The Sun. — London, England, 1848-03-15 00:00:00

Vtiirb Tzbittort ,Ne N OFFIG E, Seven n' Clock. CITY, 14' ERN ESDAY EVENING. ThaTeport about Messrs. Rothschilds, of Paris, is offi cially-aontradicted this afternoon; but the state of affairs in France still causes much uncertainty and excitement, and the Funds have suffered. The closing price of Con sols, however, Is not lower than soi to 81. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) AYLESBURY. The Aylesbury Election Committee re-assembled this morning; Mr. B. Palmer in the chair. The Committee proceeded to hear fresh evidence in support of the charge of treating by Mr. Deering and his agents. The Committee were engaged the rest of the day in receiving similar evidence. The Committee adjourned at four till eleven o'clock to-morrow. DUNDALK. The Select Committee appointed to try the merits of the petition against the return of Mr. M'Tavish for Dundalk met for the first time this morning; Lord Harry Vane in the chair. Mr. Sergeant Kinglake, Mr. Calvert, and Mr. Pea cock appeared for the petitioner, and Mr. Sergeant Wrangham, with whom was Mr. Rogers, for the sitting Member. Mr. Sergeant KINGLutz opened the case for the peti tioners. In the first place the petitioners complained that Mr. M‘Tavihh had no qualification; secondly, that he obtained his return by bribery and treating. It might, however, save time if the objection of want o f qualifica tion were decided in the first instance. The petitioners . contended that Mr. M'Tavish was an alien, f orasmuch as the Honourable Gentleman was born in America. The decision on the point of qualification was resumed till the evidence had been adduced. .Mr. Sergeant KINGLAHE then proceeded to disclose Mr cite of bribery and treating . which the evidence would. establish. One voter, he said, whose name was M'Gouch,it would be proved was promised 501. to support Mr. M'Tavish, while at the time the promise was made he received tOl. on account. In other cases the Committee would find that the rates of the electors were:paid, but, although this did not amount to bribery, it was sufficient to invalidate th e . votes of the parties. Treating was also carried on during the election to a considerable extent, and should the point relating to the qualification of Mr. 24.1‘Tavish not satisfy the Committee, after hearing the evidence, he was convinced they would have no hesi tation i n unseating the Hon. Gentleman on the ground of bribery. The customary formal proofs relating to the election having been put in, a passport describing Mr. M'Tavish as an American citizen was put in and received quantum valent. The Committee then adjourned till eleven o'clock to morrow. BEWDLEY. The Bewdley Election Committee re-assembled this morning; Mr. Wrightson in the chair. The whole of the morning was taken up with ' evidence and arguments to prove agency against Sir Thomas Winnington's friends. The CHAIRMAN intimated that the evidence of treat ing relating to Bewdley had made but little impression upon the minds of the Committee. • The case against Sir Thomas Winnington was then closed, after which several witnesses were called to rebut the charges of treating at Bewdley and Stourport. • The Committee then adjourned till to-morrow. IMPEIIAL PARLIAM ENT, (THIS _ DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER, took the Chair a Twelve o'clock. Mr. rawEs took the oaths 'and his seat for the borough of Kinsale. The Hon. Member was loudly cheered upon taking his seat. NAVAL AND MILITARY ESTABLISH MENTS. Mr. BAGSHAW presented a petition from a place in Leicestershire, against any increase in the army and navy of the country. The following Bills were read a first time : —The Cornwall Railway; Exeter and Exmouth Rail way ; Exeter and Yeovil Railway ; Manches ter and Sheffield Railway ; Great Northern Railway ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln shire Rai lway ' • Northern Counties Railway; Ashton Canal ; Londonderry Railway; Salisbury and Yeovil Railway ; Aberdeen Railway; Birming ham and Oxford Junction ; London and Brighton Railway ; Exeter and Cowley Bridge Junction Railway ; Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway (deviation from Leamington to Warwick); London and illackwall Railway; Arbroath and Forfar Railway; Bristol and Exeter Railway (Glastonbury Navigation and Canal Purchase) ; Bristol and Exeter Railway (Taunton and Castle Cary Branch); Bristol Docks Transfer ; Dundee and Perth Railway (Dundee Junction) ; and numerous others. CERTIFICATE DUTY. An HON. llemsEß presented a petition from soli citors practising in Dover against the certificate duty. THE ARMY. Mr. BAGSHAW presented a petition against any increase in the army._ __ INCOME-TAB;. Mr. MUNTZ presented a petition from the Bir mingham Guardian Society for the Protection of Trade, stating that the income-tax ought only to be renewed for one year, and that more economy should be practised in the expenditure of the country. HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL. Mr. COBBOLD presented a petition from the mayor and corporation of Ipswich in favour of the Health of Towns Bill. THE NAVIGATION-LAWS. The Hon. MEMBER also presented a petition from the same town against the repeal of these laws. PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. The HON. MEMBBE also presented a petition, signed by 1,524 of the. inhabitants, in favour of the abolition of the punishment of death. ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL. Mr. CARDWELL presented a petition from the Roman Catholicsof Liverpool in favour of this Bill. NORTHAMPTON. Mr. V. SMITH presented a petition from North ampton praying that it might be exempted from the provisions of the Health of Towns Bill, on the ground that it had recently obtained a Bill for a similar purpose, with which the inhabitants were perfectly satisfied. ETARWICJI. Sir B. HALL gave notice that he should to morrow move, in consequence of the statements made last night with respeet to this borough, for a return of the number of electors on the register on the Ist day of January, 1847, and at the time of the general election, distinguishing • the householders from the freemen, and the names of all persons in the town or within a radius of seven miles, who had been ap pointed to any Government situations, with the date of their nomination, the persons by whom they were nominated, and the amount of salary. Mr. BAGSHAW—I beg to give notice that I shall oppose the latter part of the return.—(Laughter.) THE INCOME-TAX. Mr.. WAKLEY presented a petition, signed by l ; 500 householders of St; Luke's, against the renewal of the income-tax, on the ground that it operated most injuriously on the professional and trading classes. The petitioners considered the Ministers guilty of a breach of public faith in proposing the renewal of the tax after their solemn promise not to continue it beyond the period already declared. THE HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL. The iloN. MEMBYR also presented petitions from me dical practitioners in Birmingham and Wolverhampton, complaining that the proposition in Lord Lincoln's Bill, for appointing a paid medical officer in each dis• trict, had - been omitted' in the measure before the House, and praying that it might be inserted. The Hon. Gentleman presented petitions to the same effect, and complaining of the defective nature of the mea sure, froth - Uttoxeter, Epsotn, and Faringdon, in Berks. He had a petition to present with respect to the pootelaW but as the P res ide n t o f th e C omm i ss i on was not in his . place h e s h ou ld d e f er d o i ng so unt i l he was in attendance. Sir G., GREY said it was well known to the House, and it ought to be known to the public, if his lion. and Learned Friend the President of the Com mission were in his place, that. the Members of the House would preclude him from saying one word at that stage of the business with respect to the petitions.—(Cries of ': Hear, hear.") Th e Presi dent of the Comm Commission had informed him that he had mad© arrangements to have copies prepared of all important petitions that might be presented to the house with regard to the administration of the poor law.—(Hear, hear.) Those copies were sent to him, and underwent his most careful consideration. Mr. WAKLEY was glad to hear the statement of the Right Hon. Baronet. lie thought, however, that the ChiefXommissioner ought to be present in the House whenApatitions were presented relating to the admi nistration 4 the poor-law. Notwithstanding the state ment of the Right Hon. Baronet, he should defer pre senting the petition to which he referred until the Chief Commissioner was in his place.—(" Oh, oh.") Lord EBRINGTON —.I am here.—(Laughter, and cries of "Order.") The SPEAKER was understood to say that the Hon. Member (Mr. Wakley) was out of order in ' making the observations he had. The conversation then dropped. . .. HARWICH. An Hox. MEMBER mceted that the Clerk of the Crown be instructed to issue a new writ for the election of a new Member for Harwich, in the room of Mr. Attwood, who had been unseated, which was seconded. ~143,1,, A CKSTONE then adverted to the con %V.ViS iepilatlon Which took place at the r i s i ng o f th e House 7 -- --.7- *" --- ,_1,-.: . - 1 .. NI a S 4 last night, with respect to his motion to suspend the issuing of the writ until the 18th of April. He did not consider the Hon. and Learned Gentleman the Member for Cockermouth (Mr. Aglionby) was justified in complaining of him, inasmuch as he had oa a former occasion been in favour of the course he (Mr. Black stone) now recommended—namely, that the House should have an opportunity of perusing the evidence adduced before the Committee before it con sented to the motion for issuing a new writ. When that evidence was laid before the Honse, he did not wish it to be understood that he should either bring in a Bill to disfranchise the borough, or to increase its limits. He could not now state what course he should adopt. It was due, he thought, to the sitting Member (Mr. Bagshaw) that the evidence should be printed. The course he pointed out had been adopted on former occasions. The House should bear in mind that Mr. Attwood had been a second time unseated for bribery for the same borough, and it was due to him and to the borough to institute the fullest inquiry, and to be in possession of the whole of the facts before they came to a decision with respect to the writ. With this view he begged to move as an amendment that the Speaker do not issue his writ until the evidence has been printed. Sir G. GREY disclaimed that, in what he said last night, he intended to impute that the Hon. Member had adopted an unparliamentary course. The Speaker distinctly stated that any Hon. Member might move the issuing of a new writ, at any time during the sitting of the House, without notice; and he (Sir G. Grey) perfectly agreed with him.—(Hear.) It certainly did not appear the w i s h o f th e H ou s e that the objection of the Hon. Member should be decided at one o'clock in th e morn i ng .—(L aug ht e r.) Besides, he ventured to hope if the motion were de layed until to• day, that the report of the Com mittee would be in the hands of the House. If the Committee had reported, as in the case of Sudbury, that systematic bribery had prevailed at the last election, and had expressed a wish that the writ might be suspended, there perhaps could have been no objection to the proposition of the Hon. Member, but they did not do so ; and as the writs for Carlisle, and other places, had been moved for without opposition, he did not think it unlikely that a similar course would be adopted in this case. The House had had an opportunity of reading the report of the Committee. (No, no.) Well, then, Honour able Members might have done so, as it had been printed, and the Hon. and Learned Member for Cockermouth, who was ready last night to sup port the issuing of the writ, had a copy of the report in his hand. The Committee reported that it had not been proved to their satisfaction that Mr. Attwood had paid the two persons who had been bribed ; also, that treating had taken place to a great extent, but they stated it had not been proved upon whose authority, so that it was unlike . the case of Sudbury. If the borough deserved to be disfranchised it ought to have been done between 1842 and 1848, for the circumstances of the two elections were alike. Surely the Honourable Gentleman did not in tend by his motion to affect the position of his Honourable Friend the sitting Member, who had not been petitioned against.—(Hear.) It was contrary to all practice to postpone a writ in the manner proposed, and he therefore hoped the House would not consent to the amendment. Mr. HUME was quite surprised at the speech of the Right Hon. Baronet who had just sat down. It appeared to him to be a defence of the gross practices which had taken place at the last Harwich election.— (Hear, hear.) The House would, no doubt, remem ber that in the last Parliament Mr. Roebuck obtained a Committee of inquiry into the corrupt practices that were resorted to at the election of 1841, upon his undertaking to prove bribery and corruption in the cases of five boroughs. Not only did the Hon. Gentleman fulfil his undertaking in that respect, but he showed beyond all doubt that he could, if he liked, have made out fifty instead of five cases.—(Hear hear.) How was it then that the disclosures made before that Committee had not had the effect of putting a stop to these corrupt practices ? Why, simply because the cases established in the last Parliament were too leniently dealt with, and if they did not now visit these corrupt boroughs with the severest punishment there never would be an end to these abominable practices of bribery and treating.—(Hear, hear.) For his part he thought Harwich ought to have no representative at all, and he would tell the House why. He had been in formed that the: parties who had just unseated the sitting Member were prepared with evidence to show the utter rottenness of the borough, and that one of the local committees were bribed with the present of 1,0001. each to give their support to a rival_ candidate ; but by an agreement with the other side, they only produced just sufficient evidence to entitle the Committee to unseat the sitting Member.—(Hear, hear.) Sir JAMES GRAHAM certainly laboured under the impression that an understanding was come to last night that this writ should be postponed till the minutes of evidence were before the House, and he must admit that he thought it rather unfair that the writ should have been again moved for without notice.—(sear, hear.) He understood that the Hon. and Learned Chairman of the Committee intended to bring the minute under the consideration of the House, and the writ ought, in justice to the Committee, to be postponed until the discussion on the minutes should have been disposed of. Certainly this case of Harwich required great caution, and he would strongly advise that this question should be adjourned till the Hon. and Learned Member for Bute had put the House in possession of his views upon the sub ject.— (Hear, hear.) After a few words from Sir G. GREY, Major BERESFORD could not allow it to go forth that a local committee at Harwich had been so grossly bribed as the Hon. Member for Montrose would have the House believe. He denied that such bribery had taken place at all, and defied any Hon. Member to prove it. - Mr.: ELLIOT, one of the members of the Com mittee, agreed with those who wished this discussion to be adjourned; but still he must remind the House, that only one case of bribery was fully made out before the Committee, that was the case of Saxbey. True, there were other cases reported to the House, where parties had been supplied ; with loans; but it was not brought home to the agents of the sitting Member that the loans were advanced for the purpose of influencing their votes. The truth, however, was, the whole of the evidence disclosed a system of collusion between the sitting Member and the committee of another can didate, which rendered it exceedingly difficult, if not altogether impossible, to prove the agency of the parties who administered the bribes, and nothing was brought before the Committee to warrant them in reporting specially that the borough ought to be disfranchised. Mr. BLACKSTONE said it was evident from what had fallen from the Hon. Member who had just sat down, that there was something behind in this case which ought to be enquired into, and he should sup port the motion for adjournment. Mr. T. B. ROCHE trusted the House would sift this matter to the bottom, for an impression had got abroad, and particularly in Ireland, that English boroughs were becoming more corrupt and rotten than before the Reform Bill. —(Hear, hear, and laughter.) He trusted, therefore, the House would look carefully into the case, for he bad now to give the House notice that every borough the House disfranchised in this country, he intended to claim for Ireland.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) He hoped the House would not laugh at this matter, for it was a most serious affair, when they found that :a millionaire had it in his power to secure his interest being represented in that House by four or five borough Members. Indeed, it appeared to him, that a system of corruption was going on in this country which strongly resembled that resorted to by a recently deposed Monarch.—(Hear, and laughter.) Mr. BRADSIIAW admitted that there was great bribery and corruption in Harwich in 1841, but in that year there were only 180 electors of that borough, and out of that number in that year 121, as he believed, independent voters promised him their votes.—(Laughter.) It had been said that his Committee had been bribed—the chairman with 1,0001. in his pocket. He denied it altogether. He I had denied it out, and he now most positively denied it in, the House. The number of voters now in Harwich were 280, half of which were not on the register in 1841. He thought, therefore, it would be most unfair and unjust to suspend the issuing of a writ for Harwich, which would have the effect of dis franchising a number of voters that had nothing to do with the act that took place in 1841. He trusted, therefore, that the debate on the subject would not be adjourned, but that the writ would be ordered to issue. Sir B. lIALL said the question for the considera tion of the House was, whether a borough that was notorious for bribery and corruption should be allowed to send Members to that House, after the report of a Select Committee that a repetition had taken place at the late election of that bribery and corruption. He for one could not consent to the issuing of the writ, because he thought if they were to have any credit for purity of election out of doors, it would be a disgrace to that House to issue a writ for Harwich after what had lately taken place. A friend of his, in 1841, put up for Harwich, and on that oc casion one of the electors told him that he was secure of one of his votes, but that he would not say who else he should vote for—(Hear, hear)---but he stated that he would not vote till late in the day, and he (Sir B. Hall) had reason to believe that that voter had no less than 475/. for his vote at a late hour of the day. He trusted that the House would not allow the writ to issue until the matter had been sifted to the leettom.—(Hear.) Mr. J. STUART WORTLEY was not aware that the question would hare been discussed before S IN, LO O N, to-morrow, or he would have been in the House at its sitting. As the Chairman of that Committee, he had excluded from his mind all that had taken place in Harwich in former years, and con fined himself solely to the particular charges of bribery and corruption at the last election. He thought, after sitting on the Committee, that there was no evidence of general bribery and corruption in the borough of Harwich. Single cases of bribery and treating had been proved, but they were not traced distinctly to Mr. Attwood or his agents, with the exception of one case only. He thought the best course to be adopted was that the debate should be adjourned until the evidence was printed and in the hands of Members, and that the issuing of the writ should be supended until the subject had undergone the strictest scrutiny. Sir J. TYRRELL believed that the borough of Harwich had returned some of the most able states men that had ever sat in that House"; and he thought the Government ought not to be in too great a hurry to disfranchise the borough. Mr. V. SMITH thought that it would be very in convenient to discuss at present the question of the disfranchisement of the borough of Harwich. He thought that the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary. of State for the Home Department had been some what hardly dealt with by Honourable Members. The Honourable Member for Montrose (Mr. Hume) had attacked him as though he wished to screen the offence. He (Mr. Vernon Smith) un derstood him to take no such course. The question which the Right Hon. Baronet put to the House was, whether the writ should issue now or not. That was a question entirely distinct from the disfranchise ment of the borough. He thought that in a consti tutional view of the question the writ ought to issue, because no borough ought to remain unrepresented for any longer period than was absolutely necessary. One of the Hon. Members on the Committee had said that it appeared to them that there was some thing like collusion practised between the parties; and he (Mr. V. Smith) thought that circumstance, coupled with the recommendation of the chairman of the Committee, ought to have some weight with the House in inducing it to allow the present debate to be adjourned. Captain ELLIOT said that what he hail stated was, that after the Committee had sat for a few days it did certainly appear that there was something like collusion between the parties, but subsequently, when they saw the petitioners doing their utmost to prove their case, that opinion was entirely done away with.—(Hear, hear.) Lord D. STUART said that he understood the arrangement come to last night by the House, was that the further decision of the question should be postponed untilllon. Members should have been afforded an opportunity of considering the whole question; but he did not think that that arrangement at all affected the motion of to- day for issuing the new writ. He could tell Hon. Members, that if they wished to enjoy the real coufldence of the country, and be the real representatives of the people, they must not endeavour to stifle inquiries upon these subjects, but, on the contrary, keep tke elections as pure as possible. Already a considerable feeling of disaffection pre. veiled throughout the country with the inequality of the present representation.— (Hear.) Mr. BAGGE said that he was entirely in the hands of the Home, and would either withdraw or consent to adjourn his motion. Lord PALMERSTON said that he was quite prepared to agree to the motion being withdrawn, and the debate thereon being considered as dropped, and that the motion for issuing the writ should not be renewed until atter the minutes of the evidence had been printed and placed in' the hands of Members a sufficient time to allow of its being fully considered, and then that notice should be given when the motion would be brought forward. He thought that the adoption of that course would fully reconcile the opinions of all parties upon the subject.—(Hear, hear.) He felt called upon to confirm the statement of his Right lion. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with respect to the understanding which prevailed last night upon this subject. He was in the House at the time, and could speak from a perfect recollection of the circumstances. The under standing to which he was a party, and to which he considered Hon. Members on the other side had acceded, was that the question of whether the writ should issue or not should be postponed until after the evidence given before the Committee had been considered by the llouse.—(Hear, hear.) His own opinion was that he should be ready upon the statement of the Hon. Chairman of the Committee to move for the issue of the writ, and he thought that the reference which had been made to the former re port of the Committee, in 1842, tended rather to confirm him in that opinion, because he found that upon that occasion there was a charge of general, if not universal corruption in the borough; whereas it ap peared upon this occasion that the most searching inquiry by the petitioners did not result in a proof of anything like general corruption, or even corrup tion extending beyond three or four individuals.— (Hear, hear.) The question of bribery was one of such great importance, that he felt that it was an abuse which struck so vitally at the root of everythir.g upon which the influence the character, the respectability, and effi ciency of this House depended—(Cheers)—that he thought that this House should at all times, if they erred at all, err on the side of extending opportuni ties for inquiring into all cases where it had been shown that any acts of bribery had been practised. —(Hear, hear.) Although he was aware that upon general principles this House should be careful not unnecessarily to suspend the issuing of writs, or leave any portion of the country unrepresented, he thought that upon the present occasion it would be expedient that the motion should be withdrawn, and the issuing of the writ not moved for until the evi dence given before the Committee had been printed, and the House had had a full opportunity of con sidering its nature.—(Hear.) He therefore suggested that the Hon. Member should withdraw his motion, and immediately move that the evidence should be printed. Mr. BLACKSTONE—That has already been moved. Lord PALMERSTON—If such a motion had been made he thought that the worst course for the House to adopt would be to agree to that motion. Sir J. GRAHAM said that upon the suggestion of the Noble Lord lie had no objection to withdraw his motion, on the understanding, however, that the issue of this writ should not be moved for without notice, and such notice not to be given until after the evidence had been printed. Mr. \VAKLEY had witnessed, with great delight, the virtuous indignation of the Noble Member for Tiverton (Lord Palmerston), and he should not be surprised to see that Noble Lord one day appearing as the illustrious head of a powerful Radical party in that House.—(Laughter.) Stranger things than that had occurred before now in that house.—(Laughter.) lie was proud to see that the Noble Lord was not determined, with inflexible stupidity, like some Hosiourable Members, to stick to old and obso lete prejudices, but had shown himself willing to advance in the right direction.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord, the Member for Marylebone (Lord D. Stuart), and the Hon. Member for Northampton (Mr. V. Smith), had endeavoured to excuse, or to palliate, the conduct of the Right llon. Baronet the Secretary of State for the Home Department. Ile could not account for that course of conduct. Last night the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir:G. Grey) was for delay, to-day, he being acquainted with the facts of the case, was - anxious for the immediate issuing of the writ.— (Hear, hear.) Shortly after the appointment of the Right Honourable Baronet to office, he (Mr. Wakley) had taken a phrenological view of his cranium —(A laugh)—and he noticed distinctly that the Right Honourable Baronet was possessed of a very large organ of " justice."—(Renewed laughter.) Now, after knowing that bribery had been practised in this, the most corrupt and rotten of all corrupt boroughs in the kingdom—(Cries of "No, no") — well, then, ons of the most corrupt—the Right Hon. Baronet was in favour of issuing the writ. To whom was he to send this writ ? The writ would have to be sent to these corrupt electors, who were thus to be the instruments of adding another to the number of "Attwoodian" Members in this House. What, he would ask the house, was there that would be safe in this country, if the fountain of justice—the Right Hon. Baronet—were so corrupted? : Would the lives and property of the people of this country be safe or protected if the fountain of their laws were to be thus corrupt!—(Hear, hear.) Large sums of money had been expended for the purpose of corrupting this House to a degree which had never been known.—(Hear.) The Hon. Member for Essex, who seemed to entertain a fear for the necessity of bringing forward a new Reform Bill, had said that he thought that the large constituencies were not in the habit of judging with sufficient sagacity, or exercising a proper degree of caution in the choice of their representatives. Why, was not the Honourable Member himself a Member for a large constituency ? —(hear, hear.) lie wondered that the lion. Member had not formed a complete re futation of his arguments in his own person. — (Laughter.) Essex had always been famous for its representatives. The House might rest assured that these things would ba constantly recurring so long as the Election for Members was septennial instead of annual, and they continued to be elected by small constituencies who could be influenced by cor rupt means. If the constituencies were enlarged it would be out of the power of persons to cor rupt them. At present it was considered a good !peculation for persons to invest their money in an election ; they knew that they would have their seats for seven years, and could be able by that time to palm their relatiOns upon the public. The Noble Lord, the Honourable Member for Marylebone (Lord Dudley Stuart), had said that in this EVENING, MARCH 15, 1846, case as much as 4751. was given for a single I vote. Did the House suppose that such a sum would have been paid for a vote if the party plying it did not consider that it would be a profitable outlay ? There was an opinion fast gaining ground among the people out of doors that they were not properly re presented, and they would demand as a right that they should be fairly represented in this House. The Hon. Gentleman the Member for Bute said the Committee did not restrain the petitioners from enter ing into the general charge of bribery and treating. He said—" We found there was bribery, but we could not discover for which candidate it was paid."—(Hear, and laughter.) Now what a searching inquiry that must have been which could not make such a discovery.—(Hear, hear.) To him the inquiry did not appear a very searching one. Why, they had the admission of the sitting Member, who they must suppose represented the virtue of the place, that the majority of the voters were corrupt ; and under such circumstances, was the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Ripon (Sir J. Graham) to get up in his place, and move sim ply that the debate be adjourned ? Let the House " assume some virtue if it have it not." Out of doors the people were dissatisfied at the con duct of the House with respect to these matters— they were becoming sullen, and declined to make any application to the House, because they were impressed with the idea that they did not fairly represent them.—(Hear.) The people were willing to conform to the established state of things if they were fairly represented. Proof of this was to be found in the fact that there was not the same demand for a republic here as in France. Those who were guilty of such conduct as that pursued with respect to this borough ought to be punished with the utmost rigour of the law. Unless this was done, and the people more fairly dealt with, anarchy and confusion could not fail to be the result. Sir G. GREY thought the Hon. Member had expended a great deal too much virtuous indignation with respect to him. He had even taken a phreno logical survey of his head.—(Laughter.) He hoped that nothing he had done on this occasion had thrown any discredit upon his phreno logical skill.—(Prolonged cheering.) He in stanced the cases of Lancaster and Carlisle. because he thought they should follow the course adopted with respect to those boroughs ;—nothing, ho assured the House, but considerations of justice in duced him to take the course he had.—(Loud cheers.) All boroughs charged with bribery should, he thought, be dealt with equally; and he did not think it just that the Honourable: Member, after having the report of the Committee of 1842 before him for nearly "even years, which stated that bribery was there committed—after allowing it to slum ber for all that period that he !should come down to the House now, and with great virtuous in dignation, wish to visit the sin of the constituency of 1842 upon the constituency of 1848.—(Loud cheers.) It was because such a proposition was unjust, that he had taken the course he had.—(Loud cheers.) But he was willing to bow to the decision of the House.—(Hear.) The motion for the issuing of the writ, and that for the adjournment of the debate, having been ac ceded to, The SPEAhER then put the motion, that the issuing of the writ •be suspended until the evidence was before the house. Mr. MO WATT rose amidst much impatience on the part of the House. He eulogised the sentiments enunciated by Lord Palmerston, that the House should be purified of those who had been improperly returned to it. The conduct of the Noble Lord presented a remarkable contrast—he might almost say: it :contrasted! shamefully with the avowal of the Right lion. Baronet (Sir G. Grey).— (Cries of "Oh !") He admitted however, that he qualified his sentiments in some measure. Lord PALMERSTON rose to order. lie hoped his Hon. Friend would withdraw the word " shame fully"—(Loud sheers)—which no doubt had fallen from him in consequence of not being used to the House. Mr. MOWATT most readily withdrew the ob jectionable phrase. Being a new Member must plead as his excuse.—(Hear, hear.) He certainly under stood the Right Hon. Baronet to be the advocate of the present system of corruption.—(Cries of " Oh ! ") Sir G. GREY wished to say one word.—(Cheers.) He felt deeply indebted to the House for this assur ance of its confidence in him.—(Cheers.) After such an expression of feeling it would be wholly unecessary to say another word.—(Prolonged cheering.) Any thing he could say, he was sure, would utterly fail to show the House he was blameable.—(Hear.) Mr. S. WORTLEY (the Chairman of the Com mittee) explained that the words " no evidence to show" were introduced by the Committee into the resolution he had drawn up. Mr. MUNTZ said that the people looked upon such conduct as that shown to have taken place at the last election for Harwich with ineffable contempt. The Right Hon. Baronet had said, as they had not visited the sins of the electors of 1842 upon them that they should not do so upon those of 1848. This was an extraordinary statement. Why, if they did not punish these guilty parties now, they would have no future opportunity of doing so. Not punishing them would be taken as a precedent in other cases of a similar nature. On account of such proceedings, his constituents, and the people in other parts of the county, entertained great doubts of the honesty of the House. If all who spoke so strengly against such conduct were to act as resolutely as they seemed disposed to do, all the difficulties in the way would be removed in a week. If steps were not immedi ately taken by the House to punish such conduct, and to put an end to it, proceedings out of doors would be taken to accomplish the desired result. Captain ELLIOT defended the Committee, of which he was a member. There was no ground for saying that the House favoured thcse petitioned against on the score of bribery, as almost in every instance of disputed returns during the present session thejMembers petitioned against had been unseated. How, then, could Hon. Members be accused of coun tenancing such proceedings ? Hon. Members should support the legislation and decisions of the House, instead of casting discredit upon them, and making them unpopular with the country. The Hon. Member for Finsbury complained that the Committee did not sufficientlyinvestigate the evidence adduced be fore it. He denied that this was so. If not he hoped the lion. Gentleman would investigate their conduct elsewhere in his judicial capacity; though, from the deficient acuteness he had evinced on this occasion, he should be sorry to put himself under his hands. — (Roars of laughter.) Mr. B. OSBORNE considered that there was a " mock" modesty in the House respecting proceedings relative to cases of bribery, and a laugh was instinctively raised when such subjects were introduced.—(Hear , hear.) There was no assimilation between the cases of Lancaster, and Carlisle, and Harwich. The last was a monstrous one. It was a new " dodge" to taunt Hon. Members with acting unfairly when they spoke openly and fearlessly with respect to such places. Sir W. HE ATIICOTE could not avoid expres sing his indignation at the remark which had been directed against the Right Hon. Baronet opposite, while he could assure the House that the under standing come to last night was not that the writ should be postponed till the minutes were laid upon the table, but that it should be postponed till the report of the committee was in the hands of Hon. Members.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HUME was quite certain that his Hon. Friend the Member for Finsbury meant no offence to the Right Hon. Baronet in the observations he had addressed to the House. No doubt his Hon. Friend had spoken warmly upon the subject before the House, but the House must bear in mind that the Right Hon. Baronet drew a comparison between Harwich and Carlisle and Lancaster, which certainly was not justified by the evidence taken before the Committees. lie was confident that his Hon. Friend meant no personal offence towards the Right Hon. Baronet, and all that could be said of the remarks his Hon. Friend had made was, that they betrayed an error of judgeseat_(Hear.) With regard to what had i just fallen from the Hon. Baronet opposite, he, for one, understood just the contrary to what was stated by the Hon. Baronet. He understood that the writ was not to be moved for till the minutes, as well as the report, were before thern.—(Hear.) Mr. BROTIIERTON felt himself called upon to confirm what had fallen from the Hon. Baronet opposite, and to protest against the language applied to the Right Hon. Baronet by the lion. Member for Falmouth. Mr. MOWATT trusted the House would allow him to say one word in explantion. He had no personal motives in applying the observations he did to the Right Hon. Baronet, but all that he intended was to express his disapprobation in the strongest language, the usages of Parliament would admit of at the con duct of the Right Hon. Baronet in wishing to bring forward the issuing of the writ —(lean) The motion for the production and printing of the minutes was then agreed to. ELECTION RECOGNIZANCES BILL. On the order of the day for the second reading of this Bill being read, Mr. HENLEY presented a petition from the elec tors of Warrington against the Bill. Mr. WALPOLE, in moving the second reading of the Bill, said he would endeavour to state as shortly as possible the provisions of the Bill, though after the exciting debate which had just closed he could hardly hope to receive the attention of the House. It would be in the recollection of the House that in the course of the present session a number of petitions had been presented complaining of the re cognizances entered into for prosecuting certain election petitions, but upon the advice of counsel it was found that it would be dangerous if the House allowed those election petitions to be entertained. The House must bear in mind that it was now sitting in a judicial capacity, having the interest of the sitting Member and his constituents to protect, and it was to enable thellouse to protect the interest of those two parties that this Bill had been brought in. He rested the support of the Bill upon two cases, namely, the Leicester and Walsall election petitions. In the first case, the examiner of recognizances, although he had some doubt as to their validity, passed the recogni zances ; but they were afterwards pronounced to be insufficient, and the case was thereupon stopped altogether. In the other case, however, the examiner of the recognizances allowed the parties to amend their recognizances, and upon their putting in such amended recognizances, the case was allowed to go on. It would be seen that these two eases in the first instance were exactly alike. There was some informality in the recognizances, but the examiner overlooked the informality in the one instance, and called upon the parties in the other to amend. In the latter case the parties were allowed to proceed with their petition, but in the other the parties were deprived altogether of a remedy against what they considered to be an invalid return; and the ob ject of the present Bill was to remove this anomalous state of things.—(lfear, hear.) The task he had undertaken was a most unthankful one, but in the conscientious discharge of his duty he could adopt no other course than to lay the present Bill on the table of the House. It was a measure, however, that, whatever might be the objections to it, ought not to be met by such an amendment as that which was to be proposed by the Hon. Member for Warwickshire. The Hon. Member trusted that the House would allow the Bill to be read a second time. Mr. SPOONER then rose to move the following amendment :—" To leave out the word ' That' in order to add the orders referring the petitions presented against the returns of Members to this House for the boroughs of Bodmin, Cheltenham, Leicester, and Walsall, the city of Dublin, and the county of Long ford, to the General Committee of Elections, which petitions are mentioned or referred to in the said Bill, be discharged, and that no further proceedings be taken on the said petitions.' " He thought justice would not be due by giving the second reading of the Bill a direct negative and such being his opinion, he had determined, thinking it the best ceurse he could pursue, to move the amendment, of which he had given notice, and in doing so he could assure the House he was not actuated by any party motive or party views. The Bill set out by stating that doubts existed. He denied that any doubts did exist.—(Hear, hear.) It was the duty of the petitioners, with the assistance of their legal advisers, to see that the petition was in compliance with the required forms, and he did not think that the House ought to interfere to cure the omissions caused by the negligence of those parties.—(Hear, hear.) With respect to the Cheltenham election petition, he thought that the omission complained of did not arise from negligence, for it appeared from the evidence of Mr. Coppock, who was examined before the Committee, that he had properly prepared the recognizances in Lon don, and that they were sent down perfect to Cheltenham, where an alteration was made by striking out the important words, " each and every one of them." He thought, therefbre, that this House ought not to pander to such cases. He deprecated any alteration of the laws for ex post facto purposes, instead of receiving a full and deliberate discussion by the House, such as the importance of the case required. He felt himself, therefore, bound to move the amendment which he had read to the House. Sir GEORGE GREY said that he thought a remedy might be found for those inconveniences which, it was alleged, some Hon. Members were put to. As one of the members of the Committee to whom the Cheltenham election petition was referred, he con sidered with the other Hon. Members in what way it would be best to provide a remedy for the evils com plained of. He entirely concurred with the sugges tion offered to the Committee by the Honour able and Learned Member for Midhurat (Mr. Walpole), and he thought that the Bill founded on that suggestion, and which was now before the House, would provide a sufficient remedy for the evils cemplained of, and as a member of that Committee he was prepared to give the Bill his most cordial support, and to vote in favour of the second reading. He trusted that the House would not con cur in the amendment proposed by the Hon. Member for Warwickshire (Mr. Spooner) ; it would be setting a most dangerous precedent, causing a resolution of the House to supersede an Act of Parliament. Mr. LAW considered that Committees should in the first instance inquire into the validity of the recogniaances at the time the endorsement was made. He objected to the amendment of the Hon. Member for Warwickshire (Mr. Spooner), because he thought it would not be well to interfere, by a resolution of that House, with an Act of Parliament. He recommended his Hon. and Learned Friend (Mr. Walpole) to adopt his suggestion, and to make it the primary object of his measure. A middle course would best meet the justice of the case. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opposed the amendment, on the ground that it might lead to a tyrannical exercise of the power which it would give, and would take the question of privilege out of the hands of the House.—(Hear.) If the amendment was negatived he should give his support to the Bill. Mr. HILD YARD did not concur in the opinion just delivered by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, though he by no means wished it to be under stood that he. was favourable to the second reading of this Bill. He, however, saw no objection to the amendment of his Honourable Friend the Member for the county of Warwick ; but there were objections, and exceedingly strong ones, too, to the provisions of the Bill itself. In the first place, the Bill itself partook of an ex poste facto law, and the House ought always to be extremely cautious in adopting a measure based upon that principle. — (Hear, hear.) To remedy the defects which the Bill proposed to remove he would give the Court of Com mon Pleas jurisdiction to decide whether recogniaances were ipso facto void, and if this Bill were withdrawn another measure could be introduced to establish the jurisdiction he had suggested.—(Hear, hear.) Sir R. H. INGLIS had strong objections to the five propositions contained in the report presented to the House on the subject, amd, of course, entertaining such objections, he could not support the Bill or the amendment, because they were both founded upon those propositions. The House ought to take care not easily to part with its juris diction in these matters of election petitions; and he, therefore, hoped the House would neither pass this Bill nor adopt the suggestions of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman who bad just resumed his seat.—(Hear.) He thought the best course would be to let matters stand as they did at present till the end of the session, and then bring in a Bill to regulate the whole election law in future, if it was thought necessary. Mr. ANSTET objected to the Bill because it was a private Bill and an ex post facto Bill. Such being the case, he asserted—and he did so advisedly—that if the Bill was passed, it would never have the force of law. He should record his vote in favour of the amendment of the Honourable Member for Warwickshire. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided on the question, that all the words after " That" should be omitted. Noes ..._ . 126 Ayes Majority -2 The House then divided on the question that the amendment should be inserted. Ayes .. .. .. .. 78 Noes .. • • .. .. 165 Majority .. .. ••• -------67 So that the only wor d l e ft in the main question was " that." There was no time, however, to take any further division on the subject, the hour of six o'clock having passed. SALE OF RAILWAY SHARES BY AUCTION.—(TIIIS DAY.) The sale of Railway Shares to-day, by Messrs. La mond and Co., went off with considerable spirit, con sidering the great excitement regarding foreign affairs. The following are a few of the principal quotations: — Namur and Leige, ex int £3 17 0 Eastern Counties Great Northern North British, Thirds Northern of France .. North Staffordshire Madrid and Valencia 0 12 6 Boulogne and Amiens ... 5 5 0 Birmingham and Oxford Junctiosi ..... 21 0 0 Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 6 15 0 Buckinghamshire South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and G001e... 0 14 0 Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston 0 13 0 Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) 3 0 0 übiquitous Mr. JOSEPH ADT AT NEASH.--•This personage, we are informed, has been trying his "much to-your-advantage" scheme at the above town, in the course of the last few days. It would appear that the gentleman is getting more liberal the older he gets. His charge is now reduced from one guinea to 6s.— The Cambrian. SHOCKING MILL AlClDENT.—Yesterday we e k, an inquest was held at the house of'. Mr. Thomas Walton, the Queen's Arms Inn, Manchester road, on view of the body of a youth aged 16 years, named Richard Mang han. It appears that the deceased was employed at Messrs. Waud's mill, and on th e p rev i ous d ay h o had got entangled in one of the 'straps, by means of which he had one leg and one arm torn completely from his body. The poor unfortunate lad only survived the acci dent about twenty minutes. The verdict of the jury was " Accidental death."—Leeds Mercury. THE NEW COIN OP THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.— In a few days the Mint of Paris will, says the Consti tutionnel, begin to strike coin in the name of the Repub lic. The old dies of Dupre representing Hercules sup ported between the Nation and the Law, with some slight alterations, will, it is said, be used for the new coin, until a final decision shall have been come to by the Na tional Assembly. KING O'PHILLIPS FOR IRELAND. (From Punch.) CH-s-LM A-ST- Y T 9 JOHN O'CONNELL, M.P. " Sir,—Although I have not yet made it a part of my impeachment of Lord Palmerston, I intend to do so. Yes ; the accusation—l have to preter—will be con tinued in my next. In tho mean time, I take the widest, the strongest, and the deepest means (need I allude to the pages of Punch ?) to inform all Ire land of the chains at this mement being forged for her ; forged by the traitorous Foreign Secretary, to whom treason is a labour of affection. " For ruany•days the whereabout of the ex-King of the French has been kept a secret. He has been at Dreux—at Eu—at TrArport,—at Herne Bay. Such have been the conflicting rumours of a venal press. All, of course, to put the world upon a wrong scent until the iniquity, for some days hatching, shall receive portentous birth. " Now, sir, prepare to be astonished; for I am about to inform you and the bamboozled world at large of the real hiding-place of the late King of the French. Know, then, that his ex-Mujesty is at this moment—and has been for some days past—at No. 3, Curlton-house-ter race. Yes; in legal phrase, he is there • harboured and comforted' by Viscount Palmerston, the Foreign Se cretary. _ . " I am the last man to suggest any intrusion upon the privacy of fallen greatness; but—if you doubt the vera city of ray information—l have only to direct you to the above address. Knock at the door, rush by the porter, run up stairs; and on the third-pair back (turning to the right, you will see a cut glass handle to the door) you will find the royal fugitive. There he is, seated in an arm-chair covered with Russia leather, which (stuffed with Russian bank-paper) was a grateful present of Nicholas, for work done, to the Foreign Secretary. There is the ex-King, in that Russian chair, with his feet upon a Turkey carpet, the bribe of the Sultan ; there he is, with a Persian cat (the souvenir of the Shah) bridling at his royal knee ; with his royal but exiled elbow leaning on a Spanish mahogany table, the gift of Christina for winking at the Spanish marriage. There is the King, sir (at the hour I write), with a cup of tea before him —the tea the gift of the Emperor of China, in recom pense for a certain foreign treaty that sacrificed the in terests of the English merchant; the tea sweetened by the sugar of Brazil, originally sent in a loaf, to purchase destruction of the West Indies—milked from a Brahmin cow, the gift of the East India Company—and stirred by a spoon, a small item of the extensive service of plate manufactured at the mine's mouth in Peru, to buy the Foreign Secretary to the interests of the republic. I might, sir, give many other particulars touching the furniture of that back room—nay of every moveable of No. 3—but I am the last man to be personal. " Well, sir, you will ask wherefore should Lord Pal merston—the Foreign Secretary of England—give an asylum to the castaway Louis Philippe. Listen. " The King of the French cannot leave off a crown. After wearing one for nearly eighteen years, it is—he declares—as needful to his health as flannel. " The King of the French is desirous to purchase an other kingdom—to lay down so much ready money for it—and, sir, (now prepare to shriek)—Lord Palmerston proposes to sell him Ireland "Yes! You clench your patriotic hand—you strike it on your heart (I knew you would)—you gaze towards the ceiling and —no, you are too much of a gentleman —you don't swear. " For these past three days, whilst even the Chronicle —a public organ that Lord Palmerston has ceased to grind—has preached of Louis Philippe's wanderings in France, his Majesty has—l repeat it—been lodged at No. 3, Carlton- house- terrace, bargaining for the purchase of the first flower of the earth and first gem of the sea;' and they are now—after much haggling on the King's part—sold to him as though the flower was of no more worth than a daisy, and the gem as common as Margate shingle. " 'lreland was Peel's difficulty'—said Palmerston to a friend I could name—' but I have turned it into ready cash. We are the first Ministry who ever made a penny by it.' " I have not yet made my mind up to publish the precise sum paid by Louis Philippe for the throne of Ireland; but I shall be quite prepared—when the time, comes—to summon to the bar of the Commons the identical clerk from Coutts's who cashed his Majesty's cheque. " I shall also be quite ready to call Mr. to the bar, to prove that he received instructions to make out the conveyance deeds. This much I will, however, ven ture to state without further hesitation. " Of course, Ministers said nothing of the transaction. It was their selfish policy to keep it secret until they secured the income-tax. "It is not yet settled when his Majesty will take pos session of Ireland, but I think I may venture to predict that it will be on the very earliest day of April. " The King—in order that certain passages of his Paris life may be forgotten—proposes to cast aside his present name as he would change dirty linen, and to mount the throne (which in this case he has ordered of cast iron, not to be consumed by fire) under the title of O'Phillips the First. "I can assure you that the King re-enters upon Majesty with the greatest vigour, and in the highest spirits. Mr. Shell, the Master of the Mint, has already been to advise with him respecting the new coinage: and already Mr. John Leech and Mr. Richard Doyle have been solicited to supply designs for the five pat piece and the O'Phillips-d'or. (A hand closing an um brella, for the obverse has been suggested, as significant of the brevity of the royal reign.) " Messrs. Storr and Mortimer have taken the King's hat to measure for the new crown (of gilt silver): a light, tasteful thing composed of shamrocks, and enriched with polished fragments of the real Blarney Stone. " Mr. Moses, from the Minories, has been honoured with an order to make the royal robes of the very best cotton velvet, to be trimmed with real fox. Mr. Moses was as I am informed, kept in ignorance of the rank of of his customer; Lord Palmerston in his wily way, assuring the single-hearted tailor that the old gentle man was a bit of a character, and only wanted the robes for the purpose of a masquerade.' " And now, sir, having communicated to you a part of the designs of Lord Palmerston, it is for you, as the Patriot of Erin, to determine for the seven millions who look all the way up to you; it is for you to say whether you will take the Son of Gaul in exchange for the hated Saxon. I will not tell you the name I have already heard as determined upon by King O'Phillips as his prime minister for life; but it begins with O'C. " Again, it cannot be denied that King O'Phillips comes with a ready made royal family. There is Nemours, and D'Aumale, and Montpensier, each ready to head an Irish invading army; whilst Admiral Join vile, in command of the armada of the Liffy, may pour his thunder on either side of the Thames. This, it must be confessed, will be revenge on the blood-thirsty Saxon —revenge sweet and unctuous as butter-milk! " That Ireland will benefit by the change—that the country •which has been blighted by the rule of the Saxon will run with oil and honey under the beneficent auspices of the Gaul—is not to be doubted. Neverthe less, be assured that the corrupt and avaricious states man who has transacted the bargain—selling a whole nation for a bank cheque—will, in the proper place, namely, the House of Commons, at the bar of the coun try, be duly impeached by " Your obedient servant, CH-11—LM A-13 T-7. _ _ _ " J. O'Connell Esq., M.P. " P.S. It is a small matter, but I have just learned that Louis Philippe binds himself and his heirs for ever, to supply for the same time mountain dew and potatoes to the cellar and the kitchen of a certain mansion in Carlton- house-terrace." RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS 3 LIVERPOOL, MARCH 14. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire Junction, New, 7 1 ,4 dis.—East Lanca shire, New, 6 3 / 4 dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire (late L. and B.), 11% dis.— London and North-Western, 130 - Ditto, New Quarters, 27 p —Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln shire, Preference, par—Midland, 100—Ditto, Halves, 5% dis.--North Staffordshire, % dis. —South-Eastern and Dover, N 0.4, 61s. 3d. dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (N. and B.), No. 2, p.—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), donian, 29%. MANCHESTER, Mancit 14. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The saIes are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire Junction, 6% dis.—East Anglian, Pre ference (6 per cent.), 3 7-16—Huddersfield and Manches ter Railway and Canal, Thirds, 1% dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fitt hs, 5 ,4 dis.—London and North- Western ( Man chester and Birmingham), Quarters (A), 2% p.—Ditto, ditto ( B), p.—Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 2% dis.— slanchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference (10/. paid), par—Ditto (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 7% die. —North British, Thirds 1 1 72 dis.—North Staffordshire, 15-16 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No 4, 2 15-16 dis.—White haven and Furness, 8 1 4 dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, Extensions, No. 2, 1 4, p. BIRMINGHAM, MA gnu 14. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Amhergate, Notting ham, and Boston, 2% dis. (for pre. acs)—North Stafford shire, 16s. 3d. dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B), 535. 9d. dis.—Shropshire Union, 565. 3d. dis.—South Stafford shire, 565. 3d. dis. (for pre. ace.) BRISTOL, Mauch 14. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The'sales are—Great Western, Quar ters, 1,4 dis.—Ditto, Fifths, 11 p.—Midland Old, par—New castle and Berwick, 2 3 / 4 p. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, MAncir 14. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Newcastle and Car lisle, 100—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (late N. and B.), 27%. PORTSIEOUTII, MARcli 12.—The 52d Regiment leave this garrison in three divisions on Monday, and two following days, for Manchester. The 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment will arrive here from Winchester on the same days, to replace the 52d. The first battalion of the 44th Regiment (the first corps for foreign service) is to proceed to Malta_as soon as ships can be provided; as the entire regiment is now at Cork, the battalion ordered out will embark at that place; the other battalion will go to the Mediterranean in the course of this year, probably to Malta also. The Apollo troopship, Com mander Radcliffe, arrived at the Mauritius on the 17th of December, all well. The 35th Regiment were to embark on the Ist of January, and sail on the 3d for England. MARY' ANN Hu NT.—Amongst the prisoners who had been tried and convicted at the late sessions of the Central Criminal Court, and who have subsequently been removed, was Mary Ann Ifunt, who, it will be recol lected, was tried at the last June sessions for the murder of a❑ aged woman of the name of Stowell, in the Edge ware-road. The prisoner is to remain in Tothill-fields prison for two years, for the purpose of attending to and bringing up her child, but at the expiration of that period the commuted sentence of transportation for life will be carried into effect, when her child will be allowed to accompany her. A very rich vein of lead ore has just been dis covered within the manor of llartsop, in Patterdale. The Earl of Lonsdalo is lord of thy inauor,—Cartisle Journal, FROM THE LONDON GAZETO OF TUESDAY. WHITEHALL, MARCH 11, 1848. , rd i The Queen has been pleased to order 17,‘ d'elire to pass the Great Seal, empowering t114":14 and Chapter of the cathedral church of Chester to:" a Bishop of that see, the same being void by th e igl lation of the Most Reverend Father in God J0u',.„,. / i Sumner, late Bishop thereof, to the see of Canter u 7. and her Majesty has also been pleased to recomul ew t , the said Dean and Chapter John Graham, D . ° 4 -_, lc ; e d Divinity, to be by them elected Bishop of the ssla ' Chester. WHITEHALL, Miami' 11. id The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lieu tots Colonel Ralph Carr Alderson, Royal Engineer s ' one of the Commissioners of Railways, in the r(4l Captain Henry Rowland Brandretb, ceased- • W HITEHALL, MARCH 14. -At - , The Queen has been pleased to nominate sno,i i k the Honourable Charles Edward Pepys to be yk the Crown in Chancery, in the room of Leong munds, I4:sq., resigned. FOREIGN-OFFICE, Maßcu 13. f The Queen has been pleased to approe ° vitt(' Thomas H. Hyatt. as Consul at Belfast for the States of America. DOWNING-STREET, MAncu 13. O. The Queen has been pleased to appoint TM ° por. Winter, Esq., to be Assistant Receiver. General 0,1 bier, in the colony of British Guiana. _ _ _ _ CMSWN-OFFICE, MARCH 13. d MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIN PASO' PARLIAMENT. Borough of Lancaster Robert Baynes ArtnitreLb i s il Chester-place, Westminster, Esq., in the room of °".";, A Gregson, Esq., whose election has been declared Yu "' Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of DurbOii, John Eden, L.q., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Mil l Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Surrel,l' Captain Peter Page, U.N., to be Deputy Limit e r March 7. elr Commissioned by the Lord Lieutenant of Caiw n shire. plenty . The Right Hon. Jamet Lord Berridale to be ty Lieutenant; David Henderson, Esq. to be net i g r Lieutenant ; John Sinclair, Esq. jun., to be D e c t i , Lieutenant; James Horne, Esq. jun., to be INP" Lieutenant, March 3. WHITEHALL, MARCH 1. am ps. The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Fish °Li t t field, of Accrington, in the county palatine of Lance ho ri Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the Sigh v" of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. George Armfield, jun., and Robert Wright Birt er o i coach builders, Croydon, to surrender March 2 4, April 28, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankror o j, W hitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Queen-square, Bloomsbury. Charles Minors Collett, baker, Mill-street, Law 0 March 24, at half-past twelve, and April 28, el oat' s , the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official aisle Basinghall- street; Low, Chancery-lane. 4 o Joseph Hosken, builder, Southampton, March twelve, and April 28, at eleven, at the Court of o i l , ruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane; Gr Walbrook, London. James Baker, tailor, George-street, Hanover-se t ; March 22, at two, and April 28, at twelve, at the Hanover-sea of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Gadsden Flower, Furnival's Inn, Holborn. Francis Clementson, earthenware manufacturer, ton, Staffordshire, March 22, and April 20, at electd at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, offi assignee, Birmingham ; Stevenson, Hanley. 11 01 Edward Thompson, hosier, Kingston-upon: _ Ai March 29, and April 19, at half-past ten, at the 111 5 District Court Hope, official assignee, Leeds; and Co., Coleman-street, London; Wells and s° l Hull. Christopher Morgan, tea dealer, Leeds, March 3001. April 27, at eleven, at the Leeds District Co,! A , Young, o ffi cial assignee, Leeds ; Sudlow a nd Co.. o' ford-row, London; Naylor, Leeds. John Porter, cheese factor, Wormwood- s treet, Ci t March 23, at one, and April 22, at t we l ve , a t the Co n „, of Bankruptcy. Follett, o ffi cial assignee, Sambro o k court, Basinghall-street; Wilde and Co., College-bill' a William Inwards, stra w pl a it merc h an t, L uto n D'i fordshire, March 28, at half p as t two , an d A pr il 1 2!! twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, eMPI assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry; Lawrence 119 Plews, Old Jewry Chambers. W illiam Benjamin Jones, hatter, Liverpool, March° and April 18, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Coe Turner, official assignee, Liverpool ; Smith and 4 . 1 ' Bedford row, London ; Greatley, Liverpool. John Smith, roller maker, Little Bolton, Lanat111 11114 ;; April 3 and 17, at twelve, at the Manchester Dist:l e Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Atkinaol l . Saunders, and Atkinson, Manchester; Abbott, Lir coin's Inn-fields, London. John Hope, grocer, Tunbridge wells, March 23 , eleven, and May 2, at half-past eleven, at the Court 01 Bankruptcy. Turquand, o ffi cial assignee, Guildhal l ' chambers; Becke, Bedford row. John Mullett, tailor, Shaftesbury, Dorset, March $ (1, at one, and April 24, at twelve, at the Court of Bank . ruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-shee t ; Yenning and Co., Tokenhouse-yard. Robert Pye, butcher, Weston- under-Penyard, He" . fordshire, March 25, at twelve, and April 18, at ele/0., 11 ' at the Birmingham District Court. V a lpy, offi cia l assignee, Birmingham; Hall and Minett, Ross; Rae* Birmingham. Richard Taylor, soap manufacturer, Liverpool, March 31 and April 18, at elevin, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool Keightlei and Co., Chancery-lane, London; Holden, Liverpool. Edward Gooch e Ho n e, li cease d v i ctua ll er , Li verpo ol : March 28 and April 18, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool i Johnson and Co., Temple, Lond on ; Dewhurst, Liver. pool. John Sinclair, tailor, Liverpool, March 31 and AO 18, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.. Built official assignee, Liverpool ; Gregory and Co., Bedford* row; Payne, Liverpool. John Neaves, plumber, Coles-terrace, Islington, Mara, 23, at half past one, and May 6, at one, at the Court et Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Alciermanbury; Conquest, Moorgate-street. John Parker, brewer, Oxford, March 28, at twelve. and April 25, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy: Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane; Nicholson nall Parker, Lime-street, City. William Penny, brewer, Newport, Monmouthshire. March 30, at eleven, and May 2, at one, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristoli Phippen and Craven, Bristol. Weetman Dickinson, miller, Clayton West, Yorkshire. March 27, and April 17, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Bristol; Bower, Token house-yard, London; Sykes, Wakefield. John Hartley, machine maker, Bury, Lancashire. March 30, and April 15, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Hobion, official assignee, Manchester; Johnson, Son, and W ea th era ll, Temple, London; Blare Manchester. Frederick Francis, ironmonger, Folkatone, March 2 0 , at two, and May 1, at eleven, at the Court, Basinghall , street. Turquand, official assignee, Guildhall•chamberei Young, Warwick-square. Jacob Ordoyno, broom maker, Swan•place, Old /Cent road, March 22, at two, and April 27, at twelve, at the Court, Basinghall-street. Johnson, official assignee. Basinghall-street; Scargill, Hatton•court, Threadneedle• street. William Fuller, carman, Horton Old-town, March 25, at two, and April 38, at half-past eleven, at the Courts Basinghall- street. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lanof Baddeleys, Leman -street, Goodman's-fields. William Dyne, corn dealer, High-street, Stoke New' ington,March 23, at twelve, and April 28, at one, at the Court, Basinghall-street. Stansfeld, official assignee: Thrupp, Winchester-buildings, Great Winchester-street. Benjamin Barber, dealer in lace, Nottingham, March 24 and April 2s, at eleven, at the Nottingham District Court. Bitcleston, official assignee, Nottingham; Juno, Siam-lane, London; Brewster, Nottingham. Jonathan Beckett, ironmonger, Liverpool, March 24 and April 19, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool; Hall and Co., Verw lam-buildings, London; Neal, Liverpool. Thomas Tattersall, corn merchant, Liverpool, March 27 and April 18, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Gregory and Co., Bedford-row, London; Frodsharn, Liverpool. (Dividends. &c.. in' our next.) Lieutenant-General Viscount llardinge, the late Governor-General of India, arrived at Blackwall Pier this morning, by the General Steam Navigation Com• pang's steam ship, Sir Edward Banks, from Ostend. ARRIVAL or BULLION.—The vessel Ganges, ar rived in the Docks from Sydney, has brought, as a por tion of her general cargo, two cases of bullion, con signed to order. A letter from Frankfort, of the 9th of March, in the Cologne Gazette, asserts from the best sources, that in its last two sittings. the Germanic Diet has been occupied with the question of a Germanic Federal Parliament, sitting at Frankfurt. An important decision in that respect was to be published shortly in the Frank fort papers. BIRTHS. On the sth inst., at Tawatock•court, Devon, the lady of Edward Weld, Est, of a daughter. On the Bth inst., at Castle-street, Falcon-square, the wife of Mr. James Moore, of a son. On the 9th inst.,,at St. Bartholomew's Mospital, Mrs. J. Paget, of a son. On the 9 th inst., at Bishop's Teigntoa, Devoe, Mrs. Charles Simeon, of a eon. On the 10th inst., at Grimsthorpe, the wife of the Rev. 1. D. Giles, of a son. On th© 11th inst., in Mornington-ertscent, Mrs. T. L. Atkinson, of a son. ,11414.tti AD. On the 14th inst., at St. G eorse's-------- Hanover •squara. C. Rose, Esq., surgeon, Mile-end, to Marv, second daughter of the late Captain B. Bell, of the Hon. Hudson's Zsy Com. pany's Service. DIED. On the 11th inst., at Prittlewell, Essex, Frances Russet, relict of the Rey. C. Wallington, late Rector of llawkee well, aged 100. On the 11th inst., in King-street, Portman-square, Cap tain George Dardis. On the 13th inst., the Rev. Henry Claydon, M.A., of Calla College, Cambridge. On the 11th inst., in Tork-place, Brighton, Mr. E. Mar slic.ll, aged 71. On the 13th inst., at Leamington, the infant son of 11. M. Campbell, Esq. On the 13th inst., ha Church-row, Hampstead, Mr. John Povah, aged 66. London : Printed and Published by I4URDO YOUNG-, *E No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun (Mee, No. 112. Strand, in the Precinct of tke Savvy, is the county of ilaiddlesex, Wednesday, March 15, le4l. E lad I