The Sun. — London, England, 1844-12-26 00:00:00

BANK RETURNS. • (From the London Gazette of Tuesday.) An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank - Notes, of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the',l4th day of December, 1844: Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount.. Abingdon Bank, Abingdon-Knapp and Co £28,366 Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and Co 13,360 Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jemmitt and Pomfret 11,133 Aylshans Bank, Aylsham-R. and E. Copeman 5,537 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Rickford and Hunt aldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bak, llaldock-Wells, Hogg, and Lindsell 37,110 Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple-Drake and Co 13,206 Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke- Cole, Seymour, and Co. Bedford Bank, Bedford-T. Barnard Bedford and Bedfordshire Bank, Bedford , Trispr, Halfhead, and Co. Bewdley Bank, Bewdley-Nichols, Baker, and Crane ... 16,678 Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester-Tubb, Wootten, and Co. Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Attwoods, Srooner, and Co 1.1,879 Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming ham-Lewis, Meilliett, and Co .... 15,119 Biandford Bank, Blandford-Bastard and Oak . 7,672 Boston 3ank, Boston-Garfit and Co 70,925 Boston Bank, Boston-Gee and Co 14,305 Bridg rater Bank, Bridgwater-E. &J. Sealey 9,330 Bristol 3ank, Bristol-Miles, Harford, and Co. 40,892 Btosiainy and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and ,Uroireley Bank, Broseley-Messrs. Pritchard 25,179 Buckingham Bank, Buckingham-Bartlett, ctt, and Co. Bury ar.d Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Market Ba..k, Bury-Oakes, Bevan, and Co 76,686 Bantr:ry Bank, Banbury-Gillett and Tawney 37,247 Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Messrs. Cobb 49,522 Bet; - . "ity Bank, Bath-Moger and Son Bedcordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton )Ic,..sard-Bassett and Grant 33,089 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Taylor and I.tm , yds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-H and A. Harris Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 62,405 Britlport Bank, Bridport-S. and W. E. Gundry 20,937 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington- Harding, Smith, and Co 11,126 Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- Worlledge and Co. Bromsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsgrove-Rufford, Briggs, and Co. 12,330 Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock anc Sons Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge-Messrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and Co. Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen-Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Cbertsey-Messrs. La Coste Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round, Green, and Co. 20,523 Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little anc Wood cock City Bank, Exeter-Milford and Co 18,207 Craven Bank, Settle-Birkbecks and Co Christchurch Bank, Christchurch-Tice, Welsh, and 'Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff-Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow-Bromage, Snead, and Co. Derby Bank, Derby-Messrs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby-Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby-Crompton, Newton, and Co 21,839 Devises and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Hughes, Locke, and Co 18,062 Dims Bank, Diss-Oakes, Fincham, and Co 10,628 Doncaster Bank, Doncaster-Leatham, Tew, and Co. 12,774 Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster- Cook and Co. 7,314 2,723 23,52 1,955 7,331 53.070 Dover Union Bank, Dover—Latham, and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse, and Co 73,295 Dovonport Bank, I)evonport—Hodge and Nor- 8,952 man Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—Williams and Co. East-Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robini, Foster, and Co. 103,346 East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hutton, and Co. 45,486 FAISPX Bank and Bishops . Stortford Bank, Chelmsford—Sparrow, Walford. and Co 52,845 Hinter Bank, Exeter—Sanders, and Co 30,726 Faketdiant Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co. Farringdon Bank and Bank of \Vantage, Far ringdOn—Barnes and Medley 7,520 Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight 11,975 Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co. 5,477 Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and King Grantham Bank, Grantham—Kewney and King 17,416 Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon... 13,434 Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0.... 29,223 Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and Co. 33,678 Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hertfordshire Bank and Ware Bank, Ware— S. Adams and Co. null Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull Smith, Brothers, aid Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veasey Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co 4,830 Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead— Smith, and Whittingstall 19,647 Hnniton Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co. Lertfordshire, Hitchen Bank„Hitchen —Sharpies and Co. 36,859 rofurd Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Arcltenfield Bank, Hereford—Morgan and Hoskins 21936 Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipawich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Had!nigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexamiers and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Kinition and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J Davies and Co 24,945 Kni'ghton Bank, Knighton—J. Davies and Co 7,759 Knaresnorough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, fitia".sborotigh—Terry and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, and Kettering Bank, Kettering—Gotch and Sons Lampeterßank,Lanipeter—Jones,Evans,andCo Lane Find Staffordshire Bank, Lane End--C 7,579 llaz v. y and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds—Beckett and Co Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—W. Williams, Brown, and C., Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and • longleton Bank,Leek—Fowler,G aunt, and Co. Tester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby levve 91.1 Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co LichFeld Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green Lbicoin Bank, Lincoln—Smith and Co 1.: - .6nJorery Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando rer; —David Jones and Co. 1 ou?,liborough Bank, Lough borough—Middle t .n, and Cradock Lyrnington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St Barba Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Massey and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst and Co M /min ngtree Bank,Manningtree—Nunn and Co Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and 11 ungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckney Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank, Marlborough —Ward, Merriman, and Hillier Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and 20,720 40,375 7,717 3,776 5,316 51 792 32,947 2,891 29,246 40,195 18,513 88,153 21,213 8,405 4,099 39,302 14,701 10,478 7,036 15,754 11,284 9,231 16,997 ns Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyuma and Co Monmouthshire Agricultural mid Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Baileys and Co 29,126 Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow B ink, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth —Bromage and Snead Monmouthshire Newport Old B ink, Newport Williams and Sons 8,155 Newark Bank, Newark—Godfrey; and Hutton 27,260 Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Newark—Handley, Peacock, awl Co 48,876 Ne 4 / b ury Bank, Newbury—Bunny and Slocock 53,169 Nei . resi.r.(et Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Son Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Diss—Taylor and Dyson Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich—llarveys and llttils4ns . 44,765 Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur neys end Co 64,940 Not.iaghain and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham—Hart, Fellows, and Co 10,421 Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and Co Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Harris, and CO 20,084 New STrum Bank, Sarum—Hetley, Everett, and 13,05.5 Notting am Bank, Nottingham—Stnith and Co 29,166 Osuestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os wostry—Croxon and Co Oxiori, Bank, Oxford —J. and R. Morrell (Kforil jl,l Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, 14,C02 and Thompson Old Bank Tonbridge, Tonbridge aad Tunbridge Wr.ll, Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Weitz and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge— i3e3ching and Sons 3,139 rnJ SUN, LON DON, THURSDAY EVEN NG-, DECEMBER 26, 1344. Average Amoun Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney—Williams, Clinch, and Co 10,722 Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 42,989 Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co 10,04 Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—Messrs. Yorke Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson, White, and Simpson Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walters 8,25 9,692 11,058 Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven, and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co 28,180 Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co Richmond Bank, Richmond—Stapleton 'and Co Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood—Ledgard and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale--Clement, Royds, and Co Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches ter—Day and Nicholson Romsey and Hampshire Bank, Romsey—Foot ner and Son Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sens... Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son Rye Bank, Rye—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co Reigate and narking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and Co 36,406 5,662 4,56 9,27 3,230 16,668 12,765 23,984 Average Amount. Wilts and Dorn t Banking Company, Salisbury 66,250 West Riding Ur , ion Banking Company, Hud dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch Worcester City a id County Banking Company, Worcester. . . , 4,700 York Union Banking Company, Yk•ik 56.975 York City and Cv inty Banking Company, York 85,008 Yorkshire Bankir, ; Company, Leeds P. I •EANS, Registrar of Bank Returns. Stamps and Ta: es, Dec. 21, 1814. dressed the clergy of the last-named diocese in pre cisely the same spirit, urging the same advice. We have not seen any , copy of the Right Reverend Lord's address, and we do not know that any copy has been printed, but we have .what we consider sufficient authority for saying ) that it was In All tespnts precisely similar to the address of the Bishop of 'Worcester. Lastly, what gives us a sincere plea sure on every ground, we . are able to communicate the following graceful, letter of the Bishop of Exeter, putting an end to the differences that have lately disturbed his Lordship'S diocese : " TO THE CLERGY OF THE DIOCESE OF EXETER. •' Bishopstowe, Dec. 23,1844. " Dear and Rev. Brethren—lt has been represented to me by many of you, in different parts of the diocese, that the use of the surplice in preaching is more repugnant to the feelings of the people than could have been reasonably anticipated. To these feelings, however erroneous, I deem it my duty to surrender what may be abandoned without the sacrifice of any principle. I therefore with , draw my order, as respects the surplice. " That order was avowedly issued t,y me, not for the sake of enforcing an express rule "of the Church, but in execution of the power given to me to appease a diversity' in Divine Worship, and so to remove a symbol of disenion amongst ourselves. If my object cannot be obtained in the Wal which I had pointed out, without leading to other evils of as grave a kind, let me, however, hope and en treat that in using your own discretionin this particular, you will so use it as shall least expose you to the re proach of cherishing party spirit. Wherever, the sur plice is now used without offence, there, I hope, it will be continued in use., " The enforcement of the rubrics rests on different ground. In them the Church has spoken clearly; and to the voice of the Churci, when it gives not an uncer tain sound, every true Churchman, and especially every faithful minister, will hearken with reverence an d sub mission.—l am, Rev. and dear Brethren, " Your faithful friend and brother, " H. EXETER." May He who guards his Church forbid that any Churchman fall into the grievous sin of treating this accommodation as a victory. There can be no victory in such a case without a war, and he who should now triumph would confess that he has been at war with his spiritual superior, and would render himself obnoxious to the charge of making a hypocritical pretence of a conscientious scruple, in order to disguise his enmity to the proper authority of the . Church. Let us ra th er understand the arra ngement as, what in truth it is, the effect of the Right Reverend Lord's disco very, that the innovations or renovations to which he for a moment thought it his duty to give countenance, are in the minds of the people intimately and inseparably connected with a profession of the Traetarian heresy, and that it was on this account, and this account only, that his just authority has ever been resisted. Once satisfied that such is the true state of the case, the Bishop has acted with the affectionate care and the manliness that have. ever distinguished him. It remains now for the people to show that they merit the favourable and, we are thoroughly convinced, just estimate of their motives which has led to his Lordship's con ciliatory and truly paterrial concession. Let the peo ple show that they never ceased to charish a grateful veneration for his Lordship'S personal character and sacred office, even while they seemed to resist his command. This they can most satisfactorily demonstrate by a careful recollection of all his Lordship's manifold services to the great Protestant cause, and . the multitude of the be nefits he has conferred' upon his dioce,e. As care fully dismissing from memory the occurrences of the last month, as a well-disposed man dismisses recol lections of the rare and accidental harshness of a father, whose whole life - otherwise gives proof of kindness, care, and deeply-seated love. INTERESTING OCCURRENCE. The Avenir National contains the following inte resting recital :—" Some months back, a prismer, escorted by two gendarmes, was brought to Tulle, sentenced to undergo there five years' imprisonment. His wife, a young woman in black, covered with a thick veil, accompanied him to the door of the prison. The prisoner is a person named Vinsot, a receiver of taxes in the arrondissement of Tulle, who had been condemned by the Court of Assizes of the Correze, under the following Circumstances :—At the hotel where M. Vinsot lod4ed'before his marriage was a pretty girl, to whom he was said not to be indifferent. He got married, however, to a most amiable young woman, of excellent education, and tenderly attached to him. The girl at the : inn lay in some months after, and her child disappeated. She was taken up under a charge of infanticide, and, from the information which she . gave, M. • Vinsot, to whom she said she had given the child, was also arrested. This affair plunged both his family and that of his wife into the greatest grief, and caused much surprise in the country. The young wife, as may be supposed, received a dreadful shock, but refused to believe that her husband was guilty.. She attended him during his trial and the preliminary proceedings with great devotedness. lie was found guilty by the Court as a party to the concealment of the birth of the child ; and the girl, who declared him to be her accomplice, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. 'l c y were in due course removed to their places of confine ment, Vinsot being accompanied by his wife to Tulle, as already stated. Her conduct soon became known, and the people,- who seldom fail to admire in others what is really, noble, treated her with the utmost veneration. Months passed over in this way, the young wife remaining firm in her convic tion of her husband's innocence, when the girl whose child had disappeared `fell ill. She, at last, became in so dangerous a state, that a priest was sent for. Alarmed on his repreiehtations at the thought of ap pearing before her Divine - Judge without atoning for her sins, she confessed _before witnesses that she had wrongfully accused Vinsot, having herself killed the child with a view to her former lover, whom she detested for leaving her. She died shortly after this avowal. The circumstances were immediately im parted to the Procureur-,General who at once appli e d for a royal pardon for Vinsot, which, we doubt not, will be at once granted, to the heartfelt delight of his attached wife." The Dowager Lady Huntingfield and Lord and Lady Huntingtield have; within the last few days, libe rally contributed to the comforts of the indigent poor on the family estate, in Suffolk, by causing warm clothing, &c., to be given away, as well as large quantities of coal. JUVENILE DEPRAVITY. On Tuesday afternoon a fire was discovered pro ceeding from a stable 'in the occupation of an aged widow, named Gaisford, at Bulkington, about fives miles from Devizes, and the flames communicating to the dwelling-house adjoining, the whole was con sumed in the course of two hours. It may be re membered that some alarm was excited in this place about a year and a half'a go , in consequence of the de molition of nearly the whole of the windows of Mrs. Gaisford's house, and of a great portion of her crockery, apparently without hands. Mrs. Gaisford —good easy wornan—and her husband (who was living at the time) could not be persuaded but that it proceeded from some supernatural power—that it was, in fact, the freaks of a ghost. Upon no other person's mind, however, was there the slightest doubt but that it was the act of the grandson of the old people, an artful urchin, then only about nine years of age ; and circumstances have transpired to confirm the fact. The boy has since gone by the name of " the Bulkington Ghost." After the flames had been quelled on Tuesday, suspicions were excited that " the Bulkington Ghost " had been to work again. Superintendent Haines, who had been attracted to the spot from Potterne, by the light which the flames produced, discovered upon inquiry that the boy had a day or two previously purchased some lucifer matches ; and as the stable communicated with the dwelling house, and there being no other persons in the house at the time than the boy and his grandmother —the boy having been absent about five minutes be fore the tire was discovered—he felt it his duty to ap prehend him. His suspicions were strengthened by the fact that the door of the stable, which fronts the yard, was fastened at the time--clearly showing that the fire must proceed from some one in the house. The boy, at about twelve at night, was taken to the blind house, but he had not been there long before he be• came greatly alarmed, ,and entreated to be allowed to go to his grandmother. The constable who had charge of him said he must know something of the fire first. The boy asked, whether, if he confessed, he should be let out ? Without any promise being made to him, he after wards confessed —that. he had taken the cows to water, and that on his return.he went into the stable from the yard ; that he then fastened the door, applied a match to the straw in the rack, and seeing it burn, went into the kitchen and sat down by the side of his grandmother, as if nothing had happened ; adding, that he did not think of setting the house on fire. About five minutes aherwards, a person seeing smoke issuing from the stable, went and endeavoured to open the door, but finding it fastened, broke it open, when the flames broke forth with re doubled fury. The following morning the boy was taken before Mr. Ludlow Bruges and the Rev. Mr. Crawley, when, in the most hardened manner, he not only denied committing the act, but also said that lie did not even know upon what charge he was taken up. Mr. Superintendent Ilaines said he had no doubt that the boy had made the confession in the blind house under the impression that. it would be the means of liberating him. From this circumstance, and taking into consideration the very tender age of the boy, the magistrates did not feel justified in committing • him ; he was therefore set at liberty. He readily acknowledged to the superintendent that it was he who broke all the windows and the crockery in his grand mother's house. He stated, among other freaks that his grandmc %er had put him to bed one night, and he had lain just long enough for her to suppose that he was asleep, when he jumped out of the bed, ran into her room, dashed through his hands the 'window, and was back into his own room, in bed, and again apparently asleep, before the old NVotnan could come up stairs and see what had happened. A more depraved young rascal was never heard of, his lan guage is shocking, and although now a little more than ten years of age, he is the terror of the village.— Devizes Gazette. of their all being not only promptly protected when ever an emergency may arise, but also frequently visited by the Governor in person, we conceive that by far the most useful addition which could be made to the force at his disposal would be that which would be afforded by placing an armed steamer of moderate size under his orders. In addition to this, we think that a militia composed of the settlers should be or ganised, from which we would by no means exclude such of the natives as should so far have adopted the habits of civilised life as to be fit to bear arms in the same ranks with Europeans; we need also hardly observe that such a force should always be kept under the complete control of the Governor, and that he should always have such a proportion of re gular troops under his command as not to be entirely dependent upon the militia for support. We are further disposed to believe that advantage might re sult from endeavouring to create a permanent native force under European officers, but in which their own chiefs might also, pe r h a p s , hold commands ; such a force would probably afford, not only a cheap addition to the military power of the Governor, but also a valuable instrument for gradually training the natives to habits of order and subordination. Your Committee cannot offer these recommenda tions, tending to what may be thought a more severe enforcement of authority over the natives, without, at the same time, expressing their strong sense of the duty incumbent upon the Government of adopting the most effective measures for their welfare and improve ment. With this view, we conceive that every effort should be made to amalgamate the two races ; more particularly, the utmost attention should be paid to the education and training of the rising generation of the aborigines • whenever their improvement in intelligence will admit of it, the natives should be placed in every respect on a footing of perfect equality with their white fellow-subjects, and as soon as possible, they should be employed in the civil service of the Government in any situations in which they can make themselves useful. We also attach much importance to the adoption of a good system of making reserves of land for their benefit. These reserves ought, in our opinion, to be of mode rate size, and interspersed with the lands destined for the occupation of settlers ; the natives should be en couraged themselves to occupy and to cultivate the land thus reserved for their benefit, and only those parts of it for which they might have no immediate occasion should be allowed to be let on lease to Eu ropeans, the leases being restricted to a moderate term of years, and the rents so obtained being con sidered as applicable only for their advantage. By this arrangement the natives established upon such reserves being scattered, a few together, amongst the European population, would be more likely, than under any other plan which has been suggested, gradually to adopt the customs and ways of life of their civilised neighbours; whereas, if the land re served for them were in large blocks, and they were collected together in considerable numbers, the proba bility is that they would cling far more pertinaciously to the habits of savage life, and, if so, this interesting people would too surely melt away before the advanc ing tide of European settlement. It is an evil of which the experience of other colo nies affords frequent examples, that the progress of settlement is impeded by land coming into the pos session of persons who endeavour to derive a profit, not from its improvement, but by suffering it to lie waste until it acquires value from the labour and capi tal expended in the surrounding district • it therefore appears to u s th a t means s h ou ld b e taken to guard against this abuse in New Zealand. This will, we trust, be to a great extent effected by the regulations, which will prevent property in land from being ac quired, otherwise than by purchase ; but, as a further security, we would recommend that some part of the colonial revenue should be raised by means of a tax upon land. On the North American continent, when a tax has been imposed upon land with the view of checking its being held by persons not actually in tending to make use of it, we believe the tax has gene rally been laid upon wild land only. Looking, however, at the difficulty of accurately determining the degree of improvement which should exempt land from a tax applying only to that which is designated as wild, and to the facility thus afforded for evading the but den, it appears to us more advisable that such a tax should be imposed on all land, whether wild or otherwise. if the tax were low (we think it ought not to exceed 2d. an acre) it would be unfelt as a practical burden on land really turned to profitable account, while even this small payment recurring annually, would powerfully tend to discourage the retention of land by parties deriving no immediate advantage from it. Such a tax ought not of course to apply to land now occupied by the natives, or to that held as re serves for their benefit. The lands granted to the New Zealand Company ought also to be regarded in a different light from that held by private indivi duals ; they have obtained that land in the character of agents for the public in carrying on the work of colonisation ; so long, therefore, as they adequately discharge the duties belonging to that character, they ought not to be subjected to the tax in respect of land they hold for this purpose; at the same time, care should be taken that no privilege capable of being abused should be given to them. We would, therefore, suggest that the lands remaining un sold it the hands of the Company should be freed from the tax, so long as the extent of land so held should not exceed that which would remain to them, sup posing that from the commencement of their opera tions they had, one year with another, sold one twenty -fifth part of the land assigned to them by the Crown. Should their sales upon the whole fall short of this, they might fairly be required to pay the tax upon the difference. It might also be proper to insist, as a condition for their enjoying the proposed exemp tion, that a fixed proportion of the proceeds of their land sales should be applied to the promotion of emigration. Your Committee having now stated very fully their views upon those parts of the subject referred to them which have the most important bearing upon the practical measures which ought now to be adopted, and having in their resolutions adverted to some of those measures which do not seem to require any par ticular explanation, had originally intended to have offered some remarks upon the complaints which the servants of the Crown in the colony upon the one side, and those employed by the New Zealand Company on the other, have mutually made against each other; but, upon further deliberation, it has appeared to us that the unhappy differences which have prevailed are most likely to be allayed by our forbearing to pro nounce an opinion which must of necessity involve an expression of blame on some, if not all, of those who have taken part in these proceedings; we, therefore, have thought it most expedient to abstain altogether from entering further into this part of the subject; even as to the unhappy affair at Wairau, by which so many valuable lives were lost, we will add nothing to the resolution which we have unanimously adopted, and which will be found amongst those subjoined to this report, and we will only express our earnest hope that all classes of settlers, and more especially those persons to whom important duties in the newly-esta blished colony have been entrusted, either by her Ma jesty's Government or by the Company, will feel that the interest and welfare of all requires that harmony should be re-established, and that this can only be accomplished by mutual forbearance and moderation. In conclusion, we beg to submit to the House the following resolutions, as containing a summary of the opinions we have formed on the whole subject :- 1. That the conduct of the New Zealand Company, A A , in sending out settlers to New Zealand, not only with out the sanction, but in direct defiance, of the autho rity of the Crown, was highly irregular and improper. 2. That the conclusion of the treaty of Waitangi by Captain Hobson with certain natives of New Zea land, was a part of a series of injudicious proceedings, which had commenced several years previous to his assumption of the local Government. 3. That the acknowledgment by the local authori ties of a right of property on the part of the natives of New Zealand in all wild lands in those islands, after the sovereignty had been assumed by her Ma jesty, was not essential to the true construction of the treaty of Waitangi, and was an error which has been productive of very injurious consequences. 4. That the New Zealand Company has a right to expect to be put in, possession by the Government, with the least possible delay, of the number of acres awarded to it by Mr. Pennington ; that the Company has this right as against . the estate of the Crown, without reference to the validity, or otherwise, of its supposed purchases from the natives, all claims derived from which have been surrendered. _ 5. That the Company, in selecting the land to be granted by the Crown within the defined limits, can not claim the grant of any land not vested in the Crown. 6. That means ought to be forthwith adopted for establishing the exclusive title of the. Crown to all land not actually occupied, and enjoyed by natives, or held under grants from the Crown; such land to be considered as vested in the Crown for the purpose of being employed in the manner most conducive to the welfare ,of the inhabitants, whether natives or Europeans. 7. That in order to prevent land from being held by parties not intending to make use of the same, a land tax, not exce( 'ding 2d. an acre, ought to be imposed ; that all partie claiming land should be required to put in theircl aims, and pay one year's tax in advance, within twelves months. 8. That su' ch tax ought not to be considered as ap plying to the whole estate of the New Zealand Com pany, so lone as they shall continue to sell not less than 1-25th of the land granted to them annually, and to expend a fixed proportion of the proceeds in ernigratiop, 9. That ;such tax ought also not to be considered as applying to lands now actually occupied and en joyed by the natives, or to reserves set apart and held for their bent. fit. 1 0 . That re, serves ought to he made for the natives, interspersed with the lands assigned to settlers, ".„A suitable provision for regulating their alienatiouts; preserving the use of them for the natives - 1 0-1 1,, g eo t may be necessary; and th a t th ese r eserves O ng" dee to be included in ca l cu l a ti ng th e amo unt of law to that Company. 11. That, as it appears by evidence that the, 06 i settlement of the land claims has been product; or great confusion and mischief in the colony, it is - - I t h dient to adopt mea s ur es f or gran ti ng legal titles; of the least possible delay to the actual occupy land, unless under special circumstances of abuse, to 12. That the prohibition to all private P ersQl!' tlf purchase land from the nati ves o ught to beypar enforced, except that l an d w hi c h ma y have o ll chased by natives they should be at liberty t° t ye again, provided the transaction be sanctioned 1 1 Protector. rod 13. That it is hi g hly i m p or t an t that the Go e be . should h ave more e ff ec t ua l means o f e nforcing ° of dience to his authority, and also greater faci lit l t hat visiting fr eq u en tly th e diff erent sett l eme nts; s ad ~e r , with this view it is ex p e di en t th a t an a rmed ste of moderate size, be placed at his disposal. ldbe 14. That it is expedient that the settlers sn 61 , 1 , 010 ( organised as a militia, under th e o rders and C °11 „ 1 ": 10/1 the Governor. Natives, u n d e r pr o per pros— being allowed to serve in it. honli 15. That it is ex p e di en t th a t an attempt_ also be made to raise and discipline a native fu'i-by a more permanent c h arac t er , officered in ge i r t i asi Europeans, but i n w hi c h any o f th e na tives Wm ° be found trustworthy may hold commands. c oil 16. That the empl o y men t o f na ti v es in t "'bieb service of the Gov e r nmen t i n any s it ua tions in " they 17 can be useful is highly desirable. . That efforts should be made gradually o „f d f: c e ° the natives from their anc i en t cus t oms , and tc ) ,.'ia• them to adopt those o f c i v ili se d lif e , upon lu e „r o ort ciple recommended by C a pt a i n G re y, in his 7tbe on the mode of introd uc i ng c i v ili sa ti on alOngs natives of Australia. • 7#llsll° 18. That the principles in which the New 't o tl O Company have acted i n ma ki ng th e reserves f e lt natives, with a view to thei r u lti ma t e as well as Piliftol welfare, and in making su it a bl e p rov i s ion for 0 ;0 0, and educational purp os e s , are soun d and Pi' tending to the benefit of all classes. JO' 19. That the Committ ee , upon a review of t hi lion mentary evidence relati ng to the loss of life st.!0010 (without offering any opinion upon the 1 0 415 case), deem it an a c t o f j us ti ce to th e thet those who fell there, to state, that it opPo P ir .o the expedition in question was undertaken f l. spd purpose believed by th e p ar ti es t o be law P OO desirable, and which, also, example in analoge.g 10 had unfortunately led them to ex pect 111 : . 15 0! effected with ou t res i s t ance f rom the nati ve :( thei r Committee cannot withhold the expression .. og regret at the loss of life w hi c h occu rred, er il lool the loss of Captain Arthur Wakefiela.o sh pi long and di s ti ngu i s h e d serv i c e s i n t h e Brit, l , ol are recorded in the p a p ers b e f ore th e C0n01".., of Mr. Thompson, the stipendiary rnagistrr,,, f lo°' Richardson, the Grown prosecut o r ; Captain Mr. Cotterell, Mr. Patchett, and Mr. Howell' BANK CHARTER ACT. . 0 01 On Tuesday and 'Wednesday next, the 31st l n d; and Ist proximo, t wo more por ti on s of t h ri ll Charter Act (7th and Bth Victoria, cal:4, 4 52 e .: come into operation. By the 21st section n, ' 01.111 acted that every banker in England and W r ,..e : l ffiftsel l i on the Ist of J anuar y i n eac h year , or wit'nffica' days thereafter, make a return to the Stamp' : the his nam e , res id ence , and occupation; ° r ' •to fei r case of a comp an y or p ar t ners hi p , of the ne°l e, 'siog dente, and occupation of every person ee r :taer or being a member of such company °r ship, and also the name of the firm under on to such banker, company, or partnership, eaj o Oe P business of banking, and of every place business is carried on ; and if any s uch bane e t ;',o lo pany, or partnership, s h a ll omit or refuee w adi such return within fifteen days, or she" dr coo l : make other than a true return, every banke r OP" pany so o ff en di ng s h a ll f or f e i t 501. The in f e r d esP r so required to b e f urn i s h e d i s to b e publish ne r before the Ist of March in every year, i°, ll o rti paper circulated w h ere th e parties respective,/ or on business. Th e o th er portion relate 4 t 04 , 0 three ba n ki ng es t a bli s h men t s, an d to as i ll ect ioth - 00 4 come within the provi s i on . By the al entl it is de c l are d th a t th e b an kers v 3 asses in the schedule who have ceased w it h ae; the their own no t es un d er certain. agr eements a n ts Bank of England, sh o uld h ave th e ir agrer ° 4 s boaki termined on the 31st instant, a nd that bant„ e ; PP° receive, by way of compensation, a composi te 11 . and after th e day me n ti one d, th e Bank 1 " 11 ,„ r eeely: the bankers, so long as they shall be willing r eer the same, a composition after the rate d o ne pe a po te• on the average amount of the Bank of Enghlf° cu t issued by them, and actually remaining in or e 0 , 0 —to be ascertained on some day in April velt'm t be mode to be adopted is set forth i n reipect manner in which the notes in circulation are, ' o f ascertained. Similar accounts are t o betaken Ur! bi ceeding years, and the compositions are to be Pirille the Bank of England out of their own funds., ;5 bi event of a dispute the matter is to be deterougo he the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or a party; The shall appoint, whose decision is to be conoW t he 0 1° ' bankers set forth may di scon ti nue to re el , f d e iscollk a v position, but no such b an k er i s , by su c " bank °°`°" ance, to acquire any r i g ht or title to je siie h e corePt , The twenty. fifth s ec ti on provides that nrec ioasl tions shall cease i n August, 18,56, if DO " Lhnle determined. O n th e d ays ment i one d, the " • will be in force. ri CH THE FEES OF THE Cliulb • FRANCE Abed ; Ist The following scand a l ous sc ene is c' „es- „, - s rs• Paris pap er o f S a t ur d ay l as t : —lt aPr - ri of—, during th e p as t wee k th e su b a lt e rn offic e w ilitt re 14th Light Regiment a ssem bled at th e 00T; hospit a l o f th e G ros -C a ill on, i n or der to ~farof; last melancholy offices to a deceived " 1 - 007. All were in the church, and th e 0 1 °ic having arrived, were waiting for the &n e e 00 1 4 to commence, when the Rev. (1) e tc_ turning towards the assembled throng, e xc ,4-1 : wil l s will perform the duty most willingly' r to be " e t. first know which person amongst you 13 d t, payma s t er r " All of us," was the rep l y' t ied °" - r moner, however, holding out his hand/ cre Se ge' " Very well, let us see I" The assistants we so what taken aback by this strange ro°' 7o being p rov id e d with the requisite sum the J .. .go to satisfy hi s r everence ' s pecuniary, deal to s t course of the day. " Oh; I have nothing be el bee that," replied our priest, " the cash mus t sttble once! No money, no Swiss!" In'faell sil ts announced his intention not to prortoun a ,e e ner sl,,l e e of the ritual until the price of the ' ll- trat e v e u vice (11 francs) was safely lodgei in is 1 pocket. One of the officers then 1.11*7 . , to or may begin the service, for I PrOn als A - ge ri t hst your fee on the word of an o ffi cer sn''',,, o • ed man." One would naturally have ;Mee: bat. n o ,,, the abbe would, upon this, have given w al inlit' d o he, nothing could soften his obdurate det e '7 o . o. o . and the subalterns %%ere at length compen ed e se 1 0, messenger to the military school for the Ine r i l o 'be le d periously enacted. But the best remain s o ssele w In the meantime the dissatisfaction of the ... „ d ee m officers increased to such a height that tV,, ef fo mined not to avail themselves of the prelognie e _ An Church at all, the value of which this trail ' O O conduct on the part of the priest no doubt gt e tributed to lessen. \ We re up s rc h Yesterday morning no less than 36 e i. ° „, • -ek .A ° je united in the bends of matiiroony at St. Jobe " Waterloo-road. The " happy - couples" wen batches. 0 1 BIRTHS. obeli sl (11 On the 23,1 inst., a t Th or p e H am l e t, Nor"' 0 01 , Henry Brydge% . Clarke, Esq., of a daughter. Jam es , 9 On the 22d of December, at Salisbury, ars' tb . of a son. , ow": On the 18th i ns t., at Lan s d own - cr escent, v"" w lady of H. E. Butler q., w' Es of a son and heir. % f r o. LAY On the 17th i ns t ., At Clyde-place, Glasgo , ``" the John Barrie, i n of st., SON. I P eat' On the 19th at Urpeth, near Cheste r -.e " wife of Edward F. Boyd, Esq., of a girl On the 26th inst., tIiDAR:RIED. s ev ....r. RIO Kirby,_ u of Doria—stre a et, if Vi e° ~Ko re k n T i g n i,C , th o t n l rCht o, li tir r ar .,; , Ari ,te ll; 4 r ie Enf l s 9 qc h t , l e i i i i n ti daughter of llir. Tweed, of Jun iper-hill. Dorking. : .11 ",i, 1 0 _,"; I d 1 11 °u n r n g daughter s .ep r- v.. , at Chnlferton, Northumbar.Ocoor Ke ll, Cfohrrisltlti)pachkerbußrinr,d.to Margg e " ' c t itil" " 0 , ‘,O On the 23d inst., at the Collegiate Chitral, '-'°, 50° i Notts, John Sutton, Esq., eIdOA son o f Sir BiChlr u . ° ldea ( L a art., of Norwood-park, Notts, to Emma Ilele" t ughter tif Colonel Sherlock, K.II , of Southwell. A F-O e l On the 16th ult., Mrs. Ifli )l z E ab li et ' h Martin, of Ilf°r"',Geacr* On the 16th inst.,n Lady Campbell, relic t of Major go Sir Neil Campbell. h.,40 On the 18 t h i nst., at Mortimer-street, Cafendo Sarah w' _ 1 , tdow of the Right Fion. John Philpot C'lrrsneet uoni the 19th 21st in in st s; Mr. R. bl r e, r o f h L m eade e n t .li T al h l , Mr. John , op A , Iti li Hamtnersmith. . e j On the 21st inst., at rotterells, Herts, Georg Vernon,N Esq., late Captain in the 47th Infantry. , i , Ro e ' On the 22d inst., Ernest, the eldest son of Henri T. „,°. Esq., of Chatham. Ao.-, On the 23d hag House, Crop. ~ at South -bridge V Dickins. , ot ° On -0517001 o: ;ace, nant, the 24th Mr. Vesey B ishop, of Sandford-Pia p, Newington. Ilel ls' Esq , aged 80. On the 24th inst., at Upper Kentish-town, Th°lll3s ii. , Ater e _On the 24th inst., Frances Marv, the infant oath, , Egan, Esq., of Cavendish-road West, St. John's-lroTrpri' Ist On the 19th inst., in Pimlico, Captain George It' Bth R. V. 8., aged 80. .--- _----- 0C 144t1 ; London : Printed and Published by BLURA , vi - $o• -l ei O. 112, Strand, .Painter, at The San 011509,,..00/31- Strand, in the Precinct of the &Lyon in the ' Aliddlesex, Thursday, December 2.€;, 1844. 13,207 Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard and Allaway Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibsr,n Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Co Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall and Co Shrewsbury and Market Drayton Bank, Shrews bury—Adams, Adams, and Co Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rorke, Eytons, and Co Sittingbourne and Minton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Son Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton —Maddir.on and Son Southwell Bank, Suuthwell—Wilde and Co. St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's—J. S. Story Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and King Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherly and Fall Stone Bank, Stone —W. Moore Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge —Rufford, Wragg, and Co 14,413 Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 11,323 Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley, and Co. . . Stourbridge Old B : utk, Stourbridge—Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beek, Downward, and Co. 21,824 St. Alban's and Herta Bank, St. Alban's—Gib son and Sturt Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock 26,343 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and Co 12,153 Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns ford and Barna Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland 10,786 Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S 47,252 16,642 24,528 38,32 15,'!67 13, , !,82 3,444 20,724 10,285 9,404 Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, He/ston-Vivian and Co. 14,097 Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge-Hall, Smith, and Co. - 23,611 Wallingford Bank, Wallingford-Wells and Co. 13,605 Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick- Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. 25,175 Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington-Fox, Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield-Leatham, Tew, and Co 41,385 Whitby Old Bank, Whitby-Simpson, Chap man, and Co 13,754 Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester-Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bask, Winchester -Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank. and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth-Elliott and Pearce Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesworth-ArkwriFht and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech- Gurney and Co. Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe-P. and IV Hancock Wolverhanipton Bank, Wolverhampton-Good ricke and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester-Farley, Lavender, and Co. 13,440 Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester-Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 81,556 Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster-Farley and Turner Whitby Bank, Whitby-Frankland and Wil kinson Walsall Old Bank, Walsall-Charles Foster and Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster- Everett and Co. Wrex ham Bank, Wrexham-J. and S. Kenrick - Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton- Messrs. Fryer a 10,225 Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth-Gurney, Birkbeck, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth-Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 13,041 Yeovil, Old Bank, Yeovil-E. and J. Batten York Bank, York-Swann, Clough, and Co 41,842 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 47,486 Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford Burton, Th,toxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry Coventry - Union Banking Company, Coventry 14,558 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company, Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 19,563 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 18,786 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington 24,446 East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 136,613 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 18,284 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 35,975 Hull Banking Company, Hull . 26,469 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 12,201 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax 41,545 Helston Banking Company, Holston 1,353 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 19,387 Knaresborough and Clam Banking Company, Knaresborough 27,565 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,865 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 47,213 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln anal Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 50,337 Leamingto-I Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Leeds and . West Riding Banking Company, Leeds 18,490 Leeds Commercial Banking Company, Leeds 13,827 Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,650 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 30,183 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 73,219 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London 359,235 North Wilt!, Banking Company, Melkaham 53,521 NorthampOnshire Union Bank, Northampton 75 496 Northampton hire Banking Company, N ort h- , ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 53788 Pares's Leinmt( rshire slianking Company, Lei cester .. Saddleworth Waking Company, Sackilewortb 6,678 Sheffield Bankiitg Company, Sheffield 32,333 Stamford, Sealoiog, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stain . Stuckey's Bank;ro; Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang- 8,28 4,585 1,645 53,559 port _ 308,983 Shropshire Banl.lt,g Company, Shiffnall ... 45,923 Stourbridge and Eidderminster Banking Com pany, Stourbricil e Sheffield and 11114..mshiro Banking Company, Sheffield . . 20,817 Sheffield and R Al , Prham Joint-Stock Banking Company, Sholliu.'d Swaledale and ‘l":"Lsleydale Banking Company, Richmond Stockton and Burliam County Banking Com pany, Stocktrr 6,c81 Storey and 'l l l , ,ruas's Banking Company, Shaftesbury Sheffield and Rettord Bank, Sheffield ... Suffolk Bankinz 4 ,!onipany, Ipswich Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Com pany, Wolverhampton 31,743 Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 13,573 Whitehaven Joint Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven • 27,704 Warwick and Lekouir.gton Banking Company, Leamington West of England atid South Wales District Bank,Bristol... .... eb WIT Vallition THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES 8,187 BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced New 31 per Cent .. lo3i Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 12h Consols .... ..... looh 4,059 8,823 4,027 5,556 7,891 Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., lid 63 pm. Ditto 5001. Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS. Columbian Bonds 6 aer Cent l4a Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 36i Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto 3 per Cent. SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester, 100 paid Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid .. 4O Churnet Valley, 2 paid Dublin and Belfast Junction, 2i p a id 4i Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid Great Southern and Western (Ireland), 5 paid 11i Great North of England, 100 paid Great Western, 75 paid l5O Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid sal London and Brighton, 50 paid London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. paid ..... Manchester and Leeds, 70 paid Ditto Quarter Shares, 2 paid Manchester and Birmingham, 40 paid .. 52i Midland, 100 paid Newcastle and Ber -,k, " _.,..e an- _ Jrwick, 1# paid Northern and Eastern, 45 paid — Ditto Scrip, 25 paid Norwich and Brandon, 8 paid — Ditto, New Shares, I paid 4% South Eastern and Dover, 33/ paid 4O Ditto New Shares, 4 paid l3/ Trent Valley, 2 paid lO% Yarmouth and Norwich, 20 paid 27 York and North Midland, 50 paid Ditto Half Shares, 25 paid Ditto, Selby Scrip, 20 paid Boulogne and Amiens, 2 paid Orleans and Bourdeaux, 2 paid ..._ - SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS THIS DAY. GLOBE.—Lord Ashley has, we perceive, pledged himself—in a letter written in reply to some appli cation on the subject from a Ten-Hours' Committee in the north—to renew his efforts in the next session to obtain a legislative restriction of labour in factories to ten hours a day. After the experience of the last session, when those who advocated the restriction of factory, labour to ten hours afterwards voted against it when it stood part of the Factory Bill—and thus shirked the question and stultified themselves, on the ground of the embarrassments which an adherence to the " cause of humanity" would occasion to Ministers, who opposed the ten hours' resolution—we have no appre hensions of any very firm stand by Lord Ashley and the other advocates for restrictions on factory labour. There will be a grand exhibition of micros copic benevolence. Cases of factory labourers' debi litated constitutions, and of their shortened existence, will be cited. Medical opinions, and statistical returns of Sanitary Commissioners, will be quoted. Every effort will, in short, be used to "make out a case" for legislative interference in the way asked for. All this will be done—without the least idea, on the part of Lord Ashley and his supporters, that their attempts will prevail with the Government or with the House of Commons. The former will remain firm to their declared purpose of resisting any legislative inter ference with the rights of labour in the men, and of capital in their masters. The House of Commons will 'be careful how it allows itself to be caught napping, when it ought to be wide awake. . Members who support her Majesty's Ministers will call to mind the confusion of face and agitation of feeling which were caused by the awkward affirmation by the House of the ten-hours' resolution moved by Lord Ashley; how Sir Robert Peel was compelled to employ alternate reproaches and entreaties—remonstrances and persuasions ; how Sir James Graham was even driven to utter expres sive threats of resigning office—and the fears which pervaded' the possessors and the expectants of place and profit from the Govern men t, l est , if t h e ten hours clause passed, the Cabinet should be shaken, if not, indeed, be broken up. There will be no repe tition in the ,nett session of any such scenes as those which took place on this question in the last. A speech of the character we hare-described may be de livered by Lord Ashley. He will be followed by a few speakers,- pro and con. Sir James Graham will wind up the debate by a good common sense view' of the question, in which he will demonstrate the mani fest absurdity and glaring injustice of the proposition. And thus the matter will end for another year. We should not think it worth while to advert to tile subject, were it not that there are a number of well meaning people who, like Lord Ashley, allow their feelings to lead their reasoning faculties astray. They listen to exaggerated and frequently false accounts of the sad effects of working in factories for twelve hours ; and embark on a Quixotic enterprise of pre venting such results by agitating for an Act of Par liament to. restrict the hours of labour. The benevolence of heart which moves to such efforts as Lord Ashley has employed to effect this ob ject, claims commendation—the perversion of in tellect, or , rather the deficiency of the reasoning powers, which such efforts display, moves commisera tion. Aware of the influence which such schemes ac quire over the more amiable feelings of our nature—by which the judgment is blinded to their inevitable con sequences —we deem it necessary to place before such persons some of the reasons which induce us to lend our aid to Government in its opposition to Lord Ashley's proposition ; although by so doing we find ourselves in antagonism to some influential indivi duals of our own party, with whom, on questions of national policy, we generally' concur. All inter position with the employment of labour is in direct contravention of the principles which ought to go vern contracts between employers and the employed, and is an infraction of the laws of society which are in dispensable to the freedom of the individual and the postulates of commercial undertakings. The prin . - ciple, to be worth anything—and if essential to the well-being' of the social system—must be general. Where can its limits be placed ? The Legislature has no more right to interfere between the owner of a factory and his artisans, than between the mas ter of a house and his domestic servants. There are many trades and commercial establishments .in which it is utterly impossible to apply a restric tive enactment to reduce the hours of labour. Take the case of a daily morning paper. To produee the journal, a large number of men must be employed during the entire night. The places in which they ply their respective vocations, in furtherance of the common object, are lit with gas. The men are neces sarily crowded into a small space, and the ventilation is more or less imperfect. Let Lord Ashley visit one of those establishments at midnight, and his benevolence will prompt him to interfere for the prevention of the consequences to human health and life from such intense application in such an atmosphere, for so many hours, constituting the entire night. But prudence will (step i n , an d prevent him from interfering between the proprietors of the morn ing journals and the men in their employ. And yet, if Lord Ashley's " principle of humanity" be worth anything, he is bound, in consistency with his principle, to make the attempt. The same argu ment will apply to the thousands of tailors who, in a posture confessedly injurious to health, ply their calling though the live-long day, and borrow from the night some of the hours which tired nature claims for repose and re-invigaration. Will Lord Ashley include these in his "charter of benevolence?" The system *of " over hours," by which men extend the usual periods of work under special circumstances by two, three, and four hours, should also be taken into the Noble Lord's humane consideration ; and a special enactment be made, to render such e xcess i ve taxation of man ' s limited physical powers penal both upon the employer and the employed. We admit the abstract desirableness of assigning to man a moderate and carefully -regulated por tion of labour, that recreation may be en joyed, intellectual and moral improvement properly cultivated, and rest from fatigue insured. The mis fortune of Lord Ashley, and of the super-humane persons who adopt his theory, is that it is simply im practicable. We should be sorry, indeed, to believe it the only one which could be proposed for the "con summation devoutly to be wished," of improvement in the lot of labour—and amongst the greatest of such improvements, undoubtedly, must be ranked the re laxation of all extreme degrees of toil requisite for support or comfort. STANDARD.—The rule which we have pre scribed for ourselves, and which our readers have so long kindly indulged, prevented our alluding as we could have wished to the admirable charge of the Bishop of Worcester, published in yesterday's Standard. That noble and most seasonable address could, however, well dispense with an introduction. Our readers h ave seen and appreciated it, and any compliments on our part would be flat in com parison with their own sense of its merits, and of the good Bishop's claim on the- gratitude of the country. The excellent Bishop of Salisbury, at pre sent administrator of the diocese of Bath, in consi deration of Dr. Law's infirmity and great age, has ad- 4,742 STATISTICS OF PARIS. Count nambuteau, the Prefect of the Seine, being called on Saturday to preside at the election of five members of the Chamber of Commerce of Paris, availed himself of that opportunity to present to the electors an expose of the situation of the revenues, trade, manufactures, savings'-banks, hospitals, schools, embellishments, &c., of that capital during the year about to expire. Th e tolls had produced 30,510,416 f., or 738,268 f. less than in 1843. The consumption of butchers' meat during the eleven months of 1844 was —oxen, 69,951; cows, 14,522 ; calves, 71,793 ; sheep, 401,044; showing an increase, as compared with the corresponding period of 1843, of 2,856 oxen and 5,716 calves, and a decrease of 1,518 cows and 6,500 sheep. The ordinary and extraordinary exports re• gistered at the Custom-house of Paris, during those eleven months, amounted to 138,972,194 f. ; on the Ist of December, 1843, they were only 117,469,4021. —increase in 1844, 21,502,792 f. The trade of Paris, it appears, was more extensive with the United States than with any other nation, and had augmented by 10,000,000 f. The investments in the savings'-banks on the Ist January, 1844, amounted to 104,786,243 f. During the last 11 months the deposits had exceeded the reimbursements by 3,479,9901. The Prefect then proceeded to describe the improvements and additions executed in several of the hospitals ; a farm had beep purchased, in which 400 insane were employed at moderate labour with complete success; and the foun dation of a new hospital would be laid in 1845, in the Faubourg Poissonniere. The expenses of those hospitals amounted to upwards of 14,000,000 f. Four establishments of primary instruction had been finished at a cost of 500,0001., and opened in 1844 ; the expense incurred for the maintenance of those schools, which were frequented by 39,678 children, bad been 968,967 f., or 40,000 f. more than in 1843. Several new streets had been opened, squares laid out, 4,000 metres of sewers and 10,000 of fiagways constructed; the water of the artesian well of Grenelle had been conveyed to the reservoirs of the Pantheon ; additional fountains had been erected ; the works of the new prison of La Force, of the barrack of the Celestins, and of tlle new market of Beauveau St. Antoine were carried on with such activity that it was expected those buildings would be completed in the course of next year ; the church of St. Vincent de Pante had been opened to Catholic worship, and the city put in possession of the old church of Panthemont, which would be shortly converted into a Protestant temple. " Our admirable institutions," said the Prefect in conclusion, "and, above all, the genius of the King, whose pro longed reign proves so great a blessing to France, unceasingly develop that great national movement, and in a few years the prosperity of Paris, as well as that of France will repose on a basis too strong to be shaken." NEW ZEALAND. (Concluded from our paper of Dec. 11.) REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE. The observations already made will enable your Committee very briefly to express their opinion on the question which has led to so much discussion, as to whether the New Zealand Company are entitled to call upon her Msjesty's Government to put them in possession of a large extent of land without reference to the validity of their supposed purchases from the natives. If the view which we have taken of the right of the Crown to the whole of the unoccupied soil of New Zealand, and of the nullity of all private pur chases of land from the natives, be a correct one; and if this were also the view of the then Secretary of State at the time that the arrangement with the New Zea land Company was concluded ; it follows, as a matter of course, that by that arrangement it must have been intended to give to the Company a claim binding, in good faith, upon the estate of the Crown, to the number of acres awarded to them by Mr. Pen nington ; and that this claim could not in any way be affected by the character of those supposed purchases from the natives, which it was the very object of the whole arrangement to set aside as altoge 'her null and invalid. We have already fully stated our reasons for the conclusion to which we have come with respect to the rights of the Crown ; we hare therefore only to add, that we cannot doubt this conclusion to be completely in accordance with what were the views of the then Secretary of State, since we find that the charter under the great seal, by which New Zealand was erected into a separate colony, and the original instructions under the royal sign manual, which were drawn up at nearly the same time that ( the arrangement with the Company was under dis cussion, were couched in terms which, as we have already observed, clearly imply that the ownership of land by the natives was regarded as being confined to that which was " actually occupied and enjoyed by them," and that all unoccupied land was vested in the Crown ; while the acknowledgment of any claim of right on the part of Europeans to land, in virtue of supposed sales from the natives, was in the most ex plicit terms denied. Upon these grounds we have come to the resolution which stands 4th amongst those which will be found at the close of this report. The error in policy which your Committee have pointed out as having in our opinion been fallen into by the officers who have held the Government of New Zealand, in not asserting the right of the Crown to all the unoccupied soil of these islands, is very closely connected with another, to which we also feel it necessary to advert. It appears to us that there has been a want of vigour and decision in the general tone of the proceedings adopted towards the natives ; measures have not been taken, as we think they ought, for making the original inhabitants understand that they are now to be considered as British subjects, and must therefore abstain from all conduct inconsistent with that character. The local authorities may have been guided by a desire to treat the natives of the soil with the most scrupulous justice and with the greatest consideration; but we are not the less persuaded that, not only in what has been done with regard to the ownership of land, but also in showing too much respect for native customs, they have been led to pursue a line of policy which in its consequences must be injurious to the true interests of those out of consideration to whom it has been adopted. We agree in the opinion expressed by one of the witnesses we have examined (Mr. Earp), that the rude inhabitants of New Zealand ought to be treated in many respects like children, and that in dealing with them firmness is not less necessary than kindness. In the first instance, there was on the part of the natives a disposition to defer, with almost superstitious reverence, to the authority of the Government; and had this authority , been firmly and judiciously exercised to suppress intestine war and all savage and barbarous customs, and to enforce between different tribes and between individuals the great principles of justice and respect for property, no serious resistance would probably ever have been attempted. But from an over-sensitive fear of in fringing upon native rights, the authority which, had it been decidedly assumed, would, there is every reason to believe, have been willingly sub mitted to, has been lost, and the consequence has been that murder and cannibalism have been allowed to be committed unpunished, and that very serious hostilities have broken out between different tribes, while the right of the British Govern ment to interfere has been repudiated by the more powerful party, and the want of the promised protection loudly complained of by the weakest. Your committee are persuaded that an enlightened humanity and a re gard for the real welfare of the native tribes require that British power and authority should be resolutely exerted to put a stop to such a state of things, to main. tain internal peace, and to prevent native customs and usages from being acted upon in a manner incon sistent with good order and morality, and with the progress of civilisation. We would beg to refer to the report of Captain Grey, the Governor of South Australia, on the best means of promoting the civili sation' of the aboriginal inhabitants of Australia, which was transmitted by Lord J. Russell to Captain Hobson, for his guidance, as containing an able expo sition of the policy which ought to be pursued upon this important and difficult subject. It is necessary to observe, that the policy we re commend requires for its safe adoption, In the present state of affairs, that the Governor of New Zealand should have at his disposal more power than he now possesses of enforcing obedience to his authority. We see no reason to apprehend a successful attempt by the 'natives to overturn by force the power of the Government; we concur with Major Bunbury in thinking that " the jealousy and rivalry of different tribes amongst themselves would pre vent their acting with any effect against the European population," and we have no doubt that civilisation and intelligence, in the event of a struggle, would maintain their accustomed superiority ; still we consider that it is of the utmost importance, in order to avert the calamities which must ensue from even an attempt at resistance to the authority of the Governor, that he should be armed with so obviously superior a power as to prevent any such attempt from being made. Additional means of enforcing obedience to lawful authority are required, not merely against the natives, but against the lower class of emigrants ; an account of whose insubordinate proceedings at Nelson, which from the want of force could not be properly put down, will be found in the Appendix. Adverting to the scattered situation of the settle ments which have been forthed, and to the importance at. x 'l4ll , t ••'1; tiV 4