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—that is, if no remedy at present existed, he would feel it his duty to bring in a Bill on the subject, and 'so remedy the omission. The defect of this case had arisen from legislative measures introduced for the purpose of altering the jury-law. The common law •` did not apply to the case, and the Legislature had provided no remedy for the defect. Lord CAMPBELL was extremely glad to hear that his Noble Friend had directed his attention to the subject; but he felt sure that upo n further consideration he would find the opin ion of the learned judges to be, that the right of chal lenge to the array had been taken away alto gether. They raid that a difference or de fect arising from partiality was the only ground for challenging the array. The matter was taken altogether out of the hands of the sheriff: where the Recorder erred there did not seem to be any remedy. He would not trouble the }louse further on the sub ject, resting with confidence on the assurance of his Noble and Learned Friends. THE INCOME-TAX. Lord MONTEAGLE then rose and said, that their Lordships were aware that he had a motion on the paper of this evening for the annual balance sheet of income and expenditure; and accounts re lating to trade and navigation in certain branches. He (Lord Monteagle) would not have taken up any considerable portion of their Lordships' time upon this subject had not an impression, caused by a paragraph in her Majesty's gracious speech, been created out of doors, and on that passage he intended to make a few observations. The passage referred to said that it would be for them to determine whether it would not be prudent to continue the property-tax for a limited period. Now that part of her Majesty's speech might be inter preted in two ways, and it was most material that it should be properly understood by the country. Their Lordships were aware that when the tax was first enacted, its objects were merely of a temporary kind, and no expectations were entertained that it would afterwards be made part of the ways and means of this country. Un doubtedly it would not be so objectionable if • it were only intended as a partial experiment for the purpose of remitting some other obnoxious tax, or giving relief in any case that pressed heavily • on the community; but if it were intended, as they had reason to fear, to make the income-tax part of the permanent ways and means of the country, then, indeed, was it essentially n ecess a r y th a t the people should be aware of the real intentions of the Government. It was one thing to submit to an inconvenience and inequality of pressure, as in the case of this tax, and • quite a different one to consent to a permanent impo ' sition. He thought that no one could doubt the ex pedieocy of continuing the income-tax fur the present, ' and he should state in a few words why he thought ' so. Dealing in round numbers there was a surplus of three millions over expenditure. Now, although the public wore led to consider that this was a large augmentation of the public revenue, and that this sum, therefore, formed a fund upon which different classes, upon whom particular taxes pressed, might think they had a right to draw, it was time that there was an actual surplus of 3,000,0001. But then it was provided by the property tax, which yielded 5,000,0004 and was only a tem ` porary impost. Looking t )the regular and fixed sources ' of increase there was in fact no surplus. There was quite as great a deficiency now, as when the income.- tax was imposed, if that tax were allowed to expire. ' It must be obvious to every one that the expiration of that tax, under such circumstances, the Government • could not think of; and he trusted that neither House of Parliament would consent to its expiration. The question, then, was, whether the tax was to be con tinued as the relief of a temporary pressure, or was to be continued as a substitute for other taxes to be repealed. But if it were proposed, on the strength of the temporary surplus, to reduce judiciously some taxes which might, as had been found to be the re • suit in the case of other reductions, tend ultimately to raise the permanent revenue and diminish the deficiency, no one could object to that policy. The papers which • he was about to call for would illustrate the working of the changes which had taken place, and he had in tended to move for another paper, in which he was • anticipated by his Noble Friend Lord Dalhousie, • whom he must take that opportunity of congaa • tulating upon his recent appointment to the head of the department with which that paper was connected. This document, which would probably be delivered in the course of to-morrow, was one of the most important and valuable papers, illustrative of their • customs laws, that had ever been drawn up or pre pared for Parliament. It furnished some inferences, with respect to their customs duties, of a most important nature. It exhibited in two com parative tables the state of the customs duties in the two years preceding the alteration of the tariff, and for the two years immediately suc ceeding that alteration. They were classed in two different modes. The first was an analysis, according to the different heads of duty, of articles pro ducing from 1001. t o 100,0 001. a-year ; the other was an analysis of the respective amount of duty raised on different classes of articles. By this it appeared that out of 22,000,0001. raised upon 813 articles there were 585, or about three-fourths of the whole, which produced only 42,0001. a year. Parliament had the power of reducing the whole amount of the cus toms' duties payable on three-fourths of the articles subjected to duty, at a loss only of 42,0001. . But if such a proposal ever came before them, he would suggest to his Noble Friend that, in their anxiety to give all possible relief to trade and commerce, they ought not to deprive themselves of the opportunity of gaining just and correct statis tical information. This error had been committed with respect to the Irish trade. In their anxiety to re move all restrictions from it, they had done away with the necessity of any customs entries whatever. Thus, from their desire to place it as much as possible on the footing of a coasting-trade, they had put it out of their power to prove to the Irish people that their condition had progressively improved, and that their consumption of the necessaries of life was daily extending itself. There were several other curious facts which -were equally apparent in the document before him, and to which he had been calling their Lordships' attention, upon which he expected considerable dis cussion would arise. It was not now his intention to enter more at length into this subject, but when it came to be discussed before their Lord ships it would appear that in the reduction made upon articles of consumption, those reductions would appear to have been made upon articles of minor importance. It would also appear that taking into account the character of the articles that this reduction had been made upon, there had been comparatively little or no reduction upon articles of raw material, upon articles partly manufactured, and upon manufactured articles, while upon the other hand it would appear that the great increase had taken place upon articles of food. It was for these reasons that he deemed it of much im portance to call their Lordships' attention to the fact that this temporary tax had not produced an equiva lent equal to the sacrifice. This was not the proper time to argue this question, but he did not think it was out of place in him to tike the liberty of drawing their Lordships' attention to this tax. In speaking of articles of food he did not of course mean to include every article that came under that designation, such as brandy, &c., but he alluded to the article of tea, upon which . he found a considerable increase, and that circumstance had been fully explained in the document before him. Fie had round that no alteration had been made in the rate of duty upon that article, which was 2s. Id. in the _pound, though considerable altera tion had taken place in the price. Whether a reduc tion in the price of the article had been owing to a reduction in the duty or the value, it was a matter of indifference to the public, but the result of the reduc tion in the price had been an increase in the consumption of the article to the amount of about a million of pounds weight. The fall had been in the price of the article inn 2e 6d. to Is. 6d. per pound, thereby accounting for the increase in the consump tion. His reasons for referring to those sukects was for the purpose of showing that the increase surplus of the revenue was sot so great as bad been ima eined. Then with regard to another article of general consumption suer. Last year an alteration was made in the duties im lsed upon sugar. O ne sca l e o f d u t y was i mpose d upon su gar t h e product of British possessions; an other scale was imposed up on foreign sugar the pro duction of free la bour, such as sugars from China, Java, and 14Ianilla; and p ower was g i ven t o h er Majesty i n c cnincii, on sati s f ac t ory proof being given that it was produced by free labour in other countries, to add those Actcountries to the list. Th ere was also a clause the inof reci entitling count r i es w hi c h had with us treaties Now he should l i k e re ci p r ocit y to the b ene fit o f the reduction. honer e t o a , s o e u e w ether s .ag ar, there had taken place ace for any of that desc r ipti on of consumption not the production o f British p ose • was aware that the Bill h a d not come s into pr operation until the month of November last, and, therefore, it could not be considered as a f a i r specimen of the working of the Bill. The policy of the Government in framing that Bill was to give the preference to free-labour sugar, but it would be excessively whimsical if it should turn out that no foreign free-labour sugar had been admitted under its provisions, but that slave-labour sugar, which it was the object of Parliament to exclude, had been admitted. He believed there had been some Orders in Council respecting the admission of Louisiana, and he, and those who acted with him, had last year contended that Louisiana sugar, under the treaties of reciprocity, would be entitled to the benefit of the Act. Some Manilla sugar had, he believed, arrived, but owing to some difficulty, had of yet been admitted to home consumption. Par- EIIIMIMI Tiril4l SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY U , v 45. lament, he thought, was entitled to this information He also wished to see what had been the working of the Irish spirit duties. The Noble Duke would re collect that, in the first instance, the tax on Irish spirits had been increased, but this increased tax had been followed by a deficiency in the revenue. The Government very properly took the mat ter into their consideration, and repealed the duty. He wished to see what had been the working of that alteration, and he trusted there would be no objection to the return. The accounts of the Excise would show the consumption of the present year as compared with former years There were two other articles in which alterations had been made, and respecting which he also wished some information. One was the article of timber. He considered that the sacrifice ( f the duty on colonial timber was most unwise, because it had not benefited the consumer, while a great loss had resulted to the revenue. The other :article to which be alluded was that of coffee. He believed that the measure of her Ma- jesty's Government with respect to coffee, though not, perhaps, so complete as might have been wished—was not only a step, but a very great step in the right direction.—(Hear, hear.) He believed that the great increase which had taken place in this article had arisen from this measure. He was of the same opinion with respect to the wool-duty ; for, although the agricultural interest had been very much alarmed by it, yet he believed that so far from their fears being well founded it had greatly benefited them. He ventured to express a hope that the same course with respect to the duty on cotton wool would be pursued. as the effect of that tax on our manufacturer in foreign markets was very severely felt, as in those markets his articles had to compete with articles manufactured from cotton that had never been taxed. He thought it was but justice that the House of Lords should have time to consider these matters. It was true they had not the right to alter any measures, but they had the right surely to exercise their judgment upon them. Indeed, they did not do their duty without they did so. He trusted that, in future, Bills of such im portance as those he had adverted to would not be hurried through the House, because the re sult was, that their Lordships had not the opportunity of fully considering them. The Noble Lord concluded by moving for the papers for which he had given notice. The Duke of WELLINGTON said that it could not be expected that he would be pre pared to answer the speech of the Noble Lord. With respect to the papers, there could be no ob jection to the production of them ; and the Noble Lord might rely upon it that it was cer tainly the desire and wish of the Government to give to that House every information upon all these ques tions, in order that they might have an opportunity of discussing them all. At the present moment, he had already stated, it was impossible for him to follow the Noble Lord through the discussion of these questions. Her Majesty's servants it must be ex pected would wait till the financial statement was made in another place, before they interfered in these matters. The production of the papers was then ordered, and the House adjourned. ROUSE OF COMMONS. Feb. 10. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly , before Four. THAMES EMBANKMENT BILL. The Sheriffs of London were introduced by the Ser geant-at-Arms, and presented a petition from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Members of the Council in Com mon Council assembled, respecting the Thames Embank• meat Bill. been received since a similar question was put last year. But with respect to the payments to the Tem ple of Juggernaut, he had to state, that the annual payment was formerly 60,000 rupees, hut so much of the lands had been restored as reduced it to 36,000 rupees, and it was intended to restore the remaining lands, so as to render the payment altogether unne cessary. POOR-LAW IN SCOTLAND. Lord DALMENY gave notice that he should to morrow ask her Majesty's Government whether they intended to bring in this session any measure for altering or amending the system of poor-laws in Scotland; and if so, whether those alterations would be founded on the report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the subject ? SUPPLY. The report on the Committee of Supply was then brought up and agreed to. COMPANIES CLAUSES CONSOLIDA TION BILL. On the motion of Mr. GREENE this Bill was read a second time. RAILWAY CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION BILL. On the motion of Lord G. SOMERSET the Rail way Clauses Consolidation Bill was read a second time, and was ordered to be committed on Thursday. LAND CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION BILL. The Laud Clauses Consolidation Bill was read a second time, and was ordered to be committed on Thursday. LAND CLAUSES_(SCOTLAND) CONSOLI- SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—If the decisions of the Council of Trent, and " the whole cycle of Roman doctrine,"—if the con tinual insinuation, and frequent direct assertion, that Protestantism is heresy—if the assumption, as self-evi dent excellencies, on every occasion, of the Romish dis tinctive characters of priestly-obligatory, and gene rally-meritorious celibacy, confession, absolute spiritual direction, &c., &c.—if the re-publication of ail the legends of English monkery, through all the dark ages, and the obtrusion on the astonished eyes of the English public in the nineteenth century of thaumaturgic toe-nails and timber-shavings, old clothes, and old tombstones—if all this is consistent with the creed of the Church of England, and if the uncen cured inculcation of all this within the walls of the University of Oxford is consistent with the moral and inteil2ctual reputation of that University—then we admit that its convocation will be meddling as need lessly, as certain of our Contemporaries think they will, in expressing any *pinion of their own on Thursday if any men, h o ldi n g Pr o t es t an t principles, n e e ve t. ever were called upon to stand forth, and say they hold them—if any provocation possibly can be given to men, who believe the Reformation con quered great privileges for them, to vindicate those privileges in the face of first covert — now open—insult—then surely the members of that University are so called upon, and the ill-blood threatened as likely to result from their obeying this call will have been generated by no act of theirs. The whole question is, whether they do adhere to Protestant free dom, as fte edom which ought in England, and an English University, to be exercised and enjoyed, or no. The root of the controversy is not this or that dogma— but the right of our forefathers, and of is; their suns, to assert the freedom of national education from the obligation to bow to one exclusive set of dogmas, imposed by a foreign hierarchy. It is this obligation which is now unequivocally asserted by the new Oxford school—and now asserted in language of defiance and insult. We have now avowals instead of intimations of " deep and burning hatred of the Reformation"—explicit instead of oracular vaticinations that "the demon of Protestantism will tear and rend the body whicn it possesses, before it leaves it." These manifestoes of hostility to the Church of England (so far as free from Rome) present the novel feature of being framed in the Church and University, and of avowedly founding their legitimacy on a sense of the articles expressly devised to defeat their purpose. It is quite in vain for these dealers in duplicity in the sense of plain English to tell us that Low Church men also evade such of our forms as they dislike. Whether Low Churchmen are or are not justified in so doing, we inquire not at present. But no Churchmen, save this new junto, assert a right to take their stand in the Church for the express purpose of pouring un limited insult and reproach on every point of doctrine and practice which distinguishes this Church from an other. It will not be denied that there is a fundamental distinction between the English view and the Remish view of what constitutes a church. These men stand alone in borrowing the artillery of the Vatican to discharge on us from within our own pale. 1 hey stand alone in insi nuating, or openly advancing, the charge of schism against separate Anglicanism—the duty of devonon to the See ef Rome—thecharacter of heresy in all things thatdistinguish (and because they distinguish) our symbols from those of Rome. It is true that, in so doing, they necessarily brand themselves also as heretics. For Rome allows no churchmanship out of her communion—and no excuse but invincible ignorance in any individual remaining without that communion. These men, having lost the plea of invincible ignorance, stand self-convicted here tics, every hour they stand out of Roman communion. And here we come to the practical consequence of their views in the University. They are turning it into a pait seminaire fur the supply of Rome with proselytes and priests. All who receive " the whole cycle of Human doctrine" into honest hearts must necessarily act in accordance with the most important of all her ' doctrines—that, namely, which anathematises as heresy whatever is held or taught (and simply as being so held or taught) out of Roman communion. It is a new phenomenon in polemics, for men to ransack the Ro man armoury for all its most poisoned weapons of offence against their own nominal communion—while er ery Roman theologian can tell them, that of all heretics their case is most hopeless, because they alone stand self-convicted of heresy clung to in th e li g h t o f knowledge. Th e co nsistent disciples of Newmanism have, therefore, seceded, in considerable numbers, to Rome. And Mr. Newman has himself acknowledged his writings as a " disposing cause" to these conversions. It is unquestionable that those writings are also the original source of what we deem the far less honourable alternative —namely, of the subscription of Anglican ar tides with a heart avowedly devoted to Rome. This subscription, coupled with this avowal, is Mr. Ward's logical deduction from Tract 90. And, forsooth, it is mere intolerant meddling in the University to express its sense of this revived lore of Loyola ! Those who say this must mean to say that Convocation ought to deem itself incapable of expressing any sense upon any subject. If so, let it be so stated. Let the University abdicate all its collective functions. In this way, its re fusal to give judgment will at least not be construed as a refusal to vindicate common sense and honest consistency, for fear they should retard the conversion of Oxford to Roman Catholicism. STANDARD.—The property-tax, the sugar duties, the tax on tea, the assessed taxes, the cotton tax, the malt-tax, the duty on paper, and we know not how many more taxes, had all found champions to claim their abolition, when on Saturday a meeting of soap boilers and Members of Parliament assembled to insist upon the abolition of the duty on soap, one-half the former d uty h av i ng b een long since t Josephi mposes repealed. The soap di scuss i on f i lls about four closely printed columns of th e M orn i ng Chronicle, and who everthe soap-tax reads the i speechesof the Messrs. only x e that burthen on the country. To be sure, the same thing has been said of ev er y ot h er tax with as much eloquence and as muc h truth but what is the Prime Minister to do ? It is certain that he has a surplus of nearly three millions and a half But three millions and a half will not afford a reduc tion of about fifteen or twenty millions, which, at a moderate computation, be is urged to reduce, and yet each interest tells him that the empire will infallibly be ruined, if the tax which presses upon it be not re moved. This is a distressing position, into which Sir Robert Peel has brought himself by his surplus ; but there is consolatien. Though each interest insists upon the necessity of the concession, which it claims as of vital importance to the empire, each allows that all other interests may go on very we'l as they are. Thus all the votes being collected, each interest will have but one vote against all the others, and thus the result will be a great majority against the taking off any one tax. And in good truth, this result would seem to be fully justified by the prospelity of the country under its present system Qf taxation. We have not the most distant uotion of what the Premier is to propose on Friday ; but we know what we should do in his place—take care to disoblige no one interest by giving a preference to any other; leave the taxes just where they are, and devote the surplus to the defence of the country, by additions to our steam navy, and by the construction of ports and harbours. It is an additional recommendation of this mode of applying the surplus, that nearly every shilling of it would be expended in the wages of labour —no small alleviation to the poor-rates, no slight benefit to the agriculturist and to the excise revenue. THE SENTINEL. — The perfection of a Royal Speech is to string sentences together devoid of all meaning. Words without ideas, inane paragraphs, vague generalities, and bad grammar, are the staple elements of these documents. The Sovereign, we need not tell our readers, has nothing whatever to do in their composition ; no more, indeed, than boys in a school with the speeches they are called upon to spout before " breaking up," by their elocution -master. Knowing, as we do, that the undivided and unremitting efforts of the Oligarchy, since 1688, have been devoted to the weakening and degrading of Royalty, we are not surprised that they should compel their enthroned victims to recite annually those dull platitudes of rhetoric, and endeavour to fasten the authorship on them. However, this dirty trick is pretty well worn out ; and the public generally are now aware, that the prologue to the new annual edition of the Comedy of Errors, to be played by the national comedians in the Holy Chapel of St. Stephen's, is the veritable composition of the Prime Minister. Let us examine some of the paragraphs in the speech which the Queen was compelled to recite on Tuesday last, from the MS. of Sir Robert Peel. Her Majesty says:—"Among all classes of my peoplo, there is generally prevalent a spirit of loyalty and cheerful obedience to the law." If by loyalty is understood a personal respect and attachment towards the amiable lady who, by right of primogeniture, wears the Crown of these realms, we fully admit the truth of the senti ment ; but if the term is intended to be taken in a wider sense, and meant to convey an idea, that the people are contented with the institutions under which they live, then we tell Sir Robert Peel, that he has put language into the mouth of his Royal Mistress, which he knows to be fabulous. This word " loyalty " is too often used in a very lax and most unwarrantable sense ; and a logical definition of it is greatly to be desiderated. Attack Bishops and the Church shouts disloyalty ; assail hereditary legislation and the Peers yell out disloyalty ; in fact, every species of State scoundreliem, when it receives zi staggering blow from the aria of justice, sneaks behind the throne for shelter, and attempts to turn attention from its own e ll_ lanies by some lachrymose whinings over the fictitious clingers of monarchy. We are told of the " cheerful " obedience paid by the people to the . law. We em phatically deny th a t th e o bedience is cheerful. It arises part]s- from fear of imprisonment or trans portation, and partly through that prostration of mind and sickness of heart which captives feel after long years of ine u reerati, n ; o r, it may be assimilated t o that condition of utter helplessness and hopelessness which the stolen African experiences when pinioned down with iron rivets in the hold of a slave-ship. Si r Robert generalises far too much, when he talks of obe elience to " the law." What does he mean by the ex pression? Does lie draw his proofs and illustrations from incendiarism or poaching, or the dead bodies of slaughtered gamekeepers? Is it the law that taxes bread and sugar, for the behoof of that oligarchy whose miserable tool he is, that the loyal people press to their hearts with fond and grateful endearments? Is it the new poor-law, or the ineotne-tax law, or ;he tithe law, or the law which robs a man of the suffrage, or those aggregate laws of Customs and Excise which make the industrious classes pay seventy per cent. out of their earnings to the Ch ance ll or o f t h e Exchequer? We must judge of the whole by the parts of which it is composed, and which of the parts inspires " cheerfulness," " Utor permisso ; caudmque piles ut equinie raulatium vello ; demo unum, demo etiam unum, Dam cadet ensue ratione ;untie acervi." 'Her Majesty hopes that the information collected by the i Health of Towns Commission will enable Parliament " to devise the means of promoting the health and com fort of the poorer classes of her sub,;ects." That such is the personal wish of her Majesty, we have no doubt ; and right glad should we be to hear that she prop,sed to make a royal progress, accompanied by her Ladies of Honour in the character of Sisters of Charity, through the Metropolis, under the guidance of Dr. Southwi.od Smith and the other medical gentlemen who have given evidence bef .re the Health of Towns Commission. Let her visit Field-court and its neighbourhood, Bethnal green, Spitalfields, and the Borough Mint, and other per manent abodes of fever and miasma, where famine gives its daily lev•1 to hunger. Let her not fear physical force; these are the localities where physical weakness demon strations are exhibited from the first of January to the last day of December. The contrast between such scenes of misery and the gorgeous superabundance of Stowe and Burleigh, would give her some useful hints as to the distribution of wealth, and also point out to her how it happens that the oligarchs can rival royalty itself in mag nificence. Would to Heaven, that Victoria would com m.ind such a physical weakness demonstration as we have indicated, attended by her official cdviscrs ; and, then, in presence of the ragged, houseless, and starving, ask them to give an recount of their stewardship ? Her M ,- -justy tells the Legislature, that " the state of the law in regard to the privileges of the Bank of Ire:and, and to other banking establishments in that countr) and in Scotland, will, no doubt, occupy their attention." This is significant; but we tell Sir Robert Peel, on quite as good evidence as any that he possesses, that the intro duction of a metallic currency into North Britain would tuin that country. We tell him, that Glasgow would be a bankrupt city in six months after the suppression of cash credits. All the poor who subsist by the fisheries, would be reduced to hopeless beggary. It is lucky for him that the working men of England have never yet turned their minds to the truly diabolical system of which he is the worthless and unfeeling advocate. He gained personally a million by the vile Bill of 1819, and his honest father told him he would make that enormous profit by the spoliating measure. But he is not content. He wants more, and the more scarce he makes money the more power dors he throw into the monied class of which he is a leading member. But we will not believe that Scotland will ever succumb to this ignoble money monger, even though he should be backed by those League Members, who, shouting free trade, voted with him to protest the monopoly of that article of trade, called gold—an astounding inconsistency which we w uld fain ascribe to want of judgment, rather than want of principle. Her Majesty's speech concludes with an earnest prayer to Divine Providence to direct the wisdom and sustain the virtue of Parliament. We absolutely shuddered when we read the paragraph. What I does Sir R. Peel put this language into the mouth of his Royal Mistress after having done all in his ' power to thwart the intentions of Providence by inter cepting its bounties ? Has not God given the harvest, and have not Peel and his crew locked it up in bonded warehouses, while the hungry have been fainting aed dying for want of sustenance ? And shall a Legislature thus violating natur a l l aw , sess i on a f ter sess i on , dare to profane and desecrate the sanctity of relgien by hypo critical appeals to Heaven, when by their simple vote they can liberate the imprisoned food, and enable every hu man being to fulfil the command of his Maker, by earn ing his bread "in the sweat of his brow ?" . we are a most Christian p eo pl e , an d h er M a j es ty i s "De fender of the Faith." LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY. Feb. 10. Tho LORD CHANCELLOR sat in Lincoln's Inn-hall to• day, and took motions, it being the first seal after Hilary Term. This was the first day of his Lordship's sittings since the last day of term. The RECORDER sUmmed'up, and thejuryacquitted and returned a verdict of Guilty against Morris, but, at the same time, strongly recommended him tolnercy, in which recommendation the prosecutor also joined. The RECORDER sentenced him to three months' imprison ment without hard labour. The Court then adjourned until Monday, March 3. HUDDERSFIELD RAILWAY. Mr. BUSFEILD presented a petition in favour of the .uddersfield Railway Bill. SHEFFIELD CENTRAL RAILWAY. Mr. CHRISTOPHER presented a petition in favour of the Sheffield Central Railway Bill. NOTTINGHAM WATER-WORKS COMPANY. Mr. H. JOHNSTONE presented a petition for the extension of the powers of the Nottingham Water-works Company. INCOME-TAX. Lord DUNCAN begged to call the attention of the House to a petition of considerable importance which he had to present from certain of the inhabitants of Bath, agreed upon at a meeting where the mayor was in the chair, complaining of the oppressive nature of the income-tax, and stating their belief that it was unequal in its operation, and particularly heavy in its effects on the poorer classes. As this was a petition embracing matters of great moment to the community, and well advised and considered, he trusted that it would be pointed with the votes. MEDICAL REFORM BILL. Mr. CHRISTOPHER presented a petition from the inhabitants of the borough of Horneastle against the Medical Reform Bill. DIVORCE BILLS. Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSETmoved that the fol lowing Members be appointed to serve on the Select Com mittee on Divorce Bills:—Mr. Hayter, Mr. Cripps, Mr. Hogg, Mr. Burroughes, Mr. Tancred, Mr. Bruce, Mr. Patrick Stewart, Mr. Darby, Mr. Sergeant Stock, Sir John Yarde Buller, Mr. Wilson Patten, Mr. Evans, Mr. Hardy, Mr. Gibson Craig, and Mr. Robert Scott.— Agreed to. PRIVATE BILLS. Mr. STRUTT moved that the following Members be appointed to serve on the Select Committee on Pri vate Bills :—Mr. Strutt, Mr. Robert Clive, Mr. Rice, Mr. Villiers Stuart, Mr. Wrightson, Mr. George Caven dish, Mr. Compton, Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Pakington, Mr. Forbes, Mr. Beckett, Sir: John Yarde Buller, Mr. Bramston, Mr. Richard Walker, Mr. George Phillips, Mr. Bell, Mr. Gibson Craig, O'Connor Don, Mr. Forbes Mackenzie, Mr. Horsman, Mr. Eliot York, Mr. Kemble, Mr. Aglionby, Captain Jones, Mr. Thornely, Mr. Barneby, Mr. Benjamin Wood, Mr. Tatton Egerton, Mr. St.insfield, Lord Worsley, Mr. Henry Bailie, Mr. Edward Buller, Sir William Heathcote, Mr. Hope John stone, Mr. Morgan John O'Connell, Mr. Packe, Mr. Acland, Mr. Evans, Mr. Home Drummond, Mr. Childers, — Mr. Cornwall Leigh, and M r . E ve l yn Phili p Shi rley.- 2 Agreed to. FACTORIES. Mr. BROTHERTON moved for a return of the num ber and names of the persons summoned for offences against the Factories Act, between the Ist day of January, 1844, and the Ist day of January, 1845 ; spe cifying the date of the conviction or hearing, the place of hearing, by whom each conviction was made, the offence in each case, and the manner in which the penal ties and costs were appropriated ; also a summary of the total number of informations and convictions, the amount of penalties and costs. NEW WRIT FOR THE BOROUGH OF LEWES. Mr. YOUNG moved for the issue of a new writ for the election of a Member of Parliament for the Borough of Lewes, in the room of the Hon. Henry Fitzroy, who has been appointed to an office under the Lords of the Admiralty. NOTICES OF MOTION—WINDOW-TAX. Lord DUNCAN gave notice that on Thursday, , the 20th instant, he would move for a Committee of the whole House, with the view of repealing the window-tax, unless he were forestalled in that object by the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of her Ma jesty's Government. - SIERRA LEONE AND THE MAURITIUS. Mr. HUME gave notice that to•morrow he would move for a return of certain papers connected with the Mauritius and Sierra Leone. COLONIAL ACCOUNTS. Mr. HUME gave notice that he should postpone till Thursday, the 20th, his motion respecting Colonial Accounts. RAILWAYS. Mr. WALLACE gave notice that to•morrow he would move resolutions relating to certain railways; and he also gave notice that he would bring in a Bill to repeal the Railway Act passed last session. CORN RETURNS. Mr. MILES moved for certain corn returns, in continuation of other returns previously ordered. EDUCATION IN INDIA. Mr. HUME, seeing the Right Hon. Gentleman the Vice-President of the Board of Control in his place, would take the opportunity of asking whether there was any objection to lay on the table the educational order of the Governor-General of India, of August, 1844 ? Mr. BARING'S answer was wholly inaudible, but from Mr. Hume's appearing to be satisfied with it, it was supposed to be, that there was no objection to the return. LORD ELLENBOROUGH Mr. lIUME wished further to ask, if there would be any objection to lay before the House the cor respondence which had taken place between the Di rectors of the East India Company and her Majesty's Government on the subject of the recal of Lord El len horough ? Mr. BARING was again inaud,ble to the gallery in his answer, but it was received with laughter in the house. Mr. HUME said if the Government had no inten tion to present the papers, perhaps there would be no objection to his moving for them himself?—(A laugh.) Mr. BARING'S answer was not heard. IDOLATRY IN INDIA.—JUGGERNAUT. Sir IL 11. INGLIS would take that opportu nity, as the affairs of India had been introduced, to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman whether anything had been done to carry into effect the minute of the Board of Directors of the East India Company, which was to the effect that the Government of India should be separated from all connexion with idolatry and superstition. He wished to ask whether the pay ment of 60,000 rupees per annum to the idol of Juggernaut was continued, or that the land hadch Christian been restored Government o l the temple, formerly a p propr i ated to the worship of that religion Itenmdipaleirosmo t a i s ie potosuspes'errt ofthe idolatry ? A second question he wished to ask was, whether any steps had been taken to separate the Pagoda lands in Madras (as we understood) from the Government and transfer them to the management of natives, as had been already successfully done in the presidency of Bengal ? Mr. BARING was understood to say that, with re spect to the last question, no further information had DATION BILL. The Land Clauses (Scotland) Consolidation Bil was read a second time, and was ordered to be com mitted on Thursday. RAILWAY CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION BILL (SCOTLAND). This Bill was read a, second time, and was ordered to be committed on Thursday. COMPANIES CLAUSES (SCOTLAND) CON SOLIDATIOT BILL. Ou the motion of Lord G. SOMERSET this Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Thursday. THE RUBRIC AND BOOK OF COlll/110N PRAYER. Lord EBRINGTON rose to present a petition from the Rev. Dr. Car withen, rector of Stoke Clirns 'and, in the diocese of Exeter, praying that the sto oges 2 and 3 Edward VI., c. 1, and 1 Elizabeth, c. 2, may be repealed; and that the House will procure a calm and temperate review of the Book of Common Prayer, rubrics, and canons of the Church of England. The petitioner stated that he was bound by the canons and his ordination vows to obey the commands of his bishop; and that by Acts 2 and 3 Edward VI., and 2 and 3 Elizabeth, he was liable to be indicted by any common informer for any deviation from the rubric ; and that on conviction he was liable to a heavy fine and a lengthened imprisonment. That on conviction for a third offence he was liable to depri vation of all ecclesiastical preferment, and to impri sonment for life. That archbishops and bishops were liable to these punishments for such offences, as well as the inferior clergy ; and that he was anxious to perform his ministrations according to the directions of his bishop, and according to law. The petitioner then alluded to the excited state of the diocese of Exeter, and stated that he bad recently received three pastoral letters from his bishop on the subject, all of which were of different import, and that he felt at a loss to know how to perform his ministry with safety to himself and with satisfaction to his parishioners. He therefore prayed the House to review the directions contained in the rubric and the Book of Common Prayer, as neither the archbishops nor the bishops, either individually or collectively, possessed the power of altering a single letter in them—that the present time appeared to the petitioner to resemble the times just after the restoration of Charles 11., when it was found that the rubric was unsuited to the times, and that monarch was advised to issue a letter to the Convocation, commanding them to revise the Book of Common Prayer, when certain alterations were proposed therein, and approved of by Parliament. The petitioner, with all due deference, submitted to the House that a party had without appealing to con vocation altered the rubric in the Marriage Act of George 111., and he prayed the llouse to take the subject into serious consideration. The Noble Lord also presented a petition on the same subject, and to the same effect, from another place, signed by the Mayor and Corporation. After a considerable pause, Mr. HUME rose and said he wished that in the taxes which were intended to be repealed that on the exportation of coals would be included. WAYS AND MEANS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notice that, on Wednesday, he would move for a Committee of Ways and Means, in order to enable his Right Hon. Friend at the head of the Government to make his financial statement on Friday. The House then adjourned. SAVINGS BANKS. It is no idle assertion, that Savings Banks have been unfairly and unjustly dealt with. The fact, that depositors are now suffering by the reduction of in terest allowed them, for the grasping and unprincipled rapacity of a former Government, is obvious to all. The fact, too, that the present Ministry, instead of amending, are profiting by the evil deeds of their predecessors, in regard to savings banks, is no less disgraceful than true. The rate of interest allowed to the humble but extensive class of savings-bank depositors, should, one wculd naturally suppose, be raised instead of depressed. All who have the good of these institutions at heart think so, and all were struck with surprise and sorrow when the announced reduction fell like a thunderbolt among them. They naturally calculated that, if the Government were to restore what it had unfairly taken from them, there would have been no necessity for a change, at least for such a fearful change as the present one. The act of plunder, they thought, was disgraceful enough, but when they were coolly told, besides, that the usual interest must be ditnini: lied, although the proceeds of this plunder would have been amply suf ficient to continue the previous rate en its old footing, the whole appeared a deed of so monstrous a nature, that no words can be found sufficiently forcible to express their indignation and abhorrence. We hope that Ministers, then, will not overlook the present state of savings banks. Their late measure has done more to render these institutions valueless than all. the evil inducements that have ever stepped in between the poor man and a habit of saving. We do not wish ourselves to be righted at the expense of others—we wish every one to have his own; but we cannot tamely sit down and see the claims of every other branch of British in dustry attended to, and those of savings banks, which are of at least [equal importance, passed unheeded by. As the representatives of 900,000 of our fellow subjects, we call upon the Ministry for justice (favour we want none) to those who, as it has been shown in former numbers, are politically and morally the firmest safeguards of this country. That a thorough exami nation into the minute details connected with the whole system of savings banks is necessary to restore them to a working state, and that such an examinati on must Le a work of magnitude and toil, are facts eq ua ll y certa i n. It is, however, no less certain that an act of injustice, when pointed out, should be remedied as soon as pos sible, and that as long as the Act complained of re mains unremedied, so long will we continue our utmost exertions to bring it before the notice of those in whose hands alone the remedy is placed.—Savings Banks Circular. TIM LACE TRADE.—The state of trade in Not ngham appears to be quite as healthy as can be rea sonably expected at this season. That goods of so delicate a kind and variety in taste, and adapted, too, for various countries and seasons, such as lace is, should find at this time a fair demand, must be encouraging. The obvious feature which may give confidence to the staple manufacturers of the town is, that there can be no fear of thread or cotton coming down in price : on the contrary, we have reason to believe that it will ad vance, a little, rather than otherwise, during the year. In the quilling and plain net trade there can be no doubt or apprehension whatever as to the price being maintained ; and as respects fancy goods, so much de pends upon the taste and judgment of the producers, that for the most part they must depend upon them selves, as they have to devise and bring out that which wi 1 suit the fancy of those whose judgment may be more exquisite than their own, to do which requires a strict attention to the cultivation of a chaste and elegant de sign, which will have in its effect not only individual but collective advantages. Any one making fancy lace will ce, tainly promote his own interest by as much as possible not copying or imitating others in design: the more distinct and numerous the designs, the more extensive and beneficial, we augur, will be the consump tion ; and those who may be making an old pattern, that is now hanging heavy in the market, and even if it could be sold, would bear very little profit, yet it would be even better, just at this time, when the German and other markets are closed to us to continue in that, rather than hazard a change which may not be better, and which may be expen.sive.-21'atiagha n z Review. ST. JOHN'S GATE, CLERK ENWELL , —This cele brated ecclesiastical remain, the only one of the kind in the Metropolis, is threatened with destruction, under the provisions of the new Building Act, complaints having been made to the overseers of the parish that it is in a state of insecurity, threatening the safety of passengers. For some time past, this lodge entrance to the old, monastery has been tenanted as a beer-shop, and it is apparently in a very dilapidated state from want of proper repairs and attention. A strong desire exists on the part of many antiquarians and the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, to restore this interesting part of the ancient building, and to con vert it to a literary and scientific institution for the benefit of the inhabitants of the crowded dis trict of Clerkenwell, in the same way as Crosby-hall for the city, as it might easily be made available for the purpose, and it is intended shortly to convene a public meeting on the subject. The old gate, under which, ac cording to history, the last abbot, ere his ejectment by . Henry VIII., dropped dead suddenly, having broken his heart, has been immortalised by Sylvanus Urban, as, forming the frontispiece of the Gentleman's Magazine, ever since its est.blishment. ROGARTII'S PICTURE OF PAUL BEFORE FESTUS. This invaluable painting, by that and which has adorned Lincoln's Inn-hall fur so many years, has been removed from its long resting-place over the judg ment-seat, in order to be placed up in the New Hall now in the course of erection, and very near its completion. The Lord Chancellor took his seat shortly after eleven o'clock. LN THE CASE OF FRANK, A LUNATIC. This case stood on the paper to-day to be spoke to in the minutes. The case came before the Court sometime since upon petition, praying that a certain sum that bad been paid might be reimbursed,' in order to satisfy a solicitor's bill. On the case coming on, the Court pronounced its order, but the parties not agreeing as to the minutes of the order, it stood on the paper to be spoke to to-day. After some short discussion, the Court finally settled the decree. HILLS V. CROLE. Mr. WAKEFIELD replied to-day in part-heard appea' motion, and The toRD CHANCELLOR postponed his judgment. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Feb. 10. (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) This being the first seal after Hilary Term, his Honour the Vice-Chancellor of England took motions to- day, none of which possessed any points of interest to the public. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Feb. 10. (Sittings in Banco after Term.) TIIE BARON DE BODE v. THE QUEEN. The arguments in this case were resumed this morning by Mr. Kelly, who, on the 'part of the Crown, contended that there was not a single instance to be found in which a petition of right was brought against the Crown for a pecuniary de mand—that such a form of proceeding could only be had re course to in the case of land or land and chattels, and that, even supposing a petition of right was the proper remedy, it could not be brought for unliquidated damages. There was no probability of the case being brought to a conclusion to-day. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb. 10. (Before the Lord CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury.) THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. REILLY. This was an information filed by the Attorney-General to recover penalties alleged to have been incurred by removing goods on which the duty had not been paid at the Custom house, and by fraudulently collusion for that purpose with the importer and the servants of the wharfinger. Theirfor mation contained four counts. The Solicitor-General, Mr. Jervis. and Mr Wilde appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Humfrey for the defendant. It appeared from the evidence for the prosecution that the defendant, being a carman, was in the habit of carting; goods for Messrs. Cordingley and C o , i m p or t ers o f silks and French goods, in Paternoster-row. When Messrs. Cordingley intended their goods to pay duty, they were in the habit of marking them U C, on other occasions they marked them AK. In October, 1840, the defendant brought a bill of lading to a persen named Goold, an agent for him, to pass the sight entry for some goods im ported in the name of Madame Metzler, by the City of Bou logne steamer, from Boulogne. Mr.Goold not being a licensed agent, employed a Mr. Arnott to do it for him, and through these parties the goods were passed. The defendant was seen to be interfere in the transaction through all its stages, in the sight en:ry, the perfect entry, the landing, and the payment of the duty. The main feature of the fraud in question was, that a large case, occupying 26 feet, and containing two cases, having been landed, the larger one was set aside and the smaller one only brought forward to be charged with duty. The single penalty for which the Crown went was 7721. 16s. The jury returned a verdict for the Crown for the single value-7721. 16s. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Feb 10. (Sittings at Nisi Prius.) Three special jury cases, and one common jury case of no importance, were disposed of in little more than an hour, and the Court rose at half -past eleven o'clock. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. PERJURY.— Williams A. Kennett, a young man of gentle manly appearance, was indicted for perjury. Mr. Doane was for the prosecution ; Mr. Clarkson, with Mr. Bodkin, appeared fur the defence. The evidence in the case showed that the defendant's bro ther and another person were connected with a Loan Society in St. Pancras, to which one James Potter acted in the ca pacity of secretary. On the 30th of February last year, a person named Watts applied for a loan of 301., and produced as security two men, Spriggins and Adams. The propietors of the Society objected to the security produced, and a third name, White, was mentioned. The two first-named securities, and the principal, Watts, signed that night, and the secretary being incapable, either from ab sence or intoxication, of witnessing the signature, the de fendant signed the bill. On the succeeding day White signed, and the money was handed over to Watts. The re payments to this society not having been kept up, an action was brought in the Sheriff's Court, and the defendant having there sworn that he had seen 'Watts sign his name, it was alleged that in taking this oath he had been guilty ofperjury. The jury were ably addressed by Mr. Clarkson, who called a number of witnesses, and they gave the defendant a first rate character. One witness, White, the third security, was called on the part of the prosecution, to prove that the name of Watts was not upon the bill when his (White's) was appended. The witness on his cross-examination, however, contradicted him self in every important particular. Mr. CLARKSON (to the jury)—Can' you credit this witness ; and yet it is upon such evidence that it is sought to ruin the character of the young man standing before you. The Learned Counsel made some further observations having reference to the last witness, when he, in a state of great ex citement, again re-entered the witness.box. Witness—What is that you say, Sir? lamto be believed on my oath—believed before you, Sir. Mr. CLARKSON continued, though frequently interrupted, to address the jury, but his remarks were of so bitingly sarcastic a character, that the wrath of the unfortunate listener in the box fairly exploded, by his giving the Learned Counsel the lie direct. The RECORDER severely reprimanded him, and said, that in the event of such another indiscretion, he ahould be com mitted to prison. The Recorder then summed up, and said jury at thatmr . once Kenn returned a verdict o etescharacterwasw wholly ly Not Guilty, unimpeache a d n, Caleb Morris and Charles Crickler were indicted, the former for stealing a purse and two 5/. Bank of England notes, the property of George Rogers, and the latter for feloniously re ceiving one of the notes, well knowing that. it had been stolen. Mr. Ryland prosecuted, and Mr. Prendergast appeared for the defence. The circumstances under which the charge was preferred against the prisoners will be fresh in the recollection of our readers from the police reports, and it will therefore not b e necessary to go into them at any length on the present occa sion. The prosecutor was at Greenwich on the Ist of April, last year, and while proceeding to the railway-station, on hi , . return to London, lie lost his purse and its contents. The purse was shortly afterwards picked up by a lad named Stevens, who was at the time an apprentice to the prisoner Morris, who is a tradesman at Greenwich, and he t0...k the purse home to his master. The prisoner examined it, and said that it contained two 5/. Bank of England notes, and he claimed them as of right belonging to him, but, at the same time, some sort of promise was made to the boy, that he should receive 2/. as his share, and it appears that seventeen shillings were in .point of fact given to him by his master as part of the 21. Some evidence was adduced to show that the prisoner Morris changed one of the 51. notes in London, in payment for a pair of trowsers, and i t order to connect the other prisoner with the transaction. The boy Stevens deposed that Morris gave him the second 5/. note and told him to get it changed, and that soon afterwards he said that he had done so, and at the same time observed that the notes had been advertised, and if they did not mind they should get into trouble about them. Mr. PRENDERGAST addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoners, and called several witnesses who gave them an ex cellent character. .A'ETV COURT. (Before Mr. COMMISSIONER BULLOCK and Mr. ALDERMAN COPELAND ) William Stannard, aged 19, was indicted for unlawfully and carnally knowing Elizabeth Appleton, a child under twelve years of age. A second count charged him with a common assault. The prisoner had pleaded that he was not guilty. The facts of the case disclosed an amount of profligacy rare.y heard in a court of justice. The brother of the child, the child herself, and the prisoner, all slept, and used in common one room in a street in Seven Dials. The child slept in the same bed with the prisoner and her brother, by his (the brother's) direction. She swore that the prisoner had twice committed the offence charged against him, but admitted, on being questioned by the pri3oner, :that a man some time before: had taken her into a cart, and committed a like offence. The disclosure of these facts excited much disgust and astonish ment amongst all present. After much deliberation, the jury returned a verdict of— Not Guilty. 77unnus Dunlop, a respectably-dressei young man, was indicted for obtaining a quarter of a dozen of shirts, value es., by means of false representation, from Messrs. Porson and Co., of St. Paul's-churchyard. There not being sufficient evidence to substantiate the charge, and an excellent character being given to the pri• soner, the jury Acquitted him. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) BOW-STREET. Henry Thompson, was charged by Alexander Crow, a licensed waterman, at the cab-stand opposite the Lyceum Theatre, Strand, with officiating without a li cense on -Satur day evening, at the box entrance of the above theatre, to the injury of himself and the other regular watermen on the stand. The defendant was seen to open several cab doors during the evenintr, and to receive money, and though warned of the illegality of his conduct he still persisted. At last he was given into custody by the complainant, in order if possi ble to put an end to the practice, as more than a dozen others were in the habit nightly of doing the same thing. Mr. HALL said that the defendant had rendered himself liable to a penalty of 5/., or two months' imprisonment with hard labour. He would, however, as this was the first of fence, mitigate the fine, with the intimation that if the offence was repeated the full penalty would be enforced, as it was necessary to protect the regular licensed watermen, else no respectable party would be got to officiate in that capa city. The defendant was fined 205., or fifteen days' im prisonment. Patrick Crawley, a ferocious looking Irishman was placed in the dock charged with committing a gross assault upon a young man named Vincent, and his mother, an aged woman, of nearly 70 years, as they were walking up Portugal-street, during yesterday afternoon (Sunday). The defendant, it appears, was beastly drunk, and seized both complainants with his two arms, something in the style in which the 1 great American bear is represented to hug his prey. The young man of course resisted his embraces, when the de fendant resorted to blows, struck him over the face with his fist, then threw the old woman on the ground, and kicked her. She was very much bruised. The peLsoner in defence,sa/ethat he had been a teetotaller for four months, and that having just come into town on Saturday, he met with some friends, by whom he was induced to break the pledge. In consequence he became so drunk that he did not know what he was doing, and had no recol lection of committing the assault for which he stood charged. —He was fined 405., or twenty-ons days' imprisonment. CLE IiKEN WELL. One of those impostors that throng the streets, seeking alms by every mode of supplication, was brought before the Magistrate, charged with begging —his name is Farrtell. Police-constable 172 N, deposed that the fellow being drunk on Saturday evening, went about High-street, stop ping everybody he met, and seeking alms. One gentleman he asked for a penny, anti when refused asked him if he would " stand a pint of beer ?" The gentleman refused, and the prisoner then went into several shops, not craving, but demanding money. One shopkeeper, Mr. Prentice, refused to give him any money, and the prisoner immediately asked him if he would have some money from him. The constable swore that several people told him that many tradesmen had been much alarmed by him. The prisoner told a rambling story about misfortunes on a voyage from Livoirpool, which had about the same semblance ' to truth as that of Sinbad, the sailor. He said his wife was in the neighbourhood, and Mr. GREENWOOD remanded him, that the veracity of his statement might be inquired into. - - - An able-bodied man, named Crean, was charged with breaking sixteen panes of glass, in the Islington work house, of which he has been an inmate for years. The offence was clearly proved, and the damage done laid at 1/. He had received no provocation whatever, at least no immediate cause of anger. The master deposed that he was one of the most ill-conducted fellows in the house. Several policemen present recognised him as having been re peatedly convicted before the police magistrates for offences in the workhouse.—Committed for cis weeks. John Staples, the son of Mr. J. Staples, a coach-trimmer, in Clerkenwell -green, was charged with attempting to commit suicide. The prisoner, during the last month, has been hardly a day sober. On Saturday evening his mother, on going into his bed-room, saw him attempting to hang himself. She screamed, and being frustrated in this attempt, he ran down stairs, swearing he would cut his throat with a razor. A constable came in, and he was secured. It clearly appeared that the unfortunate youth was in a delirium, arising from intemperance at the time. • The prisoner's master came forward and gave him a very high character. Mr. GREENWOOD remonstrated with the young man in a feeling manner on the weakness and folly of his conduct. The prisoner expressed his heartfelt regret ; he was mad at the time, and knew not what he was doing. Mr. GREENWOOD discharged him, but declared that if he were again brought up on a similar charge he would unques tionably send him for trial. Mr. Joseph Pain Pochlington, a salesman at Newgate Market, was charged with assaulting police constable 199 G, and with other disorderly conduct. The constable deposed that being on duty in Goswell-street, at a late hour on the previous night, the prisoner and two prostitutes were stand ing at the corner of the street. Witness told the girls to move on, but the prisoner said they should not go away for any such d—d ragged thief, or for any of his gang. Witness insisted on their going away, wiser the prisoner, without having received any provocation struck him two such viol en t blows on the face as quite took his breath away, and he still felt pain from them. The prisoner was perfectly sober. The prisoner said that he never struck him, his hands being in his pockets the whole time; he also complained of being thrust into a place at the station, more resembling a water-closet than any thing else. Inspector Barton said, the apartment had no such ap pearance. Mr. GREENWOOD. You must pay 75. Prisoner.— What remedy have 1 against this false swearing? Mr. GREENWOOD.—Indict for perjury if you think proper. The money was paid. LLOYD'S LONDON, Faa. 10.—Wind E. to S.E., light breezes, with heavy fall of snow. DEAL, FED. B.—Wind E.S.E. to S.E., light. -9. S.S. E., mod.—Arrd. Rubicon, Ichaboe for Scotland; Commodore, Jamaica.—Sld. Oriental steamer, Malta, Sac.; Himalaya, Cape of Good Hope. PouTsmotrru, FEB. B.—Wind E.N.E.-9. E.S.E. to S.— Arrd. Columbus, Newcastle, leaky, having struck on the Galloper. RAMSGATE, FEB. 9.—The steam-tug Sampson, ashore in Sandwich Bay, came off to-day, and arrd. here. 9. The Thomas and Joseph, from Cardiff to London. SHEERNESS, FEB. B.—The Edward Robinson remains on the mud, filling every tide. FALMOUTH, FEB. B.—Wind E., fresh brews.-9. S.S.W., fresh breezes.—Sld. S w ift packet, Teneriffe and Brazils ; Ann Eliza, Cape Haytien. The Arab, from Calcutta, on entering the harbour, grounded off St. Mawe's Castle, but came off soon after, without apparent damage. BOSTON, FEB. 7.—The Reaper, of Arbroath, for Glasgow, 'grounded on the Brushwork, in the River Willend, last night, and capsized ; cargo (wheat) damaged, and will be brought here. BRWOL., FEB. 9.—Wind S.S.E., fresh.—Sld. St. Vincent, Trinidad; Minerva, Jamaica. WARKWORTH, FEB. s.—The Helen, Bowman, from Mid dlesborough to Leith, has been brought in here in a sinking state, having sprung a leak on the 4th i ns t an t , and aban doned by the crew S.E. of Coquet Island. OFF TORBAY, FEB. 4 —Admiral Tromp, Harman, Batavia for Amsterdam ; Svea, Gothenburg for Brazils, lost boat, bulwarks, &c., during a heavy gale at N.W. on the 27th ult. off the coast of Norway. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 8 AND 9.—Wind S.E., moderate.—Arrd. Jamaica, Williams, Ichaboe ; Yorkshire, Bailey, New York, 16th ult.; Sandersons, Bushbv, Hong-Kong; Theodosia, Cunicks, Calcutta. A crate of earthenware, marked "D," was picked up on the beach near Seacombe. REDc.tR, FEB. B.—The True Blue, of London, drove ashore, at Skinningrove, during a gale at N., and has gone to pieces, crew drowned, and the wreck strewn all along the coast. WAINFLEET, FEB. B.—The Lamb. Wilkinson, of Boston, from Spalding, came ashore yesterday morning, three miles from this, and remains full of water, and expected to become a wreck, crew saved, and cargo discharging. A vessel, sup posed to be wheat laden, has gone down, with all hands, off Sutton. YARMOUTH, FEB. B.—The Wood Pack, of Newcastle, got on the Barber Sand to day, but came off without assistance, and has proceeded. LOWESTOFFE.—The Emerald, Harrison, from London to Aberdeen, foundered last night after striking on the Barnard, crew saved. HARWICH, FEE. 9.—The Pegasus, Jarvis, from Riga to Gloucester, was assisted in here yesterday, with bows stove, &c., and with seven feet water in the hold, having been in contact 6th inst., during a heavy N.E. gale, with the Go vernor, of Limerick, Gormon, from London to Shields, which has also put in here with loss of bulwarks, &c. The Flora, of Blankeness, from Cardiff to Hambiir , rh was fallen in with off Orfordness, abandoned, and with nine feet water in the hold, and brought in here. DUBLIN, FEB. 7.—The Ardent, Mackay, of Belfast, struck on Kesh Bank yesterday morning, and was grounded on the 'icklow Bar, leaky. and must discharge. The aspects of agriculture of every description in this neighbourhood are pevuliaily fatourablk, at this per. od. The young wh , at everyvvhero exhibits an ap• pearance of the most heilthy condition. The Lambing seasin has twen highly p•opitious, and the winter a'to g-ther is passing of with moderate rigour.—Somersct Cow.ty aizttle. In a parigrAph on the giros is jo-rice oi' the in come-tax, which appeared in The Sun of Friday, it wa s stated by mistake that a por clerk, receiving 31. per w, ek paid 11. 19s. to this urjost tax In , tead of 1/ 19s. he has to pay 4/. 11s., which makes the case so much the worse. DEti U‘MIR CIRCUMSTANCES Or GREAT DvS TITCTION.—On Saturday Mr. G. I. Mills held an inquest at the University Coll •ge ( - hospital, Gower-street, on the body of William Roberts, aged fbrty-six, a window blind maker, of 23, South-row, Somers-town. It appear e d th a t d ecease d h ad bier children depending an him, and that latterly he earned not more than ss. or 6s. a week, because he could not procure materials to execute the orders he received. Three months since his wife was found dead, lying on an old =Wass, and Mr. Wakley held an inquest on her body, and there was scarcely a shilling's worth of furniture in their room. The beadle found it in the same state on Saturday. A fellow workman, named Morphew, almost as badly off as deceased, had often saved the latter and his faMily from starving, by getting bread upon credit for them. Deceased was, whilst at work, seized with a fit on the 31st ult., and then removed to the hospital, in which he died on Wednesday last of effusion of blood into the ventricles of the brain. Deceased alwaxa expressed a strong antipathy to apply for parish relief. Ver dict, " Natural death." MARKET NE WS. —(YEST - 4-V`) CORN EXCHANGE The past week's arrivals of English Wheat ha re been,c:,°,l)i; sileraWy less than this ciao se'nnight, of m st. nth of Graio the re,e , •A,.?rj, 11.• only a lted Es se quantity of Wheat of home produce 1":•' .0 eeiv cd from x, Kent, and Cambridgeshire, yet the were on the whole partly supplied wish sainples.,,,r;e; qualities of both red and white ceinnianded a steady prices fully equal to those obtained on thiS day se , . ' 6 0 . 0 while in most other kinds a fair aumunt of busines,.,l; doing, at late rates. The show of free Foreign Yvfi f'„ was small, but generally speaking holders were , e; A few sales took place in Barley under locks, but all °' , " o2 bonded Grain was a mere drug. The show of Barley ssi_a; for the whole, extensive, yet there was an improved itul!' i r ve ry that article, the quotations of which were supportedeuc instance. Notwithstanding the returns show a larg of Malt, the supply here to-day was by no means ex . t e . t f u ll The best season-made parcels were in fair request_ : w i ll s. prices, but in other kinds comparatively little Binds The supply of Oats was only moderate most kill'. o l d sold steadily at fully last week's currencies. Beans, Pet' o , se Flour rather inactive, but not cheaper. The same 1 " said of most kinds of seeds. iTheat-Ess CATILII K E e N t :; , Y . • 6 Malt- Chevalier .... Red ••••• • • • • 38s to 47s Oats- Yorkshire and . 2 , 23 1 PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. 41 to B3 Ditto, White • . 43s 54s Lincoliish., Feed* ; 44 20 Norfolk and Lin- ret3toe. •.• • " coin, PBs 46s Yotiglic..llaud 5 ,3 i Ditto, White...... 50 5 Black. ••• • •• . y lrish, Red ••-s -s Cork, White. ••• N: Ditto, White • . -s -s Scotch, Feed. ••••. 5; 31 Rye Oil 3's 34s Beans-Tick ••• • • • 385 4 New. •••••• • • • • • • 35s 3Gs Pigeons .••• • • • ' 3 35 3 ; 04 Barley-Grinding ~.... 23s 2ss Pease-Grey •••• ' ' • 368 , 4/ Malting . - Chevalier .. .. •• • . 33s -s Malt--Suffolk and Npr fo 1 k 58s 62s Flour-Town-madel3lVohilietr2s.: • • :::: l 1 : 343:5. Brown 5Gs GO3 Kingston and Ware 63s 64s FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND . ' 2 4 4 4 Whcat-Dantzic . • Hamburgh ..... Barley Oats -New .. ... 17s 19s I Baltic . ...... • • t u o ir c, o k l t k i . Bz. ;fa k . a." a j l Feed . SISIXTETZELD. ortsti ° l;s Since this• day se'nnight another large s-P - of '- foreign stock has taken place it having coesistie(er, gellds Beasts and 205 Sheep, into London, together will % and Cows and 90 Sheep at Hull, all from Holland, tw i l l F ee total import of not less than 510 head. Our readers ° r ated ceive that this is the largest arrival that has beau r .an during any week since the new Tariff has been in opera t ; u nder completely justifies the obser va ti ons w hich we offere d of the this head on Monday last. As respects the q ua Thesi c 'i Beasts, there was nothing c a lli ng f or p a rticular b l so; Sion, though there were some really val ua re 1" mals amongst them ; but in the Sheep tbebere tbis a decided improvement. The show of f o r e ign k piper morningamounted to 70 Beasts, and 130 Sheep. •`" r bel sold at from 121. to 181. ; the l a tter, 30e to 4 29 P i e o With Beasts from our own districts we were toles fry supplied The Beef trade, arising in a great ule as ga taes.. t ' the dead markets being heavily su ppli e d with ceta' was in a very sluggish state, and last week's ea°,. ta . t , l „ ° slbuY e j r9 with difficul tysupported. However the finest Scotsul","effects' at from 3s 10d to 4s per 8 lbs., yet a clearanee wort Cal; The bullock droves from Norfolk, Suffolk, Ease to •,,,"-ebreur,;j bridgeshire were comp os ed o f 1,400 S co ts and i nve d while, from the northern grazing districts sve a , re „ ce i r sts Dy ‘ i, short horns ; from th e western an d m idland ''isaglio Herefords, runts, Devons, &c.; front other parts in br ed of e. 500 of various breeds and from Scotland, 2 0011 1. °1 „ e ineltis polled Scots. The numbers of Sheep were en !• l i. s t wet s Prime old Downs with difficulty maintained their witu d prices; and all o; her breeds were 2d per Sibs to and stesl, heavy demand. Calves were in limited supi.Y , A an „ r ices y n e r s inquiry, at late rates. Pigs were in request, 0 4 1'500 914 " again supported. There were on sale about 1, Sheep, and 120 Lam Pe bs. r 8113 s. to sink the offal. e• t° s 6 Inferior Beasts •• • • 2 6 to ditto 4I- 2 8 Second quality 8 ! Second quality ditto. 210 3 2 C oarse - vvoo ll e d ditto 94 0 Prime large Oxen.. 3 4 3 8 SOUtII dOWII Wetbe r i , • Prime Scots Large coarse Calves 4 4 5 2 Large Hogs ••• • •' 4 9 g 0 ° Prime small ditto •• 5 4 5 8 Small P o rkers • • ••, 6 0 0 I Suckling Calves, • •18 0 30 0 Q uarter o ld Plffs •• • 0 Inferior Sheep .. •• 2 8 210 L am b s •• •••• •• " • SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. Sheep. I Calves. I P" . I 3,104 30,540 I 61 P. bi ll fsclriXiGailkitls; Iia&DSAY"' - ` last The arrivals of slaughtered Meat since 3lonaa.Y he wan: been on an extensive scale. Wi t h M ea t killed is 0, polis we have been a m ply supp li e d . P r ime 3 1 °',.i - c es;"." and Pork have commanded a ready sale at fa" Pao b of other kinds of Meat h ave ru l e d d u ll. About ' h oe b of Beasts, and 60 ditto of Sheep, all from Holland, disposed of here since our last. 6. At per stone, by the carcase. s.o°ll a. d. to s. d. 2 8 Beef, inferior 2 6 2 8 Mutton, Inferior 2 0 s middling 210 3 0 ---prime large .. 3 2 3 4 p rime ••• • 2 4 prime small .. 3 4 3 6 Pork, larg m e i . d • al - ing •• 3 4 26 4 4 Veal . ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST Scotland .. Beasts Sheep Calve . 200, Yorkshire 00 1.0 800 1• 30 Norfolk Suffolk 60 180 " 21, Cambridgeshire 0 0 300 3 1 _.v Essex .. Surrey 90 400 320 . n e Devonshire • . Wiltshire Other parts 60 300 2 0 ° 3, 10 Total ..... ..... • ... 640 3,730 860 2 380 Previous week's arrival.... • • 230 2,280 720 •••-••• 0 Difference since oar l as t 0p1it,013033 HOP Titalli,lLX l r . 4t Rather more business i s d o i ng i n mos t kinds d ead ly s o ar s supply of which is very limited, and prices are St late ly ported. A few parcels of A mer i can H ops have ; Ois their appearance here, and sold at 55s to 100 s p bond, the duty being 41 103, and 5 per cent. per 01 ; BOROUGH AND SPITALTIZI., II I 3t_.4,`" Liberal supplies of Potatoes have been reeel c 7 o st Pr a t water side since this day se'nni g ht, i n . fur the_'" o''- good condition. The best samples are in active i'si. ct lee• very full prices, but all other kinds are somewhat in bee, rl WOOL IKARN.ET. ve The public sales, which will terminate t o .morrovr , "tald,i e lo in progress during the whole of the past week. The e have been very spirited, and nearly the whole of '" l „ o oe . , i s have found buyers at an advance of from 2d to, T iii/ g. stances, 3d per lb. Privately, a good business i s _ .. ,u' or elen c in English and foreign, and prices have an upwar‘ a The imports have been rather limited. c on' Tea...LOW bIEAR.ILICT. de are , 0 00 There is no new feature in this market. 'rime "are ",.' o r tinues good, as is manifest by the deliveries-th e : se t Oohs; casks more since the Ist of Januarv, coinpared with of responding period last year. The market being ci e ce pt 0 0 0 r New inferio Srouth descriptions Wales Tal of low ßussia anh, and notd So i nth ng pressinArne, 4 g' e'‘,„l s s, 1 , vet prices are well supported. Town Tallow is 40 s 6d ti cash. 10 4 COAL MTARICST. s ,- Prices per ton at t h e c l ose or t h e mar k e t 000 Hartley, 16s 3d ; Carr's We s t ..rtiev, 1 6 s 6d; /eel° D, W est dii artley, 163 9d; Holyveell 165 6d ;og ; West Hartley, 17s; Old Kntop, 17s; Or d i s _s i 15s 6d ; Tanfield Moor, 19s 6d • Taylor's W"t Tsr, r linsaer West Hartley, 16s 6d ; West IVvlarn, 16s9d; W.E., Bell Robson, 1:s; W. E. Clark and Coe 1 "4 1; b 6d; nell, 16560; Gosforth, 18s 6d; Killingworth, n l e 7 t s to " le 2O l ogbj sl i l: cliffe, 18s; Belmont, 19s 3d; East Hetton, 18s; Haswell, 21s ; Hetton, 2 08 „ 6 1 ; 1 , „163; 18s 6d ; Lambtou, 20s 6d; Leasingthorne, s l e t ' o s ,;it , ' , 9, , 18s 6d; Pemberton, 188; Shotton, 20s; Caradoc, 20s; Hartlepool, 20s 3d Thu 1g aril, Kelloe, I9s Gd; Trhsidon, 19.4 6d; Adelaide, 2 5 „,5; 1 9 ' a vea 18s 6d ; South Durham, 18s 3d ; Seymour leeicast Tees, 20s; Tenant's 17s 6d; West Hetton, 1 7 s; writes 18s; Clackmannan, 17 s ; G arnant St o ne, _ 2 3 '; ,i t 's •""' 19s; Hartley, 19s 6d ; Ll angennec h , 21 s ; 31°4 235; Snapethorpe, 18s.-Ships arrived, I 1 L FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Thursday la st, : „ g • found dead at the bottom of a well 75 feet deoP , . rvo° 4 to some cottages opposire the statiori-h OOl -- fl bY os til - e bridge. It appears he wa s k now n here 0111 Y P name of Mick Bob," and • he coul ltri ste novelle( t 401 ,o, razor and Op: , ctacle seller. He was in a dre a od 1 1 %, Of intoxication late on the Wednesday even supposed he was searching about the yard fo r ;fi l e t% lodging in some outhouse when he fell in-, , Su." was bricked up from the ground four fee"* -- Chronicle. Of [ADVERTISEMENT.] ASTHMA, Si g fe: s l o _, Bl .4 l4l BREATH, COUGHS AND COLDS —A T il th u e Llt r : be i v di- in n t i e v s e l' i CASE!—The Rev. David Williams, leyan Minister at Beaumaris, in the Island that states in a letter, dated th e 14th January, 184 .1 - 0 of opt recommended Holloway's Pills to a poor name of Hugh Da v i es , w h o , a t the time. "i i ad r ae i• unable to walk for w an t o f b re ath ; that ne „a taken them a few d a y s w h en h e appeared qu h ",; . 01 5 PO ' man, his breath w a s eas y an d natural, an d ills creas:ng daily in strength." These won derf4l 7r ofess° cure any cough, cold, or asthma. Sold 1 1 . adv i „ ce , Holloway's Est a bli s h men t 244, Strand (ff"eble Y e " may be had gratis), a nd by a lmost all re s p ee r dors of medicine throughout the civilised w°rlu BIRTHS Do • On the 7th inst., in Belgrave-squa. r e, her Grace t he Reg' of Montrose, of a son and heir of di e On the 3d inst., at th e Rectory. H ouse , the ladY - , Edward tlowlby, Rector of Thurrock, Essex: of til os Ite'' On the 4th inst., at Bognor, Sussex, the l ad Y ° , haft Edward Woodhouse, of a (Tau .13040" On the sth inst., at Soutligilackney, Mrs- Nj. • of a son. eorib ,- . • On the 6th inst.., at Dagenham, Essex, 3 -- lav e ' queray, of a daught , M er On the 6th inst rs. William Skirro w, of Grc''.e. Camberwell, of a daughter r the n e ' l. On the 7th inst., at Cha . el- l ac e, the lady c" C. Lixon, A.ll of B r Berke, of a daughter. ' tbd HR./ FP e t On the 6th i ns t., at St. Giles's Church, C a mbel on Rev. William Edwards, Brighton , to Rebecca, (laughter of the late Edward Cormack. k:sq• the 4th hist., at St. Giles's. Cri Al Fore-street, to rs. Mary Ann Willson, daughter Edwards. Basin g ha M ll-street. pplegate, Mr. of $ On Saturday, the Bth in l n i t l' , -;l a .' t bin reshl 88. many Covent -garden, Mr. Franklin,. at the hadval?eea,,, °tog . (nou tn,iny Years editor of the " Morning AdvertiseeS.d wit I t. _ ',l and much respected by the gentlemen conne Lu hg - d 65. u! - .wards he newsv.per world. i Uncil l° On the 6 h inst.. at Brompton, Mr.. Bi c ha ia ra bli ; h - w eas • ence, Taleffeo{ v, it.,, ot T;i,or.m,a_,,ted:),liiw,o:c.f4F().yo erzsndc(ll:2rk 1n the e'" li- late V "'th e VW '. Ihi the •Itli inst., l' the tits;h ‘-.. M . ry I''''' at ~ , w-nrst, rotssex, .. J „ , On the .th inst. i'P ' s7r . k . -r a ria e d, ' Ho . ilowaY , J ane ' thl Wife Mr. Samm-1 Parlour.. a of obSr tgf , ", the 7th in 4 , at Chipping Barnet, Nathaniel ft " 8 ( f ) i i: . 1 1 t a tE l 6 6 , B t h h l i . i iTt •at Jermv ..it e,t Mrs. Sh° °ll)—r en . E sol 0) n,notftt, the ti h et e 7 6 it t ih h ri. i t t ;it a . , t at N o B r , t i e h d - I B :: r r.l l x - ritianc:, S• CDfa A i a 14 r. "1 1: 14 5 e7 ‘3-13C°b Tim Iris F , ' 9 -sq., aged 69. ; mill, Egl" — an .. - 7th inst., Ann, the wife of John Spr.ne rt _ n niton-terr .ce, St. John's-wood. Joh On 1 ins ii3n t t m 29th ult., On the 7th . 1.1,t,-4:luhri:eUtel,npii.)eargleV:ll4lar.ton-street, Hee/ of A rt , !ha rttbtee,rt eldest Broughton, Esq., of Belmont place, Wandsworth-r0a,„a•„,...--. ............... ---- DI L0,,,i,,, k No.' ' .'rir"d trd Pr •I' ' 1 ►, MII111)0 1 , ilg, .I.> -, • • .m isnr. trt - M. ..i q. . , -. , tr3r,d. Printat. -it The Sun 011 4 %,„ f intf ' hilcidi• in -9 ' , . '-',....i.„., o f the savo y., i n the ki • ,-- eeez, Taesday, February 11, 1845. " :1 aFt:lBgh"tilergs.Febe l AID 3lan Mari Cour. Cow: Com Lady Lady Viso Lady Pa x~o, str eet 11:,1_14 Co r ,, Ll' 14 ' 47 " q t" •• tr Tez 014 er n 11 • Cha r 3 1.1 ' - 11 4It Y 'et sir To % onth wit glallte NM e Warn vi ]