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Albion Alfred Life ..-......,..- Alliance Brit. and For Ditto Marine ..... Atlas Birmingham Fire British Commercial Cier. Med. & Gen. Life County Economic Life European Life Ditto New Freemasons Globe Guardian........ Hope Life Ditto Fire ...... ...«..» Imperial Fire. ..... Ditto Life Indemnity Marine Law Life Legal and General Life London Fire Ditto Ship National .Uan Fund Neptune Marine ..... Palladium Life ..... Protector Life Provident Rock Life Royal Exchange Sun Fire . . .... ..... Ditto Life........ ..... University Life Universal Life Union Fire and Life Joint Stk Banks Australasiv Ditto New Brit. North American Commercial of London Colonial London & Westminstr Ditto New Landon Joint Stock Metropolitan.... ... Provincial et Ireland Ditto New National of Ireland Nat. Provincial Englnd Ditto New Gloucestershire......., Union of Australia Union of London Gaslight 6. 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Western London and Croydon Manchester and Leeds Ditto New Shares Manchstr and Birming Midland Comities North British Norwi h & Brandon Northern and Eastern Ditto Scrip, iss.s/. dis Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Rouen and Havre Stockton & Darlington South East. and Dover Yarmouth and Norwich ork and N. Midland Ditto. New Shares Mines. Albion Copper Alten Anglo Mex., iss. 51. p.m Ditto Subscription Bolanos Ditto Scrip . Brazil. Imp. ass. 51. p.m. Do. Mecaub. & Coc. U. Do. St. John Del Rey British Iron Candonga. Ditto Registered Cobre Copper Copiapo... ........... Columbian, iss. 51. p.m. General Mining Hibernian Imperial Slate Compy. Mexican Mining Co. of Ireland.. Real del Monte, Unreg Ditto Loan Notes Ithymney 1r0n... ..... Santiago de Cuba...—. United Mex., iss.2l. pm. Ditto Scrip Ditto New Scrip..." Literary. Londn,with Sin. Ticket London University Russell Yang's College Miscellaneous Anglo Mexican Mint Australian Agricultur Brit. American Land, Canada Upper Canada Bonds_ Gen. Steam Navigation Iberian Mercantile Co. Ditto Property Met. Wood Pay., iss. 11. Mex. and S. American New Brunswick (Land) New Zealand Penins. & Orien. Steam Royal Mail Steam * R evers ionary Int. Soc. South Australian Thames Tunnel... Van Diemen's Land LIST of SCOTTISH G OM : AU. 1, 1 Bank of Scotland...." Royal Bank British Linen Compny Commercial Bank Glasgow Union Bank Western Bank Central Bk. of Scotland Caledonian Insurance Hercules Insurance North Brit. Insurance Insurance Co. of Scot!. Edinburgh Life Insur. Scottish Union Insur Standard Life Insur.." Dalkeith Railway . Ellin. and Glas. Rallw y " g l u a li swareen. Rail Alter : Raj, 6 per cent. 6 per cent. 8 per cent. 6 per Cent 2 per cent. 8 per cent. Spar cent. 6_ p cent. Trer r cent. lecent. cent. cent. tiler cent. b percent. pee cent btrbr Mbition SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. PRICES OF SHARES IN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON, FRIDAY, AUG. 9. Dividend per Annum. Amount Names of Com panies. Paid. IPrice. Share. u. h. per share 5 per cent. 3/. 5 per cent.l t3os. be. j 4pper cent. per cent. per cent. 8 per cent. 5 per cent. 4e. 21. - 6 d. per cent. :19s. , 12 iii. & be. 14 54. 10s. :10r. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. S per cent. to per cent. IL 5.. y. S per cent. 53i perc ent. IL 4.. 5 per cent. 10% per cent 51. It per cent. 6 per cent. 5 percent. bper cent °per cent. per cent. per cent. per cent. 0 per cent. Ili per share 0a per share 10 per cent. per cent. 16s. 1.1. ss. 1/. 71. 61. and bs. kV. and bs. per cent. scent. 101. 104 81 per sh Zs per sh 24 6 per cent. 5 per cent.: 6 per cent. 5 per cent: 6 per cent. 43i per cent. 31. 12s. • 21. 10s. 2/. 10s. 2/. 10s. 5 per cent. 41. 16s. 11. 14s. 101, per sh IL 4s. Per cent. es. per sh. 2L 5a perch 10 ppr cent Q 34 per cent. !IL ss. per sh 2,461. per sh. 12c. per sh. per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 130 per sh 10/. per sh. U. 14s. 21/. per share 44 per eh /11.175. pr si ilSa Ptr el 14 50. 15tr. It 111. 101 jl5 per cent. per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. IL 1!. SL : Is. 6d. .£ s. d. 97 IS 0 113 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 Z & d. 100 -; 0 41 13 4 leo - 43 0 100 - 0 0 100 0 0 Stock Stock 1477 7 0 Stock 50 - 0 0 50 0 0 63 2 9 50 0 0 100 0 0 70 10 3 100 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 40 0 0 50 7 e 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 • 20 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 40 0 0 29 0 0 77 10 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 30 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 2500 100 0 0 41 13 4 100 0 0 30 0 0 100 0 0 63 12 9 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 29 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 16 13 4 12 15 4 100 0 0 32 0 0 41 6 10 13 15 9 100 0 0 50 .0 0 70 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 5 0 0 15 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 35 0 0 25 0 0 2000 100 0 0 20 0 0 :10 0 0 55 0 0 20 0 0 SO 0 0 10 0 0 60 0 0 25 0 0 5000 25 0 0 4000 2 10 0 75 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 ... 100 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 30 0 0 35 10 0 32 10 0 15 0 0 5 9 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 14 0 0 1 10 0 5 0 0 3 0 0 7 0 0 75 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 50 73 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 PANIES' PRICES. $44. 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 12 10 0 1 0 0 2 10 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 I, 0 0, TIIE LONDON GAZETTE: (T-HIS EVENING.) WHITEHALL, Auo. 3. The Lord Chancellor has appointed George Hancock, of Yeovil, Sotnersetshire, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. ..... ....... BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. FRANCIS KENNEDY, stationer, New Bond-street. BANKRUPTS. JOHN YEARDLEY, WILLIAM YEARDLEY, and ELIZABETH YEARDLEY, flax-spinners, Ecclesfield, Yorkshire, to surrender Aug. 22 snd Oct. 2, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee, Leeds ; Wil liamson and Co., Gray's Inn ; Leeman and Clark, York ; Bond, Leeds. JOSEPH ELSE and WILLIAM DIXON, millers, King ston-upon-Hull, Aug. 22 and Oct. 4, at eleven, at the Leeds Disttict Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Tilson and Co., Coleman-street ; Wells, Hull ; Horsfall and Harrison, Leeds. HENRY JECKS DIXON and JOHN DIXON, carpet manufacturers, Kidderminster, Aug. 22, and Oct. 1, at one, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham ; Brinton, Kidderminster. JAMES INNES, ironmonger, Cheltenham, Aug. 27, and Oct. 8, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol ; Styles, Cheltenham. NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY. J. Wood, cart owner, Liverpool. E. Outram, farmer, ronfield, Derbyshire. R. Byars, surgeon, Arundel, Sussex. D. Kennedy, general salesman, Commercial-road East. H. Heap, grocer, Manchester. J. Posford, commission agent, Euston-mews, Euston-squatre. M. Bramley, cotton-spinner, Skipton, Yorkshire. J. Barker, sicklesmith, Dronfield, Derbyshire. G. Fox, engineer, Sheffield. T. Mitchell, blacksmith, Leeds. L. Akeroyd, coal dealer, Adwalton, Yorkshire. J. Pontey, nurseryman, Huddersfield. E. Atkinson, jun., Salford, Lancashire. J. Laister, butcher, Sheffield. C. Vickers, baker Manchester. R. Hartridge, high constable, Brenchley, Kent. A. Bray, commission agent, Goswell-street-road, Islington. R. Lewin, bricklayer, Chatley, Essex. A. B. S. Ramsey, broker, Percy-street, Bedford-square. J. Milliken, tailor, Keen's-row, Walworth-road. J. Gibbs, harness maker, Lower Whitecross-street. H. Ball, beer seller, Goldsmith's-row, Hackney-road. R. S. Hurst, Pomeroy-street, Old Kent-road. J. Chatwin, cabinet maker, New Weston-street, Bermondsey , J. Marcroft, innkeeper, Rawmarsh, Yorkshire. Keymer, warehouseman, Manchester. W. Steel, jun., licensed victualler, Liverpool. J. Rowland, licensed victualler, Liverpool. W. H. Harpham, farmer, Sibsey, Lincolnshire. J. Bloor, silk-manufacturer, Prestbury, Cheshire. F. Ashby, miller, Knockholt, Kent. H, Cope, butcher, Old Radford, Nottinghamshire. W. Basf ord, engineer, Radcliffe-highway. W. Thistlethwaite, cigar dealer, Liverpool. J. Dean, hair-dresser, Halifax. W. Durham, tin-plate worker, Blackburn, Lancashire. W. Sharpies, farm labourer, Blackburn, Lancashire. G. Smith, timber agent, Newent, Gloucestershire. J. Field, farmer, Braithwell, Yorkshire. R. Lawson, brewer, Doncaster. SECOND NOTICES. A. Macpherson, accountant, Albany-road, Camberwell, Aug. 13, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee. . _ J. Ludbrook, watchmaker, Cambridge, Aug. 13, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee. F. Newenham, artist, Soho-square, Aug. 13, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee. M. R. Renshaw, general shopkeeper, Liverpool-street, Aug. 13, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official as signee. W. Lewis, baker, Heston, Middlesex, Aug. 13, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee. PRICE OF SUGAR. 6% 6% 5W 400 11..131. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the week ending Aug. 6, 1844, is 31s. 11 id. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im portation thereof into Great Britain. 140 40 6% 189 1514 27 COURSE OF EXCID Amsterdam CF. 12 41 Ditto, at sight l2 2 Rotterdam 2U. 12 5 Antwerp 25 90 Hamburgh M.B. 13131 Altona l3 14 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 60 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Frankfort on Maine l2l Petersburgh, 3 Us... 37 Berlin Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 952 Trieste, ditto ➢iadrid 37 Cadiz 37 Bilbao 36 Barcelona 36 NGE.—(TIIIS DAY.) Gibraltar Leghorn 3O 50 Genoa 25 85 Milan Venice Naples 394 Palermo, per oz llB4 Lisbon 544 Oporto 544 Rio Janeiro 23 Bahia 23 Buenos Ayres NewYork,2ldys sight Philadelphia PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold, bars...£3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons..... 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 10 Silver in Bars 0 4 1 44% 17 14% 33 25 Seville _ MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Aug. 9.) SUGAR.—Prices are still going down for grey, brown, and common yellow kinds of West India Muscovadoe Sugar. To-day the West India Sugar market presented quite a different appearance. The demand was brisk for every description from grocers and resners, and prices advanced 6d per cwt for all qualities, so that they are now the same as on Friday last. 500 were sold, making the total purchases for the week 1,950 hhds and trcs, and the market closed with a firm aspect. REFINED.—There has been only a limited demand from the home trade for Refined goods this week, and prices have fallen is per cwt, although the market is but moderately supplied, and the cunsumption still large. To-day there was little business transacted in Refined goods for home consumption; brown lumps were sold at 73s to 73s 6d, and standard lumps 74s 6d. Bonded Crushed Sugar is much wanted, and prices are firm at _ 26s 9d to 27s per cwt. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon there was a better de mand for every description of Mauritius Sugar ; the large quantity of 12,151 bags at public sale was readily disposed of at an advance on the rates of the former sale of is for good and fine yellow, and 6d per cwt for all other sorts ; fine yellow fetched 65s 6d, good middling and good 60s to 625, middling 56s to 575, low 54s to 55s 6d, good to fine brown 52s to 53s 6d, middling 47s to 50s, low 43s to 465, good to fine grey 58s to 625, and low to middling 52s to 57s per cwt. EAST INDIA. —This afternoon 1,094 bags of Bengal Sugar were offered at auction: the chief part consisted of strong yellow (Dobah), which went readily at high rates; fine fetched 70s to 735, good 68s to 69s 6d, mid rather soft 60s, damped and washed 66s to 70s, other sorts went at 60s to 61s for mid white, 58s to 59s for low greyish, 57s to 60s for damp and washed, 56s for mid sound yellow, and 53s to 53s 6d per cwt for low, being the full worth. FOREIGN.—There has been an increased business trans acted in every description this week, and the market has still a very firm appearance. White Havannah fetched 26s 6d to 29s for low to good quality. Yellow at 19, to 22s per cwt. Pernams and Macaoes at 16s 6d ; Bahia at 17s 9d, 209 chests on the spot at 18s to 18s 6d; white at 21s to 24s per cwt for common to fine quality. Porto Rico at 183 6d to 19s 6d per cwt. MOLASSES.—Few purchases have been made in West India, and prices are still going down, St. Kitt's of common quality selling at 21s. per cwt. The arrivals have again been large. The stock is upwards of 7,000 casks heavier than it was last year. In East India scarcely any business has been transacted. COCOA.—he demand has improved for West India this week. Trinidad good red at 44s 6d to 45s 6d, good middling 43s 6d, middling 41s to 41s 6d, good grey 40s 6d to 41s, middling 37s to 38s, and low 34s to 36s 6d per cwt. In Foreign little has been done privately. SAGO.—This afternoon 303 chests Pearl Sago at public sale were all taken in, fine small white Pearl at 265, good 225, middling brown 15s to 16s, and low 14s. COFFEE.---The dulness in the West India market has increased this week, but importers have refused to sub- mit to any further decline in prices. This afternoon there was only a limited demand for Ceylon Coffee, but holders manifested firmness: Plantation sorts were nearly all taken in at the full value—low mid grey Demerara sort at 765, fine ord palish 65s to 65s 6d, a few lots of pea berry fetched 74s to 85s, and sea dam Coffee 60s to 69s 6d ; of other sorts a part only found buyers at former rates—good ord at 54s 6d, very good ord 55s 6d to 565, sea damaged 51s to 535, and triage 36s to 40s 6d ; a few lots of sound Plantation went at 67s to 70s. Mocha met with little attention, and 106 bales at public sale were taken in much above the value—good middling yellow long berry clean garbled rather mixed at 73s per cwt. TEA.—The market generally has an improving ap pearance : the deliveries are going on largely, and ar rivals falling off : importers have refrained from offering any at auction, and at present none is declared. To .day a good demand exited for Tea, and prices generally have an upward tendency ; sales of common congou congou made at lid to 114 d, and good com is to is id per lb cash. SPICES.—There has been a much better demand for Black Pepper this week, but at present prices cannot be quoted higher. To-day at public sale 122 cases 218 bags bold Malabar Ginger were sold, but at lower rates ; good and fine fetched Bps to 85s, middling 51s to 635, and fair 40s to 50s per cwt. 141 bags of Bourbon Cloves were taken in, good at 10d to 10:4d, and ordinary at 9d per lb; 9 casks of Nutmegs from New York were l i bought in at 2s 2d to 3s per lb. Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—There has been a good demand for Jamaica Rum since this day week, and rather higher rates have been paid for all descriptions ; 33 to 35 per cent overproof at 3s 6d to 3s Bd, good mid dling and good 3s 10d to 4s 6d, and high flavour 5s 3d to 5s 6d per gallon. Leewards at 2s 4d to 2s 41d per gallon. Demerara, 32 to 37 per cent overproof fetched 3s 2d to 3s d. Calcutta advanced Id per gallon. Orders are rapidly increasing for every description of Rum. Brandy at 2s 10d to 2s Ild per gallon ; other sorts are held with more firmness, and the operations are upon a more extended scale. This afternoon at public sale a parcel of Jamaica Rum, 36 per cent. over proof sold at 4s 3d, and a parcel of white 27 per cent over proof at 3s 10d per gallon. There is much excite ment in the Rum market. RlCE.—Bengal has been in a tranquil state this week, middling white selling at I Is, and better sorts Ils 6d to to 12s per cwt. Java at 8s 6d to 9s for yellow, and 9s 6d to Ils for white. Madras at 8s 6d to 9s 6d per cwt. for yellow. Cleaned Rice has been taken sparingly ; Carolina at 21s to 265, and Patna 14s to 18s per cwt. INDIGO—The market has a firm appearance for East India Indigo ; all descriptions are still much wanted, and several parcels have been taken for exportation and home consumption at fully former rates, indeed for picked lots 2d to 3d, and even 4d per lb advance has been paid, and the market has again been nearly cleared. OlLS.—There has been a better demand for Cod Oil this week, and, in consequence of the small stock, buyers have been compelled to pay 341 to 341 lOs per tun. Seal, pale at 351 to 351 10s : Southern at 261 10s to 311 per tun. Sperm, fine British at 851 to 861 per tun. Linseed Oil, 25s 3d to 25s 6d per cwt. Rape Oil at 36a 6d to 37s for pale, and 35s 6d to 36s per cwt for brown.l Palm, selling at 27s to 28s per cwt. Cocoa Nut, 28s to I 30s per cwt, and holders show firmness. In Olive Oil a good business has been transacted. This afternoon at public sale 11 pipes 69 hhds Ceylon Cocoa Nut Oil were sold at 2815 s to 291 ss, and 100 tuns of Southern at 23/ 10s to 31/ per tun, being cheaper, TALLOW.—Prices cannot be quoted lower for Russian this week, although there is a large supply of all descrip tions of Tallow. This afternoon at public sale 205 casks New South Wales Tallow sold at 36s 6d to 41s 9d, and 185 casks North American melted 40s to 41s 6d per cwt IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The House sat to-day at Four o'clock. ROYAL ASSENT. The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Consolidated Fund Appropriation Bill, the Church En dowment Bill, the Poor-law Amendment Bill, the Counties and Boroughs Bill, the Duchy of Cornwall Assessionable Manors Bill, the Roman Catholics Penal Acts Repeal Bill, the Metropolitan Buildings Bill, the Piccadilly Improvement Bill, the Insolvent Debtors' Bill, the Railways Bill, Turnpike Trusts (South Wales) Bill, the Controverted Elections Bill, the Woods and Forests Bill, the County Coroners' Bill, the South Sea Company's Bill, the Savings' Banks Bill, the Slaughtering of Horses Bill, the Clerks to Attorneys Bill, the Tralee Harbour Bill, the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Bill, the Mar riages (Scotland) Bill, the Spirit Licenses Bill, the Grand Canal (Ireland) Bill, the Arms (Ireland) Regis tration Bill, tilt Protection of Purchasers (Ireland) Bill, the Charitable Donations and Bequests (Ireland) the Grand Jury Presentment (Dublin) Bill, the Middle Level Drainage Bill, and several other private Bills. The Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury, and the Earl of Dalhousie. Their Lordships resumed business at Five o'Clock. The Bishop of LONDON presented a petition from the Protestant Operatives Society of Dublin, against the repeal of the penal laws affecting Roman Catholics. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE presented a peti tion from Newcastle, complaining of the present law of settlement as affecting Irish persons settled in England. The petition set forth the case of an Irishwoman, who was married at Newcastle to a native of the same part of the Uuited Kingdom, and who having lived with her husband seventeen years, was deserted by him. The parish authorities transported her and her four children, the latter having been born in Newcastle, to Ireland as Irish paupers.— (Hear, hear.) The Noble Marquis hoped that the mea sure announced in the other House by the Secretary for the Home Department respecting the law of settlement would extend to such cases as this.—(Hear, hear.) COMMON-LAW COURTS BILL (IRELAND). Lord WHARNCLIFFE called the attention of the House to the Commons amendments on this Bill, to which he recommended their Lordships to agree. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that by the com mon law, the appointment of the prothonataries and other officers was vested in the judges. In some cases in England and Ireland, prescription had superseded the common law. Some office in the courts of law in Eng land were held by women.—(Hear, hear, and a laugh.) It would be most unwise and unjust to deprive the Irish judges of a patronage which was possessed by the English judges.—(Hear, hear.) He would oppose the recommendation of his Noble Friend (Lord Wharn cliffe), and would vote that the House should not agree to the amendments of the Commons, which would give the appointment of those offices to the Lord Lieutenant. Lord CAMPBELL was greatly pleased with the ob servations of his Noble and Learned Friend on the Woolsack. He (Lord Campbell) had moved an amend ment on the third reading of the Bill, to which their Lordships agreed without the slightest opposition. The Lord Chancellor gave the amendment his most stenuous support. The Lord President of the Council did not oppose it, but he asked their Lordships to give him time to consult the law officers of the Crown, as to the effect of the amendment. The Bill was sent back from the Commons with amendments, which superseded his amendment, and gave the patron age of those offices to the Lord-Lieutenant and not to the judges, who ought to possess it—making thus a de grading distinction between the Irish judges and the English. He put it to their Lordships whether the judges or the Lord-Lieutenant were best qualified to determine who was the fittest person to fill an adminis trative office in the courts of law. In this case he had the support of the Lord Chancellor, who was looked up to by the Government and Noble Lords oppo site as a sort of oracle.—(A laugh.) It was very well that this was not a Bill of his (Lord Campbell's.) If it had been so, he could not have expected the same sup port.—(Very great laughter.) The Earl of WICKLOW thought that their Lord ships ought on such a question be governed by the opi nion of the Lord Chancellor, although the representa tives of the Government were professedly opposed to it. The President of the Council recom mended the House to agree to the amendments of the Commons, out of respect to that House. He wished to treat that House with all possible respect ; but he must in this case put it to their Lord ships to consider that the House of Commons now—at this moment—was merely an assemblage of a few sup porters of the Government, who remained in town for the dispatch of Government business.—(Hear, and a laugh.) The present was not one in which it would be wise to aggrieve the Irish judges, or to give the Irish people any reason to think that the united Parlia ment was not disposedto do justice to Ireland. The Earl of 11ADDINGTON said that to hear the speech of his Noble Friend (Lord Wicklow) one might think that the amendments of the Commons affected vitally all the great questions at issue between the parties which distracted Ireland. But in fact there was no discussion raised upon the subject by the Irish Mem bers in the other House. The LORD CHANCELLOR— There were few of them there since the Bill went back.—(A laugh.) The Earl of HADDINGTON said that there were Members for Ireland in the House quite enough to raise debates, if they thought the people of Ireland cared a straw whether the Judges, or the Lord-Lieutenant, should have the patronage. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE considered the question of great importance, as was every question re specting the administration of justice in Ireland ; and it would be exceedingly mischievous to place the Judges of Ireland in a worse position than those of England. Their Lordships then divided, Contents Non-contents Majority _ — 9 The amendriient - of the Commons was accordingly agreed to, and the Bill was passed. (LEFT SITTING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at a Quarter to Four o'Clock. THE RAJA OF SATTARAH. A messenger from the East India House appeared at he bar with certain correspondence relating to the Raja of Sattarah.—Ordered to lie on the table. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. Sir R. PEEL said—l rise, according to notice, to move the adjournment of the House. I propose that the adjournment shall be to a somewhat distant day, and I, therefore, move that this House, at its rising, do adjourn till 'I hursday, the sth of September. Mr. SHELL said he presumed the Right Hon. Baronet, instead of proroguing Parliament, had moved the adjournment till that day, in reference to the case of Mr. O'Connell. The Right Hon. Gentle. man had, doubtless, felt that it would be a great injustice, if six months hence it should be announced by the judges that the imprisonment of Mr. O'Connell had been illegal—that he would have been illegally impri soned for this long period. It seemed to him to fellow as an irresistible inference, that though the injustice might be less, it would still be most signal, if his impri sonment should have continued for three months from the 30th of last May, and it should appear that the ver dict had been unfairly obtained from a jury both sectarian and hostile. Under these circumstances he ventured to submit to the consideration of the Right Hon. Gentle man whether, as he had himselt admitted that the matter was one of great importance, and must be treated as one of no ordinary doubt and of some difficulty—it would not be the best policy, at all events whether it would not show more generosity and wisdom, instead of waiting to ascertain whether the lawyers should have succeeded in picking the lock of the Richmsnd Peniten tiary, at once to unbar the prison doors and give back Mr. O'Connell to the Irish people ? Convicted as he had been by a sectarian jury, he thought the matter called for consideration. The Right Honourable Baronet had introduced an act for re gulating the management of Roman Catholic charitable bequests and donations. He thought the measure a great improvement on the old system ; it substituted a much better board of management for the old one ; it mitigated the old principle of ascendancy. But mark The Right Hon. Baronet had introduced into that board five Roman Catholics, and he had done so on the special grounds that a mixed jury of Catholics and Protestants ought to administer the charitable bequests in Ireland. Did it not appear to follow from hence, that in all ques tions where the feelings of Catholics and Protestants were concerned, the jury should be a mixed one ? CHear, hear.) The N o bl e L or d, th e M em b er f or t h e ity of London, had solemnly declared, in his place as leader of the Opposition, that the trial of Mr. O'Connell was an unfair one, a declaration from which he had ne ver receded. That he thought a reason why the subject should be considered. The Right Hon. Bart. appreciated fame ; he was sensible of the value of true renown, he passed every day the statue of Canning, and looked upon Westminster Abbey, and he must know that a time would come when his merit in the great transactions in which he bore so conspicuous a part would be tried, not by the Members of the old lobby or the new one, but by a different test—when it should be said that his great political antagonist, the great leader of the Catholic people of Ireland, was convicted by a jury exclusively composed of Protestants, under circum stances the most suspicious, when it should be said that he still by force kept him in gaol, notwithstand ing those circumstances. Whatever other materials the commentator or historian might find in the conduct of the Right Hon. Baronet for commendation, history in this particular part of his conduct would pronounce him i guilty of a great contradiction. But he still had it in his power to furnish history with a lesson of generosity and magnanimity, by throwing aside all feelings of vin dictiveness, and healing the wound with the same weapon with which it was made. What had they gained by Daniel O'Connell's imprisonment? 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They had put three editors of newspapers in prison, and at the present moment the press:was more exciting than ever. The Nation newspaper, whose editor was imprisoned, circulated eleven thousand copies ; that paper was written with distinguished ability, appealing, perhaps, rather too strongly to the spirit of nationality in the Irish people ; and the Catholic clergy, those great representatives of the feelings of the Catholic people, were, almost to a man, against them. Ireland was said to be tranquil, but he, who knew the people of Ireland, who was well acquainted, by a pain ful experience with their wretched condition, he, who was interested in the maintenance of the public peace, and who took no sort of share, direct or indirect, in the agi tation pervading Ireland, told them that the state of the country was not safe ; that there prevailed a deep anti pathy towards this country—an antipathy which at all times was to be deprecated. But they were now placed in a position which made it matter, he would not say of alarm, but, at all events, of deep and meditative forecast, how they should act towards Ireland. They had taken a position which he for one commended, which became them as a great nation to take— which proved they were determined that England should hold the noble position she ought to occupy; but he told them that, possessed of the affections of Ireland, with Ireland united and reconciled, they would have a far better muniment than the Martello towers round her coast. Mr. WYSE said he begged to add a few words to the energetic appeal made by his Right Hon. Friend to the House, and through the House to the country. Mr. O'Connell had not appealed either to the Government or to that House by petition for the slightest remission of his sentence; nor had any of the other prisoners; but the people of Ireland were deeply impressed with the belief that the trial had not been one calculated to vindi cate the majesty of the law, o r to g i ve a f a i r an d j us t means of ascertaining either their guilt or innocence. The people of Ireland would not forget that they had been convicted by a jury of twelve Protestants. But to that House an appeal was made to investigate the facts connected with that trial, which the judges on the bench had declared were at least liable to suspicion, and that appeal was refused by a majority of that House. He entreated of them, what ever their politics or their religion might be, not to allow the impression to go abroad that all justice was to be denied them. He begged of them to be wise in time, because the people of Ireland had not worn out their patience. They came not to that House in the voice of supplication. They were silent, but they waited only the time when they could wound England in the hour of her distress. He implored them not in the language of terror, but in the voice of advice and warning, that they would think of the words which they heard from the representatives of Ireland before they returned to their homes. He beseeched of them, not with feelings of anger, but in the spirit orkindness, if they intended to do anything in the way of conciliation, to do it in time. Lord J. RUSSELL said that, during the time the late Administration were in office, it was the custom to dis perse throughout the country in the summer and autumn, a pamphlet purporting to be a speech of Lord Lyndhurst —(Laughter)—pointing out in what manner the various Bills had been introduced into Parliament, when they were adjourned, how often they were postponed, and which of them had not arrived at the consummation of becoming Acts of Parliament. He never had considered that course a just or a fair one. He did not consider it so in the first place, because the Houses of Parliament themselves, however well they might be disposed to consider measures, yet in the course of discussion inter posed so many obstacles to their becoming law that an Administration could not be justly chargeable with all the legislative measures which might occur during the session. He thought it an unfair course, because it was notorious that one of the Houses of Parliament was chiefly composed of Members belonging to one political party. It was notorious that that party having been in power during a long p er iod of years, had place in that House of Parliament about two hundred Members of their own party ; and of the four hundred Members of which that House consisted, about two hundred had been placed there by the advice of the Ministers of that party during those years. It was natural that those who entertained those politics, who had entered into Parliament with strong prejudices of that kind, should be adverse to the Ministers of a different political party. It was not difficult, therefore, for persons who had authority with that Parliament, to secure the rejection of Bills, however useful, which were promoted by a Ministry with whom they did not concur. But no doubt that mode of proceeding made its impression. It was considered by many persons that the Ministry must have failed in its duty when so many of its Bills had not obtained the sanction of the Legislature. That course he (Lord J. Russell) had never followed ; it was not a course which he was then about to follow. If he were about to do so, he thought that he should have far more reason to object to the Ministry then in power. In the first place it was notorious, and had been proclaimed by themselves, that the present Ministry had a majority having confidence in their administration in both Houses of Parliament ; in the next place, the present Ministry had had the greatest difficulty placed in the way of their legislation. But he did not see any public advantage which could be derived from tracing the history of the different Bills, and point ing out that many of them had failed.—(Hear, hear.) But he had, at the close of another session, called the attention of the House when it was about to separate, to the existing state of the country. The Usher of the Black Rod here summoned the House to hear the Royal assent given to certain Bills, for which see Lords' report. On the return of the SPEAKER, Lord JOHN RUSSELL resumed.—lie said he had already stated that he thought it might not be without its use, at the close of the session, to consider what was the present state of the country, and how they might be enabled to consult its welfare when they were next called by her Majesty to meet for the dispatch of busi ness. In speaking last year of the affairs of the coun try, he had entered at considerable length into the state of Ireland. His Right Hon. Friend, who had spoken on that occasion had alluded to part of that great sub ject. The Right Hon. Gentleman, when, in 1839, he was speaking of the formation of a Government under his auspices, stated, or rather confessed, that his chief difficulty was Ireland. He was surprised that with the exception of one circumstance to which he then alluded —a circumstance that he considered so trifling, that he should not then advert to it —the present Government after that announcement by their head, bad never taken seriously into their consideration the state of Ireland, with a view to its amelioration. It was true, that when last year they were 6onsiderin g this subject, there were meetings held, and that those meetings no longer took place ; it was true, that there was language of menace used by some principal speakers, and that they didnethear of that the la ngua geatpresent. But they would be very much mistaken indeed if they supposed the affections of Ireland had been won by the proceedings which had since taken place. In his view of the circumstances as they stood last year, he thought that the Government would have been justified in issuing a proclamation at the commencement of those meetings forbidding any further assemblages of the same kind, and in following up that announcement by a declaration of their intention to take all the grievances and com plaints of Ireland into consideration, witle a view to their adjustment. That Mr. O'Connell would have obeyed such a proclamation he thought tl.ey could not doubt, for on the very first occasion on which the advisers of the Lord Lieutenant thought he should declare that a meeting was illegal, the declaration was followed not merely by instant obedience, nor by sullen acquiesence, but by the most active measures for the prevention of a meeting which had been announced. He thought, therefore, it was impossible to doubt that if at the commencement of those meetings a similar course had been taken, a similar obedience would have been paid. He confessed that the stoppage of these meetings, by itself, would have been almost a useless measure, it would have been dealing only with the symptoms of the disease ; but if they had followed up a measure asserting and vindicating the law by a measure of conciliation and improvement, they would then have laid a foundation for the future prosperity of Ireland. The course that had been taken, however, was very different. Mr. O'Connell and other popular leaders were allowed to go on for seven or eight months without interruption, their language unchecked, their meetings uninterrupted, and the only declarations which they had had—one from the Secretary of State for the Home Department and an other from the Lord Chancellor of Ireland—had led him to the inference, not as a lawyer, but a constitutional politician, that those meetings were legal. No wonder that they continued to such an extent as to menace the peace of the country. At length, after that six or eight months of impunity, they were interrupted, and the chief leaders of them were brought to trial, not for the last of their proceed ings, not for any one particular meeting that had just taken place, nor for any seditious language which had lately been uttered, but for the whole course of eight or nine months of a popular agitation, which was qualified by the legal advisers of the Crown as conspiracy. Such a proceeding was entirely contrary to that rule which was laid down with truth and justice by Mr. Erskine in his celebrated defence of Hardy. On that occasion Mr. Erskine declared that if there were a particular act of a man's life which was criminal he should be brought to trial, but that to look at his conduct for two years, and from that, combined with his conversation, to endeavour to drag out an imputation of guilt, was not justice but tyranny. The bringing of these persons to trial was so contrived that there being eleven Roman Catholics among the persons who might have been on the jury, those eleven Catholics were struck out by the Crown, and there remained a jury of twelve Pro testants, several of whom were known to be parti zans—(" Hear, hear," from Mr. Shiel)—pursuing a line of politics the opposite of those of Mr. O'Connell. He would ask, could the internal peace of Ireland be secured by those means ?—(Hear, hear.) In the first place, was it just to leave these persons to pursue their course for eight months without any notice that they were bringing themselves within the meshes of the law? —(Hear, hear.) In the next place, having determined to bring them to trial, was that trial likely to produce the effect which an impartial trial always produced, even upon those who were the sufferers from it— when it was known that the prosecutors had cautiously excluded from the jury every man who was of the same religion as Mr. O'Connell—(Hear, hear) —that religion being the religion of the great majority of the people of Ireland?—(Hear, hear.) He would not have said any thing on this subject if he had thought the evil beyond the hope of remedy—if he had thought that Govern ment had taken a step which it was impossible for them to retrieve.—(Hear, hear.) But he thought that altogether the Government had been for so long a time ignorant of the real state of Ireland--(Hear, hear)—or, if not igno rant of the real state, at least regardless of the people of the country.—(hear, hear.) He thought that he had of late observed symptoms, on the part of the Govern ment to pay more regard to the feelings of the people of that country--(Hear, hear)—and he hoped, that before the next session the Government would fully consider the question tilat — theTWould look to the hopes which had been , held out, and W the promises which had been made at the time of the union, that Ireland should be placed upon an equality with England—(Hear, hear)—that she should be governed upon the same principles—(Hear, hear) — and should enjoy the same rights and privileges.— (Cheers.) Let them show to the Irish people that it was their determination to redeem the pledges given at the time of the union. Such a plan would not assist the cause of the repeal of the union ; on the contrary, he thought it would give a deathblow to that agitation to give the people of Ireland fully, fairly, and entirely, those privileges which they themselves had solemnly promised to them.—(Cheers.) If such were their deter mination, whatever opinion might be given by the House of Lords, or the Judges, on the judicial questions which had been placed before them, her Majesty's Government could exhibit no better symptom of their policy, could give no better evidence of their intention to carry those en larged views into effect than by using the prerogative of the Crown for the purpose of at once discharging Mr. O'Connell and his fellow-prisoners.—(Loud cheers, which drowned the remainder of the sentence.) Sup posing the Government to be legally right as they said they were, still, as a question of State policy, no better step could be taken. (Loud cheers.) It would be well for them to reflect what view was taken by the people of Ireland with re spect to the course of Mr. O'Connell during the last few years. They should remember that he was the man who had by great exertions obtained for his fellow sub jects those constitutional rights and privileges which they now enjoyed, and that he had by those exertions earned their gratitude and confidence—(" Hear, hear," from:Mr. Sheil)—which he would continue to enjoy as long as he lived--(Loud cheers)---that he was now sixty-nine years of age and must be ap proaching to the close of his political career. They had declared their wish to vindicate the law—the law had decided in their favour. They should not seek anything like a vindictive punishment.—(Loud cheers.) By discharging Mr. O'Connell they would not be show ing any weakness; they would not even be deserting the policy which they themselves had pursued, but they would be showing to the people of Ireland a disposition to govern them in a proper spirit. If they wished the measures which they intended to propose for the benefit of Ireland to be received favourably, they should not only have the laws appearing upon the statute book, but they should endeavour, as a matter of paramount importance, to secure the affections of the Irish people. —(Cheers.) The opportunity of doing that was now in their hands, and although by doing that they would lose the support of persons who could hardly now be called their supporters, but who when they first came into power had supported them in the hope that the oppres sions of the olden time might be revived, yet he would not think so meanly of the Right Hon. Gentleman—he would not entertain so low an opinion of him as to imagine that for the sake of their support lie would do anything that was unjust, or abstain from doing anything which he thought was just.—(Loud cheers.) Then with regard to our foreign relations, he knew that was a delicate subject,:and he hoped that nothing he should say would deprive the Government of any means of negotiation which they had in their hands. The conduct of those negotiations required the union of great firmness with great moderation. He did not impute to the Government that they would be wanting in either of those qualifications. The utmost exercises of both those quali fications was required. He had heard with satisfaction what had fallen from the Right Hon. Gentlemen with re gard to the hostilities in Morocco—that he was inclined to follow up the policy of the late Government, which, while it admitted the settlement of France in Algiers, protested against her being permitted to extend her possessions either in Tunis or Morocco. The Right Hon. Gentleman had stated that he was aware that British interests were involved in the welfare of an ally that had always been faithful to us, and whose country bordered on our own possessions. The Right Hon. Gentleman had also alluded to another subject—a subject of great importance, which, although it affected only a small portion of the globe, affected our na tional honour. The Right Honourable Gentleman declared that a gross outrage had been offered to a British subject, and that he expected the French Go vernment would give that reparation which he thought this country was entitled to require. He would not ask for a word more on the subject. He was satisfied with those pledges which when Parliament met again he should expect to see fulfilled. But at the same time, he must say, that with the exception of the autumn of 1830, just after the French and Belgian revo lutions, and the autumn of 1840, just after the opera tions in Syria, since the peace of 1815 our foreign re lations had never been in a state to require so much anxiety. But if such were the case, it was the more necessary that we should have every element of strength for the defence of the country completely at our disposal.— (Cheers.) lie was not now alluding to the state of the navy, in which he retained the opinions which he had formerly ex pressed, neither was he alluding to the military forces; but he thought that there was another element of strength which ought not to be ne glected—internal union. —(Loud cheers.) The people of the three kingdoms ought to be bound together by bonds of affection, and whatever might be the means used to obtain that desirable object, no time ought to be lost in increasing that union —(Cheers)—and in strengthening that affection—(Cheers)—so as to make this country, while she is an object of respect to all men, whose opinion was worth having in every part of Europe, like wise an object of fear to all those ill• disposed spirits who sought in war a vent to their evil feelings and bad passions. There was another topic on which he wished to say a few words—that was the condition of the people of Eng land. He heard from day to day, and from time to time, of the inadequate means the people had to support them selves. If they took a general view of the subject, it was impossible not to see that q the labouring classe s h a d no t advanced in proportion to other classes. The higher class and the middle class had increased, but the labour ing classes had not done so. Unless the Go vernment, next session, should propose some comprehensive measure, he should feel it to be his imperative duty to ask the House to consent to some measure, or to go into a Committee with respect to the condition of the middle classes. It was no use attempting to give alms : what they should do was to do all in their power to give to the working classes a far day's wages for a fair day's work. In the agricultural districts there had been a great in crease of the county rates since the war; in dealing with any surplus revenue, he thought the Government might give the agriculturists relief in this direction. There was another subject which had been discussed last session, but had not been brought forward in the present one by his Hon. and Learned Friend the Member for Liskeard—that was the question of emigration. There were difficulties connected with this subject, but he considered with regard to certain localities, that emi gration, promoted by the Government, in some instances, in conjunction with the companies al ready formed; in others, in conjunction with the large proprietors of land, would be of essential service to the working classes. lie trusted this was a subject which would not escape the attention of her Majesty's Government ; he did not think that the present system was all that could be desired on this subject ; much re mained still to be done. He had thus mentioned some of the topics which, in the present state of the country, be thought were well deserving the consideration of that House. He had already said he would not refer to the various measures which had been brought for ward during the present session, a great number of which had been withdrawn. But there was one sub ject which ought not to be omitted from their consideration—that was, the length of time that was suffered to elapse at the commencement of the Session without fowarding measures at all, which were afterwards passed in a great:hurry at the end of it. If the House were to attend to measures of Le gislation, surely some means might be found of bringing forward those measures during an early part of the session. Formerly it was the practice to send up a great number of Bills to the other House at the end of the session, when the Peers could not discuss them ; but now the evil was extended to both Houses. So important a measure as the Poor-law Bill was sent up from this House when there was no time for the other House to consider it ; but on the other hand many mea sures had come down from the House of Peers when there were scarcely forty Members here to discuss their provisions. Circumstances had prevented his attending the House in the later part of the session ; but he did not think it could be expected, after four or five months' attendance in Parliament, Members would remain, in order to go minutely into these late measures of legis lation. He would say more—he did not think that a very prolonged session was at all advantageous to the country. He thought that many Members of Parlia ment did more for the advantage of the country by at tending to local interests than by a late attendance in that House. He had now concluded his observations, which he had offered, he hoped in no party spirit and from no party hostility to lion. Gentlemen opposite. His views differed from theirs on many subjects, but still there were questions on which they might agree, and by which the interests of the people might be pro moted, and he had thought it right to state some of these questions, and the manner in which he thought they ought to be treated. A message from the Lords here brought down their Lordships' assent to several Bills and amendments. Sir R. PEEL said that the speech made by the Noble Lord was so divested of yarty spirit—(Hear, hear) — in his observations he attributed so little of blame to the Government, that he (Sir Robert Peel) was relieved from the necessity of making any ob servations in reply, in a spirit different from that which characterised the speech of the Noble Lord. The Noble Lord said be was content to leave the ques tions connected with the foreign policy of the country, which were now pending, in the hands of the Govern ment, and he did not call on this occasion for any re newed declarations on the part of her Majesty's Govern ment, or seek an expression of opinion which might by possibility of prejudice their endeavours to maintain peace consistently with the honour and interests of the country. In some of the observations made by the Noble Lord he entirely concurred. He thought that there was great public disadvantage in the extreme length to which the seesion of Parliament extended ; their first duty to the public was to perform those duties which devolved upon them as Members of Parliament, but still there were few Members who had not important du ties connected with the general administration of the law throughout the country, and their severance froas those duties was attended with great public inconvenience. In the writings of Mr. Burke, in reference to the French re volution, if he recollected aright, he depre cated a proposition then made to devote a consi derable portion of the year to the performance of legislative dutie s , an d h e urge d t h e great inconvenience whic there would be in enjoining upon legislative bo dies a constant attendance to Parliamentary duties ; and he thought that that portion of time which might be devoted to the performance of local duties would qualify them better for the discharge of their legislative functions. They were then sitting in the middle of August • yet it was impossible not to see that i n th e l atter pert Of the session there had been a very great economy of public time. He was afraid that the first part of the session would be occupied in bringing forward the grievances which were supposed to have -accumulated during the recess. They could not expect that in the early part of the session the details of legislation would occupy seri ous and continuous attention ; but still he did think that by a prevalent feeling on the part of the Members of that House, and the concurrence of political parties, they might enable Parliament to separate at an earlier period. He was sure that no parties could have a greater interest in shortening the duration of the session than the Government ; for it was almost impossible for them, as the Noble Lord must be aware, properly to attend to their executive duties, and to sit in Parliament for six or seven months in the year and for eight or nine hours a day. The attendance of a Minister there was unavoid able. If he were absent, it was perhaps supposed that he was enjoying his ease, when in fact be was attending to his official duties, for the neglect of which he would be responsible. He was rather sorry to hear the vague in timations of the Noble Lord with respect to measures for improving the condition of the labouring claSses. In the importance of that subject he entirely concurred. He could not conceive anything more important than that those to whose labours they were so much indebted, and who constituted, in fact, the stamina of the country, should be in the condition in which they could desire to see them. He should listen attentively to any proposal which might be made for ameliorating their condition, but he did not wish to encourage the expectation that a Committee of the whole House could enable the labourer to obtain a fair day's wages for a fair day's work. With respect to the Noble Lord's encourage ment to the agricultural interest to expect some reduction of the malt tax, and also some reduction in the amount of the county expenditure. The Noble Lord seemed to admit that those were burdens which pressed upon agriculture, and, therefore, that there ought to be protection to agriculture. Lord J. RUSSELL said he had always stated that. Sir R. PEEL was very glad to hear it, and he was glad that the Noble Lord came down to the House at the close of the session to give an assurance to the agricul turists that he did not wish to deprive them of protec tion. Ile did not -wish, however, to purchase the good will of the agriculturists by giving any assurance with respect to the malt-tax.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord said he did not intend to take a review of the legislative measures of the session, and he (Sir Robert Peel) had not the slightest doubt that he did not take that course, because he thought on general principles such a course objectionable. But al though the Noble Lord had not taken that course, he ventured to say that there never was a session in which there had been more important and more efficient legislation than in the present one. It was trite that the Ecclesiastical Courts' Bill had been postponed, because it was stated by its op ponents, that they were determined it should not pass into law. But with respect to the general measures of legislation he reaffirmed that their never was a session in which the Government had been more suc cessful in passing measures of importance to tne well being of the country. He must at the same time admit that in many of those measures her Majesty's Govern ment had received a cordial support uninfluenced by any party feeling from Gentl e m en on th e ot h er side. Well now, as the Noble Lord would not he (Sir R. Peel) would just take a review of the measures which had been passed during the present session. Mr. HAWES—Not the dates of the Bills. Sir R. PEEL thougnt that would be rather an un interesting subject, though he was glad that the Hon. Gentleman, who attended so sedulously to his duties, had laid the foundation of so much agreeable amusement during the vacation.—(Loud laughter.) Now, in the first place, he would refer to the Poor-law Bill. Though the temper and ability of his Right Hon. Friend that Bill had been passed with the concurrence of those who were at first inclined to oppose it. An important measure had been paised, regulating the hours of labour in four branches of the fac tories. With respect to financial matters it could not be said that the Ministry had not done all that could be done ; 2,500,0001. had been saved to the country an nually, by the reduction of the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. That was an honourable and permanent saving. Then with respect to the currency, it was to be hoped that they had placed it upon a safe and judicious footing The Bank Charter Bill had been also passed without any opposition, and the future regulation of joint-stock banks had also been placed upon a sound foundation; added to this, the law had been awended with respect to insolvent debtors, and a final blow had also been struck against the imprisonment for debt. The Government had also passed the Dissenters Chapels Bill, which would put an end to endless litigation. A Bill haeLbeen introduced also for the purpose of placing upon a proper foundation Presbyterian marriages in Ireland. They had also passed a Bill with respect to Charitable Donations and Bequests, which he had very little doubt would be productive of the best results. These measures, although of less importance, still added to the aggregate amount of legislation. Then there had been two very important Bills passed, applying the prin ciple of prescription to the property of the Duchy of Cornwall, thus settling questions which had been the subject of litigation for many years, giving the Duchy tenants a more permanent interest in their hold ings, and promoting, he firmly believed, the permanent interest of the Duchy itself. Another very im portant Bill was that for regulating the con struction of buildings in the metropolis. He thought he had now said enough to show that the statement with which he set out, was correct—that there had never been a session more remarkable for its amount of useful and beneficial legislation placed upon record. If, therefore, the Noble Lord had been disposed to imitate the example of others, and give a re view of the session, he would have been able to have give a much more satisfactory account than others had been able to give of former sessions. The Right Hon. Gentleman opposite had made a reference to some recent proceedings in Ireland. Now he (Sir Robert Peel) would not be provoked into entering upon any dis cussion of that subject.— (Hear, hear.) The only part of the Noble Lord's speech that took the character of an attack upon the Government, was that in which he made a reference to these proceedings. He stated that the Government had given no notice of their intention to prohibit proceedings which they thoughtdangerous to the public peace; at length the Government did vindicate the law, and charged the parties engaged in them with a conspiracy—the oats from which the evidence of that conspiracy were to be gathered extending over a period of several months. rLEFT SPEAKING.] IMPER/AL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, August 8. POOR-LAW BILL. Lord WHARNCLIFFE moved the third reading of the Poor-law Amendment Bill. Lord TEYNHAM moved the insertion of a clause, as an amendment, giving the poor-law guardians, in some cases, a dispensing power to order out-door relief to the mother of a bastard child. He supported the amend ment on the ground that it would prevent the subjects of the relief being contaminated by the intercourse with the inmates of the workhouse. Lord WHARNCLIFFE objected to the insertion of the amendment, on the ground that it was a further in vasion of the principle that no person should have re lief out of the workhouse. He saw no reason why the mother of a bastard child should be made an exemption. The amendment was negatived without a division. Lord TEYNHAM proposed a clause to the effect that where a married pauper went to a distant part of the country to obtain work, it might be lawful for the board of guardians to give relief to his family during his absence. He thought it but fair that while a poor man did all that lay in his power to obtain work, rather than go into the workhouse, that his family should get relief while he was away for this laudable object. He did not know on what grounds the clause could be opposed. Lord WHARNCLIFFE opposed the clause. If a man was honest and trustworthy he would have no diffi culty in getting work in his own parish. The clause was negatived without a division, and the Bill passed. DUCHY OF CORNWALL ASSESSIONABLE MANORS BILL. Lord WHARNCLIFFE moved the third reading of his Bill. Lord COTTENHAM objected to the Bill, because the effect of it was to give up all the mines in the, manors which had not been worked, whilst it provided no equivalent. He certainly thought that the Bill ought not to pass without its being distinctly understood what it was that the Duke of Cornwall was giving up, and what was the equivalent that be was to receive for it. Lord WHARNCLIFFE said that the Bill had been under the consideration of all the law officers of the Duchy of Cornwall, and had been approved of by them. He thought the Duke of Cornwall received great ad vantage for what he had given up. The matter had been well considered he knew, for he was one of the persons who had conducted the negotiations on the part of the inhabitants of Cornwall—(Hear, hear)—with the Government, and the law officers of the Duchy were perfectly aware what they were giving up. Lord CAMPBELL considered the Bill was being hurried through the House with most indecent haste. If it had related to a private estate the Judges would hare been consulted, but in the present instance no reference had taken place to those learned persons. Bills were now sent up with such rapidity from the other House, that their Lordships had no opportunity afforded them of making themselves acquainted with their contents. This Bill was contrary to every principle of prescription, for, although in other parts of England it was a principle cujus est solum ejus est usque ad ccclum, yet in Cornwall the right was horizontal and not vertical—the owner of the surface had no right to anything underneath the surface ; he had no right to work the mines. After some observations from the Lord Chancellor, in support of the Bill, and Lords Cottenham and Monteagle against it, the Bill was read a third time and passed. The Grand Jury Presentment (Dublin) Bill was read a third time and passed. NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT—POST OFFICE. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE presented the Se cond Report of the Committee on the progress of the Houses of Parliament, and gave notice that he would to morrow make a motion on the subject. He wished to ask in reference to the Post-office inquiry what commu nications had taken place between the two Committees ? Lord COLBORNE said that he took all the responsi bility of the report of the Committee on himself, and he would answer fir it as a frank and just report: On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Commons amendment to the Insolvent Debtors' Bill were agreed to. COUNTY CORONERS' BILL. Lord WIIARNCLIFFE moved that the Commons' amendments to this Bill should be agreed to. Lord BEAUMONT opp ose d th e Bill. He said he ' never knew a Bill which had the word " job" ma° italicagy written on the f ace of it.— , (Laughter.) The fees of the offic e o f coroner were a l rea d y a d eq uate and there was no excuse for increasing the county rates, to enlarge the incomes of those officers. The Marquis of NORM ANBY supported the Bill/ and hoped that the _Noble Lord ,%otild not, through his excitement upon this subject, be himself a subject for inquiry in a coroner's court. After a few words from Lord REDESDALE, their Lordships divided. The numbers were— Contents Non-contents According to the usage of the House, the question w5l ruled in favour of the non-contents. On the re-admission of strangers to the gallery, we found their Lordships discussing the mode in which g would be most courteous to the House of Commons to, communicate their Lordships' rejection of the Cominow amendments. After a desultory. conversation the subject was drop' ped, but it was not ascertained in the gallery to wila understanding their Lordships came. JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES REGULATION BILL. The Joint-Stock Companies Regulation Bill was read third time, and some verbal amendments having been agreed to it, it was passed. JOINT-STOCK BANK BILL. The Earl of RIPON moved the third reading of thl Joint-Stock Bank Bill. Certain suggestions which he" been made by the Noble Lord opposite had been adopted as amendments in this Bill. Lord MONTEAGLE expressed his satisfaction at the announcement just made that certain of his suggestions had been adopted ; but there were certain other amend' ments which he should wish to see introduced. The, Joint-Stock Compani es Bill gave power to the L o rd Chancellor, or Master of the Rolls, to make regulations , such regulations to have the force of law. Now that, he apprehended, would prevent the Lord Chancellor or Master of the Rolls from rescinding any regulations which they might have made. Fie wished also to di' reet attention to an anomaly which existed between this Bill and the Joint Stock Companies Regulation Bill By that Bill out going directors were elegible for re election, but by this Bill it was enacted that a certain number of directors of such joint-stock bank should go out of office every year, but that they should not be eligible for re-election. Now, he should like to see the principle which had been adopted'with regard to joint stock companies in this respect extended to joint-stoJc banks. It was necessary to the public safety that in all banking concerns there should be a continued and steady system of management ; and he should propose the omission of the words which prevented the re election of those out-going directors. MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS. The Noble Lord was interrupted in the course of hie, speech by Messengers from th e Commons, who reported that the Commons had a g r ee d t o the Lords' amendment of the Poor-law Bill, in the Duchy of Cornwall Bid and in the Dublin Grand Jury Presentment Bill. JOINT-STOCK BANK BILL. The debate on the above Bill was then resumed. Lord MONTEAGLE also objected to the regolv tions respecting auditors. He thought that existig joint-stock banks adopting the rkrulations of this BITh ought to have their accounts audited by the auditors appointed by the Board of Trade, in the sa me ma nner as the newly-formed joint-stock banks. The Noble Lord concluded by moving, as an amendment, that the words prohibiting the re-election of outgoing director should be omitted. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, the Noble Lod need be under no apprehension as to the regulations, for there could be no doubt but that the Court of Chancel possessed the power of rescinding its own order ; and I C might make such orders as it might deem necessarl from time to time. The Earl of RIPON objected to the amendment' The object of the provision was to guard against rills' management by preventing the affairs of the b a nk fret° getting into the hands of a clique. With regard to aude tors, it should be recollected that the existing joint-stoe!; banks were not liable to the regulations of this Di"' It was extremely desirable, however, that they should be induced voluntarily to submit themselves to its provisiongt and he thqught the advantages held out to them wer e such that many of them would be induced to do so ; bat if they were compelled to submit their accounts to be audited by auditors appointed by the Board of Trade? he doubted whether they would ever be induced to adopt the provisions of the Bill. _ After a few words from Lord MONTEAGLE, the amendment was negatived without a division. Several amendments were then proposed by the P 6 l of RIPON, and agreed to, and the Bill was read a OUP' time and passed. JOINT-STOCK REGULATION AND REGIS TRATION HILL. Earl DALHOUSIE in moving the third reading °ril Joint-Stock Regulation and R eg i s t rat i on Bill, proposed some verbal amendments, which were agreed to. The Bill was then read a third time and passed. COUNTY CORONERS' BILL. Several of their Lordships Were then appointed g° manage the conference with the House of Commons 00 the County Coroners' Bill. After a short time, the managers returned, and The Earl of SHAFTESBURY said that he had low their Lordships' reasons for disagreeing with the C 013 1" mons' amendments with the conference appointed by 06 House of Commons. IRISH FISHERMEN'S BILL. Lord WHARNCLIFFE proposed the third reading of this Bill, in which he made certain amendments,whin P were agreed to. The 'Bill was read a third time and passed. The Irish Arms Bill was read a third time andpassei The Protection of Pur c h asers (I re l and) Bill was rea d a third time and passed. ART-UNIONS BILL. Lord MONTEAGLE thought it would be betel' that this Bill should no t p ass at a ll than that it shou ld pass without the amendments which their Lordships ba d agreed agreed to. e thought it r i g h t t h at all lotteries, as w t as art-unions, should b e in d emn ifi ed with regard to th s past, but he would resist the making of private lotteria l legal in future. He wo u ld move, that, as far as rela te: to the proprietors of art-unions, that the indemni t i should continue up to the Ist of October. The motion was agreed to. STANDING ORDERS. Earl DALHOUSIE moved that Nos. 223, 224, 23/ ' and 232, of the standing orders might be rescinded, order that others mi g ht b e su b st i tuted i n their place tws enable them to carry out the Railways Bill. The objee. was that railway plans mi g ht b e fi rst submitted to tll,l Executive Department of the Board of Trade, which Wol,, make a report upon th em b e f ore com i ng to the Corara; tee. This report of the E xecu ti ve was not to be con Cit; sive. The alteration would have the effect of limit' ri e . the expenses of those who wished to promote railri e f schemes.—The motion was agreed to. The Commons' amendments to the Roman Cathol iC Penal Acts Repeal Bill were agreed to. A message from the Commons was then brought to Sir George Clerk and othe rs , th at t h ey had agreed their Lordships' amendments to the Insolvent Debtol t Bill • also a message that th e C ommons d i d not pecsi.elif in their disagreement to th e amen d ments made b y t° Lordships in the County Coroners' Bill. Their Lordships then adjourned until Half-past Th ree o'Clock to-morrow (this day). HOUSE OF COMMONS, August 8. QUARTER SESSIONS. Sir J. GRAHAM mo ve d f or l eave to bring i n s to regulate the appointment and payment of clerks an other officers of the cour t s o f petty and quarter sesouP" of the peace, oyer and terminer, and gaol delivery. the After some discus s ion, l eave was g i ven to b r i ng in , o Bill ; and it was th en rea d a fi rst t i me, and ordere d be read a second time that day three months. POOR-LAW BILL. The Lords' amendments to this Bill were brought t2ll ' and agreed to after some discussion. MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS. ~, A message from th e L or d s b rought up several BO' A RT-UNIONS. rtie f On the motion o f Si r J. G RAHAM, the id° be amendments to the Art-Unions Bill was ordered t 0 taken into consideration to-morrow. Conferences took place on several Bills with the Lora.; and among them wa s th e I nso l vent Debtors' Blithe which the Lords ag ree d t o t h e amendments °' Commons. The House adjourned at Nine o'clock till to - nl ert°ll at Half-past Three o'clock. BIRTHS. -squ arer On the Bth inst., a t 16 , C harles-street, Berkeley the Countess of Craven, of a daughter. Leig li. On the 24th ult., at Thun, Switzerland, Mrs. Henry Phillips, of a son. On the 26th ult., the lady of T. Duffield, of a daughterio On the 3d inst., at Maitland-place, Clapton, Mrl. Er a Toulmin, of a daughter. f tb° On the 4th inst., at Rhyl, near St. A sap h, the wife 0 Rev. H. J. Wharton, of a son. - MARRIED. • s On the Bth inst., at the Ind epen dent Chapel, 'al-toirer Essex, by the Rev. Th omas Bi nney, Thomas S a dler, I p t o. Charles Reed, Esq., o f B r i s t o l , t o Ell en, third d aug hter 0 late Benjamin Ha nson , E sq. , of Hackney. xcel On the 6th inst, at St. Sepulchre's Church, Skinner-9 sat, Sarah Ann, eld es t d aug ht er o f Wi lliam Fortescue , Esq'' nee geon, Smithfield-bars, to Mr. W. B. Cl eav er, of LaWr e lane, Cheapside. 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