The Sun. — London, England, 1841-02-09 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION SECON 1 0 El, l Frl O rN. SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. PRICES OF CANAL.,OOCK,AiSUR ANCE COMPANY SHAPES, &c. &c. &c. --... LONDON, I'UESDAY, FEB. 5. Nasnhoe Dividend Price of per CANALS. Per ham.. Ann am . Paid. Share 1,700 7px cent. Ashton k Old horn...Arerag e771.18.i.5k. 11! 1,4t.V.1 Ashlq.dc-le-Zonea Artrage 1 lt;l.sh. 72 ;MO Basingstoke 11)(11.sb. 5 1,003 51. Breeknock and Abergavenny" 150 i. et. f 3 1,030 I.lGtb . 101. Birmingham, 1 -10th share ....8;/. & 711. 201 4, 00 ..... .... Ditto & Liverpool Junct.l 9. 3. sh. 100 pd 36 Gue 3!. Bridgewater and Tatintc.n.lool.sk, all pd - WO 5/. Chebner aid Biackwater lOOl sh. 101 500 221. Coventry 1001.1 h. C6O Croydon... ...... .. Average '3 11.2 s led. sh. - CCO 54. Oa, Dudley ... 1001. sh. 97 50110 131. Derby . 1001. sh. 120 20,00) 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne 411.138. 4a.pd :A 3,575 i 4' Ellesmareand Chester Average 133;.5h. RI 131 621 Erowasn 1091.1n. 750 1,2 r 30!. Forth and CI ydc.....kY craie .4001.165. tn. 650 11,a 0 8/. Grand e unction 1001.3 n 137 1,5494 ::ss. (hand Union lool.Bh . 251 1,500 .... ..... Grand 5urrey..........,. I C ol .sh. 15 1,0110/ 41. percent. Ditto (optional) Loan KO/. 3 026 Grand Western 600 131.12 a. 2d. Glamorgan:hire, Aver. Cost 1721. 13s. 4d. 'MO 749 lii. Gratillat, l5Ol. sh. 21' 1,228 21.05. HuddeiAild Average 11. 6s. 6d. sh 27 100 Kensingto.a IOU sh. all pd 10 25329 11.10 s. Kennet and Avon, Av. 39/.lBr. 10a. sh 25 11,5971 1!. is. Lancaster Average 471. Cs. 8d 27 4,8972 401. Leeds and Liverpool loo l.sh 749 14 545: 11/. Leicester 1401.5 t 14.; 1,997 51.9 e. Leicester St NortOamptonAver 831.16; 7314 2.400 101 Mcnmouthstiire lOOl.O l. 200 150 101. Melton Mowbray 5110 25/. Mersey and havell 'CC!. eh. 550 1,000 2/. IGs. Macclesfield lOOl. sh. all pd 34?( 3 1 47 CU. heath lool.sh. 325 '2,W W. Peak Forest Avsn.ge about 7:' , ,1. sh. 75 21,118 Os. Regent's (or London) Av. 33/.165.ac1. sh. 10% 4,81117 el. per rent. Rochdale leverage •?-51.41 . 1. 67 570 81. Shropshire 1251. sh. 137 800 101. Oz. Somerset Coal l5O/. sh. 189 3,000!. 4i ver cent Ditto Lock. Fund Stock 121.19 e. sh. 11% 708 3111. Stafford and Worcester.... ....... ..1401.5h. 650 300 151 Shrewsbury...... WO V 5t0urbridge1........... 145/. sh. 396 7,147 21. Os. Stratford-or.. Avon A rer....791. 95. tal. sh. 41 533 1&(1 Swansea 3.719. 21. Ss. Severn and Wye and Railway Av. 35/. sh. 45 9 4 8". } 9 291. 10s. Trent and Mersey, I share l OOl. sh. 590 41,149 Thames and Medway Av.l9/. Ss. Si. sh. 2 I,ooos h.l 161. Warwic k :o d LP rnaimgham 1, 1 th.3 13. Warwick and Aapten . ....... lOO/. sh. 175 7,000 41 1 Worcesttr & Birmingham Av.781.8i. sh. 58% 6.000 33.. Wilts and Berko Average 671. 10s Bd. sh. 27 110.-, 0.. ‘Visley and Essington 125!. sh 74 .06 .... .. W.sn e a c n . ......... ............M s :..:. 3h. 50 NG IL ',Vey and A. , 09 llO/. tn. 22 DOCKS. 1.06515 h. 1 3p• c. Commere al .OOl. sh. 65 cast and West India Stock 90% 1,1118,5101/. 60s. p.ct. London Stock GS% Ditto Bonds 2;209 3/. fls. sd. Bristol Average 14 - 7. Os. sh. 75 88,5241. W. per cant. Ditto Notes, various amounts lOB 362,752 5 per cent. St. Katharine Sock 95% 5n0,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds 200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years ...... Deptford I'icr .. 0 01. sn. 12 , 1' pd 10 BRIDGES. 0100 11.. Haininer.mdi 5O/. sh. 21 7,a'31 Southwark, Old kv. 03/. 2s. gd. sh. 23. 1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, Now, of 7e per cent. 501. sh. 13 ..,000 ... ..... Waterloo 5,000 •.:•2s. Od. Ditto, Old Annuities of f. , OO/. pd 2(4,i 5,000 19a. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. AO,OOOl 5.1. per cent. Ditto &lids b,948 2.6 s Vauxhall ..„.....Average 701. 10s. Od. sh V}, ASAilt A NCI: COMPAN;ES.. --. . 2,000 3( 101 A3ion 5OOl. s h. 50/. pd 73 60,000 rand i,:: 1 Alliance Brilish & Foreignloo/. sh. 111. pd 13% 40,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine lOO/. sh. 5:. pd 5/4 4,000 41. per sh. Atlas 5O/. sh. 51. pd 14% 1,200 ph. 51. Birmingham f ire 250/. sh. 5 /.. pd 107% 1 0 ,000 41. per cent. British Firo 250/. sh. 53/. pd 40 11,000 61. per cent. rritish Commercial 5O!. sly. 5/. pd 5% 5,0111! 51. per cent. Clerical & Medi _4'l I.ite, IooLsh.2/10s pd s 4,000 '3/ Os County WO/. sh. 10/. pd IC 20,000 Zs. Dig/ e 501. sh. 5!. pd 5% 200 i 5 per cent. at , , , wi „ 5. I Economic Lilt 11500!. sh. 250/. pd 400 2,271 2teper cent. Eiirepean Li..: °O/. sh. all pd i 2 15 /,000 2;. Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 21. pd 1% 1,000021. 01. per ct Globe Stock 110 10,000 51' Guardian 36i00 s. lid. Hope 2,400 5!. 7s. 6d. Imperial Fire 5OOl. sh. 50/. pd 135 7,500 91. Imperial Life lOOl. sh. 101. pd 10 13,15:1 5!. per cent. Indemnity Marine WO/. sh. St. pd 25 %MO 31 10s Kent Fire su/. sh. all pd 1/2 2!. Ditto Life 5Ol. pd 16 loma I tis. Law Life lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 31 5,0111 113. London, Fire ' O 9/ sh. 12/. Ills. pd 11/14 :304)0 10s. London, Ship ‘ ,s / sh. 12/. Ios. pd Ip% 1,660,000/. ... ..... Minerva Life 10/. sh. 500,000/. :10,000 51. per cent. Palladium Lilco 5O/. sh. '2l. pd 21 fis 1),000 41. per cent. Protector Fir- 0 01. sh. 2/. pd 1850 d 10,000 4 per oent. Protestant riissenters .... 110/. oh. 5/. pd 51ri 51,500 1/. Provt;.ent Lite 2/0,004 71. Rock Life V. pd 'iii /59,2-20/ M. per csnt. Royal Exchange Stock 200 6,000 5 per cent. University Lite 100/. sh. 5/. , ,5d 5 1 4 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100/. oh. Si. pd 714 JOINT STOCK BANKS. 25,000 A gric. and Cum. of 1 rela rnl2s/. sh. 10/. pd 5,000 S per cent. Australasia 40/. oh. 401. pd 54 1p,,50/1 In percent. Bank of Binningharn 50/. sh. 10/. pd 13% 10,000 19 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/. sil. 10/. pd 23 31,000 6 per cent. London & Westminster 1001. sh. 2.54 NI 21 60,000 51. London Joint Stock 50/. sh. 10/. pd 123 ,:,000 4 per cent. Lancaster ..............».....100!. sh. 501. pd 30 2.5000 Liverpool lOOl sh. 10/. pd 21% 50 , 000 7i per cent, Manchester and Liver ] pool Districtsol.sh. 151 pd 10 1 20,000 7 percent. Manchester lOOl. sh. 25/. pd 4 , 11 i 20.000 ... ...... Provincial Bank of Ireland lOW. sh. 25/.14 43 10,4/0 5i er cent. National Bank of Ireland 501. sh. 170/. pd L.% 10,04)0 5 per cent. National Priv ,:cial Eng.lool. sh. 35/. pd 35 10,00.1 19,000 Gloucestershire 501. sh. 10/. pd 32 6,000 10 per cent. ilampah ire 5O/. oh. 51. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 16s 04 Bath 201. sh. 11'./. pd 02 5,000 ..... -.. British 4Ol. sh. 16/. pd 181 4 1, ,,,, (51.yercont.1 alto Provincial 2O/. sh. 101. pd 25 """' /and BA. GS. 928 5/ lOs Biwn'nghr , 501. sh. 96 4,950 2! Os Bristol 2O!. sh. 36 2,2.`..0 31 104 Brighton ' 7 O/. sh. 14 7bo St lOs Ditto, New ' , di. sh. Hz/. pd 9 2,471 4} per cent. Brighton Genera' 2O/. sh. all pd . 9 VAX) 7!. oo. Continental Consolidated -75/. 62k!. pd 110 1,000 101. City of London.. ....... -.100/. sh. all pd 195 1,6100 01. Ditto. New lOO/. sh. 751. pd 150 4,000 3t.ris. Erontr.ble 5Ol. IA 145 16,000 24 par cent. Imperial 'W. sh. WI 200 51. per cent. Isle of Thanet 25/. sh. 20/. pd 18% 2,2it50 61, per cant. Independent 30/. ah. all r., - . 49 4,000 4/, per cont. Phmnix. 5Ol. en. 39/. pd 34 1,000 41. per cent. Ratc;iff lOOl. sh. 801. pi 63 4.t100 South Metropolitan 5Ol. sh. 19/. pd 17 6000 41. per cont. United General 50/. sh. 471. pd 3334 240 61. per cent. Warwick 5O/. sh. 50 400 6/. per cent Waicefiald ' , 51. sh. 22 2,'90 s'. Westminster Chartered ...., 5Ol. sh. 59 1,000 12s. Ditto Now 'V/. oh, 101. pd 11% 7 , 3€1 3 per cent. ...X . lnsouth lO/. oh. 181. pd WATER. WORKS 4800 lee. Birmingham 25!. sh. 254 pd 2 4, 4,414 71. East London 100!. sh. 170 2,500 2/ I ss. Brand Junction A vcra; e 411. IM. 40. sh. 85 2,000 u. Kent 1004 sh. 45% 3 72 in!. Liverpool Bootle 220/. sh. 826 1.500 2 /10s New River London Bridge WatcrAnn... 60 5.e6 2/ 10s Manchester and Salford 1001. sh. 55 1,000 4 per cent. South London lOOl. sh. 104 1 ,4 1 1 ,394 4i/. West Middlesex Average 631.'125. it). sh. 101 1.350 11141 York Building (,o. Lessee Prep. 100/. sh. 35 IRON lIAILWAYS. 11,300 Birmingham and Derby ...- lO '1 pd 73 9,4500 „....... Birminham and Gloucester !CO& pd 80Y4 35,e00 _ ..... Bristol and Exeter .........1001. sh. 60 pd 51 7,500 ...... ... Cheltenham di G. Western lOW. sh. 62,41. 30 3,004 Clarence 100/. eh. 1001 pd 30 9,000 Dublin and Drogheda BIM sh. 5/. pd %11.00ri Eastern Counties 25/. sh. 234 pd 814 10,000 Great North of England 1001. eh. 70i. pd 50 1: 1 ,013 14 per cent. Grand Junction 100!. sh. all pd 213 24000 25,0481 Ditto New 50/. sh. u.O!. pd 1.014 1,000 per cent Gosport Junction.. 504 sh. 40!. pd 45 , 4 :1,000 5 pee cent. Hartlepool lOO/. eh. 100!. pd 115 q 8,000 Hull and Selby 5Ol. sh. 50/. pd 435 , 1 2,110 41. per teat. Leeds and Selby 100 eh. 15% 2,10 10 per cent. Liverpool& Manchester 10(/.sh. 100/.1.1 185 7,S3lis 10 per cent, Ditto Hail Shares SV/. pd S 7 11,425 10 per seat. Ditto Quarter Shares "M. pd 43 36 000 ......... Lcaldoa and Brighton 501. sh. 50! lid 4 ) ts4,O4Y) 'London and Blackwall 251. sh. 22i4 IA IS4 #O, O OO 3 per cent. London and Greenwich -.9.01. sit. 1)4)!. pd 9 25,000 Sion cent. London & Birmingham 100/. sh. 904 pd 175 25000 Ditto Quarter Shares ....2.51. sh. 5/ pd 3:1 31,'.3.50 ...... ... Dit o New Shares 324 sh. 321. pd Si) 36,000 b per cent. London and S. Western Av. 351, 17s. 9d. 573 4 53,900 London and Croydon/ Av. 134 15s. 3d. 12 t 4 Ditto Now Scrip.... Ai 15,000 Manchester and Leeds...loo/. sh. '7O/.0 71 i 3,0011 •• 10, , 100 Manchester and Birmiag ham 70/.sii.4o/. 25 3 . ...... Ditto Extension ~ ,7 _/. pd ...2.0 10, 1- 00 Midland Counties 100/. sh. 10,?/. pd 79 1 s t 15,000 North Midland Ditto New 5,128 Northern and Eastern—. 60/. sh 30/. pd t:6!, 2,600 Preston and Wyre 5Ol. sh. 30/. !At 36 w!.004) ...... ... South Eastern and Dover 1,000 101. per cent. Stockton and Darlington ...... lOO/.sh. 275 9,01 ...... ... Thames Haven 5Ol. sh 51. p 2 6,000 York and North Midland 5U . sh. 501. pd 75 MINES. ,000 Albion Copper 5? s'' 2;1. pd 12 4,000 U. 54. Alton l5/. sh. 121. 9t pd 10 10 ,000 ....... Anglo Mexican,iss. 5/.1,111.1001. sh. a' 'i d 13,t, Ditto Subscription 95/. pi.l 1!i ',MO 1 ,/, Bolanos 150/. sh all pd 35 10,000 It. les Brazilian Imp. iss. 51. pin... 35/. 8/1.20/ pd 12 6,000 11,000 Ditto St. John Dal Rey ...2(11. sh. 14/ pd 21 k 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company 211/. sh. 201. pd 1 10,000 20,000 ... ...... British Iron ',04 sh. 551 pd 1 ,000 British Copper 51. sh. 4il. pd IN, .: ..... .. C l'. tßr •nca 6l/. pd IN Candonga...... 111,00f1 1/ Copiapo ... ..... ........... 20/. sh IV. .1 95 Colomblan, ios. 54. pm. —.55/. sh 551. pd 01,5 8,566 .0 Enligh XO,OOO General ... 3 . . 1 ..... G_enzral M _ inin g Ass ociation2o/ 1 1 1. .1 C 51 i i> d d 3 71 1 , - s 's s ' ......... Mexican Company ......1001. sh. 575/. pd 6 ' Polberou Consols lO/. sh, W. pd 4 3,048 ......... Real del Monte, Unregistere d 11,5 00 ..... .... Ditto Loan Notes 150/. pd 160 so 000 ........ United Mexican, iss. 2 pia. 40/. sh. a ll pd 24 o Dalt. Scrip 3 1,5 Ditto New Scrip 5/ rt 5% West Cork ................ ..... 501. sh 50/. pd 38 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. %mg .. London, with Bronze Ticket ...75gs. sh. irt INV R 70 0 King' College lOOl. It 3. MISCELLANEOUS. .IXII 15a. Australian Agricultural.loo l .lsh. 28/. pd try% )00 1. par sent. British American Land Company 23/. pd 10 I ,0(,0 1. per Gent. Canada Company ... ...... 100/. sh. 301. pd 31 , 1 i 00.000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent IOIN 21,000 IL 6a. General Steam Navigatien 15/. sh. 111. pd `25.4 101. percent. Hudson's Bay Stock ,000 11. London Com. Sale R00m5......... 75/. :h l9 0,000 ..... .... Caoutchouc Company 1211. nd 12 New Brunswick Land Compsay...sol pd l'..' 11,754 IL per cont. Reversionary Int. 50c...1001. sh. 100/. pd 118 2,662 Si. per sent. Ditto New 1001.:h. 100/. pd 117 4.000 a Thames Tunnel 5O/. sh. all psi li% 10.000 61. Van Dtemer.'s Land.... 1001. sh. 171/. pd 9 LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES 3FEB. 6, 1841 BANKS. I,olloair. 61. p. et. Rank of Scotland ..?”1.65. fiti„ , s h, all pd i 62 2,000,110e101. 6 p. ct. llcyal of Scotland W . ,.. sh. all pd 151 500,0001. Bp. ct. Brinsh Linen Company 0 : 00/.sh. „ II pd - , , 29 500,0001. el. p. ct. Commercial 600,000‘. a n. ct. I.l,tionai 500,0001. V. p. ct. (II tsgow Union „.. .l(Xl.sh. 10:. pd 14 1,000,0004 6p. ct. Western of 5,c, ,, , , 30/ sh. 501. pd Si land 2001 .* sh 40/. pd 74 INSURANCS r . ,,,, TMPANIES.I 1110,000 sh. 6} P. ct. Scottish;, 7,506 7p. et. 1-Ic(cao . „ U ° ' ,o/. ch. 11. pd 255.6 d. 100,0110 sp. ct. Ins' ,rance Co. of Scotlam i l.lo l l h.ost.l.a 101. 111 1 : ) , c1 1 1: 1 3 );:, 80,000 B l} et. 14 ',rth British 400/. sh. 10/, pd 18% 1, 000 'P. Ct. - Caledonian Fire 1001. sh. 101. pd 20 ~,SPC'en,„ 4) p• e ,:t. Edinburgh Li/e 1001. sh. 10/. p.. 4 11w. ,s s.' , .vuu ii) -,,. et. Wee of Scotland lO/. pd MISCELLANEOUS. 4,618 Edin. and Was. Un. Canalso/. sh. all pd 1,) ..... Ditto Allocated ) 50/. sh. all pd 47 „.. 5, „" f _.. I per cent. Edinb. Joint Stack Water 25/. sh.,all pd 35 : , wala 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Founder/ 501. sh 48/ pd 53 wAXII S per cent. Edinburgh A Leith Glass 20/. sh. 16/. pd e 4.5n0 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas... .251. sh. all pd 50 10 per neat. Glasgow Gas 71 Per cent. r_.eith Coal (;as 251 sh. all pd 51 20/.sh. all pd Sli - ......... Edinburgh and D alkeith rtailway 50/. sh so V 8 SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FIVAITIIIt EVENING PIPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Globe.) The Poor-I,:nr Amendment I3al was last night, on the motion of Lord Juba Russell, read a second time —a majority of 147, out of - 255 Members, affirm ing, by their votes, the principle of the ,new law, and the propriety of continuing its operation. The debate, although lengthy, elicited nothing new in ar gument. The subject has well nigh exhausted the in genuity of opponents, who are now driven to gather up fragments of the fragile weapons they formerly dis charged against the Bill, and to hurl them with all the force their feebleness can collect against the measure now before Parliament—with what result within doors the division of last night attests. As the advocates of the Bill included the most distinguished men of the two great parties, we may safely assume that their sup port is sincere—the result of conviction, derived from ob servation and experience, that the new law has wrought extensive good to all classes of the communil y. If the debate produced nothing new in argument, it furnished new and striking illustrations of the lengths to which popularity-hunters w:ll proceed in the path of ab surdity, and the sacrifices of consistency they will make to the passions and prejudices of the multitude, in order to obtain the object of their ambition. On the other band, we see the difficult position in which the indivi dual is placed, who, ig the prosecution of an impera tive duty, undertakes to arrest the course of evils which have gradually incorporated themsek rs with the habits, and have ministered to while they created many of the vices and miseries of the poor. The Government by which the New Poor-law was introduced, and un der which its machinery has been wrought, has been placed icy this difficult position. Nothing but a firm confidence in the principles of the law, and in the urgent necessity which demanded its intro duction, joked with a consciousness of their own integrity in its construction and administration, could have sustained them. The opponents of the change have had much to recommend them to the par tiality of their auditors. They appealed to their hu manity—and in behalf of the poor ! They exercised their powers, lifted up their voices, and employed their pens, in behalf of the destitute, who had no other friends, and of the helpless, who had no other helpers! There is something in such an exhibition that is calcu lated to prepossess the mind in favour of such advo cates—to hold them up in a light of very advantageous contrast, either with the selfishly indifferent, who " care nothing about the poor," or with the " cruel oppressors of the poor," who introduced and employ the law as the instrument of their oppression and cruelty ! (From the Standard.) The facts that transpired in the discussion of Mr. M'Leod's case, last night, illustrate, in a remarkable manner, the danger of leaving unsettled all disputed points of international relations. It now appears that the question of the seizure of the Caroline has never yet been adjusted, though surely nothing can be imagined more capable of a simple arrange ment than the case in question. The fact that the Caroline was employed in a piratical war against the British territory, and that in order to defend her Majesty's dominions and her subjects, it was necessary to seize the vessel, is unquestioned, and, in deed, admits of no question. Whether it was right to seize her in the waters of the United States is the only topic of inquiry ; and this, in our view, could not be a difficult topic to deal with. It' the American authorities affirm, contrary to the fact, that the law and government of the States were in full vigour at the port from which the Caroline conveyed arms, provisions, ammun . rion, and reinforcements to the pirates at Navy Island, they acknowledge that the States prosecuted an undeclared war against Great Britain. If, on the other hand, they admit, as truth would compel them to admit, that the Caroline was sent from a port that had renounced the law and govern ment of the States, they have no cause of quarrel, for the port in question for' the time constituted dc facto no part of the Union. In punishing her own enemies, Great Britain was only chastising their rebels. The neighbour who pursues a burglar into another's house, and seizes him there, surely commits no wrong to him whose house he may unceremoniously invade, but rather ren ders him a service. But, however the question of strict law might be decided, there was still to be considered the necessity of the case. It was necessary to the safety of her M jesty's territory, and for the protection of her subjects, that the pirates of Navy Island should be deprived of the vessel that constantly supplied them with whatever they wanted from the New York shore. Now, in cases of necessity, it is permitted to supersede the authority of strict law, as houses are often pulled down to prevent the extension of a fire ; all that can he expected in such cases is that the party who suffers loss shall be compensated to the full amount of the injury sustained. If, therefore, the parties interested in the Caroline and the autorities of New York felt them selves guiltless of wrong in the matter, they ought to have demanded compensation for the loss of the vessel, and an apology for the insult offered to their soil, and it would not have humiliated the British Government in the slightest degree to render both. (From the Courier.) According to notice, Lord Stanley proceeded last evening to question the Secretary for Foreign Affairs about the untoward incident which has arisen to jeo pardise our relations with the United States—in the arrest, imprisonment, and approaching trial of Mr, Leod, a British subject, on a charge of murder. The result of this trial, those best acquainted with the con struction and official quality of the judiciary tribunals of the separate states of the Union, as well as with the state of morals and the unbridled passions of a too depraved and excitable population, are disposed to regard already as a foregone verdict of guilty against the innocent and incarcerated party, and after sen tence we are told that execution must surely fol low. And, indeed, it needs but slight consideration to induce the same conclusion in the minds of all men who reflect on the enormity of the original outrage committed on the person of this loyal and unoffending citizen, for those who have not hesitated to kidnap are little likely to be so dainty of conscience as to stop short of his judicial murder. Leaving out of sight for the moment the disloyalty and dishonesty of the pretexts on which Mr. M'Lcod was arrested, we are bound to say it, although with deep regret, that the fixed convic tions, practical or theoretical, of every man and every writer, of whatever country, who has followed the work ings of the State judicial system in America, stand re corded in the sentence almost universally pronounced that in cases involving party interests or enlisting political pre judices, to go no further, it would be as reasonable to ex pect grapes from thistles as justice from State tribunals as now constituted. There is but one Court in the United States whose decisions command respect and are entitled to confidence, and that is the Supreme Court of Judi cature of the Federal Republic. Unhappily it can have no aotion on the present occasion, for the state of New York has taken the initiative and the right of jurisdiction into its own hands, and we know with what jealousy State's rights, as against Federal rights, are pleaded and insisted on, so that exactly in pro portion with the notorious partiality and corruption of these State tribunals is their supremacy within the State asserted, and will be asserted, even in defiance of that just claim to superior attributes on questions of general and international interest, which, accor ding to the Constitution, are inalienably asst nod in theory to the Supreme Coda of the Union. GREENWICH RAILWAY. COMPANY. The first Half-Yearly General Meeting of the Pro prietors of the Greenwich Railway Company was held at one o'clock to-day at the London Tavern, Bishops gate-street, Wm. Shadbolt, Esq., the Chairman of the Company, took the chair. The report of the Committee of Directors for the year 1840 was then read. It stated that the traffic of the last half-year showed an increase in the number of passengers of 80,241, as compared with the same period of the year 1839 ; and an increase of receipts from passengers of 2061. Is. There now remained in hand a surplus of 7,7441. 7s. 2d., out of which the Directors recommended that a dividend of 7s. should be paid on each original share. Reports from the engineers and other officers were afterwards read. Mr. HOUEII., of Birmingham, moved that the Report be printed and received ; and the motion having been seconded was unanimously agreed to. A sum of 2301. was voted to Mr. Ackerman, the Secretary to the Company, for his exertions in their service. J. M. Childers, E-q., M.P., and Messrs. Corney and Bonar, were appointed Directors for the ensuing year ; the two first gentlemen having been re-elected. The thanl,:s of the Proprietors were then voted to the Directors, and the Meeting separated. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LoaD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at Five o'Clock. The Bishop of LONDON renewed a motion for p a pers relative to Indi a, which had been ordered last Session, but which in consequence of the late period at which the motion was mule, had not been produced.— Ordered. LORD KEANE. Lord MELBOURNE moved the Order of the Day for taking into consideration the gracious INlessafe her M . ij-sty had sent to the House yesterday, relative to Lord Keane. The Message having been read by the Clerk at the table, Lord MELBOURNE said he begged leave to call their Lordships' attention to her Majesty's most gracious Message, feeling perfectly certain that it would be unnecessary to state in any detail the grounds and reasons on which her Majesty had been advised to send this message to their Lordships, or the grounds and reasons on which he should move their Lo r d s hi ps t o sen d u p to the Throne an ad dress entirely in concurrence with that messa.ge.-- (Hear, hear, hear.) It would be in their Lord ships' recollection, that the events to which this Message referred were the subject of the unanimous I vote of last year by which their Lordships' thanks had been given to Lord Keane for the eminent ser vices he had performed. And when their Lord ships recollected the honours bestowed upon Lord Keane by the Sovereign, be believed with the general concurrence of their Lordships and of the whole community, he thought their Lordships would be inclined to ask why this proceeding had been so long delayed rather than why it was now brought forward. Into the reasons of that delay it was not his intention, nor did he think it necessary, to enter, but this he would say, that that delay did not arise from any doubt whatever in the minds of her Majesty's Government as to the propriety of marking the services of Lord Keane in the manner it was pro posed to mark them by the address. Lord Keane had been tried in every quarter of the globe. As a soldier he had commanded her Mljesty's armies in many countries, and he had every where displayed that ability, talent, firmness, and decision, for which he was selected, and, by the concurrence of circumstances, entrusted with the command of that great ex pedition, undertaken by the Government across the Indus.—(Hear, hear, hear.) The expedition the conduct of which was attended with great and almost unparalled difficulty by his genius skill and energy, had been brought to a most fortunate conclusion. It was for the services those honours were conferred upon him, and it was to those honours which he that evening begged their Lordships to give their concurrence. It was not the usage of Parliament to originate measures of that nature in that House, but he trusted he was not expecting from their Lordships their unanimous concurrence for the accomplishment of the purpose pointed out by her Majesty's Message.—( Hear, hear.) His Lordship then moved an Address, echoing the Royal Message, and as suring her Majesty of their Lordships' cheerful concur rence therein. . . Lord ELLENBOROUGH said that he entirely concurred in the Address, though not without some feelings of regret at the delay which had taken place. his Lordship then recapitulated the ser vices of Lord Keane in India, and passed a high eulogium upon them, and particularly upon the Noble Lord's judgment, fortitude, and perseverance, under privations and difficulties. His Lordship also highly eulogized the Indian army, and said he remembered the Duke of Wellington telling him that he had never seen an army which realized his idea of the Roman legions before he saw the British army in India. There could be no higher praise, and he (Lord Ellenborough) hoped they would always deserve Hear, hear.) 'The Address was then put and agreed to. The Marquis of BUTE presented a petition from a place in Scotland against lay patronage. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY moved that an order should be issued for the attendance of certain witnesses on the trial of the Earl of Cardigan.—Ordered. The House then adjourned till Thursday next. 110 USE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair a few minutes before Four o'Cluck. A great number of petitions for leave to bring in private Bills were presented, and referred to the Com mittee on Pet►tions. 'Mr. DON presented a petition from Manchester, in favour of the Copyright in Designs Bill. Sir J. Y. BULLER presented a petition from a Union in Delon, iwainst the Poor-law Amendment Bill, and praying the House to revise the whole law relating to the relief of the poor. Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from an individual of the medical profession in Southwark, com plaining of the evil effects and destructive tendency of drunkenness—he said, from his own experience he knew that a drunkard died every ten minutes—and praying the House to take steps for the promotion of temperance. The Hon. Member also presented a petition, praying for leave to bring in a Bill to allow the assignment of Taylor's patent for cutting wood to a public Company. Sir R. 11. INGLIS presented a petition from the clergy and gentry of a place in Southampton, and a pe tition from the deanery of Dunstable praying for bd ditional church accommodation. Mr. COLQUHOUN presented a petition from Kilmarnock praying for the abolition of lay patronage. Mr. HENRY BERKELEY presented a petition from Bristol against the equalization of duties on articles of East and West India produce. Mr. GREG presented a petition from Manchester praying for an inquiry into the trials of Frost, Williams, and Jones. Captain PECHELL presented a petition from Mr Bennett, a solicitor of Brighton, praying for an amend• went of the laws relating to notaries. . . _ Sir A. DALRYMPLE presented a petition from the Guardians of the Union of Brighton against the new Poor-kw. Mr. FOX MAULE presented petitions from Glas gow, Nairn, and several parishes in the county of Fife, praying for the abolition of patronage in the Church of Scotland. Mr. Sergeant JACKSON presented a petition from Henry Cole, a clerk in the Adjutant-General's Office in Ireland, complaining of a reduction of salary, and pray ing the House to take his case into consideration. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman said he should found a motion on the petition at some future period. Mr. F. MAULE presented petitions from Elgin and four other places in Scotland, praying for the abolition of Church patronage in that country. NOTICES OF MOTION.—POOR-LAW. Mr. SANFORD gave notice, that in the Committee on the Poor-law Bill he should move an addition to clause 21, for the purpose of preventing parish appren tices from gaining a settlement by their apprenticeship ; also an amendment on clause 30, for the purpose of giving overseers, bound over to prosecute by Magistrates, the expenses which they may incur in consequence, and also ordering the costs of Magis trates' clerks to be paid out of the Poor-rates ; also that suspended orders of removal be abolished. Also, a clause suspending the execution of orders of removal until the removing parish should have given notice to the parish to which the pauper was to be removed, stating the circumstances of the application. Also, that in page 1, line 24, the words forty-six should be substituted for the words fifty-one. [The effect of this will be to limit the operation of the Bill to five years instead of ten.] MAYNOOTH. Mr. COLQUHOUN gave notice that on the 23d February, he should move far leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Act of the Irish Parliament relating to the College of Maynooth. Capt. PECHEL I, gave notice that in the Committee on the Poor Law Bill, he should move amendments on clauses 3,6, and 33, to exempt the Gilberts Unions from the operation of the law. HULL DOCKS. Mr. HUTT gave notice that he should move that the evidence taken before the Committee of last Ses sion on the Hull Docks Bill should be printed and laid before the House. Mr. Sergeant JACKSON moved for returns of the Clerk of the Peace of the Counties of Cork, Carlow, Longford, Queen's County, and Tipperary ; of all notices of intention to register votes for those counties ; and also for the returns of its several Sessions held in and for those counties within the year 1840 ; and the number of persons admitted to be registered pursuant to such notice ; specifying the days on which each sessions commenced, and the place at which they were held respectively ; also like returns for the County of the City of Dublin, and the City of Cork, specifying the several days on which the registering barrister sat for the registry of voters during the year 1841.—Agreed to. Mr. FRESHFIELD mo,ed for a copy of the Ap pendix to the first Report of the Committee appointed by the Lords of the Admiralty to inquire as to the comparative advantages afforded by different Ports in the Channel as Ports for the departure and arrival o' the West Indian Mails ; such Report was ordered by the House on the 11th of August, 1840, to be printed. —Ordered. Mr. MARK PHILLIPS gave notice of his inten tion on a future day to move for certain returns rela tive to the exportation of machinery. Sir. E. KNATCHBULL gave notice of his in tention to move for certain returns relative to the Poor-law Unions. SLAVERY IN THE EAST INDIES. Dr. LUSHING TON wished to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman at the head of the Board of Con trol, whethtr any dispatches had been received with respect to the state of slavery in India, and whether he would consent to lay such despatches upon the table of the House. Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE replied, that since the papers received in July, 1838, were laid upon the table of the House, a correspondence had been car ried on between the Home Government and the Go vernment in India, and he would have no objection whatever to lay that correspondence before the House. TREATY OF TEXAS. Mr. O'CONNELL inquired of the Noble Lord at the head of Foreign Affairs if he had any objection to ley before the House any information that he posseg.ied with respect to the 'Treaty of Commerce with Texas? Lord PALMERSTON replied that no information could be laid before the House until the Treaty hind been ratified. Mr. O'CONNELL said, in th a t case hi s mo ti on would come befor e th e House in anoN. her form. DUTIES ON RUM, Sir ROBERT PEEL said, '•t l had been stated t by a Right lion. Gentleman, upono 4c proposal Member sb had te f n o c r e of the equalization of the rum dutiesthath i pose that motion upon the ground of tleeseruxhould op- slivery in India, and the Right lion. l since asked for papers , wh ich the Hon. Baronet at the head of the B oard of Control had consented to produce. He (Sir R. Peel) begged to ask whe ther it was the in tention of her Majesty's Government to postpone the measure with reference to the duties on rum, until that information had been laid before the House. Lord PALMERSTON rsplied, Certainly not. It was his intention to brirg the subject before the House on Friday next. APPREHENSION OF MR. M'LEOD. Lord STANLEY wished to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, an explanation relative to a statement made by him yesterday evening, and also to ask the Noble Lord an additional question in reference to the subject which formed a matter of conversation between them on that occasion. He had asked tie Noble Lord whether he had any objection to lay upon the table the whole of the correspondence since 1537 with the United States of America in reference to the s:izure and capture of the steamer Caroline end also whether he would lay the correspond etice with reference to the apprehension of Mr. M'Leod on the table. The Noble Lord said he did object to lay on the table the correspondence with reference to these two subjects, but that he bad no objection, and there could not be any, to lay on the table so much of the correspondence in freferen , :e to the last-mentioned subject as had been already pub lished in the newspapers, inasmuch as it had been laid before Congress. Now, he submitted to the Noble Lord whether he ought, not to reconsider the answer he had the❑ given. At all events the production of the cor respondence in that form would be a matter for his own discretion. He (Lord Stanley) had asked the Noble Lord for the production of the whole correspondence —he did not ask him to lay any partial corres pondence on the table of the House, and which the Noble Lord was about to produce, not on the ground that it contained the whole of the facts of the case as it really stood, but on the ground that through some other and irr gular means it had ob tained publicity.—(Hear, hear) He could ❑ot but think that that would lead to a very inconvenient pre cedent, and would place the case on a prineip;e which would be liable to great misunderstanding as re garded Great Britain in the eyes et' her colonies and the world generally. He did not ask for the produc tion of those papers which had b .en laid before the public . . He wished also for a more explicit answer to a question which was asked yesterday, namely, whe ther her Majesty's Government had taken any steps, and what, as retarded the liberation of Mr. M'Leod. The Noble Lord had told him that her Majesty's (.73 vernment would, and indeed had taken such steps as they thought necessary on tha subject. He did not ask them what steps they had taken, if the Noble Lord thought proper to withhold that information, but he did ask him whether he had taken such steps for the protection and liberation of Mr. M'Leod (who had been apprehended on the 12th of November,lB4o), as would bo effectual in point of time in reference to the proceedings then going on. lie wished t• ask that ques tion, and also to give the explanation, though he did not wish to press for the production of papers, nor did he ask for them when they did not give the whole information. At the same time he was aware of the responsibility which attached to any Member cdliieg upon the Government for papers which they were not willing, on public grounds, to produce, at the same time reserving to himself the expression of his opinions upon the subject, and the full right of pressing upon the Government at a future time for the whole of the cor respondence. Lord PALMERSTON—When he stated yester day that he would have no objection—that he could have no reasonable objection to offer against the pro duction of Papers which had already been laid before Congress, he did not intimate any intention, on the part of Government, to lay on the table of the House any other part of the correspondence, therefore he thought the Noble Lord had, and would exercise a sound discretion in abstaining from pressing for it. Lord STANLEY—I did not ask for it. I asks I for the whole correspondence. Lard PALMERSTON—With respect to the other question, what he had to state was this. A case of a somewhat similar nature happened, or was about to happen, a year or a year and a half ago ; and upon that occasion instructions were sent out to Mr. Fox, laying down what the Government thought were sound principles in the emergency. At that time it was rendered unnecessary to act upon the instruction; but the case having now actually occurred, Mr. Fox, without waiting for further instructions from home, acted upon the fernier instructions, and made the de mand upon the American Government for the libera tion of Mr. M'Leod. He then reported the whole case to the Government, but from various causes that communication had been much longer on its passage than usual, and it was only a few days ago that he had received the final portion of what had taken place between Mr. Fox and the American Government—it was, therefore, only that day that an opportunity had presented itself for sending out final and conclusive instructions—they were then ready prepared and were on the paint of being sent off ; but what the nature of those instructions was, neither the Noble Lord nor the House would then expect him to say, Mr. Fox had founded his remonstrances with the American Government upon instructions sent him by the Government respecting a case of a similar nature, which it was feared would have occurred. Lord STANLEY said he wished to understand whether the Noble Lord received information of the in tervention of Mr. Fox relative to the affair of Nov. 12, 1840, and whether any instructions had been seat to that gentleman upon the subject ? Lord PALMERSTON said that the instructions given were precisely to the same effect as those which were stated as being given in the former case. It was not till Saturday last that the Government had re ceived from Mr. Fox the last communications respect ing his correspondence with the United States' autho r►ties. Mr. HUME said he wished to put a question to the Noble Lord. The Honourable Member then proceeded to read from a paper, purporting to ha a general order, signed by Colonel M'Nab, announcing his Excellency's great satisfaction at the destruction of the steam-boat, which was effected in a man- Der so creditable to the Volunteers, and stating his Excellency's unqualified approv:.l of the important service thus rendered by those brave men. The ques tion which the Hon. Member wished to put was whe ther there had been ever a communication from her Majesty's Government upon the subject, and whether they signified their approbation of the Act. Lord JOHN RUSSELL believed the purport of the Honourable Gentleman's question to be, whether the Government approved of the orders of the Co lonial Government under which the Caroline was at tacked.—(Cheers.) His Noble Friend had already answered the qu estion.—(Che ers .) Mr. T. DUNCOMBE wished to ask a question of the Noble Lord, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, as to whether the Government had adopted the act of the captors of the Caroline as their own ? He thought it right that the House should know whether they had given their approbation or not, and whether, if they had given it, they had since withdrawn it—( Hear, hear) — or did they now adopt it ?—(Hear, hear.) Lord PALMERSTON said, that if the question were whether the Government did or not consider the captors of the Caroline justified, his answer was, that the Government did consider them perfectly justified. Mr. HUME.—Has the Noble Lord, or her M jesty's Government, ever signified that to the Govern ment of the United States in any form ?—(Hear.) Lord PALMERSTON.—Yes. It has been com municated both to the Minister of the United States here, and by Mr. Fox to the American Government. IRISH RAILWAYS AND POOR-LAWS. Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN wished to ask the Nob le Lord, the Secretary for Ireland, whether he iotend,(l to bring before the House any proposition relative to railways in Ireland ; and also whether it was intended to propose any amendment of the Irish Poor•law Act. Lord MORPETH replied in the negative. IRISH MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT. Mr. SHAW wished to ask whether it was the inten tion of the Government to introduce any Bill for the propose of amending the Municipal Corporation Act of Ireland, inasmuch as many Courts of Justice and of local jurisdiction were placed in great jeopardy by reason of its not being certain whether, under the Municipal Cor poration Act, they could perform their functions or not. Lord MORPETH said that his Hon. and Learned Friend the Attoraey-General was preparing a measure which it was his intention to propose to the House for the purpose of remedying some of the defects of that measure. MR. BLACKER. Mr. SHAW asked for a moment's indulgence while he alluded to a charge that was made the other night against a gentleman of high respectability—he meant Mr. Blaker, the Chairman of the County of Dub hn. At the moment when the charge was made against Mr. Blacker, he and those gentlemen around him who knew Mr. Blacker, 1;4 convinced that the charge was unfounded, but he would now read a short passage from a letter which he had received on the subject from Mr. Bl.:cker himself. The passage was as follows— " I gave up in 1826 going the Circuit, and neuer, either before or since, have belonged to any political society of any description, or worn any badge either Orange or not, either in the Circuit or else where.—(Cheers.) Tic charge therefore, is not on!y unfounded in fact, but is contrary to all my habits and opinions."—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Sergeant JACKSON had received a letter from Mr. Blacker to the same effect. Mr. BATEMAN had known Mr. Blacker for thirty years, and he felt authorized by that long acquaintance to state that the insinuation of the Honourable and Learned Member for Dublin was perfectly unfounded, and when the Hon. Member him self wore political midges in that house.—(Loud crier of " Order, order," during which the lion. Member resumed his seat.) DRAINAGE OF LANDS IN IRELAND. Lord MORPETH, in m oving for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the laws relating to the drainage of lands in Ireland, said that in England much bad been done for the drainage of lands, which had been under taken either by individuals or Companies ; but although Ireland possessed an immense quantity of table-land which might be rendered mo , :t valuable i):, drain !lT, the only kgislative enactment on the sub ject was the Act introduced by his Honourable Friend the Member for Kildare, now Secretary to the Admiralty, in the reign of the last King . What he proposed by the present Bill was, to tak from the Companies who at present controled th drainage of land in Ireland, and placing it in the hand of Commissioners. He believed that this would ha: the eff?ct of improving Ireland greatly, increase it• revenue, and improve the resources of that country. N There were'many operations in drainage which were oi too minute a scale to require a general provjsion, anc severel proprietors in Ireland had suggested that tc meet such cases a less expensive mode should be devised. The Bill which he now proposed was in effect th , s•title as that which he introduced on a former occasion. when the late period of the Session caused it to be aban doned altogether. A Committee appointed by the House to inquire into its merits had reported favourably. Ti Bill which he now proposed to introduce was frame , upon the evidence of Government engineers and other practically acquainted with the conditions, the wants and the resources of the country. Whatever might be the faults of the measure, he believed it was calcu lated to do more for the solid good of helm) , than many of the measures which occupied the time r - the House relating to that country.—(Cheers.) H believed it was calculated to do much more good t Ireland than either the Registration Bill of his Righ Hon. Friend opposite or his own.—(Cheers an laughter.) It was clearly more calculated to do good than his Hon. Friend's.—(Great cheering and laughter.) He did not however expect that it would be taken an much notice of as either of the Registration Bills— (Laughter)—but he sincerely hoped that it would not encounter so mnch opposition.—(Great cheering and laughter.) Mr. GOULBURN should certainly protect an grant of public money being made for the purpose o carrying the Bill into effect. He wished to asl, whether the Noble Lord intended to ask for an issue . of Exchequer Bills, and if not in what way he proposec to raise money for defraying the expenses of the works Lord MORPETH said it was merely intended tc place the promoters of any of the works upon the same footing as the projectors of other public works, and tc give them a power to borrow. Mr. SHAW did not intend to offer any opposition to the first reading of the Bill, and he agreed will many of the general observations that had fallen from the Noble Lord. There was no one project o' improvement the Government could so well direct theii attention to as the improvement of the agriculture of Ire land. He must deprecate any attempt to give an undue influence to the manufacturers of Ireland, and to ex clude others, how much he might wish to see th native manufacturers prosper. As the Noble Lori here referred to another measure pefore the House (the Irish Registration Bill), he would just observe that it was rather inconsistent in the Noble Lord while he professed a desire to improve the system of agriculture in Ireland to attempt to introduce a system of 51. tenements, the splitting of farms and the minute sub-division of hand, for that was what the Noble Lords' Registration Bill would ultimate]) lead to. Mr. O'CONNELL must complain of the opinions the Right Honourable Gentleman expressed with regard to the manufaCturing produce of his coun man had discussed that subject with his friend Pro try. He wished the Right Honourable Genet:- lessor Butt. But what had the question of Irish ma nufacture to do with draining. The draining of Ireland was the - question before the House—a process which that Assembly had for many years past beer pretty familiar with.—(Laughter.) Tne Right Honourable Gentleman opposite (Mr. Goulburn) was so alarmed and terrifiTd lest any money should go from this country to Ireland, even in the shape of Exchequer Bills, that he had felt it necessary to rise immediately after the Noble Lord to enter his protest against it. Why the Right Hon. Gentleman appeared to forget that 74,0001. annually, the produce of the Woods and Forests in Ireland, was remitted to beautify London and improve its streets and squares, and that there was also a surplus of two millions from the Irish Exchequer. He hoped the House would not participate in the antipathy of the Right Hon. Gentleman to Ireland, and that, if money was required upon good security, it would not be withheld, even if England were the lender. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. Mr. FITZROY KELLY rose to bring forward his motion for leave to bring in a Bill to abolish the punishment of death in all cases except mur der and high treason. It would not be ne•- cessary for him to intrude upon the attention of the House at any length, because it was impossible to mark the progress of legislation for the last forty or fifty years the spread of education and know ledge, without feeling that the severity of the criminal code had been most materially and judiciously ameliorated in that period. Since then the number of crimes hay e been diminished, and the number of convictions in pro portion. In the beginning of the present century there was three hundred offences punishable by death by the laws of England. Since that period owing to th, great exertions of a few individuals, notwithstanding the powerful and determined opposition of :many persons among whom were a number of gentlemen belonging to the profession to which he bad the honour to belong There had been a great reduction in the number of crimes which were denominated capital, and they were now reduced to about 30. The last occasion was in I 83L, when several Bills were introduced in Parlia ment by the Noble Lord opposite (J. Russell), and these had, after full discussion, received the sanction of Parliament. Feeling, in common with many who had devoted their attention to the subject, that a sufficient period had elapsed since then to enable the public and the Legislature to decide on the pro priety of further improvements. He had in the last Ses sion of Parliament introduced a Bill to exempt from ca pitai punishment all crimes but murder and high treason It would be in the recollection of the House that last Session his Bill passed through all its stages by large major ities, and that it was only on the motion that it be read a third time that in a thin House and by no means a large majority it was defeated. Be lieving that he would be giving effect to the wishes of a very large majority of that House and of ,the well thinking of the people, he begged leave again to submit to Parliament the propriety of abolishing capital punishments in all cases except those o'murder and high treason. As he had often before stated the general arguments in favour of the Bill ; and as hi understood that he was to meet with no opposition in introducing his Bill, he did not think it necessary to trespass further on the time of the House than state that the object of the present Bill was co-exten sive with that of last Session. (LEFT SPEAKING.) ST. ALBAN'S ELECTION. FINAL CLOSE OF THE POLL THIS DAY. (BY EXPRESS.) Lord Listowel Mr. Cabbell Majority COURSE OF EX CHI Amsterdam C F. 12 5 I)itto, at sight Rotterdam 0 U. 12 5} Antwerp Hanaburgh... ....M.B l3 10 Altona ............. Paris, 3 days' sight 25 40 1.);tto, 3 months 25 65 ...... 25 76 Bourdeauz .. Frankfort on Maine 149 Petersburgh, 3 Us.- 37 Berlin 7 0 Vienna r effee. 11. 3 M lO 2 Trieste, ditto Madrid Cadiz 3ss Billsoa INGE. —(THIS DA Y. Gibraltar... 4B [ Leghorn. Genoa Milan Venice 47 Naples ... 39f Palermo, per oz 1191 Lisben... ...... ....... hli l Oporto . . Rio Janeiro 25 Bahia 27 Buenos Ayres ..... NewYerk, 21 days' sight 46i Philadelphia PRICY OF RITLLI..II, PIK OZ. Portugal Gold Coin£3 17 6 Foreign Gold, bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 10/ Silver in Bars 0 5 0j Barcelona Bsi Seville 3s:i THE LONDON GAZETTE (THIS EVENING.) DUCHY OF LANCASTER, FEB. 5, 1841. The Queen has been this slay pleased to appoint Sir Thomas Bernard Birch, of the Hazles, Bart., to be Sheriff of the County Palatine of Lancaster for the year ensuing. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Carmarthen. On the Hon. J. F. Vaughan, commonly called Viscount Emlyn, to be Deputy Lieutenant ; R. G. Thorny, Esq., to be ditto ; D. Lewis, Esq., to be ditto; D. Jones, Esq., to be ditto, Jan. 28. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Essex. West Essex Yeomanry Cavalry—J. Jessopp, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice F. Palmer; S. B. Edenborough, Gent., to be Cornet, vice R. W. H. Dare, Feb. 1. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Bedford. Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia— W. Anstell, Esq., Colonel of the late Royal East India Volunteers, to be. Lieut.- Colonel, vice R. Gilpin, deceased; R. H. Wilkinson, Gent. to be Lieutenant, Jan. 26. Erratum in the "Gazette"of Friday last. In the List of Sheriffs appointed for 1641,f0r Henry Smith E sq ., o f " Welford," in the County of Nottingham, read ; H en ry Smith, of " Wilford," in the County of Nottingham. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. THOMAS ROBERTS, corn-miller, Leeds. HENRY CLARKE, ironmonger, Pootsea. WILLIAM HANNAFORD and NICHOLAS PRETTE. JOHN, cattle-dealers, Kingsbridge, Devonshire. HENRY THOMPSON, timber-merchant, King-street Clerkenwell. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. CHARLES JOHN WILKINSON, merchant, Eye, Su folk. BANKRUPTS. THOMAS PROCTOR, merchant, Fenchurch. CHARLES BERTRAM, wine-merchant. Bury-street, St. James. JAMES STARTIN, ship-owner, Winchester-street. TIMOTHY ABRAHAM QURTIS, merchant, Token house yard. JOHN OLIVER %YORK, iron-founder, Duke-street, Westminster. SAMUEL PEACE WARD, common brewer, Liverpool. JOHN ACKERSON ERREDGE, bookseller, Brighton. HENRY WHEELER, inn-keeper, Chester. BENJAMIN COLES, grocer, Olney, Buckinghamshire. JOHN CARTER, corn miller. Elland, Yorkshire. WILLIAM BRIDGE, shoemaker, Deritend, Warwickshire. JOHN APPLETON, ironmonger, Hounslow. CHARLES JOSEPH CART l'A lt, banker, Gicenwich. GEORGE JOHNSON, fruiterer, Leeds. GEORGE BLANIY: baker, Kingsbridge, Devonshire. JOHN NAYLOR, wire -drawer, Manchester. JOHN EGLINGTON, builder, Walsall, Staffothhire. JAMES SHARP and ROBERT PEAItSON, machine makers, Bradford, Yorkshire. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current . of February 9.) SUGAR. —Prices have still an upward tendency for West India Muscovadoes, and there has been a good demand ront the grocers for all descriptions since this day week ; he refiners have been buyers to a fair extent, and the total quantity disposed of during the three market days has (mounted to 1,100 hhds and tierces, at prices is higher for colory, and 6d tor brown and grey sorts. Antigua fine ind good yellow together has been sold at 83s 61 to 543 6d, good middling and good 803 61 to 82a 0.1, Dominica with less colour 803, Jamaica good mid ling of fair complexion mid strength 77s t o 78m, Gre na d a ‘ndDernerara middling 753 6d to 765, low middling from he different Colonies 72s 6d to 755, good low brown :ice and Demerara 71s 6d to 725; fine strong yellow is girth 85a to 86s, and any extra quality would fetch be rond that price. _ _ _ To-day there was a good deal of inquiry from the grocers for British Plantation, more particularly for coloury sorts, and the refiners were desirous to purchase, but the market :wing scantily supplied with samples, checked buying ; 'wady all on show, however, amounting to 450 Wads and tierces, found ready buyers, and the prices paid generally 6cl above those of Friday or both brown and yellow sorts. REFINED. —ln Refined Goods prices are is above those If this day week ; Standard Lumps at 95s 6d to 965; Tittlers and Hamburgh Loaves fine 103 s to 105 s, good 97s to 101 s, brown lumps ord and fine 93; to 95s per cwt. In Treacle the operations have been to a fair extent, common at 34s 6d to 353; Patent 363 to 373, best old make 39s to 40s, and golden syrup 41s to 423- Pieces, fine 83s to 88s, mid aid good 77; to 82s. Bastards, good and fine sorts have realized 663 to 73s for large par cels, and low and middling sort; 56; to 645. Bonded Crushed Sugar at 32s 3d to 323 6d; Loaves 10 and 14Ibs at 363 6d to 383, and 61bs 40; 6d to 41s; the supply is small. For Treacle 14s 91 for present, and 153 for for ward delivery ; pieces 22; to 26;. Bastards at 17s to 203 cwt, Dutch Crushed Sugar at 30; 9d on board. To-day the home trade were anxious to purchase Re lined goods, and standard lumps fetched 963 to 96s 61. Treacle secured a fair sale. Bastards and Pieces sold Freely at full prices - in Bonded Crushed S ugar un d er 32s 3d there are no sellers. r MAURITIUS.—This afternoon the demand was active, ,nd 6,102 bags at public sale were all disposed of at prices iqual to those of Friday last; low yellow went as 72; to 723 61, mid 76s to 775, good mid 783 to 73s 6J, good and fine 79s to 833 6d, low mid to fine brown 57s to 71s. EAST INDIA.—Tcis afternoon the public sale; consisted of 5921 bags, 102 boxes Manilla, and 1276 bags Siam, at which buyers evinced little disposition to do business of the former a small part only found buyers, but holders refused to give .way in prices, low mid yellow and good :mid grey fetched 223 61 to 245, being former rates : the litter bought in at 24; 6d to 263 6d. for low to good mid white, being the full value. FOREIGN.—Holders of Yellow Havannah still display firmness at 243 for fair average parcels, 6d under that figure the Refiners are disposed to buy largely : 23s 6d to 2436 d for middling and good middling, and damaged 20s 6d to 243. For White holders are reluctant to submit to lower rates, and bought in nearly the whole of 820 boxes at public sale at 31s to 34a for low to good quality but gene rally soft; a f.:tv lots were however disposed of, good mid dry at 32s 6d to 335, ordinary 30s, and damaged 27s 63 to 31a per cwt. Brazil has realized full prices. MOLASSES.—West India have feeen in brisk request, and rather higher rates have been paid for the lower description. Antigua of good and fine quality has fetched 37a 6d to 395; Demerara, fine 343, good 325. St. Vincents, low and middling dark 32s to 333, and ordinary Berhice 32s per cwt. COFFEE.—Prices continue on the decline for British Plantation, the demand being limited and the supply large, the market has presented a dull aspect since this day week for all qualities. This afternoon the home trade purchased ,with more freedom of both East and West India, and holders for the most part appeared unwilling to sell at former rates: at public sale 2,094 bags Ceylon, and 500 bags Java were offered; one sale of the former consisting of 1,000 bags was principally taken in is above last .seeks rates, viz , good ordinary even pale at 71s 63 to 72 , , the small part sold went at 723 6d to 733 for fine or dinary green, and one lot superior 78s 61, sea-damaged fetched 703 to 753, Triage 26; to 275, damaged 23; 64 to 255. The other sale went at prices 6d to is above those of last week. good ord brown fetched 70s to 70; 6d, low ord mixed 673 to 68; 63, and the whole sold. Java was taken in above the value, viz. at 60s for .good and foxcy green ; privately, however, several parcels were sold at 56s to 58s for good ord pale and green. The Ceylon bought in at the above sale has since been principally sold at buying in prices. TEA.—There has been an increased desire evinced on the part of the trade to purchase free trade descriptions since this day week, and prices have further improved. The public sale of 2 500 pkgs washed and kiln-dried Tea, duty paid, wetat off at high prices, notwithstanding he bad condition and indifferent quality. Congou sold at 23 9fd to 3s lld ; Souchong 2s 93 to 3; 81; Orange Pekoe 33 Old to 3s 0. d ; Twankay 3s 41; Gunpowder 33 6d to 3; 81; Hyson 3s 31-d to 33 83 per lb. To day the market for Free Trade presented a firm ap• parance ; there was a good demand for cash 'week for •actual consumption, and rather higher rates were paid ; it is difficult to purchase Common Cong , u under is 7d per lb. In. Company's Congou a gcod many purchases were made at is lid cash, and 13 81 with short prompts, at which rates the markets closed firmly. Cocoa.—For West India holders appear unwilling to submit to lower rates, and bought in the principal part of 746 bags and barrels Trinidad at public sale at former prices, the small portion however sold went 6d to Is cheaper for the lower sorts, 503 to 58; were the quotations for middling to fine bold red, and ordinary grey 48s to 493 per cwt. _ • RlM—Bengal has barely maintained its former value, by private treaty mild whito has been selling at 133 to 13s 3d, at those rates however some parties will not sell. For Java and Siam holders are not disposed to submit to lower rates : at public sale, 1387 bags of the former were only partly disposed of at lOs 6d for middling white. Carolina for home use, new quality at 365, and old 34s per cwt. RUM, BRANDT, and HoLLANDs.—For West India Rum prices have suffered no further depression. 2s 6d is the value for proof Leewards. East India is held for 2s 3d to 2s 4d proof: 25 puns Rum, from New York, at auction were bought in at higher rates than the market will afford, viz. is 10d to 2s 8d for 5 to 25 per cent over proof. For first brands of the vintage of 1836 has been selling at 5s 4d in hhds, and 5s 2d in puns, ditto 1837 hhds 5s 21, puns ss, ditto 1838 hhds ss, puns 43 10d, ditto 1839 libels 4s 10J, puns 4s 81, ditto 1840 hhds 3s 10d, puns 3s Bd. Geneva has maintained former rates. British Corn Spirits firm at 103 cash. To-day proof Leewards were offered at 2s 6d per gallon. SmEs.—This afternoon 3,453 bags Black, 191 bags white Pepper, 1,442 bags and 550 pockets East India Ginger, were offer ed at auction : Black Pepper was prin cipally taken in at aid. to 3/1 , 1. for ordinary Eastern, being rather above former rates. White mostly taken in, mid dling mixed dingy at Bd. Ginger sold at full prices. Oms.—There has been but a limited business transacted in common descriptions of Fish Oils either for home use or export; still holders display firmness, 321. to 321. lOs :9 the value of pale Seal, 271. Cod, 251. to 28/ 103 for Southern of ord and fine quality ; at public sale 22 tons Cod of indifferent quality from Halifax sold at 24/ to 25/, 4 tons of Dogfish Oil 221 103 to 231 10s, 6 tons pale Seal Oil, of first quality 321 to 33/ .ss, 12 tons of boikd 14l 103 to 151 6 tons of Cod blubber 101 53 for ton. For Sperm prices gave way 4/ per ton ; good and fine quality from Boston and New York at 991 to 100/ 10s, low and tnidsili. g 82/ 105 to 96/ 103. Pri vately. first quality is not to be bad undec 1021; ordinary Headmatter at 70/ to 851 ; far Linseed Oil, parcels on th e spot at 26 , . 3 , 1 to 463 6d ; Rape has further improved. 47s to 4Js 6d ; brown 463 to 463 6d. East India Cocoa Nut at 313 to 40s for good quality. Palm has undergone no variation. In Olive prices have further iMpriVed ; Spanish at 64/, and Gallipoli at 681 to 69/. This aftemotin 645 casks Ceylon Cocoa Nut Oil at public sale partly sold at 37s to 39a 6d per cwt. TALLOW.—Prices continue gradually to improve for Russia tallow. This afternoon a good demand prevailed for P. Y Caudle on the spot and for deliver, prices were firm al 47s to 47s 3d per cwt. THREE BOYS SHOT.—The little town of Yeovil has recently been thrown into a state of great ex citement, by a report that a man named Hodder bad shot three boys, which turned out to be too true. It appeared that Hodder, who is 72 years of age, has recently married young female aged 17, and a number of the boys of the !own bad been in the habit of greatly annoying him by cptthets intimating that he had dyed his hair before mar riage. This annotance so irritated the old man that he discharged his loaded gun at a party of the boys who were engaged in this occupation, and three of whom were wounded, one of them, named White, seriously. Hodder has since been in custody, and has undergone ene exami. nation before J. Newman, Esq., and been remanded to ',wait the result as regards White, who, we understand, lies in a dangerous state.—Exeter Post. An extraordinary chase and capture of a fox took place on Saturday, the 30th ult. A hound and a cur, the property of Mr. Joseph Harrison, of Brownrigg, unkennelled a fox in Melfell, a large plantation of 370 acres, the property of H. Howard, Esq., of Greystoko. After running for two hours the cur returned home, but the hound continued the pursuit. Reynard at length broke cover, took away through Gowbarrow Park, to the Lake of Ullmater, and sought refuge on the boathouse lauding, the dog " Ratler" close to him, though quite exhausted. Old reynard then leaped into the lake as a last resource, where he was taken by a boat, after a chase f three hours. He weighed fifteen and a half pounds . . Carlisle Journal . THE WIND.—On Sunday afternoon, during one of tnose violent gu is of wind with which the metropolis has at repeated intervals for the last three days been visited, a somewhat ludicrous scene took place OR Black friars-bridge. About three o'clock the wind appea re d to be more particularly felt in this immediate spot, pc_ d..strians maintaining their equilibrium with the utmost difficulty, and hats, bonnets, and shawls flying in all di rections, and several of those necessary appendages —more particularly so at this inclement season of the year—having parted from their rightful owners, and passing over the bridge with the velocity of lightning, were to be seen gliding with the tide for a moment, when they as suddenly disappeared beneath the surface of the water, to the great discomfiture of their losers. Among some of the unfortunates was a fashionably-attired Pel/ who was wendin g h er w ay over the bridge apparently lo ff, great caution ; on e h a nd was enveloped with het:: I , and the other employed in firmly grasping ` her veil , ' t e tt was attached to a costly velvet bonnet. hen' 13°e' ; of she had gained the centre of the bridge, a sudden gu s- , wind obliged her to let go her hold of the veil for is pose of securing the lower part of her clothing, and , l0" 0 twinkling of an eye, away went bonnet, which was attached a profusion of dark shilling ri n g le t; over the bridge, into the bosom of Old Father Thinsra,r, the great dismay of the lady, who now stood with a ba t lees head, and who, before the utifortunate ;oecurrenco; had the interesting appearance of a miss in tier teel; but was evidently a female of at least 45 years of 2 ge' kot veil, :and c*Pft; may be imagined, many of the bystanders stood ag.,.; whilst othm were almost convulsed with laughter., vs"d: however, more compassionate then the rest, put his!' hand, kerchief around her head, :Ind having called was conveyed to her residence, a coacui 6 eeeeesemererse IMPERIAL PA RLIAgEII ROUSE OF COMMONS. Fla: ei . NEW POOR-LAW. (Continuer) from our Second Edition of last eiglit'/- 4 4 Mr. lV ARLEY :n secoediog the m otion, beig e) , ieave to express his eu. prise that the Noble b °rd 'ejtO Secretary for the e;olonies, should have poP°l - House a Bill of such vast importance withoutue_e plaining to them fu.ly and efficiently the which the prepo,itioa was m ide —(1-leer, hear' ) dee . Bill proposed by the Noble Lord consisted of toer, tinct . portious—tee first part was to continue the C 0 mission for ten years, and the second portion t;le provision framed for the purpose of giving to ti e Coot ' mlssioners such powers as they thought they mig ht is quire.—( Hoar, hear.) The House was per ill feedi 0 the dark as to the prj Ithe Imp es upon which first proposed. When the Bill was originally P rep bit by Lord Alihorp, he believed it was seconded bY4r, grounds 1,70 Hon. Friend, the Hon. Member for Kilkenelikeed Hume) and he said he believed the very object "".. principle of the 811 l was to make a distinction beto_:i vice and profligacy among the poorer those who were reduced to a state of destitutica IPtio misfortune. It that were the principle ° f Bill who was there who would dare to c on dare If such were its principle, who vrould d‘r%ifis Abe t e ta a la say that it was obnoxious to r . A . Englishmen—who would dare to say that nit by injure either the rate payer or the paupe r? -at Hon. Friend was not allowed to remain log 1 1 0 0 error. Even that night, when the discussion al or' the introduction of the Bill, he was undecei/e ' o bis then the Noble Lord, with that manliness sod, populatioe, spirit which alwaes characterized ~h im, eve* w e l t; 0 wee in error—lie then unhesitatingly a vowed sca , - ,.iplet the princip!e of the law; and what was that Pri n- i i — a principle which had been openliav'n'or the British House of Commons by the first t hl g l y is of the .Queen in that House—avowed unblusar~Ol so d the great empire of England, boasting of its bf its navy—of its military and maritime power, a ° ", e ltl ' it mercantile and commercial resources. He beg ' li r flop, attention of his Hon. Friend to the declaraoblis cause it wls calculated to remove from til m ,s l) mind everything in the shape of delusion and :efrO°' caption. The Noble Lord said he differe d atuc- her his Honourable and Learned Friend the to Teignmouth, who thought a distinction ourte,,- itr made in favour of merit. He (Lord J. Russell) th7e to most unwarrantable that any Board should Pre,te;ooo say who was meritorious. All the public could roe, shape of relief was to adhere to the wise and g °° ; so° vision of the Act of Elizabeth, that CO 1 01 1, r c r ell s should be allowed to star ve.—(Cheers.) Th°l'et,ebeelf came from the Liberal side of the Houseee",k; eor and a laugh from the Tories.) He that motegli'inear' suited Todd's " Johnson's Dictionary," for al% Oa' ing of the word " liberal," and he found it 14 ;0 as meaning " magnanimous, generous, and the ° L,`, to parsimenioese . —(Cheers and laughter fr°'"teso. Tories.) But what could be more arsitneei(le. this Bill ? Its object was that the poor 6 11°°. starve—that they should be shut up in Pr i°°"r ffel they should receive the least possible q uantity ° 6o'#' sufficient to sustain life—that they should in it)* once a fortnight, And that they should be el ot ", e it thg dress bearing the stamp of degradation, only "")-• 1 1e should not be allowed to starve.—(Heare her,;gb)' ' had never been a party man—(Hear, ands r ''' - t f be had never fastened himself to the wheels of I °. -° O ll , l , (Hear, hear, and a laugh.) Faction bad ° e h . ars'i f the curse of this country.—(Ciies of `.` Ile had never tied himself to support 3° Y 1, --i° o'. l ° lll- 0 whatever their professions might 1 30 " e t say this, that if Ministers expected the suePe r ",, ° , s public, they must not ask the House to a ssent p oor a Bill as this.—( Hear, hear.) In the name tb.4:eil e bllF: e st and the working people of England, he was r this occasion to make an earnest anneal to t°,C e seb . Conservative party.—(Cheers on the . Tory, 80 i bis ter on the Ministerial side.) He pra yed t° 011 that great party would now come forward in „,itl l : tre sO k i on behalf of the working men of England• leueeeref aristocracy of the country were - the natu ral lee ) • the people.—(oh, oh, responded to by cheer°. 00 continued the Hon. Gentleman, there we i s i s i g eg b d i cheer and a simper on the Liberal side.- -- Vi :tun The great commercial body and the meou' i d i o il,'; called for a repeal of the Corn-laws. T hey was true, for a reduction of the price of bread , " ( 0tos; well knew that wages must always be relati vo e pll cheering on the Conservative benches, and ore. 01: if dissent from a .few Members round the 1 " °- ‘ 0 4‘ b l tleman.) He knew that opinion might not b e agr to all—he saw that it did not please tho Learned Member for Dublin, but he wa s 1-I. V:d that the truth should make that Honourabire t ettl ber groan.—(Continued laughter.) Them iet:. et v - ,, well knew that wages must be relative--thee tidal be relative to the amount of food in the mark, e it ",o s ee' the amount of the demand for labour .--k,"'„,01111 cheers.) He would make his appeal to the 1 - 4 ,7 A i , tive party. The Liberal party, on that sub) sir attached- to the Noble Lord—they gave me to deuce to the Noble Lord ; and they had oer a S for confiding in him, for the Noble Lord never ti e .01 0. ' them, h and he would boldly tell them in that co IV p is object was to prevent the poor from Itsr vbi rie 1 ;f oor-law Commissioners published a ItertLer cember last. The Noble Lord, with that oile,test„ condescension which every now and theo, ttei; Ministers, wrote to them an obliging and Il e k ; telling them that their period of ofce had tle-prj io pired—(he did not see the note, he only 0% 6 ' 0 - purport of it)—and that the time for the Gerthelet,-, was nearly out ; and the Noble Lord ask ° 0 01 _, d ir they could . not write a Report, showing that tb L e ' t to receive their salaries for ten years more. ' e ol os t ,,y exert their ingenuity, they were told, to the °- fib; let them see what they might effect in the w A Y k o sr l f tration. These gentlemen did set to I c°r :lec t :,. l o l number of hands were employed, many of the not because they were remarkable for their Pf li psr"„ - but for their cleverness. The ingenuity of the, ° ,:,;(l having been exercised, a Report was concoeou,:. P:g, sented to the Noble Lord, who said he thong""froftl; had been made out. Oa that case a 131 11 vf6 : 6 SOffe' and sent to Ministers. The Bill was framed ieb.ty,ne set House, and the Noble Lord, with all helni'6loo.; sented it to Parliament. The Report of tho „ r• Wr o l sioners, in the first instance, showed that, of e ° "„tioli e thing could be so effectual for the due admiel i n t „ - rs s {l% the law as the continuance of their own il''''„"ls;#, o t that they might, therefore, be continued je P A I ten years more, or, in fact, for ever. They 51 11 §eie" • the Bill would relieve them from all the eneb t f t-i bee i oie f the p p a r s e s se e n v t er s y ys ß te o m ar ; d that of f Guardians,it plush the objects of the Legislature. That vias. s'• r a country which boasts of its freedom, foresight ; but h a d it an y p ara ll e l on record? . . 6l lo ever before heard that publi c me n were to port with reference to their own conduct , e° that they ought to continue in receipt of their ° s o . O a And yet that bad been done in the presen t c r fb the Report, so framed, had been presente'rotieed Noble Lord. One of the points most chareete;eceiej. the Report was a.complaint that paupers it",helei. relief did not display a spirit of gratitude. that Hon. Members knew well how PoeP ers fined in the union workbouseshow -they we e n ela,So, how they were treated. And was it not, be t .:„0.0 marvellous that human nature, under the ciree w- ore - 0 should show no gratitude ? No, the pattr, r% 14e, senseless and thoughtless as to be ungratefw. CP"' (Mr.Wakley) denied that their gratitude vinLterl.,b°o for—he th denied that it ought to be e % P' e ern ; and he would say more--tbat t h o o: pri or ip did expect gratitude from them did ° F o er k :oo themselves qualified to carry out the , 4 14,"the Were they poor slaves? Had they lost eve'' t hey _Englishmen because they were poor? and v°l - Is Ne d ' doctrine to be maintained in a Christian to ° I (Cheers.) Because they were poor were ti, e/ t 1 ,11, orifice every right they possessed as indeP e° ; l ld • P red It was said they bad no gratitude, but he w h ° , -- oef, c :11 0 what right did they receive relief? 13y a on them by Act of Parliament —a right h a tP c same as that by which the richest man t i be h o op held his lands. gratitude enied that they 5 11°111- h r° on to show heir g for that relief., . 1 w e itte h e d, law Commissioners had referred to the u°P :t so Inquiry before the Commission was e d . ": # -3 t# , and they rely that that Committee mo de ° oleo for the amendment of the law. It was far say that the Administration of the 43d Eli ° lll‘ c e ll- „ f ir been in every instance just and discr eet ' of n istration of that law ha ,l been in a variety pot ; f l. stances in the highest degree objectionabl' w e , ' to as regards the poor, but as regards the r; a on o t, But while he admitted that, he was not °I:0'10%1 o support the proposition for its stated r°, How was it that while it was hands that the poor- rates had increased, ° a r o,' ; P ot had been made to the increase of Pr°rotiot f t population ? neither did they take into pe r AO . 0 they had expended 300,0001. or 400,000 h yearP Deer on a sin le Commission, and 100,0001 a beta C t 4 single lady. `Vixen by their new laws theY t ea 0 perated the millions of England, tied v iben elei raised up a spirit tl!at‘atde the natioll 0,0010 then said that they were a restless and 'LI had b people. He would now show the HOUSe *Pia THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1141 14: V ENING EDI E