The Sun. — London, England, 1835-03-12 00:00:00

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'„„ sreeco THE VEE. f the 'rem the C Ala;eonvocatisty recei on ved an Address yesterday at St. James's Palace o LaniAt half -past one o'clock the Archbishop of Canterbury, accorri ed iy the Bishops of London, Hereford, Lichfield and Coventry, aner, G loucester, and Llandaff, the Dean of Chichester, Prolo eut°r ; the Dean of Hereford,.the Dean of Wells, the Archdeacon °,f Canterbury, the Archdeacon of London, the Venerable Arch sell, Rev. of Cambridge, Archdeacon of Middlesex, Rev. Dr. Bus- Rev. Dr. D'Oyly Hon. and Rev. I'. E. Boscawen, Rev. Mr. Rose th e e eri, Rev. F. Ba;lay, Rev. Mr. Ogilvie, and the Rev. Mr. , arrived at appeareda The Deputation were attended by officers, and in their Convocation robes. • " he King received the Address on the Throne, the Cabinet Mi a:sters, Great Officers of Stele, and Officers of the Reyal.House hold standing on either side of his Majesty. The deputation advanced between the ranks of his Majesty's Ho. n_ourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, when the Archbishop of ik.,-eatiterbury read the Address to the King; after which the Mem • " of the Convocation had the honour to kiss the King's hand. His Majesty afterwards held a Levee. , Count de Ludolff, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo- , eyfrom the King of Naples, had an audience, to deliver letters irom his Sovereign. liCount de Jenison Wallworth, the Bavarian Minister, had an ence, to deliver his letters of recall. of de Pladt, on a special and temporary mission from the King ° araria had an audience to deliver his credentials. • Th e ir Excell enc i es were ' respectively introduced by the Duke of Aftuillgten his Ma.'esty's Principal Secretary of State for Forei gn airs, and co d C eremonies. n ue j ted by Sir Robert Chester, the Ma s te r o f th e rai k the circle Mr. Heheler, his Prussian Majesty's Consul- Gc ne ' 'was presented to the King by Baron Bulow, the Prussian Mi- Water. Th. T „ Levee was attended by the Russian Ambassador, the Sardi ‘a.o, Neapolitan; Prussian, Netherlands, Bavarian, Portuguese, eek ' rssioSPanish, and Saxon Ministers ; N.amick Pacha, on a special n from the Sublime Porte; the French, United States, and thweeßdish Charges d'Affairs ; M. Lichtenberg, Privy . . Councillor of T Lanoverian Legation ; the Secretary to the Spanish Legation, T ord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the 1 4 ;..l as4r Y , the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and C0,!,),45. ,!,),4s. Departments ; the President of the Board of Controul, the Lord of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Secretary at War, the AL rd ,.. B toward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Groom of the Stole, the tT11••••.cr of the Horse, the Lord Chamberlain to the Queen, Lord , Gold Stick in Waiting ; the Master General of the Ordnance, Ce- Ptain of the Honourable Corps at Gentlemen at Arms, .the 1,"-Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the Household, the Vice itrMherlain to the Queen the Comptroller of the Household, the AC of the Robes, the Master of the Ceremonies, Major-General N a , 64 ° 1 4 Equerry to the Queen ; Hon. Sir Henry Duncan, sir al Aide -de-Camp in Waiting; Colonels Sir Robert Gardiner, Gcharles Thornton, and Sir Adolphus Dalrymple, Aides-de-Camp i t l a h ,, e l , lCi ng ; Colonel Horace Seymour. Equerry in Waiting ; Mr. of Colonial Agent for Dominica; Lord Kilmarnock, Page tl °nein. to the King; Lieutenant-Colonel Sir F. Smith, Gen 'pil Usher in Waiting ' • and the following : trzlZl•gse.—Bandon, Clanwilliam, Mount Edgcumbe, Caledon, A°,.l'Pls:--Clements, Rolle, Somerville, Sk4mersdale , Plunket. e ," u ishop of Armagh. 1, 18 "°P ol Gloucester. 'll(Maurable William Fraser. kern S'---William Curtis, Thos. Cochrane, Alexander Millet, G. G. Staunton, R. Bateson. R E v. Do cToits.—S. S. Walsh, Hawtrey. % eases.—B. Winston, T. V. Short. 13eotlracilles;•:—E.C. Curtis, Temple, E. B. Lousada, W. Jones, Chi ' 6 o n, H. Curtis, Welch, Woodbridge, J. Constable, .A. Constable, N. P. Willis, Salome, S. Brownrigg, ' 1 . 1) . •J. ch, Wray, Ashley, J. Copling. CO "4 A-La.—' Sir H. Douglas, Sir T. Hislop. h t°NE LS.—Studd, Campbell, C.B. ; Richardson, .Pasley, e s ,, a wc, Sir J. O'Halloran Findlay, G. Higginson, Ellicombe. Alsagar, M.P., Hon. E. B. Wilbraham, ' °I. Jones, Berens, Alderson, Phelps, Raymond, Cod ngi AT ) g n T. F. A. Hartle. c Adam, Honeyman, White. 4 e: 1 7 0 4 , 1 11 ,..,..—5ir A. Farquhar, Austen, Paget, Hastings, C oN N. I.,;'44xor.as.—G. St. Vincent King, R. Gordon. I,„,:r!NaNrs.—J. F. Thompson, W. F. Smith. Th - '6l4,wing presented Addresses to the King : a tei Earl of Bandon froM the Protestant inhabitants of his %el: Tit 44 . d loyal town of Bandon and its vicinity, expressive of kitnbratitude for his Majesty's most gracious protection,. and iMploring a continuance of his Majesty's favour to their re al krul to the Established Church. the Cclquhoun, Colonel Agent for Dominica, accompanied by g 7,,,, Air. Fraser, Mr. Welch,' Mr. Constable, Mr. Wood :ah.itl--,,,:::iro.u.Jin.gConstable, and the Rev. B. Winston, from the in oi that island gratefully thanking his Majesty for his mu- T . " gilt to the sufferers from the hurricane. were presented to his Majesty i— iiitPeneral Sir Howard Douglas, on his appointment as Lord 6,7,C°Datnissioner in and to the United States of the lonian Lo by the Bi ht Hon. Lord Aberden. .g th e i e .. l4 Ple, on being appointed one of his Majesty's Counsel, by E ' °r(l Chancellor. Alrr Lousada, by Major-General Sir C. Doyle. t a , t ‘-'• Curtis, Madras Cavalry, by his father, Sir W. Curtis, • ear,t.4. Chich ester, M.P., by Lord Rolle. fir. Alsager, m.p. by Earl Ho we . I'l • la d ° '"r'l,3 - ' by Sir Herbert Taylor. ite v uur n , -aY. M.P. for West Surrey, by the Right Hon. Henry I ‘ M fr l,1,:.• Winston, by Mr. Colquhoun. ,elch, hy Mr. Colquhoun. r i r, sta ble, by the Hon. Wm. Fraser. w ''°nstable, by Mr. Colquhoun. Itet toedbridge, by Mr. Colquhoun. Rev Raln-trey, by Earl Howe. A. I'i 8 . W. Walsh, by Sir T. Fremantle. Ile s; . l 'let, by the Marquis of Lansdowne. t a me, by his Grace the Duke of Wellington. N Short, by the Bishop of London. Willis, by Sir G. Staunton. mir. i:s-cool.„Studd, by Lieut.-General Sir C. Grant. opt. p„P"nz, by Lord Ellenborough. q e , t, it N., by Rear-Admiral Sir C. Paget. '°lll Smith, R.N., by Admiral Sir J. Beresford. r, d e ,.._er • St. Vine ent King, on his promotion. oy At, on his appointment to his Majesty's ship Jupiter, ue G rey. p ' r2 kuerson, on his return from Canada. c,•°•nsig., j7 l „Ps . , on pro Motion. 'Apt. o ric 4 l A. Hartle, by Col. Wemyss. "m, on his promotion 'l..' he n_ i l l 'rlist„l, 4 o de Jenison Wallworth, Envoy Extraordinary and ''' cater ' 4 ' leni potentiary from the King of Bavaria, had audience of L . nyesterday afternoon. 41 li, eladt, on a secial and temporary mission from the King 'lay af t ' e a r ' r la, had his first audience of her 11 . 1ajesty the Queen yester 1, Th e i . ° °L, after delivering his credentials to the King ucr A i I. r.acellencies were respectively introduced by Earl Howe, Ai I . Lord Chamberlain , and conducted by Sir Robert Th e ~\A iaster of the Ceremonies. " .°l 'e t —uk e of Cumberland entertained the Noble Directors of the ' 4 St et. ; o f Ancient Music at dinner last evening, at his residence h. pest s '4,4153's Palace. His Royal Highness, accompanied .. by i! pest s ,',.aa'st"Fards went to attend the performance. The Royal Director for the evening. ,CONe ERTS OF ANCIENT MUSIC. Ll 4 FIRST CONCERT. 'etil lv , rst Meeting of this celebrated society was held yesterday 170 sili t at the King's Concert Rooms, Hanover-square.. More i'oc 1 1 - 4 . ,' Years have elapsed since the formation of this institution, 1 ' th e a " its have in laudable desire to perpetuate a just regard I , Z: i set `'` ? o ti ` s l e.. o l tlio . se authors respecting whose merits posterity 44:i a ty , add .or its approbation. The subsequent patronage of e tobl e d ed to the charms of aristocratic . direction has usually q , -se we , numerous 4 ' th " a nu nler list of subscribers from the higher ' classes. h A' l 4 as 1 , 'l° lave witnessed the immense resources of such or . c es ,7-beg "beP.e collected together at the late festivals at Westminster M.l'l4'atont ingham, and Exeter Hall, the effects of a band cieo-tela'''elY numbers a hundred performers, present a contrast r ° h ay Y unfavourable. The conductors of this society appear r 'le o; unfavourable. with more spirit than discretion, as the :hil(1 ad action in the management of those Concerts, the our age e.,--'' Populus emit decipi et decipietur." Those wh . o °Niste'"er the delusion ma cong ' ratulale the directors on their cNotatnS attachment to the y amiable principle conveyed in the works fin 'l ,' Although the Association possesses one of the finest kel4"peeerroi,prehetsive musical libraries in Europe, embracing the ti o, u ei . s b. ,:, , 1ps all the standard writers, .one would imagine the j n - of 8 -7 never heard of any publication besides Arnold's edi t:4lolli 44 uel, and the lucubrations of such writers as Martini, tio ti e be rs ' w e i t th 4 °c genus omne. Instead of gratifying the sub sa s 'ele . • regular scenes from the works of Handel, and innsjudi b•e4ss",•(t from the writings of his great contemporaries and ie-41allys the German school, the schemes of these Concerts 4C di ,e : ll ; sis t of a repetition of former bills, with scarcely . the de ra, Dieee' s e of varying, in a new programme, the order in which a . - .e of il s , were arranged at a previous Concert.. A standing 1. 4 ,te0 fore core excludes every composition which has notbeen no ths' 3 , o to „ ft period of twenty years ; and the subscribers have no Yesll, v ', , :uPlain of its infringement. Haydn, Mozart, d , th e "; a host of ethers , for any ben . efit these opn eer an ts derive Jer..erde,Bl'tendt.d legacies of their genius, .have lived m vain. o .a il 4 11 i, Jmeve.ning the bill of fare comprised compositions ade f iti.t .e ° ' song Marti Cuglielmi, and a few others ; the rest was m s ae j, are-saa_o.,(l .i.choruses which, with the , exception of one of the Ar,' a s b.. ? familiar as household gods. The madrigals were the r f ai Ze y ee.r "e been introduced at nearly every benefit concert fo .11'"ed, s l ast, and were, notwithstanding, but indifferently per kadaeie ,he songs of Jo ' melli and Guglielmi, selected by, or for I eia fro Caradori were really contemptible. Was there no i „ Z t lii 4eoi re th e , D on Juan, Idomeneo, or Titus of Mozart, from the k, Y *as a n - urphou s of Gluck, or th;Fidelio of Beethoven, that this ar4 l cal d o lso t ne,lled to resort to the Lucio Vero of ? The itsrst b . nich occurred in this scena, between thsecond eboe 144,,, t o „rass°°rl, was so distressingly ludicrous, that the utmost tr a Zill. r illerve a calm deportment were at once unavailing and Ito' Josh- e choruses of Handel deserving mention were thos? , liejelith4eo„,:inres,teßoB C I 1 t S gi b el e a r s Z s e Z , a e r os ,pr oratorios, a ur d i oys, Deborah.was badly performed ; the .addi q7„Part, tr u 'nents were in the worst possible style ; and inthe ' a ft, it , '.pr co would the tenors, were all at sea. Harper seem, were infected by the scene, and assisted li v t . off ~etlle agreeable confusion. The chorus from Belshazzar . f, (1 " in a 1 .7 h better ; and Phillips sang the introductory recito -1;11'1 beboru,oe.r which places competition at defiance. The chorus , v o J ose . an is an the uisite p • of the genius of its author, 4 perf.')Prized the ogr atorio s as ec o i n m e e o n f his happiest efforts. It was_ t.', 0 ,, m e u sed a ,, and deserved an encore—a vulgar sense of . the 4, l ,gceri s. " Deautiful seldom or ever exhibited at the Ancient ,4artioi:rhe songs from Handel are too well known to require, w i p kise 1 Foncerto too absurd to deserve, notice. t t ij be li,,,tnis institution to its former high and palmy state, it 4 1 ' 1 ', N l ,, ssary to introduce the works of such composers as Pat- Ir rd t'r sel;o rn o r. 4 ' P_aer, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, in the g itt e ; °ilk ' °Baeh, Fasch, Eybler, and our cathedral writers Nit itto l .- °us, ant,Parr and Purcell, in the severer style. Until 'lll-71;"e0_9nents effected, the Ancient Concerts will be a l oad the knowledge and taste of the day. 4 1, r.:l ...--.......,_____ V'v w way from Dublin to Kilkenny is projected. ilev/c4k L ptc.-say,th 3 ,T—E AND CARLISLE RAILWA Y . On E l ted i- "ay fixed for the opening, an intense interest was wrtillsltheweicastle. and the . surrounding district. The en- Pr oeee , r trains of carriages and multitudinous passcn tailwat, " 4 at a rapid rate. The country through which Passes is extremely picturesque. L Y•. DES• ...... ...• ''' SHOCKING DISCLOSURES RELAT ING TO THE CASE OF THE GIRL WALLER. On Monday evening a very numerous meeting of gentle men and tradesmen residing in the parish of St. George-in _the-East was held at the Britannia Tavern, in the Back road, to hear the report of a committee of parishioners ap pointed'at a former meeting to devise the best means to rid the parish of persons • who trade in juvenile prostitution, and who abound in the neighbourhood of the Commercial road, and to ascertain the best mode of bringing the parties to justice who were concerned in decoying the girl Waller from the paths of virtue into ruin, disease, and death. Mr. Waller, the father of the unfortunate girl, was pre sent, and evinced great anxiety during the proceedings. Mr. T. MORRIS, of Wellclose-square, having been called to the chair, said that before the Report was read, he must tell them a large call would be made on their credulity, for the statements about to be made were so repugnazt to their feelings as men and fathers, and so revolting to their nature, that he was sure they would think the picture highly coloured. He regretted, however, to say that every iota of the statements was most lamentably true.—( Hear.) The report, which was very long, and got up with great care, was read by Mr. Talbot. It la egan by stating, that much commiseration had been evinced by several indivi duals of rank in the metropolis for the unfortunate girl Waller, and the inhabitants of St. George had felt deeply on the subject. The committee had investigated that case, and were satisfied that a more flagrant one could not be ;\ but they had reason to believe it was not a solitary one.— (Hea...) In getting up the necessary . evidence, scenes of the most heartless and cold-blooded depravity had been de veloped.—( Hear.) A meeting of the trustees of the parish had been called, but nothing had yet been done by those au thorities, except that they had taken the evidence of a young woman, and now an inmate of their workhouse, who was lately a " dress lodger." This noor creature, who is now worn out by disease, was one of the victims of the infamous traders in prostitution, and her statement of the treatment she received from her masters was such as to fill the mind with disgust and horror. She was inveigled into a brothel, and ruined .(Some particulars were here 'gone into, but they were too gross for publication.) The report went on to state that sufficient evidence had been got up for prosecuting Lazarus and Elizabeth Barnett, who decoyed Charlotte Waller into their den of infamy, and sacrificed her. The principal evidence was that of Mary Anne Clarke, a servant living with Mrs. Barnett at the time the unfortu nate girl was with her. It was to the following effect : " Mrs. Barnett had two dress lodgers (who gave up their infamous earnings to her) when I resided with her. Mrs. Barnett used to say to them at night, Come girls, the sooner you get out the more chances you will have.' Mrs. Barnett had all the money they produced—if they were backward to go out, she would threaten them, and some times beat them. She would call 3/. 10s. a bad week's work ; a great number of boys under the age of fifteen would come to the house, mostly on Sunday evenings. They were encouraged to do so. About the latter end of last December one of her dress lodgers left, and the same night Mrs. Barnett told me to get my bonnet and shawl, and accompany her and Mrs. Phillips, her aunt, who keeps a house of the same description, over London-bridge. Near the Town-hall we met Charlotte Waller. We went out to look for honest girls. Mrs. Barnett said My dear, where are you going ?' She said she was look ing for her father, and had travelled 112 miles, and could not find her parent. Mrs. Barnett said she hoped she was a good girl, that I was her servant, and that she wanted another to nurse her children, and inquired if she would go home with her. The girl appeared surprised, but after a little consideration went along with us. When we got home the girl appeared astonished at the house, and Phillips and Barnett talked together in the He brew language. I was then told to take her up stairs to bed, and by my mistress's order I brought her clothes down, and the next morning took her up a light dress, which she at first refused to near, as she said she was in mourning ; but on my telling her my mistress never allowed her servants to wear their own clothes, she consented. She had some money about her, which I took to my mistress by her order. The girl had a bundle when we met her, which Barnett took, and I don't know what became of it. The girl appeared surprised that she was not set to work. The next night Barnett took her out, and they returned with a stout gentleman, between whom and Mrs. Barnett some conversa tion took place. Liquor was sent for, and Charlotte Wal ler was forced to drink ; she was then sent up stairs. 4 K * * I heard a shriek and went up stairs ; the stout man was there with Miss Waller, who said—' You are a witness to my murder.' My mistress called me down and scolded me, saying I had no business there. The man went away out at the back door. After this Miss Waller was compelled to receive the visits of some man every night. Mr. Barnett was always watching her. I thought if she was a virtuous girl, she was a great fool. On the following Sunday she was ill, and could not go out. Mrs. Barnett got her a bottle of physic, and brought home some boys. Waller was forced to go out afterwards, but walked with great difficulty. On Tuesday she said she would not go out any longer, she would sit on the steps of a door and die before she would pursue such a horrible course of life any longer. Mrs. Barnett abused her, and said she should not skulk there. Waller was then compelled to go out again, although she was very ill, and people remarked, God help the poor creature, where did she come from ?' When she could scarcely move about, Mrs. Barnett used to abuse her dreadfully. Waller was a quiet inoffensive girl. I knew that Phillips and Barnett had agreed to divide her earnings, because they were both together when she was picked up and decoyed to Cobnrg street. She often lamented her situation to me, saying, ' You see how I have been deluded : take warning by me.' She was sent to the hospital, and died there." This state ment had been read over three times to the witness, who had averred every word to be the truth. Mary Ann Clarke was only fifteen years of age ; and much younger and inno cent girls had been often decoyed into the dens of infamy kept by the Jews and prize-fighters, and ruined. (The reading of this evidence appeared to make a deep impres sion on the meeting.) The report, after noticing the mis conduct and inefficiency of the police, who, it was stated, winked at the nuisance, and that policemen were constantly associating and drinking with prostitutes and brothel keepers, proceeded to censure the tardy proceedings of the parochial authorities, and concluded by expressing the thanks of the Committ e e t o th e newspapers f or th e publicity given to their proceedings, and their high sense of the active exertions of Mr. Secretary Goulburn in the case of Waller, but for which they believed the parochial autho rities would not have interfered at all in the matter. Mr. KEIGHLEY read a letter from the Rev. Wm. Legge, of Fakenham, Norfolk, in relation to the unfortunate girl Waller. It stated that the girl had been known to him since her childhood, and he believed was of a disposition re mote from profligacy, and he could not account for her being so easily led away, except on the ground of remissness on the part of those who should. have been her guardians. He made inquiries, and found out that she quarrelled with her grandmother, and left her house, and for some time slept in barns or out-houses before she set off for London. On the day she left Fakenham she bought a new pair of strong shoes, and went away on foot with a man and his wife, named Smith. He had ascertained that she wrote a letter to her father some days before she went away, but not knowing his right address in London, the letter no dOubt miscarried. She had told a Mrs. Richards that she would go to London and see her father, but she appeared inclined to take a situation, if one had offered. Mr. KING, a gentleman of fortune, who is one of the trustees of Wapping parish, asked if it was true that the unfortunate girl had been in London only five weeks ? The CHAIRMAN said, that the evidence of the servant girl, and the date stated by Mr. Legge, of the deceased leaving Fakenham, left no doubt that that was the extent of the time she was in London. Her sacrifice was soon effected. Mr. KING pledged his honour and his purse to pro secute the Barnetts, and eradicate those sinks of infamy into which innocent girls were inveigled, and where crimes of the blackest dye were constantly perpetrated.. —(Cheers.) Mr. TALBOT here read a list of the brothel-keepers in Albion street, Coburg-street, and Dock -street, from which it appeared. that they were almost all one family ; aunts, mothers, sisters, grandmothers, and cousins, were to be found at every house, and all, with one exception, Jews and Jewesses.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. Talbot, after a lengthened speech on the crime and immorality prevailing in the parish, which he attributed chiefly to the inefficiency of the police, proposed that the report should be confirmed, which being seconded, was carried unanimously. Mr. KIRKNESS proposed that the committee be enlarged, and that subscriptions be forthwith received to be employed to remove the stigma which had been so long cast on the parish, which harboured so many infamous traders in juvenile pi ostitution. He recommended the union of every political party, and of every religious creed, in the object of the meeting. He trusted that it would not be long before some legislative enactment would take place on the subject of brothels and brothel-keepers, if the present law was defective, and he thought it must be, or such a flagrant case as that of the girl Waller would never have been allowed to have passed so long unpunished.— (Hear.) There had not been such an outrage committed in this parish since the horrid murder of the Marr family. He trusted by their unanimity they would make the parish of St. George as clear of such miscreants as that of St. Luke, where a committee of rate-payers, without the aid of policemen, and without the assistance of a solicitor, at a very small expense, put down the , sinks of iniquity, and shut up many penny theatres.—(Hear.) He would wil lingly give his mite to forward the good cause.—(Cheers.) Mr. BLOOMFIELD, a surgeon, denounced the conduct of the Barnetts, and said they ought .to be prosecuted. He produced a professional statement relating to the girl THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1835. Her sufferings were dreadful, and the disease of which she died in the hospital was quickly engendered by the infamous course of life the wi etches, for the sake of filthy lucre, compelled her to adopt. He would most cheerfully subscribe to put down the nuisance in St. George's. ---(Applause.) Several respectable gentlemen, who addressed the meet ing, were then added to the committee, a subscription was opened, and thanks having been voted to the chairman, the meeting adjourned. Ii EPERI. AiviENT. HO USE OF LORDS, MARCH 11. The House Met this day at a few minutes past Four. Earl SPENCEP. took the oaths and his scat. The Earl of MU LG RAVE presented a petition from the county of York against the Factory Bill. THE ARMY. (Froth the Limerick Chronicle.) We yesterday received Dominica and Demerara papers to the Ist February. In the former station we regret the 76th regiment suffered much from dysentery, and among the deaths was Lieutenant Ireland. The 25th regiment were preparing at the latter station for home, after eight years' service. Do minica is very slowly recovering from the effects of the disas trous hurricane in September last. Surgeon Coghlan, from Barbadoes, had joined the 86th regiment at Demerara. According to letters yesterday from Barbadoes, to the 2d of February, the left wing of the 74th regiment under Major Mannin, comprising eight officers, eleven sergeants, 208 rank and file, fourteen women, and thirty-two children, was put un der quarantine, after arriving out, having► had small pox on board. The head-quarters of the 74th regiment, under Lieut.- Colonel Mein, are stationed at Grenada. The 65th regiment composed the firing battalion at the funeral of Captain Sir • Charles Schoenberg, R. N., and subsequently sailed for St. Vincent, in the Dee steamer, to replace the 69th, ordered to Demerara. Lieut.-Colonel Chambers from England, has taken the command of the 25th at Barbadoes. Detachments from the Bth and 22d regiments at Jamaica, had arrived from England. Captain Warde, Royals, Deputy Assistant Quar termaster-General at Barbadoes, has obtained' fifteen months leave of absence, to return to Europe, and Captain Martin, 76th, is appointed to succeed him. Lieut.-Colonel Carter, is also about to come home on leave, having been cut for four years. A letter from an officer in the 57th regiment in India, dated Cannanore, sth November last, states that Lord Clare would take his passage to England in the Morley, Captain Douglass, which vessel was to sail about the 24th of the same month. The Hon. Mr. Stratford, 18th regiment, in this garrison, has obtained leave of absence to attend the county Wicklow Assizes, as member of the Grand Jury. Major Monins, 69th, has arrived from England, and re sumed the command of the depot companies at Clare Castle. Lieut.-Colonel Pritchard is about to retire from the com mand of the 56th regiment, and Major Eden succeeds to the commission by purchase. Captain Whyte, 67th, in a few days exchanges regiments with Captain Carruthers, of the 95th. The former corps is at Grenada, the latter at Fermoy. Captain Warburton, and a draft of the 67th, leave Cashel shortly to embark for Grenada, head-quarters. General Sir Henry Fane, the new Commander-in-Chief of India, has nominated ° the following officers on his son, Capt. Fane, 4th, or Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, and Capt. Michel, of the 3d regiment; or Old Buffs, into which be recently exchanged from the 54th, as the 2d is on the Bombay establishment. Capt. Fare, first Aide-de-Camp, was married this week, in Dublin, to Miss O'Shea, niece and co-heiress of our late gallant fellow-citizen, Sir Philip Roche. The British force employed on the expedition which the Governor-General of India has un4enaken against Joudpore, consists of two squadrons of the 11th Light Dragoons, and the 26th regiment, under Colonel Oglander. Of the Compa ny's army the strength is, four troops Horse Artillery, stx com panies Foot Artillery, five regiments of native Cavalry, and ele ven regiments of native infantry. EXPLOSION OF FIRE DAMP. WIGAN, MARCII 9. —This morning the neighbourhood of Standish, about two miles from this town, was thrown into a state of great alarm by the explosion of fire-damp in one of the coal-pits. The following are the particulars of this melan choly catastrophe, which has resulted in the death of four in dividuals :—The pit belonged to Mr. Eltarns, of Standish, and six persons were busily at work about nine o'clock this morn ing. The pit they were working in was one out of which nearly all the coal had been got. Another small shaft had been sunk adjoining this, but about six yards deeper, in order to get out the remainder cf the coal from some part of the mine. This small pit had always contained a great quantity of inflammable air, called by the miners black or fire-damp, owing to which a piece of cloth had been placed at the bottom of the pit to conduct fresh air, to ventilate the mine, so as to render it in working order. Unfortunately, the cloth had not been left in its proper place the preceding Saturday. This morning, on one of the workmen, named Peter Tabernier, going into the colliery with at naked candle lighted, when he had reached a distant part of the mine, he perceived such symptoms of an approaching explosion, as are well known to miners, and being apprehensive that the fire damp had caught fire, he immediately hastened back, in order to get out of the pit, and, at the same time, called on the others to follow his example, but either from fear, the suffocating nature of the air, or some other cause, they did not, except a man named Parr. Almost immediately a most dreadful explosion took place, which buried three women and one man under a mass of earth, &c., threw the other two at a distance of 15 or 20 yards, and dreadfully burnt them. The four unfortunate' persons were immediately searched for, but it was upwards of eight hours before the bodies were got out. They were in a dreadfully mutilated condition, and of course quite dead. Parr and Tabernier still survive, but are in a very precarious condition, indeed the former is searcel3 expected to recover. The three females are sisters, named Hoghton—their ages are nineteen, seven teen, and fourteen. The name of the man who was killed is Darbyshire, and has left a wife far advanced in pregnancy and three small children to lament his loss and the means of their sustenance. Mr. Chadwick, surgeon, of Wigan, was speedily on the spot, and exhibited great skill in his treatment of the survivors, but his skill was unavailing towards those who had been nearest the place when the explosion commenced. Had Tabernier taken the precaution of using Davy's safety lamp, instead of approaching with an unguarZed light, which, as soon as it approached, set fire to the explosive fluid, this melancholy accident in all probability would not have hap pened. The poor man had one of the lamps at home, but it is out of repair, and through the extreme poverty to which he was reduced, he could not afford to get it repaired. He had been in the army, and had deserted his regiment about eight years ago, since which time he has kept out of his nat i ve county until about three months ago, in )rder to evade punish-. ment, had put himself to every shiftin order to purchase his discharge, which he has at length accomplish e d b y paying 17/. ADAMS'S LECTURES ON ASTRONOMY. —The first lecture for the season on astronomy was given on Friday night by Mr. Adams at the King's Theatre, and was very nu merously attended, although, from the immense space of the house, it cannot be said the audience were crowded. Mr. Adams explained with great clearness, and without the unne cessary use of technical terms, the outlines of the science, the speculations of the ancients as to the shape of the earth, the motion of the planets, &c., and illustrated his lecture by the introduction of machinery, and several very splendid transpa rencies. The apparatus used by the lecturer in explaining some of the details of the solar system and the changes of the moon were extremely simple in their contrivance, but conveyed a clearer notion to the audience than more elaborate contri vances. The whole lecture was delivered in a manner calcu lated to excite curiosity and convey instruction, and the com pany appeared to be highly gratified with what they saw and heard. During the necessary pauses which intervened between the different portions of the lecture Mr. Cruse performed some appropriate pieces of music on the Royal Scraphine, an in strument which combines to a certain extent the powers of the organ and the piano-forte. His performance was several times interrupted by some person who had found his way to a seat not intended for him, and who, by the assistance of some kind of metallic mouthpiece, produced a most unmusical and discor dant noise. Mr. Adams expostulated upon his interruption, and the unphilosophical ignoramus became at length ashamed of himself and was silent. TETBURY.—Considerable excitement prevailed in this town last week, in consequence of R. Butler having taken a considerable quantity of laudanum. Every effort was made to counteract its effect, but without success. He died that night. An inquest was held before G. H. Ball, Esq., coro ner. Verdict, Felo de se.--The unfortunate man was buried between nine and twelve o'clock in the night of Friday, pur suant to the directions of the recent Act. He has left a widow and four infant children. We give the following singular series of accidents from a French Paper.—About fift een y ears ago , a g i r l was placed at a school in the village of Semur : she was the de light of her instructors, and the pride of her parents. She was no ordinary girl. Mentally as well as personally, the was superior to all her cotemporaries. Another pupil in the same school took up in jest a pistol which unfortunately had been loaded, and aimed at her beautiful friend—the charge took effect, but not fatally. Ten years after this accident, epilepsy first showed itself in occasional attacks, the result, it is supposed, of the fright just mentioned. This, however, did not prevent a young man who loved h er w i t h singu lar devotio n f rom marry i ng h er . She became a wife and a mother. A few days ago, this young and interesting lady, whilst sitting with her infant at her breast, convulsively fell into the fire with her helpless offspring. On the husband's return, he found his wife and child actually on the burning coals—the mother dead, yet still holding in her grasp the infant alive, though dreadfully burned. The head and breast of the mother were literally consumed by the fire, and exhibited an appalling and singular spectacl e o f mut il ated humanity. The infant died in- few hours after, and the ne x t d a y one grave conta i ned the mother and her infant. The whole faubourg attended the funeral. The town of Caylus has been made the theatre of an event of unparalleled horror. An inhabitant received an injury of the bead. Doctor Prestat was called in, when it was found necessary to perform the operation of trepanning, and it was accordingly performed, as his friends affirm, with equal skill and success. A day or two afterwards the young surgeon called upon his patient, who no sooner saw him than he seized a knife which he had, it is ascertained, pre viously sharpened for the purpose, rushed furiously at him, plunged the knife in his body, and savagely ripped up his ab domen. The doctor died on the spot. Whether this murder arose from delirium, occasioned by the excessive pain under which the patient was suffering, or from some other cause, is yet undetermined. It seems, howeref, that the crime was pre meditated ; from several knives he selected the sharpest, which he carefully concealed under his pillow until the doc tor's arrival.—French Paper. the maritime service had as high a claim as the civil and military officers of the Company—that they were at all times subject to command and punishment both afloat and ashore, and that they did their duty both zealously and faithfully_ that. they had contributed largely to the prosperity of the country both in fighting the battles of the Company and preseeving, their treasures.--( Cries of" Hear, hea r .") Such were the grounds upon which these gentlemen called upon the Company to interfere, before the compensation should become the law of the land by the lapse of two months. They called upon the Company to interpose in some way or other, in order that Parliament should decide whether justice had been done to them on the subject of the Act of last year. He contended that many of the Officers who had been excluded had merits greaterthan those who had been admitted. He put it to the House whether it was its object to exclude 1 sth of the Officers of the Company from all compensation, especially ashen it was con sidered that. many of those persons were some of the oldest officers of the Company. .11e could not believe that the House would sanction ,the conduct that had been pursued.— ( Hear, hear, hear.) The reason why the petitioners came to the House was, that they had exhausted all other means of obtaining redress. - Under the Acts of last year they had waited calmly and patiently, in the hope that some arrange ment would be come to by the East India Company, embracing them and it was not till they found that the rule laid down excluded them, that they came forward. The only course then left them was to apply to the House. Even Lord Ellenborough, in a letter he had written, admitted that the petitioners had a right to come to Parliament for compensation. The petitioners had no objection to the rate laid down, if it could be proved it was founded on jus tice. He believed that it would not require more than a sum of 100,0001. or 120,000/. to compensate those offices, and he was sure that the East India Company would consider the expenditure of such a sum for the remuneration of their meri torious servants as well applied. Unless he received from the Board of Control, or some other body, an intimation that they were disposed to take the subject into consideration, it would become his duty to bring it forward in a more specific shape. He-would conclude by reading the prayer of the petition. The petition was signed by fifty-seven officers of great respectabi lity, on behalf of th emse l ves an d severa l other officers, who had not been able to sign it. It prayed that the House would afford them protection, and direct such means of redress as in their judgment they might deem just, and that in the humane exercise of their prerogative it would be deemed ex pedient to extend the scale proposed, or that at least the amount Might be distributed equally among the Ivhole service. The Hon. Member considered that there were ample means for compensating them, without disturbing the scale of compensation that had already been granted. With these observations, and recommending the petition to the attention of Hon. Members, he would not trouble them any longer. Mr. CA YL E Y supported the prayer of the petition. An HoN. MEMBER, whose name we could not learn, rose to support the petition, and entered into a detail of several cases of great hardship, occasioned by the regulations of which the petition complained. Under those regulations the most me. ritorious officers, and who had served for a long period of years, were left without compensation, and had only the re source of seeking employment in other services.—( Hear.) He implored those Gentlemen who had it in their power to remedy the evil complained of, to take the case into their serious consideration, and to grant the prayer of the petition. Mr. BERNAI, considered that the claims made in the pe tition were founded in justice, and he would ask the President of the Board of Control what was intended to be done in the matter ? Mr. PRAED rose, but spoke in so low a tone that his ob servations could not he heard in the Gallery.--( Cries of " Speak out.") . He was understood to say, that he could con- firm the statement of the length of service of the petitioners, and he thought it probable that cases of hardship might have arisen under those regulations ; but the Board of Control had had nothing to do with establishing them. The present was an attempt to try compensation for future benefits, not for past services. He was aware that those ser vices were most useful, but he felt satisfied that they had been fully compensated by the pay they had received from the Company, and that had been as liberal as the finances of' the Company could afford. The House must consider the position in which those officers were placed as claiming com pensation for future services. The Company had nothing to do with their appointment, as they were selected- by the owners - of the vessels, and had no contract whatever with the Company to give them employment or subsistence. They complained that they might have been employed during the last five years, and if they had not, it was the fault of the Company, but that, he (Mr. Pracd) contended, was an argu ment in his favour. With respect to the Civil Officers, the compensation was easily arranged, but a good deal of diffi culty attended the case of the Maritime Officers.—( Hear. ) He had only one further remark to make ; he could not see any good reason why an officer who could make out a clear case, should not be removed from one excluded list, and put into the other. He was certain that the Noble Lord at the head of Board of Control would give such cases his most anxious con sideration. He must, however, assure the House, that the finances of the Company were not by any means in a flourishing condition, and were as little able to bear charges upon the ground of liberality as those of this country. Mr. CLAY, after a few observations which were lost in the noise, instanced the case of a very deserving officer, with whom he was perfectly acquainted, who had served in the Company's service for 19 years--he entered in his youth, and served for a long period; but, from entirely accidental circumstances, he had not been employed for more than six years before the period appointed for the operation of this scale ; so that, with a • large family, he was now, after nineteen years hard service, thrown upon the world without any provision. The Act gave Parliament the power to enforce the allowance. Mr. G. F. YOUNG said he should not detain the House many minutes, nor would he have troubled them but for some observations which had fallen from the Right Honourable Secretary to the Board of Controul, which, if uncontra. dieted, might convey to many Members of this House and the public an erroneous impression. The Honourable Mem ber said that the officers of ships chartered by the East India Company were not included in the Act. That ques tion had been already very elaborately discussed, and the Hon. Member's argument refuted ; but the real question was whether the Legislature, having caused a compulsory ces sation of the East India Trade for forty years, which was an extraordinary stretch of 'ewer, should not have some consideration for the Proprietors of East India Stock, who, it was said, would be injured by that measure. He did not stand up there to say they had a claim, but feeling that the House ought to recognise the principle of compensa tion, he called upon them to make out their case before they came forward with their claim.—( Hear.) Mr. PRAED explained. Sir G. STRICKLAND did not conceive that the Act of Parliament referred to by Hon. Members opposite applied at all to the present case. It was an extreme hardship to deprive of,their just compensation, such meritorious officers as suffered from the continuance of such an exclusion and unjust rule, as that now complained of. Mr. M'KENZIE supported the petition, but in so low a tone, that it was impossible to hear a word of what he said. Colonel EVANS said he ngreed with the Hon. Member behind him there was much inconvenience in discusssing these subjects in the absence of the President of the Board of Control. Compensation had been sanctioned by Parliament, and the only question was whether the time had been drawn arbitrarily, and unjustly or not. He thought it right that the matter should be brought under the consideration of the House. Mr. H UME said, it appeared to him that the only question for the House to consider, was whether the list of compensa tions having been laid on the table, it was in their power to reconsider the compen sa ti ons th a t h a d been given. If so, it was competent to any Hon. Member to move that these compensations be reconsidered. He thought it would turn out upon inquiry that compensations had been granted to many who had retired from the service of the Company with an ample fortune, never expecting to receive any further bene fit, whilst there were on the present list many whose sole subsis tence depended upon the continuance of the Company's trade. He thought that the Right Hon. Baronet would see the House had a very important duty to perform. He trusted, there fore, that the subject would be adjourned for a fortnight, in order that an opportunity might be afforded to take up the whole question, that justice really might be done, and his Majesty's Ministers might have an opportunity of ex plaining the grounds on w hi c h t h ey meant to ate. Sir R. PEEL regretted that the discussion had been protracted so long, in the absence of the President of the Board of Controul and the Member for Kirkcudbright, for had the matter been brought forward when the President of the Board of Controul was present, he would have stated the grounds on which lie had thought proper to confirm the order.—( Hear, hear.) After Parliament had entrusted to the Board of Controul and the Directors of the East India Company the subject of the arrangement, in his opinion a very strong case ought to be brought forward to induce Parliament to interfere.—( Hear, hear.) In the course that had been pursued, he believed th e s t eps o f t h e l ate Government had been . followed, and for his own part he would say that he had invariably refused in every case to open a claim for com pensation that had been settled by the late Board of Treasury. Upon the same grounds, having given authority to the Board of Controul to settle this matter, he would advise the House to confirm their decision, and not to discourage any of the public authorities when they endeavoured to enfore economy. Mr. ROBINSON said that the Right Hon. Baronet was mistaken. He had on a former occasion shown that the Directors were permitted to carry their plans into effect two months after they had been determined on, which proved that their decision was intended to be subject to the controul of the Honse. He did not seek to abolish the de cision of the Board of Controul, but to extend it. He con sidered that it was the duty of the House to interfere in cases of similar hardship. He would, however, wait till the papers were printed which had been ordered on that subject, and he would then answer the observations which had been made. Sir R. PEEL said that the House ought to support the authorities to whom the case had been referred, and as the money had to be paid out of the pockets of the people of India, it was an additional reason for enforcing economy. Mr. O'CONNELL objected to the interpretation which had been put upon the act relative to the subject before the House. He considered that a most capricious difference had been made in compensating officers. The Act stipulated that all officers employed then or heretofore should be compensated, whereas they only compensated the officers then employed, and not those employed formerly. What reason could there be for limiting compensation to any particular past period? Nobody could give any reason why that day had been selected, er why such a distinction had been made. The Petition was then laid on the Table. NEW WRIT FOR THE COUNTY OF NOTTINGHAM. Mr. VERNON rose for the purpose of moving that a New Writ be issued for the Northern Division of the county of Nottingham, in the room of the late Lord Viscount Lumley, now Earl Scarborough. Before doing so, however, he wished to state that th e wr i t of summons had not been issued calling' the Noble Lord to the Upper House.—( Hear, hear.) Ile: was bound to state, however, that Lord Lumley had autho,. rised him to arply for this writ, he having applied for his own writ of summons to the Upper House ten days ago. It appeared that in consequence of the late Earl not having taken his scat in the House of Lords, there was some difficulty relative to the issuing of it ; but he should like to know from the Speaker whether the new writ could not now be issued ? He thought, however, that though Lord Scarborough had never taken his seat in the House of Peers, and that for that reason some doubt might arise as to the legality of a new writ being issued on the consequent promotion of Lord Lumley to the House of Lords, that Nottingham ought not on that account to be deprived of its Representative at this important period. The SPEAK E R, as we understood him, observed that it was nat the usual practice of this House to issue writs for the purposes of elections, occasioned by the promotion of representatives to the Upper House, before the writ of summons itself was issued, calling upon the Peer to take his seat. • But as to the parti cular point to which the Hen. Gentleman alluded, in the case of Lord Scarborough', he did not think this House was the most competent to give a decision on the course which was to be pursued. Sir ROBERT PEEL conceived that the writ for the election should not issue until the House had ascer tained that the writ of summons, calling the sitting Member to the Upper House, had been issued. They ought not, without having clearly ascertained that f act , admit a principl e w hi c h m i ght deprive' an individual of the privileges which he at present exercised of sitting in that House. Suppose for instance there was a contested claim to the title by such a motion they might prejudice the claim, as the issuing of the writ would be tantamount to an expression of their opinion upon the case; and then, if the claim was not esta blished, they might by their act deprive him of his seat in that House. —(Hear.) He conceived that they ouglit to refuse to issue their writ until the writ summons had been issued, and he would beg leave to mak e a mot i on to that effect, if the H on . Member should render such a proceeding necessary.—( Cries of withdraw the motion.) Mr. VERNON said he was entirely in the hands of the House, but he considered that the conduct of the late Lord Scarborough ought not to prejudice the right of the present Peer. He should not, however, press his motion, as it appeared to be the opinion of the Speaker and the House that it would be against precedent.—( Hear, hear.) He did not know what time ought to elapse before moving for a new writ---it was no w a f ortn i g h t since the death of Lord Scarborough. He would not press his motion—he would only protest against its being laid down as an indisputable doc trine that no writ should issue from that House, until a writ of Summons had been issued from the other House. Sir R. PEEL said he had never wished to lay down an indisputable rule all that he did was to lay down one for his own guidance. Perhaps the parish register might never be found, and what right had they to deprive not only the Noble Lord of his seat in that House, but to de rive the county of Nottingham of its Member, and that with out anything before them which they could call good grounds for so doing. After a few words from Mr. Wynne, Dr. Lushington, Mr. Rolfe, and Lord John Russell, the motion was withdrawn. FLOGGING IN THE ARMY. In answer to a question from Colonel BE AUCLERK, An HON. MEMBER on the Ministerial benches, whose name we could not learn, said that he. intended to bring forward a motion connected with this subject on Monday next. CORN LAWS. Mr. HEATHCOTE rose to put questions to the Hon. Members for Middlesex and the Tower Hamlets. Both those Hon. Members had put notices en the books for motions on the subject of the corn laws ; he was anxious to know whether both these motions were to be persisted in, or if not, which of them was to be discussed ? Mr. HUME, when he put his motion on the books, was not aware that his Hon. Friend the Member for the Tower Hamlets had a few days previously given a notice to a similar effect. Finding such had been the case, however, he was willing to leave the matter in his hands, and he believed on the 7th of May his Hon. Friend would be prepared to bring it forward. Mr. CLAY, in answer to another question from Mr. Heath cote, was understood to say that he should bring on the dis cussion of which he had given notice on the 7th of May. MR. HUME'S AMENDMENT ON THE NAVY ESTIMATES. Sir R. PEEL wished to put a question to the Hon. Mem ber for Middlesex. The Hon. Member had given notice of a motion respecting a subject of considerable importance, which was to be brought before the House on Friday next, viz., the Navy Estimates. He wished to know what course the Hon. Member intended to pursue in consequence of that motion ? Mr. HUME was not sure whether the motion of which he had given notice would be brought on by himself or by an Hon. Friend. At present, however, he could state that it was in.. tended on the day named to move that the Navy estimate be only granted for three months. Sir R. PEEL said his object in inquiring was to know the form in which this motion would be brought on—whether it would be moved before the Speaker left the chair, or after the House had gone into Committee. He asked for this informa tion in order that they might be able to arrange the course of the debate. Mr. HUME said, that according to his own notion of the case the motion would be proposed on going into Committee. It was not their intention to refuse the supplies, but to limit the grant provisionally to three months. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. The Order of the Day was then read for the adjourned de bate on the business of the House. The proposition that to petition be received after five o'clock having been moved, Mr. E WART rose, for the purpose of moving that no new subjects be brought on for discussion on any evening later that► . eleven o'clock. The subject was one of so much importance that he was determed to take the sense of the House on hie proposition. Sir R. PEEL put it to the Hon. Member whether it would not be better to reserve to the House on each evening a dis cretionary power of determining as to the importance of at tending to the business which they had before them, rather than fetter themselves and tie down their bands by a general resolution like that now proposed. There were some matters for instance which he (Sir R. Peel) thought should not be brought on later than ten o'clock. On the other hand, and especially towards the close of the Session, there were very necessary forms to be gone through, upon which there could be no doubt of the sentiments of the House ; such as the third readings of bills to which the House had already consented, which he thought it would be very unnecessary, and indeed very inconvenient to postpone. If the House was fit to legislate at all, they surely should be allowed to determine at what hours it would be proper to do so. If this resolution were agreed to by the House it would realty seem to imply such a diffidence of their own good sense as he did not think was at all called for.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. G. P. YOUNG would ask whether it was decent that after midnight a score of important Acts should be passed through different stages, as ha during his own experience had seen take place. It was this course of proceeding which brought discredit upon the Legislature and created much mis chief and confusion in the administration of the law. Much of the business of the House consisted in repairing the errors into which they had fallen in this way. As a man of business be knew that when gentlemen had unlimited time to do any business in, much of that time was occupied very unprofitably ; and he was inclined to think that if the House of Commons were in some measure limited in their sittings, they would get through more business than they did at present, and that some Hon. Gentlemen, in sonsideration of the important business that was to be done, would occupy less time in long speeches and useless discussions. Mr. C. FERGUSON said he had seen most important questions brought on in that House after twelve o'clock at night, ay, after one er two o'clock in the morning. He bad seen bills going through the second readings on such occa sions, especially bills relating to Scotland. He did not think that such a general rule as that proposed by the Hon. Mem ber for Tynemouth would be practicable, but he questioned whether a regulation might not be adopted by which it should be laid down as a rule that in the more important stages of bills they should not be brought on after a certain hour. Lord J. RUSSELL feared that if they were to lay down a general rule of the kind proposed, it would not conduce to the convenience of the House, nor to the furtherance of public business. Nevertheless, he thought some course might be adopted to remedy the evil which undoubtedly existed at pre sent. For, instance, if before going into the first Order of the Day, all the Orders of the Day should be read over, and their respective advocates called upon to declare whether they intended to proceed with them or not, Members who had pro posed to themselves to take part in them, would know whether and when they would be likely to be wanted. Mr. 'WARBURTON said that he conceived it to be abso lutely impracticable to limit the time in which the House would find ,it possible to get through the business of the ses sion.—( Hear.) The business ought to be done, however, and they must have sufficient time to do it in, either by begin ning at an earlier hour in the day, or by encroaching upon the hours of the night. Mr. HUME thought the House ought to come to some con clusion on the subject; it was improper to do important busi ness at such unseasonable hours as one and two o'clock in the morning. It frequently happened that Ministers, exhausted by the business of the day, were obliged to leave the House, and, in their absence, measures in which they were deeply in terested, were carried. He admitted that every plan of ar rangement was full of great difficulties, but any plan was bet ter than the plan now acted on. He would rather meet at ten in the morning than continue after twelve at night. If the present system were persevered in, there would be an accumu lation of bills which must be disposed of at a late hour in a thin home. • Colonel SIBTHORPE agreed with the lion. Member , op posite that business should be well done ; but when the time of the House was wasted by long and often idle discussion they should not get over important bills on the ground that the time for their consideration was too late. The SPEAKER made some observations, which were quite inaudible to us. Sir R. PEEL said the Speaker was of opinion that no new motion should be suffered to interpose so as to take place of a motion once introduced. If the new motion was on a point of form there would certainly be less inconvenience. He thought the better course to pursue would be to proceed with the papers in their regular order, and allow no new motions to interpose. Mr. HUM thought the motions and orders should be re gularly set down; that the motions should come first, and the orders follow. Mr. E WART explained. It would be better that motions on mere matters of form should be swept away at once, and AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS, The Duke of RICHMOND presented thirty-three `pet: tions from different places in Yorkshire, complaining of agri cultural distress. • GAOL ACT. The NOBLE DUET.: moved, that in the returns which had been laid on the table, in pursuance of an Act entitled the Gaol Act, the schedules be printed. CHESTER CRIMINAL COURTS' BILL. On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Chester Criminal Courts' Bill was read a second time and committed. The House then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MARCH 11. The SPEAKER took the Chair at a quarter before 4 o'clock, Mr. ORD brought up the report on the state of the convicts confined in the Penitentiary for last year. UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. Sir GEORGE CLERK moved for a new writ for the University of Cambridge, in the room of the Right Hon. Sir Charles Manners Sutton, now Viscount Canterbury. Mr. HODGES presented a petition from the Medway Na vigation Company, praying for leave to enlarge the powers of that Company. Sir SAMUEL WHALLEY presented three petitions, praying for the enlargement of Islington Market. Mr. GUEST presented a petition frem Merthyr Tydvil, praying for the establishment of a public market there. Sir F. BLTRDETT presented petitions from Bloomsbury and several other parishes in Westminster, praying for some alteration in the general law relative to the Paving Commis sioners, which would enable the inhabitants to imprOve their own streets. Also a petition from the Chelsea Waterworks Company, praying for leave to bring in a Bill to enable them to supply the metropolis with pure water. Captain AL SAGE R brought in a Bill to form a railway from Croydon to London. ' An HoN. MEMBER, whose name we could not learn, com plained that in one of those vehicles of public information which supply the country with details of what took place in that House, he had been reported as having spoken against the mo tion of the Noble Marquis the Member for Buckinghamshire. Now the fact was that he had not opened his lips upon the oc• casion, and that he had voted in favour of that motion, as he was very much interested in its success.—( Hear, hear.) He felt it due to his constituents to make that statement. Mr. SINC I: AIR presented petitions for protection to the Church of Scotland. He complained cf having his motives very much misrepresented by many journals, merely because he acted the part of an honest and independent Member in that House. He trusted that his constituents would not now, as in 1826, lose their confidence in him fcr acting in a straight-for ward manner. THE PENSION LIST. Mr. D. W. HARVEY begged leave to say that he would now bring on his motion with regard to the pension list on the 19th March in place of the 21st April, as he understood that the latter date would be very inconvenient to many Mem bers who wished to take part in the debate. The SPEAKER made some observations which were inau dible in our gallery. Mr. WARBURTON said it was quite competent for a Member to drop a notice, and appoint it for any other day. The SPEAKER said he understood the rule to be that an Hon. Member having once given a notice of motion, which was for the convenience of the House, might take a step for ward, but was prevented going back. Mr. ROBIN SON suggested that the Hon. Member for South wark might withdraw his previous notice, and give a fresh one. Mr. HARVEY said if he recalled his notice of motion he apprehended he should stand in the same position as he did before he gave it, and therefore he would give notice of his intention of withdrawing the motion. Sir R. PEEL thought the old rule a good one, and there fore hoped it would be adhered to. The notice of the Hon. Gentleman was but a mere evasion of that rule. He never recollected any instance of inconvenience arising from adhe rence to the old rule. There would much more difficulty accrue from the postponement of the motion to another day, as many Honourable Members would not have sufficient notice of the alteration, and, therefore, would be out of town on the very night the Hon. Member would wish for their attendance. Mr. HARVEY said he had only consulted the wishes of (hose persons, and not his own. He gave notice, that he should move a Call of the House on the day of his motion ( April 28), and he also gave notice, that he would move for a return of the number of writs issued by the Court of King's Bench from the Ist of January, 1830, to the Ist of December, 1834, and of the number of persons confined for debt in the gaols of England and Wales for the same period. Mr. E. L. BULWER wished to know what the extent of the Easter vacation would be? Sir R. PEEL did not at present think it would exceed three or four days. EAST INDIA COMPANY. Mr. ROBINSON presented a petition fiom certain mari me officers of the East India Company excluded from the compensation granted by the Act 3 and 4 of William IV., cap. 85. He entreated the special attention of the Right Honourable Baronet (the Chancellor of the Exche quer) to this subject, which he would endeavour shortly to explain to the House. The late Act, called the East India Act, provided for the compensation of the officers of that t b o ut be it m di a d de n . ot Idnescoriebesettehenmthodseecintiownhiocfh on tic,eomlpnednia that no compensation, superannuation, or allowance s A Ca c oti t in r p w aw i n li a l recited the compensation to be given, it w as pro videdshould be granted until the particulars of it should be laid before the two Houses of Parliament. He was convinced that the introduction of these words into the Act was for no p t o o se gTv h e e t c h o is nc H ei o v u ed se ntobeopthoewreor,bjjencet acsoeualdnybeaeliciaddenint o vei r tehwertPlivanr circumstances might render such a course ne cessary , to send back these claims for compensation to the directors f or their consideration and revision. It appears that the East India Company, in awarding compensation to their meritorious officers, had drawn a broad line of demarcation between those who were on shore previous to the 28th of August, 1828, and not afloat subsequently, and those who were, under any circumstances, always afloat. To the former class no com pensation Whatever was allowed.._.( Hear, hear.) He knew not what arbitrary right existed to draw the line of distinction. He did not attach any blame either to the East India Com pany or to the Board of Control, for inflicting this, but he was compelled to say, it was an act of the grossest injustice, on a class of officers of the most meritorious: description. The only reason he could assign, as a justification of this partial and unjust regulation was, that it must have been founded on the principle that all who were there since August, 1828, were so voluntarily—that their being ashore was an act of their own, or that, in fact, they ,had abandoned the trust. In that case, he thought that the rule was certainly a just one, but where the contrary was shown, he contended that it should not be used to the prejudice of persons who had services and merits suffi cient to entitle them to the usual compensation. If that were the case—if it were true that the Officers abandoned the ser vice, and quitted their duties ',voluntarily, they had no right to complain, and deserved to be debarred from compensation. The presumption is, that they have, by an act of their own, abandoned the service they lived by ; but it was rather hard, that from being ashore from circumstances over which they had no control—from the loss or discontinuance of the ship in which they were employed—or if they were ashore in consequence of competition in the service, or of preference being given to som e by th e E ast I n di a C ompany it was rather hard, he repeated, that an individual so situated should be debarred from his regular compensa tion.—( Hear, hear.) He thought that none in the House were prepared to defend this rule, and the only way he could account for the ex c l us i on o f all these officers was, that the rule of the East India Company relative to Mi litary officers was applied in this case, by which all who do not appear at head-quarters in the course of five years after enter ing the service, are excluded from all allowances. There was no analogy whatever, he contended, between the two cases, and he laid it down as an undeniable proposition, that all so excluded, ought now to be compensated. He found on look ing over the minutes of the Court of Proprietors of the East India Company, that the superannuation of their officers should be extended. It was not his duty or inclination to complain of the East India Company, neither was it his province to call in ques tion the propriety of the scale of compensation that had been granted to their more fortunate officers ; but his province was to show that those gentlemen who were excluded by this ar bitrary rate had as strong claims to compensation—perhaps much stronger claims--than many of those who were included; and consequently it was the duty of the House to afford those petitioners some redress. One course might be adopted, by referring it back the subject to the East India Directors for re consideration i - and another cours e by re f err i ng t h e matter to a Committee of the House up stairs, in order to enquire whether or not full justice had been done to these petitioners.--( Hear.) He should prefer waiting to elicit the opinion of more expe rienced persons upon this subject. His intention was merely to state the case —to lay the petition on the table, and to reserve to himself the right of making some future observations upon it, unless he heard some suggestion from the Right Hon. Pre sident of the Board of Control, from the Government, or from the East India Company ; or unless the latter should show a disposition to take this matter into their own hands. ( Hear, hear, hear.) Among the excluded officers, there were about a hundred, most of whom had served fifteen years, who had been engaged in those battles and other achievements, which had rendered that service second only to the naval service of this country, and in many instances had rendered to the Company such important public and com mercial advantages, as gave them a claim upon the Company, when a period was put to the trading interests of the Company, and these officers were deprived of the hope of future emolument without being included in the compensation, which it was the object of the Parliament to grant. He could state many indivi dual cases, to show the cruelty of this rule ; but he would not occupy further the time of the House—he would state generally, that if he were not satisfied that the claims of these officers were such as to entitle them to the consideration of the House, he would not be a party to bring the case before them. He could not. persuade himself, when Honourable Members looked into this matter, that there could be any disin clination on their part, to endeavour, as far as possible, to render justice. If it were contended that Parliament had nothing to do with the subject, and that the East India Company having • decided, their decision was final, he would then ask why Parliament reserved to itself the power of regulating these claims?—(so we understood) — He would read two or three points to show what were the grounds of the claims of those petitioners. They stated that r_e ""'ZF•41,7 ,7- %Z_e .i i_.,