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It has all the vigour and rapidity of 'Narrative of Mrs. Trollope's writings, with touches of ideal grace and beauty, and a perception of the elevating impulses of the heart to which that lady seems utterly a* traner."—John Bull. Ri c h a rd Bentley, ew Burlington-stree T HE PRINCE'S CLUB-HOUSE, Corner of St. James's-street, in Piccadilly. Notice.—N.,biemen and Gentlemen are respectdally informed this establishmon is now prepared for their reception, with aug mented arrangments and increased accommodation. Princes' Club, St. James's-street. Entrance in Piccadilly, No. 162. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed IHE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Arnheim, Berrani; Florezdein, Mr. Harley; Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison; Devilshoof, Mr. Stretton ; Arline, Miss Rainforth. To conclude with a new grand Christmas comic Fantomine, called HARLEQUIN GULLIVER ; or, Giants and Dwarfs. Harlequin, Mr. Wieland; Clown, Mr. T. Matthews; Pantaloon, Mr. Howell ; Columbines, Mi.,: Hicks and Miss Mott. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Tragedy of 'ROMEO AND JULIET. Romeo, Miss Cushman ; Merentio, Mr. Holl ; Benvollo, Mr. Brin dal ; Friar Laurance, Mr. Stuart; Peter, Mr. Buckstone ; Juliet, Miss Susan Cushman ; Nurse, Mrs. Glover. Between the acts of the Tragedy the Rand will perforfn the •' Armen" and " Cerito Polkas," "La Katarina, Cellarius Waltz," the Overture " Fillc du Verger," and "Love's Serenade." To conclude with a Grand New Extravaganza, entitled THE BEE AND THE ORANGE TREE; or, The Four Wishes. Principal Characters by 3.1 r. Hudson, Mr. James Bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mr. Clark, Miss P. Horton, Miss Julia Bennett, Mrs. Caulfield, and Mrs. Stanley. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Drama of LEOLINE : or, Llfe's Trials. Principal characters by Messrs. 0. Smith and Wright, Mrs. Yates, and Miss Woolgar. To be followed by a New Farce, entitled THE PRANTOM BREAKFAST. Supported by Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Wright, Miss Woolgar, &c. To conclude with a Burletta, called POWDER AND BALL ; or, St. Tibbs's Eve. Principal characters by Messrs. Selby, Wright, Munyartl, Sanders; Mrs. Frank Matthews and Miss Woolgar. • 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 Principe! Characters by Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, Mr. Emery, Mr. F. Vininr, sir. Meadows, and Miss Grove. To he followed by the original REDOWA WALTZ, music com posed by M. Jußien, by Miss Frampton and Master Forrest. After which will 1,. rpr.,Ated a New Grand Romantic extrayaospaa, emitted 'l' ENCIIANTE. Axone , .senan of Persia and the Princess of Bengal. Principal Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Wigan, P. Matthews, Collier, Turner, Kinloch, &c. ; Mes dames Keeley, Fillers, Hodson, Dawson, Howard, Arden, &c. Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. 7 ~ i a m, 1 [IV 4 .- . I.' .. . •,,. ii '*"l l ., ;: c : , , , r t. 4 ' ~ ~ ~, .,F -' , ~,• , • m 0 7 , 1144, 4 4 t. -, 4 F. !, ~ - • ' • --- _, • , - 7,—, '- • .....,, ' SECOND EDITION. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING Will he performed the Tragedy of HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Maemady ; IVonitt. Mr. Granby ; Laertes, Mr. Murray ; Horatio , Mr. Fisher; Osrick, ' Mr. James Vining; Ghost, Mr. Cooper; Ger - trude, Mrs. Tertian ; Ophelia, Miss Emma Stanley. To conclude with the New Christmas Pantomime, entitled THE KEY OF Till KINGDOM ; or, HARLEQUIN AND THE FAIRY BLUE BELL. Harlequin, Mr. W. 11. Harvey ; Columbine, Miss Mullen ; Clown, Mr. Flexmore ; Pantaloon, Mr. T. Hill. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee, Miss Kate Howard. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Domestic Drama, called OUR VILLAGE. which Messrs. Waldron, C. Boyce, Romer, Cockrill, G. Wild, irsHamilton, Miss Bromley, and Mrs. Leclercq will appear. Atter which will be repeated THE CRICKET ON OUR OW)t HEARTH. Dot, Miss Kate Howard. To be followed by ANGELS AND LUCIFERS. In which Mr. Wild will appear. And concluding with the new Pantomime, unapproachable for glee and g randeur, called FORTUNITITS ; or, THE MAGIC CAP. Fortunatns, Miss Hamilton; Prince Megrim, Mr. Cockrill; Fairy Queen, Miss Bromley ; Harlequin, Mr. Smythers ; Pantaloon, Mr. Charles ; Clown. Mr. Jefferini ; Columbine, Miss Laidlaw. NEW STRAND THEATRE. TWO MORNING PERFORMANCES DURING THE WEEK. i. PIIILLi PPE will (by desire), and in consequence of the im mense overdows which have attended his Morning Performances, give Grand Juvenile Entertainments every Wednesday and Sa turday Mornings, commencing gt Two o'clock. M. Philippe's most Popular Deceptions and Peculiar Experiments will be repeated every Evening, varied by the Amusing Per formances of the Chiarint Family, and the astounding Feat& of the American Mothers.—Doors open at a quarter past Seven, to com mence at a quarter before Eight. Stalls, 35. ; Boxes, es. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. ; Private Boxes, 11. Is., and 1/. 1 Is. 6d. A6TLErs ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. most extraordinary Novelty ever produced.—The New Grand Oriental Spectacle, which has been playing in Paris with repeated success. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Drama, entitled THE RAJAH OF NAGFORE ; or, the Sacred Elephants of the Pagoda. In which will be intreduced the performing Colossal Elephants and Camels, whose recent arrival cawed unprecedented sensation in the metropolis. New Scenes of the Circle, combining the talent of the French and English Artistes. To conclude with a favourite Afterpiece. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Full Houses every Night. Seventh Week of the " Mendicant con" and the Pantomime. Last Six Nights of the Pantomime. THIS EVENING Will be performed TIIE MENDICANT SON; or, The Jew of Southwark. Supported by Messrs. Hughes, Johnson. Rogers, Cswell, Maynard, Lewis, Heslop ; Mesdames H. Vining, Martin, and Daly. After which a new Drama, entitled NORAII CRENA. Cha racters by Messrs, Rogers, Johnson, Lewis; Mdmes. IL Vining and Daly. To conclude with a new Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE OLD WITCH OF TEDDINGTON ; or, The Golden Dsys of Good Queen Bess. Harlequin, Mr. Cormack; Columbine, Miss Smitheys ; Clown, Mr. Paul Herring ; Pantaloon, Mr. Anderson; Sprite, Mr. Stilt. toTAL VICTORIA THEATRE. To linrpass to much Novelty and Attraction is impossible. Second Week of the New Grand Romance of " The Prisoners of the seventeenth Century." First Week of " The Cook at Kenning ton." Third Week of "The Ruined House at Milbank." THIS EVENllliel. ~,1 9(11" e Performed a new Drama, entitled, THE MARCHIONESS NVILLI ER; ; or, She Poisoners of the Seventeenth Cen tun'. Principal characters by Messrs. Saville, Fredericks, Dale, and. Miss Vincent. —,7,° be follow e d by THE COOK AT KE NNINGTON ; or, No eualvers Allowed." Characters b y M essrs . Janes, Herbert, al axle ; Miss Terry, M rs. Lee. &o. To con clude with THE RUINED HOUSE AT MILBANK. t"PD.,s_rted... M isses Messrs. Saville, Fredericks , Dale, Higkie, Searle, Vincent, Terr y Richardson, &c. T H E W EA- R.—Sun OFFICE, FEB. 11. TIIERMOMETER, Lowest, 29 ; Highest, 36; Noon, 40, BAROMETER, 30.19.—W1ND fine. W.t.T1.11. AT LONDON...I3EIIKM THIS DAY. morning minutes after 2. I Evening 28 minutes after 2, - - 4.16.; bleMn , LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1846. Their Lordships met at Five o'clock. Several petitions were presented against the proposal of the Government with respect to the cDra-laws. The Eari nERDEEN, in answer to a question from the Earl of 1 ..:1:‘,.N.uan, stated that he had not received any information from St. Petersburgh relative to the cruelties supposed to have been exercised under the sanction of the Emperor of RUSSIA. towards the nu ns, but he had no doubt that the accounts re ceived had been exaggerated. The Emperor of StreelA had latc,ly been at Rome, and on the subject TILE - - being brought before him by the POPE of the cruelties supposed to have been practised, his Majesty the ENV'S.. NOR assured the POPE that he was not aware of them, and that if they had been committed, the party should be severely punished. The subject then dropped. The Duke of RICHMOND presented petitions in favour of agricultural protection. Lord BEAUMONT gave notice of his intention, on Mon day next, to bring forward the motion of which he had given notice with respect to the burdens on land. The Duke of RICHMOND postponed his motion with respect to burdens upon land, which stood for Thurs day, till Monday. On the motion of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, it was resolved that the House should receive no petitions for private Bills after Tuesday, the 2lat of April, or any report from the Judges after Thursday, the 18th of June. The House then adjourned till Thursday. •vould enable them to obtain food at a reasonable rate. In 'act, so far from low prices of grain causing low wages, the eery contrary is the result. If food is at a reasonable price, Jur manufacturers can compete more successfully with their rivals in the foreign market, the demand for labour conse iuently increases, and till the amount of population exceeds tionists could claim a right to raise the price of food artificially by Act of Parliament, unless they were pre pared at the same time to secure by Act of Parlia ment to the working men of this country con stant employment and a certain rate of wages? In Ireland the agricultural labourer,.the tenant-farmers, and the landlords, had all been brought into a state of the deepest distress by this system of protection, and he considered that a system of free trade was their only chance for a revival of prosperity. In the purely agricultural districts of Ireland the distress was the deepest ; for in the north, where there were manufactures, there was comparative prosperity. One of the great causes of Irish distress was, that the people were compelled to depend upon the potato for subsistence, and hence they were subject to periodical famines. Now, by reducing the price of corn, the people where rendered independent of the potato, they would be used to a better class of food, and the landlords would be forced to improve the estates by which. the produce would be doubled. He cordially supported the proposi tion of the Government. Mr. BAILLIE felt that we should never be able to convince foreign nations of the truth of the doctrines of free trade. Foreigners believed we could manufacture at a cheaper rate than they could, and therefore they had fostered their own manufactures by protective duties. We had, by the aid of machinery, supplanted the cotton manufacturers of India, and he doubted if any conqueror had ever inflicted so much misery as we had by supplanting their native domestic industry. Such had been the results of free trade to India ; and seeing that, it was not to be wondered at that foreign nations declined to try the experiment; and the - question was now, should we try the experiment on ourselves ? The prosperity of the last three years was owing to the prosperity of agriculture during those three years ; and it was as necessary for us to protect our agriculturists against foreign competition, as it was for foreigners to protect their manufacturers against our competition. Such was the inferiority of our cli mate, that it was impossible for our agricul turists to compete successfully with foreigners. The greater part of the grain grown in this country was in ferior in quality to the grain grown in Poland, and it good Polish wheat were admitted to the markets, there would be no sale for the inferior sorts of British wheats. If it were a question of pounds, shillings, and pence, it would be advantageous to turn a portion of our lands into pasture and to purchase our wheat from abroad; but this was a national question, and it would be most unwise in us to depend upon foreigners for our food. Considering, however, the position of parties in the House and the country, he considered that they bad but the choice of two alternatives—to support the Govern ment measure, or to throw out the Government and let in Hon. Gentlemen opposite. Under these circumstances he should support the Government measure as the one least calculated to do evil. Mr. LEFROY denied that the measure proposed by the Government would benefit either the labourers, the farmers, or the landlords of Ireland, and as an Irish Meutber he felt bound to oppose it. Lord CLEMENTS, as one most intimately acquainted with the wants and wishes of the agricultural pcpula Lion of Ireland, declared that nothng could be more des titute or deplorable than their state under the presen system of protection. The miserable state of the Irisi population had been recently brought under public notice by the Times' commissioner, and there was not a single statement of his that was overcharged. The report of the Earl of DEVON bore testimony to the extreme wretchedness of the Irish peasantry, am the Earl himself bore witness to the truth of the state ments therein contained. He had hardly ever known s summer in Ireland without a scarcity in consequence of failures of the potato crop; and although during the present year many had provided against the impending famine b 3 lying in stocks of oatmeal, yet there were many thou sands too poor to do so ; and what, he would ask, ha( been the benefit of protection to these poor persons? I bad not provided them either with food or employment. considering the whole measure brought forward by the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government, he should heartily give it his support, though he must confess be would much rather have had it come inte• immediate operation than have been delayed for three years. The Marquis of GRANBY objected to the motion. 11 was sorry to oppose any measure proposed by the Right Honourable Baronet at the head of the Government but the present propositions were so sweeping and so calculated, as he believed, to produce the worst results, that he felt bound to oppose them, though, he believed, the Right Honourable Baronet was sincere it bringing them forward. He (the Marquis of GRANBY: believed that protection was justice, and that those wile supported it would be honoured by posterity. Mr. GREGORY supported the measures brought for ward by the Government, believing that the principle: of free trade were the principles of common sense He contended that agriculture had flourished, not througl protection, but in spite of protection. It had been sale that he ought not to vote for this measure as an Irish man, because Mr_ O'CONNELL it:mewed to support it fo. some sinister purpose. Though he differed from tha Hon. Gentleman in many things, he did not believe the , any sinister motive had induced him to support thi: he supply, wages must rise, while the necessaries .f life are comparatively low. But that 13 only a part of the result that may be anticipated. Another would `te the shortening of the hours of labour, and thereby do away with legislative interference between master and em ployer, generally so injurious to both. On this subject Sir Dams GRAHAM said :—" I deprecate as much as any man he too great interference of the Legislature with respect to hese laws of employment; but I will say that it would be Jn e of the most blessed and happy days which England ,ver saw, when a mutual agreement would be made in con sequence of a change in the law, which would render a less amount of wages necessary for securing the comforts of ife. I say that it would be one of the happiest days that giver England saw when there would be a mutual agree ment without legislative interference between the employers And the employed to work for shorter hours, and that such a day will come I most sanguinely hope." There is a third point of view, however, of still greater importance. Every humane person shudders on reading the account of the tens .f thousands confined in our gaols for offences against pro deny, laments the demoralisation caused by such frequent commitments, and many despair ofdiscovering any remedy for such frightful evils, though it is a fact about which there can be no dispute that nearly all these offences are committed from ,toverty and want. It is rare to hear of a person in easy .ircumstances, even though his education be most defective, committing offences against property : a gaol for him is really a place of punishment, while the miserable, those. starving of cold and hunger, can see it in no honors, and view it rather as a place of refuge. No punishment which humanity would endure can deter such wretched beings from cemmitting crime. It is want chiefly that leads to this frightful state of society, and with what countenance, then, can these pre tended friends of the farm labourers, and similar classes oppressed with poverty, oppose a measure for increasing employment, while at the same time it renders the necessaries of life more accessible to the very class described as the objects of their pity, and diminishes the amount of crime? The returns pre sented by Sir JAMES GRAHAM leave no do h of the fact, for they show that, during three years, when of grain were low, there was a diminution of about one of the com mitments as compared with other years en the prices were high. The remarks of Lord WORSLEY, from whom we expected better things, hardly deserve notice. Of what use is it, on a question of such vital importance to read long extracts from " Hansard ?" Can anything be gained by proving that Sir ROBERT PEEL and Sir JAMES GRAHAM at one time entertained opinions different from those they now profess ? The very same charges would apply to Lord JOHN RUSSELL, to Lord LANs DOWNE, to Lord MonrEnr, and to almost every leading statesman. The man who does not change his mode of action with his opinions is a hypocrite and a knave. The man who changes his policy in accordance with his opinions displays real honesty, and leaves no doubt of the fact in the public mind, when, in place of gaining personal advantages, he is actually a great loser by such conduct. Lord WoESLEY, to make good his point, should prove that Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S estate will be rendered more valuable by the abo lition of the corn-laws—that he and Sir ROBERT PEEL de rived a great advantage from resigning office—and that the most tempting of all rewards is the abuse of friends. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. Mr. JANES STCART WORTLEY took the oaths, and his seat for Bute. Leave was given to bring in several railway Bills, among which was the Windsor, Slough, and Staines Atmospheric Bills. Mr. IluDsort brought in the York and North Midland (Whitby Extension) Railway Bill, which was read a first, and ordered to be read a second time. Sir JOHN EASTHOPE presented several petitions from Leicester in favour of the Government measure for the abolition of duties on food. A vast number of petitions were also presented for and against the measure. Mr. HUDSON presented a petition from Sunderland for the immediate repeal of the corn-laws. Mr. BYNa presented a petition from Kensington in favour of the Ministerial plan for the reduction of the duties on food. The petitioners, however, stated that they would have preferred the total repeal of the corn- laws to the delay of three years. Lord JOHN RUSSELL presented a petition from London, signed lsy 64,000 persons, in favour of free trade. Colonel SIBTHOILP gave notice of his intention to move for returns of the salaries of all persons receiving above 5001. a year under the Government since 1795. On the motion of Mr. YOUNG, a new writ was moved for Westminster, in the room of Captain Rot's, who had accepted the office of one of the Lords of the Admiralty. In answer to the following questions from Sir 11. WIN- SiON BARRON. What amount of funds there are now available for the purpose of lending, with interest, to wards carrying on public works in Ireland. Also, if it is intended to propose or sanction any measure by which the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in Ireland would be empowered to sell any portion of their estates, and thereby pay off the 60,0001. they borrowed from the Government? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said there was a sum of 300,0001. placed at the disposal of the Board of Works for Great Britain, upon which demands might be made from Ireland, and there was a further sum of 60,0001. annually voted for Ireland. There was now unapplied a sum of 52,000/. As to the question with respect to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, there was a sum of 100,0001. lent to them, which had been paid. Mr. Huron moved that a humble address be presented to her MAJESTY, that she will be pleased to direct co pies of the existing tariffs and commercial regulations of each of the British colonies and possessions to be laid before this House, in the same manner as the tariffs and commercial regulations of Europe and America have been laid before the House. And also that there be laid before this House copies of the existing tariffs and commercial regulations of British India and the dependencies thereof, on exports and imports, in the same manner as those laid before the House of the European and American States. After a few words from Mr. AGLIONBY, Mr. F. BARING recommended that the subject should be referred to the Printing Committee. Sir R. INGLis said that this particular report did not come under the cognizance of the Printing Committee. But when an Hon. Member stated in his place that such a report was full of errors, he thought that some oppor tunity ought to be afforded him of substantiating his statement. In reply to Mr. EWART, Sir JAMES GRAHAM said it was not the intention of the Government to introduce a measure for giving to parties aggrieved a right of ap peal in criminal cases. Certain unopposed returns having been moved for and agreed to, The order of the day for resuming the adjourned de bate was read, and Mr. STAFFORD O'Bnizx complained that the Govern ment had not yet thought fit to consult the agriculturists at all on this measure. He bad little hope of attracting the attention of the House ; he had not changed, and therefore he had nothing to explain, but remained in the same state of bigotry in which he had ever been. The law of 1815 might have been the greatest error tbn. .1. 1.....1“1 :nt.rpst had ever ‘.....witteri. but he would ask who had encouraged them to persevere in that error? Year after year the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton had given them an opportunity of re trieving that error, and year after year the Right Hon. Gentleman had urged them to persevere in it. He would not impute to the occupants of the Treasury bench dishonesty, but this country had hitherto been governed by party ; and if parties were to be broken up in this way, he would ask how the Government of the country was to be conducted? He had no hesitation in avowing that he was a party man ; and if ever there was an opposition conducted by party tactics for party ends, it was the opposition of the Right Hon. Gentleman to the late Government. It was a bitter disappointment to find him now eschewing all party. The Right Hon. Gentleman who spoke last night said that the law of 1842 had failed. Had it failed to the SIDNEY HERBERT Of last year, or to the SIDNEY HERBERT Of this year ? If the law had failed in regard to the question of ave• rages, it must be a reason for re-adjusting those ave rages ; and if he found the sliding-scale fail, that was no reason for giving up protection—they had still the sliding-scale to fall back upon. If it had been merely a question of duty, why had they raised such an agitation on the subject? It was not on a mere question of im port duty that the present Government had dis placed the last. If the present Government had changed their opinions, let them avow the change, and give due credit to those who had always upheld those principles; but let them not deprive them of the credit due to them by saying that this was a mere question of import duties. He was not careless of the evils impending over Ireland; but a particular evil re quired only a particular remedy, and although the ports might be opened to prevent a famine in Ireland, yet there was no necessity for repealing the corn-laws. All the authorities in Ireland agreed that the destruction of agriculture in that country would be its ruin. He ad mitted the existence of the potato disease, and if it had progressed he was convinced there would not have been a potato left in Ireland. The rot bad been stayed, but had now recommenced, and he believed that the Government was prepared to meet the emergency; but he denied that the case of famine in Ireland would be met by the pro posed alteration in the corn-law. He believed that the landowners in Ireland were greatly responsible for the distress existing in the country, but he denied that a re peal of the corn-laws would provide a remedy for the distress. From what had fallen from the Noble Lord last night, he assumed that the principle on which the Government was henceforward to be conducted was that no favour was to be shown either to agriculture or manufactures, but that each was to be left to find its own level. He denied that the sciences of political economy and of legislation were identical. The science of poli tical economy was the science of amassing and distri buting wealth, which was only one of ,the many elements which entered into the science of legislation. Equal neglect was not impartial kindness, and it was not right to leave the labour of the poor to unprotected competition with foreigners, or to be crushed by the rich. They in the House were all rich, and encouraging the doctrine that they were to buy in the cheapest market. They were encouraging a selfish doctrine, which would alienate from them the affections of the poor. It was a doctrine of political economy which few of them could understand, but the selfishness of which they could all of them perceive. It was unwise to pro pound that rule—it was dangerous to act upon it. Agriculture was salubrious and condu civec to to health, and a wise Legislature would pro tect and encour age suc h a ca lli ng . H e o bj ec t e d any change in the present corn-laws, but if any change were to be made, he agreed with the Noble Lord opposite that it should be complete, and should take place at once. He did not believe that this was the question of the great landed proprietors, but a tenant- Ifarmers' question, and for that reason he would not consent to alter the law. The landlord would weather the storm, but the enterprising manufacturer would come in, offer a higher Iprice for the land than the farmer, make it bear six quarters an acre in ur s n te e a d d n o u f t th o r f ee h ,a is nd fa th rm e tewn.hanicth farmer would be ruined, t urned against the injustice of him. He would raise his voice . had been held by his father and his grandfather before 3,, en abling whosethe s G u o c v h ern a paireocnetedtointrg,amanpdlewoovuelrd nnioetnaswsi assist t os i e n nl Mr. SICARKAN CSAWFOID asked bow the rotes. fatal fault was, that they had trusfr—d in them. Hitherto our attention has been principally directed to the et ceteras of the great political struggles which are at the ; present moment illustrating this session of Parliament—our reflections have been successively restricted to the considera tion of one or other of the " postures" which tend altogether to make up the present commercial and legislative tableau. We have separately particularised the varu•us paroxysms of recrimination, or sulkiness, or obsti• nacy, or rancour, or stupendous dullness of compre hension, in which the delegates and the supporters of the Central Protection Association have at different times and in different places indulged. We have commented, and chat not without the assistance of a very considerable share of patience and of moral resignation, upon the meetings convened in divers agricultural and manufacturing districts and the *rations there uttered for and against the remarkable and comprehensive measures proposed by the Chief Minister of the Sovereign, sustained by the acqui escence of his colleagues, and animated by the cordial co-operation of the Opposition. We have at one moment transcribed into our columns the bold, the dis passionate, the self-sustained and self-reliant arguments ad vanced by the most enlightened statesmen of this generation — the Premier, Lord J. RUSSELL, Lord MORPETH, Mr. COBDEN, and the like : at another we have quoted as curiosities (both of literature and logic) the discursive fribbles and unconscionable platitudes with which such chivalrous but uncalculatiag per sonages as his Grace of RICHMOND, or Mr. FERRAND, have frittered away their own time and that of their supporters. By proceeding in this graduated but requisite manner, we have been compelled, in the average, to descend to a minute and detailed examination of occurrences, and have found ourselves enabled only in casual and abrupt intervals to take a wider survey of the grand question at issue. In a moral sense, the multitude have during several mouths been struggling forward in one unanimous and irresistible body towards the golden gates of free trade, which have swung open before them " With the sound Of symphonies and dulcet tones." At this Particular •tog• .f formality of a debate is enabling each individual in the Lower House to express either his personal dis sent or approbation of the schemes propounded by Sir ROBERT, we would for an instant step aside from the impetu osity of the current, and take one general though brief survey of political men and political measures as they are now situated. Out of doors we perceive a confusion, or rather an amalga mation, of parties--Whigs and Conservatives, Tories and Ra dicals, Liberals and Chartists, High Churchmen and Dissenters, no longer clashing in thought, in purpose, or in action, as they have done from a period actually immemorial ; but flinging the last shreds of their dissensience to the winds, and dovetailing their various theories into one great, practical and consistent object. To employ a figure of speech, the founda tion-stones of the British Constitution—the people—are no longer broken up and scattered about in disorder, without • either strength or symmetry—that groundwork is (so to speak) at the present moment tessellated—formed out of variously coloured and heterogeneous parts, yet constituting, in spite of this apparent obstacle, one, com pact, solid, and symmetrical whole. We find factions nullified, and, as far as the majority are concerned, political acerbity abolished ; we perceive those persons com bine their efforts in all kindliness and brotherly sympathy who were animated but very recently towards each othtr with sentiments only of the bitterest malevolence. We see peace where there was formerly animosity— hopefulness where there was only pertinacity of hatred. Within the doors of Parliament the spectacle is no less re markable in every imaginable respect—our allusion being mainly directed to the House of Representatives. Never, in the records of that august assembly, did a more strange complication of opinion exist. So conspicuous is this fact, that there is no one but what must acknowledge the present distinction of the Ministerial benches and the Opposition benches as a farce of uncommon richness in humour. The Prime Minister's position is most enviable at this instant, as far as full and permanent popularity are concerned ; the responsibility of his office has, for once, been exceeded by the amount of benefit which that office enables him to effect. He achieves the greatest and the noblest deed a statesman can ever by possibility achieve, by confessing his former errors and not only explaining the causes which had conducted him to this discovery, but endeavouring by every faculty of his intellect, and by every tittle of his self-command, to repair the evils which he had formerly been instrumental in sus taining. In addition to this phenomenon of legislation, we observe in that Chamber of Senators the Anti-Minis terialists cheering en the Ministry with their very hearts in their voices, and the anti-Oppositionists themselves becoming virtually the members of Opposition. Nor is there an absence of analogy in the present efforts of the two divisions of Parliament ; the Commons are aiming at an eradication of the pernicious cause, exclusive protec tion—the Lords are making efforts to remove the e f fect, the pre sent destitution in Ireland : the exertions in the Upper House are but applications for the existing exigencies of the more gigantic and prospective measures now agitated in the lower House. While these vast reforms are being perfected, we cannot but regard with some degree of commiseration that blind and incorrigible obstinacy in the protectionists which incites them to raise a clamour of the most impotent an tagonism against the popular will—conduct only equivalent to the selection of a fool's cap and bells to an eternal crown of laurels. measure. Lord BROOKE could not support the measures pro posed by the Government. Although he was sure tb. Right Hon. Baronet was sincere in his motives, he ver) much doubted the sincerity of many of those who sup ported him. The Noble Lord the Member for Liver pool bad let out the secret of that support ; it was fron the fear of losing the great talents of the Right Hon Baronet in conducting the Government. The Nobli Lord deprecated the course pursued by the Anti-Corn law League in its endeavours to increase the number o' voters, and denounced their proceedings as illegal and unconstitutional. Lord WORSLEY thought the Government were wrong in proposing the measure, and he believed that the re suit would be that the Right Hon. Baronet would never again be called the farmers' friend. If the corn-law wa? to be altered or repealed, let it be altered at once, and not delayed for three years. He believed that delay had been most unwisely introduced by the Government, be cause, blink the question as they pleased, before that time expired a new Parliament would be called, at the election of the Members for which the agriculturist? would call upon those who asked for their suffrages to support their interests, by re-considering the proposition. Sir JAMES GRAHAM considered the present question one of great public importance. For himself, he avowed a change of his opinions on the subject of the corn-laws ; and with that statement he disposed of all his former "speeches. All that he possessed in the world was as a landlord ; and if the change now proposed was dan gerous, it would expose him to as great a risk as any landlord in the country. At the same time, he did not believe that the repeal of the corn-laws would materially affect the price of corn, but it would ensure the consumer the in valuable benefit of providing against those excessive high prices which might take place if there was a deficient harvest in this country. He was rejoiced to see that the Noble Lord the Member for the West Riding of Yorkshire—from whom he had often differed, but who was one of the greatest ornaments of the House—had, on the hustings, announced sentiments nearly similar to those which he had attempted to announce that night. He did not believe that the landlords would suffer by the abrogation of the corn•laws ; but if they were to suffer, he would rather d!scend to a lower station than submit to the obloquy of defend ing this law. It had been said that the proposi tion of the Government would break up that great Con servative party, but if it were not entertained, he believed it would occasion throughout the country, not the mere breaking up of a party, but anarchy, confusion, and revolution. Lord CuvE, believing that an honourable understand ing existed between himself and his constituents, that he should maintain the system of protection, felt it to be his duty to vote against the proposition of the Govern ment. _ _ _ Ws have received Madrid papers of the 3d, but they con. tiro no news. The Three per Cents. closed at 33 for cash, and 33% ai 60 days; and the Five per Cents. at 23 8 at 60 days. Mr. COLQUHOUN rose to address the House, and was met by loud cries of " Adjourn ! adjourn !" Sir R. PEEL suggested that if the debate were to be adjourned, it should be adjourned to Thursday. Mr. BROTHERTON then moved that the debate be ad journed to Thursday, which was agreed to. The other orders of the day were agreed to, and the House adjourned. The latest intelligence from Algiers in the Paris papers is of a gloomy character. ABD-EL-KADER, taking advantage of the calamity which befel General LEVASSEUR'S division, had suddenly made his appearance in the province of Con stantine, at the bead of two thousand horsemen at least, and had committed razzias on all the tribes in that quarter who had submitted to the French. A letter from Setif, dated the 29th of January, which appears in the Algerie, leaves no doubt of the fact, and of the consternation which it had caused in that quarter. " AI3D-EL- IDER," says the writer, "has just come upon us like a thunderbolt. In his march from Boghar to Foum-Onad-el-Djenan, lie mercilessly despoiled every tribe that had not Previously sent him tokens of submission. The Ouled-Messelem, a tribe cf the sub division of the Setif, have been attacked. The Colonel of the 19th the Medjana. All the disposable forces of the subdivision, has just set out with 1 , 500 men, to p roceed to French and native, were got together to form this column. —P.S. It is affirmed that ABD...ED• Karma is at the head of two thousand horsemen at least, and that he has with them effected a considerable razzia on the Ouled-Sidi-Aissa-Mara bouts, who exercise the religious sovereignty over the greater part of the old b e lick of Titteri.' The unfavourable accounts from all points of Algeria come so repeatedly upon one another, and the policy adopted by Marshal BUGEAUD it totally useless for meeting the dangers which threaten tI'ADI on every hand., that the Government will probably be LA)ta Pe Tl ed to recal him, and puma an entirely different cOuree. The CONtitutiolitiel.says news. lately received. The speech of Sir JAMES GRAHAM last evening on the corn-laws may be said to be the only business speech yet made during the two nights of debate. That of Mr. S. HERBERT was good in its way, but the other went to the root of the evil, showed the absolute necessity for repealing the laws, the little injury the landlords had to anticipate from the change, the benefits in point of morality of low prices. the almost total absence of any connexion between wages and the price of grain, and the beneficial effects which may naturally be expected from the abolition of the duty. Should the latter proposition be made good, the change will confer the greatest blessings on the working po pulation, and especially upon that portion of it compelled to toil for twelve or fourteen hours in unwholesome factories, in order to be able to purchase a sufficiency for their subsistence. He alluded with satisfaction to the altered sentiments inthat respect of the great majority of the opera tives. Until lately they seemed fully convinced, that low prices of food would lead to low wages, but the experience of the last three years had dispelled the,cliduaion4 and they were now as anxious as most other classes for ouch a change is SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEN] FEBRUARY 11 1846. from exinstaritina has dett3tnined the departure of the Duke D'AUSIALE for Africa. lie sets out in a few days." The Presse thus urges on the Government the adoption of a different system : " The arrival of Abd-el-Kader in the province of Constantine is the natural Consequence of his military operations. After having drawn I from the populations of the Centre and the west all the resources possible, he has thrown himself on those of the east, who have long been quiet, and must be in a prosperous state. Does not the facility With Which the Eniir scoures Algeria notwithstanding the thirteen or - foniteon moveable Which sire in the field against him, evidently prove the insufficiency of the system of war adopted by Marshal Bugeand ? The presence of Abd-el-Kader in the province of Constantine., will force Marshal Bugeaud to demand fresh troops, for those whom he has so severely tried for the last three months are incapable of service. Besides, he will not dare to leave Western Kabylia bare, hi which Bou Maze and the other partisans of the Emir maintain themselves. Marshal Bugeaud':: system of war is tumbling to pieces on all sides. It is Insufficient, and the enormous charges with which it loads the mother -country impose on the War Department an imperious duty of thoroughly in quiring into the affairs of Algeria If it does so seriously, it will find, as we have shown, that it is not on the populations that war ought to be made, but on the Emir, and that we cannot make an advan tageous war on the Einir otherwise than by means of a numerous cavalry, and by giving the supreme command to cavalry generals." The Notional, after adverting to the sudden arrival of the Emir in the province of Constantine, adds : - - "It was not till after the event, however, that M. Bugeaud became acquainted with this new enterprise of the Emir. To such audacious insults M. Bugeaud has nothing to oppose, but a weakened and dis membered army, subject to every misery that can be inflicted upon soldiers in times of war. Our infantry- is without shoes, and almost without clothing. Reduced to a few columns composed of mere remnants and some contingents of natives, it is obliged to wait fot its food till provisions are brought from the coasts or towns. All the means of transport are wanting, the beasts of burthen belonging to the commissariat being worn out, if not dead, and then those which the Arabs ordinarily supply are for the moment wanted to be used in cultivating the soil. The cavalry, as we have before said,.no longer exists. Daily are our ranks thinned without fighting and inglori ously-. While cur antagonist is increasing in strength, we are dwindling away with a frightful rapidity. When the spring shall arrive Abd-el-Kader will be better than ever able to brave us ; while we shall have to send a fresh army into the provinces of Algiers and Oran, to supply the place of that which has been so deplorably lost by the imbecility of its leader." We learn front Saxe Gotha, Feb. 1, that the States were that day assembled for the first time since the accession of the Duke. The only remarkable passage in his opening speech was that in which he expresses a desire to give to his people a constitution more in con formity with their interests and the spirit of the age. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Monday at 84f. 25c.; the Five per Cents., 123 f. 40c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,285 f. ; Rouen, 1,007 f. 50c. ; Havre, 707 f. 50c. ; Avignon, 987 f. 50c.; Vierzon, 7001. ; Bordeaux, 6431. 75c. ; Boulogne, 547 f. 50c. ; Basle, 2521. 50c. ; Great Northern, 765 f. ; Fampoux, 480 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 5571. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes, 583 f. 75c. The following are the quotations for other lines :- Paris and Lyons, definitive, 620 f. ; Lyons and Avignon, (Tale bot), il4f. ; Bordeaux and Cette (Mackenzie), 506 f. ; ditto (Espe leta), 512 f. ; Charleroi (Kysaens), 495 f. ; Caen (Delatnarre), 502 f. LYONS, FEB. 7.-Marseilles and Avignon, 980 f. ; Paris and Or leans, 1,276 f. ; Paris and Rouen, I,olof. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 10. Boulogne and Amiens, 12 -Dutch Rhenish, 7 t4 -East Indian, 1% -Great Northern of France Constituted, 15 1 / 4 -Louvain and Je mappe, 2 1 / 4 -Lyons and Avignon, 2% -Namur and Liege, 31/4-or ' leans and Bordeaux, 11 -Sambre and Meuse, 5%. WESTMINSTER ELECTION.—Captain Rous being compelled to vacate his seat for Westminster on his being appointed a Lord of the Admiralty, presents himself again to the elector:- of this independent borough, and we confidently hope that no opposition will be made to his return. Though belonging to the Conservative party, he has shown him self a liberal and active Member; in several of hi. , speeches during this Parliament he has exhibited straight forward conduct, and seemed generally to take part with the poor and the oppressed, though at the risk sometimes of offending the Government. It ought to be remembered also that he was among the very first of the Conservatives to de nounce the corn-laws, and call upon Sir Robert Peel to mak( provision against the sufferings that might be caused by ;4 failure of the crops. He cordially supports the liberal mea sures introduced by the Minister, and a better representa tive at present, therefore, could not be desired. RAILWAY COMMITTEES (THIS DAY.) Sub-Committee, No. 2. The Committe met to-day at Half-past Twelve o'clock, Sir J. Y. Huller in the chair. AYRSHIRE AND GALLOWAY RAILWAY. The CHAIRMAN ordered the room to be cleared, in order to conclude the report. On our re-admission, The CHAIRMAN said, the Committee have reconsidered their report, and were of opinion that with respect to the contract deed the standing orders had been complied with, but vitt respect to the other points, they would have to report that the standing orders had not been complied with. Sub-Committee No. 3. This Committee resumed its sittings at the usual hour th: morning, ➢ir. Aglionby in the chair. EDINBURGH AND LEITH RAILWAY. This was a railway, on the atmospheric principle, front Edinburgh to Leith, the estimated cost of which was 160,0001., and the length two-and-a-quarter miles. Mr. Miller is the engineer, and Messrs. Deans, Dunlop, and Co., the agents. The standing orders were reported to have been complied with. Sub-Committee, No. 4. The Committee met at Twelve o'clock this day, in room No. 11, when there were present Sir W. Heathcote, Mr. Home Drummond, awl Mr. Hope Johnstone. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM (NEWPORT vernment were not unprepared for the dangers that may 11l should they not pause before making a present of half _i million of money to some corn merchants, which morel . might be far preferably disposed of and expended in rehev_ ing the distresses a the people of Ireland? — ( de s hear r:, His motion, then, was for a return of the number of impo,rte t of foreign grain, and . the quantity then in bond in tires Britain and Ireland. Mr. YiSC_',OTT made a feW observations, which did not reads the gallery. After which, • h e fullf The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER "4 y y r o (1)± acquiesced in the motion of the Noble Lord. The find that a great deal of corn was being into not fo r, . purpose of allowing it to come e.t once into the Mark 6.1 T far the purpose of doing so when there shall be a four Ilp ling duty, chequer put a wrong construction on the observatiornsietwi; Mr. NEWDEGATE said that the Chancellor of tfie.El: Noble Lord (Bentinck). It appeared to him (M •s' sS I o r b. . . . o e e t r l' gate)E x a c l h erqUesri.mpTlehequoebsjteicotnofwtahseppurtesteontthme ino p r a e rt d e e r a ed re remove the distress which existed in a Majesty's dominions, and which none than he did. But he did not think a wasteful ex e pe e iV l A o f should take place, as the measure would have th a tt e i 4 A losing to the Exchequer half a million of money hY,X u soc h sa e C as h u a r n e c o vr e f i into the pockets of a few corn-dealers.—(Hear.) If boug ht S expei;:±ittare of the revenue was to take place, he t, _ „ o ple would be better to give it to relieve the distress ef tne re r . _. o of Ireland, as a much better way for sacrificing the r, „ 1 ,7 .06 of the country. He was a great admire! t is , d not present system of bonding corn, and be ch L o b bf any mode of improving' that system, "°;`:_ tro ying• their present measure, they were about ur able a ne Ile considered the practice of bonding corn a Vl' ll . r g e ves under the present system. He had heard the atis"broi to to the Hon. Member for Winchester, recommending Aoa ten the ed the move for a return of all the persons who ha d made front the wheat so admitted, and he ht e rte• Hon. Gentleman who bad given that answer to a that arduous task himself. ot b eeil q Mr. WOOEHOUSE said that there bad I', to e/10.- measure ofprotection, or relief of anykind,to IrelanuT,e 0 , „or he had not given his assent, and he begged Irene t he mee t that the expression of opinion made by him hetb re e h illei r ing of Parliament had always been in favour of 6. 1 , 1 . .. oi sde sures, and he therefore thought that the o bservat i L": ' by the Chancellor of the Exchequer were uncalled T:.„ 0 - to Mr, S. O'BRIEN said, that as he was the Pe t boa td whom his Right Hon. Friend referred, he Is ; f or I say, that his observations - related solely to Ire l A tdep t an , considered this kingdom at present quite iaulriolota 'a foreign corn, and he believed that there was e" : ',„.. - MI A well prepared to avoid the horrors of fai t " - had aln cries of " Hear, hear.") His Honourable Friend .- T , flos .sl to the fact of his sitting next the Member for r.,• 0 - thilt. l :l: the fact of sitting next to a Member was cone l l s ;sree agreed with him in opinion. He certainly ow the. en the Hon. Member for Lynn in opinion, bathes 01/ rience of the last three or four nights ought to oo f aii his Friend that one Hon. Member might sit by al n yet totally disagree with him in his political vir;ade a °l° The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUES '-- ._,,,, observation which did not reach the gallery. ~ ha d Itb a r - ;, Mr. S. O'BRIEN said that the price of wheir jpeceaLty that nearly 9,000 quarters had paid 14s. duty duce the,be and yet his Right non. Friend was going to rafeta_,' f, at once to 4s. The 10s. duty thus gained would na o T e rffiv o consumer, but would be to the advantage of the cora 0 that he r His Right Hon. Friend had repudiated the allega!rj 171.' 'l l l far from disapproving of the measures now PraP' • h thai n; V" Majesty's Government he perfectly agreed with t i i s Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Governriain b 0,46 that there were only three members of the cabinet ir who 00 with him. One was the Right Hon. Gent just left the House (Sir J. Graham), the Earl ag o roar t o, and the Secretary-at-War, so that his • J e rrea o il Friend could not be one o f the three 'Th e ill P , O He thought his (Mr. Escott's) p ro p osition, that. • ro,: a move an amendment to his own motio n, and ha v o f ei .L.h ia's of the whole of those who may be constillie d ".,,4oo bread, wheaten bread that is n ot consurne,r n 0 0 41 yet in bond —he thought that suggestaNijek„ot incomprehensible as the conduct of the be tb°7l. Learned Gentleman to his constituents' Whe n 4 1 hos ° rs' it consistent with his public duty and pera°t- o d 0 0 ;0 stand for the city of Winchester, at which P e h'ol. 1 :,1 rage price of wheat was 625. Id. per quart er ,' -Mar i fitli a four-pound loaf was sold for nineP-,101.4. and tenpence. He took his stand on that cc_ritrj those who advocated the cheap bra, m. 151 In the speeches of his mover and ficcelL,dide 1010 the question thus put to the electors, tO 011 1 _7:11 0 they would like a Government who were oedeorke maintain the then existing corn-laws, whose " te d""Of (Mr. Eacott) was.—(Cheers.) He then advoes.o ISv o isl law which would give a protection of 285., ha t ) saki ttii Hon. and Learned Gentleman modified his ids tint for a 10s. duty.—(Hear, hear.) I think, c°ll o o o a r- Noble Lord, that line of conduct of the . . o reeek Gentleman tower, s his constituents to be as inc ° "ll, j ot' as the suggestion he has made, and I should be i g eta, k e if I were to follow him as a leader, or alloWie',ll4lYeii governed here or elsewhere either by his exaniP o SlP:,, Mr. ESCOTT hoped the Noble and Leal, / 4 , 6 9 more comfortable after the display he had wi; ; r il e , sidered that the suggestion he had throw .itoi perfectly in accordance with Fenian:lo4q, in i n " 0 00 The Noble Lord had himself stated that his obJe% c 00 0 0 for the return he, was to ascertain what P r° t tlis Or by the parties referred to, and thinking ba t 00 would derive profit from such return, he thoag no ~ or tion he had suggested was not altogether iraPr'ttio)silii/ respect to what he had said about his (Mr. iii A tuents, lie should be glad to meet ti n y tr House or elsewhere on the question ter. 01,, 11 laws. He would not, however, then ea"tbat'loo argument with the Noble Lord, except to sist e gbagr-_,, utterly ignorant of the whole facts of the W e ' b ,Orl, The motion was then agreed to. f be P t.( F An Hoff. MEMBER. brought up the report e, - , c t hce mittee , stating that the promoters of the- i v''' - . way had not complied with the standing orei ers '. ": 4 The House then adjourned. : ii $ 4l emagorzsess 4 1 4 40 MONEY and COMMERCIAL' sfi CITY, QUARTER TO ./. f oto os The market for Cotton at Liverpool was quiet, 1 11 4 0 4" ~, confined to parcels for the immediate wants of 4 ; covo irrod• about 3,000 bake. - 1 0 ' At Messrs. Latnonds' public sale ofßailwayShar eS• ••o s to , ;o", noon, the following lots found buyers :—butch 0 0 :„Ytle t i - ao r, —Northern and Southern Connecting, 1/. 55. 6d.—,..760,101 4 '4 1 —North Staffordshire, Churnet, and Potteries, b'' - If • Vie 0 / hohne, Gainsborough, and Goole, 21. 55.—Waterford•60, 0,41 Valentia, 11. 12s.—Liverpool and Newcastle Ju l ' s. 4 1 ;0, , Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 31. I Is.- vale of N es ' 3;1. ' / Goole and Doncaster , 31. 13s.—Paris and Itoiteol ui 4 , 4 1' Great Western (Dublin to Galway), 41. 10s. 6 ,1 _ • • - :: 14.;1, P ii.,,,i r , 21. M.—South Staffordshire, 21. 12s. 6d.—Caledowl;:d 9',..11',"gi donlan, New Stock, 31. 19s. 6d.—South-EasterllA. %Wire" 31.9s.—Madrid and Valencia, It. 711. —Reading 8 °" - $.1 41 ,01 1) ,i —Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge, 11. 48 ,• t Y r l oic or land, 1/. ss. 6d.—York and Lancaster, 1/. 60. l'"ii. 80 • Leeds, 11. 91. 6d.—Reading, Guildford, and Reig a ,,,, te " 0 01.1 The Share Market was steady, and the bos ° " 11 A/ limited. Prices are on the advance• . 01 ed t tPri ll 0 ,,,, The debates in the House of Comm . ons have attr-L it L o st i r i degree of interest this morning, except as so 14r .,p, - ill! IiS IS A the current of opinion seems to set in more siroa. -- plijoa i d , measure of Fir Robert Peel. Merchants, b eret aif 11 .10 0 _,1e point settled " speedy and soon," as the late '-' t bC - mr 4 asked his customers to receive their balances 1 1 1 .409 . " d r hank in the panic of 1825-26, of any of them Vie" - 0 00. 00 4 stability of the firm. ... tr ,4 dra# There has been a very good quantity of busilloThop.„ •, ~ British securities this morning. The Governine nt ta s' gilt 740 f ib / usual pare:noses, and there was also an ill" e liaS, 01,. ~,,'" of the Friendly Societies. The inarket,_,dia , 0 •4 . V i e whole, been rather heavy, and notwithst.- 4 • f ee. or sa F ri te o f porary reaction that occurred yesterday ~, 114_.c1,„,• - A opinion is most certainly in favour of an adlit• coo' nir",4 yesterday afternoon there was a large purchase A — ,oeso f :f tr, po d livered next week. For Consols there were P 4- 7 0 4 0 . 0 00 0 ' T ie mencement of business at 97, since which ach g o r has taken place to 96%. Consols for the .. 4. 0 4 varied from 97 to 96%. The 10 0 2: Stec J 9 chequer Bills has remained at fr°"'„..o °„ 0 .00,` P - In the Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. there "..-- ices. - 1 9 ; t o done at from 97% to O 7 % ; in the Three per end, .cl 0 99% to 99%, and in India Bonds at from 4 50 ' `.. . r i 3O has been done at 260. ife li t „el ofO r ' /0 0 Many of the holders of Mexican Stock A— he cil fact of so large a remittance having ,"ii, IsP4ai, or account of the dividend fund formed here , a• t ee o n 1 3 0 : the position of affairs, in a. political point of vie, to 0 , 0 4 1 01 :1 0 0 stock in the market here has fluetuated,_,baireoi litur amount, the prices to-day, having ranged ONO 00 , In the other Republican Bonds there has bee "„•N i ~,s Colombians have realised 17 ; New- Grenada, '•'' • . t vittli Deferred, 13%, . 1 %1 0 The Railway Share Market has been in sr V erl k aite s ,„a c i b ing. The opposition to the London and 1% 4- '•tre ''' having been declared to be unsuccessful, t 11 _,, v4- - 0 , scrip. The prices realised to-day are noted 14 .• - • f l: 0,40 , , BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT 014. ' ~ ,1 4 . 1 9 6 . , 7 (From the Official List.) 9_1,141)0 0 Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities . foP 7 OP Three per Cent. Consols Annuities •• 993 A New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. An lel Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 11160 . 2 0 India Stock • • • • • • • • • •• India Bonds, 1,0001. • • Ditto, under 1,0001. South Sea Stock .. • • • • .. 44 .. fl i t ; 0 Ditto, Old Annuities • , • • . 9 6 , 7 0 t i" Three per Cent. Annuities, 1751 " .• 9 . 1 ,A. , 50' Consols for Account • • • • .. • • ' IPs - 40 - 4 • Exchequer Bills. I%d. 3 1 0 / I" 9 4 1,0001. .. .. ._ ...• 3 9 -31 ,' 5001. .. .. .• .38 io o cP it. , Arise from approaching scarcity. Mr. SHAW said that he was sure that the present emer ,ency in Ireland would be, but temporary if the Government would adopt the course necessary for the relief of the people. ile would not then enter upon the discussion of the general object, but he believed that distress did prevail to a very ,nsiderable extent. He did not think that the regulations ,f the poor-law in Ireland had been acted up to; for, nseead of having a resident Commissioner, there was very e•equently only a sort of Aseietatit Commissioner. Mr. F. FRENCH said that when an appointment of that iature was about to take place under the present system, tiany Members found it their duty to object to it, as a consi lerable portion of Ireland was pliteed in the hands of English ,r Scotch Commissioners, whereas an Irish Commissioner tught to have the preference above all others. The Hon. ientleman who had preceded him had said that the law was .most unpopular one, and he (Mr. French) believed that it would be impossible to get one more so, for it would lot have the effect of relieving any destitution in Ireland, eit it was perfectly useless to meet any sudden emergency. tier Majesty's Government knew that there were at present io less than 4,000,000 people in Ireland who would be, or were now, depending partially on the poor-law for The treat majority of the inmates of the poor houses in Irehted. .r ere children and infants in arms. There were about eOOO,OOO people about to seek relief and shelter from poor 'louses which could not accommadate more than 100,000. It was a mere mockery to attempt to :ontinue such a system, for the people of Ireland made very minute inquiry into it, and saw the evil them selves. The Poor-law Commissioners reported the came things over and over again, until they began to believe in the existence of the evils they stated. The danger of consi lerable expense in cal rying out the measure might be great, Jut should they consider the expense which they would incur in performing so important a duty to the. people? The Right Hon. Baronet had given himself great credit for .:ertain measures proposed by her Majesty's Government to meet the present crisis. lie certainly thought it right to give the Government credit for the best intentions, but after some inquiry, he thought that the results of the measures they proposed would not be so beneficial as they anticipated. If sessions were appointed to be held in the different districts, where the people might obtain employment, he should not abject, especially as the the spring sessions commenced on the 18th inst. lie gave the Government great credit for the anxiety to afford the people of Ireland employment at the earliest possible moment by giving precedence to Irish Railway Bills, but if these were passed without any delay they would not confer the benefit they were intended to bestow, as nearly six months must expire after their passing before the necessary plans and sections could be got ready for the commencement of the works—in fact nearly nine months must expire before the people of Ireland could obtain employment in these great national works. Then there were several clauses in the Public Works Bill to which he objected. He agreed with Lord Roden that that Bill would not be so beneficial as her Majesty's Government seemed to anticipate. The labour of carrying out the provisions of the Bill were to be imposed on the Drainage Commissioners, who had already more labour imposed on them than they could adequately perform, as the improvement of the harbours, parks, bridges, and lunatic asylums, were entrusted to them Besides, he could not miderstand the necessity of making these gentlemen into an operative body, and entrusting them with the execution of all the works connected, in any way, with the drainage of the country. There were several clauses in that Bill, to which he should feel it his duty to move amendments, in order that it might have the effect intended. The original powers which were intended to be en trusted to the Drainage Commissioners, should be given to that portion of the country whose interests were bound up with the soil they possessed. The Commissioners stated that they would give higher wages to those whom they employed than the generality of landowners; but heelenied that this was so. And even if they did give a larger amount of wages it was under the exercise of a most irresponsible power, that of laying out any sums of money which they might think fit. He considered that under the operation of the present Act, one-half of the parties were dissentients from the work tieing commenced under the direction of this Board of e:ommissioners, and he concluded by giving notice that upon the bringing up of the report of the Com mittee on Drainage (Ireland) Bill, he would be prepared with a number of clauses which he considered would have a tendency to remove the objectionable portions of the Bill. Colonel CONNOLLY was sorry to differ from the Hon. elember opposite with reference to the wor king of the Poor law (Ireland) Bill. He believed that the poor-law was at eresent working well in Ireland, and he felt bound to state that the prejudices which existed against the measure in that country had been greatly fomented in certain quarters. He oelieved that, notwithstanding all this agitation upon the subject the prejudices was fast disappearing.—(Hear, hear.) lie felt convinced that this prejudice did not exist on the part of those for whom the relief was intended. He was himself connected with four boards of guardians, and was enabled, therefore, to form an opinion upon the subject; and his opinion was, hat this measure was rapidly approaching that state of perfection which it was intended by the Go vernment it should occupy.—(Hear, hear.) The matter was now before the other House, and he hoped it would receive their Lordships' best consideration, and that such measures as they considered expedient to adopt would be speedily sent down to this House, and meet with the approbation and sup port of Hon. Members. He was astonished to find the facilities with which the rates had been collected for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Act. He was now referring to the largest and most opulent county in Ireland, and, having gone over the Act of Parliament, he found very little indeed in it which would warrant him in calling upon Parliament for any alteration. No doubt some al terations were proposed, but they were of a trifling character. With regard to the Board of Commissioners, that certainly was the most prominent part of objection in the Act raised by the poor-law guardians. There had been instances in which the Commissioners interfered in matters of the most trifling nature. It was, in fact, more with the modus operandi of those Commissioners than with the law itself that the guardians quarrelled. This appeared very prominent in the county of Roscommon, where instances had occurred -of the Commis sioners interfering with the guardians in matters which did not in the slightest degree affect the public interest. On t he whole, he was of opinion that the law itself was not so ob jectionable as the Commissioners' mode of administering it ; and in making those observations, be was addressing himself more to the Commissioners than to this House. With regard to the measure recommended by the Honourable Mem ber for Roscommon, he certainly could not agree with many of the points it contained. Why that would be very inopportune, and a very great aggravation of their present circumstances; and he had no hesitation in saying that it would destroy the main safe guard of the people's rights, notwithstanding the assertions of the Hon. Member for Roscommon. The present poor law was practically advancing, and from day to day ma turing in the respect and confidence of everybody. He (Colonel Connolly) attributed this very much to Lord Eliot's Act. Mr. M. O'FERRALL said he could not go the same length with his Hon. Friend. He believed that if under the present circumstances of Ireland they extended out door relief it would only have the effect of increasing the miseries of the people. He thought the course which bad been adopted by her Majesty's Government was preferable. The landlords of Ireland had had sufficient time to perform those useful works themselves with the aid of private Acts of Par lament. Similar works had been carried out by the landlords of Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, and various parts of Eng land. It was bjected that one of the clauses of the Bill of last night, empowered Grand Juries to make present ments for the declaration of waste lands. The Hon. Gentleman, the Member for Roscommon, had stated that a similar law had been in existence for the last three hundred years. Mr. FRENCH—No, no. That was another law to which I refer. Mr. M. O'FERRALL—A similar law did unquestionably exist, and a landlord was compelled under it to retain such parts of his land as he did not take the trouble to anprove ; but her Majesty's Government now proposed not only that such a law should be extended to Ireland, but that the landowner whose lands were presented should have the necessary funds lent to bins for the purpose of reclaiming his lands.— (Hear, hear.) With respect to the poor-law be concurred to a great extent with the remarks of his Noble Friend Colonel Connolly. He (Mr. O'Ferrall) cer tainly was of opinion that that law had done much good to Ireland. The portion of that country with which he was connected had !reaped much good from its operations ; and the Board of Guardians had properly discharged its duties. But there certainly had been differences in some districts, the whole of which were attributable to the conduct of the Poor-law Commissioners. Those gentlemen commenced their campaign under the impression that every man in Ireland must be distressed, and that every board of poor-law guardians were jobbers. He wished that the Right Honourable Baronet the Secretary for the Home Department, would exercise that power which the law vested in him. The Right Honourable Baronet had frequently told the House that he had control over the Commissioners, and he (Mr. O'Ferrall) would assure that Right Honourable Gentleman that many cases might be made out which properly called for his interference. He trusted now that there was an opportunity for making out that case; and he hoped, when it. was made out, the Government would be prepared to deal with it.—(Hear.) Mr. S. CRAWFORD begged to observe that he did not ask that a right should be given to the poor to seek out-door relief, but that in certain cases it should be in the power of the Board to grant it. COUNTY WORKS (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion of Sir JAMES GRAHAM, the County Works Presentments (Ireland) Bill was read a second time. FISHERY PIERS AND HARBOUR (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion of Sir JAMES GRAHAM, the House went into a Commitee on the Fishery Piers and Harbours (Ire land) Bill, in which a resolution was agreed to that a suns of 60,000/. be granted for the purposes of the Bill, Mr. WODEHOUSE moved for copies of the papers pre sented by the late Lord Sydenham, Secretary fur the Colo nies, in pursuance of an address to her Majesty, dated the Ist day of July 1839, entitled, " Communication from the Prussian Minister in London, and minute of the Board of Trade, relative to the commercial relations between Great Britain and Prussia," December 1825, January 1826. Agreed to. Lord GEORGE BENTINCK moved for a return giving the numbers and names of the holders of foreign grain now in bond in the Queen's warehouses in Great Britain and Ireland, together with the quantities held - by each individual. In compliance, however, with the suggestions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, be would change the terms of his motion from holders of foreign grain to importers. The object of his motion was to show the very limited number of persons who were at present holders of that grain, and who would be benefited to the extent of half a million sterling by the passing of the measures at present before Parliament, for the immediate reduction of the duties on grain and wheat especially. There were at present in bond 944,548 quarters of wheat and 451,464 cwt. of: flour. Now, in the course of the month of December last there were no less than 5,097 quarters of wheat and 2,177 cwt. of flour which paid duty at 14s. per quarter. The operation of the present measure would be to reduce the large quantity of grain at present in bond from paying a duty of 16s. to a duty of 45., as it came into effect immediately after the passing of the law. The whole of this wheat, therefore, would be at once taken out for home consumption, not at a duty of 165., but at 4s. Trade was thus thrown into such a state, that it became a consideration with the merchant whether it was worth his while,under such circumstances,t-o pay a duty of 4s. Now, if this large quantity of grain which exceeded a million of quarters, were taken out at a duty of 4e., the dif ference would not go to the benefit of the consumer, but to the one, two, or three hundred individuals who were holders of it, and who would by this means pocket to the extent of upwards of half a million sterling. lie (the Noble Lord) should confess that he had a wish to know who the holders were, though he understood that such inquiry might interfere with the principles cf private trade and business, and also create a suspicion that her Majesty's Ministere were engaged in some sort of a job.—(A laugh.) tie assured the House that, for his part, he entertained no such euepielon ; but be thought it of importance that the country should know if the public exchequer was to be robbed of half a. million of money which was to go into the pockets of tore or threelaundred corn merohants.—(Hear, hear.) When they had been told by the Right Hon. Secretary for the sleep Department, eleakrelief, in the shape of loans to the amount of 260,000/„ was intended to be bestowed on Ireland .. ~ .. '. 45 - •Ci Ditto, Small .• •••• s o 0 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS A T C' ,. :/„,,, Columbia Bonds •• •• • • .• .24 Danish Bonds, 3 per Cent • • ~ •; Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cen •. 0 4 d Granada, 1 per Cent. • • ••t • • WO • Ditto, Deferred • • • • Portuguese Bends, 5 per Cent••• ••• Ditto, 3 per Cent • • • • • • .. I I Russian Bonds • • • • • • . 000. Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cen p t a . yo • le • wo r ~/ ,nc, Dividends on the above Belgian Four-and-a-Half ner„ Ce „ts. 66 , Dutch Two-and-a-Half per . 0 - . 7'20-00"Cr • Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certiticates ~. 0 ~,S .0 00 0 / BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY 51 1 .••• -- .0, •••• to / RAILWAYS. FAID• 11/7.., ... ip / Aberdeen .. .. .. .. ... .. 10 ° • 21 ,, , • ~..t o d r 2% • • ISO/ . •• to ii Amber., Notting., Boston, & Eastrn.n• • .. • 4.• 1 Birmingham and Gloucester • • • • ' CI g :...., .;,. to, Birmingham and Oxford Junction • • , •0 .. •'3 0. t 0 / Bristol and Exeter .. • • • • •• 1 4 • :124,44 ••:' 0 „ / ihtta, New • • • • .. • • ••• 1 - 0 0 .• ' 3 4:;.. 0 / Caledonian .• .. .. .. .. • 2 ,h ...• 2 44 . 0 / Ditto Half Shares .. • • • • • • 2 g ..•• 4..: to / Ditto Extension • • • • • • • si .•••Al " . t ° , I , ° 4' • 0 Chelmsford and Bury • • .. • • ••• 28 .• • • l „ n / Chester and Holyhead • • - • - '. 14 •••• 4 si ' • e t- ' Cork and Waterford • • % • • • ' 5 •'" 1 -- * . ' / ii•" 0 Cornwall • • • • • • • • • • • ' 2 4 .• • • 2 • _ , 7 „ , o , Direct Manchester (Remington's) '•. 2 % .• ° 44/ . ' to / t i Direct Northern • • • • • • • • • 4 •• •: 2 9 L 1 ';1•• to Dublin and Galway .. • • " •i m od.• • • 7$ .• - Eastern Counties • • • • • • 14/. 1 • „,,....• . ..•• / 8/ 165. " . ',./ .. • to / Ditto, New • • .. • • • • ' we. •• ' 27* •.. o , Ditto, York Extension • • • • •• : 14 -'; 79 :•• t o , East Lincolnshire • • • • • • • • •50 •• •• 1 6 ,4 fto - Edinburgh and Glasgow • • ' • ••• 10 ". 1 1,4 0 t o / Ditto, New Quarter Shares • • Goole, Doncaster, and Shetlield..t e • • , • 42 1 0. 4 • • • • ": , 1 2 - ,./ .: ~.. r ~ Grand Unien (Nottingham and L3 - r 0 1? 15 .• • • „,.. • •• •!. / Great Southern and Western (Irelan" . ) 0 .• 0 . 9 3 ;40 to Great Western • • • • • • • ' 50 " • 19. • 0 T. .. 0 r• .• •• Ditto, Half Shares • • •• • • 5 " •••• 3 6 1 ::•• t o -' Ditto, Quarter Shares • • • ' •• 20 '' - -- _,z ••• to '.., Ditto, Fifths • • • • • • • ' • 50 "• • 24 1 •••. 0 '- ,L.•• .. / Hull and Selby • • - • • • " • 7 '• • +/' .•• 0 Ditto, Half Shares • • • • • • 2 5 p.• 0 Ipswlell, - Norwich, and Yarmouth •• 35 .• •' i to,• . to / Lancaster and Carlisle • • • • •• • 225• •" . 4, . " to ,-; Leicester and Bedf,..rd • • • • nc. 420 ' ••••• l ' • • " 0 ''f Leicst., Tam., Bir., & Trent Val4 ll 24 •• ' .......,..• 0 4 Liverpool, Manch, and Newo. Junc'• • • •1 00 .•• •• 5 3 , ~. to ~..., London and Birmingham • • • ' • • 16 •• • 5 1 ,.. .• "to „. Di I to, Thirds • • • • • • ' • .. 2 ' • t„'',/ • • to A 111tto. Quarter Shares • • ' • •• 2 ' • •• r?! 0 •• to v - Ditto, Fifths • • • • •••••• • • .. 4d. • • 41 .• 0 .." London and Ellackwall • • ICI• I ''' • 2V3 •' •• 684" / *Via" ... i° --- Ditto, New • • • • •• " •• 50 ••••, .. 1,4•• t o Lowden and Brighton • • • • • : .. 20 •• :. 2g-.•• 0 .0 Ditto ditto Fi ft hs • • • : 13 / . os. 9 1' •.• : 3 •• • • to :,- London and Croydon • • .• 411. 63. Ii"• 6• • : • "4 • •' t o s,i London and South •Wegern • .• . 28 • 2 •,.• 0 _ Ditto, Consolidated Eiglith , •• :. 12_34 •• .• 1 7 1 /..." to -', Ditto, New • • • • • • • •.• .. 1 0 )4 ••• .. N.•• to ~ Ditto, New • • ' ' . • • 2 14 .. • • 11i'', • ... , London and York • • *.• •• ••• ~, ..• o 'to _ I quo, Ilalf Shares • • • 2>e -- •. .• ''' and Kidierinn oler . .2 .• •••• 11 ' p.• to 1 0 London, Warwick, .. . ° I •• 1 4, . 1 Manchester and Leeds ... • . ~,,, 0• t o • • • .. 42 , 5• '. • • Ditto, Fifths • • ' • m a tiock 2 .• • ..1 52 • 31:titchester, Burton. and , .. • • Manchester and SoUtlinanP t " 100 Midland .• ~• .• ' . ~• PAGNELI. BRANCH) RAILWAY. In respect to this Bill the standing orders were not corn plied with. The length of the proposed branch is 11 miles. The cost is estimated at 150,0001. Mr. Dockery is the enginetr, and the Parliamentary agents are Messrs. Banks and Co. LONDON and BIRMINGHAM (EUSTON and CAMDEN STATIONS ENLARGEMENT-) The standing orders in respect to this Bill were not com plied with. The capital required is 150,000/. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM (ST. ALBANS AND LITTON BRANCHES) RAILWAY. The object of this Bill is expressed in the title. The esti mated cost of the branches is 300,000/. After receiving some evidence in proof that the standing orders had been complied with, the further consideration of the Bill was postponed, it. e miqprinnn,p of thn agents being unable to produce a letter of consent from the Marquis of Bute. IMPERIAL PARMAMEY (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at a Quarter past Twelve o'clock. On the motion of the O'CONOR DON, a new writ wat moved for the county of Mayo, in the room of Mark Blake. Esq., who had accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty', Chiltern Hundreds. LONDON AND BRIGHTON EXTENSION RAILWAY. The London and Brighton Extension Railway Bill wa: brought in and read a first time, and ordered to be read second time. THE LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND WANDSWORTH RAILWAY. The report that the standing orders had been complid with was brought up, and leave was given to bring in thi Bill. THE NEWCASTLE, DARLINGTON, AND SUNDER- LAND RAILWAY. A similar report was brought up respecting this Bill, and leave was also given for its introduction. THE SHEFFIELD AND LINCOLNSHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY. The Standing Orders' Committee reported that the order: had been complied with, and leave was given to bring ii the Bill. THE DIRECT LONDON AND PORTSMOUTH RAILWAY. A similar report was brought up respecting this under taking, and leave was given to bring in the Bill. THE NEWCASTLE AND BERWICK RAILWAY. The Bill for this line was read a first time. THE TEN HOURS' BILL. Mr. BLACKBURNE presented a petition from th• inhabi tants of Warrington, in favour of the Ten Hours' Bill. Mr. HINDLEY presented a petition in favour of the Bill. THE CORN-LAWS. Lord HOTHAIII presented a numerously signed petitiel against any alteration in the laws affecting the importatioi of food. ➢lr. BULLER presented several petitions in favour of the repeal of the corn-laws. THE ➢LILITIA. Mr. HI NDLEY presented several petitions against calling out the militia. SUPPLY. On the motion for the House resolving itself into a Com mittee of Supply. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD rose to call the attention of the Government to the question of which he had given notice. It appeared to him to be one of great importance. The Irish poor-law differed from the English and Scotch in one most important particular. Under no circumstances whatever could out-door relief be administered by either the authority of the Commissioners or board of guardians in Ireland. In England, in cases of urgent necessity, in cases of accident, relief might be afforded, but no such power was conferred by the Irish Act. The reason he wished to call the particular attention of the Right Hon. Secretary to the necessity of the measure arose from a report returned of a number of persons, as many as two hundred, being in an absolute state of distress in Chels ; and, considering that these persons might have families, there could not be less than ore thousand individuals in a state of distress who could not be relieved, except by going into the workhouse, which probably could not accom modate them. Now, that was what he particularly wished to point out, for the Commissioners had no power whatever to administer out-door relief. The Irish poor-laws were unpopular, but how much more so would they become if some alteration did not take place ? He, therefore, called on the Right Hon. Baronet to consider what was best to be done, and if it would not be well to empower boards of guardians, under the eentrol of the Commissioners, to administer external relief in cases where they might deem it necessary. Sir JAMES GRAHAM could assure the Honour able Gentleman that the present condition of Ire land had occupied the most serious attention and anxious consideration of her Majesty's Government for some time ; and he should add that he (Sir J. Graham) was not one of those who underrated the existing difficulties and dis tresses of Ireland. The distress was evident ; and there fore, with a view to meet it, the Government had introduced measures much calculated to increase the means of employ.. ment in that country. The Public Works Bill would be brought in immediately, as also a Bill to enable grand juries to expend a sum of 100,0001. immediately after the summer assizes. There was also a Bill for the improvement of piers and harbours on the Irish coast, and a Bill to promote employ ment by carrying out fully the provisions of the Drainage Act With respect to the danger of approaching famine, he could assure the Hon. Gentleman that the Poor-law Commissioners had made full and ample arrangements; and, if unfortunately that calamity should arise, they would not be taken by sur prise. If the necessities of Ireland should require her Majesty's Government to take any extraordinary steps, they would not shrink from doing so; but the Hon. Gentleman asks to make great changes in the law with regard to the poor of Ireland, when he proposes out-door relief to the able bodied, a measure which he was sure could not be adopted by the Legislature. He (Sir James Graham) was quite sure that he did not misrepresent the feelings of the Government, when he said they could not sanction such a proposition. But he could not see, under the present temporary distress which exists in Ireland, any necessity for such a measure. Now be (sir J. Graham) had expe rience in this country of the danger of admitting, even under very severe circumstances, the claim of able-bodied pep* to relief. That system had proved to be dangerous in this nountry, and he (Sir J. Graham) could not entertain the proposition. If he acted so on general principles, how much leas inclined was he to change the existing law, under the pr sent temporary distress; more particularly as the Go-