The Sun. — London, England, 1841-02-25 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION. attributed to him, and to no one else.—( Hear.) What, then, had been the conduct of her Majesty's Ministers ? '(Hear.) Had they exerted their legitimate authority t ) put down. that agitation ?—( Hear.) It was true that the Lord Lieutenant (Lord Ebrington) had recently declared that he would not countenance by his patronage any person who avowed himself favourable to the Repeal of the Union. But what had been the actual conduct of the Government in respect to patronage ?—( Hear.) The Hon. and Learned Member for Liskeard had said that pa tronage was the powerful instrument by which all pupnlar leaders were to be conciliated.—(Cheers and taught& r.) It certainly appeared to be the means to which her Ma •ctty's Ministers resorted to put down the repeal agitation. -- (Cheers•) In 1832 the Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin brought forward a motion for the Repeal of the Union, and thirty-eight gentiemee voted for the Re peal, lie (Sir James Graham) would just read to the House how many of those popular leaders had been coneitiated by the delightful recipe of the lion. and Learned Member for Liskeard ?—( Cheers.) First, there was Mr. Fitzsimon, a neat relative to the lion. and Learned Member far Dublin, who was appointed clerk to the lianaper office in DuLlite—(Cheers from the Opr titian. ) Mr. HUME—What h the date of the appointment? Sir J. GRA HAM had not gut the date, but he had no doubt that the Noble Lord opposite could supply it.— ( Cheers and a laugh.) Next was Mr. Kennedy, f ormer ly Membe r f or Tiverton, whom the Nulde Lcrl succeeded seat in that Hours—( Laughter)—.and who had since beau appointed to the office of Slave Cormeiisioner at Hav anneb.—(Cheers.) The next was Mr. Lynch, now a Master in Chancery in England.--(Hear, lica!-, hear.); Air. Morgan O'Connell, appointed a clerk in the Regis-1 tree,: Office, in the Court of Chancery, Dublin. 'I ban there was Mr. O'Dwyer, appointed to an office in the Court of Exchequer in Ireland ; and next was the appointment of Mr. fitzsimon, which was still in aheyaner.—(Cheers and a laugh.) Then came the gen tleman who acted as teller upon that occasion, and was now the Vice- Pi esident of the Board of Trade.-- (Cheers.) Then last, but not least, in his (Sir James Graham's) e teem, came the Hon. and Learned Gentle man the Member r Dublin himself--( Much cheering).- 16 ° last year announced, in his place in that House, that the office of Chief Baron had been offered to him, and he had refused because, he said, he could not trust him self, and lie would run no risk, lest justice should be vio lated in his persor.—( Hear, hear.) He (Sir J. Graham) thought the avowal did the Hon. and Leaned Gentleman honour, and he made a note of the gratifying and pleasing t 'unPlitneet :Thiel: he pa'd to the Ministers who made him the uffer.—(Cheers and a laugh.) But the Noble Lord ePposite, the Secretary for the Colonies, had once boldly and truly declared, that not the aristocracy alone, but the People als o , h a d t h e i r paras i tes, an d pan d ers, and their 4, " r ". He ( Sir J Graham) had read with satisfaction th e Noble Lord's address to his constituents at Stroud, i n which he declared that he would not be the person to lift the anchors of the monarchy, when the signs of the St orm were bl ac k i n t h e h or i zon ."—( Ch eers. ) H e (S ir Graham) thought there were times e compromise w as a disgrace ad silence was dishonour—( Cheers)— Ind he hoped before this debate closed, he would hear *era the Noble Lord what were his intentions.—( Hear, L bear.) Was he disposed to extend the franchise, and to lower property before numbers ? Had he read the cor respondence of Ea-1 Fitzwilliam with Mr. Marshall , t he Noble Lord believe with Mr. Marshall that the revo e I niion of 1832 had not been consummated, and that the Reform Bill had failed, because it had not given the e()Plts bread ?—( Hear, hear.) Did the Noble Lord als o bel ieve that th e war was a t h an d aid eat inevitable, in w hich both the aristocracy and the Crown would be B.wept away ?—( Cheers.) lie thought they were en titled to know what were the Noble Lord's intentions en these matter', and whether he intended to make fur ther concessions and fur:her advances in that line.— (Cheers.) Let the Noble Lori speak frankly now, and appeal to the people, lest it might be said hereafter that he sur vived i n c ffi ce t h e h onour o f hi s Administration, and that I w aseoutented to govern when he bad ceased to command 1155 confid ence o f t h e nat i on.— ( L ou d cheers from the °Pposition.) For his part, he (Sir J. Graham) was mos t anxi ous to c onso lid a t e constitutional reform, and he was te solved to resist the advance of those democratic move- L l:len ts. He clung to the measure of L or d G rey as t h e "eit security against them. On that ground he had sup- Ported it in 1832, and be then recorded his opinion that it / ,'? 4 stiffieient to satisfy all reasonable demands.—( Loud bests of " Hear, hear.") He regarded it as the ichest safeguard against th it restless spirit cf innovation (tcontentel itself with nothing less than the over ow of all our institutions, and of the Throne itself.— ( On that ground he eat determined to stand by , e Reform Bill, and to improve its provisions.--( Cheers ltor n the Reform benches%) He . was ready to remedy the tdrnitted grievances of the registration system. He stood to t he Reform Act, willing to improve its provisions, and regulate its operation, but he was resolved to guard t hose franchise, and, above alt, to resist alterations such as u °se which lam convinced must end in universal suf. Hear, hear)—and overthrew and degrade this i e ,' 4 ,Q t Y nation to the level of a turbulent democracy.— f e , ce rs• ) In a word, he wisned to state his creed in a I. na3 which he thought were wotthy of their great atahor To patch their flaws And buttress up their walls., Thus far is good ; but fix the mark For all beyond it, is to touch the ark. tfit, To change foundations, cast the frame anew— The To w or k f or re b e l s w h o b ase en d s pursue. , Right Hon. Baronet resumed his seat amid s t loud a nd Prole cheers. LP- SLUE L said that the Right /lon. Baronet who ittateiddressed the House had risen after a specola die- I luguistaed by i ts a bili ty , d e li vere d by the Hon. Gentle. a lee Memb er f or Li s k ear d : and . yet to that speech, ajt i r i diversity of the most important matters, j at " ° °gh that speech contained more than a reply ea a re m tion in his (Mr. Shiel's) humble judgment—o many "'Vs ad vanced by the Right Hen. and Learned Mem ee, for Exeter; and although that speech presented mat ter deservine indeed of the most serious—would he be Piratiitted t o a dd o f t h e most solemn reflection—the rMight Honourable Gentleman wha had just set down I re elY adve r t e d t o an y of the t o pi cs w hi c h t h e H on . turnin em ber for Li s k ear d h a d di scusse d—(Ch eers )—b u t on g--he hoped he would pardon him for saying so— Ith h the proverbial animosity of conversion—( Hear, hear) Z h t ° the Right H on . G ent l eman t h e S ecre t ar y a t W ar , °s e speech he had had an opportunity of poring over in tten-turnal meditations, he pounced on that Right th°e°. pentleman's criticism, from which he (Mr. Shiel) th a u g.",t he ought to have abstained, when he bore in mind a n d . ," Right Hon. Gentleman had been his colleague h a - r 1 uis auxiliary in the most eventful times, and that he m ss e °, operated with him when the Right Hen. Baronet sigh t tuo advocate of that very Ballot which he had that had denoun ce d.—( Cheers.) The Rightßaronet s Poken o f an address to the electors of Stroud. Ho Shiel) remembered a speech at Stroud, and H that speech it had been st a ted that the Right endurable Baronet was a Member of a Committee W hich , h a d agreed to the Ballot.—(Loud cheers on the ',,iiliste r i a l benches.) Ile now defied the Right Hon. Gen tleman to at R. liecontradict said that in a speech 1 bi„ • The Noble Lord, the S for the Co- t ° ‘=‘, stated that there was a Committee ecretary of five persons ,413Poieted, to whom the project of framing the Reform Bill Ad 3 erel eitted. He stated that the First Lord of . the alititeiralty (Sir J. Graham) was one of that Committee, th e ~h e further stated that that Committee had agreed to fore, sdllet.--( Loud cheers. He (Mr. Spiel) said, there ought at the Right Hon. Gentleman (Sir J. Graham) ai!,: l t to bear in mind that he was the colleague of a man ylghished--he did not exaggerate alien he said, of Re l 'i r ma'ehless eloquence — in defence of the cause 'oral, while the Rtgat Honourable Gentleman his a us ed the express i on o f t h e N o bl e L or d —s h run k from aii e ;, u tY. The Right Hon. Gentleman then remained f t h e °r in one i nstance on l y d ur i ng the whole agitat i on whe Reform Bill departed from his prudent taciturnity, ke r n ; h e compared t h e swamp i ng o f t h e L or d s to t h e su b - ' T he ',., o l? of th e R oyal George.—(Tremendous cheering.) th e h' ti glit Hon. G ent l eman h a d done him (Mr. Shiel) be °ooo r to adv er t to him. He (Mr. Shiel) could not i n „ i tl it ' i l2rtsd at it, an d he could . not complain of the manner eice the Right H on . G ent l eman h a d d one so, cape heetf when he remembered the way in which he had friends ill the habit of adverting to his former IR itia--(Loud cheers.) He (Mr. Shiel) remembered Si r j i s a speech made by the Right Hon. Gentleman on eraiear°,Fs Scarleit , and how did be represent him? Ho L' l to " a renegade Whig."—(Loud cheers.) The rep"; "cm. Baronet- might call him (Mr. Shiel) an ex eeho-%'er, if he liked, when he designated a gentleman to win h h e l he was ' attached, by a phrase the force of tieeo•l surely must now deeply feel.—(Great cheering.) li ear il „'d turn from topics, perhaps, almost too personal— Lad " e ar)--in which the House would feel, that if he beeiß°llo too far, there was at least some excuse for his f tlhje ng t d i °oo so. He would turn from those topics to the had j e ,..1 ' r oot which he thought the Right Hon. Gentleman to the their :attention somewhat away. He would turn Lord Bill, of hi s Noble 'Friend, and the Bill of the Noble that t i t he Member for North Lancashire. If it were said Rlslconi:lrealeeitt o i f f his e Noble Friend was at variance with the l tear, Lord W • • Reform Act, of course, the Bill of the ) as quite consistent with that spiii..—( Hear, ste, , _ That Bill l eft the question of the franchise as it c g q it inv o l ve d i t i n perplexi:ies still more harrass `eeisi_O those which surrounded it now—it impeded the orei ner uon of th e f ranchise by means of obstacles which no M eans ,f.ela irr iant could b e expecte d to surmount ; and by 'natters an an nual revisi on —l et t h e H ouse mar k i t—for th e •it antecedent to the register, it worried and moleeted and titer out of the enjoyment of his privileges; purpesuey these expedients, so discordant with the of rirroewi the the Reform Bill, it contracted and already wasted and shrunk constituencies and ti) th .This appeared to Hon. Gentlemen opposite, slit, e Right Hon. B to be con , eat, W i th the Baronet among others, 'go c ontra r ' spirit of the Reform Bill. Let them on Ine he t , Y defi ne the franchise, and they would then re liviiallh:elt.inuT,iihidfi,eycuabwtitoosunladndsuditEculifies funded on questions of ppress raud and perjury, and.estab independent of the oath of the elaiman, faeilitat h ate claimant t e acquis'tion of the franchise by the legi fleet; , while the the -en of, fixed ey created a criterion for the quali ,„ voter wh en he permanent nature, whic . di would protect he 'ttne f rom h 7; oc had acquired the franchise by legitimate eha lev ed that, perpetually harassed and tormented. He the of his Noble Friend would raise the increase of the Irish constituencies, and would tend to ect the wealth presperi,y, and remuneration,. social, t. i ! e 'h 04: ;Vet, moral, of an Inteldgent people.—( Cheers.) r r ,leet e t ; w e!, appeared to lion. Gentlemen opposite, 11 1 ° Bet. 110 (Mr. with . the general spirit of the . ye :l7iereogtahredetrt (Mr. Shiel) was of a contrary opinion. measure of his Noble Friend as one by . ri arri e • i nto s.pirit of the Reform Bill might be readily I l e the iz r . efr ee'• He regarded it as a means of fortify ,s4t4ufa ti the Act against any future and not improbable ee,V'ltti i t Noble Lord opposite.—( Hear.) He a „, a mear,,, of allaying that ferment which etteeheitlitt yeland, and of eeitiing the confidence . attl t leeded them "l the peoplo at a time while they might I ` l. tOre . ; and by doing ue did 1101. ne- Pl 7 11 1 the words of his Hop. Friend the Mem ber for Salford, himself the representative of a great English constituency—by doing justice to Ireland.— (Cheers.) It appeared to him that the notion cf justice to Ireland, in the opinion of Hon. Gentlemen opposite, depended far fess upon the plain principles of justice than on those events which seemed to affect the rights of one country in tie same measure in which they affected the interest and the safety of the other. Witness what had taken place.—( Hear hear, hear.) His Hon. Friend the Member for Liskeard had glanced at it. Look at the circumstancee under which the elective fran chise was first granted to the Irish people in the year 1792. A petition presented by the Roman Catholics of Ireland to the Irish Parliament was flung under the table, and scornfully repudiated. Six months elapsed, and Mr. Pitt, who was not so bold an the Right Hon. Gentleman who had last addressed the House, but who was too brave not to shrink from the horrors of a civil as--Mr. Pitt saw that the conciliation of the Roman Catholics of Ire land—they were then three millions, there are now seven millions—was required for the security of the country, and he granted the franchise to the Irish people. The name of the Duke of Wellington had been introduced that night by the Hon. and Learned Member for Bandon, who called him, and justly called him, a great and surpass ing man.—( Cueers.) Ile was a great arts( surpassing man, attached to his party on ordinary occasions, but who for got those connectione when the great interests of the country required it. That distinguished man was himself a member of the Irish Parliament. lie seconded the ad dress for the Catholic Emancipation Act, of that day. Young as he way, then, and comparatively inexperienced, he could nut look to Ireland without seeing thst the re conciliation of the Roman Catholics of that country was indispensible for the safety of the country. His speech on the occasion was confined to a few words. He said that "an augmentation of force was indeed necessary as ineutioned in the speech from the circumstances of the time. lie urged what had been recommended in the speech from the Throne, and re specting as he did his Catholic fellow-subjects he could not help expressing his approbation of it. Ile had observed the loyalty of his Catholic fellow-countrymen, and he hoped that all animosity between all parties would disappear." The man who used those words, 36 years afterwards got up in the House of Lords, and said that he looked with apprehension on civil warfare, and he asked the Legisla ture to adopt that great measure of concession.—( Cheers.) As long as the Catholics of Ireland used the franchise as a trust for the Protestant interest, so long as their state of subservency existed, as long as the landlord was held to be as much entitled to the vote as to the rent, no complaint was made against the exercise of the franchise by the 40s. freeholders ; but when the people became conscious of their rights, when the influence of that Great Association which the Noble Lord seemed so solicitous should survive, was in existence, and when the elections of Waterford, Louth, and Clare, afforded evidence that as the numbers in Ireland increased, her moral energies expanded, then and not till then, the 40e. freehold was abolished, and the 101. qualification was established, with the solvent tenant test.—(Cheers.) Ile &tiled the statement of the Hon. Member for Exeter, who had stated that there was a condition, and he had that fact from the speech of the Hon. Member for Tarnworth, in which he stated that there was no condition. That speech proved that there was was no communication, and therefore no contract. But if there was a condition, were they not bound to adhere to the qualification ? The Hon. Baronet had refused to grant a double appeal, and in that he was joined by Lord Lyndhurst. But then it was said if the qualifi cation was insisted upon, the machinery must be changed. Now, if the machinery was ohanged, the engine would work in an entirely different way. But there were not wanting men of talent to remonstrate against the solvent tenant test; there was at that time a young patrician who stood forward as the champion of the people's rights. —( Hear, hear, and great cheering.) He remonstrated against the solvent test ; the speech that was made by that Noble Lord was extant, and he would not trouble the House with it ; it was read last night, and when the Noble Lord was taunted with it, and the Hon. Member for Exeter came to the rescue, he did not deny the speech —he did not deny that the Noble Lord had denounced the solvent tenant test. No, but he said it was before emancipation.—(Cheers.) And accordingly the Noble Lord struck out of the Bill the solvent tenant test. This was the speech of the Noble Lord—" Mr. Stanley con ceived it was sufficient to prove the freeholder had a benfieial interest of 10/. in the !and, without calling on him to show that the solvent tenant could afford 101. a year. '— (Cheers.) The Noble Lord said he wished to make no real change in the Reform Bill, but four Judges of the laud had said he did—(Cheers)—and this fact ought to be impressed on the House, that the Noble Lord had the appointment of sixty Barristers, and under the provisions of the Bill sixty names were registered in favour of the Noble Lord, under the beneficial interpretation, and not under the solvent tenant test.—(Cheers.) When did the Noble Lord first complain of this ? Did they hear one word from him from 1832 to 1835 ?—( Cheers.) Or as lung as he remained in office ?—( Continued cheering.) No, until he changed his party he never changed his mind.—(Cheers.) But when the Noble Lord and the Member for Pembroke went over—when the Right Honourable Baronet, the Member for Pembroke, who in 1835 declared it would be disgraceful to him to join men to whom all their lives they had been opposed— ( Great cheering)—they might call him Repealer as much as they pleased, but when they went over—when they joined themselves to the men who opposed them in every shape—when they united themselves with the Tories, and something more—and when they became the confederates of a faction they had denounced as miserable and expiring, then the Noble Lord found it necessary to give proofs of the sincerity of bis conversion, and to make compensation for agreeing to swamp the House of Lords, and accord ingly the Noble Lord conferred upon his party the groat services be had to bestow. He found that his party would be destroyed by the Irish Reform Bill, and he therefore took it up and aimed at it a blow not less mortal because it was insidious.—(Cheers.) He says the landlords shall once a year have the opportunity of dragging the tenants before the Assistant Barrister for the purpose of ripping up their title. The Noble Lord still adheres to his Bill, and why should he not ? The greater the confusion, the greater the obstruction. —(Great cheering.) He would not use, in designating the purpose of the Noble Lord, the expres sion which that Noble Lord had himself made use of in designating the Bill of his Noble Friend. He would not say that the Noble Lord's purpose was false and fraudu lent; he would not use language so coarse.—(Loud cheers.) He was restrained by courtesy from giving that designation to the purpose of the Noble Lord which ought to be given to it.—(Cheers.) But who could doubt the purpose of the Noble Lord who had observed his conduct, had read his Bill, or listened to his declaration on Monday night as to the relative duties of landlords and tenants ?—( Cheers.) On that subject he had given utter mice to sentiments which the boldest of the Tory party would have shrunk from uttering.— (Cheers.) But what he had then said ought to show the people of England what manner of man it was who was now the standard-beater of the Tories of this country. It ought to show them that the time was come when those aggressive strides must be resisted, and when some method must be devised to protect from threatened intimidation the liberty of Englishmen. The Noble Lord bad endea voured to snake it appear that as regarded the regis tration, the Bill of his Noble Friend resembled that of the Noble Lord. You have a revision, said the Nk,ble Lord, and we have a revision. We have an appeal, and you have an appeal. Bills resemble one another.—( Hear, bear.) But here the Government Bill gave a revision before registration; the Bill of the Noble Lord gave one after. The Government Bill gave an appeal on questions of law only; the Noble Lord's Bill gave an appeal on questions of fact.—( Loud cheers.) The Noble Lord had relied too much on their credulity and simplicity in endeavouring to impress upon them these resemblances.—(Loud cheers.) Now, with reipeet to the rating as a test. It had been chosen as a test by Hon. Gentlemen opposite. You give us a rating under the Poor-law as a test, said they, and we will give you municipal reform ? The test of rating had been given to them as a test for the municipal franchise, and now they objected to it as a test for the elective franchise. If they were sincere in their anxiety for the settlement of that question, why not take the Poor-rate as the basis, leaving the ques tion of amount ? Oh, but said the Hon. and Learned Member for Exeter, we take the solvent tenant test; we arc bound to do so by the Emancipation Act. Doubtless he thought so ; but the Judges of Ireland differed from him in opinion, and his arguments in the House of Com mons were of little use, since they could not find an on trance into the Court of Exchequer in Dublin. Four of the Judges had declared they would not be bound by the d( eision of the majority, and at that declaration the Hon. Member for Exeter bad declared himself perfectly horri fied. Sweep away half of the constituency of Ireland, and the Honourable and Learned Gentleman re- mained calm and unmoved; but violate a rule of law, and his indignation was awakened.--(Hear, hear.) " striv," sail Chatham, in reply to Lord Mansfield, " striF a the whole Constitution to its centre, and a lawyer will sit tranquil and calm--touch but a single cobweb of Westmin4ter-ball, and the spider will start out in all its venorn."—( Loud chce•e.) He would read the *Lion of Chief Baron O'Grady on the subject of this difference. The Right Hon. Gehtlaman then read the opinion, from which it appealed the Chief Baron considered that, sit ting in a Court of Appeal, he was not bound by the construction of his brethren, and the only remedy for this evil was the creation of a superior Court of Appeal. It was the duty of that House to consider, not if this were well, but what they ought to do. What was their reason for not defining the franchise ? Why had they adopted All thu poison of Sir Michael O'Loghlin's Bill, and omitted the antidote ? It was right the House should kuow that in Sir M. O'Loghlin's Bill there had bcen in troduced a clause expressly defining the franchise; now why had that clause beer, omitted from the Noble Lord's 13111 ? Why, because it was adverse to their party interests. —( Loud cheers ) They would not introduce the clause —they would not put a stop to the wrangling of the Judges —they acknowledged the case to be scandalous, and yet they would not apply a remedy. Sir Michael O'Loghlin's Bill had contained a clause defining the franchise to be a beneficial interest one, and not a solvent tenant one. If that clause had been cmtained in the Noble Lord's Bill it would not have been opposed. It was disingenuous to rely on the authority of Sir M. O'Loghlin. and to conceal such an importar}t fact as that.—(Lcud ch , nrs.) Would the Noblo Lord tell them now what ho would do? Ho had heard that question put again and again, and it bad been answered. He admitted the evils had existed, yet he refused to define the franchise, and all the profligacy which was the consequence lay at their own doors. Now what was the constituency which Ireland sought to possess ? He had remarked that the Right HOP. Baronet the Member for Pembroke, bad said that he should regret if the gentry of Ireland should be forced into a combination to refuse leans to their tenants. The Noble Lord the Member for North Lancashire, on Mon day night, had explained the reason of the falling off in tho numbers of the constituency, by stating that the landlords had found that the tenants did not agree with them in political opinions, and had, therefore, no ref.teti !Ical. Lear.) It was quite clear tLa the constituency was melting away, that ihcae ..as eotnifiiiiatioil against the Reform Bill to turn the Irish count i es i nto rotten boroughs, returning ;s r ~/ • THE SUN„ LONDON, THURSDA_Y, FEBRUARY 25, 1841. Members in the nomination ofthe gentry. The people of Ireland were uneducated. The Noble Lord should recol lect this when he attempted to take the franchise away. Did the Noble Lord when he issued the Education Com mission for Ireland, despite the howl which had been raised against it from Caithness to Exeter, forget the identity between knowledge and pow- r ? Did he thiok be could confine the education of the Irish people to the mere ele ments of letters ?—( Cheers.) The people of Ireland knew their rights—the people of Leland knew the history of their country's sufferings—the people of Ireland knew by what means Catholic Emancipation lied been ob. tained—( Loud cheers):—and they knew that those means could be again resorted to if the necessity should arise. The people of Ireland knew that after Catholic Emancipa tion the Tories had relapsed into their former courses.-- (Cheers.) They knew that after the granting Municipal Reform to England and Semi ind they had r_ifused it to Ireland.—( Cheers. ) They knew the history of the Spottiswoode gang—(Loud cheers)—and t.f that hist - e-y the Noble Lord's Bill was the postscript.--( Loud and long continued cheering.) They knew the Noble Lord, and they f It that it was. necessary to force him, not only to raise the seine, but to prom); him again at tacking them. They knew the Noble Lord well —it was a pity the knowledge was not re ciprocal, or the Noble Lord would feel that he would net with impunity be allowed to pursue his course. Let them look at the effect which the Noble Lord tied already produced by bringing forward the question. A year ago Ireland was tranquil, there was nu agitation ; the question of repeal was not mooted; suddenly the Noble Lord's Bill is brought forward, and the whole country i; thrown into confusion.—( Hear, hear.) He well remembered the warning given by the Hon. Mem ber for Drogheda to the Hon. Baronet, that if he came into office upon this Bill, he must govi rn Irelend by some other weapon than public opini n; and he implored the Right Hon. Baronet, if he had the power, to stop the Noble Lord in his mad course. If he came in cm such a principle, those normel schools of agitation would be thrown open—the representatives of the people thrown out by the Bill of the Noble Lord would find some piece of fearful gathering, and a confederacy of four-fold the sower would be raised to that before which his prudence quailed before._ (Cheers.) He was greatly struck by a question put at the beginning of the session by the Noble Lord to the Noble Sccretsry for Foreign Affairs. He then thought his mind was engaged on something more important than the de struction of the Irish franchise—it was a must delicate question. But was net the Noble Lord afraid that the agitation would be carried farther than Irelend ; that it might be carried across the Atlantic, amongst those faithful Irish who had been so loyal in times of great difficulty ? Was he not afraid that they might sympathise with their insulted countrymen, and their loyalty become lees chivalrous than it had been ? Turning to events nearer home, he said at once that any outbreak on the part of his countrymen would be to him utter ruin—he did not speak in menace, but was it not monstrowe that while France was arming, they we•e disfranchising—while France was raising ramparts, they were undermining the great moral bulwarks which bound Ireland to this coun try.—(Cheers.) He feared no invasion—what he feared was, that great majestic England would not be able to main tain that high station to which she had been raised by a statesman—that, divided at home, and excited, and en. gaged, and crippled by Irish agitation, she might be com pelled to recede from the majestic position she now occu pied. —( Oh, oh.) It would be a sorry compensation for them to say, that although foreign Cabinets have not been baffled, they bed managed to put down Irish agitation —that they had succeeded in putting under coercion Popish multitudes—that they obtained verdicts from martial Juries, and that their ensenguined banners were floating over the towers of Dublin Castle.--( Cheers. ) The debate was then adjourned. -The other Orders of the Day were than disposed of, and the House adjourned at One o'Clock. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. COMMITTEES ON PRIVATE BILLS APPOINTED BY THE COMMITTEE OF SELECTION. 1. York and North Midland Railway Approaches Bill, referred to to Mr. Bernal, Mr. John Dundas, and Mr. J. H. Lowther. 2. York and London Assurance Company Bill, referred to Mr. Bernal, Lord E. Bruce, and Mr. John Parker. 3. Preston and Longrielge Railway Bill, referred to Mr. Bernal, . Sir Hesketh Fleetwood, and Mr. Townley Parker. The meeting of the Committees on the above Bills is fixed for Thursday, March 4, at One o'clock. NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE. Tuesday, 23d February, 1841. 1. Metropolis Improvements—Committee rest ecting Standing Or. ders, Monday, March 8. 2,4001111 amt Crosby Road—Committee on P e titi on , p os t pone d From r iday, Febreary 26, till Thursday, March 4. 3. Great Norwood InclZsure—Committee on Petition, March 8. 4. Shotts and Wilsontown Railway—Committee on Petition, poet. poned from Monday, March 1. till Wednesday, March 3. 5. Middlesex Sessions—Committee on Petition, adjourned 1.1 Friday, February 25. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM TDB EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Standard.) The adjourned debate on Lord Morpeth's Irish Re gistration Bill was resumed last evening by Mr. Young. It is possible, but hardly probable, that it will terminate to-night. An ordinary Ministerial majority in favour of the Bill would, however, not secure the adoption of that feature which constitutes, in fact, its real principle, the .5/. clause; although, if the division be its parts Mi n i s t ers , t h e ext i nct i on o f t h e Bill in a ll parts is certain. No one is more entirely aware than Lord Morpeth himself that the .5/. franchise clause cannot possibly be carried. It will, however, have served the turn of the Government with Irish and English mobs, as a manifesto of their liberality ; and having accomplished the object of an electioneering clap -trap, will be as quietly abandoned as was the appropriation tack to their Irish Tithe Bill. But the Irish people are, we are told, fa vourable to the proposed measure, and as a proof that they are, Lord Morpeth presented last night a petition from Ireland, professing to be signed by 200,000 per sons in its f.vour. If universal suffrage be held out as a probability (and there is no saying what measure may next claim the support of Government, should Lord Morpeth's Bill be entertained), we have no doubt that petitions much more numerously signed will pour in upon the House in favour of that measure. But petitions from Ireland in behalf of a Bill in which the lowest classes arc almost as directly intcrestsd, are of such easy manufacture, that Mr. O'Con nell has only to issue the order and the thing is immediately accomplished. We should like to compare the respectability and intelligence of the 90,000 inhabitants of Ulster, who signed the petition presented last night by Sir Robert Bateson, with the one professing to contain more than double the number of names, which was laid upon the table of the House with so much parade by Lord Morpeth ; and having winnowed the chaff from the grain, to show which is entitled to the gravest consideration. (From the Globe.) Whether Ireland shall possess an electoral franchise worthy to be designated " popular," or, the voter be fettered by restrictions, and driven from court to court ' by ingeniously devised objections, until he resigns in despair what he cannot attain without difficulty or ex , ercise without danger—this question was again the subject of discussion in the House of Commons last night, when the debate on Lord Morpeth's Bill was resumed. This is the real question in issue. It may be tortured by ingenuity, and glossed over by sophistry ; the " worse may be made to appear the better reason" by the employment of arts which dishonesty cultivates for the attainment of its ends ; but, divested of their extraneous parts, and resolved into the simple ele ments on which their potency for good or evil essentially depend, the two measures now before Parliament, (the adoption of the one involving the rejection of the other,) present the alterna tive we bare stated. The one secures to the honest voter the exercise of electoral rights based on a clearly-defined franchise, while it guards that franchise from invasion by those who endeavour to acquire a pri vilege to which they have no valid claim ; the other leaves the franchise undefined, and the voter to the chances of whether the Judge to whom he appeals against the ever-varying decision of Assistant Barristers, he one of the majority or minority of the Bench ; the Judges themselves being nearly equally divided in opinion as to the construction of the franchise in a vast number of instances. In addition to this disreputable state of the law, which produces painful uncertsinty and inflicts extensive injury on the voter who appeals to the Judge, the Bill of Lord Stanley surrounds the voter with increased difficulties in the earliest stages of his progress to the regis try ; and, under the pretence of placing obstructions in the path of the corrupt claimant, perplexes the man whose qualification is valid by the number of preliminary proofs—larrasses him with personal attendances to remove quibbling objections taken by the agents of political opponents—and subjects him to heavy costs if, by the omission of any one of the numerous legal proofs which the Bill of Lord Stanley requires him to adduce, be fails to substantiate the claim he has honestly put in to be admitted as to the registry. With a clearness of perception and felicity of expression which render bis speech one of the most valuable which has been deli vered during the discussion, Mr. Macaulay last night defined the distinguishing feature of the rival measures ; exbibitiog the deformity and insidious purpose of the one, and placing in strong contrast to its odious and re pulsive character, the just principle and efficient ma. cbinery of the other. MONEY MA.RKEtand CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 4i per mile, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25. 26, and the ex change at Paris on London at short being 25. 32k, it follows that gold is 0.26 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 424 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10d per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.41, and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.5 k, it follows that gold is 0.53 per cent, dearer in London than in Hamburgh._ The public - securities were agaiir inactive, but the Value of those of the English market improved a shade prior to the close of business. The jobbers are now in a measure occupied with the arrangement of their accounts for the Consol settlement, which takes place on the 25th inst. ; and although money is a little more in demand, it is nevertheless easy at from 3 to 4 per cent. - A number of resolutions relative to the report on import. du ties were passed at a late meeting of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures. These were to the effect that although the present system of import duties might be simpli fied with great advantage, it was necessary to observe much caution in modifying or repealing duties affecting such branches of commerce or manufacture as have long enjoyed special protection. The idea was, that evidence as yet afforded on the subject was partial and incomplete ; indeed so much so, as to render it expedient to resume the inquiry ; and while the propriety of regulating the tariff, so as to produce the highest revenue from the lowest duty, was admitted, it was con sidered expedient to maintain differential duties in favour of British manufactures, domestic and colonial agriculture, and fisheries. As for the tropical colonies, it is observed that the peculiar circumstances in which they have been placed by re cent social changes render any alteration of duties, by which their productions would be affected, inexpedient at the pre sent time, while it is also desirable that all restrictions upon their trade and intercourse, both with foreign nations and amongst themselves, be removed. The concluding resolution was for embodying the whole in petitions to be presented to both Houses of Parliament, praying for the appointment of Committees to conduct an impartial inquiry into the import duties. CHRONICLE.—The business in the English funds to-day was principally in connexion with the settlement of the Ac count, which takes place on Thursday. A further slight improvement took place in the rates of the Continental Exchanges to-day, and the supply of bills contin ues rather to improve. The expectations announced it, our City article yesterday, regarding the probable influx of gold into the country consequent upon the more healthy state of the exchanges, and the increase in our exports, are likely to be realized. Gold, although in small quantities, has, in fact, for the last two or three weeks been finding its way back to the Bank coffers, and if the Directors do not feel themselves at liberty to support prices by any expansive action on the cur rency, we have little ground to apprehend that they will now be operating as sellers on the Stock Exchange. During the sitting of the Committee on Banks of Issue, they must be cau tious, being put upon th e i r t r i a l ; b u t we trust they will not find themselves called upon to damp the rising appearances of better times. A letter has been received froi the agent of the bondholders in Chili, intimating that the Government had remitted funds to pay the next dividend on the capital of the bonds. It is worthy of remark that the Chilian Government couple with their rejected offers of compromise for the arrears a condi tion that they ehall be allowed to raise a new European loan. It was stipulated, we believe, by the contract for the existing loan that no new one should be entered upon until a fourth part N‘ as paid off. 'he half-yearly meeting of the Proprietors of the General Steam Navigation Company, was held on Tuesday at the office of that Corporation, 69, Lombard street, and was numerously and respectably attended. The chair was taken by Wolverley Attwood, Esq., M. P., at two o'clock precisely, when a Report from the Direc tors was read, from which it was collected that the opera tions of the past year had been attended n ith success, and that the affairs generally were in a course of prosperous advancement. Full explanations were entered into upon various points interesting to the Proprietors, and appeared to afford much satisfaction. It was resolved that a consi derable sum should be approptiated towards the cost of two large steam-ships of 650 and 900 tons, now building. by, Messrs. Green, Wigrams, and Greens, and the cus tomary dividend and bonus were declared. The cordial thanks of the Proprietors were voted to the Chairman and Directors, whose exertions were spoken of in very com plimentary terms, and the meeting then separated. SALE OF BEER LICENSES.—It appears from a return made by Mr. Cottrell, the General-Accountant, that there has been a decrease of 3,214 in the number of licenses issued last year as compared with the previous year. From the 22d August to the sth January, 1840, the number of country licenses issued for the sale of' beer to be consumed on the premises, at 31. 3s. each, 'was 16,277; London licences 640 ; total 16,917. For the same period in 1840-41, the number (including town and country) was 14,137 ; decrease 2,780. The number of licenses for the sale of beer not to be consumed on the premises, at IL Is. each, for the first-mentioned period (including town and country) was 2,459, and for the second 2,025 ; decrease 434. REPRESENTATION OF MANCHESTEB.--We understand that the Manchester Tories are making the Most active preparations for contesting the representation of this borough, in case of an early dissolution of Par liament. Encouraged by what they consider a division amongst the Liberal party, they talk of bringing for ward two candidates, namely, Sir Ge orge M urray an d Richard Entwisle, Esq. (the son-in-law of :Edward Loyd, Esq.) We hope, however, that the Reformers will neither allow themselves to be weakened by divisiOns, nor their cause to be ruined by supineness and indifference. With proper exertions they can certainly defeat their op ponent', whether with one candidate or two.—Mtehester Guardian. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ely, accom. panic - I by the Lords Augustus and Adam Loftus aid Lady Anna Loftus, left Ely Lodgo, Fermanagh, on Wednesday last, for this country, 'intending to make several visits in their route., The Noble Marquis and Marobion sit, who have taken Sir John and Lady Shells ' s mango in Bel, Il i grave-square, give a series of splendid parties immediately after their arrival in town. KING'S COUNTY ELECTION.--.The CORIeSI is now proceeding, the Liberals are prepared, and thins will -3090 f • be a •clear majority . for Mr. 411311000? MEDICAL REFORM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—In your paper of Saturday last you say Sir F. Pollock presented a petition from the Royal College of Physicians, praying that one test might be adopted in reference to the qua lification of all medical men. I think Sir F. Pollock pre sented a petition against Mr. Shawe's Bill (Medical Reform), and principally on account of its introducing only one test, perhaps its worst correction, as there are many interested, and your paper is widely circulated about here. I am, Sir, 3 our's, &c. Burnley, Feb. 23, 1141. A SUBSCRIBER. TIIE NE INFERNAL A C HINE, The following letter on !his hobby of tl-e Times has been addressed to that journal : " Sir—l observe in your paper of this morning a long ac count of an experiment said to have been exhibited before Sir Robert Peel and some of our most distinguished officers. I hope I shall not be considered impertinent in submitting one or two observations on a subject of such importance to the country as that to which it relates. " The power of exploding gunpowder under water has long been known, and it never was carried to a greater extent pro bably than in the destruction of the Royal George last year; but, from the description given of what took place on the occa sion to which I am referring, it would seem that gunpowder was not the agent employed. That there are many other chemical means of producing the same effect we all know : my object, however, is not to inquire as to the means by which the effect was produced, but to examine a little into some circumstances noticed in the statement, on which I shall be glad to have a little further information. " Ist. It is stated that the inventor never went near the workmen employed in the boat, in order that suspicion might be entertained of any combustible materials being lodged in the hold of the vessel.' The French have a proverb, qui s'escuse s'accuse.' I wish the inventor or his friend the writer of the statement, had not put it into my head that com bustibles might be so lodged ; but as he has done so, I am anxious to knew if the gentlemen who went on board actually examined the vessel in order to satisfy themselves that it was the case that no combustibles were lodged in the bottom. " 2d. It is said that the boat was, soon after being put in motion, struck just abaft the starboard bow, and instan taneously shattered into a thousand fragments,' and this was produced by collision with an instrument afterwards described as weighing only 181 b. Now, as this instrument is also said to be so portable and so safe ' as to admit of its being kicked round a room when charged with its deadly contents, I would ask, did any of the gentlemen present see the instrument ? and also at what rate was the vessel propelled that the collision should produce an effect not to be produced by kicking the instrument round a room, or transporting it on a mule's back ? or what is still more, how is it possible to be lieve that an instrument which is exploded by collision with a vessel is to be projected so as to " destroy the strongest fort ress in Europe ?" One word more on a subject coming nearer home to us in these quarters, and I have done. The writer speaks of accidents lately occurring from th e use o f d e t onat i ng shells ;* he evidently knows but little what accidents hare oc curred, the cause of them, or the manner in which those shells are used. Two accidents only have occurred ; it is not necessary to detail the circumstances ; they were in both cases distressing ; but it is hoped, from the precautions since taken, the same will not again occur. _ _ " It is not the case that most of the shells fired at Acre burst before they reached their object, nor is it the case that these shells are allowed to roll about deck : and no instance has ever occurred of an accident from them when being car ried in a common ammunition cart. So much, then, for the information of the writer on a subject on which he pretends to enlighten the public. The statement ends by a sort of threat on the part of the inventor to carry the invention to some other country. I congratulate him on the patriotism that gave rise to such'an intention : I cannot;compliment him on the feel ing by which it is evidently dictated, as being a disinterested one.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, " Arsenal, Woolwich, Feb. 22, 1841." " TECHNITES." * Although experiments with detonating shells have re cently been made, no inch projectile has been adopted or ever used in the service. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON Yesterday a meeting of the Proprietors of this Institu tion was held in the Theatre of the University, to rece've the Rcirrt of the Council, and to elect a President, Vice- President, Treasurer, six members of the Council, and one Auditor. In consequence of the notoriety which Mr. Tooke lately gained in a correspondence relative to the borough of Finsbury, the attendance of Shareholders was unusually numerous. In the absence of Lord Brougham, President, who was to have presided, 11. Warburton, Esq., M. P., was csPed to the Chair. A very long and angry discussion ensued upon the ap pointment of scrutineers, which was of no puhlic importance beyond that of exhibiting strong dissatisfaction on the part of the Shareholders as to the way in which the officers of the College were nominated. Colonel Leicester Stan hope, M. P., J. 'l'. Leader, M. P., Mr. Hume, M. P., Mr. Rainsford, and Mr. J. L. Robinson, took a part in the discussion, which terminated in the appointment of Major Naylor, and Messrs. Leader, Browne, and Cope as scrutineers. The Report baying been read and adopted, the ballot fur the officers was returned, when the following were an nounced :—Lord Brougham, President; Duke of Somer set, Vice-President. For Treasurer, Mr. Tooke, 98 %Iles ; Mr. Taylor, 89 votes. Mr. Tooke was theref,)re &aired the successful candiJate Messrs. Wood, Easthope, Tineornhe, jun. and other gentlemen addressed the meeting in reference to the ap pointment cf Treasurer. The addresses of the several speakers alluded to the late charges preferred against Mr. Tooke, of which the public hive already heard so much. Thinks Laying been voted to the Chairman, the mect ing sepaiated. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS' COURT, FEB. 24. RE NICHOL'S PATENT. The arguments in this case, which was opened on Monday week, were resumed this morning and concluded. It came before the Court upon a petition for leave to amend a specifi cation which had been duly enrolled. The MAsTER of the ROLLS deferred his jud gment, in or der that he might have an opportunity of con.ulting with the Lord ChaiieeLor. BAILEY V. THE BURGESSES OF ctronuroN-UPON-mEDLoc.K. The arguients in this case were then resumed. THE LOSS OF THE GOVERNOR FENNER. The following is the account given by the mate Carter, of the dreadful collision between this vessel and the Nottingham steamer : AfLer corroborating the Captain in his account of his sailing, &c., about five minutes past two o'clock on Saturday morning, he says, We saw the lights of a steam-boat. It was my watch on deck, and I immediately called the Captain. The steam boat came up at about a point and a half on our weather-bow, we haying at the time our larboard tacks on board. We thought she was corning on head to us. We had no light but that of the binnacle on the quarter-deck ; and, I believe it is not considered necessary or prudent for sailing-vessels clear of the land to carry a light. sVe waited as much as five or aix minutes, to find out what way the strainer was really coming, and then the Captain ordered the man at the wheel to put the helm hard a -port, so as to give her a clear berth. If the steam-boat had done the same we should have gone clear of each other a long way—perhaps a mile. The Captain, as soon as he ordered the wheel io be put up, tt ent forwards to look out. I then looked over the larboard side, abaft the main rigging. and saw the whole bulk of the Steamer. I said to tho man at the helm—" She is on board of us." This was about a quarter past two o'clock. The vessels came in contact, notwithstanding our ship paying off. When the crash took place I heard the Captain call out several times—" For God's sake save yourselves, the ship is sinking." The jibb oom o f t h e ship struck the funnell of the steamer, and her bowsprit afterwards rested upon her. On the third surge she gave, I believe, down she went, bow foremost. The taffrail was the last thing we saw of her. She filled very quickly. She had on b oar d a heavy cargo, including a quantity of iron and other heavy goods. The watch on the deck at the time con sisted of seven men, the Captain, and myself. All the others on board were asleep below. The Captain also sang out to the man at the helm to leave the wheel. His name was Mun roe—he was formerly mate of the Belvidere, came on board to work his passage to America, and we intended to make him second mate of the ship next day. All the men at first went forward with me to the Captain, who was standing between the night-heads, but they afterwards went aft as the ship sunk, to be, as I suppose, on the higher part of het hull. I stood some time, and attempted to go aft with a view of endeavouring to save my wife and others by lowering a boat. She, however, sunk so fast that I was obliged to give up the idea in despair. I left the captain, and went to the starboard side. I stood there a few seconds, till the water was perhaps -two feet deep, as far aft as the mainmast, and was fast gathering still further aft, her head being then nearly under. I scarce know what afterwards occurred. I got up somehow into the fore-rigging, and thence on to the larboard foreyards, which then crossed the steamer. When the ship sunk so far that I was from six to eight feet from the steamer's deck, I let go, and dropped down amongst some sheep. I lay some time rather confused, and did not attempt to rise, as I thought I might become entangled in a rope which passed over my shoulders, and as I thought, was part of the bowsprit running rigging of the ship. I then got up. The cry on board the steamer was, that she was sinking, and 1 believe a passenger on board lowered the boat left on the davits on the larboard side ; but she unhooked ifrom the tackles when she touched the water, and the painter not being fast, she drifted away from the ves sel. All the lights they could muster in the steamer were lighted for some time. The engineers and others then went below, and found that though she was leaky they could keep her free. She had her fore and aft sails and foretop sail set at the time. I was on board about three-quarters of an hour before I found that the captain of the ship was there. I had seen my wife, who was a little sea-sick, about twenty minutes before in her berth, and gave her a drink. The captain, when I first saw him in the steamer, was without his hat, and on see ing him (informant) he said " Good God, is this you, is there any of the crew saved?" I said, "I do not know. I did not know what became of you after I missed you off the ship's bow." Her hull was under water before I got off. The foreyard from which I dropped was broken on the steamer as she was going down ; and also, I believe, the topsail yard, as our foretopmast studdin„ , sail-boom, which was rigged out at the time (the wind having been for some time fair in the evening), was left on the steamer's deck. I afterwards looked, but could see no thing of the ship or her masts. The last time I observed the watch on deck, they were on the starboard side of tho quarter deck. One man sung out, " For God Almighty's sake save me !" I did not hear the others. I had a quantity of my wife's and my own clothing and other articles on board, worth about 50!. All were lost. The foreyard of the steamer Not. tingham was carried away, whick, I think, shows that the ship did not run directly into her. We now come to the Notting ham steamer, which our reporter (Liverpool paper) visited on the evening of the day of her reaching port. She was brought into the Clarence Dock, and was much shattered on the star board side. Her paddle-box had almost entirely been carried away, and part of the " skeleton" on the wheel—the cast-iron work of the "spokes" being broken in pieces, and the beaten iron rings of the wheel crushed up, almost close to the vessel's side. She presented, indeed, the appearance of a wreck, in the effecting of which it is extraordinary that no person on board was killed or thrust overboard and drowned. Much of the upper timber was reduced to mere match-wood by the collision. A boat on the starboard quarter was cut in two, and one part of her only remained on deck. The after paddle-beam, a balk of bard wood, of about twenty inches square (and which was a main support of the box and wheel), is broken close to the ship's side, and turned, in a diagonal direction, aft—held by the toughness of the fibres from falling off, and even yet of suffi cient strength to support the weight of several persons upon it. The breaking of the paddle-beam and the general shock broke and deranged portions of the machinery, which put aside the further application of steam; but the vessel was not left in danger of foundering, unless, indeed, in the event of a severe gale of wind and a heavy sea, which she happily had not to en counter. It appears from the ship's books there were on board 52 men, 18 women, and 8 children, the greater proportion of whom were Irish. Several others, making in all 107, were taken on board after the list was made up. The following are a few particu lars of some of the unfortunate passengers : Mr. Henry Woods was from the neighbourhood of Lancaster, in which place he has a wife, and some relatives in, we learn, the iron trade. He was a fine young man, and embarked merely with a view of visiting the United States, and returning with an early vessel to his native country. A young man, Mr. John Sinclair (not in the list), from the neighbourhood of London, nephew of Mr. Cooper, of Lord street, Liverpool, was among-t those who perished. He had purposed going out in the Siddons line-ship, but did not arrive till she was under weigh. William Thorns, a house carpenter, was on board. His wife accompanied him to Liverpool and saw him on hoard. The family of the Quayles ( four in number) were from the north of Ireland. The head of them had before been in America. Wm. Fitzpatrick, an agricultural labourer, had his wife, and another female, and two children (one of them an infant) with him. P. Tully, who had with him his wife (both young people) and a child, had been previously tire years in Boston. Mr. Johnson, from the county of Hereford, a practical farmer, had also been in America, where, we learn, he was in possession of about 200 acres of land. Collins, one of the crew, sailed a few weeks ago in the ship Robert Benn, which came in collision with a schooner in the Channel. He escaped. He re-embarked in the Governor Fenner, and was lost in her contact with the Nottingham. There were nine young men, mechanics, from Oldham, who took each a steerage passage. There were also on board a family of the name of Reynolds, of England, from a district near Oldham, consisting of the fa ther, mother, and two children. John Kelley (in the list) had with him his sister Sarah, (not, it appears, in the list.) Catherine Morgan and Evan Morgan, who had embarked, left the vessel before she proceeded to sea. The followint , is the list of the crew:— William Shigtone, second mate, of Bristol ; Caleb Frazier, cook ; William Reid, John Smith, John Webb, Frederick Selkeld, John Monroe (late second mate of the Belvidere), William Collins, John Smith, David Pidgeon, George Duncan Clark, and John Davies, seamen. FURTHER. PARTICULARS. We are informed that it is admitted there was not any light on board the Governor Fenner, and that the people on board of her saw the lights of the Nottingham from fif teen• to twenty minutes before the collision took place, and that if the sailing vessel had shown a light, it might have been prevented, as only about a minute and a half elapsed between the steamer seeing the sailing vessel and the latter running against her. The steamer Birmingham, which sailed from this port for Dublin, fell in with the wreck of a lbrge ship at seven o'clock on Sunday morning, about sixteen miles to the westwood of the Skerries. The ship was apparently split in two, her stern being gone, and the cargo all out of her. The wreck was boarded by part of the crew of the Birmingham, who found two men dead in the rigging. They also took from the wreck a trunk containing a quan tity of watches and other articles. There can scarcely be a doubt but that this was the wreck of the ill-fated vessel Governor Fenner, and that after she went down she had parted, the cargo having sunk, the hull had again floated. * We saw Captain Andrews yesterday, and ho denies this in foto. 1-1. also informed us that the mate denied having made any such statement. According to Captain Andrews, the steamer's light was seen only a few minutes before the collision cccurred. The solicitors of the City of Dublin Company yesterday 'ransmittcd the following letter to Captain Andrews:— " Exchange-alley, Feb. 22, 1841. " —We lose no time in apprising you, as the Master of the late unfortunate American ship, Governor Fenner,' that tl.e City of Dublin Steam-packet Company,the proprie tors of the Nottingham steamer, which, as we are instructed, by def,ult of the crew of the ship, came into collision with trc latter early on Saturday morning last ; that the Co m p an y !Hid the owncra of the ship aecour.tablc to them for the very heavy loss they have sustaiaed by the damage of the steamer, and we have to request that you will be so good as to furnish us with the names and residences of such owners. We arc, Sir, your obedient servants, " NORTH and ORRED." " Captain Andrews, Grecian Hotel." The following reply was immediately sent by Captain Andrews:— I:cory ) " Liverpool, Feb. 23, 1841. " Messrs. North and Orred, " Gentlemen—l herewith acknowledge the receipt of a letter addressed from you to me, and request, that in my pre sent dilemma, you will nut pester me with any more such ri diculous nonsense, a', no doubt, the public in general, as well as myself, will perfectly understand your object, but I have a few words to say in reply. Had you had a sharp look-out aboard your steamer, the ' Governor Fenner' would have been seen in due time ; had you had a competent person in charge of the steamer's deck, w hen they did see the Governor Fenner,' common sense, with but a small share of judgment and presence of mind, would have prompted him to rut his helm aport, and go to windward. In the next place, I refer you to Capt. Steward, of the Nottingham, who acknowledged, in presence of witnesses, that he considered me exempt from any blame; and lastly, had the Nottingham al i id e d b y t h e ru!e passed at a meeting of the different St eam P ac k et Companies, as I did, at which me et i ng S amuel Perry, Esq., was in the chair, and Charles M'lver, Esq., Secretary (laying judgment aside), she woad not have come in collision with the Governor Fenner.' And, Gentlemen, as I have resolved every ir.cident connected with that awful cata s t rop h e s h al l has e the greatest publicity, I shall publish you r l etter, as well as a copy cf this, and refuse to receive a n y p r i vate communications frofniany parties conce rne d, an d no doubt the b o th ship and c argo w ill h old underwriters o you re sponsible.—Your obedient servant, (Signed) " S. C. ANDREWS, " Master of the late unfortunate ship Governor Fenner, sunk by the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company's steamer Nottingham, off Holyhead." Sheriff ;if Roscommon has refused to con - „„ e a meet i ng t o suppurt the Government ReBistration Bill SPORTING INTELLIGEONCE, MANCHESTER, THESDAY EVENING..—There was a very flattering attendance this forenoon, and sorr. 'e engage. meats were made, after a pretty considerable degree of fatigue to the tongue. There was a little int inky after the outsider Kingsbridge ; 500 to 10 was free ly offered, with takers of 1,000 to 12. The odds were thus Bto I agst Mr. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury—offe red 1000 to 100 ag,t Col. Peel's Gibraltar—taken th, nt offered 12 to 1 agst Col. Cradock's Gallipot—offered 100 to 6 agst Mr. Orde'a Queen Bee—freely tal ken 100 to 6 agst Lord Miltown's Cruiskeen—taken 20 to 1 100 to 6 agst Mr. Painter's Ernest the First—tal ten 500 to 25 agst Mr. Hornby's Champagne—taken 100 to 3 agst Mr. Mostyn's Trustee—taken 70 to 20 the field v. two—offered freely THE DERBY.-100 to 8 was at the very close at xepted on Rosalie; 17 to 1, bar oneaoffered); :23 to Iv. .soult (takers); 1,000 to 12 v. Knutsbridge (offered) ; 13 ;to I v. Knight of the Whistle (offd. ) ; also 20 to 1 in po ni, IF. THE LIVERPOOL, OR GREAT WATERLOO CLIP..--Crl day next.)-100 to 8 offered on the field the celebrated greyhound Waterloo having " the call ;" 100 t o 6 offe red v. any nomination for the great coursing event. 7 to 2 offered on the field for the Steeple Chasa:' SHIPPING INTELLIGENCM. (LLOYD'S.) LONDON, FEB. 24.—Wind this day at noon E., cloudy • LIVERPOOL, FEB. 23.—The Spread Eagle, from Dun dalk to this port, h as b een t owe d i n t o D oug l as , Isle-of-Wight, Yith loss of sails, bowsprit, sprung, &c Arrived the Came. n' , Tanner, from Laguna ; Warren, Charleston. Sailed the S t. Harlampy, Kruzcr, for Havannah ; Margaret, Greig, Ne w York ; Hesperus, Jackson, Africa ; Cheshire, Henrichsen. Marseilles. Arrived off, the Lord Althorp, Calcutta; Calder, Porto Cabello. RYE, FEB. 23. —The Liberty, Drake, from Teignmouth to Hull, came on shore last night during a thick fog, but got off, and proceeded. COWES, FEB. 23.—The Armadillo fell over in the harbour this morning, and lies on her beam ends. - BRISTOL, FEB. 23.—Sailed the Sarah, from Naples. Ponzsmo urn, FEB. 23. —Wind S. S. W. and N. W. —Arrivet.l the Agnes, Norman, from Laguayra. GLOUCESTER, FEB. 23.—Arrived Arid, Losh, from Oporto. SHIELDS, FEB. 20.—Arrived the Espoir, Bontel, from Gravelines ; Auspicious, Robson, Rotterdam. Sailed, 21st, the Nympu, Leman, for Oporto ; Nailor, Wilson, Malta. WHITEY, FEB. 2 1.—Last night, during a thick fog, seven sail of vessels, coal laden, ran on Whitby rock. The Mercury of Colchester got off with assistance, and is in these roads very leaky. Feb. 22.—Arrived the Brown, from Quebec. The Elbe, of Sunderland, and five others, names unknown, got off without assistance and proceeded. YARMOUTH FEB. 23.—The Friend s , of London, got' on shore on the YARMOUTH, Sand this morning. STOKNAWAY, FEB. 15.—The .Anna Emma, Foster, from ' Liverpool to Newcastle, put ,'in here yisterday leaky, having struck on a rock in Lochindall, and has thrown a gfeat part of her cargo (salt) overboard. GALwAY, FEB. —The sally, Cassidy, sailed from Liverpool about three weeks ago for this port, and has not since been heard of. STROMNESS, FEB. 14.—Arrived the British King, from Newcastle to New York, with foretopmast yard sprung. DEAL, FEB. 23.—Wind N.N.E., moderate breeze.—Arrived the Gladiator, Britton, from New York ; British Oak, Taylor, has been assisted off the Goodwin Sands and proceeded. Sailed the Hannah, f or th e Mauritius, Achilles, for Sydney, and rest of the outward b oun d. R ema i n the Larkins, Ingram, from Calcutta for London ; Frances, Yates, China. FALMOUTH, FEB. 22.—Wind E.S.E. to S. S.E., light breezes with fog.—Arrived off port the Thomas Bold, Broad hurst, from Bombay—sailed the 20th October. Sailed the Agnes, White, for Alexandria : Iberia steamer, Cooper, for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar. THE MARKETS.-YESTERDAY. CORN EXCHANGE. There have been very few vessels with Corn fresh up since Monday. The trade languid for every article, and prices unvaried. The demand for Flour at the advanced rates, was limited. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. There was a large supply of Game and Poultry, and the trade was lively, but the rates of Saturday were barely main tained. Meat was in good supply, and trade rather lively ; prices as follow :—Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 2d. ; Mutton, 2s. 10d. to 3s. 10d. ; Veal, 3s. Sd. to ss. 6d. ; and Pork, 3s. Bd. to 4s. Sd. per stone of 8 lb. COLONIAL MARKET. Few sales were made by private treaty, and the public sales of Sugar and Coffee went heavily At rather lower rates. The arrivals were to a fair extent from most parts. TEA MARKET. The market was dull for free trade, and former rates were barely supported. For Company's Congou, however, the de mand was steady at Is. 7d. cash. TALLOW MARKET. The demand for Russia Tallow was steady on the spot, and prices firm at 465. to 465. 3d. per cwt. For delivery not much has been done, but no sellers under 465. for the last three months. FRUIT MARKET. The arrivals large, and the demand dull for both Raisins and Currants, and prices a downward tendency. COAL MARKET. Ships arrived since last market day, 70. s. d. Adair's 21 a Cart's Hartley 22 6 Dean's Primrose lB 0 Hebburn Main Lease's Main Ord's ltcdhugh lB 6 Smith's Pontop 2O 0 New 1 anfield Moor West Hartley .......... Wylans ........ ....... Walls End Bewicke and C. , 23 11 Walls End Charlaw 2O C Walls End Clarke and Co 2l 0 Walls End .losforth Walls e'nd Heaton 6l Walls End Hutton 19 0' Walls End Hotspur k2 Walls End Killingworth 15 3 1 Walls End Nowmarch 22 91 Walls End Perkins 22 Walls End.Riddell's s. d. Walls End Belmont 25 3 W.IE. Braddyll'ailettou... 26 0 Walls End East Hetton 13 Walls End Haswel . 26 0 Walls End Hetten • Walls End Lambton Walls End Pemberton 22 6 Walls End Whitwch ...... 25 3 Walls End Howden 2t 0 Tennant's Hartlepool '26 0 Walls End Thornley 24 6 Walls End Brown's Deanery 24 n Walls'End Clarence Hetton 22 0 Walls End Clareenee Tees 21 o Walls End Cornforth 23 0 W2lls i end Gordon tI WaTleEnd South Durham 24 n Wal a End Tees . 425 Walls End West Tees 22 ti Walls End Wear 20 6 Walls End Wilton Park 23 0 (From the London Nets Price Current of February 23.) SUGAR.—The British Plantation Sugar Market has as sumed a dull aspect, the demand from both grocers and re finers has been very limited for all descriptions since our last report, the purchases not exceeding 480 hhds and tierces ; the small supply, however, has prevented any m a t er i a l var i at i on i n prices, in some cases, lowever, a slight reduction has been sub mitted to for the lower descriptions ; with bright yellow sorts. the market has been scantily supplied; St. Lucia, of damp and low heavy quality has been disposed of at 70s ; Demerara low middling yellow rather bright 74s ; Antigua, good 80s. To-day the West India market was in a dull state, both Grocers and Refiners buying with mu c h cau ti on , and the sales amounted to only 150 hhds and tierces ; although the quantity of Sugar on show was small, still prices gave way a little, and the reduction since Tuesday last amounts to 6d to Is on brown and middling yellow sorts; but good and fine have nearly maintained the previous value, they being very scarce ; middling bright yellow Demerara sold to-day at 755 to 76s per cwt. REFINED.—For Refined Goods prices have given way a little ; Standard Lumps 97s 6d to 98s ; Tittlers and Hambro Loaves, fine 103 s to 106 s, good 99s to 102 s, ordinary 98s, brown Lumps low to fine 93s to 965. Treacle common at 34s 6d to 355; Patent 36s to 375, best old make 39s to 40s, and golden syrup 41s to 42s ; for Bas tards former rates have been supported. For Pieces a fair demand has existed ; fine sorts at 86s to 89s, and other kinds at 78s to 84s per cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar at 32s 3d for first quality. Leaves, 101bs and 141bs, at 36s 6d to 38s. Treacle at 14s 9d to 15s. Bastards and Pieces at former rates. Dutch Crushed Sugar at 30s 9d to 31s on board. The - home trade to-day purchased sparingly of Refined Goods, and lower rates were submitted to, standard lumps selling at 97s per cwt. Treacle met with a slow sale; common at 345, and other sorts at 35s to 41s per cwt. Bastards and Pieces moved off slowly at the rates quoted. Bonded Crushed Sugar was in good request, and few sellers under 32s 6d per cwt for first sorts. Mau RITIUS.-This afternoon the trade evinced little desire to purchase, and at the public sales the bidding' were very languid, 8,546 bags were offered, not half found buyers, and and prices declined 2s to 3s for brown and mid yellow sorts, and Is to is 6d for good and fine ; black brown went at 4bs to 50s, low mid and mid 54s to 595, good mid bright to fine 60s to 68s, low yellow 69s to 71s, mid 72s to 745, good mid to good 75s to 78s, tine 79s to 81s 6d, mid and good greyish 70s to 75s per cwt.-01 EAST INDIA.-The home trade have purchased sparingly of Bengal, and prices have further given way for all, descrip tions ; middling white at 795, good . 81s, damps and washed 76s to • 795, low damp brown 5Gs, washed 53s 6d, low dabs 48s to 525, low and good middling sound brown 53s to 625, yellow 65s to 70s; 150 casks fine strong bright yellow fetched 75s to 76s per cwt, brown at 655, yellow 775, and very fine .white at 84s ; Java at rather lower rates ; brown and low grey kinds went at 22s 6d to 24s 6d, a few lots good dry white sold at 26s Gd to 28s. This afternoon few sales were made privately in Bengal ; 494 bags brown at auction went rather lower, viz. at 50s to 52s for damp greyish quality. FO It EIG N.-Brazil held firmly. For yellow Havannah prices remain firm. Porto Rico at 23s per cwt. 31oLASSES.—WtSt India at former rates; Antigua, fine has been sold at 33s to 39s ; Demerara, good fair 32s ; Barbadoes went at 33s for good quality, Trinidad at 30s 6d to 31s for common quality, and Sugar and Molasses went at 29s to 29s 6d. To-day in West India rather lower rates were accepted in some cases. COFFEE.—The demand has been limited for clean descrip tions of British Plantation since Tuesday last, and prices have given way Is Od to 2s per cwt. This afternoon the market presented a quiet aspect ; by private treaty few purchases were made in any kind, for either home use or export, and prices have still a downward ten dency. The stock of East India has greatly accumu lated during the last few days. At public sale 1,540 bags Company's Java, and 284 bags Ceylon were offered; the former was mostly disposed of, but at a reduction on the rates of Friday of 2s per cwt, good ord pale went at 55s to 55s 6d, good ord pale greenish 56s (id to 57s ; the latter sold at 70s to 70s 6d for good ord, being Is to is 6d under the prices of Friday. Sumatra, Padang, Rio, and St. Domingo are offered on rather lower terms. The Dutch Trading Company have declared 400,900 bags of Coffee for sale next mon th. • For auction to-morrow 1,600 bags Ceylon, and 600 bags other East India sorts are declared. COCOA.—For West India prices are firm; fine red Trinidad at 56s to 58s, middling and good 50s to 5 - is per cwt. Prices have improved for Foreign, Bahia good red at 42s to 43s 6d, and one lot inferior 41s 6d per cwt. TEA.—The market for Free Trade has presented a more lively appearance since this day week : a fair demand has pre vailed for most descriptions for actual consumption, but im porters having brought large parcels to public sale, has pre vented any improvement in prices, and they remain much the same as on Tuesday last for black , but g reen is rather dearer _ in some cases. To-day the transactions in Fr ee Trade were onl y to a li mited extent by private treaty , and former rates were barel y sup ported - Common Congou for cash was however not to be had under' ' der' Is bid per lb. At ;public sale, 2,036 packages were offered, at which the biddings were languid, and not above half found buyers rather under the prices of Friday ; Congou but middling rather strong old and flat went at Is 8d ls 7d to Is 7id, scented Caper stronKlittle old Twanka Y , but mid strong r a th er ' coarse Is 70 t o Is 73d; Hyson Skin mid rather stro ng is 7lid to ; un is bid to thereG powder , is a fai r amount of is 6d ; Hyson, good strong 4 s to 4 s 2 d, mid 2s 8d to 2s 9d , T but mid rather strong and rather coarse 2 s lid to 2s 2d • -m -1 3 p s er i ial ocL , butinmtihdessptroenegulbatuirynet rather market lO d ; good strong business done, and Company's Congou closed at is 60 to and sp p i rci : e s s .— ha l v l e e gil te n ma m r ,ay i has id bpeeerniblim; Is 7d cash, buyers on change at the former rate. has been sold at 6d to is for low i l ted vhit f e or i Bh"r---- .ll PepPer, to good qualit n y. s. Fo i r p rassi l t s t m way is 6cl to 2s per cwt, but Lignea on Wednesday prices gave on Friday buyers tame forward gar. has sway. rvi ore freely. East India Gin . Ilea and prices aro firm ;I gales of • , MORNING EDITION middling and good Bengal have been made privately at 16 st 18s 6d ; West India has supported former prices. To-day, Cassia Lignea was sought after by the shippers, and some parcels were disposed of privately at 90s to 92s for mid dling quality. RlCE.—Bengal has been only in limited request, and prices declined 3d to 6d for common sorts, but the better kinds have brought former rates; Java, good mid white went at Ils, mid 9s 6d to 10s, ordinary mixed with Paddy Ss 6d to 9s. Madras is held for previous rates. Carolina at 34s to 36s for home use, and 22s for export. To-day there was a better disposition evinced to purchase Bengal, and some parties were not disposed to sell at former ( rates, sales of fair middling white were made at 13s to 13s 3d per cwt. Java in small parcels fetched full prices. Rum, BRANDT, AND HOLLANDS.—The transactions in Rum have been limited, and the total purchases since this day week have not exceeded 150 puns, holders however have dis played firmness, and the rates previously established have been supported for all sorts : proof Leewards have realized 2s 7d. Government have advertised for 100,000 gallons, half to be East India. The arrivals have been large during the past week. For old sorts of Brandy a fair demand has existed, sales of 7 836 having been made at 5s 6d in hhds, and 5s 4d in puns ; but new kinds move off slowly at former rates. Geneva steady at former prices. The demand has been dull for British Corn Spirits, at IC's cash. TALLow.—For :Russian prices have given way since this day week 6d per cwt. On the spot holders have accepted 46s 3d for P. Y. Candle, prices have given way to 46s for delivery in the last three-. months of the year; South American has met with a slow sale, and lower prices have been sub mitted to, good and fi ne que :lit y at 44s to 45s 6d per cwt. Town Tallow has brought hight:.r rates. To-day the market was quiet, and 46s to 46s 3d, the value of P. Y. Candle on the spot, sellers for delivery in March and April at 45s 9d, and for the last three months at 46s per cwt. Ons.—The market has presented a firm aspect for all sorts of common Fish Oils since this day :week, and prices have im proved a little ; pale Seal has realized 321. to 321. 10s ; brown 271t0 28/, yellow and straw colour 281. lOs to 301. Cod 261. 15s to 271; Southern, fine 29/ to 291 105, middling and good 271 lOs to 28/ 10s, ordinary 261 leis to 27/. In Linseed Oil prices have advanced Is 6d. ; on the spot sales have been made at 27s 6d to 28s, and for delivery at 28s 3d to '.28 ,3 6d. In Rape, prices have given way a little, 46s is the vAlue of pale, and 45s to 45s 6d for brown. Cocoa Nut at 38s to 40s for good and fine quality. In Palm prices have a davvnward tendency, 331 lOs to 34/ is the value of the first sort. Spanish at 641 to 651, and Gallipoli 691 per tun. SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. 1 Barley. Oats. Beans. Oaten 50 to 60 26 to 26 13 to 22 38 43 1l 24 16 IS _ 4, 50 24 26 17 18 — 30 48 65 126 31 18 22 2 26 4, s 68 126 49 23 27 140 42 53 54 26 27 20 28 4S 58 .i t i . 60 27 30 21 20 32 33 36 , i: 18 22 16 23 SI 23 62 07 1 -7: . 60 1 , 33 45 4s 60 '4 I3q 40 ,2! 35 41 44 I use of the measure varied ,througuout the country. ft ADDINGI'OR CORN it:ARKET. Wheat. Barley. Oats. I I ease. i 71s Ed 34s Od 50i Oel 37► 04 Gls Od 30s 6d 25s CR —s 6 , 1 156 s Od 20s Od 23s 0./ —s S. d eragc 00000 sop . •••••••••••••• 31. 04 101 o.l2ths. DALKEMEI CORN MARKET. Wheat. Marley, Oats. Pease. 635 Co 335 04 •29s 4cl 41s Ctil 61s Od 30s Od 54s 4d 37s 021 . 45s 64 25s Od 145 , 8d 30s 01 J GLASGOW CORN Mt ItKET. Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. Uata; per 2041 b. %..!. g, t.. British, old 32 6t035 6 1ri.b............ l7 oto2o 0 --- new ..... Canada, free 0 0 Bears, per 2601 b. Irish Barley, per 32018 Scottish 2O 0 21 0 English 26 0 2S 6 Pease, Scottish ...... 22 6 23 0 Scottish.,... O2 0 24 6 Oatmeal, per 1:'01b.... 17 0 19 0 Irish kbcrdee. Berwick.... ** Coldstream Cupar (Fife) Dunbar Elgin ...... Inverness Kelso . ..... to 32 33 to :15 23 35 . • Kirkaldy Perth ,1;:r The - -, 43 - First .«. Second Third Beans. 45s Od SBs Od 38s Od First Second Third Kerns 4I: Oct 374 Oa 30i Od IRISH MARKETS. DUBLIN MARKET NOTE for the WEEK endimgFEß.l9. To 37 6 663 0 728 1,03 562 i Average, 1 32 9 From NVheat,per barrel tit. stone.... 27 0 Bere 16 e 0 Barley Oats 14 stale.... 11 0 Flour, per cwt 8 5t0ue...... 0 Oatmeal 8 stone.... 12 0 Sold to Bakers only. 14,988 Cwt. Flour.— .. .. .......... 9 0 I 21 0:I 23 Or Average price of Wheat and our 51. Sd per sack from 22s Od to 24s Oct: Receipts of Flour, 8,314 seconds . from Od. to 21..0 t t Solos of Do. 11,964. Thirds .. from 9s. Od. to 128 Od 00 0 0 16 6 0 0 13 0 11 7 0 1 0 13 6 1 13 1 PRICE OF BREAD. Quartern boat 9d. Half Qwirtern CORK MARKETS.—Feb. 20. Wheat (per 205t.)23s 01, tt. 335. 31. i Oats (per 14st. 9 .9d. to 12 s. 3d Barley (per 165t.)10 0 13 6 !Flour (per cwt )...11 it :24 U Oatmeal (per " Od to WA Beef, 4d. to 7,L—Mutton, 611. tn6at.—Veal, 4d to 6cll Pork, 4id. to_sd.—Fresh Butter, 10d. to lid per lb. PRICE OF_BUTTIL R. To the Merchants. To the Country; First 06 8..••••••••••••••••.• • e.o.m.*. • t)6, second ••••••••••• 1 05 ••••••••••• • ...Poo ..••• •• 95 Third . 00000000000 •• • •••••••••••••••• 99 et) Fourth 0000000000 ess•s••••••••••••• t • 93 ..mstsssamoses......—....... ..... 83 Fifth _ _ _.......... •••••••• Sixth 00000000 -•••"••••"•"•.• • CLONMELL Per s. d. a. d. e , d. s. d. New Butter ..... oto PO 0 'fides tc 24 0 OatmeaL 12 0 12 3 8ac0nng5.......... 36 C 40 0 !tendered Lard 0 o 2 .. 0 i. 79 ............. KETS :0 Cwt.: 44 61 0 30 0 42 01-- F0urtiu5......22 0 Per Barre!. 3ape5eed..............20 0 —OI Barley 13 0 14 0 ***** 8 4 10 OCaals ••••••••••••••11•90... flour, 5ec0nd....... 0 —Household...—. 0 KILKENNY Wheat.per barrel)3os. Od.to 372.0 d. Barley 0 22 0 Lacs ...... 14 ft Flour (per bag)....30 0 40 0 Ilutter(percwt.)...9o 0 953 0 Bacon Pigs 13 0 36 0 Coals 1 0 1 2 MA 'MEM. Beef ' . x Oa. Od. ke Os. Od Iduttc 0 5 0 8 Pork ts 4 0 V es , 0 6 0 7 i•resh But:er 1 0 Salt Ditto ..... 0 6 1G rotatoes ;per st.) L 2 b THE WEATHER. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE- STREET. NooN. FEB. 24. Barometer 3O 37 In. Thermometer Highest ..... 41 . 5 Lowest Wind E.S. E.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. FROM TUESDAY'S GAZETTE. March 18. H. Prior, Sise-lane, City, stationer, at half-past:. eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy—March 17. A. Dickey,, Old Jewry, linen-factor, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy —March 16. 11. Coates, Colchester, Essex, cattle-dealer, at twelve, at the Castle Inn, Colchester—March 2. R. Sheppard, Boston, Lincolnshire, corn merc h an t, a t one, at the Peacock Inn, Boston—March 17. C. Johnson, Glamford Briggs, Lin colnshire, innkeeper, at one, at the Lion Hotel, Glamford Briggs—March 23. J. Fletcher, Liverpool, merchant, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool—Ma rc h 16. J. Snelling, Mes sing, Essex, grocer, at one, at the Cups Hotel, Colchester— March 18. C. Honey, Littlemore, Oxfordshire, corn-d ea l er , at twelve, at the Townhall, Oxford—March 24. T. Wharton, Wyton, Yorkshire, merchant, at twelve, at the George Inn, Kingston-upon-Hull—March 24. E. Thompson, Kingston upon- Hull, merchant, at the George Inn, Kingston -upon- Hull—March 26. A. Ayre, Seaham Harbour, Durham, grocer, at twelve, at the Bridge Hotel, Bishop Wearmouth—March 17. J. Stripling, Liverpool, ship-chandler, at one, at the Cla rendon Rooms,Liverpool—March 19. W. and J. Sharrocks, Manchester, machine-makers, at eleven, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester—March 20. J. Stelfox, Manchester, mer chant, at ten, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester— March 18. J. Goudie, Liverpool, merchant, at two, at the e Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester—March 17. G. Burnett;, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, merchant, at twelve, at the Banizrxrpt Commission Rooms, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—March 19. Meatyard, Bristol, ironmonger, at the Commercial Roans, Bristol CERTIFICATES.-111A ACH 16. J. S. Janion, Kingsley, Cheshire, maltster—B, Roberta, Bristol, scrivener—C. S. Jackson, Leeds, woollen-cloth mer chant —B. Barnsley, Greet's-green, West Bromwich, builder— J. Coleman, Ipswich, builder—G. Wood, Loughborough, wharfinger—W. J. Simpson, Reading, brickmaker—J. G. Canuell, East Dereham, harness-maker—T. Marshall, Ilkeston, grocer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. E. Paul and E. Sellers, Balham, Surrey, linen-drapers—. E. Hughes and M. Bates, Richmond, Surrey, bazaar-keepers i —T. Powell and G. Parker, Warrington, tea-dealers—T , Longden and R. Ford, Liverpool, victuallers—W. R. Web b and V. L. Chemery, Knightsbridge, wine-merchants—J. Scar es and E. M. Williams, Bouverie-street, printers--H. and F.I. Gill, Leicester, woolstaplers—R. and T. Ingram, Little Sh - ar rock and Orsett, Essex, farmers—S. Runciman and A. Ro berts, Hove, Sussex, schoolmistresses—W. Hok len and Co., Chorley, Lancashire, cotton-manufacturers—W.' .Hall and E. E. Marsh, Speenhamland, Berkshire, booksellers- -E. Barton and G. Esplin, Wigan, Lancashire, clock-makers- -W. Brad ley and E. Parry, Great Guildford -street, South) vark, iron founders—T. Netherwood and J. Lockwood, Si. Ting - lar.T' Upperthong, York s hi re , woo ll en c l o th manufactu rers— , ri Vergette and Co.,_ Peterborough, ' .Curers —R. G. Wolf, Moorgate-street, pianoforte manufat —R. Nichols and C. Nichols, Wakefield, bookseller —A. ri rs G. Thompson and Co., Ashton-under -Lyre, linen-drapers s . p: s . u. as woollen-drapers—I' • Wolf Turner and Co., Woodbridie, 'and Co., regards R. Turnerayler7-(.7 wad enter F. Potter a'nd Habergham Eaves, Lancashire, ship a as rp far as regards F. Po t.. Co., Manchester, commission agents,dy and M. Hutchinson, Bris.- ter and G. A. Ascoli—Q- Ken" - and Co Selby, Yorkshire Adamson •, ) are-merchant, tol, corn merchants—J Suffoll, p.pp.edringtmdothn QUESTRATIONS. SCOTCH SE wharfingers, as far as reg i ards: 'V I; bUrgh, plumber, March 1 and 24, at. n A an d , ams c o a n rt , h s e e n n w . Jon N GA LL1R,....t..11 Cofleee-house, Edinburgh. one, at the Royal Exchange THOMAS Cita:Ks/4s° , Feb. 26 and March 19, at twelve, ~ at the Q ueens b ury Arms Inn Annan , Josh ~,c , „E , Linwood, Renfrewshire, sh oema k er, ni Feb. 27 an d March 27 , at twelve, at the Sara cen ' s H ead, Paisley. Ar.ix.alwait 111 Neu, Glasgow, spirit-dealer, March 1 and March 22, at one, at the office of M. Waddell, writer, Glasgow. Jour: PLUMMER, Edinburgh, flesher, Feb. 27 an d March 24, at two, at the Old Signet Hall, Royal Exchange, Edinburgh. A , C M _NTT-CORN-LAW _E T E R T m IN I.. G m._ A A T m S ee T ti O ng ClC : Po f great importance, 2, ed with the question of t he repeal of the Corn laws, took place at the Court house, at Stock port, this evening. It was called in pursuance of a reso lution passed by the Council of the Anti-Corn-law League for communicating with the various constituencies of the kingdom, with a view to promote the return of Members pledged to the a b o li t i on of the Corn-laws. The meeting .was attended by a great nu different p arts of the kingdom, andof deputies from by a considerable number of merchants from Manchester, Liverpool, and the surrounding districts of Ashton, 13olton, Black burn, Hyde &c., &c. The Court-house, the largest pulelle building in the town, was completely crowded at the hour fixed f or th e mee ti ng . Alderman Baker took the chair. The meeting was addressed by a numbs r of able speakers, whe urged the hardship and injustice imposed meeting contains a:n s _ ~t the a s t pi i r n i t the ot' upon the manufacturing interests to benefit the laud_ owners. wllseersn.timTenhtes thatfollopwei o pi n i on o f thi s meeting the corn and prevision s l aws are based they con f er fleeting advantage s on one class ofn injustice;thecoinmuDity, at the expense of a ll ot h er c l asses; pervaded d re s ol ution ed ee they are at variance with Scripture, with every sound prin ciple of political economy, end every maxim of wise legis and ibis meeting of th e e l ectors o f S toc k port themselves to support, at t h e next election, such i n id e; ates only tie will vote f or t h e i mme di ate abolition of t epi li le a tnig corn and provision laws." This, and all the other re solutions proposed, Were unanimously carried, and the meeting adjourned. rc; . !:.!fsr,. r~ ~~ .