The Sun. — London, England, 1842-05-28 00:00:00

....... wal utflat' °° T h ! iis wP e :l ,r* ret rl ; s briew ot ni P re C " )tirol' CIIILIAN BONDS. A meeting of the Bondholders from the Chil!an Government, was held yesterday at the London Tavern, pursuant to advertisement, for the purpose of taking into c onsideration the proposals of the Chilian Government, ,vith respect to the arrear of interest due to the bond holders in this country on the Chilian Loan. , e G. 11,. ROBI NSON , E sq ., t oo k the chair, and said a had received certain proposals from Signer Rosaris, the accredited Chilian Minister to the Court a.t . Paris, w h o was at present i n thi s c oun t r y, for the purpose of settling the claims of the bondholders in this country for arrears of dividends, They would . recoll ect that in March, 1841, a general meeting of the bondholders was convened by the Committee, for the Purpose- of taking into consideration certain P r oposals _made to Colonel Walpole, and at that fl eeting i the bo n dh o ld ers ca me to the determination that !e pr o p osa l s : were inadmissible, an d were consequent l y de clined;, aft erwar d s severa l negot i at i ons b e t ween th e Chili an " °v erninent and Mr. Calchreugh and others had re :tilted i n the present proposals. He recommended them (2 "cede to these 'proposals, as they must remember t hat although these were proposals falling short of their just rights, yet still some time ago they could not have anticipated this offer, knowing as they did that they bad . . • hot ting but the honour and public faith of the Chilian ; G overnm ent to depend upon, and could not otherwise °ll pel them to the payment of these demands. He fully believed that the Chilian Government in tended to do all they could to keep their en . g a gQinent. The proposals he had received as Chair -111411 of the Committee, from Signor Rosalis were— •' Two series of bonds to be issued, the one for the principal the other for the arrears ; the latter to begin to bear interest from the 31st of March, 1847. 2 . The bonds for the first series to be similar to those a 0 iv in existence. 3 . A S UM o f 10,000/. shall, after the 31st of March, 18.13, be remitted for the redemption of the first series of b onds. 4 * The tim e f or the entire extinction of these bonds , • shall be extended to 30th September, 1869. . - 11 ; rt. ... h il lt o if tid y s ea T ly b . e issued for the arrears, 81 per cent., the payment to be made 30th September, 41 • Certificates to be issued for sums less than 100/. ; uellcertificates to be convertible into bonds, when they amount collectively to 100/. p 6 ' A sum of 7 563/. (being 1 per cent. on the amount o, a — 9 . arrears) to be remitted annually towards the redemp tion Of this second series of bonds. th .• The holders of the second series of bonds' may after ra e Ist April, 1847, exchange their bonds for the do tiee.t4 debt of Chili, receiving I,IOOL, of the latter for ,; e rY 1,0001. of the firmer—the rate of exchange being - 48 . Per dollar. - - ~ . 9 9 , and 10. The redeemed bonds to be deposited in the° ' - ' 4ll k of England, &c. &c, b 'l.ow The old b o nds to be left with Messrs. G. and J. -4r 11 and C o ., w ho will arrange the issue of the new finds. tl tle hop e d t h ey wou ld, without hesitation, agree to b "ese proposals ler he not only believed that it would b e the means of causing the Chilian Government to act i P, I to thei r prom i ses , b u t th a t it would have a salutary IlL A le nce upon the other South American States. n iZ rt the question being put, these proposals were una `"„,')usly agreed to. -the CHAIRMAN then proposed that a vote of thanks sho uld be given to the Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen, he r i Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, :,'• sir the support which his Lordship had on every ocea ; • jir given to the interests of the Spanish American adliold crs . The resolution was carried unanimously. 1 ,,.A. vote of thank s w a s also passed to Col. Walpole and „, 4144 • Caleb reugh. r _kreiolu . tion was then passed,. voting to Mr. Calchreugh American for his services in the cause of the Spanish opted to Bondholders. A vote of thanks having been vepetied,to the Committee, the meeting separated at three . clock. 1: WESTMINSTER HARMONIC • SOCIETY. Th i s S oc iety, established for the promotion of a practical ; ttaintance with, and taste for, the_ productions of the best „,sers, Rave a concert of Sacred Music in the theatre of w estrninster Literary and Scientific Institution, Great .211ith•street on Monday last. Mozart's highly. esteemed Twelfth r t , Service" formed the first part, the solo parts being judiciously sustained by Miss Ward, Miss Thorn • 11 . Mr. Turner, and Mr. Stretton, and the grandeur ,the harmonies done ample justice to by a chorus of • ,Z 7 vocalist s , an d a m o s t 'efficient band, In the second ;,'S the air from the Creation, In Native Worth" the "trig with great sweetness and expression by Mr. Turner; u i ni Prayer, 0, Lord have mercy, expression of Pergolisi, executed and P l ° } p feeling by Mr. Stretton who was in excellent voice; Ve sacred priests," sung by ' Miss Cubitt with her wonted and good taste. he concert repeatedly elicited the warm applause of the thence and we could but regret that the numbers of persons to evinc e d th e i r a pp rec i a ti on o f th e treasures o f H an d e l , "Ydn and Mozart, afforded such scanty encouragement to th e 'rectors to persevere in their laudable endeavours to revive a taste for the highest order of music. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, MA} 26.—A Congregation was this day holden for granting degrees, &c., when the following were conferred:— Masters of Arts—Rev. W. Linwood, of Christ Church; Rev. R. Champernowne,* Christ Church; Rev. H. Smith,* Queen's College ; Rev. J. Aleyrick, Queen's College; Rev. E. M. Goulbourn, Merton College ; Rev. E. Hobhouse Nletton College ; T. E. Price, Merton College; H. S. R. 1 4attliews, Lincoln College ; E. D. B. Estcourt, Balliol Col lege ; J. T. B. Landon, Worcester College ; G. Arden, I Vadhi m College. Bachelors of Arts—R. Garth, of Christ Church; J. Mar shall, Christ Church; F. W. Ryle, Christ Church ; A. Cow- I .urn, Exeter College; Rev. T. G. Smyth,* Trinity College ; C. Dickerson, Worcester College ; J. Prosser, St. Ed ta in nndHall 's Ball ; A. Kinlock, St. Mary's Hall ; H. Parry, New ilachelorx of Arts on the 18th inst.—J. E. Paxton, of Bra ztnnose Colter • S. M. Barkworth, Worcester College. ss,ING'S COLLEGE, LONDON. - , .Cone Henr y Pownall, of Spring Grove, has presented to the * a costly and beautiful statue in marble of King g .1 G eor ge 111., sculptured by Turnerelli, for his late Majesty lv n dUseu rn • It is intended by the donor to be placed in the s f "on of .' which is about to be fitted up for the extensive collec- Sf • Vrni e d : 1 4 s LrUmenta in natural and experimental philosophy, 'H., Kew under the immediate direction of King George a rid , e t , Th e eel - My presented to the College by her Majesty. ' 1 01%4 Rev. John Fletcher, M. A., late of the Grammar Coun c i l S tOnehouse, Plymouth, has been appointed, by the rrovi d master of the King's College School, at Nassau, New Ai r Z'"e, Bahamas. Mis s i o * ,; arnUel Slater has been elected a scholar, on the Worsley " a rY Endowment. * Grand compounders. t o NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Pee; "SMOUTII, MAY 25.-11 e brig Weazle, 10, is daily ex of Apr i lrom the Mediterranean, having left Malta on the 20th tie .to touch at Gibraltar and Lisbon. She will be paid at Plymouth. lef t "g' troop_ships Apollo, 46, Sapphire, 26, and Belleisle, 52, • of Fe de Janeiro, for the East Indies and China, on the 10th 11 1+4 411° Y; on which day the Isis, 50, Captain Sir J. Mar ,ll,l arrived from Plymouth. hu t , e. corvette Daphne, 18, is to be re-commissioned at Chat ' orb O 4 cotediati.ly, and to have a crew of 200 men, exclusive yb . • 11, T he Growler steam-ship, Commander Buckle, left Funchal A7ng for th e C ape o f G oo d H ope an d thi na , on the 12th April d estination, also touched ' at Madera a fortnight since. 43 4 ., ett ra are here from the Southampton, 52, dated Simon's Aic u .Pe of Good Hope, March 3, which state that Vice . • dfat iral Sir Edward King would leave for England imme s:lY oh the arrival out of the new Admiral, and that the ili t r „ Nyn c l4 previously make a short cruise for the benefit of fat„f P ew, among whom fever had made its appearance, but . no 16 - ,,, C a'es. The ships at the Cape were Thalia, 42, Grecian, • .1,1 Harlequin, IS, Serpent, 16, Acorn, 16, and Curlew, 10. th e ' e ,fluto steamer was hourly expected from Ascension, and I .pazard corvette from Rio de Janeiro. to he Crocodile troop-ship, Mr. Elson, master, is under orders NV• b3 „ t ,""Y the regiment now at Parkhurst Barracks, Isle of CL'i t l,to St. Helena, whence she will proceed to the Cape of Hope. t o , Lie transp or t Abercrombie Robinson is hourly expected to th e - e , at Spithead, from Cork. She takes out detachments of 27 th Regiment for the Cape of Good Hope, and also a por ' 1 ,;,0f th e S t . H e l ena R eg i men t. to T he steam-vessel Alban, Air. King, master, is under orders the r oceed to Lisbon with despatches for the senior Officer in Viagus. 41, } ,1ee• Admiral Sir Charles Adam, K.C.8., was at Jamaica, o k ilwell. in the Illustrious, 72, flag-ship, on the 6th .April, Torte shortly to proceed to Halifax. ,-is t „'"e Winchester, 52, Captain Eden, has bent sails, prepa . IIZY.,to going out of harbour to Spithead. The tlear-Admiral, 11.1 ) „ - " ti ; 4 - Percy - , will proceed in her to the Cape of Good Hope the 10th June, to succeed Sir Edward K ing. . .11, 11 2 e Alalabar, 72, Captain Sir George Sartorius, was to leave f o i'"outh for Rio de Janeiro on the 22d inst., with despatches -1 4/ear-Admiral Thomas, and a large d r af t of men and bo y s • _lO c 4 th e crews of the squadron. j a t Niithead—Crocodille troop-ship. h isis Harbo ur —St. Vi n cent, Victory, Excellent, Royal George " mt, Winchester, Albatross, Satellite, Echo, and Flag tenders ELECTION COMMITTEE. LYME REGIS. It i tt '. vote of Cannicott having .been struck off, the C 3 lll g Member remains in a minority of one. The ev ;, ( Trnitte e on meeting yesterday proceeded with the "ee on the objection to the vote of an elector named The objection was founded on the same alle tttt„ „ ut bribery and treating as the other votes that ex a. v „, - eel! - struck off within the last three days. The ti — "natton of Mr. Hillman and other witnesses con ' hue d up to the adjournment. 14 0 N I — "EY MARKET and CITY NEWS. • [NI E Onp er s. —The East India Company have raised the rate of h il l u P i c , Calcutta to 2 s . Id. ; a rate which is considered so 4 a " 1 [ 1, - , rnonetaic circles, that it is thought it will occasion of bar.,ilver. upon this country, which will be parti ibli: i ncunvenit tit, as that sort of bullion is by no mean! in f r o u ° t l ey is rathe r easy. to-day, owing, it is said, to the return Ca rm 0 1 ft in t. 1, 11 . rgh ef many of tle soy ns which, at the first t Wi t h ti hre, v, - ere taken there by the merchants connected heeess.'af llace. As they found their connexions in a less lt ° 4 s condition than they had anticipated, much of the ~utiey has bee n sent back. - - - 1) li k t.)B4 t 01: cr. R a , MAY 26.—Arrived h er M a jesty's steamerer tain Mud ge , f rom C a l a i s , w ith hi s Serene Hig h .llhe Prince Leiningen, the P.rincess , their family, and suite. 411(laerrreyrela c n e d i veedd under a salute from the Western Heights , . by Colonel Rice Jenes, who has lately stn.- c ded to the command of this garrison. A guard of honour attended the Prince and his suite. OPENING OF THE SoUTII EASTERN farRAILWAY.— __llrsday morning the South -Eastern Railway: was opened " as Tunbridge, and the fi rSt train which left that place at _tquarter_before eight in the morning reached town a few mi nutes before ten. The dew ntrains were dispatched at half !gist nine. There were, however, but few passengers. There : 1 re t 0 be four trains each day ( except Sundays), and carr i ages tiard's, I.ocureil Tunbridge Welt Tunbridgels, Bce. to convey parties to Hastings, St. 1:11e English Ambass a d or at Brussels gave on by grand dinner on the occasion of the birth-day of 4 "aileitY, tbe auto of England. •LOCKING-IN" ON RAILWAYS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,-It falls to my lot to travel frequently on the Great Western Railway, and I request permission, through the medium of your able and honest Journal to make a complaint against the Directors of that Company. It is the custom on that railway to lock the pas sengers in on both sides—a custom which in spite of the dreadful example at Paris, I have every reason to believe they mean to continue without any relaxation. In the course of a long life I have no recollection of any accident so shocking as that on the Paris Rail way—a massacre so sudden, so full of torment — death at the moment of pleasure—death aggravated by all the amazement, fear, and pain which can be condensed into the last momer is of existence. Who can say that the same scene may not be acted over again on the Great Western Railroad ? That, in the midst of their tunnel of three miles' length, the same scene of slaughter and combustion may not scatter dismay and alarm over the whole country ? It seems to me perfectly monstrous that a board of ten or twelve monopolists can read such a description, and say to the public, You must run your chance of being burnt or mutilated. We have arranged our plan upon the locking-in system, and we shall not in cur the risk and expense of changing it." The plea is, that rash or drunken people will at tempt to get out of the carriages which are not locked, and that this measure really originates from attention to the safety of the public ; so that the lives of two hundred persons who are not drunk and are not rash, are to be endangered for the half-yearly preservation of some idiot, upon whose body the coroner is to sit, and over whom the sudden death man is to deliver his sermon against the Directors. The very fact of locking the doors will be a fre quent source of accidents. Mankind, whatever the Directors may think of that process, are impatient of combustion. The Paris accident will never be for gotten. The passengers will attempt to escape through the windows, and ten times more of mischief will be done than if they had been left to escape by the doors in the usual manner. It is not only the locking of the doors which is to be deprecated ; but the effects which it has upon the imagination. Women, old people, and the sick are all forced to travel by the railroad ; and for '2OO miles they live under the recollection, not only of impending danger, but under the knowledge that escape is im possible—a journey comes to be contemplated with horror. Men cannot persuade the females of their family to travel by the railroad; it is inseparably connected with abominable tyranny, and perilous im prisonment. Why does the necessity of locking both doors exist only on the Great Western ? Why is one of the doors left open on all other railways ? The public have a right to every advantage under permitted. monopoly which they would enjoy under free competition ; and they are unjust to themselves if they do not insist upon this right. If there were two parallel railways, the one locking you in, and the other not, is there the smallest doubt which would carry away all the business ? Can there be any he sitation in which timid women, drunken men, sages, philosophers, bishops, and all combustible beings, would place themselves ? I very much doubt the legality of locking doors, and refusing to open them. I arrive at a station where others are admitted; but lam not suffered to get out, though perhaps at the point of death. In all other positions of life there is egress where there is ingress. Man is universally the master of his own body, except he chooses to go from Paddington to Bridgewater ; there only the habeas corpus is refused. Nothing, in fact, can be more utterly silly or mis taken than this over-officious care of the public ; as if every man who was not a railway director was a child or a fool. But why stop here ? Why are not strait-waistcoats used ? Why is not the accidental traveller strapped down? Why do contusion and fracture still remain physically possible? Is not this extreme care of the public new ? When first mail coaches began to travel twelve miles an hour, the outsides (if I remember rightly), were never tied to the roof. In packets landsmen are not locked into the cabin to prevent them from tumbling overboard. This affectionate nonsense prevails only on the Great Western.. It is there only that men, women, and children (seeking the only mode of transit which remains) are, by these tender-hearted monopolists, immediately committed to their locomo tive prisons. Nothing can, in fact, be so absurd as all this officious zeal. It is the duty of the Directors to take all reasonable precautions to warn the public of danger--to make it clear that there is no negligence on the part of the Railroad Directors; and then, this done, if a fool-hardy person choose to expose himself to danger, so be it. Fools there will be on roads of iron and on roads of gravel, and they must suffer for their folly ; but why are Socrates, Solon, and Solomon to be locked up ? But is all this, which appears so philanthropical, mere philanthropy ? Does not the locking of the doors save servants and policemen ? Does not eco nomy mingle with these benevolent feelings ? Is it to save a few fellow-creatures, or a few pounds, that the children 'of the West are to be hermetically sealed in the locomotives ? Ido not say it is so ; but I say it deserves a very serious examination whether it is so or not. Great and heavy is the sin of the Directors of this huge monopoly, if they repeat upon their own iron the tragedy of Paris, in order to increase their dividends a few shillings per cent. The country has (perhaps inevitably) given way to this great monopoly. Nothing can make it tolerable for a moment but the most severe and watchful jealousy of the manner in which its powers are exer cised. We shall have tyrannical rules, vexatious rules, ill temper, pure folly, and meddling and imper tinent paternity. It is the absolute duty of Lord Ripon and Mr. Gladstone (if the Directors prove themselves to be so inadequate to the new situation in which they are placed) to restrain and direct them by law ; and if these two gentlemen are afraid of the re sponsibility of such laws, they are deficient in the moral courage which their office requires ; and the most important interests of the public are neglected. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, May 21, 1842. SIDNEY SMITH. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, MAY 27. Wind at Noon, S. to S.W., light. Po RTSNIQUTII, MAY 26.—Wind W. S. W.—Arrd. off, Frederike Louise, Margenson, Bahia for Dordt ; Amalie, Beyesson, Charleston, for Hamburgh ; Oceanus, Bourne, Am sterdam. _ _ _ . __ _ COWES, MAY 25.—Arrd. Mexican, Darning, Madeira, and sld. for St. Petersburgh ; Ark, Flanders, Alatanzas. PLYmouTE, MAY 26.—Wind E. to S.W.—Arrd. Aerolite (s.), London, for Alexandria ; Eagle (s.), ditto, Marseilles. FALMOUTH, MAY 24. Wind S. W.—Sld. D'Enbal. OFF DOVER, MAY 26.—Lydia, Teneriffe, Copenhagen. DEAL, MA v 25.—Wind S. W. by S., moderate.—Arrd. from the . River and sailed, Helen Jane, Rio ; Barbadoes, Pug . wasp, Dispatch, Messina. WEITEHAVEN, May 23. Arrd. Whitehaven, Bunch', Antigua. HULL, MAY 26.—Wind S.E., moderate—Sid. Amazon, Quebec. . . LIVERPOOL, MAY 26.—Wind S.E., moderate.—Arrd. Torch, Bean, Graciosa, with cotton, from the M. A. Hatton. Sld. Napoleon, and Assinuatore, Rio; Elizabeth Wood,: Bar badoes ; Avan t Jamaica; Olive Branch, and Independence, New York ; Alexander, Baltimore ; Caledonia, Quebec. Arrd. off, William Russell, Pernambuco ' • Alice, Barbadoes ; Superb, Mobile ; Conqueror, Charleston ; Rose, Teueriffe. DUBLIN, MAY 24.—S1d. Traveller, Quebec. CORK, MAY 44.—Arrd. Java (transport), Parsons, St. John's. Arrd. off, Superb, of Greenock, Mobile. The Char- lotte Harrison, of Quebec, dismasted and abandoned, vi as fell in with in lon. 36, and an officer and six men put on board her by the Java (transport), arrived here. SUNDERLAND, MAY 25.— Skid Content, Sydney. . . A communication was received at Lloyds', - yesterday, from the Foreign Office, dated the 26th instant, relative to the wreck of a large vessel, timber laden, wrecked at the Island of Flores, supposed to be the Victoria, the particulars whereof have already appeared. The only additional information thus given, is that the wreck had been sold for 1,500 dollars, at La geda ; and that. the timber was' branded A W, CW, and W, and that a bolt found was marked " Victoria." VESSELS SPOKEN WlTH.—The Naples packet, Barletta to London, short of provisions; Elizabeth Atkinson, Odessa to Falmouth ; Rover, Ancona to Falmouth. A French brig bound to Havre, which had been in contact off Illalaga, with the Homer, of Sunderland, sth inst., off ditto. Louisa Camp bell, London to New Zealand, March 7, lat. 39 S., lon. 25 ; Guiseppe, Gibraltar to Rio, 2d ult., lat. 2, lon. 25. Sophia Dorothea, Singapore to Antwerp, 7th, lat. N lon. 23; William Roberts, Lin( rpool, to Montreal, 16th inst., lat. 46, lon. 20 ; Le Victor, Binie, to Newfoundland, 17th, by the Dorothea, ar rived at Liverpool ; Brahmin, Clyde to Bombay, December 23, lat. 3 N., lon. 21 E. ; Rachel°, Jamaica to St. Helena, lst inst., lat. 27, lon. 40, by the Moffat. PARIS, MAY 26.—Very recent intelligence, re ceived in Paris this morning from Barcelona, creates great un easiness for the tranquillity of that province. The Captain- General has, however, taken every precaution to repel any act of aggression, and to check any tumult, by ordering reinforce ments to march to Barcelona, from the neighbouring garrisons and strong places of Gerona, Figueras, &c. The French force an the coast is also to be increased. A. letter from Vienna, in the Augsburg Gazette, says—" As a means for meeting the extraordinary expenses of the railroads, the Government is about to issue bills of from 50 to 5,000 florins each, similar to bank-notes, payable to bearer, but carrying an interest of 3 per cent. per annum. They are to have on their backs a table, indicating their precise value, including interest, on' each day of their circulation, at which they may be received by the public, and will be paid by the Treasury. Three A uvergnats, from the same village, and all exercising the same calling of water-carriers at Paris, met on Fri day on the Place du Palms du Justice, being summoned to give evidence in a case which was to come on in the course of the day, they at first paid each other a thousand compliments, and went to a wine shop to drink together ; but when the moment of payment came a quarrel arose as to who was to open his purse strings. Blows followed, and, in the end, one of them, Jean Pircux by name, received one in the face which forced the blood from his nose, mouth, and ears. He was immediately taken to the hospital, and surgical aid was afforded him, but un availingly, for he died in an hour after. His adversary, Louis Bouzard, was arrested. Two or three days ago, says the Commerce, a young female, about 24 years of ag,e, of the higher class of society, suddenly asked her mother, whether, if she should com mit a great fault, she would be forgiven. The mother, taken by surprise, gave an evasive answer to the question. Before the end of the 4y, the daughter threw herself out of a window on the upper story of the house, and was killed by the fall. No caw t hij act o f d e pperation has transpired. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. May 27. Their Lordships met at the usual hour. MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS. A Message from the House of Commons brought up the Market Harborough and Brampton Roads Bill, the Liverpool and Birmingham Junction Canal Bill, Bates' Naturalization Bill, and several other private Bills. THE SUN, LONDON, SATIJ4DAY MORNING intentions of the Government. The second reading of the Bill of the Ilon. Member for Argyleshire was fixed for the 15th of June ; there would be ample time before then for the Government to consider, and to decide, whether it would be expedient on their own respong bility for them to introduce any measure for the regula tion of the affairs of the Church of Scotland. DISTRESS IN PAISLEY. Mr. HUME wished to ask the . Right Hon. Baronet a question. A Committee had been . appointed in Paisley for the purpose of receiving subscriptions, in order to afford relief to the unemployed poor of that town and neighbourhood. By a paper which he held in his hand it appeared that by order of the Government, an agent or commissioner had been sent down to that place, who undertook the mode of supplying the unemployed with money , or provisions, and that in consequence the local subscriptions had ceased. He wished to know if such was the case? ' Sir R. PEEL—Since that time her Majesty's Govern ment had been in constant communication with the local authorities of Paisley on the subject of the distress prevailing there, which, he regretted to say, had been exceedingly severe. Government had not interfered with the local subscriptions, but they apprehended that the distribution of the local funds was act conducted on the best principle, and they had sent down a person to watch over its distribution, and see that relief was afforded 'according to the prin ciple on which the poor of this country were relieved. One of the modes in which relief was granted, was by giving an order on the retail dealers of provisions in the • town. It was clear that such a mode was very. open to abuse. He would take that oprortunity of earnestly recom mending the object of the subscription. The purport of it was to afford relief to the distress which prevailed in this country and in Scotland—a country in which the provisions for the relief of the poor were very defective. The smallest contributions would tend to diminish the dis tress which unhappily prevailed to such an extent ; and he could not but express a hope that the call of her Ma jesty would be generously responded to by all classes. He trusted that the sympathy justly and honourably felt for the suffering which had followed the last calamity in llamburgh would not prevent parties from contribut ing also largely and liberally to the alleviation of the m is e ry which prevailed in our own country. Mr. HU4E then rose to move for an account (as we understood) of any . sums sent down to Paisley, for the relief of the poor in that town,—(Cries of "No, no.)" Sir R. PEEL said that he hoped the House would not accede to such a motion. Some temporary advances, in consequence of the exhaustion of local funds, had been made in favour of the inhabitants of -Paisley, but the public would not suffer from such advances. Ile trusted that the House -would - not call npen , the Govern ment to make disclosures which could be productive of no benefit, and which could-only uselessly interfere with the object which the Government had in view. Mr. HUME gave notice that on Monday next he should bring the matter under the consideration of the House. The Hon. Gentleman then moved that an hum. ble address be presented to her Majesty, praying for a copy of a letter addressed, by her command, to the Archbishop of Canterbury, recomm.3nding that collec tions should be made in the different Churches through out the country. Sir R. PEEL was understood to say that he could have no objection to such a motion. Colonel CONOLLY disapproved of any interference on the part of that House with the course pursued by the Government. Mr. GIBSON asked whether any sums of money had been sent to any other plaCes besides . Paisley, and whether there was any objection to give an account of the places to which they had been sent. Sir R. PEEL said he could not admit that any relief had been given out of the public funds, except in the -case of Paisley, is hick was one of peculiar emergency. Mr. BARING thought that if • such relief had been given, the House had a right to every information. The motion was then agreed to. • COLONY OF NEWFOUNDLAND. Mr. O'CONNELL asked the Noble Lord, the Colonial Secretary, ,whether any dispatch had been received from the present Governor of Newfoundland. Lord STANLEY was understood to say that he had received a despatch, but that it was marked private and confidential. NAVY CONTRACTS. The Duke of RICHMOND moved for a return of the quantity of salt provisions which had been supplied to the Naxy during the last ten years, with the contract price, and the countries whence supplied. DISTURBANCES IN IRELAND. Lord DUNALLY put a question to her Majesty's Government, relative to two Murders which had lately taken, place in Tipperary, and wished to know whether the Government had taken means to secure the offenders, and prevent the recurrence of such crimes in future. Lord WHATINCLIFFE said it was quite impossible for Government to devise plans for the prevention of such crimes as those referred to. Government had inquired into tho matter, and the murders were stated to be the result of private revenge ; over such crimes the Govern. ment, of course. had no control. COLLEGE OF MAYNOOTIT. Lord KENYON, presented a petition against any fur ther grant to the College of Maynooth. ECCLESIXSTICAL COURTS. Lord CAMPBELL laid on the table a Bill for the transferring of the causes in the Ecclesiastical Courts of Ireland to the Courts of this country. He should re serve his observations upon the Bill until the second reading. The Bill was then read a first time. POOR-LAW. Lord FAVERSHAM presented a petition against the New Poor-law. . . Earl FALMOUTH presented a petition from the Cornwall Medical Association, praying their Lordships to pass a Bill to provide a proper remuneration for me dical officers connected with parish Unions. CUSTOMS DUTIES (DRAWBACK) BILL. On the motion of the DUke of WELLINGTON this Bill was read a third time and passed. SOLITARY CONFINEMENT. Lord COLI3ORNE moved that the Report of the Commissioners, relative to prison discipline, be printed ; he thought the satistical information would be very use ful, more particularly that part which related to solitary confinement. He did not think that a total separation from one's fellow creatures was a kind of punishment which would ever be attended with beneficial results. and which ought to be allowed in this country. The system of solitary confinement had now had a trial, and he should wish to see the Report of the Commissioners upon it. • . Lord WHARNCLIFFE doubted whether the system of solitary confinement was one that could be main tained in this country.—(Hear, hear.) He thought the punishment was too severe for the human mind. The Duke of RICHMOND was of the same opinion as expressed by the two Noble Lords. He' had no objec tion to the system being tried, but at the same time he should prefer partial separation to solitary confinement. The motion was then agreed to. THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH BILL. The Bill for assimilating the law of capital punish ments in England and Ireland went through Committee. The Marquis of WATERFORD presented a petition from a place in Ireland, praying for an alteration in the Poor-law Bill (as we understood). The Bills on the table were forwarded a stage ; and the House adjourned to Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 27. - - The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'Clock. The following Bills were read a third time and passed:—The Market Harborough and Brompton Road Bill, the Stockton and Hartlepool Railway Bill, the Dundalk and Banbridge Road Bill, the Birming ham and Liverpool Junction Canal Bill, the Indemnity Mutual Marine Assurance Company's Bill, the Yate Inclosure Bill, Glegg's Divorce Bill, and the York Cathedral Bill. On the motion of Mr. lIALFORD, the Leicester Small Debts Bill ,was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. On the motion of Mr. ANTROBUS, the Surrey and Sussex Roads Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. An HoN. MEMBER. on the Ministerial side, presented a petition from •the owners of quarries in the neighbour hood of Bath, against the importation of foreign stone. Mr.HALFORD presented it petition from Harborotigh, praying that a clause might be introduced into the Rail ways Bill, now before the House, for the prevention of railway 'travelling on Sundays ; also a petition from Leicester, praying for an alteration in the Poor-law. Colonel ACTON presented a petition from the Pro testant inhabitants of Wicklow, against the present sys tem of National Education in Ireland. TOXTETH PARK BILL. On the motion of Sir IL DOUGLAS the Toxteth Park Bill' was read a third time and passed. • Mr. METCALFE prosented a petition (we did not hear from what place) complaining of Catholic griev ances in the Army and Navy. Mr. LABOUCHERE presented a petition from the Northampton Turnpike Trusts against the 'Turnpike Roads Bill. Mr. MILES 'presented a petition from the Board of Guardians of Frome, praying for a clause to be intro duced into the Poor-law Amendment Act giving the Board of Guardians the gover of grAnting out-door relief. FACTORY BILL. Mr. B. DENISON presented a petition from Dewsbury in favour of a .Ten Hours' Bill. Mr. STANSFIELD presented a similar petition, signed by 360 operatives and others, from some place in Yorkshire. EMPLOYMENT OF FEMALES IN MINES. Lord ASHLEY presented a petition from the Rector and inhabitants of Watford, in Hertfordshire, praying the House to pass a law for the exclusion of females from mines and collieries. Mr. O'dONNELL presented a petition from the Roman Catholic inhabitants of Kensington and Ham mersmith. complaining of the want of spiritual provision for Roman Catholics in poor-houses and prisons. Lord R. GROSVENOR presented a petition from 700 inhabitants of the city of Chester, praying that no rail ways should be used on the Lord's-day, excepting in cases of charity or necessity. Sir R. INGLIS presented a petition from the inhabi tants of Islington, praying the House to take into its serious consideration the Report of the Commissioner: on Mines. Lord JOCELYN presented a petition from Campbell town to the same effect. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition, signed by 3,510 masters and journeymen corkcutters, against the proposed' alteration in the duty on the importation of foreign cork. Lord ELIOT presented a petition from East Corn wall, against any further grant to the College of Maynooth. Mr. O'CONNELL gave notice that he should, in the Committee on the Witnesses Indemnity Bill, move a clause to enable the Committee to examine witnesses on oath. _ Dr. BOWRING wished to give notice, for his Hon. Friend the Member for Greenock, of his intention, on the al of June, to move for certain returns connected with the Court of Session in Scotland. BOROUGH OF SOUTIIAMI)TON. Mr. MXCIINR6Nga;e notice that he would post pone his motion for the issuing of a writ for the borough of Southampton till Monday next. CHURCH 01? SCOTLAND. Sir A. LEITH HAY gave notice that he would on Thursday, June 2, move for an address to her Majesty, requesting that she would be pleased to direct the mi nutes of the General Assembly of the Church of Scot • land to be laid on the table. POOR-LAWS. Mr. WORTLEY gave notice of a motion respecting the Poor-laws, but what the precise nature of it was we could not learn, in consequence of the low tone of voice in which the Hon. Member spoke. BOROUGH. OF SOUTHAMPTON. Mr. W. 0. STANLEY said that he had given notice of a motion with regard to the borough of Southampton, but he intended to postpone his motion in consequence of what had fallen from the lion. Member for Leamingtcin, till Monday next, when he would call the attention of the House to the subject, and move for the suspension of the writ,. Mr. MACKINNON said he could only judge of the intention of the lion. Member opposite from the motion which appeared on the paper ; and in consequence of that, he (Mr. Mackinnon) postponed his motion till ' Monday next. NEWC A STLE-UNDER-LY NE. Mr. ADDERLY postponed his motion for the issuing of the writ for Newcastle-under-Lync. MAYNOOTH GIIANT.• Mr. PLUMPTRE wished to ask the Noble Lord, the Secretary for Ireland, whether it was the intention of the Government to increase the amount of the annual grant to Maynooth College ? Lord ELIOT said it was the intention of the Govern ment to propose the estimates in the usual manner, without any alteration. NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME ELECTION. Mr. HUME understood that the motion for a new writ for Newcastle-under-Lyme had been postponed; he now gave notice that when the writ should be moved for, he should move for the appointment of a Select Committee to make further inquiries into the bribery stated to have been committed at the last election for that borough. CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. Sir A. L. HAY said, that on the motion for the second reading of the Bill introduced by the Hon. Member for Argyleshire, for the regulation of the Church of Scot land, he had understood the Right Hon. Gentleman, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to state that certain conciliatory overtures had been made by parties connected with the unfortunate differences which at present existed in the Church of Scot land„ which had given rise to hopes that those unfortunate differences might be satisfactorily ad justed ; and that it was the intention of the Govern ment, if circumstances would permit, to introduce a measure for the future regulation of the Church of Scot land. He now wished to ask the Government whether, after having had time to consider all the circumstances of the case, and after having ascertained the feelings existing on the subject in Scotland, the Government were of opinion that those overtures had been made in a spirit of sin cerity, and whether it. was the intention of the Govern ment to bring forward any measure for the settlement of that unfortunate and disgraceful dispute ? Sir J. GRAHAM begged to observe that he thought the question of the Hon. and Gallant Otficer was prema ture. The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland was sitting at that moment—their proceedings were most Government were not at all disposed important,to a disregard n t d th hose e proceedings but he thought that it would be inexpedient, while the Assembly was A sitting , to " 10 alit7 patature diackeures 9f the THE TARIFF. In reply to a question from Mr. HUME, with respect to the time fixed for the third reading of the tariff, Sir R. PEEL said, he hoped he had sufficiently shown the sincerity of his intentions to induce the House to pass the Income-tax, without waiting for the third read ing of the tariff.—(Hear, hear.) He appealed to the House whether he had not, in substance, fulfilled the en gagements which he had entered into.—(Cheers.) Mr. HUME said he hoped that before the Income-tax was read a third time, he would at least have an oppor tunity of stating why it should not pass. Sir R. PEEL wished the Hon. Member had been in Parliament at an earlier period of the session. —(A Laugh. ) Mr. LABOUCHERE observed that the Right Hon. Gentleman had stated that he would, before the IncOme Tax-Bill was read a third time, state to the House the nature of the machinery by which that tax was to be carried into effect. .Perhaps the Right Hon. Gentleman would state that on Monday. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he would do the best he could to do so. CUSTOMS DUTIES. On the question that the House should resolve itself into a Committee on the Customs Bill, Mr. HAVES presented a petition from the coffee house keepers of Lambeth, in favour of the reduction of duty on coffee and sugar. Sir. O'CONNELL said,- that the Right lien, 13aronit opposite had stated his fears that, in consequence of the temperance movement in Ireland, a defalcation would take place in the revenue from that country. Now he wished to lay before the House a statement which would show that, although the revenue had decreased upon ex ciseable articles, it had increased upon the whole. The decrease of the revenue in the year 1840 in the article of malt was 47,5084, an 4 in January, 1841, there was a further decrease of 35,9551. With regard to spirits, the revenue from this. source was, in 1839, 1,356,0001., but in the year 1840 it commenced to de crease. In 1841 it had decreased 309,5484 In the year 1842 there was an additional duty of 4d. placed upon spirits, the amount of which was 93,0004 He had a right to add that sum to the decrease in 1842, which made the total decrease amount to 795,6771. That this decrease was occasioned by the temperance movement was demonstrated from this, that the revenue from other articles had increased. The revenue on tea was increased by 33,0001., and the reve nue on tobacco was increased by 80,000/. ; so that while there was an increase on other articles, there was a diminution of revenue to the amount of nearly 800,0001. in spirits and malt, and as the revenue was made up from other sources, there could be no regret, hi the minds of other persons, that this result should have occurred. This great dimi nution of revenue, was distinctly to be traced to the effects of increased habits of temperance amongst the people of Ireland. I r The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was not prepared with any figures to give an answer to the Right Honourable and Learned Gentleman ; but the state ment which he had made was perfectly reconcileable with that which was made by his Right • Hon. Friend. The Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman spoke of a yearly decrease, while his Right Hon. Friend spoke of an increase in the quarter. No person could be more rejoiced than he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) was at the increase of temperance which took place in Ireland ; and he agreed with the Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman opposite, that no greater advantage could have happened to that country than the increased habits of temperance now practiced by the people. Mr. O'CONNELL said it should be recollected there was an additional duty of 4d. which would account for the quarter's increase. Sir 11. PEEL said, that he spoke merely of a small increase in this quarter's revenue. With regard to the revenue, he hoped the Right Hon. Gentleman would point out to them from what other sources they were to obtain 200,0001. CUSTOMS ACT—THE TARIFF. The Order of the Day was then read, on the motion of Sir R. PEEL, for going into Committee on the Cus toms Act. Several articles were agreed to without change. Dr. BOWRING threw out a suggestion that it would be very desirable that a great number of articles of the same nature should be included under one head. Sir R. PEEL thought it was more satisfactory to have a detailed enumeration of articles, Arbich would be very useful by way of reference. The matter then dropped. The items down to blubber were then agreed to. On blubber being proposed, Mr. LYALL rose to propose the following resolution : —" That the duty on train oil and blubber, of foreign fishing, shall be 6/., and the duty on spermaceti oil, of foreign fishing, 151. the tun, from and after the sth day .of July , 18 4 3 ; that instead of the blubber, and the sth day of July, 18 45 , as t o s p ermacet i oil of Jul,y 1844, be sub ; and as to the ssttihtudtaedy o a f s t i o ny, e I d B z , a th a e t s ra th in da o y il and duty •on whale fins, to sub stitute-for th e s th day of July, 1843, the sth day of July, 1844.7 The Hon. Gentleman spoke in so low a tone, that we were absolutely unable to hear his voice in the Gallery. Mr. G. PALMER thought that the present was a question upon which, and upon.which alone, protection ought to be granted. Its object was a national one, as the fisheries here and abroad - had been the nursery of seamen for their country. Ile would, with the permission of the House, point out the situation of thi s country w i t h regard to this trade. A t the 'end of th e l ast war, t hi s country thought it of such, importance to encourage fisheries, that they gave a bounty of 39/. a ton upon all ships engaged in fisheries. In 1823, the bounty was taken Oil. In the previous year, the number of ships en gaged in that fishery was 322, and the number of seamen was 12,7 8, and all these were thorough -bred good seamen. ',Uhe number in 1821, was sufficient to man any fleet of men-of-war that this country could have occasion to send out.—(hear, hear.) The number of 'ships was now reduced to 85, and the number of seamen to 3,008. lie looked upon these fisheries as nurseries fur seamen. Th e y had given up one of them; let them beware how they desl,royed the other, by with drawing the protection which hi hitherto b een a ccorded to it. Voyages of that sort ought to be encouraged. He asked the Right Hon. Baronet to pause, lest he should do injury to the country. For the parties interested he only asked for time to complete the engagements they had entered into. The South Sea fishery, was different from every other commercial undertaking—it was a single speculation ; all the parties to the voyage, owners, captains, and seamen were concerned in it. All who went the voyage were paid by shares. • The captain and men always calculated upon receiving something as their shire of the profits ; but if this part of the tariff were A.:reed to, instead of receiving any money tEey would be in debt to the oWiakr§; suer it why 12134- 41Qui whql- , MAI 28, 1849. ever anything happened to seamen they would not come home, preferring rather to desert than to come home and find themselves in difficulties. A short time ago we had 322 ships employed in the whale fisheries, and the Ame ricans had only 60 ; the Americans now had 634 ships and 17,000 men ; whilst we had only 3,000 men. The length of time usually employed in voyages to the South Seas was three years or three years and a half ; would not this part of the tariff, then, be most unjust to those who had gone out under certain.expectations within the last three years ? He thought no one would doubt but that the retrospective effect of this proposition would be most unjust towards those' who were engaged in the whale fishery. Mr. GLADSTONE said • although he trusted the Committee would refuse their assent to the motion of his lion. Friend, still he had as much respect fur the .prin siple of commercial policy laid down by the Hon. Gen tleman as he had himself. This was a motion for time, which he did not think her Majesty's Government would be justified in agreeing to. Taking a series of years, the British merchant would find as much remuneration under the tariff as he had hitherto. The trade was starving itself by the operation of exclusive low duties.', The high price of sperm oil had led to the adoption substitutes for it, and to that he attributed the depression of the trade. It was right that the Committee should take notice of the state of the trade up to 1841. He trusted the . measures of the Government would have the effect of reviving the trade. In 1831 the number of ships engaged in the South Sea trade was 111, and the price of sperm oil was 671. per tun. In 1835 there: were 94 ships, the price being 711. a ton. In 1837 there were 71 ships, the price 831. In 1839 there were 63 ships, the price 951. a tun. In 1840 there were only 44 ships, though the price had risen to 1441. ; in 1841 the number of ships had diminished to 32 inwards, and the price to 901. a ton. He asked whether this state of things did not call for something to be done ?—(Hear, hear.) Sir C. NAPIER said he presumed that the ships for the South Sea trade, which had sailed in 1840, would not arrive till 1843 ; those which sailed in 1841 would not arrive till 1844 ; and those which sailed in 1842 would not arrive till 1845. All these ships had already sailed. —(Eiear, hear.) He was sorry to say that there was a continued decrease in the attention paid to the encourage iri!nt of their. seamen. He thought it was but just and fair that the motion of the Hon. Gentleman should be attended to. He considered that the trade should be en couraged, because it would be a means of providing sailors for the navy when necessity required it. France and America were now employing great numbers of vessels in this fishery. He therefore thought that en couragement should be given to the English fishermen. Mr. A. CHAPMAN was. ,understood to support the motion. • -Mr. HAWES agreed- with lilt the general views laid down by the Right Hon. Gentleman, but he did not think those general views could bo rightly called into aid on the present occasion. The only question was, whether there were any special grounds for the amend ment of the Hon. Member for the city of London. The American ship-owner was at present able to com pete successfully, almost fatally, with the British ship. owner in the fishing trade. He thought with regard to this trade, the protection, if removed, should be re moved gradually. Sir R. PEEL said, he wished to say a few words in reference to what had fallen from the Gallant CoMmo dore, with respect to the decline of the commercial marine .of this country. If he referred to the paper which had been printed on the commercial marine of their country, he would see that there was no ground for apprehension. That paper gave a satisfactory ac, count of the British marine, as compared with the foreign. It was a statement of the shipping employed in the trade of the United Kingdom, exhibiting the num ber of vessels which had cleared outward and inward in 1841 and 1842, together with the number of the crews. The number of British ships entered in wards in 1840 was 17,800, and in 1841, 18,525 ; the tonnage in 1840 was 3,197,000 tons ; and in 1841, 3,361,000 tons ; the number of seamen in 184 t) was 172,000, and in 1841, 178,000. Now the number of foreign vessels entered inwards in 1840 was 10,198 ; and in 1841 only 9,527 ; the tonnage; which in 1840 was 1,460,000 tons, in 1841 fell to 1,292,000 tons ;' and the number of seamen fell from 81,000 to 73,000. He thought this statement was sufficient to prove that no fears need be entertained of the commercial marine of this country. Mr. Huskisson reduced the duty on spermaceti oil, and the result of that was that in the three following years the rice was 54/., 551., and 701., a tun..; so that the reduction in duty did not produce a reduction in price. When - the duty was highest, the price of the oil was not higher than 55/. For the last four years the price had been upwards of 100/. a tun, and yet the number of ships had decreased, and the rea son was that they gave a premium on the introduction of vegetable oils.—(Hear, hear, hear.) He was much afraid that no interference on their part would have the effect of encouraging the trade to the ' degree that it was injured by the prevalence of discourag ing causes, if the vested interests were to be allowed the required time. With respect to every other interest he was afraid that they must all be necessarily exposed to unexpected competition, and the only question was, whether they would be justified in making this an ex ception to the general rule. Other interests were equally entitled to an extension of time. These various conside rations ought to be maturely weighed, and on the whole he was of opinion that it would be better that the reduc tion should take place at once, and he trusted that the , House would assent to the immediate reduction of the duty. Lord JOHN RUSSELL did not differ from the Right Hon. Gentleman as to the principle ; they were agreed that a high protective duty was bad. It appeared that, er a high protective duty consumption had dimi nished, and he thought that a considerable reduction ought to take place in the duty on the foreign article. The Right Hon. Gentleman had said that the British whale fishery had nothing to fear from the competition of the Americans ; he did not altogether agree with the Right Honourable Gentleman in that opinion, bur he was of opinion that it was for the in terest of the country that the Americans should come here and sell them oil whenever it should rise to a high price in this country. The question was, when ought, this reduction to take place.' It should be recol lected that three years were commonly employed in these voyages. and that great expenses were incurred in fitting out these ships. A gentleman, with whom he had con versed on the subject, had informed him that the ex penses of provisioning a ship which had been recently sent out, had been very great • That ship went out in 1841 and would not return till 1844. He, therefore, did not see why the duty was not to come into operation at that time. He agreed generally in the argument of the Hon. Gentleman, but he thought he carried it to excess. Dr. BOWRING said that the French fisheries had been alluded to ; but the fact was, that the inordinate protection given• by the French Government to their fisheries had altogether failed in its object, and the Ame ricans were able to beat them out of their own markets. Sir 11. DOUGLAS thought the duty proposed.by the tariff on dried and fresh fish would, not be a sufficient protec tion to the fisherman. Mr. CHAS. BULLER entirely dissented from the idea of bolstering up the fishery trade by protecting duties. Captain FITZROY wished to know whether they were going at once to set aside the whole fisheries, and thereby de stroy the best nursery this country ever had for its seamen ? Steam, he believed, would never be anything more than an auxiliary to our naval force, however actively steam vessels might assist other vessels. Having been long familiar with the interests of seamen, he could not but look upon this mea sure with the greatest pain. Only two months since, a ship. owner of Newcastle had an offer to charter ships to the Havanna at 16s. per tun. It was impossible, however, that it could be done at present under 20s. He longed to see the navigat;on laws of this country altered so as to meet the circumstances of the times, and when proper alterations had been made, he had no doubt the British shipowner would be able to compete with the shipowners of any other part of the world.—( Hear, hear.) After a few words from Sir C. NAPIER and Mr. Div Err, Sir R. PEEL said he hoped the House would bear in mind the statement of the Hon. and Gallant Officer behind him, that the American trade was increasing ; that British seamen were entering into American vessels; and that those who were en gaged in the spermaceti trade were about to abandon it.— ( Hear, hear.) It should also be remembered that in the year 1841,100/. a tun had been charged for spermaceti oil, and that at the same time that the consumer was subject to a rise of 60 or 73 per cent., the merchant was being ruined.—( Hear.) Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when there appeared,— Ayes . Noes .. Majority in favoir of the Government proposition 67 Schedule 6 was then agreed to. Mr. GLADSTONE said, that with regard to some of the articles in schedule 7, which imposed duties upon dye stuff., drugi, and ,resins, the duties were continued at a high rate, because negotiations were going on at present on the subject of reducing them, and therefore those duties were to'be considered as merely temporarily imposed. The Right lion. Gentlemen particularly mentioned isinglass, as one of the articles in question. 1)r. BOWRING suggested all gums should be reduced to one category, and admitted at Is. duty. Mr. GLADSTONE said there was a difference of opinion on that point, but that the subject was under the consideration of the Government 108 Schedule 7 was then proposed, and the Chairman then pro posed to read the artieles,senatint. The schedule was agreed to without amendments. Schedule 8, consisting of skins and furs, was next proposed, and the articles were read seriatim, and was agreed to. Schedule 9, consisting of hides, was also agreed to without change. On schedole 10, consisting if timber and wood, not being deals, battens, loads, staves, - handspikes , bars, lathwood, or other timbe r or wood, sawed, split, or otherwise dressed, except hewed, and not being timber or wood otherwise charged with duty, being proposed, Mr. HAWES said he thought the proposed mode of taking the measurement would be of the greatest inconvenience to the trade, and he should be glad to learn from the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite, to whom be gave every credit for the at tention and time which he must have expended in framing this tariff, what it was that induced him to charge the duty on the load instead of on thesolid foot, which would be much more convenient, and lesi expensive to the trade. Mr. A. CHAPMAN said, although Hon. Gentlemen thought that the proposition of the Government with respect to timber was a great boon to the shipowners, yet the ship ' owners themselves repudiated that boon. They denied this, for they knew that it would be the means of transferring the trade from British North America to the Baltic. He knew that any motion that he could make on the subject would be of no effect, considering the feeling of the country ; but he would venture to suggest to the Government that the time for the imposition of the second duty might be expunged from the tariff. He intreated the Right Hon. Gentleman to pause upon the question. This he thought would be satisfactory to the shipowners of the country. Mr. GLADSTONE wished to say, before they went fur , ther, a few words in answer to the Hon. Member for Lambeth. The Hon. Gentleman said they ought to stand on strong ground for the abandonment of the present system of taking the duty. In the year 1826, a Committee on the subject made a report, and they came to a resolution that the present mode of taking the duty was susceptible of improvement. Now he thought that the Hon. Gentleman had exaggerated the di'- ficulty to be anticipated. He (Mr. Gladstone) did not say there would be no diMitulties, bat he thought the Hots. Gentle- MOW eldiented thNe dituNltics. The Lion:Gelnlctuntock the case of cut woods ; but the Hon. Gentleman must remem ber that they were imported in equal dimensions, and therefore no difficulty would attend the proposed system. The opinions of men who had passed their lives in this trade, whom the Go vernment had consulted, were favout able to the proposition. They had obtained the opinion of the Customs, and they be lieved that this system was one which could, without injury to any one, be carried into effect. The Board of Customs had consulted those upon whom they were in the habit of relying, and they also were of the same opinion ; and this had encou raged the Government to anticipate no opposition from the Committee. He was convinced, upon the whole, that they were changing a bad system of measurement for a good one, and he could assure the Committee that they had arrived at this conclusion upon the most mature consideration- Sir WALTER JAMES could assure the Government that, in the opinion of most practical men, the proposition of her Majesty s Government would prove a most injurious one to the interests concerned. He thought this was a subject which merited the re-consideration of the Government, for it was a subject of the deepest interest to the country. With respect to the borough which he represented he thought the plan of her Majesty's Government would be almost impracticable, if not wholly so. This, he understood, was also the opinion of 3lr. Deacon Hume. Mr. BARING approved of the cubic measurement of tim ber, but yet thought that it was attended with some incon venience. Mr. MITCHELL hoped the Government would not preys the question that night, as there was so little time for discuss ing it; for the effect of the proposed duty would be to throw the whole of the monopoly in the trade in deals into the hands of Norway and Sweden. Sir R. PEEL said that the only question was as to the mode of measurement. Government had no objection what ever t facilitating as much as possible the commercial transac tions of this country, and at the same time preventing fraud. Their communications with the Custom-house officers, had not l led them to apprehend any difficulty on t hi s po i nt . he Hon. Gentleman who spoke last, said that they were going to give increased facilities to Norway and Sweden. Why, the more effectually they could do that, the better for all parties. ilr. HUME said that builders refrained from giving em ployment at present, until the low rate of duties should come into operation in October, when they would purchase timber at a much cheaper rate than now. He would suggest, there fore, that the low rate of duties should commence immediately. Mr. H. HINDE said that his constituents would prefer, that the propsed duty should not commence till next year. Lord SANDON observed that the timber trade only wished for one change, and that was the reduction of the duty to 30s. Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY wished to know if 2i and 3i deals would be subject to the same admeasurentent as other timber ? Sir H. DOUGLAS gave notice, that when the subject came again under discussion, he would move that the duty should remain at 30s. as a protection. Sir ROBERT PEEL would also give notice that he meant to adhere to his proposition, that the duty be 30s. for the first year, and 255. for the second. To any proposal to make the duty of 30s. permanent, he would give his most strenuous 'opposition. Sir W. JAMES said, it was most desirable to have the question settled, and he thought the best settlement of it would be to fix the duty at 30s. After a few words from Mr. HAW ES, _ _ . Mr. C. BULLER said that it was now ten o'clock, the time fixed for his motion, and he presumed the present discussion would be adjourned to allow of hisproceeding with his statement. After a few words from Lord SANDON, Sir R. PEEL said that the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Buller), was determined not to lose much time. He hoped, however, when they next discussed the subject of timber, that a vote would be taken upon it.—( Cheers. ) He was himself in favour of the present proposition, but he did not wish to prevent Hein. Members who were acquainted with the subject, from making their observations upon it.—(Cheers.) In reply to an Hort. AlEsteEK, Mr. GLADSTONE said that he would on a future oocasion state how it was proposed to apply those duties to the Isle of Man. The Chairman then reported p rogress and obtained leave to sit again on Monday. PAROCHIAL CONSTABLES BILL. In answer to a question from Mr. PAKINGTON. Kir J. GRAHAM said he did not think there was any pro bability of the Bill being brought forward this evening. BRIDPORT ELECTION. Mr. C. BULLER said that he did not intend to occupy mush of the time of the House on the present occasion. It was with great reluctance he brought ffirward any matter involving considerations of a personal nature, because the present motion would give rise to a great deal of personal controversy. He should confess that feelings of a personal nature induced him to bring the motion forward—his regard for the purity of election would not induce him to do so were it not for the unfair and hard position in which an individual, for whom he had the greatest regard, was placed.—(Hear. ) The conduct of that individual had been made the subject of comment by a Right :Hon. Gentleman, one of her Majesty's Minister, on a public occasion in Dorchester. He saw nothing from the Right Hon. Baronet but perfect good humour, yet he thought it was not fair that a person who had been a zealous advocate for Parliamentary Reform should be unfairly held up as a person who had violated the law of Parliamentary purity. But as a friend of Mr. Warburton he confessed it was not in consequence of anything which had been said out of the House, that he brought forward his motion, but in conse quence of the proceedings which had occurred in the House. When his lion. Friend the Member for Bath carried his mo tion for an inquiry into certain corrupt practices alleged to have taken place with regard to five or six boroughs, an Honour able Member asked whether Bridport was to be included. He felt that the person alluded to in that question was Mr. War burton. He therefore challenged inquiry, and he hoped the House would see that it was bound in consistency to extend the inquiry to Bridport. He had on a late occasion endeavoured to satisfy the House of the propriety of that inquiry, and that the Committee appointed to investigate the eases of Notting ham, Reading, Falmouth, Harwich, and Lewes, should also be directed to extend their inquiry to Bridport. The House would recollect, that on the motion of the Honourable and Learned Member for Bath, a Com mittee was • anointed on vague and uncertain, but in his opinion, sufficient and satisfactory rumours of certain com promises alleged to have taken place with respect to those boroughs; but the case was much stronger with regard to Brid port, for here an individual, who was once a Member of the House, and who would not be deemed the less worthy of credit for what he might state because he was no longer so, made positive allegations of a compromise having taken place in which I he was himself concerned, and he called upon the House to in quire into the case. He asserts that corrupt practices pre vailed in the borough—that one of the Hon. Members came into the borough in 1839 and made a declaration of his deter mination to carry the borough by systematic bribery. — (Laughter.) Perhaps he (Mr. Buller) was going too far in saying that.—( Cries of " Go on, go on.") The petition stated that from certain correspondence the petitioner believed that persons in Mr. Mitchell's interest carried on the election by the force of money, and he prayed for inquiry upon the sub ject. He went on to assert that the election was carried by ; bribery, and that it had come within his own knowledge that nine votes were offered to be given to the petitioner and Mr. Mitchell by an agent, and that the same agent was ordered, in nine other cases, to give money for votes in favour of Mr. Mit chell. He states that 3,2001. had been expended by Mr. Mit chell, which he believed to be a moderate calculation of the sum expended. That he believed a one-third larger amount was expended, and that Mr. Cochrane expended sums unknown to the petitioner, to discover the amount of which was one of the objects of the petitioner. He ( Mr. B.) believed that was a stronger case for inquiry than the one made by the Hon. Member for Bath. In the case of Bridport, the Hon. Member had ac cepted the Chiltern Hundreds, so that there were stronger circumstances in the case to invite the attention of the Home. But not only had parties made compromises regarding the election, but also compromises of judicial proceedings had taken place. He understood that in the month of February last, no fewer than 51 actions for bribery were brought by the agent of Mr. Mitchell, to whose betrayal the whole of those proceedings were owing. Mr. Blight, the agent, brought those fifty-one actions, the penalties on which amounted to 25,5001 But there was further evidence of bribery in this case, for the Western Times had a paragraph accusing the parties of bribery, for which Mr. Blight brought an action of libel, and the defendant justified the accusation of bribery, and gave the names of 74 persons who were bribed for Mr. Mit chell. Thus, in the present instance, there was not only a trifling with the dignity of the House in order to conceal the proceedings at Bridport, but there had been also a compromise of judicial proceedings, lest those practices of bribery should be dragged before the tribunals of the House. The difference between this case and the others was simply this, that in the present case they had better evidence, they had not to trust to hearsay, they had the petition before them stating the facts, and they had amle means of proving the tran sactions stated in that petition. in the other cases, the House had been called upon to interfere to prevent a compromise : in the present case a compromise had taken place and been carried into effect. The compromise had been completed, the inquiry had been suppressed, and the seat had been transferred to the Gentleman sitting opposite.— (Heat , hear.) The first objec tion made to the present motion was that it would give too much trouble to the Committee that was appointed to inquire into the subject. He was happy to say he had spoken of this matter to his.friend the Member for Bath, and he had no ob jection to the present case being considered by that Committee. —(Hear, hear.) Another objection he had heard stated was, that this case differed from the others, because it had not occurred in the present Session. The compromise had taken place, and it was immaterial whether it was effected in the last or the present session ; it was a compromise growing out of the same class of elections, and occurred in the same month of June. He could not conceive any ground upon which any dis tinction should be made between the present and the other five cases. Any person who wished le, expose bribery could not raise any argument against the inquiry in the present ease. There were some observations, it was but fair to the sitting Members to make—his motion implied no inquiry into their personal conduct, but he should be acting unfairly if he did not avow, that such a . charge,was made against their personal conduct as they were ready to meet, and it was a charge that would be most unfavourable to them if they did not succeed in rebutting it. The charge against the Hon, Gentleman to his left was, that he had come in for Bridport as a second candidate in the same political interest as. Mr. Warburton ; that Mr. Warburton's election had been always carried by so large a majority that he had never found it ne cessary to resort to bribery.—(Cries of " Oh, oh," and " Hear, hear.") It was delightful to hear that cheer, because he was sure it never emanated from a Member who had ever been guilty of paying head money, or spending a farthing in treating. With respect to Mr. Warburton, he had never been compelled to pay money to individuals to induce them to vote for him, but the Hon. Gentleman below him was accused of having recourse to that—( Hear, hear) —and the discovery of that was owing to his quarrelling with his agents.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") The statement made against the other Honourable Member was one less difficult to allege than to prove in precise terms. The statement was, that there was an understanding between him and Mr. Warburton on taking his seat, which was rot fulfilled on his part. He was now stating merely what was in the petition. ( The Hon. and Learned Member then read several parts of the petition, and also extracts from letters written by Mr. Cochrane.) He made these statements and read these extracts without any bad feeling against the Hon. Member. He only wished to put him in possession of the charges against him.—( Hear, hear. ) In conclusion, be would say that it seemed to him a most im portant additional ground for the interference of the House, that in these compromises the character of its Members was involved, and charges against their personal character inciden tally rose up. He begged, in conclusion, to move—" That an inquiry be made into certain corrupt compromises alleged to have been entered into for the purpose of avoiding investiga tion into gross bribery which had been alleged to have been practised at the electi o n for the bnrough of Bridport in June last ; and, also, whether such bribery has taken place in the aforesaid town." Mr. COCHRANE rase with more than ordinary anxiety, because, he was about to occupy the House upon a subject of no public importance, but one that was personal to himself ; he trusted, therefore, that the House would listen to him with in dulgence, while he endeavoured to answer the charge that had been made against him. The Hon. Member for Liskeard had fairly stated that there was no direct charge made against him (Mr. Cochrane), but the inference was that he had entered into &compromise or arrangement with Mr. Warburton, by which he (Mr. Cochrane) had obtained his seat. Now, he would state really what did take place. The inference to be drawn from the first paragraph in the petition was, that be had gone to Mr. Warburton; that, he had given him this information on the 2ith of August, tWo days prior to the first date tneutioned by Mr. Warburton in his petition. On the 24th et A ty u - g f n o s u t r , W the day the petition was presented, Mr. arburton sent his agent, to his (Mr.C.'s) agent, asking f„r a delay of inee n hours, in order that negotiations might Sakeplace. (Mr. C.) objected to it, but ultimately consented ; another men ay -four hours was then requested, and it was then said that if Mr. Mitchell did not accept the Chiltern Hundreds Mr. Wail enton would. What had happened? Mr., WarburS.on requests 'd an interview with him that evening. Mr. Warburton then st ated that he would not take the Chiltern Hundreds,, and that be had not at first known that ail allegations had been made af fecting his character. But, said he, " I have a character to support. ( Cries of Oh, oh.") I cam tat shrink from the investigation." To that he (Mr. Cochraaw ) replied that he had never sought to delay the presentation of the peti tion. A long conversation then ensued, whieh lasted aebout two hours, at the end of which Mr. Warburton again said, that he should not accept the Chiltern Hundreds. There was ti ten an explicit understanding between his (Mr. Cochrane's) ages t and the agent of Mr. Warburton, that the petition againet Mr, Mitchell shoul.i be proceeded with, so that the second seat might ultimately be obained for Mr. Warburton. Mr. War:'surton afterwards accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, and engaged him (Mr. Cochrane) to prosecute the petition against Mr. Mitt thell. He :aid, " our object is to get Mitchell out of the way; fo r the future we shall our seats one and one."—(Loud and continued cheers on the Ministerial benches.) He ( Mr. Cochrs te ) afterwards went down to Bridport, after Mr. Warburton had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. He was then returne, I by the constituency. He had stated, certainly, in Bridpunt he (lid not wish to itre retract a t i a i t tl a e ss u e n rt g i that Mr. Warburton's cond uc t h a d b een most h onoura bl e ; e o n n ;rou ß s ut of at m t r h . e l s v a a rnot r_ time he should say leurton to publish the letters of his (Mr. Cochrane's) agent, while he had suppressed a letter of his own which had contri buted much to induce him to make the statement in Mr. Warburton's favour. On the 4th of September his agent received a letter from Mr. 'Warburton to this effect :—" The more points you can throw in my scale by stating that through out the whole negotiations I have been actuated by honourable feelings, and by a desire to save my friends in the borough• from disgrace, the greater will be my influence in leading my party to attend to reason," (as we understood.—Loud cries of " Hear," and laughter on the Ministerial benches.) On his (Mr. Cochrane's) arrival in the borough, ,he found himself threatened with opposition. He had found an opposi tion threatened to him by those verygentlemen, whose neu trality had been insured to him before he lett London. An arrangement was afterwards entered into to avoid the opposition which bad been threatened in the borough to his return. The second article of that arrangement was, that the petition against Mr. Mitchell's return, was to, be presented on such do cumentary evidence only as would not implicate any other person; and if such evidence proved insufficient, that peti tion should be abandoned. That last arrangement, it should be remembered, superseded the other which had been entered into in London. It was most unjust of the Hon. Member for Liskeard, if he were aware of that fact, not to have mentioned it in his statement. He (Mr. Cochrane) carried out, to the best of his power, the arrangement into which he had entered. lie had done so at great personal expense ; although he remembered, at one time, that Mr. Warburton had sod that the question of ex pense should be an open one. He did not know what the Hon. Gentleman had called " an open question ;" but the re sult was that he (Mr. Cochrane) had to pay the entire expense. —( Loud cries of " Hear, hear," and laughter.) In the mean time, Mr. Warburton engaged him to delay his deciston with respect to the presentation of the petition. His colleague had riot vacated his seat in February, as had been expected. It was the opinion of his Counsel, that they could net success fully prosecute that petition, without the evidence of Mr. War burton's agent; and they did not receive that evidence, until it was too late to make use of- at. In the mean time, actions had been commenced against his (Mr. Coch rane's) friends in the borough, who were to be tried at the next Somerset Assizes. He then found, while he was anxious to carry out his arrangement with Mr. Warburton, he could not carry on the petition against Mr. Mitchell with outimplicating other parties, contrary to the agreement entered into at Bridport. Mr. Warburton himself did not wish those parties to be implicated. If Mr. Warburton's own evidence were given before a Committee he could not again have gone down to the borough ; because it appeared from his own ad missions in the petition that he had bribed nine or ten parties. Mr. C. BULLER—He never said so. Mr. COCHRANE—At all events,.if that evidence had been gone into Mr. Warburton could net again have gone near Bnd port. He would say that openly. Under the circumstances in which he was placed, he found it advisable to write to Mr. Warburton, stating that as there was no probability of inducing Mr. Mitchell to yield, and as his (Mr. Cochrane's) friends were threatened with heavy penalties, he found it necessary to withdraw the petition, anti thus rescue his friends from danger and the borough from disgrace. That letter was dated the 20th of March. He had stated the case as fully as he could, without occupying the time of the -House .with needless details. Let him be allowed to remark that he had read no letter which was private or confidential, while everything in the petition re lated to transactions of a private and c nfidential nature. — ( Hear, hear.) He would now state a fact which would probably astonish the House. It had come to his knowledge that Mr. Warburton had been endeavouring to undermine him in the borough ; and had stated that he himself had never wished the petition against Mr. Mitchell to go on, lest it might lead to a disfranchisement of the borough. In September his agent much to his astonishment, had received a very singular request from the agent of Mr. Warburton, that he would write a letter, stating that he had been no party to the petition against Mr. Mitchell. The only object of that request must have been that he might be enabled to exculpate himself ai his (Mr. Cochrane's) expense from any blame from the electors of the borough. Mr. Warburton afterwards wrote a letter to his friends in Bridport, which was extensively circulated among the electors, which was to the following effect :—" He under stood that the news of his retirement,, and the unopposed re turn of Mr. Cochrane, had occasioned great excitement among the Liberal party. This was gratifying to him so far, as it afforded evidence of the attachment to, the cause in which they had been associated for so many years.—( Hear, hear. ) Many of his friends, he was told, were implicated in corrupt proceedings in the borough ; and he had not only to defend his own case, but the case of others. For the sake of his friends, and for the reputation of a constituency which be had so long represented,he had been induced to offer his seat as a propitiation to those who had the character of the constituency at their mercy. The borough of Bridport would stand among those which were. handed down as the most notorious-in the annals of borough mungering.—( Hear, hear.) Such a case might be shown as might lead to the suspension of the writ, and all this he had en deavoured to prevent by the course he had pursued. Let not his excellent friends in the borough be among those who had scorned his advice ; he adjured them not to be parties to any attempt to return a Liberal Member in the present vacancy, but yield to the pressure of adverse circumstances, and live in expectation of a more propitious perioii."—( Hear, hear, and great laughter, with which the Hon. Gentleman was frequently interrupted during the leading of the letter.) Now, could it be believed (continued the Hon. Member) that the gentleman who had written that letter would have put forth the present petition ?—( Hear.) In what he had stated he believed he " nothing extenuated," in a single circumstance, nor had he " set down aught in malice" towards Mr. Warburton ; he was confident, moreover, that if every fact should be fully investigated, it would rather strengthen than weaken the case detailed. He was led on, day by day, in a course which his better reason condemned, and in that way he had given his sanction to a statement opposed to all argument and to all truth. He did not wish in any way to make any unkind remarks respecting Mr. Warburton ; he had felt al most pain in stating all that he had done, because, when he did reflect on the conduct he had pursued towards him (Mr. Cochrane), the mildest term lie could use with re gard to it was, that it was ungenerous. In making a statement referring to an individual just entering political life, every fact ought to have been fully substantiated. But he could not so lightly pass over his eandilet towards the borough itself, and even (he was sorry to say it) with respect to the truth of the petition. He found in the first page of the petition, that hesaid in 1826, when he became first connected with the borough, he found it an established custom to wive head money to the electors ; that a twelvemonth after his re turn he paid to his agent 2,001)1. which he had no doubt was paid to liquidate that demand. He found that in the debate of the 1I th of February, 1831, when Lord Ebrington presented a petition from a gentleman of Bridport, which stated that the electors were accustomed to receive Jul. per vote, to this Mr. Warburton replied, that the gentleman whose name was attached to the petition, was a very respectable character, but that he (Mr. IVarburton) had a petition from a numerous body of the constituency, praying for Parliamen tary liefortn—( Laughter)—and that none of those persons were concerned in the matter ; that this was the second peti• tion he had had the honour of presenting from the same par. ties in favour of the purity of election.—( Laughter.) He could say that at present nothing of the kind was known— ( Great laughter)—not even in the shape of drinking ; that it was the custom for the successful candidate, some days after his election, to give one dinner ; and, he believed, if nothing worse existed in other parts of the country than existed in 13ridport, there would be no great need of Reform - (Laughter.) • Well (continued the Hon. ltlember), he could not conceive how any gentlemen who conld have stated this, in the House of Commons, could have ventured to present such a petition to the House. And with regard to his conduct towards the borough, he felt deeply for the position in which lie had placed it. By his own statement, he had been returned for the borough three or four times free of expense, and what was his conduct with regard to the constituency Why, he was the very person to turn common informer against them—( Hear, hear)—he was the very man to come forward and make his own deeds the grounds on which they s were to be subjected to disgrace and punishment.—( Hear, Lear.) Really lie could not conceive what change could have come o'er the spirit of his stream; but a abort time since he had seemed a second Curtius, prepared to leap into the gulf to save them, and now be seemed to think that the best course was to throw his ft lends into it, to fill it up. He (Mr. Cochrane) did feel that a great slur was cast on the constituency ; at any; time it threw a great odium on an electoral body, when a charge was made against any particular borough, and the case was still worse when the charge was made by a gentleman who had been for sixteen years connected with the borough.—(Hear, hear.) If false, the charge was monstrous ' • if it were true, he knew no other epithet that could be applied to the conduct of Mr. War burton.—(Hear, hear.) He could say that if an enemy had done this, they could pardon it, but when a companion and a friend did it, it was inexcusable. lie must now make one ob servation on the general question ; perhaps the House might add Bridport to the other boroughs, and he admitted that in all those cases in which it had been proved that bribery had existed and compromises had taken place, it was a question that called for the consideration of the House. But who was to blame' Was it those who took 'advantage of the imperfection of their own law, or those who would not provide a remedy for that im perfection ? Would the House stop at Bridport, or would they go back to Tiverton and Stroud.—( Loud cheers.) The lion. Member for Bath (who was not present) had talked of a Bill of Indemnity ; be should rather call it a Bill tor the extension of perjury, for they would find no lack ef wit nesses while they were supported at the public expense, and that the extent of the evidence was on:y limited by their own generosity and credulity. He felt that if the poser of the House was unlimited, then these was the more necessity that the House should limit its exercise. They spoke of privileges, but they ought so to act as to preserve their great support, which was public opinion. They might be establishing a pre cedent which would be perhaps of little use to men of limited capacity and influence, but which, in the hands of a corrupt majority, might be niade subservient to the basest party purr poses. Of all tyrannies, that which should be the most carefully guarded against, was the tyranny of a majority, and of all privileges, that which ought to be the most guarded was the privilege of a minority. H e felt, its conclusion, that the pri vileges of that Howe ought to be to it what personal honour was to individuals; it ought to animate all their actions, and influence all their dealings. but it should not be too loosely hazarded, nor too slightly asserted. (The Hon. Gentleman sat down amid considerable cheering. ) Mr. MITCHELL said, if the Honourable Member who had just sat down felt some hesitation in addressing the House, it was still more the . case with himself. Nor was it a light matter for him to be brought into collision f t o o r n mhitmei enteredoi nr that some h at i s point s political w i t h a gentleman like Mr.Warburtori. lie was not there to s peak of Mr. Warburton's public character. Although he dif icoaafni politics, still he appreciated believedt uzi tta r t ch T n r g . life. e i ndependent a %h, r ea e r d bu un front ri Member, and that he had maintained his course as such. Cer tainly in any observations he should make as to his private con duct, he should speak with great reluctance, and the greater, because he was extremely sorry that the oharaeter of a public man so respected as that geritlornan ;bouldiri any way be dimaged• .B.trere iigticiug,t4,44ool.. coptaine4 ja the pOtion r