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Ctirb Wtittion 10 to 1 agst Pagan 13 to 1 agst Sir Robert 18 to agst Pharaoh 28 to 1 agst Tacita 30 to 1 agst Celeste 30 to 1 agst The Prior DERBY. 6 to 1 agst Rattan 7 to 1 agst Ugly Buck—taken 16 to 1 agst Orlando 20 to 1 agst Cockamaroo 20 to 1 agst Leander 20 to 1 agst T'Auld 'Squire 40 to 1 agst Apprentice 66 to I agst Sir Isaac 100 to 1 agst Boots .44(ir < Yr:, - x*? 1 S f .sa `s -~~. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. • SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE 'EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—We alluded a few days since to Lord Worsley's notice of-motion, which stands for to-morrow, for a Select Committee of the House of Commons, to inquire into the amount of fees paid on summary con victions within a given period ; and also, into the ap pointment, duties, and mode of remunerating clerks to the justices in petty sessions. The returns obtained by the Noble Lord last session, with a view to this inquiry, are understood to be of a most astounding character, so far as the heavy fees payable on summary convictions for trifling offences are concerned. The provincial journals every week record striking instances of the oppressive operation of the existing system ; and by so doing render considerable assistance to its abolition, by directing the attention of the Legisla ture, and the public generally, to its practical injustice. The following instance—one of a vast series—will serve to show the magnitude of the evil which Lord Worsley has applied himself to remove. At the Petty Sessions held at Petworth on Saturday last, the Earl of Winterton in the chair, Mary Daughtrey, the wife .of a labouring man living at Amberley, pleaded guilty to doing wilful damage, to the amount of threepence, to certain trees, the property of the Hon. R. Curzon, of Parham. The defendant was ordered to pay the amount of damage. This she—or rather her bus 'band—might have done without material inconvenience. But the costs upon conviction were to be added to the penalty, and these amounted to nineteen shillings and sixpence ! The imprisonment of this labourer s wife, as a personal infliction-for her husband's inability to pay this heavy amount of costs, was twenty-one days! What an accumulation of mischiefs are concentrated within the above simple narration of facts I A labour ing man is deprived of the society of his wife, and his humble home is rendered desolate—his children, if he have any, are l e ft w ith ou t the fostering care of their mother, and this for three weeks; not because the hus band and father of this now destitute family is unwilling, or unable, to satisfy the damage done by his wife in a moment of thoughtlessness to the Hon. R. Curzon's shrubs, to the extent of threepence, but because the costs conse quent upon conviction for this petty damage are seventy eight times the amount of fine inflicted by the Bench for the offence. Thus far, the woman thus dealt with, and her husband and family, are the immediate sufferers. There are other consequences which necessarily result, in a great variety of instances, from the visitation of heavy costs upon summary convictions in such petty cases, The party, whether man or woman, if previously well disposed, cannot be the tenant of a gaol for several days or weeks, and the associate of such characters as are usually f ound there, without danger to, if not positive contamination of, their moral habits. The man or woman who has been consigned to a county prison, Collies forth with the brand of conscious degradation ' upon their brow. The self-respect—which is the best incentive to and guardian of virtue—has passed away, perhaps never to return. A disinclination to employ the man who has been in gaol is felt by those who would otherwise employ him. He becomes destitute, and is rendered reckless. Many a poor wretch has been thus plunged into crime, and pursued a course of plunder, until the gallows or the hulks has terminated his career, who would have been preserved to society, but for the sentence which—in default of paying an exor bitant amount of costs upon a summary conviction, for which a fine of thitepence, or sixpence, was deemed a sufficient infliction—consigned him to a felon's fate for a considerable period. We again re mind the parochial and county-rate payers that this question is one which peculiarly presses on their pecuniary interests. Let them estimate the immediate and contingent burdens to which the exist ing system subjects the parochial and county-rates, and they will at once perceive that to pay the clerks to thejustices in petty sessions by a fixed salary is, even in a pecuniary point of view, to be preferred to the pre sent systrm of remunerating them for their services by the always objectionable, and in the present instance op pressive mode of paying them by fees. STANDARD.—Most of our readers will have read with pain the report of the disgraceful case tried at the Northampton Assizes, but the pain which the pe rusal of such a case naturally excites, will be found to carry with it some consolation. The traveller who blessed his good fortune when he discovered a gibbet upon a shore believed to be desolate, had good reason for his self-congratulation : he saw, by whatever melancholy proof, that he had arrived in the abode of men, and of men also who punished the crimes that unhappily must arise wherever human so ciety exists. The person who occupies the most dis graceful position in the Northampton trial is a clergy man. He is one of fourteen or fifteen thousand minis ters of the Established Church. It can hardly be said that the fall of one or of one hundred of so numerous a body can by itself reflect disgrace upon the unsullied and faithful majority ; but though by itself such a lapse of an individual can leave no possible stain upon his brethren, a case may be imagined in hich the sin of even one would extend its foul dis honour to the whole body. Such a case would arise if the clergy used arts to conceal the guilt of the transgressor, or if the habits of the clergy generally were such as to cause the exposed guilt to be regarded as venial. How unlike either of these cases is to the state of things exposed at Nor thampton, the simplest must be able to observe. Know ing, how impossible, among creatures so corrupt as mankind, is the existence of a class wholly free from the common vices of our nature, we confess that we look with suspicion, not unmingled with alarm, at the seeming existence of such a class. The ex terior semblance • of such perfect purity of thou sands cannot—for nothing can—prove that such perfect purity exists, and therefore it must prove a system o ' coneealment so exquisitely contrived, and so universally supported, as to deceive all the world—a system of con cealment behind which the grossest licentiousness may' l be, and therefore certainly will be, freely indulged in : of this we' may, perhaps, see something in Ireland. In the Roman Catholic countries of the Continent the vices of the clergy are scarcely concealed with more decency than the vices of the laity; they are treated lightly, and in the same proportion the clergy are objects of contempt or dislike, or both. Now what is the just inference, as regards the position of the English clergy, to be drawn from the proceeding at North ampton ? A wretched man who, perhaps, may be most charitably described as a sensual idiot, unhappily obtains admission into the orders and the service of the Chuich. He falls into sin, and " his sin finds him out." One of the companions of his sin uses her knowledge of his guilt to extort money from him under a threat of ex posure. Now, in some Roman Catholic countries a priest might smile defiance at such a threat—confiding in the armour of concealment assumed by his order, which would render the threatened imputation incredible ; in other Roman Catholic countries the priest might again smile defiance at the threat, relying upon the indulgence which the public accord to the licentiousness of the clergy. In Protestant England the guilty clergyman has happily neither resource ; his brethren will not soil themselves by sheltering him, and public opinion, taught by the general pure character of the clergy, w ill regard him somewhat in the light of a monster ; he has, therefore, no resource but in buying up, if he can afford it, the evidence of his crime ; and this was the course pursued by the wretched man who prosecuted his para mour at Northampton. From first to last he paid her 1,200/. for hush-money; and it was not until her rapacity had outrun his means of satisfying her, that he resorted to that miserable prosecution w hi c h has brought the disgraceful history to light. The object of the prosecu tion was probably to frighten her, as a foreigner un acquainted with our laws, into silence, without carrying the case into court. If such was the 'fact the project failed, and the public has certainly no reason (after the first shock) to, regret the failure. The lesson is a useful one, not to the clergy—who want no lesson of the kind—but to those who might be disposed to doubt the solid foutida tion upon which rests the moral character of our 15,000 Ministers of the Gospel, or to fancy that the people of England will be satisfied with a low standard of morals in their religious teachers. TATTERSALL'S.-THIS EVENING. QUARTER TO SIX O'CLOCK. CHESTER CUP. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at Five Minutes after Five. The Earl of RADNOR presented a petition from the county of Somerset, praying for the removal of all duties on the .necessaries of life, and that there should be a revision of the whole system of the taxa tion of the country. The petition was agreed to at a meeting presided ,over by b the High Sheriff, and which had been called by a requisition very numerously signedby freeholders. The meeting, he should state, was called:fur a very different object thairthat which w as the result of it. It was called for the purpose of passing `resolutions in favour of what was called pro tection. That was the avowed object of the meeting. A motion was made in support of legislative protec tion, considerifile discussion took place upon it, and an amendment, embodying free-trade principles, was submitted. This was put to the meeting; and, as decided . by the High Sheriff, it was lost—the original resolution in favour of protection being declared by him to be . carried. On this, parties became dissatisfied, and much altercation ensued. The Sheriff was required to put the resolution a second time, and he,refused to do so. But in consequence of this, when a petition' to Parliament embodying the resolution was brought forward, a petition embodying 4eiterivAiiill ;es was also brought forward by ftErcrt — n . This amended petition was car ajority, and a vote of thanks pa ssed to the Anti-Corn-law League. These were the circumstances as represented to him. In general it happened unfortunately that the protectionist party objected to discussion. Their meetings were select and exclusive. This he could speak to from personal experience ; for only the other day. he went to a meet ing called (as the notice said) to discuss this question, but when he got there he received an intimation that it was of a private character, and he consequently withdrew at once. The Anti-Corn-law League had been accused of sending their emissaries through the country_for the purpose of creating discord and disunion. Now he denied distinctly and emphatically that the Anti-Corn-law League was at all capable of any such act as either forming any , society that would have a tendency to promote disorder or discord, and he defied any one to show that they had ever, by word or deed, instigated such an accusation. He thought that subject of free trade was one of such im portance as to call for a distinct expression of opinion on the part of those who were entrusted with the in terests of the country. Lord PORTMAN wished to say a few words upon upon this matter. His Noble Friend had stated that petition had emanated from the majority of the persons present at the meeting. In any assertions he should make, he did not msan to allude to the Noble Lord's brother, the High-Sheriff of the county, who presided upon the occasion, but still he (Lord Portman) thought that a meeting which was composed of only 3,000 persons (and those mostly town inhabit ants) could be construed into an expression of the opinion of a county containing upwards of half a million of souls. For his own part, he had all along abstained from tak ing part in the proceedings of either the Anti-Corn-law League or the Anti-League Associations. For, on the one hand, he thought it dangerous to carry, by a legisla tive enactment, the total, immediate, and unconditional repeal of the corn-laws; and, on the other hand, he thought it equally dangerous to affirm that the present sliding scale should not be interfered with, because it was at one end a system of pro hibition. Under these circumstances, he was a sort of amphibious animal, between the two parties, and could take part with neither. He hoped yet to see the day, when both would budisposed to meet upon his view of the question. Lord BROUGHAM wished to explain the circum stances under which he had made the observation re ferred to by his Noble Friend (Lord Radnor). He (Lord Brougham) had not been present at the meeting, but he had received a com munication from a highly respectable gentleman connected with the county of Somerset, who assured him that the account of the proceedings which had been published were altogether erroneous. He (Lord Brougham) differed altogether, upon this question, from the Hon. Gentleman, and the atter had thought that on that very account he was a fit person to be applied to, to give an impartial version of the conduct of the High She riff(Mr. Bouverie), who seemed to have acted very fairly and justly, according to the way in which such things are done in Somersetshire.(A laugh.) The resolution first submitted to the meeting was in opposition to the views of the League. An amendment in favour of the League was then proposed, which, after some discussion the Sheriff properly put.to the meeting before the original motion, according to the usages of both Houses of Parliament and well-regulated meetings gene rally. Mr. Bouverie, upon the show of hands, declared the amendment to be lost, and the original re solution carried. A great part of those assem bled then went away, and afterwards the amendment was again put, and declared to be carried by a larger majority than had carried the original reso lution.—(A laugh.) That was a course of proceeding peculiar to Somersetshire.—(Hear, hear, and a laugh.) But it reminded him of what was once said by an old sergeant-at-law, upon the Western Circuit, that "the further he went west, the more he was convinced that the wise men came from the east." He did not agree with his Noble Friend Lord Portman, that a meeting of 3,000 was not adequate to express the sense of a county containing 500,000. He had some experience in county meetings,_ and thought 3,000 were more adequate to express the sense of the county, and to discuss a ques tion, than 40,000 would be.—(Hear.) He disapproved as much as any one could of the violent charges which were made against the League, that they were inciting the people to capital crimes. —(Hear, hear.) But it was to be recollected that there was as great a fault on the other side. A gentleman, lecturing in favour of the League, once asked his auditors, what could they expect from the IrOn Duke—meaning his (Lord Brougham's) Noble Friend the Duke of Welling ton—who had put to death men, women, and children at the siege of Salamanca—(A laugh)—a place at which there was no siege.—(Hear, hear, and a laugh.) It was a very common thing for certain persons to im pute murder to the land-owners, because they advocated protection. It was also said, too, that they were blas phemers whenever they read the Lord's prayer. Persons using such language as this did more harm to their cause than they did to their enemies. Lord RADNOR explained. The Duke of WELLINGTON said, that after what his Noble and Learned Friend had stated, it was hardly necessary for him (the Duke of Wellington) to address their Lordships. He had received a letter from a gentleman- in Somersetshire, giving hiin an account of the meeting which had been held there. That gentleman stated that after the original resolution was carried, an amendment was moved, and was carried by a considerable majority; but he stated in the strongest terms that that majority consisted, not of the persons by whom the meeting had been called in the first instance, but were persons not capable of deciding such a question. (LEFT SPEAKING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS The SPEAKER took the Chair a few minutes be fore Four o'Clock. Returns from the Court of Bankruptcy were brought up. The Padstow Harbour Bill was read a second time. Mr. G. BAN KES presented two petitions against the Canterbury and Ramsgate Railway. SOUTH EASTERN, CANTERBURY, &c., RAILWAY. On the motion that the South Eastern, Canter bury, Ramsgate, and Margate Railway Bill, be read a second time, Mr. G. BA.II - KES strongly objected, on the ground that it unfairly and unnecessarily interfered with private property. He moved that the Bill be post poned for a week. Mr. BRADSHAW considered the Hon. Gentle man was labouring under a mistake and urged the second reading of the Bill. The Bill was then read a second time, on the understanding that the Committee should be post poned for a week The Rochdale Improvement Bill was read a second time. The Liverpool Docks Bill was read a second time. Mr. H. HINDE moved for a copy of the minutes of proceedings and evidence taken before the Com mittee on Railways Bills classification. Mr. B. BARING objected to the motion, which, after a few words.from Mr. Rice, was withdrawn by consent. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD presented a peti tion from upwards of 2,000 inhabitants of Rochdale, to the effect that the taking of human life under the power of the law is the most serious and solemn duty which can be performed ; that when executed by arbitration of the sheriffs, as it usually is, it is often done without due decorum or solemnity ; that if this practice is to be continued under the sanction of the religion of the State, it shall be performed in such a manner as to make a solemn and religious impression on the minds . of the people. Therefore the petitioners pray the House to enact that, whenever the taking away of human life is commanded to be done under the laws of the State, it should be performed as a religious ceremony, and by a clergyman of the State Church. The Leeds New Gas Bill, and the Kingston upon-Hull Dock Bill were read a second time. Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition praying for the repeal of the duty on the importation of foreign wool. Petitions against the Factories Bill were presented by Mr. T. Duncombe (59 petitions, signed by 7800 persons), and by Mr. Hume from Yorkshire. Mr. HINDLEY presented 40 petitions from the Peace Societies in several towns in England, Ireland, and. Scotland, against any increase in the war estab lishment of the country. Mr. T. DUN COMBE presented a petition from the guardians of the:poor in the parish of Islington, prayingthat their local Act be not interfered with. RELIGIOUS TESTS. Mr. WALLACE presented a petition from Gree ned( against enforcing religious tests on the holders of situations in colleges. NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. WALLACE gave notice that he should to morrow move for leave to bring in a Bill for extend ing the provisions of the Act of Geo. 111. c. 69 to all roads and highways; also to move for certain returns connected with railways. The Hon. Member also gave notice that he would present a petition to morrow from the inhabitants of Bermondsey, com plaining that the Lambeth Water Company supplied foul and unfiltered water, contrary to their Act of Parliament. PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. Dr. BOWRING gave notice that on moving the Order of the Day for going into Committee on the next Supply night, he would call the attention of the House to the necessity of improving the form, and removing the prominent defects in the present system of keeping the public accounts. LAW OF CONSPIRACY. Mr. O'CONNELL gave notice that on an early day after the recess he would move for leave to bring in a Bill to define the law ofconspiracy.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") Also for leave fo bring in a Bill to repeal the several statutes and laws relating to landlords and tenants, passed since the union, with the object of abolishing the power of levying under a distress for rent for a less amount than 204 except in cases where there is a lease of 21 years. INCLOSURE OF COMMONS. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD gave notice that on the second reading of the Commons Inclosure Bill, he would move that the Bill be read a second time on that day six months. MAYNOOTH COLLEGE. Mr. WYSE postponed until after Easter the motion of which he had given notice, respecting the Catholic College of Maynooth, and altered the form of the notice in some respects which were not dis tinctly understood in the gallery. Mr. B. ESCOTT wished to ask the Hon. Member for Stockport whether it was his intention to proceed to-morrow with the motion of which he had given notice, for a Select Committee to inquire into the ef fects of protective duties on imports upon the interests of the tenant-farmers and farm-labourers in this country ? Mr. COBDEN said, that thinking it would be in convenient to proceed with the motion to-morrow, it had been his intention to postpone it ; but finding that, if he did so, there would be no chance of its coming on before Easter, he had determined to adhere to the notice. Mr. MONCKTON MILNES gave notice of a motion for a lithographic print of the arch to be erected in front of the British Museum.—(Laughter.) THREE -AND-A-HALF PER CENTS. AN- NUITIES ACTS. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, that the Order of the Day for bringing up the Report on those Acts be read, Mr. HINDLEY asked the Right Hon. Baronet opposite when he would be prepared to lay the papers respecting Otaheite on the table of the House. Sir R. PEEL said they were in the course of pre paration, and would be laid before the House as soon as possible. The Order of the Day was then read, and Mr. GREENE brought up the Report. On the question that the Report be received, Mr. HUME said that as he was not present when this question was brought on, he was anxious to make a few observations connected with it, and which, in his opinion, the House ought to take into.considera tion. As far as he was able to judge, the Right Hon. Gentleman had made a very fair arrangement, he had performed the duty which he owed to the public and himself in an excellent manner, and with a kindly feeling to the parties concerned, but what he wished to press on the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government was this, that the income of a large portion of the community would be considerably lessened.. The situation in which the public would be placed was extremely unsatisfactory. The estimates were kept up to a war establishment, but the means of income to the people was reduced. He thought the public had a right to expect the diminution of taxes that interfered with industry. He did not wish to throw any difficulty in the way of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but he was anxious that the public generally should profit by some measure which Govern ment ought to introduce. He took it for granted as a matter of course, that the income-tax would be put an end to after next year, and he thought that the estimates might and ought to be reduced to a peace establishment. He felt convinced that unless the House took the course he had pointed out, they would create great dissatisfaction. The resolutions were then read a second The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose and said, I am anxious to correct a misappre hension which prevails with respect to the conditions made applicable to the Three-and-a-Half , per Cent. Annuities of the year 1818. I find from those or gans of communication to which we all have access, that I was understood to say that the Government was limited, and that they could only pay off that Fund at 500,000/. at a time, and that in consequence it - would take a long series of years before the reduction could take effect. Now, the law does not bear that construction, and it is not what I stated. The construction of the law is, that the Government having given six months' notice may pay off the whole if they please, but must not pay off at one time a less amount than 500,0001. The resolutions were then agreed to. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then moved that the Speaker give notice forthwith, that the Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Annuities of the year 1818, created by the 53d of George 111., be paid off and redeemed.—Agreed to. WAYS AND MEANS. The Report of the Committee on Ways and Means was brought up and received. DUtLLLNG. Captain POLHILL wished to put a question to the Hon. Member for Truro, on the subject of the motion of which that Hon. Gentleman had given notice. The Hon. Gentleman had given notice for Thursday of a motion on the subject of duelling. Now as that question would most probably be dis cussed this evening, he wished to know if the Hon. Gentleman intended to persevere in his motion on Thursday ? _. Mr. TURNER begged to inform the Hon. Gen tleman that he intended to bring forward his motion on Thursday. SUPPLY. The Report of the Committee of Supply was then brought up, and the votes, up to that for the pay ment of " Pensions to Officers' Widows," were con firmed. DUELLING On the vote for the pensions to the widows of officers being proposed, Captain BERNAL rose to move for a copy of any letter or correspondence which has passed between the Secretary-at-War and the widow of the late Lieutenant-Colonel David Lynar Fawcett, C. 8., re lative to the withholding of her pension. In bring ing forward this motion, he begged to return his thanks to the Secretary-at-War for the cour tesy and kindness which he had received from that Right Hon. and Gallant Gentleman on this occasion, and he would venture to express a hope that the sub ject would be discussed in a spirit of temper and mo deration. It would be necessary to recall to the re membrance of the House the fact that the Hon. Mem ber for Truro had put a question to the First Lord of the Treasury on this subject, and tha tthe Right Hon. Gentleman had on that occasion taken great credit to his Government for exerting their legitimate influence for the discouragement of duelling, by refusing a pen sion to the widow of an officer of great military reputation, and who had distinguished himself in the service of his country, but who had unfortunately fallen in a duel. Those, he believed, were the exact words of the Right Hon. Gentleman-- no special circumstances had been alleged, beyond the fact of the officer falling in a duel, to justify the refusal of the pension. He must confess that when he heard that voluntary declaration of the Right Hon. Gentleman the First Lord of the Treasury, he had been astonished, not so much at the manifest in justice of the act, as at the manner in which it had been attempted to be justified. He had been told that precedents might be brought forward to support that act. He had searched diligently for precedents, but had not been able to find a single one. At the time the Noble Lord the Member for Tiverton was Se cretary at War, in the year 1817, a pension had been refused to the widow of an officer who had committed suicide ; but he would leave the House to decide whether that could be considered a case in point. It was not his intention now to enter into any general discussion of the question of duelling. He would not do so for this reason. He thought so long as the majority of Members on both sides of that House were so ready to follow in the footsteps of Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox as in becoming parties to a hostile meeting, that such dis cussions were of no avail and he would suggest to the Hon. Gentleman who sat below (Mr. Turner), that he would pursue an advisable course in withdrawing the resolution of which he bad given notice ; and if he would turn his attention to the state of the law at present on the subject, and bring in a Bill by which the relations in any case of falal duel might come upon the survivor for damages, as was the law in France ; and, to come nearer home, Hon. Gentlemen were not perhaps aware that such a law existed in Scotland; it would have greater effect in putting an end to the practice of duelling than any other course of proceeding. The Right Hon. the Secreary at War had coolly told the House the other night that there was , a clause in the Mutiny Act, by which all officers or persons who conveyed challenges to others were liable to be tried by court-martial and cashiered. He would read that clause, it was to the effect, that any officer or soldier who gave, sent, conveyed, or promoted a challenge to another or upbraided another with not fighting a duel, or if commanding a guard, should per mit any number of that guard to go out to fight a duel, should be liable if an officer, to be cashiered - or suffer any other punishment, according to the nature and degree of the offence as in the , judgment of a• court-martial should be awarded He (Captain Bernal) did not scruple to say that that clause was certainly a• dead letter. He could state, from his own experience, that no officer could ordinarily re fuse a challenge ; and he knew of no instance when the conveyor or promoter of a challenge was brought to a Court-martial for that offence. In looking over the army list he saw certainly that an officer on the half-pay list bad some years ago been struck off. Not for fightinu duel, but fir fighting with a superior officer. He alluded to the cose of Ensign Batty; and the superior was blamed, not for fighting a duel, but for fighting with an inferior officer. But he would give a still stronger proof that an officer was not allowed to receve an insult happens su bject. to It b w e a a s t m o ini this ete without t a ki ng not i ce o f i t. He held i n his hand a letter o f a man of high military*reputation on the ;, fi t ec o tr—'• to Is s t n' b e gentlema n,insin s ulted whoby any gentleman wh o thi n k s proper to impute criminal motives to him in his -conduct as an individual. I can not doubt th e d ec i s i on I ought to make upon the question, and I now call upon you to give me that satisfaction which every gentleman has - a right to require, and which. a gentleman never refuses. This letter was signed- W ellington—(Hear) --and that Noble individual, it was needless for him to say, was now at the head of the Hosse Guards, #9.dihat letter was conveyed by the Right Hon. Gentleian who was now Secretary at War.—(Hear.) He would refrain frthn adducing any other examples of duels that had proved fatal, although he could produce many instances. Be would, however, refer to the case of a cavalry officer, who was concerned in an unfortunate duel. The Right Honourable Gentleman had said that there was no instance on record of an o ffi cer who had -been cashiered for not fightutg 4 duel, if lie would turn back to 1818, he did not mention names for an ob vious reason, he would find an instance of a Lieutenant- General of the Royal Marines, who was brought to a court-martialfor neglecting to demand the honourable ad justment of a quarrel, &c. Another instance: an officer was sentenced, for a similar offence, to be suspended for six months, and in his own regiment he was ac quainted with sn officer who refused to fight a duel, • and for doing so, he was driven from the regiment. So that, if an officer obeyed the dictates of reason, he must give up his commission; and if he followed those of honour, he was liable to be tried for his life.—(Hear, hear.) And if an officer fell, they car ried their vengeance beyond the grave, and deprived his widow of a pension. He would now say one word with respect to pensions. There was:some considerable dif ference of opinion between members of that House with respect to them. Some Gentlemen thought an officer's widow was entitled to a pension; but he (Capt. Bernal) believed that in no case could a widow claim a pen sion, it rested entirely with the Secretary at War. In the present instance, if Lieut.-Colonel Fawcet had sold his commission before his death J the sum of 3,500/. would have been at his widow's disposal, but as it is, she lost both the capital and the pension. Now if he might allude to an unfortunate circumstance that had recently taken. place, in connexion with the State prosecutions of Ireland, he must be permitted to say that he did not do so for the puapose of indulging in any unworthy taunt. Whatever difference of opinion there might be in reference to the trial itself, he thought that the manly and spirited way in which a certain Right Hon. Gentleman had ex plained away his conduct, was sufficient to obliterate all unkindly feeling, and for his own part he sincerely hoped that upon. this ground the door of legal promotion would not be closed upon him.—(Loud cheers.) At the same time he was at a loss to understand the principle n hich overlooked a practice in one party, and upon the other, a weaker and more defenceless one, visited snch heavy punishment. Surely it was anguish enough for this wretched lady, that her husband had fallen by the hand of her brother-in-law—surely that was sufficient punishment. And now that the seconds in the duel—the more culpable parties by far—(Loud cheers) — now that they were acquitted and still held their Com missions, surely it savoured somewhat of persecution thus to visit upon the wretched woman the consequences of her husband's fault. At the best, it was paltry to visit his sins upon her helplessness. He did not know that unhappy lady, and could have no motive for his conduct, but that which all in the House would partake in common with him ; and he could not but entertain a strong hope that the Honourable and Gallant Officer opposite (Sir Henry Hardinge), whose character for courage was only equalled by his reputation for hu manity would yet revise his opinion, and agree to the motion he now submitted to the H ouse.—(Loudi and general cheers from all parts of the House. Sir C. NAPIER seconded the miition. Sir. H. HARDINGE said he should certainly endea vour to follow the Gallant Officer with the same excellent temper and good feeling which he had shown in introducing his motion.—(Hear, hear.) He felt called upon to justify to the House the decision which he, in the exercise of his judgment, had formed, and which had been subsequently confirmed by his Right Honourable Friend. In that decision he was influ enced by special circumstances, and not governed by any direct or general rule. On the contrary, he had been influenced by considerations, that there were circum stances so unjustifiable in this duel that required the Government to show as much discouragement and as marked a displeasure as possible. He would inform the House what had taken place In September he received a communication from the agent, asking for a pension for Mrs. Fawcett. He sent to the agent a communication informing him that in his (Sir Henry Hardinge's) opinion it was a case in which a pension could be recommended by him, but under all the circumstances of the case, he recommended the agent not to press his application at that time. In the course of a month he received a letter withdrawing the first application—he did this in order that the case of Lieut. 'Munro, who was then understood to be about to take his trial, might not be prejudiced from any record of his that he considered the duel injust—he did not, therefore, make any record at the time of the reasons which influenced him in withholding the Pension, but he had since stated that it was not a: case which, in his opinion, a pension ought to be granted. With regard to what passed between him and his Right Honourable Friend, also wrote to him upon the subject of Mr. Munro from the country. He begged to state that in the answer which he wrote to his Right Honourable Friend he said he understood' that expectations were held ont by the friends of Mr. Munro that in a month or two that gentleman would return and take his trial. This was stibsequent to his decision upon the case of Mrs. Fawcett. - Having the expectation that Mr. Munro would take his trial, he though it would equally prejudice his case if he had been deprived of his commission previous to his trial. His Right Honourable Friend concurred with him in that opinion, and he also concurred with him in the opinion that it was not a case, considering the near relationship of the parties, in which a pension could be granted to Mrs. Fawcett.. But as hellbaid before the pension was refused on special grounds, and not on any general principle. He would now state what the practice of the War Office was on this subject. The Right Hon. and Gallant Gentleman then referred to a duel which took place in Ceylon in the year 1829, One of the parties was shot, and an application was made for a pension for the widow. He made a minute upon the case to the effect that it was for public service performed by the husband that a widow was entitled to a pension, and not if he lost his life in any private •or personal quarrel. He also stated that due allowance would be made for the force of custom and the usages of society ; and that upon the whole case being known it would be for the discretion of the War-Office to say whe ther the circumstances in that case were such as would justify a pension. He received a re port of the case from the General commanding at Ceylon, but his information upon the subject was as scanty as his own. Shortly afterwards Mr. Wynn at War, and he f o und lifibate on the subject. sthuacctee m de r d . h iv im ynn as m Sec ad r e etar a y The minute of Mr. Wynn was to this effect, that as there were no circumstances of palliation in the case, the pen sion must be refused. He now Same to a more unfor tunate case than that of Col. Fawcett. He meant the case of the late Capt. Boyle. It appeared in that Case that the pistols had been actually forced into Capt. Boyle's hand, and in that case the then Government being of opinion that there were cir c umstances of palli ation, the Government were of Opinion that the widow of Captain Boyle was entitled to her pension. (LEFT SPEAKING) NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) Ponismouni, I%Lhalcii 9.4—The Resistance, troop ship, Commander Patey, sailed on Tuesday, with detachments - of the 2d battalion of Rifle Brigade, add of the 71st Regiment, on board, for Cork; there to embark a detachment of the 89th Regiment, and then proceed with the whole to Canada. The Prince George, transport, Lieutenant Ward, agent, sailed the same day for Bermuda, havibg on board a detach ment of the 20th Regiment, and a company of the Royal Artillery. The Dee, s t ea mer, Mr. Driver, master, went out of harbour yesterday, an d sailed for Cork. The Daedalus is to be converted into a flush deck ship, to carry sixteen of the heaviest guns. The Superb, 80, is to be made an advanced ship instead of the Kent, 76. The Bonetta is commissioned for the Mediterranean sur vey • and the Sparrow , for s u r v eying the Scotch coast. f oorings are prepared in this harbour for the Queen, of 110 guns, and Indus, 78. Both ships will be, therefore, paid off here. The Poictiers and Ann Robertson, Indiamen, sailed on Wednesday, for Calcutta. The Pekin and Serge, packet-ships, for Hong-Kong, ar rived from the River on Thursday, and will proceed to-morrow. In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Excellent, Victoria and Albert, Dee, Fearless, and Echo steamers; Adventure, tran sport. At Spithead—Pekin and Serge, East Indiamen. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have issued a circular, directing that, from the Ist of April next, officers of all ranks doing duty . as secretaries shall receive five shillings per diem out of their half-pay, in addition to their present salaries. (As secretaries to Admirals are quite irrespective of the service, we question the right of the Admiralty to inter fere in this manner with the half pay.) PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTlONS.—Mate—Prederick Robinson (1835), of the Comet, to the rank of Lieutenant. APPOINTMEN'TS.—Commander — J. S. Brock, to the Bonetta. Lieutenants—George Newcomen (additional), to the Agin court ; J. H. Veitch, to the Styx ; H. C. Otter, to command the Sparrow. Master—John Penn, to the. America, vice Mackey, war rant cancelled. . . . Paymaster and Purser—John E. Dring (acting) to the Larne. Assistant-Surgeon—J. B. Lawrence, to the Styx. Chaplain—Rev. R. Petman, to Chatham Dock-yard, vice Whitehead, superannuated. Clerks—James Timpson, to be Secretary's Clerk to Rear- Admiral Bowles, vice Winstanley, to the Victoria and Albert yacht; J. Roberts, to the America; W. A. G. Young, from Sir C. Rowley's Secreta r y's office, to the St. Vincent; Au gustus Gilbert, to Bonetta in charge). Naval Instructor—Mr. F. IV. Smith, to qualify. Engineers—W. Jeffery (Ist Engineer), and Henry Lee, (2d Engineer), to the Comet. AGRICULTUftAL LABOURERS. , - In The Times, of yesterday, we noticed a letter, addressed to Lord Ashley, by the Hon. and Rev. G. S. Osborne, on the condition of the agricultural labourers. We publish, to-day, in another column, a short, but most emphatic, epistle from the same pen, addressed to his Grace the Duke of Richmond, as president of the new Society for the Protection ofAgriculture. The writer sim ply reminds his Grace of the fact that there is a race of beings higher in the scale of creation than bullocks and sheep—a race whose physical condition is equally suscep tible of improvement with that of oxen and herds—whose existence—nay, whose comforts—are equally necessary to agriculture with those of the beasts of the field— and yet who, by some strange oversight, have never been invited to take their share of protection at the hands of the Agricultural Society. Accordingly, he draws the charitable inference, that it is to the want of information respecting the necessities of this race, that this neglect must be attributed, and entertains no d oubt that the Puke of Richmond and his staff will " feel g rateful " to receive it. The information which he prop oses to im part is as follows : " We will send up to your Coißmittee from a few of the agricultural counties—say Bliek s, Dorset, Wilts, and Somersetshireauthenticated statements of the amount of wages, by the day and by the piece, paid to the various classes of labourers in those counties ; in what form the said wages are paid ; the value and nature of the different rivileges or advan ta g es offered to the labourers over and above such wages ; also, of the nature of the dwellings afforded the labourers, I the material of which they are built, the size and num ber of the rooms, the drainage (where any exists), the rent paid for them, the state of repair in which they are generally found, and the number and ages of the, individuals of both sexes who may be compelled to sleep in the same room ; the existence or non-exist ence of other matters generally considered conducive to decency, also, of the poor-law, we will give the amount of relief allowed to the old and infirm out of the house,' the general treatment of all applicants who apply for relief, with such particulars of the advice given, and the relief afforded, as may indicate the measure of charitable feeling evinced by the guardians in each union :—we will add a few sketches from life in union houses, to prove the advantages, or otherwise, of herding poor people of all sorts of character together. "To corroborate our evidence, we will give you the names of certain parties, the viva voce exami nation of whom, we think, would be advisable— such as medical-officers, relieving-officers, midwives, and undertakers, taking care to furnish you with a list of leading questions likely to assist you in such examination. And now I will only add, that if your Grace will kindly accept this assistance—if you and your colleagues will only give to the labourer's condition one half the attention you have given to the con dition of the landlord and tenant, and the im provement of the condition of your cattle—l have no doubt but that you will arrive at the conclu sion at which I have arrived—that there is no one creature belonging to the farm, there is not an animal you rear to use or to sell, that has been subject to so much neglect, in everything that tends to his im provement, as the labourer. Compare the way he is housed, fed, clothed, and valued, with the way in which the animals he tends for you are treated in these parti culars ; and then answer to the public and to yourself — why in the present agitation he is overlooked.' Most heartily do we concur in this salutary pro position, and most cordially do we rejoice to see that a sincere though late appeal is being made by gen tlemen of station ,and influence in behalf of a class of people whose very dependence and difficulties have been made the grounds of their oppression and contempt. But what, we ask, has produced this com plication of misery, the utter disregard of which the Rev. Mr. Osborne, so justly and so feelingly con contrasts with the care and attention bestowed on the brute creation ? What, but the ten years' trial of that atrocious law which Whigs and Tories, and nearly all the landowners of England, pronounced to be just and wise ? Tulk of agricultural protection for the sake of the labourers indeed ! we wonder it has not been plainly demanded for the sake of the pigs and cat tle. Let the authors and abettors of that " dark document," which recommended that at a certain period all out-door relief should cease, that the indoor relief—that is, the dirt provided for the in mates of the workhouse—should be gradually re duced in quantity and quality, and that the guardians should be empowered to reduce even this miserable pit tance if they could safely do so, but on no account to in crease it,—let those persons answer for the horrible consequences which the libt , ral enforcement of their sys tem has produced.—Times of Saturday. THE NATIONAL DEBT. It may be interesting, at the present time, to refer briefly to the reductions in the interest of the debt, which were first commenced 127 years ago. In the year 1717, the interest on part of the permanent debt was reduced from six to five per cent., and a regular sinking fund was provided by Act of Parliament (3 Geo. 1., c. 7), for the redemption of the permanent debt ; by the former operation an annual saving was effected of 328,5601.; but very little appears to have been accom plished by the action of the Sinking Fund, although the tailing in of annuities effected a trifling reduction, the National Debt at the close of the reign of Geo. 1., amounting to about 2,000,000/. less than at the conclu sion of the previous reign ; the annual charge was con siderably diminished by the reduction of interest in 1717, and by a further reduction from five per cent. to four per cent. in 1727, at the end of which year the annual charge was 2,217,5511 In the peace which prevailed during the greater part of the interval from 1727 to 1739, upwards of 5,000,000/. of the debt was discharged by the operation of the sink ing fund, and the falling in of temporary annuities. On the 31st of December, in the latter yeay. it amounted to about 47,000,0001, whereof about 40,000,0001. constituted the permanent debt, and the remainder consisted of terminable annuities and unfunded securi ties ; the annual charge was about 1,960,0001. From the year 1739, the National Debt received vast additions annually for several years ; the disturbed state of this country, owing to the landing of Charles Ed ward Stuart ;in 1745, and the war in which the nation engaged in 1740, in support of the Queen of Hungary's pretensions to the throne ,of Austria, involved the Government necessarily in very large expenses ; the debt on the 31st of December, 1749, soon after the treaty of peace concluded at Aix-la-Chapelle, amounted to above 76,000,0001., being an increase during the war of 29,000,000/. In the short interval of peace which sue ceeded the treaty of 1745, the Government was enabled, by the rise in the price of Stocks, to effect a reduction in interest in the Four per Cents. This was done on the 29th of November, 1749. The stockholders were to re ceive 4 per cent. until the 25th of December, 1750; from that time till the 25th of December, 1757, they were to be allowed 3i per cent., after which time the interest was to be reduced to 3 per cent. In the year 1751 seve ral of these stocks were consolidated into one fund, amounting collectively to 9,137,8211. ; this was the ori gin of the present Consolidated Three per Cent Annui ties. Various other stocks were consolidated at the same period to the amount of 17,701,323/., forming the commencement of the present Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities. The war with France, which broke out in 1756, though it continued but seven years, added nearly 64,000,0001. to the public debt, which, at the conclusion of the war in 1763, amounted to 138,800,0001., entailing an annual charge upon the nation of 4,800,0004 During the twelve years of tranquillity which succeeded the peace of Paris, about 10,400,000/. of the debt was dis charged, so that at the commencement of the 41 merican war, in 1775, the debt amounted to 128,500,0001.; during the seven years in which this country was engaged in war with the United States, the National Debt was more than doubled, for although the independence of America was acknowledged in 1782, yet loans were raised in several subsequent years, in order to defray the remaining expenses of the war. It was not until 1786 that the revenue was found to be sufficient for the expenditure ; on the sth of January in that year the debt amounted to 268,100,0004, including the Terminable Annuities taken at a valuation; the annual charge was 9,500,000/. It was in this year that a sinking fund was established for the reduction of the debt, that constituted by 3 Geo. 1.. c. 7, having become obsolete. The Act of Parliament by which the Sinking Fund of 1786 was was established (26th Geo. 111., c. 31) appointed certain Commissioners to carry its objects into effect, who are continued in office by the act 9 Geo. IV.; the Commissioners are the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Master of the Rolls, the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery, and the Governor and Deputy-Governer of the Bank of England, for the time being. The fund, which was to consist of 1,000,000/. annually, after passing through various modifications, was finally amended by the Act of 10 Geo. IV., c. 27, passed the Ist of June, 1829, which provides that from the sth of July, 1829, there shall be issued out of the Consolidated Fund only such annual sums as shall appear to be the actual sur plus revenue of the United Ki ngdom, to be applied towards the reduction of the National Debt by the Commissioners appointed for that purpose ; and that the Lords Com missioners of the Treasury shall, every quarter, make up accounts of the annual revenue for the four preceding quarters, and one-fourth of the annual surplus to be is sued to the Commissioners for the reduction of the Na tional Debt, who are to publish in the London Gazette the sum which will be so applicable in the ensuing quarter.—Observer. STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, MARCH B.—The supply of wools from Germany having again become temporarily suspended on account of the frost, this mar ket has been pretty well cleared of those descriptions, which are at present the most in demand. Prices may be quoted a shade higher. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, MARCH 8. —We have comparatively nothing doing in any description of wools this week ; and in order to effect sales, it would be necessary to submit to a reduction of ss. to 7s. 6d. per pack from our highest quotations; but as stocks can not be replaced at this reduction, little is offering. YORK WOOL MARKET.—We understand that this mar ket will commence on the 14th instant (the first Assize week). _ _ _ LEEDS.—The supply of goods at our cloth halls this week has been very small in such articles as are in pre sent demand, such as low wool black cloths; in common colours; low qualities in blues and tweeds, which were taken off very freely both on Saturday and Tuesday; but fine goods, although a little more in demand than they were, are yet very dull of sale. Prices are stationary, but upon low goods, in consequence of the advance upon wool, there is a considerable advance. Business has rather improved in the warehouses during the week. BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.— The late cold weather has tended to retard the operations of the home merchants in their purchases for the spring trade, which is generally expected to be more than the average of several years past, and as the stock of goods in the mar ket is low, there is a fair prospect of a healthy trade, and present prices fully maintained. The demand for yarn being fully equal to the production, there is no ac cumulation, and the contracts for March delivery have been made at last month's prices. During the week there has been a degree of langour in the wool market; but there is no disposition shown to accept lower prices. TRADE OF MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.— We have this week to report a decidedly more dull market for cloth, and especially so for printing cloths, which may be quoted sixpence a piece lower, and which are heavy sale at that decline; the tendency since Tues day for this article is decidedly downwards. The gene ral opinion seems to be that the stape having seen its height, prices will now fall, which makes anxious sellers and sh a y purchasers for both goods and yarns. The de mand for the Bradford market is immense, and seems every week to increase.—Leeds Merculy. Mr. Francis Nicholson, the distinguished artist, who has just died at the patriarchal age of ninety-one, was the father of the water-colour school of painting in this country. He was a man of true genius ; and eminent as was his position as an artist, he was no less distinguished for his practical knowledge of mechanics, music, optics, and che mistry. He also devoted much of his time to lithography, for the advancement of which art England is much indebted to him. MIDDLESEX and SURREY GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. STANDING ORDERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—l am a shareholder in the Middlesex and Surrey Grand Junction Railway ; and have, consequently, re garded with much interest the railway applications to Parliament this session ; and I feel deeply convinced of the necessity of a most rigid revision of the standing orders, or, at least, of their being enforced with strict impartiality ; and, if you will permit me, I will contri bute a few facts in reference to the above line which may be of public utility at the present moment. At the close of November last extra Gazettes were published, containing a notice of an intended line of railway from Hogg's-mill River, on the South Western Railway, through certain districts, to Epsom in Surrey ; and in such notice was contained a paragraph that " Application was intended to be made to Parliament for leave to let or sell the intended line to the South Wes tern Railway Company." This notice was signed by Mr. Bircham and Messrs. Morgan, solicitors, Old Jewry. The usual landowners' notice was subsequently served along the line very imperfectly, as I am informed, some land-owners being omitted—why, I do not stop to inquire—and the usual deposit of plans, &c., was made by the same parties who published the notice in the Gazette. In February a petition was presented on behalf of the South Western Railway Company (mark this!) for leave to bring in a Bill, &c, for making the line, and the same was referred to the Committee on Standing Orders. Now this Committee had to decide whether the South Western Company had, amongst other things, published the usual notices required by the Standing Orders, and the Committee decided the South Western Company had. Now, it is clear that the South Western Company never published or served a single notice, the only notice of the intended line being the above, which bears on the face of it evidence of its NOT .being the South Western Company's; for none but madmen would have applied to Parliament to let or sell an intended line to themselves ! but the name of Mr. Bircham, the respectable solicitor to the South Western Company. being attached to that notice, in company with other solicitors' names, seems to have had an effect on the Committee. Now, here the Standing Orders are a perfect farce, and I repeat the South Western Company never served a single notice of this intended line before the presenta tion of the petition. The House, however, received a report that the Standing Orders had been complied with, and the Bill was read a second time, and, unless the Lords interfere, will become a law. From the case above-mentioned, one would naturally conclude that the Committee would not be very squeamish about the Standing Orders ; and the Mid dtesex and Surrey Company applied for an extension of time ; but, observe the different conduct pursued in this latter instance—it was refused peremptorily, no witnesses examined, and the undertaking is thrown over until next session. Now Sir, there are, or rather were, three lines of railway before the House, running to or near the town of Epsom, in Surrey—Hogg's-mill River to Epsom— Croydon to Epsom—and the Middlesex and Surrey, crossing the country between Epsom and Ewell. Jus tice to Epsom demanded that the three lines should be before the Committee together, in order that the best of the three should be adopted. This is denied, and it will, in all probability. be seen that a clumsy junction of the Croydon-Epsom and Kingston-Epsom may be finally ef fected. Another consideration arises—whence arises this extraordinary power of the South Western Company to set aside a Standing Order of such vital importance to the public as the public notices in the Gazette, and individual notices along the line ? Is there a sort of mesmeric power possessed by established companies over Com mittees of the House ? I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A CONSTANT READER. MILITARY STATIONS. (From the United Service Magazine for March.) Regiments and Corps I a Life-Guards 2d do Royal Horse-Gds Ist Dragoon-Gds 2d d 0 ... 3d do 4th d 0 .. ., .. sth do 6th do 7th do Ist Dragoons . 2d do 3d do 4th do 6th do .... . 7th Hussars Bth do 9th Lancers 10th Hussars 11th Light Dragoons 12th Lancers .. 13th Hussars ...... 14th do 15th do 16th Lancers 17th do Gren. Gds. Ist bat PP 2d bat 3d bat Coldstreatrillst bat Guards 2d bat Scots Fusi- Ist ba' her Gds. 2d ba Ist F00t... 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Companies Newfoundland Royal Malta Fencibles Malts Paisley Cork Carlow Isle of Wight Carlisle Chatham i)over Sheerness Isle of Wight Chatham Chatham Athlone Isle of Wight ! Left wing at Barbadoes. ,Eiti .1 / T. HALL'S MR. SPENCER TuRE s 01 NT MESMERISM. Ster T. Hall, S en On Tuesday evening, la. /T s I a series of lectures the Phrenn-Magnei, comma. 9c " _ N e w AS' 15 science, in the oo n.. this interesting and mysteriot We had Dime s • sembly Rooms, Harrison-road. lre tore , eluded that mesmerism had becv. - ene a thread!). __ ; ,, o d but the well-inPr7 and little regarded by the public; reputation of Mr. Hall as a lecture:, and the startt nature of the phenomena he educes, brothetog'e!Del large and respectable audience, who manifested, 1 . 1 P 2:: sable, a greater interest in the wonderful experunv: submitted to them than we have witnessed upon an.f editor vious occasion. The lecturer commenced by a few it; ductory observations, and quoted somewhat largely In,. old authors of acknowledged merit in proof that •ine . sTr. rism is no new science. Upon the conclusion 01 most interesting lecture, he announced his intention submitting a series of experiments, but req uested, r; the audience would elect a chairman to wa tch an port the proceedings. The assembly with one elected Major Pollard, who in obedieace to the gene'''. request took the chair. on err The experiments then proceeded, and were o f tirely different class to those submitted to is audiences upon previous occasions. The patients an on operated upon were in a vigilant state': A young ton. the name of Holbrook was operatedupon in this in— o ne his arms were extended, rendered rigid, ailld then by , waive of Mr. Hall's hands both arms were' Two powerful gentlemen were then requested t the arms, and prevent their contraction. The si i i iso being given that they were ready, the experilne n made, and despite their endeavours, both arms wers stantly contracted. A young man of the name of 17_ a compositor in the Guardian office, was introduf; and several most curious experiments performed To him. His hand was fastened upon a chair by tw of , three motions of the hand of the operator ;.Lees wt w f„ fered any sum of money if he would remove it ! Ile,": 0 . • contrca, hot but in vain ; a few moments after the hand was be off from the chair, as if by some serious impulse, and tbo . was offered 201. if he would place his hand 111 34 r1, chair ; he tried, but found himself absolutely riv the spot and unable to move even as much as a ?", o . breadth. A little boy from Bradford was then ;t es t duced, and several similar experiments were percrwwo upon him. Mr. J. H. Mitchell offered the little feu, s tr, sovereign if he would only take his hand from the n o t and held the coveted coin before him ; the boy IR ° t o wistfully at the tempting gift, and exerted his ntavos tb t e i r win the prize, but in vain. The audience expresse d l o ch astonishment at the almost incredible experiment w theo • they themselves witnessed. The three patients were, wo k thrown into the most grotesque shapes ;. with def o g limbs, the St. Vitus's dance, palsied arms, and in °l t o stance one of them was struck dunt:l at the will _ ,‘sr , operator! All this may sound strange, selves we are only recording facts which were w i Li t ., ° fised by hundreds. One of the patients was uns: ll ers v ,% 7 4 ,but we pledg e e ; e i with his finger pointing towards a given object, `pd dared his utter inability to stir. Money,. every inducement were offered him, but to Ilt,r - te, OP, Holbrook and Le e s were th en pl ace d back to 11 are a by a few passes of the hand inseparably fastener. 7 0 0 together. Their endeavours to get from each odic xto r laughable, and was only effected by Mr. Hall den i n e jad" rising them. The influence of music (by Taylor's m' t teili rule band) was then tried, and several most be liti o lots and astonishing effects were produced. At the concloo, of the lecture, a vote of thanks was given by acolt.o to the Chairman, who in reply passed a glowing o 'l l upon Mr. Hall ; the Gallant Maj or sa id that • nt c hot he had been surprised at the experiments which.'" t ore witnessed as performed by Mr. Craig, he was stw astounded at what he had witnessed that evening t ogs audience then separated, wondering " how these tj could be ?" na' 4l On Wednesday evening the room w as c rowded' s. ; oe' the request of many parties pr esen t, seve ral a t-v vi i i ick vious evening's experiments were repeated, during,„ l ool. a singular and somewhat painf u l c i rcums t a nce Oc t or t Mr. Hall is not, apparently, af ra id o f h a ving th avtl four patients under the mesm eric i n fl uenc e .- a t o- toe , the same time, and moves a mong th em w ith the loss ease ; but there is evident danger in allowing ge n a promiscuously to meddle with th e p ar ti es o perat e .„ei while in a state of coma. D u ri ng th e course o f s ome 5)-7 .0 experiment upon what phren o l og i s t s t erm the nrg(4.o: tune, several phrenologists were i nv it e d u pon the Ye form, and, while Mr. Hall was a tt en di n g 1 ,0 floo d patient, Mr. M'Taggart incautiously placed in k % 1 0' upon different parts of the head o f H o lbrook, ,_ ll sjOr' soon after thrown into con vu l s i ons , w ith loce.'"iotiff The audience were detained three quarters of ann t afier with the joint endeavours of Mr. Hall and Mr• e` od ur gart to demesmerise the patient. The lecturer s ;: s of buted the cause to what he termed cross-mes ° , l ° , l ol certainly the young man appeared to suffer grea t] was not able to have any other experiment Pe r ; 0 0 upon him the whole of the remaining part of the e v `•,„ter Mr. Crossley, of Dean Clough Mills, wished tO ;Os duce to Mr. Hall a young man, wh om h e was cer ts VO lecturer had never seen before, and u p on whom 1 1 8 pre Crossley) was anxious to see if any effects would 1 1 ; 1 01 1 / duced. Mr. Hall allowed the young man (Baxer`‘nr tie come upon the platform, and in a moment olv the young man found his arms extended, On as as two pokers ! The terror depicted in his c ottoo po or as he eyed each limb, and felt his awkward,,,, 1' tion, produced shouts of laughter from the audience' working-man came forward, who was sai d `dies' confirmed stammerer • his friends and several ye gentlemen attested the fact; in a short time 11 ,.,e . 1ter correctly, fluently, and pronounced the word „r o te bury with great rapidity o f u tt erance Mr. 1 1 ",, tos' mised to give one of his f r i en d s some instructo.l , 1 to act, and expressed his b e li e f th a t th e man wer„ effectually cured Several most wonderful exper'oo l were performed by uniting the patients with A eachiolesl, fastening them to the platform ; remov i ng then, ""ille sure ; and then by a few twirls of the hand 10 0 1 them spin round, contrary to their own will, It if er, audience were dizzy with beholding them. startling musical experiments were also educe ( '_ 117: the most astounding ph e n omenon wa s the suF"„ dreaming, or something e l se , o f one o f the 1 0111 ' ne " its; at the close of the lecture, and which seemed tO the audience. The young man was about to be " o at' when he suddenly laid hi mse lf d own , a nd cool 0 e! making a series (apparently) of astrological el s , pifj the carpet ; a sheet of paper was given him all 0 1 :1 cil ; the latter he refused, and taking out a P e ,_ - peoL . knife from his pocket, he pointed and cut tu e nt en (withont injury to his fingers) and then wrote 0 tion that but it would be unwise in us tO p The lecture shortly after t erm i na t e d, a nd the *u separated tenfold more amazed than ever. " as sBet. On Thursday evenin g , th e s pl en did rooms'Toe crowded. Previous to the commencement of the ments Captain Stansfield, of Field House, was „Clit the chair, and read a paper which had been P o f hand, and which stat e d th a t i n conse quenc e o oll o Hall's interesting experiments, a Medical Co t oe tb had been determined upon in Halifax, to hl e , s- e; ettsl truth, or otherwise, of' mesmerism. Dr. Otis - t ne!,, f , that this resolution had been come to by .tu e ,sesn,4, gentlemen irrespective of their belief 1n407 4 1, ism. Mr. Hall then pro cee d e d w ith the exil e st!'4, and succeeded in brin g i ng ou t seve ral v e ll o lbrog phrenological manifestations in the patient is ip He then educed several wonderful experilne l if o lbro vigilant state. In one of them he placed l oo t Lees, and a little boy back to back in a cluster, glit 6 " ° , the the same time a slight motion with his own b ack ' e r sum of money was offered if the trio wcn i , d he s r I but in spite of all exertion they clove toge4i ,ew, te tl operator attracted them to himself or !Tru e ing pleasure, fastened them to the ground, and the u nto of them round. In another experiment the r 00 0 1 ! 0 ; fore fingers of two young men were placed i d - bf $ a sudden jerk was given by the operator, all, 4 06' 0 0 means or other the two young men were, t i nee t s d 0 each other by their finger-ends. Every inu . , ue- s e ; L'lrr offered them to separate, but all to no Pu'r - be Or d ° moment one of them disengaged himself, but i r resiL b er stantly attracted back again, as if by soule;bO P - 4 1 1 impulse, and until the operator simply hft e o ur they were inseperable ! Our limits preven", fly stePtir merating many other equally startling_an d t ,: s he experiments. We perceive that Mr. 0 ,0 0 106' duced to give three more lectures, and We, readers they will miss a treat if they negle c v e erv , n ue Mr. Hall is incomparably the best lecturer we on mesmerism, and his experiments are perfec'i and unequalled.—Haqax Guardian, March 2 . - FIRE AT BROMPTON.—On Saturd - -l -ioa ten o'clock, a fi re b ro k e ou t i n th e premises ocelot/0 0; Eyres, facing the Swan Tavern, Old Bromptos% bieg t lost after the discovery was first made in disPa' e tsst iot g ait cessary intelligence to the different engin e -5 Wt .- 00 Carter and Fogs soon arrived with the Coun t iop0;000 ; and the King-street Brigade engine. The the adtoley great fury, and speedily extended itself to bel efl; building termed Heath Cottage, and from then e l g re 11 : ir in the occupancy of Mr. Lyater. The flames " 0 -, c1 4 ;00 .. tirely extinguished till about half-past eleven cesbqk very considerable damage has been done. ;'l,srii/ i .114 0 ` buildings belonging to Mr. Joyce, consisting 11 ' a t 0 • and a shed, are burned down ; the greater P Cottage is also destroyed. BIRS. On the 4th inst., at Weston TH -super-Mare, the lsa of lady°fs. Goodwyn, Esq., M a d ras Ci v il S er vice, of a son. the sreOwningthto, Esq., AD., of a son.en7thinsti.,atKno le House, Fran c, e la y o ff On the 7th inst., at Upper Woburn-place, k. the I Hussey, Esq., ba rr i s t er , o f a daughter- On the Bth inst i n Kent-terrace, Regent s-P of John Dangerficld, Esq., of a daughter.. 1 01 '' PhippsO n t jh.e Hornby,7th inst., at LieutenantA l l Saints; MARRIED. so u t h t er : to Frederica, third daughter of Peter Breton , , eo rg: . te r„; c 0„ 1 , House, Southampton. Westun e- room On the 7th inst., at t. John's, • p or thvo Douglas Aubin, Esq., of Devonshire-street, istaer Ellen Frances, eldest daughter of Mr. Henry . surgeon, of the Horseferry-road, Westminster' de° DIED. 0 11 TO° tally 00 0. 1 On the 29th of December last, 11114 o f MO 11• 0 0 1 1 action with the enemy at the battle_ too t , _ no nChtbuerchlioz.Lrroor Lieut. Charles Newton, of the 16th low tiCa llr belov ea John Newton, Esq., of Calverley P ark, cf tr. - Grenadiers, in the 23d year of Isis age, t he un bridg e formerly of South Lambeth, county of SurreL Gol f On the 10th inst., at his house in UPPe' John Morice, Esq., F.S.A., aged 76. a OS. 0116 Helen , ' o t On the 19th of January, at Cannanor , On the 9th inst., Sir Henry Halfor d, Bart, gelvife a B l sge_ect Cheape, Esq., Madras Medical Service. 0 0 the the 2: d t h in u st lt ; at at U c x lit h t ri on d , g G e, u lk e l r r n s t • se J 3 ,• , T etb ea e r r il in 'e ' re' the late Anthony Priaulx, Esq., aged 7 1 . e 4 41°11 On the 6th inst., at Putney, Richard Le ; f w lbar_4 o 4. 4 . Su O sa a nn t a h , e the th sec London : Printed and Published by , str e No 112, Strand, at The Sun Office 0.0 ionnsdt"d:glittheofAJcoandnemarid 311 - 1 46;; 0 ( County of Middlesex, Monday, • Hull Boyle THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1844.