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parties be permitted to procood with their Bill, on striking out ftom the schedule the honseli in a street from the New-road to Lawson street. That the Committees on this and the preceding Bill do examine, in the first place, how far such orders have been complied with, and do report the same to the House on the report of the Bill. First, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth resolutions agreed to.—Report to lie on the table. SECOND READINGS OF RAILWAY BILLS. MONDAY, MARCH 9. Dover and Deal. Congleton and Crewe. Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Extension (No. 2). Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston Direct (Branches to Thornliebanic, Househill, and Hurlet). Ely and Bury. MRS. GORE'S NEW NOVEL, Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 'vols., PIERS AND PARVENUS. BY MRS. GORE. Authoress of " Mothers and Daughters," " The Banker's Wife," &c. Henry Colburn, publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, in t vols., 21s. bound, F OURTH EDITION of THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS. By XLIOT WARBURTON, Esq. " Remarkable for its colouring power and play of fancy ; its use nil and interesting information."—Quarterly Review. " Innumerable passages of force, vivacity, or humoar, are to be found in these volumes."—Spectator. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND, SMALE, AND LA3IOND, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TtrESIDAT and IaIDAY, at One o'clock, at their offices, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, at which place all favours, con t Lining instructions, are respectfully requested t* be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited for exa mination at least one day previously to their being offered ; and advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds immediately disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a .New Opera, entitled THE CRUSADERS. The principal characters will be sustained by Messrs. W. Har rison, Itorrani, Horncastle, S. Jones, Weiss, Stretton, D. W. King, Miss Romer, and Miss Rainforth. After which, a new Fairy Ballet, called THE ISLAND NYMPH. In which Mons. Desplaces, Mdnes. Neodot, Louise, Adele, Mdme. &c., will appear. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING Will be performed SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, or, The Mis takes of a Night. Mr. Hardcastle. Mr. W. Farren ; Young Marlow, Mr. H. Holl ; Tony Lumpkin, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Hardcastle, Mrs. Glover ; Miss Hardcastle, Miss Julia Bennett. The Band will perform the Overture, " La Reine dun Jour," Quadrille, "Le Rol Dyvetot," " Czarina Mazourk," and the Waltz. "Love's Serenade." After which a New Comic Drama, ealled THE IRISH POST. Characters by Messrs. J. Bland, Tilbury, Mrs. Hamby, &c. To be followed by a New Farce, called LEND ME FIVE SHIL LINGS. Mr. Golightly, Mr. Buckstone ; Capt. Phobbs, Mr. Tilbury; Capt. Spruce, Mr. Brindal ; Mrs. Major Thobbs, Miss P. Horton. To conclude with A CABINET QUESTION. In which Messrs. Brindal, Tilbury, Buckstone, and Miss Julia Bennett will appear. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be performed LUCK'S ALL. Principal characters by Messrs. Diddear, F. Vining, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner, and Keeley ; Miss Hicks, Mrs. A. Wigan, &c. After which, NEXT DOOR. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Turner, Bellingham ; Misses Arden, Villars, and Howard. To be followed by the original REDO WA WALTZ, by Miss Framp ton and Master Forrest. To conclude with the New Grand Romantic Extravaganz 1, en titled THE ENCHANTED HORSE ; or, Prince Fireuz Scbah of Persia and the Princess of Bengal. Principal Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Wigan, F. Matthews, Collier, Turner, Kinloch, Sec.; Mes dames Keeley, Villars, Hodson, Dawson, Howard, Arden, &c. Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. TREAT itE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Drama, entitled THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. Principal characters sustained by Madame Celeste, Messrs. Wright, 0. Smith, Ste. To be followed by TAMING A TARTAR; or, Magic and Ma zourkaphobia. In which Messrs. Paul Bedford and Wright, Miss Woolgar, Madame Celeste, &c. will perform. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled THE PHANTOM BREAKFAST. Supported by Mr. Pllll Bedford, Mr. Wright, Miss Woolgar, &c. On Monday Next will be produced a New Drama, in Two Acts, called, THE CABIN BOY. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING, Will be performed DON CAESAR DE BAZAN. Don Caesar de Bazan, Mr. Wallack ; Maritana, Mrs. Stirling. To be followed by a DIVERTISSEMENT, in which Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Marshall, M. Adrien, Miss BallM, Miss Marshall, and Mdlle. Duval will appear. After which, THE VIOLET. Andre, Mr. Wallack ; Trin quet, Mr. Granby; Armand, Mr. Leigh Murray; Blanche, Miss Stanley ; Blanchette, Mrs. Stirling, To conclude with a New Farce, called TOO MANY COOKS SPOIL THE BROTH. Gregory Granite, Mr. Compton ; George, Mr. Oxberry ; Fanny, Miss E. Stanley. NEW STRAND THEATRE. M. PHILLIPPE'S SOIREES and MAI INEES MYSTERIEUS ES. Two Morning Performances during the Week. At the urgent and reiterated solicitations of many distinguished families, and in order to accommodate the crowds who Ile to attend his Morning Performances, M. PHILLIPPII will give his I 4rand Juvenile Entertainment • every Wednesday and Saturday Mornng, at Two o'clock. M. Phillippe's most Popular Deceptions and Peculiar Experiments will be repeated every Evening, varied by the Amusing Per formances of the Chiarini Family, and the astounding Feats of the American Brothers.--Doors open at a quarter past Set en, to com mence at a quarter before Eight- Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, 21. ; Pit, is. ; Gallery, 6d. ; Private Boxes, a Is., and 11. 11s. 6d. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. The most extraordinary and unparalleled Novelties ever produced at this Theatre, which nightly command overflowing houses. Mr. Batty has much pleasure in stating that, after great research, he has succeeded in procuring the greatest wonder in the world ; namely, an Elephant who performs the most difficult feats on the Tight Rope without the aid of a Balance Pole. Also, the great performing Elephants in the Spectacle of " The Raja of Nagpore." THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Drama, entitled THE RAJA OF NAGPORE ; or, the Sacred Elephants of the Pagoda. In which the whole of the extensive resources of the Establishment will be ►rought into requisition. Brilliant Scenes of the Circle, combining the unequalled Feats of the British and Foreign Company. The whole to conclude with the favourite Farce of ANIMAL MAGNETISM; or, Love and Physic. THE WEATHER—Sus OFFICE, MARCH 4. Tazintomwrza, Lowest, 51; Highest, 56; Noon, 54. BAROMETER, 29.54.—W1ND S.W., rain. MIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 10 minutes after 6. I Evening .. 33 minutes after 6. • _ s , 1, 0 vi • PA, . r • Vq..« . ; 4111 IN; • 714 1 'o'l, s' l 4 t.l) )2111* LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1846. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at Fire o'clock. Several petitions were presented on the corn-law question, which gave rise to conversation in which the Earl of lIARDWICEE, Lord KINNAIRD, the Marquis of Lox- DONDERRY, the Marquis of SALISBURY, and the Duke of Ricnmoxn, who deuounced the scandalous manner in Which the farmers had been treated, and who declared that his only wish for a dissolution of Parliament was, that those Members who have violated their pledges might be taught that the people of England liked honesty. The Noble Duke then attacked Lord KINNAIRD, who had, when raised to the Peerage, not been a free trader. Lord KINNAIRD: No, no. The Duke of RICHMOND declared that Lord GREY'S Go vernment was favourable to protection ; so was Lord MEL BOURNE'S Government, for an Bs. duty was not free trade, and if an appeal was made to the country it would be found that the people were in favour of protection. The Earl of Wicfmow said that up to this time both par ties had been in favour of protection; the only difference had been between a fixed duty and a sliding scale, and, therefore, both having changed, there was no reason why the proposal for free trade should be brought forward by one party rather than by another. He considered the League a constitutional body, and they ought to be congratulated on the extraordinary success which had attended them during their short-lived existence. Lord BROUGHAM said there was no doubt but that Lord GREY'S Government held by the corn-laws. He admitted that the League was a perfectly legal and constitutional body; but he said it was unconstitutional, though legal, for any body to raise a fund to purchase votes. It was said the League did not do so, but only encouraged people to do so ; but when they collected a quarter of a million it looked very much like helping people to raise the 501., t• purchase freeholds. Lord REDESDALE explained, in relation to the faggot votes in Huntingdonshire, to which he had alluded some time since, that the Duke of BEDFORD was not concerned in the trans action. The Marquis iof LANSDOWNE then rose to present a pe tition from the inhabitants of the colony of Van Diem en's La th e c omplainingof great nurcber of convicts which ha d n be nd en , transported to that tha island, and which completely demoralised been entered colony, contrary to the understanding which had emigrated, and vil. , :with them at the time they should be eh was that no more convicts ultimalkly absorbed sent than cou ld be conveniently regulated, and colony : The Noble into the population of the Marquis then went into very voluminous statistical the the showing • the of importanceetails for purpose of manner in which the col was damaged, by the colony, and the P arrested, and its soci o e n t y y sink and refuse of society being g v ; damaged, its made it impossible b tr ic a i n t sPorted there to the amount of 16,000 in three years to reform the convicts, or to prevent the total demoralisation of the colony. Lord STANLEY said as the petition referred to a peri od in which he had been connected w i t h colonial affairs li . - wol a offer a few observation s in relation to its allegation s admitted that, thoug h somewhat exa gg erated, i t was in its ma i n statements correct ; th e g reat evil bein g th e arrange ment that restricted the transportation of convicts ex clusively to that colony. The petitioners had omitted to state one great fact, an d that was that that which was at first imposed as an obligation was felt to be a boon, viz., the assignment of convict labourers to free settlers, by which they received much gain. He believed that, although the system of assignment was objectionable in some points, it was nevertheless to. hastily abandoned. Their Lordships were subsequently addressed by the Duke of RICHMOND, Lord LYTTELTON, Earl GREY, and the Bishop of o . xFont), and the petition was ordered to lie on the table. The Bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and their Lordships a djourned. The House commenced business at Four o'clock. On the motion of Mr. GREENE certain of the standing orders on railway Bills were suspended with respect to all Bills tntitled to the privileges granted by that resolution of the House on the 7th of July last. a • . . Certain railway Bills were read a second time and ordered Act.* committed. Several petitions were presented for and against the Minis terial measure for free trade. Mr. T. DumcomßE gave notice of his intentions on the 18th, to move for leave to bring in a Bill to limit the hours of labour in factories where machinery was employed. Mr. O'Commu, withdrew his notice of motion for leave to bri n g in a Bill to amend the criminal law of Ireland. Mr. Vthumits wished to ask the Right Hon. Baronet the Vice-President of the Board of Trade whether any report • was made annually by the Board of Customs to the Govern ment of the amount of wheat destroyed in consequence of being damaged by remaining in the warehouse, owing to the importer being unable to pay the high duty, and thereby introduce it into consumption. He asked this question in consequence of being informed that a large quantity of wheat had been lately thrown into the Severn as being unfit for use. Sir GEORGE CLELE said that the Board of Customs made no annual report upon the subject alluded to by the Hon. Member, but if what he had stated was the fact there could be no difficulty in ascertaining the grounds under which the grain had been destroyed. Mr. NEWDEGATE then moved, agreeably to the notice he had given, that it be an instruction to the Select Committee on the petition from Cheltenham that they do inquire whe ther forged objections have not been served upon certain electors for the northern division of the county of Warwick against the claims of the electors to be returned upon the re gister of that division of the county. Mr. P. BORTHWICK seconded the motion. Mr. T. DUNCOHBE hoped the Government would oppose the motion. If it was true that forgeries had. taken place, the House had nothing to do with it, the parties being amenable to the law elsewhere. He had complained of the s y s tem of registration long ago , and he was happy to see gentlemen on the other side of the House had found out its defects. Mr. ADDERLET supported the motion. Mr. WAKLET hoped the Hon. Member would not press his motion, and that a Committee would be appointed specifically to consider the subject. Sir R. PEEL did not think it wise or prudent that a Com mittee appointed to inquire into a question of privilege should be instructed to make the inquiries proposed by the Hon. Member. He thought the matter ought to be made the subject of separate inquiry. Mr. R. SPOONER would advise the Hole. Gentleman to withdraw his motion. SIR GEORGE GREY trusted an inquiry would be gone into upon the whole question, believing that the Registration Act put voters to the greatest inconvenience. After some observations from Mr. Disraeli, Mr. W. Ellis, Lord Sandon, Mr. Lawson, Mr. Brotherton ' Mr. Ferrand, Mr. Fox Mauls, Mr. Packe, and several other Members, Mr. C. BULLER said he did not see any necessity for an inquiry at all; and if it would be a proper amendment on the motion, he should feel inclined to move that leave be given to the Hon. Member for Staffordshire to bring in that Bill that he bad got in his pocket. It was not a question of party, but affected vital interests in the country. Lord INGESTRE thought the Government ought to intro duce some measure to put an end to this crying evil. Mr. C. Wool) had known a good deal of what had taken place with respect to the registration of the West Riding, and he recollected a case where a notice of objection was served upon the uncle of the Hon. Member for Knaresborough, signed by that Hon. Member himself: Mr. Pcxt.AAIT.---What y0.0.r 2 Mr. C. WOOD could not tell, but it did not matter, tbr Lo believed that the person was in that House who served it. He thought inquiry ought to take place upon the subject. Mr. FERRAND said that he did certainly object to the vote of his Hon. Relative, and the reason for his doing so was this. His (Mr. Ferrand's) vote had been objected to for four years, and the person who bad objected to it had received for his services a silver tea-pot, to which his uncle was a subscriber. Mr. JAMES STUART WORTLEY thought inquiry ought to take place. After some observations from Mr. Bright, Mr. Stafford O'Brien, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Monckton Milnes. Lord John Russell. Mr. Hume, Mr. Aglionby, and Lord Ebrington, Mr. NEWDEGATE withdrew the motion. Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEY, in moving the names of the Com mittee on the Cheltenham petition, denied that he was actuated by any hostility to the Anti-Corn-law League, or - any of its Members, especially towards the Hon. Member for Durham, who had moved for a Committee on the game laws. He stated that because the organ of the League had asserted that such motives bad actuated him. The House then went into Committee on the Corn Impor tation Resolutions, and the adjourned debate on Mr. VILLIERS' amendment for the total and immediate repeal of the corn-laws was resumed by Mr. G. BANKES.—He would not give his support to any part of the measure of the Government, without it was ac companied by some alterations in the law of settlement. He could not agree to the amendment of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton. Capt. HOWARD, although he thought the present a fitting time for the immediate repeal of the cern-laws, considered that the measure of the Government was so valuable that he would not peril it by supporting the amendment of the Hon. Mem ber for Wolverhampton. Sir J. HARMER would support the Government measure in preference to the amendment, though he was in favour of an immediate repeal of the corn-laws, and bad presented petitions to that effect. Mr. MoFFArr would vote for the amendment. Mr. G. FINCH preferred the measure of the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government to the amendment of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton. Mr. WARD would support the amendment of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton, believing that, in doing so, he did not peril the measure of the Government. Mr. LIDDELL opposed the amendment. Mr. Hurl supported the Government measure. Mr. P. BORTHWICK would vote against the amendment. Mr. HustE would support the Government measure, and, after he got that, he would try what more he could get. Lord G. BENTlxcic preferred voting for the Govern ment measure to that proposed by the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton, because before three years had elapsed an appeal must be made to the people, which the protectionists hoped would place them in the arms of victory, and defeat the Government measure altogether. The protectionists were determined to fight the battle from pillar to post, and although they might for a time be driven back, they would rally and gain the good cense. Mr. COBDEN thought it unfortunate that the motion of his Honourable Friend had been brought forward at the present moment, but he believed it was the only time at which, by the rules of the House, he could have brought it. forward. He had not heard a single argument urged during the present debate against the imme diate repeal. He believed all the tenant-farmers were in favour of the total and immediate repeal. The Hon. Mem ber for Wolverhampton was justified in bringing forward this proposition by all that had taken place in that House; and he for one could not see anything that was likely to damage the measure proposed by the Government on the adoption of the proposition of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton. The Right Honourable Baronet had given no gua rantee that his measure would become law, and such being the case he did not see why those who were for immediate repeal should give up their principles. There were a hundred Gentlemen on the other side, who were ready to adopt any measure, provided they could only put the Government in a minority. He doubted the policy of such a course, because he foresaw dangers and pitfalls for this measure, - if it was delayed; he should support the amendment of his Hon. Friend, the Member for Wolver hampton. When the division on this question was over he would support as thoroughly as any man the proposition of the Government. He should feel it to be his duty upon every stage of the measure to be present, in order to give it his support. If the House of Lords would pass this measure, it would restore itself to that situation in the c oun t r y w hi c h it held years ago, when it was said of it, Thank God, we have a 'House of Lords. Sir T. AC AND preferred the measure of the Government to the prop osition of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton Mr. T. DUNCOMBE supported the Government measure, and regretted that his Hon. Friend the Member for Wolver hampton had brought forward his amendment. He had voted for a repeal of the corn-laws long before the Anti-Corn law League was in existence, and however much it might damage him with the gentlemen constituting that body, he felt bound to vote with her Majesty's Ministers. The Earl of MARCH was prepared to fight the ghost of the League with the flesh and blood of the protectionist body. The Goverment, in his opinion, ought in common justice and common honesty to appeal to the people, Mr. HUDSONN supported the proposition o' the Govern ment. _ _ _ Colonel SIBTHORP declared that the agricultural interest or the tenant farmers were in favour of a repeal of the corn laws, or the measures proposed by the Government. Mr. WAKLEY regretted that the Hon. Member for Wolver hampton was determined to divide the House on this ques tion, because it would lead to a supposition out of doors that there was a division on that side of the House with respect to the Government measure. Lord WORSLEY asserted _his belief that the tenant farmers were in favour of a total and immediate repeal of the corn laws. Mr. NEWDF.GATE stated, that from information he had received, he believed the tenant farmers were not favourable to a total and immediate repeal of the corn-laws. Mr. VILLtEas replied shortly, and upon a divsion, his amendment was lost by a majority of 187. The House then resumed, the chairman reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again on Thursday. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned. - From the depression of the funds caused by the intelli gence from America, and the surprise with which it was received by certain parties in the City, one would imagine that the rejection by the President of the United States of the only mode left open to settle the Oregon question Was totally unexpected, and that the most sanguine hopes were entertained that his Excellency would recede from his haughty claims announced in the Message to Congress. But these persons could have no grounds for any such supposi tion. The announcement in that document, that America claimed the whole of the territory, was evidently made not without due consideration and good party reasons for main taining the point, and whatever has occurred since in Con gress, so far from weakening his authority in that respect, or providing some amicable means of settlement, has all been in the contrary direction. Violent war speeches have been made by CASS and others in the Senate, usually calm, inclined to peace, and disposed to check rather than encourage popular excitement, and even the most moderate speakers in that assembly ventured to ad duce no argument in opposition to Mr. PoLK'S views, but seemed to content themselves with expressing a wish to pre- serve peace and not extend the frontier till the States had ac quired more strength. There was no real objection to the principle. The time for action was the only question. In the House of Representatives a similar spirit prevailed, and no meetings out of doors were held either for the purpose of checking the warlike policy of those POLE, or giving the least encouragement to who wished for peace. On what ground, therefore, terly a te loss the last anno uncem ent caused surprise we are ut and the war to divine. From the commencement of this unfortuna business party ha we havee of made the u b p e e t n h e fully r c minds on f v n o :e d th atPoLtE extremities, not from a h as t y v i ew question, but from the entire system of govern ment now unfortunately so popular in that country. Extensi on of territory L pa a s k s es io , n a o n f d th t e ho pres ßr e i n t t is r h ac t e e . rrit T o h riees on seemst the or inhabitants to be the ruling n a t d i joining the and - e a o s n t l , have bl.d e for many years kept a longing eye on Ca na d a , their time. In the south aggression is the ord er of the day, day be c ause the Mexicans canpot defend themselves. The tide is flowing in that quarter with fearful rapidity, and nothing but the interference of European powers, so abominated by Mr. Pout, can prevent the whole of that rich country from being swallowed up by the Anglo-Saxon race. In the west the same spirit prevails, and California and Oregon are considered absolutely necessary to make the Union com p lete. It is said this spirit of aggression is encouraged by Potx, in order to se cure his election a second time, and possibly this may be the chief cause, but that only renders the position of affairs more dangerous, and shows that the ag gressive system is not the effect of state policy, or the crotchet of a particular Minister or President, but the choke of the restless and encroaching multitude. Se palpable is the fact, that no Government under present cir-- camstances could maintain itself in security for a twelve month on the principles professed by WEBSTER and CALHO 177; POLE is carried with the stream, and all that England has to do is to look to her own interests and take care that her rights and possessions are not destroyed by the inundation. Hitherto she has displayed the utmost moderation and for bearance, whether we look to the Government, the Legisla • titre, or the press. With the exception of a very few hasty articles in the English newspapers, provoked, possibly, by that tone of defiance so loudly proclaimed by Members in both Houses of Congress, scarcely one ground of provocation can be urged by the American Government. In the history of mankind it would be impossible to point out a nation more anxious than the English are at the present moment to remain at peace, and more especially with America. If the last resort then gust be as sented to, we have here, as on the banks of the Sutlej, right on our side. Since writing the above, we learn, by another arrival from New York, that the proposition to give notice to England that the joint occupation of the Oregon shall cease in a twelvemonth, has been adopted by Congress. This is only what was expected, and therefore cannot materially alter the position of affairs. Mr. JOHN ROMILLY, who opposes Mr. COCHRANE at Brid • port, in the first instance refused to come forward, though he has long been preparing to contest Bridport at the next general election. The circumstances under which he has changed his first intention and come forward are these : There had been a meeting of Mr. ROMILLY'S friends at Bridport, at which it was agreed to support Mr. CoCHRANE, as a supporter of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S measure. After this handsome conduct of the Liberal party, Mr. COCHRANE delivered an address from the balcony of his inn , declaring that he supported Sir ROBERT PEEL, not so much because he approved altogether of the mea. sure, as because he saw no other way of keeping Lord J. RUSSELL out of power. Mr. COCHRANE now probably bitterly repents his balcony oratory. The Liberals imme diately met again, withdrew their support from him, and sent off for Mr. JOHN ROMILLY, their old Member. Mr. J. ROMILLY'S professional engagements prevented him from going down himself immediately, but his brother, Mr. CHARLES ROHILLY, went down to represent him, and Mr. Jos's ROHILLY follows to-day. The nomination is on Fridy, and them -e Mr. ROMILLY'S return. Tint ar. out, my Lord MAacu, take this as a protectionist triumph. If the protectionists dare not put up a candidate of their own in Westminster or in Bridport, the best thing they can do is to say nothing of either. We made a slight mistake yesterday with respect to the Cheltenham petition, but one which does not affect the merits of the case. The signatures placed on the first sheet were not, as we said, cut off from another and then pasted on, but five names appeasing in another part of the petition were copied on to the first sheet, and a piece of paper was pasted over the original five signatures, that they might not be counted twice. We say again that there is irregularity here, but not fraud or forgery; and that the trouble taken by the League agent to prevent the signatures being counted twice by pasting a piece of paper on the original signatures proves bond fides. And we say again, that the free-trade Member for Cheltenham might be better occupied than in bringing forward with such pomposity so small an irregu larity, in order to play into the hands of the protectionist party, and help them to throw dirt on the Leagtie. Mr. C. BERKELEY did us the honour to refer yesterday to the ob servations which we felt it our duty to make on the extra ordinary course he had pursued on this occasion. We confi dently await the decision of his Committee, skilfully nominated though it is, to see all that we have said about the trumpery nature of his charge established, and to show how much the high notions of love of what is honest and straightforward, in both public and private conduct, have to do with this pro ceeding. The country and the electors of Cheltenham will, we are sure, without any injustice to Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEY, allow to the distinguished leaders of the League at least as high a sense of public and private honour as Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEY claims for himself. Madrid papers of the 24th ult. have been received, but they contain no news. The Three per Cents. closed at 32 at 60 days; the Five per Cents., at 22 13-16, for the 15th of March, and the Debt wit bout Interest at 7% at 60 days Most of the Paris papers contain articles on the great ma jority obtained by Sir ROBERT PEEL for a repeal of the corn laws, but some of them, chiefly those of the Opposition, though they cannot help praising the firmness of the Minister, and the noble manner in which be has been supported by tke Opposition and a large number of his own party, seem more anxious to seize the occasion for finding fault with M. Gut- ZOT than to imitate the Liberal journals of this country, and cheer him on to the same end. " The young Conservatives," says the Seicle, " and their chief, M. GUIZOT, are at present but little satisfied with Sir R. PEEL. They have two rea sons for being dissatisfied. One is, that in making himself liberal, Sir R. PEEL gives a very bag example ; the second, that he gravely compromises the future prospects of his Ministry, and that a Cabinet which does not make every other consideration give way to that of its existence, is an imprudent, absurd, and almost revolutionary one. We can not be suspected of an excessive partiality for England, and Sir R. PEEL is certainly not one of the statesmen of that country towards whom our sympathies incline us most. We blush, however, when we compare the con duct of our Ministers with that of the English Cabinet." The Journal des Debate considers the vote decisive, and that with 100 votes against it, the game is up. It thus laments over the defeat of the protectionists :—" The majority of 100 votes foretold by Lord LINCOLN has been obtained by the Ministry. It was in vain that the beaten party did all in its power to keep up the fight : all it could do only pro longed Use struggle for a few hours. This long drawn series of debates has been compared to the Arabian Nights Tales. The Sultana Scherazade, condemned to see her last sun rise, lengthened out her marvellous stories. So from night to night the speakers of the condemned party relieved each other in succession in relating their melancholy tales of past times ; but to which no echo was made by the present or the future. Less fortunate than the Sultana, its lest hour, though retarded, has arrived, and that voice which has been called the voice of GOD, has pronounced sentence." The following just remarks on the evils of monopoly in the Courtier Francais are fully justified by the present state of trade in France : " The era of liberty in commercial policy has just opened fir Eng land. The genius of Adam smith has prevailed. The great net work of custom-house obstacles has been destroyed, and ere long all that remains of a heavy chain of servitude will have disappeared from the soil of England. She will at length become a flee land. There are people who persist in seeing in this grand result only an Isolated event peculiar to England; there are people who maintain the incre dible arguinent that the principle of commercial liberty is excellent in certain cases, and detestable in others. There are people who treat as absurd and dangerous dreamers those who wish to confer upon France the noble and salutary liberty which Cobden, Russell, and Peel have just given to England. The partisans of the protective system do not perceive that the swaddling-clothes in which they wrap up our industry are stifling it, that they prevent Its growth and its development. They do not see that by closing our frontiers we naturally restrict the limits of our markets, and that this restriction prevents our manufactories from being put upon an equally extensive and progressive footing. Neither do they perceive that the protec tive system is the great cause of the Instability of production, and of all those disastrous crises which periodically afflict our manufac turing industry, and carry desolation into the heart of our labouring population. How, indeed, is it possible to place production upon a fixed and regular basis, when is it permitted to the Government whate-ver it may be to restrain or extend at its own pleasure by an arbitrary law, and generally in obedience to selfish interests, the markets for One or more branches of trade, and thus cause a disas trous perturbation in general production ? How can we hope to give constant occupation to the laborious, when governments, to satisfy petty or rancorous interests, endeavour by means of detestable cus toms laws sometimes to displace, and at other times to destroy the sources of labour? The system which some people have had the audacity to call protective and conservative, is in truth the most op pressive and anarchical system that was ever inventeqy the human mind." We are convinced, however, that France cannot be long in imitating the example of England. The following para graph in a Ministerial paper, the Fpoque, is significant, and leads to the belief that the Government only revire support to adopt a liberal commercial policy, and that they look with rather a favourable eye to the Anti-Protection Society formed at Bordeaux :-" We agree with the merchants of Bordeaux, in thinking that our Customs' tariff may be notably simplified and reduced, particularly in what regards the objects of first necessity and raw produce, and that this duty calls for the solicitude of the Government. If the asso ciation in favour of free trade keeps within the limits of mo deration, and enters on a conscientious examination of the various points bearing on the subject, it must usefully aid the Administration in the accomplishment of this duty." The news from America had caused some depression in the French funds :-The Three per Cents. closed at 84f. 70c.; the Five per Cents., 123 f. 80c. ; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,337 f. 50c.; Rouen, 1,072 f. 50c.; Havre, 750 E ; Great Northern, 796 f. 25c.; Avignon, 1,017 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 740 f. ; Bordeaux, 672 f 50c.; Boulogne, 550 f.; Troyes and Monte reau, 450 f.• Basle, 252 f. 50c.; Diejpe, 470 f. •, Paris and Strasburgh, 551 f. 25c.; Tours and Isantes, 585 f.; Paris and Lyons, 631 E 25c. The following are the quotations for other lines :- :Lyons and Avignon Railroad (Talabot), 509 E ; ditto (Le cointe), 505 f. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 502 f. 50c. ; ditto I)efinitives, 5661. 25c. ; Bordeaux and Cette (Macken zie), 503 f. 75c.; ditto (Espeleta), 5104; ditto Definitive, 560 f. 50c. ; Charleroi, 4961. 50c. Lyons, FEE. 28.-3larseilles and Avignon, 1,020 f. ; Rouen, 1,065 f. ; Vierzon, 746 f. 25c. BUSINESS DONM IN FOREIGN RIILWA.YR AT TILE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Mo.ack 3. Boulogne aad Amiens, 1134 —Dutch Rhenish, 6% —East Indian, I—Great Northern of France Constitated, 153‘ —Great Indian Penin sular, 34—Italian and Austrian, I%—Jamaica Soutk Midland Junc tion, 3 LA—Luxembourg, 2%—Paris and Roden, 41%. IM PORTANT FROM AMERICA (From a Second Edition of the Times.) By a private merchant vessel we have later accounts reaching up to the 1 lth ult. On the 9th ult. the following resolutions were passed : " Resolved by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the President of the United States cause notice to be given to the Government of Great Britain, that the convention between the United States of America and Great Britain, concerning the territory of the north-west coast of America, west of the Stony Mountains, of the 6th of August, 1827, signed at London, shall be annulled and abrogated in twelve months after giving said notice. "2. And be it further resolved that nothing herein con tained is intended to interfere with the right aid discre tion of the proper authorities of the two contracting parties to renew or pursue negotiations for an amicable settlement of the controversy respecting the Oregon territory." On Friday last, Colonel Tynte, of Halswell House, in SOMersetshire, was unanimously elected Grand Master of the Ancient and Honourable Order of Masonic Knights Templars, as successor to his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. Colonel Tynte's La. stallatiou will, we hear, shortly take place. MONEY ►nd COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Litton at Liverpool yesterday were 6,000 bales, in. chiding 2,000 on.peculation, in some 11151.11.1 , ,02 at an advance of lid. per lb. Shares rere nut co good. In the recent tales of wool, tiore were one or two items VI Or:11 note°. The ner commercial regulations of our Government are in truth working londers. There has been received fresh beef and pork, sent here 'Om distances varying from 3,000 to 4,000 miles, and oysters alive, dito. From the extremity ofthe vast continent of New Holland do we now obtain wool and tallow, and now have we America—he Southern States of the Republic —com petitors in wills. Somewhere about 700 bales of United States wool hare just been put up to public auction in the City, some of thin merinos, or at least so designated, but very few were sold. A fee samples marked "Actual United states Merino," (a regular Yanke must have dictated the description of the fleece) sold at Is. 3d. to sd. per lb., and 238 bales of United States merino Wools, ex. Frances Ana, from Boston, were really taken at from Is. Id. to Is. Nd. per lb. What will free trade accom plish in a cparter of a century after this, when the bare prospect of he adoption of the great principle tends to supply our markets now with the rich and varied products of all climes, and what would havebeen, to the last generation, in as inconceivable short space of flint. A single paper,of February 12, from New York, brought by the Switzerland, Capain Knight, arrived off Dover, has been received at the North and South American Coffee-house, and conveys the important, but ceetainly by no means unexpected, information of the House of Representatives haring passed a vote for giving a year's notice to Great Britain that the joint occupancy of Oregon shall cease. The Boum, however, afraid perhaps that the President has gone too far, resoVes that negotiation may be confirmed. Respect ing the revolutior. in Yucatan there are no very authentic details. The Public Secirities have been flat to-clay. Consols are 95% % for present transf r, and 95% to 9614 for time. Exchequer-bills re alise 355. premiers. New Three and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 97% to 98%. 6panish Active 3onds are rather good, being 27 to t p . The Three per Cents. are 37 io . Mexican Deferred are 165„ and Brazilian 84. Dutch Two-anl-a-Half per Cents. have been 59 to 59%. Shares are dull. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock .. • •• ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES .• - 209 _. _ .. .. Three Pei Cent. Reiuced Annuities .. .. 56 1 % 96;¢ Three per Cent. Consols Annuities „ ~ 95% li 95% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 983 9TX 98M 8 ',4 Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5,1860 .. 10% 10 11-16 Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. .. 10 5-16 10 5-16 South Sea Stock .. • • . • • . .. .. 77. Ditto, New Annuities „ „ 9514 Consols for Account ••••_. _ 95% 961 Exchequer BUIL llid. _ _ _ I % d. 1,0001. .. .. •• • • 35 —— -- pm. 36 5001... .. •• .. —— pm. 36 Ditto. Small •• .. 34 37 Pm. 37 Ditto, Advertised • ... 35 33 pm. 32 ONE CLOSING FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 84 83% Danish, 3 per Cent - • • . • • .. 89% 89% Equador Bonds .. • . .. .. .. —3% Grenada, 1 per Cent .. .. .. .. 22% Ditto, Deferred .. .. .. ~ —4% Mexican Bonds, 1537, 5 per Cent .. re l k t Pant f olia, 4 6 j.T.r Cent. .. .. MN JO Russian Bonds .. .. .. .. .. ex div 107% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 27% % 27 Ditto, Passive Bonds .. .. .. 6% 6% Ditto, Deferred .. .. .. .. .. 16% 17 14 Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. .. 37 37% Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 37% 3736 Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent .. .. 443( Ditto, Deferred .. .. .. .. . 14 Dividends on the above payahle in Loudon. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Ceut .. 59%% 593 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 94% 95% PRICES OF BUSINESS CLOSING PAID. DONE AT RAILWAY SHARES. PRICES. ONE O'CLOCK. Buckinghamshire .. .. ~ .. 425. .... par •. • • .... • • % Caledonian .. .. .. ~ .. 10 .... 12% %13 .... 13 - - Ditto, Half Shares 2% 314 %% • • • • • • 3 % Dii,to, Extension 2 1 / a . 2 Cambridge and Oxford.. .. • • 1 % •• • • •• • • Chester and Holyhead .. : .20 .... 21 20% .. • . 20 Direct Manchester (Remington's) 2%.... ..... •• • Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) • • 5 U •• • • 33 4% •••• • • • • 3 )t Direct Northern 2..... .......... 24 • •• •• •• Dublin and Belfast Junction : • 5. •• • • Dublin and Galway .. .. .. 4 .... 3% U ........ 3 4 Eastern Counties .. .. 141. 16s. .... 21% .. .. ••• • - 21% Ditto, York Extension Os. •• • . 1 ••••• • • . • • 1 Edinburgh and Glasgew .. 50 .. •••• • • • • Ditto New Shares.. .. 10 14% . Goole, Doneast., and*heffleld, &c. 425..... p......% P Great North of England . ..100 ....218 215 .... 215 Ditto, New 5 .... 50 52 Ditto, New .. 5 .... 3.5 ••• • • • 35 Ditto, New .. 1 .. 12% •• .. • • Great Western .. .. 85 84 ..... Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 50 Hull and Selby .. .. 50 • Ditto, Halt shares .. 7 .... 26 • • ........ Lancaster and Carlisle .. 35 • • Ditto New .. 5 .... 10 1 4 10 .... • • 10 Leicester and Bedford .......... 225..... dis .. •• .. A die Liverpool and Leeds Direct .. 2 ... Liverp., Manch., & Newc. Janet. 2 1 % .... 3 1 4 % . London an Birmingham ... . tgo .... 221 .. Ditto Thirds .. .. 16 .... • ..... 49 Ditto Quarters .. .. 2 .... 27 . 27 Ditto Fifths .. 2 .. 23 London and Black wall .. 16/. 13s. 4d. 8% 8x d Ditto New London aid Brighton .. 50 .... 64 London and Croydon .. 13/. 15s. 9d. 21% .......... 21}4 London and South- Western.. 41 1. 65..10d. 77 x d Ditto, New . .. 12 1 % .... 22% 23 x d . . 23xd Ditto, New London and York .. .. 2% .... Ditto, Half Shares .. 2;; ' • • • 2 % • 2 5 /8 Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 •••• • • • . Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) I •• • • 7% ••••• • • • • 7% Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425....• .. ••.. • Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 2% 1 / 4 Midland ..100 .... 147% 147 • • Ditto Fifths.. .. 2 .... . Ditto, New . 7 .. .. 18 .... 33 32N ...... 3214 Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 25 .... 44 Ditto, New .. 1 .... 10 9% •••• •• • • 9% Ditto, Now, Brandling .. 20 .... 3S • • 3B Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 10 .... 20% 20 •• • 20 Newark, Sheffield, and Boston .. 2%.... 1% •• • • l% North British 20 .... 26 %%% 26 Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 1 1 ,4 .. •• ••••• • • • • North Kent and Direct Dover • • 2k.. • . 2 . 3; North Staffordshire .. 425. • ... 3%%„% p.... 3% p Oxfd.,lVorcester, & Wolverhmptn. 123 .... 13 Preston and Wyre .. 25 .... 34j 35 ..... 35 Scottish Central .. . 7% 15 15 Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2 .... 23 .. Shropshire Union .. 423..... 1A die........ 4 dis. South Midland 428..... 1% 1% p South Eastern and Do'ror 33% 37% . 3T3 Do., New (do. 331.65. Bd.) No. 2. 10 .. .. 12 ....... II Do., New ‘(do. 301.) No. 3. 10 .. 11K Do., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 2%.... 3% ........ 3q Staines' and Richmond .. .. .. 1 .... 1% 1..... I. 1 Swans. & Loughor & Cameron's.. 2 .... 2% ••• • • • .... 2% Welsh Midland • • • • • • .. 2%.... 1% • ....... 1% Wills, Somerset, and Weymouth 2%.... 2% ........ 2% York and Carlisle .. .. , .. 2% .... 2 .......... 2 York and North Midland .. 50 .... .......... _ Ditto, Half Shares .. • • .. 25 .... 47 48 Ditto. Extension • • • . .. 15 .... Do. E. and W. Riding Exten... 1 .... 10% 9%...... 9% FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Barbadoes Boulogne and A miens •.••• . 10 .. 111. . .• . II Bord., Toul., Sc Cette kMackenzle) 2 2 . .. 2 ....... Dutch Rhenish • • • • • • • . 5 .... 6}i . East Indian .• • • • • • • • bs• .... 1 Grt. North. of France Constituted 5 .... 16 15% Italian and Austrian • • • . .. 3 .... i% 134 Luxembourg • • • • • • • • 4 .... 2% % ...... Namur and Liege • • • • • . 4 •. .. 2% 2% .„. __. —•••••• •• Orleans and Yierven • • • • .• 10 .... 19 - Rouen and Havre • • • • • • • 20 29% MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered THE SUN' EXPRESS. SUNDERLAND, Fan. 28.-71 e Sun to- day has outdone all its Contmporaries, at least with reference to this place. A small parcel of the morning edition, containing a full report of the debate up to twenty minutes past three o'clock the same morning, and the result of the grand struggle betwe en monopoly and freedom, was received by Mr. Williams, news agent, at twenty minutes to five o'clock—three hours and forty minutes before any other morning paper arrived. Circulars had been received by some of the news-rooms and other parties from one of the principal newspaper agents in the City, stating that parcels from him by express would arrive at Sunderland at half-past four or six o'clock ; but, from some cause or other, The Sun parcel by express, direct from the office, was the only one which arrived. Copies were for warded to the news-rooms, and one to the mayor; and the intelligence of the great victory soon spread through the borough, and appeared to give pleasure to all—even the old Tory shipowners seemed to brighten up, with the prospect of extended exports and imports, and consequent better freights. All parties acknowledge the greatest obligation is due to The Sun for the spirit and success of its efforts on this important occasion. (From the Somerset County Herald.) We are indebted to the proprietor of The Sun for an ex press edition of his paper containing the division on the long protracted debate on the Government measure. LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.--(T HIS DAY.) DELL, MARCH 3.—The Reflector, Manning, arrived In the Downs from Cuba, experienced a hurricane which lasted three days; 10th ult., in lat. 41 N., lon. 51 W., lost sails, boats, &c., had six feet water in her hold, and threw part of cargo overboard. LIVERPOOL, Miami! 3.—The Portland, WAllister, from Cuba to London, foundered 29th January, in lat. 26 S., lon. 56 W. ; crew saved by the Denison, King, at this port. The Ben Lomond, from toe Clyde to Mobile, which was on shore near Campletown, has been assisted off, and taken back to Greenock to repair. CoRK, MARCH I.—The schooner harmony, of Halifax, was aban doned 25th January, in lat. 34 N., lon. 58 W., in a sinking state, BALTIMORE, FEB. 27.—The Volunteer, Reed, from Liverpool to the Clyde, put back to Bailin*, 27th instant, making water, having struck on the banks. The Volunteer, Reed, from Liverpool to Ga latz, has put in here partially leaky. FRASER/3VMM, Faa. 28.—The John and Margaret, Edwards, from Newcastle to Inverness, came on shore in Whitelink Bay this morn ing, but has been assisted off, and has come into the harbour. MARGATE, Altacu 3.—Arrd. Candahar, Calcutta ; 51annion, Cey lon ; Switzerland, New York. SwAsauz.—An English barque of about 328 tons, apparently tim ber laden, with loss of sails, and only a reefed foresail set, 12th ult., in lat. 33, long. 52, by the Crusader, Labaleatier, arrived off here. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE--WEDNESDAY. We have again to report the arrival of a ver y m oderate supply of Wheat for our market, consequently th e stands wtre barely filled with samples. Although the attendanc e of bu yers was small the finest qualities of both red and white c ommanded a steady sale, at very hill prices ; while the value of other kinds was readily sup ported. For foreign Wheat there was a fair demand but without anY improvement in value. Holders of Corn under lock were again firm, and would not sell except at extreme figures. Malting Barley, the supply of which was small, moved off briskly, at Monday's prices. In other kinds comparatively little was doing. The Malt trade was steady, at late rates. Oats were in good request, at quite as much money; but all other articles commanded very little attention. English • ..... Foreign •• • • • • Wheat. 1,740 qrs. AItRIYALS. Barley. 1,521 qrs. 2,610 Oats I Flour. 1,770 qrs. 2,930 sks Q,460 ars. vnirrzcstArzz. The supplies of Meat on sale here being on the increase, the de mand was throughout heavy, at barely last week's quotations : Beef, from 2s 4d to as Bcl ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Vaal, 4s tt 4.1 10d; and Pork, 3s 8d to 5s 2d per Sibs by the carcase. The Marquis sod Marchioness of Ailesbury intend to proceed this week to Paris ; and we hear that the Noble Marquis and Marchioness contemplate a sojourn of six weeks in that capital. The Marquis and Marchioness of Limnd')uderry and Lady Alexandrine Vane, it Is expected, will leave Holderness House shortly for Paris, to remain there until after the Easter recess. PRINCE ALBERT AT RYDR.—On Monday his 1103 al Highness Prince Albert arrived, in the Fairy steamer, off Ryde, where he was received by a vast concourse of people, the guns of the Superb, 80, firing a royal salute. His Royal Highness, accom • panted by his suite, proceeded to the site of a new building about to be erected, and there, with the customary ceremonies, laid the foun dation stone of the Royal Victoria Yatch Club House. A spectator observes, " It was one of the grandest days Ryde ever saw ; and the inhabitants of the island, it would appear from the numbers assem bled on the occasion, estimated the ceremony as au event of surpass ing importance." The Duke of Hamilton is slowly improving in health. His Excellency the Turkish Arnbasador leaves tow n in a few days to undertake the duties of Minister of Comn.erce at Constantinople. LONDON AND WESTMINSTER BANKING COMPANY.-(THIS DAY.) The proprietors of this Company held their usual annual meeting this day at their offices, Lothoury, for the purpoke of o, , ,clarinz dividend, the rz-election of three tiireet,re ^ho go oat rotatiet:, ' and the disposal of The chair was taken at one o'clock by PATRICK _IIAXW➢LL STEWART, Esq., who said, that before sub mitting to the meeting the report of the proceedings of this bank for the year 1845, if they would allow him, he would say a few words to recal to their minds some if the characteristics of the year 1845, as the results of establishments of this kind. He was aware that, in great commercial bodies like this, dispatch was the life of business, and therefore he would not detain the meeting by making a long speech.--(Hear, hear.) The year 1845, it would be remembered, was characterised by a great abundance of money, a circumstance fraught with great danger to inexperienced banking establishments, inasmuch as they often expe rienced great difficulty in procuring money to pay their dividends, by reasen of their having placed their money out of reach, by invesring it in some deaf security from which they were to obtain a higher amount of duty than from the usual secui ities. But the closing of the year 1845 was characterised by circumstances diametrically op posite to those which marked its opening; and money, Instead of being abundant and cheap, had become scarce, almost amounting to pressure on the market. But sack were the principles upon which the directors of this bank had conducted the business that they had secured ample funds wherewith to meet all just demands upon them with liberality to those to whom they were due and with satisfaction to the proprietary ; while in no instance had they ever violated their established rule of never re-discounting a bill. - (Hear, hear.) Judging, then, from the satisfactory state of their affairs for the past year, it might be said that they could have afforded to pay a higher dividend than 6 per cent., but the directors had thought it their duty to the proprietary to still adhere to the usual rate of 6 per cent., and place the overplus to the credit of the reserved fund.— ' (Hear.) And the result of that fund was that it enabled the directors to keep up a uniform payment of six per cent., while in years of scarcity or reverses, which some time or other attended all human affairs, they had that fund to fall back upon, which in years of pros perity it had still continued to accumulate.—(Hear, hear.) The balance sheet of the rep rt would now be laid before the meeting, and it would be found that it had been made out in con formity with the wishes of the proprietors, and upon a plan, which in the humble but decided opinion of the directors, was decidedly the best, namely, that struck out by the Government as the form for the balance-sheet of the Bank of England.—(Hear, hear.) By that balance-sheet it would be seen that the Company had a paid-up capital of 800,0001., which had been sub scribed by about 1,000 contributors, which fact gained them increased confidence from the public, and as it was lodged in Government security, they had it as a sheet-anchor to windwai d, against the storms which might assail them.—(Cheers.) And when the proprietors should take a review of the progressive prosperity of their establishment for thelast 12 years, he believed that the hopes and expectations held out at starting would be found to have been fully and fairly realised.— (Cheers.) There was one other point to which he would wish to allude, as having been the cause of what was technically called by monied men a " tightness" in the money market during the year 1845. lie meant those gigantic operations called railway schemes, and the necessity for those en gaged in them paying up the dividend required by Government. When this arrangement was made, it never could have been contem plated that those railway schemes would amount to the vast extent they had reached, but the effect of the Government requiring this amount of deposit was that some of the oldest and most respectable bankers in London waited upon the Government to twitter them to altar the rule. and substitUte Government security or Exchequer-bills instead of money ; nut this Was refused, and the consequence was that, not taking into account either Scotland or Ireland, the amount ofdeposits subscribed in England alone was, he believed, about 11,000,0001. He asked of the Government in his place in Parliament, that the money should be lodged in the Bank of England instead of with the Chancellor cf the Exchequer ; but all alteration of the rule was refused, and the consequence VI as that a large sum of money was withheld from cir culation, to the great injury of the prosperity of this great commer cial community. And here he should observe that, but fer the liberal conduct of the Bank of England, this difficulty would have been greatly increased, and therefore this establishment was greatly in debted to them.—(Hear.) The byegone difficulties they had had with the Bank of England had all long since been satisfactorily arranged, and all was now peaee.—(Cheers.) They had peace without and plenty within, and if that was not a good item to carry to the debit side of profit and less, he was merely a mammon merchant, and not a moralist at all. Ile had now to announce that Lord Wm. Douglas had been compelled by other engagements to resign his seat in the direction, and they had elected Mr. Thomas Chapman in his stead.—(Hear, hear.) And in a very little time he hoped to see other additions made to it from amongst the first com mercial companies in this great empire of commerce.—(Cheers.) The SECRETARY then read the report of the directors, by which it appeared that the balance-sheet exhibited a 'very prosperous state of the Company's funds, and that they had on hand, at the end of the year 1845, a balance of unappropriated profits to the amount of over 85,0001. The report then went on to say, that— " The profits of the bank during the past year, after defraying the current expenses, and making provision for all bad and doubtful debts, amounts to 66,3441. Is. Out of these profits the directors paid, last September, a dividend at the rate of six per cent. per annum, for the halt' year ending the 30th June, and they now declare a divi dend at the same rate, for the half-year ending the 31st December. After the payment of these dividends, making together 48,0001., there will remain a surplus of 18,3441. Is. to be added to the reserved fUnd, which will then amount to 58,2481. 163. 4d. " The three Directors who go out by rotation, are Joseph Esdalle, Esq., Sir John Kirkland, and John Stewart, Esq., M.P., all of whom, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election." (The meeting had not concluded when our report left.) SOUTHWARK-(THIS DAY•) Edward Gordon, a man, about 35 years of age, was placed at the bar, before Mr Cottenham, charged witk stealing a great coat from the house of a gentleman named Blackmore, of Charles-street, Morselyclown. On Monday morning, about eight o'clock, the prisoner called at Mr. Blackmore's house, and said he had been sent from the City with a bottle of ink, at the same time handing a note to the servant, demanding half-a•crown. While the latter went up stairs to make inquiries about it, the prisoner decamped with a great coat, value 21* 25., which was hanging in the hall. Last evening the prisoner went to the house of Mr. Citto, in Free school-street, Horselydown, and presenting a similar note with a bottle of patent ink, demanded, as in the former case, half-a crown, The servant, however, suspecting him detained him, and calling a policeman gave him into custody. In his possession were found several notes, of which the following is a copy i--" Received, the 2d of March, 1846, for a bottle of patent Ink, 2s. 6d., from Thomas Mason, 14, Fish-street-hill, City." The policeman said the prisoner answered the description of a man who had carried on the same trick in various parts of Lambeth, and he was therefore remanded until Monday. RAILWAY COMMITTEES (THIS DAY) Sub-Committee No. 1. This Committee re-assembled this morning at twelve o'clock iu room N 0.7; Mr. Strutt, chairman. TREATMENT OF THE PRESS. Upon the gentlemen of the several journals entering the room this morning they were most disagreeably surprised by finding the seats which had throughout the whole of the previous sittings of the Committee been exclusively set apart for their ac commodation, taken by the agents, thereby causing the greatest disarrangement to the gentlemen of the press. Had this arras gement, or, as we should say, disarrangement, been forced upon the Committee for their own ease and comfort, it would be far from our province to complain, hut such is not the case. The seats occupied by the agents for the four previous weeks were not required for any purpose, as the chairs were empty during the whole day. The consequence of this change is, that we are thrown into the back ground, where it is impossible for us to hear one word of the proceed ings correctly. It is but justice to Mr. Gunnell, the clerk, to state that the blame cannot attach to him, for he has most kindly, on all occasions, given every information required by the gentlemen attend ing for the press. We trust the Committee will see the propriety of not impeding the duties of those who attend to furnish the public with Information of the greatest interest. TEE SIEREVISMIRY AND lIER,DPORD. This adjourned case was called on, and the opposition proceeded with the allegations, but, for the reasons above stated, it was out of our power to hear any part of the inquiry. Why the press should have been so inconvenienced, when the Committee had not thought proper to remove a host of persons (idle loungers) standing between us and the agents, it is in the power only of the Hon. Members to explain. Sub-Committee No. 2. After disposing of some private Bills, the Chairman called on the LEEDS, WAKEFIELD, AND MIDLAND JUNCTION. The object of the promoters of this Bill was to construct a railway Irons the Midland Railway at Chevet Tunnel, near Wakefield, to Leeds, in the West Riding of the county of York. The amount of capital was 400,0001. ; the length of the hue, 9 reflex, 4 inches, and 2 chains. The Committee having heard the formal evidence, declared that the standing oraers had been complied with. Engineer, Mr. T. Swanwick ; surveyor, James Alexander, Esq. ; Parliamentary agents, Messrs. Ilulmer and Dunsford ; solicitors, Messrs. Scholey, Stewart, and Webster. SHREWSBURY, OSWEST roc, AND CUES— TER MAT CTIO N AND NORTH WALES MINERAL RAILWAYS AMALGAMATION The object of the promoters of this Bill was to obtain powers from Parliament to effect the junction between these two Companies, and set forth that the same would lead to a more efficient and economical arrangement of the affairs. The formal evidence having been heard, the Committee found that the standing orders had been complied with. LONDON', rausToL, AND SOUTH lITALIIS DIRECT. The object of this Bill was to connect London and Bristol by the shortest line, and with South Wales. The length of the proposed line was 36 miles, and the amount of capital 674,0001. Engin.,er, Mr. T. Giles; solicitor, Mr. Nathan Giles ; Parlia mentary agents, Messrs. Dorrington and Elllcombe. The formal evidence having been heard, the Committee decided that the standing orders had been complied with. This being the last case on the list, the Committee adjourned, shortly after two o'clock, till twelve o'clock to-morrow. Sub-Committee No. 3. This Committee met to-day at one o'clock. There were present Mr. Aglionby (the chairman), Mr. Thornely, Mr. Edwaid Buller, and Mr Stansfleld. LYNN AND ELY (SPALDING EXTENSION). The Committee resumed their consideration of the petition for this line. Mr. VENABLEC contended that the 23d standing order had not been complied with, inasmuch as the plans were deposited with the clerk of the peace for the Isle of Ely, whereas, they ought to have been deposited with the clerk of the peace for the county of Cam bridge. The Isle of Ely was not a county, nor a division of the county of Cambridge, although it had a clerk of the peace wko ex ercised a jurisdiction independent of the county of Cambridge. The borough of Liverpool had a clerk of the peace who was uncon nected with the clerk of the peace for the ceuuty of Lancaster, but it could never be pretended that a deposit with tho clerk of the peace for Liverpool 'ft as sufficient for that county. The CHAIRMAN over-ruled the objection, and decided that for all the purposes of publicity, and according to the true meaning of the standing order, it had been properly complied with. The petition for leave to bring in the Bill was then declared to have been proved. LYNN AND ELY (MARCH ELICTENSZON). This was a petition for leave to bring in a Rill to construct a branch railway from Wisbeach to March, in the Isle of Ely. The cost was estimated at 60,000/. . . . ,„.... ... , The usual formal proofs were gone into, and the Committee de• cided that the standing orders had besa duly complied with. Sub-Committee No. b. Th: Committee met at twelve o'clock—present, Mr. Home Drum. mond (Chairman), Mr. Forbes Mackenzie, The O'Conor Don, and Mr, Compton. MANCHESTER AND POOLE RAILWAY, In this case, which was before the Committee yesterday, and stood over on an objection raised respecting the sufficiency of the notices for application, published in the respective newspapers through which it was proposed to pass, The CHAIRMAN said, when the case first came before them, he had expressed an opinion that it was not necessary to prove the publi cation of notices in counties through which other lines in connexion with it had to pass. He alone was responsible for taking such a view of the question, for he considered that the additional notices would be superfluous. But, considering the Bill now before the Committee which contained some clauses amending other Bills, he had consulted the Chairman of the Committees, all the Members of the present Committee being present at the conference. The unani mous opinion of the Committee was, that there should he other notices given on account of the amendments proposed, as in the case of a third-class Bill. Mr., Macxzwzia said with respect to third-class Bills, notices should be given within the district, to which clauses 8 and 9 referred, and that notices for a second-class Bill, in all the districts through which the new line was proposed to pass, like that of the 3lanches ter and Poole project. The Cuaramen said, in reply to a qut stion front Mr. Coates, that there was no objection to mix up notices given of second and third class Bills. The committee then decided that., with the exceptions already noticed, the standing orders had been complied with. Sub-Committee No. 6 This Committe resumed its sittings at twelve o'clock this day, there being present Captain Jones (in the Chair), Mr. Deedes, and Lord Ebrington. The following additional Bills have been referred to the Com mittee : The North Union (Harwich Branch) Railway. The Leeds, York. and Midland Junction Railway. The Manchester and Hyde Railway. The Bristol and Birmingham and Midland Railway. The Birmingham Railway (Tring to Banbury). The Bristol and Gloucester, and Birmingham and Gloucester Railways. The Chester and Birkenhead Railway. 'I he Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway (Pontop and South Shiells Railway Purchase). The London and Birmingham Railway (Birmingham Extension). The Leicester and Birmingham Railway. The East Coast Railway. The Northampton and Bedford Railway. The London and Birmingham (Leamington Extension, and Coven try and Rugby Stations Enlargement) Railway. The Landon and Birmingham Railway (the Aylesbury Purchase). The Sheffield, Ashton-under-Line, and Manchester Railway Com pany Amalgamation. The Midland Railways (Birmingham Extension). The London and Birmingham, Grand .Junction Purchase. s,,,rneld and Mn.,,ol]..snire Exl. - maier. EouthampOn The Guildford, Chichester, and Portsmouth hallway. The Rochdale Canal and Manchester and Leeds Railway. PRIVATE COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) Sub-Committee No. This Committee met to-day at half-past twelve o'clock. The members present were Sir J. Y. Buller (Chairman), Mr. Bell, Mr. Walker, Mr. Yorke, and Mr. Kemble. The Committee, in conformity with their determination, noticed yesterday, proceeded with the unopposed Bills. Harrogate Gas Company and Harrogate Water-works Company. The formal evidence baying been heard, the Committee found that in the cases of these Bills the standing orders had been complied with. The York Improvement Company. The Committee found that the standing orders had been complied with. The New Zealand Company. The Hartlepool Gas and Waterworks Company. The Committee found that the standiug orders had been complied with in the case of these two Bills. The Pillginwilly Waterworks Company was postponed till to morrow. The Liverpool and Harrington Waterworks Company. The object of this Bill was to amend their Act, and the Committee found that the standing orders had been complied with. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the chair at a few minutes past Twelve o'Clock. SECOND READINGS. The following Bills were read a second time, and ordered to be committed ; viz. : Midland and Eastern Counties Railway (Cambridge to Weedon.) Deeside Railway. Great North of Scotland Railway (Eastern Extension.) Alford Valley Railway. Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Dunfermline Branch.) Newmarket and Chesterferd Railway. Enfield and Edmonton Railway. Leeds and York Railway. Llvnvi Valley and South Wales Junction Railway. Hertford and Hatfield Railway. Richmond Railway (Kew Branch). Clitheroe Junction Railway. A messenger from the Lords announced that their Lord ships had agreed to the Irish Drainage Bill. Mr. GREENE moved for leave to correct a clerical error in the Wishart and Coln - wag Railway, which ought to have been done on the second reading.—Leave granted. Lord DALMENY presented a petition from the inhabi tants of Stirling, for the immediate repeal of the corn-laws. Mr. S. CRAWFORD also presented a petition from the in habitants of Heywood against the enrolment of the militia, and another petition from a person named Bull, for a further extension of the suffrage. Mr. GROSVENOR presented two petitions from places in Tipperary against the repeal of the corn-laws. Mr. C. BULLER gave notice of a motion for leave to bring in a Bill to prevent vexations objections to votes on the registration. BEQUESTS FOR PIOUS AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES BILL. Lord J. MANNERS said that he felt it necessary to refer very shortly to the objects of this Bill. The subject had some time ago been referred to a Select Committee. That Committee had sat for a long time, and had examined many able and competent witnesses. They ultimately made a report, and that report was submitted, together with the evidence given, to the consideration of the House, and the present Bill was founded on that report. He believed that the statute of George 11. was productive of much public mischief, anti proved a great impediment and block to private munificence. The House was, he believed familiar with the case of the late Dean of West minster. There was a bequest of 5,0001. in actual property, to build a church in that neglected portion of the city, and that sum was by the operation of that Act reduced to 500/. The operation of that law had caused many bequests for hospitals, churches, &c., to fail, and it seemed as if all such things as Chelsea pensioners, &c., were objects of aversion to ail Legislature, and enemies to the public honour, which it was necessary to put down by any and every means not in conformity with the usual practice in the court of law. The first clause of the Bill repealed the statute of Geo. 11., and the second clause gave increased facilities to those persons who wished to leave property to any public or charit able institution, or for purposes not against the laws of the country. The fifth clause was to the same purpose, and would answer the expectation of those persons who thought property bequeathed was not sufficiently pro tected by the present law. He n , :w came to the safeguards made by this Bill against any undue interference with the ex pectations of heirs. The Pith clause gave power to the Lord Chancellor to order an allowance to be made to the immediate relatives of the person leaving the property for charitable purposes, in case they were not otherwise provided for. Another provision of the Bill was, that every bequest for charitable purposes should be signed by three respectable witnesses, including the medical gentleman of the person bequeathing the money, who should attest that the person was "teens sana et carpore sano," and that his consent was not obtained by importunity or solicitation. He had gone through the main objects of the Bill, and he should now refer to the great objection against it. It was, that very large sums of money would be with drawn from commercial purposes, and otherwise invested. If the House thought that the country had need of churches and charitable institutions to meet its ever varying demand, he considered that they could have no objection to the passing of the present Bill. If any person supposed that charitable bequests could not be managed as advantageously for the public interest as other bequests, be thought they were greatly mistaken. Asa proof of that assertion he referred to the Hon. Member for Chichester, and to the report of the Irish Society with regard to the estates of the Drapers' Company in the county of Derby. He was certain that great benefits would be derived to this large country by the proposed mea sure, and he hoped that Hon. Alembers of the school of political economists would not oppose its passing. With re ference to the religious objections, he would say that he never heard that the clergy of the Church of England or of the Dissenting interests had ever induced a person to bequeath any sum of money for religious purposes.— (Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord then referred to a report of the Bishop of London to the same effect. The Noble Lord went on to say that it had been said by Mr. Jarmaine that the present law produced litigation, which would always be the case where the feelings of humanity were not in unison with the statute-book. Requiescat in pace was his motto with reference to the decisions of the luminaries of our ancient law courts. The Noble Lord concluded by moving the second reading of the Bequests for Pious and Charitable Purposes Bill. Sir JAMES GRAHAM observed, that he had had time to reconsider his former opinions, and he had seen no reason to change them, nor induce him to give the measure of the Hon. Member a ministerial support. It was only necessary to state, that all personal property was exempt from the operation of the present Ac . The law did not oppose any bequest made a proper length of time before the tes tator's death, because the Legislature considered, that if personal sacrifice was to be made it should be made in a state of health, as it would thereby give a proof of the sincerity of the donor's feelings. The Right Hon. Baronet then entered into a lengthened invest gation of the details of the Bill, and concluded by expressing his determination to give his utmost opposition to the pre sent measure They were only endeavouring to induce the Legislature to legislate in a contrary direction from that which they had already pursued. He concluded by moving that the Bill be read a second time that day six months. Mr. P. HOWARD would give his support to the second reading of the Bill. The clause restricting the grant of pro perty for charitable Purposes one year before the death of the testator would require some consideration. He thought, however, that the principle of the measure was sound, and he believed th t the House would adopt a politic course in sanctioning it. There might be perhaps an objection to one or two of its details, but that might be arranged in Com mittee. Mr. M. MILNES did not think that the Act of George II , alluded to by the Right Hon. Baronet, had wor k e d well. H e was of opinion that it did not prevent legal machinery or legal embarrassments. He wound not, however, enter into the subject of the mortmdin laws, believing, as he did, that the report on them, which was before the House, rendered it unnecessary. It had been said that these laws had been very much abused, and that the Act of George 11. was proposed to remedy them. But he did not think there was any validity in this argument when they considered the tone of society and the character of time at which that law was passed. Because there had been abuses of the power of granting be quests, it was not, therefore just or reasonable to say that no such power should exist. He would make a re mark in reply to what the Right Honourable Baronet had said, that the Bill of his Noble Friend would lead to the application of funds for superstitious purposes. To that he would answer that it was difficult to define what should be considered superstitious or not; this was a matt er to be left to the conscience and opinion of individuals. He prayed that the Right lion. Baronet would allow the Bill to go into Committee, or if not to provide a Bill such as would meet the defects of the present law. As long as the present abuses continued, without the Govern ment or the great law authorities taking up the question, nothing but dissatisfaction would prevail. He would give his entire support to the Bill, and he hoped that the Solicitor-General would apply his acute mind to the Bill, so as to meet any defects that existed in it. This would be a much more reasonable course than throwing the Bill out altogether. Sir GEORGE GREY generally agreed with the observa tions of the Right Hon. Baronet, and said he should not have spoken, had he not been a member of the Com mittee to whose report reference had been made in the course of the present discussion. Though he had been a member of that Committee, he had not given his sanction to the report, having been called out of town when it was agreed to. He believed it was only agreed to by three or fcur members of the Committee, and not by all. Though he admitted that the Committee dis covered many anomalies in the present law, he could not agree with the Bill proposed by the Noble Lord. Any rea sonable amendment he would gladly agree to, so as to facili tate the leaving of bequests to education and religious pur poses, but the Bill now submitted was such a one as he must give his decided opposition to. The reasons which influenced the Legislature to pass the Act 9th Geo. 11. was to prevent persons in their last moments from being imposed upon to give away their property. And one of the witnesses, a Mr. Mathews, in answer to a question put by the Noble Lord on the Committee, said, that if that law was to be repealed, a great deal of ? land would be conveyed away impro perly, but he thought that a law giving a limited power of leaving property would be of considerable benefit. If anything could be suggested without entrenching on the principle of the Acts 9 Geo. 11., there would be no disinclina tion on the part of the House to allow it to pass. Under the proposed Act the medical man was to give his opinion as to the sanity of the testator, and also to state that no undue solicitation had been exercised, but it was utterly impossi ble that the medical man could give such an opinion, as he would have little or no opportunity of judging. Lord CLIVE said that the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary for the Home Department had declared his in tention of having nothing to do with the Bill, as the ex perience of a century proved its effectual operation. It was well known that the Act, in less than 95 years after its existence, was found to be so oppressive that the governors and trustees of Queen Anne's bounty were excepted from its operation. The greatest innovators on the Act 9th Geo. 11., were the Government themselves.—(Hear, hear.) c In Ireland the Charitable Bequests Act t against n st ot ti g ie lve d e a a t n h y . great security to property, nor protect allowedb e d m i o n t' s w t e b r i which a t 3 e , p ßight . receivelace to B e atiro,;anntlt real ou rn l ol p ir l m a p i .e n r e s complained. The Eccksikistical Commissioner a property which any person might short time i lso b th g e power of receiving land in spite of y since an excellent ni IL ' t e l a o f t" i t l i i t a t " 11 House a a d e n ry t that bequeathed a large a mount of property There were at present se veral schemes to induce the Court o lor that, purpose. f Chancery to make some provision to binder the increased re dere° venues of many charitable institutions from being E° away. If thelaw proposed were an inferior law, there weal some ground for the position taken by the Right Honour s°, rmronet. Let the H. use look at Scotland was there gni ~m c;try in which poy.iiiir agitztiol had risen bigtb; alid the institutions of the country mo re comPle o ff overthrown. They had a more stringent law the entail than they had in England, and Yet s only restriction imposed on the testator was th at thirty 11, should elapse from the date of making the bequest beforee tb 1 ‘; ll death of the testator. If thirty days had e la p sed was valid. The Lord Advocate in ltiS "idenin had said that he never knew an instaueltord which this power had been abused- He k she Clive) did not think that he was calling " the blouse to do much when he asked them to alter_ffect pi ez , ent law, and when they considered the ben eficial of a law similar to the one proposed, whenever it had tried elsewhere. 'cl Sir R. H. INGLIS said his Right Hon. Friend di iies appear to apprehend the nature of the proposed Billf,loll he said that it did not apply to Ireland. MT f r that did not specially except Ireland from its oPe to tion must necessarily be considered as aPPIY in , that country, and the same with regard to Scotian _.,;pd Hon. Friend bad stated, that in Germany , at the P oi' the Reformation, the revenues of the nobles were 0 5 p 7 iated to the. purposes of education. Be sot H. Inglis) considered that his Hon. Friend v"_ri.be, sufficiently acquainted with the facts of the case. 041 lieved there were some difficulties in the way of effec 'net alteration in the present law of mortruv il l e gfil he was not prepared to go to such a . 0 011 as that proposed by the present Bill. He thought it who inflict a great hardship on those survivors and relatives, t he had entertained a just expectation of beques?„,„ " p death of the testator, to find that the property lulu, "y o r queathed to parties who were entire strangers to h1n12.„40,10 purpc.:.e of supporting convents, churches, or othe cu"'" institutions. (LEFT SITTING Ti a Ina~a bet r e ' ly Igt , tha n k, tha . 14111 47 . 4 z 4 ,7 4 " 1 1>? -41% .‘ t A , STATE OF TRADE• n ol ur bal lot FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, FEB. 27. - e f remarked any material improvement in this branch 200 during the past week. The demand is rather hi"' and prices stationary. hale...lift° ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, FEB. 27: .• vc, e V." ofany change to report in this branch of trade this W_liettgas are limited to the immediate wants of the m any' Prices may be quoted as stationary. WAKEFIELD, WOOL MARKET, FEB. 27.—The s anie add ssThf rciSe ts that we noticed last week still continue to ex e- Mol l favourable influence on the wool market, and eautlboor" be done. Prices are still without alteration for e , ` or long wool. , the ed. TRADE of LEEDS.—Both in the Coloured an d 00'0 Hall there was more business done on Saturday bstt st, oa ....1 been the case on any market day for some time e op i Tuesday the market was exceedingly dull. I he jities„, articles in demand continue to be Tweeds of low cl e_ e' sr.r the continental markets, but fine and middle cloths md - dull sale. Business in the warehouses has been rat,.brAd t ad than of late. From the exceeding mildness of taitacli many of the country buyers have been in the toga ing goods for the spring. The Marquis of Arglesey transacted b 0 I°l the office of the Commander-la-Chief, at the Horse GOO' morning. It will be seen from the Gazette of Tu. sri f of Lord Canning has been appointed First c.mmiatmer 0 , Forests, in the place ef Lord Lincoln. let t er i THE WAR IN INDIA.— In a private leo. 60,0 ceived from an officer in India, he observes that, ,',lrtll o those who fell in the late engagement, there were 2,0 t ," - drowned in attempting to cross the Sutlej. e , ...-Ne rl od e NORTH NOTTINGHAMSHIRE ELECTIO , . t e eil ~,,,,, Or° HAM, TIIESDAT, FOUL O'CLOCK, P.M.-The opposition e , the ~ 3lr. Bailey has given way, as it was likely to do, : T rje.l l 4,„ opinion felt by the free-trade party, that it was unwise4 -- en eect l; circumstances, to enter into a contest with Lord 8• e 0 Bailey's own friends entertain a very strong feente,, e , r,r, course which he adopted. The poll, as a matter of ee - i,„ egr,:er e opened, but very few votes have been polled since teree!yiel, 7,!, that hour the numbers stood-for Lord H. Beath:let; elit e ", e Lord Lincoln, 49. One reason why so few persons lie7;yee:ool/ poll, in favour of either party, was the publication lae , ; on, Mr. Bailey, of a hand-bill, stating that being unwilling o , Or d " unnecessary trouble and expense, he requested that en tee'„oir Lord Lincoln would abstain altogether from tendering "ee e v" Viscount Castlereagh has gone to Ports. 00 stand that the Noble Viscount's marriage with Ville Ir k court will be solemnised in the course of this men' - '",l Co"' Powerseourt is residing in Paris, where the Earl so Roden and Lady Maria Jocelyu have also arrived. , ay 0 41, 1 ; BIRTH IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.—A is 06 1 10 1 tleman who are staying on the King's-road, at Brig ht 9e 500 to Worthing by an early train on Saturday rnorning„ to e Ati; day. They left Worthing in the evening on their retaii re poleeees , by the forty minutes past five o'clock train, taking a ee e op 0 00": 0 0 riage ; and before they reached Southwick the lad! g; infant. On their arrival at Southwick the husbeit t tee roil messenger to Brighton to have a surgeon in readiness 7.oo,aete to attend the lady ; but owing to an accident to the ‘7,0 , ir, tee was delayed nearly half an hour at Southwick. On` peen IP the terminus the lady was wrapped in blankets, and eon tv• Al residence on the King's-road, and we are happy to o ' .. V" going on favo. rably ; but the infant has since died. deg i x eig ° THE '1 NAMES TUNNEL.—The annual Ir nee tt ytb ° ,4 l o, proprietors of this undertaking was held yesterdakeleg'ose, Tavern, Mr. Benjamin Hawes in the chair. The 1 1 T.,,te e ., t p vened in order to receive a report from the court of te'e V' 1, 0 re-elect three of their body, who have retired by MUT e i ;0: 0 014 0 ,01 man, in opening the business of the day, stated that " t e• it ,e 0 companies had applied to the company to purche-7,,at. they could not do so without the consent of Govern"Apo be for the interest of the proprietors to accept of A C O T . 4 41 Lords of the Treasury considered the tunnel as an a n 4 1 th' f o r Whi —lO l a an ordinary nature. If there was an offer ma de nom,e, 0 could accept, a re-application would be made to the rowitkor Public Works. 31e. Charlier then read the report , ,dorlag, Ft :"/ peered that there had been a decrease of passenger' e ieee e d, compared with the previous year, the amount rec, eit , '" during the twelvemonths, ending December 3, 18, 'for , 04e; 4,9681. 15s. Bd. The debt owed the Governmen t Ot A er A l amounted to 286,5601., exclusive of 36,0001., on acoa toLr j i In Addition to this sum a further cost had been Inciir: I'' 11 pletion of the undertaking, to the amount of 179,517 e 'lf remarks upon the company's affairs, and the election e,4,1 9 .0 , auditors, thanks were returned to the chairman and elections - • _ the engineer, which having been acknowledged, the ihe a o sev ., 4l WILFUL MURDER OF A WIFE BY HER der, o l On Tuesday night Mr. Payne, City coroner, resumed :06 pital the adjourned inquiry touching the death ofJe , 4 , thirty-three, of Amicable-row, Kent-street, who, it tl i ef,- i died from the effects of injuries received from Jesse 8• 001 szto oo band, in the open street on Friday week last. son 3 ° Aer to , 0 4 this case have already appeared in our columns, an d eoper,ol Southwark police. The inquest, and also the further ee,ooool the prisoner befere the magistrate, was adjourned till Do dget s v in order to procure the attendance of witnesses. gal inquiry was a verdict of " Wilful murder against Jessemodkri MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.—CHATIIAS,ogieg t.°4001 The severe loss sustained among British officers he. l° ,„ vic i Tor# her Majesty's regiments recently engaged in the 1 1 " 0 ,07 0 , 1 to gagements in India with the army of the Seikhs, h ee ,, e as 0, :g, to be received by the commandant of this ger s to "01 Thomas Willshire, K.C.8., commanding the provis' n 0,10 0 f hold the following officers in readiness to proceed to , i , t," tiers of their respective corps now serving in Intbt e eo,siog F. D. Lister, Ensign H. E Fardell, 9th Foot ; Lien - e,o , ' braham, 29th Foot; Captain Richard Middy, ELI Yv'ee,oo and Ensign R. C. Clifford, 50th Foot ; Captain .„• 1000 6 0 r pe , , ,, tenant Edward Sippings Harrison, Ensign G. si• J e : e ioelo4 v Venter Seale, and Ensign H. W. Sibley, 62d ele• - efi eo s ti vO' S. T. Christie, Ensign H. Leslie Grove, and E nSi ‘ U tte e l l ' e r Freeman, 80th Foot. These officers are expecte d , t ee,s e i 6th instant, and are to proceed by overland mail .. o ' eu elr'" oo oo' This sudden route has caused much interest U.' 00 01 rison. :1, tb e d O r e At Guildhall, yesterday, Mr. A. Snu t ,'"geits4,,s to a portion of the subscribers to the Reading eh' et eof 4 027 Company, which has been amalgamated with all",„, a ":01 . 4 plied to Mr. Alderman Hunter for leave to withdraw 0,18'0 , , 0 , • tlie •hell A had made against Mr. Rogers, jun.. ef Reading , ,ree_ 4 , _L i e 1 company, for not filing a complete list of the en e ,,w7otrereeso o o dertakiux, at the registry in Sergeant's Inn, FI EF liPerP: e e seen it the newspapers that Mr. Alderman CoP,,e"; for I 'Vfe Saturday that he could not receive any coniPlet o ediat e b oi; if the Joint Stock Company Acts, where the P r of ;10 0 ed commenced in the name of, and with the sanction e ti 0119 Gem ral. He had in consequence applied for, e a eed e ec elinii terney-General's consent in writing, which he b an e , ife °Aro' trate. Be, therefore, asked for a new summons' Dli,tia 4 of the Attorney-General would be substituted for el $* ff complainant. Mr. Alderman H un t er immedietell sl,4o tid plicatlon. T O l,O l L W EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF WATCHES 11 ill ali hte a gf COUNEIES RAILWAY.-The officers employed on tetee ep(;el ~,,te 00 ,01( Railway, assisted by an active member of the r a- e - e uriv' e l , jr force, have been engaged for some days in endee' p od °rose 0 a robbery committed on that line, and bring il ia , ce°, 4 044 v ./ in it to justice. In the course of las,twv:reeecbeeiledfoliee;ool:o, watches amounting in value to over 2001. sale watch-manefaclurer in Hatton-garden, 0 ,0 di Se 6, 0 watchmaker at Yarmouth. The box in its tr a- 00'14 0 ..e very mysterious manner. 0 08° 001 7 THE LONDON COFFEE AND EATIND'iir b bat 46s t 46 . A( r.,. $1) , ASSOCIATION.-General Sir De Lacy Evans, -- - y o f ta -41 O . preside at the forthcoming anniversary in and e , l OO-oi,e above institution, which will shortly take place' Gil ° 0170 THE FATAL EXPLOSION AT DOv"' re in w e eo o "tePei only survivor of the thirteen poor fellows who we sp ete t o fer v ero/ 0 „0 time of the explosion, still lingers, and his in ad „ l e c eele a ote A t te. taro not the least hopes of his recovery. The 'n' ee ees eeo e 1 ;0'0 fellow-sufferers took place on Sunday. The alr,le b et ,e DI tit by the Company and the contractors of the svn' oft, 9P' , A r and Dover. The subscription which has hee ° o o tn 7 ,0 0 0! elyil e distressed families left destitute, numbering , In lef• o ater,10 0 : 00 0 ° shocking occurrence, is progressing favouratePs, are 1 ,,,, o 0 0 borough coroner, has kindly consented to act elf' tilejsr addition to the 100 guineas presented by t ile 5 0r...-Ip ° , feet sexes have been received. There is one r e s poa„ o ce _ 4 l. connected with the explosion that has eseaP esiiThet i ;te, f th e f I o . '" , e O l one in the Company's service was aware 0 pi e 0 c oil in the cave. It appears to have been the Wil e y 01 0 0 o 9-,,5 at the mills at Faversham some years sin e , e . ne ee ha l 0 1 1 14' blowing down Roundown Cliff and other P":„, v ieceiloedTpo9 4 ,, and Dover to form the line. It was placed in e - sir. ef et liefe ee r of the Company's late engineer, Mr. Wright. pcee rd e ett ee p fr cessor, was never informed of there being " - ,,,,,tible a h efe "'' e giliP the works. Since the accident other een w .„,Thicti •"- .., in the vicinity of Dover and Folkstone, ,` - ee se p edf., flO ° th e Td' s' held the sea. free' t Pr tll° e;oLONEL WOOD, M.P.—At a che set t o e sl el held last night in the Commercial Reer na ' e es, C ni gota i of supporting Sir R. Peel's free-trade Weser, or 0 for Middlesex, attended, and openly declare" * diate repeal of the corn-laws. ii O ff Or . ' coie BIRTHS. I s ling ton' „ 4 al o l O On the lat inst., at Innett's-creseelite "`" t i 3 • l e "' 9 r, " Alponrtthe Ist , of a d inst., in aughter King-street, Forti n an-eclnere, of. e S , op Jennings, Esq., ef a son. 1, i nn ' V I. of 4 , vn e ken of tile at On the Ist inst., Mrs. Georg 11 , North Brixton, of a daughter. t ° lie la th folk, On the Ist inst., at Ridlington, Noe ‘ ,.. pa rt, Webb Flavell, of a son. 4 ,, Rage ° :D i On the 2d inst., at Osnaburgh - te rrac IP 4 W. Percival Boxall, Esq., of a daughter. . flo r pa teintit , CO O t t On rrot tl ' • f• u a orl,o te On the 14th ult., at Florence, Cosiittwoe,,if of the la 0 0.' Grand Duke of Tuscany, to Rosina, ivies ' Ai i. of Chedingsell-grange, Essex. AT r 0 01 ' e MA , . ian., - r iss ° ,__ w itser „,,C Ol On the 21st ult., at Neufchatel, in . Oe n " $0 4. 01 9 ' hire, Neale, Esq. werceester a.- d es* pee On the 26th ult., at Blockley, ebe 138 0 0 0 ' /9 , son of the Rev. G. Bayley. e _afer, 1300 of V( a . ,W 4 On the 26th G . at Boulogne - a u _ e, fici., 1 1. On the 27th ult., Edward Woodhoue , ~, ster, Herefordshire, aged 83. On the 27th ult. at Gosport, Cap____tain_T. B. 16.711,,411_!;t, los ir ,, ___-- 1 --- -- Ol -11 55th r O t ) MONTHLY MILITA RY , dale al 1 Colon.. - , ftof 04 13. , of ito General -Sir W. Clinton, G.C1.13.., IC • eel nant-Governor of t ng' Ilosp tiavi. lifulcss o le i r i , cow tie' Se' I Lieutenant-Generals -Sir F e 5' s ore/ , . T. seers, Charlton ; Sir James leearneY, E.. - - ' Of as. „e t, Hussars Kilkenny. I France: , et tsc neOr OOP - Major'-C4enerals-Stafford, Cowl e, Comeau's Service. ~ Fer vid ~130, Lieutenant-Colonel -Joshua Crosse, ijnet ' e re , I or-J A. Scott, East Bi de, ColuPa n) Crosse, Herefordshire . voll °c 10 si e ... t ,ep , , sir 11 ' ' O , V" be'' Pr Bengal. t St. Vin cen" Wate rlne Dn an ;if-P al eog i Captains-Coape, 85th Foo , half-eay 9th Foot; J. Leslie, liatt2a4ctiiedn; Lieutenants -Money, half-pay R u es, hall-paY,,_, gy 92 , 1 „ ne tts' of .1 42d F;atgrio:co;nt,a'D'iried• °I.. 12th Feet, Francs ; t it! ''''' pee Foot, Arg.ylishire ; MackitlaY., ha" S oi r_p Dennis, half-pay 101st Foot; 'snit" ' Fit' tie, Leelo p ' o o, Lo yd l' ° ' Paymaster-Brenan, half-Pa Bt-11,-10;131:;11rt.. Four: W• t ro ot, of , h t f° ° ' F r 4til 13 11 . Adjutant-Richardson, Ist I . S t et 46 half-Pa- ope' OTO . Quarter -M asters --Allan, • Dlackanzis, , 0 ,01 p ia. or o 84th Foot, Wakefield , , „,, Cape n' , n _ ye rrl ."..eltottfeidt, ha lf p a y' Cane t ° l r 'tant D'o ect on, t; `' -1 9 ' Medical Department-As4l_,,on f orge's _ s . _. 0. i , pay Ordnance. Greenwich: 1, ,, 1 T,,, f _ p5 y _10 . 2 . ....- ---- 0 $ ,i , , Leone, at sea ; Sur Hein """ .........••-• ,„ 41 /146. h . Pr ,_ , „ _ ... _ .., , t - 11P 0 1 w al, i l:daf , ' London : Printed and Publishoegtid c b e y , ; . - . 0 0 , s, rf e 4,lo Strand, Printer, at The sun , Vlddle he CoustY "' of the Savoy in t 4, 1846. trIE SUN LONDON,_ WEDNESDAY EVENING, M'ARCH 4, 1846. T'