The Sun. — London, England, 1842-03-01 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM !rim 'EVENING' l'A PER ft OF Ir,STERDAY. GLOBE.—We hate seen with considerable as tonishment, not unmingled with -disgust, an account in A cintemporary paper of the committal to prison by a Magistrate in Gloucestershire, of two boy: under the, age. of thirteen, for the truly juvenile delinquency of -stealing a feW apricots. The igao ranee of country Justices is often a •subject of, re mark, and sometimes ofridicule ; but when the ol;sti nate'Attipidity of these persons has an effect so awfu as the ultimate destruction of all moral principlt in the youthful mind; it becomes a matter no long-el for sarcasm or contempt, but for vigorous interference in order to check an evil so dangerous to the best in terests of society. It may be considered a grave accu sation that weare . about to make, but we hold respon. - sible for every crime that a boyish culprit may in hi: riper roguery commit, the Magistrate who has doome to the contamination ofa prison a child who has perpetrat ed some juvenile offence which the rod would have suffi. ciently punished. To say nothing of the undue harsh ness of sending to gabl the son of a poor person, for al offence which in the child of richer parents would h regarded as venial—to leave out of the question alto gether the odious practice• of dealing out punishmen to high and low by a most unequal measure—there is besides the temporary injustice, a deep and permanen wrong in dooming to moral destruction the youth if; whom the seeds of error have begun to show them: selves. But the wretched individuals themselves arc not the only persons injured by the severe and injudi cious manner in which they are dealt with ; for society also suffers by the great additional amount ofcrime that is thus nurtured into maturity from the early seeds of vice, which when transplanted into the soil of a prison are sure to spring up in rank luxuriance. That such wiThbe the case is no mere supposition, but a proved andiadrnitted fact; for all who have paid attention to the . subject of prison discipline. 'agree in testi fying' to . ' the truth of our assertion, that the at maphere of a gaol communicates a deadly contamina tion to :the mind of youth, which, whenonce infected, s2ldoin regains a state of purity. STANDARD.-IVe have received a copy of the Manahesta Guardian, containing a report of a mill owners' meeting, at which it seems to have been agreed to assail the House of Commons with a forty- Coh(feti power, and, failing that instrument of dull .aggression, to commence a civil war. Madness is a mild name for the furious distemper into which the millowners have been thrown by Mr. Ferrand's speech. The raving of the millowners can be so properly compared to nothing as to the agonies of the Domdaniel, when visited by the destined destroyer— " An anguish yell ensued, And sure no htiman voice had scope or power For that prodigious shriek, pealing echoes thendered through the den; Dim grew thy dying light." Aye, and di m ly burns the light of the factory Moloch. An inference from Mr. Ferrand's ex posure seems to have reached every one—it is, that for the sake of the manufactur:ng trade itself, no less than for the honour of the country, a much stricter attention must be given by the Legislature to the millowners. It will probably be thought necessary to examine, and to brand manufactured goodi, intended for exportation, as some kinds of provisions are exa mined and branded, in order to save the che-acter of the country ; but more of this hereafter, when v,'e can examine a little more in detail the Manchester Guardian report. COURlER.—Elsewhere we copy rrorn our able Weekly Contemporary, the - . Conservative Journal, a remarkable case of pauper felony which lately oc curred 'at Stockport, and of which the de _ _ tails are given, as they transpired in the Police Court; in the respectable and leadin g :Paper of that locality, the StochpOrt Advertiser. The facts briefly are, that an unhappy pauper girl was taken before the Mayor on a charge of felony, by the authorities of the worAhouse, she having audaciously adventured, out of her own pOor pittance, to hoard up 2lbs. of bread in one week, Which, considering it to be her own property, as being. the creation of her own savings at the ex , ' tense of her own craving appetite, she carried out of the house, as a mite for the relief of a sister, still more wretched and in want than herself; and she carried it away not clandestinely, but openly, and with the, fall knowledge of the matron at least, to whom she exhibited the miserable prize she was- bearing away. After a solemn hearing upon the merits before his honour the Mayor, this extraor dinary culprit was discharged with an injunction to go and sin no more,: - and the penalty of imprisonment to which she was liable, according to the strict construction of the law, was beneficently remitted. We however should rather have considered this kind hearted subject of New Poor-law mercies richly en titled to a civic crown, not only as a tribute demanded by such a noble and disinterested example of self sacrifice' to the charities and affections of kind, but as the rettkof. so remarkable and almost unparal leled anAchteikan ent, the forlorn hope of economical enterpr,W 2 aent6 the • acommulation and abstraction of a ristNvgft.iturisltis . of 2ltis. of bread out of that hardimeasure of supply which, after long and puzzling calculations and , endless paring, down, tv, been, determined by the new Poor-law sages of Someriwiiiouse and their cunning secretary, .to be somewhtse about the exact point of demarcation where soul and , 1164 . r . inav- possibly be kept tbgether ; b u t th e merest line } , e-ori(1 #hich enters within the domain, and is the incipient stage of quasi starvation. DREADFUL EXPLOSION AT LA.MI3ETEI. About four o'clock, after considerable exertion on the part of the police and firemen on duty, the bodies - of all the unfortunate persons who lost their lives by this melancholy catastrophe were extricated from the ruins ; their names and ages (as nearly as could be ascertained in the confusion which prevailed) were as follows : Mr, D'Ernst, aged 45 years, the owner of the ma nufictory; Mrs. Hampshire, his sister-in-law, about the same age ; John Whiting, aged. 32, who worked on the , premises ; and an errand boy, tpd ahunt eighteen, . named George Tebbit, alias Stanley.. As soon as shells could be - procured Crom the Lambeth workhouse, they were retivrted fßre to await the result of the Coronere"rftigat. Up to the moment at which write, no circumstances however, have ti - t by which the origin .of the. me laziebelybacnc, .could be aseertainec :neither could there be any accurate calculation made as to the • amount of the property destroyed. It was stated to the reporter by a person named Wall, who-worked in the Lion brewery, opposite where the explosion occurredf" that the unfortunate lad Tebbit passed through tlic brewery with a piece of tinder-lighting in his hand.;' and I,poii , .llis be ing , asked the hour h e re plied twenty . minutes to twelve, and walked into Mr. D'Et - 2 Xs , inauttfactorv. About 'ten minutes afterward', the first explosion took plaCe. 'Three of the bodies were found atnidot the mass,'ot.Tuins, and the fourth was found in alardcw about, tUtnty , yards from the prnnises,. into whictb it _bad been driven over a h‘gh wooden ,paling. Crowds Were thronging every avenue leading to the spot, and nothing but the gable end was left standing. WATERLOO BRIDGE. The Adpurned General Meeting of the Shareholders and Proprietors of Waterloo , bridge was held yesterday, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern; about half-past one o'clock the Chas- was taken by the Rev. Dr. Rash. The minutes of the proceedings having been read, Mr. POWELL real the Report of. the Directors, stating tire' various sums received in cash monthly from Febroaryen to, to February 1841, the average receipts per day, slid their increase or' declension, and contrast ing thernatith the receipts in each month, from February, 1841, to 231Afebruary, 1842. It appatred th'en.that' the receipts for fout-toll fr: , m 23d Feb.08 . 40;,-tti 23d August 1840, which were at ld. amotintedgile*Ola 2s. 10d., and fe:lin 21th August, 1840 to 21.44,0.,,,,18 Id, they amounted to 4,85.1. is. 4d. making di l 74o9.l i receipts fur that. year 10,10 A ,10s. Which at 10,,,fispki.,paaLki,, , -er, ihowed that 2,446,922 parsons jfkyked.,9yer the .I:nidge in that year. Then the receitti l frotia the 23.1 of Feb ruar y, 1841, t o 23,1 Feb., 184' ,?ivhfch were at one halfpenny each passenger amounted') 9,441/. 33. 2d., which allowed that the 'lum bar of petaifriS passing over the bridge during that year was 4,533,218 ; being an increase, as conteasted with the preceding year, of 2,086,226 persons. The Directors, inasmuch as the declension in the re ceipts was every day decreasing, decided that ,the pre sent toll of one halfpenny - should be continued, and stated that they saw no necessity for resortin ,, to the original toll o f one penny . . . 11. e opE, m movirg that the Directors' Re port be affirmed, said that the recommendation con tained in it with respect to coedit the had not been as yet suffieitested;l) present t oil but at all events the losses were not so trrea t t y as prevent the trial of it for some time longer. the Pp)prietors attempted to return to the old t..4l ot, the p; lie would inveigh against themmore than ever, and parti , lilarly a • there was a new bridge beingereeted, instead of W i tsrl l oo-bridge re sum by the mninv toil,' r?alizing a diminished it, receipts would be very eooinlerably it was adopted. The 'lieport showed the 'teat i ncrea se of trAtile, an I he had great pleasurei t proposing its adoption, because he was convinced that the present toil, together with affording more accomoda- Lion to the public, would be of advantage to the Proprie tor.% He also thought the Directors were entitled to the thanks of the Company and Pubii"'frir'giring f•he twitter so much consideration, and for making the suggeStions contained in their Report. Mr. MORGAN concurred in the observations which h a d been made by the proposer of. the resolution, and se conded its adoption. Mr. SANGSTER was opposed to the motion. ir„ as very sorry the toll had ever been reduced at all. The Company were going ott safely and well until the toll was reduced to one halfpenny ; they *ere induced to do so, having been' told that the(- would rot only (109b10; but treble, their reVillue, and, in fact, that they ti ould have then had 250,000/. more in their pockets itthey - had imposed a hallp.ennyetoll from the corn eiencement ; all that calculation was untrue ; in:AL.-ad of tgeir revenues being doubled, or at all increased, they were several hundred pounds less this. year than the receipts for a wresPoliding, period during... the- penny. toll; The .:... 11 public had no right to think or expect the Pro. prietors could continue a system Which caused sue] losses, and certainly it could not : for a inoiner . .t be sup, posed that the Proprietors wtTe t, t ) ';a l i l l o e l tl e i r ip t fr a , n T d jus T tiC h e i reason, or equity, to keep the _ . . Proprietors had; expended a very large sum in the erec, don of one of the most beautiful and - ornamental struc tures in the world, and all they expected was a moderah interest for their money. They did not get anything Like that ; they scarcely, got 1 per cent, for theli• capital. The loses sustained were enormous, and certainly the. Proprietors had every reason to complain that the publie lid not support them, instead of the public having reason to complain or inveigh against them for returning bad o the penny toll. Surely the public could not expect tt put; Waterloo Bridge on a level with a petty, pittiful. )eggarly hatch.—(Laughter.) On the whole, he was o; pinion that the original toll of one penny should be re sumed from anti after the 15th of March next, anti hi would propose an amendment to that effixt. Mr. BUTTERWORTH seconded the amendment—i an Act of Parliament was passed for the purpose co, purchas;ng the Bridge, as he believed it was in the con templation of Government to do—it would be the in terest of the Proprietors to increase their receipts a: much as possible, and he thought that the best mode of ffectini, that object was to resume the penny toll. Mr j ' ExEnt.s thought that recurring to the penny toll would be a very hazardous thing. Mr SAVAGE and other Proprietors having expressed '_heir opinions in favour of the existing toll, ' The resolution, adopting the Directors' recommenda tion, was carried by a large majority—there being on!y five in support of the amendment. The meeting adjourned at half-past two o'clock to Diri-sday, 2d of June next. . MEETING AT MARYLEBONE. .4 public meeting was yesterday held in the yard of the AarylebOne Workhouse, for the purpose of petitioning Against the new C o rn -l aw , an d ex p ress i ng a want if confidence in the present Ministry. The fleeting was, however, converted to a very dif 'erent purpose. At an early hour the Chartists begat; :o assemble in overwhelming fbree from all parts of the netropolis ;- and at one o'clock, the hour appointed for 3ommencing the proceedings, they had obtained almost :xclusive possession of the platform and of the space tdjacent. At one o'clock Mr. SANKEY took the Chair ; a motion :o that effect having been put, and almost unanimously igruti to. SAVAGE then came forward to move the first re sohition ; which was to the effect, that the distress, ;he :anguish, and suffering, to which a multitude of our fellow countrymen of the working class were now exposed, were without precedent, and claimed the deepest sympathy; that this distress results mainly from a want of employment, arising out of our enjust and ruinous commercial regulations, which hating aeon passed for the interests of a particular olass, cramp and cripple the industry of the country ; that the Corn-laws are the first and foremost of those ruinous regulations ; and that the meeting looked Ripon those laws as only one of a number o causes Ahich affected in a -Mill more deadly marner the national prosperity ; that the people had nothing :o expect from the present House of Com aloha ; and that the adoption of the People's Chart er was the only remedy for the evils under which the country was suffering." Mr. Savage then proceeded at some length tonllude to the five points of the Charter, which was based, he contended, upon the essential prin ciples of justice, and the passing of which could alone give peace and prosperity to the country. Mr. HunnE seconded the resolution moved by the preceding speaker. Mr..FEAucui O'CoNrton came forward amidst loud cheers to address the meeting. He said that he wished to express his approval of the speech of Mr. Savage, and: his dissent from his resolution.—(Hear.) He :ould not approve of the first part of that resolution. which stated that the Corn-laws were one of the first and foremost causes of the distress which prevailed in the. country. In his opinion all our evils were to be traced to class legislation ; and the only remedy for those evils was a full • and free representation of the people.— (Cheers.) He should therefore mm e 'an amendment to the resolution which had been propo ,ed to them, in which all friends of the Charter and of free trade might concur. Mr. O'Connor then read his amendment, which was to he effect, that—" While the meeting expressed their unqualified approval of the principle of free trade, and their desire to see the present Corn-laws repealed, they did not think that such a change could properly emanate from the present House of Commons in the imperfect state of ovr representation, and that it could not, under these circumstances; tend to the benefit of the people." The amendment, further recommended the adoption of the Charter as the only means of doing justice to the people, and diffusing prosperity throughout the land. Mr. O'Connor then addressed the meeting at some length in support of the amendment he had thus moved. No thing, he contended, was to be expected from the present House of Commons. That House ought to be the heart of the land, but the heart was now ossified—and the limbs were consequently decayed and withered.—(Cheers.) The rich, in our pre sent anomalous position, had their luxuries and their palaces, while the poor man had to go from the cottage to the cellar, anti from the cellar to the cold shelter of the workhouse. The Whigs of the present day complained of the working of their own Reform Bill, and it was mani fest that until the representation was placed on a new basis the people could expect neither prosperity nor justice. A good measure could be, passed by Parliament as it was -now' Constituted. The proceedings of that clay would he the commencement of a new movement for justice to the people. The present was not an unfavourable mo ment fora combined effort on the part of the friends of justice and freedom. The middle classes found they could not do without the people; and the Queen Was not so much against them as former Sovereigns ; IPA at all events they could e!spense with her assistance—she was but " number one," and she had no vote in addition.-- (Hear, hear.) No party should have them which was not ready to grant them complete justice; and their cry should be the Charter,. the whole charter, and nothing but the Charter.—(Cheers.) Mr. O'Connor concluded. by moving hii amendment. A. 14 RIDLEY seconded the amendment. Mr. MACCONNELL spoke in favour of the original reso lution, and Mr. SMART supported the amendment. Mr. SAVAGE stated, that it was a matter of compara tive indifference to him which resolution we adopted. All that he wanted, was the adoption of the People's Charter. The amendment and the original motion were then put in succession, and the amendment was carried by a vast majority. This result was hailed with loud and repeated cheers by the larger portion of the meeting. Some further resolutio.is were then passed, and the irast assemblage, which amounted to some thousands, separated. CHARTIST MEETING. Yesterday evening a numerous meeting of the Journeymen Taihire was held at the Institution, John-street, Tottenham Court4oad, for.the purpose of advancing the p r i nc i p l es con tained in the People' s Charter. Mr. Cuernv having been called to the Chair shortly before 8 o'clock, said, as one of the trade who was anxious for the ultimate success of the principles of the People's Charter, he at once acceded to the proposition that he should preside over the Meeting, and he hoped every person would be heard with fairness and impartiality. The working claesea in the country had never before been sunk so low in misery and starvation, and it was therefore the duty of every one, who wished well tohis country and his species, to unite beart and band to exterminate class legislation. If the people stood true to thems,lves and !heir cause, and were not led away by the aristocracy and the middle classes, who sought, by impracticable schemes, to deeCive them, they were sure of gaining their poll! teal rights. la the late debate in the !louse of Commons his attention was particularly attracted by the speech of Captain nous, the Member for Westminster, who might not inaptly be called " Young Glory." —( Loud liughter.) That Tory luminary stated in his place, that the journeymen tailors in London were able to earn from 30s. to •365. a week, and he (Mr; Cuffey) requested the Se nretary. of the Society to which•ho belonged to write a letter to the lion. and Gallant Captain, informing him that he had grossly exaggerated the amount of wages paid to that class of artisans, and in reply the following letter was received : " Sir, I have to thank you for your resolutions, passed at a meeting of the General Council of the National Charter As sociation, relative to the amount of wages, and to what they are .pleased to call the principles embodied in the People's Charter.' In return, I send you a true copy ally speech in the !louse of Commons. I have carefully read ever your resolution. You will permit me to observe that the working classes of all descriptions in Great Britain arc better • off • than the working elasses of the same rank in any part of the old world, and that the wages you receive (when in full work) will produce mere comfort. Your misfortunes are owing to the increased popu lation in this over. peopled country. Every trade, every pro fession, is overstocked. We are starving one another, but the remedy is simple ; emigration to our colonies, where men of your trade will earn great wages. I see re hardship in living in another country, under a better climate, with all the civil advantag e; of the mother country,. and where the tax-gatherer is unknown ; this appears to be the only mode qf redressing your physical ills by the exercise of your nevi-m -ing capacity. Depend upon it, no political power will im prove your condition ; fsr it is •a curious fact that those per sons who, through your exertions, are placed in high political situations, advocate .' Free trade principles.' Free trade will be your particular ruin. All the Continental workmen can afford to under.w.irk you, because they live upon coarser food, and choose to enduregreater privatious. What you call privations they consider as co eforts, their ideas being infinitely inferior to yours Hear, hear) therefore, instead of free trade, you want additional - protecting duties, which are not to bo had —namely, a fine or tax upon British subjects who Wear clothes made by foreign tailors. I repeat, therefore, there is nothing like our Colonies for our working classes, whatever may be their trade, where the demand for labour grea'ly exceeds the supply, in stead of our old country, where the supply exceeds the de. mand ; and I do not g i ve ycu advice which I would not follow myself, for I have visited every Colony, from Upper Canada to New Zealand. Whatever may be our difference of opinion on political subjects, you will be pleased to consider me willing and anxious to serve you to the best of my humble abilities, and be assured that I have nothingsomuch at heart as the amelioration of alel r Worki 4 - e:a . s e , for, on their moral worth, theirstern courage, and good fecliny, depends the prosperity of ' this great H. .1. Itous, 28, Chel.street."—[The passages in italics were underscored i the Gallant Captain's s j s Ith Tchon.s.iCcichrairbilielanalblairttye,r on co , n v i h m a r t mt h i e ng st y a i t ed sor he e ! m e n a g n t u h s , c a riL t . overweening impudence of desiring the industriou anti produc tive classes to leave their father laud for the back woods, read letters from nes , rs. ! uncombe arid Leader, M. P. s and Dr. Al‘Duttall, apolne n ising for their absenc e , and expres4ng their concurrence in the object for which the meeting was called. Mr. PARKER moved the first resolution, which was AS IV lows :—" That it is the opinion of this meeting that the dis tress and.misery that exists in the hide of journeyman tailors has been brought about by and through class legislation,, and hereby r ecommend a union of the trade, with a view to- elle via,e their sufferiries" lie said this meeting was called for the purpose of testing the feelings of the operatives of the west :end of Lind en respecting the People's Charter, and he was. happy, from the number and respectability of those in atten dance, to be able to - say that the call had been warmly re sponded to. Mr. iitinans seconded the resolution. Mr. FEARG OS O'CONNOR rose to address the meeting, and was received with loud cheers. He said the main-spring of legislation should be free and impartial discussion. They were for that principle, because they knew the truths they ad istnced would become more self-evident by it, whilst those whose deeds would not bear the light sought to mslign anti misrepresent tilts argaments of their opponents. Nothing could speak more forcibly in favour of the people than the manner in which " Young Glory's" letter was received, for a grosser tissue of absurdity was never penned. In that letter it was stated that the distresses of the people arose from overspopulation ; but any man of common perception must see that the class of per sons to whose Secretary it was addressed was interested, above ill others, in a large population, for unless the overplus went naked, the tailors, of all others, - were most interested in having t large population. The Member for Westminster told them to emigrate to a foreign land. Th e y wou ld d o no suc h th i ng. But he (Mr. O'Connor) would tell him what they would do. The working bees might yet, in a voice of thunder, tell the drones to emigrate, or, perhaps, they might sting them out of the hive—( Hear, hear, and cheers)—fer if emigration were necessary at all, let the idle and the slothful be the first to go. - and the industrious producers be the last.. As the Chait man had very properly observed, the aristocracy told them to emigrate o the Colonies where they and their connections were pos sessed of large grants of land, which they intended to make available by the capital of industry ; while as being the authors of the infamous Poor-laws, they would cry out, "be joyful," as 'hey saw each ship load of emigrants depart from the shores of England.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) He was astonished to in;' that those who were comparatively comfortable were satis i!,:sd with the compararive comfort, for he thought the working classes of this country had no right to bo sati-fled with rut increasing production. The rights of all descriptions if property were protected, save those of labour, whi h aught to be the most respected of all. In travelling through the sotnitry a person will frequently sine placards in gentlemen's do -mains, having such inscriptions as these Whoever is f s ood trespassing here will be prosecuted according to law," but no one saw a caution to the effect that, he who trespasses on the imor man's labour should -be punished. Such a thing was 'lever thought of, because they who could make the law to prevent others from trespassing were themselves the tres passers. There were two classes whom in his :rear( he dis pised, and those were the persons who, having votes, gave them corruptly, and those who, nut having them, re fused to struggle to gain Clem. He would tell " Young Glory" .here was no necessity fur the people of Englan I to seek a foreign clime fur food. He also disagreed with those who a-nsidered that the people were necessitated to bring the waste lands of this country into cultivation. in order to enable them to raise the necessaries of life. lie might be allowed to liken the waste lands of this country to the ts , ld meat in the larder, which would serve those who came after theM. There was capital to so large an amount vested in manufactures in other countries, that it rendered them,- in some degree, independent of England ; and if they were to let their lands oat of cultivation, as some folks advise, the fieeigners, who hate England, would, in the time of -scarcity, turn round and say, England'at 'one time put an ex clusived duty Upon her manufactures, and now we will put the same upon our corn. For ten years, whilst in office, it was Lord John Russell's cry that the sufferings and privations of the people were the consequence of great commer cial prosperity in the country; but the moment lie found hi.nself on the bleak side of the Treasury benches, then his political vision became cognizant of the fact, th# the dis tress was general throughout the country. He (Mr. Feargus O'Connor) and his colleagues, w h o were s t rugg li ng to ga i n the People's Charter, were accused of being firebrands, agitators, and torch and dagger-men by the Whigs, but seven months had now elapsed, during which it was acknow. 'edged by all pariies that the most appalling distress prevailed, and yet there had been no violation of the law, whilst during their time the Whigs could not agitate for three months without such events as the burning of Bristol and the sacking of No,tingham. The people should be cautious, and not join this deceitful faction, for their policy' always had been first to urge the people on, then when they got into power upon their shoulders,_ turn round with state p rosecut i ons a n d pac k e d juries. He did not care for parties or factions, but let any one point out to him a principle, and to that principle he would adhere. The mass of the people had witnessed . the introduction of steam and its manifold applications ; they had witnessed all the great magical improvements of their genera tion, political and scientific, but yet, could they lay their hands to their hearts upon returning to th , ir squalid houses, and say those grand developments of nsture's resources had in the slightest degree ameliorated their social position. Mr. O'Connor concluded amidst loud and long continued cheering, by parodying an old proverb—God gave - us the l an d, but the Devil gave us the landlords. . Mr. KNIGIIT proposed the next resolution, which was seconded by Mr. M‘UnATit, a working-man, in a very able and effective speech. The resolution was as follows—" That this meeting is of opinion that the only means left for the trade and the working-classes generally of bettering their condition is by adopting CAI principles contained in the People's Charter." Severvl other persons addressed the meeting, and it broke up about 12 o'clock. LAW INVIEI. LIGENCE. ROUSE OF LORDS, Feb. 28. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, Lord Campbell, Lord De Lisle, and the Bishop of Exeter, sat in the House of Lords to-day to hear appeals, THE LORD ADVOCATE V. LORD DOUGLAS. The arguments in this part-heard appeal were resumed, and concluded to-day, when Their Lounsnirs gave judgrueat, diunissing the appeal with costs. RENTON V. ArrsrauTirEs. This appeal was opened at four o'clock. The arguments were adjourned till to-morrow (this day). FRASER V. LORD LOVAT. Lord COTTENHA 31 gave judgment to-day in this case, af firming the judgment of the Court. below, with costs. ROLLS' COURT, Rb. 28. IN RE I3ROOKSEANI: AND EARN. In this cause, which came before the Court on petition, the bill was filed by the Duke of Brunswick, and prayed to have an account taken, and the bills taxed. It appeared that there had been some litigation in France betwten the Duke of Brunswick and the Duke of Cambridge, in which a large amount of costs had been awarded to the former. • Subseiptently, both the parties being in England, and the Duke of Cambridge not having paid the costs awarded by the Court in France to the Duke of Brunswick, the latter brought an action in this coun try for the recovery of those costs, and the interest accruing upon them, from the date of the trial in France. In this second action he was also successful. 1 The defendants Brooksbank and Farn had been the soli 7iters of his Serene llighnes in those transactions, and the bills of costs with which they, furnished their Illustrious Client formed the ground of the present application. The arguments in the case engaged the Court from an early hour in the morning, and were not brought to a close when his Lordship rose. VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT, Feb. 28. (Before Viee-Chancellor WI GRAM.) BRANFILL V. BRYDCES. The arguments in this part-heard case occupied the Cour , the whole day. • THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1842 CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT OLD COURT. William Henry Taylor, twenty-tight, was indicted for the manslaughter of Anne Weatherficld. Another count of the indictment described the deceased by the name of Charlotte only, the surname being unknown. Mr.' CLARKSON appeared for'the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence that, on the 29th of Ja nuary last, the prisoner came home in a state of par tial intoxication. He resided in the Commercial-road, and the deceased resided in the Fame house. On the night in question, the deceased, in company with another person, went in search of the prisoner, and they found him at a neighbouring public. house. On his coining out of the public-hou se , he be came aegry, and struck the w it ness , an d on the leceaFed interfering, he struck her, and threw her down twice. The deceased immediately went to bed, and her head was much swollen. She complained of the pain during the night; She became much worse, and died in the course of the next morn ing. The surgeon, who made a post mortem examination of the body of the deceased, was of opinion that the deceased had died from a rupture of the brain. Had medical assistance been i.oeurcd in time she might have been saved. The -cm; Toyer of the prisoner gave him a good character. He 1,a(1 employed the prisoner for eleven 3cars. Mr. Cr—km:sow hlving addressed the Jury, The IlccoatiErt summed u t i the evideree, and the Jury re- turned a verdict of Guilty. The prisoner was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and hard labour. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday, a Court was held for the despatch of business, and for the election of a Judge of the Sheriff's Court for the Poultry Compter, vacant by the death of Sergeant Arsbin. The Loan Ma YOlt stated that he had received a •rery long letter from the Commissioner of the City Police relative to the Report of the Police Committee. The letter was then read, anti referred to the Police Committee to consider and report upon. After Rime discussion respecting fire escapes, and a testimo nial to Alf. Jones, Chairman of the London Ridge Committee, which led to no result. Mr. Jure proposed Mr. Bullock, the senior pleader, as a fit and proper person to fill the office of Judge in the Sheriff's edurt. Alderman T. Woof) seconded die nomination Mr. NORRIS proposed Mr. Ryland, and Mr. SELSON se conded the nomination. A poll was demanded and proceeded with; at the conclusion o f whi c h M r . B u ll oc k was d eclared to be ihe successful candidate. Alderman T. IV:roo pc3tponed his motion for the el:•ctitm of a Judge of the Sheriff's Court for the Giltspir-street Compter till nest Court day.—Adjourned. MONEY MARIfET _a,id CITY NEWS, SUN —The business transacted in the Funds yesterday did not indicate much confidence. Consuls for immedia'e:transfer were at 8;11, to 89k, and for time at 891 closing .i,ellers at this quotation. Ex..:licquer Bills realised 24 to premium, and India Bonds Bto 10 premium. Bank Stock intro% •I 170 to 171, - and India Stock remained flat at 245 to 246. New Three-and-a- Ilalf. per Cents. were 98 to 90, and the Three per Ccnt. Annui ties 81a to 89i. There was a farther rise in Colombian Stock to-day, the price attained being 28i, though at the close of business 2 3 / 1 to 2:3i was the nearer price. Portuguese New Five per Cents. p e s. were also higher upon the news rece i ved from Lisbon, being 3,3 A. The other foreign se , ..urities va r i e d b ut little. Mexican Bonds were quiet at 35i to 33f, ; Buenos Apes at 191 t o 0 01 ; and Brazilian rallied to 654; Spanish A c t ive 13ouds touched 9 4i j in the morning, but left off at 241 to 24, 1 ,-; Fre nc h Fi ve lipere re re n r 6. it o ,s. h w ig er h e er st t e h a a d n y i 7 a , t f. l 1 5 8 ( f ). . c s ; oc o , u b tc u h t the .rw o Tl a ir n e d e .au perf t Cents. realised 52 to 52i r The Railway Share ' Market was rather Western realised 214 to 23, the New, I tto ili Lo Birmingham, 78 to 50; . York and North Midland, 33, a n d South Western. 19A- to 20,i . premium; Brighton were at 134 to 141 dis. ; the Loan Notes at ato 1 premium ; North Midland at 334 di'. ; and Eastern Counties at 13h dis. ; Provincial lank of Ireland Shares ware 16 premium, and Canada Com pany 3i discount. mi l z \ lb r e eth re t g a r r e p t en t t o er, a i n v n id o o t v t v nc! o e f C tl a te pta d in eath Ifon t.he the Carpenter,, a n d enotl-wr of George, third stall of T)reonne, whe died on serv i ce i n the Russian eampaign cf 1812, and , H Cha rles also of John Del teal, fourth rnd present hal of 'Pyrcont.el. This - highly respected lady died on the 23d February, at Bon.- nes!, Westmoreland, of a pulmonary complaint, at the alvaneed age of i 3. A Berlin corresponJent .rtr the Gazette of Upper cernikoly - Writes on the 13th inst. :—" Affairs on the frontier, be. tween PrOsSia and Russia, are assuming a serious aspect. Con. tinuat confli c t s are occurring between the peasants of the two na tions, and they are so iiivete.rate that they give each other ne quarter. It is iajil.that the troops are: to b.sent to such of the points where thest , battics are most frequent, in order to put :Insuld to the sanig gling and the incursions of the COssacs over the Prussian frontier.' Mz. J. Tucker Williams, from Canada, had an interview with Lord Stanley at the Colonial-affice yesterday,- Despatches were received yesterday at the • Colonial-office, from_the overnor of Gihraltati • IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORD S, Feb. 28. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Wool sack shortly after Five o'Clock. PRESBYTERIAN MARRIAG ES. Lord STRAFFORD presented several petitions from various places in the North of Ireland, praying for an alteration in the law relating to Presbyterian mixed marriages. Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from Antrim to the sale effect. Lord BROUGHAM presented similar petitions from Langan and the county of ArMagh, and from some place in Antrim. LAW. OF MERCHANT AND FACTOR. Time Earl of RIPON gave notice of his intention. to bring in a Bill for the regulation of transactions between merchants and factors. C OR N-LAWS. The Earl of MINTO presented a petition from I " ' burpraying f or - a tota l repea l of the Corn laws. lie ii b lie' e r gged to state to their Lordships that the petition was signed exclusively by farmers. The Earl of CLARE presented a petition from the Chamber of Commerce of Limerick, praying that the pro posed scale of duty for oats might be increased. The sub ject was a most important one to the city of.Limericic, the quantity of oats exported from that town to England having been nearly doubled between the years 1821 and 1841. The Earl of CHESTERFIELD presented a petition from Derbyshire in favour of the Ministerial measure for an alteration of the Corn -laws. Lord BROUGHAM presented petitions from the con gregation of NeW Methodists of some town in the West Riding of Yorkshire ; from Canow, from Brighouse, fiona the Wesleyan Methodists of Sunderland, from some place in Durham, from Mark in Fifeshire, and from the corn factors and bakers of Montrose ; all praying for a repeal of the Corn and Provision-laws. Lord KINNAIRD presented a petition from Perth, with a s , milar prayer. COUNTY COURTS. Lord BROUGHAM wished to bring under the atten tion 'of their 'Lordships the subject of a Bill which bad on a former occasion the honour of Ja)int. on the table of the House. With that Bill great progress had been made by their Lordships passing. in it into a law. He was now induced to again bring forward the subject, on account. of a Bill having been laid before their Lord iihips by his Noble and Learned Friend (Lord Cotten ham), the object of which was the establishment of County Colin:, or such an improvement in Cennty Courts as would in a great degree have the same effect as he (Lord B.) should have expected, from his Bill. It was with the view of reminding his Noble and Learned Friend and their Lordships of the great success which had attended that measure, and how very near it was being carried into a law that he was now induced to trespass on the House. His Noble and Learned Friend proposed to increase the jurisdiction of the County Courts in all actions of debt, from 40s. and under to 201. Ilis (Lord Brougham's) Bill, which their Lordships bad nearly passed into a law, con fined actions of debt, and in the nature of debt, to 201. It gave jurisdiction also to local courts in all actions of contest, assault, and battery, slander, seduction, and in measures of arrest • also all personal actions o f t o ll, & c ., in which the sum did not exceed 501. That was a measure much more extensive than the one introduced by his Noble _and Learned Friend. He (Lord Brougham) also meant to give by his Bill, as his Noble Friend did,- jurisdictions in cases of bankruptcy. He proposed to - give by this Bill a voluntary jurisdic tion to any extent, and also to establish courts of re concilement. He thought the latter especially an ex ceedingly important addition. On the Continent the system had prevailed to a great extent, and was found to be highly beneficial in its operation. In Denmark, where these Courts were in full operation, the number of cases settled in the Courts. of Reconcilement com prised two-thirds of the whole number, being 22,000 out of 31,000: With this explanation, he had the honour of laying the Bill before the House. It was nine years since a measure of equal extent was discussed by their Lordships. He never remembered a more strenuous and formidable opposition than that measure received from his Noble Friend ; and though the Bill was rejected by those who wen; present at the debate, and who consequently were the best judges, there was but the barest possible majority. He hoped lt,should be more successful now than he had hitherto been. The LORD CHANCELLOR had a Bill directed to the same object, which it was his intention to lay on the table in the course of a few days. It was for their Lord ships to say which of the measures should be adopted, or whether they would amalgamate the whole. Lord CAMPBELL trusted that before the present Session was concluded, some arrangement would be made for the establishment of Local Courts. Lord HA WARDEN presented a - petition from Tippe rary against any alteration of the Corn-laws. The House then adjourned till to-morrow at 10 o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, VEB. 28. The SPEAKEB. took the Chair shortly before Four o'Clock. PRIVATE BILLS. The following Private Bills were respectively read a second time—the Cottenham Inclosure, Clee Inclosure, Cottenham Drainage, Surrey and Sussex Roads, South Eastern Railway, Granton Pier, St, Philip's • (Bristol) Bridge, Bristol Boundary, S ou th war k I mprovement (No. 1.), Leicester Small Debts, Cwm Celyn and .Blaina Iron Company, Cambrian Iron and Spelter Company, and Stalybridge Gas Bills. POOR-LAWS. Au lIoN. AboinEaPre;enteti a Petition' from a Board of Guardians, pra3ing that Boards of Guardians might have the power of appointing paid collectors of rates for the various unions. PRESBYTERIAN MARRIAGES. Colonel CONOLLY presented petitions from Ramel ton and other places praying the House to pass a measure legalising Presbyterian mixed marr i ages. Sir R. BATESON presented petitions from Garvah and other places to *the same effect. The Hon. Baronet stated that these petitions were Signed by several of the fair sex, who took a deep interest in the subject. Sir.E. lIAYES presented a petition with a similar prayer from Donegal. Mr. B. TENNENT presented a similar petition from Belfast. CORN-LAWS, Mr. W. EVANS presented a petition from Chester field against the sliding scale. Mr. CHRISTMAS presented a petiti on f rom some place in Ireland, praying that in any alteration in the Corn-laws care might be taken to afford adequate pro tection to the growers of oats... Dr. BOWLING presented a petition frnn Dysart, signed by 1,162 persons, praying for a total and imme diate repeal of the Corn-laws. The lion. Member like wise presented twenty-one other petitions with a similar prayer. Lord DUNCAN presented 20 petitions to the same effect. Mr. ARKWRIGHT presented a petition in favour of lhe Government proposition respecting the Corn-laws. Colonel M4TAGGART presented a petition against 'le Corn-laws. Mr. WALLACE presented a petition to the same effect. COPYRIGHT OP DESIGNS BILL. On the motion of Mr. B. TENNENT, the _ second reading of the Copyright, of Designs Bill, was postponed to Monday the 14th of March. . Mr. o r C p o The Cottenham Inclosure and Dr a i nage B i ll was read a second time and ordered to be commi tte d . c k a l t7o ' i l t Y L li e i a G s Leases presented • a pet i t i on against the Mr KEMBLE presented a petition in favour of the Southwark Improvement Bill. Sir D..ROCHE presented a petition from Limerick, praying Kir an alteration of the duties on barley and oats. ELECTION PETITIONS. The following members were appointed Chairmen of Election Committees :—Lord Ashley, Sir j. Y. Buller, Mr. Divett, Mr. Home Drummond, Sir B. hall, Sir E, Hayes, Mr. Hayter, Mr. Hogg, - Mr. Reddington, Sir P. M. Stewart, and Mr. Charles Wood. Mr. V. SMITH presented a petition from the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of. the .borough of Southampton, expressing dissatisfaCtion at the Corn-law measure introduced by the Government, and stating their conviction that the system would never be settled on any sound basis except by a perfectly f'ree tradein those ar ticles-which form the necessaries•oflife. • A petition was presented by an Hos. MEMBEn, on the Ministejial .benches; praying that the charge of the County Rate he taken•fronr the County, and placed Um the Consolidated Fund. Mr SHAW presented a poitioa fur regulating Schoul Education in Ireland. . • Coloncl'ACTON presented - a petition from-the lligh Sheriff and Grand Jury of the County of Wicklow, cum.. plaining that Ireland would be greatly injured if the measures respecting corn, as .proposed by Sir IL Peel, were carried into eff e ct, and expressing a con% iction that Ireland would be a lt oge th e r ruined, if there were not a sufficient proteetion to agriculture. • Sir W. CLAY presented several petitions, praying for the total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws. Mr. BARCLAY presented three petitions, onefrom the Wesleyans of Sunderland, and two other 3 from places in the county of Darhatn, with the same prayer, Lord SAN DON presented a petition (we understood from Liverpool) ,praying the House -to consider. the propriety I.+v of 1 1 0 in ,,, foreign corn to be ground in ‘n bond, under proper regulations. Sir G. STRICKLAND presented a petition from some places in the West Riding of the county of York, prayln that every male, twenty-one years of age, and untaiutec with crime, should be allowed to vote.la the election 01 Members o f Parliament. An HON. MEMBER. presented a petition from York shire p ray i ng f or an a l terat i on i n t h e Bastardy clauses of th e N ew Poor-law Bill. l:i t - 7 e Icdorl:eSspOofdFienlcOeTrle(s)pNe g . the esta .etin Dr. BOWRING gave notice that.to-morrow 4 cek he _,v,mid move for blislunent of an English BiShop at Jerusalem. THE CORN PRICES' AVERAGES. l l N te hatl Mr.:BARCLA Y gave notice, that up o n t h e c omm i ttee entering: up o n t hi s part of the Corn- l aw ques ti on, h e would move th at no towns be added to t h ose from which the return s h ave b een hitherto made up. THE NEW POOR-LAW. Dr whether .n°i tG beg gthe Right Hen.the Ba ronet a ed to ask ny objectionto o lay before House copies of a memorial ; addressed to the Govern ment (as we understood), complaining of certain pro ceedings:of the Poor -law Commissioners, and also of the correspondence Mat had taken place between those par ties on the subject ? Sir JAMES GRAHAM said that if the Ho nourable Gentleman would put his question to - morrow he (Sir James Graham) would be able to give a definite answ_er. At present he had •no objection to produce a copy of the.memorial, and of the answer. THE EMIR BESCHIR OF , LEBANON. • Sir CHARLES XAVIER begged Co ask-thy Right Honourable Baronet at the head of the Government, whether lie had received intelligence from Constan tinople, respecting an alleged- imprisonment of the. Emir Rishir, by, th: Turkish government, and also of the arrival of two Capidan Paellas at Beyrout, on their way to govern the province, lately under the ad . ministration of the Emir. Sir ROBERT PEEL begged the Gallant Commodore to reserve-his question until to-morrow, when he should receive a full answer. LORD. ELLENBOROUGIL In answer to a question from. Mr. E. BULLER, re specting the salary of Lord Ellenborough, Sir R. PEEL said that he had no doubt whatever that the compensation received by Lord Ellenborough for the office. to which he was appointed by his father when Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, must, under the • law, be continued. A question might arise whether under the Act passed at the time the new charter was given' to the East India Company, an equal reduction ought not be made in the salary of per sons appointed to the Guvernmentof India, who helot at the same time situations in this country, but that was a question between the East India Company and the Governor-General of India. That was now under the consideration of the East India Company When be (Sir Robert Peel) in the perfiu'mance of his public duty offered Lord Ellenborough the appointtnent j of Governor-General of India, believin g he was best ' qualified to fill th a t o ffi ce , h e (Lord Ellenborongh) said, that he considered it would be hard, if the compensation which was due to - him, were forfeited ; but as he. accepted office from a sense of public duty, even though the office which he held tell within the provisions of that Act, still it would not pre vent him from acce:.ting the office of Governor-General. It nas entirely a question for the decision of the Last India Company. Ile looked at the Act, and he appre headed the Treasury could not aop - the compensation. Air. BUTT made an observation, which was inaudible in the gallery. TREATY WITH .NAPLES. Mr. BAILLU wished to ask the Right Hon. Gentle man, at the head of her Majesty's Government, whether the Neapolitan Government had entered into a treaty with Mr. M`Gregor, and if so, whether he had any ob jection to lay that treaty on the table of the House. Sir R. PEEL said he had the satisfaction of being able to state that negotiations were now pending with the proper authorities, and (as we understood) when it was properly ratified that there would be no objection to lay it before the House. AMERICAN CORN. . . Sir C. NAPIER asked a question relative to what had fallen from the Right lion. Baronet, the Member flit Tamworth, on a former night, relative to the time in which a vessel could make the passage from America to Liverpool. The Hon. and Gallant Member stated that there was a proper officer whose duty it was to ascertain, and who in filet did ascertain, by questions pUt to the captain, as to the periods of the ship's departure and ar rival, the exact time occupied by the voyage. .. Sir R. PEEL said, if he found on further inquiry, that the means of giving such information existed, and that there was an officer who had such a record of the time of voyages, he should have no objection to state it to the House. Mr. FITZROY hoped that if there were the means of supplying the information, asked for by the Honourable and Gallant Member for Marylebone, the Government would give it. He hoped they would go farther—(O r der, or de r )—h e wou ld ask if the Right lion. Baronet would also grant a return of the quantity of flour brought over by American vessels. to Liverpool, with the number of days such vessels were on their passage. Mr. THORNELY was about to make a few observa tions, when he was called to order. Sir R. PEEL repeated what he tad before stated, that if he found any public authority had a record of the time referred to, he would immediately furnish the information required by the Hon. anti Gallant Member. Sir CHARLES NAPIER rose. again, but was loudly called to order, and the conversation dropped. • ENGLISH REGISTRATION BILL. Mr. ELPHINSTONE asked what were the inten tions of the Government with respect to the English registration ? Sir It. PEEL said, as soon as they had made some progress with the important measure now occupying the House, the next Bill to which he should call their atten tion would be one relating to English registration. He should not lay any other Bill on the table till the present measure was disposed of. RAILWAYS. The Order of the Day for the second reading of the Railway Bill having been read, Mr. F. NIAULE begged to ask the Right Hon.:Gentle man the Secretary for the Herne Department, a question, to which his attention had lately been drawn, relative to a practice in Scotland, which had been adopted by certain sheriffs. In the :case of railways requiring more land, .they were freqUently in the habit of taking any land contiguous to the railway, of which they were in need ; and questions not unireqnently arose between the railway company and the former proprietors, as to the amount of compensation to be received by the latter for the land thus 'taken. In these cases, - the • Sheriffs, when called upon to interfere, consiMing that they were acting in an extrajudicial duty, believed themselves entitled to remu neration for their services. His object in referring to this matter was, that it might be made knoWn ; he was sure the Right lion. Gentleman would not refuse to calltb attention of the Government to it, and he was conten therefore, to leztve the matter in the hands of the Gove meet. . . . Sir J. GRAIIAM confess e d th a t unt il last week, his attention lied not been drawn to this subject, when he was directed to it by a paragraph in a newspaper. On general principles, he thought that great inconvenience would arise from :officers who received salaries for their official duties, looking for other compensation for their services. If their salaries were not sufficient re • znurieration for all their duties, they should be in .creased.:(-1-lear.)- When people were called on to act as arbitrators they were generally paid by both parties Oil • cerned in the arbitration He did not know how that was in this case, but he was disposed to consider the subject. Mr. FOX MAULE said that in the case he referred to he believed the Sheriff had not been remunerated by both parties, but only by one of them: - Mr.. THORNELY wished to put a question to the Right Hon. Baronet. He (Sir R. Peel) had just stated that an order had been sent to America for flour, which flour had been received in Liverpool in six weeks. Ile (Mr. Thornely) begged to state-that he had received a letter from Liverpool; stating that it was fifty-one days from the sending out of the order to the arrival of the flour in Liverpool. The Right Hon. Baronet had just stated that the flour was ordered on the 13th September, his (Mr. Thornely's) informant stated it to be the 24th. He begged_to ask the Right lion. Baronet whether he had any objection to lay on the table of the Rouse a copy of the statement lie had referred - to. Sir ROBERT PEEL said lie had a letter in the hand-writin g of the per son w h o i mporte d the flour, and if he (Sir Robert Peel) had made any mistake, he was sorry fur it. his information stated that the flour was ordered on the Ist of August, and received on the 13th of September. He felt quite sure this was the statement he received, but he would refer to it again, and give the Honourable Member the information he wished. Mr. THORNELY—I am much indebted to the Right Hon. Baronet, and if lie would bring that statement for ward.--s (Cries of " Order, order," in the midst of which Mr. Thornely sat down.) Lord SANDON lie.did not wids to delay the Bill upon Railways passing through a second reading, but he hoped that a pledge would be given by his Right Hon. Friend that couple time would be given for going into the consideration of this great branch of enterprise, in order that communications, if necessary, might be had with parties interested. Mr. GLADSTONE said he belieVed that no very great time would be required to . proceed with this Bill; the parties interested were quite alive to its merits. He (Mr. Gladstone) could readily' give a pledge that no attempt would•be•made to interfere with the interests of certain parties connected with the subject, without giving ample time to those parties to make any conlmu nication they might think proper. COLONIAL PASSENGERS- Mr. HAWES begged leave to ask the Noble LOrd the • Secretary for the Colonies a question re specting; this very important measure. Believing the Bill • • the Noble Lord meant to introduce •- to be precisely tins :lame in principle, though per hapsnot in all details, t o th e Bill b e f ore the House last year ; he (Mr. Hawes). meant to give the present Measure his must strenuous opposition. Therefore, he benged to ask s . the .Noble .. - Lord whether he meant to move the second .• reading ••of •, his Bill this evening'. If so, .it would • be necessary for him to take the sense of. the Hiaise on the question ; on•the other hand, if the Noble Lord did not mean to proceed. to night, 'he trusted the Noble Lord would ti - x some day when the would have en oppor tunity of going into a aicmsion on the second reading. LOH 'STANLEY admitted that hi s Bill had been placed in the hands of Members that morning ; still it could not said. to-.have , taken them by sur prise, as it .was in a great degree an embodiment of the clauses founded -upon the Report of the Commissioners. of Emigration, which' had been fUrnished to the House -Looking to the ieriod of the year now approwAingin whirl the business of cm•igration commences, he was Very anxious that tin, Bill sh, add be passed aS speedily- as pos sible ; but being miXieus to meet the wishes of the lion. gent!emen and otherS Who were anxious oil this subject, he (Lord Stanley) would not proceed with the Bill. that evening, but would promis e to fix a day f or th e tli s- • eussio n on the 'second reading, which would allow Hon. Gentlettento have amply considered the question. Mr HAWES said this answer was perfectly satisfac tory ; he hoped however the Noble Lord would give them due notice when he determined to fix the day. THE RAILWAY BILL; This Bill was then read a 'second time. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND BILL. This measure then went through ComMittee. MARRIAGES IN IRELAND BILL. ;On the Order of the Day for the House going into Committee onthis Bill being moved, Mr. VERNON was understood to gay he was pleased to see the Government bring in the Bill eo soon ; but h e hoped th e measure would be 'strictly retrospective, iii order that before any further measure were introduced; the whOle la,✓ of marriage in Ireland; • which was in a very anomalous state, might be reconsidered, and assi milated to that of England. Mr. SHAW 'concurred in the views of the last speaker. He (Mr. Shaw) agreed to, asretrespective but at present, if a prospective one were - proposed, he would oppose it in behalf of the clergy Of the- Established Church, and for the sake of the interests of society. Sir R. BATESON was determined to advocate thh rights and interests of those persons whO sent hidt there and he - assured the - Moose that there was nu subject, whielthad excited greater terror and thoie alarm.among the re.siseefable as well as , tile. huOale- classes. of the people of the lgorth of Ireland than that of the Presbyterian sive changes in the commerce -of the country. The Hone , Member complained of not having got an answer respecting- the intentions of the Government on this subject. If the - Hon. Member knew bow many questions were sent privately to him (Sir R. Peel) on this point and on that. point, lie woutd feel how great was the difficuley of replying to all diese ingot- ries. He (Sir R. Peel) had no hesitation in stating now , that the Government had no intention of altering the law ,13 regards the importation of foreign malt. With respect to - barley h e t h oug h t he was justified in stating that, generally, the soil of England was better fitted for the production of that • • grain than that of other countries —( Hear, hear.) M regarded the barley brotueht from France, or any other country, inferences were to be drawn from the ievestigatiori Of facts generally, and not from any s p e cial ie stances. His Hon. Fricid h a d mentioned that barley was used for food. In many parts of the country barley was used for , • food; and in Yorkshire and Lancashire, puts with which he,:' (Sir It. Peel) was we ll acquainted, oatmeal constituted Fart of, '", the food of th e l a b our i ng clauses.—( Hear.) This questie ten, had been very fully di scussed i n 1627 and 1928; and he wee se umoviiliteg now, considering the extent to wlfeh oatmeal was 1 used for food, unducly to increase the protection on oats ; ho t ''' they were, not now discussing the question o f oa t s , but of, barley. If they diminished the price of wheat, be thought they ought also to diminish the price of barley. Billeting his Hon. Friend's amendment to have been brought forward on ..- the ground that his (Si r R. P ee l' s ) p l an d i d not afford suffi- . cient protection to the barley g: ower, he must say that he was hardly prepared for such an amendment from his Hon. Friend ; because in every case where barley was consumed , there was scarcely any difference between the scale of his Hata Friend and his own. By his (sir R. Peel's) scale, when barley was above 30s, and under als. the duty would ae as. , and by his Hon. Friend's scale the duty would be precisely the same : the only difference between them was, that ta'' his (Sir R. Peel's) scale, when the price was under 265. in the home market, the duty would be I Is., whilst by his lion , Friend's scale the duty would be Ms. Now he (Sir li. Peel): thought that the reduction of protection which he proposed on barley was f oun d e d on t h e same prim iple as that which had Induced him to diminish the protection on vi brat ; be thought there would be no disturbance of the eresent relations existing between barley and wheat ; but he considered, that when the time had arrived for the reduction et • the protection on wheat, the time had also arrived to reduce the protection on barley, and that was the principle on which he had proceeded. tie . trusted that the impression of the House would be, that the scale which he proposed bore a fair relation to his scale for wheat; and he believed that there was no fa ar of any danger arising to the bat ley groan from hit scale, or that it would much interfere with the barley interest. Mr..WODEHOUSE said he bad h a d a commun i cat i on w ith the Speaker, upon the subject of his intention to move this resoliiiion—( Hear, hear)—and it was from the Speaker's lijit he had heard, that the proper course was that which he (Mr. Wodehouse) hail adopted. Mr. GREENE having said something, which was inaudible in the gallery, Air. WODETIOUSE said it was upon that point he had risen. Before Mr. Greene had taken the chair :he Speake; o.' had seen the resolution—he (Mr. Wodehouse) asked him, ea' there any impedime n t i n th e f orms o f t h e H ,, House to move that the considaration of the d u ti es h erea f ter to b e i meose d upon ai, barley might be deCored. The Speaker's answer was that's that could not be done whilst the llonse was in Committee , . and that the roundtbout course "of moving that the Chair - • man do leave the chair," should be adopted. That was the . cause why he ( Mr. Wodehouse) had taken the course he was . so yecularly uefort wrote to pursue. Air. GREENE—What is your motion, now? Mr. WODEHOUSE—That you repeat the resolution to , the House. . . After a few words from Mr. DARTIY, . . Major CUMIIIING BRUCE said he concurred that the a object of his Hon. Friend was, by deferring the subject, to give her Majesty's Government time to reconsider it in all its bear ings. Il e th oug ht t h e sca l e proposed by her:Mjesty's Govern: , ment, did not afford adequate protection to the cultivatiou of grain. It was the opinion of intelligent men, farmers, c orn , dealers, and others conversant with this subject, that the pre" r posed scale of duties would involve consequences extremely In: jurious to agriculture. The alteration in the law as respected the duties to be levied upon wheat would cause a considerable .; portion of land now employed in the cultivation of wheat to be employed in the cultivation of oats and bailey ; and it there fore became more important to the agriculturists of the United .. Kingdom that those grains should be adequately protected- . • It appeareerthat the protection proposed for barley and oats was lower than that proposed for wheat. The reduction per cent. , of the I rote c ti on was hi g h er aga i nst barley and oats than it was , fe . against wheat. The r e d uc ti on i n t h e protection to wheat was ,14a 45 per cent., whil e t h e re d uct i on i n the protection to barley m was 54i per cent., an d th at i n t h e protection to oats 59a per •os cent. Now it h a d r.ever been said that barley and oats would lto not bear a higher pr o t ec ti on t h an w h eat; .in fact, no etomP'ai nt ''' ' e el had even been made on the subject of the protection, to those .fyie grains. With respect to t h e S cotch corn grower, he would olas e at serve, that the frei g ht s f rom t h e nort h of. Scotland to Lundell '')-eil were nearly as high as those from the Baltic, and that the port 'rear charges in Londo n were th e same on Scotch grain as on foreign t grain, so that th e S cotc h corn grower was excluded fromln° protection which those charges afforded to the English corn grower, arid which had been dwelt upon with so much empha sis by the Right Hon. the Vice-President of the Board of Trade. , Oats imported at 235. would bear a duty of Bs. This showed that the Scotch agriculturists required a higher figure to pro' tect them. An English farmer could send his corn to market I for 2s. a .quarte r : b u t an extens i ve Scotch farmer lately told - ill him that he (th e f armer ) , i n send i ng 200 quarters of eats to t 'l market at 18 8 ., h e h a d -t o pay 3s. 6d. a quarter to get it COn- ~. ~,a :' lee veyed to the shor e , an d th en ss. f re i ght. In short, the new' Jae' law would take aw a y a ll encouragement from the grower of oa ts • il di in Scotland ; and if it were passed, as i t stood at present, t he a cr existing distress of Scotland must be greatly increased, in wan: . sequence of the number of persons thrown out of employment' , „ • He believed, with regar d to pr i ces, t h at when the demand was! , great, prices would be high; but when prices fell, the corn sell to this country would b e a com pl e t e b ug b ear, and would be 501 at any price th a t could b e obtained fur it ; and by that means drag down the price of wheat in the country. Such had been the imp ro V ement i n the cultivation of foreign ~, barley that it was no w f requent l y i mported at a weight of fromt, 521bs. to 56,b5, per bushel. Such barley was perfectly fit - for malting, if it had no t b een long i n store before it was brought into this country. U n d er t h ese circumstances lie hady`:• .ur of the clause... doubt that ther e wou ld b e a great coMpet i tiOn in the leafquidike ~ fee 6reied. 'of Beale ) ? used for snaki ng . lie had also some remar ks to of . Onathe duty on b eans; they formed an important part es were then agre e d t o , at, the rotation of their crops in Scotland when Pr' ' CORN-LAWS. p arin g for wheat. The lowest r emunerat i ng price for beans was 38 s . a quarter , the highest duty on impoeta'io n The Order of the Day th a t th e h ouse s h ou ld resolve was lls. Now l as t year Mehemet Ali had imported to t his .tself into a Committee of the whole House to take into country 50,000• quarters, which were so ld d u t y and all re consideration the corn an d p rovis i on l aws, hav i ng been perms paid, for 28s. a quarter, It wou ld he impas ible to read, compete with this, and the present proposed duty would be s ' • • Mr. KEMBLE presented a petition, which was read total prohibition of the home growth. He therefore trusted i,,i ; by the Clerk at the' table from the mill-owners of a place her Majesty's. Government would . rec . onsider that . part of the uki takescale whie . h referred to these descriptions of grain. He 1 11 0 014.; .ois. ;it' in the environs of London, complaining that the-proposed wartime, however, by what had occurred to the ,i • scale of duty upon corn would have the effect of encou- Aleinber fur Lincolnshire; and as he was also one of the "ski" ' " * el' . raging the importation of foreign flour instead of wheat., mashers' that had been alluded to, if he could not get the Go- • which would greatly prejudice their interests. The peti- vernment to change their position, he should fall back on the lion was ordered to lie on the table, main body rather titan fall into the hands of the enema; The House then went into Committee. The scale of duties proposed would cause a fall in the value tat . 141 r. WODEHOUSE sa id h e wou ld not trespass at any land in Scotland of 25 per cent., causing di s t ress t o the :and' great length on the pati ence o f t h e H ouse. The motion lord and tenants, who ' hold under !costa, and the pecu t ha r r s which he intended to propose was, that the Chairman nature of many tenures there would not allow the pro PricLt to reduce their rents. In conclusion, he would only say should report progress and ask leave to sit again. He the well knew that that motion would be rejected," but he too much appreciated .. the great advantages which country enjoyed in having not only a strong, but an honest : a he still felt bound to state why he proposed it for atiop- and upr-ght Government. And he would notput such a Go- ' Lion. There were peculiar considerations with vermnent hi jeopardy for any proposition they might maae on respect to . barley, which demanded that it the Corn-laws.—( Hear, heat ) Whether as regarded hie own -!' should - receive peculiar attention. The pa- feelin gs or the opinions of his constituents, he would rather ;, • pees laid before Parliament showed that Denmark was submit to larger concessions than endanger their stability. But better adapted to the growth of barley than of any other a-rain. he could not see how a certain mod ficatioti in the scale of And notwithstanding the arguments of the late Chancell or o f d ut i es on barley and oats could be rejected, if it were proved the Exchequer, they should not forget that at Elsinore thou- to be for the salvation of the agriculturists of the couutry, or sands of acres were waiting for the plough ; and moreover why the Government should be obstinate in adhering to aheir railways would soon run through Denmark, Alecklenburgb, scale ; yet if it were persevered in, and bad consequences were, and Holstein- It was impossible then to come to a n y ot h er to follow, they would have the satisfaction to believe that it . ' conclusion than that, however the case stood quoad wheat, it would not be persevered in in consequence of any hostility to was impossible to say what quantities of oats and barley might the agriculturists of the country, but that a sincere desire to not come in under the new scale from these countries. It maintain and promote their prosperity, had been the object had been stated that foreign barley would not wait. This he and motive of her Majesty's Minis'ers.—( Hear, hear. ) doubted. He haul heard from Mr. 'Coding that the finest After a few words from Colenel Itustiorer which did not ' sample of barley he bad ever seen was grown in France. True, reach the gallery, under the present law the importation of foreign malt was pro- Load WORSLEY said that an Hon. Gentleman opposite hibited. He (Mr. Wodehouse) had twice asked the Earl (Mr. C. Bruce) had stated that he thought the proposed Ripon whether the law would he allowed to remain so' amount of protection to the growers of barley was insuflielent; He had asked more than once for information on this subject. but as the measure came from an honest Government, sooner but could get none. The first time he asked the question of than displace that Government, he would withdraw his o pposi- Lord Ripon he had no answer ; on the second occasion he was Pion to the , proposal. Now he (Lord Wersley) was ready t° told he must wait. They must not suppose that he intended admit the good intentions of the Government, but at the same to cast any censure o n Lord Haien for so doing ; if there was time he should say that they were mistaken in thinking tha t ens public man with whom he had been counected more tha n t h e protect i on they proposed to give would be sufficient. be any other, it was Lord Ripon; and when he found he could should say from communications he had had with intelligent far: obtain no answer from him, he could look to nothing but Par- fliers of different political opinions, that the whole body scenic° . liament. This w as a question that involved the fate of to be unanimously of opinion that the existing protection svas . • millions, and as far as concerned the country, which not too great to the home grower of barley ; and they did net had for twenty years placed him in Parliament, he think it possible they would continue to cultivate their land fa i r would say distinctly that the perman en t peace and welfare of that crop with a less protection. A friend of his had lately folu that country w ere vitally concerned in the answer which him lately that in conequenee of the proposition of the Govern might b e re t urn ed on this subject. It seemed to him, that ment, only 225. had during the last week been offered fur bar; with respect to this matter, the intentions of her Majesty's ley in his part of the country, and the maltsters s tate°, Government could no longer be doubt e d ; an d t hi s was the that if that proposition were carried, theywould special reason why he stood there to make known to the House get the greater raft of their barley from America• that he had hitherto asked in vain as to what were the inten- It niii.t be recollected that none but the fittest barleys wer e firms of the Government with regard to the admission of included in time averages. There *as a very great , ttari til Y foreign malt. It was at present prohibit e d ; i n f ormer years, which was sold at an inferior price, which was not included when the export of corn was prohibited, there was an ex- As far as he hid been able to ascertain with respect to his ow" ception in favour of barley, because at that time they country there was but one opinion on this subject. As re had a very profitable export of malt.—( Hear.) girded the alteration in the duty on the importation of fore'gt: Why was not that expo r t con ti nue d? B ecause there was oh-at the com mon expression was that they must gm in Oa' a duty of 20s. a quart er p l ace d on ma l t. H e begged to call the bear it; but he trusted that the case was not so hopelesm. watt attention of the Secret ar y o f th e path- Department p or - respect to barley. H e f eare d t h at i f these resolutions passe d cularly to this subject, be ause he had been especially chosen there would be agricultural distress added to manufacturios •:. e by the Flight lion. Baronet to preside over a Committee distress. That number of persons who now cultivated wouldla% . s e. • which had inquir e d i n t o t hi s su bj ect, and lie would ask him, would te thrown out of emp l oyment an d f i nd no other mea n' supposing a person bad taken a farm under the present system, of obtaining a subsistence. If the farms of the House had Pe r ; '. and on condition that if a lt era ti on ue , e matte in the d u t y on witted, he sh o uld h ave move d that the duties with regard 1 0 mall, whether su c h a lt erat i on wou ld not b e a fair ground for spring corn should remain as they were at present. Fr o g s , his making a claim for compensation. He considered it, that, however, lie was precluded by the decision upon the tro • therefore, a hard thing that he had not been able to tiou of his Hen. Colleague. But with respect to the duties on e get any information on this question.— ( [Dear, hear.) barley and oats he could not see why any change whate s e er l'here was another Member of the Government to whom he should have been proposed. As lie had stated before, he 1.-- • • would allude, the Paymaster of the Forces, and he would ask gretted extremely that the measure had been brought forward. him was he prepared to deal out so harsh a measure to the lie gave the Government credit f or believing that it wo ul i people—a measure which Mr. Huskissoti would not give his afford sufficient protection, and that it would be a settlement o f ' 1 ' . 41 sanction to. He would beg to tell the Right Hon. Baronet flit question ; at the same time h e differed from them in or.. - 'Ht. 10 , that though official station was a fair el feet of honeurab'e nion, and should feel it his duty to offer every opposition t° Itl ,Sil l,l lit ambition, it was scarcely worth the stain of insincerity. There pasaiog into a w laW.—e( hear.) ' •° was another-Me m b er o f t h e Government to whom he would Mr. CHRISTAI a S sei Hear dhe is as quite aware th a t any ge n- ,; allude. The Right Hon. Baronet at time head of her Majesty's llentan on, that (the Minion-jai) side of the 1 10050 ?a ' oil Government would remember that lie (Mr. Wodehouse) had who engaged in a skirmish against her Majesty's_i'etil called upon and pres se d th e ma t ter on hi s consideration, in the meta, was placed in no enviable position. He wished, however' ea' . i interview he had eat ' hi m , he also s e a th e liberty of calling his to cell ihe aaention of the House to the state of this question, , .'4i'! ,, , i attention to the int ro d uc ti on of f ore i gn live stock and malt. as regarded Ireland. A vast deal of a'arne existed ie th a t a il As far as he was concerned, h e was in total darkness as to the country in reference to the proposed change. He had the , ,- ,i ' et intention of the Government with regard to foreign malt, and day. pre - euted a petition of his, not from the monopolising -; 0 1 how the law was•to be a ltered with respect to live stock. lle agriculturists as they wean often called, but from the Chamber : ; . - eela .l sought to impress o n hi m th a t the question of duty was cf minor of Commerce of the city, which he had the honour te repre . '•eltr , .• I . o a a e l consideration, but that the larger consideration was to give . praying for an increase - of the duty upon oats end barley. ttoae permanent employment to the agricultural lehourers. Now, ( hear, hear.) Oats were not genarally grown in Eriglatat but .. in his Opinion, the new Poor-law Poll could not be carried into in Ireland. 'f his crop employed a greater number of the IV! . effect, if the proposed duty were to be passed into a law. He latimo who suppied this country, as might be inferred frow represented a county which had, perhaps, received greater the fact that, while England imported from 1528 ' 1 benefit from the New Poor-law than any other in the country, 3,93. 4 ,969 quarters . of foreign oats, site imported nearlyto / 8 41 ' t but he' apprehended that, with the adoption of the 19,000,000 quarters of fureign wheat. The withdrawal of !at, proposed duty upon barley, that law would press protection fur oats from irelend, would increase the 1,500,tr - upon the agricultural labourer with the same severity with unemployed persons to 2,000,000 or 3,000,000; whirls it now pressed upon the manufaetuting labourer. Ile workhouses could not hold them. And it should be borne ' 1 1 ! . . so that ita,a_ ~ admitted that the Poor-law was a useful measure, but if the mind that in Ireland there Were no manufictures to fall beets Present motion were acceded to it could no longer act.. -Time on as here. Since the passingof the present Act, there had bee:, Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving that the Chairman imported into this country from Irelant 27,914,039 should then report progress,'and obtain leave to sit again. oats , valued at 2,000,000/. It would therefore evidently be oast . . „Mr. GREEMNE, the Chairman of the Committee, begged gerous. to throw this kind of grain g out of cultivation, for in ' js f time ; leave to esk the lion. Gentleman 'what was the effect lie anti- certainly. the foreigner could beat the Irish oats out o- tie cipated from his motion? market, under the proposed scale—a result that she mere par ti= Mr. woDEHOUSE said that the effect he anticipated was, cularly tivoided, considering that Ireland had now the burtben The • . that barley' would be erased from the scale. of Poore'-rates, for the first time, thrown upon her. s, a nr or- Mr. (31 - 11 - '2 ENE said that the metion would not have that effect. i three places on the Centinent, from which the lareest , only result of its being adopted welt! be, chat the . Thed at e next tattoo of oats might be expected, were Petersburgro Elsinore,, time the house met they should find the question in precisely and Harnburgh. The price at Petershusgh was from 12s• to . from quarters .t. the same state as at present. lie suppose) that the motion Its. ;at Elsinore, from l2s: to I6s. ;soil at Harnburghe _ which the Hon. Gentleman intended to have nut was to the effect 14s. to 16?.: so that they might consider the average pieces g that lie (111 - Greene) should repert the resolution to time House. be 13s. a quarter. fo this they would have to . e ., Sir ROBERT PEEL commenced his observations in so low a tone of voice as to be almost inaudible in the gallery. we 2a. a quarter for freight ; and that, With a duty of S'' quarter.foreign oats eculd be brought into the British market at 21s. a was , . ' understood the Right Hon.' Baronet to say that he had listened, The price of oats was also always lever in Ireland than i t -.g - . " with attention to what bad fallen from his Hon. Friend,-but he in England ; and, therefore he thought he was justified in . aa '" did not mdan to follow his arguments, by which he had at- , that the proposed scale did not afford sufficient tempted to show that the scale proposed should produce eaten - 1 Irish grower, He should be sorry to do any thing to obstructPr°teeti"Ytima marriages ' so many of those m arr i ages h av i ng been solemnized, and the number of persons who would be supp6sed not to have been born in wedlock if those marriage; were held to be invalid, the greatest apprehension was naturally excited. The. number of petitions which had been presented to the House upon the subject, of which he himself had this day presented many, showed clearly what the extent of alarm was ; he, therefore, hoped that no time would be lost in calming the fears and apprehensions of the Presbyterians of the North of Ireland, and that, the proposed measure would be passed into a law as soon as possible and without dis cussing the merits of any future measure. Mr. O'COr.iNELL thought the great obj e ct of any measure upon the subject should be to legalise those marriages retrospecively, as well as prospectively — the law should be made what every person sup posed it Was before. Ile had himself occasion, more than once, to consider the, question, and he had no hesitation in giving an opinion that those marriages were legal. Mr. Justice Perrin, to his (Mr. O'C.'s) own knowledge, had a's,) given an opinion to the same effect, and he also followed up that opinion by deciding that those marriages were valid. The Hight lion. and Learned Gentleman then suggested the propriety of enacting.some decisive measure as soon as possible. The House then went into Committee on the Bill. Sir R. FERGUSON said a question arose on the first clause, whether Presbyterian Ministers, members of the Established Church in Scotland, were to be regarded as Dissenting Alinisters'in Ireland. - Mr. Sergeant JACKSON said there could he no doubt that in Ireland, where the Episcopal Church was the established form of religion, Presbyterian ministers were Dissenters. Mr. O'CONNELL inquired whether there was any occasion to leave the question undecided. No one would suppose that a Protestant clergyman of die Esta blished Church in Scotland, on going to Ireland -and marrying parties there, became - a Dissenting minister. It appeared to him, that by inserting the words " Pres byterian Minister" in the clause, the difficulty would be removed. .After a short conversation, in which Sir R. Ferguson, • Mr. Jackson, and Mr. Vernon took part, the clause was agreed to. On the second clause being read, Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN said it was his intention to oppose the clause in its present form. Ile could • not go further than to say that parties contract - log second marriages, should not be subject to be prosecuted fur bigamy ; that was the ut most extent to which he could go. Ha should say • No to the clause as it 71Co,ii at present, and if any Ron. Member would support him, he would divide the Committee on the clause. Mr. Sergeant JACKSON defended the clause. Mr. FOX MAULE said they had in the first case a woman who had been married several years, and had most probably a large family—the marriage having been s u pp ose d t o b e legal, and the children to- be - legitimate up to a recent period. In the next - place, they had a woman newly married, with probably no family at all, and who at the time of the marriage was probably perfectly aware of th e circumstanc es un d er which the husband had deserted who, until recently, had been considered his wife. They had to choose between these two evils, and cer tainly he thought that ,justice required that they should recognize the first marriage, and not the second, further than-to exempt the parties from a prosecution for bigamy. After a few words from Mr. O'CONNELL, The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that they could not, unquestionably, make the present Act have a retrospective effect, by declaring illegal second marriages contracted by parties who had been married, in the first instance, under the late law, and while those marriages, according to the decision of the Judges, had not b een l ega l . A ll that could he said upon the subject was, that the law now about to be ,enacted could not meet the whole of the evil. He also wished to observe that the present Act did not declare that. the former marriages were invalid, and it did not in any way confirm the decision of the Judges if any doubt could be entertained upon that subject. Mr. S. O'BRIEN was understood to say that he. thought it proper that those should be absolved from bigainy, who had married a second wife, their former marriage having been declared illegal.. Sir GEORGE GREY thought if those parties were absolved from bigamy much annoyance and expense to the parishes. would ensue, as it would be a great inducement for those who had large families to marry again, whereby they would become chargeable on the parish. - • Sergeant JACKSON said a few words which were quite inaudible in the gallery. Mr. MURPHY suggested that a clause should be in serted in the Act which would make any father mho had contracted a marriage subsequent to the decision of the Jtidges, liable for their children. Mr. FOX MAULE said it would be a vast hardship that a marriage which had existed upwards of twenty years, and the issue of which had been a large family, should be set aside and the man be enabled to marry again. Let them suppose.the Case of a man Who had died since the de c isi on o f th e J u d ges, the law permitted that the property should descend to his children, and yet would it not be a hardship that these children should not be declared legitimate ? • lie would divide the Com mittee on the question. The Committee then divided, when there appeared— For the clause • 159 Against it 63 Majority in favour of the clause pG The clause' was therefore carried. The remaining clauses were then agreed to, and the House resumed. ,~