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EVENING EDITION COURT OF ALDERMEN. `Yesterday a Court was held for the despatch of business. ABSENCE OF ALDERMEN FROM THE LONDON SESSIONS. Alderman COPELAND rose to take notice of the corn pb.nt made publicly against the Aldermen on the rota for the last adjourned Quarter Sessions of the City of Lon don. His name appeared amongst those on the rota, it was true, but he had received no notice of the appointed day, and therefore considered himself exonerated from the im putation of negligence to duties which he made it a strict practice to perform.—( Hear, hear.) It was stated that some of the other Alderman on the rota had received the usual notice, so that the blame was attributable to the summoning officer. ALTERATION IN THE CITY COURTS OF LAW, AND VENTILA TION OF THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURTS. Sir P. LAURIE stated to the Court that the Court of Common Council had unanimously agreed to his motion to have the Courts of Law in the City altered ; and that Baron Gurney and the other Judges would, with the Counsel and Attorneys, be presented with the models, for th:!ir approval, but that before they were submitted to that Court the City Lands Committee had resolved to con. ists!t Doctor Reid, who bad so successfully ventilated the Evuse of Common!. Improved ventilation was most de. sit a ble in the Central Criminal Court, where the officers of this establishment were constantly obliged to burn vi ,egar and use other means of purification, ishich would be rendered wholly unnecessary by the application of D, dor Reid's skill. He then moved that the scientific ge.ntlernan just named should be requested to take immediate te,:asures to ventilate the Central Criminal Court. Alderman COPELAND seconded the motion with great readiness. He never attended the Central Criminal C•burt without catching cold, and he felt convinced that the application of Doctor Reid's plan would immensely buaefit all who were obliged to be in attendance. The motion was carried unanimously. PETITION FROM MR. MICHAEL SCALES, Sir MATTHEW WOOD presented the following petition fr irn Mr. Michael Scales, who so vigorously contested the A dermanic gown of Portsoken. TO TIIE LORD MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF LONDON. The Petition of Michael Scales, the thrice duly elected Alderman of the Ward of Portsoken, " Sheweth,—That a fiat for costs against him is seed wet by this Court for 2791. si. He requests that the same afay be held in abeyance, or that he may be allowed to p y over the amount, as a gift, tQ Samuel 'Dalton, or if the C ,urt should not think proper to confer the grant to Mr. alton, that they will allow him time to bring the same ueder toe consideration of the Court cf Common Coun cil ; and farther, that your petitioner may be heard in sup p-4-7. of his petition, for which he prays." Alderman BROWN objected to the use of the ,rds " duly elected," as being opposed to the fact ac e -sing to the decision of the House of Lordst the ( Ant, he was cot - 16nm', would most willingly chtertain tE ta petition of Mr. Scales, if the proper correction %%ere at ,d:;..—(I; ear Alderman =I UM2HERY said it was quite evident that Mr. E :talcs meant that he had a majority of the eenstituercy of t e Ward ii ree titu:s in his favour. He considered that tae petitioner had performed a very important duty to that o nstituency in trying the question of the veto of the Court of Aldermen on a subject of much Esterest as regarded the ivileges of his fellow-citizens. The: he Was three times rr earned there was not the slightest docile. Alderman LIiCAS said nil thzt was nceesurry for Mr. S tales to do was to omit the word "duly."--( ar.) 31r. SCALES most readily made the required alteret:on, a upon being asked whether he wished to told anything t, toe testernent hi his petition, addressed t ) the Court $ ..ae very pertieent olwervatious. He said that ha hal ceeeidsered L to be hi; duty to resist in every ptystible way, a d to tee u:t:ost extent of his abi:ity, the power which the C eirt of i)tderreen had exercised on tee fetestioe of his re. urn, because he considered that it was f,:undcei or, in jas !let:. It was t:LnEcessary to re% el tto the particular c'te cue ,stancee of the esise, but lie felt coavinc.:d that he was ceenoletely justified in the course ho had aefopted, and ti wnieb had Le..in given did net invalidate his je:.tifiaation. He entertained no hostile feeling towards Cots'. " Anger !e'rren , rosy have its decent.day, And smiling t - eason come aenin in pl te." wiihe.l to sand rght Aid) his fellow 7 .o , tizens, whose pia loges nc iia 1 dcfnioel as itrong!) , he co;.1 , 1. The COll 1: of Aldermen haci :tow tie poi , er t i sand their officer in , hjs hcu.,c te:ze Lia pra ,- trty by proccsi of law. If th y ch - see to ic- , dott to that exttein , ty, ttc should order hi 3 Fa- Tants :o throw open t' - :e don:, but be was detericined no - to pay oac farthing, of the aracust demanded of him hor to do r any act whicit:c2rhed to countenance as adpmval cf the coarse whi,:h had been periev..red in to wairis hire. He shou:i eat; the attention of tie Court to ti• fact t.:at Mr. Dalton, to whom the pe:i.l , :n afln !ed, wit.rmut his knowledge, but p ovieTh ai h n'totiya toward 3 hire, re . a , (r to Site e. c in wi tdi Le he t hewn so Inn.- involved. Now, in c.msequence of Oat tl ?ointment: which ha sitegetner repud:.:ted, the p.or an in arcs sabjec'ed to heavy I..eouvcnience and injury. Lie :stel th it the Court would therefore sitlJw him to pay oser t - a. cues u mnr_ey specified in the petition to that poor whr,.-se circumstances, he believe!, to be very adverse, as.l on whose wounea the consent of the Court to the p; yet . of the petition woull operito as balm. If, Low e% or, the' Coot ebould deem the application unworthy of ing e a:ectained, he truce' Ltuat they would hold the tai tter in rh'eYanee until lie should have an cpportunity of F Litioning the Court of Cowman Ccuncil on it.e suhj , :et The Court w.is then cleared of strangers, cud after a disetis . ;lor, t, which we understood :he itiadca fee'.- ii were expressed towards Mr. Seale), thrt doors were -own open. The Rl:coin:sr; informed Mr. SA,ales that the Court had t mu his petition iora cons.::derat:on, and given directions V: the City Solicitor .. - to take stew to stay p:cceedings is th a case, and to enter ilto an arrangement with the peti• ti user so that the matter might be brought to a satisfae t' ry issue._(Hear, The unanimous daciion of the Court gave evident satis faction, and air. SCALES said that he felt much obliged by the r&' si ,t of his application to the Court. ABANDCNMENT OF THE TOWN-HALL EY THE ALDERMEN. Alderman BROWN stated that he hoped end believed th tt a very 12rge majority of his brethren would agree in tho motion he was about to make for giving up the siftings in the Town-hall, where since the passing of the aropo:itan Police Bill of laq Session their attendance at Magistrates had become completely inoperative for al irnr,st every purpose. To be sure a petition bad been pre seated from some hundred of the inhabitants of the Borough of Southwark against the report which acl viied the breaking up of the expensive and u sel ess esta blishment, but th opinion of the most eminent counsel st-ted that the privileges of the inhabitants would not be aiE2cted by pitting an end to the farce, and that the Al dermen would not be disqualified from exercising whatever po.ver remained to them by acting upon the reccmmenda tku of the Report.—(Heir, hear.) Alderman Brown then de .ailed the precaciings cf the Committee upon the re fe ence, and concluded by mos ing that the Report Should lx agreed to, and the attendance of the Aldermen at the T.)svn-ball should be discontinued. Alderman COPELAND seconded the motion with all his beut. He found whenever he attended at the Town-ball t6.1.t his time was merely to be occupied by gingsof fc ;niers, who showed the greatest anxiety to ruelest people inmade._( Hear, hear.) . - Alderman LUCAS said that h;s oppoiition to the Report was founded upon principle. lie had, on a f ormer occa- *inn, suggested the propriety of ascertaining the liews of th inhabitants of the Borough on.the question of resign- Inv the authority of the Aldermen in that district, and the Court were now aware that there was a repugnance anrangst those persons, whose judgment ought to be re ap toted, to the discontinuance of the sittings at the Tom:- Le I —(Hoar, hear.) The Aldermen who sat at the ,wn-ball performed duties of no ordinary importance to. rds the poor in a population of 1.50,000, or 160,000, anti he was convinced that their absence would be deeply fel.:.--(1-Iear, bear.) At all events, before the Court ca an to a resolution to abandon the Town-hall, a public art •eting of the inhabitants ought to be called. Sir PETER LAURIE said that the petition of the in lar:aitants of the Borough against the Report ought to have b, en presented to the House of Commons, and not to that Court. He was decidedly in favour of the Report. Sir MATTHEW Wool) said that the Aldermen acted in th borough until they were completely ousted, and their ix Tors were taken away. It was true their • 1 • •d• juris le tie a was untouched, but that fact did not give them duties to perform at the Town-hall. They sat at that place as an :omatonr, and were liable to be defied by every Theat attor ney when they attempted to act. — (Hear, hear.) Cc tTrt of Common Council had decided that the establish. n. mt was useless, as well as expensive, and very pro perly repudiated it ; and he trusted that the Court of Aldermen iv( uld see their way as clearly. Alderman FAILEBROTHER said that the Aldermen re fs a very important power in the borough—that with Tee pect to the Poor-laws, a subject increasing ;in interest avi importance every d a y.—( Hear, hear,) li' h di :meta of the Town Hall involved the resignation of at 7 of the privileges, he would not advocate the Report. Oil the contrary, if it did not, he thought it would be advis al to get rid of an establishment which was useless and e pensive. Alderman HUMPHERY said that he saw the Court was dr tormieed to get rid of the Borough, cad he could not be p' expressing his surpriLc and regret to see them so 11.:kless of their privileges. The fact was, they would fr..ter away their privileges one after another, until the aLthority of the Court would become a complete nullity. E lamented that the appeal of the inhabitants of the Be rcugh 'Was treated with such disrespect and inattention; ar.d he was sure that . the step the C o u r t wr.s about to take .sv,uld one day meet with general reprobation. The Report was then agreed to by a large ma j or ity, an d the attendance of Aldermen at the Town Hall ordered to be discovtinucd.—Adjeurned. COURT FEET, ST. JAMES, DUKE'S PLACE. Oa Monday the Rigiat Hen. t h e Lord Mayor attended in state, and held the annual Court Lcet, accompanied by Bullock, the steward cf the manor. 'rho. Liberty of Dsike's-place (on the site cf the ancient priory of Trinity Ciristehnreh), is a tuner vested in tl.e Mayor, corn _ moonalty, and citizens of London. After the b us i ness of tE.! Court, which consisted of appo'nting constables, a n d ,ntin g licenses to public-ticuses in the Liberty, his Lore_ p impected the City of Loudon of industry, i a Y...:re-street, Aldgatc, and expressed tiirnseif►:i,thly e , rz - Wed with the works of the children, f'r each cf tthorn b left a small donation, as an cneoursge;nent. THs c x . ct Ilent - Charity wAi instituted (in 1806) by the Rev. Il , etor Povab. His Grace the Duke of Wellington pr.'sided at its anniversary in Her ..ii:jc‘A is pa ti-Aciess, and hi s R oya l Hi ghness Prince Albert,- Quern !elei,le, her Royal Highness the Dachees of Kent, &C patrons nod patrooesse:. The Lord Bishop of Nor has kindly promised to prea c h f or it s b ere nt i n !!irn, Seti it is hoped and CY pected that tae of• the cistin p Members of the Ler-islature. - , cnerousl ) , au at the anni versary for the present 'reel: The insti't:- n is highly pris c d i n . . Hioh m on's on PuLhc IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF COMMONS, AriuL 20. Tho SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'Clock. On the motion of Mr. LOCKHART, the Glasgow and Dundyvan Junction Bill, and the Shotts and Wilsontown Railway Bill, ':ere read a second time. Captain D UNCOM BE presented a petition from East Rotford, praying for Church Extension. The Bedingham Inclosure Bill was read a second time. The Earl of DARLINGTON presented petitions from the county of Surrey, praying for Church Extension. Mr. KEMBLE presented petitions from the county of Surrey. in favour of the County Courts Bill. Sir R. INGLIS presented petitions from the counties of Derby, Berks, Dorset, Wilts, and other places, praying for Church Extension ; also petitions against any further grant to Maynooth College. Sir T. FREMANTLE presented a petition from the county of Buckingham in favour of Church Extension. Mr. F. MAUL E presented petitions from several places in Scotland, praying for the abolition of Church Patronage. NEW WRIT FOR NOTTINGHAM. Mr. E. J. STANLE Y moved that a new writ be issued for the election of a member for the borough of Notting ham, vacant by the death of Sir Ronald Ferguson. Mr. HUME presented a petition from Dunfermline, praying for a repeal of the present Corn-laws. Mr. HAWES presented a petition from the county of Devon, praying for the abolition of Church-rates, and the release of those who are now imprisoned for the non-pay ment of them ; also for the abolition of the Ecclesiastical Courts, and against Church Extension Mr. HUME presented a petition from the Town-Coun cil of Greenock, from the trades, from Sir John Maxwell of. Pollock, and from certain inhabitants of Govan and its vicinity, against the Pollee and Govan Railway Bill. POLLOC AND GOVAN RAILWAY. Mr. ALSTON then moved that this Bill be read a third time. Mr. LOCKHART rose to oppose the Bill. He did not wish to prevent it from ultimately passing into a law, but his object was to enable many absent gentlemen, amongst whom was the Hon. Member for the City of Glasgow, who entertained strong views upon the subject, to express their opinion as to the effect which the measure would have upon the interests of Scotland. He bad been prevented front giving notice of the clause he intended to propose, because such notices were not received during the recess. He trusted that under the circumstances the Hon. Member would agree to a short delay in the third reading of the Bill. Mr. ALSTON did not think he could possibly accede to the request. He was only one of the selected Mem bers, and the Bill bad been carried in Committee by large majorities, in which all the selected Members were to be found. The promoters of tin Bill had shown a most anxious desire to do all in their power for the protection of the pubiic. They now enjoyed the power of crossing the road upon the level, a most improper power to be given to any Company ; but they now had it, and the present 13E1 did not allow them to cross it with steam. It confined them to horse-power, as they were confined at present. Ile thought he was compelled to persevere in his motion. Mr. LOCKHART had no wish to oppose the Bill. All he asked was that it should be postponed, hi order to give him an cppoitunity cf bringing forward his clause, the 1.0-port of which war to limit the traffic on the rail nad to 339 tons a day until the road was carried over it. HU:viE had supported the former pre - :ceilings en the Bill, bi.t since then he had received so many commu nications stating the dangerous nature of the powers given by tb' Bill, tbi.t he would move that the debate be adjourned till that day fortnight. Mr. J. JONES supported the Bill. and said that there had been less accidents upon this railroad than upon any otter, comide.iog, the time it had been opened. Sir G. CLERK agreed with the Hon. Member for Kilkenny, that the Bill ought not to pass without farther consideration. Mr. LA BOUC HERE waa inclined upon the whole to tlit.t the best COUrn the House could adopt was, to :o son e rritplrie.r.ent.—( Hear, hear.) 'Flint opi nion was grounded on the f ac t that there had been no time twee Cat: recess to wake the amendments which bad sugLe:,ted ilieswilves to sense parties. Tile third rea - tiog was then postponed to that day High 1, - .2rd DA LNI ENY prese-itod a petition from the Pro vost Town Council of Stirling, praying fir an altera tim is the impcirt duties. Mr. T. DUNCO MBE presented pctiiiins rgainat the v Bill ; from the vicinity of the metiopoli7, pray ing for the release of Mr. F. O'Connor ; avl from the op , ..rativ,:s cf Gliagovv, praying for the release of Robert S:r GEORGE SINCLAIR Fe3entei petitions for the ktr,l .ti9n of Cburcz pvtr,nPfry.... Scotian 4 . MILITAIiY FLOGGING ON SUNDAYS. Mr. H LIME, seieg the Secret a , y at War Li his place, begged to nek him wle.thcr the statements he had seen in the pubic plpera were correct, that a soldier of the 11th Hussars had been flogged on Sunday, the 11th inst., and whether there were any reeulations at the Horse-guards with rer.p.:ct ti rrilitery punishments on that day? Mr. MA CA LILA Y believed he could correatly answer the question of the lion. Gentleman, although the disci piir e of the army did not lie properly in his departn.ent. Yet, as ther e vres no Mee.ber of the Government immediately cennec:el with the Horse-guards in that House, he bad always felt it his duty, where the imerests and disciplice cf the army were concerned, to ob tain such information as would tmable him to answer the questions that might be put to hire. The facts of the case wcrc net precisely such as had Lean represented id the public papers. It was act exactly the case t'aet the inli:etion of the punishment had taken place under such circumstances as to make it appear a sort of continuation of Divine service. It had been stated that the punishment had been icflietel while the troops re mained assembled for the purpose of hearing Divine ser vice, nay, that the soldiers of another regiment who had gone to the riding .school to attend Divine service had he 2n detained to witness the punishment. That was not correct. The troops were marched out after Dhiae service, and the 'reepe of the other regiment were dismissed to their quer ters. Aninspection took place, which lasted half a n hour, and the cad of that time the troops were ordered back to the riding -ehoo! ' and then the punishment tookplace. On the ground of huma...." it was impossible to throw any 'command.—(Cries of " On, imputation upon the officer in _ oh.") He believed that the sontet....7e had been approved of by the Horse Guards, and whatever I.7nutation might be justly thrown upon Lord Cardigan, the i n e:mta:iun of a desire to ieflict corporeal punishment upon tL:n men under his command, could not fairly be attributed to him. The charge to which Lord Cardigan had rendered himself justly liable was that of having unnecessarily in flicted the punishment on Sunday.—(Cries of " Hear.") He conceived it was impossible to reconcile such a mea sure with the religious feelings which were generally en tertained in this country with regard to the Sabbath.— ( Hear, hear.) It was a measure which he could not reconcile with either good sense or good feeling, and it was a proceeding which he could not countenance. At the same time such a proceedirg was not without pre cedent in the naval and military service of the country; but he thought it right to say that the oldest and most experienced officers he had consulted were unani mous in declaring that it was a measure which only the extreme exigencies of the military service could justify, and such an exigency did not exist on the present occasion. —(Renewed cries of " Hear, hear.") Such notice, however, had been taken, and such notice would be taken, of the matter a 3 would be certain to prevent a recurrence of similar cases. MR. CANDLEISII. Sir G. SIrtiCLAIR said he wished to inquire of the Under Secretary fur the Home Department if the Go vernmeut had come to any determination with respect to the appointment of Mr. Candltish as Professor of Biblical Criticism in the University of Edinburgh. Mr. FOX MAULE said he would answer the question to-morrow. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE BILL. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that in conse quence of several Hon. Members who took an active in terest in the question, not being returned to town, he should move that the Order of the Day for going into Committee on the Administration of Justice Bill, should stand over until to-morrow, with a view to its being post poned until Friday.—Agreed to. LABOUR AND WAGES. Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH gave notice that ho shouldly move for a Committee to inquire into the wages and prices of provisions of the labouring classes. IRISH PARLIAMENTARY VOTERS BILL. Lord HOWICK gave notice that in the Committe on this Bill he should move as an amendment on the first and second clauses, to substitute an occupation franchise for that of the beneficial interest. Mr. HUME moved for a return of the sums granted in compensation and superannuation allowances in the publi c o ffi ces during the last three years. Also for a return of the sums disbursed by the Metropolitan Police Commissioners in pensions. Sir R. PEEL seeing e the Noble Lord the Secretary nd Se in cre h t i a a ry for place, endobserving that the Noble t fL o onr a r a di l;. et W a l e iether it was intended Colonies was absent, wished t acc9rding to the promise of e n n fo t rm the House this the Noble Lord (J. R i u n taiell), respect to meant to take on evening what course the Government Monday night next,the Registration of Voters' Bill, Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) Lord MORPETH said that in the absence Noble Friend (Lo rd John Russell ) h e was unah o l f e his ' to ive an answer as to the views of the G overnment, to which his Noble Friend's statement had ref erence , H e could only ray at present that it was his intention to pro ceed with the Bill. Whatever modifications of particular clauses be might think it right to introduce, he should explain to the House to-morrov. or Thursday. Sir E. SUGDEN asked, was it intended to proceed on Thursday with the Counties Courts Bill ? Mr. FOX MAUL E said it was so, The Bill would he proceeded with, and seveial modifications would be proposed, at the suggestion of gentlemen of both sides of I.IC 1 - 17:Me, %5 , 1)0 ha i taken great interest in the measure, and to whof.e attention he was much indebted. REGENT'S PARK. Mr.",E WART rose to move an address to the Crown for opening Regent's Park to the public. The Hon. Member said the object he had in view was to increase . . tLe sources of rational ammcments which were now en- joyed by the inhabitants of the metrepolii. At present the park was from Portland-place almost in a direct hoe r, th Zielogied Gardens; but if lion. Meniber3 bari e - ,:tcnded tick visiou to the eastern side of the park they could not hive failed to have cb.ierved ihit there was about twice as large a portion from which the public were excluded. His object was to throw open that further portion. It had been stated as an objection that ef!r:ain e!al: es in the leases of the villas would ex." l " . j-e the pubii:. from that portion of the park. He had consulted Vile but autheritic , , namely, the leaseca under those leasc: , , arid they had inft.n.m.cd him that there was no such reseiviag clausi - . It had ne.t Len stated that there woo rt) special elaine there was an I..;de:standing the He against the [louse being b oun d by an; thing which did not appear in the lease. Tin:micro he bcli;ed t :at there was no legal claim that was ta!!J againit tits motim—ou the other hand immense public benefit would attend the accomplishment of the object of his motion. The population around the Park had of late, and was, greatly increasing, and the boon he sought would be to them of immense value, and would be attended with no detriment to any one individual. He understood that the Government had very wisely made an arrangement which would retain Primrose-hill—that classical spot to all the citizens of London—to the use of the public—that was an additional argument in favour of his motion for the portion of the park he wished to have thrown open was the direct road to that spot to all coming from the City. He would ask why the public should be shut out from the Regent's-park any more than from Hyde-park?' However, he did not think it was necessary for him to say more in favour of his motion the onus probandi lay upon the Government to show why the Park should not be opened. He would therefore conclude by mov i n g, That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying her Majesty to cause the Regent's Park to be thrown open to the public." Mr. E. J. STANLEY said, in reply to the obser vations of the Hon. Gentleman, he could assure the House that there was no one at all times more anxious to do everything for the public accommodation than the Noble Lord at the head of this department. It must be well known to the Hon. Member that a large portion of the Park was leased to different persons, por. tions of it to the Toxopholite and other Societies, and with respect to other portions, they had been let off to persons who had expended considerable sums of money on them, and who had entered into engagements with the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, by which they were guaranteed against the intrusion of the public, and similar inconveniences. There was one portion of the Park, however, which he agreed with his Hon. Friend might bo extended to the public. It was that tract of ground which extended from the gravel walk, which had been lately made, towards Macclesfield-bridge. But at the same time ho thought it impossible, without a large body of police, and a great dual more expense than it was desirable to incur, to gave the public access to those parts in the neighbourhood of the water and the villas he had already mentioned. His Right Hon. Friend would do all he could to give access to the public, and he there fore trusted the Hon. Gentleman would not press his motion. Mr. lIUME said he thought the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Stanley), could not have understood the motion, because the part which he stated ea about to be opened had been open a considerable time. The part the public were anxious for was that immediately east of Cornwall-terrace. He understood that the large space from the Marquis of Hertford's house to the Zoological Gardens was not leased at present, and therefore there was no reason why it should net he open to the public. He wished to know whether any measures had been taken for affording similar accommodation to the public at the north-east and east of the City of Loader. Unless the opportunity were now taken it would be altogether lost, and the population would become so dense that, without such accommodation, it would be most unhealthy to live in the neighbourhood. Lord TE IGNMOUTH said that out of the 286 acres cf . the Park from which the public were at present ex cluded, there were 200 acres that might be opened with. out any possible objection. S:r B. HALL would recommend his Hon. Friend not to press his motion to a division, but to wait for further in formation. Sir R. INGLIS said he so seldom agreed with the Hon. Member for Kilkeany, that he was happy to express his ent're concurrence in the observations which he had made with reference to the formation of a park is the eastern extremity of Lender. Ile (Sir R. Inglis) was not one who attached any importance to parks as forming moral character; but he did Lel that tleey were sources of rational enjoyment, and menna of promoting the public health. He trusted that if any other Member of his Majesty's Go vern:Peat should adthess the House on this subjec, he would be aide to state what were the vieoes they eater tained, and how they proposed to carry nut the recommen datiaos of the Como ittee which had Leen appointed to e into the subjcct Sir DE LACY EVANS concurred in the motion. Mr. E. J. STANLEY was afraid he was net em powered to state that the whole of the Regent's Park, from the water to the Zoelogical Gardens, would be thrown epee to ti al public. It ass the int:ntion of his Noble Frielei to throw open a portion of the grasa !and bera;ca Lard Hertfard'a viola and the Zoological Gar de ; bet chjeotiens were ente taincd to up -Mug the park as far as the water at p.eEent. Mr. WAKLEY was much obl'ged to the Hon. ?gem ber for W!gan for bringing forward the motion, but Le thought they were t , eating f:e question more lightly than they ought. The Right Honourable Baronet who had just sat down had pointed out the importance of form ia,g a park in the eastern part of the town, but he bad for. got ten to say a word on the question before the House. He bad no: s,ii a word about a park of which the people were 1:13 owners, and from which they were shut our. He tie.u•,;;l,t they ought to give the 1:eople a place to which t'-ey were entitled befo e they de,iied means of creating otter parks-. It was a serious ground of complaint that the people had been for some time excluded from the greater portion of the Regent'i-park. The Noble Lord opposite had stated that that park had been origiaaily Marylebone fields!, and that it bad been inclosed in order to fit it for the reception of the peo ple, but since these villas had been erected, certsin fa voured individuals had obtained leases, and were not to he disturbed. It was clear, from the garbelled tone in which the Hon. Under. Secretary of the Treasury had spoken, that some obstacles still existed to making the Regent's park what Hyde-park at present was, where the public could enjoy therm-elves over every part r f it.—( Hear.) He hoped that the conversation would not be allowed to drop without any result, but that the enormous evil would be redressed. It was quite monstrous that the fastidious feelings of a few persons who rented dwellings round the park should be consulted so far as to exclude the real owners of the prepcity. After a few words from Mr. E WART and Mr. STANLEY in explanation, the motion was withdrawn. Mr. E WART postponed his motion for the appoint. ment of a public prosecutor for a fortnight. On the motion of Mr. HUME the following were named as the Select :Committee on National Monu ments and Works of Art :—Mr. Hume, Mr. Goulburn, Mr. Esvart, Mr. Mackinnon, Mr. Cowper, Lord Francis Egerton, Mr. Thomas Duncombe, Mr. Breadwood, Sir De Lacy Evans, Lord Granville Somerset, Mr. E. J. Stanley, Mr. Henry Thomas Hope, Mr. Slaney, Coloc.el Salwey, and Mr. iMilnes. On the motion of Mr. R. GORDON, the Dublin Wide Streets' Bill was read a second time, and the In. demnity Bill was read a third time and passed. ARMS (IRELAND) BILL. Lord MORPETH moved the second reading of the Arms (Ireland) Bill. Mr. HUME thought the time had now arrived for putting an end to such Bills as the present. They might be all very well in times of anarchy and confusion, but as Ireland was now more free from crime than England be thought there was no necessity for them now. We ought to place confidence in men who behaved well. Lord MORPETH believed that the statement of the Honourable Gentleman, with respect to the proportion of crime between the two countries, was correct ; but at the same time offences of such a nature were still com mitted in that country, that he could not recommend to the House to dispense with the renewal of these Bills at present. The Bills were then read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Friday. Colonel SIBTHORP inquired when the civil contin gencies and the miscellaneous estimates would he laid on the table of the House. They had been promised before the recess, and bad they been delivered there would have been time fcr their proper examination. It had been stated by the press that he had be e n a t N0t .... ___ . tingham assisting Mr. Walter, whereas he had not left London during the recess, and he wished to have studied the papers. He should oppose the grant to Dr. Bowr:ng. Mr. GORDON said that the estimates would be ready tc-day or to-morrow. This was the usual time for laying them on the table of the House. The House then adjourned. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS ritOM THE EVESIN• PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The Times assures us that Mr. Walter never was a party man ; and the Standard, that he is in dependent of Whig and Tory. To a certain extent this is correct. Though receiving support from the party to which for the time he affected to belong, we are not aware that he was ever countenanced by the leading men of any. Each was glad of his vote—neither cared for his com pany. To the world he seems to have made many doublings in his pursuit of the phantom popularity; but these, perhaps, are imperceptible to the Times, which has accompanied his changes, on the same principle that to aeronauts the earth appears to move, and the balloon to remain stationary. In that branch of juvenile literature which is fast gcing extinct, is a continuation of the story of " Jack and Gill," recording, among other things, how Jack was apprenticed to a blacksmith, and undertook to forge a ploughshare, but having hammered away the iron till it would not do for that, he resolved to make a spade. The like result attended his labours, so he went on to a horse-shoe, and finally to a nail, with equal success. Find ing that too much for his skill, he exclaimed— "l know this, If it won't make a nail it will make a good hiss, So into the water he threw the iron smack, Hiss,' quoth the iron. I thought so !' said Jack." In like manner Mr. Walter has tried to make something of himself, and has always failed. He sat in the first re formed Parliament as " Whig and more,"—in the second as a Tory. Then, as he says in his pamphlet, " seeing that no good was to be expected there, he quitted that Seene"--.WhiZli is a delicate way of expressing his retreat from Berkshire, when there was no chance of his re-elec tion. lie does not say whether inability to do any good in other scenes made bias seek the of l one as Tory and anti. downtPh°erre aw t there—Navin; vc e la: L ngd r d4 w ri n tee a l r ..i i r s S a outhwark ; but having failed again Anchorp,oor m as a n a ' n s g t a i t o o t r r e b , e and brokencometo the nail at last as Cv,n, STANDARD.—Toe- advocates candidate for Nottingham. sionF, mid i.arsher admmistra°tei:;ntesofofilteheN! New Poor-law sorely pressed to make out a case, when they r-teanwd that relief to ouch as can partially support themselves ypr is an injury to those cf the labouring communay who are in a condition to maintain their families without parochial relief. TLe attempted sophistry scarcely demands expo_ The poor are a (hies, Ly e : member cf which will o prolllf Divine • may, sure. by the y ow, be placed in a eonditioa f , =l supporting h;m scif and his family without some help. N ow let it ba said whether the class is' more kindly treated .by insuri ng t h at each shall, without the necessit y of incurri ng pain or de gradation, be insured a living it willing to work for it ac cording to his ability, o r enacting that the least abatement f, in the average capacity to labour, whether c aused by old awe, accident, disease, or any bereavement, must COO. sign bins to an ignominious imprisonment as the alternetive of dying of famine ? The bibouring el.:sses have indeed nnswcrcd the question for themselves; they have de clared their willingness to encounter the competition of the aged and infirm of their num,,er, as the in sorance tat in their own old age and infirmity they , shall not, while any strength remains, be condemned THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1841 to the mercies of the union workhouse. The hypocrisy of this affected anxiety for the interests of the labouring pocr is, however, equally transparent with its folly. Do they who are so anxious to protect the labourer from the com petition of his aged f3tber.or infirm brother, show an equal anxiety to protect him in the rather more formidable con test with capital and machinery? No; upon this point we bear nothing from them. They will weep over the losses of an errand-boy, whom a few shillings a week allowed to an aged pauper puts out of employment, but they have no feelings of compassion for a thousand labourers thrown out of the means of maintaining themselves by steam-engines or power-looms, or by laying under grass vast districts of tillage-land. Such is their consistency I COURIER.—It is really edifying to find one of the Ministerial prints degenerating so much into the suaviter inmodo, on occasion of an anti-Corn-law meeting in Man chester, where the clergy formed one of the usual staples of vituperation, as to observe only, that " we were sorry to hear the chairman at the Manchester meeting, Mr. J. B. Smith, state, ' that they had met with much opposition from their opponents, and those, too, were men from whom they might have expected better things, the clergy.' This cannot fail to diminish the utility of the clergy, because such conduct is utterly at variance with religion." The lament over the diminished " utility" of the clergy is a novel feature in the p o liti ca l career o f t h e sectarian, or rather nothingarian, journalist, and would seem to smack so much of the grace of repentance for past evil anti clerical and anti-religious courses, that we would gladly re frain from disturbing one in apparently so promising a frame of mind, could we really believe as much in the endurance as we do little in its sincerity. That Mr. J. 13. Smith, or any person else of that stamp and station, should seize every occasion to vituperate the Church and the clergy, will excite the less surprise when it is taken into account that the accuser is himself an off-shoot of a sectarian tribe, ' and even closely connected with a priestly family in it, and a tribo usually remarked as the most sour , superc i l i ous; and intolerant of all sects since the days of th e Pharisees, more i especially when dominant, as n the days of the Long Par liament, Praise God Barebones and Oliver Cromwell. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS COURT, APRIL 20. JONES V. LOWELL. A motion was made in this case for leave to present a petition against the Southwark Improvements Bill, which was now before the House of Commons. The facts were these :—The bill was filed for the administration of the estate of the testator in the cause, a gentleman who was possessed of considerable property in Southwark. A re ceiver had been appointed, and tho affidavit in support of the motion stated that in the Bill now in Parliament for the improvement of Southwark, no clause was introduced giving compensation for leasehold property held on lives, and that as by the orders of the House of Commons no pe titions could be received on private Bills after the 22d of April, leave should at once be given to the executers to present their petition against the Bill. His Lordship the MASTER of the ROLLS said that he would give the executors leave to present the petition, but not to proceed further without the leave of the Court. DAY V. CROFTS, This petition prayed that the Master's report might be confirmed, and also that the annuities due to the several annuitants might be paid by the ra2e of certain funds re tained in Court. The testator in the cause was Mr. Day, the c,.lehratf:d blacking manufacturer, who, after giving certain legacies and annuities, left a sum of 100,0001., and a sum of 1001. a year, charged upon his pure personal estate, to the Blind Man's Charity. The Master had not teen able to a.:certain what portion was pure personal estltc, and it was, thercfo.e, proposed that the annuitants should be paid out of the funds in Court, and that of the sum of 14,000/. a year, which was produced by the trade, 4.000/. a year should be set aside t) pay the interest of the charity legacies, the parties to have time to apply to the Court. His LORDSHIP said he would read the TiEster'J report, the receiver's account, the affidavits in support of this applica ion, and the terms of the propoied minute, before he made any order. , i COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCII, APRIL 20. AULBOS V. HAYMAN.—LOAN SOCIETIES. Mr. PLATT moved in this case for a rule to show cause why a nonsuit should not be entered by leave of the Learned Judge. It was an action purporting to be brought by the pla'ntiff, as trustee of the Star Loan Saciety, being an institution esta blished for the lcan of money pursuant to the statute. Tire case , aas hi and haze LordDeurnan at the London sittings, and a verdict was had for the plaireiff, for 4/. cn the first count, and for the defendant in the other two. It appeared that, in May, 1830, John Hal applied for a loan of al. for twelve months, and the defendant became his surety, they giving their joint and several promissory notes for the payment of the money—the declaration then alleged the non-payment of the money. Oa the trial, the father of the plaintiff deposed that three trustees were appointed, two of whom had resigned, leaving the plaintiff sole trustee. The Learned Counsel con tended that the appointment of the plaintiff being by parole was riot a good appointment, and secondly, that he could not legally sue, being at the time an infant under age. The COURT thought there could be no objection to vesting property in a party appointed trustee by parole ; but with re gard to the plaintiff being an infant, they were of opinion that there ought to be a rule.—Rule granted. ANDERTON V. CHAPPER. Mr. ALEXANDER moved in this case for a rule to show cause why the verdict for the plaintiff with 1001. damages, should not be set aside and a new trial had. It was an action for crim con. tried before Mr. Baron Maule, at the Liver pool Assizes, and his application was grounded upon the total absence of evidence to prove the plaintiff's case, and that the verdict was against the direction of the Learned Judge. The plaintiff was the proprietor of the Thorn Inn, at Burnley, and it was proved in evidence that he was in the habit of beating i his wife—that he was of drunken and dissipated habits, and was i at present a vagrant, nobody knowing where he resided. The defendant was a eabiro -maker, and also a married man, and there was evidence to show that he had been in the habit ' of frequenting the Inn in the absence of the plaintiff, and that he was on familiar terms with the plaintiff's wife, but he denied that there was any evidence (of a criminal intercourse having taken place. The Learned Gentleman then read the evidence of one or two of the wit nesses, servants who were in the employment of Mrs. Anderton, of a very suspicious nature, and submitted that he was entitled to the rule prayed for. Lord DENMAN said he would have been rather surprised if the Jury had found any other verdict after such evidence, but on the ground that the damages were rather large, he should grant the rule for a new trial. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said there were one or two cases from Lancashire in the Crown paper relative to the maintenance of prisoners, but as a new Act was at present under the consideration of Parliament in reference to that sub ject, he prayed that they might be allowed to stand over for the present. The COURT ordered the cases to be postponed. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, APRIL 20. MUSCHAMP V. TILE LANCASTER. AND PRESTON RAILWAY COMPANY. Mr. CRESSWELL moved for a rule nisi for a new:trial in this case, which was an action to recover the value of a box intrusted to the defendants to carry. It being directed to Derbyshire it was tried at the late Lancashire assizes before Mr. Baron Rolfe, when a verdict was found for the plaintiff. it appeared that the plaintiff, being a stone-mason out of work in Lan cashire, went into Derbyshire, where, having settled, his mother made up and sent the box in question to one of the sta tions of the railway, and delivered it to the Company's servant. He was informed that it would reach him in three days. She asked if it would go any sooner if she paid the carriage, and was informed no, and she did not pay it. The box was lost. The Learned Gentleman now contended that as the Railway Company professed to be carriers only between Lancaster and Preston, they were not bound for any thing intrusted to them beyond those points. Had they con tracted to carry the box beyond Preston, by takin g c , payment for the whole distance, he admitted th e y wou ld have been liable. The Company was differently placed from the case of . a mail coach. In the case of the London and Edinburgh mail, the parties professed to carry the whole way, and al though there might be two or three changes on the road, still the parties receiving the goods in London must be held liable ; but here the Railway Company were merely carriers from Lan caster to Preston—they pretended to be no more—and he contended were liable no further. The COURT had much doubt upon the subject, but as the question was important, they would grant the rule. WESTMINSTER COURT OF REVIEW, April 20. WRIGHT'S BANKRUFCY.-EXPARTE GRIFFITHS IN RE BID. DULPII AND WRIGHT, BANKRUPTS. This was the petition of the Rev. Mr. Griffiths and others, praying the Court to remove the two bankrupts, Anthony George Wright Biddulph and John Wright, from the trusteeship of 10,000/. in the New South Sea Annul. ties, and to appoint the petitioners trustees in their stead ; it also prayed that the assignees might be directed to take the necessary steps for carrying the required transfer into effect. The Learned Counsel for the petition stated that the sum of 14,000/, had been standing in the names of the firm of Wright and Co., but they had no beneficial interest in it whatever, as 10,0001. of it belonged to the petitioners, and the remaining 4,0001. to Elizabeth Macdonnell, Mary Collins, and others, residing at Winchester, whose annu ities bad never been disturbed. The question for the Court to consider, therefore, was, whether this was a trust fund, under the Bankruptcy Act, which enabled the Court, to transfer the trusteeship in the manner prayed by the petitioners. No question could arise as to the order and disposition ; if there did, he admitted it would be at tended with some difficulty, as they could hardly treat it as goods and chattels; but he respectfully submitted that this was a fund to which his cheats were clearly entitled as the beneficial owners. The affidavit upon which he moved detailed the facts already stated to the Court, and this statement was verified by the affidavit of Mr. John Wright, one of the bankrupts, and was corroborated by the others, in their examination before the Commissioners. Sir JonN CROSS said it was the duty of the Court to protect the possible interests of parties who might hereafter present themselves as claimants. The case must therefore stand over until the necessary aff►davits were made, informing the Court of all the particulars. Rule accordingly. EX PARTE BLOL'NT IN RE BIDDULPII AND WRIGHT BANKRUPTS. This was an application on behalf of a Mining Com pany for lease to prove a claim which the Commissioners had refused to accept without an order from this Court. The Cover, in granting the order prayed, directed that the costs of the Assignees should be taken out of the estate. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, APRIL 20. A copy of Vie following notice was yesterday po3ted up in the Court cf Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque " The official assignees of this Court will exhibit to the Commissioner en account of the La'ances in acir hands., or in the hands of the accountant in bankruptcy, under esch eltate, on the second Timrsday in every month, at three o'clock, at which time the elect:l asigncesa . rc par t:eulzrly requested to at.end, hi order to verity sued accounts. " FAYMEN F OF DIVIDENDS. We have been infJrmed that a very salutary alteration has this morning been directed to take place in the pay. went of dividend=. Hitherto tho Accuuntant-General h i f g 11 cinicks for the offic:al assignee for the payment of each dividend, and, , - on heing signed be the otfic:al assigne e ( mi i y. Were paid at the lLick of Engiand. The aiter;tion ;11). t . Proposed is, that the pi.rty cr parties entitled to rhu attend oii one day in each week ; that tho official assignee shall identify the pemns coming to bo paid such dividends; and that the checks for the payment shall be signed by the Accountant-General as well as the official assignee; thus preventing the latter from being able to make any of those misappropriations of which the public has lately heard so much. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. John Burches, a cabman, was charged under the fol lowing circumstances : Mr. Everett, a cab-proprietor, stated that, having received information that the prisoner was driving one of his vehicles about, and was ill-using the horse, and having no authority from him to be driving it, he went to several stands to find him ; and, after searching about, he at last found him in Pall-mall East. Having followed him for some time, and observing his improper conduct, he at length called a police-constable, and gave him into custody, when he found he had been driving about for upwards of three hours. The proper driver said he left the prisoner in charge of his master's property while he went to get some refresh ment. In answer to the Magistrate, the defendant said be was a licensed driver, which he proved. Mr. HALL, on looking at tbeAct of Parliament, said that the fact of the defendant being a licensed driver there was no clause by which he could act summarily in the case, but he bad the power of ordering him to find bail to answer the charge at the Sessions, for having violated an Act of Pediment, if Mr. Everett would un dertake to prosecute. The prosecutor said he would, upon which the defend. ant put in bail, and the parties left the office. MARKET INTELLIGENCE (From the London Mercantile Journal of April 20.) SUGAR. —A part of the first arrival of the new crop of Barbadoes Sugar, consisting of 150 hhds., was brought to the hammer to-day ; the biddings were languid, and not above half found buyers at 65s 6d. to 73s for low to fine yellow, being rather below the rates the merchants expected. The demand privately was very limited, and the transactions confined to the wants of the buyers at further reduced prices. MAURITIUS. —A public sale consisting of 5,606 bags was brought forward to-day, which went off heavily, and a small part only was sold 6d under former rates; low middling yellow went at 62s to 655, good middling to fine 66a to 72s per cwt. EAST INDIA. —The importers of Bengal continue desi rous to realise, and 7,900 bags 50 boxes were put up by public auction to-day ; not above half f o und b u y ers at 1 3 ; under former rates low to fine white wen t at 62 s 6 d to 69s per cast. In Manilla and Java nothing has bean done. FOREIGN. —This market remains very quiet, nothing was done privately, and 437 bags white Havannah at public sale went off very heavily at 253 to 31s 61 fur middling to fine white, being 6d to is under former rates. COFFEE. —Large public sales of various descriptions admissible for home use, were brought forward to-day; they contained as follows :-519 bags Padang, 1,567 bags Ceylon, 408 bags Mysore, 155 bags B enga l, 167 cass Java, and 386 bags of other sorts. The demand from the trade was slack, and the Padang was all taken in at 37s 6d to 38s for fair quality but unclean, being full prices; Ceylon all sold at 72a to 78s 63 for good and fire ordinary quality, being is above former rater. Mysore sold at 55s to 603 for good and fine. Java went at 54a 6d fur fair quality. The Foreign market remain; quiet, but the importers are firm, and 2,633 bags Rio put up to public sale were all taken in at 40s 6sl to 42s for ordinary to good ordinary, being full prices. PEPPER.—There wa; a public sale of 3,200 bags black, a small part only was sold at 34(1 for good Eastern, and 41 to 4-h-d for good Malabar, being full prices. A parcel of white was offered by the hammer, consisting of 54 bags, which was bought in at 7-1 d to Std for fair quality. FRUIT. —A public sale was brought forward to-day, consisting of 1,174 boxes, and 175 half boxes of Valencia Raisins, 117 boxes Muscatel Raisins in layers, 2,900 drums Turkey Pulled Fig?, and a quantity of Imperial French Plums. The sale went off ;ery• quietly, and a small proportion only was sold. The Valencia and Mascatel Raisins wore all taken out, there being no buyers except at much lower pr:eas. The Figs were chiefly sold at $2 one lot at 33s per cwr. French Plums went at 60s to 755, in half and quarter cartoons, and at 41s in qr chests. RICE. —The demand for Bengal is still ve-y and 300 bags offered at puhlic salo went at Ils 61 to 12s for low dusty white, being rather lower. TEA.—The prices of this article were without altera tion to-day; the halders were firm, arid a moderate busi ness was done. Company's Congou keeps steady at about Is sisl per lb cash. SALTPETRE.—Thei - e are now few buyers of East India Rough, and 1,026 hags off,rel by the hammer went slowly, but all found buyers at 27s to 28s for 12i- to 3 ref:action, being a shade lower. INDIGO.—The quarterly sales were broug'.t to a conclusLn this afternoon, but at too late an hour for us to give a fall report—suffice it to say that the de n-end for shipping sorts continued good to the close, and an advance is established on the rates of January of 4d to tsd per lb on good and fine, and 3d on mid dling qualities; the consuming sorts, however, were dull, and prices ruled from par to 3d per lb discount. Ma dras went at about last sales' prices. Of the whole quantity 317 chests were withdrawn, 1,165 bought in, chiefly low and consuming sorts, leaving about 4,000 ac tually sold, of which 1,500 are supposed to be for home consumption, and 2,500 for export. COCIIINEAL.--45 bags at public sole were disposed of at full prices. TALLOW. -_The demand for this article was steady to-::'ay, and 53 casks 103 sacks Cape Tallow, off:red at public sale, were disposed of at 46s 6d to 483 3d per cwt. Fine; Yellow Candle was quoted at 47s 9d to 48s, I but there did not appear to be much business doing for actual consumption. Paovistorrs.---The little business doing in old Irish Butter is confined to the best qualities, which bring about 95s to 100 s per cwt landed. Foreign in fair re quest, and fine brings 1103 to 112 s per cwt. Lard dull of sale, but not lower. The Bacon Market has become very quiet, and former rates are barely supported, there being numerous sellers of prime Waterford for delivery in the next three months at 563 to 583; the few sales made in landed goods have been at 56s to 59s for prime Waterford, and at 54s to 56; for Limerick, which are now with difficulty obtvined. Middles in fair request at 53s to 56; landed, and at 523 to 54; free on board, Irish Hams go off well at full prices, prime Belfast and Limerick 70s to 72s per cwt. IRISH MARKETS. OUBLIN MARKET NOTE for the WEEK ending APRIL 16. To Average 3i 0 33 3 00 U 0 17 6 15 10 14 6 12 11 0 -- 0 15 0 13 1 From 618 Wheat,perbarrel 21 stone 29 0 0 Bere ~._.. l6 stone 0 0 52.3 Barley l6 stone"... 15 0 581 Oats l4 stcnc..._.. 12 0 0 Flour, per cwt , S stonq — 0 472 0atmea1......~,..,,.... 8 stone l2 0 Sold to Baker:, only. LC' ' 527 Cwt. flour lO 0 1 24 0 I 21 2 Average price of Viheat and 'lour 51, 81 per sack ',, 1 in 5.5......... from 2.5. Od to 24; Oct Receipts of Flour, 11,07.. ) „ Seconds ........ from 15s. Od. to "ls .Od 71 °J'' °f Do. 12,„ "" /, Third A ........ from 108. Od. co 128 Od PRICE OF MUM). Quaztern Loa , Od. Halt Vatutern CORK 11 41 A lI.KETS.—ApriI 17. Wheat (p ,r 205t.)24s 01. toots. o,l.loats (per 14st. _1 t Bd. to 13s. 6d Barley (per 165t.)1 1 0 14 0 Itiorr (per cwt ti 24 0 Oath eal (per Cwt.) Od. to 16s Od• 12eef; 4d. to 7d.-1111tLon ' sd. to 6cl.—Veal, 411 to 6d Pork, 4id. to sd.—Fresh Butte, 10d. to lid per lb. PRLCE or BUTTER. To the Merchants. To the Country First Quality... ••••••• ,13 1..••••••••••••••••••••••• ...... • 98i Second 108 •••••••••••• ••••••••••••••• 94 Third Fourth 3 5 ......•............ ..... • ... 74 Fifth ... ..... 70 .............. ~e ..wc...... 6 0 _ Sixth ........... 56 •••••••,.•••••••••••... au CLONDIELL Al A lIKETS....ApriI 17 Per Cwt. s. d. 6. d. s , d. s , d New Butter ...... 0000 t) ll:des to 24 0 Oatmeal l 2 0 14 3 8ac0ung5....,.......42 C 43 0 Renderer Lard 0 32 0 I Per. Bag. flour, Second 0 PS 0 I Flour,Thirds........— 0 k 7 -0 —Household 0 36 0 10urta5......20 0 - - il Per Barrel. Rapese9d 20 0 --Oj Barley ••• 12 (1 13 0 Bere 10 0 1 C. , als 0 ...a 0 KILKENNY MARKETS. wbeat s per barrel)2Bl. Od. to tiss. Od. Beef (per 11% ..,.. 4 Os, Od. to Os. fkl Barley 12 0 l 5 0 Mutt.en 0 5 0 8 ()us. '.l 0 15 0 Pork 0 4 0 Flour (per bag) 20 0 :38 0 Veal ..... 0 6 0 7 Butter(percwt.) 90 0 100 0 ercsh Butter.... 0 0 1 0 Bacon rigs 58 0 92 6 Salt Ditto 0 6 010 Coals 1 0 1 2 Potatoes(per st.) 0 9 tl a EXTENDING THE THOROUGHFARES IN LON- Dox.—A Bill of much importance, with regard to the im provement of the metropolis, has just been printed for the House of Lords, having been introduced under the sanction of Government. Its object is to promote further improve ments in the cities of London and Westminster, particu larly in two parts of it :—first, to open a convenient thoroughfare from the end of Coventry-street, Piccadilly, to Newport-street and Long-acre. A schedule is attached of the property that will be required to effect this very im portant change. From that it appears th at it will b e necessary to pull down three houses in Leicester_ square, namely, Nov. 50, 51, and 52 ; and also houses in Princes-street, C7anbourne-street, Bear-street, and Castle-street, in Little -court, at the back of old Slaugh tees Coffee-house, in St. Martin's-court and lane, &c., which arc built on ground the fee of which is in the Marquis of Salisbury, to that the plan is not likely to be opposed if his Lordship's assent is secured. The second im provement proposed by the Bill is to continue the line of street from Waterloo-bridge, now completed to Bow-street, northward into Brosd-street, Holborn, to extend to Ox ford-street, in a direct line through St. Giles's, so as to communicate with Holborn at or near Southampton -street. The Bill further proposes to open a spacious thoroughfare tetween Whitechapel and Spitalfields and the docks, wharf.', &c. of the river Thames, by widening the northern and southern ends of Leman-street, and by creating a new street from the northern side of \V hitechapel to the front of Spita'fields church. A schedule is attached of property that it will he necessary to pull down from East Smithfield to Rosemary-l a ne. The Bill enacts that the Commis. aioners of Woods and Forests are to have the power to make end plan the improved thoroughfares, to charge their funds with 214,0001. for such purpose ; to obtain Ex.. c!icquer bills from the Treasury, &c. It further provides that the streets are to be made according to maps or plans to be deposited in the ofilce of the Commissioner s , and that no alteration in lines of streets are to be made without the cc,uscnt of the Lords of the Treasury. TIIE LOVE MATCH.--The announcement to the lover of light reading of a Les novel under this most inviting designation has excited the curiosity, and raised the expectations of all novel readers in no ordinary de gree ; and when we state that this new work is to came forth as the avowc'l procluc'ion of the beautiful and ac compli,hed Mrs. Maherley, whose " Emily; or, the Young Countess," wade so successful a debut in the field of fic tioo last season, this curiosity roust he materially height ;i:ed, particularly in the gay a:sd brillinnt circle in which the authoress is ncetL,t,:Fed to snove. the volumes the publ:e is prAilLe t alikeness of the fair visitcr after Pantiog by ROSE.—Glube, PRTCES OF CA NAL,DOCK, ASSUR ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 20. Number Di vi d ec d Price of per CANALS. LS. Share , . A nnum, per Paid. Share 1,706 7 percent. Ashton & Oldham...Averag e97l.lBs.sh.. 110 . 1,482 41, Ashby.de-le-Zouch Average 1131.5 h; 72 1, 60 ......... Basingstoke 1001.85. 5 8 1005 .51. Brecknock and Abc.srgavennyo 150Lsk. I:3 001 I-16th. 101. Birmingham, 1-16th share ...W. Sr 711. 200 3 , 000 „ ..... .. Ditto & Liv e rp oo l J unc t.l9l.l. 0.100 pd 25 61.10 3/. Bridgewater arid Taunton.lool. sh, all pi - 400 51. Chelmer and Blackwater lOOl. eh. 101 500 32/. Coventry 1001. sh. 600 2,060 51 , Os , Cro u ydon. Average 31/.28.10d. sh. - D lool.sh. l 600 131. Derby .„ 1001. sh. 120 96 i (( 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne 411.139. 4d.pd 2234 3,5751 4 Ellesmere and Chester Average 1331,95. 61 231 621 Erewasn 1,297 301. Forth and Clyde....Avcrage a 001.165. sh. 610 ,1,00 8/. Grand Junction 1001.8 n 124 1,8491 255. Grand Union 1001.sh; 26 1,500 Grand Surrey 1,000! 41. percent. Ditto (optional) Loan 1001. 3.996 Grand Western 600 131.123. Pd. Glamorganshire, Aver, cost 172/.138.4d. 230 749 Ht. Grantham l5O/.sh. 20 5,238 21. Os. Huddeta?id Average 511. 68.6 d. sh. 27 100 Ke.nsingto a lOO sh. allpd 10 25,328 1/.los. R.ennet and Avon, Av. 391.185. 10d. sh . 243 11,6991 11. 7s. Lancaster Average 471.65. 8d i 27% 2,897 f 301. Leeds and Liverpool lool.sh '750 5451' 111. Leicester 1401. sit 116 1 , 8 97 51.08. Leicester & NortkamptonAver 831.10s '73 .400 101, Monmouthshire lool.sh 200 250 101. Melton Mowbray lool.sh. 2017 500 251. Mersey and Irwell 1001.9h. 550 :3,000 21. 10s. Macclesfield lOOl. sh. all pd. 3431 247 171. Neath • 100/ sh. 325 2,400 51. Peak Forest Aver.ge about 78/. sh. 75 21,418 B.s. Regent's (or London) Av. 331.165.8 d. oh. 10 5,669 6/. per cent. Rochdale Average 851.gh, 86 500 81. Shropshire /251 sh. 137 800 10/. Os. Somerset Coal l5O/ sh. 180 3,600/. 41 p.• r cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 121. 10s. sh. 113{ 700 :301. Stafford and Worcester 1401.5 h. 650 530 151, Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 280 300 9 atourbridge ........... 145/.sh. 396 3,647 2/. Os. Stratford-on-Avon ,tver....791. 95. kl. sh, 35 533 1211 Swansea lool.sh, 265 3,762 2/. Bs. Severn and Wyc and Railway Av. 351. sh. 45 2,60019 h, 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey, i share lOO/. sh. 590 8,149 1,00055.1 ,„,. Warwick and D.rmingham 1001.sh: 242 1,000195. I - 900 13/ Warwick and Naptan - 100/. sh. 160 7,000 41 , Worcester & Birmingham Av.7B/.89. sh. 55 5,000 325. Wilts and Berks Average 671. 10s. Bd. sh. 27 800 6,. Wyrlev and Essington 125/. sh. '74 .98 ... Witneacn ........„ ..............« :351. sh. 30 905 1/. VVey and Arun llOl. en. 2239 DOCKS. I ' 6 " 8 ' i3n c. Commercial. loo l .sh. 633 2 1,06519 h. r • E,..st and West India ....„Stock 97 3.238,310;1. 60s. p.ct. London .....„....5t0ck 67% Ditto Bonds 2,209 3/. Os. sd. Bristol Average 14 7 1. 95. sh. 75 68,3244. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts lOB 352,752 5 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 94 50(1,01.10 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds 200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years Deptford Pier .. 2Ol. sh. 201. pd 10 . ' BRIDGES. ,600 10s. Hammersmith 50/. sh. 21 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 631.25. Sd. sh. 23 1 1,700 I/. 15s. Ditto, New, of 71 per cent., 501. sh. 13 „1,000 Waterloo 100!. sh. 3% 5,000 9:os. 0:1. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81 60/. p d 2 1 ' 5,900 19s. 3d, Ditto, New Ditto of 71. 4Ol. pd 'lB% 110,000/. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds 5,848 25s Vauxhall .......,.Average 70/. lOs. 3d. sh 26 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 3110 s Albion 5OOl. sh. 50/. pd 72 10,000(6 per cent} Alliance British &Foreignloo/.sh. 114 pd 14 1 4 and 1.55. 60,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100!. sh. 5/. pd 5 4,000 11. per sh. Atlas 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 14 , 4 1,4015 h. 51. Birmingham Fire 250/. sh. 55r. pd 10731 20,000 44 percent. British Fire " 250/. sh. 504 p 4 90 12,000 64 per cent. British Commercial 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 531 5,001? 54 per cent. Clerical & Metlivrl Life, 1001.5h.2/103 pd ...% 4,000 210 s County lOO/. sh. 101. pd 10 20,000 Is. Eagle 0„ r 5 per cent. l Economic Life and 30/ bs. 1000!. sh. 2501. pd 400 2,271 223. ptt , i.s r cent. European Li , e 201. s h . a ll pd 22 50,000 t. Ditto, New 20/. sh. 2/. pd 134 1,000,0001. 61. per ct Globe Stock 1181 0 20,000 5/. Guardian 37,000 s. Cd. Hope . 504 sh. 54 pd 531 2,400 54 7s. 6d. Inver/ a i Fire 5OOl. sh. 501. pd 133 7,500 9s. Imperial Life lOOl. sh. 101. pd 10 13 ; 158 51. percent. Indemnity Marine lOO4 oh. 8/. pd 29 2,020 31 10a Kent Fire 504 sh. all pd 92 3!. Ditto Life 5Ol. pd (16 10,000 10s. Law Life lOO4 eh. JO!. psi 0031 5,000 10s. London, Fire 054 eh. 121. 10s. pd 11% 3,900 10s, London, Ship 0 5/. sh. 12/. 10s. pd 10% 1,000,0001. ... ..... Minerva Life 1001. sh. 500,0004 30,000 5/. per cent. Palladium Lit: 5O/. sii. '2l. psi 916 s 50,000 44 per cent. Protector Fir' 2O/. oh. 2/. pd 18s 6d 10,000 4 per cent. Protestant Dissenters ....1101. sh. 51. pd 531 2,590 14 Provident Lne 1004 sh. 10/. pd 20 0,1(0 7s. Rock Life ... 51. p d 4 90,220/ 5/, per cent. Royal Exchengo Stock 150 6,000 5 per cent. University U l % , lOOl. sh. 5/. pd 5 1 4 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 1004 sh. 5!. pd 7 1 4 JOINT STOCK BANICS, 25,000 A gric. and Corn. of I reland2s/. sh. 101. pd 5,000 8 per cent. Australasia 10/. sh. 401. pd - 10,008 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham 501. sh. 104 pd 13% 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank ':"I. eh. 104 pd 1931 37,000 6 per cent. London & Westminster 1001. sh. 204 pd 23 CO,OOO 5/. London Joint Stock 501. sh. 10/. psi 12 1 4 3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster lOOl. sh. 9:0/. pd SO • t 25,000 Liverpool l OOl sh. 10/. pd 163 50,000 li per cent, Manchester and Li ver- } pool District ,01.95. 15/. pd 10% 20,000 7 pervnt. Manchester lOO4 sh. 10/. pd 20,000 Provincial B an k o f I t elandloo4 on. 2.54 p 4 424 SOAO 6 ler cent National Bank of Ireland 50/. sh. 1711. pd 15% 10,000 5 per cent National Provi.cial Eng.lool. sh. 1151. pd 34% 10,004 Ditto New 101. oh. 10/. pd 10 1),000 Gloucestershire 501. sh. 101. pd 52 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 16s Od Bath 201. sh. 16/. pd 9.2 5,000 British 401. sh. 16/. pa 184 6,000 [ s ai l in 3 .c s. el 4•l Ditto Provincial 2Ol. sh. 101. pd 25 920 5/ lOs Birmingham 'O/. , h. 26 4,250 21 Os Bristol 2O/. sh. 36 2,250 3/ lOs Brighton 2Ol. sh. 13% 750 3/ lOs Ditto, New 0 04 sh lA/. pd 9 2,471 41 per cent. Brighton General 2Ol. sbn all pd 9 4,000 71. Os. Continental Consolidated ....751. 62;/.pd lit) 1,000 101. City of London . .1004 sh. all pd 195 1,000 6/. Ditto, New - 100/. sh. 75/. pd 150 4.000 31.05. Equitable 5O/. pd 20 10,000 34 per cent. Imperial 50/. sh. 57 890 5/. per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. sh. 20/. pd 18% 2,1350 61. per cont. Independent 90/.411 all p... 49 9,000 41, per cent. Phoenix POI. sh. 391. pa 34 1,000 V. per cent. Itatcliff lOOl. sh. 801. pd 63 4,000 S,mth M , tropolitan 5 ,11. sh. 10/. pd 16 9,000 54 per cent. United General 501. sh. 471. pd 30 240 5?. per cent. Warwick SO/. sh. 50 400 51. per cent Wakefield 2,000 3/. Westminster Chartered 6,000 12s. Ditto New 5l!. sh. 104 t5l 11% 780 3 per cent. Yarmouth 2Ol. sh. IBJ. pd WATEtt WORKS 4,800 345. Birmingham. 25/. ob. 25/. pd 111 4,434 71. East London 1001. oh, 16.1 5,500 2/ 15s. Grand Junction Average 411. 13s. 40. sb. 62 2,000 21, Kent 1004 'sh. 46 372 10/. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 32.6 1,500 2/10s New River London Bridge Water Ann... 60 6,486 2/ lOs Manchester and Salford 100/. sh. 5531 1,000 4 per cent. South London . 1001,sh. 104% 8,294 411. West Middles e x Average 631.125. 94. sh. 101 ' 1,360 11 145 York Building Co. Lessee Prop. 1001. oh. 03 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,300 Birmingham and Derby ..... lOO/. pd 72 9,560 Birmingham and Gloucester ICO4 pd 791 15,000 Bristol and Exeter KM sh. 6(1 pit 36 7,500 Cheltenham& G. Western 1001. sh. 62K1. 3: 3 1E 3,609 Clarence 100/. sh. 1001 pd 30 8,800 Dublin and Drogheda 100/ sh. Si, pd 50,001 ......... Eastern Counties 251. sh. 234 pd 034 10,000 Great North of England 1001. sh. 70/. pd 65 10,918 14 per cent. Grand Junction lOOl. sh. all pd 211 25,000 Great Western 1001. sh. 65/. pd 953{ 25,600 Ditto New 50/. sh. 50/. pd 65sz 6,000 per cent Gosport Junction 50/. sh. 40 4 - pd 47' 2,000 5 per cent. Hartlepool 1001.1 h. 100/. pd 1453 8,000 Hull and Selby 50d. sh. 504 pd 4531 2,100 41. per cent. Leeds and Selby 100 sh. tl5! 5,100 10 percent. Liverpool& Manchest er 10( / .s h . 100/.pd 185 7,968 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares 5O/. pd 90 11,495 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 251. pd 45 35 ,0 00 ...,,,,.. London and Brighton ..... .504 sh . . 50/. pd 4'7% 94,000 London and Blackwell 2.51, sh. 251. pd 19% 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich ...204 sk. 201. pa 831 25,000 8 per cent. London & Birmingham 1001. sh. till? pd 159 23,000 Ditto Quarter Shares -.25/. sh. 51. pd 24 31,250 Dit o New Shares 321. sh. 32/. pd 51 30,000 5 per cent. London and S. Western Av. 384 17s. 9d. :°,% 33,000 ......... London and Croydon V. 13/. 153. ild. 1 / -1- Ditto New Scrip... 1311 13,000 Manchester and Lee63..1004 sh. '704 pd 66%, 13,000 Ditto Half Shares 501. 1351 pd 2- 10,000 Manchester and Birmingham 704 s h. 404 251,i Ditto Extension 7l. pa 2% 10,000 Midland Counties 1 001. sh. 1001. pd 90 15,000 North Midland --1.01. oh. 1001 pd :80 Ditto New 40/. pd 34 5,128 Northern and Eastern...loo4 sh 50/. pa 31 2,600 Preston and Wyre 5O /. s h .. 80/. pi 06 28,000 South Eastern and Dover 1000 10/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington ........,100!. sh. 275 9,000 6,000 York and North Midland 50 . sh. 501. pd 85 MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 5/3 h. 21/. p 4 19 4,000 11. ss, A lten l5l. sh JO!. its pd i d 10,000 ... . Anglo Mexican,iss, tit prn.100/. sh. al )10 Ditto ' ).0 134 10,000 11. lOs Brazilian I rep. iss. Si. pm... 35/. sh . ~,6 4 p ) 6,060 11,000 sh 141. pd 25 4 Bolivar Copper Compan o , o Ditto Scrip ...... .... y., 2 10 0 4 1. o s h h : 2 10 0 pd 2 1 1 / : Pd 10,000 20,000 British Iron ... ..... 100/. sh. 601.14 10 0 ,0 0 0 0 0 .. . i i id m a sß° p h b nr o a l gCn a a : . : l) .:. P 1.:.:. ... : ; : i ... , ........ : .....: . ..... ........... ......... 1 2 : 0 5 1 ' . ...s . .5. h .12: : : .1 764 1 J. : . ! PI j :d dj 9 54 % 1 P ...55/. sh. 55/. pd 094 8,500 ... '2'Bs° 21. G E :g l .2 i r s a h l . ll . l " i . n .. i ... ... ...... ..... c " i . a - tro' ... 2 - 0 . /... i s 4 ll l :l C 4 p P C I I % 20,000 Mexican Company.: .................................. 1 ) 5 4 (.1 4 6 6,155 3,000 ... 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered 214 Ditto Loan Notes 150/. pd 160 30,000 United Mexican, iss. 2 prn. 40/. sh. all pd 2% Dittt. Scrip 3% Ditto New Scrip Si. pd 4 West Cork 5O/. sh 50/. pc! 38 LITERARY I NSTITLIDONS. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket ...75Ect.sh. 16 1,500 London Univer s ity lOO/. sh. all pd 7 700 King' Cam 1001. 1934 MISVELLANEOUS. 10,702 15s. Australian AgriculturaLloo/.*sh. 28/. pd 41 6,X10 1. percent. British American Land Company 344 p 4 10,000 64 per cent. Canada Company 1001. sh. 321/. pd 31 110,000 51. per cent, Upper Canat , .a Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent lOO% 20,000 1/. 6s. General Steam N av i ga ti on 151. oh, 14/. pd 251 i 10/.percent. Hudson's Bay Stock2s4 000 11. London Corn. Sale Rooms... Av. 75/. sh. 19 ,000 - Caontchouc Company 12, 1 4 pd 12 New Brunswick Land Compaidy...so/. pd 12 2,151 5/. per cent. Reversionary int. 50c...100/. sh. 100/. pd 107 2,633 51. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sit. 1001. pd 107 4, 0 ( 10 Thames Tunnel ' ......501. s h. all pd 10 10,000 Cs. Van Die..nen's Land 100/. sh. 1711. pd 8 LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PR) CBS APRIL 14, 1841. BANKS, 1,000,000/. 61, p. ct. Bank of Scotland...B3/. 6s. 8d r' ,„,„ • .0. all pd 1(%2 2,000,0001. 6 p. ct. Rcyal of Scotland , - '' .' ..sh. all pd 152% 500,000/. 8 p. ct. British Linen Company. r " .dash. ell pd 226 500,0004 61. p. ct. Commercial ~, 500,0(101. 5 D. ct. National 1004 ah. 10/. pd 113/ 5013,000/. 71. p. ct. Glasgow Union., 1,000,0004 6 p. ct. Western of Se- INSURANC 0 514. sh. 504 pd 84 p_ co 4 A land 2OOl. sh 40/ pd 73 IPANIES.7 . - 250,000,5. 6; p. ct. Scottisi', umon '2O/. sh. U. pd 255.01 7,500 7p. ct. Her - oifieß 1001. sh. 10/. pd 1 3 4 MOM S P. ct. I Tasurance Co. of Scotia:ad.:o4 sh. all pd la, , 50,000 ,I. P. '.'..t. North British 2304 sh. 10/. pd 13% LOCO ,l'i p.. ct, Caledonian Fire 100/. sh. 10/. pd 20 5,000 ti n Cl. Edinburgh Lie 1004 oh. 101. pet 1 4 N 10,000 di p. ct. West of Scotland lOl. pd MI SCELLANEOUS. 4,818 ......... Edin. and Clas. Un. Canalso/, sh. all pd 16 Ditto Alloc , tecil 06/. sh. all pd 55 5,40( 5 per cent. Eclinb. Joint ( c.k Water 25/. sh. all pd 35 2,0005 h /5 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundery 501. sh 481. rd 45 /0.1100 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 201.5 h. 164 pd 3 31 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas -151. sh. all pd 1;0 4,450 10 per cent. t.:l4sgow Gas ..... ~.,, 254 ~ h. all p d 52 750 71 per cant. Lei Ph Crm I Gas . '201...h. all pd 25 1,154 Ed inburgh a nolD ' a ' l,74;; ........... 501 . oh 29 DEATH OF A M EDICAL GENTLEMAN Rl,- TAKING AN O YERDOSE OF L ACDA NI,M.—Monday morn ing a length ene d i nquiry took place at t h e George, Kent street, S ou th war k , touching the d eat h o f M r . H opkins, thirty-fou r years of age, a surgeon , residilw in k ent .. street. It app eare d t h at h e an d his wife q uarre li ed no Tuesday n i g h t ; t h at he was muc h exc it e d ; nod probably, in odor to compose himself, took the draught which ter-. mir.a'ed his life. On similar occasions he had had re course to a composing draught. The Jury returned a verdict, " That the dcceasel died from having taken too great a quantity of laudanum whilst under the influence of liquor." EVENING EDITIoN._, • FOOD AND HEALTH. (From an excellent Address of the Carlisle Anti-Cora,, law Association.) But there is a p o i nt o f v i ew i n w hi c h , so f ar as t hey i t ol e aware, this great q ues ti on h as not b een sufficiently ind at. Urgent and immediate as has been the pressure , these unjust laws upon th e commerc i a l prosper i t y of th kingdom, and deeply felt a s h as b een t h e injury infli et . e; by them upon the moral as we ll as the physical condittop of the people, the arguments f or their repeal have he 4 drawn too exclusively from an abstract consideratio n their irnpolicy and their injustice; and the very wretehe u , ness engendered by their continuan ce h as t h us b e en ov e ' e shadowed, and in part concealed, by th e means which° employed for its removal. Closely examined, however, this question leresl a much more serious aspect than any under voi l i e the advocates of monopoly are disposed to seog n , l b s it. No longer a matter of mere traffic, affecting " it supposed interests of the landlord, on the one b an .; and that of the manufacturer on the other, but as s° ;l l : iag the grave character of a question of life or d ea d; it is time that its merits should be fully a pprechlt et and, as no language cf theirs could do justice to a su b J e ta of so much importance, your Committee, public sympathy, and to the comm on sense o f hert fel l ° o3 , citizens, beg to submit t o y our not i ce t h e f o ll ow ing pressive observations, entit!ed as they are to an un , l ll° l fled acceptation, from bei ng th e un bi asse d resu l ts o f pure 1 r k scientific inquiry. Th e y are not extracte d from °l."'n.t, written for the purpose o f a d vocat i ng either this or any other question of political economy , but occur incie g : tally in a treatise addressed exclusively to medical t by Dr. Bisset Hawkins, a physician, who is eminently. d ' tinguished for his intimacy with subjects of vital statistiesel " Every endeavo ur ," sa y s t h e wr i ter, " s h ou ld be by those who have the means of influencing the moven 3 !' of nations to increase the supply of food. " From the wonderful activity of the principle of Pe!: lation we are bound to deduce the expediency, not of P i e ; tiplying checks, which already press but too heavily : of removing that obstacle which is most opposed to 'R e a multiplication of the species, and to its happiness 80 c, health—namely, the difficulty of obtaining nou risbnien It has been justly obse rve d, th at , unt il the world is air e t di e, fully peopled, and unt il a ll i ts f ert il e so i ls are cultivato the problem would appear to be not how to diminish , u how ,to disp er s e ; not b ow to l essen the number o f COtr , Rimers, but how to increase the means of su bsisteell not to keep out of lif e by ant i c i pat i on t h e multitudes reata, to inherit it, but t o pl ace t h em i n the situations mostiv vantageous for th e i r recept i on, and, in short, most Mk able to the new corner." " The price of corn has a most remarkable influenneft the movements o f p opu l at i on and disease. We have 'tse a sufficient numbe r o f d ata to ena b le us to estimate tat exact amount of its influence, but we shall assuredly "tic be mistaken in classing it amongst the most eeerg e i n causes which press on th e operat i ons of l i fe. This ipit ence extends not only upon deaths, but upon birth 4 affects also the number of marriages, of diseases, and of crimes. tile " Variations in th e p r i ce o f corn, t h en, form one 0 ( . fe most serious changes which can occur on the surface State ; they may insensibly lead to the most qnexp o o . the most formidabl e resu l ts ; and we may affirm with ° G ,, fidence, that one of the most important duties of a vernment, is to tamper and to diminish, as far as Lie, all the circumstances which promote these flu e; 811 tions in the pri ce o f t h e most necessary artic l e °` which man can purchase. • ef " Life and death ma i n l y d epen d on the prospo "lea v the circumstan ces w hi c h surround us ; physical prosnerre and moral happiness, which often depend and re-act : Ir e - se each other, pres e nt a sa f eguar d at every crisis of exisqls both to indi v id ua l s an d to nations. We may often 470 with tolerable accuracy of the mortality which is lik e4 t i e , exist in any giv en country, town, or hospital, from the es gree in whi c h p overty or wealth, 'Knowledge, or t e a ranee, misfortune or success, are seen to prevail. t h r i 5 " Wherever want and misery exist, there the ine• -e r more likely to die in labour, there still-births will be OW:, frequent, there deaths during infancy will be more litn n- , rous, there epidemics will rage more violently', there recce veries from disease will be more tediot s, and the fatal 'e at mination of it more probable, and there also will d° B ,, usually approach at an earlier period of life than in 1131/ pier situations." As a slight illustration of the principles here set forth, the Committee are tempted to lay before the Association 'o subjoined tabular comparison, exemplifying in Carlisle "' et relation between the mortality and the proportionate ain °l3 of distress in the years 1839 and 1840. air Assuming the de man d upon t h e poor-rate to b e s f.O criterion of the amount of distress, and comparing OP ° i t , each year with the number of deaths, the following resti present themselves : Deaths. Poors'-rate. 1839 1840 Having thus endeavoured tie direct ylo our a ttention , to considerations, which th e y humbly trust are calculated e awaken a deeper interest in the prospects of your de s ir; and a more earnest desire for its accomplishment, Committee cann o t conc l u d e t h e i r present act o f duty . w thn out finally calli ng u p on t h e i r f e ll ow-countr ymen name, not only of thi s A ssoc i at i on, b ut o f the millio n , whom th e ex i st i ng C orn- l aws have fore- d oome d to deell dation, te unite in a cordial an d energe tic demand for th e ,, repeal. ENGLAND AND IRELAND.—The English p r id e i s r idi cu l ous to t h e d a ily reader of tb ° Times. It may b e very galling to English pride , but the fact is, n ever th e l ess , we Iri3h are beginning to feel our selves th e su p er i or P"Ple We have endure d, and that is something; re hare enforced . our rights and maintained the m. Mara t h on and Leonidas are c l ass i ca l, and the Catholic We have As soc i ation will be a bold picture f or t h e con templation of th e f uture historian. b o a s t Of done more, Oppression on the one hand and weakness on the otbf engendered degrading vice --the Nation, with a poo l ; will, has shaken it o ff us would one man ; our laD? of disgraced by contention and violence ; but, as if a vel, c s c .. power had be e n s p o k en over t h e troubled waters OT iiit y, ciety, the coun t r y h as ca l med i nto profound tranqul! itf In a population of nine millions, the condition of hureil eof is, that there shall be many crimes and offences—th e 05 and scum thrown off and deposited by its ferment; or they miscalculate their power of delusion, and overrate ° o , ignorance, who imagine that we too cannot read end derstand, reflect and compare.—Southern Reporter- Sir Hussey Vivian, Bart., Master-General the Ordnance, &c., inspected that fine regiment, the Te; Hassan, on Monday, in Clarendon-square, Leaming t ! e r The regiment is quart ere d at C oventry, and ca me eyp purposely to be inspected by the gallant General. , 0 , 0 novel a spectacle naturally attracted a brilliant as sanb't i " of rank and fashion to witness it. SILVER TEA SERVICES.—A. B. SAV°,, P ,II and SONS, Manufacturing Silversmiths, No. 14, Co rn `lhe ' London, opposite the Bank of England, submit the prices °T he following bIL VER TEA and COFFEE SERVICES• rr a ,3 Cottage Pattern is plain, standing on shell feet, the t. v e a „ - p coffee-pots with a flower ornament on the lids. The l' h ie Pattern is richly embossed v,ith flowers and scrolls. ' Th e s-a of either is new and elegant : COTTAGE PATTERN. I KING'S PATTERN . R s. 0 strong Silver Tea-p0t.....12 0 Strong Silver Teapot ...... 17 10 Ditto Sugar Basin 616 Ditto Sugarßasiri 5 10 Ditto 111 ilk Ewer. 410 Di tto Cream Ewe r, Ditto Coffee-pot. 15 0 Ditto Coffee.pot.•,' x.lO Complete £3B 6 C 0mp 1 ete........ .. . m 7 A variety of upwards of fifty Tea and Coffee Servicescie be seen i n the Show-rooms, wh ere may be selected every arty hos of Silve- o requ i s it e f or th e sideboard or plate -chest. Pa'q. a tis of prices, illustrated With sketches of the various articles , A . v., and f orwarded postage free to a ny par t o f t h e ki ng d o m. of Sr.•.'ory and Sons, 14, C orn hill, L on d on, oppos i te t he 13 3-- I i England. SUPERIOR LONDON TABLE K .' Sp n ,19.; with Ivory Handles, 14s. per dozen • Dessert Knives , ', c o Carvers, ss. 6d. per pair; Table Knives, handles, Bs. Sd. per dozen ; Dessert, 6s. sd. ; Carve u g ,: n es t per pair ; Globe-shape Tea-urns, 4 quarts, 275. ; nevi su- e 't of 395. ; Papier Mache Tea-trays, gothic shape, 60s ; the set full sizos. r Catalogues, containing the price of article A g-n ing ironmongery and cutlery, gratis. with whit ° 1 '35. RIPP ON and BURTON, Wells-street, Oxford-street. Established 1890. i . . On the ISth inst., the l B ad IRTHS y of J. A. Vesey Kirkland, ESQ., of the Coldstream Guards, oa son.. ~f• S. On the 19th inst., at York-place., City-road, the lady Mason, Esq., surgeon, of a son. the WV( On the 19th inst., i n Fitzroy 'Farm, Highgate, Geoe Basevi Esq., jun., of a. daughter. On rg the 19th , inst., at Chelter i ham, the lady of Charles L. I" Harford, Esq., of Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, of a 5 0 41, On the 19th in s t., i n N ew Bond-street, Mrs. Henry' of a son. Airs' - On the 101 k inst., at the Crescent, Clapham-common' William Brown, of a daughter. ----- MARRIED.. .s ef On the 19th inst., at St. Pancras,, Joseph Francis 0111"_,, Esq., M.D., of Paris, to Laura, sr,cond daughter of Cubitt, Esq., of Mecklenburgh-sqrare. On the 20th inst., at St. Giles's Church, Camberwell , - f Lavender, of Berrnondsey•street, to Ellen, eldest daughter - W. Crosby, Esq., of Burdett-place, Old K ent-road. ri On the 20th Inst., at St. James% Church, the Hon. R. St. John, to Jane, daughter of the late T. Gibson, r; ir s ,'',..y Esq., of St. Elizabeth's, Jamaict„.---' On the 20th inst., at. St. WarY's, Newington, John P g — t h ' e Kolle, Esq., of Lower Edmonton, to :Mary, daughter 0 ' late Henry Palmer, IE D. On the 16th inst., in the 70th year of his age, John P eal' son, Esq.. of Tettenhall, late Advocatu-General of Bengal' On the 16th inst., at Leamington, he Earl of Belmore'izeill On the 13th inst., at Mill-hill, West Cowes, Louisa Osborne, second daughter of the ReN. Edward Osborne' An On the 16 th inst., at Ki ng ' s-przade, C h e l sea , Mrs. . 1 ' Eleanore Phillips, widow, oged 76. n g t 9° ll On the 16th inst., at Noilthamp , Frederic, y ou ' - ' es of Mr. Samuel Richardson, of thi; °n Etee. On the 17th inst., at Barnes, Mrs. 'Fountains, widow of the late Rev. T. Fountaine, 13rme ' rly Preb, ndary On the 18th inst., at Ovenden 6 ' 3 , gent, Esq., aged 66. oral w On the 18th inst , Alexander Fraser, Esq., of Great C stn et, aged 76. On the 19th inst., at Camden House, Reading, Ellen third dr.ughter el John Richards, jun., Esq., aged 5 ' , •A. Oil tile 19th .• P Jane, W if e oi Jost., .over, Mary Smi • th P Croom's-hill, Greenwich, aged 34. . 1 , G• On the 1;t1i inst., Mrs. Alice Juliet Cape, relict of Ca ße , lat'e Ampton.street, Regent.s. quare. chwore of Worcesters.x, , 'the 19th inst., John Waterhousc., Esq., " aid, ?..iithilesex. A't Twickenham, Henry Hawkins, Esq., aged 80 willioo .tit Brighton, Alice Morley, youngest daughter " mossy, Esq., of Brunswick-square. Clari"e' On the lath inst., in Castlegate, Yorkshire, Jc hn E,sq., aged 63. At Gerrard's-cres s , Bucks, Mr. G. Russell, ag e d 34' , 71 . 9:e IN. Barber, E sq ., o f Fulham-I-0; A, Brampton , aglo, On the 16th ins'., John Pearsc Esq., of T etterl Advocate-Gcncral of Bengal, a ged 70. ;;: ;# —,•,1 . 0, 4 • 1 1•21.11.111•1111111 Hi - 1114111.1.1.1111111.152 r. r London Printed and Publis;ieci by lIIURDO YO 11: ;., ( 1 No. 112, Strand, at Tile Sun Office, No. 112, the county of Middlesex.—' Wednesday, April 21, 1 S''' ~0~ SALE ri .AL 1 1, 1111 AL #RITAIN a ritlDAy, th, Captain 7' l Alajelty' ntiog of rsons R' , 4 1 : 14e6ai t 'ntgtrit,esi in the • aent for Catalogues GRAN The New I PATTISOIS ' thigy at H. Three o'cloc LACKWA , Alt Five kt Half.past kid from BL 111 d„,Half.p as i !Ivo addit t,thla star 10 11 betty I b!'kFAR "nq atttaitte.t. : o.putr G e jaur fl i n gaNm A , l T l f an l l l than 50 ' 114 02 5 six svte:carr 11144 Ink_ and "pester, rheae due d 77wed, to the • r artieulars. k'nay be Man "ucets-stret • I keheatet 444413,,E ' 4, 3 17.4 Publi likj.AND • ' 4 .INGI /he Ti kit. FF 41 5 • ••• P.ll. - 0 r, g Fl u • A ' 2 9. 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