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iitrOf 31;Dttton SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY. THE QUEEN V. TURNER. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) After hearing a quantity of evidence, Mr. Sergeant SHEE submitted that there was not suf ficient evidence to go to the jury, and begged:his Lord ship to consider the length of time that had elapsed since the occurrence charged in the prosecution bad occurred. Mr. Justice Erie seemed to be of the same opinion, and Mr. Cockburn, who appeared for the plaintiff, concurring to some extent in this opinion, a verdict of Not Guilty was taken by consent. LIST OF SHERIFFS FOR 1849. (From a Supplement to the London Gazette of . Feb. 9.) At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 13th day of February, 1849—present, the ,Queen's most Excel lent Majesty in Council—the following were appointed Sheriffs for the year 1849: B ED FORDSHIRE.—Humphrey Brandreth, of Houghton Regis, Esq. BERKSHIRE.—Robert Gibson, of Sandhurst Lodge, Esq. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.—John Kaye, of Fulmer, Esq. CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND HUNTINGDONSHIRE.—Ebenezer Foster, of ,Trumpington, Esq. CUMBERLAND.—Andrew Fleming Hudleston, of Hut ton-John, Esq. CHESHIRE.—Thomas William Tatton, 'of Withen shaw, Esq. DERBYSHIRE.—Jedediah Strutt, of Belper, Esq. DEVONSHIRE.—Montague Edmund Newcombe Parker, of Whiteway, Esq. DORSETSHIRE. William Parry Okeden, of Turn worth,lEsq. DURHAM.—Juhn Eden, of Beamish Park, Esq. ESSEX.—Onley Savill Onley, of Stisted Hall, Esq. GLOUCESTERSHIRE.—WiIIiam Philip Price, of Tibber ton Court, Esq. HEREFORDSHIRE.—WiIIiam Barneby, of Clater, Esq. HERTFORDSHIRE.—AbeI Smith, of Watton Woodhall, Esq. KENT.—William Masters Smith, of Camer, Meopham, Esq. LEICESTERSHIRE.—John Goodacre, of Lutterworth, Esq. LINCOLNSHIRE.—James Whiting Yorke, of Walms - gate, Esq. MONMOUTHSHIRE.—John Arthur Jones, of Llanarth Court, Esq. NORFOLK.—William Mason, of Necton, Esq, NORTHA3IPTONSHIRE.—Henry Nevile, of Walcot, Esq. NORTHUMBERLAND.—John Hodgson Hinde, of Stelling Hall, Esq. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.—GranviIIe Harcourt Vernon, of Grove, Esq. OXFORDSHIRE.—Sam ael Weare Gardiner, of Coombe Lodge, Whitchurcb, Esq, BUTLANDSHIRE.—John Thomas Springthorpe, of Man ton, Esq. SHROPSHIRE.—Panton Corbett, of Longner, Esq. SOMERSETSHIRE—George William Blathwayt, of Pol lock, Esq. STAFFORDSHIRE.—CharIes Arkwright, of Dunstall, Esq. COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON. William Gamier, of Rookesbury Wickham, EAI. SUFFOLK.—The Right Hon. John Lord Henniker, of Thornham-hall. Scaumr.—William Francis Gamul Farmer, of Non such Park, Esq. SllSSEX.—Richard Shuttleworth Streatfield, of the Rocks, Uckfield, Esq. WARWICKSHIRE.—Sir Theophilus Biddulph, of Bird ingbury, Bart. WILTSHIRE.—Robert Parry Nisbett, of Southbroome House, Esq. WORCESTERSHIRE.—John Dent, of Walcot, Esq. YORKSHIRE.—Octavius Vernon Harcourt, of Swinton Park, Esq. WALES. ANGLESEY.—Stephen Roose, of Tan y Lan, Esq. BRECONSHIRE.— William Pearce, of Ffrwdgrech, Esq. CARNARVONSHIRE.—SamueI Owen Priestley, of Trelan, Esq. CARMARTHENSHIRE.—WaIter Rice Howell Powell, of Maesgwynne, Esq. CARDIGANSHIRE.—Henry Hoghton, of Hafod, Esq. DENBIGHSHIRE.—Thomas Griffith, of Trevallyn-hall, Esq. FLINTSHIRE.—PhiIip Lake Godsal, of Iscoyd Park, Esq. GLAmoRGANsHIRE.—Robert Boteler, of Llandougu Castle and Maesmawr,:Esq. MONTGOMERYSHIRE.—Robert Gardner, of Plas y Court, Esq. MERIONETHSHME.—Robert Davies Jones, of Aberlla , fenny, Esq. PEYIBROKESIIIRE...—.Seymour Phillipps Allen, of Cres. selly, Esq. RADNORSHIRE.— Edward Middleton Evans, of Liwyn. baried, Esq. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, FEB. 10, 1848. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*345 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... .„ 47 'Turbercular Diseases... ... 162 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 132 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 40 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Reipiration Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. .•. ••• •, Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. , Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. Malformations... ... Premature Birth ... •• ••• Atrophy ••• ..• ••• ••• ••• Old Age M." ••• ••• ••• Sudden••• ••• ••• ••• ••• Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance Causes not specified ... . 234 ... 3 ... 26 ... 47 1,196 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES Population Enumerated, 1841 West Districts... 300,711 North Districts.. 375,971 Central Distr:zts 373,653 East Districts ... 392,444 outh Districts.. 501,190 Totals... ..... 1,948,369 Males Females Average weekly Deaths Deaths, 1843-7. in the Five Summers. Week. 142 .• • 181 182 ... 253 • 173 ... 191 . 219 ... 256 . 251 ... 315 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. -. 1,196 -. 594 -. 602 Males Females ... ... 846 ... 827 Total ... .... ... ... ... 1,673 *ln this number are included 55 cases of death by Cholera, 55 by Scarlatina, and 71 by Typhus Fever. THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 9, 1849. The Queen has been pleased :to approve of M. Vin cent Benedetti as Consul, at Malta, for the French Republic. DUCHY OF LANCASTER, Feb. 10. The Queen has been this day pleased to appoint John Smith Entwisle, of Foxholes, Lq., to be Sheriff of the county palatine of Lancaster for the ensuing year. CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 12. HEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PAR- LIAMENT. Borough of Bolton—Sir Joshua Walmsley, of West bourne-terrace, in the county i of Middlesex, Knt., in the g ' i room of John Bowring, c. , who a l t i as Canton.accepted the office or hi.r.Majesty's Consul -General Commission by th e Lot d-Lieutenant oDurham Lord Adolphus F re d er i c k Charles William Vane to be Deputy Lieutenant, Jan. 30. Commission s'gned by the Lord Lieutenant of Caithness shire. 96th Regiment of North British Militia.—James Gor don Mackay, Gent. t o be E nsigu, January 27. WHITEHALL, FEB. 7.—The Right Honourable Sir Thomas Wilde, Knt. Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas at Westminster, has appointed George Cutler Parker of Wrexham, in the county of Denbigh, Gentleman, to be one of the Perpetual Commissirners for taking th e acknowledgments of deeds to be executed by married woman, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance, in and for the county of Denbigh, also in and for the county of Flint. WHITEHALL, JAN. 31. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Washington Hamilton Brown, of Swansea, in the county of Glamor gan, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, FEn. 2. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Augustus Cun nington, of Braint ree, i n the county of Essex, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court, of Chancery. - - WHITEHALL, FEB. 3. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Robert Evans, of Liverpool, in the connty of L ancaster, G ent., to IL a Muster Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, FEB. 6. The Lord Chancellor has appointed William North, of Leeds, in the county of York, Gent., to be a Master Ex trabrdinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. George C a r r T em p er l e y, coal_ merchant, D ar tf or d , _ Acrit, to surrender Feb. 20 and March 27, at one , at the Co urt of Bankruptcy. - , Pennell, official a ss i gnee; 1 4ev'is , Ely -plac e , Holoorn. Wiliam Green, auctioneer, Birkenhead, Feb. 26, an d 9,ate g l i e s V s e i n, b a ee ttt Liverpool District Cou r t. March Morgan.j official , Liverpool; Ch es t er an d C o . , Staple inn; Francis and Co i Liverpool. George Melville Horton, j , e er well 23, at twelve , a n d March 29 , at, Hatton-garden, Feb. Bankruptty. Carman, official assignee,o, at the Court of Cornhill; Pocock and Poole, Bartholew Birchin-lane, Robert Wilson Smiles, bookieller .ck ' se ' ,Blackburn, Lanca shire, March 1 and 16, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Powdrell, official assignee, Manchester Milne, Parry, Milne and Morris, Temple; Wilding and Fisher, Blackburn. George Francis, innkeeper, Rayleigh, Feb. 20, at half past one, and March 27, at two, at the Court of Bank ruptcy.id Groom, official assignee , A bchurch-lane, Lom bard-street; Chidley, GuildhAll•chambers, Basinghall- Street. Edward Pass, butcher, Sheffield, Feb. 24, and March 31, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman, official as=ignee, Sheffield; Moss, Sergeant's Inn, Lon don • Rayner, Sheffield. Frederick Cox, straw plait dealer, Liverpool, Feb. 27, at half-past one, and March 27, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's place, Old Jewry ; Sole and Turner, Aldermanbury. John Bradley, painter, Boston, Yorkshire, March 5 and 19, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Williamson and Hill, Great James street, London ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds. William and Thomas Springbett, wine merchants, Leadenhall-street, Feb. 19, at one, and April 2, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman street; Young and Son, Mark lane. John Swindell, plumber and glazier, Manchester, Feb. 23 and March 16, at e l even, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester; Bower, Tokenhouse-yard, Lothbury; Cope and Faulkner, Man chester. James McGill, victualler, Crimscott-street, Willow walk, Bermondsey, Feb. 22, at half-past twelve, and March 26, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Tur quand, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers ; Sheard, Old Jewry. James Bairnsfather Scott, calico printer, Denham Springs, near Chorley, Lancashire, Feb. 26 and March 19, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester; Messrs. Reed, Langford, and Marsden, Friday-street, Cheapside ; Messrs. Sale, Worthington, pnd Shipman, Manchester. Joseph Oliver Lyon, farmer, Isle of Ely, Cambridge shire, Feb 22, at two, and March 22, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Ntcholas and Doyle, Bedford-row. William Lee Adams, watchmaker, Selby, Yorkshire, March 6 and April 2, at eleven, at the Leeds District Caurt. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Lever, King's rood, Bedford-row; Hodgson, Selby; Harle and Clarke, Leeds. John Nash, timber and hop merchant, Rotherbithe, Feb. 23, at eleven, and March 29, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Bir chin-lane ; Shield and Harwood, Queen. street, Cheapside. George Simcox Yates, Bricknell, coach proprietor, Cheltenham, March 2 and 30, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol ; Chesshyre, Cheltenham; Bromley and Aldridge, Gray's Inn. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Feb. 13.) &MAR.—To day former rates were not generally sup ported for Colonial Sugar by reason of the increased quantity that was pressed upon the market. The public sales, however, on the whole went off better than were expected. Only a small amount of business was concluded in %Vest India, and the rates accepted are in some cases 6d under those of Friday. A public sale of 150 hhds thrbadoes went at the former value ; fine yellow re• alised 41s 6d to 425, good 39s 6d to 40s 6d, low and middling 37s to 38s 6d per cwt. The total sales to-day are 500 hhds, &c. REFINED.—To-day there was much dulness in the Refined Sugar market, and lower rates were accepted; brown lumps selling at 48s to 48s 6d, and Standard lumps 49s per cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar is little wanted, and 27s 6d to 28s 61 is the value. MAIIBITIIIS.—This afternoon the quantity of Mauri tius Sugar submitted to public competition was exten sive, and amounted to 14,800 bags, consisting chiefly of the better descriptions. There was less disposition evinced to operate, still rather more than one-half sold, and in some cases the rates accepted were rather under those current previously; good to fine yellow sold at 38s Gd to 40s 6d, middling 3Gs 6d to 38s, low 35s 6d to 365, ord to fine brown 29s to 355, grey 35s to 40s, washed and syrupy 29s to 40s per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the market was abund antly supplied with Bengal sugar; there were five Public sales, consisting of 10,668 bags, the chief part of superior quality. The biddings were less spirited, and about two-thirds sold, but at prices in favor of the trade. FOREIGN.—A greater disposition has been manifested to make purchases in white liavannah Sugar, and the private sales this day week are 3,000 chests, at 28s 6d to 33s for ordinary to fine quality. Other sorts of Foreign, however, met with less a tt en ti on f rom exporters, and in some cases rather lower rates are acceded to. The sales are 3 cargoes of new brown Pernambuco at 18s 6d to 19s per cwt, in bond. Only small parcels have been taken for refining under bond, and home dealers evince little de sire to do business, as the rates current are above those of Colonial Sugar. At public sale 5,417 chests of yel low Havannah were sold, all washed. MOLASSES.—HoIders are firm, and insist upon 17s to 20s for West India; the sales concluded are, however, of little moment. East India Treacle is held for 15s ad to 16s per cwt., still only small parcels have been dis posed ot. COFFEE.—This afternoon the market for Native Cey lon Coffee presented a quiet appearance. At public sale 2,159 bags were offered, when a small part only sold at 35s to 35s 6d for real good ordinary, and at 30s to 34s 6d for damaged, which are full rates. The chief part was taken in at 36s for sound good ord; the offers did not ex ceed 34s 6d. For Plantation the market is quiet, and part only of 629 bags 7 casks found buyers at former value; good ordinary 35s 6d to 38s, fine ordinary 44s 6d to 465, fine fine ordinary 47s 6d to 48s 6d, low middling 51s to 533; better sorts were taken in at 55s to 655. Mocha is less wanted, and former rates are not to be obtained; at public sale 110 bales, returned from Hamburgb, went at 50s to 52s for low middling greenish. The market for Foreign Coffee is not so firm, and at auction 53 bags Rio were sold at 23s per cwt for low ordinary. COCOA.—Foreign is not to be obtained upon lower terms, less demand, however, prevailed. At auction 233 begs Bahia were offered, when good and fine red were taken in at 28s to 295, but damaged sold at 23s to 275. Of 724 bags of Para a small part only sold. For West India a greater demand exists, and stiffer rates are paid. 30 barrels and 257 bags at public sale were all disposed of. TEA.—Purchases to a fair extent have been made in common and good ordinary Congou at 8d to 9id, there is also much firmness on the part of holders. For better qualities an active sale has been experienced—medium at 10d to is 2d, good is 3d to is sd, fine and Pekoe kinds Is 6d to is 10d. There are large buyers of gale Souchong at from 2s to 2s 9d, and in other kinds operations are upon an enlarged scale at fully former terms. A much better sale as been experienced for Flowery Pekoe, and an advance of 3d to 3d per lb. is the value is apparent; the supply is also getting smalle. For Scented Orange Pekoe rather lower rates are accepted, buyers in consequence have been induced to °aerate with more reaoiness, and several parcels were disposed of at from is 2d to is 8d for good to fine. Twankay of ordinary quality met with a fair inquiry from ex porters, and the rates paid are 6d to bid. For other Teas the orders executed are upon an enlarged scale at fully former rates. RICE.—To-day only a limited sale was experienced for East India rice. At auction 100 bgs and 906 pckts Bengal were sold at barely former rates; fine white rather dingy went at Ils to his sd; mid and good mid lOs to 10s:6d; broken 8s 6d to 9; and damaged 7s to lOs 6e; 1493 bags went 6d cheaper. Of Carolina 224 trcs, 11 bags Arracan cleaned were nearly all sold. SPIRITS.—Brandy is held with firmness at former terms, and is in greater demand for home trade pur poses; there is also a fair trade doing for exportation. The stock is not larger and prices rule for Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1847 at 3s 4d to 31 6d, low to mid 2s 4d to 3s 4d. Geneva is offered at is 10d for ord, and at 23 4d to 3s 4d for fine, yet little business has been done. For British Corn Spirit the market is firm at 9s 103 for nett cash. To day the market for Rum exhibited a dull ascept, the rates accepted are Is 2id to is 3d for East India, Is 3id to Is 43a1 for Leeward Island proof. SAGO.—For inferior descriptions, quotations have suf fered a further decline of 2s per cwt. Fine is held for full rates. Of 1,200 chests, offered at auction, a small part only sold. Sago Flour is yet a little wanted, and can be obtained at 15s 6d to 16s. Farina is also dea in with caution at 14s to 16s per cwt; Tapioca at 4d to 7d per lb. _ SPICES.—Many parcels of Black Pepper have been disposed of privately at rather higher rates ; and at a public aution of 1,022 bags, the whole sold. White sells with readines, and at fully former rates ; 50 bugs at auction were disposed of. For Cluvos the market is still firm. Cinnamon is held with firmness npon the terms of the last quarterly sale, and few buyers are to be met with. Ginger is more in request by exporters and the home trade; at auction 90 packages Jamaica soh'. Piment) is much wanted, and realises better rates. At auction 900 bags were all disposed of. To-day at are tions 9 bags of Nutmegs without the shell sold at Is Ild to 2s 10, and 21 bags white Pepper at 4d to 4id for SALTPETRE.—To-day rough was less in demau I, and the public sales of 876 bags Calcutta went at barely fortr er rates; fine strong grey q to 3i per cent realised 27s to 27s 6d, good 8 to 6 per cent 26s 6d, 11 per cent mid 25s 6d, and damaged 24s 6d to 26s per cwt. COCHINEAL. --The demand has become brisker, and as the supply is not so plentiful, prices have risen Id per lb for silvers; whereas blacks realised former terms. At auction 86 bags of Honduras were all sold, ordinary to fine silvers realised 3s 9d to 4s Bd, blacks ordinary to good 4s 6d to 5s 5d p er lb . INDIGO.—The Quarterly sales of East India com menced this day. During the progress of the sale 246 chests were withdrawn, and 828 chests have passed. The attendance of both foreign and home buyers was but small, and the biddings through out were not animated. A great proportion of the Goods, which passed the hammer were of ordinary and defe ctive te tsales' las quality, prices and sold a as compared tan wit advanceh a o f fair i 3 r da perve - rage o f t he few lots ofgood he shippinglqrue were neitheralitywentoff lb, unevenly whils t a at 2d to 4d a dvance. Madras or Kurpahs in this day's catalogue. Proprietors Co.; aNu i 3 che,p, , r, still a tt , r der- dhi bo,r , Arc- perienctd. At auction 551 pkgs of Cochin were sold. • Palm is wanted for home use and exportation; the rates paid are 30s to 32s for mid to fine, and at which the market is firm. Linseed has been ex tensively dealt in by home dealers, and seve ral parcels were taken by exporters : prices keep on the advance, and rule at 25s 6d to 26s per cwt. For forward delivery a good business was concluded at 26s to 26s 6d. Supplies continue to get smaller, and deliveries to improve. Rape Oil finds a ready sale, re fined 37s to 37s 6d, brown 365, and pale foreign at 38s 6d to 39s 6d. Olive is in excellent request, and prices are on the advance. Lard Oil is selling at 42s to 43s per cwt for fine quality, and Ground Nut at 31s to 32s per cwt. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT , (THIS EVENING.) bought in 164 chests. TALLOW.—Russian on the spot is held for higher rated, still only a moderate demand has been experienced for Soap and Candle making purposes. The value of fine P. Y. Candle is 503 9d to 41s per cwt. For delivery in the last three months of year a good business has been concluded at 41z to 41s 6,71. Home melted sells with more readiness at 40s 6d to 41s net cash. Of other sorts the supply is not so large, and prices are firmer. Of South American 650 casks at HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Woolsack at Five o'clock. The Earl of MOUNTCASHELL presented a peti tion, praying for assistance to the schools in Ireland in connexion with the Church of England. The Earl of CARLISLE presented a petition from Leeds, praying that all differences between this and other nations may hnceforth be settled by arbitration ; also, a petition from Stourbridge, praying that clergymen of the ;Church of England seceding from the Church might enjoy full religious liberty. RAILWAY ACTS AMENDMENT. Lord MONTEAGLE moved the appointment of the Select Committee for the amending of Railway Act,. Among the Noble Lords nominated were the Earl of Harrowby, the Earl of Eglinton, Lord Beaumont, Lord Wharnchffe, Earl Fitzwilliam, the Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Granville, the Earl of Radnor, and Lord Lyttelton.—Agreed to. Their Lordships then adjourned until Thursday. HOUSE OF COMMON The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. NEW MEMBER. __ __ Mr. FREDERICK PEEL (the son: of Sir Robert Peel, Bart.) took the oaths and his seat for the borough of Leominster. The 4 Hon. Gentleman, after being sworn at the table, and presented to the Speaker, took a seat upon the Opposition benches immediately behind the seat usually,oceupied, by his Right Hon. Father. The Hon. Member was introduced by Mr. Goulburn and Mr. Wilson Patten. TURNPIKE-ROAD BILLS. Upon the motion of Mr. WILSON PATTEN, it was agreed that no turnpike road Bill be read a second time before the 22d of March next. DUBLIN CONSOLIDATION, IMPROVEMENT, WATER WORKS, AND SEWERS' BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this Bill, Mr. REYNOLDS said he had been requested by a great majority of his constituents to oppose the second reading of this Bill. It contained 60 clauses, and, like the postscript to a lady's letter, the 60th was the most important one. It proposed to take away the powers now invested in four district boards, and he understood it was promoted only by one individual, a speculative solicitor. He considered that it was one of the most audacious attempts that had ever been made to interfere with: the rights and privileges of a city. The Hon. Member called the attention or the House to the clauses of the Bill, particularly to the 33d clause, which was alone sufficient to defeat the Bill, power . being given by it to expend 200,0001. He, therefore, moved that the Bill be read a second time that day six months, Mr. GROGAN assured the House that he should not press the second reading of the Bill if he was not fully persuaded that it was absolutely 'necessary. He certainly should not accept the advice the Hun. Member had offered him, and was astonished that he should have applied the term " Irish daring " to him. The Honourable Member, however, had got hold of an erroneous document from which he had drawn his facts. —(Laughter.) But one out of four, instead of two, out of the local boards were proposed to be abolished by the Bill. The facts were three:—ln 1847, the Corporation of Dublin proposed a Bill to abolish all the boards, and to consolidate them. Every one in Dublin opposed it, and the Bill was rejected. In 1848 they proposed a similar Bill, but it was lost in standing orders. The Corporation Bill, however, went to a Committee, composed of unbiassed English gentlemen, all of whom opposed it, with the exception of the Honourable Member himself, and it was unanimously rejected. The Hon. Member new advocated a similar Bill, and after such an expres sion of feeling against it, he, in acting as he did, ex hibited more daring than he had laid to his (Mr. Gro gan's) charge. He was, however, prepared to have the Bill before the House submitted to the same Committee. Unfortunately, the Corporation themselves proposed to place it in the hands of Commissioners, two of them to be nominated by themselves, with a salary, and one to be nominated by the Government. There were seven boards with conflicting interests in the city of Dublin, which always called forth a great deal of opposition (and consequent expense) to any measure for the improvement of the city. Those boards being independent of each other, had a complete staff of paid officers connected with them. There were no less than 32 subordinate officers under the control of one of those boards ; but altogether there wore £9 tax collectors in the city of Dublin. The practical result was that there was scarcely a fortnight that the citizens of Dublin had not a visit from two or three, and some times four, of those tax collectors, and the conse quent annoyance was, therefore, incessant.—(llear, bear.) This Bill proposed to place the whole taxation of the city in one particular board, instead of thn present 69 tax-collectors. He (Mr. Grogan) need not say that that would be a very considerable saving to the city of Dublin. Sir W. SOMERVILLE said, with regard to those taxing powers in the city of Dublin adverted by the Hon. Member (Mr. Grogan), they were as bad as could be. Several attempts had been made to introduce a better state of things. He believed the Noble Lord opposite took some pains to do so, and last year he (Sir W. Somerville) himself endeavoured as far as he could to reconcile the contending parties, and he was almost in hopes he had succeeded; but there they were at the beginning of another session likely to have to fight the same battles over again. He believed the Government were anxious that the municipal regulations of Dublin should be placed on a satisfactory basis; and if the House sanctioned the second reading of the Bill he believed it would be taking a step which would throw an obstacle in the way of that most desirable result. He held in his hand a petition, which the standing orders of the House did not admit of his reading, from the Cham fer of Commerce in Dublin, which represented the opinions of a highly respectable and numerous class of the citizens of Dublin, who were opposed to the Bill. The grand jury were against it—all those gentlemen who were nominated as commissioners were against it, and the Government had never given any sanction to it— and he thought it was not too much to say that the Bill was presented to the House under most disadvantageous circumstance. He hoped, under these circumstances, and for the reasons he had stated, that the House would not bo disposed to sanction the second reading of the Bill. Mr. HUME wished to give expression to an opinion to which be was desirous of calling the attention of the House, and that was, that there should be some pledge given by her Majesty's Government that this matter should no longer occupy the attention of the House. The Honourable Baronet had described matters to be as bad as bad could be, and he decidedly thought that if the same plan was to be pursued which had been hitherto observed, bad it would continue to be. This Bill was in fact nothing better than the Bill of last year, and to proceed in this way was making no step whatever in advance, and he trusted that unless her Ma jesty's Secretary for Ireland would give some such pledge that the House would altogether reject the Bill. To reject a Government Bill was undoubtedly a strong measure, but he trusted the House would do it, unless the Right Hon. Baronet would give some pledge as to the conduct of the Government, for they had a right to expect that they would give such a pledge.—(Hear.) The Earl of LINCOLN had viewed the introduction of this measure with exceeding regret, and he, there• fore, wished that the desire of the Hon. Member fur Montrose for a pledge from the Government would meet with entire success. He had had no communication with that Honourable Member, but he quite concurred in the view of the matter before the House which he had taken; and he now asked the Right Honourable Gentleman who was at the head of the Board of Trade, and who had for some time been her Majesty's Secretary for Ireland, to concur in such a pledge. It appeared to him that they were legislating on too narrow grounds. The Bill which they were called upon to carry differed but very little from the Bill which had been mooted during the last session, and he might say, if the same course was pursued, but little from that which would be introduced next year. There were now two Bills before the House, one promoted by one Member for Dublin, and the other by the other Member, and if the common course was followed both of those gentlemen would be placed on the Committee, and of course neutralise auction were mostly told at 34s 9d to 38s 3d; 140 casks New South Wales 37s to 383 6d ; 40 casks fine Peters burgh Soap Tallow 36s 9d to 375, 33 casks second sort P. Y. Candle 38s 3d to 393 ;31 elests East India 42s to 42s 6d; and 11 casks North American 40s 6d per cwt. Ons.—The market for Fish Oils has assumed a more healthy appearance. Seal met with ready pnrohaFers. Of Cod large parcels have beers sold, and at 241105 i holders are fir m . S out h ern i s mueh wacted, but is n scanty scanty supply, fine realise 28/ to 291 10 and low to goo d 26 1 to 28:. Sperm is more in demand pri vately, and fine Columbia realised 811 to 811 los. Of America 135 tuns at auction went at 8015 s to 801 15s, and Ileadmatter at 831 10s. the votes of each other. What he desired then was that a Committee of five impartial Members should be ap pointed, and that neither of the Members for Dublin should take a part in its discussions.—(Hear, hear.) If that plan was not adopted ho felt quite assured that it would be impossible to legislate at all upon the subject during the present session, and that they would have to meet the Bill in a similar shape next year.—(Hear.) Sir W. SOMERVILLE was anxious that some Bill should be introduced on the subject in order that matters might be placed on a satisfactory basis. He thought the best course to pursue would be to postpone the second reading of the Bill till he had had further in formation on the subject of it from Dublin. Mr. BROTHERTON thought, and had all along considered, that the further consideration of the measure ought to be postponed for a fortnight or more, because it had been said it was an infringement of the standing orders, and that it required time for the Speaker to make inquiry into the subj Pct. Mr. W. PATTEN considered that the best course to pursue would be to adjourn the present debate for a fortnight. Mr. T. O'BRIEN (the Lord Mayor of Dublin) would oppose the second reading of the Bill. After a few words from Mr. GROGAN, the the ß nstenselfof the thue House Ho se Mr. REYNOLDS said he felt bound to oppose th e ad journment of the on the second consented to postpone the debate on the second reading debate, e a i reading and of take of the Bill, they would entail very heavy expenses on the opponents of the measure. Ile would oppose alto gather the adjournment of the debate on the second . . reading of th; Bill. Sir VV. SOMERVILLE trusted the lion. Member would consent to postpone the debate on the second reading of the Bill fur a fortnight; he could do himself, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1849 , ,:.,..,, injary th,:at'Op 11011 of such a course. :~: Mr. REYNOLDS, after being so pressed by the Right Hon. Baronet, would consent to postpone the debate on the second reading of the Bill for a fortnight. The debate on the second reading was then adjourned to this day fortnight. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following Railway Bills were read a second time, and ordered to be committed:— Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction (Aban donment of part of Line, Extension to London and North- Western, &c.) Lancashire and Yorkshire (Extension of Ashton Branch, of Clifton Branch, &c.) iegiseet,oe ill tee c 4 to Le t id.iiti, ila to ell 1. LAIL: a fishery of publi c r i g h t , an d no several fishery at all; and therefore it was in a peculiar manner the duty of the Government, who were the guardians of the nation, and particularly of the poor, to supervise those exten sive and valuable kinds of public property, and to pre vent all invasion of them. It was in this respect—op posed as he was to Government interference with the management of Ireland—that he was anxious to strte his opinion to he, that it is. and has always been, the duty of Goverument, and not of individuals at all, to watch over and preserve the inland fisheries, and the inland navigation in all the navigable rivers of Ire lan I. he so limited himself, because his motion was intended to apply to navigable rivers alone, it being in navigable rivers alone that no right of a "several" fishery in the present state of Ireland existed. When a river discharging itself into the sea was navi gable from the sea, so far as that riverlwas navigable, even for boats of the smallest burdens, it was as much " publici juris" as seas beyond the coast. So far as a river was navigable from the mouth, so far did the public right extend. From the reign of James 1., no claim of a prescriptive charact er t o a " severa l" fishery had yet been sustained. When he stated this fact he appealed to the recollection of Hon. Gentlemen that had read the history of Ireland; and it would be seen how impossible it was that any title by prescription to a " several" fishery in Ireland could have bean acquired by any indi vidual now claiming it. His proposition which he made in the spirit, not of one party or of another—(Hear)--not even is the spirit of extreme right, being always satisfied these were matters of legis letion in which more particularly the summum jus than the summum injuria should obtain. His proposition was that the interests of claimants and of the public, as well as the legal rights of the poor, who had been so long prejudiced in this matter, should be conserved; and it was not his intention to institute any one measure which would not provide to the fullest extent for the quasi rights of those particular claimants. But on the other hand it was undoubtedly and lamentably true that, not con tent with their assertion of those derogatory rights, and the mischief inevitably occasioned by such assertion to the general rights of the public and the poor, the monopolists for such he must be permitted to term the owners of those illegal obstructions—and ever since that introduction was first connived at •by the Go vernment, and not acquiesced in by the help less and defenceless poor, proceeded further and further in their preservation until the result had been that in a country watered with rivers of the largest extent ; rivers which were stocked with the finest fish sufficient for the provisions of the population and the m ,rkets of Great Britain, not one fish had been taken in many of those rivers The Honourable Gentleman then proceeded to enu merate the rivers that were monopolised by pa tents, which he contended were rendered ille gal. by not being dated later than the time of Queen Elizabeth, and then asked the House to bear with him for a few moments, while he pointed out the extent of loss which the people of Ireland suffered from the existence of these monopolising obstructions their rivers. Estimating the value of the lost fish accordiag to its market price, Ireland lost 600,0001. worth of fish annually, independently of the consequential damage which resulted to them from the defective state of the law, allowing poaching to be carried on with impunity. It had been as certaitied that one thousand female fish were annually destroyed in the river Blackwater ; each fish producing 1,500 spawn, of which 800 came to maturity; and, carrying out that calculation, it would be found that Ireland was an annual loser in that way of 160,0001., resulting entirely from the state of the existing law inducing the re sident gentry and landholders on the rivers to feel that it was not worth while taking steps to pre vent poaching during the close season. This was the case he had to present to the House as a foundation I for his Committee. If the Committee were granted, the measures which he should :eel it his duty to propose, would be of an administrative character only. He was perfectly satisfied to take the law as it stood, beginning with the Act of 1842, which did not go the extreme length of giving a common law right to remove the obstructions and with the strict observance of its provisions he fell convinced that a remedy might easily be provided for the evils which afflicted the valuable and extensive fisheries of the sister kingdom.—(Hear, hear.) Notwithstanding that the statute law provides a re medy for the mischief, yet the benefit of the Act could not be obtained except through a regular course, and the gentlemen of Waterford, Cork, and the other counties had not called upon him to ask Legislative as sistance, without having tried ev er y means , b ot h l ega l an d equitable, to arrest the continual loss. But all their efforts had been fruitless, for it was found, both in the trials in the courts of petty sessions aun of quarter sessions, that the results had been ivariably ,adverse, for four out of the five magistrates were themselves found to be owners of weirs, which upon application to the superior courts the decisions of the lower courts were always confirmatory, the determination of the ma gistrates, and his was not in accordance with the spirit of the law, for they were contrary to that of one of the most eminent barristers of Ireland, Mr. Berryman. Under these circumalances he did not think that he was hereby in asking for legislation on this subject, and the extent of that legislation was that it should be a mere matter of police, so that, on the proof of a breach of the fishery laws, and a conviction, the proceeding should , become a mere matter of police, and that on the record of that conviction, the constabulary should be empowered at ence to the destruction of the Weir respecting which the f:ct hadbeen proved. No new facts were now necessary. They had already abundant evidence, and he would rely only upon the testimony which had been re corded in the reports of Parliament since 1836. He should therefore move, in the belief that her Majesty's Government would now refuse the request that a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the present state ee the Inland Fisheries and Navigation of Ireland, and the obstructions which hinder the enjoyment of the same; and the best means of removing such obstructions, and to report their opinion thereupon to the House. Sir H. W. BARROW seconded the motion, and suggested that the inquiry should be ex tended to the Sea Fisheries. The Fisheries of Ireland were a mites of weal te, and yet no attention had been paid to them. If the fisheries of Ireland had been fostered as the Scotch fisheries had been, there would have been no necessity for coming down to the House and asking for 50,000/. orloo,oool. to prevent the Irish poor from starving He could show, from official documents, that nuthiftg was so much wanted for the improvement of Irish ' fisheries as a system of superintendence such as was adopted in Scotland. Lancaster and Carlisle (from the Lancaster and Carlisle at. Lancaster to the Preston and Wyre, &c.) Lancaster and Preston Junction (Junction with the East Lancashire Railway in Preston, and Amendment of Acts). Lancaster and Preston Junction Acts Amendment (Power to alter Tolls and for appointment of Officers). Newcastle and Carlisle (Alterations of and Branch from Alston Branch). North-Western (Extension of Lancashire Branch, Aban donment of William Lands Branch, New Road to Settle Station, Extension of Time for Purchase of Lands and Con struction of Works). Windsor (ExtenSion of the Windsor, Staines, and South- Western—Richmond to Windsor —with Power to the London and South-Western Railway Company to subscribe). The Kirkcaldy Harbour, Docks, Ferry, and Petty Customs Bill was also read a second time, and committed. THE IRISH VOTE. Lord DUDLEY STUART gave notice that on a future day he should move that the 50,0001. to be ad vanced to Ireland should be advanced by way of loan, to be repaid by means of rates to be levied on the unions of Ireland. CEYLON. Sir W. MOLESWORTH fixed his motion on the affairs of Ceylon for this day fortnight. IRISH LOANS. Mr. MACGREGOR gave notice that on the 16th in stant he should move for twelve returns connected with the loans made to Ireland si nce th e U n i on , an d genera ll y relating to the Irish funds. IRISH CRIMINAL LAW. Sir H. W./ BARRON gave; notice of his intention to introduce a Bill for the amendment of the criminal law of Ireland. STAMPS AND TAXES. Mr. lIIJME moved for a copy of the Treasury Minute for the consolidotion of the Board of Stamps with the Board of Excise ; and a statement of the reduction of ••officers by the consolidation, together with the reduction of expense thereby.--:Agreed to. KAFIR WAR. Mr. V. SMITH, seeing the Right Hon. Member the Under-Secretary for the Colonies in his place, wished to ask him a question. It would, no doubt, be in the recollection of the Right Honourable Gentleman that towards the close of last session he informed the House that art port had been received from Sir Henry Pottinger, concerning the expenses of the Kafir war and government of the Cape of Good Hope generally. That report, it was stated, had been referred by the Colonial Office to the con consideration of the Ordnance Department, and he (Mr. V. Smith) wished to kcow whether any repurt had been received from the Ordnance department upon that document ? Mr. HA WES said no report had yet been received from the Ordnance department, and he was not in a po sition to say when it would be furnished. The inquiry was a very laborious and complicated one. That was the only answer he was able to give to the Hon. Member at present. The O'GORMAN MAHON supported the motion. Sir W. 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() 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 Seville•••• •••• •• •• •••- New Dollars .... •• 0 4 10% Silver in bars ...... • • 0 4 11 MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Commodore Henry Eden, RN., superintendent of her Majesty's dockyard, Woolwich, and formerly private secretary to the late Earl of Auckland, was married on the Bth instant, at Armagh Cathedral, to Elizabeth Harriet Georg iana Beresford, daughter of the late Lord George Beresford, niece of the Lord Primate of Ireland, and cousin of the Marquis of Water ford. The bride, who was attended by Miss G. H. and Miss M. E. Beresford, as bridesmaids, was given away by the Marquis of Waterford. After the ceremony the.. orey cucel by Lis Grace the Archbishop at a splendid dejeuner at the pa lace, Armagh, to which a large number of the gentry of the neighbourhood had the honour of being invited. The attachment of the gallant commodore to the lady to whom he is now united, has been of ten years' standing. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE' OF LORDS, Feb. 12. Lord LYTTELTON presented a petition from Ard ley, praying for the restoration of the great tithes to the parish from the lay improptiator. TRANSPORTATION. Lord CAMPBELL gave notice that on Thursday next he would move the second reading of the Bill for abolishing the punishment of transportation for petty larceny. _ only POOR-LAW (IRELAND). The Marquis of LANSDOWNE then proposed the names of the Peers who were to compose the Committee on the Irish Poor-laws. It was impossible, in consequence of the inaudible tone in which the Noble Marquis spoke, to catch all the; names. Among them, however, we distinguished the following : Bart Fortescue, Earl Fitzvvilliam, Lord Ashburton, the Earl of Leman, the Earl of Errol, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl of Carlisle, Lord Beaumont, the Earl of blountcashel, Lord Stanley, and the Earl of Lovelace. The Earl of MOUNTCASHEL complained that Lord Farnham had not been appointed on the Committee. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was understood to say that he had applied to Lord Farnham, and that the Noble Lord had replied that he could not possibly at tend the Committee. NORTH WALES RAILWAY. Lord MONTEAGLE then moved that Mr. Chadwick, Mr. Marriner, the chairman, and secretary of the North Wales Railway, should be called to the bar. He thought it right to explain the part which he had taken in this transaction. A petition had been given to him for presentation, which he trans• mitted to those gentlemen for their reply; their answer was, that legal proceedings Were pending, and that they would bo prejudiced by the pre sentation of this petition. He postponed the presentation, and did not present it until he bad ascer tained that the suitors in the pending suit would not be prejudiced by its presentation. The circumstances of the last year had induced great and honourable companies to come forward and publish their accounts, but still they c!9r did fo Cat , c , „;„. Lilly audited. Had the Bill he had had the honour to pass through their Lordships' Halve become law, the parries interested in the North Wales Company never could have pursued the line of conduct they have adopted. In their case he proposed to move for the appointment of a Corn • mittee to consider how far it was expedient to provide by law for a better audit of railway accounts. 't'o that Committee he should propose to refer the accounts relating to the North Wales line, which were on the table of the House, upon which he should desire the Committee to report, and he should suspend all proceedings against the parties until that re port was before the House. He had made out a case which showed there had been great abuses in railway companies under the present state of the law. He charged the parties connected with the North Wales Railway with a fradulent concealment of the fasts connected with the company, and a contempt of their Lordships' House. He trusted their Lordships would agree to appoint the Committee (for which he moved) in order that such conduct might be investigated and the state of the law relating to the case considered. Lord BROUGHAM. entirely approved of the course proposed to be taken by his Noble Friend, and while ex pressing that opinion, he trusted their Lordships Would allow him to mention a case which had come before him that day while presiding over the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, inasmuch as it was somewhat con nected with railways. They had had under their consi deration the case of a patent axle for carriages on rail ways, which had proved to their satisfaction to be a great improvement over the old axle now in use, and if it were generally adopted on all railways would greatly tend to the prevention of accidents, and the consequent safety of human life. Mr. Stephenson had deposed before them that the axle had been tested to the weight of 150 tons, which it had stood without breaking—it came out of the trial a perfect mass, whereas out of 50 common axles, 48 were broken to pieces—only 2 stood the test to which the patented article was sub jected. They had been informed that the railway corn • panics were very dilatory in adopting the patented article, although it was furnished them 30 per cent. cheaper than that now in use. He understood that they only substituted them after those now in use had been worn out. Now, if a death should ensue, after it was made known that such an article was to be had, and from the want of it, he knew what the verdict in the case would be, because it would clearly appear that rail way companies would not spend a few pounds in order to protect the lives of their passengers. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE supported the ap pointment of the Committee. The Earl of MINTO had no desire to oppose the course proposed to be taken by the Noble Lord, but the impression on his mind was, that as the contempt of the House had been clearly made out, their Lordships should in the first instance deal with the parties. Ile thought it was incumbent upon the House to vindicate their undoubted privileges. The motion was then agreed to, and the House ad journed. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Feb. 12. HABEAS CORPUS SUSPEIN6ION (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. J. O'CONNELL, in resuming his observations, said that not a single member of the Repeal Association had so much as fora single hour or a single minute been in prison. They had had a Government reporter down among them who had discharged his duty, as he was bound to say reporters generally did, with ability, im partiality, and honour, but not one single note did his report contain that would criminate any member of the as sociation. The fact was that the Government had watched them as a cat watches a mouse, but they had caught no member in any default, for no default was made ; end thus it was that they were obliged to come down to the House, and ask fer an unconstitu tional measure, in order to serve their own purposes. What took place last July in Ireland was a most wretched attempt, and ought not to have been made so much of as it was. The parties connected with that attempt were Ilt.pealers, to be sure, but they:were some thing more. Much b a d b een said about the patronage that had been given to his father for the service he rendered to the Whigs in their contentions with the Tories. He denied that any patronage had l'een ever given, and the appointment of two members of his family to Government situations was entirely without his knowledge. Mr. O'Connell had had plenty of calumniators, but he defied any one of them to say that that gentleman's actions were guided by motives of patronage. He was always guided by his conscience, and never did he sup port a Minister if he did not think him in the right. But it was said Mr. O'Connell long ago gave up the Church question. He denied it in tote. True, for a time Mr. O'Connell allowed the question to re main in abeyance, and had his lite been spared him, it was his intention to have introduced a measure for the settlement of the Irish Church question. —(Hear.) That measure might not have met with, much support in that House, but in Ireland it would have been hailed with delight. It would have met with the warm response of the majority of the people, and the Noble Lord at the head of the Government would have been forced to return to his old principles. But sooner or later such a measure as that must be introduced, and whoever took it in hand first would ever be acknowledged by the Irish people as their best friends. But to return to the question under discussion, he must again protest against this suspension of the constitution in Ireland. There was no necessity for it, and it was an act of base cruelty to put the people of Ireland at the mercy of a despotic Lord-Lieutenant. Se• veral English Members had stood by the opponents of this Bill, and warmly espoused the cause, of the Irish people. He thanked them for it, and he was quite convinced the whole nation of Ire land would second him in offering them thanks for their patriotic' conduct. Why then did Government not listen to the advice of these Honourable English Representatives, and before they passed this Bill wait and see if something else besides coercion could not be done to pacify Ireland. Let the Noble Lord consider the policy of conciliation, which had never yet been tried, and which could not produce worse results than the policy of coercion and party in difference which had hitherto prevailed. Let the Noble Lord try conciliation, if merely for the novelty of the thing. Let him be advised in time. Ireland was power• less—she was struck down to the earth, and this was a useless insult, accompanied by wanton aggravation. He asked the House—he asked her Majesty's islinisters, even at the eleventh hour to reconsider the matter— he asked the statesman who sat opposite, the chief of whom in 1846 spoke words that were engravers on Irish hearts, and made them h o p e f or somet hi ng from him he asked him to look round and see whether in the storm with which the political atmosphere was surcharged, it would be well for England, strong and powerful as she seemed to be, to have a grateful friend attached to her, instead of a wretched, chained, and cursing slave? The Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving his amendment. Mr. MEAGHER seconded the amendment. The SOLICITOR -GENERAL said, a very few words would be sufficient to show that the motion now sug gested by the Hon. Member for Limerick was incon sistent with the scope of the Bill ; and even if it were not, it would fail to answer the object the Hon. Member bad in view. The object of the Bill was to empower the Lord-Lieutenant or chief governor of Ireland to uppree hend and detain persons whom he may suspect of con spiring against the government or person of the Queen. Now there might be many acts, apparently extremely innocent in themselves, yet which, coupled with other acts and other information which might come to the knowledge of the chief governor, might be proofs that the persons committing these acts, apparently innocent in themselves, were, in fact, conspiring against the government, or the person of her Majesty. What pos. sible advantage could be gained by introducing a provi sion to guard the right of the subject to hold public meetings for the purpose of petitioning ? If' it was considered desirable to hold public meetings for any legitimate or proper object, it would be as lawful to do it under the Act now before the House as at present. In point of fact, they might just as well be called upon to enumerate all the acts which were perfectly legal and innocent acts, which wore not to be interfered with by the proposed Act, as to enumerate public meetings of per sons for the purpose of petitioning. It might be true— but respecting that he would express no opinion at all— it might be true, and it might be the opinion of :gentlyinen in Troland who had been in tho habit of frequenting public meetings, that it is im possible to hold a public meeting for political purposes in Ireland without giving the opportunity, under exist ing circumstances, to some ill-disposed persons to carry the proceedings further than may have been intended, and may therefore lead to certain practices which would make them obnoxious to the provisions of the Bill. On that he gave no opinion. But if the fact were so, it was clear that it was a meeting which ought not to be held, though the fact of whether it was to be held or not was not at all affected by the provisions of the Bill. There was, in point of fact, nothing that could prevent any gentlemen from holding a public meeting, if they thought it could be conducted in such a manner as would be really legal and directed to proper objects. With a measure of this kind considerable discretion must, of course, be left in the hands of the Lord-Lieutenant. In the present state of society, in which an intimate knowledge was easily obtained by the public of what took place, there was a reasonalrle security that no improper exercise of the powers conferred by the Bill need be apprehended. No complaint had hitherto been made of the mode in which these powers bad been exercised. Indeed the Hon. Member for Limerick (Mr. J. O'Connell) had pointed out that not a single member of the Repeal Association had been arrested under this Bill. That was a strong proof that the pro visions of the Bill were not open to reasonable objection. It was also a proof that the Lord Lieutenant had not considered the part which the Hon. and Learned Member had taken as amounting to an intention of conspiring against her Majesty, The mode in which the Bill would in future be carried into effect reivht safely, therefore, be left to the discretion of ,he Lord-Lieutenant. In fact, a measure of this sort had, in his opinion, an advantage over any other Coercion Liu. tin ordinary Ceercion Bill Ma necessarily attendee with considerable inconve nience to persons entirely innocent, while a Bill of this sort affected only persons who were either guilty or cul pably indiscreet. He believed that the mode in which Parliament passed this Bill last year had done more than anything else to prevent the spreading of insurrection in Ireland; and he confidently trusted that the House would not attempt to cripple the measure by introducing provi sions which would make it impossible for the Government to carry it into effect. Mr. R. B. ROCHE thought the speech of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman who had just sat down proved that it would be most improper to pass ill,. Act for Ireland. Tne Right Hun. Gentleman the Secretary fur 'Maud said, the other night, that the Act was intended to prevent agitation, and the Hon. and Learned Gentle man who had just sat down gave expression to the same INDIAN RAILWAYS. In reply to aque;;;;flom Lord MAHON, Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE said it was perfectly true that negotiations ct ere going on between certain railway companies and the East India Company with resp, et to the formation of railways in India. No good could now arise from entering into any explanation on the übjcct, but ho could assure the Noble Lord that the moment he was acquainted with the result of the negotiation, he should not have the slightest objec tion to give every explanation. Mr. BRIGHT wished to know whether the Indian Government had determined not to make those railways themselves, in the event of their not being made by pri vate companies? Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE said that the Indian Go vernment had come to no such determination. The state of the case was exactly this—that at present it was thought much more preferable that those under takings should be carried out by private companies, but most assuredly the Indian Government had not come to the determination to carry them out themselves if private companies would not undertake them. TIDAL HARBOURS. In reply to Lord BERNARD, Sir F. F. BARING said he had not yet had time to go through the Bill on this subject, but he would turn his attention immediately to lt. It would be a permis- sive Bill, and there was no cumpulsory power given by it. SHEEP AND CATTLE STEALING IN IRELAND, I❑ reply to a question from Mr. BURKE, Sir W. SOMERVILLE said, the Bill on the subject of sheep and cattle stealing in Ireland was being pro. ceeded with. HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENSION (IRELAND BILL. The consideration of the report upon this Bill was postponed until to-morrow. RELIEF OF DISTRESS (IRELAND). The bringing up of the report was postponed until to morrow. COMMON LAW COURTS (IRELAND). Mr. REYNOLDS withdrew the following motion:— Returns from the Court of Qneen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, in Ireland, of the number of eject ments brought in these Conrts respectivsly, for the last three years, beginning with Hilary Term, 1846, and ending with Hilary Term 1849, both included ; specify ing the number in each term and year, and the counties in which they have been brought, and the number of persons served in each ejectment, according to the affida vits of service, distinguishing the number brought for non payment ofrent, and the number brought for overholding. And, from the Assistant Barristers' Court of each county in Ireland, of the number of civil bill ejectments entered in each of such courts for a similar period, together with the number of the defendants in each civil bill ejectment, and distinguishing the number sued for nonpayment of rent, and the number for overholding, and the number for desertion. DUBLIN POLICE. On the motion of Mr. REYNOLDS, it was ordered that the return relating to the Dublin Metropolitan Po lice, presented the Bth day of this instant February, be printed. NA VIG ATION-LAWS . Mr• LABOUCHERE stated that it was his intention o bring on the navigation-laws to-morrow. SICILY AND NAPLES. Mr. URQUHART inquired if the Noble Lord would have any objection to furnish a return of the distribution of the squadron of Sir W. Parker i n th e p orts o f t h e coasts of Sicily, of the kingdom of Naples, and of the Adriatic, from the month of March last down to the latest intelligence. Lord PALMERSTON thought it would be very incon venient to the public service to produce the papers re ferred to. The return was not, therefore' pressed for. COUNTY COURTS. On the motion of Mr. GRAINGER, the following returns were ordered : Address for Return from every Court established throughout England ane Wales, under the Act 9 and 10 Vic., c. 95, of 1. The total number of plaints entered in each court, from the Ist day of January to th e 31st day of Decem ber, 1848, both days inclusive; specifying the number of plaints above 10/.; above 5L and not exceeding 10/. ; 51; above 1/. an d not ex ceding exceeding 1L 2 . T2h2/e.I. and total o notnt u exceeding causes tried by eac h C our t , ,duringcauses s 2 specifyi ng t h e number of c above oa e b edi ong 5/. and net exceeding 101.; ---• above and not ao svelt. abovehe and samel notol. e period;xacbeoevd exceeding ex ceeding 2/.; and not exceeding 1/. 3. The total number of days that each Court has sat within the same period, and the average number of hours comprised in each sitting. 4. The total amount of moneys for which the plaints were entered in each court during the same period. 5. The , total amount of moneys, exclusive of costs, for which judgment has been obtained in each oourt during the same perioa, and also the amount of such costs. 6. The total amount of moneys paid into each court during the same period in satisfaction of debts sued for, without proceeding to judgment. 7. The gross total amount o f monies received i n eac h court during such period ; distinguishing the am ount f or fees for each officer, and on account of the general f un d, from the amount rec e i ve d t o the credit of suitors. 8. The total amount of monies received on account of the general fund in each court during the same period, -and the total amount of disbursements thereout; specify ing the principal purposes for which such disbursements were made. 9. The total number of causes tried in each court dur ing the same period with the assistance of a jury; spe. cifying the number of such causes in which a verdict has been given in favour of the party requiring a jury to be summoned (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 2172, of session 1847-8.) THE FISHERIES OF IRELAND. Mr. C. ANSTEY rose to move for a Select Commit tee to inquire into the present state of the inland fish eries and navigation of Ireland, and the obstructions which hinder the enjoyment of the same; and the best means of removing such obstructions, and to report their opinion thereupon to this House. The Honourable and Learned Member said that it would perhaps be in the reeollectioe of the House that towards the end of last session he gave notice that he 'Mould in troduce a Bill to improve the management of th e important fisheri es o f I re l an d, w ith a view to render the laws relating to them more simple than heretofore, and consequently to render them more productive than during the past. The Bill introduced by the Right lion. Baronet (Sir W. Somerville) in the course of last ession would have effected some improvements with respect to what was known as the "close" fishing ses Sion; but it was defective in other respects, particularly with respect to the right of way, and to the fishing below and above the "tidal" water, which it was the purpose of the Bill he (M. A.) intended to introduce to remedy. In England the salmon fisheries, comparatively unim portant, were the most part " several" fisheries— that was held by individuals. In Scotland—he spoke in the presence of those best competent to give an opinion —he believed it was universally true that the salmon fisheries were private property, or what was called in our law " several" fisheries; but of Ireland, with the exception of those fisheries, and they were very few, which were vested in individuals by Act of Parliament. No such thing as a " several" fishery existed. Every fishery, supposed to be a " several' t . . 7 - 1 tetally at variaeee with ebservari , ,ns rewle in that House, when he stated that agitation was the bane of Ireland? Colonel RA WDON gave every credit to his Hen. Friend for the manly manner in which he always ex pressed his sentiments, but he ought to recollect that it was no; a letter of the Lord-Lieutenant they e ere now discusAtig, but an Act of Parliament. Tile Bill was one expressly inn oiled to put down treasonable practices, and not constitutional agi tatien, for had it been against the ri g ht o f meet i ng or petitionin g , no man in Ireand would offer it greater op position than himself. He believed it was an Act which would be looked on by the great majority of the Irish people as a protection to their lives and properties— (Hear, hear, from O'Gorman Mahon)—for there had been instances during the late commotion, where even a father came forward tend delivered up his son to the authorities for his future safety from the wiles of mis guided men. On these grounds he should support the measure, believing that at a period when the right of free discussion existed, and when the power of the press was paramount, there was no fear that any undue exercise of the powers about to be entrusted to the Lord-Lieutenant would even be attsmpted, because if such were made it would be met with the unanimous indignation of the country. Mr. REYNOLDS said as there appeared to be a mis conception of the object of the Bill he would refer Hon. Members to the first clause of it, where they would find it stated that its object was to empower the Lord-Lieu tenant of Ireland to apprehehd and detain, from the Ist of March next, such persons as he might suspect guilty of conspiring against her Majesty's person or govern ment. Now, notwithstanding the explanation of the Bill by the Learned Solicitor-General, it appeared to him that the Lord-Lieutenant would be the sole judge as to the party who ought to be arrested—that he would have the sole power of interpreting the law, and of causing to be apprehended any one he might consider troublesome. It had been said that the Lord Lieutenant would not abuse the powers granted him by the Bill. He had no hesitation in admitting that he had not hitherto abused those powers, an d t h at h e had administered the law with great temper, judgment, and mercy, But still he objected to extending those powers, because he was not prepared to place the, liberty of the subject on so slender a footing as the opinion of any Lord or Commoner. To say that the Lord-Lieutenant had not abused those powers was merely to beg the question. If the Bill passed in its present shape it would be impos sible to hold a meeting in Irel a nd f or the purpose of petitioning Parliament for the redress of any grievance, because the tear of arrest would prevent people attend ing. It was said that political agitation was the curse of Ireland. It was an evil when carried to an unconsti tutional extent in any country. It had, however, con ferred great benefits not only on Ireland but on Eng land. If the free-trade s had been threatened witk the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act when they were agitating the country against the corn-laws, would those laws have been repealed ? He differed from the majority in that House, and believed that the ques den of the repeal of the union was one worth agitat ing, and that the repeal would confer great bene fits on Ireland without doing any injury to England. Suppose they were to take it into their heads to agitate against the temporalities of the Protestant Church in Ireland—he, for one, was much disposed to do so—were they to be threatened in that case with a suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act? Formerly a person who re fused to pay tithes in Ireland was regareed almost as a traitor. Tithe had been abolished in name, though not in fact; and the agitation against it had ended by making the rich church richer, and a poor people poorer. An lion. Gentleman, talking the other night of the ap propriation clause, said it was dead. He doubted it. It was entombed, but the inscription on the tablet was •' Resurgatn."—(Hesr, hear.) He believed that its re surrection would shortly take place, and that all Ireland would declare against the temporalities of the Pro testant Establishment as a grievance too great to be longer endured. They would declare the 1,000,000/. a year should be applied to national purposes, and not to the support of the clergy of a small section of the population.—(hear, hear.) What was the object of England in forcing this Protestant Church on Catholic Ireland? That was a question which they were asking among themselves. Why should not the same principle be applied to Ireland as had been applied to Scotland ? Scotland, to be sure, bad fought for "happy hearth s an d a l tars f ree. " In Ireland the altars were not free. The Protestant Church had been esta blished in England because the majority of the people were Episcopalians. Presbyterianism had been esta blished in Scotland because the majority of the people were Presbyterians; but in Ireland the Protestant Church had been established because the Episcopalians were the minority.—(Hear, hear.) The people of Ireland were heartily sick of it. They felt that they were degraded slaves, that the Emancipation Act was a nullity so long as the Protestant Church was established in Ireland. The people of Ireland were not apathetic on this subject. Their idea was, that by repealing the union they would be able to abolish the Church. But now they were told that repeal agitation would not be permitted. He begged the Government to do something for the people of Ireland, so as to rid them of the tem poralities of the Established Church. With regard to the amendment before the House, he hoped his Hon. and Learned Friend would not divide. If he should, he would vote with him; but he hoped he would not di vide, for it would look like a compromise of a great principle, inasmuch as it would appear that they were willing to accept the Bill if the Government agreed to the amendment.—(Hear.) He was opposed to the Bill on the broad grounds that it was unnecessary, uncalled for, and an unprecedented invasion of the rights of the sub ject. It was admitted Ireland was tranquil. The people were tired of agitation, and were looking for some thieg substantial.—(Hear.) He understood the cheer of the Hon. Member for Ennis, but did not accept it in the sense in which he had uttered it. Ireland was tran quil, and the most troublesome of the opponents of Go vernment had been tried and found guilty under the ferocious Act of Edward 111. There was no disturbance now in Ireland. The balance of the agitators bad expa triated themselves, and 40 or 50 of them only still re mained in prison untried. The tranquillity which pre vailed in the country was perfect. But, independently e of all this, they had a better guarantee for the peace of Ireland ; for they had between 40,000 and 50,000 of the Queen's troops quartered in the kingdom; and, besides - those, there were 11,000 police, 30 or 40 of whom had gained the great battle of Waterloo at Bailin- . garry. In the midst of the presence of al that powerful force they were asked to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act. For his own part, he had no hesitation in assur ing the House that there was no danger whatsoever to the pubic peace under any circumstances. The people were looking to Parliament for relief from the pressure which was on them, and had discarded from their minds all intention of fighting.—(Hear, hear.) Even the raw material of agitation was dispersing. That source of agrarian disturbance, the competition for land, was en tirely removed. The people were quitting the soil, and men who would perhaps have shot a landlord 12 months ago fur being dispossessed from land, would not take the same course now. He regretted much to see the present Bill introduced by the Government on these broad grounds, that the Right Hon. Gentlemen now occupying the Treasury benches were always the friends of civil and religious liberty. He regretted, therefore, that they should be the parties to move the resolution then before the House, but concluded by suggesting to his Hon. and Learned Friend the Member tor Limerick not to divide the House upon such a narrow point as that embraced in his amendment. Mr. ANSTEY also rose to appeal to tho Hon. and Learned Member for Limerick not to press his amend ment to a division, as it seemed to him it would be im possible for the House to come to a satisfactory vote upon it. He thought the amendment took more the shape of a question to be moved in Committee than any other. In the Committee the Act might be amended so as not to press upon persons engaged in the agitation for the repeal of the union. Now it that was a treason able agitation the matter was ended; it it was not, then the proposed measure did not bring it within its scope. —(Hear.) Under all the circumstances it appeared im possible for him to hesitate as to the vote which he should be obliged to give. In one point of view the amendment was unnecessary, in another pernicious. Mr J. O'CONNELL rose to explain. He wished to know whether, from the speech of the Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman the Solicitar-'General, it was understood that the letter of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, or the comment upon It by the Chief Secretary, implied it was proposed to prevent, by the present mea sure, anything like constitutional agitation. Sir G. GREY said neither the letter of the Lord- Lieutenant nor the speech of the Chief Secretary could be supposed to have the force of law. He was quite et ) willing to co ncur i n t h e op i n i on expressed by his Learned " 4 Friend the Solicitor-General and the Hon. and Learned 1 1 Member opposite (Mr. Anstey). He thought the Hon. and Learned Member who proposed the amendment'' would act wisely in attending to the suggestions which, , ,,'sH- 1 had been thrown out. Mr. J. O'CONNELL then withdrew his motion, in - -W titnating that its substance might be embodied in a clause_ in Committee. The question was then put that Cie House should go into Committee. Mr. J. O'CONNELL moved a negative, and the House divided on the question. The numbers were:— Ayes Noes 84 Majority —7O The House then went into Committee—Mr. Bernal in ,he chair, On clause 1 being proposed, • Mr. ANSTEY rose to propose, pursuant to notice, the following amendments :--At page 1, line 3 from bottom, to omit "is are or." At page 2, lines 3 and 4 from top, to omit, "or treasonable practices ;" lines 5 and 6, to omit, " without bail or inainprise until," and to insert in their place, " for any time by order of the said Privy Council to be limited, such time not to exceed ;" line 8 ; to insert " whereby any order of the said Privy Council shall be s o di rected ;" line 10, to omit -" without" an d ,. substitut e "u n t i l ;" line 11, after " council " to inser'' to the contrary or ;" and to omit the whole of section 2. And t page 3, line 5 from top, alter "that" to insert " true ; ' and at line 6, before " warrants" to in sert " orders and." In moving these amendments he avowed himself opposed totally to the principle of the present Bill; but us the Ili also had affirmed that principle, he conceived thst the Bid would be modified and im proved considerably by carrying out his suggestion. lie v,ould propose the very reverse of what the Bill con templated, and would only give the extraordinary powers which it invested in the hands of the Lord-Lieutenant to a committee of the Privy Council. It appeared to him strange that so many lion. Members on both sides of the House should feel so apathetic about a measure which went so much to infringe upon one of the oldest and most important principles of the constitution. HQ concluded, however, by announcing his intention of ry.'t dividing the House on the first of his amendments. ,„0 \~