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-.--.-.....----..--..'- ~ 41ORNI NC EDITION. T -4—'-- 11 E PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. .AniE s AND GENTLEMEN, 8 le day fixed i'.'! tur_ ELECTION of S'l`: DIRECT^RS, is - .1-}c , ci94. m jeil takethe liberty of most •a nestly renewing my soii,i ls for the honour of your support on that occasion ; and, si o , u s° d °ing'. I beg respectfully to remind you that my preten sw_° Your favour are founded on a period of thirty years' spinTelrent in the Civil Service of the East India Company, finally terminated by my having been entrusted with the haroor four years, of the highest and most important g6,..g'of your affairs in China. I may further add, that a land intimate knowledge of Indian interests, with which I ketobei.ou connected from the earliest period of my life, induces is l t,,_'°P? you will confide in me for the future exertion of my pr,„Zergtes in promoting the moral, religious, and temporal is t ;,;r r itY of India. The strong as- urances of support I have ISIAC from all quarters since the last Election, enable me to 544 4 ward to th e result of the present contest with the most l itne e : l , l 3 9Pos of succe s s, an d I h ave on ly to express my thanks to my supporters, and to request a continuance . 11 1 ! &bad exertions until the termination of the Ballot. e 4n ."e, in accordance with the usual practice on such occa shl Elterted the names of the Five Ex-Directors with my Iph rt i l o the Et a u o „. Tag ' _, Lit Lists ; and also in the Proxy Papers, k to I shiLti shortly have the honour to transmit to you, svid I 1401 trust to the kind indulgence of such Proprietors upon leek ) ! he're net been able recently to call, to pardon this 4 ttep r i s _g n egligence on my part ; thu great press of bu-iness ii tt -. Wt. 04 's uc h will, I feel confident, plead my 44 , 410gy. a canvass, l hare the honour to be, with the greafost respect, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most obedient humble servant. 8 , b e W. H. CHICHELEY PLOWDEN. yonshire-place, 29th March, 1841. plovv,fen' s C omm i ttee s i t da i ly at the L on d on T avern, toti'LPlPte-strect and a commun'cation from such Prnprie- SZ may have c h ange d' their residence, is earnestly re -"verk,to be sent there for the due transmission of their Proxy CONTRACTS FOR STAVES. DEPART/MENT OF THE COMPTROLLER FOR pt 1.1 VICTUALLING AND TRANSPORT SER VICES, SOMERSET-PLACE, MAtten 31, 1841. COMMISSIONERS for ED EXECUT 54,10 the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of `411)1, I KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE .O hereby give Notice, that on THURSDAY, the Bth 1 1 , 441 :r Xt, at O ne o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such i hsti ll .'s may be willing to Contract for supplying and de. IStra * into her M a j esty ' s Vi ctua lli ng S tores at D ept f or d, t h e • en tioned Articles, viz.:— 11 AL NEV STAVES. TIC PIPE. .5 ~ 11 9 , 0 Mille Great Tale. 441V ER EC PIPE 50 k ‘ NI each to be delivered by the Ist October next, and Aikr,2" by the 28th February, 1842. V 0! the Baltic Staves will be exhibited at the Vic he 41 . at Deptford. ,Ni FEW:4°ns of the Contract may be seen at the said Office. P e st*, end " will be received after one o'clock, on the day of ser4 !or any noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent ,44.,,'"„,41Y authorized in writing. . it ,t rit ; ender must be addressed to the Secretary of the A dmi 7so bear in the left hand corner the words " Tender for 17. sa nd must also be d e live r ed a t Somerset-place, accom a4l,34 a Lett er s i gne d b y two respons ibl e Persons, engaging ~ e bound with the Person tendering in the sum of t i . sL 4l s "lts on the value, for the due performance of the • ~,,:4 -----i i , C,JCWALL RAILWAY.—The RE- L , Pi •••',SHMENT ROOM at the Station on the Bruns. tt er ls • ' - • Lsf A . ,-.lackwall, will be OPEN on SATURDAY, the 't. enl, and every subsequent day during the Railway tiri .------ -X1 .------ ' s'bON AND BRIGHTON RAIL WAY COMPANY. t,.I4st,„,NGINE DRIVERS AND FIREMEN. Ils e A " t ECTORS of this COMPANY are prepared to ed'PPlications in writing from experienced and well )2littjersons desirous of being engaged in the above il, i''', situations. Testimonials, stating where last ern- Th'l4 l :,,,De forward e d to the und e rsi gn ed on o r bef or e Satur ,' • . all inst. By order, , ' 6 ,4 THOMAS WOOD, Secretary. 4 Is\s,_...t., Throgmorton.street, April 2, 1841. R OCHESTER and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. Itills r o , TENDERS FOR LOANS. I,,. I ItECTORS of the MANCHESTER and BIR- I ittii42 l RAILWAY COMPANY are now prepared ijti , ), 1 MORTGAGES (under the powers of their Act Otki,,, e . tuent) of t h e TOLLS an d WORKS o f th e i r un - Oa as a security for Loans of Money, in sums of not C,I, 5 00/. o n e a c h m o r t gage , an d f or th e p er i o d s o f 7ett'..,' six. and seven years, at the opti o n of the lender. etk, "osants, calculated at the ra'e of 5!. per cent. per ii,,'4llle'st.t ° d payable at the Company's hankers, in Loudon or n the half-yearly days on which the interest will , e t d o tie during the whole period of the Loan, will be de- Oti tsui t , lie Lender with the mortgages. jrs, explaining the peculiar eligibility of this sef.u rt-Jde obtained at the Company's Offices, No. 43, 1 i . c-- Pktis,:quichester ; or at the office of Slater and Heelis, "sent, Manchester. THOMAS ASHTON, Chairman. 'qehftter, Janear l2th, 1841. Ilk ' Y I to ' 1 ,- n - GENERAL STEAM NAVIGA -01/ei,b,;-iiNnTaArIePA appointedN Y' S s t p o le s n a d il id fo a r n — d powerful first-class 1 9cfßcu, from Brunswick-wharf, Blackwell, every eh a nd alternate Wednesday Evening, at Ten. The CL A -1/441 1klt; To -night • the MONARCH, Wednesday, the 7th ; 11 4 1 , 0 , Saiurday, the 10th. k '',,ASTL E, from Downes's-wharf, every Wednesday and It() ,vorening, at Eight. The ATTWOOD, Wednesday ; 1 / 441 1 131,4,"0N MERCHANT, Saturday. 'I,."ERI..iNEO , from Downes's-wharf. The TOURIST, ktittArlaY Evening, at Seven. g i , °I.JTH, from London bridge-wharf. The RAMONA, kiaiitt!irdav E ven i ng, at Si x. Iit I CH, from London-bridge Wharf. The ALBION p v omisdav and Saturday mcrning, at Eight. 6 ,1 7 ... . re he r ih s , an d f or a ll i n f ormat i on, app l y at the Offices 4 4 7 3 Pany, 69, Lombard-street ; 37, Regent-circus ; and Nkiklienhall-street. I P acka,, , res and Parcels are received at the Offices, and Locids at the respective Wharfs. ,;, ~..________________ AL and GENERAL LIFE ASSUR iotie ANCE OFFICE—APRIL 2. 1841. Fll iG of the hereby given,MEMBERS that t of this SOCIETI he ANNUAL G ursu ant EER d eed t hs, p of Settlement, will be held at the Office of the ' No. 10, Fleet-street, London, on MONDAY, the 19th $ ,Np, will be taken at One o'Clock precisely. kLeancies occasioned by Four of the Directors and Two 4h 'utlitors going out of office on that day, will then be v* The Directors and Auditors going out are re-eligible. • • By Order of the Board of Directors, T. R. EDMONDS, Actuary. 1 1 :11, ----- ---------- b,.. 4?:__IpTER LIFE ASSURA N CE an d It 'll i.C io N n UI r E Y st. c bl o . li e P d A in N l Y B:,6 9, Chatham P lace, ac - *tee DIRECTORS. J -ugh Havter Esq M.P. Robert Palk, Esq. To ° hllsto E- ' .. 4 „w. n, sq. John Louis Prevost, Esq. giro(' Kemble, Esq. S.:muel Smith, Esq. . aw Lefevre, F.R.S. Le Marchant Thomas, Esq. 4111 11 b TRUSTEES. A el con, Esq., John G. Shaw Lefevre, Esq., F.R. S., "'r Charles Johnston, Esq. Ilt t 4, in Advantages of this Office are -I,l4tate of Premium, without profits, .r an increased 6,eltium with participation in the profits of the Office. .7 13 w1rt,...are the annual Premiums required fort e as "' 1 00/. on a healthy life in either case : A t 's, - , l' PROFITS. \!,O it 4 A g e,3o - -"----. -----% lt d ` ......... i Age 401 Ageso, li i 4 ----J.- 2 2 li '' .OFITS. '_i ~?N ;, sits. e stud, J tc, both I print, re , 1,, Id whip s I beheve c r : : it Dimug d A find t! tile l'° °° , l l ;o I vo either. ds for ,s o howl imbrhge at o' f allowanCe i n his e!'' )irnself olye ;i;;n his s ltua e o t at his cios)r ino how tr w b e t himself to‘ 1 " 1 „ e d , i „, „4 „ f 4,110, The tso ro se ; situati 0 °3 A"' Edaon a the os' . 0 t he it o[4 I bees h a ving ie lent). butvo. ,r, ofßeet ud that of '" o r }en its sri n t ' o l. J o ur . Wig ei or Yto d i " 0 ' , on trJdi ct ° ;;us. Y/ ~~~ at , eli, 7 4 '4 1 4 .' 1 191° d 7 1 .'" 7 4 '4 it] 7 • 4 4 0 ...... • d o ;5, ... 7;4;it. - per, ve NW ' aP l ' d er l ie, o l o t° .bark e r tb a° • e ti I; . a ts t o o , s test four nole • e r t o cal' au w hit° °le cl. Do dors 0° er ), to 6 n alest i- 1 0. joe hth 1 , hig; ce° e eho e a s t hefe, 10 0 bei cola I!„reet : of s'"d, lip Abe l s°l o °. 60 t h fA n i '01 . 0;.;,;g9 Steb ° fSq.' 6 0)' ' H J. An"' )01- , to ern, f Abe nd , 03.1.4 1 ,; t :Je ° : of ° il l° Ater s 34 '' Wyi` e ' ;or( l ° ° ' t farm er , a Ag e' iv „ i ce co. C. I" B. B a r • 0 . 4 , Vign e ' r el o ga ret; , g ed F ee t, I%e - f -sts J f e the : rat lOr nrad3bal Of eon, late roin WI ill PR, Age 20.1 Age 30.1 Age 40. I Age I£ s. d.ll£ s. d I£ c. d.l£ s. d.i£ c. d. sti (2 fi iiri 0 811116 1112 9 2(3 6 fi, k ll4 e:, 181 " -- of the profits will take place quinquennially. N I ; km eerus after three annual premiums shad have been Vtv, t i l l Parties can receive their bonuses in a present sum, 'No t , ' 4l applied in augmentation of their Policies, or in w i tttu. 4 f their future Premiums. 1„'ll e g ln'ay contract t. pay their Premiums either in one eil,,, s 'oven number of payments, in annual, half-yearly, or kb:wie e ; P a rents, or en the ascending or descending scale. :lifki., be the Army and Navy, when in active service, Per `4 with chrsnie and other diseases, and such as are i 12/1d the limits of Europe, are also Assured at Mode \ ‘ qi ) I , I S/ holders have a right to attend the General Meetings, 114 tp ki e r t ! t e Auditors report annually the state of the Cora tt atm 1411 Oft etu ges, and all necessary inforination, may be ebtained ce 114 2 MICHAEL SAWARD, Secretary. SALES BY AUCTION. -.01,.. P.htLIGIBLE INVESTMENT AT DOVER. t, 414 ik t LAMB respectfully informs the Noblity, 4 ~t, t. 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No pains or expense will be spared te render the BRITISH QUEEN and STATESMAN the first Weekly Jou"nal in eAistence ; and it is in consequence hoped that it will receive that support from the public to which its unrivalled merits will justly entitle it. All letters, communications, and suggestions to be addressed to the Editor of THE BRITISH QUEEN AND STATESMAN. A SPLENDID PORTRAIT OF HER MAJESTY Will be GIVEN, GRATIS, with This Day's Number. POLITICAL SUMMARY. OF THE MORNING JOURNALS. The Morning Advertiser Of ye - terlay thus comments on Mr. Gladstone's late Speech in the Commons, on the third reading of the Jews' Declaration Bill :—" Mr. Gladstone appears to entertain an opinion that the honesty- and 03c- Reientiousness of the Jews might become too conspicuous in the House cf Commons, where those qualities are so g!aringly deficient amongst its soi disant Christian Mem bers. Mr. Gladstone assumes what the whole duty cf corporate bodies is "the promotion of Christian objects," and for this the Jews as a class "are disqualified. Faith, or the profession of faith, in the Christian dispensation, as is daily evidenced by the High Churchmen, is far different from the practice of Christianity. Faith, however, is not to be forced by Acts of Parl'ament." The Times, sPe . akie g of Thursday's debate oa the Poor-'aw Bill, says--" It is true that Ministers were compelled, reluctantly enough, to abandon certain clauses. But what does the cou ntry ga i n b y this? To suffer so much evil less than we were threatened with iit:oot to gain a victory, or to obtain substantial relief. ..EVery man in the fieuse of Corrimons knows that the 140,000 persons who have sent in their remonstrances againet this bill, did so, not because they wished to expunge this or that claw, but because they were dissatisfiedioith the working of the existing law, and required a relaxation of its se verity, instead of a further development of its principles. Let those who desire to give such an account of their stewardship as may prov e sat i s f actory t o th ose 140,000 petitioners, be able to show that their votes have tended to introduce some positive arneadment into the existing system." The Morning Post allude* in the following terms to Mr. Macntilay's speech on Wednesday night in The House of Commons :—" He either produces laughter by his pom pous arrogance, or disgust by his servile malignity. It is his misfortune to mistake insojence for intrepidity, nand noise for energy. Thus he roes dorig--frat` ienteueelto sentence, exhibiting the shallowness of his conception, and the bi cotry of his party feeling, while you may read in the gross conceit imprinted upon his vulgar visage his own opinion that he has been showing off the liberality of his knee ledge, at the same .time that he has been spreading the knowledge of his liberal ty." The Morning Chronicle observes, in the course of a leading article suggested by the Jews' Declaration Bill : " Whither a person of one religion should be taxed for repairing, or building, or endowing, the churches of an other religion, is a question of common justice, not of theological creed. He who answers it one way for his own religion, and another for his neighbour's religion, thus making money's worth of his faith at others' expense, is quoad hoc a dishonest man. His " religious associations" are a very pa!t-y apology. Nur does the excuse become more sound if, instead of a direct and gross transfer of cash, the monopoly c rvetird is one of municipal office, or legislative authority, or any other of the forms of temporal good in which a monopoly has been claimed on the pre text cf peculiar spirituality." FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) _ . . . . . . The Poor-law question brings no luck to those who use it for oblique purposes; and if it helps to inflate the double she •t cf the Tithes, it does not help its readers through it. We a . c also glad to see that those who act independently ate not injured with the public, nor apparently with their constituents. This is the case ie the metropolitan be rouell, where the greatest (irons have been made to agitate the popular feeling on this much-vexed subject. Mr. Howes, the Member for Lambeth, has always ex pressed himself most d e cidedly, in Parliament, and at election ineetirgi, on the side stigmatised as unpopular, without losing any support in that extensive suburban constituency. The same might be said of Mr. Ward, the Member for Sheffield, and many others ; and Mr. Grote staved last night to the House, that " whatever might be said of the unpopularity of the New Poor-law, he could say that in the three unioriS which he bad the honour to represent—the three unions of the City cf London—tf e feeling that some time since existed against the New Poor-law had almost altogerh,r sub sided." There can be no doubt that the better-informed classes in agricultural districts regard the new law as having produced good moral as eel as material effect so far as Lnteaching tl e mischievous lesson of parochial dependence to the labourers generally. We say nothing at present on a mere disputed point, the affect of the bastardy clauses—except that we think a gri vance has arisAl to families which have been injuted by seduction -.2 grievance for which the law of the land, if not specially the Poor-law, should affo. d a remedy. Our appre hensims as to the permanence of the benefits expected from th.! New Poor-law proceed from other considerations than arc usually bestowed on the subject. A poor-law can work well or ill in a country only as the other laws, by which that country is gov,rned, render it prosperous or the reve. se, The be.;t Poor-law in a country whose prosperity is declining, cannot possibly work well, because the pressure upon its machinery tai I be such as no machinery of the kind can support. In such a country, the fund from which wages are paid is dirnini,hing. Able-bodied labour thr.rws itself on compulsory charity. If that charity is given liberally, the pressure is felt more and more upwards. The end is a real confiscation of property, and sacrifice of all classes to the bee it—and gra hie' dec ty becomes precipitate ruin. If r..litf is given sparingly (as it must be, in such circum stances), then the demagogue's harvest ripen=. Double she( is of the Times expand. Finsbury sends forth her apostles of Liberal pauce:ism. The wrong; of paupers are made to engross the a;teatien due t) the public interests. Early in April will be published, Volume I. of a New Edition of THE HISTORY of SCOTLAND. By PATRICK FRASER TYTLER, Esq. This New Edition of " The History of Scotland " will be handsomely printed in post Bvo., and will consist of the same number of volumes as the First Edition. But the price of each volume will be only 65., half the price of the other ed . tion. A volume will be published on the last day of every alternate month until the completion of the new issue. Of the First Edition, seven volumes have already been published ; ar d it is confidently expected that the eighth vo lume will be published within ten months from this date, and will completo the history down to the union of the Crowns in 1603. Both the First :Edition, therefore, and this Cheap Edi tion will be completed, should health be granted to the author, in the course of the summer of next year (1842). " It is with great satisfaction that we hail the appearance of Mr. Tytler's seventh volume. One more will complete the work ; which we venture to predict will then become, and long remain, the standard History of Scotland."—Quarterly Review, March 1841. " See Sir Walter Scott's Review (in the Quarterly) of Vols. I. and 11. of Mr. Tytler's elaborate work ' • a work which he meant to criticise throughout in similar detail, for he con sidered it as avert' impor , ant work."—Lockhart's Life of Scott. William Tait, Edinburgh ; Longman and Co. ; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. ; Duncan and Malcolm ; Hamilton, Adams, and Co. ; and Whitaker and Co. London. Of any of whom Prospectuses may be had by any Retail Booksellers who will apply for them early next week. COTTLE'S GRANULES, or grains de sante. Angular particles for mixing in the food of children and adults, and insuring a daily action on the bowels by an operation totally mechanical and not medicinal. They form for all an effectual substitute for physic, of an agree able spicy taste. In Is. lid. packets, with practical data show ing that by their use in food infants may be reared safely with out the natural milk. By a Surgeon. Hannay and Deitrichsen, 63. Oxford-street, and all Chemists. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes Registered. in the week ending Saturday, the 27th March, 1841." The Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar-General:— Weekly Total. Average 183 S-9-40. Epide xnic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases l6O 204 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 147 151 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respirat:on Diseases of tlse Heat and Bloodvessels Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidrisls, Bcc. ... ........ ... 5 4 Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Museles Diseases of the Skin, &c 2 1 Diseases of Uncertain Seat Old Age, er Natural Decay B2 71 Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperance 22 25 Causes not specitied Deaths from all causes 865 —. Average Weekly Deaths Deaths in the Average Weekly Week. Deaths, 1838-9-4 .0 . Western Districts ... 110 ...... 139 North Districts Central. Districts lB2 ..... 190 East Districts lB3 ...... 211 South Districts ... CAUSES OF DEATH. Total 865 It is stated that under the term Metropolis are com prised the 32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of London within and without the walls, the City and Liberties of Westminster, the out parishes within the bills of mortality—and the parishes of St. Marylebone ; St. Pancras ; Kensington; Fulham ; Hammersmith (Chapelry) ; St. Luke, Chelsea; Paddington; St. Mary, Stoke Newington ; St. Leonard, Bromley ; St. Mary-le bow ; Camberwell ; Greenwich ; St. Nicholas and St. Paul, Deptford; and Woolwich. The population as enu merated in 1831 was 1,594,890. The weekly average for 1838, 1839, 1840, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the three years by 156. THE NUMBER OF DEATHS IN 12 WEEKS FROM EPIDEMIC DISEASES AND OTHER CAUSES. Small Pox .... • 5BB Asthma 706 Measles Scarlatina 155 Childbirth 122 Il'ioping Cough . ...... 601 Consumption Influenza All Causes 12,829 Pneumonia, Pleurisy, & Bronchitis 1,528 , Diarrhoea and Dysentery have been more fatal than is usual in the season ; Puerperal Fever has prevailed ; Small Pax, Measles and Scarlatina have gone on declining ; Hooping Cough and Influenza are the reigning epidemics. The influence of the cold weather was most remarkable in Inflammation of the Lungs, Asthma, and Paralysis. The deaths of persons above 60 amounted to 266 wrelly through the season, ot 56 per cent. above the average of the three years 1838-40. TEMPERATURE IN THE WEEKS ENDING MARCH 13 AND 20. March 20. March 27. 62' 64' 38 43 50 52 it 1, 1841. Highest Lowest Daily Mean .... ......... ... I General Register-office, Ape LIVING AND ORNAMENTAL FENCES.-.At a recent meeting of the Botanical Society of London, Mr. D. Cooper gave an account of a new living fence, formed of planting young trees in a slanting position, every other tree leaning the opposite way, so that they will cross each other, and then, at the parts which come into contact, take off from each a piece of bark, and tie close together, covering the part with clay. This grafts each tree into its neighbour, and forms in a few years a living fence, with diamond -shaped openings. The plan is an excellent one for ornamental fences. As a pair of carriage horses, belonging to Capt. Bulkeley, of the Ist Life Guards, were being exercised near the Cavalry Barracks at Windsor, on Wednesday last, a valuable white mare was kicked by the other on the stifle, which broke its thigh. It started off at full speed on three legs, and ran upwards of 400 yards in this state, when it fell, and was immediately shot. A private in the 60th Rifles, who was jumping over a hedge into the road at the time, fell and broke hisl,g. (From the Standard.) The President had not yet arrived when our last letters from Liverpool were written. She is sup posed to have been delayed by heavy gales in the Atiantic,• of which som e ve sse ls lately arrived have had expetie:,ce. The President has been expected with anxiety, chiefly because it is believed that no Government despatches came by the Britannia; for, as regards other news, the Britamii, which sailed some days later than the President, has anticipated her. The belief, however, that the Britannia trought no Govern ment despatches is erroneous, according to the state ment of an authority entitled to respect. It is said that despatches have been received by the B:itannia, and that " these dispatches leave no doubt of an amicable and immediate settlement between the United States and Great Briniin as far as regards the question of M'Leod. Mr. Fox had received a com mumeation to that effect from the American Govern men , couched in the most concd'at ry language." For ourselves, we anticipated as much from the inaugural address of General Harrison, which, whateve r faults of style may seem to characterise it—and we must no: condemn, even in i,s style, without reflecting that it was addressedato an American, and net an English public, breathes from first to last a spit it of manly sincerity, with a sincere respect fi r justice, and a love of peace. (From the Courier.) It will be seen by our Parliamentary report that the 18th cisme of the New Poor-law Continuance Bill, for enabling the guardians of one union to contract or farm out their poor with tie guardians of another union, was withdrawn by Lord John Russell for the present, after Lurd Granville Somerset had forcibly pointed out the cruel bearing of its provisions, according to which paupers might have been dtaughted from their own to any ether parish, where starvation chanced to be more grin gently administered under the dispensations ef the commis- ' sinners, and therefore rates economised in both the one parish and the other. According to this clause, which, it must be ob-erved, is intended to be re-introduced in some other shape, the unhappy tenants of workhouses, or applicants for reli f, were to be let out on lease, for terms not exceed ing seven ) ears, to such contracting parishes as should bi 1 for their support at the lowest money rates of pay-- meet, so that side by side of the usual advertisements of " Cattle taken to grass at per head," may come to figure al3o " Paupers to let out on convenient terms ; tenders for the supply of food at the lowest rate per head to be addressed, sealed, to the Poor-law Commis sioners, Somerset House," &c. This, however, was not the worst feature in the clause, for the paupers might be classified under it, and the husbands contracted for to one union, the wives to another, the sons to a third, and the daughters to a fourth. We recollect that, in the first report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the working of the old Poor-laws, it was 'nee a special charge that they tended to the destruc tion of family, that is parental, conjugal, filial, and fraternal affections, which of course the intent of a new was, in f a vourable contrast, to nrast Poor-lawanio morality cherish and re-establish. It was with this laadable view, we presume, that the new Poor-law theory for strengthening the ties of kindred was invented, under which each of the members of the same family, consist ing ',of father, mother, sisters, and brothsrs, were to be separately transported for periods not exceeding seven yesrs each, renewable on expiration of the terms ad libitum and ad infinitum, to separate workhouse as till .s, as far asunder each from the other as within the r extremities of the kingdom could be contri ve d, so t h at no g ring . out of family commu ni on , family bickcrings, might by possibility arise to impair the family l ove w hi c h, at first and final parting with each othe r to b e i mmured i n thwe living tombs from whose sad bourne perhaps never to a ll the fullbloom and vi emerge, was in gour of natural feeling. 1 NEWLY-INVENTED S P ECTACLES.—The arti- ficial aid afforded to the Sight by Lenses, is one of the moat valu able gifts derived from science, and it is indeed of vital importance that the adoption of Spectacles te imperfect vision, should be regu lated on proper principles. Messrs. S. an d B. Solomons, 39, AL. foi bemarle.street, Piccadilly. opp osite the Yo rk Hotel, and 78, King William.street, Bank of Eng land, havin g devoted their whole lives to this branch or Science, an d their loa g extensive practice have enabled them to invent Specta cle Lenses upon a new construction, which have gained universal a pp robatio n. Immediately they are eyesayor oandla-light, that is at once removed, mplaisetedanbd diin efor,eiemsf whicherfec appear t vis, cutler e b t i y , e d b e every object becomes clear and distinct, so that the most aged imperfect sight becomes bright and brilliant, and is brought to its youthful, natural, and original state. Their Invisible Operative Voice Conductor for deaf persons is not the least perceptible nor more uncomfortable than having a piece of wool in its place; they give immediate relief to old standing ex treme cases of deafness. Those valuable inventions have also gained the Patronage of the Royal FaMilY, and the unqualified approbation of above four hundred of the principal members of the medical profession, and numerous individuals of high distinction who have been greatly benefited by their use.—No connexion with persona of the same name. 39, Albemarle-street. opposite the York Hotel and 76, King William-street, Bank of England. BRUSSELS, MARCH 31 . --The average price of wheat last week was 181. 240. and thatof rye 10f. 99c. per hectolitre. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. PROM THx 310anIttcl PATERS of Yilat SaDAY. TIMES. —The arrival of the President steamer has so long been an object of anxious expectation among the city speculators, that it is easy to conceive the interest that was felt on the receipt of the intelligence to a still more recant date than the President would have brought by the Britannia. In the absence of definite facts as to the pro gress of the atTsir of Mr. M'Leod, great attention WAS paid in the coffee-houses and all the resorts of the City gossips to the 'One of the intelligence, to elicit as much as possible the disposi.ian of the American nation. In their interpretation all seemed to agree, and to be of opinion that the angry feelings which were at first a cause" for apprehension bad greatly, if not completely, subsided, and the belief is the maintenance of peace seemed generally to prevail. The statement by the " Gene vese Traveller," that M'Lcod had been removed to Albany that no cause might exist to prejudice the course of justice, was considered of great importance, 'as showing a manifest desire to avoid extremities, and the arguments in the same letter tended to strengthen the prevailing opinion. The quotation of Consols shows the decided ac tion which the news had on the price of the public securi ties. The advance was per cent., which was maintained thioughout the'day, the only fluctuation being that there were sometimes buyers and sometimes sellers at the advanced quotation, while the firmness of the mar ket was sustained by frequent purchases, chiefly of a speculative character. It should be remarked that the decided operation of any news of a fa vourable kiad.is greatly inereased by the dislike of foreign securitier, which has now so generally spread, so that the Ecglish funds being almost tho only means of investment, they are always ready to advance at the slightest impulse. HERA LD.—A marked improvement in the funds may be noticed to-day, mainly attributable to the favourable sense in which the absence of adverse political intelligence from the United States, rather than the receipt of anything positively satisfactory, has been viewed in the city.. The improved quotations obtained to-day are, however, worthy of remark, as money has been in greater demand at the same time, and the increase in the rate of interest on India Bonds, adverted to yesterday, clearly indicates that in the higher quarters of the moneyed circles or corporate ca pitalists no immediate expectation is entertained of any reduction in the value of money, or of any material relief from the money pressure more or less existing for some time past. It has not escaped observation also how extremely discouraging are the monetary and commercial advices from the other side of the Atlantic, where banking confusion seems to be worse conf minded still with every arrival, and those who were most sanguine about the restoration of something like solidity in the banking affairs of the States of the Union on the renewed suspension of the Philadelphia banks, upon the principle, as may be supposed, that when matters have got to the worst they will mend, begin now to despair of any satisfactory solution of monetary embarrassments there Ir a long time to come. Indeed all the banks of the differ eat States throughout the Union, excepting those of New York and Massachusetts, appear to have eagerly seize I upon the pretext of the stoppage of specie payments by those of Philadelphia for not only stopping themselves, or centinuing the previous state of suspension, but for mul tiplying the issues and the evils of an irresponsible, irre deemable paper currency. What however is of more near and immediate interest to the people of this country, as well as t m capit al.sts in other parts of Europe, is the danger, which even the most confiding in the credit and resources of the vat ious indebted States now feel to be imminent, that they may not be able much longer to provide the means for pa) merit cf the dividends on their Stocks. The impres sion is fast gaining ground that, unfortunately connected as are the state governments with State Banks, it may be come impossible for them to meet their obligations for the punctual discharge of interest on their bond deists, now that no assistance would seem possible from the banks, for whose accommodation, and for the creation cf correspond ing capitals for them, no inconsiderable proportion of State debts was contracted. Same ground cf hope indeed is sought to be founded on a vague impression that the pre sent faders! Gov.rnmert of the United States, known on ieciple to be favourable to the banking interest, may in terpose in favour of S tree and banking credit, by some special measures of relief or assi, tance, such as the establishment of a national bank, the re-pm tition among the states of the funds derived from the sale of waste or uncultivated lands, or the assumption of State debts en masse by the general Government. The latter was supposed once to be a favourite plan with Mr. Daniel Webster, now first Secretary of State, and, assuredly, if possible of accomplishment, would solve al money difficulties et once, by the intervention of federal credit and the assumption of federal re sponsibility for the indebtedness of each of the separate States of the Union. Prodigal as has been the administrative course of most of the States in their and Toride it capacity, it may be admitted that the financial concerns, and generally the administra tive management, of the federal Government has been watched with a more becoming jealousy and control led and conducted upon a more correct and economi cal system than those of the.. individual States. There have been abuses and jobbing in the former, but w:thin certain restrictions ; in the latter the waste of corrupt and prodigal expenditure has been enormous. The division of the funds desisted from land sales among the separate States, instead of, as now, going into the fe deral chest, is the favourite plan of Mr. Cliy, but although this would be a considerable alleviation of the debt pres sure of the States, the amount derivable would scarcely suffice to provele for more than one- third of the interest on State debts. The other project of a national bank would he but slowly effective towards any removal of exiting difficulties, for assuredly such a bank could not interfere at all in behalf of the myriads of insolvent bankine institu tions now in existence, or if attempted it must be borne down with the rest in the vain struggle to support them. Under present circumstances, however, it is scarcely pro bable that the project of a national bank will be broached, for the United States Bank, in its actual degraded posi tion, must be an insuperable stumbling-block to the very mention of such a proposal. As observed in the flee of these cheerless monetary and commercial advices from the United States the funds improved materially. There were some reports, idle of course, that the Com mittee of the Stock Exchange, at their meeting to-day, had decided to go in the teeth of a former and standing resolution of their own, and to permit the ten shillings in the pound proposed new stock of the Portuguese Govern ment to be quoted in the official list, and dealt iu the house, as if the stock of a solvent state, or an insolvent State ehich had amicably and honestly compromised with its creditors. There can be no doubt that the rumour is an atrocious libel on the Committee, and as such the scandalising authors of it will hare a fair chance of being rendered famous should they by chance be discovered and ambitious of newspaper renown. The Stock Exchange Committee must feel themselves much too respectable in positi ore and invested with a character involving too:serious a moral trust and responsibility in the eyes of the house and the public to entertain for one moment a proposition attic kind. It would be extremely desirable for the public in terest, indeed, and as a guarantee for public confidence, that nothing discreditable of the sort can be possibly con templated, that a list of the members of the Committee should be made public on occasion. Probably some cor respondent might furnish such a list, or, if need be, it can be procured in the proper quarter. POST.—The suspension of specie payments by the State Bank of Illinois had received the sanction of the Leghlature, in consideration of which the bank was to lend the State, for the purpose of paying the interest on her internal improvement bonds, 100,000 dollars a year in semi-annual instalments for two years. The bank is autho rised, under this arrangement, to issue bills under five dollars, and to charge on its loan 7 and 9 per cent. inte rest instead of 6 and 8 per cent. The Legislature had also imposed a tax of 10 cent=. the 100 dollars on real estate, in addition to 20 cents, which was the previous tax, no land being valued at less than 3 dollars per acre. This, it was calculated, would inc:ease the revenue by:more than 100,000 dollars. Authority was, moreover, given to the fund commissioner to compromise the claims of the State on individuals and corporations, in the State and elsewhere, for bonds sold and not pail for. The canal of the State has a large debt due to it fer property already sold, and the canal commissioners are empowered to sell other lands from time to time to pay interest. The in creased tax, and the large amount of lands that are an nually becoming taxable, with the loan from the State Bank, and Mr. Clay's Land Bill, which was expected to pass the next Congress, was thought to make it pretty certain that the future interest on the bonds of the State would be paid, and its credit fully maintained. THE POOR-LAWS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sitt,—lt is too generally the case for overseers of the poor to make such a rate after Christmas as will carry them " handsomely" out of office; collecting the cream of the rite, and leaving the long-winded payers and the poorest class in arrear..;, for the newly.appointed overseers to collect from. Now, Sir, to remedy this evil, I would suggest that a clause be inserted in the Bill now before Parliament, enacting that the old overseers of the. poor shall remain and continue in office fir the purpose of col lecting up and clearing all rates that shall have been ma le during their year of office, and until the auditor bac certi fied that these rates are closed and balanced. I am, Sir, your's, &c. Ilfracombe, March 31. R. w. D. TEIE COD FISEIERY.--A few days ago a boat's crew of fishermen belonging to this town (Douglas) lest no less than upwards of 3,600 fathoms of flips, and having about 1,800 hooks attached thereto, which were set out on the banks, and belonging to one of the cod Inats. The value of these, from 10/. to 12/. is felt as a serious loss to these men, and it it ay be stated that there are pretty well grounded suspicions as to the identity of the party who has not only captured the fish, but in this instance the greater part of the property belonging to these industrious individuals. We may also state that there are strong suspicions that some of the Liverpool trawl boats are sometimes blamed not without reason, for purloining fish from the lines set on the banks by the cod boats.-111ona's Herald. OETHODOXy.—The following advertisement appearsin a morning paper :--" Wanted immediately, in a small fami!y, fmr miles from town, a good plain Cook, of the Established Church." This is certainly worthy of the country of a bundled sects, and one fish sauce. ~~~~ PRICE sd. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Adria 2. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY took his seat on the Wool. sack at five o clock. Mr. BERNAL and others from the Commons brought up t'le St. Pancras Tithe Bill, the Rum and Rum Shrub Du.i3s The Bishop of CHICHESTER presented a petition from Eastbourne, praying that in the Poor-law Bill the qualification of guardians might be lowered, and that the proprietors of the property might be rated in place of the occupier. Lord COLBORNE presentei a petition from the parish of St. Joh.l's, Smithfield, praying that measures might be taken for the abolition of all tolls oa bridgei in the metropdk Loid SONDES presented a petition against any fur ther grant to the Popish College of Maynootb. Tho Marquis of NORMANBY presented a petition in favour of the Jews' Declarati.ia Bill, from the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Liverpool ; the Mayor, Al dermen, and Burgesses of Faversham ; the Mayor, Alder men, and Burgesses of Beverley; and from the Jews re dent in Portsmouth ; also petitions in favour of the Drain age Bill Irons the medical practitioners in Goswell-street and its neighbourhood ; the inhabitants of St. John's, Westminster ; the parish of Bermondsey, and the town of Nottingham. The Population Amendment Bill was read a second time, as was also the Wishaw and Coltness Railway Bil'. The Earl of MINTO presented petitions from Mel rose and Gallashiels against Lay Patronage in the Church of Scotland. Lord RE DE SD A L E presented a petition from Maims bury, 1, complaining of the present mode, of rating tithes. Also a petition from the union of St. Thomas, Devon, praying for certain amendments in the Poor-law Bill. Lord LYNDHURST presented a petition from cer tain at Brighton, praying for an iriiestigation into the law with respect to notaries public. Also a peti tion from medical practitioners and students praying for an inquiry into the administration of the Anatomy Act. METROPOLITAN DRAINAGE BILL. _ . On the motion of the Marquis of NO RCIANBY the Metropolitan Drainage Bill, and the Metroplitan Build ings Regulation Bill, passed pro f)rm2 through Committee, and the reports were ordered to be received on Friday, the 23d inst. The Noble MARQUIS said he proposed to submit to the House a clause extending the regulations of the former Bill to Scotland, which lac hoped to have printed and laid before the House on Monday next. With respect to the latter Bill, considerable alterations had been made regard ing regulations against fire. On the motion of the Marquis of NORM ANBY, the Bcrough Improvements Bill passed through Committee, and the report was ordered to be received on Friday the 23d instant. POOR-LAW (IRELAND). The Duke of WELLINGTON said that he had moved some time ago for papers with respect to the operation of the Poor-laws in Ireland, which had not yet been laid be fore the House. He, therefore, wished to know when he might expect them. He was particularly anxious fur one with respect to the Poor-law Guardians of Naas. It appeared that the gentleman who was returning officer of the board of guardians of that place, had been tried and convicted of au offence. What the offence was, he (the Duke of Wel lington) would not name, as it would appear in the record of the trial, for which he would then move. The Noble Duke then moved for a return of the Record cf the trial of Bartholomew Casey at the Sessions House, Green-street, Dublin, on the ith of July, 1839, before Chief Justice Dogerty and Judge Johnson. The Marquis of NORMANBY said he had made in quiry into the circumstances of this case, and, from what he had been informed, he had reason to believe that there was some mistake as to the identity of the party. With reg and to the other papers, they mere more voluminous than perhaps the Noble Duke was aware of, but they should be day, red as soon as possible. Lord LYNDHURST inquired if' there would be any objection to the produc ion of some papers, for which he had given notice, with rei.p;et to the removal of three French Judges in Canada. The Marquis of NORMANBY sail there would be no objection to some of them ; and, with respect to the rest, he would give an answer on Monday. Lord MELBOURNE presented a pelitim from Lan cashire rg-ainst any further grant to the Established Church in Eno- ' land and Scotland. Their Lordships then adjournei to Monday next. JIO USE OF COMMONS, APRIL 2. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. Mr. DENNISTOUN presented a petition from the Edinburgh and Cla , gow Railway Company, against the Railways Reguilaion Bill. The Whi , lesea Inelozyiure Bill, the Birmingham ald Hagley RJad Bill, the Dublin Wide Sttee:s Bill, and the Bradford Water-works Bills, %Nem severally read a second POI.LOC AND GOVAN RAILWAY. Mr. J. JONES brought up the report on the Polloc atd Govan Railway Bill. Sir G. CLERK ttsted that that Railway would cross a turnpike-road leading to Glasgow and Paisley, which was a very great thoroughfare. and the public would be much inconvenienced by any injury done it. He there fore suggeste../ the propriety of a clause being introduced into the Bill to prohibit the Company from laying their lines across the turnpike-road till they erected a viaduct, and theFeby carried the railway over the for mer, or until, by means of a bridge, they raised the turn pike-road over the railway, so as that the latter would not interfere with the traffic upon it. The Hon. Baronet then moved the insertion cf a clause to that effect in the Bill. Mr. LABOUCHERE •said it was scarcely possible to doubt, that if the sta•ements of the Right Hon. Baronet were correct it would be necessary fur the House to take some measures to prevent a state of things calculated to produce many accidents. He thought ulid ,r the circum stances the bet ter course would be to recommit the Bill. Me. JOHN JONES supported the clause, but was inaudible in the gallery. We understood the Hon. Member to say that the Committee had paid great attention to the subject, and were cf opinion that there would be no inconvenience from the clause as it stood. The Company, much to their credit, had immediately acquiesced in it, and it appeared to him that the objections that had been made to the clause in Committee were made rather for the purpose of ob structing than facilitating the Bill, but the Committee were unanimously of opinion that it was fully sufficient to carry into effect the purpose desired. Mr. LOCKHART was opposed to the clause, of which he said the preamble seas quite at variance with the enact ing part. Lord C. HAMILTON supported the clause. Mr. BROT/IE RT 0 N supported the clause. He re membered that such a provision had been approved of by the Committee, which sat in 1837; avid without it the railway could not be successfully prosecuted. Mr. LABOUCHERE said that, after the explanation which the Hon. Member far Salford had given, he should not oppose the proposition. Mr. E. TEN NENT thought that the House should re member the great principle, that railways ought not to be allowed to interfere with the public safety. Ho. would oppose the clause. Mr. ELLIOT wished to know at what rave the car riages of these railroads would be allowed to travel. Lord CLAUDE HAMILTON said—Not at a greater speed than six miles and a•half an hour over a public road. Mr. DENNISTOUN did not think that fie public were sufficiently protected by the adoption of the mode pointed out by the present Bill. He thought if the promoters of the Bill would adopt the suggestion of the Right. Gentle. man at the head of the Board of Trade, and allow the Bill to be recommitted, he was sure that would be done which would be satisfactory to the Railway Comp toy, and would insure the security of the public. Lord G. SOMERSET thought that a general rule ought to be laid down that the railway should be allowed to pass a public road upon a level. He thought that this Company, which came to the House for extensive powers, ought to be compelled to adopt the regulations of the House, and strictly abide by Sir G. CLERK said that his only object in the state ment he had made was to secure the benefit of the public, and if the House thought that that would be insured by the recommittal of the Bill, lie should gladly assent to it, ioslead of calling upon the House to allow the clause be bad proposed to be brought up. He wouli therefore withdraw the clause, and allow the Bill to be recommitted. Mr. JONES thought it would be a great hardship on the promoters of the measure to have the Bill recommitted. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when there appeared— For the recommittal of the Bill Aga nst it 3O. Majority The Bill was then ordered to be reco:nmittcd. Sir G. CLERK presented a petition from the trustees of a turnpike-road in Scotland, praying that the Polloc and Govan Railway Bill may not pass into a law. Mr. RICHARD HODGSON moved for a return of the following particulars of the latest arrangement for the conveyance of the mails between London and Edinburgh Time of the arrival of the evening mail at Lancaster ; time of despatch from Lon don to Edinburgh ; time of arrival at each intermediate post town between Lancaster and Edinb ur g h, and at Edinburgh. Similar returns as regards the morning mails from London to Lancaster maan.t Edinburgh. Time of arrival of the .evening _ l at Darlington ; time of dispatch from D,.irlington burgh ; time of arrival at each intermediate pos!-_ . o b be burgh Darlington and Edinburgh, and at Edin urgh. Distance by the route of the mail from London to Lan caster, and from London to Darlington respectively. Agreed to. ST. ALBAN'S ELECTION COMMITTEE. Mr. BLACKSTONE rose and said that, as his mo• lion was or.e of privilege, he ought to liavepreced o e f ne E e l . e — c - - (Cries of " Chair, chair." ) tioTn hceoSmPmEittAeeKs, he E t ßsa pa i r(t said that ofthe tlntile proceedings House had been to take motions at five o'clock. Mr. BL ACK S T ON I?. said they had all been extremely indebted to the Right Hon. Baronet th e M em b er f ur Tam worth, for the great zeal which he had s h own i n endeavour ing to remedy the anuses which attended those prec,ei ii,gs; . but he was bound to say that tile Bill of the Right Honourable Baronet had not renaoved all MORNING EDITION the evil of the old systems. He had, for this reason, been anxious that the evidence produced before the Committee on the St. Alban's electien should be placed in the bands of the Members of this House. He did not wish to cast a single reflection upon the Members of that Committee ; but undoubtedly it had been asserted that the Committee had thrown obstacles in the way of obtaining evi dence of bribery and corruption. He was extremely anxious as an individual to see the evidence laid before the House, that the House might know upon what grounds the Committee had come to their decision. It could not be denied that bribery and corruption had ex isted in the late election in the borough of St. Alban's to an enormous and alarming extent. It was impossible that individual Members could spend their whole fortunes in investigating such abuses. The expense of investigat ing such flagrant cases should not :be thrown upon private individuals. Constituted as these tribunals were at present, no private expenditure would be sufficient for that purpose. He had no knowledge of the particular circumstances which influenced the Committee ; but, perhaps, Hon. Gentlemen would agree with hint that when the Counsel for the petitioner came forward volunta-ity, and said that he had no case against the sitting Member, the Committee ought to have pronounced the petition frivolous and cextatious.—( Hear, hear.) It was rumoured (he knew not with what truth) that there had been a com promise.—( Hear, hear, hear.) He thought the House ought to watch whether such a system was in practice that a Member who was not able to defend his own sent should threaten his oppo nent with a counter petition.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") He did not care for tither side cf the House—( Hear, hear)—but he would say that it was necessary to put down the system of bribery, which prevailed to an extent that no one could deny, and which had been greatly increased since the Etform Bill.—(Cheers and a laugh.) At present he was not sure that he would not move for fur ther inquiry into the procJedings at St. Alban's, but when he saw what the evilerice was he would know what steps to take. He conc l u d e d b y moving that the evidence ta'ten before the S!. Alban's Election Committer, should be hid on the table. Mr. THOMIS DUNCOMBE assured the Honour able Member that in the amendment which he was about to propose, it was not Ws intention ,to in terfere with the Hon. Member's motion, for be was as desirous as the Hon. Member to put an end to the system of bribery which undoutteily existed. He agreed with the Hon. Member Vast it was necessary to watch the proceedings of the Election Committees under the nek_system, It was to be remembered that this was the first year these tribunals had a trial. It was therefore of the utmost importance that those nem tribunals should not only have the confidence of the Houce, but of the puble, and those individuals whose cases should come before !limn It was impossible that they could have that confidence if those statements and reflections were to be passed upon them by the public prints which be had seen that day, without contradiction:-- : ." When things have conic to the worst, th ere i s hope that they may mend,' says the old proverb: With refe rence to the St. A:bari's election Petition, and the law and practice of Commit.ees in cases of bribery, this sayieg seems to come into full force. " There never was a more open, unblushing, reckless purchase cf a borough than that effected at St. Alban's at the last elect in. The facts of the case, happily, are be yond all doubt. One of the leading Miuisterialists of the town comes up to London on hearing of the vicancy, drives to the Treasury, and here contracts fur one of the Lords of the Bed chamber, whom he duly escorts down to Sr. Alban's as the candidate of his procuring. He then sets to work, loudly proclaiming to (very one that we have plenty of money,' and dispeming this commodity in open day-light, in ex change for yin's, alike to Whig or Tory, without the least apparent wish or attempt at concealment. " Of course th se proceedings became universally known and universally talked off. They have lot en brought before a Committee of the House of Com mons, and there preyed ; and no attempt at disproof so much as thought of. The whole reliance of the Lord of the Bedchamber's advocates was placed upon or.e point :---‘ The bribery we don't deny ; but you can't prose the agency.' And accordingly, having a majority cf Mi nisterialists on the Committee, they have steadily adhered to thri , point, • agency not proved.' " According to the decisions of this Committee, if, which God forbid, they should become authority and precedent, nothing could he more clear or more certain than that, if the money be but forthcoming, the whole of the borough constituencies of.Engl ind must be mado matter of pur chase and sale in all future elections. Notice is hereby given, that so long as the candidate gives no written ap pointment, under his hand, which can afterwards be pro duced in evidence, and takca care not to declare before witnesses any person to be his agent, the whole of his Committee may run about the open street, with money in both hands, offering it to every voter they meet; and the verdict of a Committee, acting on the St. Alban's pre cedent, will be, Agency not proved.' " We repeat, that this state cf things would be frightful, ware it not for the hope we alluded to at the outset, that things will now be felt to have come to a crisis. If there are any honest Reformers among the Whigs and Radicals, they will feel exactly as we het. Except a change takes place, and that right soon, every idea of public principle is elections is lost, and one abyss of universal corruption ab sorbs the cgfzregate constituency. The St. Alban's case must operate injuriously to all par ties. The Ministerial ists have been promising us for this month past that they should unseat Mr. Smythe on the; Canterbury petition. But their counsel, on looking over his case, finds that the very principles which he himself had succeeded in establishing in the St. Alban's case, would inevitably re-act on him in the Canterbury, and that his own arguments would put hint out of Court! He therefore at once aban tdons the petition, and the Treasury Journal of last night bus accounts for the withdrawal : They were influenced, we are assured, not by any apprehensions of any failure in proving the genera , ' el'egations of the petition, but be cause of the difficulty they anticipated in sativeactordy connecting the sitting Member, or his recognised agents, with those illegal acts.' " Exactly so 1 Beyond a doubt, on the principle adopted in the St. Alban's Committee, licre never can be another instance of a candidate unseated for briLery, except he shall have acted like an idiot. " Corruptien must become the order of the day, so long as there is a Whig Treasury' to go to; except the honourable men of the House of Commons, of all par ties, shall at once demand that a remedy be unflinchingly applied to an evil so frightful and so advancing." " He knew nothing of the proceedings that had occurred before these Committees, and ha was, therefore not able to say whether those statements were true or not, but he believed them to be unfounded, and most gross libels on the St. Alban's Committee. With regard to the ru mours to which the lion. Member f r Wallingford had alluded, he should like to hear whether they were true; but certainly after reading the report of the proceedings, he thought there was a prima facie case made out of a most discreditable compromise. In the Report of the proceedings before the Committee upon the Canterbury Election, he found it stated that— " Mr. Austin rose and said, that after dilly considering the evidence he should have been able to produce in sup port of the petition, and having communicated with the counsel for the sitting Member, he had °lily now to an nounce that he should not further prosecute the petition. " Mr. Serjeant Wroligharn, on behalf of Mr. Smyth, said that the petitioner's counsel had Greed MOST FAIRLY AND HANDSOMELY towards him."—[Great laughter on both sides of the House ] " In thus, in the very outset, making the communication he had then addressed to the Committee; and on behalf of the sitting Member he begged leave to add, that he not only did not ask for, but sincerely deprecated, any resolution passing the Com mittee injuriously abrectiny the petitioner in cons quence of the withdrawal of his opposition." " If ever there was a prima facie case of compromise ; not to say of corruption, it was this. What was the conclusion the Committee come to ? It was that the sitting Member (Mr. Smythe) was duly elected ; that the petition of George Hobby and others did not appear to be frivolous or vexatious ; and that the opposition to such petition was not frivolous or vexatious. —( Laughter. ) A prettier arrange ment he had never seen.—( Renewed laughter.) But si multaneous with the withdrawal of that petition nearly the same thing took place at the St. Alban's Committee. In the report in the same paper it was stated " Upon the admission of strangers, " The Chairman stated that the Committee had resolved that the evidence should be received, but desired that it should be given by Lord Grimston himself. " Mr. Hildyard then addressed the Committee, and stated that after the close of the proceedings on the pre vious day, he had thought it his duty to uni.e with his Learned Friend, Mr. Talbot, in taking into serious consi deration the position and prospects of the case, and that the result of Cie consultation was, that they had determined to proceed no further with the case, as the v ews which the opinion thatth en: Committeeent from ll taken o h s a e d of hi m of ( N tl i o r e . law tii i ol y ar d ) widened aia w were so T d a i i ff h e o r t e , w th e e re C o o f mmittcc or the that wouldhe n and ot t: e his u s l t e , e fi a c r d n e inl pFurtiteinndg the peti sit ting Member to any further trouble." He begged to draw the attention of the House to this fact. If he had been correctly informed the two . last decisions of i ' V w e y re camei nfhactvoo wouldua rdoef the ehi alson pen the; l e I I e y v r e h • that hear ,hoa Committee They titioner greater facility " Prove because c c a a u s s e , o theyi bribery, and yet the counsel far the .d petitioner , had come to that conclusion, set — ad. e, petition.—( Lauehter and withdrew bine • ) Was net a prima f a c'e case of compromise to be . found in th at Re port? W hether the statements con tau e 1 in the Report Me b • were c orrect or not, ther . n ere who sat npon that Corn mitteS, d who were: t: en 13 the House,could mittee, a , state. But if t h e y wished those tribunals to have the confidence of the House and the c entry, such proceedings as these ought not to be allcoved to take plate. It was really transferring a scene from the Be g g a r's Opera - into the Committee -rooms, and were the h eac erns and the Leckie to be allowed to g o into a room together, and say, 4 , Brether , brothe-, we arc both in the wrong: we s hall be baths losers in the end, and we may both hang each o ther ?" —(Great lau g h ter. ) Was that the way in which business was ta be transacted ? It was making a perfect farce of an Election Committee, and it would be a pe rf ect mockery to , institute any inquiry before a Committee , if that sort of proceedicg were to be tolerated.—(Hear, hear.) lie did not know whether the Committees had the power—he supposed they bad not—when parties were guilty of such dishonest and corrupt practices, t o \push the inquiry:further,—(Cries of " Ilear, hear.") He trusted that tire House would be more careful in fu ture. With these observations he begged to move as an amendment, in addition to the motion of the Hon. 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