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~•vrtb dame, and the Chairman wu ordered to report Progreso. The House then resumed, and the report was ordered to be brought up this day (Tue4day). WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Lord EBRINGTON obtained leave to bring in a Bill to establish a uniformity of weights and measures throughout the kingdom. Mr. V. SMITH gave notice that on the 2;ith he should move an address to the Crown to issue a Commission to .examine into the state of municipal Corporations through. out England, Wales, and Ireland, The other orders of the day were then gone through, and the House adjourned at half-pa.t two o'clock. FINE ARTS. SHYLOCK AND JESSICA. This is an engraving by Doo, from an original painting by Newton (now in the possession of H. Labouchere, Esq., M.P.), of a well-known scene in the Merchant of Venice, where Shy lock gives the keys of his house to his daughter Jessica, with the strict injunction that she should not quit it, or go gadding about with young Lorenzo, on pain of his serious displeasure. The subject is remarkably well handled by Newton, who has thrown just the fitting expression into the countenances both of father and daughter. Jessica's half-averted glance is a piquant mixture of archness and simplicity—so much so, as evidently to deceive the Jew who reads nothing in it but a strong filial disposi tion to be all respect and compliance. Yet scarcely shall Shylock have turned his hack, when Jessica—the sly, shrewd little Jewess Jessica—will hear the tinkling of a harp string in the street, and, despite the pa rental exhortation, rush, first to the front attic, and then to the street-door, to hold certain sweet mysterious communings with young Lorenzo, who " sealed his love with many an ardent vow, and ne'er a true one." The en graver has performed his share of the task with skill and spirit, and as the subject is a truly agreeable one, we have littl e doubt it will be come a general favourite. THE LAST GIFTS OF MARY QUEEN OP SCOTS. We have just seen an engraving by Phillips under this denomination. It is executed in a very artist-like style. But, indeed, the subject itself bespeaks favour, though we think that the painter might have turned it to better account— have thrown more pathos and expression into it. Queen Mary, is not the Queen Mary who is going forth on the morrow to execution, as Hume and Robertson (theformer especially) have described her. She is at variance with the truth of history. Her face, which was wan, haggard, and emaciated, is here plump as a par tridge ; her figure, which had become strikingly en bon point, is here scarcely redeemed from absolute slenderness. It is clear that grief has made no very inordinate ravages on her once lovely countenance, for her eye speaks only of some trivial regrets and disappointments. The habit of intense meditation,—of deep enduring mental agony, such as keeps soul and body con tinually on the rack, is wholly absent. The character, in fact, has not been felt as it should have been. Of the grouping of the figures, we cannot speak in too high terms of praise. It is natural and interesting to a de gree. The canvass is just sufficiently filled without being crowded. One thing, how ever, strikes us as a singularity, whether inten tional or otherwise, we know not. The Queen's maid, who kneels opposite to her, is her very counterpart. In fact, one face looks like the reflection of the other. Viewed altogether, how. ever (without looking too hypercritically into details), the picture is an impressive one, and must succeed. It is a curious circumstance that the painting from which this engraving was taken, belonged formerly to the Duchess of Berry, and was torn from its frame in the Tuileries during the last French revolution. It eventually came into the hands of the police, and was' sold as public property by order of the Mayor of Paris, on the ground that the ex-Regent had in her hands a number of drawings belonging to the capital. LITERATURE. PARSON'S DAUGHTER, 3 VOLS. LONDON, 1833. There is no mistaking the author of these 'volumes. The impress :of his ' mannerism" . is stamped on every page. Mr. Theodore Hook has no great range of ideas as a wit or humorist; hence, like a horse in a mill, he is perpetually running the same trite, unvaried round. The "Parson's Daughter" is but a Variorum edition of " Sayings and Doings." There are the same sly hits at fashionable frivolities ; the same powers of outrageous caricature ; the same sickening affectation of superior breeding. In one respect, the tale is an improvement on its predecessors. There is only one sneer at the Eastern quarter of the metropolis—which may be forgiven from its surpassing dullness—only one allusion to the hopeless vulgarity of those who drink port wine ; only one lofty intellectual fulmination against those abandoned wretches, who refuse to quit town in September! We are grateful to Mr. Hook for this dawn of a more considerate and charitable spirit. It becomes his years. He is now fast ripening into that incongruous character, a venerable wag (we believe he is upwards of fifty), and has, no doubt, seen the propriety of resign ing the cap and bells which he has long worn with such credit to himself, and advantage to the community at large. The best portions of the " Parson's Daughter " are decidedly the c unit. The serious are sad stuff. Mr. Hook has no more idea of sentiment than a bed-post. His pathos is of a Minerva Press quality. We think we trace in it, now and then, the style of the "Children of the Abbey," and the " Sentimental Letter-writer." Y e t it will doubtless be popul ar a t the watering-places, be much talked of among the ladies' maids and milliners'apprentices at theW est end, and have a prodigious run among the gen tueler ",_ )2 c, in Hounisdi.tch somewhat or tite Alino i iti r l ie a s t . ed , l a ' t i t ' d e -, < -/(A-494;t 63 .11t1 1 wi th the author's usual p spirited ! . • V : ‘, 7 - ,,S r rl -- - I probability. A Lady Sher (4' ' I T.- \ ‘-1)41' '' ''' ), l6. Cleaved dowager, retires with her 4ti_ V?: , . I - -_." '. la , i ' ) ~-~ only on George (a captain in the navy, with a purse as lean as his mother's) into the retirement of a small country village, where she becomes acquainted with a hard-drinking, mutton-fisted, double. jointed, sporting squire, by name Har bottle. This fellow, who is inordinately rich, has married a most amiable young woman (sorely against her will), whose favourite female confidant is a Miss Emma Lovell, daughter of the parish clergyman. Of course Captain Sherringham, in the course of his:visits to the Squire's, meets this fair damsel, and equally, as a matter of course, falls vehe mently in love with her, as all Mr. Hook's . heroes invariably do somewhere about the sixth chapter of the first volume. While this little love affair is " progressing," news reaches the Captain and his mother, Lady Frances Sher ringham, that the head of their house, Lord Weybridge, has suddenly been drowned at Malta, together with his whole family. The Captain is consequently elevated to the Peerage; hurries off to London to make necessary arrangements, and so forth ; and while there, gets entangled in the snares of a certain intriguing Duchess, who destines him for one of her daughters. The poor Parson's Daughter is therefore neglected —for it seems to form no part of Mr. Hook's sentimental theory, that, in affairs of the heart, poverty should bear away the palm from wealth and title—until, after a reasonable inter val, just as the new Peer is on the eve of matrimony with the Duchess's daughter, the untoward discovery is made that he is no Peer at all, for that the rightful Lord had escaped a " watery death." This brings mat ters to a crisis. Captain Sherringham in stantly remembers that he has somewhat dis courteously jilted poor Emma Lovell, who has been bewailing his fickleness at the Parsonage and hastens to make the amende honorable by marrying her. And so ends the tale. In ad dition to this, there is a sort of underplot in which the Squire's wife, Fanny, and a certain sentimental young gentleman named Harvey, are the chief characters, and which enables the author to develop the jealousy and brutality of Squire Harbottle. Of all Mr. Hook's nu merous creations, we know of none more ad mirably portrayed than this. It is drawn to the life ; dashed off at a heat ; and in spirit, consistency, and breadth of humour, may al most—and we know not that we can give it higher praise—vie with Fielding's immortal Squire Western. We like it the better, that it is utterly free from the cant, with which nine out of ten novelists bedaub their country gentle men. When unswayed by prejudices—as is the case in this instance—no living author draws character more effectively than Mr. Hook. He is a stern painter,—but this is to his credit, for it is a guarantee for his fidelity. His Doctor Macgopus,, a pedantic, disputatious, matter-of fact Scotchman, is an amusing caricature, no thing more. It is a creation of the fancy, rather than a sketch from nature. The " woman kind," as Jonathan Oldbuck would call thein,are modelled in strict accordance with the dogma of Pope that " most women have no characters at all." We must, however, except from this censure Lady Frances Sherringham, who is the decayed dowager all over. Mr. Hook has etched her with an evident relish for his task—such as in fluenced him when he painted that matchless full-length (which is equal to anything in Scott) of Sir Frederick Brashleigh. DREADFUL STORM.-TEN VESSELS LOST OFF BLACKPOOL. This place was visited on Tuesday and Wednesday last by the most severe storm ever witnessed here. Oa Tues day evening the storm commenced with unrelenting fury, and continued without intermission until Wednesday evening. Ten vessels have become a prey to the destruc tive element, hut it was attended without loss of life to nine of the above; but one vessel was observed to suds denly disappear on Wednesday about the Knott End, and all on board perished. The following are the vessels wrecked :—The brig Hope, in ballast, bound from Liver pool to North America for timber ; the Martha of Lime rick, bound from Limerick to the above place, with salt, a total wreck ; a Liverpool vessel, laden with coals, stranded, but has suffered so much injury that it is more than doubtful but that she will become a complete wreck; a large fishing boat, Captain J. Dimmer, of Southport, all to pieces ; the sloop Elizabeth, of Annan, bound from Liverpool to the east of Scotland, laden with salt. A stern of a vessel, marked " D E.E., port of Belfast," and a boat, the stern of which is marked " Donaghadee, Andw. Smirk," have been washed up, which vessel is supposed to be lost off this coast ; an Italian vessel, at Litham, crew saved, laden with iron, expected to go to pieces; a vessel sunk upon the Horse Bank, crew saved, with the exception of one man. About four o'clock a boat was observed from the shore, which was expected to go to pieces every instant, at the time the sea was running mountains high ; this boat landed upon the shore, and the men escaped. She proved to be a small Irish boat, manned by two men, and, accord ing to the recount given, was proceeding from one part of Ireland to another with a cargo of potatoes, when she MSS driven out to sea, and was left totally at the mercy of the winds and waves, knowing not what course to steer. How the boat could live during Tuesday and the greater part of Wednesday is surprising to all. There are several more casualties off the coast, but the above are all of which we could gather any particular intelligence with regard to accuracy. It is, however, to be feared that the result will prove a melancholy one, as the crews of the above vessels observed several more standing out to sea which were never expected to withstand the storm. All the shore for miles round is entirely covered with huge pieces of some unfortunate vessels, the crews of which have met with a watery grave. During the vio lence of the gale two new houses of South Shore, near Blackpool, ware blown down. The damage done to the gardens in this part of the country is immense. The sur ounding country was entirely overflowed with water, the rain during Tuesday absolutely descending in torrents.— Lancaster Gazette. A memorial has been prepared, to be sub• mitted to his MAJESTY, praying his sanction to build another theatre, the cost of which should not exceed :35,0001., plans and e,timates having been prepared by competent persons, which insure its completion at that price The money is to be raised in 1001. shares. It is reported, upon good authority, that Mr. and Miss FANNY KEMELE have, by their united perform. ances in America, cleared 12,0001. SHERIDAN KNOWLES takes his benefit at the Olympic on Thursday night, when, it is to be hoped, the unaccountable neglect shown to the author of the Hunchback will be made amends for to the author of the Wife of Mantua. Let tho'e who are wholly apathetic, in regard to the fate of the national drama, he insensible to the interest of this occasion. Numerous, they are, no doubt—too numerous—and of that class, who, had they but their ark, could see with indifference Old England her self submerged in the Atlantic. But not as yet—not as yet —are they our majority, and to the latter we do trust that an appeal will not be now made in vain, by the man who has laboured so well to support and regenerate the stave, which gave Britain immortality in the works of SitAK MARE. In accordance with the example of his great predecessors of the buskin, Mr. KNOWLES will, On his be nefit night, appear in a character very different from tho‘e of the line which he has chosen to pursue—in Lubin, in the farce of the_ Quaker. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONS O'CLOCK. Bank Stock I per Cent. Red. 87%14 India Stock 3 per Cent Cons. ... ...... .. shut Ditto Bonds 31 pm. 3% per Cent --- South Sea Stock .... ........ I+9M Ditto Red 95%14 Old Annuities — 'slew 31.4 per ( cot. - shut New Ditto ••• -- 1 per Cent. Ann. 1726 .... -• . r.I per Cent. Ann. 1751 .... 4 per Cent. 1826 , • 102$, •?4 Ex. Bills, Xl,OOO 5l 52 um. ri en k Long A tm . t o ex p ire Ditt o 500 5l 52 pm. Jan. 5,1 f o' 16 15-16 Ditto Small Oct. 10, 1859 16% Ditto Commercial...—. ..51 pm. Jan, 5, 1860 — Ditto Advertised —PM Jan. 5, 1880 — Bank for Account April 5, 1880............... --- India for Account Jan. 5. 1870 —,tons. for Opening 89a 90 89; PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAYAT ONE 0 CLOCK. 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Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 35 Published this day, FACTORY AND INFANT LABOUR. In Bvn.. price 95., hoards, THE MANUFACTURING POPULA TION of ENGLAND ; its Moral, Soci,l, and Physical Conditions; and the Changes which bare arisen from the use of Steam Machinery; with an Examination of Infant Labour. By P. GASKELL, Esq„ " Filt Justitia." London : Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster-row. _ D t.*ttn. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1833. There was "great cry and little wool" among the Tories last night in the House of Lords. The " great cry" was on the subject of the Po litical Unions, the heinous enormity of which their Lordships vouchsafed to insist upon with incredible powers of face and lungs ; the " little wool" was illustrated by their opposition to the Local Jurisdiction Bill, from which (after having boldly mustered all their forces, and what little sagacity it has pleased Providence to endow them with) they shrunk back with a precipita tion which has no parallel except in that immor tal campaign of the King of FRANCE, who, it may be remembered, -- i. With twenty thousand men Marched up the hill, and then—marched down again." The Earl of, WINCHILSEA led the van. He denounced the political unions as pregnant with ail sorts of disastrous consequences, and was followed by that man of tears, Lord ELDON who seemed to have risen for no other purpose tha❑ to afford Lord MELBOURNE an opportu nity of demolishing him. Not one of the good Earl's statements but was overthrown ; not one of his arguments lout was triumphantly shown to tell against himself. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY flew to the assistance of his venerable friend, but was only just in time to share his overthrow. The Noble Marquis was unusually epigrammatic in his phillippics against Ministers. He condensed the accumulated choler of months into one stinging sentence. Our readers may be curious to see this pungent diatribe. Here it is. " The most sensible part of the conduct of his Majesty's Ministers is the contempt with which they treat the Political Unions." Oh, this satirical Marquis! What a JUNIUS it is ! Think of the exquisite consistency of the man's joining in an attack on Ministers for befriending the very institutions which he declares it is their highest, indeed their only, praise that they treat with contempt'. It is always with extreme delight that we read the speeches of the Marquis of LONDONDERRY. There is such an agreeable confusion of ideas in them—such a scornful contempt for all logic, as beneath the dignity of a patrician intellect—such a sportive incoherence of metaphor—such a dis dain for the ignoble trammels of grammar—such airy nonsense—together with clusters of such irresistible non-sequiturs,: that we :feel morally convinced the mantle of the late lamented Mar quis has descended upon the shoulders of his successor. Wherever a " mare's nest" is to be discovered, there will this bright Peer be always found lurking in the neighbourhood. By this time he must have secured a stud. When the subject of the Political Unions was disposed of—Lord GREY having previously as sured the House that he meant to introduce no new laws respecting them—the LORD CHAN CELLOR brought forward his proposal for the establishment of Local Jurisdiction Courts. It is superfluous to state that the Noble and Learned Lord fully made out his case—that he showed the absolute necessity for making law cheap, and justice expeditious, so that both might be within the reach of the humblest, member of the community—since the faction, however willing, were unable to refute any one of his arguments. Lord LYNDHURST, indeed, attempted something like an opposition ; but it was a sad busi ness—a long tissue of hollow, uninteresting sophistry, unredeemed by the slightest show of reasoning. If P, w h bornnot a been d d es s:Dull ness previously assured by PE „ ever di es ," w e should fi n d a b un d ant proo f s o t e at had ,‘ , of her immortality in the speeches of the Tory Ex-Chancellor. We make no mention of the reply of Lord BROUGHAM, for its sarcasm —its energy—its weight and power of argument, were felt by the whole House. The giant made sad havoc among the pigmies. Gulliv er hi mse lf never i enacted more marvels n Ldhput. The Tories, to a man, were panic-stricken. Even the pre sence of eight Bishops faded to impart consola tion to their afflicted souls. They set forth as bullies only to sneak back as dastards. From the result of last night's debate, we are inclined to augur favourably for the good cause. We think we detect symptoms of doubt, dis trust, and Tories, as if there wasaul of breaking up their idea dismay, among th amongtie encampment—quitting the field of action—in a word, of taking the King of FRANCE as their model. We may be mistaken, perhaps, but unquestionably, appearances, just now, are in our favour. The Tories may rely on it, that the country will never again submit without a struggle to their domination. So many years of suffering—so many humiliating recollections —such odious ideas of misrule and despotism— of intolerant priestcraft and profligate extrava gance, are mixed up in the popular mind with Toryism, that the very word is a spell to raise the devil with. Besides the country does not—how can it ever?—cease to remember that your true Ultra never forgets or forgives ; and that as it is just now in his black books, having sinned be yond hope of pardon, so it must expect to be visited with a proportionate vengeance. Again, then, we warn our countrymen to be on their guard. Let them hope for the best, but let them also fear for the worst, so that when that worst comes—if come it ever should, which we doubt—it may not find them unpre pared. Since the above was written, we have learned that a compromise has been effected (or is on the eve of being effected), between the Tory party and the Ministers, and that the Irish Church Bill will, in consequence, be permitted to pass the Upper House. We congratulate the Tory Lords on this flattering symptom of their return to common sense. It does credit to their discernment, which, we are pleased to perceive, is not quite at so low an ebb as circumstances had induced us to suppose. They had it in their power to effect a world of mischief; they might have crippled, for a season, the commercial energies of the country, and paralyzed all public confidence, but they have chosen to play a more sensible game, and to become good citizens, instead of continuing factious aristocrats. The Factories Regulation Bill was last night read a second time, Lord ALTHORP admitting his concurrence in its principle, but saying that it was not carried far enough in the Bill. We are satisfied that the only effectual remedy for the distress, which drives parents to the horrid practice of working their children at the tender age of seven, eight, and nine years, for eleven or twelve hours per day, is the repeal of the Corn Laws ; because that is the only course which can materially quicken the demand for labour, and at the same time increase the supply of food, for it must never be forgotten that the present shocking state of the children in factories arises from a want of food. If, however, we are to attempt palliatives—if we are to drive off the real remedy, let the substitute be real and efficient. We are happy to see that this is the principle upon which the Factory Commissioners have proceeded, and is that which his Majesty's Ministers have sanctioned. They accordingly say, that no child under 14 years of age ought to be allowed to work more than eight hours in the day. The Commissioners consider, we pre sume, that only working eight hours per day up to 14 years of age, the constitutio❑ of children must have become fixed, and that they are, to a certain extent, free agents. The result of the Commission having been to recommend the reduction of the work of children, not under ten, but under fourteen years of age—not to ten but to eight hours—must be somewhat mor tifying to the Conservatives, who bellowed eg ainst it as intended to defeat the Bill. The Herald, even so late as yesterday morning, run-a-muck upon This subject and published nearly two weary columns to prove that no inquiry was requisite, that inquiry was intended to defeat the Ten Hour Bill, and that nothing but the Ten flour Bill— the Tory Ten Hour Bill—could properly protect the children. The dispute, if there be any, will turn upon the modifications to be made in the Bill in Committee. We wonder how long our Contemporary and his Conservative clique will be in discovering that something else besides the Ten Hour Bill will answer the tem porary purpose had in view. We say temporary, for the attempt permanently to relieve hunger, except by furnishing a permanent supply of food, is a farce which cannot long be played. The Church Temporalities (Ireland) Bill it will be seen made progress last night, some twenty clauses having been agreed to, and among them several of the most important. It ap pears by the debate that the Tories, after some vapouring, gave up opposition as hopeless. If no unforeseen impediment arises, we presume the Bill will be in the Lords by Monday. German and Hamburg Papers have been re ceived.' They state that the report of the Eng lish and French fleet demanding an entrance into the Dardanelles was unfounded. The Emperor of RUSSIA has issued another of his equivocal amnesties to the poor Poles—clogged with the usual exceptions. That remnant of arbitrary power, the libel law, met with a shock yesterday in the Court of King's Bench, from which it will not readily recover. The Duke of BEAUFORT took it into his wise head to move the Court of King's Bench for a criminal information against the Spectator, for a libel. The main object of our Contemporary's article—of course a spirited one —was to expose the abuses of the borough mongering system, and how it happened that, by some marvellous accident, all the connections of certain persons able to return Members to the House of Commons had such wonderful talents as to make their engagement in the public service indispensable. The Somer set family is one of those which have long been celebrated for hereditary wisdom ; so that when it was set about on the late Duke's death, that he had merely left his heir to pay his eleven younger children annuities till they could be provided for in the public service, it appe are d so natural, that few for a moment thought of doubting the fact. For the Noble Duke to have doubted the qualifications of his children to fill all imaginable offices in the church, in the colonies, in the army, or any department of the public service, would have been casting a slur upon the character of his Duchess ; it would have almost amounted to a denial of their legitimacy. Still less was it possible to imagine that so much un doubted merit as was implied in the very name of SOMERSET would go unrewarded. The re ported expectations of the late Duke being then so natural, and their fulfilment being manifest to the whole world, the Editor of the Spectator could not even have dreamed of a criminal inkr [nation in just incidentally glancing at the report. His Grace the present Duke, however, took the matter in dudgeon, and the result was the pro ceedings of yesterday. The verdict will sicken more than his Grace, and, we should hope, lessen the fierceness of the opposition to time proposed change in the law of libel, which will do away with the tyrannical powers with which it was thus endeavoured to coerce our contemporary. IMPERIALPARLIAM ENT THIS DAY, TUESDAY, JUNE 18. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The gallery was opened at a quarter past twelve, at which time there were abaut forty Members in the House. Captain DUNLOP brought up the report of the Com mittee on the Kirkintilioch Railway Bill. Mr. J. C. COLQUHOUN said that be under stood there would be an opposition to one of the clauses introduced in Committee, which he thought would be acting very unfairly. The report of the Com mittee ought to be taken entirely as it stood, or the Bill should be recommitted. He could not understand why the decision of the Committee should rest good in one clause and not in another, and as a member of the Com mittee, he hoped the House would sanction the report as it stood. Captain DUNLOP said it was necessary that he should give an outline of the case, in order that the House might be able to come to some decision upon the merits. The railroad in question was one of the oldest in Scotland, and originally consisted of a single line of rail, by which goods were sent down to Glasgow. The .Kirkintilloch line had to pass over part of the railway of the Garnkirk Company for a distance of a mile and a half, and as it was found that continual injury was done to the steam carri tges of the Kirkintilloch Company by the drivers of the horse trains of the other company, the former de termined to lay down a second line over the mile and half in order that the locomotive engines of the Kirkiutilloch Company might no longer be injured, by coming in con tact with the horse trains of the others. A clause had, however, been introduced into the Bill, by which the trains and carriages of every de scription would be compelled to move in one direction over one of the railways, and in the opposite direction over the other. To this clause, which deprived the petitioners to the Bill of the right of using the line they had been put to the expense of laying down, they naturally objected, as their object in laying it down was exclusive usage ; and he should therefore move that that clause he expunged. Mr. STUART objected to the striking out of the clause. General SHARPE objected to the chose, which he said was introduced by the counsel against the Bill, after the Committee bad come generally to an understanding upon the principle of the Bill. The clause in dispute had been cirried by a doubtful majority. Mr. YELVEIITON stated that the Bill before the House proposed to extend the line, and why should a restrictive clause be introduced for the purpose of imped ing that improvement? Nothing could tend more to im pede•that improvement, where a double line was about to be made, than to prevent those who were to use it, from using it in that way which they found most convenient to themselves. The opposition to the Bill entirely arose from a rival Railway Company, which formed a branch railway to this. The Committee declared that opposition to be nugatory and void, and it was upon the understanding that that opposition had entirely ceased, he (Mr. Y.) together with two or three other Hon. Members, left the Committee. After this understanding had been come to in the Committee this most extraordinary clause was introduced—a clause which had never been introduced into any other Railway Bill that had ever come before the House. They had heard no reason adduced by the promoters of the clause, and in his opinion it ought nor to be sustained unless upon public grounds; therefore be submitted that this clause, on public principles, should be exempted, as tending to create a restriction to the trade and convenience of the railway. Mr. HUME thought that a very great principle was involved in this question, which was, whether, if the Le gislature granted powers to a company to make a railway, the company should be enabled to make it as beneficial to themselves and to the public as possible.--(Hear, hear.) He held as a general principle that the interim core of such a clause as the one in ques ion, with the proceed ing.; of any company, was highly prejudicial. He should therefore support its rejection, for if it were allowed to prevail in this ease, it would be a very bad precedent. Lord MORPETH was of opinion, from the ignorance of most of the Members present of the locality of the place to which the Bill applied, that the House was a very in competent tribunal to decide upon it, and, therefore, he would either suggest a postponement of any discussion until the third reading, in order to allow time for the parties to the Bill to effect some compromise, or that the Bill should be recommitted to that Committee, which, from a knowledge of the locality and of all the facts of the case, was the most competent tribunal.—(Hear, hear.) Colonel DAVIES thought the case so perfectly clear that a company wishing to establish a rail-road not merely for their own benefit, but for the benefit of the public, should be allowed so to carry on their work in such a manner as was most beneficial, that he objected either to postponing the question or to recommitting the Bill. Mr. JOHNSTONE said there seemed to be a mistake upon the question. As was stated by the Hon. Member fur Glasgow, the two railway Companies were not rivals, and as regarded the insertion of the clause, surreptitiously, it appeared to have been inserted by a previous agreement between the parties, although afterwards one of the parties dissented from that agreement. He agreed with the Noble Lord (Morpeth) that it would be better to defer the question for the present. Mr. COLQUHOUN said he agreed with the suggestions of the Noble Lord, and he withdrew his amendment. The gallery was then cleared - for a division, but none took place, and the motion for the rejection of the clause was carried. Mr. C. BRUCE presented a petition from Inverneot for the abolition of slavery; the petitioners expressed their satisfaction at the plan proposed by his Majesty's Minis.. tern, and at the mode of compensation proposed by them. Major HANDLEY presented a petition from Mr. Charles Frederick Barber, of Boston, complaining of abuses in the Corporation of that town, and praying for the issuing of a commission to inquire into those abuses. Mr. MILKS supported the prayer of the petition, trusting that when the question of corporations was brought before the House, they would not forget the case of the unfortunate barber. After some observations from Sir W. Noln' and Mr. HUME, the petition was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. H. DARE presented a petition from Barking, in Essex, in favour of the Sea Apprenticeship Bill. Mr. WILBRAHAM presented a petition from North wich against the Beer Bill. The Hun. Member wished to know whether the Committee on this Bill would present their report to the House in the course of the pre sent session ? Mr. WILKS said that the Committee had *greed on the form of their Report, and he had no doubt it would be presented to the House in the course of the pre sent sesion. Mr. WILBRAHAM presented a petition from a parish in Montgomery, complaining of the abuses in the dis cipline of the Church of Wales. The Hon. Member also presented e i petition from the in habitants of Preston against the East India monopoly ; also two petitions from parishes in Lowther against the General Registry Bill. Mr. BLAMIRE presented a petition from Penritb, in the county of Cumberland, against the Registry Bill, and another petition from Cockermouth to the same effect. Col. EVANS presented a petition from Rye in favour of the beer shops. Mr. H. CUR FEES presented a petition from a place in the county of Sussex against the malt tax. Government had forfeited in a great degree the confidence of the petitioners by their conduct on a late occasion. The House ought to have adhered to their first decision. Also a petition from Batb, for the abolition of slavery. Sir W. INGILBY supported the petition for the abo lition of the malt tax. Mr. J. HARDY presented a petition in favour of the Apothecaries Act, and against the Bill now before the House, from the medical practitioners of Bradford. Colonel WOOD suggested that the Bill should be sus pended for the present session, and that, early in the next, it should be fairly referred to a Select Committee. The whole of the matter should be carefully sifted, and at the present season it was impossible to do it justice. He had a petition from the Company, praying that they might be heard by Counsel at the Bar. Mr. ROEBUCK supported the measure. Mr. H. GRATIAN opposed it, and recommended the House to refer the Bill to a Select Committee. He bt bered that it had been got up nut in a very creditable manner. Mr. HUNIE said it was quite clear the HAL Gentle man who spoke last knew nothing at all about the matter.—(Cries of "Hear, hea r ," an d l aug h ter .) When he talked of gentlemen educated in Scotland, only knowing of one thing, he begged to tell him that the examinations at Edinburgh were carried on with the greatest s trictness upon pharmacy, anatomy, surgery, and medicine—(Hear)—and the examinations upon pharmacy was much stricter than that which was carried on by the Apothecaries' Company here.—(Hear, hear.) All the Apothecaries' Company wanted was that monopoly. The Government and the public were deprived of the services of many of the ablest and scientific men who Were educated in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and he hoped his Honourable Friend who bad brought in this Bill would not allow it to be stoPP e / use his utmost to carry it through that House. regard to the ultimate proposition of ha rnittee appointedd, he (Mr. Hume) th, a Committee were appointed, it would with the most beneficial results. He belie' merely requisite and necessary for the public, and the practitioner, that of the Apothecaries' Company should be ch but also the monopoly of the Colleges of Surgeons. He hoped that next Session sou Gentleman would introduce and carry a mi purpose. He was sorry that he had to lai tice prevalent in Ireland of not allowitig SI lish ractitioners to practice.—(Hear, hear Dr. BALDWIN said that they were from the country infirmaries. After the presentation of some further House adjourned. THE FUNDS.-(THIS D CITY, TWELVE 0' We have received the Limburg Repot the 14th instant. In respect to political is void of the least interest. VIENNA, JUNE 7.—Matalliques, 94a ; 1238:k. Accounts from Madrid of the 2Sth of Lieutenant-General Morino has been rem office of Captain-General of Galicia. Ari that Don Francisco, the Infante, had ri the oath to Donna Maria Isabella, and that to take his departure for the baths of Cadiz. By the French mail received this mon from the frontiers of Poland state that nel taken place at Warsaw, and that several Rut which were sent to the frontiers have been capita, which garrison is now to consist of It is r, ported that the Emperor of Russia Warsaw. Accounts front Antwerp,'of the 12th inst. were visited by a tempest, which lasted situ day, and that all tile pilots wire in the S'eli assistance to such vessels as stood in net. , d of THE FUNDS. We have no arrival+ of importance to th, The report in the morning journals which so greatly alarmed the citizens and the funds, has happily turned out to be labour. The Local Courts Bill, in which Mi be defeated in the Lords, has passed into a the House. Thus ends this dreadful event, an that the Irish Church Bill will share the say In consequence of the above event, the F sunned their former position—Consols, whit terday at 891 to for the account, opened at 89i and at preaeat may be quoted steady market. His M tjesty dining with the I)uke of W day is looked upon in a favourable light, as curtain of settling amicably the dissensions Lords and Commons. In the Foreign Market nothing doing. . . Consols have just been done at 90 ; those terday are repurchasing their Stock; they ar HALF-PAS We hear that some mitigation is going t the Irish Church Bill. A passenger who has just arrived from that Don Miguel has got employed on boat da Portugal upwards of 600 men, which is sea. His fleet consists of 13 ships of war, ' Consols are at present 891 for the Accou In the Foreign Market huh. doing. THREE 0' Consols for the Account 891. CLOSING PRICES.-FOUR O'G Bank Stock 003 India Stock 3 per Cent. Red BBi Ditto 80nd5..... 3 pee Cent. Cons South Sea Stock 31 per Cent. 9.11' Ditto Old Ann.. 31 per Cent. lied M,„ , - Ditto New Anr New 31 per Cent , rk Ex. Bills, 100'/.. I per Cent 1021 Ditto 5001. Long. Ann. to expire Ditto Small Jan. 1800 l7 Bank St. for A. Oct. 1859........ ......... 161 1 Consols for Am.. Jan. 1860 - 1 India s'. for A, FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent....... 86 Portuguese, 5 Belgian, 5 per cent 9if Ditto, Reg. Sci Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent, 25 Russian Bonds, Chilian, 6 per cent 24f Ditto, Metallic Columbian, 6 per cent 2l-f Spanish, 5 Pe r Ditto, 1824 23 Ditto, W 23..... Danish 7% French 5 per CI Greek, 5 per cent. '825 39 Mexican, 5 per cent. 291 Ditto, 6 per cent Peruvian, 6 per cent. Exchange ....... French 3 per Cenl Dutch, 21 per cer Ditto, 5 per cent Her MAJESTY, we learn, visits den Theatte to-morrow night, and has col performance of The Magic Flute and Pert THE GINGHAM TRADE.-0' evening a meeting of weavers was held ur to consider upon some steps necessary I masters in this neighbourho id to agree to a for similar work. It appears that this bt factures has been unusually brisk, though the wages of the weavers had taken place last, when the principal manufacturers gas an advance of 6J. per cut. Some other ever, had not increased the price for the work more than 3d., whilst upon some in , t had made little or no advance. This naturally given rise to dissatisfaction amot tivea by whom it is felt, and the above mew for the purpose of endeavouring to eemot discontent. The meeting separated, how , agreeing to any thing beyond appointing manage the affair.—Carlisle Journal. A considerable sensation has bee Bristol in consequence of the general seism office in London of parcels forwarded by tl which were found to contain letters control office regulations. It appears that on the mail from Bristol to London on the 30th ul sent by it, instead of being delivered as usut to the General Post-office, and there opened Among the parcels were several from attor to their London agents, enclosing legal pt letters to the agents respecting these documents following morning the attorneys received letter! " ic ti o solicitor to the Post-office, threatening them tvl tb dil for the recovery of penalties of 51., which he sileg h st 4 incurred in each case, and he has since intimated S A Ir exemption from postage to which they considere:A, selves entitled, extends only to l e tt e r s sen t w ith g? 7 , 0 01 is difficult to understand und e r wh a t A c t o f Puraore:i by what authority the parcels were opened. " s ip aware that there is any legal power given to de t ;of open parcels forwarded by mail in this summary p' QUEEN ELIZABETH'S NOTIONS 01,1, CHINERY.-When LEE, the inventor of the ° frame, came to London with the view of obta o , Majesty's patronage, though supported by frISOY isir o of influence about the Court, the Queen refused ;n8 ag o either by a grant of money of of a patent,--ad ( "Aef e oi reason, " I have too much love for my poor r 0 I obtain their bread by the employment of knittl my money to forward an invention which WI their ruin, and thus make them beggars." BIRTHS. fa On the 14th inst., at Lansdowne-grove, Bath, the isig 0 B. Lousada, Esq., of a daughter. sel' On the 16th inst., the Lady of E. Jerninghan l, 4 dau Ongter. VI . 'r the 17th inst., in Montagu-square, the lad) 0- f Esq., of a daughter. , 1 01. On the 17th inst., at Stanley-grove, the lady of to 1 ; lend Grant, of Grant, M.P., of a son. I;r °6 On the 17th inst., at Chester-terrace, Regent's-P .4 0" of Adam Duff, Esq., of a daughter. On the 17th inst., Mrs. Beaman, King-street, Cov°ll of a son. /.1 MARRIED. f ll te t On the 17th inst., at St. Giles's, Camberwell , by tAya Hyde, Mr. Bancks, of Manchester, to Jane Sarah, " T. Fletcher, Esq., of Camberwell. On the 17th inst., at St. John's, Hackney, u,„Y 1 01: 11. ,4 0 ' Copeland, Mr. J.T.Wicksteed, of Princes-street, J.' Emma, fourth daughter of the late J. Barton, DIED. a ged I , On the 16th inst., at Newnham, Cambridge, stre et, Sarah Aptl6t h horp. On the inst., Mr. J. 0. Harri s on, Wardo ur. in his 50th year. 0, his ' 4 4 1 4 1 At Paris, J. Gosling, Esq., in the 46th year is On the 15th inst., a t St. Margaret's, Rochest er ,'„te t year of her age, Augusta Anne, daughter of the 1" Shaw, Bart., of Kenward, in the county of Ken t ' 110'0 * On the 15th inst., at Kensington, Charlotte °oefoer daughter of the Dean of Chester, in the 13th Ye yeas pa/ On the 16th inst., at Chelt en h am , Jane, Y°ungeo'tf the late Rev. . Wat, Rector of Mothill, c ountY - o f - On the 16th R inst., a ts t Southover, Arthur, edgy A. Windus, Esq , of Flud yer-s t ree t, Westminster, " - Drift 14 PRINTED AN!) PUBLItiIIED BY MU it DO Y OU SUN orrivo, 112,sTaAND, 1-001°T4 ''?!, for t nary b .) ih fire t l : t r4 ) t'4„e( t :ol -o t t iz u }; It , ethan L 14, 1 bn., 4 kt b Y t e4 he Y EI k t ot r "' W irolni i"to T 111,11 T. ~ 44 Jo ,144 1 . 4 • 1 % th e, ag; 1h, )4 lo • O t t of 1 tta 'l, Itary tt 4 47 4l ith tktvrtZtoir 11V. win g . 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