The Sun. — London, England, 1842-02-18 00:00:00

• . . ei FRIDAY EVENIN G , FEBRUARY 18 184`z. • TO THE LAND THE BUN, I.ON DON, T ffe, IMATES. 3 1843 f0r M . ' --------se --- sess e lils it ' bat n thl s e ho an ull :EBRI.IARr 10 * '' r : July, , mici natural consequence of the Revolution of I vices ageinst Messrs. ate Mr. Andrews, of 'A ll t ot i :tre2 l , 1 -1- IELLIGENCE THE owN C ER O s RN-LAWS. WARD of CRIPPLEGATE WITHIN. called out " to Da ever- one of the safest measures of reform AND GENTLEMEN,- When the countryman OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. REFUSAL or TIIE PEOPLE TO PETITION THE HOUSE OF ,A, bpstaryas;tforofintte:•llsisitimAYptersilffrBSE4 E LA 1 DE-STHEET. ht.., e . '39,5 _ gaud 131 : he It in a j w . would infuse IleW blood into ISUMMARY OF NEWci it i n,:t= o l ,. or the al... _, T . Aw I N v .iinited time, under the assignees of Gye and Hughes. 1 __e- e se________ COMMONS. OUSE OF LORDs._(TH Is DAY.) _ My L ._ Jupiter to come and get his cart out o f th e mud, Yesterday afternoon Alderman Sir M. Wood, Bart., M.P., e t t oi v t eh e A 3 r l ms ty h S l e a ri re i h ce , L owe st •. .... . the nant fr. s i n e point V- 111 q .- eit AND l'he plaintiff had been employed in 1811, anti was to re- 1 El ) t , h o e u r s e o n: e r r to o f t h t h e e :t o ,ohl ff 7et e ne n bl d:ecadaalipsddeperieittthy apprehensive o a sci s navrr s e: a et i d willt o b m e - 0 v e . ~ S I ; t i c theon v p e t u i e r d p o a s e m e o e f t i t n a g k i n o a f the their e i i r n inhabitants e a n b t i t i a m n e t n s t s of on n thet the e b o vent th , erne of tile body politic, and •••re- eive five geineas a week till the property was disposed COMMITTEE or PRIVILEGES. I .............,,, C Veil- , Their Lordships oat in a CoMmittee of Privileges to-day.l e .7, 1,.. lii_motumw.,; , ~ Willie s enanges so mu. li dread ' 1 eit by the X. . His claim amounted to 2501. and the Jury, after an theTwheormtheyetAinigdewrmasanhetlodoakt the e e c S h c a l i i r oo sh l- o r r oo tly m a , Services. ority had made up its mind to a t ten o'clock. rhe Peers pr esen t w er e-th e L o rd Chanegor, warrant C. I respectfully point out thi s f a bl e d story as Corn-law scheme. ' 14 .71 -- .1, I Charge. 33 minutes after S!:s , iitur - s deliberaCon, gave a verdict for 100 guineas. = suPport a 11I• publ_tr___p_p_!nton. 0 = ..„, " Who runs may read." ft P er hi t l h i h ate . mistry so tenacious ofanise, The • 1 Four men, named Crawley, Brown, Harris, and Davis, Lerd Brougham, Lord Cottenham Lord Campbell, the Earl of s c t o ri r e n t - lyi a a l, a s ialog T o h u a s t t 3 o ,ou yo sh u or Kinnaird, and the Bishop of Carlisle. - --- -..-- result we In the U. -- __s ...ssa Ale already stated. - .vere committed at Queen-square yesterday, for break- THE MARcHmONT PEERAGE, these laws will occasion a reduction of rentals, is both natural The room £. was densely thronged with the most respectable Tilt , FOREIGN. Though ! • and 2 Kingdom 6511 Votes 1 4,575 ge PUrseve • • ' eig, into the dwelling-house of Mr. Piersey, landlord of si r William 13eetharn and Colonel Irwin were exa- and justifiable. differing from man of • a e n tio a n lie w ra i t th ion th in e y uas to the merchants and traders resident in the ward. ) 628' 3,644;637 e eert ,„, ,r..ee teng resistance of the French Cabinet to A majority of fart}-one votes in the Chamber oI , he White Horse, linioltsbridge, about • half-past two mined this morning in this Peerage on the behalf of the pol cy of such laws, lam far from believing y that a redaction The CHAIRMAN said that he deemed it his dut •to call the • Forces & Colon Land , . Colon. :01 . 114 4 ,55s rejt of elect° •• • •negatived the uestion of the extension ol , Government e w .ar d*f ofor ) le Indies' 12,805 1,233 26, Deputies has ~ r-eoleaunsei, o'clock.a a n n d d -___ _ _ aati l o,s _ ers ral rdorm is fraught with the great-yesterday morning. T wo o f th e m were found concealed claimant, and the further consideration of the claim was ad- of the P resent r en tals , if suddenly brou g ht a b ou t, would meeting, in consequence of a re qu i s i t i on mos t num : : 940 871,657 :, Ist benefit the public ;on the contrary Vote 3.-Staff Officers ••• ••• ••• 172,425 4 ,..„ ,":, g to th e s•:. . •,, e , k , ta,(... M . en.TizoT admits that there the suffrage in }ranee. The Paris Journals are full of if, by a proper union of respectably signed, having been presented to him for y that De made to grow where one only grew before an event by no morning decided against them ; an event that they might have r e .,•01 are tso d the subject. The Journal des Debuts thus Proclaims thi Lord Lord means between landlords and 'n li De art mts ... ..,, • -- 82,467 ' act i ve, sang fact ions • ... - . .n the cellar, and the other two were arrested in the journed sine die. , 3ioadway, "Westminster, it little after- They made a The Chancellor, Brougham, Lord Cottenham, ~ , tenants, two blades of grass can purpose. It was true that the house of Commons had that means improba' le) there will be little recessity for smiling expected, although the majority- was a little more than that Vote 5. -Res al Mil. Col ... ... ••• wit h :e , e,., in 1 ranee, who regard triumph of the Cabinet :-" The result of the classic , es - . and Lord Campbell, then sat to hear Appeals. 18,450 1 t 1 ltifl ~, ‘LIJ hatred the 0 • ' ' • i perate resistance. Vote 4.-1 b e p it I ; .03 • constm i ti 1 y- abou • lILLANS dynasty,and who are must have confounded many hopes, and deranged many A /, - i . y owl . ring to overthrow it. Yet by• excluding intrigues. It was evident that the Opposition considered i .11., .. ~ At kensne , ton ro ice Court, Mr. Powell, omnibus restos v. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL. Mr. BETHEL resumed hi arguments in the part heard ap-ial controller of are t t f ipon that es- ent n -roll, a dense population, for which they were prepared.-( Hear, hear.) Ilut when hum and Hibernian School i 1 ••• .. .•• 15,606 13 '-• f 1 fined si ti •running an rn , pi it tor, rent or( , , was., . o ~ or an un o ular tax to enable the Vote 7.-Volunteer p teer Cor s. ... ... ••• 82,458 etwol ofe•- h _ _„ts. .Pr ssional men from • itself pretty sure of a victory ;we know not how theybehalf of the a peal on ppellant, who complained of a decree of p . p occupiers of your land they knew the formation of that Home, they could not have the list of electors, . g a Reuse on e libus from London to Brentford, havin 1 - 1 • the Court of Chancery, pronounced on an information filed by to pay their present rents. The remedy would be much doubted of having a large majority, with the Alinitter a sins t A ore 6.-Royal Mil. Asy- , . --- - - --- t hree b'Clg effl 'l9 4 I ' vlllllOl. T h 3 throws them into the arms of these factions. will attempt to explain their defeat. The pretence which memadeee o b l y T t e h w e n =t, ti f t o e rzr e n u p a c h nsa f t 9,316 • 5,808 122,568 4,887,700 s i afr babee.euffrars e • • that e en lit,surly the cheapest, as, it is the best, they have so frequently set up of the absence of a certain MISCELLANEOUS. Or the distance to Turnham-e - reen. the Attorney-General, respecting matters arising out of a claim more securely m i d cheerfully effected by the extra produce ; them. But the question was not as yet decided, for th!pla with a felt of a sliding scale had to go throiesh a Committee and alrn Deduct the -Numbers of aline', mast • ,7- , ili I ° - 11 lienumber of its Members is now too old to be repeated, and Sir William Alolesworth, it is stated by a Conservative - measure of corn, diffusing, as it must do, gladness on all sides ; VillieiS . 3 motion against any duty, was to be '• Iz oi f e or the loss of his whilst, as a nation, our hands will be strengthened brought op. Horses and Men of Regi • .. ' '- i t ofo . tdu citt • given to every young man qualified b Y the Chamber was, perhaps, never more numerous than print, will probably be chosen lligh Sheriff of Cornwall - The Learned Counsel h - o ad • becaute the consumers themselves will receive direct was from the ments in India and the not concluded when our Evening ect advan- He the Chairman) e cominencement pre ared , , lure' i eg s s latie die e . lon to enter 1 sei tr i ce upon the duties of a legal, a medical, it was yesterday. Our anticipations have been realised. for the year ensuing. Edition went to press. rage by the expenditure of your ample and Well -secured in- to give his vote on th e question.-(Hear, hear.) P . Charge defrayed by the are very fer t • IF 0 - • • _hie, or a literary • A majority of 41 on a question in which the Conserve- - Count Pozzo di Borgo, the celebrated diplomatist, • --------_____________ profession. comes. No stronger evidence can be required to prove that our Mr. FROST moved the first resolution That the duty on East India Company 2,805 1,233, 26,94 C 871,657 7-------______ there eX 6 er .BO live majority was reduced to its own strength is a signis w ho was so long Russian Ambassador in France, and present modes of cultivation admit of aarridment, and that we corn and such other provisions as generally absorb the poor ______ ----- --- ness,ei . URSE-Peese II ROLL S CO U RT.-(THIS DA.Y.) 6,5111 4,575; 95,62 e 4,016,043 . seetS, . , - r EDNESDAY, FEB. 16. ficative result." afterwards in England, died on Tuesday at his residence possess extensive means, and a disposition to avail ourselves man's exeenditure was not just., and if vieeed as a tax on in. its of former r . . First Highest Lowest Last nAvixs v. FISHER. number and --- ,m. not The Presse pays the same homage to the eloquence of in Paris No. 43 Rue de l'Universite, in the 77th year of them, than the character of our aericultural come, was a burthen on a class less able to bear it, &c." He - ement anger eres‘ r eitsh 6 ;ft Cent Price Price. Pricy Price. The Court was engage i ( throughout the day with the argue socieie comprised of individuals of the highest rank,' Deduct Apppropriations in Aid... 87,082 talent, said that the late Government would have introduced a plan ' • oft 4 p er c en :*•••••“*. • 119 35 ... Ili, 45 ... 19 35 ... 119 35 M. Guizot as the Dchats, and expresses its regret at the o f hi s age . mcnts on this part-heard cause The • • 1 t'on turned princt a ue. , - P q and e xperience in the country, and formed for the expres s for the amelioration of the Corn-laws if they were not aware confound coma' I pi, ~, n‘ t : : ..... ••••• 103 rie ... 13 50 ... 103 50 ... le3 :.•0 support given by M. de letmartine to the proposition of T s-day the nnniversary of death of Martin constructionof. It • 'WY , 30 4 is .. th e • upon the that l 'an -.. ..... ...- ..... thl 35 • 50 V- 8 ' 3° ••• " M Ducos. It blames M. de Lamartine for applying ar- Luther, in 1516. His life is the history Of the arse in of interest. purpose of effecting that most desirable object ; rendered as it that the opposition and the magnitude of the interests opposed Amount to be Provided to March 31, 1843 ...I 3,928,9(11 ive Parliatac. ll • ; It oit : is trr eine , . -- ......... au GB ... 50 tie .. NO 60 ... 80_09 .. . b ' sli , is, so urgently necessary by the rapid increase of our popula- to them would have rendered their plan futile -a conviction 1 e StatuteetS W s ef en 1 ,„,,7,•••••••••.. 3390 Mu ...3340 -.531/0 ---., st are , -- • 10.5 If2i gennents for the necessity of reform to the support of a which lie lived. . ~rt------ tion. '1 hough all may not be gold that glitters, good has and e hidh the result proved to be correce-(Hear, hear.) The War -office, Feb. 8, 1841. H. HARDINGE. e • lie' It •let e Mem. se ' , 11t !' •••". 2 , 3 ,-,- - . measure so narrow and ill-conceived as that of M. Dueos, VICE-CH ANC ERY.-(THIS DAY.) _._ liameritary 0 0 .. i .; R im .. arcs XI •se •-501.2 .0 -.032 50 ...5032 JCI ' • must farther result from this; for as every real amendment in • el' ' present misters outvoted the late Government on those (jues- e SSW' I ivii r . 5 per Cents,";"'...~ - Abstract of the Estimates of Non-Effective Army . i meaning. - ‘'..,, It- '9 aei,,,,... 116,,', ... 11 6,4 ... 106 .. Pe consideration hls not intended to close the door for ever The Db R t ( *th the Ilf f 1 d )the V' Chancellor of England,' er y epor er sal e ercury o set er ay pub- le ice- the'vt:hole morning. munity at large must reap the benefit of those exertions. erepared to relieve the distress of the country. Sir Robert * 365 days, from the Ist April, 1842 to the 31st March, IBV. the manage ll l ° . .4 • B zra t „ ..... .. ......... ..... 2514 ... 55S ... , 571, •-• 2 5.34 1 tVI" au against useful, rational, proeressive reform. ns ,_s,„ s , .. . ..... ... ..... . ........ toe 25 ... Itli u 5 ... 114 25 ... 06 ~, .. 1 ~, lished Sir Robert Peel's speech on the Corn-laws, and the (Befor Vice-Chancellor BRUCE. ) This is not the place to enter largely into the details of culti- reel had not then received the fee, but as soon as he had, and Nos. of ----- r their regu- 1 ,; -- '''n 2% per r : ........... ...... •.101% ... 101% ... le4li •... 104t v Ihe Constttuttonne says:-" General expectation has • ]'own Council forthwith voted a petition against the Ministerial EASTON V. CATLING. vation ; but I would urge attention to two cardinal points in after five months' gestation lie brought forward his scheme Appropri- Amount ev ' hie' , v . ‘ents. ........ .53 .. 53 ... 53 ... 53 been disappointed. The prise en consideration of the treasure, and the populace burnt the Premier in effigy. The The object of this suit was the administration, by the Court, practical husbandry, hitherto only very partially adopted, but which was to be so usef u l e; th e cour ierwhich y, and was to Services. Officers! Charge. anon in to be igible, nude-. 1 * lames, R . B SAM WAt 311AttEn. and Aid. Provided. L iao Q t ........... ...... 342 50 ... 245 ... 342 50 ... 315 _ proposition of M. Ducos has been rejected by 234 votes Sun, as our readers are aware, by one of those wonderful efforts of a testator's estate. Be the will the children of the testator, which, being at once simple, efficacious, and cheap, are well be of such awful import.-(lmmense laughter.) Sir Robert ,sous enforeenten Men. 0vi t ,",;•,.........„,"*"*••••••.... 212 , 50 ... 215 ... 212 .0 ... 213 /5 to 193. This result afflicts us profoundly ; not because of reporting which have distinguished that excellent paper, seven in numlor, were equally entitled with direction that it calculated to add largely to our annual supply of food. I mean Peel knew well that his]elan - ____ ___ ---- rave no roosa tt, ll •t•e! e t ~ . -.... .......... .15 ... :15 ... 511 .., 515 aided by steam both in printing and in transport, arrived atdeath, • ' • • should go, after their to their children. It appeared deep tillage on arable, and zrrigation on our pass lands. please the supporters of the Corn-laws. His plan was an ap •• £ X X LOP'S 'ishur eio inee... ....... -.. 1,85 ... 567 50 ... 565 ... stif, it was of much importance to us whether the Ministry k had loubtful Wean ' Derb • shortly after two o'clock on Thursda mornin contain- that a part of the stock been sold b the trustees tor the Deep tillage is practicable i n ever y place e h ere th e plough peal and an apology to the landlords, but was never intended to Vote 8.-Rewards fori i s 'l l3 aue.... ........... 235 •. • • 238 75 - 235 ... 213 75 received a check or not, for M. Guizot had expressly de- 3 able • and y in g , , , , of ,„ , • xne eases incurred the administrationt e trust asons teen i d. .BELtil I. vest, AN FUNDS-Baussaxs. Fan, 15. dared that whatever might be the result of the ballot inu , an - - in - meet the wishes, tar sati:ly the w a n t s an d priv a ti ons of the Military Service 15,281 ... 15,281 . rest uat 'e Si r ; Robert's • • " • . speech. Anxious • that our naders should have and in pa)ment of the legacy duty, and that the residue had tivator well for his labour. The Scotch farmers have taken the working classes.-( Hear, hear. ) Vote 9.-Army-pay cf, ... Railway Aul eil h , • itaih ich , 2% per Cent. -52% the Cabinet would not resign; because a decision .in . Le en ef '.2...Lean, 5 per C,nt lO-24 the earliest intelligenee_that th e i r j us t d a i ses on our eroineii.. been b roug h t into court, It was stated at the bar, that dis- lead, much to their credit, and profit too, in thi s p rac t ic e ; Mr. COOPER seconded the resolution and said that the Gmeral Officers ......1 219 98000 .. 9e,000 Commons 1 1 t AWe . sses „ ..... i forty illions, 4 per Cent tr3 favour of the proposition would have been a concession rude should be met to the fulle s t, we di t h e re poi . of 5, 1 , e pure , an d diff erences had arisen between the trustees a nd divers and there is net an occupier of one bandied a cres of l an d in question was whether they should passively allow themselves Vote 10.-Full pay for of Trade- .4. 5 • ...- ------- 3per Cent. - - ---Th - to public opinion, and would have raised the character Sun, an d by fi ve o' c l oc k p u bli s h e d a co r rec t a nd impartial, parties interested in the, fund, and that it was thought Proper, England, but would find his pocket benefited by making a and the working classes to be robb e d of one-third of their Retired Officers ... 1 38es 66,000 ,„ 66,000 dau ........ Thirty-seven .. ...... 73 poses to Wen .. 4 ,- Loo ::,401 lO3 ', 7 ; of the Chamber and of representative government in the t h oug h h as ty epit ome o f th e d ocumen t, i n whi c h, f rom its in consequence of such differences, that the trust should he ad- journey into Scotland, to view the practice and judge for dallY bread by lords and landlords who se sole obje c t it was to Vote 11-Half-pay and' ► 3004%1 1 e5', 1e32, 4 per Cent tie% estimation of the country. Ministers, however, have nature there was nothin g to glo s s, wel l ing to garble. The ministered by the Court. There was no allegation in the bill him s elf, feed their avarice, without any regard for the privations of the Military allowances i 4 299 477,618 5,618 472,000 , , iy to amend s v . ' - tail° l. Ban% i, f i ,..titnatsrce, 4 .*,per Cent B4 curried the day, and the decision will not be gratifying public appreciated our labours, so that we could scarcely print, against the eertonal resPeetalatY of the trustees ; but Cowl- Up to a recent period of time a very small p or ti on only of suffering millions.-( d ear , h ear .) Vote 12.-Foreign Half -1 .outh-street . : Nati ona iT Purn, 8 per cent... ......... Guizot papers sufficiently'quickly to s upply th e crowds t h at rushed to sal f or t h e plaintiff s t a t e d, that the object of the suit was re- the river waters could be stolen, as it were, by th e husband- Mr. JOHN LA itT moved the second resolution, to the effect, pay, &c. 5Ol 58,433 ... • 58,433 d re' . Exchange 4e4 n e t. lY .... ... ••••• ... to them alone. The factions against whom M. . •ei ourcontemptible Contem- move the Deus sty for further intercourse. man from the all-important_ miller, wlose indispensable duty that independent of its direct influence as a tax, the duty Vote 13.-Widows'Pens. ... 141,817! 324 141,493 [together, sil., r , , ...../3,4 1 -- 0 ---ondox (shot t) - lippie will rejoice our office. Jealous of our success, o Cont em_ pronounced his eternal phi . ~ ~ ordered that the trustees should have their it is to ffin • d There ' • tuhlesome to .re ' Parer+, Feb. 15. orary, the Mercury, of The His H Noun affects to call the verbatim report .ts o. sic our corn. ere was no choice in the matter; levied upon foreign corn inflicted an awful amount of injury Vote 14.-Compassionate . AU.BI" al he does at the result. Partial reforms are not what P Ilf :eive,,„ RIAN FUNDS V F 7 Sun " a meagre outline," and the digest of the Reporter " a costs out of the fund in Court. the cultivator of your soil could only he permitted to look at, by its shifting!, rendering the operations of merchants, menu- Allowances, Poun:y: r decide faith. F- 0 ,,,, __ _ ..5.1 4 ",. 41 .--- IaNNA, ER... imm they want; it will answer their purpose much better to Pe° .. T hrte r" ctn. ' , .... .... ues see satisfaction withheld from the demands of the country. miserable aboreon,"-‘. in many respects a false, and in all a - and long for the water; to make _bread the corn must be reamers, and farmers futile, and deranged the monetary system Warrants, and Pensione , s does not hap P e e k 1..' Cent. .... • .... ...... . • 10(11 i garbled version." We tell him, what the public too will tell COMMON PLEAS.-(TH IS DAY.) converted into flour, and thus the coveted element was and by throwing the manufacturing population out of employ- for Wounds..... 1 ... 120,500 ... 120,500 tlte an - shares • . .... • ..... "...."...."- ........ - The Courrier Francais is very violent against the Mi serted what he knows strictly monopolised. Now, the master power of steam hss ment produceddestitution, misery, and erime.-( Hear hear.) Vote 15. -In -P • him, that in order to defame us he has as GUEST V. THE SHEFFIELD, ASHTON•UNDER-LYNE, AND enstoners hers. Le m . 4 . , ...., min _ e. ,„,.......... ................... .. ................ J.) 4 I. r, ndered us ' Independent of this strient necessity ; and Sir Robert Peel admitted the advantage of a traffic - e A s In le Zee ...... -.. .............. ...... MANCHESTER RIILW.AY CoMPANY. in corn of Chelsea and Kil l° instance (TOE S , T . . "a• P b. 12. Journal says it is quite evident that no satisfaction Will • his fully to be as great as his annoyance.-Derby Reporter. This was an action brought by Sir John Guest, Bart., the in converted . nine eases out of ten throughoutthe e with America • • • ern! ire, corn , but •said that previous agreement with Denmark mainhana Hospitals ere, a It ap pears e -- --'-'''"•.e,e-ss s ........ sss _______ ees _ . __ e into flour as c may be ch ap, or cheaper, by steam precluded any facility being afforded for that traffic. Why, a (746) ; and Out-P.n. • veils, if persev. tee, published • ' l.° in, a liSt f ---- be given to public opinion by the present Chamber of • t i-on master and owner of the Dowlais Iron Works, Gla gr, a , han by water power. Ilere, then we h ave t wo eery o b.. repeal of the Corn-laws would remove all obstacle on that sioners of Chelsea HO3- ts. We alp, ''! , 2, t 4 ,r in Th e sun hatDeputies,antiincreasing their ages range from 72 to Company, for the recovery of 54e/. iris. 4d., alleged to be due pits] (74,709) 75,455 1,259,104 7,690 1,251,414 Act to OW ' • more j., eater organise their force well foe the next general eleetton. MEETING. country to a large amount, independently of what may mon sens . e, as it would not reduce the loaf one farthing, while Vote 16.-Superannua -01111°' than Pro portion of them Amon t , a dOz en . approaching 80, and " Si. Guizot will certainly," says the Courrier, ‘.' employ • for fitly tons of sOlb. rails, and the necessary fastenings, sup rationill be expected Y from the exertions of our Agricultural it was injurious to all classes.-(Hear,_ hear.) :ion Allowances ... ... 41,455 455 41.000 f brief and 5 1 ~ prob.. ,g; ne ci erg ,, ~_ considerably exceeding that age. corruption and intimidation on the most extensive scale. (ractm A CORREsPONDENT.) plied le the plaintiff to the defendants. Societies seconded, as they are, by the zeal and ind us t r y o f a Mr. Dewen. in a very eloquent speech seconded the reso. . . on ethh . , LEICESTER, THURSDAY EVENING, FEB. 17, 1842. Mr. Sergeant Wilde appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr: ' - -- -- assuredly, be allowrid to restrain either class of men already distinguished as the most perfect culti- lotion. requiring . e d,., , I. "IY, als o th e `" Proportion is nearly as high, and, - • • .iNo scruple will, ~ - This afturnoon a most numerous and spirited meeting of Numbers and Charge to .ad retur z - e result would be f - Sergeant Channel for the defendants. asure substitto •, s found the same, aWC him or Ins colleagues or his agents. the inhabitants has been held in the Ma, ket-place, to repudiate vat es of land in the universe. As respects the possible benefit Mr. CASH moved the third resolution to the effect, that as the 31st March, )843.. 80,859. 9 ,278,205 /4,087 stall __ ‘, is of the ages ofa llAir. Sergeant WILDE briefly stated the case to the Jury, didellf. f persons in easy circuits- , The list Quotidienne observes :-". W' e felt for a to be derived from the extended application of our waters in . . members of a commercial community they felt the evils of the Deduct A o • • ppr priations way Anson .- • , sue f , Irt . tm t h eii youth the Miniverial measure on the Corn-laws. The meeting was and read a letter from Mr. Vignoles, late engineer to the Com -1 • 11 . - ' - • with ' in Aid ante , ' trasti n tess lngs, hilt at upwrds. Wed() not (mu them momenta movement of indignation which we cannot called by the Mayor, on the requisition of several hundreds of pony, to Sir John Guest, containing the order for the rails, &c., husbandry, I think it not too much to expect, that by the cum- resent ssstern, w ii(h c iefly affected the working classes, he supreme ~,,,,, , bined exertions of the engineer and the agriculturist, at least w tom they sympathised, and whose interests they felt bound to se O'''- sp ail E. the„ 1. , . the same time cannot help con lit describe, when we heard M. Guizot, branded as he is he most respectable mans:lecturers and shopkeepers of the whiCh were the subjeet of the present action. He then called one-fontth of the land may ultimately be fertilised by such reeresent , they, therefore, pledged themselves to oppose the Amount to be provided tie. No ne 0 , hod, 4 life „ -11 the sufferings and the short with his apostacies, audaciously insulting adversaries who town. It was fixed for one o'clock. and shortly after that hour m r s•• - . John Guest, . Caleb Griffiths, agent to Sir uest, who proved has been giv en - ' few'`._ of the 'lnch • are the lot of the great would be despicable in their opinion, it . they had not for there could not be less than 4,000 persons present. Amongst the shipment, at Liverpool, of 50ffis. of iron rails and fasten- means, at the discretion of the occupiers, creating at the same sliding scale, and would only support a fixed duty, subject to a to 31st March, 1843... ... 2,264,121 ... 2,264,121 ~,,r ,, work' time avast lund of employment for our honest labourers. But gradual periodical extinction. The fixed duty would be but Total of Effective Services • 3,928,961 f upon an iti s c i . as r_ea c h tiv , ing classes. In many trades i , r, inm the repulsiveness with w hi c h h e inspires all honour- them were Chartists, Tories, and 'Whigs, but the utmost una- in _ s, g to the cyder of M. Vignoles, at three different dates, . if you will ask any o . pie ccu 'r of land which he would pref e r, an instalment, in the hope that it would secure free trade to the Non-Effective Services. I ,_ , from . cli c_ , age of 50, and not a few die at able men ;but, under the effect of his emphatic but rumity reigned throughout. One feeling seemed alone to ac- from December, 1639, to the 9th of January, 1840,- and pro- , of Trade, da r. "ealthy es of thepeople, and 1 th e conversion of one-tenth part only of his farm into a water working classes, who were obliged to pay for their food by the dat a' ° mei '"lt. es of on by severe or en- t • speech, in spite of the effronter- of falsehood in tuate them. Sympathy for the distress duced the invoices. I , • - ' it, the ll lelati h I .'• ° Poet t • - enip Y - .' ring ne - e olv e I s, scanty food and had elntion, 'flits . . 1,, 1.0..S1011.1ti; W.. ~3 3 minutes aßec ' :i 1 11 3 910 A ' , .1: 00'4° Met#ll4lll Ealr '*. 11 S it It' u 9 ?tree o' Ctocg"u ,11 ,! . i t O p ''..69 f " ;thing, mustf, ld lay . ) , legislatioNyilio are very fert,qs, A ness, their ea-ep its of formr 'Acts, !ement, might not e Confound Ciaairool ive Parliamen tary • Statute-law kIY.I liamentary Collee• I meaning. 510); the manageniew‘:', r their regulatie' 11l igible, and c5l ,sous cnforcem ?axe no room kr:t loubtful zneaning,:,;', !asons then it 1s Railway Amend' Commons by th of Trade. M W e poses to amend as Ly to amend a bad .outh-street tailor [together; and re. uhlesonie to Por I decide faithfallf s does not haPPeu bers. Legisl atire to instance doeS it vils , if persevere,d ts. W e contend: Act to ame'll: f brief and siinPe. requiring italettell: asure substitated•:l, way Amendrefl4f he supreme direc7. tie. No new liww; has b e en given V, i. i f, upon an inspe...,, of Trade , dollen.. 'jug it, the Board, of opening it for onement rnontblf. 'iolations of th e a fine of twenti, i. The Board ot d enforce retaro mapanies to snoUe' Is ; to submit tbe. ion, appoint ll' fi 1 ,, , . e the janction A mies convulsed, ate possessioof or for proVidill 'or the prorkfe tkOl,, tides with ?n ! ~' rants, for. &drunk, or ,) of .raitivier,l4 pTopeiiy'of,ilNr r Je and no doubt .4, s the Bill I.Y.b*r_. 4 4 that Parliaro:p li - Lnnot accePfl.,,, ne good Act;Prt an old, geSPt...l flaking the 1 7t v ay Anieli4Pligr7 at one advolli4; ndment AO, I l ia Perplex e d ,o .. • the dine t9,-111;; . All reftne mbodiedfiriat uses, i‘''' ° ,- .•,..;:l.::-. , 0 ..10 5 - 1 acelocir‘i*l, - i. in the Sistr-1, t was pr occen4 ter from gadria the state of the, ensation prokl!!! nit rentains Orr.; Cents, la .7 K 1 for a s e:ni 1, at 31 15-I 6 at 60 Or . i fi c s took pie, l —ip. an d the re o tlg at 60 days. , business don 0,2101. 0,2101. , C. 05 13 , rcPl i 3 ita • 0 Itel aim !Oa' 'lll9s. •••• 000 ••••• ... -..ange on tandem s hoal ( ' .444,8rtissels Papers, Feb. 15 . „,_• AUNVRIAN F UNDS....VIENNA, FEB. 7 0,54 4 4,e per CHII. lidetra . I . Froir moin... . . ' clues Rare:. sph,,Lceseni.is...... o o '' .............. ....:: .............. : .. :::::,........::::::::. 16 A j , :t i ! ...414e/nej...........e. 1 ;;;; ... Pi).j.i. ....... ..... In The Sun It pp s ------- .--'--- : " - - e. ---- 1 publiashilelal from a list of some seventy veteran Peers, tt . dozen 92, the greater pro '• approaching 80, that their ages range from 72 and More thauportion of them . hstarad ctieebtit3f;;l:lsis° the age. considerably exceeding . that p } among the clergy the proportion is nearly as high, and, suelthebis rc.an their resultl;iould be found the same, if we of the ages of all persons in easy circthuenam youth uwards. We do not envy . n. tra st i n essll , l gs, but tit then ame time cannot help co sp a -- g i . teese with the sufferings and the short 4 11 ' nt life which are the lot of the great Y of the - l c . hett,iti;rom. diseases few reach e 11 or king classes. 35 t s the age ot 5 a • 0 and not a fel% , die at In many , - trades 'Phis broliga by severe or iin illkneLeirnPl.oyments, scanty food and bad clothing. T 1 ea ever Y f act. cannot fail to make a painful impression 'tient Y th hottian e mind, and ought to be an t- induce ran lea °se who live at ease, and especially our be e_ ..- . the 1 nefitoslatt)rs, to sink their selfish interests for the is Paid b y f the community. The great mass of the taxes wZe, eoluniece, and lab., the • contribute most also to the , general wealth of the countr . 3, t en : °Tie-half of them have barely the means of e , x . T it ritteous state of society; of v, ' and thousands at present are pining away for va n Rem us nece ssaries of life. This is an anomalous and da - consideration of our lvealthy lawgivers. * requiring the earnes'e and irnme- hi 0N , ______---,--- ; ...- - - 'Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS. to t ', CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. toe to ..-40or. COTTON MARKET, FEB. 17.-The sales of cot• e • bl i'le ill c°rnPrise 3,000 bales of jab kinds, prices are without /.Iqiitind the Market is exceedingly dull. tatepri,P„t• S HARE AIARKET FEB. 17.--The transactions line ----4 astern C o • .' Grand J . unction, Iv mtl n , . unties, 81 , 911, Lon astern '°lrlanngliam, 167 i ; 321. Shares, 57; South There • , 69 ' , 14 0 -rem) later arrivals to.day from any quarter. misgl,3,txtelittoSTa.a. STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 17.-The Market L 9ir t lest e2r. 4: o ° lt aY on , , and prices li i a , i te ; iN a l t a e n n o d n e ? n , c4 ri d 6 : B : di n•g r r m ds io . - g.. 7,asieft4t.2! .London and Birm ingham , 168 lasrt er a and Leeds, Hal f- sh ares, 3l # ; Manchester at e id i L d e i r v d ' s, k lav t , "nitres, at 31. 17s. 6d. ; Union Banks, 61. Its. 3 d. _oyaaml',olol., Fez. 17.-The British and North . American ithebt• t• al, steam -ship Caledonia, which left Liverpool on the 101bied.-slef I!alifz.x and ' Boston, has arrived off oo t u h n e te P r o od rt t d r i e s : andrk, v nad in lat. 4, 20, long. 29, en .. 'tle' eather whic h lasted three days. The steam-snip t he .15 ' 1 . :, i3 aPPoin'te lon Saturday, at two o'clock, with ailli'llisoe,,--,,gers ma i l a nd t he tos from the Caledonia. The Acadia the e G a - Y any letters forNorh America, posted this evening 1 4 p`net,ral Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand. limo ' a hr c ' et.s hiP South America, which was appointed to . et ew York on the Ist inst., has arrived o ff Liverpool, 7 1 4.; th era o hoapers have been received from her at pre v• -'?„0.17.' e e l te 7 t ill . , w - ever, be only one day later than those pre ed r, Ct.`: 1 01 8 TILE rusrns. 1, 14 4. i t ° Pencil at 89A i for Money andAcceunt ; Three per b te,i„,Nuee, £.9Z • Ditto Three-and-a-Half, 991 /; i.ew ' 14s7 -a -Half per' Cents. 481 i ; Bank Stock, 169 170 ; 45p..1' I3ills, 23 25 T h e ' market looking very firm. tt ealiar, - --- " l sb iao Active Stock, . 241 1 ; Mexican . Bonds, _ . 35 1 § i i.... ; gio,se Five , 22. i 23 ; Brazilian, 65 66 • Chilian, 70 02, o Pit/,,PerCents., 32/ ; Ditto, Threes, 191. ~ ''' OP SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. ~P a ster r, -- mways Paid. Per Share. %sten I,li-ounties .... 23 -- 9 , Nu n stern ................................... 65 - - :end ot i _ neew.., .................... ... 50 - t ond o , ' Brighton Qit tit to IsT il e d w n . irinin g h ....... .. 90 50 •-• - 2 35 8 :: : l t ti =- e on .. .................. ... 2 ...... bin, -,„' and Leeds - N York N ew Sha ana Ni , res .............. 30 - :01 orth Midland 5O - The l4l %4l l4 TOcK 'IA Nxs. , '1 !reland. . 171 l6l to - ................ HALF-FAST ONE. Atty, hsin to - rent ie,.--1 doing in the Stock Exchange has not been to tt e .q° ok e Consols are now 89A for Money, and 891 p„"Ke 17„ ce ° 11 1st ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 89i 90 ; Bank "‘ell i "L India Ditto, 248 ; India Bonds, 6 prem. ; and 1,4141ner .iiills NO follow. •• 23 . 5, 4. 1001114 1 ,4 are the quotations during the morning in t_he . 0 Ste m, Ket. Brazilian, 65 ; Buenos Ayres Bonds, 19 , aP tli sh ~pi , Deferred 10i ; Portuguese Fives, 321 ; t.:J'. Ditt o t;iy: Stock. 24i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. Itery little de!' "*. k i 'on c o °nig in Shares and prices are a shade lowe d r i f Rht. 3 ,, , un tl i es 8 1; Gri at Western, New, 60; London Fi il ik4 hestp" 1(4, 1 notes, 3'IA 34 • Ditto Loan Notes 5%; - 1 4. " r alit( Leeds i 3%; York ' and North Midland, t:37i QUARTER TO THREE. C611"3 ' 6 4 T il ; Alexi 35 • •1 can,A 1 . Spanish, 24% - t 111 A ItIETS-(T HIS DAY.) h Th i • A. 4 - "eel(' COhN EXCHANGE. allth 4 supplies hate been good of Harley, small of other 4 Ai gra in b t • Is e °N ay , n 4 fair of Irish Oats. Wheat at the same prices It 4 , heay, ia arley very dull, and rather lower. Beans and It 0 t. ,',: and rather cheaper Oats sold with much difficulty . eeations. Fleur verv . heavy. b . T her S MITHFIELD. batior":ll;tei:byt.e ,_...3hooratlbitenaest.atisatti Sm all sob :is., . s a u n p d ply r ( i i n f e C s a w tt e l Atadebritit.t Ctilves and Pigs the supply Sheep-the de reweaanwsdinithoddeirffiatcou. l t and s the n . p . ''. ; P te ' t ° 4s. 6(1 3 . 99 ' ; Mutton 4s. to 4s. 10d. ; Veal 4s. t3d. Sheep 1,750, Pigs 329, Calves 124. ei.111e1)1,,,i„ COLONIAL. MARKET. r*.ee. ~•,_e!gs done was limited ; in prices little variation took 1, _ I",e nnperts keep light. 1 8 11 , ces g TEA MARKET. aid, e as i. h l4 . and the demand good. Company's Congou Oiili k . i , . TALLOW MARKET. t ile o 9 - fie i t Was firm'and the demand good, at 48s for P. Y. b„... „ . esl,ot,'and 495. for delivery. '''Z'Their SHIP tt , °, ll lt °on . , p ita. 18 u7. 1 3_ , 11% . 1 G-( `'..i. 4 -4 T; .p --- -me this day at no on .TIisI.Sw.DAY.) 44,, - . 44 -ilv xki7 ltu. 17. -Sid. Rowena, R iver Gambia. for .1.,,.: NIL the -M ind light.-Arrd. m I,;itteo,l., ~nutivard bound. 'Hoopla..:aibkitarras, Sce- ; Elizabeth, Alexandria ; I tbit 7 tr .. , ' "n• 1 7. - Wind variable.-Arrd . . C T a a l l i b s o ta t: tbg - s 1.1 44*• b. Jan..iy Grant and Fa R m i e o , B G u t n r a e i n a n d ' o e s ;A Jessiey -t,lt!st V .„, ek.„• l ° ett eiro; Elizabeth, a .4._stis. Bat Mobile; Louisa, 09-'114:11:. Havana Ja G n : so rm n an, an L d Guayra ; Athens and Margaret, Trinidad; 4,l3lll,;Bt•hihomas's ; Claibome, New Orleans ; Eliza email nett Baltimore ; Commerce and 1 ; A z Y and Ch a m Charleston ; Aurelius, Savannah ; Alle ft;'les; p_ 'flansplain, Philadelphia; Ann, Boston ; Wave, : : 1 7 . 'ean s; `,lr!il Africa. Arrd. off port, ;Pennsylvania, New -..,d..e"1""er• bound h° ttias Leech, South America . ; Caledonia b , *teteree of to Halifax, is off port, putting back with rtL , a __ rudder sprung and twisted, having expe , 2 t , , Teee!aion of heavy gales, bore up, Ilth inst., from il" ktalif `'' ca dia• steamer will kavethis!on Saturday afternoon -!" - Ial - o•e' Ll ' with the Caledonia's mail and passeagers, as well ._ ~,,, i.ner lettera • • 4(.1vr0 t0u ,.. Posted in tune . for her. hew Yo r k . h l , FRB.. 17.-Wind S.E.-Sid. Westminster,. illl a `te bee, l a nded 'lye chain cables, and about ten tons of iron, r,'. attel, nt ,..„ i. from the . Isadore, from Cardiff to London. We e i: - . ",',', l Ise made to weigh her about the middle of , I tt y: r e i T 0 ItO . A y n , lo r r n e . cif i4 th . e cargo 14 .- C o u n tes s be Durham,t at these heaps. re.,,, c p, for Bremen. Sid. William, n ' Calcutta. Four n of the efkld J o h " Newport, from London to Rio de Janeiro, having ,PIA -3, i"c eed, the vessel is detained for hands. !Nei ll. /.°lllll, Pte. 17.-Wind S. S.E.-Arrd. the Lavine, PAL e° ' 6 ; 8 0n Pere dis_mast Mary, Sierra Leone. .Tili9t,ll°lrrit, Pea. 1 6. EV," d e W S. W. to S. S.W.-Arrd. ist e . strainer s h in • West trier ' L, , out ampton for Wr Indies; Erculano, , . rr „ ( ninon for Cadiz. :Neek,ett2°4LeutFisa,.n. 16.-Sld. Eliza, Jamaica.-17. Halifax, : " 1, 7" ,,, 1 7: , :1 : 1 , ,.., F i e .a n 0 1 ,6 C1.1 ',T)41- • PEn. 14. Skl. Helen Mar, Hav , annah . . _ t!,ernstrsin. 1.----t:Ialal y 7. ,_Singapore; Rolla, Nas.au, ;New P 0.... • Trevannance, Haman, from been got off the bar, and brought into the hr.- • Illj _•-•••-..._._... ,.......,.. _ .r...___._. IINI LTG PEEL IN EFFIGY. Irtl:1, b ( F anNl A. CORRESPONDENT. It Sir.iar,,e I '2n• 17. This afternoon a few mthicians. followed by uliu,:rowd, pla) nig the lloeue's Alareh, with the e ffi gy of NV ntie o rt P, suspended v‘ith a rope round his neck, and . ' r a 'Oct f str- eel C ;..ls, proceeded through several of tie prin lb th e .7ets, until they arrived at the statute of King William, • los-. 4-nelia.ot-place, when it wa‘ set fire to amidst the shouts .." 4 erations of th p eo p le , ''There could not have been less ' 14 "4,000 present. e • „,,,,,,' 043:0eling ma " ---- n of a_famir-y in-eaey 1.4_;0n m p h ,- c : : iniodeess,4,astit,emitnehde iitou:ortLiturs.ubicyipideuntag•iono: circumstances, of h cr.t times into his tiod Ii bi4t.ze„k...,:, aoop4,a,l:uhteswttlat:bd.rreivateblelintitist and to e u d n ew d va s e I. ; n ac s ! e ar l e rai a ced a t a bt n yo d tt steeped hhee rH L : :I e ! I " own el ' 1 - 41, `'l, informing bins of the bankruptcy of a house from which .• • - 4 to rash , . ao tion i The Presse pays the same homage to the eloquence of M. Guizot as the Dchats, and expresses its regret at the support-given by M. de Lamartine to the proposition of M. Ducos. It blames M. de Lamartine for applying ar guments for the necessity of reform to the support of a measure so narrow and ill-conceived as that of M. Dios, and says, that the Chamber in refusing to take it into consideration his not intended to close the door for ever against useful, rational, progressive reform. The Constitutionnel says:—" General expectation has been disappointed. The prise en consideration of the proposition of M. Ducos has been rejected by 234 votes to 193. This result afflicts us profoundly ; not because it was of much importance to us whether the Ministry received a check or not, for M. Guizot had expressly de clared that whatever might be the result of the ballot, the Cabinet would not resign; because a decision in' favour of the proposition would have been a concession to public opinion, and would have raised the character of the Chamber and of representative government in the estimation of the country. Ministers, however, have carried the day, and the decision will not be gratifying to them alone. The factions against whom M. Guizot yesterday pronounced his eternal philippic, will rejoice as he does at the result. Partial reforms are not what they want; it will answer their purpose much better to see satisfaction withheld from the demands of the country. The Courricr Francais is very violent against the Mi nistry, and in particular against M. Guizot. This Journal says it is quite evident that no satisfaction will be given to public opinion by the present Chamber of Deputies, and therefore it calls upon the Opposition to organise their force well for the next general election. " M. Guizot will certainly," says the Courricr," employ corruption and intimidation on the most extensive scale. No scruple will, assuredly, be allowed to restrain either him or his colleagues or his agents." The Carlist Quotidienne observes :—" We felt for a moment a movement of indignation which we cannot describe, when we heard M. Guizot, branded mis he is with his apostacies, audaciously insulting adversaries who would be despicable in their opinion, if they had not for him the repulsiveness with which he inspires all honour able men ; but, under the effect of his emphatic hut empty speech, in spite of the effrontery of falsehood in his argument, and of his ardent notice of the most sill• passions of parties, the majority remained silent and ( old ; it did not even reply to his humble supplications by the modest murmur of applause, which is indicative rather of consent of the will than of adhesion of the con science. We recalled to mind the words which were once addressed to M. Guizot by the Debats—‘ You shall have our support., but never our esteem,' and the only feeling that M. Guizot excited in our mind was one of pity: The France says, the power of the Government must be very feeble, very slippery, to dread thus the slightest fissure in the electoral edifice ; and intimates that, al though M. Guizot has been successful in the Chamber, the Journals, which had power enough to raise the dis cussion there, will be much more powerful in their ap peals to the public at large. The Temps, whilst it deplores the result of the motion for taking into consideration the proposition of M. Ducos, says that the speech of M. Guizot produced a deep im pression on the Chamber, and to this the Temps seems to attribute the result that has been obtained. " A treaty of commerce and navigation," 'says the Courrier Francais, " has just been concluded between France and Denmark. For a long time, the King of Denmark has manifested a desire of seeing the two nations united in their interests, and it is to his solici• tude that the bases of this treaty are due. The project will shortly be communicated to the Chamber." Perpignan letters state that the French Government has forwarded three millions of francs to the frontiers of Catalonia, for the purpose of encouraging the organiza tion of Christino guerillas. Since the Spanish Ministers obtained certainlnforma don that attempts are making in Spain to get up another conspiracy, aided by recent occurrences in Por tugal, one hundred alabarderos mount night guard within the Royal Palace, commanded by their Captain- General the Marquis de Vallehumbrosa, and the pre caution of not permitting the Queen's drives to extend beyond the gates of the capital, are strictly adhered to. This afternoon a most numerous and spirited meeting of the inhabitants has been held in the Market-place, to repudiate the Ministerial measure on the Corn-laws. The meeting was called by the Mayor, on the requisition of several hundreds of .he most respectable manufacturers and shopkeepers of the town. It was fixed for one o'clock, and shortly after that hour there could not be less than 4,000 persons present. Amongst them were Chartists, Tories, and Whigs, but the utmost una nimity reigned throughout. One feeling seemed alone to ac tuate theta'. Sympathy for the distresses of the people, and detestation of the new siding scale. The Mayor, T. STOKES, Esq., opened the proceedings by stating, that he had convened them together at the request of many of his fellow-townsmen, and upon one of the most vital questions that can belong to a manufacturing community. To interpose obstacles to the freedom of commerce, and especially in the commodity of corn, was acting in direct hostility to the social and political rights of man, and the benign intentions of Heaven. On such a s ubj e ct he could only expect one opinion in the vast meeting before him. At all events, he should claim a calm arid impartial hearing for any gentlemen who might choose to address the meeting, whatever his opinions might be. Those who would oppose freedom of discussion would, if they had the power, carry their principles to the in vasion of the dearest and most sacred privileges of man. THOMAS PAGET, F.sq , a great landed proprietor, was called , upon to move the first resolution—." That this meeting views with indignation and disappointment the Ministerial measure for the continuance of the Corn .laws ; and denounces it as an insult to the patient, starving, and unemployed populat;on of these realms." Mr. Paget took a rapid survey of the state of the repeal question up to the present moment. For twenty-seven years had they been petitioning against these unjust laws. Amongst - the people the cause of repeal had made considerable progress, though he re gretted-to say, that with respect to her Majesty's present Mi nisters, very little light had penetra•ed their understandings. Still, certain steps of advance had been gained, and important ones too; and as the people had now got in the wedge, he hoped they would not fail to drive it harder and deeper, until their legitimate demands were conceded. The steps he alluded to were that even a Tory Government admits that the Corn law needs mitigation ; that the Queen, from the Throne, re commended an alteration; and that the privations of the people, which had been contemptuously styled dolefil ditties in Parliament and on the hustings, were now admitted by the same parties to be awful and .deplorable facts. Sir Robert Peel asked for a period of five months in which to devise a re medy for the misery of the people, and he had spent it in taxing his ingenuity to the utmost to invent a scheme to delude the people, and secure the support of the aristocracy. Alderman HARRIS then came forward to second the resolu tion, which was put to the meeting, and carried unanimously. When the cheering had subsided, Dr. NOBLE, of Danet's-hall, was called upon by the Mayor to move the setondresolution—" That the Corn-laws are instrumen tal in spreading destitution, ruin, and misery among all the com mercial classes of the country; and that this meeting pledges it self never to relax its exertions until these unjust and iniquitous laws are abolished." He called upon the meeting to act upon the latter part. of the resolution, and never cease agitating until they were expunged from the statute-book. J. PARKER, a working man, in a good speech, seconded the resolution, which was unanimously adopted. Joust Bites, Esq., moved the next resolution—" That a petition be presented to Parliament, praying that Sir R. Peel's Bill be not passed into a law." The petition, founded on these resolutions, was then read. Mr. Wisms seconded the motion, and in doing so he urged open the meeting the consideration that the power of removing these laws was in their own hands, and that it only wanted to be systematically and unitedly wielded to become triumphant. Rotten bi:roughs, rotten corporations, and black slavery had been destroyed and entombed by the popular voice, and so may the death-dispensing and depopulating Cot n-laws. The petition was submitted by th e Mayor to the meeting, and carried by acclamation. Mr. CoorF.a, one of the Chartist leaders, now mounted the platform, and moved on behalf of that party the following reso lution :—" That this meeting is of opinion that the Corn laws, and all other monopolies which oppress the people, are the result of class legislation, and hereby affirms its full con. viction that the People's Charter is the grand remedy for all such abuses, and ought to be made the law of the land." Mr. Cooper declared his wish for conciliation and union, and had therefore refrained from opposing the previous resolutions, and enforced the necessity of the Charter, on the ground of the futility of expecting any redress from the present House of Commons. . Mr. Gibson was then examined—ln June, 1840, made ap plication to the Sheffield Railway Company, at Man chester, about certain iron rails, and went on the works to a place called Woodhead, where he saw the rails (which were patent rails laid upon cross sleepers) laid down for the purpose of removing earth from a tunnel which was in the course of excavating at that place. Had a conver sation with Mr. Sidebotham, the Deputy Chairman of the Directors, who said the Company had not paid for th e ra il s , because illr. \Toga°les had given-the order for them. Witness said he saw they had been used, and he hoped they would not object to pay fur them. Mr. Sidebotham replied that the con tractors were working the line, and not the Company; and he at length said that a general meeting of the Directors would shortly be held at Manchester, at which Lord Wharncliffe, their Chairman, would preside, and recommended witness to attend. Witness received notice of the meeting to be held at Manchester. Went there on the day mentioned, but it happened that the meeting was not held there, but at a place in Yorkshire about thirty miles off; witness, in consequence, was unable to attend. Subseqwently saw Mr. Sidebotham, who said that these rails formed part of Mr. Vignoles' claim against the Com pany ; it was immaterial to the Company whom they paid, but if they paid Sir J. Guest, Mr. Vignoles might claim for them. Witness asked if they would pay him, if he got an engagement from Mr. Vignoles, pledging himself not to claim. To this propos.tion witness received no definitive answer, but was told had that e thecontractors bettor write claimedab o t fo i t to r these the rails. Company. Was also told The witness was cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant CnastNEL, but nothing new was elicited. Mr. John Smith, the contractor, was next called—He had laid down the rails now in dispute. They answered the pur pose very well. Mr. Sidebotham, Mr. Rhodes, and other of the Directors, frequent:y went over witness's part of the work, and saw what was going on. Mr. Vignoles was engineer to the Company all the time that witness was contractor there. Never made any claim on the Company for these ra i l s . The rails were laid down, some on stone, some on cross sleepers, and some on longitudinal sleepers • • Cross-examined by Sergeant CHANNEL—Never saw rails laid on longitudinal sleepers before tin any line. Laying these rails in so many different ways looked as if they were experi menting with them. Mr. Vignoles once purchased iron from witness's partner on behalf of the firm. By a Juryman—The rails were not mere contractor's rails. They were fit for the permanent way. Contractor's rails weigh about 27Ibs. a yard, these rails were about 50Ibs. a yard. Mr. Davis, clerk to the house of Guest and l:o., in London, proved the sending of the invoices of the fastenings to Mr. Vignoles. This was the whole of the evidence for the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant. CHANNEL then addressed the Jury. He stated that Mr. Vignoles had bten engineer to the Company, but that he had resigned his office in December, 1839. The rails were ordered previous to Mr. Vignoles's resignation, and the fastenings had not been ordered till after. '1 he sum due for the fastenings being about 201. was pad into Court. The Learned Counsel then called Up to a recent period of time a very small portion only of the river waters could be stolen, as it were, by the husband man from the all-important_ miller, wkose indispensable duty it is to grind our corn. There was no choice in the matter; the cultivator of your soil could only he permitted to look at, and long for the water; to make _bread the corn must be converted into flour, and thus the coveted element was strictly monopolised. Now, the master power of steam has r. ndered us independent of this stringent necessity ; and in nine cases out of ten throughout the empire, corn may be converted into flour as cheap, or cheaper, by steam than by water power. here, then, we have two very ob vious and certain modes of increasing the produce of the country to a large amount, independently of what may rationally be expected from the exertions of our Agricultural Societies, seconded, as they are, by the zeal and industry of a class of men already distinguished as the most perfect culti vat,rs of land in the universe. As respects the possible benefit to be derived from the extended application of our waters in husbandry, I think it not too much to expect, that by the com bined exertions of the engineer and the agriculturist, at least one-foul th of the land may ultimately be fertilised by such means, at the discretion of the occupiers, creating at the same time a vast fund of employment for our honest labourers. But if you will ask any occupier of land which he would prefer, the conversion of one-tenth part only of his farm into a water meadow, secured from summer floods, or a law which shall give, or is intended to give him an extra ss. per quarter on his corn, in 19 cases out of at the former would he accepted. After forty years experience as a land agent, I have been obliged to admit, like many others, that it would have been a blessing to a great majority of British farmers had they been encouraged, by leases and other means, to a better mode of cultivating their lands, instead of placing any dependance on the precarious working of a Corn-law; the demands for rent would have been more easily met, with an infinitely better security for future payments. Whilst acting, as I did for some years, in the capacity of agent to the late Sir Robert Peel, I had the satisfaction of knowing that his opinions entirely accorded with my own, as to the value and practicability of the particular improvements which 1 have here ventured to submit to public notice. Forti fied with the approval of a man so highly qualified to judge, I have less hesitation in calling your attention to the subject; and I have done so solely for the purpose of exciting inquiry to the important question —may there not be found a more sub stantial and permanent method of securing the existing rentals, one more consistent with the welfare of the occupiers of your lands, than a reliande on the artificial support of a Clorn-"lw, and at the same time greatly improve our intercourse with. foreign nations ? Ina matter involving such great and conflicting interests, all change to be good should be gradual. If it should ultimately be determined that in the lapse of a few years the impost on foreign corn should become stationary, at a rate nearly of the same amount as the direct taxation on our own corn, then the mode of charging it in the interim will be divested of much of its interest; but a fixed rate of charge, must certainly be the least liable to evasion. I have long felt surprised on seeing it so generally taken for granted, that there can be only one way to preserve the exist. nig rentals, which way, at best, is a very vexatious one; and. I offer the above remarks in the hope that, they will be r e c e i ve d, as made, in the genuine spirit of inquiry to elicit the best mode of settlement on a question of vital interest to us all, and beset with difficulties. I have the honour to be, with great re , peet, my Lords and Gentlemen, your most humble and obedient servant, ROBERT BENTON. Nechell's-nark, Birmingham, Feb. 14, 1842. COURT-MARTIAL ON CAPT. NICHOLAS. SECOND DAY. PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY EVENINO.—This morning, at nine o'clock, the members of the Court re-assembled on board the St. Vincent. The Cou. t-Martial has excited much interest among the naval world here. Captain Nicholas will enter upon his defence to-morrow. Mr. Harwood, the second master of the Vindictive, was again called as the first witness this morning, and cross-exa mined at considerable length. After the examination of John Bowden and William Chap man, Quarter-Masters, Lieutenant H. Stewart, third Lieutenant of tie Vindictive, was called. He was officer of the middle-watch on the morn ing of the 26th. Saw the Nab light during the whole of his watch. To the best of his judgment, the distance was a mile and a-half. Was on the forecastle when the ship got under weigh. It was Lieutenant Lavie's station when the first Lieutenant was doing duty, but the first Lieutenant was not on duty that day. He was on the forecastle when the buoy was first seen, and pointed it out to the Master's-Assistant. The buoy was black, and about 200 yards on the starboard bow before the cathead. Shortly after the ship was lulled to the wind, and the best bower anchor let go. He was of opi nion that every necessary measure was adopted, and every pre caution taken, fur the safety of the ship that her situation re quired, and that Captain Nicholas gave his orders with clear ness and precision, and that his conduct was calculated to sti mulate the exertions of ethers, and give confidence to those around him. The wind was fresh, and the weather thick, when the ship got under weigh. By Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane—Did the prudence or im prudence of getting under weigh in such weather strike you? The witness—l did not know the position of the ship, but thought it odd getting under weigh at that time. Admiral Sir T. Cochrane—From the state of the weather, could you have seen any danger in sufficient time to avoid it ? Witness—l should think net. . In rei ly to further questions put by the Court, the witness said he had taken the bearings of the Nab light during the night, which bore W. by S. He was of opinion, that if the ship had had her treble reefed topsails set, she would have stayed after the buoy was seen. Captain Nicholas then examined the witness, who, in reply to questions put, said that the squall took place at the time, or a little after the buoy was seen—that the courses came in the wind—the jib pennants became unlashed from the clew, and that he thought the reason of the jib splitting. Captain Nicholas—ln the state you have now described the ship to have been in by the sudden squall, would it have been possible to have tacked the ship, even if the topsails had been set; and had the topsails beer, upon her, suppose, and she had missed stays, would she not have gone broadside on the shoal? The witness-1 think it very doubtful whether she would have stayed or not, 1 art icularly without a spanker and main trysail ; had she missed stays she would have paid right off on the shoal. In reply to further questions put by Captain Nicholas, he stated that he did not wonder at the ship being moved, and that if he had had the charge of her he should have moved her to a safe anchorage. On the evening of the 25th the ship was an chored by the watch alone. '1 he general craters of the Captain were that, when the ship was under weigh, a look-out should be placed on the fore-yard, and another on the jibboom end, and in hazy weather, one at each cathead. Mr. Purdoe was recalled—Was in the Echo steamer when she went out to the Vindictive. Reached the ship about half-past seven. At that time she did nut appear to be aground, but was lying with a straight cable. Had beard that there was a defect in the compasses of the Vindictive, and on trying them he found one was cor rect, and the other diverged a degree, not more. Would not have the smallest doubt in proceeding to sea with those compasses. When the ship made sail off the shoal, the Echo could not keep up with her. A ship a mile to the eastward of the Nab light, a W.N.W. course, would have car ried her into St. Helen's Roads. „If she had been two miles from the Nab light she still would haVe made St. Helen's Roads. Did not apprehend at the time the ship was under weigh the tide would make any alteration, it being the weakest, time of the tide. No vessel could make a proper W.N.W. by compass, and reach the position in which the Vindictive was placed on the Dean Sands, without going over the outer buoy. The remaining portion of this witness's evidence went to show that Captain Nicholas, in getting the ship off under her courses, displayed great skill and seamanship. Commander J. W. Lewis Sheringliam, empl.yed in the surveying service, was examined as to the position of the Vin dictive when she was on the shoal. The paper which was handed in by Mr. Purdoe was given to him, and he thought it very near correct. He thought the velocity of the tide at 8.50 on the morning of the 26th, about four-tenths of a mile per hour, and at 9. 50, about six-tenths. He confirmed Air. Per doe's evidence, that no ship could steer a proper W. N. W course and come upon the Elbow buoy without first making the outer buoy. At this stage of the proceedings the President intimated to Captain Nicholas that the case for the prosecution had closed, and asked him when he would be prepared to go into his defence. Captain Nicholas said he should be quite prepared by twelve o'clock to-morrow, to which hour the Court stands adjourned. REFUSAL OF THE PEOPLE TO PETITION THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. Yesterday afternoon Alderman Sir M. Wood, Bart., M.P., convened a meeting of the inhabitants of the above ward, for the purpose of taking their sentiments on the Government Corn-law scheme. The meeting was held at the School-room, Philip-lane, and the worthy Ald erman too k t h e cha i r shortly after three o'clock. The room was densely thronged with the roost respectable merchants and traders resident in the ward. The ("211.4.11:ma st said that lie deemed it his duty to call the meeting, in consequence of a requisition most numerously and respectably signed, having been presented to him for that purpose. It was true that the House of Commons had that morning decided against them ; an event that they might have expected, although the majority was a little more than that for which they were prepared. Hear, hear.) Ilut when they knew the formation of that HouSe, they could not have doubted of having a large majority, with the Minister against them. But the question was not as yet decided, for the plan of a sliding scale had to go through a Committee, and Mr. Villiels's motion against any duty, was to be brought on. He (the Chairman) was from the cominencement prepared to give his vote on the question.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. FROST moved the first resolution—'• That the duty on corn and such other provisions as generally absorb the poor man's expenditure was not just., and if viewed as a tax on in. come, was a burthen on a class less able to bear it, Stc." lie said that the late Government would have introduced a plan for the amelioration ot the Corn-laws if they were not aware that the opposition and the magnitude of the interests opposed to them would have rendered their plan futile—a conviction ehidh the result proved to be correct.—(Hear, hear.) The present Ministers outvoted the late Government on those ques tions, although they had declared that they had no other plan prepared to relieve the distress of the country. Sir Robert Peel had not then received the fee, but as soon as he had, and after five months' gestation, lie brought forward ilia scheme which was to be so useful to the country, and which was to be of such awful import.—(lmmense laughter.) Sir Robert Peel knew well that his plan would not meet the distress, nor please the supporters of the Corn-laws. His plan was an ap • peal and an apology to the landlords, but was never intended to meet the wishes, or satisfy the wants and privations of the working classes.—( Hear, hear. ) Mr. COOPER seconded the resolution, and said that the question was whether they should passively allow themselves and the working classes to be robbed of one-third of their daily bread by lords anti landlords whose sole object it was to feed their avarice, without any regard for the privations of the suffering millions.—( dear, hear.) Mr. JOH N LA IT moved the second resolution, to the effect, that independent of its direct influence as a tax, the duty levied upon foreign corn inflicted an awful amount of injury by its shifting!, rendering the operations of merchants, manu facturers, and farmers futile, and deranged the monetary system and by throwing the manufacturing population out of employ ment, produceedestitution, misery, and crime.—( Hear, hear. ) Sir Robert Peel admitted the advantage of a traffic in corn with America; but said that previous agreement with Denmark precluded any facility being afforded for that traffic. Why, a repeal of the Corn-laws would remove all obstacle on that point.—(Hear, hear.) A sliding scale was an insult to com mon sense, as it would not reduce the loaf one farthing, while it was injurious to all classes.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. DEwAn. in a very eloquent speech seconded the reso. lution. Mr. CASH moved the third resolution to the effect, that as members of a commercial community, they felt the evils of the present system, which chiefly affected the working classes, with whom they sympathised, and whose interests they felt bound to represent ; they, therefore, pledged themselves to oppose the sliding scale, and would only support a fixed duty, subject to a gradual periodical extinction. The fixed duty would be but an instalment, in the hope that it would secure free trade to the working classes, who were obliged to pay for their food by the sweat of their brow.—( Hear.) He wished to see a union of the working with the middle and upper classes, of which he did not dispair when he beheld such men as the Earl Fitz vt illiam, the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of Sutherland, and Earl Radnor, ready and willing to co• operate with them. Mr. HOOLE seconded the resolution. \lr. STURT supported it. Mr. B. SMITH, as being on the corn-market, was enabled to state that it was the opnion of the principal corn-dealers, that a fixed duty was the best that could be adopted.—( Hear.) Mr. MORTON, merchant of Fore-street, was astonished that the gentlemen composing that meeting hal not further ad vanced. These resolutions, if all carried, will do nothing towards furnishing bread to the starving millions of this country. It was a waste of time to petition men who had not the slightest regard for the sufferings of the masses. He had just returned from Paisley, and could assure the meeting that there were 17,000 persons in that place living upon 10. per day, whilst the criminals in the gaol were allowed 20. ; but what cared Sir Robert Peel, or his majority, for this, so long as it interfered not with their rent roll What cared the Members of the House of Commons for the destitution of the people ? They represented land, and bricks, and mortar, and legislated for themselves, and themselves only, while the many and the productive classes have no power of protecting them selves. If that meeting was desirous of effecting anything for the people, it should pass a resolution for giving them a voice and proper influence in the I.egislature; for until exclusive power was taken from the factions that had so abused it, there was no hope of justice for the working classes. It having been moved and seconded that a petition, founded on the resolutions, be presented by the Worthy Chairman to the House of Commons, Mr. STROUD said he thought it was an insult to the Chair man to ask him to do any such thing, when they stated that it wee useless to petition them at all.— (Loud cheers.) He for one would certainly oppose it, and would move, as an amend ment, 4 . That no petition be presented to the House of Com mons on the question of the Corn-laws from this meeting, as they have no hope of obtaining justice from them." This, having been seconded, was carried unanimously. Mr. SMITH moved, and Mr. CASH seconded, a vote of thanks to the Chairman. Sir M. Woon said, in returning thanks, that during the whole course of his life he had been opposed to the Corn-laws, and, although an invalid, he had waited in the House that morning to record his vote against them—(Loud cheers)—and should always do so on any tax which pressed upon food. A resolution having been passed, ordering the resolutions to to be published in the Morniny Chronicle, Herald, and Adver tiser, the meeting broke up. A Services. r.' c,.. =.m = 0 c 4 0 g . 7. 4 .1 , Charge. In the U. ----- ----- Votes 1 and 2 Kingdom 6511 4,575 95 { £. ,628 3,644,637 26,940 87 1,85 7 Land Forces t . O in ol d o i n e . si 12,805 1,233 Vote 3.—Staff Officers ••• ••• 172,425 Vote 4.—Public Depart mts ... ... • •• Vote 5. —Ro3al 111i1. Col 82,467 ... ... ••• 18,450 Vote 6.—Royal Mil. My- / .. .. ••• 15, 606 lum and Hibernian School i ' Vote 7. —Volunteer Corps . ... ... ••• 82,458 --- —. - 9,316 5,E08 122,568 4,887,700 Deduct the -Numbers of Horses and Men of Regi . . ments in India, and the Charge defrayed by the East India Company 2,805 1,233 26,94 f 871,657 -- --- 6,511 4,575: 95,62 t• 4,016,043 Mr. BAIRsTow, a Chartist leader 'from Birmingham, seconded the resolution in a speech o! great power and eloquence. This resolution %RS rained by an immense majority, there being only two or three hands held up against it. After a vote of thanks and three cheers to the Mayor, moved by Mr. WiNics, and seconded by Mr. CoorEw, the Chartist, the meeting separated. General Total of Effective a Army Services A Non- fective j 6,193,082 MEMORANDUM.—By the Act 4 George IV., c. 71, a sum of 60,000/. per annum is paid into her Majesty's Exchequer by the East India Company, on Account of the. Charge for Re tiring Pay and Pensions, and other Expenses of that nature, arising in respect of her Majesty's Forces serving in India. This Sum is applied towards the General Expenses of the State. H. HARUINGE. War-Office, February 8, 1842. 1841-42 1842-43 Total oc all ranks 121,121 122,568 increase 1,447 Charges (with son -Effective) £6,1 5 1,253 £6,193,082 Increase 34,829 MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. Mr. Charles Vignoles—Am an engineer. Was engineer to the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway Company from 1836 to 1839. Know Smith the contractor. Addressed a certain letter to Sir J. Guest fo: some rails ; had not the authority of the Directors for so doing, but did it in anticipation of receiving their authority. In the autumn of 1839 did obtain that authority in the shape of an order to lay half a mile of the permanent way westward from the tunnel. It was well understood that the rails now in dispute were those which were to be laid down. In November, 1839 I considered these mils to be the property of the Company ; the Company considered them to be the property of the contractor. This was the whole of the evidence. Mr. Sergeant Wilde did rot reply.. Chief Justice TINDAL directed the Jury to return a verdict for the plaintiff, observing to the Counsel for the defence— After this evidence you a re qu i te sa f e, as S m ith h a s on his oath disclaimed the rails bei ng hi s property . The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount sought for. FROM TUE 'MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TlMES.—There is a general disposition among men of business, after the exposure that has taken place by the report of the Commissioners of the Management of the Exchequer Bill-office, to recall past delinquencies of the department, by which much inconvenience has been produced, though in a manner different from those immediately under investigation. It is very material at this point to be able to show that the parties presiding there, though very unw•i:ling to admit their responsibility to the public, have generally adopted towards the public pretty "sharp practice" themselves. With this view a sample of that practice may usefully be put forward; but to make it intelligible to ordinary readers it is necessary to state, that at certain periods the Government calls in Exchequer Bills of a particular date, and a day is named up tu, and on which, the said bills will be received, and new bills givon in exchange for the old ones, and if the premium on Exchequer Bills is considerable, the holdt rs suffer the loss. DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.—This morning, shortly after fire-o'clock, a fire, attended with the loss of considerable property, broke out in the shop of Sir. Hare, a carpenter and builder, No. 62, Wapping-street, opposite Union-street. For tunately the firemen succeeded in obtaining a most excellent supply of water on land, and by the continual working of eight es as well as that of the lower float belonging to th e Lon don establishment, succeeded in confining the damage to the house of Mr. Hare and two others (unoccupied) in Glote court. The inmates all escaped in their .night-clothes. Mr. Bare is inured for his property (about 5001.) in the Royal Exchange-office. About half-past two o'clock another fire was discovered in the drying-rooms belonging to Mr. Cooke, currier, White's.ground, Bermondsey, and no: withstanding on ly a few minute: elapsed before the Southwark-bridge, Wa terloe-road, and West of England engines were brought into action, a considerable portion of the stock was destroyed. It orignated in the drying-room near th e stove. E XC HEQUER.---By a return made to the Houst 'Of Commons, it appears that the amount of salary paid to Sir John Newport for a period of nearly five years, was 9,6401. 4s. 11. And-to Lord Monteagle, for two -Years and four months, 4,6591. 15s. 10d., for their services as Comptroller of the Ex chequer. A pension of LOCO/. a-year was granted to Sir John liewport by her Majesty's warrant, slated 20th November . , t 339. Why are a .company of soldiers like Lavater, the physiognomist ?—Because they right about fapeB. • NAVAL EXPENDITURE: AMOUNTS by which the EXPENDITURE fell short or ex ceeded the SUMS VOTED in the Year ended March 31, 1841. XXPENDED. Some years ago a banking-house in the city had 50,0001. Exchequer bills to exchange at the periodical call. The bills were duly listed and prepared for delivery, but by an accident the last day for presenting them at the Exchequer Bill-office was allowed to pass over. Twelve hours had not elapsed before the mistake was discovered, and early the next morning the bills were taken to the office, with a request from the house in question that they might be received, and new ones given for them. This was refused, and though the case was urgently represented to the proper authorities, and the cause of the e e ri respected,mocacgai occasion i e on d fbartomillirinisiacegd,toshof there Ina f ge e wnßr v sei e e otu i h, a obptotuuur r motit u dpo l pa e rftnidae o totiit f t oversight (viz. the indisposition of the party whose duty it was w to have taken charge of the operation) fully stated, a refusal y office, ceet, not h r ost e e ta it a ,oti x p e r . h rb d oee i b, impression probably ba l 01 remain ny s s : was given, and the banking-house was compelled to receive the t is amount, and to purchase new bills at a loss of nearly 1,5002. always ty m hs • oetuopl proper ep b prevailed, it seems, at head-quarters, and if any advantage ae eqn r o uui t tee a d n stoh u e n mr c eu o lc m )yh m tt r o i o n t hc o eo n m e ll i i a l sight of, in regard to an office already convicted of great irre gularities. There was nothing to prevent a " sub" of that office from putting the advantage of which the banker, in the ease referred to was deprived, into his own pocket. It is to be hoped, therefore, that when the general reform of the office, which is now held to be a matter of course, does take place, this " sharp practice" will be among the matters to undergo revision. SUN.—Thegeneral belief that for the present, at. least., Sir it Peel has succeeded in obtaining die adoption of his Corn-law - plan, has given more firmness to tke English funds, though, perhaps, for a different .reason than is supposed or pretended by the Conservative party. The fact is, that every far-seeing, and every enlightened man in the City looks upon it as mo rally impossible that matters can rest where they are, 810, therefore, takes the Government plan of duties as a stepping stone to something better. As Lord Palmerston aptly and ably enough described it, the enemy has for once abandoned the fortress, and descended int o th e op e n plain ; and though they this time offer battle to the free traders, on fairer terms than ever before, and have succeeded in worsting them, there is every reason. to hope that they must again, at a future time, resort to a sortie, when they may be made to capitulate. Con sols for present transfer have realised 89* to 89g, both for money and time, being a per cent. better. Exchequer Bills 23,. to 255. premium, and Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 99i to 99i ; Bank Stock ranged up to 168 and 164 Foreign Stocks were steady—South American better. Shares dropped. Lesss than Voted. PUBLIC - OPINION. The Post is angry with Mr. Roebuck for his late speech in the Commons, observing, " this gentleman, like others of his sect, fancies himself a thinker. He affects to scorn authority, and professes to try all institutions, and all systems of opinion, by their conformity with cer tain first principles. Yet Mr. Roebuck is all the while merely moving in a circle of chalk—a circle described by Bentham and Bentham's pupils." The Advertiser is of opinion that the present political crisis is an awful one, and adds, " it is not the fate or for tune of one class or section of the people that is menaced with mortal damage ; it is the fate or fortune of the country itself—of her people of all classes, and of all occupations. We much mistake the character of English men, if the time has not now arrived when Nature's first law, self-preserration, will assert its potency." The Herald insists that Lord John Russell, so far from assisting his party by his motion, has only assisted to bring forth the strength of the Ministry. ".Messrs. Villiers, Cobden, and C 0.," pursues our Contemporary, " are to be permitted to have their little-go this even ing, for the satisfaction of their confederates of the League; but the important debate on the Ministerial proposition, and on those principles which shall govern practical legislation on the Corn-law, is over. The Times, - comparing the present with the late Ministry, expresses itself to the following effect late Ministry had no strength, except what they derived from the support of men of extreme opinions, pur • chased by a subserviency to party views and party pur poses. Steady moderation was a phrase which had no place in their system ; their Government was a com pound of humiliating dependence and insolent defiance. The present Ministry, on the contrary, are characterised by a rejection of all extreme views, of whatever kind. They are the champions of no particular interests, though they may decline to sacrifice them." The Chronicle says How miserably has the Right Honourable Baronet floundered in trying to produce a cause to servo as a feasible substitute for the Corn-law, in accounting for the distress of the country ! llasth-, the Member for Paisley, on Wednesday night made sad has cc with some of his causes. In fact, he convicted :dr Robert of nearly as great ignorance of the true state of things in accounting for our commercial distress, as he had formerly displayed when denying its existence." The Wilts Independent observes of Sir Robert Peel : " He has placed himself in a most unenviable position he has pleased no one. He has broken faith with those who looked upon the present Corn-laws as something sacred, and on himself as their sworn champion ; he has disappointed the Whigs—the fixed duty men—and he has (low any thing but throw oil on the troubled waters of total repeal. He is like the old man and his ass--in trying to please every one, he has pleased no one ; and it will be well, if, like his prototype, he do not lose his beast of burden." The Derby Reporter thus alludes to the Ministerial Corn-law measure :—" Nothing can exceed the dissatis faction which the proposal has excited in all places and with all people. The very journals of the Tories cannot trumpet it into popularity . with their own party—the Li beral press is unanimous in discountenancing the trea chery. No one believes for a moment that this is the settlement of a great question ; even the Tories accept it simply as a first instalment. Lord John Russell's amendment may not be successful now—but a concession has been made, an impulse has been given to the party which demands an entire repeal of the Corn-laws." The following is from the SherbourneJournal :—" We think that Sir Robert Peel has acted with as much libe rality:, if not more, than he could with safety ; but we infinitely prefer Lord John Russell's proposal for a fixed duty, because, whilst it offers a protection to the nricul tunst, it opens a new channel for our manufacturing in dustry, and it would lead to the lands being let at corn rents, and under fair and reasonable leases." - The Cork Southern Reporter has the following obser vations, suggested by the recent debate :—" The English people carried the Tories into power ; and, in the midst of unheard of distress, waited calmly and patiently for the promised redress from their favoured Minister. They have been disappointed ; and they are now about to commence the agitation in good earnest, but, unhappily, at a time when Sir Robert Peel, protected by the majo rity which the people gave him, may afford to laugh at their threats and demonstrations ; and when the Duke of Wellington, entrenched within so secure a protection, may once more, with scornful defiance, call their meetings and their conferences " useless farces." PARLIAIYIEN TAFLY. In the House of Lords last night there was a little squabble ,be tweet) the Earl of C' ancar t y, an Ul tra- T ory , an d the Duke of Vv el. bugtoo, about p ro d ucing some returns connecte d w ith th e appoint. meat of ch a pl a i ns to workhouses in Ireland. The object cf the N o bl e Earl was to throw discredit on the appointments of the Poor law Commissioners, because the chaplains are not of our own Church. H e was kindly countenanced by the Bishop of Exeter, but repudiated by the Duke of Wellington, Lord Brougham, and the Marquis of Normanby. The Noble Ei , r l withdrew his motion, as his Noble Friend the Duke of Wellington would not grant it. The House of Commons did not meet yesterday. Sir Charles Letnon was elected on Wednesday last for West Cornwall, without opposition. Lord Bernard, son of the Earl of Bandon, has been elected, ivithout opp os i t i on, Member for the borough of Bandon. LAW AND POLICE. At a meeting of the Middlesex Magistrates on Wed nesday, an address wa s on the spot suddenly drawn up, and agreed to by the Justices present, acknowledging manner in which the D u k e of Portland had filled the high and important p os t of Lord Lieutenant of the county for the last . flft n y years. the In the Court of Exchequer yesterday, Mr. Gye, for many years one of the proprietors of Vauxhall Gardens, brought an action to recover remuneration for his ser- SLAVE TRADE TREATY. - - We announce with deep regret, on the authority of a com munication received from Paris, by express, that the ratifica tion cf . the Treaty bet ween the Five Great Powers of Europe, for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, which, according to the previous arrangement, was to have been accomplished on Saturday or Alonday next, will be delayed, it not prevented, by the French Government. Of the sincerity and good faith with which the French Go vernment concluded this important Treaty there cannot be any doubt. It was the result of a proposal originating with France, in conjunction with Great Britain, and France at d Great Britain equally rejoiced in the acvession of the other Powers. 'fo congratulate each other on the general concurrence of suffereder e m ml a t a i ii sn t e e td c hi t ife f mo r nr o s m eEol rfne, them gtollao: edb c oe. o vnl n eda j rm o bl i rn t n i tn y eec , deb s yt e t Europe in a hu mane an d b enevo l ent suggest i on, which had M. RadicalG uiz o co t p s p h o o s u i t h i l on h ax i • n e the Chamber of D eput i es, and b y the outcry which d.mo oheimhadteoed. seemed, indeed, to be all that erotic orators have endeavoured to excite throughout France, that the most recent proceedings of the Chamber demonstrate the comparative weakness of this party, and the itramount strength of the French Government—a strength to be staken only by that Government placing itself in the wrong. Guizot, feeling himself compelled to refuse, for the present, to join, without reserve, in the name of France, in ratifying the Treaty in the precise terms in which it has been concluded, proposed certain modificatiOns. In there modifi cations Lord Aberdeen has declined to acquiesce, being of opinion, that, as a British Minister ; he ought not to admit the necessity of any guarantee fur the disinterestedness and probity of Great Britain in respect of the abolition of the slave trade, cause,havin t been o h which already neith provedneither F r France c b e y nor sacrificesanx otherand efforts in can produce a parellel. It is certain, indeed, that upon this subject the conduct of that these France and that of Great Britain are in striking contrast. France, relieved from the necessity of encouraging the sugar culture in her colonies, and even -adopting, in furtherance of the interests of the domestic cultivators of the beet-root, the policy of positive discouragement to the culture of the cane, has never drawn sixpence from her national purse to relieve the distress of her slave subjects, although, at a very small ex pense, she might have diffused much happir.ess in her colonies, with an increase of security to the favoured department of her domestic agriculture. We lament that M. Guizot should have thought himself compelled to pursue a course in respect to the slave trade con vention which his own intelligent and lofty mind cannot ap prove. Yet it is a consolation to us to learn that he has de feated the factions which surround him, assured, as we are, that his attachment to the cause of truth and right is sincere, though it may not always be effective; and that the hope of remaining upon terms of amity with our Gallic neighbours would be greatly impairod by any diminution of his political power. —Post: SUN EXPRESSES.-Through the kindness of Mr. Young, the spirited Proprietor and Editor of The Sun newsi.aper, we are enabled to lay before our readers the pro. ceedings in Parliament up to half-past seven last night.— Cambridye Advertiser of Wednesday.• A letter from Amiens, in the Siecle, says : " Messrs. Orsi, Lombard, Bataille, Aladenize, and Persigny, who were condemned with Prince Louis Napoleon, are placed in the citadel of Doullens, in the garrets of one of the la o old barracks. Messrs. Laity, Ornano, and Colonels Paquin and Montauban, are in the central building. M. Dupoty, of the Journal du Prople, is on the ground-floor of the old barracks. On Monday last, at nine in the morning, a fire brcke out in the cell of M. Orsi, but his efibrts and those of M. Dupoty, sufficed to put out the fire, which had reached the ceiling and the room above it. When the other prisoners arrived all danger was over." The .ilPniorial des Pyrenees, in a letter from 'Tarbes, speaks of an avalanche, much more destructive than the above, which took place a few days ago at Barege, Twenty houses were w h o lly or partially destroyed; even the hospital, although pro. tected by immense abutments, .was much injored, and five or six persons lost their lives. During the last month,_ according to the Swiss J ourn als, Lausanne has suffered-erverel Y.rozo the prevalence of a nervous fever, which -has . attacked chiefly young persons and women. In the course of January there were 75 deaths, although the 4d4uAti; o thatngtliew th hol e eofthe Preteding y ear did not amount to more that.lityincrease is in proportion double the number. The epidemic now on the. decline. - - - morta SECONDARIES'_(THIS DAY.) TURNER V. GRAHAM. The plaintiff and defendant in this case are both dead, and the action was brought by the representatives of the plaintiff against the executor of the defendant, for use and occupation of certain premises situate at Westham, in Sussex. In appeared that in the year 1821, a lease was executed between the plaintiff and defendant, whereby the plaintiff devised certain premises to the defendant at the yearly rent of 136/. A clause was introduced into this lease, providing that it should be renewable every seven or fourteen 3 ears, upon sufficient notice being given. In the year 1835 the lease expired, and was not again renewed, but the defendant continued in occupation of the premises, and therefore this action was brought, not upon the lease, but for the use and occupation of the premises, as by a tenant at will. On the death of the parties a suit was instituted in the Court of Chancery with respect to the plaintiff's pro perty, and the Court directed the present action to be brought. Under the Chancery suit a receiver was appointed by the Court for all moneys, rents, &c., belonging and due to ae plaintiff. '1 his was attempted to be proved in the course of the trial, but the appointment was not pro duced , therefore the Learned Secondary held that he cou'd only look upon this person in the light of an agent of the plaintiff for the receipt of rents. The acknowledgement by this person of rents up to the year 1839, from the defendant, was put in, and the question for the jury to decide was simply, whether they believed the defendant to have been in possession of the pre .mises since 1839, up to the time of his death in 1841, and if so, their verdict must be for the amount of rent due since that time. Evidence having been .shown of the receiver under the Chancery suit having receivext .tenta from the defendant up to 1839, the Jury returned a-vvrctiot (Fe-lbw plaint Hll%—thasnsoper, 2253 We really cannot help adverting to - the inconvenience expe rienced in this Court by persons who have to attend it. We are surprised at its being illowed to remain a disgrace to the City. The inconvenience is.-14Lby all parties, from the Judge on the Bench down to the spectator. Many costermongers would be ashamed to acknowledge it for their counting-house. We certainly do hope soon to see some more commodious place provided which will be worthy of the name of a Law Court. now appeared in Court. on his petition cery-lane as a ' ' sa d i d ; on behalf e Air. Doucan, a d the an INSOLVENT COURT red --- itor ( T an li IS ins D ol DAY) ) IN RE TIIO,IAS HASLAM. produced, by which Air. Haslam p in ort e d han f -.- c the application. Air. Cooke oppose , The insolvent carried on The solicitor, who reside d next door to the insolvent.. . grounds of o;,posit ion t p t l , um be be d r is a c o h d a r g g l e a d z . ier o n od b r u t s iff i e ne s s u s p trifling act action arose from some very of trespass. Mr. insolvent Woodruffe described it as tit,. 'd te scraping his feet on Jr. were, that between the opposing Duncan's door-scraper; anlatter bring cast with costs became entitled to all his son's ' the insolvent's father, ,d of chattels and book-debts, on the grout being a creditor for 5.50/. having Mr. Ha-lam, syn., agreedriai to resign his claim under was arrested. A deed was the deed, and leave the approi . roonvi f the property in ti e bands of an assignee, he (Mr. 11 ) ordered ng among the body of the creditors, the insolvent was 0 to be conditionally dis charged. ____................,----...—,—........... s t. l lc ? oin t sy .: a. - b) S ie rir N it o. EE T. respeetably-dressed young man, was o'clock this morning, as he MARLBTt fvu O oliteetwo placed at. th A e i b to , /s w on h , en a 167, of the C d w i a y s is o io n n d , u s t t y at i square, .he heard a violent alterca tion being carried on at the entrance hall of the mansion of the Archbishop of .Arrnagn, Charles-street ; and on proceeding there, found tne defendant attempting to forte his way into the ball, and t h eh por porter attempting to eject him. m a intoxicated. Both of them were very Capt. T. Jones, and t h a t, al the Archbishop R.N. who resides the re, cane .down stairs, -awl ordered the defendant to be taken to the station-house. The Archbishop is at present in Ireland. The defendant said he was a most particular acquaintance e n d , s, tt.h James's' m a e b s o ,s u, was nut in town, of the porter's, he was invited to have a ' sort of jollification end a Lit of supper with the porter ' , O b u t unf ortunately he had taken too much wine, and did not know what he was doing. The police constable said that Capt. Jones had informed him that the porter was discharged on the instant. The defendant was fined ss. for being g drunk, .which he immediately paid. The Madrid journals say that the spatlish Army of Observation, which is assem bling On the frontier of the Northern Provinces of Portuga l, will assemble 12,000 med, under the command of Gener,a l ALeson. A letter frora Badejoz of the 15th, published ,the Zeit del Conzereeo of.the 9th, sap that the Srpanishtroctis are assembled in that quarter. ••• BELGIUM. BR II SSELS, FEB. 16.—The Senate - met yesterday. The Secretary bad a letter from the Archbishop of Alalines, and the Bishops of Liege, Bruges, Tournay, ISamur, and Ghent, in which they declare that they withdraw their petition, the object of which was to obtain a law by which the Roman Catholic University of London should be constituted Fersohne virile. The permanent deputation of Brabant has just ad. dressed the following circular to the Magistrate of the Com munes, and to the charitable institutions of the province:— " The successive increase in the price of provision, and of articles of every description, has rendered it necessary to in crease the cost of a day's subsistence in the hospital of Brus sels, of indigent persons not belonging to the city, which has remained since 1818, a t e i g hty centimes per day. We, therefore, inform you that it has been agreed, by the direction of the hospitals of Brussels, by the Commercial Council of the city, and by us, that from the . Ist of Janu a ry, 1842, the cost of a day's subsistence of the indigent in the hospitals of St. Peter and St. John shall be fixed at one franc, twenty-five centimes. therefore a t t o this your r r a e t s e p that eet respective all m mhuanvees communes." pay, hence forth, the cost of maintaining in the hospital s o f B russe l s , t h e indigent "ltis belonging UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, FEB. 17.—A congregation was this day holden for granting degrees, &c., when the following were conferred:— Masters in Arts—Rev. Henry Crawley, of Balliol College; Rev. William Hulme, of Balliol College; Borlase Hill Adams, of Exeter College ; Granville Edward Harcourt Vernon, of Christ Church College; Owen Jones Humphreys, of Jesus College ' • Thomas Pearie, of Magdalen Coll ege ; Daven port, of Worcester College. Bachelor in Medicine—Geo. Joseph Bell, of Balliol College. Bachelors of Arts—Charles Samuel Slocock, of Trinity Col lege ; H. Chem' ernowee, of Trinity College. Tlenex March tcinigrt ion for conferring degrees, &e , be on Thursday,i DARLINGTON, FEB. 16.—A requisition, nu merously signed, was presented this day to the High Bailiff, T. Bowes, Esq. ' to convene a meeting to take into considera tion Sir Robert Peel's Corn-law measure. Mr. Bowes assented at once, and appointed three o'clock to-morrow (Thursday) for the meeting in the Town-hall. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 17.—A spirited appeal to " those who earn their bread by the sweat of their brow," has just been made by a working man, which has stirred up the energies of the inhabitants, and a public meeting will be held in a few days, to consider the new Corn Bill. It is calculated - that the-value of the jewellery, col lected in the jewellers' shops of the Palais Royal ,; i s .7 0,000,00 a HEADS OF SERVICE, Wages to Seamen and Marines... Victuals for ditto (exclusive ol 5,5001) Admiralty Office Office for the Registry of Mar- chant Seamen Scientific Branch Her Majesty's Establishments atl Home Abroad Wages to Artificers, &c. in ditto, Home Abr.:ad Naval Stores, &c. for the Building i and Repair of Ships, Docks, New Works and Improvements inl the Yard 4, &c (exclusive of 25,7411. 16s. sd. Medicines and Medical Stores Miscellaneous Services Half-pay to Officers of the Navy and Marines Military Pensions and Allowances l Civil ditto .• Arm? and Ordnance Departments (Conveyance of Troops, &c. )1 (exclusive of 17,000/. ) Home Department (Convict Seri vice) Totals Expended less than voted... £. d. 141,848 16 3 1,590 5 0, 84 2 2 5,771 12 1 812 10 0 22,151 11 3; ..... ~• • • • 1.00 4 18 t C).49 jo 9,505 18 1 I' • , 315,02010 0, £2B, 1 More than Voted. 1. d. 76,778 6 10 3,623 10 0 88 0 It 1,893 8 7 7,629 lb 4 2,756 6 1 15,381 8 4 P •}e f .. .. ;,74 • 0 1 4;266 9 5 186,992 8 7 M 4 5 DEATH OF D. E. MORRIS, ESQ., PROPRIE TOR OF THE HAY MARKET THEATRE.—This veteran manager expired at ten o'clock yesterday morning, at his house in Suffolk-place, Haymarket. Mr. Morris has been in a de clining state for many months ; he had a slight attack of pa ralysis last week, but rallied. Yesteriay a severe attack; ended in his dissolution. Mr. Morris was born, about 1770, of humble parents. Chance threw him in early life in the way of George Colman the elder; under his patronage Mr. Morris advanced in fortune, and Colman the younger mar rying his (Morris's) sister, introduced him to the theatre. He obtained a situation in the Admiralty, and husbanding his resources, became a moneyed man. Nearly forty years since he purchased a share its the Haymarket rheatre, and whilst Colman was in the King's Bench, managed that esta blishment. On Dibdin declining a share, Messrs. Morris, Winston, and Colman were joint proprietors, though with different proportions of profit. Mr. Morris lived to pay off all his partners, and became sole proprietor. In his Patel Pry season he realised 14,0001. All our greatest actors and actresses were at different times under his management, par ticulaily Bannister, Munden, Fawcett, Dowton, Charles Kemble, Mathews, and ..Tone • Charles Young, Terry, Warde, Rae, Mrs. Humby, and Miss Kelly made their first appearances in the metropolis under his management. Mr. Morris paid liberally for the dramas produced at his theatre, and was a staunch supporter of the legitimate drama. Edmund Kear, up to the moment of his death, was, at the instance of Mr. Morris, studying the Hunchback in Sheridan Knowles's play of that name. Mr. M. has left an only son, who is a Captain in the let Dragoon Guards. About 16 months since he lost his only daughter, a young lady about 17 years of age. From the shock attendant upon her death he never whAly recovered. Dr. Munro and Mr. Keats were untiring in their attendance to the last moment;. , but after the fatal atiaek it was evident that the patient had not sufficient strength to rally. Lord and Lady Petre are .expected in Mansfield street early next week from Kemp Town for the season. His Lordship's son, the Hon. Henry William Petre, is on the eve of again embarking for the colony of New Holland. The Earl of Durham and the Ladies Lambton are not expected to return to this country from Italy until the beginning of May. The Duke of Manchester will remain over the srring at his villa near Nice, where his Grace is surrounded by a family circle. The health of the Noble Puke is not in verz _satisfactory state. MACHINERY AND CORN-LA ws.— ihe land lords and monopolists are now lifting lustily to throw as much of the Corn-law barthen as they can upon machinery. What. let us ask, have they to say about the vast improvements that have been made by the invention of thrashing machines, of corn-dressing machines, corn-drilling machines, &c. ?—Not tinglsa»i Review the Earl and Countess of Erroll, and the LadieA Agnes and Alice Hay, have arrived on a visit to Lord Frederik and lady Augusta Fitzclarence, at Etal House, near Cold stream, from Slain's Castle, near Aberdeen. - His lordship, though no longer one of the great officers of state, will retain his apartments in St. James's l'Alace, opposite the Roal Ger man Chapel, which were assigned to him by the late King William IV. The Marquis of Hertford took a drive in the park on Wednetday, in a close carriage, for the first tim• for many weeks. A melancholy event occurred a few nights ago at Cheney (Deux -Sev res). The wife of thepostmasterof the place, who was sleeping in the same room with her two children, who were in a cot close to her, was disturbed in the night by the cries ing p ted to h a e tt r ei c id an it d , le tho o u n g t h h t e le i . a s e i d y . threw e o ti f ie ot m le a o tc f h th w em ith , a w n h d i ge chs t h e l match not being extinguished set Ore to the curtains, which burns rapidly, and the mother in her fright made vain efforts to save her children. In a short time the room was on fire, but the mother still remained ; and, after having rushed through the flames several times in the hope of extricating her babes, was dragged away hor. ribly burnt by some persous who came to her assistance. The fire soon extended itself to the other rooms, and in the morning when the postmaster, who was absent at the time of the accident, re turned, he found his house burnt to the ground, his children dead, and his wife in a dreadful situation of physical and mental buffering. CAPTURE OF A SLAVER.—The brig Ga. briel, a slaver, was captured when fifteen days from Havannah, by her Majesty's brig Acorn. She had a crew of 65 :paniards, and exchanged several shots with the Acorn. Her cargo consisted of dry goods, lumber, and rice. In one of the bags of rice were found papers, which stated that there were 28 slave vessels fitting out at llavannah. The brig's crew were put on board the Acorns whi ch sailed for the coast of Africa, to land them on a desolate and unin habited part of the coast. Seven other vessels previousif captured were breaking at St. Helena, and 1,600 slaves were on that island. —Montreal Courier, Dee. St. in the Lousville papers as to the . WINE IN INDIANA.—A statement is made productio n of a vineyard in Indiat.a, four miles from Utica. The vineyar d was greenacres in extent, with only one acre and a half bear in g , and vine, plantedin rows six feet apart, and three feet ap art in the rowe r The pro. duce is stated to have been one thousand one hundred and seventy gallons of pure wine. The grape was the Catawba, and the vitlea five years old. The Brost journals st ate that, on the sth iiNt., fif ty . four vi hales of differ ent s p ecies were cast on the shore at Fouesnarit. near the Pointe d e aloustcrlin, where they were found b y the CUt to.houte office rs. Forty-nine were about twent y feet • , tom .house ten in gir th, and the others of smalle r si ze. 111 rength ANTI-CoEN-LA G5. --The. NY PROCEED I asse mbled at Hanley on Tuesday populace night, and b urnt t h e effigy et Sir R. reel in the inarket-plate. ' q t c iffordetire Gongs,