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I am sure, will afro :‘, with me, that in that respect the scale ..toes not afford'atie advantage whi c h th e Ri g h t H on. B aronet stated. Bu' s , Sir, I have no hesitation in stating, that I am an advaca!e for a fixed duty. I am not an *dui- Celts for a fixed duty, upon the principle on Which `Jame who have spoken support this sliding scale, riernely, upon the principle of affording protection to agriculture. I am adverse, on general principles, to the doctrine of protection at all. lam sure that if you enter into a calculation for the purpose of distributing the amount of protection according to fair proportions between your agricultural, your manufacturing, your shipping, and your commercial interests, you get into a lalsyrinth of difficulties from which there is no satisfactory escape.—( Hear, hear.) Ido not agree with the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Dorchester, who, in a speech which he made recently to his constituents, held the doctrine which ig wee somewhat repudiated by th e Ri g ht H on . Baronet t his evening, namely, that yo ur s lidi ng sca l e , or y ou r duties, what everwer they mar be, ought t o b e so cons t ruc t e d that the g sd oorn should, in times of diminished production, obtain,re through an increase of price, compensation for the sca ntiness of his produce. Why, Si r , w h a t i s t h a t hut saying, in o ther terms, that the oonsu mer i s to ensur e the grower of . corn against vicissitud e s o f season which are the necessaryndet ? _ tia. tural continge n ci es t o w hi c h the trade in corn is u (Cheers from the Oosition.) Why, Sir, you do subje ct do that in other cases. ( Dear, hear.) You do not call upon the consumer to insure the merchant against the loss of his car goes by accidents at sea, or against any deterioration which may take place in the freight of his vessel. In cases of a scanty supply, you send to other countries to leak up the deficienccy ; and you do not forbid the further entrance of a commodity, in order that by the i ncrease in price you may compensate the mer c h an t f or t h e diminution in quantity. Then, Sir, I cannot admit the just ne-s of applying that principle to the agricultural interest. I sty that those who hold land and those who cultivate land, should take into their calculation those vicisait udesofseason which arc the necessary incidents of their trade. On the other hand I would say that I am not an advocate for a fixed duty upon the tsround on which the Right Hnn. Baronet rests his scale— namely, that it would, up to a certain point, favour the producer, and that then it would favour the consumer, My notion is, that taxes and duties should be levied for the purpose of re venue, and for the purpose of revenue alone.—( Hear, hear.) 'We must have an army, we must have a navy, we must have vivit establishments, and we must provide for their proper :eaaintenance. For those purposes a. revenue is required ; and I cannot see myself any reason why the importation of corn from abroad should not be a fair subject on which to levy such a moderate duty as would not materially interfere with the abundance of the supply of that article.— (Hear, hear, hear. ) Now, Sir, these are the grounds on which I object to the eliding scale ; and I must say, that in the whole of the remarks of the Right Honourable Baronet, whether in the speech upon the present occasion or upon this, I do not remember to have heard any arguments either in favour of a sliding scale as opposed to a fixed duty, or in favour of the amended scale in opposition to that which now exists, which to my mind were conclusive and satisfactory. The Right Hon, Baronet has stated the reasons why the pre sent is not an unfit time for making a change in the present lies. But he omitted altog ether to state th e r easons w h y suc h a change w as necessary—h e omitted altogether to explain to the House what are the evils arising out of the present scale, which make it, in the opinion of the Government, expedient to alter that scale, and to substitute another in its stead. Was that omission accidental? I do not believe it was. The Right lion. Baronet is too able and experienced a leader to enter the arena of this House leaving behind him any weapon which he could believe might be useful to him in the fight. (Hear, hear.) But he must have felt—he must have well known— that every argument he could adduce against the present sys tem—every explanation and detail into which he might enter, in order to show the bad working of the system, and the de eireableness of effecting a c ha nge i n it, wou ld be an argument to a certain extent, at least, against the proposition he had introduce. —( Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Ba-onet very prudently as I think, has abstained from giving the reasons which induced the Government to make any change in the pr, sent law. If he was to state that a change was desirable, io order to conciliate public opinion, or to diminish the present distress, he knew that such an admission would lead him much too far. But if he did not state why the change should be made, he stated reasons why no change was nenes vary. He did not admit that distress arose from the present system of Cern-laws—he did not admit that a change :n that system would do much good to any one, although he :Alleged that it would not do much harm to any one. The nearest approach to a reason for the change is that which we have heard this night—that the agriculturists have now too much protection, and that therefore they can afford, without loss or inconvenience to themselves--( Hear)—to part with a portion of it, to make a sacrifice of that suyerfluity, in consideration of the feelings of the public at large. Now, I say that a sliding scale, modify it as you will, contains in its eery fundamental principles defects and evils, which render it the far less expedient mode of laying a tax upon fo reign corn than a fixed and permanent duty.—(Hear.) Let your duty be fixed, assuming always that duty to be mode sane. We proposed a duty of Bs. last year, but the Rightilion. Baronet has almost convinced me to-night that the duty was too high.—( Hear, hear.) He has taken great pains to show that that duty would be as high as the duty under the scale which he intends to introduce. I do not quite admit the force of his reasoning on that Bead ; but I say that the principle for which we contend is Gist the duty should be fixed and low, and the principle to which we object is that the duty s ho u ld vary with the price of the article. If the duty were fixed the trade in corn would assume a totally different character, It would acquire a totally different range of transactions. In stead of being a gambling transaction at home—instead of being a scramble for corn in neighbouring markets—instead of being a trade that scarcely touches the more distant markets, it would become a steady and regular commerce by barter. The merchants engaged in that commerce would then make their arrangemeuts with forecast and beforehand. They would make their arrangements to receive their corn from the Continent, where it was best produced, and to bring it home at the period when they thought it could best be disposed of in this country.—(Hear, hear.) You would then have an extension of your commerce with countries like the United States of America. Your commerce would not then consist of purchases of corn fur bullion, but would become a regular commerce consisting of an interchange of merchandise on the one hand, and of corn on the other. Now, what is the course of your corn trade as it at present stands ? Why no man car, toll from year to year, or hardly from month to month, whether the trade in corn, and the price of corn will be, such as to make it worth his while to import any quantity from abroad. Parties %salted, therefore, till a bad season produced a rise in prices in the home market ; and what they did they do th en ? They ran in a hurry to the nearest market in order that they might get an 4in:ciliate supply. But did they find the supply papered with reference to the demands of the Eng lish market? No, they did not, because the foreign dealer in corn woald act imprudently in locking up any great quantity of corn for the English market, not knowing whether, fur one, two, or three years, he might be able to send it over to this country while his capital should in the meantime lie dead upon his hands. The corn we introduced was the corn which happened to be saleable in some great seaport town. But corn did not grow in towns. The corn imported was not corn grown in the neighbourhaod of byre towns.bscause in such neighbourhoods the supply was not greater than the consumption on thespot. Any considerable;portion of corn must come from the interior of the country, and subject of course to the expense of transfer, and liable to the delay which must, take place before it is brought to any port. But the merchant is in a hurry— he is a f ra id h is f e ll ow rivals may get the start of him, and by the introduction of a large quantity lower the price, and raise the duty. Merchants compete with merchants—they raise the price at the port of embarka tion, and they are obliged to pay the foreigner perhaps twice as much as they should have paid if the duty was steady and regular, and of a natural character That was all money thrown away. That money, however, might be turned into revenue to this country, instead of being thus left as a profit to the foreign merchant or the speculators on the spot. Then was that the only loss ? It was clear that it was not. You want corn horn a particular place, but not only must you pay a higher freight, but you must pay for we. sets to be found upon the spot ; whereas if a regular trade was carried on, British vessels would go out in cargo, would come back with a carg o of corn, and th a t pro fi t o f t h e textile would go to th e British instead of the foreign shipowner. The consequence would be that they must send bullion to,pay for their corn ; that. would have to betaken from ; the Bask.; that would change the currency, and d stress and bankruptcy_ would follow, I think that ,a ;due . consideration of wrr own interest, -would lead those who are owners ef the soil, to prefer- a system that would prevent such prices, even if it went attended with some ever fice of their annual income, Those were the evils by the sliding scale. As regardert the int( rnal state of the country, }Jerome engaged in trade s felt the ill effect of such regulations, because every foreign country, when you ask them to make treaties of cannmerce, taunt you with the tariff. You are gradually losing by restrictive duties, markets to which you had access, and your manufactures and industry are cramped and crippled. I have been told, not withstanding all this, a great commercial country like England would easily surmount such evils. Supposing that it did so, that is no answer; but by those laws you injure commerce, which you might secure by adopting our principle. These are the evils of the sliding scale, and to these no answer has keen given by au y person who has spoken in the debate. We nave been told to consider this not only in a cummercial hut in a political point of view. We have been told that a great country like this ought to be independent of foreign nations for its supply of food; I would venture to say, that althmigh the Right Hon. Baronet admitted there were exceptions, those who voted with him would be influenced by that principle. Those who depended upon foreign commerce for the means by which they are to buy their bread, are, for all practical purposes, as much dependent upon foreign nations for their food and existence,'as if that food wa s grown i n f ore i gn countries. A man may starve in the midst of plenty if he hue not the means of purchasing the necessaries of —( Hear. ) Such an event took place in Ireland. In that country, while the greatest distress prevailed, and while the people were dying for fond, cargoes of wheat left this market because the people had not the means of purchas • inn such costly subsistence, and, therefore, I contend that it is fallacious to say that in a country, a large portion of whose peo ple eatisist by foreign commerce, and whose means of purchasing depends on foreigners and their productions,s it is perfectly isillecieets to say that such a nation can by any arrangement contrivance, render itself independent of foreign nations. Why is it that this earth which we inhabit is divided into such nistinct climates. Why is it that different coun tries produce different productions while almost ev e r y nation have similar wants? Why is it that this earth is intersected by mighty rivers, forming high ys from one part of it to an o th er , or w hy i s it t h at l an d s are nroughtto get h er by that mighty ocean which seems in tended to divide them? Why, it is that man may be dependent upon malt— (Cheers.) It i s , t h at t h e exc h ange of commodi ties may aceneapanied by the extension and diffusion of knowledge. It is that the exchange of benefits may conciliate ties may be accomp an i ed by the extension and diffusion of knowledge. It is that the exchange of benefits may conciliate and strengthen the affection that And thus will Commerce man boars to man. Cheers. ) , suing civi isation in one hand and leading Peace in the forth other, with render mankind happier, wiser, better.—(po — *en.) These are the dispen sations of Providence—these are the decrees of thatwer which has (treated and disposed the un i verse.—( Hear. )But then they step in with their arroga n t and presumptuous folly (Cheees)—the dealers in protective d u ti es and sliding scales, ( Cheers ) thinking to cast puny shackles around the inborn energies of man, and attempting to set ttp th e i r m i serable legis lation—(Great cheering)—in the place of the standing laws of Nature. lam convinced , whateveranay be th e result of this those satisfied euw t e h h a s t a the dszaand h and night's debate, that reason will prove too powerf u l f or error and prejudice.—(Cheery. ) Ism of truth will at last sweep a way air.—( Cheers.) I know also, that before that co nsummation shall arrive, there will in the interval be much and d o ookfor e mi sery, but I hope , that those sufferin g s will ee with much patience, and that we may . . 4 Readmit but I trust a speedy, diffusion of more enlight h e e n e ed n przneapdluesrinong this subject. The seeds of truth that have this discussion of the Corn-laws, have not been sown in vain, but will bear their fruit. The Government has made, one step, though a small one, in the course asrtseirnil policy:--4-Hear; hears) • They have broken ground and have quitted their entrenchments, as if it is now their in t°ntn inet to stand an assault ; I hope that having once got them w " 4 wiva from their fortress and to meet on the plain, that I a repetition of the engagement, though it be attended with their temporary success_, may end in their permanent defeat. (Laughter and cheers. ) I mean defeat oh this vies t ion. Ido not look for a defeat oh shy other.—(Cheers.) We know too well what is their strength and their majority-.. ( Loud cheers frum the Tory benches)—but Ido hope and trust, nay, I confidently expect, than at no distant period the minds of the men of this country will be thoroughly enlight ened on this subject, and that the same deference to to public opinion, which has wrung this small and reluctant concession from the Government, may one day extort from them a much nearer approximation to, if not a full arrival at, sound principles of legislation on this all-important subject. — ( Enthusiastic cheering, which continued for some time after the Noble Lord had resumed his seat. ) Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when there appeared— For Lord J. Russell's Amendment 226 Against it 349 Majority for Ministers -123 On our re-admission to the Gallery we found the House in Committee, and Sir ROBERT PEEL upon his legs, moving, as we nnder stood, that the Chairman do report progress, and ask leave to sit again to-morrow, but the confusion in the body of the House was so great, that we could not distinctly collect the purport of the Right Hon. Baronet's observations. Mr. VILLIERS thought that at that late hour, and in the exhausted state of the House—(" No, no," from the Minis terial Benches)—he could not bring forward the motion of which he had given notice, except under such disadvantageous circumstances that he trusted the Right Hon. Baronet would not press his motion, but postpone the further discussion to Friday. Sir R. PEEL did not think he could accede to the Hon. Gentleman's request. It should be recollected that the house had as yet really made no progress in the measure. The re solution was merely the foundation for bringing in a Bill. There would be many opportunities for discussing the ques tion, and he hoped that the Hon. Gentleman would be actu ated by the feeling that it would be desirable to conduct the discussion in such a manner as to lead to some practical result. His Right Hon. Friend had a motion for to-morrow on the subject of Exchequer Bills, which had been postponed in order to make way for the discussion. He hoped that the Hon. Member would not object to his resolution for the post ponement of the discussion to Friday, as that would throw them over into the next week. There would be an opportu nity of opening tke whole question upon the second reading of the Bill.—(Hear.) Mr. WAKLEY now rose amidst great confusion, and said he hoped that the Right Hon. Baronet would accede to the very humble request of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton. Vast numbers of petitions had been presented from the people for the total repeal of the Corn-laws, and, after the fatigue of a three nights' debate, he hoped the House would not hurry on the discussion until Friday. The present discussion related to the taxing the people's bread, and before the House came to a division upon that tax, they ought to know what were the other taxes which the Right Hon. Baronet intended to propose, and how far they would affect the people. He hoped, therefore, that the Right Hon. Bart. would consider the proposition of the Non. Gentleman (Mr. Villiers). Lord JOHN RUSSELL thought the request made by his Hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton was very reason able. Sir ROBERT PEEL said he did not wish to throw any obstacle in the way of the Hon. Gentleman opposite ; be was only acting on what he considered to be public duty, and for the public interests.—( Hear, hear.) He had now, however, no objection to accede to the Hon. Gentleman's request—( Hear) —and as the Exchequer Bills matter was deferred, perhaps they need not meet at all to-morrow. Mr. VILLIERS begged leave to state that he did not apply for the postponement of the question merely for his own personal convenience ; but he thought that it would be the most respeetful course towards those persons upon whose behalf petitions had been presented to the House to make the application then. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER felt he was placed in great difficulty. He said he was willing to postpone the measure with reference to the Exchequer Bills, thinking that the Corn-law debate would have been continued, and the question of the Corn-laws being of great importanee, he did not wish to in terfere with them, by bringing on his motion on Friday. Mr. VILLIERS having explained, the House resumed ; and on the motion of Sir R. PEEL, it was adjourned at a Quarter to Three o'Clock to Friday. Just ready, in two vols. post Bvo, with Illustrations, LONDON LEGENDS By PAUL PINDAR, Gent. Richard Bentley, New Burlington.stret. THE WEATHER.—NooN, FEBRUARY 17. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, I DELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 46 Highest 47 1 Lowest 39 Barometer 30.05.—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. %torning..... 32 minutes after 5 1 Evening 51 minutes after 5. m ie lp - to be prosecuted before a Jury. The Gazette de France quoted the article, and so was included in the prosecution. The act of packing juries is now catried to perfection in France ; and consequently a verdict of guilty was soon obtained against both the journals. It was proved in Court that the Editor of the National was too ill to quit his bed, but the Judges decided that his presence was a matter of indifference. They accordingly tried him, had him pronounced guilty, and sentenced him and the Editor of the Gazette de France to a year's imprisonment, and a fine of four thousand francs each I The Gazelle des Pyrennecs publishes the following letter :—" The partizans of Queen Christina have not lost all hope of success, and their residence in France has facilitated the means of coming to an understanding with the chiefs of the Carlist party. We need not therefore be astonished if O'Donnell, Concha, Jaureguy, Brana de Villareal, Claverla, Riquero, Urbistondo, Triarte Zarialeguy, and other chiefs, should soon come and plant a new banner on the summit of the Pyrenees to overthrow Espartero. The Ministry being questioned on the subject in the Senate, said they were on their guard."— Constitutionnel. . The Teulonnals of the 10th says :—" We see with satisfaction that the Government is taking measures to raise the crews of the ships of the fleet to the full war-complement, which had been much reduced by the discharge of a great number of men ; besides the levies, ordered in the fifth maritime district, and which have just been carried into effect, we received a great many men from the ports on the Ocean. Several vessels have arrived within a short time from Brest with seamen for the Mediterranean squadron. Yesterday the Atalante frigate, which arrived from rest, landed 300 seamen, The Savings' Bank at Paris received on Sunday and Monday from 6,541 subscribers (above 924 were new ones), the sum o 954,903 francs. The amount of the sums withdrawn was 535,3001 BOURSE-PARIS, TUESDAY, FEB. 15. First High est Lowest Last Price Price. Plit. Price. e tench h per Cent 5......... • 119 ... llt. 10 ... 18 93 ... 119 10 4% per Cents. . 107 25 ... 107 25 ... 107 2' , ... 107 '25 4 per Cents lO3 50 ... 1 3 50 ... 1(3 50 ... 103 50 9 per Cents 79 95 -. Se ... 79 1-5 ... 80 Loan Sank oi errancy Littitte Bank 1,0001. Shares 1925 ...1025 ...1025 ...1f25 WOOL Shares 5025 ...51r5 ...5032 50 ...5032 50 irissoan Bank Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 per Cent.., 1840 l(6 ... 106% ... 105% ... IC6 .}..Wish Active ts% ... 25% „. :5% ... 25% 4eapontan • ........ .......... 106 20 ... 106 2C ... 11:6 20 ... 06 20 Raman...-. . .... lON ... 10434 ... 104% ... 104% Dutch 2% per Cents. ...... ... 53 .. 53 ... 53 ... 53 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Versailles. lt. .......... 340 ... 340 340 310 L.B 2W ... 211 25 .. 208 75 „. 211 25 Rouen 515 515 ... 510 510 Orleans . 565 ... 565 ... 557 50 ... 561 25 S tatburg to Bale 213 75 ... 235 ... 233 75 ... 235 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BgRLIN. Felt. 8. 131116. Mn ne y. St. Schuld. &b., 46 per cent. 101; nag Prussian English Loan, 1630,4 per cent IO3 I A Exchange on London, three months — 6 E 5 —Prussian State Gazette. Feb. 9. PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY. (FROM ♦ CORRESPONDENT.) Dies, NORFOLC-The Annual Dinner of this popular Society took plaee at the Crown Commercial Inn, on Tuesday se'nnight, under the able Presidency of Mr. Thomas Farrow, wl ose urbanity of manners and gentlemanly deportment in the discharge of the important duties devolving upon him, added greatly to the hilarity and pleasure of the evening. The usual loyal toasts were drank with enthusiasm ; these were remanded to by the amateur glee. singers connected with the Society, who enlivened the meeting with numerous glees, &c. , which were chastely and admirably sung. Several overtures were executed with much spirit and pre. cision ; and the appropriate solo singing of some of the members elicited much applause. The meeting was favoured with the oompany of s..veral of the leading gentlemen of the town and neighbourhood, who expressed themselves highly pleased with the evening's entertainment. Additional members were proposed, and the Society is steadily gaining ground in the wishes of all the true friends of harmony. The dinner, consisting of almost every deli cacy of the season, was served up by Mr. and ➢irs. Wintrup in their usual excellent manner; the dessert was choice and abun dant; the wines exquisite ; and the entire management reflected great credit upon the worthy host and hostess, and showed they still maintain the character of being good caterers for the comfort of their visiters. PICCADILLY SHELTON, JULY 16 (*ROM A CORRESPONDENT. The people of Hanley and Shelton, in the Potteries, by way of showing their indignation at the cruel insult offered them by Sir Robert Peel's mock measure of "awful importance," relative to an alteration in the Corn-laws, yesterday paraded his effigy through the principal streets of these townships, with drum and fife, amidst the curses and execrations of thousands, who pelted him right well with mud and stones; discharged thirty or forty pistol shots at him, and set fire to him, amidst the groaning and hooting of an exasperated host of sufferers from the cruel operation of these wicked laws. Even Tories are woefully disappointed with this " awful measure," and do not hesitate to express their detestation of its authors. GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY. Traffic returns for the week, ending Feb. 12, 1842:- Passengers £794 7 6 Merchandise Darlington, Feb. 16. £1,341 10 3 W. O'BRIEN, Secretary. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) ASHDOWN PARK COURSING MEETING-Tv ESDAT THE Cur—Mr. Bennett's Brahmin, beat Mr. Agg's Ama zon ; Lord Stradbrooke's Magdalen beat Mr. L. Cripp's Equerry ; Mr. Bowles' Boscobel beat Mr. Lawrance's Lucy ; Mr. Etwall's Eton Boy beat Mr. Merant's Mole ; Mr. W. Etwall's Westwind beat Mr. Goodlace's My Granny ; Mr. Bennetts Brunell, beat Mr. E. Cripps' Emperor ; Mr. W. Et wall's World's End beat Mr. Goodlake's Graccbus ; Lord Stradbroke's Merryman beat Mr. Agg's Asp. The Claret Stakes.—Lord Stradbroke's Minerva beat Mr. Laurence's Longstone • Mr. Goodlake's Gentility beat Mr. Morant's Mischief ; dr. Bowles's Beroko beat Mr. Etwall's Westward ; Mr. E.,Cripp's Extacy beat Mr. Agg's Amurath. First Class Craven.—Mr. Goodlake's Gruel beat Mr. Agg's Amabelle ; Lord Stradbroke's Magna beat Mr. Morant's Mus selman : Mr. Bennett's felta beat Mr. Bowles's Banifylde ; Mr. E. Cripps's Empress beat Mr. Etwall's Excuse -me. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FEB. 16.—The sales te-day alie 2,ooobeirrs, with a very dull market. No change in prices. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, FEB. 16.—The transactions comprise —Eastern Counties, 81; Grand Junction, 184 , Half Shares, 91i ; London and Birmingham 321. Shares, 281; London and Brighton New, 5a ; London a n d South Western, 60 2 . North Midland Half Shares, 34k, MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 16.—The Market is still languid, though prices continue firm. Business has been done in Northern and Eastern at 34 ex dividend ; Man chester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, at 31. 16s. 6d. ; Bank of Manchester, 41. 3s. 9d. ; and Ashton Canals at 95 1 ,A. Hobart Town, Van Dieman's Land, papers to the 9th Oct. have been received at the North and South American Coffee House, but they do not contain any political news of the least importance. A further decline had taken place in wheat and flour at Hobart Town and Launceston. We extract the fol lowing from the papers : HOBART Towx.--There has been little wheat coming into town this week, and prices remain stationary ; fine flour at the mills 191. per ton. *trontil2tittion SUN OFFICE, Three o'Clock. Sir B. PEEL, alarmed, no doubt, at the excitement caused by the only measure he has yet brought forward as Prime Minister, is evidently anxious to hurry the Bill through all its stages with the utmost rapidity. When he assumed office he talked of nothing but delay. The words "mature deliberation," "caution," and "pru dence," were constantly in his mouth; now ho is deter mined to go at railroad speed, and, as if Members were as little susceptible of fatigue as the snorting, untiring, and iron-framed machines that are incessantly tra versing the country, he attempted to compel them this morning, at half-past two, and after a three , nights' debate, to listen to the motion of Mr. Vll tittt&- 'This- attempt, however; to smother the ques tiOn W-as . too barefaced even for hiS rnajority, and _fie; was at 14i3t_ fbree& to make n, merit 'of a neces -shy, and,profess that. , he had:no:wish to throw an ob stacle in the way. The attempt was not made without good reason. Petitions arc pouring in from all quar ters; in our market towns are kindled daily bonfires, not composed of tar-barrels and useless lumber, but of the effigies of the Right Honourable Premier himself, as Proofs of the strong determination of the people to de ' feat this mockery of a modified Corn-law Bill. Like the culprit in a crowd, he is therefore anxious to get out of the way, in the hope that the enactment of this obnoxious measure will silence the hungry and dis contented. He is even anxious, it is said, to hurry on other measures, in order to break up the Session by the middle of June. The public, however, are not to be deceived. They have waited long and patiently for the announcement of his plans, their turn now is come for mature: delibera tion, and he may depend upon it they will be satisfied with nothing less. LAUNCESTON.—The price of wheat has certainly declined, and although we have not heard of any transactions, yet it is believed by those in the trade that ss. cash per bushel is the utmost that it would now realise. PORT PHILIP, SEPT. 28.—There is not much doing in our market just now ; Mauritius Sogar is ',down a shade, and is only worth 421. per ton. Tea from 6/. 10s. to 8/., according to qualii4 - Adtieei froits Carthagena to th 4 27th December hate been received; which state that a decisive victory has - been gained by the "Government and 'The aiglish:' brig of war, Charlbdas over the Rebels underCainiana. After a haftle of' forty mirintee in the'Ziipsat WoOde, - the Whole of the rebel fleet, which consisted of a brig and five galetas, was taken. THE FUNHh. Both the English and Foreigh Securities opened firm, with a tendency to advance. Consols are 89h both for Money and Account ; Three per Cents. Reduced, b 9 ; Ditto Three and-a-Half, 99% %; Exchequer Bills, 23 25;. Bank Stock, 168 k 169 i. . . Spanish Active Stock, 241 25; Mexican Bonds, 34/ 35; Colombian, 22i 1; Brazilian, 65 66 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 311 32%; Ditto, Threts, 183 19%. Money is plentiful in the Stack Exchange at 3 to 3% per cent. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. R 1 ILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Eastern Counties Ditto Debentures ...... —Bl. 6s. Bd. 101. Is Bd. Great Western Gosport Junction London an Brighton 5O ...... 364 ...•• • to 36 London and Birmingham Ditto Thirds tierk and North Midland Ditto Ntw Shares.. souse STOOK BANKS. . 25 HA LP- PAST ONE. There has been but little business doing in the Stock Ex change. Consols bays advanced to 89% i for Money, and the Account; Three per Cent. Reduced 89% 90 ; ditto Three and-a- Half 99%; India Bonds are 67, and Exchequer Bills 235. to 255. prem. Columbian Bonds are 22i ; Danish, 82; Mexican, 34 fi ; Deferred, 10%; Fortugues Five per Cents., 32a ; do. Threes, 19% % ; Spanish Active Stock, 24i ; Deferred, 12%; Dutch Two •and-a-Half per Cents., 524. do. Fives, 1024. Very . little doing in Shares. Great Western, R 44 ; London h B t r i , e 3: y i v CLOSING Gosport ;...Dli t 689 90 iQ, upnadlt 'Dittoit Junction, tlecr(s)Es : ; se t: . Akrt Shares, I 1:1291 Yo r k t: e and ...: :B North l and Midland, i 3 ng BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent Red. 89% 'Ditto 80nd5..,, " , .. .. ... ..' 3 per Cent Cons 34 per Cent Red.. 994 ;Ditto New Annuiti s Kew 34 per Cent New 5 per Cent.. — Ditto 1 " 5001. - id 26 pm •• ..... 26 pin Long Annuities toexpire I Ditto Small 25 pra , Jan. 1860 ,„ 12.1 +Bank St oc k f or Acct... —.- Oct ISM!. .., ..... 12 9-16 India Stock for Acct.... Jan_ 1860. ....•••• --Consols for A cc t B9l FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 pea rent—. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Balgian, 5 IV' rent — illitto, New Ditto ......... Brazilian Bonds. ... Buenos Ayres, 6 per cell t 19 Russian, 5 per cent...,,, Chilian 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic.. . . ;._ Cojombian, 6 per cent,. Spanish, b per.cent..... . • 24i Ditto, 1824.......... —.. Danish, 3 per cent B2 French, 5 per cent. i. ~.., e. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent—. 354 French, 3 per cent —'. — c Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 24 per cent. . 521 Peruvian, 1825, 6per ct. 15% Ditto, 5 per cent. .. . 1024 SHARES. Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) .... — Ditto Debentures ( paid) .... ....... • ••• 10 1 Is 8 d G: eat Western Railway ( 65 paid) 844 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) Ditto Fifth (4 paid) Gosport Junction Railway (50 pd) London and Brighton (50 paid) 36% London and Birmingham (90) - Ditto Thirds (32 paid) 57 Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) 284 London and South Western Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) ...... 87% Ditto New Shares (15 paid 29% A Bill for the better regulation of Railways has just been brought into the House of Commons, by Mr. GLADSTONE, Mr. MANNERS SUTTON, and Sir THOMAS FRE3.IANTLE. As the question of Railways is not a question Of party, we trust that thQ Government will really deal with it in that enlarged spirit which alone is suitable to the commercial wants of this country. This, however, is not the character of the Bill before it. It is a Bill for amending an Act already in operation ; and, in its second clause, it declares that such provisions of the existing Act as are not re pealed by it are to remain in full force. here is a gross error at theirvery outset. Railways are in their infancy, and we are to be perplexed with a reference to two Acts of Parliament to determine the liabilities of their proprietors. Why not embody such provisions of the old Act, as are to be retained, in the new, and then abolish the first Act altogether? Why perplex the public, and promote litigation, when these evils can be avoided ? The law regulating a railway ought to be as distinct, and as speedy of application, as the transit upon it. The crawling pace of a Chancery proceeding is ridiculous when in anyway associated with railway locomotion. Instead of multiplying Acts, it is the duty of Government to diminish them. A good Railway Bill cannot be too brief. The nearer it ap proaches to a sheet almanack the better. As this is a subject of great importance to every class of the com munity, we shall return to it to-morrow. Colonial . Who runs may read." rouzxGN. The most despotic Government in the world is hardly awn , potent for evil at this moment than that of France. Hardly a day passes in which instances of this are not made manifest to Europe. - Does it want to crush a Journal ? Let it give the signal, and three executioners Are in attendance—the printer, the Court of Peers, and a, servile jury. Some time ago the National pub lished an article, in which it was truly stated that the rancou r of the working classes was more fiercely Erect ed now against the middle class than against the aristOcrac)-.. "For telling this truth which has been told hundreds of thousands of times in England, where it equally applies, the Government ordered the National rHE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVEN ING, EBRUARY 17, 84`,.. SUMMARY D OF NEWS AN Viibttr ptutoit. On the 24th ult. Sul Stratford Canning arrived at Constantinople, and on the 27th had his first audience of the Sultan, to whom he presented his credentials as Ambassador from the Court of London. His Excellency's reception vvas very flattering. The Porte has appOlhted Omat Pacha Governor of Lebanon, at the joiht request of the Chiefs of the Maronites and the lituso. This has restored tranquillity in Syria. Omar Pacha is a German renegade, who ten years ago made a profession of Islamism. _ The editors of the National and Gazette de France were found guilty by a jury on Monday of exciting hatred and contempt of the Government, and severally sentenced to be imprisoned for twelve months and pay a fine of 4,000 francs. With juries so basely ser •ile what can the French Government want with a Court of Peers ? Several journals confirm the statement of the Conrrier Francais, that Government intends to support other railroad projects besides 'those contained in the Bill already before the Chamber of Deputies. The Commerce says that a supplementary Bill to this effect will be presented to the Chamber immediately. " The Minister of Public Works," says the Presse, " after having obtained the adhesion of his colleagues, has just decided that the railroad from Paris to Tou louse shall be comprised in the lines to be undertaken by the Go vernment." The Univers says :—" The object of M. de Borqueney's note to the Porte was to recall to the recollection of the Ottoman Go vernment the old treaties, in virtue of which France is the recog. nised protectress of all the Catholics in the East, to urge the Porte to use moderation towards the Syrian Maronites, to advise it to employ more conciliating measures towards Greece, and to de clare that any attempt against Tunis would be considered as an act of hostility against France." PUBLIC OPINION. The Chronicle accuses Sir James Graham of deposing " to his own dereliction of political principle" in his last speech ; and adds LAW INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers present wets the Lotd Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, and Lord Cattipbell. " the world knows him. Even the Times declares he is not to be trusted. The Lord Advocate did not desire him for a defender, and will not soon forget the defence he inflicted. But what we do infer from his speech is, that he is so far gone in political pravity, as to have lost the use of the language of patriotism. He cannot talk public virtue with propriety." The Times says that the rejection of Lord John Russell's reso. lution may be considered equivalent to the adoption of Sir Robert Peel's proposed Corn-law by the House of Commons; and that "it is a vote which does not commit any individual who concurred in it, to a preference for the principle of a sliding-scale over that of a fixed duty ; it offers no impediment to the future progress of le. gislation on this subject." The Herald is of opinion that the debate o ITuesday night proved that a fixed duty is but a step to a completely free trade, and that if any Corn.law is to be maintained, it must be one con. raining a sliding.scale. "The great claim of agriculture on the Legislature," says our Contempotary, "is not compensation. but itEnkt U. 1144 t AM, OF LAUDERDALE. The SouciTon-oEtituAn replied today to the appeal, and Their Lounsmrs took time to consider their judgment. ANDREWS V. WALTON. The appellant, Mr. AiltiFews. appeared in person to argue the case, which was an appeal frcii; the decree of the Vice- Chancellor of England, dismissing the appellau:'' bill with costs, and also from certain interlocutory orders pronoUner. l by 06 Lord and Vice-Chatieellttr: The defendant being in the Fleet for conteitipt, *as brought up on ha.betis. A preliminary objection was taken to the hedrittg of the appeal, on the ground that neither the decree nor the order were enrolled, and upon their Lordships .deciding in favour of the objection, the appeal was ordered to stand over till after Easter, at the request of the appellant. VIOE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOTI of ENULAND.) ARANFIL V. BRIDGES. The arguments in this part. heard case occupied the Court the whole day. (Before Vice-Chaticellur Winaam.) MONK V. TANKERVILLE. The defendant in this case had consented to pay to the plaintiff the sum of 7,0001., the principal sum in dispute, within six months. His HONOUR this morning expressed his opinion on some other motions in the suit, but reserved his final decision upon them unt►l he had an opportunity of looking into the papers, ( Before Vice-Chancellor BRU.:E.) No case invulvAng any feature of general interest was heard in this Court. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) ( Sittings at Guildhall, before Lord Chief Justice titN3IA.N;) THE BIRMINGHAM, BRISTOL, AND THAMES JUNCTION, ALIAS WEST LONDON RAILWAY COMPANY V. HALL. This was an action for the recovery of 1901., alleged to be due by the defendant to the Company, in virtue of his having become a shareholder for ten shares, of OM. each, but not hay. ing paid the calla successively made upon him, in common with all other shareholders, by order of the Directors. Mr. BUTT and Mr. PLATT were for the plaintiff; Mr. COCKBUKN and Mr. CURRY for the defendant. The defendant pleaded that, at the time of making the calls, he had not subscribed ; that the Directors had not made the calls ; that they had not made the calls according to the Act of Parliament ; that they bad rkrt given notice according to the provisions of the Act; that the defendant had been induced to become a subscriber through fraud, covin, and misrepresenta tion by the Company. On all of these pleas issue was joined. Henry Casson, an accountant, from Bath, was called to prove this execution of the deed by the defendant, but the witness being a subscriber himself, though he had paid up no call, was ordered to stand down for the present, until it was decided whether or not he should be considered an interested party. The subscription of Richard flail to the Parliamentary deed was proved, subject to a question as to his identity, which was reserved. protection ; and the justice of that claim springs from as great an independence for food on other countries as is possible, being as much the primary duty of nations, as self protection is the fixed duty of individuals." The Cheltenham Examiner thus describes Sir Robert Peel's Corn.law measure :—" A scheme less calculated to satisfy the country, or to remedy the evils of the present system could not have been devised; it is framed, according to Sir Robert's own ad. mission, expressly to maintain the price of corn as it has been for the last ten years, and, without grappling with one great principle of commercial reform for which the country is panting, it may be justly characterised as a miserable nibbling at details, such as a statesman ought t be ashamed to propose, and the country cannot for a moment accept." We quote the following from the Dublin Evening Post :—" The people of England are starving. In Bolton, Stockport, Rochdale— Glasgow, Paisley, Manchester —everywhere—they are wasting _ _ _ . , away through inanition—they are dying of hunger. It is main. tained, that a Repeal of the Corn-laws would suspend, at least, if it would not cure, this physical calamity, 'We are not called upon for an opinion as to the roundness of this conclusion. But, there can be no question at all, if the patient is destined to be saved, that you must repeal the taxes on food in the first instance." The York Courant says The ultra supporters of what is termed in a spirit of monopoly, the agricultural interest, have quitted the camp, and those not so ultra in their views, look on with ill disguised suspicion, whilst the storm is hurtling in the great public political atmosphere, which will require, if we mistake not, more policy than Sir Robert Peel is possessed of either to con trol or to withstand. The great struggle has still to come on." MONEY—TRIAL'—COMMERCE. In consequence of the nefarious system of plugging sovereigns va rious experiments have been made to prevent the abstraction of the gold taking place without immediate detection. The officers of the Mint have at last agreed on a plan, and yesterday the workmen com menced casting the new coinage, which will shortly be issued to the public ; the expense will be very great, but Government has been obliged to incur it, in consequence of the system above alluded to having much injured the credit and confidence in the value of our gold, not only at home but on the Continent. COMMERCIAL REFORM. Immediately 7 afte;;;Ttot;;;TNef . s Corn Bill had become known at Wigan, a memorial, petition, and protest against it, collected 4,000 signatures in less than twenty-four hours. At Stalybridge, a day and a half brought 3,600 signatures. At Derby 6,336 names were appended in eleven hours. _ _ At a great meeting held at the Town-hall, Salti,rd, on Tuesday last, an amendment was carried, which was afterwards ordered to take the place of a substantive motion, whereby the meeting avowed their " solemn determination never again to pass or to retain for twenty-four honrs, without exchanging for gold, any Bank of Eng land notes, until by the total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws Government showed its readiness to redress the people's grievances." INSOLVENT COURT-(TIIIS DAY Jan. 7 , •• • 14 21 .....».. Eeb. 11 0 0 5 61 5, 60 7 60 6 59 H ea i 2 0 7 :A 14) 1 28 3 20 1 28 5 20 1 29 2 :0 4 39 4 40 11 48 0 3'7 4 36 1 36 0 36 3 3h 10 34 11 35 93 9 39 li 39 4 34 g 33 4 33 II 32 9 33 0 staritatAl..alabaltiiktk alitlltAnEri OF THE SIX WESXS ...... 61., 4d. - 1 Oats 4,1.1 Beans 343. Od, Batley. thl . Rye ITltaolt tOttat6N coax. Wheat bd. Oats Batley les. 1041.1 BSc - • sr.tiE MARKETS.—(THIS DAY.) WHITECHAPEL HAY-MARKET. The tnarket was but moderately supplied with Hay and Clo ver, the demand for the best qualities was good; ordinary sorts heavy on hand. Of Straw the supply was very limited, with a brisk trade at the present prices. Clover, finest cut, from 51. to 5/. Bs. ; Clover-seed, 21. 10s. to 41. 15s. ; Hay, first, 4/. to 41. 6s. ; Hay-seed, 2/. to 31. 15s. ; Straw, 1/. 16s. to 21. SUGAR MARKET. Raw Sugar sold heavily, and prices declined for all sorts. Low to good white 61s. to 70s. for Bengal, and 625. to 695. for Mauritius. Itefined Stir met with a good demand. Standard 'Lumps 6;ls. per TEA MARKET. Pricts were firm for Tea; and a good demur; - ;:igC , l for a'' sorts, is Mid wait, fhb . losoSit tate +A the market for Black Tea, and Is 10id for Green. No public sale Was deel4red: The deliveries were !s"-' and are iikelY so to continue. TALLOW lIARkE P ri there was a good 'Aimless none iii P. t. bandlii, find at full rates. Parcels on the spot *ere sold at 485. 3d., and ' 48s. 6d ; and 49s:,fdr deli Ve ry tip to the dose of the year. SbUth Atheribin Tallow was 40s. to 4Th. tier slit. • OIL M,ARKET. The 'cceinand Ot• immijiOn , gild, e 4 extremely dall, :mu prices nave declined except ror the very nr4'St ties. Sperm was taken off standing at former rates, viz. 881. to 891. per tun ; in Linseed Oil a few sales were made, at 341. 9d. per cwt. ; Rape Oil was firm In price, bilt is almost without demand. FATAL ACCIDENT AT MESSRS. GRISSELI. AND PeTo's.--This afternoon, shortly before one o'clock, as several men, in the employ of Messrs. Grissell and Pete, Belvidere road, Lambeth, were removing a large " stone lainling," it suddenly swerved round, and falling across the chest of middle-aged man, named John Hewson, instantaneoysly killed him. A few minutes after the fatal occurrence, a most pitiable sight Presentee itself; it appears that the wife of the deceased had been in tlit constant habit, for some length of time, of carrying her hiisbanil!s 'dinner: to the wharf where lie was employed, and was proceeding *there r as this morning, when she met the corpse of her husbancfbfeit ,g carried through the streets to th e h osp i tal. _ Thomas Brook, a clerk, proved that the calls were duly made and advertised. The Company had been authorised by law to change their style from the Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction Railway to that of the West London Railway. The works had been suspended. Mr. l uRRY now said that the defendant had sold his shares before the calls were made, having paid merely the sum first required, and they were registered in the name of another person. Moreover, the works were not going on ; all the money recei%ed since 1836, had been spent in law,; the Direc tors were ashamed of their eld name, they had assumed a new one, and had not even paid up their own shares. The regis tered Shareholders to whom the defendant had transferred his ten shares had paid up all the calls. In fact, the Com pany now wanted to be paid a second time for the same ten shares, an undertaking that never would be carried on. W. H. Cussens thenvoved that on the sth of July, 1836, he purchased ten shares from Mr. Hall before the first call was made. Since then witness had paid 190/. on the ten shares. Defendaat was at that time a Share-broker. Henry ('amen was now called on to give evidence fur the defendant. Witness had acted at Bristol as agent to the Com pany, and some complaints having been made against the un dertaking, he was instructed to tell the subscribers that they would not be liable for any responsibilities, unless they paid up the calls and registered. He disposed of about 500 shares at Bristol. In cross-examination by Mr. Platt, witness said he sold ten shares to the defendant, but was not sure whether he had paid the deposit. Witness cut the counterfoils out of his book afterwards, but could not well say why. The deed arrived in two sheets ; one containing the deed, the ether seals for and places for the signatures of sub scribers. On this account some said afterwards that they did not knew what they had signed. Counsel for the defendant insisted that a signature in such circumstances was not a proper execution. It appeared, in the course of examination, that Mr. Hall had sold ten shares for 2s. 6d. each ; but there was no proof that those were the ten shares he had subscribed for, and finally, a letter was handed in, signed by Mr. Hall himself, acknow ledging that he had subscribed the contract-deed, though he had disposed of the ten shares. Lord DENIV?iN, in summing up, condemned the irregular mode of taking the subscription. Te have one parchment holding the deed, and another holding the signature, and to say that signing the latter was executing the deed, was open to very serious doubt. Mr. Cassen was also very wrong in cut ting out the counterfoils to the certificates; but the Company were not open to the charge of fraud and covin. The Jury retired, and after considerable delay, returned a verdict for the plaintiff, being of opinion that the deeds were attached at the time of signing. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Guildhall.) COVINGTON AND ANOTHER V. PARLEY AND ANOTHER. This was an action brought to recover the value of a crane belonging to the plaintiffs, who are wharfingers, which crane had been used by the defendants for the purpose of landing a quantity of atone, and during the operation the crane was broken down. The case possessed no feature of interest, and had not con cluded when we went to press. IN RE JOHN HUGHES ALLAN. The insolvent in this case described himself as a professor of music, and formerly a literary teacher. His discharge was oppi sed by Mr. Wilkinson, on the grounds of having fraudulently, and by false respresentations, obtained a quantity of goods from him to the amount of 1571. It appeared from the evidence of the opposing creditor that the insolvent took a house in the Albany-road, and obtained a quantity of goods from various tradesmen, for the purpose of furnishing it, representing at the same time that he had an annual engagemeut at one of the patent theatres. From Mr. Wilkinson he got a cabriolet, and also induced him to discount a bill of exchange for 731. drawn)by a person named Watson, and accepted by the insolvent, which was eventually dishonoured. Upon making inquiries at the house in the Albany-road, on the day upon which the bill was due, it was ascertained that he had left it some weeks pre viously, and the opposing creditor having received information that he was at Bury St. Edmund's, caused him to be arrested there. The Learned COMMISSIONER, said no doubt could be enter tained, for a moment, but the insolvent had got possession of the gocds by fraudulent means. It appeared to him (the Learned Commissioner) that he had succeded in victimising several tradesmen to a large amount, and he should, therefore, order him to be remanded for six calendar months from the date of his vesting order. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. The difficulty of procuring Haytor granite much delays the completion of the Nelson column. A new fountain has been made in Kensington Gardens, at the head of the Serpentine River. The conservatories of Buckingham Palace have been refitted for plants. The proposed Tower Hamlets Parks will be laid out in the ensuing spring, the Government surveyors having already selected the site. NAVAL AND MILITARY. During the hurricane of Friday and Saturday last, a boat be longing to the ship Swift was swamped in the Clyde, and three, out of six of the crew, drowned. Another boat also from the brig Caroni, was strnek on a rock, and four of its party perished. MAW AND POLICE. Two men, named Tandy and Smith, were brought to Union Hall, charged with breaking into the premiscs of Alderman Hum. phery, near Hibernia-wharf, on Tuesday night. The Alderman said for the last four years the premises had been frequently robbed, and he had in eonsequence placed a private watchman en them, and the very first night he was there the prisoners were arrested. One of them had jumped into the river and would have been drowned but for the poticc followioghim in a wherry and dragging him out.—Remanded. Daniel O'Connell, who stated that he was on his way to Ireland, was brought to the same Court, charged with creating a distur. bance at a public.houso in Tooley.street. B e t ween one an d two in the morning, en being refused admission, h e swore lik e a trooper, knocked and kicked furiously, and when taken into custody, threatened the policeman with vengeance if he only had him in Ireland. The Magistrate forgave Dan, and told him to be off for Ireland at once. At Clerk enwell Charles James Fox Edwards, a medical student at University College, was charged with the fashionable amusement, called stealing knockers. A policeman saw him wrench or.e off the door, No. 17, Woburn.buildings, and on searching him found two in his pocket. Mr. Greenwood committed him to the House of Correction, without hard labour, for one week. In the Insolvent Debtors' Court yesterday, Mr. James Wallack, debts, o , n a and bail . h attributed hii ht schedule,acto r iesclh2a,orrdsl.his insolvency to the destruction of the New York Theatre, of which he was lessee. Bail was accepted, and the insolvent discharged. ,appahrednoutontbede d ischarged TINE ARTS. The city of Paris has resumed the works in the Plaae Lafayette, in which a large fountain is to be erected, with the statues and pediment to be of white marble from the Pyrenees. M. Auber was on Monday installed as Director of the Conserva tory of Music at Paris, in the room of M. Cherubini. Sir Francis Chantrey's monument, designed by himself last autumn, is to be placed in the churchyard where he is burled, at Horton, Derbyshire. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. In consequence of law proceedings, all the property of the MSS. of M. Chateaubriand's works are to be sold. The upset price is 69,000 f, Goethe's works, tianslated, into the Russian tOligue; are now poll.' tithing at St. Petersburgh, . .. THEATRICAL... Mte Adelaide Kemble trill sing at a Grand Public Concert to be given in the Town.hall of Cambridge on Monday next. We understand that the opening of the Italian Opera House has been postponed till Saturday, March sth. Madame Carlotta (Iris' Is expected from Paris early next weck O OURT--rJuluxorcaniaz. The Prince of Prussia gave a grand ball at hie Palace of Berlin on the 7th inat, Viscolltit and Viscountess Palmerston have a grand dinner on Sa. turday evening next. Sir Robert Peel will commence his Parliamentary dinners at the close of the month. We are happy to heat that the Countess Sebastiant is gradually improvitig in health. The Marquis of Kildare, eldest son of the Duke of teinster, has been appointed by Earl de Grey, Sheriff of the county of )(Mare. Viscount Jocelyn has been appointed Sheriff' of towth, Accounts from Mee state that the Earl Granville is not yet re. covered from his recent indisposition, ~ IVESSCEYALE/NEbUtis Oh this day, in 17P6, died James Macpherson, the translator of Ossian, in his 58th year. In 1764 he accompanied Governor Johnstone to Florida, in the capacity of Secretary. _SA•Srtd E . • nyder- - i a s n d d a y , a a r t i a n b r e n . LLOYD'S SHIPPINCRIS DAV.) D i t h r, i3 , Px V ii. " l6 . . l - 7 W — i W nd in li d gh th t abad, Newcastle, for Bombay. PORTSMOUTH ' FEL 113.— W in d W . — A crd. Westminster, LOndtln, NeW Yolli. Arrd. off, Shatfotd, London, Mauritius. SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 16.—Arrd. Oriental (st.) Alestandtia, OFF PORTLAND, FEB. 15:—Mayflotker, Hobart Town. TORBAY, Fka. 14,—Arrd. William, London, for Calcutta, with trilling damage, having beets in cohtatt with a bark heat Dungeness, on the 10th Mist. Fitattintst, Vt-t.i. lb.—Wind W.S. W.—Arrd. Swiftsure, London, for Algoa Bay. Arrd. off, John, Curling, Boston, fot Amsterdam, with less of boats and bui*arks. PORT TALBOT, FEL It)....=TreVallnante, heman, &tan sea to this port I gut ashore at the entrance of this port yes ; terday, with three other coasters; but expected to be got off. KINV,TOWN, FEY. iti,—Arrd. Dalkeith, Smyrna. KiN,A Lk, rka. 14.—Arrd. IVlary m•Kenzie, Liverpool, from Carthagena, with les t ` vi sa ils, Ea. CORIC, FEB. 14.---Arrd. Jeteiniah and Sherraton Grange, Malta ; Acti v e Ilhd Hand, of Prov idence, Ta q uanroz ; Ma ry Jane ) f roth Malta ) and the Aniandp from Nevvfoundland,Whi t h were whore yesterday at Carlisle poin t ; , ' got off in the eveni ng with the, tide. The former is lea ky, the latter does not appear to hav e suffered much damage., STANOATE GaEoti, Bkil• lo,b---Artd: Alexander, Malta; Juno, Lind, Leghorn. j "" Y, Fan. 13.—S1d. Bolas and Didoi Gibraltar, SmEins, FEB. 14.—Sid, John, Gibraltar. the ochooner Pitt, of Bristol, was wrecked off the river Mazarette, in the beginning of November ; the master and two of the crew rat drowned. _ OFF THE W IG H T , rim,. 14 . _Tricolor, Apenes, It for Hamburgb ; Maxirnalian, BelphtinWer, Batas ia, s ld. 2d ult. .----................... interviews with oni yesterday morning at th e residenee a s s Fremantle yaesnd Sit Gt'age Clerk had of the Right lion. Baronet in Whitehall Gardens, Sir Ed war d K natc hb u ll had a long int erv i ew with Sir James G ra h am yesterday morning a t the H ome . oince. The snow has fallen in such abundance in th e P y _ renees, that t h e houses of the village of Gavarni a re said to have the snow up to their roofs. How TO L EARN FRENCH.--A frie n d o f ours on a r ecent visit to Paris, thought it we ll to make a virtue of countr Ileing sati s fi e d i n h i is n p a i r a necessity; and, in ord er t o p rac tise only the la nguage of the sn"n t Y, so as to acqui re f a cility in speaking it, re so l ve d to board i n a h ouse where no English res id e d . ricaularnnintriserinets in in his thislurggesPaegeet: h nd occupied hi s a l lotted agre e d f or his " pen • in apartment. The first day's dinner hour had arrived, and he had brushed up his French to meet the numerous party who sat down to it. Besides the head of the 3.stablshment there were twenty-five at table, and they were—at! American, IN THE MATTER. OF ABBOT. The insolvent was opposed on bebalf of Messrs. Johnson, provision-merchants. The grounds of opposition were,. like those of the previous one, having obtained goods by false representation ; also with having been taken in a friendly visit. After the examination of several witnesses, in whose evi dence there appeared no features of interest, the Court ordered the-insolvent to be discharged. UNION-HALL.-(rIiI8 DAY.) Stephen flewson, a young man of respectable appearance, was placed at the bar before Mr. Cottingham, charged with embezzling various sums of money from the St. Olive's Lodge of the Independent Order of the Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows } held at the Marquis of Granby, Union -street, Borough, It appears that the prisoner was assistant setrettity to the above dge ; was paid for his services; and had the collecting of all moneys belongitig to them. The funds of the lodge are collected in small sums weekly among the members (which are received by the assistant secretary, and ought to be by him paid offer to the honorary treasurer), and distributed among widows and orphans of deceased members. At the request of Mr. Ilumphreß;ho attended fur the prisoner, Mr. Cottingham remanded the prisoner until Thurs day next, CORN AVERAGVS UIiNERAL Alik4tIAGE FR/CES OF 13111•17 . 1811 CORN, Fir the Week endel eli It /842, Made up from the Returns f the inspectors in tne dintetit CMOs and Tom], in Ettglaro ar.o Wales, per imperial Quarter. Wheat 3 ,/s. lid, pats Barley 2Bs, 2d. / /lye ..... 36s 100 Tease 334. Od. , PritltA Os tit TIIE LAST $ll WEEKS. Week i3if9. 1 kOt. isissaas. v2A9E, PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. "- (From the Votes and Proceedrngs of the House of Commons.) 'WEDNESDAY, Fan. 16. CORN-IMPORTATION . Order for Committee read ; Motion made, and Question pro posed,--"That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair:"—Amend ment proposed, to leave ont from the word " That to the end of the Question, in order to add the words, " this House, con sidering the evils which have been caused by the present Corn-laws, and especially by the fluctuations of the graduated or sliding scale, is not prepared to adopt the measure of her Majesty's Government, witch is founded upon the same: Prin• ciples, and is likely to be attended G f.o by similar results,"— rd John Russell,)—instead thereof—Question put, " That tlle words proposed to be left out stand p ar i,:if the Question :—The Houso divided NAJORITY—AYES, 849._ Hillsborough, Earl of—Down Hodgson, Frederick—Barnstaple' Hodgson, Rd.—Berwick-on-Tweed Hogg, James Weir—Beverley Holmes, Hon. W.—lsle of Wight Hope, Charles—Linlithgowshire Hope, A .-- Maid ot one Hope, G. W.—Weymouth Hornby, J.—Blackburn Hoskins, K.—Herefordshire Houldsworth, T.—Nottinghamsh. Howard, Captain—Cricklade Hughes, W. B.—Carnarvon Inglis, Sir R. H.-ox. University Irton, Samuel—Cumberland James, Sir W. C.—Hull Jermyn, Earl—Bury, Suffolk Jt celyn, Viscount —Lyi n Johnson, W. G.—Belfast J hnstone, Sir J.—Scarborough Johnstone, J. 14 —Pvnifriesshire Jolliffe, Sir W. J.—Petersfield Jones, T. —Londonderry Co. Kelburne, Lord—Ayrshire Kemble, 11.—East Surrey Kirk, Peter —Carrickfergus Knatchbull, Sir E.—East Kent Knight, H. G.—Nottinghamshire Knight, F. W.—W. Worcestcrsh. Knightley, Sir C. —Northampton shire Law, Hon. C. E. CambridgeUn i v. Lawson, A.—Knaresborough Legh, G. C.—North Cheshire Leicester. Lord—Bodmin ,Lennox, Lord A.—Chichester Liddell, Hon. H.—North Durham Uncoil - I, Earl of—Northampton shire, South Litton, Edward—Colwraine Lockhart, Wil dam—Lanarkshire Long, W.—North Wiltshire Lopes, Sir 11 —Westbury Lowther. J. H.—York Lowther, Colonel—Westmoreland Lyall, G.—London Lygon, Major-Gen. lion. H. B.— Worcestershire West. Mackenzie, Thomas—Ross-shire Mackenzie, W. F.—Peeblesshire Mackinnon, W. A.—Lymington Maclean, Donald—D*l9rd Nl`Geachy, F.—lioniton Mahon, Viscount— Hertford Mainwarng, T —Denbighshire Manners, Lord C.—N.Leicestersh. Manners, Lord J.—Newark March, Earl of—West Sussex Marsham, Lord—West Kent Martin, W.—Newport, Lof Wight Marton, Geo.—Lar.caster Martyn, C. C.—Southampton Master, Colonel—Cirencester :Westerman, J.—London Maunsell, T, P.--NorthamPtonsh. Meynell, Captain H.—Lisburne miles, Philip W. Skynner —Bristol Miles, William—Somersetshite Milnes R. M.—Pontetract Mitchell, T. A.—Bridport Mordaunt, Sir John—Warwicksh Morgan, o.—Monmouthshire Morgan, C. M. R.—Brecon Mundy, E. M.--South Derbyshire Murray, C. S.—Bucks Necld, Joseph—Chippenham Neck', John—Cricklade Neville, R.—Windsor Newry, Lord —Newry Nichol', J.—Cardill Norreys, Lord—Oxfordshire Northlancl,Viscount—Dungannon O'Brien,A,—N.Northamptonshire Ossulston,Lord—NorthNorthum berland Owen, Sir John—Pembroke Packe, C. \V.—Leicester, South ,Paget, Lord NV.—Andover Pakington, J. S.—Droitivich Palmer, Robert—Berks Patten, J. Wilson—Lancashire Peel, lit. Hon. Sir IL—Tamw orth Pemberton, Thomas —Ripon Pigot, Robert—Bridgnorth Plumptre, John P.--East Kent Polhill, Frederick—Bedford ,Pollington, Lord—Pontefract Pollock, Sir F.—Huntingdon eowell, Colonel—Cardiganshire Praed, W. T.—St. lies efice, Richard—New Radnor Pringle, Alexander—Selkirkshire Pusey, Philip.—Berkshire Rae, Right Hon. Sir Wm.—Bute Ramsay, VV.—Edinburghshire Rashleigh, W.—East Cornwall Reade, M.—Waterford City Reid, Sir John Rae—Dover tiepton, G. W.—St. Alban's Richards, Richard—Merienethsh Rolleston, Col.—S. Nottingham Rose, Sir George—Christchurch Round, John— Weldon Round, Charles Gray—Essex N. Rous, Captain—Westminster Rushbrooke, Colonel—Suffolk Russell, C.—Roading Russell, J.—N. StallOrdshire Ryder, Hon. D.—Hertfordshire Sanderson Richard—Colchester Sandon, ford—Liverpool Scarlett , Hon. R.—Horsham Scott, Hon. 1 0 .—Rexburghshire Seymour, Sir H. B.—Midhurst Shaw, Right Hon. F.—Dublin Un. Sheppard, Thomas—Frome Shirley, E. J.—Warwickshire Shirley, E. —Monaghan Sibthorp, Colonel—Lincoln Smith, Abel—Hertfordshire Simonet, A.—Dunbartonshire Smyth, Sir G. H.—Colchester Smythe, Hon. G.—Canterbury Somerset, Lord G.—Monmfzuthsh ,omerton, Viscount— Sotheron, T. H.—Devizes Stanley, Lord—North Lancashire Stanley, Edward—Cumberland Stewart, John—Lymington Stuart, H —Bedford Sturt, Henry Chas.—Dorsetshire Sutton, C. M.—Cambridge Taylor, Capt. E.—Dublin Co. Taylor, J. A.—E. Worcestershire Penitent, J. E.—Belfast Thesiger, F.—Woodstock Thompson, Ald.—Sunderland Thornhill, G.—Huntingdonshire Fullemache, Hon. F.—Grantham Tollemache, J.—South Cheshire FOIVIIitIC ' George—Shrewsbury Trench, Sir F. --Scarborough Trevor, Hon. o.—Caermarthonsh. I'rollope, Sir .I.—S, Lincolnshire Trotter, John—West Surrey urnor, C.—South Lincolnshire Tyrrell, Sir J. T.—North Essex Vere, Sir C. B.—East Suffelk Verner, William—Armagh CO. Vernon, 0. H.—East Retford Villiers, Viscount—Weymouth Vivian, John Ennis—Truro Waddington, H. S.—West Suffolk Walsh, Sir John B.—Radnorshire Welby, Glynne Earle—Grantham Westenra, Hon.H. R.—Monaghan Whitmore, T. C.—Bridgenorth Wilbraham, Hon. R. B.—Lanca shire Wilmot, Sir J. E.—Warwickshire Wodchouse, Edmond—E. Norfolk Wood, Colonel T.—Brecon Wood, Colonel T.—Middlesex Worsley, Lord—Lincolnshire Wortley, Hon. S.—W. Yorkshire Wyndham, Colonel—W. Sussex Wyndham ' W.—Salisbury Wynn, C. W.—Montgomeryshire Wynn, Sir W. W.—Denbighshire Yorke, Hon. T. E. —Cambridgesh. Young, John—Cavan Co. Young, Sir \V.—Bucks TELLERS. ''rerriantle, Sir T.—Buckingham Baring, 11. B.—lilarlboreugh Ackers, James -Ludlow Acland, T. D.--West Somerset Acland, Sit I'. 13.-. N Devonshire Acton, Colonel - WickloW CO. Adare, Lord-Glamorganshire Adderley, C. 8.-Statfoidshire Alexander, Nathaniel-Antrim Alford, Viscount-Bedfordshire Allis, J. P.-Cambridgeshire Antrobus, Edmund-Surrey • Arehdall, Gen. M.-Fermanagh Arkwr ght, Gaorge - Leominster Ashley; Lord-Dorsetshire Ashley, Cooper, Hon, A. H,-Dor. chester A stell, W.-Bedfordshire Attwood, Attw(l., M.-Whitehaven Baggy, W.-4-West Norfolk Bagot, Hon. W.-4/Yrillietsture Bailey, Joseph-Worcester Bailey, J.-Ilerefordsh iie Baillfe, H. D.-Honiton Mollie, H.J.-Inverness-shire klaird, W.-Falkirk, &c. Baldwin, Charles Barry -Totnes Halibut; J; M.--Haddington, &c. Bankes, G.-DOrsetshire Baring, W. 8.-ThettOrd Barneby, John-Worcestershire Barrington, Lord-Berkshire Baskerville, T. 8.-Herefordshire Bateson, Sir R.-Londonderry Beck t, Sir J , - , Leeds Bell, M.-S. Northumberland Benett, J.-South Wiltshire Bentinek, lord G.-Lynn Be estord, Captain-Athlone Bereslord, Major-Harwich Blackburne,li eland-Warrington Blackstone, W.0.-Wallingford Blake, Martin J.-Galway Blakemore, Richard-Wells Bodkin, W. H.-Rochester Bodkin, J.-Galway Co. Bolden), Henry Chippenham Borth wick, P.-Eteshant Botfield, Beriah-LudloW Bowes, John-South Durham Bradshaw, James-Canterbury Bramston, I'. W.-Essex South Broadley, lienry-East Yorkshire Broadwood, Henry Bridgewater Brodie, W. 8.-Salisbury Brownrigg, J. S.-Boston Bruce, Lord E.-Marlborough Bruce, C. L. C.-Elginshire Bruen, Colonel-Carlow Buck, L. W.-North Devonshire Bu kley, E.-Newcastle.on-Tyne Buller, Sir J. Yarde-Devonshire Bunbury, H. -Carlow Burrell, Sir C.-Shorehant Burroughes, H. N.-East Norfolk Campbell, Sir H.-Berwickshire Campbell, A.-Argyllshire; Carnegie, Hon. Captain-Stafford Cayley, E. S.-N. Yorkshire Chapman, Aaron- Whitby Charteris, Hon. F.-East Glouces tershire Chelsea, Lord-Reading Chetwode,iSir J.-Buckingham Cholmonueley, Hon. H.-Mont. gomery Christmas, W.-Waterford City Christopher, R. A.-Lincolnshire Chute, W. L. W.-West Norfolk Clayton, Siir William-Marlow Clayton, R.-Aylesbury Clerk, Sir G.-Stamford Clive, R. H. - South Shropshire Cochrane, A.-Bridport Cockburn, Sir Gcorge- Codrington, C. W.-East Glouces. iltershlre Cole, Hon. ArthurH.-Enniskillen Collett, W. R.-Lincoln Colville, C.-South Derby Compton, H. C.-S. Hampshire Connolly, Edward M.-Donegal Coote, Sir C.-Queen's County Copeland, W. T.-Stoke-upon- Ttent Corry, Hots. IL L-Tyrone Co. Courtenay, Lord-S. Devonshire Cresswell, 8.-North Northum berland Cripps, Joseph-Cirencester Crosse, T. 8.-Wigan Darner, Hon 0.-Portarlington Darby, George-East Sussex Dawnay, Hon. H.-Rutland Denison, E. 8.-West Yorkshire Dick, Quintin-Maldon Dickinson, J. H.-West Somerset D'lsraeli, 8.-Shrewsbury Dodd, G.-Maidstone Douglas, Sir H.-Liverpool Douglas, Sir C. E.-Warwick Douglas, J. S.-Rochester Douro, Marquis-Norwich Dowtleswell, W.-Tewkesbury Drummond, H. H.-Perthshire Duffield, Thomas- Abingdon Duncornbe, Hon A.-East Retford Duncombe, Hon. 0.-Yorkshire Du Pre, George-Bucks East, James Buller- Winchester Eaton, R. J.-Cambridgeshire Egerton, W. Tatton-Cheshire Egerton, Sir P.-South Cheshire Egerton, Lord F. L.-Lancashire Eliot, Lord-East Cornwall Emlyn, Lord-Pembrokeshire Escott, 8.-Winchester Estcourt, T. G. 8.-Oxford Univ. Farnham, E.8.-N. Leicestershire Fellowes, Edw.-Huntingdonshire Ferrand, W. B.- Knaresborough Filmer, Sir E.-West Kent Fitzroy, Captain-Durham Fleming, John-Hampshire Fonett, Sir W.-Exeter Ffolliott, John_ Forbes, W.-Stirlingshire Forester, lion. G.-Wenlock Forman, T. S.-Bridgewater Fuller,. A. E.-East Sussex Gasket!, James Milnes-Wenlock Gladstone, W. E.-Newark-on. Trent Godson, R. -Kidderminster Gordon, Hon. W.-Aberdeenshire Gore, M.-Barnstaple Gore, Ormsby-Salop Gore, W R. 0 -Sligo Co. Goring, H. D.-New Shoreham Goulburn, Right Hon. H.-Cam bridge University Graham, Right Hon. Sir J. R. G -Dorchester Granby, Marquis of-Stamford Grant, Sir A. C.-Cambridge Greenall, P.-Wigan Greene, T. G.-Lancashire Gregory, W. A.-Dublin nty Grimsditch, T.-Macclesfield Grimston, Visc.-Hert fo rdshire Grogan, E.-Dublin Hale, B. R.-Gloucestershire Raiford, Henry-Leicestershire Hamilton, Charles J. 8.-Ayles bury Hamilton, J.-Dublin Co. Hamilton, W.-Newport, Isle of Wight Hamilton, Lord C.-Tyrone Hamner, Sir T.-Hull Harcourt, G. 0. V.-Oxfordshire Hardinge, Right Hon. Sir H.- Launceston Hardy, J.-Bradford Hawkes, Thomas-Dudley Hayes, Sir E.-Donegal Heathcote, 0, J.-Rutlandshire Heatheote s Slr %V.-Hampshire Heneage, G. W,-Devizes Heneage, Ed*atd-Grimsby Henley, J. \V.-Oxfordshire ilepburn,Sir T. -Haddingtonshire Herbert, lion. S.-South Wilts Hill, Sir Rowland-ShropsiarC thnde, J. Hodgson-Newcastle-1 upon-Tyne MINORITY- Acheson, Lord-Co. of Armagh Aglionby, H. A.-Cockermoutb Aldam, J. J.-Leeds Anson, Coloncl-Staffordshire Armstrong, A.-King's Co. Bannerman, A.-Aberdeen Barclay, D.-Sunderland Baring, F. 'l'.- Portsmouth Barnard, E. G.-Greenwich Bell, J.-Thitsk Berkeley, lion. C.-Cheltenlim Berkeley, Hon. F. M.-Gloucester Berkeley, lion. F. H.-Bristol -- Berkeley, Hon. G.-Gloucostersh. Bernal, It. jun.-Wycombe Blake, Mark-Mayo Co. Blake, Sit Valet/One-Galway Blewitt, Reginald-Monmouth Bowring, Dr.-Bolton Bridgman, Hewitt-Ennis Brocklehurst, J.-Macclesfield t;rotherton, J.-Salford Browne, Robert Dillon-Mayo Browne, W. D.-Kerry Bryan, Majot-Kilkenny Co. Bulkeley, Sir It, Charles-Liskeard Boller, Edward-Stafford Busfeild, William -Bradford Byng, George-. Middlesex Bvng, Hight lion. G. 5 -Chatham Carew, It. S,-Waterford Cavendish, lion. C. C,..--Youghall Cavendish, Hon G..H.-N. Derby Chapman, 13.. , =Westmeath Childers, inn W.-Malton Clay, William-Tottrer Hamlets Edwarti A.—Hereford Ctihtien, 11.-Stockpoi: Coiburn, Hots. - Colebrooke, Sir T. n-Tisunton Collins, W.-Warwick Colypeti Hon: W. F.-Hertford Craig, W. 0.-Edinburgh Currie, Raikes-Northampton Curteis, H. 8.-Rye Dannelly, Lord-Stirling Dalrymple, Capt.- Wigtonshire Dashwood, G. H.-Wycombe Dawson, Hon. 'l'. V.-Louth Co. Denison, J. E.-Malton Denistoun, J,-Glasgow D'Eyncourt, Right_ lion. C. T.- Lair 'Jett Divett, Edward-Exeter Drill, James-Banffshire Duke, Sir James-Boston Duncan, Viscount-Bath Duncan, G.- Dundee Duticobe, S -Finsbury Dundas, C. W. D.-Greenwich Dundas,David-Sutherlandshire Dundas, Hon. J. C.-Richmond Easthope, Sir J.-Leicester Lbrington, Lord-Plymouth Ellis, Wynn-Leicester Elphinstone, H.-Lewes Esmonde, Sir T.-Wexford Co. Evans, William-North Derby ' , wart, William-Dumfries Ferg , uson Colonel-Kirka!dy -..ou.Sir It. A.-Londonderry -Oldham ohn-- ridden, Lerp Fitzroji, l Ltild _ FitzwilliaM, W: - Peigilkirßuph Forster; 14!-BerwiCk-OnTWeed Colonel-Tower Hamlets French, F.-lit:r.tebrOrtrolt Gibson, T. M.-Manchester Gill, T.-Plymouth (lotd°n, Hon. F.-Forfarshirc Gore, Colonel-11'z,, Boss Granger, I'. C.-Durharti 6mq Sit 00,orjle-DmionLiort tirosvena, 12+ 0 1 R:-Chestet Guest, J. J.-Merthyr Ty'!..4.+.1 —.NOES, 226. HOltard, Hon. E. G.—MOrpeth Howard, Sir IL—Wicklow Co. Humphery, John—Southwark Hutt, W.—Gateshead Jardine, W.—Ashburton Jervis, J.—Chester Johnson, W. Augustus—Oldham Johnstone, A.—ltentrew, &c. Labouchere, Right Hon. Henry— Taunton Lambton, IL—North Durham r Langston, J. H.—Oxford Langton, Col Gore—Somerset Larpent, G. De H.—Nottingham Layard, Captain - Carlow Co. Leader, J. Temple—Westminster Loch, James—Kirkwall Macauley, 'l' B. —Edinburgh APTaggart, SirJohn—Wigton, &c. Mangles, R. D.—Guildford Marjoribanks, S. —Bythe Marshall, Wm.—Carlisle Marsland, Henry—Stockport Martin, John—Tewkesbury Mauls, Hon. Fox—Perth Mitcalfe, H.—'l'ynemoirh Morris, D.—Carmarthen Morrison, James—lnverness Mostyn, E. M. L.—Flintshire Muntz, G. F.—Birmingham I Murphy, F. S.—Cork Niurray, Alex.—Kirkcudbright I Napier, Sir Chailes—Marylebene ' O'Brien, W. S.—Limerick Co. O'Donnell, Maurice—Traleej; O'Connell, M. J.—Kerry J'Conn ell, John—Kilkenny O'Connor Don—Roscommon Co. Ogle, S.—South Northumberland Ora, W.—Newcastle-upon-Tyne u„„;%eld, James—Glasgow Paget, Paget, Lord Al:rrd — Dclifield Palmerston, vi„,,,mr,: —Tiverton Pechell, Captalti—BrightiZr Pendarves, E. W.—.W.CornlVo G, IL—Poole Philipps, air IL— , -Haverfordwest Philips, Mark—Mar.ehester Phillpotts, John—Gloucester Pinney, W.—Lyme Regis Nunn idge, s aptain—Penryn Ponsonby, C. F. A. C.—Poole Ponsonby, Hon. John—Derbi Powell, C.—Limerick Co. Protheroe, Edward—Halifax Pulsford, Robert— Ramsbottom, J.—Windsor Itawdon, John Dawson—Armagh Redington, 'l'. N.—Dundalk Rennie, U., jun.—lpswich Ricardo, L.—Stoke-upon-Trent Rice, Edward Boyd—Dover Roche, Sir David—Limerick Roebuck, J. A.—Bath Rundle, John—Tavistock Russell, Lord John—London Russell, Lord E.- —Tavistock Rutherfurd, Rt. Hon. A.—Leith Scholetield, J.—Birminghain Scott,'.ltobert—%Valsall Scrope, Poulett—Stroud Seale, Colonel—Dartmouth Smith, Benjamin—Norwich Smith, J. A.—Chichester R. V.—Northampton 0 . G.—Sudbury &Vain ? , Sotlib% Sometill/e, Sir S . tatrteY, W. o.—Ang - StanstieldiW: R. C.— 11 fiddersfiCltl Stanton, %V. 1-",--Sttond Staunton, Sir Geo.—Portsroonth Stewart, P. M.—Renfrewshire Strickland, Sir G.—Preston IStrutt, Edward—Derby iStwit; j..ofd I.—Ayr IStua'n; Yillle-WatArldtd Co. Tancrecl, Vvi.-4t4,,tyio* Thornely,Thos,--Wolverhanifiat Townley, C —Beverley Traill, George- Caithness-shire froubridga, Sir E. T.—Sandwich Tuite, H. M.—Westmeath Turner, Edmund—Truro Villiers, C. P.—Wolverhampton Villiers, F. —Sudbury Vivian, Major Charlea--Bodmin Vivian, John Henry—Swansea Vivian, Captain—re_prYn Wakley, Thomas —Finsbury W a lk er , fr . __Bury, Lancashirt Wall, C. Baring—Guildfor d Wallace, ceeidniock er_rt s — he Gr th . Wason, Rigby, --Ipswich ' , ogheda Sir Benjamin—.Marylebone Harford, cS Harris, J.—Newcastle under Lyme Hastie, Archibald—Paisley flatton, Capt. —Wen lord Co. Hawes, B.—Lambeth Hay, Sr A. L.—Elgin, &c. Hayter, W. G.—Wells Heathcoat, J.—Tiverton Heron, Sir R.—Peterborough HIP, Lord A. M. C.—Evesham Hirsdley, Charles—kshton HObbouse, Right Hon. Sir J. C.— sottingbaut tioldsworth, J.—Wake Held Horsman,Edward—Cockernaouth Howard, C. W. G.—Cumberland Harvard, Hon. J.—Malinsbury Howard, Lord—Shaftesbury It . H. —Kinsale Winnington, Sir T. E. — Be wdle y Wawn, Watson,'J. T.—S , nab Shields Wood, Benjamin—.Southwark Wemyss, Colonel—Fifeshire Wood, Charles--Halilax Westenra, Hon..lt. C.—King's Co. Wood, (1. W.—Kendal White, ColonPl Samuol- -Leitrim Wood, Sir Matthew—London White, HenrY.-Longri )rd Wrightson ' W. 13.—Northallerton Wigney, J. S.-13riglarton Yorke, H. IL—York Williams, William-4G )ventry TELLERS. Wilshere, Will;arn—Yarmouth Tufaell, Henry—Devonport Wilson, M.—Clit heroe Parker, John—Shettield 'team -bo Gild Gra Pro t , %ruin g Afternoa As the any, ti • places fording Seasoi issued at COLLISION AT SEA. The sloop Mar Beret, Capt. Anderson, of Dundee, 45 tons, a re gular trader between Dundee and Stockton.on-Tees, on Saturday. night last, about eight o'clock, was run down by the General Steen Navigation Company's powerful steam-ship Monarch, Captain Fra'' ser, whilst on her passage from Wanton Pier, near Leith, for • Th.' following is a summary of Captain Anderson's statement. The Margaret left Stockton- o n-T ees f or D u ndee, on Saturday morning o'clock, and a t h a lf-p as t s i x o ' c l oc k, p.m., passed Manuel and Captain Anderson having hauled her int o slo scoot he t Bay abotti eight o'clock, he observed the lights of a sterna ship, dis cnt betw‘..eit two and three miles, bearing down in his dire tion. Nom ithstano:,-Ig every precaution, however, the stearnshiPt Monarch, Captain Fraser, from Leith for which peeved :° tit` and a general cargo of merchandi se s largaret carried away her, Ina in cLlnedond,.;%ith uppa6,2i'seng.theor, WU' boom, and attztv!k her viot s . " ntl Y on the larboard h er t o t ,:e water's edge. Finding ter, cutting his vessel rapidly sinking, 05,51 to is, • his life, he immedia tel y .K.,most incre dibly sho rt hastened upon deck, and succeeded kir boat she had?, In space GI time in launchipg the long-boat (the only . which he and his crew, three in number, fortenate: got " had been this, however, the engines of the Monarch stetsmaX, stanc e to stopped, and the boat put out to render every possible ass. ~,,et the the master and crew of the Margaret; indeed it is asserted ,c engines of the Monarch were stopped before the collision tea s P l ` and this statement is partially borne out from the fact that had ~.. been pi oceedi , ig at her usual speed she must have Instantly ru n OSA over the Margaret, a small vessel of forty-five tons, and in which' "an case Captain Anderson and his crew would, in all human Pr e "' bability, have found *rave in:the deep abyss of the ocean. Ti'e Margaret, soon after the crew left her, went down. The Me' 'larch's boat, which was much larger than that belonging to th e Margaret, was immediately rowed to the crew of the latter, int ° which they were taken, and subsequently put on board the steam ship, which brought then. on Monday night to Brown's-w" r ' Blackwall, where they were landed. The Margaret was fully insured in the Dundee and Aberdeen* Marine Insurance Offices. Her cargo, which consisted of 5 .. „_ . 36 sacks of flour, was also insured; and the loss will, in thee el " — time, fall upon the underwriters. A Office tiee CEN ER PDAIpA at th e Li. 28th o f F , Notice co mP G anti will n eneral 1 "a Divi ' d registered taken into offi, LON T Nnt tilto u( TO BRIG Mor Afte EXp RE nIAG Es Five o'clot 1 . 131,1 Red I°4 ''n of th Time Ta mi liri age: an THE NEW POOR-LAW AND DEAR BREAD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin—lf a Member of the House of Commons were to move fe t ' a return of the quantities of wheat bread and flour supplied to W u - Union during the last three years, the public would be put in session of a highly interesting and valuable document, showing • that such supply must have materially tended to keep up the OK e of wheat during such period. It may be urged that we had the same number of mouths to be fed under the old Poor-law as unde r a the new; but it caunat be denied that there are thousands tens of thousands of poor persons in country parishes now fed Ile' wheaten bread, who formerly never tasted anything but th„ coarsest barley bread from one year's end to another; and it s hould be observed that the guardians always contract for the best cor ° ' , although ground into seconds flour. I merely advance this point as an Additional argument In 0 011 of an alteration in the Corn-laws.—l am, Sir, yours, &c., Ilfracombe, Feb. 15. R. W. 11 10. Angel SAVI Al Moikey n the w THRE E . Interest' *.* Pet DepositTHE P ATE N T nOrnetits, su l,VVark T. end utirabili o btained els e R ohl.-eO A 1110.,_ig %T rr Scs THE CORINTHIAN COLUMN• " These men (the working classes) are the glory, and the strenk"' and the foundation of the country. Should they perish, and L I : Corinthian capital (the Aristocracy) with its delicate traced , beautiful strawberry.leayes, and its polished shaft be preserti He would not touch those who were the glory of the country, $ its strength, and its foundation. No, RATHER LIST ins COOL FALL!"—Speech of Mr. Gcorga Thompson at the Great L OP" Anti-Corn-law Conference. No ! LET THE COLUMN FALL ! Though thousand-times more glorious and tall, Through the serenes of air, Clomb its rich Corinth-shaft and clustered top : Though thousandfold more fair Rose its:full-flowering Acanthus-crop, Carved of white marbles, with their snow-sweet shining° In wreaths of royally-enmingled twininga Though sovran and ethereous of mould, • Ivories wove with interlucent gold Lent its fine architraves and ornaments, A beauteousness immense,— Arrogant Column ! still— Symbol of pride and ill I Prone thy haught feather-head should bow and cowers Before a Name almightier of power : Name loftier far than Lord, or King, or Khan, Or all that yet by blood or lineage ran, Or blazed heraldical in tongues of dress, — Name simplest—name sublime in nakedness—, The name of—MAN ! Aye, let the Column fall !-- Why should it longer cumber the free soil ? Why shadow down The palsies of its ever-baleful frown, On thee—thou reverend, holy Son of toil I Under whose outward husk, and rough-hewn seeming • Rays of the infinite light give sleepless gleaming Thou—man the labourer—man the workman—mans Grower of dewy food and daily bread, For which sweet thankful grace to Heaven is said 1 Patient long-sufferer !—hard-entreated brother !--- ' , Who, with thy strength and sinews for another, Eight weary centuries host sown and heaped, But yet no armful to thyself host reaped ; Who for long ages hast with trusty duty, Smote the rebellious earth to golden beauty Who night and day thy prowesses hest spent, Obedient ever to thy lord's intent, Him the Oppressor—him the Tyrann arch : Speak ! as before the Universe thou standest Of forms created, sacredest and grandest, While all Earth's spirit-host surround and shout thee, And Sanctities stand thick as stars about thee ; Thou—God's own Noble--wilt thou rot a thrall? Thou! born to beam—a Power supreme to all ? NO—LET THE COLUMN FALL ! Aye—let the Column fall! — Needs had it be like Saul, Smote with reproachful bolts of fieriness :-- Time, so o'erfiowery, so profuse a Crewn, From its isurpureal altitude were hurled ! Enough fair noons—enough sweet glittering starlight* From the old Feudal heaven it hath shared— Manhood stands now prepared, • Anew to build the great House of the World I Why longer darkened should he sit, or shaded Dimmed by that Column, crumbling and far-faded? Better a million-times, Its gorgeous wreath of trim Acanthus-wool, Were rended from aloof: Better were torn its architectural posies— Unpulled its flourished heads of pomps and roses — Better were cropped its full ambrosial flowers, Sprung from Corinthian bowers : And broke its composite and airy shaft Dust for the winds to waft : Than should the men and labourers of the land, Who as its walls and solid basements stand, ' (Like the majestic Doric, plain but grand); Who form its glory—its superbest hope— Are its foundation-beams, its firmest rafters, The hopes and promise of its fond hereafters Should in ephemeral weakness meet such fate, Or God's august designs so desecrate— Rather than MA N should perish on earth's ball-- O'ertumbled with its towery pride and state — (He the strong Sampson tugging at its weight)-- DOWN LET THE COLUMN FALL ! . WINNIMEMPE.,XV. 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