The Sun. — London, England, 1848-02-21 00:00:00

Intrb Vtition SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. CONCLUSION OF THE KAFIR WAR. By the ship Grecian, which left the Cape of Good Hope on the 18th December, intelligence has been received at Bombay that, by a judicious arrangement of the troops by Sir H. Pottinger, the whole of the Kafir chiefs, with their wives and families, had been made prisoners, and that the war was at an end. Beyond the bare announcement of the above fact, which we believe may be fully relied on, we have been unable to learn anything, but it is probable that by next issue further particulars will reach us. Well may the Bombay army feel proud of such a man as Sir H. Pottinger, who has ttus brought a second war to a successful termination."—Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce, 15th January, 1848 (Second Edition). ELECTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) LYME REGIS. Mr. ALBXANDER summed up on behalf of the peti tioners; after which The Committee adjourned till to-morrow morning at eleven o'clock. KINSALE. The Rev. Mr. Ryder, the Protestant clergyman, men tioned by the woman Ryan as having been present during the shaving operations, and performance of the drunken scenes at Sisk's public-house, between the hours of four and five on the morning of the ele c tion, swore positively that he did not leave his own residence till nearly nine o'clock. The Committee adjourned at four till eleven o'clock to-morrow morning. TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING Six o'CLocx. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 10 to 1 agst Sir Arthur 15 to 1 agst The Curate 15 to 1 agst Jerry 20 to 1 agst The Nigger 20 to 1 agst St. Leger 20 to 1 agst Wolverhampton 2,000 GUINEAS STAKES. 4 to 1 on the field METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 8 to 1 agst Jericho 15 to 1 agst Marquis of Conyngham 15 to 1 agst Tufthunter CHESTER CU?. 23 to 1 agst Blaze 23 to 1 agat War Eagle 25 to 1 agst Cracow 25 to 1 agat Jonathan Wild 30 to 1 agst The Swallow 50 to 1 agst Bantam 50 to 1 agst Mrs. Taft 50 to 1 agst Lightning DERBY. 10 to 1 agst Surplice 12 to 1 agst Glendower 16 to 1 agst Springy Jack 25 to 1 agst Nil Desperaadum 28 toil agst Loadstone 30 to 1 agst Cervus 30 to I agst The Stinger 30 to 1 agst Assault 33 to 1 agst Swiss Boy 33 to 1 agst Beshorough 50 to 1 agst Keraun 50 to 1 agst Rosslyn 50 to 1 agst Fern IMPERIAL PARMA 'VENT, (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Woolsack shortly after five o'clock. The Earl of EGLINTON presented a petition from the Corporation of Glasgow, praying for the repeal of the Bank Charter Act of 1844 ; also a petition from Elgin, against denunciations from the altar in Ireland; and a petition from Port Glasgow, against any alteration in the navigation laws. Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from Dumbartonlin favour of the removal of Jewish disabi lities. SALE OF ENCUMBERED ESTATES (IRE LAND) BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR brought in the above Bill, which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Thursday next. NAVIGATION LAWS. The Duke of NEWCASTLE presented a petition from the merchants and shipowners of Newcastle• upon-Tyne, against any alteration in the navigation laws. HEALTH OF THE SQUARON ON THE COAST OF AFRICA. The Earl of ABERDEEN said that considering the great mortality existing among the seamen of the squadron stationed on the coast of Africa, engaged in the suppression of the slave trade, he should to morrow move for further information on the subject. PETITIONS. Earl ST. GERMANS presented a petition from Chelsea, praying the House to adopt measures . to prevent the publication of the bull In coma Doman. Lord STANLEY presented several petitions against the Diplomatic Relations with Rome Bill ; also a petion from Warwick in favour of the adoption of sanitary measures ; also a petition from the Scar rick Union in Ireland, complaining of the burden of the poor. rates ; also a petition from a rate-payer of that union, complaining of an unjust assessment on the part of the paid guardians, in assessing a rate on the union, instead of on the respective parishes. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that the whole of the correspondence between the Poor-law Commissioners and the boards of guardians in this and similar cases would be shortly laid before the House. THE " UNITED IRISHMAN." Lord STANLEY gave notice that on Thurday he should call the attention of the House to the first number of a newspaper recently published in Ireland, entitled the United Irishman. DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ROME BILL. The Marquis of LA/CISDOWNE, in moving that ithat the report on the Diplomatic Relations with "Rome Bill should be brought up, proposed some verbal alterations, which were agreed to. The report was brought up, and the Bill, as amended, was ordered to be printed. IRISH POOR-LAW. Earl FITZ WILLIAM presented a petition from t he guardians of the poor of some union in Ireland, p raying that the inmates of the workhouses might be employed in useful industry. With regard to the cost of maintaining the poor, he knew that many of tlleese poor persons were maintained at a cost of sevenpence a week, one penny per day. He thought th is could not go on ; is wes killing the people by stow degrees. He wished the Government to con slider whether, by undertaking public works on a la; rge scale, or by devising some large scheme of emi grt %time, the evils under which the people now seu ffred could not be remedied. He was sate shed, unless some means of employment Wet ce devised for the people of Ireland. It would continue for years to come a drag upon the resources of the empire at large. He thought that 100,000 me n might be usefully employed at ls. a day upou put blic works in Ireland, and that some well-devised lici:erne of em i gra ti on wou ld t en d grea tl y t o re li eve t uc ht , )re country. The present poor r a t e amoun t e d t o than 2,000,000 E. per annum, although I ' l many the unfortunate paupers, living out of the house, received but one pennp per day. It - was unfair that those gentlemen who exerted them es& zes to providehe employment for the poor on their eat /tea should assessed r at the same rate as those vtl io took no pains to provide employment for their poor. Great misunderstandingpoofthteruealpsrteavtaeiloe of the in rural this country on the Subject districts of Ireland. The o o m rd munity of rural Lf eland consisted of the lanl and his la bc urers, and in consequence of the of the law the landlord who did nothing state del ived a benefit fr om the la bours of landlordthe wb o did his duty. He ob j ected to t he appoint men t of paid boards of guardians. It w as Perfectly am omalous that local funds should be assessed and adi ninistered by Government employes. There was an immense military force maintained in Ireland at pro sent, and he was perfectly astonished to hear it sta ,ted that the military force was to be inceased. He we is opposed to all increase of the income-tax, and ins tead of increasing the taxation of the country he eat led upon the Ministry to diminish the litary Establishments. Pie thought that per hEips Mr. Cobden pushed his opinions a little to) far, but he agreed with him that if we increased of 'r armaments to any great extent, it would only be a : signal to other powers to increase their armaments. an t I that would draw on a necessity for a corre- T 'tiding increase on our parts. Ile rejoiced to find t the Member for the West Riding had given terance to the s-ntiments he had done. The oble Earl concluded by presenting the petition. lt! 11arquis of LANSI)OWNE expressed it as s opinion that on the whole the poor-law in Ire -1 and had' worked__sure well, a l t h ough in some dis t riots the pressure of th e poor - rate had been s vere. He was happy, c, 3llf!ction of the poor-rates period duringeupwards w t the rd o s s a last}o that f h om e , toeontoht month g oret, on regularly, in that amou nt of poor -rates ht id been collected. The year was ata sessed in Ireland during 1,0 618,000/.1 being only at the rate of 2s. pc mad on the ]Whole rated property o f 23. s d. in the Ireland. (LEFT /PEAKING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. SECOND READINGS. The following Bills were read a second time, and ordered to be committed :—Agriculturist Cattle Insurance Company—Birkenhead Dock Company— Crossford Bridge and Manchester Road—Dublin and Mullingar Turnpike Road—Herculaneum Dock — Huddersfield Improvement—Liverpool Docks (Erec tion of Warehouses and Construction of New Works) —Patent Galvanized Iron Company (Incorporation of Company, with Powers to hold Lands, to raise Money by Loan, and to purchase Letters Patent)—Patent Galvanized Iron Company trading under the firm of " Malins and Rawlinsons"— Richmond and Reeth Road —Southampton Gas Light and Coke Company Tadcaster and Halton Dial Turnpike Road (Diversion, &c., of the Road in the parish of Tadcaster)—Walsall Improvement and Cemetery—West of England and South Wales Land Draining Company Incorporation. RIVER DUN NAVIGATION BILL. The secoud reading of this Bill was postponed until Wednesday next. THORNE MOOR DRAINAGE AND IMPROVE . Y ~ ~ TilE SUN, LONDON, ,-M01111:1AY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1848. tat,es Bill had been introduce into the House of Lords, and stood for a second reading this week. It would, no doubt, be introduced into the Commons on au early day. THE JEWISH DISABILITIES BILL. The NOBLE LORD said he was prepared to go into Committee on this Bill on Friday next. If the Hon. Member for Middlesex (Mr. Osborne) had not given notice of his motion, the House would not have heard anything of the Select Committee. The appointment of the Committee had thrown an air of mystery over the whole transaction. Mr. HUME said that he had not had the slightest communication with any Hon. Member on the subject of his motion, and he hoped that the House would not consider that he was acting with any other party in the matter. COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY. The House then went into Committee of Supply, when Mr. HUME, in answer to a question from an Hon. Member, said that he intended only to ask for a suf cient sum, namely 245,4101. 19s. 7d., to enable the Government to carry on their establishment until the Comrnitte had made its report. The Hon. Member then proposed that a sum of 245,4101.95. 7d. be voted to defray the excess of expenditure over last year's estimate. Mr. HERRIES thought that it was the duty of the Government to state to the House the rea sons for bringing forward their vote. The House would be forgetting its duty if it did not inquire most minutely into every vote which was brought before the Committee. If the object of the Goverpment was to withdraw from public discussion the principle on which the estimates were made up, they were taking the worst plan that could possibly be adopted by the appointment of a " Select and Secret" Committee. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was entirely of opinion that it would not be right to take any whole vote, the Government proposed to take a vote on account. If the whole of the votes were proposed to be taken a full explanation would be given. The first vote before the Committee was one of an excess of expenditure, and ought, therefore, to be acceded to at once. Mr. BANKES wished to know whether this excess of expenditure had not arisen from a squab ble between the Board of Admiralty and the Treasury? If such were the case it was advisable that the country should be in possession of the whole of the facts as soon as possible.—(Hear.) With respect to the appointment of this select and secret Committee, he wished to know whether the returns from this Committee would be laid before the House in such a manner as to enable Hon. Members to know which way the members of that Committee voted. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that by an act passed few years since, none of the Public Boards were al lowed to hold over any unap propriated balances, and any excers of expenditure came immediately before the House. (LEFT SPEAKING.) POLICE INTELLIGENCE. SOUTHWARK. A respectable looking couple, named Richard and Charlotte Stubbs, was placed at the bar before Mr. Beadon, charged with working an illicit still. Frederick Pargiter, an officer of the Excise, said that on the preceding afternoon he took a man in cus tody on London”bridge, with a horse and cart, having in his possession fourteen gallons of illicit spirit. He took him before the Lord Mayor, who inflicted the usual fine, which was not paid ; and after he was locked up he (witness) took the horse and cart towards London-bridge, thinking by means of the animal that he might discover from whence the spirits came. When he arrived in High-street, Southwark, he allowed the horse to have its own way, and, on coming to Great Suffolk-street, he turned round and entered Chapel-place, at the rear of the police court, when he suddenly stopped at a gateway and refused to proceed further. Witness had a key, which he took from the man at the Man sion -house, and which he found unfastened the gate. On his entrance he found a strong effluvia from molasses wash, clearly indicating that a still was at work near the place. While he was looking about, the prisoners ran out of the house and endea voured to escape; but the officers who attended him took them into custody. They then acknowledged working a still, and said that they did so to keep them from the workhouse. Witness then entered the room at the rear of the stables, and found a large still in full working order, running off spirits. It was fully charged with molasses wash, and capable of working off a hundred gallons. In answer to the charge, the prisoners said they had only been concerned in the still about three weeks, and that they were not aware whose horse and cart it was the officer had in his possession. Mr. BEADON told them that it would be unwise for them to make such a statement, as it was quite positive that the horse would not have stopped at their place unless he had been in the habit of going there. He should inflict the penalty of 301. on each of them, and the only way to get it reduced would be by telling the whole truth to the Board of Excise. In default of paying the fines, the prisoners were ca mmitted to the House of Correction for three months each. WOOLWICH. William Mayhew, described as a gentleman living at Brighton, U'. Johnson, alias Montroe, alias Jim the Greek, a well known cracksman, and J. Flowers, the keeper of a beer shop called the Folly, Barnsley street, Mile-end, were placed at the bar, before Mr. Trail!, the sitting magistrate, for final examination, charged with having committed a burglary at the Powerful Inn, Warwick-street, Woolwich, and J. Burnton, a greengrocer in Albion-street, Woolwich, was charged with aiding them in the commission of the felony. The evidence, which was very voluminous, went to prove that on the 22d of last month, Burnton went to a beer shop, kept by a man named Duffill, and, after drinking a pint of beer, asked the landlord to step out with him, as he wanted to speak with him. Duffill did so, and when they got as far as Warwick street, Burnton said, " Would a thick one or two be convenient this cold weather ?" Duffill said " I do not understand ;" when Burnton rejoined, " Can't you tumble" (meaning understand) ? Duffill said no, and Burn ton added, "Do you know any one that has any dust? Duffill said, "I know what you mean." Burnton then went on to state that he had been con cerned in stealing 1701. from an innkeeper in the town of the name of Covill, and offered to let Duffill go shares in any job he could put the gang up to, and pointed out a grocer's, named Oliver, whose house they had fixed upon for a crack. They then parted, but met on several subsequent occasions, at each of which Burnton bound Duffill to secrecy. On the Sunday following, Duffill called upon Mr. Covill, who had been robbed, and also the grocer whom it was proposed to rob, and they all went to the police, who advised that Duffill should seem to give his con sent, and fix upon the Powerful Inn as the scene of their depredations. On the next day Burnton again called upon Dulill, who told him what he had been instructed, adding that it must bedone before Friday. Burnton then asked him about several others in the town, and if they were worth robbing. They ultimately came to London, and went to Flowers' beer-shop, where he was introduced to Flowers and Montroe,who fixed upon the next day to do the job, and said they should allow Duffil and Burnton 101. a piece if 1001. was got, and arranged to meet the next day at the Trafalgar, Woolwich, which they did. The police were previously sta tioned at the Powerful, in such a position as to have a view of the bed-room. Some were also at the Trafalgar to identify the parties when they came. At the hour appointed, Duffil went and met Flower, Montroe, and the prisoner Mayhew, who was to be one of the party. They then ar ranged that Duffil should go and get Mr. Mould, the landlord of the Powerful, out for a walk, and bring him past there, which was to bt the signal for them to go and commit the robbery. This was done, but Duffill and Mould went back to the Powerful, and having entered by the back way, and found that Montroe was upstairs, a preconcerted signal was given, and the police down stairs rushed from their hiding place, and captured Mayhew and Flowers, whilst the officers upstairs took Montro e , just as he was entering the bed room with a skeleton key. Upon the officers entering the coieeroom, where they took Flowers, they found he had thrown a handkerchief containing a quantity of skeleton keys into the fire. After some resistance the whole party were locked up, and in Flowers' house, in London, skeleton keys and various burglarious instruments, most ingeniously concealed, were found. The evidence being of a most conclusive nature, the depositions were taken, and the prisoners fully committed to take their trial at the next session of the Central Criminal Court. PORTERS, &c., CUSTOMS.—A return has just been printed of the number of porters and persons holding subordinate situations in the department of the Customs, in the receipt of not more than three shillings a•day, and showing how many of them are pensioners in the army or navy. In England, the number is, 1,890; of whom 737 are in the Coast Guard, 20 connected with the Quarantine Department, and 72 pensioners in the army or navy. In Scotland, there aro 415; of whom 121 are in the Coast Guard, and 17 are pensioners; and in Ireland, 803; 369 of whom are in the Coast Guard, 16 are pensioners. Total, 3,108. An Eagle was shot near Ramsgate last week. The entish Observer says—" t • belongs to the fishing specie It measures seven • • I tte t ahe wings, and i s a rema bly fine and powerf s' being shot, Mr. Peak forced from its throat, whiplMis very much distended; ' , nearly two pounds of largo •ebls; and it is supposed that it had gorged itself so much`thitt it was careless of its safety, having been killed with a common charge of No. 4 shot, MENT BILL. Mr. BROTHERTON moved that this Bill be read a second time on Friday next. Sir W. HEATHCOTE thought that some reason ought to be assigned by the Hon. Member for post poning the Bill, as by the standing orders the period for the second reading of private Bills was limited. Mr. BROTHERTON stated that he was unac quainted with the circumstances connected with the Bill ; he had been requested to move its postpone ment by an Hon. Member who was not then present. He would, however, move that the second reading be postponed till to-morrow. The Bill was then ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. JEWISH DISABILITIES. The Earlof ARUNDEL and SURREY pre sented a petition signed by the Catholics of Glasgow, in favour of the removal of the Jewish disabilities. Sir C. LEMON presented petitions from several places in Cornwall to the same effect. Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented several petitions to a similar effect. NAVAL AND MILITARY ESTABLISHMENTS. Mr. J. CLAY presented a petition, signed by 3,070 inhabitants of Hull, against any increase in the naval and military establishments of the country. Dr. BOWRING presented petitions to a similar effect. Mr. HILDYARD presented a petition from Whitehaven also to the same effect. ROMAN CATHOLIC CHARITIES BILL. The Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY pre sented a petition in favour of the Roman Catholic Charities Bill. WIDOW TAX. Sir DE LACY EVANS presented a petition, numerously signed by the inhabitants of Westminster, praying for a repeal of the window-tax. RAJA OF SATTARA. The Hort. MEMBER also presented a petition from St. George's, Hanover-square, praying for an inquiry into the case of the late Raja of Sattara. NAVIGATION LAWS. Mr. JAMES CLAY presented a petition from Hull against any alteration of the navigation-laws. NATIONAL DEFENCES. Mr. WILLIAMS presented a petition from Mac clesfield, signed by 1,250 persons, against any increase in the army or navy of the country. DUTY ON TEA. Mr. J. CLAY presented a petition from Hull, praying for an equalisation, or reduction, of the duty on tea. CHELSEA OUT-PENSIONERS. Dr. BOWRING presented a petition from the out-pensioners of Chelsea College, residing in Clon mel, praying the House to restore to them the fie per cent. which had been usually detained by the Government upon the payment of their pensions. LANDLORD AND TENANT LAW. Mr. M. J.,O'CONNELL .presented a petition from Kerry, praying for an alteration of the law of landlord and tenant. POORrLAW (IRELAND). Mr. HAMILTON presented a petition praying for an alteration in the present Poor-law of Ireland. MONASTIC ORDERS. Mr. WADDINGTON presented a petition against the renewal of the establishment of monastic orders in this country. Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a number of peti tions against the admission of Jews into Parliament, and other petitions, praying the House to take steps to prevent priestly denunciations from the altar; also another petition from Ashton-under-Lyne, praying for an increase in the number of Bishops who govern the Established Church. Mr. HIND LEY presented a number of petitions from various Peace Societies throughout the country against any increase in the army and navy, and for the settlement of disputes by arbitration. Mr. GREENE presented a petition from Lancas ter in favour of the Jewish Disabilities Bill. Mr. BERKELEY presented a petition from Gloucestershire in favour of the Health of Towns Bill. NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. HORSMAN gave notice that on Monday next, on the motion for going into Committee of Supply, he should move a resolution to the effect that it was the duty of the House to render the income tax more equal and fair by making a distinction be tween sums derivable from property and those arising from professions and uncertain sources. Mr. B. ()SBORNE gave notice that he should move, as an amendment to the motion of the Hon. Baronet, Member for the University, that an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying for the appointment of a Commission to superintend the ex penditure voted for the purposes of the new Houses of Parliament, with the view of making arrangements for the completion of the building at the earliest possible period. Mr. BRIGHT gave notice that, on Monday next, on the motion that the Speaker do leave the chair for going into a Committee of Supply, he should move that it be an instruction to the Committee to consider the expediency, in making any increase in the income tax, of extending the probate and legacy duties to real property, in preference to the increase in the income- tax upon the principle proposed by Govern ment. Sir B. HALL gave notice that, in Commit tee, he should move that the income-tax be extended to Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) CORK. Mr. FAGAN inquired whether it was intended to continue the construction of the docks at Cork, and other works, out of the 12.4061. intended to be ex pended this year in Ireland ? Mr. WARD replied that a great portion of the works were paid out of the sums voted for the relief works last year; i,8151. out of the sum which had been voted for the works remained in hand, and the addition of 6,0001., he considered, would be sufficient to carry on the works this year. MAINTAINING PRISONERS—SCOTLAND. Mr. HUME presented a petition from Forfar complaining of the heavy charge of prisoners, and stating that the expense of their maintenance was not properly distributed. FINANCIAL POLICY OF THE GOVERN- MENT. Upon the order of the day for going into Com mittee of Supply, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose and said—l wish before going into Com mittee to state to the House the course which her Majesty's Government intend to pursue with respect to the resolutions which had been laid on the table of the House by my Noble Friend (Lord J. Russell) on Friday night. I find that my Hon. Friend the Member for Mont rose has put a notice on the paper for postponing going into Committee of Supply until the House shall have decided upon the proposals made by my Noble Friend (Lord John Russell) on Friday night. It is quite impossible for her Majesty's Government to accede to the terms of that motion. The course usually adopted by the House is to go into Committee of Supply previous to going into Committee of Ways and Means, and if. Sir, I were to propose any vote in Committee of Ways and Means which would not bs approved in Committee of Supply ; you would stop me on the ground that I was acting contrary to the practice of the House. This practice was a h perfectly right and proper one. (Hear, hear.) elt Would m bees a of the monstrous country depended thing to su p op po o s n e t thhea state t the ate of the revenue. It would-be necessary that the defences country should be maintained, notwithstanding an adverse state of the revenue. The practice of the House has alway s b een toe The practice of the House has always been to determ what is neces sary, and when that h as been done, then't becomes the duty of the House t o d ea l with the proposal , the Government, and conside r i n what mpanpaoesralthoel necessary revenue can be raised in the least objectionable manner.—(Cheers.) The vote of Supply - must therefore necessarily precede the vote in Ways and Means. Her Majesty s Government, taking- into consideration the state of the country, felt it their duty to propose an inconsiderable increase in the sum to be voted. They were surprised that a general impression prevailed, both in and out of the Hou se , that the increased taxation proposed by my Noble Friend was owing to increased estimates, and that the increase proposed was one of a military character, and that the whole additional taxation was rendered necessary by some enormous increase re quired for military defences and for purposes of ag gression.—(Hear, hear.) I hope that a brief review of the figures laid before the House by my Noble Friend will convince Hon. Members that such impressions are entirely erroneous.—(Hear, hear.) From the figures used by my Noble Friend, it appears that upon the estimates sanctioned last year there is a deficiency of no less than 2,500,0001., which must, of course, be provided for by taxation in the course of the next year. That, therefore, is the case without any increase whatever.—(Hear.) a great portion of the increase in the estimates were of an entirely pacific character. The increase in the miscellaneous estimates is mainly attributable to a transfer of the charges for the maintenance of the convict establishments of the country: for harbours of refuge, printing for the House, the British Mu seum, items which are not in the least degree con nected with either novel or military purposes. There is also an increased charge for the conveyance of mails, the fitting out of an expedition to go in search of Sir J. Franklin. The increase in the votes whick may be considered as being of a military cha racter arises from the increase of wages to petty offi cers and seamen, and loss to the Government incurred by giving up the poundage which had been usually retained by the Government in the payment of the pensions to the pensioners of the army and navy. They are not even votes for the purposes of defence much less for aggres sive purposes. I regret also that there ap pears another impression abroad that the in crease, small as it is is only the commencement of a continued increase. I can assure the. House that the Government has done nothing, and will do nothing, which they do not feel to be conducive to the preser vation of the peace of the country and of Europe.— ' (Hear, hear.) I am sorry so much misappre hension should have prevailed on the sub ject. The Government most earnestly wish that the House should be satisfied on the subject No doubt there were a great many explanations which would be required, and which could not be made in that House, and therefore it is the intention of the Government to propose a select and secret Committee—(Murmurs of disapprobation)—to whom the expenditure of the navy, army, and ordnance shouldibe referred. It will be in the power of this Committee to consider all the papers which have been laid before the House, and to examine all the parties who are best able to give any information on the subjects referred to the committee. It is not the intention of the Government to submit to this com mittee the income or expenditure of the country — (renewed murmurs)—but merely to adopt the course followed upon previous occasions. The expenditure of the three departments I have referred to will be alone referred to the Committee. Committees of the kind have been appointed upon previous occa sions. The Right Hon. Baronet (Sir •R. Peel) moved for the appointment of a similar Commit tee in the year 1828. I will also remind the House that Committees of this kind were ap- pointed in the years 1786, 1791, 1797, 1807, 1817, and in 1828. It is now more than twenty years since any Committee of the kind has sat. I think it will afford an opportunity of showing what amount of expenditure is actually necessary. A full report upon the whole subject would be made to the House by the Committee. It is necessary for the public service that the votes of supply should be taken to-night. I hope the House will allow my Hon. Friends, the Secretary for the Amiralty and the Secretary at War, to go into Committee, and take a few votes which are necessary for the public service ; but I trust the House will not consider it necessary to enter into any general discussion upon those estimates, because no question could be formally brought before them now, and a discussion which could only arise upon incidental and trifling details will, therefore, lead to inconvenience. —(Hear, hear.) It will be my duty to state fully next Monday the views and intentions of Government with regard to the estimates gene rally, and it is the anx.ous desire of my Hon. Col leages that the discussion should be deferred till then. With these observations, and having stated what are the wishes of Government in reference to the proceecings of to night, I beg leave to move that the order of the day for going into Committee of Supply be now read. Mr. HUME said, having been named by the Right Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down, he felt it to be his duty Ito justfiy the few words which he addressed to title House on Friday. He ad mitted that he expressed himself warmly on that occasion because he felt warmly, and he would now state to the House why he then differed from the Government. The Right Hon. Baronet, as well as the Noble Lord who addressed the House on Friday, seemed to think it was the duty of the House to look into the estimates without having any regard as to where the means were to come from, but he, for one, always had, and always should, contest that point, upon the same principle that ought to actuate the head of a family in entering upon any new expenditure. Every one would admit that it was the duty of .a man, before he set up a carriage in a new house, to see that he had the means of supporting it, and no one would sympathise with him, if instead of following that rule, a man started his carriage and then found he had net the means of maintaining it. Upon the same principle he felt it to be his duty to object to the House going into these estimates till they had considered whether the means could be obtained.—(Hear.) Let him now direct the attention of the House to a couple of balance sheets issued from the Treasury. One of them was dated the Ist of January, 1846, and signed by Mr. Cardwell, while the other was dated the Ist of January, 1848, and signed by Mr. Parker. The first showed an excess of income over expenditure amounting to 3,850,0001., but the latter showed an excess of expenditure over income of no less than 2,950,0001. Now, he asked any Honourable Member whether, with such a return as this in his hand, he could feel himself justified in supporting a proposal for increasing the expenditure of the country. Did it not prove that there was something wrong in the distribution of the national income, and that instead of increasing the expenditure they onght to see if some retrenchments could not be made. Well, then he found by a return which his Honourable Friend the Member for the North Riding had moved, that at the close of the year there were between ten and eighteen ships of the line in the Tagus. Each of these ships carried somewhere about 74 guns: each,: and in the aggregate 7,000 seamen. Now, could not this force be judiciously re• moved to some ether station, and by that means reduce the expenditure of the country ? He had moved for a return of the number of French and American ships engaged in the slave trade on the coast of Africa, but it had not been laid on the table. The Right Hon. Baronet the Chancellor of the Exchequer intended to object to the minute inquiry that he proposed into the mode of collecting the revenue. 1,800,0001. was annually expended in collecting the revenue in the Customs and Excise de partments, but they had yet to learn, though the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir R. Peel) had reduced the taxes upon 700 articles, that one Custom-house officer less was employed. A Committee was appointed in 1828 — was appointed to inquire into the finances of the country. They arranged the nature of the inquiry during the first year of the meeting, but when they were prepared they were told that the Duke of Wel lington was then at the head of the Government, and that he did not like such an inquiry ; they were, therefore, turned to the right about.—(Laughter.) If it had gone on, and they had Sir Henry Parnell, Lord Althorp, and Lord Hardinge against them, it could not fail to have led to a satisfactory result. He wished to see the burdens of the people lessened ; at any rate if they were equalised to a greater extent than at present the people would cheerfully bear them ; but whilst they were not they would con tinue dissatisfied with the administratiod of the affairs of the country. There was nothing in the nature of the finances of the company, he considered to need a secret inquiry. The more often the inquiry was, the more satisfactory It would prove to the peo ple. The estimates he thought ought to be postponed until the House would come to a decision on the fi nancial statement. Mr. EWART was most anxious to see the peace of this country with France maintained, instead of seeing a formidable armament kept up to protect this against France, he would rather see the duties on her wine imported into this country removed.— (Hear, hear.) He was opposed to the financial pro position of the Government. Mr. S. CRAWFORD also entered his decided protest against the financial propositions of the Go vernment. PASSENGRFS BILL. Mr. L ABOUCHERE stated, in reply to Mr. Cardwell, that if this Bill were not passed before the emigration season arrived that no good could be delved from it ; and looking at the advantage ithat had accrued from emigration to America and elsewhere, last year he could not consent to delay the Bill ; he should, therefore, endeavour to proceed with the second reading to-night. Mr. DISRAELI said if every matter was referred to committee up stairs that the House would have its functions superseded. Lord J. RUSSELL said the Bill had been deiised to prevent the diastrous consequences that had arisen from emigration last year, and that if it was in tended to have any effect this year, that it ought to be passed immediately, as contracts were being entered into for commencing emigration in April. It was necessary that Missionaries should be ac quainted with the details of the measure some time before they were required to carry them out. Consenting to the second reading to-night, would not preclude the House from entering into a full investigation of the Bill in Committee. The conversation then dropped. ENCUMBERED ESTATES BILL. In reply to Mr. Bright, Lord J. RUSSELL stated an Encumbered Es- FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY. At the Court, Basinghall- street. T. Brooke, Hoxton 011-town, baker, March 11, at eleven—Joseph and John Baker, Fore-street, machinists, March 11, at eleven—R. Baker, Cheapside, tailor, March 11, at half-past eleven—G. Gale, Winchester, corn chandler, March 11, at one—E. G. Shackell, Leadenhall street, March 11, at twelve—F. Clark, jun.. Bury St. Edmund's, innkeeper, March 13, at two—F. Macnaghten, Nicholas-lane, Lombard•street, merchant, March 10, at halt-past twelve—L. Alexander and W. Bardgett, Old Broad-street, merchants, March 13, at eleven—S. May, Myddleton-street, Clerkenwell, watch manufacturer, March 10, at two—P. Blackmore, Little James-street; Bedford-row, Saddler, March 10, at two. In the Country. D. Williams, Ruthin, Denbighshire, cattle salesman, March 10, at twelve, at the Court, Liverpool—J. Harper, Dudley, Worcestershire, Walsall, Tipton, and Bilston, Staffordshire, mercer and draper, March 15, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester—S. Stott, Rock hffe- vale Mill, Lancashire, cotton spinner, March 14, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester—R. Scholes, Bury, grocer, March 21, at eleven, at the Court. Manchester—W. Richardson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, glass manufacturer, March 10, at twelve, at the Court, Neweastle-upon-Tyne—A. James, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, oil and glass merchant, March 10, at eleven, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne— I. N. Pearce, Liverpool, stationer, March 13, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J. Lee, Coventry, watch ma nufacturer, March 16 at eleven, at the Court, Birming ham—R. Linen, Sbrewsbury, grocer, March 18, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. W. Chappelow, jun., Jermyn-street, St. James's, wholesale saddler, 4s. id., on Monday, Feb. 21, and two following Mondays, between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Graham, Birchin-lane, City. W. Bennett and H. S. Reeve, London-road, South wark, victuallers, 4s. 3d., any Wednesday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street. M. C. Johnstone, Lamb's Conduit-street, linendraper, 2s. 11d., any Wednesday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street. M. J. Stone, Abingdon, grocer, first dividend of Bs., proportion of the first dividend of 10s. on new proofs, any Wednesday, between tie hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street. W. Gibb, Alnwick, currier, id., in addition to 2s. 3d., previously declared, on Saturday, Feb. 19, or •any sub sequent Saturday, between the hours of ten and three, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. J. Hudson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, dealer in marine stores, 155., on Saturday, Feb. 19, or any subsequent Saturday, between the hours of ten and three, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. R. Greenham, Liverpool, merchant. 55., on Thursday, Feb. 17, or any subsequent Thursday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Turner, Liverpool. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall-street. C. Hall, Uxbridge, grocer and cheesemonger, March 10, at half-past eleven—L. Chaplin, Weatherfield,Essex, straw plait dealer, March 13, at twelve—J. Phillips, Cambridge, boot and shoe maker, March 11, at twelve— F. Fupouy, Cross-lane, St. Dunstan's-hill, City, wine merchant, March 11, at one—J. Geale, New Burlington- mews, Regent-street, job master and livery stable keeper, March 10, at two—C. Stuart, Herbert-street, New North-road, wholesale milliner, March 10, at twelve—J. Parker, Princes-road, Chelsea, Notting-hill, coach pro prietor. March 10, at one—H. Ashley, Fleet-street, and Little Carter-lane, Doctor's-commons, carrier, March 10, at half-past two. In the Country. A. James, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, oil, colour, and glass-merchant, March 10, at half-past eleven, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—R. Porritt, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, banker and cloth manufacturer, March 25, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—W. Bedells, Leicester, paper and general dealer, March 21, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham—E. Lee, Shrewsbury, ironmonger, March 25, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham—G. Blake and J. Blake, Liverpool, and Dublin, soap manu facturers, March 10, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool— W. Gregory, Liverpool, hosier and glover, March 10, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—Elizabeth Mooney, Egremont, Cheshire, upholsterer, March 10, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—G. Lupton, St. Helen's, Lanca shire, tailor and draper, March 9, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—C. Williams, victualler and flour dealer, March 10, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J. Ed wards, Allington, Dorsetshire, sack, twine, and shoe thread manufacturer, March 13, at eleven, at the Court, Exeter—J. Tite, lenham-mill, Dorsetshire, flax and tow-spinner, March 13, at eleven, at the Court, Exeter —T. Law, Manchester and Salford, corn and flour dealer, March 13, at the Court, Manchester—J. Collins, Manchester, common brewer, March 15, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester. At the Court of Review, March 10. H. W. Frampton, Bideford, Devonshire, grocei and tea dealer—J. Boucher, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, draper W. Carruthers, Desborough- terrace, Harrow-road, builder— S. R. Ked ward, Clipatone-street, Fitzroy square, licensed victualler—G. Kiallmark, Hampstead street, St. Pancras, music seller—S. Hobbs, Camber well-green, cook and confectioner—N. Batho, Man ehester, machine maker—F. H. Agar, New Windsor, Berkshire, grocer Sarah Sherratt and G. Sherratt, Hilton, Derbyshire, blacksmiths W. Reeve and R. Reeve, New Bond-street, upholsterers—F. Smith, Man chester, innkeeper —R. F. Gower, jun., New Bead street, merchant—J. Basire, Red Lion-square, and North Hyde, brick maker —R. Turner, Old Cavendish street, St. Marylebone, tailor—T. Stott, Liverpool, laceman—J. Johanning, Newman-street, Oxford -street, commission agent—S. Street, Bedford, draper—T. Burnell and W. S. Fitswilliam, King William-street, City, merchants—J. Welsh, Carlisle, tailor and draper. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Mary Martyn and Elisabeth Dyer, Grosvenor•street West, Eaton-street, Pimlico, milliners—S. Phillips and J. Burton, New Broad-street and Moorgate•street, timber merchants—R. Garrard, S. Garrard, and S. Spilsbury, Panton-street, Haymarket, gold and silver smiths (so far as regards S. Spilsbury)—W. Whitridge and R. T. Rhodes, Rabere-street, gold chain makers— W. Archer and T. Serginson, Manchester, plumbers and painters—T. Lucas and G. Lucas, Manchester, engravers—T. W. Willett, Margate, and F. Willett, Commercial-road. linendrapers—J. Hincliff and C. Hin cliff, Hepworth, Yorkshire, clothiers—J. Wales and C. Wales, Leeds, painters—J. Lee, J. Wood, and G. Bently, Bradford, Yorkshire, wharfingers (so far as re gards J. Lee)—W. W. Kett and H. Kett, Norwich, linendrapers—D. Thomas and E. W. Thomas, Oswestry, Shropshire, mercers—J. Oliver and J. Green, Cork street, Burlington-gardens, importers of silk—P. Dres cher and J. Shey, Kingston-upon-Hull and Scarborough, watchmakers—S. Wood and T. B. Brown, Liverpool, spice merchants—J. M. Clement and H. Adams, Devon port, coal merchants—H. T. Bussell and G. Damson, Lyd brook, Gloucestershire, mealmen—l. Robson, W. Smith, and C. Evans, Huddersfield, grocers—J. H. Needell and W. G. Langdoa, Old Change, Cheapside, calico printers— T. Derbyshire and J. Holgate, Manchester, grocers—R. Hargreaves and J. Marsdon, Little Bolton, Lancashire, ironfounders—C. Wilkins, T. Carr, and W. Carr, Tiver ton-mills, near Bath, cloth manufacturers—T. B. Hawks ley and J. C. L. Marsh, Nottingham, surgeons—J. Bryant and A. Ellis, Lewisham, drapers—F. Munday and C. R. Pottinger, Harkwick-place, Commercial-road, East, wine merchants—D. Grieef and G. Grief, Wool wich, bricklayers—G. C. Collyer and J. T. Blackmore, Old-street-road, surgeons—J. Mack and 0. J. Williams, High Holborn, chemists—A. R. Strong and F. G. Strong, Long-acre, varnish manufacturers—T. Dewhirat and T. Jamieson, Bradford and Leeds, sharebrokers— T. Whitehurst and J. Bowden, New Brompton, brewers —J. Brammall and B. Dickinson, Ecclesfield, Yorkshire, file manufacturers—W. Jaggs and Mary Ann Tates, Milton next Gravesend, licensed victuallers —G. E. Waterton, P. Kagenbusch, W. Y. Dent, and Y. C. James, Leeds, patent alkali manufacturers—G. Warwick and T. Cox, Great Malvern, Worcestershire, linen drapers—J. F. Morice and D. Wilkinson, Liverpool, ship brokers. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. _ Joseph Drury, Wellingrove, Lincolnshire , labourer. Michael Weetman, Dodderill, Worcestershire, black. smith. Josiah Thomas, Huddersfield, railway clerk. Watkin Williams, Birmingham, earthenware dealer. Edward Mead, Birmingham, button maker. Nathan Levi, Birmingham, dealer in watch materials. Thomas Flynn, Birmingham, collector. William Marment, of Stroud, Gloucestershire, farmer. John Bridle, of Milborne St. Andrew, Dorsetshire, vic tualler. Joseph Smith, Bristol. James Bryant, Hanham, Gloucestershire, labourer. _ _ Thomas Haynes, Grantham, Lincolnshire, gardener. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. _ W. Fearn, Edinburgh, leather merchant, to meet within the Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh, Feb. 24 and March 16, at one. James Wright, Strathblane, Stirlingshire, wright, to meet within the house of P. Buchanan, innkeeper, Strathblane, Feb. 24, and March 16, at one. David Stirrat, jun., Glasgow, merchant, to meet within the King's Arms Hotel, Glasgow, Feb. 21 and March 13, at twelve. R. Hall, Edinburgh, grocer, to meet within the sale rooms of J. M`Dowell, Edinburgh, Feb. 22 and March 13, at two. G. Armstrong, Edinburgh, tea dealer, to meet within Stevenson's rooms, Edinburgh, yob. 23 and March 15, at two. ___ _...... R. Laing, Edinburgh, paper manufacturer, to meet within the Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh, Feb. 23 and March 15, at one. DUNDEE TRADE, FEB. 16.—Our trade has exhi bited little or no alteration during the past week. In flax it is said that some transactions have been effected at prices a shade lower than formerly, but we do not con sider that any further decline has been fully established; and owing to the now reduced state of the stocks of some kinds of flax, the course of prices will in a great measure, depend on the probability of there being an early or late re-opening of the navigation at the different flax ports. In linen and y arns th ere i s st ill very l i ttle doing, and prices are yet without any improvement. The Gustav, from Liebsu, with flax, codilla, and timber, arrived here last week, after a passage of about six weeks.- Courier. DEEP-SEA. EISUIN(*.—We are happy to observe that the people of Elgin are going to work in the . r . ight way to secure const an t su ppli es o f fish. The committee of the Working Men's Provision Association have taken the thing in hand, and propose to establish a fishmonger's shop, to be supplied by a deep- sea boat or boats. The capital is to be raised by shares of five shillings each, and at a meeting on Monday week fifty shares were taken. Many more names have since been added to the list. —lnverness Courier. ' . TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. Sir, —On 11 neseay the 16th, the Roman Catholic Relief Bill was considered in Committ, e. The most prominent part of the debate was the speech of Mr. Gladstone. Moderate, sagacious, and just, he is clearly one of the rising statesmen to whose care we must bequeath our children when we die. On local business, I presented the petition of your solicitors for the removal of the certificate duty ; which appears to have been the precursor of a general movement on the subject. Ido not know whether the petitioners may approve of their petition being presented in what may be deemed a light vein. But I beg them to observe, that by means of this I intro duced the answer to the stock fallacy adduced in this and other cases, which is that the tax will be re covered from the consumers. On Thursday was a Currency debate, curiously got up in defiance of the appointment of a Com mittee. From the defection of the Scotch Members, and other causes, there seemed to be an apprehension in the House that Ministers would be in a minority. The question however was carried in their direction, by 163 against 122. On Friday came on the Ways and Means, or what is called the Budget. And here I believe I came in some respects to different conclusions from some in my neighbourhood. Having been art and part in that great demonstration at Manchester, which though it did not " go for gold" may be surmised to have been the beginning of the movement which stopped the progress of the war mania, I of course watched for tokens of the effect on the measures of the Govern ment. And I must avow, if lam to speak my mind honestly, that with certain exceptions towards the conclusion of their proposals which shall be noticed, I felt a firm and increasing conviction, that the Go vernment was doing precisely what considerate and intelligent men would do in such circumstances for themselves. The Government did not make the war madness; it was the simple consequence of one " untoward event," over which they had no manner of control. The unfortunate letter, was the torch thrown into the peace of Europe. Late and limping apologies have been made, on the ground of its pub lication being unintended. Military men do not often make such mistakes; and when they do, they incur such consequences as leave small risk of the repetition of the weakness. But if it was so, produce the culprits and the evidence. Till then, the natural conclusion will be, that the letter was cruising about for a twelvemonth for somebody to publish it. It is known that six months ago, it was in the state of being a great secret on the continent. The letter had carried a bitter feeling towards England into every cottage in France, and was curiously directed to calling upon Frenchmen to ran sack their history for causes of rancour of which the existing generation hardly knew the names. 'What modern Frenchman, for instance, ex cept professed politicians, knew or cared anything about Toulon, till the schoolmaster called him up and asked, " Where did the English burn a fleet, on pre tence of being the allies of France ?" But for all this the Government was not to blame. One man can set fire to a house, and six hundred and fifty-eight men cannot put it out again. The Government had nothing to do with any thing but struggling with the consequences. It was clear, that in their position, they must do something, and that anybody else in their place must do it too. Assuming, therefore, that the Go vernment had as perfect an aversion to the origin of the mischief as any that met at Manchester, still all that it could do was to meet the mischief in the least mischievous way it could. And this, till it came to a point which shall be mentioned, I certainly thought it was doing. The several steps pro posed with respect to the navy, the army, and the ord nance, all seemed to me to be the measures of men desirous to see the end of the popular disease, with as little in the way of apothecary's bill as would satisfy the parish. They honestly declared their dis belief in the imminence of war. Two strong reasons for joining in this, present themselves to my appre hension. One is, that peace between the French and English nations was substantially concluded by the events of 1830 and their consequences, It was a peace, not between diplomatists, but between the people on the two sides ; and what the people have made, neither diplomatists nor militarists will break. I saw at that period old colonels of the Empire, men whose rank and prospects and ambition had been cut down by the results of the war, going back to France with tears in their eyes, and declaring that it never entered into their thoughts that the English people could behave as they did on that occasion. And the next reason is, that the Government has, on the rising questions in Europe, already taken the better part, to an extent which settles anxiety on what their line of conduct is to be. Hence that France at this moment should be cherishing hostile designs is about as likely as that she should be doing it when Englishmen in Paris were demanding to carry a musket in the bar ricades. But notwithstanding this, it is impossible to have a fire put out for nothing; the bill, therefore, should be laid at the doors of those who fired the train. The point where my objections began, was at the proposal for a Militia ; and one too, where, with that awkwardness which often marks the proceedings of the political denomination from which it came, it was intimated to be desirable that substitutes should not be allowed. Now on this I invite the most sifting search. If more force is wanted, let it be fairly pro posed in the shape of an addition to the regular army, and Parliament decide on it accordingly. A militia man does not eat less, cost less, than a regular soldier. He is a regular soldier with the exception that he is not to do a regular's work. An increase in , the regular army is an operation which nobody need hear of; but the creation of the novelty of a militia , is sounding the trumpet to every clashing feeling abroad and at home. In a militia regiment more port will be drunk, and more offensive toasts given to season it with,— there will be more harping on every tender question both in home and foreign politics, more quarrelling between the aristocratic feeling of the officers and the popular tendencies of the rank and file,—than in six regi ments of the line. The motto of the militia will ne cessarily be—" War with France and French opinions;" without this, or without talking about it, they will be nobody. And by way of helping, the men are proposed to be raised by ballot, without allowing sub stitutes. Is there to be a Chartist company in a militia battalion, or are they to be divided among the rest that they may disperse their principles ? Is a Chartist to have liberty of conscience and of speech, or is he to be brought up for unsoldierike conduct if in his sleep he names the Charter ? If ever there was a way to get up a collision and revive political animosities, it is this. And to all this what is there to set off ? Simply the desire to enlist on their side the ambition for militia scarlet. There may be excuse for the uneconomical force of a militia, which may be called an army with one leg tied up, when the population is greatly ex hausted by military service, and it is expedient to call on men for one kind of service who might not be willing to give the other. But there is no such reason now. Recruiting parties may not be very popular at Manchester; but a conscription among the, working hands, without a ll ow i ng su b st i tutes, w i ll be a great deal less. On all accounts together, therefore, the plan of a militia seems to be about as wise as to re commend a man to tie up his leg and use a wooden one, when he has got a good leg of his own. There is a deficiency in the revenue, if I make no mistake, of three millions and a half; and the pro posal of the Government is to make the new expenses overshoot the old by about 300,0001. Now this is only some three per cent. on the old ; and there is no man who cannot economise to the extent of three per cent., especially if his previous arrangements have not been particularly economical. If nothing else, the experiment has been tried on the public with the income-tax, in a way that proves the possibility to be undeniable. If, therefore, I was in a position to offer counsel to the manufacturing and commercial interests, who undoubtedly have great power in their hands on this occasion, it would be that, instead of figuring in a barren minority, they should try what they could effect by a proffer to support the Government on the two conditions of the withdrawal of the militia and the dispensing with the three per cent. addition to the estimates. To pay up the deficiency, may be held to be a necessity arising out of what bills of lading call the act of God ; but the other is not. And to the proposal for a militia force the most steady and persevering opposition should be engaged for, leaving to the decision of Parliament whether more of regu lar force is wanted or not. I had a desire to Fay something on the subject of income -taxes; but it must be deferred to a slack time.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, T. PERRONET THOMPSON. Blackheath, London, Feb. 21, 1848. TERRIBLE CALAMITY.—SIT PERSONS DESTROYED Sy FIRE IN KILLARNEY.—On Sunday night a dreadful fire took place in Killarney, by which six individuals lost their lives. The extensive pawnbroking establish ment of Mr. Carberry, in the New-street, which con tained the deposits of the poor from all parts of Kerry, to the amount of several thousands sterling, was the scene of this dreadful catastrophe. Two persons, in their endeavours to escape, were killed, and four chil dren perished in the flames. The affair is a most melan choly o'he..--Freentan's Journal. On Tuesday Patrick Ryan (Small) was executed at Ennis gaol for the murder of the late James Watson, Esq. Ho ascended the scaffold at half-past two o'clock, in a very feeble state, supported by the Rev. Messrs. Mahony and Quinlan. The wretched man appeared almost insensible, and had to be held up while the executioner was adjusting the.. rope. He fainted off before the lanit was drawn, and 'died instantly. The evening before his execution he_ declared his innocence in the gaol. A great concourse of persons congregated before the prison to witness the bpeotEkcle.—Limerick Cltronic4. ATTEMPTED MURDER. - An attempt at murder was made yestt , rday (Sunda:r) coretieun, in Dudley-street, bt. Gales's, wnicn it is tea, td will be attended with fatal consequences to an ageel woman, named Mary Ritchie, and her daughter, a young woman, far advanced in pregnancy, 22 years of age. It appears that a young man named James Parker, 3 tailor, but who for some time past had obtained a living by dancing at public concert-rooms, had been cohabiting with the daughter, named Eliza Burgess, for nearly twelve months. Parker being of very dissipated habits, :she agreed to separate from him. Accordingly she went to live with her mother, who had lodgings at the house of Mr. Fleming, a boot and shoemaker, No. 26, Dudley-street, St. Giles's. Although living separate from each other Parket frequently called to see the unfortunate girl and her mother, but during the last week or so frequent quarrels had taken place between them. At an early hour yes terday morning Parker called upon them, and for nearly two hours Mr. Fleming heard the parties using high words. It was deemed necessary to turn him out of the house, which was accordingly done by Mr. Fleming. He, however, returned soon afterwards, and after staying a few minutes in the room of firs. Richie he muttered something, then left in a great hurry, and went to ,the house of Mr. Johnson, a shoemaker, No. 25 in the same street, of whom he borrowed a knife, stating at the time that he wanted it to cut the sole off one of his dancing pumps that had become loos& Parker having examined it, complained of the blade being rather blunt pointed, and asked Mr. Johnson to give it a rub or two on the strop to make it sharper. This was done, when he re. returned to Air. Fleming's house, and almost imme diately afterwards loud cries of " Murder" were heard proceeding from the room in question. Mr. Fleming without delay ran up stairs, where he met Mrs. Ritchie bleeding profusely from the lower part of the body. She eried out, " I am murdered: catch Parker, he is killing my daughter now." He rushed into the room, when lie perceived Parker with a knife in his hand and his sleeve§ besmeared with gore. He, on seeing Mr. Fleming, oried out, " What business have you here? Stand off, or it will be cold coffee with you." At the same time hi threw the bloody knife out of one of the badi windows► and rushed forth into the street. One of the neighbours having heard the alarm, and seeing Parker's hands covered with blood, laid hold of him and kept hits until the arrival of a police-constable, into whose custody h• was immediately given, and he was at once removed to the station-house in Bow-street. Police constable Bain and other parties, withont * moment's loss of time, took the two injured women to Is neighbouring surgeon's, but such was the dangerous character of the wounds inflicted that their instant re moval to Charing-cross Hospital was deemed necessary. The younger woman, as she was being conveyed thither, bled most copiously from the wounds in her forehead and back, and her mother bled as extensively from * wound in the lower portion of the billy and another in one of her thighs. Mr. Steggall, the resident house surgeon of the hospital, upon seeing the two women at once pronounced them to be in imminent danger. The abdomen of Mrs. Ritchie was perforated to the extent of several inches, and so was the wounded thigh. Such is the dangerous nature of the injuries that her death 11 hourly expected. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 19. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The Share market keeps firm t.-day, with a small business doing. The business done was the fol lowing :—Huddersfield and Manchester, 21/ 4 dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, I / . 2 p.—London and North-Western, 146—Ditto, New Quarters, 5 1 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 101. Preference, IA p. —Midland, 40/. Shares, 45A —Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 6% die.—Yerkt Newcastle, and Berwick (N. and B. Extension), No. 2, 3t/ 2 p. MANCHESTER, FEB. 9. STOCK EXCILANGE.—The sales are—Bolton, Blackburn, &c. (A), 6 3 / 4 dis. —North Staffordshire, 7 p.—South-East ern and Dover, No. 4, 1 dis. U. l l / .2 LEEDS, FEB. 19. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Lancashire and York shire (West Riding Union), 2% dis.—North British, Thirds, 3s. 6d. dis.—Ditto, Quarters, 7s. 6d. dis.—North-Westerh Ils. 9d. dis. BIRMINGHAM, FEL 19. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting' ham, and Boston, 46e. 3d. dis..-t North Stafford.shire, % —Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 565. id. dis.—Ditto (B), 365. 3d. dis. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Fa& 19. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Lancashire and Cat" lisle, 53 ex div.—Newcastle and Carlisle, New Scrip, 102-- - York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 2% P —Ditto (N. and B.), 311. 12s. 6d. YORK, FEB. it STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are— Great Northern, 41. )2s.—Northern Counties Union, ss. 6d.—North Western, —York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Original N. and B.), 31% Ditto, Extension, No. 1, 20—Ditto, No. 2 (late New Bev wicks), 131 4 —Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 104. GLASGOW, FEB. 17. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Airdrie and Bath , gate, 50s.—Caledonian, 35—Edinburgh and Perth, 135.--• Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves, No. 2, 1134.--bian chester and Southampton, 6s. Ed.--North British, Third" 465. 6d.—Wishaw and Coltness, 45%—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 10%. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Badsworth hds., Tues., Scawsby Bar; Thurs., Barns; Sat., Notton Village—ioi. r. Lumley's hds., Monday, Sperkin-hill; Wed., Crookhill; Fri., Cringley on the Hill; Sat.. Swinnovr Wood-10f. Rufford hds., Mon., Kennels; Thurs., Upton Village; Sat., Cocking Moor-10i. Earl of Harewood's hds., Mon., Spdforth; Wed., Hook Moor; Fri.. Wigbill Village-104. Lord Yarborough's hds., Mon., Kelsey River Head; Fri., Utterby-11. Sir Tatton Sykes's hds., Mon., Birdsall House-141 Wed., Wilberfoss Mill-11; Pri., Scampston House Holderniss hds.. Moni, Bessingsby; Tues., Cavil Ila 11; Thurs., Cranswick; Sat., Rise Mill-101. Cheshire hds., Mon., Davenam Hall; Wed., Dunham Park; Fri., Black Dog, Saghton; Sat., Withington Sir W. Wynn's hds., Tues., Styche ; Wed., Hawk stone ; Fri., Prees; Sat., Loppington Village--104. South Essex hds., Tues., North Ockington ; Thurs., Hockley Bull ; Sat., Turner's Gate, by Hadleigh-14. East Essex hds., Tues., Stambourn Village ; Sat., Marks Hall-10i. Essex and Suffolk hds., Tues., Hartley.* ood ; Fri., Justice Wood. Cottesmore hds., Mon., Stocken Hall ; Tues., Brook Hall ; Thurs., Loddington ; Fri., Knossington-10j. Earl Fitzwilliam's hds., Mon., Long Orton ; Wed., Oundle Wood ; Fri., Buckworth Village--10. Duke cf Rutlantl's hds., Mon., Crorton Park--10i Tues., Great Gonerby-12; Wed., Crorton Park; Fri., Cranwell-104. Mr. M. Ingram's . hds. Mon., Drakelo n ; Th urs ., Spread Eagle ; Sat., 13lithfield. 3 I THE TRIPLE MURDR AT BILUSSELS.—EIECII' TION OF THE MURDERERS.—On Saturday morning, at a quarter to nine, Rouseel and Vandenplaas, accom panied by the chaplain of the prison and the Abbe Trist, left their cells. The cortege proceeded along the Rue aux-Laines and the Boulevard- de-Waterloo, as far as the Gate de Hal, against which the scaffold was erected, fronting the Rue-Haute. Vandenplaas appeared to be greatly cast down, but Rouseel walked with firmness. At nine o'clock the condemned arrived at the place of execution ; they embraced, their confessors, and Van denplass was then executed. The sound of the knife made Rouseel tremble greatly, and his whole frame shook for some time ; but he regained confidence, and gave himself up to his execution, and soon • after thi crowd dispersed in silence. • THE CitlE or AlimeaL M`CAni.—We are glaS to learn that intelligence was received on Wednesday, by. Mr. Jackson, of York, solicitor for ll•Cabe, to the effect that this unfortunate convict's case is undergoing further consideration in. the office of the Secretary of State. Mr. Justice Patteson, by whom IL`Cab• was tried, had an i n t erv i ew with Sir George Grey, on. , Tuesday.—Leeds Mercury. HIGHWAY Rohnieni.—On Saturday night last, about half-past seven o'clock, a hawker named Curran, residing at Greenside, was returning home from Prudhoe, and when about 100 yards from Mr. An derson's farm-house, at Kye, he was stopped by two men, whe sprung out of the hedge, knocked him down, and after several ineffectual struggles on the part of Curran, in which he received some severe blows, they succeeded in rifling his right-hand breeches pocket of the money it contained, which consisted of more than 41. in silver and then made their escape. Curran, it appears, had a larger sum in hie possession in another pocket wrapped in a purse; but his cries for assistance brought the inmates of the farm-house to the s pot, and being alarmed at their approach, the villains hastily abandoned their victim and fled. No trace has Yet been discovered of the perpetrators of this daring out rage.—. Newcastle Guardian. Monsieur Alexandre Dumas made a sad mistake when he visited Madrid. Ho inscribed his visiting cards , with the words—" Al exan d re Dumas, Escribetno,' thinking to dazzle the poor Spaniards' eyes with the advent of a genuine homnie de lettres. In fact he was received in a very flattering manner, but at the same time was not a little perplexed, as well as mortified, to find his appearance in a salon invariably the signal for suppressed laughter. It was some time before he dis covered the meaning of this enigma. In Spain a literary man is called Escritor, a notary Escribano, so that poor M. Dumas had actually announced himself as a notary! 11.114TR.5. On the 18th inst., at L ovrrides-square, the Lady Mary Egerton, of a daughter. On the 2id ult., at Madeira, the wife if James W. Brongh• to Esq., A., of a son, still- born. On the 15th inst., at Porchester-terrace, the wife of Joseph Hardcastle, Esq., barrister-at -law, of a son. OR the 16th inst., in Upper George• street, the wife of Joh* Philpot Curran, Esq., barrister-at •law, of a son. On the 18th inst., in Upper Brook-street, the lady of R• Arabin, Esq., of a daughter. RIED. On the 16th i nst., at Al MAR va House, North Britain, Captain Lord Frederick C. P. Beauclerk, R.N., to Jemima Eleonora Johnstone, sixth daughter of the late James Johnstone, Esq'' • of Alva. DI On the 15th ult., at Barrio U pper Canada, Captain John Moberly, R.N. Oa the 9th inst., at Lausanne, in SwitEerlaad, Colonel Charles S. Carjat, formerly of the Royals, or 131 Dragoons. 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