The Sun. — London, England, 1842-05-10 00:00:00

rbtrV 121)ittot SUN-OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. PRICES OF CANAL, DOCK, ASSUR ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &e. &c. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 10. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS, Shares. Annum. Paid. Shale. k. 766 7 pet cent. Ashton & Oldham...Average97l.lBs.sh. 94 ,82 41. Ashby.de-le-Zouch A••.:rage 11Si.sh •71 1,260 Basingstoke.... lool.sh, 5 1,0h5 51, Brecknock and Abergavenny -150/. sh. 92 r,003 1.16 th. 101. Birmingham, (.16th share .... ,SZI. & 711, 194 4, 000 ....... ~ Ditto & Liverpool Junct. Mil. eh .100 p 4 21 603 3/, Bridgewater and Taunton.lool.sh. all pi -- SOO 51. Chelmer and Blackwater ..... lool.sh • 101 .CU 321. Coventry 1001. sh. 505 Croydon. Avezage3ll.2s.led. sh. - 2,000 51. Os. Dudley 1001. sh. 94 600 131. Derby lool.sh . 120 20,0 , 0 4 per cent. lianune and M,yne .........411.135. 4u.pd 30 3 . 5751 4' Eilesn...reand Chester Aveir.gcl33:.st., oi . 231 #2l Erewaso .. 6,4 5 5 33-1 Forth i.nd Ciydo Pk: so. 1001. pd. Itt; 1.113 71. Grant, junction lool.s n 124 ';,,i I„=.lPi 255. Grand tintoli loo.l.sh 27 ',51,0 ... ...... Grand Surrey 1001. sh. 15 1,01: 41. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan 1001. • 'i96 Grand Western 000 13 12s. Sri. Glamorganibire, Av,,r. cost 17t1.12.5.41. 'llO ":45 12/. Gran the:. l5Ol. sh. tr.ei 611,18 2..02. Huildersfilld, ...... Average /1. 68.6 d. sii. 19 100 .. .. Kenaingtoa lf.inallpd 10, 2 , , , i‘,:,4 1/.....105. keznet and Avon, Av. 391.165. led. s h IS'{ 11,ti99; 11. 10s. Lancaster Average 171. Cs. Sd '.7 8,.7 , /74 , 301. Lced , and Liverpool ii1:11.0 '7lO 4151 11. 105. Leicester 1101. it 150 ,SO7 5/.os. Leicester & Nort!,,mpt:ln Aver F3/.10: '72 Z,,169 10 1 Monmouthshire lOlll.Bl 200 2!0 131. Melton Mowbra y 1,00 151. Mersey and Ir well lON. sh. 510 3,01:0 11. 106. Maccl es iOA lOO/. sh. all rd 16 247 171. Ncath , 1001.46. 305 1,460 51. Peak Forest A vet .ge about 761.5 h. 113 MS Ss. Rekc:iit's (or London) Av. 33/.163.8.1. sh. 11 56M) 6/. riochdale Average a 5 loth. 62 500 Sl. Shropshire 1251.9h. 137 SOO 111. 103. Somerset Coal 1601. sh. 17 , 0 3,6110/. 6 p., cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 12/. 10s. sh . 114 700 3fl. Stafford and Worcester. 1401.5 h. 650 Lao .51 Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 260 WO 91. 3taurbridge ~...... 1451.5 h. 396 3.647 21. Oa. Stratford.on.Avon A o er....791. 9s. o. sh. 265 sh. 33 533 141 Swansea " I COL "1,762 21. 12s. Severn and Wye &Railway Av. 201.9.5. 3h. sh. 4475 5 %Swish. 321.105. Trent and Mer se y , t share lOOl 2.149 .... ..... Thames and Medway Av. 191. ss. Bd. sh. 2 IS/AS.4h. i 141. W ar wick and B ; rmingha m Ltineisli. 1001. sh. 119 9 , 10 10.. Warwick a nd Na p s... 7,000 41 Worcester & Birmingham Av.7Sl.Bl.sh. 55 5,09 20.. Wilts and Berks Average 67/. lOs Sd. sh. 28 3 4 eOO d,. Wyilev and Essington..-...... P2SI. sh '74 .26 .... .._ W I s neacn 5: 3h. 50 90.: I. Wey and Arun. llOl. an. 20 DOCKS. 2 • 6 " Sr 1 9 • p c . Commerc.al ...... ...................... 1001. sh. 61 1,105 i sin_ 5 per cent. East and West India ............, Stack 105 1,939,310:•. 3jl.p.ct. London .,.........5t0ck SO Ditto Bonds 2.2tes 3/. 6s. sd. Bristol Average 14//. 9s. sh . 75 68.324/. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts lOB 352,75 - 2 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock 97 ,1 50,!,0 0 01‘t i per cent. Ditto Bonds 20e.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years •• Deptford Pier .. 2Ol. sh. 201. pd 10 BRIDGES. 1,600 11. Hammersmith 501.5 h. 2133 7,211 ..... .... Southwark Old Av. 631 . 25. Bd. sh. 3% 1.700 11. 15s. Ditto, New. of If per cent., 501.5 h. 15% •,000 Waterloo 1001. sh. 3 5,000 e2s. Od. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81 601. pd 21 .5,000 19s. ad. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. ...... 4Ol. pd 18 1 4 '05,000/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Bonds 5.94 , 4 27s Vauxhall .........Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh 27 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 2/10s Albion 5OOl. sh. 501. pd 70 50,000 16Letti elssl Allianceßritish &Foreignlool.sh.ll/. pd 14% (50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine lOO/. sh. 5/. pd 5% 24,(100 11. per sh. Atlas 5O/. sh. 51. pd 141 4 1,20015 h. 5/. Birmingham I' ire 5O/. sh. 55/. pd 1073< t 20,e00 41. per cent. British Fire 9 50/. sh. 501. pd 41 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial sol.sh. 51. pd 6 S,OOO 51. per cent. Clerical & Medical Life, 1601. sh.2llos pd 6% 4,000 310 5 County lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 10 7,000 ss. Eagle. 501. sh. 51. pd 4% c an p 1 b er cent./ -"' ld 30s. Economic Lite WOOL sh. 2501. pd 406 2,271 22a.per cent. European Lite 'V. sh. all pd 22 54) 1:00 . 2s. Ditto, New 20/. sh. 2/. pd In, .000,0001. (I.perct Globe Stock 125 00.000 51. Guardian 30,000 4s. Os! H o pe 5O/. eh. 51. pd 5% 2,400 51. Its. 6d. Imperial Fire 5OOl. sh. 50/. pd 140 7,500 10s. Cd. Imperial Life lOOl. sh. 10!. pd 11 13,45's W. per cent. Indemnity Marine lOO/. sh. EL pd 31% 2,023 31 101 Kent Fire 5O/. sh. all pd 91 3/. Ditto Life 5Ol. pd 10,000 15a Law Life lOOl. sh. 10/, pd 32% 5.000 165. London, Fire 95/. sh. 121. lOs. pd 17% 3,900 10s. London, Ship .......251. oh. 121. 10s. pd 17% 0.1'10,0001. ... ..... Minerva Life 1001. ,h. 25,000 5/. per cent. National Loan Fund... 201. sh 2!. 103. pd 2% 38,000 .11. per cent. Palladium Life 501. sh. 2/.1.d 50,000 5/. per cent. Protector 15..f0 2Ol. sh. 21. Ed 17s 6ci )0,0011 4 per cent. Protestant Dissenters ....100/. sh. 51. pd 53 e. 500 11. Provident Lite lOO2. sh. 101. pd 20 20 0 ,660 4s. Od. Rock Life 3•11,2201 51. per coat. Royal Exchange Stock 170 6,00.3 5 per cent. University Life lON. sh. 5/. pd 11 10,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100/. sh. 51. pd JOINT STOCK BANKS. - 25e0.1 A gric, and Corn. of Ireland2sl. sh. 10/. pd J',,iICO 8 per cent. Australasia UV. sh. 40/. pd 51 10,000 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham 501. sh. 101. pd le% 20,11/1 IQ per cent. Birmingham Bank SO/. sh. 101. pd 13 30, 0 00 6 per cent. London & Westminster 1001. sh. 901. pd 2233 I'o,ooo 51. London Joint Stock 'Ol. sh. 101. pd 12% .',WO 4 per cent. Lancaster lOOl. sh. 20/. pd 30 25 0 1 10 111 per cent. Liverpool 1001 sh. 121/. pd 19 50,000 71 percent. Manchester and Livers } 50/.sh. 151. pd 19 3 4 pool Discount 20,000 7 per cent. Manchester lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 4% 20,110 es 8 per eent. Provincial Bank of Irelandlool. sh. 251. pd 41% 10,000 ti i ,er cent National Bank of Ireland 50/. sh. 174/. pd 15 10,000 6 per cent National Proviticial Eng.lool. sh. 35/. pd 3534 111,000 Ditto New 101 sh. 10/. pd 10 JO,OOO 0 . Gloucestershire 501. sh. 101. pd 32 4.000 le s per cent. Hampshire ................ ..... 501. sh. SI. pd 9% GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,590 16s (Id Bath ...... ................... ..... 201. sh. 161. pd 22 5,000 .... British ... 401. sh. 161. pd 19 S 000 of }ter cent./ Ditto P rov i nc i a l 2Ol. s h. 191. pd 23 ' tai. I Rs. ets, 908 5' 10e Birmingham 501. sh. 101 4,2:0) %,' Os Bristol .. '2o/. sh. s 6 2,250 31 Ibe Brighton 2O/. sh. 13% 750 31 1 ‘li Ditto, New "01. sh 13!. pd 9 2,471 li per t vett Brighton General 2O/. sh. all pd 934 ' 4,0•.41) 71.105.1 Continental Consolidated ....751. 62.11. pd 110 1,000 101. City of London.. ....... ....IN/. sh. all pd 195 3,000 61. Ditto, New lOO/. sh. 751. 1. d 150 4,000 3:. Os. Equitable 5O/. pd 20 1/.000 IL per cent. Imperial 5Ol. sh. 603{ t'oo Si. per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. sh. 201. pd 19 2,350 M. per cont. Independent .301. eh. all Fs, 56 4.,000 51. per cent. Phoenix 5O!. slr. 391. pa 30% 1,1100 AL per cent. Ratcliff lOOl. sh. 801. pd 63 4,e4)(/ South Metropolitan 501. 5h.713341. pd 18 9,0041 M. per cent. United General 50/. sh. 471. pd 30 240 5/. per cent. Warwick 5Ol. sh. 50 400 5/. per cent Wakefield 3,U00 3!. Westminster Chartered ..... 5Ol. sh. 57 6,000 19s, Ditto New 5(1.3h. lel. pd 1134 790 13 per cont. Yarmouth 2Ol. sh. 181. pd WATER WORKS 4,40 345. Birmingham 2V. sh. 251. pd 21 4,433 71. East London 100/. sh. 165% 2,500 21 153. Grand Junction Average 411. les. 4d. sh. 56 110 (I) t. 1. Kent 1 00 1 . sh. 52% 0712 101. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 225 1,40 ts 4 1 103 New River London Bridge Water 0,486 ~. 1 lOs Manchester and Salford 109/. sh. 54 1,000 51: sr cent, South London Wash. slB 5...e.ii4 40. West Middlesex Average 631.112,. lid. sh. 94 1,06 d li .'Ss RON York Building CoRAILWAYS. Lessee Prop. 1001. sh. 35 I. 6,300 21. Os. Birmingham and Derby ...- lOO/ pd 52 0,5 30 3 pet cent. Birmingham and (3loncester......lCol. pd 53 .150 0 4 per cent. Bristol and Exeter 100/. sh. 70 pd 44 7,500 ...... .., Cheltenhatn &G. Western 1001. sh. 72%1. 14 N 2,PtiQ ..... .... Clarence 1110/. sh. 1001 pd 20 ek.0 1 : 0 Dublin and Drogheda WM sh. Si. pd 184•4400 .... ..... Eastern Counties 4 51. sh. 23/, pd 9% 1000 5 per cent. Great North of England 1001. sh. ICOI. pd 8839 ) 0.918 le per cent. Grand Junction lOl.l. sit. all pd 182 25 00 4 per cent. Great Western 1001. sh. 05/. pd 93 1 4 25.000 3 per cent. Ditto New 50/. sh. 201. pd 61.% c ‘ ,coo 5 per cent Gosport Junction.. 5O/. sh. 50/. pd 29 2,00 , 1 A per cent. Hartlepool leo/. ch. 1601. pd 145% 8,000 ••• Hull and Selby 5O l. sh. 50/., pd 40 . 4 160 s per coat. Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 65 5000 10 per cent. Liverpool& Manchester 11)(3.5h. 100/. pd 188% 7,9 - 8 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares se/. pd 91 11,405 14 per cent. Dittosuarter Shares 251. pd 45 9644010 .. ....... London and Brighton 'OZ. sh. 501 pd 37 524,000 . 4 -, .... London and Blackwall 25/. sh. 251. pd 11% 21i i>:10 3 „ e . • ^ent. I nndon and Greenwich ...`2Ol. sO. 201. pd 5% 05 nno 9a i" • sh. London & Birminghant 100/. sn. 901. pd 1813 . s„:000 01, 71. Cd. Ditto Quarter Shares ....25/. sh. 51. pd :373 9 ssl,2so •,,/, ;sty.' 4d. Dit o New Shares 1121. sh. 321. pd 3t% 3t00g, 0 3 p e r et. London and S. Western Av. 381, 17s. Pd. (13i:: 1,20,100 ~„...... London and Croydon/ A 1 13 % Av. 3/. 15s. 9d. Ditto New Scrip... 13% 33,000 4..persl4. Dlanche , ,tsr and Leeds-lOU sh. 701. pd 87 13 000 Ditto lialf Shares 5Ol. 3111. psi :Sly 40.000 .....,..„, Manchester and Birmingham 70/.sh. 40/. 'B% Ditto Extension 7l. pd 2 10,0e0 2/.11 s. Midland Counties 'OO/. sh. 100/, pd 74 :15,000 2/. ()s. lgorth Midland 111.10 s. Ditto Ncw 4Ol. pd 3 % 30,2,6 3.1.105. NorSlterts and Eastern.... 50/. sh 45/. pd 43 P.. 6 0 issest,in and Wyre 5O!. sh. :IN. pd :16 5‘6,000 4 per cent. South .'tasters and Dover 1,0. , 0 1 0/. per cent. Stocktoss and Darlington .., 0,000 ~ o _ oo Thames klaven 5Ol. sh 51, pd 6,060 10/.1: er cent. York and MI Vorth NES Midland 50 . sh. 501. pd t 334 8,000 ... 4,( -, IL 5,. Alten l5/. (t 3 12/ it spd I% 0•4 Arlo Mclican,iss. 51 . pm. l eel. sh. a , '1 d 2 34 10.0 ..... . ... DA V.; Subscription .5/.00 :1 2,0n0 ......... Bolanes ......, 1 31)1. SA] all pd 11% IY,OOO 1 1. tOs ' Xraeiliaril nip. 151.51. pnv,..sl.sh. 211. pd 8% 84%0 . Ks s a ubas & Locass United 251.513.251. pd 4 1 i ... ~... 11 .000 ..... ... iilt e , St. John Doi Rey ...20/. sh. 1 il. pd I N 10 000 «....«.zoi iv. r Copper Company, 20/. sh. 20/. pd I lo.buu .... Di.. Scrip ...... ~..........10/, M. 101. pd 2 20 .06 0 ......... British 1. - en lOOl. eh. 701. pd 8 ,000 ..... .... British .Ic, 'Ter 51. sh. 441. pd 1 6 4 ..... -.. Ceta Bran '4. 64/. pd 514 Candonga..... IO,OCto I 1 Copiapo ..... ... 2O/.01. 1:3/. pi 0 0,500 Colinnbiar, , ists..sl. pm. - 55/. sh. 551. pd 0% 1:,:- . W A,. English l4/. Os. pd 3 20,000 ... G m eac i r c a a l n l% C li o n m in p g a A n c . s s. :clation2o/.5h.181. pd 3 % 6,15 lOO/.5n, Ges pd %um ......... Poiberou Consols 0 ,. lO/. sh. 8/. pd 4 :1,500 ..... .... Real del Monte, Un„ 9,istered Ditto Loan Not es _ , .... ... •••-•• 15 61. Pd 50 2 t 0. 0 ,10 .0.00 ,, United Mexican, 1 31 .2 p . es. Apd l. sh. all 3% Dart, Scrip ............... 1% Ditto New Scrip.. .. ... . ......."' an 41 Pd 3% West Cork .. ... "••••••••••••••50s. 501, pd 38 LITERA ItY INSTITUTIONs. j ,000 ......... London, with Bronze Ticket . " l bgt.sh. 13 5 i,51,0 ......... L ondon University ~,, 100;. 6 . all rd 7 70 0 Russell 25 t . 1 •0 1- h• 6 King' Collerze loOt. 19 3 1 5 MISCELLANEOUS. 1 8,000 355. Australian Agricultural.looL'sh. 28/. p 1 4 ' 37 „ i3,' to 1. percent. British Americ an Land Company 1 35e/.pd ti ,04., 61. per rest. Canada C0mpany ......... 100/. sh. 32i/. pd s X bet 51. per cent. Upper Canaea Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent l6O .1/. Os. General Steam Navigation 15/.. h.,141. pd 24% 10/..per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 11. London Com. Sale Rooms ....Av. 75/. sh 1934 ......... Caoutcheuc Company ley, psi 1 2 3 s New Brunswick Land Compaey...sol. pd n 5,'87 4/. pt r cent. Reversionary Int. 50c...100/. sh. loot. pd `905 >.,t :ti 5/. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 1001. pd 107 4.‘ 1 04 1 ...... Thames Tunnel 50/. sh. all pd • 10,9;10 6e. Van Die-ref.'s Land.... 1001. sh. 19i I. pd „11l 2u. JO LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRIM., MAY 4, 1842. BANKS. 1. 4 I,ofit,:. 49/, p. ct. tank Scotland...Bsl. Os. Bd. ;h. all pd f3l= •,011 ),nrer ci. ct. fir 3 , 41 of Scotland 1004 sh, all pd DIP .01;01. la. p. cc. British Lt-ien C,,mpAny 16 1 .11.5 h, all pci rog ) 1 1 .1 ,6 , 001. It. p. ct. Coinnierci.4l 'COL ih. 1004 pd 159 ) ;AR • G n. ct. Nation l . lOO/. s 10/. pelt 14/ g 3/. p. ct. Glasgow Union sh 504 pd SI 1,040 .04 4% p. et. We stern of S cotland sh 40/. pd 48 56 1 INSURANCE COMPANIES. 25 ,00 n t ,p. ct. Scottish Union . 20/ sh. 1 d 23s ed. 7,5n0 D. M. FlerculeA.. .... ...... foot *;ch. 10 1 / P • 10 0. 't. Insurance . t . '-o. o • 1 *********** **** 10 • / •-• h alird 1/ 51 p. ct. .4orth 11.ritish *• .. 2 101, pd t,MO in et. Fire...,, ***** 1 1 (1/ 4 ,„i* . 1. ° , 3 , :),(.0,) it , t). ct. 1.7,(14, ****** 1 • atlf , 3k p. at. West chkotial o°l * ' h • 1 0 ° , 1 ' P 44 . 1 / *** Ml. , t • LANruUS, **** P -4,81S zs.d Un • C.inalso/.uh. all pd 10 Ditto sh, all pd 413 C23,46( 1 1 per cent. Edinb. Joint St...vf water.2s/ , s h all pd 3 I.ol.glsh. 2-1 per cent. Shotts Iron kounci.v., , 304 sh 48 1. 0.000 s per cent. Edinburgh & Leith tliass 204 sh. 161 pd • 33, 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas... ~....2S/.sh. ;al fm 5 e 3,450 10 per cant. Glasgow Gas ...25/. rh, all pd 52 YIN ',7lspiecentr*Leith Coal Gas ...... 1.154 ' 'Edinburgh and Dalkeithtla tirraYsol.sl 3 30 QUICK PA 99;4E FROM EDINBURGH.--The General Skim ,Natigation dompani 's new steam-ship Princess Royal, that ar rived at Brown's Wharf. Poplar, yesterday morning, made th w passage from Granton Pier, Leith, in 39 hours, being the quit hest passage from thence. The General Steam Navigation Company's vessel, the Coln' 'tibiae, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom House, at 12 o'cic ck, on Monday night, with the Dutch mail. HOUSE OF .LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) Their Lordships sat to-day. to hear Writs of Error. The Judges were in attendance, together with the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, Lord Campbell, and Lord Kenyon. DOE V. MROTT. The Judges gave their opinions seriatim in this case, which was argued some time since. The judgments of their Lordships were ordered to be printed, and the further consideration of the case was adjourned, sine die. SHORE V. WILSON.-LADY HEWLET ' S CHARITY. The Judges also gave their opinions, seriatim, in this case, upon the questions propounded to them by their Lordships upon the hearing of that case on a Writ of Error. The principal question in the case was, whether the provisions of the will of Lady Howley were intended to apply to Unita rians or Trinitarians. All the Judges, with the exception of Mr. Justice Maule, were of opinion that the provisions were intended to apply to Trinitarians, to the exclusion of Unitarians. The judgments pronounced by their Lordships were ordered to be printed, and the further consideration of the case was adjourned. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) The Middlesex May Sessions were held this day, at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell-green, before Mr. Sergeant Adams, Chairman, and a full bench of Magistrates. The calendar presented a list of fifty-six prisoners, but none of the charges were of a very serious character; thirty-two are cases of felony, and the remainder are of a trivial nature. Helen Moore was indicted for stealing on the 6th instant, at Edmonton, a Mackintosh cloak, the property of Mr. Wilson, a Magistrate of the county. It appeared that on Friday last Mr. Wilson put up his horse and chaise at the Angel Inn, Edmonton, leaving his cloak in the chaise. In the course of the afternoon the cicak was missed, and subsequently found in the possession of the prisoner. Her defence was that it had been given to her by an hostler at the Bell. This person, however, produced a wit ness who swore that he was not out of the stable all the day. The person accused by the prisoner, was examined, and his answers were of a very unsatisfactory character. The Jury, without hesitation, acquitted the prisoner. The other cues were of the most trifling nature, and scarcely worth occupying the time of the Court. URSH OF EXCH., Amsterdam CF. 12 71 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 7ii Antwerp l2 Hamburgh M.B. 14 0 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto, 3 months 25 95 ' Marseilles Bour deans 25 95 Frankfort on Maine... 152 i Petersburgh, 3Us ... 364 Berlin... 7 Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 955 Trieste, ditto 9 56 Madrid Cadiz Bilbao 36 Barcelona Seville eINGE.—(THIS DAY.) I;Gibraltar ILeghorn ...... 30 15 Genoa !Milan 31 Venice . . 47 Naples Palermo, per oz 120 Lisbon Oporto 53 Rio Janeiro 27 Bahia Buenos Ayres New York, 21 days sight 46i Philadelphia 46 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin ...3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars... 0 4 9 Silver in Bars 0 4 1 THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) DOWNING-STREET, MAY 10. ...,... The Queen has been pleased to appoint P. R. Manlier, Esq., to the office of Civil Commissioner and Resident Magis trate for the district of Somerset, in the colony of the Cape of Good Hope. FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 10. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. James Ha garty, as Consul at Liverpool for the United States of America. CROWN-OFFICE, MAY 10. _ MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIA- MINT. B HTON. —The Hon. Alfred Hervey, commonly called Lord Alfred Hervey, in the room of Isaac Newton Wigney, Esq. ' who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Dorsetshire. The Hon. Henry Ashley, to be Deputy-Lieutenant ; George William Reptan, Esq., to be ditto, April 27. . . - . . - Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire. The Right Hon. John Winston Spencer Churchill Marquis of Blandford to be Deputy-Lieutenant ; James Morrill, junior, Esq. to be ditto, May 9. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire. Major W. Montgomerie to be Lieut.-Colonel ; Captain J. Fairlie to be Major, vice Montgomerie, promoted, March 12. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Lanarkshire. W. Waddell, Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant, April 9. Upper Ward and Airdrie Corps of Lanarkshire Yeomanry Cavalry—G. V. Irvine, Gent. to be Lieutenant ; A. T. Black wood, Gent. to be Cornet, April 26. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire. Newark Troop of Sherwood Rangers.—J. M. Sutton, Gent. to be Cornet, vice R. Hall, resigned. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Somersetshire. West Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry.—S. Lucas, Gent. to be Cornet, .May 6. WHITEHALL, MAY 4, 1842. _ The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Downes, of Lud low, in the county of Salop, Uent., to be a Master Extraordi nary in the High Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor has also appointed William Lister Welsh, of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. MATTHEW FOSTER, merchant, Crosby-hall-chambers, Bishopsgate-street, City. BANKRUPTS. JAMES ALEXANDER, musical wind instrument maker, Leadenhall-street, to surrender, May 18, at two, and June 21, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lackington, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings • Theobald, Staple-inn. CHARLES MARSHALL, Coleman-street-buildings; Old Castle-street, Whiteehapel, May 17 and June 21, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquar.d, Copthall-buildings, official assignee : Henderson, Mansell-street, Goodman's-fields. CHARLES HANCOCK, coal-merchant, Earl-street, Blackfriars, May 20, at eleven, and June 21st, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basing hall-street; Newbon and Evans, Wardrobe-place, Doctots'- commons. WILLIAM WARD, draper, Blackfriars-road, May 23, at one, and June 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Tur quand, Copthall-buildings, official assignee ; Reed and Co., Friday-street, Cheapside. DAVID LLOYD, timber dealer, Llanllwchaiarn, Mont gomeryshire, May 23, and June 21, at eleven, at the Royal Oak Inn, Welshpool. Owens, Newtown, Montgomeryshire ; Dean, Essex-street, Strand, London. EDWARD KEYS, china manufacturer, Hanley, May 18, and June 21, at eleven, at the Wheat Sheaf Inn, in Stoke upon-Trent. t..:tevenson, Stoke-upon-Trent ; Wilson, Fur nivals' Inn, London. E VAN REES, hatter, Worcester, May 21, and June 21, at eleven, at the Swan Hotel, Wolverhampton. Pargeter, Stourbridge ; Chaplin, Gray's Inn-square, London. EDMUND HENRY WALLER and WILLIAM WA TERS, timber merchants, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, May 16, and June 21, at eleven, at the King's Head Hotel, New port, Monmouthshire. Hall and Jenkins, Newport; Blower and wizard, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London. GEORGE FOORD, coal-merchant, Brighton, May 21, and June 21, at twelve, at the Town Hall, Brighton. Read. Worthing ; Palmer, France and Palmer, Bedford-row, Holborn, London. FRANCIS BAYNTUN, surgeon dentist, Bath, Mav 23 and June 21, at eleven, at the Castle and Ball Hotel, Bath. Richards and Walker, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London ; Drake, Broad.street, Bath. WILLIAM SMALLEY, corn-dealer, Sheepshead, Leices tershire, May 24 and June 21, at twelve, at the King's Head Inn, Loughborough. Parker, Loughborough ; Emmett and Allen, Bloomsbury-square. JOSEPH TILS f ON, silk-manufacturer, Macclesfield, Cheshire, May 20 and June 21, at one, at the Bull's Head Inn. Macclesfield. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Church yard, London ; Holbrook, Macclesfield. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPLIRS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—" When these gentlemen do agree, their unanimity is wonderful," as the Critic says. For the sake of some future approximation to purity of election, we congratulate the House of Commons on the unanimity apparent last night. It appears to have been felt on all sides that the thing denounced was " too bad" for defence, and that the notoriety furnished sufficient ground for the most searching inquiry. We have cited precedents from the times of Pitt ; and we might find resemblances in the same period of the attitude taken by the Minister of the day, when grave charges were brought forward, the pressing of which was likely to be inconvenient to some of his own friends. In the case of Warren Hastings, as in that of Lord Melville at a latter period, Pitt' did not hesitate to abandon to the tender mercies of the }louse of Commons a partisan or a colleague, whose impeach ment might find occupation for forensic activities, which might otherwise fix on points still more vital to his ministry. On this point, at least, the present Minister has taken a leaf from his alleged prototype ; and main tains that high profession of respect for whatever bears the name of Parliamentary privilege, which would cer- - tainly have been placed somewhat in jeopardy by an op posite course. We have nothing to do with the truth or falsehood of Major Beresford's angry reprisals on the Hon. - Member for Bath. The Hon. Member's motives are beside the question. A man may bribe from the best motives ; or at least he may so persuade himself. A man may expose bribery from the worst motives ; or may be said to do so: The public has nothing to do with mo tives, as it has no test for ascertaining them ; and can only infer sinister motives from illegal and illicit proceed ings. Neither have we the slightest disposition to impute peculiar turpitude to the acts of the parties implicated in these allegations. Those on whom the Tower of Siloam fell were not sinners above all the Galileans. Nor are we sanguine of a radical cure of the evil complained of by topical remedies. Moral evils so deeply seated, and in veterate, will hardly be reached by such means. It is „ ithin the memory of many persons acquainted with on o` of the towns implicated (Nottingham), that the fact of 11. 1- ving accepted a bribe was deemed so disgraceful 1 to a n a rtaber of an operative society, as to occasion his expulsimf." We fear this v i r t ue i s rare now , an d th a t n o law ca n drectly restore it. There is, however, a suffi cientprevailing in the country, extent .of sound opi n i on 0 enforce tha t all that l aw can do shall be done to limit ra..tniglpAolf malpractices. .-The debate u p on M r. R oe b uc k' s mo thes i :ion last night was conducted with a good temper and o f party petulance from Lord Palmerston, a gravity suitable to the subject. Notwithstanding a Lord John Russell satisfied with the spirit gene , the public ( hasli)!it': reason and more particularly manifested the displaye d, . encouragedtobeby Peel and Lord the speeches o f Sir Robert It struck us, however, in the first in- Asnley. • motion was not ht.me,e, that Mr. Roebuck's judiciously frame,d, and the progress of the debate confirmed us in this opinion : indeed, we cannot think that even the amended resolution adopted by the House_ is precisely 4 what .it ought to he, though we freely admit it be made effectual for its purpose. It is the may remark, in read. co mmonest thing in the world to ing a Parliamentary debate , that though the de bate may have been honestly conducted, and con ducted with ingenuity and talent of a high order, the real question has been lost, sight of. Of this last night's debate, in our opinion, affords a remarkable ex , maple. The real question was, the suggestion that bri t ery had been practised at Nottingham and the o ther places named ; but the question treated 1 4 it night was, not the question of bribery, but the question of compromise. And see what was the effect of this error. The compromise itself, and the crime of which it was supposed to be the cloak, were all treated as resting upon vague ru mour, and, therefore, by some considered as not calling for the interference of the House ; com promise, it was argued, may be innocent, or it may be the reverse, and we are bound in reason and in law to assume the better party of the alternative. Besides, there is no prece dent for bringing a compromise in question without some evidence to go upon, and to look for evidence from parties to a compromise is to call upon men to criminate themselves. The House, in effect, treated these flimsy quibbles and technicalities as they deserved ; but still the opponents of inquiry were left with the advantage that always belongs to those who resist a case not perfectly and satisfac torily made out. Now we contend that the House has sufficient matter—matter of record too—upon which to ground the inquiry upon which it has resolved ; viz.—in every one of the cases referred to, a petiticn, directly and specifically charging acts if bribery, has been presented— presented bymenwho have given their names and addresses and even entered into securities to prosecute the charge. TREMENDOUS FIRE AT HAMBURG. By the arrival of the General Steam Navigation Com pany's boat Caledonia, off the Tower, this evening (five o'clock), Captain IL Cheeseman, news has been brought of an immense conflagration which took place on Thurs day morning last, at one o'clock, in that city. The district in which the fire broke out consists entirely of wood tenements, chiefly of five and six stories high, and covering an area of ground of about thirty to forty acres. The whole of the buildings on this large space have been totally consumed to the number of (to our in formant's best supposition) more than 1,000. The fire ori ginated in the street known by the name of the Stein Twite, is the warehouse of a Jew, named Cohen, a cigar manufac turer, and who, upon good grounds, has been taken up on suspicion as the incendiary. The wind at the time blew a stout north-west, which caused the flames rapidly to spread ; and proceeding in the direction of Rodings market, and from thence to Deich-street, entirely con suming the whole of the following streets, among which is the floppen-market and St. Nicholas Church, a fine stone fabric, and the handsomest in Hamburgh . Grutz Twite, Cresanon (back ancient°, Grosser Burstah, Muhlen Brucke, Alte Borse, Bohnen Strasse, Monkedam Twitc, Altewall Strasse, Grosse and Rlaire, Johannes Strasse, Nassewall, (partially), Alter and Neuer Jung fersticy Berg, New Berg Strasse, St. Petrie Trichie, Kunigs Strasse, Greenhoff a Grasskiller (partially), Rathhaus, Borsenhalle, Zuichhaus, Spinnhaus, and De tenwinshaus, Schmidt Wassenkunst, (Nue Bose), Zuch strausse Strasse, Kunst, Caulstrausse, Kobdam, Dull haus, Sperort, and Steinstrauses, till ten o'clock in the morning of May 7. A body of one thousand Prussians were immediately marched into the town, and waggons and ammunition from the King of Hanover were brought down the Elbe to blow up the houses and to stop the copflagration. The principal houses and hotels, among which were the Exchange, Strait's Hotel, St. Peter's Church, the Post-office, the Bank, Spinnbauss's Hotel, and several others, with their costly property, have not a wreck left. The whole presents a mass of ruins, fallen into the dykes which intersected the streets. Upwards of 100 lives have fallen a prey. Owing to the inadequacy of the engines, little could be effected, and the strenuous efforts of the people themselves were of no avail. At the time of its occurrence no water was procurable, owing to the tide being low, so that the street-canals were dry. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY tO, 1842. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of May 10.) SUGAR.—To-day the assortment at market of West India Sugar was preVy good ; buyers evinced little inclination to do business, although the merchants wore disposed to meet them, and the demand both for the scale and pan was limited, the purchases not exceeding 220 hhds and tea, and the prices accepted were 6d to is under those of Friday, making the decline since Tuesday last, when the market was at its highest 2s to 3s per cwt. The inactivity in the market is chiefly caused by the continued large arrivals of West India, Mauritius, and Bengal Sugar. New Jamaica Sugar to-day was sold as follows—strong grey at 62s 6d, low yellow 63s 6d to 645, mid bright 64s 6d to 655, good 66s to 675, and fine 68s to 70s per cwt. REFINED.—Tn-day the home trade operated with caution in refined goods ; the refiners were desirous to sell, and ac cepted 83s 6d per cwt. for standard lumps. Treacle was taken sparingly, and lower rates were accepted—common selling at 275, patent 28s to 30s, and Golden Syrup 3ls 6d to 32s 6d per cwt. Pieces met with a slew sale at 61s to 735, being cheaper ; but Bastards were in fair request at the rates quoted above. In Bonded Crushed Sugar few sales were made at 28s per cwt. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon importers were desirous to sell, and the trade operated with caution, 5,679 bags at public sale went off heavily, and prices further gave way Is to Is 6d per cwt, the whole of the Sugar, however, found purchasers • low yellow went at 59s 6d to 60s, mid 6 1 s to 62s 6d, good bright 63s to 655, and fine 67s to 68s per cwt. EAST INDlA.—lmporters of Bengal Sugar have been anxious to realize, and having brought forward large parcels have de pressed prices 6d to I s for white and strong yellow sorts ; the demand however has been good, and most of the Sugar offered has been disposed of, but brown and soft yellow kinds have moved off slowly, Is to Is 6d udder last Tuesday's rates. Manilla at 16s 6d to 17s for good brown. Java, at 17s to 19s 6d for low to fine grey. Siam, at 20s to 21s or common and mid white, and at 17s to 20s for low to fine yellow. FOREIGN.—Holders of yellow Havannah remain firm, and have refrained from offering any at public sale; by private con tract a good demand has existed. Holders of Brazil have been more inclined to sell, and have submitted to a reduction on previous rates of 6d to Is per cwt for brown, and 6cl for white sorts, this however has led to a fair business. Bahia, white at 225, and brown at 17s. MoLAssEs.—West Indian Molasses have met with less at tention, and only a small business has been transacted ; holders have obtained full rates. COFFEE.—The demand privately has been limited for West India Coffee, the trade taking only ample for their immediate vants, thinking that as the market will shortly be better sup plied that they will be enabled to purchase on more advan tageous terms. This afternoon there was no public sale of Coffee, and by private contract few purchases were made; those ?arties that are disposed to sell have been compelled to take easier rates. 75s is the value of good ordinary Ceylon, 76s for fine ordinary Company's Java. The arrivals of East India Coffee have been 13,000 bags since this day week. The St. Vincent Planters has arrived from Jamaica with 267 tree. and 141 barrels Coffee. TEA.—The market has been in a very dull state for all descriptions of Tea during the past week ; and so limited have been the transactions that it is difficult to quote prices; trifling parcels sold, however, has been at rates in favour of buyers. The sales went off with much heaviness for both Black and Green Tea ; and although the merchants were disposed to realize, still the trade could not be induced to take more than their immediate wants required, at a reduction on former rates of Id to ld. RlCE.—Yellow qualities of Bengal at 6s 9d to 8s per cwt. White kinds have declined 6d per cwt. Java at full rates. Carolina Rice at 25s to 30s, and Patna at 14s to 19s per cwt. This afternoon Bengal sold at 8s to 8s 6d for broken and dusty white being the full value. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—The market is better supplied with West India Rum, 2000 puns, &c., having been received since this day week ; Jamaica 4s 6d to 4s 8d for ordi nary quality, 30 to 32 per cent. over proof. Leewards at 2s 4d to 2s 5/d for proof to 2 per cent. over. In Mau ritius and strong Demerara nothing has been done. East India Rum at the high duty at Is 61c1 to Is 7d, and at the low duty at Is 9/el to Is 10d per gallon. For Brandy we have a firm market. Cognac first brands of the vintage of 1836, hhds 5s 7d, puns 5s 5d ; ditto 1837, hhds 33 3d, puns 5s ld; ditto 1838, hhds 5s Id, puns 4s 1I d ; ditto hhds 4s 6d, puns 4s 4d; ditto 1840, hhds 4s, puns 3s 10d per gallon. Geneva, common, at Is Ild to 2s per gal lon. English Corn Spirits, 10s, cash. To-day the market as dull for all sorts of Rum, and prices are looking down -2s 4d accepted for Proof Leewards. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships met shortly before five o'clock. The Bristol Floating Dock Bill was read a second time. Several Bills on the table were advanced a stage. The Victoria Park Bill passed through Committee, and was ordered to be read a third time on Thursday. The Exchequer Bills Bill (190,0001.) passed through Committee, and was ordered to be read a third time on Thursday. The Kensington and Knightsbridge Openings Bill also 'passed through Committee, and was ordered to be read a third time on Thursday. SUNDAY TRAFFIC ON CANALS. Lord HATHERTON gave notice that he would on Friday present petitions on this subject, and that he would take the opportunity of asking her Majesty's Ministers whethbr it was their intention to take any step upon thesuggestion which he ventured to offer last year, that a permissive (not a compulsory) Act should be passed to enable the Directors of canals, if they thought proper, to make regulations for preventing Sunday traffic on their canals ? The Copyright Bill was read a second time. A Message from the Commons brought up Benecke's and Fierville's Naturalisation Bills, Weatherby and Boroughbridge Roads Bill, and some other private Bills, which were severally read a first time. BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS. Lord BROUGHAM rose to bring the subject of bri bery at elections before their Lordships, a subject he had before troubled their Lordships upon. He was induced to call the attention of their Lordships on that occasion to the subject, as a Select Committee had been appointed in another place, for the purpose of inquiring into certain corrupt compromises that had been made , %ith respect to charges of bribery. A Bill had been introduced into that House on the subject some time ago, and there was then on their Lordships' table a Bill ready to be read a tecond time ; but they both differed from each other as widely as they possibly could. The Noble Lord then took a review of the two Bills as sent up from the other House. Their Lordships could not by possibility have given their consent to the former Bill in the shape it was in when first presented. The Bill introduced a year ago, was not introduced prospectively, unlike that at present before their Lordships. The Bill of last year provided that the witness was to tell all he knew to the husband against th e w if e , an d even the counsel to give up his client. No such provision was in the present Bill, passing . into a law that which was con trary to the first principles of English justice, that of calling in the counsel to divulge the secrets of his client, and that agent not a party to the bribery at all, but to whom the acts of bribery had been con veyed, in order to the defence before the Committee. Thus was the man called upon by the Bill to give evidence. The absurd part of the Bill was, that the witness would be indemnified provided he con cealed nothing, but told the whole truth. This was the most absurd part of the Bill. Anything more impossble for their Lordships to give their assent to never entered their Lordships' House. But if it be said why did you not alter the Bill more than by leaving out three ..clauses, his answer was, that the Bill came up to the House on the eve of the dis solution, and that to make even the one alteration it was necessary to take it, not in Committee, but upon bringing up the Report for the sake of saving one day. He, therefore, in order to show that their Lordships were of all men in the world the last to countenance suc h practices as had prevailed, and that they might show the utter want of foundation. in the charge of which he had spoken of their Lordships havinc , thrown diffi culties in the way of providing a remedy—he urged them to pass the Bill which he had proposed. He thought -it was the highest injustice to cast any reproach upon those who, having petitioned for seats to which they felt they were entitled, but with. Arwan their petitions on the seats being resigned. The man who petitioned did so in his private capacity, and was not bound to expose himself to the expellee and delay of a contested election in Committee, when his adversary abandoned the seat to him. No one abhorred more than he did the corrupt practices which had prevailed.; but it was the worst thing that could be done for the cause of morality to make exaggerated charges ; for then the general sense of mankind was roused in favour of the accused party as of a person who was unjustly attacked. He concluded by moving the second reading of the Indemnity to Witnesses Bill. He was confident that the Bill would greatly assist in putting an end to the corruption which was universally admitted and notorious, and to put down which nothing more was neces sary than the cordial co-operation of both Houses of Par liament. - - The Earl of WICKLOW said the Noble and Learned Lord ought to have given notice of his motion. He (the Earl of Wicklow) perfectly agreed in the principle of the Bill, his objection to it ;vas on a point of form. Lord BROUGHAM said he did not think that any notice was necessary. The LORI) CHANCELLOR said that all difficulty would be obviated if the Noble Lord would consent to postpone his motion till to-morrow, and take the discus sion in the Committee. . The Earl of WICKLOW said, that whether it was a matter of form or only a custom of courtesy to give no tice, he thought the custom ought to be adhered to. Lord BROUGHAM wat understoop to assent to the proposal of the Noble and Learned Lord on the Wool sack. Earl FITZWILLIAI presented petitions from Hud derston and other places against the Income-tax. Lord MELBOURNE presented a petition from Aber deen, praying for the abolition of Church patronage in Scotland. vv ... The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a number of petitions against any alteration in the tariff. Lord CLIFFORD (of Chudleign) presented petitions from Somerset and other places, complaining of Roman Catholic grievances in the army and navy. The Noble Lord said that he should withdraw his mo tion of which he had given notice, for a Com mittee to inquire into the treatment of certain Roman Catholics in the presidency of Madras. The Noble Lord proceeded to state his reasons for with drawing his motion. It was not for the pUrpose of advocating any certain class which had induced him to bring it forward, but one motive was, that the House should be put in possession f information not possessed by the House prior to the 23d of September, and another reason was, that he was led to vindicate the memory of a Noble Friend of his upon whom aspersions totally without foundation had been cast. In withdrawing his motion he wished it to be understood that he had not at all changed his opinion, as to this subject, fur he still believed that if the system was continued it would much endanger her Majesty's dominions in the East. (LEFT SITTING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four. The Ferry Bridge and Borough-bridge Road Bill was read a third time, and passed. Mr. MUNTZ presented a petition from Birmingham against the Stourbridge Road Bill. On the motion of Mr. LYALL, the Indemnity Mutual Marine Assurance Company was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. ___ GLASGOW AND AYR RAILWAY BILL. Lord J. STUART moved that the House should agree to the Lords' Amendments to the Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway Bill. Sir J. EAST HOPE moved, as an amendment, that the Bill should be recommitted to the former Committee, fur the purpose of considering the amendments. Lord J. STUART believed the course adopted by the Hon. Member for Leicester was most unusual, and he should, therefore, resist the motion. After a few observations from Mr. Fox Maule, Mr. Dennistoun, Sir A. Leith Hay, Mr. Brotherton, and Mr. Grimsditch, Strangers were ordered to withdraw, and the House divided : The numbers were— For the recommittal of the Bill 54 For the Lords' amendments l5 Majority —39 THE FACTORY CHILDREN. Col. SIBTHORP presented a petition from a place in Yorkshire, in favour of a Bill to prevent children, under thirteen years old, being employed in factories more than ten hours daily. " The Lords' amendments to the Glasgow and Redburn Bridge Road, and to the Cottingham Drainage, were agreed to without a division. The Warkworth Harbour Bill was read a third time and passed. The Farmers' and Gardeners' Hail-storm Insurance Company Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. _ _ Benecke's Naturalisation Bill was read a third time and passed. The Lords' amendments to the Buckland Enclosure Bill were agreed to. Mr. MUNTZ presented a petition from a place in Yorkshire, prayiug i th; c :u i s E e_t T o A_ p x l.s . s a law to limit the labour of all persons employed in factories to fifty-eight hours per week. Mr. H. F. BERKELEY presynted a petition from the solboitors of Bristol, praying that they might be --- exempt from the operation of the Income-tax ; also a petition frompraying for an alteration in the p res entsy st em of Bristol, levying the duty on railway passen gers ; also a petition from the same place, complainingof the alteration in the Colonial law, whereby the ex portation of biscuits and other articles was lost to the British manufacturer. Mr. DARBI presented a petition praying for no reduction in the duty on the importation of foreign cattle. Mr. FERRAND presented a petition from Ashton under-Lyne, praying the House to take some measures to prevent the truck system in the manufacturing districts. . Mr. M. GIBSON presented a petition from an indivi dual in Manchester, praying that all protection in con sumable articles might be abolished. Also a petition from the Wesleyan Methodists of Ma nchester, praying for a total repeal of the Corn-laws. Aso a petition from Manchester, praying that the duty on phosphorus might be taken off. EDUCATION. Mr. ORMSBY GORE presented a petition in favotir of Church Education in Ireland. REPEAL OP TrIE UNION. O'CONNE4LL presented petitions from Water ford. Kerry, and other places, in favour of a repeal of the Union, universal suffrage, and vote by ballot. POOR LAWS. Mr. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from a private individual, complaining of the operation of the New Poor-law. MAYNOOTII. Sir H. DOUGLAS presented a petition from Liver pool, praying for inquiry into the system of education pursued at Maynooth. THE TARIFF. Mr. HAWES presented petitions from the county of Surrey nainst various provisions of the tariff. Captain PECHELL presented petitions from Chiches ter and Worthing, against the importation of cattle. Mr. CUMMING BRUCE pre9,ented petitions to the same effect. PUBLIC WALKS. Mr. HUME presented a petit on from the inhabitants of Southwark, Lambeth, Finsbury, and the more crowded parts of the metropolis. The petitioners begged to call the attention of the House to the Reports on public walks, on the health of towns, and of the Poor-law Commissioners; and they prayed the House to afford them such assistance as should enable them to obtain additional public parks or walks, and they begged to point out the neighbourhood of High-street, Newington, Walcot Terrace, Kensington, Road, and the Zoological Gardens, as places where such parks might be established. EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN IN FACTORIES. Mr. STUART WORTLEY said, he rose to present a remarkable petition. It was from nearly 300 muslin spinners and manufacturers in the West R idin g of the county of York. They sta t e d that the children in their employ a t present la b oure d twelve hours a day of actual labour, besides two hours a day for meals. They stated that there was no necessity whatever for such long hours in these factories. They concluded by say ing that such a state of things made them reduce the wages of their operatives, and they prayed the House to limit the hours of labour to ten hours a day for chil dren between 13 and 14 years of age. NOTTINGHAM ELECTION. Mr. PHILIP HOWARD, in rising to move the issue of a new writ for the election of a Member to serve in this present Parliament for the town of Nottingham, in the room of Sir George de Hochepied Larpent, who has accepted the office of Steward of the Chitern Hundreds, said that with neither political party in Nottingham had. he thy; least connexi , ,m, bat it was with great alarm that he saw that a full and populous town was about to be deprived of the benefits of representation. and deprived. of those benefits without proof of delinquency. He. 1' egged leave, therefore, to move that Mr. Speaker would. issue a writ for the election of a Member to serve for the. borough of Nottingham in that House. Mr. ROEBUCK commenced in a very low tone of voice He was ur.derstood to say that he believed the reason for the sus?ension of the issue of a new writ for the borough of Nottingham, was on account or certain. (corrupt practices which prevailed there, and . he believed that if the case had been fully examined before the Select Committee they would have recommended the House not to issue a writ.—(Hear, hear.) He had no desire to say more on the case than_ he had already said, but he would ask the House whe— t'Jer if they were even to suspend the issue of a writ, this. was not a case in which such a course ought to be pursued? charges had been brought against the town, against one. of the Hon. Gentlemen who had accepted the Chiltern. Hundreds, and against the present Member. The House. was now about to inquire into those transactions, foul as. he asserted them to be, and he entreated the House gravely to consider whether, under those circumstances, they sanction the immediate issuing of a writ. It had been stated the non-issuing of a writ might be looked upon as an infringement of the liberties of the people. But he did not regard it in that light. ' The town had been already disgraced by its own proceedings, and under the circumstances he should object .to the motion before the House. Mr. GODSON thought that the writ should be issued. It was stated by his Hon. and Learned Friend the Mem ber for Bath, that a corrupt bargain had been entered into between the Member for Nottingham and a third party, but that was not an offence on the part of, the electors ; and he did not think that under those circumstances they should be deprived of the privileges of the constitution. If the House was to inquire into Such a subject they might as well do away with Election Committees altogether. The constituency of Nottingham ought not to be pre judiced by what was done by parties in London, sup posing that anything had been done, and he would theretore support the motion. Mr. WARD said that the Hon. and Learned Gentle man was at least consistent in the course he was pur suing, for he had taken the opportunity of moving for the writ at a late hour, as if he were conscious that he had not quite so good a case as he had in Southampton—(Cheers)—as otherwise he did not chink he would have moved that the writ should issue at the hour of one o'clock in the morning.—(Cheers.) His Honourable Friend (Mr. Howard) had at least taken a more manly course, because he moved for it in the light of day, though he (Mr. Ward) thought he had not shown much judgment in moving for it. — (Hear, hear.) He regretted that such a motion should have originated on those benches.—(Loud cheers.) If the House of Commons had determined on taking the course best qualified to lower its character in the estimation of the country, it would be by doing that which his Honourable Friend pressed upon them. If the House, after determing one day that there were grounds, not of inquiry into the existence of certain compromises, as was said by the Honourable and Learned Member for Kidderminster, but for an inquiry into gross bribery, alleged to have been committed at the last Nottingham election, in which the constituency was said to be implicated, the House was now to decide that a writ was to issue without an investigation into the fact, what would the country say ? They held out hopes, and they made their fulfilment im possible.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") The Committee which was to be appointed ought to have instructions to proceed with the Nottingham case first, because the facts might be instantly ascertained, and the writ ought to be suspended as short a time as possible. But if the facts were proved, as he thought they would be, he doubted whether the writ for Nottingham would ever issue, but until the facts was proved, he should give his direct negative to the motion. Sir R. PEEL said,'! , that having been asked a question last night with regard to the issuing of the writ for the town of Nottingham, he ventured to advise that it would be better for some one to give notice of his intention to move it, and the Hon. Gentleman had taken the course he ventured to recommend. If they adopted no proceedings in the case, there could be no sufficient justification for the refusal of the writ.— (Hear, hear.) But proceedings having taken place, the case was altered. 'rhe seat of the Hon. Member for Nottingham having been declared valid, and the next day having accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, that was cited as a strong proof of the necessity for inquiry ; and he confessed that the House, having determined to insti tute the inquiry, he thought it would be inconsistent not to proceed with the inquiry in - the first instance. At the same time the suspension of a writ was a matter of great importance, and they were bound to interpose as short an interval as possible. Upon the whole, how ever, he was of opinion, although he would admit the subject was not free from doubt, that it would be the least inconsistent course they could adopt to suspend the issuing of the writ for the present—(Cheers)—and therefore he should vote for the issuing of the writ being for the present suspended.—(Cheers.) Sir R. INGLIS was one of those who thought that public opinion would not much longer allow that that House or its Committees should be permitted to decide on questions of election law. He would not attempt to do that indirectly which he had failed the other evening in doing directly. He could net consent to accede to the motion of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman for suspending the issue of the writ, unless the Honourable and Learned Gentleman could pro duce a precedent. He (Sir Robert Inglis) ventured to assert that there was no instance of the issue of a writ having been suspended, unless upon the Report of a Committee. In all the instances in which the issue of a writ had been suspended, a Committee had reported the existence of bribery in the borough, and in many instances the Members themselves had been reported to have been implicated. In the present instance the allegations rested solely on the authority of the Hon. and Learned Member for Bath — (Hear, hear)—and without meaning 'anything disrespect ful to the Hon. and Learned M ember, he must say that low as he considered the authority of an Election Com mittee, he still considered the Report of such a Com mittee as better than the unsupported testimony of any Honourable Member.•--(Hear, hear.) Unless the Honourable Member could produce a precedent, he (Sir R. Inglis) could certainly not consent to the suspension of the issue of the writ. He would not enter into further discussion on the subject, but content him. self with stating his determination to oppose the motion of the Hon. Member for Bath, unless he could produce some precedent of the issuing of a writ having been suspended under similar circumstances. Mr. WYNN felt considerable hesitation and doubt on this subject. He thought that a locutory instruction ought to be given to the Committee to proceed in the first instance with the Nottingham case, and that they should have the power to report from time to time upon that case before they entered upon any other. Mr. C. WOOD said, that the Rignt Hon. Gehtleman who had just down, had expressed the very sentiments on this subject, which he (Mr. C. Wood) felt, and the Right Hon. Gentleman had done so in a manner that left it unnecessary for him (Mr. C. Wood) to say more upon it. He thought that the objection taken by the Hon. Gentleman opposite (Sir R. H. Inglis) was taken a day after the fair. It was true that the motion agreed to last evening, to appoint a Committee to inquire into the existence of bribery at the elections referred to was without precedent, but when, under extraordinary circumstances an extraordinary proceeding had been adopted by the House, the Honourable Gentleman would find it impossible to discover a precedent, where, under like circumstances, the House had refused to suspend the issuing of the writ, until the inquiry directed to be instituted, had been terminated. He apprehended, therefore, that according to all former precedent, and certainly according to reason and com mon sense, it would be preposterously absurd to issue a writ to a place which was under an accusation of bribery, that accusation being so far sanctioned by the House, that a Committee had been appointed to inquire into its truth. Colonel SIBTHORP supported the motion. If there were an inquiry into bribery and corruption, it ought to embrace every case that was known to have occurred. Why, it was said that the Noble Lord, the Member for the city of London—he did not know for how many places besides—had been returned by nine dead men.— (Hear.) He had heard a great deal too on the subject of bribery at St. Alban's.—(Hear, hear.) He hoped the Hon. Member for Carlisle would take the sense of the House. Mr. JAMES opposed the motion, on the ground that no writ onght to be issued whilst the inquiry as to bribery was still pending. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, but no d!vision took place, and on our re-admission to the gal v we found .N-t.r. P. HOWARD on his legs, deprecating the refusal to isa'ue the writ for a large commercial town like Not tingham, upon the eve of a question of great commercial importance— namely, the tariff. He would not persevere against what he considered the opinion of the Reuse— (hear, hear)—but he was anxious to enter his solemn protest against suspending the liberties of the people without proof that there was ground to do so. He thought the House might, without stultifying itself, adopt the proposition of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Montgomery. Mr. F. FRENCH believed that the Right Honourable Baronet had acted upon an erroneous supposition in re fusing to agree to the issuing of the writ. Lord J. RUSSELL said, he could not agree to the issue of the writ in the present uncertain state of affairs. At the same time, it would be unjsst to take this borough the first. After a short discussion between Sir R. Peel, Mr, French, Mr. Roebuck, and Mr. Wynn, Mr. HOWARD withdrew his motion. NEW WRIT. On the motion of Sir T. FREMANTLE, it was age eed that the Speaker should issue his warrant to the Cle.rk of the Crown in Ireland, to issue a new writ for the county of Londonderry, in the room of Sir R. Bate son, who had accepted the office of Steward of the Chit tern Hundreds. Mr. G. BANKES presented a petition from the island of Portland against a removal of the duty upon foreign stone. lle siiculd give notice, therefore, that he should move, at the proper time, that the duties on the importa tion of forcign stone should not cease, but continue as heretofore. ELECTION COMMITTEES. Mr. ROEI3UCK rose to move for a Bill to indemnify those parties who should give evidence before the Read ing, Nottingham, Harwich. Lewes, and Falmouth Com mittees. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD rose to move that a Committee be appointed to inquire whether the tenants of Lords in Parliament and Lords Spiritual, were not by the Act of Richard 11., cap. 12, exempted from the payment of Knights in Parliament, on the prin ciple that they were incapacitated from exercising the elective franchise—(Loud laughter)—and that the Committee should further report whether the said Act for levying the wages of Knights of Parliament was not still in force and unrepealed.—(Laughter.) And also, whether Annual Parliaments and Unixersal Suffrage ever formed a practical ingredient in the Constitution of England. SAVINGS BANKS. Mr. HUME gave nove note that he would postpone the motion of which he had given notice, respecting savings banks, till the 2d of June. MAY` GOTH COLLEGE—PRIVILEGE. _ Mr. SHEIL said that he perceivWilie Hon. and Gal lant Officer opposite had presented a p et i t i on this evening from Liverpool, very numerously signed, with regard to the College of Maynooth. The petition was crouched in very strong language which induced him to read it, and he observed that the names were written in the same hand. It vas wrong to attach names to a petition without the authority of those whose signatures were attached. He therefore wished to know whether the attention of the Hon. and Gallant Officer had been directed to the names, and whether the names attached to the petition were ap pended by the authority of those who signed it. Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS begged leave to say that the petion was put into his hands on coming into the House, and he had not time to scrutinise the names. But there was the petition itself. and he, recommended the Right Hon. and Learned Gen tleman to look over the names himself.—(Cries of " Oh, oh !") His (Mr. Shiel's) well known acuteness and ability made him much more competent to execute that task than he (Sir H. Douglas).—(" Oh, oh !") But he knew there was a strong feeling in Liverpool on the subject. Mr. SHIEL then gave notice that he would to-morrow move that the petition be referrer:lA° the Committee of Privilege, for the purpose of ascertaining and reporting to the House whether there was not a breach of privilege apparent in the form of the petition.—(Hear.) BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS. Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice that he would on Friday move for leave to bring in a Bill for preventing bribery and corruption at elections. SUDBURY ELECTION. Mr. REDDINGTON rose to move for leave to bring in a Bill to exclude the borough of Sudbury from sending burgesses to Parliament., (There prevailed great noise and confusion in the House owing to Members leaving their places at the commencement of the Hon. Member's speech.) He said he had to call the attention of the House to another chapter in the history of corrup tion. He hoped he should be able to arrest the attention of the House, and that the Right Hon. Baronet, Sir R. Peel would not disregard the question, because it was brought forward by one so humble as himself, and who so long breathed the impure air of a Southampton election. He was well aware that of all privileges, the franchise was the most important, and that it was one which ought riot lightly be taken away. But at the same time time that he re garded it in that light, he always thought it was due to those who honestly exercised their right, to protect their suffrage from being neutralised or nulified by those who used theirs corruptly.—(Hear. hear.) It was with that view, the House had always marked its dis pleasure at corruption on the part of a Member, or of a constituency, He thought he should be able to show that the case which was now calling the atten tion of the House was one which ought to be marked with the greatest severity. It was true that even after Election Committees had recommended the disfranchisement of a bo rough, the House had always been unwilling to take away the franchise, without having first ascertained all the facts in the fullest manner, and the Report of the Election Com mittee had been referred to a Select Committee. Not many years ago a measure had been brought in by the Noble Lord, the Member for the City of London, for the repression of bribery at elections. In the debate on that Bill the Right Hon. Baronet, the Member for Tamworh, and he (Mr. Reddington) would not wish for a more ar dent advocate for the suppression of bribery than the Right Hon. Baronet. In that debate the Right Hon. Baronet had said that what the House would require in every instance of bribery before proceeding to a measure of disfranchisement, would be to be well satisfied of the exist ence of the fact, and that the evidence required would be such as would not only be satisfaCtory to this House, but to the other House of Parliament also. The Right Hon. Baronet hsd also stated that in his opinion the Committee for the conducting of any investigation on such questions ought to be nominated by the Speaker ; and that a Bill founded upon the Report of the Committee, should be sent up to the other House of Parliament. In the case of the borough of Sudbury, all these conditions had been almost literally complied with. The Committee had been nominated nnder the provisions of the Right Hon. Baronet's own measure for the trial of controverted elections. So that it might be said to have been nominated by the Speaker, who appointed the Com mittee of Selection by which the Election Committee was chosen. He would now proceed briefly to narrate to the House the circumstances which had occurred at the last election for Sudbury. The nomination took place' on a Monday, and the election on the Tuesday follow ing. Up to six o'clock on the preceding Sunday night, neither of the candidates who were returned had made their appearance in the borough. One arrived on the Sunday evening and the other on the Monday morning, and within 36 hours after their arrival they were both re turned as the Members for Sudbury. In some cases of bribery certain corrupt individuals were employed,and they endeavoured to tempt others into corruption in Sudbury, there was no necessity to have recourse to such mea sures. The votes were bought openly in the market. There were the hustings and two public-houses, and the stream of corruption could be traced uninterruptedly from the one to the other during the whole election. He would now endeavour to show how many of the voters of Sudbury appeared to have acted in this man ner. One of the first witnesses examined was a con stable of the borough of Sudbury. On the morning of the polling this man stated that he saw a great number of people run up to the hustings ; that he saw also as many as two hundred electors come from the black boy go up to the Hustings and vote for the late Members. Now, what took place at that inn ? Why, the number of persons there was so great that the stairs nearly broke down, and when the parties were asked what they wanted, they said they were going for their money. lle thought after this the House would entertain but little doubt what the course adopted had been. That with respect to the Swan Inn, the money was handed out to the electors at that place by a person who had not yet been dis covered, because nothing more was seen of him than his hands. The same crowd of people surrounded that hotel, they got tickets, and when they had got them they were told to go to a certain place, and that there they would get four sovereigns for it. He thought he had shown, at least, that there were grounds enough for biiiiging in this Bill. He had shewn that two hundred voters had been grossly and systematically bribed during the last elec tion. It was utterly impossible that two can didates could have arrived on the eve of the election, and have found men so perfectly organised as the voters of Sudbury were, ready to go up to the poll next morning in batches of eight and ten, the leaders returning to take up other bodies of the same kind. Did the House suppose that this was a recent occurrence in the borough of Sudbury, or one of a usual character ? At the election of 1780, the grossest bribery . was alleged but the bribery of that period, was carried on in the darkness of night, but at present it was not even so con cealed. He would also ask the House to look at the evidence given before the Commissioners ap pointed to inquire into the condition of the hand-loom weavers of Sudbury, in 1837, in which evidence was given at a time and under cir cumstances more favourable for ascertaining the state of the room, than the inquiry before an election Committee. One gentlemen, examined before the Committee, stated that, at the election of 1835, bribery had been carried on in the borough to an unprecedented extent ; and he added that he believed that if the sum given in bribes was divided among the whole constituency, It would amount to between 301. and 35/. to each elector. (LEFT SPEA.EING) IMPEItIA L PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, May 9. THE MAGISTZZATES OF SUNDERLAND. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said he had lis tended with the greatest attention and respect to the speech of the Noble Marquis, and he thought the Noble Marquiss's desire must have been to have a run at her Majesty's Government, and the latter part of it was cer tainly to arm an opposition to her Majesty's prero gative, which he ought not to have mixed up with his statement of evidence.—(Hear, hear.) It seemed as though,' after the reply the Noble Marquis had received from the Noble and Learned Lord on the Woolsack, he had armed himself and come down to that House for a determined attack upon the humble individual who then addressed them. He (the Marquis of Londonderry) hoped before he sat down to be acquitted from the charge brought against him by the Noble Marquis. To commence, he must undoubtedly declare that he was a little hurt at the want of courtesy of the Noble Marquis the other evening. Had it been the intention of the Noble Marquis to hare asked him (the Marquis of Londonderry) any question, he certainly might have, given him notice, either in the morning or even in the evening of that clay, in order that he (the Marquis of Londonderry) might have been prepared to answer the question. Ho could not see why the Noble Marquis did not read the conclusion of the communication he had received—the postscript. In his (the Marquis of Londonderry's) copy of the communication, the post cript ran " a copy of the resolutions has been forwarded to Lord Normanby, as also Sir Hedworth who is now in town.' The Marquis of NORMANBY—That could not have been addressed to me, because it refers to my letter. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said the Noble Marquis must allow him to give his reasons why he did not volunteer this statement on a former evening. Now as Sir Hedworth Williamson was in town, he might have called upon him (the Marquis of Normanby) to have given bias some explanation. This subject had been dis cussed on the 30th of April, and he (the Marquis of Londonderry) had received a letter from Sunderland on the 23d. The letter stated that the appointments in Sunderland were all Whigs, and there was still a ma jority of two in favour of the Whigs. In Gateshead there were two Conservatives under the appointment of the late Government, and now there were four. The Ncble Marquis then read the names of the Magistrates in Sunderland. From this it would appear that ten were declared Whigs. He still believed his authority, and was he therefore not justified, having received this communication on the 23d April, in making the state ment he did ? The Marquis of NORMANBY—WiII the Noble Marquis state the name of his corresponpent ? The Marquis of LONDONDERRY had no objection if the House wished it.—(No, no.) Me, the Marquis of Londonderry) had received a letter last night, in which was this passage—" I have just learned that Mr.. Spoore, who sent the information to your Lordship, has peetended to be a Conservative."—(Loud laughter.) If this was true it was very laughable.—(Roars of laughter.) The letter went on to state that Mr. Spoore had voted for the Whig candidates at the last election. The meeting at which the resolutions were passed was confined to Whig Magistrates, or the Conrervatives were not admitted. The name of his (the Marquis of Londonderry's) correspondent was Wright, a very re spectable solicitor, and one who knew more of the country than any other man.—(Hear.) The letter proceeded to state that both Spoore and White were odd Conservatives. They had voted some times on that side—but had lately acted for the most part as Whigs. The last allegation of his, to which those gentleman replied was, that they had rejected . a pplications for licenses on party grounds. Now, he had ne v e r said that the Magistrates were such fools as to refuse li censes avowedly on party grounds. What he did say was as far as his recollection served him), at they had used the power and influene th oir office for tarty purposes ; and , tbs. °IT:, per which put tl.e same interpretation ,as oble Ma rquis put upon his language was tvt° Morning Chronicle, which never treated him with Candour. Those gentlemen met his allegation 14 stating that one of the five licenses granted. I tie to a Conservative named White, and . snid e r to a widow, who had no pol tical interest But they did not say that she had no Mena° who had political interest —(A laugh) -- n c ' r did they say one word about the petitions of the other three persons who obtainedlicenses. Could theirLordShiP 9 expect that he should comedown to the House,andent he strength of such a refutation, apologise to those gentiein erl i for having made erroneous - statements 7--(Hear, hear' ) As the Noble Marquis had made so vigorous. an attack upon him, he would give the whole - o r ;the information he had received, although he „wl ie very unwilling to take up the time of their LordsbiP s ' The Noble Marquis then read extracts from a letter , which stated that at the last quarterly meeting of t be Council a Whig Quaker, named Hill, produced th Morning Chronicle, and read the paragraph fro:a his speech, on which the Noble Marquis had founded the attack upon him. The Quaker then appealed to the Council to vindicate the character of the Magistrates ; but some Conservatives who were present said that the report was incorrect, as it differed from all the other,. papers, and, besides, that the Matter was one wi t ', which the Council had nothing 'to do. The meeting a" which the resolutions had been agreed to was, .he tended, a •hole-and-a-corner meeting, at which the Con' seryative Magistrates had not assisted. The Whig. 3 9; gistrates were thus judges in their own cause ; under those circumstances, he was not prepared to 'ido l that the former statements he had made were w rong' No satisfactory justification had, in his opinion, bee yet given by the Magistrates, of whose conduct he 11 % complained. He would leave the matter.for the pres eo to the judgment of their Lordships. If it should b proved, hereafter, that he was in error, he would b e ready to make the fullest retractation. He. thought he had some reason to complain of the manner in w hich the Noble Marquis had brought the charge against that evening. The Noble Marquis was perber anxious - to see if he could not " floor" -hi tu j hut he should be sorry to find that politic,' differences put an end to these friendly relation s which had formerly subsisted between him and the /sTobl Marquis. In the statements he had made rilatiYe the Magistrates, he begged to say that he had no Wee; tion of bringing forward any charges against the - N° b . .l Duke whom he had succeeded in the office . of TO; Lieutenant of the county of Durham. All that he ba to say in conclusion was, that he had never beeAnt' d never would be a calumniator or a liar. The Marquis of NORMANBY begged '.4ii i - pnr)t h ' e the Noble Marquis, that he had entirely reige(tpt,':,, whole of the question, which was as to' the source.Of information. The Noble Marquis had said' thiit tb Magistrates had used their authority for party pii4 o. ;,_ in the granting and refusing of' licenses: He had li.ss for the authority on which that statement was Met i r e i The Noble Marquis gave no answer, and before he (a e N.) would make any further observation;he wished to him an opportunity of answering the question. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY thought lie 1 1 ! given the fullest answer, and had shown that the 31agl.'' trates had done like other Magistrates of other politi c : and used their magisterial functions for party purP ose —(Hear, hear.) ble The Marquis of NORMANBY said that the N° b e' has used the very words he said were erron ously attributed to him by the Morning Chronic let :e (Hear, hear.) But, on-the part of those gentlemen, 1, indignantly denied the imputation: The Noble i‘laig' r had no authority for his statements, and be (I f ord manby) heard his explanation,' although it .*:ited the merriment of their Lordships, with great pain, ,f 4 t r ) sake of the Noble 114ttquis I During the Lord-Lieutenancyef the Duhe 0t1P. 0 5,1`, o f twenty Magistrates were appointed fa } r,' - o;4ll:wri lye Durham, and of these there were eight TOrlCS,ior e ,4, Whigs—the whole number of the 'Magistracy' being i t - he of who 114 were Tories to 86 Whigs. That`was enormous disproportion of which the Noble Mnr c l - r complained, as being created bythe:Whig G o vernio,.% —(Hear,' hear.) The Noble Marquis had - spoken t h highly respectable gentleman, as not connected wi Sunderland ; but he could inform the Noble Marqu':`,; that that gentleman was connected with the b o rotE previously, as the Noble Marquis himself (Lord Lona , !',': derry) was—namely, by marriage.---(Hear, and a lanb i , e l i e The Duke of WELLINGTON said, that they e ° o ' o , Marquis had a large property in the county, fin , o f sidering the services he had rendered to the count', Durham and the country, he (the Duke of I,Nrelli"g t° / ,3 thought that the attack upon the Noble A.. 1 ar upon the Government for having selected t he nty Marquis for the office of Lord-Lieutenant of the eZ., u ob l e of Durham, and that attack founded on the ''' dd Marquis's recent resignation of the office of Arabass a " r to St. Petersburgh, he did think that it was not right o r fair, particularly on that occasion. He (the Duk e ile Wellington) would make one more observation. _.51 quite agreed with his Noble Friend (the Noble Mar(i1:1,01 that he was quite right in volunteering to come f°T k it and state the subject of his letter. He did not thir ous e was Parliamentary to call upon Members of th at 11 of to explain anything that had -fallen from MeT b r er s ,:ise. Parliament, either in the heat of debate, or o . 6 : ac t/a If injustice had been done,"it w as the corail' ea ni r „ e nt, if for the person to come forward arta ma k e par that injustice had been done by any - statement liatnent ; but it was not the practice to ask fer i P the t planation of words spoken in the House of. Ler 4 , e ' oug ht explanation to be given at any moment. it was t".,,,ee proper to be called for. He thought it right to,;"1 these few observations, and, in conclusion, he would • that a more judicious appointment had not been 10 than that of the Noble Marquis. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 9. RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION OF ROAN CATHOLICS. Mr. HOWARD presented petitions from Romeo lie tholics of Staffordshire, Westmoreland, Lancashire , vonshire, and Huntingdon, for a better provisio n for 01, spiritual instruction and aid of Roman Catholics in ga workhouses and in the Indian army. et Mr. VILIIERS presented petitions from Da— fer/ ,e Glasgow, and several other places, against all tax" food. BREACH OF PRIVILEGE. ed Lord PALMERSTON (in continuation) 131' 0, 700 to say—He certainly could not vote for the vs°;",od of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman. He unders'; i te that motion to be for a Committee not to inquire liot the extent to which bribery had taken place at th e of general elections, but to inquire into the existet certain compromises which he alleged to have occ u ni e• at certain Election Committees recently. by which. s' parties had consented to withdraw their petitiok,) others to accept of the Chiltern Hundreds. He( 1)°,0 0 apprehended that the grounds upon which the Pcbef ought to be called upon for that purpose, would be that the compromises alleged to have been made, iminst the established law, or were a breaci l the privileges of that House.—(Hear.) Ths t o Nal against the statute law he was not prepar e i e e• s There was a clause in the Act constituting . 1 .,e tion Committees, expressly enacting that any parties roe stinting an election petition should be at liberty to °nee draw the same at any time they might think PraDer and it was manifest that nothing could be more rl, O than that such power should be given , bee, 11 et the trial of those petitions was conductead it the expense of the parties retitioning ; an would be an injustice if they were not perulloef to withdraw from the trial of such petition w hel) they might think proper. The next point W ita li considered was, if such compromises were a b re e ilt of the privileges of the House. As at Pre is informed he was not aware that they were.aressto Radical cheering.) If it were thought 640 3 • question was of sufficient importance to iserldo, separate discussion, let the statement of the rd Gentleman be assumed to be correct for the purpo,..„ s e 'd. argument, and let the question be solemnly arr.,,gl Let the case be put that A and B had been rettil"._ od to Parliament, and 'C and I) petition against t h-oi the charge of bribery. A and B are to t o e their Counsel that, though they themselves are gsu do es yet their agents have abused their confidence, el n int things affecting their suits. The parties pe 611 „ 0 .4 0 naturally anxious to avoid the enormous of a trial, and thinking there may be some uncerts re in the case, are willing to enter into a c° ll 2E f lit raise, by . which the parties petitioned ssitbe resign their seats. Another election takes place, oll l oo electors have again another opportunity of 5°1 ; 40 0 a choice. He could see nothing incossmbet , with the privilege s o f P ar li amen t in all,. - s fle f If it were so, let th e ques ti on b e a r gued, and ii . "the full consideration h e s h ou ld be of opinion that such 1 " - ieei case, he would vote accordingly. But these comPrl t er* which were said to have taken place, were no new t: 1 ; i elo It was not the first time they had been suspected I 0 0 , not the first time that they had happened. -L'' ° o e could get up in his place and say that the existepo such compromises had not been known bf„ 01 0 If neither a violation of the law nor 0 , :10; of the privileges of Parliament had taken r o e the inquiry could not lead to the p unish o of any of the, parties eoncerned. There licotel perfectly legitimate ground on which this jel mittee ought to be sought for, na mely, t ° t er the ground-work for an Act f Parliamen t, s ible' dering such compromises for the future itne t He did not require investigation to lead him to Oa SeSi was prepared to take the statement of the rej Member as the ground-work, and h e was pre hi! once to vote for the measure proposecl Honourable Friend the Member for London 1 ;. t iie j / He was prepared to vote for a law which, 1 itte r would, should not only give power to COisfar" but make it imperative upon them to earl cases of bribery. Those proceedings being , 0 0 0 1 public good, they must be at the public elfole . ; for they would be well incurred if they e f olv the House to get at those mal-practices, and visit th!,c4 severity. For any legitimate purpose for which tlicrols mittee could be appointed, he was prepared to e the Hon. Member, and he would vote with anY O O, O O Member who would introduce a measure, or he, t d Pio troduce it himself, that would give to Comsatb`;,,io a extra power, or make it imperative on them to ,F; a et, o the cireumstances of bribery; and he would also oigf add the clause which was struck out of the 1 3 ,i 11 .4 Hon. Friend in the House of Lords, indernililiplif nesses from any consequences arising from tli e w o r" evidence. He might b e t o ld th a t this was all v jo t but they had no cert a i n ty suc h a measure wite, it t of He would say to th e Ri g ht Hon. Baronet oPr t - i pe'ves for such a measu re h e s hould claim the,„ s us e the Government, no t only in that - 13° , elsewhere ; and he was persuaded if sac" sure were proposed by the Governn2o4 . int, c • the z spi prE de( thQ thi of , to ev( be . a „ r ~~~,,_ b Z4 i (r use did at 51,.int lu, oj z of ?h( L i , II( 54, wo 4 / „. 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