The Sun. — London, England, 1848-02-25 00:00:00

BANK RETURNS. t iIL.OZ2 the London Gazette of Tuesday.) An Aceount, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Vietorm, :tap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes, of the several Banks of - issue in England and Wales. in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 12th day of Feb., 1847:- Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Abingdon Bark, Abingdon-Knapp and Co - Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and Co 9,860 Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jemmitt and Pomfret 8,909 kylshael !Tank, Aylaham-R. and G. Copeman 0,259 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Rickford and Hunt Bahlock Bank and Ba!deck and Biggleswade ; arid Lindsell... 26,476 Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple-D - rake and Co 10,775 tasingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke- Seymour, Lamb, and (t , Beiltord Bank, Bedford-T. Barnard Bodfinal and Bedfordshire Bank, Bedford- Trapp, Ilalfhead, and Co. 3ewdley Bank, Bewdley-Nichols, Baker, and Crane Bicoster and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester-Tubb and Co. Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Attwoods, Spooner, and Co 23,048 Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming ham-J. L. Moilliett, and Sons 12,701 Blandford Bank, Blandford-Bastard and Oak 7 ,890 Boston Bank, Boston-Garfit and Co Boston Bank, Boston-Gee and Co Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater-J. &J. Sealey 6,574 Bristol Bank, Harford, and Co. 31,972 Broseley and Bridgnortb, and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley-Messrs. Pritchard 20,460 Buckingham Bank, Buckingham-Bar tlett, Parrott, and Co. ................................ 18,156 Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Stow- Market Bank, Bury-Oakes, Bevan, and Co. 69,018 Banlairy Bank, Banbury-Gillett and Tawney. 23,819 Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Messrs. Cobb... 36.494 Bath City Bank, Bath-Molter and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard-Bassett and Grant 31,532 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-H A. and W. M. Harris and Co 12,439 Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 53,415 13ridport Bank, Bridport-S. and W. E. Gundry - Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington- Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- J. Worlledge and Co. Bromsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsgrove-Rufford, Biggs, arid Co. 14,284 Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock and Sons 1 20,732 Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge-Messrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and ...... 27,740 Co Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen-Morris and 17,142 Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey-Messrs. La Coste 3,228 Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round, Green, 29,145 6,714 and Co. Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and 1-ladleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co • Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little and Wood- 18,038 35,075 37,501 cock - City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle—Birkbecks and Co. Christchurch Bank, Christchurch—Tice, Welsh, 9,845 14,019 63,881 and Co Cardiff Bank, CardifF—Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmcuth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co. Derby Bank, Derby—Messrs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby—Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Hughes, Locke, and Co Diss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank, Doncaster—Leatham, Tew, and Co. Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster— Cook and Co. Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse, & Co Devonport Bank, Devonport—Hodge and Nor- man 'Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster, and Co. East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hutton, and Co. Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelinsford—Walford, and Co. Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co. Farringdon Bank and Bank of `Vantage, Far ringdon—Barnes and Medley Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and Keen Grantham Bank, Grantham—Kewney and King Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and Co Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hertford and Ware Bank, Ware—S. Adams and Co [lull Bank-and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull —Smith, Brothers, and Co. lluntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veasey Harwich l3ank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co ilemel Hempstead Bank, Ilemel Hempstead=- Smith, and. Whittingstall Honitor. Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co. Her tfo r s hire, Hi tchen Bank, Hitchen—Sharples and Co. &Word, Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford—Morgan, Hoskins, and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley ;lank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexanders ani Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Mercer King,ton and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J Davies and Co Knighton Bank Knighton—J. Davies and Co. Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Kna:esborough—Terry and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, and Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering—G etch and Sons.. Longtoo, Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C Ltarycy and Son Leeds Bank. Leeds—Beckett and Co Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—W.Williams, Brown, and 03. Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and Congleton Banic,Leek—Fowler,Gaunt, and Co. Leicester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smith and Co Llmpeter Bank and Llandilo Bank Llando very—David Jones and Co. Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle- ttms and Cradock Lymir!gton Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St 1.791 5,560 5,875 13,722 30,180 25,456 10,774 10,413 6,253 44,921 62,824 9,050 32,170 82,641 44,377 43.133 23,35 S 18,500 4,365 12,070 4,325 5,320 16,636 11.962 21,943 25,658 15,324 21,684 18,513 39,028 4,474 18,402 32,120 22,596 19,174 71,971 14.075 18.638 5,960 18,156 36,886 7,133 5,402 54,291 33,349 23,828 31,261 19,770 77,300 12,151 6,613 3,659 Barba Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurneys and Co. 37,337 Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Massey and Co. Macclesfield B an k, M acc l es fi e ld—.B roe kl e h urs t and Co 10,758 N _ l anningtree Bank,Manningtree—Nunn and Co 6,333 Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hung erford Bank, and Hungerfordßank,Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckn e y Marlborough and North Wiltshire . New Bank 12,080 i'vlarlborough—wa,rd, Mer o. rurn and Hillier 7,382 Ni erionethshiro Bank, Dol Williams .. . .... be y—Jones and Miners' Bank, Truro—t; ........... .................... 4,728 Commercial 14,024 Monmouthshire Agricultural anadnde Bank, Abcrgavenny—Baileys 27,100 Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon pori Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank n and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouthisew 10,586 —Bromage and Snead Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, —W. Williams and Sons 7,736 Newark Bank, Newark—Godfreys and Hutton 25,065 Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, S leaford—Handley, Peacock, and Co 43,288 Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny and Slocock 18,435 Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Son Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Diss—Taylor and 17,410 2,131 • Dyson Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Hudsons 40,303 Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur- 62,748 neys and Birkbeck Nottiut, , ham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham—Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton B an k, Nuneaton—Craddcock and Co 9,216 3,956 Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and ................................... . .............. . (J New Slt . rum Bank, Sarum —Tetley, Everett, and o ............................... . Nottingham Bank Bank , Nottingh ...—Stnith and Co 26,135 Oswestry and Oswestry Old Bank, Os 4estry—Croxon and Co Oxford Bank, Oxford —J. and It. Morrell 10,060 1d Bank, Oxf d 3 Oxford—R o bi nson, Parsons, or and Co. . . ........................ Ulu 13c,;1: Toilbridge, Tonbridge and. Tonbridgo 30,256 Wells Cl,l Bank, Tonbridge and Tonliridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge— Beeching and Sons... Qxfordshire Witney Bank Witney—Willi ams , Clinch, and C 0.., 21,432 7,941 HE SUN, Average Amount. Pease's Old Bank, hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 45,494 Penzance Bank, re'enzance—Batten and Co 9,68:5 ?eterboroug,h Banff and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—Xtamrs. Yorke Peterborough. Bank, Peterborough—Simpson, White, and. SimF,son 10,982 Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven. and Co Reading Bank, Reading--iamonas and Co 24,645 Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co 25,400 Richmond Bank, Richmond—Stapleton and Co 4,014 Rin g wood and Poole Bank, and Town and ounty of Poole Bank, Ringwood—Ledgard and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale--Clement, Royds and Co 4,211 Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches ter—Day and Nicholson 8,988 Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons... 14,038 Rugby Bank, Rughy—Butlin and Son 12,734 Rye Bank, Rye—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co 14,066 Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and Co 10,918 Ross (Ad Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard and Allaway Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbu r y —B ur t on , Ll oy d, an d Co 9,859 Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall and Co 23,763 Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons, and Co Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Vallance and Son. 2,993 Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddison and Son Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co. St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's—J. S. Story BB4 Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and King Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherly and Fall Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 4,400 Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge —Rufford, Wragg, and Co .... Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 13,015 Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley, and Co. .„ Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. 1 St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib- son and Stuart Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock 19.094 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and Co 8,395 Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns ford and Barne 6,904 Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland 10,544 Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S Percival Union 'Bank, Cornwall, lielston—Vivian and Co. 8,450 Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co. Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Wells and Co 6,090 Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. 23,204 Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox. Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield—Leatharn, Tew, and Co 42,930 Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co 13,529 Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham and Co 4,515 Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkcsworth—Arkwright and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. Wivelisconcbe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W Hancock ... Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good ricke and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender, and Co. 9,766 Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, WorCester—Berwiek, Lechmere, and Co 70,319 Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley and Turner Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—CharlesFoster and Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster— Everett and Co. Wrexham Bank, Wrexham—S. Kenrick 1,690 Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birkbeck, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 10,992 Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten York Bank, York—Swann. Clough. and Co 40,144 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 41,338 Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver- hampton Baalc of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad- ford ... 13,564 Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield .. 7,610 Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work- ington . . 28,565 Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com- pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, _ Coventry- Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 11,807 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel- ___ _ 93,760 tentiam Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company __ _ Carlisle 20,950 Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 18,223 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 17,491 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com- pang, Darlington 14,331 East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 122,637 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 12,319 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 33,194 Hull Banking Company, Hull 27,035 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Ha lifax Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,560 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 16,361 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,442 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster . 55,035 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 43,195 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,056 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 20,380 Nottingham► and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 20,605 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgato-street, London North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 41,770 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 64,916 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 8,530 Pares's Leicost&•rshire Banking Company, Lei- nester Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 1,844 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 35,398 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com- _ pany, Stamford46,63o Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall Stourbridge and Kiddern2inster Banking Com pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and liallamshire Banking Company, Sheffield ...,. 17,760 Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking Company, St t4M,3!cl Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond ........... Storey and Thom as's Banking Company, Shaftesbury ... 9,855 Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield .. Wolverhampton a ad Staffordshire Banking Com pany, Wolverhampton Wakefield and Barnsley - Union Bank, Wakefield 11,569 Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven • .......................... . 28,658 Warwick and Le.nair_gton Banking Company, Warwick...... ................................... 29 725 West of En aiA4 South Wales D istr i ct , ,014 Bank. Bristol . ..•.•• • 62,298 Wilts and Dorset Banking Company , Salisbury 53 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud. dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch Worcester City and County Banking Company, Worcester..... , 3,760 York Union Banking Company, York 60,447 York City and County Banking Company, York 81,535 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns. Stamps and Taus, February 19, 1848. kON N, ELECTION COMMITTEES. LYME REGIS. This Committee m..t again yesterday morning at the usual hour; Lord Ashley in the chair. The whole of the morning was taken up with Mr. Alexander's reply to the case made out for the sitting Member. The room was then cleared, and the Committee having remained in &liberation for upwards of an hour, strangers were re-admitted, when The CHAIRMAN stated that the Committee were unanimously of opinion that no case of bribery had been made out against the sitting Member. Mr. HILL said he now proposed to prove bribery against the petitioners, and handed in a list of forty cases which he said he should be enabled to make out. lie was however, not then prepared with his evidence, and he had, therefore, to ask fur an adjournment till to morrow. The Committee accordingly adjourned. PEEBLES-SIIIRE. The P.•ebles-shire Election Committee re-assembled at the usual hour yesterday morning; Lord Robert Grosvenor in the chair. The arguments relative to the admissability of the evidence of a witness whose vote was contended to bo bad, in the absence of any proof that the vote had been ob jected to in the Sheriff's Registration Court, was resumed this morning, and occupied the attention of the Com mittee until past one o'clock. Eventually the room was cleared, and the Committee having ddibera;e:l for some time, strangers were re admitted, when, The CHAIRMAN announced that the Committee were unanimously of opinion that as the votes the petitioners wished to scrutinise were not objected to in the Sheriff's Registration Court of 1846, the Committee had no power to inquire into their validity. Mr. ANDREWS said, under these circumstances he was not in a position to proceed with the case, as none of the votes the petitioners complained of were ob jected to in the Registration Court. The Committee then agreed to a resolution, declar ing Mr. Forbes Mackenzie to have been duly elected, and their labours terminated. KINSALE. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.): The remainder' of the day was occupied with Mr. Merewether's summing up for the sitting Member. The Committee adjourned at four o'clock till to morrow. LANCASTER. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) The Committee, after an hour's deliberation, came to the resolution that they would report the conduct of the witness to the House, and in the mean time they di rected him to be committed to the custody of the Ser geant- at-Arms. _ The witness having accordingly been removed in cus tody, the evidence was proceeded with. Mrs. Blaco, the keeper of the inn at Heysham, proved that the suppers given to the freemen were ordered by Mr. Elland, who appeared to be a friend of Mr. Gregson . Both Mr. Gregson and M r . Wys e were present during the proceedings at the supper. The Committee adjourned at four till eleven o'clock to-morrow. LLYNVI VALLEY RAILWAY. The ordinary half-yearly meeting, and also an extra ordinary general meeting of the proprietors of this com pany, was held 3•esterday afternoon at the offices, 449, West Strand. Dr. Bowring, M.P., presided. The report stated that effect had been given to the provisions of the Amalgamation Act for incorporating the Duffryn, Llynvi, and Porth Cawl Railway aim pany with this undertaking, and it now only remained to complete the arrangement by granting the needful authority to the directors to enable !them to issue the new shares for the additional stock of 50,0001.(created in lieu of the share capital of an equal amount in the old company) to the respective proprietors entitled to claim the same under the provisions of the Act. The statement of the revenue arising from the traffic over the railway, and from the harbour, from the Ist August last (on which day possession was taken) to the 31st December last, a period of five months, showed a total receipt of 4,1301. Os. 7d., the charge on which, inclusive of interest on mortgages, as exhibited in the same account, was 2,2951 15s. 5d.; thus leaving a dis posable balance of 1,834/. ss. 2d., out of which the directors recommended that a dividend be declared on the share capital of the company, 75,0801., at the rate of 5/. per cent. per annum, being 1,5731. I Is. 10d., and that the remainder of 26C/. 13s. 4d. be carried to the credit of the present half-year's account, as a reserve, subject to the future control of the proprietors. The directors, referring to the depressed state of the trading community generally, and of the iron trade in particular, which could not but exercise a most un favourable influence over the receipts of the railway. confined as it was at present to the conveyance of minerals and merchandise, ventured to hope that the results, as exhibited in the traffic accounts, would not be unsatisfactory to the proprietors. Nothing impor tant has been done towards the construction of new works dufing the past half-year, in con sequence of the great depression, and scarcity of money, which had been so generally experienced; and their operations during the present year would be con fined to such works only as were indispensable. When the arrangements between the Duffryn, Llynvi, and Forth Cawl Railway, and the LI) nvi Valley Railway Companies were settled, it appeared that a payment of 3,000/. by the latter company (made in August last), would not only enable the former to discharge all their liabilities, but would leave a surplus for division amongst their proprietors; it was, therefore, necessary to state for the information of those parties who were pro prietors, by virtue of stock in the old company, that the non-recovery of certain arrears of calls due in respect of the Duffryn Company's 25/. shares (viz., 2,812), and also of another amount due: for tonnages, &c. (viz., 1,132), had placed the account of that company in a different position from that which was anticipated ; the payments now in advance, and prescat liabilities, amounted to the sum of 2,9581,, the directors were, therefore, under the necessity of carrying into effect the clause in the agreement which provided that any surplus arising out of the debts and liabilities above the stipulated sum, should be re tained out of the accruing interest, and dividends of the new shares: they however desired to state, that they were using every exertion for the recovery of the re-. spective sums above stated as due, and that when they had accomplished that object the balance would be rate ably divided amongst the proprietors entitled to the same. The following gentlemen, who were directors of the Duffryn, Llynvi, and Porth Cawl Railway, had taken their seats at the board of this company, in compliance with a special clause to that effect in the Amalgamation Act, viz.:—Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P.; John Ilal comb, Esq.; David Jlalkett, Esq., and M. P. Smith, Esq. The receipts up to the 31st December were 109,3451., and the payments 107,0321. 9s. 10d. ; leaving a balance of 2,3121. 10s. 2d. The report was received and adopted. The proprietors having formed themselves into an extraordinary general meeting, resolutions were passed in accordance with the provisions of the Amalgamation Act for the purpose ofcreating 50,000/. new stock,the amount of capital represented by the shares in the Duffryn, Llynvi, and Porthcawl Railway Company's undertakings, such stock to be divided into 20/. shares, whieh were to be considered as paid up and apportioned rateably among the proprietors of that Company. A dividend, at the rate of 5/. per cent., to be paid on or after the Ist March next, was then agreed to. The directors who had retired by rotation were re elected, and also H. W. Schneider, Esq., the auditor of the company's accounts. The meeting then separated. PARIS ACADEMY OF SCIENCES SITTING OF FEBRUARY 7, 1848. Last November M. Niepce de St. Victor announced to the Academy his discovery of an ingenious mode of tracing or etching drawings and engravings, on paper, glass,and metallic plates, by means of iodine. He found that if an engraving, which had previously been submitted to the action of the vapour of iodine (for a few minutes only, to avoid the white parts being impregnated with the iodine), was immediately applied to the surface of a silver plate, with pressure, that in the course of five or six minutes a faithful representation of the en graving was obtained; this plate being after wards exposed to the action of mercury, he ob tained a representation of the same kind as that produced by the daguerreotype process. He found also that the same effect was produced by operating on a plate of copper with iodine vapour, and subsequent ex posure to the action of vapour of liquid ammonia ; he' also found that iodine possesses the property of attach. ing itself to desi g ns in relief and all bodies which pre sented engraved surfaces, whatever their colour or composition. M. Poiteoin has succeeded in transferring these etchings or tracings to plates engraved in relief or in intaglio, by the aid of which we can take impressions; two or three hours only are required to effect this. He commences by exposing an engraving to the vapours of iodine, which readily deposits itself on the black parts only ; there are papers which produce inverse effects. The iodized engraving he then applies, with slight pressure, to the surface of a silver plate, or of a plated or gilded copper plate, prepared as for the daguerreotype process ; the black parts of the engraving, which have absorbed the iodine, so acts upon the silver plate that the iodine is converted into iodide of silver on those parts of the plate which correspond with the black in the future representation of the design. The plate is then plunged for a few minutes into a saturated solution of sulphate of copper, connected with the negative pole of a voltaic battery (composed of a few series), by means of a slip of platinum, the plate itself being con nected with the positive pole of the battery. The copper deposits itself only on the parts which had not previously been covered by the iodide—in other words, the parts corresponding to the white parts of the engraving; there is thus a perfect representation of the engraving, in which the copper represents the white and the iodide of silver the black parts. Care must be taken that the silver plate remains but a short time in the bath of sulphate of copper, for if the operation be too prolonged, the entire plate will be covered with copper. The plate having re ceived its deposit of copper is washed in water with much care, then plunged into a solution of hyposulphite of soda to dissolve the iodide of silver, which occupies the place of the black parts of the engraving; it is then washed in a large quantity of dis tilled water, dried, and heated at a temperature sufficient to oxidise the surface of the cop per, which assumes different tints ; the heating must be stopped when the copper has assumed a dull-brown co- - lour. The plate is then cooled, and the silver, now set at liberty from its combination with the iodine by means of EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1846, FRI DA I' the byposulphite of soda, is amalgamated, the operation being gnickened by slightly heating the plate. As the tn,r cury does not combine with the oxide of copper, we have now a design in which the amalgamated parts represent the black, and the portions of the plate covered with oxide of copper, the white parts of the engraving. The amilgarnation finished, the plate is covered with two or three leaves of gold, and the mercury evaporated by heat. The gold leaf adheres only to the parts which represent the black parts of the engrav ing, and the gold leaf which does not adhere to the other parts of the plate, is brushed off. This being done, the oxide of copper is dissolved with a solution of nitrate of silver, and then the silver, as well as the copper which is beneath it, is acted upon by means of weak nitric acid. The traces of the design, which are protected by the gold, not being attacked, we can obtain intaglios us deep as may be desired, which correspond to the white parts of the engraving. This last operation finished, the plate is ready to take impressions, in the same manner as its wood engraving. In order to obtain with the same designs plates en graved in intaglio, or in copper plate, it is neces sary for this purpose to operate on a plate of copper covered with gold. In the bath of the sul phate of copper the parts corresponding to the white of the engraving are again covered with copper ; the iodine or compound of iodine formed is removed by the hyposulphite of soda, the layer of copper is oxidized, and the gold amalgamated, which may then be removed by nitric acid, dissolving at the same time the oxide of copper. In this preparation the white parts of the en graving are evidently preserved, and again the intaglios represent the black, as in the engraved copper plates. — Patent Journal. LAW INTELLIGENCE, BLOOMSBURY COUNTY COURT. (Before a HEATH, Esq.) CRABB V. BARNARD GREGORY.—CURIOUS CASE. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, hair dresser, &c., of Hampstead, against the defendant, as heir-at-law of a gentleman named Thompson, late of the Priory, Hampstead, to recover the sum of la, odd for work and labour done. The defendant did not appear, but the circumstances of the case are as follow: The deceased Mr. Thompson was an elderly gentle man of very eccentric habits, and it may be recol lected that, on her Majesty coming to the throne, he sent to the Palace, as a present to the Queen, an ivory bedstead, and several articles of antique furniture, formerly, as stated, belonging to Oliver Cromwell. Sorno time prior to his death, which happened between four and five years ago, he became acquainted _with the defendant; a close friendship followed, and, on his dying, it was found by his will that the whole of his property was bequeathed to defendant. The next of kin of the deceased gentle man, two nephews and a niece, disputed the validity of the document, and the property, amounting to many thousand pounds, wan thrown into Chancery. The will was subsequently pronounced to be legal by the requi site authorities, and matters were finally arranged by defendant taking possession of the property, giving a certain sum t' each of the nephews, marrying the niece, and making himself amenable for all the debts deceased owed. The plaintiff, by his books and on his oath, proved having commenced attending deceased in 1842 up to the time of his death, cutting, and dressing his hair, shaving him, supplying him with perfumes and pomaturn, and setting his penknives. The JUDGE, having convinced himself that the items were not charged for beyond a reasonable rate, gave judgment for the plaintiff, and an order was made for the immediate payment of the claim, with costs. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. George Anderson, a person of dashing appearance, living at No. 15, Queen street, Brompton, was brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with having obtained goods fraudulently, and with having committed forgery. Henry Sadler, job-master, 1371, New Bond-street, said, on the 31st of August, 1846, the prisoner called on him, and said he had been recommended to him by his neighbour, Mr. Moore, as he wanted to hire a horse for a short time. Prosecutor consented to let a horse on hire l'tir a stated period, and, according to the directions received from the prisoner, he sent the horse to Ealing. Six weeks afterwards prosecutor went down to Ealing to make inquiries, but he could hear nothing of the pri soner or the horse. James Matterface, coachmaster, Hammersmith, said in July, 1846, the prisoner hired a phaeton from him at 21. a month. The phaeton was sent to Ealing, but from that time prosecutor had never been able to meet with the prisoner. Police-constable Rackstraw said he had found 104 duplicates on the prisoner when he took him into custody. In defence the prisoner said the horse was an old animal, and he was to give 18/. for it. The phaeton also was to be purchased for a stated sum. Mr. Sadler and Mr. Matterface said there was no truth in the prisoner's defence. Mr. Sadler said he had no doubt at a future examina tion numerous other charges would be brought against the prisoner. A charge of forgery was then preferred against the prisoner by Mr. Allen, plumber and glazier, Avery-row, Bond street, who had received a bill from the prisoner with Mr. Moore's name on it, which name was pro nounced to be a forgery. The prisoner was committed on the first two cases, and remanded on the third, and ordered to be brought up on Monday next. The sum 015/. 18c, the surplus of the fourth annual Bachelors' B1)1, Willis's rooms, King-street, on Feb. 3d, was sent for the poor box. WESTMINSTER. Joseph Clarke, a middle-aged man, and Ann Wilson alias Black Anne, a dirty, dark-looking woman of the town, were finally examined, charged with drugging and robbing Edward Hyde, a grocers' assistant, living at 145, Praed-street, Paddington. Prosecutor was met by the female prisoner near the Haymarket late on the night of the 26th ult,, and induced to accompany her to a house belonging to the male prisoner in Pump-court, Perkins' -rents, West minster. He gave her a sovereign from his purse, which onntained seven, to get some liquor with, and at the same time placed his purse in his waistcoat pocket in her presence. She returned with some liquor in a small stone bottle, and handed him a glassful!, but he did not observe her take any herself. He had no sooner swal lowed the contents of the glass than he felt a most extraordinary sensation. lie was cognizant of all that passed around him, but perfectly helpless and powerless. The woman then took his purse from his pocket, two silver coins, and two letters, and also his handkerchief from his neck. She then went into the passage and had a conversation for some minutes with a man. While they were so engaged the prosecutor began to recover and moved towards the door, when the woman ran out of the house, and the male prisoner, whose voice prosecutor distinctly recognised as that of the man who had been holding the conversation with her in the passage, accompanied by another man, entered the room, and said to the prosecutor, " Who are you?" Prosecutor immediately said that he had been robbed. The male prisoner went out of the house fol lowed by the prosecutor, who obtained a policeman, who took him into custody, when one of the letters which had been taken from the prosecutor by the woman was found in the male prisoner's pocket, and on his way to the station he endeavoured to get rid of a flash note on the Bank of Elegance. When before the magistrate the prisoner admitted that he was the owner of the house where the robbery had been committed, and in the same breath declared that he could produce persons to prove his respectability. The charge was remanded from time to time, and some of the police specially employed to find Black Anne. Mark Loom, sergeant of the B divi sion, succeeded in apprehending her on Monday, when, without his stating the nature of the charge against her, she exclaimed, on seeing him enter, " I know nothing about it." She was positively identified on Tuesday by the prosecutor. On entering the witness box yesterday the prosecu tor's tone and manner were completely altered. He now wished to withdraw the prosecution as he had got a situation to go to, and, moreover, thought he might be mistaken in the identity of Black Anne. The police intimated that it had come to their ears that the prosecutor had made overtures to the friends of the prisoner Clarke, and had arranged with them since the last examination to withdraw the prosecution on the receipt of 41. from them. The prosecutor denied this. Mr. BURRELL committed both the prisoners for trial at the Central Criminal Court, and called upon the pro secutor, besides the usual personal recognizance, to find two sureties in the amount of 401. to prosecute. Clarke said he could call witnesses to prove that he was not at the house at the time of the robbery. Mr. BURRELL said he might produce them on the trial. The prosecutor asked the Magistrate if he would con sent to take one surety. Mr. BURRELL consented, but as the person had not made his appearance at the close of the court, prosecutor was sent to prison in default. PURIFICATION AND DOMESTIC USE OF GAS.—At a recent meeting of the Royal Institute of Architects, Mr. G. L. Taylor read some " Observations on Gas Works, and the details of the manufacture of gas, with the view of showing that it is capable of being rendered so pure as to be introduced beneficially through out houses, manufactories, and public buildings." In reply to an inquiry on the part of the le c t urer , M r . gas (viz., 9s. pe r Burn said when he resided i n Edinburgh, alth oug h h e had twice as many burners as he now has i n L on d on , al,nodoopaciudbmicorfeeetse,rthreaonattittyo for the wasthe only half what it is here, resulting from the greater illuminating power of the gas, which was made from cannel coal. Allusion being made to the destruction' of the book bindings in the Athenaeum Club by the bad London gas, Mr. Burn said it must not be supposed that th e gas i n Scotland was perfect; in the new club-house at Edin burgh all the books and leather furniture bad been destroyed in the same way. Mr. Palmer, the engineer to the Western Gas Company, who assisted Mr. Taylor in explaining the process to be employed in their new works (the purpose of the paper), showed the import ance of perfect purification, and its practicability. A building, one hundred and sixty - six feet in diameter, at Kensal- green, incloses the whole of the works. Cannel coal is to be used, and if the gas be sold at 6s. per 1,000 cubic feet, the cost to the public would not bo more than if they paid 4s. per 1,000 feet for the gas they are now using. According to Mr. Taylor, however, the n ew company have no intention of selling it so low as this— the more silly they.— The Builder. Loox To TOUR BOlLERS.—Another disastrous ex plosion of a steam-engine boiler (near London-road, Manchester) further illustrates the necessity for some public inspector of boilers. The loss of life was very great. The boiler, it seems, was greatly out of repair. The Builder. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Feb. 24. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at ten minutes after Five o'clock. NATIONAL DEFENCES. Earl HARD WICKE withdrew his motion with respect to the national defences. POPISH BULLS. Lord KENYON presented a petition from Mary lebone complaining of the bull in ccena Domini. ROME. Viscount STRANGFORD presented petitions from a place in Norfolk against diplomatic relations with Rome, and against the Jewish Disabilities Bill. Lord RODEN presented five petitions against diplomatic relations with Rome, three of which were from Ireland. The Marquis of BREADAL BANE presented a petition to the same effect. THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. The NOBLE MARQUIS also presented several peti tions in favour of a measure to facilitate the grants of sites for the Free Churches of Scotland, the peti tioners complaining that great diflicuties were thrown in the way of their attaining such sites. THE " UNITED IRISHMAN" NEWSPAPER. Lord STANLEY then rose to call the attention of their Lordships to this periodical. They were, no doubt, well aware that dissensions had of late years broken out in the ranks of those who had heretofore as sembled in Conciliation Hall, and that they had been split into sections. The one to which his remarks especially applied was the Irish Confederation. Two letters of a violent nature were addressed to the Confederation by Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Riley, two of its mem bers, a discussion ensued upon them, and the body, on a division of 317 to 188, de clared the said letters too dangerous for publication. Mr. Mitchell resigned, and established the paper of which he complained, the United _lrish man on the 20th of the present month. The Noble Lord then read a passage from the speech of a Mr. Meagher, which he delivered at the meeting of the Confederation, at which the letters of Mr. Mitchell were discussed in very excited language. He seemed to advocate insurrection, if the circumstances of the country required such a course. It was the young, whose blood was warm, and whose temperament's were enthusiastic, that were led away, and induced to take steps of violence by such high-flown oratory ; and it was the duty of a pater nal Government, desirous to preserve the welfare of the country, to take means to put a stop to it. The Noble Lord referred to articles and letters in the paper, one of which was addressed to " Lord Clarendon, Englishman, calling himself her Ma jesty's Commissioner," in all of which violence was advocated for the purpose of rescuing the country from the domination of England; further, that juries were packed for the purpose of obtaining the verdicts that were required, and that the columns of the paper were intended to be opened for the promulgation of these opinions. The object of the paper was to create civil war and rebellion, for the purpose of annihilating everything English. It might be said by the Government, " Let it pass by ;" but he could not coincide in that opinion. Let them recollect that these sentiments were not ad dressed to the sober-minded and thinking people of England, for he believed such a seditious article would be treated with disgust, but to the excited people of Ireland, who were suffering under many distresses.—(Hear.) The paper was sold for 5d., but he was informed that it was eagerly bought up in the streets of Dublin on its first appearance for I s. 6d. and 2s. He had felt it his duty to call the attention of the Government to the first number, because it was a sample of what was to follow. lie wished to know if the attention of the Law Officers of the Crown had been called to the paper, and if it was intended to prosecute the pro• prietor ? The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that his attention and that of Lord Clarendon had been called to the newspaper in question.—(Hear, hear.) It would not•be well, he thought, to fetter the discretion of the Noble Lord, as he was confident that he would act as the circumstances of the case might seem to him to require. He was not, however, authorised to say that he had felt it his duty to institute a prosecution against the parties. The subject then dropped. ENCUMBERED ESTATES (IRELAND) BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR then moved the second reading of this Bill, and entered briefly into its details. It could not fail, he said, to be of the utmost advantage to Ireland where the land was deeply mortgaged. This, in fact, was one of the most fruitful sources of the impoverished condition of the country. The object of the Bill was to enable the pro prietors of entailed estates, heavily encumbered, to dispose of them. This, he should say, would lead to the better management of the estates, and to the profitable cultivation of the land. And why should not Parliament interfere ? The principle was not new, for in the cases of canals, railways, and other public improvements, they did not hesitate to take the property recruired for such purposes. It was dif ficult, perhaps, in every case to protect all the parties interested, but every endeavour had been made in the Bill to do so. It was a subject of great complexity, and therefore the matter had been left very much to the discretion of the Court of Chancery in Ireland. The Bill would guard as much as possible against the absence of any one interested in an estate to be sold. It was proposed that the manager of an estate should have a right to apply by petition to the Court of Chancery, to put the powers of the Act in motion with regard to such estate, and every one who con ceived that he had an interest in the property might enter a caveat, and thereafter be entitled to notice of any proceedings that might be taken with regard to it. Upon a petition being presented, it would be referred, in the first place, to a master, to inquire into the facts of the case, and he would have the means of ob taining all the information necessary to see that jus tice was done. He would also give notice to all persons interested in the matter. He would then make a report to the Court, and recommend what, under all the circumstances, was the most expedient course to pursue; and if he thought it desirable that the estate should he sold, he would be authorised to sell the whole interest. If the Court thought there was a doubt that some interest had not been ascer tained, and it were subsequently proved, the money would be refunded. Every means, in fact, had been taken to prevent the money being paid out of the court into the wrong hands, as well as to protect, in every possible way, the interests of the owners, mort gagees, and other persons interested in estates ; and the object of the Bill was to give to the mortgagee his money, and pay over the surplus to the owner, or invest it in land. The Noble and Learned Lord, who was very inaudible throughout, concluded by moving the second reading of the Bill. The Earl of RODEN expressed his thanks to the Noble Lord for the great pains he had taken to ex plain the object and details of this measure. Cer tainly, without such a measure, it would be very difficult to carry out the poor-law now in force in Ireland. He knew a friend of his, having about 3,0001. a year from land in Ireland, who had to pay no less than 1,250/. in poor rates. If those rates should only be trebled they would swallow up more than his income. He hoped the present Bill might be a means of rescuing persons so placed from their existing difficulty. Earl FITZ WILLIAM thought it might be de sirable to guard the public in England from forming any very exaggerated idea of what would be the re sults of this measure. He was far from thinking slightly of the Bill; on the contrary, he thought it a very right and wise measure ; but he had a strong impression that its operation would be very slow. Men were not over willing to arrive at a conclusion that it was absolutely necessary to sell their estates; nor were they always able to sell them when they had arrived at such a conclusion. If it were a long time, therefore, before the Bill produced any sensible effect, their Lordships and the public must not be disappointed. Lord STANLEY concurred with those who thought that the evil sought to be remedied by this Bill was one of overwhelming magnitude in Ireland. When men of a nominal rent-roll of 10,0001. or 12,0001. a year in Ireland were really receiving scarcely so many hundreds, it was clear that they could not properly do their duty either to the state or to those who were dependent upon them. But al though the evil to be remedied was great, he must also observe that the mode of cure was one accom panied by considerable difficulty. He trusted that time would be given deliberately to consider the details of the measure. The principle he did not now object to ; but it must be borne in mind that it was one which might be pushed to a very inconve nient extent. To tell a man that it was for the interest of the state that he should dispossess himself of his property because he had not sufficient capital to de velop all its resources was to establish a principle that it was at least very dangerous to act upon. Besides thin, he thought that considerable practical inconve nience might arise from the Bill. Estates might be pressed into the market, and the value of Irish pro perty might thereby be greatly depreciated. This was a consequence very much to be dreaded. He would venture to ask, with reference to one of the details, if a tenant for life would have the power of selling? The LORD CHANCELLOR said he would be the party to make the application for sale. Lord STANLEY said he thought the power of sale being vested in a life tenant would be open to great difficulty. He also had doubts as to the secu rity given to the purchaser under the Bill. Another difficulty lie felt was, that the Bill as at present framed scarcely gave sufficient protection to the owner. Applications for sale might be made to the Court of Chancery by an incumbrancer of an estate, but the entire costs of that application were charge able upon the estate, whether the Master in Chancery made an order for the sale or not. An owner might • consequently be driven into a suit against his will, for which 1 . 1. would have to pay the entire charg's. These objections might arise from his want of ac quaintance with the law, but he thought them very serious objection:, and that time at least should he given for their consideration. Lord CAMPBELL said the astuteness of the Noble Lord opposite was so great that had he been bred to the law there would have been little doubt but that he would have sat on the Woolsack. But the Noble Lord was under a great misapprehension as to the effect of the Bill, for its effect upon the owner would be mainly to cheapen and simplify pro ceedings of the Court of Chancery to which the mort gagee might even at the present moment subject him. With regard to the security of the purchaser, he directed attention to the 26th clause, under which any purchaser would have, not what was now called an Irish title, but a Parliamentary title established by the Legislature, and good against all the world. He very much rejoiced that the Bill had been intro duced, and he expressed his confidence that it would be of the greatest benefit to the sister country. Lord MONTEAGLE admitted the value of the 26th clause, but thought it might be open to incon venience to remedy what was now no doubt a great grievance in the partial manner in which this Bill would operate. He would rather see a general mea sure introduced on the subject of title, and he thought, if this Bill was carried, it would be the duty of Government to see that an equally remedial measure was brought in applicable to other estates than those subject to mortgage. With regard to another point, he felt that this measure, in . order to be effectual, must be accompanied by a measure for reforming the Masters' offices in which the proceed ings under this Bill were to be conducted. He be lieved that, at present, it was infinitely easier to get an estate into a .Master's office than to get anything out of it. The LORD CHANCELLOR said a few words in reply, and the Bill was then read a second time ; to be committed this day fortnight. AUDIT OF RAILWAYS ACCOUNTS BILL. The Committee on this Bill was postponed until Tuesday next. The House adjourned at twenty. five minutes after Seven. ROUSE OF COMMONS. Feb. 24. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE. Sir W. LIE ATHCOTE brought up the report of the Standing Orders Committee. SUSPENDED RAILWAY BILLS. Mr. FAIRER moved—" That the Sessional order of the 17th of December last, requiring that all Railway Bills be referred to the Committee Gn Rail way Bills before being pesented to the House, be suspended so far as it relates to any Railway Bills which were suspended in the session of 1847, by virtue of the resolutions of the House of the 10th of June last." Mr. WOOD seconded the motion. After a few words from Mr. STRUTT, in opposi tion to the Bill, the motion was withdrawn. MORLEY GAS-LIGHT BILL. This Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. NATIONAL DEFENCES. Mr. WILLIAMS presented a petition from Mid dleditch, in the county of Cheshire, against any in crease•in the military establishments of the country. Sir T. BIRCH presented a petition from Liver pool to the same effect. Dr. BOWRING presented a petition from the Isle of Wight to the same effect. BANK ACT. Sir 11. DAVIE presented a petition from Had dington, praying fora modification of the Bank Act jEWISII DISABILITIES. Mr. D. DAVIES presented a petition from Car marthen in favour of the admission of the Jews into Parliament. CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL. Mr. LOCKE presented a petition against the Charitable Trusts Bill from a place in Yorkshire, the name of which did not reach the gallery. Sir G. STRICKLAND presented a petition from Chorley to the same effect. PEEBLES ELECTION COMMITTEE. Lord R. GROSVENOR brought up the report of the Select Committee to whom the petition complain. ing of an undue election for the county of Peebles had been referred, stating that the Committee had decided that Mr. Forbes Mackenzie had been duly elected to serve in Parliament for that county. BREACH OF PRIVILEGE. Mr. DEEDES, as Chairman of the Lancaster Election Committee, stated that Mr. James Dodson, a witness before the Lancaster Election Committee, had been guilty of gross prevarication in his evidence before the Committee, and that he had, by warrant under his hand, committed him to the custody of the Se rgeant- at-Arms, to await the pleasure of the House. The Hon. Member then moved that the said J. Dodson, having prevaricated in his evidence before the Lancaster Election Committee, he is guilty of a breach of the pri• vileges of this House ; that for the said offence he be committed to the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms, and that the Sergeant-at-Arms should cause the said James Dodson to be brought before the Committee from time to time as often as his presence might be required, and that Mr. Speaker do issue his warrant to the Sergeant-at-Arms accordingly. Motion agreed to. Mr. B. O'SBORNE presented a petition from Edin burgh, praying for the repeal of the window duties. Mr. COWAN presented a petition from Edinburgh praying for the repeal of the game-laws. THE FRANCHISE. Mr. WYLD gave notice that on Thursday, the 16th of March, he should move for leave to introduce a Bill to extend the elective franchise to all persons paving the income-tax. Mr. MILES gave notice that on Thursday, the 9th of March, he should move an humble Address to her Majesty, relating to the Minute of CouneiL with holding grants in aid of building schools of the Established Church. Mr. WILLIAMS gave notice that on Monday next he should move for a return of the number of Members of the House of Commons holding appoint ments in the army, the navy, or the ordnance. Mr. ELLICE presented three petitions from Coventry in favour of the removal of Jewish dis abilities. THE CONVICT HOWARD, AT LIMERICK. Lord NUGENT said he wished to put a question to the Secretary for the Home Department with reference to an occurrence which had taken place in Ireland, and which he had read in the newspapers. At Limerick a person of the name of Howard was condemned to death for the crime of murder, and was left for execution, which was to have taken place on Tuesday last, but through the intervention of some hu mane persons, who ascertained that he had been con victed on perjured evidence, that sentence was not car ried into effect. Representations were made to the Lord-Lieutenant, and he reprieved the prisoner for a fortnight, in order that his innocence might be satis factorily proved by evidence. He wished to know, therefore, whether the statement in the newspapers was true or not, and if true, whether the prisoner had received a royal pardon, he having been con victed on a false charge, and narrowly escaped the punishment of death ? _ _ Sir G. GREY said he had received no information on the subject, except that which he bad obtained from the newspapers. NAVAL AND MILITARY ESTABLISH MENTS. Captain PECHELL presented a petition, which had been agreed to at a public meeting at Brighton, expressing great dissatisfaction at the proposed in crease of the naval and military establishments of the country, and stating that though they lived on the sea coast they had not the slightest fear of inva sion. —(Hear, and laughter.) CHARITABLE TRUSTS (IRELAND). In answer to a question put by an Hon. MeUiber, Sir W. SOMERVILLE stated that it was the intention of Government to bring in a Bill for the better regulation of Charitable Trusts in Ireland. JEWISH DISABILITIES BILL. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER wished to make an alteration in a notice given by his Noble Friend (Lord J. Russell) yesterday, with respect to the course which the Government intended to adopt on Friday in reference to the Jewish Disa bilities Bill. It would be necessary to take two votes in supply before they proceeded with that Bill, one of which would be for the naval excess and tlie other for the expenses of the Kafir war. The Jewish Disabilities Bill would be brought on immediately after those votes had been taken. lIYDERABAD PRIZE MONEY. In answer to a question put by an Hon. Member, Sir F. LEWIS said, that the distribution of the prizemoney to the officers and seamen engaged in the capture of Hyderabad would shortly take place. SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE ESTIMATES. Mr. OSBORNE gave notice that if the Select Committee should be nominated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer late in the evening he would oppose the appointment. MAILS TO THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES. Mr. D IVETT moved for a copy of the report of the Hydrographer of the Admiralty, founded on which the route through Torres Straits had been sanctioned by the Lords of the Admiralty for l arge steamers conveying the mails to the Australian colo nies. The immense importance of this subject demanded the immediate attention of the Government, and, without troubling the House further, h e b egge d t o make the motion of which he had given notice. Admiral DUNDAS said it was a very hard thing that the Admiralty should be blamed f or no t preci pitately and hurriedly testing the merits of a danger ous passage. He was quite ready to give all the in formation he could afford the Hon. Member, and nothing more could be expected of him. Mr. HUME insisted that no chart ought to be allowed to be published until it had been passed by the Admiralty, and hoped Government would take up this subject without waiting to have it forced upon them by the House. Allusion had been made to the fate of the Great Britain, and he could assure the House that several of the charts taken out by that vessel were discovered after she met with her unfor tunate accident to be lutist defective. Mr. WYLD said, an immense amount of public money had been spent in surveys conducted under the direction of the Admiralty, but these surveys were almost worse than useless to the public, !II account of the trifling amounts that were spent 1 11 publishing the results of the surveys. Mr. COWPER was glad the Hon. Member for Bodmin had called the attention of the House to the loss the public sustained through the non-publicatio n of the charts prepared by the officers of the Admiralty, and he trusted when the estimates which related to this subject came under discussion, the Hon. Member would repeat the observations he had just made.. Until this evening he had never heard anything uttered against the judgment of the Hydrographer ot the Admiralty, but the character of that officer, ba t h . , in a public and a professional point of view, was bell in so much estimation that it was hardly neeessary for him to answer the aspersions that had been throve out against him. The Hydrographer, however, we l l fully prepared to justify the opinion be had expressed upon the subject of the best route open to steatir vessels going to Australia, and there was, therefore, no objection to laying (al the table of the House the papers which the Hon. Member had moved for. Afttr a few words from Mr. DIVETT, the motion was agreed to. THE WINDOW DUTIES. Lord DUNCAN presented a petition from lir, wards of 5,000 persons, inhabitants of Bath, inclov ing the mayor, most of the magistrates, and member of the town council, praying for the immediate so d total repeal of the window-tax ; also, similar petitions from owners and occupiers of houses inhabited by the working and middle classes in Sunderland, and in 0 6 borough of Bury, in Lancashire. Sir B. HALL presented a petition from Ilaryly bone to the same effect. Lord DUNCAN said that, in rising to propose al, motion of which he had given notice, he was wel l aware of the objections and difficulties which rule' be made to this or to any other motion for a reductie of taxation, more especially at the present crisis. o p would own that he was in hopes that he should bare been anticipated by the Noble Lord (J. Russell), or by his Right Hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Er chequer in the motion, because when he considered thst, in a time of peace the budget, of which they had hear d so much, proposed an augmentation of the property' tax, he should have expected that it would have bee° put forward as a substitute for one which pressed most grievously on ,the labouring classes of this country. He had been told that this was not the time to bring forward the present motion, but he had always observed that the unsuitable character of the time was always made the pretext for opposition hi: those who did not wish it to be brought forward ,s' any time whatever. On the last occasion when. th e question was mooted he had moved for a Committe e of inquiry, but that motion was defeated, and he nos therefore moved for a total repeal of the window- 0% ; On looking over the taxation of the c ou ntry, ; thought he had found a substitute f o r thi s t ax , and t was on this account that he had been induced to cot forward as speedily as possible and l a y th e who question before the Cha nce ll or o f th e E xc heque r for his consideration. It was mad e a grea t host that out of 3,500,000 houses in Great Brit w less thou 500,000 paid the wind ow -t ax . _,_ ll. reason why so many houses were e xem pt that the windows of a great number were reduced seven windows only. He had received a letter from a very great authority, which he recommended to consideration of his Noble Friend the Chief Comnol, s'oner of Woods and Forests, and in which th e writer said that no plan of sanitary reform would, complete till the window-tax was abolished, He also received a similar letter from Mr. Byers, chairman of the Carpenters' Society in London, 10 ! a very extensive builder. Mr. Byers stated that 0 , the poorer description of houses the washhouses soe privies were entirely without ventilation, from o" operation of the window-tax, and that in Compton street he had been employed to stop up no less than five windows in almost every house in the street. Th e , history of the house duty and window tax was wort attention of the House. In 1695, in the reign William the Third, the first Act was passed s,' levying duties on inhabited houses in Great Brits o The /duty on each house was only 2s. but the re was a duty of 4s. on houses having 10 windo il and a duty of Bs. on houses with 20 windows. O ht tax was considerably increased in the time of Qt l l . Anne and in the time of George 11. In 1747, o ,- : Pelham got an Act passed by which houses and sra_ l i dows were taxed separately. In 1784 Mr. Pitt past his famous Commutation Act, which greatly increase d the window duty, and in 1797 he found it necess to increase the tax upon houses. In 1802 an d 18Ø 9 , two more Acts were passed, which augmented th e duties on windows, and in 1822 Sir John Hobhouset then Member for Westminster, brought forward ! motion very similar to that which he (Lord Dunes°,) had now laid on the table. Sir Juin. H o bhouse told that it was absolutely impossible to repeal the window-tax, but so strong was the opinion of_ people on the subject that in the year following in r : Robinson, at that time Chancellor of the Exchequei found it necessary to reduce the window-tax one-hAT In 1834, when Lord Althorp repealed the house-t . he passed also another Act, to which he should P' leave to call the attention of the House. In that A__ C i Lord Althorp inserted a clause, in which it w"" stated that persons then duly assessed should 1 11 1 power to open as ninny windows as tb ey pleased. great number of persons took advantage of that p.. f r y vision, and accordingly opened a very great numb" of windows. Unfortunately, in 1840, there W o ' what was found to be the case at present, a deficiens in the revenue, and Mr. Baring, the Chancellor y the Exchequer, passed another Act, laying an ad di 10 per cent. on the assessed taxes ; a n d, at tits same time he had recourse to what is called s „ s r ° assessment. It would be found, on comparing ‘ ,. e w" year ending April, 1840, whi c h was p revious to t t B' aring's Act, with the year ending April, 1841, tual in 1841 there were 450,913 houses paying 1,613,3 0 8; to be set against 394,036 houses in 1840, pai irj ,rit 1,350,9301. ; thus showing an increa se o f 56,81, houses, and of 262,3781. additional taxati on . 1 4° ', 4 , withstanding, however, the increase o f populatt which was going on, the window-tax i mme diately afterwards fell off, as the people had recourse to the expedient of blockading their windows. The numb% of houses assessed gradually decreased from 450, 91 " in 1841 to 447,383 in 1844. But the most s trilsiog i feature in this part of the case was the diminuti o n which had taken place within the same period in t 0 number of houses having eight or nine windows. ,` 1841 the total number of houses having eight $ 1112 :1 dows was 62,898, while in 1844 they had dwindl e n t down to 55,692. Again, in 1841, the numher - , houses with nine windows was 54,241 ; and, in 1 8 7.1 this number had decreased to 53,781, showing s decrease in the lowest class of houses assessed to the window-tax of 7,296 houses. The mistake made financiers was that windows were taken to be a cr iterio n of the value of a man's house ; though they might d well take the number of buttons on his coat as a e l ; tenon of the value of what was in his p bo ocket. Th e re was another point to which he wished to call the attention of the House, and that was, the i ne qus l 7, of the assessment. In Berwick-street and in Fols°' , street, Soho, no one house was rated at 2001. aye and most of houses in them at 301., 401., and t.i s yet these two streets paid 8981. window-duty, svi".,, in St. James's. square, where there was no liolsT o rated under 100/. a year, and many houses l'i s e s t rated at 500/., and even 1,0001., only contributed 6v n 'i l to the window-duty. Berkeley-square paid but 71 'd and Grosvenor-square 983/. it would b e foo°,„1 therefore, that houses with a rental of 30/. or 4 " - a year, paid 30 or 40 per cent. in addition in the sill; of window-duty, while many hous es , occu pied "5 richer people, only paid in the proportion of 4 ore l per cent. upon the rental. Mr. Porter's table sh, ‘ „ni,, that the houses under 15 windows paid 544,T 0is one-third of the total amount of the duty ; t P „ : under 20 windows 854,0001., one-half of the sl'L' s those under 24 windows 1,028,0001.; and or, under 35 windows 1,500,0001., two-thirds of the du' leaving 147,0001. to be contributed by large hoori t i Now, upon looking at a little book which he held e , his hand, called the Assessor's Warrant an d 10 01 , 4 Lions, the first thing that struck one was the wor a , of exemptions from the duty. In th e fi rs t p l a ce, To land was exempted altogether—(Hear, hear)--- 110u hs the Right Hon. Gentleman would allow hioh ss i would tell him why. Mr. Robinson stat e d in that:the impoverished inhabitants of Ireland, in order to avoid the window-tax, had resorted ,to the ali s ' able expedient of st o ppi ng up th e aper t ures in th e ir houses, and had th us ma d e th e i r h ouses d ar k and tw o wholesome ; b u t h e a dd e d th a t suc h was no t the ' di t in this co un t r y. H e (L or d D uncan ) h a d illre s ,, shown, h owever , th a t thi s process was go i ng on % - x s considerable extent even in England. Well, the 13 7, 0 exemption was for all public offices, and therefore.srio gentlemen who enjoyed themselves in P l ° o offices might open as many windows of they pleased. The next exemption was in favousr, s , all occupying tenants of farms at a rent under 2(. cts year ; an exemption confined to country only. Then, Lord Althorp, an agricultural Chance for of the Exchequer, brought in an Act whic,lL A empted windows in dairies and cheese-rooms. d, windows windows in shops and factories were exempted,2* tho of course there was also an exemption in favour on law and the church. He found that chambers i d the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, e n ,_ 9 ll. Lincoln's Inn, were to be charged as separate a ing houses, and consequently they would not L liable to window-duty, unless they had more ; 1 ' distrcie., 0