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ito 1t / 117;1itan SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock: HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS DAY.) I The House sat again to-day for the purPose o f hearin g Scotch appeals. Tho Peers in attendance were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, and the Bishop of Hereford. _ _ EWAN AND CO., V. SMITH AND CO. The arguments on this appeal, which were commenced yesterday, were resumed and concluded to-day. The case came before their Lordships 'upon an appeal from an interlocutor of the Court of Session upon a question of great importance to me rchants, and upon which eight of the Scotch judges differed from the other five. The question arose in this way. The respondents, who are merchants in Glasgow, had the disposal of forty two hogsheads of sugar, which arrived at Greenock in July, 1843, per the ship St. Mary, from Jamaica. They sold ttipse sugars on the 15th of August, 1843, to Messrs. Bowie and Co., also merchants in Glasgow. The sugars were then in the bonded warehouse of Little and Co., in Greenock, in the name of James Alexander, who was the agent there of the respondents. The sugars having been weighed, an invoice of them, together with an order of delivery on Alexander, was delivered by the respondents to Bowie and Co , to whom also was de. liiered at the s:me time for acceptance a bill at four months for the amount. Messrs. Bowie and Co. did not accept or return the bill, nor did they pay any part of the price; they did not transmit or intimate to Alexander the note or of der on him to deliver the sugars to them, nor take any steps to get them. Bowie and Co. stopped payment on the 25th of September, and were put under sequestration—declared bankrupts—next day. The respondents wrote on the 25th to their agent, Alexander, at Greenock, informing him of the failure of Bowie and Co., and desiring him "to take steps to secure the sugars lately sold to them, ex St. Mary, if they are still in the warehouse." Alexan der, acting on these instructions, hid the sugar re moved on the 27th September from Little's ware houre to Kerr's warehouse, in Greenock, and in formed Kerr that he had removed them thither on account of the respondents, and that he (Kerr) was not to deliver them to anyone without his (Alexander's) order, as their agent. It appeared that Bowie and Co. sold large quantities of sugar, including these forty-two hogsheads, to the appellants, who are also merchants in Glasgow. These, on the 25th of September, the day on which BOWie and Co. stopped payment, sent the note of delivery given to the latter by the respondents in August 'to Alexander to deliver the sugars. In his absence his clerk wrote this note, dated that day (25th September): "Deliver to the order of Messrs. Ewan and Co., this date, forty-two hogsheads of sugar, ex St. Mary," not :addressed to any person. Nothing was done on that note, and the question then arose whether the respondents were entitled to reclaim or stop the goods, the vendors, Bowie and Co., having failed to pay for them, or to accept the bill for the price. The sheriff of Renfrew, on a petition to him from the appellants, held that the respondents were so entitled. The Lord Ordi nary was of the same opinion. The first division of the Court of Session was divided in opinion, in which case they took the opinion of the other Judges. The result was that eight Judges, including the Lord Ordinary, affirmed his judgment against five dissentients, and from that decision the present appeal was brought. Mr. TURNER and Mr. ANDERSON were heard yester day for the appellants, and contended that the note of delivery . from the respondents to Bowie and Co., trans ferred the right in the sugars to them and to the appel huts, as their subvendees. That note, with the invoice delivered with it, was negotiable, like a bill of lading. They cited numerous cases from the English as well as the Scotch courts; and having closed their arguments at four o'clock, the further hearing was adjourned. The Attorney-General and Mr. Blackburn (of the Scotch bar) were counsel for the respondents. Mr. TURNER, on behalf of the appellants, replied, and Their LORDSHIPS deferred giving judgment till Thusrday. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN TUE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1849. Epidenciio, Endemic', and Contagious Diseases ...*243 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... ~. 45 Turbercular Diseases... ... 172 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 104 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 25 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ... 223 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... ... ... ••• Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, It Discs6es of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. ... .. Malformations... ... ... ... .. Premature Birth Atrophy Old Age Sudden ••• ••• Violence; Privation, Cold, or Intemperance Causes not specified ... DEATHS PROM 'ALL-CAUSES Population Luumeraied, 1841 West Districts... 300,711 North Districts.. 375,971 Central Listr:ots 373,653 East Districts ... 392,444 South Districts.. 501,190 Average weekly Deaths Deaths, 1844-8. in the Five Winters. Week. 170 ... 151 • . 218 ... 168 . 211 ... 170 , 252 255 , 319 ... 303 Totals... ..... 1,948,369 ... 1,169 ... 1,047 ... 531 ... 516 Malea Females BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males Females ~, 821 ~. 723 Total ... ... 1,544 * In this number are included 15 cases of death by Cholera, 43 by Scarlatina, and 42 by T) phus Fever. COURSE OP EXCH N GE.-i THIS DAY.) A nstentran 12 24 1 Ditto, at sight 12 Rotterdam .... • • .. " 12 2% 25 70 ' 11.1mbarlh —MX. 13 12 1 4 L iris, 3 days'slght .. • • 25 2734 Gibraltar.. • • .. .... • • Leg horn ........ • ... • • 33 Genoa .. • • • • .... • . • • .. 20 Venice .. • • ...... _Naples ............ •• 40 ealermo, per0z...... 118 Messina . ..... ........ 119 i.isbon 1,2 74 0p0rt0...." ........ 62% itio Janeiro • •• • • [Wen°, Ayres ........ - New York, 21 days'aight .... • • .... Ditto, 3 months .... 25 50 Marseilles • • .. •• •• .• 25 50 ..... • 25 55 liranktort on Maine.... 121 1 4 Vetersbargli, Sil. ltble •• 3614 Berlin.... • • .......... effec. tio•• • • •• 11 30 Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 11 32 IS,I ulrid • • .. • • ........ .19M Caliz ............. 50 Bilbao— • • • • ........ • . Ilarceiona • • • • . PRICZ3 OF BULLION, FEB 02 Foreign Gold In bars ...£3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin •. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 Sew Dollars • • 0 0 0 ;liver in bars .....••• 0 0 0 Beillle•• •••••••• •••••, FRAN CE, The Gazette de France, the organ of the Parti pretre and the Jesuits, has the following on the elec toral manifesto of the club of the Rue de Poictiers : " The committee of the Parliamentary club of the Rue de Poictiers met yesterday to hear the manifesto which has been prepared under the direction of fl(teen of its members, and the reduction of which was entrusted to Messrs. Thiers and Remusat. This document is said to be remarkable for its absolute silence respecting the great questions which actually occupy the political men of every party. Thus it appears that not a word is said in it of religious liberty, of liberty of education, nor of com mercial freedom—now the most indispensable of all—nor of administrative decentralization, so universally de manded from one end of France to the other; nor of universal suffrage, which has saved France from a narchy, =AI which alone can secure the definitive triumph, nut only of material order over ma terial disorder, but of moral order over moral disorder, the original cause of anarchy and civil war. Neither does the manifesto say a word relative to the great constitutional questions which form the indispen sable basis of every sound political organization. But, on the other hand, we find in it a tow high sound ing but empty phrases about order, religion, f am il y property, the electoral independence of the pro vince', an independence long proclaimed by them ; an d above all, we detect a certain Imperialist perfume, which constitutes its distinctive character, and which cannot be mistaken. Such, we are informed, is th e tenor of the electoral mani,esto, of that great committee. A number of members refused to sign it, at least after a first perusal, an d it is not without astonishment that we read to-d iy in the Union an article in praise of a document evidently intended to lull the departments to sleep, but which, we are sure, will be counteracted by that ardent patriotism of which they daily give so many proofs. The departments de sire conciliation and moderation, but they do not wish for the triumph of the policy of absorption fur the mere benefit of M. Thiers and the intriguers by whem he is sur ronnd ed." _ _ In the sitting of the National Assembly yesterday, the clause fixing the annual salary of the Pre sident of the Republic at 600,000 francs was adopted. A division was demanded on the additional grant of 50,000 francs per month under the head of frais de representation, when the numbers were—for the allow auce, 418 ; against it, 341. The allowance was con- Eequently grunted." The General Democratic Committee formed in 1848, in support of the election of Louis Bonaparte, has been re-established for the elections of 1849, under the title of " Democratic Union of the Seine," with a sub committee in each of the 14 municipal dis tricts of Paris. The Parliam e ntar t y , Club of the Palais National i has also instituted electoral committee, of which i M. Dupont de l'Eure named President. Seine m embers of the Moderate Left in:We, of which M. Pierre belong t o that Bonapartecom is one of the secr etaries.' Several friends of the latter intend to propose him as ca nd i date f or th 3 department of the Seine. It wytiM appear from the Gazette de France, that the division between the Legitimists, par sang, and the club of the Rue de Poictiers, is becomin g every day greater. ---- SPAIN. -- The Fomento of Barcelona of the Gth publishes a Proclamation addressed by Cabrera to the insurgents clatalonia, in which he announces his resumption of lmmand, thanks them fbr their efforts, states that Navarre, the Basque provinces, Galicia, and Asturia second them, and that Aragon and Valentia will imitate them. He adds that the King (Count de Montemolin) promises institutions in harmony with the spirit of the times, and will support his pro mises by the sword. THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MARCH 9, 1849. The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of Lord Foley, to appoint Robert Bryce Hay, Esq. (late 93d Regiment), to be one of her Majesty's Honourable? Corps of Gentleman at Arms, vice Tomkins, retired. ADMIRALTY, MARCH 12. With reference to the naval promotions announced in the London Gazette of the 6th inst., the following further promotions, also dated the 3d inst., have taken place: — Retired Captains—Henry Thomas Davies, and the Hon. Henry Dilkes Byng, to be retired Rear-Admirals, on the terms proposed in the London Gazette of the Ist of Sept., 1846. ADMIRALTY, MARCH 13. A further portion of the medals for services in the wars commencing in 1793 and ending in 1815, and for Algiers, Navarino, and Syria, will be ready for distibu tion on and after the 19th instant, and will be delivered either on personal application, or to agents, or staff offi cers, as previous directed. Personal application must be made between the hours of twelve and two. The medals now advertised are for parties whose claims were pre ferred shortly after the publication of the Gazette notice of the 7th of June, 1848. The books of the Naval Medal Committee will be finally closed on the 30th of April, and all applications must be sent in before that day. By command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. W. A. B HAMILTON. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Shropshire. North Salopian Regiment of Yeomanry and Cavalry —Cornet James Henry . Murray Martin to be Lieu• tenant, vice Spading res igned; Bulkeley Hatchett Bul keley Owen, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Martin. WHITEHALL, MARCH 8. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Charles Harvey, of Spalding, in the county of Lincoln, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. MTHE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1840. BANKRUPTS. William Simmons, tobacconist, Piccadilly, to surrender March 20. at one, and April 24, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Roberts, St. Martin's court. _. Edward Lewis Blackman, tailor, Lombard-street, City, March 20, at eleven, and April 24. at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ; Wright and Banner, London-street, Fenchurch- street. Henry Peet, printer, Ludgate-hill, March 22, at eleven, and April 30, at half past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street; Vaughan, Furnival's-inn. Thomas Withers, wine-merchant, St. Dunstan's-hill, City, March 22, at one, and April 30, at ball-past eleven, at!the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street; Dolman, ° Termyn-street. William Atkinson Warwick, printer, Cambridge, March 22, at eleven, and April 30, at one, at the Court of _Bankruptry. Turquand, official assignee, Guildhall chambers; J. and C. Cole, Adelphi-terrace. Alfred Morecraft, draper, Marlborough, March 21, at half-past twelve, and April 26, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assigneee, Coleman- street buildings; Reid, Langford, and Marsden, Friday-street, Cheapside. David Lees coach iron work manufacturer, Wednes bury. Staffordshire, March 27, and April 17, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham; Corser and Underhill, Wolver hampton; Motteram, Knight, and Emmet, Birmingham. Matthew Roe, draper, Coventry, Warwickshire, March 29, and April 21, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Wilmot, Coventry. Henry Grant, clock and watch maker, Cardiff, March 27 and April 24, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol; Rowland, Hacon, and Rowland, Threadneedle-street; Bird, Cardiff. John Frampton, glove manufacturer, Cernd Abbas, Dorsetshire, March 23, at one, and April 18, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Ilirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Slade and Vining, Yeovil; Terrell, Exeter; Cragg and Jeyes, Bedford-row. John Cawker, innkeeper, Okehampton, Devonshire, March 23, at one, end April 18, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Exeter; Burds, Okehampton; Terrell, Exeter ;IBaxters, Lincoln's Inn-fields. John Stanbury Cobbledick, draper, Whitstone, Corn wall, March 23, at one, and April 17, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Ilernaman, official assig nee, Exeter; Rowe, Stratton, Cornwall; Turner, Ex eter; Fox, Finsbury Circus, City. . George Crookes, bookseller, Sheffield, March 24 and April 21, at ten, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman, official assignee, Sheffield; Tattersall, Great James's street; Boole and Yeoman, Sheffield. George Cunningham, grocer, Northwich, Cheshire, March 27 and April 17, at eleven, at the Liverpool Dis trict Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Oliver, Old Jewry Chambers, Evans and Son, Liverpool, Thomas Occleshead and Charles Cummins, forwarding agents, Liverpool, March 30 and May 10, at eleven, 'at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assigned, Liverpool; Gregory and Co., Bedford-row; Payne, Liverpool. Mark M'Giverin and Joseph Johnson, smallware ma nufac:urers, Manchester, March 29 and April 20, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester; Gregory, Faulkner, Gre gory, and Skirrow. Bedford row; Coorwr, Manchester. MARKET .th TELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price:Current, March 13.) SUGAR.—To day a good sale was experienced for British Plantation Sugar, and the rates obtained are 6d per cwt above those of Friday for all sorts. The sales are 750 hlids, &c. There was no public sale of Baba does, indeed not much is 1-ft in first hands. For public sale on Thursday 5,000 bags Manilla, 3,700 bags Siam, and 1,100 boxes Havannah Supr are declared. REFINED.—To-day u‘fined Goods met with a free sale for home . trade purposes, and brown Lumpe realised 503 to 51s per cwt; the supply is scanty, and likely so to keep for ato w weeks. Bonded Crushed Sugar is held with firmness at fully former rates, and the supply is rathir scanty. _ _ MAIIIIITIDS.—To-day the public sales of 7,196 bags Mauritius Sugar went at 6d to is per cwt advance; fine yellow realized 42s to 43, low to good 37s 6d to 40a, fine brown 36s 6d to 375, middling 345, washed and syrupy 31s to 39s 6d. EAST INDIA.—To-day the quantity of Bengal Sugar put up to public sale amounted to 4,089 bags and 7 casks, which sold at 61 to Is per cwt advance: middling and fine white Bewares fetched 41s 6d to 435, damp 40s to 42s 6d, low to fine strong ellow 37s 6d to 445, and white 44s 6d to 47s 6]. 01 Madras 800 bags went at 34s 6d to 36s 6 for low and middling yellovr, and at 31s 6d to 34s for brown. FOREIGN.—To-day there was no public sale of Foreign Sugar, and privately there was much enquiry; stiffer rates are also offered, but few sellers are to be met with. MOLASSES.—To day sales to a fair extent were made in West India, and rather higher rates were paid. COFFEE.—A public sale of 2,240 bales of Mocha Coffee is declared to take place on Tuesday. This afternoon there was no public sale of coffee, and privately the pur chases made were small in both home trade and export kinds; prices still tend downwards. The value of good ordinary Native Ceylon is 32s to 33s per cwt. CocoA.—On the part of holders of W.I. firmness is apparent, the supply at market continues to be limited. The value of red is from 41s to 475, and grey 38s to 43s per cwt. Of the best red the supply is still scanty. The market for Foreign has a firmer aspect, and a fair busi ness has been done upon full terms. TEA.—On the part of holders of black there is firm ness, and the rates obtained aro equal to those of this day %eel, the demand is likewise better. The rates paid for ord and good common sound Congou are 8d to Oil per lb. Green met with little attention, still full rates are asked, and the supply does not extend. There has been no arrival since this day week, and home trade deliveries were upen a large scale during that time. The stock is yet smaller than in the former year; prices are also rather under that time for all sorts, and dealers are moderately supplied in town and country. Public sales are declared to take place—at present the quantity is not large. D4liveaies are yet greater than in the former year, at d for all purposes. SAGO. —There has not been much business done, and on the part of holders a desire is shown to sell at from 17s to 23s for low to fine quality. Sago Flour is dull of sale at 15s 6d to 16s 6d per cwt. the RICE. -day East Indi a Ri co was d ea lt i n w ith caution in private market, and rather lower rates are accepted. At auction 990 bags of mid white Bengal went at Os 61 per cwt. SPICES.—For Pim en t o a good demand has been ex perienced, and the rates obtained are fully equal to those cu rrent by private treaty, a l t h ough supplies areupon an extended scale, At auction 1,000 b ags were disposed of : mid at 3 1d to Sad, coarse 30 to 30, and damaged 3 p t o 3? 4 - 1 per lb. .Bay private s evera l parcels have been disposed of, and at similar rates. Opi n i on i s favourable as to the future position of the market. Black Pepper is in limited supply, and the rates are fully equal to those of this day week. The market has , a quiet app earance for Nutmegs. For auc tion on Thursday 100 boxes Jamaica Ginger, ts , d 600 bags Pimento are declar e d. COCHINEAL.—To -day at auction 286 bags of Cochineal were for the most part sold at full rates for silvers, but black went Id to 3d lower; Honduras silvers low to fine . sold at 3s 10d to 4s 6.1, black 4 s 2d to 5s d, Mexican 4s to 45 2d, silvers 3s 10d to 35 Ild. SPIRITS: The demand for Brandy is brisk, and higher ratesare 5s d obtained; 1 C Cognac ssnad c best 3lB brands 47 ditto of 4s the to vintage 4 s 21 ot . 1846realise , 1848 3s 61 to 3s Bd, and inferior 23 2d to 35 2el. Deliveries are larger for all purposes, and the stock is not equal to this time in the for mer year. Geneva met with little attention; the value of shipping sort is Is. 9.1 to is 103, and tine 2s Bd to 3s 6d. There is no variation in the value of British made Spirit. To-day Ruin sold with freedom ; East India proof at Is 3d to Is aid, Leeward Island is 4d to is id, and Demerara 21 to 28 per cent over proof at 2s to 2s 6d der gallon. SALTPETRE.—To. day there was no public sale of rough, but privately several parcels were sold at 2Gs 6d to 293 for low to fine quality. The supply continues to get smaller, and opinion is highly favourable as to the future position of the market. Immoo.—The rates obtained for all descriptiors of East India are fully equal to the last Quarterly sales, and a fair home as well as exists. Deliveries continue to extend, and th e stock i s not equa l to t h e former year, whilst imports . are smaller, and prices exhibit a decline. OIL.—Cod 1 s wanted, and a further rise in the value is visible, the supply is also small, and the rates paid are 27/ to 271 lOs per turn. Seal finds a ready sale, and at still' rates; pale is 311 to 321, and other sorts 281 to 301; there is also only a limited sup ply. There are several buyers of Southern, and low to fine realised 271 to 33/. Sperm is held with firmness, and several gales have been made, the best British realize 81/ to 821. In the value of Olive little variation is visible; there is a fair demand; Gallipoli at 411108 to 43/ and other sorts 40/ to 425. Linseed Oil finds ready sale on the spot at 265, and there are several export buyers. For forward delivery the sales made have been at 26s 6d to 26s 9d. Rape Oil is much wanted at 34s to 38s, and the supply does not get large. A fair demand exists for Palm, and fine realize 33s to 34s ; the stock is small and the deliveries good. Cocoa Nut is wanted, and the rates paid are 34s to 37s for low to fine. On Friday 35 tuns Sperm, and 10 tuns of Southern Oil will be offered at auction. TALLOW.--There has been a fair business concluded in Russian on the spot, and holders aro firm; fine P. Y. Candle realise 40s to 40s 6d per cwt. Sales to a fair extent have been made for delivery in the last three months of the year at 41s to 41a 6d, and at which there are free sellers. Other sorts are in fair in demand at full rates. Auction 750 pgks South American went at 34s 6d to 403 3d for low to fine; 56 cks New South Wales 37s to 38s; 37s to 38; 120 cks Odessa 38s to 39s Gd; 150 pkgs Cape 37s 9d to 41s 6d; 60 cks P. Y. Candle second sort 38s 9d; 60 cks Taganrog 40s 3d to 40s 6d, and 42 cks Archangel 37s 3d to 38a 2d per cwt. The public sales of Tallow declared for Friday comprise 900 pkgs. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships assembled at Five o'clock. The Earl of STRAFFORD presented a petition from Belfast against the Rate in Aid Bill. The Earl of ERNE presented a petition with a similar prayer from the grand jury of the county of Fermanagh. The Earl of MOUNTCASHEL presented a petition praying for assistance to the schools in connexion with the Church of England in Ireland. Their Lordships then adkurned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'clock. MARSHLAND SMEETH DRAINAGE. Mr. COKE moved, pursuant to notice, and Sir F. Box- Tort seconded, a motion to the effect, that the petitions of the inhabitants of Outwell, in the county of Norfolk, and of Mr. Henry Bird, of Upwell, in the county of Cambridge, farmer, in opposition to certain clauses in the Marshland Smeeth and Fen Equalisation of Drainage Rates and Repair of Roads Bill, and praying to be beard by them selves, their counsel, agents, and witnesses against the clauses in the said Bill affecting their interests, and which petitions were respectively lodged in the Private Bill-office upon Thursday, the Bth, and Friday, the 9th days of this instant March, be received and referred to the Committee on the said Bill, notwithstanding the said petitions were so lodged more than seven days after the second reading of the Bill. Mr. W. PATTEN suggested that the motion should he withdrawn, in order that the parties might present another petition, stating how they had been misled. Mr. COKE withdrew the motion. DUBLIN CONSOLIDATION IMPROVEMENT, WATERWORKS' AND SEWERS' BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this Bill, Mr. REYNOLDS observed that he still entertained the same objections to the second reading of the Bill which he had before urged on the House on the motion for leave to bring it in. The Bill was an attempt to perpetuate a most unprincipled job. It was an attempt on the part of an attorney, the sole promoter of the Bill, to obtain, under the sanction of an Act of Parliament, payment of a large and unjust bill of costs. He considered the measure a most iniquitous proceeding against his constituents, and he should give:its second reading his most determined opposition, and concluded by moving that the Bill be read a second time that day six months. Sir J. Y. BULLER had understood that the Govern ment had made an arrangement on the subject, and that in consequence the measures were to be with. drawn. He wished to know from the Right Honoura ble Baronet the Secretary for Irelead whether such was the fact. Sir W. SOMERVILLE said, that be was sorry he could not answer the question in the affirmative, but ho was still in hopes that some arrangement might be made. _ Sir J. Y. BULLER thcught that such being the opinion of the Right Honourable Baronet the three Bills should be postponed for two or three weeks to en able the Government to see if they could not effect some arrangement on the subject. Mr. GROGAN could have no objection to the adop tion of such a course, provided the Government would agree to bring in a measure upon the subject. Sir W. SOMERVILLE could not give any such as surance. Mr. WILSON PATTEN hoped the three Bills would be postponed for three weeks. Mr. GROGAN denied that there was any job or injustice contemplated by the Bill.—(Hear, hear.) All that he asked the House to do was to refer the Bill to a Committee to inquire into its merits, and if then it were found to contain audacious or tyrannical clauses, he, for one, should be quite ready to abandon them. The LORD MAYOR of DUBLIN denounced the Bill as being monstrous and impolitic, and declared that it was the scheme of a speculating solicitor to obtain costs.—(Hear, and laughter.) Mr. SIDNEY lIERI3ERT supported the second reading, but he was quite ready to consent to the abandoment of the Bill if Government were prepared to take up the matter.—(Hear, hear.) He feared, however, there was no probability of such a re sult, but if Governmet would give an assurance that they were in earnest in promising to take up the object he would willingly allow the second reading to be post poned.—(Hear, hear.) Sir W. SOMERVILLE said be did not like to give any assurance on the part of the Government that they would positively bring in a Bill on this subject, but the Government were perfectly in earnest in their endea vours to bring the matter to a satisfactory conclusion. He was not without hopes that a satisfactory result would soon be arrive d at, and on those grounds he hoped the Hon. Gentleman would postpone the second raiding of the measure for the present. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, but the doors were opened. Again strangers were ordered to withdraw, and again they were admitted without any result. Mr. REYNOLDS stated that though the majority was not in favour of his proposttion, yet a large mi nority was in favour. He was not disposed to divide the House on so small a point as an adjournment. He there fore wished to know if the Hon. Baronet had any ob jection to adjourn the second reading for a fortnight. Sir J. Y. BULLER would not consent. Mr. REYNOLDS then moved that the further pro gress of the Bill be postponed for a fortnight. After some discussion the Rouse divided, when there appeared— For the motion ... 110 Against it ... 100 Majority ... —lO The further progress of the Bill was then adjourned for a fortnight. _ _ DUBLIN CORPORATION WATERWORKS BILL. DUBLIN IMPROVEMENT BILL. _ . . On our re-admission into the gallery we found Mr. RLYNOLDS consenting to the postponement of the second reading of the Dublin Corporation Water works Bill and the Dublin Improvement Bill for a fort night. All he had to ask now was, to bespeak the favour able consideration of the House to those Bills when they came under its ❑otice. After a few words from Mr. NAPIER, the second reading of the Bills was postponed, by consent, for a fortnight. EASTERN UNION AND EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAYS. O❑ the motion that the Eastern Union and Eastern Counties Railway Companies (amendments of Acts, and power to lease, sell, or amalgamate to, or with the Eastern Counties Railway Company) Bill be read a second time, Mr. AGLION - BY m:weelan amendment, that the Bill be read a second time that day six months. If there were facts to be inquired into the House could ascer tain them by going before a Committee ; but if there were no objectionable principles on the face of the Bill, as he contended there were, then it was the duty of this House to stop it in limine, and prevent its going before a committee. The Bill was what was called an amal gamation Bill; but the more important part of it was found after the preamble, and provided, among other things, for dividing the old shares among the company. For what purpose? %V hy,for re-issuingthem as new share?. The effect of that arrangemeet,vhich was alluded to in the third section was, to reduce the value of the shares in the market. He then came to the fourth section. By this clause of the Act it was declared that no resolution should be taken which was not sanctioned by a certain number of shareholders assembled in public meeting. He was borne out in this statement by the representations of the Hon. Member opposite, for if they were to take that Hon. Member's assertions, and give them credit, he would call their attention to the terms of clause No. 4. It was all very well to say that any majorityof the members of the company might alter the bye-laws, but every one knew that it was easy to overule the intentions of a minority. He might deal in the some way with sections 6,7, and 8. He trusted, there fore, that the House would refuse its sanction to this Bill, and moved that it be read this day six months. A message was hero brought from the Lords. Mr. COBBOLD, who spoke amidst great interruption, trusted that the House would not listen for a moment to what had dropped from the lion. Member, for no re presentations could have been more erroneous. Mr. BROTHERTON objected to the second reading of the Bill, but thought it should not be delayed for so long a period as six months. Mr. HUME trusted that his Hon. Friend, the Member for Cockermouth would not persevere in his amendment for delaying the Bill for six months. If he did so 1 e would move as an amendment that the second reading shou'd be postponed for a fortnight or a month. Mr. AGLIONBY then withdrew his amendment. Mr. HUME observed that he understood the CAD , . pany could not meet legally within a month, and he would, therefore, move as an amendment, that the second reading of the Bill should be postponed for a month. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when there appeared — For the second reading ll3 For the amendment 54 Majority —.79 The Bill was accordingly read a second time, and or dered to be committed. THE CONVICT MITCHEL. Mr. 'W. LOCKHART moved for copies of any in structions which were given, and of any letters which were addroiscd to Commander Edward Wingrove, of her Majesty's steam-sloop Scour, , ,e, in relation to the convict Mitchel, by the Board of Admiralty, or by any other department of Government in Great Britain or Ire land ; of the correspondence which passed between the Naval Commander in Chief in the West Indiei and Commander Wingrove on that subject ; and of a letter of the Secretary of the Admiralty addressed to the Com mander.in •Chief in the West Indies in reference to his correspondence with Commander Wingrove.—Agreed to. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Mr. ADDERLEY wished to ask the Under Secretary for the Colonies, whether he would:lay:before the House those communications which have been stated to have been lately received from the Governor of the Cape, in timating that the announcement of his intention to send convicts to that settlement had excited very general dis satisfaction among the colonists? Also, to what pat tof the settlement convicts will be sent, and whether under any further restraint than is supposed to exist in a ticket of leave. Mr. HAWES said a dispatch had been received on the subject from the Cape of Good Hope. Certain papers had ben moved for by the Noble Lord the Member for Hertford, which related to the matter, which would be laid on the table as soon as they were received. Mr. ADDERLEY said some communication was stated to have been received by Earl Grey from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and he wished to know whether that communication would be laid before the House. Earl Grey htd stated in the other House that this communi cation intimated that very general dissatisfaction had been expressed in the colony on the subject to which his question related.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HAWES was not aware that any communication whatever had been received on the subject. A dispatch had been sent out, but no official answer had been re turned.— (Hear.) Lord MAHON hoped when that answer was re ceived, it would be laid before the House. Mr. HAWES promised that it should. CHICORY. Mr. ANSTEY gave notice:that to-morrow he should ask the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he had any objection to produce the Treasury Minute of 1840, authorising the use of chicory for the purpose of adulterating coffee?—(Hear.) SC H LESW IG HOLSTEIN. Mr. GEORGE SANDARS wished to ask Viscount Palmerston, as the armistice between the Danish and Russian Governments on the affairs of Schleswig Hol stein is to cease on the 26th instant, and as there exists great desire on the part of the merchants trading to the Elbe and the ports on the Baltic to know the present state of the question, how the question stands; and whe ther, after the 26th inst., he anticipates a renewal of hos tilities, and a blockading of the ports under the Ger manic Confederation, and if so, whether the property of British merchants, in either British or foreign ships, will be held free from capture and forfeiture. Lord PALMERSTON said the question which the Honourable Member had put to him was one of great importance to this country and the com merce of Northern Europe. It was, too, of equal importance that there should be a suc cessful termination of the negotiating now going on the subject of Schleswig-Holstein. It was true as the honourable Member had mentioned in his question that the Danish Government had given notice which they were entitled to do by the the condition of the arrangement on the Schleswig Holstein question to terminate the armistice on the 26th of the present month, but in that no tice the parties concerned had at the same time declared in writing that it was not their intention to commence hostilities, and their object in terminating the armistice was rather to express a wish to make some diffe rent arrangement with regard to the Provi sional Government of the Duchies of Schleswig Holstein with regard to the present position of the nego tlon, all that he could say was, that Government were favouring the endeavour to bring the two parties to an understanding not merely upcn the points with re gard to the suspension of hostilities, but with regard to the basis upon which the permanent arrangement should be concluded.—(Hear.) He could assure the House that no effort would be waniing on the part of the Government to bring these two parties to an under standing, and when he considered the vast magnitude of the interests which were at stake, and the various exten sive and disastrous consequences which would arise from a renewal of hostilities between the contending parties he could not but persuade himself that a speedy conclusion of the negotiation, but he was convinced that the spirit which animated both parties, if it lasted, would ere long induce them to come to a good under. standing upon their affairs.—(Cheers.) TRANSMISSION OF PAUPERS TO GLASGOW. In reply to a question from Mr. H. HERBERT, Sir G. GREY said on Saturday last he received a deputation who stated that a large number of Irish paupers who had not obtained a settlement in this country, had been sent chiefly from Glasgow, over to Ireland. It was stated that 12,000 had been sent over, but he had no positive information that so lrrge a number had been removed. Since he had seen that deputation he had received information from Scot land that a society bad been established at Belfast, which was supported by voluntary contributions. for the purpose of returning Irish paupers back to Scot land. The fact, therefore, was, that the paupers were legally removed from Scotland to Belfast, and illegally removed from Belfast to Scotland.—(Hear, hear.) SALE OF CONY. Mr. OSBORNE asked the Chancellor of the Ex chequer it corn merchants were compelled to furnish a return of the quantity of corn which they sold? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied that, by the Act passed in 1842, corn dealers in Lon don, and in various country towns, were compelled to mako returns of the quantity of corn sold, which were required for the purpose of determining of tithe-rent charges. RATE IN AID (IRELAND). In reply to Sir ARTHUR BROGICE and Mr. STAFFORD, Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he proposed to take the second reading of the Rate iu Aid Bill on Monday, the 26th inst. The Bill whieh was • now printed, would be delivered to Members to-morrow. ' IRISH PAUPERS. Mr. J. O'CONNELL said, as the Right Ron. Bironet stated that he had received information of the eitablish meat of a society in Belfast, fur sending Irish paupers to this country - , he wished to ask him whether he had also received information that a large number of the persons who were sent from Glasgow to Belfast had been located for some time in Glasgow, and had partly contributed to the wealth of that city. — (Laughter.) Sir G. GREY said he had received no further informa tion than that which he had already communicated to the House. ABOLITION OF CHURCII-RATES,—REMOVAL CI THE l'oo-fil An Hors. MEMBER. inquired whether the Hon. Bar° net the Secretary of State fur the Home Department another case of extreme inhu manity heard of the case of the removal of a child three months' and charge an of h a Scotch pauper from Glasgow m anity of a nearly similar nature? Sir G. GREY said he h ad received no information. old,t o Belfast, a t s h t Mr. THORNELY presented a petition from the Pro testant Dissenters, praying to be relieved from chureh rates. Mr. BRIGHT presented similar petitions from Hitchin and Derbyshire. Mr. OSBORNE presented a petition from Denbigh to the same effect. Mr. LOCKE presented a similar petition to the same effect; as also di i Mr. G. THOMPSON. Mr. GOULBURN presented a petition from Arbroath praying that tne Jew Bill might not become law. — (Hear, hear.) Mr. TRELAWNY then rose to move "that it is the opinion of this House that effectual measures should be immediately taken for the abolition of church-rates." He said he should first take a review of what had been done with respect to this important subject. In 1834 a measure was introduced for the abolition of church rates, and the substitution in lieu thereof of a land rate ; but it was apparently the Dis senters who considered that the proposition rather favoured the Church than the Dissenters, and lands the property of the Dissenters would have become liable for the payment of the rates; and after it had passed he would have had no opportu nity of escaping from it. In 1837 Mr. Spring Rice brought in a Bill on the subject, but it was open to the objections he had named. The rate was to have been paid upon that improved management of Church lands. —(Hear, hear.) Subsequent legislation had taken place, but, nevertheless, the question had been left in its present unsatisfactory state. It appeared to him that that state of things was very much calculated to injure dissent. He sincerely hoped he might induce Right Honourable Mem bers to agree with him, that something ought to be done. Lord Althorp, on one occasion said that church rates were a tax laid on upon one class at the discretion of others and the dissenters were compelled to pay towards a system of worship,of which they did not approve. That he (Mr. Trewlawney) thought that was a strong expres- sion of opinion from a Noble Lord so moderate in his opinions, and so warmly attached to the Church of England.—(Hear, hear.) Lord ,Stanley had also said, when speaking on this subject that " he was ready to acknowledge that church -rates formed a serious and substantial inconvenience to Dissenters." Was it not lamentable after that, that years after years had passed away without any set tlement of this question? In July, 1839, when John Thorogood, a Protestant dissenter, was committed to prison for the non-payment of church rates. The House of Commons came to a reso lution that it was highly expedient to make such an alteration in the existing law of church-rates, in the ensuing session of Parliament, as should prevent a recurrence of similar violence towards any of her Majesty's sub jects who conscientiously dissented from the Church. In the first case a rate was made, in which the pa rishioners refused, and the rate was nevertheless levied. In the next case, the rate ws s carried with an amendment, that the money should be applied to other than church paupers. Eventually the case came to be argued before the Court, and it was decided that the amendments were bad, but that the rate was good, for the vestry was held solely tor the purpose of making a church rat ,, .— (Hear, hear.) He would then state some of the cases in detail, the first was that of a man of the name of Riddle, in Cambridgeshire, whose goods were his trained, and who was himself subjected to an imprison ment for three mouths for the non-payment of the rate. The next suffe rer was su bj e cted to an imprisonment for s x months. The Hon. Gentleman then went into a detail of a variety of cases in which the imposition of a church-rate had been oppressive to several members of the Society of Friends and other iedividuais, and was [I.FFT SPEAKING.] COFFEE v. CHICuR V. To an impoverished and famishing p,ople, the question of the character of its tuod, whetter s.lid or fluid, is no unimportant consideration. It is one of vital moinent, it is rramount before all others; and this either as regards the quantity or the quality; in fact, the latter is, under cet tain circumstances, a most important consideration than the former, inasmuch as the injury the system can receive from insufficient amount of good food, must un doubtedly be less than that which arises from bad food. Bad food is always, ipso facto, insufficient. No person was ever known to die because he had only a quarter pound of meat to dinner, but many die annually from eating bad sausages ; at least this is notorious enough in Germany ; and it was but the other day that a whole family perished in London from the effects of eating cheese. Food, whether fluid or solid, and in particular the latter, may be rendered unfit icr nutrition, either from certain organic changes occurring throughout its whole mass, in obedience to the laws of decomposition, to which all organic bodies are naturally exposed, or it may equally be impaired in its nutritious properties owieg to admixture with ocher ingredients, which may be either of an organic (eatable) or inorganic nature. If the admixture be with organic substances, the nutritive properties of the whole mass will be impaired in proportion to the scale which the sophistication holds in the rank of nutritious bodies ; but if it be of an inorganic character, that kind of matter being absolutely innutri tious, then the diminished nutritive property will be in the ratio of the amount of that inorganic matter, pro bably somewhat augmented by portions of the organic matter being entangled mechanically in the mass. Coffee, which forms so extensive au article of consump tion among the people, yielding only to the beverage of tea, is, it would appear, adulterated to an extent that we had scarcely any idea of, until we perused the observations in the Times of the 27th ult. That there was adulteration, o onl f y however s t e o r v a a t l u m n i t ; c d an d d e g r p e r e had o , ba b d l y been long from th e i mutter nu o . cuous nature of the herb, or rather root, (chicory,) used in the adulteration, comparatively little interest was ex cited on the subject. The notoriety, however, given to the subject by the observations just al:tided to, renders it im perativethat and brandwith its, i oura capacity iope journalists, ra mark, should notice, fraud almost universally and unblushingly practised, and which, independent of the good coin in which the lieges are mulcted for an inferior article, is further to be condemned for the loose morality it indirectly sanctions. The beneficial and cheering effects of coffee are so well known as not to require description, though we fear, if' the sophistication be carried on to the extent alleged, nearly 50 per cent., (and from various samples we have examined we do not believe that statement overcharged.) we shall require a standard description of what coffee was, in order to obtain some approximation to the actual amount of adulteration. The sophistication of coffee with chicory, pro vided the chicory be absolutely pure, (and it is not always so, for it is Wien mixed up with roasted beans, corn, &c.) is not attended with any bad efiects on the animal economy. We think that we have found that hybrid coffee to have a tendency to maintain a lax state of the bowels; but others remark, that they have witnessed the same occasionally from the pure coffee. However, the use of coffee is generally consi dered to have a constipating effect on the primce vice. But, admitting the chicory to be devoid of all noxious agency, it does not necessarily follow that it may not nega tively be injurious to the animal frame, especially when taken in e qual proportions with the pure berry of the coffee, by a ithdrawing a proportionate amount of the active princip:e of the coffee (caffein), which otherwise would have been furnished to the system. It has been satisfactorily proved, by recent chemical analysis, that the three great vege table matters which are extensively used by mankind as a beverage, either in the form of infusion or decoction, contain severally a peculiar proximate element, on the agency of which the virtues of these plants respectively de pend. :fhe matter, or proximate element, contains a suitable quantity of nitrogen, and it i s i n thi s manner supposed to exert its peculiar action on the animal economy. Liebig has been led, from theoretical considerations, to infer that the caffein, or thein, contributes to the gene ration of bile; but this is at present only matter of hypothesis. - Resembling tea in many points, the action of the pure coffee is decisive and marked on the nervous system. It excites the whole frame, and displays its power alai . ) o❑ the brain. The senses feel more lively, and the action of the brain is more vigorous and clear under its influence; weariness subsides and watchfulness succeeds, which is often protracted till dawn. It promotes digestion, and seems to counteract the uneasiness experienced from excess of wine. Nor is its agency less marked in the powerful stimulus it supplies to the system when under the influence of narcotic poisons, especially opium, being not unfrequently the means through which valu- able lives have been saved. When taken in immoderate quantity, it is apt to in duce internal congestions, and not untrequently various nervous symptams arise, such as tremors, a peculiar feeling of anxiety in the region of the heart—some times with, sometimes without palpitaion, dimness and confusion of sight, and some fever. It is not, there fore, well adapted to the young, muscular, and Bangui neous, but aather suited to those of a cold, lax, phleg matic habit. It has been used for various indications in medicine, and is proverbially beneficial in asthma. The herb chicory has none of these specific and well-marked effects on the animal body ; it may, indeed, placed in contrast with the berry of the coffee plant, be considered as nearly inert. The root, when fresh, is tonic, and in large doses it acts on the bowels. It is alleged to be useful in certain visceral diseases of a chronic character, but in these we think time is fully as efficient an agent. It has some slight claims to the action of a diuretic, and its action as a tonic is but trivial. We may further subjoin, that the presence of an szl tised principle in its chemical constitution (which some of the first authorities consider as a positive criterion of the nutritious properties of vegetab:e matter), has not been detected. Hence, we should feel disposed to consider the action of the chycorium intybus, mixed up, as it is, so exten• aively with coffee, as almost nearly negative, inasmuch as the root itself has little more medicinal virtues than sawdust. We are indebted to Mr. Cook for a very clear state ment of this matter in a memorial, at this moment lying before the Lords of the Treasury and the Board of Trade. When the reduction in the price of sugar was made, equal to 26 p,r cent., an increase iu the consumption folowed equivalent to 46 per cent. Coffee, however, which suffered a reduction of price, in 1846, of 22 per cent., has remained almost stationary; while the increase in the consumption of tea, even with stationary prices, hus been 1 per cent., within the last two y ears , over t h at o f 1846 but obviously not so great as t affect the great fall ing off in the apparent consumption of coffee. The nistory of coffee has always been appealed to, since 1784, as a striking instance of the increased con sumptiou that generally attends judicious reductions in the import duty. This anomaly receives the following correct explanation from Mr. Cook. The root of the Chicorium luty hos, Nat. Fam. Compositm, has been long known as a substitute for coffee in Germany, where it has been cultivated extensively for that purpose. Imported to Great Britain, a duty was levied on it equal to that paid ou coffee. As the herb is indigenous to our island, it was subsequently grown at home, so that the consumer might have it duty free; and in 1840 a Treasury order was obtained " authorizing the Excise for the future not to object to grocers selling chicory, or mixing it with coffee." The effect of this was speedily felt, and induced the importers of coffee, in 1842, to complain of it to the Chlncell rof the Exchequer, but without effect. Chicory rapidly was in great demand, and the consumption of it, which was estimated by Mr. M'Culloch at 6.72 million lbs. in 1842, has at least doubled, and is, to that extent, now en croaching on the use of coffee. . . " And — this is only what might have been expected, for wl.ile home-grown, kiln-dried chicory can be delivered at 21d. per lb. to the wholesale dealers (retailed at Bd. per lb.), the average price of duty paid coffee is from 7d. to 9d. per lb. Accordingly, even rPspectulle grocers add, at least, two ounces of chicory to 14 of coffee, while others make the mix ture half and half. The most experienced officers of the Excise estCmate the average proportion of chicory to what is sold in the London shops for coffee at one-half ; in the manufacturing towns in the country, it is said to be fully one half. What further potion of pure chicory is else~ here added to this mixture it is impossible to say; hut it is a fact, that those descriptions of coffee which will bear the greatest admixture of chicory, such as Costa Rica and Java, en joy, on that account, a marked preference in the market, greatly to the detriment of the more delicately flavoured Ceylon coffee." Besides the primary sophistications which the coffee submits to from chicory, the chicory itself also is adul terated; and this was carried to such an extent, that the wholesale houses were induced to take into their own hands the manufacture of the chicory which they sell, purchasing themselves the root, and kiln drying it on their own premises. It is therefore urged, alike for the interest of the colonists, the revenue, and the public, that the duty charged on chicory should be renewed. It is, indeed, but even-handed justice to our fellow-subjects in the colonies, unless our home growers of chicory can establish that that substance has claims on the public from properties totally dissimilar to those of coffee; and we think that they might do so with some appearance of plausibility. But then the chicory would still be used a 3 an adulterator of cofFe, on which ground alone it is most exceptionable. " Estimating the proportion in which chicory at present enters into what is sold as coffee at the low rate of one• third, it follows that, along with the 36 85.000,000 lbs. of coffee consumed last year, 12 28,000,000 lbs. of chicory have been sold. If the sale of chicory should again, in conformity with with 3 George IV., c. liii., be restricted to persons not being vendors of co&e, and taking out an annual license for that purpose, the consumers would be agai❑ left to make their own mixture of those two ingredients. In that case, it is believed, they would, at most, mix only half as much chicory with their coffee as the grocers de at presen t. The effect would be, that about six million pounds less of chicory, but the same quantity more of coffee would be consumed ; consequently, our coffee growers would find a vent for six million pounds more or their produce here, and that an additional annud revenue of, at least, 100,0004 would flow into the Exchequer." Agreeing wtth the above statement, we are even disposed to think that the anticipated consumption of coffee is underrated ; for the inferior character of the article vended under that name, at present, prevents parties more extensively employing it, and even many are forced to give up th use of coffee, as it is so totally different from the:article that was wont to be purchased in the market as such but a fcw years since. In additional rt-marks on this highly hitt que tion, the judicious writer, in the Times of the 28th ultimo, obArves:— "That legislation on eu&l e matter might, as is usually the ease, lead telerable vexations, iivery probabie; but a ;er tIV is nevertheless ne cessary; end, if there be no teller means, the con sumers should adopt it for themselves, by purchas ing all coffee in an unground state—a plan which would be altogether effectual, were it not im practicable in the case of the very poor. Even, how ever, if chicory were proved to be the most wholesome and agreeable article in existence, it would (still seem hard, that it should be in the power of any dealer legally to foist it upon those who de not ask for chicory, but for coffee, and who part with their money in the full belief that coffee has been served to them," In conclusion, we would observe, that amid the praiseworthy efibrts making in all quarters to foster a more elevated standard of public morals, the sub stitution of coffee instead of alcoholic fluids, whether in the form of ardent spirits, or our diurnal beer, has been attended with decidedly good effects. Bu, we must not blink the matter, when we say that the wretched, warm, dirty-coloured water (for it scarcely deserves any other term) doled out in na merous coffee-houses, under the name of coffee. cannot but materially injure the cause ; and th( pledge-taker (for he evidently proclai m s by be. former propensities that he was sensible to the de lights of a stimulant) revokes his oath in a mood) fit, and returns to his old habits. We say this from melancholy experiei ce in not a few instances ; and we trust that some means will, ere long, be devised by th( Legislature to secure the berry in its original purity for the consumer, and guard its own exchequer against the frauds of the unprincipled dealer.—Medical Times. LUNAR ECLIPSE.—The moon was partially eclipsed on Thursday evening and Friday morning, and with e clear and very frosty atmosphere, and cloudless sky. probably this interesting phenomenon was never seen to better advantage. The moon shone with unwonted brilliancy on Thursday evening till its radiance gradually declined, and " becoming small by degrees and beautifully less," it diminished to a small segment. The moon was full about seven minutes afte. its greatest obscuration, which took place at fivt minutes before one, and was to the extent of 0.738 in the southern limb of the disc. The silver crescent that remained was beautiful and clear, and the spark ling brightness of the arc was finely relieved by t`•e partial shade of the penumbra, from which a ca• sual observer might have calculated the proportion 4:P the disc obsured at still more than three-fourths. The first contact with the penumbra took place at 10h. 30m.' on Thursday evening, and the first contact with the shadow at I Ih. 25w.; middle of eclipse, Oh. 55m. on Friday morning; last contact with shadow, 2b. 25w.; last contact with penumbra, 3h. 38m.—Caledoniax Mer cury. DEATH OF FIELD MARSHAL SIR G. NUGENT.-- On Sunday night Field Marshal General Sir Georg. Nugent, Bart., K.C.8., expired at his residence, Wes thorpe House, Little Marlow, at the advanced age of 92. He was the oldest general officer in the army. Sir George entered the service on the sth of July, 1773. which is the date of his ensign's commission. He serves throughout the first American war, having gone our when a lieutenant, and was employed in the expedition, up Hudson's river, for the relief of General Burgoyne'. army; was present at the capture of Forts Montgomery and Clinton, by assault, and performed various other services. He returned in 1783 a lieutenant colonel. Ie March, 1793, Sir George accompanied the brigade o guards to the continent, was present at the siege of Va lenciennes, and fought in the actions of Wit. Amond and Lincelles. On the army going into winter quarters he returned home and raised II regiment of foot—the 85th. In 1794 he became colonel, and accompanied his regiment to Walcheren, where he held the local rank of brigadier general, and in October joined the army of the Duke of York, having obtaiiiet2 the command of a brigade of the line, cantonad Tiel, on the Wall. During the whole of the Irish rebel lion Major-General Nugent commanded the norther', district of Ireland. In 1803 he obtained the rank o lieutenant-general, and in 1806 the colonelcy of the 6th Regiment, which he retained to his death. Having transferred his services to India, he was appointed in 1811 commander-in-chief of the forces there, which dis tinguished post he occupied till 1813, when he was suc ceeded by the Marquis of Hastings, and from which he retired .with the rank of general. In June, 1846, Sit George Nugent became one of the nine field marshals of England. Since 1796, he has been captain or keeper of St. Mawe's Castle. METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OP SEWERS.—During the year 1848 there were 5,112 coMplaints entered. ot, the books, being at the rate of almost 100 a week, or more than 16 every week day througlicut the year. 0 ;hese, 374 were from places not within the rated juris diction of the Commissioners, 287 were obliged to be deferred for the completion of the Ordnance survey, and the rest, 4,451, were attended to. This is but a small sample of the work of the Commission, which, as many of the rate payers have a misapprehension on the point, it may be well to mention not only abstains from dining at their expense, but is altogether unpaid, the Commis sioners having declined to accept their legal " wages." PENZANCE, MARCH 11.—The wind having moderated last night, and shifted to the westward, the whole of the. wind•bound, exceeding two hundred sail, got under weigh this morning, and proceeded. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD CIRCUIT.— Worcester, March 10. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.) Henry Stanton Pike, 46, attorney-at-law, who pleaded guilty on a previous day to a charge of bigamy, was now brought up for judgment. The JUDGE said that he had carefully considered the prisoner's case, but could find no circumstance of a mid gating character. He was a man of education and talent, and could not plead ignorance as his excuse for error. He was then sentenced to be transported for seven years. Elizabeth Pritchard, alias Betty Pugh, 24, was indicted for aiding, abetting, and assisting one John Smith, in committing an assault, with intent, &c., upon the person of Eleanor En/ens, at Saint Andrew's, in Worcester, on the 18th of July last. The prosecuirix is about 56 years of age, and was formerly the wife of one of the most respectable trades men in this city. It appeared that she was returning home at night, when the prisoner and a man accosted her, asked her to go with them, and forced her, by taking hold of her; arms, down the street, and into the bedroom of the prisoner's house, where very bad laNuage was used and the offence committed. She struggled all she could, but the prisoner held her down by the shoul ders. The two then beat her; the prisoner demanded three shillings of her, she replied she had none, but if they would let her, she would go home and get some. The man then threw her down stairs, when she became insensible, in which state she remained for a fortnight. The prisoner wanted to throw her out of the window. The pasoner was sentenced to be transported for 15 years. Stafford, March 12. Mr. Sergeant Taifourd opened the commission here on Saturday, and the Judges, who arrived yesterday, in the afternoon, attended St. Mary's Church. The busi ness commenced at ten o'clock this morning, and not withstanding ' the recent sessions there are 100 priso ners in the calender, three of whom are charged with murder. NISI PRIUS COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PLATT.) BONEHILL V. ROOSE. This was an action to rtcover compensation in damages fort he seduction of the plaintiff 'a daughter. The plea was the general issue. The plaintiff, Mr. Joseph Bonehill, is a wire -roller, at Westbromwich, and the defendant, Mr. Samuel Rouse, a chemist and druggist, at Albury, who paid attention to the plaintiff's eldest daughter, and ultimately succeeded in seducing her. Miss Jane Bonehill deposed as follows:—My father is a widower. lam eighteen. There are five children, of whom lam the eldest. The defendant is a chemist and druggist. He visited our family at Greets'-green. He lives with his mother and sister. He has a shop at Ald bury. He attended my mother in her illness. He paid me attention in May 1847. He said he was going into Wules and asked me to go, saying I need not fear, he would marry me. I declined to go. I managed my father's house. I went to Aldbury in August for some groceries, to Mr. Turner's. The defendant called to me from his door, the other side of the street, and asked me to go in and see his mother and sister, who were up stairs. He sent the apprentice out of the shop and took me into the parlour. I asked where they were? He, some time afterwards, fastened the door. I asked him the reason. He said nothing parti cular, his mother and sister were gone to Westbrom which. Just before that he brought me some lemonade in two glasses out of the shop, and I drunk it. I shortly afterwards felt very ill. He pulled down the blind, and ultimately succeeded in effecting his purpose. After some time I went home, and was very ill. The de fendant called on the following Sunday. Defendant used to come about nine at night, when my father was out. The connexion was then renewed. I had been in a Bible class of Mr. Corken's, a Baptist minister. I went to his house at Birmingham in March, and communi cated what had occurred. Mrs. Corken informed my father of it. I was confined there. Jane Harrison, our servant girl, brought me a note and some pills from loose, with directions how to take them, one at morn ing and one at night. I was to keep them under lock and key, that no one might see them. I was very ill after taking them. I was delivered of .a child in May. On the 21st of June it died, and my father buried it. The Rev. Mr. Corken and other witnesses were called, but their evidence disclosed no fresh facts, but was cor roborative of the testimony of Miss Bonehill. Mr. WHATELEY having addressed the jury in mitiga tion of damages, Mr. Baron PLATT then summed up, and The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, da mages, 501. _ The - trial of this cause did r.ot terminate until near midnight. WESTERN ClHClllT.—Salisbury, March 12. (Before Lord Chief Justice DENatax.) John Smith was indicted for the wilful murder of Eleanor Lawrence, at Collingbourne Ducis, on the 9th of August last. Mr. Slade and Mr. Hadow were counsel for the prose cution; and Mr. Challoner Smith appeared for the pri soner. It appeared thaf, about twelve o'clock on the day of the 9th of August, the deceased, who wa', 34 years of age, carried dinner to some reapers in a field; having done so she left the field, and in a very short time afterwards the poor woman was found I) ing by the side of a turnpike r oad ' within a quarter of a mile of the field. She was on 1,047 Intr ',sok, her face coversd with blool, and several sou ds en her head and feoc, apparently inflicted by a ehorp slotie or heavy shoe; she was insensifis, and so re mained for two days, when sit- died from a fractured tie ear was nearly severed from the head. The pris nee, who was a blacksmith out of work, bad been st en lonsin rsha 11, about a mile and a halt off; shortly before the body of the deceased was fbund. He was ask ing fur work. anti hsd 4 long conversation with a black smith, at whose house he was sating bread and ehecze; there was nothing then in his manner to attract attention. Shortly after this murder must have been committed, the prisoner went to the house of the Itcv. Mr. Harlon, at Everleigh, and asked for work. Mr. Hadon told him he had no work to give him. The prisoner then threw two stones. which he had in his hands behind him, at Mr. Hadon's head; fortunately they only struck him on the arm. Mr. Haden was alarmed and ran into his house for a minute, and on his return to the door the prisoner was gone. At the time he came up to Mr. Hadon's house the prisoner appeared to be much out of breath, and was trembling all over. Mr. Hadon thought, from his state of excitement, that he was ill. Mr. ilsdon, finding the prisoner had left his premises, sent sod went himself in pursuit of him. He overtook him and nld him he was determined to take him into cus tody. The prisoner then took three stones from his Docket and hurled teem with great violence at Mr. Radon, aiming at his head; they, however, passed with ,ut doing injury. Other persons then came up and seized the prisoner. One of them asked him if be was not ashamed of himself, for he might have murdered the gen tltrnan? The prisoner replied, "I do not care if I had, for I have murdered one person this morning already. I did not care what I did, for lam tired of life." He was asked where? He said," You will soon know." When being taken to gaol, subsequently, he said he knocked her dovt,ii with a stone, and then kicked her about the toad, but had not otherwise assaulted her. The prisoner was tried at the last summer fiSSiZE,'S for this county for the assault on Mr. Hadon, and was sentenced to be trans ported for seven years. The surgeon of the gaol in which the prisoner had been confined since his convic tion stated that he had paid particular attention to the prisoner's conduct, and he had not seen anything to in duce him to believe that the prisoner had been, or was, insane. He had a perfect knowledge of right and wrong. Ile had been in the habit of seeing him twice or thrice a week. In the course of the cross-examina.ion of the medical witnesses, the following testimony was given: —That persons had delusions. There was a disease called "is sane impulse, or instinctive madness," the predominant character of which was to commit acts of violence; there was an irresistible desire to destroy human life, it to commit a theft ; the latter as regarded ladies, be rause there could be no reason for their committing a theft. Persons might know they were doing wrong, but the impulse was so strong that they could not resist it— rheir will was not under their contr o l. _ _ Mr. SMITH made a most eloquent and dispassionate address to the jury on behalf of the prisoner, reading to them the observations of Dr. Pritchard and Professor Winslow, &c. Lord DENMAN, in summing up, observed that the of 'ence of unsoundness of mind was to be proved by the isont , r; and the question was, whether he had proved it to the satisfaction of the jury. The jury considered for a few minutes, and then re turned a verdict of Guilty. Lord DENMAN then passed sentence of death upon the prisoner. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 12. Mr. BROWN presented a petition from Liverpool erasing that the navigation-laws might not be repealed until the duties on timber had been abolished. NAVIGATION LAWS.—ADJOURNED DEBATE. (Continued from our Third Edition of last night.) Mr. ROBINSON contended that the navigation-laws not had the effect of giving the shipping interest an extravagant rate of freights, and he proceeded to -thow that the increase of their colonial trade, which had been adverted to by the Right Hon. Gentleman the Vresident of the Board of Trade, arose from the fact of hit trade being confined to British shipping. For his ewn part, he would much rather see the navigation laws sbrogatcd by one short code, than vote for the second reading of the Bill now before the House, relying on the Government to indemnify the shipping interest by a removal of their existing disabilities. Would the Go vernment before the Bill passed into law, if indeed it ever became the law of the land, consent to take the duty off timber, remove the duty on marine insurances, modi'y the apprenticeship clause, and allow them to man their ships with the sailors of any country they ply-ased? Since 1837 the rates of freight had been so low that the shipowners had more reason of com plaint than had the shippers of goods for want of com petition in order to reduce those freights. He did not deny that some of the colonies might ask change in those laws, but what he asked, particularly in regard to America, was, that the navigation of the St. Lawrence might be thrown open to foreign vessels. That might be a good enough argument for a Canadian, but so far as the interests of the empire at large were concerned, he could not agree to its justice or policy. The Hon. Member for Westbury (Mr. Wilson) said the ether night, that were any great rise of rates in ships ping to take place, the shipbuilders and shipowners would ruin themselves in building vessels, in order that they might profit by such rise. But did Hon. Gentlemen think that the shipowners were so mad as to throw out their money on any suchenterprise without a good pros pect of a sufficient return for it? But in regard to that lion. Gentleman's speech, he must say that unless Government had stronger reasons for repealing the na vigation-laws than he had urged, their case was weak indeed. Nothing, in his opinion, could be more improper than the conduct of the Government in regard to this question. What was the use of appointing Committees of Inquiry both in that and the other House of Parliament, if, as the Noble Lord stated to the London deputation, who waited upon him the other day on this subject, the Government had made up their mind upon it, and that no opposition could sway the conclusions they had come to regarding it ? The letter sent from the Foreign-office to the other powers, respecting the change they meditated in those laws, was also most reprehensible, and without entering into the merits or demerits of the free-trade polio', either of this or of the last Government, he felt bound to say that by exposing this country to the unlimited competition of foreigners, they were doing that which would paralyse both the commerce and the enterprise of the people of this country. There were two circum stances which ought to influence every Government in this country in dealing with public questions; these were the state of the labouring classes and the financial affairs of the country. Now, he would ask the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, when the shipping interest was ruined, when commerce was crippled, when the la bour market was; glutted up—where, he would ask, were the labouring classes to be sustained, or bow were the finances for the carrying on the affairs of the country to be provided? Under the navigation laws British ship ping had increased to a large extent. Do away with the navigation laws, and British shipping would greatly de crease. Let the House consider what a disadvantageous position this country would be placed in were such measure carried. America at the present time was a for midable rival to this country, but he believed, were the navigation laws repealed, that in the course of ten years they would have to sustain a conflict with America for the maintenance of their West India colonies. Even now, the colonists were discussing whether it would not be better for them to throw off the yoke of this country, and league themselves with the United States; and, as con nected with those colonies, he would not say, but that treated as they were by this country, it would be better. What had this country to do with the colonies, after they had given up trading with them? All connexion with them after that was useless and expensive, entailing upon this country the expense of a large army for the protection of those colonies, and having abandoned them, there was certainly no use of putting the country to that expense. But as to Ame rica, and the position she held in a maritime point of view; at the present time the amount of the tonnage of shipping employed by America in the British colonial trade was 670,000 tons, while the tonnage employed iu the same trade by all other nations, thi s countr y in' eluded, was 500,950 tons. In the Cuba trade the Ame rican tonnage was double that of this and other nations- In the East India trade it was also larger, while the whole tonnage of American shipping was within 600,000 tons of that of the shipping of this country. In such circumstances they ought not to pass such a measure se the present, which would be the means of increasing the advantages of America and other countries, while it operated ruinously upon this country.—(Hear.) Mr. JAMES CLAY had never, so far as the debate had proceeded, been able to gather from the President of the Board of Trade, whether he meant still to consider , under the present measure, that the commercial marine was the most fitting nursery for seamen for the navy. If he did so, what was the use of ordaining each British vessel to be commanded by British captains, and manned, for the most part, with British crews? And if he did not do so, why should he deprive the commercial marine of all remuneration for raising those seamen, as was done by the present measure? It, however, he had no other objections to the measure than those, they might be re' medied in Committee; but he had another objection to the measure, and that was, it was unaccompanied ba r other measures necessary for the shipping interest of this country, to act their part in the race of competition to which the measure, if passed, would subject them. Among the measures which ought to have accompanie d it, he might mention one for the reduction of the light dues, another for the abolition of the duty on marine in surance, and a third for th e t ota l a b ol i t i on of the duty on timber for shipbuilding purposes. He should there' fore vote against the second reading of the Bill. Mr. fIORNBY said that though he had voted in fa' your of the free-traders before, yet on this occasion be felt bound to give his vote against the party, because they were opposed to reciprocity; and expressed his sr tonishment that the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Glad' stone) should have expressed his resolve to support the second reading with an intention to oppose the coasting clause in C omm i ttee . H e next an i madverted on t he ob. jection raised by the Hon. Member for Westbury (Or' Wilson) against reciprocity, and contended that the or deuce of Sir J. Strickland was opposed to this Bill, be cause he stated before the Committee of the House of_ Lords that there were 102 to 76 men from the mercbaei service in the Royal Navy, though he had previously! before the Committee of the House of Commons, said that those of the merchant service in the Royal Ne_vl e were only 5 per cent.; also, that the evidence of Thomas Byrim Martin, of Sir Thomas Cochrane, sod of Captain Berkeley, were against this measure. Ile nxZ adverted to the uselessness of the peti,ions of 29,oeouu_ pet st,ns in the city of London, and of other pet i " n irom various seaports, against it, and contended that British captains and British shipwrights and s eamen were t qual, if not superior, to those of any other c ou rt try. Finally, he considered that it was nothing more b anjui Ad f llxi " p re. , ( t f , tilt thous; r,,, i , 411 4 441141