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by men who had served immediately under the Duke of Wel lington; and therefore, though they have not served imroedi- Vely under the Duke of Wellington, they have still had the benefit of his experience. In the battle of Assoc, the ex ample of his reoderation—his valour and devotion to the inte rest of his country—his regard for all, whit er European or otherwise, is one which is worthy of emulation. It is passible at this moment—indeed 'it is more than probable—that the Noble Duke of Wellington has reserved fur him in another place an opportunity of hearing his grateful and wil t 'stimony to the merits of • those gallant. It will be his consolation that, through his example of valour and military shill, his patriotism, and his devo.e,!ness to the interests 'of his country, even when we shall have lost him in the ordinary course of nature, will be imitated by brave and worthy men, capable, like him ; of maintaining the honour and reputation of die country. These men will be the bul warks which viill never fail us aeoinst our enemies, and Who will always, like the Duke of Wellington, be prepared to make every effort in a just cause," anti -yet to set glorious an ~ :xample of forbeatance, enduring valour, and desperate and reckless courage, when circumstances of a des p erate nature require the exhibitien of such a quality. And I hope, that through a succession of men whose principles are f or med in such a school, this example will descend boosost, and in a righteous cause render this great and glo count y ry , im pregnable against the assault of an enemy. I must now con clude by moving that the thanks of this House be given to Sir Henry Suith, and to the troops under bis command. Sir JOHN CAM HOBEI OUSE said that he considered it overy great distinction on to be permitt4d to second e motion f the Right Hon.Baret, and he assured the House that, after the able and affecting appeal made by the Right Hon. Gentle man, it would plainpo in him to do more than in a very few w orsts exp what the House had to consider when it paid this tribute to the Gall , nt General end the troops under his command. General Smith, as the Right lion, Baronet said, had, by this action, maintained the glory and character of this country, and by this great achieve ment had contributed to the subsequent success which is to farm the subject of a second motion for a vott , of thanks this evening by the Right lion. Baronet. He would take the liberty to observe, that never in the annals of Parliament was it the good fortune of a Minister to propose two votes of thanks on the same evening on two such splendid victories as the present. While that Gallant Officer spoke of the deeds of those who were under him, he made no allusion to his own exploits, thereby showing that his modesty was equal to his vali,ur. •It was, as the Right Hon. Baronet had stated, in his right hand he held the sword, and with the same hand he also held the pen. As was said of a great character of antiquit y et the enemy's army formed two shies of a right angled triangle," Sir llenrySmith being placed between them or. the shorter litre. I will make the matter more clear by reading in extract from his dispatches.—(Hear, bear.)—He says, " the enemy thus had me encompassed with a powerful force, and I, therefore, gradually with drew my infantry and cavalry in the direction of Loos dienah, in the ire - an time exp. cting to are the approach cif that force of the army, being one regiment of cavalry and four regiments of infantry." That was the force at Looodianah. They then made a vigorons attack. The ground was very sandy, and therefore difficult to move in. " The enemy," he says, "moved on me in the neighbourheod o f Loodient.li, but my wing moved with as much steadiness with the cautonede as if they were on parade—(Cheer')—native as well :is British." (Loud eheers.) The movements of the envelry were under Brigadier Cureton.—(Cheers.) He said, "It was the most perfect thing I ever saw, and one which I could not expect."—(Hear, heirs) New, Sir, difficulties were such that it is plain that the successful termination is to be attributed to the skill, sqlour, and high character of this colutnander.—(Cheers.) It was necessary that all his energies should be used, and he has proved, by his use of _ those energies, how faithfully he has served his country—nothing could make him despond.—(Loud cheers.) Sir, of the battle itself I will not sp-ak. The victory was complete. It is so well described by the Gallant Commander that I will not go further into it. And, Sir, wheat hive been the s,rvicee of that Gallant Officer ? These events add a new lustre to his name.—(Cheers.) He was at the capture of Monte Video. ;. Ile was at the capture—at the attack that was made on, Buenos Ayres.. He served in the Penin sular war ; he ss as at the haute of Vimiera, and at the battle of Corurnia. il e was at the action Qt Ciudad Rederigo, and at Torres Vedrae. Ile was at the: battle of Sal a manca, and t the bottle of Vittor i a . was at the battle of the Pyr,nees, the battle of rtitilouse ; lie was at New Orleans, and at W a terloo.—(Che.-rs,) Sir, what a series of gallant services—(Cheers) — and how rejoiced I am to find that there should be an opportunity through these signal services, of bringing before the view of a grateful Country a long life of military exertions such as these. After he had achieved that signal success, for which we arc about to give him our especial thanksafter he had driven back the enemy across the river, he instantly re turned to join his coininendieg officer, Sir Hugh Gough. He arrived on the Bth, two days before the signal victory was pined under Sir Hugh Gough, and Sir Henry Hatelinge. For his services, for the victory which he gained on the 28th, I prop use that there should be a • distinct and separate vote, and that there should be another vote for the other, n..t more glorious, perhaps, but more important victory which he aferwards gained nut, Sir, again I will nut weaken the effect which the recital of that victory, as detailed in the di'p itch of th • gallant officer by whom they are written, by any attempt to detail their contents. But I will say this 01 the fellow-ccuntrymen of the Generals of that gallant army—l will do them the jitstice to say, that they are familiar with thorn.—(Cheers.) Sir. it is right at ill , : time to do justice to the bravery of the enemy with whom we had to canto - id After the suceases gained over them on Dec. 18 and 21, they had so tar recovered that undaunted courage which had distinguished them as to come again Ursa the field, and to expose them selves again to the force of the British army. Sir H nry Hardinge, speaking of them, says—" Such was the bravery of the enemy, that they took the bridge which they had formed, and in the mild le of the riverdisdaitted to seek for quarter." Sir, I will not enter into details of the battles on the tenth. The House ie aware that. our gellant army obtained a complete and signal victory over the Seikba whose loss was enormous—that after the ex bibitien of great talents they were driven across the Sutlej in great nun here, and that the British army, croseinr, at places lower dewn the Sutlsj, and crossing at the point at which the battle was fought., united with the forces,e hich had so :tressed, and marched towards the capital of the Seikh territory. Sir, thus in a period not exceeding seven weeks, from the day on which the incursion was made into one territory, the enemy have been signally defeated in every action in whiA they encountered.- In ever action the British were successful. In those engage inente not more than one-third of the forces were Europeans, but the example they set was worthily fol lowed by the native troops. Pour suceeasive desperate battles have been fought in which the British name has been sustained by the commanders and men of every regiment— (Cheers)--and without any imputation on the British arms. We were not influenced by any graaping desire. The attack was made upon us in a time of pr .found peace. Those who took no part in the engagements have, sittee the defeat of their countrymen, frankly admitted what was the object which they had in view; they thought that they could overthrow the British army in con - equenee of their artillery, and formidable infantry and cavalry. They expected to be enabled to over come the two detachments of the British farce which were sta tioned at the two extremes of the Itne—Ferorpore and Loo dianah—and having overpowered them, to have been en abled to march into Delhi, and than a succe‘sful attack would have shook the allegiance of the Indian soldiers and our own European troops. That was the object they had in view. There was no breach of truce, lea they admitted that if they were defeated by the British, that they would receive con solation, because their army sas mutinous, and that they should not re gret the i r di spers i on and annihilation by the British. Sir, for suece•ses so gained, in consequence of conflicts so boldly conducted, I cannot doubt there sill be as universal expressio n of g:atitur!e on the part of this House.— (Cheers) There is nothing, Sir, to .ally the glories of those victories. I do hope that that which has been effected Will long be a state of quiet and peace. There will be, as the re sue, a general conviction of our power—a conviction of the superiority of the British arms that will assure us a long en joyment of that state in that country, and the application of all o u r effort s to the improvement of the native resources of India. —( Hear, hear ) Anticipating that this may be the last war—hoping that it may he so, and that we may now direct our attention towards the improvement of the resources of that country—in that anticipation this ILiuse will, I am sure, refer to some events and some circumstance, which may Till the heart of every suliject with joy and gratitude. — (Cheers.) Sir, the iwo commanders of that army, the Governor General of India and the Commander-in-Chief, have, through these operations, set the example of antdial concert and harmony.—(dear.) There was an entire forgetfulness of themselves. —( Cheers.) And it is this circumstance which has greatly contributed to these successful and glorious results.—(Cheers.) All punctillios were sacri- Arad. —(Cheers.) Sir Henry Hardinge consented to serve as second in command.—(Cheers.) There was net a suggestion offered by Sir Henry Hardinge which was not joyfully accepted by the Commander-in-Chief. Sir, anticipating that this may be the last. occasion upon which I shall have to perform even the gratifyine duty of proposing a vete of thanks. and retun ing Inblic acknowledgments for victories in India, and a public expression of my admiration of the bravery and gallantry of our India army, I will, with the permission in the liothe, refer to some documents. Since I entered this House 1 have had put into my hands a letter from Sir H Gough to a private friend, which was never intended to meet the public eye, but which does him so much honour that I am sure the House will permit me to read ir e He s,,ys— " It is now with pride and with pleasure I inclose you a copy of my dispatch, detailing one of the most splendid and decisive victories upon record—the Waterloo of Italia. I have entered so fully both into detail and commendation in my dispatch to the Governor-General. that it would be impossible for me to enlarge upon a subject embrac ing toe warmest feelings of my heart. Policy, however, precl u d e d me publicly recordin g my sentiments on ti e splendid gallantry of nor fallen foe, or to record the acts of t 7, heroism by thdispleayse eri ; _ not s only individ ua lly, but almost collec tively, weep , h irder s ari d army ; and I declare, were it riot from i,n that my ccuntry's g re quire the sacrifice, 1 have b wept to have witnessed the fearful slaughter of so dev o t e d Never, in the page of t wry i t ,i_t t , ,d r y of men —(Loud cheers. ) nialiii,. i „t s ., -, d has the hand of an Ai wise Being been Si) signally ; e t? Him, thereto e, be the glory ; as his matt -limpets. th s e tr i o ) n ri e d lY — rec t o L rl u 2 cheers. ) But I cannot pass over —l, 4lin ' o e t l , h a e n o i r o, ai i i:e army, afford g u t s w hich, whilst ;they add histreptzkr Loud to me, as its head, inexpresoble cheers.) For upwards of a moith, when ttiePt:o'ua" in close front of one another, notwibstandine the nu m erous were temptations held tint to our sepoys by 'lnn of their ovin:Z aod religion, namely, greatly increased pay, fro m 7 to 12 ru pees a month, and immediate promotion, I had but three (leve r _ tions from this large torce.— ( Continued cheers.) Nur should I omit to mention, a , a proof of the high state of discipline o f this splendid army, that trade has been carried on unrestovestly since we crossed the Sutlej in the several Seikh towns around which our divisions hare been necessarily placed for the procurance of water, and the same confidence has been shown as though we were in one of our long established: provinces."—(Loud cheers.) Sir, continued the Right Hon. Baronet, the example set by these gallant officers, who thought not of their personal interest or safety. but whve thoughts were exclusively diraoted to their coun try's honour and the safety of the army, demands the highest • admiration.—(Loud cheers.) Sir Hugh Gough, in speak ing of a young officer, relates acts of devotion, which I am proud, through the medium of the British House of Commons, to publish to the world.-1 Hear. hear. ) Sir, while we are awarding that praise, let us not forget the example set by that Commander-in-Chief, who thinks fit se to praise those under his command.—( Cheers.) On all occasietis there was the most perfect under-landing and discipline ob served ; and it was that example, no doubt, that influenced the conduct of the men acting under their command. lam sure, Sir, the House will permit me, whilst giving utterance to these expressions of, gratitude, to ming'e my feelings of deep regret at the loss, the serials and sorroisful loss, that has been sus tained.—( Hear, hear.) I had on a former occasion to lament. and enlist the sympathy of this House, when referring to the memory of the gallant General Sale, whe was known to most of us, and not alone known, but admired and beloved—( Hear, I, ear)—and now, Sir, I have to lament the loss of several officers of the most gallant bravery. The first 1 will name is Sir Robert Dock, an (After long distinguished for his great ?ear .1 brav er y.—(H ear, hear.) He entered the service in P l6 4 ) sent 2, at - eurneanied the arm y t o I n di a i n 1807, w h ere h e was at the taking of Aloodkee. In 1809 he accompanied the Peninsular expedition, and commanded the second batta lTii(glo."€itthee,;tlas al lteginiet, during the siege of Odder( Rode likewise eornmZl prese n t at the battle of Salamanca, where he length h, had fatte n , a battalion of the 42d Regiment ; but at ~ bravely fallen. 011 the same day fell ante hes gallsnt of . Lieutenant-Colonel Taylor, son of Lieutenant -Colonel Ta r , also fell 1 • ylor, of the 20th Lig ht Dragoons, who g onously. —( Hear, and cheers .) many ther e are there , who , lost. friend s an-I relatives . 0, in these brilliant victories, have betted up. Sir , a a tac o s. with whom almost their lives were one, a Noble st daily it is my l o t to meat w i t h Lord, who har t the m i sf ortune to l ose a gal lint son—l all u d e to Lord • wowplore the av hf a gall,. F it zroy S omerset , w h o h as to de. uld he s es o upporteo the 1.. ,,, y n 0u ng man, who, had he lived, I wish I could do justice te our of his father's name. Sir. many of the illustrious men whonhqi,7„yr. feelings, by naming in this glorious stctory, but , the istineuished themselves that I should prefer the injur y of (flu t i s t t!" great --( Hear ) rather than read the entire list to the üb i ,u n g them ahmsether view the nines of those who have ta k e n Sirs when I guished part in these sing!e victories ~- a distin the names of Sir Henry s es io, e _. (l . le 7n I see hear of General Packe, and many ot . oft, I re,,,lket with tion that those illustrious men received thei r military "tilt 'ric‘;-s- -tials under the auspices of the Duke of Wellington.— (ch-1 Sir, it does add, in my opinion, a new lu stre to Its im.teo.r' tal renown—Cheers)—to see men who have b -en brought in his school, and who have profited by his experience.—( hear.) Sir, I would speak with equal praise of those who have no.. had !he immediate ben, fit ot having served underhim. Those "facers in the Company's service who may nnt have . been brought up under the immediate command of the Doke of Wellington, have still had an opportunity. of profiting by the .memory of the victories which he achieved in India —( Hear. hear.) At d when they have witnessed the victories of the' battle of the Outloj, they will 11 moo ect a lesson that was taught men. " Eadem animo scripsit quo bellavit." Allusion had been made to the Governor-General, and perhaps he (Sic J. Hubhinise) might be excused for saying a few words with respect to that Right Hon. Gentleman. It was a great consolation to the 111emb , rs of that House to dwell over the statement of the Right Hon. Baronet with respect to the Go vernor-General. They had mingled with him in discussion, and he had won the esteem—however, he might have differed with them in opinion—of those with whom he had, hipptly for them, ever come in ttenLct. There was something like Roman grandeur in that Right Hon. Gentleman step ping from the floor of that House to command great and mighty armies. and performing deeds which were .uffioieet for a life, and to immortalise any man. Sir Henry Hardinge ' from the 17t'a December up to the tim e they were speiking.had performed exploits and achieved con quests that would illustrate the life of any commander —( Hear. ) He hoped, with the Right lion. Gentleman, that this might be the last triumim which they sheull have to record. He could nit help roneuding by saying, whether it was the last or not, they should still remember with gratitude and pride that an officer so well known for his abilities in that House was uqually distinguished is the field, an.' that he more than up held the renown which he previous's, obtained. He most cheerfully seconded the motion of the kire-.t Won. Baronet. The S . PEAKEIt then read the resolutions, wh ch will be found in another column, under the bead Parliamentary Mr. C. RUSSELL said the House would remember tha' on the lest occasion the House passed a vote of thanks to the army in India for the victories at Moodkee and Ferozeshah, a petition was presented by the lion. Member for Durham (Mr. B-ight) -,from the town which he (Jr. Rustell) had the honour to represent—Reading—and that a very just. rebuke was contained in that petition on the Right Hon. Baronet at the heal of her elajesty's Government. He had received a request from the inabitants of that borough, through its mayor and magistiates, that he would express their regret, and he might add their shame, that such a petition should have been presented, and the assumption that it emanated from them. They had carefully examined that petition, and found attached to it the names of many women and school children, tegether will the names of many persons who were hardly able to write; and besides, several of the signatures were foreed, and 'many of those whose names were attached to the petition had indignantly denied that they had .signed them, showing that this was another instance of palming fraudulent petitions on the House—( Cries of "Oh ! oh I") He had been re quested to discharge a duty imposed upon him by his constitu ents, and he trusted the House would allow him to do so. He had been requested to state that there was no town in her Ma jesty's dominions more cordially rejoiced at the victories achieved by our arms in India,- and more desirous to concur in a tribute of praise to the gallant troops by whom those victories were ebteineti. It would be presumptuous in him to attempt to swell the just panegyric which had been passed on the gallant army in India. He had held a commission in that army for many years. Sir ROBERT INGLIS entirely agreed with the latter part of the speech which his Hon. Friend had just delivered. Ile congratulated the Bight Hon. Baronet on the opening por tion of the dispatches, which ascribed . to Him to whom alone praise is due, the :glorious result of our arms. • He wished to tallow up the opening remarks of the - Right Hon. Baronet, and especially to call attention to the dispatches of Sir Hugh Gough. The lion. Baronet then briefly alluded to the dis patches which had been transmitted after the victoria s of Blen heim, the NI., and Trafalg r, which all equally acknowledged the interference of a superintending Providence in obtaining the victory, and the Right Hon. Gentleman instituted a com parison between those dispatches and a recent dispatch of Sir H. Gough. Lrrd JOHN RUSSELL would take this opportunity of expressing his cordial co operation in the vote of thanks which had been proposed by the Right Hon. Gentleman. He had never known an instance where a vote of thanks had been pro posed with greater feeling than had been evinced by the Right Honourable Gentleman on the present occasion. erhaps he mtglit be permitted to say .there was no person connected with Sir Henry Hardinge, either by political ties or private friendship, who could feel greater gratification than he did at the issue of the recent transactions, and the high honour which he h. d obtained. Let him sty further, with respect to Sir Hugh Gough, that he was glad to see a native of Ireland add ane: her laurel to the wreath which Irishmen had wrought. lie felt great satisfaction at the glory which the British arms had obtained ; their achievements had been alt igether un equalled. The disordered state of the Punjaub rendered it necessary for a prompt interference of the British army. Fro:n the manner in which Sir Henry Hardinge had con ducted the Rife:re committed to hits, there was no doubt he was entitled to the highest distinction. If the utmost prepa ration had been made wilh a view to suppress the disturbances in the Punjaub, there could not have been a more brilliant series of successes than that which had attended oar arms on a sudden call. He begged leave to express his cordial concur rence in the mo•ion. Sir DE LACY EVANS entered into a general defence of ibe military operations which Sir Henry 1rni:11 had thought proper to adopt in the recent conflict on the. banks of the Stelej. Tie did not think there existed a victory on record, which equalled this brilliant achievement. He knew full well what were the effects of unjust criticisms, b oh on officers and men,•and therefore would refrain from entering into any par ticular details. He knew of no achievements in the annals of history which equalled in brilliant execution that which had iti• ingui•hed the brief career of the Governor-General of ledia. Sir Hugh Gough has been the successful Commander in-Chief during two wars. and he believed that there scarcely existed an example, with the exception of :he illustrious Com maniter-in-t hies of the English army, when in the space of two years so mato , gallant. victories hail been obtained. Sir H. DOUGLAS did not precisely agree with the Hon. Baronet in regretting the sacrifice of human life which had occurred in the recent battles, a; without that sacri fice the victory would not have been achieved. The lion Baronet then read a letter giving a geographical deser lion of the scene of action, and the natural difficulties whit re the country presents to the march of troops.. as w, rainy other difficulties arising truisi other causes which the British troops heel to encoutler,...andconeludcil by declaring .that a more tremendous or crowning vitory for the future peace of the country had never:Ven'achieved. -' re; Mr. BROTHERTON said that, but for the speech of the lion. Member for Reading, he would not have risen to say one word upon this subject. But lest. it might. appear like pusillanimity upon his part- if ,he gave a silent vote upon this question after that speech, he had risen to • say a few words in defence of those principles ,of peace of whi c h h e was an a dvocate, • atilt - which he was alway s rea d y to vindicate. . Tie had been waited upon a sh or t tim e ago by a number of friends, who requested him to tr i Zia a motion to this House which might not appar to be c;oiridiance with the wishes of the House, and as he did not w :he same tim e lo to anything his gratitude as post as. might have the appearance of at temptingv;t, anything to do with Hear, hear.) At decli,..4 interfere to ,a with the unanimity of the House, he hail of those who had should say that his heart. was as warm and a as ., thet of any other man, for the conduct ( Hear, hear.) veil acts ter the general benefit of the with the name of religion, country.— that ev;r l"n But he did not wish to mix up war , for he looked upon war as the greatest sr. , urge a country cou ld b e v i s i te d w i th, an d s therefore, h e d i d not think the blessieg, of G o d On such it right f or t h is H ouse to implore Lord HOTHAM said he biped a". the House if he availed he should be pardoned by himself of the • seat in the House gave him for offering epportunity which his this subject ; and he promised they ,bi a d fe be w observations on already been disposed of in a masterly and brilliantlew, for it had the Right Hon. Bart - met the First Lord of th manner by he Treasury. These proceedings in India had been characterised by the most eo su mate ability and skill , an d not hing could be more satisfactory than the ct.nduct of the troops. It was also gratifying to knoie that the gallant officer who had achieved so much honour for himself and the British arms, Sir Henry Smith, had had the advent ige of having served five years under the command of the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsula, where he dis played a remarkably quick perception hear)—and. ardent zeal and devo tion, and the most undaunt ed resolution—(Hear, sccess w hich to those qualities might be attributed the signal u With these few has carried his efforts in India.—(Cheers-) observations he begged to say that this proposition was one which had his most cordial approbation and s upport.— 11 ( — ear.) Mr. HUME said, that before this resolution was passed, and passed he hoped it would be unanimously, he wished to say a few words. He was sorry that the policy of war had been intreduced into this question, for they had now before them merel &proposition of the Government.—( Hear, hear.) He would also wish to say a word in reference to the native troops. The Right Hon Baronet opposite had stated that twos thirds of the army in India consisted of native troops; and he (Mr. Hume) would ray, tbat he hail had some experience of them in a small way. and he colic' add that no men in any army were more remarkable for their bravery, loyalty, and fidelity.—(Hear, hear.) In hit experience of them, he could say - that in many itestances bribes had been offered, but in no case had any of them been known to desert.—(Cheers.) He was sorry that the forms of the Horse prevented them from taking notice of them in the way deserved, but he trusted that the East India Company would do their duty by them,—( [leer, hear.) With retard to what had been said about the grasping char toter of the Governor-General in India, he could only say that in the present case not the least honourahle trait in the conduct of Sir Henry Hardinge was hie forbearance.-4 Hear. ) The SPEAKER then put. the question, and the House de clared unanimously in favour of it. VOTE OF THANKS TO SIR HENRY HARDINGE AND SIR HUGH GOUGH. Sir R. PEEL—It is unnecessary for me to trouble this House with any observa , ions on the ruoiion which 1 am about to l• t v before tt, sod which proposes that the thanks of this Howe should to given to Sir Hen, y Hardinge and to Sir Hugh Gough. The lion. end Galant Officer must have misunder stood ra, if he thought that I moult to imply that Sir Henry Smith had sustained any reverie. lam most anxious to pay a deserved compliment ifor the action which preceded the late de cisive - ction. X. far from intending to apply the term "re verse," I that lie had extricated himself from his difficultie4 oith singular dexterity, and that ju-i ice hsd • not b-en (lone to his conduct. I was most. anxiowi to , how that previously to theworms victory whi t e h e subsequently putrid, he had ex- tricated himself from great difficulties, without any supporter reinforcement, with consummate skill. With regard to the . Hon. and Gallant Officer Sir Hugh Gough, I shall to-morrow have the satisfaction of communi cating lo his son that her efejeety Lae been gre ciondy pleased to confer upon him the honour of the British Peerage, for the gallant example he has set.—(Loud cheers.) iliit,rtuinsetitihonatwhhisietmheilys,iwsitlrlobe ngl i y ir i e te p s a e r r e v d es t . o a l e m ce a p y t , fpoerrtairs t * , h e s t a o l o t er:: v t a o l ou t a r k e sh t o t w i s n o b p y por t t h u e n t p y r o u f , s b i ea n ri n p g r i p n I c v t a e l s d t e i m m o a n r y ; . and I may also be permitted to place upon the re of this debate, the words which my Ga llant Friend, CoSir Henry P at r k a .a n e t , l Hardinge, speaks of hint. lie says that the army was ho noured eye action. Wwearlell eimm. T aer h s e e Ci y ift did not ' a h e l ls e o l ' s c e: t ite o a . f con tent themselves cith a distant view of the action, but were in by e the middle of it, and egposed to every danger. I may also be tn ie ou r or noblemenez e d a ,a h ° d i permitted to supply an otni-sion in not. having borne sufficient testimony to the conduct of General Gilbert.. There is in the coarse of these dispatches • the highest testimony borne to the conduct of this brave commander, and also to all the other officers who were engaged on the day, when the late battle was fought. Sir 11. Gough speaks of General Gilbert in the highest terms, and says, that he has not words to express his gratitude to him, not only for his zeal and activity, but also for his intelligence. - And I have referred to this document, in order that we might have the opportunity of placing also on the record of this discussion the opinions of moie competent judges than we are in these mat tees. Seer DE DACY EVANS said that, either he had imper fectly expressed himself, or he had been misureleietood, with reference to some expressions which he had alluded to as having dropped from the Right Hon. I3oronet on the subject of the motion for the vote of thanks to Sir Henry Smith. He did not maintain for a moment that the intention of the Right Hon. Baronet was other than that which was obvious to the whole House. He merely, as a professional man, objec!ed to a wort% of which he, in that capacity, might be more cognizant of than the Right Hon. Barnet. The Right Hon. Baronet had communicated that the honour of the peerage was to be conferred on Sir Hugh Gough, and he did not in the least doubt that the anneuncement was gratifying to the House; but he wished to say that, on his part, his gratifi cation would be great if he had communicated that the British Peerage was to be conferred upon Sir Henry Hardinge. His Honourable Friend, the Member for Montrose, had alluded to the moderation of the Gevernor- General, in his operations, and seemed to doubt whether he had not been ton moderate. He (Sir De Lacy Evans) con ceived that no part of the conduct of the Governor-General was marked by more wisdom, judgment, and sound policy than his conduct after the late victory ; and he believed that the line of conduct adopted by the Governor-General, would be most conducive to the permanent power of the British in India, and to the well-being of the people who were more • or less connected with us. He wished also to call the atten tion of the House to another circumstance. Sir Hugh Gough had, in his dispatches, in the warmest and most set terms,' alluded to the brilliant conduct of no less than twelve brieadiers in his army, and particularly to the conduct of brigadiers Stec, and Cuerton. He confessed that he did not see why the precedent i f the names of these twelve gallant officers being inserted in the vote of thanks should not be admitted. In this case the ordinary rule might be departed from, and the names of men so distinguished might be inserted in the vote of thanks. He would call the attention of the House to the fact, that during the last war, no less than fifty briga diers hail been included in the Parliamentary thanks, and yet these twelve gentlemen we:e to be an exception. Sir R. H. INGLIS said that he wished to refer for one moment to the g-nerous suggestion made by his Gallare, Friend oppesite. That suggestion would have come with grace and propriety from any one, but the suggestion of the honour to be conferred upon Sir Henry Har hinge came from him very appropriately. If the Right Honourable Baronet should, in his discretion, think fit to make such a recommendation to her Majesty, it would meet the grateful thanks of the House (Hear, hear.) The conduct of General Thackwell should not, on this occasion, remain unnoticed, ate his conduct during the late action hail been peculiarly deserving of admiration. Sir R. PEEL—This subj et has already been spoken of, but in order to prevent the possibility of any doubt upon it he felt it necessary to say that before these dispatches had been one single hour under the consideration of her Majesty, she intimated her wish that the honour of the British peerage should be conferred upon Sir Henry Hardinge and Sir Hugh Gough. With regard to that gallant officer Celonel Taylor, before these last dispatches reached England is was determined to make him one of her Majesty's aids-de-camp, but the account of his death had intervened. The motion was then unanimously agreed to. • THE ORDERS OF THE DAY. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, after a few words which did not reach the gallery, intimated his wish that the orders of the day should be postponed until to-morrow (this' day). He should move the first reading of the Preservation of Life in Ire land Bill et five o'clock. INTERMENT IN LARGE TOWNS. Mr. MACKINNON said that he wished to ask the Right Hon. Baronet the Sect etary for the Home Department whe . ther he was prepared to take any step on the motion he (Mr. Mackitation) was about to make? He brought the subject forward at the suggestion of the chairman of the Committee appointed to take the subject into their consideration. Last year that House came to a resolution that the nuisaace of in terment in larze towns deserved the serious attention of the Legislature. He was ►.ow induced to apply to the Right Hon. Baronet to a.certain whether it was the intention of her Ma jesty's Government to take any steps in accordance with the re commendation of the Committee of the House, the recom mendation of the Commissioners, and the resolution which the House came to nn the subject during the last session of Parlia ment ? He world ask whether, in the event of his bringing forward this motion, it would have the countenance and sup port of the (Jove uroent ? He would Wait for the answer of the Right Hon. Baronet previously to proceeding with the motion. sir J. GRAHAM said that the House would remember the resolution alluded to by the Hon. Member, which was carried in opposition to his ( Sir J. Graham's) strong remon-trances on that occasion. He certainly did admit the great importance of the subject, and he was bound to say that he was prepared to take some steps on the motion for leave to bring in this Bill. He should cordially support his Hon. Friend in the introduction of this measure, and give it every consideration in his power, and do his best to aid him in preparing the measure, and to further any suggestions that might be made on the subject. He was happy to receive his Hon. Friend's assurance that he was now going to take the right course, and bring forward a substantive measure with regard to this subject. Mr. MA CKINNON said that, after the observaeions that had fallen from the Right Hon. Baronet, it would be unneces sary for him to call the attention of the House to the measure, and to enter into any shame sion upon it. He would only say that be felt great difficulty, as an individual member of that house, in bringine forward a measure of this great. importance lie was in a very peculiar situation in being compelled, as a private individual, to bring forward this motion, but he had recomenendatiens from nearly every town in the kingdom, pre•ling him to crone forward with this proposal, an Ihe would, therefore, endeavour to do the best be could. He was sorry to see that a feeling had gone abroad in this country,that it was the opposition of the clergy which nrevented the Right Hon. Baronet from entering upon this subject. He was satis fied, from what he knew of the clergy generally, that as a body they were anxious to promote this measure ; and he confessed that one of the chief inducements which had led him to bring forward this measure, was to exonerate the Church and the clergy from any attack, in consequence of certain observations which had gone abroad. This opposition did not originate from any ot the legitimate members of the Church, for he believed that one of the reasons which had prevented the carrying of this measure before, was the great difficulty in Ii gistaeing upon it. The only way to make a Bill on this subject effective would be to enable every town to apply to the Privy Council by petition, and to allow a sort of inspector, who would see that the nuisance should be eba' ed. He hoped that the first ant second reading of this Bill would be unop seised, and after the second reading it could be referred to a Committee, who in the course of their labours might be able to submit many valuable observations en the ,-uhjset to the consideration of the Heuse. Under these circumstances, there fore, it was unnecessary for him to enter inte further particu lars. There were Hon. Gentlemen present who could assist him in submitting this Bill for the approbation of that House. He should also have the assistance of some ot those Hon Gen tlemen in Committee, and by that assistance he trusted to en able the House to adoe• such measures as would seem neces sary to carry out that important suj.tet. The Hon. Member concluded by moving that leave be given to bring in a Bill to do away with the practice of interment in the metropolis and in large towns. Mr. HUME considered that some step was absolutely ne sessery to be taken on the subject. The great difficulty in legislating on such a question as this was the Church. He re collecte, that, in I' t 5, the Spanish Government framed a decree - ,2after . a Committee of Inquiry had investigated the matter, that •no interments should be made in walled towns. The Government and the House bothered themeelves often with matters of very little importance, while they refused to forward measures like the present, that were imperatively required. Sir JAMES GRAHAM would not offer any opposition to the introduction of the Bill, but, would reserve himself to a very early stage of its progress. It was not requisite to go into the main question then, only he would say that the Church was not the only interest that teas concerned in the present Bill, as the Dissenters of the metropolis, and other large towns, had burial-grounds within their precincts. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. LECIIIRE AND Rh;ADING-ROOMS. Mr. DUNCOMBE rase in pursuance of a notice he had given to ask leave to introduce a Bill to amend an Act pasted in the 39th year. Geo. 111., cap. 79, commonly called the Corresponding Act. By its provisions, lecture and reading rooms were required to be licensed by a magis trate, or else ant person receiving or paying money at the &tor was liable to a heavy penalty. This wee provided in the 15th clause of the Act; and, according to this, there was scarcely a single lecture-room. reading-room, or mechanics' decision institution, in the country, that was not liable to a penalty of of the magistrates 20/. for receiving money at the doors. A case happened last was o g n oi o n f ig the on year at Hull, where a person, for standing at the door of a lecture -room and charging money for admission,• while c w o a u s r, tined e cl d uetpwne,nstyßenpcohu,ndwsh. when n T t h h e e on this occasion was brought under the n on • inflictio n of the pena lty to be pal i, 111.• re was no t a s i ng l e lecture room,country, not licen s ed b y a m e c hani c s ' ma:i t or literary institution in the for charging money for admi, ‘„. :l , ra'o that the doorkeeper of. 100/, and those who paid the n was not liable to a penalty of recen tly moved fir a return of all room :Middlesex lin e of 201. He bad :Middlesex and Surrey, which were not lirci: n t s n ed th b e ut counties of it had not been produ c ed. When it was, it w ould be sego tha t very few were free from the p e na lt y . He restr, e t ed the returns in order that there might be less trouble in furnishing them. There were often • Shakesprrian readings in the Argyll-rooms, and who officiated there in taking money every party or in paying could be subjected to a fine.—(Hear, hear.) Not only was it so here, but every house i n London that permitted a lecture, or discusssion, or any public meeting to take place, w as subject to the same penalty. 'l'he case which had occurred at Hull had impressed upon his mind the necessity of bringing the subject under the consideration of the House, in order to protect institutions where lectures and readitigs took place, and also to protect benefit societies, which were placed in a very awkward position by the operations of this law, the clauses relating to corresponding societies inter fering with the operations of the latter; and the object of the Bill he had prepared was to do away with the restrictions of such societies by the operation of the corresponding clauses of the Bill now in existence, and to remove the penalties inflicted under the provisions of the present law, relating to unlicensed rooms.. 'l'm, Hon. Member concluded by asking leave to in troduceehe Bill. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL would not offer any oppesitiOn to the ihtroduetion of the Bill. The Honourable Member had rated several grievances under the existing law, but as it stood he (The Attorney-General) considered it served in many instances for the veat protection of the public. Great danger might arise if the law requiring the licensing of rooms was done away with. His would watch the Bill closely, and he would see whether it was objectionable or riot, and would regulate his conduct in relation to the Bill recordingly. At present he would .not pledge himself to any partteu'ar course. M . 11U' .E said the great protection of lecture-rooms was publicity. If any person was free to enter, 'there could be no danger is any thing that sight lie dome within. They had got rid of many old things, and they should get rid of these • He admitted that the parties might have a right of action, but penalties among the rest. He hoped they would have free he would submit to the House whether their interfering in the trade in debate as well as free trade in other things. matter would not clash with the claim of the one party or the theLno,rfdorptuheNictAtuN.e,nasot one e tak o e f a t n h y e s na te s p x In answer to some observations ' from Mr. WATSON, defence of the other. He thought it would be much better, which were ina Mr. DUNCOMBE said that the Bill did not apply to Ire tetible in the gallery, ir th a e t a d ll t . strict land at present. i i n sir t a h t e es a ff o a f where the occurrences had taken place, wished to say a few • Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. , words. He had made it his duty to inquire into the facts of THE PORT OF LIMERICK BILL. th e case , and in the outset he might state he had received a Mr. J. O'BRIEN postponed 'the motion of which he ha d communication from Messrs. Baxter, who expressed their given notice, respecting the port'and harbour of Limerick. regret that any officer in their employment should have been IMPRISONMENT OF FACTORY GIRLS. • guilty of ill-using some of their workpeople, and praying that Mr. T. DUNCOMBE rose to call the attention of the House their o w n co ndu c t mi g ht be fu lly told fairly to a petition presented by William Scott, chairman of a p ublic in quired into. Their' ewer; had frequently been in meeting held at Dundee, complaining of the illegal treatment epected by the public officer appointed for that and imtirisenment of six factory girls. Judging from the alle- purpose, and their mode and manner of conducting it had gations of the petition, he had rarely known a case of greater been frequently spoken of by that functionary in terms of hardship. Four out of the six girls were fat herlems and un- praise.. He was instructed to contradict many of the allege protected, and in the present case they were opposed by many tu r ns contained in these petitions, and he was sure if the Hon. lead,ng persons in Dundee,. manu f ac t ur ers. great and powe r ful Member who had made the present motion wou ld make in merchants, bankers, and shipowners, and others engaged in quiry into their character, he was sure he would be con trade and commerce—many of them great and liberal men— vinced that these gentlemen' could never have been guilty of great. free traders, too, who had subscribed 6001. to the Anti- the conduct imputed to them. Corn-law League.—(Loud cries of "Hear, bear," from the Mr. AGLIONI3Y neither knew the petitioners nor the Protectionists.) It was against these powerful parties that he Messrs. Baxter , but he thought , as nobody who had s p oken Asked for justice on bshalf of these poor' girls. The oldest either on one side or the other, ' appeared opposed to any was 20 years of age, and the youngest was b e tween 14 and 15, inquiry into the matter, they had better grant. the Cont end they had been in thaservice of the Messrs. Baxter, of Dun- mittee. The Learned Lord must have been mistaken when doe, ever since they were nine years of age. During that perioe he supposed their interfering in the matter would be clashing not one of thni hid been guilty of the slightest offence or ncg. either with the claim or the defence of one party, because lest till then. Arid what did it amount to? It appeared that on looking over the petition, he did not find any indication of those girls were earning from 5s 6d. to 5. Ocl. {her week ; ant,' the intention of the parties to have recourse to a court of law. one of the flats or stories of the factory, having obtained a rise But the parties alleged matters which a tour of law of wages e ehey asked for the same; the amount a dditional sought could ' not take cognizance of, and this, in his by them, being hot 3d. per week. 'fhe request not having otnion, was an additional reason why there should be inquiry. been met, on the 27th of October these girls left the facto r y at Without expressing any opinion whether the magistrates were. e the dinner tim and did , should have returned at two o'clock. The next mornine they appointment of the Committee ,• and he, for one, must give returned to work at the usual hoer. About five o'clock that his support to the motion of the Hun. Member for Finsbury. day, they were apprehended by four men, and taken to a pri- Mr. DUNCAN and the Loan ADVOCATE here explained. vate office, where they sere kept till nearly twelve o'clock. Sir J. GRAHAM said that the conduct of the girls was Instead of then being taken b e fore the public Court. and entirely a secondary question. He by no means denied the examined, they were taken to another private office, competency of the House to inquire into the allegations of the at which there were present but one magistrre, and Mr. petitioners, but while he admitted the right of the House to Baxter and his overseers. The w ere told to sign a paper, do so, he did not tkink that it was a proper way to deal with and two of them, who could write y did 3 ..), while the other four judicial 'questions.—( Hear, hear.) He would lay that dawn as attached their mask. They wer e then taken before the magic- a g eneral rule, and he thought it would be attended to by trates, and being shortly examined, after Mr. Baxter had whir- the Hon. Member for Cockermouth. He begged the indul pered something into the magistrate's ear, they were sentenced gence of the House, while he explained to them the law and te 10 days' imprisonment, with bard labour. In all a miler practice in Scotland with ' reference to cases of this cases of this kind, for leaving work for any number of hours, description, which was quite distinct fr. m the law and prac the usual penalty was to dedect a fine equal to the wages of the tice of any other part of the United Kingdom. The advo time lost and half as much more. But instead of deducting cates of Edinburgh appointed a portion of their body, men of the fine of one and a half time, these girls were sent to h ard the most distin g uished p ractice at the Scottish bar, to whom, ~l abour for 10. days . And what said Mr. Baxter to this ? He as a stsnding Committee, questions of this kind were referred said that combinations and strikes prevailed, and that something For instance, if the petitions of the girls in question had was necessary to keep them in check. But because this was been presented, complaining of the alleged injustice, and they so, was Mr. Baxter to take the law into his own hands? sued in forma pauperis, the matter would be sent to the Through the exer inns of an Hon. Member near him ( Mr. Standing Committee, who assigned counsel and agents, and Hume), the combination laws had bean repealed, anti these those girls, humble as they were, would have ample means of parties had a perfect right to combine and strike if th e y thou g ht obtainin g justice before the Court of Sessions. - But having* fit ; and admitting the rules of the factory to be such as re- , stated thus much, he must still vote against the motion for a presented, the only penalty that ought to have been inflicted was Cemmittee, because he did not consider it a proper mode of the taking ; one and a half wages for the time lost. But this satisfying the parties in question. abstravtion out of the miserable wages of ss. 6d. per week did Mr. eiUNIE would vote for the Committee, principally on not stiffice. But they also complained that not a single person the ground that the public would conclude that elle House had ' was allowed to approach them white in confinement, to prepare refused the inquiry merely on account of the poverty of the them for trial. One of the girls had a brother, and when they petitioners. He had no doubt of the respectability of the were before the justices he tried to get in, but was not allowed. Messrs. Beaters, and the misconduct of the girls was admitted One of the other girls had some sisters. Two of them came to in their own petition, and were it not for the ground thus the door of the justice-room, and asked for permission to see stated he should oppose the appointment of a Committee. their sister, but they were repulsed from the door, and told that Mr. DUNCONI BE replied. The Right Han. Baronet, it they did not go about their business they would be tried and the Secretary of State for the Home Department, had ai imprisoned too. Was that a fair trial, he would ask? He vised the girls to go to law, but what funds did ss. 6d. per week would ask the question of the Lord Advocate. Would' he say afford them. Tne respectability of the Messrs. Baxter had that this was a fair trial ? He was certain that the Lord Ad- been talked of, but if they attempted to do in Manchester or vacate would do no such thing. The Messrs. Baxter stated Stockport what they had done in Dundee, there would be little that cases of a similar character hail occurred before in Dun- less than a revolution amongst the people. Mr. Stuart, the dee. He (Mr. Duncombe) had made inquiry, and he had as- factory inspector, had also been quoted as evidence in favour of certained that no factory girl had ever before been imprisoned the respectability and kindliness of those gentlemen ; but the under the same circumstances. Imprisonments, indeed, oc- !louse and the country might judge what care they took of the curred when sailors deserted from ships ab o ut t o ne from port, education of their people, when four out of the six petitioners,. because in that case ailietinct contract had been broken, but here who have been eight or ten years in their employment, were there was' no contract.. The penalty for leaving the factory actually obliged to subscribe their marks instead of their was the fine of a time and a halt, and if they intended to leave names. He contended that the trial was not a fair one—that altogether they had but to give a week's warning before they it was carried on with closed doors, and it was no wonder that did leave. He asked again what sort of law was this ? The the poor girl had been noisy in demanding admission into the Messrs. Baxter stated that they in thinned on the same even.. room. The trial was not a fair one in England, if it was in ing, and got a warrant, on which the parties were apprehended. Scotland. He maintained that the conduct of the magistrates, 'that was not according to Act of Parliament. It was not and those who acted in unison with them, had been most tyre according to Act of Parliament that a petition should be sent nous and cruel towards these poor girls. He hoped to the magistrates by a servant—that servant merely stating that the House would show to the country that there was still ' that such petition had emanated from such and suet; parties. a court of redress where the poor could have justice done to The Act of Parliament said that the magistrates or justices of them ; he hoped, therefore, that the buss would grant the 1 the peace should be authorised to grant warrants on complaint Committee for which he had Moved, and he would undertake made on oa'h by the parties with whom the servants had con- to prove before them the truth, if not of all, yet of a greater matted, hut these girls had had no contract at all part of the allegations contained in the petition. with the Messrs. Baxter. They had entered as servants Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and a division from week -to week, anti there was no considerable took place, when there appeared— -33 doubt on the minds of legal gentlemen w hether the For the motion ••• Act did not apply only to servants employed and en- Against it 63 gaged by the year. He (Mr• Dunc om b e ) co uld not find Majority against the rnotien ...... that the flat-spinners were included in the Act, but Gentlemen Upon our re-admission into the gallery, we found from the manufacturing distriche and he saw m an y aro und him. Mr. L.' O'BRIEN moving for returns of the total amount of could inform the House, whether in any one instance one of public money (whether derived from local funds, or from funds their factory operatives could be taken before a magistrate under voted by Parliament,) which had been paid for services as a circumstances like these. He was sure that they could not Crown witness, or for other services, to a man named Robert cite one instance. He would say that this was a most monstrous Reily, alias Geot ge Reily, alias Robert Alexander, alias and cruel sentence, for it was notorious that th e se girls were George Rowan, alias Hugh O'lsleil, who was sentenced to selected and picked out from the rest, because they were father- transportation as a vagrant at the late Spring Assize.; for the lees and unprotected. One of these only bad a brother, and county of Tyrone, specifying the service for which , suah yet he had been refused a dmittance into the justice room. He monies had been paid, the department, and the public officer; had a statement in hie hand of the miseries endived by the by whom such payments have been made, and the period of mothers of those girls who were existing by their labour, but time during which such payments had been made. he would not detain the House by referring to it. A complaint Sir J. GRAHAM said he had no opportunity of receiving was made to the Lord Advocate of Scotland. and he instituted any communication from Ireland, since the Hon. Member had an inquiry into the circumstances. If the Lord Advocate given notice of his intention of making the present motion, and w:uld give him the result of his investigation, what was he had no knowledge whatever of this particular case, but he called a precognition, he believed, in Scotland, he would be would say that the Government' would consider the employ . tiling to forego his motion for a Committee; but the Lord meat of spies for the purpose of creating crime as a most flag- Advocate said that although he was willing to give up the rant outrage.—(Hear, hear.) And he was fully aware that names of the justices—to give up the warrants and the other the Government had communicated to the commanding-officer papers connected with the apprehension of the girls—yet he of the police, in Ireland, Col. McGregor, that any such em could not give him his own investigation, because such a course ployment of persons would be one of the gravest possible was altogether unprecedented. The Messrs. Baxter asked for offences; and until there was a case fully established, be could every inquiry ; and as the Lord Advocate refused to give him not p ossibl y believe that there was any truth in alleghtions (Mr. Duricombe) the papers he required, he would give the made with respect to this subject. In conclusion he would .siessrs. Baxter the opportunity of disproving the statements say that he had no possible objection to grant the mished-for he had made. He therefore moved for a Select Committee to return.—( Hear, hear ) inquire into the allegations in a petition from Dundee, corn- Mr. GRATTAN said there was a' very prevalent idea planting that Jane Bennet and other factory girls were illegally throughout Ireland that the Government did employ persons imprisoned. in the capacity alluded to. Need he remind the Right Hon. Mr. DUNCAN begged to second the motion. He believed Baronet of the case of ehinrone, of the cases of Parker and that when the investigation should have been gone Brophy. There was also the case of a dismissed policeman, into, it would be found that the Messrs. B ax ter, in. who, p assin g under the name of Molyneaux, under pretence of steah •of being the cruel and oppressive masters they paying .a visit to England, was said to have gone to the west of were represented to be, would be found to have Ireland for the purpose of swearing ribbon men. There was uniformly acted in the meat kindhearted and liberal manner also the case of Casey, in the county of Longford, who was towards their work-people. The Honourable Member also discovered by the merest chance to be placing a ribbon docu breught a charge against the justices of the peace in Dundee, ment in the p - mket of a countryman. There was another point If this Committee was not ran ted, an impression would g o to which he would allude, namely, to the corps called the Detec. abroad among the workin g c lasses that the rase was prejudged, tives, who were in the habit of dressing themselves in the heir-Luse their opponents were r i ch men, and they themselves clothes of women, and so far bad this practice been carried that were poor. He (Mr. Duncan) had often acted ai justice of the sources of benevolence were almost dried up, for before the peace along with the ken lemon who had tried this case, chat ity would now be administered the question was " Please and he could unly say th a t no kinder-hearted gentleman. or Ma'am are you a policeman."—(Great laughter.) more just magistraie, existed. He was also intimately Mr. B. ESCOTT wished to ask the Honourable Member acquainted with the Messrs. Baxter, ens! he had great pleasure for Limerick whether the law of Ireland permitted the poor to in assigning the best motiees to all their actions. Previous to be transported for vagrancy. his leaving Scotland a meeting had been called of the working Mr. O'CoNNELL and Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN submitted that diners in Dundee, which in that petition was stated to be a several cases of transportation had occurred for the crime of meeting of the inhabitants. A deputation from that meeting vagrancy. called upon him relative to the trial and sentences upon these Mr. HUME said he did expect to have heard from the girls., He ( Mr. Duncan) stated, that as it had been a Government some explanation of the charges which had been judicial investigation, he hail no right as Member for the Borough made, especially when charges had been made and parties to take cognizance of it • but with regard to one p art of names mentioned. And if such a state of facts existed, could it, he felt that it was his duty to call the attention of the Lord they wonder at the social state of Ireland—( Hear, hear ) Advocate to it. That portion was the refusal to admit the re• and that at a period when they were called Olson latives of the girls into the justice-room. The Lord Advo- to adopt coervive measures. Why, if such a state of cate instituted an inquiry, and he found that that order did excitement existed in Dundee in consequence of the imprison not sinanate from the Court, did not emanate from the justice, ment of a few factory girls, what ought to be the feelings of but arose solely 'ram the ignorance of the door-keeper. lie the Irish people at such conduct, no matter by whom counts.- ( Air. Duncan) intimated to that deputatiou that the Lord nanced? If such demoralising procedinge be allowed, could Advocate had taken measures to prevent any obstruction o f they, h e would again repeat it, wonder at the present state of the same kid again, anti he trusted that this would prove se- the social system in Ireland. —( Hear, hear.) He did hope that tisfectory. He held in his hind a letter from rite of the par- he would hear some explanation of these facts. ties interested in the ease, and ;chose name was adhibited to Sir J. GRAHAM said he believed that. the Hon. Member the petition of th e girls—that person's name was John Craig ; could not have heard the statement which had been made to and to the same person he had, as he had already stated, tee Member for Limerick. He would again repeat that he had written on the Bth of February. The first notice that he had received no communications from Ireland, and that he had no of the matter not being settled was the presentation of a peti- knowledge, as yet, of time facts which had been stated by the tien from the inhabitants by the lion. Member for Finsbury Hon. Member for Meath. on the other evening. He lied also written to the Lord Pro, The motion teas thee agreed to. yore and he had receered a C o mmunication in reply, Mr. O'CONNELL moved for a copy of any report sent to statingehat the Messrs. Baxter and the justices concerned in the Government by a stipendiary or other magistrate, or by any case were men incapable of abusing their power. Then it police authority, of any attack made, or alleged, on the house was stated that the Messrs. Baxter were great shippers, and o f Mr. P. B, Ryan, or on himself, in the year 1843. Also of that they exercised an influence over this smaller merchants of any attack made, or alleged to have been made, on the house Dundee, and that, therefore, they would find individuals to ail- of the said Mr. P. B, Ryan in the month of March, 1846. vacate their cause. He (Mr. Duticat, ) had as e aril) a feeling Also, a return of the discharge of the said Mr. P. B. Ryan by for the working classes as the Hon. Member for Finsbury had, the Insolvent Court. in the county of Tipperary, and a copy of It had been also stated that these five girls haul none to advo- the schedule filed by him on that occasion. cafe their cause. Now, how enrol the matter ? He held in Sir J. GRAHAM intimated that, he had no hesitation in at his hand an extract from the balks in the Messrs. Baxter's once acceding to the motion of the Hon. Member. office. He found that the girls, whose five names were in that Mr. O'CONNELL said that his object in moving for a petition, had been in the employ of the Messrs. Baxter for copy of the schedule, filed by Ryan, was to see the return of many years, and that their ages were not, as stated by th e property which he then stated lie was possessed of. He had ne Hon. Member for Finsbury. He found that the girl Miller recellection that ever his Noble Friend —( Leughter)—had been had entered on the 4th of April, 1837, and that she was then chairman of the Catholic Association in 1823. registered thirteen years of age; that Bonnet entered in See- EVICTION OF TENANTS IN GALWAY. teraber, 1838, and was thirteen years of age; that Roy's en- Mr. S. O'BRIEN moved that an humble address be pre tered July, 1838, and was thirteen years and five months; sented to her Majesty, to inform her Majesty that the atten that Downie, the leader, entered in 1836, and was thirteen Lion of this House has been directed to a case of ejectment of years of age ; and Conolly, November, 1837, and was thir- tenantry which has recently taken place at a village named, teen years of age—so that not one of them was under 20fr sears, Ballinglass, in the county of Galway, in which it is stated that. Downie having been upwards o f te n years in their employment, not less than 61 families, comprising 270 individuals, have in one and none of them under seven years ; and with regard to wages , d a y been ex p elled from their habitations, under circumstances he found that in the seven years o f 1841, 1842. and 1843, they the most cruel and mostheart-rending. and pr to ay her Majesty had had constant work allowed them , when three-fourths of that elm will be graciously pl eased to give directions that the the workers were going idle. The Messrs. Baxter had 0 .500 stipendiary magistrates, and other officers of the Irish con workers in and around Dundee. They had 1,500 in this stabuliry, who are ed in thehe habit of reporting re to andthe executive ll very' work, and on the evening when th e se girls left, outrages committ by t peasantry of 11, because an advance o f wages which they had asked had Com missioners as her Ma j esty ma y be pleased to appoint, be not been allowed them, thirty-four out of thirty-seven girls in required to furnish to her Majesty's Government such aa the same room left in a similar manner. He would put it to thentic information respecting the facts of this case aslhey ' Hon. Gentlemen connected with the manufacturing districts of may be a : ble to collect upon the spot, and that such reports this tate of things ought to be allowed to may be l aid before Parliament at as early a period as *bl pont e. pass unchecked. He (Mr. Smith O'Brien) said, that after the debate which On the naotien being put, had just taken place, on the motion of Mr. Thomas Duncombe, Dr. BOWRING said that el that although into and a fine-minded man relative to the six factory girls, he hoped that the House would might be ready to inquire tro remedy a n y case o f di s t ress , indulge him while he directed their attention to this case of yet, he was hound to bea r I ri s t testimony to the character of the ejectment. An account of the case had recently appeared in Messrs. Baxter in time conduct of their establishment. Not- the newspapers, and, in consequence of the sensation which it ever he withstanding this, how thou ght that every facility ought caused, Dr. Gray, of the Freeman's Journal, who, he believed, I iof to be granted for the re .e _ the working classes. . was a gentleman incapable of doing anything inconsistent with The LORD ADVOCATE had recei ve d and in a communication the highest principles of honour, sent down a reporter to obtain on the Bth of November, consequence of ti ht it is duty to in • that corn. accurate information of the circumstances. That report he munieation. he thou; Id be instituted inquire whether a crimi - would take the liberty of reading to the House. It was drawn nab prosecution shoe that inquiry, against these parties, and up, he would confess in rather strong la (The , was in consequence of that inquiry, that ha found that the Ho nourable .' Gentleman then produces! a copy of the information received was liable to objection, and m ight be used Freeman's Journal, from which he read the report in question.) against the parties wh o g ave it. It oo zed out on that inquiry The cases of ejectment excited considerable interest amongst that this objected information was likely t o be used aga inst the the Hon . Members preeent. Having concluded reading the parties, and that nothing could be more detri • the administration of keielic justice, and the mental against extract, the Hon. Member went on to say that he knew nothing the public prosecutor, was bound to protect Lord Advocate ; of this" but from what he had written in the papers. He had the consequences of the information which the parties from heard much about the state of the Seikhs ; but he would ask For the general interests of i:,eie they had given. whether they or the Irish were in a state of the greater should be kept back. Each of these youngiY this information wretchedness. The Irish people had been called bar amined, but he would be committing ad women had been ex- barians ; but it would be better for them to be barbarians gave any opportunity to the parties who iction of his duty if he than to live in this state. He would ask what could be ex a conviction. On that inquiry it certainly to wish for pected from people who were treated in this way. He would that the parties to this petition eught not toYbappeared to him ask now. would the Government institute inquiry into this ceed. The point to which be had to direct esuffered to pro- transaction, with a view to ascertain what class of people in not as to the facts alleged to the his attention was Ireland it is that ought to be coerced ; whether it was the there had been any offence against the statute. tactition,but as to whether easants, or the landlords? The Hon. Member concluded by appear to limn that no sue . h offence atute. It certainly raid r eading lice against the statute notice. the Address to her Majesty, of which he had given committed. At the time th is warrant • had been it wa s s granted wie , h eats i on Sir JAMES GRAHAM said th at the Hon. Gentleman who morning the 27th of Octob er, and on the • • of th e 28th, too had moved that address , had sta t e d that he knew nothing evidence was ad duced to j ustif y the pr had been held in gloom which was no t eeniion. The Court of the correctness of the statement he had read in a newspaper, legally entitled to the and that he also knew nothing eta letter that had appeared in freedom of the Court. There was another point, for it ap- contradiction of them, and those were the g rounds u p on which ] ,eared that a siste r of the p art y to the prosecution and the that address had been moved. He believed that abetter order of sheriff of the county had . determined that she should not be thins wag about to in as regarded the conduct heard. Be was of oienion that it did fall within his ngs . exist Ireland true, h b to issue a vote on that subject, and to req uire the province of landlords, and that, even if that statement were u b e - to t the attention of lieved it was rather the exception than the rule.., , . the officers to the co mplaint. It appearesito him I that no suf- Bill now before the House should not be carried rut°, law, he fieient grounds had , been found i eel that n the inquiry for a criminal did not see how the conditition of the tenant wou ld b e - rendered prosecution. it appear ed °n, the very night of the im- i better,orhow thedeplorable clearance system could heprevented. prisonment, a brother of the gir l nest applied for the liberationl There was an inquiry now in progress on the subject, and it o f his sister, but had given no sufficient reasons for her super fluous to make this address, as they would in- The release k would be officer himself via. satiated that there w as qu ire into the real facts of the case. It would be only justice for criminal proceedings. The parties wer e nof groundi 1 the parties concerne d that the House should suspend this perfectly at to liberty to allege a petition and institute - proceedings. 'measure. Flo was in the hope that the report which bad been just read was an exaggerated one; and even if therewere some truth in it. the result of the inquiry would show how' far it might be relied on. After a few words from Mr. CALEB POWELL, _ Mr. S. OTIRIEN said that he hoped the Hon. Gentleman did ;not mean to say that he took any unfair advantage of Mr. Gerard, because if the speech before the House were incorrect, there would no doubt be a demand for an inquiry, and therefore by bringing forward this motion he did not conceive that he did any injustice. With respect to the out rages in Ireland, his statement had been made with no desire to obtain popularity amongst ruffians and murderers, for on more than one occasion he had exposed his life in the endea vour to suppress such crimess He wished he could impress on lion. Members, that it was not by coercive measures that thee would redress the fatal condition of Ireland. The motion was then withdraWn. HIGHWAYS IN ENGLAND. Sir JAMES GRAHAM moved for leave to bring in a Bill for the purpose of Amending the Acts relating- to the Highways in England. In making this motion he was perfectly aware of the deficient state of the law upon that subject. The House was aware that the rum levied for the maintenance of highways in England is 1,600,000/. per annum, and many parishes supported their own highways. In an Act formerly passed power was given to different districts to unite and divide for the purpose of maintaining their high ways. That Act had not been attended with any general benefit, and the object of his measure was to render certain rules and regulations compulsory in certain districts. He would not long detain the House, while he detailed the ma chinery by which he intended to work that system. For the purpose o making the Act perspicuous and particular, he had brought together all the existing laws with respect to highways, and had consulted the provisions contained in them all. He proposed to form a Board of Commissioners, to whose management all the highways in England should be re ferred, and that the present existing trusts, to the number of 15,01:0, should be formed into districts under the control of the CommissiOners. He proposed that one superintending officer should be appointed in each district, whose salary is to be fixed by the board, and subject to their dismissal. Each parish or township is to be represented at the district by haywardens. These haywardens are to have the regulations of the highways in each district. 'lbis board is to appoint two paid officers, one a surveyor and the other a superintendent. These district boards are to meet four times in the year, and they are to have an annual meeting, to which the accounts are to be submitted, and es ti ma t es f or the succeeding year brought forward and agreed to. He proposed, as already there were auditors appointed under the Poor-law, that those au ditors should audit the accounts of these district boards; and that the accounts so audited should be forwarded to the En closure Commissioners, and reported by them to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to be by him laid before both Houses of Parliament. Powers were also given in the Bill to change parish rating into union rating, but it must him the unanimous consent of every one of the hay-wardens. Otherwise the mode of laying on the rates could net be altered. The district boards had the power of appoint ing sub-commissioners, and to raise rates by an imposition of 10d. in the pound in each rate ; but that on no occasion should they have the power of levying more than three rates in the rate of 2a. He proposed that the highway rate should be collected in the Farce way as the poor rate. The Commissioners had also the power of sending down inspectors into the districts where im provements were proposed, in order to report on the expedi ency of such improvements. These were the leading points of the nv asure which he now wished to introduce, and he would conclude by stating that the Bill would not include South Wales in its operation, and hoping that the House would allow him to introduce it at once. Mr. S. SMITH did not consider that this measure would be one of what may be called pecuniary relief to the holders of small tenements in the different districts, because, by the pre sent Act, they had the power of obtaining that relief themselves. The object of the Bill seemed to be to make that compulsory which was now vol.untary, and he doubted much whether the farmers would not eomplain of the appointment of a paid surveyor. S,r J. GRAHAM—It has never been tied yet. Mr. V. SMITH—They tried to get vestries, and they re fused to section surveys on the score of expense. He (Mr. V. Smith) had ventured to suggest the very principle which the Right Hun. Baronet was now adopting in the 'debate last year on the motion of the Hon. Member for Sheffield for an inquiry into the peculiar burdens of the land. There was one statement made by the Right Hon. Baronet, which he could not look on with the same friendly eye, he meant the erection of a number of fresh districts.. There were few districts now in which they would find persons willing to undertake the office of haywarden. Sir J. GRAHAM—They meet only four times a sear. Mr. V. SMII H—Well, the seldomer they met the less objectionable this clause would be found in the working; but, at the same time, he (Mr. Smith) would have thought that the board of guardians, who were in the habit of rating for the poor, would have been the persons to have made the distribution of the highway rates. He thought one of the best portions of the Right Hon. Gentleman's measure the apointment of an auditor, because there were at pre sent constant complaints that many of the charges on the highways ought to have been added to the poor-rates. He thought that the Right Hon. Baronet oeght to direct his at tention to the general system of rating in England. This 13111 would be attended with another considerable advantage, because it would do away with the necessity for temporary amendmeots. He trusted, ashy had already stated, that the Right Hon. Baronet would turn his attention to thesystem of rating in general, because it was at present so very defective, and because no improvement would be undertaken under it. The rating of such tenements was particularly obnoxious. He trusted the Right Hon. Baronet would introduce further measures of this kind, and, despite the very exciting topics which were at pre sent before the House, that he would carry them through in the course of the session. Mr. HANDLEY had heard something respecting an addi tion to the usual rate of '2ti. 6d. in the pound, that went to the effect of enabling the overseers to borrow money. To this he had some objection. But there was another alteration which had been proposed, and that was to assimilate the highway-rate to the poor.rate. This was such an alteration as would mate rially interfere with the general administration of the local finances, and, therefore, he conceived that it would require more deliberation than the Right Hon. Baronet was inclined to give to it. Sir J. GRAHAM conceived that the position of the Hon. Member for Oxford was quite untenable, for, instead of its being a loss, he expected to make a large pecuniary saving—in truth, of no less a sum than 1,600,0001. He had had consider able experience in the working of this principle, and in his own county had been fortunate enough to induce the parties in authority to act upon the principles which ho was now propounding. The consequence was, in the course of the ensuing seven years there would be a saving of 93 per cent. in the year. According to the account of the Hon. Member for Oxford, the pre,-lit rate imposed for highways was half-a-crown in the pound; but instead of there being an addition on that rate. there wou l d be a relief for it. 1 On these accounts he trusted the House would consent to allow him to bring in a Bill ; and as the quarter sessions would have the power to regulate any informality or irregularity, to rectify abuser, that no objection would be offered to the introduction of the measure he had'proposed, especially when it was recol lected that the highway rate would be considerably reduced. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. IRISH ELEC TIONS. Mr. MACARTHY alluded to certain returns which had been presented to the House of the number of individuals thut had voted in the Irish elections. In the election for Dublin, the number polled was stated to be 6,213, of whom 702 came under the letter N, and the whole number of electors that had polled in that election in Ireland was 17,410. He him self could bear testimony, that all that had polled in the late election for Cork was 348, although the number of the popula tion was fir different. His object, then, was so to alter the law for taking the votes, as to enable every individual to express his opinion. Under the present system, so little was there a probability of fair play that most of those who came under the letter N refused to register at ail. Under these circumstances he hoped the use would give him leave to bring in a Bill to remedy these defects. Leave was given to bring in the Bill. PLYMOUTH GREAT WESTERN DOCKS BILL. This Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be coin mitte.d. RAILWAY DEPOSIT BILL. This Bill went through Committee.—Repurt to-day. HIGHWAYS I3ILL. This Bill was brought in, read a first time, and ordered to be ,rioted. POLLING (IRELAND) BILL. This Bill was brought in, read a first time, and ordered )e printed. The remaining orders of the day were then disposed of, and he House adjourned at a qtarter to One o'clock. PARLIAMENTAit Y VISIONS (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) THURSDAY, APRIL 2. . FACTORIES. Motion made, and Question put, " That a Select Committee be appointed, to inquire into the allegations of the Petition of the Chair man of at meeting of inhabitants of Dundee, complaining of illegal trial and imprisonment of Janie Bennet and other factory girls in October last." The House divided : MINORITY—AYES,, BB . Aglionby, 11. A. Duncan, Lord O'Brien, J. Balite, Walter Dicott, ilickliam O'Brien, W. S. Bentinek, Lord G. Fitzgerald. It. A. O' Br i en, Timothy Borthwick, Peter Fitzmaurice, W. OConnell, aiel Bouverle, E. I'. Fitzroy, Lord C. O'Connell. John Barring, Dr. Greitnii. Henry Pectic, Captain • Bridgeman, Hewitt Ittil, Sir Benjamin Powell, Caleb Bretherton. J. Hindley, Charles Powcr, James Browne, It. D. lime, Joseph Waddington, IL S. Browne, W. - Kelly, James Wawn, J. T. Butler, I'. S. Weztrtlty, Alex. Clay, sir W. M`Donnell, J. M. TELLERS. Collett,' ohn Maher, N. Duncombe, T. Dawson, T. V. Morris, David Duncan, George MAJORITY-NOES, 63. A.ntrobils, Edmund Fitzr.y, Henry Masterman, J. Baring, W. P. Plower, Sir J. Morgan, 0. Blackburne, J. I. Floyer, John Patten, J. W. Boldero, H. G. Forster, Mathew Peel, Sir Robert Bottleld, Beriah Frewen, C. 11. Peel, Jonathan llowl?s, Admiral Gore, W. 0. Plumptre, J. P. Brim), M. Goulburn, Henry Round, C. G. Broadley, Henry Graham, Sir J. Seyrner, H. K. Bruce, Lord E. Greene, Thomas Smyth, Sir IL Cardwell, Edward Grogan, E. Somerset, Lord G. Carnegie, Captain Guest, Sir John Stanton, W. H. Chelsea, Visc. Hamilton, Lord C. Stewart, John Clerk Sir George Harris, Hon. Capt. Sutton, H. M. Clive, It. IL Mayes, Sir E. Bart. Thesiger, Sir F. Cockburn, Sir G. Henley, J. W. - Tollemache, J. Conipton, H. C. ' Herbert, Sidney Trelawny, J. S. Copeland, Alderman Hope, G. W. Trotter, John Corry, H. Jennyn, Earl Wellesley, Lord C Dickinson, F. 11. Lockhart, W. Wortley, J. S. Douglas, Sir C. E. Lygon, General TELLER,. Duke, Sir J. 31`Neill, Duncan Young, John Filmer, Sir E. Mahon. Lord Cripps, William PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Common..l.) THURSDAY, APRIL 2. The following Petitions for Railways were reported, and the Bin, ordered to be brought in by the undernanted lion. Members: — Caledonian (Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge Branch)—Mr. Johnstone, Mr. Locithart, and Mr. P. Stewart. Caledonian (Mid Lothian Branches)--Mr. H. Johnstone, Mr. Lock: hart, and Mr. Stewart. Caledonian (Du.nfries Branches)—Mr. H. Johnstone, Mr. Lockhart, and Mr. P. Stewart. Caledonian (Leith Junction)—Mr. H. Johnstone, Mr. Lockhatt, and Mr. P. Stewart. Ca l e d on i a n (Dundyvan Branch)—Mr. li. Johnstone, Mr. Lockhart, ; and Mr. P. Stewart. RAILWAYS The Committee of Selection have appointed the Select Committees on the Railway Groups, Nos, 5, 13, 18, 30, 35, and 43, to meet In the week commencing Monday, the 4th May next. Th e U o mmittec of Select.on will m eet on Monday nex t for the last time before the Easter recess SECOND READINGS OF RAILWAY BILLS, EIONDAY, Arra., 6. lialesworth and Norwich. Sheffield, Buxton, Leek,,otteries, Y and Crewe. EDNUSDA, AVID, 8. Surrey Grand Junction. Newport, Abergavenny, a nd TWO-ord. Sir John Pelly had an interview with Mr. trtecretarj , -CrladDtono at.ttto C019P104-9facge YOttictliy. -- ' ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. ,,:. ,- .>" ily OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Hereford, April 1. .....,_ ::/ ~,i; ".... . The assize business was nearly bro u g ht to a close la. .__ .... night, only five cases being left for adjudication this morning..., and they present no topics of public interest. The following ..,, ,' ~,:. had not concluded yesterday, when it became necessary tet . -,. .. ...' close and forward our dispatch: — . CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PL AIT. ) ' i "" ril -- .'" --- Benjamin Skyrnal, aced 20, was indicted for firing a loaded -' ( /.. gutt at William Hughes, on the 13th of last August, upon .k j 4 the Quoen'e highway, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. Mr. Greaves and Mr. Huddleston prosecuted ; the pri sow,r was eefended by Mr. Skinner. From the evidence of the prosecutor, who is a cattle and pig dealer, living.at St. Margaret's, it appeared that on the day in question .he had been at Hereford. and was on his return h,ime in the evening, when the prisoner, whom he previously knew by sight, came up t r Mtn at a place called the Slough, in the parish of St. Margaret, and entered inter conversation with him, walking by the side of his horse, until they came to a garden belonging to a man of the name of Colman, when Skyrnal stopped, And appeared to be taking ‘niething out of the hedge; meanwhile Mr. Hughes rode on t 100 yards in advance of the prismer, whom he heard after him, whereupon he reined in his horse, and at Je seine instant a gun was fired, and his (the prosecutor's) Aet fall upon the neck of the horse. He recovered it, and immediately galloped off. Very shortly after this Mr. Hughes procured assistance, and finding the prisoner still at the spot whence the shot had been fired, he charged him with having attempted his life, and secured the man at the bar, who ob served that it was a person of the name of John lavis lOW had fired the gun. The prosecutor had sold about .50/. worth of stock in the morning, and had that amount about him at. the time of the attack. • Additional evidence was adduced corroborative of the prisoner's guilt ; a little girl, to whose fatter the gun be longed, proving that she had lent Skyrnal the gun to shoot birds with about the time in question, and the gun was found the same morning after the occurrence abeve detailed, ten or twelve yards from the place where Mr. Hughes was rennin, fired at. The prisoner was convicted of firing with intent to do some grievous bodily harm; and a previous conviction for felony having been proved, he was sentenced to fifteen years' trans portation. As soon as their Lordships have disposed of the few re maining cases here they will proceed in the course of the afternoon to Monmouth, and open the commission for that county, where seventy prisoners now await their trial. The following is an analysis of the Monmouthshire calen dar :—Violating the person, 7 ; housebreaking, 4 ; cutting and maiming, 2 ; forgery, 3; sheep-stealing, 9;. killing cattle, 1 • highway robbery, 6; stealing from the p erson, 5; minor offences, 30; manslaughter, 2; firing stacks, 1 — total, 70. WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Tauntln, April 1. The commission for holding the assizes for the county of SomerSet wns opened in this town yesterday afternoon, by e s o e j u i ull bn n e d t it i n g the eh i li. a r ci l iz e rsc . eulii ' t f ;t h .i s e i. ] h e g e a extremelyc a l i etl business, dairi,6rihot,br a s tehy l ee t rr a e, s ibbseevienengr very heavy , only 1 9 nearly 120 prisoners for trial. The follow ing is a summary of the offences:—Murder, 1 ; attempting to mur 3arl tr e e : der, 3 ; manslaughter, 3 ; maliciously ' wounding, 6 ; arson, 4 ; burglary, 7 ; housebreaking, 3; rape, 4; horse-stealing, 1; sheep -stealing, 6; robbery, 4; bigamy, 1 ; bestiality, 1: larcenies, 60; embezzlement, 3; entering inclosed land by night, 7 ; concealment of birth, 1. John Hake and Dank/ Hake were indicted for burglari euslv breaking and entering the house of William French, at Otterford, and stealing therefrom several knives and other articles, his property. Mr. Cox was counsel for the prosecution. From the evidence it appeared that the prosecutor's house having been properly closed at night, on the following morning it was found that a panel of the door had been broken through, and that a quantity of knives, in which the prosecutor dealt, had been taken away. From some infor mation which had been received, suspicion attached to the prisoners, who were. brothers residing in the neighbourhood; they were apprehended, and the stolen property was found upon them. John Hake confessed that he had broken into the house. The jury found both the prisoners Guilty. Sentence—John Hake, transportation for 15 years; Daniel Hoke, transportation for ten years. ' • NORTHERN ClRCUlT—Liverpool, April 1. CROWN COURT.—t Before Mr. Justice PArrEscge.) Kitts, of the firm o Bothwell and Kitts, cotton-spin ners, of Bolton, was tried upon an indictment, charging him with the manslaughter of Peter Greencugh. This indictment arose out of the explosion which occurred on the 10th of December last, at the works of Messrs.'Roth well and Kitts, when several persons were killed by the bursting of a boiler. The defendant was the resident partner and resided on the premises; and the ground of the charge was that A having suffered an accumulation of steam in the boiler without any means of escape, in consequence of which it exploded, carrying away a large portion of the wall of the mill, and burying the deceased in the ruins. The prisoner, who was defended by Mr. Dandas and Mr. Pollock, was Acquitted. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. DOG-FIGHTING.—Bow-street, and all the other streets in its vicinity, have been in a state of popular ebullition ever since the middle of the day on Wednesday, in consequence of the Royal Seciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals leaving denOunced to the police a gang of dog-fighters, and their alders and abettors, assembling at a certain disreputable house in Neale 's-yard, Queen-street, Seven Dials. The police, in consequence of the information thus given them by the Royal Anti-Cruelty Society, made a grand attack upon the place in question on Wednesday afternoon ; and there they captured upwards of ninety persons, tag-rag and bob-tail; and among them—so said rumour—were sundry " noble fords," many " real gentlemen," and a genuine marquis or two at least; all of whom they marched down to the Bow-street police-station, together with a bull-dog and a dead badger with three legs, the other leg having been "gnawed off" for the recreation of the parties frequenting the pit, or place before indicated. Great was the hubbub occasioned by. this proceeding. People, men, women, and children, came running from all quarters to see the show, as the offenders were marched io custody into the station; and so great was the crush throughout the night, that it required all the exertions of the force to keep a practicable thorough fare for the public. Yesterday morning there was little or no abatement of the efferveccence. The front of the station house, the avenues of the Court were thronged with persons evidently all agape for something out of the common way. hut they were grievously disappointed. It was a parturient tnlntes for instead of lords, knights, and marquises being paraded before the bench, the thing ended in four simple ordinary-looking persons being placed in that unenviable situation, viz., John Mansfield, ovrner•of the pit; Andrew .Nash. a deputy cabman unattached; John Smith, a prize fi4hter past work, with a marvellously disfigured visage and fiery-coloured whiskers; and Charles Hays. a .fac• simile o f George Crulkshatak's " Jack Sheppard," with a grass-green cravat, a turf coat, and having his hair daintily smoothed is ith grease. Mr. Hall presided, and a person who attended as solicitor for the prosecution, at the instance of the Royal Anti- Cruelty S,ociety, hstimated to his Worship that the pro ceeding was instituted not under the Police Act, which makes all persons present at these disgusting exhibitions equally liable with the principals, but under the 6th and 7th William IV., which considers the principals only as liable. The Learned Gentleman did not point out this distinction, nor did he say why the Royal Society had chosen to act under the milder law instead of the more comprehensive one ; but it was whispered in the Court that they did not care to have anything to do with noble and gentle amateurs of cruelty, their only object being to put such things down b y punishirg the actual performers. Sir. Robinson was solicitor for the defence of the four fellows actually before the Court; and Mr. Inspector Dodd, of the F. or Bow-street division, opened the case ; from which opening, and the evidence which followed it, we deduce the following facts:—ln con,se uence of information communicated to him at the station on q NVednesday afternoon, that a ferocious dog fight was at that moment going on at a house in Neale's-yard, Seven Dials, he forthwith proceeded thither, taking with him a s many of riVate constables of his division as were then available. They easily discovered the place, and found it surrounded by a crowd 'of disorderly peOle, from whom they learned that t e fighting was at that moment going on in the room up stairs. One of the Society's officers led the way up the ladder leading to that room ; but before he could get through the trap-door at the top of it, a cry of " The police 1" and " Murder!" was raised by a woman in the room below, and instantly the trap door was slammed down, and they could distinctly hear a number of people p lace them he l v e s upon it, as byso their weight to prevent its being lifted again. The officer, however. who fist mounted the ladder ha d seen enough to convince him of what was going on. In a room only '2O feet by 18 feet were nearly 150 men crowding round a place in the middle of the floor, about three yards sqonuare, parted oft' from the rest of the room by a low. part of boards, and within this place he could hear dogs "snarling and grinding" at each other, whilst the men who huddled. Brolllld them were yelling and exciting them to greater fero city. The inspector now peremptorily demanded admission, arid the prisoner, John Mansfield, in a short time lifted the trap and admitted the inspector and the police. The growl ing, barking, and yelling of dogs and men had then subsided; but the prisoner Mansfield, whose shirt-sleeves were tucked hand erx o p a r n i e d t o a r r of s t co h e v e p r i e 4 d withbl deniedo aucpktnoobwilsedegibeiami'sii,but n a i s n e d l f h t i l that there had been any dog-fighting there, although twenty or thirty WI dogs and bull terriers were found tied up in the rooms below. Mansfield declared That they were only . t.ought - there to kill rats, and the rats had not arrived. The flior of the room was >trewed with sawdust, except the square place in the cemtre, and that was literally covered with blood. In a box in the room the police found a large bull dog, panting and quite exhausted, with its head " as raw as if' it had been skinned, and in another box, or ra ther two boxes, they found a couple of badgers, one alive end theor other dead, but quite warm, and with on e of its legs gnawed off. In the room there was a pair of scales for the purpose of weighing the dogs before they were set to fight, and buckets of water with sponges for the purpose of wiping the blood from their eves and chaps, lest it should suffocateor blind them,and so spoil the sport. They also found the hides of two dogs, prae served probably on account of the " pluck" their wearers h d displayed when living. The inspector and the other witnesses were furiously cross-examined by the solicitor for the defence The inspector was asked if he did not know that many gentlemen kept such dogs? He replied, "I do not ; and in my opinion no gentleman would keep them, especially for such purposes as these." Did not know whether there were any noblemen or gentlemen present or not; but when the p o lice entered the room many m en were jumpiog out of the or windows, and they might °be noblemen or gentlemen I anything he knew to the contrary. The Learned Gentleman th e n contended that the ca se had not been proved egain!t any of his clients except Mansfield, and that was ►_upo e n n ,h,r ., own confession. He insinuated that noblemen and g mat had been allowed to escape, whilet these selected for punishment, although they w !r i e le y them, and their titled companions, and led into the ern D pzrrem.etiii_were, for their own amuse me n t. ent , he hoped the Mr. Hata, in delivering his jtudgemoiewoh, or in a station persons thus alluded to were g agev:tntasll tthaeysvth•aewre thatttot proved to be so ; and thereme. his. entitling them to be so called;,, honestly. Had this the inspector bad not d, 1 . 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