The Sun. — London, England, 1839-02-07 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. 'Ridillnerg Majeousesty took iequestrian exercises yesterday, in the H atlico. ~.viscount Melbourne bad en audience yesterday of her YlLL'ajesty. The Queenlmnoured Sir Francis Chantrey with a sitting -.yesterday, at the New Palace. The Earl of Erroll, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Torrie:ton, Viscount Falkland, and the Honourable Wil -I;atn Cowper, joined the Royal circle at dinner last evening. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had a grand party last evening, at Cambridge House. The company included his Royal Highness the Duke of Lucca, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, Duke of Wellington, Marquis of Lothian, Marquis and Marchioness Ailesbury, Elul and Countess of Albeniale, Earl and Countess of Huston, Lady Gcorgiana. Bathurst, Lord ' HA Lord and Lady Wharneliffe, Lord and Lady Fitzroy tomerset, Baron 14 , ,wenburg, Sir Samuel Higgins, Mr. sad Mrs. Talbot, and Captain Hill. Dr. Somerville. and a Deputation of Teacher% of Ana •t°ltiy, had an interview with Lord John Russt.li. yesterday 4 t' the Home Office. M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, had an Interview with the Chancellor of tie Exchequer yesterday la Downie _street. Lord Carew had an interview with Viscount Melbourne Downing-st ree t yesterday. b B ,ll' George G re y, B art ., an d M r . W e y m outh, M. P., ad interviews -with Lord John Russell at the Home Office -Yesterday. I tu T.he Russian Ambassador, the Prussian and Austrian misters trang• t d business yesterday at the Foreign o ffice. e o ffi "Patch:es wer e rece i v ed yesterday at the Colonial ( e hare the Lieutenant-Governor of Gibraltar. tAdvocate of Scotland bad an interview yes erdaY h the Chancellor of the Exchequer. to I' A.S 7 I - UONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. j S ir P. H. Fleetwoe,d, Bart., M. P., at English's, St. Royal Hotel, St. James's-street, from Lance kilre J. P. Somers, Esq., at ditto, from Ireland ; 'ls e ssras Young, Murdock, and Henry, at ditto, from v ul t i r b lia ; „ Colonel Knox Gore, at ditto, from ditto - George 14, 4 en• ean., at ditto, from Worcestershire; ' Col. Sir ‘l4 Howard, M. P., at the Brunswick Hotel, Jernayn styes% from, Brighton ; Colonel Conolly, M.P., at ditto, 1'7 1 43 tile No rth ; Mons le Baron de Behr, at ditto, from rnuiattl rus4l3 ; rSir Robert Kennedy, Bart., at ditto, from . , conard'x the Rev. Dr. Hopkins, Bishop of Vermont, at 1 0 , f!ters America ; James Duff, Esq., M. P., in Pall s', &tem Paris ; the Earl of Aylcsford, in Grosvenor tb;,Lec,,t. from PacLington Hall, his seat in Warwickshire; f 'art and Countess of Zetland, in Arlington-street, „srs,-. of seat •in Yorkshire ; the Earl and Coun- VI, ° Fingal, in Belgrare-square, from Brighton; Ni-cecoune Pr,werscourt, M.P., in Dover-street, from P ; liva Marquis of Northampton, h Terrace, t ct e s e i , a dilly, from Castle Ashby, his seat f in Northamp sr,-;'re ; 'the Earl of Yarborough, in Arlington-street, mtt, Appuldercombe, Isle of Wight; Lord and ,; ( 7 Krtriart, from Bryanston House, their seat in Dor -24'4° ; Lord Dormer in Clifford-street, from. his scat, b,;, ( , )t e Rouse, Warwickshire; Lord and Lady Heytes s7,l, in Brook-street, from Hcytesbury, Wilts ; the Hon. g r il q Herbert, M.P., in Grafton-street,_from the family a . Wilton House, near Salisbury ; the Earl and Coun g•as°l Winchilsea, in Wilton-crescent, from Haverholme t h . ., l Y. Li ncolnshire ; Lord Leveson, M. P., at Devon sCr,; House, from the British Embassy at Paris; the Earl t „...L'unnaore, in Grafton-street , from the Dowager Coun -7°,1. Pembroke': seat, in Wilts; Duke of Richmond, in th'tand-place, from Goodwood Park, near Chichester; li e 40 1 of Hardwieke, in Brook-street, from, Wimpole kT,113 Cambridgeshire ; the Earl of Hillsborough, M.P., j ' a l .t ll °lnver-seluare, from a visit to the Earl of Aylesford, at C l / 4 , l agton, Hall, Warwickshire ; Lord Worsley, M. P., in Cg, r ave-square, from Brockelsby, Lincolnshire ; the their and Countess Bruce, in Grafton- street, from 4,1 Se at, Savanache Lodge, neat, Marlborough °f Lisburne, from his scat, Crosswood Park, Wales; c e .Herl of Lonsdale, in Charles -street, from his seat, .B: t t i es ,mwre, Rutlandshira ; Lord and Lady Bolton, in l'el_er-square, from their seat, Hackwood Hall, Hants; e ft rd , uolehester, in Great Cumberland-street, from his r ;" Kidbrooke, Sussex ; Lord Carrington, in Bel ' "r, t i‘klutare, from his seat, near High Wycombe ; / cam Beresford, in Harley-street, from Liver c7.l Lord Segrave, in Spring-gardens, from Berkeley es Glouocatershire ; Sir T. Fremantle, M. P. , James's pl ace , from Swanbourno, his seat, in t : e42 ; Lord G ar d ner , in . South Audley-.street, from Mel , c° Movvbray ; Vis coun t an d Viscount e ss Holmesdale, in 6 1 : Q4 'er:tor-street, f rom M on treal, the s eat o f Earl Am- A c lll t. in Kent ; Lord Dalmeny, in Piccadilly, from Dal , G e l/ Park, near Edinburgh ; the Earl Delawarr, in Upper b rfta enor-street, front Buckhurst Park, Sussex ; Mr. T. in Conduit-street, from Sherborne Castle, i r seat of the Earl o f M acc l es fi e ld, i n O x f or d s hi re; th e VIII. Captain Keith, at Mivart's Hotel from Scotland; J. H. P Arks, at ditto, from a tour • Mrs. and Miss `'harnbess, at. ditto, from Yorkshire ; th e Earl of Shelburne, • P. ' at Lansdowne- House, Berkeley-square, from Brigb. Lord Hatherton, in Grosvenor-place, from Taddesley Wassal ; Viscount Acheson, M. P., in Dover-street, f rom the family seat, Gosford,Castle:; Ireland the Earl and b°lintess of Haddington, in Berkeley-square, from a visit to Vsarl of Macclesfield, at Sherborne Castle, Oxfordshire; Pe Colonel and Lady Alice Peel, in Wilton -crescent, from aria; the Earl of Roden, at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond !tee; from a continental tour ; the Marquis of Waterford ( I Lord John Beresford, at Simmon's Hotel, Conduit -14., te ,et Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, at Lord s,__ e 'bourne's official residence, in Downing-street, from s,4iriordshire; Mr. and Mrs. Fazakerley, in Upper Brook rft, from a tour; Lady Katherine Stewart, from e t , ; Major-General Sir James Simond, from ditto • the of Kintoro and Levi Inverury, at Thomas's Hotel, waiK:ara clesquare, from Edinburgh Earl of ins - in Belgrave-square, from Wilton House, Wilts ; 1 Strangford, in Harley-street, from Ashford, Kent, f 6" Waldegrate, from Strawberry Hill, Twickenham ; B a P 4 in Garth, at Thomas's Hotel, from Berkshire 4ratford Dugdale, M.P., from his seat, Merevale Hall, 4,rwiekshire • Lord Maidstone, in Pall-mall, from a visit tors of Northampton, int Mariat Castle Ashby, North tonshire. DEPARTURES. G T he Earl an d C ountess of A ntr i m, f rom Mi vart ' s H o t e l, „,rnok-street for Hastings ; the Earl of Vcrulam, from \''rosvet ior-square, for Gorhatebury, lierts ; the Earl and mess of Meath, for the Norfolk Hotel, at Brighton ; dEat' of Eglintoun, from the Clarendon Hotel, for the_ ill' Lord and Lady Dillon., from ditto, for their scat, m i • tch ley Park, Oxfordshire ; the Earl of Antrim, from La lrarts Hotel ; Hubert - Wykcham, Esq., from Clifford ' a t r a e d ") for Thame. Oixfordshire ; the Hon. Captain and • tte-3' Annabtilla rcamsden, from Manchester-street, for f n ir seat, near Baldry, Yorkshire ; Lord Castlereagh, Zit Chapel -street, for Paris ; the Earl of Abingdon, for at4thaln NI 'whey ; Mr. Vigors, M.P., for Carlow; Mr. ' rs • 13 eennet Langton, for Lincolnshire'. Ir Q eigh t Prussian Court has gone into mourning for 4 0 , 'aYs for his late Serene Highnets the Landgrave of Hesse nhu rg. t : T he Countess of Tankerville has issued cards actr ess on th e eth, 16th, and '2oth inst. Ladyepntinue, Minto's Thursday evening's parties still h Y i3 count L eveson arr ived at Devonshire House M onday eveningwe from Paris. h a regret to hear that the Earl of Essex has StAt o relapse, and that his Lordship continues in a very delicate l bf health. 4, 10 ' 4 , 6 rd Holland was prevented attending the Ca nuee„-dinftei.,iPiin on Monday last, in Downing.strecf, in cense. fi n -,"! " cold; Lady Holland is also indisposed, having been eon. to her bed for nearly three weeks. D„ Lor d and Lady Maryborough entertained the ta " Beaufort, Loid Fitzroy Somerset, Sir Charles and Lady Lady Burgbersh, Mr. Drii almond, and a select party at din. 'Cra Tuesday evening. A subscription has been entered into to present T o b Joh Day, o f St. G t .sorge's.in-the.East, some mark of approval 1 ' ePPosition to the New Poor Law. 0 ` - zUNERAL SKRZY NECK I.—The arrival at Brussels of this P o lish officer, who acquired much celebrity in the to Pallet insurrection, especially in the command of the Polish r m 7 at the gl or i ous b a ttle of Ostrollnska, is confirmed by the Bel tab Papers, which positively state that he is to have the. command ova Belgian di v i s i on . A short time previous to the escape of Ge neral Skrzynecki from Prague the authorities of that city had been Instructed by the police of Vienna to watch his movements, but the 7arnitig would appear to have arrived too late. Unable to appre "nd him, the authorities of Prague seized his papers, but their con proved unimportant. On thc 25th ult. fourteen Polish Cap. tsi ns or Lieutenants received commissions in the Belgian army. The Princess Augusta still continues under the 'are of Sir Matthew Tierney. The Princess has not yet quitted her ""ttreent ; but Sir Matthew left word at the Lodge yesterday, that her ~.1 101 al Highness's cough was much better . — Brighton Guardian. L Ma Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, and ady Cecilia Underwood and suite, are expected to return to town, the end of the month, from the seat of Lord Dino r ben , Kinmell a tt, a Asap h. Baron Lowenberg, Highness the Duke of Lucca , Baron Colhi —aron Lowenberg, Marchioness of Ailcsbury, Countess hi e Pe u r. Countess of Eldon, Lady Lyndhurst, Countess Zavadowsky, Highness the Prince of Capua, Countess Woronz . e . , h e f - ,.,`, e `a of Clanwilliam, Countess Bruce, were among the fashio tiles in the gallery of the House of Lords on Tuesday last. th L a dy Tankerville will give her second soiree to t t ef 'reign corps diplomatique on Saturday evening, rd, in Grosven at the mansion tt e 11° E )10 Lo, or.square. Mu mn 4 SHIONABLE PARTIES —Lord and Lady %In k - -- "gh entertained the Duke of Beaufort, Lord .Fitzroy ihon 7 , set, Si r Charles and Lady Begot, Lady Burg h ers h, Mr. Drum. ord aqd 7f,''t a select patty, at dinner on Tuesday even in g - Ho ttm 7Y Holland hail a dinner party last evening, at Holland en T L acl Y Catherine Barham gave a dinner to a select party evenin at her residence at Chelsea. n T HE UKE OV WELLINGTON ' S POLITICAL Ifond a , o , 7 '"*A great many of the noble guests of his Grace on Du ke of evening, came to town in the afternoon of that day. The Beaufort did not arrive in town from Badminton until n t , t i t ecl° ck ; the Ma rqu i s C am d en , f ro m the Wilderness, in Kent, :tat five ; the Marquis of Dewnshire, from the Earl Amherst's K • of nt.usttl five; the Duke of Rutland, Earl of Winchil- Let Eldon, Earl of Wilton, Earl de Grey, Earl of Verulam, Pectively arrived the same aftcrneon. f Sir Rob er t P eel, Bart. M . P ., h a d a l ong con aertreenee With the Duke of Wellington, at Apsley House, on Monday i h _ rn _, ° °a• Sir R o b ert w i ll commence h i s par li amen t ar y di n ners at : 3 „ Letse of thi s, or early in the ensuing month. at , t he Duk e an d D uc h ess o f L ee d s are ex p e cted Clarendon Hotel to.day, from Hornby Castle. The late Duke's l▪ ae!eus mansion in Bt. James's-square, which his Grace purchased 't the executors of the late Lord Hardwicke, is occupied by his 8611-..h"aw. Mr. Lan e F o x. 'lra. Car nac w ill return t o h er mans i on i n MallS _,e'd-ateet the middle of February, for the smelts, from .her resi lience at Hastings. A deputation from the City Dispensary, headed kr si r is b.,. ]froth. 'art., waited upon his Royal Highness the zne of %abridge yesterday morning, and were most grainously Zrod- His Xeyal Highness kindly consented to take the chair A i reir next anni versary dinner on the 21st of M arc h nex t, at t h e 4 " 1 " 1 1) Tavern, ha —RR th 9 fiftieth anniversary of the institution. to •gyp newc to bond ors fourn ua• e B ras I*- inai ca iA Ose for and ily trax. LniSer Of an CX• tchedl i bat t ~itho'r cons tot yne( JO' irdcr • 0 ;11 8 J /I aor sing an • Aral y• G over"' •,:bts Rhine cnt, wss A know the aver 11/0;/iiIliorf n atio ll /. E r nst, will b e n a of we have ly of Fe. p;is lo -len t „olUt i°9' qu"tient tb try ; , ate of un co d to it ountrY. 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[onte "Is Jo" t_, otepi Chi!' le oel rat& O c x On 00 0 , 4 101 . . g tt'o o 0/ 1 .- ig di rO U'Si'- 10 "C „ot ) 1 , r A In 1, en to so" io mews col roe' ed 0 : of 'e a , 0° Nee o sc. igs7,, t te''' 6,,, loor IL , frO o r Pr °Ja ' 11 10 dor' LETTER of LORD JOHN RUSSELL TO HIS CONSTITUENTS. The Brighton Gazette, «ith an amusing air of self-satis fied importance, puts forward to-day, in a very prominent manner, the following letter, which, it is stated, was addressed by Lord John Russell, when Member for Hunt ingdon in 1822, to his then constituents : g , Woburn Abbey, January 14. " It being impossible by means of a Corn Biit to re stere the war prices, I beg of you seriously to consider whether a new Corn Bill is to do you at present any good whatever. Supposing you were allowed to frame it yourselves, or that tLe Legislature should enact a pro hibition at all times to import any article the produce of the rc.ii of Great Britain, would your distress be at all relieved ? I think not. I think also, if you agree thus far, you must also agree with me that any efforts in this directiori are not likely to be attended with benefit to yourselves. For the truth of this, I appeal to the best of all tests—the experience of last year. By active peti tioning, you obtained a Committee on the State of Agri culture. And what was the result? Evidence proving the distress beyond all doubt, and a report suggesting eo relief but time and patience. Time has not yet brought you any consolation; and as for patience; you surely did not require twenty-one g. ts.lemen to sit three months for the purpose of recommending that well-known virtue. But the Committee have also advised an alteration of the Corn Bill. That is to say, they recommend a lewd: iinpar.atien price with a duty. Whether such a law, as a permanent system, might not be better than the present, I am not quite prepared to decide. But it is clear that lowering tilt importation price would bring you no relief for present distress. And I am inclined to believe that, with many sugared words, the framer of the Report in tended to lay the foundation for subverting the principle of the Corn Bill altogether and introducing foreign corn dl times into the market ; for the principle of admitting cign corn, when our own prices are low, being .once grentvd, it would be extremely difficult to counterbalance the taxes paid by the English farmer. A duty of 40s. or 50s. a quartee upon foreign corn could hardly be enacted ; and if enacted, certainly would not be persisted in. But I am inclined to think, that if foreign corn were admitted, even if you had scarcely any taxes to pay, it would not be easy for the farmers of England, who require to live in a certain degree of respectability and comfort, to compete wilt the Lords of Poland and Russia, whose vassal pea eantryeare unacquainted with the wants of a civilised state. Cern is a manufacture (to use our new phraseology) cle aply produced in a fertile soil, by wretched ploughs, wretel.ed horses, and wretched men. " There is a party amongst us, however, distinguished in what is called the science of political economy, who wish to substitute the corn of Poland and Russia for our own. Their principle is, that you ought always to buy where you can. buy cheapest. They repeat with emphasis that the nation pays a tax of 25,000,0001. yearly to the growers of corn., They count as nothing the value to the country of a hardy race of farmers and labourers. They care not fur the dif ference between an agricultural and manufacturing popula tion, in all that concerns morals, order, national strength, and national tranquillity. Wealth is the only object of their speculation ; nor do they much consider the two or Aimee millions of people who may be reduced to utter beggary in the course of their operations. This they call diverting capital into another channel. Their reasonings lie so much in abstract terms, their speculations deal so much by the gross, that they have the same insensibility about the suffer. ings of a people, that a General has respecting the loss of men wearied by his operations. " It is to these men, I suspect, that our Mini: s se ss ar e about to give up the question of trade in coree,q. Our Conservative Contemporary does nOt attempt to dis guise the satisfaction felt in die:veering this treasure of a letter, and presently proceeds to build on its superstruc ture speculations superlatively gratifying to Tory tastes. Ile even chuckles in the fanciful notion that the hopes of the Conservetives will soon be consummated in the down fall of the doomed Administration of my Lord Melbourne. " Tdose members of the Cabinet %lb() have setts in the House of Commons will sneak out of the question by supporting Mr. Villiers' motion for a total repeal, with an un:lerstanding that their county Members ehould vote against it, and immediately afterwards dissolve the Par liament, to save their places a few weeks longer. But even this expedient will not avail : their " shabby" reign will end in a dissolution of Parliament and then some forty scats will be gained by the Tories. A moderate fixed duty would entail ruin on Ireland. And O'Connell will now support the motion for a repeal of the Corn-laws, only because he knows it will not b 3 carried." Now there can be no doubt at all that these crumbs of comfort thrown before the Conservatives, who hunger after the sweets of office, are acceptable enough. Ai:id when hopes so sanguine arc entertained, anticipations so exces sively bright indulged in, it were cruel indeed to destroy the cobweb, lay bare the delusion or not to let them, at least for a day, revel in those extatic visions of place and profit, in which the loaves and fishes abound and multiply. The Tories, no doubt, desire vehemently enough to regain the paradise of Downing -street, but we apprehend the day is distant indeed when the nation forgetting Tory-tyranny and the sins which in their official lifetimes they committed, will permit them to re-enter the paradise from which they were drawn by the Spirit of the Age. THE MURDER IN CORNWALL (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) TRURO, lese. 1839.—The Coroner sat again to- day o hear evidence as to this mysterious case, and many wit nesses were examined; but their evidence went only to deny the truth of the prisoner Wi,ite's statements as to the wanner in which he bad spent his time on the day and night previous to the committal of the murder. No facts could be brought borne against him that tended at all to implicate him in the horrid transaction, and during the whole of the proceedings he maintained the most utter indifference. At the conclusion of the proceedings the jury found a verdict of Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown. During my visit to this mining district, which is the most ex te nsiv e and important in the couetry,lmade some inquiries relr.tive to the state of tho working miners, and it was allowed on all hands that they acre never worse off than at present. The price of grain has been nearly doubled, while wages have either stood stationary or have gone down, and not an instance is known where an increase in wages has been made to meet the increase in the price of previsions. The state, therefore, of the miners, many of whom have very fat ge families to maintain,is very distress ing, and I mention this, as an instance at hand, to show the futility of the argument used by some of the Corn-law a dvocates, that immediately provisions rise there is a pro portionate rise in the wages of labour more than sufficient to meet it. It is believed by many that the increase of crime in this country is to be attributed to the scarcity of food, and that opinion would seem to be borne out by facts. On Friday night last Captain John 'Teague, of Tin Croft mines, was returning from Redruth, when he was dragged from his horse, and nearly murdered. They rifled his pockets, and left him in an insensible state, in which he is still lying, with few chances of recovery. The men have been apprehended, and stand committed, on the confession of one of them, for ttial. Our readers will be glad to learn that Govern ment have not been careless observers of the great loss of life lately caused by accidents to steam-boats. In answer to a question from Mr. Hodgson last evening, the President of the Board of Trade stated that two persons had been appointed to inquire into the nature and causes of the accidents that have of late occurred, with a view to propose some legislative measure on the subject. This is alike necessary for the proprietors of steam-boats and the public. VAN AMBURGH'S LION.-(Frotn a Corre spondent. )—Some bibliologists are beginning to consider the possibility of the Millenium having commenced, since the liar► and the lamb are now to be seen nightly lying down together in perfect harmony. A reference to Evelyn's Diary will throw a damper upon such pleasing speculations, for in his time a similar exhibition was offered to the public: " 1654, March 14. I saw a tame lion play familiarly with a laws; he was a huge boast, and I thrust my hand into his mouth, and found his tongue rough, like a cat's." DREADFUL FIRE IN THE CITY.—From four o'clock this morning till about eight o'clock, the greatest excitement prevailed in the City, by the outbreak of an alarming and destruc tive lire, and which was nearly attended with a deplorable saerifice of human life, from the extensive premises of Mr. Richard Wllonald Shoals, plumber and glazer, situated in Cullen-street, Fenchurch street, and nearly adjoining the well-known old Ipswich Inn and waggon-yard. It was discovered about four o'clock by one of the new City police, who was going his usual rounds at the time, and perceived the flames raging in the front shop. By the springing of hia rattle he attracted several of his brother constables in the diffe. rent streets round the spot, who came to his assistance, and they, after considerable difficulty, succeeded in arousing the inmates, who consisted of Mr. Shoals and five other persons, who effected an escape. by the street-door, but without the least covering on, except ing their night dresses. An apprentice was the last to leave the pre mises, the fall of which created on apprehension amongst the persons a , sembled that he had perished, but which was allayed by his being observed scrambling along the parapet of the premises, and over the roofs adjoining. Very shortly after the commencement of the fire, a party of the City police, from the station-house in Tower-street, arrived, and they rendered very great assistance to the inhabi tants living on the spot, and protecting what little could be saved. During the interval intelligence had been for. warded to the fire brigade, at the station in Jeffery-square, and the engines of that establishment quickly were driven to the spot. By this time the devouring element had made most awful ravages, bursting forth from every window of the premises with terrible fury, and threatening the buildings opposite and adjoining with destruc. tion, the occupiers of which were running about in a most distress. ing condition. By half-past four the principal engines of the Lon don Fire Establishment had arrived, together with those from \Vat liog-street, Wellclose.square, Farringdon.street, West of England, and County stations; they were nearly all set to work; but not. withstanding all the aid that was brought into requisition, and the exertions of the firemen of the brigade, who were under the direction of Mr. T. Braidwood, the conflagration was not subdued till property of an extensive and valuable description of furniture was consumed, and the premises in question almost destroyed. Amongst the damages, the premises of Mr. Gordon, coffee-house keeper opposite, has sus tained injury, and Mr. Dolabee, green-grocer, also. EThe driver of the Watling-street engine nearly lost his life, by being knocked down by another engine, of Farringdon.street, In its progresY to the fire : he was extricated from under the horses with difficulty, and Providentially without any serious injury. The loss will fall on the Sun and Guardian Fire-offices. The cause of the conflagration is unknown, and is likely to remain so. BELL'S LIFE IN LONDON.--The pugilistic corla• est between Burke and Bendigo is fixed for Tuesdayl Feb. 12. The full particulars will appear in Bell's Lye in London of the following Sunday. The publicationA Bell's Life in London commences at 12 o'clock on Saturday noon, at the Office, No. 170, Strand, by which early pub. lication the Papers can be sent off by the Two o'Clock Saturday Afternoon Birmingham Railway train. Thy price of Bell's Life in London is Fivepence only. Ty, avoid disappointment, Papers should be previously ordered through the newspaper agents. TUE LIVERPOOL STE A NIER.--ThiS Splendid steam-ship starts on her second Atlantic trip this day. Since her arrival from New York considerable improve ments have been made in her, and we doubt not, that be fore the end of the present month the Liverpool will be regarded as one of the most expeditious and favourite conveyances that ever traversed the ocean. She has up wards of forty berths engaged. The Liverpool brought the President's Message to England, and she will be the first to convey the Queen's Speech, on the opening of Par liament, across the Atlantic.—Liworpeel Courier, Feb. 6. THE SUN, LO CORN LAWS. MEETING OF DELEGATES. A meeting of the General Committee of Anti.Cosn.law Delegates took place at three o'clock yesterday afternoon at Brown's Hotel.' Among the gentlemen present were—Mr, Villiers, M.P., Mr. Den. aistoun, M.P., Dr. Bowring, Mr. Ewart, Sir W. Molesworth, M.P., Mr. Finch, M.P., Mr. Baines, M.P., Mr. Thornley, M.P., Mr. Mark Phillips, M.P., Mr. Horsman, M.P., and Mr. Ainsworth, M.P. B. SMITH, Esq., in the Chair. Dr. Bowatrre, as the Chairman of the Nvidenee Committee, wished to state to the General Committee what they had done singe their last meeting. The first resolutien they came to was, that the Resolution adopted by the General Committee should be circulated throughout the commercial community, and that they should be invited to cooperate with the Delegates, and petition for the total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws.—(Hear.) The next topic that came under their consideration respected the questions that should be circulated throughout. the country, for the purpose of obtaining the information necessary for the ad vancement of their objects.—(Hear.) At the meeting of the Sub- Committee many opinions were elicited, and a number of topics were agreed to by them. They had been instructed to embody those topics in a circular which, would be read to-morrow, and which it was proposed should be sent throughout the different agricultural and manufacturing districts of the country. A els cussion also took place as to the appointment of a P . arliamentary agent, and it was thought necessary that gentlemen should have an opportunity of communicating with Mr. Joseph Parkes, and the Evidence Committee had nominated Mr. Parkes as their Par. liamentary Agent —(Heer, hear.) They had also nominated Mr. Charles Austin as their leading Parliamentary Counsel, and Mr. Rushton as their junior Parliamentary Counsel.—(Hear, hear.) 'I he CHAIRMAN stated that he had received a letter from Derby with a copy of • petition agree d t o a p u bli c meeting of the inhabi tants of that place, convened by the Mayor, " praying that they might be heard by Counsel and evidence at the bar of the House of Commons, with a view to repeal all laws relating to foreign corn and alt other articles of subsistence, and equally to carry out to the fullest extent, both as it affects agriculture and•manufac. tures, the wise and peaceful principles of free trade, by removing all existing obstacles, to the unrestricted employment of capital and in dustry." Since they had met last he had an opportunity of hearing. Mr. Villiers in the House of Commons give notice of emotion to draw the attention of Parliament to the Corn-laws ; but he could not refrain from expressing his astonishment at the speech of the se conder of the address, Mr. Wood, the President of the Cham ber of Commerce of Manchester.—( Hear, hear.) Sir Robert Peel had ironically congratulated the Honourable gentleman on having made out a most triumphant case against the repeal of the Corn-laws; and he, the Chairman, was rejoiced to see Mr. Vil liers rise, and to hear him protest against the delusive and fall:eious statements of the Honourable Member for Kendal. But he should have stated the case as it was made out at the Manchester Chamber of Commerce; he should have stated, 'hat although the exports of the raw material had increased, the exports of the manufactured article had diminished; he had shown an increase in our exports on an average of the last four years; but he should have shown with what countries this in. crease had taken place, why it had taken place with those countries from which we took produce in return, and to those countries which had nothing but corn to give us in return our experts had decreased Had Mr. Wood done his duty he would have expressed the feelings of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, of which he is a most unworthy representative. The next item mentioned by Mr. Wood was the increase in the exportation of cotton yarn—thus making out the statements of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, reps. tive to the decrease of the exports of the manufactured article come.. quent upon the increase in the exports of the raw material. In hard. ware and eutlerythe same process had taken place. The Hen. ccritlii, A man had also congratulated the country on the Mere, ea exportation of coal. [The fact is we are exporting the . .weans of manufacturing to other countries; the th - value of coal exported was 180,0001., of copper, 156,0001. of tin. ' oloeks 52,0001., of tin plate 63,0001. There had been an • ' ...icrease of above fifty per cent., an increase of 180,0001. , n the exportation of coals.l—(Hear, hear.) Altogether, Mr.. - Wood's exhibition had been such as deserved well to be consi dered in Manchester.—(Near.) Mr. GRIM observed, that as to the alleged increase in ex ports, that increase was but very slight, comparatively. True, that for instance in regard to velveteens, three pounds, or twelve yards, might be manufactured from the same loom, and were exported, where, formerly, only one pound or four yards were made al&exported ; but what had been the consequence? why, the manufacturers had to destroy a large amount of capital, and to replace it with other capital, while the quantity of machinery and labour remains the same.—(Hear.) That such statements as Mr. Wood had made last night should have been made without qualifica tion was lamentable; and if there had been an intention to damn the Anti-Corn-law cause, it could not have been better effected. — There had been a great diminution in the exports of the manufac tures in which a certain quantity of labour was employed :—even as regarded raw calicoes, we were every'year, in India and China, losing ground. In manufactures in which labour was the chief ingredient, we were beaten by Saxony : in such as were chiefly composed of raw material, America was rapidly beating us.—(Hear, hear.) The MAYOR of STOCKPORT stated that now the French, the Ger. mans, the Dutch, Swedes, &c., demanded the cotton to be exported by us in warp to a great extent; and the exportation of cotton in warp was rapidly increasing; and the foreign consumers of our cotton, not satisfied with getting it in warp, were importing the shuttlecops also : and then their weavers had little to do but to get the weft, and were at work almo,t as soon as ours.—(Hear, hear). Mr. ASHWORTH, of Bolton, said, that hitherto the President of the Chamber of Commerce had been considered as a merchant, and individually to be a man of business and common sense; he could net account for any change in that opinion unless in his character of a courtier last night he had taken leave of his senses. He had once declared Wet he knew no reasonable cause for the present state of the country; but when he walks forward with adulation to the foot of the throne, heean trace it to the Bank of England. He must now either sink in the estimation of his friends, or take a very different course from the one he had chosen. He ( Mr. A.) had turned his attention to the increase in the exportation of yarn and the great decrease in the exportation of goods. The difference last year amounted to five millions, that would otherwise have been expended in wages, They saw gentlemen come to the House of Commons who had a thousand men depending on them for existence, who had hitherto not lowered their wages, although they had been two years without profit. Machinery was annually, from Manchester and elsewhere, exported to foreign countries, while articles are for warded to our market at a cheaper rate than we can fuv nish them. His friend (Mr. Rawson), had said that had he sunk his machinery in the Trent, and sent his work men to the workhouse, he should then have been a richer men. If this state of things continued, the ma naufacturer had better take a tithe of his property into a foreign land, than continue in this country, to perish with his workmen. Mr. RewaoN said that he gathered, from documents, that the comparative increase in the stocking trade, between Saxony and England was 1,500 to 10 per eent. Landowners would soon find that the agriculturer depended on the manufacturer—not the manu facturer on the agriculturer. The CH►IRMAN said that he thought fir. Wood had not spoken the sentiments of the Chamber of Commerce. He wished it to be dis tinctly understood that Mr. Wood had not spoken the sentiments of the Chamber of Commerce.—(Fleas.) Mr. JOHNSON, of Glasgow, begged as a manufacturer to substi►n. tiate every word that had been said, and he would follow that up by saying, as a merchant, that, from his own experience he was convinced the trade of the country was about to be undermined. — (Hear, hear.) What they wished to impress on the Legislature was, that they did not say the trade was gone, but that it was fast going, and would soon be gone altogether unless an alteration took place in the commercial policy of the country.—(Hear.) It was well known, that two or three years ago, England mainly supplied all the wants of the western world in manufactures ; she supplied the West! Indies, America, and all the islands round the Gulf of Mexico, but now those supplies went from the Continent. Unless means were taken by the Legislature of the country to reduce the cost of provisions, our manufacturing and agri cultural interests must decline; and if the Legislature did not assist them they would be reduced to the necessity of forcing down the wages of their workmen to starvation prices. The Duke of Richmond last night said that if the Corn-laws were abolished agri_ culture would be ruined. Ile (Mr. Johnson) entertained a very different opinion, and thought that if the Corn laws were repealed land would increase in value.—(Hear, hear.) But even supposing the Duke of Richmond was right, he would ask at whose expense was it kept from ruin ? Why, at the expense of the operative and the poor man ; and was it right that the wealthy part of the community should live on the spoil of the poor classes ? —(Cheers.) Let justice be done. Let them have that which the Delegates were ready to give them explained before the House of Commons.— (Hear, hear.) Mr. EIYART said he was glad that he had heard the opinions of some gentlemen snore practically acquainted with the subject than he was. And he congratulated the Delegates that they had come to the conclusion that nothing should satisfy them but a demand for inquiry at the bar of the House of Commons; and if denied it there, at the bar of the country.—(Hear, hear.) They might;depend upon it that they had only two means of success : one, re lying on themselves, and the other by appealing, not to the Members of the House of Commons, but by waiting on Members of the House of Commons through the country.—(Hear, hear.) Constituted as both Houses of Parliament now were, it was impossible otherwise to operate upon them, except through the country.—(Hear.) He thought their resolution ought, instead of being weakened by what had occurred yesterday, to be confirmed; and that they ought to persevere, unhesitatingly, in the course which they had hitherto pursued.—(hear, hear.) He confessed it was astonishing to hear that any man, professing to be a statesman, should not have made up his mind on this question--(Hear)—and whether that in dividual were Sir Robert Peel or Lord Melbourne—for whom personally he (Mr. Ewell) had the highest respect—un less lie had made up his mind on this question—repeal or no repeal—that question being a national question—a question not of manufactures, not of agriculture, but of both combined. Such a man might fur a short time, but he could not fitly or justly continue to be, Prime Minister of England.—(Loud cries of "Hear, hear.") He said this not in a spirit of unkindness; if he followed the dictates of his personal feeling, he should suppress words frankly and honestly, but not adversely spoken. But it was his conviction, as an Englishman, that unless this question was considered by the statesmen of this country, and de cided by them, none of them could long aspire, for any length of time, to be the Ministers of a land whose interests they proved they did not understand.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. WISH said he must advert to what might be termed the use of poisoned weapons against the opponents of the Corn-laws; the statement, which had been made in the course of last night's de. bate, and repeated in a portion of the press; that the operatives had no interest in this question, and that it was the interest merely of the selfish capitalists—nay, the " Standard" went further, and undertook to prove that the interests of the operative manufacturers were in di. rect opposition to the interests of the capitalists. This was a policy similar to that sinister cry which was got up by the " Church and King" Aristocracy, in union with the " Church and King" mob, to crush, if possible, the middling classes. The spirit was the same as that which led to the sacking of Dr. Priestley's house in Birming ham.---(Hear.) If there was one class in the community who had greater interest than another in the abolition of the Corn. laws, he (Mr. Wier), believed it was the operative class.—(Hear.) We have heard from my friend Mr. Rawdon and also from Mr. Villiers, that the manufacturers have only two alternatives, either to abandon the country altogether or to force down the wages of the working classes. Whether a repeal of the Corn-laws take place or not, the money wages of the working classes must be lowered, and one grand reason for pressing the question of a repeal of the Corn-laws was to enable the working classes, when this event should take place, to purchase greater quantity of food with a lower amount of money wages. This is a question which affects the highest interests of the working classes their spiritual welfare as well as their bodily. You never can educate them effectually until you have fed them ; therefore, this question does not affect their bodily welfare alone, but a repeal of the Corn-laws gives them the means of raising themselves. I must protest against this prosecution of the middle classes—the spirit exhibited by cer. tain Members of the Parliament last night, and also by certain portions of the public press which had destroyed the property of Priestley at the close of the last century. Mr. STUROE expressed his joy that the gentleman who had just sat down had taken up this subject. It was an insult to say that the working classes did not understand this question. He, Mr. Sturge, was a delegate from Birmingham, where, unfortunately, they Ad not succeed in passing their resolution to petition Parliament on the subject of a repeal of the Corn.laws; but the ground taken up by the apponents of that resolution was, that it was utterly useless to petition the House of Commons, and he could assure the meeting that the opponents on that resolution fully agreed with the purposes of it in their dislike of the Corn-laws. He was not disappointed with the eenduct which he had observed last night in both Houses of Parliament, for he had long since been of opinion and it was with sorrow that he gave expression to that opinion, that with some few honourable exceptions the Members of both those Houses had no sympathy whatever with the country. But this ought only to stimulate us to support by every means in our power, the motion of which Mr. Villiers had given notice for the 19th inst. Could this question be seen in a right point of view, there is no doubt but that the different religious denominations would petition for a repeal of the Corn.laws. If the working classes were reduced to a state of absolute starvation there would be no difficulty in getting tie religious denominations to petition for their relief. And why should there be anydifficulty in getting them to petition to avert the DON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1539 starvation with which they are threatened? It is surely as much the duty of Christians to prevent evil as to remedy it after it has occurred. If we could bring this question fully and fairly out, we should doubtless obtain their support and assistance. It would be very desirable to have petitions presented beore the 19th instant, In support of the motion to be brought forward on that day, and it would be also very desirable that the constituents of different Honourable Members should write their let. ters urging their attendance upon that occasion. He concluded by offering to the attention of the meeting a resolution, that circulars embodying those suggested should be immediately issued, and that there should be a still further attendance of Delegates previous to the 11th. He was averse to drawing gentlemen from their homes unnecessarily, but it was of importance to have a Hill attendance of Delegates previous to that Occasion. Mr. FINCII, NI.P., said that after what had passed last night he must say something of the conduct of Mr. G. W. Wood; he did not wish to say anything harsh of that gentleman, but he must say, and were Mr. G. W. Wood present, he should not hesitate in saying it in his presence, that he was either a man without judgment, or, said the Honourabie Gentleman, " I fear there is treason in the camp." It was of the utmost importance that they should prevail on all Members favourable to a repeal of the Corn-laws, to attend a meeting which should be held previous to the di cession of the question in the House, when they should make up their minds as to the measures they should adopt, and press those measures on the attention of the Government, for he was sorry to szt from what he observed last night, that this was absolutely no. cessary. Dr. BOWRING was much obliged to the Hon. Gentleman for having drawn the attention of the Delegates to this subject. If it was the intention of the House to cushion this question, it was the intention of the Delegates to put on their hats and go home again ; aid it would be a cushioning of it to refer it to a Committee. One reason of the reasons, doubtless, of the opposition to receiving evidence at the bar of the House was because then the true bearing of the question on the interests of the working classes would become apparent, and a case would be made out which would show how all alike are interested in obtaining a repeal of the Corn laws. Then the delu. sion as to the money amount of wages would be exposed, and it would be shown that in countries competing with this the wages arc sufficient to enable the labourer to purchase a house for himself out of his earnings —and also raise himself from his dependent condition, and thus furnish him with new means of competition with the English labourer, Ho expressed his disgust at the conduct of those opponents of the repeal who professed to be actuated by peCuliarly religious motives. No hypocrisy could be more monstrous than after daily repeating the petition in the Lord's Prayer," Give us this day our daily bread," to adopt measures to prevent the accomplishment of that blessing for which they had prayed. Well might that petition be immediate ly followed by a prayer to " Forgive us our sins." Mr. rARXER, of Preston, said, it struck him that there would not be a more effectual way of showing to th• world that this measure was not sectarian than by appealing to the religious world without any distinction. Mr. Wgta: stated that that poposition had been acted upon by some Dissenting Clergymen in Scotland. Several had offered to lecture the working classes on that subject. Mr. AMIWORTII said if they were sent back to the country It would not be a repeal of the Corn-laws that would satisfy them, but an entire reformation of the House of Commons and the House of Lords too. He did not mean to threaten Lord Melbourne, but did he send them back unsatisfied, they would not return for a half measure, Mr. twartr, otVerpOol, said—Let it never be lost sight of by the country that the parties wko desired further measures of Reform would net he themselves, but those who were neglected. Mr. CopeocK suggested whether the meeting ought not to pass a resolutifA repudiating the conduct of Mr. Wood in the House. He and not:met with two opinions on the subject. Either Mr. Wood was a traitor to their cause, or an ignorant, inefficient man. His conduct as Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce was not such as it has bean in the House. There he had nor hesitated to state his opinions, but here, in the House, he had stated facts which were immediately laid hold of by the Opposition. Mr. \Vein said he thought it would be well to leave Mr. G. W. Wood to the tender mercies of his Kendal constituents. Mr. Wrsmotrru thought that a Committee should be appointed to make a stAcment, in opposition to the statement of Mr, Wood, and that it should be placed in the hands of every Member of Parliament. The CHAIRMAN then said he was convinced every gentleman pre. sent must feel indebted for the very able manner in which Mr. Vil. hers had advocated their cause.—(Cheers.) He (the Chairman) was highly gratified last night at the spirit and ability with which Mr. Villiers answered "the miserable and fallacious statements" (as he called them) of the Hon. Member for Kendal. Mr. VILLIERS said there appeared to be a great deal of igno rance in the House of Commons on the subject of the Corn-laws, and he thought it would be worth while if some gentleman were to take the trouble of drawing up a few statements and facts, so that they might be published in the form of tracts, and distributed among Members. Dr. BOWRING said the Evidence Committee had that subject un der their consideration. Mr. STURGE thought it certainly would be desirable that some tract of the sort should be printed two or three days before the dis. cussion came on in the House of Commons. Thanks were then voted to the Chairmain, and the Committee adjourned until half.past two o'clock to-morrow. Mr. CLARKSON, who aveared on the part of the prisoners, called witnesses as to character, and the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The Learned SSRJEANT said lie concurred in the verdict, and the judgment of the Court was that the prisoners be transported for ten years. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, FEB. 6. Mr. PRENDEROVIT applied for leave. to exhibit articles of the peace against Mr. John Wilkinson, a member of the medical pro fession. It appeared from the articles, that the exhibitant, Mr. George Gill, bad been threatened by the defendant, in consequence of an unfounded suspicion on his part that an improper intimacy existed between the defendant's wife and the cxhibitant, and that the defendant had threatened to shoot him the first opportunity. The constable who apprehended the defendant, stated that on searching hint he found a brace of loaded pistols in his possession. The defendant declared that his suspicions relative to the exhi. bitant's conduct were well founded. He had made use of the threats alleged again LI him in a moment of excitement, but had not the slightest intention of carrying them into execution. The corraT ordered him to find bail, himself in 100/. and two sureties in 25/ each, to keep the peace for twelve months, and to give 94 hours' notice. BRENTFORD PETTY SESSIONS. Commirrat. OP a GANG or ItoliDEßS.—Yesterday, the Rev. Dr, Walmesley, George Baillie, B. I. Armstrong, and Charles Turner. Esqrs., the sitting Magistrates, were occupied near six hours, in in vestigating numerous charges of robbery, against George Camp, Daniel Thomas, alias " Dirty Thomas," and Charles Reynolds, three well known thieves, and Joseph Sheppard, a marine store. dealer at Hounslow, as receiver, who were brought up from the New Prison, Clerkenwell, for Anal examination. From the numerous robberies, which have within the last six months been committed in the neighbourhood of Heston, Houns. low, &c., by the gang of which the prisoners formed a part, the Magistrates' office, was during the lengthened inquiry crowded to execs' by the sufferers, while the outside was surrounded by tun. dreds of persons anxious to obtain a sight of the prisoners. It appeared from the evidence, which was exceedingly volu. minous, that notwithstanding the vigilance of the local consta bulary, the gang eluded detection until Thursday, the 17th ult., when, its consequence of information received by Hall, one of the Hounslow constables, that It was planned to rob the Methodist ehapel of that town, oil that night lie placed persons on the watch, and on proceeding there about II o'clock, he learned that a boy named Barnes had been scats getting out of one of the windows of the chapel. ile immediately proceeded to the residence of Barnes, whom he apprehended; and as he was conveying the boy to the cage, he began to cry, and in answer to questions put to him,gave the names of the gang, and of the receivers, to whom the plunder was sold. He also stated that his brother, Joseph Barnes, knew more about the robberies than he slid, having been concerned in several of them. He was, in c onsequence, apprehended the next morning, when he gave such information as led to the capture of three of Isis accom plices, the whole of whom had immediatly absconded, and on ac count of which he was admitted Oucen's evidence. The result was, that George Camp and Joseph Sheppard, a marine store-dealer, at Hounslow, were committed for trial—the former for stealing lead from the roof of the Chapel at Hounslow, and the latter for receiving it ; also Henry Camp, for stealing lead otf the washhouse of the Tankcrville Arms; and a man of the name of Mills, in that town, as receiver, and two others, for similar offences. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, F. 8. RICHARDSON E. CLARIDGE, KNIGHT, AND OTHERS. The plaintiff brought this action to recover the amount of a Bill for work and labour done by him as a surveyor for Cundy's pr( posed line of railway bAween London and Brighton, of which the defen dants were Directors. This was the second time the case came before a Jury. Mr. KELLY and Mr. Burr appeared for the plaintiff, and called several witnesses, who proved that he was for several months engaged in surveying the line, and much occupied in making the plans and sections which had subsequently been used before the Committee of the }rouse of Comaions, but that they failed in passing the Bill in the Standing Orders Committee. The charges were proved to be fair and reasonable. The plaintiff had been paid 751. upon account, and brought his action fur the balance of 1311. 12s. Mr. PLATT having addressed the Jury for the defendant, called Mr. Charles:Pearson, who was the solicitor to the Company. He said on the 17th of May, 1837, having then failed in passing their Bill before the Standing Orders Committee in consequence of I alleged errors in the plans and sections, he received orders from the Directors to call the surveyors and engineers together. He did so on that day, and told them the Directors did not wish that any thing more should be said respecting whose fault it was that they had been unsuccessful ; that the funds were short, and they were obliged to keep part for the purpose of opposing Rennie's line in the Hcuse of Lords, and paying tradesmen's bills; the Directors were willing to pay the whole at their proper disposal rateably amongst the engi neers and surveyors, provided they released personally, the Directors and officers, and looked to the future funds of the Company for the further payment of their bills. All the surveyors were present on the occasion except Mr. Richardson; he came in very soon after, and on being told of the agreement which had been entered into with the other surveyors, he at once gladly agreed to it. The proper. tion to be paid the plaintiff was 751., which he received on the 31st of May, and for which he signed a receipt embodying these pro positions. ti In his cross examination he said the Company had not afterwards raised any money till just before the junction of the five lines, when according to the Act for that purpose, they made a call of six pounds a share. He (lid not believe that any of the other surveyors had been paid. Jermyn, one of the surveyors, had recovered his money by action, but he had never signed the agreement. He objected, because he said tradesmen's bills were to be paid, and fifty pounds in his account was for lithography. This evidence was corroborated by that of the Secretary of the Company, Mr. Barham, and Wm. Jerdan, Esq., of the Literary Gazette, who had formed one of the Provisional Committee, but, getting tired of the whole concern, he forfeited the whole of his shares. In reply to this case, the plaintiff called Mr. Maitland and Mr. Davis, two of the other surveyors, who had entered into the same agreement, and who had since then obtained a settlement of their accounts by compromise ; but it turned out that it was 4fter the Jury had found for the plaintiff in the former trial of this case. The Learned Counsel having severally replied, and Iris Lordship having summed up, The Jury immediately found for the defendants. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. QUEEN-SQUARE. John Griffiths Roans, a middle aged man, whose personal ap pearance was rather outre, in consequence of his wearing a huge moustache pair of whiskers and beard, was brought up on a peace warrant, by Dawkins an d Hall, two officers, belonging to this esta blishment. The person making the complaint was Miss E Dunbar, residing in Williams's Cottages, High-road, Knightsbridge. She stated that the defendant and his wife had occupied apartments in her house for the last six mouths. When the defendant first came he was eccentric in his behaviour, but latterly he had become violent ; in fact, so outrageous as to compel complainant to give him notice to leave on last Monday week. This proceeding, she supposed exas perated the defendant, for on the next morning, while rising, she heard him stamping in his room, and calling out " I'll have her kill her." Defendant—That lqalse; if that is published I will bring an ac. tion for libel. Complainant, suspecting these threats were intended for her, and knowing the defendant kept dangerous weapons— Defendant (again interrupting)—False again ; another libel. Complainant made haste and dressed herself, and left the house, since which time she had not slept in it. Caroline Thruer, the servant girl, corroborated her mistress's evidence as regarded the language made use of by the. defendant. Mr. WRITE asked what the defendant had to say in answer to the charge. Defendant took out of his pockets a quantity of papers, and then said—T shall bring this matter before Parliament. The case Evans versus Dunbar shall he laid before the Lords Spiritual and Tem poral, and the Commons in Parliament assembled. This petition }handing a scrap of paper to the Magistrate, which the latter good humouredly took) contains an account of a treasonable attempt upon my life; that is Isiah treason, you know. There are other things I might have put in this petition, Miss Dunbar. But, no; they arc locked up in my judicial heart, and there I'll keep them. Mr. WniTa —What have you to say for threatening the life of Miss Dunbar? Defendant—Miss Dunbar, did you not infect my room, by introducing your brother with his mortified arm ? (De. fendant, shrugging up his shoulders) Ah i I've not been well since. The defendant then called his wife, who is a meek-looking woman, and evidently approached him with some fear. He put a variety of questions to her, as to whether such and such annoyances had not been practised upon him, all of which, by his account, were of a most extraordinary nature; one of these annoyances was the corn plaihant coming into his bedroom in a state of nudity. Mr. 'Wilma here told the defendant he was satisfied that he was of unsound mind, and he should hold him to bail. Defendant —What did you say, Mr. White, I'm mad? Very well, very well—that's treason, treason. I'll cite you before Parlia ment.—Defendant was then removed. Mr. WHITE, addressing the wife, observed that she ought to ob tain some man to watch her husband, as it was evident his mind was deranged. Mrs. Evans said her husband possessed considerable property, but he had put it into a solicitor's hands, and she could obtain no money but through her husband. Mr. WRITE then suggested that it would be advisable to consult with the Overseers as to the ultimate disposal of the defendant. In the course of the afternoon the defendant was removed in a coach to Tuthill-fields prison. W ORSHIP- STREET. THE HORRIBLE CASE OP INFANTICIDE AT SII•REDITCII.—Ycster. clay Jan€ Reeves, charged with the murder of her illegitimate in. fent child, and the horrible mutilation of the same, was brought up for final examination. She appeared in a state of great mental de. pressi9n, and was accompanied by tier mother and brother, who during the examination were very deeply affected. The evidence was taken before Mr. GROVE, in the Magistrates' private room, which, as on the former occasion, was crowded. The prisoner was allowed to be seated. Mr. Humphreys, who was her legal adviser on her last appearance, was not present. In addition to the evidence previously adduced, " Grove, an officer of the establishment, said that when the priso. nor was brought to the office, immediately subsequent to her ap prehension, while she was in the waiting-room with her fel low. servant Eliza Reeves; upon seeing them he said to the latter, " Good God f surely these arc not the parties charged with the horrible murder, where the child was found in the ditch'" He was induced to make the remark in consequence of the excessive levity of their manner. Eliza Reeve said No, it was not me, but this one, pointing to the prisoner, who then ob served, " I'm not guilty of the murder, as the child was still-born I put it in the ditch, and its head was not oil then." A woman who was standing by asked her wino was the father, when she said " I do not know ; I met him by accident." The following day witness went with the Inspector, Robinson, to Mr. Chatfield, where the prisoner was cook, when he searched three boxes, in which he found some napkins, and a dark-coloured cotton gown, which was stained with blood, and which had been recently washed, being then damp. 'Mr. Chatfield deposed to tho enlarged appearance of the pri soner's shape, and to the sudden alteration on the morning of the 15th ult., but on which day she went about her work as usual. Hariiet Heywood, wife of police constable, 212, and the searcher at the station-house, stated that she searched the prisoner and in her pocket found two pen knives. The prisoner observed to witness, " You do not want these, do you Y" Witness answered that she did, upon which the prisoner observed, " Take them, for I have done it, and it cannot be undone." Mr. Glove asked the witness whether she had not something to state in reference to what had been communicated to her by the witness Eliza Reeve. The witness said that she mentioned to witness that she heard the child cry ; that, immediately after, she left the room, bus, while leaving, she heard it gurgle, as if it were being throttled. Mr. Gaols called the witness Eliza Reeve, observing to her that he had acted towards her very leniently in having allowed her to be sworn as a witness. He would not now alter the situation she was placed in, but the Judges had that power which he did not pos sess, and they might consider her accessory. He then stated to her that her former evidence should be read over to her, and he cau. tioned her against saying anything which was untrue. Her evidence having been read to her, Ifr. GROVZ asked her if what the witness Heywood said was true 7 E li za R iev e—r ; when the gurgling was she left the room. I then went to sleep,es, Si and saw no more of the , prisoner till the morning. Mr. Grove--Did you hear a distinct cry first of all, and the gurg ling after? Eliza Ili:eve—Yes, Sir ; just as she states. i llichard Howe, police constable, 37 K, said that he brought the prisoner to the office in the van from the House of Correction on the last examination. While in the van she complained of her feet le:ing very cold, and she added that she bad not seen a fire since she had been at the prison. Witness asked her the reason why. She replied on account of several old women in the prison, who called her a " Greenacre," for having cut up her own child. When she observed that she did not cut it up, but in the anxiety of the moment she pulled the body to pieces with her hands, without knowing what she was about. She then observed, that she was confident the girl Reeve could not have heard the child cry as she was asleep. She was sure the child had been dead two months before it was born. She added, that she bad put the child in the duet-bin, and she did not know how it came in the ditch where it was found. The mother of the priToner, who was sitting by her side, here fell into a swoon and was obliged to be supported out of the room, and the prisoner sobbed loudly. The whole of the evidence being taken, Mr. Geova observed, to the prisoner, that he should commit her for trial. He had not seen her legal adviser there that day; but in his absence, he would give her that advice which he was assured Mr. Humphreys would recommend. It was his duty to ask what she had to say to the charge. He, however, would urge her not to say any thing, knowing that she would be cautioned to that eftbct. The prisoner said that on the night she went out she had no white straw bonnet on. She knew she did not take the child away. - Mr. GnATE then told the officer to let the prisoner and her relations have some refreshments, after which he was directed to convey the prisoner in a coach to the Central Criminal Court. He was also ordered to communicate to Mr. Humphreys that the pri. soner was committed. The brother of Eliza Reeve was held to bail for her appearance before the Grand Jury. THE CORONERSHIP OF MIDDLE- SEX. The following circular was sent round to every Magis trate of the County yesterday morning:— " Sessions House, Clerkenwell, Feb. 6. " be to acquaint you, that the Court will meet here on Thursday next (this day), at one o'clock, pre cisely, for the special purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of sanctioning an application to the Lord Chancellor to increase the number of Coroners from two to three. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, HENRY E D MOND ES, Deputy Clerk of tltc Peace." This is the result of the private meeting of the Justices at Hick i's Hall, on Tuesday last. The Tory clique are determined to have a Tory Coroner if possible. CRIMINAL COURT, FEB. 6. OLD COURT. Charles Samdys Packcr, a music master, pleaded guilty to an dictment which charged him with having forged certain bills of as ceptance to the amount of 2,0001. and upwards, with intent to defraud Messrs. Stone, Martin, and Stone, bankers. Mr. Pu►LL►pe, who appeared for the prisoner, said, he was pre- pared with a host of witnesses of high respectability, who had volun. tecred to give him an excellent character, having known him for several years, and as it was the first offence he hoped the clemency of the Court would be extended to him. Several witnesses were then examined, among whom was Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, who said, he had known the prisoner from child. hood, and his family was highly respectable. Ile had recently be come more intimately connected with him,iin consequence of his hav ing composed an opera which was written by his friend, Miss Mitford. Mr. Justice VAUGHAN said, after what lie had heard, the prisoner's case should meet with such consideratichs as it deserved; but it would be necessary to look into the depositions in order to enable the Court to award a punishment. Mr. BODKIN said that the Messrs. Stone and Co. became liable for the amount of the bills in question; but it was upon public grounds that they felt it to he their duty to institute the proceedings. The prisoner was then removed from the bar. John Pas field, a bricklayer, was indicted for causing the death of his son, aged seven years, by denying him the necessaries of life, and neglec , ing to supply him with requisite medical aid during a protracted illness. The prisoner was not attended by any legal assistanca. as tho pro secution was inst!tuted at the instance of the parish authorities, and in such ca• es the expenses of counsel is not allowed. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner lost his wife about two years back, leaving two children, one of whom was the child in question. and with whom the prisoner rived in Counter alley, New ington. On the RBth of December last, a man named Bolter took a policeman with him to the prisoner's residence, where they disco vered the children in a most squalid condition, without any fire, and lying on a few shavings. The deceased was in a most pitiable con dition, and he eould not tell where the prisoner was to be found, but said he had some bread given to him. In consequence of the harri. fying condition of the apartment, the beadle of the parish was made acquainted with the circumstance, but he did not attend to the case until the following day, and the child was then dead. A further investigation was then set en foot by the parish authorities, and they found that the prisoner, after ho was apprehended, had not been in work for some time, and that, as soon as he procured work, he supplied the children with food and other necessaries, as far as his means would allow, and that the deceased had been in a delicate state, owing to the privations. By the post mortem exa mination it appeared the child had contracted an abscess on the lungs, and that consumption was the cause of his death, which was not caused by the want of the common necessaries of life. In answer to further questions from his Lordship, it appeared that the prisoner cohabited with a woman who conducted him to public houses to spend his money, but in other respects ho shared what he had with his children, and partook of the same wretched abode with them. The Learned JUDGE, after summing up at great length, was of opinion that the prisoner had not wilfully caused the death of the deceased by starvation, but by a consumptive disease, but he consi. dered the conduct of the prisoner highly reprehensible in not ac quainting the parish of the circumstance, and, under such circum stances, it was but just that the parish authorities should have insti tuted proceedings. The Jury, under the direction of his Lordship, accordingly re turned a verdict of Acquittal. Chas. 'lnwood, a grocer, aged 39, was Indicted for forging an order for 201., with intent to defraud Messrs. Smith, Payne and Smith, bankers. The prisoner was also indicted for uttering the same, well knowing it to have been forged. Mr. llonitim appeared for the prosecution. Mrs. Clarke, a person in the service of Mr. Money, George Inn, Uxbridge, proved that on the 3rl January the prisoner came to her master's house, where he had some refreshment, the cost of which was 4s. 8d , for which he tendered a cheok for 20/., but as the change could not be procured, he requested it might be cashed at the Ux— bridge bank. . . Mr. Money proved to having got cash for the check; but In con sequence of some information he had received from his son, he went to the prisoner and told that the Bank had refused to cash it, upon the prisoner appeared very angry, asking what was the use of banks unless to cash checks. He was then told that it was dated 1838, which, he said, must be a mistake, at the same time erasing the figure 8, substituting the figure 9, and in consequence of some further conversation he was given into custody. Witness knew the prisoner's family, and always considered that he was a traveller for a commercial house, and he had heard that he was in partner ship with a person named Bale, in Little St. Thomas the Apostle. The check was then produced, and it was purported to be drawn by John Nicholson, upon the firm in question. Mr. Nicholson proved that he kept an account with the prosecu tors, and the signature to the instrument was not in his handwrd. ing, nor did he ever authorize the prisoner to sign Isis name. WattacC, a clerk in tile service of the prosecutor., deposed that the check produced was a forgery, and he believed the writing in the body of the check to be the same as that of Attwood and Bale when they used to draw on his employers' house. Martin, a constable who took tire p risoner, found a numb e r o f , checks and other articles, all of which he refused to give any ac count of. The prisoner made no defence, and the jury immediately re. turned a verdict of Guilty- The Jtmos; said the law left the Court no discretion in such a case, and the prisoner received sentence of transportation for life. NEW COURT, A young man, named Jo hn Mackenzie, pleaded guilty to an in. dictment charging him with having stolen one hundred crown.pieces and other money, amounting to 1231. and upwards, belonging to Mr. Cook, his employer. Mr. CL A RKSON', who appeared for the prosecutor, said he was in structed to pray that mercy might be extended to the prisoner, as it was his first offence. The Learned Sanctus:4T observed that the punishment might be transportation for fourteen years, which, in consequence o f th e inter ference of the prosec utor, would be mitigated. However, such a crime could not go altogether unpunished; and the sentence of the the deiive e r h y charging goods,g him Court was that t he p risoner should be transported for seven y ears. Edwar d Parker also plea ded guilty to an indictment w ith forging and utter in g a forged order for with intent to defraud Edward Mathews and others. Tho Learned StROBANT said that the prisoner would not be transported ; but the Court would sentence him to hard labour for the term of two years. Henry Brown and James Smith were Indisted for stealing, on the sth January 451 . , to g ether with a promissory "to, the property of William Axor, from his person. The prosecutor stated that he carried on the business of butcher at Romford. On the day in question he came to town with 50/., to take up a bill which he thought had fallen due at Hill's Banking house, in Smithfield. On his way to the bank he fell in with Brown, near to St. Paul's, who asked him what church it was ? " Why, St. Paula," said he; and then he proposed a walk round the building, but witness said he was in a hurry. On their getting as far as Little Britain, the prisoner offered to treat him,saying " A drop of gln would do him good, a fter his long ride.', They accordingly retired to a public.house, and the prisoner Brown paid for some gin and water ; and while they were there Smith came in with another man, and they appeared to know Brown. The third man then pulled out a bundle, which appeared to be notes, saying- he had been to the bank to receivetwo hundred pounds, and was anxious to be liberal to the poor, at the same time cnquiriug of t he prisoner if there were any poor people at Romford. The prosecutor said there were, and he said if that was the case he would send them 51. to get coal. He then took out a note and desired witness to put it into his pocket, and as he pulled out his purse to do so the prisoner snatched at it, but Ott witness recovering it he Suspected he had got among a set of theives, and he instantly left. At the time the stranger showed the notOs he treated the whole party with brandy and water, and when Smith made the attempt on the purse Brown was sitting close by his side, and he followed witness into Smithfield. Mr. Stephens, landlord of the Rose and Crown, Little B r it a in, corroborated the statement of the prosecutor. COURT OF APPEALS. PARISH OF ST. MARTIN'S-IN-THE-FIELDS. Yesterday the adjourned Petty Sessions for Appeals from the inhabitants of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, were held at the Vestry room of the Church, at which W. Walesby, Esq , presided, assisted by Sergeant Andrews, Sir J. J. Hensler, Messrs. Belases, NV William, and several other Magistrates. Mr. Poulct Scrope, M. P., who introduced the Act under which the Sessions were held, was on the Bench, for the purpose of observing its practical working. Mr. Le Breton, clerk of the Board of Guardians, attended to support the assessment and re-valuation. The Court was densely thronged. Mr. Coitoesr, clock to the Bench, called on Mr. M'ln tosh Brookes to support his appeal against the assessment of his house, 6, Adam-street, Adelphi. Mr. Brookes stated that he veld the house under an agreement for a lease at a rack rent of 601. per annum, which the valuers, under the Act, had assessed at 751. By this agreement he was allowed a certain sum by his land lord, out of the rent, to do such repairs as were required to maintain the premises in a sufficient state to command the the said rent, sod which averaged abdut 71., to which was to be added an allowance for insurance. He contended that these allowances formed a just ground for reduction, even from the old assessment of 601. He was willing to Submit to the old assessment, minus the amount of insu rance. In conclusion Mr. Brooke's put in his agreement for a lease, but produced- no witnesses in support of his appeal. M. Le BRETON said he could chew that other houses in the neighbourhood of a similar description with Mr. Brookes's, bore higher rents than his house, which must arise from some reason to him ( Mr. Le Breton) unknown. In suppport of the assessment he called Messrs. Cantwell and Smith, the parish surveyors, who having been sworn, stated it to be their opinion that the house in question would bring 75/. per annum clear of all rates and taxes. Upon the cross-examination by Mr. Brookes, Mr. Cant well admitted that houses more eligibly situated on the Adelphi-terrace, had been reduced in rent from 1801. to 1201. per annum within the last four or five years. Mr. Cantwell was proceeding to show on his own evidence only that another house in the same street bore a higher rent ; but it being objected to by Mr. Brookes as illegal evidence, the Bench ruled atgainst its admission. Mr. Smith said that ten years had elapsed since be was acquainted with the locality of the Adam-street. Mr. Brookes replied. He said that be possessed upwards of 20 years' experience in his profession as architect, and had himself valued and mapped the parish for t he m etro p olis under the Parochial Assessment Act, and had resided eleven years in the house in question. He insisted that the valuers must be in error from their own admission, inas much as if the houses on the terrace were so much reduced in value within a few years, the same scale of reduction must be applied to his house, which he was willing to admit had been let previous to 1835 for more than 601. He submitted his case with confidence to the Bench, in the full persuasion that they could not assess his house at more than 601., or thereabouts, adding the sewer-rate and laud -tax, which he covenanted to pay, and deducting the ' insurance, which left the assessment at 611. Hs. The Magistrates having consulted together for some time, the CHAIRMAN stated that as it was a case which re quired much consideration, in consequence of many other appeals depending upon its decision, they would retire and consult together, which having done, after the lapse of an hour spent in deliberation, they returned into the Court and gave judgment, reducing the assessment from 75/ to 621., and thus established the principle contended for by Mr. Brookes, as in accordance with the intent of the Act under which the new assessment had taken place. Tho announcement was received with every demonstra tion of applaus', which the worthy Magistrates deemed it necessary immediately to suppress. There were 211 notices of appeals, many of which were withdrawn, others were adjourned, many were dismissed, and but a few were successful. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. . SOUSE OF COMMONS—FEB. 6. The SPMASEER took the Chair shortly before Four o'clock, Mr. NVILSFIERE on his re-electiou for Yarmouth took the oaths and his seat. Mr. CRAVER from the Treasury presented papers. Mr. WILLIAM GLADSTONEpresented a petition from Liver. pool, in favour of the Small Debts' Bill. Mr. J. JARVIS presented a petition, praying that the shorthand writer and committee clerk who attended the Brighton Railway Committee, have leave to attend and give evidence in a cause now pending in the Court of Exchequer. CORN-LAWS. Mr. WALLACE—Sir, I beg leave, in presenting the first public petition of the Session, to state that I preserve to myself a right to represent the opinions of my constituents upon every occasion which I think proper, and whenever they en trust me with the presentation of their petitions. Sir, I will not exercise that right to-slay, because lam aware that it will be done to.moirow, or soon. However, Sir, I will not, upon this occa sion, revive the old practice of merely stating the prayer of the petition, for 1 have always considered it a very bad one. I am very happy, Sir, to have the honour of presenting petition No. 1, praying for the total repeal of the Corn laws. This petition, Sir, is from the Chamber of Commerce of Greea ock ; and for the benefit of English gentlemen I may state that it is the largest sea-port town in Scotland. The first paragraph of this petition, Sir, states that the effect of the Corn.laws is to inflict a great injustice on the community in general, and tends to reduce them to absolute want and pauperism.--(Hear, hear.) The second paragraph states that there is a great deal too little corn in the country, with plenty of spare manufactures to send out in exchange, which they have not an oppor tunity of doing. The third paragraph states that the ex. tent of their export trade has both diminished and is diminishing, and that justice and policy demand that there should be an alteration in in the Corn-laws. The fourth paragraph should be British dustry is injured and repressed by the effect of these laws, that the ma nufactures in other countries are incr eased and eneouraged, rm the d interests of the labouring classes of t he community, by the excessive taxation on the manufacturing trade, is oppressed ; and that in point of fact one of the most material matters for the consideration of this Parliament, and of every national Parliaent that takes care of the interests of the people, is the repeal of laws, without which the people can not p roperly bring up or educate their children in moral and religious habits. The fifth paragraph states that these laws have the effect of unduly and unjustly increasing the incomes of the landlords to the injury of other parties in the community; and the concluding prayer is the entire repeal of the Corn-laws. PUBLIC PETITIONS. Mr. HUMI3--As the question was likely to be discussed in a day or two, how far the resolutions of last session, with respect to the presentation of petitions should be rescinded, perhaps a better under standing would take place, if the discussion should come °. to.morrow, rather than proceed with it to.day. The Honourable Member for Sheffield, the Honourable Member for Finsbury, and many others intended to bring the question forward, and he submitted whether it would not be judicious to give a notice on the subject, in order that Members might come prepared to have the matter affirmed or rejected. The SPEAKER had reason to believe that petitions upon the subject would be presented, and it was desirable that the matter should be brought under the consideration of the House as soon as possible. The question might be raised upon the presentation of a petition, when the House would have an opportunity of discussing a matter of the greatest importance. Mr. WARD said as he had been alluded to he begged to state that he had not yet received a petition signed by 13,000 of his con. stituents, in which they humbly prayed that their petitions should be heard instead of being dismissed in a harsh and hurried manner. That petition he hoped he would have an oppor. tunity of presenting to the House to-morrow. Lord JOHN RUSSELL proposed that the Hon. Member should give notice that he intended to present the petition to-morrow. CORN LAWS. Mr. PINNEY Presented a petition from Brighton, praying for a repeal of the Corn-laws. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL presented a petition against the Corn-laws from Edinburgh. The petition emanated from a public meeting held in that city, which was very numerously attended, both by agriculturists and manufacturers, and was agreed to almost unanimously. It was signed by the Lord Prevost on behalf o f the me eting. He entirely concurred is the sentiments expressed in the petition, and cordially supported its prayer. THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE. Captain PECIIELL concurred in all that had fallen from the Hon. Member for Greenock with respect to the practice of presenting pe titions. That Hon. Member h ad stated that his petition was one of a most important character, and be (Captain Pechell) agreed with him; but the petition which he (Captain redid!) had to present was one of a very important character, and one which the amend. ment of last night was intended to embrace, He wished to call the attention of the Noble Secretary for the Home Department to this petition, as one of the most cruel and severe cases which had come before the House. It was the petition of a person named Seabright, of Brighton, late a sergeant in the 10th Royal Hussars, who stated that he had been a householder in the borough '23 years, and had paid all his rates and taxes during that period—that during the war he had served under Sir Ralph Abereromby and the Duke of Wellington, and had been twice severely wounded, an d was afterwards discharged with a pe n sion—that after thus fighting the battles of his country, and retiring to enjoy the rights of a British subject, lie found himself deprived of the franchise, under the Plea of haying bean born in Germany —that he deeply felt this mortification, and could not understand why as he was called upon to se.'ve as constable, and to contribute to the rates and taxes of the country, he should be considered unfit to give a vote for a Member of Parliament, and he therefore prayed the House to take the case into its serious cot, tiattur4u on. He (Captain P.) thought that this man, after having ;erved eecs try for twenty.three ye ars, and retired with a pension for .his , Beta. \ t ees, ought no longer to be considered as an alien—it was hart. that Is th is man from the circumstance of his having been born in amrrnan . after having served in the 10th Hussars with a German li as t ficer its head should be struck off the list of voters by the part r of thee Hon. Gentlemen opposite. He wished to ask the Noble . L ord if: some plan could not be adopted for mitigating the expense of these. people being naturalized. It was a matter deserving the so. "ious attention of the Noble Lord, that persons of this description,. A nsi matter Jests of her Majesty, should not be deprived of their franeth - c. This was a ease deserving the serious consideration of the H ow , , and he therefore moved that the petition be printed, and gay s notice that he intended on the 14th of February to bring th e p before the House. Mr. PALMER begged to ask the R i g ht Hon. Gentle man, the - President of the Board of Trade , if it would not be prudent that some regulation should be ente red into, for the purpcsc of re_ venting the overloading of sh i p s in the timber trade from. North America ? From the g reat destruction of propert y that h a d taken place in this way during the last few years, it was indis • pensably necessary that some rule should be adopted to prevent this misfortune. Mr. P. THOMSON replied that the Government would give to the subject the best consideration in their power. The Hon. Gentleman, however, doubtless was aware that the shipowners would entertain great objections to any measure of the kind. But from all that he (Mr. P. T.) had heard on the subject he believed It well deserving th e attention of the Government. In answer to a question from an Hox. Mr. P. THOMSON said that gentlemen had been appointed to in vestigate the causes of accidents by steam vessels—that they had not yet made their report—but that when they did it should be laid be fore Parliament. MILITARY COMMISSION. Lord G. LENNOX inquired if the Military Commission moved for and appointed last Session, and which he believed had net very often sat, intended to resume their sittings; and when the House might expect to receive the Report. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said the Commission had sat fre quently during the last year, and he believed was about to resume its sittings ; but as to their report, he could give no in.. formation. Mr. HUME asked when the House might expe4 any results from a Commission which had been appointed now for three years, to consider the establishments of the army and the ordnance—whe ther'an amalgamation could be made ofthem ? Lord J. RUSSELL said no report at present had been presented. REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND MARRIAGES. The NouLa Loan then gave notice that he would on Friday move for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Act for the Registration of Births, Marriages, and Deaths. INCOME TAX, Mr. lIUME gave notice that on Tuesday he would move for e. return in continuation of the last returns of the ineome tax. .Tla Hon. Member was going on to give another notice for the 12th of March, when The SPEAKER interrupted, saying, The Hon. Member cannot: Mr. HU 51E—Oh, but I can.—(A laugh.) There is no rule yet. (Great laughter, and cries of " Order.") The SPEAKER—Certainly there is no rule yet, but the question is whether the Hon. Member chooses to do as other Members halts up to this time —(Loud cries of" Hear, hear.") _ Mr. HUMS.—I don't choose to do as other Members do—(Greet , laughter.) I wish to give notiee that on Tuesday, the lath of March I shall move for leave to firing in a Bill to extend the franchise -- to 'household suffrage, and a little further.—(Loud laughter.) The SPEAKER appealed to the House whether he had not been justified in endeavouring to preserve uniformity in their proceedings! —(Loud cries of llear, hear.) PATENT LAW. - - - - - Mr. MACKINNON gave notice, that he would on the 19th, m ove fur leave to Introduce a Bill for more effectually securing the benefit of new inventions to their authors. Mr. BAINES gave notice that he should, to-morrow, move for a return of the quantity of corn taken out of bond, and the amount of duty paid upon it. HIGHWAYS. Mr. BA RNABY gave notice that on Friday next he should more for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the laws relative to highways. REGISTRATION OF VOTERS-IRELAND Mr. Sergeant JACKSON gave notice of his intention, on Tues day next, to move for leave to bring in a Bill with respect to the registration of ♦oters in Ireland, in order to assimilate it to the laws of England. PRIVATE BILLS. Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE gave notice that he should to-morrow move for a Select Committee on Private Bills. SESSIONAL ORDERS. Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved the adoption of the usual Ses sional Orders. Mr. WALLACE complained that no votes of the proceedings of the House yesterday had been printed. Why such a course had been adopted he could not pretend to say, but he should now move that the votes of yesterday should be printed. Lord JOHN RUSSELL could see no good reason why the usual orders of the House should be printed. Still if it was the wish of the House, lie would not oppose it. Mr. HUME said it was the wish of the House.—(Laughte‘ - .) ft was the wish of all those who did not fear the light, and wished thit all should be open and fair.—(Hear, hear.) Surely the House would agree to such a reasonable proposition. What use In dividing 'the House upon such a motion? Mr. WALLACE was always sorry to interrupt any business of the House. He had called the attention of the House to the mat ter, and hoped it would be carried no further. If his Hon. Friend, the Member for Kilkenny, divided the House, he would be com pelled to vote against him.—(A laugh.) Mr. O'CONNELL--The House ought to agree at once to the motion of his Honourable Friend.—(Hear, hear.) That was the only assembly in the whole world in which public business was commenced at the moment when they ought to be going to bed.—(Laughter.)Why should they not commence and finish their business in the open day. The present practice might be very convenient for a few practising barristers and a few London m et , c hants, but it was most Incon v e nient to every one else. Those come to his time of life and even many younger, felt it not only inconvenient but dangerous. He had known within hi short ex perience five of six Members, who had come into the House hale and heart y, who were now 119 more, and all from the late hours they were obliged to keep. It was idle to say that they could not conduct public business in the day time—surely they might conduct the busi ness of legislation without sitting up all night. Ministers have . .the twenty-four hours, in which they have plenty of time to do their work ; let them sit at night if they liked, but let the House not he the only assembly, either judicial or legislative, which transacted their functions when they ought to be in bed. Let the Ministers sit up if they lilac', but let the House go !o hed.—( A laugh.) - The SPEAKER—Do you divide ? Mr. HUME would not divide the House, but ha hoped th e practice of printing would be adopted in future- The first Sessional order was then agreed IT.. INTERFERENCE OF PEEN AT ELECTIONS. The SPEAKER then commenced reading the Standing Orders of (Le House. On coming to the clause relating to the interference or Peers in elections, Mr. HU NIB objected to that clause being passed year after year. He had heard it read, and year alter year be had seen the order ut terly disregarded. Mr. SPEA KER—This paragraph is as to ther . i_gh ( t A of ia P u ee g7.) givi :: ti heir vote at election's' Mr. HUME—Then it is the next paragraph,—(A the next clause being read, the Hon. Gentleman said he wished to ask the House if there was any use in passing this resolution, year after year, when it was in the knowled g e of every one that it was totally disregarded. He had heard Peers intpll_ cated in interfering, and such interference defended. He wished tosula mit whether it was consiatent with the dignity of the House, of which they heard so much, to continue to pass such a resolution. He wished the Peers to be left to their own discretion to act in any w a y they pleased, and did not wish to interfere with the Peers in any way. One law ought to be applicable to every case. People were placed in different situations at different times. He thought he resolution better omitted. They stultified themselves by passing such resolutions. He had sat in that House for sixteen years, and „ . had heard every year a resolution respecting a place called, ha be lieved, Solomon's Temple.—(A laugh.) After that period lie had found there was . no such place, and on his objection the reso lution was eventually left' out, and he thought they had better. leave out this. Mr.O'CONNELL thought it gross hypocrisy to pass the resolution in question, to the effect that Peers should not interfere at elections, when every one knew that they constantly did. In the name of common sense, why enter on the journals a resolution which was totally inoperative ? Why disgrace themselves by recording a lie before the public ? Every one knew they would interfere. Pro_ perty would always interfere ; it was called upon to interfere, and the notion they ought not to interfere was absurd. I ;Lord JOHN RUSSELL said there was a considerabic difference in the manner in which Peers would interfere and that Of Coln. metiers. The latter were in the habit of speaking from the hustings, the Peers ;not. If the resolution were not agreed to it would 5C632 that the Peers were at liberty to take a similar part. Mr. HUME—Allow me to ask whether the Duke of B e d. ford has not taken part at elections ; and whether the Peers of the other House have not themselves clearly stated that they did not hold themselves bound by any such rule as hat which is now under consideration of, and is annually pa sse d i n this House ? Lord J. RUSSELL—I believe not. The House then divided, when the numbers were, For the motion. Against it •••• ..... 157 Majority against the motion —139 ADMISSION OF STRANGERS On the motion " that no Member of this House be presumed to bring any stranger or strangers into the gallery whilst the House is n E g said er b t he ataadmitted Committee, to te twoyears p a r g e o , , i h ou ad s recomm end - e in m en d - . sitting," (1 1 1 1 :ha l t ' U stYa l the i,o u s House it didflattered happen, however, th thata be belief galler y . that n rangoot Into strangersthteh tw at time recommendation of the strangers into the and it then came to be conedered whether they should be ad_ mined on the payment of money, as formerly, or in any other manner, and it was determined, on the recommen , Committee, that Members be allowed to introduce str m a i gallery. This practice had been followed from He (Mr. H.) had this day put __....._„,.,,,, t i j a n t time. the gallery. How then could he consistently with t t i * i i s the ,. solution, vote that no Member fhbuld take a stranger . into the gallery ? He had no objection to the reservation of the right of the Sergeant to take any improper person into e ns _ tody ; but was it not ridiculous, with tee gallery occasionally • filled, and every Member knowing that admitted strangers. House to vote for the words " that no Member of this he presumed to take any strangeror strangers into the gallery w hi le the House is sitting." Why, the House was now sitting, and there paragraph, and all ow i ng wer e strangers in the g aller y , and some Members, of course, had presumed to bring th em in. H e submitted that th ere would no great harm in leaving ou t this the Sergeant to take u an y person who might be unruly. He p therefore submitted that this be not agreed to. The SPDAKER—Do you divide ? Mr. HUME—Rather than agree to an absurdity I will divide, Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that the Speaker gave orders. Mr. HUMH said it also rested with the Members to give orders, and it was inconsistent for them to vote for the proposition. Mr. O'CONNELL'We have a gallery full of Reporters, and it i s a ssumed that no Member brings them in. We have also a gallery f u ll of spectat ors, and every Member presumes to bring them " In. It is quitea S. Colonel IBTHORP thought that if the Honourable Member for Kilkenny was dissatisfied with the resolution, he ought to propose an alteration in it. Mr. HUME suggested that the difficulty would viated if the order was alte red thus—" That no M ember ho eh_ shall presume to bring any p erson, a stranger, I• [l o use, except under such orders as the SPeaknt"he direct.—( Hear, hear.) S peak er s h a ll The SPEAKER said a few word?, which we , inaudible in the gallery, that we could do no so far mere catch their general purport , which we believe was, th than to in- any time alter the order might be in j udicious, as it would tend o troduce an idea that any Member had a right at to introduce a strang er.—( Hear. ) :- ("F. Mr. HOME said ho never wished unnoccssrrily t o a motion to a div ision a g ainst what appeared to be the Pre" general feeling o f the House, and be would •withd raw the mot i on .—( Hear, hoar.) to which Th e Standing Orde r of the House was " then 1 ..„, i On the Standi n g Order being read, that n, noti ce o r mo tion be given for longer than four clear notie"e Mr. HUME sa id that that was the resolutio n days!" he °bladed. He moved t hat the old practice he resorted to of giving notice for Whatever day might happ en open. It appeare d to him that the systern w ; L to , " b ad e lately been introduced , ha d been p roductive of .."`" inconvenience and difficulty. Mr. WARD did not concur with th e observations very great of the lOS 100 gond' 10 6 . 1. 0.2 103 5 311 1; 7 1,4 156 1011