The Sun. — London, England, 1854-02-08 00:00:00

~~- _~ ..-. . ~. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. The Earl of SHAFTESBITRY presented a petition from Bridport in favour of the establishment of reforma tory schools. The Duke of ARGYLL presented a petition from Ayr, praying for the establishment of a national system of education in Scotland. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. Lord MONTEAGLE called attention to the great increase as well as the deplOrable consequences of railway accidents, and pressed on the Government the necessity of placing a return of the number of accidents before the house. He understood,: from what passed in another place, that it was the intention of the. Government to introduce a bill on this subject, and he hoped they would soon have an_ opportunity, in this house of judging of that measure. He would ask the Vice-President of the Board of Trade whether fie had any objection to lay on the table, without delay, the papers and reports regard ing these accidents in the possession of his department, and whether he would undertake to do this from time to time, as any fresh calamities happe ned ? Earl FITZWILLIAM concurred in the necessity of legislation upon this matter. but thought, if any mea sure was proposed, it ought to originate with their lord ships' house. Lerd STANLEY, of Mderley, said the Government was fully sensible of the importance of the subject, and were anxious to assent to any remedy which could be proposed. It was true that a bill would be introduced into the House of Commons. and this it was hoped would meet the evils complained of by the public last session. A committee of inquiry sat upon the question, g and the report er nanatin e • from th em wou l d no doubt exercise an i r ovirtant influe nce upon the forthcomin bill. A s to the questions of the -noble lord, he (Lord Stanley) was ready not only to present to their lordships the r eturns now in the hands of the Board of Trade, but to publish and lay before them without delay accounts o f accidents as they occurred hereafter. (Hear). Earl GREY was not very sanguine as to the bill being effectual in protectiag the public against railway acci dents, and therefore he could not help"suggesting to their lord Ships that they had the power in their own hands of rendering great service to the country in the matter, if they thought fit ;',Ap exercise it. There was hardly a railway compaity ilaEngland who did not apply every session for new powers, :and their lordships might accomplish the object desired by the proposed bill if they refused to grant these powers without a thorough inquiry into the manner in which their existing .ones had been exercised and where necessary, without . inserting a clause for the protection and safety of the people. (Hear.) , Lord CAMPBELL con,idered that further legislation was indispensable, and boded a bill would pass both houses this session which' woulci do • justice to the country, The subject then dropped STATE OF TiIE "NAVY LIST." The Earl of HARDWICKE was desirous of calling the attention cf their lordships and the Government to the present state and condition of the Navy List. The subject acquired greater importance owing to existing circumstances. • He would declare at the outset that he had not the slighte,t intention to give offence. He was convinced that there was not an officer on the Queen's lists—be his age what it might—who was not ready to serve his country to the utmost of his power, and who would not fejoice in an opportunity of meeting the enemy. It was also his intention not to mention the name of a single officer, but to confine himself to a statement of the average age of officers of the.higher rank. The most prominent list, and one of the great est importance, was that of the admirals. The active admirals—though the word "active" applied to such a body appeared somewhat ridiculous—were 22 in num ber. Assuming that each of these officers was 25 years of age when he-attained the rank of captain, it appeared that the youngest admiral in the list of actives was 75 years of age. Applying the same list to the vice-ad mirals, he found that the youngest of them was 69 years old. Among the rear-admirals were 9 or 10 fit for ser vice, and the vice-admirals might be placed in the same category with the rear-admirals, being of nearly the same average age. This state of things was the result ofregulitions and ord ers i n C ounc il, an d i t certa i n l y d i d not hold out a very satisfactory prospect for the cointry. The first order in Council affecting the lists Was issued on the 30th of June, 1827, an .l it provided, first, that captains who had reached by seniority the. head of the list of captains with tiablenishe.d character, and had not declined or avoided service, should be deemed eligible to he superannuated with the rank of retired rear-admiral ; secondly, that captains should be eligible to receive appointments as flag-officers, provided they should have commanded one or more rated ships during war, or six complete years during peace, or five complete years of war and peace- combined ; thirdly, that lieutenants and commanders should respectively serve on board, in their proper ranks, two years and one year before being capable of being promoted to the rank of commander or captain. The 'object of these regulations was to get rid of old officers, and to sepply their places with younger ones. On the 10th of Aug., 1840, this order in Council was repealed by another, which also provided "that, in all flag promotions, every captain whose seniority brings him in turn for advance. ment shall be placed on the list of flag-officers, provided he has served as a captain, and shall not have declined service at any time when called upon, and that there be nothing against his character as an officer and a gen tlemen ; but that the half-pay of those flag-officers who have not commanded one or more of your Majesty's rated ships four complete years during war, or six coin- ' plete years during peace, or five complete years of war and peace combined, shall not be increased beyond that of rear-admiral, unless they shall have rendered, as flag officers, sea service of equal length to complete the period above mentioned, of which they were deficient as cap tains." By the same order in Council it was decreed that retired rear-admirals should be allowed to remain on the active list, but should receive only the pay of rear-admirals. In 1351 the Government reverted to the former system, and, by an order in Council, declared that officers on the active list, who had not served for their flags under the order in Council of June 30, 1827, should be removed to the reserved list, which was, in • fact, a retired list. Having taken, by chance, 16 officers on the reserved list and 16 on the active list, he -found that the united ages of the former amounted to 1,027 years, and of the latter to 1,038 years. The fitness for active service depended, of course, on the mental and bodily vigour of the respective individuals ; but it must be admitted that the fact he had just stated indicated that the officers on the active list had generally attained a very advanced age. The existing regulations were objectionable, because they =operated unjustly upon officers. When a man entered the navy a moral contract was formed between him and the Crown, by which it was provided that, if he discharged his duty zealously and efficiently, and maintained an unblemished character, he should have an opportunity of advancing to the top of his profession ; but at present, when an officer had raised himself to a certain point, he found the door of promotion shut in his face by an order in Council. The orders in Council stated, annd very properly so, as a reason why an officer should serve six years as a captain before he obtained his flag, that he should be fitted by experience for pro motion. That, no doutt, was extremely right and pro per • but there was this ab-urdity in the case, that prac tically the spirit of the rule was not adhered to. For while the orders in Council rejected a captain for pro motion who had not served his full term of six years, the Government, on the other hand, would take an officer and give him a very magnificent ship, with a broad pen dant, who, perhaps, was a young man wh o never b e f ore had the command f anything but a small vessel, and who, probably, had never been more than two or three years at sea. These were the general features of the case he wished to lay before their lordships. He could ] have -materially strengthened his case if he had thought proper to mention the names of some of his brother officers, but that he had declined to do. Those con nectod with the navy were not sorry that the orders in Council existed, but there was not one of them who did not admit the injustice of their operation in the instances which he had briefly pointed out. His opinion was, that if an opportunity were given to officers in the various grades of the service of purchasing their com missions, and that upon a faii• calculation of the value of their pay, great relief would be afforded to the navy ; and he believed, moreover, that if the orders in Council were so modified and enforced as he had suggested, the Crown would still have the power to make a selection of ,he officers whom it might choose to employ. Had these things been done, this question with regard to the noble N at'Y List would never have mine before th em . Th e earl concluded by moving for the appo i ntment of a select committee to inquire into the subject. T he Earl of ABERDEEN thought the noble earl who had just losunaed his seat might be assured that there was no noble lord who did not sympathise with the views an d - nMtives which, had induced him to bring this subject before their lordships ; and, if it were not from a sense of what- he (the Earl of Aberdeen) believed to be a duty he ow e d to the service and to the public, he should not be disposed to oppose the motion of the noble earl. He was quite aware that much differ of the enactm ent of the regulation to euue of opinion had prevailed upon the subject from the which the time noble earl had referred ; but it was a re markable fact that, although that regulation had, he presumed, been brought before every Board of Admiralty that had existed since 1827,. not one of those boards, i n any instance whatever, h a d th ought proper to deal with that regulation. The regulation in question was framed by Sir George Cockburn when he was the naval adviser to the Board of Admiralty, and from that day to this not a single instance had occurred of an attempt to make any alteration in the rul e i n any respect whatever. There had been subsequent orders in Council with a view to the extension of the rule then made, but not for the purpose of introducing any altera• tion in the order in Council of the 30th of June, 1827. He would repeat that in no instance had any officer whatever been promoted to his flag without having pre viously complied with the conditions of that regulation. Before the regulation of 1827 was made there was so much favour and caprice shown in the promotion of offi cers in the navy that there was no certainty whatever as to who would be promoted or who would not • and their lordships must be aware of the many criminal practices that wer e resorted to in the promotion of officers in the naval service. It was therefore thought only reasonable that six years' active service as post-captain should be required as a necessary qualification, previously to any ' officer being entitled to receive an appointment as flag officer of the fleet. Of course, any regulation of an in variable description, such as that, must in its operation be attended with cases of individual' hardship: He re gretted that such should be the case. The noble earl himself, •and other noble lords who were in a similar con dition, might think that an alteration of the regulation of 1827 was necessary, and they might have reason to de plore the operation of the existing rule ; but their lordships would perceive that, if such a regulation were of any ser vice at all, it must be invariably adhered to, for if once an exception were made, and the invariable character of the rule infringed upon, that would deprive it at once of all its fairness and of all its merit. He had conferred with his right hon. friend at the head of the Admiralty On this sub ject, and it was his opinion, as well as that of every preceding Board'of Admiralty since the year 1827, that no mode more fair could be adopted to preserve efficiency, in the service than to require a reasonable qualification on the part of the officer to be promoted.' That being the case, although he (the Earl of Aberdeen) agreed with . the noble earl -that practically the regulation had ope rated hardly in individual instances, yet he 'could not conenr with him in thinking that the rule should in any case be relaxed, because he believed that any such de-. pariure from a fixed and unalterable character would im pair the efficiency of the service, and be attended with consequences which would put an end to that fair and equitable proceeding which had hitherto characterised the conduct . of the Crown in the promotion of officers in the navy. Therefore he could only say that, after the most full inquiries and examination of the subject, ho had come to the same decision at which all preceding Boards of Admiralty had arrived—that, upon the whole, the present system, although attended with individual cases of hardship, nevertheless was the most just and the most advantageons to the service that had been proposed. Lord COLCHESTER said, that no doubt the subject to which his noble friend had called the attention of their lordships-was one of great difficulty. Tho noble earl at the head of the Government had said that the regulation of 1817 was made by Sir George Cockburn when ho was at the Board of Admiralty, and that it had never since been altered. Now, he begged to remind the noble earl that two orders in Council had been sub sequently issued on the same subject—one in 1840, and the other in 1851. In the order in Council of the 10th of Aug., 1840, it was stated "that so much of the order in Council of the 30th of June, 1827, as related to the promo tion of captains to flag officers shotild be rescinded,':and that those officers who had'been placed on the retired list under that order in Council should' be placed on the list of flag officers a,ccording to their seniority as captains. He believed that this alteration of the regulation if 1827 was made in consequence of the case of Captain Debenham, which was considered at the time to be one great hardship. Under the order in Council of 1840 all captains, who Were ready to serve, whether they served or not, were put on 11 level with rear-admirals in respect to their pay. Under the order in Council of 1851 the country was deprived of the advantage of the service of those offieers who had been placed on the reserved list, and who alight have been called- into active service. (The noble lord made some observations in • respect to the orde:. in Council of ISSI, but they- were not audible in the gallery.) The Earl of ELLENBOROUGLI said,- it was essen tial to the effective power of the service; and that the public interest required it, that -every captain having the qualification and rank of admiral should have served ft;r 0, certain period as commander •of a ship in her Majesty's service. Such was the rule, and no doubt it wss a just rule ; still, be thought it very desirable to reconsider the details of the. Order ire Council. For, certainly, ;there was something contrary to all reason in saying, that an officer should be considered qualified for a flag after having served six years in one of her Ma jesty's rated ships, yet that he should not be considered qualifiel by having served in another ship, where equal or even superior experience might have been acquired. The service in her Majesty's rated ships was a service before the discovery of steam and belore large ships were built. Therefore, practically, the orders in Council had a tendency, as they now existed, not of giving to the country those men who were best acquainted with the service as it at present was; but .men who were ac quainted with the service as it used to be. It appeared to him, therefore, that it was most desirable the details of the rule should be reconsidered. The noble earl had stated, that the rule was established in 1827, at the sug gestion of Sir George Cockburn. No man was held in higher esteem, or more honoured and. deservedly so, than Sir Geo*rge Cockburn, by the whole of the British navy, but their lordships must. consider the difference of the naval service in the year 1827, and•of the same service in the year 1853. In 1827 not many years bad elapsed since the country had been involved im a long and ardu ous war, and when, therefore, captains in the navy were not required to wait long for promation ; but now, at the'end of 40 years of peace, the rule was, exclusion from promotion, and not admission. This was a further reason why he thought it highly desirable that the' rule should be reconsidered in its details. He recollected most distinctly a thin? made on beha:.if of her Majesty by Sir Robert Peel in 1846, to a p , s-wer of promoting any officer of any rank in the navy. That was a power which should never be confided to t: he Admiralty. It should not be for the Admiralty to make any such ex traordinary promotion. That power had been most rightly reserved to the Crown, and a. case might arise when her 'Majesty might most wisely exercise that power by an order in council. There -would be an ample guarantee against the power being improperly exer cised. No order in council could Ls.ke place without the whole merits of the officer to be promoted being brought before the Cabinet. It won Id thus become a public measure, and one of the highesv.; importance, and which it would be the duty of the Minister to defend in Parliament. The country would thereby be perfeCtly satisfied that such a measure would not be adopted un less under very peculiar clrcumstanca 3. He thought it most desirable to guard against the, introduction, or rather the extension, of anything like: party feeling in the selection of any officer for any ezawloyment in the service of the Crown. It was hardly too strong an ex pression when he stated that he thou, ieht it a public crime in a man at the head of the naval department, or. at the head of the army, when, from private, personal, or party motives, he promoted. a person over the head of another who was deserving of the appointment. It was his first duty to look around and select from every de partment the fittest man he could &aid. That was the true secret of success in war. It was, indeed, the true secret of success in civil affairs ; but in war it was essen tial to success. Let them look around ;Ifor they would invariably find that, whatever might be the general merits of individuals----whatever might be their ability or their zeal—all great things in civil life, and even more, perhaps, all great things in war, were performed by some few, some very few men of superior ability and superior genius and there could nit be a greater or a more valuable talent in a man placed in the situation of his noble friend opposite, or, yet more, placed in the direc tion of the Admiralt, or of the army, than that of dis covering the ability by which great things might be done. After a few words from Earl WALDEGRA.VE, which did not reach the gallery, the motion was with- drawn, and their lordships adjourned.- HOUSE OF COMMONS--(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair shortly before 4 o'clock. PRIVATE BILLS. A. large number of private bills were introduced by Mr. BROVIERTON, and read a first time. .The following bills were read a second time, and ordered to be committed :—Ardrossan and Glasgow and South-Western Railways; Bacup' Improvement ; Barnard Castle and Bishop Auckland Junction Railway and Branch ; Blyth and Tyne Railway ; Bolton Gas ; Brighton, Hove, and Praston Waterworks ; Cannock Railway ; Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock ; Clyde Navigation ; Cork and Bandon . Railway; Don caster Cemetery ; East Lancashire Railway ; Eist Lan cashire, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Manchester and Southport Railways; East London Waterworks; En niskillen Waterworks ; Gloucester Water Hastings and St. Leonard's Gas; Hull Cemetery; Kingston-upon- Hull Docks ; Kingston-upon-Hull Improvement ; Law Life Assurance Society ; Leeds New Gas ; Liverpool Improvement; Liverpool Police Superannuation Fund ; Liverpool .Sanitary and other Local Acts; Llandudno Improvement ; London Life Association ; Middleton Gas ; Newport Improvement ; North London Rail way.; Norwich Equitable Fire Assurance Company ; Nottingham. Waterworks ; Oxford, Worcester, and- Wolverhampton (Stratford-upon-Av on and Stourbridge Branches) ; Radcliffe and Pilkington Gas ; Ramsbot tom Gas ; Rochdale and Burnley Roads ; Rossen dale Union Gas; Shrewsbury and Chester Railway ; Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway (Stations) ; South port Waterworks ; Stafford New Gas ; Stockton and Cleveland Union Railway ; Swansea Vale R a il way ; Towy Vale Railway ; Warrington Improvement and Market ; Wellington (Salop) Improvement ; Wey. mouth and Melcombe Regis Markets and Pier ; White haven, Cleator, and Egremont Railway ; Whiteyave n Junction Railway ; York and North Midland Railway. PETITIONS. Mr. FERGUSON presented a petition from Carlisle - , upon the subject of the ecclesiastical patronage in that town. ' Mr. WILCOX prevented a petition from Southampton against the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sundays. Mr. HORWFALL presented a petition from the Liver- Pool Chamber of Commerce in favour of a system of decimal coinage. Mr. T. BUNCOMBE presentee T‘etitions from two individual s named Barnard and Dunn, chola of whom claimed to be the inventor of the penny receipt stamp upon paper, and praying the house to appoint a coin- ' mittee with the view of having their claims investigated, and if found correct, rewarded. Lord J. RUSSELL presented a petition from the Corporation of Cambridg e complaining of the corrupt practices which prevailed at the last election for that town, and praying that steps might be taken to prevent a recurrence of such abuses. Mr. ADDERLE Y . presented a petition from the inha bitants of the Orange River Settlement, against the abandonuient of that sovereignty. Mr. HADFIELD presented a petition from the inhabitants of Nova Scotia, in favour of an Ocean Penny Postage. OATHS BILL. Lord J. RUSSELL brought in the New Oath Bill, which was read a first time, and ordered to be road a second time on Monday fortnight. NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE gave notice that on this day fortnight he should move for leave to bring in a bill to amend the act relative to the settlement of disputes between master and servants by arbitration. Mr. MACKINNON gave notice that this day fort night he should move the appointment of a :Mot come _ THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8 1854,, mittee to inquire into the revenue and condition of Ramsgate and the Cinque Ports. NATIONAL EDUCATION. A.Dt k EittEt ea r to ask Lore John Parnell; • whether the Education Bill' of last session will be re introduced, or any measure brought forward by the Government this session, on the subject of national education generally, or specially for the establishMent of pamper schools: • - Lord J. RUSSELL i said it was his intention to in troduce the bill of last session in the shape it i ,was in before. It was the intention of the Governmetrt raiher to wait to learn the effect of the bill which was 0, be introduced by the Lord Advocate for Scotland.t: With respect to pauper schools, that question was still under the consideration of the Government. (Hear, hvar.l L ' . TURKISH TREATIES. I Sir H. WILLOUGHBY wished to ask Let:d John Russell, if he 'could place on the table of the house copies of the treaty of Kainardgi, the 16th day of July, 1774; treaty of Adrianople, the 4th day of September, 1829 ; 'treaty of Unkiar Skelessi, 1833; and treaties of 1840 and 1841. Lord J. RUSSELL said there would be no objection to produce the first two treaties. CHURCH RATES. Sir E. LACON begged to a,sk the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is the intention of her Majesty's Government to introduce any measure this session on the subject of church rates. Lord PALIVIERSTON hoped to be able to introduce such a measure very shortly. . 4 ,11, POSTAGE STAI&S. Mr. OLIVEIRA wished to ask the Secretary of the Treasury, whether any impediment has presented itself to the general issue of perforated postage stamps to the public: Mr. WILSON said the delay had been occasioned by the demand for receipt stamps, but after to-day none but perforated postage stamps Would be issued by the Inland Revenue Department, a supply of which, ho hoped, would be ready to-morrow.. table—to complain that the article was a breach of privi lege, and to move that a select committee be appointed to inquire into the allegations contained in such publication, r ead toft.the SWF() to,the house. - .A.t,,the dinner in quee you • r e l_Gray, a gentleman who, from' 11iii (M li r. t;t's) 1 °mu oi-ledge, was a person o f some p os iti on , ma d e i a statexeeent, in which-he said tha£ a member of that house - proposed -to - obtain for a person the situa tion of a paid guardian of the poor in Ireland, but that the first year's salary; namely 3001., was - to be given to him (the member) previously to its being obtained. The individual to whom the proposal was macle.eaereupon came to him (Dr. Gray), and inquired if the office of paid guardian of the poor was likely to be con tinued, stating to him his reasons for putting the question, saying that he did not like to pay his money until he was satisfied as roe arded the office in question being continued. Dr. Grey, said he thereupon told his friend that it was for tunate- he had made iheinquiry, as the Government in tended to abolislethe office in the course of a few months. Now this was a most scandalous charge to make 'againit a member of that leonse - . It Was repeated in the Times of the preceding day. Ip had gone forth t o th e wo rld as an im putation against Irish members. It was an attack upon the dignity and honour of the house, and it was the duty of the house to take every'poseible means to ascertain whe ther the charge was true or false. This statement of ,Dr . . Gray's was followed Ay another, by a ge n tl eman name d, who, although he-Was not acquainted with nim, was, he had no doubt, a gentleman of s t a ti on in the locality where this dinner tonic - place; Mr. Kelly asserted that a mem ber of a former Parlcament consented to obtain the office of a stipp , liery aw e -Istrete for 1,000/. The conditions of sale'Were settled in Gs way :—The sum of 5001. was to be paid by the proposea magistrate for tho promise of the office when obeartied froth' the Minister, and the further stun. of 500/. wag '.''o fee paid by the magistrate as soon as that promise shohld. have :been ratified. Mr. Kelly then said the Ministet Wartard up for votes upon some par ticular division —the promise of the place was made—the Minister got into difficulty again ; and the promise was ratifieiltand his worship the magistrate was duly installed into all the dignities of his office. It app eare d, h owever, that no sooner wa s - the 'Magistrate installed than he re fused to.complete his share of the transaction by the pay ment of the retnainiag 500/. (Laughter.) The solicitor of the M.P. called upon hirn (Mr. - Kelly), and through his in tervention an influence Was brought to bear upon the ma gistrate. There was not a member of that house who would say that this was a transaction that ought not to bo inquired into. Hon. mernbers might laugh at the statement, but they ought to recollect it was a grave charge, made against one-sixth of the members of that house, and, if passed by without inquiry; Woiild give a heavy blow and great discou ragement to constitutional government. This charge affected every one Of the' Irish members of that house. - It was right also that; the charge should be repudiated on the part of the gentry of Ireland. ' In the article in question it was arguedaefollovis:—" We have satisfied the theory of the con stitutioh, -as far as the Irish division of the empire is Con cerned, with no eparbieland, but we have not succeeded in obtaining a body of representatives which an Irishman 'ceild look upon with iatisfaction, or an Englishman with out dismay. In the - fiame of a constit u ti ona l governme nt we maybe permitted' to ask, - what does the section of Irish members fepreSent beyond the embodied wish of some hundred needy instil to obtain place, salary, and posi tion." This influential` journal thought proper to cast upon the whole body - of the Irish representatives the im putation of being ' needy men to obtain place, salary, and position." Now, he felt that these were grave charges, and were calculatedTo mar the feeling, that he for one was anxious to promote, namely, to cement a good feeling between Ireland and this country. He did inot desire that any peins or Penalties should be inflicted upon the editor - of the Times newspaper for this Attack upOn the whOle body - of the Irish • representatives. He thought that the best conrso which they could pursue was to inquire into the matter, and fix the guilt—if really guilt existed—on the person liable to the imputation. The Clerk read at Itingth the article complained of from the Tim"s. and Mr, EUTT , concluded by moving that the matter of the coropleinte-hejreferred to a committee of privileg e t o in quire and re ofrtheieoh:' Mr. J. O'CIPNNBLL; in seconding the motion, said that 1.) he differed fr rrrtheiaoyer only upon one point, an d th a t was his coma :diet Of the' Times newspaper. He did not think the Iri li.` benibers were - justified in complaining of the Times, w t eii tlig.eown newspapers set the example of maligning th Vli reltiah representation. Their indigna tion should fl 4%e - directed against the Irish papers, and there was no eason why, they should wonder at the matter having been taken Veil hy au English journal. There was unhappily a roost Miserable spirit of recrimination, bitter ness, and dissendon extant in Ireland, which rendered its people' the langhingestock of the world. (Hear.) With regard to the special charges which formed the subject of the present discuesiOn, he would say that although not hav ing had the honour of a seat in Parliament during the period to which they referred ; he had had one for many years be fore, and had; never heard similar charges brought forward with anything like - the shadow of proof. He sincerely be. Hewed from What he knew of his brother members, that the present charge iilullturn out to be utterly baseless, and a:mere empty calumny.' At the same time he heartily con curred in the propo - sed inquiry; and trusted that it would be one of the most searching character, and pushed to the uttermost length of investigation. He, however, censured Dr. Gray for Ir:wink - concealed the matter so long as that 'gentleman admitted ha had done. It ought not to have been left to Mr. Butt to bring it forward, inasmuch, as some of those who Vero - present at the din ner a t w hi c h th e chstrges were originally 'made ought to have taken the sub ject up. Lord J. RIJSSELL-4" think the house cannot help at once acceding teethe motion. (Loud cheers.) It is due to the honour of Parliament, to the character of Government, and to the character of - those Irish members who are in cluded in the sweeping denunciation which Ines just been read at the table. Ido not, however, wish to follow the hon. and_leatned mover 'in his - remarks respecting the com ments of Times, or those of the gentleman who followed him, on the conduct - of-Dr. Gray or Mr. Kelly. I can only say, that we have the names of both these gentlemen a s the persons wh - oma - de the charges complain e d of, and there fore, having thus thO Means of • investigation, I trust that the matter will be Probed to the - bottom. (Hear, hear.) It will then be seen whether there is any truth in those state ments, and wo • shall every detail of the - transactions in question. (goer, lie - arf) • Mr. J. BALL:likewise hoped that the subject would be sifted in the moat Searching manner. Mr. LUCAS said - .he . had heard the case menti one d by . .. Dr. Gray at the ,Tuam banquet stated by him before, and believed it to .he true... He had brought similar accusa tions, in a general way, himself ; he believed theta to be true, and it was, he said, utterly impossible for any gen leman to take a part in political conversations in Ireland without hearing.very frequently cases of this kind men tioned, on .evidence which it was impossible to disbelieve. (Expressions of dissent.) The difficulty in dealing with cases of this kind: was simply that there wore cases men tioned to you in private as matters of conversation by perspns well acquainted with the facts, whose evidence could not be disbelieved, but you were not at liberty to mention their names, and could not break the seal of con fidence nnadr which the facts had been revealed. The hon. and learned gentleman who had brought forward the motion had commented u p on an ar ti c l e i n th e Timm—and indeed some words of that article bore out that mode of treating it—as an accusation of corruption brought against Irish members, mainly based upon the statements of Dr. Gray and Mr. Kelly, as though no such accusation had been made before, and •as though the Times had made the accusation alone upon the information which these two after-dinner speeches conveyed. Nothing, however, could be farther from the truth than this. He had with him a statement made in the Times in September last, months before the statements of Dr. Gray and Mr. Kelly wore made, very much stronger than the accusation just read. With the permission of the house ho would read the accu sation. When hon. members talked about an article in the Times, they were not, of course, to pry into the mystery of newspapers—that was a very deilcate subject —(a laugh); but they knew that it " was'nt nobody" that wrote the ar ticles complained of, and they sometimes heard very exalted names mentioned in connection with London newspapers. He did not know —perhaps nobody knew—whether the ar ticle in question might not have been written by a Secre tary of State, or perhaps, at all events, it might have been written by Secretary to a Board. (Laughter.) At any rate, what was Matter 'of public notoriety was, that one of the proprietors of the Times was a member of the housef a supporter, and not the least efficient supporter, of the present Gov ernMent—perfectly cognizant of all the ru mours and talk of the Treasury bench, and one who did insult his fellow -supports of the present Government by making allegations which that Government itself believed to be false. (Hear, hear.) The accusation brought against the whole body of Irish members he believed in general to be unfounded. He had never brought are - rations of so general and sweeping a character against Irish members. He had, of course never intended to include hi mse lf i n the accusation—(a laugh)—or those honourable gentlemen with whom h e usually acted. (A laugh). He had brought no such accusation against Irish members upon the side of house on which he sat. His accusations had been directed against those who,_for a long course of years, had b een connected in the commerce of corruption with successive Whig G overnments—(laughter) - of which transactions the editor of-the Tines was a very proper and suitable wit ness. (Renewed laughter.) Before lie read the article to which he had referred, he was anxious to recall to the memory of the house what took place in the course of the ; last session, when an accusation of corruption was brought • against the present Government, in connection with certain Irish members not named, by the hon. member for Now Ross (Mr. Duffy). N'o one who was in the house on that occasion could forget the frenzy of indignation which that charge of ' •corruption excited upon the benches opposite. It was almost impossible to stand against the torrent of indignation which that charge evoked —even the right' honourable member for Bucking hamshire (Mr. Disraeli) was almost borne down with it, and the weaker and less practised members of the house were fairly overwhelmed by it. (A laugh.) He (Mr. Lucas) declared that such was the impression which that burst of indignation produced on his mind, that for a mo ment he believed the opposite side of the house to be pure. (Laughter.) The house would recollect how that affair ended. (Hear, hear.) When it was found that the accu sation did not mean that money was exactly put down by ,the hon. member for Wells in the lobby of the house, but that merely, political berruption and a prostitution of pub ),ic pi inciple hrough the ordinary agencies of the Govern- Ment had t o n piaplace, the noble lord the member for the city of Loud n , •d e Clared that he thought there was no ac cusalion to answer. (Hear, hear.) The session came to an end, honourable—members went to their homes, with that scene fresh in their recollection, and with that burst of in dignation never to be erased from their memory. Th e house had not been up a month when they saw a leading article in the Times, written, perhaps by some member of the Gove rnmen t opposite, which stated. — The hon. mem ber then rea d th e ar ticle in question, marking it with bitter emphasis and interspersing sarcastic comment; and he expressed 4 hope that the willingness to grant this in vestigatidn (lid not originate in a desire to cloak the cor ruption which had so long existed between the Whigs and I the Irish members, by means of which the Whigs had, notoriously, been able to retain power. H e was pre pared for any amount of denial, but no denial would i shake any sane rain's conviction as to the general fact. Ho then offered to advance some new facts, but, mentioning that .he could not give up his au thority, murmurs arose on the Liberal benches be low the gangway, on which Mr. Lucas tauntingly said, " Oh, then, ynii don't want to hear the facts ?" (No, no.) "And you think, With' the Times, that the corruption of Irish members is a desirable part of the British Constitu tion ?" He then related some cases of corruption, and alluded to a statement said to have been made by Mr. Sheil, to the effect that Lord J. Russell held the Irish Bri gade in the hollow of his hand, and on being pressed for an explanation; Mr. Sheil said that on an appr oac hing division, when Ministers were hard pressed, they wrote to each member intimating that a certain place was at his disposal, which place, however, was not given until after the division. He had telegraphed to Dr. Gray the motion, notice of which was given on Monday night, and he had I just had a telegraphic reply stating that he was ready to i apppar at the bar pf,the honse. • . I - , 111 r. T. DIINCOMBE observed that, • when. this inquiry took place, it could not be confined to Ireland, and he re ferred to the statement on oath of a member of the house, in Chancery, in the caso of " the York and North Mid land Railway Company, v. Hudson," that a sum of money had been expended in shares given to persons of influence connected with Parliament to secure their good offices in connexion with the operations of the company. A trans action had - boon mentioned in the judgment of the Master of the Rolls, who had severely remarked upon it. Could Government pass over such a case as that, with a bill against poor men who might be corrupted coming on upon Friday next ? He called on Lord John Russell to investi gate the subject, and let them know who were the cor rupted parties—they knew the corruptor. The motion was then agreed to. The Assessed Taxes Amendment Bill went through com mittee. • The other business having been disposed of, the house adjourned at a quarter to 8 o'clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT. WHITEHALL, FEB. 4. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Alexander Stuart Logan, Esq., Advocate, to be Sheriff of the Shire or Sheriffdoin of Forfar. WHITEHALL, FEB. 4. The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend William Anderson to the Church and parish of Denny, in the presbytery and county of Stirling, vacant by the trans portation of the Reverend Colin McCulloch, late Minister thereof, to the charge and office of First Minister of the church and parish of Montrose. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, FEB. 4. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de spatch from her Majesty's Minister at Copenhagen, report ing the promulgation of a law, by which the Customs' Duty on all materials and tools imported for Cie purpose of being employed in works for bringing water into towns, lighting them by gas, and improving their drainage, will be reduced to 5 per cent. ad valorem, whenever the duties levied on such materials by the tariff shall exceed that rate. CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 7. , MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Borough of Brecknock—John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins, of Pennoyre. in the nounty of Brod:mock, Esquire, in the room of Charles Rodney Morgan, Esq., deceased. WAR-OFFICE, FEB. 7. 17th Light Dragoons—Major-General Sir James Max well Wallace to bo Colonel, vice Major-General Thomas William Taylor, C. 8., deceased, Jan. 28. 16th Regiment of Foot.—Major-General Thomas Erskine Napier, C. 8., to be Colonel, vice General William Carr, Viscount Bereford. G.C.8., deceased, Jan. 28. 60th Regiment of Foot.—Lieutenant-General Viscount Gough, G.C.8., to be Colonel in Chief, vice General Vis count Beresford, deceased, Jan. 28. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, FEB. 6. Royal Regiment; of Artillery—Brevet-Colonel William Brereton to be Colonel, vice Gore Browne, deceased ; Cap tain John McCoy to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brereton ; Second Captain Henry Clerk to be Captain, vice McCoy ; First Lieutenant George' Sidney Robertson to be Second Captain, vice Clerk ; Second Lieutenant Edward Keate to be First Lieutenant, vice Robertson, Jan. 24. ADMIRALTY FEB. 3. The following additional promotions, dated the 21st January, have taken place on the Re , erved List, conse quent on the removal of Admiral James Carthew to that list, with a pension :—Vice-Admiral Francis Temple, on the Reserved Half-pay List, to be Admiral on the'same list; Vice-Admiral Henry Gordon, on the Reserved Half pay List, to be Admiral on the same list. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS Durham—John Robert Mowbray, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Feb. 3. North DUrham Regiment of Militia of the County of Durham—George Pearson Wilkinson, Esq., to be Captain, Jan. 24 ; William Jonathan De 'Pledge, Gent., to be Lieutenant, Feb. 3. Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia Assistant-Surgeon John James Ireland to be Surgeon, vice Henry Thomas Titley Palmer, resigned, Feb. 4. Royal Monmouthshire Militia—Henry Somers Morgan . Clifford, Gent., to be Ensign. Hampshire Militia Artillery—Ensign Frederick Brodie, late of tha East Middlesex Militia, to be First Lieutenant, Jan. 27 ; Richard Clay, Genf, to be Second Lieutenant, Jan. 30. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.— Carl Otto, a German, was charged before Alderman Saiomons. Foulger, of the detective police, said--I apprehended the prisoner in a court in Whitechapel for having robbed a merchant's office, into which he went with a letter, soliciting charity. He contrived, being a strong and vigorous man, to get away through Petticoat-lai.e. I I again took him, and again he broke away from me, and escaped at the corner of Mark-lane. I pursued, and contrived to get him to the ground, and after a' ,hard struggle I succeeded in taking him to the office of Messrs. Schafe and Brown, in Fenchurch-street, where he was identified as being a person who called there yesterday for relief, and was charged by one of the clerks with having stolen a coat. Underneath his upper coat I found be was wearing the coat I produce, and in the pocket I found a silk handkerchief. The prisoner gave me a card-case out of his pocket. Mr. Lee, clerk to Messrs. Schafe and Brown, iden tified the coat, handkerAief, and cardcase as his, and stated that they had been stolen from the office on the day before, between one and two o'clock, and that the prisoner had visited the office twice during the day. . The prisoner, who is believed to have been mixing up the characters of thief and beggar for a considerable time, was then committed for trial. BOW-STREET.—George Brooks was charged with stealing a volume of the / ancet, the property of Edward Trilelove, bookseller, of the Stran'd. A police-constable of the F division having stated that ho stopped the young man with the book in his posses sion, and that the prisoner admitted having stolen it " from distress," _ The prosecutor was called upon to identify the pro perty, and the chief usher was about to administer the oath to him in the usual manner, when he requested per mission to make an affirmation instead. Mr. Jardine inquired upon what grounds ? The Prosecutor—because I object to take an oath. ..._._ Mr. Burnaby, chief clerk—What religion do you pro. fess, then ? Prosecutor— I profess no religion. I claim exemption on conscientious grounds. , Mr. Jardine--t can only exempt you on religious grounds. Prosecutor--By a recent'act of Parliament any man who conscientiously objects to take an oath is permitted to make an affirmation. Mr. Jardine—There is an act which enables Quakers, Moravians, and some other religious sects to make affir mations, because they object to the oath on religious grounds. Your objection is based on irreligious grounds, and I am not aware of there being any law, recent or otherwise, that recognises.such an objection as that. The prosecutor adhered to his opinion that there had been some recent legislation which placed the consci enti,us non-believer on the same, footing as the consci entious Quaker or Moravian, and consequently some little time was spent by the magistrate and chief clerk in overhauling acts of Parliament, law reports, &c., with a view to enlighten him on the point ; after which Mr. Jardine again informed the prosecutor that he must be mistaken. According to the law of this coun try, there must be a religious sanction given to the evidence received in courts of justice. The Quaker was exempted, not'because he had : no religious belief, but because he had religious scruples which the law deemed it right to respect. No such consideration was shown ' to the non-believer, and, consequently, if be refused to take the oath, his evidence must be rejected. In doing what the law required him to do, he (Mr. Jardine) did not mean to cast any reproach upon the prosecutor, wbo, no doubt, was at full liberty to enjoy his own opinions in common with other men. _ The Proseookir o —Then I am to understand that the abandoned prolf7ute who was examined on oath just now is entitled to the protection which was refused to me, because I conscientiously object to the solemn appeal which she had no scruple in making ? Mr. Jardine—Yes, certainly. The woman, although a prostitute, may have SOMQ religious belief. Prosecutor—Then I can have no redress, and no pro tection for my property ? Mr. Jardine—That happens to be so in- this case, be cause you have no one else who can speak as to the identity of the property. It is the legal consequence of the course you have taken. Prosecutor-r-Forgive me, Sir, for urging you, as a magistrate, to use your influence to effect an amend ment of this most unjust law. Mr. Jardine—That is not my province, and, if it were so, I could not say that the frequency of such cases ren dered an alteration necessary, for durinc , all my expe rience as a magistrate . I do not remember a similar oc currence, with one exception. At all events the matter is at an end now, and the prisoner is discharged. A question then arose as' to which was entitled to the possession of the property, the prosecutor or the pri soner. Mr. Jardine said the prisoner must have the book if he claimed it, but probably he would not. The prisoner was asked if he would consent to give up the book to the prosecutor? Prisoner—Yes, he may have it. The prisoner was then discharged. THAMES.—Yesterday morning Mr. Yardley was waited upon by Mr. Howie, the superintendent of the division of police, who requested that he would exa mine a Mr. Taylor, an alleged lunatic, previous to sign ing an order for his removal to a lunatic asylum. Mr. Seaborne, one of the relieving officers of the Stepney Union, and Mr. Llewellyn, a surgeon, were also in attendance. The proceedings were taken by order of Lord Palmer ston, the Home Secretary. Mr. Taylor had addressed several communications to her Majesty and Prince Albert relating to some grievances and injuries he alleged to have sustained from the East India Company, from whom he is in the receipt of a pension. He had also paid several visits to Buckingham Palace, and doubts of his sanity having been entertained, a communication was made to the Home-office, and Lord Palmerston called the attention of the Commissioners' of Police to the subject. Mr. Seaborne now attended with the medical gentle man, and with the usual certificates, for the purpose of obtaining an order under the magistrate's signature to convey Mr. Taylor to the County Lunatic Asylum. The Magistrate, having been informed of the history of the alleged lunatic, proceeded to the library of the station-house, adjoining the court, and had an inter view with him, which lasted half an hour. The result of this interview was that the magistrate was not satisfied of Mr. Taylor's insanity, and declined to sign the order. In the afternoon the alleged lunatic was brought to the court, and Mr. Yardley examined him and also heard some evidence as to his state of mind, but still retained the opinion he had previously formed, and therefore Mr. Taylor left with the gentlemen who had accompanied bins to the office. LAMBETH.-3f r. Richard Houghton, a coal-dealer in Hill-street, Lambeth-walk, appeared to a summons taken out against him by Mr. James Rogers, the come dian of the Adelphi Then, re, charging him with selling coals short of the weight for which he charged. Mr. Rogers deposed that, having heard that the de fendant, at a period at which coals were at an enormous price, was in the habit of serving the poor people in his neighbourhood with coal much short of the proper weight, he determined to test his honesty, and, with that object, ordered 2 ewt. to be sent from his shop to his (I‘Tr. Rogers's) residence, 14, Saiille-place. H e pa id 2s. 3d. a-hundredweight for the coals, and on their being sent home, he borrowed scales and weight, and, with the sack which they were in, found they were defi cient 28 pounds. He weighed them in the presence of the lad the defendant had sent them by, and the same lad subsequently brought him a lump of coal weighin g 18 pounds, and said he neglected to put it in the sack, but with the addition of this lump the coals were de ficient 10 pounds, including the sack. The defence set up was, that the defendant knew nothing whatever of the transaction, that the order for the coals had been taken by his lad, that his lad served them short of weight, and subsequently absconded with the money. Mr. Elliott remarked that the defendant was answer able for the conduct of his servant, and convicted him in a penalty of 205., or 14 days' imprisonmet. The defendant subsequently paid the penalty. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. NOTICE TO MARINERS. Light on Guvanne Rock, Coast of Ist r i a Ad r i ate.—A i lighthouse s now being con constructed on Gu vanne R oc k , ne ar Rovigno, in the Adriatic, in 45 deg. 2 rain. 32 sec. N., and 13 deg. 73 6 sec. East o f G reenw i ch. It will revolve, and successively appear bri g ht re d . It wi ll b e first lighted on the Ist of August next. It will stand 73 feet above the level of the sea, and be seen at a distance of five leagues. _ STANNARIES COURT. Mr. COLLIER moved for leave to bring in a bill to' extend the jnrisdiction of the Stannaries Court to De .vonshire, and to define and regulate the cost-book sys tem of mining, and to limit, is some degree, the liability of partners in cost-book imnes. ---- M - r:ThIOFFATT seconded. the motion. - . The.ATToRISTEY-GENERAL said hP should offer no,opposition to the introduction of the bill, hut, at the same time, he could not go the length which the bill proppsed with: regard to the vast and important question of limited liability. - . . . .. Mr. HUME hoped the Government would lose no time in making their -views known upon the subject of limited liability.: He confessed himself that lie ;Noas a convert to those who advocated its adoption. After a few words from Mr. MOFFATT, Mr. WILKINSON mentioned several instances where - the principle of limited liability had worked ex ceedingly well, and said he had no doubt that, if it were . universally adopted, .many .of the strikes which were - now harassing the - north would he prevented. Mr. W. BROWN was opposed to the extension of the principle, and dechlred it to be his opinion that this country owed Itssreatness to the high character which its merchants 'enjoyed for Meeting their liabilitiepywith promptitude and, dispatch. There were except' ain the case of railways and mines wher e th e principle' iiilir be safely applied ; bufbefore the application took r ace', it ought always to be. specially sanctioned by the ! egi4-. , except" latu re. . ; • 2 - 2 ~ , ' Mr. VIVIAN was 'opposed to the universal adOption of the limited liability, but in. the case of mines he thought it could be safely and usefully aclopqed:. Viscount GO DEBTOR. objected to the' pOwer l which the Board of Tiade• possessed of granting ,clpartens of limited liability, because it conferred upol - that hoard the privilege of virtually granting. monqpolies. It would he .thought be much better to anatil that power, and make :the application of liinll4d universal instead of partial. This subject, however, must shortly enforce itself upon the'attention of the house, and then,he should be prepared to show th a t what he advocated would benefit alike the commerce and the labour of the country. Mr. CARDWELL' reminded the house th4t two committees had already sat upon the subject of limited liability,. and in accordance with the recommen dation of the joint committee a commission bad been appointed to investigate .the matter, who were now promoting their enquiries. Leave was then-given to bring in the bill. DOWNING STREET. Mr. OLIVEIRA-moved for a return of the expenses that have been incnried in alterations, repaits,' alid ; ini provements to the various public buildings in'Thviiiing street, from the year 1830 to the end of 1853, sPeicir o ying what amount has been expended each year. Agreed to. PUBLIC BUSINESS. Sir J. PAKINGTON moved the appointment gf ia Select Committee to consider, Whelier, by any al ri tions in the, forms and proceedings of this house, the despatch of public business could be snore effectually promoted :—Sir John Pa,lcington, Lord John Russell, Mr. Disraeli. Mr. Goulburn, Mr. Evelyn Denison, Mr. Sotheron, Mr. Greene, Mr. John Ball, Mr. Wilson. Patten, Mr. Drotherton, Sir George Grey, Mr. Wal pole, Lord Stanley, Mr. Hume and Mr. Bright. The lion. bart. said an impression prevailed out of doors that the greater part of their time was to talk, but that was a mistake. Occasionally, however, there was too much talk-- (a - laugh)--as, for instance, last session, when his right hon. friend the member for Buckinghamshire, the present Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Pre sident of the Board of Control made speeches, each of which occupied a whole evening. Now he had no hesitation in saying that those speeches would have been better in -themselves, and more satisfactory to the public, if they had been considerably curtailed. (Hear.) Sir G. GREY would not oppose the appointment of the committee, but he cautioned the house , against ex pecting that any great public advantage would result from it. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY had no objection to the ap pointment of the committee, but the shortening of de bates must be left to the good sense and forbearance of the house. MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS. Mr. BRADY moved for leave to bring in a bill for the registration of qualified practitioners, and for amend ing the law relating to the practice of medicine in Great Britain and Ireland. Mr. DIGBY SEYMOUR seconded the motion ; and in doing so, said lie thought it would be, unwise to make an unnecessary speech on such a question. The proposed measure, in fact, was nothing more nor less than a nuisance abolition bill ; and having in view alike the protection of - the public and the really legal practi tioner in a high and honourable profession, it was with the greatest pleasure that he gave his humble support to it. " Lord PALIVIERSTQN said he did not wish to oppose, the introduction of the bill, but he would reserve to him self the right of suggesting any alterations in its details which he might think necessary on its seeond reading. Leave was then given to bring in the bill. DEVONPORT AND KEYHAM DOCKYARD. On the motion of Mr. COW.PER, and after a few words in support of it by Mr. STAFFORD, leave was given to bring in a bill to authorise the construction of a tunnel between her Majesty's dockyard-at Devonport and Keyham yard. IRISH FISHERIES. On the motion of Mr. M`MA.HON leave was also given to bring in a bill for the improvement of the Irish fisheries. . . FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. Mr. SOTHERTON moved for and obtained leave to bring in a bill fbr the regulation of Friendly Socidties, stating that its object vras simply to commute what h a d been a temporary act into a permanent one.' PUBLIC PETITIONS. On the motion of. Mr. THORNELY the following members were appointed to constitute the Select Com mittee on Public, Petitions :—Mr. Thornely, Captain Jones, Mr. Brothertan, Mr. Scott, Mr. Bonham Carter, Mr. Duncan . , • Mr. Adderley, Mr. Owen Stanley, Mr. Whitmore, Mr. Thicknesse, Mr. Whitbread, Mr. H. A. Bruce, Lord Rob er t C ec il, Mr. John Ball, and Mr. H. G. Liddell. • EDUCATION. Mr. HADFIELD moved for a return of the mode in Which the several sums voted for the promotion of educa tion in England and Wales during the last two years have been appropriated (distinguishing each year's appropri ation), with •a statement of the denominatiOn to which each school belonged; and for which each sum was given, the dates of •all the grants, and the locality of every school for which the grants were made ; and an account to show the application of the moneys granted. Mr. WILSON opposed the motion, on the ground that the greater part of the information asked for was already before the house is the annual reports on edu cation, and that that which was wanting would Shortly be furnished in the next annual report on that subject. Motion negatived. THE DUCHY OF CORNWALL. Mr. KENDALL moved for a copy of recent corre -apondence (1852 and 1853) between the Duchy and Woods and Forests, on the subject of the rights of the -Duchy in the county of Cornwall. Mr. WILSON objected to the productiOn o f eorr spondence which was still pending until it was complete. The motiokwas negatived. THE IRISH MEMBERS AND GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE. Mr. I. BUTT' rose +o bring before the hOuse a subject which affected the character end dignity of that house, one which he felt it was the duty of that house fully to inquire into. Honourable members were no doubt aware of the fact that there appeared in the columns of an influential journal, on the preceding day, a statement of a serious cha racter as affecting members of that house. The charge made was, that the _patronage of the Crown had been used by members of that house in an unworthy manner. It was made against the Irish members of that house, and it was due to the house, if it had the means of doing so, to make such an inquiry• upon the subject as would tend either to exonerate the persons against whom the imputa tion was levelled fthm the charge made against them, or so to fix the guilt upon those liable to it that all doubt on the subject might be dissipated. The case was shortly this :—At a dinner recently given in Tuam, inhonour of the Tenant League; charges were made, in which it was stated that the patronage of the Minister of the day was bartered and sold for money by members of that house. (Hear.) This was a grave charge, and it was therefore right that the subject should be put in a train for inquiry, in order either that if there was no foundation for the charge, it might at once be disposed of; or, on the other hand, if guilt really attached to any party, the persons liable should have the imputation fixed upon. them. What he proposed to do was, to move that the articles in the Times newspaper of the 30th, in which a trafficking in places was imputed to members of that house, should be read by the clerk at the BINERITPTS. Thomas Jones Burton, Baier John Gabb, and Frederick Rosenthal Cruchley, commission agents, to surrender, Feb. 16, at half-past" twelve, and March 23, at 12, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street buildings ; Smith. John Angus Homes, woollen draper, Southwark, Feb. 1,5, at half-past two, and March 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ; Law rence, Flews, and Boyer. Thomas Turner, flour dealer, Molborough, Derby, Feb. 18, and Maich 25, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. Brewin, official assignee, Sheffield ; Fernell, Sheffield. George Stewart, brewer, Frederick-street, Hampstead road, Feb. 14, at half-past twelve, and March 21, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ; Piercy and Hawks, Three Crown-square, Southwark. Henry Rimington Tickell, brewer and hop merchant, Mark-lane, Feb. 22, at two, and March 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Ashnrst and Son, Old Jewry. James Crofts, mine share broker, Threadneedle-street, Feb. 16 at eleven; and March 23, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Wyatt, Verulam-buildings. William grand, builder, 'Lower Tottenham, Feb. 21, at two, and Mai•ch 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee; Moorgato street; Wright and Bonner, London-street, Fenchurch-street. Edward Balding, builder, Speenhamland, Berks, rFeb. 17, and March 24, at half-past one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee ; Rickards and Walker, Lincoln's-inn-fields, Macey, Thatchem, Berks. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Charles Campbell, draper, Campbeltown, near Fort- Geome. Charles i Hume Fawcett, Merchant, Dingwall. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. J. Spratt, Chelsea, coach maker—T. Tomlinson, South Mimms, Middlesex, grocer—Sarah Ann Clarke, Bishops gate-street Without, confectioner—E. Walker, St. Ann'ti road, Stepney, beerehop keeper—G. Kamester, York place, Hammersmith, contractor—G. Banks, Swaidstone, Essex, farmer--H. Evans, Munster square. Regent's -park. journeyman bootmaker—Harriet Hill, Charlotte -street, Caledonian-road —P. E. Chappius, Liverpool-street, Bishopsgate-street Within, commission agent—W. Con way, Skinners-street, Somerstown, china dealer—P. S. Miskin, Carlwood-street, Vauxhall-road, clerk to a con tractor—W. Denmark, Black Prince-row, Walworth-road, biscuit baker—W. Granger, Mount Pleasant, Clerkenwell S. Holmes, Broadway, Ludgate-hill, eating-house keeper --R. Axtena, Barnsbury-street, Islington, cheesemonger —T. Heatherly, jun.,. Guildford-place, Exmouth-street, artist—J. Swaine, Battersea-marsh, Battersea, licensed victualler...T. H. Brewer, Chrysell-road, North Brixton, bootmaker—S. J. Spyer, Bedford-pl a c e Russell-square, clerk to a merch an t—C a th er i ne Helena Lucas, ' Gloucester place, Portman-square —J. Denney, Nutford-place, Edgware-road, retailer of beer—J. Dyne, Archer-street, Westbourne-grove West, builder—W. Wall, Exeter-street, Strand, fruit salesman in Covent-garden—G. Flynn, Lon don-road, Southwark, shopman Co a cheesemonger —W. Trutch, Rupert-street, 'Haymarket—J. Wakes, Luton, Bedfordshire, confectioner—Elizabeth Grayson, Langport place, Camberwell New-road, laundress. DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS. Robert Kipling and William Atkinson, Wood-street, Cheapside, warehousemen-3d div. of 3s. 3d., and Bs. 9d. on new proofs, and final div. of 20s. on the separate estate of R. Kipling, Feb. 11. and three subsequent Saturdays, at Edwards', Sambrook-court. William Pike, Reading, Berkshire, tobacconist - Ist div. of 3s. 61., Feb. 11, and three subsequent Saturdays, at Edwards', Sambrook-court. Richard Jewesson, Great Winchester-street, City, mer chants-2d'div. of 10id., any Wednesday, at Whitmore's, Basinghall-street. William Bainford, Liverpool, cabinet-maker-2d div. of Sid., and Ist div. of 12s. on new proofs, Feb. 22, and any subsequent Wednesday, at Moi Ban's, Liverpool. Pryde and Jones, Liverpool, sail makers-3d div. of 5d., and Ist and 2d dive. of ls. 9d. and sp. Feb. 22, and any subsequent Wednesday, at Mo rgan ' s , Liverpool. Bell and Campbell, Liverpool, merchants-Ist div. of Sid., "Feb. 22, and any subsequent Wednesday, at Mor gan's, Liverpool. William Stock, Ashton-in-Mackerfield, Lancashire, coal proprietor--div. of 203., Feb. 22, and any subsequent Wednesday, at Morgan's, Liverpool. John Stock, Ashton-in-Mackerfield, Lancashire, coal proprietor —lst div. of 4s. 5d., Febt 22, and any subse quent Wednesday, at Morgan's, Liverpool. DIVIDENDS. March 1. J. Barugh, High Holborn, oil and colourman —Feb. 28. H. Wolff and I. Lyons, Cripplegate- buildings, City, umbrella manufacturers—March 1. F. F. Cobb, Do ver,; grocer—March 1. C. Smith, Victoria-road, Kentish twi, victualler—March 3. R. Nott, Bristol, iron merchant —March 2. W. Fawcett, Liverpool, merchant. CART iFICATES GRANTED. March 2. Eliza M'Crow, James-street, City-road, linen draper—March 1. W. Andrew, High street, Shadwell, ba ker—March 1. C. J. Webb, Leadenhall•street, City, silver smith—March 1. J. Cubbin, Liverpool, joiner. - - PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. G. Hodges, R. J.„Hodges and J. M. E. Dalton, Duke street, Adelphi, porter merch s ants—J. Hammond and J. Kenwright, Liverpool, carvers—J. Bell and J. Tompkin, Sheffield, cabinet case makers—R.Thornton and E. B.Tench , Beceles, Suffolk, brewers—W. Phelp and J. Phelp, Tavis tock, Devonshire, smiths—C. Chapman and IV. Chap man, Tooting, Surrey, surgeons—G. Norton! and B. Wade, Lombard-street, City, tailors—J. Higginbotham and H. K. Higginbotham, Stockport, Cheshire, importers of foreign wines—J. Loud and R. Eccles, Bradford, Yorksh bobbin makers—J. Oden, A. Oden, and T. Oden, Chillington and Hamsey, Sussex, builders, so far as regards A. Odou —G. Ramsbottom and T. Ramsbottom, Rawtenstall,Lancashire, grocers—J. Selkirk and J. A. Rhagg, Newcastle-upon- Tyne, printers—J. Lakeman and J. Fuller, Southwark bridge-road, window blind makers—E. Hall and T. Ridley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, attorneys James Browne, T. E. Brookes, and Browne, D. Browne, A. Browne, and John Browne, Pic- W me . rc il ha ro n o t k s, es s'o far as regards E. W. H be . , s f a h rr ffi e e r Brookes—R. Munn and WW. Stephens, Thetford, Norfolk S r u o ss ok e e x s P , and Suffolk, paper manufacturers—W. Mackey, J. Smith, and J. Horsley, " Newcastle-upon-Tyne, woollen drapers— T. Cope and S. Hammerton, Coventry, and Wood-street, Cheapside, ribbon manufacturers —A. Colon and I. E. Hentsch, St. Helen's-place, City, merchants —F. Wagstaff and J. Carpenter, Birmingham, jewellers—M. Dunn and J. Stoddart, Bradford, Yorkshire, cabinet makers—T. Greenland, J. Phillips, and W. Needham, Beaufort, Bre conshire, fellmongers—H. Johnson and T. Moore, Eaton, Cheshire, silk throwsters—Elizabeth Priscilla Hinton and Euphemia Bailie Hinton, Bazaar, Soho-square—E. Ho worth, J. Haigh, and T. Gregory, Liverpool, silk mercers H. Prior and H. Hart, Hastings, Sussex, plumbers—W. Stanford and G. Swain, Ashford, Kent, coachmakers—J. Steel and W. A. Fisher, Mill-wall, Poplar, ale brewers— T. W. Sweet and C. J. W. Wedlake, John-street, Mi nories, ship brokers —Johanna Fearon and P. J. Fearon Now Bond-street and H o lborn-hill, wine merchant s —C: Aotili and J, Fromm, Old Bond-street, tailors. CUSTOM HOUSE, FEB. 7. ENTERED INWARDS.—The Lionne, from Gravelines; Alarm, St. Michael's ; Surprise, do. ; Paris and London, Paris ; Marianne Bertha, Memel ; Acis, Messina; Hernod, Antwerp ; Enchantress, Nantes. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Gondola, for Boston ; Cesar, Demerara ; Cybele, do. ; Joseph Weer, Mauritius • Paris and London, Rouen and Paris - Grati tude, Madras; City of Manchester, Geelong; 'General Hewett, do. ; New Great Britain, Montreal • Supply, do. ; Eliza, Kurrachee and Bom bay ; Arrannah, Ghent ; Rufina, Malaga, Sic. er-nAttED OUTWARDS wrni CARGO.--The Pond, for Ja maica; Amasis, Geelohg ; Jenskea, Brussels; Ysabel Se gunda, Santander ; Georgine, Leghorn ; Johan" Maria , Stettin ; Devonshire, New York ; Mary, Geelong ; Maria , Melbourne ; Prince _Rupert, Jamaica. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 7. A ship, with loss of foremast, was off Noel Nant, inward bound, at 1 . p.m. Put back—The Montezuma, Excelsior, and Enroclyden,. for New York ; the Gulnare, for Africa ; and the Ethiope, for Gibraltar. WESTPORT, Feb. 3.—The Governor, hence to London, ashore in Black Sod Bay, 31st Jan., has got off, and must discharge part of her cargo to be surveyed. A sofa. cushion covered with black moron, a chest, having on it the name of " William Wood, able seaman," some ham mocks, and part of the deck of a vessel, came ashore at Clare Island 26th Jan. TRIONAIOUTH, Feb. s.—The Richard, from Neath, i n taking the harbour, grounded on the Spratsands, took assistance of steam-tug, but remains in an exposed situa tion. YARMOUTH, Feb. 7.—The Irene, of Memel. from N ew . castle to Barcelona, is ashore on the Scroby Sand, making water, and has taken assistance. Nzwr YORK, Jan. 24.—A vessel came ashore opposit e Stag Harbour, 3dllec., and was covered with ice, but was lying head shore, quite easy and tight -- crew safe, . rangements had been made to land the cargo if the weather would permit. GALWAY.—The Henriette, arrived here, reported having seen a large vessel in distress off the western coast. Planks and casks have also been coming ashore. Some Claddagh fishing-boats fell in with a large mast, with part of the spars and rigging attached, drifting outside the Island of ' Arran. BOULOGNE, Feb. 6.—The George and Elizabeth, from Jersey to Inverness, was stranded on this coast, about five miles N.B. of this port, last night, but is expected off, should the weather prove moderate—crew saved. PARIS, Feb. 6.—The Eugene, from Gonaives to Havre, was seen on the 23d Dec., under the "Mole," repairing a slight leak in her upper works, by the Bonne Aimee, ar rived at Gonaives. DROGHEDA, Feb. 6.—The Spring, arrived here from - Workington, reports having picked up off the Calf of Man, a trunk of lemale's apparel, with a canvass cover marked P "No. 5, Ito. Middleton, Melbourne, wanted on the voyage there is also a book in which is written "Eleanor King, of Howicke, 1852." The Princess Charlotte, from Honduras and New York to London, was abandoned at sea, Jan. 27—crew saved. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Empress (ship), from South Atlantic to Pacific Ocean, Nor: 28, lat. 56 S , long. 76 N'ir The Elizabeth Walthew (Eng. ship), 5,783 or 5,793. The City of Lincoln, and Emily (barque), Liverpool to China,•2Bth, lat. 10 S., long. 30 W. The James M`Queen, Dublin to Melbourne, Nov. •31, lat. 5 S., long. 32 W. The Edward Colston, of Bristol; Dec. 15, off Cape Palmas. The Connento (brig), for the Channel, Jan. 26, lat. 32 • N.,long. 13 W. he Ullida, Liverpool to Buenos Ayres, Jan. 31, lat. 55 N., long. 13 W. The Spermaceti, of Plymouth, for Savannah, Feb. 3, lat. 48 N., long. 9 W. The Maravie (brig), from Havre, Feb. 4, off Usbant. The Lord Warrington, of Belfast, Falmouth to Califor nia, Dec. 19, lat. 511., long. 21 W. The Susanna Bounce, Bideford, for Vabantia, Jan. 30, lat. 40 N., long. 9 W. The Falwood, Liverpool to Calcutta, Nov. 24, lat. 22 S., long. 26 W. The Countess Barrow, 54 days from Calcutta. The Gustave, Callao to Havre, Nov. 21, lat. 41 S. long. 48W, The Belle Anais, Havre to Lima, Dec. 7, lat. 18 S., long. 33 W. The Cuba, from Hamburg, Dec. 9, hut. 17 S., long. 36 W. The Rosita, Bordeaux to Callao, Oct. 29, lat. 57 S., long. 77 W. The Star, Liverpool to Callao, Dec. 1, lat. 20 S., long. 33 W. COUNT.RY MA.REI+:TI3. LIVERPOOL-FEB. 7. At this day's market there was only a sn tall attendance of the town and country trade, and the b Lisiness done in wheat and flour was quite of a retail character, at a reduc tion of 2d per 701bs. and is per barrel a nd sack on the rates current this day week. Oats and oath seal difficult to move, although freely offered at to Id pc u• 451bs. and is per load under the prices of Tuesday last.. Barley and beans neglected, • and Id to 2d per 'Albs. and is per qr. cheaper. Wien corn is per qr. lower. " IPSWICH-FEB. 7. ,The supply of wheat falls off again. Thu condition of most of the samples is bad, and millers co uld not be in duced to buy them. The sale, therefore, vas very slow, and are inction of to 3s per qr. was obli..2:ed to be sub mitted to. The supply of barley was liberal , trade heavy, and buyers reluctant to offer terms. Late .in the market sales took place at 2s 6d per qr. below last week's rates. PER QUARTER. PER QUARTER. Wheat, red (old) Ms to 80s Barley, grinding ... 34s to 378 Ditto (new) Ditto, white (new) 82s to 86s Peas Ditto (old) Barley, malting 33s to 41s Flour, per sack ... 00s to 000 AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING FEE. 7 , 1854. Wheat Barley Oats — „ 00 s Od Beans Peas HULL-FEB. 7. A moderate quantity of wheat at market to-day. Thai in prime order met a fair sale at 2s to 3s below the rates of last Tuesday, and inferior samples were bad to sell. The show of good dry foreign is very limittMl. Very dry bones are more in demand than other articles. Indian corn and Dan go off in retail. Linseed unaltered, but the demand 'for cakes increases daily. Only a very limited business in rapecakes and bones. Wheat, English, red 80 to 81 Ditto white BB to 90 Dantzic and Konigs . berg PomeranianandHam- s. d Peas, gray and black 50 to 53 Linseed, Black Sea 60 to 02 Ditto Petersburgh . 4B to 58 Ditto Riga and Arch angel - to 84 to 90 burgh Danish, Holstein, and Ditto Konigsberg and Memel 42 to 46 Per Ton. Lins. c.,Hullloll7s 6d toool Os Ditto fine for. 91 5s Od 101 5s Ditto inf. for Ol Os Od to 01 Os Rapeseed OOl Os to 001 Os Rape cakes Tares, English OOs to OOs Ditto foreign 'Guano 4l lOs 81 to 121 Os Bones l26s Od to Os Od I Rye Meal Friesland • 75 to SO Russian and Odessa 70 to 75 Oats, English Ditto Danish Ditto Friesland • 28 to 32 Ditto Russian 27 to 29 Barley, malting Ditto grinding 36 to 38 Beans Ditto foreign Peas, white and yel 54 to 60 COURSE OF EXCHANGE-YESTERDA.Y. Am5terdam............ 11 14' Gibraltar .............. three:mouth3 .. 11 16 Leghorn .............. 30 45 Rotterdam ... ... 11 16 Genoa ................ 25 57% Antwerp .............. 25 20 Milan ................ Brussels .............. 25 20 Venice „ „„ ,„ ,„ [lambargh .. Altona ................ , Palermo .............. 127 Pari5............ •. .... 25 21 4 Messina ........ ...... 127 Ditto, three months ••25 30 Lisbon ................ 53% Marseilles.... ..... ..... 25 321 Oporto ................ 53W Bourdeaux ............ Rio Janeiro ............ Frankfort-on-Maine .... 118 U Buenos Ayres .......... Berlin ................ ,New York, 60 days' sight Vienna ................ 13 10 :Philadelphia .......... Trieste ............ • • .. 13 15 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Petersburgh.. •......... Foreign Gold in Bars £3 IT 9 Madrid ................ 5016 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 50% Mexican Dollars .... 0 4 3lc New Dollars ...... 0 0 0 Seville ................ Silver in bars 0 5 1% SEABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the mails are sent from the General Post-ofte by the night—and M by the morning —dispatch.] Day when naade ut, From what 1% - h...a, COUNTRIES. in General Post- Port due in Office, London.* Dispatched. Fn -.flan& --. -- --- ----- - A.merica(byßrit.pack)N Every Friday .... Liverpool ... Efv.th Mon America (by United Sts packet) ..........N,Feb. 7 America (by U States' packet) .......... N .. • • ..... . Sotrharno , Feb. 8 Australia (via South ampton) .......... M March 4 • .... • • Southatupt Feb. 20 Ditto (via Marseilles) N March 8 . Ditto (via Capo of Goodi flops) ............N Feb. 4 ... ..... .... Liverpool ... Ilinc,.r tali' Africa (West Coast) ..Nll3d of the month.. Plymouth .. Fe). 14 Alexandria.-- .... NlB, 9, 24, &30of m Dover .... Feb. 16 Alexandria..........M,4th & 20th of mon. Southampton Feb. 20 Bahamas ........... )1117th of the montl, Soutmunpfon Feb 6 Belgian' ............N I faily. ...... ..... Dover ...... Daily Brazil ...........,., ..111',9th of the mouth.. SJuthltat ton Feb. 1G BuenosAyres....M,9th of the month.. Southamp ton 'Feb 16 Capo of Good Hone —IN I 4th of the mouth Plymouth .. Feb. 26 Cape of Good Hope ..N l l4th of the month. Southampton! Cape de Verds ......19 , 14th of the moi,th Plymouth .. Feb. 26 Ceylon (see India) 1 1 Ceylon ............ „Njl4th of the month Plymouth ~ Feb.i 26 Channel 151e5........ NIMon ~Wed.,BcFrid.,Southampton 'Tu.Th.Sat. Chi1i................m 2d&i 17th of montleiSouthampton Feb. 16 China (see India) 1 Constantinople ......1s; 7,8,17,24,&27 of m.lDover .. .. .. I Feb. 10 Constantinople .........4th & 20th of mon Southampton Feb. 20 (font. of Europe M & N Twice daily ...... Dover ...• .ITwiceslaily Egypt (see India) France ........ M & N Twice daily...—. Dover ......!Twicedally Gibraltar ..........M 4,7, 17,20, 27 of m. SouthamptonTeb. 16 Greece (see India) Greytown ..........n2nd & 17th of mon. Southamptori l Feb. 16 Hamburgh ... ..... ...N, Tuesday & Frid a y L on d on . .. ..1 Flavannah ........ al 2 nd of the m on th Southampton March 1 Holland ...... • ..... M , D a i 1y...... Honduras ..........M 17th of the month SouthamptonlFeb. I q India ( v laSoutliampt.)M 4th & 20th of mon Southampton Feb. 20 India (via Marseilles)M Bth&94th of month Dover ...... Feb. 16 lonian Isles (see India)l, 17, & 27 of mon D0ver...... 'Feb. 10 Ireland ........M & NiTwice daily .. Lisbon .• •• ............Ml7, 9, 17, & 27 of m. Southampton Feb. 16 Madeira ........5119th of the month Southampton ,Feb. 16 Madeira ...........N 23d of month Malta (see India) 1 I Malta .... ~......N17,17,19,27, 30 ofm. Dover ......reb.,. Mauritius (see India) Dlauritlus ..........N 14th of the month ,Plylnotith ..IFeb. 26 Mexico .... .. iti,2nd of the month. iSouthampton 'March 1 Naples .... N,6thlsth2sthormon.lDover .......Feb. 12 jSo u t hampton!Feb. 16 Now w w z O o ry an ad d a .. .... .... ... EI 2 17754dt h d t ht ; 50 1 1. h2r 7; 22tt h sh: tt o eohh f foom m a nft nmoononootrinnthi..). Southampton oyuultehhoraaumm. t ii. pp. Southampton ?r FFI cr eeee bbbb .... 21116662 IBy Private ship .. Various ports lUncerta n Papal States ' Peninsula ... Port Natal ...... • • • • Sicily ...... N,sthl sth2sthofnaon Doverj 2 naon,Dover ......,Feb. 12 •• "". " 'sthisth2sthof , I •• •• •• Feb._ . _ Tuscany .........• • •NI" ~ ._ Venezuela . M at co I iLa Of nloll thlSonthaMptonFeb. 16 Van Diemen's Land (see Australia) West Indies ........M 2d & lith of monthiSouthamptonFeb. 16 * When any of these dates IC ol a sunday, the malls will be dispatched on the following - 1 Y with the exception of the India via and the Malta, b oth of which will be dispatched the Southampton). day BIRTHS. OP A SON. On the 6th inst., at 48, Grosvenor-street, the Viscountess Brackley. On the 6th inst., at Pakenham Vicarage, the wife of the Rev. Charles W. Jones. At "Woolwich-common, on DAUGHTER the sth inst., the wife of Lieutenant-Colonel fill, Royal Artillery. On the 3cl inst., at All Saints' Rectory, Colchester, the wife of the Rev. W. Wright. A RRED. At St. Andrew's Ch ur ch, Si I ngapore, on the 9th of De cember, John Skinner, Esq., of the Oriental Bank Corpo ration, to Elizabeth, only child of the late Charles Gold, Esq., Lond on, stepdaughter of John Mitchell, Esq., of A b bey-pl ace, St. John's-wood. On the 7th inst., at the parish church of Allhallows Bar king, City, Henry Hutchins, Esq., of 28, Priory-road, W.,n dsworth-road, to Ann, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Williaru Martin, of East Lothian, Scotland. DIED. On the 6th inst., in London, Mary Elizabeth, widow of the late Captain Thomas Hopkirk, in her 70th year. On the sth inst., at his father's house, No. 14, Artillery place, Mr. JosephMeggeson Johnson, youngest son of Mr. George Johnson, of No. 11, Bow-churchyard, aged 31. 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