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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1835. shown that the error was merely clerical; but the assertion Put him in mind 'of an Irish witness, who said that he had een employed to prove an alibi in a case by swearing that potatoes were wheat.—(A laugh.) After a few words from Lord F. Egerton, Mr. Ronayne, Mr. Freshfield, and Mr. O'Loughlin, the House divided, when the numbers were— For the motion Against it lO3 Majority -27 LONDON UNIVERSITY. Mr. TOOKE rose to move an Address to his Majesty, be seeching him to grant his Royal Charter of Incorporation to the University 'of London, as approved in the year 1831 by the then law officers of the Crown, and containing no other restric tion than against conferring degrees in divinity and medicine. Before he proceeded, however, he begged to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite whether it was the intention of his Majesty's Government to oppose his motion ? Mr. Secretary GOULBURN said that it was his intention to move an amendment upon it. Mr. TOOKE observed that although he certainly was not in a condition to claim from the Right Hon. Gentleman at the present moment an explanation of the nature of,his proposed amendment, yet that perhaps the Right Hon. Gentleman would have the goodness to state generally what it would be. Mr. Secretary GOULBURN replied that it was not,usual to describe an amendment to a motion before the introducer of that motion had stated the grounds on which he brought it forward. He had no objection, however, to say that his amendment would be in the shape of an Address to the King, praying that his Majesty would be graciously pleased to order that there be laid before the. House copies of the memorials which had been presented to the King in Council, against granting the proposed charter to the University of London, and of the proceedings which had taken place before the Privy Council in consequence. Mr. TOOKE remarked that with respect to the memorials Which had been presented against the granting of the charter, he could describe them-in a few minutes • and that with re spect to the proceedings which had taken place before the Privy Council, the return to an address for a copy of them would be a sheet of blank paper. The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to state the grounds on which his motion was founded. The first was the great increase of the University in numbers, wealth, and respectability. It ranked among its warm supporters many persons strongly attached to the Church of England, as well as members of other religious persuasions. The charter which it was proposed to grant, had, in 1831, re ceived the sanction and approbation of the Attorney and the Solicitor-General of that period; and went through all the official forms that were necessary previous to its being confer red. In 1833, memorials from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge were presented to the King in Council, against granting a charter to the University of London. Other memorials had been presented from the College of Physicians and from some of the medical schools. In order to obviate the objections which were advanced by these dif ferent bodies, it was determined by the friends of the University of London to waive all claim on the part of that institution, to grant degrees in. medicine, and to ask only to be empowered to grant degrees in arts and law, with the same initials as in the oilier Universities. With respect to the proceedings which had taken place before the Privy Council, in consequence of the memorials to which he bad adverted, they would be much more satisfactorily de'scribed to the House by his Hon. awl Learned Friend, the Member for the Tower Hamlets, than they could be by himself. He would merely state, therefore, that after the fullest hearing had taken place before the Privy Council, in April.lB34, no decision upon the subject was,enterecl on the minutes of the Council. It had been asserted, that the University was a joint-stock company It certainly was not so in the ordinary sense of the term ; as the dividends upon the capital were strictly confined to four per cent. There were four hundred pupils at present in the University, and its medical board and medical staff could not be surpassed in any institution in the country. Almost every capital city in Europe had its char tered University, and there could he no good reason why Lon don should be without one. The Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving the Address to 'his Majesty. Mr. Secretary GOULBP RN said lie would state very shortly the reason which induced him to propose an amend ment to the Hon. GentlemanViotion, it not being his inten tion by any means to go into the general question. What was the proposition of the lion. Gentleman ? That the House, in the absence of all information on the subject, should address the Crown to confer a charter on the University of London, with no other restrictions than those specified in the motion itself. The Hon. Member for Truro brought this question forward in the last session of Parliitnent ; but on the recom mendation of the Noble Lord, who was then Chancellor of the Exchequer : to forbear, and to leave the matter to the conside ration of the responsible advisers of the Crown, he had been induced to withdraw his motion. That consideration he (Mr. .Goulburn) understood the subject had received. It was re ferred to the Privy Council ; the parties likely to be injured by the granting of the charter had there beer, heard against the proceeding ; nothing had been decided by the Privy Council respecting it; and now the Hon. Gentleman again came for ward, and called upon the House, without the production of the objections that had been stated before the Privy Coun cil—without any knowledge of the reasons Abet had pre vented the charter from being granted, to address the Crown cu a point which was an exercise of the prerogative, and to ask for that which should be a spontaneous emanation from the Crown itself. He repeated that it was not neces sary for Not to go into any details of the merits of the Uni versity on to present occasion. He hoped the Hon. Member would, as he load done in the last session, withdraw his motion, and acquiesce id the amendment which he (Mr. Goulburn) felt it his duty to ri nstre—namely, that a humble Address be presented to his MajestY, praying that he would be graciously pleased to order that thee be laid before the House a copy of the Memorials which been presented to the King in Council against the conferring' of a charter on the University of London, and of the procces 4 ings which had taken place before the Privy Council with referCuce to those memorials.— ( Loud cries of " Divide, divide !") Sir ROBERT INGLIS hoped the Llonse would not ac cede to the proposition of the Hon. Membe7 for Truro. It was quite unnecessary on the present occasion !(:) enter into any-consideration of the merits of the University of London; and he was anxious not to say a single word tbat'could 1 . ):" con sidered disrespectful towards that body. But he agreed en tirely in ' opinion with his Right Hon. Friend, who had just moved the amendment. - In the first place, the motion was in some respects, if. not- entirely, an infringement of the pre rogative of the Crown.—(Hear; hear.) He knew that such doctrine, unpopular at all times, was peculiarly so at the present moment ; but, nevertheless, it was one which he should continue to - maintain. In no conceivable case could the claims of the University of London be more favourably considered than they were last year. If, therefore, when the persons who were most interested in the prosperity of the University, and who gave all the aid of their talents and in fluence in its favour, had, nevertheless, not proceeded to ad vise the King to grant a charter to that University, it was surely a proof that the circumstances attendant upon the claim for such a charter were not such as would justify the House at the present moment in adopting the proposition of the Hon. Member for Truro. That proposition was quite inconsistent with the declarations six years ago of the Noble and Learned Lord, one of the principal founders of the Institution, who was at that time a Member of that House, and who disclaimed all intention of requiring the right of conferring degrees. Mr. TOOKE observed that the Hon. Baronet was proceed ing on an assumption which had no foundation in fact. - Sir ROBERT INGLIS said that if the Hon. Member for Truro was disposed to throw overboard the declarations of Mr. Brougham, who could tell but that six years hence some one would repudiate the statements of the Hon. Member for Truro, and contend that the power of the University to grant degrees should not be confined to arts and law, but should be exten:led to medicine and divinity ? Once let the small end of the wedge be inserted, and it would soon be driven, home. There was another consideration, the general application of which, he apprehended, the Hon. Member for Truro would admit ; namely, that the real value of the examinations upon which degrees were conferred at the University of Oxford or Cam bridge, arose from their not being examinations by tutors, but by men selected from the great body of the University, and whose decisions therefore were wholly free from partiality or bias. When time had shown that the degrees conferred by the University of London were of value, the letters indicating them would be treated with es much respect as those indicating the degrees taken at the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge ; but it was not fair for a new institution to take the letters indi cating the degrees conferred by the old institutions, whose reputation, acquired in the course of ages, gave them value. They must recollect, also, in this particular case, that the shares of the University of London were to be bought and sold like shares in a Gas or Water Company ; so that that there was no saying into whose hands they might not, at some time or the other, fall. Witk respect to the concession made by the Hon. Mover, that the London University should not confer degrees in divinity, it was one of little value. This discussion having come on rather unexpectedly, he had only been able to consult a paper of the year 1831 ; but by that it appeared that whilst 268 degrees of B. A., and 168 of M. A., were conferred at Oxford in that year, only 12 degrees were conferred in divinity, and he dared to say that the proportion was not higher at Cambridge. The Hon. Member for Truro conceded that, therefore, which was valueless to the Universi ties, but retained all that could yield substantial benefit. He should, upon all these grounds, oppose the motion. Dr. LUSHINGTON—If the memorials and proceedings laid. before the Privy Council contained anything to give validity to the observations of the Right Hon. Secretary for the Hcme .Department, no doubt they would be laid before the House ; but had there been anything in them that should induce the House to suspend its judgment, it could not be doubted that it would have been urged by the Hon. Baronet the Member for the University of Oxford, who had just spoken. To that Right Hon. Baronet he would say, as also to all who wished with hint to exclude the Dissenters from Oxford and Cambridge, that in proportion to their desire to shut them out from those great schools of learning ought to be tteir anxiety to thro w o p en w id e th e p or t a l s o f o th er Institutions, in which they might, as far as possible, obtain the same facilities for acquiring knowledge.—(Cheers.) The lion. Baronet and his friends might depend upon it that it would be no disadvantage to the Universities of Cambridge 'and Oxford to allow another institution to compete with them in the race. Excellence in degrees of learning was best ob tained, as in other objects of human desire and exertion, by competition.—( Hear, hear, hear.) It had been urged that a degree conferred at the London University would be obtained without religious education. This was hardly a fair represen tation of the case, for although degrees obtained at the Lon don 'University would not be, as they were at the ?ther uni versities, a test of education in the established religion,it did 'not ram that it was a principle cf the University . of London t,o throw religious education entirely out of the question. Instruction in a particular form of religion it was not insisted the students should receive ; but they were left to be placed under the religious guidance of such instructors as their pa rents or guardians might select in their own homes. With respect to this question being still sub judice, he had been in formed that the late Government had no objection to granting this charter ; but circumstances had prevented the Privy Council giving its decision upon the memorials sent to them. If there was anything which could more conduce to the wel fare of the kingdom than another, which would lead more to check crime and advance virtue, it was the cultivation of those talents with which the Almighty had endowed man—and which it clearly could not be the intention of this great Bestower should remain uncultivated—to the highest extent-4 Hear) — and it was the bounden duty of every Government to afford every facility for the attainment of that object.—( Cheers.) Lord FRANCIS EGERTON said, that as he intended to vote for the amendment of his Right Hon. Friend, he was anxious to guard himself against the supposition of being dis posed to quash the proposition of the Hon. Member for Truro. Entertaining the highest respect for the Hon. Baronet the Member for the University of Oxford, he must confess, that if he had to judge of this question by the speech delivered by him compared with that just delivered by the Hon. and Learned Member for the Tower Hamlets, he must vote with the latter. In fact, he did not apprehend those dangers and inconveniences which had been so much dwelt upon by the Hon. Baronet, nor did he think that the interests of sound education would suffer from the incorporation of the University of London. He could not forget, however, that acceding to the motion would, in effect, be to found a Dissenting University. He confessed that he was unfortunate to entertain scruples—he said unfor tunate, because he considered k a misfortune—to entertain scruples which he did not see any likelihood of being removed, to the admission of Dissenters to Oxford and Cambiidge ;_ and for this reason, he was disposed to countenance some central institution for the education of the Dissenters ; and he did not doubt, were such an one established, that their numbers and wealth would enable them, whilst their knowledge induced them, to give it greater support than,'as far as he could ascer tain, they had yet given to the University of London.— ( Hear, hear.) Wind, however, determined him to vote for the amendment, in preference to the original proposi tion was, that he had not sufficient information whereon to ground his opinion. It was the favourable feeling he entertained to the general proposition that made him anxious to obtain information to guide him in his course. As a sub. scribing member to the College, he could not now say that he even had information enough to induce him to consent to the exclusions the Hon. Mover was willing to make. Till he had further information, he was unwilling to decide that this insti tution had not qualifications for bestowing the very degrees the Hon. Member was willing to take from under its control. For this reason he should vote for the amendment. Mr. WARBURTON said, that although the Noble Lord had concluded by expressing his determination to vote for the amendment, he confessed, considering the views generally taken by the Hon. Gentlemen who now occupied the Treasury bench, and with whom the Noble Lord was associated, upon the subject of educatiOn, he had not heard the sentiments ex pressed by the Noble Lord without some feeling of mitigated satisfaction. It was true, that Noble Lord, in common with those with whom he acted, was determined to oppose the motion, but still his opposition had been expressed in terms infinitely more liberal than the House was accustomed to hear from the Treasury benches.--( Hear, hear.) He (Mr. War burton) would venture to affirm, that a similar proposition, made in behalf of such a body as that of the Londen University, would have been very differently treated by any Government that might have been in power 150 years ago. After the discussions that had already taken place upon the subject--after the course adopted with respect to it in the last cession of Parliament, he confessed he was sur prised to hear the objections that were now urged against the motion of the Honourable and Learned Member for Truro. It was asserted by the Hon. Gentleman opposite that the London University was a mere stock-jobbing concern, and that the professors and other parties interested in it, looked only to the amount of profit that might be derived from it. Never was an assertion made more completely destitute of foundation. The profits, if any, derived from the institution, were limited to four per cent--(Hear)—so that under any circumstances, it could not be regarded as a speculation into which parties would enter with a view to pecuniary profit. Yet it was constantly thrown in the teeth of those who came forward, to advocate its interests, and to endeavour to obtain for. it a charter, that it was a mere stock jobbing company, and that the only object in empowering it to confer degrees was to make it more profitable.--( Hear.) This was one of the chief grounds upon which the charter was objected to. Another ar gument used by the Hon. Gentlemen opposite was, that the report, if it were deemed of such importance, ought to have been more strongly pressed in the last session of Parliament, when the parties generally supposed to be most favour able to the London University were in power. ‘4 , Why." said the Honourable Gentleman, " did you not press the question under the former Administration ? " The answer was obvious : the parties then in power were generally favourable to the admission of Dissenters to the Univer sities of Oxford and Cambridge, and consequently the incorporation of the University of London was not deemed a matter of so much importance ; but now that the Government was composed of persons known to be directly hostile to the admission of Dissenters to the other Universities, it became paramountly necessary that no time should be lost in pressing the claims of the University of London.—( Hear.) If there were any thing in the argument that had been advanced, that the chief desire of the friends of the London University, in obtaining for it the power of conferring degrees, was to in crease its profitableness--if the sple motive were considered to be one of profit, the same argument would apply with equal force to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, because those Universities had throughout the whole of the discussions upon this subject been most anxious to main tain their monopoly of granting degrees in the arts and sciences. " Do not interfere with our monopoly in this respect," exclaimed they : " we do not care about degrees in divinity and medicine; but touch not our degrees in the arts—that is the source from which we derive our profit--that is tabooed ground—touch it not."—( Hear.) But if the Right Honourable Gentlemen opposite thought that the professors of the London University might have too great an interest in multiplying degrees, let them come for ward with a proposition to establish one general University for London, comprehending the King's College as well as the London University, and let them appoint a set of examiners of the pwn to determine upon the granting of degrees wholly indeperiAent of the professors of the two Colleges.—( Hear, hear.) Right Hon. Baronet, the Chancellor of the Exchequer woad pledge himself to adopt that course, he (Mr. Warburton) would withdraw his support to the propo sition now brought forward by the Hon. and Learned Member for Truro, but unless he had an assurance to that effect, lie should certainly recommend his Hon. and Learned friend to press his motion to a division. Mr. BARING addressed - the House, but was very im perfectly heard. We understood him to say, that not withstanding the sweeping charge of illiberality which the Honourable Member for Bridport had brought against the Bench upon which he (Mt . . Baring) had the honour to sit, he begged to remind the Honourable Member that he (Mr. Baring) was one of the earliest subscribers to the London University—(Hear)—and having been one of the earliest subscribers, he certainly was enabled to confirm one of the observations that had fallen from the lion. Mem ber. The idea of the University having been established with a view only to the profit of the subscribers, was wholly un founded.—( Hear, hear.) That the University of London should have the honour of conferring literary and academic honours was, no doubt, important ; but that it should have the honour of granting degrees in the same way as the Univer sities of Oxford and Cambridge, was a question that, in his opinion, ought to be most maturely considered. ,It was a question that had several times been brought before the House, and in what position did it now stand? It was brought forward when the Hon. Gentlemen opposite were in power—it was referred to the Privy Council, of which the great patron of the institution was a member—it was, of course, very maturely considered by them, yet, up to the removal of the late Ministers from office, no step had been taken upon the subject. Surely, then, it was fair for him (Mr. Baring) to presume that the late Govern ment had found some difficulty standing in their way which prevented them from immediately recommending the Crown to grant a charter of incorporation to the Uni versity ; and if such a difficulty interposed between the Members of the late Administration and the object to which they were all supposed to be favourable, surely it was not too much to say that the present Government ought to be al lowed to pause before such an address as that proposed by the Hon. Member for Truro were presented to the Crown.— (Hear.) At all events the House ought to know what took place before the Privy Council before it called upon the Crown to grant a Charter in precise and express terms. He (Mr. Baring) would suggest to the Gentlemen who sat upon the Liberal Benches—( A laugh)—whether the concession of this power to the London University, to the exclusion of the other schools in the metropolis, weuld not be to give it that very monopoly which they complained of in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Never having entertained the slightest hostility to the London University, he must still fairly confess that that part of it which had since grown up, and which was not contemplated by those by whom it was ori ginally established—he meant education unaccompanied with religious instruction—he could not approve of. The Right Hon. Gentleman concluded by expressing his determination to vote for the amendment moved by his Right Hon. Friend the Member for the University of Cambridge.—(Load cries of " Question," and " Divide.") The Gallery was partially cleared for a division, when— Sir ROBERT PEEL rose amidst loud cries of " divide, divide," and spoke as follows :—Sir, I take it for granted that the Gentlemen at the lower end of the House, who appear to be so anxious for an immediate division, are well acquainted with the nature of the motion upon which they are going to divide.--(" Hear, hear," and a laugh). I take it for granted that they have well weighed all the details of the charter upon which they are about to address the Crown—( Hear, hear) — and that therefore there is no further necessity for discussion on the subject.--(" Hear, hear," from the Ministerial side). For the benefit of those, however, who are not exactly aware of the nature of the proposal upon which they are about to pronounce an opinion, I will read the motion. It is for " An Address to his Majesty, beseeching him to grant his Royal Charter of Incorporation to the University of London, as ap proved in the year 1831 by the then Law Officers of the Crown, and containing no other restriction than against con ferring degrees in Divinity and in Medicine." Now, Sir I do say that no man who has not read th e proccediugs before the Privy Council is well qualified to place that restriction upon the act of the Crown in kranting a charter.---( Hear). I ask if the House of Commons is acquainted with the mea sure approved of by the Law Officers of the Crown in the year 1831 ? Is it right then that, as a matter of course, the House should come to a vote to grant a charter without at all weigh ing what the nature of that charter should be ?—( Hear). Will the House consent to this—that I should examine Hon. Mem bers as to the nature of this charter which they are about to vote for ?—( Hear, hear). Oat of the 350 or 400 gentlemen who will divide upon this question, I am to assume that they have ail sufficiently weighed the nature of such charter in all its details, and that it shall contain no other restriction than against conferring degrees in divinity and medicine.—( Hear, hear). It may be obvious that it is right to restrict the granting of degrees in divinity, but why restrict the right as to medicine ? Why address the Crown to exercise its . discretion in granting a charter, but limit-that discretion 'as to conferring the power of granting degrees in medicine ?—( Hear, hear.) I have in my hand an account of the state of the London University in the year 1833. In that year the number of students was 430. Of these 293 were students in medicine, 113 in the arts, and 74 in law. The House, therefore, is now called upon to ad dress the Crown to give the privilege of granting degrees to the 74 students in the law, and to the 113 in the arts; but to restrict the privilege as against the 297 students in medicine. —(Hear, hear.) This question was on a former occasion brought under the consideration of the House, and was subse quently referred to the Privy Council. Sir, I ask what course is to be pursued now ? Is the matter again to be referred to the Privy Council ? The Privy Council have made no report. Is the Crown to disparage its report, and to grant a charter without any reference to its proceedings ? That is the ques tion. The matter is now before the Privy Council. If this address be presented, is the Crown to exclude the Privy Council, or is the Crown to refer the matter to it again ? The Honourable Member for Bridport (Mr. Warburton) thinks there is a better course than the one proposed. If he is of opinion that there is a better course, why tray not the House of Commons take his advice? He thinks it would be better not to grant a charter to the London University, but to invite ether bodies, including King's College, to form one great University. Why, then, address the Crown to grant this charter? The Hon. Member said he was in the habit of hear ing opinions from gentlemen on this side of the House rather opposed to liberality. Mr. WARBURTON—I said in former times. Sir ROBERT PEEL—Does the Hon. Member mean during the last year ?—( Laughter and cheers from the Minis terial side.) lam not aware that I have given any opinion upon this matter, but I do know that .the-strongest opinions were given against it by those who occupied this side of the House in the late Session of Parliament.—( Hear, hear.) The matter was referred to the Privy Council last year, and it received the petitions of parties adverse to the object, or at least so far adverse as to require that any charter should be accompanied by certain conditions. The Privy Council heard speeches--one from Sir Charles Wetherell, and one from the Hon. and Learned Member opposite (Dr. Lushing ton). The Privy Council have never yet given an opinion.— ( Hear, hear, from Mr. Tooke.) The Hon. Gentleman says " Hear, hear," but I only answer that it has not been from gentleman now on this side of the House, that any obstruction has arisen.—( Hear, hear.) I know well that the gentlemen who last year occupied these benches were not indifferent to education, but I can easily imagine that they had some good and valid reason for not advising his Majesty to grant the charter.--( Hear.) Lord Brougham was one of that Privy Council, the Archbishop of Canterbury was another.—( Hear, from the Opposition.) Sir, is every matter of this, kind to be so received by the House ? Is it to be that one cannot even read a name without exciting a cheer from one side of the House or the other. The other names were those of the Arch bishop of York, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Ripon, Earl Grey, the Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Eldon.—(" Hear, hear," from the Opposition)—the Earl of Carlisle. Sir, there ought to be a groan, I must say, from this side of the House. The other names were—Lord J. Russell—( Loud cheers from the Opposition side)—the Bishop of London, Lord Holland, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Denman, Chief Justice Tvndal, Lord Stanley, and Lord Melbotirne. The Privy Council gave the greatest attention to the question. It met on the 26th of April, and on the 3d of May. The late Administration did not quit office until the 15th of November. 'iley had heard the speeches of Counsel, which did justice to the subject, in length as well as ability, and after all they took no step up to the 15th of November, when they left office, which it is to he presumed would not have been the case if they were not satisfied that great difficulties intervened, either legal or •:..onstitutional.—( Hear.) Be this as it may, I ask what is the Crown now to do? Is it to refer the matter again to the Privy Council?—(" No, no," we believe from Mr. Tooke.) It is not to refer it again. Mr. TOOKE—I rise to explain. The Right Hon. Baronet alluded to the report of the Law Officers of the Crown. I am hardly aware of the charter it recommends, for it was only printed to-day, and imperfectly circulated. It contains the form of a charter to be issued on the report of the Attorndy and Solicitor General. It received the approval of the Privy Council. and had passed through the offices of the Privy Seal and the Signet, and had received the sign manual of his Majesty. Sir R. PEEL—Then, Sir, I put the Hon. Gentleman out of Court at once. He says the report has been only im perfectly circulated this day.—( Hear.) Was there ever such a farce of legislation?—("Hear, hear," from the Ministerial benches.) Has there ever been such a mockery of our pro ceedings.—( Hear.) Mr. TOOK E—l am not fairly dealt with by the Right Hon. Baronet. Sir R. PEEL--I am sorry if I misunderstood the Hon. Gentleman. I understood him to say that it was only to-day, that the report was circulated. What, however, is the proposal made by my right Hon. Friend Mr. Goulhurn ? His amend ment is that an address should be presented to the Crown, pray ing that directions should be given to lay before the House copies of the memorial and proceedings had before the Privy Council. The House having those documents before them would be then placed in a situation to enable them to ascertain the most proper course to he pursued.—(Hear.) The Hon. Gentleman says that he will press the motion to a divi sion, unless I give him an assurance that a'Still more extended proceeding than the one proposed will be adopted by the Government. Sir, I will not give any such assurance for the purpose of escaping a temporary difficultye-4 Cheers from the Ministerial side.) If the House think it decorous to present an address to the Crown, praying for the grant of a charter to the University of London, and to do so in accordance with the opinions given by the law officers in 1831—if they are pre pared to decide the question upon grounds which will e7:clude students of medicine from the advantages to be bestowed upon others, let them do so, upon their own responsibility, without any interposition of mine.—( Hear.) But I think such a course is unreasonable. The course which I would recommend, and the course which, in my judgment, W o uld be the reasonable one, is to call for the Memorial to the Crown ; and the proceedings had before the Privy Council. This would not prejudice our after proceedings; and, having obtained them, you will be the better enabled to judge wh a t would be the just and reasonable ground to pursue.--( Hear, hear.) Feeling this objection to the present proceeding to be well founded. I will say upon this. as I have said upon former, and as I am prepared to say upon any similar occasions, that I s h ou ld ra th e r be in a minority — throwing the responsibility of an unjust and unwise proceeding upon the majority, than acquiesce in any proceeding: for the purpose of escaping from an occasional and temporary difficulty. —(Cheers.) It is not in my judgment fair for the House of Commons to present this address.—( Hear.) It will not faci litate the object of the Hon. Member by whom it has been moved. Of this I am convinced by all my past experience— ( Hear, hear,)—and while I refuse to 'pledge myself to the adoption of any specific line of conduct on this question, I have no hesitation in saying, that I do feel that the position of that portion of his Majesty's subjects who do not conform to the Church of England, and who in co nseq Ue nce of refusing to take certain religious tests are excluded from University de grees—l do feel that their position is one that requires the maturest consideration, and that their claim is certainly not unfounded. But I am not prepared to give any opinion upon the precise course that should be adopted; nor am I.—( Cheers from the Opposition.) No, I will not endeavour to en trap this House into withholding their consent to the motion of the Hon. Member. by any declaration of the line of policy which I should think it expedient to pursue.—( Hear, hear.) Let the House take its own course, and while I do not mean to interfere with that course, I think it but right to say that I have no objection to the adoption of some course which may obviate the exclusion of Dissenters from academical honours. —( Cheers). I apprehend the opposition of the Universities is not to the granting of degrees, but to the assumption of titles, which may be confounded with their own.—(" Hear, hear," fiom the Ministerial benches ) [The Right Hon. Baronet here made some observation, in reply to a question across the table, neither of which were audible in the gallery.] He resumed—l hope I h a v e d ea lt w i t h t h e H ouse f a i r l y an d eandidly.—( . Hear, hear.) I make no pledge—l give no assur ance upon this subject. The motion is. I think, unreasonable, while the amendment is reasonable ; and, therefore, do I prefer the latter to the former. The Right Hon. Baronet concluded h . y reminding th e H ouse , t h at t h e i r d ec i s i on would carr y with it much greater weight and authority if they would condescend before they came to a vote, t o cons id er th a t i n f ormat i on wh i c h was within thew reach, and witho u t w hi c h it wou ld b e diffi cu l t , if not impossible, for th em to legislate efficiently. They s h ou ld bear in mind, too, that the Hon. Member for Bildport had told them that some more extensive measure would be desirable than one which, out of 480 Members, excluded 293 from ad vantages proposed to be conferred upon the remaining 187. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that w h en t h e Right Hon. Baronet acknowledged that the clai ms o f the Dissenters to ad mission to Universities were well grounded, and when he said that those who did not conform to the Church of England should have an opportunity of obtaining academical honours, lie (Lord J. Russell) wished that the Right Hon. Baronet had, at the same time, pointed out some way in whi c h t h e House could have expressed its acquiescen ce i n hi s op i nion. But while he allowed the justice of the claini under consider ation, he did not point out any mode by which it could be sa tisfied. The Right Honourable Baronet c ou ld not say that the motion " took him by surprise."—(A laugh.) The notice was sufficiently long before the House, and ti me enoug h ha d been afforded for the production of the memorial. If it were the opinion of the Right Honourable Baronet that some better, some more enlarged course should have been ad o pt e d, h e h a d bad full time for taking the matter into consideration, and for developing the plan which he should recommend the Go vernment to adopt. The present position of the case was this t—The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge having opposed the admission of Dissenters, and havin g succee d e d in making that opposition effective in the other House of Parliament, they then stood forward and said in effect— " We will not only . exclude you from the honours and advantages of academical . education in our est a bli s h ments , but seeing another establishment founded at an ex pense of 160,000/. which is capable of affording all the ad vantages of education, we:shall oppose your receiving honours and degrees there also." That was a grieva nce w hi ch cer tainly ought to be remedied. But he had heard from the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite, that what the Universities opposed was the conferring upon Dissenters the degree of Master of Arts (as we understood the Noble Lord). These were the accustomed titles by which University honours were denominated ; and if they were otherwise called it would be a mark that the honour was not regularly obtained. The Right Hon. Gentlema n , th e P res id e nt o f th e Board of Trade, had re ferred to what had taken place before the Privy Council. He (Lord John Russell) was one of that Council, and he had heard the very able argumentts of' his Friend near him, and of others, who, on the part of the existing Universities, op posed the admission of Dissenters. There was a very grave objection urged, not so much on the part of the Universities as of the medical schools of London ; and it was shown, to the satisfaction of the Council, and that there were schools in Lon don that ought to be entitled to confer degrees if such a pri vilege were conceded to the University of London.—( Hear. ) The Member for Bridport had Laid that it would not be de sirable to give the London University the power of conferring medical degrees, and the objection which he (Lord J. Russell) had just stated was the principal ground of the proposed restric tion.—( Hear.) There was so much objection of this kind given that the Council had come to no decision. It had been urged that nothing had been done by the Council. He (Lord John Russell could say for his Noble and Learned Friend Lord Brougham that scarcely a fortnight passed in which he ( Lord John Russell) had not had had some communication with that Noble and Learned Lord on the subject of granting a charter to the London University, and on the possibility of counting that privilege with a similar one to being conferred upon King's College. While the Noble and Learned Lord was in Scotland, his mind had been very much occupied with that subject—(Laughter)—and he had written a very able and voluminous paper upon it.—( A laugh, and " Hear, hear.) It was in no wise derogatory to any man, no matter how exalted might be his station, to devote his time and talents far the promotion of science and knowledge ; and be could say of his Noble and Learned Friend, that no matter how he might be legally or politically occupied, he had ever given much of his attention to that subject. This case then came to this— the late Government, and more especially his Noble and Learned Friend Lord Brougham, had been incessantly occu pied in considering—first, whether it was possible to obtain the consent of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge to the admission of Dissenters to the taking of degrees; secondly, whether, failing that, it would be possible to obtain a charter for the London University to enable that establishment to confer degrees • and, thirdly, whether this privilege could also be extended to King's College. Such was the position and such were the views of the late Government ; but he did not see any disposition of that sort manifested by the present Government ; he did not see any prospect held out to the Dis senters of giving them the relief to whieh it was by all allowed they were entitled. In illustration of the necessity of adopt ing some such course as that recommended by the motion be fore the House he should only mention the name of one indivi dual, who, to be sure, was not endowed with any rich plu ralities, but who nevertheless did as much for the promotion of Christianity as any one who was. He spoke of Dr. Lard ner.—( Hear, hear.) A degree (an honorary degree, as we understood the Noble Lord) had been conferred upon that individual, who, upon obtaining this honour at the end of his life, it might be, observed that it could not but be agreeable to literary men to obtain honours of that kind. Men certainly should not he obliged to go to Scotland to look for such honours ; but there should be in England some establishment with the power of conferring them. The Noble Lord con cluded by saying that he too wished the Hon. Member had been in possession of the information, and of the papers ad vented to it in the course cf the debate ; but on looking at the question as it then stood before the House, and in the ab sence of all promise from the Right Hon. Baronet he did not hesitate to give his support to the motion of the Hon. Member.—( Cheers.) Mr. ESTC UR'F (amid loud cries of "Question') said his object in rising was to correct a misapprehension which ap peared to prevail during the entire of the debate. He hailed with satisfaction the observations of the Noble Lord, because they convinced him that the House would he unjustly treated if they were not put in possession of the proceedings before the Privy Council, before they were called upon to give their as sent to the motion of the Hon. Member opposite.—( Hear, hear.) It was supposed by some Gentlemen that the Univer sities of Oxford and Cambridge were hostile to the granting of a charter to the University of London, to enable that esta blishment to diffuse the advantages of education. Now the fact was not so.—(Laughter, and " Oh.") In reply ,to that cry he might.be allowed to refer to a passage from the petition of the University of Oxford. [The Hon Member here read a passage from the petition, in which it was stated that the petitioners did not by any means object to an institution founded for literary and scientific purposes; but they objected to their assuming the same titles in conferring honours in civil law and in arts.]—( Laughter. ) The Hon. Member pro ceeded to say that the objection was well founded, for many bequests were made, with the condition that, having a degree in arts—an M.A.—;vas a qualification to their enjoyment. Now, it was obviously contemplated that the advantage should be confined to those possessing a degree from Oxford or Cambridge, while this object would be defeated if another establishment were privileged to confer the same honour under the same title. The Hon. Member concluded, amid reiterated cries of " Question, question," by supporting the amendment. The gallery was then cleared for a division, when the num bers appeared— For the original Motion For the Amendment Majority in favour of the original I\lotion ...-110 ASSIZES (IRELAND). Mr. O'LOGHLEN rose to move fur leave to bring in a Bill for the appointment of convenient places for the holding of Assizes in Ireland. Sir HENRY HARDINGE said that there existed no ob jection on the part of his Majesty's Government to the intro duction of this measure. Sir R. PEEL did not rise to oppose the motion, but suggested that the Hon. Member for Salford had not exercised his usual vigilance or he would have adhered to his determina tion of adjourning the House. To be impartial he ought to act on the same principle whatever side of the House Gentle men might be sitting on. Mr. BROTHERTON moved the adjournment, but with drew it at the request of the Right, Hon. Baronet. • A desultory conversation followed, in which Mr. LITTLE TON, Mr. WALKER, .Mr. O'CONNELL, and others took part. —The motion was agreed to. Mr. BROTHERTON was about again to move the adjournment of the House, but was interrupted by Mr. FINN and other Hon. Members. SUPPLY. The report of the Supply Resolutions was brought up and agreed to, after an observation from Mr. HLTME, that he would not oppose this proceeding under existing circumstances, but he must protest against_any money being voted after midnight. DISTURBANCES (ARMAGH). Lord MANDEVILLE rose to move for " the Chief Con stable's Report of the outran-es which were perpetrated at the Armagh races io October fast—The dying declaration of a man named M'Whinney—The committals of the persons charged with the assaults upon the M'Whioneys—The various bail bonds, with their several dates, and amount of bail—The date of M'Whinney's arrest, and the cause—Copy (it any) of the recognizance entered into by M'Whinney, previous to admitting the offenders to bail—Copies of any. declarations or depositions taken by Mr. Jones, the stipendiary Magistrate, of men wounded by musket-shots, or otherwise, at or about that time—The numbers, names, and religious b;:lief of all men wounded by musket-shots,, or otherwise, at or about that time—Copy of the reports from the stipendiary Magis, tratcs, and of the reply to the Right Hon. Secretary for Ire land, respecting the Portreeve of Charlemont—A list of the Magistrates summoned by the Lord Lieutenant of the county Armagh, at the investigation held in the town of Armagh in February last." The Noble Lord having read these returns, there was a general cry of " adjourn, adjourn ;" and in the midst of these Dr. LUSHINGTON observed that it was most desirable an early day should be taken for the motion of the Noble Lord, as they referred to charges which had been made against Lord Gosford, in his capacity of Lord Lieutenant of the county. That Noble Lord had left Ireland for England to meet these charges, and he seas anxious for an early day, that he might, on the part of that Noble Lord, answer them. Lord MANDE VILLE assented to this proposition. On Thursday next being named by Dr. LUSHINGTON, Mr. RICE thought it would be most desirable fo: the pur poses of justice, that some motion of a more specific nature than for the production of these papers should be made. Mr. BROTHERTON moved the adjournment, and said " I foresee, Sir, that we shall have a debate upon this, and therefore I move the adjournment of the House." The motion not having been put, Mr. HUME moved the adjournment again, but was inter rupted by Colonel VERNER, amidst cries of " Adjourn adjourn I" The gallant Officer begged to state that an objection had been raised to his being a Member of the Committee of In quiry into Orange Societies, and he could therefore not conti nue in that capacity with satisfaction to himself, as he felt as he presumed every person would, who was conscious of the pu rity of his own intentions. He knew of no occasion which could have led the Hon. and Learned Member for Tipperary to think him a partial man. He had been a Member of the Committee of Inquiry into the case of that Gentleman, and he had concurred in their decision. Now he (Colonel Verner) did not hesitate to say that the Orange Committee was any thing but an impartial and fair one, and lie said this in conse quence of the language they had used. Before they made charges against others, they ought' themselves to have clean hands. _ Mr. SHE IL said that in objecting to the Gallant Colonel he had merely suggested that he was a strong partisan. He did not mean the smallest imputation personally. If he had unintentionally given him pain, he unaffectedly begged his pardon.—Adjourned at half-past one o'clock. We have much pleasure in stating that the glove trade in the town of Yeovil is more brisk than it has been for some months past.—Bath Journal. THE ROBBERY AT MR. TATTERSALL'S.—It has been already stated that the counting-house of Mr. Tattersall, the celebrated sporting auctioneer, was robbed on Monday night of cash and notes to the amount of about 11V., and bills of exchange to the amount of 356/. ss. 6d. Further informa tion was given to the police yesterday, that the robbery was supposed to have been committed by a man of genteel appear ance, of middle age and good height, of dark complexion, with full black whiskers, and dressed in a dark surtout coat and trousers. A person answering this description was ob served by, Mr. Tattersall himself looking into the keyhole of a safe from which the property was afterwards stolen ; and some one having asked who he was, he mentioned the name of a friend of Mr., Tattersall's, which, however, turned out to be untrue. The safe was opened with a false key, which broke in the lock. COURT OF CHANCERY. COCKBURN V. RAPHAEL. Sir WM. HORNE said this was,a petition for the pay ment out of Court, withoutlegacy duty, of a sum of mo ney left for charitable purposes. The testator, an Arme nian merchant, who died at Madras, in the East Indies, had left the money to be laid out in Indian Securities, for certain charitable purposes therein specified, the remainder of his property he directed to be transmitted to England and invested in English Securities, in order to meet de mands on account of legacies. The executors at Madras, instead of investing the charity money according to the di rections of the testator, remitted the whole produce of the estate to England, and a question now arose whether there had been such an apportionment of the money intended for charitable uses as would justify the Crown in foregoing its claim to the duty chargeable on legacies. It was now contended that there had been an apportionment by the testator himself in his will. and that it was of no consequence whether the money came from Madras separately or as a part of the general assets. The LORD CHANCELLOR said. his opinion was, that the mo ney had become a mere legacy, and that there was no appor tionment, brt he recommended that the opinion of the Judges of the Court of Exchequer should be taken on the question. ROLLS' COURT. His HONOUR was engaged this morning in hearing petitions. IN RE ESCIIEAT ACT. Mr. MILLER made an application on petition, under this Act, to have funds, which had stood in the name of Fontleroy and Keary, previous to the conviction of the former, transferred from the account of the Sinking Fund in the Bank of Eng land, to_the names of Hammond and Keary, as trustees for the parties to whom the property really belonged.—Granted. SURREY SESSIONS. NEWINGTON, THURSDRT. The Grand Jury having returned a true bill of indict against iliac Coonse,othe Michigan chief, on the charge of committing an indecent assault upon a young girl, this morning was appointed for putting in recognisances for his appearance at the next Central Sessional Court. The defendant rendered to his bail, accompanied by several of the performers of the Victoria Theatre, where he lately exhibited his skill in rifle shooting. The CHAIRMAN inquired whether the required sureties were in attendance The Court was answered in the affirmative, and the Hon. Sir Augustus D'Este, and Dr. Hodgkin, of Fins bury-circus, came forward and were sworn as securities for the appearance at the next Central Criminal Court, in the sum of .50/. each, and Alm Coonse in 100/. The trials through the day were of no public importance. The Court rose at five o'clock. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. BURY LENT ASSIZES,,-MAncm 25. ARSON.—Jacob Rose, George Fulham, and Robert Mott, were charged with setting fire to the house, barns, &c., of James Baldry, of Lidgate, in this county. Rose, Not Guilty ; Mott, Not Guilty ; Fulham, Guilty, Sentence of Death passed in the usual form on Fulham. Samuel Proctor and Daniel Andrews were charged with assaulting, with intent to murder, Henry Juby, at Hitchara on the night of the 9th of January last. The Jury found them Not Guilty. HOME CIRCUIT.—LErrEs, MARCH 26. William Vidler, aged 23 ; Henry Simrock, 21 ; Ja»zes Vidler, 19 ; and William King, 23 ; were indicted for hav ing, on the 14th of November last, at Crowhurst, unlaw fully entered a wood, belonging to Edward Cressett Pel ham, Esq., armed with guns and bludgeons, fur the purpose of destroying game. The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. His Lordship obs:rved that., in consequence of the , pri soners not having used their fire-arms, he was willing to visit the prisoners with a milder punishment than if they had done so. William Vidler and William King were then sentenced to four months' imprisonment and hard labour, and James Vidler and Henry Simrock to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. (civil. SIDE.) THOMSON V. BROOKBANK. . This was action of slander; Both the parties are attor neys at Brighton. For the defence it was contended that the words were spoken in a'moment of anger, and were not intended to impute felony to the plaintiff. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff.—Da mazes, 491. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.,--LANCASTER, MARCH 24. HORRIBLE MURDER BY A FATHER.—John Orrell, late of Bolton-le-Moors, was charged with poisoning, a little girl, eight years of age, named Elizabeth Orrell, his own daughter. The facts.of the case are very extraordinary. The pri soner was formerly a farmer in the township of Heaton, but four or five years ago he fell into embarassment, and in January, 1831, he was sent to this castle for debt. He remained in confinement until the Bth of this month, when he returned to his wife and family. On the 4th of Fe bruary his wife died, under peculiar circumstances, involv ing so much suspicion that a coroner's inquest was held upon the body, and the prisoner implicated, but not sufficiently strong to secure his commitment.. The prisoner (who had been long in the country), then moved, with a boy and a girl, his two youngest children, (he was the father to six), to a cellar in Bolton. On the following Sunday, the 22d of February, the boy died, and the girl was taken very ill. She continued so till the Thursday, when she also died. This rapid mortality excited strong alarm; inquiries were- instituted, and it was found, upon medical examination; that the children had been poisoned with arsenic. Large quantities of that powder we found in the Stomach of Elizabeth Orrell, and it was clear that small and frequent doses had been administered to her, the total quantity found in her stomach being suffi cient, if administered in one dose, to cause_ immediate death. A further search discovered a parcel of arsenic upon a lofty shelf in the cellar, which was proved to have been bought at a druggist's a few nights previously by a.man who had a companion with him, who did not choose to show his flee within the shop. No surgical advice had been called in to the poor children ; the prisoner had been almost constantly with them, and had consequently seen them dying inch by inch. Several witnesses were called who had associated with him whilst confined as a debtor; from whose testimony it appeared that up to the day of his liberation be had threatened that as soon as he got his freedom he would kill his wife and his two youn g est children. He gave a s hi s reason f or t hi s barbarous determination that his wife was faithless to him ; that she had two illegitimate children whilst he was in prison, who were since dead ; and that of the two upon whom he intended to execute his diabolical revenge, he was not the father: It appeared further, that even whilst in the Castle his conduct had been most culpable, and that (after taking his trial) he had been transferred from the debtors' to the Crown side of the gaol for robbery.. The Jury found him Guilty, and he was sentenced to be hanged on Thursday morning. The little girl, Sarah Rixford, whose affecting case was recorded in our police reports a few weeks since, and for whom her Majesty's well-known charitable sympathy and be nevolence were so powerfully excited, has, by her Majesty's munificence, been placed in the Brixton Asylum of " the St. Ann's Society Schools," the merits of which excellent insti tution insure the inculcation •of such principles of religious virtue as will enable the object of her M a j es ty' s solicitudedul.y to appreciate the blessings thus afforded her, to evince her gra titude to her Royal benefactress. FAILURE OF THE WHITE EISIIERY.-Never in the memory of the oldest fisherman has there been such a failure of the white fishery on the coast of Scotland as has been experienced during the winter. Many of the fishermen are enduring severe hardships, and, in some instances, have been supplied with a little aid from collections in some of the parish churches. The hope of a change for the better in Spring has not been realized, and some of them have been compelled to leave their homes and prosecute their hazardous employment within twenty miles of the Irish Channel. On Saturday last three large boats, carrying three small ones, laden with provisions, coals, barrels, salt, &c., manned with eight to nine men each, left Rosehearty for the purpose, and will not return until July, when the herring fishery re-com mences —Glasgow Courier. The following Advertisement is illustrative of the American law of partnership. It is headed " Limited Part nership :"—" The subscribers have entered into a limited partnership, pursuant to the provisions of the Revised Statutes of this State for the transaction of business 'in Dry Goods. Charles H. Booth is the general partner, and the other subscribers are the special partners. Wm. L. Booth has contributed in cash to the capital stock ten thousand dol lars, Wm. A. Tomlinson, five thousand dollars, and Wm. A. Booth, five thousand dollars. The business is to be conducted under the name or firm of Charles H. Booth. The partner ship commences the twenty. seventh day of January instant, and is to continue three years."—Here follow the names of the subscribers. Swiss INTOLERANCE.--The Canton of Appenzel has recently exhibited an instance of intolerance which could only find a parallel in the history of England or of Ireland a century ago. A young man of Rhodes- Exterieures, a Pro testant, solicited the hand of a maiden who happened to be a Catholic, and obtained her consent to their marriage. Before he could marry her, however, it was necessary for him to have the sanction of his Canton, which was refused on the ground that his intended wife professed the Catholic religion. Not withstanding this denial, the young man went beyond the con fines, and had the ceremony celebrated at Lindau. Upon re ceiving intelligence of this event, the Grand Council con demned the youthful couple to pay a fine of 100 florins, and moreover ordered that the children, issue of the marriage, should all be brought up in the Protestant religion. vetie. D E le be 0 This morning, at t wen ty-five minutes b past 6 o'clock. t h e)p ..4 o and affectionate wif e o f J o h n H umphery, Esq., M.P.' P I " Common, after a protr ac t e d ill ness of n i ne months, which 5 with Christian fortitude, aged 34 years. On the 25th i n st., i n h er 19 t h year, L ou i sa, d aug hter ets ° f ! t Edward Howe, of th e B oar d o f T rade, after a linger i n g ill% reli c On the 22d inst., a t Ch e lt en h am, aged 73, Lady Ge°rg-' cer of the late Sir Rupert George, Bart. On the 19th inst., a t P ar i s, M ary, the w i dow of Dav id _ d t Esq., aged 73. L' P- On the 23d in s t., M ar i a L ou i sa, youngest daughter o f e eteP George Whit e , R oya l N avy, Kingsdown, Bristol, aged of ,"". On the 23d inst., in her 26th year, Anne Catherine, sci`s" j c , Henry Rebart s , Conduit -street, Hanover-square. h sr c On the 7th i ns t., at N ether Haugh, near Greasbrong i , li g •of o f about 90, William Turner, who, along with his wife, h1:. ( 111 ,5 „ r , the charge o f t h e mausoleum to the memory of the ' st ill Rockingham. The wife, although the oldest of the "li t he A l he vives. This old couple were many years in the service o . it of t quis, and have manifested through life a deal of the sr . ancient retainers on nubility. Sa!"" On the 9th inst., at Caistor, in his 80th year, the iterviesr Turner, A.M., Rector of Rothwell, Lincolnshire, an" Attenborough cum Bramcote, Notts. ar vr 4 Lately, M r . J o h n C uthbert, farmer of Haburgh, ne_,,theesl.'r lesby. Th e d ecease d had been no customer to t h e ar having never tasted physic, and died in his 86th year. Ne ttle ° On the 17th inst., Jr. John Lamming, farmer, of otos, o f near Caistor, aged 70. On the 9th inst., Alice Wilson, housekeeper to Ikle• c eer 9 4 Glutton, Derbyshire, where she had lived upwards t o p i a ssl o ,e . She was going to see her son, who lives at Ashford, u n gaiM 3) t down Mont' the side of the inclined plane of the High Pe a ra ils, Pt near ash, a sudden gust of wind threw her over the , dire . ) g , as one of the waggons was descending. The vehicle roll; co o over her head and body, mangling * her dreadfully, a 0 instant death. wIl .iaro SOP° On the 11th u lt ., at Ki rk Ireton, Derbyshire, ' Gent., aged 85. tio London: Printed an d P u bli s h e d b y 311111130 N.° -rl . l‘. ,1„e oll°-- 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strands la of Middlesex. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wfiwit. Bliley. I I'er Quarter. la.to a. 5. 8. 8. to 8. S. to s• 131atu13or1 40 43 31 23 43 40 52 30 36 15 22 30 40 :35 :;6 --39 31 22 ,7 2 Chard 40 40 24 . 20 ?2 1 - -2 37 ". 42 r . 43 23 34 19 24 37 40 Long 5a1t0n,,..,,,,... 34 -* 44 22 24 35 37 (malt 36 42 97 32 18 24 33 40 I.y 34 49 28 3.2 23 24 :32 31 Newark 34 42 t:6 35 18 .24 32 3.5 *it tingliam -- 40 45 2S 37 +9 28 35 42 +.,+t c rooroogh 3 1 40 28 37 21 26 30 42 —• Ply +lll,ltil 40 50 30 34 20 -- 1 1 +.1telt ay t 67 • 43 27 43 --. •65 70 36 38 i 22 '2B 41 45 tlopiogltatn --.. 34 39 25 21 20 30 26 46 tAli.l,(o+ „ 45 20 LEEDS CORN MARKET.— March 24 Wheat, N.)rfolk unit 601 h. York and Lincoln, 515.1 494. I 3 X3l•. 1 iG ,31 , ti l• ' per stone 4,,,t kLaley, , orfiblk and Sulrolk ..... -- Yoe:shire:m(l Lincolnshire •--- Oats, Potatoe . _--Aleallog, I. or. 12.1 to 13tl to .113., LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHA NGE.—March 24. _ s pd. . WHEAT, LEigloll, White, per 701 h. Red Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 5lO 6 '" 5 8 Red 6 - Foreign nglish, Wekh, and Scotch, 1 er 451 h. ...... 4 9 0 .I.TS, E g !rich 0 Foreign BARLEY, 'English, Slatting, per Imp. quarter '6 0 3 ° ( 1, 1 Scotch and Irish, per Itollis. 3 g 311 Feeling 44 0.1 BEAns, English, per Imperial quarter 4O 0 .--I fish, Sze. ti 1 Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 42 0 46 0 F ore i gn 40 FLOUR, English, per 280 lb ..-......-••• Trish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 24nnis 24 ' 6 IN. lAN CORN, pt f 4401 h. RYE, per Roper al quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter _._ I mroar OF ti HAIN for the Week ending March 23 Oatni eat Wheat. Oats. I Barley Flour. ()rs. Qui. Ors. Foreign, 6E18.1 Irish , &c. Scks " M. n 014 3,8::2 4,242 . j 7,243 • SOUTHALL CATTLE MARK.ET.—March 25 or- The supply of Iloasts, Stiero, C dyes, and Porkers, to th s day . ' w o ket was moderately good. There was rather a s mall a ttendance of t9 O , aod country buyers, and the trade was dull, at the follow Mg P per stone of Sib, to sail, the offals : Beef 2s. 61. to 3s. DAL Veal ... Mutton 3 .. 2 . 4 2 I Pork .lO 3 lu Lamb 4s. )od. to 53. 4d. of Beasts, IN ; Sheep, 2 015; Calves, 37; Pigs, 43. A small pOn?v the supply lett the market unsold ROMFORD Al ARKET.—March 25. . il. s. il.tos. u. 1 s.d. to z 0 Reef ..... ... 2 8 3 8 Veal Nliitton. " 0 310 Pork Lamb 53 Od. to ss. ed. Suckling Calves, its. to ns ; Quarter old Store Pigs. Ss. to 10S. Milch Cows, with their small Calf, M. us. to 111. Os. Supply moderate, and trade rather dull. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUST° HOUSE, MARCH 26. c •,,; Brocklebank, Stranack, from O s t en d ; Fl ora , M e yer, Ramona, Stranack,.Rotterdam. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, Mnacil‘`: Earl of Liverpool, Lomax, for O s t en d ; J ames C ru icksba n i :, , Young, St. Vincent's ; Batavi er , D un l op , R otter d am ; mercial Packet. King, Rotterdam • Udonia, Wesjels, Amco r , dam ; Concordia, Kwakenburg, Amsterdam ; Margrictta nelia, Hazewinkie, Amsterdam ; Rambler, Wall, Gibra and Cadiz ; Nereide, Jay, Naples ; Joan, Berwick, H a mbro ' Ventrosa, Marshall, Boston. 86' CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, MAgell.„ Clarence, Kop, for Jamaica l Coral, Leggett, Teen: Dove, Nicholson, Dunkirk ; Alde, Parker, Rotterdam ; 3„fe,far Palmer, Rotterdam ; Frantz, R a d man , S tett i n ; : St. Michael's; Blanch, Laws, St. Kitt's ; Deborah, .? 4 "„ a ; Newfoundland; Courier, P a l mer , C ape o f G oo d 1 1 °1 - Attwood, Morfee, Antwerp ; Ranger, Duffield, Ostend. 16. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, MARol ud Francis and Han iet, Dodds, for Quebec ; Mentor, 13 ' Ir. , * Quebec ; Marmion, Hopp er , Q ue b ec ; Cec CO ps Quebec ; Baltic Merchant, Dumble, Quebec ; Br A ugo. o4 Neagle, Quebec; Rother, Frost, Quebec; Charlotte, Di° Calais; Enchantress, Black, Savannah. VESSELS SPOKEN WITEL hv the Juliet, of Greenock, b oun d to Calcutta. 28th Dec., William, Lanfesty, arrived at Gibraltar. Ainiable o oit h Maranham to Barcelona, 13th ult. ) lat. 40., long. 36 " r• loss of main -mast, by the Emile., Audibert, a r rived at u . ary , Stad Rotterdam, bovid to Batavia, 15th Jan °a lat. 35. S., long. 34., by t h e Cy b ele, arrived at Liverl ) i , it , William Russell, Bruce. Liverpool to Bahia, 14th instly s r• 48., long. 10., by the Columbia arrived at Liverpool. l a te wick, of Liverpot.!., lat. 12., long. 26., by the ThornA tirie r, Wilson, on slis - .e at Holyhead. C our i er d e Brazil, by. from Bordernx to the Cape of Good Hope, o n the LIII the Veloce, arrived at Bordeaux. . hand BROTIIER JONAT II A N.---A joint Commission nj ing been app o i nte d b y t h e Governments of Great Britain the United States, to determine the bouLdar line betweeAo 0 . States and th e B r i t i s h N ort h American possessions, the ~.,1 111 rican Commi ss i oners propose d that the latitude shoul d he culated geometrically, that is, from the centre of the e a " t r y which they said was a f ar more scientific, and satisfac t s. method than the ordinary one of calculating it EoP e t bio cially from the Pole to the ' Equator. The effect of o f would have been to give the United States a traet. o , country extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and 11 j e raging fourteen m il es i n b rea d t h, to w hi c h b y t h e u sual ta tt y of calculation they have no claim. Dr. Watson, to w ho'll ;i s British Commissioners entrusted the scientific branch of ~.0 1 negotiation, quickly saw th roug h the disinterested seb etn !of Brother J o nath an , an d thereby preserved this large extent territory to his own G overnment .—M ec h an i cs ' Magazin e ' A HARDY VETERA N —A remarkably v enera looking old ma n , name d J o h n Shi p l ey, w h ose hair wa g c io , pletely blanched with age , a ppli e d to M r . Whi te , at W o e Square, for permission to swear an affidavit relative to a per sion of which h e was i n the receipt. In answer to sorne;(lu o of Lions from the Ma g i s t ra t e , h e stated that he was a netfoitb Wirtemberg, and was in his 96th year. He had serveu j t he the late Duke of Y or k i n Fl an d ers an d H o ll an d, and ba-113' honour of being freq uen tly i n company w i t h hi s present ico/1 jesty, when a mid s hip man , an d stat i one d on t h e Aire coast. At present he was a pensioner on the fourth reg'Tio of foot, but only r e ce iv e d Sid. a day, th e o th er , m oiety i f e , pension having been a ppli e d f or t h e maintenance of his: o 4l who is upwards of 80 years of age, but so addicted to t he that he had long since separated from her. He had frecK t o, , been employ e d by th e D u k e as an interpreter. Mr. S C : bl e c-• Have you ever a ppli e d t o t h e par i s h for reier? SK r) . ; I le No, your H onour , I s h ou ld n ' t lik e to d o that. When the o ld of York was alive I never wanted ; he always assisted e,, soldier ; I'v e k nown h un d re d s o f i nstances of i t. Mr. Wbiticjier Well, my friend, as it is nq likely that I shall meet a r o t° aged 96 f or some t i me to come, accept th i s. The Nag' s the' having placed half-a-crown in the veteran's hand, a's t e sq r : 01 0 old gentlem an t o t h e trut h o f the affidavit, an d he le" office. lic . uix And e , strip e d trous er velvets Ti %INV At N o. . 3 1 E t ; °f ni si) c i hey:1; 11 :' Ij u b _ o G r rav, thi'L 404. LI c 27, ti t, Ss. - _ • o f BIRTHS. On the 24th in s t., a t B arrow - green H ouse, S urrey, the lad} W. H. Walton, Esq., of a son. On the 26th i ns t., th e l a d y o f O swa ld Bloxsom, Esq., ° f ss° still-born. On the 24th inst., at Brighton, the lady of Captain Griffit Royal Warwickshire Regiment, of a son. i s MARRIED. cart' i d On the 26th in s t., a t St. M argaret ' s, Westm instertnoier, Leblanc, of the French R oya l E ng i neers, Knight of the " the Sauveur of Greece, and of the Leg'.on of Honour, !°lo l° ' Jane, youngest daughter of th e l a t e G enera l S i r Samue l Ben` esOo I K. S G ireb °. sl At St. George's, Hanover-square, the Rev. Henry , r s of St. George's-hill, Somersetshire, , Prebendary of Salis,u ort, Maly, second daughter of Philip John Miles, Esq., of Leig n Somersetshire, M.P. for the City of Bristol. On the 20th inst., at Trinity Church, William Buttivaot' of Demerara, to Miss Julia Alice Fell, of Surrey-square. On the 24th inst., at St. M ary ' s t h e G reat, Mr. G e orge d ell of Baldock, to Eliza, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Sam° don, of Cambridge. CO' On the 24th inst., at St. Pancras New Church, Mr. P l Tgitir head, to Henrietta Lwtitia, daughter of B. M a dd an , ston, Jamaica. ■ V( full Th rnatth on firina l aid o f fl Aly aliGto] A made I'm S