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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1845. theroselves.—(Hear.) Now, his Hon. Friend had stated that children of n i ne years of age were required to emigrate to the West Indies. That was not the case. Children of nine years of age were retained in Sierra Leone in the schools until they were twelve years old ; and then, if they chose to emigrate— and every one who knew the Af r i ca n race would know . hat in those three years they would be sufficiently matured Obe allowed an opinion. And then the persons who took hem out were bound to send them regularly to the schools, an d to h ave them taken to the church on Sundays. The 11 n. Gentlemen read several extracts from the proceedings of the Church Mi ss i onar y S oc i e t y , o f w h ic h hi s Hon. Friend(., R. H. In g li s ) was a leading member, to show that the ed ucation of t h e young negroes in Jamaica was in a most fa vourable st a t e . Th e adults who did not choose to emigrate ° Caine." employment amongs t th e agr iculturists at Sierra "le ; but their condition was very inferior to that of their free brethren in Jamaica. (Hear- The Hon. and Learned Member then said he would call she attention of the House to certain Government returns and ! her pap ers an d l etters i ssued i n the year 1843, an d h av i ng "ad extracts from them, he contended that they p oved be yond all doubt that nothing could exceed the rapidity with e. a which edution had advanced in Trinidad. By the same s h a pers he conceived it was quite apparent that emigrat i on to fi e 'West Indies from Sierra Leone had gone on successfully and Should be encouraged ; for the returns before him proved t hat in J ama i ca there was a very large preponderance o f f ema l es , ° t'r males ; that in Dominica it was the same ; in Triniciell the same ; and in Java, at George Town, the same facts ap plied to the relative numbers of the male and female ? ulat im The Henourable Member opposite had made rn asion to the orionnance that had been issued by the Govern (sint upon the subject in regard to the Mauritius ; but he e r • Hoe) believed that a copy of that ordonnance had been 'fteieed here this morning, and therefore he had no means of t e ertaining whether it had been enforced or not. The Hon. ',ember concluded by saying, it was his (pinion that the t„ ° , l4 of the W es t I n d ies s h ou ld b e e d uca t e d. (The above is G "': an Imperfect outli ne o f w hat the Hon. Member said, for, h t i t s ° , l ,i_t Co his having s t o od, all the time he was speaking, with rels to the gallery, and speaking in a low tone, only a °r two he said in each sentence could be heard.) taii‘ fr. It•GLIONBY said it would be impossible for him to . I °‘" the Hon. Member, the Under Secretary, in all the 7atettnents he had read, or to have had any of the information ti'itehieh the Hon. Member had access ; but he was glad that ee ° ,. se e Papers had been produced and read, because they con iro infornaation important not only to the best interests of Aar mani tY, but also to the interests of the inhabitants of the lioest Indies. He was one of those who had objected to the ei,Z. s .e granting any loan or grant for the purpose of emar.- - ..:10g slaves, for he did not think such ought to have been InV p l a rY ; and he would not have alluded to it, or to those the -- ,„ e at all, but for what the Under Secretary had said upon ei l e,uleet. With regard to what the Hon. Member had Voie d au rt emieration from Sierra Leone, he (Mr. Aglionby) but - 'e• glacCto hear a fuller statement upon that subject ; Age: fi k ether the Hon. Member should give it or not, he (Mr. Shat l4ll l) begged to say that there was a strong feeling abroad 4.04 the missionaries to Sierra Leone and other countries had thateimuch mischief. As to the missionaries to New Zealand, 4ad Proved most injurious, for it had produced persecution eall'ireit end, had materially retarded civilisation in that eti ee l / tt Y , and created great excitement amongst the abort lt° He mentioned this subject now with a view 'ke 7 4 'ing attention to it, and to hope that some 1114 1,- „*. t Y 'would be made into the principle upon which those e t e,j hs tlarY Societies were founded. He had beard of . cir thei; letters being sent to Members of Parliament, having for against to deter those gentlemen from taking any part lee%tea. that Society's proceedings in regard to the his le a. He then read a copy of the circular, and said his . ° - th e T had don so was, to show (those how misled Y. been in reference to Church Missionary Societies.—( Hear.) LI said a few words in explanation. Ito SANDON said he conceived that the Honourable ber opposite had introduced a matter i nto t h e ques ti on e t :e tho House, which bad no relevancy whatever to it, e l b Y, the Ch urc h Mi ss i onar y Society; and the Hon. half appeared appeared so anxious to do it, that he had gone off at las t : e°c a , on a hair-trigger.—(Laughter.) He would beg to tn4s r t e the Hon. Member that the Church Missionary Society hit erf lial re been misrepresented, for that body did not at all in er e the manner described with the natives of those The Noble Lord concluded with expressing a hope tha .t. l-11. e Motion of the Right Hon. Member for the University pford would be acceded to by the Government. . p oia l l • HUTT, having been a member of the Committee .ap eeteV to inquire into the subject of negro emancipation, acelsinot avoid the opportunity of saying a few words on that taeuu Right He had listened with great attention to the speech '`ght Hon. Baronet, as well as to On.", or two state ade by the Under-Secretary for the Colonies, but it ishi e „ - is 'e" to him there had been no facts brought forward th - Re " °ad not been reviously considered by the Noble Lord low e a reretary for the Colonies. The Government had fol eCt out the recommendatioos made in the report too the Committee alluded to ; and though he did 110 u sually support their views, he felt bound to so Ke w on that occasion. The policy they were now gr ett lg . was an exceeding wise one, and e only re - o it h a d not b een a d opte d earlier. The Right H . on. tr 4 net had stated his views with considerable moderation and / P 44 :e and he wished some Hon. Gentleman who possessed 'filL — Tos would follow his example. It certainly appeared toad many f the statemeats brought forwaid by the a tf olil7 whom - he t referred, and he might allude to the 'eel' Lord the Secretary himself, were wanting in the Let, g°f moderation and temper evinced by the Right Hon. New d For his o wn part he was conscious, if the Government e etne ee 4l 7 Pursue the course they had already so successfully kite ie heed, they would improve the condition of the colonies, and the social compact of the emancipated Africans. T . hey te tt ," West Indies a heavy debt, and the only means of on w'Cade t heir condition was for the Government to proceed ets f orward in their present course, and then they would 1114 4 • • uh tt a dditi onal satisfaction of throwing open to the B ritish e tras ater an extended colonial market. If they did this , 11111 of Pers uaded that the dream of Wilberforce, Clarkson, 1 - ;;Ni a l p - Philanthropists,. would ere long be realised. By te e fitet: ti , ample opportunities for emigration to the West • t+ ,."e system of slavery which had hitherto resisted . all [he be in the United States, Mexico and the Brazils, " l e eo entirely overthrown. He was satisfied of this, because eriwioniZse_he recommended would afford the only means to the Old th e " underselling the Skates he had mentioned. .Th . ey & Ike wi :Ls put down African slavery without collision oi vio- Oro, an other wer and all this would undoubtedly be utili; 4 " e d y if the Government were disposed honestly and tepi.•' ° Carry out their present course. They had increased o b our se of colonial sugar, and thereby given an impetus i e ' ti nhile the course pursued on the other hand was only ile h4O;,- fed, to encourage the exhibitions made at Exeter Hall. Zs. r t e u, ;therefore, the Government would maintain their -41e4 sep - po Pelie Yi and they might rely on his strenuous and cor- A f. rt. kkati S TUART WORTLEY could see nothing in the it e ' ' P r ° , f , the Right Honourable Gentleman the Mem- Whe ' fi l° e University of Oxford, to justify the rhapsody ylt tr , ° °. Gentleman who had just sat down against slavery. ou, p r entlexion there was between the speech of his Right 'see 'end and Exeter-hall, he was quite at a loss to dig ! D.A t all events, any one who bad listened to the speech I,7rvetio,wilt. Hon. Friend,wo.uld.agree with him that no ob- Zee hieh fell from his lips Justified the attack which had te -It h • en e upon that place by the Hon. Member who had last Fe e el 4 l the House. It appeared to him that the Hon. Gen iieed a d Misinterpreted the observations of his Right Hon. esaoe'. t he Member for the University of Oxford. The able Gentleman seemed to think that the mo t:pen-as brought forward with the view of prr- i re a t ' p one of the objectionable proceedings which "der t t ; ;`° place in the West Indies. how, he did not l e t e o at t oi n d that his Hon. Friend made use of any such argu- L.n. p Justify his motion. But this he understood, that his 47 1 , li ee r n ie n. d brought it forward because he thought a change vh _ovei introduced into the regulations relating to the r..e 14shos-the negro population from one place to another which e, consistent with justice. His Hon. Friend . was, diere 'hotl'4'etlY justified in proceeding with his motion, and he c Faits; thi na there had been any very serious objection urged Ifihil t f t i ) t. It naa desired upon all hands that those regulations I;; . f are e e 4 ,made aa effective as possible, so long as they remained . h e (Nes 'ion as to whether they should be continued tr a ' '4 „ --r •matt L. - Rut if they were to give the African the nl i l t : l ß'e u i t e t r i e e isie; r o . ptiOn, i . t . s behoved the House to see that le ott th las :were established as would secure its exercise. Si eh • F r i,,,,e object of his Hon. I nd's motion ? Why, his moved for papers whim.'certainly introduced tad if Q1 %41,1 11_ 4 the regulations respecting this option; and no do se d o :sorry that he had brought his ma tio . frard • for ve satis'fac k7: th ey , e x _ril!ests, when produced, should . not p.: l . c _ te e mtd. e e,'lnd have an opportunity of placing the . opti...•`u""' f r. to d oer " hat Was the real stae of the case with respet-4 to th ltta 1.01.41/lents So long ago r as the year 1841, a dispatch th:eol ol .i n ° lt Russell, who was then Secretary of State for th e ' ernj gr ,:t announced that the time had arrived for assisting te t i ti efer e -4° ° of negroes to the West Indies ; and therefore 44,0 r mus t support himself, either by removing to the in 411tkore his labour might be made available, or, taking sli te et t i o , e ' s f the other alternative, of emigrating to the ei k e 4 teh i " t ia colonies. It was acquired by the same tif ti w eelt s the negro should pronounce his option within th t roe L ei ! ter he had obtained his freedom ; but this period ta:e trequ.gennsidered too long it was subsequently reduced to stl;ake u If at the expiration of this time the negro failed . iret)oy.his mind, his allowance was discontinued. Now it e a "se ee uffile arma houses( fr o ,. suppose that a negro, immediately after his ehe lins e i t • e's the slave ship, could be in . a condition to sup klttngrate 4 _ l ° the colony where he obtained his freedom, or itte kree "' any distant part of the world ; and he did think ‘,44,43. additional assistance ought to be afforded to the N A ; Its With regard to the motion, he would say but one e eta l u f? to . • " f ec t aPpeared to be to ascertain if the and ed o the removal of negroes was fairly properly k r tit ' 91 U141 • MAN t he t ti lead t ?LES said the speech of the Hon. Gentleman tie etei,4 ne to suppose that he could hardly have heard k e l' We by the Hon. Member for Gateshead. The R hi at to uer, instead of opposing the motion, spoke in the tity` t , fi e the -r P e of commendation of the tone and manner. in Th e Ozr ' A I M Hon. Baronet, the Member for the Univer tll no n. Z`n had brought the subject before the House. tot q,..ernher, moreover, had expressed his earnest wish O ' , Pr 00,1: (Nir • n ment might succeed in their present policy, 1 44 W er f Wortley) could hardly understand how the Hon. t hey e deliverol the 'West Riding could object to the spirit or h e toike t Y of the Hen. Member's speech. He thought thatty in et_tticover the interference of the Church Missionary el le •%o e i e , fils motion. He had himself been a member of Y ya s h ,ad st'me years and he had found that, generally, fe re h • eh 1 . touch good There were however, occasions --c e• th ought they exhibited an undue ' degree of inter stowr T. 1). Ar, h..rn e , `-K LAND next addressed the House. We under l'rnlY to defend the proceedings of the Church althorquK society, with w hi c h h e was proud to be connected. tris ee ' 4 %li i t e l lte Niger expedition, he contended that, 1 1 , 4 b to 4.4, 1 1 been attended with misfortune, yet it had done tre lt eeo be e nee' the interests of this country in Africa than hn... b e. or e aes'omplishedin centuries, and he believed that the fients e III:. Yet result from ' it. Although the .. was very great, yet, in the same year of f _eh equal mortality occurred in a regimen ft etklehted 'the West Indies. This country was thatr "ir Th to the a scertions of his lamented Zehtly °Mies Buxton, . es nm God had been pleased tre kt °use r emove • and 1 thought that no man in fi let ' ra sh w uld need oo co to which that th e e 'Y bet as entitled. With respect to . ,ab, tee_ tnore the Boos the motion imme -141 , tir,"° o !nd at i on e, he would say thaf he concurred in th e eillained from the report on this subjcet, make . free Met er West the the other side of the Atlantic. available W it; , after th leg He never could understand why the Itjt h u e h essi, ted e use of slave labour was denied him, *bouts{ l'os, h . Il on I n obtaining the use of free labour. He thought, t '''hele l e i re ' t hat ' tlPiirie" the Member for the West Riding of appojen, he was only a question of regulation. In , tie ',tat-lent .expressed_the satisfaction which he felt at . the . , 041 . 1i sv e vi ds tßvilati ,iontii,Snaiertria; (.4/1.. rbio..or three Leone, of men of colour to office, and natives the Bishop of London had lately or l'otsteh . t .le . epe ra . a a rves of Africa. ied ere ati smonar ni . ! : said he had lone. been a member of the 'elid ed aced ' s ociety, and he believed that that Society an, A qt e2t society, . mi i - N es o Pe y et t ewlth,tand 0. gas viherever their labours had ex o ninbdutle*intauternfetroefte c t e l7 Hon. Member °pp°, aeflrlaaborers'ortSheexehlained. He had the greate:.! respect 4ka Le, e itt w rwe!if urch Missionary Soeiety. o pts, from Mr. HOPE in explanation, and Sir tie • Potuia was aimed to. COLONY OF HONG-KONG. Dr. BOWRING said he was about to ask for some informa tion from her Majesty's Government, which was well entitled to the attention of the House—he referred to same proceedings which bad taken place in Hong-Kong, and although he knew it was difficult to find a person to manage their interests in China as they were managed by Sir H. Pottinger, whose bril liant administration exposed his successor to the danger of a disadvantageous contrast ; it was at the same time the universal wi,.h that all the proceedings in that quarter should be charac terised by prudence and wisdom. It was of the utmost im portance that no impres4ion unfavourable to the British rep s tation should be made on the minds of the residents. A posi tion had been taken up by the Governor in Council, from which he was obliged to retire. He referred torn ordinance of the 21st Aug., 1t44, which, however, appeared not to be promulgated till two months after date, so that the Governor in Council had time to consider its effect. It stated that, for the purpose of secur ing order and tranquillity in Hong-Kong and its dependencies, the ordinance was published, but the immediate effect of it was to create confusion, and to lead to an outbreak. It not only referred to Hong-Kong but to its dependencies ; but what the dependencies of Hong-Kong were he did not know. The ordi nance stated that all the inhabitants, of the age cf twenty-eight and upwards, were to appear at the registrar's office, where the following particulars were exacted from them, which, if even bearable by the English residents there, would be perfectly intolerable and impossible of execution to those educated in oriental ideas. They were required to come to the regis trar-general's office, t. here the age, and birth, and place of residence of every person were to be registered. 'I hay were to state the date of their arrival, what the circumstances of their family were, and those of their connexion, with places of re.,i dence, what their e -nployment was, is he ther they were male or female, married or single. What would be the feelings of per sons in England if they were subjected to such an inquisition, and if they would be indignant at it, he asked them to con sider the feelii gs of persons accustomed to oriental habits. When, some years ago, Mehemet Ali attempted to get at the population of Cairo, he was every where met with so much opposition, that he was obliged to give up the attempt. If the difficulties to be met with in Egypt were so great, they would be still greater in Hong-Kong. The consequences of this ordinance was, that 3,000 of the inhabitants left the colony. The Bazaar was in a state of great commotion. All public works were suspended, and the markets of % ie toria Town were deserted. Every head man was re sponsible for every coolie he bad under him, and arbitrary punishment might be inflicted on any person who came to the colony and did not report himself within twenty-four hours. Every overseer was also responsi ble for the inhabitants of the village in which he resided. Any person who had a property of not less than ten dollars per month had to pay one dollar for registration. It was no wonder then that the appearance of such a document should have created a great sensation in the colony. Meetings of the com mercial men were held en the subject, resolutions were passed, and a remonstrance was made to the Governor in Council, who stated, in a second answer which he made, that he was surprised at the repetition of the statements contained in the first letter, which had already met with the strong reprobation of the Governor in Council, and the Governor in Council would in future abstain from paying the smallest attention to their re presentations. Now he would ask whether it was right that such a state of things should be continued ? He thought that it ought to be rectified at once, that such a stigma might not rest on the English character. The Hon. and Learned Member concluded by making the motion of which he had given notice. Mr. G. W. HOPE opposed: the motion on the ground that the Government had not received any communication on the subject. Sir J. STAUNTON opposed the motion on the ground of its being premature. Dr. BOWRING said he did not understand that it was intended to refuse the ultimate production of the docu ments for which he had moved. He would, for the present, withdraw the motion, reserving to himself the right to rein troduce it when all the documents were in the hands of the Government. _ _ The motion was then withdrawn. MEDICAL REFORM BILL. Colonel WOOD - . presented a petition from medical practi tioners at Kensington, praying for some summary mode of convicting unlicensed practitioners; also complaining that the appointment of a Council of Health, without including a single representative of the general practitioners, was most unjust. On rising to move for leave to bring in a Bill for the better regulation of medical practice throughout the United Kingdom, Sir J. GRAHAM said he hoped that before he sat down he should convince his Honourable Friend, who had just presented a petition, that that petition had no reference to the Bill immediately under consideration. He should not feel it his duty to make any elaborate statement with reference to the measure; but, considering the great importance of the subject, and the excited state of public feeling, he would at once candidly bring under the consideration of the House and the public, the alterations which he proposed to make in the Bill introduced last session. The House would remember that when he introduced the Bill towards the close of last session, he stated that, considering the great public interests involved in the measure which he proposed, and the manner in which it affected both the public and one of the most useful and learned professions, hasty legislation would be most imprudent, and that he should act most fairly towards the pro fession, and best consult the interests of the public, by laying, at the close of the session, the precise measure which he proposed on the table of the House, for the purpose of securing that it would undergo general discussion. The fair ness of that course could not, h thought, be denied even by those who were opposed to the measure, and its usefulness was equally evident. The measure had been amply discussed, and he was now about to state shortly to the House what had been the result of the discussion, as regarded the amendment of the measure which it was his duty to pro pose. He would now briefly recapitulate the leading objects of the measure—objects which would, he thought, form the basis of arty measure which might be introduced on that subject. The first object of the measure to which he adhered was the establishment in thin country of a council of health, which should exercise general superintendence and control over me dical and surgical education throughout the United King dom, to consist of a board in the metropolis, of easy, and therefore, as he thought, of useful access to the Execu tive Government, on all those great questions affecting the health of the people which must, from time to time, necessarily arise and claim serious consideration. His object was, that in cases of sudden epidemic, and with respect to measures which it might be necessary to adopt on the authority of the Executive Gorernment, with reference to the health of large cities, and generally in all cases affecting the public health, a council, easy ef access, should exist, which might be consulted by the Executive Government of the country. That was the first object. The second object which he had in view was to secure that all medical practitioners should have equal facilities of practice throughout the United Kingdom ; and also, that with that equality, as'. regarded prac tice, there should be, on behalf of the public, security for the possession on the part of practitioners of an equality of attainments. The third object was, that those at tainments being secured by examination, and the standard being kept uniform, there should be a registration which should give to the public notice that the practitioners so registered, having undergone examination, had come up to the required standard; and that notoriety being in possession of the public, he proposed that public medical offices, for the encouragement of medical practitioners, should be given only to such medical practitioners as had been duly registered, and that by law no title to practice should be given to those who had not undergone the examination. This was a short recapitulation of the leading objects of the measure. Such were the objects secured by the measure which he had the honour of introducing at the close of last session. To those objects he adhered, and those objects would, he believed, be attained by the Bill which he now asked permission to introduce. Having recapitulated the leading objects of the measure, it now became him to state shortly in detail the alterations which he proposed to in troduce into the measure. Last session he ventured to pro pose the entire repeal of the statute of Henry VIII., which gave to members of the Royal College of Physicians and surgeons the exclusive right of practising in the metropolis and within seven miles round. On the present occasion he did not propose the entire repeal of that statute, but he proposed its repeal absolutely and entirely with reference to all practi tioners registered under the Bill. He proposed, however, to insert a clause exempting the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge from the operation of the Bill.—(Hear, hear, from some Hon. Members on the Opposition benches.) He thought the Hon. Gentlemen did not exactly understand the effect of that exemption. The effect of it would be to exclude the physicians obtaining their degree at Oxford or Cambridge from the advantage of practising in the metropolis and within seven miles round, unless they became con senting parties to, and came within the operation of the Act. Oxford and Cambridge were at present somewhat jealous of the measure; they did not, as at present advised, consent to conic under the operation of the Act. He pro 'od,p then, to insert a clause, the effect of which would be those universities in the full enjoyment of the privilege iOleave of grant i ng :t egrees to medical men, and conferring on them • in all parts of England and Wales, ex the right of practL" l g cept the metro seven miles round. He hoped, how. polis ant: ever, that before the Bill weii! into Committee, an arrange ment might be made between !hose two learned bodies and the Metropolitan College of Physicians, which would supersede the necessity for this exempting clause. The arrangement would, he expected, be this, that assessors should go down fr om the body of physicians in London to Cambridge and Oxford, and that :the same diploma which, being granted by the university, gave the right of practice elsewhere, shoeld, by this arrangement, also confer the right of practice else.. where. He should then propose the withdrawment of the ex empting clause in Committee; an arrangement being made with respect to the uninesities of Oxford and Cambridge similar to the arrangement with the other learsied bodies of Scotland and Ireland. He now came to the questions more immediately raised on the petition presented by his Hon. and Gallant Friend, namely, the question of the repeal of the Apothecaries' Act. Now he had come to the opinion that it would not be expedient to propose the total repeal of the Apothecaries' Act.—( Hear, hear. ) It was his intention to propose to the House to repeal the Apothecaries' Act only so far as the parties registered under his Bill were concerned. The effect of this partial repeal of the Act would be this. Complaints were made against his Bill of last session that he provided by it ne sufficient security against empirical practice, and that, not satisfied with this, he in addi tion proposed to remove all the existing penalties against such practice. He did not attach much value to these penalties, but still the effect of this partial repeal of the Apothecaries Act would be this, that it left these penalties untouched in the entire form in which they at present existed. Ile should also propose an additional security, one which he thought was quite justifiable and consistent with sound principle. He should propose that no person, not possessing the proper qualification, and not coming up to the requisite standard, should venture to practise medicine without subjecting himself always to the risk of the criminal prosecution to which any one was still liable by the general operation of the law for pretends ing to be that which he was not. He could not see why an attempt to carry such art enactment should be objected to. He would here mention that this system of a registration of medical practitioners had been attempted in the United States, and had boen attended with very good effect. By this Bill he 'reposed that any person who should call or declare himself, or assume the title or designation of a physician, sur geon, apothecary, or doctor, or any other tide recognised by this Bill, should be liable to prosecution. But, in reference to this part of the measure, perhaps the best course would be to read this clause of the bill to the House. It was this : " Every unregistered person who should falsely pretend to be, or take or use any name, or title of physician, doctor, bachelor, of the faculty of medicine, or surgeon, or licentiate of medicine, or apothecary, or any other name or title recognised as that of a medical or surgical practitioner, should be guilty of a mis demeanor, and be punishable by such fine or imprisonment, or both, as the court before which he should be convicted should award," He had thought it necessary to give y the public this protection against empirical practice of the sciesic-e of medicine. He slsoeld propose, also, to repeal a portion of the Apothecaries' A c t, seferrssiss to the office of examiners for medical qualifications ; by the Bill of last session it was inatf,e necessary that in England physicians should be the examiners for the degree of licentiates in medicine. Ai, present it was necessary that in England the examiners' Should be members of the civic guild of the City of London. To this guild admission could now , in point of fact, be ob4ined by nurcbase, by inheritanea, and by election ; there was no co , save that the examiners must hition attzt a,,,i s t to the functions belong to this civic gu '' Now he proposed that, io fissure, - t „..e examiners should be apothecs.7 of ter. or licentiates of medicine for the same time; tie .... that, after the lapse of ten years, they might be admitted as examiners under another name, that of general practitioners. He came now to another alteration, which was one to which he attached great importance. He earnestly desired that the first entrance to the medical profession should be by oneexami nation, common to all, and that, after this first examination, the practice of the science should be open and common to all who should havepassed this portal. But one objection had been made to this principle, which, he must say, appeared reasonable, and was indeed insuperable. Physicians had always strongly, and, as it appeared to him, rightly, attached great importance to an university education, whether that education was re ceived in ooe of our domestic or in a foreign university. At present they enforced an examination before a general tri bunal ; that examination was an early one, and that early ex amination was made before ageneral tribunal, that examination not being inconsistent with the long study and education neces sary to the accomplished physician. Some difficulty had been felt as to the limitation of the ace before which such examina tion for physicians should be undergone; he did not think, on the whole, thirty-six would be too late a period of life. But with respect to surgeons, he thought the objec tion on this point would not apply. An university education did not form so invariably, or by any means so frequently, a part of the medical education even of the most accom plished surgeons ; this objection, therefore, did not apply to them, and he ha i the satisfaction of saying, that, as far as the inquiries he had made went, there would not be on this subject any objection en the part of the College of Surgeons to a proposal which he thought would be a great improve ment on the Bill of last smsion. Ile proposed that no persons should, under this Bill, be qualified to act as surgeons, unless they had previously been examined as a licenciate in surgery. There was also a provision in the Bill which appeared to be a departure from this principle of uniform examination ; the difference, however, was more in appearance than reality. It was in the proposal to which he attached considerable importance that there should be an examination in midwifery, in addition to that of medicine and surgery. lie proposed that the council of health should be, by a provision of the Act, empowered to examine general practitioners for all three parts of the United Kingdom, in midwifery alto, those practitioners to be distinguished on the registry by a mark against their names, denoting that they had passed this examination. Now, his Hon. Friend the Member for Middle sex had just presented a petition, in which a request was made that medical practitioners should be incorporated. He had given his most anxious consideration to this subject, and at all events he did not wish to preclude himself by any stipulation on the subject, from adopting that suggestion till the pro fession at large should have had an opportunity of considering the measure.—(Hear, hear.) There was another important alteration he wished to propose to the House. He had last year proposed to repeal the Apothecaries' Act, and entirely to obliterate it. But he bad now departed from that intention, and would not totally repeal that enactment. A separation which he should have deeply regretted, between the general practitioner and the College of Surgeons, might have been, in some de gree at least, apprehended as a consequences of his measure of last session. He thought he had modified his measure, in this respect, in a very important degree. He proposed that no person should be qualified to practice as a surgeon without pre viously passing an examination as a licentiate of surgery. He would not now anticipate the discussion that would cer tainly arise on the question of new charters to Medical Corpo rations. But it had been thought necessary to introduce into the College of Surgeons, for the first time, a peculiar order which existed in every other medical college in Eng land, Scotland, and Ireland, without exception— namely, the order of Fellows of that College.—( Hear. ) It had been thought necessary to create this order, as the con stituent body of the elective council of the College.—( Hear, hear.) He was not now arguing the question—he was only stating the difficulties that in the change would have to be overcome, but, if they were surmounted, and the connexion between the College of Surgeons and the general practitioners preserved,he was convinced that this latter class would become more noble and more useful than it had been at any ante cedent period. Now, reserving to himself a full right of con sidering the policy of advising the Crown to grant charters of incorporation, he confessed he should be driven to give that advice with the greatest possible reluctance, were he not anxious to sustain the character, the standing, and position of the general practitioners. He thought they were the most useful body of men in the community.—( Hear. ) In large cities, where great numbers of people were congre gated, a division of labour was not only possible in the profes sion, but led to excellence, to increased skill, and greater re muneration. In cities, therefore, it was possible to divide the medical profession into the physician, the surgeon, and the general practitioner, and this division bad actually arisen from the force of circumstances. But dealing, as it was his duty to do, with the interest of the entire community, he could not dissemble from himself the fact, that the great body of the poorer population, covering the greater area of the kingdom, must look to the general practitioner for assistance, and he thought it was his first duty to the public to do all in his power to uphold the character and position of the general practitioner. He now sincerely stated that he entertained the greatest doubt whether it would be for their advantage, and for the honour and dignity of the profession, that they should be separated from the College of Surgeons; and he entertained the san guine hope of connecting the general practitioner with the College of Surgeons. He was most anxious that the altera tions which he tendered in the most conciliatory spirit, might meet with the wishes of the general practitioners, whose opi nions he was most anxious to obtain. He had given the whole subject his most serious consideration, and the changes he pro puled were the result of it. He considered it indispensably necessary for the whole profession, that the body of the several practitioners should be connected with the College of Surgeons, a noble institution, which had produced the most eminent surgeons in Europe, which had one of the finest museums in the world, and which was renowned for the progress which it had made in the science of human physiology. It was impossible that this arrangement could be otherwise than that of conferring honour and distinction on the general practitioner. He could not anticipate from any other arrangement equal benefit to the general practitioner. He would pass en to another alteration in the Bill of last year. Previously to qualifying as a physician, the Bill im posed as a necessary condition that the candidate should, for the three years immediately preceding examination, have re sided in the University. Upon consideration, he found it would be wholly impossible to carry out this provision. He therefore proposed to substitute two years after examination, or three years antecedent. And instead of three years' resi dence in a Foreign University, one year was proposed. He now came to the question of the constitution of the Councils. If he had filled any other station he would have Ventured to have proposed to the House some alterations in this respect. His own judgment led him to believe that, upon the whole, it would be far safer to leave to the Government, acting upon its responsibility to Parliament, the power of nomination. But he felt it necessary, situated as he was, to depart in some re spects from this principle ; but, upon the whole, he would ad here to the plan for the formation of a Council proposed in the Bill of last session. The matter was still open to discus sion. but he intended to make it a condition that the nomina tion of six members of the Council should be reserved to the Crown ; and that a portion of those six, so appointed, should be general practitioners and country practitioners, for it was only fair that those important classes should be re presented at the Board. In the Bill of last year there was a deficiency which he now proposed to remedy. It conferred no power on the Council to remove from the registry men who had been guilty of flagrant misconduct. By the alterations under the Bill, it gave a power of removing from the re gistry any party who had been convicted before any courts of law, or who had practised, or attempted to practice upon false testimonials. There was one other alteration. He proposed to give to the faculty of physicians and surgeons in Glas gow equal and co-ordinate powers of licensing with the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Edinburgh. By the Bill of last year, he had conferred on the Glasgow Col lege the power of licensing both in surgery and medicine ; bat subsequent experience had convinced him that they could have no such power. The question had been raised before the Su preme Court in Scotland, and it was clearly proved that the Glasgow College had no power of licensing, and that the power existed only in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Edinburgh. He was not aware of any other important change. He had pointed out such alterations as he thought were neces sary, and so far from those alterations being at vari ance with the great objects of the measure, they were perfectly consistent with it. He had been anxious to avail himself of all the discussion which had taken place on the subject, and had not been at all affected by the angry spirit whick had been infused into those discussions. He had endeavoured to take a calm and dispassionate view of the subject, being perfectly disinterested, and having only one desire, that of promoting the public welfare. He would not consider that his labour had been thrown away in the least de gree, if he were fortunate enough to introduce some improve ments in this most useful profession. He would not now press the measure upon the consideration of the House, but would give time for further discussion and further consideration. But he hoped this session would not close without some measure beneficial to the profession receiving the sanction of that House, and passing into law.—(Cheers.) The Right Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving for leave to bring in a Bill for the better regulation of medical practice throughout the United Kingdom. Mr. WAKLEY heard the statement of the Right Hon. Gentleman with the greatest satisfaction; and he now believed that the difficulties which pressed upon the subject would be amicably arranged and Beall) , settled. The Right Hon. Gen tleman had shown by the alteration which he proposed his anxiety to meet the wishes of all departments of the profession. He believed the Right Hon. Gentleman and the Government had not been at all aware of the difficulties which beset this question when they first took it in hand. There were so many Interests involved in it, so many laws affecting the profession, so many rights apparently opposed to one another, as well as to common sense, that it was extremely difficult to legislate upon it. He felt very strongly against the former Bill, and he had so expressed himself. He thought many of its provisions WM most objectionable ; but he now felt satisfied that the Right Hon, Gentleman, in the alterations proposed, was anxious to conciliate all parties, and to listen to any suggestion which might be thrown out from guy side. He would now only ask for the postponement of the second reading of the Bill, so as to give time for full deliberation with reference to all its provisions ; and the Right Hon. Baronet would receive the gratitede of the most important bodies of men to be found in the count ryes--( Cheers.) Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. Sir J. GRAHAM moved for leave to bring in a Bill to en able her Majesty to grant new charters to certain Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons. He heard with great satisfaction the speech of the Iron. Member for Finsbury. He would ac cede to the postponement of the second reading of the Bill till after Easter. In compliance with this feeling, he was quite ready to lay on the table of the House four charters. Those charters were, a charter for the physicians of London, another for the physicians of Deblits, another for the physicians of Edinburgh, and another for the College of Surgeons in Edin burgh. These, he thought, would sufficiently secure the ob jects he had in view. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. DISMISSAL OF MAGISTRATES IN IRELAND. Mr. BELLEW said that he rose to move for the return of which he had given notice, of any correspondence which took place in the years hall, 1843, and 1841, between the Lord Chancellor of Ireland and the Earl of Lucia, relative to the dismissal of the latter from, and subsequent restoration to, the magistracy ; also for a copy of the Commistioe appointing the slid Earl of Lucan Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Mayo. In making this motion, he (Mr. Bellew) was fully aware that the House had been engaged during the last week in the discussion of matters of much more general interest than the business which he had to bring before them. But he did riot hesitate to say that none of those matters created a deeper anxiety than that which he was about to sub mit to the House. It was a subject in which the public in this country always took the most live!) , interest. When last year the misconduct of a police magistrate had been publicly noticed, not twenty-four hours had elapeed Vfore tt . ?e matter was brought before the house ; and they had tins asenranee of the Secretary of State for the Home Department that his at seotien should be directed to it. When, also, last year the conduct of another magistrate had been brought under consi deration in a court OF law—he alhideal to the obeervations which were made in the case of the Queen v. IlUmphries upon the conduct of the Duke of Marlborough--the Duke of Marlborough was Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Oxford— rrisitit was neaee.sery for the Noble Duke to give suffi cient eVideriee'sin' his general efficiency as a Ma gistrate in order to prevent, his "dismissal ;roes tire eissruniseion. Ile (Mr. BelleW) wishedathats there wLis the same sensitiveness in her Maiesty's Government 4'; the case d Vora' Lucas. Motion had as a particular ebisset to ascertain on Whit 'principle the disaissais of rnagis t,t,4 fro K 4 the' commiiSion' 'Yhe " peace in -tend. ii/40 g4wAr4 Segden had p,,c..Chiati . JL ~.~... ' ceilor in that country, had taken place. He ; must say that the individuals who had thus suffered were very ' ill-used individuals, and that their dismissals were contrary alike to policy and justice. The first case he had to bring be fore their notice was the case of Lord French. Her Majesty's Government had always evinced the greatest anxiety to pre serve the Legislative Union of the two countries, and they had dismissed Lord French for attending or intending to attend a meeting. the object of which was to sever that legislation. Colonel Butler, the Member for Kilkenny, whose case was another which he had to submit to the House, in replying to an invitatisn to attend a meeting of this sort, had stated his in ability to leave his bed, and that therefore he was unable to be present. So that Colonel Butler was dismissed for not doing the very thing which constituted the main offence of Lord French.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. O'Driscoll, another magistrate, had betrayed certain infirmities of temper, and he was dism4.ed, not for these defects, but on account of his age. In the course of a few years Mr. O'Driscoll was reinstated, under the supposition, he (Mr. Bellew) conceived, that in those years he had grown younger. This would nsver have been known but for the investisation which had been made in that House. This was one of the reasons why he wished to bring these dismissals under discussion in Parliament. The Government had upheld the conduct of Sir E. Sugden in these cases. Of Lord Lucan he had no personal knowledge whatever, and he (Mr. Bellew) was simply actuated by a sense of public du• y in bringing the matter before the House, and all the evidence he had on the subject he derived, not from any personal connexion, but yet frem Lord Lucan himself. It appeared that the dismissal of Lord Lucan and Mr. H. Maltby arose from a disagree ment between those two gentlemen in court, in which language had been exchanged unbecoming their characters as magistrates. In the course of their dispute Mr. O'Malley had called Lord Lucan a liar and a scoundrel, and Lord Lucan had called Mr. O'Malley a miscreant. After this dispute, of which Lord Lucan had forwarded a statement to the Lout Chancellor, he at the same time intimated that it was impossible for him to remain in the commission of the peace if Mr. O'Malley were retained. With this statement Lord Lucan had forwarded several county newspapers on each side, so that there should be no unfairness. In the progress of the matter four or five letters passed, and at length the Under-Secretary was directed to state to Lord Lucan and Mr. O'Malley, that it was his painful duty to inform them that the Lord Chancellor had deemed it neces sary to erase the names of both off the list. Under such cir cumstances how could it be possible for his Lordship and Mr. O'Malley to retain that respect as magistrates which was so es sential to the due administration of justice . ? Lord Lucan sometime afterwards complained that the Irish papers had attacked his character, and the motive he gave for this was that they intended to " write him out" of the commission of the peace, and to prevent his being appointed the Lord-Lieu tenant of the county. He stated that the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, through the medium of his secretary, had expressed to Mr. O'Malley that the measures pursued by the Lord Chan cellor of Ireland (Sir Edward Sugden) had received his fullest approbation. Now he (Mr. Bellew) recollected that the Right Hon. Baronet stated, in that House, that the conduct of the Noble Lord ( Earl De Grey) ia the administration of Ireland met with his entire approbation. Eat' Dc Grey re tired, but Lord Eliot remained in that government. When the circumstances came under the consideration of that Parliament, Lord Wharneliffe, as one of the members of the Government, was disposed to put a favourable construction on the conduct of the Noble Lord, and the Lord Chancellor (Lord Lyndhurst) stated that he did not feel himself justified in giving an opinion then upon the merits of the case, but he afterwards said that the Chancellor of Ireland was bound to remove the Noble Lord, and in so doing his conduct met his (Lord Lyndhurst's) approbation. Let them refer for a moment to the accumulation of evidence in that respect. They had, in the first place, the correspond ence of Lord Lucan himself, there were five or six letters from him and from Mr. O'Malley. Then they had the opinions of Lords Elliot, Wharncliffe, and Lyndhurst—yet after all this, would it be believed, that Lord Lucan was appointed to preside over the magistracy of that very county he had formerly been dismissed from. Let them look at the effect of this procedure—this placing him at the head of that local magistracy. It might be said by the defenders of the Government that they had no choice, and were therefore compelled to make that appointment. But the case was not so. They might have appointed Lord Strangler!, who had taken no part in politics. There were many other noblemen who could equally have been chosen to fill that high position, and many of them would have given more satisfaction than that of Lord Lucan. In the late trials in Ireland, one of the charges brought forward against Daniel O'Connell was, that he had brought into contempt the administration of justice. But could Government for a moment doubt that the proceeding they were then discussing would tend, more than anything ever done by Daniel O'Connell, to bring the magistracy into contempt? It had been said by the Right Hon. the Secretary for Ireland that that country was as much an integral por tion of the empire as Yorkshire or Wiltshire was. But would that proceeding have been for a moment tolerated in either of those counties ? He (Mr. Bellew) had often heard in that House that the union with Ireland must be maintained, the Church upheld, and the law respected.--( Hear, hear, and laughter.) Now, considering that they heard these words, " the law respected," at the very time that this appointment was being made, he thought it a perfect mockery.—( Hear, hear.) They were all aware of the great difference between this country and Ireland as respected outrages against the law, not because there was less crime in England, but because the law was more justly and fairly administered. The impression had been created that the appointment of Lord Lucan was art unjust one, but the lower classes reasoned that he was supported by a great many friends in the Government, by whom his faults were overlooked. He was of opinion that the unpaid magistracy should be above all suspicion, and it was most important that they should con duct themselves in such a manner as to command the respect of the people. This appointment of Lord Lucan had a ten dency to create instead of removing an impression calculated to bring the law into contempt; and it was a matter of the very highest importance that such an impression should not be created at that time in the minds of the Irish people. It from Lard Lucan'a own statement, that for two years ap peared,previous to his dismissal, he had not acted as a magistrate, and he (Mr. Bellew) thought it snore extraordinary that ho should have acted at all. He would conclude by moving for a return of the correspondence which took place in the years 1842, 1843, and 1844, between the Lord Chancellor of Ire land and the Earl of Lucan, relative to the dismissal of the latter from and subsequent restoration to the magistracy; also for a copy of the Commission appointing the said Earl of Lucan Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Mayo. Sir T. FREMANTLE said that there could be no objec tion to the production of the papers, for he believed that it was perfectly well known that they had been ordered in the other House upon the motion of the Noble Earl ( Lucan) him self. —( Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member for Louth had com menced his address by telling the House of the jealousy with which the delinquencies of magistrates were regarded in Eng land, and that, on the contrary, those delinquencies were passed lightly over by the Government in Ireland. The Hon. Gentleman referred, as an instance, to the case of a Noble Duke who, upon being accused of impropriety in the discharge of his duty as a magistrate, was obliged to set himself right with the Government and the public by bringing an action at law. Nov, the fact in the case of the Noble Duke referred to was, that the Noble Lord had brought the action of his own accord, and that the Government took no part in the matter whatever. But, contrary to the opinion of the lion. Member for Louth, the present' Lord Chancellor of Ire land had frequently marked his sense of improper conduct on the part of magistrates, by dismissing them from the commis sion.—( Hear, }sear.) And such was the case in respect to Lord Lucan himself.—( Hear, hear.) After what occurred at Castlebar, the Lord Chancellor thought it his duty to dismiss the Noble Earl. But after an interval, and after the infliction of that severe punishment, the Lord Chancellor thought it not inconsistent with his duty to replace him. All the members of the Government in the House of Lords approved of the con duct of the Lord Chancellor, and thought that there could be no objectless to placing the Noble Lord in his proper position as Lord-Lieutenant of his county.—( Hear, hear.) Was it to be contended that one offence, or rather an accidental error— the use of a single word under circumstances of great provocation having been visited with the severest censure that could be passed by the Lord Chancellor, was to last as a stigma for Lord I.ucan's whale life, and that he should be considered no longer worthy to serve her Majesty, or to take his place in the county in which he lived on an equal footing with the other gentlemen ?—( Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman had said that he (Sir T. Fremantle ), in a recent statement, spoke of conciliating Ireland and of maintaining the laws impartially ; and he said that the conduct of the Lord Chancellor and the Irish Government in the case of Lord Lucan was a contradiction of that statement.—( Hear, hear.) Now he (Sir T. Fremantle) insisted that the law had been fully vindicated by the removal of Lord Lucan from the eom mi,sion of the peace in the first instance ; and that there was nothing contradictory in replacing him after the lapse of a con siderable time, especially as his hasty conduct had been pro. yoked by conduct studiously provoeing on the part of the person to whom he made use of an angry expression. Lord Brougham had said that no stigma could lie on the No ble Lord after the explanation he had giren ; and Lord Campbell had also said that Sir Edward Sugden might have fallen into an error in other matters, but no imputation could rest upon him after the expression Lord Lucan had given of his sorrow at what had occurred. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL said he had listened with some attention to the speech of the Hon Member for Buckingham, and he could not help expressing his regret at hearing the Hen. Member speak in praise of the manner in which the Govern ment had followed up this strange proceeding, as well as at the Honourable Member himself attempting to justify this very extraordinary proceeding. He would appeal to any other Hon. Member of that House, and he would ask them if a magistrate of their county hart been dis missed for a gross insult in a court of justice to another magis trate, what would they think of the conduct of the Govern ment who would not only reinstate the magistrate commiting this outrage, but place him at the very head of those magis trates by making him Lord-Lieutenant of the county ? ( Hear, hear.) He would ask Hon. Members opposite which of them would endure it ?—( Hear, hear.) He would repeat it for the third time, and a 4 was there one amongst them who would bear it ?—(Cries of " Hear, hear," from Lord Ingestrie.) Oh ! the Noble Lord, the Member for Stafford. shire, would.—(Hear, hear, and laughter,) He would ask, was there another Member who would ? No, not one. ( Hear, hear.) It had been said that they in Ireland were very sensitive people; but with such conduct as this before them, and that, too, the conduct of a Government professing conciliation to his countrymen, was it to be wondered at that they should feel aggrieved ? (Cries of " Hear, hear.") But he would pass by this part of the subject ; he would not further allude to the delinquencies of other magistrates, though he was one of those who, after having held for eight years the commission of the peace, had been dismissed, opt for any misconduct, but for having given expression to Isis political opinions, and therefore q i c n a t il he4dbeen administration sfie j o e f n j t e l he slid not deem it any dishonour.—( Hear; hear.) But if delinquencies such as ha b d y, bee u n t a b l e tri r b e u w tzl o t e o d L w or i d th Lucan were to be not only passed he would ask - was it to be wondered at that the Irish peop'e Y i ee punished tQ W4l ; them ? (Hear, hear,) The Right Hon. Berenet opposite had no great con ll fi o d r e ci nc l : had said that but that punishment put him very touch in mind of people who took the total abstinence Pledge for Good ceemple sake, and then broke it heceuse it was inconvenient tq keep it any longer.--e( Hear, ThP Henourable Member op- posite had said he assumed that tba Ifitit Lord Chancellor was right in dleinisSing Lord Lucan, but that he had expressed regret soon after fur the language he had used which caused his dismissal ; but let Hon. Members opposite remember that it wes heferP, etitf net sitlee t the Noble Lord had been dismissed, that he had expressed this regret. The Noble Lord had not expressed any regret on the subject after wards, that he (Mr. O'C.) Was aware of; but he syle aware that the N e ele Lersi Leg eeisi i t s his piaee in the ho use of Lords, that his dismissal was an act of the grossest injustice, and that if the other magistrate who had been dismissed with Hear, hear.) Th e re ria re him should be restored, he would look upon that as an forwaed, belie WOdld no act e of rtrme ssfiptatil mattes ; g s :J r) e j p u o s ni t l i k tg e hi . Fa ( t bring attenti on of the house. He must beg, however, permission to remind Hon. Members of the last public appearance in Leland of the Noble Lord, previous to his restoration. It was on the occasion of his refusal to e epet a les,ce cf huilske Roold fcr iii 6 orpoge 6 C f lia c rty a . bl ' i' T L upoia grounds which tur ne d cut afterwards to be a miserable subterfuge to cone ( al in tuleeable bigetty. ft Wee, very r an fetile eioVeriemisiet to i t lt gN a ,b 6 l ° e n le ve o i r ' d t. st)fuseil order dalled tile; Sisters of trills: of 'their intentions towards Irelands, but their 'Measures Would rove of rdavail if, day after a eitie and week after week, they were to be goaded by such a man as thin. The people of Ireland fully understood the vacillating movements of the Government, who took a little step at one moment to annoy the extreme Orange party, and at another, a movement to an noy the Roman Catholic party.—(No.) They were not so blind as to be unable to distinguish between their vacillating in decision and the impartial justice to which Ireland was en titled.—( Cheers. ) Mr. T. B. C. SNIIT H reminded the House that, in the course of the session of 1843, the same transaction was brought forward in another place, when Hon. Gentlemen opposite complained bitterly of the Government for having removed the Earl of Lucan from the commission of the peace.—( Hear, hear.) On that occasion Lord Campbell said Sir Edward Sugden, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, had fallen into an error of judgment in dismissing Lord Lucan from the magistracy, and now a com plaint was made of his restoration. In the October of the fol lowing year, 1843, the Noble Lord was restored, and the whole of the last session of Parliament had been allowed to intervene before one word was said upon the subject. When the Noble Lord was removed from the magistracy, an Hon. Member complained of its injustice, and now the Government were attacked for having restored him. The fact was, the Hon. Member did not care how they raised an imaginary Irish grievance. Having said so much respecting the way in which Irish griev ances were got up, he would take the liberty of doing that which the two Hon. Gentlemen who had spoken on the other side of the House had not done—viz., stating to the House the facts of this case. It appeared that the Earl of Lucan had, two years previous to the transaction in question, removed Mr. O'Malley, as agent of his estate. }rom that time Mr. O'Alalley took every opportunity of trespassing on Lord Lucan's estate. On one occasion he met Lord Lucan's game keeper, and commenced a volley of abuse about Lord Lucan. That led to Mr. O'Malley being summoned before the magistrates in petty sessions. It was true that Lord Lucan appeared in court on the hearing of she case, but took his place amongst the strangers in the court. This was stated in the Newry Telegraph, a newspaper opposed in politics to Lord Lucan. The Right Hon. Gentleman then read from the above news paper, a, report of the proceedings which !took place on the hearing of the case before the magistrates, After such lan guage as that used by Mr. O'Malley was it to be wondered at that Lord Lucan should be irritated? He was satisfied that the House would be of opinion that they had acted properly in depriving Lord Lucan of the commission of the peace, but having for a time deprived him of the commission they thought it right to restore him. Mr. ROSS thought that the Right Hon. Gentleman the Attorney-General must have taken a brief against the Lord Chancellor'-(Hear, hear)—for he had shown that the Lord Chancellor was wrong. But he wanted to prove, that be cause they were right in depriving Lord Lucan of the com mission, they were also right in restoring him. That appeared to him to be a strange doctrine. The Irish Government seemed to be proceeding on the principle of amendment by rustication.--( Hear, hear.) But while they overlooked the offence of which Lord Lucan had been guilty, they deprived his Hon. Friend and others of the Commission for entertaining certain political opinions. This seemed to him to be like the case of Ali. O'Driscoll, to which he directed the attention of the House last year. In that ease it was that Dineen, who was so inhumanly treated, had the law opened to him ; but that reminded him of what Home Tooke said, in a similar case, that the London Tavern was open to him. The motion was then agreed to. ART UNIONS. Mr. WYSE moved for the re-appointment of the Select Committee on art unions.—Agreed to. WINDOW DUTY. Captain PECHELL moved for a return of the number of appeals against charges made in respect of windows, from the Ist day of January, 1839, to the 31st day of January, 1844, in which the surveyors of the Crown have appeared before the Commissioners to sustain the several assessments to the duties thereon. After sone observations from Mr. CARDWELL and Mr. COLLETT, strangers were ordered to withdraw, but the motion was negatived without a division. Sir J. GRAHAM brought up the Medical Reform Bill, which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on the 7th of April. The HOUbe then adjourned at One o'clock. COURT OF ALDERMEN. Yesterday a Court of Aldermen was held for the diipateli of business. The first matter of interest which came before the Court was the. case of Mr. Knill, who, after his election as Common Councilman for the Ward of Billingsgate, had declined to take, when required, the oath of ab juration. The TOWN CLERK. intimated to the Court that ho had received a communication frem Mr. Kuill, declaring his intention to attend in his place in the Court of Common Council on Thursday next. On this intimation Mr. Knill was excused from further attendance in the pre sent Court of Aldermen; but Mr. Krum. claimed permission to address a few words to the Court. He said he had already taken his seat in the Court of Common Council, and had subscribed two of the oaths which had been tendered to him on two previous elections. It was only at the last wardmote that the obnoxious oath of abjuration had been tendered to him, which he had conscientiously refused to take. He had, however, to take and subscribe the oath pre scribed to be taken by persons who, like himself, were of the Roman Catholic persuasion ; but it appeared that neither the alderman of the ward, nor the ward clerk, knew anything about it. He (Mr. Knill) could not but complain that he had been dragged before the public in this matter, and been made the subject of comment in the newspapers, as having refused to serve the office to which he had been re-elected. _ A long discussion followed, from which it appeared that there was no uniform practice subsisting in the City with regard to the administration of the Roman Catholic oath to Members elected to the Common Council. Mr. KNILL having withdrawn, The L RD MAYOR announced to the Court that he had appointed the R the Lord Bishop of Peterbo rough and the Rev. Dr. M'Caul to preach the Spital sermons fur the present year. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Equer ries in Waiting, took equestrian exercise yesterday morning, in the riding school near Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, and attended by the Dowager Lady Lyttle ton, took an airing in the Regent's Park yesterday afternoon, in a carriage and four. Celonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting, was in attendance. His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday at a meeting of the Commission for Promoting and Encouraging the Fine Arts in the re-building the Palace of Westminster. The meeting was held at Gwydyr House, Whitehall, at half past two o'clock. The Prince arrived at that hour, attended by Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting. The Com • missicners present were the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Colborne, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Mr. Henry Hallam, Mr. Thomas Wyse, and Lord Mahon. The meeting broke up at five o'clock. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred was taken an airing in the Royal Gardens yesterday. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited nines Albert yesterday at Buckingham Palace. The Countess of Dunmore has succeeded the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe as the Lady in Waiting on the Queen. The Earl of Morton has relieved the Marquis of Ormonde in the duties of Lord in Waiting ; and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore has relieved Captain Mey ne ll, R . N . , as th e G room in Waiting on her Majesty. The royal dinner party yesterday, at Buckingham Palace, included the Earl of Dentin, Viscount and Viscountess Can ning, Lord and Lady Stanley, Lord Glenlyon, the Right Hon. George Dawson Darner, and the Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay. The French Ambassador and the Danish Minister trans acted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a meet ing yesterday afternoon, at the office in Whitehall-place. There were present the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Exeter, the Bishop of ilereford, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of Llandatf, the Bishop of Norwich, the Bishop of Rochester, the Bishop of Worcester, Lord Ashley, the Right Hon. 11. llobhouse, and the Dean of Westmiust er. Mr. John 13rowne had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office. A deputation from the North Wales Railway, consisting of Mr. Ormsbv Gore, M.P., Chairman, Sir John Rennie, Mr. Chadwick, Mr. Archer, Mr. Johnston, and Mr. Williams, transacted business yesterday, at the Railway Department of the Board of Trade. Dispatches from the Governor of the Mauritius were re ceived yesterday, at the Colonial-otrice. Dispatches were also received yesterday from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. CORNWALL AND DEVON CEN TRAL RAILWAY. Yesterday a special general meeting of the Shareholders in the Cornwall and Devon Central Railway was held at the Offices of the Company, in Old Broad-street, for the purpose of considering what steps should now be taken, the Board of Trade having reported against the line. Mr. TURNER, M.P. far Truro, occupied the Chair, and in opening the business of the meeting the lion. Member di rected the attention to the adverse Report of the Board of Trade, and told the Proprietors that it was for them to de termine what was the best course to adopt for the general interest of the Company. He would not detain them with a long speech, but at once request their secretary, Mr. T. llarvey, to read the report which had been prepared for the occasion. The report commenced by stating that the standing orders relative to the deposit of plans were only complied with on the day on which the adverse opinion of the Board of Trade was made known to the public ; and this had rendered it im possible for the Directors to lay before the Proprietors the rela tive advantages of this and the Cornwall coast- line. Previously to this time , however, a suggestion was made that a confer ence should be had with the competing line, to see if their Parliamentary opposition against the coast-line could not be got rid of. Accordingly it was proposed by the Cornwall and Devon Central Railway Directors that the coast-line from Falmouth to Bodmin be abandoned, and the cottral line substituted, but the Directors of the coast-line declined to entertain the proposition. A petition had been presented to the House of Commons against the coast-line, on the ground that they had not complied with the stand ing orders of the House ; but should this oppo sition be attended with success, the Committee recommended that the application to Parliament for leave to construct their line should be postponed till next session. But, if otherwise, the Committee thought it advisable to go to Par liament at once for power to make so much of the line as extended from Falmouth to Bodmin, in order that they migllt be in a position to support the coast-line. The capital to be disposed of amounted to 18,750/., being three fourths of the origically estimated capital for that portion of the line of 500,000/. The Committee felt strongly that the decision of the Board of Trade was manifestly unjust Such a decision could not have been carried out if they had not misapprehended the facts, for in many instances the gradients of the coast-line had been found to be totally false. The report proceeded to lay before the meeting the state of the Finance Committee. The present liabilities of the Committee amounted to upwards of 9,000/., and the assets including certain deposits to 27,000/. The Finance Com mittee had examined the accounts, and they recommended that the sum of is ,be deducted from the paid-up capital, to enable them to meet their liabilities; and if application were to be made fork the Bodmin line, they recommended a fur ther deduction to the extent of 7,000/. If, however, the meeting thought it advisable not to proceed to Parliament, the Committee would take immediate steps to return the balance of deposits. The report having been adopted, Mr. ILY,LF,woon said he understood a great many Share holders had not paid their deposits, and he wished to be informed if they were not responsible for the amount. Mr. TILLY, the Solicitor to the Company, replied in the affirmative. Mr. HEmmirr suggested that the names and addresses of those who had failed to pay up their deposits should be published. . _ . The CHAIRMAN said if they were to do so, they would be laying themselves open to au action for libel. Mr. HKMMETT thought it was exceedingly unjust these defaulters should be allowed to creep out of their liabilities. lle certainly thought his suggestion ought to be adopted 4 , prevent other Companies all o tting them sha res . Mr. HOLLAND submitted the following resolution ibr the consideration of the meeting :—" no In the opinion of this meeting, every subscriber to j l l#3 tindertaking may w ithd raw his deposit on contiition of his forfeiting is. per share, as his portion Or the expenses incurred up to this day." Mr. WIIAO2{ socandod the motion. After smile l'hrther discussion the resolutien WAS put and carried. The CHAIRMAN 0.41 i prallbsea that they should make an offer to thc. co4st-litio to abandon their opposition, on condi tion of their transferring to thew 1,750 shares, and adopting the central line from Falmouth to Bodmin. TILI-Y strongly resisted the proposition, declaring that the Cornish people were averse to any other line than the Central flailwN.. The Company, he said, had nothing to do with the opposition. The petition was certainly signed by if. Harvey, the secretary, but he had done so on behalf of several shareholders in the country. A stormy discussion ensued, and Mr. Tilly resigned his office of solicitor to the Company, and declared his determina tion, op principle., not to shrink from the opposition. Tiie iihairman, Mr. Shaw, and Mr. llemmitt were then appointed to wait upon the committee of the coaitdirie, and endeavour to make terms, it being miderstetxl that, it none could be made, the Companv were to proceed with the op - N' postcll, A V(iii3 of thanks was then awarded to the Chairman, and the meeting broke up, after a protracted sitting, extending upwards of four hours. t C h o e m i i7 u ns i , a o s f t, ALvi. IV:Q . IIK AND 141AcarsEax.—By an account which has bee v ri o p v rC 4 s ,i e i ii: d ed li i in o: 4( l l 7: d o l u ir s i e ng of r ti c l i e rt d e e d el f a r ' o re n t i l value of all mill werlc rod machinery ex -3i I T a l r B s 4 , 2 i t' t01 . :; :5 E) 5 Z5 5 3 ( 1 1 . 7 that in a l s in t o 3 .n t i o te ( 7 1 l i 3 n , 1 1 7 8 4 , 14 t a 0 n 5 d 5 i 1 a ,3 1 6 8 1 4 1 ,; to 773 3 18Z4 ' -- STREET NUISANCES. Alderman WILSON presented a petition from the in habitants of the north-side of St. Paul's Church-yard, complaining that for several months past they had suf fered a great nuisance from the congregation of large numbers of persons assembled in front of their premises offering various articles (which they cried at the highest pitch of their voices) for sale. They prayed the Court to devise some means for giving power to the Com missioner of Police to effect its removal and abolition. He moved that the petition be referred to the Committee for general purposes. The motion was then agreed to. After a long discussion, the bye-laws regulating the navigation of the river Thames by steam-vessels which had been agreed to at the last Court, were confirmed, and copies of them were ordered to be laid before coun sel preparatory to their being submitted to the judges. STATE OF THE CITY PRISONS. Alderman SIDNEY said he rose as a Member of the Court, and also as one of the Sheriffs of the City of London, to present a petition on the subject of the state of the gaols of the metropolis. If he were not irregular, he would embody the terms of the petition in the obser vations it was his intention to address to the Court. Alderman FABERROTHER moved that the Court be cleared. Strangers then withdrew, and the Court continued until its rising, its proceedings with closed doors. We une.erstand, however, that the petition, which complained of the impossibility of any system of discipline or classi fication being carried out in the City prisons, owing to their crowded state, was eventually referred to the Com mittee on general purposes. The Court adjourned at half-past four o'clock. THE MURDER AT HAMPSTEAD. Considerable sensation was created at Hampstead yester day by the arrival of a mounted messenger in the early part of the day, who inquired for Bynell, the postman, for the purpose, it was understood, of accompanying him to town in order to identify a man, said to be in custody, answering the description of one of the three men who had accosted him on the night of the murder of Mr. Delarue, and wished him to buy a razor hone. The circumstance which led to the above-mentioned oc currence, and which induced a general belief that the cap ture of at least one of the murderers had been effected, was as follows :—Shortly before twelve o'clock on Monday night Inspector Martin, of the City police, received information at the station-house in Smithfield, that there was a man in a state of intoxication at the bar of the Cross Keys, in St. John-street, who was exhibiting hones for sale, and who, in other respects, resembled the description given of one of the supposed murderers. He instantly dispatched some of his men to that place, and the man in question was taken into custody, and at once conveyed to the station, where he was detained till evidence was procured from Hampstead. Suf fice it to say, that he was not identified as one of the party alluded to, and his whereabout having been accurately as certained, he was permitted to depart. It appears that Mr. Hilton, baker, who first heard the cries of murder whilst on Haverstock-terrace, was greatly mis taken in the statement he made before the jury, that the place where the body was found was distant half a mile from where he stood when those cries reached him. The ground has been accurately measured, and the distance of the spot where the body was found from Haverstock-terrace i 3 460 yards, whilst the exact distance of the place from the Swiss Cottage is 640 yards. Upon a minute examination of the marks of blood alluded to at the inquest, found upon the second rail of the stile near which the body was discovered, it appears that the marks are those of the fingers of a man's left hand. When Mr. Delarue was found he had his glove on his left hand, but no marks of blood were visible upon it. Those persons who have already been announced as coming forward to prove that they encountered three men answering the description of the supposed murderers are not the only ones who were stopped in the vicinity of Hampstead on the night of Friday last. Yesterday afternoon a gentleman on horseback went to the Yorkshire Grey, and informed Mr. Neal, the landlord, that lie had been stopped, and had had money demanded of him by three men in the Finchley-road on the evening of Friday last. The name of this gentleman, who is a medical man, and who left his card with Mr. Neal, stating that ho should be ready to give evidence upon the point, is Mr. Creforne, of No. 5, lleury-street, Avenue road. The body of the unfortunate man still remains in the cottage where it wrs first placed, and where it was viewed by the jury ; and it is stated by Mr. Neal, the landlord of the Yorkshire Grey, that it will not be removed until the funeral takes place, which will be from his house. Inspectors Shackel and Haines, of the detective police, are still pursuing their inquiries, aided by Inspector Grey, and although it is beyond doubt that a good clue to the perpe trators of the deed has been obtained, up to a late hour last evening their apprehension had not been effected. THE CROOME POACHING AFFRAY.—On Saturday last the seven men who have already several times under gone private examination before the Worcestershire magis trates, charged with being concerned in the murder of Thomas Staite, the gamekeeper who was killed at Croome on the 19th of December last, in the course of an affray be tween the keeper and a band of armed poachers to the numlier . ,,of twenty, or thereabouts, were again examined at the Worcettel county gaol before three of the magistrates of that county. Their names are William Bloomfield, George Brant, Joseph Tandy, Samuel Turvey, John Cook, William Freeman, and Francis Ferris, and the whole, with the ex ception of Ferris and Freeman, who were liberated from custody, were again remanded to Wednesday next. At the same time three others, who had been apprehended since the previous examination, and whose names are Thomas Hooper, Thomas Collins, and George Lippit, were, after an examina tion, also remanded to a future day. It will be recollected that it was stated that William Cosnett, who had been charged with the above prisoners, had, after undergoing an examination, been released from custody. Since that time further revelations having been made with regard to his share in this dreadful outrage, he has again been taken into custody, and remanded for examination with the other pri soners. The whole party reside at, and in the neighbour hood of, Pershore, a town about ten miles from Worcester, and situate a short distance from the Croome preserves. They are all well known to have been long connected together in poaching transactions, many of them are respectably con nected, and they are strongly suspected of having been concerned in other outrages ; which took place in the county about the time of the fatal Croome affray. There are now (including Joseph Turvey and Francis Dingley, committed under the Coroner's warrant, on the 6th of January, for the murder of Staite) eleven prisoners in the county gaol of Worcester charged with being implicated in this fatal affray. GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANT.—The usual half-yearly meeting of the General Steam Navigation Company took place yesterday, at the office of this Corpora tion, 69, Lombard-street. There was a numerous assemblage of proprietors. The chair was taken by John Wilkin, Esq. A report from the Directors, and the accounts for the year, ending the 31st December last, were read. From these it appeared the transactions of the Company had been followed by increased prosperity, and that the general condition of this Corporation's affairs was highly satisfactory. The cus tomary dividend and bonus being declared, thanks were voted to the Chairman and Directors for their continued exertions to promote the interests of the Company, when the meeting separated. NEW STEAMERS ON THE RIVER.—A new steam boat company was lately formed for the purpose of building a faster and more superior class of steamers for the above bridge trade. The project originated with a few gentlemen and tradesmen in the City, and the capital proposed was 30,0001. In four days the whole of that amount of specie. and 4,0001. in addition was subscribed, and ten new iron steamers were ordered. They are building by Messrs. burn and Mare, of Blackwell ' and the engines and ' m achine by Messrs. Penn aisl Son, of Greenwich, .wi„ havemfiatcted ne u ry so many a the fast steamers on the "" new steamers will be divided • ...names. Each of these p strong water-tight bulkb- _,,to four compartments, with pelled by two of T'''" , -Ads , between each, and will be pro twelve-horn- .4uls oscillating engines and machinery of power, each on an entirely new principle. The um:, of the new concern is the City Steam-boat Company, I al:4 the fleet will be distinguished by the name of Citizen, and lettered A to N inclusive. The fleet of Citizens will begin steaming between the City pier and Chelsea for the first time on Whit-Monday. LINENDRAPERS INSTITUTION.—The annual dinner in commemoration of the institution of the linendrapers, silkmercers, hosiers, &c., and in support of the funds by which the benevoleit objects of it are carried out, was given yesterday at the London Tavern, Bishopgate-street, in the large room of which establishment nearly 300 members and friends of the different t ra d es sa t d own , at six o'clock,n ß Breach. Mr. t h e plentiful banquet suppli e d by Messrs. Bathe and Mr. Emerson Tennent had been announced i adver tisements as the chairman, but was not able in his absence, to t rreside in consequence of his Parliamentary dutie s, and ably supplied which was much regretted, his place was very by Mr. Pearce. The vocal arrangements were under the direction of Mr. Hobbs, assisted by Messrs. Hawkins" Hat ton, Bradbury, and Masters Stevens and Sullivan. On th e removal of the cloth, the " Benedictus" was sung, aft er which the health of her Majesty, of the Queen Dowager, Prince Albert, and of the Royal Family, were drunk with accustomed loyal demonstrations A great variety of toasts followed, and the company did not separate till a late hour. In the course of the evening the report was read by Mr. 14race, the secretary, and was a most satisfactory testimonial of the utility and success of the institution, and from which it appeared that the capital stock of the institution at present amounts to nearly 15,000/. Three per Cent. Consolidated Annuities, and 10,0001. Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Annui ties.. The subscriptions of the evening were very large, that of the list of Mr. W. Gamatlett, one of the stewards, alone amounting to 400/. ) and the aggregate of the whole to 2,000/. Mr. Tyler, proprietor of the Surrey Zoological gardeu4, had the honour of an interview with his Royal Highness Prince Albert yesterday morning, at Buckingham Palace, to submit the model of the forthcoming pictorial ex hibition, the subject of which was kindly suggested by his Royal Highness. After entering minutely into the detail, his Royal Highness expressed himself highly pleased with the beauty and accuracy of the execution, THE DISTRESSED NEEDLE WOMEN. The grand full and :fancy dress ball, in aid - of the funds of the society for the protection and employment of distressed needlewomen, takes place this evening at the London Tavern. The Society is under the patron age of her Majesty the Queen-Dowager, and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. Mr. Alderman Ferebrother is its President, and Lord Ashley its Vice- President. The notabilities both of the Court and of the city will, as we understand, honour the ball with their presence. It is delightful to see the elite of all classes thus uniting in aid of the cause of the poor and the defenceless. OLYMPIC THEATRE. We visited this theatre last evening, and saw an Eng lish version of La Dame de St. Tropez, which was pi•o• duced in a manner which reflects great credit upon the management of this elegant little theatre. The part of Hortense, the heroine, was sustained lay Miss Davenport, and sustained in a manner which cannot but add greatly to the reputation of this rising arti,te. She personated to the life the young girl, high-bred, high-spirited, and sensible (in the French sense of the term), suddenly thrown among rough, vulgar, brutalized persons, whose envy makes them ready to construe even the common courtesies of society into an unpardonable crime. liar acting throughout was in perfect keeping, and was beau tiful, exceedingly, in the strictest sense of the term. Judging from her acting in La Dame de St. Tropez, we should augur great things of her Dzsdemona, and we hop soon to have an opportunity of seeing her in the character. She was excellently supported by Waldron, whose George Maurice was a most careful and praise worLity piece of acting. Miss Rate Howard, as Madame Langlois, was excellent ; our old friend Tur nour, as her henpecked husband, was exceedingly hu morous. Miss Grey, too, was very good as Madame Antoine ; but we cannot say as much for the Antoine of Mr. Broadfout—his strides and his contortions were equally awful, they savoured more of the ring than of the stage. It was melodrama run mad. We would re commend him to go to the St. James's, and take a lesson or two of M. Oudinot. The drama was followed by a ballet, in which a pas de deux was danced by Mr. Flex more and Miss Wright, which, in a theatre of even higher pretensions than the Olympic, would have brought down enthusiastic rounds of applause from the delighted dilatinti. The evening's amusements con cluded with the excellent old farce of the Romp, is which Miss Davenport, as Priscilla Tomboy, proved that she is as much favoured by Thalia as she is by• Me lpomene. MUSIC. THE BLIND ORPHAN. Ballad, sung by Miss Glabt. Composed by IL J. St. Leger, Esq. Chappell, New Bond street. The words of this lyric are very beautiful, and the sentiment conveyed by them is well expressed in the melody. The accompaniment too is tasteful and mu sician -like, supporting without drowning the air. This elegant ballad will no doubt be a favourite in the draw ing -room during the approaching season. A SET OF NEGRO QUADRILLES, and a " Sha Ska" Polka. By Francis Gilot Jullien, Black Musician. Purclay, St. Paul's; Egan, Jamaica. We cannot refuse a passing notice to the first produc tion of a negro composer that has come under our obser vation. The motives are constituted upon original Creole airs, are extremely pleasing, and well modulated. No. 8, entitled " The Farewell," a song composed on the de parture of the Marquis of Normanby from Jamaica, who, as Governor of that island, had distinguished him self as the friend of the negro, is of a superior order of quadrille melody, and as a whole the arrangement does infinite credit to " Mr. Francis Gilot Jullien, Black Mu sician," as he styles himself, whose " full length," in "full fig." conducting his sable orchestra, adorns the title-page. This il ustrated title-page is a curiosity in itself, but we candidly confess our inability to unravel all its West Indian enigmatical allusions. There is un doubtedly a sly hit at the composer's great rival and namesake ' M. Jullien, in one or two of the compart ments ; but our musical lady philanthropists and the friends of the negro will no doubt go and judgo for themselves. LITERATURE. THE GALLERY OF NATURE, ,ST. Patt I. Orr and Co. ' Paternoster-row. This is the fi rst part of a serial devoted to the illus tration of the natural history of the universe. The present number contains a short history of astronomical discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time, and the commencement of a description of the scenery of the heavens. The work is well written and is profusely illustrated by diagrams and woodcuts, some of the latter of which are of a high order as works of art. It is neatly printed and well got up, and will no doubt meet with that success of which it is deserving. PARLIAMENTARY COMPANION FOR 1845. By Charles R. Dodd, Esq. Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria-lane. This is the thirteenth annual impression of this ex ceedingly useful little manual, which, to every one in terested in Parliamentary proceedings, is au indispen sable mule mecum, containing, us it does, a succinct account not only of the manner of conducting kusiness, both public and private, before both Houses of Parliament, but of the connexions political and personal of every Member of the Legislature. Every person interested in any of the new railway schemes should possess a copy of the Parliamentary Companion, a reference to which may frequently save them much valuable time. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. TI HE S.—The premium on gold at Paris is 15i per milk, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 100, per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 54 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 75, it follows that gold is 0.82 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from llamburgh the price of gold is 434 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31.17s: 10 per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 9i; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 11i, it follows that gold is 1.02 per cent. deans. in London than in Hamburgh. The course of exchange at New York on London is. 110 k per cent., and the par of exchange between Eng land and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is 0.68 per cent. in favour of England. But the quoted exchange at New Yosk being for bills at 60 days' sight, the interest must be added to the above difference. SUN.—The Funds leave off rather flatly, Consols at 99% % for Money, and Thursday . Exchequer-bills fell to 62 prem., upon sales being made. Reduced Three per Cents. were 100 1 /„ and the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. 104. Spanish Bonds remained as in the morning. The Three; per Cents. were done at 40 1 % ; and the Passive at 6% ; Mexican were 35%; Buenos Ayres, 43; and Austrian, 1154 Dutch Four per Cents. were 98g. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these:—Birmingham and Gloucester were 32 ; Bristol and Exeter, 121/, to 1314 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, % to 1 ;. Chester and Holyhead, 2% ; Churnet Valley, 4% to 5;; Eastern Counties, 2 ; Eastern Union, 8% ; El and Bedfor4 N; Great Southern and Western (Irel an d), 6% to 6 ; Gies.% orth of England, 88 ; Great Western, 94; Hu 1 and Gains borough, % to % ; Ditto and Selby, 28 ; Ditto Quarter, 5 3 4 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 14%; Brighton, 8 1 4 ; Birmingham Thirds, 40 ; South Western, 37 1 • London and York, 414 - Manchester and Birmingham, 2314: ; Newcastle and Ber w i c k : : 11; North British, 5 ; Richmond and West End, 2%; Rugby and Tring, 2 1 4 to ; South Devon, 6%; Shrewibury an& Birmingham, 2 1 M to 1% ; South Wales, 2 1 4 to 1%; Trent Valley, 18% ; York and North Midland, Scarborough Brands, 21; Boulogne and Amiens, 4; Bordeaux and Toulouse, %; Great Northern of France, 1 1 ,4 •, Orleans and Bordeaux, 4 1 h ; Paris and Lyons, % • and Paris and Orleans, 26% . premium. Direct Northern ' have been 14 to 3 ,4 ; Blackwell,. 9 1 4 ; Greenwich, 1% ; and Midland Birmingham and Derby. 8 discount ; Australian Bank Shares were 4 to I ,: z ; Com— mercial, 1 / 2 ; and London and Westminster, 7% preiniwL British North American, 4% to 14 ; and Colonial. 10% dip,. There was an improvement in the quotation of Pas of Exchange en Amsterdam, Hamburgh and Triesto. P ar is and Antwerp remained about the same as ou last, post day. The following is the official return of the ex:oorts of Bullion from the port of London for the weei 610 :,,g Thursday last. Specie to Sydney Gold Ditto THE NELSON LET7tats, TOL. ll.—We are re questedstre h a s to bisttate, Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough dav p ublished the second volume of " The Nelson j. ..etter j s and Dispatches," which can now be had 0f .... booksellers. Mr. Colburn has also ,just published the following new works :-2. The Maxims and Opi nions of the Duke of Wellington, 1 vol., with portra it, 14s. bound. 3. Prince Puckler Muskau's Egypt under Mehemet Ali, translated by 11. Evans Lloyd, Esq., com plete in 2 vols., with portrait, &c., price 16s. bo und, com prising the three volumes of the German or iginal. 4. Three Years in Constantinople ; or, Domestic Manners of the Turks, by Charles White, Esq., 3 Is., small B vo . with illustrations. 5 . Colone l Maxwell ' s Adventures. 2 vols , small B vo. , with portra its. 6. Letters of a Ger man Countess, writt en during her Travels in Turkey, Egypt, t h e Holy Land, &c., 3 vols., small B vo. 7. A. Second Edition of "Revelations of Russia," by . an Eng lish Resideut, 2 vols., small Bvo. Shortly after twelve o'clock on Sunday morning, a fire broke out upon the premises bel ong i ng to Mr. Raw bone,'ai. oil and rn yd l , os t n a t brigade, r n b gu at Nvd Church, a eb r , Ny e a l i ent o shdv u ei s nN e gyt m itemo a sn n et , tfh F TEe r hyn a eg n a ; n e nr s igdvi s e-a t doe r ifi e st e heo t eef , promptly c e n g parish S t , sL attended,oa flames were bursting forth through the windows and doorway. The Lambeth water works furnished an in stant and abundant supply of water, from which the engines were worked with full vigour, but the firemen were unable to subdue the conflagration before half•past one o'clock, and not before property to the amount of several hundred pounds *as consumed. FREE TRADE BAZAAR IN LONDON.—WE have every reason to believe that the contributions from Leeds to this undertaking will be neither few nor insignificant, and are informed that the ladies of the Committee have met with. considerable encouragement in the course of their labour*. We are not aware whether any steps have been taken to insure the collection of a complete exhibition of our local manufactures, as we observe the Free-Traders of Sheffield, Leicester, and other towns intend doing; but we trust and believe that the gentlemen of this town and neighbourhood who are able and willing to further the cause, will not be be hind hand in seconding the praiseworthy industry of the ladies.—Leeds Mercury. CHATHAM, FEB. 25.—8 y the apprehension and committal of two desperate characters, a daring gang of burglars has, fortunately for this neighbourhood, been brokers up. Yesterday the county magistrates at Rochester were occupied for some hours investigating three cases of felony against two of the gang, named Edward Miller and Richard Swain - Woollard. The evidence was clear against them, an d both prisoners were committed to take their trolls at the next Maidstone assizes. /,., 1