The Sun. — London, England, 1841-03-26 00:00:00

VENING EDITION THE POPERY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. The following statement-, drawn up by the Rev. William Thorn, a dissenting clergyman at Winchester, rill he reed with f.larful interest by the sincere profes sors of the Protestant religion. While the new Popery is making rapid strides to.vards Rome, and the leading journal of the Church and of a large party in the State, after having denounced the Puseyites, has turned round and taken the T 1 under its protection, we think this a fitting time to keep the subject before the public, and show that in all human probabil ty the Church of Eng land and the Church of Rome will speedily be unit , .!d : Episcopaiens frequently sneak of the Romish Church as if they considered the Church of England perfectly free from the corruption of Popery. We have often been surprised at their want of inormation or honesty. Oar present object is to show that those hierarchies are very much alike'. By the Romish Church, we shall not here understand those Catholic societies which are supported by volun tary contributions, as in Ireland ; but Popery, main. tamed by a coercive taxation, as in several Continental nations ; and by the Church of England, that denomi nation which is established by law in this country. We cheerfully admit that there are several points of difference between these Churches, to the advantage of the English hierarchy—wl&e it must be conceded that there rre inconsisoncies in the latter communion, which are not discovered in the Church of Rome. It miy be observe!, that if there be one patty in the Church of England more consister.t timrt tie rest, or which more correctly and honestly expounds the real views and character of the State religion, it is evidently " The Oxford Puseyite l'arty," in their " Tracts fbr the Times." _ It should be universol'y known, that in the year 1689, a Committee, composed of ten Bishops and twenty other pious and learned dignitaries of the Church of England, made 600 correct' ons in the prayer-book, articles, and canons of the Establishment ; but which were not adopted through the ir.fluence of certain bigoted parties in the British Parliament. The Archbishop of Canterbury, speaking of certain Catholic children in national schools being compelled to attend the Church of England worship, stated some time since that in this he saw no difficulty—" because if ever them had been any expressions in the Liturgy opposed to the Catholic faith, they had been expunged by the good sense of those who reviewed it its after times," subsequent to the Reformation. OF all Protestant, Churches," says Bishop Butler, " the national Church of England most nearly resemb!es the Church of Rome. It has retained much of the dogma and much discipline of Roman Catholics. Down to the subdeacon, it has retained the whole of their hierarchy ; and like theta has its deans, rural deans, chapters, prebends, archdeacons, rectors, and vicars ; a liturgy taken in a great measure from the Roman Catholic Liturgy, and composed, like that of psalms, canticles, the three creeds, litanies, epistles, gospels, prayers, and respeneas. Both Churches have the sacrament of bap tism, and the eucharist, the absolution of the sick, the burial, service, the sign of the cross in baptism, the reservation of confirmation, and order to bishops, the difference of episcopal and sacerdotal dress, feasts, and fasts,." &e . Ia drawissg up the following ptrallelF, our object is not to irritate the ministers or members of the Este blishment--.whose condition we sincerely pity—but to expose these errors of their system which require amenclincei, and which most pious and intelligent Churchmen deplore in common with ourselves. The subsequent remarks will show, that the Puritans had b, tter grounds for their exertions to purify the Church than most Episcopalians are willing to admit— and that, if we would be rid of the corruptions of Popery, there must be a second Reformation of the Church of England, greater than the first. As no intelligent or candid person will question the truth of our representations, it will not be requisite to refer to proofs for their confirmation. A few prefatory observations, however, may not be unsuitable :- 1 That the Prayer Book contains little beside the Mirs Book translated into English. 2. That the Pope offered to confirm it, if the Church of England would join that of Rome. 3. That Episcopal Clergymen of eminence have de clared such a union of the two Churches practicable. 4. That the efficacy of Episcopal Ordination is de rived entirely through the Popish prelates. .5. That at the accession of Elizabeth 9,211 Catholic Priests, out of 9,400, joined the Church of England. 6. That the Papists and Protestants long worshipped together in the English Church, till prevented by the Pope. _ _ 7. That at the Reformation, Parliament transferred the entire powers exercised by the Pope in this country to Heary VIII and his Royal successors. PARALLELS. Both Churches were constructed by human wisdom, and established by national laws, which laws became the rule of conduct, and the 'object of ultimate appeal both to priests and people. The New Testament is not the rule or law of Episcopalians or Catholics, as such. _ - - _ Both have visible and human heads, who decree all rites and ceremonies, and exercise absolute authority in controversies of faith ; demanding implicit obedience to their commands, whether agreeable to Jesus Christ or not. Both are the prolific source of party and Parliamen tary strifo--thereby destroying the peace and harmony of the nation—scandalizing the gospel of Christ—and causing the enemies of religion to triumph. Both are supported by coercive taxation—Tithes, Rates, Dues, and Parliamentary Grants. Nothing is left to the zeal, charity, or piety of the people. They can withhold nothing from the most unworthy clergyman. Both systems impose ministers on their congregations, and very frequently the most unsuitable and incompe tent—depriving the people of their reasonable and Christian privileges, Both traffic in the souls of men. Benefices, involving the cure of souls, are bought and sold in the market by auction, equally with chariots, horses, or any other property. Both have settled forms of prayer, unalterable litur gie., articles of faith, of human composition, to which all parties must subscribe. Nothing is left to the skill, piety, or devotion of the clergy. An ability to read is all that is essential. Both have long grades of officers, with titles and pOwers unknown to the Ne v Testament—Archbishops, Bishops, Chancellors, Prebendaries, Canons, Deans, and others, tamest without end. Both dieido their territories into larger or smaller sec tions--as bishoprics, arclideaconfe3, deaneries and pa rishes ; and limit the labours of the clergy to particu lar di:tricti, leowever confined their s?aco, or few their population. BA, iniikg high pretences to supernatural powers. The Bislings pretend to confer the Holy Ghost on the persons they orda'n ; and all the clergy pretend to ab solve men from all their sins upon a dying bed. Both consider baptism a rea! reLe iervtion : by their ceremony the subjects are made members of Christ, the of God, and heirs of the kingdom of heaven. They al ke employ sponsors, and use the sign of the cross. Beth perform the ceremony of confirmation ; in which the Bishop tells the young (whatever be thou! moral charaltor) that they were regenerated by the Holy Ghost at their baptism, and assures them of the favour of God. Beth awfully pervert the sacrame . .n i t or of the Lord's it at an ono t Sapper—priests administer to kneeling, and often ungodly, communicants—Church earls it transubstauti.ition ; and the other, in the Homilies, a " mat vellous incorporation:* Lith have displayed a cruel and persecuting spirit— anathemat izing or excommunicatiog (to the loss of cha racter, property, and liberty) those who do not avowedly conform. (See first twelve Canons.) They have alike put thousands of Dissenters to death. Both era peculiarly le.tarian, treating Noncon formists with contempt—confining their ce.itral, infant, and other sehou4, colleges, and eharit.e,, to their own pirdes ; and inculcating sntariacism with the utmost assiduity. Both systems tend to make Ministers haughty, CIVA. aud petulant--frequently produce strife be tween pester and people—introduce idle and ungodly men—and protect their vices. d Both Churches, with unclt Arable creeds and minute)) dined rubrics, with yews and solemn ascevorations, tolerate every wild notion and heresy in existence, and produce a body of hypocrites Both are upheld by the secular arm, fear, ignorance,: avarice, and corruption, by denouncing the lass of bu sh:cis, reputation, and even of sa'vation, on seceders • while prof t gates are seldom marked men. Both treat a ll t h e i r conforming en' parishioners alike, Is bather good, bad, ori l n , different. The same words a re addressed to op tlsame ceremonies performed by all. There is "no difference between the unclean and tile clean."' Both havo a great de,l of pomp and ceremony in their worship—standing, sitting, kneelipg, bowing, turn ;ng towards the altar, dre3Fe?, &c. —all cdculated to afford ignorant per sons a ground of h ope and confidence in their own " bodily exerctse,." Both attach extravagant and unchristi an not i ons o f sanctity to their places of worship, their clerical habits, titles, and ministerial perform ances ; t heir character is indelibly sacred ; their churc hes hol y ; theirdoings alone efficacious. Both prefer exclusive claims to ministerial efficiency, not from the piety, talent=, and zeal of their preachers ; but t: om the superstitious and unsupported notion s o f apostoli ca l success i on an d p r elatical ordination. Both r ea d port i ons o f t h e Ap o crypha as a part, and in place of, the Word of God. The Church of Eng land omits the public rea lino' of 211 chapters of the bib ß le o , th aad on i s o tt: h tu e tee l. lo . l chapters of the Apocrypha. holy days every year re i igious observance ct numerous and yearn commemoration most profligat e of some of the tyrannical beings that ever existed. The Eaghsh hierarchysfive fasti as appointed (independent of . Sundays)sicety feasting. {acting days, and thirty-one days of Both Churches, either by unction, or words, or by both, professedly send all their people to heaven ; bless God for taking the most impenitent wretch to himself ; and commit his body to the dust, in sure and certain hope of a resurrection to eternal lire.. _ In a word, both systems are unscriptural, and have sadly failed to answer the cud for which millions of money arc annually expended, and for which the Son of God introduced his gospel into the world. It is a question of some difficulty, whether the Church of England be really and truly entitled to the appella tion of Prot!stant ? That it is the least reformed of ail the Protestant Churches, is universally admitted. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS, FROM TIM EVENING FAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From 6e Globe.) The news from America, including the Inaugural Ad dress of the President, must be considered as of a satis factory aspect, so far as indicating the views which ap pear to be (-rite' tained by the Senate and Executive. Mr. Bucha ,an stated, in the former assembly, that " there was no foundation for the rumour which prevailed, that there had bean an angry correspondence between the British Minister and the Secretary of State since the date of the last correspondence before the public. It was t ue that, since that time, a single note bear ing upon that subje.t had been addressed by Mr. Fox to Mr. Forsyth, which the 1. t'er had answered; but this note and answer were of so little importance, that he ( Mr. B.) did not deem it necessary to call for their publication, and their tone was far from being of an angry cliata;ter." Mr. Clay expressed his belief that both Gov.srnineats desired peace ; that it was essential to the int rests of ea.th ; and that, if war did come, it would not be from the w ill of the governments, but from co:lateral causes, ever which they would have no control. Where each of two G verntnents desire peace, they must have very intractable matter to deal with if they cannot Tr aiatain it. Mr. Clay gave it as his decided opinion that t'ze state of the diff.e ences be tween the two countries was not such as to require especial Minister. Mr. Buchanan had stated that "is the ri. ge tiation re'aaive to the Norah-eastern Boundary, nothing t:al occurred inconsisteht with the sincere and anxious de ire which hal always been professed by that Govern- H ment to p eserve the peace which now so happily subsisted lastween the two countries, and to bring the question to a final and satisfactory conclusion." The terms of the Presi?ent's Address have Elmo degree of vagueness and ambiguity ; and, like oracles of old, scorn adapted to take the sense which events may put on them : " I see in the personal characters of the Sovereigns, as well as in the mutual interests of our own and of the Governments with which our relations are most intimate, a pleasing ,guat antee that the harmony so important to the interests of their sub jects, as well as our citizens, will not be interrupted by the ad vancement of any claim or pretension upon their part to which our honour would not permit us to yield." _ The rest of the Address is, of course, a popular bill of fare of the good things the now President holds out from his opening administration. His promises, how ever, are chiefly of a negative nature. It seems to have become a sort of expected compliment to the sovereign people, that the Executive, on these occasions, should decry its own power as much as possible ; and criticise the Constitution for having given it almost any power at alt. This establidiel fashion, in the present instance, answers a double purpose; as it enables the new President to intro duce his censures of his predecessors. We are not dis posed in the slightest degree to question the justice of those censures. (From the Standard.) The Presi,!ent's Address it is to which we look as the best assurance of the pacific intention of the General. The Address is long, and perhaps here and there openlo the charges of peiantry and affectation of style; but slid it is in our judgment a very able State Paper, im pressed with that character of came t sincerity which constitutes the real force of all such compositions ; a document very far indeed above the common order of the Addresses of General Harrison's predecessors. It is impossible not to see that the speaker is fully im pressed with the dangers from within which so formidably threaten the ruin of the commonwealth, and that he de votes himself unreservedly to resist these dangers. This feeling, that the commonwealth is on the very brink of ruin—and how well grounded the feeling is every one acquainted with the present circumstances and condition of the United States is aware—renders proper and seasonable that investiga ion of the principles of gc vornment which in another case might seem to be a mere idle thesis, and which justifies an earnestness of manner that would look like ludicrous exaggeration in a secure and tranquil state of society. There are allusions, tee, that may have the appearance of an ungenerous hos. tility to the Van Buren Cabinet. But what was General Harrison to do ? He found the republics brought to extremity by the misconduct of his predecessor. Was he to hide the sources of danger, because these were the effect of the crimes of his rival ? The most severe self-denisl in party struggles does not command this extent of favour to adversaries ; and General Harrison has really done no more than expose the sources of danger most seriously threatening the State which he is called to govern. (From the Courier.) The Inaugural Address of General Harrison, on his entrance into functions as President of the American Union, looked for with deep anxiety as it was both in commercial and political circles here, as likely to he indicative of the peculiar bearing of the foreign policy of his administration in relation to the differences pending between the t•.vo countries, will, from the entire absence of the slightest reference to those matters, occasion con. siderable disappointment. And yet it was scarcely rea sonable to expect that on the very day of taking the reins of govtrarnont in hand, whilst still, as he re marks, " of course not well informed as to the state of any pending negotiations" with any foreign States, be would, further than the promulgation of some general and necessarily vague principles, commit himself to the expression of any definite opinion on passing events. What ho does say in respect of the foreign relations of the United States is, however, marked by a tone of dignity and moderation to which we have for soma time past been strangers, in the practical developments of American diplomacy at least. WALSALL ELECTION COM- MITTEE. (Joseph Marlowe's examination, continued from The Sun of yesterday.) Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAM—In the interval between the first time he got drunk and drinking the second time was not altogether sober—was, in fact, tipsy during the whole time. Saw several of the persons whom he mentioned as quarrelling bleeding from the head. Could not say whether it was before or after he saw those persons that he was told it would be unsafe to leave the inn and go home. Had not a clear recollection of what took place at the time. Is an elector of Walsall ever since the first election in the borough, and always voted for the Conservative candidate. The CHAIRMAN suggested that at that stage of the pro ceedings the Counsel for the petitioners should proceed to esta blish the quention of agency. Mr. COCKBURN said that the agency of Mr. Barnett was admitted on the other side. Simeon Burns examined—ls a voter for the borough of Walsall, - and was canvassed by Mr. Gladstone at the last election. When. Mr. Gladstone called he saw Mr. Edmund Swift standing on the street. On the evening of the nomina tion day Mr. Busst called and took him to his house• He stopped there for two hours. Then went with Mr. Busst and Mr. William Roper to the George. Knew Mr. Barnett, but did not recollect seeing hiss there on that occa sion. Mr. Busst took him to Mr. Barnett at the George. Did not speak to Mr. Barnett. Heard Mr. Barnett desire Mr. Busst to get a car to take him to the inn. Wit ress went to the New Inn on foot with Mr. Busst. Saw a goal many people is the long room there. there might be atmut forty or fifty persons present. There were liquors on the table ; took some wine. Mr. Dickson was in the chair. The persons present were, he believed, generally votes , . Saw persons Franklin, Mr. Swift, Mr. Box, and others there. Did not remain at the New Inn all night. Went home and got to bed. In the morning Mr. Busst and his son came for wit ness, and took him to the Stork. Took breakfast there. The room was not very full. Witness did not pay fur anything he took at the New Inn or Stork. Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant Wnasorrwas—Left the New Inn in the coarse of the evening. Could not say at what hour. Mr. Busst and Mr. Francis accompanied bins. Betore leaving the New Inn saw a row outside the inn. There were several persons bleeding—among them saw Mr. Kilner, the landlord of the inn, bleeding from the head. The cut was a severe one. Upon leaving the inn a crowd of persons followed him, Mr. Francis, and Mr. Besot. They took up Francis and carried him off. Those people were the opponents of wit ness's party. Mr. Busst got off, as also did witness. There was a great deal of violence going on during the evening. Many of the friends of Mr. Gladstone were knocked down by persons a' the opposite party. Re-examined by Mr. Cocxnuarr—When at the inn saw some of the voters tipsy. It was in the night time, after it be came dark, that he saw the persons knocked down. There was nothing of that sor t t oo k p l ace in the early part of t h e even i ng. Samuel Tooks examined—ls proprietor of the Rising Sun beer-house. The evidence of this witness went to corroborate the statement of the last witness as to seeing a number of voters eating and drinking at the New Inn on the evenini , of the nomination. Witness partook of the refreshments pro;i4cd on the occasion. Was brought to the New Inn by a Mr. John Stone, who was not a member of Mr. Gladstone's Committee. Witness provided breakfast at his house for a number of voters. The bill was 2+31. Did not exactly know to whom he should apply for that sum. I3v an Hos. ;Vaal BE a—Cnnsidered that he ought to look to tj r .'Brace for payment. Mr. Brace was a saddler's iron monger. Saw nobody on the subject of the breakfast but Mr. Brace and Mr. Emery. By co , Nsst —Brace said he would be responssibetlheleacftosiroonntheoeff cost of the breakfast. Saw aa,tv with las: r. elect' M um M r i . -1 e J n o r s4 l3 h usst Boost, e xa a n r j h i n o e tto .l ohkya DI r t t . I e C p ° a e r part B i in n t h s e — h last l because he His itvio.otngt:ote a t s im a e t 11 an d the • • ass father d d gentleman. Mr. Potter, Mr. Glad stone some persons in the street win i e e , antas-ing e foris were th M e . the George on the day of the election, among these persons. Mr. Perks was h a e ls t o n o e f t ( t i h e e r m in . g the evening, and of canvassing. Was et the New Inn nomi nation. Went ther. at about three o'clock in there merely the evening . of the s'aid until four o'clock next morning. Went Walked had. continue drinking till four o'clock in tho morning. the greater part of that time about the inn. Mr. Sergeant WRANGIIA 3I objected to Counsel on the other side continuing to prove the act of drinking on the part of some of the voters without seeking to connect that drinking wills the sitting member or his agents. The Lear-lied. Sergeant proceeded at some length to show that nothi n g had been given in evidence to connect the sitting member in any way with the conduct of the electors in the George or New Inn, and submitted that counsel on the other side had no right to continue the course they were then pursuing by them. The CHAIRMAN said that the Committee did not wish to preclude counsel from bringing forward whatever evidence they m i g h t t hi n k necessary. It was, however, the opinion of the Committee that the agency ought in the first instance to be proved. Mr. Com:Bums submitted that he had connected the evi dence as to drinking with Mr. Barnett, who was admitted to be Mr. Gladstone's agent. The Learned Counsel contended at some length that he was entitled to consider whatever was done at the New Inn, on the evening of the nomination, as connected with Mr. Barnett • Mr. Sergeant WILANciIAm addressed the Committee in reply. The Committee, after deliberating for some time, decided THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, IP4I that there was not sufficient evidence to connect Mr. Barnett, the agent of Mr. Gladstone, with the drinking, and other oc currences, at the New Inn on the evening of the nomination. A witness named Plaice, whose testimony was to the same effect as that already adduced, was then examined, and the Committee adjourned at four o'clock. ST. ALBAN'S ELECTION COlll MITTEE. (Continued from The Sun of yesterday.) On the re-admission of strangers, The CHAIRMAN announced that the Committee had de cided that the question might be pu:. ' The witness being recalled, said he had put the amount down to the account of Lord Listowell's Committee. Cross-examined—Did not put Lord Listowell's name down, merely put down the words " To the Committee." Robert Adams was then called. Mr. AUSTIN said it was his intention to resist any attempt to prove an act of bribery on the part of Mr. Webster ; and it having been arranged to proceed at once with the argument on that point, the witness was ordered to withdraw, and the Learned Counsel proceeded to argue that a per• son might be an agent for a lawful purpose without being an agent for an unlawful one. Nothing had been proved to establish the agency of Mr. Webster. It had not been proved th a t he had either ordered the erection of polling booths, or paid for them on Lord Listowell's account ; or that he had paid the expenses of the Committee. It had not been proved that he had called at Mr. Coppock's ; true he had gone to th e T reasury and had canvassed, but noting had been proved to es'ablish Mr. Webster's agency. The Learned Counsel then quoted several authorities to show that there was no proof of 'dr. Webster's agency. Mr. HILL YA RD contended that she facts in evidence were quit! sufficient to establish Mr. Webster's agency. He had been in constant communication with Lord Listowell. He had ordered horses at Barnet for Lord Listowell, and therefore, it was presumed, by his Lordship's orders—had identified him self with Lord Listowell in the most public manner, and had carried a canvassing book, a book only entrusted to a most confidential agent of a candidate. There could be no doubt but that he was Lord Listowell's agent ' • and he in tended to follow up thi s ev id ence b y prov i ng t h at Mr. Webster had offered Adams money for his vote ; and if that proof were not allowed to be giv,n, the Acts inflicting penalties for bri bery had better at once be erased from the statute-book. The Learned Gentleman then quoted several au,titorities in support of his argument. Mr. AUSTIN then rose to reply, when he was interrupted by the Chairman, who desired him to abstain for a few mi nutes. The Committee deliberated for a few minutes when the Chairman directed the Learned Counsel to proceed with his argument. AUSTIN then proceeded to reply to the several arguments of Mr. Hillyard. Before he had finished it was announced that the Speaker was at prayers, but the Chairman and the Committee decided that they would sit until Mr. Austin should have con cluded . his argument. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to controvert the various authorities quoted by Mr. Hillyard, and concluded by submitting that there was no proof what ever of the agency of Mr. Webster. The Committee at the conclusion of Mr. Austin's argu ment, adjourned till to-morrow. IMPE 'UAL PARLIAMENT. SOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH 25. Tlio Earl of SUAFTESBURY took his seat on the Wool sack at Five o'Clock. Messengers from the Treisury brought up finance ac counts and papas ; a'so from the Customhouse, the an nual accounts of Trade and Navigation, and from the Commisdoncrs of DJvcr Harbour, the annual accounts. The Whitby Imprcvment Bill was read a third time and passed. The Manchester and Salford Railway Bill was read a second time. The Earl of REDESDALE presented petitions from Yorkshire on th 3 subject of Church Extension. Messengers from the Commons brought up the Consoli det .d Fund (8,000,000) Bill, which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow ; the Turnpike Ac's ( frelir.d) Continuance Bill, the Durham and Sunderland Railway nderind Bill. Bill, an d t h e Y or k an d N ort h Midland Viscount D U - N C A NN ON presented a petition from Ti verton, praying for greater facilities in the recovery of small debts. On the motion of tl-,e Marquis of NORMANBY the Turnpike Acts Continuance Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed to-morrow. The Marquis of BUTE presented petitions from Caith ness, Fife, and other places in Scotland, on the subject of Church Patrorage. The Earl of h:OS EBE RY presented a petitloa from L9ebid o the carne eff. c•. The Earl of MOUNTCASHEL presented a pc ti ion from the Medical Association of a piece in Irel,nd, complaining of certain provisions in the Vac cination Act, which authorised the levying of ra c 3 for the payment of medical officers employed in car rying the Act into effect. It appeared to him that sue.' rules were illegal, and that tie persons urym whom they were imposed were justified in resisting them. He gave notice that to-morrow he should put a question to the Noble Viscount (Melbourne) on the subject. The Earl of CHARLEVILLE gave notice that on Thursday next he should move for a copy of the criminal panel at the last Queen's County Assizes, with a rule of Court relating thereto.—Adjournel placed it in the bands of the Members at an earlier period than was at present intended. Mr. E STCOURT said that as the petition referred to a matter of great importance connected with the privi leges of the House, it should be brought on at the earliest possible period under their consideration. He should, therefore, vote for the printing of the petition. Lord J. RUSSELL said that it was their duty to ad here in that instance to the practice of the House, He would not say whether a bEtter rule than the present [eight not be established, or whether they should not place some further restrictions on the printing of peti tions ; but the question then was the application of the existing rule. He found that the law of the case had been laid down by Lord Dunfermline as follows ;—" That all petitions which are presented relative to subjects which Members wished to bring under the consideration of the House are printed with the votes, the Member giving notice when he presented the petition of the day on which he will make his motion." When, therefore, they refused to print a petition, it should be on some ground of exception why the rule laid down should not be adhered to in a particular instance. There might be va rious grounds for such an exception. It might be sai I, for instance, that the matter w as one so well known that it did not require any particular notice ; or it might be found that the petition was libellous, or such as ought not to be printed unless for the use of Members only. The petition bet ire the House did not, however, seem to him to offer any just ground why the House should refuse its being printed. It did not relate to a grievance which the petitioner alone had felt, but the subject was one of great imporance, relating as it did to a refusal to present a copy of a registry, for whic'i the party offered 155., while the officer stated that a far larger sum would be re quired. The case was one to which the House should look with great delicacy. The petition contained. noth ng af fecting the chaiacter of the individual against whom the complaint was made. He might have acted with perfect propriety, and it might have been impossible fur him to have presented a copy at a lower price than he named. Lae ing aside, therefore, every consideration as to the fitness of establishing a new rule with regard to petitions, he should certainly vote fur the printing of the petition in question. The petition was then ordered to be printed. Sir E. KNATCHBULL moved that the petition of ._ ... . .. . . . . Mr. lienslow, which he had presented on the 24th inzt., be printed with the Votes. If, however. the Chancellor of the Exchequer would promise to produce the papers to which the petition referred, the necessity for printing it would be obviated. The CHANCELLOR ofthe EXCHEQUER did not think it advisable that an attorney should be encouraged in com'ng to that House relative t 3 a legacy duty, and would oppose the motion. Sir R. PEEL thought it of great impor:ance that the rules which had been laid down by the House with regard to ti'e presentation and printing of petitions should be strictly attended to. The rule adopted by the House at present was that a Member might move the printing of a petition, provided that be gave notice of his intention to found a motion upon it. But if that rule were permitted to be abused, then all the rules and regulations with regard to the print;og of petitions would be entirely superseded. He hoped that his Right Hon. Friend (Sir E. Knatchbull), who, on all occasions showed a great anxiety to uphold the rules of the House, would withdraw his proposal for the printing of the petition.—( Hear, hear.) Lord HO W ICK would vote against the motion, for he thought that much less inconvenience would arise fr An re ferring petitions in all cases to the Committee, than from having discussions in each particular use. He was of opir.ion that without a reference to the Committee no peti tion should be printed upon the motion of the presenter, except in cases only where time was of importance. Af , er a few words from Sir FL Peel, Mr. Hume, and Mr. Goulburn, Sir E. KNATCHBULL said he. would withdraw his motion until Tuesday. LIVERPOOL GAS BILL. Lord SANDON brought up the report of the Liver pool Gas Bill. _ _ Mr. SHE IL said that the Liverpool Gas Bill, 158 Geo. 111., empowered the Company to raise a capital of 50,0001. and no more. Unfortunately the Act con tained no provision by which the distribution of profit should be limited to 10 per cent., the surplus profits boing applied to the reduction of the rates. By the present Bill, it was proposed to add a considerable sum, not less than 125,000/ to the capital of the company. The profits had been very considerable, sometimes amounting to 40 per cent. ; 20 per cent. had been distributed among the proprietors, and the remainder had been applied to the erection of works, and it was now proposed that a sum of 125,0001. should be consolidated in the capital of the Company. It was also proposed in the present Bill that the profits should be li mited to ten per cent., and that the public should be bene fited by obtaining gas at the rate of 7s. por thousand cubic feet, instead of Bs., which was the present price. There was nothing in the present Act which he was called on to oppose, but be must protest against the practice on which the Bill was founded. After a few words from Lord Sandon, Mr. Tatton Egerton, and Mr. Labouchere, which in consequence of the noise in the House were inaudible in the Gallery, the Report was agreed to. JOINT STOCK COMPANIES. Mr. LABOUCHERE gave notice that on Thursday, the Ist of April, he should move for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the state of the law re specting Joint-stock Companies. Mr. F. MAUL E gave notice that on Monday next be should move for leave to bring in a Bill, respecting the employment of children and young persons in the silk ma nufacture. Mr. HUME moved for certain returns relative to the receipts and expenditure of the Tower.—Agreed to. CASE OF THE EARL OF WALDEGRAVE. Mr. HUME begged to aik a question of the Secretary of State, to which he hoped the Right Hon. Gentleman would be able to give a satisfactory answer. On the 13th of February, 1841, the trial of the Queen against Lord Waldegrave and Captain Duff for an assault upon some police officers, took place in the Court of Queen's Bench, when the Judge recammeoded a private settlement, and as nothing had since been done in the case, the public mind was greitly diiciatisfied. He wished to know whether the Government had brought the matter to a close or not? Mr. F. MAUL E said that neither the Hon. Gentle man nor the public neei be ala-mcd lest any compromise of money should be allowed in the case alluded to.-- ( Hear, hear.) His Noble Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department had always set his face against any compromise, and the Commissioners of Police from the the commencement of the prosecution, had always refused to listen to any offers of the kind.—( Hear, hear.) The defendant would be brought up fot judgment at the com mencement of the next term. EMIGRATION OF FEMALES FROM MARY cially of its manufacturing, commercial, and shippinl intercetn." 2. That the above large expenses of pence I and gaol establishments have, since July, 1835, been de frayed by the application of a considerable portion cf the net proceeds cf the sales of Crown lands is the colony to the general purposes of the Colonial revenue. 3. That it appears, by papers now before the House (No. 511, 1840, No. 81, 1841), that there has been received from the sales of Crown lands in New South Wales, during the period from 1831 to June 1840 inclusive, a gross total sum of From which deduct— ). Charges of various kinds, in cluding expenses of the settlement of Port Philp, and of protection to the'Aborigines ... £41,300 2. Actual charge of survey and management (though for eight years paid out of the general re venue of the colony) about £149,700 Making together about And leaving net proceeds of sales of Crown Lands t t June 1840 £767,000 Whereof the sum of 502,5001 only has been applied to the purposes of emigration from the United King dom to New South Wales. 4. Tnat thin House, concurring in the opinion with the Governor and Legislative Council of New Smith \Vales, that the charge of glob and police in that col my ought for the present to be apportioned between the colony and the mother country , will, on Wedeesday next, resolve it elf into a Committee of the whole House, for the purpose of considering what may be the proper amount to be allotted in the way of a fixed annual sum, in aid of that charge ; and for the pur pose of considering what may he the best means of maki, g good to tee Land and Emigration Fund of New South Wales the deduction which has been therein occasioned by the entire burthen of gaols and police having been unduly thrown upon the Colony since 1835. The Hon. Gentleman stated that last year he presented a petition on this subject which bad been printed with the Votes, and which he hoped had met the eye of every lion. Member. In the various commercial towns of England there were a number of merchants and traders carrying on an extensive commerce with New South Wales, and the opinions of those merchants might be gathered from the petition which he bad had the honour to present from the merchants of the City of London on the subject ; they had stated many facts, showieg the great importance of the colony of New South Wales. The amount of shipping which had sailed during the last year from London and Liverpool atone to the colony of New South Wales amounted to 49,000 tons; the total value of the exports front the United Kingdom in the year 1839 to New South Wales was 1,700,000/. ; and the imports of wool from that Colony into the UMted Kingdom is 1839 amounted to 6,900,0001h5. weight, being one-fourth part of the total amount imported into the kingdom, including the importa tions from Russia and Germany. He did not mean to lay any stress upon this in his argument, because if he could make out that there had been unfair dealing with the finances of a colony, no matter whether that colony was a large one or a sma'l one, it was entitled to redress. But he thought it fit that the House should be aware of the subject matter with which th , y would that evening have to deal. This was a colony of the greatest importance to England, and not open to all those severe criticisms which had been so freely indulged in the other evening, when the affairs of the colony of South Australia were under discussion—this was an established colony in a thriving condition, and giv ing employment to a large amount of capital. The tree population of New South Wales amounted to 110,000 souls, and the convict population under assignment to 38,000 souls. Ho should show to the House that an in jury had been clone not only to that colony, but to every poor person in England desirous of emigrating, by the abstraction of a large sum from the Land and Emi gration Fund of that colony, in consequence of £191,000 the measures adopted in 1835, transferring to the co lony of New South Wales the entire burden of the ex penses of the goals and the police. He had thought it right to record that fact, by transferring to the votes of that evening the record of the resolutions come to on the subject of the Legislative Council of New South Wales. The Legislative Council of the colony was nominated by the Crown, not elected by the colony, and those resolu tions announced facts which it would not be very easy for any gentleman to dispute or deny. Up to the year 1834 there had been no dispute as to whether such charges ought to be borne by the colony or by the mother country. Those charges had passed in everybody's estimtvion as an incident and a consequence of the transportation system.—( Hear, hear, hear.) It had never been pro posed that the colony should bear the expense either wholly or in part. At the end of 1834 the Trea sury and Mr. Secretary Rice adopted a resolution im posing upon the colony the entire burden and charge of gaols and police. They came to that resolution without having given the colonists anv notice of their intention, and without having ascertained how it would be received in the colony, or what arguments could be advanced against it. They appeared not to have considered that there was an intermediate course between imposing upon the colony all the charges and imposing none. He had in his hand a de3patch . and secretary minute of the 15th of November, 1835, addressed to 'Sir Richard Bourke, then Governor of New South Wales. In this despatch the proposition was, for the first time, mooted. It ap peared from this minute that the resolution was founded upon the general prosperity of the colony, anu upon the apparent surplus then existing in the colonial treasury. The Hon. Gentleman then read an extract from the Trea- sury Minute, to the effect that, in 1827, when the exist ing arrangements were made, the local government were advised that, as the prosperity of the colony augmented, the colonial revenue would become charge able. In the estimate of the surplus Mr. Secretary Rice had not borne in mind that there was included in that surplus a considerable amount received from the Land and Emigration Fund of the colony, which had Rot at that time been detached from the general revenues. The es timate formed by Mr. Secretary Rice, and the Treasury, of the amount of burden which they were in this way im posing upon the colony was 25,0001. per annum. If this charge gal been in reality 25,000/. a year, and no more, no complaint would ever have have been heard. But the fact was that the charge which that resolution of 1834 had created amounted in the 6 years to 597,000/. By a state ment which he held in his hand of the annual disburse ments it was no less, upon the average, than 100,0001. per annum. It might be asked how it had happened that the charge which had been the actual consequence of the minute so largely exceeded the estimate. It appeared that at that time the gaols and the police of New South Wales were in the most desperate and dangerous condi tion. There had for some time previously been scarcely any attention paid to them.--( Hear, hear ) In his opinion it was no reason for imposing upon the colony any charge that ought to be borne by the mother country, that there was ae overflowing treasury. Let them look at the amount of convict population in New South Wales, and they would at once see that the mother country ought in justice to bear the gaol and police ex penses; had the colony been peopled by a free population, such a charge would not be asked to be borne by the Trea sury ; but the transportation of the convicts was a relief to the mother country, and he thought it would be the height of injusece to cell upon the colonists to pay for our transportation system, which was for the benefit of Eng. land and English purposes, not for the good of the colon). He did not quarrel with the Colonial Government for not asking a premium from the parties in New South Wales to whom the convicts were assigned, he thought every in ducement ought to be held out to settlers to obtain labour at the cheapest rate ; but if the tax was not to be paid by the emigrants, it was most unfair to impose a tax upon otin r parties to defray the expenses of the gaols and police. In 1834 the revenue of the colony was in a most flourishing and prosperous state, but since then :t had fallen off considerably. That arose from the heavy charge which had been imposed fur gaols and police, and the large demands that had been made upon the emigra tion fund. lion. Members would find that remonstrances had been sent to the Government at home from all quar ters, praying that the burden might to be taken off their shoulders; and he regretted to find that the Treasury had not beers induced to comply with the just demands of the colonists. It would appear that a sum of 100 0001. per annum had been added to the burdens of the colonists Since the charge for gaols and police had been laid upon them. Had it not been for that most injudicious step, it was im- possible to suppose that there would have been so great a diminution in the revenue of the colony. If the Treasury had proposed to pay one half the charge for the gaols and police, they would have contributed to the colonial revenue net less than 280,0001. and that sum would have rendered unnecessary for them to draw upon the emigration fund. Ho admitted that emigration to New South Wel had never been stopped entirely, but tho general complaint was, that it did not go on to the extent they had a right to anticipate, or to an extent at all commensurate ts ich the wants of the colc nists. The expense of sending an adult emigrant. to New South Wales was about 201. ; and it appeared that there had been a sum of 260,0001. subtracted from the emigration fund. Now, that sum, at the rate of 20/. per head, would send not less than 13,000 respectable emi grants of the class most required in that colony from Great Britain to New South Wales. It was not to the colony alone that the question of emigration was of con sequence. Other persons besides the colonists were deeply interested in the question ; he meant those individuals in the mother country who a ere desirous to emigrate, be cause their condition would be thereby greatly te!tere It was most difficult to obtain a sufficient supply of labour of any kind in the colony, and hence the high wages given to labourers. Every thousand pounds abstracted from the emigration fund deprived fifty poor peraons of the means and opportunity of making a charge in their situa tion for the letter—a change which it was not possible for that House to bring about with such beneficial results to those individuals. The lion. Gentleman here read an ex tract from a report of a Committee of the LegislativeCoen cil of the colony on the subject of emigration, to show the exorbitant rate of labourers' wages, and the inconcei - able difficulty of procuring SC; vints or mechanics of any description, and, proceeded to show that some means ought to be taken to remedy that state of things which seas ag gravated by the cessation of the transportation of con victs to the cclony. He insisted that the colonists had a right to expect that the proceeds of the sates of the Crown land should be applied to emigration purposes, and that if in the year 1831 such bed not been their expectation these proceeds, instead of amount ing to the sum of 950,0001. would not be more than 9,5001. The lion. Member in proof of his statement had r:ai a passage from a despatch of Lord Howick, the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated the 18th cfJu)t, 1831, which went to show that Lord Goderich, the then Secretary for the Colonies, approved of the ap. plication of the reve:tues for the Crown lands to emigra- Lion purpcses. The I - I,n. Gentleman was he e interrupted by an HoN. MEMBER, who moved that the House be counted, when there being. only thirty-one Members present thQ adjourned at Haif-__past Seven o'Clock. Earl Fortescue completed his 88th year on Fri day. The Noble Ea i . l and Count ess Were surrounded at Castle Hill, their seat in Devon, by a select family circle. EVEN ING EDIT 10!. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS' COURT, ilLißclt 25. The Seal was continua{. LINCOLN V. WRIGIIT. old This was a motion to suppress d e positions, and ece ti i o f nearly the %%hole of the morning. At the conniusi°n the arguments, igbt The MASTER of the Rot,r,s stated that as any order be° it make upon this motion might affect the proceedigs4e many other cases, he thought he ought not to 11110-01 j such order without great deliberalion. therefore inquire into the practice, for the PurP °6 l ;bot seeing if he could make an order consistent with to had usually been the practice of the Court, and tbere„, consistent with the rights and interests of all other"e PI" who might be placed in the like situation. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE• (From the Brighton Gazette.) i; .0 PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 24.—At present all the losy - , do l. small vessels arc employed at the different seaports 'II g, s, 84, Wa loctin volunteer seamen for the navy. The Capt. Sir James Stirling, and Vernon, 50, Capt. WalPQle are nearly 200 men short of the established n umber . m ain , The corvette Tweed, 20, Commander Douglas , • o* at Spithead, under orders to join Vice-Admiral S ir LW Harvey in the West Indies. She takes out C'D min f in l6s Charles Keel , -, of Southampton, to join the Rovre'r.the %ice •SymondF, promoted, and a drift o f boys squadron. The corvette Iris, 26, Captain Nurse, is still dctal°6lofiS Plymouth Sound, under orders to proceed to the ° III Afi ica. u IVA The Court of Inquiry which was pending en 101 master, at - A the crew of the Buffilo store-ship, for --lenitCo of that ship on the coast o f N ew Z ea l a nd, has t erra - 0- in the full acquittal of the master and crew en sion Rear-Admiral the Hon. D. Bouveric, Pres' — :grft The steamer Alban, commanded by Mr. 1 0 4'f,, , is gone to the River, and will not return for some " A e T wee "' AT SPITHEAD.—Indus, 84, Vernon, 50, Pelican, 1, and autilus 10. c set t ' IN HARBOUR— N Queen, , Victory, Royal Gt°l.‘"e I Excellent, Echo steamer, and flag-ship's tenders. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY MARKETS. pork 100 4g 40 0 33 40 4 3 4 0 3 9 14 4 0 Wheat. Barley. ! Oats. Be 3 10 . eer Quarter. s. to s. s. to S. r 1 2 . to s. j S. In 5. Bath Blandtbrd (111 63 29 32 26 30 j 46 48 Bridport 65 Chard ( 2 23 32 '22 f. - 8 38 92 Gloucester 5O 68 t 5 32 21 3! '" Ex e• er Guildford 68 71 3 ! 37 ' : 1 6 46 !„" Nevvbitry 40 72 •.7 1 . 4 22 98 33 o , v , Reading -- 75 26 37 10 3() 40 5 " Salisbury 53 66 27 14 20 y 7 40 5! Shirborne 5B (32 30 i 5 26 32 144 4 , 1 ! Shepton Mallet 50 61 1:0 37 26 40 " Uxbridge —1 37 43 23 28 1 Warminster =,5 66 30 40 24 27 i 39 Winchester 6O 64 l'eovil 56 60 ,23 34 24 30 J 4. t° , ,o , .. , 0 LEEDS CORN MARKET.' to 11 Wheat, Norfolk and Suffblk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. . v.lO • ..... to ,54 . „ Barley, Norfolk and Sitifolk 4 0 j Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding too n „,/ Beans 63lb. E tt, ()zits, Potatoe ---Healing,For. —d. to—d... Eng. 120,w 13,,iiirretPr shelling 3oi. to DEVIZES CORN MARKET. 5. d ' o 5 Par Sack. s. d. s. d. Per Q uai ter. co 0 t 0 0 I , iirst Wheat 32. oto 33 0 Oats 18 g 46 a Second '29 0 31 0 Beans (per sack)... 0 Ttlird darley 2ll 0 40 0 Bread (pergallon). i 110 THE PERP ETUAL R OSE .—A Parisian to ibr i has succeeded in p r od uc i ng a new hyb r id rose T e rs Bourbon rose and Gl o i re d o R osomen e, 0° 11 %04 which he had:lf e rtiliz e d w i t h th e p o ll en of sella s s ,„ o idir and hybrid China roses. The pl an t i s extremely we e ' —the colour bright crimson, shaded with maroon P and is further enriched with a powerful fragrance. re' THE HAMBUEGII FLEET,—Our F br iel sented a very beautiful appearance en Tueldsitool° nearly filled with vessels loaded for Hamburgb, the" our displaying their colours. We need scarcely 1019 ",,neSc e readers that the Elbe has been long frozen, i n eonsgl e ilisr, of which the trade with Hamburgh has been ei t t i eke suspended. On Tuesday morning, information r Hull that the ice was breaking up, and that ille g re o , fair probability of the river being nay . gable in a le d ee, This news was no sooner received than it was an k t e . eh its and a great number of brigs, schooners, &C., " I- bef been long waiting for it, hauled out of the docks diately preparatory to sailing. —Hull Rochirigha nl ' It is stated that another comedy, by the ! Li bels:4 ful author of London Assurance, is in the hands ni Liu , nagement of Covent-garden Theatre, and will be P r 7iop. immediately after Easter, or so soon as the attrae} London Assurance begins to flag. 'Ph 11 11 s ti O THE WELLESLEY FAMILY.—The J (If family of Wellesley, the issue of Garrett first Ip eee , Mornington, the members of which have e1 1 . 3 „ . 09 0 distinguished themselves in the service of then-cool try as generals, diplomatists, and statesnie° o t e; fail to create some interest to their coun t° 41 and especially as they are now descending, the vale of years." The surviving members ei b oo are the Marquis of Wellesley, Lord mary "e Lady Anne Culling Smith, the Duke of We i 1 sa the Honourable and Rev. Gerald Welle 9 fe‘ le P JO* / f el Lord Cowley, whose united ages, within „ o ber • amount to the (fur one family) extraordinary 13 "bion" 443 years. Since March, i 794, there has na t ebo death in the family, exce pti ng th e i r mo ther, ii r iedi Countess of Mornington, a circumstance imps° g o the peerage of the United Kingdom. It has been decided to open the Cheltellb il o" Great Western Union Railw a y as far as Cireace° April 26. Cheltenham Gazette. no,l T' kg ° ndi A PRECIOUS PAIR.—On the k.-1 ~ r o here the manner of the death o f the late In' a c ile as Philip, who fell from his horse, and was deveni:"Ai own hounds. It' was given out that he was t a „,.. - e I r bt Alessandria, where he had been to see a fa" : ::: whom he• wished to marry. His son, now reigaiylSif fool, doats upon the Dominican friars, gets UP at s ( s if to go to matins, and plagues the poor priestsNp lives if they do not attend t o all their duties. ;OS ( the Archduchess Maria Amelia, is a very bad pal o est She buys a hcrse one day upon tick, to sell it the of half price, to raise the wind. Th e Grand Mas ts r retto is just re:nrned hither from Parma, where be co boo ( 4 . r in vain soliciting payment for his bill of en ei i ri ber# sequins) whilst she was at bis house. Courts of Europe. 0 vir A 1' ° 55 SUPERIOR LONDON-MADE f," —A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Watchmakers , hill, London (opposite the Bank of England), "'",javvMst lection a very large STOCK of Hi g hly-finished Le, ° lo .ols, WATCHES, the whole of which being manua l ', 0 0 '0 their own inspection, on their own premises, theY.r. for al f itli sell at least 251. per cen t. b e l ow fl a y tona l trade pe t s tide of the same sliialify. A - prsisted warranty " each Watch. SO' PRICES MOUNTED IN SILVER C A 0 Fine Vertical Watches, jewelled', with double: ,l backed engine-turned cases, warranted ....... ••••: Patent detached Lever Watches, capped, jewelled to 6 four holes, maintaining power, with seconds ban ds ' 6 , e . s , and double-backed cases, w arran ted... • ...... ex bet e Either of the above in silver hunt;ng c ases, 10s• w h de A large variety of second-hand Silver Watchesee29.l ich. es been carefully examined, and r a a b e warranted GOLD CASES, SIZE FOR LA DI d i s 6 Fine Vertical Watches, jew e ll e d, i n engine- 40°e gold case', and gold dials, warranted............ , Fine Vertical Watches, jewelled, with double-ha ek ; 19 1 ' engine-turned gold eases and gold dials, warre n i t „ r Patent detached Lever Wretches, jewelled in 1° i 0 holes with double-backed gold cases and gold hale, " 's ... warranted GOLD CASES, SIZE FOR GENTLD Patent detached Lever Watches, jewelled in l b° „i 9 holes, seconds, and d ou bl e -b ac k e d go ld cases, w ar 14 ranted...................... ............................ Patent detach e d L ever Watches, capped, jevrelled 0 six holes, se con d s , d ou bl e -b ac k e d g old cases all' 0 P enamel dials, warranted ........ . ..................... . Patent. detached Lever Watches, capped, j ee relledl i 0 six holes, seconds, double-backed gold cases o' l 21 U . geld dials, warranted .................................. . 04 bow Either of the Gentlemen's Watchei , may belled in g cases, for 31. 3s. cad extra• what- . 0 0 N.B. Second-hand Watches purchased in late ci SPOONS and FORKS, strongly P aw , bf Silver on a white metal, and consequently not I . er ko gli o es to show any other colour. Table Spoons or _ nor _ o h , per dozen. Dessert Spoons or Forks, Iwo Guines .. r b d, e Tea Spoons, 258. per dozen. Gravy Spoon s, Soup Ladles, 16s. each. are T. COX SAVORY, fre e Silversmith &c., 47, Cornhill (Seven doors v et church-street) e London ic of „ N.B. A Pamphlet, containing a list of the Prbe had b; pp ile Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, Sze., in'Y t paid or will be forwarded, post free, in answer to a P ° s cation. SO °. • 1 TABLE CANDLESTICKS, Euperito_rdiegie.lll. for durability, equal in appearance. Tabl e inches high, 7s. per pair; tl incises high, Ps• i._ ebeo c all # per pair , ditto, with rich shell mountings , 9 per pair; snuffer trays, with shell moun tings r eel?, fro . tee, 4s. each. The particular metal of vrtl;,be tow great variety of other articles aro made, c an nn3115• t. silver by reference to the stamp. Catalog RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street ,uelf; BIRTHS. t he . 0 R d 9 Meyricke, of a son. On the 18th inst., at Ludlow, the lady o f the Rev. • & ter. 01 On the 20th inst., at Netherseal Hall, Lew At er, of dati A.O of the Rey. Sir W. Nigel Gresley, Bart, ° 0 1. survived only a few hours. Lower ciarto On the 22d inst., at Portland-place , lie ttse 4 lady of h arias Wilkinson, Esq., of a daught e L• sn ., of On the 22d inst., the lady of Isaac Cohen, r House Academy, Hammersmith, of a son. lady of tr. af On the 23d inst., at 'lepton, Middlesex, the Ilolberton, tt Esq., of a daughter. squa re ' ff_erts__tria On the 2:3(1 inst., Wilton-crescent , eY , Caroline Laseelles, of a son. Sidney Gar° On the 24th inst., at Hornsey, Mrs. (laughter. to° , o f MARRIED. E:oul." leer Mark's Church, deu On the 23d inst., at St. uo.„10, Earnshaw, Esq., of "Pulse-hill, to Emily ±l 3‘7,, u e, k StOe• -‘ ee d• Sir. Alderman Farebrother, of the Moat . ti u h - L. Digo', wise, On the 23d inst., at Wolborough, H g hter of Arbfer° Belgraye- of, Torquay, Esq., to Lucy Ayshford, daug of Ford House, Newton Abbott, Esq. f t he DIED. • dow ° late Dr. William Loutit, M.D., of Or 'ne-,!__, s i ng toll, On the 22d inst., at Somerset -terrace, .mco of 5 J Woodh Ducroq, acre(' 80. Mary, the wife of Mr. J. c. On the sth inst., Charlotte Stewartk Lyoaugtiet, 156'(1). On the 23d Wynter. r 1 6.. Pa c u ) i n 's th C e ls ,2 u .: re d h i y n a s r t t . l , , Published by MU SO° London: Printed and Pu armed t. 2 J I . ohn's Sun Of fi ce, No. 112, 0 Yu' citP l No. 112, Strand, at The d March 2 6 ; 1841 ' theeountyof Middlesex.—kri ay, CoVege, Oxford, Miss of THE THAMES TUNNEL. The great difficulties which have impeded the completion of this extraordinary undertaking may with truth be said now to have been entirely overcome. The work has been wholly com pleted under the river and the shield; the avant courier of the structure, is now below the Companl's wharf on the Middlesex side. The operations at Wapping, for completing the shaft by which foot-passengers will descend, are in full activity. Thirty feet of this shaft have already been completed, leaving about forty feet more to be accomplished. The natural ground which has been all eady touched is favourable for the gradual and safe descent of this enormous and ingenious mass of brick-work. The engineer, Mr. Brunel, has, in some respects, varied the scale upon which the shaft is constructed, as compared with that which was sunk years ago at Rotherhithe, by constructing it larger at bottom than it will be at i's summit. Immediately the shaft has been sunk to its required depth the shield will be advanced from its present position, having traversed thirty-three feet six inches. The communication, throughout the entire length of the Tunnel, will then be thrown °Fen. The run of water from land-springs into the Tunnel at present is from four hun dred to five hundred gallons per minute. When, however, the communication has been thrown open between the whole line, this influx will cease. The engine with less than half its power, throws off the water arising from land-springs, and the visitors archway up to the shield is perfectly dry. It is ex pected that the ceremony of opening the Tunnel will take place about the end of next summer. It need hardly be ob served that the engineer (Mr. Brunel), who has devoted his whole attention for fourteen years, looks forward to the ac complishment of the Tunnel with the greatest interest. We hear that her Majesty, fully alive to the great skill and talent of the engineer, is about to confer the honour of knighthood upon him. The assistant engineer (Mr. Page), and indeed the whole body of workmen, most of whom have been em ployed from the commencement on this apparently dangerous, but now secure work, are also most anxious for its entire com pletion. The shield presents a very novel appearance as now lighted up, viz., that of a Gothic window. Several foreigners of distinction have recently visited the works. LUNAR OCCULTATION OF VENUS.—TO morrow the planet Venus, now our resplendent evening star, will be, for about three quarters of an hour, concealed from us by the intervention of the moon. The immersion will take place behind the eastern limb of the moon, at 31 minutes after two, p.m., and the planet will re-appear on the western side of our satellite at 14 minutes after three. This splendid planet is now a very beautiful object in the western sky shortly before and after sunset. As the twilight dies away it shines forth with great splendour. On Monday evening, March 15, the atmosphere being particularly clear, the unusual phenome non of distinct shadows cast from its light were seen. Sir John Herschel has remarked that " a shadow frora its light can rarely be seen unless thrown upon a white ground, as a 'white washed wail, or white paper ;" but on the evening referred to shadows were distinctly observable even upon so dark a surface as a turnpike road. ANCIENT CONCERTS.—The second perform ance took place on Wednessay under the direction of the Arch bishop of York. The selection contained a great variety of sterling compositions from Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Sze., and reflected high credit on the taste and judgment of the Most Reverend Director. The concert opened with Haydn's " Chaos," which was followed by the fine recitative "In the beginning God created," beautifully given by Phillips. Phillips was also eminently successful in Pergalesi's beautiful song " 0, Lord, have mercy." Madame Caradori Allan was in excellent voice, and gave " The bright Seraphim" most beautifully. " The Horse and the Rider" closed a most excellent performance. The third concert will take place on the 21st of April, under the direction of the Duke of Wellington, who was present last night : also Prince Albert (for some time) ; her Royal High ness the Duchess of Gloucester ; Lord Burghersh ; Earls of Cawdor, Denbigh, Devon, Bandon ; Ladies Campbell, Falk land, E. Palk, Caroline Graham, E. Marsham ; Lady and Miss Palmer; Sir E. Bowater, Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Sir Georg*, Lady, and Miss Rose, Sir T., Lady, and Miss Broadhead, the Hon. G. C. Norto n , Hon. Mr. and Miss Wyndham, Miss Georgiana Vernon Harcourt, and a very bril liant assemblage of rank and fashion. DUBLIN.—The inquest on the body of the Italian boy, murdered on the 27th February, which has been continued for eight days, has at last been brought to a close. The Jury found that strong suspicion attached to Richard Cooney, a tinker, and his wife, who were fully committed to take their trial at the Commission on the 3d April. In a letter to the Bolton Free Press, Colonel Thompson, one of the earliest and most efficient opponents of the Corn-laws, says the opinion of your correspondent that " there is no scarcity of food in England or Ireland, but there is a scarc;ty of work and wages, wherewi h to purchase the food," I fear may be likened to the same as serzion made in the case of a beci god town, or one where the gates were voluntarily closed with the patriotic rnct've of raising the price of corn. Of the corn that should be grown on the house-tops or in boxes at the windows, thHe vvoul I always be a further quantity which would be grown if men would give an increased price far it. Wht reon your correspondent would say,. the want. was is the work or in the wages. It was some defect of man.gement on these points, which did not give men as much abundance off flag-stones as out of a ploughed field. For it is c:car there is some work ald some wages, which if wen had them, would enable them to pay for raising corn on flag stones; what more plain therefore, than that if it is not done, it is for want of taking measures to secure this work and wages? Whether after all, tbe-e is not excuse for thinking, that the wages and the hours worked for them, a ill have some connexion with the quan tity of corn to be divided, is what must be left, as hereto foe, to the judgment of the public. In despite of your correspendert's barring the plea of impossibility, there are few tougher, when once effectually set up. The fact is, after all, that it i as impossible that after the gates of the besieged town are opened, a ages should be reduced till men starved as before—as it was that they should rise when the gates were shut, till they gave every man as much out of no corn as out of an abundance. The impossibilities are precisely the counterparts of one another." • HIBERNIAN MILITARY SCHOOL.—The ma terial alterations are three. First, all cli!dren who do not belong to the Established Church are exempted from at tending public worship i-i the InstittviJn. Secondly, tho children of Catholics and Disseaiers, in case of illness, certified by the mediell attendant of the Hospital, can be visited by the Clergymen of their respective communions within tl'e Hospital. Thirdly, Catholics and Dissenters will be at liberty to attend their peculiar places of worship on all tit ilg occasion;.—Dublin Evening Post. The Times is on the yin rive for mares'-nests ; arid has found one in the arrangement by which Sir W. Parker, one ( f the Lords ( f the Admiralty, proceeds to China, as successor to Admiral Elliot, t ) whom our Con- temporary assigns the seat at the Admiralty, to be thus vacated. We have authoriv to contradict this statement. —Evening Paper. BADMINTON, MONDAY.—Th e Duke of Beau fort, we are happy to 'near, has nearly reccsvesel from the effects of his accider.t last week. His Grace purpses i.ta3if.g here urt 1 after the 15th if the ensuing month, with his amiable Duchess and family. Theme is to be a meeting of the Noble Duke's hounds on tht lawn on Wed nesday next, wi a ope n , an d I & see:teed BONE -HOUSE AT RI PON . Th e mass i ve d o or arches of w hi c h are filledw into ih t s h k e nl c l r s y pt, d t h d e e t t h a r c e i e ) e v d a u j I n t: d . bones with leg and thighbone ? ,i n some p:vs piled twelve feet deep inwardly, in ternally virtuall y bones ; and the floor ise walled i n a ll roun d with dead men ' s tiers, ono at the a 1 these va . l seven feet in h e i g h t , in careful top of th e ot h er. Th e crypt i s thus is compos e d o f th em t o th e c. f depththe them f pledth r e e n f p e e i s , n a h b o o n u t t f n t n w r c t n h l ones acre f oun d, an d so me ago, and the rest, am ount i ng a t i U s 'I L s fi a v n e d e y () e V plete remains, wera at first hea t ed up against the outside of the church, like a great wall b u ttresses. There they remaiced between two east-end eajien a great pit, ten feet square, wasuntil eight years ag o , church yard,and the whole heap of skulls and dug in the bons were throwd e into it pole mele, the ground afterwards being trees.— Granville's S p as o f England. pl ante d w i t h A rumour reached us yesterday, that , , in the au vices received front Barbadoes by a , eipectable firm ' this town, it was stated that a French Let of ten ships in had arrived at Nlartinique. The object, of , of war lnt! French in so suddenly planting such a fares in that quarter ar at present but matter of surmise. It i 3 jud g ed, h owever, that they may have quie tl y des p atched a fleet to a wa i t th e result of the recent dispute touching the Eastern question, when, in the event of this country having become involved in war with France, cur West India possessions, slightly defended as they arc , would blve stood in a somewhat ticklish position.—Liverpool Courier. [We copy thi s rumour, but attach nu credit to it.—Zo. $1471,] ROUSE OF COMMONS, MARCH 25. The &saxErt having taken the Chair at the usual time, The York and North Midland Railway Bill was read a third time and passed. LEINSTER AND MUNSTER RAILWAY. Mr. A. YATES presented a petition from the Agent fm. the Leinster and Mun'ter Railway, praying that they might have leave to proceed with their Bil►, notwithstanding their noncompliance with the Standing Orders. Although the Committee had decided against them, the error was merely a clerical ore, and affidavit was made that all the parties had been served in time, although their names had been omitted in the notices to the House. Mr. ESTCOURT opposed the motion, on the ground that any innovation of the Standing Orders would lead to great irregularity. Mr. V. STUART supported the motion. The spirit of the Standing Orders had been fully complied with, al though they had been violated in a literal sense. That error, however, had been cured by an affidavit made before Judge Johnson, that all the parties concerned had been served with the notices in due time. ... After a few words from Mr. ASHTON YATES strangers were ordered to withdraw, but the motion was negatived without a division. - Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition against the Liverpool Docks Bill. Mr. JAMES presented a petition from a union in the county of Sunderland, praying for certain alterations in the Poor-laws. Mr. T. EGERTON presented four petitions from the county of Chester, praying for Church Extension. Mr. PLUMPTRE presented several petitions against encouragement to idolatrous practices in India; alsu peti tions against any grant to the College of Maynooth, and for the Repeal of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill. MAYNOOTH COLLEGE. Mr. COLQUHOUN brought in his Maynooth College (Ireland) Bill, which was read a first time, and ordored to be printed. The Hon. Gentleman presented petitions in favour cf the Bill from 2,000 Wesleyans at Newcastle, from Rodborough, and from Glasgow. Mr. GA LLY KNIGHT presented a petition from the county of Nottingham praying for certain alterations in tho Poor-laws. Lord G. STUART presented a petition from Ayr against Church Patronage. Sir W. MOLESWORTH presented a petition from some of the Guardians of the Union of Launceston, in the county of Cornwall, praying that the power of the Poor law Commissioners might be limited to as short a period as possible. Mr. THORNE LT presented a petition from forty work ing men and forty working women in the vicinity of Tam worth, praying for a repeal of the Bread Tax. Lord HOTH AM presented a petition from Colonel George Wyndham, against the dissolution of the unions under the Gilbert Act. Mr. G 0 ULBURIsi presented a petition from an indi vidual in Manchester, complaining of the adulteration of tobacco, and praying the attention of the House might be directed to the subject ; also a petition from the Clergy of Taunton in Someraetshire, against the exemption of uteck-in-trade from the payment of rates. Sir E. L. BULWER preaen!ed a petition from Lin coln in favour of the Jewish Declaration Bill. Mr. MARK PHILIPS presented a petition from Manchester to the saran effect ; and a petition from the sallpe place, complaining of the adulteration of tobacco. PRINTING OF PETITIONS. Mr. THOMAS DUNCOMBE moved, in pursuance of the notice he had given, that the petition of Samuel Coussins, of Old Cross, in the parish of St. Andrew, in the county of Hertford (presented the 24th of March), be printed with the Votes. Lord H 0 WICK thought the House ought not to agree to this motion. He need not remind Hon. Nlembers . that a few years ago petitions were printed upon the motion of the presenters as a matter of course. An immense mass of petitions were printed, which, except in rare cases, no one ever looked into, and petitions of an objectionable character sometimes obtruded in the mass. A select Committee was appointed, to which petitions were re ferred, and which was to determine what petitions should be printed. In the course of the last session a Committee was appointed to consider the whole subject of printed pa. pus, and in the report of that Committee it was strongly recommended that petitions should not be printed without reference to the Committee on Public Petitions, unless the House should be of opinion that the matter of such petition was such as would not admit of delay.--(Hear. ) The Hon. Member for Salford said the other night that there could not be two systems of printing papers, and that it would be better to break up the Commit•ee, if it was not to have the regulation of that part of the business of the House. In the year 1836 a petition was printed con taining the grossest calumnies upon the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. The Hon. Member for Finsbury, when the subject was last before the House, re ferred to the opinion of the late Speaker, Lord Dueferm line, who said that when'a slenoter intended to bring a subject formally before the House, the petition should he printed as an appendix to the voter. But the Speaker did not me in to say that the House w as t o h ave no di scre ti on in rejfctiog a motion for the printi ng o f an y p e iti on . If the Committee on Public Petitions discharged their duties properly, and it was certainly to be assumed that they would do so, they would no doubt order a petition, relating to a subject which was to b e b roug h t b e f o r e t h e m Ho e u rn s b ee,rtopeicb r ep n r tn in i t g ed. th lf pe th;Y did not d o so , th e n the ion might apply to the House to have it printed,' when the Members of the Committee would have an opportunity of stating to the House the grounds on which they objected to the printing the petition. Therefore, if the cafe could b e p os tp one d for a week without aey injury to the public interest, no inconvenience could result from persevering in the prese..t practice of referring su c h p et i t i on to t h e Com mittee. In cases requiring immediate interference ' the House preserved to itself th e r i g h t o f or d er i ng the immediate printing of a p et i t i on, b ut i n suc h case it was incumbent on the M em b er w h o move d t h e printing ofit to show that there was some pressing OCCP ston for bringing forward the subject i m mediately. He did not perceive that any such pressing occasion existed in the present instance, and if the House now overruled the recommendation of the Committee, he would never egiin object to the printing of any_petition with the Votes. They were now called on to decide whether they would again revert t o the old practice of printing petitions indis criminately, as a proof of which, he would observe that there were no less than three similar notices on the paper of that day. Mr. GO ULBURN took a different view of the subject. The only point the House were called on to decide was whether they would print this particular petition, and he thought they ought to do so if it could be shown that the petition was of such a chi racter as to call for the immediate interposition cf the House to obtain an earlier investigation than coul I be obtained by waiting for a reference to the Committee. Whet was the nature of this petition ? An i complained to the House that by the supposed mistake or misconduct of a public officer, he had been debarred from procuring a register of county voters. There was no subject wh:ch the House was more bound to entertain than one which conc:rned the exercise of the elective franchise, and the statement, whe ther true or false, having been made to the House upon the authority of an Hor. Member who had given notice that he meant to make it the subject cf discussion, he thought the House should consent to the printing of this petition for the use of Members only. He thought that there was a special ground for the orbiting of this petition which Cid not apply to pe itions of less urgency. Mr. GREENE diffoed very much fro m the opinion expressed by the Hon. Gentleman below. The question mcr:ly was., whether this petiiim should be brought under the consideration of the House at an earlier period than it would have beet), had it been referred to the Cern mittee. To make this petition an exception to the rule would be casting a stigma upon those petitions which wet e referred to the Committee, and would be declaring that those alone wore worthy of the attention of the House, which were printed with the votes. If it could be shown that this petition was of so much import ance as to require that it should be brought forward on an early day, he would then concur in the necessity of printing it; but unless that were shown, he thought 1 the House should adhere to the practice 1 ,id down. S:r E. K N AT C HBUL L made som e observtions, w 'ewe M. EMERSON TENNENT s u pp orted t h e motion. . in consequence of the Hon. Member's speaking i n a very indistinct tone, and turning his back on the Gallery, s e e were unable to catch. We understood the Hon. Member to conclude by declaring be would s u ppo rt the motion. oeht, accuse At; Hots. MEMISF,R said that the q uestion lay in whether the House had sufficient confidenc e in the j ud g ment of the Committee for printing petitions.—( No, no, from the waled to direct the printing of all petitions which Opposition.) The Committee wa s, he thu they thought might be neeessar) t be so. Th e simple question was whether the distribution of th e petition a m ong the Members would b e sufficiently early f or the emergency of the case, or whe ther there was some thing in the matter of this petition, which required it to be LEBONE. Lord FITZ ALAN begged to call the attention of the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Co lonies, to a irragraph which appeared in the Obs:rrer of Sunday last, to the effect that a num ber of fema'cs of depraved character were to be sent out from Marylebone to South Australia, at the parish expense, in a skip without a superintendent or surgeon. He begged to ask the Noble Lord whether the at ention of the Government had been drawn ti this matter, and whether they apploved of such an application of the parish money ? Lord J. RUSSELL said that the only knowledge which he had of the subject was from the newspapers, and in answer to his Noble Friend's second question, he &uld only say that he consider ed the proposed application of the parish tunds to such a purpose a most improper one. In answer ton question from Mr. GOULBURN, Mr. L ABOUCHE RE said he had no doubt, from the information of parties connected with the India Board, that it was understood that under the Act passed on the 10th of June by the President of the Council of Madras, the importation of foreign sugar into Madras, whether by land or sea, wan as comp!etely prohibited as the importation of foreign sugar into Bengal by the Act of the British Parliament. Of course if there were any ambiguity in the wording of the Act, that ambiguity would be remove 1. Mr. EWART wished to know whether it was the in tention of the Commissioners of Woods and Fore.ta to throw open the entire of Regent's-park to the public. The Honourable Member also wished to know the inten tion of the Commissioners relative to Richmond-park. Mr. E. J. STANLEY said that one-half of the Re gent's Park was to be opened, but that with respect to Richmond Park, no alteration would take place. Mr. EWART then gave nofee that he would move an an Address to the Crown, praying that those Parks be opened to the public. In answer to a question from Lord ELIOT, relative to tho adoption of certain amendments in the Poor-law Act, Mr. FOX MAULE said he was not prepared to an swer whether it was the intention of his Noble Friend (Lord John Russell) to adopt the principle of the amendments referred to. COPYRIGHT OF DESIGNS. On the minion of Mr. E. TENNENT, the House re solved itself into a Committee of the whole House, and the Hon. Gentleman mored for leave to bring in a Bill to Con solidate the Laws relating to Copyright of Designs. Leave was giver, and the Howe resumed. NEW SOUTH WALES. Mr. GROTE then rose for the purpose of moving the f flowing resolutions on the subject of the land fund and finances of New South Wales :—lst. That it Appears that in October, 1840, the following resolutions were passed by the Governor and Legislative Council of New South Wales, viz.—" 1. That in the opinion f this Council, the parent Stat., indisputably deriving a dir.Tt pecuniary saving (inaopendently of ether advan tages) from the assignment of convicts to private servec in New South Walee, and its interests being at all events in an equal,. if not a superior degree involved in the due coercion and discipline of such transported offen ders, ought in justice to bear at least one-half f the ex penses attendant on the police and gaol establishments, which are raised to their present large amount chitty through the introduction of a convict population into the colony. 2. That his Excellency the Governor be respectfully so licited to represent, on behalf of this Council, to her Ma. jesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, that this Council ha; most reluctantly consented to so large an expenditure fir the support of those establishments since the Ist of July 1835, and has voted the full amount of the estimate for the °MC for the year 1841, solely from a conviction that it would not be justified in declining to make provision for the maintenance of the public tranquillity and security. 3. That by the appropriation, for the period from July I, 1835, to 31st December, 1841, of so large an amount (about 597,0000 of the Colonial Revenue, arising partly from the sale of public lan&, partly from or dinary sources, in delaying the whole charge of the Police and Goal Establishments, including build. ings, and the consequent diminution of thoLe lands in troduction of would h ave b een ava ilable for the of free labour, every branch of the productive in dustry of this Colony is in danger of falling i nto decay, to the great less and injury not only of the Colony, but of the Parent State also, more esre. e r 8' • Q s t Obit