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'7 ,_.. ;arel, r out C. G.. les A; .1 3 .1 Stop rosier rilo7d Sys' ry q. nos at 10 04 6 of )14 of 14 Argo, L uis of to tb . r. . Argo'. ,gral ent 5 ali e rrig. fi his r" 6habridgt )1 e lieg ia :versos Dot r I° l ' l )e 5'4 10 11 ‘ icy gtocier.i. ra (rem ea wa 001 0 r iy tb. it ,'olllert bf es° 114114 , ' of the co-called ,rcligran,e nq doubt that Iwt•t1:)n , tun+. L t have been rejected ; wherefore the gteater ot thern have already taken their dep4rture. 'Thyurgh Papers, March 8. T Pri,'"ADON PEACE SOCIETY. ri te , following is a co py o f a pet i t i on o f t hi s S oc i e ty p r esented to the House of Commons e honourable the Commons of Great Britain and Th Ireland, in Parliament assembled : r ° ace tru mble Petition of the Committ.2o of the London ace Societ " Sh eivetli:— tiiK,That Y • Your petiti oners are f u lly o f o pi n i on th a t war, with gat pretext it i s engage I i n , i s inconsistent sPirit of Christianity, and the true interests of tin ts ; and that the practice of having recourse to tiLpi 1 : the purpose of settling di-pates, cannot but be titi) easing to Almighty God ;, hilst it is fraught with 411 Thered evils to - all - psrtieS connected with it, and is - egeth 1 44 er unav ailing for the equitable adjustment of That - • • • tti 3t „ }our petitioners do consequently regard . the Cl. ar , - " e e of large military establishments as an evil on itti-counts to be d e p recate d by ever y l over o f p eace I Piri t 4 ,?;l government ; and as repugnant to the free tne British Constitution : 4 048 o ur Petiti oners d o t h ere f ore pray your H onoura bl e th e , e ! th a t t h ere may be no increase whatever made to that ing military establishments of the empire ; and I,,ioYour Honourable House will take into their most ti0„,4.8 co nsideration, the propriety of immediately l st c` l ltg such measures as may, by your Honourable tn g t'he' be t deemed most suitable and effective for retnov keilt-e 'earful temptation to war which such establish -4 i! Present anthis d un4r petitioners are the more encouraged to urge „Nis .I)°4 the attenti on o f y our H onoura bl e H ouse , be 'tkey% 4 common with their fellow-subjects at large, 41 1 t .„ "e receiv e d w i t h un f e igned satisfaction the con& tith:"4ouneement made from the Throne at the opening Ptae Present session of Parliament, that " the general 1 .11 . 4 t so necessary for thhappness an . d prosprity of I° L l s," is expected to e " cont i inue uninterrupted." • "And your petitioners will ever pray, &c." . . LLOYD'S SHIPPING. ' . NOTICE TO MARINERS. Sir ~....T Foreign-office, March 12, 1844. k Nit t,, A am directed by the Earl of Aberdeen to trans- Vektti -. 3 '' ) a for the • i" ofthe Chairmanand rte , or t_..e information tiest y . e of Lloyd's, a copy of a dispatch from her t 0 4 1 40,.. 1 3 Consul in Denmark. reporting the temporary. ;;110.i".' of the Light-ship at Dragal, and that an altera qt ,( ended to be introduced into the Light-ship at r a m, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, To v o - ; „.. (Signed) CANNING. ‘ 7 ultara Dobson, Esq., Lloyd's. (Copy.) kh . Lord Elsinore, Feb. 25, 1844. 0 tl ittt . ,--I have the-honour to inform your Lord- 1 iAl.a. v .two notices have been issued by the General 3 d' i t , s ,' Customs and Trade at Copenhagen, dated the btl,: ll 'arlt, to the effect— I'M t s t in conseuence of the Light-ship at o, 4aot will subjected to a thorough repair, a common aY, wh !, he placed upon that station until the Ist of Ct ki k , le n will show her light from her foremast, 25 'I . fo r - e v e the water, and as usual exhibit a red flag from 1, 2 , Th t c l P during the day-time. 4 .4 i :t4 1 tlj t the'Light-ship at the " Knoben," near the t e 4ert o - A -nholt, in the Cattigut, instead of the red flag a. 'Am, will be provided with a large ball, four i ''l o wh i l lineter, formed of twisted iron bars, and painted mtle ra - , e ," will be constantly hoisted at her fore-top, at "°n of 52 feet above the level of the sea. (S . Th e t (Si I have, &c., HENRY GEORGE RUPER. t ri of Aberdeen, K.T., &c. The e Swedish and Norwegian Consulate. General, 'S• ti t ir,--../ 2, Crosby-square, March 11, 1844. t i tlo have the honour to communicate to you, for h, i orai„ rr aation of Mariners, the following translation of "'to, "%nee issued by the Royal Navy Board at Stock ).l, i t a the 14th of January last :-- VtocCe Light -house on the southern point of the Oink the present year, and afterwards rebuilt to its 0, e ; ,,ig t, having a Lintille apparatus of the 2d th to tt ,, Jell Are. The rebuilding of the tower will ta k r need on the Ist of May, and continued during b, 4 'l,i. c k e r , and should the work be so far advanced, the Itt "t will be exhibited during the present, or in 2, Iptl durin the ensuing year. ' itt ak tjri a h g •rl ti ori gt e period fixed upon for altering the con 4tik,.th ot the Light-house on the southern point of t t; l6„ e " Gronskars" Light-hou-e, situated at the t t ;lilCin entrance to Stockholm, and likewise be Nia e it i ad the present coal Light will be replaced by a a. thik.ight of the 3d class a feu fire. 141 4 au l l ill g the period occupied in the re-construc- I t ` 111 1 ,, I taking the alterations of these Light-houses, t! l i tta.C,lnation will take place by means of a large ) k ,:k,llt o „' ll ,ng out ; but should the alteration in the 4 1 t iliti t , t ne southern point of Olana not be completed rp7il)ita 3 Year, v. provisional open coal Light will be etli k ',. from the top of the tower during the winter •kl, - ; [ rom the Ist of November, 1844, to the Ist of 4 ; 03 4 k 11 0 , q -• li, t ‘i , k it .' Royal Navy Board will, by further proclama "t,.-`e known the precise time for exhibiting the new - I have the honour to remain, Sir, 144,, . (Signed)Your most obedient servant, I V'CHARLES TOTTIE. •" 4 Dob son , Esq. , &c., Lloyd's. , 14 bk Alt COMMUNICATION WITH INDIA. .4 1 ti 4cl l 413 . 4.—The Oriental Company's steamer I t kin r , arrived here on the 29th ult., at midnight, iaal'epade the passage from Suez in only 5 days 6} r'l te,2 340 miles), the quickest ever yet done in the i t s t , l ttl - The East India Company's steamer Berenice II ti 4 mails),, which left Suez 6 hours before the k I '.st .1. did not arrive here until the 31st ult., at R 4 44 . Ri . ' ha wing been 7 days and 11 hours making the It t ,lrt salt he Victoria, East India Company's steamer, (Id . 4 -Ion ; ,_ K to take in the mails to Bombay, and Illt. "Pa them and the passengers on the Ist, at ►, l ' i t , , l eft '_e Bentinek, however, althongh having to coal li't a fth his for Calcutta, &c., 8 hours before the arri- Nri e'llerenice and 18 hours before the mails per 4 started. ' l'Jpi,, y k l EAST INDIA SHIPPING. 1«,y17:::), EAST INDIA Wilson, from China, in the li it ' lalled is,ov. 21, St. Helena, Feb. 1 • Claudine, t,!tis.; fro m China, in the Downs, sailed ' Nov. 2, St. 1 5 t 4 10 11 . 24; Fama, Bennett, from New South Wales, N I. ; l' e ,„2ot, sailed from Sydney Aug. 21, Rio, Dec. 4 , ll t 4 ti lie 9 t?ampbell, from - Mauritius, off Liverpool, li th ti litZ, ls .at St. Hclena.--Elizabeth, Law, Jan. 24, from kii;fro,„, •! ' and sailed 26th to London ; Louise Marie, tqf l 44 etC ~I ; atavia, and sailed 25th to Rotterdam ; 4 4, 41 4 4 More, 25th from Batavia, and sailed 26th . tail to l i]ga ; Isabella, Wood, from Ceylon, and sailed 1 4;` 4 26 th London ; Robert Beinm, from Bombay, and IN , it h : l 4 to Liverpool ; Margaretha, 26th from Ba t i t k s 3, cih - "" sailed 27th to London ; Ann, Squire, 27th •,` 4' ‘ lll,4 tai t -e •Y. , and sailed 27th to London •, Mary, Mackie, 1 , 11 4, it 'us, and sailed 27th to Leith ; Gustro, from , ' tr:, 6 0 d sailed 27th to Hamburgh ; a schooner, k tl lira' fr om u f Majesty's steamer Thunderbolt, from —; 1 (4 11 1 .' fro tt . i ' ade, 28th, from the coast of Africa ; Eliza -1 tatitil„,-ta i i whaling ; Narwal, from Bourbon, and sailed - "29 4 vre ; Barbara, Purss, from Mauritius, and r ra h ' 4ll tl t s h' t t ,° . Dublin . Brenda, Ward, 29th from Zanzi ' t k Ctri,„ t he e -it ,,ed 30th to ' Salem ; Halifax, Grayburn, 30th ',t,;',.' ito, as t of Africa, and sailed 31st to Cork ; liar ".-I"ast -4 ,,, the Cape ; Colchester, Withers, 31st from )' , i,a3 , ,i, .'-', Liverpool ; Mary Ann, Holton, from China 'tc,4 l l :tot tl ' ) ,Rsrrieralda, Tollens, from Singapore ; Koer , 14 0 "atavia. ; Beulah Paton, from Bengal ; Sucrier, 41 Stt "b en to ' Olia, rtu res ;Marseilles.. , . In t , ; 4 from St. Helena.—Clutha, Jan. 25, to Fal -4 ate . la, 26th to Cork ; Andromache, to London; t ki, ti lv4 ° , L iverpool. I. I Cl,, .04, Madeira.—Lord Ilungerford, Pigot, and tt s ‘tri.Nte• ,ct il '; Et i s . Lawrence, Feb. 21. from Portsmouth. Itk i Lo t ,, l at Moulmein.—Cinderella, Purvis, Oct. 20, 1 g yr e o , 'On and Padana.; Samuel Smith. Nov. 22; f t h• "i 23d . Ot 4 gre b , Hope, 23cf ; Hero, 24th ; Kitty, 28th ; 1 nri a cute e e• 1; Indian Queen, 4th; Weraff, sth; all . L_ttt ici e i tpt a . Hersey, Easterby, Nov. 28, from Singe i t , , ir /iiir tt :narig. i li i fi t6 tid e r , 3 from Moulmein.—Clutha, Duncan, Oct. 1f 0 ,. - a, e,,'"a; Reliance, Robertson, 27th, to Mauritius; ' i ' 1., lon. 14.5 ,N0v.0v 11, to Arracan; The Malay, load -0,42V g4, - -4,„m,, k m kk t ,-.4,,, cn 13.—Wind this day at noon, fresh westerly it i lk. k ot . clea r weather. Of )li ti er.„ ( 1 112. —Wind W N.W. to N.N.W., strong ' , 10. 4 4 T 3 .Arrd. Euphrates, Wilson, China; Amelia II i NL I A; j,ffans, Mauritius ; James Cruikshank, Sayers, j!tir k ' , Az t :"...e3 Lyon, Bruce, Berbice. ti t 4 AYI. Murex 12.—Arrd. Olive Branch, Hamon, r .. 1 . 41 e k N . Y., ) tro ~ .-, h tt A t " , MARCH 12.—Wind N.W. a gale and very v r 4, c)t rit '. Great Liverpool steamer, Alexandria. w ka tt 4 So l 4M-krtcit 12. Wind N.W.—Put back, her Ma 61111;tett:11;rometheus, with boilers burst. 1(.0 Otlib t ....A-rtcn 11.—Arrd. Trois Amis, Cherbourg, for . 4 „. '7. of mizenmast. 4'. 4 . _Zar i \aanClit 9—l anens Kostee, Kleve, —. ~ l '' t : . ll ki . - el to - • \ . l Arlen 12.—The . Eg'berdinaAnnachina, from A v lktk, t gia g L . antes, which put in here on the 10th inst., lei .- ti ,411, 4 " carg o . '14 1 ; i I • C,W . A a ,ltclt 12.—1 t has blown continual gales from (tat, tj lithe since the 10th inst., and continues. The ,_ ll .). te l te p ot ."aY ride well. The Nereid, from Shields to IN'',III I PIot, there leaky. I ti ,._lN 8..-...,trr",,Ltrtcri 12.—Wind N.W., blowing very hard 714 4 , 3 v . ,13 43 ,.": Peru, Campbell, Mauritius (Dec. 9th); , 4 4 - ri lt. r t :e rh.: l n• The Nancy, Marshall, from Jersey,foun- N . 4 * o `r off Woodside this afternoon ; crew saved. lit,"tl, Ral e c li 10 .—Arrd. Science, Hogan, Demerara. t ~ k ,r tu k Itt s w y t ,e 4u _st s atitn _;. ~ a vessel of about 300 tons, water '4l ,•1 44 4 , 1 d: 1 4 2 g, decks level with the water-edge, and Pts, eace, ..._,'' l, was passed 22d ult., lat. 41, lon. 44, tk i lN and. here. ki '^tt Geo • -------.."'" ______---•-•-_ , f.-- •.--- I_ ll t, ,),) C o , I'ill s t , 14 ti 1 1t,,, s Lam Navigation Company's mail 14 Yii "ic, of Lon dale, arrived rived yesterda morning at ' ''c li ;P' et ' T h a t als% t , h en m e ails s from Cuxhaven. The same ,com -04,tt4 C alett _?uela, arrived at Hamburgh on Satur „,_ I ,, t‘ lvt : th l ilirim l . r , 3,l ,:t rlN t e u a tz rici tt,: iliolilli t n . l ) sij a :iii i ff - ee d on Sunday and the (st.) with last Friday i :: 1 . 4 1 ,' ,1 t.... t eth..' miles distant from ttlTeeEnilnbge' at six oc ock, ' tZI „: to hear that the Countes s * D of i A t. 11,, ki teri„ g ft _ a (m . atrer ‘, 1 1 % , 4 1t1 ti5 ," r5,,,,,,Z severe attack of illness, without the ,i,5... 1 , ‘ , 4 / LT 7 The Countess is In her 84th year. ,% 4 _91 44 ,` is witl "'' sS OF THE COUNTESS OF UT- It t4 :p tinn .ap,, iitiQ 1 extreme regret that we announce the very N , t. "eh -r. n " the Countess of Uxbridge. The Countess th t lN' 4 al . .metda ti , v ii 4 4 ju yriu ne b .W eek , and it appears that on Friday symp „'titki. tth ie Lled it p rudent were too manifest, and the medical "% tt It tkiu 'l se gicione tellt to order that the Countess's head be (4 t:N t de el ,,allY t o .2 72 Saturday. However, her ladyship con. i k t,,, p :t b :etll, fo r worse. We are happy to hear that a f Ilk,t) ti i . `‘. tt right the better took place on Tuesday, and the' 0 . The i n „„, a _r Stone last evening was, on the whole, "4". , ea of the nobility have been exceedingly IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 13. pointed out, and connected with the improvements which might be suggested by the lion. Members, the Bill would be as creditable to the Noble Proposer as it would be valuable to the country. Colonel WOOD referred to the returns made by the Tithe Commissioners, from which it appeared that the number of acres of uninelosed waste land was much less than had been represented. He protested against common fields being considered as waste lands, and he deprecated any measure which would facilitate their inclosure. In fact, a great portion of the waste lands was not worth inclosing, and those lands ought to be kept open for the recreation of the people. lie thought that, in all eases parties de siring to inclose common lands, ought to come to Par liament for an Act fur that purpose, and he was sorry that the Noble Lord, instead of introducing this Bill, had not moved for a Committee to consider the provi sions of the General Inclosure Act, for the purpose of suggesting means whereby the expense of obtaining In closure Bills might be diminished. He hoped the House would reject the Bill, as he did not think it could ever be brought to work practically. Mr. AGLIONBY said there was one point of advan tage in this Bill which had not been noticed, and that would be the saving of time and expense which it would Cause. This would be a general measure, and, there fore, it would save a vast amount of the time of the House, which would otherwise be consumed before Committees. He trusted, therefore, that the House would allow this Bill to go through the second reading. There was not a clause in it which did not give more protection to the poor than any Inclosure Bill which had hitherto passed. Mr. MILES, on the part of the agricultural com munity, thanked the Noble Lord (Lord Worsley) for the trouble he had taken in this subject, and for bring ing this Bill before the House. He should give his Noble Friend his decided support. Mr. HUME was afraid that the principle of inclosure had already gone too far. This principle was of great importance. It would have the effect of dragging the poor from their places of recreatioa to seek the means of recreation on the dusty roads. It was too much to curb their enjoyments in this respect, seeing that they were already in a most wretched state at their own homes, which were in fact nothing but hovels. Ile was de cidedly of opinion that this Bill ought not to be allowed to proceed. Sir R. PEEL said he agreed with many of the obser vations of the lion. Member for Montrose, but would vote for the second reading of the Bill, that the House might have an opportnnity of examining the details. In some cases he thought enclosure would be profitable; but when they came to inclosure of lands about towns, he thought they should look with great jealousy to such a project. lie was in favour of having some wide space, not only about such large towns as Glasgow and Man chester, but in the neighbourhood of small towns con taining 3,000 or 4,000 inhabitants. He would not sanction the rigid application of the principles of political economy to such lands, nor allow these principles to interfere with the health, innocent recreation, and moral improvement of the people.—(Cheers.) lie wished to ask the Noble Lord if the power of exchanging one plot of ground for another was not of rather an unlimited nature and did not require some restrictions. After a few words from Mr. HOPE, _ The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. Lord HENNIKER presented a petition from Suffolk, signed by 5,000 persons, praying fur protection to agriculture. Mr. BURROUGHS presented petitions to the same effect from Norfolk. • , Mr. THORNELY presented petitions from the car riers of Wolverhampton, Walsall, Bilston, and Kidder minster, complaining of the, monopoly which railway companies had secured to themselves in the conveyance of goods, and praying the Hou , e to interfere. Mr. REDHEAD YORKE presented petitions to the same erect, from Darlington, Hull, and other places. Sir JOHN JOHNSTONE presented a petition from Scarborough, in favour of the York and Scarborough Railway. Mr. ESTCOLTRT moved that no private Bill for the construction of a new line of railway, which shall hare been reported to this House to be a competing line, shall be read a second time after Friday the 19th day of April next; that it be an instruction to the Committee of Se lection, not to fix the time for holding the first sitting of the Committee on any private Bill for the construction of a new line of railway, which shall have been reported to this House to be a competing line, after Friday the 3d of May next. His great object was to prevent uncer tainty and procrastination in the cases of Bills ready to be presented to the Committee of Selection.—Agreed to. Mr. 0. STANLEY obtained leave to bring in a Bill for making a railway from Chester to Holyhead. DEVIZES ELECTION. The SPEAKER informed the House that he had re ceived a letter from the agents to the petition against the return of Mr. Ludlow Bruges, stating their intention not further to prosecute it. Mr. HAWES presented a petition from the inhabi tants of the borough of Lambeth, praying for a reduc tion of the duty on tobacco. COURT OF ARCHES BILL. Mr. ELPHINSTONE moved the second reading of this Bill. The Hon. Member said he hoped the House would allow the Bill to be read a second time, and he would state the ground upon which he asked them to do so. There were at present a vast variety of Eccle siastical Courts in different parts of the country, amounting to about 300 in number ; an appeal lying from one to the other in regular gradation, and finally to the Court of Arches. This entailed a very heavy expense on those who were unfortunately entangled in suits. What he proposed was, that any party who had the misfortune to be entangled in a suit in the Ecclesias tical Courts should, if he thought fit, have the right of coming there in the first instance, whether he were plain tiff or defendant. He did not ask the Right Hon. Ba ronet (Sir J. Graham) to allow the Bill to proceed fur ther than the second reading until the House had seen the Bill of the Government, which had been introduced into the House of Lords. Sir J. GR AIIAM said he was sure the spirit of ac commodation shown by the Hon. and Learned Member, would lead him to suspend the progress of the Bill. The principle of the Hon. and Learned Member's mea sure, so far from being identified. with the Bill before the Upper House, was directly at variance with it. Mr. ELPHINSTONE withdrew his motion, and the second reading of the Bill was postponed for a fortnight. COMMONS INCLOSURE ACT. Lord WORSLEY agreedwith the Right Hon. Baronet in the utility of having large spaces attached to towns for the purposes of public recreation, but such a provi sion could be easily made in Committee. The Noble Lord then explained many of the clauses of the Bill, and added that he had constructed the Bill with as much regard to the rights of the poor as other Hon. Members, and thought the proposed inclosures would be the means of giving employment to many unemployed and indus trious poor people. With respect to the power of ex change to which the Right Hon. Baronet referred, it entered into the details of the Bill, and could be satis factorily arranged into Committee. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when there appeared— For the second reading • Against it Majority —47 The House then went into Committee on the Masters and Servants' Bill, On the motion for the second reading of this Bill, Mr. SHARMAN CR A WFORD rose to move that the Bill be read a second time that day six months. He considered that the right of the people of England to enjoy the privileges and rights of common, were of the deepest importance to them. They were rights enjoyed from the earliest times of their Saxon ancestors, and ought to be particularly held inviolable in any new laws they might pass. Knowing the sufferings the poor tenants in Ireland endured for the want of these rights of common, he more particularly thought it his duty to preserve these rights to the poor of England. They were held by rights as sacred as those by which the landlords hold their estates, and in taking them away they were en dangering their own rights. He objected to the leading principle of this Bill, which was, that the present possessors of these common rights had the power of alienating them from their successors. He thought that the granting the right of voting under this Bill was fraught with much injustice, because two-thirds of the value of the holding being required, and all persons having leases at will, or for only 14 years, were not entitled to the right of ♦oting. —(Hear, hear.) The Tithe Commissioners were those only who would be benefited by this measure. Although those Commissioners might be done away, yet they were empowered to appoint others in the place of those now acting, and those persons would have a salary, although they might have previous appointments.—(Hear, hear.) It was quite plain that whatever Commissioners should be appointed, it would be their interest to promote in closures. But it was one of the most important duties of the House to provide the working classes with land to occupy them in their leisure hours. He hoped the Government would take up the subject of allotments. The Government ought to take care that they applied the waste lands of this country in such a manner as to be most beneficial to the people. The House and the Government must recollect that they were already charged with class legislation, and they should be careful not to give additional ground for belief in such assertion. If they wished to prove to the world their intention to sanction and support monopoly they would pass this Bill, which was to give to the already rich the waste land of the kingdom. He objected to the Bill on the several grounds ha had stated, and more particularly because the present occupiers had no right to decide on the appropriation of property which belonged to their successors as well as to themselves. They had no just do feace for this attempted violation of the right of the exist ing and of the future poor of the country; nor could he see on what principle they desired to fasten upon the coun try at large the payment of the expenses attendant upon such violation. For these reasons he moved " that the Bill be read a second time that day six months." Colonel SIBTHORP must support the amendment, because in the Bill of the Noble Lord (Worsley) he could see nothing but a great wrong to the poor, a vast pro posed expense for secretaries, clerks, attorneys, and 140 clauses which it was most difficult clearly to understand. He saw that money was to he borrowed from the Consolidated Fund. He did not know what the Chan cellor of the Exchequer would say to this. He should be happy to hear that the Consolidated Fund was in a sufficiently prosperous state to make those advances. But how were those advances to be re paid? They were to be repaid out of the taxes levied on the country. They were to be repaid out of the poor-rates. He thought the property of the land owners was already sufficiently burdened without having an undefined amount of money drawn from their pockets under the provisions of this Inclosure Bill. He objected to the powers proposed to be given to the lords of the manor. He, as a lord of the manor, might profit by them, but he would scorn to accept a bonus upon such terms. The Noble Lord had stated that there were 1,358,419 acres of land in England, and .501,815 acres in Wales, of uninclosed land, but he had not stated how many of those acres could be profitably cultivated. He had looked at the records of the House, and he found that, from 1801 to 1835, no less than 1,919 inclosure Bills had passed the House, and when he looked at the number of inclosure Bills which had been passed during the last eight years he found that no less than 2,015 inclosure Bills had passed the House since the commencement of the century. Another objection which he entertained towards the Bill was, that it encroached on the rights of the poor, who had no power of defending themselves. The Bill gave the aristocracy an unfair power, and he was sur prised that gentlemen opposite sanctioned the 140 clauses which composed the Bill. He objected that obstacles were thrown in the way of the enjoyments and the re creations of the poor by this Bill. The Noble Lord said that the Bill would give employment to the poor, as it would cause lands which were now uncultivated to be brought under cultivation, but it at the same time inter fered with the rights of the poor. He objected to the Bill in tote- lie objected to the manner in which it was hur ried through the House—to the expenses which it would entail—and to the oppression of the poor, which would be the consequence of it. On these grounds he opposed the Bill,and would support the amendment of the Hon. Member for Rochdale. if it passed the second reading, he should feel bound to divide the House on each of the 140 clauses of the Bill.—(Laughter.) Sir J. GRAHAM wished that it should pass through the Committee, pro forma, in order that time might be afforded for further consideration, which was agreed to. The Gaming Transactions (Witnesses' Indemnity) Bill went through Committee, as did also the Three-and• a-Half per Cent. Annuities, and the Consolidated Fund Bills. Lord WORSLEY, in moving for a Select Committee, to inquire into the mode of appointment, the duties, and the present system of remunerating.the clerks to justices at petty sessions in England and Wales, and to report the evidence, and their opinion thereon, to the House, said that, as a magistrate, he felt deeply impressed with the necessity of a reform in the matter. He should state that, in most of the cases of which he had cogni zance, the expenses to the county were enormously disproportioeate to the fines and imprisonment inflicted. In one case the fine was only one penny, and the ses sional expense of the conviction was 14s. In another case, in which the fine was twopence, the expenses were 18s. He thought this abuse could be remedied by alter ing the system of paying the clerks to the justices of petty session. He had hoped that Government would have taken up this matter, and he should not at all interfere with them ; but if not, he should feel it to be his duty to ask for this Committee. After a few words from Colonel SIBTHORP, Mr. MANNERS SUTTON did not think the Noble Lord bad overrated the importance of the subject. Ile would give the Noble Lord this assurance, that the ques tion had been brought under the consideration of the Government, that a Bill was in preparation, and he ex pected but a short time would elapse before it was laid before the House. Under these circumstances, he trusted the Noble Lord would not press for the Committee. Mr. JAMES stated, as an illustration to the objection to the present system, that in the part of the country with which he was connected, the Bench of Magistrates had ceased to allow the clerk to be paid by fees, and now gave him a fixed salary. Mr. BROTHERTON was glad to hear that the Go vernment had taken up the question, and concurred in the condemnation that had been expressed of the present system. Mr. PACK approved of the proposed alteration of the law. After a short conversation the motion was withdrawn. NEW SOUTH WALES. Mr. FRANCIS SCOTT brought forward his motion for copies of correspondence, dated the 24th day of Fe bruary, 1841, with the inclosures, between Sir George Gipps and Lord John Russell, relative to the condition of the licensed occupiers of Crown lands in Port Philip and New South Wales. In support of his motion he entered into a statement to show that the present state of the law as to the squatters of New South Wales, was the great bar to the improvement of the colony, as it made the tenure of their lands a matter of great un certainty. Mr. HOPE did not oppose the return, and the motion was agreed to. The House then adjourned at Nine o'Clock. RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PARLIA MENT. Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway and Tyne Bridge Bill—" for authorising the sale of the Durham June • tion Railway to the Newcastle and Darlington Junction Rail way Company, and for enabling the said Company to make a station at Gateshead, with a bridge and approaches to con nect the said last-mentioned Railway with the town of New castle-upon-Tyne, and for other purposes," presented, and read a first time. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From M. Votes awl Proceedings ef Me Mouse of Commons.) TUESDAY, MARCH 12. 711 PORT DUTIES. Motion made, and Question put, " That a Select Com mittee be appointed to inquire into the effects of Protective Duties on Imports upon the interests of the Tenant Farmers and Farm Labourers of this Country :" The House divided : MINORITY—AYES, 133. Acheson, Viscount Evans, William Plumridgc, Captain Aillonby, H. A. Swart, William • Protheroe ' Edward Ainsworth, Peter kitzroy, Lo r d C. Pulsford, Robert Aldarn, William Forster, Matthew Ramsbottom, J. Bannerman, A. Fox, C. R. RawdonV. D. Barclay, David Gibson, T. M.,i Ricardo, J. L. Baring, F. T. Gill, Thomas Rice, E. It. Bellew, R. N. Gisborne, Thomas Roche y E. B. D Berkeley, C. Grey, Sir G. Ross, avid R. Berkeley,;Captain Grosvenor. Lord R. Scholefield, J. Bernal, Ralph Hall, Sir B. Scott, Robert Eternal, Captain Hastie. A. Scrope, G. P. Blake, M. J. Hatton, Capt. Villiers Seymour, Sir R. Blake, Sir Valentine Hawes, B. Shelburne, Lord Blewitt, Reginald Elayter, W. G. Smith, R. Vernon Bawring, Dr. Heathcoat, J. Standish, Charles Brocklehurst, J. Hill, Lord:Marcus Stanley, W. 0. Brotherton, J. Hindley, Char ••• Stanton, W. IL Browne. Hon. W. Hollond, Itched Stewart, P. M. Buller, E. Horsman, Edward Stuart, Lord J. Busfeili, W. Howard. C. G. W. Stuart, Villiers Butler, P. S. Howard, Lord Stock, Sergeant Cavendish, Hon. G. howick, Lord Strutt, Edward Chapman, B. Hume, Joseph Tancred, H. W Clay, Sir W. Hut', W. Thornely, Thomas Colborne, W. Ridley Labouchere, H. Towneley, John Colebrooke, Sir T. Langston, J. H. Trelawny, J. S. Collins, William Leader, J. T. Tunic'', H. Cowper, Hon W. Macaulay, T. B. Tuite, Hugh M. Craig, W. Gibson Mangles, R. D. Turner, Edmund Crawford, W. S. Marjoribank, S. Villiers, Charles P. I Currie, Raikes Marshall, V% illiant Vivian, J. H. Dalrymple, Captain Mitcalfe, Henry Wakley, Thomas Dawson, 'I. V. Mitchell, T. A. Walker, R. Dennistoun, J. Morris,Wavid Wall, C. B. Oivett, E. Morison, General Wallace, RI Duff, James Morrison, James Warburton . , H. Duncan, Viscount Murray, A. Ward, H. G. Duncan, George Napier, Sir Charles Wawn, J. T. Duncannon, Lord Norreys, Sir D. J. Williams, W. Dundas, Admiral O'Connell, M. J. Yorke, H. Redhead Easthope, Sir John Ord, W. Ebrington, Viscount Palmerston, Viscount TELLERS. Ellice, Rt. Hon. E. Pattlson, James Bright, John Ellis, Wynn Pechell, Captain Cobden, Richard Elphinstone, Howard Philips, G. it. MAJORITY—NOES, 224. Aclani, Sir T. D Glynne, Sir Stephen Neville, Ralph Acland, I'. D. Gordon, Captain Nesedegate, C. N. A'Court (apt. Gore, M. Newport, Vi count Alba, John Peter Gore, W. Ormsby Nicholl Right Hon Antrobus, Edmund Goring, Charles Norreys, Sir D. J. Arbuthnot, Hugh Goulburn, Henry O'Brien, A. S. .- Arkwright, Geot ge Graham, Sir J. Ossulston, Lord Astell, William Granby, Marquis of Packe, C. W. Begot, lion. W. Greenaway, Charles Pakington,F. S. Bailey, Joseph, Jun. Greene, T. Palmer ft. Bantle, Colonel IL Grimston Lord Peel, Sir Robert Baillie, H. J. Grogan, Edward Peel, Jonat tan Balfour, J. M. Hamilton, G. A. Plumptre, J. P. Bankes, George Hamilton, Wm J. Polhill, Frederick Baring, Hon. W. B Hanmer, Sir John Pollington, Viscount Barrington, Viscount Harcourt, G. G. Pollock, Sir Fred. Baskerville, T. B. M Hardinge, Sir H. Pracd, William T. Beckett, William Hayes, Sir E. Pringle, Alexander Bell, Matthew HeathcoteoSir W. Rashleigh, Wm. Bentinck, Lord G. Heneage, G. W. Reid, Sir John R. Blackstone, W. Henley, J. W. Rendl es h am , L or d Boldero, H. G. Henniker, Lord' Richards, Richard Borthwick, Peter Herbert, Sidney Ross, Rt. Hon. Sir G tietfield, Boriah Hinde, J. H. Round, C. 0. Bradshaw, James Hodgson, Frederick Round, John Bratnston ' ' T. W. Hodgson R. Rous, Hon. C a pt ain Broadley, Henry Holmes, W. A'Court Rushbrooke, Colonel Brooke, Sir A. B. Hope, Chart, s Russell, Charles Bruce, Lord E. Hope, Alexander Russell, J. D Bruges, W. H. L. Hope, G. W. Ryder, G. D. Buck, L. W. Hornby, John Sanderson, R. Burrell, Sir C. M. Houldsworth, T. Sandon, Viscount Burroughes, H. Hussey, Ambrose Scott, F. Castlereagh, Viscount Hussey, Thomas Shaw, Frederick Charteris, Francis ; Irton, Samuel Shirley, Evelyn J. Cnetwode, Sir John James, Sir Walter Shirley, E. P. Chute, William L W Jernayn, Earl Sibtherp, Colonel Clayton, Rice R. Johnstone, Sir John Smith, Abel Clerk, Sir George Jolliffe, Sir W. Smith, T. B C. Collett, W. Bickford Jones, Captain Smythe, Hon. G. Colvile, C. R. Kemble, Henry Somerset, Lord G. Compton, H. Kriatchbull, Sir E. Sotheron, T. H. Corry, Henry Knight, H. G. Spry, Sir S. Thomas Cresswell, A. J. B. Knight, F Winn Stanley, Lord Cripps, W. Knlghtley, Sir C. Stanley, Edward Curteis, H. B. Law, Hon. C. E. StewartAJohn Darner Colonel Lawson, Andrew Stuart, H. Darby, George Lefroy, Anthony Stott, H. C. Davies, D. A. S. Legh, G. C. Sutton, Hon. H. X. Dawnay, W. H. Lincoln, Earl of Taylor, Edward Denison, E. B. Lockhart, William Tennent, J. E. Dickinson. F. H. Long. Walter Thompson. Ald. Dodd, George Lowther, John 11. Tollemache, J. Dougla , , Sir H. Lowther ' Colonel Trevor, Hon. R. Douglas, Sir C. E. M'Geachy, F. A. Trotter, J. Douglas, J. D. S. Mackenzie, Thomas Tyrrell, Sir J. Dowdeswell, W. MacKenzie, W. F. Vane, Lord Harry Duffield, T. D. Maclean D Vivian, John Ennis Dugdale, W. S. M'Neill, Duncan Waddington, H. S. Duncombe, A. Mahon, Lord Walsh, Sir Jelin B. Du Pre, C. G. Mainwaring, T Wellesley, Lord C. Eaton, Richard J. Manners, Lord C. S. Whitmore, T. Egerton, W.IT. Manners, Lord J. Wilbr a h am , R. B. Eliot, Lord March, Earl of Williams, T. P. Emlyn, Viscount Marsham, Viscount Wodehouse, Edmond Escott, Bichkam Martin, C. W. Wood, Colonel Farnham, E. B. Marton, G. Wood, ColonelT. Fellowee, Edward Masterman, John Worsley, Lord Fitzmaurice, W. Maxwell, Hon. J. P. Wortley, Hon. JohnS Flower, Sir James Meynell, Captain Wyndham Colonel Fox, S. Lane Miles, William Yorke, E. 'l'. Fuller. A. E. Milnes, Richard Young, John Gardner, J. D.' Mordaunt, Si.;.J. Haskell, James M. Morgan, Octavio' TELLERS. Gladstone, W. E. Mundy, E. Miller Fremantle, Sir T. Gladstone, J. N. Neeld, Joseph Bat ing, Henry TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY. __... J. Whipps, sen., coal merchant, Nicholl-street, Haggerstone. F. Hornby, Manchester. T. Bailey, servant, Oxford. Pontop and South Shields Railway Bill— " for enabling the Pontop and South Shields Railway Company to widen a part of their Railway, and to make a branch therefrom, and fir other purposes," presented, and read a first time. Epsom and South-Western Railway Bill—read a second time, committed, and referred to the Committee of Selection. Croydon and Epsom Railway Bill—read a second time, committed, and referred to the Committee of Selection. Newquay Harbour and Railway Bill—read a second time, committed, and referred to the Committee of Selection. Barnsley Junction Railway—petition for Bill reported ; Report referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders. Monkland Railways (No. 2)—petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Lockhart and Mr. Oswald. .T. F. Francis, tailor, Sebright-place East, Hackney-road. C. Cotgreave t jun., law stationer, Chester. • S. Haddock, joiner, Nottingham. W. Wheelwright, commission agent, Leeds. M. Edwards, tailor, Mitre-street, New-cut. . • , J. Griffiths, miller, Wednesbury, Staffordshire. J. Davis, higgler, Wolvercot, Oxfordshire. __ . J. Clarkson, boot maker, Bradford, Yorkshire. J. Fletcher, brace bit maker, Sheffield. G. C. Talbot, cot ton agent, Blackburn, Yorkshire. R. Arundale, engraver, Leeds. G. Bradlaugh, miller, Ipswich. T. Barton, licensed victualler, Burslem, Staffordshire. J. A. Woolman, fanner, Little Claekton, Essex. J. Cooper, farmer, Brampton, Derbyshire. J. W. Robertson, tailor, Wingfield, Suffolk. W. Bassford, cowkeeper, Liverpool. J. Chase, grocer, Portsmouth. H. Williams, butcher, Liverpool.? W. Andrews, coach trimmer, Winchester. W. Bunting, butcher, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire. T. Wilkins, grocer, Edmund's-place, Lower Wandsworth-road. The question having been put, Mr. CURTEIS said he would support the second reading of the Bill ; but he thought the Noble Lord showed too much tenderness for the rights of the lords of manors. He was of opinion that all manorial rights should be abolished upon compensation being made. Mr. DARBY said it had been alleged that this Bill would be injurious to the poor. He doubted very much whether the rights of common were of such great advantage to the poor as they were represented to be. As far as his own experience went, he must say, that the persons who lived on the edges of commons were in the most wretched condition. He would vote for the second reading, in order to give an opportunity of having the details of the measure fully discussed. Mr. COWPER supported the second reading of the Bill. He said he thought the present mode of legis lating with reference to inclosures was a most faulty and injurious one, and on that ground he approved of the principle of this measure. It appeared from Mr. Porter's estimates that there were eight millions of acres of uncultivated land in this, country of which four millions were capable of being brought i n t o cu lti va ti on . Popula tion was rapidly increasing. Some persons looked to emigration as the only remedy for distress ; he thought they should look to the cultivation of waste land. The advantage of being able to feed a pig or a goose— (" Hear, hear," from Col. Sibthorp)—was very great. In his opinion, the condition of the poor of this country was most materially injured by the manner in which the various Inclosure Bills had been carried out. There had been a sad forgetfulness in them of what was due to the poor, and, in the present Bill, he begged to say, if no one else proposed an allotment clause, he should endeavour to get one introduced. Another point he wished to see attended to was this, that there should be no inclosure under this Bill of the waste lands imme diately adjacent to the large towns. There were large portions of waste land in Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire, and near to towns. If, always excepting the lands immediately contiguous to these towns, means could be provided, in enclosing the other por tions to allot plots to the artisan and work ing tradesmen, he foresaw, not only in the in crease of employment, but in the variation of the nature and character of that employment, considerable ad vantage. He must object to the vast powers given by the Bill to the Tithe Commissioners, and he hoped this part of the Bill would be modified. He could not sit down without expressing his opinion that great gratitude was due to the Noble Lord (Worsley) for the-care and trouble he had bestowed upon this subject ; and he was sure, when altered and modified in the way he had - - . Echnburgh, Leith, and Granton Railway—petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Gibson Craig, Mr. Rutherford, and Mr. Macaulay. THE WEATHER.—THE GALES.—On Monday night the atmosphere was clear and the temperature cold. Wind west_ southwest to north. Shortly after midnight the clouds collected and the wind became violent, increasing to almost a hurricane, and which, accompanied by torrents of rain, continued until nearly seven o'clock. On Tuesday morning, before eight o'clock, it eleered off, and the sun shone brightly till about eleven o'clock. Shortly after the wind again became violent, and was accompanied by a heavy storm of hail, sleet, snow, and rain, and which was whirled about by the wind into various fantastic forms, but ren dering it truly uncomfortable for those who were compelled to battle with it. Similar storms, though less violent, were re peated at intervals up to nearly four o'clock, when the at mosphere again cleared ; but the wind having veered to the north, continued to blow briskly and keenly, and the mercury, which at six o'clock in themorning stood at 33 degrees, and rose at noon to 40 degrees, had again receded to 33 degrees. The night up to nine o'clock was clear and starlight. Whatever may have occurredon the coast, the craft in the river have not suffered by the gale of Tuesday morning, in consequence, probably, of pre. cautionary measures having been adopted. The violence of the wind slightly retarded the arrival of several of the mail trains. But few of the Scotch steamers were enabled to arrive in Lon don. The Herne steamer never made a worse passage from Herne Bay, than the voyage to London on Monday. At Gravesend the storm began at ten o'clock on Monday night, when several fre quent and vivid flashes of lightning came from the northward. The barometer at noon on Tuesday was 29.6. EXTRAORDINARY LONGEVITY.—" The centenarians are falling off," says a letter from Konigsberg, published In the Presse; "we have just buried in this town a veteran of the seven years' war, named Siehring, aged 108 years. He was born at Messein, in 1736, and joined the army of Frederick the Great, after the battle of Torgau, in 1760. He was the last surviving veteran of the war of seven years who resided at Konigsberg, wkere a perfect recollection exists of Sergeant-Major Condratowitz, who died in 1838, at the age of 105, and who assisted as a sim ple hussar, under the command of Seydlitz, at the celebrated battle of Ressbaeh, which was gained by Frederick the Great, against the French and Austrians united.'' NOVEL METHOD OF EXTRACTING A TOOTII.—A few days ago a tailor, residing at Lound, near Retford, of the name of George Grant, was dreadfully afflicted with the toothache. Well, Mr. Snip, being nigh at his wit's end with pain, and there being no ♦illage amateur capable of extracting the troublesome customer, he set his wits to work to get rid of it with the least possible trouble, and IA the earliest opportunity. At length he hit upon the following expedient t---He tied a piece of strong packthread round his naughty masticator, and proceeded determi. nately up stairs, with his goose in his hand ; having tied the other end of the string to the goose's neck, he threw the latter with some vengeance out of the chamber window, the jerk at once extracted the tooth, which quickly followed She goose into the street; and the delighted tailor, pleased with the novel invention of his own brain, soon gathered up tie weightiest implement used in his pro. fession, and put it to the fire, but left the luckless tooth to "perish and decay," unpitied and uncared for, in " the desert air."—Don. cast* Chronicle. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 14, 1844. April 9, at one, at the chambers of D. and J. Wilkie, Glasgow. JOHN CALDER, victual dealer. Whitburn, March 21 and April 11, at two, at Johnston's Inn, Bathgate. HUGH BROWN, jun., and CO., ship brokers, Glasgow, March 16 and April 9, at twelve, at the office of S. M. Penney, Glasgow. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. The " Lists for Committees (House of Commons) on Priva'e Bills" of Session 1844 (Parliamentary Paper, No. 109) offer no feature of novelty. The arrange ments of the lists for the forty counties of England, the two divisions of Wales, the two sections of Scotland, and the four provinces of Ireland, seem much the same as those usually appointed of late years. BANKRUPTCY.-These returns (No. 5), moved for by Mr. Hawes, and ordered by the Commons to be printed on the sth of February, exhibit the amount of solicitors', and messengers' bills of costs, filed in the London and District Courts of Bankruptcy since the 12th of Novem ber, 1842, under the Act 5 and 6 Vi c ., ca p. 1 2 2 , an d 1 and 2 Vic., cap. 110. They are arranged in six classes. The first four give respectively the amount of these bills of costs "in the choice of assignees under each of the first twenty commissions and fiats registered in the Court of Bankruptcy in London ; of commissions and fiats transferred and renewed into such Court ; and of fiats alone therein registered as to bankrupts resident above 40 miles from London ;"-the same acts, commis sions, and fiats, registered in the several District Courts, and as to fiats alone directed to such Courts. The last two are returns of the number of affidavits of debt filed in the London and the District Courts of Bankruptcy under the 11th section of 5 and 6 Vic., c. 122 ; and the Ist and 2d Vic., c. 110, respectively. In the first 20 of transferred fiats and commissions from the country, after 10th November, 1841, the average of costs to choice of assignees was-solicitors' bills, 761. each, messengers' costs, 14/. I Is. In " fiats against bankrupts resident above forty miles from London, these averages were, severally, solicitors, 441. 12s. ; messengers, 101. 195." These averages are reported in the re maining district returns, as the amounts severally for Birmingham, of 56/. 35., and 10/. Bs.-of 36/. 10s., and 17/. 19s. ; for Manchester (com missions and fiats) of 81/. 75., (no return as to messengers), of 381. 35., and 151. for solicitors and mes sengers under " fiats" only ;-for Liverpool, 24/., (no re turn of messengers' costs under first head of return), and 28/. 6s. solicitors, and 121. messengers ;-for Leeds, joint average of solicitors and messengers' costs, commis sions, and fiats, 721.; fiats 70/.;-for Bristol, commissions and fiats 79/. ; fiats 46/.; for Newcastle (joint averages), 25/. 25., and 54/. 75.;-for Exeter, average 981. 155., (no messengers' bills or file, and 691. 9s. 5d.) The other returns are not complete as to bills of costs. But the numbers of affidavits of debt filed under 5 and 6 Vic., cap. 122, sec. 11, previous to 23d June, 1843, and the number of summonses issued under the same section by the various Bankruptcy Courts of London and said districts, were respectively these-London, 346 and 346 ; Liverpool, 82 and 92 ; Leeds, 131 and 131 ; Manchester, 83 and 83 ; Exeter, 25 and 25 ; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 27 and 27 ; Birmingham, 81 and 81 ; Bristol, 43 a nd 43. In the Court of Bankruptcy of London there were also filed under 1 and 2 Vic., cap. 110, sec. 8, affidavits of debt, 122. The Bill " for better regulating the Buildings of the Metropolitan districts; and to provide for the drainage thereof" (brought in by the Earl of Lincoln and Sir James Graham, and ordered to be printed, on the Ist instant) comprises, in its present form, 109 clauses, and (12) schedules, Ato M. Schedule A, referred to in the preamble, recites from the several Acts therein men tioned, the various provisions made for regulating the construction of buildings in the metropolis and its neighbourhood—the limits thereby specified being by this Bill extended and the said Acts amended. The preamble sets forth that in many parts of the metro polis the drainage of houses is so imperfect as to en danger the health of their inhabitants;—the streets so narrow, in many crowded thoroughfares, that the neces sary ventilation is impeded, and risk of accidents from fire, &c., enhanced;—that many buildings and parts of buildings used for dwellings are unfit for that purpose; —that in some populous vicinities works are erected, in which dangerous and explosive materials are employed; —in others, deleterious materials are combined, the ex halations from which are noxious to human health; and finally, that much public inconvenience had resulted from the diversity of practice observed by the officers appointed under the recited former Acts in carrying into execution the powers thereby conferred upon them. The ensuing enactments are specially framed for the remedy, removal, or prevention of those evils, the future execution of this Act, and the superintendence of the provisions and directions embodied in it, and the repeal of certain former Statutes applying to similar object. Clauses 1 and 2 are general provisions and definitions to be given to certain terms comprised in the enacting clauses. As No. 3 has regard to the extent of the operation of this Act (in the event of the Bill passing), it may be useful to particularise the limits assumed :—" The operation of this Act shall extend to all places within the following limits : that is to say—To all such places lying on the north side or left bank of the River Thames as are within the exterior boundaries of the parishes of Fulham, Kensington, Pad dington, Hampstead, Hornsey, Tottenham, St. Pancras, Islington, Stoke Newington, Hackney, Stratford, Brom ley (Middlesex), Poplar, and Shadwell :—and to such part of the parish of Chelsea as lies north of said parish of Kensington ;—and to all such parts and places lying on the south, or right bank of said river as are within the exterior boundaries of the parishes of Woolwich, Charlton, Greenwich, Deptford, Lee, Lewisham, Cam berwell, Lambeth, Streatham, Tooting, and Wands worth ; and to all places lying within 200 yards from the exterior boundaries of the districts hereby defined." Clauses 4 to 12 empower her Majesty to direct, by Order in Council, the extension of tlese limits, in the event of its appearing to the latter " expedient, from the growing increase of the population or otherwise," so to direct, "to any place within twelve miles of Charing-cross or the City of Westminster.—Hates of buildings and thicknesses of walls and footings, and rules concerning new buildings, or rebuildings, or sites of former buildings, to be in conformity with the stipulations and requirements of the several schedules B to K; such buildings to be under superintendence of " official referees," in terms of schedule C. Certain exempted buildings, in conformity with schedule A, to be subject to special supervision. Buildings not within any of the herein stipulated rates to be in accordance with directions of the surveyor. Following clauses regard modification of building contracts, reference to official referees, and modification of building leases: these rules may be modified, generally, by Commis sioners of works and buildings. Clause 13 requires builders, in the case of every new work to be by them executed, to give previous notice to the surveyors ; the same in respect of any additions or alterations placed by this Act under the control of the surveyor; and so, likewise, as to any party wall, external wall, chimney stack, or flues, begun to be built, pulled down, re-built, cut into, or altered; and also before any opening made in any party walls, under penalty of 201. ; and any person, professed builder, or private owner, to give notice in a form specified in schedules, of his intention to build any house, &c., to the same officer, under a similar penalty ; like penalty for failure of every similar notice in the case of continuing buildings, or reparations, &C., com prehended in the scope of this Act, where the same have been interrupted for the space of three months or up wards, and recommenced, or the builder changed; and for beginning of such works without notice, or for re fusing to admit surveyors, the like penalty. Clauses 14 to 19 declare what regulations shall be observed as to "buildings generally," touching time to be allowed to builders for notifying any irregularity or departure from directions of the schedules to this Act ; power, in future thereof, to the surveyor to cut into such works ; special supervision of- highest rate buildings, and enactments touching their survey, ap proval, or disallowance ; amendments of defects ; grant or denial of certificates to qualify such buildings to be used or occupied ; penalties for non-compliance ; right of forcible entry into buildings, if denied, to surveyor at all seasonable hours before completion, &c. Clauses 20 to 38 relate generally to the powers to be taken in executing works, in relation to or infringing upon adjoining properties, party-walls, party-fences, and intermixed buildings. 39 to 43 regard the proceedings to be taken with " ruinous buildings," as to applications to be made to the official referee under this Act by paro chial surveyor or overseers ; survey to be made ; notice to Lord Mayor, &c., and overseers ; erection of boards and notices ; sales of old material, &c., and their dispo sal. 44 to 50 regulate the expenses of works necessary to be erected in certain cases for carrying the purposes of this Act into execution, and also the means of re covering them. Clauses 51 to 59, under the heading" buildings, use thereof," are very important. They prohibit the use and occupation of cellars, or rooms unfit for dwellings, as lodgings ; the attaching of dog-kennels or pig-sties to dwelling-houses ; the erection of new houses at a dis tance of less than fifty feet from any buildings wherein dangerous employments are carried on—as the making of gunpowder, detonating powder, lucifer snatches, or other substances liable to sudden ignition or explosion — vitriol, turpentine, naphtha, varnish, fire-works, painted table-covers, &c.—and such trades, in suck localities, to be utterly prohibited therein after thirty years from the passing of this Act. The same as to the vicinity of newly-erected houses to buildings appropriated to busi nesses or trades offensive and obnoxious. There are enumerated blood-boilers, bone-boilers, fellmongers, slaughterers of cattle, sheep, or horses, soap-boilers, tallow-chandlers, tripe-boilers—penalties for infraction of these enactments. Clauses 60 to 74 define the duties, powers, &c., of dis trict and other surveyors under this Act, their fees, &c. 75 to 81, the same as to the official referees hereby ap the as nature, t o e o form, i o ap pointed. 82 to 87 the same as to the registrar of metro politan referees' reg buildings.and istrar. BB 9oto 89 ' th 1 00set out same and course of legal proceedings, where necessary to be taken under this Act, the costs to be recovered, mode of e recovery, &c. Clauses 101 to 109 are of a miscellaneous nature, having relation to the case of the immediate landlord, of part ownership, service of notices, and all other machinery connected with the operations of this measure. _ The general scope and objects of the Bill are admi rably adapted for the health, comfort, safety, and nn provement of our noble metropolis. To particular clauses there appear to be grave objections, on the score of too summary process, and a harsh straining of the existing law. These objections, however, will doubtless be obviated in the passage of the Bill through the Com mittee. It is a Bill which has long been called for, and will, we hope, go far to keep down the disgraceful shell, or rather shed building, profitable as it is to a certain disreputable class of landlords, of which we see so many examples in the small streets adjoining the south ernmost extremity of the Waterloo-road, and the vicinity of Lambeth-marsh ; and indeed, in all the new purlieus of brick and mortar which are fast ruining and disgracing Camberwell, Peckham, the Hainpstead-road, the High North-road beyond Islington, and other suburban localities. LITERATURE. WESTMINSTER REVIEW, No. LXXX. Clarice, London, 1844. The opening article in the present Number of this periodical, entitled " Shaksperian Criticism and Act ing," is devoted to a consideration of the character of Macbeth and his wife, both of whom the Reviewer seems to think have hitherto been misunderstood. His object is to show that the royal usurper has not the slightest claim on the sympathy of his readers ; that he is intensely selfish, physically courageous, but morally an arrant coward; and that instead of being the victim of fate and supernatural agency, he is the victim only of his own evil . passions. This view of Macbeth —which by the bye IS wholly opposed to that taken by Hazlitt and Charles Lamb—is maintained with considerable ingenuity, though we cannot say that the Reviewer has made us a convert to his rea soning. 'We admire his skill and boldness, but we dissent from his conclusions, more especially as, in his eagerness to make out his case, he proves too much, and adduces the testimony of certain passages which all must see militate against his own view of the cha racter of Macbeth. There is some truth in the fol lowing remark respecting Mrs. Siddons, though we fear it will not be v er y accepta bl e to her ' admirers : "It is not a statue-like simplicity, to quote Mr. Campbell's phrase, that makes the essence of the Shaksperian drama, but a picturesque complexity, to which Mrs. Siddons's massive person and sculp tured genius were as essentially repugnant as they were akin to the spirit of the an tique. Her genius, it has been somewhere well ob served, was, in fact, as she herself seems to have been conscious, rather epic than tragic, rather didac tic than dramatic, rather Miltonian than Shakspe rian." " Strafford" is a critical notice of Mr. Ster ling's late tragedy on the subject of this celebrated renegade, which is highly eulogised, but not beyond its deserts. In " Practical Considerations for the Promotion of Architecture" we find many service able suggestions, chiefly of a matter-of-fact character, and the article is embellished with several apposite illustrations—one of which, a view of Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire, exhibits evidences of great skill and pains-taking. " Earl Spencer and the State of Parties" is a vigorous political diatribe, in which the Tories and their leader, Sir Robert Peel, are handled with little ceremony, and the knout is applied to the monopolists v% ith the heartiest good will. Alluding to the Premier's policy, when he first took the reins of Government, the Reviewer says that history will not fail to record the damning fact, that, during twelve months of unexampled distress, he had the power but not the will to legislate for the relief of the poor. From an article on the subject of the " Progress of Art," we quote the following strictures on Mr. Barry's plan of the new Houses of Parlia ment : " The Parliament houses are, however, the great ar chitectural undertaking of the present day. Since the rebuilding of St. Paul's nothing so splendid has been attempted in Britain, and indeed, since Versailles, scarce anything on the Continent can compare with them. We have also the satisfaction of knowing that the design is the best of our best architect, and that instead of the grudging economy that is said to have spoiled so many of our undertakings in art, the expenditure here has been not only liberal but lavish ; for had we been con tent with a plain, honest brick building, with stone dres sings, such as would have satisfied our fathers or our selves a few years ago, we might have had all the ac commodation the present one will afford, and better ar ranged, for 150,0001. or 200,0001., whereas the estimates for this one already amount to 1,200,0001., and it will not be finished under a million and a half. Here, then, is at least a million of money spent on pure aesthetic orna ment, a sum that would have restored to their pris tine beauty (if we wanted Gothic) every cathedral or church in the kingdom, or would have established schools of art and design, with collections of art, in all the principal cities in the kingdom ; this it has been de termined to expend in realising the design of one archi tect, and already the nation are beginning to tire of their bauble before they have got it, and to think they have paid too much for what they begin to find out will not be satisfactory when finished. The river front is now nearly completed, and as Mr. Barry declares it ttle be the best part of the design, we may safely assert that the new buildings, though clad in the very prettiest and best selected Gothic detail, will, when finished, be as much like the bold, meaning, purpose-like buildings of our ancesters as the very pretty Swiss peasant g i r l s an d very polite brigands and Albanians of our ball rooms are like the rough originals. Every building of our ances tors expressed in every part the purpose for which it was erected, and with a degree of richness or simplicity suited to its destination ; here, with the idea of produc ing a grand uniform whole, every part has been made externally to look exactly alike. The Speaker's house is the counterpart of that of the Usher of the Black Rod, and though the latter is obliged to share his residence with a librarian, that is not to be discovered from the exterior ; and equal magnificence is displayed in the apartments allotted to the clerks of the House and all the inferior offices. Indeed, whether it is the great confer ence hall or the public libraries or committee rooms, — whether it is the Queen's robing room or a librarian's bedrclbm, each is externally the same ; and whether the room is fifty feet by thirty, or only fifteen feet square, the stories throughout are of the same height, unless in deed, as has been suspected, some of these fine looking windows are to be cut into two by concealed floors, a falsehood no Gothic architect ever was guilty of, and a meanness which two honest windows would never ex hibit." FLUCTUATIONS OF CORN, CURRENCY, CONSOLS, from 1790 to 1840. A new edition of these Tables (which appeared several years ago) is published by Brooks, 8, Baker street, in a small quarto page as before, but with many dates added to the collection. 6' Judicis officium est, ut res, ita TEMPORA rerum Noscere." Canning doubted two things—facts and figures ; and Sir H. Walpole, when his son took down a book to read aloud, exclaimed, " Not history ! That I know to be false." But the span of human life being short, a comparison of dates insures accuracy by dividing history into minute compartments, as an artist re duces a picture. In the good old days a perfect in difference prevailed as to facts, when Gower, for ex ample, instructed our forefathers that Ulysses was a " clarke who learned rhetoryke of Tully, magic of Zoroaster, and phlilosophy of Plato." Hitherto mo netary economists, and even the League, have ne glected this crucial test of dates. Surely it is worth observing that the Bank restriction preceded all ap preciable " depreciation " by at least nine years ; but the year when guineas sold at 245., was the very same when gold was paid by license to French Marshals for 800,000 quarters of wheat. Also guineas sold at 285., the identical year when 20,000,0001., mostly in gold, was sent to Portugal and other subsidiaries. So, in every case, high price of wheat has ruled with Manchester riots, and its low or falling price contem poraneously with one Bill to enforce rent by removing land-marks in Ireland, and another Bill for mulcting labourers of hire (of keep) in England (all for the benefit of Parliamentarians), yet a reference to " Bank notes " shows that, if the various corn-laws failed to keep up prices, it was because, for want of one-pound and half-pound notes, there was not prac tical money and national cash wherewithal. The American Gold Bill, which preluded their Specie Order of 1836, is not given in the Tables ; this point of chronology should be settled, for the " operation " derives a high tragic interest, as being the cause in which Sydney " bled." THE WASTE LANDS INCLOSURE BILL. ("Rom A CORRESPONDENT.) The further inclosure of waste lands at home, which is the object of a Bill now before Parliament, has its ostensible advantages as well as evils. If there is any available quantity of good land in England uninclosed, or if, by means of railway intercommunication, the way were opened to re-colonise the many fertile, half-culti vated districts of Ireland, the inclosure of such territory might tend to reduce competition among farmers, by extending the field of employment, and to lessen the evil effect of the " vested interest" of agriculture, by increasing the proportion of the community interested in such an " interest." But it is more probable that, with the present agricultural practice, the mere effect of such inclosure would be to increase the demand for "protection," by increasing the quantity of poor land to be protected, and to deprive the great bulk of the farmers' true and only efficient friends, the English agri cultural labourers, of their at least nominal common heritage in the domains of nature. The British empire, however, embraces something more than the mere extent Of territory between the Land's-end and John o 'Groat's; and steam has, more over, so annihilated distance, that it were surely wiser to think of inclosing the vast and rich commons of our distant possessions, than to run the risk at home of swallowing up the common property in the already un wieldy estates of the English landlord. Our real duty at home is to carry into practical operation improvements in agricultural science; such an institution as that now projected in Yorkshire, under the title of the Land Drain ing Asociation, in which the name of Smith of Deanston is conspicuous, affords the true and only legitimate pro tection to agriculture, in the present state of matters in England. This right cannot be denied to the landlord; but to create new interests, to open the field for a n ew race of yeomen, and fully to developo the resources of yeoman capital and yeoman industry, we must go to some distance from over-peopled and over -competitive England. The truth—the partial truth—of Malthus, that population is pressing on the means of subsistence may be otherwise expressed—that enterprise is over-pressing on the field of investment ; but, not less true is it that, by means of colonization —yea, even of re-colonization—the re-adjustment within the British dominions of the elements of wealth, the means of subsistence may be made to expand inde finitely with the expansion of enterprise and of popula • tion. Improve, drain, manure our already occupied lands in England ; at the same time occupy new lands in all regions belonging to Britain, and, even if Malthu sian fears do possess a halfpenny's worth of reason, amid an intolerable load of assumption, it will be as idle to guard against a possible earthquake, as to stint our exertions in this great field, because by and bye we may find need of a " new world to conquer." At all events. let us leave room and verge enough, at home, for one " Victoria Park " for the poor. SECOND Tafas. M. R. Platts, painter, Great Pulteney-street, Golden square, March 18, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee. T. Elphick, hltise -.stealer, St. Nicholas, Sutton, Surrey, March 18, at at the Court of Bankuptey. Graham, official assignee. R. Mayes, grazier, Ravensden, Bedfordshire, March 18, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, J. Nott, British lace dealer, Henningford-terrace, Islington, March 23, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee. G. Woods, butcher, High-street, Stoke Newington, March 23, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee. T. Sturgess, baker, Great Saffron-hill, Holborn, March 23, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee. J. G. Woodcock, railway guard, Brighton, March 23, at eleven, at the Court of Bankr u pt cy . Ed war d s , o ffi cial assignee. W. Mortlock, tailor, Essex -street, Strand, March 19, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee. T. Wingham, oilman, York -terrace, Borough-road. March 18, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee. J. Smith, provision dealer, Wigan, Lancashire, March 16, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee. W. Hemming, coach driver, Birmingham, March 20, at half past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official aseigneee. J. Hands, stationer, Birmingh am , March 16, at half - p ast ten, at the Birmingham Di s t r i c t Court. Bittleston, official assignee. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. E. Brain, steel plate printer, Rodney-street, Pentonville, April 4, at two—E. Cooper, stationer, High-street, St. Giles s, April 3, at twelve—R. H. and J. Frary, carpet warehouse men, Oxford-street, April 3, at ene. • In the Country. J. and W. Wolland, turners, Exeter, April 4, at twelve, at the Exeter District Court—P. and M. D. Protheroe, West India merchants, Bristol, April 4, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court—J. Harford and W. W. Davies, iron masters, Bristol, April 4, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court— C. F. Dewson, victualler, Birmingham, April 3, at half-past one, at the Birmingham District Court—M. Cooke, hotel keeper, Evesham, Worcestershi re , April 3, at one, at the Bir mingham District Court—S. Cook, draper, Dudley, Worces tershire, April 3, at one, at the Birmingham District Court— C. Powell, watch manufacturer, Coventry, April 3, at half-past one, at the Birmingham District Court—W. Stone, printer, Birmingham, April 3, at one, at the Birmingham District Court—J. H. Perryman, bookseller, Birmingham, April 3, at half-past one, at the Birmingham District Court—T. Red shaw, saddler, Bourn, Lincolnshire, April 4, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned. R. Tebay, plumber, Winchester, Hampshire, April 12— J. Reaveley, paper commission agent, Hammond's-wharf, Queeehi the, April 2—W. and I. Dunnage, plumbers, Tooley street, April 2—C. Parslow, tailor, Blackman -street, South wark, April 2—T. Alford, licensed victualler, Harrow-road, Paddington, April 2—G. Chamberlain, ship owner, Wivenhoe, Essex, April 3—S. Jones, jeweller, Cheapside, April 2—W. Stinton, cook, Duke-street, Grosvenor square, April 3—G. Cooper, butcher, Leeds, April 26—J. Jones, ship builder, Conway, Carnarvonshire, April 4 — T. Parr, plumber, Liver pool, April 2—W. Evans, miller, Llangelynin, Merionethshire, April 3—M. Hall, farmer, Stoke Golding, Leicestershire, April 3--J. H. Perryman, bookseller, Birmingham, April 2 T. Berridge, tobacconist, Manchester, April 3—C. Clarke, linen draper, Banbury, Oxfordshire, April 2.—E, Pughe, tailor, Everton, Lancashire, April 2 S. C oo k, d raper , Dudley, Worcestershire, April 2—J. Woolland, turner, Exeter, April 2—F. Peters, wine merchant, Manchester, April 2—J. Bowles, worsted manufacturer, Leicester, April 2—A. Wells, surgeon, Wickford, Essex, April 2-3. Baylis, victualler, Bir mingham, April 2—J. Whitley, surgeon, Liverpool, April 2 G. Jackson, upholsterer, Hertford, April 2—A. A. Newman, saddler, High-street, Whitechapel, April 2—J. Newton, lock smith, Wolverhampton, April 2—C. Powell, watch manufac turer, Coventry, April 2—B. Smith, baker, Tipton, Stafford shire, April 2. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. A. Clarke and E. Keys, china manufactur;;;Stoke-upon- Trent, Staffordshire—W. Robertson and P. Aspinall, stone merchants, Francis-place, New North-road —R, Gundry, W. Gundry, and J. Gundry, shoemakers, Soho-square —C. and W. Stacey, blacksmiths, Barkway, Herts—H. and S. Bolton, shoe manufacturers, Bedford—J. Clench, jun., and A. Win stanley, brewers, Exeter—L. and 11. Belcher, linen drapers, Caine, Wiltshire—R. Gardner, J. Gardner, jun., and J. B. Guirron, block makers, Liverpool—R. Overy, jun., and R. Overy, farmers, Guestling, Sussex—A. Levy, H. Moses, L. Levy, E. Moses, and M. Levy, slopsellers, Ald ga t e ( so f ar as re gards M. Levy)—W , Marshall, F. Kay, and G. Wild, nail ma nufacturers, Sheffield (so far as regards W. Marshall)—J. and F. Woodhead, tea dealers, Liverpool—A. Beldham and J. W. White, silk mercers, Portsea, Hampshire—Jn. Wilde, A. Wilde, and J. Wilde, silk manufacturers, Macclesfield, Cheshire (so far as regards' A. Wilde) —L. Thompson and G. E. Nias —W. Kingham and J. Crosby, varnish makers, Barbican, City —R. and J. Peck, grocers, Loughborough, Leicestershire. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. WILLIAM GEDDES, commission agent, Aberdeen, March 18 and April 6, at twelve, at the chambers of J. Do. nald, A lloa. ALEXANDER MARSHALL, plumber, Aberdeen, March 19 and April 9, at twelve, at the chambers of J. Yeats, Aberdeen. DUNCAN N'INTYRE, grocer, Glasgow, March 19 and THE PRICE OF SUGAR TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Sir R. Peel, in the late debate, seemed to triumph in the " fact" that sugar was cheaper in the year 1843 than the previous four years. Had he cause to do so? I think not. Our population has daily become larger—the supply of sugar, according to his own statement, is increased to a most trifling extent—yet the price of sugar is considerably dimi nished. This is a state of things which a Minister of the present day ought not to boast of: for, if it proved anything, it proved the progressive inability of the people of this country to buy the same quantity which they individually had done in the preceding yea rs , and hence the lowness of price; and we may trace that inability to buy, to the long-continued high price of the first necessary of life—Bread. Leamington, March 11, 1844. N. A. T. MR. O'CONNELL. The reception given to Mr. O'Connell at Birmingham is a sign of the times. It indicates the wonderful change which has been wrought within the last few weeks in the public mind of England. Six months ago Mr. O'Connell was not popular in this country, however much idolised in his own. We enter intu no speculations as to the causes of this. The causes of the change which has since taken place can be mistaken by no one. They are clear as the sum mer sun. They lie on the surface. The State trials " have done it all." Persecution has made the " Con spirator" what he is in England. The triumph which attends his appearance in the metropolis, and his pro gress through the provinces, is the result of a general conviction that he is the victim of a tyrannical Govern ment ; for it is one of the most marked attributes of the English character, to feel and express sympathy with those who are treated with harshness 9r injustice. From mere personal considerations, therefore, had there been no other, Mr. O'Connell could have con fidently relied on a cordial reception in England, after the efforts which a Tory Government has made to crush him. But there are other and higher con siderations than any of a pure personal nature, mixed up with the extraordinary enthusiasm with which the "Conspirator" is-everywhere received in this country. In his person, and in the persons of his co-" conspirators," a deadly blow has been aimed at some of the most cherished principles of the Constitution. The right of free discussion, and of holding public meetings, was violently assailed by the recent proceedings in Ireland. The integrity of trial - by jury too, was grossly attacked by the mode in which Ministers conducted the State prosecutions. O'Connell has not had a fair trial. Legal forms were trampled upon by the Attorney-General. And he who filled the principal seat on the Bench, sacri ficed the sacred impartiality and dignified gravity of the judge to the one-sided views and vehement partisan ship of the advocate. A more objectionable charge never proceeded from judicial lips. In every line the leanings of the judge were so visible as to render it im possible for any one to mistake them. Mr. Justice Pen nefather was with the Government and against the traversers. With such a jury and such a judge, need we wonder at the result? No feeling of amazement was expressed when the verdict was returned; no such feel ing was, or could be. entertained. 'Now, in all this the people of England not only see the gross injustice to Mr. O'Connell, and a flagrant contravention of the law of the land as regards the manner in which State prosecutions ought to be conducted, but they discover the most ample ground for apprehension in reference to themselves. If the Constitution is to be set at defiance in Ireland, why not in England ? If the rights and liberties of the subject are to be outraged in the person of Mr. O'Connell, what more more natural than that they should be equally set at nought in the person of Mr. Cobden ? If it were right to put down the Repeal agitation in Ireland before any breach of the public peace could be laid to its charge, it is equally right that the Corn law agitation should be crushed in England. If it was constitutional to issue a proclamation against the meet ing of Clontarf, it must be equally in accordance with our rights and liberties that a proclamation should be issued against the League meetings in Covent-garden. If it was right to proceed against the eight individuals lately arraigned in the Queen's Bench of Dub lin, it must be equally proper to proceed against the Council of the League in the Queen's Bench in London. If Mr. O'Connell and his co-tra ♦ersere were " conspirators," so are Messrs. Cobden, Bright, Wilson, &c. If the former were guilty of " con structive conspiracy," so are the latter ; and the voice of even-handed injustice demands that the corn-law repealers, as well as the union repealers, should be sub jected to the same process as that which Mr. O'Connell and his fellow-sufferers have lately had to go through. Viewing the matter in this light, it is no marvel if the people of England should accord to Mr. O'Connell the enthusiastic reception with which he everywhere meets. We are glad that he not only appreciates the cordiality with which he is every where received, but that he at length sees, and can didly acknowledges, the great injustice he has so long done to Englishmen, by identifying them with the acts of the Government. Mr. O'Connell is at length con vinced—he ought to have been so years ago—that the people of England have all along as decidedly disapproved of, and denounced, the injustice done to Ireland, as he himself, or any one else, could have done. Late as is the period at which this conviction has been forced upon him, we rejoice that he now feels it in all its force, and that for the time to come, he will not confound the people of England with their Tory rulers. Know ing that English sympathy is with himself and his country, he will never again soil his lips by apply , ing to us the epithet of Saxons, but that the dis tinctions of Saxons and Celts shall hereafter be buried in the dust, and " England, Scotland, and Ireland " be the motto of all. Let Mr. O'Con nell abstain from the use of offensive epithets when speaking of England, and he will prove himself a 'patriot indeed. With the three countries cordially united and cordially co-operating together in a common cause, a Tory Government will be powerless for evil. With England and Scotland enlisted in her favour, justice must and shall be done to Ireland.—Advertiser. Colonel Gore Langton was prevented dividing in favour of Mr. Cobden's motion, on Tuesday night, in conse- quence of an attack of influenza. . . It is said that a plan is in agitation to give a series of Italian performances at one of the large theatres in the metre. polls during the ensuing summer, and that Rubini, Tamburinl, aria Madame ♦iardot Garcia have been applied to en the subject. PunLic PETITIONS.—The following is a list of the total number of petitions on various important subjects now before the Lower House of Parliament, viz. :—Against the proposed union of the dioceses of Bangor and St. Asaph, petitions, signed by 2,309 persons ; against a repeal of the corn-laws, 216 petitions, signed by 18,277,—the number of petitioners having in creased during the last week by about 5,000 ; for a reduction of the tobacco duties, 65 petitions, signed by 8,300 persons ; against the Factories Bill now before Parliament, 4 petitions, signed by 389 persons ; for an alteration of the Poor.law Amendment Act, 35 petitions, signed by 1,746 persons,—the number having in. creased by 645 during the last week; for a free competition in the carriage of goods, &c., 6 petitions, signed by 3,112 persons ; and for withholding the supplies until the grievances of the people are redressed, 41 petitions, signed by 34,373 persons. THE NEW METROPOLITAN BRIDGE.—The Bill that was introduced into the House of Commons on Friday night, by several of the metropolitan Members, and which is to au thorise the formation of another bridge, to stride the West minster portion of old Father Thames, bears the title of the " Westminster and Lambeth Suspension Bridge Bill, for making a Suspension bridge across the river Thames from Church-street, Lambeth, to Market-street, Westminster." This Bill was, on Friday evening, read a first time, and or dered to be read a second time ; but no day has y - et been fixed for that next stage being taken. It will pro'bably be re membered that, some time since, a steam ferry-boat was proposed to be established about the same part of the river that it is now contemplated to cross by this new bridge. COURT OF ALDERMEN.—On Tuesday a Court Was held,but no business of public interest was transacted. The Lord Mayor nominated the Bishop of Hereford and the Rev. Mr. Jame* to preach the Spital Sermons at Christ Church. Mr. Hogan, of the parish of St. Sepulchre, and Mr. Kerr, of St. Paul's church. yard, were severally complained against far having tensed to act as inquestznen atter their appointment to the offices had been eon. firmed by the Court of Aldermen. The two gentlemen were or dered to be summoned before the Court on the next Court.day. Leave was given to the Spectacle Makers' Company to add IPO more persons to the livery of that Company. PROVINCIAL. LECTURES IN IRELAND.—B V the fol lowing letter from the Chief Secretary for Ireland, it ap pears the Government is disposed to increase the grant for lectures in the Irish provincial towns : " Irish Office, March 2, 1844.—Sir,—In reference to your letter of the 14th ult., I beg to apprise you that her Majesty's Government will be prepared to propose that the grant made to the Royal Dublin Society, for the purpose of providing lectures in the provincial towns of Ireland, may be increased from 300/. to 500/. I am, &c. ELlOT.—Williatn Keleher, Esq., Cork." PUBLIC BATHS.—We learn with great pleasure that the Marquis of Bute has subscribed the sum of 10/. 10s., Lord Ashley 31. 35., Lord Blantyre 51., and Lord Stewart 2/. 25., to the fund for the erection of the public baths. The subscriptions are the more liberal and philanthropic, when it is taken into consideration that noneofthesenobl w e . n i i t e h n t a b r i e s , directly connected with the city , and that the three last, city.—Edinburgh Lord Ashley, are wholly unconnected THE PROPERTY -TAX TERMINATIN G IN 18 l s.—Ths Right Hon. N. Vansittart, in the Committees of Ways and Means, in the House of Commons, February, 1815, stated that there had been actually paid by the property-tax 126 millions of money, by which an additional charge of above 180 millions of stock, and almost nine millions of permanent taxes, had been avoided. With what would the country have been burthened if it had not been for the operation of this tax, which has been :so much reprobated ? He proceeded to justify its enactment by a reference to the Act of Queen Anne (Ist Anne, sec. 2, chap. 15), passed on the renewal of the French war, for the purpose of defraying the subsidies of that time ; by which a duty of 50s. per cent. was imposed on the capital of stock in trade ; 255. per cent. on debts of interest ; 4s. in the pound on pensions and annuities ; and 4s. in the pound on professional pro fi ts. UHEESEMONGERS BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.— Tuesday the eighth annual meeting of the friends and supporters of this charity was held at the London Tavern, Mr. Davies, Tree. surer, in the chair. Mr. Simpson read the Report, and it appeared that the subscriptions for the past year exceeded those of the pre. vious year by 32/., and the donations also exceeded those of the previous year by 182!. The receipts for the past year were 1,034!. 10s. 3d., and the funded property WAS 6,300!. The pen. ,ions to aged and decayed members of the trade amount e d to 560 !., and 300!. stock was purchased during the year. Two pensioners were elected, making in all 28 recipients of the charity's bounty. A CHIP OF THE OLD BLOCK.—AII Old stager, in the practice of robbing wrecks on the Cheshire coast, had con. trived to get a puncheon of ruts on shore, and with great caution had it conveyed to his own dwelling, and placed it in his yard under some stale dung and other manure. He had flattered him. self that it was perfectly safe, as not an individual but his own son had assisted him, or had the slightest knowledge of the theft or the place of concealment. After a few days, finding everything quiet, he resorted to his booty for the purpose of drawing off some for sale. The cask was safe in the position in which he had left but, diamond cut diamond, the son had tobbed his father of the tum In the night, and disposed of it to his own advantage. !raw' Sit oo. ~~ .