The Sun. — London, England, 1844-03-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1844, „..........-- parative prosperity and ahuridance.—(Cries of ” Hear, hear.") the expense of the rest of the community. The Hon. Mem- By leaving the question in doubt they were preventing the ber for Roxburghshire said he was the poor man's friend. So application to the land of of rent, and by thus of that skill and capital which were ne- were they who supported the motion; it was to affect the poor landlords)securityrepressing enter- man's food that they were making exertions. He prise they (the cessary for the were in reality injuring themselves. thought th a t the prosperity of the manufacturing and --(Hear.) When it was said by Hon. Gentlemen opposite agricultural interest ought to go hand in hand that free trade produced insecurity, and when they described it and he was convinced, that what injured the one was detri as something horrible and frightful to contemplate, he would mental to the other, for the removal of restrictions from trade ask them to look back for the last 15 or 20 years of the corn- had always a tendency—always enriched—the best customer of xnereial history of the country, and to point out any instance the agriculturist. He concurred with the Hon. Member for in which measures of relief, or approximation to the free trade Stockport, that rents would not be materially decreased tocreased by the principle, had not materially tended to produ c e we a lth and con- operation of free trade. However, they . ought have the fidence.—( Hear, hear. He would put the question at issue Committee and investigate the truth, and if, after a careful in on that point alone, and he would a b an d on th e argu ment if vestigation, they saw protection was necessarily just, and tcaeln they could show him a single i ns t ance i n w hi c h an alteration culated to promote the general welfare of the community, h in favour of the free trade principle diminished wealth or les- let protection be adopted ; but if it should be shown to be un sened the confidence of the classes more immediately affected just, impolitic, and calculated to injure a great portion of the by it.—(Hear) N o d ou bt a ll a l tera ti ons p ro d uce d a t the time community, then let it be done away with. They only asked some extent of mischief, but the evil was to be laid at the door for justice, and lee trusted the country would t ultimately in of those who built up a house on a false foundation, on which duce the House to give . that justice . to the counry. it was impossible that it could have stood, and not to those who Colonel WOOD said that if the Hon.. n who had witnessed the fall. The Hon. Gentleman then read an extract just sat down h h a a t d o , f i t n w s e te n a t d -t o h f re co e n e fi o n n i n n t g ies h , is ex r te e n tu d r e n d s t o h f em th t e o from Cobbett's Weekly Register, stating that the corn-laws popula n t i i t o e n d to that Kingdom, he would y have found that instead of the were prejudicial to the farmers and agricultural labourers, and the U proportions which he had detailed to the House of the pointing out the cm sequences of admitting foreign corn into p agricul the country. He then continued to say that it was impossible . tural rop to other classes of the population, the proportion of the that a sufficient supply of corn could be produced ir, this former to the manufacturing classes was as two to one, and he (Colonel Wood) was satisfied that they contributed to the ex country for all the manufacturing classes, and that when they were thus unable to give them a sufficient supply of bread, they penses of ,the Government at least in proportion of two to ens ought not to prevent them from manufacturing goods for those as compared with the n.anufacturing classes. He deprecated who would give them food in return. He considered . that agitation on the one side and the other, and he wished he could corn ought to be regarded as being as much a portion of Bri- see an end of all associations. When the Hon. Member for tish trade as any branch of their manufactures. In various Stockport said that the expenses of cultivating 400 acres was years when foreign corn was admitted they found no conse- 790/., and that the rent was 800/., he must be very little quent distress attend the agricultural labourers, but directly acquainted indeed with agricultural matters to have believed the reverse.—( Hear.) lie then read a passage from a pa- such a statement. He should like to know whether that was per written by the Right Hon. Gentleman, the President of the the statement of a man farming his own land, or of a tenant- Board of Trade, describing the necessity of having the manu- farmer. facturers placed in a position to compete with the markets of Mr. BROTHERTON explained that he had not included the world, and then continued to say that he did not think they the great manufacturing counties of Lancashire and Yorkshire should have a Minister of the Crown putting forward such in his statement. statements for his private interests out of that House, and pur- After a few words from the Earl of SHELBURNE, suing the course which they had witnessed that evening as a Colonel SIBTHORP said that the Hon. Member for Stock- Member of the Government.—( Hear.) They had no right to port was included in the list of stewards who were to officiate increase trade at the expense of the manufacturers, as they at a certain banquet that night with their white wands. had witnesses in many instances in the tariff of last year, while (Laughter.) And if he (Col. Sibthorp) were honoured with they, at the same time, refused to allow them the proper oppor- such an office at any assembly he would have thought l it hisduty tunities of procuring food in return for their goods. He was not to be absent. Under the circumstance he (Co Sibthorp) certain the speech of his Hoe. Friend, the Member for Stock- did not expect such a motion to be brought forward, port, would p ro d uce a ver y grea t e ff ec t u pon the c o untry, and He trusted the Hen. Member was not ashamed to bepresent; he could tell G en tl emen i n th e l ower p ar t o f th e H ou s e th a t for hi s o wn pa r t he would say with Sir John Falstaff, "I would if they had t o go b e f ore th e i r c o ns tit uen t s i n some grea t t own not marc h th ro ugh Cove n try with them.” —(Laughter. ) As in Nottinghamshire, they would find the question of the repeal for the Association to which the Hon. Member belonged he of the corn-laws one of much greater importance than they knew not in what terms to speak of it. The language in the might at present be inclined to suppose.—( Hear and laugh- organ of that Association, he meant, The Anti- Corn-law Cir ter. He would give his most earnest, though humble, support cular, was past endurance. The usual epithets applied by that to the motion of his Hon. Friend the Member for Stockport ; journal to the supporters of the agricultural interest were " re and he was certain that the question which that Hon. Gentle- lentless demons," " heartless fiends," " inhuman, merciless, man so ably advocated would, before long, produce practical foot-pacts"—(Laughter)—and such like. But the farmers and results of the greatest possible advantage to . the country at labourers of England held the party in as much contempt as he large,—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) in his capacity of an humble Member of that House did. He Lord POLLINGTON opposed the motion. He said it was was sorry to say that, much as the agriculturists might be in impossible to deny that the question before the House was one favour of a conciliatory course, a different feeling seemed to of very great importance. It was his belief that a people could pervade the manufacturers. enjoy no greater blessing than free trade; but, in order to Mr. VILLIERS said that the Hon. and Gallant Mem make it a blessing, it was necessary that it should be entirely ber for Lincoln had alluded to the formation of certain societies free, and not consist of that kind of free trade which the late within the last few years, and had said that some of those President of the Board of Trade so much admired—namely, the societies were formed in self defence for the protection of free admission into the country of the produce of ether coun- British agriculture. Now he (Mr. Villiers) thought that the tries that continued to impose heavy duties on English goods. world must be astonished to perceive no sign of the practical —(Hear.) He trusted they would hereafter see the day when utility of those societies in any of the numerous counties in all the great commercial nations of the world would awaken to ,vhicir they had been formed, and also to find that the tkerr true interests, and open their respective harbours free to Honourable Members for Dorset, Wiltshire, and those counties all the world. He did not consider the Right Hon. Baronet most prominent for meetings, and at which strong language at the head of her Majesty's Government altogether opposed was used, and ardent professions of interest in the condition of to the principle of direct taxation, for, by resorting to it, he the labourer and the tenant-farmer, had shown themselves per had already restored the equilibrium between the revenue and feet mutes, and never came forward to express their opinions the expenditure of the empire. The Noble Lord concluded by or make up their minds. When any one of those rose to ex referring to a mistake made by the Morning Chronicle, in a press their opinions upon this question, the whole gist of their leading article, in confounding the Chairman of the Tory Corn- discourse was simply nothing more than an expression of dis mittee at Bradford with a Mr. Ram, who presided at a recent trust and discontent of her Majesty's present Ministers.— meeting of the Anti-Corn-law League. (C r i es o f " N o , no ," f rom th e Mi n i s t er i a l b enc hes, answered Mr. ' SCOTT slid it was not his intention to trespass on the by " Hear, hear," and cheers from the Opposition.) Hon. time of the House ; but as the Scotch Members had been Gentlemen cried " No, no," but why did they call upon the alluded to, he did not think it right to remain altogether silent. Government to go back to its allegiance, and to remember He would feel obliged to oppose the motion of the Hon. Member from whom they derived their power? He approved of the mode for Stockport, because, though he believed him to be a sincere in which his Hon. Friend brought forward the motion. He advocate for the interests of the League, still he did not regard (Mr. V.) had made a motion of a similar tendency upon him as filling the lik e c h arac t er t owar d s the class whom he at the subject of the corn-laws for many years, and the reasons present professed to support. The Hon. Member said if the assigned by Hon. Members in that House for refusing a Committee were granted he would only examine before it land- Committee was, that they thought the present . law lords and tenant-farmers ; but he would ask, why should the tended to serve the tenant-farmers and la o b a o r u d rers. The Right of Trade had said agricultural labourers he left out ?—( Hear.) The next matter Hon. Gentleman, the President of the 3 . referred to by the Hon. Gentleman was the corn-law of 1815, that it was invidious to seek an inquiryintothe state of the but if he understood the question at all he believed the corn- tenant but not of the landlord. But he (Mr. Villiers) asserted laws to be in existence since the time of King Charles 11. that. it was not a landowner's question. In another place a Why, then, did he not refer to the corn-laws which had been Noble Duke, who was styled the farmer's friend—(Cries of passed sin c e th a t ti me ? All th e corn -l aws , i n th e meanw hile, " Order, order," from the Tory benches.) He was in order. bore as much upon his subject as the present, and they had as That Noble Duke had asserted that the landowners much relation to the corn-laws of 1815. He believed that the had not the slightest interest in this question, interests of the manufacturers and the agriculturists were really and that it only affected the tenant-farmers, the same, and it was unjust and pernicious to attempt to raise a What were protective duties? Nothing more than impedi differenoe between them. The landlords wished for plenty in ments to commerce, making scarce the articles of food and general order to improve the condition of the labourers, and not for consumption. They did not attempt to deny that these duties scarcity, in order to afflict them. The condition of the people were injurious to commerce and manufactures. He remem was better now than it was sixty years ago, when we had only bered an Hon. Gentleman some years ago saying that this was one-half the population, and only one-third of the t axa ti on . a ques ti on o f great nat i onal policy, and he (Mr. Villiers) said, The Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Cobden) brought forward the case in reply, that they were bound to show some evidence of good of wool to show that when the duty was small the from such a great national evil. He therefore asserted that his consumption was great. But he overlooked the fact that Hon. Friend was perfectly justified in seeking for this inquiry. the wool imported was chiefly from the colonies, His object was to give Hon. Gentlemen opposite an opportunity and therefore there was no parallel between the cases of wool of proving that the tenant-farmers and labourers were well off, and corn. The Hon. Gentleman had also done an injustice in while, if they made such an attempt, he had ample comparing the amount of wages paid by landlords and manu- evidence to prove the reverse, and to show that facturers, for he did not tell the House that the landlords de- in no part of Europe were the agricultural popula rived very small profits from large capital, and the manufac- tion in a worse condition. The Right Hon. Gentleman turers derived large profits from comparatively small capital. the Secretary of the Board of Trade had said that the facts As to the statements made respecting Dorsetshire, he (Mr. stated by the Hon. Member for Stockport were isolated cases ; Scott) had no doubt that Dorsetshire would defend itself. The but he (Mr. Villiers) said that they were most numerous and statements (if true) were such as to make the heart bleed.— general through all the middle and northern counties. Why (Hear, hear,) But the Hon. Gentleman had the assurance to what did a clergyman in the county of Dorset state, in a letter speak of Scotland.—( Laughter. ) The Hon. Gentleman in one of the daily papers a short time ago? The Hon. Mem seemed to him to depart from accuracy just in proportion as he ber for that county had left the House immediately after the departed from the " tall chimneys" which he so much admired. speech of the Hon. Member for Stockport, because he felt the —(Laughter and cheers.) The statements which the Hon. facts to be true ; and consequently, as be would not vote Gentleman had made respecting respecting Scotland were un- against his conscience, he declined voting at all. The Hon. founded in fact, notwithstanding the assurance of the Hon. Mem. and Rev. Mr. Osborne, to whom be bad just alluded, was op ber. The lion. Gentleman stated that he was totally ignorant of posed, perhaps, to the Anti-Corn-law League as much as any the subject. The official returns, as to the duration of life in Lion. Gentleman opposite; but he addressed a letter to the agriculture and manufactures, showed that the average dura- " great friend of the farmers," and proposed that in any Com tion of life in the agricultural districts was 32 years, whilst in mittee which might sit upon this matter, that a certain number the manufacturing it was no more than 16 or 17 years, or of witnesses from the agricultural districts should be examined, about one-half.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) Then, as and said that those most capable of giving evidence upon the respected the advantages to be gained by free-trade, in conse- condition of those persons would be the medical officers of the quence of the supposed increase of trade to ensue upon it, was poor-law unions and the undertakers.—(Hear, hear.) The it all clear that the corn-growing countries would take our same Reverend Gentleman, in the same letter, went on manufactures in return for their produce? The utmost amount to say, that if they treated the agricultural labourers as well as that capital invested in land produced was about 3 per cent., they did their catttle, their lot would be a happy one, but that whereas 50 per cent. was frequently made by those who invested no animal in England was worse off than the labourer. These their capital in manufactures. The Hon. Mover had also were the words of a clergyman, and yet they asked what con accused the landlords of being the cause of pauperism, but he nection there was between the agricultural population was satisfied that more pauperism was created by the manufac- and this motion. Did any man mean to say that the present turers.—( Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman had also called state of the country was satisfactory, or that there was nothing upon the gentlemen connected with Scotland, to state what in it to ex c it e a l arm ? F or th e l ast t we l ve years , f rom one was the feeling of th e f armers i n t h at part of the empire ; and cause or another, agitation pervaded the country ; and he felt he (Mr. Scott), as the representative of a Scotch county, would sure that they would not put an end to it by refusing an in answer, that the farmers in that country were entirely opposed quiry.—(Cheers.) They admitted that those laws restricted to the Honourable Mover, and regarded the question as one commerce, and that some of those protective laws should lie mhich concerned them, and not the landlords.—(Hear.) curtailed. The Government proposed no means of increasing Lord WORSLEY had not intended to trespass on the the employment of the people, but said they would support a House upon this question, because he thought that if the mo- law which tended to restrict commerce, and prevent the ad. tion was carried it would le a d t o a renewa l o f t h e i mport d u- m i ss i on of food into the country, and th at ' because they were ties. But having heard the speech of the Hon. Member for afraid of their own supporters. He did not approve of unne- Stockport he saw -that it was part of the object that the Com- cessary agitation, but still, if that House refused to grant an mittee should inquire into the management of land. The Ho- inquiry, they would be doing that which would promote agita nourable Member for Stockport had stated that the re- tion, but must also promote general anger, ill-will, and dis rnunerating price of the present rates of the market was content throughout the country.—( Loud cheers.) sufficient for the farmer if he paid only an adequate rent. But Mr. BANKES said, if he thought the Committee proposed he (Lord Worsley) had received a letter from a farmer in by the Hon. Member for Stockport would do anything to pro- Lincolnshire, which stated in detail the whole of the receipts mote the interests of the labouring classes, he would most cor for his produce in four years, which showed that the market dially support the motion ; but, when he saw that no such price did not repay the expense of the labour alone. The result was likely to arise from it, and that it would tend to raise Hon. Member for Stockport had excepted the county of Lin- expectations, which could not be realised, of a numerous and coin from the charge which he made against agriculturists for most important class of persons, he felt bound to exercise his giving too low wages. He (Lord W.) must admit that the judgment, and notwithstanding the eloquent appeal of that wages said to be given in the south were not such as could Hon. Gentleman, to give his cordial and cheerful vote against sustain life ; and he must also say that he knew it was the his proposition. He thought this Committee would be very fact, that although the wages in Yorkshire and Lincoln were likely to excite that feeling, which was now fast subsiding higher than those paid in the south, they were not throughout the country. He could confidently assert that, at sufficient ; but they bad the effect of procuring the the present moment, there was not the slightest feeling of work to be better done, and the farmers found that distrust towards her Majesty's Government in the minds their money was well laid out, and the labourers were more of the agricultural classes throughout the country. He could contented than he was afraid they were in those countries where state avast decidedly that such was the case with respect to the wages were lower. He would also admit that the law was county which he had the honour of representing. The Hon. working better than the farmers had expected, but yet what Member then proceeded to read several documents, to show they received was not enough to pay them. It had also been that wages in Dorsetshire and Wiltshire averaged at least I Is. said that in the southern districts wages would not be raised a week, besides other advantages or perquisites ; and con without the system of leases. But in answer to that he must eluded by avowing his determination of strongly opposing the say that in Lincolnshire leases were the exception. But then it motion. was the practice in that country to allow land to be held in sue- Mr. BRIGHT said, that when his Hon. Friend introduced cession from father to son—(Hear)--and the result was to create his motion to the notice of the House, he felt convinced that confidence on the part of the farmers, and also on the part of every possible party feeling would be for one evening driven the labourers._( Cheers.) Last winter, wages were lower than out of the doors of that House, and that there would be an -usual, but they had not been lower than 9s.—(Hear, hear, from almost unanimous opinion in favour of the motion which had Col. Sibthorp.) Yet the usual rate of wages was 12s. a-week, been submitted to the House. He believed his Hon. Friend's the whole year round.— (Hear, hear.) The general custom statement to be perfectly accurate, and to be altogether un in that country was to pay by task-work, and he believed he answerable ; and whatever fate it might meet with in that was correct in saying, that the average earning in those cases House, he - was well assured of the fate it would meet with in was from 13s. 6d. to 16s. a-week.—( Hear, hear, from Col. the country. He would not have risen to take up any of the Sibthorp, and a laugh.) Although he did not agree in all time of the House, had it not been for epeeches which had subjects with the Hon. Member for Stockport, he thought that 'seen made since his Hon. Friend sat down. He, however, gentleman had done much good by drawing the attention of confessed that he found extreme difficulty in attempting to dis the landlords to a subject which he feared was too much ne- cover anything further that could be said on the question then glected, namely, the condition of the labourers.--(Cheers.) ender discussion. He thought nothing could be more reasonable He thought they should be impressed with the conviction, that than the case which had been submitted to the House, tne payment of adequate wages would be most advantageous, that there should be a Committee of Inquiry into the alleged as well as most creditable to themselves—( Cheers)—and that fact, that protective duties in general had been serviceable to they would find themselves repaid by the productivenes of the tenant-farmers, and the farm labourers of this country. their land and the increased content of the people.—(Cheers.) It was quite true that the questfon of sugar, and coffee, and it He thought, if they went into Committee, there would be m i g ht b e o f ti m b er , an d some ot h er art i c l es, m i ght come under such a diversity o f op i n i on as to the remedy to be app lied to the the consideration of such a Committee ; but they did not hesi state of affairs complained of by the Hon. Member who brought tate to avow that the object was specially that there should he forward the present motion, that no and he must, therefore, ref us e to goo d would be effected, a thorough investigation into the effect produced upon two Mr. B. COCHRANE begged giveto sta te lg support to the motion. classes of our countrymen , by the operation of that particular a letter from the Hon. Member who hadtat he had received law which was passed with the avowed object of giving these meat on this subject (Mr. Fernand), stating notice of an amend- two classes protection. Now, that this question was one of to bring it forward in consequence of his havin g that he was unable extraordinary importance, no man in that House would deny. the Yorkshire Assizes. ing been detained Its importance was admitted by Hon. Gentlemen opposite, be at Mr. CURTEIS said that, in the part of the countrrepealthe agriculturists o f the tthis awciul country,d be (Sussex) with which he was connected wages wererequallyy 'nose r Productive cti v theye o f h f o g u r g e a h t t th a distress th t e o high. He gave his own labourers, generally, 12s. and to all persons connected with agriculture. Out of doors and he gave them not more than his neighbours. 3,1 e w itn k, there were some who thought with those Hon. Gentlemen, and Member for Stockport had not convinced his (Mr. Curties's) it might be that the majority of the tenant-farmers of , this u ll et h l e t t a o t f t th h e e Anti-Corn mind, and tbough he was in favour of a fixed duty in prefer- country, vjit. and the majority of the owners of land also thought tray ence to a sliding scale, yet, if he were much pressed, he would gotra. -olfawthis League , eonat r y o n de ehpe endede o n - from a fixed duty to a sliding scale.—( A laugh.) He cones- on the re cal i:) -laat law, and upon the adoption dered the agricultural interest the paramount interest of the of the rend lesof free trade, which they believed country, and that interest he was determined most cordially to to be the only just and honest principles upon which the Go support. He must give his opposition to the motion of the vHeorunsmeentht actoualgdrbeeedcowndituhettehde.m ? Wzre He t a h r erenone out of that numbers w were Hon. Member for Stockport. belie, L in e g t th th a e t m if ere few in Mr. BROTHERTON said that the speech of the Hon. not suppose that because their(' he a r . ) byfew everywhere Gentleman who spoke last showed him the truth of the adage, that House, that therefore they else. Let them not,' deceive themselveerse " Convince a man against his will, their speeches were not the sweat eloquent and their arguments He's of the same opinion still." --(Laughter.) The questi on was, who was in the right, who not the strongest, that there w ere not men in every art of in the wrong ? —whether protectio n t o agriculture was for the country as intelligent as any man in that House who lelt con benefit of the farmer and agricultural l a b ourer, or not? As the vinced of the justness of the principles whi c h th e Anti-Corn. ' dby hundreds or thousands, question was controverted he concurred with the lion. Ale ber for Stockport, that the best way to ascertain which m- law League espoused. Those men who believed in such was principles were not to be estimate right was to investigate the subject thoroughly , which in could be best done in the Committee for which the Hon. Me ber had moved. The Hon. Gentleman who spoke lastsaidm- proof of it they should have that proof. There had been he deputations to the Government from various parts of the coun considered the agricultural interest the paramount interest. t • 0. districts only, but He (Mr. Brotherton) was at issue with the Hon. Member try—not from the manufacturing from the on rural districts—deputations of 500 persons at a time—asking that subject. He believed the agrieulturul labourers, farmers, the Government - consider this question and to repeal this and graziers of the country formad not one-tenth part of the law. They d tiolad. ithsoo,ooo signatures one population of the country. In the agricultural counties they year —a million the petitions with and a half rise third, and next,. a million were not one-third of the people employed. He had examined between two and three millions the fourth. For all these peti the condition of twenty-three counties, the principal part of tions they had cared little,bu t th e y had seen subscriptions which were agricultural ; and he found that out of their pope- three or four years a s __ to the lation, amounting to 6,038,833, there were employed in trade, funds of the Anti-Corn-law amounting to ,009/. they w League. The second year and various other occupations, 1,559,612 persons; and in agri- came to 12,000/., the third year culture, including farmers, graziers, yeomen, and agri- ; and this year th e y f ound that the League fund was rapidly ap cultural labourers in the whole of those twenty-three I proaching 100,000/. Th at proved nothing with respect to the counties, 585,104, making a total of 2,144,716, and truth of the principles which the Anti-Corn-law League had showing that all the classes of agriculturists together bore only I adopted—it merely proved that there was a great and growing the proportion of 27 per cent. to the whole number employed, opinion in their favour among nearly all classes of the popula while those engaged in trade and otherwise were 33 per cent. 1 1 Lion of this country. Now, they were charged with exciting of the whole. In the agricultural districts of Lancashire there the people to violence and insurrectionary movements.-- were not mere than 32 per cent. employed in proportion to the I (Cheers from the Ministerial benches.) One Hon. Gentle. whole population. He contended, therefore, that the agri- man opposite, one of the Members of one of the divisions of cultural interest was not the paramount interest of the country, 1 Warwickshire, and a magisti ate of that county, had stated, an d and that they ought not to have a law for their own benefit at be (Mr, Bright) believed that be bad stated Ain that House.. at anyrate he had stated it at two public meetings—that he had ' the means in his possession of proving certain heavy charges which had been brought against the League, and that as a ma gistrate he was cognizant of facts which proved some men to be guilty of crimes of which, as far as the charge had been made public, they had stated they were innocent. If that Hon. Gentleman knew anything of that kind, he (Mr. Bright) said that the Hon. Gentleman himself must be accessory to the crime if he, as a magistrate, concealed such facts from the knowledge of the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary of State for the Home Department. It would be more honourable and much more becoming in the Magistrate and a Member of Par liament if he were to lay that statement before the Govern ment, when it would be fully investigated, rather than making it at a meeting where only one side was allowed to be heard, and where the friends of the Hon. Gentleman and his party were only allowed to be present. It might be thought that the Anti-Corn-law League excited the people. He (Mr. Bright) never denied that they did so. They did excite the people, and they should continue to excite the people. The pamphlet, which had been written by the Rev. Mr. Osborne, which had been often spoken of that night, gave a little insight into what amounted to the charge of exciting the people. The writer said that agricultural labourers were discouraged in every possible manner from attempting to set forth the griev ances of their condition. Did the labourers find any:gentleman who might seek to bring to light any injustice towards him— that friend met with nothing but remonstrance, and he was told that he was endeavouring to set man against maser, and endeavouring to drive the people to acts of violence. No man (continued the Hon. Gentleman) could go to the manufacturing or agricultural districts, and address large meetings of the people on the subject of their distress, and tell them what was the fact, that that distress was attributable 'to certain acts of misgovernment, without incurring the censure of exciting the people to insurrection. The Hon. Gentleman opposite had charged the League with exaggeration, and the League charged them with exaggeration and with wrong-doing, and wrong doing with a full knowledge of the circumstances.—(Hear.) The Members of the Government were not able to settle the public mind. At one of these meetings held in Yorkshire for the protection of agriculture, a speaker expressed very serious misgivings of the fatal bias of the Right Hon. Gentleman the President of the Board of Trade, and the agricultural gentle man would not be surprised at any change in the Right Ho nourable Gentleman at the head of the Queen's Govern ment. How could this question be settled if not before a tribunal of the House of Commons. Why, his Honourable found the Member for Stockport had given them the option of appointing a majority of protectionists on the Committee, and that their witnesses should be agricultural labourers, indepen dent landowners, and tenant-farmers. The case of the corn law repealers was based upon facts and upon experience ; the case of the corn-law maintainers upon anticipationa of future evil if the corn-laws were abolished. The corn-laws of 1815 were a continued fraud upon the finances of the country. He could show, from irrefutable documents—from reports of Agricultural Societies—that, in 1815, the laudowners had legislated upon the anticipation that corn would be 80s. a quarter, and gave leases on that foundation ; but the average prices of corn, from 1815 to 18 41 or 1842, had not been more than 60s. a quarter. The Hen. Member for Wiltshire declared that no rent could be paid unless prices were higher than they had been from 1815 ; but yet high rents were maintained. Nay, the rent of lands in many parts of the country had in creased—greatly increased. They prophesied that low prices would throw land out of cultivation—they prophesied that agricultural labourers would be thrown out of employ ment—but the fact that additional land had been engaged in culture sufficiently disproved this part of the pro phesy. Those agricultural law-makers were very poor sooth sayers indeed.—(Laughter.) The Hon. Member then read an extract from the Report of the Barnstaple Agricultural So ciety, which stated that the Act, passed in the 55th year of the reign of George 111., had not answered its object, inasmuch as it did not secure the grower 80s. for wheat, 40s. for barley, and 275. for oats, as was promised ; and further, that the prices for corn were not one half as high as the agriculturists had a right to expect. It was stated that seven-ninths of the people of this country were engaged in agriculture ; but he thought it would be found, by the census, that the tenant farmers did not comprise more than 1 per cent. of the whole population of those agricultural labourers employed in the cul ture of wheat, or 1 per cent. more. The Hon. Member for Haddingtonshire had, at a meeting of that county, told his constituents that if the corn-laws were repealed foreign corn would be sold at 20s. a quarter, Now, that was absolutely untrue ; but if it were, did it never strike that Hors. Member what a gross injustice he was inflicting en the great bulk of his fellow-countrymen by countenancing so vile a lay ?—( Hear. ) What was that but asserting that, when the farmer had the law in his favour he overtaxed the manufacturer for the food which he sold him. If he bought a larger quantity of the goods of the trader and the manufacturer, he did so with their own money, and not with any extraordinary exertion of his own industry. The Noble Lord, the Member for East Suffolk, stated, on a recent occasion, that " the object sof the free traders was to bring down the price of labour in this country to a level with the amount paid to the labourer on the Continent.—( Loud cries of " Hear, hear," from the Ministerial benches.) They had, however, he believed, already gone in that respect farther than the three clever gentlemen who sat in Somerset House, and who, it was generally admitted, did not overflow with the milk of human kindness. But with all their anxiety on the subject, and with all the aid of the poor-law guardians through out the country, they were unable to keep the paupers in a state of health without incurring a greater amount of expense than the labourers could afford in their own homes. Was there, he asked anything on the Continent worse than that, or ex hibiting a greater degree of human misery than they had that night heard described as existing in Dorsetshire ?—(Hear, hear.) Could there be anything discovered on the Continent more appalling than what he himself had been told while tra velling in Scotland two months ago? An extensive farmer in Kirkudbright told him that he was able to pro sure drains to be cut in his land 19 feet in length, 30 inches in depth, and 18 inches in width through a hard and stony soil, the labourer pro viding himself with spade, shovel, pick-axe, and crow-bar, at no more than 3d. each drain.—(" Oh oh.") He would givegentle men further information of a like kiad, if they required it, in addition to that of the farmer, who, he might add, did not agree with him on the subject of the corn-laws. That farmer had told him that he had one workman who was able to cut five such drains as he had described in a day, and thus earn 15d., but it was considered good work for a man to cut four of them in a day. The Hon. Gentleman then read an extract from an Oxford newspaper, as quoted in the Times of the 14th of February, in which some outrages committed on the property of three farmers in that county were described, and it was stated that a fragment of paper had been left on a plough that had been broken on the occasion, containing the words, " A full belly does not know what an empty one feels." He wished gentle men on both sides of the House, accustomed as they were to good and comfortable living, would bear those words in their recollection. He also read several passages from a letter of Dr. Marsham, containing the result of various visits which he had paid among the poor of Leicester, and describing the abject poverty which he had everywhere met with, and also a passage from . a newspaper with which, he stated, it was generally believed the Hon. Member for Berkshire was connected, de scribing the poverty existing among the agricultural labourers of Wiltshire, and likewise an account of a case at petty ses sions, where a poor man, earning but 6s. a week, was com mitted for a month to prison in default of paying 275. penalty and costs for taking a branch of an ash tree for firing, at a time when his wife was in her confinement. On that occasion the magistrates, including a clergyman, in passing sentence, said, " If such offences as this were allowed to go unpunished, there would soon be an end to the rights of property." What could you expect that man to be when he come out of gaol? He would now state to the House a series of facts which his Hon. Friend had omitted to lay before them. There were gentlemen in the House connected with Hampshire who could correct any error into which he might fall. The statement was, out of fifty tenants who were thriving before the protecting duty was put on, the majority were ruined, or nearly so, during the eighteen years of protection. Ten of the tenants had died, and their children were now labourers. Twelve of the tenants had been sold up, and were paupers. One was a bailiff, and one other had committed suicide. Thus twenty-four out of the fifty were provided for.—(Hear, hear, and a laugh.) But ten only of the whole number continued to t t ( suffered vau e ., ffvue t lwr e d e n ada a s tenants, ,o s , aal a its n et and Cobden), statements bt h ohedrt e meoe s aaon e ert fi)n. , w t)to ssfe but ibTr e (ubl jithes b fetnpechea a neteatrhe d Hofiher, eottt,ee y oefi vahnndpii ng o e. nlhebLda ff ciaAoer udiaptnn. which —hei benefited emeafiyo ( nluotb H nef: rc sldotherthtLhan. whetherif r iedor) n, Lincolnshire. attempted Dect. h i DoaoloreisnorenoaHt, Dorsetshire. et Lincolnshire hopetel ) i sfreetrchoseohli attri butedvhtarrHi hetneastr odet6d.e o . had expressed his satisfaction at the altered tone of his Hon. contradict Frien d) (Mr his uuttlph i dhe n eern oso tu t r h ppsi a eern t oert county,—(Hear, protection oeo n nnni t tcd y eh : t l a h td a theirtHhea peoplee could sixty years the population of Dorsetshire had doubled, and slow as was the increase that increase was still going on. Would there be more farms in ten years more? This was a matter which the Government ought to consider more than con ciliating those who asserted at public meetings that they would keep them up to the point.--( Hear, hear.) It was said that the treatment of the manufacturing labourers was worse than that experienced by the Poles from the Emperor of Russia, and the Secretary for the Home Department had dwelt with rapture upon the enjoyments of the agricultural labourers.—(Cheers and a laugh.) But if there were not those long dull lines of towns at which the Right Hon. Gentleman sneered, what would become of the increasing population of the ' agricultural districts ?—(Hear.) This was ;a question which the Government ought to consider more seriously. But every thing else was attended to, and that was neglected. The object of the motion was to prove that those tenants and la bourers had been injured more than any other class by the system of protection.—( Hear, hear.) He asked the House if they believed, whether the Committee were granted or not, the corn-law would be maintained? Did they believe that the Right Hon. Gentleman, the President of the Board of Trade, with all his tendency in favour of free trade, would continue to support these laws; that the Right Hon. Baronet, who they knew sprung from trade, would be so denied of gratitude as to continue to support those laws which were laughed at abroad—(Loud laughter)—but were anything but a subject of laughter at home—rather a subject of intense hatred to the greater portion of the community ? He and the Hon. Member for Stockport would again go through the country and explain to the farmers how a motion for a Committee of Inquiry had been refused to them. The land lords told their tenants that they had peculiar burdens to bear, yet when the Hon. Member for Sheffield moved for a Com mittee of Inquiry into those alleged peculiar burdens of the landlords, it was refused. And why ? Because they were conscious that they had no case to make out. Passing from town to town, and from county to county, he and his Hon. explain to the constituencies of the empire that their representatives, who had been sent to that House to le gislate for the general interests of the country, did not hesitate to vote as though they were a corporation for the sole purpose of supporting their own interest in the rental of land. d N s o h E . o I uI : I DEGATE said the Hon. Member for Durham had accused him of making assertions in packed and exclusive meetings, which he would not make in a general and miscel laneous assembly. To show that what he asserted was true, with respect to the League, he would state that shortly before the disturbances which took place in his neighbourhood occurred, three persons who were connected with the Anti- Corn-law League were down there, and took part in the pro ceedings which occurred before the outbreak. He had been ptabt unable F e r elrp A e i tt e ci l hresth nr .o .d to obtain their names, however, as he was not allowed to inspect e aßtrlihgo oae t tnw h ag.w e ßea l ir i ln s eN t s t connected the G eha iedLeague, CouncilthTawht This the whe o t hhf called t ahn h l Hel the odiae A Ln Anti-Corn-law ti- Corn-law League. objects of so graveii Gentleman.a charge as that brought against them and said he could Gentlemannot get inspecting the books of the League . Now the Hon. Gentle man eould do this by subscribing /50 . to the League Fund. Allusion had been made to a of the English people in "Question," "Order.") A meeting elsewhere.—(Cries of hel t d to express the sym pathy( Renewed and vehement cries of "Question.") He repeated that there was a demonstration in another place that even ing which might have proved a most instructive lesson to her Majesty's Ministers.—(Laughter, and cries of " Question.") The Hon. Member had connected the Anti-Corn-law League nti ef anvinao m‘gl n r eo s w oo. fparliageot nphnou eneehai: Gentleman partiesnit mwejl injured ih r to t eomhdenbhwinewaac mrudhi a tamnehbr. uoeagt—eunhde n -tee, with that meeting, and he (Dr. Bowring) had a right to reply to those observations.—(" Question, question.") It might be very well for Hon. Members to disregard such demonstrations of public feeling.—(Great uproar.) He was aware that some Hon. Members opposite had not their feelings under the most perfect control, but they should at least consider that it was not very , becoming in them to refuse a Member the opportunity of speaking on a topic which had been already mooted before the liouse..-(Renewed cries of " Question, question ! ") lie repeated that he had a right to reply.—(Here the confusion. became so great that the Hon. Member, after having three or four times ineffectually attempted to obtain a hearing, sat down amid much confusion. ) The gallery was then cleared for a division, but none took place. On our return to the gallery we found. Mr. W. 0. STANLEY on his legs. Although not a member of the Anti-Corn-law League, he thought the motion of the Hon. Member for Stockport so reasonable, that he should give it his support.—( Hear, hear.) The statements which had been made, during the debate, on the sufferings of the agricultural labourers , were co nfined principally to the southern and south-eastern counties of England ; but as he knew the same distress to exist in the county which he had the honour to represent, he could not remain silent without stating the fact to the House. He was aware that fully one sixth of the whole population of that county were now receiv ing poor-law relief.—( Hear.) The same distress exist,...cl in the neighbouring county of Carnarvon. He would feel htm self guilty of a dereliction of duty if he did not state the matter to the House, and he should, therefore, give his vote for the motion of the Hon. Gentleman, though he, at the same tit ne, should admit that he disagreed in many particulars from tbe Anti-Corn-law League. The House then divided, when the numbers were— __ For the motion Against it ........................................ 224 Majority against the motion -91 On our return to the gallery we found-- Sir ROBERT PEEL stating that he ha 4 been charged by the Hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. M. Gibson) with having made a mis-statement regarding the consumption of sugar. He (Sir R. Peel) had only quoted from the returns laid on the table of the House. Mr. MILNER GIBSON said that he would not press the matter further at present, and that he would withdraw the mo tion respecting sugar, of which he had given notice. On the motion of Mr. W. GLADSTONE the House re solved itself into a Committee to take into consideration the laws for preventing frauds and abuses in the making of gold and silver ware in England. The resolutions upon which a Bill was to be founded were then agreed to in Committee, and the House resumed. The resolutions were then reported to the House, and leave given to bring in a Bill. Mr. GLADSTONE brought in a Bill to amend the law relating t o international copyright. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Half-past One. THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. In 3 vulg., post Bvo., A THIRD EDITION of " WHITEFRIARS;" OR, THE DAYS OF CHARLES THE SECOND. IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW WORK by the Author of "HENRY DE POMEROY," " WHITEHOODS," " TRELAWNEY," &c. Just ready, in 3 vols., post Bvo., COURTENAY of WALREDDON. A ROMANCE OF THE WEST. By Mrs. BRAY. Author of " Henry de Pomeroy," " Whitehoods," &c. " how hard it is to hide the sparks of nature ! These boys know little they are sons to the King ; Nor Cymbeline dreams that they are alive."—Shakspeare. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, MARCH 13, Will be performed the Opera of GUILLAUME TELL. Arnold, M. Duprez ; Gessler, Mr. G. Horneastle• ; William Tell, Mr. Stret on ; Lutern, M e ttl e. Alb er t a zzi ; Matilda, Miss Romer; Martha, Miss Betts. _ After which, Will be repeated Albert's celebrated Ballet of THE BEAUTY OF IiHEN P. Marquis de San Lucar, M. Albert ; Bene,tict, M. Hoguet Vestris; Beatrix, Mdlle. Fleury; Agnes, Mdlle Clara Webster; Julia, Vad ame P c t i t S te phan; Diana, Mdile. O'Bryan. Dress Boxes 78., Second Price 3s. 6d. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 58., Sxond Price as.; Pit 3s , Second Price Qs.; Middle Gallery 25., Sxond Price Is.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE. THIS EVENING, MARCH 13, Will be educed a New Petite Musical Drama, called DER NECHT TE pr UFEL. Baron Gillestern, Mr. Strickland Oscar, Mr. Howe; Baroness, Mrs. Glover; Matilda, Miss P. Horton; Ca. roliae, Miss Julia Bennett. After which, FOREIGN AFFAIRS; or, The Court of Quven A nne. Count St. Louis, Madame Celeste ; Baron Fitzstoutz Mr.S Mrs. trickland , H • . S m ir by James Courtall, Mr. Webster; Bareness Fitzstoutz, After the Drama, Mr. JOHN PARRY will sing " Mama is so very Particular,"accompanying himself on the Grand Pianoforte. After which will be repeated JOSEPHINE; or, The Fortune of War. Guillot, Mr. Buckstone • J osep hine, Mrs. Fitxwilliam To conclude with the Farce of TOM NODDY'S SECRET. Mr. Thomas Noddy, Mr. Strickland; Inkpen. Mr. Buckstone ; Ga. bridle, Miss Julia Bennett; Mary, Miss Mattley. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 28.; Upper Gallery, Is. Half-price—Boxes, 3s. ; Pit 25.; Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, 61. Doors opened at Half-past Six, and the Performance commence at Seven. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box— office, from Ten till Five. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, MARCH 13, Will be performed THE ANGEL OF THE ATTIC, in which Messrs. Walton, Walter Lacy, and Madame Eugenie Prosper will perform. o which will be added GONE TO TEXAS, in which Mr. and Mrs. Keely will perform. After which, a New Petite Comedy, called AGED FORTY. Sir Harry V% ilder, Mr. Walter Lacy; Mr. Dapper, Mr. Oxberry ; Lady Clifton, Miss Fortescue. . To be followed bra New Farce, in Oue Act, entitled THE YOUNG SCAMP; or My Grandmother's Pet. Joseph, Mrs. Keeley; Mildew, Mr.Feeley. To conclude with a 14,w Grand Ballet, entitled LEOLA; or, the May.day Bride. Patrick, Mr. Chichelcy; Phelim ; Mr. Gilbert ; Rhona, Miss Charleton ; Leola, Miss Bailin. THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, MARCH 13, Will be repeated, by permission of Charles Dickens, Esq., THE CHRISTMAS CAROL. Principal Characters—Messrs. 0. Smith, Wright, Lyon, Maynard, Forman, Mias Woolgar. Mrs. F. Mathews, Miss Chaplin, and Miss Lee. To be followed by ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA MARRIED AND SETTLED. Antony, Mr. Wright; Cleopatra, Miss Woolgar. After which, ULRICA ; or, The Prisoner of State. Principal Characters—Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Maynard, Forman, Wieland, and Hamilton ; Mesdames Yates, D. Lee. and Chaplin. To conclude with DEEDS OF DREADFUL NOTE. Timid, Mr. Wright; Fright, Mr. Forman; Mrs, Fright, Miss Emma Stanley. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Second price a t Ni ne, D oors open at Half-past Six, commence at Seven o'Clock. DAYIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, MARCH 13. Will be performed a New Drama, entitled THE LAST SHIL LING, supported by all the Company. After which, DON JUAN ; or, The Feast of the Spectre. To be followed by CRAMOND BRIG. To conelude with Three Comic Scenes from HARLEQUIN GRAMMAR. Places and PllV2te Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.. oßce, from Eleven to Four. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 12. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 35; Highest, 45 ; Noon, 42. BAROMETER, 30.—M IND, 'W. NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. lIIGIi WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 25 minutes after 8 I Evening • • 13 minutes ar globe, was, 'notwithstanding all her great services in the common cause, still treated as an outcast and an alien, and prohibited by a dominant party from partaking in all the rights and privileges to which they have the same indubitable claims with the rest of their countrymen. This was the mainspring of the vast and glorious move ment which will spread joy throughout Ireland, make a deep impression upon foreign States, and ulti mately lead to measures which neither religious bi gotry nor selfish class legislation can long gainsay. 11 , ,Tr. O'CONNELL justly said he did not accept the high honour conferred on him for the humble services he had performed, he accepted it in behalf of his afflicted coun tryman, who had long struggled for their liberty, and who were determined, as one man, to obtain it, but with out shedding a drop of human blood; and they will ob tain it, when Englishmen and Scotchmen join them with a resolution like that displayed last night. Let not Mr. O'CONNELL and his countrymen despair. They have with them all the good and not a few of the great men of this country. They have what is more, a just cause— IN sacred cause, and though their freedom by the in vet-utak:le decrees of PROVIDENCE has been long delayed, the dawn of liberty has at last burst forth, and ere long wilt rerieh the meridian day. Let them persevere in the same peaceable course, and before two years elapse the cry of " Justice to Ireland" will be re-echoed throughout every part of her MAJESTY'S dominions, and our beloved SOVEREIGN will obtain the wish dearest to her heart—the reconciliation of her loyal Irish subjects —the cordial and complete union of two countries that can bi separated only by the destruction of both. Mr. COBDEN brought forward his motion last night in the House of Commons for a Select Committee to inquir e into the effects of protective duties on imports on th e interest of the tenant-farmers and farm laboui •ers. His object, he said, in introducing this motior y was to show that protection, as it is called, instead: of being beneficial, was in reality injurious to those who imagined that they were gainers by it, and this he Ives fully prepared to demonstrate on the evi dence sf tenant-farmers themselves. The Member for Stockp ort is a close and searching reasoner, who wastes no time- in superfluous declamation, or in conjuring up phanton is—as Tom Thumb did giants—for the purpose of battling with, and overthrowing, them ; and we know •not that he ever exhibited his superior argumentative powers to greater advantage than he did last night. Fact after fact, each more striking--each more pungent than its predecessor— was poutred forth with a profusion that seemed inex haustible ; and the inferences deduced from these stub born facts were such as could only have been gainsayed by men whose inveterate prejudices blocked up all the avenues to reason. Every prediction, observed Mr. COBDEN, that was now uttered with regard to corn, had been previously uttered by the Protectionists with re gard to wool. " But what was the result ?" asked the Hon. Member. " Did they lose all their sheep walks ? Had they no more mutton ? Were there no more sheep cots ? So far from this being the case, when wool was at the highest price, the largest quantity had been imported, and when it was at the lowest price, then the smallest quantity had been imported." Mr. GLADSTONE made an attempt to answer Mr. COBDEN'S nervous, practical reasonings ; but acute, and skilful debater as he is, the task was too much for him. In some portions of his reply he gave us the idea of a man who was placed in a false position, and was speaking against his own internal convictions ; and this gave a certain vague ness and feebleness to his statements and hypotheses, which are by no means of common occurrence in his Parliamentary speeches. How puerile was his objection to the appointment of a Committee, on the score that it would unsettle the minds of the people, and paralyse those departments of trade and revenue to which its inquiries had reference ! Precisely the same objection might be urged to the Irish Landlord-and-Tenant Commission, or any other great public inquiry. Nothing can tend more thoroughly to unsettle the minds of both landlords and tenants in Ire land than the investigation now in progress ; but who denies that it is called for—who denies that it is one of paramount necessity? There never yet was a Committee appointed for a public object that the minds of some classes were not unsettled by it ; yet Government has never been in the habit of allowing this consideration to stand in their way, when once they have decided on its appointment. Now, however, when it happens to serve their turn, it is brought in without the slightest hesita tion. In the course of the evening, by way of giving relief to the debate, and infusing into it a little sprinkling of Attic salt, Colonel SIBTHORP rose, and with that bril liant wit which is ever at his command, cracked not less than three jokes consecutively, on the subject of Mr. COBDEN and his white wand, as steward of the O'Cow- NELL dinner. The House laughed, but whether with the Gallant Colonel, or at him, we do not pretend to de termine ; enough to say it laughed, and that the Mem ber for Lincoln triumphantly succeeded in his ambitious efforts to excite the risible faculties of his audience. In the midst of much that captious critics might call irrelevant, one fact of importance was elicited in the course of his speech—and that fact is, that he never reads the Anti- Corn-law League Circular !He scorns even to give house-room to such a revolutionary, atheistical docu ment ! This, we repeat, is a fact of moment ; and if i t do not give an awful shock to the patriotic sensibilities of the Member for Stockport, it will at least oc casion him some moments of uneasy meditation. But we are not without a longing hope that the Gallant Colonel—whom, after all, we respect for his frank and manly plain-speaking, however, we may smile at his political heresies—will relax in his present inveteracy of purpose ; read the obnoxious Circular with avidity, and like another NICOMEDUS, sit reverently at the feet of that instructive GAMALIEL, the Anti-Corn-law League. The accounts from Madrid are to the 4th inst., but they are as usual destitute of intelligence. Another dispatch had been received from General RoxceLr, in which he attributes the small progress made in the siege of .Alicant to the boisterous weather. The Three per Cents. were done at 30 3-16 for cash, and 301 at 60 days ; and the Five per Cents. at 22i at 60 days. Long debates took place in the French Chamber of Deputies on two important questions—the rejection of M. CHARLES LAFITTE, who had been returned a second time for the town of Louviers, and the fortifications of Paris. A third election, of course, must be made, and from all accounts, the inhabitants will return the same Member by a larger majority. This contest between the Chamber and the electors, which is in many respects similar to the WILKES' contest, has caused an excite ment both in the Chamber, and out of doors, difficult to describe. M. C. LAFITTE belongs to the Ministerial party. M. ARAGO began the discussion on the fortifica tions. He called them the palladium of Paris, but was opposed to their being mounted in time of peace. M. PAIXHANS and other Ministers addressed the Chamber, when the question of discussing the law passed in 1841 was rejected by a large majority. The subscriptions for a sword to be presented to Admiral DUPETIT TRoUARS are still going on, and the slight punishment inflicted on the boys of the Polytechnic School has only incited other boys to imitate the example, and even double the amount of subscription. According to accounts from Brest, no doubt remains that Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS is to be superseded forthwith. Admiral HAMELIN is mentioned as his successor. The Three per Cents. were quoted at TORTONI?, on Sunday, at 82f. 80c. IMPORTANT NEWS FROM PARIS, The following intelligence was received on Monday by the French Government: — TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH. " BAYONNE, MARCH 11. " Alicant and its garrison have risen against the chief, Bonet, who has taken to flight. The town and the fort are in the hands of the Royal troops." Accounts have been received in Paris announcing the death of the Duke of Angouleme. In the Committee on the Secret Service Money Bill, the President of the Council, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and the Minister of the Interior, were heard ; and their explanations were considered satisfactory by eight of the Commissioners out of nine. M. Guizot announced that Mr. Pritchard, the English Consul at Otaheite, had been recalled. THE LAST CAMPAIGN IN AEFGHANISTAN.—The " Narrative of the late victorious Campaign in Affghanistan under General Pollock," from the pen of Lieut. Greenwood, of her Majesty's 31st Regiment, is, we hear, to be published immediately. The contents of this volume are likely to prove most powerfully interesting to the English public at the present time ; for while almost ever? , one has read, in the works of Lady Sale and Lieutenant Eyre, the sad tale of our disasters in Affghanistan, no account.has hitherto appeared of the glorious successes which crowned the advance of Sir George Pollock's army. Lieutenant Greenwood's work is, we understand, an offhand soldier's narrative, which, while it contains the most authentic information, warmly excites the sympathies of the reader in the numerous stirring scenes and adventures in which the author took part. ALARMING ILLNESS OF THE COUNTESS OF UX IIRIDOE.—It is with extreme regret that we announce the very serious indisposition of the Countess of Uxbridge. The Countess was confined yesterday week, and it appears that on Friday symp toms of an alarming nature were too manifest, and the medical gentleman judged it prudent to order that the Countess's head be shaved, which was done on Saturday. However, her ladyship con. tinued gradually to get worse. We are happy to hear that a change dee dedly for the better took place yesterday, and the report of Drs. Bright and Stone last evening was, on the whole, favourable. The inquiries of the nobility have been exceedingly SlUMeiMid. - .. ~.i .. . 1 .v 4 , 7 tk -'. s oli 0U I • /4 4 • __ , , il • , 4 4 4. i 1 "1 ''' ••. Irs i. .. • A jcv • , Sir. ,I. '• +!` —."'" - ' • \ A - / .7.L . „.•... i tt`. el , - 4-4„,., , , ...• 4 \tlei•;I: -, 4 ' l l IN U., •,C. ' • • * 0 ;V * fir .filt,, .... ,„...y, • 111 l o' 4 ' \ 0 -• ,„ „0•1 MIELCITJA "'LK'," ter. uh. 7 ' DIED Vl' , 0 0 .1: .. 4", 6 ~., z ,... , v" •,.... 44 SECOND EDITION. N - torninc .zllit .:. LONDON, WEDNESDAY,-MARCH 13, 1844. No business of importance was done in the Lords. In the Commons the Epsom and South-Western Railway Bill, and the Croydon and E psom R a i lway Bill, were read a second time, and ordered to be committed. In answer to several questions from Mr. GILL, Mem ber for Plymouth, relative to the arrest of two officers of the 74th Regiment, now in Devonport, the arrest having continued for eight months, Sir H. HARDINGE stated that one of them had been placed under arrest, being a junior officer, for carrying a challenge to a superior officer, which the latter had accepted, both having thus violated their duty. As a new measure was in contemplation with regard to such challenges, the Commander in Chief had allowed the arrest to con tinue for the time mentioned, but meant to release them after a suitable admonition. Mr. COBDEN moved for a Select Committee to inquire into the effects of protective duties on imports upon the interest of the tenant-farmers and farm labourers. In introducing the subject he said such a Committee as he called for was generally granted, and he had the more confidence that it would be granted in this in.. stance because he intended, in case his motion should be agreed to, only to call persons connected with agricul ture. His object was to prove that what was called protection was delusive and injurious to the farmers. He illustrated this simple fact by various arguments and proofs, and left no doubt on the minds of impartial hearers that what was called protection to tvnant farmers and labourers, meant only monopoly to the landowers. Mr. GLADSTONE opposed the motion in a long speech, Mr. VILLIEns, Mr. BRIGHT, and several other Members followed, when th e H ouse di v ided, and the motion was negatived by a maj or i ty o f 91. The other Orders of the Day having been disposed of, the House adjourned at Half-past One o'Clock. The demonstration made last night at Covent-garden Theatre, is an event of no ordinary occurrence, and cannot fail to be attended by important results. The object of the meeting was ostensibly to do honour to Mr. O'CoxNELL, for the great services he has rendered to his country during a long and active life, and especially to express public sympathy for his conviction, obtained by means which neither English Judges nor English juries would sanction. These were the principal causes which collected such a vast multitude of persons, both in the middle and the higher ranks of life; but even these would not account for the hearty enthusiasm and the boisterous applause which welcomed the long-tried friend of Ire land. It was the wrongs of an oppressed, a gallant, and a generous nation, that moved the sympathies of English men, and, we rejoice to add, Englishwomen too ; it was the recollection that a country, which has produced some of the greatest men of the age, which has lavishly shed the blood of her people in avenging English wrongs, and maintaining the glory of Dritais iu every quarter of the SUMMARY OF NEWS AND tittblic Optitton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The Paris mail of Monday has been delayed by the boisterous weather in the Channel: Any political intelli gence brought by that of Saturday will be found briefly stated in the proper place. The floods were subsiding in Paris. The accounts from the south of France mention the occurrence of several disas ters throughout the country from the inundations. A student of medicine, aged twenty-one, was convicted on Saturday, and sentenced to death for murdering a lady 75 years of age, at her residence, in one of the most populous streets of Paris, in broad daylight. LAW AND POLICE. At Lambeth-street, George Seyforth, a sailor belonging to the Tory barque, was charged with smuggling 271bs. of tobacco. After hearing the evidence, Mr. Henry said he was bound to inflict a penalty of 100/. upon the prisoner, but he did not think the case was one which called for so severe a'punish ment, and he hoped that, upon a proper representation, the Commissioners of Customs would reduce the penalty to a nominal sum. Samuel Matthews, a well-dressed man, of military appear ance, was brought up at Union-hall for re-examination, charged with committing several robberies in different public-houses about town. Two cases were established against the prisoner, who denied his guilt ; and Mr. Traill said that he should commit him for trial on the charges ad vanced against him, but that he would be brought up again on Friday next. At the Greenwich: Police-court, a young man named Thomas Evans, a blacksmith, residing at Plunistead, was charged with having committed a capital assault on the per son of Sarah Gloster, a pretty-looking woman, aged 25. The crime, with unusual circumstances of heartlessness, was fully substantiated. Mr. Jeremy committed the prisoner for trial. At Hammersmith, Thomas Clark, a boy 10 years of age, was fined in the mitigated penalty of 501. for assisting in the removal of a quantity of illicit spirits from a house in Peel street, Kensington Gravel-pits, where the officers of Excise found all the necessary apparatus for conducting an extensive illicit distillery. At. Aylesbury, on Monday, the Rev. William Day, Rector of Hawridge, aged thirty-six, was arraigned on an indictment found at the last assizes, and charging him with having maliciously maimed and wounded four sheep, the property of Joseph Wcedon, at Hawridge, on the 19th June last. It appeared that the sheep had trespassed on the premises of the prisoner, who had secured them in his stable or yard, and wounded four of them, by cutting them in the flanks with a knife. Lord Abinger, having briefly summed up the case to the jury, left it to them to say whether the prisoner was actuated by any malicious motive towards the prosecutor, or whether he had aeted, however mistakenly, under an idea that he was in the exercise of a right. The jury, after a brief deliberation, retnnied a verdict of Not Guilty. LAW TELLIGEN( CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY:, I BURROUGHS V. ROE..—JUDGMENT. • ..„0, • The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judg m ent to-day in' the question in which related to certain deeds exe ented.l the late Alderman Win c hester. The case came 1 pefore Lordship upon appeal from the decision of the Vi ce - Chan for Knight Bruce, and his Lordship, after going. at M a length into the facts and law relating to the case, u rtseloat clear opinion to be, that the judgment of the Co correct, and ordered it to bn affirmed with costs- of thi , Want of space prevents us giving a fuller aecom3lt judgment, but we shall do so to-morrow. stated it! COURT -PASHIONABLE. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Royal children and a limited suite, ara expected to leave Bucking ham Palace, on Saturday, for Claremont, where they will remain until Tuesday, and then return to town to enable the Queen to hold her second levee on Wednesday. Her Ma jesty received a small circle at dinner on Tuesday evening, to which Viscount Melbourne had the honour of receiving an invitation. Prince Albert will leave town to-day by the South- Western Railway, for Portsmouth, whither the Black Eagle steam-yacht is sent from Woolwich to convey his Royal Highness to the Isle of Wright, and from which port the Prince proceeds to Cowes, to inspect the marine residence preparing for her Majesty's reception during the ensuing summer. The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh and family are shortly expected at Thomas's Hotel, from Fleurs Castle, near Kelso, having engaged apartments there for the season. The Duke of Newcastle has returned to Clumber Park, from Portman-square, until after the Easter recess. The Marquis of Bute has left town for Cardiff Castle, his seat in Wales. The Earl and Countess of Sefton are expected to leave Croxteth Hall, for Belgrave-square, for the season, early in the ensuing month. The Earl of Zetland has returned to Aske Hall, near Richmond, from town. The Noble Earl and Countess come to Arlington-street for the season immediately after the Easter recess. The Earl of Ripon entertains the several members of the Cabinet at dinner this evening, at his Lordship's residence in Upper Grosvenor-street. The Earl of Yarborough has left town for Brocklesby Hall, Lincolnshire, where the Noble Earl purposes to remain till the close of the hunting season. Earl Grey completes his 80th year to-day. Lord Beauvale is confined by an attack of gout to his man sion in Hyde Park-terrace, which prevented his Lordship from accepting the Royal invitation to dinner on Tuesday evening, at Buckingham Palace. HONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. There was a slight increase in the demand for Cotton at Liverpool yesterday, and the sales were 5,000 bales, at steady prices. There was not so much doing in Railway Shares. Birmingham and Gloucester were 85/ ; Chester and Holyhead, si ; Eastern Counties, 11A ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 63/ ; Grand Junction, 233; South We s t ern Ei g h t h s, 4 i ; Man chester and Birmingham, 443 ; Ditto and Leeds, 115/ ; Midland Counties, 92 ; North Midland Half, 47 ; Paris and Lyons, 21. 13s. ; Ditto and Rouen, 34i ; South Eastern, 35 ; Croydon, 161. 18s. 4d. 'sot much business has been transacted in the Funds this morning. Nothing has yet been permitted to transpire as to the amount of assents to the Conversion of the Three-and-a- Half per Cents, of 1818 to a 31. ss. Stock, or of dissents as respects the other funds bearing the former rate of interest at present. The opinion now is, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will carry out his whole scheme. without requiring one million sterling to pay off objectors. The value of the New Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Annuities this morning has been firm at from 1021 to 1023. As to Consols, the rates have fluctuated only from 98i to 983 for the Account, as well as for immediate transfers. The Com missioners bought this morning Consols at 98/. Exchequer bills are 70s. to 71s. premium. The foreign investmens have been dull, Spanish Actives at 25 to i-, and the Three per Cents. at 35i to 3. Mexican Bonds have been 35i to 36 ; Buenos Ayres, 38 ; Chilean Deferred, 50; and Colombian, 40k. Except Chilean, they are there fore all a shade lower. Belgian have realised 104. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, have been marked 57 to 573. In the Railway Shares business is much more limited to day, and prices are lower. The account will be settled to morrow, and this influences them. Birmingham, South Western, South Eastern, and Birmingham and Gloucester, have been most affected. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 9B New 3% per Cent. Annuities 102 n Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1800. India Stock Bank Stock for Account Consols for Account Exchequer:Bills, I%d. 136 cl 1,0001. _— 5001. — Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent lO4 Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6.per Cent ......... Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent — Ditto Deferred 5O Columbian Bonds. Mexican Bonds, 1 837, 5 per Cent. ... ......... Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto Converted 47 46% 47% Ditto for the Account 47 Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 25 Ditto for the Account Ditto Three per Cent. Ditto for the Account Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 4O I - Dutch 2% per Cents 57 Ditto for the Account 575% Dutch 5 per Cents. lOl% 102 PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAXS. PAID. PER SHARE Birmingham and Gloucester 100 Ditto New Bristol and Exeter 7O 70% 69% to 70 Chester and Holyhead 5 614% ... to Eastern Counties Ditto New Registered W. 6s. 8d Great Western Ditto % Shares London and Brighton 5O 44%%... to London and Birmingham. Stock Dit o New % Shares - London and South Western 41% B3 Ditto Eighths 7% 3%% ... to Manchester and Leeds ll6 to Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 North British 234 Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct. 18 Northern and Eastern 45 .... ... 57% to —. North Midland Ditto Thirds ......... ...... 21'. 13s. 4d t -.934 Faris and Orleans ........ ........ ..... 241 Paris and Rouen 2O 34 to South Eastern and Dover 5O 35%% ... to Ditto Scrip 25 35344 4 ... to York and North Midland Ditto Scarboro' Branch MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 12.—There is not so buoyant a market, but prices continue quite firm. Bolton and Preston, 30/ to 303 ; Dublin and Drogheda, 56 ; Man chester and Birmingham, 45 ; North Union, 102/ to 104 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 71 ; Ditto Quarters, 8 ; South Eastern New creation, 4i prem.; Manchester Assurance, 10A. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MARCH 13.—Wind this day at noon, fresh westerly breeze, and fine clear weather. • • DEAL, MARCH 12.—Wind W.N.W. to N.N.W., strong and hard squalls.—Arrd. Euphrates, Wilson, China; Amelia Mulholland, Evans, Mauritius ; James Cruikshank, Sayers, Demerara ; James Lyon, Bruce, Berbice. RAMSGATE, MARCH 12.—Arrd. Olive Branch, Hamon, Buenos Ayres. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 12.—Wind N.lNr.,agaleand very squally.—Arrd. Great Liverpool steamer, Alexandria. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 12.—Wind N.W.—Put back, her Ma jesty's steamer Prometheus, with boilers burst. PENZANCE, MARCH 11.— Arrd• Trois Amis, Cherbourg, for Cardiff, with loss of mizenmast. OFF SCILLY, MARCH 9.—Lanens Kostee, Kleve, —. RAMSGATE, MARCH 12.—The Egberdina Annachina, from Amsterdam to Nantes, which put in here on the 10th inst., is discharging her cargo. BRIXHAM, Mum' 12.—1 t has blown continual gales from S.W. to N.W. since the 10th inst., and continues. The shipping in the Bay ride well. The Nereid, from Shields to Malta, has put in here leaky. LlvEßrooL, ALincx 12.—Wind N.W., blowing very hard in squalls.—Arrd. Peru, Campbell, Mauritius (Dec. 9th); Benin, Snow, Benin. The Nancy, Marshall, from Jersey, foun dered in the river off Woodside this afternoon ; crew saved. DUBLIN, Mnacii 10.—Arrd. Science, Hogan, Demerara. During a gale at S.W., a vesitel of about 300 tons, water logged, masts standing, decks level with the water-edge, and apparently abandoned, was passed 22d ult., lat. 41, lon. 44, by the Science, arrd. here. The Dowager Duchess of Roxburgh has received the melancholy intelligence of the demise of Lieutenant. Colonel O'Reilly, her husband. We understand the Gallant Colonel ex pired on Monday, the 4th inst., at Louth, while on a visit to his brother. In 1827, the deceased married the Duchess Dowbger of Roxburgh. We regret to hear that the Countess Dowager of Clarendon Is suffering from a severe attack of illness, without the slightest hopes of recovery. The Countess is in her 84th year. It is said that a plan is in agitation to give a series of Italian performances at one of the large theatres in the metro. polls during the ensuing summer, and that Rubini. Tamburini, and Madame Viardot Garcia have been applied to on the subject. THAMES TUNNEL. — There was a very gay proces sion through the Tunnel, yesterday, of the members of a club, in their full regalia, with two or three bands of music, and the abet in this subterranean passage of the music, the banners, and the large assemblan of perique, was altogether very novel and plegsing. POLICE INTELLIGENCE• BOW-STREET. „ Mr. Thomas Bartlett Simpson, landlord of the Albion •4. au , Great Russell-street, Covent-garden, was summone d bef° r e f i d Jardine, charged with having kept his house open for the' I "bi wine, spirits, beer, or other distilled liquors, at other hours than tiv law allowed, namely, at twenty-five minutes before ono i ll morning of Sunday, the 3d inst. Mr. D. W. Wire, solicitor, appeared for the defence. 1110, The case excited great interest, and the Court W ag COITc' ti nteli filled with respectable persons, licensed victuallers, an d feel .fl of Mr. Simpson's house, who were anxious to hear the ariP9'; on both sides, it being the fifth time Mr. Simpson ha s be en lu moned within thirteen months. 00, 11/. Inspector Black, F division, said that on Sunday m' Jrn i l ted the 3d of March, about twenty-five minutes before one, he .risitecrie;ip house of the defendant, situate In Great Russell.str C°. garden. He found the door wide open, and in the sn'pP er- 10 -l of near as he could say, seventy persons. There were; nuni.xse glasses, with di ff erent sorts of liquor in them, standii , ig o n the "'- in the usual way. n oke Cross-examined by Mr. Wire-Saw Mr. Simpson , a nd . ,- n via him. Said to him, " There are a number of glasses of fi the tables," and he replieds ; " Yes ; I cannot help it. tif drawn nothing since twelve o'clock." Was In the hen° - fr o Sit o three minutes, and looked round. Went up stair' I nto s tbis room, where there was a party taking coffee. Did not ssealo o go served while he was there. Mr. Simpson called his a ttenti the bar. The engines appeared to be fastened down. There o light, but he did not stop to examine it any further. uo d of Alexander Kerr, F 49, who was on duty in the neighbetn."lo Great Russell.street and Bedford-street, observed, from fi ve ' n o 06 past twelve to 23 minutes past one, 27 persons admitted i n pi Simpson's house. The doors were open quite wide until t. a one, and from five minutes past twelve, till seven minutes .". 116 persons came out of the house. They were all very 01` orderly. aste °4) Mr. Wire contended that there was no case to ansvter, A lnspec Sof as it was proved that the engines were locked up wh en ~,. foe I g Black went in ; that the glasses might have stood fro° O . o'clock without being refilled, and that there was 10 P r ,7 ever of the sale of one glass a ft er the ho ur p r escribed by 1 1. s .; e rt, Mr. Charles Ruddell, manager of the bar of the Albion ui g tit! deposed that he had been in the defendant's service for t he ,:, gd months, and was in the house on the night of SaturdaY, t",; c y be March. Was in all night. Before twelve, or at twelve ° l f ' 0 ;1 10 locked up the bar. Had received directions from th e n T Olt not to permit any wines, spirits, or beer to be sold °Lie o'clock. Those were his orders on that night . Lne'__.'" ) :s beer and spirit engines, and put the wine in the cuPn v : dt ;la locked it up. Nothing could be served from the bar w it f ;01 0 knowledge after the hour of twelve on Saturday night, at, the care of those places he will swear that tini b 77ol o served of a fermented or distilled nature a ft er the hour 0 ` that night. The brass bars he now produced are placed act o , e r taps of the engines, and being locked with a padlock, 02°. 11ir to fastened without the key, which he had in his cosres' i°P ,,elr e . til was no servant of the defendant's who h a d any liquors of t- bot ee with which they could serve customers. , Every one in e had strict orders to be particular about serving. it 60 441 Cross-examined by Mr. JARDINE—Did not go to bed ti ll a' two o'clock. Had no reason why he did no t go to bed till n'i t o , except that he !iad to make the day's account out, and see was cleared away. Miss Louisa Stanfield, who was in the bar till two o'ele -a , also that nothing was served after twelve ; and , „aid Thomas Charles Daws, the head waiter, swore tha t tered the supper.room after twelve o'clock in the shape el ";t too' The only additioual facti proved for the defence drends of persons have left the house since the late de e- t :st cause they could not be served with anything but coffee; - Or, the night in question great number s o f cups of coffee l e Or and that the notice was posted befcre fi v e o'clock, in °I. gentlemen who dined at the house might be aware of t he ra ;to dle Mr. JA RDINE did not think it necessary to go further l der case, as he deemed the proof which he required front ° food' dant's domestics had been given. —The information was Glace' Mr. Plackctt, landlord of the Red Lion, Vere-orr e 7, tof market, was charged with a similar offence, at five rtt " me r eleven on the same day. Policeman, F 134, saw the potman take a half - pint(' f air defendant's to a greengrocer opposite, but it being 1 3 ,,,, bu t : defence that the beer was not taken to the greengro cer " the next door, and that it had not been sold, but kini n ed . , the landlord to a customer's wife, who had lately been °°,..° 000 0 " Mr. JARDINE did not see any proof of sale under t he of the Act, and dismissed the information. v n GO A ARRIVAL OF THE EAST INDIA A ND MAILS. Cl; SOHTHAMPTON, MARCH 12, EIGHT P.M.-.-The " n li t • 841 _,‘" pany's steam-packet Great Liverpool, Captain M'Cloud.'liees,- afternoon from Alexandria at the Motherbank, after e l l o , the most dreadful weather, such as prevented the Pra iu r...s4t l l, sailing vessel coming nearer. She left Alexandria on Ol i o Sw; February, where she was deiained fourteen hours end 3 ,441 01 A the mails were on board, in consequence of the boiler s ib our leak and stopping to repair. She has landed her itte": v s i tf' l/ , 16 be dispatched by this night's mail. She brings !WI% cbgily passengers, including nineteen ladies, and twenty-e i g" - • and servants, in all ninety-three. '" Ships lying at Alexandria—Her Majesty's ship:TYtt e ' men.of.war belonging to his Highness Mehemet Ali' Jo - Ist tar—Her Majesty's steamer Locust, and Company's sh i P i , The Peninsula packet Montrose, due yesterday, is Our.' to SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 12.—The Montrose PerliP S . U b il :g i s. arrived this morning at eight o'clock, bringing AO' a utintig no l Montrose brings 18 packages of specie and a as' oranges. The Montrose experienced very bad erra t Tilpte:• - and home; this accounts for her arrival a ft er her OW' brings no news of importance. D AY , ) MARKET NE WS.—(THIS CORN EXCHANGE— EXCHANGE—WEDIC v ."- h w ; t , ye lo t " jr We had only a moderate supply o f E n glish 1, - ,el 40 demand for it was in a very sluggish state, at day's prices. In free Foreign 'Wheat a steady U"' sn d doing. Bonded G r ai n was a mere drug. B a rley' tep delis , were a heavy sale, and p r i ces h a d a downTritrd • Oats, Beans, Peas, and Flour were unaltered. ARRIVALS. ' Barley. 0 n a n t. /•° 1 1,740 qrs. t.'" English Irish Foreign. Wheat. MO qrs. Malt, 1,:.;0 qrs. Yin` WHITECHAPZI. • th te . i . Our market was very moderately suppli VP" of Meat, while the demand was inactivetat barely late Beef from 2s 4d to 3s 4d • Mutton, 25 8d to 39 45 . 3s 6d to 4s 8d; and Pork, 2s 8d to 4s 4d Per carcase. A . RAILWAY BUSINESS IN Fj"-- MENT. a 1 r • Newcastle and Darlington Junction Rail 811 0 . 1111 1 go" Bridge Bill—" for authorising the sale of the 9 ,..„" b e tion_, - acs tion Railway to the Newcastle and Darlington 0" - „, to P' 0. way Company, and for enabling the said Conillides to,c ° ,., a station at Gateshead, with a bridge and do w napP c - of 47 1,5 d ~,,d, ,-- nect the said last-mentioned Railway with t he, pro w.— ... castle-upon-Tyne, and for other purposes , u pti. read a first time. for eati A ' oo t Pontop and South Shields Railway Bill — % to ir i— ipa' the Pontop and South Shields Railway ConiPal%refreilb th 8. to t part of their Railway, and to make a 'branch for other purposes," presented, and read a firsts il 0 , sl o p, Epsom and South-Western Railway Bill — lf Sel ec t inle , time, committed, and referred to the Conunittee seem Croydon and Epsom Railway Bill—rea d c a w B tier; t ime committed, and referred to the Committee of e '''' e coet' - .Newquay Harbour and Railway Bill—read a ie s ct io fle d' committed, and referred to the Committee of 5„,e 1 , 11 reP°i e re• Barnsley Junction Railway—petition for Pl i ,g 07 0 4 Report referred to the Select Committee on Bill ree_ A i t if. Monkland Railways (No. 2) —petition for th at sw" and Bill ordered to be b r ought in by Mr. Loc— for 0 Oswald. titiO Gbe° Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton Railway--P2‘, gr. - reported, and Bill ordered to be brought hl w Craig, Mr. Rutherford, and Mr. Macaulay h t " (-3fOnuiv If r ji THE WEA THER .—T HE G A LES.--vn e the atmostphere was cl ear an d th e temperature cthe cLold..oum oof south-west to north. Shortly after midnight ,csa e ' a slt and the wind became violent, increasing to almost aruntil;red which, accompanied by torrents of rain. con tind ouck, it sbal tjf seven o'clock. Yesterday morning, before eight 0 , . ocx . of 0 off and the sun shone brightly till about eleven o s to i 0 00 osS after the wind again became violent, and was ea % W hieb ee tj ' heavy storm of hail, :sleet, snow, and rain, a_e roo , hO t o tO whirled about by the wind into various fantastic f : offF e _. ll ,4 te . dering it truly uncomfortable for those who We!` ~,t, aw n , St' battle with it. Similar storms, though le o iso loo un peated at intervals up to nearly four o'clock, 'L ee red :et mosphere again cleared ; but the wind having a ,he north, continued to blow briskly an d keenill en :so d r' uit ht which at six o'clock in themorning s tood at 33 degr ee 0 , , 0 0 noon to 40 degrees, had again receded to 33 deg r eef 10 0 4 111 up to nine o'clock was clear and starlight. W l° pet an o f pr e : occurred on the coast, the craft in the river ha ve ro bstab " o f Ow the gale of yesterday morning, in conseqence, P olo ience 0 10 cautionary measures having been adopted. Th e .,,, uutil_,Joh• wind slightly retarded the arrival of several of /. clo r,g But few of the Scotch steamers were enabled sue aert'elener The James Watt, Havre steamer, which Was The e'r yesterday morning, had not arrived last evening'oe passalifiefer" the Herne steamer states that he never m ade a ere - At G i ll ffe: Herne Bay, than the voyage to London on gonda' he „ Se e _," the storm began at ten o'clock on Monday nig ht ' hiortbeisn quent and vivid flashes of lightning came from t- - _ me VW t• barometer at noon yesterday was 29-6. A low / ate' FACTORIES BILL.—SILK TRADg."'" „ tr atle.., 00 1 ing of Members of Parliament, representing theer r oce-1 1 ; th e day morning received, at the King's Arras Hot_ „ m ain, " t bsir deputies from the silk -throwing districts now r ii , :_i s tion sni e purpose of procuring a separate Bill for the Z; ch esh l 7 ( trade. William Tattoo Egerton, Esq., 111 • P ' s_, th e vie ° the S i called to the chair, and after a fullers exposition to e a the trade, and an expression of the g l willing n r_ pe euliar tic to mills regulated by provisions applicable to the" uld °a ri I bs stances, it was resolved that an application " %ould be James Graham for an interview, at which in . 0 „0 , _ reasons for desiring to have silk raills t H is o , e u e se na o c f t c m e e m n in t, tns Commons, of bweheinehreic,eorardmAlPiedleaicbureciyaetheehaCgsnitteu BIRTHS. Afr o 10 011 Ba O ce n h t u lz o B f th a dinasutg.,hatterE.dgbaston, Birin ingb aril ' . 01 On the Bth inst., at Stonard Ilouse, stonwd-jiill' 13 ''''' lady of Josiah Wilson, Esq., Dia son. On the 9th inst., firs. John R. Unwin, Alfred-Place' g r s. Sai iii4 of a daughter. On the 9th inst., in Upper Stamford -street, k--- of ie Matthews, of a daughter. go 31i , On the 10th inst., at Hornsey, 31rs. )1. daughter. Jolt MARRIED. 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