The Sun. — London, England, 1848-03-09 00:00:00

•rdered to charge. They did so, and at the same time . Poured a volley into the mob. Thice men and a boy fell, one of them killed on the spot. The latter was shot , through the brain. I have seen his body, and he appears a man about 40 years of age, in the garb of a labourer or coal porter. Another of the men shot is a respect able person, who, the same morning, had called at the police-office in Calton to suggest the propriety of enrol ling all the shopkeepers in Calton as special constables. lie was wounded in the breast very severely, but not dangerously, it is hoped. He was amongst the crowd by accident. This painful occurrence took place in Main-street, Bridgeton, and the discharge was the means of making the mob fly in every direction. No disposition to riot has been exhibited since. The c ity ,is patrolled in every direction by cavalry, the I st oyals, the armed pensioners, police, and by special con stables. Of the latter there are 6 ; 000 or 7,000. Last Light the labourers employed by the Gorbals Gravitation h ater Company, forty-two in number, came forward, headed by their two foremen, and offered their services to Mr. Ste r lin g , the convener of Vie Police Committee. They were sworn in lay Bailie Brown and embodied. TO mention this as showing the spirit of respectable operatives who have either houses or wages to protect. The police-offices are filled with plunder, NA hich has been recovered from the thieves and robbers, including every description of articles and eatables—hardware, gold and silver watches, silver plate, tea, butter, scores of cheeses, &c. These are the plunder of the shops. In the Gentral District Police-office there are sixty six stand of arms, which have been recovered from the rioters. Many of these were picked off the street as theY were thrown down by the rioters when they were charged by the military, and others were recovered in low houses and lanes. In this office there are upwards of sixty prisoners, many of whom were captured with guns and pikes in their hands. In the Gorbals office there is also a room filled with recovered plunder, including more than a score of guns, cutlasses &c. Here there are between twenty and thirty prisoners. * also the Canton and Anderston police-offices there is luso much recovered plunder, and many prisoners. The Sheriff-Substitute (Skene) has been sitting dur ing the whole day, taking a precognition of the cases of the prisoners. Sheriff Alison is sitting with the magistrates in the Police-buildings, and every precaution is being taken to Put down this infamous rising of thieves.s The Sheriff was absent last night during the dis tUrbances, but his place was ably filled by Sheriff-Sub stitute Bell, who headed the cavalry when they dispersed the rioters, Bailie Stewart has just ridden out to the Calton dis trict at the head of a troop of Dragoons, but we under stand it is more as a measure of precaution than any thing else. There has been no more rioting. The banks are guarded, but are doing their usual business. The lower orders have no doubt been inflimed by the speeches of a parcel of low demagogues; but it is evident that plunder, not politics, has been the moving spring to this disgraceful rising. The following proclamation was issued this morning: — u 11 ROCLAXATION BY THE MAGISTRATES OF GLASGOW AND SHERIFF OF LANARKSHIRE, " The Magistrates and Sheriff deeply regret that, not withstanding the arrangements which the magistrates had made, with the assistance of the Relief Commit tee,' to provide work and food for the really necessitous Of the labouring classes, large numbers of lawless per setts who have mingled with the unemployed have this afternoon paraded the principal thoroughfares of the city a Glasgow in a tumultuous manner, and committed serious acts of riot and plunder. " The Riot Act has been read ; many of the inhabi tants have come forward and enrolled themselves as special constables ; and the military, in this and other districts, have been called to the aid of the civil autho rity. Every necessary measure will be taken to repress outrage ; and the Magistrates and Sheriff, while they caution the inhabitants in general against assembling in the streets, or other public places, call upon the well disposed of all classes to be aiding to protect property and maintain the public peace. " The Magistrates and Sheriff also appeal to the good sense of the labouring population, to repudiate the advice and discountenance the proceedings of the evil disposed, whose conduct, while it is discreditable to the city, is calculated to prejudice the interests of the well deserving. "City Chambers, Glasgow, March 6." We have received a reinforcement of dragoons from Edinburgh. Accounts from Glasgow, as late as five o'clock P.M. Yesterday, announce that the town was then perfectly tranquil. GLASGOW, HALF-PAST SIX O'CLOCX. P.M.—The autho rities are actively and energetically engaged in prevent ing a repetition of last night's disturbance, to which end a proclamation has been issued this afternoon. All is quiet at this hour. GLASGOW, MARCH 8, HALF-PAST SEVEN P.M.—The rioters seem to be subdued. We have had no additional disturbance. The special constables are nevertheless constantly in motion to prevent the gathering of crowds, or to disperse the knots of disaffected people. The Military continue at their posts in various parts of the city. It has been reported during the day, and it is believed, that the miners of Airdrie and the workmen of the Calder ironworks there intend coming to the city this evening, for the purpose of creating a serious dis turbance at the Bridgetown mills, at the eastern extra laity of Glasgow. A considerable military force is stationed within the mills so threatened. The banks have been closed since one, P.M. All business is sus pended. The London mail has not arrived. EDINBURGH, MARCII 8, NINE P.M.--Large crowds of people have assembled in High-street and its n.•igh bourhoocl without any avowed object or manifest pur pose ; but we are strong in police and specials. The:: are now out in all directions to disperse the people. EDINBURG:I, AlAncir 8, ELEVEN P.m.—The crowd has been dispersed, and the Taliant rioters have disq pearedt thanks to a few soaking showers, which have cleared the streets. MURDER OF A WIFE. GLOUCESTER, MARCH B.—The village of Twigworth, near this city, was thrown into a state of no ordinary excitement on Friday last, by a report which spread abroad that a milkman residing there, named William nail, had, in a fit of fury, murdered his wife. A crowd of persons soon hastened to the spot, when the report Was found to be too true. Those who first arrived found the wretched man himself in a stAe of stupified horror, gazing at the body of his murdered wife, which lay on the floor of the cottage. His four children were screaming at a spectacle of brutal violence, the conse quences of which they scarcely understood. From inquiries then and since made, it appears that Hall had left home early that morning, as was usual, to sell his Milk in Gloucester, and that after he did so, he spent the whole of the day in dissipation, returning to his home late in the afternoon in a furious state. His un fortunate wife began to upbraid him, when he entered the house, for his unfeeling conduct, in wasting the money required for the support of his family. High Words ensued, and then blows, screams were heard by the neighbours, and hence the alarm which brought so many to the spot. The children stated that their father kicked their mother in the stomach while she was on the ground, and that she made no noise afterwards. An inquest was held on the body yesterday, by the district coroner, when the above facts appeared in evidence, and a verdict of " Wilful murder" against William was returned by the jury, and the wretched man was fully committed for trial at the ensuing assizes. An unfor tunate accident, which may have a fatal termination, resulted from this deplorable affair. A young man, named Hobbs, who rode into Gloucester for a medical man, was thrown from the horse he rode, and fractured his skull in the fall. He is now lying dangerously ill. THE ART OF RECEIVING A DEPUTATION.—Rise SS it enters. Beg of it to be seated. Throw yourself into your arm-chair, cross your arms and legs, and listen most attentively. Take especial care that no expression escapes your countenance. Admit nothing; but just nod occasionally. Beware of a direct answer. The less you know of a subject the better ; if you aro wise you are lost. Let every one talk as much as be pleases; let the whole deputation talk together if it likes; it flatters them and protects you from accidents; in fact, say as little as you can. Show all your zeal in listening and taking notes. Dispute nothing. If facts are rather too strong for you, only express your surprise. A well timed " Indeed I" is frequently the saving of an hour, All arguments are dangerous ; they only waste time ; you do not want to be convinced, and as for convincing the deputation it is hopeless—it comes already convinced. If pressed for an opinion, express your sympathy with the important cause, and make a note in your memo randum book to give it your earliest consideration. If the deputation does not retire, call in the revenue to pour aid, enlarge on its deficiency, run largely into imports and exports, and wind up with a sharp flourish about the British constitution and the interests of the community. At this point your servant should announce some important visitor. Rise, and bow your deputation to the door, after thanking it profusely for its trouble and intelligent advice. Shake one or two gentlemen by the hand, and the next morning's account of the deputa tion will inform you that "every one was highly delighted with the extreme courtesy and affability of the noble lord." Don't look in the glass, however, for fear of laughing.—Punch. JUDGES' CHAMBERS, SERGEANTS' INN.—NOTICE. —Yesterday, Mr. Baron Parke, who sits daily at the Exchequer Chambers, Sergeants' Inn, as the Vacation Judge, issued an order that for the future, during the period of his sitting es Vacation Judge, no summonses would be heard before him after two o'clock in the day, except those that were attended by counsel. The reason assigned for issuing the above order is, that the attorneys having summonses standing for hearing before two o'clock, the hour expressly appointed for the hearing of counsel, on their summonses being called, were fre quently absent, and the Learned Judge was left for a long period in the early part of the day without any ap plication before him, and, after the cases by counsel were disposed of the parties app eared, i and the Learned Judge Was unnecessarily detainee until a late hour. To put an end to the evil, the Learned Baron issued the above order, and directed publicity being given to it by posting i as a notice to the attorneys and suitors. The Presse gives the following as an extract from a Havre letter;—" Mr. R—, one of my friends, was present at the embarkation of the ex-Bing in a fishing boat, on Thursday last. When on the point of quitting the French soil, Louis Philippe turned towards R—, and said,' Join the Republic frankly anal sincerely, for Icarry with me the French monarchy, and I shall descend with it to the tomb. I have been the last King of France. Adieu.' " RomeNcE or HISTORT.—Who would have thought that the Coming Mtn " would have been Louis Philipp. ?--Punch, THE SUN LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 0, 1848. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Advices from the Cape to the 13th of January in clusive have been received. The Laid Afrikaan, of the above date, says : " The post of Wednesday night last brings informa tion frora Kim, William's Town to the 29th ult., repre senting affairs in Kafirland itself es in a favourable state for the pacification of that country. All was tranquil. The 7th of January was the day fixed for the meeting of all the chiefs of British Kr,ffraria, when their future position, their prospects in case of good behaviour, and the course that will be pursued if the reverse, would be announced to them by her Majesty's High Commis- stoner. " This meeting will, if possible, be of greater import ance than the previous one, destined, as no doubt it is, to declare to that restless people, hitherto accustomed to nothing but licentiousness, in plain terms, that the term 'British subject,' is not a mere empty sound. That their former habits must be laid aside, and a strict obedience shown to the laws and regulations enacted for their enlightenment and civilization ; and above all that their aggressions upon their is hite neighbours cannot be prosecuted at a Jess price than their total destruction. " This, we presume, will form the principal part of the deliberations of a meeting, the result of which is anxiously anticipated by the colony at large, as the ratification or the rejection of the terms upon which the peace agreed to can only be confirmed. The task still to be performed by Sir Harry Smith—making all allow ance for his eminent qualifications—is difficult in the extreme. The conviction, however, that he is no stranger to such matters, and the recollection of his ad mirable government of the British Kafir Province in 1835.6, again fills us with the brightest expectations. A determined rigidness but justness, tempered by mercy where circumstances allowed of its exercise, was then the rule which clearly regulated all his actions, and by which, within so short a period, he made such astonish ing progress. It is indeed with heartfelt satisfaction that we bring to mind his proceedings of that time, and the paternal care with which, sometimes by force of argument, some times by well merited punishment, be endeavoured to convince both chief and subject, that a new, a better state of things had been brought about, and that a lock had been forged for the security of the colony which they would not be able to pick.' " The news from the frontier is not so satisfactory as might have been expected; as will be seen from the following extracts from the Zuid Afrihaanof the 13th January : "Fort Beaufori . :Dec. 19. " This day about eleven o'clock the Kafirs succeeded in driving off twenty Lead of the contractor's cattle. Four Kafirs only were seen by the Fingoe herds who had charge of them at the time, and who came into Beaufort as quick as possible to give information. Eight soldiers were sent out with them as a cattle guard, but who had left them and gone down to the river, when the Kafirs, watching the opportunity, succeeded kr getting off with the cattle in safety. Mr. M'Kenzic. , and two or three more, with six of the Dragoons, went off in pursuit, and have just returned (five o'clock), horses knocked up, and, as usual, unsuccessful, the ground being so hard they found it impossible to trace the spoor. How the cattle guard will come off I don't know.' " Belevue, 22d December, 1847. " The Kafirs entered our kraal last night, and cut loose eight horses. The number of marauders was sup posed to be from eight to ten, but being alarmed by the dog we immediately fired on them, and succeeded in killing one of them, but still they got off with one horse. "GEORGE CLAYTON, "JOHN CLAYTON." " Scott's Farm, Dec. 25, 1547. " I had occasion to write to you last week concerning my loss of cattle, stolen out of my kraal on the 16th instant by Kafirs, but no notice was taken of it. I am again compelled to write, as the Kafirs paid me another visit last night, the 24th, and took out of the kraal four oxen and the only cow I had, and I am sorry to say got clear off with them, although I found out that they were gone as early as half-past twelve o'clock. " JOHN PANKHURST, Sr." " Waterloo Camp. Dec. 20,1847. "Yesterday morning myself and family were walking a short distance from this camp, scarcely half a mile, when we were suddenly surrounded by five armed Kafirs, four with assegais and one with a gun •, they instantly demanded tobacco, and knives. I told them I had none, when one of them drew an assagai from his bundle and presented to my breast, which he did several times. I desired him to take it away, but he still threatened to throw it; at length he seized my hat, with which he ran off saying something in Kafir to his companions. The man with the gun presented it to my breast. I told him to take it away and go and fetch my hat, which he did not seem disposed to do. As soon as he lowered his gun I turned towards home, took my only child from my wife, and ran as quickly as possible towards the camp. We had not proceeded many paces before the man fired ; the ball passed over our heads; fear gave wings to our flight and in a few minutes we were at home. I went immediately and reported what had transpired to Captain Christy, who promptly sent out a party of Cape Mounted Riflemen, and twelve of the 91st Regiment. I went with them to the spot, showed them the spoor of the Kafirs, and returned to the camp. I am sorry to say the patrol returned in a few hours without falling in with the enemy. "JOHN EDKINS." FRIDAY.--Information has reached town of the murder last night, by the hands of Kati) s, of John Stanley, at his farm in Groblers Kloof, about ten miles S.E. of Graham's Town. From a deposition made before the magistrate it appears that the unfortunate deceased went out yesterday morning with his waggon for the purpose of cutting and bringing into town a load of fire-wood. On reaching the bush, on his own farm, a Hottentot, who accompa nial him, observed that there were several spoors or too:rasiks of Kafirs about the spot, and he remarked to his master that he thought the Kafirs themselves must be in the immediate vicinity. Stanley treated this with indifference—said he had no fear, and proceeded as usual to collect the fuel, as originally intended. They had retired to repose after the close of the day, the oxen being tied to the waggon, when the man was aroused by the discharge of fire-arms and the noise of Kafirs. Springing upon his feet and calling to his master, he fled, and when a short way off heard the cries of his un fortunate master, and who must then have been in the hands of his savage murderers. On receiving this report a patrole of the Cape Mounted Rifles was immediately sent to the spot, accompanied by the Hottentot who escaped, and by whom the remains of the unfortunate man were soon discovered. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. —The body of the murdered man has just been brought into town and delivered over to his now deso!ate and distracted widow. It was found lying on the ground at the back of his waggon, from which there is reason to believe the unfortunate man must have been dragged by the merciless savages. The two principal wounds were a gun-shot wound through the right breast, and a shocking gash at the back of the head. The back was black from contusion, and the muscles of the thighs and ribs were pierced by assagais, as though to gratify the insatiate appetite of the savages for blood. There were several wounds in the abdomen, from which the intestines were pro truding, and the grass—which had been trodden down, as though the murderers had danced round their victim—was saturated with blood. The oxen of the waggon, a gun, cooking utensils, and every por table article had been carried off. The case of this unfortunate man is one well calculated to excite public commiseration. He was sixty-seven years of age, twenty-eight years of which had been spent on this frontier, having come hither with the British emigrants of 1820 He was a native of Lichfield in England, was respectably educated, possessed considerable intelligence, and had ever evinced great industry and perseverance in the cultivation of his farm. By the Kafir invasion of 1834-5, and also the present war, he was a severe sufferer, his premises being tired, his fields laid waste, and his cattle carried off: From comfort he has latterly been reduced to poverty; his only means of subsistence being that of cutting fuel on his farm, and selling it in Graham's Town. While thus unoffensively and usefully employed, he fell, as above detailed, by the hand of the savage natives. The Graham's Town Journal contains a full report of the great meeting held by Sir Harry Smith at King William's Town on the 7th inst. The follow ing is the oath taken by the chiefs. An address from Sir Harry closed the proceedings of the day. Sir Harry was about to start for Natal, via Shiloh and Colesberg EAST INDIA HOUSE. Yesterday a special general meeting of the proprietors of stock in this corporation was held at the company's house, for the purp,se of re-considering the case of the into ex-Baja of Sattara. The chair was taken by Mr. Henry St. George Tucker. The Court was but thinly attended. The CHAIRMAN stated that since the last Court certain papers had been presented to Parliament, the titles of which would be read. The CLERK read the titles of the papers. THE EX-RAJA OF SATTARA. The CHAIRMAN stated that the Court was male special for the reconsideration of the case of the late Raja of Sattara. The CLERK read the following requisition : .._ _ . "London, 16th Feb., 1848 " To the Chairman and Directors of the East India Company " Eonourable Sirs,—We, the undersigned Proprietors of East India Stock, duly qualified by law, request that you will convene a Special General Court of Proprietors, fur the purpose of taking into consideration the accompanying resolution, and that you will be pleased to publish the same with this our requisition.—We have the honour to be, Honourable Sirs, your obedient servants, (Signed) " JOSEPH HUME. " ALEX. RAPIIAEL. " ARTHUR J. LEWIS. " J. SULLIVAN. " ROBERT J. BAGSHAW. " CHARLES FORBES. " J. W. GRAHAM. " J. WILLIAMS. '• GEO. THOMPSON." " Resolved— " That it appears by the official documents laid before this Court that, in the year 1836, a secret Inquiry was instituted, by order of the Government of Bombay, into an alleged breach of the treaty of the 25th September, 1819, subsisting between the East India Com pany and his Highness Pertaub Shean, the Raja of Sattara. " That on the 26th of October, 1836, the Raja appeared before the Sceret Commiss!on, consisting of Colonel Lodwick, Mr. Willoughby, aud Colonel Ovans, and requeste I a Mahratta copy of so much of the depositions of the two Soobalidars and the Brahmin as affected him self, which was not at the time objected to.' " That on the 27th October the Commission were occupied the greater part of this day in preparing Mahratta translations of the evidence regarding the interview at the Palace, for the ultimate use of his Highness the Raja of Sattara.' (Par. Pa. No. 569 of 1843, p. 348.) " That Sir Robert Grant, Governor of Bombay, recorded in a Minute of Council, on the 15th of August, 1837, (Par. Pa. p. 86, para. 12) 1 hat he was strongly of opinion that, before the case is conclusively disposed of, the Raja should be made acquainted with the fresh evidence that has been elicited against him, and should be allowed the opportunity of offering defence or explanation. And again, in his Minute of Council of the 20th of September, 1837, (Par. Pa. p.lOO, para. 13,) suggests, ' That Colonel Ovens should be instructed to prepare a complete statement of the case which has been established against the Raja, in order that when his inquiries are concluded, it may be furnished to his Highness for any such explanation, or answer, as lie may choose to offer.' _ . . . " That Mr. Wathen, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, in Ws letter to Colonel Ovens, dated the 27th of September, 1837, directed Colonel Ovans to prepare a complete statement of the case established against the Raja, that it may be furnished to the Raja, and that If this statement b denied, his Highness should be con fronted with the witnesses, the most effective measures being adopted for their protection.' (Par. Pa., p. 422, para. 48.) " That Sir Robert Grant, again, in a Minute of Council, dated the 31st of May, 1838, says, The Raja has not been told of the evidence taken by Colonel Ovens, and undoubtedly has a right to be heard in his vindication.' I repeat this opinion (which he) expressed in a Minute of Council, In August, 1837, not meaning that there should be merely the form or farce of a trial, to be closed by a ready-made judgment, but that the defence should be fairly heard and impar tially weighed.' (Par. Pa., p. 205, para. 53.) " That Lord Auckland, the Governor-General of India, in a Minute, dated 23d of September, 1838, ordered in the following words I would, as suggested by Sir Robert Grant, request that the Raja should be furnished with a written statement, embodying a full and clear detail of the facts connected with the several charges, and of the names (with any reservations which may be absolutely required for the safety of the party) of the witnesses by whom they are proved, with a notice of the circumstances under which the evi dence was obtained, and call for from him, within a certain reason able time to be fixed, a similar written statement of whatever he may desire to urge in his own behalf.' (Par. Pa., p. 229, pars. 12.) " That notwithstanding the preparations of the evidence promised by the Commission (which closed its proceedings on the 4th November, 1836), and the repeated desire expressed by the Governor of Bombay, and the Governor-General of India, that a statement of the whole of the evidence taken against the Raja should be placed,in his Highness's hand, such statement was withheld, for reasons secretly stated by Colonel Ovens, Colonel Ovens personally informing his Highness, ' That the proceedings of the Commission being strictly secret, it did not consider itself authorised to grant a copy or any part of those proceedings to any person whatsoever.' (Par. Pa., p. 367.) "That the dethronement of the late Raja of Sattara, when no sud den emergency, nor imminent danger, nor any preparations made by him for: commencing: hostilities,' threatened, without obtaining the previous and express sanction of the Home authorities for the act, was a - violation of the 33d George Third, cap. 52, sec. 42 and 43, made and provided to guard against and prohibit the exercise of such dangerous and despotic power by any subordinate authority in India, viz.:— " Section 43—' It sia all not be lawfhl for the Governor-General in Council, without the express command or authority of the Court of Directors, or of the Secret Committee, by the authority of the Board of Control, in any case (except where hostilities have actually been commenced, or preparations actually made for the commencement of hostilities against the British nation in India), either to declare war,"or commence hostilities, or enter into any treaty for making war, &c.' " Resolved,—That this Court, taking all these circumstances into consideration, is of opinion that the dethronement of the Raja of Sattara, by Sir James Carnac, without furnishing him with a copy of the evidence taken in secret against him, and thereby withholding from him the means of making a defence, and without the previous consent and authority of the Court of Directors, or the Secret Cons. mittce of that Court, and of the Board of Control, was unjust, pre mature, and contrary to law ; and, therefore, the guilt or innocence of the late Raja of Sattara, and the conduct of the Bombay Govern ment, in these transactions, ought to be made the subject of a public and impartial inquiry, alike for the protection of the Princes of India in alliance with the East India Company, from the perpetration of similar wrongs, for the satisfaction of the ends of justice, and for the vindication of the honour of the British nation, and the security of the British Empire in the East." Mr. JOSEPH HILTHE, M.P., complained that the ballot had not been taken on the last meeting. The Court was asked only to retrace its steps, and re-open the inquiry as to the innocence of the ex-Raja of Sattara. The Hon. Proprietor then reviewed the proceedings of the Court of Directors, which have already been fully re ported. .From first to last the ex-Raja had not had a fair trial. The Raja did not even know the charges brought against him—a privilege allowed to the lowest mechanic in this nation. He was never allowed to pro tect himself from the charges. The conduct of the Government of India had been most heinous, and the time would come when the people of India would rise against such injustice being continued. The character of England was as much jeopardised as the Government of India in refusing a fair trial. Lord Auckland, while Governor-General of India, wished the ex-Raja to be furnished with lull statements of the charges brought against him. There was a secret motive in the conduct of the Bombay Government, which he (Mr. Hume) was anxious to fathom. But still this most reasonable request was never complied with. Let the Court of Proprietors do justice to the ex-Rija's memory. His (Mr. Hume's) object was to obtain a ballot. Such a tissue of injustice could not much longer last. He would persevere until justice was done to the late ex-Raja. The Court of Directors had not sustained the dignity of the Govern ment of India. So confident was the ex-Raja, that be declared he would retire from his post while the inquiry went on. He (Mr. Hume) wanted to know the secret of this most abominable proceeding against the late ex- Raja. Under all these circumstances, he should move the resolution. The stability of the Government of India depended upon justice being done to the late ex- Raja. It was no time to trifle with the people of India. Mr. Hume tendered an addition to the resolution, which was as follows: " We, the undersigned proprietors of East India stock, duly qualified by law, and present in Court, do request that the Court of Directors will appoint a ballot, accord ing to chap. 8, sec. 1, of the By Laws, to determine the question this day brought before .the General Court, relative to the late Raja of Sattara.—Signed, Joseph Hume, J. Sullivan" John Briggs, S. Gazelee, Hankey, Johnston, H. Stephen, Arthur J. Lewis, Thomas Newham.—March 8, 1848." The CHAIRMAN would not receive any addition at the present moment. He intended to move an amendment, that of adjournment. Mr. Serjeant GAZELEE protested against this course. If these questions of adjournments are to be moved, the fate of the Court-of- Direcfors was sealed. He had the utmost respect for the directors, but they had got into bad comparly.—(Laughter.) The by-law upon the question of adjournment was illegal, and the proprietors would subscribe their money, and fight the directors upon the point. Mr. SULLIVAN said the ex-Rajah had been dethroned and deprived upon ex-parte evidence. Had the directors or the Government of India the power to set up or pull down native Princes at their pleasure, contrary to solemn treaties, as in the case of the ex-Raja of Sattara ? Did the Court of Proprietors do wrong in their course of proceeding, in not seeing if the Raja was innocent or guilty ? If the directors had done wrong, let them retrace their steps. Was not the Raja's throne in per petuity granted to himself, or his heirs, or by adoption. There was not a native Prince of India whose fate might not be that of the late Raja of Sattara. There was a public opinion in India that could not be sup pressed. The native army of India might become affected by a continuance of the injustice to the ex-Raja of Sattara. Mr. LEWIS contended that the by-law, by which the Court was attempted to be coerced, was illegal. It was as follows: " Bylaw, chapter 8, sec. I.—Then it is ordained, that if, at any general Court, nine of the members present duly qualified to vote, shall demand a ballot for deter mining any question, except for adjournment, or the previous question, or an amendment, such question shall be put by the ballot, and not otherwise." After some discussion upon the subject, Mr. WIGRAM held that there were no difficulties in the case ; unless these laws were under appeal, the Court of Directors were bound to abide by them. The privilege of the pro prietor was to move an amendment or an adjournment. Mr. THOMPSON, M.P., held, if such be the law, it nullified the Charter of the Corporation. The ballot was given to the proprietors for their protection, and not to overpower those who were the friends of justice and truth. The most eminent men in the country were in favour of the cause of the late Raja, including that high and honourable man, Mountstuart Elphinstone. The Court of Directors were not asked to revise their opinion ; they were only asked for a full inquiry. The Hon. Proprietor condemned the conduct of Sir Robert Grant, in keeping back papers ' connected with the charges against the late Raja. Was not this a subject for full inquiry ? Had the Court of Directors no sympathy for the character of the late Sir Robert Grant ? Why, then, refuse an inquiry ? He wanted to have an inquiry into the conduct of Sir James Carnao. He went out a friend of the late Raja, and be came his enemy. The Court of Proprietors only wanted a full inquiry into the course pursued by the Government in India, and in the policy of the course adopted by the Court of Directors. They wanted to know the legality of the dethronement of the Raja. Would the legal ad viser of the court say that the dethronement was legal. Why was not he (Mr. Thompson) prosecuted for the charges he had openly brought against Colonel Ovens ? Ile repeated those charges. The character of the com pany was bound up in this question—the fate of Princes and of treaties in India, as well as that of the lowest of the people, was concerned in this base transaction connected with the ex-Raja. He would say—perish the East India Company, its patronage, its pelf, its cor ruption, rather than injustice to any one of the people of India. Would not the Court of Directors heed the signs of the times? This one act of injustice, if fully understood, would consign the company to infamy. The people of India were oppressed to a degree almost past bearing. Sir J. W. HOGG defended the legality of the by-law, and said that the right to ballot was not given by common law, or Buy statute, but only by the by-law of the com- pally. The ballot could not be demanded until after it was known what amendment would be proposed to the original motion, which ceased to be the question before the Court the moment that a motion for an adjournment was made, and which took precedence of every other question. It was the duty of the Court to uphold the by-laws which had been framed by themselves.—(No, no.) He approved of the course pursued by the chair man in stating at once his intention to move an adjourn ment, instead of delaying making such intention known until a late period of the debate. The whole question of the case of the Raja had been discussed over and over again in that court, and a dozen times at least decided on its merits.—(No, no.) Why was not a ballot demanded on any one of those occasions? Why was that course now adopted as a last resource? He next alluded to the proceedings at the last Court, and to the few votes given on that occasion, notwithstanding the efforts made by Mr. Hume, by sending i circular letter to every indivi dual proprietor, imploring his personal attendance — (Hear) —but yet, out of 2,000 proprietors, he obtained the votes of twenty-two only.—(Hear, hear.) The ad journment was moved out ot respect to the proprietors who had declined to interfere in the case of the Raja. They had decided on the case twenty or thirty times at least, and it had also been decided in the House of Com mons. Were the directors to treat all those decisions as nothing—(Hear)—and treat with contempt the deci sions repeatedly given by vast majorities of the Court ? It was for the benefit of India that the further agitation of this question should be put down.—(Hear.) Mr. litistE proposed that the original motion should now be put. The CHAIRMAN desired the clerk to read the motion, but previous to that being done, said he considered the question was long ago finally disposed of by that Court. No practical good could result from leaving it to be de cided by ballot by two thousand proprietors, very few of whom took any interest in it, or knew anything at all about the question, which was too complicated for the majority of them to understand. He had no wish to resort to any trickery—those who had watched his public conduct for the last fifty years knew that he was above anything of the kind. The course he proposed was the result of his honest conviction.—(Hear.) Mr. HuliE said the proprietors generally took more interest in this question than the Hon. Chairman sup posed, and he wished them to have an opportunity of expressing their opinion. He should place his protest before the chairman, and then leave the Court. The Hon. Proprietor then withdrew. Mr. CLARKE disapproved of any further discussion of the question, now that the Raja was dead, and had not left a successor to the throne, and, consequently, all his political rights had died with him. He should like to know who was to benefit by any further investigation of the matter ? No case had ever undergo.o grpater discussion. The conduct of the Government of Bombiy had been fully discussed. He thought that the property taken from the Raja should be given to his surviving relatives, and that course, he hoped, would put an end to all further agitation of the matter.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. WEEDING defended the course pursued by the Government of India with reference to the case of the Raja. General BRIGGS said the late Raja had a right to adopt a son, who, at his death, was entitled to succeed not only to his property, but to his political rights and privileges. Sergeant GeaELEE remarked that when the Chairman wanted votes he did not object to receive those even of the old ladies. The CHAIRMAN, in answer to a question from Mr. Sullivan, said that no doubt the Standing Council of the East India Company would furnish a written opinion relative to the by-law. The Court then on the question adjourned. MAGAZINES, &c. (CONTINUED). DOUGLAS JERRoLD'S MAGAZINE. " Twiddlethumb Town " is capital. The editor has manifestly been inspiring of late the atmosphere breathed by the giant Gargantua and the eccentric and inimitable Pantagruel. There is only one thing within our recollection at all comparable to Twiddle thumb Town, and that is Clovernook. Douglas Jerrold could alone have imagined to himself the unctious visage and jovial paunch of his Reverence the Hermit of Bellyful, and no one but Douglas Jerrold could by any possibility have conceived his Highness the Duke de Bobs. Then his commentary on the Posset March, that wonderful piece of instrumentation which was de scriptive "in sound" of every incident of man's life, from the cradle to the bier, from the midwife to the undertaker—" the flute cooing in long clothes ; the fife screeching at the nurse ; the fiddle running alone ; the- drum tumbling down ; the clarionet squalling ; the bassoon grumbling over sugar to make all well again I" Well may he exclaim at last, "It is a wonderful composition, sir, the Posset March 1" Add to this the history of " Melon- and-Pepper," the Duke's own newspaper, and that incidental sentence addressed to the reader sotle voce—" You, sir, are scholar enough to know that the first newspaper published was the Sybil's leaves, very irregularly deli vered by the winds atthe Gizmo= beershops." Pignutz, the editor of the Melon- and-Pepper, is an outline so exquisitely caustic that we suspect it to be a por traiture—the writer speaks of him in a tone that is throughout .a snarl. Speaking of the ridiculous cus tom of firing guns in commemoration of the birth of the babes of great personages, Douglas Jerrold starts a merry notion, which we transcribe. Why should not man, says he, announce his more important doings with the blast of gunpowder I ) " He ought, on all occasions, to season his triumphs with the relish of saltpetre. Philosophers and sages are thought so little of because of their silence. To be taciturn is, we take it, to be contemptible. Astronomy herself has suffered much from the neglectful quietude of those who minister to her. " A new star is discovered. Another diamond known upon the frontlet of Eternity. Unborn millions are inheritors of the glory of its knowledge. And no guns are tired ; there is no noise, no heart-delighting rever beration. None. Wisdom is brought a bed, and there is no salvo to proclaim the little stranger. " We think this very wrong of the world at large ; and very foolish of wisdom herself. We are convinced or Ii :. SIM guava 111 , ,, , LNa {dawn 0110 Altscal rn plicity, Hence, contemplating anew the use and beauty of noise, we would have all colleges mounted with a cer , tain number of brass ordnance : to the end, that all proctors, and fellows, and students, might make known in the most glorious—that is in the most thundering— manner the triumphs of their solitary hours. " Imagine, all the sons of Alma Mater roused up in their shirts, at dead night—bounced out of their beds— by the first gun, the first of a round dozen, that should announce to all the foundation that the true reading of a long fought-for Greek text was at length discovered! "And Metaphysics should have the use of the battery, and with ready lighted fusee be prepared, at least every other night, to wake the college. " Indeed, every science should have free access to the brass battery, with unlimited supply of powder, to make known every birth of every truth, though the smallest seven month babyling. To be sure, now and then, there might arise a difference—a quarrel ;so many dis co ,verers requiring to blaze away at the same time. This dilemma, however, might be prevented by some iron rules to be, after the manner of an {ostrich, well digested. • " And batteries once mounted upon the colleges, pri vate students might, in due course, be allowed the use of rejoicing, glorifying gunpowder. As thus, sir. You are a sculptor. Why, for these two years your heart has been pulsating in that bit of marble ; whence, by degrees, the vans of cupid have unfolded themselves — that chrystal lump of stone warmed with your daily doings into winged life. The arms and legs break from the block—the body throbs from it—the clustering ringlets are shaken out—and the soul dawns upon the Cupid's face, as light steals upon the lily. " And now, sir, wherefore should you not be permit ted to fire a salvo in honour of your marble child ? Your immortal bit of Parian, laughing at death ? Still, your laughing baby, when unborn great-great-grand fathers are crumbling into dust ? And yet, sir, you are not to he permitted to have a few pounds of powder for your infant's glorification. Happily, it is otherwise with with the Babies of Dukes." Among the miscellaneous contributions to Douglas Jerrold's Magazine, one of the most excellent is the disquisition on the " Gods of Greece," that fertile field of antique poetry. " How Soldiers are made in Prussia" should be read with particular curiosity now that the militia movement has set the minds of all Englishmen a-soldiering. Several other papers are in the number quite worthy of the periodical. DOMBEY AND SON. No. XVIII. By Charles Dickens. In the fifty-fifth chapter " Rob the Grinder" loses his place in this wise :—Mr. Carker flies in a panic from Dijon, hurries through Paris, through Boulogne to England ; after stopping at a little secluded station on one of the railways, he walks out in the grey of the morning—suddenly beholds to his horror the face of Mr. Dombey—recoils—and then— " He heard a shout—another—saw the face change from its vindictive passion to a faint sickness and terror —felt the earth tremble—knew in a moment that the rush was come—uttered a shriek—looked round—saw the red eyes, bleared and dim, in the daylight, close upon him—was beaten down, caught up, and whirled away upon a jagged mill, that spun him round and round, and struck him limb from limb, and licked his stream of life up with its fiery heat, and cast his mutilated fragments in the air." He is thus destroyed by a railway engine ; and we hear no more of the horrified merchant in the present number. Before we proceed to the other revelations of the story, we must transcribe one passage—a pas sage admirably truthful of a hurried journey in a phaeton-and-four through a continental country : ";The monotonous ringing; of the bells and tramping of the horses; the monotony of his anxiety and useless rage; the monotonous wheel of fear, regret, and passion, he kept turning round and round; made the journey like a vision, in which nothing was quite real but his own torment. " It was a vision of long roads, that stretched away to an horiz )n, always receding and never gained; of ill paved towns, up bill and down, where faces came to dark doors and ill-glazed windows, and where rows of mud bespattered cows and oxen were tied up for sale in the long narrow streets, butting and lowing, and receiving blows on their blunt heads from bludgeons that might have beaten them in; of bridges, crosses, churches, post yards, new horses being put in against their wills, and the horses of the last stage reeking, panting, and laying their drooping heads together dolefully at stable doors; of little cemeteries with black crosses settled sideways in the graves, and withered wreaths upon them dropping away; again of long, long roads, dragging themselves out, up hill and down, to the treacherous horizon. " Of morning, noon, and sunset; night, and the rising of an early moon. Of long roads temporarily lett behind, and a rough pavement reached; of battering and clattering over it, and looking up, among house-roofs, at a great church tower; of getting out and eating hastily, and drinking draughts of wine that had no cheering influence; of coming forth afoot, among a host of beggars—blind men with quivering eyelids, led by old women holding candles to their faces; idiot girls ; the lame, the epileptic, and the palsied—of passing through the clamour, and looking from his seat at the upturned countenances and outstretched hands, with a hurried dread of recognising some pursuer pressing forward—of galloping away again, upon the long, long road, gathered up, dull and stunned in his corner, or rising to see where the moon shone faintly on a patch of the samo endless road miles away, or looking back to see who followed. " Of never sleeping, but sometimes dozing with un closed eyes, and springing up with a start, and a reply aloud to an imaginary voice. Of cursing himself for being there, for having fled, for having let her go, for not having confronted and defied him. Of having a deadly quarrel with the whole world, but chiefly with himself. Of blighting everything with his black mood as he was carried on and away. " It was a fevered vision of things past and present all confounded together; of his life and journey blended into one. Of being madly hurried somewhere, whither ho must go. Of old scenes starting up among the novel ties through which he travelled. Of musing and brooding over what was past and distant, and seeming to take no notice of the actual objects ho encountered, but with a wearisome exhausting conciousness of being bewildered by them, and having their images all crowded in his hot brain after they were gone. " A vision of change upon change, and still the same monotony of bells and wheels, and horses' feet, and no rest. Of town and country, post-yards, horses, drivers, hill and valley, light and darkness, road and pavement, height and hollow, wet weather and dry, and still the same monotony of bells and wheels, and horses' feet, and no rest. A vision of .tending on, at last, towards the distant capital, by busier roads, and sweeping round, by old cathedrals, and dashing through small towns and villages, less thinly scattered on the road than formerly, and sitting shrouded in his corner, with his cloak up to his face, as people passing by looked at him. " Of rolling on and on, always postponing thought, and always racked with thinking; of being unable to reckon up the hours he had been upon the road, or to com p re hend the points of time and place in his journey. Of being parched and giddy, and half mad. Of pressing on, in spite of all, as if he could not stop, and coming into Paris, where the turbid river held its swift course undisturbed, between two brawling streams of life and motion. " A troubled vision, then, of bridges, quays, inter minable streets; of wine shops, water-carriers, great crowds of people, soldiers, coaches, military drums, arcades. Of the monotony of bells and wheels and horses' feet being at leng th lost in the universal din and uproar. Of the gradual subsidence of that noise as he passed out in another carriage, by a different barrier from that by which he had entered. Of the restoration, as he travelled on towards the sea-coast, of the mo notony of bells, and wheels, and horses' feet, and no rest. "Of sunset-once again, and nightfall. Of long roads again, and dead of night, and feeble lights in windows by the road-side; and still the old monotony of bells, and wheels, and horses' feet, and no rest. Of dawn, and daybreak, and the rising of the sun. Of toiling slowly up a bill, and feeling on its top the fresh sea-breeze; and seing the morning light upon the edges of the distant waves. Of coming down into a harbour when the tide was at its full, and seeing fishing-boats float in, and glad women and children waiting for them. Of nets and seamen's clothes :spread out to dry upon the shore; of busy sailors, and their voices high among ships' masts and rigging; of the buoyancy and brightness of the water, and the universal sparkling. " Of receding from the coast, and looking back upon it from the deck when it was a haze upon the water, with here and there a little opening of bright land where the sun struck. Of the swell, and flash, and murmur of the calm sca. Of another grey line on the ocean, on the vessel's track, fast growing clearer and higher. Of cliffs, and buildings, and a windmill, and a church, becoming more and more visible upon it. Of steaming on at last into smooth water, and mooring to a pier whence groups of people looked down, greeting friends on board. Of disembarking, passing among them quickly, shunning every one; and of being at last again in England." The cows splashed with mud, and " receiving blows on their blunt heads from bludgeons that might have beaten them in," is eminently Boz-like : also the " bellowing and clattering" over the city pavement. In the succeeding chapters Florence and Walter get married to the delight of Captain Cuttle, of Miss Nipper (who has come up from the country to attend her old mistress for a time), of Mrs. Richards, other wise Polly Toodles (who is engaged as a temporary assistant), of old Soil Gills (who returns suddenly one evening from his travels in search of his " nevy "), even of good Mr. Toots (who magnanimously swal lows his jealousy, declaring it to he " not of the slightest consequence"), but to the inextinguishable disgust of the Game Chicken who had expected to be Felled upon to " double somebody up," und, regard ing Mr. Toots's conduct as mean, leaves him and sets up in the public line. All these things are told in capital style as only Dickens can tell them, and the number closes with the departure of the young mar ried couple aboard a vessel on a voyage to China. THE OATH. Know you this, " Inkosi Inkulu," our own " Inkosi Inkulu," representative of our great Queen of England, that I (hear the chief repeats his name) will be faithful and true unto you, or to whomsoever her Majesty places over 1.18, and faith to you bear for the lands which I hope to hold of you, and that I will lawfully do to you the customs and services which I ought to do in the terms assigned, viz. : I. To obey the laws and commands of the " 'piton Inkulu," the representative of our great Queen, and the commissioners given to protect us. 2. To compel my people to do the same. 3. To disbelieve in, and cease to tolerate or practise, witchcraft in any shape. 4. To prevent all violations of our women. (I will not allow the women to be violated.) ..._ 5. To abhor murder ; and to put to death every mur derer. . _ 6. To make my people honest and peaceable, never to rob from the colony, and never from one another. 7. To acknowledge to hold my lands, not as a matter of right, which is forfeited by my own trangressions, murders, and spoliations, on the peaceable inhabitants of the colony, but from her Majesty. A. To acknowledge no chief but her Majesty the Queen of England, and her "Inkosi Inkulu," or whom soever he leaves in his name, aided by the Commis sioners Mackinnon, Maclean, Brownlee, and Fynn. 9. To abolish the sin of buying wives. (You shall not buy vt it is the base of all robbery.) 10. To listen to the missionaries, and make my people do so, anti to be glad to send our children to school, to learn those habits of industry and knowledge which make Englishmen rich, good, happy, and clothed. (Ask Sandilli where the pouch is I gave him long ago. Look at him now! Next year I hope to see him rich and clothed, Almighty God looking down upon him and enriching him.) 11. On the anniversary of this day to bring here to King William's Town one fat ox, in testimony and ac knowledgment of the land I hold from her Majesty. REQUISITION TO MR. CARDWELL TO RESIGN.— At a meeting of the National Confederation, Liverpool, held yesterday, a requisition to Mr. Cardwell, calling upon him to resign his seat as one of the representatives of that town, in consequence of his vote against Mr. Horsman's motion for a more equitable adjustment of the income-tax, was unanimously adopted. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) TUEIWAY, MARCH 7. STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE. The following Resolution was reported from the aboys Committee That in the ease of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway aad Wilsontown, Morningside, and Coltness Railway Amalgamation petition, to suspend standing order, No. 127, the standing order ought not to be dis pensed with.—Report to lie on the table. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8. ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL. (IN THE COMMITTEE.) First Clause (That from and after the passing of this Act, the several Acts hereinafter mentioned, or so much and such parts of any of them as are hereinafter specified, shall be re pealed):--Amendment proposed, to leave out the words " shall be repealed :"—Question put, " That the words pro posed to be left out stand part of the Clause." The Com mittee divided : MAJORITY-AYES, 94. Adair, R. Shafto Henry, Alexander Scully, Francis Baines, M. T. Ilervey, Lord A. Seep, Charles Barrington, Viscount Heywood, James Seymour, Lord Bellew, R. M. Hodges, T. L. Shell, R. L.. Berkeley, Grantley Jervis, Sir,..John Slaney, Robert A. Brockman, E. D. Johnstone, Sir J. Somerville, Sir W. Brotherton,:J. Keating, Robert Stansfield, W. R. C. Carter, John B. Kershaw, James Strickland, Sir G. Clements, Charles King, Peter John Strutt, Edward Cobden, R. Macuarnara, Major Sullivan, Mickael Craig, W. G. Meagher, Thomas Sutton, 11. M. Cubittt, William Maitland, T., Talbot, J. H. Divett, E. Martin, J. Tenison, E. K. Drumlaikrig, Via. Martin, C. W. Thompson, Colonel Drummond, H. Mises, R. M. Thoruely, T. Duncan, Viscount Monsell, William T.wnshend. Joha Dunne, Francis F. Morison, General Trelawny, J. S. East, Sir J. B. Mowatt, Francis Tufnell, H. Ebrington, Lord Nugent, sir Percy Urquhart, David Evans, William O'Brien, J. Vane, Lord li. Ewart, William O'Brien, Sir Lucius Villiers, Charles Fagan, William O'Brien, W. S. Waklcy, Thomas Fitzpatrick, J W. O'Flaherty, Anthony Walmsley, Sir J. Fordyce, A. 1). Pendarves, Edward Wawn, J. T. Fox, Richard M. l'erfect, Robert Williamson, Sir H. V. x, W. J. Pigott, Francis Wilson, Matthew Gardner, J. D. Pilkington, James Wood, Sir Charles Gibson, T. M. Power, .N icholas Yorke, 11. IL. Glyn, George Carr Puscy,'Philip Graham, Sir James Raphael, Alexander Greene, John Reynolds, John Greene Thomas Russell, F. C. 11. Grey, Sir G. Sadleir, John TELLSRS. Anntey, Thomas C. Arundel, Earl of MINORITY—NOES, N. Adderiey, C. B. Dodd, G. Long, Waiter Alexander, N. Duncombe, 0. Lygon, Gen. Arbutlmott, Hugh Flolliott, J. Mahon, Viscount Archdall, Captala Frewen, C. H. Manners, Lord C. A r kwright, G. Fuller, A. E. Miles, P. W. S. Baldock, E. IL Gore, W. 0. Mundy, E. Miller Bunbow, John Goring, Charles Plumptre, J. P. * Bl ac k s tone, IN . , A . Goulburn, Henry Sandars, George Brack:cy, Vise tint Greenall, Gilbert Sibthorp, Colonel B rein ridge,:lticliard Gwyn, , I/ owe , Smollett, A. B ro oke, Sir Arthur lialtord, Sir Henry Sotheron, T. 11. S. Bruce, C. L. C. Harris, Hon. Capt. Spooner, It. Buck, L. W. Heald, James Staffsrd, Augustus Carew, W. P. Henley, J. W. Tollemache, John Chaplin, W. J. Hildyard, It. C, Vyse, It. 11. 14. H. Samuel Hood, Sir Al exan d er Waddington, 11. S. BoPe, Sir J. Wellesley, Lord C. Co d r i ng ton, Sir W. Jones, Sir W. Campton, 11. C. Knox, Colon e l TELLE/L3. Conolly, Col. Law, C. E. Inglis, Sirtlt. .1 Christy, Clive, Deering, John Lindsay, Colonel Newdegate, C. N. Same Clause (Repeal of A c t s a ff ec ti ng R oma n C a th o li c Subjects, 1 Eliz. c. 1) : — Amendment proposed, page 2, line alsowor words proposed r w o p h o o s l e e a " to p a b g e e 17, to leave out all the words from the words " shall be re pealed,"le3tl out line stand part Ques otifotnhe Clause." The Committee divided :- 11:1AJORITY—AY ES, 1i 1. Gladstone, W. E. Power, licholas Glyn, G, C . ,dare, Viscount Pusey, P. Alcock, Thomas Goulburn, Henry Raphael, Alexander t p o u t 4 ll , l T vo h r a d t s t : e Graham, Sir James Rawdon, Colonel Anson, Viscount Sir A. Greene, John Reynolds, John Armstreng, Baines, M. T. Greene, Thomas , Russell, F. C. Grey, si r G. Sadleir, John Baring, W. H. Henry. Alexander Bell, John Grosvenor, Lord R. Scholefield, William Adair, R. Sha ft o Bellew, it. M. Haggitt, h.... a . Scully, Francis Berkeley, H. Herve Berkeley, Grantley y, Lord I. Shell, R. L. IleYwood James Shelburne, Earl of Blackall, S. W. Seymour, Lord Hedges, T . L. Simeon, John Blake, M. J. Hope , Alexander Stanley, E. J. Bowring, Dr. Brockman, K. D. Hughes, W. B. Somerville, Sir W. B ro th e rton, JesePn ._ Jervis, Sir John Stansfleld, W. R. Bunbury, -ward Johnstone, Sir J. Strickland, Sir G. Keating, John St ru tt, Edward Burke, Sir T. J. Keogh, William Stuart, Lord D. 13usfeild, W. Kennel, G. T. Stuart, Lord J. Campbell, W. F. Kershaw, Jamee Sullivan, Michael Carter, J. B. Batton, Henry Lawiess4c ecii Talbot, J. H. Clay, James Lemon Sir Clements, Charier . Charles Tenison, E. K. Lewis, Sir T. Cobden, Richard Tennant, .J. Lewis, George C. Thicknesse, Ralph Cochrane, A. Colebrook°, Sir T. Lushington, Charles Thompson, Colonel Cayley, Edward S. King, p. Corbally, M. B. Macnamara, Major Th orne l y, Th omas h J Gregor, ' on Cowan, Charles M Towneley, John Crawford, W. S. Meagher, Themes Townshen d , C ap t a i n Cubitt, William Mahon, O'Gernsaa Trelawny, J. S. Dalrymple, Captain Mahon, Viscount Tuiliell, Henry Darner, Colonel Maitland, Thomas Turner, Edmund Dawson, T. V. Marshall, J. G. T ynte, C o l one l Divett, Edward M a rtin, J. U rquhart, D av id Drumlaririg, Vie. M a rtin, C. W. Vane, Lord H. Duncan Lord Melgund, Thicoan t Wakley, Thome" Duncan, George Mitchell, T. A. W a ll, C. B. Dunne, F. P. Monsen, William W a i ms l e y, Si r J. East, Sir J. B. M oo re, George ii. W atk i ns, C o l one l Mulgrave, Earl Westhead, J. P. Evans, William , N u gent, Sir Percy Williamson, Sir 11. Evart, William O'Brien, John Wilson, Matthew Fagan, William. iT. S. Ebrington, Viscount Mowatt, Franc is__ Wawa, J T. Wood, Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, J. W. O'Brien , O'FlahertY, AstimsY Wood, - W. P. Fordyce, A. D. .1. W. Wyvill, Marmadake Forster, Mathew' Patten , Fortescue, Chichester Pechell , ,Captain Robert Fortescue, J. W. Perfect , TELLIES. Fox, Richard M. miarton, James Anstey,.Tkomaa Fox, W. J. Pinney, W. Arundel, Earl of Gardner, J. D. Power, Dr. MINORITY—NOES, 119. Dod, J. W. .., l i. Mackenzie, W. F. H. Drummond. , • M'Naghten, Sir E. Duckworth, Sir..J. Manners, Lord C. Buncombe, 0 • March, Earl of Du Pre, C. O. Maxwell, Hon. J. P. Farrer, James Meux, Sir Henry Ffolliott, J. Miles, Philip W. S. Filmer, Sir:E. Moody, O. A. Forbes, William Mundy, E.IM. Fox, S. L. Necld, John Frewen, C. H. Newdegate, N. Fuller, A.B. Palmer, Robert Gooch, E. S. Pigott, Francis Gordon, Admiral Plumptre,ld. P. Gore, W. B. O. Plowden, W. H. Goring, Charles Hale, R. 13. Sanders, George Raiford, Sir 1 , -, _. Seymer, Henry Ker Harris, :Captai n Shirley, E. J. Heald, James Sibthorp, Colonel lleneage, Ileathcote, Sir W. Swollen, A. oG,ryeyenn,alHl,•Gyrielbi Gilbert RRl'reuipsmhi,tlll,occ.kalvarpt.dati. Spooner, Richard Stafford, Augustus i l I I e i l r d r y i e a s r ' d j , Etd.nwea?r'd • . Stanley, Edward Rildyard, T. B. T. Stuart, Henry Hood, Sir A. Stuart, J. Hope, Sir J. Taylor, T. E. Hotham, Lord Thelnhill, G. Hudson, George Trollope, Sir J. Inglis, Sir E. H. Vyse, R. H. Ireland, Thomas J. Waddington, David Jolltffe, Sir W H. IL Waddington, H. S. Jones, Sir W. Willoughby, Sir H. Jones, Captain Yorke, E. T. Knox, Colonel L L i ndsa y ,ong , W. Colonel TELLXIS. Henley, J. W. Lowther, Henry Law, C. E. Dnon, Gooral Adderley, C. B. Alexander, N. Arbutluteti, H. Arkwright, George Bagge, W. Bailey, Joseph Baldja, E. 11. Barrington, Lord Bellboy, John Bennet, P. Beresford, William Blackstone, W. Boldero, henry Bolling, William Bowles, Admiral Brackley, Viscount Bremridgo, Richard Brooke, Lord Brooke, Sir A. B. Bruce, Lord E. Bruce, C.L. Bu , 'k:L.lV, Bullor, air J. Y. Sunbury, W. Burghley, Lord Carew,LW. P. Chaplin, W. J. Chichester, Lord J. Cholmeley, Sir M. Christopher, B. Christy, Samuel Cobbold, John C. Cocks, Thomas S. Codrington, Sir W. Cole, H. A. Colvile, Compton, 11. C. Conolly, Colonel Cotton, W. Deedea, W. Deorliii, Jolla P. HOOD. One of the ablest numbers of Hood that has ap• peared for a considerable time—several of the con tributions being of superior excellence. As yet we cannot exactly perceive how " The Times; or, Mo dern Philosophy," can be called by the editor a novel. A curiosity it unquestionably is, but beyond that we are unable to speak until the narrative is more developed. " The Treasure Seeker of Herculaneum," by Horace St. John, is a graceful imagination; and the " Noctes Dramatic," is a pleasant contribution though one headed by rather a dangerous title, as one in.cicuclug a (claimable comparison with the famous and delectable " Noctes Ambrosianm." Among the other papers for March we must particu larise the continuation of the " Peminiscenses of a Retired Surgeon," although that again is a theme which in its name excites a perillous comparison with the memorable" Diary of a Late Physician." In the general arrangement of the magazine there is, altogether, a decided improvement. THE METROPOLITAN. An extremely sententious but sound and clever essay on " The Fictitious and Popular Literature of the Day," is contained in the number of the Metropolitan for March, penned by a contributor who modestly con ceals his name under his initials. " A Few Thoughts on Wine" are decidedly thoughts of flavour—they might impart a relish to a dish of walnuts, and a jug of claret. "Clarendon" is the serial tale of the Metro politan, and is continued with spirit, though the writer is occasionally given to a rather undue amount of prolixity. " Alarmaduke Hutton," in like manner, affords an agreeable half-hour's reading, though we are more than doubtful that the mind of the reader during that half-hour would be rather entertained than ripened. THE MAN IN THE MOON. Under the facetious editorship of Angus B. Reach (Albert Smith having withdrawn from his literary partnership in the undertaking) ;The Man in the Moon progresses! ridiculously well. The adven tures of, Mr. Touchango Jones are pursued with a grotesque pencil, by Hine —so, at least, we imagine, from the very laughable sketch of Bones, and the exquisite (denouement in which the hero becomes the King of Quashybungo. As a Fancy Portrait, the woodcut of a red Indian, tatooed frightfully, with an inkstand as a top-knot, two quill pens decorating his ears, a tomahawk in his girdle, and a scho lastic bludgeon in his hand, Mr. Walter Savage Landor is correct. One capital definition we must give—it is the word " muff." "A muff is a thing which holds a young lady's hand without squeezing it." That is a better definition, we take it, than could have been given by Johnson or Boyer. " Mr. Chisholm Anstey's Dream" is the best thing in the number. The third black sketch in it, is inimi table—a very calotype of the Foreign Secretary. THE ECLECTIC REVIEW. A spirited defence of the Dissenters from the charge of ignorance commences the March number of the Eclectic, though the defence is tempered with recom mendations as to the improvement of the literature sup ported by that portion of the Christian world in Eng land. A review of " Richardson's Travels in the Sallara" is followed by an indifferent criticism on the splendid work of the Republican statesman Lanartine —" The history of the Girondists." In a foot-note we observe that the eloquent and noble Christian, the Count de Montalembert—le jeune homrne—is spoken of as a bigotted Legitimist,:when only a few days back that young orator gave in his adhesion to the Provi sional Government. These blunders, however, arising from virulence of religious opinion, are amply com pensated by the generous and enlightened commen tary upon the Jewish Disabilities Bill, with which the Eclectic concludes. LE FOLLET. Another number (the eighteenth) of Le Pullet, only confirms us in the opinion we have already frequently expressed, that it is wholly without a competitor. The plates are beautifully engraved, sketched, coloured, and printed, and are worthy of preservation as delicate illustrations of the female costumes of civilized life. DAVIDSOIV'S CLASSICAL ATLAS. So many maps have already appeared illustrative of modern and antique geography, that we cannot but look with considerable incredulity upon a prospectus or a title-page which arrogates to any new publica tion of the like kind a decided superiority over its predecessors. Here, however, is an atlas upon "an entirely new plan," and such .a plan as must secure to it the approbation of even the most fastidious. We do not recollect ever to have seen a volume of maps so remarkable for neatness, compactness, and accu racy. The whole is comprised in eighteen plates, in which plates the ancient and modern names of places are given together. This is accomplished, moreover, without the slightest confusion, the difference being rendered perceptible by a brilliant dissimilarity of colour—the ancient names being printed in red ink, and the modern names in black. At one glance, therefore, the student may obtain from " Davidson's Classical Atlas" a knowledge of the relative position of the spots mentioned in the Greek and Latin autho rities and those which are now-a-days recognizable in the eastern hemisphere. THE OLD PALACE. (Foil music.) Oh, the Palace looked so great and grand, When its walls stood up in giant pride ; When it held the highest in the land, And its triumph gates were flinging wido ; When its turrets bore the bannered staff, And the court-yard rung with the prancing hoof; When the dancing strain and the revel laugh Went merrily up to the spanning roof. Oh, the Palace was a noble place, In its palmy days of strength and grace. Tower and terrace have fallen low, And the banquet hall is dimly seen Through ivy and bine-weed that twine as they go, Ia shadowy folds of grey and green. Ages have blotted the sculptured crest, The wind sings through the portal of stone ; It stands like an eagle's forsaken nest, Dreary and desolate, mournful and lone. The sun of its brightness for ever has set, But the brave old Palace is beautiful yet. We may see a heart as grand and rare, Stand like the Palace in its prime ; Rich in all that is noble and fair, Till stricken by Grief, as the Palace by Ti me . We may see the moss of a blighted trust Creeping around its pillars of joy ; s truet a h e gfll r oe u ray i n r ta , bi t s h i degi great a o tt o h m iant , 1 3 o u r t can s o d t c e a destroy o y inat and du l o gt n hh e te l There t a h m e d ' As the Palace is grand in its passing away. —Weekly Dispatch. ELIZA COOK. THE LOST GAME. At cards a sly and an Olcimanll7eci With a nation across the sea, And oaths were taken, and bets were made As to whose the game should be. They played solong, and they played so well, It was difficult to scan If the sly old man should the people " sell," Or the people the sly old man. The people were "flush" of "clubs" and "spades" And played as if in despair ; And " diamonds" he had, in all their grades, But never a " heart" was there. The last " heat" came of the game I sing, And the people played pcle•mcle ; But the old man lost, tho' he played the " king," For he played the " knave' as well.—Punch. ROBBERY AT MONK FRYSTONE HALL. —On Mon day night, or early on Tuesday morning, Monk Fry stone Hall, Yorkshire, the residence of Manes, Esq., father of Mr. Mtlnes, M.P., was broken into by thieves, who succeeded in carrying away nearly the whole of the silver plate belonging to the family. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.—The new pack e t. s hi p Richard Allsop arrived to - day from New York, with 14,000(. is specie on freight. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen. and Prince Albert took an airing in an open carriage and four yesterday. The Equerries in Waiting, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps and Colonel Bouverie, were in attendance on horseback. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horseback yesterday, and visited his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, at Cambridge House. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester took an airing yesterday, in a carriage. Sir Edmund Head had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday. Mr. Hume, M.P., had also an in terview with the Noble Earl, at the Colonial-office. The Lord Mayor had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home- office. A deputation from Liverpool, on the Health of Towns Bill, accompanied by Mr. Cardwell, arid con sisting of the following gentlemen, viz.:—Mr. Lane, Mr. Tinne, Mr. Shuttleworth, and Mr. Newlands, had an interview with Viscount Morpeth yesterday, at the office of her Majesty's Commissioner of Woods and Forests, in Whitehall-place. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, MARCH B.—At a congregation holden this clay, the following degrees were conferred:— Hon , rary Master cf Arts—Lord Alwyn° Compton, Trinity College. Bachelors of Arts—Julius Arkwright,Thomas Davies, F. J. B. Peile, and S. T. Pettigrew, Trinity College; F. J. Freeman, Ambrose Jones, John Lloyd, and C. J. W. Ord. St. John's College; D. W. Cameron, and S. F. Rippengall, Peterhouse College; S. G. Wood, Clare Hall; C. S. Johnson, Caius College; E. Hawkins, and F. G. Wilson, Corpus College; C. B. Kerr, Queen's College; Edmund Pain, Emanuel College. Richard Jones Hobson, M. 8., of Trinity College, Dublin, was admitted ad eundem gradum. Craven Scholars—Out of about sixty candidates, the following gentlemen have been elected to fill the twu vacancies for which the examination has lately con cluded:—Russell Day, King's College; Richard Elwyn. Trinity College. University Funds—The following notice has been just issued:—The Syndicate appointed to consider whether any satisfactory plan can be devised for increasing the pecuniary resources of the University, so as to produce an annual surplus income sufficient to admit of the exe cution, from time to time, of works of general improve ment connected with the usefulness and splendour of the University, having made a report to the Senate on December 10, 1847, the Vice-Chancellor gives notice that on Wednesday, the 23d instant, a Grace will be oao.rod to the Senate to confirm the said report FAIL OF RAILWAY ARCHES AT MANCHESTER.--. Yesterday morning seven out of thirteen brick arches, forming part of a viaduct erecting on the north-eastern side of Manchester, by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, to connect the lines of that company with the London and North-Western line at Ardwick, gave way and fell about ten o'clock. Eight of the thir teen arches had been erected before the commencement of the winter, and had stood till now, with the centres in them; the centres, however, being required for a conti- nuous portion of the viaduct, of 'which the abutmenta had been run up, a number of men had been set to work during the last few weeks to build in the spandrills at the top, between the arches, and to throw on the ballast for the purpose of consolidating the work. They had pro ceeded with the work to yesterday morning, and had taken out the centres froni six arches, commencing at a heavy stone abutment (intended for a bridge over Ashton old road) and running eastwards towards Ardwick, without any reason to doubt the solidity and firmness of the work. They then, about ten o'clock, removed the centres from the feveath or central arch, and had not completed doing so more than a few moments before the arch sprung upwards from the centre and fell. The whole of the six arches northward, from which the centres had been taken, also fell immediately afterwards, leaving only the stone abutment of the intended bridge the road standing, and the six arches at the other from under which the centres had not been taken. over end, The contractors are Messrs. Noell, Hemingway, and Co., and the loss to them, supposing they are respon sible for the whole, will be about 1,0001. It was a fortunate circumstance that the whole of the workmen at the time were standing on the other arches, from which the centerings had not been removed. They all escaped. The strength of the masonry was within half a brick of that usually adopted for arches of the same kind, and it is thought was quite equal to the purposes for which the line was constructing, and the accident is attributed to want of scientific knowledge or judgment in the ballasting at the top of the masonry. The New League, announced by Mr. Cobden in the House of Commons, is the subject of very general conversation in Lancashire. It is to secure " Liberty, Peace, and Freedom of Trade." The committee is to be the executive council of the late Anti-Corn-law League, and its objects are defined:to be :—" To aid in carrying out, to the fullest extent, the principles of free trade ; to relieve industry, by procuring the removal of all indirect taxes, and substituting others more rational and just ; to procure the abolition of the laws of entail and primogeniture ; to procure a more fair and equi table representation of the people in the House of Com mons ; to obtain justice for the people of Ireland ; to improve the character of our army and navy, by securing to merit and long service a fair and legitimate reward or promotion ; to guard against our ever again being plunged into a bloody and expensive war, through the dangerous and unootistitutioral tendency of our aristocrats to interfere in the affairs of other nations." UNPOPULARITY OF Tur. INCOME-TAX.—The late proposition of the Ministry to increase the income-tax has not subsided with the abandonment of the measure so far as Manchester is concerned, and the course taken by Mr. Milner Gibson in supporting Government by his votes on various questions (that of the income-tax being the principal one) has givt n such offence to many of th electors that serious thoughts are entertained of asking him to resign. The following is the copy of a placard which appeared on the walls of Manchester yesterday :—" Electors of Manchester ! at the last elec tion Mr. Milner Gibson pledged himself to resign his seat whenever his votes iliould be deemed adverse to the interests of his constituents, if called upon to do so by a majority of those who returned him. During the present session of Parliament he has voted against the repeal of the window-tax, against Mr. Hume's motion that a re duction of taxation is required for the trading and indus trious classes of the community ; against Mr. Horaman's motion to reduce the odious income-tax ; he voted in favour of the grant of 1,100,0001. for the Kafir war. Men of Manchester ! this is the first time since you pos sessed the power of sending representatives that on the vital question of taxation you have been misre presented in the House of Commons. Electors ! if you wish to see the taxes reduced, sign a requisition to Mr. Milner Gibson, calling upon him to resign the trust he has betrayed. DREADFUL EXPLOSION. FOUR LIVES LOST.— We regret that an accident, attended with loss of life, took place yesterday morning, at the Malleable Iron Works of Messrs. Murrays and Buttery, the Monkland Iron Company, near Holytown. The river Calder passes there through the deep ravine ; on the right bank a rolling-mill was erected about five years ago, and to meet the increased demands in railways, another was erected and put in operation during last summer. It is understood to be the strongest in Scotland, and of a very powerful description. Both mills were in full operation, and all hands were at work in both mills at seven o'clock yesterday morning, when suddenly a fearful explosion was heard. It proved to be the great boiler of one of the steam engines, about 80 horse power, of the new rolling mill. The boiler was blown into the air; and, flying across the river, it descended through the roof of the older mill, spreading devastation all around. Mr. Buttery was instantly at the spot, and sent for medical aid, and gave prompt directions for everything useful for the relief of the surviving sufferers. The Sheriff and Procurator Fiscal of the Airdrie district were also sent for to investigate the causes of the accident. Four dead boJies were found much mangled, and several other men received severe injuries. The man in charge of the boiler is unhurt.—. Edinburgh Advertiser of Tuesday. EXTRAORDINARY DISCovERT IN A CrtuRcHYARD. —Yesterday, Mr. Bedford held an adjourned inquest, in the Board-room of St. James's workhouse, Poland street, Oxford-street, on the body of a new-born female child, which was discovered in the churchyard of St. James's, Piccadilly, under the following extraordinary circumstances: —Margaret Wyatt, vestry-keeper of St. James's Church, stated that about a quarter-past six yh o ' ae c rr l d o d c a k si ioyen duties,o tbhseerm observed ea i nn brown ri o on f w t np h aeps paper pi l ne s gr t utlhtr. parcel, through she was going to ehfeuleihyurteiehd 'heart up, lying beneath one of the vestry windows. She went and picked it up, but finding that it was unusually heavy she replaced it, until the arrival of Holland, the gravedigger, when it was opened, and found to contain the body of a full grown child; the body was carefully wrapped in a piece of new white calico, and a sheet of wadding, and to the former was pinned a note, evidently written by a female, bearing the following address:—" To the finder, and pray do as directed in this paper." On opening it a half-sovereign fell out; its contents were as follows: " Dear Christian, whosoever you are, that may find this dear little innocent, will also find ten shillings with it; please to get a box and bury it. It had no fault, and knew no sin." Mr. French, surgeon, said that the child had breathed, but it was possible it may have died in the birth from protracted labour. The inquiry_ was ad journed in order to trace the guilty parties. Yesterday, on the re-assembling of the jury, Inspector Squires, who had had the case in haul, informed the Coroner that he had been unable to procure any further information in the case; and, at the suggestion of the Coroner the jury returned a verdict of " Found dead." CLOSING OF THE MENDICITY SOCIETY FROM THE FATAL EFFECTS OF TYPHUS FEVER,—Yesterday the managers of the Mendicity Society in Red Lion - squat© w ere obliged to close their offices in Red Lion - square, together with their corn-mills and stone-breaking yards for the employment of the destitute poor, which are situate in New Ormond -street, Queen -square, in Con sequence of the prevalence of typhus fever, which had been caught from some of the wretched and numerous applicants who have lately besieged the office for relief. All the numerous officers connected with the establish ment have been more or less severely attacked, and Mr. W. Knyvett, who for many years has been the indefati gable manager of the institution, has fallen a victim, having died from the fever on Tuesday afternoon. To prevent further loss of life and the spread of infection, by the advice of the medical attendants, the establishment has been closed until it can, consistently with public safety, be re-opened. This temporary closing will in itself be deeply felt by the destitute poor, as between 500 and 600, men, women, and children, have been daily fed, and work found for many more at the mills and stoat!! yards. = 4 0.