -b ). Peckham, to Grace datetliter of Thomas . , fl ea ~ii., fl r,l oaihe t 2 It ;list , at 6t. James's Ci.uren. „0111 .01, NJ psio, iii,t,,,i o 4 On the 12th inst., at Panlers PerrY, ' O . Fec p to .-- 7 t , cE05i1ii.,,11.11.),, to Jane, daughter ot the late C,:rtbaoti oot, Fr atle pall ----- 0 e C ,0,b,..., Esq., of Stratford, Essex, to cote. 24 % -- Ito , the late Henry Elliott, Esq., of lietithen_:____ jolt ° , 4 itS —----_-- .. - DIED. , sol_square' „o' , On the Ist inst., in Bedford -place, . 113 Oil' - l e Il ie ° Mo F,*', surgeon, aged 48. 1101 ins 9, ,ret , .at ou the 8:=11 inst., at. B r i g hton, Miss rt ,efi c sister of the late Colette' G. Holmes, C•l3. • .itenh' ln ' re. c ob On the 9th inst., at Rodney-terrac e, t b r t . tts, Ag ed j rrs" of the late Lientenant•Colonel Samuel ‘1 , .±_,.,..,,,,,, ~...; on the 14th inst., ireChasOtte-streel, 1""'" _ s eta , '' 1 .. ilichard Stuart, P.sq., aged 66. '. ty so" 'All% ° / r r °I. On the 14th inst., Fleury Wiliam, en dau glite _ A 4 Croydon, Surrey. B. oAi ki t h y : d 1 . 4 ( t ) 1 1 ! I li t o t On the 341 last., at Madrid, Ellen, w ..., f ~r-At?hrigic.ret Mary A: l l i :t o e ... , el;: :eticro , cited e:: l l , g, ..' li i - - TI IP' .-".e . On the leili inst , Charles FrAnk Flebt.cher, t" - ~, t oc, Tio- , I, Charles Fletcher, Lest , of Wandsvvor 0 ,p London : Printed and Published by 1 4 ,.. 11 1 3 ,. swift To o ~' mum, P.S rhiter, at The un 4 , fliCe. o .N i ° :midi geoclct of the Savo*, in the C 9o°ll ,•• ' 17, 1446. ~ Policeman 569, stated that he was in Pr7nces-street, in plain clothes, that morning, and observed the two prisoners, who seemed to be adepts at thieving, slip their hands into the pockets of sewr4l gentlemen. At last witness, to 114 surpri.,e, felt Tm Impson's hand in his own pocket; The bo y drAing it .thing there, hastily transferred his hand to the poCket •if a gentleman, and 'then conveyed soniethtng to his owr, fall witness caught bold of him, and draw a large snuff tuox iroin his trowsers. Owen, who was the smallest boy : of the two. sys - just as active in .the crowd. Witness searched Thompson; and Oland in: one of the legs of his trowsers a pnrse, containing 6.! , . 6d,, and in :hi , waistcoat 1e a sovereign. The boy had stated to witnes, , , upon heing,ap prehend,d, that upon leaving home he was - v)sw,s•sed of no more than 2s, Loßt) morning's work.—llemanded. B i , Ci •-: SI I.* .1.•.; .I.;' 7: TWO. men, named Treeiti ant Turnfr, were charged, the Cornier with /stealing, and the latter with receiving, half a dozen silver svons. the property of Elizabeth Hendrake. The prisoner Turner and another man had been taken in charge by a policeman of the F division for fighting in the street, and on the way to the satin Turner was observed to drop two silver spoons, and at tile station• house !bur others were *mild upon him. He said that they were given to him by Trevitt, w4o was a carman in the employment of Mr. Mabley, of King street, Covent-garden, and who was taken into custody bumediately. The, prosecutrix stated that in the course of last week she was removing from Pcioces -street,Sobo,,to the Fisher-meet Almshouses, to which she had just been admitted.an in mate, arida carman in Mr. Mabley's employ tnovedber goods, but she could nut identify the prisoner. When the goods had been removed she missed half a dozen spoons, which were the same produced. Mary Ann Appleton, living in the same house in Princes street 'hat the, prosecutrix formerly lived in, identified the prisoner Trevitt as being the man who removed the goods, and said that she saw a box with a drawer in it in his hands. He opened it several times, and she saw that it contained some silver articles. Politer - an, F all, spoke to a conversation between himself and Trevitt, which took place before the latter was taken in custody, in which he (Trevitt) asked him whether any thing had been found on Turner? and said that he had given him some silver spoons•to take care of for him. \Witness asked him why he gave them to Turner? end he said, because he *as in a mess about a box which had been lost in moving some goads, and he did not. wish the spoons to be found on him. He added, teat he supposed it would be a Bow-street job, and he would lose his place and his character. The prisoner Turner said that he had received the spoons from Trevitt, who asked him to take care of theta for Lim. • He denied_ that he attempted to throw the spoons away. As• the policeman, who arrested Turner, said that other charges might be brought against Trevitt, if time was given. the prisoners were remanded to next. Thursday. MURDER IN ST. LUKE'S On ti. morning of Sunday, at the early hour of thr:e o'clvek, the immediate neighbenrhood of Golden-lane, St. Luke's, was the scene of great excitement, in consequence of the following occurrence, which was attended wllh fatal results to an unfortunate woman, named Mary Murray, a widow. It,appears that at the hour above-Mentioned, the unfor tunate deceased ras, together With several other persons, in a house in Geergelard,' Golden-lane—one of these sinks of. iniquity so common in that district, termed private gin houses—in which spirits are retailed after the regular taverns and public-houses are closed. Whilst there a young man, named Martin Jennings, a bricklayer's labourer, went in,. and after conversing with the deceased, called for a quarters of gin: Upon taking his money out of his pocket he said be had lost a shilling, and accused the deceased of having picked his pocket. The allegation was denied by the w. man, high words ensued, and 'Jennings, struck the deceased on the face with great violence. Some of the people in the place tried to reconcile them, but the deceased Still persisting that she had 'not taken . the . menay, Jennings gave her another drlsadrutlefetw over the eye. The deceased then made foe the door, end, having gained the collet, was in the act of escap ing to Golden-lane, when she was ovecteken by Jennings. who again etruck her a .violent, blow on the temples„which kneeked the poor creature down upon her back, her - head striking. the Wall of aelust-hole as she fell, .!!'enne of the persons present perceiving that theedeceased appeared to ie. -, in a state of insensibility, raised an alarm, when _Mrs. Tv,. the owiier of the hoit,ie in - which toe affray commenced, Came out to render assistance. - Upon lifting the - head'of the unfortunate ween y ) , tire appeared to be fast ebbing-, and she was laid in the due -hole whila,tvinformaion was convered 'to the p a th:a. Inspector lierney, aeon being made acquainted with Nvhat , had liepeened, sent a number or eon , tablee W ith the StretCher to. convey the in jured woman to Fk-atherstone-street station-hou , e ; an d upon her arrival there, she was ionnediat,!•ly attended to by , Me. Mather, the divi?,i,,hal surgetw, who dui all that the na ture of the case would pernit, of, hut without any beneficial <Wet? tor ,ate ticTigcck 01491 0Y ISAtr deradMinigUe Tlks , . • . . NIVE C,,aPits Lego "e allot tt otll Attlee, Xe n FraziCiy ; (2 4/ 1 1 4 brooks t 4 illt, -°2l ai kr: tivtlet4n,euri, 4 than t 4,r Itt ia ( t i ! o Co t:k11 ( 14 "1 4,1, 41 r 3 4np e" 4 i;7:: tarupitnee Au e. 14% tt. co x ., ed Ario tl / 4 0 1 1 .111 , 4 Jost .ne re, Anq 6l stired h forfei tfiebte) ; t atennsu t 413 of yi 11. ‘ .4% - !Wceess k l e io l 4 . - ectors, ‘ ` h ?rem doh lIL t 1 14 07 4 q 1 -nth Pu ' r n , 4.g tray, t4l lt t nc a nt + g e l ' \ri r itait: V% an, k4 ' \ t l t a ti t ss I , 1 41 41 'D , ‘t•Or ‘i wit, * ell " Y. ktNit” th k4.° % tot t `4—`tYs t* tl 1%4 2 1 W 1 ;s " ' 4 4l', 4i V - 1 11 4 ; 1 4 hlr4rlt ti L 4 , 4 • )5r I 0 e tor . ill Ulla k hu )%4 4 1144 * Aq v4 7 . st 24 14%45.:441. ~~ , % l Ol # 4,l la Ldt , ristior 'ar Of th e ° VER li t A R tmor '4 tOSt ? dwu r a -,,-, 1 'a k. II Hat hbu: Patio t• ad' ° • 4r e b 1 1 rothc , ria Tull( %t44a 1111 I) • 11e THE SUN, LONDON; TUESDAY MORN ING, MARCH 17, 1840.