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„.4 TII A 13 VN S LONDON, ........ _ _ IMPERIAL PARL lAMENT. parties would be able th:have the opinion of the law officers 7 the case up to half-past four o'clock, at which hour they I of the Crown without expense. edjeuenea. - Hie eerie: was then savvy's) tn I ~ . lei OILS E i if : .i . NA! i /..% •.., . iiirtt :.'2. Upon cl 4Llbe 10 been put, L. A.l . EST PRICI.,'S 4)l' Siii.kitaz; . :2- FRIENDLY SOCIETIES BILL. Sir J. GRAHAM said he had to m o ve an am e n . ' n eut. ~r (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) rather an addition to this clause. H e wou ld ove that IN BANKS, AbSURANCIi AND OTHER 0M O n clause S beingsproposecl, where the salary of the registrar was to be fix , d at the PANIES' STOCK. --- ----ese-____ Mr. T. PUNCOMBE complained that it was not suffi- average of the last three years, that it should be provided From TUESDAY ° til.C A ij NID List FRIDAY EVENING. aiently retrospective in its spirit. It provided that all socie- that the average did not exceed more than 1,0001. a year. tiles already in existence should bm e valid, provided they had After a few observations from Mr. CooPER and r. PUBLISHED EVERY been duly and prolyerly certified by the officer appointed for O'CoNetzer, which did not reach th e ga ll er y, LONDON, TURSDAY, APhIL 21. SOININSTOCE ZA NIES . that purpose : :Now all societies that had been certified a t Clause 10 was ordered to stand p art o f th e Bill. all ought to be made valid, and not left opea to be upset in Clause 11 was postponed. Clause 12 was ordered to stand p ar t o f the Bill. Name of Company, Dividend Amount a court of law for nut having been properly certified. Sir J. GRAHAM did not agree with the Hon. le.ember. On the question that cla use 13 s t an d par t o f the Bill beingper of Paid. P r i ce Atualuxt. Share. : 1 1.. p p e er r c c e e n n t t . . 5 4 0 0 s e 0 0 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 25 , i i It ought still to be left open to the courts of law to decide put, Mr. P. SCROPE said that under clause 13 he did not feel £ a. 4. X s. d. whether the existing rules had been complied with or not. - A Br u i s t t s r li al let ia th . American -....... After a few words from Mr. HAWES, certain whether the tables by which these societies al The SOLICITOR-GENERAL explained that any friendly ready in existence calculated their advantages . Commercial of London IL per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 He would 2*,, societies that had been established before the passing of the have to be submitted to the registrar. would , 7,olonial. 5/. per cet. 100 0 0 25 0 0 16 Londe and Westminstr 61. per cent.lloo 0 0 20 0 o :7 would be e • Act for the purpose specified ender the four clauses under also take this opportunity if of .t saying that he consideration, or for any legal purpose which could be cer- thought that the present measure, i . was t.s passed, Metropolitan Joint-Stock ... 61. per cent. '5O 0 0 10 0 0 14 The attention Frv i ' t i t i P o i:i , it N l an e o w f 1re1and......... • • 5811.. per cent. cent. 1025 0 10 000 710 e tified, and against which society there should have been no of very little advantage to these soc t ie he ie . ro 0 e e o 1 4 7 8 e 2 M passing of this ' decision in any court of law of competent jurisdiction, of the Legislature ought, after . National of Ireland .. 5/ . per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 18 Nat. Provncial of Eng. Si. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 e 351 should be admitted to be within the provisions of the Act, Bill. to be directed to the framing of some measure and entitled to the benefit thereof. In consequence of the which would place these societies in it a position Intl decisien of Justice Wightman the words contained in all the nitely superior to that in which was at present Ditto, New.- ... •• • 51. per cent. 20 0010 0 0 4 former . Friendly Societies' Acts which were considered- pr o posed t o p l ace th em . Th e attention of the Government Union of Australia.. •• ; GI. per cent. 25 0 0 i 2.5 0 0 25 ejusckm eeirelis-with the so c i e ti es spe c ified under the might also be turned to the introduction of some Government Union of Lond on ... •• , 5/. per cent. 50 0 01 10 0 0 , 12 clauses of the present A c t were constra i ne d an d narrow i n measure by which the poor, by making cer t a i n payments, ---------_._.____L__ their meaning. The present Act p ro p ose d to d e t a il the ob- could secure an annuity at any period they named i n th e i r rrzstraA NCE COMP ANIES. jects for which friendly societies might be established beyond old age. The tables of the rates of payments Dividend Amount poor have the Name of Company. those precise and limited objects contained in the former could be published. The would thus per of Paid. Price Acts. Any societies now existing, and instituted for pur- advantages of a Government security for their annuities, Aneum. Share. poses which accorded with the decision of Justice Wight- and ale-eo of having their annuities payable to them at any -------- ------ - , ______ man, but which were not in the terms of this Act, but were portion of the kingdom they might chance to be. That £s.d.'.£ s. 4. for purposes specified by the four clauses, or for any other course would be better than the doubtful and uncertain Albion .......... •• • • 3L lOs 500 0 0 50 0 0 74 Alliance grit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0i 11 0 0 19 legal purpose which could be certified according to the fifth security at present afforded by the friendly societies, which, Ditto Marine 6/. per cant, 100 001 5 0 0 6 1 4 clause of this Act, should be allowed the benefit of the pre - by mismanagement or miscalculation, might occasion to many Atlas .... •••• • • • 1 ,7 35. 6dir she. 50 0 0 t o ) 5 5. : : 1p sent Bill. The object of this Bill was to enlarge the limited the loss of the subscriptions of years. He hoped that his British Commercial restrictions of the former Act, and to enable parties to asso- suggestion would meet with the consideration that it deserved C l erici,Med.&Gen.Life ' ssl. perp s C l e a n r t. 100 0 0 210 0 64 ciate together for other purposes than those enumerated by at the hands of the Government. County .............. 31. 100 0010 0 0 the former Act, and all that was required was that those Sir JAMES GRAHAM promised that it should. He Crown •••• " •• ' **** .. .... 10s. 50 0 0 50 0 purposes should Eagle ......- be some of the speci fi ed purposes proposed in also stated that in a s h ort t i me competent persons would be .. .. 6e. 5000 aOO 5% the enlarged Act, and for some legal purpose to be allowed appointed by the Government for the purpose of drawing Economic Life... 1000 0 0 250 0 0 tables to regulate L&3os.bs. by the Attorney-General and by the Secretary of State. the amount of sums to be d Ene.ie Scot. Law slcent. 50 002 0 0 2A, pal on After a few words from Mr. A-IMES, which did not reach the u death of a member of these societies. And he proposed certified by the registrar European Life ...... 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20 the gallery, that no society should be hereafterFreemasons' ••• 51 per cent. 20 0 9 30 0 Sir J. GRAHAM objected (as we understood) to any in- unless they consented - 138 to be guided by _those tables. terference or discussion on the: subject of the decision of Mr. T. ISUNCOMBE said, that if the Right Hoe. Baronet G iii l i o p b e e ri . ai ..... .* *. :: ::. : . 61 • . per cent. Stock. Guardian ...... .• •• • • 51. per cent. 100 003610 0 49 Justice Wightman. Those friendly societies which now ee- I would reed the very able book of Mr. Neilson on the sübject of Fire .. isted would be exactly in the same condition as if this annuities, he would find that it wouldbe mostunjust torequire Imperial Life ........ 12s. 100 0010 0 0 17 Act were not to be Paned. Whether they looked prosper- the tables on that head to be the same in all societies; for LlnademL':.fteY Marine• •• • 11 11 1 ..5 8 1 ss* 100 0 0 150 13 0 t lively, or r etrospectively, he believed that the clause which instance , it would be unjust to compel the Friendly Ship- Leg w al and * Gene . ral Life * 50 00211 0 6% he had proposed would remedy many of the evils which at builders , of Liverpool to be guided by the same tables as London Fire .......• 10s. 25 0012 10 0 14% present existed in friendly societies. London Ship •.•• •• -10 s. 25 0012 10 0 14% Mr. T. DIINCOAIIIE had co hesitation in saving that if those of the Operative Tailors' Society of the metropolis, be- marine.. proposed clause were agreed to, there were flO less. thah4:o t o h o e Cause the latter were exposed to much more sickness than I. l % ,, l a N t l ion ln a v l itl e & an G;LLife 4%1. per et. 50 0 0 20 9 3 Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2% the former.-(Hear, Hear, hear.) friendly societies in this king. which National Life. the samecondition as that of the South were in precisely The clause, as amended by the Right Hon. Baronet was Panadium Life ...... • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 21. 2s. eased. On clause 14 being proposed, Shields Society, to then put and P . . . which allusion had been made, and which had been declared Mr. HENLEY hoped that provision would be made against Protector Life to be illegal by Mr. Justice Wightman. From the statement the sending of any cases connected with friendly societies Provident Life --- • • 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23 of the Right lion. Baronet it would appear that all those into Chancery. Rock Life .. 4s. 5000 10 0 4% 4,000 societies would now be compelled to come to him or The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, that in all matters Royal Exchange 5/. per cent. Stock. - 180 Sun Fire . - - 210 the Honourable and Learned Solicitor-General for what he of dispute were the members of those societies proposed to go Ditto Life .- .. ...• • 1/. 6s. - - 49 called the privilege of a new constitution. to law, the case would have to be submitted to the Attorney- Universal Life .. ..... 10% I. pr cut 100 0 General for the time being, and if he were of opinion that there 615 0 20 Sir JAMES GRAHAM -No, no. Mr. T. D UNCOMBE-Well, then, if they did sot, they was no necessity for appealing to the Court of Chancery, the DOCKS. ....................riimmeamiwysaamwswil...• would remainin their present condition at their own peril. The case could not be proceeded with. - decision of Mr. Justice Wightman had created alarm, and the The clause w I Dividend Amount , as then agreed t o. Name of Company. per , of Paid. ; i Price. consequence was, th at moat o f th e 4,000 friendly societies h a d Aft er some discussion clause 15 was agreed to. Annum. ' Share. I I altered their rules in accordance with that decision, and if Si r J . GRAH AM then moved that the consideration of the law were now to be altered again they would find them- Clause 16 and the remaining clauses should be postponed till I £ s. e.j £ s. d. selves still in peril. He should therefore propose that, after Friday next.-Motion agreed to. Commercial .. - - 78 East and West India - 14134 the word " established" in the clause, there should be added the words " enrolled before the passing of this Act." NEW WRIT. On the motion of Mr YOUNGE, a new writ was ordered East Country - 21 Mr. ESCOTT said, that with all respect for the decision for the Falkirk District*of Bur *- ghs, in the room of J. Baird, Linden ............. Si. pr cent. Stock. - 115% St Katharine .... ••• • ; 5 per cent. I Stock. - 104;4 of Mr. Justice Wightman, he submitted that the opinion of Esti , who had accepted the office of Steward of the Ciiltern Hundreds. Southampton • • ...... ' 41. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 . 30 his Hon. and Learned Friend the Solicitor-General was quite ELpmCNOUNTY ELECTIONS BILL. as much entitled to respect.-(Hear, hear, and laughter.) LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES That judgment might have been wrong; it had not yet been a ir. Dividend Amount Appealed against, or decided in a higher court. He should Cou.nty Elections Bill, which proposes to limit the time of e STONE moved the second reading of the polling at elections in counties to one day. Name of Company. per of Paid. 'Price certainly support the amendment of hie Hon. Friend the Annum. Share. Colonel WOOD moved that the Bill be read a second time Member for Finsbury. - The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that he was afraid that that day six months. - £ s. d. £ •s. il. too much importance had been attached to the decision of Lord J. WORSLEY went through the returns of the Bank of Scotland - 100 0 • 165 Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 157% Mr. Justice Wightman, but of this he was sure, that to - 100 0 0 224 much importance by far had been attached to his owne number of voters recorded in the several counties, and thef British Linen Company 81. per cent. 161 opinion. In fact, he did not recollect what that Commercial per 100 0 0 National Bank.. ..... . 61. per cent. - 10 0 0 14% opinion was until it had been put into his hands a few which was that the number of persons who voted on the se- Union Bank of Scotland 74/. pr cent.' - 50 0 0 92 minutes previously. That opinion was offered on an isolated cond day was so insignificant as to render it very desirable Western Bank.. .... • . 61. per cent. - 50 0 0 BO cash; it might happen that the majority of theto restrict the time for county elections. The Hon. Member North of Scotland Bank Si. per cent. - 50 0 74 societies in England were constituted on different 4,000 friend) for Middlesex bad said that the out-voters would have no Clydesdale Bank 6l. per cent. - 10 0 0 13% 3declared to be il • les. PrinclP opportunity of voting; but even if such were the case, there Eastern Bank 7 51. per cent. - 10 0 0 11 With the single exception of the societ • Bank - 2 10 434 legal they legalised, by the present enactme • were corresponding advantages ; for even, as in the case of Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 6/. per cent. - 50 S 6% nt, eve soviet which came within the description of those included it s in the y of Glasgow Bank . 51. per cent. - 10 0 0 134 West Yorkshire, where there were more than 50,000 voters, City Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 245. 'first four clauses. They had nothing to do it was evident that no change could be made on the second judgment on the decision of Mr. Justice Wightman, w and itt in with g i in day of polling. Then, as to treating, it was well known that t Hercules nsui- co ln e7 a c L i t e i e n c. 0.• If: rel. cent . ceut. 1, :: : : 0 1 1 13 1 () 1: % reference to those societies included in the sth clause much of the mischief would be saved. He was satisfied . North Britsh 'faun- 5)4 /.pr cent. 200 0 0 10 paid.O 0 28 31 ;they had only to come forward without expense and without inconve- c t o h r a d t ia th l e su a p lt p e o r r a t t .- il e w r a ie s s 0 f h „ weolesome, and he should give it his Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 22 Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 ]tip nience, and lay their rules before the two officers appointed Mr. NEWDEGATE wished to say a few words en this Divide.") Edin. & (Basil. Railway 11.10 s. per c. 50 5 0 50 0 0 72 for the purpose, and they would at Ditto, 4 Shares 7s. Gd. p. s. 12 10 0 All paid. 17% once receive from them a measure. which, in his opinion, was at least, premature, for certificate that the society Edin., Leith, & Grantn 20 0 0 20 • 0 18 was of such a nature as to • come it was very plain that the experience of the past was no within the provisions of the Act, and be legalisedGlasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 5/.pe - r cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 70% accordingly. criterion for the futare.-(Laughter.) He had himself been Glasgw & Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 19 ' Mr. RUTHERFORD stated that the explanation of the engaged on a Committee, 01sgw&Gamkirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 40% Learned Solicitor -General had removed many of the doubts The SPEAKER-The Hon. Member cannot speak respect- Dundee & Arbroth Rail. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 39 which he had entertained upon the subject. Sir J. GRAHAM made some remarks, which ing a Committee which has not made its report. Standard LifeAssurnce. 51 per cent. 50 0 0 210 0 9 audible in the gallery. - Mr. NEWDEGATE apologised, and proceeded to say that WATHR-WORKS if the same plan were to be adopted as that which the - M. T. DUNCOMBE said that no reason had yet been Hon. Member for Stockport (Mr. Cobden) had said would Dividend Amount assigned why the words " or entitled " should " duced in the clause. not be intro- be used by the Anti-Corn-law League-that was to collect Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL considered the a large number of voters at the railway stations in a neigh- - posed to le introduced perfectly superfluous, and words pro- beuring county, and pour them down the polling-places- X it, d. would net • at all enlerge, but perhaps diminish, the powers of the this would occasion great inconvenience, and if it was East London.. ..... ... 81. 100 0 0 - 215 by creating a doubt upon the meaning of the words. Bill, proposed to obviate that inconvenience by an increased Grand Junction .... • • 31. 10s. 41 13 4 - 90 Mr. T. DUNCOMBE stated there number of polling-places, that would also occasion great Kent .... ...... ••• • .• 2/. 10s. 100 00 ; - 70 were many societies 5/.per cent. 00 Vauxhall -- - ...• • • - 57 which were only enrolled, not established. expense. He thought also that if these measures West Middlesex .. .. • • 51. ss. pr cut. 63 12 9 ' - 100 were to be adopted, they would have the effect After a few words from Mr. Ewart, the Solicitor-General G I or- eneral, looked for by the Hon. Member for Stockport, and CANALS. and Mr. Rutherford, strangers were ordered to withdraw ; be greatly expedited. This object was given in the assertion 4 I but Mr. T. Dancombe declined • pressing the House to a that, • • division. at, within three years, he would unseat 100 count Mem- Names of e 'Dividend „ Name . of . .1 Dividend Mr. DITNCOMBE reaumed, and said that he bars, unless they changed their principles and voted Companies. A 1 per ''' ce * Companies. 5 per u Price. 11 m. would alter against the opinions of their constituents and their own. el 1 Annum. t An 'tic phrase, and move for the insertion of the words " - - rolled." or en There had been during the present session 36 petitions £ i £ Sir J. GRAHAM thought that the insertion of against the return of borough Members, of which 29 had A h & s ti tn 014 h 97 5/.55. p e 70 Monmouthsh 100 Si. 160 these words been decided on, seven dropped, or one-tenth ef all the bo- A s would entirely alter the meaning of the clause. by-d-la-Zlll3 4/. 70 Mntgomrysh 100 51. 98 rough Members returned. In the same period there Mr. T. DUN COMBS conceived that the object of this Billhad Barnsley.. • . ,160 12/. lBO Macclesfield 100 - 38 been but three petitions against county elections, or one- Basingstoke.. 100 - - Neath • . ought to be to confirm all those societies which had ahead • sixtieth, of which two had been dropped. This would show B rituk&Abrg 'l5O 5/. 85 Nottinghain . 150 121. 3- beer, instituted and established, and he should therefore tali Croiniord ... • 100 141. 150 Peak Forest .78 31. 89 , the decided balance, it might be presumed, in favour of the the sense of the Committee upon it. honesty of county elections. He would oppose the Bill and DudieY. ••. • • 'I" 4/. - Regent's Sir J. GRAHAM believed that the Hon. Gentleman did Derby ... •• • '10(/ 61. 73 Rochdale 8.5 41. 77 support the amendment. • not quite understand the effect which the introduction of the llr BRIGHT .iaid flat there was not an argument now Ellsmre&Chs 1 133 41. Shropshire . • 125 1. - Erewash •• • .100 321. 'Son Somrset Coal 150 71.1 01. 130 word " or" would have. It would be neither more nor less 1 * ' used against the Bill but what had been employed against the Forth & Clyd 100' 41. - Do.Lk Fdot 12 61. p. c. 11 than the illegalising of the 4,000 societies which were in old system, yet every one, of whatever political party, agreed G randJ anctn ' 100 71. 95 St ffrd &Worcil4o 281. 300 existence before the pessing of the Act. Grand Union 100 11. lOs - Shrewsbury !125 151. that the change was a great improvement. The difficulty in . Mr. T. DUNCOMBEWhat would be the' effect of Glamorgnsh . 172 13%1.. 210 *- -' 230 Stourbridge 145 201. 250 the way of travelling was much removed, and by railways it ( fir Brkly, .00 - this measure as it now stood with respect to M - Strtfrdon Av 79 11. 10s. - .. r. Tidd Pratt. would be easy in most eases to take a whole constituency in a Grantham .. 150 121. 100 Severn and Why, it would be investing I • um with privileges of the most short time, if required. Whatever might be 'd Huddersfield ' 5 -Rail. I 26 11. Ils. 32 enormous amount, and powers which no Government ought of sal .. 7 - Wye to demit. the expense of travelling, the expense 'of keeping Kenna & Avii 39 7s. Gd. 104 iTrnt &Mr- 50 30/. Mr. BICKHAM ESCOTT wished to know whether the the poll open for two days was far greater. He would de- Lancaster ..• '47 11. 105. - sey, 4 sh.l - Leeds& Livrp 100 341. 520 Thams&Med 19 - - eidedly support the second reading of the Bill. insertion of these words would have the effect of rendering Mr B. DEN Leicester ..• • 140 101. 105 Worcstr &1 ISON thought there were advantages in Leicstr& 78 21. 44 the 4,000 societies already in existence illegal, and of de- f a vour of the Nth 83 41. 60 Binning. j second day's polling which had not been referred Loughboreg ' ' priving them of the privileges which they now possessed ? to. He km 11,142 701. 850 Wilts & Brks G 7 11. II knew of several instances in which the result of the Certainly such must be the case if they were rendered illegal. . first dair'e ein11; , ..-.. i , . - R.C. Certainly r_ • . .. . is/0 tie; s iO.ll , .' iprti a 2. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES BILL. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) On clause S beingsproposecl, Mr. T. PUNCOMBE complained that it was not suffi ciently retrospective in its spirit. It provided that all socie tiesalready in existence should be valid, provided they had been duly and prolyerly certified by the officer appointed_ for that p :Now all societies that had been cetified a . t all ought to be made valid, an d n o t left open to be upset in *court of law for nut having been properly certified. 3 Sir J. GRAHAM did no t agree w ith the Hon. sem b decide . It ought still to be left open t o the courts of law to decide whether the existing rules had been complied with or not. After a few words from Mr. HAWES, The SOLICITOR-GENERAL explained that any friendly societies that had been established before the passing of the Act for the purpose specified ender the four clauses under consideration, or for any legal purpose which could be cer tified, and against which society there should have been no decision in any court of law of competent jurisdiction, should be admitted to be within the provisions of the Act, and entitled to the benefit thereof. In consequence of the decision of Justice Wightman the words contained in all the former Friendly Societies' Acts which were considered— ejusclem genesis —with the societies specified under the clauses of the present Act were constrained and narrow in their meaning. The present Act proposed to detail the ob jects for which friendly societies might be established beyond those precise and limited objects contained in the former Acts. Any societies now existing, and instituted Ibr pur poses which acco r d e d w ith t h e dec i s i on o f J ustice Wight man, but which were not in the terms of this Act, but were for purposes specified by the four clauses, or for any other *gal purpose whi c h cou ld b e cer tifi e d ac cording to the fifth clause of this Act, should be allowed the benefit of the pre sent Bill. The object of this Bill was to enlarge the limited restrictions of the former Act, and to enable parties to asso ciate together for other purposes than those enumerated by the former Act, and all that was required was that those purposes should be some of the specified purposes proposed in the enlarged Act, and for some legal purpose to be allo we d an by the Attorney-General m d bsith\hSs, which did not reacheeretary of St a t e . e After a few words from s r. H the gallery, Sir J. GRAHAM objected (as we understood) to any in terference or discussion on the subject of th e d ec i s i on of J us tice Wightman. Those friendly societies which now ex isted would be exactly in the same condition as if this Oct were not to be passed. Whether they looked prospec tively, or retrospectively, he believed that the clause which he had proposed would remedy many of the evils which at present existed in friendly societies. Mr. T. DUNCOSIBE had no hesitation in saving that if the proposed clause were agreed to, there were no less than 4,000 friendly societies in this kingdom which were in precisely the same'condition as th a t o f the South Shields Society, to which allusion had been made, and which had been declared to be illegal by Mr. Justice Wightman. From the statement of the Right lion. Baronet it would appear that all those 4,000 societies would now be compelled to come to him or the Honourable and Learned Solicitor-General for what he called the privilege of a new constitution. Sir JAMES GRAHAM —No, no. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE—WeII, then, if they did sot, they would remain in their present condition at their own peril. The decision of Mr. Justice Wightman had created alarm, and the consequence was, that most of the 4,000 friendly societies had altered their rules in accordance with that decision, and if the law were now to be altered again they would find them selves still in peril. He should therefore propose that, after the word " established" in the clause, there should be added the words " enrolled before the passing of this Act." Mr. ESCOTT said, that with all respect for the decision of Mr. Justice Wightman, he submitted that the opinion of his Hon. and Learned Friend the Solicitor-General was quite as much entitled to respect.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) That judgment might have been wrong; it had not yet been Appealed against, or decided in a higher court. He should certainly support the amendment of hie Hon. Friend the Member for Finsbury. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that he was afraid that too much importance had been attached to the decision of Mr. Justice Wightman, but of this he was sure, that too much importance by far bad been attached to his own opinion. In fact, he did not recollect what that opinion was until it had been put into his hands a few minutes previously. That opinion was offered on an isolated case; it might happen that the majority of the 4,000 friendly societies in England were constituted on different principles. With the single exception of the society declared to be il legal they legalised, by the present enactment, every society which came within the description of those included in the 'first four clauses. They had nothing to do with sitting in judgment on the decision of Mr. Justice Wightman, and with reference to those societies included in the oth clause ; they had only to come forward without expense and without inconve nience, and lay their rules before the two officers appointed for the purpose, and they would at once receive from them a certificate that the society was of such a nature as to come within the provisions of the Act, and be legalised accordingly. Mr. RUTHERFORD stated that the explanation of the Learned Solicitor -General had removed many of the doubts which he had entertained upon the subject. Sir J. GRAHAM made some remarks, which were in audible in the gallery. M. T. DUNCOMBE said that no reason had as yet been assigned why the words " or entitled " should not be intro duced in the clause. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL considered the words ro potted to lee introduced p er f ec tl y superfluous, and would pnet at all en rge, but perhaps diminish, the powers of the Bill, by creating a doubt upon the meaning of the words. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE stated there were many societies which were only enrolled, not established. After a few words from Mr. Ewart, the Solicitor-General, and Mr. Rutherford, strangers were ordered to withdraw - but Mr. T. D uncombe declined pressing the House to a' division. Mr. DUNCOMBE resumed, and said that he would alter his phrase, and move for the insertion of the words "or en rolled." Sir J. GRAHAM thought that the insertion of these words would entirely alter the meaning of the clause. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE conceived that the object of this Bill ought to be to confirm all those societies which had already been instituted and established, and he should therefore take the sense of the Committee upon it. Sir J. GRAHAM believed that the Hon. Gentleman did not quite understand the effect which the introduction of the word "or" would have. It would be neither more nor less than the illegalising of the 4,000 societies which were in existence before the passing of the Act. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE—What would be the' effect of this measure as it now stood with respect to Mr. Tidd Pratt. Why, it would be investing him with privileges of the most enormous amount, and powers which no Government ought to deniir. Mr. BICKHAII ESCOTT wished to know whether the insertion of these words would have the effect of rendering the 4,000 societies already in existence illegal, and of de priving them of the privileges which they now possessed ? Certainly such must be the case if they were rendered illegal. Mr. O'CONNELL said this was quite evident, that the societies referred to were either legal or illegal. If the former this Bill could not affect them, and if the reverse, they could not be injured. Mr. HAWES conceived that it ought now to be decided whether the words "or," or "or enrolled" were to be used. They ought to know what they were dividing upon. Sir J. GRAHAM begged to be pardoned for interrupting the Hon. Member, but he must observe that the introduction of the word " or" would entirely change the meaning of the whole sentence of the clause. Mr. HAWES thought they ought to know what they were going to divide about- Mr. T. DUN COM RE said his very object was to preserve the legality of the societies at present in existence, and for this purpose lie wished to include the word. After a few words from Mr. RUHRFORD doub and Sir Da LACY EVANS, w h o both objected to a n y t being suffered to remain respecting the sense of the clause, and from Mr. B. Escorr, who again inquired whether the effect of the alteration would be to swamp the 4,000 societies, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that the observations of his Learned Friend had been entirely misunderstood ; fur the fact was, that the effect of this clause would be to legalise the 4,080 societies alluded to. If the Hon. Member for Westminster believed that this clause would have the con sequence of overruling the decision of Mr. Justice Wightman, he would beg to tell him that the introduction of these words would certainly go to that end. And with regard to the remarks of the Hon. and Learned Member fur Cork, that these societies were either legal or illegal, he must say, further, that, without the clause stood as it was, it would fail to bring those societies under the influence of the Friendly Societies' Act. They were told that there were no less than 4,000 existing societies, and they were called by this ingenious word "or," proposed by the Hon. Member for Finsbury, to legalise them all, whether enrolled or not enrolled.--(No, no.) He main tained it was so; that all societies, whether enrolled or not, whether established for legal or illegal purposes, would be rendered lawful by the proposed amendment. They ought to protect themselves against the probability of danger by the clause as it at present stood, and therefore he must op pose the motion. ESCOTT sail the H on . an d L earned Gentleman tad niloletztred a singlecsoci;ty of the 4,000 re f erre d to that ]ale. T. DLINCOMISE replied, and said the amendment was not to legalise all Societie s,b ut to give the 4,000 already enrolled the benefit of th at enact me n t at under the proposed law. If Mr. Tidd Pratt had cert ified ieties. it would be Most unfair to deprive them of t's.e .))" Aft,r a few words from Sir Gcoucse Si e lt i TC'it t LAzin and Mr. COWPER in favour of the amendment, Lord JOHN -MANNERS said, he thought if th e bar rister hid certified th e l ega li ty of the 4,000 societies, it should be held valid in their favour. Sir J. GILIIIAM considered that, as it was possible Mr. Tidd Pratt might have acted indiscreetly, or without proper inquiry or information in these enrolmeats, he must finial . ; oppose the proposed amendment. After a few words from Mr. SPOONER against the amend ment, strangers were ordered to withdraw. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the Amendment Against it 93 Majority Mr. DUNCO MBE then moved that, to the end of the clause, the following words should be added, "provided also that existing benefit societies, known under the name of Odd Fellows, patriotic societies, and ethers instituted for the pur poses of making provision for old age, and such other pur poses, shall be eligible f. m enrolment." • The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the proviso was either dangerous or unnecessary. They had already pronounced an opinion that certain of these societies were illegal, and ought not to be sanctioned, and, therefore, the proviso was unne cessary. There were, however, some of these societies which carne within the limits of the corresponding Act, and he should have no objection to bring them within the provisions of the present Bill, if the Honourable Member fur Hereford would propose a clause to that effect. After a few words from Sir DE LACY Ev.isrs and Mr. SPOONER, the amendment was withdrawn, and the clause agreed to. Dividend Amount Name of Company, per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. £ a. 4. X a. d. Australasia •• • • 61. per cent. 40 0040 0 0 251,i, Britah North American Si. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 44% Commercial of London 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 2*, . M. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 16 Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 :7 London Joint-Stock ..• 61. per cent. 50 0010 0 0 14 Metropolitan Frovincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 48U Ditto, New. ••••• •• • U. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 1N National of Ireland .. Si. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 18 Nat. Provncial of Eng. Si. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 35 1 4 Ditto, New... ••• • ; 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 Union of Australia.. • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 2.5 0 0 25 Union of London... • • 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 12 Dividend Amount Name of Company, per of Paid. Price Anrum. Share. /________ Albion .. X s. d. ' .£ s. 4. ........ • • • • 31.106 500 0 0 50 0 0 7 4 Alliance l''..rit. and For. 6 p er cen t . 100 0 0 I 11 0 0 19 Ditto Marine.. ... • • 6/ . per csnt, 100 0 0 ! 5 0 0 6'. 13s. 6d. pr sh. 50 0 0 1 5 0 0 16 1 , 2 British Commercial 75. per share 50 0 0 1 5 0 0 7 C l ericl,Med.&Gen.Life ' 51. per cent. 100 0 0 2 10 0 63i County 3l. 100 0 0 10 0 0 Crown ......... .... 10s. 50 0 0 5 8 0 - Eagle ........ ...... 6a. 50 0 0 b 0 0 5 1 ,4 Economic Life... /&30s.bs. Eng.& Scot. Law .. .. • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2A, European Life .... • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20 Freemasons' .. • • - • • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 Globe ......... • • • • • • 6/. per cent. Stock. - 138 Guardian . ... ... • • • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 49 Imperial Fire .. Imperial Life . • • • Indemnity Marine • Law Life • ....• Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 6% London Fire ........ 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 14% London Ship .... • • - -10 s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 14% Marine .. ..... • . • • 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 10% Med. Invlid & Gen. Life 4%1. per ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 3 National Loan Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 2 10 0 2% National Life. Palla.lium Life ...... • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 21. 2s. Phoenix .. .. ..... .. . • 3/. p. et. & bs. - - 205 Protector Life.... • • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11. 4s. Provident Life...... • • 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23 Rock Life .. 4s. 5 0 0 0 10 0 4% Royal Exchange Si. per cent. Stock. -- 180 Sun Fire . • - - 210 Ditto Life ..... ... • • 1/. 6s. - - 49 Universal Life .. ..... 10%1. pr cnt 100 0 6 15 0 20 The SPEAKER—The Hon. Member cannot speak respect ing a Committee which has not made its report. Mr. NEWDEGATE apologised, and proceeded to say that if the same plan were to be adopted as that which the Hon. Member for Stockport (Mr. Cobden) had said would be used by the Anti-Corn-law League—that was to collect a large number of voters at the railway stations in a neigh beuring county, and pour them down the polling-places— this would occasion great inconvenience, and if it was proposed to obviate that inconvenience by an increased number of polling-places, that would also occasion great expense. He thought also that if these measures were to be adopted, they would have the effect looked for by the Hon. Member for Stockport, and be greatly expedited. This object was given in the assertion that, within three years, he would unseat 100 county Alem bars, unless they chanted their principles and voted against the opinions of their constituents and their own. There had been during the present session 36 petitions against the return of borough Members, of which 29 had been decided on, seven dropped, or one-tenth of all the bo rough Members returned. In the same period there had been but three petitions against county elections, or one sixtieth, of which two had been dropped. This would show the decided balance, it might be presumed, i n f avour o f t h e honesty of county elections. He would oppose the Bill and support the amendment. • Mr. BRIGHT said that there was not an argument now used against the Bill but what had been employed against the old system, yet every one, of whatever political party, agreed that the change was a great improvement. The difficulty in the way of travelling was much removed, and by railways it would be easy in most cases to take a whole constituency in a short time, if required. Whatever might be said of the expense of travelling, the expense of keeping the poll open for two days was far greater. He would de cidedly support the second reading of the Bill. Mr. B. DENISON thought there were advantages in favour of the second day's polling which had not been referred to. He knew of several instances in which the result of the first day's polling had been entirely changed the second day. There was no analogy between the position of the boroughs and the counties in point of distance and travelling. Nor did he see any necessity for the change, as not any of the counties, or the parties interested, had at all complained of the present practice. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said, that if the Hon. Member wished to press his motion, he would say a few words. He considered the Bill, not so much respecting its effect on candidates, as on elections generally. He was decidedly of opinion that it was not expedient or politic to reduce the present period for the taking of votes in counties. The paramount question with them should be, not whether, it would reduce the expenses of candidates, but whether it woulti interfere with the due latitude necessary for the increase of the franchise. Tried by this test, he did not think the Bill necessary as required by the exigencies of the case. He quite agreed in the statement of the Hon. Member for the West Riding of Yorkshire that there was no analogy between boroughs and counties. The change made on the previous law was a salutary one, reducing borough elections to one day and counties to two, but he did not think there should be any further alteration. With respect to borough elections, the restriction to one day extended only to a range of seven miles, but in the counties there was no limitation. He could see no reason why they should depart from the rule established, and he did not consider the period of two days was any inconvenience to voters. He rather considered that it was in favour of the franchise than anything else. He would therefore vote against the second reading of the Bill. Sir R. INGLIS said that polling-places were not more dis tant from each other than a mile in towns and cities, and were within the radius of a circle extending six miles in counties, and he therefore did not see that the Bill was necessary. Mr. B. ESCOTT said he would vote for the second reading of the Bill, for, in his opinion, mal-practices tookplace most on the second day of polling. The Hon. Member for Middlesex thought otherwise, for the purity of his elec tion—(Hear, hear)—no doubt led him to that opinion. But he had had some experiences in country elections, and the erening between the first and second day vas a vary tempting opprtivity to those who hung round the booths, and who had probably promised their votes to one party, yet gave them to the other. Colonel SIBTHORP said he had a vote for five counties, and that he would be sorry to see the day when the free circulation of money at elections would be checked. Lord G. BENTINCK said the Hon. Member for Win ctlitae,s, t g e . r . Theatd d s i e d ok a e n n ,, o t h f e che c H on e d u eo c t rd o i f al t l l z ios c e on w e h u o r r p e r d o wit e h d one Honourable Member in his reprobation of such persons, a ,_ n , d hoped, he would apply those principles to own conuuct, and that he would recollect, at theele electors of d Winchesterssiononthon%cotrzlaws, that he promised the t he th w e - ou n l m d en n d o_t do another. In conclusion, lie Ngs-C-Zlthat rnTieinetßono.f gentlemantlllenthoettr:Nalbelme Durham had argued upon Gallant Gentleman. upon the ill effects of the old system, but it must be bored that th ere was a wide difference between the re being open for fifteen days a n d only fur two. He h a d the Po right of voting in three counties, and as he did not wish to be dis franchised, he should vote against the Bill. Mr. B. ESCOTT wished the Noble Lord making observations rel a ti ve to the opinions and wisles before of his ( Mr.. Escott's) constitue n t s , would convince himself that his • Mr. in formation on the subject could be relied Had the Noble Lord been with hi m l ast week, he would more accurate information th an t h e Noble Lord _ ve gleaned had appeared to be in possession cf. The House then dividdd, when there appeared — For the Second Reading 32 Against it 55 Majority against it —23 RAILWAY DEPOSITS BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. COMMONS INCLOSURE BILL. This Bill Isis read a third time and passed. The remaining orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at six o'clock. COURT OF ALDERMEN. On Tuesday a Court was held fur the dispatch of business. THE CITY PRISONS. Alderman SIDNEY said it had been stated in a former Court, that the Lord Mayor had received a communica tion from the Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment, calling the attention of his Lordship to the report of the inspectors of gaols, regarding the condition of the City gaols. He wished to be informed whether any answer had been sent to that communication ? The LORD MAYOR said that no other answer had been returned than the verbal answer given by himself to Sir James Graham, to the effect that the Committee had agreed to recommend that a new gaol should be erected instead of the Giltspur-street Compter, and that no doubt that recommendation would be carried out. Alderman SIDNEY observed that certainly no motion to the effect of building a new gaol had been carried in the Court of Aldermen. The LORD MAYOR—I merely spoke of the Committee. Upon the motion for votes of thanks to the Bishop of St. David and the Rev. Charles Farebrother, Chaplain to the Lord Mayor, for the Spital sermons preached on Easter Monday and Easter Tuesday, at St. Bride's Church and Christchurch, Sir PETER LAURIE, who seconded the motion, said he could not help expressing much satisfaction at the sermon preached at St. Paul's on Sunday last before the Jukes, by Archdeacon Hale, when the Venerable Archdeacon denounced the mummeries which had re cently been introduced into the Church service, and recommended a strict adherence to the good old customs. The propositions were carried unanimously. THE ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE KING OF THE FRENCH. Alderman FAREBROTHER rose, and said h e k new mast strongly upon the l a t e a t roc i ous attempt to assassi at there was not a m an i n the Court who did not f ee l nate the King of the French.—( Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") It was impossible to contempE to the escape his Majesty had had without the highest satisfaction, and he could not allow an opportunity to pass without express ing the sentiments of the Court upon the providential deliverance of that most excellent and illustrious monarch, whose loss would not only have been severely telt by France itself; but by every part of civilised Europe.—(Cheers.) All knew the regard which our I own most gracious Sovereign entertaided for the King of the French—an additional motive for declaring the sense which her Majesty's subjects had, in common with the population of France, of the providential escape of due King.—(Cheers.) lie wished to see the feeling perly , tuated, and he considered that the Court ought at ~ .tn 2e to express their great regret that any one could be ",:ou nd in his Majesty's dominions capable of so diabeTficalt a crime as an attempt upon the life of a sovereign, so de r every e r r e ; pect civilised o f h i n s a p t i e o o n p . l —C e ' ? s q welleer as o 7v tl i i n e g a o d f m t i h ra e ti l o o n ve o A member h ere as k ed whether there waa ay.iy p e dent for such a p rocee di ng as the one suggessVed ? ( is.) Alderman FAREBROTH ER said it did . not signify whether there existed an edent or 71 oh —(1-lear.) It was quite impossible form moment to think of the warm reception which the King of the l'r each gave to tho Corporation upon the occasion of his ; Majesty's visit to Queen Victoria, or to the members of that Court at St. Cloud, with any feelings but those of - the deepest ve neration and gratitude. Mr. Ald erma; a Farebrother then moved that an address be presented_ to the King of the French, congratulating his Majesty upon his late happy deliverance from the band of an a ettassin. Sir P. LAURIE French had derived as secondedmu ch the motion. 'Th e King of the dress presented t o hi m b g r atificatio aii f rom t h e ad y the Corporati, ),,i of London from any circumstance connected wit h his as vist to this country. The escap e of his Majesty Majesty's was an incident of a most providential character. . He seemed to have a charmed life —a life prote td l c-c -ly an inscrutable arrangement for the benefit of his own ; :great country, (H(Hear.) for the service of the whole Europe/kn. community. ear.) No man, in fact, had, beers so frequently attacked or so wonderfully preserved. Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL said he ha 3 no doubt that the other Court would adopt - similar pvc ,ceedings at the next meeting, and both Courts would t , Agre e and co-op perate. Formerly there used to start up an injurious jealo • alousy between the Ceurt of Alderm en and C ourt of usy Common Council, but that sort of feeding ; he rejoiced to say no longer existed.—(Hear, h ear.) Sir GEORE CARROLL said that Altderm In Farebrother had anticipated him in moving the address to his most gracious Majesty the King of the French. It was im possible that any man conld be be tter entiti'ed than he (Sir G. Carroll) to join in a vote of Ta conol` ~. ulation to the illustrious Sovereign, for he was one Of thoCe mem bers of the Court who had been treated in so distin guished a manner by his Majesty at the palace of St. Cloud, where the King entertajAed thaw, together Tith RAILWAY COMMITTEES On clause 9 being proposed, Mr. SPOONER objected to the rules of a society being referred for the decision of one individual without any appeal. There was an immense deal of property and the interests of a vast number of perms involved in this decision, and there ought to be an appeal of souse sort or other. *Sir JAMES GRAHAM such a course would productive of del a y and expens e ; ad, on the whole, he was Inclineel to think the decision oughteto He had confidence in the skill ana be lefft to one barrister. and, with the assistance of the jud ges, /aohilictr. Tidd Pratt; no doubt that gentleman would do justice to all arties. Mr. SPOONER said that he could not this clause. alter hia opinion on Mr. T. DUNCOMI3E wished to know if the present clause would confirm or annul the enrolments of Mr. Tidd Pratt ? He believed the Attorney-General had had a contest with that gentleman. He was not aware who got the worst of it. Mr. SPOONER said they were about to give a very great power to one man over large and important interests. Mr. GRAINGER was of opinion that the clause would add a great expense to the parties interested. 112 e SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that under the clause (YESTERDAY.) 1 Sub-Committee No. 3. This Committee did not meet till a quarter-past one o'clock, there not being a sufficient number of Members pre sent to form a quorum. At that hour, however, there were present Mr. Aglionby (chairman), Mr. E. Buller, and another Hon. Member, and the case of the NORTH DEVON was proceeded with. It occupied the Committee the whole of the day, and had not been disposed of at a quarter past four o'clock, when the Committee rose, and adjourned until Friday next, having declared the standing orders not com plied with on several points. Sub-Committee, No. 4. EAST AND WEST 07 ENGLAND JUNCTION. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) The Committee decided i n f avour o f th e p e titioners against this Bill on several of th e p o i nts ra i se d , an d i n f avour o f th e P romoter ; of the Bill upon others, and wire occupied with THE :ST INs _LONDON, TIMRSDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1846. the m :;Pt*• ot the :.• -, Fsti, 'amity with the greatest e-p .1 are. Al.;,•rnr:n 'Hatus hoped the address would not be one of a ani formal character, hut would appear as ii it (male warm tram the he:irt, and tilled with generous and grateful sentiments.—(Hear. hear.) He wished it to be communicated to the French people that anything affecting their interests was an object of interest to this country.—(Cheers.) Alderman H. 11 trollEs suggested that the address should be one of condolence as well as congratulation, as the King, when attacked, was surrounded by his family, whose terror must have been greatly excited by the event, and with whom it would be proper for the Court to sympathise. He thought the sympathy of the Court should certainly be embodied in the address.— (Hear, hear.) The less formal and the more hearty and unconstrained the address would be the better. The suggestion of embodying the sympathy of the Court in the address was adopted by generally expressed consent. After a few words from Alderman Wood, Alderman Hurnphery, and Alderman Sydney, who agreed in every sentiment which had been uttered in praise of the King of Ow French, the address was unanimously carried, and amidst loud cheers. The Court then adjourned. PRESENTATION OF THE DUN COMBE TESTIMONIAL The Honourable Member for Finsbury having fixed Satur day evening for receiving the above tribute of a people's gratitude, a deputation from the Central Committee, accom panied by Mr. Syme, the secretary, waited upon Mr. Dun combe at his chambers in the Albany, and having been received with his usual kindness, ➢lr. SYME rose and said, Sir,—We have been appointed by the Testimonial Central Committee to transfer to you the result of their grateful efforts, and as they have prepared and furnished us with an address to be presented to you on this occasion, I think that any preliminary observations of mine will be quite unnecessary. The very able address was then read ; the following is the concluding paragraph : " In conclusion, Sir, we beg to assure you that this testi monial is presented by us in the truthful and manly spirit, so beautifully expressed of ' our own order,' by Robt. Nicoll : An offering to the shrine of power Our hands shall never bring— A garland on the car of pomp Our hands shall never fling. Applauding in the conqueror's path Our voices tie er shall be ; But we have hearts to honour those Who bade the world go free.'" Mr. DUNCOMBS then said—Mr. Syme and Gentlemen, it is impossible for me to accept this generous tribute of vour gratitude without mixed feelings of pride and sorrow. Pride, that my humble exertions on behalf of my industrious fellow-countrymen should be deemed worthy of national approval; and sorrow, that exposure of wrong and asser tion of right should be otherwise distinguished than as acts of justice, which the trustees of the unenfranchised people are solemnly bound to perform towards those for whom they hold the trust. Whatever thanks are due to me for the poor services which entitle me to your gratitude, the labouring classes fully and honourably participate 5n that reward, inasmuch as their co-operation cheerfully yielded, and without which my best exertions would have been vain and impotent, has at all times and upon all occasions nerved me for the struggle, and emboldened me to persevere in my resistance to the aggressions of their oppressors. The in trinsic value of your splendid testimonial consists in the deep and lasting impression which it is calculated to stamp upon the minds of all thinking men, that Englishmen, who are grateful for acts of justice, are not likely to violate its laws, and may be, therefore, safely entrusted with a fair participation in making and administering them ; and I sin cerely trust that the day is not far distant when acts of simple justice for the labouring classes will constitute the rule and not the exception of representation ; and none will more cheerfully hail the happy advent than myself, being con vinced that the first step towards the perfect freedom of our country is, the recognition of the principle that those whose valour in arms —whose skill in manufactures—whose science in mechanism—whose calm endurance under great suffering and privation—whose success in the art of converting our national resources into wealth, in the enjoyment of which they have not, in my opinion, their fair and legitimate pro portion, may be safely and honourably entrusted with the power of making laws for the further development of their national resources, and with the view to their more equitable distribution. My friends, it is not improbable that your services may be shortly courted by the two great parties now contending for political ascendancy, and when, if still esteemed worthy of your confidence, I may, as one of your representatives, be called upon to assume a position without reference to the speculative interest of either ; and if such course should subject us to a more severe trial, and a more searching ordeal than in our previous struggles we have undergone, relying upon a continuance of your co-operation, be assured I shall not flinch from my - share of the trouble, the responsibility, or the danger, which the assertion of your rights and the advocacy of your cause may impose.—(Cheers.) My friends, while I deplore the cause you assign for the inability of some of your order to participate to your flattering offer, I regret that you should have deemed any explanation necessary to enhance its value. This emblem of my countrymen's confidence, ge nerosity, and gratitude, I recognise as the embodiment of the feeling of the industrious classes, and a testimonial of their undivided approval of my conduct ; as such I accept it, and in accepting it at your bands, the fulness of expression is inadequate to communicate my thanks to the industrious donors, and in commemoration of whose confidence I shall preserve it, treasure it, and esteem it as long as life remains; and when I am no more, and when it shall have passed into other hands, I trust that it may inspire its future possessor with the same pride that I now feel in accepting it, as a token of my countrymen's confidence, affection, and gene rosity. The duty of the deputation being at an end, they bowed and retired, highly elated with the pleasant termination of their grateful labours. AFFAIRS OF THE RIVE PLATE. The following documents relative to the affairs of the River Plate have been published. The first is a transla tion of a paper which was delivered, unofficially and confidentially, by the Argentine Government to the French Chargid'Affaires, the Baron de Mareuil, con taining the several bases, upon a recognition of which the Argentine Government was willing to enter into ne gotiations with the mediating Ministers for the entire and final pacification of the countries lying on both sides of the river. The other document is a letter from Lord Ponsonby, the British Ministerin the River Plate in 1828, in which he distinctly refused to give the guarantee of the British Government for the fulfilment of the treaty of that year between Buenos Ayres and Brazil. We subjoin the documents ;--- "Translation of a document delivered confidentially by the Argentine Government to the French Chargé d'Affaires, Baron de Mareuil, indicating cases for the resumption of negotiations for the pacification of the River Plate : "1. That the negotiation should be opened in a proper and ho•aourable manner by their Excellencies the ; Ministers of France and England with his Excellency ' the legal president of the Oriental Republic of the Ura guay, Brigadier Don Manuel Oribe ; and that the Ar gentine Government, in consideration of the events which have taken place, should participate and concur in upon in consequence of such ' negotiation. "2. be agreed That bis Excellency the legal President of the Oriental Republic, Brigadier Don Manuel Oribe, to whom the direction of the war in the Oriental Republic be longs, should. determine concerning any proposition re lating to a suespension of hostilities. " 3. That on the re-establishment of the legal Govern ment in Morite Video, as already effected throughout the rest of wire Oriental territory, in such way and on such conditions as might be resolved upon by his Excel lency the leg A President of the Oriental Republic, the foreigners w'io had taken up arms in that city should lay them does vn, delivering them up to the established Government ; the English and French troops should be re-embarked ; Colonia should be evacuated, as should also any other point of the coast of the Oriental Re public of the Uruguay, or of the Argentine Republic, which might have been taken possession of by the British and French forces ; and that the auxiliary Ar gentine divisions should return to the territory of the Confederation. owssiahrin.leomid_iu_cr,ihi " 4. That the vessels belonging to the Confederation should be restored to the Argentine government, in the port of Buenos Ayres, in the same state in which they were taken on the Zed of August, by the French and British squadrons ; that as soon as this had taken place, , the Argentine fl tg should be saluted by both squadrons I with 21 guns each, anal that the Argentine squadron she uld return the salute with 21 guns likewise for each. " 5. That the island of Martin Garcia should be re st, ired to the Aieeentine Government in the same rate in w hich it was taken. " 6. That the declaration of blockade and the ports and coasts of the province of Buenos Ayres by the Mi nistere of England and France, dated 18th of September last; should be revoked. " 7. That the merchant vessels under the Argentine flag, with their cargoes, which might have been taken or detained by the French or English naval forces, should be restored. the tion of the rivers Parana and Uruguay, which flow 2 8 k . rg T e h n a ti t n i e n G c o o r n e s r e u q m u n e e n o c t e h o u f s t t h o e re p g er u f l e a c te t r t i h g e h n t a w v h ig ic a lt through the territory of the Confederation, and belong to its dominion, all the vesselsjunder the English and French flag, which might have penetrated into the,afore said rivers should immediately retire. "9. That, as the belligerent rights of the Argentine Government had been disavowed by the refusal of the commanders of the British and French squadrons off Monte Video to recognise the absolute blockade of that port and of Maldonado, declared by the Argentine Go vernment, of which perfect rights it is in possession with h the same plenitude as any other independent state; m c i i n e i tsy the ei e t h : athm Ministerseeslaoof their tah o ne f di rFsr Sovereigns, usagesnv e c r e e io a gf n nu d s a, t E i toh n u : st: p i r n o s ci e p u c a e ra , b a l tr e ec f te ro d m in tel disavowal was not to be eonstrued as a legitimate precedent. " 10. That the Argentine Government, whilst deter not not to deviate from the policy of non-interven ie the internal affairs of the Oriental republic, dared expressly that neither this convention, nor any de other which might be agreed upon for the sake of avert ing the serious complications which events had produced, i a ts ny pt:l a it y ical principles, de the rights which b t elon g to the Argentine Confederation with reference o the Oriental republic, arising out of the convention of peace with the empire of Brazil, celebrated in the year 1828. That said convention remained in full force. " 11. That, in the same manner, the Argentine Go vernment declared that in any convention, whether the present or any other, which might be entered into with reference to late events, it did not recognise an y . title, in any case, either in France or in England, to interfere in the affairs of the two republics of the River Plate. and that the said Governments of France and England vere not to consider themselves as possessing any right ; in virtue f said cony • profess to constitute conventions, to themselves ' ty and independ guarantes of the sovereign ence ef the two republics of the Plate. " 12. That for the sake of avoiding in future com plications prejudicial to . the Argentine republic, and to the commerce of neutrals, anypolitical intimation, or expressio4 Of its Wishes, whi c h ogle; mg= Mien Wi th glihEil dist:eccinal confor mity to make to the Argentine republic, should be exclusively reserved for the diplomatic agents. That the com• manders of the naval stations should in no case be en trusted with them. and that proper instructions should be given to that effect. " 1:3. That the satisfaction and reparation due to the Argentine Confederation for all and each of the injuries and losses which had been inflicted on it from the time of the refusal to acknowledge the blockage of Monte 'Video and Maldonado, during the course of the hostili ties, and until the conclusion of the same, should be re ferred to the arbitration of two friendly neutral powers, one to be chosen by the Ministers of England and France, and the other by the Argentine Government. " 14. That it will belong exclusively to the legal government of the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay to claim and stipulate the satisfaction and reparation to which it may consider itself entitled. " 15. That the internal regulation of the Oriental Re public of the Uruguay belongs altogether to its legal government, without the interference or intermeddling of any foreign force or influence, inasmuch as in the domestic arrangements that its government might wish to make, the general voice of the Oriental citizens alone should have any weight. " 16. That no conference nor communication, nor official act whatever, should take place until thee bases had been agreed upon privately and confidently between ther Excellencies the Ministers of France and England and the government of the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay, presided over by his Excellency the legal President, Brigadier Don Manuel Oribe, to whom a copy of said bases would be transmitted by the Argentine government. " 17. That in case this private and confidential ar rangement should be entered upon these bases, the Ar gentine Government would acquaint its ally his Excel lency the legal President of the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay with the special mission which their Ex cellencies the Ministers of Great Britain and France had announced themselves as the bearers of from their Go vernments, respecting the pacification of the republics of the Plate; that, at the same time, the above-mentioned should be communicated by his Exc , llency the legal President of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, Briga dier Don Manuel Oribe, and by their 'Excellencies the Ministers of France and Great Britain, to the Argentine Government, and that this latter would then unite in establishing these same bases in public and official stipu lations, character, and form." LETTER FROM LORD PONSONBY, &C. " Rio Janeiro, August 20, 1828. " The undersigned, her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, has the honour to acknowledge the receipt of a letter, under date the 20th of August, from their Excellencies General Balcarce and General Guido, Ministers Plenipotentiary of the Republic of the United Provinces of the River Plate, wherein their Excellencies desire to be informed if the undersigned, in his official capacity. can give any guarantee for the performance of the stipulations that may be entered into in any preliminary convention or definite treaty of peace. "The undersigned, in reply, has the honour to state that he has no authority from his Government to con tract any engagement for the guarantee of any prelimi nary convention or definitive treaty of peace, and he begs leave to refer to his Excellency General Balcarce's knowledge, that the undersigned was similarly situated when he had the honour and pleasure to be the British Envoy at Buenos Ayres. " The undersigned has forwarded with this note a letter in answer to certain interrogatories made by their Excellencies, upon the question of the apparent or real securities which may be contemplated for the strict ful filment of such conditions as may be agreed upon be tween the belligerents, touching the evacuation of the fortresses of the Banda Oriental. " The undersigned avails himself of this occasion to assure their Excellencies of his high esteem and consi deration. (Signed) " PONSONBY. "To their Excellencies the Ministei . .s Plenipotentiary of the Republic of La Plata, &c." The accounts from the River Plate (says the Liver pool Times), brought by the last Brazilian packet, state that an armistice had been concluded between General Urquiza, President Rosas' commander in the province of Entre Rios, and Gencral Paz, the commander of the united forces of Corrientes and Paraguay. We have reason to know that this intelligence was believed at Monte Video by persons generally possessed of the best intelligence. If true, it is of the utmost importance, as such a junction of parties, especially if supported by England and France, would secure the independence of Monte Video, open the n av i gat i on o f the Parana, for at least fifteen hundred miles into the interior, and would reduce Rosas to the defensive. Urquiza's and Garzon's influence in the Entre Rios have been the main supports of his power for several years, as they have prevented the union and co-operation of his enemies in the Banda Oriental with those in Corrientes. The latter have re cently been reinforced by an army of 10,000 men from Paraguay, and are therefore more formidable than ever. If Urquiza, who has thus been placed between two fires, has given way, General Rosas will by this time have the united forces of Paraguay, Corrientes, Entre Rios, and the Banda Oriental, backed by England and France, upon his hands. What renders this pro bable is, that he appears to have offered no serious op position to the advance of the combined squadron, the commanders of which had reached General Paz's camp in Corrientes, and were about to proceed to Assun cion, the capital of Paraguay. The first division of the army of Paraguay, 4,000 strong, under the corn mend of young Lopez, the son of the President of that Republic, hid joined Paz in Corrientes, thus rendering him fully equal to any force which Urquiza cou'd bring against him, even if he was disposed to risk all for Rosas, which those who know him best consider hin' very unlikely to do. Should Urquiza have joined Paz, or even have consented to remain neutral, the province of Santa Fe, which will then be the only province on the banks of the Parana favourable to Rosas, will not continue so long. For Santa Fe was for ages the great line of communication with interior provinces, and has been the greatest sufferer amongst the Riverine States by the exclusive system of General Rosas, notwithstand ing the bribe of 60,000 silver dollars which he has paid to it yearly to secure its acquiescence. We sincerely trust that tke news of Urquiza's defec tion will be.confirmed, as it will secure the two great ob jects which render the struggle interesting and,important to Europeans, and which induce five-sixths of the mer chants engaged in the River Plate trade to submit to present preserving losses a f w the ith eh independence eerf u lnes s. T of Montehees Video, objects are a state the which has given a most signal example of commercial liberality to all the states of America, and the opening of that magnificent river, the Parana, which will in a few years triple the trade of Europe with the River Plate. The whole object of Rosa's anti-social policy has been to close the Parana and to crush Monte Video, whose rapid growth in prosperity was a perpetual re proach to his own selfisk and short-sighted policy. SUSPECTED MURDER OF MR. ASTLE Y. Our English readers will be much shocked to learn that it is now strongly suspected that Mr. Astley, whose melancholy fate we communicated in a former number, did not meet with his death by accident, as was then supposed, but that he had been foully assassinated. Various rumours are in circulation en this subject, but we believe the following are all the facts that have transpired :—lt appears that the unfortunate gentleman had dined with a friend at his own house at Houton ; after dinner they went together to a cabaret in the vil lage, which he habitually frequented, and remained there till about eleven o'clock. On leaving the house, Mr. Astley remained behind on the bridge for a necessary purpose, and his companion walked on; but had not pro ceeded far when his name was called, not in a tone of urgency or as in any danger, but in the usual manner. lle, however, paid no parti cular attention to this, and went on to the house, but finding, after a lapse of ten minutes, that Mr. Astley did not return, he went back to the inn, and, procuring a lantern, searched the banks of the river, which was not more than two feet deep at the sides, accompanied by the landlord's son, without dis covering airy trace. This, however, (lid not excite much alarm, as Mr. Astley's habits were very eccentric, and it was c , ncluded that he hail gone away on some sudden whim----a riot very unusual circumstance. When the next morning arrived without his making his appearance, his friends became alarmed for his safety, and sent men all over the country to search for him, and had boats out to drag the river. But it was not until after the lapse of two days that the body was found at a place about three leagues down the Ourthe. It had a large wound, seemingly inflicted by some heavy blunt instru ment, which had broken in all the crown of the skull, and some slight contusions on the legs. The sleeve of his coat was torn, and the knees of a pair of heavy fish ing boots he wore much abraded, as if he had been dragged along a stony road. These appearances led to the suspicion that murder had been committed ; and upon the examination before the tribunal at Marche, itcatne out that two men, who h had been d r i n ki ng at a neighbouring ca baret, had left just about the time when the affair must have occurred. These men were carpenters, and it was stated that there existed a quarrel of about two years' standing between them and the deceased, relative to a disputed account. They avowed that they were both too much intoxicated to recollect anything that happened; and there not being sufficient evidence to criminate them, they were liberat e d, b ut st i ll rema i n under the sur veillance of th e pAice. An old man, inhabitingi heard cries for a cot tage near near th e b r id ge , sa id th a t h 9 help, but on going out could not perceive anything un usual. No attempt at robberyseemed made, as the watch, money, ring, to have been &c., of the deceased were all found on the body; a large German pipe he carried, and his hat, being the only articles missing. The officers of justice are still engaged in the investigation ofthis sad affair, but it remains up to this time involved in impenetrable mystery. Lord Hastings came from England to be present at the examination before the Juge Instruction, and has conveyed his unhappy bro ther's remains for interment in the family vault.—Brus sels Gazette. NOTICE TO MARINERS. LIGaTIIOUSE ON THE ISLAND OF CERIGO. An application by ship•owners and others interested in the Levant trade, it is understood, is about to be made to the Admiralty, for the erection of a lighthouse on the Island of Cerigo, at the south-east corner of the Morea, which is much wanted for the safety of vessels proceeding to the A rc hip e l ago, Smyrna, Constantinople, and the Black Sea. LL4IITHOUSE ON CAPE FINISTERRE. An application, at the instance of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, has been made to the Spanish Government, either to erect, or permit to be erected, a lighthouse on Cape Finnis Finisterre. As this is the most westerly promontory of Europe, and a point which vessels generally endeavour to make, on their voyages to or from Spain, Portugal. and the Mediterranean, it is a matter of surprise that a lighthouse has not long since been placed there. Had there been a good light on Cape Finisterre, it is considered the unfortunate loss O t. the Great Liverpool would hot illTilloppened, LAW INTELLIGEN CE, COURT OF CHANCERY, April 22. WEEKS V. LORD STANHOPE. The arguments in this part-heard appeal were resumed this morning, and continued the whole day. VICE ,CE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, April 22. (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) RUSSELL V. SMITH. This c9se came before the Court to-day upon motion to dissolve an injunction, restraining the defendant from sing ing certain songs in various places of public entertainment in the metropolis. The case, which had not concluded at three o'clock, when the Court rose, will be proceeded with to-morrow. - COURT OF COM - MO.IV PLEAS, April 22, (Sittings in Banco.) FOWLES V. PAGE. The Court was occupied the most of the day in hearing this case, which was an action for debt, brought by plaintiffs, a Liverpool banking company, against defendant, who was a member of a firm, and was tried at the late assizes, when a verdict was given for the plaintiffs. The present motion was to set aside that verdict. It pos sessed no feature of interest. The Court would take time to consider. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, April 22. (Sittings in Banco ) This day was again occupied with motions for new trials, there being upwards of twenty still to be disposed wf when the Court sat this morning. The only case possessing any feature of interest was the following : JACKSON AND WIFE V. SIMPSON. Mr. Sergeant SIIEA moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict in this case should not be set aside, judgment arrested, and a new trial had, on the ground of misdirection, the verdict being against evidence, and also on affidavits. The action was tried at the late assizes for the county of Kent, when a verdict was given for the plaintiff—Damages 1501. The facts of the case were briefly these. The defendant kept a ram and a sheep, which he dignified with the appellations of Albert and Victoria. It appeared, that the rain, which was tethered by the side of Victoria, in the garden of defendant, escaped from his restraint and got into the premises of Mrs. Jackson, the plaintiff. While endeavouring to take him back to his disconsolate " Victoria" plaintiff was upset, and sus tained the severest injuries from the violence of rebellious " Albert." The COURT, thinking no doubt that sufficient cause could be shown for Albert's conduct, under the circumstauce6 granted the rule. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A man, named William Harrison, was brought before Alderman Hughes Hughes, charged with having com mitted au assault upon a female. A City policeman, who was doing duty in the Poultry on the preceding night at a quarter to nine o'clock, ob served the defendant annoying a female of respectable appearance. Witness protected the lady, whom the prisoner at the bar had taken hold of and pulled into the street, and locked up the contemptible offender in the station-house. The language used by the defendant was just what might have been expected from a fellow who was in the habit of insulting females, and who cer tainly deserved upon the present occasion to be well kicked. The lady, who went to the station-house and signed the charge-book, expressed her willingness to withdraw the accusation if the defendant consented to apologise for his ruffianlike behaviour, but he had not even the decency to say that be was sorry for what he had done. Alderman HUGHES HUGHES having ascertained that the complainant was not present, said he was under the necessity of discharging the defendant, but he regretted that in such a case the magistrate was deprived of the power to do justice in the absence of the person who seemed to have had such reason to complain. The defendant, who denied that his conduct was at all reprehensible, was then discharged. Elizabeth Jones, a person who has been in the habit of calling for gratuitous advice upon medical men, and picking up any clothes, or other p ro p erty, w hi c h lay i n her way, was charged with robbery. Mr. Stephen H. Ward, M.D., residing at No. 35, Finsbury Circus, stated that about three weeks ago the prisoner called upon him for a prescription. When she made her appearance his coat was hanging on the back of a chair in the room. She quitted the room suddenly without his knowledge, and his coat disappeared at the same time. He subsequently saw his coat at the shop of a pawnbroker at Aldgate. It was worth about a sovereign. T. J. Hogg, assistant to Mr. Barker, pawnbroker, Aldgate, stated that he was present when the coat pro duced was pledged by the prisoner, and the duplicates were found to correspond. Alderman H. HUGHES observed that the prisoner's dis honesty was the more culpable, as it was exercised to wards a professional gentleman who had been in the habit of most liberally administering to the health of those who were not able to pay for medical advice. It was a very serious disappointment to gentlemen so dis interested to find that, instead of the gratitude that was due to them, they met with such a system of victimising. There had been three cases, in each of which the pri soner was known to have made such a return for kind ness rendered, and she should certainly have an oppor tunity of answering before a jury at the Central Cimina Court.—Committed for trial. IVOR SHIP-STREET. Jane Dove, a scantily-attired and emaciated. looking widow, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Broughton, charged with having threatened to murder three of her children, of ages varying from 3 to 11 years. It appeared that as a weaver named Savage was passing through John-street, Bethnal-green, shortly before one o'clock on Sunday morning, a little boy ran up to him in great terror and agitation, and implored his assistance, as his mother had armed herself with a knife, and was about to murder all the family. He, witness, immediately applied to police-constable Fowler, with whom he accompanied the boy to the house, and on entering a back room, in which there were two children asleep, they found the primer pacing up and down in a state of extreme excitement, and on commu nicating to her the substance of her son's statement, she threw herself into a chair, and bursting into tears, said that it had been her intention to destroy her childen first, and then cut her own throat. On asking the son for the weapon his mother had attempted to use, he handed the constable a table-knife, together with a whetstone, on which he said the prisoner had sharpened it just before he ran into the street. The appearance of the place denoted the last stage of poverty and destitution, and the only articles of furniture in the room, besides an old deal table and a couple of broken chairs, was a wretched b e d i n one of the corners for the indiscrimi nate, use of the unhappy family. The prisoner's son, an intelligent boy, eleven years of age , was then exa m i ne d, an d stated that after putting the other children to bed, and sharpening the knife for some time upon the stone, his mother suddenly started up, and declaring that she would murder the whole of them, attempted to seize hold of him, but he contrived to elude her grasp, and hastened out for assistance. The prisoner's daughter, a young married woman, here stepped forward, and stated that her mother had obtained a scanty subsistence by washing for poor families in the neigh bourhood, but that latterly she had been unable to obtain any employment, and the whale family had since been wholly dependent on the labour of the two elder boys, who earned a few shillings a week at paper staining. She felt satisfied that her mother's mind had become unsettled through the misery of her situation. Upon being called upon for her defence, the prisoner, who was obviously labouring under acute mental suffering, disclaimed any deliberate design to injure her children, and besought the magistrate to allow her to return home. Mr. BROUGHTON said that it was certainly a very melan choly case, but as it was perfectly manifest that the woman's mind was in a state of positive derangement, and that the lives of her children would be in jeopardy if she were set at large, he felt it his duty to commit her to prison, where every attention would be shown to her, and he should direct the pa'ish officers, in the mean time, to take the case into their consideration, and adopt proper steps for the protection of the prisoner and her family. AN IRISHMAN'S PlG.—The pig takes his meals with the rest of the family, whom, at best, he regards as his poor relations. He sits down with the circle at the family board (often literally a board for a plate), and eats with them from the same dish, from which they usually select for him the largest potatoes. Instances, it is true, have been known where a disloyal peasant has endeavoured to persuade the pig to eat a few potato peelings, mashed up with the rest, but seldom with success. Far more common is it to give the pig something in addition, such as porridge, bran and cake, and cabbage. Not merely is the pig better fed than the peasant, with his wife and children, but in several dis tricts it is the only animal that is sufficiently fed. This is more especially the case in Sligo and Roscommon. The pig, meantime, knows how matters stand, and is quite aware of his own importance. Hite happens to be coming in at the door of the cabin at the same time that one of the children is coming out, he tries to make it appear that there is not room enough for both, and gives the child a hunch with his shoulder in p ass i ng, like a surly brute who would gtowl, " Get out of the way, don't you see me coming!" A traveller in the provinces told me that a h n e d on ti c ie e overheard a sort of dialogue between a peasant g not returned e r f et tuhrenehdouasiel. night,l'he p a ig nd ha t d he ab g sc ir o l n , ded h , or ha a d t ir l b l ea ee s n t had searching for him since daybreak, home, reproaching him for his ingratitude mcg lig i acquiescence to along, the pig returning a sort of ,, ji Didn't d I always get you each touching interrogatory. was w ri l o o w as bringingthe, walked lim Igiven you the best praties, and male said the pig. "Haven't often gone without a enou gh stickin t s h tr e a e w hi a n t k n n i , g t l h it e twoalclotynekr keep p u t n n d e you, and o a n n t d r a , , w , wisp to myself for y - ou—se eenee did in some degree partake i grudging acquiescence leaves, and warm h, now , , mash, and .. p u ff," said the pig;bu o t f the an w H ou o l w dn e 't ou l ld al 3 w ,o a u y always have(o mythe home—eh? Will I tell you of all heart to leave your own " 0 ‘ d ` o O ty h , , bdyo don'tyou b —eh ?—wouldn't e. o " u l d ' n ' 'At And d I ' do hear about that."—Cot saidthe pig; meanin g , i n your ingratitude, eh ?" Co respondent o c a a d s e n e , t " ofn Well, ia o l ra d i o n n; don't paper. care WINDSOR CA ST L t O E. — a n A new arrangement THE A h E a T s M j taken E us N t TSlT place, agreeably order issued by Earl D e l awarr , th e L or d C hamberlain, with reference to the ti c k e t s s i gne d b y hi s Lordship for viewing the State Apartments of the Castle. In order to prevent, as far as possible, the hawking about of those tickets in the streets of Windsor, and the impositions practised upon those victors to the town who may be unprovided with the Lord Chamberlain's orders, these tickets for the future will be available for only one week from the period at which they are dated. They are also for the future not to be transferable. It is also stated that, at a very early period, an arrangement will be made, so that the admissions to the state apartments will be procured by the public, at the office of Mr. Roberts, the recently appointed Inspector of Palaces, in the department of the Lord Chamberlain. The number of tickets, each to admit seven persons, issued by the four establishments in London, where they are only to be procured, since the Ist of January (the day on which the new arrangement came into operation), up to Saturday last, exceeds three thousand. ST. Joittl's GATE.—The owners of this ancient struc ture have relinquishsd the idea of compoing the gate, and have determined to re-case it with stone where defective. The ornamental portions, such as embattlements, lables, &c. are to be restored by the public, under the direction of the committee and Mr. W. P. Griffith, architect;---The Builder. TIIE NIGHTINGALE.—This charming songster, for whose melodious notes the Trumpington-read is so renewed, has begun to pour forth its " jug -jug" in our neighbourhood earlier than usual this year. Last week it was heard, and by this time it is almost common.— Cambridge Chronicle. Preparations are being made for the reception of the ministers, nearly 500 in number, expected to attend the Wesleyan Conference, which will be held this year in Bristol. Briatal Journal, NAVAL IN TELLIGENC:B. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 22.—The St. Vincent, 120, Captain Sir Richard Grant, took the flag of Admiral Ogle from the. Victorious hulk yesterday, and this morning the latter hauled ono her usual moorings. The St. Vincent is now ready to go to Spithead whenever the tides will allow her. We have much pleasure in announcing that Sir Richard Grant will go to sea in her. Thirty extra riggers belonging to this dock yard were discharged into the St. Vincent yesterday, towards completing her complement, which will be made up to 950, by extra marines. The Winchester, 50, Captain Eden, flag of Rear-Admiral the Hon. J. Percy, was inspected and mustered at Spithead yesterday, by Admiral Percy, for the Commander-in-Chief; the crew were exercised in target practice, and showed con siderable proficiency in gunnery. She came into harbour this morning to be dismantled prior to being paid off. Admiral Percy struck his flag last evening at sunset. She sailed into harbour in gallant style. Two days before she left the Cape, the Helena, 16, Commander Sir C. Ricketts, Bart., sailed from Simon's Bay for a cruize in the Mozambique Channel, and the Cleopatra, 26, Captain Wyvill, left on the 11th of Feb. for the same waters. The Royalist, 10, Commander Ogle, arrived at Singapore from Mindora on the 17th of February, and sailed on the 26th for Sarawak. The Diligence, naval transport, went to Devonport yes terday with the stores for that dockyard, and supplies for the Irish squadron. Sir W. Burnett, M.D., , F.R.S., Director-General of the Medical Department of the Navy, arrived at Haslar Hospital on a visit of inspection on Monday. The Vulture steam frigate, Captain 111‘Douall, left Singa- pore on the 10th of February for Hong-Kong. The Janus steamer was towed ( !) out of the harbour to Spithead by the Echo tug this morning early. She is manned by a crew from the Victory, and commanded by Mr. Minn, master. of that ship. She will " sail" for Wool wich as soon as the wind becomes favourable. The Queen, 110, and Albion, 92, are on their way from Devonport to Spithead, to join the experimental squadron. ♦PPOINTAIENTS. Commander J. J. M'Cleverty (1842), who was midship man of the Asia, at Navarino, and commanded the Hon. East India Company's steamer Phlegethon, at the taking of Amoy and Chinghae in 1841, and at the destruction of the Chinese fire-rafts at Chinghae, taking of Woosung and Changhae, and the city of Ching-Keang-Foo in 1842, is ap pointed to command the Polyphemus steam-sloop at Wool wich. Commander Henry Chads (1845, son of Commodore Chads, late of the Cambrian, and now in command of the Excellent gunnery ship and the Royal Naval College at this port), who was Senior Lieutenant of the Harlequin, and was severely wounded when in command of her boats in a desperate en counter with pirates on the coast of Sumatra, in 1844, is ap pointed to command the Styx, steam-sloop, on the coast of Africa, vice Hornby, invalided with injured sight from the effects of the climate. Lieutenants—J. Seccombe (1842), to the Queen, appoint ment to the Vernon cancelled; W. J. Deane (1843), to the Persian. Second Masters—W. H. Bourchier, to the Griffin ;R. Smith, to the Belleisle. Assistant-Surgeons —C. Roberts, to the Pique ; Francis M'Aree (acting), of the Vindictive, to the Hyacinth; Alfred Jackson (acting), from the Victory, to Haslar Hospital; A. Lillie, to the Griffon. Master's Assistant—C. P. Campbell, to the St. Vincent. Midshipman—J. H. E. Wemyss, to the Retribution. Mr. Harvey, boatswain of the St. Vincent, is appointed master rigger of Portsmourh dockyard, in the room of Mr. Maitland, recently superannuated. SHEERNESS, APRIL 21.—The Trafalgar, 120, flag-ship, Captain J. N. Nott, got under way on Monday morning, from the Nore, and had proceeded as far as the Mouse, when the wind freshening from the N.E., she was compelled to bring up, where she remained till to-day, when the wind having moderated, the Monkey and Fearless steamers took her in tow through the Swin channel to the Downs. The Brilliant, 22, Captain R. B. Watson, C.B , being com pletely fitted for sea, was discharging from the basin on Friday. She is a noble looking craft ; with all her guns and stores on board, with the exception of her powder and a portion of her shot, she draws about 16i, fact of water for ward, and 18 1 j! aft., and carries her midship port nearly 8 feet from the water's edge. She will complete the adjust ment of her compasses to-day, go to the Nore to-morrow, and sail o❑ Friday for Spithead. The Emerald cutter, Second Master Beach, arrived from Portsmouth yesterday, with supernumeraries. She goes to Chatham to-day, to wait the paying off of the Warspite, 50, when she will convey her marines to their division at Ports mouth. The Griffon, 6, brigantine, Lieutenant Commander C. E. Wilmot, is already all ataunt in the basin, having been rigged by the dockyard riggers. Her complement of marines joined to-day from the Chatham division. Only one or two seamen have as yet entered for her. TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. J, King, draper, Kingston •upon-Hull—third div. of id. in the pound, and those creditors who were two late to prove for the first and second div. may also receive 3s. 4d. and Bd. in the pound i❑ addition, on any Wednesday after April 22, at the office of Mr. Freeman, Leeds. T. Humphrey, sen., and T. Humphrey, jun., shipwrights, Kingston-upon-Hull—second div. of lid. in the pound, and those who were too late to prove for the first div. may re. ceive 2s. 6d. in the pound in addition, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Freeman, Leeds. S. and J. Knight, calico dealers, Manchester—final div. of eleven-sixteenths of a penny in the pound, on any Tues day, at the office of Mr. Pott, Manchester. W. G. Taylor and E. Guy, hosiers, Liverpool—first div. of 9s. in the pound, en any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Morgan, Liverpool. J. and T. Binney, merchants, Sheffield —second div. of 6d. in the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Hope, Leeds. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. W. Attwater, dyer, Devonshire-street, Queen-square, May 12, at half-past one—J. Johns, confectioner, Grosvenor street West,Pimlico, May 12, at t we l ve—J. Hamilton, wine merchant, King-street, St. James's, May 12, at eleven—M. Maclean, cloth factor, Basinghall-street, May 15, at one—G. C. Green, stationer, Barge-yard, Bucklersbury, May 12, at half-past one, In the Country. G. Perry, coachbuilder, Stroud, Gloucestershir:', May 19, at eleven, at the Bristol Distriet Court—W. Tomlinson, jun., money scrivener, Nantwich, Cheshire, May 12, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court—J. Clarke and J. Philips, bankers, Leicester. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein mentioned. J. H. Nock, outfitter, Poplar, May 14—S. Stocker, sen., hydraulic engineer, Seckford-street, Clerkenwell, May 14-- P. Owen, Miller, Liverpool, May 14— G. Perry, coachbuilder, Stroud, Gloucestershir, May 18—G. Dardier, merchant, Liverpool, May 14—J. Walton, coal merchant, Liverpool, May 12—J, M'Gibbon, shoemaker, Liverpool, May 12—J. A. H. Jee, insurance broker, Liverpool, May 12—I. Rober's, grocer, Mold, Flint s hi re , M a y 12 — J . Hill, currier, Birming ham, May 15—S. Rhodes, worsted spinner, Bradford, York shire, May 14—J. Sykes, hosier, Doncaster, May 12—J. Joplin, draper, Bishopwearmouth, Durham, May 12—W. Davis, plasterer, Strangeways, Lancashire, May 12—R. E. Walker, ship broker, Liverpool, May 10—C.• Rose, dyer, Leeds, May 12. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. R. Hearn and T. D. Blackburn, linendrapers, Taunton— J. F. Coulstring and D. C. Isaacs, wire -workers, Bristol—E. _B a j l m a a n n d andA calico i S e o printers, pa r s, general Bra merchants,nehest er s ellr paonocil IL Owens, boiler makers, Bolton-le -Moors --J. Greenwood and A. Derny, joiners, Bury, Lancashire—G, W. F. Cook and E. Humphreys, attorneys, St. Swithin's-lane— G. and S. L. Northey, lime merchants, Tavistock—F. Blake and G. Tamplin, attorneys, King's-road, Bedford-row—C. Jeffereys and S. Nelson, music -sellers, Soho-square --W. Bayley and W. C. Newby. attorneys, Stockton, Durham—J. and W. Miss, farmers, Thrupp- grounds, Northamptonshire —T. Law don and C. Weightman, cabinet warehousemen, Edgeware road—G. Corless, H. Casson, S. Dalby, W. Corless, and J. Riley, worsted spinners, Laister Dyke, Yorkshire (so far as regards G. Corless)—T. Watson and J. Osborne, woolsta Leeds —J. B . and T. Summers, farmers, Low Newton, pl Dur ers, hatn—C. B. Smith and J. 'links, die sinkers, Birmingham— C. Cotton and G. Sayle, surgeons, King's Lynn—P. Vaughan and G. Bevan, attorneys, Brecon—A. K en t an d J . Per rutt, sod a preparers, Bissow, Cornwall—J. W. Adams and T. Hill, stockbrokers, Manchester—R. Stones and T. Hodg son, brassfounders, Hull—J. R. Greaves, J. M'Nicol, and J. Laurie, Liverpool (so far as regards J. Laurie)---J. P. bragor, S. Davey, W. Davey, and R. Davey, common brewers, Red ruth, Cornwall (so tar as regards IV. Davey) —W. Morley and E. Sot rell, Manchester warehousemen, Bread-street, Cheapside—D. Campbell and G. Greaves, horseowners, Liver pool—W. and T. Lambert, curriers, New Brentford—T. Dixon and J. Hall, surgeons, Preston—T. Dewhirst and S. Hewitt, sawyers, Bradford—E. Legh and A. Bellamy, wine merchants, Quadrant, Regent -street —R. Greenwell, B. Sacker, and R. J. Brown, coal fitters, Sunderland—J. Ash croft, A. F. Mackay, and D. Mackay, Liverpool —IV. Carr and D. Goodall, button-sellers, Glasshouse -street, Regent street—T. Sneed and T. Hill, earthenware manufacturers, Hanley, Staffordshire—R. Penrose, D. Starbuck, and J. Sheppard, jun., Abergarward Colliery, Glamonganshire (so far as regards J. Sheppard). SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. David Weir, innkeeper, Glasgow, April 25, and May 9, at twelve, at Deans' Tavern, Glasgow. Thomas Lennox, grocer, Perth, April 29, and May 20, at twelve, at the office of Mr. Clark, Perth. Letters from Florence announce the demise of the I on. in tart, en H after ry Bay a short oyl Severe illnesspi The deceased was second son of the late and brother of the prccsent Eail of Shannon. He was born in 1815, and in 1841 he married the eldeet daughter of James Ede, Esq. BIRr On the 13'h I ns t ., at Bo 'llB Graves, of a d aughter. ulogne-sur-lier, the Hon. Mrs. Henri On the 6th inst., at Rome, the lady of William P. Brice, Es q ., 0( 3 , daughter, still daughter. On the 16th inst. at Highbury-hill, Mrs. H. G. W. Sperling, of & born. On the 16th inst., a daughter. at Blackheath p ar k , M rs. Joseph Underwood, of On the lath inst., in B rompton-crescent, the wife of Charles F. Pollard, Esq., surgeon, of a son. On the 18th bust., in Gloucester-place, New-road, Mrs. Lainson, of a son. On the 18th inst., at Tulse-hill, Surrey, Mrs. Brand, of a daughter. On the 19t inst., in Cavendish-square, the lady of W. Archer Slice, E sq., f a son. On the 19th instat Norwich,the wife of Arthur Tawke, M.D., -, of a son. On the 19th inst., at the Elms, West Derby, near Liverpool, Mrs. G. A. Hoskins ._ , of a s ou. ---. ARRI. On the 18 th last. at Sur M biton N ew Church, Klngston- u pon- Thames, itai'k Anthony, Esq., to Miss Ellen Marshall. On the lath lust , at St. .Nicholas, Brighton, John Edward C. Koch. Esq, of Calcutta, to Ellen Sarah, only daughter of W. Palmer, Esq.. of Brixton -hill. DID. On the 18th i nst., at Norwood, E Arthur, youngest son of Robert Iloggart, Esq. On the 18th inst., Mr. George Briggs, of Wigmore-street, Caven dish-square. On the 19th inst. , in Upper Brtok-street, G e n era l S i r Moore Disney,aged 81. On the 20th inst., Amelia Fanny, eldest daughter of John Gray, Esq., of Streatham-park, Surrey. On the 20th inst., Ann, the wife of Mr. 11. 0. Nodes, of Chapel street, Tottenham -court-road. On the 19th 'mt., Mr. James Manley Chaplin, aged 59. On the 19th inst., Mrs. Pryer, of Great Baddow, Essex, aged 84. On the 20th inst., Ann, the wife of Mr. John Bradley, printer, of Great Titelineld-street, St. Marylehone. On the 20th inst., at Southwick -street, Hyde-park, Elias Goldsmid, Esq., aged 48. On the 20th last., at Uckfleld, Sussex, Isabella, relict of the late T. Kilgour, Esq., of klethelnie, Aberdeenshire, aged 83. On the 21st inst., Mr. Thomas Tegg, of Cheapside, publisher. On the 20th Inst., at Birdbrook, Essex, the Rev. Jonathan Walton, D.D., Rector of Birdbrook, Essex, aged 72. ondou : Printed and Published by AfURDO YOITNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, N 0.112, Yang, is the Precinct of the Savoy, is 4 the County 0 likid Thundar, end 11411 I