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rd PERIAL ' PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Friday, Feb. 6 The Earl of SHAFTESBURY took his seat on the Wool sack at ten minutes after Five. CRIMINAL LAW. Lord CAMPBELL moved for a copy of the last report of the Criminal Law Commissioners. lie had spoken to his Noble and Learned Friend the Lord Chancellor on the subject, and ho had no objection to the productiOn of the report. NEW ZEALAND. Lord LYTTELTON presented a petition from New Zealand, prayin g that a humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying her Majesty to adopt some mea sures to mitigate the evils resulting from the increase of convicts in that colony. THE INCONVENIENCE OF A NAME. Lord BEAUMONT wished to call the attention of the Noble Earl opposite (the Earl of Aberdeen) to a subject on which he bad presented a petition last week. The petitioner was a gentleman of the name of Mr. Henry Graham, who bad travelled in Italy, and whese passport was regularly revised at Marseilles by the Sardinian Consul-Gcner.sl. After this, how ever, the petitioner was detained by the police at Nice for twenty-four hours, and, when allowed to depart, no expinnetion of the cause of detention was given to him, further than that his name was Graham. Ile threat ened to complain to the British Consul there, and afterwards to the British Minister at Turin. No epolegy had yet been made for M, detention, and no reason had been assigned for it, ex cepting that he bore the ediens name of Graleu (Laugt ter)—ltad therefore it was that he (Lord Beret rcoat) wished to cell the attention of the Noble Lord opposite to the subject. He wished to know, as that Noble Lord had thought proper to have some correspon deece with the Sardinian Government, whether there was any prosp ect of being indemni fied fur the loss he had sustaine d by thisidetention? Tho Earl of ABERDEEN said that it was perfectly true that the Sardinian Government had detained a per sbn of the name of Graham, as stated by the NoLle Lcrd. He had been detained and subjected to some in convenience on account of his name. He (the Earl of Aberdeen) would say there was no better name in Great Britain ; yet, at the same time, there was no name sufficiently good that would not be occasionally in disgrace. It appeared the detebtion in the present case arose from a person of the name of Graham, at Brussels, in Belgium, had been guilty of forgery or swindling, and having fled, the Belgian Government communicated with the different ports of Europe, and among others, with the Sardinian Government, desiring them to take any person of that namo that might pass through their territory. In consequence of this, Mr. Graham was deteined twenty-four hours in his own hotel, but as soon as the mistake was known he was dismissed. . , His carriage was / aid, and the olter expenses incidental to his detention were sent, and beyond these, he (Lord Aberdeen) was cot a ware of an v loss he had been sub jected to. The Sardinian Go . :rnment explained to him the mistake, apologised for his being detained, and nude good any loss he might have been made to suffer. The gentleman had declared that the detention arose from persecution en account of the name of Graham, and claimed a pecuniary indemnity, but under the cir cutnitances he (Lord Aberdeen) coull not make any ap plication to the Sardinian Government. That Govern ment bad done ail that was required—they had explained the mistake, intimated that the detention was uninten tional, and paid the incidental expenses, so that he must decline doing anything further in the matter. The Duke of BUCCLEUCH laid upon the table of the House certain returns relating to gaols in Ireland. RAILWAY BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. The Earl of DALHOUSIE, in rising to move the suspension of the 224th standing order of the House, said it would be iiecessery for him to direct their Lordships' attention to the fact of t wo Committees hay. ing been appointed, one by the other House of Parlia ment, and the other by their Lordships, to consider the best means of disposing of the railway busite . ss of the session. These Committees were of a too fold character. The first object to be considered by them was the possi bility of finding time to get through the railway business, and the other the expediency of allowing so large an amount of cepital which these railway schemes would require to be diverted from the usual and ordinary sources of commerce. Both Committees met the day after their appointment, and all the infor mation which the Government had in their possession upon the subject was laid before them, and the Committees considered generally the two questions which had been referred to them. In the first place, they suggested that a certain alters , tion should be made in the mode of arranging and dis p-ssing of the private business of the two Hous:s of Par liament, because they thought it would tend to facilitate the transactions of business of either House, and while it would be convenient to those interetsed in the conduct of that business, it would at the same time be productive of ailvaetage to the public interest. Their Lordships were no doubt aware that according to the invariable prac tice of the House, railway business had commenced in the other House of Parliament, and, as a neces.ary consequence, during the first two or three months of the session their Lordships were left entirely without private business, and when it did come before them, they were so overwhelmed with it at a late period of their sitting, that it was quite impossible for their Lordships to give it that due attention which its im purtenee demanded. Their Lordships' Commit, had, therefore, determined to recommend an aeration in the existing standing orders, and to meet this arrangement, no doubt their Lordships would have perceived that tho Committee of the other Meese of Parliamint had reported to the House a recommenda tion that during the present session a certain por tion of ralway business should be commenced in their Lordships' House. It was, therefore, • for them to consider what would be a convenient division of the business. But the Committee recommended that the raUray Bills connected with Ireland should be consider Od by their Lordships' House in the first instance. There could be no objection urged to this course, ant their Lordships had a strong season for adopting it in the fact that it would facilitate the legislation connected with Ireland. Under the present circumstances of that country it would be extremely desirable that such a course should be adopted. Any Bills, therefore, that were to be brought forward and considered beneficial for Ireland should be passed as speedily as possible. The report of the Committee in the House of Commons on the same subject had recommended all railway Bills for Ire land to be commenced in that House. There was a charge of five per cent. required to be paid on all railway Bills in the House of Commons, but in that Hottse there was an alteration to ten per cent. An ex ception was proposed in the other House with regard to certain Bills after the 10th July, and a similar altera tion was proposed in that House, but their Lord ships refdsed to acquiesce in it. They proposed that ten per cent. should be paid on every Alb Now a very large proportion of the Irish Bills fell under the exception referred to, and it would be hard to say that this should stand in the way of their consideration. It appeared, therefore, to the Committee appointed by their Lordships, that an altera tion might be made to obviate that inconvenience, and they had unanimously recommended that those Bills on which a deposit of five per cent. hid been made, should before the third reading pay the remaining five per cent. It had been said that this alteration held out an oocJuragement for railway speculation; but by admitting the consideration of those railways which paid five per cent. they would not be placing the promoter in a better condition than if the Bill had originated in the other House. Under these circumstances, he would strongly recom mend their Lordships to sense to a speedy eecision, as it would afford a facility of giving employment to the people of Ireland. In point of tact, all that his propo sition proposed was, to give greater facilities towards passing the railway Bills now before the otle r House of l'arlikment. It was a power to advance railway projects without in the slightest manlier giving any facilities to pass those bubble Bills which were at present in exist -nee. There was another class of Bills which were re ected in the other House of Parliament last session, and Hell were introduced again for the recommendation of that House in that session, but h w ewas of opinion they I would not be persevered i n . sure many of those Bills would not make their appearance, and he would In , :ve such a course should be submitted as to prevent their Lordships from having to deal with Bills which were not of a bona fi de nature. The standing orders on such railway Bill s , h e wou ld move , should be complied with on or b e f ore th e 6 t h F e b., and thatbceiflomreiel the c Bill was read a thi r d ti me i n t h a t H ouse, one -twenti e th of the amount subscribed s h ou ld b e p a id up. Th e N oble Lord concluded by moving the resolution. Resolved—That it is the opinion of this Committe e that such portion of the standi ng or d er Nu. 22.1, as re quires a deposit of one.tenth of th e amount su b scribed, shoild be suspended, with respect to all such railway Bilis as shall commence in the House of Lords during the pre sent session. ‘"That no such railway Bill shall be read a first time in this House unless a deposit of one-twentieth part of the amount subscribed should have been made on or before the Gth of February. "That no such railway Bills should to read a third time until a further deposit of one twentieth part of the amount subscribed should in like manner be paid. "Resolved also, that it is the opinion of this Com mittee that this House should not receive any petition fur a railway Bill after Monday, the 231 of February." Lord MONTRAGLE did not object to the general orincipal of the proposal which had emanated from the Committte but as there was much :misapprehension with respect:to the proceedings of the Legislature on this subject, as regarded Ireland, he wished to explain in what it would affect the railway Bills of that coun• try.. Ire was not about to discuss the necessity of increasing the means of communicatiln ; bit in• tended to apply himself solely to the effect which the suggestions of the Committee would have on the labour istarLet of Ireland under the present contingency. Jnder the present system. none of the railway Bills in which Ireland was interested could receive the royal ass.nt b e f ore J une or J u ly ; i n deed, that was earlier t he s %m n any railway Bills received the royal assent last e • Now, however important and useful it might to pass railway Bills yet even as late in the session as , ' they were not passed before that period, the c'ePPle of Ireland would not derive that advantage from -hem which they stood so much in need of at the present moment, on account of the f a il ure of the potato crop. There was one alteration to which his Noble Friend had not alluded. It was allotwhi:l Promoters of railway Bilis ,ciohr:palianee with a th a e ve st g a r n e d:- t to prove simultaneously ing orders in both Rouses. would be a great improvement, an a d laPti l i l .r this plan expense. for nothing could be more absurd than to bring witnesses from Ireland and Scotland, from r Land's E n d and from John o'Ciroats, to provo certain formalities in - TELE SUN. LOND 0 N, SATUR I) 3/ EVEN IN FEBRUA ft. V 7, 1846. that House, and then require their attendance at another period in the other House for a siniliar purpose. He hoped therefore, that they would endeavour to carry out this suggestion. He knew it would be said that the adop tion of such a proposition as this would give facilities to speculations, but he apprehended that the saving of useless expense, and simplifying the mode of legislation with respect to these Bills, would give them a better op portunity of enc ouraging useful projects by the giving better facilities for investigation. lie could not help calling attention to the great mistake they had made with resrect to railway deposits in the present session. What could be more indefinable than to prescribe to all parties that they should make the deposits in money, giving them the option of investing them in the public funds, and refusing them in the first instance the option of making them public securities. Their Lordships should not forget that the check at tempted to be put upon unfair speculation by the exist ing Act of the Legislature did not attach to those for whom it was intended. Those who thought so had surely come to that opinion upon a mistaken view of the case. The injury fell npon third parties ; it fell upon the mercantile interests of the country—upon those who came under the name and character of tair mercantile speculators. The fault was, however, that of legislation, and he hoped that the House would agree to any measure which would give a different effect to the standing order of the House. The Earl of Stradbroke said, that although there was nothing like an approaching famine in this country or in Scotland, he was of opinion there was such an expec tation in the south of Ireland, and he would favour any thing which had a tendency to relieve that. The motion was then agreed to. MITIGATING PENALTIES IN CRIMINAL CASES. Lord DENMAN brought in a Bill, which he had prepared last year, to alter the existing law, so far as to give the courts of law power to mitigate extreme pe nalties in cases of felony. LOCAL BURDENS. Lord BEAUMONT gave notice that, on a day next week, to be afterwards named, he should move that a Committee be appointed to inquire into the burdens affecting landed property, more particularly poor-rates, and what was generally termed local taxat'en. GENERAL BUSINESS OF TIIE HOUSE. Lord CAMPBELL said, that before the House ad i•-eirnecl, he should wish to make a sugg:stion to their Lordships, as it had been determined that certain Railway Bills might be origioated in their Lordships' House, so he thought it would be expedient that measures of a ge neral nature contemplated by her Nlaj,.sty's Government should in the same way be begun in their Lordship's House. At present they only met to adjourn again, and they would go on in probably the same way until within two weeks of the prorogation, when there would he sent up Bill after Dill, and their Lordship would find that they had no means of duly considering them. If Bills were to be brought forward at all, it was necessary for their duo consideration that they should be introduced in time. It would be w ell if the Government !vould follow the example proposed for railroads in the intro duction of measures of great national importance. The Duke of WELLINGTON said he would take fmre that the suggestion of the Noble and Learned Lord wal conveyed to the proper qtrarter.—(Hear, hear.) The LORD CHANCELLOR intimated that he should also see the matter attended to, only he thought that arty decision on it should stand over for several days in order that it might bp properly matured. Lord CAMPBELL said it was important that they entered on the busing :is early in the session, so that the measures proposed might be properly considered. The early part of the session they usually had nothing to do. It was July before they had any business brought before them, and then the Bills were read the first, second, and third time, in such a hurried manner, that it was perfectly impossible to consider them. The ar rangement he proposed would be far more satisfactory. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that if the Noble and Learned Lord had employed his leisure with as much advantage to the public as he had done in his re ,sent learned work, the public would have no reason to regret. Their Lordships then adjo•irn ed at six o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Friday, Feb. 6 The SPEAKER took the chair at Four o'clock precisely. RAILWAY PETITIONS. - Numerous petitions for leave to bring in various rail way Bills were presented, of which the following were among the most important, viz.: —The Leeds, York, and Nlanchester; the York and North Midland Junction; the Rugby awl Huntingdon; the Sou►h Walcs; the Eastern Counties Extensions; the Great Eastern and Western; the Monmouthshire; the Liverpnol and Leeds; the Cambridge and Lincoln; and the Great Western Extensions. A great number of o her railway petitions were pre sented, the nature of which could not be heard in the gallery, owing to the noise which prevailed in the House. They were all, however, referred to the Committee on Private Bills. Sir GEOAGIII CLERK did not know of any impe diment which would be thrown in the way of Irish rail ways by compelling them to commerce in the House of Lords; On the contrary, ho thought much benefit would be the result. In the case of two competing companies, one might commence in that House, and the other might be brought forward in the House of Lords. The Com mittee of this House might sanction one of the schemes, and the House of Lords would possibly consider the other company as deserving of support; the consequence would necessarily be, that instead of facilities being afforded, the whole concern would be brought to a stand still, and one House would say to the other you must not pass this Bill until you have sent it to us, in order to decide upon its merits ai to the other competing line. Mr. AGLIONBY—Suppose there should be no com peting line ? Sir O. CLERK did not consider even in that else that any substantial injustice would be inflicted upon these Bills. There were standing orders of both Houses which must be complied with prior to obtaining their powers. lie did not therefore consider that any possible inconvenience could arise from the adoption of the cour6e suggested by the Select Committee. He Vi , :ved it was the intention of his lion. Friend the President of the Board of Trade, to introduce resolu tion!, which would have the effect of doing away with any standing order that would be productive of inconve nience to the public business ; and this he believed would have, the effect of obviating the difficulties appre- hendod by the Honourable Members fur Cockermouth and Rosclmmon. Owing to the peculiar position of Ireland, the Go: ernmeut were anxious that every facility should to giv.. , n to the passing of all Irish railway Bills, with a view to giving the labouring population of that country employment when it would be most wanted, namely, in the months of June and July next ; and he did believe that doing so would confer one of the greatest benefits upon that country.— (Hear, hear.) Mr. ROSS said it would be well that all Bills not having to encounter competition should be at once sent to the ILuse of Loral. Mr. GREENE caid that those Bills which should hare been declared to have complied with the standing orders it was recommended should be cent nt once to the House of Lord , ,_ and that would greatly facilitate the business. Mr. W. COLLETT said that he did not think that the benefits supposed to follow the passing of the Irish Bills would be realised, because such Bill; as sholld not have passed before June or July could nut be brought into operation for some months after. Ile considered that the Government ought to take some means for cxpeditilg the Bills which had once been reported to hare fulfilled the standing orders. The SPEAKER having then read some extracts from the report, Mr. E. B. DEN ISON said that it would ho a very hard case should they rescind the order of the 7th July last, and it was right that he should call their attention to what that resolution was. It provided that Bills which had passed the ordeal of that House should be entitled to go into the 'louse of Lords just as they stood, meaning those Bills which had passed the Standing Orders Committee. Now that was the case of the Portsmouth group, and the London and York. Would it not be very hard indeed if these companies, after having gone to such enormous expense, should be precluded now, and have to commence de novo. With regard to the London and York line, there were other lints to comp• to with it, and the House of Lords would. have to take these schemes into consideration. There was the Direct Northern Railway, and also the Cambridge line, which wosild decidedly take up a good deal of tame in getting through. He considered that if the Committee woull ret more impartially, it would be beneficial to the interests of railways generally. Mr. WARD said that at the close of last session there were great complaints with regard to the time occupied in the discussion on railway Bills. There were several parties who had been for eighty days before the Com mittee of the House of Commons who were never heard, and who were afterwards told that their place of refuge was the House of Lords. That was a position in which a Committee, although acting impartially, eould not avoid placing them. The question was not with regard to the interests of a particular company, but it was a vestion as to what decision the Legislature could come to as to which line was the best, and it was fir, just and proper, and wise, that the House of Lords should have an opportunity of mature consideration on that subject. Mr. E. DENISON said that the scheme referred to by the preceding spm.aker was not a new one, and there fore the arguments made use of on the present occasion against the measure did not apply. Lord G. SOMEiiSET did not consider that the House would be committing any injustice by adopting the report. After a few further remarks from the Noble Lord, which were inaudible in the gallery, Sir 11. W. BARRON said it was quite impossible that any railroad, the Bill for which might be passed during the present session, could give employment to the Irish people for several months to come. H. did not say this from any opposition to the measure, but merely for the purpose of undeceiving the House on this subject. He hoped the House would not depend too much upon the present project, as likely to be of great advantage to the people of Ireland. Sup posing a Bill for a railway had passed both Houses, and received the royal assent, he need not tell the House that notices must be issued for calls, and those calla must be made in the first place ; in the next place, they must get possession of the line, which all would know was a task of no ordinary difficulty. After that it was necessary to advertise and enter into contracts. All these things would occupy a great deal of time, and the House would be very much deluded if they thought that they would be giving early employment ' to the Irish poor. He could assure the House that it would be August or September next before any new railroad could be commenced in Ireland. After a few words from Mr. W. COLLETT and Mr. FORSTER, which were inaudible in the reporters' gallery, The SPEAKER put the motion, which was agreed to. THE MILITIA. Mr. GREENE presented a petition praying the Cicy vernment not to take any measures for the embodimen of the militia during the present Session. TEN HOURS' BILL. Lord JOHN MANNERS presented a petition from Bury St. Edmund's in favour of the Ten Hours' Bill. COMMERCIAL POLICY. Mr. B. ESCOTT presented a petition signed by the clergy, gentry, and yeomanry of Ilminster and its neigh bourhood, repudiating a protectionist petition purporting t-) coino, from that neight?ourhood, and got up by the Society for the Protection of Agriculture, as not really expressing the feeling of the neighbourhood, and pray ing the House to pass the measures proposed by the Go vernment fur the relief of the wants of the country. Captain CARNEGIE presented a petition from cer tain landlards, tenant farmers, and other inhabitants of West Sussex, praying for the abolition of all resrtictions on commerce and the free importation of foreign corn. DISTRESS IN IRELAND. Mr. O'CONNELL, seeing the Right Hon. Baroret the Secretary for the Home Department in his place, would ask if the Right Hon. Gentleman had any objec tion to lay on the table of the House the communications to which he had alluded last night, in reference, to the distress at present prevailing in Ireland? Sir J. GRAHAM said that he should be most happy to lay upon the table, without delay, the communications to which -the Hon. and Learned Gentleman referred. There was in the report a particular case with reference to the union of Yells, and there was also a communica tion from Colom.l Jones, of the Board of Works, which would also be furnished with the others. He thought it was important that they should be furnished without delay, and he woull lay them on the table of the House before they adjourned on that evening. AMENDMENT ON SIR R. PEEL'S MEASURE. AP-. PHILIP MILES gave notice that be woul,l, on the }notion of the House going into Committee on the resolutions proposed by the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government, the subject of our commercial policy, move, as an 'amendment, that the House should resolve itself into the said Committee that day six months. INTERFERENCE OF PEERS IN ELECTIONS. Mr. COLLETT (of Athlone) gave notice that on the 19th instant he would inquire into the causes which had led the Members for the city of Chichester and the boroughs of Newark, Woodstock, and Buckingham to vacate their seats, and also, whether or no, and, if any, in what eme the resolutions of that House, providing against the interference of Peers in elections, had been infringed. Friend for the information which he had afforded him. He (Mr. James) had understood that Dr. Faraday was completely in favour of the improvement introduced by Mr. Nett, and that he considered Mr. Notes invention much more simple than the other. If the case were not so, he (Mr. James) had been much deceived. The House adjourned at Seven o'clock. RA/LWAY COMMITTEES. (YESTERDAY.) Sub-Committee No. 1. worfra smar7ORICIOSIVER.E NTAX.I,7OT.") 2,IIELWAY. • (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Mr. William Challenor was then called to prove the signa ture of the petitioner. Mr. Buunis would submit that the petitioner was not pecuniarily interested, and therefore his petition could not be received. Mr. GauGonx—That could matter but very little, as Mrs. Mary Challenor, who receiveJ the rents, was also a pe titioner. Mr. BURKR would request that the petition of Mr. Edward Challenor should be withdrawn. This was agreed to, and the petition of Mrs. Challenor being in the same words, it was taken by at once calling witnesses. Mr. Leather, a civil engineer, was then called to spe•ik to the incorrectness of the datum level, as taken from Bolling bridge. Mr. GREGORY would ask the witness if he understood what was meant by the soffitt of an arch, and - whAher there was any specific point from which a level could be taken on the term soffitt? Witness—The soffitt meant the whole of the centre of the arch, and not any specific point. Mr. BURKE—NOM any engineer be mistaken in the mean ing if the term soffett ? Witness—An.engincer might certainly take it to mean the eentro of the arch ; but it was by no means a correct term for a point of level. Mr. Hoskins, Professor of Architecture in King's College, examined by Mr. GREGORY—The centre of a curve would be called the crown and not the soffitt. The soffitt meant the whole or any point of the arch not specified. The soffit mot only applied to an arch, but to a ceiling of an, room, whether horizontal or curved, but it did not literatly mean anYlixed point; it meant the whole or under surface of any part of architecture to which it may be applied. Mr. BURKE—Suppose you were to find the word soffitt in any construction to which your attention might be called, would you mistake it for any part of the arch, or would yon not at once sec that it meant the crown of the arch? Witness—l should, no doubt, after consideration, learn that the term was misapplied, but I : . hould not be able to affirm that soffit was meant to apply to the highest part a an arch. The word sofiitt, in architecture, was from the Italian, and not applied to an arch, but to the under surface of any horizontal part of the building. Mr. Tight, Mr. Errington, Mr. Locke, and Mr. Gregory, architects and engineers, were called on the part of the oppo• nents, and they concurred with Mr. Hoskins that the term soffitt" did not apply to any fixed point. Mr. BURKE called gr. Stephenson, Mr. Vignolles, and Mr. Bull, who said that amongst engineers the word "soffitt " was invariably applied to the highest point of the archway. Mr. BURKE, in reply, said that there were three points to which they could alter their datum level, and as this was but one, there were yet two others which, in the event of the Committee deciding against him, he would contend for. He must say, that this was the first period in• his experience where he found an objection raised to a phrase so constantly used and understood by engineers. The room was then cleared. After a brief conversation the parties were called in, when The CHAIRMAN said that the Committee, after consider ing the argments on both sides, were of opinion, that, al though the word " soffit" had been used in many ways, yet that it was so commonly used in engineering construction as well as in many Acts of Parliament to represent the crown or height of arches; the standing orders had been complied wit h. Mr. GREGORY said, that as the Committee had come to such an opinion, he would r.ot proceed with the other petitions. This closed the case. TZ =OUTS ST.ELITORDSTIME (POTZE. Ems LINE). Mr. BURKE appeared for the promoters. The formal notices were then proved. Mr. COATES said he appeared for Mr. John Joseph Key, of Regent's-park, a petitioner against the Bill. Mr. BURKE would object to the petition being received. The petitioner, he submitted, must be a party in terested, so as to be affected by the proposed line of railway. The CHAIRMAN wished to know upon what standing order the objection was taken ? Mr. BunKE—Upon the ninth standing order. Mr. COATES—That standing order applied to merits; now he was about to object to the subscription contract. He would prove that there was no subscription contract, inas much as the one submitted.to the Legislature was invalid. In a petition against the subscription contract it did not require the petitioner to be a party interested within his Learned Friend's meaning of the 9th standing order. When a contract was attached any one of the public had a right to petition, inasmuch as an imposition upon the Legislature was a public injury. Now he could show that the petitioner in the present case was personally interested, but he pre ferred taking his stand upon the broad grounds of a public right. The Crimeterate, after reading the 9th standing order, said he was rather inclined to think that a petition against so vital a part of the measure as the stfescription contract did not come withfn the meaning of that standing order. The room was then ordered to be cleared. The CHAIRMAN, having consulted the Speaker, returned, and the parties were called in, 'when the following decision was given by The CHAMMAN—The Committee had to inform the agents that having given their best consideration to the point of ob jection raised against the petition, they were of eph ion that the 9th standing order was not sufficiently specific to be bound by it, and they were therefore of opinion that the Ob jection should be overruled, and the petition received. The Speaker was then announced at prayers, and the Com mittee adjourned till twelve o'clock on Monday, when the allegations in question wiil be submitted. Sub-Committee No. 2. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) NnwcASTLE AND DARLINGTON (TF11R.537. AND "WALTON nizawcu) TUN T ZON 'RAILWAY. 0 R ic AND I'ITO UNIX 2 1 1CIZ LAND 1.4.1121+W1.y. These Bill 3 were unopposed, and the Committee were 01 opinion that the standing orders had been complied with. THE CABIBUIDGE and oribronn EAXLV7.I7. There was a petition against this Bill from the landowners through whose property the line would property to the s t ta h n ei d r ing orders of the !IRE& The petition line p er L a s.s n e d d th t l a i t ro t u h g e h House had not been compli ed with. s detriment at of t t h h e e Mr. Ellicumbe, agent for the prometere, said he objected to that petition. The facts of the case were that those gen tlemen wero members of a corporation . interested in certain lands, as stated in the book of reference, but such was not the case. The corporation . could only appear in a case like the present, under their corporate seal, and not as individuals. Mr. Pritt, agent for the petitioners, said that the present was the first time that he had ever heard of its being necessary for the parties petitioning to prove that they were entitled to do so. But, even admitting that such were the case, he considered that his clients were entitled to be heard, fJr who was the first of the petitioners? why, the head of Brazenose College, to whom the property belonged. The (.31{4%111:v1,0t said—We are of opinion that Mr. Pritt has a right to be heard on the petition. The Committee then adjourned till twelve o'clock on .Mon day next. Sub-Cotnmittee No. 3. {Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday, LIVERPOOL, OMIVISR/TR.X, AND PRESTON "1-7.11./LWAY. The next case brought before the Committee was that of the promoters of the Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston Rail w:iy, with a branch to Southport. The object of the schema is to afford a direct communication between Liverpool and the Great Western Lines, and to open a route to the manu facturing districts of Yorkshire. The line passed the stand ing orders last session, but was thrown out in the Com mittee on the Bill. Ttie formal proofs of the deposits of plans having been given, the Committee declared that the standing orders had bean complied with. ILXILIC.INT:ELL 0 ell and ILILSYTII RAILWAY. The Committee, after hearing formal proof in favour of this railway, decided that the standing orders had been complied with. The Committee adjourned at half-past four o'clock Monday. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb. 6. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before the LORD CHIEF BARON and Special Juries.) TFFT ATTOHNEY-GENERAL v. PYM AND OTIIMIS. (Continr.cd from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) John. Somerton, another paper maker, corroborated the evidence of the last witness. On one occasion he recollected that fifteen reams vere taken away in a waggon, which were not entered in the book. This dosed the case fo r th e Crown. _ The SOLICITOR GE. 7 eitiAl, --- inconFormity with a suggestion of the Court, consented to drop the case against Francis Pyni, on the ground of there being insufficient evidence to connect him with any superintendence or management of the mill. Mr. VALENTINE LEE, on the part of two of the Pytns, addressed the jury for the defence, and contended that no case nhatever had been made out against his clients. There was not a scintilla of evidence to satisfy . any jury that either Francis or T. B. Pym were partners in the concern, and un less the evidence proved partnership in the mill and consent on the part of all the defendants in the charges alleged in the records, it would be impossi ble to bring in a verdict of guilty. With, regard to the obliteration & the stamps the evidence equally deficient. How could the two clients whom : e 0 represented be fixed with acts which were committed ! ..n their absence? They were in London at th e time n T:.ten the alleged offences were said to be committed. Il e conc l u d e d by calling on the jury to rej ec t all surmise ; and suspicions, and look strictly to the eviden ce adduced, and not take any of the con structive or mystifie: d ev id ence w hich had been given to criminate the d e i c e Solicitor - General to Pr P : ee the case c l ear ly. He contended that he did not do si,, and adant. It was the duty of the under these circumstances he called for a verdict 0", not o . o il t Thp • so LICTTOR- ENERAL replied. rdeLonn CniEF BARON then summed up, and, after wing e'..er the principal points of the evidence, concluded by saying that a verdict of " not guilty" must pass for Francis Pvm ; but that. with regard to Edwin, the question would be whether he had an interest in the partnership, and if so, he must be found guilty—if not, he would be entitled to an acquittal. With regard to Thomas Pym and Arnold Bedford, if they believed the evidence, the several cases were clearly proved against them, and their duty would be to find them firet 11 then n° offences guilty rrhe of co thee t The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict a Arnold, and of not guilty against the two sous. n ies rn s e g l ainst Thomas Bedford Pxya and This was the onlyrame tried during the day. The penal ties amounted to 2,700/. SECONDARIES' COURT, Feb. 6. There were only two causes set dawn for hearing this day, being on bills of exchange, and undefended. SHERIFFS' COURT, Feb. 6. (Before Mr. Commissioner BULLOCK.) BUNEIDGE AND AN - OMER r. MULLETT. The plaintiffs in this action are attorneys, and the de fendant was a farmer in Somersetshire. The action was to recover the sum of N. 7s. 7d., the costs in preparing the lease of a farm. The defendant pleaded that he was not indebted. The plaintiff had changed the venue from Somersetshire to Lon don, and had successfully resisted an application to return it to the Sheriff's Court of that county. The facts of the case are these :—ln August, 1811, defendant agreed to lease a farm from Mr. Wm. Gregory Gardino,r, a brother of one of the plaintiffs, on the same terms as it had been previously held by a person named Besley, and defen dant was to pay one half the lease. The lease was prepared, but two fields had keen taken off from the farm, and defendant refused to execute the lease, and said he could not pay. the rent ;- he also said that he did not think it fair to take the fie!ds off the farm, but he supposed lie must take it. He took to the farm, but did not keep up his rent, which would have been a forfeiture of the lease, had it been executed. Mr. Gregory Gardiner subsequently told defendant that he had not paid his moiety of the expenses of preparing the lease, and defendant then said that he knew it ; he would pay. Mr. EDWARDS, for the defendant, considered it very op pressive on the part of the plaintiff to drive the defendant and his witnesses upwards of 153 miles, when the matter could have been tried at Taunton, and where the custom of the country Leith regard to leases would have been better known. He then contended that Mr. llurridge was acting as the agent of the landlord, :and that supposing the contract to have been entered into, the plaintiffs were bound to look to the landlord, who could recover against the tenant. In the next place, if there had been a contract with plaintiffs to prepare the lease, it had to lee established th the lease had been drawn in acordance with his instroctions. He calk(' witnesses to show that defendant had always re pudiated the lease, and refused payment.—Yerdiet fur the defendant. LATEST PRICES OF SHARES. IS BANKS, ASSURANCE, AN t) OTHER CC M- VANIES' STOCK. From tlze Official List, PJBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY A.ND FRIDAY EVEICUM LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6. .70XTIT-STOCIC 81.1 M.% Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ s. d. X s. d. Australasia .•••• • • • • • 6/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 • 27 film o:o.oo.American 4/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 451 Commercia of London 51. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 23 Colonial.. ........... Si. per cent. 1100 0 0 25 0 0 16 :..ondtt and Westininst r 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 261 :..ondon Joint-Stock .• • 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14 Metropolitan orovincial of Ireland.. Si. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 2104 Ditto, New. •••• • • .. et. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 17;0 sational of Ireland 51. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 18 Nat. Provncial of Eng. Si. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 35 Ditto, New. ••• • •• 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 Union of Australia.... 25 0 0 25 '0 0 26 Union of Lowlon. ••• • , 51. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 12 INS - URA:OSCH c 0 riscr S. Dividend Amount • 00 tine et Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. -- - £ s. d. s. d. Albion .............. 3/. 10.5 500 0 0 50 0 0 71 Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 19;0 Jato Marine....... 6/. par cent, 100 0 0 5 0 0 G% Atlas 13s. Ed. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 16 British Commercial .. 7s. per shut 50 0 0 5 0 0 7% Cleriel,Med..Yo Gen. Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 1 600 County • . . • „ „ 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 9s. and Crown 6/. ss. bs. } 40 0 0 5 0 - Eagle 6s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 5M Economic Life. . i 1030 0 0 250 0 0 & P 3 " s .bs 0 Eng.& Scot. Law • • 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 20i European Life ••• • • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 An paid. 20 Freemasons' .. •••• • • • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 Globe Guardian •••••• • • • • • • 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 35 10 0 43 Imperial Fire •• • • 12/. per cent. 503 0 0 50 0 0 240 Imperial Life •••• • • • • 125. 100 0 0 10 0 0 16 0 4 Indemnity Marine. •• • 11. eh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 29 31. 55. 100 0 0 10 0 0 51 Legal and General Life - • 50 8 0 2 0 0 6',0 Loudon Fire • ••• • • • 100. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15S London Ship •.•• • • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15% Marine -•••• • • • • 51. per cent. 160 00IIS 0 0 10 , 0 Sled. Invlid& Gen. Life 00 0 0 2 0 0 X National Loan Fund • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2% National Life.... •.. • • 01. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 9% Palladium Life ••. • • Si. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2/. Os. Pheanix •••• • • . • • • 3/. p. ct. & be. - 205 Protector Life ... • •.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 IL os. Prolident Lift .••• • • • • 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23 Rock Life •.•••• • • • • • • 43. b 0 0 010 0 4U Royal Exchange Si. per cent. Stock. - 1130 Sun Fire ....... • • .. 6/. 10s. 210 Ditto Life Universal Life ..... • 10001. pr cut. 100 0 615 0 18 • LIST Or SCOTTIS3 COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Namo of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. s. d. X s. d Bank of Scotland - 100 0 0 171 Royal Ilank•of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 162 British Linen Company 8l per cent. - 100 0 0 220 Commercial Bank .• •• 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 166 National Bank 6l. per cent. -• 10. 0 0 15% Union Bank of Scotland 714/. pr cent. -- .50 0 0 98% Western Bank • • - 50 0 0 81% North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 5 0 0 70, Clydesdale. Bank.... • . 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 14% Eastern Bank ••• • • 57. per cent. - 10 0 0 11 1 4 • Caledonian Bank ••.• • 7%1. pr cent. - 2 10 0 0% Etlinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. - 5 0 0 7 1 0 City of Glasgow Bank . bl. per cent. - 815 0 14% i Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 1 Ilcrcules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14 1 ,4 ) Instil*. Co. of Scetlnd 5l. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 10 I North British Incur. • Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24% Edinburgh. Life Instil*. (31. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 19% Edin. & Glasg. Railway 61. percent. 00 0 0 50 0 0 76% Ditto, 34 Shares • • '• &lin., Leith, & Grantn 20 0 0 - 20 0 0 21% Giese:l - v & Ayrshir Rail. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 70 O C•las;;0v & Greenek Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 111 paid. 21 Glsgw St Ganikirk Rail. Si. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 45 t Dundee Arbrotli nail. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. I 351, Standard Life Asesrnce.i 51 per cent. 150 0 0 I 210 0 1 8 citrz. Amount 417 . I Paid. Price. Share. s. d. Stock. ent. Stock. ;h. 100 0 • cnt. Stock. nt. Stock. !tit. SO 0 0 .L 3. X s. 1. 5$ 0 0 1341.1 Names of E Di 1 ai Divi vidend , nice. Names or 2.), - 1 ..; denc: Companies. 5 pct' Companies .1 u At mm. 2 Annum. co per Price. --- - .£ X Aphtn & 01.111 97 51.50. p a 70 Monmouthsh 100 81. 166 Aehby-d-la-Z 113' 41. 72 Mntgontrysh 100 51. 55 Barnsley •• .. 160 121. 180 Macelesteld. 1001 - 95 Basingstoke.. 100 - - Neath . Brknkikabrg 150 51. 85 Nottingham - Cromfbrd.... 100 141. 150 Peak Forest 74 31. 40 Dudley lOO 41. - Regent's :... 33 1/. 53. 26 Derby Ellsmrs&Chs 133 41. 65 Shropshire .• 125 8/. - Erewash • -1100 321. 300 Soinrsct Coal 150 71. 10s. 130 Forth & Clyd; 100 4/. - Do.Lk Fd St 12 6/. p. c. 11 GrandJ unc in: 100 71. 95 StfTrd &Wore 140 281. 30 0 Grand Unlon'loo 11. 10s. -- Shrewslyary.. 125 151. 230 Glamorgnsh .1172 13%1. 210 Slourirldge.. 145 201. 270 tilstr B:,l3rklyl , 00 - - i Strtfrdcn Ay 79 11. 103. - Grantham • • .159 121. 100 ISevern and} 26 11. 83. 32 Huddersfield. 67 --- Wye Rail. liTennt Se Avu 391 7s. 6d. 22 'Unit Ss MI 50 30L - Lancaster .• • 47. U. la. .- sey, l ,4 sit. Leeds& Livrp 100' 341. 520 Timms &Med 19 - - Leicester .. • • 'l4O, 101. 105 IWorcer & 1 7S 2/. 44 Leicstr &Nth ~.3 4/. 65 1 Binning. - ' LoughbOrogl,ll2 l 701. 650 ilVilts Sz. 11/ ks 67 11. 11 ....--_ WA"..r.7.72,-1.V012.U.S ..- Di vidend Amount 1 Name of Company. i per of Paid. I Price Annum. Share. Mast London •• • Grand Junction ••• • • • 37: Kent • • 21. 103 Vauxhall West Illak11.;:sex ••• • • • 51.55. pr ent. £ s, 41. 100 o 0 46 13 4 100 0 0 100 0 0 63 12 9 BANK OF ENGLAND. (From Last Night's Gazette.) kn Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, oap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 31st day ofJanuary t 1846. • ISSUE! DEPARTMENT. Notes issued•. • • •• •• 26,587,355 26,587,335 Dated the sth day of February, BANKING D i X. • Proprietors' capital.. 14,553,000 Rest .. ........ .... 3,451,151 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Say ings-banks, and Di- viaend accounts) . • 4,3 S 9,810 Other deposits •. • . 1 i,030,u 30 Seven day and other bills ••••.. . • • . .. 987,102 Z 40,417,893 Government debt • • 1 1 ,0175,' 00 Other securities •• • • 2,931,900 Gold coin and bullion 11,928,915 Silver bullion • . 1,5" 8,4 10 £26,487,355 M. MARSHALL Chief Cashier. 1816. , EPAIITMENT. Government securi- Dated the sth day of February, ties (including Dead Weight Annuity) .. 13,137,047 Other securities •• .. 21,466,95 , 7 Notes • • • Gold and silver colu• . 700,969 44P,417,53 M. MARSIIALL, Chief Cashier. 1846. FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. PRINCE OF WALES' COUNCIL-CHAMBER, SOMERSET-HOUSE, FEB. 4, 1846. Christopher Henry Thomas Hawkins, of Trewithen, in the county of Cornwall, E , q., has been appointed Sheriff of the county of Cornwall. DOWNING-STREET, Fan. 4. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Joseph Gibson Gordon, Esq., to be Provost Marshal for the Virgin Islands. CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 6. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. _ COUNTY OF SUSSEX—EASTERN DIVISION.—CharIes Hay Frewen, Esq., of Northiam, in the county of Sussex, in the room of George Darby, Esq., who has accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds. City of Cork— Alexander M'Carthy, Esq., of Upper Fitz william-street, in the city of Dublin, in the room of Francis Stock Murphy, Esq., who has accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Manor of Northstead. Borough of Ripon—The llonourable Edwi.l Lascelle, of Ilarewood House, in the county of York, and of Belgrave square, in the county of Middlesex, in the room of the Right Honourable Thomas Berry Cusach Smith, who has accepted the office of Master of the Rolls, in Ireland. County of York—West R i ng—George William Frederick Howard, commonly called Viscount Morpeth, in, the room of the IJon. John Stuart Wortley, now Baron Wharneliffe, called up to the House of Peers. , _ WAR OFFICE, FEh. 8. 4th Dragoon Guards—Lieut. T. Jones, from the 15th Light Drafroons, to be Lieutenant, vice Souter, -alto exchanges, 7th Dragoon Guards—Cornet P. Bunbury to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Arkwright, who retires; N. De la Cherois, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, - vice Banbury, Feb. 6. 15th ' , lett. Dragoons—Lieut. R. &niter, from the 4th Dragoon Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Jones, who ex- changes, Feb. 6. Ist (the Royal) Regiment of Foot—Capt. W. Webster, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice R. Blacklin, who ex,:hanges, Feb. 6. 45th Foot—Lieutenant 11. W. Woodbine Parish to be CaptaLa, by purchase, vice Lucas, who retires; Ensign L. T. Cave t.D be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Pariah ; F. It Grant ham, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Cave, Feb. 6. 52d Foot—Ensign H. M. Archdall to be Lieutenant by parch; Leo, vice Hawkins, who retiree ; T. H. Vyvyan, Gent., to bo Ensign, by purchase, vice Arclll.lll ; G. 11. Dundas, Gent., to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Skene, deceased, Feb. 6. 56th Foot—Lieutenant G. W. Pater, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Smith, who retires; Ensign J. S. Hanson, to be Lieutenant, vice Patel , • W. W. Bassett, Gent., to be ~ En sign, by purchase, vice Hanson ; Feb. 6. 57th Foot—Lieut. E. Stanley to be Captain, without pur chase, vice Lynch, deceased, Dec. 29, 1845. 78th Foot—Assistant Surgeon J. Leitch, M.D., from the 94th Foot, to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Innes, appointed to the 4th Dragoon Guards, Feb. 6. 92d Foot—The Hon. W. Charteris to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Carnegie, appointed to the Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, Feb. 6. 97th Foot—Lieut. M. A. Obert to be Captain, by purchase, vice Garforth, who retires; Ensign E. D. Harvest to be, Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Obert ; T. E. Jokes, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Harvest, Feb. 6. Ceylon Rifle Regime:it —Lieutenant-Colonel H. Simmonds, from the S. Helena Regiment,' to be Lieutenant Colonel, rice A. Montreser, who- retires upon half-pay unattached, Feb. 6. St. Helena - Regiment—Lieutenant-Colonel J. Ross, from half-pay unaAactied, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Sim moods, appointed to the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, Feb. 6. linsvrr.—Surgeon A. P. Jackson, M.D., Surgeon of the East India Company's Depot at Watley, to have the local and temporary rank of Stair -Surgeon of the FirA Class, while so employed, Feb. 6. th.TATTACIIED.—To he Captain, without purchase—Lieut. 'W. Webster, from the Ist (Royal) Regiment of Foot, Feb. 5. STAFF.—Lieutenant A. G. Moorhead, from the 26th Foot, to be Adjutant of a recruiting district, vice Mason, whose ap pointment has been cancelled, Feb. 6, 1816. HOSPITAL STAFF.—Stall' Assistant- SUrgCOll F. R. Waring to be Staff-Surgeon of tho Second Clan, Dec. 15 1845. ME.7:I•)RANDU3L — Captain C. S. S. ETans, 7 6 th Foot, and Lieutenant li. A. G, Evans, 22d Regiment, have been per mitted to assume and bear the name of Gordon, in addition to and after that of Evans. The name of the Assistant Surgeon, appointed to the 94th Foot, en the 23d January 1816, is James Leitch, M.D. and not Luteh, as previously stated. Erratum in the Gazette of April 11, 1845915 t Regiment of Foot—For Emign It. H. Howard to be Lieutenant, with out purchase, vice Harding. who resigns, April 11, read En sign R. H. Howard to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Harding, deceased, Jan. 13, 1815. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Fan. 6. Royal Regiment of Artillery— Second Captain C. 11. Burnaby to be Captain, vice Shepherd, deceased ; First Lieut. C. J. B. Riddell to be Second Captain, vice Burnaby; Second Lieut. H. Mercer to be First Lieutenant, vice Riddell, Dec. 12, 1845. • • MEmonANnum.—The dates of the promotion of the under mentioned officere have been altered as follow:—Captain J. Hile; Second Captain J. 11. Lefroy ; First Lieutenant IL _ Ph clips, Nov. 30, 1845. Corps of Royal Engineers—Major-Qcncral E. W. Durn ford to be Colonel Commandant, vice Sir F. W. Mulcaster, deceased, Jan 29. Commisiion by the Queen. - East Kent Regiment of Militia—C. Winter, Esq., late Captain in the 60th Regiment of Foot, to i)e Adjutant, Dec. 31, 1843. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Oxford. R. P. C. Grenville Marquis of Chandos to be Deputy- Lieutenant, Feb. 3, 1846. Commission by the Lord-Limtenant of the county of Kent. West Kent Regiment of Militia—Captain T. G. Mony penny to be Major, vice Dalison, resigned, Jan. 20; Captain T. T. Hodges to be Major, vice BingliAm, resigned, Jan. 21 ; Ensign M. H. Dalison to be Captain, vice Tyssen, resigned, Jan. 20; F. F. J. Morrice, Esq. to be Captain, vice Baldwin, resigned, January 21; G. Perkins, Esq., to be Captain, vice Moneypenny, promoted, January 22 ; M. H. Jen ner, Esq., to be Captain, vice T. T. Hodes, promoted, January 23 ; J. Coveney, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice R. Hodges, commuted his half-pay, Jan. 20; C. G. King, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice How, deceased, Jan. 21; R. T. G. G. Monypenny, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Potter, re signed, Jan. 20; J. M. Wilson the ;veil:ll;4er, Gent., to be En sign, vice Dalison. promoted, Jan. 21; W, Sankey, Gent., to be Surgeon, vice Sexty, deceased, Jan. 31. East Kent Regiment of Militia—Ensign W. A. Munn to be Captain, vice E. H. Darell, resigned, Jan. 20; C. A. Mount, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Payne, resigned, Jan. 21; W. Leith, Gent., to be Lieut., vice Baker, resigned, Jan. 22 ; 11. Maxivell, Gent., to be Lieut., viceCurnining, promoted, Jan. 23 ; T. Abbott, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Love, promoted, Jan. e 9; J. Abbott, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Perrott, pro. noted, Jan. 30.. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire. . . Royal Berkshire Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant E. Wheble to be Captain, rice Bacon, promoted, Dec. 29 Fl. Pole, Gent., to be lieUtenant, vice Wheble, promoted, Dec, 30. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Perthshire. Royal Perthshire Militia—Captain R. Graham. late Cap. taro in the 68th Regiment, to be Captain, vice J. S. Menzies resigned; F. N. Menzies, Gent., to be Captain, vice A. But. ter, resigned; J. Isdale, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice D. Ro. tertson, deceased, Fob. 3. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Caithness-shire. Ross-shire, &c., Militia—T. F. Sinclair, Esq., to be Cap taro, vice John Sinclair, resigned, Jan. 1; J. C. Laing, Gent. to be Lieutenant, vice A. fitnilerson, resigned, Jan. 27. WHITEHALL, J.‘s._2B. The Lord Chance!lor has appointed Thomas Amphlett, of Sutton Coldfield, in the county of Warwick, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. 'WHITEHALL, FEB. 2. The Lord Chancollor has appointed James Philcox, the younger, of Burwasb, in the county of Sussex, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. NEW WRIT. Lord RENDLESIIANI moved for a new writ for the election of a knight of the shire for the eastern division of the county of Suffolk, in the room of Lord [Tenniker, who had accepted the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds.—Agreed to. RAILWAY BUSINESS. Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET called the atten tion of the Reuse to the resolutions of the Svlcct Com mittee appointed to inquire as to the best mode of facilitating the railway business before the House. The first ruolution was to the effect, that a portion of the railway Bills should be allowed to commence in the frouse of Lords ; and that in the case of all Bills thus commencing in the House of Lords this House should not insist on their usual pri vilege with regard to the clauses fixing and regulating the toll rate; in such Bills. The Committee also considered it necessary, in order to give increased means of employment to the people of Ireland, that facilities should be given fur the early introduction of Irish railway Bills. Now, in order to facilitate the passing of those mea sures, this proceeding was recommended, and therefore ho trusted the House would not hesitate to adopt the report. He did not know that it was necessary for him to make any further observations upon the subject. He beved leave to move the adoption of the report. dlr. F. FRENCH—The resolutions proposed by the Noble Lord were of such a nature as to affect two classes of Bills, viz., all Irish Bills, and all such other Bills 113 were in the position of that of the London and York. The Noble Lord had recommended that all Bills thus circumstanced should go at once before the House of Lords; but this. he contended, would be a most inconve nient course for the Irish Bills. And here he must observe, that he could not see the necessity for announcing with such a flourish of trumpets that the Irish Bills had been peculiarly favoured ; at least he, for one, was at a loss to see that they were in any way favoured beyond the English Bills. Indeed, he believed he could show pretty clearly that there was no substantial benefit whatever conferred on the Irish Bills by this arrangement. lie:found, in going through these resolutions, that if the Committee report that the standing orders have not been complied with, the Bill is referred to the Stand ing Orders Committee. Now this was most unjust. He contended that they should not be allowed to do so, as they thus put the opposing parties to renewed expense, just as if they Fad not made out their case. There was one facility for the passing of Irish railway Bills which could have been recommended, but which had been unnoticed by both Houses. There was a difference in the practice of the House of Commons and the House of Loris; in the former, in Irish bills it was only necessary to prove the service of the proper notices by an affidavit, sworn before a judge or an assistant barrister. In the House of Lords, however, it was necessary to bring over every person who had served these notices, in order to prove them, and sometimes between 60 and 70 persons were brought to London in order to follow out that rule. Now if the practice of the House of Commons was adopted, a very materiel saving would be made. Mr. BERNAL was tot prepared to give any preference to Irish schemes until he saw the justice of such a preference, for when they con sidered the number of English schemes at pre sent, aid the mystery that was everywhere prevalent as to their ultimate success, they would see that such a preference was contrary to justice. He believed that it was known that the amount of deposits irrespective of Irish or Scotch schemes, but merely on English ones, was about eleven millions and a half. The report recommending such a preference would assuredly disappoint the public. lle did not think that Ireland and Scotland would jump at this preference as a great boon, for they knew that if the English rail ways were first attended to it would cause an influx of Irish navigators, who would be well employed. He did not think that a railway running to the southern part, or any other part of Ireland would he any remedy fur the destitution that prevailed there. lle also thought that the Noble Lord on the Committee might be pre pared to come to this House with some scheme which would alter the enormous expense attendant on these railway schemes, and some better way of disposing of them. Would it he believed 0 - tt . in the present year they were so little able to cops these schemes? means T ot be so se rr . eincqnuirie.sw with the e be d a i difficulties e l l t l i e c s on of . ducted by v th a e tTi s oh e ne m s oi a n, t ct answere o r matters o n into consideration. toD wo h sa t ntssion appointed to take y'. had isht fallen l to inake a few from ei G )s e e n r- - c th m e inn i tleman who had just sat down. Th e who drew up the present report consi • dered that it would be most advisable to give employment to the people of Ireland during the months of the sununer, when it was f eare d th e y wou ld suffer mocsetTon' ing the failure of the p o t a t o cro p, v i z. , th e months rcom mencing with M arc h an d t erm i nat i ng with August. Under those circumstances they recommended, in their report, that for the purpose of giving employment to the I r i s h poor d ur i ng t h ose months precedence should be given to the Irish railway Bills, and that they should be introduced in the first instance into the house of Lords. Tho Hon. Gen tleman who had last spoken teemed to say that it would be no benefit to the Irish that preference should be given to the Irish railway Bills for this reason, that the Irish poor could obtain employment in the formation of the English railways. Now he (the Wenner Don) for his own part felt that it would be much better to give the Irish labourers employment in Ireland, inasmuch as they could then share with their families the products of their labour.—(Hear, hear.) notwithstanding the statements that had been made with respect to the potato crop in Ireland, he could assure the House that in the county of Sligo especially the blight on potatoes had bee n almost universal. the Mr. AGLIONBY opp o s ed the adoption of report. He perfectly agreed wit h t he objects which the Com mittee had in view, but he cou ld not consider how those views could be carried into effect by compelling Irish railway business t s commence in the House of Lords; he thought it more desirable that they should be allowed the option of commencing in the House of j Commons if they were quite ready so to do. STATE OF IRELAND. Mr. O'CONNELL postponed his motion for inquiring into the gtnte of Ireland until Wednesday. CUBA AND BRAZILIAN SUGAR. Mr. LABOUCIJERE would take the opportunity of reminding the First Lord of the Treasury of his prrimiso to answer the question put to him the other everaing by the Noble Lord, the Member for London, nhether the Governments of Spain and Brazil had taken any steps of a retaliatory nature in consequence of the differential duties imposed on the sugars. Sir R. PEEL had deferred giving an answer in the first instance in order that he would ba enabled to de scribe the exact position in which we stood with regard to our commercial intercourse with the Brazils. In January, 1840, the Brazilian Government had imposed certain differential duties on the products of those nations which did not admit their sugars et the same duty as those of the most favoured nations. But as yet the Bra zilian Government had not acted on those powers, and no intimation had been conveyed to the British Govern ment of their intention to do so. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. Mr. JAMES wished to put a question to the First Naval Lord of the Admiralty respecting the newly in vtheentuesdeseloefettrhice te e l e e ta g h ra li p s, h hm o e f nt. Mr. Li e no w tt i , eh a e s d a r to p the atte n ti on o f t h e Fi rst L ord of tho Adm i ra l ty h a d li k c n a o b w le to if been directed to the invention of a new description of electric telegraph, invented by a scientific gentleman named Nott. It was a telegraph which he (Mr. James) had been given to understand was much less compra eater', a-A less apt to get out of order than the one which was now in operation. Ho understood 0' -at the subject had been laid before Lord Hadding,too, when be was First Lord of the Admiralty, and that an eminent engineer had reported favourably of the matter to his Lordship, in consequence of which, trrd•crs were given to make a special report on the subje( :t. He understood that a report had been made by Gen end Pasley, and he wished to know if the Right Honour able Gentleman had any objection to state what the mature of that report was, or to lay it on the table of the House? Sir. G. COCKBURN said that Mr. Nott did propose to the Admiralty to investigate his irvitntion and, ac cordingly, General Pasley and Cap gain Brar:dreth ex amined it, and reported unfavoura oly of it. The tele graph was on the same principt.: as the electric tele graph now in operation, but with some deviations ; and the Government did not, under the circumstances, and having received the report to which he had alluded, think it wise to go any further with 'the investigations. Mr. JAMES was much aliged to his Right llon. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. John Pickles, cotton manufacturer, Preston. John S►nith, wat ehousentan, Crescent, Jewin-street, Crip plegate. BANKRUPTS. John Roberts, clothier, Kidderminster, to surrender on Feb. 13, at half-past one, and March 20, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin lane, Cornhill ; Cox, Son, and Walrond, Sise-land, Buck lersbury. Samuel Noller, carrier, Debenham, Suffolk, Feb. 12, at one, and March 20, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Buchanan, Basingliall-sl rect. Hon. Francis Henry Needham, dressing-case maker, New Bond-street, Feb. 17, at one, and March 20, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Fisher, Verularn43uildings, Gray's Inn. Richard Charles Turner, builder, Houndsditch, Feb. 12, at eleven, and March 20, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee; Norton and Son, New-street, Bishopsgate. Robert Gunn, corn dealer, Clare, Suffolk, Feb. 13, at half past eleven, and March 20, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Hughes and Turner, Charles-street, City-road. John William Frost, coffee dealer, Back-lane, Kingsland road, Feb. 13, at three, and. March 20, at half-past eleven, at the Coutt of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee; Shear man and Slater, Great Tower-street. William Stockbridge, tobacconist, Wandsworth, Feb. 17 And March 13, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coletnan-street-buildiegs ; Lawrence and Co., Old Fish-street. Joseph Henry Nock, outfitter, High-street, Poplar, Feb. 12 and March 17, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jawry-chambers ; Hodgson and Co., Lincoln's Inn-fields. Alexander Inglis, diaper, Portsea, Feb. 17, at eleven, and March 25, at ore, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Soles and Turner, Alder matibury. George Duckham, butcher, Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorgan shire, Feb. 20, at eleven, and March 20, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court. Acrainan, official assignee, Bristol ; Hassell, Bristol. John White, wine merchant, St. Benet's-place, Grace church-street, Feb. 14, at eleven, and March 14. at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Alder manbury ; Eyre, Bond-court, Walbrook. John Burbidge, and John Burbidge, jun., cabinet makers, TySoe-street ' Clerkenwell, Feb. 11, and March 14 , at one, at the Gotta of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Satn brook-court, Basinghall-street ; Macphail, Wilmington square. Charles Moyle, linendraper, Whitchurch, Shropshire, Feb. 20 and March 13, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester; Reed and Co., Friday-street; Worthington and Shipman, Manchester. Edward White Baxter, ironmonger, Coventry, Feb. 18 and March 16, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham; Hodgson, Bir mingham; Vincent and Co., Temple. Francis Ward, rag merchant, Batley, Yorkshire, Feb. 19 and March.-24, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Free man, official assignee, Leeds; Taylor, Nicholas-lane; Haxby, Dewsbury • Bond, Leeds. John Hll, currier, Birmingham, Feb. 18 and March 20, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Couit. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Harding, Birmingham. James Duke, brick-maker, Newark-upon-Trent, Feb. 16 and March 16, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court: Whitmore, oflicial assignee, Birmingham; Jaques and Ed wards, Ely-place; Brown, Nottingham. George Handel Openshaw, power loom cloth manufacturer, Over Darwen, Lancashire Feb. 19 and March 12, at one, at the Manchester District 'Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester; Bower and Son, Chancery-lane; Ainsworth and Sons, Blackburn. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. F. A. De Wilde, furnishing ironmonger, Wells-street, Ox ford street-a div. of 5 . 5. 6d. in the pound, Feb. 4, at the offi 'e of Mr. Belcher, King's Arms yard, Coleman-street. T. Dousberry, boot factor, Farringdon-street-a div. of 3s. 4d in the pound, Feb. 4, at the office of Mr. Belcher, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street. T. Howell, hotelkeeper, Queen's Head spassage, Ncwgate street-a div. of 2s. 6d. in the pound, Feb. 4, at the office of Mr. Welter, King's Arms-yard, Coleman -street: T. Davies, merchant, Liverpool-first div. of 3s. in the pound, any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Cazenove, Liver pool. W. D. Townsend, pawnbroker, Little Russell -street, Co vent-garden-second div. of 3-id. in the pound, any Wednes day, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. R. Mackenzie, - commission. agent, Hunter-street, Bruns wick-square, Feb. 27, at eleven-J. Hind, merchant, George row, Bermondsey, Fe's. 27, at twelve-R. Lee, R. J. Brassey, F. Farr, and G. Lee, balkers, Lombard-street, Feb. 27, at one -W. Tuck, Miller, Elsing, Norfolk, Feb. 27, at eleven. In the Country. D. Selden and W. Hynde, merchants, Liverpool, March 3, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court-E. T. Jones, and H. M. Crossicill, booksellers Rochdale, Feb. 17, at twelve , a t the Manchester District Court-B. T. Jones, bookseller, Rochdale, Feb. 17, at , twelve, at the Manchester District Court-H. M. Cresskill, bookseller, Rochdale, Feb. 17, at twelve, at the Manchester District Cou rt-T. Todd, dealer in cotton goods, Manchester, Feb. 18, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court-T. Gallimore, earthenware ma nufacturer, Burslem, Staffordshire, Feb. 27, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein mentioned. A. S. Tucker and G. M. Bidwell, grocers, Meleombe Regis. Feb. 28-J. Robinson, cloth merchant, Leeds, March 2-M. Sturley, organ builder, Southam, Warwickshire, March 4-- W. Brown, ironmonger, Atherstone, Warwickshire, Feb. 28 -G. B. and A. J. Midge, japan leather manufacturers, Glou cester-street, Curtain-road, Feb. 2 7 - W. Wo od and J. llolmes, tea dealers, Maidstone, Feb. 27-W. pulley, tailor,. Bake well, Derbyshire, Feb. 27-C. J. Russel, scrivener, Ludlow, Feb. 27-W. G. Taylor and E. Guy, hosieri, Liverpool, Feb. 27.-T. Bailey, builder, Bristol, Feb. 27-i. C. Kendall, taverukeeper, Canor,bury, Islington , Feb . 27-3. S ava g e, victualler, Old Compton-street, Soho-square, Feb. 27-J. T. Maund, laceman, Birmingham, Feb. 27-R T. Terry, ship chandler, Bristol, Feb. 27. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Hampson, J. Burgess, and J. Fawcett, railway con tractors, Sedgwick, Westmorland-W. Sampson, T. B. Ba turd, and T. Tooke, jun., merchants, London-T. and S. B..d;et, lirendrapers, Wakefield-J. Milne, 3 S:viVe, T. Se vil,e, a it J. .Turia, • cottol.. tu.,..e,: . .ictu.• r , :, 1t , ,:, r..,n, 1.•,: , L.1- shire (so tar as regards J. Turner)-W. Gibson and J. Dover, brokers, Manchester-R. Kay and C. Green, stock brokers, Manchester--W. Gent and M. Jones, hatters, Bir- mingham—P. Nowell and C. Smith, timber merchant et Bradford—J. Mason, M. Wright, and W. Bradshaw, coal masters, Ashgate-colliery, Derbyshire—W. Kohler and J. A. L'Enfant, lithographic printers, Rathbone-place—J. F. and W. Peters, tobacconists, Drury-lane.—H. Love and J. Evans, factors, Basinghal!-street—J. Towell and J. Kcndle, mer chants, King's Lynn—W. H. Robinson and G. Sparkes, car penters, Northampton—E. Glover, R. Haywood, and A. Haywood, licensed victuallers, Walton, Staffordshire — C. D. Hays, J. J. Hays, and A. Hays, Meriton's-yrharf, Mill-street, Bermondsey (so far as regards J. J. Hays)—J. Gough flea, T. Smith, carpet manufacturers, Kidderminster—R. D. and R. Fretwell, grocers, Gainsborough—G. and J. B. Maltbi, wine merchants, Nottingham—lt T. Morley and G. .1-)• Smith, linendraperP,. Scarborough—A. Cockburn, 11. Dunlop, and A. Cockburn, merchants, Oporto (so far as nigards Dunlop)—G. Briscoe, C. H. Twyford, J. Steward, and 0. Beley, Monte Video . (so far as regards G. Beley) — T . 117 ' 1- Hams and T. A. Knight, estate agents, Liverpool—A. and J. Parker, milliners, Kendal—J. Torkington and It. Taylor , railway 'contractors, Ashton-under-Lyne—W. Walford , T. Greenwood, W. M. Tufnell, B. Sparrow, and W. Watford, jun , bankers; Chelmsford (so far as regards W. Walford and T. Greenwood)—J. Brook, jun., C. W. Brook, and F. S ' Brook, woollen cloth merchants, Huddersfield (so far as re' girds J. Brook, jun.)—J. Edens and W. Clarke, shoe manu facturers, Stafford—A. Ackers, J. Davies, and E. Pierp oint, glass manufacturers, Newton, Lancashire—R. Parker and G. E. Beane, carriers, Old Bailey. - PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, tiled produce of the British possessions in America, com Pu t% from the returns made in the week ending :Feb. 3, 1846 ' 355. lid. per cwt. THE CORN QUESTION. (From M. Faucher's Studies of English Life.) Having glanced at the history of the corn -lave, 11 ' says :—" When we have studied with attention the srol- meets of the two parties in this debate, we rmain c °11 : 0 vinced that if the landed proprietors wished seriously' devote time and capital to the amelioration of their estates, they would have no need of the precar ious a s ' sistauce of laws to preserve or augment their incotnie. ! Tllo noblemen best versed in agriculture, Spencer, Ducie, Fitzwilliam, and Radnor, hold o L th i s point the same language as Cobden, Ashworth, or Ibi f Tiers. • But the question presents a political element,° which we nitht not lose sight, and which tends to comPi v cate the solution. The landed proprietors wish to ha ve high rents, but - they are . at least equal) their farmers so dependent on them as to find 1 1 1 anxious to 115° willing imtruments at the time of an election. 11. ' 0, and skilful farmers would not suit them ; for tlic s : o before investing large capitals in the cultivation of It s soil, would demand leases as a security ; but faring' d who had thus placed themsulves beyond the reach a abuse of power would be round independent eiect °r , s ; Farmers who consent to till the ground without n l ea cannot expect to realise much profit ; it is, theref" r `: necessary to oiler them the illusions of a P n • tective system. Thus the maintenance cf the 0 f laws is not for the aristocracy so much a question t,".0 money as . of political influence, nod hence arises 00, difficulty of obtaining any concession." We sha ll n s extract the conclusion of this chapter. bccan tose it s ttde the causes which re :der the doom of the corn -'vs ra. vitable, even if the harvest had proved favourable , 11 "„ potatoes had escaped the murrain Th e condem , ll o ". tion of the corn laws is written in every page Of i c ' t e mercial legislation. The more they are discusse" , ~p rg more apparent does the weakness of their sillV r e d become. The mediating party which proposed 3 'II,. duty as a compromise bas disappeared, and the G ° t he ment refuses to pledge itself to the maintenance o f ast modification of protection which it accorded." AMERICAN OPINION UPON SIR 13 ' PEEL'S MEASURES. (From the New York Herald.) ,10 THE NEWS FROM ENGL AN D —THE REPEAL o r - CORN-LAWS: The accounts we have received fr,°,ry Great Britain, by the recent arrivals, have been of 5 v ' ve . important nature. Notwithstanding the very cor olla • to tory manner in which they come, there is suffieie, n i v s establish the fact that great changes are about bet >%5 in the commercial policy of England. : a. -*eat There was very little unanimity among the d''h r i , individuals composing the Ministry of Great do e tain, and it was probable that a change of s ," i t ; importance would be made, before any moveraelpoe relation to the corn-laws was made, or before or , gather meeting of Parliament. From all we can froa the conflicting statements put forth by the organs °f r o. different parties in England, we cannot resist th e - t he elusion that the core-law question will be settled bY, Parliament now in session; that the present co rn iga will be repealed, and a moderate fixed duty upon .Pl 5 h grains established. The lower House of the il .ll Parliament will dispo s e of th e ma tt e r without, trouble, but the fate of any Bill rec'ucing the duty r' u 5 foreign grain in the House o f L or d s i s a more 35 , t ° , 1 1. affair, and be involved in m u ch doubt an t he certainty until the last moment. The opposition i r Duke of Wellington to the measure, ill °l ,' o' ls Cabinet meetings, created great anxiety in the /nota of the friends of the repeal, as, without his s°l l of in the upper House, the repeal is utterly ° ti. get the question. It will be a difficult matter t ° but, it through that body, even with his support without it, there is no chance. 't his is admitted b 9,0. A repeal of the corn-laws of England, and the lasto'a thin of a low fixed duty on foreign grain, will lesd r complete revolution in the commercial systems and other nations. We learn that our Minister in t on don is engaged in negotiations in relation to this 1 0 ; c e. and we are prepared to receive at any time the ann ° , l3l ; t meat that a treaty between the United St a tes and Britain has been concluded, entirely of a coma'e,—,l*o character, opening the ports of each for the proN 11,4 and manufactures of the other unon more iii " r3l ;;° adiantager,us terms than any yet proposed- , t ber closer these two nations can be brought to enell,,"of in the pursuits of commerce, the danger 0' rupture hccom,s reduced, and the greater theioo terest each has ,in maintaining peaceful rel l ' t log The Conservative, or middle party, in the Sen,s te ,;, ii en this in view ; and as they hold the balance or P"Tlie they will, without doubt, accomplish their objec t ' v ie'' , course Mr. Calhoun is pursuing has this end ' n b r iot and he will make every honourable sacrifice t 0 sot about such a siesirable result. With him an adit ts ,.l of the Oregon question is an affhir of time, t';'":00' selondary consideration, compared with a moditieat'ci.cial our tariff, and a thorough change in our coagcetiasi system. lie takes a more extended view of the cl u n litsil l ° at issue ; knowing that, if we can give Gretha n greater advantages, in a commercial point of view' 00 she now enjoy s, the settlement of other matters,s looked upon as very difficult, will become very ° ti l t : 0 1 the influence on both sides of the Atlantic in fa/ ci f 0 0 peace will be very much strengthened, and n3anY, te ped' d'fferences now existing will become very much sa` The policy of Mr. Calhoun will undoubtedly P rel /. ' ne d; far as the movements of our Government are collc,e and while it will tend to preserve our peaceful re';''llol' with Great Britain, it will secure to us cornmere/,5,01;r vantages greater and more valuable than we }Al ' yet enjoyed. N Alf 9„ [ADVERTISEMET.] —DEFECTIVE Soo' HEARING RELIEVED, Instruments and Spectacles see.' Irv:, country by post, 39, Albemarle- street, Piccadilly, 1.4. 1! 0 ; vented SI ectacles, Powerful Telescopes, Opera Glasollooft; scopes, &e.—Patronized by his Majesty the King of fr e t her Grace the Dowager Duchess of Bedford, their Gra Archbishops of Canterbury, York, and Dublin, the Och'eter' Devdr.shire, Norfolk, Argyle, Marlborough, and I‘l3itiio,', Bishops of Exeter, Lincoln, Cork, Elphin and, t ir o ; Messrs. S. and B. Solumons, Oculists and 'Poirtl, have invented Spectacle Lenses upon a nest c°iideet tion. Immediately they are placed before eb :ect vision, either by day or candlelightt at or' to mist and dullness wh;e l ) appear before the eye. i 5 5 0 b i t, removed, and every object becomes clear and distinetbrostio the most aged defective sight becomes bright and te . eo , and is brought to its youthful, natural, and origina l sib oisslse the most Powerful Achromatic Telescopes, Opel's tooli. Microscopes, Invisible and all kinds of Acoustic Its so d • for relief of extreme deafness. Caution—Alessrs. Se'd Solomons, Opticians, are not in any way conneetbourbo? person of the same name in their immediate nejfk b t otes e t, ear in any part of the country. To prevent ID" 1 0000 eautinus, and observe—Only to tie had at 39, Albelna r b Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and 25, Soot it , s treet, Edinburgh. A A Vl* - tO l /' ANOTHER EXTRAORDINARY C UR E OF - ro g h - 0 1) HOLLOWAY'S rms.—Patrick Casey, residin,g at place, Brunswick-square, had suffered from a chrol3:ogr!'"tbe for more than three years. This poor man we s ,: m . of , 4 0 sufferer that he did not dare to go to bed fo t " phlegm choking him : indeed, he could not even 13, 11 '110e s n , t ° upon a table for half an hour lest he should be 5 0r oief t ' Nevertheless this person is now labouring from rip fi. 3 5 0 night, sleeps as well...as ever he did in his life, an 'sol ,l lol/,' completely cured, by the use of Holloway's pull., llolloway's Ointment) at Professor HollowaY of ment, 244, Strand, and by all respectable vendo• fetty tine throughout the world. 1, 'e t ' Yb . FA.VERSEtAM.—Protection petitions have ott ar et o freely hawked about this town and neighbourhoc, latie4bst different success. On one farm the &griculturwci, io absolutely would have nothing to do with it ;,,,,. 30 e oitlyea instances, great repugnance was manifested. PF o r ; ro c : - ar e aid of shopmen and apprentice boys, the r etit o t faro er vi , about eighty signatures! At this some of tb v i t . 0 0 01 1 ' greatly incensed, and threaten to withdraw tii3ottg li gt ° from our tradesmen, and transfer them to those (!, t ge in which village the inhabitants of course sip cultural petition.—Kent Herald DOCItS. Dividend Name if Company. per Annum. Commercial •• • East and West India East Country •• .1 11. per sl ..... 41.1. pr cc St Katharine .. •.• • • • b per eel Southampton • • • • • • • . , 4/. per ce] AT a s CIL 0 TartLai tha an 'hied h. to friend, Lawritt R 0 Nuketc lheF. li tAlNl—' . j ; °I 1- 84 e the replj `Y u lrY, in the 19, I fQw Br Cl°llNI ue Dovj".; , 4v:Pc , sitio n A j ° ST- ( ~4 : t ht l 4 tl'l"h:j the kt:Z titt e ° B i nAtitnee rebi 111 al i t a ol te si , 11 1,1 4i 4 1t t o 1 / 44 tc,lll4tz . • BIRTHS. 110 39‘cP .1. Yesterday, in Store-street, Bedford-square, Nrs. J ° 0 . of a daughter. , • rdc lis •0 1 On the 3d inst., at Gloucester-road, Hyde park -Ss lf i /i's Roderick Robertson, of a son. ‘ .O Ol e On the 4th inst., at Thames Ditton, the lady 0 ' ' - ' 'P CO" Berners, of a son. Loa On the sth lust., in Park-street, Grosvenor-square, of a daughter. At Plaistow, near Bromley, Kent, Mrs. Elias, of a 01 ' jolt ite l ' At e ' MARRIED. the - ow On the 3d inst., at Trinity Church, Maryiebone,..sgost 1 George gerC9fOrd, to the Hon. Caroline Amelia, you :i r°9l ;f: of the Right Hon. Lord Denman. ~,Tl l°°l3° lier ' Oa the 31st ult., at St. Clement Danes, Will','"iivillialli ei o Esq., of lfielda.hill, to Frances, eldest daugh ter °. g e-g rr ite Esq., of ilirniitt tham. ,, ofe °lle of On he. ath nst., in London, Mr. H. JoscP-0, fs(l. , Bristol, to Idaria, youngest daughter of A. Ser t ' u oli r street, L c.ar -- ondon. _,: t DIED. On the 3d inst., at Southsea, Portsmouth, Lieute"nots:ooott; Yorke Brown, R.N. x L o uir lie rtoot On the 3d inst., at Hadley-green, Middlesc ~,,,,,, f o Catti er derson Fullerton, eldest daughter of the late Cal t''' ' Madras Ei4:llteers. e ll c• - otn i°°°' Oil the 3a inst., at Augusta-terrace, Stoclov widow of the late T. H. Imvis, Esq.. lace, y, ; (eic i - .; To. _op ' On the 3d inst., R. thilcock, Esq.,oCfl_lif,toornit:Ppi?:,,olCf e/n:ll.ogt°ll4:o4cP On the 3d inst., Mr. J. Schofield, On the 4th inst., Mrs. Elizabeth Woodwa ro of 80 4 widow, aged 87. __ ebb, vsq., 01 ,,t0 On the 4th inst., at Brighton, Frederick "' ~,t of to Durham. Vai , r"' of P r. On the 4th inst., in Curzon-street, Charlotte ~.m. s ell inv .,- Sir George Pocock, Bart. ge, the At the Highway, Elated, Mercer St. Cc" • , , , John Jameson. • ' ,S : : ,ce',..4: -......--....—.. : • e • A,. . ~, to t,,011 L0t..1, , a : I': . : , ' " 4.r , l'''' joy, s A ttir Strand, Printer, at The ..5,,.., Utisce, ..'..)..,L, -e,-, of the Savoy, to the County a 2,11,111,7 7, 1846.