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'''' 4 4llPr .- - _. ~,f0 . of the beg arranged Club 3. :-. - , • .•~,~ 4-- . ~, f,_ - ~,,,„"?.. / tt (;ha is furnished with over 3 .. .. , Irj:, , , e to Commerce. Each Member , ig a Friend. (with ref! 17,'. TINT CIT Y OF lON e ttl% is OPF.NE) E S. It er:-.bra: des rombited with the con The exchange or Cornmercia, rneeessary info rmation re l at i r4 has the privacge of introducin; te Applications for Arnis lion n. the Committee at thed Club Hou se , 38, T h ' r n o c g e m s t c o o n r;_c s e a e d t e . to T. ;oN. 101 OR N ING EDITION. pokiti ot wog° odes of the No. 15,113. LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1t,.41 PRICE sd. EAST INDIA HOUSE, FEB. 12, 1841. 911 HE COURT of DIRECTORS o f t h e X EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give Notice, That a GENERAL COURT of the said C"MPANY will he held at their House in Leadenhall-street, on FRIDAY, the 26th instant, from Nine o'clock in the Forenoon until Six in the Evening, for the ELECTION of a DIRECTOR of the said COMPANY, in the room of JOHN THORNHILL, Esq. , deceased. STOVES. —The LARGEST STOCK in the KINGDOM of ELEGANT REGISTER and other STOVES, of the most approved construction for Econo mizing Fuel and Radiating Heat. Also, a large assortment ofimprovcd KITCHEN RANGES, and COOKING APPARATUS of every description, are on Sale at Manufacturers' Prices at the PANCLIR ANON BA- ZAAR, BAKER-STREET, PORTAIAN-SQUARE. IMPERIAL. PARLI AMEN T. Bill for establishing in that Borough a Court for the recovery of Small Debts. NEWPORT RIOTS. Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from Salford, praying for the liberation of Frost, Williams, and .Tones. Mr. H. BERKELEY presented a petition from the neighourhood of Bristol against the Corn•laws ; also a petition, numerously signed, by the merchants of Bris tol; praying the serious attention of the House to the project for equalizing the duties on East and West India produce, before they consented to a Bill for that purpose. ARMY ESTIMATES. hat tke Forms of a Letter of Attorney, and of an Affi davit or Affirmation, which sill he required under the 27th Sect. of the Act 3d and 4th Will. IV., cap. 85, for enabling Pr.'prietors of East India Stock to Vote by Proxy on this occasion, may be obtained upon application at the Treasury in this House. LIFE ASSURANCE. A Combination of all the Important Advantages hitherto offered to the Public distinguishes the SCOTTISH UNION INSURANCE COMPANY. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. Mr. MACAULAY brought up the Army Esti mates, which were laid on the table. Lord SANDON presented a number of petitions from Liverpool for Local Bills. TRADES' COMBINATIONS. C9i je giog NO" ingig pdC " " D 44 .5 i d g E I le 5 , 101 1 66- 3 0 4 Ei cf !josti I d. 0 o 6 kit 60 X 061 4 0 1 r ' °° of d on e of scar' IIF t'ART :VENT O ACT FOlt CO I L"' WEST INDIES. , S _ FOR TI- ,r, F TIIE STO RY_KEEPER.GENER AL OF ~ THE NAVY, SOME IV , ET-PLACE, FEB. 11, 1,11. 1r THE COIVINTISSIONERS for EXEC UT -ILAN u vi ING the OFFICE 'or LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of 14i; 'cloTEhDerebrl,3,NgDO„lti of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE iv - 0 Notice, that on THURSDAY, the it h h l uelril,„,. l}ext ' At 'in' o'clock, they will be ready to treat with deliveilii;"3, as. 'may be willing to Contract for supplying_aann itenneek„l'M 'undermentioned Graigola, Bryndorway, .Y . n. t%eat en7da,..lven, Fordel Main, Halbeath, Inverkedlnp, ot* p 1, Elgin Wallserd, Troon, Ardrossan, Fergus Hill, 7rlfy'artle",ton, Hartley Colll.eries ( Ca rr ' s an d W es t), B u ddl e , s Y, Rushy Park, or Stanhope Wallsend 60ALS, Fit for her Majesty's Steam Vessels, viz. : At ma; Tong Half to be shipped before 30th April, r ja - 44 ...... 3 ,500 and the remainder before 30th No vember next. A . With a contingent quantity at Barbadoes. / N TM of Tender mav be seen at the said Office. of T ° tender will be received after One o'clock on the Day tntreit'', nor any noticed, unless the Party attends, or an for him duly autbo . rized in writing lth.etY and m , ist be addressed to the Secretary of the Ad -41, and bear in the left hand corner the words " Ten riace or Coals," and must also be delivered at Somerset .yr- :nied, by a Letter signed by two responsible p bm'llgaghig to become bound with the person tendering, in - the e °` 3 ' ° ° o / for th d . formance of the Contract. ~...T . ,_______l______ e due performance RACT, `O AL .-'s FOR MEAT, BREAD, ti.c. FOR THE AND ' 3IARINE INFIRMARIES AT WOOLWICH I, CATE-lAN!. -EP s,ARTMENT OF THE INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF -...A.VAL HOSPITALS AND FLEETS, SOMERSET PLACE, F E ,; . II 1811. 11-t; COMMISIONERS for EXECUT :heyNlidrhertehbe OFFICE of lOW HIGH ADMIRAL of LAI% 'En KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IR_E- F:r "tlt ' at One n ) ,: give Notice, that on THu es DA Y, the :loth ton s elocti, they will be ready to treat with such quautit• as may be willing to Contract for supplying all such il ta s et i e :t e 4i n e f b?, s4. any of the following Articles as shall from ila alar; •equired for the use of either or both of the ''t day f Ile ma=les at Woolwich and Chatham, from the - °- - Iril xt to' the 31st day of March, 1842,- viz.. : re.;.ESLI BEEF and MUTTON, • ~•••:-,, .: RXAD, Anik, SOAP and Now , CANDIES V 4/ 4 -es ('‘ the 8 ° p andC dies, anti the Conditions of the *he Notts,a tuay be (. a .en . at the said Office, or on application to os,V of the respective Infirmaries. eity, ender will be r - eceired after one o'clock, on the day of t hi tt Pe any noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent tser,„,,,uly authori-ed in writing. Rlty, -4. endr ,must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admi "e"l?ear in the left hand corner the words ~ Tender for tnel a Pattied' i , and Tralst also be delivered at Somerset-place, a n c : En;ofto' I;4 oin a eLetter signed by a responsible Person, f 100 /, fa. _ e bound with the Person tendering in e the e kh ee!and Ai r Ito due performance o . f each of the Contracts or th kutton and Bread, and in the sum of 50/. for e others. BIRMINGHAMTBR and RAILWAY. rsh tt , TE FOR ton".9tIAAPCTORN S o DERS f the MANCHESTER LOANS. and BIR -o‘3„ttAkeht RAILWAY COMPANY are now prepared ‘erti , ath.„ IqORT GAGES (under th e p owers o f their Act , t) of the TOLLS and WORKS of their un f S O s O/ a security f or L oans of Money, in sums of not Im sttrll„ ren e, giv and se mortgage, and for the periods of - each _.;ven years, — at: the option of the lender ilbiir tl , tif..ardrants, calculated at the rate of 51. per cent. per or I.,_klehesteu payal4e at the Company's bankers, in t London stw... Ze,ftrat 4.., pn.the del yearly days on uhich the in . ere de li - 1 'oeted t " (hiring the whole period of the Loan, will be p . 0 th e L ~ . li tl oti eu l a enuer. trttl the mortgages. 144 1 'n't II " P rli4l " the peculiar eligibility of this sec . u. kll ,Y be obtyi,- a g Pe Offices, No. 4.3 Pic ?, o r ~ ..ed at the Company's . ~Alam e st" . "11% at 'tie office, of Slater and Heel's, Princess-street, ---...,-nester, janttary IT2IIO, 1 I tu A l S . ASHTON, Chairman. N r. he o u I A N I R 0 N. /it-elZiNt.-I•NEERS, MECHANISTS, AND OTHERS. Llgnetie • 4 kod superior quality of the Iron made from the " mt hit 'o,,,c)irt.o_stloflndia, as well as of the Steel manufactured t'.t ge tives, are generally known. .. IL "lAN IRON COMPANY having obtained from tts;able East India Company's Madras Government mtslleti/e Privileges of Mining, and cutting Fuel, have es.a- Qtly on the Porto Novo Charcoal Iron Works, for smelting these . '' )11 st th he European carried ' plan. The ulterior processes are ;:bst ?h e 1 Charcoal Iron Works, at Carmarthen. . _ kite:igh 4 ,, r ?' l has been tried for all purposes for which Iron of 1 -s' g li ality is required, and after severe tests it can he 1 1 l to be peculiarly strong and tough. It is naturally ase rou at redshort from the richness of the ore, but after nu tild II I :, tr.,_rials, and imp rovements this fault has been overcome, Itislity.":',..°,l'°Pany are enabled to ' offer to the public a first-rate hi Ili Z r.°o, which will work well at all heats. Al I " 4 "t3' of the Pi Iron is peculiarly adapted for Mallea -1104 Castings. g 41 . t kee art ies who seek in the Iron which they use, the above tirueli qualities, are confidently requested to inspect the spe- Ither:itio various shapes, which may be seen at the offices, drs /titlaouthde,ompany are ready ' to receive and execute in• e Ap tq • e!a. Ota r 'cations to be addressed to G. W. Scott, Esq., at the 4,0"' I%l° . 18 K' , P 48 3 So n , , an h IN s u ._rm e s-Ta ; rd t , e London; to Messrs. John• Protheroe, jun., :?:istol; or to H. R. go e w ri nnt ° an, Esq., at the Iron Works, roz7len, South Wales. ""n, Feb. 1, 1841. 4.lp ol ' ' -- -- 1 -....:____________ I'4I iID. N T TO GAS -LIGHT and COKE S _ Ca: AL L Y GAS-FITTERS, and CONSUMER G tei I i IEIII IES, GAS ENGINEER, begs to s_ ;Worm Gas Comp anies and the Public, tha t . after. bringing top _,!etionhitherto a„,wei c h he , upequalled a erfeet DRY GAS ME I ER, ''' ho w has obtained her Ma j esty 's Royal Letters Patent, ti tt. enofioently submits the same for their approval and 4 14.114'i:it:NT DRY GAS METER has been tested t 114s etts u e ral London Gas Companies , and the advantages i t P ,otk;,.. over th the '"II bv , Water Meters are, ste . adiness of ligh , Iles e °l"re e r oe slightest possible pressure , and to show that all - Ali ) , d ' l ess and accuracy of its measurement may ~,i IS , I , Fittiee„.P.ended upon, it is only requisite to mention th a a t t t he . i;: 01 th 6 ; „are not injured by the impregnated water with ( 7 . ,t n water Meters are charged, and that the se s ve e r m es . ! V) . Ne °t effect it so that the Patent Dry Meter 1 t.. ° be 4 11s . t ed I 0 surpass any other hitherto pro3uced 4 1..... - tatued at DEFRI ES and LUY'S M'anufactor3,.6l ite„Lics.i `<llloll. alle, where all orders will meet with immediate -s*---..._ 39 , .tk, SIGFIT AND HEARING. , '4IEMARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY, , Nti/N,v..?, ~,,,yl(Litlpii.).koAsiit.e the York Hotel) , and - STREET, BANK OF ENGLAND. r,`:, -INVISIBLE OPERATIVE VOICE B "'I33I—inuNDUCTOR, effected by the Messrs. S. "dm: 11i...N5, OPT ICIANS and AURISTSto the ROI litect,l'."'h4ii,3o9,_',ALllEMAßiE-STREET, PICCADILLY, th, is the •-i,ands of deaf rersons have been greatly bene tio,.4vitr ,-,'Pze of a se ven-slrill , ng piece, and when fixed jute Ith'ig,ila4l,7lth!? ear i 3 soft and easy, and not more perceptible ( lef P ' l ' at' Piece of wool in its place, by which the faintest i 4 ,eti,,„ v3i• public n•ssernbly is heard with distinctnes f s. ewAlyd -1114441 s I ONT is brought to nature by t" use of are t Aro 'd 41 ECTACLELENSES; immediately they or (.)tato,`'llll,liitr,e'''eak. aa.,nd imerfect e •e-‘iffht, either by day Y •l a - r'and distinct, and the wbitote parti)e tj.ect becomes •th both t 'l 1' seen ihgrea t t e distinctness ; by the . use h tki e A . l„ s., he sight and hearing become much.im parlelvecdon ter 04 nitC rs ' S• and 13. SOLOMONS disclaim of am. ttin apv,tag.ipersons of the same name, and the sale 4 vt x ,3 . ho' e s the pernicious use of amber spectacles l l)i ''t" 1.., well kolwn to the public, and the vendor being IQ) . 1 1 ' N'il :, he has therefore altered their name, by leaving , e s u , t , Ishit,Arnber," and calling them " Patent Spe t c b t e a r el t f a . n Pim t br :, he terms Patent Spectacles" are not. that ma b te. kt, ti , Sk e 7" ; the history and destructive use o P r Ve x 1 '.eles to imperfect vision is fully and most .tsat.i_s '4ll t ile t i : 41 " d by the undermentioned scientihc author' y . 'Ai I)ie lionary of Arts and Sciences" of Andrew Ure, t),)tiCber • .b F R S., &c. , &c * Ilia "t lkw, IS an indura;Cd v ' ecretaAle juice, and not produced 1 4Nl ee N I °l' crYstlllisathbut by the same causes which 'Y‘itltrcli',ll. b4iniecteehanical condition of gum. Insects are .l lll ttit, I N ~ io it. Amber is most powerfully electrical theta; tha-ler) hot, to such an extent as to explode into frag.,r -illelli.,tillats,;4lrktrien, too, are subject to nervous tremors in 44 h dread}; ''. &e. ; they encounter gret (alawnigtehrlbiSmhe and tt krk i t lake file,Xcited electrics ; amber li kti t ! ) ) th at t-, :. a-nd is of such a. soft nature gre when exposed to 11114 e ' tt b v 1, swells, bubbles up, and will burn away with t l' f l ,' 41, 1 Pliny, statements lgo by Parks and He . rns, on e h tl- P l i,: Z O l : l i , "; . ": r fib ie d r e e t s lj t vri r o e . 's ciive as e a ffects are further confirmed by e . S e i - r respectable c a h tne a d m a a t te a r n i y al for spe Ilri . t h elli s 14 tOrid o " " , ma} tior'4,3l.r"4"s' S olo r n . lo ' ly invented Spectacle Lenses are ) iti,' 4 44 ' '' t .e'l of suchusa u m e‘ a v terial. but which are very sup . e e - t I , ) "t v ' l to it,N,g back at once dimness of sight and imperfect N 11)411-1,fl',gitial and natural state. These Spectacles, and b ~ ‘t th,,i 'of Conductorsfor deaf . persons, are 'k 4ot e ' i rtabliihents, 39, Albemarle-street (opposite the -:r.ly . to and 76 , King William -street, Bank. INVI---------u l'jj' ll 'WA li.----10-1-T—the CURE of STRIC tch E ttc , . 1 1\,t.4, of the U RETHRA SYPHILIS, GONOR- GiLtz,,, 1`;„ as EE v iti i. 0, and all DISEASES of the GENERA- Nit' t*ithlta i•N4/11 ORGANS. kta li 4l 4 tc revel the above Institution is closed, Patients inky Alyi,A.T r. e v o "Pre the GRATUITOUS ADVICE of the . S a u p r : 11 ° I t hi s n ' t er , a3-, 42, Great .Marlborough-street,) by k" l ) 11 % of , Alt he.ise instead of the Charity. hir,',ltroiti ottendance from Einilit to Ten in the Mon . lings ~tlil,,,itz()Nvc,,,vterlii,t,teiNn ittibe: iFn:vtehneimE:venings. On Sundays in the 01,/,() MEDICINE VENDORS AND OTHERS. tet t VI, - ',,,i-. is hereby given That by the rec ent . N. 1 4'4 1 4 , ' "ACT obtained by Messrs. T M against 1 1 li ir.}! °11 itig ° 1 1 ° c r , ',. for counterfviting their Medicines, all Per -4,,,,, ate i.. , ~ ueines as and for " , ORISON'S PILLS," rh ll qt ' kl ion s " ' a ". mere Spurious Imitations, are liable to it,„'',4tae,,,,,l.'rouglit against them for every box sold under ri,:q ii4;"191 actions' Messrs. Morison will deem it their ItiNh oril'l,,ti every case that comes to their knowledge. New,r,:r.of Health, Hamilton-place, L6ndon, D.c. 99, 1840. li lt 4 RAT/I) FAIIIILY APERIENT t xi Ai t \ ' 7 , ;`,5. Price Is. I ad. per Box. i 4lt driri t begs leave to inform the Public, ' 0 1 " the ' l g . his leave . . 1 0;,. 0 1 'N - heal Practice, while formerly kiN,ttrx, h v heil.,s,,t Ind:a Company':, Service and since he has i s e 'lle e 'j'• th ere ', Pr<lseribed there Pills with the most signal th coofldelice recommend them as a iNe t i r by 'theciTMilft(lr re n .mo . :i ob , s y t t r i t o ic e tio s u s s te o m f the 111, - eY to operation, the 3 he t r , the „es thi, th e 'td, t:lo,icriptiotipportuility of announcing that he has . d is tt s r lie, t Perf ee .; w ard, of Antihdious and Family Aperie t 4 1 1 '41 1 , • Nei 3 ' ee Pail's Churchyard, London, who, 4 ti e ,, h e me(011 will dispense them c - rrcctly, and with 1 1 , 1, 1, Len a ,• a nY hne l i nes he would not ave made over the oj rn Li le could not have I .erfect rcliaece in, le rublie should place . 441- v, t ; c lltitt fttrti4lects the liitiria'encotil)-etititritiro'n !rifled w th, in what 4 to state, there ' is net a safer, better Fa 1141Ipr~',.ttje.:"1,:isv"iber tixtant ; end the , they ate with , ut Dy i gru s , 't'•! , t nee b ite, ,„ c) t• n t'auP s:ChurCli-yard; Sanger, 150, Ox_ •ide r ,y ,d 4 (Opposite the Royal Lxchange) • THE M AG NI Fl ED DAGUERREOTYPE PICTURES ILLUMINATED, sheaving the finest V.ews in GREECE, ITALY, ER ANCE, and ENGLAND. 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CHAPTER Iv. Of the Treatment of the Mala dies Consequent upon Stric ture. APPENDIX. Cases Illustrative •f the Su periority of the Author's Mode of Cure over the Treat ment by the Bougie, Cathe ter, Lunar Caustic, and Cut ting Instruments. Instituted in 1824, and Incorporated by Royal Charter. The Septennial Division of two-thirds of the Profits of this Corporation will be declared in December, 1841, on all Policies of the participating Class. effected previous to the Ist of August next ; and persons contemplating insuring their Lives so as to share in the forthcoming Bonus, should make their proposals with as little delay as possible. 'fables of Rates, Forms for Proposals, and every informa tion, may be had on application to the Secretary, at the Chief London Office, No. 449, West Strand ; or at the City Branch Office, No. 78, King William-street, Mansion House, between the hours of Ten and Four. 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U.—Wind this day at noon, light breeze at S. W., with very mild hazy weather. There has been occasional falls of light rain, with a rapid thaw du ring the n:ght. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 11—. Wind S. S. E., fresh.—Sailed the Rivals, Cuddy, for St. Thomas; Indus, Bruce, De merara ; Monument, Chuses, and Russell Glover, Hawes, New Orleans; Sweden, Hornan, Boston. Bats roL, FEB. 1 1.—Sailed the Ajax, Stark, Trinidad. SHEERNESS, FEB. 11. The William, Allen, and Brock (light colliers), are on shore on the Isle of Grain. CLYDE, FEB 9.—Sailed the Mariner, Taylor, Savan nah; France, Marshall, New Orleans ; Janet, Wilson, Buenos Ayres. CORK, FEn. 9.—A schooner, with loss of main -boom, and a ship, with loss of foreyard, were seen yesterday in the Channel. CARDIFF, FEB 11.—The Argyle, Cuttancc, of Pcn. zance, is on shore at the mouth of the river Ely, with part of her keel gone, and other damage. Hum, FEB. 11. —Wind S.S.W. to S.W.—A great quantity of ice is in ac Humber. The buoys have been replaced by ice buoys. SUPPOSED LOSS OF TIIE HEROINE. This vessel, for which fears have been entertained for her safety, has at last been heard of. The Glasgow Courier, of yesterday, reports her having arrived at Ba tavia, since our last advices from thence. The Heroine sailed from China about the 26th of June last, hound to Batavia and London. Not having arrived at Batavia, after allowing her a very long passage, she was supposed to have been lost, and so strong was this supposition that 401. per cent, was refused upon her insurance. AN UNLUCKY THIEF.-At the close of a day of labour, Jean I3iaut, a conimissionnaire medaille (anylice ticket porter), was ascending to his humble dwelling, au siriemestage, or attic storey, when, to his great surprise, he beheld a woman attempting to farce open the door of his apartment, " Que diable " said the indignant commissionnaire, " What are you doing there ?" " 11h ! c'cst vrai !" said the woman, " I have mistaken the storey." (Je me tronipe d'etage,) "It would be difficult to do that," said the facetious porter, " unless you came in a balloon, seeing that mine is the first story coming from heaven, though commonly called the sixth, reckoning from earth." The woman had nothing with which to meet this reasoning, and was about to take herself off, when Biaut, seeing she had left a false key behind her, which stuck in the lock, followed her, and gave her into the custody of the police, and she was taken before M. Deroste. As ill luck would have it, at the very moment of her arrival, a omit, who had the da.y before been robbed of nearly all her clothes, came to prefer her complaint to the Court. No sooner did she behold the prisoner than she exclaimed, " Voila, my shawl ; voila, my gown l"—for such were the borrowed plumes of the delinquent. Convicted of the robbery in one case, and the attempt in the other, the pri soner was sentenced to be sent to St. Lazare.—Gazette des Tribunaux. OPTICAL AND ACOUSTIC AIDS.—E. Solo mons and Co., Opticians, &c., have succeeded in producing Hear ing Instruments, measuring only a quarter.of.an-inch in diameter, which realise the most beneficial consequences, being applicable, with similar results, to the Ear, as Spectacles are to the Eyes. The transcendent excellence of their celebrated Patent Spectacles has been infallibly demonstrated by the immense good they have inva riably effected—in short, the high recommendations and approval of the greatest medical authorities in Europe, including the preemi nent names of Sir Benj. Brodie, Bart., F.R.S. ; Sir James Ander son, M.D ; Dr. James Johnson ; the late Sir A. Carlisle, F. 11.5., &c. &c., are sufficient guarantee for their superlative advantages in the assistance and preservation of sight. The following testi mon i a l s are confirmatory of all that could be said in praise o f th ese invalua ble assistants :—From Bransby Cooper, Esq., F. It.S ,S urgeon to Guy's Hospital, &c.—" From the use I have made of a Patent Lens produced by E. Solomons and Co., and comparing it with those in ordinary glasses, I have no hesitation in saying that, to my sight, the former is infinitely preferable in being less trying to the Eye. B. B. Coorcir, 2, New-street.'' " London, 13, Holles-street, and 27, Marlborough-buildings, Bath.—Baron Browne Mill has great pleasure in being able to say, that the Spectacles adapted to his sight some years back, afford him the most perfect, ease b y d ay or candle li g ht. lie is happy in his sight being co materially improved from the use of their Spectacles, and feels it a duty to recommend them to all persons requiring optical aid." N.B. lii consequence of the various attempts to impose base imitations on the public, and the Patentees being entirely unconnected with persons advertising under the same name, their subjoined address should be cautiously Rice on T ues d ay l ast, and and arth Marshall wh o was mar- I, ia l‘ r T: al S ir a i : g was erroneously stated in all ote l d t . w 3 a 6 s , OA/lidrß. Johnad.st Bond-street, Old Jewry, City. not. Henry rled s, t i o r t the papers. HOUSE OF LORDS, FEB. 11. The E srl of SHAFTESBURY took hi.; scat on the Woolsack at the usual hour. The Bishop of LONDON presented a petition from the Mayor, Aldermen, and Corporation of Lcc3s, in ravour of the Bill for the Drainage of Buildings, and pray ing a General Drainage ane Sewerage Act for the whole kingdom. The Right Rev. Prelate entirely concurred in the prayer of the petition, being convinced that a' great portion of all the disease in great towns arose from ineperfi!et sewerage and ventilation. IL hoped her Ma jesty's Government considered the Bill b , fore the House as only part of a system of sanatory relief for the whole kingdom. He was convinced they would make great advances towards improving the moral condition of the lower orders, and towards bringing them within reach of the appliances of religion, if they could im bue. them with habits of cleanliness. This was an oh ject well worthy of their Lordships' time, for he b lieved that all other legislative enactments for their benefit were useless, unless they could intro duce cleanliness into the habitations of the poor. It was necessary the Government should take the lead for this purpose. A voluntary effort had been made some years ago, but the opposition to it, from interested mo tives, was so great, that it was found necessary toabandon it. He hailed this Bill as the first, or almost the first, ap pearance on the part of Government to remedy this evil of the poor, which lay at the root of all the evils of our aoci.l and political position.—( Hear.) Lord ELLENBOROUGH entirely con curred with the Right Rev. Prelate who had addressed the House, that he preferred saying what he had to say on this subject at the present moment, rather than when the Bill should come before the House. He be lieved that all moral and religious improvement of the poor was totally inconsistent with their physical degradation, and that to build churches and schoolhouses, and employ clergymen and school masters, was utterly idle—that it was beginning too far from the real source of the evil—that it was all idle unless they placed the poor man in a situation of self respect, and gave him a borne. That ought to be their endeavour. He had not one now—(Hear)—he was driven from the wretched piece of his abode to the gin-shop ; his wife was driven there too by the wretched condition of their abode. What the Legis lature should do was to give him a home, where his wife might provide for him some degree of domestic comfort, and where he alight spend his evenings in its enjoyment. Without this all attempts to im. prove the moral condition of the poor were ab surd. They must not shut their eyes to the fact that a great practical revolution had taken place in the state of society during the last century. Ths proportion between the manufacturing and agricultural population was altogether reversed, and with this change was alto gether changed the structure of society. The landed proprietor was acquainted with the poor man who had lived in his immediate neighbourhood, visited his cottage, looked after all his comforts, and took an interest in all his concerns. Farmers took an interest in the well being of their labourers and servants, and the poor cottagers were full of kindly feeling to wards those who were in a similar condition to themselves. There was bond of connection be tween the agricultural population which made them regard each other as members of one family. This was not the case with the manufacturing popula tion. They were divided into two classes—great wealth and great misery. There was no connection be tween them. Nothing was done, except in a few rare instances, by those who derived benefits from the exertions of the labouring manufacturer, for his moral improvement. This was a fearful state of society. He was sure it behoved Parliament to apply every remedy in its power. His objection to the Bill was not to its prospective regulations, but that it had not a retrospective operation. The evil existed. There were localities containing vast numbers of people, where fever was domiciled, and where benevolent individuals could not enter tsi!hout al:nost the certainty of con tagion and death. The truth of this was established by the Report. He did not think the Courts, under the ex sting law, were properly constituted —(Hear.) He did not think that the Bill of the Noble Marquis would' go far enough ; and he regretted that its provi sions would not extend to prov►ding for the ventila tion of towns. The Noble Marquis might have been deterred in the framing of his measure, by an tpprchension of interfering wi!h what were called vested rights. He (Lord Ellenborougli) did not think that reason sufficient. No man should be at Hinny so to abuse his property as to affect the health and endanger the lives of the community ; and though he admitted that avarice had its rights, hu manitylad its, rights/also, and those rights ought to-be respected. -thought the case was one which required the immediate interposition of Governifient. Tney had of late years increased in population, and in wealth, but national prosperity and strength was not the only subject for the labours of the Legislature, a more important subject still was the moral condition of the people. They might look with pride to the result of the census and to the extent of their commerce, but if they bad a demoralized popula tion increasing every day in wretchedness, there was rottenness at the heart of the social structure, which would soon extend to the Constitution. The revolutions occasioned in society by the increase of the manufacturing population was a most important innovation. In the course of a few years that revolution had been accom plished, and had practically changed the whole frame of society. He called the serious attention of her Majesty's Government to the subject, and he was sure that a more important one could not occupy their inquiries. If no change were effected under it on that head he agreed with the Right Reverend Prelate that however excellent their laws, however virtuous their designs, however good their principles might be, they would never produce that moral and re ligious improvement in the character of the people which they desired. The Marquis of SALISBURY presented a peti tion from certain inhabitants of the parishes of St. Martin's. in-the-Ficlds, and St. Anne's, Soho, com plaining of the delay in the formation of the intended line of street leading from Coventry street into Long-acre, and praying for a settlement of the matter. The Noble Marquis wished to know whether it was the intention of the Government Co persevere in the proposed undertaking. Lord DU NCAN NON said that it was certainly the intention of her Majesty's Government to carry out the recommendations of the Committee who had sat on the subject. The Bill would be brought in as soon as possible!. Lord GLENG AL L gave notice that he would take the earliest opportunity of moving for a copy of a letter said to have been addreFsed by Mr. Nicholls to the Poor-law Guardians in Ireland. DRAINAGE OF BUILDINGS BILL. Lord NORNIANBY in moving the second rea,:ing of the Drainage Building Bill, said that the importance of the subject could not easily be exaggerated. The Noble Baron opposite (Lord Ellenborough), who had all cady alluded to the quesiion, had stated in the course of his observations that he did not conceive that the powers given by the Bill were sufficiently large. But his first object would ha to allude to the state of things which had produced those evils to whi h he was now about to apply a remedy. If thirty e cal s ago such a Bill as that had been passed by their Lordships, many of those evils would not have attained their present ex tent, or would probably never have existed. As to the ail itself, he intended to consider it as but one step in the right direction, and he promised the Noble Lord that he would endeavour to induce their Lordships to continue in the course en which they were then about to newmin ery, but his first ob enter. The Bill d been proposed to thei r L or d s hi ps with a view to direct the att ention of the Legislature to what was admitted to be a se ri oue evil. In introducing the the measure, it had been his endeavo ur to have as little mightrecour recourse af found possibleund imperfect to anyi nits operation, aci) ject was to apply the machinery already in existence, and not to establish a new body for the purpose of carrying out the measure. He was a ware of the disadvantage under which he laboured in dealing with the medical part of the subject, but he would endea vour to allu de , in as few words as possible, to that part of t he q uesti on. It was now a towhichuniversally h e u s m ta a blish d nature fac proceeding from a disorgan i s ation of an imal and vegetable matter. That was a poison w hich aff ected the constitu tion as surely, though not a s s p eedil y , as any other. It human that very many o f the diseases s subject, aro se f ront malaria had been proved that that poison had a substantive exist ence ; and a certain portion of air saturated with that ma laria, and introduced into the veins of animals, had been shown to he fatal. It had also been preyed, that disease had been removed by t h e changes whioh put an end to that malaria. There was a Repnrt of a Committee of the House of Commons, from which he would quote a few instances, by way of illustrating that assertion. In Euston-square, at the ter minus of the Birmingham Railway, there was an open ditch, in which the drains of the neighbourhood discharged themselves; and the consequence wa4, that typhus or seine other description of fever usually prevailed in that dis trict. The ditch, however, was covered in, and fever had never since been known to prevail in the neighbourhood. A similar case occurred in High-street, Holborn, where fever prevailed for want of a sewer adjeinine a slaughter house. The sewer was made, and the malady had disap peared. If there should be a Central Board of Inquiry appointed, he was satisfied, whatever Board might be, that it ought to be distinct from the Poor-law Commis sioners. The Noble Lord, after mentioning several dis tressing cases of misery and poverty that had been re ported to him, drew the ettention of their Lordships to a calculation which had heon furnished by Dr. S. s m i th. We understood .tho Noble Lord to say that it appeared, from those returns, that fever was co-extensive with pau perism, and in one parish, that of St. George the Martyr, fully six-sevenths of the paupers were attacked with fever. But in that estimate a large portion of the labouring population was not included, and therefore it fell far short of the whole amount of disease. That the want of sewerage was a principal cause - of fever appeared from two maps which accompanied the Report. One of these was a map of the sewers, and the other of the course of the fever, which were exactly the inverse of each other—the fever having travelled in the opposite direction to the sewers.—(Hear, hear.) The deficient drainage, however, was not the only cause. The crowded and badly ventilated State of the habitations in the peorer neighbourhoods tended greatly to propagate the disease. Dr. Smith and Mr. Fennythoruc stated ins:ances of three and four families living in one room, and one instance of se venteen persons living in the same room by day, and sleeping in it by night. The mass of misery thus laid bare did not, such was the colossal state of the society in which we lived, make any visible impression on the statistical re turns of the empire,. but he was sure the evils that were found: exist in many portio n s of it on l y requ i re d to b e know,n to secure the assistance of those who were ever reey to stretch forth the band of charity to those who needed its assistance. And when he remembered how much to the credia of the benevolent in our commun:ty was raised from public s 3 mpathy, to ameliorate the condition of the dis tant negro, he felt quite certain they could not be indif ferent to such a state of things as this within the very bills of mortality, in which their own fate was recorded, when, at slight cost and little trouble, they would be able to avert so much disease and death from so large a portion of their fellow-countrymen and fellow Christians. He had hitherto confined his attention to the metropolis, and had stated that, great as these evils there were, they made no visible impression on our statistical returns, but if they turned to the great manufacturing districes he was agraid they would there find a different state of things. The Noble Baron (Lord Ellenboreugh) had alluded to a fact their Lordships should never lose sighteola-that within the last 50 years the proportion between the agricultural and manufacturing population had entirely; changed. But at the seine time there had beeii an immense increase of population, and they must find some, consolation in the immense increase in the amount of produce. Ile had not yet received the report from Manchester, and was unable to trace back the mortality during the latter part of the last century, bat from another record he found Sir Gilbert Blaine stated the mortality for the following years was as follows :—ln 1757, one in twenty-five. In 1770, one in twenty-eight, In 1779, one in fifty-eight, and, in 1811, one in seventy-four. Inquiries on this subject had lately been instituted in the city of Calcutta, and a Committee appointed on the subject, who, much to their credit, re commended that any sacrifices that were necessary should be made to remedy the evils arising from want of drainage. In this Report mention was made of the efforts in this cause of the Marquis of Wellesley, the, greatest statesman India ever saw ; and, as nothing was too great for his con ception, so nothing seemed too small to escape his atten tion. The Committee recommended carrying into ef• fect his Lordship's propositions. This Committee expressed the greatest admiration at what was doing in England, even in the manufacturing towns. At the present mo ment their exact state could not be ascertained, as the census was not completed ; but if they took the population which in 1831 was 2:36,000, to be now in round numbers 280,000, the deaths last year being 9,276, it would be found the nuariber of deaths in 1841, exactly thirty years after the last date in Sir Gilbert Blaine's Report, had exactly doubled. If they turned to Glasgow, they would find Mr. Symonds, a great authority, said, " I have seen human degradation in some of its worst phases, both in Eigland and abroad, but I can advisedly say, until I visited the wynds of Glasgow I never saw so large an amount of filth, misery, and degradation, existing in any one spot in a civi lized country." _ _ In 1821 the deaths were 1 in 39 1831 1835 1 in 29 1839 1 in 26 1840 1 in 25 Then, as to Liverpool, the calculation made by Dr. Bow ring was, that there were good cellars, and that 35,000 of the working population of Liverpool lived in these good cellars. Toe mortality in the cellars was thirty-five per cent. more than it ought to be with reference to the rest of the population ; alma 86,400 lived in clos courts, in which there eras no under drainage whatever. It was unnecessary to enter into a detail of what must be the consequence of such a state of things, but Dr. Bewring had stated in his report, the stencil was so horrible that it could not be endured. The condition of the people of Hull was better than the condition of the popu lation of some other large towns; but Hull was rising into great importance as a sea-port town, and many of the new buildings were liable to every possible objection, and which it was the intention of his Bill to thwart. It was unnecessary to go through the other large towns, but he would just mention a fact which showed how unhealthy these populous and large towns, to which he had particu larly alluded, must be—that in Manchester the deaths of children under three years of age, in 1839, were 498 in 1,000 ; in London, 398 in 1,000 ; in the agricultural parts of Yorkshire 282 ; and in Northumberland 253. 'Die deaths in Manchester above 70, in 1839, were oily 53 in 1,000 ; in the metropolis 99 in 1,000 ; in the agricultural districts of Yorkshire 202 in 1,000 ; in Northumberland 210 in 1,000. It was not his intention to extend the pro visipns of the Bill to Scotland unless he could adapt them to the machinery at present in use in that country. He had no objection to the Bill being extended to Ireland.— ( Hear, hear ) Indeed he could safely say, from his know ledge of Ireland, that there was no country on the face of the globe that stood more in need of such a measure. Ile felt the importance of public walks, and of affording to the labouring classes an opportunity of social coinnv•ation in free air. That, as well as public baths arid burying grounds, were subjects weil worthy of their Lordships' at tention. The Noble Lord, in conclusion, moved the se cond reading of the Bill, and trusted that their Lordships would not only pass it, but continuo to give the matter their most serious attention —( Hear.) The Marquis of SALISBURY not only concurred in the absolute necessity of some such measure as that which the Noble Marquis had introduced, but agreed that it was the duty of their Lordships to correct the evils, which were of very great magnitude, it was intended to remedy. His only objection to the Bill was that it did not go far enough. He had, however, no intention of opposing the second reading of the Bill, although it interfered with many exist ing rights, and introduced many provisions which had not been so carefully considered as they might have been, or as a Committee of their Lordships' House would enable them to be. He proposed, therefore, that the Bill should be referred to a Select Committee up stairs, and in doing so he considered he was not only furthering the laudable object which the Noble Marquis had in view, but that the Bill would be rendered more perfect, and that a great deal of time would be saved. The Earl of WICKLOW concurred in the objects of the Bill : but he thought that it was imperfect in its de tails. He regretted that it did not p rov id e f or t h e b etter regulation of burial grounds, which, in his opinion, called for the interference of the Legislature. He should wish the provisions of the measure were extended to lodging_ houses, in which parties often succeeded others who had died of fever or some other malignant disease. Ile was also sorry to find that Scotland was to be excluded from the operation of the Bill ; as there was no part of the em pire snore in want of such a measure than that country. It appeared that in Glasgow the manufacturing popula tion were not allowed to remove the dirt which had accu mulated in their neighbourhood, because the landlords claimed it as their property ; and in Edinburgh public sewers were often turned into the adjoining meadows, for the purpose of manuring them, to the great danger of the h ea lth o f the adjoining ppulation. Ho thought these were evils which required the interference of the Legisla ture. The Noble Earl proceeded to object to the clause requiring that no cellars should be occupied as dwelling houses. Such a provision could not be enforced in such towns as Liverpool, where it had been proved that 40,000 inhabitants lived in cellars. lie also wished that some remuneration should be granted to surveyors. The Marquis of WE STMINSTER here observed, that those subjects should be best discussed before the Select Committee, which, he believed, it was the intention of the Government to appoint. ~ The Marquis of N ORM ANB Y was willing to consent that a Select Committee should be appointed ; and he thought it would be better to submit to that Committee all objections of detail. The Earl of WICKLOW observed that, he would in that case reserve any further remark he might have to make for the Select Committee. The Marquis of WESTMEATH wished to know whether all the provisions of the Bill were to extend to Ireland, The Marquis of NOR VANBY said, that the provisions of the Bill were to be extended to Ireland, although he did not know whether it might be found advisab!e to cm.. ploy the same machinery in that country as in England. It was certainly his intention to see a similar Bill intro duced into Scotland, but he thought it would be better to leave the framing► of it to some of the law-officers of that country, as the Bill might have particular interests to deal TV i LII. Bill was then read a second time ; and ordered to be rc.ferred to a Select Committee, which was appointed for Friday next, Their Lordships then adjourned till Tuesday. ROUSE OF COMMONS, Fb:R. 11. The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. This being the last day for presenting petitions for Private Bills, a great number of such petitions were presented. 111 r. LOCKHART presented petitions from the Glasgow, I)undillon, and other Railway Companies in Scotland, praying for leave to bring in B:lls to amend their Acts. The Committee reported in the cascs, of the Leaming ton and Warwick liAilway that the Standing Orders had been complied with, and leave was given to bring in a Biil. l'ne Eastern Counties Railway Bill was read a first time. On the motion of Mr. T. WOOD, the London and South Western Railway Bill was read a second time. Sir MATTHEW WOOD presented a petition for a Bill to incorporate the Oakwood and Argoed Coal and Iron Company. Mr. GODSON presented a petition from Kidder miaster, praying to be heard by Counsel against the - - - - Mr. O'CONNELL p resen t e d a petition from an individual whose name was not heard in the gallery, com plaining of the pernicious effects of combination amongst the workmen in the printing trade, and pray ing the House to adopt an adequate remedy. Tim Hon. Member then gave notice that he would on Tuesday move that the petition be referred to a Committee, with a view to prepare a Bill upon the subject. Mr. WALLACE presented a petition from a place in Ayrshire, praying for the total abolition of patronage in the Church of Scotland. In answer to questions from Sir E. SUGDEN, Lord J. RUSSELL said that it was not his inten tion to bring on the second rearing of the English Re gistration Bill at a late hour that night ; he would not bring it on after eleven o'clock. IF he could not bring it on that evening the Administration of Justice Bill would be brought on on Monday for a second reading, and not the Registration Bill. With respect to the second question of the R;ght Hon. Gentleman, it was cer tainly the intention of the Government to oppose the Bill which the Right lion. Gontl2man proposed to in troduce on the subject of the administration of justic e in the Privy Council and the House of Lords. But he could not say in what stage of the measure be would offer it his oppositi in. Sir W. WYNN presentel a petition from some cler gymen in the Deanery of St. Asaph's, praying for the re peal of the Act which united the diocese of St. Asaph and Bangor. It was ordered to lie upon the table. Mr. EMERSON TEN NENT presented a petition from Manchester in favour of the Copyright Designs Bill. Ordered to lie upon the table. Mr. COLQUHOUN presented a petition from the county of Stirling, against any further grant to the College of Maynooth. Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. LOCKHART presented a petition from the manufacturing firm in Kilmarnock, in favour of the Copyright. Designs Bill. The petition was ordered to lie upon the table. Mr. GODSON gave notice that on the 233 of February he would move for the appointment of a Com mittee to inquire into the present state of the Com panies for the insurance of Lives. Mr. MILES gave notice that on the House going into Committee upon the Poor-law Bill, he should move certain amendments. Mr. E WART gave notice that on the 20th of Fe bruary he should move for the appointment of a Com mittee to inquire into the state of the Pauper Lunatic Asylum at flinwell. Mr. MILES moved for a return of the abstracts of the accounts of the several county treasurers of Eng land and Wales for the year 1840. The motion was agreed to. Mr. E WART begged to ask the Noble Lord at the head of Foreign Affairs whether there was any proba bility of the reduction of the duty upo❑ Neapolitan oil, which the Hon. Member said had now twice as much duty upon it as any other oil ? Also, whether it was intended by the Government to bring forward a Bit with respect to the transfer of goods, by document, be tween principal and factor ? Lord PALMERSTON replied that with respect to Neapolitan Oil it was intended to propose an alter ation, but he could not give any precise information as to the extent of the reduction. In answer to the se cond question, the Noble Lord said it was the inten tion of his Noble Friend, Lord Clarendon, to introduce a Bill on the subject in the other House. LORD KEANE. Mr. HU NIE wished to put a question to the Hon. Baronet at the head of the Board of Control, in relation to a matter which, he thought, required explanation. He (Mr. Hume) held in his hand some pipers which contained grave charges against Sir john, now Lord Keane, of conduct which, if unex plained, appeared to him to put an end at once to the question of rewarding his services. It was ne• cessary to remind the House that on a late unfortunate occasion during the warfare in AtTghanistan, the 2 , 1 Regiment of Bengal Cavalry behaved in a most dis graceful manner, refusing to advance at the command of their officers. An inquiry was very naturally instituted as to how this was originated, and it was attributed to the circumstance, that shortly before one of the men had been condemned to death without trial and without in quiry. Every paper in India had repeated this state ment. The charge was that Sir John Keane had given orders to shoot and destroy that trooper, that he died in consequence of the wound he received, that the regiment demanded inquiry, but no inquiry was allowed, and the matter was hushed up ; the circumstance remained in the breast of the regiment,unti! the occasion to which he referred. The regiment behaved so bad that they were disbanded, disarmed, and marched hack to Bengal. He thought that when a charge so atrocious as that of murder was made against that gallant officer, it was very ne cessary that an opportunity of explanation should be given. The Honourable Member then proceeded to read some extracts from letters which had been written in India upon the subject, ex pressing surprise that, for the satisfaction of the army, and for the sake of the Commander-in-Chief, the matter had not undergone official investiga tion, and calling for immediate and full inquiry. Tire Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to read extracts from an article:in a newspaper called the Agra Ukhbar, headed as being written by their " own correspondent," in which the writer said that he had heard that a cer ,. tificate had been obtained by Lord Keane, to the effect that the soldier did not die of those wounds which had been inflicted upon him. He would ask of what use could such a certificate be, as the law of England de clares that an attempt to murder is an act as criminal as the murder itself. But the extract to which the Hon. Mem ber wished to call particular attention, was to the effect that although the unfortunate victim was but 8 0 yards distant from the tent in which he (the Commander) was at the time, he took no opportunity of ascertaining what the man was about, but instead of so doing, he found a ready sycophant to execute his orders. 'l' hat was, continued the Hon. Gentleman, the substance of the charge. Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE expressed his surprise that the Hon. Gentleman, in quoting the extracts just read by him to the House, did not use the exact words as they were given by the correspondent of the journal named, and also that he should be swayed by the calum nious assertions of a newspaper, and above all, of such newspapers as were published in India, which were gene rally filled with gross calumnies upon those persons of distinction in India whose opinions or principles on certain matters might differ from those of the writers. He was, however, glad that the Hon. Gentleman had not waited for the vote which his Noble Friend was going to propose, but that if he thought there was anything for their consideration or the consideration of the House in those rumours as to the conduct of Lord Keane, he first called for an explanation. It was indet d a matter of surprise to him (Sir J. C. Hobhouse) that upon the authority of the correspon dents of such newspapers as those to which he had al ready a lverted, he (Mr. H.) could have thought it possi ble that any English general officer would be an accom plice in a murder under pretence of discharging his duty 'rue Hon. Gentleman had read extracts from certain newspapers, copies of which he (Sir J. C. Hobhouse) then held in his hands, and he was certainly surprised that when the lion. Gentleman reed those newspapers, he was not shocked at the terms in which the charge was made.—(Hear, hear, from Mr. Hume.) Was this charge ever heard of before Lord Keane left India There were gentlemen present in that House connec ted with the East India Company. He saw a Director im opposite, (Mr. H ogg ), and he would ask him whether he had ever heard, or whether the Court of Directors had ever had the slightest cognizance of any such fact, or of any such charge having been made? When he (Sir J. Hobhouse) saw the charge in the in g g r u o i u re nd im f n o l r e' i l t i- . a n t e e w i y s p w a p h e e r t s h , e h r e t m h rdee wasit his t h b e u s i s n l e i g s s h t e to s t He sent to the East India House and the gentle men there informed him there was none. H e next inquired is his own department, and found there was no account of any such occurrenc e , Then of course it became his duty, for he had no other application to make, to inquire of the parties ac cuse d , of those who were in the campaign with L or d Keane, and he had also inquired of Lord Ronne himself, for he felt that p e at e chargesaciay if it W il ofthiLsotortbweabsrnooutotiot before bepa ssedlightly over, Parliament in order to prevent an h o half a r ( c l e ) 11 1 e officer, who had served his country near l y tury, e r ud receiving those ose honours had thaturs felt were it du i e lis t o _ ( L that 'neither the stories of an <<duty, Old Correspondent,' or of " Injured Innocence," should be allowed to take away the character of an old British General.— (Cheers.) The truth of the case was this; he would j ut the House in possession of the facts, and then leave it to judge whether there was any ground for th e accu sation. lie was sorry to be obliged, in narrating these facts, to criminate a portion of the Bengal cavalry that hail advanced into Affghanistan, but had not distin guished itself in a worthy manner. Lord Keane was informed that the second regiment of Bergal Cavdry was disorderly, and that they were about to comnrtt depredations upon the standing crops of a village, the principal men of which came to Lord Keane himself is his tent, and, upon their knees, implored him to protect that which was to b© their food for the next half years Lord Keane immediately:sent for the Provost-Marshal, and said that he could not permit such disgrace to be brought on troops which had previously distinguished • themselves fcr discipline and good conduct, and who were advancing into that country, for the purpose of restoring the Monarch, whom the Governor- General of India had declared to be the legiti mate Sovereign. He therefore ordered the Pro vost-narshal to place a certain number of videttee around the fields of corn; and: to prevent any perste. from advancing into them to cut down their corn or to feed their hcrses, he ordered the videttes to fire at first over the heads of the marauders ; but at all events not to allow the outrage to be committed.— ( Hear, hear.) Lord Keane felt that he could not allow the character of the British army to be di;graced by such marauding.—( Hear, hear, hear..) Ile (Sir John Cam Hobhouse) believed that when the Noble Lord gave these orders he meant that they should be • obeyed. The second regiment of Bengal Cavalry went to maraud at night, and the infantry vitiates did • fire over the heads of the marauders. One man was wounded in the leg, and he (Sir J. H.) was told that he died of the wound. But he would say that if that • sepoy had been shot on the spot it would be perfectly ' justifiable.—(Cheers.) He thought that if every per son who was guilty of trespass upon a people who had no part in the war were shot, and Lord Keane were brought before this or any other tribunal in the world, he should ba acquitted for shooting them.—(Cheers.) If he had not given these orders he would indeed de serve the villanous abuse which had been heaped upon hie head. Having now justified Lord Keane from that charge, he might be permitted to appeal to these gallant officers who heard him, for that Noble Lord's character.—( Hear, hear.) They were more competent than he to pronounce an opinion upon such a subject, but he would take leave to tell this one fact, that during the whole advance, not only was there no man punished with death, but positively, no corporal punishment of any kind was in dicted on one single soldier, either of the native troops or of the British regiments.—(Loud cheers.) 'Then: was not a single court-martial for the trial of any serious offence during the whole of that very important and arduous campaign.—(Loud Cheers.) Ho trusted that he had said enough to convince the House that the death of the sepoy was not owing to the conduct of the Noble Lord, or formed any ground for the House to refuse the. vote now asked. He was sorry to be obliged to detain the House, but he considered it necessary to go into some details, and the point to which he had now to ad vert gave him more pain than even the grossly calumnious charges made against the Noble • Lord. The House might be aware that a disaster befcl our troops in Upper Scinde. There was no im putation upon the officer then in command ; he was attacked by seven or eight times the number of his own troops. No imputation attached to him, but we were so unused to any reverses that the B imbay • Government very properly ordered an imme diate inquiry, in order to find out the cause of the dis aster. Certain officers assembled—there was a Major- General, a Colonel, and two other officers engaged in the inquiry. The House would be surprised—he had almost said. shocked, to hear, that before the Report of that Inquiry could have reached the Commander-in ' Chief for revision or approval, that Report appeared in a B nnbay Newspaper just at the tune the packet was about to sail—just at the time that it was most calculated to injure the Noble Lord, and that report was certainly one of the most extraor dinary military reports which had ever appeared.— (Hear, hear.) That report, which so appeared in the newspapers, must have emanated from sonic one who was engaged in the inquiry—there could be no mistake on that head, and, as long as he had the honour of holding his present situation, he would think it his duty, and so, be behaved, would the Court of arectors, to proceed in the only proper manner against those who had so shamefully abused the confidence placed in them.—( Hear, hear.) He begged pardon of the House for detaining them so long, but he would not have per formed his duty bad he not said so much in favour of the Noble Lord who, after 50 years of service had been so cruelly maligned in a rascally paragraph in a News paper. He trusted the House would do justice by agreeing to the motion. Mr. WILLIAMS begged to know whether it was in tended that the Governor of India or Lord Keane should institute proceedings against the authors of the statement ? Sir J. HORHOU SE said the Government had been so shocked at the appearance of the Report of the Military Commission, that they had thought it their duty to call upon the officers to explain how it had found its way to the public. In answer to what his lion. Friend had said relative to the conduct of the two squadrons of Bengal Cavalry, Col. Denny, who commanded them, had stated that their conduct was so bad that they had been disbanded. An HON. MEMBER said, as one of the Directors of the East India Company, he felt it Ilia duty to state that he tel;eved there was not a syllable of truth in the imputations upon the character of Lord Keane.—( Hear, hear.) And with reg ar d to M a j or Clibb orn ' s di saster, h e believed Lord Keane had no more to do with it than any lion. Iliftizber of that House. Mr. HOGG said, when the Hon. Member for Kilkenny had mentioned the rumour to him he (Mr. Hogg) had expressed his horror and disbelief of it, and he stated that no such rumour had reached him. Next day he went to the India House, and knowing that the news %I reach the Chairman in the first instance, he had inquired of him, and had ascertained that no communication on the subject, public or private, had reached him. Now would the House believe that if there was the remotest foundation for it no report would have been forwarded to the EaSt Ind:a Company or the Home Government ? He believeil the statement to he utterly unfounded. Mr. HUME wished to correct one statement of the lion. Member, because he had not introduced the state.. ment relative to the Military Commission. He would ask the House whether, when individuals gave their names to a newspaper, the paper would dare to publish their statements if they were altogether devoid of truth ? He hoped the explanation of the Hon. Gentleman would prove correct. Sir JOHN C. 11013HOUSF, begged to remind the Hon. Member that there was no name to the statement in the newspapers. Had any name been affixed to the villanous charge, for he could call it nothing else, an op portunity would have been afforded of inquiring into the truth of the matter. Mr. O'CONNELL said—Was not this quite manifest, that if those persons were ready to give their names they had the India House and the Board of Control to make their complaints to? It was really too herd that the cha racter of a Gallant Officer should be assailed in that way. —( Hear, hear. ) Lord 110 \VICK said the explanation of the Rtht Hon. Baronet was as satisfactory as possible ; and he would be glad to bear the Hon. Member for Kilkenny say that the explanation was satisfactory. Sir HUSSEY VIVI AN understood that Lord Keane had never heard of the man's death until he saw it in the Agra Uckhbar. ✓ The House then went into a Comm' ttee of the whole House, to consider her Majesty's gracious message relative to Lord Keane, Mr. BERNAL in the chair. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said it was unnecessary for him to make any statement relative to the merits of Lord Keane, or the conduct of the expedition Linter his com mand. These points had been sufficiently dwelt upon when the vote of thanks was passe d . Hi s Right Hon. Friend the President of the Board of Control had then made a statement which would enable the House to judge of the ga ll antry an d goo d co nduct of the expedition c by which the i n t egr i t y an d s trength of circumstances what nn,dsakc opposition could was osition n p c h u e m i s n t d a i n a c n e s i ryas quite Empire had been maint a i ne d. Under these s quite impossible to imagine upon could be raised. The proposal he had g t ou somewhat similar to the case of Viscount p to be rewarded the House h b c great confidence proposed th e resolution, reserving to chimself the right to reply t o any ad har a a ir c e te a r dy of pronounced the scrvices i s t o , opinion. He therefore with Nbmight-olbe raised by the Hon. Memb er f or Lord then moved that a sum o f twosh ed next ser s v u ie rv es iv of itig Lhoeridrs. Keane, a ob Kilkenny.-cti o ns which The 000/. per annum be g ranted out of the consoli dated fund b e con Sir R. FEEL would not w ait to hear the objections o f the Hon. Ge ntleman, so p erf e c t l y satisfied was he of th e d justice and sound policy of the grant, and he cou ld not a - n s i t r o reward for the continued to disting uished u i anticipate that any objections of the Hon. Gentleman could shake his opinions. In the position in which he then stood, he felt proud of the opportunity of seconding the resolution, although, t ec h n i ca ll y speaking, it did not require a seconder. Ile would not be dissuaded from that course by the opposition that had been threatened, nor the preliminary discussion that had taken place with respect to the merits of Lord Keane. He cared not whether Lord Keane prosecuted the paper or not, and he should be sorry to impose upon the Noble Lord the necessity of prose cuting the scandalous attacks upon his fair fame, as the test of his honour and his innocence.—( Hear, hear.) Ile thought every Hon. Member's feelings would sus:ply au answer to the charge. The party, when be signed the communication as " Injured Innocence," should have made it " Detected Cowardice."—(Cheers.) Hu would not disturb the unanimity that appeared to prevail in the, house by a reference to any political qu estions. lie thought that it was a genera l ru l e, t h at w h en the Gown conferred honours o f t h at ki n d , i t was necessary to support those honours by pecuniary grants. It was, he thought, also a general one d aas rule, soon s a t possibleth e distinctions b a proposal conferred fora r a shouldpe pecuniary ifaorly lgrant, Ile believed it necessary to notice these matters, in order to protest against any delays on whatever grounds being established as a principle in cases of this nature. By whatever test he tried the military merits of Lord Keane and his army. he (Sir R. Peel) was bound to say that that general officer was highly d eserv i ng of the vote new proposed. Hire tried those merits by the privations and suffering endured by the army under his commend, that army submitted to the greatest privations, and overcame the greatest difficulties by their obedience to command —by that example of discipline which distinguished the British troops even more than the gallantry they ever !~ ....,''