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

WATERFORD ELECTION• " FINAL CLOSE OF TUE POLL. • Barron Costelloe Meagher 154 The High Sheriff then declared Sir Henry W. won duly elected. IRELAND. FURTHER GREAT FALL IN THE FUNDS. Dunux, FEB. 28.—The intelligence of the establish ment of a Republic in France, received this morning, produced a most extraordinary sensation in Dublin, and there was a complete panic on the Stock Exchange this afternoon. Consols, which closed on Saturday at 864, were first sold at 82, and finally closed at 81/, a decline of nearly 4i per cent. Three-and•a-Quarter per Cents. criyened to-day at 83, sunk rapidly to 82, and closed at 811, the same price exactly as Consols. The fall in the Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., on the closing prices of Saturday, was 4i per cent. The fall in Bank of L; lend Stock was 44 per cent. Little or nothing was din in share's of any kind. DESTITUTION.----ABANDONMENT OF FARMS. The accounts from some of the western districts are becoming really alarming. The Galway papers give 'ost painful statements of destitution and mortality, chiefly caused by the " clearance" system. Tne Galway Vindicator says:—" We have to•day in our county prison 997 prisoners, in a house originally built for the reception of only 110 inmates. The num ber of deaths in the gaol are 25 since Sunday last, and 16 since the first of the month. Our poor-house, origi nally intended for 800, now contains 1,105, with 242 in hospital, and 30 deaths, during the week. The fever hospital is filled to overflowing, and death has upon his record 73 victims in the week, or upon an average 11 per day." The same journal adds—" The small farmers and holders of land in the neighbourhood of this town, in all directions, alarmed at the enormous high amount of poor-rates and taxes, and the ruinous low prices of g rain, are giving up their holdings to their respective landlords. This will bring on, at least in this doomed district, a third year of famine, starvation, and death. The land will not be tilled. The number of paupers will be doubled, increased rates will fall on a more limited number, until at length, beat down from the pressure of rates and taxes, the people of the west of Ireland will become one mass of paupers." MOST HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE. The Sligo Champion announces a most afflicting and tragical occurrence:—" On Friday evening (says that journal), Mrs. Armstrong, of Ballincar (a lady most re spectably connected), in a fit of temporary insanity, drowned herself and her three young children. She tied two of them on her back, took the third in her arms, and deliberately walked into the sea. They all perished. We have barely time to make known the deplorable transaction, which has thrown the deepest gloom over the whole town." ALTAR DENUNCIITIONS. The following very remarkable letter from the Right Rev. Dr. Kennedy, Boman Catholic Bishop of Killaloe, appears in the Dublin Evening Post:— " Deer-park, Six-mile-bridge, Feb. 26, 1848. " My dear Sir,—My conduct, as well as my motives for it, towards the Rev. Mc. Nolan, of Monsea, have been to very injuriously misrepresented, as well in some of the metropolitan journals (unintentionally, I am sure, on the part of their proprietors), as in a local paper, to which I am sorry I cannot concede the same indulgence—that I feel it my duty, with your kind per mission, to set myself right with the public on both heads, in your next publication of the Evening Post. `• It has been a rule of this diocese for the last seven or eight years that no priest, curate, or pastor should attempt, under any pretext whatsoever, to indulge in invective against, or denounce from the altar, or the pulpit, any person, without my permission, or that of the vicar of his district. " This rule, sir, was made by me ; and here, in justice to th© respectable clergy of this diocese, I feel bound to state, that in the establishment of it I was influenced chiefly by a desire the more effectually to restrain this very rev. ientleman from the indulgence in an inveterate, and, as it would seem, an incorrigible propensity. I will not now say how often, since the promulgation of this rule. the reverend gentleman has been called to ac count by me for his violations of it; but this I may not omit, that about twelve months since, more or less, I felt it to be my duty to compel him to make a most hu miliating apology, from the same alter from which he assailed him, to a Mr. O'Keefe, a miller, and one of his parishioners, who complained to me that his life was placed in imminent peril by his unpro voked attacks upon him from the altar and in other places. On this occasion I delared to the Rev. Mr. Nolan that, should I ever again receive proof of such an offence against him, I was determined forthwith to deprive him of the administration of his parishes for ever. " Thus were I and the rev, gentleman circumstanced when the police report was ordered by his Excellency to be placed before me ; and it was so done, unac companied by a single suggestion, or an observation of any kind. Now, Sir, had the complaint conveyed in that report been made to me by the humblest man in society, I most certainly would have paid to it the same prompt attention that I paid to that of Mr. O'Keefe—a gentleman not even personally known to me. And are the public to be told that, because it was made known to me by the highest authority in the kingdom, I should have taken no notice whatsoever of it? or is it to be broadly insinuated, that I have acted under corrupt influence, to the great joy and exultation of the enemies of Ireland, tt7.d to the sore mortification and deep•distress of her friends? But, from such friends, I say, Good Lord deliver us,' — "'Non tali auxilio, non defensoribus istis.' " The investigation of this complaint was necessarily delayed until the 10th of this month, the police officer who made it having been obliged to attend the special commission at Clonmel. On the 10th I arrived at Nena'h, accompanied by the Very Reverend Mr. Kenny, parish priest of Castleconnell, whom I took with me, for the double purpose, as I told him, of being a respectable witness of my conduct in the transaction, and of deputing him to Mr. Nolan with the following communication from me, viz.:—' That, if he was innocent of the charge preferred against him, he should undoubtedly vindicate himself, and repel it; but, if guilty, that I advised him that his only prudent and proper course was at once to submit, pro mising him that, in that case, I would not put in exe cution the threat of depriving him for ever of the administration of his parishes.' To this communication the Very Rev. Mr. Kenny brought me the following reply:—' That Mr. Nolan would at once submit, if I would give him an assurance that I would not suspend him,' and this ass Tance I most emphatically refused to give him. Mr. Nolan then came to me with Mr. Kenny to confess his offence, and perceiving that he was somewhat disposed to shuffle, I desired that he would give me a distinct answer—yes or no—did he use the language charged against him in the police report, which I read for him, or any language of similar im port? His answer was that he did use language of similar import,' and this was in the presence of the Very Rev. Mr. Kenny and Mr. O'Dell, sub•inspector.— Believe me, my dear, sir, your faithful servant, k P. KENNEDY. "F. W. Conway, Eig." REPRESENTATIoN of SLIGO.—On the speculation o a vacancy, there is active canvassing in the borough o. Sligo. One section of the electors have determined to support Mr. Charles Townley, an English Roman Ca tholic. Mr. R)grr Walker is also a candidate. INSOLVENCY AMONGST IRISH FARMERS.—The Dublin Gazette of the 15th instant contained the names of 55 insolvents (including 40 farmers) for the county of Tip perary. The Gazette of the 18th contained 26 insol vents (including nine farmers) for the city and county of Limerick. The Gazette of the 22d contained a list of 32 insolvents (including 19 farmers) for the county of Cl.,re; and the Gazette of Friday last contained the names of 28 insolvents (including four farmers), whose cases are to be heard at Galway on the 11th of March, and 39 insolvents (including 26 farmers) for the county of Cavan. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. ROSCOMMON, FEB. 26.—ACQUITTAL OF THE CORONER AND M. CHURCH.—The trial of Thomas Peyton, Esq , coroner, and Mr. George Church, for the manslaughter of Hubert Waldron, Esq., J.P., was brought to a close this day. The Attorney-General prosecuted. The judge declared it to be his opinion that the coroner was justi fied by law in the part he took. The jury acquitted the prisoners. pr The i t g e n:z Herald, which . gives a long report of fte also contains the following, from a Ros common corresponde n t • " THURSDAY the grand the court adjou r n e d this afternoon, jury made an application to the Judge that Thomas rand Donohue, f oun d gu ilty o f th e m urder of the Reave.e JohnwiiereLloyd in No vem b er l as t, b e exe cuted in the place the murder was committed, near Elphin. This example was considered necessary, of the f ro m the disturbed statetot o u r n n t r e ) y - .. a The Jud g e referred the app lication to the lost no time in forwarding it to the Government. During the trial the court was crowded to suffocation; even the grand jury occupied their gallery. "The guiity culprit was immediately removed to h cell. When there he fell on his knees, pulled outa prayer-book from his pocket , a nd for several hours is appeared deeply engaged in dev otional exe rcises. I has been repeatedly visited by the authorities; but so engaged was he the whole time that he did not appear to notice any person. It is supposed he will be executed about the 15th proximo. "The three men in gaol for the murder of Major Mahon are not likely to be tried this assize. On their trial will appear as base a conspiracy as ever disgraced any country; and too, many are implicated to have the trial brought on now. "SATURDAY FVENING.—The Attorney-General has I rrt for town. No answer has yet been received from Government as to when Donohue will be executed, nor has th e C our t as y e t passe d t h e sentence on him." REPEAL ASSOCIATION. The weekly meeting of this body was held to-day, and Conciliation Hall presented the novelty of being crowded in every part, the audience no doubt calculating on some spirit stiring and congenial references to the re cent revol u ti on in France—an inticipation in which,if any such were i n d ulged, they were most egregiously dis appointed. The proceedings were destitute of interest. A Roman Catholic clergyman (the Ray. Mr. Mullin) addressed the meeting at considerable length, denouncing the " base / brutal, and bloody Whigs," wishing them a speedy exit from power, and the restoration of Sir Robert Peel >to the head of affairs. There was no communication from Mr. J o h n O ' Connell submitted to the meeting, which seemed to create surprise. The rent for the week was announced to be 391. 138. 9d. The meeting then adjourned. BANK RETURNS. ` Eton the London Gazette of Tuesday.) An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, zap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes, of the several Banks of issue in England and Wales, in Circulation daring the Week ending Satur day, the 19th day of Feb., 18472 Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. &bingdon Baek, Abingdon—Knapp and Co-,. Indover Bank, Andover—Heath and C 0........ .. 8,979 A.shford Bank, Ashford—Jetnmitt and Pomfret 8,706 tylsham Bank, Aylsham—R. and G. Copeman 3,269 kylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Rickford and Hunt 3aldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade ldock—Wells, Hogg, and Lindsell... 26,743 Barnitapie Bank, Barnstaple—Drake and Co 10,860 ilasingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke-- Seymour, Lamb, and Co. ................ 17.078 3e,ltord Bank, Bedford—T. Barnard ............. 27,892 Tedford and Bedfordshire Bank, Bedford— 'rrapp, Halfhead, and Co. iewdley Bank, Bewdley—Nichols, Baker, and 12,363 Crane Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester—Tubb and C o. Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Attwoods, Spooner, and Co 23,048 Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming ham —J. L. Moilliett, and Sons .... 12,676 Blandford Bank, Blandford—Bastard and Oak. 7,854 Boston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co 56,147 13oston Bank, Boston—Gee and Co 12,758 Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater—J. &J. Sealey 7,015 Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Harford, and Ca 30,319 Broseley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley—Messrs. Pritchard 19,424 Buckingham Bank, Buckingham—Bartlett, Parrott, and Co. - B id S - k, Stow- 5,821 :try )uffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Market Bank, Bury—Oakes, Bevan, and Co. 68,508 Bant . ury Bank, Banbury—Gillett and Tawney. 24,819 !3anbury Old Bank, Banbury—Messrs. Cobb... 37.023 Bath City Bank, Bath—Molter and Son . . 3,159 Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard—Bassett and Grant 30,433 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and Lloyds . Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—H A. and W. M. Harris and Co 12,610 Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co 49,951 Bridport 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— Worlledge and Co. Bromsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsgrove—Rufford, Biggs, and Co. .lambridge Bank, Cambridge—Mortlock and 10,848 2,271 • Sons Ntmbridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge—Messrs. Forsters lanterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and 14,310 20,813 Co tlarmarthem Bank, Carmarthen—Morris and 41,596 Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey—Messrs. La Coste lolchester Bank, Colchester—Round, Green, and Co. Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and liadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester —Mills, Bawtree, and Co .ornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little and Wood cock City Bank, Exeter—Milforkand Co Craven Bank, Settle—Birkbecks and Co. Christchurch Bank, Christchurch—Tice, Welsh, 27,189 16.786 3 005 17,572 34,330 36,470 and Co lank, Cardiff—Towgood and Co ()hepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmc uth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Rank, Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co. .„ Derby Bank, Derby—Messrs. Evans Derby Bank, Darby—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—Bodge and Nor- man ')orchester Old Bank and Dorsetahire 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, Chelmsfoid—Walford. and Co. Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk- . - beck. and Co. Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes and Medley Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co `3odalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and Keen ,4rantham Bank, Grantham—Kewney and King Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon... Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0.... 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 t lull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull —Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veasey t larwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co llemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead— Smith, and Whittingstall Monitor. Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co. lertfor ishire, Hitchen Bank, Hitchen—Sharples and Co. I.ereford, 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 and. Co. entish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J 9,566 14,407 65,235 1.772 5,691 5,826 12,465 31,508 25,48 10,747 10,472 6,253 G 4,886 65,989 9,168 33,600 79,200 43,144 42.425 22,589 18.145 4,61 12.064 4,645 G. 193 15,834 11.396 21,262 24,360 14,958 20,094 18,200 39,123 4,524 18,38 30,970 20,870 19,022 71,213 13.514 19.486 5,799 Davies and Co.. Knighton Bank Knighton—J. Davies and Co. Knarcsborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough—Terry and Co Kendal Bank, • Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, and Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering—Gota and Sons.. Longton Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C nary:7 and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds—Beckett and Co Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—W.Williams, Brown, and C. Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and Congleton Bank,Leek—Fowler,Gaunt, and Co. fici , tester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby rAewcs Old Bank, Lewes—Mohneux and Co 14i0hAeld Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green f4lncuin Bank, Lincoln—Smith and Oo l:Ampeter Bank and Llandilo Bank Llando very—David Jones and Co. :.ouE,•hborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle t.,ns and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St Barbe Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Massey and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brooklehurst 17,920 42.032 7,38 s 5,413 50,979 33,202 23,494 30,233 18,700 76,339 11,940 6,768 3,354 and Co 10,742 [anningtrec Bank,Manningtree—Nunn and Co 6,056 Warlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckney 11,781 Aarlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank, Marlborough—Ward, Merriman, and Hillier 6,555 Yierionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and Williams itiners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co 13,552 Afonmouthsbire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Baileys and Co 23,841 &lonmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth —Bromage and Snead 10,626 Sionmouthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport —W. Williams and Sons 7,894 Newark Bank, Newark—Godfreys and Hutton 24,086 Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Seaford—Handley, Peacock, and Co Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny and Slocock Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond,aanudd Son Norfolk and Sutlolk Bank, Diss—Taylor and Noli[wyutsiicoshnones.r and .. 0:;::;.;. ........ wo . ......... ............ .. aorwioh and Norf-0.11. ............ .. ...... ....... 's Pnd Birkbeck .......... N0rwich—Gur ney5...................... Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank , Not tingham—Hart, Fellows, an d Co ............ V un eaton Bank, Nuneaton—CraddeoCk.. and C 0..................................................... . gaval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Mud ge , and 43,302 17,893 17,367 2,139 39,539 62,530 9,364 3,832 C 0... ......................................... ......... gew Sarum Bank, Sarum—Hetley, Everett, and 20,690 •••• gottingham Bank, Nottingham — Smith and Co Jswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westry—Croxon and Co oxtord Bank, Oxford—J. and R. Morrell )xford 31d Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, and Co. )1d Bank Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge-- Beeching and Scia t)xforashire Witney Bank Witney—Wiliiamo, Clinch, and C 0.., 9,385 26,257 9,189 10,360 31,144 7,458 7,641 TRI3 , BUM Lowriox FRIDAY _EVENING, MARCH a, 1i)46, Average Amount. Pease/. Old Bank, hull, the Hull Old Bank and Bev rley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 45,294 Penzan ce Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co 9,496 Peterbo rough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—Mesqrs. Yorke Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson, White, and Simpson 11,270 Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank. Penzance—Rickets, Enthoren and Co Reading Bank, Reading—slmonas and Co 24,547 Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co 24,547 Richmond Bank, Richmond—Stapleton and Co 4,165 Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood—Ledgard and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds and Co 3,715 Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches ter—Day and Nicholson 8,593 Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons... 13,744 Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son 12,454 Rye Bank, Rye—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co 13,397 Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and Co 10,355 Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard and Allaway Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Co 9,401 Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall and Co 23 776 Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, SI , ruwsbury—Rocke, Eytons, and Co Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Son 2,844 Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddicon and Son Southwell Bank, Suuthwell—Wylde and Co. St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's—J. S. Story 751 Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and King - Southampton and llampshire Bank, Southamp ton-Atherly and Fall Stone Bank, Stone-W. Moore 4,571 Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge -Rufford, Wragg, and Cc 12,963 Stafford Old Bank, Stafford-Stevenson and Co 12,365 Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford-Eaton, Cayley, and Co. .„ 25,201 Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge-Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury -Beck, Downward, and Co. St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's-Gib son and Stuart... Taunton Bank, Taunton-Messrs. Badcock 18,245 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock-Gill, Rundle, and Co 8,680 Thornbury Bank, Thornbury-Rolph, Yates, and Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton-D uns ford and Barne 6,655 Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston-Yorke and Eland 10,739 Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring-But cher and Son Towceste,r Old Bank, Towcester-J. and S. Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston-Vivian and Co. 7,590 Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge-Hull, Smith, and Co. 20,328 Wallingford Bank, Wallingford-Wells and Co. 6,171 Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick- Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. 23,342 Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington-Fox. Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield-Leatharn, Tew, and Co. Whitby Old Bank, Whitby-Simpson, Chap man, and Co 13,507 Winchester, Alrcsford, and Alton Bank, Win chester-Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Baak, Winchester -Wickham and Co 4,394 Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth-Elliott and Pearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesworth-Arkwright and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech- Gurney and Co. Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe-P. and W Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton-Good ricke and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester-Farley, Lavender, and Co. 9,433 Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester-Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 70,254 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 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 Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil-E. and J. Batten . York Bank, York-Swann. Clough. and Co.. 12,549 1,443 47,731 10,944 5,833 38,980 JOINT-STOCK BANKS Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington . Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry.. County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 16,935 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 119,016 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax. 12,115 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 31,453 Hull Banking Company, Hull. 26,485 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Ha lifax Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,520 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 17,925 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 21,027 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 4,212 Lancaster Banking Cmpany, Lancaster . 69,402 Leeds Banking Com pany, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 42,739 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 8,404 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 20,303 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 19,136 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London 319,170 North Wilt:. Banking Company, Melksharn 41,944 Northampt'Lmshire Union Bank, Northampton 62,867 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 9,027 Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei cester . Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth... 1,548 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 35,819 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford 44,846 Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall 33,594 Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and Hal lianshiro Banking Company, Sheffield . . . Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking Company, Sk4io Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond .. . Storey and Thomas's Banking Company, Shaftesbury • 9,585 Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield ... Wolverhampton aad Staffordshire Banking Com - pany, Wolverhampton 28,138 Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 11,276 Whitehaven Joint Stock Banking Company, 8,370 7,374 41,822 9,195 29,765 20,190 11.063 21,680 19,427 Whitehaven Warwick and Le4mir_gton Banking Company, . . Warwick West of Englane. awl South Wales Distriot Bank. Bristol 58 168 Wilts and Dorset Banking Cornpan3,, Salisbury 51,928 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud dersfield .. ............. ... Whitchurch Worcester City and County Banking Company, Worcester... • York Union B an ki ng Company, York 62,859 York City and County Banking Company, York 81,592 Yorkshire Banking C ompany, Leeds P. DEAN 8, Registrar of Bank Returns. Stamp and TWOS. February 26, 1848. MAURITIUS AND THE CAPE. Her Majesty's frigate Resistance, Captain G. Lee, arrived ofr Portsmouth last night, has put us in pos session of papers and correspondence from the Mau ritius to the 17th of December, from the Cape of Good Hope to the 16th of January (eight days later than we published yesterday), and St. Helena to the 29th of January. When she left the Mauritius the commercial affairs were in the most distressed and prostrated condition, owing to the bank failures and mercantile house stoppages in England and India. Many of the most affluent mercantile firms had been thereby reduced to abject beggary. At the Cape of Good Hope affairs looked remark ably well and promising. There were no fears enter tained of the violation of the treaties entered into by Sir Harry Smith, who was still on the frontier, gathering around him, at every step he advanced into the before-disturbed localities, fresh assurances of the preservation of peace and the re-establishment of in tamational rights and commercial transactions and exchanges. That the Kafir war is at an end may be judged of from the circumstance of British shipping having been taken up to convey to England the 90th, 7th Dragoon Guards, 913 t, 27th, and 62d Regiments. _ The British squadron on the Cape of Good Hope station was distributed thus at this date : The President, flag-ship of Admiral Dacres, Capt. Stanley ; the store depot ship Seringapatam, and the Arab, 16-gun sloop, were in Simon 's Bay ; but the latter was to sail the same day (14th January) for the Mozambique Channel. The steam-sloops Geyzer and Rosamond (formerly the Eclair) were also at anchor in the bay. The Nimrod, 20 guns, Captain Dacres, was cruis ing about in the Mozambique Channel. The Brilliant, 26 guns, Captain Matson, had sailed for the Mauritius to relive the Eurydice, 26 guns. The island of St. Helena was very healthy, and affairs there were thriving well. Her Majesty's ship Wanderer sailed thence on the 27th of January, after watering, for the coast of Africa. Her Majesty's steamer Styx had sent into St. Helena for con►lemna tion by the mixed commission, a slave prize, being the twenty-second capture made by that vessel since she has been employed in the suppression of the slave trade. The Resistance has had an almost unpreeedented passage of 33 days only from the island of St. Helena, and encountered some terrific weather, amounting, on the 25th ult., to a complete hurricane, in which she lost nearly all her sails, topgallant-mast, the head of the maintop-mast, the larboard-waist netting, and had her stern boat blown right away, without a sea striking it. Captain Browne and his ship's officers and com pany, late of her Majesty's ship Snake, 16-gun sloop, wrecked and lost on the Cape station, have come home as passengers in this ship, to undergo trials by court martial for that unfortunate affair; also a few invalids from Admiral Dacre's squadron, and 16 officers, 520 rank and file, 39 women, and 48 children of the 12th Regiment. Three privates died on their passage home. BRUSSELS PAPERS. BRUSSELS, FEB. 28.—The King and the Royal Family have quitted Lacken, and have taken up their abode at the palace at Brussels. The greatest consternation continues to prevail, and precautionary measures are being taken, of which the import is as yet scarcely understood. The Civic Guard is convoked for this day ; each legion is to furnish a battalion, and one of the bat talions is stationed at the Hotel de Ville. With the exceptions of some few turbulent spirits, who are always glad of an occasion to break out, it is evidently the general desire that everything here shall be kept quiet, and even men of the most opposite political opinions seem to forget their differences in the prevailing anxiety to maintain peace. This was signally evinced in the discussions in the Chamber of Representatives and in the Senate, when a project oflaw was brought for ward for immediately raising a loan, which at any other time would have called forth the most virulent party feeling, but which on this occasion was ♦oted unani mously both by the Chamber and the Representa tives; and although no mention was made of the stirring events which are going on so near us, it was evident that this all-absorbing topic prolueed this unanimity. A meeting took place late last night in the Rue Scours Nivres; the crowd was immense, and about ten o'clock they proceeded in a body towards the Grande Place. The gendarmes were obliged to interfere and separate the mob, and several of the ringleaders were arrested. They proved to be German mechanics: A great many members of L'Alliance have ad dressed the administrative committee of the society, requesting that, in consequence of the fearful state of events, a meeting may be convened for the 28th, that this general assembly may deliberate on the following points :- 1. To declare solemnly the determination of the Belgian people to preserve intact, and at the price of their blood, their national independence, and the in tegrity of their territory. 2. To demand of the Government the reform of organic laws which are opposed to the principles of the constitution of 1830, electoral reform in an ex tended sense, economy in the expenses of the State, and the abolition of duties which press upon the working classes and the poor. The committee immediately rejected the attendance of the authors of this proposition, and after a short discussion it was decided unanimously that the General Assembly should not take place at the pre sent moment, because that it would be wise for the good citizens to abstain from any public demonstra tion which might easily be misunderstood, and be cause as yet nothing authorised the supposition that the Ministry would fail of the duties called forth by the state of things, or of spontaneously adopting every needful measure. M. Van Praet, the Minister of the Household, arrived to-day at Brussels, on his return from Paris. Prince Peter Napoleon has likewise arrived here, and put up at the South Station. It is said that he came from Paris by by-ways. This morning, at one o'clock, a special train arrived here from Quievrain, containing four persons, who came from Paris. It appears that two of them were private couriers, a high personage of the family of Napoleon, and a Vienna merchant. The couriers came from Vincennes, and are bearers of dispatches to the Emperor of Austria. One of them immediately re paired to the hotel of the Austrian Ambassador, and speedily after set out for Austria. This morning the Burgomaster, as a precautionary measure, assembled the civic guard; they were joined by the chasseurs, the premier guard, and a squadron of gendarmes. At seven o'clock the Bur gomaster assembled each of the four battalions in the halls of the Hotel de Ville, and made an ener getic address to them, in which he stated his entire confidence thlt the civic guard would maintain public order and the national institutions. The ad dress produced the desired effect, and he was warmly cheered by the unanimous cry of " Vive le Rol. ' The best spirit possible animates the civic guard. The commander of the Ist battalion likewise ad dressed the guards in a few words, which electrified his comrades. Perfect tranquillity prevails in our capital. The Democratic Society held a meeting last even ing, and we must do it the justice to say that it was most admirably conducted. Although more than a thousand persons were assembled, and reform and the state of the working classes discussed, the pre vailing tone of the meeting was a lively attachment to the nationality of Belgium. The proceeedings reflected great credit on the society, and they resolved to abstain from every public demonstration at the present juncture, lest their views might be misunderstood, and a wrong impression thus given. We regret to state that the Commercial Bank has been compelled to stop payment. No intelligence whatever has been received of the movements of Louis Philippe. ELECTION COMMITTEES. CARLISLE. _ _ _ The Carlisle Electiondommlttte assembled yesterday morning; Mr. Divett in the chair. Mr. John Fisher, the keeper of the Athenteum at Carlisle, spoke to having distributed a few refreshment tickets during the election, but from a conversation he bad since had with Mr. Hodgson, the sitting Member, he found the distribution was made without his consent. Isaac Nixon, a freeman of Carlisle, proved that at the last election he met Mr. Hodgson in Rockliff, at the Ship public house, where he was treated at that gentle- man's expense. Mr. Hodgson told him and several other freemen that if they wanted any drink they were to have " a glass" whenever they liked. After the election he took the bill to Mr. Hodgson's brother, who paid it; the amount was 71 ss. Mrs. Waite, the landlady of the White Horse Ina, Carlisle, proved that several entertainments were given at her house during the election to the freemen of the city. and that the costs of these reunions was afteretards paid by some gentlemen at Mr. Hodgson's committee room. The amount she got from them was 9/. 145., but she afterwards went to the office of Mr. Parker, agent of Mr. Hodgson, and received borne more money, b e t ween 5/. and 61. The CHAIRM ix said it would perhaps save time if he intimated to Counsel, that the Committee were satisfied that the case of treating had been fully made out. The evidence, the Committee thought, bad disclosed that a systematic course of treating was resorted to at the last election by Mr. Hodgson's agents, and it would, there fore, be a waste of time to pursue :the case of treating further. _ _ Mr. JAMES submitted that there was no evidence to connect Mr. Hodgson, the sitting Member with the treating. Mr. STANSFIELD, a member of the Committee, differed with the Learned Counsel upon that point, for one wit ness had distinctly stated that Mr. Hodgson told him and others to order as much drink as they liked. Mr. JAisns said be should be in a position to prove that the statement to which the Hon. Gentleman re ferrel was false. The CHAIRMAN said, if the Learned Counsel could show that the evidence was not to be relied upon, of course there would be an end of the case, hut, at the same time, he must tell the Learned Counsel that it would be useless his raising the point of connexion, as the Committee were satisfied that there was ample evidence to connect the sitting Member with the acts of treating. Mr: BURCHAX said, after the intimation of the Chair man, the petitioners would not pursue their case further, although they had many more witnesses in attendance whom they had intended to call. Mr. JAMES then prayed for an adjournment till to morrow to enable counsel for the sitting Member to de cide what course they would adopt. The Committee granted the application, and adjourned accordingly till to-morrow, at eleven o'clock. LYME REGIS. The Lyme Regis Election Committee re-assembled at the usual hour yesterday; Lord Ashley in the chair. Mr. John Swan Hook, the Mayor of Lyme Regis, the party to whom Mrs. Lavers alluded when she stated that a gentleman offered her 751. to induce her husband to vote for Sir Fitzroy Kelly, was called this morning, and declared most positively that the evidence of Mrs. Lavers was not correct. He was not the Mayor at the time of the election. He remembered calling upon Mr. Lavers to solicit his vote, but no conversation relating to bribery in any way took place. Two other witnesses on the other side spoke to the present witness having bribed and treated them, but the witness denied all knowledge of the circumstances. Mr. Goddard, wine -merchant, of Lyme, confirmed the statement of the Mayor, so far as it related to Sellers and Alban Layers, and denied most positively that he attempted to corrupt voters during the last election. Mr. Cartwright, of Lyme, was next called, but being one of the recognisances for promoting the petition, his evidence was not admissible. Mr. James Templer, solicitor, of Eridport, who was haid to have bribed a voter named George, denied that he had done so, adding that he never saw George but once in his life, and then it was under strange circum stances. He was driving in a carriage with Sir Fitzroy Kelly, a day or two before the election, when a person who he afterwards ascertained was George, jumped upon the step of the carriage and tapped at the window. He rode in this position a long distance, vociferating, "Kelly for ever." James Bridles, an elector at Lyme, who had been proved to have received a sum of money from Mr, Hook, the mayor, just before the election to purchase a horse, explained the transactien by stating that he had long had dealings with that gentleman, who generally purchased the produce of the witness's farm, and whenever he wanted money he drew it from Mr. Hooke on account. The money he received before the election was partly due to him. The Committee then adjourned till to-morrow, at eleven o'clock. SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. The twenty-third half yearly general meeting of this company was held yesterday afternoon, at the Bridge House Hotel, London-bridge. James Macgregor, Esq., chairman, presided. The report stated that the account.: of the company for the half-year ending on the 31st January, 1848, showed that the receipts amounted to 251,615/. 143. 6d.; that the working expenses had been 70,7351. 2s. 1 Id.; the lent of the Greenwich Railway and of the Whit stable Railway, 20,7121. 10s.; the rates, Government duty. and toll of the Croydon Railway, 32,3721. 1 ls. 2d.; making the expenditure on revenue account, 123,820/. 4s. Id. The balance carried to the account of profit and loss was 127,7951. 103. 5d., and that account showed an amount at the disposal of the proprietors of 106,862/. 10s. sd. The comparative statement of passengers traffic on the South• Eastern Railway for the half years ending on the 91st of January, 1847, and 31st of January, 1848, showed an increase of 104.761 passengers, amounting in money to 7,1331. 4s. Bd. The Greenwich branch showed also an increase of 49,387 passengers. amounting to 1,0371.125. 7d. The merchandise department had yielded 45,200/.45. Id. during the last half year a gaiust 39,3471 16s. Bd. in the corresponding half-year of 1847, showing an increase of 5,8521. 7s. sd. The directors, after great consideration, had determined not to proceed with the Bills promoted by the company in the last ses sion of Parliament, a decision which in the present ex traordinary times would no doubt have the approbration of the proprietors. The accounts showed that 533,963/. 3s. 3d. had been paid during the last half sear on construction account, and, in addition, mort gages and loan notes to the amount of 144,8001. had been paid off, reducing to that extent the mortgage debt of the company. The directors had not felt justified in urging on the works at a great speed, being only too sensible of the severity of the calls. The negotiations with the. Brighton Company had ter minated in an agreement which would be advantageous to both companies, would relieve both companies of toll, would terminate a claim of the South-Eastern Company on the Brighton Company for 25,0001. towards the construction of the third line on the Greenwich Railway, and would arrange for providing ample accom modation for the Brighton Company's goods traffic at the Bricklayers' Arms terminus. The increase in the number of passengers and the steam-ships of the South- Eastern and Continental Steam Navigation Company between Folkestone and Boulogne was 1,988 over the preceding half year. The directors had been assured that the railway throughout Irons Paris to Boulogne could be opened on the 15th instant, and everything had been prepared accordingly. The directors whose term in office expired were Mr. James Macgregor, Mr. Robert Browne, and Mr. William Gordon Thomson, who were eligible for re-election. The engineer's report stated with reference to the North Kent line that the widening of the Greenwich Railway between the Croydon Junction and the London station was nearly completed, and the permanent way had been laid. The widening of the substructure of the London station might be completed in two months if the remaining land was obtained. In the Blackheath Tunnel, which measured the time of opening to Wool wich, very tatisatetory progress has been made. On the Tunbridge Wells and Hastings line the Grove tunnel, with the entrance, was completed and ready for the permanent way; the cost being 351. per yard forward. In the Wadhurst tunnel the shafts were down, and about two thirds of the large waggon road heading complete. On the Ashford and Hastings line tke first contract, extending from Ashford to Rye, the portion to Appledore, a distance of eight miles, where the only excavations occurred, was complete, and the ballasting in progress; the remainder of the line (7k miles) to the town of Rye, might be completed in three months. The shafts and heading of the St. Leonards and Hastings tunnel had advanced slowly since the last report. The CHAIRMAN then rose and said it was scarcely necessary for him to remark that the last half year was one of great embarrassment and difficulty to the commercial community, but more especially to the railway interest. The present Government, he regretted, had taken office with an unaccountable prejudice against railway companies, instead of fostering the industry which it was apparent they were the means of creating—(Hear, hear)—and an endeavour was made to fix disgrace upon those who had the manage ment of railway undertakings. He thought, however, the Government might have been much better employed than in devising unjust and stringent measures with regard to the bye laws and other petty arrangements of companies in which scores of millions of money had been invested. There seemed to be very little regard for the protection of railway property, and that being the case, they must now protect themselves. After alluding to the charges which had been made against railway companies, that their statements of ac counts were falsified, and did not present a true picture of their financial affairs, and which he denied. he stated that the expenses for the last half year had been considerably increased by the Gravesend and Rochester branch, and also, in conse quence of a considerable increase in the amount of rates and taxes as compared with the last half-year. They were, however, determined to resist to their utmost the extra demand for rates and taxes, which they considered unwarranted.—(ffear, hear.) The agreement which had been entered into with the Brighton Company would be equally beneficial to both companies, and he trusted would receive the sanction of the proprietors. The dis posable balance in the hands of the company would ena ble them to deClare a dividend of 21s per share upon the paid up shares, 13s. sd. on No. 1 shares, and 10s. Bd. on No. 2 shares.—(Loud cheers.) A balance would be also left to the credit side of the profit and loss account of 6,8291. 3s. 9d.—(Cheers.) 'rho Chairman then concluded by moving that the report be received, adopted, and circulated among the pro prietors. In answer to a question, the CHAIRMAN said that the salaries of the company's officers were extremely mo derate, and that no company in Great Britain could be managed more economically. The secretary, who was the principal officer, only received a salary of 400/. a year, and the others were paid at an equally moderate rate. The motion having been seconded, was carried unani mously. A resolution was then passed directing the payment of the dividend mentioned by the chairman, on the 22d inst.; also another, requesting the directors to carry out the arrangements entered into with the Brighton Com pany. The gentlemen who had been appointed by the directors to fill the vacancies in the board were ap proved of, and the following gentlemen, who retired by rotation, were re-elected :—James Macgregor, Esq., Robert Browne, Esq., and Win. Gordon Thomson, Esq. It was resolved that a sum of 8,2691. 6s. Id. due to the company, which had been remitted to a proprietor in 1841, but had been since paid by him, should be placed to the profit and lose account. A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman and directors, and the meeting separated. Yesterday an inquest was held by Mr. Bedford, at St. George's Hospital, concerning the death of Richard Wallis, aged 34, an engine•cleaner on the Great Western R a il w ay. It appeared that on Saturday morning, the 12th ult., the deceased was at work under an engine at the terminus at Paddington, when the engine of the half-past eight o'clock train was going out of the place, and the whistle was sounded. The deceased, in getting from under, fell down, and his leg went across the rails. The engine had got into motion, and the training-wheel ran up the calf of his leg. This was a minute and a half after the whistle, so that be had ample time to get out. The engine was instantly stopped, and he was re leased and conveyed in a cab to the hospital, where it was found he had a compound fracture of the right leg, and great laceration up it. The limb was amputated, but he sunk, and died on Wednesday. Verdict, "Acci dental death." IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, March 2. _ „ _ - The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Woolsack at Five o'clock. The Earl of DEVON presented a petition from Dundee against the rt peal of the navigation laws. The LORI) CHANCELLOR read a letter from Mr. Birch, thanking the I louse tor thci vote of appro bation they had passed op his conduct. Lord STANLEY presented a petition against the increase of the income-tax ; also a petition from Glas gow, for protection to the West India colonies, and a petition from some union in Ireland, praying for an alteration in the method of assessment of the poor rates. A desultory conversation took place, in which the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Fitzwilliam, Lord Monteagle, and Lord Campbell took part, after which the petition was laid on the table. The Bishop of OXFORD presented a petition against the emancipation of the Jews ; also several pßtitions against the publication of the bull In cmna NEW ZEALAND BILL. The NPW Z.aland Bill pissed through Committee. CONSOLIDAIsiD FUND BILL. The Consolidated Fund Bill was read a second time, and the House ajourned. ROUSE OF COMMONS, Mach 2. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Ten minutes before Four o'clock. Mr. P. S. BUTLER and Colonel R. FERGUSON took the oaths and their seats, the former for Kilkenny, and the latter for Kirkaldy. Mr. MUNTZ presented a petition from the mayor and corporation of Birmingham against the window tax. Mr. BRAMSTON presented a petition from a place in Essex, praying for an increase in the army and navy. Sir J. DUKE presented petitions from Boston in favour of the Health of Towns Bill and the Jewish Disabilities Bill. BOLTON ELECTION. Mr. HAMILTON brought up the report of the Bolton Election Committee, declaring Mr. Bolling duly elected. Sir T. BIRCH presented a petition from Liver pool, praying that the House would take effectual measures for the suppression of the slate trade. Mr. DUNCAN presented a petition from Dundee, praying that no addition might be made to the ex penditure of the country. Mr. DIVETT presented petitions from Devon and Exeter against the increase of the army and navy, and for the abolition of the punishment cf death. Mr. BUCK presented petitions against any altera tion of the navigation-laws. Mr. W. BROWN presented a petition from a place in Lancashire against any increase in the income- tax. Mr. HOLLAND presented a petition from Hest it:gs against the imposition of an income-tax upon income arising from trades and professions. Mr. R. PALMER presented a petition from Read ing in favour of the Health of Towns Bill. Dr. BOWRING presented a petition from Bolton against war establishments. Mr. ROBINSON presented three petitions from operatives in the port of London against any altera tion in the navigation laws. Mr HUTT presented a petition from Gateshead in favour of the Health of Towns Bill. Lord W. POWLETT presented a petition against any alteration in the navigation laws. Mr. HORSMAN presented a petition from Wok ingham complaining of the defective state of the law with respect to tithes in that parish. Lord DUDLEY STUART presented a petition from Marylebone against the income-tax. Mr. F. O'CONNOR gave notice of his intention on Thursday, the 16th of March, to move for leave to bring in a Bill to alter and amend the law relating to Friendly Societies. POOR-LAWS. Mr. SIIAFTO ADAIR, seeing the Right Hon, Gentleman the First Commissioner of Poor-laws in his place, wished to ask him a question, of which he had given notice, namely, whether it was the inten tion of her Majesty's Government to introduce any Bill this session to amend the law so far as it related to the casual poor • was the expense of their main tenance to rest with the parish where they applied for relief, or upon the entire union ? Mr. C. BULLER said it appeared to him that the present operation of the law was a great evil, but still he was not prepared to say what the intentions of Government were upon the subject, because he had not yet brought it under their consideration. The matter, however, would have his best attention, and he hoped to be able to devise some remedy for the evil. RETURNS. Colonel SIBTIIORP moved for a return of the quantities of each description of goods entered for consumption on payment of a decreased duty, and for which bonds have been required for the payment of existing duties in case the proposed new tariff shall not receive the sanction of Parliament (to be conti nued till the sth of Jan., 1848, in continuation of Par liamentary Paper, No. 299, of session 1846) ; an account of the articles of import into the United Kingdom i❑ which all customs duties have been withdrawn since the Ist day of January, 1842, specifying the articles, the date at which the duty on each ceased to he levied, and the total amount of duty which was levied on each in the year 18 41 (to be continued till the sth day of January, 1848, in continuation of Parliamentaiy Paper, No. 299, of session 1846). Also an account t,f all changes made since the Ist day of January, 1841, in the duties of Customs payable on goods, wares, and merchandize imported into the United Kingdom ; showing the dates when such changes were effected, the duties previous to such alterations, and the duties subsequent to each alteration ; and also the quantities of each article imported (including those on which the duties have been repealed), and the net amount of revenue received on account of each article, during the years ending respectively the sth day of January, 1842, and the sth day of January, 1846 (to be con tinued till the sth day of January, 1848, in continu ation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 417, of session 1846).—Motion agreed to. ISLE OF MAN. Dr. BOWLING rose to bring forward his motion on the subject of the grievances of the inhabitants of the Isle of Man. The inhabitants of that island had seen the vast reforms which had been carried on in this country, while no benefits whatever had been conferred upon the Isle of Man, and there had been a total disregard of the interests of that portion of her Majesty's subjects. The persons who had charge of the interests of that island were self-elected and perfectly irresponsible. In the House of Keys there was an union of the legislative and judicial functions, and the greatest possible inconvenience and injustice arose from this combination. There were no precedents to guide the decision of the courts, no written laws, and decisions were given, according to the most perfect whim and caprice of the Supreme Judge. Besides being subjected to heavy taxation, the inha bitants of the Isle of Man, who numbered upwards of 50,000, were denied the privileges of constitu tional representation, while the improvement, the drainage, and lighting of their towns was left to parties who grossly neglected their duty.—(Hear.) It was, therefore, high time that some remedy was applied to the state of things. The feeling of the island was strongly in favour of a reformed system of government, and Ministers could have no excuse for not stepping ill and applying the pruning knife to the taxes extorted from the people by the Government of the island. That Government, as at present constituted, was irre sponsible, and the natural result was, that the poor were taxed at a much heavier rate than the rich. He did not, however, ask for the total abolition of the pre sent system of government ; all that he wanted was, that the benefits of electoral representation, which were not even withheld from New Zealand, should be applied to the Isle of Man, and in order to facilitate the application of those benefits he now called upon her Majesty's Ministers to in stitute an inquiry into the state and condition of the various institutions of the island.—(Hear, hear.) It was unfair to deny to so large a body of her Majesty's subjects as those who inhabited the Isle of Man the right of citizenship, and he, therefore, should move that a commission be appointed to in• quire into the present mode of governing the island. Mr. E WART could see no reason why the rights which were freely granted to distant colonies should be withheld from the inhabitants of the Isle of Man, and he had much pleasure in seconding the motion of his Hon. Friend. Sir GEORGE GREY said the Jsle of Man was situated at so short a distance from the British coast, that it aright to be considered as a portion of the electoral area of England. He did not deny the existence of the evils com plained of, but very much doubted whether an improved internal government would get rid of them. The remedy was only to be found in allowing the island to send representatives to that llouse, but the people did not appear to be favourable to a remedy of that nature, Ile could not, therefore, see what good the appointment of this Commission would produce, and he felt himself constrained to oppose its appoint ment.—(Hear, hear.) Sir R. INGLIS doubted much whether the island would be benefited by being incorporated with this country. Such a measure would impose on the islanders the income-tax and many other imposts inflicted upon ' the people of this country, and it was quite clear that, so far as taxation was concerned, the adoption of the Right Honourable Baronet's suggestion would place the 50,000 inhabitants of the Isle of Man in a worse position than they stood in at present. HL trusted, therefore, that the Hon. Gentleman who had brought this subject before them would not think it advisable', to take the opinion , of 04 House upon it,—(Near, !war.) Dr. BOWBANG said he bad recently had rnteli intercourse with the inhabitants of the island, and he could assure the House that the majority of them were favourable to the introduction of some of the institutions which this country en joyed. Still, :f :er what had fallen from the the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary of State for the Home Department, he did not feel himself justified in going to a division on his motion, and, with the permission of the House, he begged leave to with draw it. The motion was accordingly withdrawn. GREECE. Mr. B. COCHRANE then rose to move, pursuant to notic , , for copies of certain dispatches which had passed between Sir Edmund Lyons and the Noble Lord the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, re' lative to Greece. He considered that the time at which he brought forward this motion was most apposite for the purpose. It was a time when every country wss asserting its rights to constitutional liberty, and it would well become this nation—the first to teach the lessons of constitutional freedom—to demand on behalf of Greece —which it had taken under its special protection—that the tyranny and oppression under which the Greeks aro now suffering should cease, so fur us the remonstrances of England could effect that object. There were pecu liar circumstances which gave them the right to interfere ' in the affairs of Greece, and he would briefly state the po.ition in which they stood in relation to that kingdow. The treaty of London was signed in 1827, and it was on that treaty that all the subsequent policy of the Three . Great Power s —England, F rance , an d R uss i a we° based. The treaty of London was followed by the battle of Navarino, and it was subsequently arranged that an independent monarchy should be established In Greece on the following conditions :—First, that a free constitution should be granted to Greece ; and, next. the Three Powers were to advance a sum of 2,400,000 1 . to Greece as a loan; the first revenue of the Greek state was to go for payment of interest, and a sinking fund was to be created. Those promises were never fulfilled, the interest was very rarely paid. and a free constitution was not given to that country. In the year 1644 a de mand was made for a constitution by the Greek nation. and a constitution was obtained, and the Noble Viscount at the head of Foreign Affairs could bear him (Mr. Cochrane) out when he referred to the admirable manner in which the Greek nation behaved on that occasion. He could also refer to a letter addressed, after tee event had taken place, by the Earl of Aber deen (then Secretary for Foreign Affairs) to Sir Ed mund Lyons, in which he expressed the feeling of ap probation with which the English Government viewed the conduct of the Greek nation. He stated that-- " Her Majesty's Government have learnt with the greatest satisfaction, by our dispatches of the 30th ultimo, the termination of the labours of the Constituent assembly, and the final and solemi acceptance by the King of the ratification of the constitution. They have viewed with no less satisfaction the admirable temper which appears to have generally prevailed in the Constituent assembly thoughout the whole of their deliberations on the deeply interesting and important act on which they have been engaged. Such self.consmand in a popular assembly, convoked under very exciting and critical circumstances is highly creditable to the Greek nation. Nor is the re sult of their labours, as a whole, l e ss entitl e d t o credit for the general soundness of the constitutional principles therein established." Since the constitution was gua ranteed he could bring the testimony of many persons to prove what a miserable state that country had been in. It appeared that outrage and torture had been practised there under the authority of the Government, and the revenue was diminishing while the expenses were increasing. He would now proceed to show that this state of the country was is perfect violation of the guarantees entered into, and that it was the bounden duty of England to intertere—as indeed the Noble Viscount had most nobly interfered— to do all they could do in the way of representation to put down this infamous system.—(Hear, hear.) A paper had been laid on the table of the House the other day. setting forth the sums of money they had paid for that country, and from which it appeared that in the year 1843 they paid 33,5831 17s. ld., as the interest of the loan; in the year 1844, 46,784/. 4s. Bd.; in 1845, 46,4971. 45.; in 1846, the same sum; and in 1847, 47,188/. 9s. 7d ; and there was repaid in 1847 by the Greek Government, with the aid of a gentleman (M. Eynard), who was a great lover of Greece, 23,8441. 13s. sd. He would now call attention to a communica• tion addressed by that gentleman, who took such an interest in that country, to M. Coletti. He says—" Now let us come to that which is most important to Greece. Your financial administration must absolutely be or ganized with greater regularity. I myself, who am so sincerely attached to your country, cannot avow that your public revenue should diminish every year whilst the country has made a positive progress, and whilst your agriculture and home and foreign commerce have been prosperous in every way. It is therefore evident that there have been abuses and disorders of all kinds, which you ought absolutely to put a stop to. If you • restore order in your finances, you may easily make your payments without injury to the prosperity of the country." The following communication was from M. Poniroponlos, Minister of Finance, in Feb., 1847 :—" cannot conceal from you any longer the truth. The rob bery of the public treasury has surpassed all measure, and is carried on with an insane imprudence ; but is this the fault of the Minister ? I hardly know any of the employes out of the thousands who belong to my department. If each steals a small portion of the re venue the diminution must naturally become consider able. 'Things have arrived at such a pitch that it is int• possible for the Minister of Finance to put a check to the abuses." This same Minister boasted in the Chamber of Deputies that he had falsified the public accounts, in order to cheat the Three Powers out of the into. rest of the money advanced by them. A COM mission was appointed last year to inquire into the matter, and the following was their report:—" The Commission appointed by the Chamber to examine into the frauds committed in the corn averages, decided by a majority of 9 to 1 that the Minister of Finance had been guilty of gross frauds in making out the returns; as also f the embezzlement of vast sums of the public money in various and specified ways, for which acts the Corn mission recommends his impeachment before the Senate." On another occasion three of the Ministers were accused of drawing out much more than their pay. When one of them was questioned in the Chamber about thee matter, all he said was, that if the extra pay drawn was not approved of, he and his colleagues would refund the difference. He (Mr. Cochrane) proposed in the next place to show the tyranny and torture that were practised in Greece, and it was almost incredible that such a state of things could exist. A man in Greece, named Zeno, for a long .ime had been in the employment of the Government. Ile had 300 light troops under his command, and amused himself by going about the country and torturing the de fenceless people. A petition presented from Patras, and authenticated by all the leading inhabitants, states : " The members of the family Dimeoi, arrested by the Mirarque (the Government officer), wore subjected to the torture for three days, and all their effects sold. Dimetri Nicalocopulo, accused of an insignificant rob bery three years ago, was put to the torture, and expired soon after. This unhappy man was denounced to the Mirarque as having stolen a cow three years since; the Mirarque ordered an;ordeal by torture, the gene-d'arimes bound him hand and foot, threw him down and placed enormous stones on his breast and stomach, and then jumped upon them. In the last extremity, and in the hope of sieving his life, he pleaded guilty, but it was too late ; when the stones were removed he died e his young wife, who was on the eve of her confinement, was carried to the grave a few days afterwards." In a petition from Messenia to the King, the following statements were contained:—" 50 citizens dragged without excuse from the bosem of their familes, and thrown into a damp and loathsome dungeon, deploring their loss of liberty, that last worldly bleas big, cast themselves on your mercy. Si re , th e tortures : we have undergone are unheard of and horrible; some of us suspended by the feet, others with their legs and arms bound aro laid upon the ground, and blocks of stone placed on their chests, their flesh torn and limbs; mutilated. . . A robbery had been committed in our village in the month of October. On the 22d of Novem ber, D. Soulis, lieutenant des garde froutiiTes, at IMP bead of a detachment of soldiers, and without any in struction from the magistrates, desired them to seise eighty of us, and throw us into the cellar of a house of s priest named Papajanopulos. Not obtaining any leo?. matiun, notwithstanding all the violence, some were released, and the others conducted to their re spective houses, where the most horrible tortures were inflicted upon us during the nights of the 22d and 23d; then, not having succeeded in making us admit ourselves guilty, we were taken to a lonely spot named Divari, thrown down, bound and gagged, with enormous stones heaped upon us. When we lay at the point of death the stones were removed, and we were set at liberty."l He would trouble the House with one instance to show what a gross vio lation of the constitution had taken place. The Senate having presented an address to his Majesty, in which they expressed their horror at the state of the country, and implored him to take measure; to put a stop to it, his Majesty refused to receive the address. The King subsequently appointed nine senators, and on this being objected to, the Government insisted that the Chamber of Deputies should pass a law empowering the King to increase the number of senators to an unlimited extent. He (Mr. Cochrane) would next call the attention of the House to a letter addressed by the Earl of Aberdeen to Sir E. Lyons at the period of the constitutional movement in Greece, in which he laid down a line of policy which ho (Mr. Cochrane) believed had been adopted and admirably carried out by the Noble Lord at present Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. He says:—" It will of course be of high importance that the three guaranteeing Powers, who have hitherto acted in such perfect unis( in their proceedings with regard to Greece, should con tinue to preserve the same unanimity of counsel and action ix the changed circumstances which have arisen. You will constantly exert yourself to maintain that union which has hitherto so happily prevailed between your colleagues and yourself ; and you will especially impress upon them the necessity of persevering in the honourable and correct principle which ought to guide the Three Powers in their relations towards Greece, and by which Great Britain, at least, is fully resolved that her conduct shall be invariably governed ; that is, to set aside all views of separate or individual interest, to discourage all party distinctions, and to look to the national welfare and prosperity of Greece alone, as the object of our united care." He (Mr. Cochrane) imagined that it was scarcely necessary for him to call for the interference of this country. Ye submitted that the Noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs was justified in writing as he had done to the Greek Government, and he did not think his dispatch was too strong for the occasion. It was said that al though the Noble Lord had addressed that dispatch to e weak Government, he would not dare write such a dispatch to a great power ; but the dispatch which the 6,820 7,370 9,410