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rabirb Mbition RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. YORYISHIRD AND LINCOLNSHIRE. ---- The Committee assembled to-day at the usual hour, Lord Somers in the chair. It will be recollected that in the course of the inquiries of this Committee the several schemes for communication be tw,:en the manufacturing districts and the agricultural coun ties on the eastern coast have been brought under considera tion. The several companies are now arrived at a point where it it impossible to distinguish the opposition of their several interests, and instead, therefore, of using the titles of the several companies, it will be more intelligible to designate the group by the title affixed. The legal evidence continued this morning was on the Swin ton anti Doncaster line, which is especially opposed by the Doncaster, Wakefield, and Leedsline. Yesterday much dispute arose upon the reepeetive petition of these two companies, and it was decider): that the former of these two companies could not appeser as opponents to the latter. To-day a ques tion was raised on the disadvantage which the Swinton sod Doncaster Company would be placed in by the right at that time possessed by the Wakefield and Doncaster in the power to call witnesses against their opponents while there could be no, rebutting proofs. On this a long argument arose, the haoem was cleared, and the Committee ultimately decided , bat the Wakefield and Doncaster Company should not bring forward evidence against the Swinton and Doncaster line, but the landowner s on th e li ne were to b e a ll ow ed to be called, and that Mr. Se rgean t W rang h am s hould be per mitted to address the Committ ee on th e ev idence otleerol as Lord Whamclitie was then called, and he e es the quantity of minerals raised, an d stated his that it the Swinton and Doncaster line were to be made the monopoly of the carr i age of coals would fall into the hands of the Midland Counties lie was himself a large coal-owner and was anxious for a free transmission of the coal from the West hiding to the Eastern Counties. Besides, there would be great difficulty in the return of mercbandize up the line. Mr. Martin, - also a coal-owner and resident at Worsborough Hall, conlirmed this testimony, arid stated that on au average there were 75 vessels containing coals going on the canal of the Don River Company, av erag i ng 40 tons each, and making au aggregate of 3,000 tons a year, and that he thought was better than the interference with the general trade proposed by this new company. Mr. Byam, the agent of Lord Ularnclitie, gave similar testimony, but no new principle was elicited. Earl Fitzwilfiam was then called, and he explained his refusal, and assent and dissent from the line, by stating that he had, in the first place, ohjected to—the Swinton and Lincoln, or, as it it, is now called, the Swinton and Doncaster line, in consequence of the great injury it was likely to 'de to the residential property of Sir Joseph Coplo:e ; in fact, he believed that it was intended to tunnel under the house itself.—(Laughter.) But he had esithdra,wn his opposition when the line was carried on the other side of the river, and therefore avoided that iniiary. When, however, he gave that assent the line of the 'setes t e ; Company was to be carried as far as Lincoln ; silt as the great object of the coal-owners was to get to the north of Lincolnshire, the case was materially altered when the lice stopped sort at Doncaster; f< r not only was that circumstance likely to interrupt the communication between the districts to be accommodated beyond each of the termini, but it would throw a monopoly into the hands of the Midland Counties Company. lie is chairman of the South Yorkshire Coal Company, though no railway director ; and in that capacity he had to say that the proprietors would infinitely prefer a line which was merely a coal line to one which is intended fen the mixed traffic of passengers and goods. With reepect to the great supply of corn from the Isle of Axholuee, although he must allow:that the Sheffield district: wee: eminently important, he yet: thought the Tetede—t),se whole of the clothing district—from its popula tion VA wealth, was more so, and consequently, as he con ceitted, there was five times the quantity carried up the Aire and Calder canal as was carried up the river Don. The Committee here adjourned till Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP XVIII. EXETER, TEO VIZ, AND DOECIIZEITER, (LONDON, 1 34EI3ETTRY, AND YEOVIL BILANCR), The Committee met at the usual hour; Mr. B. Denison in the chair. The Committee were occupied, the whole of the day in passing the sev er al c t suses of the Bill, including a protecting clause to the Earl '",f Digby. Considerable iliscussion took place as to the forms of the clause compelling the Exeter and Yeovil Company to lay down the additional rails for the convenience of the broad gauge traffic. A. clause was finally agreed upon, referring the matter in general terms to the Board of Trade, in accordance with the resolutions arrived at by the Committee yesterday. The several clauses were then ps,ssed, and the report agreed to. The Committee rose at four o'clock. GROUP XX. The Committee met to-day at eleven o'clock, in Room No. al (Grand Corridor) ; present, Mr. Sotheron (chairman), Lord William Bentinek, Mr. Pigott, Mr. Tancred, and Mr. oss. The Committee had adjourned from Wednesday to this day, for the purpose of hearing Mr. Cockburn's summing up and reply ia the cases of the Lonon, Hounslow and Wenteru, an d the Richmond Railway d (Kew Branch), the evidence for and against those lines having been concluded. In consequence, however, of Mr. Cockburn's engagement at. the 0 1 '.1 Bailey, these cases were deferred, and tie Corn mitAee proceeded with the only remaining Bill in the group, namely, SURREY IRON RAILWAY DISSOLVING. Mr. PAGET, for the promoters, stated the object of the Bill to be to enable this Company (which was incorporated by the Act the 41st Goo. III.) to sell the lands, houses, and other property of the company together with the navigable com munication from the dock of the company to the: River Thames at Wandsworth, in the county of Surrey, and to dis solve the company. The inadequacy of the returns was of course the ground of application for this Bill. Mr. COOK, for Messrs. Child, Lyon, Denison and other Bersons interested in the maintena nce o f th e li ne , oppose d t h e ill, on the ground that capital had been expended in mills, wharfs and other establishments on the faith that the rail way should be maintained. The opposing parties claimed, on the alternative a reasonable compensation from the pro ceeds of any sale which Parliament might authorise. ISLE OF MAN RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) meeting of the shareholders in this Company was held this afternoon, at one o'clock; in the lan of Commerce, for the purpose of taking steps to obtain a statement of the ac counts, and to resist the attempt of the directors to retain a larger proportion of the deposits than was authorised by the Act of Parliament. J. H. Murchison, Esq., in the chair. Mr. Small read the report of the Committee of share holders, stating the proceedings which had been taken to obtain explanations from the directors with regard to their accounts, and requesting the shareholders not to accept the retftrn of 155., which they offered to them, until such explanation had been given. they report, also, suggested that the shareholders should enter into a sub• scription, in order that the opinion of some competent counsel should be taken as to the rights and remedies of the share holders against the directors.' This gentleman stated that 5,000 shares were allotted among 200 individuals, and the depoiit upon that number, at 2/. per share, amounted to 10,000/., and out of this sum the directors only intended to return 6,000/. A Slut - I:guo -ore. maid, he did not think that the return of adequate, when there had been no survey nor en gineering expen eee. Mr. BR UC K mov/M that the ithareoldtrA should enter into a subscription of b. per share. The motion was seconded, and carried unanimously. The meeting then separated. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY) (Sittings in Banco.) IsARROTT v. OLIVE/C. This is a seduction case, which came before the Court in the shape of an application for a new trial on the ground of mis direction, and that there was not sufficient evidence adduced on trial to show that the plaintiff had lost the services of her daughter. The plaintiff is the mother of Elizabeth Barrott, aged thirty-three, who resided with her, and kept a school at aaltaah, in the county of Devon, and the action was brought against the defendant, a Mr. Oliver, who also resided in r?'aitash, for the seduction of the daughter, thereby depriving plaintiff of the benefit of her services. The • case was tried at the Devonshire assizes before Mr. , Ttunice Coleridge, and a verdict was returned for t rial, ef enclaat. According to the evidence adduced on the 'Elizabeth Barrett was residing with her mother in Saltash, and °v ane d maintaining the fa, a t - school in order to assist her mother in the habit a viattining‘tYb..ent three At this time the defendant was in ree or four times a week. This ended in the ore gn .o,f.nplaintiff's daughter; and inforinett the to n p uant o tt f , her condition when she he gave her money several occasi on% ,herutgak to procure abortion, aad on muriate of iron (tincture of steel), and ~ ,a yt bo trpentine, publicly known she ,1,11; lUiled. She received 30s. in all bekre the birth of thheeol and 4s. afterwards. When it was with child, the defendant gave up hisav i ceor the ;,• ' sitsianr"l when applied to, to do her pecuniary justice action was ;,off 1.. done. Her pupils also left her; hence toted by the mother to obtain compensa tio n- It was endeavoured by cross-examina tion to show that the daughter o f pl a i n tiff'', had had connexion with another person of the name of Lander, and that she was not at Was the time in the ser v i ce o f th e mo th er , but that the latter only residing with the daughter for a short time, and that the latter was perfectly independent of the former, having entire control over her own earnings. Mr. CROWDER applied for the rule on a former day, on the ground of misdirection and that the evidence addued on the trial did not warrant the conclusion that the daughter was the servant of the mother at the time. Mr. Mgracitm S.3trrtt was heard this morning against the rule, showing that the mother was residing with the daugh ter before the seduction up to within a month of the conthiement of her daughter, and then only going for a short time to Plymouth, leaving her daughter ie charge of her brother. The Learned Gentleman cited several parallel cases, in which it was ruled that there was proof of service. In the present case the daughter was in service when the mother sent for her home that is hen there she opened a school, being then under the jurisdictien and control of the mother, and that therefore the latter was fairly entitled to compensation fur the injury done hi the loss of service. Mr. Ceownen replied at length, contending that there wag rho ststi-factory proof of service--that the daughter, with her brother, who kept a 'bey& wilco!, kept a house jointly, and paid rent, with which the mother had nothing to do— that the daughter had entire control over her own earn ings, the mother being more in the character of servant than ettierwiee—that she lied sufficiently art ived at the period of iii'wetion, at least if years were any test of that—and that - aey incontinence Ott her part with the, old gentleman in roestion, though its etret.t. might become fit subject of pro ceedings in the Ecclesiastical Courts, did not warrant the !nether to compensation at common law. With regard to de bauching the plaintiff's daughter, there could not have been many seductive wiles employed, as it appeared from her evi dence she consented to connexion when asked to do so, and that the defendant was in the habit of entering her bed-room by a ladder at night, and that she was in the habit of returning thn compliment by the aid of a ladder. Whether she itaail the ladder or not did not appear. He concluded by askfiag the Court to make the rule absolute. The Count said that the practice of the law had always to admit proof of service in actions for seduction, even rnes the evidence was not of the moat conclusive character. Zo t j)lfteetit caas their Lordships were of opinion, looking thaVeerrias had bleb made crat, and. by it THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 20, 1846. 82d Foot—Lieut. W. Corbett to be Captain, by purchase, vice Alleyne, who retires ; Ensign C. H. R. Broughton to be Lietrenant, C. P. Blathwayt, Gent., to be E ns i gn, b y p b u y r n e r i r me ch , as vice vi ce liro g 43d Foot—Lieut.-Col. J. Byrne, from 31st Foot, to b e Li eu t enant • Colonel, vice Phillips, who exchanges , April 15 . C u or h be to t ii t ), ' l9. June 11th Foot—Lieutenant H. E. Redmond, from 2d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Gillespie, who exchanges, June 19. 60th Foot—Lieutenant A. Fitzgerald, from 301 Foot, to be Lieu tenant, vice Eustitce, who exchanges, June 19. 64th Foot—C. Thompson. Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Trevor, who retires, June 19. 72d Foot —Ensign L. Newman, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Dandling, who retires ; S. S. Theliuseon, Gent„ to be Ensign, by p u rokaae, vice Newman, Jane 19. 82d Foot—Herbert Morris, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Harvey, who retires, June 19. 85th Foot — Lieutenant -Colonel Sir John Gaspard 3.0 Merchant, from Inspecting-Field-Officer of a Recruiting District, to be Lieute nant-Colonel, vice Frederick Maunsell, appointed Inspecting-Field- Officer of a Recruiting District, June 19. Royal Newfoundland Companies—Lieutenant Hugh Beat Cham bers, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Major Jeffares, wile retires ; Ensign Henry Christopher Marriott, from lat Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Chambers, June 19. 31 satoitaNnust.—The Christian names of Ensign Platt, of 49th Foot, are Theodore Edwin Houghton. The name of the Ensign appointed to 83th Foot, on 19th March, 1846, is John Fitzgerald iituddert, not Studdart. The Christian names of Ensign Grant, of the 3d West India Regi 'neat, are Patrick James John, Erratum in the " Gazette" of March 31, 1846. 3d Light Draoons—For Lieut. S. Fisher to be Captain, Nice Brevet Major Berries, killed in action ; Cornet H. W. White to be Lieutenant, vice Fisher, promoted, Dec. 19, 1845 ; Cornet J. rfath well to be Lieutenant, vice Codd, killed in action, Dec. 22, 1845 read, Lieut. J. E. Codd to be Captain, vice Brevet Major Herriee, killed in action ; Cornet H. W White to be Lieutenant, vice Codd, promoted, Dec. 19, 1845; Lieut. S. Fisher to be Captain, vice Codd, killed in action ; Cornet J. Bothwell to be Lieutenant, vice Fisher, promoted, Dec. 22, 1845. 1101 P ERTA L PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, June 19. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY, in the absence of the Lord Chancellor, took his seat on the Woolsai•k at Five o'clock. On the motion of Lord BROUGHAM, the Southwark Drainage Bill was read a third time. LUNATIC ASYLUMS ACT. The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from the inhabitants of Whitchurch, Herefordshire, praying for the re peal of that part of the Act making it binding on justices of the peace to build county lunatic asylums. Messengers from the H use of Commons brought up several Bills, and prayed their Lordships' concurrence to them. FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. Lord CAMPBELL presented several petitions from Dundee, Greenock, Dumfries, and other places in Scotland, in favour of the Bill for procuring sites for the Free Church of Scotland. The petitioners did not wish to interfere with the rights of property; all they claimed was the liberty of worshii ping God according to the dictates of their consciences, and for that pur pose wished to have the means of doing en. LAW OF DEBTOR AND CREDITOR. Lord BROUG HA M laid on the table a Bill for - the better regulation of the law of debtor and creditor. The Noble Lord raid he would not press the Bill forward till he had an oppor tunity of consulting the Noble and Learned Lord on the Wool sack, and the Noble Lord behind him ( Lord Campbell). The Bill was reai a first time, and ordered to be printed. The Bishop of NORWICH presented a petition, very nu merously signed, against the sale of intoxicating liquors on the Lord's day. SEES OF ST. ASAPH AND BANGOR. The Earl of FITZWILLI AM presented a petition from the Rey. Mr. Gordon, a rector in the county of Oxford, against the union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor. He agreed with the petitioner, that instead of diminithing the number of bishops, there ought to be a large increase of them. He was favourable to a diminution of the incotte of individual bishops, but not to the extent that petitioner went. The Bishop of EXETER heard the sentiments ex pressed by the Noble Earl with great pleasure. He said that the cry throughout the country for an increase of the number of bishops in the Church was a loud and earnest one, and he hoped it would be attended to. He was of opinion that there was no necessity for an increase to their salaries, but he thought there ought to be an adequate number of bishops for the spiritual wants of the country. The question as to whether the new bishops should have a . seat in the House of Lords was a secondary question, though, for his awn part, he thought that the dignitaries of the Church ought to have a seat in that House, alongside the aristocracy of the country. Lord BROUGHAM said that this question was one which affected the constitution of the country, and ought to have the most '3c:ie.us consideration before any determination was come to respecting it. After a few words from Earl FITZ WILLIAM, The Earl of ELLEN BOROUGH thought it an extremely inconveni. nt course for any discussion to take place on such a subject without previous notice. The petition was then ordered to lie on the table. CANADIAN DISPATCH. Lord LYTTELTON said he was not in the House when the Noble Duke on the cross -benches referred, a few evenings ago, to the di-patch to Lord Cathcart. He rose to say that the dis patch was not sent to the newspapers, but laid upon the table of that House. The Duke of RICHMOND said that he was not aware he had anything to explain. All he said was, that if be were Governor-General Of Canada he would have felt indignant that his dispatches; before they reached him, were previously published in the papers of the mo her country. SUPERINTENDENCE OF CONVICTS BILL. The Duke of RICHMOND wished to call the attention of the House to what he considered to be a great evil. He wanted one improved state of discipline throughout the gaols of this country. Formerly the inspectors of prisons were fully efficient in number to perform their duties, but since the limi tation of their number those gen lumen sere unable to per form all the arduous duties of their officee He had no objec tion to their salaries being inereaqed, but he was opposed to their being appointed to the performance of duti , •s which did not come within their province. He should move, as an amendment, that inspectors of prisons should not be eligible to serve as superintendents of convicts. After a few words from Lord LYTTELTON, the gallery was cleared for a division. On our re-admission to the gallery, the numbers were— Content l9 Non- Content - 21 Majority against the amendment —2 The House then resolved itself into Committee on the CORN IMPORTATION BILL. The Duke of RICHMOND said it he knew anything of the high-minded yeomanry of the country, he felt satisfied that they scould be ashamed to ask anything of Sir Robert Peei, who had cruelly deceived the country. He respectfully de manded that the House should adopt the clause he was about to propose as an act of justice to the farmers. He conceived that they were not tgoing to legislate like those cold-blooded capitalists, who openly confessed that they would screw every possible shilling out of the tenants' pockets. Surely they could not compel men to pay 50s. a quarter for wheat, when in the market it was selling far 40s. He contended that they must not throw the tenant tied hand and foot to the tender mercies of the Anti-Corn-law League. He proposed that every tenant should have the power, twelvemonths after the passing of that Act, to give his landlord six months' notice of his intention to quit • and then he proposed by ar bitration to settle th e c l a i ms of the tenants for compensation ; and the arbitrators were to be the Commissioners of the commons and wastes of this country. The Noble Duke concluded by moving the addition of the clause, which he read, to the Bill. Earl of RIPON—So entirely did he agree with the obser vations of his Noble Friend with respect to the worthy class he had eulogised that he would vote with him, if he did not think that there would be no end to litigation in all parts of the country, if the clause proposed were adopted with the Bill. He could not see the necessity of going out of their way to do that which on every principle was objectionable. He knew that a more generous landlord than his Nimble Friend did not exist in the country, and he felt sure that if any of his tenants were to wish to be relieved from any pressure that might result from the passing of the measure, his Noble Friend would im mediately release him. He certainly could not consent to the introduction of the elapse_ Lord MALMESBURY thought that the introduction of the clause was only one of the many difficulties which they would have to encounter in dealing with the Bill. The law would put the tenants completely under the power of the landlords. They had been made to sow under one law, and were now com pelled to reap under another law. He was not ready to place the tenant entirely at the mercy of the landlords, and be should therefore, support the amendment. The Earl of MORNINGTON said, that having resided abroad for several years, he was much surprised when arriving in Eng land, at the change that had occurred in the social order amongst the yeomanry. He found them a greatly improved class of people, and intelligence had greatly increased among them. He had served 110 notices on his tenants, who rented land at a very small amount, and he wished to show to those of their Lordships who opposed the Bill from their fear of finding no tenants to occupy their farms, that the inferior order of tenants would be succeeded by a superior class. There was one instance on his estate of a place called Rochford Farm, the birth-place of Anna Boleyn, which he had undertaken to let at 1,4001. a year, and within a week afterwards he hat: an offer from another man of 1,841.1. a year for the same farm, which of course he could not accept. He had conversed with many farmers • and one, whom he had seen scarcely two hours age, in alluding to the proposed measure, said that he began to think that Sir Robert Peel was going right at last.. He had heard all the speeches of the Opposition in the House, and they did not contain one single new argument or one new fact ; they were all attuned to the same cry, " The tenants will be ruined."—( A laugh.) He had been to many auctioneers, and had asked them whether they had any difficulty in finding purchasers for land, and they replied, '° Not the least." He doubler, n.e. but that the price of land would be raised every day after the pas , ing of the mea sure, and that opinion would be coi , firmed before long by the farmers of England. They had already estahli.hed the prin ciple of reciprocity, which was more than IJr. Huskisson had ever done, and let them not shrink from proceeding with th e iings of fo re i gners to t h e E ng- I things, b u t i n eonsequence great work which they had so nobly begun, and whi c h h a d o lail f srhe.a foreign lAy iari.bPv war eitdt had never irritatednaettve: attempted rbteeefdenf thosea tile to accomplish the change. The newspapers on the continent were a much better exponent of public feeling and opinion than the newspapers in this count r y, and the difference in the tone of the foreign public journals to wards this country was very great. Until very recently they abused the policy of England, and now they were extolling it to the utmost. He felt satisfied that the measure wouln not be injurious to the tenant-farmers or to the landlords, hut he saw so many bright prospects to come from it that he could not consent to have any portion of it mutilated, nor interfered with in any way. He thought that the amendment proposed by the Noble Duke ( Richmond) had no necessary connexion with the measure, and he should certainly oppose it. Lord ABINGDON believed he was a protectionist, a great protectionist s-• nay, more, an exalted protectionist.— (Laughter. ) The farmers had strong constitu tions, and a strong feeling of attachment and loyalty to their Sovereign. If there were no protection their would be no woolsacks.—( Laughter )—( Here the Lord Chan cellor left his seat.) He had always been a constant supporter of a Conservative Government and now regretted that all his cherished principles were to be thrown overboard. If he were accustomed to speak heshould detain the House at much greater length. In early youth he had served Lis country, and had been brought up, not under a bishop, but under a Gallant Duke. He had been appointed chief drummer in the band—( Roars of laughter)--and subsequently he had been ap pointed Speaker to that House, and he proved that he could perform the duties of the latter office as easily as he transacted the duties of the former office. Lord STANHOPE did not mean to wake a reply to a speech which was totally irrelevant to the question before the Home. He said the Noble Earl (Morningron) called on them to defend protection; and, though defeated, they assuredly would defend it while breath were in their bodies. They con tended that the measure proposed was opposed to the best inte rests of the country. He had only to refer to the general and unsolicited movement amonshe farmers from one end of the country to the other. About three years ago there was a ge neral movement, unsolicited by landlords, against the reduction of duty. But here was a measure which proposed to reduce the duty from 161., as it was at present, to 4s. a quarter. Then they ought to look at the rents at which farms were let. Why, the reduction of 103. a quarter on wheat in the market, he said, would annihilate the rent of the corn land where such wheat had grown. He was not speaking at ran dom when he referred to such a reduction. He could quote the speeches of Sir Robert Peel, who had promised uni versal cheapness to the whole community. But at whose cost, he asked, eas this cheapness to come about ? But turning from these merely introductory re marks, he would confine his attention to the amendment of the Noble Duke. And, as to that, be differed FO far from the President of the Board of Control that he thought no amendment was ever snore founded on the pure principles of eternal justice. That amendment was the more necessary in these days of political experiment and chimerical notions, to gave the tenantry from coming ruin. The Noble Earl had said it would produce confusion. fie (Earl Stanhope) did not see that such a power given to the tenant was any more than existed already in the case of the tenant-at-will. The Noble Earl had said that the amendment had no connexion with the Bill, but it was certainly his opinion that it proposed what was due from even-handed justice as it affected the tenant. The Earl of MORNING TON rose to explain what he said concerning Mr. Pitt, that ha was a free-trader ; and read from a speech by Mr. Pitt, which the Noble Earl said fully proved what he had averred, if their Lordships would take into ac count the circumstances of the country, of France, and of America, which were just before invllved in war. He (the Earl of Mornington) said he had not been all his time at home • he bad b een muc h abroad, and knew what, but f or that, home; would not have known, and he was certain that they could never avail themselves of the advantages they would gain from the Continent, till they were prepared, in the firm way which they were now taking, to meet them on the even terms of reciprocity. He had tact with many wbo con ducted the policy between this country and the Continent on such liberal principles, and ti ey invariably said they could not make those on the Continent hPlieve they we re sincere in what thr.% propo,erl, N Fan of :11.rrningt" ) was sure that such a measure as the present would greaAy extend their moral powe r on the Continent • and he was sure also that the present measure was perfectly in the spirit of Mr. Pitt' s policy. After a few words from Earl STANHOPE in explanation, ( Lord ASBBURTON (who was for some time inaudible) stated that the tenant-farmer was, by this Bill, exposed to con side-able risk. They were told that it was immaterial, so long as cheap bread could be obtained ; but it was not so, in his opinion. The loss would, in the first instance, fall upon the the tenant, who,finding a reduced price for his produce, would, no doubt ; begin to "screw" his labourers. If by an Act of legislation they took away a large portion oI the value of the soil, they were hound to make some equitable adjustment. A considerable amount of difficulty Would attend such a course, and much litigation would necessarily be the consequence. Some reduction must necessarily be made by the landlord, whose interest would not be to keep people upon his estate who were ruining themselves as well as the land; and he had no doubt that, after some time, some such arrang?ment would be come to. There was one evil which would most probably result from the adoption of this measure, and he had a motion to submit to the House with regard to it, but he would postpone it until they got upon the order of the day for the third reading. There were at present 2,000,000 of quarters of corn waiting to ; be admitted into the country, and the sudden admission of that corn at a very low rate of duty, with every prospect of an abundant harvest, would produce a calamitous effect. He spoke as much to those favourable to the Bill as to th , :se against it, to provide some measure against such a contingency. • He would put off his amendment until Monday. The Duke of RICHMOND said that he cauld not withdraw his amended clause, nor could he press it to a division, for lie did not see the advantage of beirg again beaten by a majority of 33, or perhaps 49, and he would not therefore discredit their I Lordships by proceeding any further. After some discussion the question was then put, and the amendment was negatived. Lord DALHOUSIE and Lord MONTEAGLE said that they understood that the tariff was to be taken on Monday, and this Bill to be read a third time on the Thursday following. The Duke of WELLINGTON said that he understood that the Bills were to go pari passu. He had understood that the course to be adopted was to take the tariff on Tuesday, and the thi-d reading of the Corn Bill on the Thursday following. If it seemed fit to their Lordships to alter that course it was not for the servants of her Majesty to object. After a few words from Lord CAMPBELL, it was even tually arranged that the Customs Duties Tariff Bill, with Lord Ashburton's resolution as a substantive motion, should betaken on Monday, and the third reading of the Corn Importation Bill on Tuesday. The remaining clauses, with the preamble, were then agreed to, and the Bill was reported without amendment. The House then resumed. The other orders of the day having been disposed of their Lordships adjourned at a Quarter past Nine o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 19. The SPEA rER. took the Chair at Four o'clock. Returns from the Poor-law Commissioners, Trinity House, and other public offices, were brought up. SECOND READINGS. The following Bills were read a second time, and ordered to be committed, viz.: —Larne, Belfast, and Ballymena Railway ; Limerick, Ennis, and Killaloe Railway; Mountmellick Junc tion Railway ; and Templemore and Nenagh Railway. REPORTS. The following reports were brought up and laid on the table, and the Bills were ordered to be engrossed, viz. : Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton Railway ; Cornwall Rail way ; Curtis's Divorce Bill ; Dudley Canal and Birmingham Canal Companies Amalgamation ; Eastern Counties Railway ( stations Enlargement) ' • Great Leinster and M uns te r R a il wa y (No. I—Carlow to Kilkenny); London and Birmingham Railway and Birmingham Canal Arrangements. THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed, viz.: —Argyll Canal; Banffshire Raids; Caledonian Railway (Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge Railway Branches); Eastern Counties Railway (Epping Extension); London and Black is all Railway ( Widening) ; I idland Railways (Burton upon-Trent to Nuneaton Branch and AAhy Canal Purchase); Ni'wcastle and Berwick Railway; Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway ( Durham and Sunderland Railway and Wearmouth Dock Purchase and Branches); Scottish Central Railway (Crieff Branch). WEST LONDON RAILWAY (IMPROVEMENT AND EXTENSION j BILL. • Captain MANGLES movel the third reading of this Bill; which was objected to by 111 r. MASIERNIAN, who proposed that the third reading should be postponed until Monday next, when he should move that clauses 21, 22. 23, and 24 be omitted. Captain MANGLES objected, on behalf of the promoters, to any delay being occasioned in the progress of the The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that the postponement of the Bill was necessary, as litigation was pending between the City Corporation and the company with respect to compen sation for the soil of the bed of the river. He thought the clauses alluded to should be retained. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that the principle which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had laid down was quite correct, but he (Lord John Russell) did not see that any case had been made out by the Corporation of the City of London, and it would, therefore, he unfair towards the promoters of the Bill to postpone the third reading. After a short conversation, the House divided, when there appeared— For the postponement For the motion 55 Majority The Bill was then read a third time and passed. IPSWICH AND BURY ST. EDMUND'S RAILWAY. Earl JERMYN moved—" That the report on the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway (Extension to Ely, with a Branch therefrom) Bill, and the Thetford, Bury St. Edmund's, and Newmarket Railway Bill, be taken into consideration upon Monday next."—Agreed to. REPORTS. The following reports were consiflered and agreed to :—The Ardrossan Municipal, Police, and Improvement; the Forth and Clyde Navigation and Bowling Bay Improvement; and the Stockton Gas. Captain L AYARD presented a petition praying the House to take into their consideration the late deduction of 5 per cent. in the amount of the pensions paid to the out-pensioners of Greenwich and Chelsea. UNION SETTLEMENTS. Lord MORPETH presented a petition from York in favour of the Uuion Settlements. SUDBURY DISFRANCHISEMENT. Lord MORPETEI presented a petition from Doncaster, praying that the two Members should be a'ded to Doncaster who had formerly been returned fur Sudbury. ART-UNIONS. Lord MORPETH also presented a petition from a town in the West Riding of Yorkshire in favour of the legalizati,n of art-unions. SEES OF ST. ASAPH AND BANGOR. Mr. FINCH presented a petition Iroin — Rutia;d agair.st the union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor. TAXING RAILWAY COSTS. Mr. DUNCOMBE presented a t:etition from a number of Ehare , holders in the Dul.Mn and Armagh Railway, praying tile House to adopt some measures for taxing the costs of engineers and solicitors in railway Bills. An HoN. MEMBER. presented a petition from Queen's County, signed by a large body of lane lords. praying that ha f the rates should be paid by the landlord and half by the tenant. SUPPLY OF WATER TO THE MEIROi. - OLITAN portnnity of noting the accusations made against me in this Hunts en Mendit evening Hear, hear.) I deeply thank the Reuse. at least many of the Hen Members, for s' d g their judgments at the time those aecusatior, were made They telt no doubt that it ice somethirto, hard that a public man should have so many charges made against him at this period, when they might have been preferred msny times for the last fifteen years.—( Hear, hear, and cheering. ) Why were they not made before? Why were they not made at a time ween the opportunities or proving the whole matter were greater than they can be after the lapse of years ? ( Hear, hear.) I labour under great disadvantages. 1 little thought that I should tie cal'ed upon to answer for my acts since 1825. Some the seer 1825 there hive beers many changes. There had hewn a severance foam Mr. Canning; there was also one with the Duke of Wellington and Mr. Catinirig ; there was a separation in 1828. There were fierce confides iu 16:29 s and then I felt it neces-ary to support the Catheltc claims. Then came the formation of that Government of which the Right Hon. Baronet opposite was a distinguished mention.; then shortly afier succeeded the conflicts on the Reform Bill ; then came the dissolution of the Governinein of Lord Mei beurne in 1834. An HON Mementra—Lord Grey l—(Coninsion and cries of " No, no.") Sir R. PEEL—The dissolution of the Government of Lord Melbourne and the formation of that Government over which I presided in 18:35. I conducted the affairs of Government with a minority for ?lame months, and then yielded it again to the Hoe. Gentleman opposite. Then at the Mme of ilisse contests I thought that the events of 1825, 1827, and 1829. as far as any subject of crimination against ME' was concerned, were buried in oblivion.—( Great eh-4.ring) tVben that speech was made on Monday night, I had no means of refer ring to a single paper which bore upon the events of those years; my time has been too fully occupied to allow me to examine at leisure the subject of the Hon. Member's; accusation, and the secre taries by whom the letters of those years had been answered have long ago ceased to exist. I have been myself occupied for the last three days in collecting materials and coliating newspaper reports in order to free my reputation from the charges which have been directed against my veracity as a man, anti my honour as a Minister.—( T remen d ous c h eer i ng. ) Yes, Sir, I have looked at every newspaper with this object alone in view, for when I heard the charges which were urged against me, I felt within me own breast a perfect conviction 'hat they were unfounded.—(Great cheers.) I heard them with that calmness which results from the accused's own knowledge that they were not founded in truth, hut yet with that anxiety se hich every man must partake of who fears that, after a lapse of twenty years, he may not he enabled to establish that complete and satisfactory defence against charges which, in common fairness, and in common justice, should have been preferred when the memories of men who took part in those debates were more recent, and when I could have referred to them to say whether those were the very words, whether those were the very expressions. that I had used ; when I could have referred to my political op ponents—( Great cheering)—whether they would remember my words or the impressions which I intended should he un derstood from them.--( Cheers ) I am new to answer those charges.—( Continued cheering.) I shall confine myself to those charges, and to the evidence on w inch they are founded It was riot fair on those two different occasions to make (barges inculpating my honour unless the evidence on a hich the charges were preferred was brought forward.— (Loud cheering.) If there is any other evidence which can be product d, and I ant not cognisant of any, when I shall have to meet it, I shall ask the House to be generous and jest enough to give me the opportunity of repelling that new evidence, if new evidence is brought forward. I will now proceed to the vindication of myself from those charges, and whatever may be the doad vamaces and ditfculties of that task, if I do not succeed in es tablishing to the conviction of every honourable mind that those charges are w litmus foundation, I shall retire from this discussion with deep mortification and de.pondeney. I -hall say nothing of any charges but those to which I have referred in the notice I have given, and that evidence which has up t,, this time been brougot forward against me. When the Hon. Gentleman, the Member fur Shi exsi ury, rose to speak on Aloeday night the question at issue was this. On the pie ceding night the 'robl Lord, the Mem!, r for Lynn. who was a Member of Parliament in 1826. 1n27, end 1828—(Immense cheering) who was the relative arid Private Secretary of Air. Canning, and cognisant .1 AL C nieng's feelings, troissht f :retard at that late stage of the delaite—not ane que titan affecting Mr. Canning's t at that late siaue of the debate on the Cern Bill the Noble Loid bi ou_ht for -aid t hese charges a, amst me. T..e ble Lord said, " Sush as the conduct of tse Right Ho-. Gentle man in 18 2 7 (alluding to my sepsra ion from Mr. Ginning in 1827), and. said the Noble Lord, in t e year 1629 Sir Rob e rt Peei intimated to the house that he hail elmoged his o in ns io 1825, and he had concealed that change of hl op, exisept t La r Liverpool ; but that del 4. it prevent ohm in 1827, from g tie in the Holes d stati, g, as h s reasons for separating from Mr. Canreng's Government, hat he could not eonsent to su -port a Government of which the chief Mi nis erswae a oarable to those,naeasore s which it t peeared a: ter wards .n two yea - s he sims t ted." This simp . e charge of the Noble Lord the ?-remaer f r Linn mat. d that, in 14'27 I had decline i to act wi h Mr. Canning as Pri.. e ratter, on the ground that I w s hosti_e still to t. e rJ moval of the Catholic disabilities, and that oh jecten to the state of ire Cat ho ics eng at alt am. lierat (la But," said the Noble Lord, " in, 1829,in bringing forward the Catholic question, the Right Hun. Gentleman informed the House that in 1825 his opinions on the Catholic question had changed ' and that he had inti ma t e d t h e c h anee o f hi s op i p i oos to Lord Liverpool. then at the head of the Government, and notwithstanding that change of op'oion in 1825 he had refused to act under Mr. Caoding. ' I state at once that the charge is alteg,emer unfounded, and that I never did inform Lord Liverpool that my opinions on the Catholic question in 1825 had changed. I told the Earl of L verpool then that I was responsible for the Government of Ireland—that there were questions of great and vital interest to which I could not assent. In 1825 there was the question of the relief of Roman Catholic disabilities, the question of the curtailment of the eleetivefran chile, and the question of the payment of the Roman Catholic clergy ; on every one of which my colleagues were in opposi tion to mc. I said, therefore, to the Earl of Liverpool, that I could not consent to fall in wish the views of the Oppostion, and I asked to be relieved from my official duties, and no longer to be responsible for the administration of affairs in Ireland. Such are the facts relative to that then took place. The Hon. Member for Shrewsbury (Sir. Disraeli), in his speech of last Monday, insii:uated that which was wholly without foundation—he in,inuated that there teas a letter to the Earl of Liverpool in existence, written by me in 1825, in which I wished to be relieved from my official duties, and in which I intimated a change in my opinions on the Roman Catholic question. He also stated that such a letter was in my posses ion. In proof of its existence he referred to the Edinbnrgh Recicw, stating that I had a copy of the letter in my possession. To that I said, if that assertion was made by the Honourable Member, he ought to know that such a letter was in ex i stence.—(Hear and cheers) — and I challenged him for its production.—( Loud cheers.) I said, further, " this I will engage to do, if I have a copy of such letter in my possession, I will myself produce it."—(llt ar, hear.) So much for this point; so much for the etaiemeut that I changed my opinion on the Catholic question. 1 now proceed to meet the other charges that have been preferred against me ; and, in doing so I will plead no statute of limita tions. Public men, I hold, should be above a ll suc h means o f defending their character. Let those who oppose me establish these charges if they cart. I want no evasion. I wilt riot say a word about motives, but will meet the charges distinctly and boldly. lam charged by the stronge-t insinuations, that I wrote a letter to the Earl nf Liverpool intimating ehahge in my opinion, and that there is reason to believe, that that change of opinion tonk place in 1620, and was cemniunmated to the Eat' of Lirerpool, then at the head of the Government. ibis is the first accusation. The next one is as follows : Whether or no such a change had taken place, or whether they had been communicated to the Earl of Liver pool. He stated that. I had distinctly avowed in my place in Parliament, in the year 1829, that there had been such a change in my opinin. I think that was the char t-.—( Cheers.) I , is possible, however, that no change of ()violin may have taken place, viii that no corn inunieatioti had been made to the Earl of Liven 001. But it is just partible, al hough the objet is not great, that there hail been no change of (pinion, yet still that I night have informed the House falsely, that there had been such a change in my opinion. The grounds upon which that as-errion was toumied, and the evidence orought forward in support of Ch it charge by the Hoii. Gentleman µas tins : That there was a rep.-,t in a newspaper, cated The. Mirror of Parliament, in which it was stated that I had informed the Earl of Liverpool that the time was come, when something should be done respecting the Roman Latholie disabilities. These are the expressions up -n which the Hon. Gentle man founds the charge, that I had informed the Earl et Liverpool that a change in my opinions upon the Catholic ques tion had taken place ; and the Hon. Gentleman says, " I wish to state most fully the wh -le evidence against him ; whether actual or plausible I wish to state the wrime evidence." Then. said the Hon. Gentleman, the Mirror of Par iament employed an independent class of reporters, men of high eminence and great attainments in the art of short-hand writing. and that the Mirror of Partianunt was published every three da ) s, and therefore there sbou.d be a strong presumption that the report was correct. If, said he, there was any doubt of this, there was a strong corroboration of the accuracy of the report upon this ground, that the Times newspaper contained a re port which contained in it precisely the same words as in the Illerrer of Parliament, arid conseqiiently there was a strong confirmation from a separate and independent authority to the correctness of the reports of the Mirror , IPaz iiament. This is the charge; am I not stating the charge correctly ? c Cheers.) " Well," said the Hon. Member, " but there is another evidence corroboiative of the accuracy of that report, which was that the Right Honourable Baronet Sir Edward Knatchbull, speaking a fortnight after, referred to that report, and assumed it correct." Now I think these are the grounds upon which the charge was made. Then there was another charge which the Hon. Gentleman brought against me, namely, that I had been guilty of a suppres,to vied, and that, for unworthy purposes, I had given a mutilated and garbled report of the speech.—(Loud cheers.) There may have been some other small and incidental charges besides these three, which are immediately connected with it. The gravamen of the charge, and the nature of the evidence by which those charges were support d, I believe I have correctly stated. I now first address myself to the question—Did I intimate to the Earl of Liverpool that my opinions upon the Catholic question had undergone a change, and that I was prepared to sup port a Bill for the removal of Catholic disabilities? First, I refer to the course which 1 took in the year 1825. I first ask whether the course I took in Parliament, publicly expressirm my opinion as I did, was incon sistent with s uch ' an intimation as that stated to have been conveyed by me to the head of the Government ? Sir Francis Burdett, some Hun, Members would remember, brought forward the Roman Catholic question in 1825.1 t0 began, in his usual manner, by moving for a C o mmitt ee h consider the Roman Catholic question. During e c aI c u pro gress of the discussion two other measures were propo n s a e mov, ato facilitate the success of the first measure , re duction of the nnmber of freeholderfsuinel.rienari d i ng en titledth the franchise e v ij o i s t e e at county elections, and a measure to Roman Catholics. It was on the r 28th of February that Sir Francis Burdett brought forward the primary question_ the 28th of February innossmand took part to the d e b ate on . the motion that the House do resolve itself into a Committee on the Catholic question. On t he 28 th of February, 1823 , w ithout expressing any objection to the time when the motion meade, I stare " that no change nad taken place in my E upon the subject, and I should therefore pursue the course which I had uniformly pursued, and I must g decided opposition to the motion." At th the thY the debate Sir Francis Burdett 4, said a ' e conc lusion of reply, and thanked the Right Honu !levy words in urab.e Gentleman fur the candid manner in which he had dec lared that his objec tions went to the principle, and not to the details of the ques tion of Catholic emanei i iation conside ra bl e ma j ority in favou r the motion made by Sir Francis Burdett. My o i ,in .on is the num b ers were i n S i r Francis Burdett's moti on 247 to 234. The second reading of the Bill vvas proposed on the Bth of April, 1825, when I took part in the debate ; and I find this in the reporta--" Mr. Peel expressed his satisfaction at the frank and candid manner in which the Hon. Member for Armagh had declared that his opinion upon this subject had undergone a change, but he (Alm Peel) had not changed his own opinions upon it, and he could not, therefore, support the measure." The Bill was neverthe less carried b a majority of 268 to 241, and the third readine came on on tire 10th of May, 18s5. when I said, " II the -sees at the EXCelitiVe ttle Sans who were av, , r,e to the Roman Catholic religion, he did not think there could be any just Around for complaint." I should state that on several previous occasions I admitted that still I thought the chief officals of the Executive Government ought to he reserv,se to persons professing the Proles ant riligien.—( IL ar, hear. ) And the conviction of my mi ncl remain.. unaltered I said that I telt it my du:y to pets e ee re in my opposition, Well, •hen, f a ; is Lot very pro bable, after such a statement, that I could haae gone to the Earl of Liver t ioiii and said that a change bad talts"e l'a ea in my opinion. But it was after the 10th of May, aft,..r I had been in a minority, that I intimatedthat the vention a nce of tits division in the Cabinet was objectionable, but, tate'l ye all ' that my ewe position at the head of the Feu:entire Adtefipi'' tration of Leland was intolerable, and I asked to be releasNl from the responsibilities of office. In 1527 I stated what were the c reurnstances on which I consented to remsia in office rather than break up a Government that certainly up to that time had maintained the general con fidence of the country. It was then resolved that the quest ion thould await the decision of another Parliament, and that it should remain an opsn question. every meteiber of the Govern merit being at libel ty to pursue his own opinions upon the sub ject. It Wa , between the 10th and 20:h of 11.1 - st' I "lgtl ified , ose my desire to be reliev e d f rom o ffi ce ; an d i t was also ;eetween th periodstliat I intimated m y re l uc t ant consent to re.. ein in offices Bet on the 26th of 1; at th ere was a di v i s i on i n this Ho se the stets. of Ireland. The B i ll h a d b een sen t u p to "'au— from the Lords : and, in the deb a t e i n th e L or d s , Lord iv ere peed mate the most decided speech against t: e measure ih at ever he had done, and there wos a majority of 40 ag ainst Bill. This was the language I held at th , t time to Lord Li verpool on the subject. I said " My lion. Friend now seemed 10 exeeet an apology from me fir continuing to hold the sable opinion, end so my H e Hon. Friend thought it ncessary t o call neon me to explain whs I changed my opinions after hearing the evidence of Dr. Doyle. The ground f irrnerly held ap peared t., be utterly untenable." That I stated in the year 1826, in May, in the presence of Mr. Canning, that I had changed my opinions on this question.—(Hear' hear.) Is it probable that I would utter that langua Lord the face of Parliament if I h a d not intimated to Liverpool that my opinio n was c h at ge d . 1 wa s not Prepar e d to acquiesce in tee Roman Catholic ErnanS'ipation Bill, but . I . then showed that I wa s p repare d to edmit that they sho uld gem "r"1 election enjoy some freedom. I n 1820 th ere was a 's hs and in the early period o f 1827, b e f ore L or d Livere'ee -1 when I had not th e s li g ht es t expectat i on t o a nticipate o des e Thii and melancholy a t erm i na ti on to h is p o liti c al career, c.' 7 ' for the Roman Casholie question ; and on hatch 6, 18 `.. 1 . 7 ' seel it was not u n til th e l a tt er end c` March that Lord LiverP`t. was rendered incapable of transacting pubic business —I "' it ' this, " He, Sir Robert Peel, should still retain his o pinions a! to the system that the Le g i s l a t ure oug ht to enforce with regard to the country. He thought it right again to express those opinions —certainly common serve said that something as to the Roman Catholics should be dime—that is to say, that the anomaly of the laws between England and Ireland should be removed. But in expressing his opinion, he thought it right. to retain ti:e existirg disabilities as far as related to admitting Roman Catholics to the legislature and to the offices of state." If his opinions were unpopular, he had now an op portunity of showing that he retained the fame opinion still. And how was it possible that he could have expressed those opinions w . th respect to this Bill, with any view of acquiring public favour, or gratifying his personal ambition.e-( [ t ear s ; hear. ) myself, fully expected that in 18:27, we shota' r have had a minority, es we had in 1825, and was prepared to ie again the same course, namely, to adhere to my own el'i ni ` 3 ,l still, and to r linquish office. But to the surprise, 1 beltev e l i r e all parties, in 1827 th ere was a ma j or ity o f firer aga inst to t Bornan Catholic belief Bill. I had taken this course wih"u the slie , htest eite follow, ectation of what was to and I still re trained in the office of Secretary of Slate for the Home Department. Now, that is a Parliamentary profession of opinion which took place at that timetVell, one, what look place b e t ween me a nd Lord Liserr e. I slated on Monday night, that if I could find that I had sail' mated any opini. n to Lord Liv er p oo l i n writing, that I wea IL I ' produce it. But I said a l so t h at t h e commut•tcation whie took piece between us was not of a perimeal nature. I, Qt . I w" in the habit of seeing him every day, and not of rnalsit4'; formal comrnunica , iiiiis to him. My impression was• ao sated on Monday night, that nu ce-mmunicatton took Pla' g k if between u in virh nag or ' the subject. bat still I undertoo there was any communication, te produce it to the H use. ith In 1627, three a ears aeerwards, when of course my memory respect to these transactions was stronger, speaking le House I said, not that I had written to Lord Live - sestslt e- " that I had informed hi m th a t i t was my i ntent i on t o disceen,,„ myself from tho s e f or wh om I enterta i ne d e . !vem , but having he, n left in aml m i , y, it was my desire to be eelieved here, the ease which I held. My resienation was accepted , an d 1- did leave office. I think any Ge n tlema n ha s a r i g ht to ask net cl a ' say that there was no writte n commun i cat i on from me to Liverpeoi on the subject. I may be asked. have you got lb l/ . whole of the correspondence wh•ch took p!ace betwe en you ar:. Lord Liverpool at that time ? Why, I ordereir the c e r respor; l :. cure for seven years, under the letter L , to b e erou g ht up, a I have searched through the whole of my correspendence.heix; tending over 7 years, in order 'o find any c orres p ondence w h. had passed between us on the subject. As I said before, I was in that constant communication with Lord Liverpool which rendered it unnecessary for us to communicate with each other except verbally. And this I state that there was no letter which has the remotest bearing to this subject, or which can throw any 1 ght upon it—there is no letter which lam not ready to tiro uce which pas's(' between Lord Liverpool and myself. I see the letters of 1823; here they ye.— (The Right lion. Baronet here took a packet of letters from the ta ble and exhibi.eci them to the House ) Some may thin!'s they are not very material, or they may think they are. I hobs' the copies and the orig.nals in my hand ; I looked at the letter , °f other n s on years, bu' they have no bearing on this subject. Id o the. ve my honour declare that n) letter passed between Lord , T,l r , po 1 and myself on this subject which I have not produCe e s an t I have no hesitation in communicating in extenen the cone tents of the letters to those who have the least curiosity to see them.—( Cheers.) I find only three, and the House will judge wheth er from the tone of those letters they do give the slightest colour to the charge that I had intimated to Lord Liverpool the change in my opinions. But now—it was on the 10t1:1 of March, 1825, I hid then been beaten on the Catholic claims--there were rumours that Lord Liverpool had changed his opinions. It certainly was material for me to ascertain that feet, because if really Lord Liverpool's opinions bail changed, and 1 was in a minority in the House of Commons, it was one additional reason for my retiring. On the 10th March 1826, 1 received this letter from Lord Liverpool. I will read it:— " March 10, 1826. "My dear Peel,—l return you the report of the Association, and in consequence of the appearance of ad article in the ~Vorning Chroniee of this day, I have caused an article to be sent to the Courier, contradicting the reports in r,reulation, of any change in my sentimei.ts on Catholic emancipation.—Very sincerely yours, " LIVERPOOL." N.) , /, it is not likely that at the time the letter was written which I have read I had changed my opinions. That letter was writte n en the 10th of March, and certainly intimated that my opinions had not changed. The only other letter that I received from Lord Liverpool in connexion with this subj. ct —the other lever—is dated on the 10th of May. 182.5, and I think that it completely rebuts the charge that has beets brought against the of a fondness for office. It will be recol lected that I w , nt out of office in 1818, when I left the duties of the Secr(eary for Ireland. I was again invited to return to office in 1822, after having declined a place in the Cabinet i n 1621. This next letter is dated on the 19‘h May, 1825. On the 17th May tho diyish.n took place in th, Lords. This sub.. jet had been dinus,ed, and I was solicited to remain in officer rather than break up the Cabinet. It is dated on the 19t1s Ma), and reads thus "19th May, 1825. "My dear Peel,—l have seen Canning, and should be glad if you will call on me to-night, between nine and ten o'clock, feir five minutes.—Ever yours, " LIVERPOOL. "Pray do not trouble yourself to send an answer." This w 11 surely create some impression that at that time I had not changed fly opinion=, and that I con.ented to remain in office, although I had not changed on this subject, but that I did remain rather than beak up the 'Ministry. This will to some extent appear from the rt quest which this letter con tains, to cal upon Lint Liverpool , •n tha. night between nine and ten. It is true that 1 cannot prov.i that this letter yeas written on that parlicular subject—( Loud aid continued cheers) —but surely the Hou-e will grant my assertion that such was the case. I have yet ano. her communication which passed be tete Lord Liverpool aid myself. It is dated on the 25th of Sept emir. r, 16:25. I find that it is the enly ()tie at that time written upon this .object, and was written in answer to one from me. It was forwarded from Wa!mer Caqle. ; 7 NS ; a — lm . er Castle. "(Most crinfid,ntial ) r' My dear Peel,-1 re t urn , i n anot h er r lb letters. You may wi s h t o h ear f rom me what I t hi n k a b o ut e t , h; e Sept., -P, 0 u 2 13 n dissolution. In he first pi ac a, it must he decided, one wa y or the other, en the 22d, t h e d ay of our meeting I have h.ad some corresponden ce w i t h C anning upon the subject ; the 112- 1 8 1u '.3 r . 's clination of his opinion is to put off the disaolution till n et year. I son decideoly for the dissolution now, if the Carhoiie question is to receive the su pot% of those wh4 are gon,rallr friendly to it in the Government in the next session. But if tlsey are willing that the Catho ic and corn questions shall re main in abeyance during the next year, and are prepared. tber e f ire, :is to the former, to discourage i.s being brought on. and, if brought on, to move a previous Efuei,tion or adjournment upon it ; in that case I have no desire to press the di,olution during the present autumn. I say to pr. ss the disso ution, because I think the reasons fur and , gain , t it are nearly balanced; anti I can readily acquiesce in the e,tveision, whatever it may be. I hear Lord Wellesley is for dissolution now, and and the Whole -- connexion, for very opposite reasons, decidedly aglinst it. " Ever sincerely yours, "LIVERPOOL." If that be rightly interpreted, can any one say th it at that time I had cha nge d m y op i n i ons ? N ow, h i s i n f err i n g that m y opinions were i n con f ormity wit h his own in 1825 prove nothing of the char ge ma d e aga i nst me . The Right H on . Gentleman then resumed reading Lord Liverpool's letter, which stated it was his opinion that if the Catholic claims were to be pressed there would be a dissolution of Parliament, bat that if the Cath o l ic quest i on wa s not to be brought on ther e t w in o u u e ld d dissolution.be T n h o esearethe three The Right Hon. Gentleman con letters which I received from Lord Liverpool ; but they are n ot such as w ould be written t o a man who told Lord Liverpool that he w as opposed to the Ca tholic claims.—( Hear , hear.) IN vy, speak ing o f 1629, I hold in my hand a document which will pr ove thi s fact—that my leaving office wou ld lead to a dissol ution of the 3 1intstry. 1 am c ertain that my opinion on this matte r was expressed in a n ; but I have no let• e words on this point. I ° o r o v vv e to s tcome'i)b nnw. between to me evidence my sel f by e attempted to be shown that I did make use of th ose words ; that 1 did make that statrment in 1829. Th e whole c tcra‘ t hwhich and e tt . another oundati on of the charge of the Hon. Member for Shrewsbury was, that I sa id, in 1829, that I had communicat e d to Lord Liverpool in 1825 that the time was come when something respecting the Catholic question ought to be done. lam going t o ma k e no qu ibbli ng i nter . pre:ation id' these words. I positiv e ly d en y that. I used these words at all. I asser t that rt that I did not sa in 1829 that the time was come when snmethin y g ought to b e done with the Catholic ' 9ue 6 t l on •.)1 y impression —my sincere lull ression—i s , th a t I did not e'ien make such a statement as that at all.--( Cheers.) And now I cerae to the evidence.—( Cheers.) I request the House to follow me, for I want to dissect the evidence on which it is founded ; that I really did in 1829 make that state ment, and that I afterwards garbled a speech with the in• Notion of perverting the fact. Says the Hon. Gent. the member for Shrewsbury, "I am making no charge against my Right Honourable Friend, but I say that he used a garbled and mutilated, or to use the softer art..guFge of this Ho. se, a muitated report of his speech " Why, the epeeches i.f the Hon. Member for Shrewsbury are difforent y eported in different jou nals, and is it just to refer upon such evidence as this to a pet sod of 20 years before, fur wards on which to found a charge again-t a Mioister of the Crown? The charge is a emarkable one, and it is advanced in a most sin gular manner. The Hon. Gentl man been by saying that hi, r-vorts to this subject with the deepest pain.—(Funical cheering and laughter, wn.ch continued I r some time.) We says that there are only two scurcea to which we may refer for the reports of the proceedings in the House at that period. The one was " Hansard," in .vhich Hon. Members bad an op portunity of correcting their speeches, but he also s.iid th-t there was anotiier, " The Mi.ror of Parliament," for which the speeches were taken down ,n snort-hand by the most skilful sh, or-band writers, i any of them m'n of education and in• teli , !P , se, a. , ,c , c-ov , rsant with the bn.inesg which ()relined in - •.. ... j • :a ,ia. \,.;.„ ;+:11):6,..ci ,:v &;y ; - 6r,ati.)). The Hon. G,:ntieroan who introduced this subject with so much pain, says also that he has been making the most careful in quiries on this subject. He is most honourably connected with 11... r..•- ..,1..}-1... 1.1 I_, ..... -I. ....I.M. ......16L--,_ ference they must also conclude, there being no evidence, that there was loss of service. They, therefore, considered the jury were justified in coming to the verdict they did on the evidence adduced on the trial. The rule was accordingly discharged. THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.) BRITISH FUND:;', ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Lank Stock .. .. .. .. .. .. 206 2064 Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 954 4 954 New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 967 97 97 India Bonds, 1,0001. .. .. .. .. .. —.— Ditto, under 1,000/. .. .. .. .. 26 26 Consols for Opening .. .. .. Exchequer Bills. l% d. 14d. 8 1,0001... .. .... 8— Pill. 13 5001... .. .... 13 -,- Pm. 13 Ditto. Small -- .... 8 13 Pin. CLOSING PRICES. ONE FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCI Chillan Bonds, 6 per Cent .. . • • Ditto, Deferred, 3 per Cent • • • Equador Bonds .. .. • • • 20 Grenada, 1 per Cent .. • • • • • • 4 14 Ditto, Deferred • • • • • • 78 .• • • • • Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent • • Ditto, 3 per Cent • • Ditto, for the Aczbunt .. • • • • Ditto, 4 per Cent • . • • • • • • Ditto, for the Account . • • • • • Spanish Bonds, i per Cent Ditto, for the Account • • „ Ditto, rassive Bond s Ditto, Deferred •. .• Three per Cent Ditto, for the Account .. 37N Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Two-awl-a-Half per Cent 5944 60% Ditto. 4 per Cent. CerOcateS .. 92i 3, PRICES oF BUSINESS cLosING RAILWAY JURIES. PAID. DONE AT PRICES. ONE O'CLOCK. ••••••... 49 1 4 4234 49 19 48 43!4 , A t.)iaibitriltre;rii n.j. . oti . titliciti . g . o.l,l . l3 0.5.t0 . n, .. an .. d .. 10 2,, ....... — lu .. Birmingham and Gloucester.. .. 100 .. .. 127 128 • Ditto New (issed at 7% dis.) .. 17% •• • •• • • Bristol and Exeter .. • • • • '75 •• •- 83% ••• • • Ditto New .. .. .. 5 .... ••• • • • Caledonian .. . • • • • •• 10 '• •• •••• • • . Ditto, Half Shares .. .. .. 2% .... ..••• • • • Ditto, Extension .. .. 2% .... • • ...... I , erby and Crewe .. • • • • 2% •• • • 04% •••• • • • Itirect Northern .. .. .. .. 2% .... 1% .. ——• • . . Eastern Counties .. .. .. 141. 161....., 24 23% 24% .. Ditto New .. .. .. .. 101. 165..... 7% p.. ••.• • • Do. Pcrpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 61. 13s. 4d. % p.. . Ditto, ditto, .. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 45. % p.. •. • • Ditto, York Extension .. .. 10s. .. .. 1 %%•• ••• • • • I',c tern Union .. .. .. .. 25 .. • • •• .. Do. Extension to Norwich .. 2% —.. 1% ..... Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester .. 2% .. —2% creat Seata.,..esu e. - west. (Ireiatat; 20 .... 1 - reat North of England . ..100 .... .......... Ditto, New ~ .. .. t .... Great Western .. .. .. .. 85 .... -- .... • • .... 142% Ditto Half %hares .. .. .. 30 .... 80 .. .• • . Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 5 .... •.•• .. • Leicester and Bedford.. .. .. 225. .... % dis % dis. Leicester, Tamwonli. &c. .. .. 425. .... % dis % ills. L.)n‘lon an , Birmingham • —lOO .... -- ••••. . .. . Ditto Quarters .. .. .. .. 2 .... 28% ...... 24% Ditto Fifths _ .. .. .. 2 .... London and Brighton .. .. .. 50 .. . .... Ditto ditto Fifths .. • • , . 30 •• .. 41 ••••.. • • • • 42 I ondon and Croydon .. —l3l. Its 9d... 22 ,i, •• .- • ...... 22 1 4 Ditto, (ivarant. Five per Cent. 9 .... ••••• • • • • • 10 London and South-Western —4l/. 6s. 1.0 d.. • ••••• • • • • • 74 Landon and York .. .. .. —2%.... 2 144 ..... .• . ........I Ditto, Half Shares • . .. .. 2% •• • • 1 % ••••• • • • • • 1% Lynn and Ely .. .. .. .• Manchester and Leeds.. .. .. 82 .•.. .... ...... 1 2 3 `!-ianchester and Birmingham .. 40 . .. 83 .. ....... . s 3 Niidi an d .. .. .. .. .. —lOO ....149_ !.. ...... . 149 128 31 1 ,4 83 10 6N 24 1!4 7% 1 3 s P % P . 21' 221 - . .- Ditto, New . • • • • •• 13 •• • • 31%N • • •••.- • • . 31 u Newcastle and Darlington Junet. 25 .... .. .... _ Ditto, New 9 3 4• . 9% Ditto, New, Brandling .. .. 23 —— .. • • ...... 43% Newcastle and Berwick .. •• 13 .... ........ . • 21% Norfolk .. .... .. .. .. 20 .... ........ Ditto, Tenths .. .. • • 0 .... .. .•• • • •• • • 2% Ditto Extension .•. • . 2 . 1% .......... 134 North Ditto, .. . • . Ditto. Half Shares .. .• .. 8% .... ...... •• .. 11% Not•thern arid Eastern .. .. 50 .... —•.••• • • • •• Ditto, New .. .. . • .. 1 .... 20 .......... 23 North Kent and Direct Dover .. 2% .... 1;, ••—.. • • • . 1;4 North Staffordshire .. • • .. 425. .. • . 43% p...... 3A, p Oxfd.,WorcesSer, 34 Wolverhmptn. 12%.... •• .... .. • . s Portsmouth Direct • . • • • . 3% —.. 4% .......... 4% Shropshire Union .. .. .. .. 425..... ••••.. • • .. I % die. i2, - ,tit 11 Eastern anti Duvor .. • • 33% .. • • 39% • • .....• .. 40 Ito., New (do. 30/.) .. .No. 3. 15 .... Hi . ...... . 18 Do., New (do. 131.) .. No. 4. 2% .... 2%34 ..... ... 23 ;•••auth 4S'al•2B .. . • • • • • • • 3 •• •• Welsh Midland .. .. • • • • 2% ... • 1 .. •• • • ... 1 West Riding Union • • • • • . 425. •• • • 171, p••.. • • Iyt p Wilts, Somerset, anti Weymouth 5 .... .......... 2 York and Carlisle .. .. .. .. 2% 1 % ... Ihi York ail North 'Midland .. .. AO .... .. • • ..... 'B% 1 'Ditto. Extension . .. •• 13 ••• • •- • ...... 33% Do. E. and W. Riding Exten.• • 1 •. • 11%34 •••• .. • • 11% FOREI(iN RAILWAYS. lloulogfia and AtnlQns .. .. .. 12 .... 11% .. ••..• • .. ii g Cord., l'oul., & Cette (Mackenzie) 2 .... . Ditto, ditto (Espelete) .. 2 .... ........., _ (:en tral of Spaiu .. .. .. .. 2 .... lIA ...... ~ , , 1 1 ,1 Last Indian .. . .. .. .. ss. .... .. ...... % Louvain and Jemeppe .. .. 4 .. . ••.• . • • ... 1;4 xd Luseull,ourg 1 X Y 21141111 and Lleze .. .. .. G .... .......... 3% Northern of France Constituted.. 5 .... 14 .......... I; Orleans and Vierzen .. .. .. 10 .... 14% .... . . Faris anil Lyons Constituted .. 5 .... 6% % MINES. Peal del Monte, Linreglitered .. .... 3% 3% IRELAND. DUBLIN, JUNE 17. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. THE QUEEN V. CHARLES GATAN DUFFY, PROPRIETOR OF THE "NATION" NEWSPAPER. _ At the sitting of the Court this morning this case was called on. The jury panel having been called over, Mr. Holmes, on the part of the traverser, handed in a challenge to the array, on the ground that the jurors bad not been summoned in sufficient time. Sir Colman O'Loghlin cited various authorities, showing the ad missibility of the challenge. The Chief Justice having expressed his intention to receive the challenge, the At torney-General demurred, but on Sir Colman O'Loglilin Litiniating that he was then ready to proceed to argu ment, his Lordship said that there was no necessity, as he would allow the demurrer. Mr. LANCIA' opened the case for the Crown, charging Charles Gavan Duffy with having published in a certain newspaper, called the Nation, a malicious and seditious libel of and concerning her Majesty's Government, and calculated to excite towards them a hostility in the minds of the Irish people. The ATTORNEY•GENERAL then address( d the Court for the prosecution. He commented on the article contain ing the alleged libel at great length, and concluded by calling upon the jury, as honest men, for their own sakes, for the sake of the liberty of the press, and the tran quillity of the country, to find a verdict of guilty against the traverser. _ _ The usual proofs of proprietary, publication, and in forenee having been given, the case for the Crown closed. Mr. flomstEs then proceeded to address the Court for the defence. The Learned Gentleman rests his case principally on justification, and comments in strung lan guage on the treatment of Ireland by England. The Learned JUDGE then summed up. The jury having retired, in some time after it was an nounced to the Court that there was nut the slightest likelihood of their agreeing. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said it was unnecessary for them to come into Court if they had not agreed. When the Court was about to adjourn, at half-past live, the CHIEF JUSTICE directed the sub-sheriff to ask the jury if they had agreed. The sub-sheriff stated as the result of his inquiry that *hey had not, and never would.—(Laughter.) Bailiffs were then sworn to prevent persons from com municating with the jury, and to keep meat, and drink, and fire front them. JUNE 18. At the sitting of the Court this morning, by order of the Chi.f Juitice, the jury in this case were conducted into Court. The Registrar asked them if they had agreed to a verdict. Foreman—l can inform your Lordship that we hare not agreed to a verdict, and my opinion is that we shall not agree. Several jurors—We never shall— we never can agree. The CHIEF JUSTlCE—Gentlemen, you may retire for the present. _ The Jury were then re-conducted by the sheriff to their room, to abide the decision of the Court. RUMOURED LEGAL CHANGES. The following appears in a provincial paper, and has just that amount of truth in it which attaches to all the rumours of the anxiety of a declining Ministry to pro vide for the public services of its officers :—" In conse quence of the present uncertain position of Ministers, it is said that Mr. Justice Perrin will not resin at pre .ient, if his health at all permits his remaining on the bench. A proposition was made to Judge Burton, bug „westing his retirement, in consequence of his great age ; but the fine old fellow, who, I am happy to say, is in excellent health, refused point blank. This step, on the part of the government, was made in order to provide for Mr. Greene, the present Attorney- General, lest the Whigs might come in, and the right hon. gentleman be thereby shelved. After old Burton's refusal, an application was made to Judge Torrens, who agreed to retire, if his son was provided for ; but no 1 " . being at present vaca nt, the Castle people we re ' again toiled." Fenn Takt, says :—" WhateVer may of some recent cattle fairs, Ireland urea, ave b e f ore a ts reed E.—The Mayo Constitution, in placing Peel's free-trade i n cattle-feeders of P • , h a e t r were e wh ic h aybe the future effect of Sir R. evecandidly confess that the the prices of all kinds of our lielgh lately heldast2r fuo cause to con:l -airs in o - highly remunerating. We allude to th e fair s were bo la ud in loo T d f and Turlogh. At the former the demand for milkersu ed. They rated at from gi. 1, al t , and was Unprecedented. went as high as 13 1 . lon A , in some few instances gen tlemanhis . conversed, on return from the with whom we obtained at Balla 30s. per head more fair, told us that he an be would have got a month pre for a lot of heifers th e. t bo these vious for the same lot i n the same slat but A pigs th abade airs sheep were a dvanced in price, r lower." Nenagh Guardian, eight On the 11th instant, says t he I'% ~,, ci of Wm. 10 ,gan, hs ~ men, all armed, went to the hou se door and the door llallinderry, broke open the parlour of a room inside, when they found thre e guns, which they carried off. Although there were two men in Mr. ;;pan's house, and several men in the yard and about the place, still the party never met with the slightest opposition. FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. WAR-OFFICE ; JUNE 19, 1946. 3,1 Dragoon Guards—Captain J. D. Dyson, to be Major, by pur ehase, vice Teesdale, who retires; Lieutenant W. Squire, to be Cap t sin, by purchase, vice Dyson; Cornet T. E. Whitby, to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Squire ; H. St. George, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Whitby, June 19. 2d Foot—Lieut. A. Gillespie, from 54th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Redmond, who exchanges, June 19. 34 Foot.—Lieutenant J. T. Eustace. from 60th Foot, to be Lieu tenant, vice Fitzgerald, who exchanges, June 19. Bth Foot.—Brevet Major F. White, from 40th Foot, to be Captain, Nice Leslie, who exchanges, June 19. 234 Foot.—Lieut. H. 11. Dare to be Adjutant, vice W ynne, who Las retired, June 19. 31st Foot—Lieut. C. H. S. Phillips, from 63 d Foot, to be Lieut. Colonel, vice Byrne, who exchanges, April 15. 40th Foot--Captalu A. Leslie, trom Bth Foot, to be Captain, r ice Brevet Major White, who exchanges, June 19. 43d Foot—Lieut. the Hon. P. E. Herbert, to be Captain, by par these, vice Meade, who retires; Ensign G. L. Preby, to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Herbert ' ; Han, S. W. C. Ward tO b 0 E l 39 l lith by MAW' , Tic* TrOA Jim Vi. POOR. Mr. HUME presented a petition from the working classes of the metropolis, stating that they were plea=ed to see the in quiry which was at yresent going on into the health of towns ; but that they see with deep regret that in all the acts which have been passed this .es , ion reltting to the supply of water, there has been no provision for the poor ; the Acts have only contemplated the supply of water to the richer classt•s• lie would give notice that he would put a vestion to the Govern ment upon the subject. Dr. 130 WRING moved for a copy of a communication made by Lord Aluntragle to the Board cf Trade on the sub ject of burdens on laud. MR. MOTT, THE LATE ASSISTANT POOR-LAW C 01: tiIISSIO,NER. In answer to Mr. W. 0. STANLEY'S iniuiry as to the truth of some of the allegations which appeared a few days ago in the Times relative to the conduct of th , 4 individual i❑ his matia2ement of a certain private lun•scic asylum in the north of Lancashire, sir J. GRAHAM said that he was quite willing th produce copies of any documents which migi- t have reached his hands in reference to Mr. Mott during the time that he was employed by the Poor-law Commissioners, which was now four years ago. A most gross statement had appeared in the Tunes a few days ago (but no doubt wsintentionady), in which it was represented that Mr. Mott some years ago com menced a newspaper, under his ( Sir J. Graham's) patronage. He had to state. in answer to that, that Mr. Mott was per sonally unknown to him, and that he had ceased to bean Assis tant Poor-law Commissioner for nearly four years. This error no doubt arose from the facts which he would state to the House. Mr. Aloft, on the 11th of March, 1843, became the editor of a weekly paper which was called the Poor-law Guide. It was printed, he believed, by Messrs. Bradbury and Evans, of London, and he believed that it was edited by Mr. Osborne, who also resided in London. This was in March, 1843. On the Ist of October, 1843, another periodi c al, salted the Union Gazette, wa s pub lished, edited by a gentleman named Marriott, which contained notices whh reference to paupers who had deserted their families ; and the Board of Guardians of Netheeiy, of which he had the honour to be chairman, applied to the Poor- law Commissioners fur permission to take in this publication for the purposes of the union, and the Poor-law Commissioners stated in reply that if the information was considered necessary they were at liberty to take in this publication, and to charge it upon the rates. He again repeated that Mr. Mutt had ceased to be a Poor law Commissioner for four years, and he could not possibly see how a statement so unfounded could be published. Mr. Mott was at no time the editor of a newspaper under his (Sir James Graham's) patronage. Mr. W. 0. STANLEY said the Right Hon. Baronet had Outlet - 1 to him as in some way connected with the Tinos newspaper, with reference to the subject before the House.— " No, no.") He begged to say that he had nothing whatever to do with the article in question. Mr. DUNCOMBE said the Right Hon. Baronet had omit ted to answer the most material part of the question, namely, whether any person having a joint speculation in the Lunatic Asylum was connected with the Poor-law Commission? Sir J. GRAHAM repeated that Mr. Mott had no longer any connexion with the Poor-law Commissioners. Mr. CHRISTIE wished to know whether Mr. Mott held office under the Poor-law Commissioners as a district auditor ? Sir JAMES GRAHAM said, in reply, it appeare d that when Mr. Mott was introduced Mr. Oliver had certain districts appointed to him, but it having appeared to the guardians that the office of auditor was unnecessary, Mr. Mott had him suspended from his office. BARRACKS AT ARMAGH. Colonel RA %M ON wished to know whether the design for the enlargement of the barracks at Armagh had been set aside ? The inhalwants of that town had spent much money in pro viding accommodation for the offi3ers, and if this design were to be set aside they would lose large sums. He wished to know whether the grant was to he continued or riot. The Earl of LINCOLN said that the sum of 5,0001. had been ori , inaily proposed, but it had afterwards been altered to 4.000/. for the enlargement of the baracks at Armagh, under the impression that it was to be the chief depot of the dis trict. But the military aw.hr rities had aft er wards revise , ' that decision, and made it a place for a d e t ac h me nt only. It w,,s simply a m ilit ar y qu es tion, and on th a t gro u n d had been de cided. SIR ROBERT PEEL'S EXPLANATION. On the order of the day being read for re u - THE PROTECTION TO LIFE (IRELAND) nin g the BILL, debate on Sir R. PEEL rose and said— Mr.eaker—Sir, in rising for S-p resuming the to move the order of the d a y de bate on the Protection to Life ( Ireland) Bill, I deeply regret that it should be necessary for me to obstru c t f or one moment the public busines s by taking up th e ti me of the House with any person al matter with regard to myself. I deeply regret that it should be necessary for me to avail myself of what perhaps at best is but a doubtful privilege, of making an explanation of matters pertooallv refle.ting en -„,,1 ; :" I ' k. 1.4; t'oe titer of the House, and so delaying the public b us i ness, I doubt whether there is a Member in this House in whose estimation I should not fall if I did not avail myself of the earlieti op. 30% 34 20 4N 74 BAPNET, To be Aith , f-fle-Camp to the Queen, with the rank of Colonel In the Army—Lieut.-Colonel .1. Scott, 9th Light Dragoons ; Lieut.-Colonel .1. L. Pennetather, 221 Foot ; Lieut.-Colonel A. S. 11. Mountain, 26th Foot. To be Lieutenant-Colonel In the Army —Major J. R. Smyth, of 16th Light Dragoons. To be Majors in the Army—Capt. T. H. Pearson, of the 16th Light Dragoons ; Capt. E. B. Bare, of the 16th Light Dragoons; Capt. L. Fyler, 16th Light Dragoons; Capt. W. Mathias, 62d Foot ; Capt. 1). F. Longworth, of 31st Foot ; Capt. G. F. Long, of 50th Foot ; Capt. W. P. Waugh, of 10th Light Dragoons ; Capt. H. Bates, 82d Foot. To be Aides-de-Camp to the Queen, with the rank of Colonel, In the :East Indies—Lieut.-Col. L. R. Stacy, 431 Regiment Bengal Native Infantry; Lieut.-Col. G. E. Gowan, Bengal Artillery; Lieut.- Col P. Montgomerie, Madras Artillery. To be Lieutenant Colonels In the Army, in the East Indies — Major W. J. Thompson, 12th Regiment Bengal Native Infantry; Major H. 31. Lawrence, Bengal Artillery ; Major F. Abbott, Bengal Engineers ; Major J. Bradford, Ist Regiment Bengal Light Cavalry ; Major B. Y. Reilly, Bengal Engineers ; Major G. S. Laurenson, Bengal Artillery ; Major J. Angelo, 3d Regiment Bengal Light Cavalry ; Major C. Marshall, 68th Bengal Native Infantry; Major C. Grant, Bengal ArtiTery ; Major 11. M. Graves, 16th Bengal Native Infantry; Major A. Jack, Bengal Native Infantry. Tote liltt)UlSti, sue Armyon sue East Indies—Capt. F. Maekeson, of 14th Bengal Native Infantry ; Capt.J. Turton, of Bengal Artillery ; Capt. F. B. Boileau, of the Bengal Artillery ; Captain R. Hill, of 70th Bengal Native Infantry ; Capt. C. Corfield, of 47th Bengal Native Infantry ; Capt. C. Troup, of. 48th Beng4l Native Infantry ; Capt. T. F. Flemyng, of 36th Bengal Native Infantry; Captain A. L. Campbell, 19 t Bengal Light Cavalry ; Captain .31. E. Loftie, 30th Bengal Native Infantry; Captain W. E. Baker, Bengal Engineers; Captain R. Waller, Bengal Artillery; Captain J. Fordyce, Bengal Artillery ; Captain J. Leeson, 421 Bengal Native Infantry; Captain C. O'Brien, 3d Bengal Native Infantry; Captain W. iloggan, 631 Bengal Native Infantry ; Captain W. S. Pillans, Bengal Artillery ; Captain 11. T. Tucker, Bth Bengal Native Infantry ; Captain A. G. Ward, 68th Bengal Native Infantry ; Cap tain E. Christie, Bengal Artillery; Captain T. L. Harington, sth Bangal Cavalry; Captain D. Seaton, Ist Bengal European Regi ment. To have the local rank of Major in the Army in the East Indies— Major H. Forster, commanding the Shckawattee Brigade, June 19. OFFICE OF dßDtikliCE, JUNE 18. Ordnance Medical Department—Surgeon T. Whitelaw to be Senior Surgeon; Surgeon S. Chisholm to be Senior Surgeon; Assistant- Surgeon G. Farr to be Surgeon; Assistant-Surgeon C. F. Staunton to be Surgeon, vice Whitelaiv; Assistant-Surgeon J. Savage to be Surgeon, vice Chisholm, June 1. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire. J. Sivewrig'at, jun., Esq., to be Del.uty Lieutenant, June 10. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Southampton. J. Lebb, Et; , to be Deputy Lieutenant for the said town and county o I the town of Southampton ; Le Feuvre, Esq., to be De puty Lieutenant for the said town and county of Southampton, June 13. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Clackmannanshire. P. Anstruther, E;q., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; R. Haig, to be Deputy Lieutenant, April 20. WHITEHALL, JuNE 13. The Lord Chanecllor has appointed James William Connington, of tlorncastle, in the county of Lincoln, Gent., to be a Master Ex traordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. Anselcm Colton Fowler, draper, Louth, Lincolnshire, to snrrendkr July 3 and 31, at one, at the Court of Dankruptcy. Whitmore, offici.d assignee ; Jones, Sise-lane. William Everett, builder, Drury-lane, June 26, at half-past ten, and July 28, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, °tidal as,.signee ; Townshend, Howland-street, Fitzroy. square. Joseph Thorley, cabinet.maker, Newinau.street, July 1, at eleven, and 23, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official as slnee, Aldermanbury ; Taylor and Collision, Great Janes-street, Bedibrd-row. Thomas Rice Hart, victualler, Leatherbrldge, June 29, at half-past twelve, and Aug. 6, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings ; Fry, Cheapside. ' Edward Sewell, hatter, Old Bond-street, June 29, at one, and August 6, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Hare, Coleman-street. Henry Morris, stone-mason, South Lambeth New-rord, June 25, at two, and July 30, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings; Dawes, Sergeants Inn, Thomas Court, bootutaker, Brighton, June 29, at twelve, and July 30, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Messrs. Lawrence and Reed, Cheapside. Joseph Wilcox, tailor, Little Bell-alley, Moorgate-street, June 25, and July 27, at hall-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Gra ham, official assignee, Coleman-street ; Smith, Businghall-street. Joseph Blackburn, cloth manufacturer, Gomersel, Yorkshire, July 2 and 27, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official as signee, Leeds ; Hall, Aldermanbury, London ; Lees, Bradford ; Bond, Leeds. William M'lntosh, spirit merchant, Kingston-upon-Hull July 1 and 22, at eleven, at the Town-hall, Kingston-upon-Hull. Kynaston, official assignee, Hull; Leigh, George-street, Mansion-house, Lon don ; Stamp, Hull. Matthew Hobson, corn and coal merchant, Great Grimsby, at the Hull District Court. Kynaston, official assignee, Hull ; Kirk, Sy mond's Inn, Chancery-lane, London ; Daubney, Great Grimsby ; Bell, Hull. George Shorthouee, merchant, Newport, Monmouth, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol ; Smith, Bristol. Charles Ball, linen-draper, Lane. end, Staffordshire, July ll and 25, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham; Lloyd, 31ilk-street, Cheapiide, London; Bartlett, Birmingham. John Lead, innkeeper, Wellington, Shropshire, July 7 and 31, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Yalpy, official assignee. Birmingham ; Greatwood, Wellington ; Motteram and Knowles, Birmingham. John Smith, grocer, Stratford-upon-Avon, June 27 and July 22, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee Birmingham ; T. S. James, Birmingham. Bobbert Pattinson, grocer, Exeter, July 6, at twelve, and July 23, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Exeter ; Terrell, Exeter. Robek Stanford Perrott, groeer, Exeter, July 6, at twelve, and 23, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Exeter; Terrell, Exeter. Willl;tna Rolfe, music seller, Manchester, June 30, and July 29, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, 'official assignee. Manchester ; Baddeley Leman-street, Goodman's-fields, London Simpson, Manchester. John Potter, portable weighing machine maker, Manchester, June 39, at twelve, and July 23, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester ; Jaques and Edwards, Ely-place, London ; Chew, Manchester. George Lumley, cotton manufacturer, Wigan, Jane 30, and July 23, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester; Gregory and Co., Bedford-row, London ; Leigh, Wigan. JOhn Hughes, provision dealer, Liverpool, June 29 and July 21, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool; Cornthwaite and Co., Old Jewry Chambers, London ; Pemberton, Liverpool. Edward Jones, ironmonger, Liverpool, June 29, and July 21, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official a siguee, Liverpool ; Keightley, Cunliffe, arid Beaumont, Chancery-lane, Lon don ; Hetherington, Woods, and Woodburn, Liverpool. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, the pro duce of the British possessions in America, computed from the returns made in the week ending Juue 16, 1846, is 345. 5 / 4 d. per cwt. [Dividends, &c, in our Next.] MARKET INTELLIGENCE (From the London New Price Current of June 19.) SCGAR.—To-day there was no public sale of 11 , 1 y description of raw Sugar, but West India Muscovado of every kind was In excel lent request privately, and brought further advanced rates, making the rise compared with last Friday of Is to is 6d per cwt. RErin - Fn.—To-clay the home trade were compelled to pay further advanced rates for Refined goods, owing to the scanty supply. Bonded Crushed Sugar is wanted, and there are few sellers of first quality under 33s 6d per cwt. Mamttrius.—To-day several parcels of all kinds of Matuititts Sugar were sold privately, and at higher rates, making the rise since last Friday Is to is 6d per cwt. EssT INDIA.—To-day Bengal was in good demand by private con tract, and the advance in prices for the week has been Is. per cwt. Rics.—To-day the market was well supplied with Bengal Rice, three parcels amounting to 6,783 bags were submitted to public com petition; the demand was active, and the whole sold at and after the sales at an advance on former rates of 3d per cwt. FonMtg.—White Havannah has been purchased with mere free dom this week, and rather higher rates have been obtained, although the market has been more liberally supplied with all descriptions. For yellow the inquiries have increased and stiffer rates are offered, but business of moment has been prevented by the unwillingness of merchants to sell. A considerable increase in the demand has taken place for white Brazil, and prices have risen 6d to is per cwt : brown has met with increased attention, and an advance in the value of 6d per cwt has occurred. COFFEE.—The arrivals of East India have considerably increased since our last report, and home trade sorts are yet brought freely to market, notwithstanding their cheapness ; but export kinds are not pressed for sale, in consequence of the low prices that exist, still the demand does not increase, although the stock still exhibits a decrease in comparison with that of last season. Mocha has been purchased with increased freedom, and which is not to be wondered at, con sidering its cheapness ; the trade are increasing their stocks, and speculators are operating. TLL—The dulness in the market has increased this week, and the business transacted in all descriptions has been extremely limited; but in the value scarcely any variation has taken place. Serene.—Prices ruling for Ginger occasions the demand to be good by private contract for all description.s, and the supply is net so large as it was. For Black Pepper the demand privately has been limited for all sorts from exporters and the home trade. White has sustained the former value, and several parcels have been disposed of privately. Holders of Pimento show firmness, and refrain from offering any at auction. The stock is still much less than it was last year, but prices are higher for all qualities. For Cassia Lignea, quotations ruling moderate, occasioned several parcels to be disposed of by pri vate treaty, as there 19 an impression existing that prices have arrived at their lowest point. Holders of Nutmegs evince more firm ness, and refrain from offering any at auction. Mace is in short supply, and is wanted. In Cloves few purchases have been made. Set-ans.—The arrivals of Rum have been on a larger scale since this day week, but they consist chiefly of West India. Jamaica has been less in demand, but for the few parcels sold holders have been enabled to obtain frill rates. Leeward Island is much wanted, and prices are looking up ; but business has been checked by the small supply at market. Calcutta has been in fair demand. There has difficult to quote prices with accuracy ; the stock here being a large been very little business transacted in Brandy of any kind, and it is one. In Geneva several small purchases have been made. The supply being small of British Corn Spirits prices are sustained, but the demand has been limited. ,_Otts.—Although Linseed Oil can be obtained upon rather lower still the home demand has bzen limited on the spot, and Sc4r eely any export orders have been executed. For Rape Seed Oil holden are enableadnbr F.o e n u tinme to go down. In Olive Oil there has been little pass iosobtafionredu. Ini F ted or wan ted, ina and there are sellers upon further reduced terms. Palm is , but the stock being a small one, tin en t er, would not he the C q 7 i.aans t:1 ; n; :Itt;r:ahther h o igh o e b r tai r n ate 2 s Bl h . av t e . • smrch swi withveeral inquiries have existed. Cod Oil has be 2B e l n case if the stock hero ties are kept low. shepern bgnelestill plentiful, prices of all quail and the market being well bupplied , h:s f been tittle passing privately, ensuod. For American Lard on the detnuLtlff rail in the value has are further arrivals of Sperm awl Southern Oil, be stoc enamitea. There of which are heavy, and far exceed those of last season at this time, the prices are lower. TALLOW —There are sellers of Russian on the spot upon reduced terms; still the purchases made by soap -makers and chandlers have been extremely limited, and 42s per cwt is the highest quotation for fine Petersburg yellow Candle, duty paid; indeed, if par cels were to be pressed for sale, even t hi s price could not be obtained , although the stock is still a small one. r educed rates have been For Town further . taken . Australian h as been purchased W ith caution. American is dull o f sa l e, There I supplies appeatance of and former not be obtained. a further rates can va lue, as of Foreign and Colonial fall taking place in 1 .. this season. Tallow are likely to be large t FRIGHTFUL AND FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT wEsTxxx Iten.war.—Testerday morning an accident of a most de plorable character, which has resulted in the death of an excellent servant of the company, happened near the terminus of the Great Western Railway, at Paddington. It appears that the deceased, Joh n Vaten, was a painter in the service of the company, and was about thirty or forty years of age. He was engaged at his work on some carriages at the time of the occurrence, and it seems he was much afflicted with deafness, so that the signals were not very readily heard by him ; and while thus occupied one of the trains came up, and before be could get out of the way he was knocked down, and the wheels of the carriages passed over his legs and arms, which were severely fractured. He was immediately conveyed to St. greFrge . s H9sPital, where he died in about try Wars. I I tt, frn th ; frq by tlo of Ere rn are Wi tin teT ebti