The Sun. — London, England, 1841-03-25 00:00:00

VENING 14-,PITioN• 'MANCHESTER SPORT iNG IN TEL LI G EN CE, Tunswa'sr EVENING. The list day or two have furnished two cr three highly n i ,- - ortant alterations in even's to corn? off. Yesterday, throu.,th letter received by Mr. Bake, from the trainer of Kete , first d:your:to for the Oaks, and w,itten at the desire of Mr. Pow tstt, the room were apprised that the filly had, on Saturday morning, " met with an accident which !eaves little chance of her surviving." The request was to wake ihe same .known " immediately in Manchester;" and the honourable g entleman, by so doing, must be considered to have acted to sards the spsrting world most satisfactori'y. Kedge won the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster, and was every week gaining trnirers. The last bet we noticed was 7 to lin fifties. :Nothing has been done upon Lampoon since; 12 to 1 is ,ffezed v. any other; two points were accepted on Ermen- Aardis at noon. THE CHESTER CUP, P.P. 8 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury—offered JO to I agst Col. Cradock's Gallipot—take 11 13 tot agst Cob Peel's Gibraltar—offered 14 to I agst Mr. Orde's Queen Bee—taken IS to 1 agst Mr. Flintoff's The Plover—take 20 20 to 1 agst Mr. St. Paul's Calypso—offered 20 to 1 agst Major Hay's Retriever 20 to 1 agst Mr. Hornby's Champagne 25 to 1 agst Sir T. Stanley's Cowboy 40 to 1 agst Mr. Price's Prince Albert 40 to I agst Mr. Osborne's Little Philip—offered 100 to 5 agst Lord Eglinton's The Young-un 100 to 6 agst Mr. Painter's Ernest the First—offered 100 to 6 agst Mr. Goodman's Bedford—take 18 100 to 6 agst Mr. Price's Tuley—offered 1 COO to 20 agst Mr. Griffith's Lugwardine. Offers to back Bloomsbury at Bto 1 for " a sum," throwing ,n an outsider. 'I'IIF DERRY.—Coronation is offered against at 9 to 1 ; 200 to 9 was laid e. Cameleon yesterday ; also 3,000 to 200 v. the Duke of Wellington. The lion of yesterday and to-day is Van Amburgh. His rise at Tattersall's is " prodigious '— nearly 30 points in one short week. It is said he had the best of the much-looked-for t, ial ; 35 to 25 to 1 was freely accepted last night ; at noon, 20 to 1 ; he left off with layers of 18 to 1; 4' to I was offered against Mr. Scott's lot-9 to 2 was wanted , 50 to 40 Van Amburgh v. the Knight, taken ; also 220 to 10 a. the later, offered. THE CIIKSTER Cur.-5 to 1 was laid at even, and then offered against Bloomsbury ; 10 to 1 is the highest offer against Galli pot, anything beyond being willingly taken. Queen Bee ' s party shows daily more zeal, 14 to 1 has been freely accepted ; the offers against several horses were freely made at noon. The only outsider we noticed supported was Lugwardine ; 100 to 3 vas taken, also 500 to 10 twice. SPIRIT of the PU B LIC JOURNALS. FROM TRH EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) The subject of Secondary Punishments underter t considerable discussion last night in tl.e House of Corn- Mons. The question wa; brought forward by Lord illahun, in a speech of more Ea.) two hours' durttion, with which his Lordship prefaced a res , dution, ulti matoly adopted by the House, expressive of an opi nion, that ti e ia-ge increase in the nurnher of co lvicti permanently confined on board the hulks in Grezt Britain, although such comicts had been sentenced t-o transportation, is highly inexpedient. The fleets sily of making some important change in the t, eat recut of convicts sentenced to transportation, in or-1 der to render that punishment more severe in its cha :azter, and consequently better calculated to deter .rem the commission of trim', induced Lord J. Rus ad% when Secretary of State for the Home Department, to issue regulations for carrying that important object into tf,ct. With a view to more nearly proportion the punishment to the crime, his Lordship contemplated the separation of those convicts who were sentenced by the Courts to seven years' transportation from those sentenced to transportation for longer periods, or for life. By a .oinute, dated Jan. 2, 1839, his Lordship proposed :hat convicts sentenced to seven years' transportation should be, as far as practicable, employed in the bulks and dockyards at home, and at Bermuda. This propo- F:tion was received as the bases of a new plan ; and the Home-office directed that in the ensuing year accom modation should be provided on board the hulks for double the number of prisoners that had been pre 'ously received on board such vessels thus in creasing the number from 1,789 to 3,500. By a ,:alculation appended to the minute of Lord J. Russell, it appears that the number of convicts actually trans llorted in 1837 was 3,660 ; and that of these upwards ct two-thirds were sentenced to transportation for seven years. Taking this calculation as correct, it is obvious that, unless checked by Parliamentary interference or modified by the Executive, the number must continue i:u increase in an alarming ratio, until the number con gregated in these receptacles of crime and misery would be threatening to the health and lives of the in mates ; while from the difficulty, if not impossibility, of providing suitable employment and introducing among them effective classification and salutary dis cipline, the hulks would become schools of vice to the cumparative novices in crime, from which they would coma forth, at the expiration of their sentences, to prac tise with greater adroitness and success the lessons which they hal received from older and more proficient prac t.toners of fwlonry. Thus, instead of diminishing crime —the great end which ought to be proposed by the Ilailletion of punishment—the cottrary would he found o result from such a system, and the hulks be but a preparation for the higher class of cffene.os to which the attaches the seve , er doom. (From the Standard.) Ministers last night sustained another defeat. The snuestion, it is true, upon which they were worsted was net a vital ore, according to the lately adopted scale of cpriestions, though an important one, nor to is the house i t lull. Still a defeat, after a speech by the Colonial Secre tary, the Ministerial leader ; by the Under Secretary, re :sic:seating the Home-office ; and by the ex-Secretary of War, expectant of a scat in the Cabinet—a Minis scroll defeat, we say, in defiance of such exett;ons, does not say much for the stability of the Government. Whether Ministers failed from want of prudence in taking a weak pare, or from want of a sufficient indc endent support, their feebleness is in either case de .nonstr-tsd. The motion discussed referred to the pre ference to be given to transportation, as a secondary punishment, before imprisonment in the hulks or penitentiaries. Lord Mahon maintained the effiratative of such a preference, in a resolution very directly censuring t':e present p:actice of the liome-oflice. Toe subject is not one promising eruct' of interest or enterrrimmeat, but netliing is lenoeless in the hands of a man of skill and genius, and L ,rd Mahon enforced and illustrated his motion in a Sri gularly eloquent and interesting speech. As his lanrdship, by the confession of el", exhausted the subject, it can scarcely be necessa-y to refer to the other speed es of the night. Lord M thou's arguments were not answered by any one ; his positions were admitted to be indisputable ; but Lord John Russell said that the subj•ct is a difficult :Neat to deal with, and thci eore he moved the previous question. The house, howeter, woull not allow the matter to be disposed of in this way—the previous question was rejected, a:d Lord Mahon': resolution, condemnatory of tl c practice of the pre sent Government, was adopted. The penalty of itn- Visonment in the hulks and in penitentiaries is distinguished from transportation in these two int- V 3 rtant particulars. When )ou transport a con vict you permanently rid society of a nuisance, and 't totall y same time you give the criminal an oppor uily of living without a necessity of repeating his srintes. Wlieu you substitute imprisormic: t, the Irt Lei from the • u tbo u ar ia i n o c o c tion to of society is tort ti in - I c e r t i r n a l r in y a ; i f is or th a r t o t w h o e imprisonment the upon f the li community. under cir cumstances that eetoall his reformation, and ccmpel him to persist in Y hitrer i L n e al course. l Putting lbe value of con t v i i t c e t sa l f a e b t o y u o r i t o o: n r t • eou o t onies, therefore, rut of question, s.,on to the guilty alike command a nterryuranoenthnlePcalsi Practice of more extensive transportatio n . (From the Courier.) It is gratifying to observe that there are questions of nubile, even if of somewhat exclusive interest, on which the press of all parties can cordially unite in one com mon expression of opinion and one common advocacy of justice. This truth may be found gratefully exemplified in the Morning Papers on the subject of Mr. Emerson Tennant's Bill for the exten sion of Copyrigkt in De signs for printed fabrics, the further consideration9fthsee Report on which comes on this evening in the House of Commons. The press, so far as we have observed, is manimous in support of the measure—the single excep tion being the Morning Chronicle, which remains silent so far. We need not remind our readers of the oh ieet of this proposed Bill in any dad, since we bare llnretofore treated of it at some length, as well . 16 the report of the Parliamentary. Committee on n•hkh founded. Hitherto the whole legal protection ncoorded to the inventor of the most tasteful designs for printed cotton fabrics is an exclusive patect right for th'en months only, a limitation manifestly absurd and inadequate in the sense of protection, and tending ra ther to encourage the fraudulent appropria'ion and imitation of unprincipled traders than to check it. And this will readily le understood, when it is known that after the ingenious artist has completed his design, it takes the master calico printer by whom purchased, from six weeks to t wo mon th s to produce it in the finished state on cotton fabrics, from the com plication of labour consequent upon all the preliminary processes of engraving the pattern on rollers, the com bination and adaptation of colours and the preparation of the textile material for receiving the be tatiful im pressions. Assuming, therefore., that the delivery of the printed cloths from the works in the country u the .warehouse and show rooms in town, for exhibition and sale, is effected within two months, the proprietor, who has been expending his hundreds and thousands in the production of a large variety of designs, subject each, not only to the chance, but tire certainty of waste and damage of material passing through so many processes --ef material so damaged as to be worthless in value-- finds himself with, at the best and under the most fa vonrable circumstance., an exclusive copyright of pro perty for one month only. ' 1 , le use- of cranes is now in course o f tr i g j about the dock s at Liverpool. Liverpool, w i t h a ll t 9 local advantages, is sadly behind other ports in thor.e ac commodat'ons which cheapen and expedite the tralsae tient of trade. It will scarcely be credited by posterity that oar merchants carr i ed on their en( rmous enterprises until the middle of the nineteenth century, without the ppwerful aid of machinery upon their quays. TATE OF TIRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.)' HUDDERSFIELD MAIMET, MARCH 23.—Ti . il was an tzv:rage mai bet, much the son C as last week; but still there is not that freedom of demand which was enticipated some time ago. No:erthcless, the sates in fancy goods and fancy wonliens indictee a pretty g demand in some qua , tct . i. P. ices remaii firm, but wools are rather Lowy of sa le. Weed. is plent;fo!, a. d busiress in the warehouses ti steady. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, MARCH 22. —We have had a very quiet market to-day, and goods bave gone off heasily at low prices. A G.,v2rnment con tract for eleven thousand pieces has been made within these few days ; and, what is not very unusual, it has been dis ided amongst about eight manufw turn-3. It is said to have been taken at extremely low prices. The wool market cor.thluei about the same as that of last week. MANCHESTER.—There is no weverial change in the state of the marke', as corneared with that which has ex isted for some days past. Perhaps, on the whole, there was rather more inquiry yesterday thin o n the p recedin g Tuesday. Prices, bowc• er, have shown no tendency to advance, but father the contrary ; and, !is the demand is quite insufficient to meet the production, stocks are aceumelatieg fast, and the attent ion of spinners and manufacturers becomes more and Ito c directed towards the necessity of limiting the limrs of labour. As we stated last week, a number of individuals,in different parts of the ne'ghbourhood, have commenced short time, but not Ling has been dor.c in this way to any consider able extent, excepting at Stockport, where a meeting was had on Monday hut ; the resolutions of which are ad ertised in our present publeation. It will be seen that the rneetirg reselved to work oily four days per week for four weeks, commencirg on Monday next; and, unl,s3 some change should take place in the market, we have no doubttheexam example be berecollected l oted lle v c ery generally followed. It reay, probably, by those of our reade's who pay attention to the sub ject, that, in 1839, the working of short time com menced about the same period of the year, and that, for sixteen weeks (from the 29th of March to the 12th of July), the sales of cotton at Liverpool, after deducting what was sold on speculation and for export, amounted only to 194,255 bales, being an average of no more than 12,141 bales per weak. Whether the present year is destined to witness an equally serious diminu tion of consumptun, with a coriegponei: g abridg ment of the means cf the working classes, - remains to be proved. So far as the condition of the Man chester market is concereed, the prospect is ex ceedingly gloomy; but, we hope that the appearances of improvement in the money market, and the foreign ex changes, to which we alluded last week, and which have since become more decided, will shortly begin to exercise some. influence on the cotton trade, and prevent the neces sity for a measure which cannot be adopted without great Joss both to the manufacturers and to those whom they employ. ST. ALBAN'S ELECTION COM- MITTEE (Continued from The Sun of yesterday.) The poli-books were produced by the Mayo-, who was re turning officer at the election, and the Town Clerk, in whose custody they now were. Mr. AUSTIN was proceeding to cross-examine the latter relative to some bribery ti ansactions, but Mr TALBOT objected ; and the Committee decided that the Learned Counsel must confine himself in the cross-exami nation at present to the poll-books, the witness to be again produced by the petitioners. The post-boys who drove Dr. Webster and Mr. Andrews to London, proved the visit of those gentlemen to Cleveland-row and the Treasury. Wm. Galer, a cabinet-maker, John Brooks, assistant grocer, and Jeremiah Bayhon, all inhabitants of St. Alban's, proved the return of the Dr. along with Lord Listowell, and their canvassinc , together. The Committee, at Four o'clock, adjourned till to-morrow at Eleven o'clock. WALSALL ELECTION COM- MITTEE. (Continued from The Sun of yesterday.) On the re-admission of strangers, The CHAIRMAN said, the Committee were of opinion that if the cross-examination of the witnesses was not now proceeded Kith, he must be detained in town at the expense of the op posite party. Ono of the servants employed at the George Hotel was then examined to prove the selection of the rooms, and their oc cupation, by the friends and agents of Mr. Gladstone. After the examination of one or two other witnesses to esta blish the agency of Mr. Barnet, Mr. Jessen, and other parties, the Committee adjourned till eleven o'clock to-morrow. LAW INTELLIGENCE. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COUR7',ALIncir 24. ( Before Mr. Commissioner Nicitou.s.) IN RE JOHN DENTON. The insolvent in this case was a licensed victualler carrying on business in Northampton-street, Clerkenwell. It appeared from the evidence the insolvent was about disposing of his business, and in order to raise the value of the house by exhibiting a large quantity of stock, he borrowed the sum of 2201. from a friend, with which a quantity of gin and other liquors were purchased. This person finding that other creditors were about coming upon the insolvent for the d'mands, caused an execu tion to be immediately issued against his property, which was accordingly done with as littl delay as possible, although through a wish not to cause the immense sacrifice which would occur by a sheriff's sale, the attorney engaged to wait for three weeks, in order that the goods might be disposed of by private I contract. Mr. COOKE, in supporting the issolvent's discharge, ob served, that in all eases like the present the brewers and dis t:llers invariably got " the'lion's share," and moved heaven and earth to punish parties who interfere with their rights. l'he Learned COMMISSIONER recapitulated the facts of the ease, and then ordered the insolvent to be discharged. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. TIIR CITY POLICE COIIIIISAoNER AND THE CITY Po uctt Fouce.—air. Commissioner Harvey appeared yester day at the Mansion-house te call the attention of the Lord Mayor to a report which appeared in the Standard news paiaer of Tuesday moroiag, under the head of ‘• Guildhall Police." In that report there were observations stated to have been made by the pre,iding Magistrate, Alderman Thomas Wood, which reflected most unmerited reproach upon the City police force as a body, were unjust towards the City Police Commissioner, and calculated to impair his authority es Commissioner, and to excite most injuri ous doubts as to the general efficiency of the body. The LORD MAYOR, v.itli whom Alderman Wilson was sitting a' the time, said, that a; the observations of which the City Police Core.mi,sioner camplake i had bean re presented to have baca n a le in the public office, he could beve no objection to hear the gentlemen who complained of them, particularly as they referred to so important a subject as the conduct of the force. The Police Commissioner said that he should net trouble his Lordship with the feet; cf the case, although he undcri.tcod they we o abundantly capable of aia dicalien, nor should lie trouble his Lordship with any remarks whatsver, if the language reported to have bees used had fallen from Mr. Thomas Wood as a simple iuciyidual or as an attorney ; but when it was con sidered that Mr. Wood was a member of the Court of Aldermen, a cami.!ate for the Civic Clia'r, presiding at the time as a Magistrate in a Court of Justice, and also Cho:ratan of the Police Commilt‘e, it would at once lie perecised that any ob.ervations coming under such cir cumstances would not fail to produce the effect be de scriieed. The remarks thenitelva:s were as unb.ceming in language as they were unwarranted by the position of the individual whe had uttered them. If the Corporation go nerally, or the Court of Aldermer, had any just ground to complain of the police a 3 a Municipal Irotitution, or with the Commissioner intrusted with its direction, a course was open at once honourable and effectual, and so far from sh'inking from the minu , e , t inquiry into the general state of the City Polite, nr ( f its maaageinent, he declared that nothing would gr.t fy him so much as the institution cf such an inquiry. But then, fir the purpose of render ing the inquiry satisfactory to the citizens at large, whose servant he was 1 rand to c insider himself us being, asd by whom the great expense of sustaining t' e police was borne, it must not be conducted in a close Court with closed doors. It was the busiees. of the public, and the pullis: had a right to know what foun dation Mr. Thomas Wood bad fur his charge. It ap prated by the Report thit a person filling the dignified Station of a Magistarre, in speaking of the Station-Clerk, called thst Clerk an "ar i:nal," and described the station lia s venture placee whichot o: v e a r y y he l bad itt ( l t e e c never r C .., c b i t r e y : naPnv:illsi thente d C 4::t m o h c e i : seAlalenddee proceeded, nwouldwithoutas Canunissioiar). t o give it as his opinion, ' " via l: male any c9mmuni ca ti an whateer r to him (the y managed by reecho from the CommtihschsioCt°einrt• that the police was badly n somet s i o explanation rer, anifh o o r did assur ance force b fire the Court ofs Alderman." huing of amendment, lie t; e irefficiency of the proceeded to observe that be erman." The Commissioner coil, y ppcal to his Lordship, as h ; m i n i l h a: to v,, alisisbracpsppyeettoat pre ll ., ague Alderman Wilson, r..t, e a s t, his readiness to ltl all elf rd at all times such return s o f: the conduct of the City Pt I , c e ~,tit,is state of crime and of autho rised to require under the City Felic e Act. p ß w ut as w due deference to Alderman Thoma s W ood, he did not and s hould not comickr himself amenable to that gentleman to er assurance of wished further to remark gib e wh it was tern c I "an explanation amendrneet." liethat he did ral working of the CityAldermenptooliii,n stitute inquil ieto the geac , et nor did 1 for ----''' not doubt the readinc,:s of . the Court of e a moment or his individual superintcnoon , suppose that t for lie fit happy in the comic partiality anti operieesr, . he inquiry wo uld not be conducted with im. abody iricii;idual cf th t who would have been betray e I into . tion that there was not (ex other the use of observe. Lions so ill adal.ted to the station %%Lich he occupied. He should nr t, however, w declaration )Id the such inquiry was not made, it wo ul i become - lor Majesty's Covernn -, e , .t to move fo r a Committee to . he doubted not it would be the ready dispotrion o 1 her Majesty's duty, as , e s i qui, e iato tie City Police, with pow ers similar to tee,e possessed by the Committee appointed to inquire on a former occasion in relation to the state of the Metropolitan Police. He had had many difficulties to encounter, and those difficulties were not yet at al and, some cf them perhaps inseparable from the very nature of mar icipal in stitutions directly under popular control; still he felt conscicus that the i•esult of the inquiry he solicited would reflect credit upon the City Police forte as a body, and no discredit upon the management of that force. The LORD MAYOR aid Alderman WILSON expressed their conviction that the Court cf Aldermen woul'l act with the most perfect imparti dity upon being referred to on the subject; and the City Commissioner intimated his inten tion to memorialise the Court on next day of meeting. The Marq u i s o f Conyngham is expected at Win don House, near Southampton, this week, with the Mar chioness and family, the Noble Marquis having taken that mansion for a term. We understand his Lordship has purchased the Flower of Yarrow, cutter yacht, of the Duke of Buccleuch. THE StriN, LONDON., THURSDAY, MARCH __2s. LIIPE IA L. PA it. LTA nEli ROUSE OF COLIMONS, MARCH 24 The SPEAKER Laving tAen the Ctiair, ivir. Craf;_r, from the Treusti7y, presented the. 2-"..maLtl Firtimee ACCCAIntF. SUDBURY ELECTION. Si r • C. LEMON brought up the Itliort of the Sud bury El'ction Committee, e, - ,rifirming the election of G eorge Tomlin;. Esq. The Committee reported that the p; tition of Alderman Purr was neither frivolous nor vexatious. On the motion of Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, the Durham and Sunderland Railway 811 was read a third time and passel. Mr. COLQUHOUN presented a petition from the Provost and Magisirdt2s of Renfrew against the Pol. lok and Govaalway Company. Mr. LA NGDALE presented a petition from Pres ton, praying that provision be made for allowing tie oc cupiers of workhouses to attend the . r own places of wor ship on Sundays ; also petitions to the same effect from the Catholics of Preston and Knaresborough. Mr. A. YATES presented petitions from King's County and Queen's County in favour of Medical 11.:- form. Sir E. KNATCHBULL presented a petition from a solicitor of London, named Ilenslow, in which set forth a great grievance which he had feequently [-net with in the discharge of his duty. He set forth several cases where ex?.eut-;rs who had never acted at all, or ever had any funds of the testators in their hands, after the lapse of seventeen, eighteen, or even twenty years, had bean celled upon to pay large sums as Legacy-duty, and in some cases had also bean visited with penalties. He prayed for such an alteration of the law as would make It imperative on the officers of the revenue to call for such duties before the end of a short and specified time. The Right Hon. Gentleman gave notice that he should move to-morrow for the appointment of a Committee on the subject ; also a petition from Faversham in favour of the Jewish Declaration Bill. Mr. ROUND presented a petition from Essex in favour of the rating of small tenemerts B 11. Sir H. PARNELL presented petitions from Dun dee in favour of the Import Duties Bill, and a petition from the Medical Association of Scotland in favour of the Medical 114orrn 13111. Mr.T. PARKER presented a petition from Aberyst with, against the Poor-law Amendment Bill. Mr. W. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from a union in Yorkshire t , ) the same effect. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON presented a petition from St. Mary le 131 w, London, to the same effect. Captain JONES presented a petition from Donegal and Londonderry, praying for the total abolition of Church patronage in Scotland, and a pettion in favour of the Copyright of Designs Bill. Mr. PEASE presented petitions from the Roman Catholics of Durham and Darlington, praying that the inmates of workhouses of that persuasion might obtain the spiritual assistance of their own clergymen. An HON. MEMBER presented a petition from Raven stone, in the county of Leicester, in favour of Church Extension. Lord SAND ON presented a petition from the medi cal practitioners of Liverpool, praying that curtain changes be made in that part of the Poor-law Amend ment Act relating to the attendance of medical men at workhouses. Mr. VILLIERS presented a petition against the County Courts' Bill ; also two petitions from agri cultural parishes in Somersetshire, praying for the re peal of the Corn-laws, by which, the petitioners com plained, that the pauperism of the country was caused. Mr. GROTE presented a petition from a certain congregation of Protestant Dissenters, praying for the abolition of Ecclesiastical Courts. and the release of Mr. Baines. Mr. DALRYMPLE presented a petition in favour of Church Extension. Mr. SHAW presented a petition from the Chemists and Druggists of Dublin, praying to be excluded from the provisions of the Medical Reform Bill. Mr. MACKINNON presented a petition from an engineer, in favour of harbours of refuge. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from an elector of the county of Hertford, complaining that he could not get a copy of the register of the electors of that county from the Clerk of the Peace unless he paid fifteen shillings for it, whereas the usual price was five shillings. The Hon. Member gave notice of his inten tion to bring the subject of complaint under the consi deration of the House, and he moved that it be printed with the Votes. The SPEAKER said the Hon. Member should give notice of his intention to have the petition printed with the votes. After a short discussion, Mr. DUNCOMBE deemed the right of petition of so much importance, that he would take the sense of the House upon his motion. He had never known a case in which a motion like the present bad been re fused. The SPEAKER was understood to say that the general rule of the House was that a notice should be given when Members intended to print a peti tion and found a motion thereupon.—( Hear.) The House had strictly adhered to that rule all last Session, and during lest Session the House had fre quently, in his recollection, refused to sanction the printing of petitions ; so that it was entirely in the option of the House to refuse or net to print peti tions. It had ly ea an understanding during the whole of the present Session not to have peti t:ons printed without a distinct notice of motion previously given ; therefore he had done no more by the Hon. Member than he had done by many others during the course of the Session. He would wish the House t' recollect that, according to the strict practice of the House, notice ought to be given of every motion. Mr. BROTHERTON hoped, as the petition was not of an urgent nature, that the Hon. Member would withdraw his motion, and dive notice of it. Mr. T. DU NCOMBE would have no objection to the delay if he could bring on the question at the time of private business to-morrow—but if it were to be put off for twelve or fourteen days, it would be in fact putting the petitioners comi,letely out of Court. Mr. ESTCOURT said that if the Hon. Member wished to break down the understanding which had been catered into at the beginning of the Session, he ought to bring the question forward at the time of public business at five o'clock. Mr. T. DU NCO M BE was not infringing any rule. He was strictly adhering to the orders of the House. There had been no proposition at the beginning of the Session to rescind that order, and if' there had been he should have opposed It ; on that order he took his stand. Mr. HU ME thought his Hon. Friend had strictly complied with the rules of the House. If they were bad they aught to be rescindei. Sir G. GREY said his Hon. Friend wished evidently to break down an understanding which had been gene rally acted on since the commencement of the Session. Sir E. K NATcHBULL did not object to the print ing the petition, but he did object to breaking in upon the usual practice of the House during the present Session. Sir ROBERT PEEL said the Hon. Member ought on his own view of the case to set aside the general practice of tine House. Mr. ALSTON said the Hon. Member for Finsbury had in his opinion complied with the strict rule of the House. No Hon. Member had shown that the pre scribed ru'e had been rescinded. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said it was undoubtedly a lia , dship upon the Hon. Member for Finsbury that he should be °idled to wait until his motion came before the Bonze, but if it came on it should be under stood that the motion was entertained at the time of private busincsF. Mr. DU NCOMBE said he had no objection to that. The lion. Member gave notice that at five o'clock to morrow he would move that this petitioa be priutod. Sir G. GREY presented a petition from Northamp ton against Church-rates. Mr. HODGES gave notice that in Committee on the Poor•la:v Amendment Bil he should move tl.at a Medical Director should be appointed to superintend all matters relative to affording medical relief to the poor. Mr. HUME postponed his notice of motion for copies of the correspondence betwcea the Government and the United State; Government till to-morrow week, as he was unwiiling to force on a discussion which must come on after the next arrival. MAYNOOTH COLLEGE. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL, seeing tie Hon. Member for Kilmarnock in his place, wished to ask him whether there.would be any chance of their seeing the Bill re lating to Ala ) nooth, Lave to bring in which he had ob tained some weeks ago, before Easter ? Mr. COLQUHOUN said he would bring it in to morrow. CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL. Order of the t v a , Lord JOHN RUSSELL said it would be most convenient if the House would allow him to move the orro dllantendseFtunn-ind was tyb6cfronsrrethe third reading of the Consoli w.....tilesodmtnhvaetditnemeingrlditinggeity.to the other POOR-LAW a a third time, and passed. AMENDMENTsa ACT. Ll:redßJil.l RUSSELL that before moving the amendments state generally the clauses that had been Poor-law which he in next Order of the Day he would number of various times, and oofr-law Amendment view he took of some of the proposed, and mention the ha greatnt givennti tended to introduce into which were not arranged upon t h e Votes acco • to any distinct method, it .was impossible for him, and w i3 l l l i i i c . h A n notice c t e o the House would not expect it, either that he should and should go through the var i o us amendments, or t hat he should be able to state the m in any correct or p re cise form But he would state fi rst the clauses which he on. posed himself to introduce. In the first place, :, he proposed to introduce a clause, according to the suggestion of the Noble Lord o pp osite the Member for Monmouthshire (Lord G. Somerset), limiting the number of Assistant-Commissioners in England and Weiss. He int eded to iiinit tl,e rao.: to thirteen. Then with respect t o th e qu< st'oi as to , the size of the union. He had commulicstec with the Commissiohers, a!,,1 he intended to propasa! a clause which would enable the gusrdisns to for.:: local committees is unions of a certain s]zts. He did not w , 311 to reason on that occasion upon this iritter, but it would be obvious to the House that in many in,ta less wh; n unioas had been formed of a large size, and what might be thought inconvenient, that it would be vary undesirable, in consequence of the arrangements of the workhouses, to break up these unions, and he thought that by having Committees sittimeg in different places, the whole object of Hon. Mem!iers would be attained. He also intended to propose a clause which would alter the provision in the Poor-law Act, whit respect to the emigration Amendment and should also propose a clause with respect to the scales of voting more rescm• q u fund ; bling the mode established by the Irish Poor law Amend tosait, and that adopted in the English Registration Acts. In one clause in which it was said that parishes were to be divided into wards, with a population of, he thought. 8,000, he proposed to increase that number to It?.,000, with a proviso that it should nr.t go by popu lation, but by the number of houses. With respect to the amendments, to which it seemed to him that he could at once give his support, there was one amendment proposed with respect to the definition of a general rule. He thought that definition much better than the one which now stood in the Bill, and that it would lessen the number of rules to be considered as general rules. There were some clauses with respect to reli gious instruction, and the attendance of workhouse paupers a± places ofpublic worship, which he could not say he was prepared to adopt as they stood. The Ho nourable Member for West Somerset proposed a clause relative to the removal of paupers, which he would support. Another clause, referring to the ap pointment of Assistant Commissioners as district auditors—that was a useful clause. He thought it advisaVe that the salaries of officers should be sanctioned by a yearly vote of that House, as were the salaries of the Assistant-Commissioners. An amendment was proposed to the clause relating to the sending of children to district schools ; he proposed to adopt that clause with some additions. The Hon. Member for Preston proposed an amend ment with respect to the appointment of guardians to their offices. He would support that clause. Toe Honourable Member for Leicester proposed an amendment with respect to enabling the guar dians to order out-door relief to persons above the ago of sixty years, also to enable them to order out door relief to widows with families. He thought that there might be some danger in adopting that clause exactly as it stood. With respect to the clauses proposed by the Noble Lord opposite on the _subject of rating, he thought these clauses would be extremely useful, and he should there fore support them. The Right Hoc. Gentleman the Member for Kent, had given notice of some clause with respect to the application of the produce of the rate of parish property to the liquidation of claims upon the parish ; he thought, to a certain extant, that principle might be adopted, but the latter portion of the clause required further consideration. The Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth had proposed an amendment with respect to persons asking tor alms, and suggested that the terms in the Vagrant Act should be introduced. Now he (Lord J. IL) thought it might be as well, to remove all doubt upon the subject, to introduce the amendment of the Right Hon. Gen tleman. There were several other amendments which he was not at present prepared to give an opinion upon, but he thought it would be useful to state to the House what his intentions were with respect to those to which he had alluded, and he trusted the House would pay the greatest attention to the discussion of the various clauses of a Bill, which must be admitted on all hands to be of the most important nature.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. GRIMSDITCH wished to ask whether it was intended in the proposed reduction of the size of unions to separate the towns from the agricultural districts ? Lord J. RUSSELL proposed that a Committee should be appointed to adjudicate upon the most pressing claims that arose, but he did not mean to propose any reduction in the size of the unions. COPYHOLD TENURES BILL. Mr. G. W. HOPE said perhaps it would be con venient for him to state the course which be meant to take upon this Bal. He proposed to go into Committee pro forma this day week, then to allow it to stand over until after Easter, and thee to take the dis cussion upon it at its recommitment. re were a number or individuals in town at pre teet 1 •.1- the Furdosil of w'weliu:g- the plogiess tit the 13,.1, ,Lo would be glo:,,tly inconvenionced by any d.2lte, —(Hear, hear.) The amendments which be proposed '0 make Ivere net amereimenls it a'l alfectin; the principle of the B:il. Oa these grounds be certainly would prefer to pinece.l at once with the Bid in its present tot in. Mr. HUME said the Hon. Member was scarcely in a condition to proceed with the 13.11. The Bill which the Hon. Member obtained leave to bring in was , to regulate the law as to copyright of designs on woven fabrics of cottons, &c. ; but the Bill now before the Houso extended its provisions to designs of metals, mixed metals, glass, shawls, sod every other description of our manufactures, and must take all manufacturers in those branches by surprise ; they had got no notice whatever of the intentions of the Honourable Member. Even now the preamble of the Bill was incomplete. If the Honourable Member had intende I to in elude every sort of manufacture wherein de sign formed part, he ought to have said so in his preamble in order that all who were to be affected by it might have had notice. He was aware that the 13.11 had brought many gentlemen from distant parts of the country to London, but the que tion was not one of convenience to them, but whether the House of Com mons ought to discuss a Bill so different from that which the Hon. Member obtained leave to bring in. In his opinion each of the articles enumerated in the Bill ought to have been proposed in a Committee of the whole House and there discussed. That not having been done, he would ask the Chair whe ther they were in a condition to proceed with the Bill. He submitted to the Honourable Member that the best thing he could do would be to adopt the suggestion of the R;ght Honourable Gentleman, the President of the Board of Trade, amend his Bill, and give notice to all whose interests were to be affected, and bring it on on a future day. Mr. E. TENNENT said the Hon. Member had stated this measure ought to have originated in a resolu tion of the House. Now, if he would turn to the Votes of the Bth of March he would find a resolution had been actually passed. Mr. HUME—Read it ; there is nothing about glass or metal in it. Mr. E. TENNENT continued—The Bill was drawn in perfect a - xordance with that resolution. Since the principle of the Bill had been agreed to by her Ma jesty's Government, and parties had agreed that some such Bill was ne2essary, he would not detain the House with any arw utnents in support of it. There was one point, however, to which he wished to draw the attention of the Right Hon. Gentleman, the Pre sident of the Board of Trade. Great importance had been attached to the statements of the parties in terested in the measure. There were 179 firms in the three kingdoms, and of all those there were only thirty six opposed to the Bill. There were 3,000 printing houses in the United Kingdom, and of these only 1,319 were against the measure. Many of the manufacturers of Belfast complained that for want of sufficient protec tion being given by the present law, they were frequently at a great loss, in consequence of goods remaining on their hands after the expiration of the copyright. With respect to what had been said relative to the establish ment of schools of design, unless some protection was extended to those schools there would not be the the Flightest use in the establishment of them. One gentleman in Dablin had stated to him that he could give employment in designs to an extent for which he would have to pay between 8001. and 1,0001. a year, and that he was willing to take a large number of boy s, but on applying to their parents he met with a refusal. Generally the parents of those boys were well apprised of the prevalence of piracy and copying in Eng land, and they stated to the gentlemen that if they sent the boys to a school of design they would not get pay ment fur their industry, that, the copyright was not pro tected, and that, therefore, their children would be la bouring to no purpose. With respect to what the Hon. Member for Kilkenny had stated relative to improving the taste of the producers of designs by admission to the public galleries, he (Mr. E. 'l'ennent) would tell him that that was not the way to bring about that desirable object.• They should regularly educate them in schools of design, and thereby their taste would be really improved. The Hon. Member concluded by moving that the Bill be recommitted. Mr. HUME objected to the recommittal of the Bill, as it was contrary to the rules of the House. He begged the Clerk would read the motion upon which the Bill was first introduced to the House, and they would then learn what were the inti.nt: ons of the Hon. Member. The Clerk then read the Order of the 9th of Feb. ruary, which was for leave to bring in a Bill to extend the term of the copyright of designs of printed and woven fabric and paper. Mr. HUME wished to know whether the Hon. Gentleman meant to introduce glass, metal, carpets, and other articles in that Bill, when he first introduced it. He complained that the House and the country was taken by surprise, because the rules of the House carefully guarded against any alteration being made in matters affecting the trade or commerce of the country, and they required that every such alteration should be made in a Committee of the whole House. He submitted that the Hon. Gentleman's Bill was irregular, and having stated thus much, he hope) to hear if there was any resolution of the House, or any instruction to the Committee, to depart from the rule laid down so carefully for so many years. Mr. LABOUCH - ERE said he did not rise to ex press any opinion on the technical point that had been raised. The rule was that all Bills relating to ma•tars of trade should be introduced in Committee, but on questions like the present, the House only required a re solotion of a general nature. The Hon. Geneeinan ;Mr. Hume) said the Hon. Gentleman opposite (Mx. E. Tennent) had attempted to take the House by sur prise, but if he recollected the discussion that took pl lei: on the second reading, ho would allow that this was not the case. it was then, he believe], unani mously agreed, that whatever might be the opinions respecting particular points of the Bill, that the law on this subject, instead of being scattered in four or five Acts of Parliament should be collected into. a single Bill ; and, therefore, to go iota Committee on the pre sent occasion, would not be a surprise to the House. He should regret that any technical point should pre vent their proceeding to the discussion of the Ilih in Committee. The Hon. Member (Mr, Hume) had objected to glass, metals, &c., being included in the 13111, and said that the question had not been raised before ; but 'it should be remembered that they were about to consolidati the law. It nos, therefore, not right to object to the course adopted as unfair, since the Bill had Loco drawn up for particular cases, but was now become a general 13i11.—(He ir, hear.) Mr. WARBURTON said that if a B:11 were intro duced into the House, affecting trade and manufactures, and during the progre's of the Bill it was desired to in troduce a clause affecting any particular trade or manu facture not before mentioned in the Bill, that clause must be introduced in a Committee of the wlio'e House. It was like a money clause in a Bill. The House at present did not know what part of the Bit was ori ginal, and what was not ; and he would suggest to the lion. Gentleman that he should follow the recommen dation of the Right Hon. Gentleman, the Presideat of the Board of Trade, to reprint the Bill, with indica tions in the margin as to what was the old law, and what was new. Mr. WILLIAMS said, that in the second reading of the Bill, the Hon. Member had been requested to consolidate all the Acts relating to the copyright of design. But the Bill tiow under discussion contained many important provisions, which were not t ) be found in the Bill when it was read a second time, nor in any of the Acts which it purported to consolidate. He wished to draw the attention of the House to three most important articles of manufacture, in which it was proposed to make great alterations. It was pro posed to extend the copyright of designs on carpets, on glass, and on cloth, from t.velve months to three years. These were also other most important provisions which were not to be found in the Bill as it stood when it was originally introduced, nor in any of the laws at present in existence on the subject which it was proposed to consolidate. There was one provision of this nature of great importance, which had been introduced into this Bill, and of which all those interested in the trade ought certainly to have had due notice. By the Gth clause it was provided that no person should apply such design to any manu facture, or any part or portion of such design, either by adding to such design, or subtracting or taking any parts or portions from such design. Now, what would be the effect of that clause? Why, if any calico printer ordered his designer t o f urn i s h t e n or fifteen patterns containing the common objects which usually entered into the composition of patterns, it would be perfectly impossible for any patterns to be drawn by any other person during the continuance of the copyright. He entirely acquitted the Hon. Mem ber of any intention of producing such an extraordi nary effect, but the fact was, the Hon. Member for Belfast had underta l ien to legislate on a subject with which he had no practical acquaintance, and that such, therefore, should be the effects of his legi:lation could not be a matter of surprise. A measure of such importance to manufacturers generally ought not to be left to the care of an individual Member. The Go vernment ought to have taken up the sub j ect, and no one was so fitted to introduce such a measure as the President of the Bourd of Trade. It was too much that a question of this great impor tance should be left to be brought forward by gentle men who were totally unacquainted with those manu factures which were to be so much affected by this Bill. The object should be deeply and seriously considered by the Government before they undertook to support a Bill which would effect so great a change in many important branches of our manufactures. The Hon. Gentleman who introduced the Bill had stated to the House that he intended to make many . important alte rations. He understood that it was also the intection of gentlemen who were opposed to this Bill to propose extensive alterations. Now he thought that the altera- S t 3 be • a pot.ents of the 8.1.1 ou.:.t to ; e tee Hoe. L; fore it was proceeded with in Committee. The B• 11 as it then stood was encumbered with nviny unaisa pr,vi sions. It was v.:ry necessary that they should what alterations were intended to be tr:a 1,. IL-, Cterefore, hoped that the Hon. G , !tttlemao who 1. i it, troduced the Uhf would Hoti-y r opo,r 0- nity of going into the questiee. This ,t.as the more desirahle, because tee subj!ct was only under stood by very few Members of that House. He would undertake to Pay that there were not twenty Members of that House who could judge of the practical effect of this le.:islation upon the trade of the country. He hoped the Hon. Gentlem in justice both to the House and to himself, would con sent to heve the Bill rev.ititqd with the alterations which he himself intended to propose, as well as the amend- ments which were intended to be proposed by the op ponents of the Bill. Mr. MARK PHILIPS thought it only due to the Hon. Metnber for Belfast to declare his helief that he had not t tken any steps in reference to this measure which could justly draw upon him the animadversion of the House. He was quite certain that he had not in troduced it without the knowledge and concurrence of the House. But the question for consideration was whether in the steps which had been taken with refer ence to this Bill, they bad adhered to the strict rule applicable in such cases. They ought to have gone into a Committee of the whole House upon the proposel to consolidate the former Acts in reference to this subject. He trusted that his Hon. Friend would adhere to the regular course. In making this remark he had no in tention to delay the measure any more than w:ls abso lutely necessary. He was quite prepared to go on with it if such were the decision of the House, but he must say that some of the clauses of the Bi'l was not so generally known as they should be, and as the Hon. Gentleman had intimated his intention of making some further alterations, he would suggest to him whether it would not be better to have the Bill re printed before it was considered by the Committee. Perhaps the Speaker would have the kindness to state what was his opinion upon the sulsject. He appre !tended that they ought to have gone into Committee to have brought the first clauses of the Bill before the House, but that if they had omitted what was regular with reference to these clauses, they were still in a posi tion to go into Committee upon the other clauses of the Bid. It was a question of convenience to the parties out of doors whether it would he better to go partially into Committee or wait until the Bill had been printed with the amendments. Sir R. PEEL said the standing order of the House was, that no Bill relating to trade or the alteration of lows concerning tale shoal be brought into the House until its provisions had been first considered by a Committee of the whole House, and agreed to by the How. He thought it would be too much to contend when the 11:11 had been brought in in pursuance of a resolution of the House, and at a subsequent stage it was proposed to append to it. an article not originally included, that it was absolutely necessary to have a distinct Committee in reference to that particular ar ticle. If, for instance, in the case of a Bill relating to linen, cotton, and muslin', it was proposed to acid calico, it would in his opinion ha perfectly open in Committee upon the Bill to add calico without going through the form of a resolution. In the present instance glass un doubtedly was not an object similar to those originally included in the Bill. They ought not to legislate in reference to glass without giving the glass manufac turers an opportunity of seeking to obtain a Committee of the House upon that subject. It appeared to him that the main point of difference was the extent of the measure. The question with which the House woult' have to deal was the extent of the protection ; arid it appeared to him that it would be desirable to adopt the course pursued by the Noble Lord in reference to the Poor-law, namely, to take the sense of the House upon one or two main points. It would be very satis factory to those who were waiting in London to know what was the sense of the House in reference to the articles to be included. Mr. HUME appealed to the Speaker whether in point of form they could proceed with the 8111. It proposed to alter the laws relating to trade in a variety of articles, and with respect to them, the Bill was not founded upon a resolution of the whole House in Com mittee. If the rule was a good one, as he believed it wag, it ought to be adhered to strictly, as it had been on former occasions. Mr. GOULBURN wished to state how the case stood. On the 9th of February his Hon. Friend, the Member for Belfast obtained leave to bring in a Bill founded upon a resolution of a Committee of the whole House for altering the law of copyright with respect to woven fabrics of cotton, &c., mid the Bill in strict con formity he brought in. In the discussion on the second reading of the Bill it was suggested that the principles of the Bill might be extended with great advantage to other manufactures, and the Committee was instructed accordingly. Under such citcumstances he appre hended that the rule was this—the Committee might proceed with the Bill, for it was clear that if the House give an instruction to a Committee which they had not power to do, on the third reading those clauses which violated the forms of the House would be struck out. The SPEAKER apprehended that nothing could be more regular than the first introduction of the Bill. The instructions afterwards given were not, in his opinion, so regular ; it was clear that if the Bill proposed to alter the law with respect to many articles other than those considered in the Committee of the a hole House, those parts of the Bill could not now be taken into consideration. That, however, was not fatal to the Bill. The Cormdttee might proceed with the Bill, taking into consideration those articles which were con sidered by the Committee of the whole House, and leaving out of consideration articles not so included. Mr. WARBURTON said after that explanation from the Chair he trusted that the Hon. Member for Belfast would feel that it was impossible to proceed with the 8111. The subjects or articles were so blended together that it was impossibly to separate them. Mr. E. TENNENT found the objections so nu merous, aad the difficulties so increasing, that he must consent to the sug;esti:•n of the Right Hon. the Pre sident of the Board of Trade. He would go into Committee pro forma ; but, considering the great im poitance of the Bill, and the interest take,' in it by both sides of the House, he trusted the Noble Lord would consent to givo him an early day for its consi deration. Lord J. RUSSELL, being most anxious to proceed with the Poor-law Amendment Bill, could not give the Hon. Member any other day before Easter than Wednesday next. Sir R. PEEL said, as his Hon. Friend, from the course which the discussion had taken, would of ne cessity have to make many alterations, he could not be expected to go int, Committe.3 pro forma imme diately ; be could not be prepared to strike out the clauses respecting glass, &c:, on tile moment. It should then be postponed till to-morrow, that the Bill could be re-printed in the state in which it would be sub mitted to a Committee of the whole house. Mr. HUME suggested that the Biil should be with drawn altogether, and then to introduce a new Bill, which he was satisfied would meet with no opposition till it arrived at i's present stage.—(lle4r, hear.) Mr. LABOUC HERE said a few words which were inaudible in the gallery. Sir R. PEEL thought, the most judicious course would be to bring in a new Bill.—( Hear, hear.) From the disposition the lion. Member had shown to meet the views of the House, Le was satisfied that no ob- stacles woull be thrown in the way of advancing it to its present stage. Mr. S HIEL said there appeared to be a general feeling that, the Bill should be withdrawn. lie must say, however, that he was partly to bl►►ne, bec►use he had suggested to the Hon. Member to consolidate all the Acts referring to copyright of designs. The sug gestion of the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Taaiworth, to let the Bill drop and bring in a new on", appeared to be a wise one. He could then take a re solution which would form a ba-is sufficiently extensive to embrace all the points included in his Bill. Sir GEORGE CLERK thought leave might be given to bring in a Bill to-morrow, and the discussion in Committee might take place nt-xt week. The motion was then withdrawn. Mr. E. TEN NENT gave notice of a Committee 01 the whole House for to-morrow, to take into coasidera• Lion all the Acts relating to the copyright of designs. The Putative Fathers Bill was, on the motion of Mr. MILES, read a second time, and ordered to be con►- mitted on Wednesday, the 23d April. COUNTY CORONERS. On the Order of the Day for going into Committee on the County Coroners' Bill being real, Col. WOOD thought the Bill went to eatahl:sh al together a new principle of election, and he should therefore oppose the Bill, and take the sense of the House upon it when it was to he discussed in Commit tee, unless it was previously altered. He understood that the present motion was merely to commit the Bill pro forma, and therefore he should not offer any oppo sition. Tho House then went into Committee pro forma, and the Report was ordered to be taken into consideration on Wednesday, the sth May. DRAINAGE OF LANDS BILL. Oa the motion that the House resolve itself into Committee on the Driinage of Lands Bill, Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEY said that unless he saw some alteration made in the all he would move the amendmeat, of which he had given notice, on the first opportunity. Mr. HUME wished to know whether there MIS any clause in the Bill providing that regular accounts be furnished of the income and expenditure under the Bill. He thought that a clause ought to ha introduced into the Bill similar *to the one in the Public Roads Bill, for the purpose of letting it ho known what amount of money was received, and how that money was expended. Mr. HANDLEY made some observations, which were inaudible in the gallery. The Bill then passed through Committee pro forma, and the House resumed. . - fit Je ll t ' MARRIED. f J. 11 , -r o elo On the 21st of July last, at the residence f r ; A le s , t o Esq., Hobart Town, Van Dieman's Lan d, Mr. 1 ",, q ., 0 to Wilhe!mini, daughter of the late H. Sin 3s°l4 1 1° ' i ff the e, E t?: . h , inst. nf I 0 a g t e i S I t t_. J. .Argyieshire, Nor,h Britain. usr-' JO Hanover -54 _f the berts, Esq., of Peckham, to Anne, only daughter u 400 , .st G re e e o t. rge's, of g' nnin o S i i° On the 0 0th i - nst., at Clapham, Mr. Howell,' . - 0. A., . Ratcliffe , to Elizabeth, only dilughter of the late IV. Harris , '..• I , rio" Paragon, Hackney. Afr --* On the 22d inst., at St. Ann's, Limehouse, ' of Poplar, to Al i , s Sarah Alin Dix, of lAT_____L___L*___-----use. , ,tet , On the 24th, Eliribeth the of daughter ( 1 g is t ,. e l r 'i-C°ll t o i f m G e o \ u v l.!e k n s: terrace; Pen'tonvil:e, surviving her a t •91 , i tt ' On tlt 18th inst., at Stonecliffe, Bakewell, Deeb) _ ot i. Hunter, Esq., lat? of Harcourt -buildings, Ternpe•g r , G° On the 18th inst.. in Grove-lane, Carnterviell. ' son, late of Leatherhead, aged 85. 0 i;i 4A3' Mr. Georg e On the 19th inst., at E-esom, Surrey , of Bennet's-hill, Doctors'-commons, aged Ce' 54. ,° el P l° On the 20th inst., at Nesham Ha;l, Durham, " A. of ' Cookson, late of the 80th Regiment, aged 66. ond s °° On the 19th inst. in Undon, A!exander, sec ,bO , 11. Spratt, Esq., of 'Catittrbury. C3' Soph t/ On the 20th inst., in Elm-grove, Southseat Mouth. ~0 rine, relict of the late A. Lindegren, Esq., of Por.ts , t io i' 0 .1 1111 Mr.o nutilciie,a2mlstuianesotn,, at f Heading, aMgoadry6,6t.he relicotftnor, On the 21st inst., at Hackney, Sarah, relict 0 3 ° ' Keen, late of Bishopsgate-street, aged 90. ci , c o le On the 21st inst., Mr. John Richard Dobson , Ja hli street, chymist and lruggist. On the 2 1 st inst., at King- s t re et, Cheap side, St. C r eighton, aged 63. London : - 1 --.-3 rinted and Published by MUROO IPaq964: No. 112, Stran d, at The Sun Office N 11% ri the couoty of Middlesex . — Thursday , o. ch 25t POOR-LAWS. In answer to a question from Mr. HALFORD which was inaudible. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said his object was to prevent the Commissioners from making the wards too sniadl. For the sake of convenience a certain size was required to constitute a ward. Sir R. PEEL inquired what was proposed with re spect to large manufacturing parishes at present go verned by Local Acts. He understood it was the in tention to continue the operation of the law, and that the Commissioners should not have the power to inter ere, but as the Bill stood at present this was doubtful, and the Poor-law Commissioners having attempted to bring cei t tin parishes under these regulations it was desirable that the point should be cleared up. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he understood that it was not competent for the Poor-law Commissioners to place parishes goveme 1 by Local Acts under a board of guardians constituted by the Poor•law Act, and the consequence was that many large parishes were not under the directions of the Commissioners, so far as the boards of guardians were concerned. Sir R. PEEL said that the Act took away from the Commissioners all power of dissolving unions without the content of the majority of the board of guardians, but it did not deprive them of the power of adding to unions without the consent of the guardians. Now, as one of the great causes of complaint against the law was the s . ze of the unions, he thought it would be very satisfactory to have a provision introduced into the preventiag the Commissioners from adding to unions without the conseat uf a majority of the guardians. Lord JOHN RUSSELL was afraid it woul I be hardly practicable to introdurie such a provision, inas much us some of the unions at present were so exces sively small, that it would be absolutely necessary they should be enlarged. Mr. HALIiORD gave notice of an amendment which he intended to propose on the thirty-eighth clause, in the shape of a proviso that in assign ing the number of guardians to the wards of each union the Commissioners should have regard t • the aggregate amount of rates paid by such wards towards the relief of the poor. COPYHOLD TENURES BILL. . . . Mr. AGLIONBY wished toknowiromthe Hon. Member for Weymouth, whether in the Committee of the whole House on the Copyhold Bill he intended to propose any increase of salary to the Commissioners. Mr. G. W. HOPE said the Hon. Gentleman must be aware that the Commissioners for Tithe Cumposi fon were the Commissioners appointed under the Copy hold Bill. By th_^ Bill as agreed to originally no increase of salary was proposed. His (Mr. G. W. Hope's) view of the subject, however, had been that there ought to be an increase. On consulting with the Government, however, they had expressed it as their opinion that the original proviso ought tore main. Under these circumst inces he should not propose any increase of salary. Indeed, he doubted whither it would be competent for any Member to do so with out having previously obtained the consent of her Majesty. Mr. AGLIONBY thought when additional and onerous duties were imposed on individuals, a propor tionate increase ought to tike place in the sa!aries— (Cheers)—and he should certainly take the opinion of the House on the subject. DRAINAGE BILL. Lord G. SOMERSET wished to know whether it was intended to proceed with the Drainage Bill this evening. M. HANDLEY merely meant to move that it be be committed proforma. Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEY would oppose it in every stage unless the amendment, of which he had given notice, were introduced. COPYRIGHT DESIGNS BILL. Mr. E. TENNENT presented several petitions in favour of the Copyright Designs Bill. Mr. G. W. WOOD and Mr. M‘LEAN presented petitions to the same effe t. Sir It. PEEL presented petitions from Dumbarton shire and from Surrey to the same effect. Mr. MAURICE O'CONNELL and Mr. ;lOUS TON also presented petitions to the same effect. Mr. LOCKHART presented fourteen petitions front Glasgow, in favour of the Bill. Mr. LABOUC HERE wished to throw ouc a sug gestion to the Hon. Gentleman who had intro duced this Bill. From communications which the kbonour able Gentleman had made with the .Board of Trade, he (Mr. Labouchere) had pets e'ved that it was his intention to propose a number of a Itera tions in the Bill as it stood in its printed form b More the Committee. He woull s uggest to hint wir.,:ther it woul.l not be better and save even his own. time that the Bill should be considered in Committee t . SI the form in which it was intended to stand. He could assure him that he did not offer this suggestion.. from any desire to prevent the Bill from being' f a i r l y discussed—he had no such ir.tention. But from all the experience which he had in the coeditor. of Bills in that House, he was satisfied that much time would be saved by the House having the Bill IN, Yore them in the state as nearly as possible in w hie') the Honourable Member desired it to pat shat t (Hear, hear.) At the same tim e, if the Hon ou r . ble Gentleman' believed that b y not ado p tin g . this suggestion, h e would besep r omote the object wh id he had in view, he (Mr. Lab ouchere) would offer no opposition. - The Hon. Member would act u 1 ton Ls Own discretion. Mr. E. TENNENT said, in answer to tl to gestion of the Hon. Gentleman, he begged to :lay EVENIN (3- EDITION The I.ourity B sicd. The 11)ughing of Gittle (Irelawi) 131 was read $ second ti Le, and ordored to covornitted. gi of Tile other Orders of the DAV were then dispose am the House Adjourned at a Quirter past S' veri o'C'uck. THE MARKETS. COAL MARKET. Ships arrived since last market day, V. , 1. s. d.l 1; 6,W. E. Rraddyll'sllettoa .. 1 S i 14 61Wai1s End Hetton ............ ,-„ s IS 6' Walk End LanioLon ......... ' 3 6 1 + 2 Walls End Sewatt's ......... :.,,, ~.,... . 19 , NNalls End'Elowden ...... • ••• ~: l 0 door tv, 0 0 .. is l , -:: 01 Watis End Clareenee le :0 0 . ,av-1 „ Bl ? Cowpen ... ................. . *.. .... ' . 7 t , ',don A C• i-low,rd's Netliert,n X at,,, :1; i Be'', Robson & Co. Hartley Chnriotte Main ... Cart's Hartley Helkurn Main Llo',wed Ma . New lantield I Polito', Winds, Tiiwh:ey ~, kVviattl . Its rn,l Del \Valls L:nd Etten \Lin n COUNTRY CORN MARKET'. --- Iwo . Wheat. Barley. Oats. 1 Beans. , 1 Per Onarter. s to s. s. to s. to s. la.to f• i!' , 48 11..stoii Branittee 57 67 29 37 13 29 36 4 0 .7,„, 4 1 13 ighton 6O 18 28 35 23 '..6 58 44 .. yi Cambridge — 61 :31 2. 36 41— 4 9 Chiche,ter 5B 61 2 7 34 23 27 40 •; 41 ,"" 0 UtillnlOW Grantham -,lriiii,iliy - 4 6 tiail,liarn - ...• Ilitehin 153 64 32 38 ‘1..?. 30 40 45 „",, 49 fps:sic:li 156 60 30 :34 .4 28 38 40 .° '3 Lewes 151 61 30 34 22 23 34 58 , 4 SO Lynn 56 68 £8 35 i 9 213 36 44 ." ... ' Maidstone 59 64 36 39 •26 32 33 42 38 "" .40 Norwich Petwor th Romford 6O 76 23 55 22 30 34 46 ' °''' 40 Sandwich :A 67 34 4:i 27 34 :33 45 3 4; 40 Tnethuil Wished; .....„ SZ. 116 28 54 21 26 25 39 at' . 0 Witham 59 68 31 38 25 29 3 6 44 .- $9 Yarmouth 62 66 31 34 24 30 40 41 ijd LIVERPOOL CORN 111 ARICET.—March 23 1 0 1 4/ , Wu earl', English, White, per 701 b.... - I ° 9 10 -- Bed 9 6 8 0 Scotch, Welch, and Manx ..-... .......... .—•— Irish, White 7 6 8. 9 .------ Red 7_ 4 j 0 '.4 ....... •••.••• 8 ... 1 _ Foreign 8 s 0 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3 3 Irish .• .. ..• 3 4 0 0 Foreign 0 tAULEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter ....... .• 2 5 ° 4 Scotch and Irish, pet 60114. -- Feeding 3 6 43 0 Beafls, English, per imperial quarter 43 0 4 3 - 0 Irish, &c. Foreign PEASE, Englisn, per Imperial qu a rter 4l 0 -.° 0 -- Foreign Ft.ouit, English, per 28011 s. 50 - Irish JATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2411bs .. ta 6 :: 55 I .NDIAN CORN, • per 48016. Rye, per imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter HULL CORN MARKET. Wheat, White (per Quarter) - 41. 6" 9 ': Red '4' 5 8 ° Foreign 5 4 8, 603. O s ' 295. 30 3 . 93t Barley, Malting .4s. 25'. / ,,t Grinding Oats, British - • ,. t , Foreign (in bond) ss, ,- , , 6 ,.. 40i. Beans 4. • Pease, Grey Blue and White 3ss. 535..40f Linseed Flour (per sack) Rapeseed per 10 quarters) CHELTENHAM MARKETS. IsIisiLr6S:II" I, 4 d o ' Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Per lb. 7 Wheat ' „ Barley Oats 3 0 3 9 Veal Beans.. 5O 70 Pork ... .................. ... ', tease sr,o 8 0 Lamb ...... . ........... .....• " Hay 41.10s to 5/. Os. 03. per ton' Per (2tiarter. 1 1 1 :ra s t iiTt ' t cc 11 ighten Dutimow (iranthAin tiai;,harn hitch in Ipstsich Lewes Lynn Maidstone Norwich Petworth Romford Sandwich ~ Tnetford CAN'PERBUIti MARo 645. —.. OIKET. ___l to . • -s. Wheat, white.— 60s. td.......... —' to ....I. -- ret1...—....... 51s. to 605....... 01d........* "'• to ...J. Barley, Malting ~..... 28s. to 3ls. ...,..... Grnding.. --, 0 „...5. Oats Beans Ms to 4'.'5......., 01ti.......... • ea .- -1 . t o ...S. Pease ...................—. 425. to —s. .......- Grey........ a CHELMSFORD MARKET. • 4 5 "if 69 to 76 Oats .... ....................... .. ~ Ci 62 Pease, Gray .............. f, 33 36 White ......... ...;i; 1 3 6 37 Beans, Tick ........."•"" 0 ' 28 32 Mangan .......• . Wheat, White Red Barley Chevalier Grinding V, LONDON LIB RARY.—Prince Albert, haVIP oi sommunicated to the Earl of Clarendon, the Pres'''. oisi the London Library, his interest in the institution:e to desire to give aril assistance in his power, has, s t ,lba tics quest of the Committee, become the patron of the f His Royal Highness has forwarded a subscription of 1' and has declared his intention of making ad o German books. g RA I L THE FIRST TRIP ON THE BRIGHT°. WAY.—The Directors of this railway (of e. 7 d the - r e tire Railway) made their first trip on Saturday last, 9 ' t kef, from London-bridge at ten minutes past eigh t ; so. stopped at the Dartmouth Arms station, SYd eab t afterwards proceeded to Merstham tunnel, int",.e of prevented from going through in conserlq,, P , 0/ 1 ", some waggons being on the lines. The on this occasion is one of immense po wer, en isa ts„n " IVlertsham," made by Messrs. Sharp and Be l l o - Manchester. The works are rapidly progressiekenek.,/' line to within fifteen miles of Brighton will b e ° P Mr . the public on the Ist of June, and to Bsighton 111 . as etie n next. The first stone of the new line from tha.7o4 issl of the Greenwich Railway to the London teri ni t bs laid on Wednesday last by Colonel Landsman. tector and engineer of the Greenwich Railway 1101 r PARIS AND ROUEN RAILWAY.---rx, ordinance modifies as follows the first paragraph °lt a ilr_j arti&e of the statutes of the Paris and Rouen nri„, gd Company :—" During the execution of the 1 v — ir is until the completion the entire line between at. ~ Rouen, the shareholders are to be paid four eer: a ppli,; the sums vested by them, and the Company 11 - s'at that purpose the proceeds of the sums placed ot ho west, or the receipts of the different parts of `,,,e0 01 . which may be successively opened, or any other:weft... revenues of the undertaking ; or, in case of insuruclitsl, portion of the 5,000,000 f. comprised within the co additi mto the estimated costs of the works." csil t PERRYAN FILTER INKSTAND .--- w t uifq: aveetion more than a year ago to an inkstan a noe l: is seription, which, though beautifully exectlted preserving ink in a fit state for writing, scas d ebcjep 7 be ill simplicity, and therefore inconvenient for daily s- ; 0 0t,",, patentees have since made a decided imprave ll ' e l a siror o i original invention. The inkstand now is extrente icoyero It supplies the ink for use by merely raising tbe tu re lol #l the dipping place, and by closing it down the ink re rei reot o the inkstand, where it is hermetically sealed sli d P o ol P h e f..orn evaporating or thickening. The press g e tioao • t i ty given favourable accounts of this useful in: en ni most flattering of which is the following , " ° ;For b Conte. - nporary. the New Sporting Workh-ifory a f ro s selves we feel deeply indebted to the pbilant 600 suggested the improvement, for it is scarcell st 0 0 4 purgatory to condemn an editor to indite "deg, trait O ' genre' with thick ink and a had pen, and the D out , i to the door roaring for COPY." viog Patronized by their Majesties the 00 0 4 the , ot erfr e o Queen of Hanover, and their Royal Highnesses Augusta and Sophia, her Serene Highness the Ptie ce . : e r W Ci d i tbe the Princesses Mary and Rosa, her Grace the Dowlel ta t;ig of Bedford, and their Graces the Archbishop of Canteri01001;010 Dukes of Norfolk, Devonshire, and Manchester. 1 0 7 dt EP: 5 , above distinguished patronage to the newly-Won' W 414, Lenses and Invisible Operative Voice Conductor, t he oree t, esg and B. Solomons, opticians and aurists, 39, Albe ra3 , r- „,i, P el e e cadilly, and 76, King William-street, Bank of gogia,"„ gaiOdil o pleasure to state that their valuable inventions have s' - n dreil ;00 sanction and unqualified approbation of above four " o f polo of principal members of the medical rrofession ; beed i ,. individuals of high distinction, who have been grea",' 1,00,1, to their use. Immediately these improved Spectec'eought die placed before extrema imperfect vision, it is at once b r ies - r Set, its natural and original state, every object becornee c o y ot ,At 'o - Df tinct, and the most minute particle is seen, either hi co p‘Wi:o l4 light, with ease and distinctness. Their Voi ce „lee which thousands of deaf persons have bees great l Y hoeingsli the least perceptible, nor more uncomfortable, than Di p VP - po sit . of wool in its place, and the faintest whisper et a I lreet ti l P° .° is heard with exact distinctness.-39, Albenlarle-s" the York Hotel, and 76, King William-street , flexion with persons of the same name. . 1 4 ; --- SPOONS, FORKS, &c . , superior to 51e,,10, rability, equal in appearance. able Spoons or 5.,`" 410,7011 Dessert, 10s. ; Tea Spoons, ons e ts . per dozen; Tao ',Y.( °l O O l inches high, is. per pair ; the particular in e ` fi ply " o ff these articles are made is so like silver, that it ca° from it by the stamp; every article ntado ix silver tured in this material by hIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street, o%foratujetreesoOiv°‘ Who, to prevent imposition, confine the sale of it Catalogues of prices gratis. ... 44 4 r ' . BIRTHS. 44 4 e.. ld°lj On the 22d inst., at Lavender-hill, F urrey, ei r " . o :et f, no b.f.cl ~ of a daughter. On the 22d i st., at Queen Anne-street , .--" N e vi the lady of William Henry Walton, Esq., of a son, of l i- On the 22d inst., at Tunbridge-wells, the ' ' 10 / Ward, Esq., of a daughter. , l b' On the 22d inst., at Highbury-terrace , the ' l.dv-- ° I,ll l + Flight, Esq., of a daughter. .. win. . p .r On the 22d inst., Mrs. Webster Flockton, 0, a rh v° i On the 23d inst., Mrs. Thomas GurneY , ""- 241 °' , „ f O4 " Camberwell, of a eaughter. u e.. On the 22(1 inst., the lady of Auguste ge n pi Welbeek- street, Cast ndish-square, of a daughl er. gsq , On the 22d inst., the wife of F. W. Benecke, mark-hill, of a daughter. --dell: ~.. z, K