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

ELECTION COMMITTEES. HARWICH. The Harwich Election Committee re-assembled at the usual hour yesterday morning; Mr. Stuart Wortlerkin the chair. Mr. ANDREWS having addressed the Committee at some length on behalf of the sitting Member, the room was cleared, and the Committee having consulted toge ther for a considerable time, strangers were re-admitted, when The CHAIRXIN announced that the Committee had unanimously come to the following resolutions : ' " That John Attwood, Esq., is not duly elected a Member to serve in Parliament for the borough of Harwich. " That the said John Attwood, Esq., was by his agents guilty of bribery. "That the last election for the borough of Harwich, so far as regards the return of John Attwood, Esq., is a void election. " That it was proved to this Committee that Edward Joxley was bribed to vote for John Attwood, Esq., by an advance of money to the amount of 41/. and upwards, Ice: the purpose of discharging a debt due from him and releasing his vessel, which had been seized as a security Ice such debt. But it was not proved to this Committee that this bribery was committed with the knowledge or consent of the said John Attwood, Esq. " That it was proved to this Committee that John Harleck received 201., and James Knight received 161., under the pretence of loss of time, and demurrage in the detention of themselves and vessels during the election, but it was not proved to the Com mittee that such sums of money were paid to procure or influence their votes for John Attwood, Esq. "That it was proved to this Committee that there was treating to some extent at the late election for Har wich, but it was not proved by whose order or authority it was supplied." This closed the labours of the Committee. AYLESBURY. The Aylesbury Election Committee re-assembled at the usual hour yesterday morning (Mr. Palmer in the chair), when the evidence of treating was resumed. George Sheriff p rov ed that during the last election he, and a number of other voters, were supplied with sup pers, dinners, and as much ale and porter, punch, brandy, and gin, as they chose to drink. These entertainments were given at the Chandos Arms, where Mr. Bedford, an agent of the sitting Member, usually took the chair. On one occasion Mr. Bedford told them that Mr. Deering had determined to spend 10,000/. upon the election. The entertainments were given to them upon the understanding that they would support Mr. Deering; but he was surprised to find that many of those who had been eating and drinking at his expense voted against him. William Friar, a shoe-maker, and elector of Ayles bury, gave similar evidence. Mrs. Wheeler, of the White Lion, at Aylesbury, proved that Mr. Deering's supporters had refreshments at her house, for which the bill amounted to 11/. odd. The Committee adjourned at the usual hour till 11 o'clock to-morrow. BE WDLEY. The Bewdley Election Committee met again yesterday morning; Mr. Wrightson in the chair. The whole of the day was taken up with general evi dence relating to treating at Bewdley. The case as re gards Bewdley was closed, and to-morrow the case re specting Stourport will be opened. The Committee adjourned till to-morrow. SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. A special general meeting of the shareholders of this company was yesterday held at the Nine Elms' Station, for the purpose of haling submitted to them the drafts of several Bills intended to be presented by the company in the present session of Parliament. The notice convening the meeting having been read, The Chairman, Mr. CHAPLIN, M.P., stated the objects of the meeting. . Mr. Horsi wished to know whether any arrange ment would be made in the Bills about to be introduced to secure to the company the services of gentlemen as directors who held other property in the company be sides the guaranteed stock? Mr. CHAPLIN said that no person could be a director who was not a holder of shares in the capital stock of the company. Mr. BURL ELL, the solicitor to the company, then proceeded to read the short titles and abstract of the Bills. Mr. HOYEEI wished to know whethqf it was the inten tion of the company to proceed with ffie extension of the line to London-bridge? . The CHAIRMAN said that the company intended to prosecute the work as rapidly as possible. At present the directors thought that the better course to adopt would be to defer any proceedings on that extension until they had become acquainted with the working of that portion of the extension to Waterloo-bridge. Resolutions were unanimously agreed to, autho rising the directors to proceed with Bills now pending in Parliament for enabling the London and South-Western Railway Company to effect certain ex tensions and deviations at Godalming, Cosham, London bridge, Southampton, and Poole, and certain arrange meats respecting steam-packets, and for other purposes. A Bill for amalgamating the Southampton and Dor chester Railwaky Company with the London and South- Western Railway Company. A Bill for enabling the Windsor, Staines, and South- Western (Richmond to Windsor) Railway Company to make deviations in the main line of their railway, and an extension therefrom to join the Great Western Rail way at Slough; and A Bill to amend the Acts relating to the Exeter and Exmouth Railway Company. Other resolutions, authorising the directors to proceed with the following Bills, were also agreed to, there being but two dissentients, Mr. Noyes and another share holder, from the resolutions:— A Bill to enable the London and South-Western Railway Company to make a railway from Salisbury to Yeovil, with branches to Shaftesbury aad Wincanton, and to join the Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, and Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railways, near Yeovil; and to purchase or lease the said Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway. A Bill for making a railway from Exeter to Yeovil, with branches and extensions therefrom, to be called the Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway. A Bill to enable the Taw Vale Railway and Dock Company to lease their undertaking to the London and South-Western Railway Company. A Bill to enable the London and South-Western Rail way Company to make a railway from the Queen-street road, Exeter, to join the Exeter aad Crediton Railway at Cowley-bridge, near Exeter. A Bill for authorising the sale or lease to the London and South-Western Railway Company of the Exeter and Crediton Railway and the Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway, and the carrying into effect of certain arrange ments between the same company and the Taw Vale Rail way and Dock Company. A vote of thanks was then given to the Chairman, and the meeting broke up. SOUTHAMPTON and DORCHESTER RAILWAY. A special general meeting of the shareholders of this company was yesterday held at the Nine Elms' Station, at two o'clock, for the purpose of approving of a Bill to be submitted to Pailiament for the amalgamation of the Southampton and Dorchester Railway with the South- Western Railway. Resolutions to that effect were unanimously agreed upon, and the meeting broke up. POST-OFFICE NOTICE. General Post-office, March 14, 1848. During the ensuing summer mails will be transmitted between Liverpool and North America once a week, by the British contract mail packets , which will leave Liver pool for Boston and New York, alternately, on every Saturday, and will be dispatched from Boston and New York, alternately, on their return voyage, every Wed nesday. This weekly service will commence with the outward packets in April, and with the homeward packets in May, and will continue until the end of November, after which time, and during the following four months, mails will be conveyed to Boston and New York only once a fortnight instead of weekly. The following will show the dates upon which the first six packets will be dispatched during the summer, both to and from North America, and will form a guide for the remainder of the year: — The packets will leave Liverpool for Boston on Sa turday the Bth of April, Saturday the 22d of April, and Saturday the 6th of May. For New York on Saturday the 15th of April, Satur day the 29th of April, and Saturday the 13th of May. The packets will leave Boston for Liverpool on Wed nesday the sth April, Wednesday the 3d May, and Wednesday the 17th May. The packets will leave New York for Liverpool on Wednesday the 19th April, Wednesday the 10th May, and Wednesday the 24th May. The branch packet fur Newfoundland will be dis patched from Halifax on the arrival at the latter port of the homeward packet from B oston, and the branch packet for Bermuda will he dispatched on the arrival at Halifax of the outward packet for Boston. Regime n t P ORTS MOUTH, MARCH 12.—The 52d leave this garrison in three divisions on Monday, an d two following days, for Manchester. Tho 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment will arrive here from Wincheste r on the same days, to replace the 52d. The first battali on 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 troop-ship, 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 HUNT.—Amongst the pri9oners who had been tried and convicted at the late sessions of the Central Criminal Court, and who have subsequently been removed, was Mary Ann hunt, who, it will be recol lected, was tried at the last June sessions for the murder of asn 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 bringi ng u p h er c hild, b u t at th e e xpiration of th a t period the commuted sentence of transportation for life will he carried into effect, when her child will be allowed to accompany her. Mr. JOSEPH ADY AT NEATH.—This übiquitous 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 o ne gu i nea to 6s. rit Cambrian, cikwAss. Dividend w Names of !Dividend ! Price. Names of Per Price. Companies. As 1 per ! Companies. 4 Annum. az i Annum. i In -- I ,- - A i £ A.shtn& Oldh 97 1 71. p c . 110 Macclesfield. 100 21. les. - ti,mcicy.... 160 1 121. 180 Neath ••• • • • 100 201. 211 'lrknit&Abrg 1501 51. 85 Oxford.. •• • • 100 201. 200 Birmingham 35 41. 78% Peak Forest. 78 31. 10s, 66 Coventry .... 1001 251. 270 Regent's •• • • 33 it. 4 3 . 18. % 'env ••• - 1001 61. 63 Rochdale .. • • 85 41. 54 Ells i re&Chs 1331 41. I 45 Somrset Coal 150 71.105. 130 ,:ze , ash •• • 100 32g. - Do.Lk Fd St 12 61 . p. c. GratidJunctn 100 51. 80% Strfri&Worc 140 28/. 275 Grand Surrey 100 - 30 Shrewsbury.. 1231 15!. - urrand Union 100 11. 10s. 21% Stourbridge.. 145 201. 285 lrantham .. 1801 121. - Sevens and/ {ennt &An 39 1 7s. 6d. 15 4 Wye Rail. 3 26 IL 5 5. 30 bee.ls&Livrp 100' 341. 430 Warwick/0 , Leloester .... 140 1 101. 75 Birming. j OO 51 . 65 Cetcstr &Nth 831 41. I 36 Warwick& } :Aughboregh,l42l 701. 330 Napton.. 1I - 46 Nfonmouthslr 100' 81. - Worcstr & 1 78 21. 39 Mittgomrysla' 100' 51. - Binning. j MeltnMwbry, 100 101. f - Wilts & Brks, 67 11. 11 MARKET INTELLIE (From th© London New Price Curren, ENCE. of March 14.) St:GA-R.—To-day prices were further depressed for both free and slave-labour Sugar, as there was a further diminution in the home demand, and shipping orders nonelected were trivial. The supply continues to be good, especially of East India and Mauritius. Although the rates accepted for West India Muscovado exhibit a reduction of 6d per cwt; still the home trade operated with reluctanc e in all sorts. The private purchases did not exceed 300 hhds and tres. The r ublic sales to-day consisted of Bengal. REFINED. —To-day the home trade were induced to operate more freely in refined goods, in consequence of easier rates being accepted. We quote brown grocery lumps et 52s to 52s 6d, and standard lumps at 53s to .33s 6d per cwt, at which many parcels were sold; but there is a larger quantity on offer, especially of low and middling sorts. The market for bonded crushed Sugar is in a dull state. AfALMITIM—This afternoon there was no publio sale of Mauritius Sugar, and privately all sorts were dealt in with caution, although bolders were sellers at prices rather under those of Friday. There are several parcels on offer, especially of the better sorts. EAST Is/Dm—This afternoon the market was plenti fully supplied with Bengal Sugar. Three parcels were submitted to public sale, tt mountin s g bra to it 6,262 bags: merchants were willing sellers, and u fur ther reduction in the value of 6d to is per cwt, but the whole sold. FOREIGN.—To-day there was no public sale of any kind of Foreign, and the amount of business done pri• vately, was limited for all purposes, w hilst the progress of prices is yet downwards. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH )5, 1848. Ms. Paid. X r. d. - 1 50 0 0 raid. £ s. 4. 25 0 0 Paid. s d 60 • 0 40 0 • Price Price 220 14% 4% Price, 77% Price. Price, .ANXES. Paid. , Price. A. s. is 18 • 0 17 19 0 • 224 101 0 0 2;5 39 5 • - 37 11 • - 5• • • , 38, 10 • 0 74 4% 0 • •4 30 . 0 • I 10 50 0 • I 35 45 • • 33 50 • • I •0 50 0 0 I 10 1• • • Paid. £. s. d. 30 0 • 111 0 0 2 10 • 32 10 0 70 • • 100 • • 96 • • 14 0 • 50 • • 100 0 • •• • • 2i • • 23 • • 5 0 0 Paid. Pee* rrice, 124 12• k 164 10A4 614 s 46 8 1 4 13X 1803.0,1, 21.93 17 1 . 11c6d. .2.N I 1 `4 7 11 5 245. 23 N. Is tss.ott I it. 12s. OF TUESDAY. WHITEHALL, MARCH 11, 1848. COFFEE.—This afternoon native Ceylon was dealt in with caution in the private market, and the rates taken were 32a to 32s 6d for good ordinary. The market is quiet for Plantation, and 535 bags at auction went 3a per cwt. cheaper. Of Foreign none was offered at public sale, and the purchases made were trifling, whilst easier rates were taken. Tza.—There are further arrivals, and the quantity advertised for auction is large, reaching to 35,000 pkgs. The market has become more inactive for Congou of all descriptions, and there are sellers rather under previous rates, as the market is well supplied, and other arrivals near at hand—low and common can be procured at 7d , to lid, good ordinary sound 8d to Bid, but middling and middling 82d to 10d, strong blackish leaf lOid to is 2d, fine is 3d to is sd, and Pekoe flavour is 6d to is 9d. Souchong has been dealt in cautiously —common and middling at 9d to is 2d, and good to fine is 3d to 2s 2d. Pouchong finds a dull sale at 6d to 9d. The supply is increasing of all kinds of Green, and holders are inclined to accept rather lower rates, yet the town and country trade purchase re luctantly. RieE.—To-day East India Rise was not in better request, and of 2,132 bags of Bengal at auction, not above half sold at rather lower rates—good bold white good colour went at 12s, and damaged 7s to lis 6d, good bold sound dingy white was taken in at I Is per cwt. SPIRITS.--Today East India Rum met with less at tention, still proof of good quality could not be obtained under is 9d. The market for Leeward Island is quiet, but holders insist upon Is 10i to is 100 for proof. Ja maica was operated in with caution for all purposes, and 4s is the value of good fair quality 30 per cent. over proof. INDIGO.—Today there were sellers of East India Indigo at a reduction on last sales rates of 2d per lb, still there was scarcely any business concluded, and the market closes with much flatness. _ Cocos.—Holders of West India manifest firmness, and supply the market sparingly with all sorts, but buyers are less inclined to operate. By private treaty the sales made have been trifling, and of 157 bags of Trinidad offered at public sale, only one lot sold at 50s. COCIIINEAL.—The demand has further fallen off for all kinds of this article, and the supply having been upon a large scale, prices have suffered a depression of 2d to 3d per lb. Of the parcels offered at public sale a very small part only sold. SPICES.—For Cassia Lignea the market is in a quiet state. Arrivals are near at hand, and lower rates are expected to prevail. Black Pepper cannot be purchased on lower terms as the supply is small, but the demand has become limited by private treaty for all sorts. White is wanted, and realised full rates. Of Pod Pepper 448 bags were only partly, sold at 70a to 90s, and inferior at 40s to 60s, which are lower rates. Pimento is less required, and former prices cannot be obtained ; none has been offered at auction, and privately only small parcels have been sold at 4ed to 4jd per lb. Maee met with little attention, and prices are on the decline, although there is only a limited supply at market. Cloves have been dealt in with caution, and there is a desire to sell. The purchases made in Nutmegs have been limited by private treaty, and rather lower rates are accepted. Jamaica Ginger is wanted, and holders will not make a concession in the value. East India is little required, and must be called rather cheaper. Of African 240 bags at auction were sold. Cinnamon is offered at easier prices. MOLASSES.—The Market for West India has been in a very dull state, and prices are on the decline. We quote low to fine quality 15s to 19s per cwt, and the stock is large. TALLOW. To-day for fine P. Y. C. holders asked 50s 6d on the spot; buyers, however, were cautious in their proceedings. The market is rm at 46s for de livery in the last three months of the year. OlLS.—There has been no public sale of Fish Oil since our last report, but 10 tuns of Sperm, 80 tuna of Southern, and 30 tuns of Seal are announced for Fri day. Of all sorts arrivals continue small, yet there is no improvement in the position of the market, and the consumption is not so good as of late. There are sellers of Seal upon rather lower terms, yet buyers operate with caution in all sorts. The market for southern has a dull appearance, and holders are willing to accept 261 to 281 for low and middling, and 281 103 to 301 for good and fine, which aro again lower rates. Cod is held for 251 to 25l 10s, but the purchases made are of little moment, and the market is well supplied. The dealings in Sperm have been to a limited extent only, yet holders do not appear inclined to press sales. In the worth of Linseed Oil there is little improvement to make known, but the home trade made many purchases, and the ex port orders concluded are upon a more extended scale. For Rape-seed prices are still declining, as the demand is limited, and the supply yet on the increase. Cocoa Nut is little wanted, and must be quoted cheaper. In Palm the sales made are to a small extent only, and prices are on the decline. Olive is held with firmness, as the deliveries yet exceed the arrivals, but only a limited business has been concluded since our last re port. Lard Oil finds a dull sale at 471 to 50/, and around Nut Oil at 28s to 32s per cwt. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE The Queen has been pleased to order a conge d'elire to pass the Great Seal, empowering the Dean and Chapter of the cathedral church of Chester to elect a Bishop of that see, the same being void by the trans tation of the Most Reverend Father in God John Bird Sumner, late Bishop thereof, to the see of Canterbury ; and her Majesty has. also been pleased to recommend to the said Dean and Chapter John Graham, Doetor in Divinity, to be by them elected Bishop of the said see of Chester. 18, at eleven, at the Liverpool. District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool ; Gregory and Co., Bedford row; Payne, Liverpool. John Neaves, plumber, Coles-terrace, Islington, March 23, at half-past one, and May 6, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; 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 nad 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, Bristol; 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. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester; Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, Temple, London; Blair, Manchester. Frederick Francis, ironmonger, Folkstone, March 20, at two, and May 1, at eleven, at the Court, Basinghall. street. Turquand, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers; Young, Warwick-square. Jacob Ordoyno, broom maker, Swan-place, Old Kent road, March 22, at two, and April 27, at twelve, at the Court, Basinghall-street. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street; &argil!, Hatton -court, Threadneedle street. _ _ William Fuller, carman, Hoxton Old-town, March 25, at two, and April 28, at half-past eleven, at the Court, Basinghall- street. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane ; Baddeleys, Leman-street, Goodman's-fields. William Dyne, corn-dealer, High-street, Stoke New ington, March 22, at twelve, and April 28, at one, at the Court, Basingball-street. Stansfeld, official assignee; Thrupp, Winchester-buildings, Great Winchester-street. Benjamin Barber, dealer in lace, Nottingham, March 24 and April 28, at eleven, at the Nottingham District Court. Bittleston, o ffi cial assignee, Nottingham; Jones, Sine-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., Veru 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; Frodsham, Liverpool. (Dividends. &c.. in our next.) IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, March 14. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Woolsack shortly after Five o'clock. Earl FITZWILLIAM presented a petition from certain clergymen complaining that the funds of many foundations which had been left for parochial eccle siastical purposes had been diverted from them, and pray ing for an inquiry into the conduct of the Ecclesias tical Commissioners. Lord STANLEY presented a petition from cer tain of the clergy in Ireland, complaining of the manner in which ecclesiastical property was assessed for poor rates in Ireland. RAILWAY AUDIT ACCOUNTS BILL. Lord MONTEAGLE, in moving the Committee on the Railway Audit Accounts Bill. said he proposed intro ducing some amendments into the Bill. One of these was that persons seeking for an audit should deposit a sum of 2001. with the Commissioners, out of which sum the expenses of the audit should be defrayed if the Com missioners should be of opinion that such application for an audit was frivolous, but if not the expenses were to be defrayed by the company, and the deposit returned to the applicants. He also proposed to introduce clauses imposing penalties on the officers of the company who should wilfully withhold any information from the creditors which they might require. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved that, in the absence of the Earl of Shaftesbury, the chair should be taken by the Earl of Devon. The motion was agreed to, and their Lordships re solved themsel►es into Committee, the Earl of Devon in the chair. After a short conversation, in which Lord Ashburton, the Earl of Fitzwilliam, and Lord Redesdale took part, Lord BEAUMONT suggested that it would be advisable that the report of the auditors should be made public, inasmuch as if the knowledge of it were confined to the shareholders, they would, if it were unfavourable, not make the report public, bat get rid of their shares as speedily as possible. The public had an interest in the subject, and for their protection they ought to have an opportunity of obtaining access to these reports. Lord MONTEAGLE said the report of the auditors would be made in duplicate, one report to be laid before the shareholders, and the other to be transmitted to the Railway Commissioners. The latter was a public document, and there would be no objection to having it printed and laid before Parliament. He should like to see a general audit instituted every year of the accounts of all companies, in order to guard against falsifications of accounts, and the declaration of dividends out of capital, instead of out of profits, as was too frequently the case at present. He was convinced the same system of independent audit of railway accounts was necessary for the protection of the share holders and of the public. The amendments proposed were agreed to; the Bill passed through Committee, and the House resumed. PASSENGERS' BILL. Earl GREY moved the second reading of the Passen gers' Bill, and explained the leading provisions of the measure, which have been already debated in the other Houso. Lord STANLEY expressed approval of the Bill being advanced the proposed stage, concurring as be did in its general character, but he reserved to himself the right of opposing some of the clauses of minor importance when the Bill went into Committee. Earl FITZ WILLIAM, while he would give his gene ral support to the measure, recommended to the Govern ment not to increase the emigration tax so far as the colonies were concerned. Lord MONTEAGLE highly approved of the Bill. He would be the last to support any such measure if he thought it would operate as a discouragement to emigra tion, but in his opinion it would have a quite contrary effect. Ile rejoiced also that the Bill was only to be passed for a limited period, because the provisions abso lutely required in the existing state of things might not be required under ordinary circumstances. Nothing, ha conceived, could be more necessary and useful than for Government to find out the places from whence emi grants were to proceed, and carry them safely to their ports of destination; but, on the other hand, they ought to take care that such emigration should not become over-burdensome to the colonists. He was sure the Bill would operate for the protection of emigrants, and he believed that the charge on emigration imposed by it was much inferior to that imposed by the United States. Earl GREY remarked that the charge on emigration would be exceedingly moderate, and would be imposed with a duo regard to the interests of the colonists. The Bill was then read a second time, and the House adjourned. ROUSE OF COMMONS, Mtvels 14. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. RAILWAYS COMMITTEE REPORT. Mr. STRUTT moved the further consideration of the report of the Railways Committee. Lord H. VANE was of opinion that the Committees of the House would have considerable difficulty in car rying out the recommendations of the report. After a few words in reply from Mr. W. PATTEN and Mr. STRIITT, the report was agreed to. DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ROME. Petitions against the Bill for establishing diplomatic relations' with the Court of Rome were presented by Sir H. Verney, and by Mr. Tollemache, from the diocese of Chester. ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL. The Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY presented petitions from Melton Mowbrey, and other places, in favour of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill. PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. Petitions, praying for the abolition of the punishment of death, were presented by Mr. Heald, from Stockport, by Mr. Macgregor, from] the city of London, signed by upwards of 1,000 persons, and from the city of West minster; by Mr. Fagan from Maidstone and Ports mouth; by Colonel Thompson from the city of London, Westminster, and various other places, and by Mr. Williams from Finsbury. NAVIGATION-LAWS. Lord G. BENTINCK presented a petition from Cardigan, praying the House not to abolish the navi gation-laws. __ SOLICITORS' CERTIFICATE DUTY. Mr. HEALD presented a petition from solicitors prac tising in the town of Stockport, praying the House to repeal the duty upon the annual certificates of solicitors. INTERFERENCE IN ELECTIONS. Mr. WOOD presented a petition from Stamford, com plaining of the exercise of undue influence by the Marquis of Exeter in the recent election for a Member to serve in Parliament for the borough of Stamford. The petitioners prayed the House either to adopt some measure to repress this system of interference, or to relieve them from the burden of the elective fran chise. The Honourable and Learned Member gavo notice, that ho would to-morrow move that the petition should be printed with the votes, in order that he might found a motion thereon. ULSTER TENANT RIGHT. Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented a petition from Down, from Ballymen a, and other places, against the Landlord and Tenant Bill introduced by the Government, and prayed the House to pass the tenant right, similar in its provision s , t o th e prevailing system in the p rov i nce of Ulster. THE CASE OF JOHN SHELLEY. Mr. F. O'CONNOR presented a petition from Mr. Shelley, setting forth that he had served fbr a number of years in the 88th Regiment of Foot, and had been engaged in eleven different actions; that he had made unsuccessful applieations to the Commander-in-Chief for some gratuity or reward for his services, and he prayed the House to take his case into its consideration. BANK ACT. Captain FORDYCE presented a petition from Aber deen, praying the House to repeal the injurious restric tions of the Bank Act of 1845. Mr. BROTHERTON presented several petitions praying for the abolition of capital punishment. Mr. CARDWELL presented a petition from the Health of Towns Association, in favour of the Health of Towns Bill before the House. Mr. AGLIONBY presented a petition from Cocker mouth, praying for the abolition of the punishment of death. Si: 17 . CLAY presented pct,:tiias in favour of the Jewish Disabilities Bill. Mr. LUSHINGTON presented a petition from the inhabitants of Westminster, praying for the abolition of the punishment of death. Mr. MACKINNON rresented a petition from the inhabitants of St. Ann's, Soho, against intramural burials. the land.-(Hear, hear.) Lord Denman, when applied to, declined to give any opinion ; but he (Mr. Ee art) be lieved he was justified in asserting that that Noble and Learned Lord was favourable to the abolition of the punishment, while Justice Erie supported its infliction, on the ground that the people were reluctant to inflict it, and that it would never be carried out except in the most extreme cases. Mr. Justice Menlo gave no opinion, whilst Sir Thomas Wilde, the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, admitted the objections against the punishment were very great. Mr. Justice Coltman entertained the opinion that imprisonment for life, without any hope of its remission, might be substituted without inconvenience for capital punishment, stating, at the same time, that he did not think the punishment operated much on the minds of the people. Mr. Justice Wightman was of opinion that secondary punishment might be rendered so severe as to be made equivalent to the punishment of death, provided it a as inflexibly carried out, according to certain fixed rules, leaving no discretion to the judge but to pass the sentence.-(Hear, hear.) Looking to Ireland, he found that Mr. Justice Perrin was in favour of its abolition, and the substitution of se' onder7 punish ment ; whilst the Chief Baron of Ireland was against public executions, thinking that transportation of the severest kind might be safely substituted. He said hanging was a most cruel death, and ought. in con . si quence, to be abolished. Such were the opinions of the Judges of the hind; and it could not be denied that they offered strong testimonials against toe continuance of the shedding of blood by the executioner. On previous occasions he had referred to former times and to other countries. In the 454th year of Rome capital punishment was abolished, and they had the evidence of eminent historians that the laws were never better obeyed, or administered with greater profit to the people. In Russia it had been vir tually abolished almost for a century. In Delhi, Tuscany, the Grand Duchy of Baden, and several other places, the abolition of capital punishment had been successfully carried out; and in France the Provisional Government had abolished capital punishment in all cases of poli tical offences; and he had no doubt that the Legislature of that country, when it met, would put an end to it in all cases. Why, therefore, he would ask, was it con tinued in moral England?-(Hear, hear.) He believed that putting an end to capital punishment would tend to moralise the lower orders of the people of England, and would be productive of the best results. No man a ho had ever witnessed the scene that took place at an execution in this country could be led to believe that such exhibitions deterred offenders from the com mission of the most awful crimes. Looking at the subject in a .theological point of view, lie would ask his Honourable Friend the Member for Oxford if it was necessary to take life for life, whether the same holy Word did not enforce the exercise of the prerogative of mercy. Could any one doubt that the issues of life and death should be left to that almighty and all-wise Power that gave it?-(Hear, hear.) Under these impressions, and being convinced that the abolition of capital punishment would be attended with the best effects upon society, he trusted the House would give him leave to bring in his Bill. Sir G. GREY said he he felt it to be his duty to take the same course which he took last year on a similar mo tion of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, and oppose the introduction of the Bill. If the lion. and Learned Gentleman had proposed a Bill to improve the law in a number of offences to a hich the punishment of death still remained, he (Sir George Grey) could have con sented to its introduction, but the Bill now proposed by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman invited the House to sanction the principle of the total abolition of the punishment of death for all offences whatever ; arid he (Sir G. Grey) felt that no advantage would be gained by allowing the Bill to be introduced, because it was as competent for the House to pass an opinion on its merits at once as on the second reading. He felt bound to object to the principle advocated by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, because he believed that the punish ment of death for crimes of the gravest kind-and he meant by those crimes of wilful and deliberate and pre meditated murder-was indispensably required for the protection of society, and the preservation of human life.-(Hear, hear.) The Hon. and Learned Gentle man had spoken of the sacredness of human life, and said it was out of consideration for that that he en treated the house to abolish capital punishment ; but could the Hon. and Learned Gentleman guarantee at the same time the sacredness of human life by the abolition of the crime of murder itself-(Hear, hear)- or that it would not become much more frequent of perpetration-(Hear, hear)-and that the sacredness of human life would not be violated to a far greater degree than it was now? There was a great sympathy in the present day for criminals who were condemned to capi tal punishment-not that he complained of it, for it was one of the gratifying features of the age that the atten tion of the public had been directed to the subject of punishment in criminal cases, which was one of those that required the gravest consideration of statesmen and legislators. But it might be carried to a morbid extent. It might be a sympathy for criminals utterly inconsistent with a due regard to the preservation of the lives of those who were pursuing their daily occupations peaceably, honestly, and industriously (Hear, hear)-and who required protection from the hands of robbers and assassins. He believed that during the last tea years not a single person had been executed except for murder or offences which, as far as the persons committing them were concerned, were equiva lent to murder; and therefore the argument of the lion: and Learned Gentleman fell entirely to the ground when lie spoke of the indisposition of juries and prosecutors to convict or prosecute, and of witnesses to give evidence. in consequence of the punishment of death bring the penalty attached to conviction. It was also well known that many persons were put on their trials for certain offences for which the punishment of death was applicable, but that it was the ordinary practice that that punish ment should only be recorded against them, and not carried into effect. He did not say that au improvement of the law, so as to make the practice more consistent with the law, might not be a subject well worthy of the consideration of the House ; and indeed that question had engaged his attention, and he had a Bill prepared upon it, but he had doubted whether it was wise to bring it before the public at the present time. In former times there were many cases in which justice was defeated by the unwillingness of juries to convict, the moral feelings of the country being shocked by the punishment of death being inflicted for offences of com paratively a trivial character; but by the alteration in the criminal law introduced by the father of his lion. and Learned Friend behind him (Mr. Romilly) whom he rejoiced to see occupying a place in that House (Hear)-that law had been remedied, and his (Sir G. Grey's) experience led him to the conclusion that in cases of wilful and deliberate murder juries did not hesitate to convict, and that acquittals did not take place contrary to the evidence. It was true that there had been cases in which juries had acquitted on very slight evidence of insanity; but he was glad to say that he had seen opin ions recently given by some must eminent medical gen tlemen that the day was gone by for that defence, and that they were unwilling to give evidence that would lead juries to acquit on the ground of insanity. That, too, it must be observed, was not confined to capital cases, but had occurred in others as well. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman had said that witnessing the exe cution of capital punishment had not the deterring effect upon the spectators which was urged in its favour ; but the persons who went to gratify a taste which he (Sir George Grey) would not designate of witnessing the dying struggles of a malefactor, were not likely to be deterred by such a scene from the com mission of crime, and were in all probability most fa miliar with crime. But surely the knowledge that the punishment of death would follow with tolerable cer tainty in the case of conviction for certain offences must have some effect, quite irrespective of anything that could be produced by witnessing an execution on the great mass of the people, who knew that they were rendering themselves liable to by the commission of crime. Now, with respect to the statistics referred to by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, he found that in England and Wales the total number of persons committed for trial in the following years was,-in 1840, .27,187; in 1841, 27,760; in 1842, 31,309; in 1843, 29,591; in 1844, 26,542; in 1845, 24,303; in 1846; 25,107. The number of commitments for murder in the five years ending 1831 was ,317; in the years ending 1836, 355; in the five years ending 1841, 284; in the five years ending 1846, 360; or, fur the 10 years ending 1836, 672 ; for the ten years ending 1846, 644. In cases of attempts to murder, capital punishment having been abolished in 1831 in all cases except where bodily in juries dangerous to life were inflicted, the number for the five years ending 1831 was 453; for the five years ending 1836, 668; for the five years ending 1841, 937; for the five years ending 1846, 1,099. Of rapes, as to which capital punishment was abolished in 1841, the number in the five years ending 1831 was 252; in the five years ending 1836, 278; in the five years ending 1841, 319; in the five years ending 1846, 597. Of arson, as to which capital punishment was abolished in 1837, except of dwelling-houses or ships when life was endangered, the number in the five years ending 1831 was 212; in the five years ending 1856, 336; in the five years ending 1841, 183; in the five years ending 1846, 581. Of forgery, the capital punishment in all cases remaining capital having been abolished in 1837, the number for the five years ending 1831 was 312; for the five years ending 1836, 350 ; for the five years ending 1841, 564; for the five years ending 1846, 731. And of burglary, the capital punishment having been abolished in 1837, except in cases where persons in the dwelling were wounded or assaulted, in the five years ending 1831 the number was, 1,299; in the five years ending 1836, 1,060; in the five years ending 1841, 2,154; and in the five years ending 1846 it was 2,701. He did not quote these figures with any other view than to caution the House against the supposition that if they abolished capital punishment in all cases of murder there would be no increase of the crime. The Hon. Gentleman had al verted to the report of the Committee of the House of lords last session, moved for by Lord Brougham, and stated that that report and the evidence contained strong arguments in favour of the abolition of capital punish ment; but it happened that he (Sir G. Grey) had prepared himself to cite the opinion of that Committee, but as an authority in the precisely opposite direc tion. The Honourable Gentleman had selected cer tain passages which helped his argument, but had not referred to the opinion of the Committee itself, which he (Sir G. Grey) Weuld presently quote. With respect to public executions, no doubt many evils might arise from them, but that point did not affect the question of abolishing capital punishment. Then the j lion. Gentleman had drawn the attention of the House to various modes of putting the sentence of the law into execution, but he did not think that the English people would adept the French model, and, upon the perhaps there was no mode less repugnant to their feelings than that which was now in force. The lion. Gentleman had quoted the qualified opinions of two or ,•( - 1 to :clatp thgt ti:,. great majority of the English judges, the whole of the i Scotch, and eight or ten of the Irish judges, h a d ex pressed the unqualified opinion that it was not consistent with the present state of society that the punish ment of death .should be wholly abolished. Anti here he would quote the unanimous opinion of the Committee of the House of Lords to which reference had already been made. It was as fol lows : " Respecting the expediency of abolish ing capital punishments, they found scarcely any difierence of opinion. Almost all witnesses and all authorities agree in opinion that, for offences of the gravest kind, the punishmentlof death ought tb be re tained."—(Hear, hear.) That was the opinion of the Committee of the House of Lords, which the Honourable Member had cited in favour of his views. Upon the theological part of the question he would not now cuter, further than to remark that he felt convinced there was nothing in the Scriptures to fetter the judgment in this matter and to cripple the means of maintaining the security of society. The Hon. Member had referred to the punishments which were in vogue in Russia and other countries, but the English people would not be likely to tolerate the introduction into their criminal code of those terrific punishments, the infliction of which the criminal seldom, if ever, survived.—(Hear, hear•) lie was aware that one of the first acts of the Provi sional Government of France had been to abolish capita punishments with respect to political offences, but the Hon. Gentleman had said they had done so in regard tc all offeee , . whatsoever. If so, it was new to him (Sir George Grey); but, on the contrary, he had observed that the punishment of death had been put in force, end justly too, op lo a person who had been found guilty of ' stealing a silver spoon. Upon the grounds be had stated he trusted the Rouse would not consent to the introduc tion of the Bill. Sir C. BURRELL, who was nearly inaudible, W understood to express his hope that the day would never core that English jurisprudence would be so altered 119 not to afford security to life and property. He should cordially support his Right Hon. Friend in his opposi tion to the introduction of the Bill. Mr. B. OSBORNE said, that the speech of the Hon. Member who had just sat down reminded him of the anecdote of the man who was thrown ashore in a strange country, and seeing a gallows there exclaimed, " Thank God, I'm in a civilised land." He was not prepared fully to agree with all the views of the Hon. Member for Dumfries; but that Hon. Member was, nevertheless, en titled to the greatest praise and honour for the course he had taken in regard to this subject, and there was so reason why his Bill should not be introduced, in the hope that out of it some measure might be framed which would render our criminal law more humane. MG Osborne then stated his objections to public executions, and referred to the disgraceful and disgusting scene which had taken place recently at an execution in Ire land, when, guilty as the criminals were, the sympathy of the spectators was with them. The mob which col lected at these executions consisted for the most part of women, children, and thieves, and it was well known that the best harvest for pickpockets was under the gal lows. If these executions were necessary, he - could not understand why they did not take place within the pre' cincts of the gaol, and he suggested that the Goverment should take the subject into consideration. Mr. LENNARD said that the result of the abolition of capital punishments had, so far as it had gone, bees satisfactory, but the House was now called upon to legislate upon different principles, and it was question able whether the same arguments that applied to offences against property would apply to those against life. There was too much reason to believe that innocent persons had suffered from incorrect, but honest verdicts, and, if that occurred, be it ever so seldom, it was an argument in favour of a substitute for the punishment of death, if an efficient one could be found. His Hon. Friend had one argument which ought to carry with it great weight, is favour of his motion. In the case of a man unjustly convicted of murder, and afterwards executed, they placed it out of their power to remedy the wrong on his in nocence being eventually proved; but if capital punish ment were done away with, they would retain in their hands the opportunity of reversing the mistaken sentence and of restoring him to his position in life. He referred to the dreadful assassinations which disgraced Ireland, es furnishing them with the most palpable evidence of the inutility of capital punishment as deterring from the commission of crime, and he thought that if by their legislation they evidenced that reverence for human life that they would not execute the most hardened of offenders, they would be taking the most direct means to educate the people up ,to the same standard of mo rality. It was well known that among juries called upon , to decide in murder cases there existed a nervous dis position to avoid the verdict of " guilty," by finding the prisoner " insane," and when this feeling was prevalent among the class from which juries were taken, the Legislature was called upon to interfere. He considered that, at any rate, the experiment ought to be tried for s time; it could not du much evil, and it might be pro. , ductive of much good by satisfying the whole commu nity' as to what would be the effect of a permanent departure from the existing code. He had great plea sure in seconding the motion of his Hon. Friend. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY regretted that the Right Honourable Baronet had met this motion with so direct a negative. Tho time, it was quite evident, had arrived when this question must be fairly tested. The consi deration, atter all, was one of expediency, and while all the argument showed that the crime of murder would not increase by abolishing the punishment by deaths he, himself, had every reason to be convinced that the effect "of the spectacle of a public execution was to strengthen the criminal tendency to a very great extent. —(Cheers.) They saw, when the sentence of death was passed in a court, the Judge and jury in tears, and in the crowd at Neivgate, when the law was being carried into effect, they witnessed all sorts of demoral izing and licentious riot. The criminal, himself, when he appeared on the drop, was cheered like a candidate at a county election. If Parliament, then, was satisfied that nothing less than the life of the offender could expiate the crime of murder, at least let the endeavour be made to administer the law with more regard to public morality, and in a way more in unison with the spirit of Christiaoity. He did not see what objection could be made to a trial for a season, of the principle advocated by his Hon. Friend, and the Right Hon. Baronet might rest assured that, even though he per sisted in his opposition this year, 'the time would come when he would see the necessity of taking a different course. Mr. ROMILLY thought that the evident object with all parties was to protect human life, and they had, therefore, only to consider in what manner and by what system that protection could best be secured. He would impress upon the House the expediency of putting an end to capital punishments for every crime whatso ever, except the one crime of wilful and deliberate murder. This crime of wilful and deliberate murder stood on special grounds. It was the crime most difficult to prevent. If they proclaimed it to the world that such was their solemn regard for the lives of their fellow creatures they would t..ke life only on the absolute com mission of murder, they would establish the same general standard among the people, and,. for these reasons be was not prepared to go the whole length with the Honourable 'Member for Dumfries. He would suggest, however, to that Hcn. Gentleman that, if he withdrew his present motion, and waited until the Bill of the Right Hon. Baronet was introduced, he might find an opportunity, by bringing forward some amendment, partly to accomplish his views. One or two observations upon a subject not strictly before the House, namely, the very disgraceful scenes which occurred at the public exhibition of the punishment of death. He could not but think it would be wise if no execution took place in public.—(Hear, hear.) He was convinced that the knowledge of the fact that the offence of murder would be followed by the punishment of death would have 'a . much greater effect in deterring from the commission of the crime than anything else. He believed that public executions produced very in jurious and very demoralising effects. If, as soon as sentence was pronounced, the convict were takes back to prison, and it was known that that was the last moment he would appear to the world, it would hare a more striking.effect than ,a public execution. He was $ little apprehensive that, as the feelings of many who advocated the abolition of capital punishment for the crime of murder had been acted upon by a horror arising from the number.of criminals who had been executed for trifling offences, should the crime of murder inergae• after the, abolition of that punishment, be feared that there would be an opposite reaction, and that the punish ment of death might be again enacted not only for mur der, but for other crimes. Sir G. GREY wished to explain, in order to prevent misapprehension, that in the crime of wilful murder he meant to include the crime of intended assassination, se in the case of Mr. Uniacke Bailey. Lord NUGENT said, agreeing in much of what had fallen from the Hon. and Learned Gentleman ,(Mr. Roinilly), he could not agree with him, in reccommend ing the Hon. Member for Dumfries to take the offer of his Right Hon. Friend (Sir G. Grey), and to withdraw his motion for the sake of takieg the chance of prevailing upon the Committee on the Right Hon. Baronet's Bill to adopt the principle of the great measure he had brought before the House that night. In the first place, he doubted whether he could make up his mind, or arrive at a conviction, to vote the affirmative with his Right lion. Friend, that it was desirable to read a Bill the second time, the object of which was to retain the punish ment of death; and in the next place it would be an ad vantageous mode of recommending the great principle to the House, and it would be difficult to induce the Committee to take into consideration the introduction into such a Bill of a clause excluding the punishment of death. The Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Ewart) had brought before the House the statistics of the effect which the punishment of death had had in reducing crimes of vio lence. From the laws of Rome to those of the present day he had shown in an unanswerable manner that, ge nerally, crimes of violence had increased in proportion to th e violence of punishment and decreased in the ratio of its moderation. He knew it had been said that within the last five years some crimes, in respect to which the punishment of death had been abolished, had increased. Cases of violence against the other sex had been men tioned, but he held this fact to be a most valuable ad mission in their (the abolitionists') favour. What did it show? That prosecutions and convictions, whilst the punishment of death was affixed to the offence, were rare, and as soon as capital punishment was repealed prosecutions and convictions became more frequent, be• cause all reluctance on the part of the injured party was removed, and attorneys ceased to recommend, as they generally did before, a prosecution for the lesser offence, knowing th: , disinclination of juries to convict for the capital ufft:nce. Then, as to the offence of shooting with intent to kill, in which there had been an increase. that was the only other crime practically open to the punishment of death. He put this offence in the same category as successful attempts to murder; and if there had been an increase in attempts to murder, notwith standing the punishment of death, it was another proof that capital punishment did not deter from the crime of nvird , ... !I- i• r t, , ,:I!til,rities —Sir Sarnuel .14ntliy, Sir W. 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The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Carr Alderson, Royal Engineers, to be ono of the Commissioners of Railways, in the room of Captain Henry Rowland Brandreth, deceased. WHITEHALL, MARCH 14. _ . The Queen has been pleased to nominate and appoint the Honourable Charles Edward Pepys to be Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, in the room of Leonard Ed munds, Esq., resigned. FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 13. __ _ The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Thomas H. Hyatt, as Consul at Belfast for the United States of America. DOWNING-STREET, MARCH 13. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Thomas B. Winter, Esq., to be Assistant Receiver-General of Ber bice, in the colony of British Guiana. CROWN-OFFICE, MARCH 18. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Borough of Lancaster—Robert Baynes Armstrong, of Chester place, Westminster, Esq., in the room of Samuel Gregson, Esq., whose election has been declared void. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Durham. John Eden, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, March 4. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Surrey. Captain Peter Page, R.N., to be Deputy Lieutenant, March 7. Commissioned by the Lord Lieutenant of Caithness shire. The Right lion. Jamet Lord Berridale to be Deputy. Lieutenant; David Henderson, Esq. to be Deputy , Lieutenant ; John Sinclair, Esq. jun., to be Deputy. Lieutenant; James Horne, Esq. jun., to be Deputy. Lieutenant, March 3. WHITEHALL, MARCH 1. The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Fish Stans field, of Accrington, in the county palatine of Lancaster, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Chur of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. George Armfield, jun., and Robert Wright Barber, coach builders, Croydon, to surrender March 24, and April 28, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. W hitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street; May, Queen-square, Bloomsbury. Charles Minors Collett, baker, Mill-street, Lambeth, March 24, at half-past twelve, and April 28, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall- street; Low, Chancery-lane. Joseph Hosken, builder, Southampton, March 24, at twelve, and April 28, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane; Green, Walbrook, London. James Baker, tailor, George-street, Hanover-square, March 22, at two, and April 28, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Gadsden and Flower, Furnivars Inn, Holborn. Francis Clementson, earthenware manufacturer, Shel ton, Staffordshire, March 22, and April 20, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Stevenson, Hanley. Edward Thompson, hosier, Kingston-upon-Hull, March 29, and April 19, at half-past ten, at the Leeds District Court Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Tilson and Co., Coleman-street, London; Wells and Smith, Hull. Christopher Morgan, tea dealer, Leeds, March 30, and April 27, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds; Sudlow and Co., Bed ford-row, London; Naylor, Leeds. John Porter, cheese factor, Wormwood-street, City, March 23, at one, and April 22, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook court, Basinghall-street; Wilde and Co., College-hill. William Inwards, straw plait merchant, Luton, Bed fordshire, March 28, at half-past two, and April 25, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry; Lawrance and Plows, Old Jewry Chambers. William Benjamin Jones, hatter, Liverpool, March 27 and April 18, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool ; Smith and Co., Bedford row, London ; Grcatley, Liverpool. John Smith, roller maker, Little Bolton, Lancashire, April 3 and 17, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assigned, Manchester; Atkinson, Saunders, and Atkinson, Manchester; Abbott, Lin coln's Inn-fields, London. John Hope, grocer, Tunbridge-wells, March 23, at eleven, and May 2, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Guildhall chambers; Becke, Bedford•row. John Mullett, tailor, Shaftesbury, Dorset, March 30, at one, and April 24, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy-. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street; Yenning and Co., Tokenhouso-yard. Robert Pye, butcher, Weston-under-renyard, Here fordshire, March 25, at twelve, and April 18, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Hall and Minett, Ross; Reece, Birmingham. Richard Taylor, soap manufacturer, Liverpool, March 31 and April 18, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool ; Keightley and Co., Chancery-lane, London; Holden, Liverpool. Edward Gooche Hone, licensed victualler, Liverpool, March 28 and April 18, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee. Liverpool ; Johnson and Co., Temple, London ; Dewhurst, Liver pool. John Sinclair, tailor, Liverpool, March 31 twnd April HARWICH ELECTION. Mr. S. WORTLEY brought up the report of the Har wich Election Committee, declaring Mr. Attwood to have been unduly elected. DUNDALK ELECTION. The Members of this Committee were called to the tablo and sworn. The following is the list:—Colonel Peel, Sir J. East, Mr. E. Denison, Lord W. Fane, and :sir. J. Duncan. INCOME-TAX. Mr. HUMS presented a petition from a builder, the proprietor of several houses in Paddington, complaining that the income-tax was levied upon him in consequence of these houses, in cases where the tenants had mate rially injured his property, and left without paying up their rent. Sir G. GREY presented a petition from several occupiers of land in Northumberland, complaining of the operation of the income-tax, and praying that it might be levied upon actual profits alone. .PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. Sir B. HALL presented a petition from Alarylebone, praying for the abolition of the punishment of death. LOWTHERSTOWN UNION. Captain ARCHDA LL inquired of the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary for Ireland why the correspon dence relating to a complaint which he had to make against the guardians of the above union had not been produced ? Sir W. SOMERVILLE replied that he had been led to believe that the Gallant Member intended to bring on his motion irrespective of the production of the cor respondence. Besides, he thought enough of the corre spondence was before the House to enable it to come to a decision on the matter. When the Gallant Member brought on his motion he should be ready to enter into its discussion. Captain ARCHDALL then postponed the following motion for a week, in order that the correspondence re ferred to, and for which he had moved, might be produced—namely, to bring under the consideration of the House the allegations contained in the two petitions of the undersigned persons, late the poor•law guardians of the Low therstown Union, in the counties of Ferma nagh and Tyrone, and the undersigned ratepayers of the Clonelly District of the Lowtherstown Union in Ire land (presented February 28). THE RECENT RIOTS IN THE METROPOLIS. Sir W. CLAY said, seeing the Attorney-General in his place, be wished to put a question to him which was of considerable importance not only to his constituents, but to the inhabitants of other portions of the metro polis—he alluded to the damage done to property by the recent riots. Window-breaking was carried to a great extent ; and as the glass broken was generally that in shop windows, the damage perpetrated amounted to a considerable sum. He wished to ask—first, whether the persons whose pro perty had been thus destroyed possessed any claim fur compensation upon the county or elsewhere, and if so, what was the proper legal course to adopt to recover the amount? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, that before the Act of the 7th and Bth of George IV., remedies were given in cases of the injury to property by riot or otherwise; but by the provisions of that Act, no remedy was now given except in the case where the house was feloniously demolished, pulled d)wn or destroyed. The cases that had been referred to did not constitute the actual demolishing of the premises, and he was therefore satisfied that the parties had no remedy either against the county or the hundred. The party themselves, however, were crimi. nally responsible, and subject to severe punishment. KAFIR WAR. Mr. V. SMITH wished to know from the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he would be able to lay on the table of the House the return of the expenses of the Kafir war ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that as soon as he received the report of Sir H. Pottin ger the returns should be laid on the table. PORTUGAL. Mr. HUME wished to know when a return in detail would bo laid on the table of the House of the ex penses incurred by this country at Lisbon during the late civil war. Lord PALMERSTON said that the re could be no objection to furnish the House with returns of any offi cial expenses that had been incurred on the subject al luded to by the Hon. Member. Any returns that had been receives should be immediately laid on the table of the House. ENGLAND AND PRUSSIA. Mr. HINDLEY wished to know from the Noble Lord at the head of the Foreign Department whether this country had entered into any treaty offensive and defensive with Prussia ? Lord PALMERSTON said there was no truth in the report that such a treaty had been signed between this country and Prussia; and the only foundation that could exist for the report, he thought, was the statement that the Prussian Government had determined to pursue the same line of policy with respect to France that had beett determined on in this country, AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. Mr. LABOUCHERE, in answer to the question of an Hon. Member, stated that it was not the intention of the Government during the present session to introduce any measure with respect to agricultural statistics. PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. Mr. EWART presented a great number of petitions from different places, praying for the repeal of the puaishment of death. Mr. COBDEN presented several petitions to the same effect. Mr. EWART then rose for the purpose of moving for leave to bring in a Bill for the total abolition of the punishment of death. Although the mass of informa tion which had reached him upon the subject was very large, he should endeavour to make his statement as brief as was consistent with the tenor of that information and the gravity of the subject. It might be asked why he ventured to do so at the present time. He could assure the House that he should not have adopted the present times were it not that he felt an increase in the conviction which he had felt for years that capital punishment ought to be abolished, and that that conviction had been increased in the minds of the people of this country.—(Hear, hear.) He felt convinced that there was a ♦ast and increasing amount of conviction in the public mind of the inexpe• diency of capital punishment. A short time since he could scarcely find a single clergyman in favour of the repeal of the punishment of death; he was happy to say that there were now a great number of great learning and blameless life—men whom he respected, and to whom he was deeply attached, who were now numbered among those who were the most strenuous advocates for the repeal of that punishment. Many of the magistrates of the country were also of the same opinion, and, lastly, it now appeared solemnly recorded by the reports of a Committee of the House of Lords that there were several Judges of the land who were favourable to the repeal of capital punishment, and who bad thrown the vast weight of their authority into the scale of justice and humanity. Again, ho found that juries were less inclined than ever to find per. sons guilty of those crimes which involved the penalty of death.—(Hear.) The juries had latterly found out the means of absolving their con sciences from their oaths by acquitting the prisoners on the ground of insanity. The Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary for the Home Department had recently ad mitted that fact to a certain extent. Many medical men of great authority in this country and on the continent, had now admitted within the category of insanity that which is called " moral misapprehension," awl this made it a matter of extreme difficulty for any jury to find persons guilty of capital offences in cases where a medical man could be found to speak to that subject in behalf of the accused, and it was equally difficult for the learned judges to pass sentence of death upon such persons. He felt convinced, therefore, that the time was now fast arriving when the Government and the Legislature of this country would feel it to be their duty totally to repeal the punishment of death.—(Hear.) It had been brought forward as an argument against the abolition of the punishment, that the recent examples in Ireland had produced in the public mind a strong opinion in favour of maintaining the punishment of death. lie believed that such was not the case. He would ask the House whether the exe cutions which recently took place at Clonmel were of such a nature as to produce that effect upon the public mind. The Honourable Gentleman then proceeded to relate the circum stances attending the recent execution at Clonmel, and asked the House whether such scenes were calcu lated to produce any moral effect upon the people. He had been told, indeed, that the effect of such executions had been to increase the crime of murder, and he held in his hand letters from various parts of Ireland, which strongly confirmed such an impression. He had been put in possession of a remark able instance of the inefficacy of capital punishments, where a man, whose grandfather and father were executed, ultimately came to the gallows himself. Now in former sessions, in bringing forward this question, it had been his duty to refer to the statistical returns which had been laid before the House on the subject, but he had always been met with the statement that statis tical returns were not to be relied upon. No doubt they were not always criterions to go by, for the returns themselves proved the fact, that in times of scarcity and distress, crime of all kinds increased. There could, however, be no question about it, that crimes which were formally capital had greatly diminished since they had been taken out of that category. The second kind of documentary evidence upon which ho relied was a most important report which was presented to the House of Lords in the last session of Parliament. It would probably be in the recollection of the /louse that Lord Brougham moved for a Committee of Inquiry into the state of the criminal law, and before that Committee a large number of witnesses were examined, including some of the leading Judges of England, Scotland, and Ireland; one of the subjects embraced by the Committee was capital punishment, and the report the Committee Came to contained statements which strongly sup parted the motion he was bringing forward. Mr. Charles Phillips was entirely in favour of the abolishment of the punishment of death, and Mr. Commissioner Bullock was of the same opinion. Mr. Rushton, the Liverpool magistrate, and a man of great legal experience, said, in reply to a question, that the j) , ; ,1- Itrient mie,lit be pefnly dicnena.d addin— the public infliction of the punishment possessed no salutary effect upon those who beheld it. But he would refer to higher authorities still, namely, the judges of f 1, J s i E i t fi , i INV' fillima J