The Sun. — London, England, 1845-02-08 00:00:00

frabirb labition THE FUNDS--(CLOSING PRICES.) ONE CLOSING !PRICES OF BRITISII FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock !.... . 3 per Cent. Reduped 3 per Cent. Consas 993/ 3 4 99, New 314 per Cents I.ollg Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 12 12 Bank Stock for Account 213 Consols for Account..... . ....... 99 3 / 4 99 4 Bschequer Bills, 1,0001., 1%d.... 57 56 58 Ditto 500/. Ditto Brasil' pm. 59 ONE O'CLOCK. CLOSING PRICES. rucEs OF FOREIGN FUNDS. B ra zilian Bonds Ditto, New, 1829 ........ Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 44 44 Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent.... • Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela — 14% Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 — Ditto, Account 36 %% 35% Ditto, Deferred 119 119 4 Russian Bonds Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account — Ditto 3 per Cent. Ditto, Account 40% 41 Dutch, 2% per Cent Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 98%%% 983/4 27% 28 PRICES OF CLOSING PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. TAILWAY SHARES PRICES. Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 132 131% 130% 131% Ditto New Shares ... 17% — Ditto % Shares Bristol and Exeter - 2 80% Ditto New Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... 55 % 55 56 . 56 Caledonian Cambridge and Lincoln 1 1 / 2 3% %le 3 - Chester and Holyhead... 5 4 hurnet Valley Cornwall .• . 5 4, 1 6 DireCtNerthern 11nblin and Galway..... 2 2 1 A% Eastern Counties .25 ...... 18% ...... ...... 18.4 Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1. 3% — Ditto ditto, No. 2. l3s. 4d... 0% Eastern Union lO .. . Ditto Extension ...... 1% 3% 3:dinburgh and Glasgow 50 Great South. and West. i (Ireland) Ditto, Additional 2%.. 9% ••• Great North of England..100 Ditto New 2 — Great Western . ... 75 •.. 180 ••• Ditto 1 4 Shares 5O lO2 Ditto fifths Guildford, Farn'm,Ports. 2% ... .. 5 Ilarwich L a ncaster and Carlisle... 15 London and Birminghm (Stock)... 237 .• Ditto New Thirds Ditto, Quarter Shares 2 London and Blackwall.. 16 % 8 7 X 3% ...... London and Brighton... 50 LDitto Loan Notes lO ondon and S. Western. 41% 79% London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. ... London and York Manchester and Leeds... 73 Ditto % Shares .. 32 Manchester and Birmin. 40 Ditto Quarters 4 Midland 100 ...... 126 1 ,6 128%, ... Ditto New 2 . ... 81/, Sfidland,Birm., Derby...loo Newcastle and Darling ton Junction.. ...on Jung ...... ...... _ Neweastie and Berwick 1% Newry and Enniskillen. 2% 3 North British Ditto New Shares 1 -11 Northern and Eastern... 45 Norwich and Brandon... 8 Ditto, New Shares . . 1 Ri c hmond and West End Junct i on Rugby Shrews., Wolverhamp., Dudley, and Birm 2% 7 5 % 1 4% South Devon lO ..... 16% youth Eastern & Dover 33% 48%4 Ditto, New Shares ... 8 Etaines and Richmond... 1 South Wales 2% ...84 7% 5 6% 5% Etevenson's Portsmouth. 2% 5/ Trent Valley Waterford and Kilkenny 1 York and North Midland 50 Ditto, Selby 2O Ditto Extension FRENCH RAILWAYS, 12% 9 14 172 Boulogne and Amiens... 2 Great North. of France.. 4 Lyons and Avignon 2 — Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ...... 1114 ... Orleans and Bordeaux... 2 Paris and Lyons 2 3q Paris and Orleans 2O Paris'and Rouen 2O 434 42 3 / 4 43... 65? 10 s 127 93 14% 106 68 12% EXCHEQUER.--(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius.) (Before the Loan CHIEF BARON and a Common! Jury M`DONNELL V. TYLER. This was an action to recover damages for an assault. The offence was alleged to have been committed in August last, on the premises of Mr. Abraham Tyler, builder, in King's-road—the defendant being his son. The evidence went to show that the ylaintiff, a week after quitting the employment of Mr. Tyler, called at the counting-house, and demanded a shilling, which he said was owing to him. The defen dant refused the demand , on then round that nothing was due ; and, on his desiring the plaintiff to go away, the latter said " he'd be d—d if he would, and that it would take a better men than the defendant to put him out." On this the defendant pushed him out of the office in such a manner that be fell en the ground, and received bodily injury. This it was which constituted the alleged assault. The defence rested on the statement that the plaintiff was intoxicated at the time, and that his language and behaviour were such as to justify the conduct pursued towards him. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, one farthing. On the trial of the above case the LORD CHIEF BARON, in addressing the jury, made the following remarks:— " I cannot help expressing my regret at the existence of the law in its present form, and happy should I be to see the day when juries shall have an opportunity of ar riving at a conclusion on the evidence solely. As the law is now administered, there can be no doubt that the plaintiff has a considerable advantage. Those of you who have been here on former occasions must be aware that he is the first heard and the last heard. I make these remarks because I think it is to be regretted that juries are left in the dark on certain mat ters, for fear of a reply. It would be very much better it the whole truth were brought out on all occasions, so that we might judge of the entire case, instead of hear ing a part of it and guessing the remainder. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS THOM THE EVENING EkrEus 01 THIS D/1.1. GLOBE.—Her Majesty's Ministers are evidently de• eirous of beir.g considered unusually liberal and resolute on the subject of Irish education. They have chosen the medium of the Royal Speech to recommend to the " fa ,yourable consideratio of Parliament " the policy of improving and extending the opportunities for academi cal education in Ireland." It has not escaped the attention of the public that this is the only measure so distin- , gnished. Mr. Gladstone, if we may venture to guess at the meaning of his very elaborate circumlocution of the other evening, has been scared from his seat in the Cabinet only by what is here foreshadowed. He, we may suppose, has looked upon the reality, in all its grim di mensions ; and is perhaps the only man, not in the Mi nistry, who knows what is coming. We do not forget Ida modest averment as to the very limited ex tent of his knowledge ; but he " protesteth overmuch." It is already rumoured, with an air of some proba bility, that the " improving" means the complete throw ing open of Trinity College to Catholics on the same footing as Protestaats, and an increase of the grant to the College of Maynooth. The " extending," it is said, is to be effected by the establishment of two more col leges, unfettered by any anti-Catholie restrictions ; one in the north and the other in the south of the island. But whatever may be the form of the scheme, it is as turned on all hands that its effect will be the extension of some real educational advantages to the Catholic po pulation of Ireland—some further advance towards the obliteration of the religious distinctions which have hitherto been the bane of Irish prosperity. And, in this point of view, we have no doubt that a large majority in this country will be prepared to concur in the measure. There is, however, one portion of the scheme, be it what it may, concerning which we must confess the in dulgence of some slight curiosity. That the present Ministry should adopt any principles, however incon sistent with their past professions, or push them to any extent that may be deemed expedient for the service of Present purposes, can surprise no one. But there are ( 1 1 = 1 ; 1 0 e i s p eo n t ei to; be evaded by . the most consummate n p e--obstacles which mere moral lubricity cannot wriggle through. How does Sir Robert Peel intend to improvement provide and extension the expense of the contemplated ? Has he, at length, ma4e the up his mind to portionnecessity of appropriating to secular purposes athe sinecure revenues of the Irish Church Establishment ol ?—or are the people of Great Britain to be asked to pay the expense out of the income-tax ? It is possible t t lE u a y t rce Sir Robelt . Peel may more eligible for his have discovered some third purpose than either of those we have o bjectionable as is the end he seeks, v: mentioned. Un. e tinancial ability as to make the means may so exert his equally so. so. It is p o ssible —and he will have our best mxliing the attempt ; but we strongly doubt his success. em STANDARD. —It has been represented to by friend—one of those whose corrections are o so u ll' kindl y intended, that they are always received by us withingrdl titude, even were it not an . honour to be noticed by them —that we have been guilty of an injustice to the Lord Chief Justice of England, in saying that he ought not to have lost a day in rectifying, in his pl ac e in Parliament , tho mistake . made by him trial as to the num nober of the cc n as a ion mes of omthe itted in the of s Me, pe. cial jury book , u p o . O'Connell and his fellow-convicts. sure," says our kind monitor, " that though Lord i Denman made this mistake in the cour se of his speech n the House of Lords—he made it with an expression of doubt ; and when set right by the Attorney-Geaeral for Ireland, corrected it, but proceeded to argue that number did not affect the principle, in which his Lordship was wrong." Now, the spirit in which we have always spoken of Lord Denman must have greatly belied our feeling ow.rda bid 1 . 4111,111 41 if it does not acquit 113 of any , . sellers, Liverpool—J. Hassell, W. Hassell, H. Williams, and J. Hassell, leather factors, Bristol—J. Sims and G. Brown, iron founders, Tollard Royal, Wiltshire—E. Joyce and H. Richardson, printers, Congleton—W. B. Jackson, jun., and W. Boend, jun., fustian dealers, Manchester—W. Bunning and C. Gibson, carriers, Hereford—W. R. Greg and S. Milne, cotton manufacturers, Bury, Lancashire—A. Stevens and E. Morris, printers, Oxford—H. Drabwell and S. Hall, bone crushers, Doncaster—D. Inglis, W. Inglis, and D. G. Scott, linen manufacturers, Dunfermline (so far as regards D. G. Scott)—W. Inglis and D. G. Scott , merchants, New York—C. Gorton and G. W. Hodges, commission agents, Manchester—J. Roberts and R. Baxter, bakers, Bristol — F. P. Jones and E. C. Kindersley, sugar refiners, Wells street, Well-close-square—J. Lloyd and P. John, linen drapers, Newport, Monmouthshire—R. Nunn and J. Bot wright, brick makers, Bungay Holy Trinity, Suffolk—J. Tankard and J. Rushworth, woolstaplers, Bradford, Yorkshire —T. Adams and J. Page, lace manufacturers, Nottingham— J. Merrett and J. Major, perfumers, Gough square—S. Riley and S. Wallis, manufacturers, Manchester —T. Sowersby and T. Parke, corn millers, Thornton Wisebrough, Yorkshire—J. H. and C. Brooks, surgeons, Henley, Oxford shire—A. G. Flint and W. Millman, coal factors, Lower Thames-street—T. Routledge and J. Gatley, patent saw mills, Holland-street, Blackfriars—C. G. Proctor and T. Ryland, jun., Birmingham—J. Prior, jun., and T. Hovey, linen drapers, Nottingham—J. Speake and H. Tipper, grocers, London-road, Southwark. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. P. and W. Cadell and hemists, Magdaline-bridge, near Fisherrow, Feb. 12 and Co.,darch 5, at two, at the Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh. W. Gamack, banker, Peterhead, Feb. 15 and March 15, at twelve, at the New Inn, Peterhead. James Dunn, fiesher, Glasgow, Feb. 13 and March 5, at twelve, at the chambers of A. Gemmill, Glasgow. Alexander M'Arthur, grazier, Achvaddy, Inverness-shire, Feb. 19 and March 5, at two, at the George Hotel, Fort- William. hostile feeling towards a judge, whom we believe to be as able and as upwright a magistrate as ever occupied the seat that he fills ; and it will be remembered that in the particular case we were careful to suggest what was and is our sincere belief, that he erred only through haste and care lessness. It was therefore with an anxious wish to find our monitor right and ourselves wrong, that we resorted to the only means of ascertaining the truth upon the point. Our own recollection of Lord Denman's speech, confirmed as it was by all the news paper reports, certainly supported the opinion that, from first to last, his Lordship insisted upon the fact that sixty names of qualified persons had been omitted from the special jury book ; but it was possible that a bye explanation might have passed between his Lord ship and the Learned Attorney-General for Ireland, that had escaped us all. In the hope of finding such explanation, we therefore turned to the authorised report of the Noble and Learned Lord's argument pre pared by Mr. David Leahy, one of the counsel in the case, and published by Mr. Butterworth, the eminent law bookseller, on the 12th of October last—a consider able time after the judgment had been delivered. We call this an authorised report, because Mr. Leahy states in his preface that he was in communication with the Lord Chief Justice upon the subject of his publica tion, and he was even favoured with the Noble and Learned Lord's private notes upon the case, which he prints at the end of the speech to the extent of no less than 20 pages. Now, in the speech, and the annexed private notes, we find the omitted names uniformly enumerated at sixty, without any expression of doubt, any explanation, or any correction of the number. "If I am asked," says Lord Denman, in the concluding pa ragraph of his private notes (p. 67), " how many omis sions and interpolations will suffice to vitiate a return, I might perhaps decline the question as irrelevant, because the number actually omitted is at all events so considerable, as to disturb the identity of the return. But I would decline to answer it for another reason, the impossibility of tracing the operation of the faulty proceeding. The truth may be, that the whole jury of twelve would have come out of ;the rejected sixty." Here, then, we think, there is conclusive evidence that Lord Denman did not correct his error in the course of his speech, for he would scarcely permit what (upon the hypothesis that he did) he must have known to be false, to be printed as with his au thority, a month after the speech was delivered. That Lord Denman did correct, with his charac teristic candour, one very important error, we re member ; and we find the correction noticed in Mr. Leahy's authorised report. " I understand," said the Noble and Learned Lord, " that the whole list of jurors for the county of the city of Dublin consists of 717 ; it is also mentioned by Mr. Justice Burton in his judgment. Now the special jury list out of that must be a very small and inconsiderable propor tion of it (viz. of 717), and the omission of sixty names out of such a proportion of the Sheriff's jury list as remained for special juries is enough to affect any panel. I am not sure whether I am stating correctly the number of the whole book or net." " The Attorney-General for Ireland—As your Lordship has appealed to me, I would say that the special jury list contained the names of seven hun dred and odd." " Lord Denman—l am much obliged for the correction," &c.—(See Mr. Leahy's Report, page 17-18.) We cannot help thinking that this is the cor rection which our kind monitor confounds with another equally important correction, which the Noble and Learned Lord ought to have made, but which, unfortu • nately, he does not appear to have made. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. .HOUSE OF COMMONS, Feb. 7. The SPEAKER too RAILWAYS Chair at the usual hour. . Several petitions were presented in favour of some of the Wended lines, but they were mentioned in so low a tone that we were unable to catch their names. LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY. Mr. KEMBLE presented a petition in favour of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway. KENDAL AND WINDERMERE RAILWAY. The HoN. MENDER also presented a petition in fa vour of this line. ATTORNEYS' CERTIFICATE DUTY. Mr. CHRISTOPHER presented two petitions from the attorneys practising in the neighbourhood of Burton on-Humber and Hull, praying that certain fees might be abolished by the House. MEDICAL REFORM BILL. The Hon. C. P. VILLIERS presented a petition from the surgeons and apothecaries 01 Wolverhampton against this measure. POOR-LAWS. Sir JOHN EASTIIOPE presented a petition from the Corporation of the Borough of Leicester, in council as sembled, with reference to the Bill about to be brought in to consolidate and amend the law regu lating the law of settlement for the poor. He said that, perhaps, he would best discharge his duty in reference to thi s petition, by stating that it came from a very largo meeting of the borough, and the subject it treated on appeared to have been very deliberately and carefully considered. He knew he could not enter fur ther upon the merits of the subject without founding a motion upon it, and therefore he would content himself with the observations he had made, and present the PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the week ending Feb. 4, 1845, is 28s. 24d. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im portation thereof into Great Britain. r•E= petition. CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY. Mr. TOLLEMACHE presented a petition in favour of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Extension Bill. —Ordered to lie on the table. NOTICES OF MOTION. Lord EBRINGTON gave notice that, n Monday next, he should present a petition from the Rev. Dr. Car withen, Rector of Stoke, in the diocese of Exeter, pray ing that the statute of 2d and 3d of Edward VI., cap. 1, and of 2d Elizabeth, cap. 2, might be repealed, and that the House would cause to be made a calm and temperate revision of the Book of Common Prayer and of the Canons of the Church c: England. The NOBLE LORD also gave notice that, on Tuesday next, he should move for leave to bring in a Bill to limit the exemption from turnpike tolls of carriages carrying her Majesty's mails. POOR-LAW COMMISSION. Colonel SIBTHORP moved for certain returns which he had moved for in the month of May last, but which had not yet been laid before the House. They were a return of the number of days each Poor-law Commis sioner has sat in discharge of his official duty at the office appointed for such official sittings, or at any other place for the same purpose. Also, a similar return of the number of days each Assistant Poor-law Commis sioner has been engaged in the discharge of his official duty, the place and periods at which those have [ been performed respectively, whether at the office of the Central Board of Commissioners, or in visits and inspections, or other matters of official duty at the dif ferent unions or union workhouses throughout England and Wales, the number of days employed therein, and the amount of expense incurred by each Assistant Poor law Commissioner, in travelling or in other incidental expenses relating thereto. On the question bcing put, The HoN. and GALLANT COLONEL said that he had understood that it had been the intention of the Right Hon. Gentleman to make some observations before the question was put. Mr. MANNERS SUTTON said that, perhaps, the Hon. and Gallant Gentleman would postpone his motion for the present. He did not know that there would be any objection to the ground of return, but he knew that his Right Hon. Friend was not at present in the House, and that he wished to make some observations on the subject. Col. SIBTHORP had no wish to take any Hon. Member by surprise, and he would postpone his motion. PRIVATE BUSINESS —RAILWAYS. Sir R. PEEL said that the Hon. Member for Greenock had a motion on the paper which was of great import ance as regarded the private business of the House. It was for a Select Committee to inquire into the present mode of conducting private business before Committees of that House,with a view to the improvement of the same. Considering the increased number of railway Bills that were coming before Parliament, he thought the time had arrived when it would be expedient to appoint a Select Committee, consisting of the Hon. Member himself, and other Hon. Gentlemen who might hereafter be named, to consider what arrangements could be made for in suring the facility and dispatch of private business. Points of great importance connected with competing lines of railway would arise, and great advantage to private business might accrue from the Committee taking the points of most pressing importance into considera tion, as it might be able to offer useful suggestions to the House. If, therefore, the Hon. Gentleman would postpone the motion of which he had given notice, he (Sir R. Peel) would, in the course of next week, make the necessary arrangements for the appointment of this Select Committee. Mr. WALLACE felt exceedingly obliged to the Right Hon. Baronet for his proposition, which was en tirely in accordance with his own view of the matter. He would postpone his motion. POOR-LAW IN IRELAND. DARING BURGLARY and VIOLENT ASSAULT IN EDINBURGH. Tuesday night one of the most daring and atrocious cases of burglary and assault that have occurred here for a long time past, was perpetrated in the house and on the person of Miss Belaney, a lady about sixty years of age, who had been for some time living by herself in a house in Buccleuch-place. The facts of the case, so far as they have been yet ascertained, are as follow: — About half-past eight in the evening Miss Belaney was in a bed-room of her house, on the kitchen flat, when she heard a noise, which she at first supposed to proceed from one of her neighbour's houses, but, on listening with more attention, she found proceeded from one of the upper rooms of the house. She was hastening to the kitchen for the purpose of turning off the gas, when she was met in the passage by a man, who, with some heavy instrument or poker, struck her over the head, and felled her to the ground. While lying in this defenceless position, the fellow, with the same instrument, inflicted several severe blows on her bead, probably with the intention of murdering her. Miss Belaney, mustering all her strength, endeavoured to free herself from the villain's grasp, and in doing so, called out " Murder," on which the man, fearful of the alarm being communicated to persons in the street, or in the adjoining houses, made a precipitate retreat through the bed-room, and then leaped out at a window which opened into a garden behind the house. The unfortunate lady having in a few minutes recovered herself sufficiently to walk, unlocked the kitchen door in the area, and called out for assistance. Some persons who happened to be passing immediately entered the house, and found her lying in the passage, deluged with blood, and indeed almost lifeless. She was immediately carried into a bed-room, and information of the circum stances conveyed to the police. The attempt at robbery was evidently premeditated, and executed with the greatest coolness and deliberation. In the course of their search, the police found behind the kitchen door a pair of men's shoes, and in the passage one of those instruments known as a life-preserver, heavily loaded with lead. In the garden behind, a man's boot was also found ; and from the possibility which exists of the shoes and other articles being identified, to gether with certain other indications which the police are understood to have obtained, a sanguine hope is entertained that the perpetrators will speedily be appre hended.— Caledonian Mercury. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL.—Letters were received at the residence of Sir William Follett, in Park-street, this morning, stating that the Learned Attorney-General, Lady Follett, and family, intended to sail from Naples on the 28th of last month, and that they m i g ht be ex p ected to arrive in England the beginning of next week. We are happy to hear that these accounts also state that this distinguished advocate has derived the greatest benefit from his tour, and is now in the enjoyment of good health. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, FEBRUARY 7.—We have no alteration to notice in our sugar market ; the trade c3ntinue barely to supply their immediate wants, and prices are not more than supported. No sales reported in Mauri tius and West India, and the rum market is quite neglected. —Bristol Mercury. BANK OF ENGLAND. (From Friday Night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the Ist day of February, 1845. STATE of AFFAIRS at OTAHEITE. (From the Liverpool Times of Tuesday.) We had yesterday an interview with the Rev. Mr. Howe, one of the missionaries of the London Mis sionary Society, who has just arrived in Liverpool, di rect from Otaheite, which island he left on the 27th of August, and from him we have learnt the following particulars of the present state of that and of the other islands of the Society Group : The whole population of Otaheite, and the other islands claimed by the French, were in arms against them, and they were masters of nothing beyond what they occupied in Otaheite itself. They could not move a mile from Papeiti without being attacked by the natives. who were determined to resist to the last. The total French force consisted of about 1,000 men, and of the natives there were, either in Otaheite or the adjoining islands, from 4,000 to 5,000 determined men in arms, resolved to resist them to the last. Already from 200 to 250 of the. "French had talcn in. attacking strong position taken by the natives, of whom about 100 had also lost their lives. Queen Pomare had refused to have anything to do with the French. She had joined her subjects in one of the adjoining islands, aad was deter mined either to live or die a queen.: Mr. F. FRENCH, seeing the Right Hon. Secretary of the Home Department in his place, would again put a question to him of great importance to Ireland, and one on which they had a right to expect the institution of a searching inquiry. It was the working of the poor-law in Ireland. Some alteration must be made in a system which experience had shown was distasteful to the people and unsuited for the country. The question he had to ask was, whether the state ment which bad appeared in the Freeman's Journal was correct ? It stated that four executions had been put into the union workhouse of Ballinrobe, and the furniture and effects seized ; also that executions had been put into union houses of Castlebar and Tuam. Under these executions goods and effects had been sold at Tuam at a great sacrifice of property, blankets that cost ten shillings per pair, having been sold for five shillings. He wished to.. know from the Right Hon. Baronet whether these statements were correct ? Sir JAMES GRAHAM said the Hon. Gentleman had given him notice of his question with respect to one work house—that of Tuam ; but he was not aware whether the statement he had just read from an Irish newspaper as to the other w orkhouses , was corrector not. Inconsequence of the Hon. Gentleman s notice, he had directed his at tention to the state of the Tuam workhouse only. There it was true that an execution had been enforced on the goods and effects, but r the circumstances were these : The union hous e at fuam was a hired building, and the wag put in by th e l an dl or d f or ren t. gu ardians of th a t un i on p os iti ve ly re f us i ng to a Act into effect, would not make a rate, or aphpen rboard ryd the of . coll ec tor. The Poor-l aw au th or iti es i n co n s e- Tco execution itaa ' conse quence of these circumsta nces had , in November last , m ake a rate, and appoint a collector forthwith. 'that mandamus had been served by order of the Court mgupothioaavnretdd in the B oa rd tdha e Queens Bench for a man d amus t o com p e l th e of Guardians, collectively and indivi dually ; and they would be obliged immediately to ap point collectors, and to levy the rate. Tho execution would then be n ullified, on the amount being paid out of the u rate. EXPORT DUTIES. wo CLASS LAW MAKING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The infamous " class" law making must be ex posed to the utmost. I take the opportunity of noticing two other tricks of the aristocracy. The first, as re spects the window duty. The greater the number of windows a nobleman or gentleman has (though he is the party who can the better afford to pay), he pays less in proportion to those in different stations in life, with a lesser number of windows. The second, as respects stamp duty upon conveyances and mortgages of real property. The larger purchaser and mortgagor (who can the better afford), pays less duty, in proportion, to the smaller purchaser and mortgagor. The more the public are enlightened upon "class" law making, the more they (except those who have made those infamous laws) are surprised and disgusted. The aristocracy have placed themselves awkwardly at last. Feb. 4, 1845. EXPOSITOR. COURSE OF EXCHAI Amsterdam CF. 12 8 Ditto, at sight l2 6 Rotterdam 2U. 12 81 Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 14 Altona l3 14 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 80 Ditto, 3 months 26 0 Marseilles Bourdeaux 26 10 Frankfort on Maine 122 TG-E.—(YESTERDAY Gibraltar 77 Leghorn ..... 31 Genoa .. 26 10 Milan ...... Venice .... Naples . . .. 391 Palernso, per oz llBl Lisbon ......... Oporto Rio Janeiro Bahia ...... 24 Buenos Ayres NewYoi Philad?lphio Petersburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin 7 - 7 - Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M l@ Trieste, ditto Madrid 36i Cadiz Bilbao 36 Barcelona 36 Seville PRICISS.C.:: BULLION, FERO: Foreign ili,ki,bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New llool.',oons 0 0 0 New Do! ars 0 4 9, Silver in Bus 0 4 1 FLANDERS MAIL. Sir R. PEEL laid on the table certain papers relating to the operation of the export duties. THE PRINTING OF COMMITTEES' REPORTS. Mr. I'. DUNCO MB E , se e ing the Noble Lord the Member for Liverpool in his place, wished to Cora a question to him in reference to the report of a mittee of which the Noble Lord was chairman last year. That Committee made a report, which was laid on the table, and with it an appendix. They were both ordered to be printed. The report was printed; but the appendix was not printed to the present hour. He had sent re peatedly to the printers ; but he was told that the report could not be had, because it was waiting for the appendix, and that the appendix could not be had, because it was waiting for the proof, which was in the hands of a Member of the Committee to be cor rected. Now he (Mr. Duncombe) insisted that after the Committee laid this report on the table their functions ceased, and they had nothing more to do with the report or the appendix. He was in possession of the appendix by special favour of the Speaker, but ho wished to know from the Noble Lord why it was kept back, and in whose heads it was ? Lord SANDON said that the Committee had en• trusted the task of arranging and classifying the docu ments which constituted the appendix to the Hon. Member for Kendal, who had taken great pains with the subject. These documents still remained in the hands of that Hon. Member, and he (Lord Sandell) was sure that whatever obstacles remained in the way of the pub lication of the report would soon be removed. Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE expressed a hope that no further time would be lost in presenting these papers to the House. Lord SANDON said' that as far as he was concerned certainly no time should be lost. DUTY ON TOBACCO. Mr. lIUME presented a petition from the tobacco manufacturers of London, signed by all but three, com plaining that their grievances still existed,ed and praying that the duty on tobacco might be repeal. THE LORD-LIEUTENANTCY OF THE COUNTY OF MAYO. Mr. BELLEW inquired whether it was true that Lord Lucan had been appointed Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Mayo? Sir R. PEEL—Yes, it is true. GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL STATEMENT— THE INCOME-TAX. Sir R. PEEL rose and said—Sir, it may be con venient for me now to state the course which I intend to pursue on Friday next. I believe it will be competent for me, without moving for a Com mittee of Ways and Means, to take the course of moving a resolution to continue for a further period the laws which impose a tax on income. But as that is not the usual course of late years, I propose, on Wednesday to adopt the following proceeding, viz., to move for a Committee of Ways and Means, and then in the Committee of Ways and Means on Friday next, I shall propose a resolution to the effect, that the laws which impose a tax on income in Great Britain, and the law which imposes an additional stamp duty in Ireland, should be continued for a further BRURSEL.I, FEB. 3.—A letter from St. Petersburgh of the 20th January, says, " Her Majesty the Empress attended Divine service in the palace the day before yesterday, on oc casion of the celebration of the anniversary of the birthday of her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands." The fact proves that the reports spread by the German papers of the pretended indisposition of the Empress, are unfounded. The accounts from the interior of Russia give a very melancholy picture of the situation of the Russians in the Caucacus. A German journal affirms, that in less than two years they have lost all the fruits of their efforts during six successive campaigns. In the spring they will have to con tend with all the tribes which have hitherto remained neutral. It is affirmed that the Army of Operations will be increased to the cumber of 120,000 or 130,000 men. VIENNA, JAN. 18.—Prince Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg is not yet quite out of danger, though his disorder has taken a favourable turn. A few days ago a young man was arrested here for having made repeated attempts to force his way into the Imperial box at the theatre, and to present himself to the Imperial family. As far as yet appears, his intellects are disordered, and he has a fixed notien that he is a hitherto unknown member of the Imperial family. Accounts from Gray unanimously deplore the great loss that threatens the poor of that city, by the intended de parture of the eldest branch of the royal family of France, who have resolved to remove in May to Frohsdorf near Wienac Neustadt, and there to fix his permanent abode. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUVSELS, FEB. 3. Actual Debt, 2 per Cent •••••• • • • • • • • Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent •• .. f. 00.4 Ditto Three per Cent • Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ••• • .. 77 Ditto, ditto, 1840.. • • ..... .......... 1037 , y Ditto, ditto, 1844 .• . ....... .• • • --- Ditto of the City, 1843 • 103 Ditto, 1832 .. • • • ......... -- Bank of Belgium. 607 —Brussels Papers. Feb. 4. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JAN. 26. 5 per Cent. Metalliques.• 4 per Cent. ditto • • 3 per Cent. ditto • Loan, 1834 ... ••••• • • • • • •••••• • • • • • 158 V, Ditto, 1839 129% Bank Shares .1626 Esterhazy's Loan 56•Y i RAILWAYS. The Northern, or Ferdinand • • • • • • . Gloggnitz .......... ...... .•• •• • '133 Milan 120 q —Allgemelne Zeitung, Jan. 31. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —A POOR MAIN'S LIFE SAVED BY HOLLOWAY'S PlLLS.—Jeremiah Laughlin, a porter about the quays of Dublin, was afflicted for years with shortness of breath, spitting of phlegm, night perspira tions, and general weakness of body, a want of appetite, sick head-aches, besides suffering much from the liver. This man was in the second stage of consumption, and not expected to live three months, when he commenced the use of Holloway's wonderful Pills, and, by their means alone, ho is now as strong, as hale, and as well as ever he was in his life.—Sold (also Holloway s Oint ment) at the Establishment of Professor Holloway, 244, Strand (where advice may be had gratis), and by almost all respectable vendors of medicine throughout 4.5a1yr., Barrett, a v r e r r e d t i t c , the civilised world. In the Court of Common Pleas, Dublin, on Mon• proprietor lsdam o a f ge th s the Pilot tthfeorreturned newspaper, ag a i tflos for the publicati • • on of a libel on Mr. Long, a coachmaker in. Dublin, anti a ci devant member of the old Dublin Cor poration. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY B, 1845. limited period. That is the nature of the resolution I propose to move in Committee of Ways and Means. Mr. HUME—WiII the Right Hon. Gentleman ex plain to the House what are the taxes he intends to remit ? Sir ROBERT PEEL—I propose, on Friday, to enter into a general review of the subject, when I will state what course I intend to take, but I cannot enter into any explanation now. I will give the fullest statement on Friday next, with respect to the nature of the pro posals her Majesty's Government intend to adopt. Lord JOHN RUSSELL—The Right Hon. Baronet proposes to do that in Committee of Ways and Means. Sir R. PEEL—Yes. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT. Mr. WALLACE wished to put a question to the Right Hon. Baronet. The Right Hon. Gentleman was aware that an important decision had been come to in one of the courts of Scotland with regard to the Weights and Measures Act. The decision affected the general understanding of the administration of the law on that Act in Scotland, and it had caused in particular dis tricts a very great degree of anxiety, not to say dis turbaace. Ile begged, therefore, to inquire, whether it was the intention of the Right Hon. Baronet to take any steps in the matter ? Sir J. GRAHAM said that, in answer to the ques tion of the Hon. Gentleman, he had to state that he was perfectly aware of the decision that had been come to on the subject of the Weights and Measures Act of Scotland, and he was aware that this decision affected a large portion of the community in Scotland. The decision to which the Hon. Gentleman referred was the decision of a judge on circuit—a very elaborate and learned decision, and one entitled to great weight—but at the same time the decision of a single judge. The same question which had been brought before this in ferior tribunal would shortly be brought before all the judges in the Court of Justiciary, and before the deci sion of that tribunal bad been given he thought it would be premature to discuss the propriety of any alterations. Mr. WALLACE wished to know how soon the ques tion would come before the court? Sir JAMES GRAHAM bad every reason to believe that the opinion of the Court of J usticiary would be taken in a very short time. NEW WRIT. _ On the motion of Mr. YOUNG a new writ was ordered to be issued for the election of a Member for the county of Buckingham, in the room of Mr. Charles Scott Murray, who, since his election, had accepted the office of the Stewardship of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds. BRAZIL. Mr. BOUVERIE wished to know whether the report, that commercial negotiations had been entered into with Brazil, had any foundation ? Sir R. PEEL said he hoped unless the case were very pressing, Hon. Members would have the goodness to give notice of their intention to put questions of this nature. He knew the danger arising from a question of that kind, and ho did hope that a few hours' notice would be given. Mr. BOUVERIE said he would repeat the question on Monday. SUPPLY. The House then went into a Committee of Supply Mr. GREENE in the Chair. On the motion that a supply be granted to her Majesty, Mr. HUME said that he was of opinion that they ought to hear the financial statement before they voted any supply. He did not mean to divide the House on this question, but he wished to guard himself against being misunderstood. Without having some informa tion before him, he was not prepared to vote for an increase of the navy, merely on account of an increase in the steam navigation. His opinion was that the estimate for the navy ought not, on that account, to be increased. His humble opinion was, that they should know the financial state ment before they voted any money for the expenses of the country, and if he did not oppose the present motion, it was because the Right Hon. Baronet promised at an early day to bring forward his financial scheme, His object in rising now was to guard himself, for the reason assigned, against being bound to grant any supply to her Majesty. His opinion was, that the state of the country required that they should reduce, by every means in their power, the amount of taxation, and he would frankly state that he was surprised the Right Hon. Baronet should have called on her Majesty to congratulate the country on the amount of taxation. If he looked at the papers laid on the table to-day, it would appear that fifty-nine millions would be received by the Treasury in the course of the year, an amount much larger than in former years — some ten years ago, when Europe was in an unsettled state, and the state of America required a large es tablishment. But, now, when everything tended to security and peace, an increase in their establish ments was asked for. He would not ask the Committee to support his opinion by pressing for a division ; but he begged leave to enter his protest, for the reasons assigned, against the grant, and he should like to hear from the Right Hon. Baronet his exposition of the plans he had in view.—(Hear.) Sir R. PEEL felt assured that it could not be sup posed that her Majesty's Government would propose a vote for any amount of supply, without laying before the House a full statement of the reasons why that amount of supply was demanded ; and therefore he did hope that the Hon. Member would not prejudge and condemn the course the Government intended to pursue until he had heard what that course was. The Hon. Member had said he conceived that the increase of steam navigation was a reason why the taxation should be lessened ; but were it not possible that it might become necessary to build new steam-vessels—(Hear)—as the commerce of the country might extend itself.— (Hear.) Therefore, all he now asked of the Hon. Member was to suspend his judgment until he had heard the state ment he (Sir R. Peel) had alluded to.—(Hear.) Surely, it was a legitimate cause of congratulation to the House and to the country that the revenues had increased, and that there was a surplus. and not a deficit in the Treasury. Mr. HUME had no objection to the Government con gratulating itself on that subject, and he for one would, of course, be better pleased to hear of a surplus than a deficit. But he would say that the only chance the country had of a reduction in the public expenditure was by keeping the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the First Lord of the Treasury short of money.—(Hear, and laughter.) Therefore he could not concur with the statement of the Hon. Baronet, for he would repeat it, that the increase of steam navigation was no reason for an increase of the public taxation. Lord JOHN RUSSELL had no doubt but that when the Right Hon. Baronet made his financial statement he would assign good, and sufficient, and legitimate grounds for the course be had announced it as the inten tion of the Government to adopt.—(Hear.) He did not concur in the opinion of his Hon. Friend behind him, that it was matter of surprise to have at this early period of the session the financial statement of the Government brought forward. On the contrary, he (Lord John Russell) was Rot taken by surprise at this announcement, for he conceived it would be a very convenient course to the country to adopt. It was a perfectly legitimate course for her Majesty's Ministers to state, at as early a period as possible of the session, the amount of revenue they conceived necessary for the public service, and then to state the means by which they intended to meet that demand ; at the same time he did not look upon such a course as a precedent for future years. Sir R. PEEL said the reason he had made the intima tion he had upon this subject was, in order to prevent confusion and inconvenience to the public service ; but he did not intend that the amount the Government in tended to ask for should be a precedent for future years. Mr. HUME said the Noble Lord had acted contrary to what he would do in the management of his own private affairs—(Laughter)—for the affairs of the nation should bo conducted on the same principle as those of a private individual, and it was well known that the pri vate individual who did not act so incurred more than he could pay.—(Renewed laughter.) They should be still more particular, more careful, and more cautious, as the money they spent was not their own, and belonged to the public. Mr. S. CRAWFORD was happy to find that, after the lapse of two years, the House had adopted his pro position.—(Laughter.) He begged leave to state that he had, two years ago, moved the suspension of the esti mates until after the financial statement had been made. He would not, however, offer any opposition to the mo tion of the Right Hon. Gentleman. The CHAIRMAN then reported progress, and the House resumed. stated that loyalty existed in this country. It was certain however, if this law were persisted in, it would be im possible that this loyalty could be continued. Under those circumstances he called upon her Majesty's Government to declare their intention with respect to the parishes under the Gilbert Act. If it was their intention to continue the Gilbert unions, why not say so at once, and not continue , the inquiry, which appeared to produce no benefit? Ile would admit that it was impossible there could be any mode of relief which would not be liable to abuses, and no doubt some trifling abuses did exist in the Gilbert unions, but they were not so flagrant as those of the New Poor-law. If an inquiry were to be made into these unions, it was only fair that there should also be an inquiry into the effect of the New Poor-law, and the case would be put fairly before the nation which was the best means of relief, as well as the evils of both. He had had the honour of coming up to the Right Hon. Baronet, the Secretary for the Home Department, on a deputation from Rochester. They stated to him what had occurred there, and that out of 22,000 ratepayers, they were all against the New Poor-law with the exception of nineteen. The Right Hon. Baronet received the deputation with his usual courtesy, and the answer he gave was, that he had no power to interfere with the law. Now, if he had not the power to control the Commissioners, he (Mr. S. Crawford) felt disposed to give it to him. He could not avoid making those few observations, and if it was necessary to make further inquiry into the subject of the Gilbert unions, he thought that the New Poor-law ought to be considered as well. The motion was then agreed to, and the following Hon. Members were appointed to serve on the Com mittee :—Mr. Barneby, Capt. Podia, Mr. The s. l)un combe, Sir Robert Heron, Mr. Colvile, Sir William Heathcote, Mr. Beckett Denison, Mr. Wrightson, Viscount Barrington, Mr. Manners Sutton, Mr. Strutt, Viscount Marsham, Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Wakley, and Mr. Protheroe. POOR-LAW COMMISSION. Colonel SIBTHORP, seeing the Right Hon. Barone the Secretary for the Home Department in his place, would renew the motion which he had made in the early part of the evening for the returns which had been ordered to be made in the month of May last, but which had not yet been made as to the occu pations of the Poor-law Commissioners. The return had then been assented to, but he understood that the Right Hon. Baronet now intended to object to it, and would assent only to make a partial return on the sub ject. But, unless the Right Hon. Baronet could give some satisfactory reason for objecting to that to which he had assented in the month of May last, he (Colonel Sib thorp) should certainly take the sense of the House on the subject. He understood that the Right Hon. Baronet considered that there would be some difficulty in making the return, but there was no roster kept of the number of days on which thePoor-lawCommissioners were employed, The Right lion. Gentleman, as he understood, said that there was no roster kept of the number of days which he was employed at the Home-office ; but he (Colonel Sib thorp) did not wait for any return of the number of days which the Right Hon. Gentleman was employed, because he believed himself, and it was the general opinion of the public, that there was no public officer more attentive to the duties of his office than the Right lion. Gentleman.—(Hear, hear.) He did not say this out of flattery—(A laugh)—but he believed it was generally admitted that n) one had given greater satisfaction as Secretary of State for the Home Department than the Right Hon. Baronet. — (Hear, hear.) He did not want any roster of the num ber of days the Right Hon. Gentleman was in his office, because he believed that the Right Honourabh Gentleman performed his duties faithfully; but he did not belive that the same could be said of all officials. Now, with regard to these commissioners, he had no opportunity of knowing if they were properly employed or not. He should like to see a statement of where they were. They might be iu improper places for anything that appeared to the contrary, and he had no opportu nity of knowing whether they were or not, and he should like to have an opportunity of knowing.—(Laughter,) He wanted to know where they were, and what they were doing ?—(Laughter.) Now, unless the Right Hon. Baronet would assure him that he had no suspicions with regard to them, he must have the same return which he had before moved for, and the Right lion. Baronet was bound to furnish to the House and the public the reason why he now refused what he had before assented to. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said what the Hon. and Gallant Officer had stated was true, that towards the end of last session he thought it his duty to make this motion, and that he (Sir James Graham) did not oppose it. But he submitted to the Hon. and Gallant Officer that with regard to the first of these two questions, there would be a great difficulty in making any return. With reference to the attendance of the Chief Com missioners, no roster was kept any more than of the attendance of the Commissioners of Customs or Excise, or of the Revenue Board, and without such a roster it was hardly possible to give in detail the return the Hon. and Gallant officer desired. At the same time he was bound to state of his own personal knowledge, that no public ser vants were more attentive in the execution of their duties than the Poor-law Commissioners. It would be for the satisfaction of the Hon. Gentleman or the House, that as far as possible this information should be afforded. So far from resisting it, he would do all in his power to furnish it. Could it be considered as any reflection on the Poor-law Commis sioners, he should have felt it his duty to have resisted the motion, but as he did not think this could be the case, he should grant the return. Mr. F. FRENCH said that in the appointment of the Committee of Inquiry the word "operation" had been omitted. He begged to ask the Right lion. Secretary for the Home Department, whether this had been done designedly, and if not, whether there would be any ob jection to have the omission corrected ? Sir J. GRAHAM said that, although it had been stated by an lion. Member just now, that suspicion at tached to every thing that was connected with the poor. laws, he could assure the Hon Gentleman who put the question to him, that he had not been aware of the omis sion to which the Hon. Gentleman referred. But if it would be any satisfaction to the Hon. Gentleman, he Sir J. Graham) would not object to the insertion of he word " operation." The returns were then ordered. RAILWAYS. Mr, YOUNG, according to motion, moved a resolution to suspend, for the present Session, Standing Order No. 102, " That all Petitions for Private Bills be presented within twenty-one days after the First Friday in every Session of Parliament," to fix the days for receiving Petitions for Private Bills. Mr. ENTWISLE objected to the suspension of the standing order. At the same time he wished to explain that he was mistaken when he said, last evening, that the preliminary expenses for preparing a railway Bill were only about 301. or 401. He found that the cost of printing only was of that amount. There were other expenses considerably above that sum. The Board of Trade had made their report against cer tain parties, and they would be enabled to delay printing their Bills until they had ascertained the reason on which the Board of Trade had grounded their decision. The parties, therefore, rejected by the Board of Trade, would be in a more favourable position than those in whose fa vour the Board of Trade had reported, because they would be enabled to draw up their Bill, embodying clauses to meet the objections which the Board of Trade had entertained to their plans. On that account he would object to granting so much time as had been asked to enable them to draw up their Bill, after the reasons of the Board of Trade bad been given. He had very little experience in that House, but he had cousiderable experience out of it ; and he could as sure the House that, from the very day in which the case was placed in the hands of Parliamentary agents, that their expenses commenced. All those expenses the Company in whose favour the Board of Trade reported had to bear, while the Company against which the Board of Trade reported only had to bear the expense of getting up and printing their Bills. The SPEAKER having put the question, Mr. ENTWISLE said he should move that the standing order with regard to petitions should not be suspended. Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET said (as we un derstood), it was indispensable that the original motion should be agreed to, in order to carry out the resolution of last session, for the appointment of the Board of Trade. Mr. HODGSON HINDE thought it had been clearly made out that it was necessary to take some step of this kind in order to prevent injustice from being done to those companies against whom the Board of Trade had re ported. Great injustice would be done if parties in whose favour the Board of Trade bad reported were obliged to delay going into Committee till the adverse Bill was in a state of such forwardness as to be com mitted also. He therefore hoped that the parties who were promoting an adverse Bill should be obliged to bring their case before the Committee, though they were not in a state of forwardness to entitle them to come before the Committee. If some such plan were not followed, the promoters of an adverse line might delay until the last moment, so that parties who had a bona fide intention of proceeding with their Bills might be delayed for three weeks, which, at the commencement of the works on a line, would be equiva lent to six months in the opening of a railway. He hoped, therefore, that his Noble Friend would give his attention to the subject. Mr. ENTWISLE then withdrew his amendment, and the following resolutions were agreed to : I. Resolved—That this House will not receive any petition for any Private Bill, other than a Railway Bill on which the report by the Railway Board has not yet appeared in the Gazette, after Friday, the 28th day of this instant February. 2. Resolved—That no Private Bill, other than a Railway Bill on which the Report by the Railway Board has not yet appeared in the Gazette, be read the first time after Friday the 28th day of March next. 3. Resolved—That this House will not receive the Report of any Private Bill, other than a Railway Bill on which the Report by the Railway Board has not yet appeared in the Gazette, after Friday the 30th day of May next. 4. Resolved—That this House will not receive any petition for any Railw ay Bill, of which the report by the Railway Board has not yet appeared in the Gazette, later than the twenty-first day after the day of the pub ' lication of such report in the Gazette. 5. Resolved—That no Railway , Bill, of which the re port by the Railway Board has not yet appeared in the Gazette, shall be read the first time later than the twenty-eighth day after the day of the reception by this House of the petition for such Railway Bill. 6. Resolved, That this House will not receive the report of any railway Bill, of which the report by the Railway Board has not yet appeared in the Gazette, later than the eighty-fourth day from the day of the reception by this House of the petition for such Railway Bill. And, that the said resolutions be printed. The House then adjourned at eiz o'clock. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued ...... 28,232,485 Government debt 11,015,100 Other securities 2,984,900 Gold coin and bul lion 12,548,405 Silver bullion 1,684,080 £28,232,485 M. Dated the 6th day of Februl £28,232,485 kRSFIALL, Chief Cashier. ', 1845. BANKING DE' X. Proprietors' capita 114,553,000 Rest .... 3,298,944 Public deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings banks, Commis sioners ofNational Debt, and divi dend accounts) 2,852,124 Other deposits.-- 8,713,690 Seven day and other bills :PARTMENT. Government secu rities (including Dead Weight Annuity) Other securities 8,652,751 Notes 7,642,253 Gold and silver coin 666,145 £.30,502,823 I X 30,502,823 ,AISHALL, Chief Cashier. ary, 1845. M. MA Dated the 6th day of Febru FRID.AY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, FEE. 6, 1845. Orders for the Court's going into mourning on Sunday next, the 9th instant, for her late Imperial Highne,ss the Duchess of Nassau, niece of his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, viz. :—The ladies to wear black silk, fringed or plain linen, white gloves, necklaces, and earrings, black or white shoes, fans, and tippets. The gentlemen to wear black. full trimmed, fringed or plain linen, black swords and buckles. The Court to change the mourning on Thursday, the 13th instant, viz. :—The Ladies to wear black silk or velvet, coloured ribbons, fans and tippets, or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuffs, with black ribbons. The gentlemen to wear black coats, and black or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuff waistcoats, full trimmed, coloured swords and buckles. And on Monday, the 17th instant, the Court to go out of mourning. IVHITEHALL, FEB. 1, 1845. The Queen has been pleased to grant unto George Hamil ton Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen, K.T., the office or place of Keeper of Greenwich Park. THE PRINCE OF WALES' COUNCIL CHAMBERS, SOMERSET-HOUSE, FEB. 5, 1845. Francis Rodd, of Trebartha-hall, in the county of Corn wall, Esq., has this day been appointed Sheriff for the County of Cornwall, BANKRUPTS. John Beard, builder, Deptford, to surrender Feb. 14, at one, and March 28, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street .; Govett, Upper North-place, Gray's Inn-road. George Haywood, bricklayer, Luton, Bedfordshire, Feb. 14, at half-past one, and March 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee, King's Arms-yard ; Dyne, Linceln's Inn-fields ; Waring, Luton. William Henry Colt, grocer, Long Melford, Feb. 18, and April 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Basinghall-street Raimondi and Gooday, South-square, Gray's Inn ; Dowman, Sudbury. Samuel Rugg, carpenter, Chamberlayne-town, Feb. 18, at two, and March 20, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street ; Paterson, Bon verie-street. James Bradshaw, coal merchant, High-street, Camden town, Feb. 18, at one, and March 26, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street buildings ; Scaddington and Son, Gordon-street, Gordon square. Samuel Tavener, bricklayer, Sovereign-mews, Paddington, Feb. 18, at half-past two, and March 19, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Chisholme, Cook's-court, Lincoln's-inn. John Richardson, boot-maker, Fish-street-hill, Feb. 19, at twelve, and March 18, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry ; King, Saint Mary Axe. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. Johnston, Adamson, and Hope, bankers, Whithaven, Cum berland—third and final div. of tenpence and thirty-five one hundred parts of a penny in the pound, Feb. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, and 24, or any Saturday afterwards, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. G. Hutchinson, J. Hutchinson, H. Hutchinson, and T. Place, hankers, Stockton. upon-Tees—sixth and final div. of five-eights of a penny in the pound, A to C Feb 11, D to L Feb. 12, AI to 8 Feb. 13, T to Y Feb. 14, or any Saturday following, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. J. Stein, T. Smith, R. Stein, J. Stein, and R. Smith, mer chants, Fenchurch-street--third div. of sixpence in the pound, Feb 8, and three following Saturdays, at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane, City. T. Eyre, corn merchant, Gainsborough—third div. of 4-id. in the pound, Feb. 12, or any subsequent Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Freeman, Leeds. J. Crich, maltster, Sheffield—first div. of 4e. 2d in the pound, Feb. 12, or any subsequent Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Freeman, Leeds. .1. Jackson, innkeeper, geeds Hull—first div. of 3d. in the pound, Fob. 10, at the office of DI Mr V. YoIDE un N , L. DS. At the Court of Bankruptcy - , Basinghall-street. W. and T. Higgins, hosiers, ()Id Bond-street, March 4, at one. In the Country. R. Thelwall, silversmith, Blanchester, Feb. 28, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court—T. Collinson, boat-builder, Wakefield, March 4, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court — B. Wright, dealer in paint, Liverpool, March 8, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court—J. Melialieu, woollen manufac turer, Saddleworth Yorkshire, Feb. 27, at eleven, at the Man • chester District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein mentioned. J. Bradshaw, woollen draper, Marylebone-street, Picca dilly, Feb. 28—J. Oldham, silk warehouseman, Wood-street, Cheapside, March I—T. Swift and J. A. Ilensman, bill brokers, Copthall-court, Throgmorton-street, March I—A. Robertson and L. H. Folger, cabinet-makers, high-street, Shoreditch, March 7—W. Hill, builder, Woolwich, March 5 —J. H. Charnock, share broker, Wakefield, March 3—W. Rees and G. Edwards, gardeners, Wells, Somerse tsh ire, March 4—W. Jones, linen d ra p er , U s k, M onmou th s hire, March 4 C. ir Strange and It. Parsons, merchants, Neath, Glamorgan shire,ui l Manchester, ders,, N e w iSil ß a r o e n h d Bond-street, r ' e i e . tF. F C e e b r . k 2B and —H j . sh e, March 3-11. D. Watkins and J. Innes, lead merchants , T F :e en s e b t e p , . ,e2rEr, Eve-hill, g. - h h2. i sB l Fm l i. , IFFvie.gbsg.ea2w7, Worcestershire, —m ewerr,merchant, o.hila nm. t . F ,a e n b r :. Louisa-street, n 2 o B us t — i es ra....z. t ~, 1 Stepney,., i n i n g : La c 1 t 11 , . A d d u e n nb e r o ° olr ' , e do coach builders, g-.. Roberts, grocer,W. L . D A o b r i e n , g inn keeper, Feb. 28—J. Tomlin, ship broker, St. Michael's e -alley, hill, Feb. 28—J. Sharples, cotton manufacturer, da'cltboururn- Feb. 28—J. Storey and J. Gibb, ship chandlers, Liverpo o l', Feb. 28. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. A. Radcliffe, sen., and A. Radcliffe, jun., glaziers' diamond manufacturers, Hermitage- lace, St. John's-street-road — j. W. Browne, W. Hama ad 11, Williams, raw hide POOR-LAW UNIONS. Mr. MANNERS SUTTON moved that a Select Com mittee be re-appointed to inquire into the administra tion of the law for the relief of the poor in the unions formed under the Act 22 Geo. 111., c. 3, s. 83, and to report to the House their opinion whether it was ex pedient that the said union should be maintained. Mr. SIIARMAN CRAWFORD did not rise to give any opposition to the appointment of the Committee, but he thought the appointment of it was completely useless, and an entire waste of time. If the Government had determined to abolish the Gilbert unions, it was better to save the waste of time which would be consumed in making the report. Circumstances had occurred at Rochdale from which it would appear that the Government were determined no longer to permit such relief in any place. The people of Rochdale had been accustomed to administer to the necessities of their own poor under the Select Vestry Act, but the Com missioners determined that they should do so no longer. But when he saw that this law was pertinaciously per sisted in in the borough with which he was connected, if it were the Opinion of the Government that no other poer-law administration should exist in England but that which was provided by the New Poor-law Act, he did not think it necessary that they should go into a fur therinquiry into the Gilbert unions. There were essential difference between the Gilbert Act and the new Poor law Act. The Gilbert Act gave partial relief, while the Poor-law Act gave no relief at all, unless the par ties relieved were reduced to the lowest circumstances. He protested against the latter law, and the people of England looked upon it as a violation of their rights. —(Hear, hear.) There was a contest going on on this subject between the people and the Government. It was a desperate contest, and one which the people of England would not easily give up. He could not, there fore, avoid taxing that opportunity of calling the atten tion of the Government to the necessity of considering the new Poor-law. It was a thing which could no Linger go on. The Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary for the Home Department had heard from several Hon. Members, the other night, what had been the result of this law. It had produced lamentable distress, and it ought to be in some way amended. If the Government, however, were determined to go through with the law, they need not go into any further inquiry concerning the Gilbert unions. It was a measure of deep importance. It bad been ROYAL INSTITUTION. Professor Faraday devoted the greater p o rtion of his lec ture last week to describing . the re sults of previous attemped ts to liquify and solidify different gases. He fi rst explain the distinction between a gas and a vapour. The latter, though resembling in all its mechanical prop er ties a p. intonperma nently elastic gas, is nevertheless easily condensed liquid, by reduction of the temperature by ordinary means under the pressure of the atmosphere. A ga s, on the con under cannot be condensed by any ordinary reduction of tem perature. He had originally succeeded in condensing carbonic acid gas, by generating it enclosed in by which means the pressure was increased to thir at ty atmospheres, and then the liquid carbonic acid appeared one end of the tube. He had subsequently succeeded n! liquifying some more of the gases, and other chemists .d added to the number, so that there were known to be n?? gases capable of being condensed, by pressure, into liq M. Tillorier discovered that by the expansion of liquid 0 , 17 bonic acid in escaping so much cold is produced that tfy liquid becomes solid, and assumes the form of snow, but the other gases had resisted the many efforts that had berf d a tube, made to reduce them into a solid form. He now to announce, as the results of his recent a dds.exi riments, that he had succeeded in liquify in g six r tional gases, and had solidified seven tha t had never previously been known in that form. Th e principle.% which lie had proceeded in those experiments was to sultlect, the gas when under pressure to the lowest teroperaturoe, W er tainable by artificial means. It had been an error in ~,r experimenters to endeavour to succeed by pressure alone: ..v ts each gas may be considered to have its freezing a nd 1 0 liquid point as well as water; it would, therefore , b . 0 reasonable to expect to freeze water by subjecting it immense pressure without cold as it would be to freezetib7 gas by pressure alone. Acting on this principle, be tub- jected the gases to he operated on to the lowest Il s „ 0 temperature under great pressure. Solid carbonic acl e d the substance employed for generating cold. Wheal hea t s with either, it produces a degree of cold equal to he deg. below the zero of Fahrenheit, that is 137 deg. beloWsijin ' freezing point of water. To diminish the t er operatur ie ° and sans ether placed the vessel containing the solid carbon_ns ether under the receiver of an air-pump, by whi ch w or ts the ether was made to boil and the temperature Viaa re.. rro , duced sixty degrees lower. Into this " cold bath, f a p . r eell fessor Faraday termed it, he placed a strong tube o ' " . 3 ,b1 bottle glass, connected with a series of small force-purnPda which means he was enabled to obtain a pressure excee,to one hundred atmospheres. The pumps were fed A itb Ito operated on, and thus he obtained his results. h i s felt' Professor Faraday illustrated by experiment in ;bed. citous manner the various parts of the process he de"'",;ob- From a reservoir containing liquid carbonic acid•dled tained a large quantity of it in a solid form; thi s he h , "' e a without inconvenience, for the film of gas formed begea, the hand and the solid body prevents actual contact. 00 however, ether is mixed with the snow-like substance4pid, absorption of heat from surrounding bodies is C el l and a mass of quicksilver exposed to its action fro it became a solid metal, and a piece of wire with • the was previously stirred became as firmly fixed 111 , 0 1ei mercury as if it had been solid lead. Of the sensation °either, produced by the mixture of solid carbonic acid an d f r aied when placed under the air-pump, no more idea can than of the heat of a forge, for the nerves would be &stilted. by contact with a body much less cold. Pursuingtwedai periment whilst operating on olefiant gas, Prof essor Its be exhibited liquified "olefiant" in the tube ; that observed, the first time that any one, excepting hin3,Aducv the assistant operator, had hitherto seen olefiant gas to the form of a liquid. heP ed Ar t° In commencing the course of experiments , have been able to liquify and solidify hydrogen g,7, did 11°- however, he had not yet accomplished, though w heyP` s ce „ despair of succeeding. He expected that tha t gas, oaa Edified, would prove to be a metal. One of the D un ti les of hydrogen had been obtained as a liquid. Il e Dle 6t operated on oxygen, but hitherto without succe ss ' esn r of the gases which had yielded to his process Wm.o6ll3fesser pound gases. In the course of his lecture the Ge V dwelt upon the great advantage he had derive" in cols; ducting his experiments from the use of tubes man e so d 17. mon green bottle glass, which are much stronger re Os' liable to break from sudden changes of ternPerattheril flint glass. Without those tubes he questioned 1 ":, 005 should have succeeded, or at least the experinlen"rodar P Pro d d er have been attended with much more danger.the some tubes containing liquified gases, obtained bY,, - , of 0 mode of operating, which he offered to the insPec il oo sll , company, with the caution to handle them ca utr odo, or they were bearing a pressure of eight thousands ° ,,, u tare e 5,1; might, if knocked, burst with great force. Th l—,destn cited great interest, and was listened to with tb! f reisp ty . attention, by an audience that comprised most Of t i 4 fic men of eminence in the metropolis. NCO' SPORTIN G IN T ELLIG ,-a HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. . 1 144 Her Majesty's stag hds., Mon., Thorpe Gr eell Red Hdl-11. '""t°.l". Whitecross hrrs., Tues., Puttenham ; Sat ., v ville-10. trueS. , 0 ; Holderness hds., Mon., Holme River Head :rt .' 0 1010 Mill if ; Thurs., Bishop Burton ; Fri. , ed 4 Sat., Londsborough Gate-104. s`; '11; Lord Yarborough's hds., Mon., AylesbY __. 11. i f Swallow Crossroads ; Fri., C Bye ingf ; Sir T. Sykes', hds., Mon., Racethorpe ; We" Fri., Scampton-bridge-10i. Littl e t ; 1 Mr. Hellier's hds., Mon., Cawthorp e Toner-on-the-Moor ; Thurs., Girsby sat., so p Thorsby-11. Badsworth hds. Tues. Aketon ; Hood's Well; , Sat., the Hawk's Arms--I°3' 1166 0 .. 50 Mr. Foljambe's hds., Mon., Saundby t!Villag., Hendon Chump ; Thurs., Apley Head;s3 ot,, ford Toll-bar-10i. °ot' Earl of Hareweod's hds , Mon., Ribston DS Rainsworth Toll Bar-10-4. Quorn hds., Mon. Kilby; Tues., Bardon, Th u " e gle Great Dalby; Fri., Six Hills-10i. Pytchley hds., Mon., Great Harrow en; ton House, near Kettering; Wed., Fox ire Sibbertott; Sat., Welto Place-10,i j oy Mr. A. Smith's hds., Mon., CrawlbOy's Fes ; Everleigh; Wed., Wherwell Wood; Thurs" _ h ot ham; Fri., Netheravon-11. ; 13 10' B. V. H., Tues., Milborne East Hill; Fr.. 9 014 House. • ad) Taunton harrs., Tues., Foxhound Inn (Flve-e Oakchurch-10. i., Pe •:-/ Mr. G. Motley's harrs., Tues., Comp ton; shire Inn. gotl irir Sherwood harrs., Tues., Second Milestone, - road; Fri., Mansfield R - o rse- 11. DISTRESSING AFFAIR AT NOTTIOIIIOII.6forc. six months ago a very fine and interesting girt;toot,ll,ool named Hannah Willmott, daughter of Mr• Y !,hbfo P r spectable coach-proprietor, residing in the nei roill ll36 oo was apprenticed to learn the business to a.,e tbs dress-maker, carrying on the most e xtens" 5, merit at Nottingham. A few weeks ag° ti liflOg co e l; visit to a female friend, named CamPb'' town, and from her dejected and delicate eProg,b osc 0c cited the suspicion that there was something 1 //. 0 sni could not be prevailed upon at that time t 0 Pilevttbst 1 14 factory explanation. At the close of the eweiaies:o Mrs. Campbell sent to the place of business , r r tc °l i p .4 the girl might be allowed to join a little OA ig io n who were portaking of her hospitality. T n i he„ til $ o an in-door apprentice, was permitted to g,o , : A s I ?iusc. 6 o this lady's house, was again closely questioned bet go she was really unwell, or, if not, what caus te r bA b st . „. despondingly. She then admitted that her ma s t ote+ ~ her powders and other medicine of a powerful Wit ad nied that there was anything else the m atter vlr' stet, a ~i d $ d tf Campbell immediately sent for the not o f r„, sZrated with him on the impropriety .u i " teSu 0 6 quainted the girl's family with her illness, ineouset•rforof upon himself to act as her physician. Il e e bis cl° ° ,, s 0° r e in such terms as to remove all y blame from * r „ . '" sa d , time ; but the girl growing gradually w ° sing e ' sitl°74 At y taken away from his house about three we e r moved to that of Mrs. Campbell, the fetliedeel li ° distance from here. She then, after a gr e l t ereP er be , o o tion, admitted that her master had taken 4 1 1 1 / ;yiss f ore l : o 4 with her several times, and perceiving that 6 s ay re , ti e enceinte, induced her to take those drugs ..., ai r e if ins e , and which were administered to her by bJrlical s l ot JA woman, also apprenticed in the house. D i c e d to " r tsfst• mediately called in, and every means resor_irosdi t ell t ill preserve life ; but so great was the inroad gi ne , U lti s eni r her constitution, naturally a very strong e e dia .„de• sad tempts to save her ' were baffled, and she ling'euffener)ol Sunday night, when death put an end to be r .. ,b C 9910 Monday afternoon Mr. M. Brown into the of ter of Tiei a respectable Jury met to inquire into the e i ' e wao l/ 0 0i# the inquest was adjourned to Thursday. ' w ill b e d l Wilmott has been taken into custody, an d dere till the inquest terminates, when he will tin P, ti cst nation before th F e magistrates. •ng PAO DEATII BY IRE. —On Tuesday ev b Carter held an inquest at the blarquisaii Pyh t sly y Marsh, near Esher, upon the body of f„le des f s, fr fifty-five, the wife of a wheelwright, sv's' h i r g oar sioned by her clothes accidentally catc eßa onke peared that the deceased, who for soine 110 ter A i lip le l in an infirm state of health, and had recen_looo O ho o d, paralysis, was, on Sunday night last, About half-past nine o'clock Mrs. Golds. - t he iwo r, m next door, heard screams proceeding fre ra o the t be w;0 1 on entering, she found the deceased lyi.figujoed_.,„ ) 1 . 0 0 loped in flames. Mrs. Goldsmith ex„t n lin 5e7." 0 ,„ 0 114 ,,, quickly as possible, and afterwards ea u d such _ 0 ber.dy" and Wates, surgeons, who administerF Ars t no were applicable to the case ; but from tbie` s he e entertained of the deceased's recover'', slid orni l3g ib. n ._ great agony at five o'clock on blonde,' a returned a verdict of 44 Accidentally burn', 7-' the Ist inst., at the Rectory, od e° Br O id n port, Dorset, the lad ll y ffl of the RS.evi.3 13 d o tY 4 $ t B il r ' fort' $ 1 N On the 4th inst., at South Swiss Cottag 0/16 lady of H. Joseph Snaith, Esq ; , of a son:. $OO6l of On the sth inst., at Upper (./1 t 0 pir • ' (,lap • ' a son. On the sth inst., Mrs. M. Meyer, of Altai° 1 i rytt i l • rriiiice 11441 bury, of a son. .aiust e ' 0 ( I .ty a, Belgrahetor-", ..Ato On the sth inst., at Chester-street, ,,, of George Beauchamp Cole, E of datig -- via— .l 4411 0 On a • e sth inst., at Camberive , On the 6th inst., at Cado daughter. wife d poci %et gaii_piace, the 0 P l ttl :', Tattersall, Esq., of a son. 41 , di °I _li 1,441N0 i els 'No --------tlr.tone .1, sitnekh::# On the Ist inst., at Brooklands, ritaiis, P w Smith, Esq., of a daughter Dorse t, tit° pi ‘ , l• Niki On the 2d inst.. at Man . ston House, --- o f co ot % Harry Farr Yeatman. Esq., of a son. a , pro n, fil4'oo? alla.. On the 3d inst., the lady of H enr y luerciter. o f ivir.Ot ham-place West, Hackney-road, of A dal ] , -Wife A p. ' 44 1 : 4 1: On the 4th inst., in Liingham-Pl3ee' ti Baring Young, Esq., of a daughte • ref e L 4b4t )ki ' .John IS r h tin° 0710 On the 4th inst., the wile of Mr. 4ttk 41 of Oxford -street, of a daughter. voir keNV 11/4BRIED' , ,cillfageori illi h i P . 1 / tit R. I. l e, tO l i 1 1 On the 29th ult., at dlaines Churah. daughterGilpin, Henryof lur c Clifton,hbrid g E e s , q Staff o f o vv r d s o r h c i e r sl e r:, viriu.ool), qte 44 , l ; i t Lei the 9th inst., at St. Pancras' t he „ S f ev tb .o let° ba t M , Farquhar, to Jean, eldest daughter v ,„.1 4 Gordon, Esq. Il i Nill' i titl ,0 / th e ils ,rlt ) th e y Charlotte -street, Qi O nt i ,s • B e t . ,r.:,,,ss' ttaoallnil. DIED' ,„bfele. I Or the :I!_ , ,t. ',lt., rt, ITrllitm-31111, -"" kt.S. T o ll Ol t i t l lel2, wife o f 11r • Ch 3" fat P .,/ th, v4t On the 2d iii - t Lady !1. , Sir C. 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