The Sun. — London, England, 1834-02-24 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. V. l.he K ing gave au di ences on Saturday at the Palace at St. : 's to Lord Hill, theßight Hon. E. Ellice (Secretary at 11 ( 4 . 14r d F. Somerset, Sir Lines Cockburn, and Sir Thomas took a enueen, Th Q acco mpanied by the Duchess of Gloucester, The ai ring in a carriage on Saturday. Th e Princ "s Sophia visited their M a j es ti es on S a turday. Ma lec Duke of Gloucester and a select party dined with their ti es nn Friday evening. 41111 1 1 . : a Majesty gave audiences yesterday to the Earl of Alhe turrh_daey.Dnducthheess Earl of Belfast. of Kent entertained a party at dinner on Sa e Duk e sidTheuee t f Cumberland left town on Saturday for his re . a Kew. Theirattend-'l%_lajesiies, accompanied by the Duke of Gloucester' k ayal B . t iiivine Service yesterday morning at the Chapel 41, 11; h jain "'s. The sermon was preached by Dr. Bethel, ° I . the % ° P of Bangor, who took his text from the 6th chapter Th e j 3 a Pel Of St. Luke, and the 41st and 42d verses. Roy t o . ,. ° chess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, and their 5114 '''glinesses' household, attended Divine Service yesterday The r .n alace, at Kensington. The Rev. Mr. Pitman officiated.. a : l 4 th rd a of his Majesty's; Most Honourable Privy Council 'Vhit e t: et i ng on Saturday afternoon, in the Council Chamber, the m a ;''' . The Lords present were the Lord Chancellor, kond, vT' la Of Lansdowne Earl of Ripon, the Duke o - 111aist hl Runt Melbourne,' Mr Secretary Stanley, Lord Lrd 1. , ‘o e B o `uh Hon. Sir T Denman, Sir N. C. Tindal, Sir J. sa o tP T he 9 et, and Sir James Parke. at gl,e4fdshiPs assembled about three o'clock, and broke 4 o clock. (P 1 . 4 . 4 1 : %, ke ' M.F had an interview with Lord Auckland his to of the Board of Trade) on Friday, and presented to pis a memorial from the Mayor and principal I)o: rt . : lru t% praying that the privilege of a warehousing Pii.„--ng port might be extended to that town. iner,t`e Talleyrand had a long interview with Viscount Pal. ' 16 4E4 1, 54 Saturday at the Foreign-office. His Excellency Vis Count yesterday. " h :'bridge, agent for Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, hiaL e f4•4nnlev, transacted business on Saturday at the Colo rie4is tkon from the parish of St. Pancras had an inter- De, n ' Viscount Althorp at the Treasury on Saturday. 41)1 11 s'irat‘e,,l'es were received yesterday at the Colonial-office "'llll5lll Houston, the Lieutenant-Governor of Gib- FASHI ONABLE INTELLIGENCE. la Lord p ARRIVALS. il ds • Lord'r'neis Egerton, at Bridgewater Hotel, from Oat_ Plac e ' , nth eson M P and Lady Acheson, in Connaught. iaoe fro„3„4.oht Ireland • ' C • C " Martin, Esq., in Waterloo-p er , ton, ! 4 'ghto n Wm. , Tation Esq., and Lady Charlotte .1 ; i h St Ja m street, Spring-g ' ardens ; Lady and M the tio_!es'B-Pittee, from Brighton Lady Clinton, i f ss d r i o es ß m u d H it as to t_ ; la b, a't'ager Marchioness of Hastings and the Liverh...-the Burlington Hotel, from Brussels; the Mayor of at Rag itett,47, at ditto, from Liverpool ; J. Hunter, Esq., organ at ilitt o, Motel, bver-street, from Bath ; Copt- M Nu41.:,10,111 a tour Trafalgar_ Capt. Stanton, at Morley's . Hotel, ltlilloa' from Btightor, G 8 hart S he t E. Vernon, a Es t Chel. q d ., tt a t t o, d f it r t o o m , from arw, at . 0. he —Y, r 89., at diPtt(oi'f Esq. Cork ; Freeman Elliott, Esq., and St. 2 Jarnes's Rot el, ' Je rom yn-street, from Brightr ; tr M ee r t • frn i q`,!: Fort and family, • t Fenton's Hotel, St. Jame . s s-s , i4ancheslb"ler ; J. Barton,a Lord Esq., and family, at ditto, from - 'hl s ottl r ; C• B. Talbot, Esq., at ditto, from Wales; 114 tti e w.' r Yan at Symmons's Hotel, St. James's-street,from r_ lia h- I . r. adh ,„ a n: Wyndham, Esq., at ditto, from Salisbury; the 'Ai I‘',l-, starboard, at ditto, from Richmond ; the Earl and C .,,Stt il l t-4 „°f Cawdor and family, in Grosvenor-square, from tat! ext•slartin, Pembrokeshire ; Glynne Earle Welby, sl iir .) ,';?., in Portland place, from Denton Court, Lincoln. eiN e t ; '',ol'd Waterpark, in Curzon street, from Deolvsheridgtoe SBerkel._' be rbyshire ; Sir John and Lady J G ane a Hare , ourt • , ,V,lNUare, from Warfield, Berks °eta 6. - ,•'•, and Lady Elizabeth Harcourt , 3 in h Grosvenor-square, Park ; J. H. l'aibo'e A rchbishop of York's seat, Burn A. t i Es m . •J e yn.street, from Ireland . aghtt P '' in fold hs 'Moreton, in Seamore-place; Lord Howden, in Here- Grealt,,reet, from Grimston Park, Yorkshire ; Baron . Bulow, in Lady War bitr,2troberland-place, from Woburn Ab.be.yn, _ q. my., In ) 3 .. h , , tu Alb emarle-street ; John Henry Viv m ia e Es :srs. Insengis 84d ;:Ke.street, from Marino, near Swansea ; tlas l . s ka, at the Union Hotel, Cockspur.street, fromA.mst theillobi',°ns. and Madame Pelsey, at ditto, from Paris .h , ard G.8.R 1.,. 1:1,. 4 ' Esq., M.P., at ditto, from Worcester ; Ric ' 4 9 —(l * , M.P., at ditto, from Tipperary ; •at ditt %el l . 0 , from Belfast; Messrs. Kir an J. Macartney, the / 1 : 11, of Ireland ; Mr. 1 1 1`Donald, at ditto, from Edinburg Its t. 4•,,:J., Nelson, at ditto, from Norfolk; Lieut. Impett, 71st_ Itela,,, 2ito, from a tour ; Mr. Moore, 53d Regt. at ditto, e f e ro o m r_ squat": Mademoiselle d'Este, in South.street, Grosv , vs llor ei ' fr.ont Brighton ; James Daly, Esq. M.P., at Nero k l , , Clifford -street, from Brighton ;R. W. Hall Dare, Esq., fr o ,; , _at ditto, from Hastings ; Admiral Sir E. Owen, at dit t tn i , 05 fOr Bagsh°t I the lion. John Dutton, at Fladong's Ho e , 14.? sreet, front Sherbourn Castle, Oxon ;E. Stanley, Esq., rol;4",,,Celenel Watson, at ditto, from Lincolnshire ; T. ditt oar '_ --- '9..., at ditto, from Oxford ; Colonel Wollaston, at ditto f l .' al his seat in L eicestershire ; Win. Tuder, Esq., at hi s ,-;_ c o nl i Tenby ; T. Gardiner, Esq., and Miss Leslie, at ditto; 71YI ....4 e.lency Sir Edward Cromwell Disbrowe, G.C.H., and Disbrowe, at Mare ; Mrs. Ar h Marshal Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish tto ; W. ir mo e n er liouhlon and the Misses Houblon, at and J. Cote, Esq., ill,tirton, Esq., and Mr ; . B Es ult ' on, at ditto ; J. at %barn, in Pall.mall, from Avington Hants 'hester , ...ants ; dit to ; the Duke of Buck. 17and Lady 'Theresa Strangways in Burlington-street, ~St!_ Melbury House,the Earl of It. near Sherborne, Dorset ; Sir Wathen hifti er and Baroness Howe, in New Norfolk-street, from ,re ef, Major-General Sir Thomas M'Mahon, in Albe lit. ii .‘ ` re nti front Brighton ; Sir Herbert and Lady . Taylor,. at o' l' ' atharin e's Lodge, Regent's Park, from ditto , Lord , j,, ~ , Footscray : Hon. -ill, Her.. Great George-street, from , retr f ,,, at the Countess . 't hert of Pembroke's Ha hill Dover_ In h i i i 'Mil Wardour Castle, wilts; Admiral Sir P. Durham, too str - street , from Devizes ;. Mr...a t n r d ee rs. Hamilton,in Graf_ from Ockham, Sur rsY ; l i est ; Lord King, in Dover street, froq, 1 Lseotiiit and Viscountess . Acheson, G in Connaught.place, 115/11 th e ; Hon. Captain Gordon, of Winches. Witham ord . on in Saviie-street, ter , e North ; the Marquis and Marchion II Q 1 11 Cavendish-square from Amport House, Hants - Earl Sir l a l Warr, in Upper G;svenor-street, from . Buckh , u . rs vv t ' Par vi k; . i ty,„ en rY and Lad, Williams Wynn and family, at Si! ; 4 'B ' St. Jain e S's-square, from Wynnstay, Denbighshire; , lace lt hile r 1.7 (1 L adY Milton, at Earl Spencer's, St. Nlta re agleY, Wor cestershire ; Lord Poltimore, James's -place, N/.1, from Iladington Park , Somerset; J. C. Bulteel, Esq. e ta u . : ‘?,l Parriament-street, from his seat, in Devonshire; m th t vatt,n Mount Edgecunabe and the Misses M'Donald, at 0 - t. 244lintiotel, Lower Brook-street, from Surrey ; Cou . ntess d Bill ; ', lt t and Lady Caroline Murray, at ditto, from Richmon d ?Ir k c s-n l• and Mrs. Austen, at ditto, from Kent; Mr. an , at ditto, s °n° Northamptonshire c e, .Y, Nanipielt, and-family, at ditto, from Brighton ; John Dann '4lBell Northa4tonshire ; Mr. and Mrs. lou r .1 4 ditto, from Berks ; Lowndes, Esq., at ditto, from a solu!„r Wilder, Es ~ Patterson O. from Brighton Hon. Miss . Mon_ Hole', Lower Brook-street,from Brighton. t, _ arnborough, Lord DEPARTURES. I ; 4 1 1 11 1 71 o 0 , fron t ,'. for his seat, Bromley Hill, Kent; CC,ahap morley's Hotel, Trafalgar-square, for t: A nho r , r ,' and Mrs. T. Stevens, from Brook-street, for Bath , tfo.,r_ 4434i1111,,...1ie51! tsq., frorn the Union Hotel, Cockspur-street, ' 4 Wtry ~14 4 , W. :7'% I„..“''''l.. front ditto, fr th Isle of Wight ;T. B. Clutter- Ken nedy, Esq., from ditto, for Hull; H. 'Nil t hc ,' , ~ from ditto, for e ßrighton; Lieut. H. Wall, R.N., 1 104 1 '','). for M a id stone; T. C. Everett, Esq., from Fladong's ffrhili'diu,,oXford-steet, for Salisbury; Wm. Montgomerie, Esq., torn ditto ; Colonel Dogh rtY 1)4:1 ' , ah t .. ° C aptain - *e - ' •r n • Robert Newton, Esq., from ditto ; Captain Barrow, t'en d ." - " , i M rs „, Hoare , from dit , 's Hotel, Ca bttt:sh-41tiare, for UPPer Harley -street , Thos. George Cor -"Lahgclaie L tt o Mrs. Cuthbert, from ditto ; the Hon. , NIP, front ditto. S HE KING -----..,___------- 'S LEVEE ON FRIDAY. big r ob bpk t ,, C OMPANY PRESENT. "14 Wer e omitted for want of room on Saturday :- 11,kC4---Gordon, Dorset, Hamilton, Nor . !k m, Camden, gLyx ISES---Ailsa, Thomond, Cony gh 4111.3..., - to °an ' nand ' • h Jermyn, kDo La rii ) 40 on, De Grey, Denbig , Brecknoc , ekt°fr ' Lichfield Mount Edgeeumbe, Lin u co x l b ri r , id D g u o r , h o am x ,. Warr : W e. Roll De Cawdor, Darlington, I/Igeou ~ wick. LORI) '','l's.---Torrington, Bernard, Ho wick. 11 51 r, ,ra•---Salton r. Atielia ri'ing, Frederick C. P. Beauclerk, Bingham, , ~ r ederick Fitzclarenc , Lennox, Siekt4„•4' Colville Encombe, Arthur Lenn J. jr M e a s ry o bo ,B ro r u y g en h : S. Churchill, ktareCers'il, Littleto'n, George Quin, Hallam, Hi 11 Poltimore, G eor ge te', Morpeth, John Thynne, Marcus lIISH 114°x. Bexley. ' • n Oh —lqul, Bath and Wells, Chichester, Canning, _.. C. Gran t „-` 40TOUR ABLES--Sir Stratford Bourne, Sir W. IN,,.tobert Grant,Sturges 11014;11Yrin, T. Spring Rice, Sir H. Harding Winchester. c R.N., C 0.10141 w. iIIiABLES.--Captain George Campbell, Frederick sittdsor, Rev. E Moore, Captain Cust. Aqley c oop Cipriani, Cha rles ll°e, Williatr; Burnett, K.C-H•• Henry li alter j W ethe r Richard er Bart., J. Whately, IN athen Waller, ell, Thomas Dyke Acland, Bart., 1 Samue Meri'cl,elt.° ibbons, Charles Blunt, George Staunton, i . bella,idles',:oellk4elTl: riTarrotn,brDiduglyWH. Hill, J. as ß , r C oo h k a e r : es pe A ci l , d e i l s i: Mos leFl Latiacj2,,,..'latoes Urrnston George Hamilton, ton 4 "" waddrington, Robert Oswald Chatter . , atthew Ft ' Kennedy, William Chatter_ C. Dish, we G Riley, George Shee, Charles Bagot, Chief Jug'44.L.,,aston, Bart. 13148 e5, ' X. It e * G '' J. AtlGregor, Bart., K.C.T.S., Harford Jones The Dean 107!eld (Gibrltar) BtV. boe'T i rt e lifiel c i • D0CT0R5......L.,!---Dakins, Kuper, Martyrs, .... . , . orsley Daki n REV. 4EsiiTiu'ek. Aktis. —r ger J • ii -- - —&. J F rd Bowes, H. Clissold, Wm. Hunt. oo , Greenwood, D.D., ,k;vt.elFh L. L unon ',B ,Charles Wesley, J. J. V. Povah, ,°ll4 ketvn y N ' R. Sandilands, B. Bray, uae ltso n, m ~ • Vrk John Han, Montagu Wynyard, Joseph 14448 i'lliq, -4 Y ,tol-E ----Thomas Poynder, Meek, Littleton, Rober Burke taznbert, Francis Baring, Rosson, Burge, Baring milton, Cox, Stevenson, B. C. Brodie, F. Booth, A. Stewart, P. Stew art, A. H. Holland, Spry, A. Scott, Mosley, De Horsey, Payn - ter, Macleod, George Farrcn, Pulman, Dehany, Bankhead, S. Mackenzie, Stanley, J. Aileyne M`Geachy, Warrender, Samuel Platt, Sulivan, Mandeville, Ilansler, J. Boughton Kingdon, Dawkins, Mayne, C. 11. Cockerel!, Tucker, Loch, Simmons Smith, Turner, Bernal, M P., Wilbraham, George Ponsouby, Courtenay, Ravenshaw, Platt, It. Steuart, M.P , J. B. Grant, Culling Smith, J. M. Arnett, Irwin, H. W. Addington, Gor don, Vernon Smith, W. Hughes Hughes, M.P., Dawson, St. John Baker, Spry, M.P., Oliveira, B. C. Mellish, Berkeley Paget, Dunlop, Chichester, M.P., Sanford, George W. Hope, Carrick. FIELD MARSHAL—The Duke of Wellington. ADMIRALS—Sir Charles Rowley, Sir Edward Owen, Om manney, C. 8., Sir Thomas Harvey, K.C.8., Fellowes, Dundas, Sir John Harvey, K.C.8., Sir Joshua Hammond, Sir T. Rodd, Sir Thomas Hardy, Sir Charles Ogle, Sir Robert Stopford, Lambert, Sir Henry Neale. GENERALS.—Sir John Macdonald, Sir Edward Kerrison, Sir Hudson Lowe, Mundy, Sir Willoughby Cotton, Sir S. Dickens, Sir Patrick Ross, Sir F. Wetherall, G.C.H., Sir C. Dalbiac, Sir John Lambert, Sir James Cockburn, Swayne, Sir J. Byng, Sir George Walker, Sir Willoughby Rooke, Sir Hugh Fraser, Sir James Lyon, Montresor, Shawe, Sir W. Hutchin. son, Lord Howden, Sir Cohn Campbell, Sir Charles Greville, Sir John Hamilton, Bart., Sir Thomas M`Mahon, Bart., Sir F. Mulcaster, White, Shrapnel, Sir John Macleod, C. 8., Sir Jas per Nicolls, K.C.8., Sir Thomas Dallas, G.C.8., Sir W. R. Grant, K. C. 8., Sir Joseph Fuller, F. Maitland, Sir R. Donkin, Viscount Beresford, Sir Hillgrove Turner, Sir Lewis Grant, Gardener, Wulff, Sir S. Hawker, K.C.H., Earl of Cavan, Sir Richard Jackson, Sir Wm. Pringle, Sir John Otley, Sir Henry Baily, Sir Phineas Riall, Mawley, Peachy, Sir Chas. Egerton, Sir George Quentin, Sir Robert Wilson, Sir H. J. Cumming, J. Brown, O'Loghlen. COLONELS.—Sir Robert Gardiner, Sir Archibald Christie, Caldwell, Sir Wm. de Tuyll, Sir Dudley Hill, Peel, Gibbs, Kingham, Hugh Baillie, De Roos, Sir A. Fraser, K.`;.8., Ra. venshawe, Campbell,•C.B., Scott, Power, C. 8., Charles Ma cleod, C. 8., O'Donnell, R. Wallace, Sir Edward Cust, Sir F. Smith, Nicolls, J. Wilson, Rice Trevor, A. M. Maxwell, Scott, Cockburn, Jones, Sir G. Hoste, Fanshawe, Hon. H. Murray, F. Walker, Tremenhere, Hay, C. Blane, Sir L. Fremantle, A. Findlay, C. Hopkinson, C.B , Grey, Rice, Rowan, Dobbin, Wedderburn, Meyrick, S'r H. Wyatt, Todd, R. Henry Clive, Limond, Burke, Story, Seale, M.P., By, Wemyss, O'Reilly, Disbrowe, D'Arcy, H. Bulteel, Harris, Goldie, Barnard. MAJORS.—Hamilton, Bayly, Ryan, Hyde Joshua Smith, Lord Charles Wellesley, George Graham, Sweetman. C APTA INS.—C. Lane,4 7 th Regt.,Woolmore,Lord G.Paulet, R. N., Ferguson (of Pitfour), R.N., Lihou, R. N., Baxter, Hotham, RN., Bowles, R.N., Shawe, Baynes, R.N., Sir John Franklin, St. Quintin, Edw. Stopford, R.N., Lang, J. Ross, R.N., Hamilton, C. Graham, R.N., Morris, Luard, Ogle, Camp bell, C. Hotham, R.N., Duncan, Sir J. Hill, R.N., Pratt, Hay, R.N., Evans, Dickens, Vavasour, Dalling, R.N., R. Harvey, Chas. Stoddart, Bowles, R.N., Marshall, J. E. Alexander, E. Sparshott, R.N., Harrison, R.N., H. Collier, R.N., Waddington, Borger, R.N., Temple, Raines, Warren, R.N., Henry Leek, R.N., Edwd. Harvey, R.N, Williams, Macklin, G. W. D. O'Hara, Henry Wilson, Paterson, Trotter, Gambier, W. Percy, R.N., Strong, R.N., M`Namara, W. Symonds, R.N., Byng, Clarke, J. D. King, D. P. Bouverie, R.N. COMMANDERS.—Jas. Clark Ross, Kirby, S. Reeve, Stow, Hon. H. Keppel, John Forster, Horatio Austin, J. C. Wool nough, Bayley, Wm. Warren, H. E. Coffin, S. Brown, Fair, W. L. Castle. LIEUTENANTS.—C. B. D. Acland, R.N., Cadogan, Mundy, Wood, Browne, J. Bell, Faris, J. Alfred Stoddart, Bedford, Freeston, R.N., Agar, R. D. Barbor, North, Hon. R. Lambart, Brooke, R.N., E. B. Grant, Elias Darnford, Langton Browell, R.N., Gregg, G. Goldsmith, R.N:, 'J. L. C. Paxton. Hill, F. Hamilton, Wood, Hammersley, Home Purves, C. Curtis, Abbott. CORNETS.—Croker, Parry, Kenyon. ENSIGNS.—Hon. C. H. West, Troubridge, Hoste, Need. Mr. Burge, Agent for Jamaica, presented an address and memorial from the Assembly of Jamaica. Sir Richard Baker, High Sherilfof Dublin, presented a petit_ tion from the Sherif% and Commons of the said city. Sir Richard was presented by Mr. Shaw, M.P. PRESENTATIONS. Captain Raines, on his return from Jamaica, by Lord Hill. Captain E. Harvey, on his return from the East Indies, by Sir J. Graham. Captain Harrison, R.N., on his promotion and return from the coast of Africa, by Sir Thomas Hardy, Bart. Captain Charles Stoddart, on promotion, by Sir George Murray. Captain J. D. King, on his return from the Continent, by Lieut.-General Sir S. Hawker, K.C.H. Lieutenant - General Montresor, by Lieut.-General Sir H. Taylor. _ _ Commander Stow, R.N., on his return from foreign service, by Sir J. Graham, Bart. Commander Kirby, by Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Baker, K.C.B. Captain C. Graham, on his return from foreign service, by Sir J. Graham. . Commander Wm. L. Castle, on his appointment to his Ma. jesty's ship Salamander. 'LieutenantPaterson, by General Sir W. Paterson. Commander J. Reeve, by Admiral Sir T. M. Hardy, Bart., G.C.B. Captain Waddington, by Lord G. Lennox. Captain Marshall, by Lord F. Somerset. Lieutenant Wood, on his appointment to the Royal Artillery. Lieut. L. Browell, by Sir G. Seymour. Ensign the Hon. Charles It. West, on his appointment to the 43d Light Infantry, by Earl De la Warr. Lieut. Gregg, on his promotion, by Lieut. Col. Sir G. Hoste. Lieut. F Bell, by Colonel Grey. Lieut. J. L. Paxton, 4th Light Dragoons, by Capt. Woolmore. Lieut. R. D. Barbor, by Lord G. Lennox. Ensign Need, by Lieut.-General Need. Ensign Hoste, by Colonel Sir G. Hoste. Major-General Viney, Royal Artillery, on being appointed a Military Knight Commander of the Guelph, by Sir H. Wheatley. Major-General James Kearney, on being appointed a Military Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, by Lieut.-General Sir Herbert Taylor, G.C.B. Captain Salusbury Pryce Humphreys, K. C.H. and C. 8., by Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence. Captain Sir Arthur Farquhar, on his return from the West Indies, by Sir James Graham. Lieut. Elias Durnford, R.E , by Major-General Pilkington. Lieut. J. Alfred Stoddart, fifth Madras Native Infantry, on return from the campaign of Malacca, by the Right Hon. Henry Ellis. Lieut. Broke, R.N., his Majesty's ship Belvidere, by Sir Jas. Graham, Lieut. Hon. Richard Lambart, Coldstream Guards, by the Earl of Cavan. Lieut. North, Madras Army, by Lieut.-General Sir J. Ha , MR. HARVEY'S MOTION. LIST of the SIXTY-ONE MEMBERS of the COUNTIES of MIDDLESEX, SUSSEX, SURREY and KENT, Who voted on Mr. Harvey's Motion, on the 18th of February, for art inquiry into the Pension List ; and also noticing those absent. _ MIDDLESEX. - Byng, George: Hume, Joseph' Grant, Right Hon. Robert ,Spank e, Mr. Sergeant Wood, Alderman Grote, George Crawford, William ...... ,Lyall, George Home, Sir William Whalley, Sir Samuel `Clay, IA illiam Lushington, Dr. r 'Burdett, Sir Francis Evans, Colonel U REY. Briscoe, J. I. Beauclerk, A. W 'Denison, W. J. Leech, John 'Nlangles, James Wall, C. B `Tennyson, Right Hon. C.. Hawes, Benjamin ;Eastnor, Viscount ; - Broughain, William " LHumphery, John ,USSEX. Cavendish, C. C. Curteis, H.. Surrey, Earl of Lennox, Lord John %Stuart, Lord Dudley - Faithful, George Wigney, Isaac Smith, J. A. !Lennox, Lord A .Hurst, R. H. ; - K mp, T. R. jßlunt, Sir C. It. Hastings tWarre, J. A Midhurst Spencer, Captain3F Rye Curteis, E. B Shoreham SBurrell, Sir C. M Goring, Harry D _KENT. County Finsbury London hlarylebone Tower Hamlets.... Westminster County.... West. Guildford Lambeth Reigate Southwark East... County .... West. Arundel Brighton ....... Chichester Horsham Lewes East .. County.... West. Canterbury Chatham Dover Groan ich ..... Ifythe Maidstone Rochester Sandwich: 'Knatchbull, Sir Edward Plumptre, J. * Hodges, T. L. Rider, Thomas `Watson, Hon. It. Fordwich, Lord :Moberly, W. L. 'Reid, Sir 3. R. Halcomb, John Dundas, Captain Barnarn, E. G. :Marjoribanks, - Robarts, A. W Bal nett, C. J `Bernal, Ralph Mills, John i 'Marryatt, Joseph LTroubridge, Sir E. T. notion For the Against .. Absent .. 26 21 14 -61 Total The Prefect of Police has issued an order that all Parisian theatres shall be closed at eleven o'clock. When that hour arrives, the curtain is to fall, and if the audience do not immediately retire, the police is to force them into the street. RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT A LATE MEETING of REVERENDS and RIGHT REVERENDS. Resolved,—to stick to every particle Of every Creed and every Article. Reforming nought, or great or little, We'll stanchly stand by " every tittle (1)," And scorn the swallow of that soul Which cannot boldly bolt the whole. Resolved,—that, though St. Athanasius In damning souls is rather spacious,— Though wide and far his curses fall, Our. Church "bath stomach for them all ;" And those who're not content with such, We wish them d—d ten times as much. Resolved,—such liberal souls are we, — Though hating Nonconformity, We yet believe the cash no worse is That comes from Nonconformist parses. Indifferent whence the money reaches The pockets of our reverend breeches, To us the Jumper's jingling penny Chinks with a tone as sweet as any; And ev'n our old friends Yea and Nay May thrcugh the nose for ever pray, If also through the nose they'll pay. Resolved,—that Hooper (2), Latimer (3), And Cranmer (4), all extremely err, In taking such a low-bred view Of what Lords Spiritual ought to do : All owing to the fact, poor men, That Mother Church was modest then, Nor knew what golden eggs her goose, The Public, would in time produce. One Pisgah peep at modern Durham To far more lordly thought would stir 'em. Resolved,—that when we, Spiritual Lords, Whose income just enough affords To keep our Spiritual Lordships cozy, Are told, by antiquarians prosy, How ancient Bishops put up theirs, Giving the poor the largest shares, — Our answer is, in one short word, We think it pious, but absurd. Those good men made the world their debtor ; But we, the Church Reformed, know better ; And, taking all that all can pay, Balance th' account the other way. Resolved, our thanks profoundly due are To last month's Quarterly Reviewer, Who proves (by arguments so clear One sees how much he holds per year) That England's Church, though out of date, Must still be left to lie in state, As dead, as rotten, and as grand as The mummy of King Osymandyas, All pickled snug,—the brains drawn out (5), — Fine, costly cerements swathed about, — And " Touch me not," those words terrific, Scrawled o'er her in good hieroglyphic.—Timea. (I) One of the questions propounded to the Puritans in 1573 was—" Whether the Book of Service was good and godly, every tittle grounded onHoly Scripture ?" On Which an honest Dis_ senter remarks—" Surely they had a wonderful opinion of their Service Book that there was not a tittle amiss in it. (2) " They," the Bishops, " know that the primitive Church had no such Bishops. If the fourth part of the Bishopric re mained unto the Bishop, it were sutlicient."— On the Com mandments, p. (3) "Since the Prelates were made Lords and Nobles, the plough standeth, there is no work done, the people starve."— Lot. &rm. . . „.. (4) ” Of whom have come all these glorious titles, styles, and pomps, into the Church. But I would that I, and all my bre thren, the Bishops, would leave all our styles, and write the styles of our offices," &c.—Life of Cranmer, by Strype,Appendiz. (5) Part of the process of embalmment. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. The King's Hounds meet on Friday at Iver. The Norfolk Hounds meet on Thursday at the Kennel—at half past 10. Mr.Villebois's Harriers meet on Wednesday at Mr. Abbott's Castleacre; Friday, at Fryar's Thorns—at 11. The Knapton Harriers meet on Friday at Walcot—at 11. Mr. Dansey's Hounds meet on Wednesday at Radcliffe ; Fri day, at Annesley Lodge—at 11. Mr. Drake's Hounds meet on Tuesday at Souldern Gate; Thursday, at Barton Common ; Saturday, at Bicester Windmill —at halt past 10. Lord Radnor's Hounds meet on Friday, at Tyfield Tree. Mr. Moreton's Hounds meet tomorrow at Stonehill Wood; Saturday, at Fairfold. Mr. Fane's Harriers meet on Wedesnday at Crowell ; Friday, at Wapsgrave Lane. Mr. L. Stone's Hounds meet on Wednesday at Stoke, near Tetsworth. The Sandbeck Hounds meet on Wednesday at Maltby ; Satur day, at the Kennel—at half past 10. The Holderness Hounds meet onThursday, at Burton Agnes ; Saturday, at Lockington—at 11. Mr. Osbaldeston's Hounds meet on Wednesday, at Welton Place; Friday, at Sibbertoft ; Saturday, at Harrington—at a quarter before 11. The Duke of Grafton's Hounds meet on Wednesday at Stoke Bruern Park; Friday, at Litchborough—at half-past 10. Mr. Berkeley's Hounds meet on Tuesday at the Kennel ; Thursday, at Snelson Turnpike ; Saturday, at Hail Weston — at half past 10. Mr. Goodricke's Hounds meet on Thursday, at Armsby ; Friday, at Stanton Wyerle—at a quarter before 11. The Atherstone Hounds meet on Thursday, at High Cross; Saturday, at Wharton Village—at 11. The Duke of Rutland's Hounds meet on Wednesday at Eas ton Hall; Friday, at Cold Harbour—at half past 10. The Duke of Cleveland's Hounds meet on Friday at Winstone Bridge—at 11. Lord Harewood's Hounds meet on Wednesday at Hook Moor; Friday at Bickerton Bar—at half past 10. Lord Middleton's Hounds meet on Wednesday at Lobster House; Friday, at Millinton—at half.past 10. The York and Ainsty Hounds meet on Thursday at Sessay ; Saturday, at Whixley—at half-past 10. The Galewood Hounds meet on Wednesday at Rodes Whin ; Friday, at Longridge—at 10. The Hurl% orth Hounds meet on Friday at Low Middleton— at 10. The Sinnington Hounds meet on Friday at Woollah--at 9. The Bedale Hounds meet on Wednesday at Moulton Village; Friday, at Busby Stoop—at half past 10. The Cleveland Hounds meet on Friday at Upsall—at half past 10. The Lambton Hounds meet on Thursday at Great Stainton ; Friday, at Stotfold—at 11. The Badsworth Hounds meet on Thursday at Womersley Park; Saturday, at Ringston Hill—at half-past 10. The Northumberland Hounds meet on Wednesday at Bolsam —at half-past 10. The Haydon Hounds meet on Wednesday at Glendhue ; Sa turday, at West Banks—at 9. The Boroughbridge Harriers meet on Friday at York Gate— at half-past 10. The N. F. Hounds meet on Thursday at Stony Cross; Satur day at Beaulieu Manor House—at half past 10. Mr. Codrington's Hounds meet on Wednesday at Eastwell, near Potterue ; Friday, at Great Ridge, Heytesbury Riding-10. Colonel Wyndham's Hounds meet on Wednesday at Coster's Mill; Friday, at Gelhurst Park—at half past 11. The Vine Hounds meet on Thursday at Worting—at half past 10 ; Saturday, at Chinham—at half past 11. The Craven Hounds meet on Wednesday at Minal Borders; Friday, at Chilton Lodge; Saturday, at Donnington Castle—at half past 10. The H. H. Hounds meet on Thursday at Nutley Church ; Saturday, at Northington Down—at 10. The Llantilio Hounds meet on Friday at Talycoed—at 9. Sir John Cope's Hounds meet on Wednesday at the King's Kennel, Ascot Heath ; Friday, at Riseley Mill—at half past 10. The Chesterfield Harriers meet on Friday at Woodthorpe Mill—at half past 9. The Slaley Hounds meet on Wednesday at East Dipton; Sa. turday, at Cocklake—at J. The Morpeth Harriers meet on Friday at Catchburn—at 10. The Alnwick Hounds meet on Thursday at Lesbury—at 10. The Ashdown Forest Hounds meet oh Friday at Coldman's Hatch—at a quarter before 11. Mr. Phillips's Hounds meet on Thursday at Trebartha Vil lage—at 10. Mr. Murray's Hounds mee on Thursday at Springkell—at half past 10. The Duke of Buccleuch's Hounds meet on Friday at the ; Saturday, at Legerwood—at half past 10. The Pembrokeshire Hounds meet on Wednesday at Ford Bridge; Friday, at the Race Course. The Newent Harriers meet on Thursday at Okle ; Saturday, at the Kennel—at half past 10. Mr. Barnard's Harriers meet on Thursday at the Dragon, Corse Lawn ; Saturday, at Pamington Furze. Mr. Peel's Harriers meet on Thursday at the Hurdles—at 10, The Llanblethian Harriers meet on Wednesday at Cowbridge East Gate; Saturday, at St. Mary Hill. It is already generally known, that whenever questions which Ministers deem important are expected to come on for discussion in the House of Commons, notes are sent from the Treasury to the usual supporters of the Govern ment, requesting their attendance on such occasions. We are assured that no intimation to that effect was given to the Ministerial Members on Friday, and it was not until late at night, and within a very short period of the division on the. Marquis of Chandos's motion, that any effort was made to col lect them. Much was effected in that brief interval by the activity of Captain Gronow, the Member for Stafford. It is to be hoped, however, that the result of Friday's proceedings will afford a salutary warning, and that the public will not, by a recurrence of such displays, be led into the belief that the Government is weak, when the real state of the case is, that its agents in the House of Commons ,have omitted to take the usual course for procuring the attendance of its friends. Lest it might be supposed that in what we have said on this subject, we intended to insinuate a charge of neglect against Mr. Charles Wood, the Secretary of the Treasury, we think it right to state, and we do so with regret, that Mr. Wood was unable to attend to his Parliamentary duties on Thursday or Friday, in consequence of the afflicting illness of his only child. — Observer. RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS. A copy of the report made to his Majesty by the cons missioners appointed to inquire into the administration and operation of the laws for the relief of the poor has beer put into our hands, unaccompanied, however, by the evi dense on which it is founded. The report itself fills c folio volume of not less than 215 pages—whilst the evi dence, which is not yet published, is said to extend ov.•t five thick folio volumes, containing upwards of 500 page, each. In the short interval which has elapsed since th• report reached us, we have not been able to give it 'wire than a cursory perusal. We find it to consist of two parts—one detailing the abuses of the poor laws—tht other the remedies which the commissioners recommend tt he applied to those abuses. A= the public, partly from its own experience, and partly front the evidence alreaA published by the commissioners, is now pretty welt aware of the nature and extent of the evils denounced in th , first part of this report, we shall not refer to them at pre sent, but shall confine our attention to the remedial me,- sures which are suggested in its second part, as the means of alleviating and removing the pressure of those evils. When we state that there are spread over 80 closely printed folio pages 22 distinct propositions for importan changes in the poor laws, we state sufficient to convinct •'ur read rs that it is impossible for us to spare room it our columns for any thing but a very brief and meagre abstract of the various rea•ons which-the co:ronissioners urge in deftnce anti support of their recommendations. We shall therefore content ourselves with stating tiles , recommendations in the words of the commissioners themselves, and with describing with th, utmost concise ness the objects which they are intended to accomplish, as well as we can discern them from the langnage of the report. I. The commissioners commence by declaring that the indi gent alone come within the province of the law, and that the principle on which relief ought to be administered to the indi gent is, that the condition of the pauper shall in no case be so eligible as the condition of the independent labourer of the lowest class. They argue that the immediate effects pro duced by the application of this principle, are the conversion of the able-bodied paupers into independent labourers, and the reduction of the parochial expenditure—that these effects are soon afterwards followed by a rise in the wages of labour—that this arrests the increase of population, and that it thus produces an increase of content and a dimi nution of crime among the labourers. Supposing this to be correct, they say that results, so important afford sufil. dent ground for the general introduction of the principle of edministration under which those results have been produced. They therefore submit, as the general principle of legislation on this subject in the present condition of the country, that those modes of administering relief which are represented to have been tried wholly or partially, and have produced bene ficial effects in some districts, be introduced with modifications according to local circumstances, and be carried into comp'ete execution in all. They say that the practice of giving relief in well-regulated workhouses, and the abolition of all partial relief, has been tried and found beneficial, and their first re commendation therefore is, " that, except as to medical atten dance and subject to the exception respecting apprenticeship hereinafter stated (see recommendation 10), all relief what ever to the able-bodied persons, or to their families, other wise than in well-regulated workhouses (i. e., places where they may be set to work according to the spirit and intention of the 43d of Elizabeth), shall be declared unlawful, andshall cease in manner and at periods hereinafter specified, and that all relief afforded in respect of children under the age of 16 shall be considered as afforded to their parents." They contend that the offer of relief on this principle will be a self.acting test of the claim of the applicant, for if the claimant does not comply with the terms on which relief is given to the destitute, he will get nothing; and if he does comply, the compliance will prove his destitution. They insist that it will draw a broad line of distinction between the paupers and the in dependent labourers ; for experience, they say, has shown, that the abolition of partial relief has induced many of those whose wants arose from idleness to earn the means of subsistence, — has repressed the fraudulent claims of those who had adequate means of independent support,—and had obtained for others assistance from their friends, who were willing to see their relations pensioners, but were unwilling to let them become the inmates of a workhouse. They likewise maintain that it will remove much of the evil arising from the inability of the distributors of relief to ascertain the indigence of the appli cant; and they conclude by stating, that as out-door relief is the master evil of the present system, it must be abolished, if we do not wish to see pauperism, with its train of mischief, steadily advancing in every parish in the country. 11. The next subject which the Commissioners considered was the agency by which partial relief to the able-bodied might be abolished, and a continued administration of relief on the principle contained in the first reeommendation might be retained. They commence by stating that the local authorities, who at present have the distribution of relief, are changed every year ;—that they are often illiterate and ignorant men, who c to neither read nor write;—that their moives are often as faulty as their capacity for business is deficient; —that they are swayed by local habits, passions, and in terests ;—and that they are peculiarly liable to intimida• tion, on account of the danger to which their persons and properties are at present exposed. They therefore suggest that these parties should be divested of all discretionary power in the administration of relief, and " they recom mend the appointment of a central board to control the administration of the poor laws, with such assistant corn missioners as may be found requisite ; and that the com missioners be empowered and directed to frame and enfOrce regulations for the ryet nment of workhouses, and as to the nature and amount of the relief to be given, and the labour to be exacted in them; and that such regu lations shall, as far as may be practical:le, be uniform throughout the country." Their reasons for establish ing this central board are, that no legislative enact ments can in this department of administration be relied on as self-acting ; that tliey will be perverted by the want of appriniate knowledge on the part of the distributors—by their interest in abusive ad ministration--and by intimidation on the part of the rate receivers ; that some special and responsible agency is ne cessary to carry them into execution ; and that this agency will be best performed by distant and independent autho rities, who, having no local interests or affections, would enforce the law without feeling ill temper, and without exciting animosity. They propose that in forming this agency the Legislature should proceed in the same manner as it proceeded in establishing an agency for the control of the saving -banks and friendly societies throughout the country. There the agency is vested in a single barrister, Mr. Ttdd Pratt, whose duty it is to see that the rules and regulations of benefit societies are in conformity with the spirit and intention of the Legislature. This board, which will have the most extensive information on the subject, is to be invested with the same powers of making rules and regulations which are now exercised by upwards of 15,000 unskilled and practically irresponsible authoritie. 111. The chief remedy proposed for the principal evil of the system—the increase of the number of the able-bodied paupers —being their reception in a well-managed workhouse, the corn. missioners next proceeded to consider the means by which such workhouses could be provided, and the requisite ma nagement enforced. They say they find that the first difficulty arises from the small population of a large proportion of the parishes in England and Wales. They stated that out of 15,535 parishes, 9,325 have a population of less than 300 per sons, and that few of these 9,325 parishes support a work house. They add, that out of 9,353 parishes, containing a population varying from 300 to 800 inhabitants, the majority possess workhouses, though they are managed inefficiently at a very enormous expense. In the workhouses belonging to large towns they declare that the internal divisions do not afford the means of classification, and assert that it is thus rendered almost impossible to prevent the formation and ex. tension of vicious connections within them. Much improve ment, they admit, has been accomplished in some of these houses of late years ; but much more, as appeared to them, might be accomplished, and at a less expense, by dividing the paupers into four classes, the first consisting of the aged and really impotent, the second of children, the third of able bodied females, and the fourth of the able-bodied males, and by placing them in these classes under different roofs. A se parate building being assigned to each class, the existing work houses, they say, might in most cases be made use of. For this purpose, the parishes possessing these houses must be in corporated. By such means four parishes, they say, each pos sessing a workhouse, might at once obtain the means of the most effectual classification, whilst it is obvious that a much larger number might unite and obtain the advantages of whole sale management and good superintendence, not only without any increase, but with a great diminution of expense. Acting upon evidence to this effect, the commissioners recommend " that the central board be empowered to cause any number of parishes which they may think convenient to be incorporated for the purpose of workhouse management, and for providing new workhouses where necessary; to declare their workhouses to be common workhouses of the incorporated district, and to a ssign to those workhouses separate classes of poor, though composed of the poor of distinct parishes, each distinct parish paying to the support of the permanent workhouse establish. ment, in proportion to the average amount of the expense incurred for relief of its poor for the three previous years, and paying separately for the food and clothing of its own paupers." The commissioners add, that, though they can not state that there may not be some districts where new workhouses must be erected, they have no doubt that where this does occur the erection of appropriate edifices, though apparently expensive, will ultimately be found eco nomical. IV. One of the most prominent suggestions of those who have written on poor law administration is, compelling the adoption of an uniform and well-arranged system of accounts, a provision which they often appear to consider a sufficient check on mismanagement and peculation. There can be no doubt that arrangements to insure completeness, uniformity, and publicity of parochial accounts, are as requisite in this as in any other department of public administration. The com missioners therefore recommend "that the central board be empr.wered and required to take measures for the general adoption of a complete, clear, and, as far as may be, me ticable, uniform system of accounts." The commissioners state that it appars to them that new arrangements as to the mode of transacting the business in question, and the estab lishment of self acting ch. cks (independent of accounts), are equally requisite. They add, that it is one advantage of management on a large scale, that it admits of these arrange ments and securities without any increase of expense. They likewise declare that the sources of peculation will be to a great extent extirpated by the abolition of money payments, by the supply of goods on public contract, and by the adoption of the checks rendered practicable by more extended ma. nagement. V. The commissioners declare it to be their opinion that a further advantage of extended districts arises from the com parative facility of providing for the paupers useful employ ment. Employment of smile kind cah indeed be always pro vided for them : but the commissioners insist that that -em oloyment ought to be useful employment. They complain that parish officers, whilst they have had sufficient labour of this description before their doors, have resorted to the expedient A' sending paupers on fictitious errands, with baskets full of 'tones, or blank paper directed as letters, and other devices of the same nature, obviously intended to torment them. Such contrivances are pernicious in the revengeful feelings which they generate in the minds of the paupers themselves, and they are also pernicious in exciting sympathy in behalf of the indo lent and vicious, and in the obstacles which they create to the use of legitimate labour and salutary discipline. The commis 3ioners maintain that they ought to be carefully prevented. The association of the utility of labour to both parties, the 3mployer as well as the employed, is one which they consider it most important to preserve and strengthen; and they deem everything mischievous which unnecessarily gives it a repuL sive aspect. They believe that in extended districts the re. quisite sources of employment will Le easily found, and they therefore recommend that " the Central Board be empowered to incorporate parishes for the purpose of . appointing and paying permanent officers, and for the execution of works of public labour." VI. The commissioners do not conceal their fears that the appointment of efficient permanent officers will be difficult. They therefore recommend that " the Central Board be directed to state the general qualifications which shall be necessary to candidates for paid offices connected with the relief of the poor, to recommend to parishes and incorporations proper persons to act as paid officers, and to remove any paid officers whom they shall think unfit for their situations." VII. The alteration of some portions of the existing law with respect to contracts for the supply of food and other ne cessaries to the workhouses is declared to be requisite, to pro tect the public from continued jobbing, fraud, and mismanage ment. It is also necessary to facilitate a change, which in many districts will be more strenuously opposed by the few who will lose than supported by the many, who will gain by more rigid management. The commissioners therefore recommend, that " the Central Board be empowered to direct the parochial consumption to be supplied by tender and contract, and to pro vide that the competition be perfectly free." VIII. Direct embezzlement must also be guarded against more effectually than while left to voluntary prosecution. It is in vain to expect men to proceed on public grounds Against their own neighbours, friends, or connexions. The commissioners therefore recommend, that " the Central Board be empowered and required to act in such cases as public pro secutors." In closing tb i eir remarks on this recommendation, the commissioners observe, that " the whole evidence proves hat if a Central Board be appointed, consisting of fit por .ons, and armed with powers to carry into general effect he measures which have been so successful wherever they hate been tried, the ex penditui e for the relief of the poor will n a very 811111 period he reduced by more than one-third." IX. Complaints have been received by the commissioners from all parts of the country, that large classes of persons who obtain, during particular seasons, such wages as would enable them to maintain themselves and their families until the return of the season of work, and provide by insurance against sickness and other casualties, spend the whole of their earnings as fast as they receive them, and, when out of work, throw themselves and their families on the parish, and remain chargeable till the period of high wages returns. To meet the evil generated in this manner, the commissioners recommend that, " under re gulations to be framed by the Central Board, parishes be em powered to treat any relief afforded to the able-bodied or to their families, and any expenditure in the workhouses, or otherwise incurred on their account, as a loan, and recoverable not only by the means given by the 29th section of the 59th of George 111., c. 12, but also by attachment of their subsequent wages, in a mode resembling that pointed out in the 30th, 31st, and 32d sections of that act." X. In the first recommendation of the Commissioners, by which partial relief to the families of the able-bodied was pro hibited, it was proposed that relief by apprenticing should, to a certain extent, be exempted from that prohibition. It is a mode of relief expressly pointed out by the 43d of Elizabeth, and is much Interwoven with the habits of the people in many dis tricts. The information which the commission received upon this point was less than that which they received upon any other. The commissioners therefore recommend that " the Central Board be empowered to make such regulations as they shall think fit respecting the relief to be afforded by appren ticing children, and that at a future period, when the effect of the proposed alteration shall have been seen, the Central Board be required to make a special inquiry into the operation of the laws respecting the apprenticing children at the expense of pa rishes, and into the operation of the regulations in that respect which the Bard shall have enforced." XI. It appears from the evidence collected by the commis. sioners, that vagrancy has actually been converted into a trade, and notan unprofitable one; and it also appears that the severe and increasing burden arises from the vagrants by trade, not from those on account of destitution. In those few districts in which the relief has been such as only the really destitute will accept, the resort of vagrants has ceased, or been so much diminished as to become only a trifling inconvenience. Feeling convinced that vagrancy will cease to be a burden if the relief given to vagrants is such as only the really destitute will ac cept; feeling convinced that this cannot be effected unless the system is general ; and also feeling convinced that no enact ments to be executed by parochial officers will in all parishes be rigidly adhered to, unless under the influence of strict inde pendence and control, the commissioners recommend, " that the Central Board be empowered and directed to frame and enforce regulations as to the relief to be afforded to vagrants and discharged prisoners." XII. The commissioners, after stating that the members of the Central Board will have the advantage of having well-defined objects assigned to them, powerful means at their disposal, clear rules for their guidance, and in a short time varied and extensive experience, suggest that the best means of prevent ing their negligent or improper use of the discretion with which it is necessary to invest them, will be not to restrict that discretion, but to render their interest coincident with their duty, and to let them be removable at his Majesty's pleasure. The commissioners add, that they entertain no hope that the complicated evils with which we have to contend will all be eraiicated by the measures they propose. The mischiefs which have arisen during a legislation'of more than 300 years must require the legislation of more than one session for its cor rection. In order to secure the progressive improvement, from which alone an ultimate cure can be hoped, and in order to bring the proceedings of the Board more constantly and com pletely within the superintendence of the Executive and the Legislature, the commissioners recommend " that the Board be required to submit a report annually to one of the principal Secretaries of State, containing-1. An account of their pro ceedings. 2. Any further amendments which they may think it advisable to suggest. 3. The evidence on which the sug gestions are founded. 4. Bills, if any, carrying the amend mends into effect, which bills the Board shall be empowered to prepare with professional assistance." X 111. The report considers three to be a sufficient number of commissioners to transact the business of the Central Board. The Central Board would probably require eight or ten assist ant commissioners to examine the administration of relief in different districts, and aid the preparations for local changes. As the Central Board would be responsible for the performance of the duties imposed upon them by the Legislature, the corn. missioners recommend that " the Central Board be empowered to appoint and remove their assistants and all their subordinate officers." XIV. The evidence proves that the liability to a change of settlement by hiring and service, apprenticeship, purchasing or renting a tenement and estate, are productive of great incon venience and fraud, and it does not appear that those frauds and inconveniences are compensated by any advantage what ever. The commissioners therefore recommend " that settle ment by hiring and service, apprenticeship, purchasing or renting a tenement, estat paying rates, or serving an office, be abolished." XV. There will remain parentage, birth, and marriage. There are some difficulties with respect to parentage, which are best met by continuing settlement by parentage during that period of a child's life during which it is dependant on its pa. rents, and to put an end to it at the age at which that depend. ance has so nearly ceased as to render their separation compara tively unimportant. This age may be said in general to com mence at 15 or 16 years. At 15 or 16 a child can generally earn his own maintenance, and if his parents cannot maintain him, it cannot be advisable that he should continue a member of their family. The commissioners therefore recommend " that (subject to the obvious exceptions of persons born in prisons, hospitals, and work-houses) the settlement of every legitimate child born after the passing of the intended act follow that of the parents or the surviving parent of such cloild, until such child shall attain the age of 16 years, or the death of its sur. viving parent ; and that at the age of 16, or on the death of its surviving parent, such child shall be considered settled in the place in which it was born." The commissioners remark that they do not recommend the introduction of settlement by resi dence, and give various reasons for their not doing so. They further recommend that, instead of the present mode of first removing a pauper, and then inquiring whether the removal was lawful, the inquiry should precede the removal. XVI. In order to afford further facilities to the proof of a birth-settlement, the commissioners recommend that " when. ever there shall be any question regarding the settlement by birth of a person, whether legitimate or illegitimate, and whe ther born before or after the passing of the intended act, the place where such person shall have been first known by the evidence of such person, by the register of his or her birth, or baptism, or otherwise, to have existed, shall be presumed to have been the place of his or her birth, until the contrary shal l be proved." I XVII. With respect to the bastardy laws, the evidence shows that as a general rule they increase the expense which they were intended to compensate. and olTbr temptations to the cruse which they w. e itit,t,cteft to pos,sh, ind that their working is too frequcmly accomp nied by perjury and extor tion, disgrace to the innocent>, and reward to the shameless and unprincipled, and all the domestic misery and vice which arc the necessary consequences of premature and ill..assorted marriages. The commissioners, therefore, advise their total abolition. In lieu of the existing law, the commissioners make ►n ateration in the settlement of the child. "In the 1 1 litoral state of things," say they, " a child, until etnan •ipa•ed, depends en its parent. Their legal domicile or place of settlement is also the settlement of their offspring. Anil such is the existing law with resp et to legitimate children. Only one of the p ►rents of an illegitimate child can 1),! ascertained." The commissioners therefore recom mend " that the general rule shall be followed as far as it poss:b i e, and tl at every illegitimate child born after the passing of act shall, until it attain the age of 16, tiollow its tug Cher settlement." " The immediate effect of this recommtolat:o n," say the commissioners, " will be - o prevent a Breit amount of waste, suffering, and demo ralizition." XVIII. As a further step towards what they call the na. tural state of things, the commissioners recommend that " the mother of an illegitifnate child born after the passing of the act be required to support it, and thfit ally relief occasiohed by the wants of the child be considered relief afforded to the' parent." This is now the law with respect to Widow, and an unmarried mother has voluntarily put herself id the situa tion of a widow. She has voluntarily become a mother ;:vitti), out procuring to herself and her child the assistance of a hus l•and and a father. There can be no reason for giving to vice privileges which we deny to misfortune. This plan has bcci tried and tried with success, according to the commissioners, in Boston, Baltimore, and Salem. XIX. The commissioners recommend " that the same liability be extended to her husband." The general law of the country throws on the husband all his wife's liabilities—he is bound to pay her debts, he is answerable for her engage- Monts, even though he may not have been aware of them ; and there seems no reason, say the commissioners, why this peculiar liability—a liability which must almost always be notorious to him—should be accepted. The commissioners consider it no objection, that this will make it more difficult for a woman who has misconducted herself to obtain a husband, and they add that, if this plan be not adopted, it will be difficult to follow out the system of giving no relief to the child inde pendently of the mother, and of giving that relief in the work. house. XX. The commissioners recommend i" the repeal of that part of the 35th of George 111., c. 101, a. 6, which makes au unmarried pregnant woman removable, and the 50th George 111., c. 51, s. 2, which authorizes the committal of the mother of a chargeable bastard to the House of Correction." The first of these enactments will cease to be applicable as soon as the child follows the mother's settlement. The second appears by the evidence to produce on the whole much more harm than good, and the commissioners object to both, as unnecessary in terferences. XXI. As to the father, in affirming the inefficiency of human/ legislation to enforce the restraints placed on licertiousnese by Providence, we have implied our belief (say the com*lissioners) that all punishment of the supposed father is uselat."l . believe that it is worse than useless. Without consideriqf the' numerous cases in which that punishment falls upon the iniah cent, without dwelling upon the perjury by which that injustice is accomplished, we will confine ourselves to the effect produced on the woman's mind by her power of calling for that punish ment. That power is the security to which the woman looks at present; she expects that the parish will right her. If she is ill. disposed, this adds to the force of her temptation ; if iswell.disposed, this removes the prop which should support her self-central. Marriage will always be preferred by the woman if she can attain it, and she ought notto be placed in circums.ances in which marriage shall be most easily atta 'noble by previous con cession. " One day," says a witness examined by Mr. Chadwick, " I went into the house of one of the people who work at the chalk quarries at Northfleet to buy fossils, and a young woman came in for a few minutes, whose appearance clearly showed approach to maternity. When she went out, I said to the woman ofthe house, Poor girl, she has been unfortunate.' She replied, Indeed she has, poor girl, and a virtuous good girl she is too. ' The fellow has betrayed her and gone to sea.' I said,' She should not have trusted him till she had been at church.' Ds this observation the woman replied, and let me observe her own children were all about her,' What could she do, poor girl ? If she did not do as other girls do, she would never get a husband. Girls are often deceived ; and how can they help it ?' " The commissioners therefore recommend that " the se co❑d section of the 18th of Ebiabeth, c. 3, and all other acts which punish or charge the putative father of bastard shall, as to all bastards born after the passing of the intended act, be repealed." " Cases," continue the commissioners, " will no doubt occur of much hardship and cruelty ; and it often he regretted that these are lot punishable, at least by fine upon the offender. But the object of the law is not to punish, but to prevent : and if the existing law does not prevent, as is too clear, it wust not be maintained against its proper design with a iew to punishment, still less must it be maintained if it lets as an incentive. It must he remembered, too, that we do nit proposa to deprive either the woman or her parents of their direct means of redress. She may still bring her action for breach of promise of marri tge, and her parents may still bring theirs for the loss of their daugh ter's service." xxII. Before the commissioners examined the expediency of resorting to measures for facilitating emigration, they deemed it necessary to consider the questions whether there exists in any part of England a population which materially exceeds the actual demand for labour, and whether such an excess is likely to exist after their recommendations shall have been put in force. They observe, that after a system of ad ministration, one of the most unquestionable effects of which is the encouragement and increase of improvident marriages among the labouring class, has prevailed in full vigour for nearly 40 years, it is a remarkable proof of the advance of the wealth of this part of the kingdom, that a question should arise as to the existence of a surplus population ; and a mere inspection of the comparative account of the numbers of the people, especially in the agricultural districts, at the times of the three last enumerations, would seem to remove any doubt which may have arisen on such a question. Not only, they say, has an increase of population, which would have hereto fore been deemed extraordinary in a long settled country, taken place in the manufacturing counties, but the increase has been nearly as rapid in those purely agricultural districts from which we have received general complaints of a decrease of the capital of the fanner. In the answers to the questions received from the middle, southirn, and eastern counties, are found fre quent statements of a great excess of lab; urers above the means of employment in the respective parishes ; and the fact of multitudes of able-bodied young men wasting their rime on the roads and in the gravel pits, at the expense of the rate payers, who deem it cheaper to pay them for their idleness than fur their labour, is instanced in con firmation of these statements. The excess, in some districts of labourers, beyond the actual demand, is taken to be est ,blished beyond dispute ; hut in case of labour, as of commodities, the extent of the demand, as comp aced with the supply, will depend in some degree on the quality of the article offered. The present state of the administration of the poor laws does not allow the commissioners to ascertain, in the great majority of parishes, what the demand fur labour would la-, if work were sought for with energy, and performed with diligence. The commissioners believe, that in proportion as their other remedies are applied, there will be an increased dis position on the part of parishes to supply the means to paupers desirous of emigrating, if they were enabled by law to do so. They therefore recommend " that the vestry of each parish he empowered to order the payment out of the rates raised for the re:ief of the poor, or the expenses of the emigration of any persons having settl,- talents within such parish who may be willing to emi grate, provided that the expense of each emigration be raised, and paid within a period to be mentioned iu the act." The commissioners think it also would be ex pedient to adopt the measures for facilitating and regulat ing emigration contained in the Bill introduced into the House •if Commons in 1831, and to be found, as amended by a Committee, in the Parliamentary Papers of that session. (No. 358.) There are some other waters connected with the ob jects of tl:eir inquiry on which the commissioners do not propose the immediate adoption of any specific measure, oecause they are unwilling to embarrass the progress of the remedies which they deem of paramount importance, by any change not nece•-sarilyconnected with them. For instance, the commissioners think that for eff:cting an improvement in the composition and conduct of vest' ies, and for securing the more full and punctual payment of the rate■, it is desirable that the owner of every dwelling or apartment let to the occupier at any rent not exceeding 151. for any less term than seven years should be rated instead of the occupiers. The actoftheth4e relief of 43d George the families 47 , fur ing the laws for of militiamen ,!es.rves to be reconsidered by the Legislature. The commi,sionvrs at the conclusion of their report :nuke ibis ststetuent— " The measures we have suggested are intended to produce rather negative than positive effects—rather to remove the de basing influences to which a large portion of the labouring population is now subject, than to afford new awaits of prospe rity and virtue. We are perfectly aware that for the genet , ' diffusion of right principles and habits we are to look not Si much to any economic arrangements and regulations as to the :nfluenco of a moral and religious education. 4 * As that subject is not within our commission, we will net dweil it further than to record our conviction that as soon as a good administration of the poor laws shall have renderedfur ther improvement possible, the most important duty of the L-gislature is to take measures to promote the religious and ilioral education of the labouting classes,"