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Now ready, in 2 vols. Svc, with Portrait, 28s. bound, SECOND EDITION of the DIARY AND MEMOIRS OF SOPHIA DOROTHEA, CONSORT OF GEORGE I. Now first published from the Originals. A work abounding in . the romance of real life."—Messenger. " A book of marvellous revelations, establishing beyond all doubt the perfect innocence of the beautiful, highly-gifted, and inhumaxly treated Sophia Dorothea."—Naval and Military Gazette. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great 9larlboroug'lotreet. MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL. Immediately, in 3 vols., post Bvo., T HE ROBERTSES ON THEIR TRAVELS. By Mrs. TROLLOPE, Authoress of "The Barnabys In America," " The Attractive Man," " The Vicar of Wrexhill," &c. Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough•street. Henry Colburn, Just ready, in one vol. Svo., with upwards of Sixty Illustrations T HE MODERN C00k; Or, a Practical Guide to THE CULINARY ART IN ALL ITS BRANCHES. 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Offices, Mall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London. • THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS 'EVENING Will be performed an original Opera, entitled DON QUIXOTE. Don Quixote, Mr. Weiss ; Sancho Panza, Mr. Stretton ; Camacho, Mr. King ; Rovedos, Mr. Ilorncastle ; Basillus, Mr. Allen ; Quiteria, Miss Ra.inforth. Aftef Which, for the Sixth Time, a new Fairy Ballet, called THE ISLAND NYMPH. In which Mons. Desplaces, Mdlles. Maria, Neodot, Louise, Adele, Mdme. Giubilei, &c., will appear. To conclude with a new grand Christmas comic Pantomime, called HARLEQUIN GULLIVER ; or, Giants and Dwarfs. Harlequin, Mr. Wieland ; Clown, Mr. T. Matthews ; Pantaloon, Mr. Howell ; Columbines, Miss Hicks and Miss Lonsdale. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING Will be performed Mr. Sergeant iaifourd's Tragedy of lON. Ton, Miss Cushman ; Clemanthe, Miss Susan Cushman ; and sup ported by Messrs. Stuart, Hudson, Brindal, H. Holl, Miss Telbin, To be followed by a New Farce, called LEND ME FIVE SHIL LINGS. Principal characters by Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Tilbury, Mr. BrindaVand Miss P. Horton. After which a Grand New Extravaganza, entitled THE BEE AND THE ORANGE TREE; or, The Four Wishes. Principa' Characters by Mr. Hudson, Mr. James Bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mr• Clark, Miss P. Horton, Miss Julia Bennett, Mrs. Caulfield, and Mr.i. Stanley. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Drama of LEOLINE : or, Life's Tr;a•.s Principal characters by Messrs. 0. Smith and Wright, Mrs. Yates, and Miss Woolgar. To be followed by TAMING A TARTAR ; or, Magic an.l Ma zourkaphobia. In which Messrs. Paul Bedford and Wright, Miss Woolgar, Madame Celeste, &c. will perform. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled THE PHANTOM BREAKFAST. Supported by Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Wright, Miss Woolgar, &c. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. The Cricket on the Hearth," and " The Enchanted Horse' every Evening until further notice ! THIS EVENING WILL BE PERFORMED THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH: A FAIRY TALE OF HOME. The Principal Characters by Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, Mr. Emery, Mr. F. Viidiw, Mr. Meadows, and Miss Grove. To be followed by the original REDOWA WALTZ, music c• an posed by M. Jullien, by Miss Frampton and Master Forrest. After which will be repeate.l a New Grand Roinantie extravaganz entitled THE ENCHANTED HORSE ; or, Prince Firouz Schuh of Persia and the Princess of Bengal. Principal Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Wigan, F. Matthews, Collier, Turner, Kinloch, &c.; dames Keeley, Villars, Hodson, Dawson, Howard, Arden, &c. Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING Will be performed MUCH ADO AROUT NOTHING. Benedict, Mr. Wallack ; Dogberry, Mr. Compton ; Verges, Mr. Oxberry ; Leonato, Mr. Cooper; Beatrice, Mrs. Stirling. To be followed by a DIVERTISSEMENT, In which Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Marshall, M. Adrien, Miss Bailin, Miss Marshall, and Mdlle. Duval will appear. To conclude with a New Drama, entitled TIIE VIOLET. Andre, Mr. Wallack ; Trinquet, Mr. Granby ; Armand, Mr. Murray ; Mar chioness D'Orville, Mrs. Fosbroke ; Blanche, Miss Stanley ; Blan- chette, Mrs. Stirling. NEW STRAND THEATRE. M. PHILLIPPE'S SOIREES and 31A1INEES MYSTERIELTS ES Two Morning Performances during the Week. At the urgent and reiterated solicitations of many distinguished families, and in order to accommodate the crowds who fib lo attend his Morning Performances, M. PHILLIPPE will give his Grand Juvenile Entertainment every Wednesday and SaturdoiY Mornng, qt Two o'clock. M. Phillippe's most Popular Deceptions and Peculiar Ex/ eriments will be repeated every Evening, varied by the Amusiru Per formances of the Chiarini Family, and the astounding Feat of the American Brothers.—Doors open at a quarter past Seven to com mence at a quarter before Eight. Stalls, 35.; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. ; Pevate Boxes, 1/. ls., and 1/. Ils. 6d. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. The present attractions surpass all previous eflim ts. Tremendous hit of the New Spectacle, introducing the Wonderful Colossal Elephants, train of Camels, magnificent Brass Bond, gorgeous Costumes and Processions, and stupendous mechanical effects. THIS EVENING - _ Will be performed a New Drama, entitled THE RAJAH OF NAGPORE ; or, the Sacred Elephants of the Pagoda. In which the whole of the extensive resources of the Establishment will be brought into requisition. New Scenes of the Circle, combining the unequalled Feats of the British and Foreign Company. The whole to conclude with the favourite Afterpiece of LOVE AND WAR. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. . Undeniable and continusus Attraction and Novelty. THIS EVENING Will be performed JESSIE HOLMES; or, The Wild Horde of the Wolf's Lair. Supported by Mr. Dale, Mr. Fredericks. Mr. E. F. Saville, Mr. Herbert, Mr. Iliggie, Miss Vincent, Miss Terry, &c. After which, A NIGHT OF EXCITEMENT. De Courai, Mr. Fredericks; Le Grange, Mr. Saville ; Marlette, Miss Vincent. To conclude with THE SCAMPS OF LONDON. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, FEB. 20. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 44; Highest, 50; Noon, 49. BAROMETER, 30.18.—WIND W., cloudy. • • HMIS WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Marring .. 49 minutes after 8. I Evening 32 minutes after 4' IR , r• • t ,„ , , ._, A OiN Pr , firr • ' - ...i,' .s , ~ , , 44.0 11.....4143.--irtt ". 4 * 7- '-/- •+I 0 , b R 7, n ~ . • ~ , , o , Av. .a..IF-44,...`,... intiruiit: t int LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1846. of the office of Crown Solicitor in Ireland, vacant by the re- ' cent appointment of the late Crown Solicitor to another office, and that by the new arrangement, which was merely an experiment, a saving would lee effected of 1001. a year. On the motion that the House, at its rising, do adjourn till Monday, being put, Mr. BROTLIERTON moved that the House do sit to-morrow at 12, as it was not likely the House would divide to-night. Sir R. PEEL thought it would be extremely advantageous that an early decision should be come to on the question, yet he saw no advantage in acceding to the proposition of the Hon. Gentleman. He knew how impossible it was to limit discussion, but still he thought no advantage could be gained by acceding to the proposition of the Hon. Gentleman. Mr. STAFFORD O'Bumx said that several Hon. Gentlemen on that side of the House were desirous of addressing the House. No time would be lost in permitting them to ad dress the House on this question, as they would not have to address that House again in the future stages of the Bill. He hoped, therefore, the division would not be unnecessarily pressed for this evening. Mr. ROEBUCK, who spoke in a very indistinct tone, put a question as to the Post-office arrangements with Canada, in answer to which Sir R. PEEL stated that the matter was a very complicated one, and would better form the subject of official communica tion than of a question in the House. In answer to a question from Capt. OSBORNE relating to the potato disease, Sir R. PEEL said that he had since received a communica- tion from Dr. LINDLEY stating, that from experiments which he had tried, he was of opinion that potatoes propagated from diseased seed were themselves diseased, and that there fore the greatest care was necessary in the selection of pota toes from seed in order to guard against the propagation of the disease. . Various petitions on the subject of the corn-laws having been presented, _ _ The adjourned debate was resumed by Mr. CummiNG BRUCE, who denied that the Government measure would be considered a settlement of the corn-law question. It was a total sacrifice of the interests of an important class of the community, and if this sacrifice were to be made to agitation, it would only give rise to a new agitation for more dangerous objects. If the Government bad been firm, the agitation would have been put down, but experience proved that con ceding to agitation only gave rise to fresh demands• He would not consent to sacrifice his feelings on behalf of the interests of his constituents, and his tenantry, and his neigh bours, to the unfeeling theories of political economy, which, in seeking the greatest happiness of the greatest number, set at naught the feelings and interest of some odd millions of agriculturists. The Government measure would be carried by the votes of the Opposition—not by those of the Minister's usual supporters. Although he agreed in opinion with the Noble Lord the Member for Liverpool, and with the Hon. Member for Inverness, as to the impolicy and danger of the Ministerial measure, he would not follow their example by voting for it; and, if by throwing out the measure they should oust the Minister, although, perhaps, they might no' find " Five hundred as good as he," they would find more than five as good as he,to take his place. He denied that the farmers in Scotland were indifferent to the corn-law—the great majority of them were opposed to drawal of protection from agriculture would be ruinous to the best interests of the country. With regard to the con- ;he Ministerial measure. He considered that the with• duct of the Noble Lord opposite during the recent attempts to form a Government, he thought that it was worthy of an English gentleman, honest and honourable; but with regard to his letter to the constituents of London, which seemed to have been adopted by the Home Secretary, he wished to ask how it was, that while the Noble Lord was formerly in office, he had not discovered that the corn-laws were the "bane of agriculture and the blight of commerce?" He wished to know whether the refusal of the Right Hon. Baronet's colleagues to co-operate with him in November was a refusal to a proposition for a simple suspension of the corn-laws, or for a suspension coupled with a proposition for their ultimate removal? This question affected particularly the .department of the Chancellor of the Exchequer; he should like to hear his opinion on the subject. He thought that the Right Ilon. Gentleman had showed cause for his proposed modifications in the duties on manufactured arti cles, but he had utterly failed in showing that corn was in a similar category, or that there was any necessary connexion between a suspension of the corn-laws and a repeal Their Lordships met at Five o'clock. Lord FEVERSHAM presented forty-six petitions from differ ent parts of Yorkshire against any repeal of the corn-laws, and complaining of the unconstitutional proceedings of the Anti-Corn-law League. Lord LrrrErrom moved an address to the Crown for cer tain papers connected with the colonies.—Agreed to. Lord CAMPBELL presented a I etition from Cork praying fur the abolition of the ministers' money. The petition wasof great extent, he had been charged 8/. by the Post-office for the postage of it; but which had been remitted by the kind ness of the Noble Lord at the head of the Post-office De partment. He trusted the object the petition had in view would be maturely considered by their Lordships. Earl ST. GERMANS admitted that the impost complained of by the petitioners was a grievance, but only one of prac tice and not of principle. He could not ray at the pre sent moment whether the Government intended to intro duce any measure on the subject. Lord STANLEY thought it would be impolitic to adopt the prayer of the petition. After some observations from Lord MoNTF,AonE, the peti tion was ordered to lie on the table. of the corn-laws, or that there was any justification for such a measure as that which he proposed• He regretted exceedingly the decision to which the Righ individual who was not in favour of a system of restric triction. All parties in that country were united against ; what they called the fatal cause of competition. H could conceive gentlemen who had from conviction joined the Anti-Corn-law League giving utterance to their senti ments somewhat warmly, but he could not understand the language made use of that evening by the Right Hon. Gen tleman the Secretary at War and the Right Hon. Gentle man the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who were at best but late converts—although he believed the Secretary at War had been abstractedly a free-trader, but had not put his theories in practice, because at that time they came from the wrong side of the House. They were told that no great quantity of corn could be im ported. The manufacturers of Manchester would furnish capital, and the Hon. Member for Sunderland would find them with roads, and whatever they demanded would be supplied, and as the demand increased the prices would fall. This was proved by what had happened with regard to the cotton trade. The Right Hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State had expressed fear for the failure of the potato crop. Every year he had bretight forward sonic great measure, and every year he had abandoned it. Bold and not overscrupulous in opposition, since he had been a Member of a Conservative Cab net, he had been constantly acting from panic—in fact, the Members of the present Cabinet, were ,he children of panic. Now, with regard to protection, he did not -find that what the Noble Lord opposite called the, protective system had ever existed. The colonial system had existed to the great advantage of the country, but that was not what was called a protective system. During the eighteenth century our foreign trade was sacri ficed to our colonial system, and merchants were compen sated by secure markets and great profits. We lost our colonies, and Mr. PITT brought forward a system of free trade, because we had lost our great colonies. The revolu tionary war interrupted the system, which was again taken up by Lord LIVERPOOL and Mr. Husatssox, and by the Right Hon. Gentleman—his Corn Bill of 1842, and his tariff ; that was, the system of free trade as contradistinguished from that which was now proposed, and which he would call free imports, the introduction of which system had been the ruin of Turkey, and which would pro duce the same effect in every ether country. The Right Hon. Gentleman had announced that the principle of protec tion was renounced by his Cabinet. He thought it was bene ficial. The onus probandi lay upon those who ad vocated the doing away with competition. He found great difficulty in meeting the case of the Anti-Corn-law League, because it continually varied. They began by promising cheap bread to the labourer, they ended by promising high rents to the landlord. He did believe they were disin genuous, because he thought that all this time they were only instructing themselves. In 1839, the Chamber of Man chester referred all the evils under which they laboured to the state of the currency; and, having exhausted the cur rency, they afterwards turned to the corn-laws. The League said protection was a failure, because it could not feed the people, nor employ the people. He denied both propositions. The agriculture of no great country in the world was equal to that of England. The great bulk of capital collected by our settlers in our colonies were invested in land; there was not an Englishman in India, riding upon an ele phant, and surrounded by slaves, who did not dream of quarter sessions, and place the summum bonuni of life in being a justice of peace and a deputy-lieutenant. What would be the position of England, after the repeal of the corn -laws, if she should be involved in a foreign war? It would be the same as it was at the rupture of the treaty of Hon. Baronet had come, but could not see a shade of unfair ness in his conduct ; he entirely acquitted him of the charges which had been brought against him, and believed that he had acted from conscientious and honourable mo tives. He could see no connexion whatever between a po tato famine in Ireland and a suspension, much less a repeal of the corn-laws. If corn had risen in price, the law would have opened the ports, but they had not given the law a fair trial, and instead the Government proposed, at the bidding of the Anti-Corn-law League, to reverse the verdict of the constituencies of the empire. The recent prosperity had been owing to the manner in which public credit had been renovated by the income-tax, and to the spirit of railway speculation. These afforded no reasons for giving up protection, and he for one could not consent to embark with the Right Hon. Baronet on the unknown ocean of free trade. Mr. POULETT SCROPE thought no atmosphere was so noxious as that of the forcing house of protection, within which we bad cooped up so much of our industry, under the mistaken idea of stimulating production. The free im portation of corn might greatly benefit the country without effecting any reduction of prices. There were some millions who, it was said, now re joiced in potatoes because the country did not produce a sufficiency of corn for their consumption. The burden of proof of the necessity of maintaining high prices rested with those who assumed that they were necessary, and he had heard no sufficient reason for their maintenance arti- Amiens; and it would only be by securing the command of the seas, that supplies would be obtained. They would be obliged, as they were then, to raise loans with wheat at 110 s., and to pay the interest of those loans with wheat at 555. Seeing that since that time we had supplied the popu lation with food, it could not be urged that the system had failed to feed the people. It bad not failed to employ the people. The Secretary at War said, cultivate the hills o Wiltshire, and the population will be employed. Why were they not cultivated? The condition of the peasantry, bad as it was at present, was worse before the system of protec tion was introduced. The Goatacre meeting was much like the deputation from the nations of Europe, which was brought to the bar by the French Convention, by Anarchasis Clooty. But if these were to be taken as specimens of the agricultural class, he would produce greater instances of wretchedness from the manufacturing • districts, but he would not condescend to do so because he knew that they would not be a fair sample of the labourers in those districts for he knew that generally speaking the manufacturers were' honourable men, who endeavou-^ '— :I promote the interests of their labourers to the best of their power. He would admit that the principle did not regulate wages, but if wages of labour did not depend on the price of corn, the importation of foreign corn must displace so much Bri tish corn, and so displace so much agricultural labour which must seek for employment in the manufacturing districts, and so bring down the rate of wages there. The House should consider the effect of sudden importations of corn on the monetary system. He admitted that if they had a regular trade they would have a regular supply ; but in the event of a deficiency there would be an extra denier d, which it would he impossible to meet without deranging the monetary system. He did not vindicate protection on the ground of peculiar burdens. Land had great honours and must bear great burdens. The system could only be maintained by a system of high policy, by maintaining a due balance between the two great branches of nationa industry, and by giving a preponderance to the agricultura interest, because they had in England a territorial constitution, which was the only security for self-government as opposed to a system of centralization. He believed that the real meaning of this movement was not the mere repeal of the corn-laws, but the transference of political power from the agricultural to the manufacturing classes. He could not consent to be rescued from the power of one class only to sink under the power of another. He protested against such an ignominious catastrophe; if they were to change the present system of politics, he would prefer falling under the thraldom of capital, to trust to the energie of an educated and an enfranchised people. The debate, on the motion of Mr. E. BULLER, was then adjourned till Monday. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and be House adjourned. tidally, or for the continuance of protection. Now, the Hon. Member for Northamptonshire had drawn a picture of the misery produced by the introduction of foreign commo dities to the exclusion of the productions of our native in dustry. Now if he had stripped the Hon. Member of all foreign products which he had worn at that moment—of his coat of German wool, his shirt of American flax, his handkerchief of Italian or French silk—the Honourable Member could hardly have made his appearance in decent society. The Honourable Member for Knaresborough, too, in his abuse of machinery, was guilty of the same fallacy. To carry out his theory he ought to come down to the House clothed in skins, to live in a cave, and to support himself on roots grubbed up with his nails. All these objections to free trade were most falla cious. The calm and convincing arguments which bad year after year been urged. by the Hon. Member for Stockport had convinced the country, and those arguments had never been answered by Members on the other side. Mr. NEWDEGATE denied that prohibition and protection were the same thing. He acknowledged that to buy in the cheapest and to sell in the dearest market was true as to trade, but he denied that it was true as to legislation. It would not be true as applied to the army employed for the national de fence, and protection was as necessary to secure our national industry as was an army to secure our national safety. The object of the corn-laws was to maintain steadiness of price, and the distress of 1841 and 1842 was an example of the danger of too great an extension of our foreign commerce with our present monetary system. He had foreseen the change in the policy of Government ever since 1844, and it this measure passed, we should be doubly dependent on foreigners; we should be dependent on them for our food as well as for money to buy our food. The course The Earl of KINNAIRD gave notice of his intention, on Mon , day next, to submit a question to the Government with respect to the proceedings of the Broad and Narrow Gauge Corn. missioners. Earl ST. GERMANS said he wished to introduce some verbal amendments into the Bill he had brought in the other night with respect to the pacification of Ireland. lie believed that the proper course would be to move the reprinting of the Bill with the amendment. Lord CAMPBELL suggested that the proper course would be to withdraw the Bill and introduce a new one, containing the amendments. Earl ST. GErtmAss adopted this suggestion, and the Bill was read a first, and ordered to be read a second time on aonday. Their Lordships then adjourned till Monda' The SPEAKER took the (;hair at Dour o'clock. General . EVANS took th e oat h s and his seat for West minster. Mr. Gooch took the oaths and his seat for East Suffolk, and Mr. SEYMER and Mr. FLOYER took the oaths and their seats for Dorsetshire. Several railway Bills were read a second time, and ordered to be committed. Petitions were presented for and against the Customs and Corn Importation measure. On the motion of the O'CONOR DON, it was agreed that it should be an instruction to the Select Committee on Petitions on Railway Bills, where parties had proved com pliance with the standing orders, that they should have precedence. During the course of a somewhat desultory conversation on the subject of railway Bills, it was stated that on Monday the Committee would report on a large number of railway Bills, which had by them been arranged in groups, and it was suggested that Irish and Scotch railway Bills should have precedence. Mr. P. Scnori suggested tile appointment of a Commis sion to arrange preliminarie., and to sort ralway Bills in groups before the meeting of the House. In answer to Mr. GISBORNE, Sir G. CLERK said that he was not prepared to state at present whether the Government would introduce any pro position funded on the report of the Gauge Commissioners, Evitz. ~ ' ,Fhere was an i mmense q u antity of evidence not yet printed, 0 --'4 *vhiCh the Government must consider before they determined. ' , fir. HUDSON 1:7,,t 0. . - proposed that the standing orders of the two gatte,lv . ith regard to railway Bills should be assimilated 4 4 1 7 / ~ .:, 1, : - - oittd . tit t!t , railway Bills generally should be permitted to ori ., zl i rojginate tn•dae Lords as well as in the Commons, which would A. 01 4 , 'Ate a greatsaving of time and expense. ~ .1 fCl' , ';' The - grEaKER stated that he had received alette h r is fr? in m , -:-Iltitllol3, JAMES LINDSAY, stating th a t it was not • _ ilentiiiit to defend the return for the borough of Wigan. In answer to a question, Sir J. Gtitat AM said it was intended to divide the duties pursued by the Right Honourable Baronet was not con stitutional ; he was not the Minister of his Sovereign's choice, but of her necessity. He was glad to see the determination of a broken party not to be awed by the threatenings of the Right Hon. Baronet. Mr. BARELY supported the Government measure. He believed that the carrying of the measure would benefit not only the tenant-farmers, bat the landlords themselves. Mr. P. BENNETT, jun., opposed the motion. Mr. MU NTa said that no man would be more happy .han himself to see this measure carried, because he believed Lord ASHLEY'S farewell address to the electors of Dorset shire is worthy of deep and general attention. After having represented the county for the last fourteen years, the Noble Lord has been compelled to withdraw for a time, the protectionists having obtained a temporary influence. Indeed, so resolved were they to oppose the Ministerial measures, that they were prepared to spend any sums in order to return their favourite candidates. Lord ASHLEY at once declared himself unable to afford such a contest. And it is well he did so; the cham pions of free trade must be chosen on higher grounds than any pecuniary considerations. Let them leave those to the protectionists, who have nothing else to recommend them. In taking leave of his former constituents, in earnest, elo quent, and impressive language, the Noble Lcrd explained his reasons for resigning, refuted t 1 :e arguments of his opponents, and strongly urged the necessity for supporting Sir R. PEEL. Indeed, the " only amendment he felt disposed to propose to the Ministerial measure—one suggested by grave and mature consideration— wai, that there should be an immediate, not a gradual abo lition of the corn-laws." Many persons have blamed Lord ASHLEY for advocating the cause of the factory operatives, while, by upholding protection, he was wronging the agri culturists, with whom he was more nearly connected. By his recent conduct the Noble Lord has silenced these objections; he has proved himself the friend not of one class, but of the community ; in both cases he has sacrificed per sonal interests for the general welfare. He refused to enter the Government in order to bring forward the Factory Bill, and now, by supporting free trade, he has lost his seat in Parliament. He is now only a private individual, and much as we may regret this cir cumstance, we do not regret it for Lord ASIILEY'S sake. We regret it for the House of Commons, which has lost one of its most consistent, conscientious Members; we regret it for the poor, who have lost a powerful friend ; for the hard working operatives, who have lost a zealous advocate ; for the suffering and the helpless, who have lost the help of one ever ready to sympathise, ever fore, riost to assist. We should be very reluctant to believe that Lord ASHLEY'S political career had terminated, but even were it so, all will admit that few have ever effected more real good. Others may dazzle by their eloquence, convince by their subtle reasoning, obtain passing admiration or perhaps lasting fame ; but Lord ASHLEY has earned a higher tribute than admiration—he has merited the warm approval of the kind-hearted and well-judging, the fervent gratitude of the poor, the suffering, the oppressed. To his unwearyiag perseverance we are indebted for many of our most brunane and salutary regulations. We owe it to him that women, no longer neglecting the duties and dignity of their sex, working in the mines, perform labours arduous even for men. Who has not read with horror those details, describing young and tender females, barely covered with a single garment, struggling beneath the weight of burdens as ill-proportioned to their physical strength as the situation was unfitted to their moral cha racter ; but these revolting scenes are over, and it is to Lord ASHLEY we are indebted for the change; through him also children under eight years of age no longer work twelve aLd fifteen hours a-day ; and through his endeavours mothers will some future day have two hours to attend to their families—young person:; two hours to obtain some instruction. Thinking of all that he has done, of all that he might yet do, we cannot but regret the absence of Lord ASHitrEY from the scene of his untiring labours, his well-earned triumph. But, for his own sake we cannot regret it ; his resignation has placed him i Nwpg n a:ttothhc a iytwfheo higher position than he ever owned before- Not t n n s h t e r o o fs n h ah g k e i se eloquenceoo pf a p d t,h eoecnattse necessitiesoddf dtr t uhhteeho,af appear a hpo u emena s c e mr osuahonno. commanding country. . figl t y l enißie,ybs sup porting sym pathy sononwa,lv, advantage, n h t e a ge has r h e as linquished all thoughts of private or per given up even his power of doing the corn-laws he might have retained influence, but . principle forbade him; he roiglst also have s m ret seat, yet ♦oted for a repeal, but his feelings of hon a o ul u e r "his com pelled him to resign his trust, and he has resigned it. 'Ws may sum up his character in the impressive words of Mr. SMYTHE, in his poem of "Armond Carrel :" " A, wrong to conviction he would not endure, And he fought for his love when lie fought for the poor," that by so doing a veil would be torn from the eyes of the people which had blinded them for years. He was glad that the Right Hon. Baronet had admitted that for the last forty years he had been wrong in to - o. Mr. DISRAELI had pledged himself to meet this ques tion on its merits; and though he might be unable for the task, he would not shrink from it. They did not complain of the Right Hogi fi Itarc&Pchanging his opinions, or that he had deferred too mali freptiVec opinion, but that he had outraged it, The people had now a Protection Cabinet and Free-trade Minister. The country was flourishing. Why ? Because it had enjoyed a judicious and moderate protection, and the Right Hon. Gentleman's whole speech went to prove the advantage of such a protection. He would ask the Hon. Gentleman, could he fight hostile tariffs with free im ports? It was most consistent in free-traders from Manchester to cheer that question, but what was the answer of the Right Hon. Gentleman ? If he believed he could, he need not troub t l i e id h . i h m e self about commercial treaties; must have a clear answer to andth a p t ror a e s s e t o h n i s . ke T i l a iz but if lie did not, why ght m lt ea r s n t i lre ? Prus , sitfti!eetrade, France b had shown symptoms United t States were protectionists, the manufacturing sible that America, protectionists, and in E n v is e ed,.and amounted or a to eight of beingpopulation 1840 the manufacturing population hundred thousand operatives It was the best must numerous interest in the United States. g free trade had become popular in England, the manufactr urers in the United States had been warlike,because they considered war as the best protection of the manufacturers, and in pro portion as they conciliated the western they would raise the dislike of the northern and eastern states, which were the most powerful. The Noble Lord the Member for the West Riding had given them some statements of American social life ; he wished the Noble Lord had spoken of the celebrated ne gro melody, which show ed how gentlemen turned from one side of the table to the other. Then with regard to Prussia an author of high authority recommended that they should be more stringent in their prohibitions. The little states would, by this measure be forced to join the Zollverein. With re gard to France, with his knowledge of public men there, he did not believe, with the exception of a Minister twho would wish to conciliate an English Government, that there was an In his speech, on Thursday, Lord ASHLEY fairly answered TAE SUN LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, FRBRUARY 21, 1846. all the arguments of his opponents when they spoke of a de pendence on foreigners ; he reminded them that they were not dependent on any single country, that all foreign ports could not he closed at once; that" NAPOLEON, in the zenith of his power, with the entire command of the continent, found his Berlin and Milan decrees inoperative, because he was fighting against the necessities of the people. There was now more wisdom in their forms of government, a tenfold force in public opinion, and he was convinced that in the present day it would require a NAPOLEON multiplied by twenty, not only to enforce but to proclaim such de crees 1" He then referred to the article of cotton for which we are only partly dependent on America ; yet, " during the war in 1812, there was no sus pension of the trade, the two countries agreed, as it were, to tight with the one hand and trade with the other." He strongly deprecated the idea that the manufacturing and agricultural interests were at variance. "And now," said the Noble Lord with great impressiveness, "I assert that their prosperity is your prosperity you cannot every.ou an r t e l vol t o h t e i y on areof the arms flourish ofw they ta te, fade and de ; 3 steam-engine drives r e ploughshare deeper into the fruitful soil of England,' and this is the language of a Tory ! Truly times are chan,ed. Reason and common sense have triumphed at last. Party spirit has given way to the universal spirit of truth and justice. Lord J. RussELL could not propose more truly liberal measures than those which Sir R. PEEL has recently brought forward, and Mr. COBDEN himself could scarcely uphold free trade more strenuously than Lord AsiILEY. The Noble Lord thus con• eluded his address : " And now as I bid you farewell —(No, no)—I will ask you in all justice seriously to answer me, what motives can I have in coun selling the adoption of these measures, other than a sincere—it may be a mistaken belief of their value for your public and private inte rest ? My lot is cast with yours. If this measure be an evil one, few will suffer more than myself. I have many children and no situate in the poore s t an d most unprofitable expectations to sustain them but the se derived from land, panardts that, your Own ' own county. I have by a voluntary act of my own stripped myself of the high honour that attaches to being your representative, and I now stand here before you after fourteen years of service—l may say with joy of blameless service—l stand here to be rejected by your voices.—(" No, no," and cheers.) I stand here to be sentenced to a private station, and be deprived of all hope cf carrying into completion those measures of social improvement to which I have devoted the better portion of my life. How ever painful the issue, it shall not sever those ties of charity which bind me to you, and, I am sure, you to me ; and I shall rejoice in a hope amounting to an assurance, that counsels such as these—devised to consolidate the peace and extend the in- tercourse of nations—to reconcile man to man and interest to inte rest, will be abundantly blessed from on high ; and I shall hope that your common welfare, forced] on you in spite of yourselves, will make you confess at last that the free and friendly intercourse of all the families of the earth will secure your own prosperity under God, and bring all nations to the love of the law and the freedom and re ligion of the British people." selves as militia, and has even taken five hundred convicts out of prison and embodied them into a regiment. It is really astonishing how the French Government can allow this madman to remain at his post for one day longer. The remarks of the National on the subject will excite sympathy throughout France. " Marshal BUGEAUD," says that jour nal, "has just ordered the organisation of all the reserve of the Algerian National Guard. The army is not sufficient, and the National Guard is put in requisition. It is even ne cessary to have recourse to men whom the law has struck and banished from the ranks of our battalions. Five hun dred men, condemned to the punishment of a weight at tached to their leg, have been equipped and armed in all haste, and have just taken the field. In a word, all the resources of the Governor-General are employed to withstand the sad necessities of the situation. We learn, in addition, that fresh reinforcements have been demanded from the War department. We can easily comprehend the painful emotion caused in Algiers by the calling out of the National Guard. It is in vain that M. BUGEAUD, in his letter to General DE BAR, en deavours to assign a different motive for this grave measure ; every one easily divines what this appeal to the devotedness and courage of the civil population means. It is evident, and we have repeatedly said so, that M. BUGEAUD does not know where to turn. By his fault, and by his fault alone, a mag nificent army has in a mauler melted away during a short campaign of foar months. No more cavalry, no more beasts of burden for the transport cif provisions and ammunition. The infantry present only a few enfeebled groups, covered with rags, and reduced to the most meagre diet. In despair, the citizens are obliged to be armed, and to be called on to defend the country in common with offenders, declared un worthy to wear the uniform." Several officers of the army of Africa, who are in Paris on leave, have just received orders to return immediately to th o ei n r Wednesday the Three per Cents. closed at 114 f. Sea. ; the Five per Cents., 1231. 40c. ; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,330 f. ; Rouen, 1,060 f. ; Havre, 7621. 50c.; Avignon, 1,025 f., Vierzon, 735 f.; Bor deaux, 657 f. 50c.; Boulogne, 5551.; Basle, 256f.25c. ; Great Northern, 77bf. 75c. ; Fampoux, 472 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasbourg, 557 f. 50e. ; Tours and Nantes, 595 f. The following are the quotations for other lines :—Paris and Lyons (definitive), 632 f. 30c. ; Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 511 f. ; Ditto (Lecointe), 5051. ; Ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 502 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie), 504 f.; Ditto (Espeleta), 511 f.; Charleroi (Kysaen's), 492 f. 50c. LYONS, FEB. 16.—Marseilles and Avignon, 9.90 f. ; Paris and Orleans, 1,298 f. ; Paris and Rouen, 1,527 f. 50c. ; Orleans and Vierzon, 770 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 19. Boulogne and Amiens, 11%—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette Seven days since we announced the fact that a most un constitutional influence was being exercised by certain noble men, whereby the freedom of elections was directly tampered with, and the old boroughmongering system revived This declaration was on Thursday corroborated by Ma e , Cot-LETT—corroborated at least as far as assertions can be received. Unfortunately, however, the Honourable Member had not supplied himself with testimo nies (to accumulate a vast number of which there would assuredly be no difficulty), and was besides so embar rassed in his delivery as to militate considerably against the actual importance of his motion. These circumstances we most earnestly lament since, through their interposition, a vicious and insufferable grievance—possibly the most vicious and insufferable grievance with which our govern ment can be afflicted—is slurred over as something scarcely worthy of attention, when in fact for a Legislative interference in its regard there is a pro• digious and paramount necessity. The integrity of our own individual department—of the people's department—in the State is placed in jeopardy : of this fact, there are indubi table proofs, and proofs of almost daily recurrence. Young scions of nobility, by courtesy designated as representatives of this or that constituency, but in reality the delegates of dncal interest, walk one after another into the House of Commons, are sworn in as a matter of mere routine, and seat themselves among the advocates of individual monopoly and party protection. Of this no individual, who has observed recent occurrences down in the provinces, and who is, at the same time, gifted with a single crumb of brain, can, for one solitary instant, doubt, It is as plain as that the seasons alternate: it is as demonstrable as the simplest proposition in arithmetic Like the plague -spot, it is its own evidence; like the crime of HAMLET'S uncle, it is " rank, and smells to heaven !" That this corruption exists, look at Chichester, look at Buckingham, look at Woodstock ;—that this corruption exists, read, as the Hon. Gentleman recommends, "Dodd's Parliamentary Companion ;"—that this corruption exists, ob serve how frequently men are returned with a sweeping majority, who have no personal claim, or tie, or influence with the constituency—men without one jot of the persuasiveness of eloquence—men who are ac companied, when they sally forth to canvass the electors, with some purse-agent—some recognised money-jobber of a local landlord with a coronet and a thumping rent-roll. With these facts staring one boldly in the teeth, who shall blink the matter as anything but imperative ? who shall have the audacity to say that rotten boroughs are utterly abolished? The serfdom into which a considerable number of our enfranchised countrymen are plunged; their total incapa city to vote as their heart and their very reason would tell them to vote; the undue authority which these acre- owning despots are permitted to exercise—are really pitiable. Looking at those devoted blots upon the political chart of the "Land of Liberty," we almost sigh for the freedom of the Russian peasantry, or pine for the liberality of thought permitted of old among the Helots. By an extension of the malady upon which we have thus animad. verted, the Lower House would ultimately become, with re ference to the Upper House, what the servants' lobby is with reference to the drawing-room—the reception hall of legisla tive flunkies- We are impelled to give utterance to our in- I dignation in language thus comprehensible and matter of ) fact from the intolerable nature of this great constitu tional rice. The grievance is harsh and unsavoury—it requires to be eradicated with harsh, and possibly unsavoury promptitude, and hence the same qualities are requisite to 1 give strength to any exposure of the necessity. Sir ROBERT PEEL objected, last evening, and that with mani (Espelefa). 214 —Central of Spain, I—Eastlndian, 114 —Great North ern of France Constituted, 151 4 —Great Western Bengal, % —Ja maica South Midland Junction, 314-Louvain and Jemappe, 2 Lyons and Avignos, 214 —Luxembourg, 2%—Madrid and Valentia, I % —Namur and Liege, 3% —Orleans and Vierzon, 17% —Orleans and Bordeaux, 11 %—Paris and Rouen, 40 1 ,(—Rouen and Havre, 29;4. feat propriety, to the acceptance of the motion as produced by Mr. CoeLETT , insisting that one of such a peculiar character should be ac com p an i e d b y an array of proofs directly bearing on the case in point--otherwise this, namely a demand for what might rea sonably be regarded as an idle, fishing Committee of Inquiry, Might rationally be stigmatised' as a v exat i ous attempt to occupy the time and to fritter away the patience of the re presentatives.To these very sensible obj ec ti ons no sound opposition can possibly be raised; it is but proper the House should look for testimony before any investigation (especially one of such an important kind) should be seriously corn , menced. And hence, as we have previously observed, Mr. Com.= seems to have been either wonderfully precipitate, or wonderfully incompetent, to undertake the office to which he has aspired—namely, the impeacher of more than a ducal triumvirate. We consider the Honourable Member pecu liarly culpable, from rendering a good solid cause apparently a very shallow and frivolous one indeed ; by not selecting from the mass of evidence which lay before him ready to be collected, some facts which would have satisfied the sceptical and driven the House into a Com. mittee forthwith. From this assemblage of evidence let us select one; surely it alone would have had suf cient power to have accomplished the ends which we have just enumerated. It is about the boldest interference of a Peer in the election of a Member fi.a. the Commons which could well be conceived, and from other particulars is tinctured with extraordinary audacity, and no less extraor dinary intolerance. Our remarks are directed t an epistle written by his Grace of NEWCASTLE on Tuesday last; it is dated from Cumber; i! is addressed to "the inhabitants of South natinghamshi ;" and is penned for the direct and acknowledged purpose c preventing his Grace's son, Lord LIN COLN, from being the successful candidate at the forth coming election. " In addressing you on the present occasion," says the Duke, " I am quite aware of the unusualness of the proceedings :" a most proper occurrence indeed for the coinage of an epithet ! the detestable act was not to be expressed by any word in the dictionary ! " Lord LINCOLN has been the deluded victim of bad counsel"—it is his Grace's cash-box that here takes a tongue unto itself— he pursues his malignities by saying that some individuals had foolishly " expected that the public voice would be raised in favour of free trade and the other newly disclosed enormities of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Government, although we have neither asked for nor desire free trade, nor any other vicious and revo'ution 'lvy system I" Strong speaking this in so unsound a position I bold words for the scarcely legitimate interference of an oligarch Nor is this the marrow or the essence of the epistle ; the whale production is red-hot—it breathes of the boiling brandy in which QUILT' was wont to ouench his thirst. Looking at it through the medium of mere substantial fact, this letter is the ebulition of a father against his son ; it is the preference of private wealth to public prosperity ; it looks uncommonly like a breach of th e standing order. We Icommend it as such to the consideration of the Prime Minister and the investigation of the House of Commons. The Madrid Gazette of the 13th publishes the - following appointments to office, signed by the late Minister of Jus tice :—General NARVAEZ, Commander in-Chief of the Army ; Marquis DE MinAFLoitEs, President of the Council, Minister of Foreign Affairs; IsTunrrz, Interior; General RONCALI, War; Admiral TOPETE, Marine. The other vacancies had not been filled up. The public seemed to take little inte rest in the new Ministry, as it is considered only temporary and formed for the purpose of carrying out some intrigue. The Funds continued much depressed. On the 12th the Three per Cents. closed at 31:N at GO days; the Five per Cents. at 23 1 / i at 60 days; and the Madrid and Aranjuez Railroad Shares, at 2,095 at 60 day's. Most of the Paris journals contain articles on the Ministry just formed at Madrid, and the causes of the change, but %hen we state that they give at least four different ♦ersions of the affair, our readers will excuse us for passing them over without further notice. The Chamber of Deputies had been engaged for two days in discussing a plan, for which 15,000,000 f. are required, to complete the canal between Toulouse and Castels, but when the debate was brought to a close, and the vote was called, there were not a sufficient number of Members present to make a House. The accounts from Africa are still very unfavourable. To such extremities is BUGEAID reduced that he has compelled the colonists to arm and enrol them- .. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Aipert took their usual early walk yesterday in the pleasure•grounds of Buckingham Palace. His Royal Highness afterwards rode out on horseback, at tended by Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken their accustomed exercise yesterday in the royal gardens. His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday afternoon at a meeting of the Commission for promoting and encouraging the Fine Arts, in the re-building the palace of Westminster. His Royal Highness arrived at Gwydyr House at a quarter before three o'clock, attended by Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting. The Commissioners present were—the Marquis of Lans downe, Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Ash burton, Lord Colborne, Viscount Mahon, the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Bart., Mr. Benjamin Hawes, M.P., Mr. Henry Hallam, Mr. Samuel Rogers, Mr. Thomas Wyse, M.P., and the Secretary, Mr. C. L Eastlake., At four o'clock the Prince and the Commissioners went to the new palace at 'Westminster, where they were received by the architect, Mr. Barry, who conducted his Royal High ness and the members of the Commission over the new Houses of Parliament. Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the performance of the French plays with their presence yesterday evening. The royal suite included the Viscountess Canning, Hon. Miss Dawson, the Earl of Warwick, Colonel Arbuthnot, and Colonel Wylde. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Sir George Couper, Bart., also honoured the performance with her presence. Mr. Thorburn had the honour of a sitting yesterday for a portrait of his Royal Highness Prince Alfred. His Excellency M. Dedel and Mademoiselle Dedel returned last Wednesday from Holland. His Excellency is quite re• recovered front his late serious indisposition which detained him at the Hague. Prince Castelcicala, the Neapolitan Minister, had an inter view with Mr. Secretary Gladstone yesterday at the Colonial office. A deputation from the iron trade of South Staffordshire, consisting of Mr. John Barker, Mr. William Ward, Mr. Wil liam Mathews, and Mr. W. 0. Foster, had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. The deputation was introduced by Colonel Anson, M. P., Mr. C. P. Villiers, M.P., and Mr. T. Thornely, M.P. His Excellency M. Dedel had an interview with Lord Aberdeen yesterday, at the Foreign-office. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a special general meeting yesterday afternoon at the office in Whitehall-place. There were present the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of London, Carlisle, Chichester, Ely, Hereford, Llandaff, and Oxford, the Earl of Devon, and the Right Hon. Sir George Grey. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor of West Austraha. SHROPSHIRE MINERAL COMPANY. A general meeting of the shareholders of this Company was held yesterday, at one o'clock, at the George and Vulture Tavern, Cornhill ; Mr. Sergeant Adams in the chair. As some startling discoveries were expected to be made respeeting the management of the Company, there was a very full attendance. The CHAIRMAN, as there was no report submitted to the meeting, made a long speech in reference to the history of the Company. In doing so, he said, he would have many painful matters to bring under their consideration, still, as in duty bound, he would keep nothing back. When he joined the Company he did so under the impression that it was a bona fide undertaking, and one that would be of service to all parties concerned. He had held no shares in any previous railway company, and was only induced to join this from its great respectability and the respectability of the solicitor who had the conducting of its affairs. The first meeting of the directors that he attended was in the middle of October last, when he was asked to take the chair, in the absence of Major Newcombe, and at a suc ceeding meeting, on the 17th of October, he was elected the chairman of the Company. He again attended meetings on the 24th and 31st, in the capacity of chairman, and afterwards the managing committee changed its sittings into Shropshire, on the grounds that it would be necessary to attend to the getting forward of the surveys, and to the preparation of the plans and sections against November 30. Sittings of the board were there held day by day, but he was not able to be present at any of them. All the meetings that he had attended were' four, previous to the painful circumstance to which he would , here after have to allude. He had told them of the value( of the line. On that subject they had the evidence of the engineers, solictiors, and traffic-takers, to the effct that it would, if con structed, yield from fifteen to twenty per cent. on the capital. He could not, therefore, advise them hastily to dissolve the Company, nor to pass a censure on the directors, but his advice was to appoint a committee to make a full and fair examination into its whole affairs from its first commencement until now. He wished a committee of three or five persons to examine and sift into the whole matter, as he, fur one, was willing to submit his conduct to the closest scrutiny. He would now proceed to the financial affairs of the Company, on which he was sorry he could not enter into detail so much as he desired. He would give the amount that had been received and the items that had been paid, but he could not admit their accuracy, on account of his not having been a party to a great proportion of the disbursements. At the time that he joined the Company he found the accounts in a very unsatisfactory state, but he was not aware of the actual state of affairs till the 12th of December. He had stated that he had not attended the Shropshire meetings, and the 12th of December was the first meeting after these that he was able to attend. At that meeting he asked to see the banker's books, from which he learned that there was only 6,0001. in hand. " Good Gad !" he exclaimed, " what has come of all the deposits ? There should be at least 30,000/. in hand." It was then stated that 21,3211. 15s. had been drawn out to purchase shares on the p irt of the finance committee. An adjournment then toook place for a fort night, in order to make inquiry into this. At this adjourned meeting he wished to see the cheques, in or der to have an explanation of this proceeding, to which he had not been a party. The cheques were produced in the room, but being laid down for a short time, when they were again asked for they had gone.—( Shame, shame.) He knew the party who took the cheques at the time, and whether he had destroyed them or not, he (the Chairman) could not say; but if that [gentleman would give up the cheques, then he (the Chairman) would not mention his name Mr. GR IFFIT HS—I am the person, and I will explain how it was. The reason why he took the bank cheques (which were cancelled ones) was to protect himself, as he saw he was dragged into a responsible situation with parties little able to meet it ; that the cheques were not destroyed ; and that he was willing to produce them if called on by the meeting, and under an in demnity for what he had done. The CHAIRMAN said that relieved him of the difficulty. Mr. Griffiths was the party. Some uproar then took place, and manifestations against Mr. Griffiths, at the close of which The CHAIRMAN proceeded—The cheques to which he re ferred were signed by three directors out of the four who were empowered to sign cheques. He for one had not signed any of those cheques. The only sum that he was a party to was 12,0601. These matters had been brought under the consi deration of the gentlemen who had signed the cheques and several of them, as well as others with whom they acted, ex pressed themselves sorry for what they had done, but intimated they had done so under the impression that by buy ing the shares at the time they did, as there was a great probability of the shares rising in price, the Company would be likely to be a great gainer. They further expressed themselves willing, seeing that it had Lot turned out as they expected, to pay back the sum. Shortly after this there was an expectation of an amalgamation being effected with another Company in the midland counties, in which event there would have been, he believed, no difficulty in letting the parties to pay up this money ; in that case, there fore, he thought it would be wise to allow the matter to stand over till the result was known. He might have erred in advising that, but he did it for the best. The amalgamation did not succeed, and to add to their embarrassment a bill in Chan cery had been filed against him and the other directors. Under these circumstances, several of the gentlemen who had promised to pay back the money intimated that this altered the case, and did not feel justified in doing so with that hanging over them. The board of management never sanctioned this trans action and considered the directors who had acted in this matter alone responsible. The statement of accounts was to the following effect :—Received from shareholders as deposits, 37,7371. ; paid for expenses and sanc tioned by the board of management, 12,060'. ; drawn out by the parties to whom he had referred, to purchase shares at 2/. each premium in the market, 21,321/. ; balance at the banker's, 4,3811. ; deficiency remaining unpaid, 7,500'. ; leaving a de ficiency on the total deposits of 3,1891.: deducting the 21,3211. illegally expended, there would then remain a balance in favour of the shareholders of 18,132/. The Hon. Gentleman then entered into some particulars about a dispute with their country solicitor, Mr. Garbett, who was making a claim for a larger amount than he ( the Chairman) considered right, and in consequence of which a sum of money in the hands of the Bilston Banking Company, amounting to about 2,0001., belonging to the Company, was attached in the name of that gentleman. The Chairman concluded his address, of which the above is but a sketch, by reading certain correspondence which had passed between himself and several of those who had been concerned in using the Com pany's money to buy shares, expressing their regret for what they had done, and their willingness to make amends. A long and stormy discussion here ensued, in which personalities were freely bandied about. The principal point elicited by it was from Mr. Garbett, that of the 21,3211., 18,0001. had been expended at three different times to buy shares at a premium in sums of .1,0001., 11,0001., and 3,0001. The expenditure was made under the impression that the market would improve, and that the money would be of advantage to the Company. In the course of the discussion great complaint was also made of the other items of the expenditure, and especially to the bill of Messrs. Yarborough and Adam, the solicitors to the Company ; but to that Mr. Yarborough replied that he was willing his . bill should be taxed, or if a committee was appointed, to submit all his charges to it, or to any respectable railway so licitor. Ultimately, after Mr. FYLER, the party who has filed the bill in Chancery, had explained that he did so on his own responsibility to protect the shareholders, and that he was willing to act with any respectable committee to bring matters to a settlement, on the motion of Mr. Alderman COPELAND, M.P., a resolution was agreed to that a committee of five be appointed to make a full investiga tion into all the affairs of the Company from the beginning, and report the result to a future meeting. This done, the names of the committee were agreed to, and the meeting, one of the stormiest of the kind we ever attended, broke up about half-past four o'clock. MADRAS RAILWAY. The general meeting of this Company washeld on Thursday, at twelve o'clock, at the offices, No. 2, Wincheste Old Broad-street ; Mr. J. Arbuthnot in the chair. After the advertisement calling the meeting had been re cited, a report was read, of which the following is an ab stract ; The Court of Directors of the East India Company recog nise, in the fullest manner, the importance of the introduction into India of railway communication, but state that the construction and management of railways in India should be entrusted to private enterprise and capital ; and they direct the Supreme Government of India to report to them the re sults of the investigation of the committee of engineers, ac companied by the opinions of the Supreme Government upon the subject. As soon as this was ascertained several gentle men ,who were acquainted with the great progress which the very complete and accurate information which had been ob tained by Capt. Worst er's survey of the line from Madras, to Wallajahnuggur, took steps for the construction of the line from Madras to Wallajahnuggur and Arcot, with ultimate extension to all parts of the Madras territories, that might be warranted by the success of the first line. It was re iiolved to limit the capital to be raised, at first, to the esti mated amount required for this object alone, which wa► 500,0001., divided into 25,000 shares of 201. each ; on which the deposit, as fixed by the Joint-stock Act, was 2s. each. The number of shares reserved for Madras was 5,000. The number which each member of the provisional committee was limited to was one hundred. The , number of shares applied for by the public was 70,000 ; and the number actually allotted to the applicants ,in this country was 19,635. Of these the deposits have been paid upon 16,885, and of the 2,750 shares which have lapsed from non-payment, 1,050 have been re allotted to fresh applicants. There remain at pre sent 2,065 shares at the disposal of the Com pany, exclusive of the number reserved for Madras. The line runs nearly due west from Madras to Arcot, a dis tance of sixty-five miles. The average rise is 1 in 645, and the steepest gradient, 1 in 180; no cuttings of any con - sequence, and no tunnelling whatever. The soil is most favourable, and in no part subject to inundation of any con sequence. In 1837 the annual traffic of goods between the termini was estimated at 30,000 tons ; but the present amount of imports alone into Madras by land is estimated at 300 tons a day, or more than three timts the amount of imports and exports, nine years ago. The number of passengers be tween the termini has recently been estimated at 150,000 annually. With rails of 701bs. to the yard, a roadway capable of receiving a double line of rails, but to have only one at first, with sidings at intervals, the cost of a railway between Madras and Arcot would certainly be under 5,0001. a mile, and it is fully expected, that within a year after the line is opened there will be a profitable return. The Directors now only await the decision of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, to commence their operations. The amount paid as deposits on shares, to this time, amounts to 1,6881. 10s. Of this 1,500/. has been ex pended or is due fee preliminary operations, including the law expenses, the deed of settlement and complete registration. A provisional committee has been formed at Madras, con sisting of thirteen gentlemen of the highest rank in the coin pany's service; of members of the principal houses of busi ness at Madras; and of the legal profession. A deputation from the committee had waited on the Marquis of Tweeddale, Governor of Madras, with the view of obtaining the support of the local Government in carrying out the objects of the company, and had met with a most encouraging reception. The directors have also addressed the Supreme Government and the Govern ment of Madras, bnt have not yet received replies to their communications, but hope to do so at an early period, and will lose no time in making the shareholders acquainted with the result of these applications, as well as of the decision of the Court of Directors, when it shall have been obtained. In moving the adoption of the report, the CHAIRMAN stated that, according to the regulations of the East India Company, it was necessary for the Company's official engi neers to survey the line, but as that would be both a dila tory and expensive operation, the directors had been making interest to obtain the adoption of the surveys of the engineer of the Madras Railway by the Committee of Engineers in Bengal, and the directors were daily waiting for the result of their application. Mr. CHRISTIAN said that before the report was adopted, he wished to know what course the directors intended to pursue with respect to the shares which had been allotted, but not paid up on. He had himself purchased 75 shares at 255. pre mium, but the party of whom he had bought them refuted to sign any deed or paper which would make the purchaser entitled to the certificates, without a bonus of 51. This he (Mr. Christian) refused to give, believing the claim to be nothing more or less than a dishonest extortion. - He now wished to know whether the directors would take the bankers' receipts in exchange for certificates, from those par ties who were not original shareholders. After some conversation, the CHAIRMAN replied that every facility would be given by the directors for the certificate of the property of the Company to those who were entitled to it, and the matter dropped with that assurance. On the proposition of the CHAIRMAN, J. A. Arbuthnot, Esq., Lieutenant-Colonel Abdy, N. B. Ackworth, Esq., and W. S. Binney, Esq., who should retire in rotation, were re-elected as directors. Some objection was offered by Mr. Luensta. to the re election of these gentlemen, on the ground that they were not practically acquainted with the working of railway com panics, and had been parties to an unnecessary expense in the complete registration of the Company, which was not re quired for the transfer of the scrip. The CHAIRMAN explained that the directors had consi dered themselves liable to the provision of Bth and 9th Vic , the Joint-Stock Companies' Act, and their proceedings, therefore, would. not have been legal without complete re gistration. Several shareholders expressed their perfect conviction of the eligibility of the gentlemen for the office they sought, on the ground that the business of the Company had been well managed; that Mr. Arbuthnot and Mr. Binney were at the head of large Indian commercial firms, that M r. Ackworth and Colonel Abdy had both had great experience of Indian affairs—the former as a member of the bar of high standing, and the latter as a military man, who knew the country well. After those observations, the candidates were unanimously elected. Captain Ommaney and Mr. Gowan were re-elected auditors. By the statement of accounts distributed at the meeting it appeared that the amount received for deposits was 1,675/. 10s., and the expenses 234/. 15a. 2d., leaving a balance of 1,440/. 14s. 10d. to be carried to the next account. Thanks were voted to the Chairman and Directors, and the meeting separated. LITERATURE. THE YEAR BOOK OF FACTS. 1846. In an age so remarkable and prolific in discoveries and invention, there existed a necessity for some annual digest of those discoveries and those inventions which bad passed successfully through the ordeal of the closest examination. This little volume is the very precise thing requisite; and its editor, tutored in the rather difficult office he had to fill by some years' experience, has compiled the " Book of Facts" for 1846 with more than usual sagacity. Formerly the curious among readers were feasted with the idle marvels of black magic, and chiromancy, and diablerie, and astrology and demonology, and the like superstitious phantagies now, however, they are tre• - tted in a manner singularly different. Prodigius in natural philo ophy and the in scrutable mysteries of science are unf )lded to them in a guise the most startling, and yet the most seductive ; and in this way the wcndel s of mere fact are infinitely more astonishing than the vagaries of fancy. Philosophy has thus vanquished witchcraft; science has outwondered supers.ition; and, without any arrogant boasting, we nay :ndeed regard the deeds accomplished in our own gen2ret don as a great and almost incontrovertible argument in favour of the ultimate perfectability of mankind:—this of ceurse always premising, tha there be no vast and un foreseen recoil, either moral or natural. A portrait of Sir John F. W. Ilerschell is the frontispiece, and a sketch of Mount Ifecla forms an appropriate vignette— that gigantic volcano having been in a state of eruption during September and October last. There is not one single page in the "Year Book of Facts" but what con veys some kind of useful or singular information to the mind; in addition to which the st:‘le in which it is em bodied is at once popular and concise. Per se the volume is of much value; in connexion with the more vo luminous works of a scientific character, published during the past twelve months, the present will prove must admirable as a text-book. ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY.—PROFESSOR KANE.—At a meeting of the fine arts section of the Royal Dublin Society, held on Monday evening, the Lord Lieutenant conferred the dignity of knighthood upon Professor Kane, who is now S:r Robert Kane.—Pilot. ACCIDENT AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM,—On Thursday au accident which might have been attended with great loss of lice occurred at the British Museum. A large stone, weighing nearly eight tone, which was to form part of the architrave that supper s the cornice in the front of the left wing, had been just drawn up by the crane, and the men were steadying it into its proper position when the chain broke, several of the links flying away into Great- Russell street, and the enormous mass crushing the hand of a nuts named Keller to atoms, fell through the scaffolding to the ground, snapping in two an immense beam of timber as if it had been a lath, and dashing to pieces part of the stone substructure between two of the columns. Three men, who must otherwise inevitably have perished, saved themselves whet the scaffolding was tumbling to pieces by springing up and catching hold of other parts of the archi trave, to which they clung so long—hanging by their fingers before they could obtain any footing to raise themselves upon it—as to cause the most painful anxiety to those below, who expected nothing less than their instant destruction. Only a few seconds before the ponderous Mock fell several men were working immediately benewh it, and so great was the fear that an awful sacrifice of life had been the consequence that those who ran to the spot hesitated at first from apprehension of beholding some dreadful catastroilio. THIII NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—T I . 4 fifth re port of the Commissioners on the Fine Arts was on Thursday issued from the Oaks of the printers of the Parliamentary papers. It ap pears from the report that six arched compartments in the House of Loris are to be decorated with fresco paintings : that one of the fresco paintings should be completed before others are commenced, by which means an opportunity would be afforded of judging of the finished work. The competition in oil painting has been postponed till June, 1847. In the appendix is a report from the Committee (consisting of Lord Mahon, Mr. Hallam, Mr. Hawes, jun., Mr. Ma caulay, Sir R. H. Inglis, Mr. Rogers. and Mr. Wyse) to inquire on subjects for stained glass windows in the House of Lords. The re presentation in painted glass is to be made in the case of sovereigns whose faces, figures, or attributes, are fain liar to the observer front their coins, seals, or other records of their personal appearance. The second report in the appen(Lx is from Mr. Eastlake, toe secre tary, on the styles and methods of painting suited to the decoration of public buildings. There are seine letters in the appendix on general matters relating to the fine arts. Sir Thomas Aclantl, in a letter to J. H. Furse, Esq., Chairman of the North Devon Agricultural Protection Society, de clined to pledge himself, previous to the discussion, as to the vote which he might give on Sir Robert Peel's resolutions. —Western Lu minary. FLANDERS MAIL. BRESSELS, FEE. 17.—The average price of wheat in the week ending on Saturday, the 14th of February , wa s 2of. 59e• per hectolitre, and that of rye 19r. 40c. The Chamber of Representatives resumed to-day the debate on the Bth chapter of the budget of the department of justice. PUBLIC Wousfur.—After a long debate, Al. Delahays moved to deduct from the augmentation of 60,000 franc'' which, according to the proposal of the Minister of Justice, was to be added to the sum allowed for public worship i then, last budget, the sum set apart for the salary of ecclesiastics who have not yet received any appointment. The motionliTo opposed, and finally rejected by a majority of 48 to 20. 'I he six articles of chap. 8 were then agreed to. Th e bar will discuss to-morrow chap. L. CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.—The Senate heard the report of M. Biolett on the budget of the department of finances he some others. It afterwards commenced the discussion sf t il . e t project of law of the chase—the game law, agreed to the first article. There was a Council of llinisters to-day; it began at bs past ten o'clock and sat till one. If the members of the Cabinet have not vet come to an t it derstanding on every point, we are at least able to affirm no resignation has been tendered. It was remarked that be Van de Weyer and M. Dechamps arrived together st Chambers. There is to be another Council of Ministers morrow. of which,' If nir The King presided at the Council of If tors to-day. We learn from different Pdone of the provinces that the late frosts ha ve the no injury to the wheat, rye, and cole seed, nor even the kitchen vegetables and the fruit-trees in blossom. n ot country looks beautiful, and there is every aprearsoc e _,:t e very productive season. Some districts are still under ^ll9 and when the labours of the field shall begin a fevr hence, the farmers will see their lands inundated 11161 ought to be sown. MARKET NEWS-(YESTERDAY' C OILN -EXC ZAN 0 E. tit lO ci The present week's arrivals of English Wheat for our Ine been on the increase, and of improved quality The stsulais• fairly supplied with samples of that article, which met aWY not quiry at barely Monday's quotatioxs, and a clearance 710 effected. The imports of Foreign Wheat have been small. UP of fine qualities being firm, very few transactions took Plac.re iI 0; altered figures. Bonded Wheat nominal. The supply o f ea vJ ceeJing the wants of the dealers, the Barley trade vral n and bar.ly the late depression in the currencies. Although the c t i o r ose. of Malt was not large, the sale for it wss heavy, at barely lat e 0 / The supply of Irish Oats being on the increase, the Oat trneot dull, and, in some instances, prices bad a downwar d tell Beans, Peas, and Flour, as last advised. ARRITALS. 5 0 10' Barley. , Oats 4,7 100 7,790 qrs. 4,810 qrS• 21,120 3,100 Wheat. 5,230 qrs. EngHah [rish Fonign .. • • • • 640 Malt, 7,650 on. SMITHFIELD. Although the supply of Beasts was by no means exten'ltiu-A Beef trade was in a very sluggish state, raid previous (1 ,9 0 ris! were with difficulty supported. We had on offer 40 previous; 13 e0,;' Holland, 16 Beasts from Hamburgh, and 240 0 05' tom Scotland. The numbers of Sheep were 5 4 3 ;' l prit e' yet the sale for them was heavy, at Monday Ihe few fine Lambs on show pr. duced 7s per 81bs. In little was doing, at a further decline in value of 2d per 8 1 .: 1 $1 1 8 steady, at full prices. Mich Cows were selling at from 6/ t ' 161; each. Sucking Calves, 18s to 30s; and Quarter Old Store flipol, 21a each. Beasts, 666, Cows, 158, Sheep, 1,940, Calves, la NEWCULTZ AND I.E.S.DENHAX .IO We had a very slow inquiry. BOROUGH HOP MAILHET. _Ay The best Hops in pockets the supply of wilich was o . 1 0 0 command a steady inquiry at fully last week's q uotationl• pec ) t o o Miller kinds of Hops very little business was doing. So l "! 1 ;nt 6/ 8s to 7155; Weald of Kent ditto, 61 5s to 71 75 ; 311 d I,t 8a 717 s to 91 9s ; East Kent ditto, Si 9s to 101 101 ; 71 5s to 813 s ; East Kent ditto, 81 to 9195. COLONIAL. tbOUP . Smalt.—There has been a moderate demand for Slug. , " old quantity on show being small, has limited business. 1 11 ,e Pg ir `4 not large privately, and at auction they only include a stn ° A of Barbadoes, which realised 6d per cwt. advance, fine Y e '",t„,‘ 545 6d ; good, 535 to 538 6d ; and mid, 51s 6d to 52s 6d Per c , o3 elrol Easy lanta.—The transactions in Mauritius have been slderable ; 12,497 bags 69 casks have been offered by auc .. ,tLtioo bulk has found buyers, low and mid Yellow at 47s to 499 e i , ' 0 ,1 7 "A tine 50s ad to 52s 6d ; brown, 455 6d to 465 6d ; low grey, 4 1, 1 pr, - 4; good and fine, 505 to 51s per cwt, besides various damsg d iii Of Bengal 4,238 bags have been put up, and mostly fouP,,, 54 , ,d mid and good mid white, 51s to 52s 6d; Benares fine wi ll 'el' A r low, 49s 6,1 to 508; mid and good yellow, 508 to 525 64. 1 ; p er grainy yellow, 53s to 53s Gd ; and mid soft, 48 5 to 495 01 Foreign—Porto Rico has been sold at 20s Gd for fine sorts..mpleLd; COFFEE.—There is not a brisk demand for West India 'ity holders do net press sales, and prices are censequentlY Pre,, tolect 50 casks Jamaica at auction brought 23a to 42s 6d for 0 . ;11 ord, and part being taken in at 51s to 100 s. Ceylon h as be 1° 25 0.0 more freely ; 3,663 bags at auction went is t o p native sorts, and only part of the British Plantat i on reali s " - eat/ rates ; low and brown Native 4 3s to 45 5, good ord pale eom," 45s 6 to 54s 6d, Plantation fine fine ord greyish:63s to 660049'" 525. Madras tins yellow has been taken in at 7 05 . have varied but little. SPlCEs.—Pimento has been sold at 3%d to 3%d Pe r lb. 1) Lignea is firm, Not much has been done In Pepper. got 4 Rica.—Mid white Bengal has realised 15s 6d, and per cwt. Lr ° 1t Rum.—A contract for 100,000 gallons is advertise",",, scP" e ir Island has been at 18 lld for proof, and Calcutta proof ", 0 , per gallon. At auction East India has realised is 514 , " gallon for 6.7 to 41 over proof. fo r" " COCOA.—Trinidad sorts have been sold at 36s to 4 ii" good red, and Bahia has been taken in at 3Gs per ewt• 05 , ki t- SALTPETRE,-833 bags Bengal, nearly all sold, a l d y.) , for 9 1 4 and pr ent. refraction. TALLOW. — 5 P.T per cent. refraction. 'I'ALLOW.—P.'Y C. c has been 42s 6d to 42s 9d per cwt . °- TEA.—The market is steady. N e t 3l (From the London New Price current of 1 SUGAR.--To-day the business transacted in n oti !,4io Sugar was limited, although there were sellers ° t r io dr terms ; the purchases amounted to only 2 36, a nd in prices during the week Is per cwt. elO sjl ei REFINED.—To-day there was no increase in tii h e Sts l3 4 3 for Refined Goods for home consumption, althoug"., o l , Lumps could be obtained at 62s Gd to 635, and bre"' at Gls to 62s per cwt. m et 1 0 Mauttrflus.—This afternoon Mauritius StlP'ly little attention, and 772 bags at public sale Wer e - sold at barely former rates. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon there were sie.r. u te P - 1 41 1 of Bengal Sugar, comprising 6,098 bags of the yrn L i f tions of which the principal part consisisted, e°,00,09‘. sold, and the rates taken were in some cases rather A il f , previously quoted, but the brown and yellevir 1,00 1 buyers at full prices. rOREIGN.— Since our last report none has ber / Pi l ;4 l ' to public competition, although some parcels 01 e c ot e „ Havannah have arrived. Holders decidedly liav„ose fidence, and prices being moderate a materiel demand, it is expected, will shortly take place. t o COFFEE.—Today there was little desire shool' oly 19 4 in Mocha Coffee, and 530 bales at auction we re ° sold at rather lower rates, , COCOA.—British Plantation has been purcha se li e d . freedom this week. but holders have been conV e " cept previous reduced rates. ,ci te TEA.—Although the consumption continues o f 1 2 0 still an improvement has taken place in the vAI, II , at ed 4 green Tea; which is to be principally earl° i,l large stock at this port. e Or 30, is Spiess.—This afternoon Black Pepper we er , sol, after, and 300 bags of Sumatra at auction .0 4 rates. 36 bags of Nutmegs in the shell were 4 ,0 1 11 ' ls 3d for bold. ill '0 SPIRITS —To-day several purchases were niaLl te s,lill Ruin and Is 9d to Is 90 per gallon were the f ie ‘l9 proof of good clean quality, with certificate It .4 0 purchase proof Leewards under 2s per gallon. ,i,,1114 g g MoEassxs.—Prices are sustained for IVest I pity. obi are, at present, not many purchasers to be Inetbie to l Rica.—Holders of Bengal have been lin! e iti',j4 , t! better prices, although the supply at market is r ieSte'l has, however, been a good business transacted SALTPETRE.—Rough is still attracting littlest' ,'4 l private treaty several parcels of Calcutta hav e e t' e ' of at stiffer rates. ol °l 1 TALLOW.—This afternoon at public sale 66 0 e ol-' South Wales Tallow were offered, and chietlY of' e,. rather lower rates. a te b v.i ; e On..s.—This afternoon the market was abu nu. o with Southern Oil, the quantity brought I,t at s amounting to 250 tuns; the chief part sold, ° , f ll on previous rates of 5s to lOs per tnn. S er i ' STATE OF TRADE.—The cotton hosiery ta d „ 4 . C all the principal branches, whether wrough t ~.'e a rce i g et"fell still slowly retrogading, and employrlie n , t ,0 0 1:0 ° 1 Ticket Act has become, in the opinion of both toidlo,A and workmen, a dead letter. The silk glov e t iore, the approach of !print, and in some q uarter° ,ot rar , o; 'o o e of' o' hands. The I obbin net trade, on the c `bos.,h , we ;ire nearly (in w'iat was formerly) the l ot t tit Marc's,. - , is, it am - thin worse and more stab v r D.I —Nottingham Re , iew. old frootivt A DVERTISEM ENT —Defective sight rya C /1) , relieved. Instruments and spectacles sent in ce t ° ,,iillr re sil,! post .—The Eyes.-39. Albemarle-street, P i ' s e 0 , 04 0 1 ',./. 1 , Improvements to en tble persons at advanced t 'jist ) ,111' 1 , ease and to discriminate objects with perf ec „ ove ° , , e r. Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, Opticiaos, W . 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