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EVENING- SUN IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Feb. 4. The Earl of SHATTESBURY, in the absence of the Lord Chancellor, took his seat on the Woolsack, at Half-past Three o'Clo:Ar. The Bishop of Worcester read prayers. The Duke of Argyll and Lord Combermere were then sworn in and took their seats. EXCHEQUER BILLS FORGERY. Lord MONTEAGLE gave notice that on Monday the 17th of February, h e should move for the appointment of a Select Committee to inqure into the late forgeries of the Exchequer Bills; the mode in which the preparing, making out, signing, and issuing of Exchequer Bills are, and have been heretofore conducted ; and to report whether there has been any neglect or violation of the established usages of the Excbeauer, which either pro duced or facilitated forgery or other frauds. The House then adjourned during pleasure. Their Lordships met again at a few minutes after Five o'Clock. THE ADDRESS. • The Lord High Steward, .the Earl of LIVERPOOL, said—My Lords, I have to inform your Lordships that her Majesty has been waited on to know when shewould be pleased to receive the Address of the House, and that she has been pleased to appoint to-morrow at one o'clock. On the motion of the Earl of REDESDALE the House adjourned at 'Fen Minutes past Five. HO USE OF COMMONS, Feb. 4. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'Clock. Air. HorE took the oaths and his seat for Linlithgow. Mr. BARNARD presented a petition Crom the London and Greenwich Railway Company preying yino. for leave to bring in a Bill t o i ncrease t h e funds of the Company. Mr. M. PHILIPS presented a petition from the Royal Infirmary of Manchester, praying for leave to bring in a Bill to improve that institution. Sir W. SOMERVILLE presented a•petition from the merchants oind tradesmen of Drogheda, praying for an alteration in the laws with respect to duties on the necessaries of life. Dr. 110 WRING presented petitions from Kilmarnock, and several other places praying for the total repeal of the Corn-laws. The petitioners stated that nothing but a total repeal of those laws would alleviate the distresses of the people. [During the time the Honourable Member was presenting his petitions the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of Dublin, (Mr. O'Connell) entered the House, wearing his gold chain of office, and was cheered from the Opposition side of the House.] Mr. M. PHILIPS presented 34 petitions from differ ent parts of Lancashire, praying for a total repeal of the Corn-laws. Mr. BECKETT presented a petition from Leeds, praying for the removal of all taxes on the necessaries of life. Mr. HAWES presented a petition in favour of the public improvements in the borough of Southwark. Mr. STRUT .1." presented a petition from the Mayor, Aldermen, and Corporation of the borough of Derby, stating that great distress existed in 'that town, and praying for a repeal of the Corn-laws. SESSIONAL ORDERS. On the motion of Sir GEO. CLERK the Sessional Orders were read and agreed to. NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. BROTHERTON gave notice that on Thursday next he should bring forward a motion to the effect that no opposed motion should be brought on in the House after 12 o'clock at night, unless 100 members were pre sent.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) PRESBYTERIAN MARRIAGES. Mr. O'CONNELL rose and said, that he supposed the Noble Lord, the Secretary for Ireland, was apprized of a recent decision in Ireland upon the subject of marriages by Presbyterian Clergymen, between Presbyterians and members of the Established Church, which had invali dated these marriages, so that very great confusion had arisen, and some persons had availed themselveS of that decision to leave their wives and families and marry again. He wished to ask the Noble Lord, whether it was the intention of the Government to bring in any measure to remedy that evil ? Sir ROBERT PEEL said that the subject to which the Right Hon. - Member had alluded was one which had been already under the consideration of her Majesty's Goverament. Her Majesty's Govtrnment wished to apply an immediate remedy to the evil, and to bring in a Bill, without delay, to establish the validity of those marriages which had been con tracted, as it had been ruled in ignorance of existing law. He (Sir Robert Peel) thought it expedient to provide an immediate remedy for the case of those persons who had been born, as they naturally were led to believe, in per fectly legitimate wedlock. Her Majesty's Government would consider what were the proper means to deal with the subject, but the question was one of such great and pressing importance, that they would bring in a Bill for the purpose of determining the entire subject. It was a matter which would require sonic consideration. The attention of the Government had of late been absorbed by Many other important questions, and all that they now proposed to do was to apply an immediate remedy for the immediate evil, and to take time to consider what would be the best means of deal ing hereafter with the Whole question. Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice of an humble address to her Majesty, praying that her _Majesty would be gra ciously pleased to lay before the House copies of certain Correspondence between the late Lord President of the Court of Session in Scotland and the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland and the Govern ment, relative to the resignation of their judicial offices. (Such was the substance, as we understood it, of the notice of the Noble Lord, who spoke in a very indistinct tone.) Mr. lIAWES gave notice that he should on Monday next move for certain returns relative to the quantity of sugar consumed in the United . liingdom. Mr. GODSON gave notice that he should on Tuesday next MOW li>r leave to bring in a Bill for better securing the property of copyright in books. 1 3 6 - Lt'gll REFUGEES. Mr. DUNCOMBE gave notice that he intended to renew his motion of last Session, relative to Polish re fagees in this country. TILE CASE OF MR. ELTON. An lIoN. MEMBER on the Opposition benches inquired if any Gentleman especially connected with the Admi ralty was present on the other side of the House, as it wai his intention, on Wednesday next, to ask a question relative to the case of Mr. Elton, a Midshipman in her Majesty's service ; and, according to the answer he might receive to that question, he should consider whe ther it would be expedient to move an address to her Majesty, either on the whole or part of the proceedings against that officer. CHURCH-RATES. Sir JOHN EASTHOPE, observing that an intention had been expressed of proposing a measure relative to the Ecclesiastical Courts, begged to ask the Right Honourable Baronet opposite, whether that intention pointed to any measure for the filth talent of the question of compulsory Church-rates, or whether any measure was contemplated by her Majesty's Government for taking that question into Consideration ? Sir R. PEEL begged to stato that any Bill intended to be introduced on the subject would exclusively refer to the juriAdiotion of Ecclesiastical Courts. The sub ject wai noticed agreeably to a rocommendation of Comnais:ioners appointed some years since to investi gate the matter, and it was not meant to include any measure respectint, Chureh-rateg in the present instance. - Sir J. I:ASl'f-it - WE wished to nsk the Light Hon. Baronet whether it was in the contemplation of Govern ment to propose any measure respecting Church-rates to Parliament this; Session ? Sir I:. PEEL—It is not in the contemplation of Go yt•rnment to propose such a measure. In r. ply to a question, similar to the preceding, from Mr. HAWES, Sir IL PEEL said that he had already given an an swer on the subject, and he trusted the don. Member would ,s, , e that any discussion on the matter would not be attended c►:th ro n t vnience. BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS. Mr. T. BUNCOMBE wished to know whether it was the intention or G overnment to introduce any measure to put an (net to that wholesale system or bribery to which 11~ believed the vast majority of that "louse at present were indebted for their seats?—(Laughter.) During the last Session the Right ion. Baronet had in- timated au intention of bringing in a measure of that na ture unless. the Noble Lord (Lord John Russell), who was then in office, should follow up his expressed intention of introducing a Bill to that effect. He (Mr. 'l'. Dune°lobe), had now ascertained - that it wa, not the intention of the Noble Lord to introduce any mes.snre 6r that sort, and he 'wished to k now, as the bribery was athnittod, whethor it was the intention of the Go- vernment to brillg in a , Bill such as the .Might Bart..had advertetrto on the occasion alluded to? Sir R. 11:1.L said that he had not the opportunities of con,,rnunieating with the Noble Lord so as to learn his (the Noble Lord's) intentions, as the "lon. Member had; and he (Sir.R. Peel) was accordingly taken by surprise when the Hon. Member intimated that it was the Noble Lord's intention to nhandon that subject. lie (Sir R. Peel) thought that it would be more convenient that those measures connected with the financial and commercial policy ' - of the Country should be first brought under the consideration of the Mouse. There. could. bts no utility in bringing for . ward a. measure which, would be postponed fionf night to night, as would be the case with a. Bill on the subject referred to by the Hon. Member, while measures t)l . latch Lisportunee as referred to the financial and corn- merehil talirs were absorbing the attention of the pub irr, anti theretiore'demanding the immediate conSidera tiro' of the Muse . .. 1k trusted, tliiretbre; that the House would excuse hiin in directing its attention, in the first place, to those measures which were of such immense importance. - _ THE MINiSay,RIAL STATEMENT. Lord JOHN Rus the Right Hon. Baronet LL had also to ask a question of Noble Lord) understood°l the same subject. Ire (the at .on Wednesday the Right Hon. Baronet intended to move a Committee of the whole Reuse, to considerino a theeduty on . foreign corn. It bild been usual course for several ,years, in bringing forward a question onagnitude like the present , fo r the Member introducin.. resolutions, state his plan, perhaps to bring fo rward some ti , tions, and move, that they b e p rinted, and t hen to name a day when the House, having considered them, should de liberate and decide on the subject. Now, did d the Right lion. Baronet intend to p ursue this course ? if he did, had lie fixed a day on which he proposed, after having made his motion on, 'Wednesday, to proceed w i t h the actual discussion of the question?—(Rear, hear.) Mr ROBERT PEEL said that so far as h e , rius n . concerned, and so far as concerned the con• r et race of the Government, he should be per of ,K e prepared u to proceed with the discussion probable thattu3ilf on Wednesday. He thought it very for the _ he a asked for a vote on resolutions pro posed'tir t time it would be objected to, and • b r e e l). i s n o n t a h b e l i y r - , p fo o r w t e h r e t o House r m a t s i c s a t l e k n o. o f w d - u t h ti a e t s hweonul itd hnaodt ould Co see m m ftte mo e s . t H s e ui s t h ed oni t d o th th en e adopt ° u e ce b n et i eh e n n e cdceeotouefrrmtsleiienteHhaaot°unsYsein a m . ; namely, to state the prop osa l convenience Government on Wednesday next, aal then to move that the proposal and its details should l e printed, pro furnia, and then an early day; either Fridi.y or Mon day, as should most suit the convenience of the House, should be appointed to proceed with the discussion. Let it then be understood that he would open his plan on Wed nesday, and probably commence the discussion. Then, if the House wished for some delay—if Friday should seem inconveniently soon—let it be understood that on - Wednesday he would propose his plan Of revision, and move the printing of the papers, and that on Wednesday they would resume the* discussion —perhaps this would be the ,best ezurse—and if so he now agreed to it.--(Hear, hear.) Lord J. RUSSELL said the course of the Right Hon. Gentleman was perfectly clear and proper. It was therefore most desirable that it should be understood that the discus sion of the question would be proceeded with on Mon4y, for after bringing tbrward the plan on Wednesday, F4day would . be too soon. Let, therefore, Hon. Members re member that Wednesday was for the opening of the plan, and Monday for the discussion.--(Heay.) , THE ADDRESS. The Earl of MARCH brought up the lleport on the Address. The Address having been read from the Chair, Mr. O'CONNELL said he did not rise for the purpose of opposing the reception of the report. The speech was sufficiently comprehensive to in clude his assent to a considerable extent, and they would all know on Wednesday next what plans would be proposed by her Majesty's Government. But he had found one paragraph in the Address which gave him some alarm, namely, that which relates to the registration of voters. It seemed to be brought in with some very strong design, otherwise he did not know bow that subject could have found its way into a speech which the Right Honourable Gentleman had himself characterised as relating , to matters of awful importance in the present state of the country. The introduction of that topic created an alarm which he would nothave felt with respect to a Speech which did not involve matters of such high importance. He was sorry to perceive that there was no intention to facilitate, in the way in which in his judgment it ought to be facilitated, registration of voters, either by defining the nature of the franchise when it was doubtful, or by making it co extensive in both countries. Either of those plans would be quite consistent with the finality of the Reform Bill, which he presumed to be the doctrine. of the Right Hon. Gentleman and his Government. To equalise the franchise in the two countries would be quite consistent with the Reform Bill—to define it when it was doubtful would be quite consistent with the Bill, so that without violating their principles, either mode of relief might be adopted by the Government. He could not but express strong apprehension in consequence of finding the phrase single, and by itself, without any of the means being* pointed out by which a salutary registration might be effected. He (Mr. O'Connell) never recollected an instance when the Tory party had the power, that they did not diminish the rights of the Irish . people: If they had the power now, they might exercise it.—(Hear, hear.) This' might be the subject of angry discussion hereafter, and he would not now say anything further on the subject. With every other part the Speech he cordially agreed. The Address was then agreed to, and Sir ROBERT PEEL intimated that her Majesty would receive it at one o'clock to-morrow. The Right Honourable Baronet stated that he had to ask the House to agree to another Address, in which he was sure every Member present would most cordially join, it was an address of congratulation to his Royal Highness Prince Albert upon the auspicious event of the birth of a Prince of Wales. He felt convinced that that il lustrious Prince had, by the course he had pursued since he became connected with this country, entitled himself to, and obtained, the highest respect of every Englishman— (Hear, hear)—and he felt, therefore, no doubt that the _House would adopt the Address of Congratulation he now proposed to his Royal Highness with the same unanimity as they' had agreed to that to her Majesty. The Right Hon. Baronet concluded by moving that a loyal address be presented to his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that in seconding this motion he*should say nothing more than what he always did say on similar occasions, viz.—that lie felt the greatest pleasure in seconding the motion.--(Hear, hear.) The address was then agreed to, and certain Members ap pointed to wait upon his Royal Highness with it to morrow, at one o'clock. BILL FOR THE APPLICATION OF FORMER GRANTS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose to Move the first reading of a Bill for the application to the service of the year 1841 of the sums granted in either of the two last Sessions of Parliament. He said the Bill which he wished to present for the adoption of the House was of such a nature, that he should not detain them with many observations upon it. It had arisen from the following circumstances :—ln the course of the year 1841, the Ways and Means were voted in two separate accounts, in the title of which they were stated to be tor, the year 1841 ; but in the body Ways and Means were- appropriated in two different manners two different services ; the consequence was, that it became necessary to apply different sums to dii ftrent portions of the same service, and this gave rise not only to great inconvenience in the public depart ment, but some loss to the public revenue ; for as • those votes that were voted in the first session could not be made to apply to the second session, it was impossible that the Exchequer bills reserved for those sertlces could be paid off with the rapidity which was desirable. With regard to this Bill, he had only further to add, that, in introducing it, he' had only followed the precedent of the year 1831. The difficulty having been discovered, he 'thought it should be set right as early as possible. Mr. BARING trusted that, at as early a period of the Session as might be consistent with the public service, he would be able to lay on the table the details con nected with that measure. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he would take care to give the House every information be fore he attempted to make any progreSs in the measure. EMIGRATION. " Lord STANLEY said, although, on the part of her Majesty's Government, he co - uld.giVe no sanction to the reports alluded to by the Noble Lord ivho had preceded him in the. Colonial Department, ias to an extensivescheme of emigration, with regard to which .he had already received from various quarters many- suggestions and schemes of the most comprehensive .character, yet he thought the House would only.consider that he was dis- Charging the duty he 'owed' to the public at large, and to the situation he had the honour to fill, if he. took a very - early opportunity in the session to direct the attention of the House to a subject of the greatest importance to all .classes of emigrants, who year after year, .without any interposition on the part of the Government were proceeding to distant countries, at onee•relieving the mother • country ream a superabundance of labour, and by transferring their la hour to other, quarters, both r by their labour and capital auwmentnig the resources at - the' same time of the mother country and of tho colonies. There were two subjects of the highest importance to the two classes concerned in emigration; that is, to the poorer emigrants and to the capitalists who were en.. gaged in 'promoting emigration and colonisation. The object of one measure which he intended to bring be tin-e the House was to protect the poorer emigrants from fraud and oppression, to which, in the present state of thitigs, they were too much subjected.—(Hear.) The tither related to the inconvenience which was sus tained by to desirous of purchasing land in the colonies, from the fluctuations in price, especially in the Australian colonies, and the different systems of govern ment and colonisation in those colonies. He was sure that th:r. House was not aware—certainly the country was not aware—of the extent to which, without assistance -from the Govermnent, emigration was proceeding ; and he - was sure that the persons who had • undertaken emigration and colonisation had, overlooked in all the instances which came under his observation, many matters which vitally affected the interest of those who emigrate.—(Hear.) From the returns of emigrants from the United KingdoM for the last ten years, ho found that, with the exception of 1838, when there was no interruption to the emigration to Canada, the average number of emigrants was 75,180 per annum. In the year 1840, the numer was 90,700, and, in 1841, it reached the amount of 106,475. Now, it was wise and emvdi ent to attempt to regulate this large emigration, and to assist in conducting it. I'M to attempt to force it bc yond the amount which it had reached would be impo litic, and in reality would be injurious to those whom it was desirous to serve. At one time it was the opinion of the House, as regarded the vessels carrying passengers to the colonies, that the emigrants would take care of themselves, and that any legislative regulations were im politic, as they served to increase the expense to the passengers ; whereas, the owners of those vessels, like all other trades, if not interfered with, would rest upon their characters, on which their success must depend. Now the Passengers' Act had been in force for several ..;•• • years before 18 25 , when an amended Act was passed. But in 1827 the doctrine which he had just spoken of prevailed, and the Act was repealed. As soon as that was done, and the restrictions that used to be enforced were taken 91f, the frauds became so numer ous, the abuses so outrageous, the cases of cruelty so glaring, and the clamours so load, that in six Months afterwards an Act of greater stringency than the former • Passengers' Act was passed.---(Hear.) In the year 1833, when he (Lord Stanley) had the ho nour 'of last holding the seals of the Colonial De- partment, a system was introduced by Government. There were established at the different principle ports of the country emigration agents on the part of the Government, for the purpose of providing and assisting parties desirous of emigrating, and for the purpose of checking the frauds and abuses which prevailed, and of giving the emigrants advice and counsel. He (Lord Stanley) believed that notwith standing all the imperfections of the present system, the appointment of those agents had been productive of Treat improvement, had checked great abuses, and had materially protected the poorer classes of emigrants. .But they had now the advan tage in legislating on the subject of an experience Weight or nine years, and of the reports of those differ ent emigration agents. Those agents had now a know ledge of the principal abuses which still prevail, and of the principal modes by which their vigilance was evaded ; and they could say what were the points upon which the existing law was deficient. In their Report to the Land and Emigration Commission appointed two or three years ago, when the subject wits taken up by the Noble Lord who had preceded him (Lord Stanley), and Mich was addressed to that Noble Lord, they had developed their views. A subsequent Re• port had been addressed to him upon the same subject, and that Report was accompanied with the re. commendation of various provisions by which they iil THE SUN', LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1842. tended to modify the existing law. Those recommenda tions were so much matter of detail, that he was convinced the House would not wish he should go at that moment minutely into the subject. He hoped, however, the proposals he had to offer would meet with theimme diate approbation of the House, because, as the season.for emigration ended by the end o March,they vvould otherwise be useless for some time. lie proposed to lay before the House the Report of the Land and Emigration Com mission 'before he proceeded to consider the Bill in Committee, and Honourable Gentlemen would thus have an opportunity of discussing more conveniently its different details. He would propose new regulations respecting the space required for each passenger, and the • amount of provisions and of water, which would be es timated according to the nature of the voyage to be under aken. The same regulations would not, of course, apply to different climates, and to vopages of different lengths. He also poposed that the Act should extend not only to voyages from the United Kingdom, but also to voyages undertaken from our colonial possessions. As he had given notice of two Bills, he would take the opportunity, while on his legs, of stating the views with which he proposed to introduce those Bills, and asking leave to submit them to the consideration of the House, particularly the one for the sale of land in the Austra lian colonies.—(Hear, hear.) He alluded to this Bill for this reason, that her Majesty's Government' had a greater command over the legislation of the co • lony and the application of the land fund than over that of their North American colonies, where the whole of the land was subject to separate legislation and autho rity; and which could not be dealt with in the same manner as in the Australian colonies. With regard to their West Indian possessions it was unnecessary, and at all events improper, to legis late for them in the present circumstances, because no great amount of emigration had set in towards them, in consequence of the climate being so different from their own, and so uncongenial to European constitutions, and which rendered it the more necessary to support that class of colonists in Australia. This colony required their pe culiar attention, because it. had attracted the greatest tide of immigration from this country. That immi gration was continually increasing, and the land fund had been proportionally increasing also. The returns from the colony had also . increased, and were of the most satisfactory description. He thought it would be gratifying to read to the Hon* a statement of a few figurevwi.th regard to the impOrts and exports from the Australian colonies within the last few years. The exports from New South Wales in 1835 amounted to 682,000/., and in 1840 they had increased from 682,0001. to 1,251,0004 -: ? (Hear ' hear.) The im ports in the colony, two-thirds of which were of British manufacture, amounted in the year 1835 to 727,0001. and had increased in 1840 to 2,600,0001.—(Hear, hear.) In 1830 the exports from New South Wales in the arti cle of wool amounted to 900,000 pounds weight, and the year 1836 that article of export from that colony, and of import to this country, had risen from 900,000 pounds weight to 3,611,000 pounds weight—(Hear, hear, hear)—and in 1840 to 7,668,000 pounds weight.— (Hear, hear.) He had trespassed for some time op the patience of 'the House, in order to point out did' great importance of those colonies, and to slipsfirthat in their legislation they should proceed on sound data in a matter relating not only to the comfort of the colonies, but which was of the greatest importance, to, the in terests of the mother country itself.—(Hear, hear.) The system under which land bad been granted in the Australian Colonies had varied almost from year to year, and this had occasioned great'd;.sappointment to persons emigrating to the colony, who had gone out under one set of regailations, and had on their arrival there found a different set of regulations in force. This circumstance had not only occasioned great disappointment, but had led to disputed titles, and had occasioned great litigation ; it had tended to check emigration, and prevent the influx of capital into the Colonies, for large as had been the increase in the number of emigrants of late years, he firmly believed that that increase would have been still greatkr had it not been for the tendency of these constantly changing schemes to check it. He would take the case of New South Wales. In the year 1827 a set of re gulations had been promulgated, relative to the grant ing of land, laying down certain conditions, a compliance with which would entitle the emigrant to a grant. These regulations had not, he believed, been promulgated-from authority ; but many persons had gone out; expecting, on their arrival in the colony, to find those regulations in force. In 1828 those regulations were chanqed, and grants of land were made, upon a principle different to that which had been acted on in 1827. In 1831, his Noble Friend Lord Ripon, with the assistance of another Noble Friend of his (Lord Howick), who was not then present, had much 'to their own credit, and to the advantage of the colony, introduced a principle substituting the prin ciple of the sale of lands for the grant of them. That principle had at first been objected to by the inhabitants of the colony, but the result of that plan had been, that whereas ; in the year 1830, the amount arising from the sale of lands did not exceed 896/. It had successively risen in different years to 3,1004, 8,900 i, 108,0004, 114,0004, 127,0004, 160,0004, until, in 1840, it had risen to 339,7131.—(Hear, hear, hear.)—He thought" it right to state, that in consequence of various circum stances, that amount had during the past year been con siderably diminiShed, and in 1841 he did not expect that the sum realized would much exceed 160,0001. In the year 1831 the principle of the sale of lands had been first introduced. In 1838 the price of land had been altered, having been raised from ss. to 12s. an acre. In October, 1840, a new method of disposing of land had been introduced into New South Wales. Instead of making the sales by auction, and naming a minimum price, a fixed, price •of I/. per acre had been made, and this mode of disposing of lands had been scarcely a year in existence When another change was made ; and in August, 1841, the Colonial-office had gone back to the system which had been abandoned in the previous year. He. did not say that those alterations had not been made without good and valid reason, but he could not see why any Secretary of State should have it in his power to make those changes, almost with out the authority of Parliament; and he thought it was not right that any Secretary of State should possess the power of making these changes without autho rity, and without taking those means to give them publicity, without which it was impossible to ob tain the confidence of the . public mind.—(Hear.) What he meant to propose was, to divest the Secretary of State of that responsibility, and that undue power. He (Lord Stanley) proposed •to -introduce a Bill which would regulate the principles and the provisions by which land was sold in Australia. He had great objec- . tion to having the principle and the system different in the various colonies.—(Hear.) He saw no reason that the principle of sale by auction should exist in one colony, and a fixed price in another. He saw no reason why Port Philip should have one system, and Sydney another—why Western Australia should differ in that respect from South Australia and from New Zea land. Ile proposed to apply the same system by Act of Parliament to all the colonies. He would state as shortly as possible the system he proposed to lay before them, because, whether the details of his- plan on this subject should be legislated upon by the House or not, they would not be supposed to refuse per mission to • introduce a Bill upon the subject. The system he meant to introduce to their attention, was neither absolute sale by auction, nor by fixed price, but it was a system founded on a principle recom mended by a Committee, which investigated last year the affairs of Australia, according to which the coasts of the several colonies, being surveyed accord ing to districts, certain portions of hind would be conduit:ol3' brought into the market, and there should be a fixed upset price below which no land should be sold—that the lands should lie divided into three classes, viz., those reserved for the sites of towns; those which, from the peculiarity of their situation in the immediate neighbourhood of towns, had acquired an artificial value; and the third class comprehended country lots. _With regard to - the ordinary , country lots they were put to 9.uction, at certain intervals, say six months. Ins system should go to effect that there should be always a supply of land without waiting for those periodical sales, and to prevent practices which, arising from those periodical sales, had an injurious effect on the price and value of land. He propdsed, therefore, that an upset price should be fixed - on the land ; that it should be subject to periii 7 clical Sales, and that the land not purchased at those periodical sales should remain capable of being purchased at the upset price, in the interval between the sales, by any person desirous of purchasing. The consequence of this would be, that the more valu able land would sell at the- larger price, hnd the inferior land would sell at the minimum price • and those persons who were content to take inferior lands, rather than wait for the periodical sales, would have the chanCe of taking inferior lands, and settling themselves upon it, without the delay of waiting` for the periodical sales. He would not weary the House by entering into all the details of the measure. The Bill was applica ble to the whole of the_ Australian colonies, and it embodied, with some exceptions, the recom mendations of the Australian Committee of last year. I t i heixa e se: tint rghosieale proposedtin:6l:t.iiiiocotrenihinereor sanctioned sool g italuhi i n s lgend e cy:t a , .la, pntond:ith,seicerurreet proposedot to discretionary nhtaei time Queen ptthe ievgeiprvi price e e l eon o fl i t hxneecai Go vernor certain btooy. i l n ; cr a e n a d s , ed aft p e ri r e t e h , e no Queen in Council authority I S 3 than that of the Ho use o f C ommons would be able to diminish' it.. With respect to the `who contended that they should be entirely of the sales, he knew that there were man gentlemen. . . . the purposes of emigration. Ile was not prepared to Yo 'that length. He was quite satisfied that in many cases it would be very inconvenient if a positive rule were laid down that the whole of the proceeds of the' land sale should •be applied to the purposes of emigration. Emigration, important a:S it Was, was not the only purpOse to whiCh the land funds might be legiti mately applied. It should be recollected that they were -not dealing with an abstract, uninhabited country,and that the aborigines had claims upon their justice and humanity. For the purpose of affording them relief' part of the sales should be applied. The internal improvement Of the colo nies was another object which would not be lost sight of. He proposed, with the consent of the Crown, to enact that one-half of the land sales shOuld be applicable to the purpose of emigration, and as much more in each case as the authorities may think fit, after deductions for the purpose to which be had alluded. Ile believed it would be necessary to limit the duration of the Act to the life of her present Majesty. He proposed this limitation because he thought her Ma jesty had no right beyond her own life to dispose of those lands which formed her hereditary revenue. At . all events, there being doubts on this question—and in deed there were more than doubts—there could be no objection to the provision which ho proposed, limiting the duration of the Act to the life of the Sovereign. With these observations, and thanking the House for, the attention they had given him on the dry details of this subject, he now moved for leave to bring in a Bill to regulate the laws relating to the carriage of passengers in _mercantile. vessels ; and also a Bill to regulate ihe sale of lands in the Australian Colonies, Mr. HINDLEY - asked whether this Bill would control the money derived froth the sale of those lands ? Lord STANLEY—The Bill will apply to the money that is to be realised ; but certainly not to that which has been already spent.—(Laughter, and "Hear, hear.") Lord JOHN RUSSELL had listened with great in terest to the statement of his Noble Friend. At present he (Lord John Russell) did not think it necessary to enter into the details of the measure; but he was very happy to say that in all its gener a l p r i nc iples he per fectly concurred. With respect to the first question on which his Noble Friend addressed the House—that was, the policy of not attempting any great systematic plan of emigration on -the part of the Government, he (Lord John Russell) also fully concurred. Indeed, voluntary emigration was already conducted with vigour enough, without any interference from the Government being nee cessary. The printed returns showed that during three quarters of , the last year there had not been less than 106,000 voluntary emigrants. This statement he thought went to show , that Government should not merely hesitate, but positively refuse to adopt a forced system of emigration. But with respect to the mode of emigration now carried on, he (Lord John Russell) must admit that there were many abuses, in spite of the present regula tions sanctioned by that House. Frequently cases hap pened in which poor Irish emigrants embarked with scarcely food enough for the wants of the shortest voyage—and who, in case of any delay in port, or of a tedious passage through tempeStuous weather, accident, or any other cause, hrd to suffer the most dreadful pri vations.—(Hear, hear.) lie had found this to be too often the case while he had the honour to occupy the office now held by his Noble Friend. With respect to the other Bills he had proposed to in troduce, the Noble Lord had stated correctly the va rious modes by which the regulations had been made from time to time—first, for granting ; and, secondly, for sale of the land. The great alteration- in this subject was the alteration made by Lord Ripon and Lord Howick ; the principle then laid down that all was to be done by the authority of the Crown, was the principle now proposed by the Noble Lord. He (Lord J. Russell) conceived that it was far more ad visable that any alteration in the regulation with respect to the subject in 1831, should be made by the Crown, hefore any measure on the subject was bronght forward in Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) He thought, however, that the time had now arrived when, after the trial of many of those regulatimas, and when several changes had taken place, 4hat some permanent system ought to be established, and receive the sanction of Parliament. With respect to the particular mode in which the Noble _Lord proposed to Introduce those regulations, he t thought the time for making observations upon them would more properly be when the Bill was introduced, and when he should have been able to have seeesthe various regulations. He could not see why New Zealand should be treated in the same way as New South Wales and Australia, but he would not trouble the House on that subject further. lie` ' concurred with the Noble Lord in the principles he had laid down, that all the mils laid out in the sales of land should not be devoted to the purpose of emigration. He believed, if he understood the Noble Lord right, that some of those funds were to be devoted for that purpose, and the others were to be the subject of further consideration. He considered that that would be the best mod& of settling the question. He concurred in the mode by which the Noble Lord proposed to intro duce the Bill ; but he was anxious to see the details of the Noble Lord's plan, and when he had done so, he should be happy to co-ope rate with him by giving his vote in favour of those Bills which he thought_ were needed, and which lie was most happy to find it to be the in tention of the Government to introduce. Mr. WARD having so long taken an interest in this . subject, . felt bound to express to the Noble Lord his cordial concurrence in the prin ciples he had laid down, and gave him his best thanks for having, on the part of her Majesty's Go vernment, proposed to introduce such a measure—a measure which, he believed, would be productive of the greatest good in those parts of the world to which it was intended to apply.—(Hear, hear.) It was most beneficial that the power of dispos ing of land in the colonies should be vested in the Government, and he for one thanked the Noble Lord for bringing forward a measure at . such an early moment for systematizing the mode of disposing of land, and introducing regu lations so highly beneficial to the Colonies. Upon matters of detail there may be differenees, but there never could be a question among per sons acquainted with the subject thil4drt of the money paid for land, whatever that amount 'might be, should be devoted to the purposes , mentioned by the Noble Lord, and- that the mode of using those funds, as they had- been formerly used, for purely. colonial purposes, shbuld be altered. A great concession had been made-on this subject, and one highly beneficial to the country and the colonies, and he should be glad to assist tly.i. Noble - Lord' in the object he had in view. 'There was' a :qtrestion which seemed to belong 'to this subject; --- -though, perhaps, not exactly . coming under if . ; yet, as it was not likely that another opportunity would offer, he should now - Mention it. - In the Gazette of Friday last . there was an Order in Council, . proposing to permit, under certain regulations therein specified, the -emigra tion of Hill Coolies -to the Mauritius. In - 1840, his Noble Friend proposed a measure of this kind, but the House decided against, it. He should wish to know if any further info' mation on this subject had reached the Government,. and if they were prepared to lay that information before the House ? Mr, ROEBUCK objected to the principle of the Bill of the Noble Lord, who seemed to con sider that it - was the privilege -of the Crown to dispose of the lands in the colonies,.which he did not agree to. Emigrants go to encounter extraordinary diffi culties, and they ought to derive from the land they enter all . the benefit they could derive from it. They go to meet difficulties - - much greater than those of other people, - mid let Mem, then, in . God's name- get all the benefit they, can derie from the soil they go to tenant.-(Hear.) He . believed that a really well constituted 'system of colonization must commence by - ctefining the limits of the colony; make them small in . extent ; and when each calmly fias - arrived et a ~,certain number of inhabitants, let the government sbe vested in the- - &lolly itself, and then give up all' 'overlooking.:` on the part of the mother country.—(Hear.) He- objected to the theory lately broached, that all the proceeds of the colonial lands ought to be appropriated to emigration. This, however disguised, was but an additional clause to the New Poor-law Bill. The Noble Lord, the late Secretary for the Colonies, had had ample opportunities of knowing the evils arising from these circumstances, and he had himself proposed to the people of Canada a tax on immigration into that colony, as the best plan of discouraging the influx of a poor class of persons .to the colony. lie spoke with accuracy on this point, as he read the Noble Lord's de spatch, which recommended the tax which ho alluded to. This was one of the circumstances which' created an ill feeling between, the peopl e o f thi s cou ntry and the Canadians, but they were obliged to do it in self defence, in order to prevent being overrun by the poor of the country. Let the Colonies have their own land to be applied to' the purposes of their own Government, and not as a premium on emigration to that country.—(Hear, hear.) He was decidedly of opinion that the Colonies ought to, have their government in them selves,. and be limited in their territorial extern , . Let the Colonies be limited by some preconceived rule in their territory and extent. Let them be confined in their li mit to the extentof possession no more than equal to their means of cultivation and their wants. But at this early stage he would put in earnestly his protest against any Bill by which the proceeds of the Colonies should be made pplieAle to English purposes. He defied any lawyer to prove that the land of the Colonies in any way be lunged to the CroWn: They belonged to the Sovereign no more than the highways of Great Britain ; they were - only part of the Sovereign's dominions, amt were not the property of the Crown, but the people. If the people of England sent nut colonists, they would be best provided for, and the evils which the Noble Lord endeavoured to provide against, would be best prevented, by enabling the colonists to pro tect themselves. Sir GEORGE GREY having been on the Committee last year, in which the condition of the colonies was con- sidered, wished to express his satisfaction at the course which the Noble Lord - had taken i n f orm i ng hi s measures upon the recommendation of that Committee. He hoped however, that the Noble Lord considered -the 'question o f the minimum w hi c h h a d the effect of keeping down the i i r l i t c h e e o l f a . l l:tn r d es t p : etng that i level. He wished also to ask the Noble Lord whether he intended to make any alteration the emigration of . Hill coolies ? Mr. S. O'BRIEN said it was 'certainly a subject of congratulation to him to find that the Government had taken up the present question ; and his only regret was that they had not introduced a more comprehensive mea sure. The proposal of the Noble Lord (lid not, unfortu nately, go far -enough ; and for his (Mr. O'Brien's) part he felt that no measure of the kind would be completely satisfactory which did not give our surplus population an. opportunity of transferring their labour to other parts of the - empire, in which it would he adequately rewarded. He also regretted that the Bill was not to extend to the Cape of Good Hope and the colony of New Brunswick. • tne L p o i r: po S s T e r o k f N e Y said that he had to state in answer 'to the question put by the Hon. M(mber for Limerick, of the Cape, and t g h that the Governor of the Cape did not think the Cape fit for the introduction of a large number of emigrants, nor , was there any land fund capable of being applied for of emigration could be ex , rea smallt io n Thu pt circumstancesland d f thee o oil comparedy with the mountain districts, rendered it impossible that so effective a system tended- to it as.to the colony of South Austral;a. With regard to the Order in Council which appeared in the Gazette, it was true that her Majesty's Government were of opinion that it was expedient to prohibit the emigration from New South Wales to the Mauritius. Mr. FITZROY said, in regard to what had fallen from the lion. Member for Bath, he was extremely sur prised to hear from him such statements with regard to the limitation of the colonies.—(Hear, hear.) Ile thought the Hon. Member for Bath should m a k e himself - acquainted with the circumstances of the dif ferent colonies, before the objected to what had been pro posed for their benefit. Leave was then given - to bring in the Bill. THE STANDING ORDERS. Sir G. CLERK then moved the Standing O r d ers , which were agreed to. APPROPRIATION AMENDMENT ACT BILL. Sir G. CLERK brought in this Bill, which was read a first time. On the motion of Lord ELIOT, certain returns were ordered relating to the Poor-law in Ireland. The House adjourned, at Half-past Six, to Twelve o'clock to-morrow. SHERIFFS FOR 1842. (From the Gazette of last night.) At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 2d day of February—present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Connell, the following Sheriffs were appointed for the year 142.: Bedfordshire—Robt. Lindsell, of Fairfield House, Esq. Berkshire—H. Mill Bunbury, of Marlston House, Esq. Buckinghamshire,—John Palmer, of Dorney Court, Esq. Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire—John Linton, of Stirtloe, Esq. Cumberland—F. L. B. Dykes, of Dovenby Hall, Esq. Cheshire—Edward D. Davenport, of Capesthorne,, Esq. Derbyshire—James Sutton, of Shardlow, Esq. Devonshire—Emanuel Lousada, of Peak House, Esq. Dorsetshire—Henry Ker Seymer,. of Hanford, Esq. Durham—R. E. D. Shaft°, of Whitworth Park, Esq. Essei—John Faithful Fortescue, of Writtle-lodge, Esq. Gloucestershire—Thos. H. Kingscote, of Kingscote, Esq. Herefordshire—J. L.Scudamore, of Kentchurch Pk., Esq. Hertfordshire—Geo.G.Morgan, of Brickendonbury, Esq. Kent—Henry Hoare, of taplehurst, Esq. Leicestershire—John B. Story, of Lockington, Esq. Lincolnshire—Sir John Nelthorpe, of Scawby, Bart. Monmouthshire—J. E. W. Rolls, of the Hendre, Esq. Norfolk—Wm. Howe Windham, of Fellbrig, Esq. Northamptonshire—Hon. P. S. Pierrepont, of Evenley Hall. Northumberland—E. Riddell, of Cheeseburn Grange, Esq. Nottinghamshire—Francis Wright, of Lenton-Hall, Esq. 'Oxfordshire—J. S. Phillips, of,Culham House, Esq. Rutlandshire—R. W. Baker, of Cotlesmore, Esq. Shropshire—Henry Justice, of Hinstock, Esq. Somersetshire—R. C. Tudway, of the City of Wells, Esq. Staffordshire--J. Edwds. Piercy, of Waverley Hall, Esq. County of Southampton—George Henry Ward, of Northwood Park, Isle of Wight, Esq. Suffolk—Edward Bridgman, of Coney Weston, Esq. Surrey—Charles Barclay, of Bury-hill, Esq. Sussex—George Wyndham, of P e t wor th, Esq. Warwickshire—John Little, of Newbold Pacey, Esq, Wiltshire—F. Wm. Rooke, of. Lackham-house, Esq. Worcestershire Edward Rolland, of Lenchwick, Esq. Yorkshire—Wm. St. Quintin, of S cam p s t on -h a ll, Esq. WALES.. Anglesey—John Sanderson, of Aberbraint, Esq. Brecknockshire—Rowel Jones Williams, of Coity Mawr, Esq, Carnarvonshire—John Griffith Watkins, of Plas Llan fair, Esq. Carmarthenshire—William Phillips, of Wayngron, Esq. Cardiganshire—Francis D. Saunders, of Tymawr, Esq. Denbighshire—T. M. Williams, of Penbedw Hall, Esq. Flintshire—E. Dymock, of Penley Hall, Ellesmere, Esq. Glamorganshire—Henry Lucas, of Uplands, Esq. Merionethshire—The Hon. T. Pryce Lloyd, of Mochras. Montgomeryshire—Sir John Roger Kynaston, of Hard wick Hall, Bart. Pembrokeshire—Robert F. Gower, of Glandofan, Esq. Radnorshire —David Oliver, of Rhydoldog, Esq. FROM . LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. DOWNING-STREET, FEB. 2, 1842. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Alastair Mackenzie, Esq., to be Deputy Sheriff of the District of Port Philip, in the Colony of New South Wales. DOWNING-STREET, FEB. 3. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Thomas Shirley Warner, Esq., to be Provost Marshal General of the Island of Dominica. CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 2. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. City of Dublin-William Henry Gregory, Esq., in the room of John Beatty West, Esq., deceased. WHITEHALL, FEB. I. The Lord Chancellor 'has appointed Henry_ Stubbs, of the town of Nottingham, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 2d day of February., 1842, present, the Que en ' s mos t excellent Majesty in Council. -Whereas in th e A c t o f Uniformity, which establishes the Liturgy of the Church of England, provision is made for such alterations in the Prayers for the Royal Family as, from time to time, shall become necessary ; it is, therefore, "this day ordered by her Majesty in Council that, in the Morning and Evening Prayers, in the Litany, and in all other parts of the Public Service, as well in the occasional offices as in the Book of Common Prayer, where the Royal Family is appointed to be particularly prayed for, the following form and order shall be observed, viz.:-Adelaide the Queen Dowager, the Prince Albert, Albert Prince of Wales, and all the Royal Family. And her Majesty doth strictly charge and command, that no edition of the Common Prayer be henceforth printed, but in the form aforementioned ; and that, in the meantime, and until copies of such - edition may be.-had, all Parsons, Vicars, and Curates, within this realm do (for the preventing of mistakes), with the pen, correct and amend all such Prayers in their Church books, according to the foregoing direction : and, for the better notice hereof, that this order be forthwith printed and published, and sent to the several parishes; and that the Right Reverend the Bishops 'do take care that obedience be paid to the same accordin,gly. WM. L. BATHITRST. At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 2d day of Febru ary, 1842, present, the Queen's Mo s t Excellent Majesty in Council.-This day the Most Noble Walter Francis Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry was, by her Majesty's command, sworn other Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his place at the Board accordingly. H er Majesty having been pleased to deliver the custody of the Privy Seal to the Most Noble Walter Francis Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, the Oath of Keeper of the Privy Seal was this day admipistered to him, and his Grace took his place at the Board accordingly. Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Most Noble James Brownlow William Marquis of Salisbury to be Lord Lieutenant of the county of Middlesex, and the'Most Noble Brownlow Marquis of Exeter to be Lord Lieutenant of the county of Northampton, their Lordships this day took the Oaths appointed to be taken thereupon, instead of the Oaths of Al legiance and Supremacy. PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the Returns made in the Week ending Feb. 1, 1842, is '3Bs. 101 d. per Cwt., exclosive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the Importation thereof into Great Britain. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. WILLIAM THOMPSON, hat manufacturer, Spitalfields. BANKRUPTS. JOSEPH CHARLES CLARK E, merchant, Water-lane, Great Tower-street, to surrender, Fels. Mat eleven, and March 18, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Donne, New Broad-street. '1 HOMAS SEDDON and GEORGE SEDDON, uphol sterers, Calthorpe-place, Gray's-Inn-road, Feb. 11, at half past ten, and March 18, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, Basinghall-street; official assignee ; Lawrence and illenkarne, Bucklersbury. EDWARD MALLAN, dentist, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, Feb. 16, at one, and March 18, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lackington, Coleman-street-buildings, official assignee ; Whittington, Dean-street, Finsbury-square. RICHARD IRWIN and JOHN GOULD IRWIN, dra pers, Manchester, Feb. 19 and March 18, at two, at the Corn missioners'-rooms, Manchester. Slater and Heelis, Manches ter ; Milne, Parry, and Morris, Temple, London. DAVID DAVIES, sen , and DAVID DAVIES, jun., flannel manufacturers, Glanelywedog, Montgomeryshire, Feb. 23 and March 18, at eleven, at the Oak Inn, Welshpool. Drew and Wonsman, Newton, Montgomeryshire; Weeks, Cook's court, Lincoln's Inn, London. JOHN HAYWARD, miller, Milverton, Warwickshire, Feb. 14 and March IS, at twelve, at the Lansdown Hotel, Lea mington Priors. Rushworth, Staple Inn, London ; Forder, Leamington. WILLIAM HEAP, JOHN ROBERTS. and WILLI:V.II ROBERTS, cotton spinners, Padiham, Lancashire, Feb. 22, at two, and March 18, at tw e l ve , at th e Court House, Burnley. Crags and Jeyes, Harpur-street, Red Lion-square, London; Alcock and Dixon, Burnley. JONATHAN' NASH and ROBERT LUCAS NASH, brewers, Bristol, March 1, at one, and March 18, at two, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol. Goldrey and Fellow es, Chippen ham, Wiltshire ; Hillier, Lewis, and Hillier, Raymond-build ings, Gray's Inn, London. THOMAS CHESHIRE, miller, Smethewick, Stafford shire, Feb. 11 and March 18, at twelve, at the Waterloo rooms, Birmingham. Tooke and Son, Bedford-row, London ; Unett and Solis, Birmingham. JAMES BUCKETT, sheep-dealer, Great Bourton, Oxford, Feb. 21 and March 18, at eleven, at the White Lion Inn, Ban bury. Cox and Will anis, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London ; Wal ford and Beesley, Banbury. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. J. Robei t,liaw and J. Rutherford, hosiers, Oxford -street, Feb. '25, at twelve-T. Gamauf, wholesale furrier, Fetter-lane, Feb. 25, at one-J. A. Smith and W. Mo n t eat h , linen draper s, Oxford-street, F e b. 25, at twelve-T. M arr i s and R. Nichol son, bankers, Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, Feb. 23, at eleven. In the Country. J. Heap, jun., merchant, Manchester, Feb. 26, at two, at the Commissioners -rooms, Manchester- T. Welch and J. Sells, cotton spinners, New Islington, Lancashire, Feb. 28, at ten, atthe Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester- H . Medley and W. Backhouse, oil merchants, Leeds, March I, at eleven, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Leeds-J. Wrigglesworth, cheese factor, Leeds, Feb. 25, at eleven, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Leeds-W. Caton, ironmonger, Preston, Lancashire, March 1, at one, at the Town-hall, Preston-T. Burnard, merchant, Bideford, Devonshire, March 3, at three, at the New Inn, Bideford-T. and W. H. Carr, woollen manufacturers, Dews bury-moor, Yorkshire, March 26, at two, at the Commis sioners'-rooms, Leeds-G. Andrews, wools:apler, Hurminster Marshall, Dor.tetshire, March 1, at two, at the Greyhound Inn, Blandford Forum-It. Lucas, ironmonger, Bristol, March 4, at one, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol-S. Chadwick, Js. Chain irk, and .1. Chadwick, cotton spinners, Heywood, Lan ca•iiire, Feb. 26, at ten, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Man chester-W. F. Reuss, merchant, Liverpool, Feb. 28, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool-S. and W. Mead, iron merchants, Liverpool, Feb. 26, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms Liverpool-J. T. Traugmar, tea dealer, Brighton, March 14, at twelve, at the Town-hall, Brighton. CERTIFICATES-FEB. 25. J. Lunn, ship broker, Newcastle-upon. GI ifithe milliner, Quadrant, Regent -street-R. Powell, linen draper, Brighton -L. Schwabacher, wine merchant, Minories-Jn. Buckley, Jh. Buckley, and H. Buckley, cotton manufacturers, Manchester-R. Stockdale, nierchant„Crosby-square, City- E. Tapp, licensed victualler, Great White Lion-street, Seven dials-E. Botham, innholder, Speenhamland; Berkshire. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. • T. and S. Manlove, lace manufacturers-J. Farren and J. Till, brewers, London-P. and D. Walther Angel-curt, Throgmorto n - s t ree t - J . L ew i s and F. Lloyd, vinegar mer chants, Gloucester- Jn. and Js. Hague, dentists, St. Martin's lane-W. Huffman, M. Nourse, and J. - T. Woodbury, men's mercers, Manchester-W. Robinson and W. Robinson, jun., tailors, Halesworth, Suffolk-T. and J. M. Goodyear, straw hat manufacturers, Aldersgate-street-C. Fryer and G. Ken dray, wine merchants, Chancery-lane-J. J. Arnold and H. R. Burn, attorneys-J. Burgin and J. Broadhead, scissors ma nufacturers, Sheffield-C. Shaw and W. H. Phillips, attor neys, Fish-street-hill-Hy. and He. Ellis, millers, Fetcham, Surrey-W. Jackson, S. S. Jackson, Jh. Jackson, and Jn. Jackson, tobacco manufacturers, Leeds (so far as regards .1. Jackson)-J. Mnspratt, R. Daglish, jun., J. Speakman, and W. Bromilow, coal proprietors, Parr, Lancashire (so far as re gards J. Speakman and W. Bromilow)-C. and H. Matchitt, cotton dealers, Manchester-J. F. and J. Parkin, engravers, Sheffield-P. Kitching, S. Kitching, and -G. Holdeinesse, straining cloth manufacturers, Manchester-T. Bornforth and W. Taylor, ship builders, Fast Stockwith, Lincolnshire-H. Percy, jun. and J. W. Fletcher, wine merchants, Nottingham -I. and W. Green, saddlers' ironmongers, L oa d on - na ll-J- Heseltine and E. Elgin, wholesale druggists, York-J. H.. Fuller and C. P. Allen, fustian manufacturers, Manchester-J. E. Puddick and T. Coleman, wine merchants, Adelphi Cham bers, Strand-T. Clive and S. Cardall, malleable ironfounders, Birmingham-W. H. Fisher and W. Armour, commission agents, Freeman's -court, Cornhill. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. GEORGE LAW, farmer, Morton, Edinburgh, Feb. 8 and 28, at one, at the Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh. WILLIAM M'QUEEN, shipwright, Tnverkeithing, Feb, 8 arid March 1, at twelve, at Mrs. Hutton's Inn, Dunfermline. ANDREW MO WAT, wholesale tea dealer, Glasgow, Feb. 10 god March 3, at twelve, at the Moe of R. Hall, Glasgow. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. The following ara the results of " A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes Registered in the week ending Jan. 29, 1842." The Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar-General Weekly Average 1838-940-1. CAUSES OF DEATH. Total. Four Four Winters I Year, Epidemic, Endemic, & Contagious Diseases 159 199 190 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 176 160 149 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the Hea-t and Blood-vessels Diseases of .the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidn,..ys, &c Childbcd, Diseases of the Uterus, *ice lO 11 10 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 0 7 6 Diseases of the Skin, &c 1 1 1 Diseases of Uncertain Seat 142 115 104 0 1 ,d Age, or Natural Dec a y lO9 90 69 Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intern- perance Causes not specified Deaths from all causes . 1116 --- Average Weekly Deaths Population Average Deaths enu- Weekly in merated Deaths the 1641. 18.1.-I'-4`—l. Week. West—Kensington, St. George r. -- 1 (Hanover-square),Westmin- Four I Fo u r ster, St. Martin in the Fields , , DISTRICTS. St. James North—St. Mary-le-bone, St Pancras, Islington, Hackney 365,660 162 182 198 Central—Saint Giles and Saint George, Strand, Clerkenwell, Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon don, West London, City of London —373,806 188 213 257 East—Shoreditch,Whitechapel, Bethnal Green, St. George in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392,49 i 206 228 240 South--St Saviour, St. Olave, St. George( Southw ark ),Ber mondbey, Newington, Lam beth, Camberwell, Bother- Vreenwich .............438,060 221 243 243 -- - - Total 1,870,727 912 1017 1116 It is stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the 32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality—. and the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington, Fulham, Hammersmith( Chapelry), St. Luke (Ch elsea), Pad dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (13rom ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, as enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890; and in June 1841, was 1,870,727. The weekly average for 1838, 1839, 184,0, and 1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the four years by 208, and the deaths in the four winters by 52. TEMPERATURE IN THE WEEKS ENDING Jan. 22. Jan. 29. 43° 45° 29 27 35 37 8, 1842. Highest Lowest Daily Mean . ••• General Register Wise, Feb. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Feb. 4. (Sittings at Nisi Prins. ) • BURROUGHS AND ANOTHER V. LEWIS. The plaintiffs were coal-merchants, and brought this action for goods delivered. The defendant, a medical man, proved that he received the coals as from a coal-merchant named Pennider, who had formerly a connexion with the plaintiffs, and was in debted to the defendant. The latter had in several instances refused to take in the coals from the servants of Burroughs until he received a written assurance from Pennider that they came from him and were to be set-off against his account. It seemed, however, that the plaintiffs throughout looked to de-. fendant for payment. His Lor6hip (Mr. Justice COLTMAN) summed up, and The Jury found for the defendant. • (Sittings in Banco.) FTUART V. STELE. - _ _ The Court also sat in Banco—the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Erskine, and Mr. Justice Cresswell—in the Vice-Chan cery Court. They were occupied the whole day in hearing Mr. Richards move for a new trial in the case of Stuart v. Steele, on a policy of insurance, the trial of which occupied three days, when a verdict was given for the plaintiff, with points reserved. The present argument will also occupy some days, and the material points will be best understood from the report of their Lordships' judgment. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. George Jones, aged 31, was indicted with stealing two sil ver candlesticks, value 71., and various other articles, amount. ing altogether in value to about 101., the property of Mr. Barker. From the evidence adduced, it appeared that on the Bth of January last, the prisoner was employed at the house of the prosecutor to repair some locks. The articles in question were safe that morning, but were missed immediately after the pri soner left. Part of the stolen property was pledged by the prisoner, and was identified by the servant of the prosecutor. The case was clearly made out against the prisoner. Mr. PAYNE addressed the Jury on his behalf, and, while he admitted that the case was clear against him, he contended that it had been committed while under the influence of intoxica tion, in which he had been indulging during the Christmas holidays. The prisoner had previously borne an irreproach able character, and had served one master for upwards of fif teen }Tars. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but Mr. Baron GURNEY deferred 'passing sentence, in order to give the prisoner an opportunity of producing witnesses to his pre /ious character. RETURNING FROM TRANSPORTVION. --John Atkinson alias Smith, was indicted with feloniously returning froin trans portation before the term of his punishment had expired. One of the police identified the prisoner as a person who had been convicted in 1828, at the Kingston Sessions, of housebreak ing, and sentenced to death, but that punishment had been commuted to transportation for life. Mr. CLARKSON, on behalf of the prisoner, submitted that the, indictment was defei:tive, inasmuch as it stated that the prisoner had been transported for life, whereas the fact was that sentence of death was ordered to be recorded. Mr. Justice WILLIAM S overruled the objection. Several other witnesses identified the prisoner. Mr. CLARKSON addressed the Jury for the prisoner, and The Jury, without the slightest hesitation, found him Guilty. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS immediately sentenced him to six months' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Correc tion, and at the termination of that imprisonment to transporta tion for life. It was rumoured in Court that the information on which the prisoner was taken into custody had beers given by his own brother. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF PLATE.--John Biggs was in dicted with stealing on the 11th of January last 16 spoons, value 91., and several other articles of plate, to the value of 20/., the property of Mrs. Charlotte Wilkinson, of Upper Montagu street. Mr. Clarkson conducted the prosecution and Mr. Doan.defended the prisoner. Mr. CLARKSON then addressed the Court for the prosecu tion and called the following witnesses:— Richard Williams—Was footman to Mrs. Wilkinson, of Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square. Knew the pri- soner at the bar Employed him on the 11th of January with out his mistress's knowledge, to clean some plate, as his mis tress was about to have a party the next day. . Among the plate there were spoons, forks, butter-knives, and other things. Witness had occasion to leave the pantry. where they were cleaning the plate for a short time, and when he returned he found the prisoner gone. Witness missed the plate the next morning. Called his fellow -servants in, and afterwards went to the prisoner's mother, and told her what he had lost. The prisoner was not there. Witness went to a public-house, but could not find the prisoner. Afterwards went to several brothels, which he knew the prisoner frequented, but he did not find him. Witness had seen the prisoner on the day before the robbery, when he bought a knife from him for 6d., and he also gave the prisoner 3d. to help him on his way, as he said he was going to his brother's at Brentford. The nephew of Mrs. Wilkinson, who resided with her, offered a reward of Si. for the discovery of the thief, and witness added 51. of his own. Wm. Allen, an engineer, was in a brothel in Carlisle-street, Lisson Grove on the night of the robbery. The prisoner came there at half-past one in the morning and showed witness a pair of sugar-tongs and offered to sell them to witness for 1/. Wit ness declined purchasing the article. Witness had the tongs in his hand and observed a crest upon them, a fox's head with the wing of a bird in his mouth. The prisoner then pUlled out, of his pocket a number of spoons marked in the same manner. He was drunk at the time. Not finding the girl he asked for her, he left the house. )n the Sunday follow ing witness was told by Emma Lewis the girl in whose com pany h e had been on the night of the 11th of January, that a robbery of plate had been committed, and he gave information of it immediately to the police. Emma Lewis and Caroline Somers, both of whom were girls of ill fame, and were with the last witness on the night of the 11 th of January, when the prisoner came there, corroborated his testimony. James White, a hackney coachman, drove the prisoner on Wednesday the 12th of January, from Paddington to the Gar riek's Head Tavern, in Bow-street ; he was accompanied by two men and a female. The prisoner paid the fare, a, d ;las° for some reficAments which the party had. He seemed at that time to have plenty of money, perhaps 61. or 71 Policeman 77 apprehended the prisoner in a brothel in Steven-street, Lisson-grove, on Friday, the 14th of January. Ile was then in the company of two females: Witness took one of the girls to the station-house, and upon his doing so the prisoner excl a i me d " S tr ik e me blind if that girl knows any thing about it." This witness produced a spoon and fork he had obtained from Mrs. Wilkinson. Allen identified the crest as the same he had seen on the sugar tongs in the prisoner's possession. None of the plate .had been found. This closed the case for the prosecution. Mr. DOANE addressed the Jury for the prisoner. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS summed up, and the jury found the prisoner guilty. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS sentenced him to 18 months' imps sonment and hard labour in the House of Correction. NEW COURT. PASSING COU NTERFEIT COlN. —Elizabeth Scott, aged 33, who appeared at the bar with an infant in her arras, was charged with unlawfully uttering, on the 17th of January, a counterfeit half-crown. Messrs. Bodkin d Ellis conducted the prosecution on the part of the Mint; the prisoner was undefended. Miss Townsend, straw-bonnet maker, of Duke-street, Lin coln's Inn-fields, deposed that on the 17th of last month the prisoner went to her shop and purchased a bonnet shape, price I'd. for which she tendered a bad half-crown in payment. Witness immediately went out and brought a policeman back with her, who took the prisoner into custody. James Wall, police-constable 63 F. corroborated the evidence of the last witness, and further stated that he searched the prisoner, and found on her two other half-crowns, one of which was bad and the other good, and a good shilling. Witness produced the two half-crowns. Mr. Powell, solicitor to th e Mi nt, was then morn. He stated that both half-crowns were bad, and had been cast from the same mould. The prisoner, when called upon for her defence, strenuously a-serted her innocence. She said that she was the worse for liquor, and did not know that the half-croivn was bad. She :could not produce any witnesses to character. Mr. Justice CazsswEia, having briefly summed . ..fury found th e p r i soner guilty. up, the '1 he Couwr sentenced her to nine months' imprisonment in the House of Correction and hard labour. Several other trifling Mint cases were disposed of in the course of the morning, The Nottingham Town Council, on Thursday, adopted a short and pithy petition for the total and im mediate repeal of the Corn-laws, EVENING SUN__ up T , c l: h vc : - I rg bu ed r POLICE INTELL I GENC E . 17.. N lON-HALL. g i l v a i r tl s ; landlord of the Waggon and Horses oppositc the mongers' Alms-houses, Newington 'Butts, bc,,tweea b n r a e t : i t l i eL s C i o n x to a t n h d e pSreeflzurilsee, we re :. jr h . i j •o;: , and four o'clock yesterday morning, and carryiug considerable property. r Policeman 141 L, stated that Ile was on duty ne ar spot that morning and on passing the house abouti,, o'clock, thought he heard voices in the bar of the ho" and supposing that some thieves had entered the 1: mises, he im nedi a t e ly rang the bell to alarm the la lord, and left ano th er poiceman, L 117, at th e fr o % whip; he went to th a back of the prem i ses to exil them; and on going roun d t h e h ouse he met the r' is l o i Cox, who was pursued by 117 L, and on takingllo.lo custody found all the p ro p er ty on him, except tw°l o spoons, which he fou n d i n th e b ac k premises, b, si cos i dark lantern, which was found in the prisoner' pocket. The proseCutor identified the property as his, rem TRAIL said he should commit Cox for trial, a nd re : a rg Searle until Monday we e k, as th er e is another c" against him of a similar description. WORSHIP-STREET. , r „ r et, Yesterday the re-exa m i na ti on o f George r' fi jot broker's man, 'Philitia Turner, his wife, and . 1 1 11 a Sheriff's officer, was proceeded with before :W', 4 , 0 1' ham,,charged with stealing a q uan tity of lace, Chi` e si e cu dresses, and other articles, that were under an tion of the Sheriff's writ. The prisoners made no defence ; but bail was 9 c - got for by two professional gentleman on the part T gpc i and the wife o f T urner , w h en t h e Magistrate redl'et't; allow bail on th e part of Mott, and required two stl9oll p er of 1001. ea c h f or the appearance of the female P r! at the next Central Criminal Court. The prisoners were fully committed. THE WINE TRADE. , The following are extracts from a Ci rcu lar of ige ssr ";tioo ° ' and Maxwell, wine merchants, s h ow i ng th a t the gag— trade begins to touch the Aristocracy : ip lb " Owing to the generally d e pre ss ed s tate of tra o o f 00 I country, and in all parts of the world, the consurnPl i°9 g oou t has fallen off within the last year u p war d s o f 3 00,u '' to i One effect of this has been, by increasing competitier f ' oi s luge our docks with wines of every denomination, and 1,0 ble b quarters ; but much of this, not being worth the dutY , f el shipped off to India and the Colonies—the markets °' O ,,S , are now glutted with what i s ca ll e d Sherry, Cha m p:,, g of A very remarkable cha nge h as ta k en place in the e ' . ei which, fifty 'years ag o , cons tit u t e d 70 per cent. of ger co consumed, but has fallen to little more than 3 2 I of Sherry, on the contrary, has risen from 16 to ur svh' per cent. This is chiefly attributable to the quantity the wine now drank during, and e ven a f ter di nner ; end ` o a t tab h shion of remaining but a comp ara ti ve l y s h o rt tiole ree Another cause, however, i s un d ou bt e dl y , th e prekw i ver has arisen against Port, owing to the introduction , u irirgl the famous vintages of 1820 and 1821, of rich wines, , be kept in bottle much longer than the prices now u sual t f 51 justify a wine-merchant in doing, to which must els e h e o , the comparatively small stocks laid in by consumers , wj, sequently, drink their Port of less age than formeriP a° bec'ti getting this, imagine that the quality of the wine h , !', ber is deteriorated. French wines are gradually becoing: it ,; known, and last year there was an increase of 7 Per an of site greater part of which consisted of Champagne, e - nv cheap sparkling wines under that name ; but lea"doco light, agreeable second and third growth red wines, a rt jsie, the finest first growths, have taken the place of Port , , e o o , ° has fallen about 2 pe r c e n t. , an d no t w ith stan di ng that th` m o tIL ,, very fine old wines to be h a d, d oes no t rega i n it s f o rmer r e P oo - rl Rhenish has fallen about 15 pe r cen t. M arsa la, Copt b o o derate-priced wine, has risen about 6 p er cent. ho )0 4 fallen 5 per cent and nothing but the temptation D id isP: by paying only half the duty of any other wine, effl u ev , the importation of a single pipe. The average quae,` l t 't paid, is about half a million of gallons per annum ; P u b ; torious that a large proportion of this is sold under t 0 0 1 ,, mination of Sherry; &c., either in its original state, ~° , e 4i iene , with other inferior wines ; and, in the latter case, is exported and a larger amount of drawback claimed rec eo tt ceived than had been paid in the first i ns t anc e to th e Nothing but equalising the duty with o th er w ines wl t 'he these frauds, and such unfair competition.—We bav e nour to be, Sir, your very obedient servant 9, SHAW and MA:0 1 _ . A PS DREADFUL ACCIDENT - LOSS OF LIFE. INQUEST ON THE BODIES. , 0 1 4 Last night, at eight o'clock, Mr. Wakley held en the King's Arms, Coal-yard, Drury-lane, on the the t a Thomas Miller, aged 53, and John Smith, aged 1 3, 10 0 , '‘ persons who unfortunately perished.by the fall of two , Charles-street, Drury-lane, on Thursday eve case excited considerable interest, and the much crowded. The chief particulars have already appears and the evidence of William Allen and other w' tended to show that the deceased Miller and si sons were engaged, about half-past nine o'clock in question, procuring some of the wood-work in ChatleF:4treet, which bad been condemn( Leet. Miller was tearing away some of thi story-poet, with a crow-bar, when the bress' esting on it, gave way, and both houses, at fell with a tremendous crash. Miller fell hi the cellar, and the ruins fell on him, the bl him on the back of the neck. A great m picking wood at the time. The boy Smith amongst the number, as his body was afterwai the ruins, and with that of Miller were found I It was further stated many poor persons h wood from these houses during the last four the homes are said to have no owner. Sever: were desirous of having a person of the n called, it having been mentioned that the fa was caused by something which he had dot post, but the Coroner objected ; and the Jury, a wish that some precaution should be taken, r' of Accidental Death. BANK OF ENGLAND. o fi r? Quarterly Average of the Weekly Liabilities and M s ,":00 , Bank of England, from the 9th of November, 18 41, t of February, IM2, both inclusi ve , pu bli s h e d pursu a- Act, 3 and 4 W. IV., cap. 98. LIABILITIES, Circulation .......£16,630,000 Securities ... ........................ Deposits ... 8,506.000 Bullion . ............ •"*" 4.25, • £25,136,000 Downing-street, Feb. 4, LE LLOYD'S SH.I PPIN G. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. g o, I r o. Arrivals—Beulah, J ames , f rom Chi na, o ff B r ig" bv; ; Aug. 28, St. Helena; Dec. 15 ; Princess Royal, pee' Bengal, off Dover, sailed Oct. 11, St. Helens , S t e 11l Candahar, Keir, from China, at Liverpool, s ailed, St. Helena. Dec. 13 ; Medora, May, from Mauri tl l, o o l Downs, sailed Oct. 24 ; South Stockton, Coeeken, Zealand, in the Downs. • p t 01 1 ' „ Arrivals in Tabl e B ay, C ape of Good Hope-1)11%0k Dec. 7, from Lond ;n ; Indian, English, 9th, from T a e, • Arrivals in Al goa B ay — Hero, Nov. 28, from ince, Adelaide, Wharton, from Alauritius, and sailed I," Table Bay; Couch, Dec, 3, from Table Bay; 1 1 ' Winn, from Mauritius. ve , e t i . Arrivals at St. Helena—Mary Hartley, Webb from Calcutta and Cape, and sailed 22d to Deme,, r l . to tha, Rogers, 19th, from Mauritius, and sailed 0 scol l s dinalto, Tregarthen, 20th, f rom M aur i tius, a nd : . 1 4 t1J' ir o0 to London; Patriot Q ueen , H oo dl ess , 21st, fromC sailed 22d to Liverool; Simon Taylo r , Brown, China ; Eleanor, M' l'herson, 22d, from Bombay ltDo' 11° D Departures from St. H e l ena —Si ngapore , 11 a lb , De e. Janet Boyd, Topping, Dec. 14, to L on d on ; Fairflo f ed to Liverpool. 19' e' 10' Arrivals at Valparaiso—A nna S op hi a, T u d or , O II 4e. I Port Nicholson, an d sa il e d f or H uasco ; M a l co lob o r A 19th, from Sydney ; E ar l D ur h am, C a b e ll , 26th, 1 _ 1 :„,r , huano, and sailed 28th t o S y d ney. D eparture fru: , Lansdale, Peire, 17th, t o C a ll ao. - / .1 1 '0' GOLD WA HES, LONDON- x — co7,„o , ' l A. B. SAVORY ar.il ONS, Watchmakers, No' 'eW e je London, opposite d. :lank of England, su bmit {Or s vi11 . ?,,, i of very large STOCK GOLD WATCHES, t-, lle .,,eetV which are made a n d ti i. i s h e d un d er the careful tro i 9 experienced workme.! ..n their own premises, and " ranted for correct pet to mance. 5:7,3 FOR LADIES. 13 1 Fine Vertical Watch. s. j ewe ll e d , i n eng i ne-rurn ol xi d gold cases and gold it vls , warranted •• Fine Vertical Watches. jewelled, with double - „ I backed engine turtle: gold case s an d go ld dials, 0 warranted... ........................................ Patent detached Lever sVatehes, jewelled in lour 4 holes, with double-ba Aked gold cases and 11 91 d 1 4 dials, warranted ..................... SIZE FOR GENTLEMEN. Patent detached Lever Watches, jewelled in fou r 15 holes, second s , an d d ou bl e -b acked go ld cas es, 0 warranted .... ••• Patent detach e d L evet \Vetches, capped, jewebe- -d 11 in six holes, secon d s , d ou ble-backed gold c ases 14 Patentiann xe detachednhaoml e r s l disaeLl seconds, nvi‘e(virsa:aanttcebde.s: double-back ed . . c . a .. ed .... . 0j i;dt . c . ce l i i 000001:i and gold dials, warranted -- .... has Either B I B 7'HS. . . roN e On the 30th of January, at Adelaide-roa d , • lisle of 0, Mrs. John Reid, of a son an d h e i r. lady .frf, On the 2d inst., at L acoc k Abb ey, W i lt s , t he - V Talbot, Esq., ot a son and heir. On the 3d inst.. at Hornertou Cottage, How ert°".°°' 6 ' William Frith, of a son. P f C 3 P i° On the 3d inst., in Chest er - square , the lady ° 1 1 ' W arr of a daughter. On the en,st. 3d in, in Wimpole- s t ree t , the lady 0 CM° Moore, Esq., o f a d aug h ter. lr, t" 1P Ai al 1 On the 3d i nst ., a t O x f ord-terrace, Hyde-Pa r .tr ee Robert Wilson, Esq., of a son. staiofu ra- J. On the 3d inst., Mrs. Mason, of Upper - of of a son. t ' On the he 134 2d inst., at th e P ara gon, Blackheath, te I v Drew, Esq., o f a son . of.Fre clorle j, On the 2d in s t., i n B erners-street , t h e lady _ to r Thomson, Esq., o f a d aug h ter. - P i " Char le ' O f ' On the 2d inst., i n C raven-stree t, Mrs. of a son. t ore: 31 ' 3 ________„, On the 2d inst., at Bernard-A: set, Russell-9cl Byers, of a so n . ---- Of 'er ARID. On the 3d i ns t . , at M M anchest ß er, E N. Al. F"r be 3, d,est ter the Halifa x C ommerc i al Bank, to Eli z abeth, e' i of Mr. Beddome, Higher Broughton , i3O DIED. ii en rY On the 3d i ns t., i n U pper H ar l ey - s treet, Si r r r sister r n t t o he t 2 h 7 e th l u a l t t. e , ink Martin, Bart., aged 73. Qhi 9 t of On the 3d inst , at Coombe, Sussex, Sir Georg,' Bart., aged 80. re a nd AifQ On the h 2 2 0, 9 8 E t: the late Right Rev. Dr. Bur g I e 'Lord Hishor ' Leicestershire. 300 ° ' Rev. John e 3 B o_ a he 'islis,yv Bright, Durham;o f :r e :b o 0.4 0 J°bn D othl ' the r eg. Iv , Stu-. , ter , On the 2d inst , at WLlwicCi, Mrs. Martha h h i .11t 0:a g : o a ael t dtd nc S B: 4 3i . : o .En m s on e r a , I C , r ie p a t a r oi me Dor hial O intSl n anSin t nit h uh e eill 3d inst., at QuurnPion - hi ll ' Wore° On the 2d inst ., at Whith f c.rne court, pear _.„so , / De ohn Esq., aged 73. Surrey, No. 112, Strmi UV- - A. ill London: Printed, an bPu 1 MuRDO bed by sts A. the Coun Cou n ty The Offi,ce FebrufarY )6l2* of NiticUesex, Saturday ROI 1,4. rening °d Jury - r ° e of ed in T h ac id witness es ker several ° io roo r:lc on th e ,.:o 4 fromr o CO, led by : of, e the lin in i , / t e b,A, Isaine, ir,; t the a al 'lt keadforeio°,ter, bressanoo!rfe many otb o V:i h must y li en ards t B ':te to be V' lad beeliii3 O , o o or fiv , l, J tt ral of P' r f'os . ~r O 4 name °' bro' all of tr gto one to t h e r e , r,j after retur ned a f ....................... .. as Either o the Gentlemen's W a t c h es may Oa g e cOP' hunting cases f or 3 1 . 3s. each extra. Pl:l3' Watches purchased in exchange. 11 " 111 1