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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF - COMMONS, April 30. The SPEAKER. took his scat at Two o'Clock. ' CATHOLIC GRIEVANCES. Mr. P. HOWARD presented a petition from a town in Yorkshire, prayingthat the grievances under %chicle the human Catholic subjects laboured might be remedied. The Hon. Gentleman presented similar petitions from a place in Stafford shire, from Wintehavon, and from Chepstow. INCOME TAX. Mr. BERNAL presented a petition against the Income-tax. SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION, Mr. THESIGF.R said, that before proceeding to address the House on a subject of great importance, he trusted he would hepermitte,i to say a few words, in order to set himself right in the opinion of the Houle, an to the course he had pursued on t h e Present occasion. It had been stated in the course of the debate that morning, that he had taken advantage of the House in bringing this grave and serious question before them, when many Hon. Members had left the House under the impression that the debate would not be brought forward that evening, and that he, iu that way , to ok there b y sur p rise. He confessed it. wrs with considerable pain and regret he heard that impu tation cast upon him by his own side of the Clouse, because he thought that the course Ire-pursued was so well known to many of his Honourable and Right Honourable Friends near hint, they would have acquitted him of any imputation of a very serious eaaracter, and which left a very painful impression on his mind, from its being supposed, that he could be capatle of not dealing fairly with the House.—( Hear, hear. ) When he came to the House yesterday, he made up his mind to gite notice of motion for diseharging the individual in question. But he found that the Honourable Member for Knares ho, ough had befog z ~ bins given notice, of a similar =mien to the Clerk of the ileuse. Ile (Mr. "Manger) mentioned to him his intention of snaking a motion or, the subject, and the Honourable Member very courteously permitted hint (Mr. 'l'.) to substitute his own tiatne fur the Honourable Member's, and after his arrival in the House he communicated to the Speaker his inteutien of opposing the motion for adjournment till . Monday, and N% as resolved, as far as he possibly could accomplish it, that the House should meet this day, in order to determine whether the custody of this individual was legal or not. He communicated his intention to the Chancellor ot the Exchequer, to one of the Secretaries of the Treasury, and he believed also to the Secretary of the House Department, The Chancellor of the Exchequer told him that his opposition ould probably lead to a debate, and requested of him to defer it t ill after the debateen the Income-tax, and that the adjournment of the House would not be moved till after his Hon. mend the Member for Cirencester communicated his intention to several afeinbers on the opposite side of the House, so that he 'did ever) thing in his power to make his intention known.—(Hear, Lear.) Ile thought that statement was necessary to vindicate his character. With regard 'to an observe that made by the llonourable Member for Chester, that the notice of motions showed " Monday," that hap pened by mistake,' for he stesirect the Clerk to take out Mcnitay, which he said lie would do when the motion was made. He felt it due to himself to snake these few remarks, fur he mnnessed that he had entertained the deepest feelings of regret for the situation in which he was placed, by no one who - knew all t li a circumstances being g,euerousenough to stand forward in. his Vindication. lie felt it cue to himself to explain those cir cumstances previous to going into this grave and serious. ques tion. It, the discussions which had occurred upon previous eights upon this question, as to the coetinuance in custody of this individual, he contested that lie might have expressed himself with an undue degtee of warmth, He felt very strongly on the subject of. the validity of the warrant. Ile felt that the House was coinmitting a grievous injustice towards this indi sidurd by continuii him in custody upon a warrant which appeared to he illegal, and lie therefore had expressed himself fiery strongly on the subject; and having then accomplished his &dune., which seas to assembie the House as early as possible, for a grave and calm consideration of that question, he might be eermitted to spoloaise toraey warmth he might have betrayed, end to call upon the House with him to consider with all the calureesse which befitted the dignity and impoi tatter , of that subject—the crave and serious question which was then sub stained for dismission. On the one hand they had a long continued practice, which was of course entitled to their respect. On the other hand, they had to deal with the liberty of a fellow subject, and they must take care that that liberty saes nut improperly infringed upon, and that the person ought not to be eontinue.l in custody beyond the period absolutely necessary to determine the fact whether it was an improper on . teauence in custody. With these remarks he would proceed to insider the question which had been submitted to the House. lie apprehended that they would have nothirie on that occasion to do with the question as to what bad been the ordinary tome of these warrants, except so far as to be cautious that they did not supersede any prat:- icier, or any rule of that House, upon goad and suffi cient grounds; but provided that practice had been abandoned, and therefore became illegal, be was quite sure that the House would feel that it was absolutely necessary at the earliest possible period their attentions should be called to the subject, for the purpose of discontinuitig the practice. Nor eat he consider on the present occasion it would be at all necessary to introduce Into the discussion any thing regarding the conduct of the Southampton 4 '.olainittee, of the behaviour of the winless before that Com mittee, or before the House. Different opinions might be eutettained on that subject. Some honogeable :Mem tors might thick that the witness had exhibitted a disposition to conceal the truth, which would make him a fit subject of punishment. Others might believe that he meant :etty and fairly to state everything which he knew regarding e. he subject matter before the Committee. Hut whatever opt niou Ilon. Gentlemen might entertain on the subject, they ought then to enter. into the discussion of the question. Ito contended that the tenni...id of the prisoner was not what they bad to consider. If he had not misconducted himself, it was of course an irresistible argument in favour of proceeding • immediately to discharge him. But they were not here to ex ercise any discretion on the subject, or to consider whether the iudividual deserved punishment or not. Ile wished • to call the attention of the House to the validity of the proceedings under which the alleged contempt arose. tie wished to point out.to the House, the view he had taken, after the most anxious consideration, of the warrant under which ltiis party had been supposed to be compelled to attend • before a Committee of the House of .Commons, assembling in the present. session of Parliament, but which was not a valid or even an existing warrant for t. at purpose. Therefere there could not be a contempt committed by the witness refusing to produce papers which were specified in the warrant. It might be useful if he first called the attention of the House to the torm of the warrant itself, Oil which the question arose. It was dated the tllth of September, 1841, which an Hun. Member might • recollect' was during the last Session of• Parliament. It recited that, '° Whereas a petition had been presented corn plaiiiing of an undue election for the town and county of South - asepton to the present House of Commons, the matter of which petit ion is to be tried in the present. Session of Parliament by a Select Committee, ap pointed under the Act passed in the 4th and sth year of her present Majesty, he there:nre required, more* others, Mr. • etabatm, and each and every person, to bring in their custody every list, with accounts," and other general words, no doubt sufficient to include the hook of counter toils:and cheques which had been mentioned, and therewith to be and appear before the said Select Committee, and receive such further orders as such Select Committee should appoint and decide. Now, he was informed that warrants formerly ',geared parties to attend on the day on which such Committee 1% as to be struck, and to attend from day to day under the orders of the House. The consequence of this form was, the parties were in the habit of attending on the day when the Committee was struck, and to the great. expense of parties continue their attendance in London. Very frequently notice was given that their attendance would not be required for the • present, and they were discharged, and a new warrant afterwards applied for, which was issued by the Speaker, to compel their attendance at the particular period whets their attendance was required. In cyder to obviate the manifest inconvenience and expense sit this son of attendance of witnesses when they were not *anted, the form at present in question had been devised, which form might be an extremely good one, .to compel the attendance of parties and witnesses during the 'Session of Parliament, to which the warrant applied. It might be perfectly efficacious for that purpose, and yet might cot lie of the slightest validity to compel their at tendance in the subsequent Session.—( Hear, hear.) .That was the question which time House had to determine—a emestion depending upon the character of the warrant, and the ornthority from which it emanated, whether it was a warrant • *hat proceeded from the authority of the House, and therefore • like all other proceedings terminated with the end of the Sew ion, or whether it was a statutable authority, which, therefore, would not terminete with the Session, but would he operative at at subsequent 'peried. Ptior to the Oreuville Act, In 1770, that House was alone the tribunal to try contested elections. The Speaker, by the authority of the House, issued his warrant to iti log hp parties, genets, and records berme the House, in order hat the House might determine upon those documents, and -age examination of the witnesses, whether that election was good Or bad. Of course the inconveelenee of that was seri ously felt, and the Grenville Act. was passed i u 1770, by which Act the House delegated its authority to a Select Com mittee, to be appointed at a particular clay named, to try the merits of the petition, end under that Act the Committee had power to summon parties, and to order the production of papers and records, and without that power the Committee would be deprived of any authority over the witnesses'; that. autho :lily Was given them by Statute, and continued by subsequent statutes. but it was not until the '2B Geo. 111. that the warrant "of the Speaker was mentioned in the trial of controverted :elections; and when ii was mentioned, it was mentioned not as tin authority conveyed to the Speaker by the House, but a secoghised authority io the Speaker to issue his warrant. He believer the invariable custom had been, from the passing est else ttreaeine Act down to the present time, for the Speaker, under tbe ord., or itse Clouse, to is .ue his warrant to summon -parties. and senA -toe t,arere and .record,. From the time w 'ell the authority v; as delegated:tea- a Committee, down to the present -time, the warrant of the Speaker was not treated as an authority • in him, but as •• an authority in the House. and ' conferred by it on the Speaker. Now this was a moat important consideration, and he wished to al the particular attention of the House to it, because on this ,determination the great part of the question turned. It this were an authority proceeding; from the House like every other order made 'and proceeding from the House, with a few ex • ceptions, it would terminate with the conclusion of the session, and Inc should he able to show by authority, not to be 'disputed, that it could not be resun ed at any future session, but there must be a renewal of the authority.— " l( Ilear. ) He would call the attentions of the House in the first Thee to //ased; in the 2,1 vol. p. 5.3:), the different effects of a imerreeition and an adjournment were stated to be, that with :regard to a prorogation, any Bills or other proceedings not ecritscleded at the end of one session in either House, 'whatever state they might be in, were entirely 'put an end to, and must in the next session be cot-time:need again ; whereas, on an adjouinment every 'proceeding remained entire, and might, after the recess, 'be taken tio where left. It, a note to that page to which lie had referretlit would be theindthat there were exceptions men tioned, sdeleas eases of privilege; and the House would observe by reference to the journals, that where a bleach had been committed in one session, the House had in a subsequent ose,. • resumed the consideration of that breach, had (suet ml o.i it, and had punished the individual guilty nt it, l,ut not without resuming the consideration sd it. He Sped. that the obsert ations wh:tlt lie had made .woidil induce the House td hesitate bef• re they came s e a rash conclusion, because he apprehended that at site conclusion of the last session, tie wars act had ex hausted its force, anti had ne power to imptirc that w 'attendance on Parliement. Ice would now briefly call the at tun lion of the il, use to serne great legal anti orities on Else subject. Without enterieg lute detail, he would refer to the general ,e result of the ewes, a, contieneet in a tassage contained it, Hawkins' Pleas of the Crown, ch. 16, tee. is i. • It was there ...atel that a person who had been committed for contemr., by tie order of either. House of Parli ament m i g ht b e dis etergid ft bin the King's Bench after the disso lotion or prorogatien of the Parliament ; an d th a t a ll ma tters before either House must be commenc e d anew in the next Parliament, except in the ease of a wilt of error. To this he ( Mr. Thesiger)might add the case of an impeachment. Hawkins referred to several cases in illustration of his state anent, but this eassage contained the substance. Now the .authorities appeared to Lave determined this, that every order anti proceeding connected with the privileges .of the House terminated with the termination of the Session of —Parliament. Ile would put the familiar case of a person who was committed for contempt, or for a breach of the privileges a the House. Honourable Members were perfectly aware that the moment the session ended the party was entitled to be relieved from. imprisonment.—( Hear, hear.) He would take mother case. It frequently occurred that shortly before the end of the session of Parliament, a motion was made that a particular Bill be read that day six months. Now the object of such a motion was not to enable the House, supposing it should reassemble before the expiration of the period, to take up the Bill in the state in which it had been left, but the object was to get rid of the Bill, or compel the party to renew it in the nett session. If it were agreed by the House that a Bill should be read that day six months, and there happened to be a new session of Parliament, before the period expired, that Bill could not lie taken up in the state in which it had been left, but the Honourable Member who introduced it must begin de noro.—( Hear, hear, he r.) Now he would next submit to the House ;hat the wa►rant of the Speaker was not a warrant esta blished by any statute, but that it emanated from the House. If he was right in his premises, the warrant expired in the last session of Parliament, and there was no authority to compel the witness to attend after the close of the session. The Hon. Member for Devoriport (Sir G. Grey) had, he thought, on a former discussion of this question, cited the Sad section •of the 4th and sth of Victoria, as having the effect of continuing the Speaker's warrant S:r G. GREY made an observation across the table dissent ing-, as we understood, from what the Hon. and Learned Mem- her attributed to him Mr. 'FHESIGEB. hoped the lion. Gentleman would not suppose that he had any desire to misrepresent him, but he Thesiger) had so understood the Hon. Cientlemsn's ar gunietet. However, it would be seen, upon referring •to thgt section of the Act that it did nut a pply to this warrant of the Speaker. Ile trusted he was se tar advanced in his argument as to have satisfied the House that this statute, to which he had just referred,' was not a statute of au thority in the present instance, and that it was situated in the same respect as all the other orders and proceed• logs connected with the privileges of the House, and coming to an end upon the termination of the session. But the decision as to the propriety or impropriety of keeping this party in custody would not depend altogether upon she decision they might come to as to this point, because, if the House should be of opinion that this authority had been con ferred upon the Speaker by the Act . of Parliament, the ques tion would . still remain if the warrant was such as to render the party disobeying it guilty of a con. tempt of the House.—( Hear.) The warrant commanded ' the party on whom it was served to attend the Committee aps pointed to try the merits of a petition, complaining of an undue election for the borough of Southampton during the present session of Parliament, and he apprehended that the authority of the warrant, from the manner in which it was framed, was not such as to compel the attendance of the witness during the present session of Parliament. He would refer the House to what was the practice of Courts of Law under analogous circumstances. If a subpoena were served upon a witness, requiring his attendance at a particular sittings or assizes—if the cause were made what was techni cally called a remanet, the party on whom the subpcina had been served could not be compelled by any intimation from the attorney or agent of the other side to attend at any subse quent sittings or assizes by that enhpcena.— ( Hear, near.) There was no reason why there should be any difference between the warrant of the Speaker and a subpmna. Even if it were admitted to be a floating warrant, he conteudrd that no warrant so worded would be compulsory on a party to attend in a totally different session to that mentioned in the warrant. The Hon. and Learned Mem ber for Bath had alluded to the case of a person bound over in recognizanccs to appear at the Quarter Seisions, but when a party attended on his recognizances, and was ordered to attend at a subsequent Court, his recognizances had to be respited in or der tom - lapel his attendance. Some act must be done to trans fer the obligation of attendance from one Quarter Session to an other. His lion and Learned Friend the Member for Bath would forgive him for saving, that the analogy to which he referred militated against his own position. 'There was another point to se lab he wished to allude, and which appeared to have made some impression on the minds of lion. Gentlemen on both sides of the House; he alluded to the circumstance of the party being supposed to have waived any advantage he might have derived from the invalidity of the warrant, by his having chosen to appear before the Committee. ( Hear, hear hear.) The question had no doubt been raised in the first instance in the House, and had not been brought under the consideration of the Com mittee by the' able counsel for the sitting Member, his Learned Friend, Mr. Austin. But he should observe that his Learned Friend bad had no opportunity of bringing the objection before the Select Committee before the party was in attendance. The answer of the Committee to the objection would be that they had nothing to do with any argument re specting the validity or invalidity of the warrant. They had the 'witness before them, and whether he was there voluntarily or upon compulsitel, it was their duly to put any questions to him they might think proper touching the petition which they we re called upon to try. It. should al.o be observed that the witness had not been com mitted for anything he had done before they Committee, but for refusing to produce . a certain paper which it was alleged had been in custody at the time the warrant was issued. It was one thing to say that a witness having attended was compelled to answer fairly and honestly whatever questions might be put to him; and it was another thing to say that coming before the Committee, either voluntarily or upon a notice served upon him, ' he ought to have produced the documents referred to in the Speaker's warrant. That was perfectly clear. His desire was, to follow the wish of the House, because he was sure they were all desirous to do justice to the individual who.e case was under consideration.— ( Hear. hear.) Ile was sure if they had taken a false step, they would recede as quickly as possible ; if they acted without sufficient authority, they should redress the injury they had done as soon as possible. (Hear, hear.) He trusted that he had, with fairness, with ealmnese, and due deliberation, broUght the subject before the House, under the sincere conviction of the validity of the argu ment he had addres:ted to them—a conviction which he had come to before he had been able to consider the matter as fully as he had since done. At all events he hoped the House would take the matter into its serious deliberation, and show an anxious desire to do justice to this individual.— ( Hear, hear.) Ile hoped he would succeed in having that, justice done, for it .was infinitely more important than the re sult of the inquiry itself ; and though sure of being correct in the result lie had come to, that was of little consequence in comparison with the it justice of detaining this individual. He should, therefore, move that William Rout Mabson should be discharged from the custody of the Sergeant. at- Arms. Mr. C. W. WYNN said he rove to second t!le motion of his lion. and Learned Friend. During tl:e many years lie had sat in 'that House, he trusted he never showed any want of application or care in preserving its due authority. It naught be useful to look back to the nature of the jurisdiction of the House of Commons. They would find that a petition complaining of an undue election, if continued to the .next session, became necessary to be renewed, or it became valueless. Why, then was the Speaker's warrant greater now than it had been before? The Hon. Member described the former practice of the House with considerable minuteness, and was understood to argue generally against the validity of the present warrant. Mr. REDINGTON would not speak as to the legal mat ters to which the Right Honourable Gentleman who had just sat down referred, but he trusted the House would believe him when he said, that the Committee, in committing this individual, did so from a sense of their duty. The Committee considered that the warrant was a perfect one, till it had been questioned in that House. They considered that this individual had been guilty of a contempt of their orders, but if there was any doubt as to the legality of the war rant, the House would give him the benefit of it. He was sure, after the unprecedented occurrence of last night, the House would expect that he should say a few words upon that sub ject. He had only casually heard that this motion was to be made ; and if the Hon. Member for Woodstock had wished that Hon. Members should know that he intended to bring forward the subject, he had adopted a very inefficient course to effect that object. He felt con• fident that the House was taken by surprise last night, and that the course adopted by the Hun. Member for Woodstock was not very respectful towards it. There was another point to which he wished to advert. An expression had been made use of in the House last night, which had been withdrawn that day, which, if be had been in the House, he should have been induced to repel in the strongest terms, for he believed that a more foul or gross aspersion had never been threwn on seven sworn men.—( Great cheering.) Much had been said on the subject by men eminent at the Bar. He would not gainsay their states merits, he trusted that justice would never be forgot ten by those who practised in Westminster Hall.—(Cheers.) Mr. THEeIGEIt said that he rose to explain, after the as persions which had been made against him, with reference to his notice of motion, that he erred entirely through ignorance. Sir G. 'GREY said he did not meats to impute to the Hon. Member for Woodstock that hu had intentionally given his notice in an irregular way, but he must say that having heard, at five o'clock last night, the Honourable Mem ber give notice that he intended at the next meeting of the House, to take the sense of the House, he (Sir G. Grey) was certainly under the impression that the motion would have been made on Monday.—( Hear, hear.) He thought the Hon. Member ought to have stated that at a late hour of the night, he should move that the House meet again on Saturday.—( Hear, hear.) It was quite accidentally that casting his eyes over the Votes he perceived that the Speaker was to take the Chair at Two o'Clock.—( Hear, hear. ) He did not rise to follow the Honourable and Learned Gentleman through the whole of his learned speech, but he really did not think—and he said it with all defer ence to the House—tht that House was a tribunal capable of judging of the legal arguments which *might be made use of, or of the legal merits of the ease now under their consideration. Grave doubts had been expressed on the subject of the warrant by Hon. and Learned Gentlemen, whose authority he thought entitled to great respect, and he ;was quite ready to admit that means might be taken to ascertain, whether those doubts were well-founded, and if so, to provide a remedy for the evil.—(Hear, hear.) But ' were they then competent to do that? Notwithstanding all that had been said by the lion. and Learned Gentleman opposite and from the Law Officers of the Crown, he was not prepared, on the statement of any Hen. Member, to assume that a practise, which had existed for such a length of time. was illegal. What he would venture, therefore, to suggest to the House was, not that they would entertain the motion upon the ground either of the legality or illegality of the 'warrant, but that they should decide whether or not the witness should be discharged upon the merits of the case.— t" No, no," from the Ministerial benches.) He would also suggest that a notice of motion should be given cn an early day for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire as to what the practice of the House then was with regard to the issuing of summonses for the attendance of witnesses before Com mittees, and that the Committee should report whether any and what law was requisite on that subject. He would pro pose that the Speaker should give that Committee the benefit of his expel ience. The Repot tof that Committee would be a document on which the liouse might rely.—(Hear, hear.) With regard to the warrant, he scat prepared to say that it had not been proved to be illegal ; but the question of its legality or was one which could not then be decided. It would involve a reference to the Journals of the House for several sears past, and he must - say, with reerence to what had fallen from the Honourable and Learned Gentleman, that he thought it might involve a reference to the proceedings of the other House of Parliament. There were many cases in which resolutions of the other House had been held to be hireling betond the session; and he thought that was a case somewhat analogous teethe one w hich they were then engaged in considering. The necessary inference from the Hon. and Learned Gen tleman's argument was that every warrant issued since the beginning of the present session by the Speaker, having been issued on the authority given in the session of 1841, was invalid. If he understood the Hon. and Learned Gentle man's arguments right it was this,• that the authority given in the session of If{4l had ceased with the termina tion of that session, and that the warrants issued under such authority had also ceased to be valid. The result of such a doctrine being adopted would .be that the five election petition warrants now issued by the Speaker, sum moning witnesses to give evidence before the respective Com mittees, having been issued under circumstances similar to that in the Southampton case, would not be attended to by the witnesses; and was it a desirable result, he would ask, that those witnesses should be empowered to say that they would not attend the Committees, because the House of Commons had declared that the Speaker's warrant issued in those cases was illegal. With regard to the merits of the case, he certainly was not prepared to dissent upon the merits from the motion of the Hon. and THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, MAY . 2, 1842. Learned Gentleman (Mr. Thesiger) to discharge the witness That had arisen from the peculiar state of the circumstances from custody. With regard to the legality or illegality of the arising from the short session of Parliament. This had given summons, it was admitted by the House, that if the summons rise to a serious question, and when the warrant was read at was not legal, it was because there was a defect in the law, the table, he (the Solicitor-General) asked the Speaker whether and whether the summons was legal or not when the witness that was a regular warrant? At the time he put that guess. had the document in his possession at the time he was called tion, he was not aware that there were any other warrants upon to attend a Committee, the House would do of a similar description, but he considered it to right in visiting the individual with its displeasure. be a mistake of the parties in the peculiar He would not advert to the conduct of the witness before the case. Now that the question had been moved, it became a Committee ; he had no right to do so; but looking at the evi- serious matter as to how that question was to be settled. He dense which he had given at the bar, it appeared to him (Sir agreed that the opinion of lawyers given in that Ilouse could G. Grey) to amount to this, that he had possession of thee do- not be considered as satisfactory. He believed that nu direct cuments—that he knew they would be wanted—and tHat be legislative power was given to the Speaker to issue his warrant. had incautiously parted with them : but since the witness had It was issued as care ot the privileges of the House of Commits, stated that he was willing to make inquiries as to the individual and therefore it semi= authority derived from the House, and by whom he bad sent these documents to Captain Ward, and as not held by the Speaker independent of it. Under such cm there was no suspicion that he had absconded, he thought cumstances, the question was, whether any authority given by it just, as he had been kept in confinement for three , the House was Oct put an end to by the termination of the days, that lie should now be discharged—( Hear, hear)— session. There was great doubt upon the subject, and such but still liable to be called before the Committee, still being being the case, he thought the patty in custody ought to bound to exert himself for the recovery of these papers, have the benefit of that doubt. After the party and bound to exonerate himself before the Commit- ' was discharged, they could then discuss the matter calmly, and tee, and, it might be, hereafter before the House, deal with it as they should think fit. For his own part, he from the charge of having knowingly got rid of the thought that all these subjects would be better decided by a papers. If the motion for his discharge was rested tribunal out of the House, and he had come down titth a deter-- upon thcee grounds, and not upon the ground of the mination to move for a Committee to iteasere into ti e subject. illegality of the warrant, he would consent to it. • He did not say that this question should be removed altogether Ile would not consent to declare that warrant illegal; but from the House, but he thought it right certainly to remove it he would, as graie doubts seemed to be entertained on the from the body of the House, and that every matter :heal subject, suggest that some course ought to be adopted be decided by the Committee amenntt d to try analogous to the one he had pointed out tor .I it. He Vk isheu to express his entire e oneurrehee the purpose of eettino the question at rest.—(Hear.) I in what had fallen from his Right Hon. Fe iend , and if that tier. FERRAND would not have trespassed 'upon 1 House consented to the discharge of the weness, he should give the House, had it not' been for the strong language Lotice—and he would now give notice, that on Monday next that had been used by Hon. Gentleman opposite.—( Cheers ) he should mote tnat a Select Committee be apeoihted to '1 he Speaker last night bast told him (elm Ferra..d) tl at inquire into the practice of the House with regard to the he was cu' of order ice milting use of the language which he summoning of witnesses to the Bar ot the House, and to report had used, and he had immeciately withdrawn that expres- what alterations in the present law were requisite. sion.—( Hear, hear.) lie had wished to call the atten- Sir T. X% ILhiE said, he apprehended that ne feeling could tion of the House to the fact that the Chairman of the exist in the House but that of perfect cencuirenee with Southampton Committee had reported to the House, ' what had failen from his Honourable and Learned Friend, that he had committed the witness to the eustody of the Sir- namely, that a Committee of inquiry should be appointee. The geant-at- Arms for having disobeyed the Speaker's warrant. , Committee which sat, and had made this Report to the House, lie found on inquiry that the person bait be en met with ' appeared to have made the Report in such a form as to give rise in London accidentally, that be had been taken be- ito a question of legality. The debate which had arisen on this fore the Committee without having any opportunity question had strikingly proved that verylittle good could follow given him to go down to Southampton, and that it had been ' discussion on such a question in that House. This had ari sen impossible for him to go clown to search for the paper. He , more from the peculiar form of that Report than from the parti ( Mr. F.) had heard with surprise the Hon. Member for Gates- I cutter nature of the subject matter. He did not think that a new head assert that the majority of the Committee lead reported the Act of Parliament ee se required in this instance. The House conduct of that man, and had directed that he should be placed I was perfectly efficient to decide on the question before it. All the in the custody of the Sergeant-am Arms, not for the parpose of original co nstitutional authority which it elope possessed it still procuring additional evidence from him , but as a punishme.nt retain e d, and he was of opinion that the Spealser's warrant was for the manner in which he had given his evidence. He felt I issued by h.m under his general Parliamentary authority. The that in using the expressions he had done, after that avowal of Committee a i pointed to try a contested election was authorised the lion. Member for Gateshead— to report whether wens saes had disobeyed the Speaker's Mr. HUTT—I rise to order, Sir. I feel, Sir, th:.t that summons, pr the summons of the Chairman, or had given false lion. Gentleman is not entitled to say, after having used the evidence, or had otherwise misbehaved henself. WI at was the indecent expression—(" Order, order.") condition in which the matter stood? A person had been The SPEAKEII—The lion. Gentleman is clearly out of before the Committee to be examined. It was a matter of order in characterising any expression of an Hon. Member in perfect indifference whether he went there by virtue the House as indscent.—(Cheers. ) of a summons or warrant. He was there voluntarily Mr. HUT r—Sir, I apologise to the House for having been under examination; he was called on to produce certain so far carried away by the warmth of my feelings as to give papers, and it was for the Committee to decide utterance to an expression unworthy of my position as a Member whether his conduct was contumacious in not pro of thes House. I rise tee order, Sir. It is evidently out of order during them. If the Committee were of opinion that for the lion. Gentleman opposite, after having made use of an he had Lad reasonable notice to produce the papers, and that expression with regard to the Southampton Election Committee, having had that, he made away vi Is them, in order to prevent anel after having been called to order by you for using that ex • the jurisdiction of the Committee, he was guilty of contempt pression, and Mier having, retracted that expression, to attempt of the authority of the liouse, and was liable to be committed. now to. justify it. If he have retracted—which I understand I Much ambiguity appeared to have arisen from calling the doeu he has done—the expressions which he applied last night, I / went a warrant. lie point of fart it was nettling more than a presume he is not now to rise here in his place to j ustif y them. n o tice to p ro duce, and the sole question was whether that doeu- Ile apprehended that that was the line of argument which the ment, signed by the Speaker, was a reasonable notice. If the Hon. Member was pursuing, if he did not use the very words; witness had asked for further time to comply with and as it appeared to him that such conduct was in the beefiest the t e rms of the warrant, the Committee would, no degree objectionable, be lead thought it his duty to call the lion. doubt, have granted his, request ; but his statement was Gentleman to order. that he had put it out of his power to produce them, The SPEAKER said that the Hon. Member for Knaresbo-- and that took place three months after he had received rough had last night made use of a term for which he had found notice.—( Hear, hear.) It was a mom e n tous que sti o n it his duty to call him to order. He had used the word "vin- whether a witness should be allowed to destroy papers on the d ctive," but when that expression was withdrawn, no r e flection groun d that the summons had expired. if a Committee should have been made upon it in any other form. If he had reported that a witness had misbehaved himself, what was the a scertained, alter the Hon. Member had concluded his sentence, House to do ? Under the Act of P ar liament the Chairman of the that it was his intention to justify the expression he had b e fore C omm it tee , by their direction, might, at any titre ' in the used, it would be his (the Speaker's) duty , anti he should cer- course of their proceedings, resort to the House, for the tainly have found it necessary, to call him to older again. interposition of its authority or censure.—(Hear, bear.) He was sure the Hon Gentleman would perceive that no i All that was deputed to the House by the Act of Par- Member had a right to reflect upon the c o nduct o f a Committee liaenent was, whether censure or commitment should lee which was sitting to decide a ease upon the author ity del, gated the consequence of the verdict of the Committee. It to it by the House.—( Hear. ) always gave him eliScerstfort to bear Hon. Members retelling Mr:FERRAN') said, that he sincerely regretted that in that House to the pro cee dings and eractice of the Courts he had used the language complained of last night.—( Hear, in Westminster Hall. The practice of that llouse was hear.) But he did not knew whether it was necessary for him founded upon higher principles than were then proceeding in any farther tojustify the language he lead used.—( Loud laugh-. i the Gusts of Law. It it should tutu out upon inquiry ter.) lie was not going to justify the word st vindictive," but that the authority of the House issued in one ses he tiid think that the lions Akimbo: would allow- him to say I sion ceased in another, he deprecated remedying that that the language he had used was very extraordinary language by Act of Parliament. They could make Statelie s t. Or for a Member of a Committee. ders in one session, which would govern the proceed- Mr. HUTT—What was it ?. ings of the House in that and future sessions. If the Mr. FERILAND said that he had understood the Hon. House is called on to decide, whether a eitness had or had Member to make the very extraordinary assertion that the not been guilty o: prevarication, it unfortunately happened that Committee had not confined the witness for the purpose of the opinions of Member s on that subject %%Quid be too often obtaining Any further evidence from hint. i foretold by knowing on which side of the House he sat -- Mr. HUTT—I did not say so. i (Hear, hear.) Another important circumstance was, Mr. FERRAND said that, so far as he remembered, I, that in these eti.cualons they saw . Members of the same that was the language used by' the Honourable Member. Corn trei tee rising on oppo s it e s ides of the House, and giving oppo- Mr. BERN AL rose to order. He was sure the House site opinions, and nothing could more incapacitate Gentlemen and the Hon. Member himself would perceive that it would be assembled together in Committee for coming to acalm judgment highly injudicious and highly indecorous that the time of the than being thus brought into collision one with another. The House should be wasted by repetit:ons of what had passed in House would do well to consider, that in all those .cases they former debates. had not to decide on the conduct of the witness— elm I:ERRAND said that he had first been attacked in very all that they had to do was to look to the record. strong language, and he had only risen for the purpose of ex- That record set forth that the party had been com plaining. he Hon. Member had at all events used very strong 1 • victed by a proper tribunal, anti all that the House language towards him personally:—(Cries of "Order.") had to do, sitting in its judicial capacity, was to The SPEAKER said. that the lion. ',Member for Knares- consider the • sentence which should be passed upon borough had acted most properly by retracting the expression it. lie should vote for the discharge of the man, because he had used last night, after lee had been called to order. The he thought that pending the inquiry, whirls had been Hon. Member for Dundalk (Mr. Redington) had not, on that proposed, he ought not to be kept in custoey. evening, as he (the Speaker) had understood him, attacked I He approved of the conduct of his Hon. and Learned Friend the Honourable Member for having used that ex- 'in expressing a doubton the subject, and although he ( SirT. W. ) pression. But the H onoura ble M em ber for Dundalk- entertained no doubt whatever, yet lee thought that after a had said, that if that s cold w ere applied again, lie should feel it , doubt had been expressed by such high authority as his his duty to use the strongest terms which the forms of the Honourable and Learned Friend, inquiry was necessary. House would allow. The Hon. Member had not, however , as I He did not thiok that the witness should now be kept in cus it appeared to him, used any strong expression affecting the tody ; and he should therefore vote in favour of his dismissal, lion. Member for Knaresborough. He trusted the lien. I with the understandit ' ee that he should be ready to attend again Member for Knaresborough would allow him to say, that it was before the Committee if his attendance were required. perfectly irregular to allude to what had been said in a former Sir C. NAPIER said that he had been last night charged debate.—( Hear, hear.) . ,by the Right. Hon. Baronet, the First Lord of the Treasury , Mr. H urr—Perhaps, if I am perfectly in order the House with having brought forward a motion of an unparalleled cite will permit me—( Loud cries of" Chair," and "Order.") I racter.—(Cries of "Order.") presume the House is not going to refuse to hear me, in eenla• I Lord el A HON rose to order. He submitted that it was not nation of my course of proceeding—some explanation of the proper, in the absence of -the Right Hun. Baronet, to refer to charges made against me. Sir, lam disposed to approach this what had fallen from him on a former evening. subject in all calmness. As I have stated, 1 did not use the Sir C. NAPIER would only say that in the course he had expreasion attributed to me. The expression I did use was — taken last night, it had not been his intention to embarrass (The lion. Member was again interrupted by loud cries of e ith e r the M ous e or the Government, or the Committee. lie s• Order," and " Chair.") Sorely the commonest indulgence j was happy to find that the motion he had made last night, and might be granted me. I did not say that "for the purpose of i which was rejected by a large majority, was now unanimously obtaining evidence, I did think it was desirable to retain the adopted. wit ness."—( Cries of " Greer, order.") After a few words from Sir R. INGLIS, The SPEAKER said, that after his having called one lion. Mr. W. 0. STANLEY laid he had been much surprised at Member to order, it was quite unnecessary for the Hon. Merin- the course admoted the minority in the Committee. He bee (Mr. Hutt) to explain. thought it was decidedly wrong in them to state their opinions Mr. HUTT—I will not press. i tuntil the whole of the proceedings were before the House. He An How. Masinaw on the Ministerial benches—You have should support the motion of the Hein. Member fur Devonport. to right. After a. tow words front Mr. REEINGTON and Sir V. BLAKE, Mr. HUT T—Who says, I have no right ? I presume, Sir— Dlr. THESIGER moved that the prisoner be discharged Mr. C. W. WYNN—I thought that the Hon. Member for from the custody of the Sergeant-at-Ardis. Knaresborough had not concluded his speech. He was inter- i The motion was then agreed to. rupted by a speech to order. He is therefore in possession of t the House.—(Hear, hear.) . I motion,At the suggestion of Mr. C. WOOD, it .was added to the that the attendance of William Rous Mabson , before Mr. FERIIAND—After the remarks which have fallen ! the Co from the lion. Gentleman opposite , I shall not go on. — (hear.) The House then adjourned at Five o'Cloek. Mr. HUTT—I can assure the House that had no intention I Committee, be required on Mendiy. of interrupting the Hon. Member for Knaresborough. thought he hid concluded his speech. It is impossible for me not to feel myself seriously affected by the different charges made against the Committee of which I am a member. I car, assure the House that, according to the best of my ability, I have endeavoured to discharge my duty upon that Committee.--( Hear, hear.) 1 will say, that with respect to my acting as a member of this Committee, if any one should say that I have made an unjust application of my oath, or in any way perverted any duties as a man of honour—if such ap allegation were made, either in this House or elsewhereel would treat that person who made it as a calumniator and a liar !—(Loud cries of " Order, order," " Chair, chair," and great confusion.) The SPEAKER—I must tell the Hon. Member that such expressions cameo be tolerated here.— ( Tremendous cheering.) It is my duty to call on the Hon. Member to retract his ex pression. Mr. HUTT—I assure you, Sir, and the. Houle, that I feel sincerely sorry if I have in any way offended against the regu lations of this House.—( ar, hear.) Using the expression I did, I thought it was a part of speech which was per mitted in this House. I• had no intention of got, beyond the regulations of the House. Both ;thee* expressions, then, I regret to have u-ed." The 110. Member continued. lie would dismiss this subject. lie was surprised that the Right Hon e Gentlemen who occupied the Treasury benches did not stand forward in defence of the Honourable and Learned Gentleman. He thought that the Honourable Gentleman had given notice of a motion for Monday to bring this subject under the consideration of the House, and he thought he would have acted a more becoming and a far fairer part if he had communicated his intention to the Committee or to one of the Members of that Committee, instead of bringing the subject under consideration late in the evening. He was not surprised that many exalted and Hon. Members did not acquit the. Hon. and Learued Member of disingenuousness. He thought he acted with a great want of candour. Mr. THESIGER said he did not know if the Hon. Member was in order. He had endeavoured to explain to the Honse, that Le had not-any improper mottoes, and he trusted he bad explained that satisfactorily.—( Hear. ) Mr. HU IT presumed . he was in order.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman had made an explanation whieir might be satisfaatory to his own mindebustit was not so to his {-Mr.: Hutt's) mind, nor to a majority of that House.—( Hear, hear.) With regard to the motion which had been brought before the House, he could only. say, that gentlemen -of the legal possession on butte sides of the Hou se having decided that the warrant was not a legal instrument, the individual in ques tion ought .o be discharged. But the House must recoll ect that it was not for disobeying a legal warrant that he was confined. He would say in addition, that Members who served upon Committees, lead a very arduous duty to perform--( Hear, hear) —which was rendered still more so, when, after serving upon a Committee from I I to 4 o'clock, and then pet forming their duty as Members in the House, they were called upon at half-past two to defend atm meet len of their conduct.—( Cheers.) The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that after the debate which had taken place there could be little doubt that this individual ought to be discharged from custody. His Right Honourable Friend near him, who had given his opinion on the subject, ought to be conclusive on the point. Ihe present was a question of great constitutional importance. He should not enter into anything like an argument upon it, but should merely call the attention of the House to it, and they would at once see its very great importance. Ile could not quite agree with his Hon. Friend, that there lead been any practice prevailing in that House which the present notice fell in with, because the point . was altogether a new one, and it was because it was a new one that he con sidered it of so much importance. He woule show the House that the question could not have arisen before. Pre reels to the passim, of the present Act, it was so well confirmed that everything of this kind, commenced in one session of Par lemma ended with that session, that even a petition against a returtmil prepared but not presented in that session, was with drawn, and a new petition presented in the subse quent. one.—( Hear, hear.) Thus, not only everything in the shape of (eiders and warrants ceased vs itle the • ession, but even a petition itself. Then it was usual for the House to g.ve the customary order to the Speaker to issue his summons to the witnesses to attend. Under the Bill of his Right Hon. Friend, (Sir Robert Peel,) a clause was, for the first time, introduced, by which a petition presented but not prosecuted in one session of parliament, might, be left over to the next one. lie did not think that it lead ever occurred, that a petition presented in one sessent of Parliament had been tried in another. Sir G. GREY—A few sessions ago. The SOLICITOR- GENER A L—Butno such question asthe present had ever occurred. The present case had not e risen from the Bill of his Right Hon. Friend, but from the circumstance that so many petitions were presented after the general election, that in the short session of Parliament, it was not possible to try them. It was thus the euestinn had arisen, whether the warrants then issued were binding in the present session. RAILWAY RETURNS. We extract from the lic.iihray 2111,gazine the sums re ceived on the principal Railways of Great Britaii, tor the week ending on the day of the. month prefixes to each. The return includes the money received fot passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and Mer- Chutrdixe *eel — • Naive of Railway. Miles Total. x.s. d. ended Opened. Apr. 23 Birmingham & Derby Junct. 48 1,061 11 8 22 Birmingham ard Cloueestvr 55 1,509 17 8 16 Brandling Junction 25 715 4 9 22 Chester and Birkenhead .. 24 Dundee and Arbroath 24 Eastern Counties 23 Edinburgh and Glasgow 23 Glasgow and Ayr .. 23 Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenoi•k 22} 658 8 11 23 Gland Junet , Chester &Crewe 113 8,636 3 ti 23 Great North of England 45 1,302 10 2 24 Croat Western 21 Halle ' 18 '224 12 6 23 - Hull and Selby 23 I , :.neaster & I'reston Junction 20i 396 8 1 22 Liverpool and Manchester .31 3,833 2 7 .23 London and Birmingham--; 1121 16,313 4 8 '2B London and Blackwall ...... - 847 15 10 , 23 tondon and Brighton ... 3 Ditto Shoreham Branch 26 London and Croydon . 101 443 8 91 28 L , ndon and Greenwich 34 829 15 0 " 25 London and South Western 22. Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 572 11 21 . 25 Manchester & liirrninglam 23 Al •..nchester and Leeds 23 Alidland Counties • 57/ 2,524 0 10 23 Newcastle and Carlisle 6o* 1,245 8 3 21 Newcastle and North Shields 7 312 '3 11 24 Northern arid Eastern ... 23 North Midland ' ' 724 3,987 10 9 22 North Union ... 23 Preston and Wyre 25 Sheffield and Manchester 7 281 'll 6 24 Ulster 23 York and North Midland '2B 1,562 12 11 VESSELS OF THE uNiiED KINGOO3I. A return has been laid before Parliament of the number of vessels above fifty tons burthen, and the total am ount of their tonnage registered at eac h o f t h e ports of Great Britain and Ireland, including th e Ch anne l I s lands. The thi ee chief ports in England are London, Li ver pool, and ;Newcastle ; in Scot land, Glasgow (incloding Greenock and Port Glasgow), Aber deen, and Dundee ; in I re l an d, Belfast, Cork, and Dublin. The returns for vessels, 598,554 tons ; Liver wol, 1,097 v., 307 ' 852 t. ; New castle, 1,143 v., '259.571 L I . , Glasgow; 662 v., 187,545 t. ; these places are as follow :—London, 2,405 Aberdeen, 298 v., 5 4 443 t D Bel fast, 250 v. 44,458 t.: Cork, 021 v., 29,765 t. ; Dublin, 134 v., • 23,072 t. ' Total for I.:uglafitl 10,804 v., 2,033,345 t. ; Scot -, ‘ .; Dundee, 282 v., 50,060 t. ; • land, 2,261 v., 429,635 t. ; Ireland, 1,037 v., 165,969 t. ; anti for the is ho!e of the United Kingdom, including the Chat-owl Islands, 14,416 v., an 1 2,668,732 t. NORTHERN AND EASTERN RAILWAY. With much pleasure we lay before out readers the following extract !'rum the letter of a Shareholder :—" You may remember in what a depressed state the funds of the Nor.hern and Eastern Railway were for a long time, and I am sure you will be glad to hear they are Low in excellent condition, so muds so that a circular has been sent to each party in arrears with his calls, to the effect that money is (Tam ing in so fast on the delacntures, that the arrears need aof be paid until next year. The calls were at one time very licavy— . 2s/. per share in 12 months. This line will do well now,"—Railfrull Magazine. On Saturday several workmen were set to work in filling up a portion of the deep hollow between Il o lboand.ill and Snow• hill, in order to afford an approach to the new street, which is nearly three fe e t a b o ve the car riage- way of th e ha s The paving ot the new street is completed, and was this morn ing viewed by the Surveyors and several of the Committee. It will be completed for traffic in the course of the day, when 'it is, expected that foot passengers will be allowed to ss.pa Accounts from Berlin, received by the French Go vernment, state that on the 23d inst., at night, the ex-Ki ng o f Tolland was still in peat . danger. The fever had subsided, but his strength was nearly exhausted. VIENNA, APRIL 16.—The Duke of Saxe-Cobourg, on his return from London and Paris, paid a visit to their Majesties, and then went to Prince Metternich. It is said that his daughter, the Duchess of Nemours, will visit Germany at the end of the summer. PARLIAMENTARY II (Front the Votes and Proceedtagsef Ike He PgOPE TY TAX EitlnAY, ArRIL 29, DIVISION ON MR. ROEBIJC: AIINORITY-AYES, Hatton, Calitain V. Hawes, B. Hay, Sir A. L. Heathcoat, John lienea.“ , E. Hill, Lord Marcus Lord Hutne, Joseph Hutophery, J. Fiutt, NV: James, NV, .lervis, J. John,torie, Alex. Langston, J. H. Marjoribanks, S. Marshall W. Martin,John Milnes. F. M. Mitcalte Henry Mitchell, A. Morris, David Mot rison, James Mostyn, Hon. E. M, Munt7, r.. E. Murphy, F. S. N'apirt , Sir Charles O' Mien, 1. O'Brien, W. Smith O'Connell, J. Paget, Lord Alfred Palmer, U. Pechell,,Captain Philips, G. 11. Philips, Mark Pluniritlge, Captain Poilsotiby, lion. John Power, James l'ulsturd, It bert Aldain, William !Saline) man, A. Barrlay, David Bernal, It. Bernal, Captain Blake, M.. 1. Blake, Sir Valentine Blewitt, Reginald Bowring, Dr. Hrodie, W. B. Brt.thertou, J: Br yen, George Bulkeley, Sir H. B.W. Buller, C. Busfeild, W. Byng, G. S. Chapman, Benjamin Cnristie, W. D. Cobe en, Richard Colebrooke, Sir T. E. Collins, %V. Cranford, W. S. Dalmeny, Lord Duke, Sir James Duncan, Lord Duncan, 41eurl.re Ebrington, Viscount Ellice Hi. Hon. E. Ellie, Wynn Evans, illiam Ferguson, . o awl I oisier, Matthew Gibson, 'l'. 111. Gilt, Thomas Uordcn, Lcrd F. Granger, T. C. finest, J. Hall, Sir B. ilastie, A. A'Court, Captain Mum, Colonel Adare, Lord Adderley, C. F. Affix, John Peter Antrobus, Edmund Arbuthnot, Hon. H. Archdall, General Arkwright, George Ashley, Lind JORITY-NOES, Emlyn, Viscount Escott, Bichkam Esteourt, T. U. B. Farnham, E. IL ' FeHowes, Edward FelMerl, W. Ferrand, W. B. I itzroy, Captain Follett, Sir W. W. Forbes, William Forester. Hon. G. Fuller, A. E. 6askell, J. M. Gladstone, W. E. Godson, ltichjrd Gordon, Hon. W. Gore, Montague Gore, W H. Goring, H. D. Goulburn, H. Sir J. Oreena 1, Feter Gr. gory, W. H. Grimston, Loru Grogan, Edward Halterd, H. Hamilton, C. J. B. Hamilton, James Hamilton, W. J. Hamilton, Lord C. Hams den, 'term Hamner, •iir John Harcourt, G. G. Hardinge ; Sir H. Hardy, John ila)es, Sir E. livo!cy, J. W. Hepburn, Sir T. B. kierbeut, Hon. S. H.llsborough, Earl of Hodgson, R. Hogg, J. W. Holmes, W. A'Court Hope, Chad° flue rd , C. W. G. Howard, P. H. Inglis, Sir R. H. 11,00, Samuel Jackson, J. D. James, sir Walter Jeini}ii, Ear; - Jocelyn, Vireount Johnson, W. U. Johnstone, Sir John Johnstone, Hope Jones, T. Kemble, Henry Kerrison, Sir E. Kirk, P Knatchbull, Sir E. Knight, Henry Gaily Knight, F Winn Labouchere, H. Lascelles, W. S. Lawson, Andrew Legit, George C. l Leicester, Earl of Lemon, Sir C. H. T. Long, Walter Lwes, Si( Ralph Lowther, J. H. Lygon. C eileral M act Nixie, Thomas Mackenzie, W. F. Mackinnon, W. A. MacGoachy, F. A. Maher, V. Malico, Lord Mainwaring, T Manners, Lord J March, Earl of Abraham, Viscount Martin, C. W. Martin, G. R. Master, T W. C. Mas erman, John Bailey, J. Bailey, Joseph, jun. 10 . Millie, Conel 'Janne H. J. Build 'Will am Balfotir, J. M. liankes, Georges Baring, W. B. Barnard, E. G. Barneby, John Baskerville, T. B. M, Beckett, William hell, 91. Beresford, Captain Beresford, Major Bernard, Viscount Blackburn, John I. Blak ono' e, It. Bo,:gin, NV. H. Bu!der°, Henry G. Borthu iek, Peter Berialt Bradshaw, James rsrainston, T. W. Brozulley, Heury itroadwood, H. Brclike, Sir A. B. Brw.y, 1 .crd E. Bruen, Colonel Etanosid Buller, BAler, S►r J. B. Y. luintury, 'Sorrell, Sir # . Al., i:ampbell, Sir H. Catopt:cll, A. Cardwell, it.ward C4rncgie, Captain Cavendish, Hon. G. Chapman, Aaron Onarteris, Hon. F. Chehca. Viscount Chetwode, Sir John Cholmoodeley, H. Christmas, William Chute, W. 1.. layton, It. 11. Clerk, Sir G. ;ochrane, A. Cockburn', Sir G. Codringtc.n, C. W. Collett, W. ltickford Colville, C. r. Connolly, Colonel ('oote, Sir I. H. - . Carry, H. L. icurtetray, Viscount Criry,s, J. Curlers, Si. B. Darner, Hon. Dawson Darby, George no'6. W. Denison, Job 11 Evelyn' Denison. E. Beckett lliyk SOU , F. 11. Douglas, Sir C. E. Douglas, J. D. S. Douro, Marquis of Drummond, H. H. Dugdale, W. S. Duucombe, Du Pte, .Citirge East, James Euller Eaton, Richard J. Egerton, %% . 'l'. Ege. ton, Su P. G. Eliot, Lord MINORITY of Fi Savour of 3 Blewitt, Reginald Llowring, Dr. Brody, W. B. iirothertch, J. Bryan, Clcuigc William Christie, W. D. ( .:obden, Hie ard Collins, William -Duncan, Ciemge Ellis, Wynn fty..two (Tellers 'lr. ;human Craw•fc I Hill, Lord A. M. C. Hume, Joseph Hutt, \V. luded) %Alio voted in r d's Motion. Schcletield, J. Seale, Sir J. H. • Somerville, Sir W. Stansfield W. It. C Tattered, H. W. Thornely, Thomas Turner, Edmund Villiers, Charles 1. Vl'ak ley, 'Thomas Walker, H. Watson, W. H. Wawn, J. T. Witliairs, W. • Wood, B. - . Jc.hnbtor e, A. I.a:i,gtron, J. H. Leader, J. r. Martin, J. Mitealfe, Henry Wills, David blo•t}u, E. M. L. Murphy, F. S. Napier, Sir Charles O'Brien, J. W. Fielden, J. Forster, Matthew Thomas (hanger, 'l'. C. bir B. Heathceat, J. Pechell, Captain Plunintige, Captain Power, Janie. RCdingtota, T. N. Rundle, J. TELL. E 11? Crawford, W. S. Wall,tee, It. Tellers included) who voted in les Napier's Motion. Polsford, It oLert Her eford Redington, T. N.—Dundalk John—Tavistock t'clioletit Id, ,1 —hirminEham ,yeale, Colonel--Dartmouth iomerville, Sir Wm..:-Drogheda St ans field, W. R. C.— Huddersfield Stuart,. Lord J.—Ayr ' Tdrner, Edmund—Ti ul o Wakley, hiunas-1. inshury Wallace, Hubert—Greenock IVatson, W. H.—Kinsale Wood, Benjamin—, outhwark Woifley, Lord—Lincolnshire 111N01111 Y of Thirty-four 0 favour of Sir Chart, aernal, 11, jun.—Wycombe Blewitt, ti eginald— Monmouth Bryan M‘sit,r—Kilkenny Co. Bulkeley, s,r R. W.-1• lint cavendish, Hun. C. Christie, Wm. D.—We)mouth Cowper, Hun. W. F.—Hertlend thanct,mbe. T. S Dutula,., Admit cenwich red. rick— Oikney Graner. T. C.—Durb..m Hall, sir Benjamin—Nlary Holland, Itouett—Hastiugs Martin, John—Tewkesbury Morris, D.—Carmarthen Muri.hy, F. S.—Cork Murray, Alex.—Kirkcudbright Pechell, Captain—Brighton TELLERS. Napier, Sir Cha. les Maryleberie Plum' idge, aplain—Petiryn of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS Os' SATURDAY. • GLOBE, As imlac convinced Bassolas that it was impossible for any man to be a poet, so Mr. Goulburn and Sir Robert Peel appear to have convinced Parliament that it is impossible for any man to mend their measure into a just,. Income•tax. Were this preyed, it liould seem to follow - that an Income-tax they ought not to have,proposed. If such evident inequalities as those pointed out by Air. Roebuck are to be viewed as no worse than others inseparably inherent in the nature of an Income-tax, it'surely must follow that an Income-tax is a measure only for the most perilous t i m es. At such times, any nation which has spirit to sale it from destruction will acquiesce in almost any sacrifice, without weighing its equity. Those of the most precarious, or the narrowest means, feel pride that their contributions are important and necessary. " The beggar is as ready -to fight for his dish as the lord is •to fight for his land." The enthusiasm of the moment does not stop to compare sources of in-, come. It is felt that all is at hazard ; and there is a generous shame in weighing contributions. But to come down on the country when there is no such enthu siasm awakened, and exact compulsory aids, whose amounts are scanned with a sober eye—is to attempt a • Very different trial of national temper. It is all the difference between Bailie Jarvie ready to fight with a hot poker, and Bailie Jarvie with his pen behind his car in the Salt-niarket. We agree perfectly with Lord Ilowick in decided preference of the principle of taxation oh expenditure to taxation on income— always excepting extraordinary crises of national safety. W hether an equitable property tax is prac ticable is another question; it is also another ques tion whether taxation on succession to property would not be the most appropriate fund for reducing the National Debt. These ate the speculative regions of finance ; but, so far as experience has yet gone, it certainly seems tliat,demands which are not very ex traordinary are supplied with least hardship by taxa tion •on expenditure, in one shape or other. This leaves the voluntary element some play in incurring taxation. We are not prepared to say that we- would not add a tax upon absenteeism, in order to reach those who draw their revenues from this country, and with ' draw them from its burdens. But we certainly would not tax income, except as an extraordinary measure ; and, if an income-tax is essential to a pro petty tax, we would reject the . latter, notwithstanding te arguments which mustbe felt to exist its favour. STANDARD. —Lord Normanby manifested again his judgment and good taste by last night directing attention once more to the appointment of horouo. Magistrates. One would compassionate the Noble Marquis under the reply that he provoked from Lord Lyndhurst, were it not that. No creature feels so little as a Lord Normanby—some one must complete the lacuna, in Pope's, verse, by a monosyllable, which shall describe the ex-Lord Lieutenant and general gaol-deliverer of Ireland. Lord Lytlhurst's speech is, however, worth reading for its own sake, as we read the Satires and the Dunciad, without knowing or caring about the Tigellii, the Gorgonii, the No-• mentani, the Oldmixons, or the Gildons. The master artist makes something valuable out of materials the most contemptible; and even Lord Normanby is worth something when the Chancellor favours him with ,a few strokes. The Income-tax Occupied the House of Commons in Committee last night. Various aud contradictory amendments were proposed and sup ported by arguments exhibiting as much variety and contradiction as the projects thetnselves.. The several clauses considered .were passed as pro- Fsed by Ministers, either .141,1atout any division, or over w A wAtiertities ; and as these are the clauses thatAlaaNe -been most angrily discussed out of . ;-iftere Is little reason to doubt that the whole Bill will pass without material alteration. The subject has been exhausted, and we should only weary our readers by reference to the details a last night's debate. At the end of the Income-tax discussion Mr. The siger called attention to Mr Mahson's case, declaring his conviction that the warrant for an alleged disobe dience to which Mr. Mabvn is deprived of his liberty i s an illegal warrant, or a warrant the legal force of which expired with the second session of 1841. The Attorney-General profeSsed himself o f - the Same • opinion, and we have already seen the opinion-lipun )1V 'SION . oust of Commons.) MOTION. • 112. Reddington, T. N. Rice, E. B. Rumbold, C. E. Rundle, John Setioletield, J. Scrope, 6. P. Smith, 1 enjamin Smith, Veition StanstieldVV. It. Stanton, W. H. Staunton, Sir 0. Strickland, Sir U. Strutt, F.dwat d Stuart, Lord J. Tancred, H. W. Thornely, Thomas Tollemaehe, F. J. Towneley, John Trollop; Sir John Tufnell, Henry Turner, E. Villiers, Charles P. Vivian, John Ennis vitian Hon. Captain Walciey, Thomas Walker, R. Wallace, It. Ward, 'Wat.stin, W. H. Wawm, John Williams, Win. Wilshere, W. Woo.!, Benjamin Wood, t;. W. Yorke, H. hedbead TELLERS. Leader, J. y. Roebuck, J. A 233. Meynell, H. Hiles, I'. W. S. Miles, W. Mcrdaunt, Sir J. Morgan, Octavius Mundy, E. Miller Murray, C. R. S. Murray, A. Neeltl, Joseph Neeld, John Neville, Ralph Newport, Vi count Newry, Viscount Nichol!, J Norieys, Lord Norreys, sir D. O'Brie A. Stafford Packe, C. W. Paget, Lord W. Palmer, G. Patten, John Wilson Peel, Sir It. Peel, Jonathan Planta, J. Plumptre, J. P. Polhill, F. Pollittxton, Viscount Pollock, Sir F Praed, W. T. Pringle, A. Pusev, Pnrlip Itashieigh, William Reade, W. Al. Reid, Sir J. R. Rit.liards, Richard Rolleston, Colonel Itme, Sir Gourge Round, J. ushbrooke, Colonel Russell, Lord John Russell, Charles Russell, J. 1). W. Ryder, G. D. Sarnerson, R. Sandon, Lord .t.4carlett, Hon. R. Scott, Hon. F. Shaw, E. Sheppard, Thomas Shirley, Evelyn J. Sibthorp, Colonel Smith, Abel Smoilett, A Somerset, Lord G. , Sotheron, T. H. Stanley, Lord Stanley, ldward stewart, John Stuart, H. Sutton, Henry M Tennent, J. E. lie:tiger, F. Tollemache ' John Trench, Sir Frederick Trevor, lion. G. It. 1 totter, Jolin urnor, Christopher Tyrrell, Sir J. Vere, Sir C. B. Verner, W. Vernon, Granville Vivian, C. C. Waddington, Li. S. Wall, 11. %Vals!), Sir J. Welby, G. Yarle Wemyss, Captain VVodeliouse, Edmond Wood, Colonel T. Wortley, J. ' Wart Wyndham, Ctionel Yorke, Hun. E. T. Young, JOllll Young, Sir \V. TELLERS. Fremantle. Sir T. Baring, 11 B. the point of Sir William Follett, the highest law :au thority in the country. In short, every lawyer in the profession agrees in the opinion which we have 'ven tared to offer, and, what ought to flatter our vanity, condemns the validity of the warrant upon exactly the same ground that we have talzen. AFFG LI ANISTAIti. We find in the Bcyast Vindicator the following extract from a letter written by Sergeant Brown, of her Majesty's 13th Light infantry; being a portion of Gen. Sale's brigade, shut up in jellalabad, at the date of the last accounts. The letter is addressed to his sister; at Tandragee. With the events stated the reader is. already acquainted ; but the fact mentioned regard,. ing the shortness of 'ammunition, in the beleaguered' fortress, is calculated to produce great uneasiness for the safety of the little foree in Jellalabad. Most earnestly do we hope that the next accounts will put . an end to all anxiety on the subject Jzllalabad, Jan. 13, 1e42. " Dear Sister,—We marched frOm Caubui on the 11th of October last, and were engaged on the loth forcing a mountain pass, and had to fight our way from Caubut here. I may say - we were - engaged, day and night, from the 12th of October till the Ist ofllecember W e arrived here on the Nth . . Noverriber ; and I assure. you I thought the whole world Was atter us, as the peo ple from every village turned• outragainst us. After taking possession of this town,.the enemy surrounded it in thousandsibut on the 14th; two days after we came in, we sallied cat, and drove tfierii oft' the plains,killing great numbers. Still they annoyed us very much until the Ist of December, when we daThed out, swept them before us, and drove hundreds into a large river, where they were drowned, leaving the plains covered with bodies. We suffered severely on our way from.Caubul to this place, as the roads are through high mountains, and our men had to drive the enemy on the sides of the hills before any baggage or main body of the co lumn could' proceed on the road ; but still the Affghans shot all our camels, so that at length we were obliged to burn almost everything we possessed, tents and all ; and when we came in here we 'lied nothing what ever with us but three days' provisions. " We are fortifying the town of Jelialabad, and doing our best against the enemy ; but we are short of ammunition. We could hold out 'a long time, if we had plenty of that ; but it' we don't soon get relief, God knows what the consequendes will be. hough it is three months since the disturbances broke out, still we have got no assistance from Bengal. This rebellion burst forth in one day, the 2d November. On that night' the natives murdered: Sir A, Burne3' and his brother, and every European that lived outside of can tonments in Caubul ; since that period, the whole peo ple have been in arms, to put every European in the province to death, or drive them out of the country. I assure you we are now in a dangerous situation ; how long it is to last we don't know. The present force consists of but our regiment and the 35th Ben gal Native Infantry, one squadron of Native Cavalry, and some guns, with a detachment of Native Sappers and Miners. So here we are besieged, until relieved from Bengal.--I remain, your affectionate brother, • "M. BROWN." ELECTION COMMITTEES. SOUTH AMPTON. The whole time of the Committee has been occupied with the subject of a conversation between Mr. and 'Mrs. Callan and ; but it was not brought to a close when we left, nor would it be during the day, the CoMmittee having to.rise at two. The only fact proved was., that Mr. Callan v.,ted ; that Mr. Wrenn gave Mrs. C. 101., but that no one could say ex actly what lor. READING. + The Committee having heard long arguments dceided on ad mitting the poll-books ai evidence. PENRYN AND FALMOUTH. The Committee met at eleven o'clock ;" Mr. C. WOOD in the Chair. The Committee proceeded to hear the evidence of bribery, of which it has been alleged, the sitting Member, Captain Plumridge, has been guilty by his aLtents., The first witness produced was Mra. Gay, who proved that before the election her husband received GI. ; and that a Mr. James came to her on the day of the , lectiun and gave her a sovereign, desiring her to bring her husband to vote for Cap tain Plumridge. The next witness produced was Sarah White, who proved that Richard James came to her lintue with Capt. Plumridge on the day of canvassing, and that on the day of election she went to Jataes' house by the direction of Mr. Tilly, a lawyer, and that she received tit. from James. Her husband voted for Vivian and Pion:midge. On her cross-examination, she stated that her husband had nothir gto do with the money. 'the' money belonged to her; the vote to her husband.—(l.aughtee.) Her husband was a voter 35 years ago. The first monej• they ever received was from the Whig ptrty.- - (Laughter..).. - • The next Witness prouneed was Thomas . Williams, who was under examination when our account was brought off, LAW INTELLIGENCE. cOVRT OF Q UEEN 8 BEA (,'H, April 30. THE QUEEN IN ItE WOOLLEY V. THE GREAT WESTERN 11AILWA V COIIVAY. It will be in the recollecion of our readers that in December last an accident occurred on the Great W,tern Railway, by which several persons were killed, rd others a man of the name of Woolley, w ho died a few days• afterwards %c ithin the borough of Heading. The Cor,ther for the ("trough held an inquest on the body, and the Jury returned a verdict Of accidental death, with a deorland_of A 7 ittle had th a en ob tained to set aside this inquisition, oa the .graturd that the Coroner had no jurisdiction, It apheaed on the 'face of ttAs tat the cause of the death arose in the parish of Sunning, in the county of 13ei and that the death itself occurred io Reading, anti the tt quisiticin was taken by the Reading Coroner. Mr. WADDINGTON now showed cause agairA the rule, and contended that the Coroner of the borough, where . the death actually occurrtd, had lull authority to sinianon a Jury and take the inquisition, and that the Coroner for the county had no such authority, because the body was not in the county at the time of the inquistton, and an ioquisition could only be taken on view of the body.; that to say the borough Coroner had no jurisdiction would be to prevent an inquest altogether, when the death was in one jurisdiction and the cause of it in another. The old law, which might have raised a doubt of this sort, had been remedied by the statute olk Edward I. Mr. KELLY, in support of the rule, said that the defect of the old law had not been remedied ; that a‘cale like the ixesent had never teen provided for; that the jurisdiction of the Coroner did not exist, because the possession of the body alone was not sufficient, but the cause of death and the body being found must both concur, aid as that was not the ease, he bad no right to 'hold the inquest. At all events, if the statute bad remedied any defects as to Coroners of counties, it had not been extended to Coroners of boroughs. The COURT said it was a matter of great importance ; anti therefore time ought to be taken to consider its judgment. POLICE 1 ;.% TEL:LIG:II>CE. MAA SION 110pKt. A poor woman, named Elea4or Ann Preston, who ap peared to be in deep a ffl iction, w aited upon the Lord Mayor for the purpose of craving his Lord hip's assistance in her most derlorable extremity. the applicant had, she said, re sided in the family of the Rey. J. Lowry, of Armagh, in the county of Tyrone, Irdand, for fifteen years, and had by great economy during that period, and for some time veviuusly, con trived to save the sum of 750/., which was t, ansmitted to her' from the butt at Armagh, through Messrs. Spooner and Attwood's house, and which she received in ono note of 5001., one note of 20C/., and one note of SUI. Being determined to place the whole of the money in the English tutus, she deposited them in her pocket inclosed in a poCket-book, autl got into an omnibUs at Hamtnersunth, where she resides, for the pur pose of calling upon a broker in the City to purchase the stock. When she was about to leoat the omnibus, however, she discovered that her clothes had ben cut, and her pocket book stolen. As soon as she was able, after the shock, she called at the' banking-house of - Messrs. Spooner and Attwood, who inlbrined her of the numbers of the notes, which she forth with communicated to the Bank of England; but she heard no intelligence of their presentation until the loth instant, when she was told that the 500/. note was in the hands of Mr. l3ult, the bullion •dealer, in Cheapside, who had received it from a house in Paris, where it was cliimc b ed a few dais before. She also learned that the other note, of which she had been robbed, wete'cloinged in Paris. The following is the answer of the money-broker in Paris, into whose hands the note for ZaW/. passed atier the robbery, to Mr. Flower, of Aloorgate-street " Paris, April 20, 1842. Replying to your favour of the ltth instant, I purchased the tote for . .t . :001 , i think, on the 12th of April; but I do not 1:tow the person from whom 1 received it; but it strikes me that it was of a Monsieur, of about thirty-Seven ytirs of age, of good manners, and of. respectable appearance. I think T caused him to wtite hts name on the back of the note, winch you can aster thin. When these notes were lost,- y . nu should have sent me a list of the numbers; 1 should then lito4, known how to have acted. 1 ren.ember when this note was presented to me, and consulted all the advices 1 had t, ceived of lost notes, but none agrreing Oth sour number, I purchased it.without hesitation. 1 regret it is not in my power to r,tlord you mote information. higned) " V. LAIERIQUE." The Lotto 111A - rox - askrit the poor woman whether she bad any of the iuentity of the pet s4ais who sat near her in the omnibus in which she was robber replied, that :he had nOt the slightest knoWleuge who they were. His Lordship, alter communicating. with John and Daniel Fors ester, the Aicers, who stated that bank notes of consider able amount, obtained in the manner in which the applicant's property had been obtained, wile regular y taken ev r to the continent and sold, and thus all l osThility of tracing was re moved, told the unfortunate woman the, he had not ths slightest eapretatmn of succeeding ill ptoeuring the restoration of the bank noses, the amount of winch Wl:3 no doubt divided by this tune between tilt thieves who Ns atiled abti followed her into the omnibuF. Ike applicant Said that she was now completely destitute, alter having worked and economised all he r lite for the purpose of tatting bark upon her savings in l.er old age. The Loan 111.4itoe. deflated that he would most willingly receive subscriptions for a poor object, who was plunged in so pitiable a condition by her il i foraocc of the ways ol the town, and hoped that the press would give the details of this most lamentable Bate. MARLBOROUGII-STILUT. illiant Saunders, a fashionably-dressed young man, was charged with drunken arid distill:et-1y conduct, and assaulting police-constable No, 121, of the C diri,iun, in the execution of his duty. The ccmplaioant stated, that at one. o'clock On Friday morning he saw the defendant, who was excessively intoxi cated, staggering along Oxford-street, and vio!entiy pushing against every person, either male or b male,. he met with. Meeting a lad carrying a pot of beer; Lc "slammed'' him against the shutters of •a shop, and caused the beer to be spilt, alter which he " upset" tWo men walking together, and then insulted two respectable f-_vales who were returning home from a friend's house. 11 itness having gut up to him, then seized him by the collar, upon- vs Weil lie struck him with his clenched fist a tremendous Llow on the left eye. (complainant's eye was mush blackened, and nearly cli:ved), which, fur a time, completely him, but on recovering himself he followed the defendant, and succeeded, with con siderable difficulty, in taking him into custody. The defendant said he was very 'sorry for what had hap pened, but the truth was lie had becnitc_iiibing some ale and ginger mixed, with some friends, and it had u overtaken him." 111ACIST1iATE—In what situation of life-, are you ? Inspector Plume, of the C division, said thn,defendant at the ptation-house reprevented himself as a tcensed victualler.. • ' Defendant—No, I am not a licen3ed victualler, but I am tl.e Bon of one. AIAGISTRATE-T wish it was more generally understood that :dl person,, matter in what condition of life they may be, Will be roost severely puni,hed for alsaulting the police. They must ha protected in the execution of their duty. if they act wrong' •fully, nothing can be readier or easier than the attaimneot of radrets. I sftail therefore fine - the defendant 3/., and, in default of payment, one month's imprisonment.. The defendant, not having the money about him, was locked up. FUNERAL OF MARSHAL MONCEY, DUKE DE CONEGLIANO. At half-past ten o'clock Tuesday morning, the Church of the Int:elides was filled with the persons invited to attend this ceremony, and presented an imposin ,, aspect. Generals Count de Rumigny and Baron Gourgand: and Lieutenant-Colonel !Juntas, the King's aides.de-camp,%arrived in Royal carriages; all the surviving Marshals; Admirals Baron Duperre, Aliniiter of the Marine, baron Itoussin, and Mackau ; several Vice and War-Admirals; many Generals and superior officers of the army, and other functionaries of State. The four comers of the pail over the ear were again borne by the four senior Marshals. The late Marshal's charger was le tel next behind the car, and then acme the family of the illustriotis deceased, his household, and tho rest of the dist inguished peer sons already enumerates.. During this part of the solemn.ty several battalions of the garrison of Paris fired volleys in honour of the deceased. • M. Dupth, in a short but brilliant discourse, glanced at the Marshal's career, chiefly in a civil point of view, and showed thilt throughout his whole lifetime he had been guided by an irdlexltle love of justice, which elevated every command voith which he had been entrusted. Marthal. Soult gave a rapid sketch of the military career of the illustrious deceas..d, declaring that he had been his com panion in arms LT. 40 years, and be had always found him the same--brave, full of talent, and modest. The Marshal was thr. ughout considerably affected, and concluded his address with the following warns :—" Adieu, my ancient friend : adieu soldier without tear and without reproach ! Adieu, Moncey adieu!" The solemnity being thus concluded, the assemblage retired. THE MARKETS--SATURDAY. NEIVGATE AND LEADENIIALL. The mat ket was very dull, the supplies large, and prices are lower. Beef, 2s. sd. to 3s. Bd. ; Mutton, 3s. 2d. to 3s. 10d. s Veal, 3s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. ; Lamb, ss. 4d. to 6s. 2d. ; Pork, 2s. t4l. to 4-. Bd. Poultry. dull of sale, and prices tower ; the supply being large. Eggs dull of sale, at 4s. 6d. to 6s. 9d. per 120. WiIITECIIAPEL MARKET. The trade for Beef and Mutton was brisk ; inPork and Veal no improvement. Ilkef, 2s. 4d. to 3s. 6d. ; Mutton, 2s. 4d. to 45.; Vral, 2s. 4d. to 4s. 10d. ; Pork, 2s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. ; Larnb, 4s. 4d. to . ss. 10d. Clover; 21. 10s. to Si. Bs. ; Hays 21. to 4/. 4s. ; Straw, 11. 12s. to I/. 16s. TEA Ai A Ric ET. The market was dull, and prices on The decline. Common . ' Cougou, IS. Bid. to Is. 9d., and Company's , at ls. Rd. per lb ! , TALLOW MARKET. Prices steady, and a fair business transacted at 465. 3d. 0 6 , the spot, ma. 485..6d. or delivery in the last th ree mout h s ca.: the year. SPIRIT MARKET. Rim sold slowly. but piices kept up. Proof Leewards 2i. 4d. to 2s. sd. per gallon. Brandy met a lair sale, and priee# %%ere firm. OIL MARKET. Prices of Fish Oils drooping, and the market heavy. Soutbott Oil is 29/. I Os. to 321. per tun. Linseed Oil, 345. 6d., per cwt. _ WOOL MARKET. Prices steady, and a fair business transacted in both English and tureign. COUNTRY - MAR- 6TS W heat. Barle). . 3eatli. Ye•se Pet Qu..t L'' 8. to S. 8. to 8. S. t S. S. to a. lath ilandtura -52 72 131 32 26 ' 4ti 6ridport 68 a sti 72 32 22 26' 42 Exeter dttilitfOltt 6; 7$ 27 34 70 28 30 :16 Slewbury 41 68 s 3 32 18 98 30 4:4 Reading oI 70 • tt.2 36 18 AO 2i 13 lisbury 60 68 1"8 36 j 11 kti 40 50 ihtrbor Ile , '4i 61121; 30 i 0 124 36 40 sheptorlslallet 51) C 8 i 25 34 118 24 :24 48 Uxbridge IS 68 24 33 15 24 N 46 Worcester •64 (:8 32- 36 •..t 26 38 42 (coy)] 4B 60 124 18 .0 '22 32 44 ,VAKEFIELDCOItN tvi ARh _ _ to.lo - -!+^,, 40 . 40 4 6 LU 3 , • LO 3.2 09 38' t : 36 8 40 Si 4.1 1) - The supply was good, and piices of Wheat and Barley de clined Is. per quarter; Shelling rather lower. No variation. in Oats, Beans, and other articles. Wneat, Ken, Essex and Kent s 625. Nortolk and Suffolk - US. to IX s. Lin. and Cain. Yorkshire —6 543 it 56:. IN bite Foroigh, tied —s. —s. to 55, White —s. to —r. Harley, Nerljtk situ Lincolnshire --- Yorkshire Wold onr ctifir Wu 6h. fi n c c i. tine t 51.. vise PSI. cinc 30r. 6ne fine :W. -- Foreign Beans, New ----- Old Outs, Potato Poland --s. ...B. to 6-01. tine —a. (Inc 345: tint fine line 214. it - fie:Jana and Seta! —s. —v. to his. line aus. Nteaiing ` tit. to 1:74 kW. per Loae. Malt Rapeseed •. —l. ob, Os. ziat. 11s. per Last LEEDS CORN AA 111KET. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk. tiOlb.. ............... • 535. to nal ; - fork. anti Lincoln. 6111 b.......... 2:trley, Norfolk and Suffolk Yorkshire and Litton Mantra -- Grinding • Beans 63111.... . flats, lintatoe --.—healing, k or. %I. tolo.l Eng. 9y,d. in :0,.. 2 0. pt:t stop; li'iolling '274. to 295. lies lard DEVIZES CORN MARKET. . Pcr Sack. a. .1. a. d. rer Quat ter. 2. d. a. d° e'irst Vs lictu '3 U to 25 0 Oats :0 0 tc 32 Second rii trd tt.tley - CH ELTENII A NI. MARKETS. Pci Bushel. a. d. to a.,d. Yet 21, d. (165 T 4 Q. YV. , '"at ii:tr Icy OAS Bean- reuse. 5 0 S 0 Lamb 7 9 i1iy......... 4/.55. to 41. 10:. od. per lon. CANTEHBUIII MARKET. Wheat, white,.....,,.. Css. to ".0i..—.... 01d............ —a. to 7&t --- ted..........—...... ti It. to ii , ts. ....—. 01d............ —s. to st Barloy, ,Multi.} ......:10a. to 34, ........, Ortnetiog.. —a. to ...1. Oats e................................ 21 S. to 21. 8. ............ 014. w............. ..... s. to ....S. fle - an,.....:.:—.--- - - 32s to 405...... 01d........ —s. to a. Pease ... 40s. to —5..... Grey......... :As. to —s. CHELMSFORD !MARKER. Wheat, White L4 to 69 Oats . Red Bailey 29 31 White ........ ..... 110 -- Chevalier ariuding HULL CORN MARKET. Wheat, White (per Quarter) 6os. 62.5. tiffs. fled Foreign Earley, Malting GriEding • 'B, '29s. 30s. •,:-'. Oats, Eritisn Foreign (in bond) • 18s 20s. '2•25 , „ 8ean5...... .., 12s 3s. 40s. ' Pease, Grey ... ... Blue and White 36s. 3es. Vs. Linseed .. Flour per Fat* • ltape,evd (per 1U quart cis)' —l. a 74. :8/, . . , GRAND JUNCTION AND MANCHESTER AND 131 1;d nrcr...'llA3l. HaiLwArs. EXTRAOURINARY CONDUcI."' ' With no ordinary surprise we have revelled a letter from highly respectable gentleman of Alanchester, of which the f'' ,l ' lowing is an extract :—"The Grand Junction Railway null allow the Manchester and Birmingham Company to open th es e line for the present, although QUITE READY. By the agr e e ' meut, we. ale informed, that so - soon as the Manchester Birmingham Company are ready to bring the whole or entv of their traffic upon the lice,.TnEN the Grand Junction Cele 1 pany shall receive it, and give up their station at Alancliesie r i !. - but as the Manchester and Birmingham Company are re' f, only with the passenger traffic, the Grand Junction thin„ they are riddled to resist it coming upon them. Theref or ! the Manchester and Birmingham are not to have the a dvantsg; of training their staff tut a few weeks until all their trucks at ready, and they can bring in one day the entire of their traib r i Chester races are text week, and time Grand Junction willtt ° , allow the Manchester and Birmingham to run to Cr, we, b` l ; will compel every Manchester passeng er to go 13V, 111 °, / round, and every Stockport passenger 2.5 ) )4 miles round, betas ti the Grand Junction wills at to be so. '1 hus the public at nought as well as the Shareholders."—Railway Mayll= 4° 7 SUICIDE OF A GENTLEMAN.—Thursdav ft I ,l e investigation took plaCe before Mr. Baker, at th e CiP, - a Tavern, City-read, on the body of Air. John Robertson. 4- 1& 49, late Actuary of the Westminster Fire and Life office. o f appeared that the deceased occupied apartments in the hous e d ,Ur. Tracy, No. IS, City-road. Ile was very precise and gtei in his habits and mode of living, but was troubled witll , s 4 gravel complaint, which caused him to fret very much. an d ' c o frequently heard to say, that he thought he was not able 1 0 00 justice to the Westminster Fire Assurance Company. k, . Tuesday evening he retired to his chamber about t en o'elt; Next morning the servant went up 10 wake him, and found door locked. The door was burst open, when the tieeeased °- a discovered seated on a chair undressed, with his throat cut 1 ° - dreadful manner. Verdict,—" 'Temporary Insanity." REMARK AIME DlSEASE.— ' llllirSday evening Pa)ne held an adjourned inquest at. the Red Cow, Lotisrlay.t. Smithfield, on the body of Susannah Winterbourno, *g et . , It appeared from the evidence given at the former ;r i vet' de. , Tuesday last, that on the night of Saturday, the 23d instant , t ceased went to bed in excellent health, having ea t en a l'e ar Yi supper of boded beef. With the meat she at e ab out h a lf a pint „ 'lidded onions which had been given to her by a nei g hbour 5 Am hours pr. siowly. On th e following niorning dece see j was attacked with a violent inflammation of the bowels, aA died in a few licers. Mr. Henry Wells, of Aldergate-sti °e- ' surgeon, now stated that he had made the usual post-molt' examination, and found the intestines of deceased in a state great infi, oration. The 'minus which deceased had eaten hi bet n completely digrs'ed, and the stomach presented n o ttr i pearance of poison. Witness had , however , found in the g a' bladder, one bundled and seventy atones, which he now Pr °- duced. They were all of a triangular shape, and one of t heV , was nearly as large as a walnut. Verdict—" Natural death.: St iciDE.—Thursday an inquest was held in the George the Fourth Tavern, Ilagnigge-wells-road, before T. Waldey, Esti , M.P., l uroner, on the body young woman, named Margaret Fairfoot, who destroyed het self on Tuesday last. The deceased lived in Easton-place, mington-square, Clerkepwell. She had been for some 1 5. very much attached to a young man living in the sine neig oo bourhood, and believed the attachment was reciprocated, the hsinday or Mont'ay last, h owe v er , she b eca me c o nvinc e d ;he ieverse. The disappointm en t reduced her to a state of b , .most abj. et deliondeney. On Tuesday morning, having Lined some poison, in an apothecary's establi-limeut in 611 • 0 . inn -lane, she mixed it with some water and drank it. 'l4°'., her friends saw Ler taking the draught, but had to idea of l o fatal contents. Soon after she told them ; and medical a id obtained, brit it - proved ineffectual. In a few hours she 1 ,00 , e , corpse, after su ff ering tke most agonizing tort ures. 0 4 ceased was a robust and rather handsome girl ; she was in twenty-first year. The verdict w Died from the erle c • to poison taken whilst in a state of insanity." DIED. of , On the 28th ulfirno, at his house, Mornin g ton Cresce . H a mpstead-load, at an advanced age, Simon Gray, Esq.' wetly of the 'War-office, and author of various literary ductiuns. On the 22. l ult., in Wyndham-place, •yanston-sq uare ' Laura, the wife of Martial Lawrence Wclett,w,.::sq. On the 23d ult., Mrs. Anne Hatton, of Wallfield 1 ,0 ";, Hertford, youngest sisttr of the l a t e Si r Thomas Bat. ° - Bart., aged SO. On the 25th ult., at the Rectory Held, the Rev. Spe w , James Less in, agud. 76. ---- r London : Printed and P u bli s h ed by NI U RDO YO" A 0' Nti. 112, transS, at Re Su,. ()ince, No 112, Stradr..*:.iii the' County crf - Niddlesex, Monday, May 2; 1842. ~... Intsl UP Nv a CI OA 1 If' T~ The the vest ipei %VOL pan th. Ba; and 'Mid oft] ~? DI; at ' CE For 'Abi Abi ill( befc mat gen (an • ciffn p fan( Thee rro. met sup Pat tise the the --t disc Ch IL s a ' Rv he h e the 111 i he 1 ), 3 • th I+%