The Sun. — London, England, 1841-04-29 00:00:00

E .1? ING EDITIGN - 0 EATII OF THE A. ERICAN S I DE NT. XPFV, .IESS FE02,1 LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY. th l4r e hr lye "Another arrival at Liverpool from the - United States. The : 441 Quaeeri, Capt a i n F r anklin, reach e d Li ii,r,l/ ,tirir.ging New York papers to th e Li) *3.e, Boston, , rd Philadelphia to the - j 4 The Arrival of the British Queen puts us 1 11 4sessi on of the important ainiouncemeat of ; I l e death , - -- ,Of General liarrhiOn, .tie new Pr e -. krr el lt'of American Republic, after the :,port'ofe- , menth hi the higli o ffi ce t o w hi c h c be ' a d 1 1 ien elected by the citizens of ti - Ae United gates. tle Gallant General, b rea th ed h i s last i e 'morning of t 1- 4e 4th, and the Vice residen (Jahn Tyl , e r) was i ns t a ll e d i n t h e leNidenl' . j ll l . Chair 'of his predecessor on the Tb prevaili- jg opinion at New York is, t Pre , 54 ent T.yler will carry out the views General lia•rrison's ibreign policy, but that citiestioi i' of a National Bank will not meet en eouri The 1) 0 1' Aced and commercial news f rom t h e Cited S.sates is unimportant. he al Lest, arrivals at .I , :ew York and Boston t,l lll Li verpool, had a tendency to make the Th e of cotton demand higher rice s. 15 he 7 rates of elchan.74 on England were 61- 7 ; tnd at these quotations for the best I ;Del• a . la rge b usiness was transacted for the • Qur.en. This arrival has not fur ar.v.," news of the missing steam ?res:,dent, it i s t h ere f ore pretty clear 81 te innot ha 'Ve'reaclici Ber mu d a , an d t h e ,:., Copt 3 now is, that she has succeeded in Ti l llg; sonic of the distant West India Isl.:lids. etl e . wl,4,from Canada is not important. A n „ '';• CITY OF WASHINGTON, Ann. 4, 1841. 4 i,ji ' l •l4 , ' - ' l *e Providence haying suldenly removed from ~tiW.qiiam 'Henry Harrison, lac President of the ti qtcl ta:es, we h ave t h oug h t i t our duty, in the recess f t e"gre ' l, and in, the absence of the Vice-President , t !ra the se 4t of Govern m e n t, to ma ke thi s afflicting be. kt74ernect• k nown to the country, b y t hi s duc l ara: i on, -Sr ltyova- hands.. ct .d at the Pr es ident' s h ouse , i n thi s city, this 4:h 10 1 : 1 °1 A'ano Domini, 1841, at thirty minutes be o'cloes in the morning. peotple of the Uai:es, overwhelmed like kti m CS, by an event so unexpected and so holy, will de : i ve conso l at i on f rom k now i ng bc t ,, his 'death MU• calm and resigned, as his life has use`Ail, and distinguished; and that the kleltetteranee of h.ll lips expressed a fervent desire for the 11 1 4 „ ti 'lq of the Constitution, a n d th e p reservat i on o f it s t vt;! th ciPtos. In death, as in lit ! , the happin ess of his "Y w as Itr.CI'MOSt it. his thoughts. t From tho National Intelligencer.) . WASHINGTON, APhIL 4, 1841. N th - circumstances in which we are placed by the , t , f the President, render it indispensable fir us, recess of Congress, and in the absence of the k President, to make arrangements for the funeral I)Oeitiea. , Having consulted with the family and ; . h; °411 1 friends of the deceased, we have concluded the funeral be solemnized on Wednesday, the k4 t l ttetant, at twelve o'clock.. The religious services t 1 ,4 Performed acc.rding to the usage of the Episcopal k h i oh chs in %kids Church the d ecease d mo st usua lly wor 'ltprpell- The body to be taken from the President's 1 , 0 ,;° to the Congress burying -ground, accompanied by 'g, T "y and civic precession, and deposited its the Re omb. )1 1 ; 4 military arrangements to be under the direciiol of ti r- General Macomb, the General Commanding. in of the army of the United - States ; and Major qirßl Walter Jones, of th e m ili t i a o f t h e di str i ct o f Co e a` tt,° ° lttletiore Marris, the Senior Captain in the Navy 4 i ktt 4 the City, to have the direction a.f the naval arrange e Marsha cf the Distiiet to have the direction civic proc e s s i on , ass i s t e d by t h e M ayors o f / Mg - ton Georgetown, mud Alexandria, the Clerk ~tht 8 upreme Court of the United St a tes, and such citizens as they may see fit t o call to their aid. t)(111 Quincy Adams, Ex-President of the United Alemkers cf Congress now in the city or its ne;gh- V,° o ds all the Members of the Diplomatic 'Body resi \ 1 4 Washington, and all officers of Government, and Itna generally, are invited to attend. tt r l it is respectfully recommended to the officers of atu-.lnt that they wear the usual badge of mourning. DANIEL WEBSTER, Secretary of State. THOMAS EWING, Secretary of the Treasury. JOHN BELL, Secretary of War. 3 . J. CRITTENDEN. Attorney-General. GRANGER, Postmaster-General. Velmediately after the decease of the President, Mr, i e l)stce, jun., Clerk in the Department of State, 1 / 4 t ° , 1 . 11 P allied by Mr. Bali, an officer of the Senate, set k 'Or the residence of the Vice-President, in Virginia, ug to him the following letter " Washinton, April 4, 1841. , co John Tyler, Vita President of the Uni ed States, has become our most painful duty to inform t c %at William Henry Harrison, late President of the , It ecl Sister, has depart. I this life. p, e This distressing event took place this day, at the mansion in this city, at thirty minutes before o the morning. tl t :V.e lose no time in despatching the Chief Clerk in , 11 .-) tate Department as a special messenger to bear you „e melancholy tiding;. t, l ,,We have the honour to be, with the highest regard, ()Le ?fent servants, THOMAS WEBSTER, Secretary of State. EWING, Secretary of the Treasury. J OHN BELL. Secretary of War. J OHN J. CRITTENDEN, Attorney-General. RANCIS GRANGER, Postmaster-General. REPORT OF THE PHYSICIANS. tbk WASIIINGTDN, APRIL 4, 1841. SlR,—la compliance wish the requ:st made to us giOul'aelt and the other gentlemen ot . the C a bi net , t h e i1 t ° , 44 1 and consult.ng Physicians have drawn up the I', k .4 et o f report on the PI eSidCIICS case, which I hcrc "tratismit to you. Very respectfully, your obedient se:vant, THO. MILLER, Attending Physician. the Hon. D. Webster, Secretary of State. !",1 1t.„ 4 Saturday, March 27, 1841, President Harrison, 1,i,`, 1 St veral days' previous indisposition, was seized I li ) , It chill and ether symptoms of fever. The next Nt h keurnonia, with congestion of the liver and de ement cf the stomach and bowels, was aseer %4' 1 to exist. The age and debility of the patent, the immediate prostration, forbade a resort to tp 0 4 41 bl oo d-l e tti ng . T o pic a l depleti on , bli s t er i ng , and Iti,,°Priate internal remedies, subdued, in a great eleg ttd .. the disease of the lungs and liver, but the stomach to ir itestieet did not regain a healthy condition. Finally, %A N m " 3d April, at three o'clock P.M., profuse diarrhoea. 14 thel, under whi h c he sank at 30 minutes to one o'clock , morning of the 4th. last words uttered by the President, as heard by let W orthington, where these : " Sir, I wish y o u t o un - It en ,end the tile principles of the Gnvernment. !wish carried out, I ask nothirg more." THOS. MILLER, M.D., Attending Physician. FRED. MAY, M.D. , N. W. WORTHINGTON, M.D., J. C. HALL, M D, ASHTON ALEXANDER, M.D., Consulting Pays clans. (From the New York Enquirer.) Tyler, there need le l o 'i t v ilh repo to the iteilth . of Mr. tr t „ t N,ts. is not exceedingly robust, but he is very far %t t i -4 tisg too feeble to attend to the duties of the high t• O - which be has been ca lea. He will be the Pre !lrent and under his auspices all the cardinal measures t.f % t party will be carried into full effect, to the glory and li t i r r'aeas of the country. Hit qualifications for the Pre tpd`ncy are beyond all q ue.:ti•ln. To talents of the first 1, " °1 " he unites great prudence and fi r mness , and is a - tfined gentlemanly Viig'ilian in conduct and bearing. v (Correspondenee of t h e C ou rier and Enquirer.) A q -S 1-11 NOTO N. SUNDAY, Anil.. 4, wt! e'el,ck : —The , eto t North Bendis no more. At MVPe meridian, the a 8 all alive with the joyo u s intelligence that the Odent wa s convalescent. I saw sever al of the faculty, di assured assured me that he was out of danger, and that t h e t l ,:kie had reached its crisis. I h a d my fear 3 at the because the recoi:l'y. I though t , was too su dden to Oecisive: At five, P.M. Vie . disrare took a fatal tur n, !sing fall e n on the bowels —the P res id ent san k ra pHy t k tt l that hour, and a'l that medical skill could do was Ill Ned in vain. There has been the most inteF.se anxiety the a evenitrv, and the mansien has teen - crowded with I t t Q itiZetts of the district and vi,iters, desirous to r 4 what hopes teem to be entAlained. 'e bullet ets of health in the papers were, fu r the most, kio f avourable; indeed ten much so. The Peoident ex B a t t ed Symptoms to hi s sur r o unding nurses, which i ni i= is : 1 a fatal termination, three days ago; such as pick. lf,., t ne bed clothes, and such like. He said !esterday t o k,: t tale atendant—" Ah. Fanny, I em ill, very it ‘ 1 7 % more sinthan they think me." !it„ l 'at may be the melancholy result to this cuuntry, alone •can determine. The time was when a day k t i big with . the fate cf Cato atoal of ROrD e—this hour is 4 3 big wlth the fate of this nation. • Sunday morning, 1, A. M. 4 t half- nast 12 b e h reat t e d hi s l ast. The„ railroad line from Philadelphia, arrived last night, ~ilthe afflicting inteFgence of the Girt - th of the Pre tit4l(4 the U n i te d S tater . An event we ll ca lc u lated lt t iti impr e ss ur with th e v an ity all human expec '4l-,, 4 ,7. Ytt, but- a few weeks and the name of Harrison `ue rally ing cry of patriotism, and under his banner I st ;el tieasselvcs all that was great and good in the 144.51.°11. Their fervent wishes accomplish e d, their ardent . a titins znititied by his eieeti.-)n, they fool ed forward to hiiituttion Of the - wise - and heoeticent plans of public t '' %liiich he had declared should be the landmarks of is IS °lf j a.'i TUE StiN, LONDON, TITURSDNY, APRIL 29, 1841 his administration of the Federal Gev,rument. Scarcely had he given the people by his acts asset-at:cc that th7ir high wrought hopes would not be frustrated, when he is called away to another destlay—to another world. The late hour at which the account of this calamity has reached us, forbids us indulging in the many re flections to which it would naturally lead, but we may say that in the eaaracter of his successor, the Vice-President, John Tyler, of Virgiaia, the na tian has a fall guarantee that wisdom, honour and constitutional principle!, will govern the course of the NatiJnal Government; and ab,ve all, that the presence of the spoilers—of the miserable wretches who have fattened on the public purse, under the. administration of Jackson and Van Bruen, and who introduced a system alike at va riance with the iat.arests and liberties of the people, cr the spirit of the ar.e—will never be abided by him. The drag s of a President of the United Sates while in Office, is the first that has occurred in our short-lived his torY. Of the circumstances atteediag that of General P.arrigm, we would refer to our private correspondence. We tee informed that all the Heads of Departments were in the Presit'ent's house, if not in pia room, at the closing moment, and that, shortly before it came, he expressed his I conviction that the Vice_ Pi ejident would carry out the re forms he had commeicedi and aft: policy of whiah he had been permitted but to trace the outline:. WAVIIi.GTON, April 6, 1841. Mr. Tyler arrived here this rmanieg. He n.eL the Cabinet, after a few hours of reaose, and expressed an earnest desire that they would remain with him, and assist him in carrying out the well-'known measures of Gen. Harrison. N thing could he more grat fying to the friends of the policy of General Hatrison tan the Promptness of Mr. Tyler in declaring his contVenee in its wisdom, both as regards men end measures. Mr. Tyler and Mr. Webster.have long been in relations of the kind est perional intercourse. They acted toetLer harmoni ously in the Senate, and the country has not the least rea son to fear any change ia the policy of General Harrison's Cabinet as settled by him and them. (From the National Intelligenrer r f yesterday.) THE NEW PRESIDENT. By the extraordinary despatch used in sending the official intelligence to the Vice- President, at Wil liamsburg, and similar despatch by him in re airing to the seat of Government, John Tyler, now President of the United States, arrived in this city yesterday morn. ing, at 5 o'clock, and took lodgings at Brown's Hotel, At twelve o'clock, all the Heads of Departments, except the Secret - try of the Navy, "(who has not yet returned to the city from his visit to his family) waited upon him, to pay him the it official asd personal respect , . They were received with all the politeness and -kindness whtch cha rac:erize the new President. He signified his deep feel ing of the public calamity sustained by the death of Pre sident Harrison, and expressed his profound sensibility to the heavy responsibilities so suddenly d. volv , d upon him self. He spoke cf the present state of things with great euncern and seriousnes, and made known his wishes that the several Heads of Departments would continue to fill the places which they now reipecthely occupy, and his ecnfidence that they would afford ail the aid in their power to enable him to carry on the administration of the Govern ment successfully. The President then took and subscribed the fillowing cath of office : I do sol mnly swear that I will faithfully execute the effice of President of the United Staves, and will, to the be , t of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Con stitution of the United States. April 6, 1841. JOHN TYLER. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, City and County of Washington. S SS. 1, William Branch, Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of tbr, District of Columbia, certify that the above named John Tyler personally appeared before me this day, and, although he deems himself qualified to perform the duties and exercise the powers add office of President on the death of William Henry Harrison, late President of the United States, without any other oath than that which he has taken as Vice-President, yet, as doubts may arise, and for greater catrion, took and subscribed the fore going oath before mr. April 6, 1841. W. CRANCII. COURIER AND ENQUIRER OFFICE, We owe perhaps some apology to the public for the present state of our reading columns, and to advertisers, for the numerous advertisements we have for three days past been compelled to omit. The cause, however, will, we trust, readily occur to them. It is the notices we must necessarily publish of the funeral ceremonies proposed to be observed in cmunnemoration of the late veneiated President, and as these close with this day, hereafter our paper will assume its wonted appearance. FUNERAL OBSEQUIES. GENERAL ORDER. CITY HALL,' FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 134). The Aids to the Grand Marshal wlll assemble at the Assist ant Vice-Chancellor's room, City Hall, on Saturday morning, at 30 minutes past nine precisely. The Grand Marshal will receive his Staff at his quarters, N0..501, Broadway, at ten o'clock precisely. It is expected that the Staff will be punctual in attendance. By order, ROBERT BOGARDUS, Grand Marshal. S. D. Jackson, Secretary. The following named gentlemen compose the Staff:—Pros per M. Wetmore, Gilbert Hopkins, Wm. Samuel Johnson, Wm. W. Tompkins, Matthew Keeler, Jonathan Amory, Daniel Lee, Schuyler Livingston, John A. Mitchell, John Ridley, Giles M. Iliflyer, Harman Teel, Fred. Pentz, Marshal J. Btcon, Samuel D. Jackson, Wright Hawke!, John D. Van Beuren, John W. Edmonds, A. Davezac, Garret H. Striker, Rufus Prime, Geo. W. Heelas, Marcellus Fells, John A. Mor rell, William M. M'Ardle, Geo. W. Embree, Florence Maho ney, Minthorne Tompkins, James M'Cullough. The Marshals will meet at the Mayor's office, this afternoon (Friday) at four o'clock. A punctual attendance is particularly requested. _ By Order of ROBERT I3OGARDUS, Grand Marshal. Samuel D. Jackson, Secretary. New York, April 8, lB4l. 'General James E. Underhill has beeen appointed Marshal in Chief on behalf of the city of Brooklyn, who has designated the following gentlemen as his aides :—Majors William Cumberson, J. B. Clapp, G. C. Ball, Captains J. G. Hegeman, Seth H. Low, J. C. Duryea, E. M. Smith, A. M. Greig, Me•srs. I. N. Olney, F. M. Fisk, Joseph Van Nostrand, Jas. Hubbard, and Jacob Phillips. The Committee have agreed upon the following order of procession Ths procession will move from the City Hall at twelve o'clock, noon, precisely, and proceed up Chatham-street, to East Broadway, up East Broadway to Grand-street, tl.rough Grand-street to the Bowery, up the Bowery, to Fourteen-street, through Fourteen-street to Broadway, down Broadway to the front of the City Hall, from whence it will file off under the di rection of the Grand Marshal. The solemnities will be concluded as follows Prayer by the Rev. Pr. Cox, of the city of Brooklyn. 2- Funeral Oration by the Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, Chancellor of the University of the city of New York. 3. A Requiem written by George P. Morris, Esq. 4. Benediction by the Right Rev. Bishop Onderdonk. The ceremonies to conclude with the firing of a volley by the United States troops on duty. The whole under the command of the Grand 'Marshal. The persons having charge of the different churches and fire alarm bells in the cities of New York and Brooklyn, are re quested to cause the bells to be tolled from the hour of twelve o'clock, at noon, during the procession , and the owners and masters of vessels in the harbour, and the proprietors of public buildings, are requested to have their colors hoisted half-mast from sunrise to sunset. It is respectfully recommended also, that our fellow-citizens close their places of business during the solemnities of the day, and that in the evening the places of public amusement be closed. It is directed by the Committee that all public and licensed carriages and vehicles be withdrawn from the streets throlgh v.hich the procession is to pass. The Superintendents of hackney coaches, stages, and carts, are charged with the enforcement of this order. Ti:e owners of private carriages and vehicles are also respect fully requested to conform to the wishes of the Committee, in this respect. The Associations, Societies, and Citizens, to whom places are assigned as below, crc requested to appear on foot. The Committee have unanimously resolved, That no ban ners bearing political devices or inscriptions, shall be admitted in the procession. It is recommended that our fellow-citizens, whether in the procession or not, wear the usual badge of mourning on the left arm. The various Societies, Associations, and other bodies, are requested to assemble at such places as they may respectively select, and repair to the places of rendezvous designated in the annexed order. The different divisions in the above programme, will be de signated by a white banner, with the appropriate number of each in black. The various civic Societies will walk six abreast. ORDER OF THE PROCESSION. FIRST DIVISION. . The Grand Marshal , GENERAL ROBERT BOGARDUS. Prosper M. Wetmore, Aids Samuel D. Jackson, f • Military escort in the following order : Volunteer Corps of Infantry. ( The particulars not furnished the Committee.) The Division of Artillery in the folio wing order : FIRST BRIGADE. Commanded by Acting Brigadier General Henry U. Slipper, consisting of the TWENTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT. Commanded by Colonel William Jones. NINTH REGIMENT, Commanded by Lieut.-Colonel James L. Curtis. SECOND REGIMENT, Commanded by Colonel Thomas F. Peers. SIXTH BRIGADE, Commanded by General George P. Morris, consisting of the THIRD REGIMENT, Commanded by Major John W. Avery. THIRTY- EIGHTH REGIMENT, Commanded by Colonel Andrew Warner. ELEVENTH REGIMENT, Commanded by Colonel George Smith. THIRTEENTH REGIMENT, Commanded by Colonel Alexander Ming, Jr. FIRST BRIGADE HORSE, Commanded by Brigadier-General Storms. SECOND REGIMENT, Commanded by Colonel Bloomer. FIRST REGIMENT, Commanded by Colonel John Stewart. ADjor-General Charles W. Sandford, Commanding the Division of Artillery and Staff. Military of the City of Brooklyn, A Battalion of Light Infantry, Under the Command of Colonel Tolford. • SECOND Gilbert Hopkins, Aid to the Grand Marshal. Officiating Clergyman and Orator of the Day, in a carriage. The Reverend the Clergy. Major-General Scott, Commanding the Military District, and Aids. Commodore J. Renshaw, Commanding the Naval Station and Aids. Band of Music. A Detachment of the United States Marines, under Command of Capt. Harris, U.S.A. as a Guard ß of Honour. Borne by Sailors of the Navy of the United States, and who have served on board the frigate Constitution , Undn the command of Commander Sands. A Detachment of the Vnited States Army, under command of Captain Dimmiek, U. S. M. C., ac a Guard of Honour. HORSE Caparisoned, and led by William L. Nicholas, an aged • Servant of the deceased Pi esident. - The `allowing persons, as Pall-bearers (26 in number, cm responding with the number of States), in Carriages, viz. : Gen. M. Lewis John W. Hardenbrook Maj. Wm. Popham Peter R. Livingston Stephen Aden Isaac Lawrence Aaron Clark John Rathbone Cornelius W. Lawrence EdWard Taylor Walter Bowne Philip Hone Chancellor Kent George Griffen Richard Riker Sylvanus Miller John Targee John I. Morgan Peter A. Jay c Leffert Lefferts John Wyckoff :.-, Daniel Winship . w . - Jeremiah Johnson 2 7 William Furman Peter Bennett Robert Bache. Mayor and Acting Mayor of New York. Mayor of Brooklyn, and Martin Van Buren, Ex- Presithnt o the United States and Suite, in carriages. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, APRIL 9. About 750 shares Bank United States were sod at the First Board, opening at 20 1-4 cash and closing at 21 1-2. At, the Second Board the transactions were to the extent of 500 shares. A sale was made at 22, after which the price fell off to 21 1.4 cash, and 20 7-6 n. w , an advance of 13•-4 i , er cent. on the final quotations of yesterday. •It is supposed that the news of the Relief Bill having been vetoed by Governor Porter, was communicated to some Members'of the Board with orders to sell, which may have caused the decline from the - opening rate. We understand, however, that the Bank does not esteem it a misfortune that the Bill' is vetoed, es fir: conditions of it are such that she would not have accepted its tzrtn; had itbeen signed by the Governor. The general feeling at the Board was gool, and prices went up for most descriptions. Delaware and Iluds,n improved 1 2 per cent ; Harlem R: It. 3-4; Vicks burg It. R. 1-4 per cent. Money is abundant; and good business paper, which is scarce, can be negotiated, in the street, at 7 to 9 per cent. The legitimate wants of the business community are freely, supplied by the Banks ; and we understand that enough prime short paper • is not, offered to keep their discount lines at the maximum. Indeed, the quantity of paper afloat at the present time, based upon actral transactions, is comparatively so small, that the plethoric state of our Money market may be ascribed to this fact rather than to any expansion of the cutreney. - The Repolt of the Committee •of Investigation' into the affairs of the United States Bank, which goes out -by the Queen, will doubtless 'create much excitement in' Europe. We refrain at present from any•remarks upon this ltep;rt; in the first place by reason that much of it is difficult to be en, derstood, and in the second ,place that no doubt many of its statements will be controverted by the parties interested, as ha, already been done by several. The transactions in Foreign Exchange for the Steamer have been large to-day, and the market c:osed very firmly. The sales of Sterling have been at 7 1-4 a 7 12; Southern Bil l s ti 3-4 a 7; Francs sf. 23 3-1 a sf. 30; en Amsterdam 39 1-2; Ham burg 33 . 3-4 ; Bremen 76. • The demand for Inl'nd Exchange is fair. The rates are Philadelphia 3 3-4; Baltimore 3 Mobile 9; New Or leans 5 1-4. The 1 olluwing (potations for American securities may be con sidered in the main as nominal. The operations are not exten sive, although a growing feeling is evident among our capi talists, induced by the low rates and the prospeCt of improve ment, to invest their surplus funds in the best of these securi ties. That the credit of all the States will be inviolably main tained, Aespite the radical movements in some of the Western and Southern portions of the country, no one who has studied the character of our countrymen will for a moment donbt ; the stigma of such a suicidal act of dishonour wool.' attach to every member of the Confederacy, the powerful influence of public opinion would prevent its consummation. Offered. Asked. N. Y. State Five and a Half 88 89 Ditto ditto 1855 g 9 83 1-2 Ditto Four and a Half 75 82 Ohio Sixes Ditto Corporation Fives, Fire Loan 86 87 Illinois Sixes (dollar) 1860 49 1-2 50 1-2 Indiana (Sterling) Bonds Corporation Bonds 9") 100 Brooklyn City ditto 95 100 Delaware and Hudson ditto Bank of United States, in Penna. 20 1-2 22 Bank of Commerce, N. Y. 93 98 Farmers' Loan and Trust Co 70 73 Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Co. ... ........ 75 80 Boston and Providence R. R 93 1-2 94 New Jersey R. 11. and Trans. Co. ...... 7O 70 1-2 Mohawk and Hudson R. R. 57 57 1-2 Utica and Schenectady R. R. Syracuse and Utica R. R. l2B 1-4130 The influx of specie continues to a considerable extent, un attended with any demand for export, coasegnently the accumulation at this point is at present large, larger than the proportion to the whole amount in the country, which belongs to New York. The croakers in the suspended districts, have abandoned the idea that the New York Banks must also sus pend. The Banks of this city were probably never in a stronger position than at the present moment. The specie rates are for Spanish Dollars, 3 1-2 a 4 prem. ; Mexican do.- par a 1-4 ; American halves, par ; Spanish Doubloons, $l6, 40; Patriot do. $l6, 60; Five,Franc pieces, 04. (Correspondence of the Courier and Enquirer.) UNITED STATES BANK. PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 5, P. M.—STOCKHOLDERS' MEET INC.—The large hall of the U. S. Bank was, this morning, crowded to repletion by the Stockholders, to hear the report of the Committee of Investigation, appointed on the 4th o f January. As the Committee in whose care the Report is, did not deem it expedient to have it published until Wednesday in a pamphlet form, I am unable to give you any particulars, ex cepting that after making allowances of immense sums for loss on stocks, notes. &c., the Committee came to the conclusion that the stock of the Bank is worth about 46 1-3 for 100 del lars.—The Committee did not mention the names of indivi. duals or firms to whom large sums hal been lent. out of the usual order ; but they gave the transactions of the late officers of the Bank.' These will all appear in the pamphlet, together with most of the transactions which have been made the sub ject of out-door talk and animadversion. - ----- The meeting appointed a Committee, of which Mr. Soira, of your city, is one, to take into consideration the whale Re port and accompanying documents,_ and report their opinion of the best course to be pursued by the stockholders, at a meet= ing to be held on Thursday next, at ten o'olock. The stock transactions were exceedingly dull--there was no sal's made at the Ist Board, and but few at the 2d Board. United States declined about 73 cents a share. At the 2d Board, 100 shares U. S. Bank, s. 30 ds. 18 ; 100 do. do. do. s. 9 ds., flat, 19 ; 34 do. do. do. 19 ; 25 do. do do. 19. After the [Board, 100 shares U. S. Bank, s. 19, b. 60 ds. flat. Closing Prices.—U. S. Bank, 18i a 19. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. MOM VIE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—Amid the dust and din of party strife, it is truly refreshing to find that there are some sub-1 jests, the commending importance of which silences the contentions of partisanship, and which obtain, by the mere force of their acknowledged chime, the spon taneous advocacy of those who on most questions are diametrically opposed in opinion, either as to the objects or the mode of their accomplish ment. The appalling exhibitions which are of com mon occurrence in and the dangers to the public health occasioned by, the crowded stete of the metropolitan grave-yards, is one of those subjects. Without respect to party, the public journals have recorded the horrible spectacles exhibited in those repositories of the dead, oc casioned by the necessity of opening graves for new inter ments before the process of decomposition in those previ ously placed therein is complete. In many instances, while the mourners have stood around the grave in which are deposited the remains of a relative or friend, same shocking relic of mortality from contiguous graves is exposed to the view of the spectators, while around, on every hand, lie strewed the fragments of human bones—as though the only places in which the feelings of the living are outraged, at the time nod under circumstances which most require con , solation, and the remains of our departed fellow-men, treated with ignominy and insult front which even barbarians would abstain from an instinctive homage to our common nature, are those which arc set apart by the law for their decent and religious reception, and to which the Church, b o th by it s l a ws an d ritual, re . quires that the notion of peculiar sanctity should he at tacked. It is fortunate for the public that a Prelate should, by mere accident, have beheld one of these disgusting spectacles. Doubtless his Lordship had often read and heard of such things as he described with so much feeling and - alarm in the House of Lords on Monday night. The Bishop (of London) " had only yesterday been called on to officiate in a parish in the City, where thirteen skalls had been thrown out of the grave in which the corpse was to he buried. Not merely human bones were exposed in those churchyards, but often much worse things occurred." Way, the working clergy of the metropolis am com pelled to witness' dady similar spectacles to that which shocked the sensibility of the Prelate with apprehensions, and even the " much worse thing:," to which his Lord ship would net more distinctly allude in so polite an assembly. - The public press had long describel and de nounced the constantly increasing dangers resulting front the practice of heaping coffins tier upon tier, until they approach within a foot of the surface, and of opening graves so close to those. thus filled, that the coffins and their appalling contents were exposed to view. These. and even " much worse" spectacles, are common in the church-yards of the metropolisthey have been met ters of common conversation and indigedet com plaint and' expostulation to the parochial autho rider, by the . relatives of those whose mouldering remains ,hate been thus indecently exposed to public view ; and yet the Bishop of London had never heard—or if he had heard, had never believed in the existence, of the evil! Providentially, his Lerdship has had the subject pressed up on his attention through the medium of his senses. He actually saw thirteen human skulls thrown up from one rave--and now believed that " much worse" exhihittions were frequent in such places. In the case before us.the remedy is at hand, and of easy application. The Dean and Chapter of the diocsse of London arc known to possess land in the vicinity of the metropolis wissch might he appropriated for public . cemeteries. The 'clergy of the respective pa rishes, on the interment of their parishioners these cemeteries, might rightfully claim the usual burial fee. Taus their interests would lots preserved, and the public be protected. STANDARD.—Mr. Walter has been returned for Nottingham by a majority of 293.- At the last cente;t in the same borough four years ago, the Conservative candidate: was defeated by a majority of 402 there has therefore been a change ill favour of Con servative principle on the part of nearly 800 electors. This is gratifying ; but the mere fact of this change is not all that we find to rejoice at. The House of Coaernone has acquired an admirable member, in every way qualified to protect the interests of the poor there, where their interests stand in most need of pro tectors. Conservatives and Chartists have been brought into contact, and, as always happens when sincere and wellefisposed men are brought into contact, have been taught to respect and to trust each other, and a great lesson has been read tq public men of all parties, - teaching them that the ki n d t rea tm en t of the working classes must be their • firsteceres -if they would consul. their own interests, as the well-being of.. those classes is the only solid hash' of national prosperity and public safety. 'The weekieg' clieeee of England are not in the' condition in which they ought to he re latively to the. station of the country. England •is by tar the richest country on the face of the earth, but it is too certain that the working daises of Englishmen do not participate in this pre-cminence—they are not the hap piest labourers in the - world, or nearly such. This provss an undue distribution of the profits of labour, which can be corrected only by rejecting. the prin ciple, together with the cruel previsions, of the New Poor-law—that principle is to bring clown the people l to the lowest scale o f li v i ng -upon which life . can be sustained. The very 'reverse would be the -policy ,of a wise legislator for a country containing so much wealth as England. - Such a legislator .wouldr try to familiarise the working classes not only with COM. forts, but with luxuries ; • not only as a means to their moral and social improvement, but also as a means of preventing the accumulation of wealth 'in the hanos of a few—the greatest evil that can befal any people. As a check to the danger el this fatal cola. mity, nothing can' he so effectual vs the placing the working classes in a position to extract, by peaceful end legal means, a fair share of the profits of their labour, as the System of the old Poor-law did. The moral improve ment of the population is, however, the first dell objects; and tois is teany extent impossible under the new Poor law. You build churches and establish schools ; you do well.in. this ; but to what end do you bulichurches and es teteish schools, when you pass a taw which first stigmatizes poverty as: infamous, and then arrays the population in tie gait) of .poverty ? Who - ever sees a ragged man at church ? How many ragged children have you in your public schools ? " Wh ere are the mob ?" asked the Czer A'exander, - when surrounded, by half a ' tniilion in Hyde Park ;." all, I see here are well- dressed men."' And so it will always be in Efiglanda Poverty hides itself alike from observation and instruction. We can give men credit for mistaking the teudeecy of the New Poor-law, but we cannot allow to any one who is aware of its tendency the credit for wish ing to'improve the minds or the temporal happiness of his fellew- creatures ; and even they who are mistaken in tie.: tendency Of the law are not ,without blame. Men always go wrong when they think themselves wiser then their Bible ;. and the Bode teaches that the tvan.s- o! the roer are to be relieved promptly and direaly, without looking to consequences or casting about for ' indirect contrivances. These are considera tions which ought never to be out of the minds of pub lic teen, but which the result of the Nottingham dee- . tion will force upon them through their own interests. COURlER.—Although not insensible of the import s aece justly attaching to the ignominious exposure and de • feat of the mean, pitiful, and treacherous trickery of Ministers iu their Irish 13111,n0r blind to the contingencies . it ought and would lead to,were their case that of honour able public men, we are nevertheless disposed to regard the result of the Nottingham election as of much greater importance still, inasmuch as that event cannot- be con strued into a mere party triumph, but must be accepted as a decisive demonstration of public opinion—a delibe rate judgment of the people of England, upon which execution should issue, and must—against the policy and personnel of the most weak, worthless, and profligate Government which ever betrayed the interests or debauched the morale of this country since the scandalous times of the Cabal. . The Ministerial pipers are consoling themselves and their em ployers for this signal Nottingham disaster by the con sideration that, so far as•principles•are in question, it is solely and wholly attributable to the inveterate hostility of popular sentiment against the new Poor-law. We have no objection so to construe this practical com mentary on ehe effects of that hateful law ; and, more, now is the accepted time, we would say, for the towns and parishes of England and Wales to speak as with one voice, and pour their petitions as of one mind, upon the Legislature for the repeal of that abomination, and for the utter extirpation of that grinding tyranny which has too long reigned supreme in Somerset House. We repeat it, " now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation ;" now when the Ministerial crew is " flut tered" and flurried by Parliamentary discomfiture ; now, when Nottingham has so gloriously led the van of the new Poor-law reform ; now, when, on the eve per haps of the accession of other and better men to office, it more than ever behoves the people, notwith standing, to make their bargain clear and distinct, so that hereafter there neither shall be, nor can be, any " mistake" about the terms on which popular support is afforded, and by which it must be maintained. We are the more earnest in this advice, inasmuch as there has been some " tripping" among professing Conser vatives about the new Poor-law, arid more by far indeed than will be tolerat:d for the future. Let those concerned look to it well, or they may tarn and spin and cry for help in vain, when another day of trial conies, and the constituency must be faced from the hustings. It is, and will be, no saving grace on that day with the people, or with those, like ourselves, engaged in the service of the people, to place on the record a plea of general Tory or Conservative principles in abatement ef the sin of voting for the New Poordlw Continuance B:1'. POLICE INTELLIGEICCE. MANSION-HO USE. Mr. Bell, the newspaper agent of Finch-lane, appeared befcre Sir Peter Laurie for the purpose of complaining of an odd way of raising - the wind, which was resorted to through the iott.omentality of his office. Upon a former day Sir Peter Laurie directed that summonses should be served upon the parties whose conduct was arraigned, but no notice was taken of the Magistrate's authority, and the complainant was called upon to make his statement. Mr. Bell said that he was in the habit of allowing letters on business to be addressed to his office. He was, however, not a little surprised to find that without his authority, the followinv advertisement appeared in the imes tie xspaper :—" Wanted a Clerk for a merchant's counting-house. Salary to commence at 1001. per annum. Anly by letter f:ce, in applicant's own handwriting, with a postage stamp, inclosed to R. J. S. and Co., Bell's newspaper office, Finch-lace." Letters poured in, as might he expected, to the nuarbera f about 500. At last a young man, who stated himself to be clerk to an East India merchant, called and said that the advertisement was inserted through his interposition. Ile (Mr. Ball) very sharply reprehended such a liberty, and, suspecting that there was some dishonesty connected with the matter, opened ore of the letters, which was as follows : Croydon, April 14, 1841. S;--Iu answer to the advertisement in the Times news paper of the 13th inst., respecting a cork in a merchant's counting-house, at 1001. per annum, enclosing a postage sta up, I I),g - to tell 11. J. S. that your scheme or the con templated robbery with all your ingenuity is a stale trick, an; for your better information I beg to refer you to the cases on the point tried at the Central Criminal Court lately, where Adey and several other persors hive been detected and convicted, and a great many of them have been transported, independent of wh:ch I shall feel it my duty to fallow you up and trace who you are, and if not successful expose the dirty work, by cautioning the public ,gains: you by a counter-advertisement. I am, Sirs, your obedient servant, To R J. S. and Co. THOS. JONES. The letter just read completely opened his eyes, and upon opening the other communications which still con. tinned to pour in he found a postage .stamp in each, with the exception of one, the writer of which nut being sup plied with a stamp enclosed sixpence. Sir PETER LAURIE—Then it was in your opinion done for the purpose of obtaining the peony stamp on each I , :ttcr ? Mr. Bell said that he believed the object of the adver tiser to be of a much deeper character. He had no doubt that the fellow who corcocted the plan meant to turn his unconscious correspondents to some advcntagc of a more important nature. He (Mr. Bell) was well known in the great commercial toNns of England, and the inference which would be immediately drawn from the advertise ment was that reliance might be placed upon its authentic character from the fact of the reference to his office. He therefore felt that there was immediate occasion t.) expose the deception. Sir PRTER LAURIE asked where the clerk to the East India merchant was? Mr. Bell said be had every reason to suspect that the younig roan was kept out of the way by the fabricators of tine scheme, one of whom wore an enormoui pair of mous tachios, and bad what was called an imperial chin, being completely covered with hair, and the very cut of a scamp. The East India merchant attended for tha purpose of stating that his clerk had no doubt been made the dupe of two others in the office. He entertained a fAvourable opinion of the young man, and believed him to he incapa ble of any deliberate ill conduct, but the two persons who devised the plan were most certainly a pair of schemers. Mr. Bell thought so too. One of the .persons called upon him to justify this proceediag, acd spoke very high, but he ( Mr. Bell) told the gentleman in very plain lan guage his candid opinion of such conduct, and felt disposed to kick hi-n out of the house as a common swindler. Th e fellow had the impudence to ee:lare that it was he that wanted the clerk, and that be had written ar.swers to all the applicants whose letters he had received. Of the art fulness of the design there did not exist the least doubt. Tl:e East India merchant said that his clerk war, he had every reason to think, kept out of the way by the two men Wiese dupe he hail been. The young man stated, upon e'eg spoken to about the share he hail in the mr,:tter, that the parties alluded to had applied to him to know where they could have letters directed to them, and he told them that he dii not know a bitter place than Mr. Bell's, to which references were often made in public advertise m‘eits. The unfortunate young man was actually ruined 'by this trawaction. Sit PeTen Lareate said that in ell probability the object of M.... B 11 wou ld to f e tiy answered by the public exposure ; h w ou ld b e g i ve , of the trick, which he was convinced was meant to ech mote the - ,ostage stamps. 'l73e depraved day showing itself in new 'ed to put every seeemer wh o a l ins at the bar of the Central C, GRAT' s INN, - ...).—The two following gentlemen were this day called to the degree of Barrister at- Law by the Horsounble Society of Gray's Inv, viz.— Benjamin Chiltey Campbell Pine, E.sq.,. and Benjamin I3oothby, Esq. ; - and the untlemamed gentlemen having been called to the Bench of the same Society, on Wedoe d last took their seats accordin2lythiS day, viz.— Sam. Turner, Th em , s Purvis, Archer Ryland, and Thomas Green, M.P., Esqtti. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. 1101.1 SE-OF COMMONS, APRIL-28,' The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'Clock. Mr...T. PARKER presented a petition from the Manehestur. aid Ashton-under-Line Railway CompanY against certain provisions of the Railway Bill before the House. Mr. HOME DRUMMOND presented a petition from a Scotch Presb:tery against railway travelling on Sundays. Mr..PARKER presented petitions from the Corpo rations of Ludlow and Sheffield, praying for a revision of the Commercial Tariff. An HON. MuMnEit presented petitions from various railway companief, whose names did not reach us, against the Bill before the House for the regulation of railways. Mr. AGLIONBY presented petitions from Suffolk against Elelesiostical Courts and. Church-rates. Mr. BRISCOE presented a petition from . Bath against the Dog' Carts Bill. Colonel VERNER presented a petition from the Grand Jury of the county of Artnazh in favour of Lord Stanley's and against Lord Morpeth's Irish Re gist'ation Biil. Mr. BAINES prevented several petitions from places in Yorkshire against• compulsory oaths, Eccle siastical Courts, and Church-rates. Mr. COLQUHOUN presented several petitions from Manchester, Derby, and other places,- against lay patronaze in the Church of Scotland. Mr. GROTE presented a petition from several hundred merchants and traders in the City of London, praying for a revkion of the Customs duties. Colonel RUSHTON presented a petition agiost the grant to Maynooth College. but the designation of the petitioners was not heard in the gallery. - Sir WM. MOLESWORTH presented a petition from persons connected with South Australia, against the alienation of the emigration fund. Mr.:. HAWES presented a petition from a place in Cambridgeshire against Church-rates. Lord CASTLEREAGH presented a petition from the Elders of a Presbyterian Congregation in Scot land, praying for the abolition of Church patronage in Scotland—in the prayer of which be heartily concurred.. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD presented a petition from the North of England Medical Association, complaining of the manner in which the medical of were appointed to Poor-law Unions; also, a petition from the chemists and.droggis.ts of Reading, agdnst the Medical Reform Bill ; rho a petition from the Protest ant Dissenters and others residing in the neighbourhood cf Abingdon. praying for the abolition of Church-rates. Mr: HUME - presented a petition from a place the name of which we could, not catch, praying for the abolition of Church-rates and of Ecclesiastical Courts ; alio from Kerrymain, ptaying for the abolition of the bread tax and a free trade in corn and provisions gene rally, and for a reform of 'the tariff ; also petitions to . the same effect, from the tool-makers in Warwick,had from the inhabitants of Whithurn. Sir It. INGLIS preiented a petition from the rector, churchwardtne, and other inhabitants of Stake upon-Trent, against a further grant to the Coliev of Maynooth ; Coin the county of Stafford, against Sun day trading on railways, and from the county of York, in favour of Church Extension. Sir R. PEEL presented a petition from Avon B►ssett, in the county of Stafford, in favour of Church Extension ; from a hundred in Lincoln, praying that the County Courts' Bill may not pass into a law ; or that if it does, the Ccurt established there may be exempt from its operation ; and from Tamworth and places . in the counties of Warwick and Leicester, in favour of the Bill for preventing the use of dogs as beasts of burden. Mr. LITTON presented a petition from a congre gation of Dissenters in Coleraine against Church pa tronage. SUNDAY FLOGGING. Sir R. H. INGLIS wished to know whether it was the intention of the authorities at the Admiralty to issue an order to the officers of the navy similar to that lately issued from the Horse Guards against flogging on Sunday. Ile asked the question as he understood that a case, of fl tgging on Sunday had lately occurred on board of one of her Majesty's vessels. Mr. MOORE O'FERRAL said that although it was not usual to take such a step, the Board of Ad miralty had issued a circular to the officers of the navy for the purpose referred to by the Hon. Member. Mr. GROTE gave notice that in Committee on the Bill for rrgul sting trade in the British Colonies he would move an amendment to the effect that the pro vinces of Upper and Lower Canada should be ex empted from the operation of the Bill until the duty on tea imported into those colonies should be reduced from fourpence to one penny. REGENT'S PARK. Mr. EWART begged leave to ask the Under- Secretary for the Treasury whether it was the intent on of the Government to open the whole o: that part under grass in the Regent's Park to the public ; and whether they were resolved on making a commu nication from the park to Primrose. hill ; further, whether that part of the park opposite Hanover terrace was to be also open to the public ; and finally whether the Government was prepared to lay before the House. a map which which would indi cate the alterations that were to take place. Mr. E. J. STANLEY said that it . was the inten tion of the Woods and Forests to open the whole of the grass part of the Park to - the public. It was also intended to open a road by means of a bridge from Hanover•gate to the Grass Park ; but it was not in tended to make any bridge over the Regent's Canal, to Primrose-hill, which would be accessible in the , J3ui.l manner. With respect to the last question of the Hoe. Gentleman, he begged to state that it was the intention of the Government to lay before the House, in the course of the week, a plan of the Regent's Park, for the purpose of showing the contem plated arrangements. ➢lr. Sergeant JACKSON wished to ask the Noble Lora; the Secretary for Ireland whether it was his in tention to prccced with the Irish Court of Chancery Bill on Friday next ? lie wished the Noble Lord to postpone, until a more distant period, the further con sideration of the measure, as some officers connected with the Irish Court of Chancery were anxious to be in London during its progress. Lord 1110111 3 ETI - 1 did not think it would be possi ble to bring in the Bill on Friday next. PARLIAMENTARY VOTERS - (IRELAND). Lord J. RUSSELL said it was his intention to move the Order of the Day for going inio Com mittee on the Parliamentary Voters (Ireland) Bill, and, as it stood somewhat low upon the list, he should pro pose, if the gentlemen who had orders on the paper had no objection, that they should be mid over far the purpose of postponing them. The preceding orders were then read over, and fixed for other days. Lord J. RUSSELL—In rising to move the next order of the day, 1 beg leave to state the course I pro pose to pursue. I asked the House to adjourn for a short time for the purpose of considering the effect which the words added to the first clause would have upon the Bill, considering them as of very considerable importance. I attached such importance to the words chiefly because of what occurred in the debate, inferring from the statements then made that it was intended by affirming those words to exclude the franchise proposed by my Noble Friend the Secretary for Ire land. The importance of the debate and the impor taiee of that vote I cannot exaggerate, but the Govern ment could not feel at all justified in considering that vote as conclusive on such a subject. On the second reading of the Bill the principle of the franchise proposed by my Noble Friend was affirmed in a very large House by the votes of 301 Members. We have now had the amendment moved by my Noble Friend the Member for Northumberland also affirmed ; but it was not moved with the view of negativing any of those franchises that were proposod by my Noble Friend, but with a view of aiding those franchises. That franchise, if added to those proposed by my Noble Friend, will be an addition to the fran chise, and not a diminution.—( Hear, hear.) We will be quite willing to accept that addition in the hope that the House is prepared to adopt the franchise of the nature we have proposed, and arc prepared to support. We therefore think it is our duty to proceed with the Bill, and ask for the sense of the House upon the franchise proposed by us. That franchise formed part of the all, and was dis cussed upon the second reading of the Bill ; not cer tainly with respect to the amount of 51., but with re spect to the nature of the franchise. I do not consider teat it is necessary to say anything further. I will, therefore, conclude by moving the Order of the Day for the House resolving itself into Committee on the Registration of Voters (Ireland) Bill. Lard HO WICK said that his Noble Friend (Lord J. Raissell) having explained to the House the course he purposed to pur,ur, it might be for the convenience of the House if he (Lord Howick) also stated what was his intention with reference to the amendment of which he had given notice, in consequence of what took place on a former evening. lie (Lord Howick) still held the opinion which he had then expressed, that the county franchise of Ireland n gut be most satisfactorily settled on the principles which he had endeavoured to state to the House, namely, by retaining the existing franchise in to :;cot of the beneficial interest, providing a simple and easily as certained test of the eNistence of that interest, and affording a further means of securing the right of voting by the creation of an occupation franchise analogous to that possessed in this country by the 501. leaseholders. li e (Lord H.) still continued to hold that opinion. Certainly nothing that had passed in the debate on the former evening had contributed to alter it ; on the con trary, with reference to the first amendment, the House had affirmed the expediency of . maintaining the.,prinel plc of a property qualificati9p,, and his Noble Friend who had just sat down, in a manner which inade him (Lord Howick) at a loss to comprehend his pressing the question on a former evening to a division, had stated that. to the franchise, defined in the manner he (Lord Howick) proposed in addition to soma other. franchise, • he had •no objection ; except as an ad dition to some other franchise he (Lord Howick) never should have thought of proposing a beneficial interest to .he defined in the manner suggested. If therefore the House hereafter should discover some other franchise by which the parties he sought to enfranchise would be admitted to the right of voting, he should then propose the amendment which was in part adopted by the House: But, per haps, a more important amendment was that he w.se about to propose, since that went to alter the nature of the occupation franchise of his Noble Friend, and to do away with the necessity of a lease in order that electors might obtain the right of voting by occupation, and in consideration of the beneficial interest. It appeared to him.that what passed in the House an a former evening did not give him any reason to think that he was wrong in the proposition which he laid before the House, and which had been adopted by it. His Noble Friend on. that side of the House had on that occasion refused to enter into any argument on the subject. He made no attempt to show how it was possible that they could with a franchise founded on a leasehold qualdication, or obviate the diminution in the number of electors that was avowedly going on under the present system, and which was mainly attributable to the unwillingness of the landlords to grant leases. The arguments which he had advanced relative to the disadvantages arising from holders of small properties, and claiming the franchise on account of their leases, were not disapproved. He had shown that persons possessing small holdings were gene rally more needy and dependent than tenants of a higher class. On the other head, the Hon. Member for North Lancashire, if he (Lord Hotvick) correctly collected the import of what fell from him, had not merely admitted that he had no objection to the principle which he (Lord H.) advanced, but even went so far as to say if that principle had been adopted and embodied in the measure by ter Majesty's Go vernment, he would have been prepared to give it his acquiescence, at least he would be prepared—he thought the expression of the Hon. Member for Lan cashire - was —to give it respectful consideration. He would be sorry to misconstrue the words which fell from them on that occasion. He clearly understood them to disclaim giving any opinion whatever as to the details, as to the amount of occupation which might be required. But although to this extent the principle was admitted by his Noble Friend and the Right Hon. Baronet opposite, it was stated by theirs that they would not be prepared even to consider the details of such st- • :measure, unless it were brought forward by the aothoeity and on the respon sibility of her Majesty's 'Governmeat.—(Hear, hear.) That being their opinion, it was plain that in moving the amendment of which he had given notice, he had no support to expect from the other side of the House. —(Hear,.) On his (Lord Hosvick's) side of the House, he was equally unable to expect any support, because although his Noble Friends did not think proper at that time to enter into the agreement, they distinctly stated their intention to resist the amendment which he had in contemplation. Tee result of the division on the former night proved to them that he could not calculate on any support from. • that side of the House, even from those Gentlemen with whom he generally concurred in opinion. Such being the case, it would be manitestly.useless to bring forward the amendment, and he would not waste. the time of the House by proposing an. amendment, though he was convinced that it would tend to a satisfactory adjustment, if this much disputed question had nos the least chance of meeting with . acquiescence. Of course, with the opinions he had expressed, this amendment fell to the ground. It would be impossible for him, however anxious he was to co-operate with her Majesty's Government in placing the franchise on a satisfactory footing, to support the clause which they were going to bring un der consideration of the House. He would not trouble the House by repeating the arguments in opposition to that clause which he had used on a former occasion ; he would only say that he Lad heard nothing which had led him to believe that he had attached an undue weight to those arguments. He could not, however, support the clause as it was about to be propoised—(Hear, hear, from the Opposi tion)—and he must confess he could not bet feel sur prised that her Maje ty's Government should call upon the House to decide on it, for every man who knew anything of political affiirs, of the state of parties in Parliament, and the country, must be aware that, al though the clause proposed might or might not pass that House, still there was no human probability that a franchise, founded on that principle, could possibly pass into a law.—(Loud cheers from the opposition.) He thought there was not the remotest probability of carrying it, and he considered that the further debating the subject would tend merely to the increasing the party excitement in that House ; and, what would be still snore unfortunate, would in crease the party excitement and the party animosity which now prevailed on that subject in Ireland. He thought the result must he, that the sehject must continue anotaer year without any effectual attempt being made to re ice,fy these evils. He believed that the franchise required definition and explanation before they could apply any remedy to the present state of things. He believed the system of registration to be faulty, but he also believed, and could show from the information before the House, that almost the faults of the system of reoisteaften - in Ireland, - all the abuses, and all the evils which had besu complained of; flowed mainly from the present undefin e d state of the franchise.—(Cheers.) They did not define whet. was the means of obtaining the franchise, and that was the real cause 'of ail the evils.—(Hear, hear.) He did not attribute those evils which were admitted to exist on all sides, to the defective tribunds for registration, nor to the deficiency of an an nual registration; The reel cause of abuse was t in the franchise - itsilF. It was based on a fact which they had no certain means of ascertaining ; and to prove this fact, lie would merely allude to certain Returns ,which had been moved for by the Hon. andiearned Member for Bendier:. Ti.e Hon. and Learned Member had moved for a return of the number of claims put in ; and of the number allowed in,-different parts of Ireland. Among other parts in troduced in the returns. was the county of Cork. In that, the largest county in Ireland, 12,000 claims had been made, and only -1,000 established, so that for every single claim estaUlisned twelve had been put forward for discussion. In twelve case they had all the litigation and all the discussion.—(" No, no," from Mr. Sergeant Jackson.) He knew to what the Hon. and Learned Member ailuded—he meant that every one of the twelve was not carried forward for litiga tion. But the return, at all events, showed how great must be the uncertainty when twelve per sons could be led to believe that they had aright to the franchise as well as es cry one who established it. That was a monstrous and crying evil, and one which must continue at least for another year, because it arose entirely from the uncertainty of the franchise. He thought his Noble Friend could obtain no object in pressing forward his Bill, and any attempt of that kind on the other side ie resisting the further progress of the Bill would be attended with precisely the same effect. It would keep up existing animosity, and make more difficult at some future period a settlemeat of that ques tion. He was persuaded that such would be the effect of pressing forward the Bill at present, and he could not help asking the Right Hon. Baronet and his Noble Friend whether, if it were not fit to deal with the franchise, and attempt to accomplish that highly necessary reform unless that reform was taken up by her Majesty's Goovernment, proposed upon their responsibility and by their authority —if that principle held good with respect to the reform of the franchise, did not the same principle hold equally good with le spec to the reform of the tribunal ?—(Cheers.) Did it not hold more than equally good when it appeared from the facts elicited in the course of the debate that the first step towards the accomplishment of that object was a clear definition of the franchise. He was persuaded that such was the case—it was impossible to deal with the subject, except as a whole, and, unfortu nate as might be the result of leaving Ireland to suffer another year under the evils of the present registration system, and the present inadequate franchise, he thought under the circumstances in which they were now placed, that such was the inevitable result. He did think, that if the House was actuated by a real and earnest desire to legislate for the public good, and net for the purpose of party and faction, a differ ent result might have been obtained. The country had a right to inquire, and would inquire, why so im portant a question had not been settled. He did not wish to lay blame on either side, but this he must say, that if her Majesty's Government had proposed a mea sure retaining as much as' practicable of the existing law, and supplying any difference in the number of elec tors, !, at the same time establishing a clear definition of the beneficial interest —if they had proposed a measure of that sort founded upon a careful investi gation of facts, and supported by full and satisfactory information, he was certainly bound to believe from tire declarations that were made on the other side of the House, that in point of principle, at least, no objection to such a measure, so brought forward and so sup ported; would have been urged. Even upon the details of such a measure, it was not im possible that an agreement might have been come to. He supposed that any hopes of thatsort were now at an end. He would conclude the few observa tions he had thought proper to make to the House, by expressing his hope that in declining to persevere in an amendment of which he had given, notice, the House would give him credit for not acting on hasty and instil ficient reasons, or in not having brought forward an amendment which might have been the means of recon ciling conflicting parties,—and on the ether hand, when he found that the proposition was net received in the manner in which be had hoped, the House would think he hail acted right in not persevering in it,—( Hear.) Sir R. PEEL—The few observations I have to make on the present occasion will he etclusively confined. to a statement of the course I took on Monday night, when this Bill was last under discussion, and the position in which we now stand with respect to any future proceedings on the subleetr.. - Toirder3tooti - hiar Majesty's Government, as a Government, as the executive administration en trusted with the confidence of their Sovereign, and produ-...e much ore thlti . thept ingenuity of ..an Was eve r' shapes, -and h ties resoi vei should be bre ht before him !riminal Ceurt. INN; APRIL-28.1116 t% EVENING EDITJ IT with the responsibilities of office, had undertaken the adjustment of this question—(Hear, hear)—that they bad undertaken, first to define the franchise, end next to amend the admitted abuses of registration—abuses which they themselves did not deny, and which they themselves acknowledged to be grass and indefensible —(Hear, bear)—but they also took up this ground, that there was a risk, in improving the registration, of narrowing the franchise in Ireland—that there were evils in an undefined franchise, on account of the coo- • flier of the judicial authorities, and that therefore the two questious ought to be settled together—that the franchise ought to be defined, and that these abuses ought to be corrected. In attempting, housever, to define the franchise, her Majesty's Govertneist made a proposal for subverting the franchise.—(Loucf cheers from the Opposition benches.) In the Dill introducsed by her Majesty's Government, the preaMble recited that doubts and difficulties existed as to the , present frau-- ass, and that it was desirable to clear them: up ; hut the practical mode in which they met these doubts and. ditlieu!ties was to eubvert the existing franchise, and to substitute another in its place—namely, to take es:eaves pancy, as tested by the rating, as the qualification fax the county constituency, while a 51. rating wags to constitute the franchise in all cities and towns; in Ireland. I understood the Noble Lord: (Lord Howick) to make a decided objection. to the principle of that franchise, on two grounds—fiest he objected to a unilinm franchise as applicable_ to tile counties and towns of Ireland, and next he objcctct on principle, to the abolition of a profit front, land as an clement of the county irsichise. The Noble Lord, therefore, proposed by way of an amendment, first to embody the principle for which he contended, with the measure of the Goe vernment, and which amendment, so far as the first clauses was concerned, was simply this—that a beneficial in terest or a profit from land should be a sire qua non„ and an indispensable condition in the county iearicaise.— ( Hear.) We entered upon a discussion ofteat question, and 1 distinctly understood the other night tha are were then discussing a main—an essential princip:e oli the Bill—tOpposifiun cheers) —a principle which was to regulate the future constituency of Ireland. 'Ass Noble Lord (John Russeq has stated that he had subsequently discovered that the suggestion of the Noble Lard the Member for Nortautsiberland cud of the lion. Gentleman near htL't, evith respect to the heneliaieleinterest, %as an addition, supplenir nt to the trauciese which fee h.hneelf -p-enneties% arid then therefore there would be now no ineonvislca,cY .0 ad mitting that additional franchise, ai it would only , extend • and widen the constituency of Ireland ; a supplement of his own he would eudesassour to enlarge the constituency. Why if any thing could :are clear and decisive on that poir`, it was the seplamaalorn of the Noble Lord himself when lie brought forward hiss proposal, for the Noble Lord stet timt no proposed'. .his amendment far the beneficial interest as exclu— sive of el/my other franchise. The Noble Lord the Sacremty for Ireland placed the saute miscon struction on the declaration of the Noble Lot uti" which the Hon. Gendeman the Member for h'eitax s in the clearest and most decisive manner, said to the I\ Lord, ; " You are wrong in your construction of r. kits amendment—you think that it will kid to an" unsatisfactory franchise, anti that it will exclude many who ought to enjoy it, but in this you are altogether mistaken." Why I was quite surprised at the pains the lion. Member fur Halifax had taken, particularly after what had fallen from the Noble Lord, to show the nature of the amendment, and I find it impossible to understand how it coul I be resbeed by any bne utiless on principle. But on principle it was resisted.—(Hear.) Upon a principle so overbearing—so overiehelmitig, that ;t compelled the Government to overrule it as tar as was in their power. If you are going to define the franchise, surely you can du it without excluding some of those voters who would be enfranchised by the amendment of the Noble Lord ; yet the principle wee found to be so overbearing by the Government taut bee• neficial interest was wholly to be excluded. — (Cheers.) I do rot in the least quarrel with the, explanation of what fell from me, given by the- Noble Lord (Howick), but I think it better that the House should draw i.s inferences from a repetition from an Hon. Member himself, than from the .recollection or the impression nude on the mind of another. What. did say on the occasion was, that if it was proved to me thnt the just expectations that were entertained under the Relief Bill or the Referm Bel hate been di appointed—if it be shown to me that there has been such a diminution of voters as will not lcave a sufficient and inteihgent constituency in Ireland, in that case, I would not be indisposed to consider 3 remedy, hut if I must apply that remedy—if convinced of its uccessii —I would feel myself compelled to contend that a profit from the land should be au essential qUali ficetioa toe the franchise—(Cheers)—and I said aisso with respect to the definition of the ivenclaises no authority short of the responsible Governmeert of the Crown ought to take up such a measure, or could. be expected to bring it to a satis e actory conenn sion. I do not say it out of any disrespect to the. Noble Lord ; but if I were to give my aisent to send up a Bill to the House of Lords, coutainiug a new franchise introduced, not by her Ma. jesty's Government., but by a Noble Lord, whe, as be said himself, was unconnected with any great party in the State, upon materials such as we have before us, I cannot assent to the setting up a 51. franchise. I think it necessary then to go into the del all of the It-leisure, despairing us I do of coming to any satisfactory conclusion upon such informal ion as we have. Whatever the forms of the House 'nee he, or whatever they way sllow, I would consider tniat I should be guilty of deluding Honourable Ih:em bers if I were to give my assent to the definition of the franchise unless, and at the same tinsse, I could give a reasonable assurance that it ws s probable that the Bill should pass into a law. I ash , tmn, am 1 not justified in saying that in so important .a. matter as the formation of a new franchise, it is absolutely necessary that the party introduc-. ing it ought to have the confidence of the Crown and act under the responsibility of office ? Now then, if those were my opinions on Monday, after one day's interval, and the information received by us since, can my feelings have undergone any change ? Here is a general Report of the Commissioners ap pointed by the Attorney-General for obtaining infor mation on the subject. I have to persuse it, but it is %cry difficult to keep pace with the supply of those documents.—( Hear, hear, and laughter.) In the 24th liege of the second General Report is tire passage— " There ire net materials before us to form any calcu lation as to the probable amount of electors which the adoption of a franchise, regulated by any given amount of ra lug combined with tenure, would produce."—(Op position cheers vied laughter.) That is the Report of the Commission appointed by the Attorney-General. I have no friends to supply me with information ; I can form no other judgment than en the information sup plied, yet I am asked to constitute a new franchise, and these are the materials I have. lam told that " There arc no materials to form any calculation as to the probable number of electors which the adoption of a franchise, regulated by any given amount of rating combined with tenure, would produce." I look t o another paper, and I find that in 1837 the 10/. householders in each city of a county in Ireland, were 13,555, and that the 101. householders in boroughs were 9,403, making together 22,963. I take the year the Attorney-General selected as that in which it would be most probable the expect a ti ons o f t h e Re form viantrscLfealnfidlledn,pwanntddsl numberifinndeitghheteen unn o s, f per-so is rated l con taming cites and towns, was 23,000 10/. electors in 1837, and 113,932 tenements rated at and above 51. in those engntecia unions. —(Loud cheering.) lam aware that nip cities and boroughs are not co-terminous with the union, but before forming any judgment as to the effect of any franchise I determine on, would it not be necessary that I should know the number of tenements e xisting in the resuective districts? The Noble Lord said when the 5/. franchise was proposed it was not his inten tion to isc:esse the franchise, and the Noble Lord said that be did trot expert that the 5/. fianchise would lead to any suddea or materiel increase in the number of elec tors, The Ntble Lord stated that he thought the gene s, 1 tendency of the Si franchise would be to widen the constituency, bet he did net think it at all probable that any sudden inervase in the number of electors would take place. If those are the intentions of the Noble Lord, am not justified in the course I have adopted, namely, de chring that, in my opinion, no one can deal with it question of this immense importance —. immense importance with respect to its practical results in Ireland—immense importance as being a question that is considered c ,puble of further extension, unless that person could make a proposal founded on all those mea ns of obtaining information which Government possesses, and. unless he brought forward the measure on the responsi bility of the Government. With respect to the Noble Lord's prop :iiierr conet icing that this is a question which ought to be dealt with so as to be permanently settled, though Ido not dissent from the general principle of the Noble Lord, yet I would be guilty of exciting false expectations, if I di,l not drelr.re frens 'the information that has boon supplied, that I cannot, consistently eith MI , sense of duty, support the details of the Noble Lord's proposition. Lord MORPETH said he did not intend to go fur ther into the course which the Government •would pursue until they, came precisely to that question. He merely wished to advert to an observation that hod fallen from the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite. He stated that the other evening he distinctly understood that the House was deciding a question of p r inciple.—(Hear.) That the condi;i so was the sine qua non of the future construc tion of the franchise of Ireland. He (Lord Morpetb) must say that the Right Hon. Baronet had understood directly tie reverse of what he (Lord M.) had stated. The deduc tions taught have been illogical or uot, but he had stated distinctly that he looked on the first amendment on which the House h ad been called on to come to a vote, as one, the adoption of which would be inconsistent with the defini tion of the franchise er the remodelling or altering, so as to meet with the consideration of' the Hoose. Of course he admitted, and it would be idle for him to conceal, that t h e words actually adapted by the House, did imply that the principle of a beeeticial interest, and even the very ' a mount of beneficial interest, contained in the Reform Act, should be engrafted in the subsequent provisions of th e Bill. The beneficial imerest prescribed by the Reform Act was a beneficial interest of 10/. This, his Noble Friend proposed, should be evidenced by an occupation, carrying - ~ 1 ._ tLL 1 / 4 ,* I es at b 3; j 0 ~~~, ,' MI