The Sun. — London, England, 1848-02-14 00:00:00

Intrb Initioni SUN QFFICL, Seven 0' Cluck. HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS DAY.) SQUIRES V. WHILtTEN. The LORD CHANCHLLOR, at he conclusion of the arguments, gave judgment, dismissing the appeal with costs. EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.) (Trial at Bar,' before Mr. Baron PARKE, Mr. Baron ALDERsoN, Mr. Baron ROLFE, and Mr. Baron PLATT.) BURON V. DENMAN. This important case was at length brought before the Court. The Attorney-General, the Solicitor- General, Mr. Godson, Q.C., Mr. Cockburn, Q.C., and Mr. Willes, appeared on the part of the crown, who was the real defendant in the case. Mr. M. D. Hill, Q.C., Mr. Martin, Q.C., and Mr. Robinson, for the plaintiff. The defendant, the Hon. Captain Denman, took his seat by the side of the Attorney- General. Mr. ROBINSON having opened the pleadings, Mr. M. D. HILL rose to address the jury, and said that he did so deeply impressed with the importance of the point at issue. For half a century some of the ablest men of this country had been earnest and fervent in filling the minds of their countrymen and the world with a hatred of negro slavery. It was not possible that they who had been born since this system had been agitated in the manner he had described, should not come to this inquiry with their minds preoccupied upon the question. When they recollected that such men as Pitt, Fox, Wilberforce, Sheridan, and in later times Brougham, and last, though not least, Denman, had exhausted the powers of their great minds upon this subject—who had brought to its consideration and its advocacy, eloquence of every kind arguments the most forcible, and statements so clear from time to time of the most appaling facts, then the most thrilling or persuasive eloquence, and when we consider that all which was uttered in Parliament upon the subject war re-echoed from pulpit to pulpit throughout the land, and pro duced upon the stage, that it had occupied the minds of both sexes at the great public meet ings which had been held from time to time, and when some of them recollected that lips which were then silent in death had spoken to them in their early days of infancy and childhood, of the sufferings of the negro, and the horrors of the slave trade, and the wickedness of slavery itself, how ceuld ho hope that he was addressing a jury at that moment which was enabled to give a cool and impar tial judgment upon the question ? But he trusted that they would do their best, and that was all he asked of them ; they would stand upon the law ; they were there not to indulge any pleasurable emotions, but to carry into action strict, and it might be stern justice. The plaintiff came before them a foreigner, unprotected, with every honest prejudice against him. But he came before them the full confidence of British justice to lay his case before them, and to demand from that justice that it should be decided according to law. It was necessary that he should call their attention to the state of the - law as regarded this case. At the present moment if any English man in any part of the world engaged in the slave trade, or became the owner of slaves, he became amenable to the law of England, and any person being a foreigner who might carry on the slave-trade in any part of the English dominions, which extend to all regions of the earth, would become amenable to the law of England, but a foreigner holding slaves in any country not belonging to her Majesty, in no part of the British possessions, these slaves being on the land and not upon the sea, had no responsibility upon him, and had no right to be interfered with by anp person, whether such person held command under her Majesty or not, whether private or public no matter, such interference was contrary to law. For many centuries this country had been the greatest slave dealer in the world; it had forced more human beings into the horrors of the " middle passage," it has caused more slaves to be overwrought to death upon their landing in America and the 'West Indies than all the other nations upon earth put together. For two centuries and a half from the time of Elisa beth they would find that all the exertions, all the Acts of Parliament, were devoted to the subject of fostering, enlarging, and protecting the traffic in slaves. A great deal had been said latterly about the Treaty of Utrecht, but one of the articles of that treaty they were silent upon in which it was solemnly stipulated between England and Spain, guaranteed by the other Powers to the treaty, that this country should have the monopoly of supplying the Spanish colonies with slaves to an enormous amount. It was this country which also forced upon the United States the making of slavery a part of their institutions, which was now the object of detestation by the enlightened people of this country. By the labours of great and good men—the gigantic labours of Clarkson and Wilberforce —a great change had been wrought in the system before the end of the last century. The great question of the slave trade, its lawfulness, of its consonance with the Christian religion—these matters were brought before the country and before the Parliament, and slowly and silently they have made their way. Twenty years, twenty-five years had elapsed before the seed brought forth its fruit, and then when in the year Mr this traffic was sup pressed by Act of Parliament such was the tenderness for vested xights that two years were given to them to continue the traffic, in order that no portion of the capital engaged in the traffic should be lost. But although so slow fled careful with regard to British interests in the reformation of their errors, they had not but a few year s done so, be f ore they turned round and erected themselves into the great friends of the negro, whom for two centuries and a half they been prosecuting; and they took upon themselves to coerce minor and independent states into treaties for the purpose of enabling them not only to prevent the slave tradeamong their own people but in other coun tries. In the year 1817 a treaty was entered into be tween this country and Spain,afterwards rectified and extended by a treaty of 1815. The first of these treaties was recited in the 58th of George 111. c. 36, and the last in 6th Will. IV. c. 6, in the year 18341. As the defendant relied to some extent in the pleadings upon. those various treaties he would not now trouble the jury by going into the question of law upon them. The rse sections, however, gave power only with regard to vessels afloat with goods or slaves upon them, and autliorized that the goods or slaves se captured should be c arried to some convenient port to be adjudicated upot 1 for the purpose of securing an impartial inquiry. With( respect to the legality of the slave trade, Lord. Stowell had said, " that the slave trade was not :against the law of nations." The trade was not illegal, except it was made so by Act of Parliament in the British possessions or by sot ne law of Spain for Spanish subjects and so forth, Oy each country legislating for itself. Sup pose, for instance, that the defendant in this case, brought up frora his childhood with a proper feeling of host ility to the practice of polygamy as prac tised by , the Turks, should have taken upon himself, if stationed in the Levant, to take away some of the t; lave wives of some great Turkish pacha, No dud. t such a proceeding would at the time have been a far more pleasant occupation than giving passage tts about 800 negroes ; and the voyage from that coun try to Circassia or Georgia, from whence they cam', might not have been perhaps without its agreeable l ailments, but no British commander ever thought of doing so, nor would he be able to stand for one momen tin an English court ofj ustice if the Turkish pacha shot tld bring an action to recover the value of his wives ; or suppose, to come nearer the present case, some iserson had left the door of the harem open, and the wis es of the Pasha were seen flying in all directions u .pon the approach of the commander ; that th e n the gal pant admiral sh ou ld, upon landing,and should sho find the variote s ch ambers untenanted, ta k e the pipes, and th e h an d some sa l v ers, u and the grand robes of the Turkish ladies, and offer them to the people as asuch bribe, a to bring bacl:-. the wives to the harem —could pro ceding be just ified in an y British cour t of justice, o r could the circumstance of the Turk beingg foreigner r ire d vent his recovering a m pl e damages for the wrong one ? Or, suppose the defendant had gone to Cl tina and robhed some of the tem p les of their gs gods, or one to the sculptor wi h h m ade the goods, and cleared h i s store-room of sckdities. There •was no sin more awfully denounced in Script ure, and no crime which had brought dow n more frequent or mor e si g nal visitations from the Divine 'hand, than the sin of idolatry, and yet strong as they should feel the horror of idolatry, was there a single man who would no t p ut away such thoughts when called upon to do justice between the Chinese as complaining, and the English as offending ? In the late opium case, too, of China the same principle had been recognised, and the assertion• of it had ena bled them to stow away in their coff,rs between two and three millions of Chinese silver. The Chinese Government had passed some laws prohibit ing the use of opium in that country ; but in the over zeal of some Chinese Captain Denman, if there were such a gallant officer in the command of his Imperial Brother of the Sun and Moon, came beyond the coast line, a n d seized c ertain vessels containing opium. This cou ta t r y ' had said that th t e he c y hin h e a s d e i nothing r to do with th e regulations of own country ; they had taken the law into their own hands, they had come out oftuhset ir h erefore p ay every own country, and seized the opium, a n d th ey m farthing of the value of the art icle This 'was precisely- the cas e with the plaintiff by them. tiff in thi s case. He said, " I will not enter g w uestionys you iinto the discussion of moral or religious a men able to your laws. I am not a me m b er of your not faith. You have no control over me but such as as is given to you ,if I came into your cou n t ry , when I owe to your Sovereign a temporary allegiance." The 11 judgment in the case of Madransoe v. Willes, re ported in the 3 Barn. and Ald., p. 353. fully bore out that view of the case. In the present case a trial at bar had been demanded on the part of the Crown, and the defendant, who in his person had brought back the idea of the ages of chivalry, with the ex ception that, instead of his riding upon a large horse, cased, like himself, in sheet iron, he tra velled about more comfortably in a steam-boat, but still he had the same object ; it was the universal redress of grievances, the succour of the oppressed, and the destruction of the tyrannical. But if they could imagine the case of any buccaneer who had gone to the coast of Africa for the purpose of plunder he could not conceive of any different kind of pleadings which he would put upon the record had put upon than the present defendant had done. From the imperial height to which he had been raised he had been made to plunge into all the muddy sea of the quirks and quibbles of a special pleader. His advisers seem determined to construct the plead ings in such a manner as that, per fas et nefas, they should be able to snatch a verdict at any expense. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to call attention to the various pleas of the defendant. In the first he had pleaded "not guilty," whereas it was for that very act that he had been raised to the post of captain in the navy. The next plea stated that he was not. lawfully possessed of the goods and slaves in question. A third that they were captured by the defendant by command of King Siachi, which was a Spanish name for King Jack, given to that personage by the sailors, and that this Siachi, King of the Gallinas, was at war with the defendant, who was a trader and merchant in that country. Another plea set forth that it was not done at the command of Siachi, but by command of her Majesty Queen Victoria. Further pleas set forth that a certain treaty with Spain made the slave treaty illegal, and that the plaintiff, being a Spanish sub ject, would obtain no redress in Spain; that Gallinas was under the rule of an absolute monarch, the aforesaid Siachi, and lastly, that the country of the Gallinas was a lawless country. The whole defence appeared to be in the style rendered in a great authority, viz., Hudibras _ _ " I would not give with Hudibras A straw to know the case, Without the admirable skill To turn and manage it at will, To steer and tack and veer the cause, Against the weather gauge of laws, And ring the changes on the case, Clear as the nose upon the face." The facts of the case were as follows :—On the 19th of November, 1840, Captain Denman found him self in the command of three vessels off Gallinas, on the western coast of Africa, called the Wanderer of 16 guns, the Saracen and Rollo of JO guns. Upon that day Captain Denman ordered the boats to be manned. Upon their landing at the place, he found the slaves flying from the place. The defendant entered the stores, took possession of great quantities of the things, the gunpowder was increased in the river, the casks of spirits were started into the sand, and defendant, with his own hands, discharged two rockets, which set fire to the buildings upon the other side of the river, and they were burned to the ground; some of the goods were given away to the people, as bribes, to bring back the slaves, who, being collected, were taken on board the vessels, and from that time the inhabitants of iGallinas had seen no more of them. The Learned Counsel went on to say that he thought some short interval should have been allowed to intervene before this country should have raised itself from the position of a criminal to that of a judge—from the dock to the bench. It would have been far better for this country to have acted in the spirit of Milton, who said "that it was the pre rogative of England to teach the nations how to live," and to have allowed the same means to operate in other countries as had been successful in this, viz., reason, arguments, and religion. They would then have done no injury. It was now admitted that the efforts of the country to suppress the slave trade had been productive of the greatest evils ; it had multiplied the numbers and increased the horrors of the middle passage, and the slave might now well say, " Your hostility was dreadful to us, your hostility covered us with evils which we had imagined could not be augmented, but we did not know the miseries of your friendship." The mor tality in the " middle passage" alone had increased from 9 to 24 per cent. under the system now adopted to put down the traffic in slaves. " Oh," exclaimed Madame Roland when she ascended the scaffold, " oh, liberty, what crimes have not been committed in thy name !" The negro might say, " Oh, philanthropy, how much of evil have we not endured in thy name!" This country, said the Learned Counel, stood before the other nations of the world either as the foulest hypocrites or as lunatics. We are raising hundreds of thousands and millions to prevent slavery, and when our prevention was found to be no cure, then we paid those very persons whom we have been chasing across the Atlantic for the produce of the blood of those very negroes. Such was British friendship to the slaves 1 A Learned Chancellor, who was now dead, had said in his advice to his son, "Go and see with how litle wisdom the world is governed." If that person were DOW to rise from the dead he would say, " Go and see with what mighty folly the world is governed '—men taxing their overlaboured poor to raise hundreds of million, to - expend en treaties to abolish the slave trade, and then bringing a power into the field to uphold that trade, which, without any disrespect to the power of the defendant, was tenfold greater than any naval or military power could exert, via., the power of trade, a power which Napoleon could not crush with all his Milan and Berlin decrees ; and this country was now carrying on the two op posing systems at one and the same time. Against the whole nation a writ de enquirendo lunatic° ought to be issued for persevering in such insane and preposterous conduct. Such was the nature of the case into which the jury had to inquire, he trusted that they would perform that duty in such a manner as the case de served, and that decision would be one of the most memorable acts of their life, one which upon reflec tion would produce, though accompanied with pre sent pain, solid and permanent satisfaction. Mariano Dinars, a Spaniard, in the employ of the plaintiff, was then examined through the mediam of an interpreter. His evidence went entirely to corro borate the statement of facts made in the opening speech of the Leaned Counsel. Upon his cross-examination by the ATTORIIET.• GENERAL, he stated that King Siacha was in the habit of purchasing goods from the plaintiff, which he paid for partly in slaves and partly in money. He did not know how many slaves plaintiff had embarked at the Gallinas during the six years he had lived with him. He had embarked but a few. The value of a slave was about fifty dollars. The plaintiff had 300 slaves in his baracoons, just previous to the descent upon them by the defendant. Some of them were prisoners of war ; about twenty or twenty-five of them were in chains. Among those slaves there were no British subjects. The prisoner, a woman called Tri Norman, was not on the remises. She did not know either John Fra ser or john Parker. Ghindama was the capital of the Gallinas. The island upon which the plaintiff's premises were belongs to King Siacha. He knew his Majesty King Siacha. He was a very old man, and confined to his bed through sickness. He knew his eldest son, Prince Mannna. He knew the Raja's family they were chiefs, they were descended from an English mulatto, they were now quite black. There was a woman named Tri Nor msn, in prison at Dombocorroh, when Capt. Denman came there. Witness was not there at the time. She was not at Buron's. He saw Prince Manna and the chiefs go to Captain Denman at Dumbocorroh. Captain Denman took possession of the factories be fore he saw Prince Manna and the chiefs. He saw Captain Denman fire a rocket from Dombocorroh to Coomasarie on the 21st. He did not see Prince Manna standing beside him at the time. He saw two or three Chiefs. He saw Captain Denman before he came came to Dom bocorrch at Sandhamanarrah, there were some black prisoners of war in that village, who were in chains and between boards placed across the chest and back. They were taken in the war between Sandham anarrah and the Gallinas. Prince Mamia and the Chiefs took possession of the goods ; they were given to him, he thought by Captain Denman, i Witness had charge of the goods cf Buron at De-' jairoh ; he was not there the whole time. Captain Denman was at Dombocorrah ; he went ii cm there to Tindoh. He did not go to any of the stores while Captain Denman had possession of them. He was in the villages with the negroes. He saw Captain Denman set fire to the village of "rlii7c; there was no factory there ; goods were kept there f o r the purpose ; buying palm-oil, i vory, gold-dust, and some for slaves. In the year 1840 a ship, called the Alexander, laden with ivory, dye woo d , and palm-oil, left the Gallinas. oil, o which c e s thheaenb,sirtoouregsh othertt h f e r r o e m wße things.ruer v , : en e Captain Denman was at Mr. She was an America n vessel of 160 tons ; she had a b l r o o o u p g i h p t e s a o f c arg Baron's about 200 chairs and manacles kept for the slaves who were s u s p ected of running away: Re-examined b y Mr. M. D. HlLL—Part of the powder, about 50 barrels, taken fr om Mr. Buron, was h of November. the thrown i , n t into the ri o ve n r C22apdthe saw th e spiritsain D enman on the i started into the sand at a place called Camassora, and every day after that he saw something else brought out. The war carried on by Gallinas in the interior had lasted for eight or nine years before the arrival of Captain Denman. The war was between King Siacha and a " gentleman" within the domi nions of his Majesty ; it was not a rebellion, but "a dispute" between a gentleman and King Siacha. The people of the country took charge of the prisoners of war taken in this war by the King Siacha, He re- membered the ships Eliza Davidson, the Theopilus • Chace, the Siminole, the Argus, all of which, but the first-named, which was seized as a slav,?r, took some of the goods of the ccrantry back with them. Pedro Marane, examined by Mr. Robinson, a na tive of Spain, also examined throngh the medium of an interpreter—He was at the Gallinas, in the employ of a person of the name of Xumenes in tho capacity of clerk. He knew Mr. Buron, also his factory and store houses at the Gallinas. He was in a large way of bnsiness there. He saw Buron's store houses shortly before the 19th of November, when they were full of every sort of things. Upon the 19th he saw some men land from three vessels of war. Captain Denman was with them. He was then in Dombocorroh. He saw them, after they landed, place sentries upon the gates of the es tablishment and store rooms of Mr. Buron. Captain Denman then went on to Coomassoriah, He saw the goods of Mr. Buron in the hands of the natives for the first time on the 2nd of November. Captain Denman's men gave the goods to the natives. He did not see Captain Denman give, nor was he present when he told, his men to give the things to the natives. He saw some rockets fired. He was not on the spot. He saw Captain Denman there and many natives. He could not tell who fired them ; he was too far off to see. Captain Denman was near the spot. The rockets went to Camassariah, where it set fire to some magazines or stores filled with merchandise belonging to Mr. Buron. The buildings were all burnt down, and the goods they contained, which were not carried away, were burned and de stroyed. The magazines were destroyed either on the 22nd, 23rd, or 24th of November. At the conclusion of this witnesses examination, the case was adjourned till tomorrow. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) GREAT YARMOUTH. The Committee re-assembled at the usual hour this morning. Mr. Seymour in the chair. Mr. ANDREWS, Q.C., addressed the Committee at great length on behalf of the sitting Members. The room was then cleared, and the Committee having remained in consultation together for some time, strangers were re-admitted, when, The CHAIRMAN announced that the Committee had come to the following resolution:—That the Hon. Arthur Lennox. commonly called Lord Arthur Lennox, is not duly elected a burgess to serve in the present Parliament for the borough of Great Britain. That Octavius Edward Cooper, Esq., is not duly elected a burgess to serve in Parliament fur the borough of Great Yarmouth. That the last election of the said borough is a void election. That the Hon. Arthur Lennox, commonly called Lord Arthur Lennox, and Octavious Edward Coape, Esq.. were, through their agents, guilty of bribery at the last election for the borough of Great Yarmouth. That several cases of bribery were proved before the Committee. That these acts of bribery were committed with the know ledge and consent of the said Arthur Lennox and Octavius Edward Coape, Ell. The Committsel are them that gross systematic and extensive bribery pre vailed at the last and at the previous election for the borough of Yarmouth, amongst the freemen of the bor rough, and they consider it their duty to express to the House their unanimous opinion that the freemen of the borough of Great Yarmouth should be disfranchised, and that no new writ should be issued for the said borough until legislative measures have been taken.for the purpose of such disfranchisement. The Committee then broke up. LONDON, BRIGHTON, and SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.—(THIS DAY. The adjourned meeting of this company was held this morning at eleven o'clock, in the large room of the London Tavern. Owing to the statement made at the meeting on Friday, that a vast number of per sons had gained access to the room who were not shareholders, the most stringent regulations were instituted and put in force at the door, and lest any person refused admission should become re fractory a policeman was stationed at the door to keep order, and if necessary to remove any disorderlies to the nearest station-house. Every person, even those connected with the press were obliged to sign their names, the reporters being strictly enjoined to give the name of the paper for which they attended. A staff of clerks were therefore employed during the morning. Before half-past ten about 200 persons had taken their seats, and when the reporters came full half an hour before the hour for which the meeting was announced, they found nearly all the seats usually reserved for the press occupied by shareholders, and it was only with great difficulty and solicitation that those represent ing the principal papers were enabled to obtain just sufficient room to pursue their avocations with in convenience. The inconvenience to - which all were put was wholly inexcusable, inasmuch as a represen tation was made to the secretary on Saturday to reserve accommodation for the press. At eleven o'clock the directors entered and took their seats. They were received with cheers. At this time not more than three hundred persons were in the room. The gallery contained but one tenant, showing that the room used on Friday could have contained all entitled to be present ; it is impos sible, therefore, to avoid the inference that a very considerable number of persons were present who were not shareholders, and who created the unseemly disturbance which led to the adjournment of the meeting until to-day. Mr. Grenfell, M.P., occupied the chair. Mr. BUCKTON having read the report and accounts, which we gave in The Sun of Friday, The CHAIRMAN proceeded to address the meeting. He said, in consequence of what passed at the meeting on Friday, it was not his intention to detain them at any length, as he concluded from what then took place that some strong grounds of opposition were to be raised against the directors, and he and his brethren directors there courted the utmost inquiry, as he and they were moat anxious that no one should leave the room without being fully informed of the exact posi tion vf their affairs. Without saying more at present be would conclude by moving that the report be re ceived and adopted, which having been seconded, Captain WISLIAR rose and said, he had a motion to propose, which he believed would meet the wishes of all the shareholders, the majority of whom were dis satisfied with the management of the directors. These shares were depreciated, their weekly expenses were still high, their capital remained at its enormously high rate, and at the last meeting he apprehended that the dividend would be small indeed. Their amount of expensesa were enormous, as they increased from 311 in 1844, and now 48. The locomotive expenses were alsso enormous; the cost of coke in 1844 was 10,0001.—it was last year 19,5431. This was at the rate of Old. a mile, but on an adjacent line it cost no more than 41d., and the working ex penses of other lines averagd from 35 to 42 per cent. He blamed the directors for gradually increas ing the capital of the company to an enormous rate. It was 6,092/., and in 1845, 4,9221., and in 1846 and in 1847 it was $,760,3831.—(Hear, hear)—and yet there was a deficiency of 78,7411. in the capital account.—(Hear.) He also blamed them for entering into the arrangements they had with the Portsmouth Company, for carrying a third line into Portsmouth, which must compete with the South Western and their own line. He blamed them also for entering into an arrangement with the South Eastern, by which they would lose 12,0001. a year, and obtain but a few acres of land in return. He found that the mismanagement of the directors was in all men's mouths; and when this was the case, he could not help saying that there must be something in the management radically wrong.—(Cheers.) The incompetency of tho director was generally spoken of and complained of. Stations had been shut up with out any sufficient reason, and meetings had been held at various parts of the line, at which complaints were made that the line did not give all the accommodation the parties had a right to expect. Persons had also been dismissed from the company without sufficient cause, with a view to the promotion of the interests of the company ; he begged to move as an amend ment, that so much of the report as related to the dividend be adopted, and that a committee of share holders be appointed to inquire into the financial affairs of the company, and repor thereon.—(Cheers.) Mr. HORD seconded the motion, and, after advert ing to the past dividends that had been paid, com plained that if the expenses were so high the rates ought to have been increased. The CHAIRMAN interrupted the hon. proprietor, and stated that their fares were at their maximum— (Hear) ;—the Legislature had put its hands into their pockets and those of the shareholders of other lines, and, for the information of all, he might state that the time was not far distant when railways might have occasion to make common cause against this restric tioo.—(Hear.) HOORD proceeded to say that if this were so the directors should have abandoned the branches. — (Hear.) Be was utterly at a loss to understand how the working expenses could present so anomalous a result as they did ; in 1843 they were 261 per cent., in 1834 23, 1.845 24, 1846 29, whilst they were 40: they were 40 per cent., with a capital of a quarter of a million, whilst they were but 26 with a capital of 100,000/.—(Hear.) j,.he Hon Proprietor went on to explain the explain the exact nature of the mortgege deeds ; which led to some explanations between himself and Dr. PARSONS, at the protracted nature of the details of which, the meeting manifested much impatience. The CHAIRMAN said, all these things were mere matters of detail, which could not be answered with out the expenditure of much time. They could be better investigated by a committee; and on the part of the directors and himself he had to state, that they should not object to the proposed committee, which announcement was received with loud cheers. Mr. LETT congratulated the directors on the tone and temper of the meeting. The great complaints received against the directors were the purchasing of the Brighton, and Chichester and Brighton, at 12 premium, when no one would have given 5 discount, and that they had put a good deal of money into their pockets by these arrangements.—(Laughter.) Mind, he did not say this ; others said it, and he merely repeated it—(Hear) ; he did not wish to abuse the directors because they were directors, be cause if they turned them out, they might get worse, who would perhaps take some new and objectionable course.—(Hear.) Looking at the castigation—par ticularly from the Atmospheric (Croydon)—they had received from the lines he had mentioned, he thought 20s. was not so bad. Let them not be dis mayed.—(A voice, "You don't say anything about tthe Croydon). He liked to be challenged ; he, like Mr. \Vishaw, was a great advocate of an amalgamation with that line; he had always opposed the Epsom branch ; bnt he might take that oppor tunity of saying, that all the branches of which he had spoken at past meetings, had turned out as he had predicted. Looking at the ccmmercial embar rassments of the past year, and to the great expense they had been put to, he thought they should take the lOs. without a murmur.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Mainsis said he had received a note from the Chairman sometime ago, stating that the dividend this half-year would be 74 per cent.; and that on this promise, he kept his shares. when they went down, and when he remonstrated with the Chairman, he replied that he had expected per cent., adding that he had been as much disap pointed as he had at not being able to pay more. He complained that he had only been able to obtain access to the register of shares, by a favour and in confidence, and in order that access might at all times be obtained to it, he begged to move that holders of 25 shares and upwards should have access to the registers seven days before and seven days after each meeting at ss. for every hour he required it. Mr. Cash seconded the proposition. The CHAIRMAN said he had been almost forced into the direction; he took office much against his will; and he believed that during the whole time he had been connected with the case he had never done any thing that an honest man could blvsh at.—(Hear, hear.) Surely he could not be now held responsible for an opinion given twelve months ago.—(Hear, hear.) If he had disposed of some of his shares, he had not done so for stock-jobbing purposes—he did not say he could be 'blamed for that—(Hear, hear) but he migh. say that the deputy-chairman held more shares than he did at any former time, (and that gentleman, he might say, devoted his life to the service of the company.) They all held, in short, 10,000 of the number of shares held by them last year. Great injury might result from giving too great access to their books. For instance the greater number of forgeries on the Bank of Eng land had been perpetrated by parties getting access to their books; for a person by getting a view of one share got a clue to all those held by the same person. Mr. SONSTER reminded the meeting that they were obliged to run their trains whether full or empty ; and that the expenses incidental to the opening of all new lines were enormous. He was firmly of opinion that the time was not far distant when they would pay seven per cent. again. —(Hear, and no, no.) On an average of the entire line opened the weekly expenses were 5781. less last year than in 1845 ; and if they multiplied that by the miles opened in 1845, they would, at the same rate, have an increase of 200,000/. in the next year.—(Hear.) Mr. COHEN complained that the fares had been re duced from 25 to 50 per cent. In giving increased public advantage they had injured themselves. He moved for a return of the names of the parties who held shares in the Brighton and Chichester line be fore it was purchased, and those to whom thay were transferred. They bought up the shares at 1/. or 21. premium, and sold them at 251. premium. It was rented by the Brighton at 4 per cent. for ten years, and he asked, therefore, why they bought it at 6/. ? We blame them for their connexion with the Portsmouth and Croydon, after it had wasted half its capital, and for which they got the miserable line to Epsom ; the cost of plants during the last half-year was 162,0001., or one-half more than any former year. The fares had been generally reduced, and if they went on the same way they would have no dividend. There was a loss of 3501. for light gold, giving encouragement for its being offered to the company. There was one thing he wished to have inquired into, namely, the giving of information by the company to the Stock Exchange with respect to the dividend. He knew the parties. —(Name, name.) He should be ready to give the names to the committee. The shares had been cried up at 315., when they could not expect a highar dividend than 32s.—(Hear.) When the real amount was known the shares were poured into the market. The information must have come from head-quarters. —(Hear.) He hoped the directors ;would inquire into the matter, and rather dismiss the whole office than allow any such persons to remain in it. He was at a loss to know how the directors could adort new lines when Parliament had fixed their maximum fairs so low that they could not pay 8/. per cent. The CHAIRMAN said Mr. Cohen should give the names of the parties to whom be referred. Mr. COHEN declined to do so, except to the com mittee. He did not charge the directors with the " bearing" of the shares ; he could not well do that if they did buy at 315., they did it through third parties. Directors were too cunning now-a-days to do these things openly. He considered that their interests would not be cared for until they removed the present directors.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. COLEMAN inquired if 13,0001. had been lent to the Steam-boat Company connected with the company. The CHAIRMAN declined, in reply, to give any answer to the:agent of the General Steam Navigation Company, and who had filed a Bill in Chancery against the company. Mr. COLEMAN then said, as some of the new lines had not been opened, the company would lose at the rate of 1,0001. a year in interest so long as they remained unopened. Mr. COHEN said as it had been whispered that he had giuen information to kis brother and others with respect to the dividend, he wished to have a letter read from his brother on the subject. The SECRETARY read the letter, which was as fol lows : (Copy.) " Dear John,—The following are the facts to which your note refers :—About a fortnight since I learnt at my friend Hutchinson's once that Brighton dividends were offered at the Stock Exchange at 31s. per dividend. Recollecting that at the corresponding period of last year 355. had been declared, and finding at the same time the amount of increased receipts, and the additional mileage since opened, I thought there were reasonable data to anticipate an equal ;dividend for the past half year. " I purchased in consequence four hundred dividends, in conjunction with two friends, who took an equal share in the speculation. I retain my :interest entire, and shall hence sustain a loss of about seventy guineas. " This circumstance having transpired, most dis creditable inferences have been drawn from it, implying thatll possessed a knowledge of what the dividend would be, and that I had entered into this transaction for the purpose of raising the price, to enable me to make spe culative sales. A most infamous imputation, and so far from the truth, that with this exception, I have not had one transaction of any kind in Brighton shares during my residence in London, which comprises a period of upwards of two years. " You can make what use you like of this note; I write it solely out of consideration to your position at the:Brighton board as a director, otherwise I should not take any notice of the calumny, as I know it would be impossible to discover its author.—&c. (Signed) " GEORGE PARSONS, 22, St. James's-street, Feb. 9. " J. M. Parsons, Esq." ' • Mr. PARSONS said he would as soon put a pistol to a man's head on the highway as inform any one of the amount of dividend before it was made public. Considerable discussion then ensued, in which Mr. Alderman Wilson complained that the line was in a disgraceful state of dilapidation and want of efficient accommodation. Mr. WILKINsoN, the late chairman of tie Croydon Company, who defended the general conduct of the directors, and said the management of the line had been cheaper than the North Western and Eastern Counties Railways, but who said the locomotive mismanagement of the line entirely to the door of Mr. Peter Clarke, who, he said, practised false and extravagant economy, as he had disgusted the servants under his control, and dissatisfied the public—Mr. Cash and others. The appointment of a committee of seven share holders holding forty shares was carried, the report was confirmed, so much as had reference to the dividend, the borrowing of 176,598/., and the con version of the fifteenths into stock. The meeting was then adjourned until the 30th of March next. The following are the names of the Committee : Mr. Wishaw, Mr. P. A. Taylor, M. Cash, Mr. Sterry, Mr. Cornelius Nicholson, Mr. S. L. Griffiths, and Mr. East. A dividend at the rate of 1/. per 501. share for the half-year was then formally declared. The motion with respect to the register was declared by the solicitor to be contrary to the Railways Consolidation Acts, and that it would be in the power of any one shareholder who was dissatisfied to obtain an injunc tion ; the motion was therefore withdrawn. A vots of thanks having been passed to the chair man and directors, and suitably acknowledged, the meeting adjourned at half-past three. TATTERSALL'S—THIS EVENING Six o'CLocR. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE• 15 to 1 agst Sir Arthur 20 to 1 agat Jerry 20 to 1 agst The Curate NEWMARKET HANDICAP. 12 to 1 agst Palmer 15 to 1 agst Cracow METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 111 to 1 agst Jericho 20 to 1 agst Gannet 25 to 1 agst Vampyro 2,000 c:Tryvr. S STAKES. 5 to 1 agst Daze—taken 5 to 1 agst Surplice CHESTER CUP. 25 to 1 agst Jonathan Wild 30 to 1 agst War Eagle 40 to 1 agst Keleshe 40 to 1 agst Swallow 40 to 1 agst Swiss Boy 40 to 1 agst Queen Mary 50 to 1 agst Joc o' Sot 50 to 1 agst Bantam 50 to 1 agst Nirs. Taft 50 to 1 agst Lady Wildair 5 0 to 1 agst Mendicant 60 to 1 agst Lightning DERBY. 12 to 1 agst Glendower 20 to 1 agst Springy Jack: 25 to 1 agst Assault 30 to 1 agst Cervus 35 to 1 agst Beshorough 40 to 1 agst Swiss Boy MPE RIA L PA It LIAM (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack shortly after Five o'clock. The Earl of EGLINTON presented petitions from Arbroath and Ayr praying for an alteration in the Currency L awa. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented certain papers by command of her Majesty. The Bishop of EXETER gave notice that he should, to morrow, present a petition from certain clergy of the county of Bucks, praying' for the repeal of Henry VIII., subjecting Deans and Chapters to a pritmunire in certain cases. Their Lordships then adjourned. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14 , 1846. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the chair at Four o'clock. Mr. D. 111'NEILL, Lord C. HAMILTON, and other two Hou. Members, took the oatht and their seats. SECOND READINGS. The following Bills were read a second time and ordered to be committed :—Brentford Gas Light Acts Amendment; Dunbar Customs, Water, and Harbour Dues Amendment ; Edinburgh Police Consolidation and Sanitary Improvement ; Helmsdale, Little Ferry, and Leck Robie Harbours ; Kettering Small Tene ments Rating; Leicester Cemetery; Leicestershire Lunatic Asylum; Leith Municipality and Police, Trusts, Markets, Paving, and Sanitary Improve ment ; Liverpool Gas Light Company, and Liverpool New Gas and Coke Company Amalgamation ; Londonderry Improvement ; Magdalen Hospital Act Amendment; Manchester General Cemetery ; National Monument of Scotland Amendment ; Os- Westry Markets and Fairs ; Price's Patent Candle Company ; Scottish Provident Institution ; Shrews bury Market ; Stirling Waterworks ; Torquay Market ; Tyne Direct Ferry ; Wigan Improvement. GREAT YARMOUTH ELECTIION. Mr. K. SEYMER, the Chairman of_the Com mittee, brought up the report of this Committee, which was to the effect to the effect that they had found that gross, systematic, and extensive bribery had taken place at the last election and previous elections, and that further, neither Lord Arthur Lennox nor Mr. Octavius Coope had been duly elected to serve as burgesses in the present Parlia ment; the Committee recommended that no new writ should be issued until steps had been taken to disfranchise the freemen. THE WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE. The Members of this Committee were called to the table. It was found that Mr. Aglionby was absent, which caused much laughter. The Members present were then dismissed for the present. TIE GREAT MARLOW. The Members of this Committee were then called to the table, and whilst they were being sworn, Mr. Aglionby entered the House amidst much laughter, and took his place. WEST GLOUCESTER ELECTION COMMITTEE. The Members of this Committee were called to the table and sworn. LICENSED VICTUALLERS AND BEER SELLERS. Mr. WILLIAMS preseited a petition from the beer sellers of London, praying to be placed upon an equal footing with the licensed victuallers. NEW WRIT FOR WATERFORD. On the motion of Mr. TUFFNELL a new writ was ordered for the city of Waterford in the room of Daniel O'Connell, who had accepted the office of steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. RAJA OF SATARA. Mr. LUSHINGTON presented a petition signed by 700 persons in the parish of St. George, Hanover- square, praping for an inquiry into the case of the Raja of Satara. EXCISE LAWS. Mr. DUNCAN presented a petition praying for an alteration in the present excise law. MAGISTRATES' CLERKS. Mr. COCKBURN presented a petition from Southampton praying for an alteration in the present mode of payment to magistrates' clerks by fees. NAVAL AND MILITARY ESTABLISH- MENTS. The HoN. and LEARNED MEMBER also presented a petition from the same place against any increase in the naval and military establishments of the country. ATTORNIES CERTIFICATE DUTY. Dr. BOWRING presented a petition from Bolton, signed by attornies, in favour of the abolitiou of the duty attornies annual certificates. PAPER DUTY. Mr. COWAN presented a petition from paper manufacturers, publishers, and others, complaining of the injustice of the existing duty on paper. NATIONAL DEFENCES. Mr. COBDEN presented a petition from Sheffield, signed by 13,900 inhabitants, against any increase in the naval and military estimates of the country ; also several petitions from Bridgewater, Salford, and other places, to the same effect. Mr. M'NEILL presented a petition from the island lona to the same effect. NAVIGATION LAWS. Sir T. BIRCH presented a petition from Liverpool against any alteration in the Navigation Laws. Mr. HUME presented a petition from the wine merchants and spirit dealers of Hull complaining of the operation of the Excise Laws. Mr. BANKS presented a petition from the attore neys and solicitors of a place in Dorsetshire, praying for the repeal of the certificate duty. The hononrable member also presented a petition from the Archdea con and Clergy of Dorsetshire praying for church extension, and a petition praying the House to take step- to prevent priestly denunciations from the altar NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. COLVILE gave notice that on Thursday he should ask for leave to bring in a Bill to empower the owners and occupiers of land to kill hares without a certificate. Mr. ANSTEY said before reappointing his motion he wished to ask the First Minister of tne Crown whether he had any objection to give him a day for the purpose of bringing it on. Lord J. RUSSELL said there were two days in the week devoted to independent motions, and it would be an injustice to other Hon. Members if he were to sacrifice a Government day to the motion of the Hon. Gentleman. Mr. ANSTEY said, under these circumstances, it would be his duty to bring on his motion to-night, when the ordeo of the day for ging into a committee of supply should be read. Mr. WOOD gave notice of his intention to move, in committee, the insertion of a clause in the Roman Catholic Relief Bill. RAJAH OF SATTARA. Mr. HUME postponed his motion which stands for to-morrow with respect to the case of the late Raja of Sattara till to-morrow fortnight. CURRENCY. Mr. HUME said, seeing the Right Hon. Gentle man in his place (Mr. Herries) who had a motion on Thursday 'next with respect to the currency, he begged to request of him that he would include in that motion the Act of 184 i which had reference to Scotch banks. Mr. HERRIES had no objection to adopt the suggestion of the Hon. Member for Montrose. MARRIAGD IN INDIA. Mr. C. LEWIS, in answer to a question from Mr. C. Lushington, said, that the question with respect to the validity of marriages solemnized in India had been referred to the Commission on the Law of Mar riage, and that the subject was now under consi deration. IRISH EMIGRANTS. In reply to Mr. P. SCROPE, Sir G. GREY stated that the Government had not taken measures to ascertain the number of emigrants who had arrived from Ireland at the various ports of the United Kingdom. Complaints were last year re ceived from Liverpool of the number of emigrants wb had found their way there, but though no complaints had been made this year, Mr. Rushton had stated that those who had come over last year continued to suffer to some extent ; they had not been able to ascertain the exact amount of mortality occasioned by the late famine, nor of the number of persons who had been evicted in Ireland during the period of the famine, but he should have no ob jection to grant any returns that might be required on the subject. Many persons received notice to quit whose removal was not intended. THE SAILORS' PROCESSION. Mr RICARDO, adverting to the lat e p rocession of sailors to the Home-office to present a &MARINO: OUT.—The United States House of Representatives have passed a very truth-telling resolu tion—" That the war with Mexico was unnecessarily and unconstitutionally begun by the President of the United States." AMERICAN FUN.—" Mrs. Grimes, lend me your tub." " Can't do it—the hoops are off—its full of suds —besides, I never bad one—l washes in a barrel, and wants to use the tub myself—besides, I've lent it to a neighbour, who hasn't returned it." BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, FEB. 11.-500 hhds. West Indian have been sold in the raw sugar market this week at about former prices, but the market closed with a very dull appearance.—Bristol Mercury. memorial, inquired if it had been presented i FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF to the Queen, and read resolutions agreed I FRIDAY. ts at a public ineeting in Sunderland, in DIVIDENDS, favour of the ;repeal of the navigation laws, stated ' At the Court, Basinghall-street. that Captain Grant and Captain Maynard had no G. Sandeman, York-street, Southwark, ironmonger, authority to ;present such a petition ; and that they, March 3, at eleven-I. Bass, jun., Ipswich, painter, therefore, repudiated the sentiments it contained. March 3, at twelve-W. Thomas, Catherine-street, Sr G. GREY said the resolutions were quite publisher, March 3, at two-R. Flatman ' Saxmundham, new to him. On Tuesday last a placard was sent to Suffolk, draper and grocer , March 3, at half-past eleven him, bearing the [name of Sir E. Smith, who had -W. Bristow, Marchmont-street, Brunswick-square, Jr March 24, at half-past eleven-J..F. Cork and taken an active part iu the matter, and setting J L de Carle New Bond-street, coach builders, March forth that it was the intention of one thousand men •L. ' 6, at half-past to come down to the Home Office. He wrote to In the Country. Commander Smith stating the Government could G . T. R o ll ason , Bi rm i ng h am, glass and china dealer, not encourage large processions in the public streets, March 14, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham-W. and that he could not accept it unless it were pre- I Stone, Matlock, Derbyshire, builder, March 3, at eleven, rented in the usual way. He afterwards received !at the Court, Nottingham-J. Hatield, jun., Southwell, a note from Captain Maynard, stating that Nottinghamshire, victualler, March 3, at eleven, at the a deputation on the subject of the Navigation Laws Court, Nottingham -J. Farmer, Brampton Bryan, would wait upon him on the following day ; and in Herefordshire, cattle dealer, March 4, at eleven, at the reply, he transmitted a copy of the letter he had sent Court, Birmingham-F. Smith, Manchester, Lancashire, n ii i i l n e k st eLper k M i tr l c e h lo i,ii t n tw t e o l n ve, to Commander Smith. On the following day a de- tCour n t d ta an n: putation, accompanied by the Honourable Member for chester, cotton manufacturer March Lancashire, 'March7, at a twelve, at South Shields (Mr. Round) waited upon him. He the Court, Manchester. I inquired if any persons had congregated in White- PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. hall, and found that there were none but the ordinary I W. Sykes, Old and New Catherine-wheel-yards, passengers. He received the memorial, and had had I Bishopsgate street, and Saville-place, Mile-end, carrier, the honour of laying it before her'Majesty. 155., on Wednesday, Feb. 9. and two following Wednes- INCOME OF THE SEE OF CANTERBURY. I days, between ten and two, at the office of Mr. Tur (mend, Guildhall-chambers Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, his Hon. Friend 'E. S. Meyer and T. G. City. B. Smith, Bedford-street, (Mr. Horsman) gave him noteice on Monday that he Covent-garden, fringe manufacturers, 4s. 10d., on Wed intended to ask a question with respect to the 1 nesday, Feb. S, and two following Wednesdays,lbetween I ten:and two, at the office of Mr. Turquand, Guildhall future income of the See of Canterbury. chambers, City. In doing so, he said, that he was not G. Purton, Longfleet, Poole, innkeeper, 6s. Bd., on satisfied with the present mode of fixing the in- Wednesday, Feb. 9, and two following Wednesdays, b . a n w il e d eL . T h a am nd be t r w s two, the office of Mr. Turtsuand, comes of Right Reverend Prelates, and that he should propose that the income of an y. y future S. E. Toms, Bow-churchyard, Cheapside, commission Archbishop should be considered liable to any agent, td., on Tuesday, Feb. 29, or any subsequent alteration :which Parliament might think proper Tuesday, between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. to make with respect to these incomes. The T. Crosfield, Kirkham, Lancashire, linendraper and Hon. Gentleman referred to the Instance of the spirit merchant, 55., on Tuesday, Feb. 22, or any sub see of Durham-he believed he might have referred to sequent Tuesday, between eleven and one, at the office other instances in which a similar arrangement pre- of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. G. Frost, Leadenhall-street, cutler, 4s. 3d., on any veiled. In reply to the Honourable Gentleman Wednesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. he had to state, that he entirely concurred in Graham, Coleman-street, City. seed,ancl J. and guano Wellington-chambers, mernhants6 Southwark, eia his opinion that the present mode of fixing the in- J• comes was not satisfactory.-(Hear, hear.) That he between ), eleven and two, at the offic o e n o a f ny Mr. Graha m , Y thought Parliament might make a better arrange- Coleman -street, City. ment with regard to the mode of payment adopted C. L. Roberts, Manchester, and New York, merchant, by the Commissioners, and that he thought it was per- 2s. 6d., on Tuesday, Feb. 15, and following Tuesdays, at fectly just that the future Archbishop of Canterbury the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. ought to be subject to any arrangement that might be J. Dixon, Carlisle, grocer and butcher, Is. id., on made. His salary was fixed at 15,0001. per annumby the Saturday, Feb. 12, or any subsequent Saturday, between Ecclesiastical Commissioners. It was not proposed ten and three, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle to make any alteration in that sum. upon-Tyne. Mr. HORSMAN stated that the statement of the 1). Hague, Horsforth, Yorkshire, paper manufacturer, Noble Lord was quite satisfactory to him. ls. ljd., on Tuesday, Feb. 15, or any subsequent Tues day, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stans- RYDE ELECTION COMMITTEE. feld, Leeds. The SPEAKER informed the House that the J. Morris, Walsall, Staffordshire, saddlers' ironmonger, Examiner of Recognizances had informed him 75., on any Tuesday, between eleven and three, at the that the sureties in the case of the petition against the office of Mr. Whitmore, Birmingham. election of Ryde had been found unobjectionable. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. NEW PALACE AT WESTMINSTER. At the Court, Basinghall street. Sir R. 11. INGLIS wished to make a request to Ann Collyer, Stoke Hammond, Buckinghamshire, the Hon. Member for Middlesex with respect to his cowkeeper, March 3, at half-past eleven-A. Anderson, motion on the subject of the new Palace, and to put Great one - 1r slZtle pianoforte maker, cit M no a m rc na h is 3 s , io at off bringing it before the House until he (Sir R. agent, March 6, at half-past one -T. T. ( y );pwood, Bear n - Inglis) moved for the appointment of a Committee to street,.Leicester-square, coach currier, March fi, at one inquire into the subject, nothing whatever would be R. Shakespeare, Banbury, Oxfordshire, tailor, March 4, lost by the adoption of such a course. at half past twelve-J. Edw ar d s , Upp er Stamford-street, Mr. B. OSBORNE declined to accede to the pro- Blackfriars ' corn merchant, March 3, at twelve-C. position of the Right Hon. Baronet. He felt it his Stevenson, Howley-place, Paddington, builder, March 3, duty to bring forward the subject without delay. at half-pastieleven-J. Clark and E. Goslin, North-end, NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT BILL. Fulham, maltsters, March 7, at two-W. B. Barton, On the order of the day for going into Committee Davies street, Oxford-street, oil and colourman, March on this Bill, 10, at eleven-R. M. Joslin, Stanbourne, Essex, cattle dealer, March 7, at half-past eleven-P. Pattison, Corn- Al r. B. OSBORNE rose, persuant to his motion, at eleven. hill, tailor, March 7, to call the attention of the House to the progress of In the Country. the New Palace. He was fully aware of the incon- F. C. Husenbeth, St. Nicholas, Bristol, wine merchant, venience of the present mode of so doing, It was a March 9, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol-H. M. Brown, course not desirable upon an ordinary occasion.- Sheffield, merchant, March 3, at ten, at the Court Shef (Cheers.) His estimate of the proper conduct of a field-C..Gream, Painswick, Gloucestershire, scrivener, Member of that House was, that he ought not only March 13, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol-T. Creswell, to be careful in voting the supplies, but that he Twining, Gloucestershire, butcher, March 7, at half-put ought also to exercise a supervison over the sup- twelve, at the Court, Bristol-T. Westall, Manchester, plies which he voted. When they called to auctioneer, March 3, at eleven, at the Court, Manchu 7ney, t ß t u h r e slep, Staffordshire, h draper, mind the enormous sums which had been already tera-rnG.. I l i i a r r t n , h M 6 a n a c t es Manc h ester - a M t March 6, P a . t t welve, voted-far above the amount of the original estimate, S nnot, Liver w po e oT, e, m a erchant,.t the and when they took into consideration the compare- Court, Y Liverpool-M.:Archer and T. Halsall, e leven,Liv erpool, tively slow pregress of the building, he thought he joiners, March 7, at twelve, at the Court, Liverpool-J. should not at least be accused of undue pre- Law, Birkenhead, bookseller, March 7, at eleven, at the sumption, if he called the attention of the Court, Liverpool-W. Fitzpatrick and W. Tew, Wal- House for a short time to the subject.-(Hear, sail, Staffordshire, brick makers, March 4, at eleven, at hear.) The Noble Lord at the head of the the Court, Birmingham-A. Alsop, of Bonsall, Derby- Woods and Forests had said on a former occasion shire, lead merchant, March 3, at twelve, at the Court, that they could not exercise any control over the Nottingham. proceedings, he (Mr. Osborne) thought that this was At the Court of Review, March 3. one reason why the House ought to take the matter J. White, St. Benet's-place, Gracechurch-street, wine merchant -H. D. Lockman, Hulme, Lancashire, into their own hands. The aphorism that "what hosier-R. Thomas, Bridgewater, Somersetshire, coal was everybody's business was done by no- merchant- J. Cramond, Lime-street, City, agent body" was never more forcibly seen than in 0. Evans, Ulster-place, Regent's-park, surgeon. the case of these new houses of Parliament. The PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED House of Commons voted the supplies, the Treasury W. Kingham and J. Jenson, Barbican, City, varnish issued the money, the Woods and Forests drew the manufacturers-E.Ambler and H. Tammadge, Compton cheques for the contractors, but none of these three street, Clerkenwell, bookbinders-J. Ludlow and B. bodies seem to have the power to exercicise Baylis, Birmingham, land surveyors-W. Goward and the slightest crntrol over the building. He D. Sharp, Colnbrook, Buckinghawshire, and Harlington, l A lidd t lesex f,.v omnib l us . proprietors l - G. Bowers and J. was not making any attack or charge against and A. engineers -C}. G W Mr. Baring, for he did not think Mr. Baring was Durham, fire brick much much to blame when he said that House was to eager manufacturers-D. :Midgeley, C. Lomax, J. Lomax, and to vote money without taking steps to have a control J. Lord, Farnhill, Lancashire, coal proprietors, (so far over its expenditure. He must now crave the indul- as regards the said D. Midgley)-G. Baker and J. For gence of the House for a few minutes while he went dred, Maidstone, linen drapers - J . . Thomas and R. into a few details in connection with the building. In Hemstock, Manchester, mercers-J. P. Steains,R. Tan -1836 there was a joint Committee of both Houses of tier, and S. Bateman, Manchester, wholesale teadealers- Parliament appointed to consider Mr. Barry's estimates, J. Motteram and T. Knowles, Birmingham, attorneys and the estimate that gentleman delivered to this Corn- Ss Simco and J. Simco, Tunbridge-wells, Kent, mittee amounted to 111,00041. Mr. Barry, when he drapers-j. Barbour and J. P. Duff, Liverpool, delivered this estimate voluntarily informed the Corn commission v agents d - J. Bullough, J. Fish, and R. mittee that it would take him six years to complete the manufacturers ts 4n,S to n e ( b s r o t fa g r e , as regards Lancashire, te s t i l l power-loom r -lo Bullough)--- building. Well, then, how stood the matter now ? J. Griffiths and J. H. Grifths, Hereford, attorneys- C IV hy, in 1848, there had been expended upon the G. G. Hougton, T. C. Burnett, and W. Houghton, Mark work nearlys 1,401,0361., and while instead of their in- lane, City, merchants-M. Hart and Eliaabeth Hart, habiting the House of Commons they were Kelsall, Cheshire, drapers-H. Engell, L. Lowenthal, as far off that point as they were in 1836, and J. Lowenthal, Huddersfield, woolstaplers (so far as indeed some people supposed that the new regards the said J. Lowenthal)-C. Birch and W. House of Commons was an imaginary creation e e r r e a r r , d Sheffield, a 3. saw man ufacturers Woodhousegfeerisil, B i a l n s tr J. Staffordshire,Caterer, coal masters-Mary -a Mrs. Harris sort of building.-(Laughter.) In ...... J. Whaley, F. S. G the year 1839 there was a roving commission of Mackerfield, Liverpool, and Manchester, coalma ' ster ee ' il geologists appointed, who went through England miners (so far as regards the said B. Wagtail) W. Taylor and J. Townend, Milnsbridge, Yorkshire, wool and Wales to examine into the different qualities of stone best adapted for the purposes of this building, len yarn spinners -R. Hutchinson and J. Whitehead, the expense of which c o mmission amounted to Rochdale, woolstaplers-J. Hunter and J. Edwards, 4,9021. Bs. 11 d. Now he wanted to know how it was Cornhill, chronometer makers-J. Matthews and J. L. this charge had been accumulating ever since. In- M`Rae, Arthur -street West, City, attorneys-S. Cleaver, deed he, for one, could not see what necessity there H. Watson, and J. Cleaver, Pimlico, Sittingbourne, could have been for the appointment of such Kent, and Harwich, cement manufacturers-M. Mar a cammission, for he was informed that the shall and D. Denson, Leeds, tailors-H. Spink and D. stone which had been employed on the M. Spink, Kingston-upon-Bull, house painters. building was anything but adapted to the INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. Bartholomew Smith, Mirfield, Yorkshire, tanner. purposes, or calculated to withstand the attacks of the William Hanson, Batley, Yorkshire, dyer. weather.-(Hear, hear.) In 1 841 a Committee was M ar k Brooke, Batley, Yorkshire, labourer.' . appointed to estimate the expense of ventilating and William Makepeace, Stroud, Kent, stationer. warming the new House of Commons, when Charles J. Thompson, Stafford, cabinet maker. it appeared that Dr. Reid estimated the James Osborne, East-hill, Staffordshire, farmer. expense at 86,000/. The Committee sane- William Cleaver, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, tioned the expenditure. But here we must stop tailor. to make a remark upon the delay that had taken John Allen, Rugeley, Staffordshire, assistant hairdresser. place in the progress of the mill. It could not SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. J Herdman, Edinburgh, baker, to meet within Ste it said that Dr. Reid's operations were the cause of venson's Rooms, Edinburgh, Feb. 17 and March 16, at it, for, to a question asked by the Noble Lord, the twelve. present Secretary of the Colonies, who was a mem- W. Hamilton, Lounsdale, Paisley, bleacher, to meet ber of the Ventilating Committee. Mr. Barry within the Saracen's Head Inn, Paisley, Feb. 18 and himself stated the ventilating operations would March 17, at one. cause no delay in the progress of the works, W. Bowie, Falkirk, grocer and spirit dealer, to meet They would have thought that that expense for warm- within the Crown Inn, Falkirk, Feb. 16 and March 8, ing the House and fire-proofing would have concluded at one. the outlay in that respect ; but no such thing. D. Robertson, Aberdeen, ship and insurance broker, They had already expended upwards of to meet within the L e m o n T ree T avern , Ab er d een , F e b. 1 96,000/. in experiments for warming the 17 1 and March 9, at twelve. . G. L. Meason, Edinburgh, insurance broker, to ventilating, and they had no security that they would meet within Stevenson's Sale Rooms, Feb. 17 and March not have another 96,0001. expended upon it. The 17, at two. truth was, that so much money had been el:pc:ldea A. APLaren, Glasgow, fish curer and provision mer under what was called the general authority which it chant, to meet within the Eagle Inn, Glasgow, Feb. 16 was said had been given to the architect and Dr. Reed and March 10, at twelve. that without it was high time that the House J. Macarthur, Glasgow, merchant, to meet within should know what that generals authority was, Comrie's Hotel, Glasgow, Feb. 15 and March 7, at in order that they might circumscribe it or put an twelve. end to it, as they thought fit. He thought .C. Robertson, Porthill an d G a ll owgate, Ab erdeen, also that it was high time that the squables Lemon ch Tree Tavern, Aberd een , F e b. 1 6 an d M arc h 10, Barry, glass, and stonewar e merc h ant , to meet w i th i n the that had been going on between Dr. Read and Mr. Barry, which had delayed the construction of the at twelve. whole building for upwards of nine months, should be put a stop to.-(Cries of " Hear.") He was no partisan of either ; but he thought that if those squabbles continued it was the duty of the House to step in and send both those Gentlemen to the right about, in order to put an end end to it.-(Cries of " Hear, hear.") He hoped that affairs had now reached that elimax that the Noble Lord at the head of the Woods and Forests would interfere, and if he did not that the House would-(Hear, hear, and cheers)-as he was sure unless the House took steps to show the architect and Dr. Reid what were their true places. They would never get wholly new Houses of Par liament.-(Hear, hear.) The House, he had no doubt, would hardly credit his statement, when he said that upwards of 86,0001. had been expended for official residences. In 1842 the Speaker thought it Sight to call the attention of Lord Lincoln to the ne. essity of providing a new residence for the first clerk (LEFT SPEAKING.) 0 SINGULAR BIRTH.--On Tuesday last a heifer in the possession of Mr. Smith, farmer, of the Cross Acres, Northern Eccles, gave birth to three full sized calves. The first was a milk white bull calf, the second a rad and white cow calf, and the third a milk white bull calf. Th• whole were brought forth in the space of an hour, and are hearty and well.—Stockport Mercury. BIRTHS. On the 27th ult., at Naples, the lady of Richard Turin, Esq., of a soi. •n the Bth inst., at Upper Tooting, the lady of Jame. Hamilton O'Beirne, Esq., of a daughter. On the 9th inst., at Ballechin Hone, Perthshire, the lady of Captain R. Scott, of a son. On the 10th inst., in Park-village East, Regent's-park, the wife of the Rev. B. Webb, of a son, - still-born. On the 10th inst., at Addington -place, Camberwell, the wife of Robert Jaques, Esq., of a daughter. On the 11th inst., in the Boundary-road. St. John's-wood park, Mrs. Henry Blake, of a daughter. On the llth inst., at Park-road, Stockwell, the wife of A. Scott, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the 10th i ns t., at Trinity Church, Marylebons, Mon tague David, second son of Sir David Scott, Bart., K. 11., t. Margaret, only daughter of the late James Briggs, Esq. DIED. cia the 10th inst., at Avisford, near Arundel, Lieut.- General Sir Thomas Reynell, Bart., 1LC.8., Colonel of the 71st Regiment Highland Light Infantry. On the 11th inst., at the Rectory, Bread-street-hill, Joh* Valentine, infant son of the Rev. J. V. Austin. On the 11th inst., in the Haymarket, Emma Jane, the wife of Henry Hemming. At Wellington-street — , Islington, Mr. F. H. Groom, aged 63. 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