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that was to make the trade in corn in the highest degree dangerous to those who embarked in it. Some allusion had been made in the course of that debate to certain )parties who approved of such a state of things. Now, it would be always found that there would be merchants of every specu ative character—nay, no doubt, of great ingenuity and aciivity, wile had made large sums of mon e y under the old system, and, who hoped to make large sums under the system proposed by the Right Hon. Baronet, and he (Mr. Labouchere) believed that that system wquld not much interfere with their specula. Lions. He did not believe, however,tbat prudent merchants would embark in the corn trade under the scheme of the Right Hon. Baronet any mere than they had done under the present system. This had been so well stated by a practical merchant, that he would venture to quote him as a witness in instances which had fallen under his own observation. He said that within his own knowledge some importers of wheat had realized a profit of 100 per cent. and at another period wheat had arrived in this country at a time when the sliding scale, almost produced a prohibition, and the result was the importer lost. 50 per cent. Were there no other objection to the sliding scale, it was enough to say that it compelled parties to incur risks that were equal to gambling.--( Hear, hear.) He thought the agricultural interest could not wish to be protected by the upholding of a system thatoperated so injuriously. Another point of great im. portance, and one to which he wished to advert, was the effect of the shtlingiscale upon the shipping interest—(Hear)—ths was an interest to which great importance had been most pro perly attached by the other aide of the House. Now, he would call the attention of the House to the effect of the present Corn-law on shipping ; its effect was to throw the valuable traffic in corn into the hands of foreigners.—( Hear, hear. ) Three-fourths of it was, in fact, carried in Prussian vessels, and one-fourth English ; and, owing to these circumstances, the corn trade was, in fact, a perfect scramble.—( Hear, hear. ) He found upon this part of the subject a most valuable and important testimony in those papers wh:ch the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite had recently laid on the table; he alluded to the opinion of a gentleman who was one of the most competent witnesses on the subject , h e a ll uded to the opinion o f M r . M‘Gregor, the Consul at Elsinore, a gentleman to whom the country was greatly indebted for his negotiations with respect to the Sound Duties. What 3lr. M'6regor said was in answe r t o Mr. Meek ;. he had watched the effect of the sliding sca l e on the shipping interest, end had thus stated it:—" If th e t ra d e i n corn was made con stantly open in England, the natural consequence would be, that the British merchant w ou ld become the agent for the supply of corn, and British shipping would be improved to a much greater extent than it was at present. The English Corn-law has a tendency to disturb trade, and in this coun try (Denmark) it has made the Government persevere in high duties ; and, secondly, to throw its trade unto the hands of the Hanse Tosne. Hats burgh had become more and more yhe centre of trade, and the Dantzic Corn-market is now more g lutted than ever."—(Hear.) He (Mr. Labouchere) was eene - ;nced if a sound Corn-law was established, London would become the great depot for corn for the general supply of the whole eouri.trY• He need not say how much employment and activity that seeeuld give.—( Hear, hear.) It was not true, as bad been stated on tbe present occasion, that the mere ques tion was to be decided on the merits of the sliding scale or a fixed duty. The question which they had to decide that night was whether they *mould adopt that which he held to be vicious, a system of Corn-laws founded on the sliding scale.—( Hear, hear.) lie did not say this to conceal his own opinions ; for when he was is servant of the Crown, he joined in the proposal which he thaughe calculated to settle this great question upon fair and reasonable' ge-eunds, and, at the same time, upon a principle which he beliosed would not have been inconsistent with the prosperity of the commerce of the country'. He did not wish to conceal from the House that he was against throw ing open the trade in corn ; they had tried the sliding scale a nd se n how it worked, and he believed it would be admitted by even by its meat strenuous supporters, that acme altera tion wee required, and that he considered was a substantial arguttertt for trying the fixed duty. But before he came to deal with t&" objection to the sliding scale, he would say a few words with respect to those who had, and who had not, sup.. ported it. They had beard of the names of Ricardo and others, who were in favour of tise plan they proposed. while Mr. Hus kieson had been quoted aganst them, and part of his speeches Ind been alluded to, for the purpose of showing that such were Iris opinions. Now, it was a most remarkable thing to those wile, like himself, were acquainted with Mr. Huskisson, and who tied closely watched him, to see how the mind of that great statesman was inclined on this subject—the opi nions ot Mr. Huskisson were far more favourable in his last year than his first. He was quoted as the advocate of the present system of Corn-laws, or something like them. Now, all he could say was, that cn the last occasion on which Mr. Huskisson addressed the House on the Corn-law, he found that he stated it was his unalterable conviction that they could n et uphold the Corn-law with the present taxation, and at the same time increase national prosperity, and preserve public .ruder. He might be told that although this was an emphatic condemnation by Mr. Huskisson of the present Corn-law, yet still it was not to be said that he would not support the present. plan. To those win used such an argument he would eay, did they think after the statement he had read, which had been made by Mr. Huskisson, that he would support a mea sere which cootained such slight modifications of the system ? He did not meal to say that he had a right to claim Mr. Huskisson as an advocate for an absolute fixed duty ; but he had a right to say that Mr. Huskisson totally! condemned the system of Corn-laws under which we now live ; and that if not an advocate for a total repeal of those laws, he had a decided bearing towards the principle of a fixed duty.—(Cheers.) But having quoted the authority of a great statesman, whom they had no forger among them, he was about to quote the opinion of one who was, fortunately, still with them to afford the benefit of his advice --(Hear.) Now, he was not, gene rally, fond of bandying personal attacks across the table ot that House, but there really were some temptations which it was quite difficult for flesh and blood to endure.—( Hear, hear, hear.) When he read that memorable speech, which was addressed by the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Colonies to his constituents at Lancashire, he could not help asking him self whether this was really the same Mr. Stanley whom he recollected in his earlier days, whom he had the honour and the happiness to sit with in that House—whether this was really the same Mr. Stanley who in 1828 had expressed such a different opinion on that subject. But he was afraid that there was no doubt of the identity.—(Laughter.) He found that in 1828, upon the occasion when the present Corn-laws were passed, Mr. Stanley 'said that " he had yet to learn the reason which had induced the Right Hon. Baronet to propose the measure. He was certainly inclined to the opinion of those who abstractedly supported a fixed permanent duty ; brat, feeling that it was impracticable to carry out such ameasure— ( Hear. hear, from the Ministerial Benches)—he felt that the next best-plan would he to adopt such a scale of duties as would keep the price of comas low as possible, at the same time giving the agriculturists a fair protection.—( Cheers and laughter from the Ministerial benches.) He was quite at a loss to understatd the mirth of Hon. Gentlemen opposite.—( Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord said that lie abstractedly preferred a fixed duty, and that the only reason why he did not then support it was, that he was afraid there were not the means of carrying his own opinions. But now circumstances had altered,_ Turne, quod optanti divum promittere nemo Auderet. voltenda dies en ! attulit ultro. He ;really should not despair if the Noble Lord were to join his fforts to theirs, in defeating this measure of the Right Hon. Baronet; and if the House were to come to the conclusion that at any rate they could not give protection to agriculturists in the shape of a slidine• scale, he should not despair of finding the Noble Lord, in the next discussion that took place, en deavouring to carry that principle which he had then sighed over and had abandoned, only because it was not practicable.— ( Ironical criesof " Hear, hear," from the Ministerial benches.) They were told that, however fair the principle of a fixed duty might at first appear, yet there were grave objections which counterbalanced its advantages. These objections resolved themselves into two main ones. It was said, that in times of plenty, it would be ruinous to the agriculturist ; his answer to that was, that iri . times of plenty, the agriculturist would find a compensation in tire quanity of his produce for the di minished price which he could ohtain for it. There was another objection, upon which greater stress had been laid. They were told, that in times of scarcity and high price a fixed duty would be grievous to the consumer, and that it could not be retained. He did not believe that under ordi nary circumstances there would be the least difficulty in main taining the duty, or that it would operate injuriously to the community ; and he thought, that in extraordinary cases, they might abandon the duty, and that the only effect of that would be, to make a present of it to the country. On that subject he was perfectly prepared to take the same view as his Noble Friend. That If these fears were the only ground for opposing a fixed duty, that duty might ; in particular cases, be made to vanish ; and that it would be worth while to pur chase an important improvement in our commerce at such a rate. The Executive Government might be left to act upon its own responsibility. The Executive Government of this country had frequently been obliged to reek, special provision fir special circumstances. It had done so with regard to the astieles of grain and sugar within the last few years; and it anuet happen in questions of trade, that the Government was called upon to set aside the law for a special purpose. His he. lief, therefore was, that they might, with perfect safety, pass a fixed duty, and leave it to the Government, under circum stances of rare and unusual occurrence, to make a present of it to the country.—( Hear.) He was unwilling at that late hour of the night to detain the House at any length. He would o le say, that, important as he considered the question of the Co-n-laws, there was one consideration which gave them addi tional importance on the present occasion. The Right Hon. e ttleman had announced to the House and the country, that i n .freeing in that respect with the late Government, tie was n, t bringing leeward the question of the Corn-laws as an insu la e 1 measure, but that he was prepared to follow it up by a gi a rat revision of the tariff, with a view to ascertain whether the protection which had hitherto been given to particular in t :rests wag consistent with the general welfare and prosperity of the countelr•—( Hear.) He (Mr. Labouchere) had always felt that some adjustment of the Corn-laws was necessary be fore this revisio3 could take place. He had felt that they could not make that revision with any justice—he had almost said with any decency, unless they carried out the same prin ciple, dealing with the landed interest. He must say that the measare of the Right Hon. Gentleman, with regard to the Corn-laws, had excited a feeling of dis tru t in his (Mr. Labouchere'r) mind that one of tire things would happen—either that the other measures of the Right Hon. Gentleman would be of the same unsatis factory stature, or else, that as he had determined to carry out the principle of revision freely and fairly with regard to the oths r articles of trade, while he had dealt timidly with the queetion of the Corn-leers, a suspicion might be created in the public mind that the different policy pursued by the Right Hon. Baronet in the two instances was attributable to the one inte rest being possessed of more political power than the other.— (Loud cheers.) He was the last person to become an alarmist, but he saw a state of things fast approaching, of all others the most dangerous to the country.—( Hear, hear.) Englishmen were now arrayed against each other, not on account of those mere differences of opinion which must always exist in every free country, and which, within certain bounds, tended to preserve the health and well-being of the political commu nity, but now factions were banded together, men were arrayed against each other in a c o ntest of classes.—( Hear, ) . I here was nothing he t deprecated so much as such a contest, anal he could say for himself and the Members of the late Go vernment, that in bringing forward the measure on this sub ject which they had proposed, there was no one thing they had snore at heart than, if possible, by a fair and reasonable c. 4 :_mapretnise, fo stay th e p rogress of this contest.—( Cheers. ale wsuleisay that if the Right lion. Baronet hail proposed a measure which he (Mr. Labouchere) had considered calcu lated to attain th at great object, no party or private con‘idera tioni should hav e prevented his giving tle llight Hon. Baro net his support—Pr eeseeed cheers.) Ile must, however, con • fess, that it was with the deepest disappointment he had list ened to the details of the Right Hon. Baronet's proposition. He had no doubt but that it would become the law of the land, and he hoped it might work well and justify the anticipations of th e Right Honourable Baronet. He (Mr. Labouchere) midst, however, confess, that he could entertain no such ex pectations. The Right Hon. Gentleman concluded by thank ing the House for the patience with which they had listened to him, and stated that he felt it his duty to vote for the proposi lion.of his Noble Friend the Member for London.—(Cheers. ) Sir EDWARD KNA WEIBULL explained. The Right M en . Gentleman h ad entirely l misunderstood w h at h a d fallen K n atehbu . l. ) He hadnot e s f ai f d arm a s! ing e e from him ( Sir E . word a bout raising rent to m a i ntaining the value wh nt e i n on s _ pe .y ak f in al g len o . f ig this Misapprehension into h' was desieous of eorreetio . unite • .i w t leh the Right How. Gentleman had, L•v i P hieel Y eaid n , What be (Sid Edward Knatehblll) with the agriculturalui• - the whole class Of persons connecter terest, as contra-distinguished from those ' connect ed with the manufacturing interest, referring to landlords, ss' ll a nts 4 l E 4 _ is bearers alike, was that it was important that they shoo. . Yrr? to occupy the stations which they at present maintainekin the country, and that they should be secured in the enjoyment of the property they possessed, but that at the same time due con sideration ought to be paid to the manufacturing interest. Sir JAMES GRAHAM would not have risen at that late hour to occupy the attention of the House, had it not been for sonic pase , ages towards the conclusion of the speech of the Right Honourable Gentleman, in which he had touched upon certain topics, in such a manner that to use his own expression, flesh and blood could not resist. —( Laughter.) And here he must say that although he always felt the pro foundest respect for the orders of theßouse, and for the man ner in which the Speaker enjoined obedience to those orders, yet he thought the present debate exemplified in a striking manner the danger of departing from those rules in the most seemingly unimportant matter. Here they were in the second night of this debate, and what, he would ask, could be more illogical than the coursk they were pursuing? A very large body of those who had spoken on this subject, were decidedly of opinion that no protection whatever should be given to the landed interest, and their arguments went to show that any protection, even to the least possible amount was un just, and ought to be immediately withdrawn.—(Loud cheers.) But what was the question which was now under discussion ? The motion of the Noble Lord was not for withdrawing all protection from the landed interest. The motion distinctly admitted the necessity, and the question they were discussing was as to the mode in which that protection should be granted, and the amount of that protection; and this question they were discussing before they had decided the prel:minary qllek t,on whether any protection at all should be granted or not. ( Hear.) The Right Hon. Gentleman had alluded to the present dangerous state of affairs, and to the fact of men being banded against one another in classes. Allow him (Sir J. Graham) to ask, who was really responsible for this state of affairs ? ( Loud cheers.) When the Government of which that Right Hon. Gentleman was a Member came down to that House in the month of June last, and announced to the people of this country that the time had arrived, in their opinion, when 'it was necessary that the Corn-laws should be revised ; when the people were appealed to on the question by a general election, was it possible to imagine that the question would not be agitated from one end of the country to the other? Was it not impossible, to use the words of the Noble Viscount, the head of that Government, to suppose but that the very foundation of the island would be shaken by such a proposition from such a quarter ?—( Cheers.) The Right lion. Gentleman said, that he and his colleagues, when they brought forward their measure upon this subject, were desirous of staying the further progress of this evil by proposing their measure as a fair and reasonable compro mise ; and he ( Sir James Graham) would say that that was Frecisely the nature of th e p ropos i t i on o f hi s Ri g h t Hon. riend. The Right Hon. Gentleman had asked what was the object of the present motion. His Right Hon. Friend, in bringing forward his motion had said that the object of it was not the injury of some particular class, but that he and his colleagues would not have brought it forward if they had not felt convinced that it was for the good of the community at large. He adopted the language of his Noble Friend, the Colonial Secretary, as it had been quoted by the Right Hon. Gentleman, that evening. He (Sir J. Graham) would adopt the view which he (Lord Stanley) then took, and would produce this measure as the lowest amount of duty they thought consistent with adequate protection to native industry. The Noble Lord who had brought forward this motion, and who delighted in the use of antithesis—and, generally speaking, no one used that figure of rhetoric more than the Noble Lord—had cha racterised the measure of his (Sir J. Graham's) Right Hon. Friend as one which would concede yet not conciliate, would disturb yet fail to settle. He (Sir J. Graham) thought the description more applicable to the fixed duty, of which the Noble Lord was the advocate.—( Cheers.) The Right Hon. Gentleman opposite seemed to dissent. He knew not if that Right Hon. Gentleman had been present at the meeting which had been held at Leeds about a year ago, and at which these words were inscribed upon one of the banners—" A fixed duty is a fixed robbery upon the people."—( Hear, and cheers.) So much with regard to the principle which is to disturb, and yet to settle.-(Hear, hear.) He did not know w h a t th e Right Hon. tord Mayor of Dublin might say to it, for that Right Hon. Member declared at a public meeting that the fixed duty of Bs. was desirable on this ground, that it was an instalment, which, if obtained, would lead them to the entire repeal in six months.—( Hear, hear.) So much for the fixed duty, which was to settle this matter.—( Hear.) In the ex perience of recent years, he ( Sir James Graham) had found finality, in the times in which we lived, was a mere phantom. He had been a fellow-student of. the Noble Lord in the finality-school—(Laughter)—a n d he thought he bad some ex perience in that school.—( Laughter. ) He thought he ad experience in bringing forward large measures--( Cheers and laughter)—and larger measures than were thought prudent or necessary—( Hear, hear, and a laugh)—but such as were brought forward merely to stay further demands.—( Hear, hear.) But he had profited by his experience.—( Cheers and laughter.) He had always endeavoured to fulfil faithfully the purpose with which those measures were brought forward. But he had not been one of those who, having declared for finality, brought forward again still larger measures—and measures larger than were considered necessary.—( Hear, hear.) In bringing forward the present measure with regard to the Corn-laws, it was not hoped to put an end to further dis cussions of the question, or to further agitation.—( Hear, hear.) But, throwing aside all views of finality, and all views of per manent conciliation, he should be prepared to support on this occasion the measure which would concede what was due to the consumer on the one hand, and preserve what was necessary to the maintenance of the producer on the other.—( Cheers from the Ministerial benches.) The Noble Lord (Lord John Russell) had said that freedom of trade was the principle, and protection an occasional exception to the rule. Now, he had read a work from the pen of the Noble Lord, entitled "Memoirs of the Affairs of Europe since the Peace of Utre c ht." I n th a t book he found the Noble Lord's opinions expressed thus : " That the first rule was general freedom of trade, but it seemed clear that some exceptions must remain—that it was clear that when the production of a particular article was ne cessary to the security of a State—(Cheers)—and when a par ticular branch of industry had been long protected, the protec tion must be taken away very gradually."—( Cheers. ) The Hon. Members for Lambeth and Kendal cheered ; but he had thought that they were free traders.—(Cheers and laughter. ) The Noble Lord, however, said in his book, that he " thought the protection should be taken away very gradually, lest the people employed in the protected branch of industry should be suddenly reduced to want."—(Cheers from the Tory benches.) The Noble Lord in his speech of last night, had not been satisfied with sneering at the principle thus laid down by himself in his own book ; hut he thought it not beyond him to sneer at the great and " inimitable invention which was called the sliding scale." Now he ( Sir James Graham) had had the honour to serve with the Noble Lord in the Cabinet of Earl Grey ; and he had had the honour of voting with him in 1833, in favour of that " inimitable invention."—( Hear and laughter.) The Noble Lord ( Lord Palmerston) near him (Lord John Russell) said that there was something slippery in the sliding scale. But he (Sir J. Graham) would ask, was there not something of lubricity in this project of a fixed duty ?—( Tory cheers.) In his opinion there was, for, in June last, the late Government was distinctly pledged to a fixed duty of Ss. a quarter , and formed a final plan for fixing that duty s with a view of not disturbing, but of settling the question ; and it was brought forward as a measure on which the Government was prepared to stand.—( Hear, hear.) Did it not appear from that, that the Noble Lord, and the gentlemen who were prepared to act with him, were prepared to slide away from their former propositions ?—( Cheers.) He thought that the Hon. Member for the Tower Hamlets abso lutely disclaimed the Bs. duty, and asserted that the Noble Lord was not bound to it. The Noble Lord then had slipped away from that.—( Cheers and a laugh.) " The Noble Lord," said the Hon. Member for the 'rower Hamlets " was at liberty to adoyt such a duty, as upon hearing the evidence, would appear to be equivalent to the burthens of the agriculturists." So much for finality. The Noble Lord proposed that his duty was to be fixed until the price of corn rose to 735. or 745, a bushel. That was to be the duty, fixed, immutable and invariable. But yet, when the price mounted up beyond that, the Noble Lord thought that the duty ought to drop to one shilling.—( Hear, hear.) Whatever might be said of the graduated scale applied a fortiori to that propo sition.—(Hear, hear.) He (Sir J. Graham had been very much struck with a pamphlet referred to by the Noble Lord, and written by a gentleman named Hubbard. He remembered discussing that pamphlet with his Right Hon. Friend, and he remembered saying that he agreed with it tip to the point where the author coincided with the Noble Lord.—(l4ear, hear.) Now, it was clear that this argument would be irresistible, if it could be clearly shown that no foreign corn would be brought into the home market till that point of price when the Bs. duty fell to Is. should be attained. The Hon. Mem ber then read the following extract from the pamphlet of Mr. Hubbard, to which he had referred :—" To establish a fixed duty, with a reduction to be made contingent on the averages reaching a certain price," the very proposal, be it observed, of the Noble Lord, " would be to foster a grasping spirit in the holders of corn as surely as the present varying system. In the present year the price migh: have reached 90s. a quarter in the months of September and October ; and why might it ..have risen ? Not because there was not a supply of foreign corn in their warehouses which might have been profitably sold at the prices then existing, but because the holders, re lying on the prices rising to such a point that the fixed duty could not be maintained, the holders would keep back their corn until an order in Council kindly remitted the duty in order that they might exact the utmost price." Now it would require no combination to effect this ; It might be certainly and absolutely effected by a unanimity of feeling in the dealers, and no blame would attach to them for it, but the blame would fall on the system that allowed of it. This argument was, in his opinion conclusive against either of the plans suggested from the opposite side of the douse, either of the plan for the admission of corn when its price reached a certain amount, or that which permitted an order in Council to be issued on the responsibility of Government. It had been urged that salus populi, suprerna lex, and that the Govern ment ought to exercise a dispensing power over the law, and deal with the question on its own responsibility. Now he was satisfied that whoever would look at the past debates on the Corn-laws, though they would find a great difference on other subjects, yet they would find a great uniformity on this point. That this was the question of all others on which the Executive Government ought not to be armed with such a power. If it lay with the Executive Government, it would always be open to the suspicion of having been unduly exercised ; and that the interference had either been too long delayed, or too soon called into operation.—(Hear.) The Right Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down had referred, he thought with considerable boldness, to the disputed autho rity of Mr. Huskisson on this subject. In the last speech of Mr. Huskisson on this question, he certainly did appear to throw some doubt over the principle of protection itself as applied to corn.—( Hear.) But he would call to the at tention of the House that the passage, if it was rightly understood and taken in connection with the circumstances of the time, they could have no doubt but Mr. Huskisson re ferred to the preference he was disposed to give to the ori ginal Mr. Canning. Mr. Canning made two the other in 1828, and he believed propositions—onetli t propos al rHuski ss o o ifn n j 42 referred 37 to the latter of these two plans, giving his decided preference to the ori g inal p ro p osal of Mr. Can tt , the House , t hweasa opinionmatter of surmise, and he would of ning contrary to his plan of 1828. T read t h o a h Mr. Huskisson, not taken at the distant period of 1814, but when the subject was under discussion for the last time, and he believed during the period when he was a responsible Mi nister of the Crown. The House would find that on the 22d of April, 1828, Mr. Huskisson, not indirectly, but directly, dealt on the question of a fixed duty, and said, " One of the' Hon. Gentlemen opposite had spoken in favour of a fixed duty ; now, abstractedly considered, this might be well enough, but when they regarded the circumstance's of the country and the wants of the people, they would see the impos sibility of adopting such a principle. If a high and permanent duty were imposed, then in periods of scarcity the poor would be exposed to suffering and misery which no claims of the home grower to protection could ever justity. When legislat ing on this subject, therefore, they were bound to consider the circumstances of the country and the wants of the people." Could any Hon. Gentleman, then, atter this, doubt whe ther Mr. Huskisson was for a fixed duty or a sliding scale, which was his own invention?--(Hear.) Now, the Hon. 111emLer for Sheffield had asked what would be the effect of the plan proposed by the Right Hon. Baronet on the price of provisions ? To answer that question, he thought it was necessary, in the first instance, to come to an understanding as to what , in common years, would be thp price at which foreign whe at c o n ld be landed and placed in bond, with all charges paid, In the British market, if that question could be settled, or placed on any thing like a fixed foundation, there would be no difficulty in giving the Right Bat, Gautleman as explanation. To do this, he should not THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1842. it to a fixed duty, which he looked upon as dangerous in the extreme to the best interests of the country.—(Cheers. ) On the motion of an Hort. AIEMBEIt, whose name we could not learn, the debate was then odjourned. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at One o'clock. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The letter of " R. V.," which has been in type for some time, will be inserted as soon as we can find room. _ THE WEATHER.—NooN, FEBRUARY 16. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, A DELA ID}',STREET. Thermometer... 45 Highest 5l 1 Lowest 39 Barometer 30.12.—Wind W.—Freezing Point •=2 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORRO W, Morning 32 minutes after 6 I Ei;eniug 51 minutes after 5. ) i g Da S P' 71 r, , iy on any evidence taken from their side of the House; but he should rely on the evidence produced by the Noble Lord the Member for Tiverton—namely, the Consular returns. If they would take the column of prices in that return, and strike out of it only the two items which he should name, the price of corn at Rotterdam and at Antwerp, which were almost nomi eal prices, inasmuch as they were not ports from whence any great supply for England was drawn. if any gentleman would strike out these two items, which were both 555. a quarter, then he believed that the average price, according to those returns, would be found to be 365. ; he therefore assumed that to be the price of foreign corn. Then he took the column of the rates of freight, and if, in the same manner they struck out the freights from ports at a great distance, such as Palermo and Odessa, from whence no great supply was drawn, they would find that, instead of there being an average of 4s. 6d. per quarter, it would be reduced to between 3s. 6d. and 4s. a quarter. On this evidence, therefore, he as sumed the price of -cern brought to England to be somewhere about 40s. Now, he would just show what would be the effect of the measure proposed by her Majesty's Mi nisters. He should show conclusively that the practical effect of the measure would be to protect the English farmer up to the price of 665. a qUarter, because below that price the im porter could not, if the duty is added, import corn without in. curring a loss. Bearing in mind the fact he had stated, that the price of wheat in common years would be 40s. in bond, he would at once show the Hen. Gentleman that between 51s. aid 575. foreign wheat will come into competition with the home market. At 58s.- the duty proposed is 145., and adding • 14s. to 405., it would be found that skis was the point at which foreign wheat would come into competition with that of the home pro • decor. This he conceived to be a great concession made to the consumers, and one to which they were entitled. (Hear, hear.) Notwithstanding what had been said against the present system of the Corn-aws, he did consider that under the shelter of the protection afforded by them, the grower of home cora had, by the increase of his skill, the improvements in manure, and various other appliances, so im proved the productive power of the soil, that a lower price would be more remunerative than it would be when the present law had passed, and he thought it a concession due to the con sumer to lower the duty, while it would not, at the same time, in the slightest degree endanger the home-grower.--(Hear.) He thought the Right Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down wade a concession, showing that he feat such would be the case. He said that the reduction in the scale would have the result of affording a larger revenue to the State, and if that were so, it ould bring snore foreign corn to the market—(No)—it would bring it, when it was most wanted ; and also whereas, by the present law, a temptation was held out to re duce the duty, and to throw it upon the market at the nominal duty, the present proposition would give a larger revenue ; and not only that, but by it foreign corn would be introduced gra dually, and not suddenly, as by the present system —(Hear, hear.) That system had been much condemned lately, but it should be recollected that the harvests were extremely deficient during the two or three last seasons. But so far from its being true that the production of the country was not equal to its consumption, from the year 1832 to 1837, the country, year by year, produced a larger quantity of corn than it was able to consume. The evidence of the last four years, he was aware, went to prove that a considerable quantity of foreign corn was wanted. That it had been obtained, and thrown upon the market at a high price, he admitted ; but that price lasted only for a short time, it had a very sudden fail iw mediately consequent upon its introduction ; and for the last three years nearly two millions of quarters were imported into theceuntry.—( Hear, hear.) Some reference had been made to the Report drawn up by Mr. Huskisson in 1822, in advo cacy of the system of bonding corn, and he (Sir J. Graham) could perceive no greater advantage, than having a large quantity of corn in bond to meet the necessities'of the country. —( Hear, hear.—The Right Hon. Gentleman here quoted from the Report a passage, showing the great advantage of having a supply of corn always ready to meet their necessities, which would place them beyond the reach of foreign States, even if they wished to aggravate the pressure from any want of corn that might be felt at home.) The present system had that prac tical effect, and without creating any expense or loss to indi viduals, it combined all the advantages.—( Hear, hear.) A great deal had been said of the speculating nature of the corn trade. If it turned out to be unfortunate, it was called gambling; but if otherwise, it was considered a sign of pru dence and of foresight—yet the speculation was the same, whether it was successful or unsuccessful. Neither did he see any unwillingness on the part of individuals to engage in the corn trade. The trade in opium was also one which encouraged speculation, and yet he did not recollect to have heard any condemnation of that trade.--( Hear, hear, hear.) Large profits had been made, and large lasses had also followed the trade in opium ; and, in his opinion, something worse than losses had also been consequent upon it; while no opposition had been given to that. trade by Hon. Gentlemen opposite. But against such a system he thought die present system would be a check, and that the foreign importer would bring his supply into the market rather than run the risk of holding over. On the other hand, it would have the effect of inducing him to import corn largely for the British market.—( Hear, hear.) Before he should conclude, he would glance at the evils of a fixed duty. In years of abund auce.such a duty would be inoperative, and there would be no need of protection ; and in years of scarcity, if the Govern ment levied the duty, what became of their cheap bread, what became of their protection?—( Cheers.) A high duty must be prohibitory in cheap seasons, and' then the steadiness of their trade was destroyed. When the price was low, and when the necessity of protection to the home-grower was greatest, their protection failed, and the greatest confusion in their social arrangements must ensue.—(Hear, hear.) His Right Hon. Friend the Paymaster of the Forces, was taunted as if he drew some distinction between the agricultural classes and the rest of the community. He (Sir J. Graham) would ask them if the advantage of the whole community was not involved in the culture of the soil ? —( Hear, hear.) He believed that a considerable majority of the inhabitants of the United Kingdom were directly or in directly interested in the culture of the soiL—( Cheers.) But if it were not so, he still contended that no greater evil could take place than not taking care of the interests of agriculture, which, if they were not protected, would be fatal to the home market, and to manufactures. The Hen. Member for Kendal, when he discussed this subject applied to it the export test. He assumed the afeets of the Corn-law from the deficiency of our exports. He remembered, in the year 1833, when prices were low, he discussed the question, and Hon. Gentlemen opposite said that all apprehensions with respect to the exports ere absurd, because if they only consented to repeal the Corn-laws the price of corn would be lowered, and the effect would be to raise the general level of prices. But this was not the only consideration. The statistical returns proved that the exports of that country had increased. The defi ciency in the trade was to be attributed to the deficiency in de.nand in the home market. A quotation had been made from Adam Smith ; if the Noble Lord would just recolle t, the'doctrine laid down by Adam Smith was, that the most valuable trade which could be carried on, was the trade carried on between town and country. He laid down the doctrine that the home market was, after all, worth all the foreign markets put to'ether. i He ( Sir James Graham) th er efo r e hoped that the Legislature would use the utmost caution in taking any steps whatever in changing so important a branch as the agriculture of this country. When a deficiency took place in the home market, it would aggravate that de ficiency by ruining the large branches of our productive , ndustry. He was almost ashamed at that hour to trouble the House with information in detail, yet he thought it was his duty very shortly to touch upon the point to which the Hon. Member for Knaresborourgh, with much pain, had ad verted to, viz., the effect of machinery in displacing labour, as one of the causes which led to the present distress of the working classes.—( Hear, hear. He held in his hand a re port, which came from unquestionable authority, and which he had laid on the table of the House in the course of that day. It was the report of Mr. Horne, inspector of mills and silk and woollen manufactures in the county of Lancaster, ' and the West Riding of Yorkshire. He (Sir James Graham) begged to call the attention of the House to certain facts con • tamed in it. In the first place, there were under his inspec tion 1,541 mills employed in the four branches of manufactures, to which he ( Sir James Graham) had referred. Of these 1,541 mills, 87 per cent. were worked, 72 per cent. were worked full time, and 16 per cent. had a various amount of time for work; and of the whole number 1,541 in the four branches of trade, there were only 13 not at work. Now this quantity would show the enormous increase which the power of machinery had given to the power of production. He referred them only to the article of cotton-hose made for home consumption. In 1837 it amounted to thirty-six, million pounds weight; in 1838 it was forty-one millions ; in 1839 it was thirty -eight millions; in 1840 it was forty-five millions ; and in 1841 it was forty-three millions of pounds. The consumption of 1841 was thus greater than that of 1837 by seven millions of pounds, and it appeared that the total consumption of Great Britain in 1814 at the close of the war was only seven millions ; there fore, the quantity of manufactured cotton wool by mills in 1841 was greater than that which was produced even as lately as 1837, by an amount exceeding the whole produce of all the cot ton mills of Great Britain at the close of the war—that was, it had so increased within the last few years, exceeding the whole produce of the cotton mills at the close of the French war. He (Sir James Graham) would sot then go into the cause and effect, but in the last four years, under these Corn-laws, which were said to be so fatal to the manufacturing interest, and to have taken place during four years of great trial, because those four years were four years of deficient har vests, and they well knew that no human power could avoid or prevent a bad havest—(Cries of " Hear, hear")—he (Sir James Graham) had only looked at the increase in manufactures, but they (the Oppositi on ) would say these were the old mills, and it was impossible that the improvements should not-increase labour. But what would the Hon Gentlemen say when he (Sir James Graham) told them that since the year 1839, when there wrs a large impor. tation upon the principle which was so objectionable, the gra duated scale, that within the last two ) ears the new cotton mill s were no less than ninety-one ? Those mills worked 3,350 horse-power, and calculating five persons to each horse-power it would give 16,751 persons. Had anything been done to increase the old mills, he would ask ? He had no means of knowing the power of the old mills, but he knew that in one of the mills, in 1841, one person produced 2,700 pounds in a mill, while in the old mills it took six persons to make 900 pounds. Thus had manual labour been superseded in every department of cotton manufacture by machinery. He would next refer to a large mill in Manchester. ( The Right Hon. Gentleman then read an extract from the report he held in his hand, but in so low a tone of voice as to be qu te inaudible in the Gallery.) He could read several more extracts, but he would content himself with reading to the House, one which was an extract taken from the:wages book of a large mill. On the 12th Jan., 1837, in that mill there were four hundred and .ne 3 te 3 o ikn i ti; • eo lv dn a t g t oh e e s b , e a l 4 n t d thhe they n property u w a r r y ought , eighty.seven persons emp l oye d , who received in the same s h e tm o oi of the c e t hh week, cphere e l 84 f t l h , e in sa th m a e t individuals, there were, instead of 487 persons, 354 persons employed there, and instead o f 330/. paid in w ages , t h ere were only 227/., and instead of 2,313 lbs. weight of cloth, there were .2,359 lbs. weight wrought in 1841, Thus there were 133 fewer persons employed in that mill, and 1131. less paid in wages, while the produce of the mill was much larger. He (Sir James Graham), was not one of those who considered that improvement did not confer benefit upon the working classes, but he did contend that the effect of great improvement in machinery was a dis rbragement to manual labour, particularly to th at of adult aourers, and that that disparagement inflicted a great hard ,hip upon the working classes of this country. Mr. BBOTHE RTON wished to ask the Right. Honourable Baronet (Sir James Graham) what were the usual number of hands employed foi merly—Mr. Home had stated, in his {lad gortivethnatth9elfumllilnlsehmadhebreoefnhands employed. erected, and in his st a t ement h e Sir JAMES GRAHAM said he did not know, but he had already read Mr. Horne's account to the House. The Right ft theha t Hon. Baronet then stated that he had gi ven his support to the proposed measure because, in the first place , it gave a high scaleit would of diminish protection, f frauds in in the the next agricultural place, he conceived productions country by the only mode by which it could be diminished. o He thought that the measure proposed by her Majesty's Minis ters was consonant to the wants and wishes of those persons who are opposed to the existing 1 we, and at the same time he was convinced that the proposed measure would give such a protection to the home-grower, as would be not only conducive to his interest, but to the interest and advantage of the nation at lArgP• He was convinced that that measure would have the effect of securing tile most permanent advantages, and it would secure an increased supply of home-grown corn at a cheaper rate than it could be procured from other countries; he therefore preferred S UM 'ARV OF NEWS AND fittbitt 1 Z stilton. " Who runs may read." Sir Robert Peel's Corn- F IOREIGNaw nostrum begins to excite attention in France. The Courrier Francais thus writes of it :—" The proposition of Sir Robert Peel is a derision.- It efflices the aspe rities of the law, but it does not change it. The results will re main the same, a duty of twenty shillings being as prohibitory as one of thirty-five shillings. It is too evident that the Minister not daring to grapple boldly with the question, hopes to get rid of it by sleight of hand ; and that, whilst he makes himself the instrument of the aristocracy, he attempts to give himself the air of a man making a concession to public opinion. The speech with which he prefaced his proposition is a chef d•ceuro, e of charlatanism, and nothing more. This strange episode decides the fate of the Tory Ministry. If it had been wise enough to make a conces sion, it might have held on for some time longer, thanks to the atony of the public mind. He attempts to struggle against neces. sity, and on that rock he will split." The National takes the same view of the Premier's policy:— " Everybody expected, after it had been solemnly acknowledged in the Speech from the Crown that the manufacturing classes were suffering horrible, frightful misery, that the Prime Minister would have attempted to relieve such poignant distress. The course re. commended by him, however, is a bitter derision. The existing Corn.laws are prohibitory; what will the new law be? Does Sir Robert Peel think he will give any material relief to the people by putting a tax of 50 per cent. upon the bread which they eat ? It is not surprising that the people of London should be excited, that the delegates of the industrious classes should have gone, in person to the House of Commons to protest against the proposed Bill, and that this shameful crockery should haye caused extreme agitation in the public mind." The French printers have assumed the functions of Censors, so that never was the press of France more restricted. The printer of the Haro of Caen has refused to print part of an article for that Journal, on account of the responsibility he was likely to incur. In consequence of this, the article has been kept back, and the paper complains loudly of the circumstance.—The Echo de Tarn et Ga ronne is in a similar predicament; only in this case the article which the printer objected to had been already published by the Gazette du Dauphine. The Federal of Geneva mentions the death at Malagnon, on the Bth inst., of M. Ferriere, Protestant Minister, who was appointed pastor in 1803, and had for 14 years been Principal at the College at Geneva. He was the only member of the Church of Geneva or dained by an English Bishop, having received his orders at Lon. don from Bishop Porteus. He was much known and respected by the English residents at Geneva, great numbers of whom attended his funeral. A letter from Washington of the 29th ult says—" Mr. Dixon, one of the Senators from Rhode Island, died this morning. He was a man of sound sense, and great personal worth. It is understood that he is to be buried on Monday, and in that case, nothing will be done in either House of Congress, but meet and hear the announce. went of his death. The following account of the proceedings at Cabool Is extracted from a private letter which came with the official despatches, and Is, we are informed, the only report at all in detail which has been - • ' received : "By ten o'clock, Lieutenant Street got all in order, and at twelve a good breach (in a fort at Cabool, which tho rebels had con trived to obtain possession of), and in a few minutes it was carried. Hobhouse, and twelve of the 13th, volunteered for the assault." PUBLIC OPINION. The Post has a lengthy article—which it threatens to continue — oil the subject of Lord Ashburton's mission to the United States ; in which it observes, " while we willingly record our entire ap proval of the policy which dictated his Lordship's selection, we can not conceal from ourselves that the present aspect of affairs forbids the formation of too sanguine hopes." The T►'mes remarks, in an article suggested by Mr. Ferrand's speech on Monday, that if the manufacturers " stood clear with the working classes they might be formidable; but it is a rash thing for persons who have acquired the reputation of oppressors in their own neighbourhood, to bluster loudly against oppression; ir is un. wise for those who have supported the New Poor-law, and amassed boundless wealth by the factory system, to accuse others of enrich ing themselves by the distresses of the poor." The Herold says, "any scale of duties in which any figure ex cludes regular importations is, according to Lord John Russell, unnecessary protection; constant and easy importations are the Whig test of sufficient protection. This is the vital error of the late Cabinet ; it is this which effectually prevents any compromise between the Noble Lord and Sir Robert Peel." The Chronicle, returning to Sir Robert Peel's Corn-law scheme, observes that " the great objection to the scheme is, that it gives to the countries of the Baltic the monopoly of supplying our oc casional demands, and thus entails on us the evils of the present system with little mitigation." PL PARLIAMENTARY. In the Lords last AR night, after the Royal Assent had been given to the Appropriation Bill, there was a little sharp skirmish on the Corn.laws, on the presentation of petitions. Lord Radnor showed (and this is a general opinion) that the addition made by Sir R. Peel to the towns whence the averages are collected will lower them, some say ss. per quarter, and consequently raise the price at which wheat is now imported, paying Is. duty, from 735. to 78a. In the Commons, Sir William Rae endeavoured to exculpate himself from a charge made against his veracity, by quoting a letter from the Lord Justice Clerk in Edinburgh, but it was observed that the return originally moved for, and which the colleagues of the Learned Lord had refused, would have been his best excul. pation. The debate an the Corn-laws was renewed by Sir William Clay, and terminated by an adjournment, after Captain Hamilton, Mr. Ward, Mr. Labouchere, and several other Members had spoken, by Sir James Graham at One o'Clock. The debate was heavy, but many useful facts were brought forward. It will. be renewed this evening. COMMERCIAL REFORM. Two mock figures of Sir Robert Peel were carried through the streets of Leicester on Monday last; one of whiz!) was committed to the flames. At Rochdale his effigy was publicly burned by torch-light, among the execrations of thousands of people. The petitions presented to Parliament for the Repeal of the Corn.laws, from the 4th to the 9th of February, amount to 1,033, with 259,939 signatures. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT. The citizens of Waterford have drawn up a memorial requesting that a daily mall may be established between that port and Bristol, the present post communication with Milford Haven being found inadequate. NAVAL AND MILITARY. The reduction of the Russian army, ordered on the 4th of this mouth, amounts to 60,000 men. LAW AND POLICE. Mr. George Delianson Clarke, the manager of the Inventors' Advocate newspaper, carried on at 198, Strand, was brought up for final examination at the Baukruptcy Court yesterday, but fur. Cher adjournment of the case was made for hearing on the audit-day. Henry Fownes, a wholesale glover in Tavistock.street, Covent_ garden, was yesterday charged at Union-hall with furiously riding on horseback, and causing the death of Ellen Gunter, the wife of a tradesman in Whitechapel. In defence of Mr. Fownes it was stated that the horse shied, and thereby caused the accident, and had afterwards thrown himself, He was finally adjudged to enter into recognizance and sureties to reappear on Friday next. FINE ARTS. A triumphal arch is about to be erected at Munich, by order of the King, on which a colossal statue of Bavaria is to be placed. M. Gartner is to be the architect, and M. Wagner the sculptor. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. It is affirmed that the Leipsic Allgemeine Zeitung is likely to be prohibited in Austria, as it is in Bavaria. On this day, which commences Ember week, Pamphilus, Pres. by ter of Cresarea, died in 309. At this place he erected a library, which contained 30,000 volumes, and was formed by him pur posely to lend out to religiously disposed persons. "This," says Dr. Clarke, "is, if I mistake not, the first notice we have of a cir. culating library." When Gustavus 111. of Sweden died of the wound he received from Ankerstrom, at the masked ball during Eeaster in 1792, he left a left a large coffer and a small one to be placed in the hall of the University of Upsal, the town in which the coronation of the Kings of Sweden is performed, with injunctions that they should not be opened until the expiration of fifty years from the day of his death. The fatal blow was given to him April 15, and he ex pired on the 29th, consequently the stipulated period will have lapsed on the 30th of April next, when the mysterious depositories will be opened and inspected with all due solemnity. THEATRICAL. A new comedy in five acts, to be called " The Bubbles of the Day," is in rehearsal at Covent-garden Theatre. The author is Mr. Douglas Jerrold. SPORTING. The lawn " meet" at Badminton, on Saturday last, was one of the most brilliant fields ever witnessed in the county , . There were upwards of 1,000 equestrians present, among whom were Prince George, the Duke of Beaufort, Marquis of Worcester, the Earl of Chesterfield, Lords Alfred and George Paget, and other distinguished visitors. COURT - F.A.STIXONABLE. The Earl of Westmoreland has left town for Apethorpe, North amptonshire. The Duke of Cambridge arrived on a visit to the Duke of Rut land, at Belvoir, on Monday last. The Duke of Dorset, we are happy to hear, is recovering from his late indisposition. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland left Stafford House on Saturday last for Trentham Hall. The Earl of Brownlow left Belgrave-square yesterday for Belton House, Lancashire. The Countess of Jersey left Orimsthorpe on Monday for Belvoir Castle. EL LS. Of the present Peers o MIS fC the United Kingdom: - one, Lord Lyne doch, is above 90 years of age ; sixteen are above 80; and forty one are more than 70 years old. - - SPORTJN G INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY. CHESTER CUT.--8 to 1 agst Lanercost—taken ;12to 1 agst Alice Hawthorn ; 13 to 1 agst Vulcan ; 13 to 1 agst Marshal Sault; 16 to 1 agst The Squire ; 18 to 1 agst Jolly Tat ; 20 to 1 agst Bellona; 23 to 1 aget Cruiskeen ; 25 to 1 agst Rho danthe ; 30 to 1 agst Billingham Lass—taken ; 30 to 1 agst Disclosure—taken; 30 to 1 agst Johnny—taken; 30 to 1 agst Ermengardis—taken ; 30 to 1 east Retriever ; 30 to 1 apt Young'un. DaltaY.-7 to 1 agst Attila; 12 to 1 apt Chatham—taken; 23 to 1 apt Wiseacre; 25 to 1 apt A uc kl an d • 40 to 1 agst Barrier; 40 to 1 a pt Defier ; 45 to 1 apt Meteor; 45 to 1 apt Joanna c—taken. oAxs.-8 to 1 agst Passion—offered; 12 to 1 agst Sister to Yorkshire Lad; 13 to 1 agst Adela filly ; 20 to 1 agst Bella Dame; 25 to 1 agst the Ladye of Silverkeld Well. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of Grain since Monday have been small, and the trade very slack for every article at Monday's prices. Flour met little demand. N MARKT. Prices were sustained for IAL most kinds E of produce, but little business was transacted. Raw Sugar heavy of sale, and prices on the decline ; 61s. to 695. for middling to fine yellow Mauri tius, and 625 ; to 703. for Bengal. Coffee and Spices firm, and in fair request. Cassia Lignea 755. to 85s. per cwt. TALLOW MARKET. A fair demand f or parcels on '' spot, at 48s. 3d. per cwt. For P. Y. Candle, for delivery, little done at 48s. 6d. TEA MARKET. A fair business done in Free Trade, at full rates. Com pany's Congou Is. lOid., cash. OIL MARKET. Prices firm, with a fair demand. Cod Oil, 29/. 10s. per tun, and Linseed Oil, 345. 9d. per cwt. ENORMOUS TURBOT.—On Friday there arrived in Edinburgh, from one of the boats at present engaged fishing turbot at the island of May, one of the largest of that species of fish ever seen in this city or on the coast; it measured upwards of three feet in length, two feet three inches in breadth, and more than four inches thick, and weighed upwards of 401135. In quality (as declared by one of the first judges in town) it is one of the finest ever seen. It was caught with about thirty more in one net.— Caledonian Mercury. On Wednesday last the 9th inst., Hananel Decastro, Esq., was elected Deputy Chairman of the United Kingdom Life Assurance Company, in place of William Has ket, Esq., lately deceased, and William Railton, the eminent architect, was elected a Director of the said Company. LAW INTELLIGENCE. CHANCERY COURT-- 1 :(THIS DAY.) SWANN V. BOLTON.-JUDGMENT, The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment to-day in this case, which was argued before the Court a short time since. The ques tion in the case arose upon the will of Conquest Jones, who was possessed of certain leasehold houses, the rents of which by his will he bequeathed to a lady named Martha Rooke, for her life, not subject to the control of her husband, and after her death the Trustees were to stand possessed ih trust of all the houses, for Mary Clark, the daughter of Martha Rooke, not subject also to the control of her husband, and after her death the rents and profits were to go to her children, or her heirs, to be divided equally between them. The Trustees afterwards made a codicil to his will, interposing another estate for life, namely, that of George Rooke, the husband of Mary Rooke. Mrs. Clarke married, and had ten child ren, eight . of whom died in her lifetime; and the question for the decision of the Court was, what interest those children took under the will? The general rule was, that where there was property of this description, and it was given to trus tees in trust, to pay the rents and profits to the tenant for life, and after the death of the tenant for life, the testator gives over the fund to be divided among children; those chil dren, acsording to the general rule take vested interests, and in the event of the death of any during the life of the tenant for life, their interest passed to the personal representative. There was nothing in the face of the present will that showed it was not the intention of the testator that the children should take vested inter ests. The Court, therefore, must declare that the children took vested interests, and the shares of the children who died during the lifetime of their mother, passed to their personal representatives. IN THE MATTER OF TAIORP - --A LUNATIC. This case also stood on the paper for judgment, and upon its being called on, his Lordship said he must have some further state. merit from the Committee, as to the circumstances connected with the case. He thought the case should go back again to the Master to review the Committee's accounts, that Committee being the tenant for life of the lunatic's freehold property, and his interest, therefore, was opposed to that of the next of kin. Mr. BARLOW suggested that the next of kin should present a short petition. Mr. CALVERT, on the part of the Committee, courted inquiry into all that he had done. The LORD CHANCELLOR thought the'Coinmittee should bring the matter before the Court in a more satisfactory shape, and thus the case rests at present. SITTINGS IN THE HOES'E OF LORDS. It is generally understood to be the intention of the Lord Chan. cellor to sit in the House of Lords, to hear Appeals, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. It is also rumoured that Lord Cottenham will sit on Mondays in the House of Lords, to hear Appeals. VIOE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.) BRANFIL V. BRVDGES. The arguments in this cause, the question in which relates to the construction of an agreement, occupied his Honour the Vice. Chancellor of England the whole day. The arguments will pro bably not be finished for several days, the case being an extremely heavy one. (Before Vice-Chancellor WIOR A M.) MONK V. Till NY ERVILLE. His HONOUR was occupied during the day with the further hearing of this part-heard cause. The object of the suit was to recover the sum of 7,0001., which theplaintiff claimed in right of his wife, under the will of Mrs. Skinner, and which had been made the only act of marriage settlement between himself and his wife, Lady Mary Monk. Mr. Girdlestone and Mr. Sutton Sharpe appeared for the plain. tiW, and the Solicitor-General l for the defendant. (Before Vice-Chancellor BRUCE.) COLBY V. SCOTCUMERE. The hearing of this cause was resumed this morning, and Cou sel were proceeding with the arguments, when . His HONOUR ordered it to stand over for want of parties. QUEEN'S BENCH,-(THIS DAY (Sittings at Guildhall.) FLEETWOOD V. CLARKE AND OTHERS. This was an action brought for the recovery of 20/. lOs for the services of plaintiff, as clerk to Wilson's Patent Lock Company, from tho 29th March to the 7th of July, 1841. Mr. Tribe, the late secretary of the - Company, said the Directors were a fluctuating body, in-goings and out.goings being very frequent. The qualifications of a Director, were to have paid shares, and then they had W. each for attending meetings. He en gaged the plaintiff in December, but the claim began only in March, as the present directory were not simultaneously in office before that time. He had a salary of 2501., the plaintiff 30s. a week.-- neither to be paid until funds came in. Witness got into difficul. tics through bills on account of the Company, but they got him out in part, and he hoped to extricate himself through the rest; but the plaintiff had got nothing up to the time he left. Mr. Bramah, the manager, proved the services of the plaintiff. Another witness in reply to Mr. Platt, said, the locks of the Coin. pany were so good, that you could open them in the dark, if you had the right key—(Laughter)—but he added, that even in the strongest light, you could not open them with the wrong key. The defence was, that the defendants had , not engaged the plain tiff, but that if employed in the office at all, it was as Mr. Tribe's assistant, to be paid by him out of his salary; otherwise the ex-secretary, in sending in a list of liabilities in April, to meet which he asked and got money, would not have omitted, as he did, the claim of the plaintiff. To this Mr. Tribe's answer was that he had left out other liabilities also, but - that he asked money for the plaintiff from the Chairman, who said let it stand over. Verdict for the plaintiff to the amount claimed, 201. 108. *tronlY72bition SUN-OFFICE, Half-past Three o' Clock. In defending the Government Corn-law scheme last night in the House of Commons, Sir E. KNAroinum, took occasion to observe, " the landed interest had freely received the proposal made by the Right Hon. Baronet, and he (Sir E. KNATCHBULL) should never have agreed to it, unless it gave to the agriculturists such ample secu rity for their property, as might enable them to maintain that, station in society which it was their right to hold." In these few words, insignificant as they may appear, we have the whole secret of the landholders' protracted oppo sition to any alteration in the Corn-laws. They are opposed to these laws, not from any enlarged principle of justice or patriotism ; not because they are at variance with common sense and common humanity ; but simply and solely, because any effectual alteration in them may prevent their party from maintaining "that station in society, which it is their right to hold." So the best and dearest interests of the country are to be sacrificed, in order that the landowners may still continue to main tain their " station in society "—a station, be it observed , fixed by th emse l ves , an d accor di ng t o t h e i r own sense of self-importance ! Everything is to be made sub servient to this great —this paramount necessity. The interests of the landholders are superior to every other interest. What matters it how the vast mass of the community is distressed, so long as they thrive, and maintain their high " station in society ?" The people were born for no Other purpose than to be the hewers of wood and drawers of water ; and, in like manner, th landholders were born to maintain a certain " station in society," which, in all matters of legislation, is the very first thing that must be looked to. Now we ' warn these selfish, aristocratic monopolists, whO scarcely deign to aCknnWledge the existence of any other party than their own, to beware how they intrude their claims to factitious importance on the public atten tion. We warn them to beware how they add insult to injury ! We conjure them to remember and get by heart the lesson set them by the old French aristocracy, who fell, chiefly in consequence of this very arrogance. What are " stations in society" compared with the great interests of the people ? Are the weavers of Paisley to starve—the cotton-spinners of Man chester to perish by thousands off the face of the earth—in order that the landholders may revel in luxury, and keep up their state at Court. However it may have been hitherto, such nonsense will be tolerated no longer. Mere conventional distinctions are rapidly losing their value . in public estimation ; and the big word "Aristocracy" is no longer the bug-bear that it once used to be. The People have become too shrewd—too en lightened—to allow their interests to be sacrificed any longer to a great landholder's sense of self-importance. Rumours of an intended revolutionary movement is Spain, fixed fir April next, have for some time pre vailed in Paris. Some short time ago, a gentleman re siding in Madrid, wrote to a friend in London, stating that the Carlists and Christinos had come to an amicable understanding, and that when the flag of revolution should be again unfurled in the Basques, CABRERA would be at the head of a movement combining equally the interests of CARLOS and CHRISTINA. On Sunday it was whispered in the diplomatic circles that the French Government had , permitted CABRERA secretly to escape from pri,son, and that he was actually in Paris contriving a plan of insurrection with Madame CHRISTINA MUNOZ, now a daily visitor at the Tuileries. The subject, we are happy to see, was brought before the House of Commons last night by Colonel Fox, in answer to . a . question from whom, Sir ROBERT PEEL stated, that the Government had heard, though not officially, that CABRERA was in Paris, or would be there very shortly ; and further, that he sincerely trusted the Spanish Government would be strong enough to crush any attempt to disturb the national tranquillity. The treasons of the French Government against Spain, are therefore no longer doubtful. CHRtsyniA and LOUIS PHILIPPE'S machinations are now revealed to the world and in time enough to put the REGENT entirely upon his guard. The Tories, we' rejoice to announce, have adopted the Spanish policy of the Whigs, so far as re gards the maintenance of the Constitution. This will give vigour to the councils of the Spanish Cabinet ; and when the gravity of the case is known in Madrid, we shall expect to hear of fewer dissensions in the halls of the Cortes. In our Foreign Summary we have given a few extracts from the Paris Papers, showing what is thought of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Corn•law scheme in France. Hardly any other topic is touched upon in these Journals. The persecution of the press by the printers, who are now virtually constituted newspaper censors, and who print or reject leading articles at their pleasure, excites no attention beyond the offices of the oppressed journals Thus, the Government has now only to bribe a printer,. to crush any daily paper without encountering the odium of a prosecution. The Paris Papers give currency to some favourable news from French Africa. ABD-EL-KADER, however, still threatens to give the French a world of trouble. Died, at Mostaganem, in Africa, on the 20th of January, Edward Charles, youngest son of the late Patrick Henry Russell, Esq., of the County Down, representative of one of the oldest families in Ire. land, Barons of Ulster from the conquest to the time of Cromwell. The Ministry is silent respecting the events at Hayti, which ap. pears even to be doubted. The Journal du Havre brings to.day the following confirmation of it :—" Captain Briam de Boisjillet, of the Amelia, coming from Oonaives, in St. Domingo, confirms the news, received by the way of America, of the serious disagreements which have arisen between the Republic and the Consul of France, in consequence of the seizure made on board the St. Jacques. M. Lavasseur was still on board the Berjere corvette, waiting for in structions from the French Government."—Commerce. BOURSE—PARis, MONDAY, FEB. 14. Putt Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Prier. French 5 per Cents ll9 5 ... 116 15 15 90 ... 118 90 4 per Cents lO3 ... 1 , :3 50 103 ... 103 50 9 per Cants 79 95 79 95 79 90 79 95 Loan Bank et trance LaMar Bank 1,0001. Sharer 1025 —11,25 ...lOW 50 ...1e22 50 5,0001. Shares 50,10 ...5030 ...5030 [elan Bank ......... 810 812 50 ... 810 812 50 Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 per Cents., 1840 105% ... 105% ... 105% 105% 3 per Cents...« Spanish Active 15% ... 25% ... ... 28 Passive 532 ••• Portuguese 5 per Centi. Neapolitan .... 104% ... 1043 1 10.5 ht. Germain AB4l "1 " A118401r.4. ".• 84° ••• 840 340 240 ... 240 sio ' 2W ... 210 210 ... 210 L.B 512 50 ... 515 512 50 ... 515 Rouen ........ ••••••••••••••••• () Juane .. 2 30 233 75 .. 290 ... 21k1 75 Strasburg to Bale A letter from RoMe, dated January 11, states that the great "Feast of Tongues" which is annually held on the Sunday after the fe stival of the Three Kings , took place in that capital tw o da y s a g o. If the " Feast of Tongues" at Rome is not m ore edif y in g than the pre sent " Feast of Tongues" in the House of C ommons , i t must be a very sorry affair ! An incidental discussion took place last night in the House of Lords on the subject of turtle, and the duties paid on it. In the course of this discussion, which we have no doubt, will excite a lively interest at Guild hall, a Noble Lord observed that it was not yet decided, whether a turtle was, or was not, a fish. In this state of uncertainty on a question so important to all lovers of ealipash and calipee, we should respectfully recommend that the subject be referred to a Committee of the Court of Aldermen, who will be sure • to give the best, because the most practical and scientific, o pi n i on upon it. Even a reference to the Bench of Bishops would not be amiss. Prussia 6oooo i: ( r i e n d g ue o e f d We learn from B i vv t a i s rsr expected shaeiistutossp t ia o arrive aynhiasrm Majestyt3hrre o a nthe 15th. The King of Hanover visit. men. e r i l t i ni is t t a a t t ed, the MANCHESTER ANTI-CORN-LAW BAZA AR .- The total receipts of the Manchester Anti-Co rn -l aw Bazaar for eight d ays , or 56 h ours , it is said, will not be less than nine thousand five hundred pounds ! n ll of bettereEarl heofl:thactehla for some weeks back. Th e N o ble Macclesfield, who has f or th e last fi ve months been compelled to remain in his bed, is still in pos session Earl has not recovered the use of his side. Prince Louis Napoleon, as the National states, is at present suffering from rheumatic attacks in his prison at Ham. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY -7 The Court sat this day in Banco by special appointment, to hear the further arguments in the motion for a new trial in the case of Stewart v. Steele. The case was one of disputed ship insurance, and was of interest only to the parties concerned. The arguments were not concluded when we went to press. HARRIS V. PeLEAN AND ANOTHER. This was an action for false imprisonment against a police con. stable and an inspector. The circumstances out of which the ac tion arose attracted a good deal of public attention at the time of their occurrence. The plaintiff; a respectable tradesman in the Borough, having dined with a party of friends at the Sugar. loaf Tavern in Queen.street, Cheapfide, and was . proceeding homewards by Southwark.bridge, w.lven as he reached the tollgate he was stopped by one of the defendants, police constable Bramah, who took him into custody, up.oo a cbarge of having been over heard to say that a few minutes Would terminate his existence. Mr. Harris denied this, but, notwithstanding his remon trance, he was taken to the Compter, and locked up by the other defendant, the inspector who took the charge, which was altered to That of being drunk. For this the action was brought. Mr. Alderman Ttiomas WOOD being now examined, stated that in the morning after the arrest, the plaintiff was brought before him, and he thought the charge frivolous. He was the more in duced to dismiss it - at once, on account of the variance in the policemen's statements. The landlady of the Sugarloaf, and the tolltaker at the Bridge, swore that Mr. Harris was not intoxicated. For the defence a policeman and another witness swore that the plaintiff appeared to be intoxicated when brought to the Compter. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL said there was no case agalnt Mr. Cleave. ThJury found for the plaintiff against the defendant Bramah alone.--Damages 25/. BOW-STREET-(T1 US DAY.) SINGING IN ♦ WORKHOUSE TUNISHAHLE.—Five girls, attired in the blue-check garb, which plainly told that the wearers belonged to the workhouse, were charged with boiardisOrderly and creating a disturbance in St. Giles's Workhouse. Mr. Buckstone, the governor of the workhouse, a gentleman whose rubicund visage pretty clearly betokened an inordinate love for the creature-comforts of life, stated that the girls were all very riotous always, but yesterday particularly so. The MAUIiTRATE—WeII, but you must specify a particular charge. Begin with the first now. What's her name, and how old is she ? The girl alluded to, who was a good-looking piece of humanity, and appeared to snake very light of the worthy governor's charge, replied in a hold tone that her name was Phoebe Baldwin, and her age was 20. Buckstone—She is a very bad girl, your Worship; she has only been out of prison two months. Phcebeh—No, I aint ; he always fixes every think on me. NLGIITRATa--She seems a strong girl ; she ought to be at work. But come to the charge. Buckstone—Last night she was a-sing ing tongs, and making a noise. I sent tn. 'em several times to de sist, but they didn't mind me no more than if I was nothing. The Beadle of the workhouse corroborated the evidence of the other functionary. He could swear " the gals was a singin'," though he could not catch the precis e wor d s. The iNfAoisTRATT.—I want som e thi ng particular; for instance, it would be a grave charge, if, in a pl ace lik e a workhouse, where so Vc m ou a l n d y p g u a ns yiihwtohpelerne.7Bregate, these g i r l s sang indecent songs.; and _ . The Beadle said their language, generally speaking, was very indecent. The AIAGI9TRATE —lt seems to me that there would be nothing easier then to keep that place in order. There is a Magistrate always sitting here, and if you bring them here on any specific charge we will punish them. Now l'ho?be. Phoebe then entered into her defence, in a speech containing more words than sense. We endeavour to give her own words pl ea se yer worship, I was a scouring all day yesterday. I never made no noise. Hatter prayers we sung the Hold ows at eme.' The bed bell hadn't rung then ; the Governor comes, and he says, N o w go to bed, there's good gals,' which, we went to bed. I was in bed, and the Governor runs and made me get up. The Governor always goes agin me; I don't know what's the reason." The MAGISTRATE--You always go on singing, which is contrary to the Governor's order, and consequently disorderly. I shall send you to the House of Correction for 14 days. The tender and de licate Phirebe was then removed. Sarah Ralph, the next girl, had also been in prison before. She did not appear quite so incorrigible as her predecessor (Phoebe), wherefore the worthy Magistrate sentenced her to only six days' imprisonment. The other three girls were dismissed. One of them complained that she could have a place, only she could not get ally clothes to go in ; a lady wanted her for a servant in a place where she had been four months before. The Governor said it was not in his power to give them clothes; that rested with the overseer ; many of the girls if they got the clothes would sell them directly they left the workhouse. The MAGISTRATE—If you don't give the girls clothes when they can get places, you may keep them till the end of their lives. The Governor again stated that it rested solely with the overseer. The worthy Magistrate recommended that the girl's case should be brought before the board. The girl, who appeared truly grateful, thanked the Magistrate for his recommendation, and she, in company with the other two, left the office in charge of the workhouse functionaries. LONDON LIFE ASSOCIATION. (THIS DAY.) A special general meeting of this Company was held this day at the offices, King William.street. One of oar reporters attended, but he was told the press would not be admitted, therefore we are precluded from giving any report of thepioceedings, A CHILD BURIED IN THE BANKS OF THE Itivert.—An inquest was held yesterday by Mr. Baker, thecoroner, at the Gun, High-street, Wapping, on the body of a male child, name and age unknown. It appeared that on Saturday evening last, as a dredgerman was at work on the banks of the river at Limehouse, he found a bask et deeply sunk in the sand, and upon opening it, the body of the deceased was found. From its decom posed state, it could not be ascertained whether death was the re sult of violence, or even if the child had been born alive. Verdict Found dead." We mentioned, a short time since, that the carriage of a gentleman going to Blois, was accidentally destroyed by the embers of a chaufferette used by a lady inside communicating with some wicker-work at the back of the vehicle, and setting it on tire. It appears that a countryman was jogging along on his pony be hind the carria ge a ll th e time, and saw smoke issuing from it, but gave no alarm to the persons in it. On being questioned, how he could be so stupid, he repliede There are so many new inventions now-a-days that I thought your vehicle was perhaps a steam one." Perrier, a stocking-maker, and a woman named Veille, had for some time lived together at Uzes, in the Gard, as man and wife, but, a short time ago, removed to Nimes. They had been at their new lodging only two days, when the woman was found dead in a well, into which she had been thrown, after re ceiving a severe wound over one of her eyes, and having her throat cut, the blood being received into an earthen cooking-vessel. Perrier and a cousin of his have been arrested on suspicion, for which there are strong grounds. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEW' CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. i LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FEB. 15.—We have MI.; a very indifferent Cotton Market to-day, the sales not amount ing to more than 2,000 bales to the trade at declining pr icel N•ithing in export or speculation. dot • LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, FEB. 15.—The transact .., at the Stock Exchange this day, are reported as follows .1 Eastern Counties, 84 ; G r and Junction, Half Shares, 9 2 ; G r a Western, New, 59i ; Liverpool and Manchester, 191 ; Loud and Birmingham, 1674; Midland Counties, Quarter 3.'; 31. lis ; Paris and Rouen, 14g. niark 4 MANCHESTER. STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 15. — The - continues quiet, without much alteration in prices; thr "', of business done is limited. Lancaster and Preston, • „! South Westerns, 60; Manchester and Birmingham, 281. The intelligence brought by the Royal Mail steattfr t 1 Britannia, from the United States, of the stoppage a : 4 Girard and Pennsylvania Banks, and there being no re .. . 1 i able probability that the interest on the State Debt win., paid, together with a further decline in stocks, produced c_9_; siderable sensation among the American merchants this 0 2 n, ing, and bad as things are, it is the generai opinion that MP/ ' will still be worse. 1 THE FUNDS. tOli k There has been b u t lit t l e b us i ness transac t e d at Ille i S ,il Exchange ; the markets are rather flatter than at the c'Tfor business. Consols are now 89i, for Money, and °e l a p, the Account ; Excheque r Bill s , 23 25 ; Th r ee per , -- 4;o ' Reduced, t.9a 2 ; Ditto Three-and-a•. Half, 99%; 31es , i' , „ Bonds have receded to 344 35 ; Spanish Active Stock , 1 . 9 1:: Portuguese Five per Cents., 31.4 32* ; Ditto, Threes, 18 i The Continental Exchanges were firmer again yeste rdi f 0 Y. The Hamburgh Mail has arriv e d ; no a lt era tion tonot— the rate of exchange on the rice of gold. v PRICES OP SHARES THIS DAY AT ON P. a. ILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto New Ditto Fifths * 03 6 London and Brighton 50 ...... 36k...... t ...,, Ditto New London and Birmingliam.... 90 .. ,„ to '" ..... , ..... . ..... , Ditto New London and South Western 3Bk 59i...... to ..... London and Croydon ( Trunk)... 134 ll i i.. ... to Midland C iunties North Midland ... ..100 ..... Ditto New Ditto Thirds York and Narth Midland... JOINT STOCK BANKS. Colonial London Joint Stock . d : COURSE OF EXCHANGE--(YESTERDAP Amsterdam CF. 12 7t Gibraltar ... ......., .. . .. • ' _ _ -r 4 ' / i pe • --- ° ,Leghorn ... 94 Genoa ......... ...• 5 1 Milan . ................... ' 0 Venice Naples !Palermo, per oz .....• Lisbon .................... • b gt. Oporto ................. ..• 0. Rio Janeiro ............... a g ; Bahia ................... ',.., Buenos Ayres New York, 21 days sight Philadelphia ...... ........ 0 1 'PRICES OF nyi.uori, rri I Foreign Gold, bars £3 Portugal Gold C0m...3 1 0 1 '4 . NewNe w u D o o n u ars blo7 . 3 • •0 0 4 01 4 ,Silver in Bars 0 j f HALF-PA ST Ogo The English Securities have improv e d s i nce the o Consols are now quoted at 89i for Money an d A c counti.4. 168* 169 ; India Bonds, 57 ; and Exchequer Bills, 93 rrfr, The Foreign Securities are flat, with little doing. 01 lombian Bonds, 22; Mexican Bonds, 34A ; D e ferred. m e Spanish Active Stock, 24%; D u t c h I wo - an d-a-14 .! Cents., 51151. ' or There has been rather more business doing in th e a tiol Market, but prices have not improved. Eastern C l i o pir 8%; Great Western New, 60 ; Ditto Fifths, 9i ; Lon f oll Brighton, 36 ; South W es t ern , 59i ; London and Cf 4 s4li 11%; Midland Counties 82 ; North Midland 'Net ~ Ditto, Thirds, 15i ; York and North Midland, 90i. 1 LLOYD'S SHIPPING— f) (THIS 0- - ' LoNDoN, FEB. 16.--Wind this day at noon S.W. ~_.itaf , DEAL, FEB. 15.—Wind S.W., li g ht . —A rr d. fr o m Earl Durham, for Sydn e y; C a t o , St. Vincent; le Teneriffe. Put back the Barros, for Batavia. ', OFF DOVER, FEB. 15. Arrd. Hacker, New Yorki:Aso SOUTHAMTON, FEB. 15.—S1d. Teviot steamer, Bev — FALMOUTH, FEB. 14.—Wind W. S. W. moderate."ol her Majesty's ship Rapid, Sierra L eone ; Turk, Wells, °77'' Tagus steamer, Vigo, &c. Th. 0 0 11 ;01 KINTALE, FEB. 12.—Arrd. Cantab, Li ver p oo l , CORK, FEB. 13.—Arri. th e C am b r id ge , G ra ham''' . F Ma l* I Ayres ; Isabella and Ann, Hutchins, dn.; Alfred, blew a heavy gale this morning from W.S. W. to W. ,„,4 The Many Jane, from Malta, an d Amanda, from vp , — . , ashore at Carlisle; th e f ormer i s expected to bilge' 4 Oporto, Wilkie, bou n d t o thi s port, and the Uva, fro g!` ' seilles, were driven pa s t i n t h e ga l e of yesterday, si3 anchor in Bally Cotton Bay. BEAUMARIS, F EB . 14. —A rr d. M argaret, Di c kson, P v H2 , $ # A rara for Clyde, with loss of sa il s . BRIDLINGTON, FEB. 15.—The Si r Willi a m Cal e, , Yarmouth to Leith, put in he re y es t er d ay l ea k y , end ..;eir petted must discharge. A 'for f 7, HULL, FEB. 15.—Wind W., f res h.—Sld . LEoparuf Orleans. LIVERPOOL, FEE. 15.—Arrd. Britannia steamer, 4 sld. Ist inst., and Halifax 4th ; Alice, Mauritius, sld. s Rappahesimock, New Orleans ; C reo l e , St. Ancire,, Brunswick ; Nautilus, Li ma . Th e T yr i an . f ro m N a s this port, was ashore in the Mississippi, 9th ult. r" Lhi Ellen German, La Guayra. is son r iii SCILLY, FEB. 11.—A vessel, app aren tl y a brig, O l 4O Meledgau Island, about one mile from St. Ag ° ,„„ ell 'l t ile d j ie. feared the crew have perished. Half 'her 00,-,4a,r -washed ashore, a bust and head painted white t ",,,edwir, - under the left arm. Name on the sails, .b( l ' . . - -- ' , - 11; South Shields. - PLYMOUTH, FEB. 15.—Wi n d S.W. (le elli' ' ll Arra. , mer, Chatham, China. „,ora, SWANSEA, FEB. 14.—Arrd. Vale r i a , Haute, iraly: STANGATE CREEK, FEB. Is.—Arrd. CarolizieVAlW7l YARMOUTH, FEB. 15. —The William '1 hompstp, Hartlepool te Algi ers , an d t h e J an e and Betsy, from Liverpool, have.put i n h ere , h av i ng been in contact. o f mississirei, JAN. 19.—A rr d. Forth (steamer), Son .., ton, and proceeded fur Mexico. -.110 . 4 SUPPLEMENT TO THE r'" OFFICE DIRECTORY. ~,101 1 This additional supplement to th e Post-office Directory Pi,d, includes a complete directo r y o f th e new Parliament ; • f e, directory ; a Post-office and Money.order directory; 8 boor mail directory, and a m a s s o f very use f u l i n f orma tion of f 4 recurring importance to the banker, the merchant, and trso o mentary agent. In this a ge of c h eap penny-wort h s , n othi lo ot, conceived cheaper than such a mass o f use f u l infortastio f' shilling. The stranger in London should make it one of purchases. .......•• CHANCE olf. d r IRISH COURT OF CHANti-i-ilicr THE PUBLIC RECORDS OP THE COURT OF C 1 10 4 ,1 CARRIED AWAY AND MADE PRIVATE PROP S jWO The above startling fact appears from the following ... 0, Sir Edward Sugden's Secretary : Y l7 ' " Seeretary's Office, Four Con.' rts ,,,,its Feb. 11, 1842. g r o bi " Sir,-_I am directed by th e L or d Ch ance ll or to in in answer to you r request , th at h e h as no means °f e d iSd I you in y our i nqu i r i es " (re l at i ve to a document IoJE 1 ze , ;• the Court of Ch ancery , on t h e 1 1t h of February, 171reflS which a written or d er was ma d e , eons i gn i ng the Moor dungeon). " The book in which the petitions were my predecessor, was carried away by him, in accor d the usual custom," &c. & c . e " I am Sir, your obedient servant, " HENRY SUGDEN, Burs col " Samuel Gordon, E sq ." r iii a ei sf I have heard of a Lo r d Li eu t enant attempt i ng to , e the books of the Casile, b u t a peremptory or der .;;;, or, England that he should carry hi mse lf away w i t h o ut , 1 41 0 ll but never before heard th at th e appropr i at i on Pr' carried so far as this.— Tory Paper. Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .2 U. 12 8 Antwerp l2 7 Hamburgh M.B. 13 14 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 65 Ditto, 3 months 25 80 Marseilles . ....... . 25 95 Bourdeaux 25 95 Frankfort on Maine... 151 Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Berlin. Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 953 Trieste, ditto 9 54 Madrid Cadiz 36* Bilbao 36 Barcelona E•eville ~. 'it h v Sled MELANCHOLY S UICIDE .-A meialle-i t was committed on th e a f ternoon o f W e d nesday last, 3 0 o f j Hill, by an old man n ame d Willi am Gilh o l me, 93 , tr His daughter and grand-daughter, resided with n'Vtell o r their absence bet ween t wo an d t h ree ,o ' cloc k , suicide by cutting both his wrists with a razor, tilt wt/ ceeding, he resorted t o th e manner w hi c h prov ed ho use ll by suspending hims e lf t o one of t h e bi nders in the bolt! fl j , rope. '1 he body was di scovere d i n l ess t h an h a lf an 'Odin begger-woman, but e re t hi s th e v i ta l spark h a d i• psi/ possessed of all hi s f acu l t i es an d senses, but on ly 1 " jet old age.—Berwick Advertiser. rP 4 .t elt An avalanche fell at Fahrigues, ilett A - c orosee . ,tl d'Aubrac, in the Pyrenees, a few nights ago, a n "ded"¢" l " . .,l overwhelmed a barn, containing 30 head of cattlee ° bei/r o try The keeper was fortunately absent, and no how , '" e it 5 ifsj' his life. Such an event as th e f a ll ing o f an a valane b o the e r to be very rare in this part of the mountains. ft . och f ir e lanche fell on the same night at Alayres, in thetb overwhelmed two houses. In one the man and he killed, but their two c hild ren were save d ; in t-dthet man and his wife were saved, but their mother children perished. _.-- PATENT LEVER WATCHES.', grated construction (th e most accurate on which Thb fP :' be made) i s now o ff ered at the following prices, welledtor"„ improvem en t s , i . e. the detached escapement, . o ' 4 oic ei • holes, hand t o mar k t h e seeends, and maintaining • tinue going while winding up. 0 6 6 SILVER CASES. With double -b o tt ome d cases, capped......... 6 6 i t; 0 With huntin g cases , capped GOLD CASICS. . D '2 ' 1 1 Size for Ladies, with elegant gold dial...-- 1 4 1 , 0 Ditto, in double-backed cases.• I:,' o of Size for Gentlemen, enamelled dial .......•• 1 7 /I oti°, o Ditto, , h e h ot extra full size, capped••-4 jce 9 A pamphlet, containing observations resPe e ' P t ow D o t constructions on whi c h W a t c h es are ma d e , v o o l II in gold and silver cases, and a variety of sk e- 0 4 ' 0e r 1 1 00/ 0 signs, which h ave j us t b een comp l eted in g oil by ' t en sent, gratis and postage free, on application doll, 5 Cox Savory, Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, L O5 from Graceehurch-street. ber On the 13th inst., at Sulby Hall, _uireo BIRTHS. ° too' . a r• Jadi Of Northa n '' of '‘ Grace the Duchess of Montrose, of a daught, e 4 ,,,,, the „t a ° On the 6th inst.. at Frankfort-on-the-Ala i " - a tion , - di Leg ora G. Kuper, Esq., Attache to her Majesty 's 4 in Ge who survived but a few hours. f CsPl a- ri. On the 9th inst., at Beaumaris, the ladY ~) ot , of a 5 5° s b e llei' Mac Call, of her Majesty's tlOth Regiment of r 2 t dolph u On the 11th inst., at Ramsgate, Mrs. of a ion. . none , MARRIED. ~. sr a llts s on , On the 14th inst., at St. Pancras Chura.lc, ro line f Cha r of Lincoln's-inn, barrister-at-law, t ° --3 n E' q " ° --"" -- younger daughter of the late John Hende r.° ' lot te-street, Fitzroy-square. wrilliall' 11. n ED. On the 28th o f Novembe r, c a ptai 4if at Calcut ta, , of Armstrong, of her Majesty's 21st Fusilees ("ha bet's , ' sl ' sit' Ou the 12th inst., Ba c rbara, Lady... --- t n' . teo Samuel Chambers, of Bredgar House, , ts;e n ' s ' ti ., ~,, serv ic odio et, Lie • e' On the 13th hist , in tipper Harl e Y Colonel W. B. 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