The Sun. — London, England, 1844-03-07 00:00:00

, t 1 obsee ° _,,,, e ‘ n % do A' th is erwit olare conse . in so m nrii It 0 ; an d o ft fe ° ' t, to be sa " ID say I fe u St st able suPrio, t e ,s& Gowan, en...bici, manne r in w • Mere Se" ! i f:o lf d their gall ,rivq c o , veral officer, d light field Oile d rifi cp and Wer e ' ive corPe r ;oo l high P 0 very sat I departraelli out bisi tr.( 74 ll, ForCe , g s• f the aroll, 1 of lbB !r.Gener s were I,o d .Adjutan t-u 7O lt.Generel Tad, ry-Qua ter ,,,7o o ' Lion for on, C°% o oo , CsPtli n dfogro execUlice stO li .General, istatice• fr o tiry !rents Wm J . ... it Lieut. WOlO, , and CO' enduct ° f chslo l _,,er s in Of ted bun'. nag 1)" , esty'e rs couW" -- :sty's 13wtepos 0P; L ie : o o 4 !vete), soi capt• It ' 1 4 28112 Lib 1d e Infannni; ryintr VI dil l akeePea re ' or, SUL O 7OOO of the 24 „ e l,' e 62d Ns ll me A:4 Luring v bens. j'• stalt w _ Ad b° to and 10'1— A I,o ll#ll ;d est. mi3O will Pe r° 7 o lo, 5 guns, I ` l in than I h a oil , 5 nal° j s io a ctiier f. sP _ erful .07f dt ale P wer n dio. Centr al I Aot ordshipl . ; Ea st PP; o s ight 0. 0 nd of bi no er i m i gualgs le 4l* $ Jan. 1 s 2 ate' old 2 P Ile, 2 61.1 g ll° wisiPt ood; 00 0 ki 0 0 4 bold W OP . and 15 1550 . Ale, 0 11 opinte OOP 5 F. roar ic an d ordl4ll WO . t o 1 0 00, le, P I " k st il e : oi unoc i W A o wl* OP' r d er, 1 ,A fsl4lo : 1 _.AO 6 1.40 .1 01 n, EP.- lefl 6 .00 °14 ' ..4 ° 4 crux'it d, sP'• : —.lo Bist iv, 0006 and ';gB rah ner i . a affilrtinrjTh I . laT' i Ve 1 1 1 :::bf f ; Tod igh 0 1 1 Ist°l 4 W A agi •und` i " and Wolf too opticd* A ir o 4 sil ol lox a Jo rite i ll on, .1 a gro l ' Guts4 2; to, fl- try ; ...e; ; $l4 ifr owl t° a , woo' s° :4:04. Cal.#lll 0 111° .1 1 .' 004 11° 0 ,0 0 , rst, y e. Abe 5 6 00 ; 0: 41b.. -I Pb eft .l l° B of the army of Gwalior, under my command, yesterday t ,„::ed a complete victory over a large force of the Gwalior 1 :::_P o s. Under the command of Colonel Secunder, consisting of about 04 " u 0 men of all arms, and captured all their guns, 24 in number, sinlZabreeadablrydTa to ll their ammunition, and soma treasure, &c. your Excellency's orders, I marched from g as; on th e 28th instant, and encamped at Burka-ka .,l" I had i n f ormation of the Gwalior troops being in po ha-7: eot Aintree, seven miles in front of my camp, and of their nof making a night attack. On the 29th (yesterday) one march to this place, sixteen miles, being desirous of pliniligar through the narrow valley from Himmuthgur to hee l th The enemy ( as it a f terwards appeared) marched Ze r Ai ntree Pass early on th e morn i ng of yesterday, b y a !tensi el move range of hills some miles distant on our right, and of ,3 l uP a st rong position on the heights in the immediate vicinity thi n e fortified vill age of Mangore, near runnier, and commenced the ta t on My immense line of baggage. I immediately detached all n on I could spare, under Brigadier Harriott, and an addi- Ap nr yi a troop of horse artillery under Captain Brind, which, oa the baggage on the other side of the town of runnier, a t " 1 ' a Position, and returned the fire of the enemy with much titftaecktilftert"Mnhi:gnd effect. Every attempt was made by Brigadier Her. Li too attack the enemy, but, from the ground being intersected tia7lnes, this able o ffi cer was prevented from bringing the ca. in t° action, and proceeded with them to the rear guard, th e ...tiliasled under a smart cannonade. About four o'clock p.m. eh a " ll e rnY was observed to have taken up a very strong position on a i k ,: high hills, four miles to the east of our camp. I decided e a , ` a te') to attack him, and detached her Majesty's 3d Buffs and P e P o e n rs sis a t n in d g Miners to take up a position on the oppo. go, followed afterwards to the right by the 39th Regiment of five companies, until could bring lipal7tillte;ve,ardia,:;fele,noftarSraYalounting to 2,007 men, and then make an attack otitio'ne enemy's flank and centre, and drive him from the strong %tie nhe occupied ; owing to the lateness of the day, it was ta te , 'L'e b efore I could s u pp or t t h e f orce I h ad attached. The 1141 SaPpers attacked the enemy's centre, exposed to a galling he_ vrn their guns , but most gallantly carried every position t " th e m, Ursa drove the enemy from height t o h e i g ht , an d cap. mes s i s mien of his guns and the standard. I c a nno t su ffi ciently Dho m uch indebted I feel to Lieutenant-Colon e l Clunie, t„,,, 1E , a inattded the Buffs, for the gallant and judicious manner 1 n4 :7 hi{ r egiment into action, and overcame all obstacles. The t o t . 0 f the 39th Native Infantry, with Brigadier Yates, was con ea7patuo the crest of a hill commanding the enemy's left, and aept a .,, l inft in a destructive fire, rushed down on him, and on tite ,""nit the nullah below, was exposed to a heavy fire from tak;na, which they captured. Brigadier Yates and Major Earle, 4,7 4 1ne the 39th N. 1., were both wounded at this place, and 4 to th ank them for the manner in which the battery was .11 • The 4,414 I d Infantry B r i ga d e, un d er t h e command of acting ° A nderson, K.H., her Majesty's 50th Regiment, arrived hillte P 11" finish to the action, and formed on the crest of , th e ara t by a most gallant and judicious movement attacked e- Ne d —ll6 left, and completely defeated him, taking the rer of his • co t _ guns. I have toreturn my thanks to Major White, ••.ricade unin ded the 50th Nativ e Infantry, and took the 2d Infantry * etaw, Out of the action, Brigadier Anderson, K.H. being e listli u .,. Major Petit commanding her Majesty's 50th Regiment, takte"shed himself by the gallant charge down the hill he 5 14 . 4 t he head of his regiment. A wing of the 50th Native nch ;„_ W as Posted with the main battery of Horse Artillery La! ki-'mked the enemy's right, and the remainder accompanied nth n p t de - The 58th Native Infantry supported her Majesty's .11 , ri , t ent, under th e comman d o f C apt. P ar k er, w h o l ed h i s re- 0 a ction much to his credit. lta er B di • tddulph, with six horse artillery guns, much dis. s hi rnself by the manner he disposed of his battery, Cat h imself those of the enemy on the right, and . committed /Nklo,, °e ; be was assisted by Major Geddes, commanding the 7 horse artillery, and by Captain Campbell, command ing . Zeete l 7,..Whose fire on the enemy was particularly effective. "ok e h . '" %hens, with four guns No. 16 light field battery, t elltr o , r POSitiOR south of Mangore, and opened on the enemy's th e 51 h e retreated up the hills. Lieutenant Tombs, attached .444e21r guard with two guns . of No. 18 light field battery, -I:44lshots with great precision and effect on the enemy's left. ..._ n elat an ee . , l indebted to Major Fitzgerald, of the 11th Cavalry, who ' a t b' s•e d the rear guard, for bringing up the whole of the stores :a ealite Of the army into camp this morning. 4.Salata%ritzledier Stubbs, with the Sippree contingent under his corn iest r e d Out of his camp near Funnier in the evening, at my " %Ai: oc cupy the heights at the scene of action, to enable me %say, it the force that had been engaged two hours with the Zes Mlles from camp, after a fatiguing march of sixteen ‘ . '` t he thi l 'ts Morning the sappers and miners, and two squadrons v q ," 4 by . ir regtiNi r Cavalry, joined the contingent, who were fired of Pan,. of the enemy. A few shots from the contiegent iL mej ed Ca aced the ground and silenced the enemy's only gun, and ar.t ala Christie, with the Bth Irregular Cavalry, to follow Is _lt t eir eemy. etsitu k b t d raw your Excellency's particular attention to the Ot f ( 1. 1 services I derived from Lieutenant-Colonel Parsons, L th ea,7 r nissary. General ' on all occasions, but more especially 1,71% - i„- Yesterday. I have to thank Lieutenant Cunningham, ) k t hs 3 4 17, Who turned on the enemy the guns first captured aklets,rs; and Lieutenant Maxwell, commanding the corn. ••`, btu, Trtai for their exe r ti on s, an d f or b r i ng i ng t h e cap t ure d s'alp over great local impediments. co nduct of Brevet-Captain G. Reid, assistant.quarter. • tt7 s al, who a ccompan i e d the Burns into action, and by his Me the greatest service, merits my warmest ap. • elo to bring to your Exellency's notice the ~r 4l k' ee I deri a y s ed from Captain Guyon, c deputy-assistant-ad- Ae st er el ; and' also from my Aide-de-Camp Captain Tudor, Ix 7 ii 60th Regiment, whom I particularly recommend to eau er. _ 1 2 4 , 41 4 e,„. sq. ciins a i'`mrs loss was most severe, but from the action closing ' I bany of his killed and wounded were carried off during L'usq,.Mid It is difficult to form a correct estimate of his loss; 1: 4 44 rded on the field were brought into the eamp this morn. a t , Ovi„ r e under medical treatment. i' l teu n lM the strength of the enemy's position, and the number • b ki r ` t i v. r effret to say that our less has also been severe. 44 . I st "Mks are due to all the troops employed on this occa- Ntta N "r unflinching steadiness under heavy cannonade, and , tePosi ell , k !" Ballantry with which they stormed the enemy s t a, tee, • A portion of the Ist Cavalry Brigade, under Brt e,‘pe Pbell, accompanied the force as far as the ground ▪ ei t i t . ; but I regret that an opportunity was not afforded for ,c ,e, them. 44.;Net NKajor Mainwaring, and Captain C. Mainwaring, Sub- I r ene t 7 eci rai lisuries General, merit my thanks for the assistance hat n th e T o as . extra A ides-de . Cam p. CamP sh ad , ho nour to be, Sir, y our most obedient servant, • ' Nib% "JOHN GREY, Major-General, " Commanding le ft wing, Army of Gwal ior. of ~, ‘ 4 4... "'Wallies in the Left Wing of the Army of Gwalior, -` the ? command of Major-General J. Grey, C. 8., in action • 444 iar, on the 29th of December, 1843. s " Camp, runnier, Dec. 30, 1043. and 3d ° Meer wounded. e' hot . 38 t s. " killedroops, 3d Brigade Horse Artillery-1 r and f, h g th - 7, k 4 n> ;ap ers and Miners-3 r and f wounded. t. 14.4t Caval P ry—l trooper and 2 horses killed, 3 r and f f ata,i it " ° " l ar Cavalry -4 horses killed, 1 trooper and 3 horses 3 .4 34 —Dfrl--1 officer, 4 sergeants, 6 r and f, and 1 horse • e " , . 2 sergeants, and 56 r and f wounded. . 11 ‘ "„ to. 50 1 h Foot-1 officer, and 8 r and f killed ; 1 o ffi cer, Via ,"rurntner, and 28 r and f wounded. ar le oti e :l sergeant and 12 r and f killed ; 2 European and h N 5 sergeants, and 39 r and f wounded. hen 1.i;•••••-3 r and f wounded. "%kb r and f wounded. r and f wounded, • `atej 'untie ti 11... nts and 24 r and f wounded. I ' 4 : 7 Bent-2 sergeaofficers, 5 sergeants, 28 r and f, and 8 horses, lt Europe an and 3 native officers, 12 sergeants, 1 r and f, and 3 horses. -• ` • 41 'row of Casualties.-217 men and 11 horses. NAMES OF OFFICERS KILLED. c o 7,. a rt, H.M.'s 3d Buffs. "'Jan, H.M.'s 50th Foot. 4 : NAME, OF OFFICERS WOUNDED. l 'l l 4 lll II Yates, 51st Native Infantry, severely. t 4 re ret4 t ri ii• Anderson, H.M.'s 50th Foot, severely. . ' `lt,„ l4 ele 5 1 1 4 , Q r Earle, 39th Native Infantry, severely. • trtet e Grath, H.M.'s 3d Buffs, severely. miviLlte ha r a tain Fullerton, 39th Native Infantry, severely. !CU. D erehill , H.M.'s 3d Buffs, right side of cheat by a e a , etee n, H. M.'s 3d Buffs, severely. (si sted) (True copy.) " J. R. LUMLEY, Major-General Adjutant-General of the Army. .....___. e .____ t ll hl 4 Ity, . 4 NO N l e e iv CHINA. ed by the Mor intelligence from China to the Nl._ h er r. t 'lbi tet4 -ist ' -early a month later in date than that transmitted , mail r , kt 4, 4 14,. • -. Possesses, however, little general interest, the t hi, u etts hts . ' e d bearing chiefly upon commercial relations and kpl ta te t t „ Ili th e ~_Captain Brooks , of her Majesty's 59th Regiment, ti `o 4 p. dottl N emie lo! as bearer of the supplementary treaty for her 4, 4 4,,! 00,,2° 11 , and dispatches from Sir H. Pottinger for c'/k ea 7usi kai 'anent. The Chinese Government having con. I, i 4 tc e ,,` Of th e !' B in its efforts to extort from the Hong merchants b..Y t hisn r etose: r al leged debts, the unfortunate traders have, as a s sti tl - ' , fo r I,Petitioned the Imperial Commissioner to make I ,..tai ,: le liquidation of its claims by levying an adds -1 ''''et, ,„"P ° . , a cotton and tea. Ke.Ying has, in '..' : 414 ..,,,. 4ler ell an inquiry to be made into the tt ep Os.: th e d7 nta laes to decide after due deliberation ; N 4 t 4te hayeehberation,"4 says the Hong-Kong Begis . ter, b t , k tt 110, 41, . reference to the amount, and not the propriety, ,011n eh. . Olity... it is thought trade will progoess favour :l4 ;ere re ; l• Little business had been done at Chu an, and Oh it, lhe a n t l ow. Our troops , and the natives generally, tli t t ll 44 • T he ~ ,r ller it , health ; but he latter predicted a severe Op he d eo . n ' f had been stationed at Shanghai ; and the 1 / 4 70e1t, . n tne d, to proceed to Ningpo, when that port was m .„.4lL' e ata s i rh4l4 was selling freely to the northward. At It'be 61 h th lt 'l the m were generally dull, odium was itt. eft-- - e •• inteti vitY Which prevailed. . . . , :_°w4allts, bearin g 4ht,'.l:L, f:t0, h ,. ,.. _ the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir V, , . 1 40 0 vr, 1 7 1 , :tinied by the Dido, sailed for Manilla on the a ft e4 ettir d 1 .," . ° Sal.toun went with the Admiral, and was ex ko, litt uit i l ik ule D i do ; but Sir W. Parker would proceed to t e nlat „. tits ut5.,...44 'IId..b.drieesCOMMERCIAL RETROSPECT. ' 4 l ''' the.79er. from Macao have been received here to the , 1 , / :eli all s e a , Iv ~te regret to find that the markets there are as i t 4 4 .,der th t 'l be. Trade as yet does not appear to work at t t Ats7 4l lt. at new arrangements. The Chinese officials are p i l ltt t 4 t4 . b tn e> f, " avail themselves of every opportunity Op., d o 'erf much the foreign merchant. Opium had Ni NI, .. w e . a nd was almost unsaleable : the ei li t t hed ' iot rat ha, 7 i tt_ibj o i n are merely nominal : Malwa ' llp C ot , to sud Y t° 715, Benares 680 to 690. No reason is • tol l 'eh Wagmen and serious a decline in the price of the tes e lle, n tal eing tllsotaele-o a ll u of sale and declining in price. 4,,, . h e , ,s te . bons are given :—Bombay, T. 5 to Ilt i ' t ers kl i ev en h ° . ; Ti nnevelly, 6.5 to 7.4. Western, 5-8 lilt new elt theaveser qUotations are almost nominal. No irn tl baton Year, wh , t " was looked for until after the Chi ,„ty,„,4thh, n lark et ith is the 18th of this month. In `` , 1,,,_11 , .. there svas little doing in raw Cotton, tel l ti i t , etl ge e d t hei x r ern p . s. Shirtings were in demand, and -h,, 4 tiler .n ten :twee. Letters from the north mention that p a t,,,,.. er e ,044 siderable request • but for Woollens and Cot prNien %, n ° dernand Whatever . Opium was selling freely k a g tep t :_to 8 70 7 dolls. , r 'a 940 f thed7 the t at n t Malty * . Patna; 900 to 910 for Benares ; theorlatter was most in request. The h e trs, l a r e di4etrou's fi r es in Canton have not yet been re. ttt Of 1 82 , fire is said "to be second only to 6, 41 4 lest 2 , When p r e ' l tt% a:le t t', .... the whole of the foreign facto. , 's t , )700 4 1 f ou _ 41.' amount of property destroyed •sys ti ,_ ch ine , Millions of dollars, of which there Res 1 1 C 4ll In t " hous tkIN ' 631 bs he month " The exports of tea to 4 4, 1 , ... ~ Of ', iv ,uf November, in fi ft een vessels, amounts 8• e ''' Of fi ne ' C. 7.210 1121 b 11 1 sil k thi tt , gr .,. , 8. was black, and 731,071 I t, Ay . lt sp l ,,. ,-li d escriptions were scarce and high " 41 . N l l "tb • 1 -" " in e bo ught in very small quantities. s.. t4 hib cl a wi t ' 19 44..._ Th ti't YA K It ezt tt eeer i ere has been during the past month, , ts. t „, (tre At d n the demand for ins , ports, and the market ti t 'the h as "' at thia ulnas and inactivity This circumstance is Nrp It e a is -e san of th e taf 4.4 an omy b abu ndant Year, and more especially at a IN' L ae It tt • ° aeco , and the stocks in the bazaar mode otei i a ttharisiog as' deed for by a want of confidence on the Opt . 1:s1 t h e ris ing , .' believe, from the continuance of din. IA b Yers fr n JeUb, th e g„. 4 pn... ou or n , ,„ . a .hostilities in Gwalior, and the ab. 7 „,,,,, .h, 1_,41813 nistan and Sinde, the latter country ,n 4 i ;l' for the transit of goods. . 44 w. e PaPer o! the 4 per cent. loan of 1835.36, and the 5 per cent. loan of 1841-42, has still further advanced in value. The 4 per cent. loan of 1832-33 remains as before. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 6. LONDON AND WESTMINSTER JOINT-STOCK BANK. The usual Annual Meeting of the Shareholders and Directors of this Banking Company was held yesterday, at their establishment in the city. Shortly after one o'clock, the chair was taken by PATRICK MAXWELL STEWART, Esq., M.P., who said that before the Proprietors would have submitted to them the Report of the business of the bank, they would perhaps allow him, on the present occasion, to interpose himself for a very few minutes, between them and the reception of that Report. He asked them to do so be cause he thought the present time was one of marked importance to the establishment in which they were all so zealously concerned. This Bank had been established for ten years. The present was their tenth anniversary meeting ; and in the history of banks, as well as other things, the close of ten years was held to be a sort of epoch, at which a retrospect of the past might be taken, and the prospect for the future considered.—(Hear, hear.) Within those ten years every joint-stock bank in London had risen into existence, and he might claim for the London and Westminster Bank priority in point of time, as to its establishment, of all the joint-stock banks in London. It was the first esta blished here, and with that distinction they incurred those burdens and incumbrances from which honours were not at any time quite free—he meant that they had had to encounter formidable opposition to the planting such establishments as that was, and all he would add in referring to that circumstance was to con gratulate the Proprietors of the bank on their having overcome all those obstacles without, he believed he might say, the loss of one friend or the creation of a single enemy amongst the class of the private banks of London, or their more formidable opponent over-the way (the Bank of England.)—(Hear, hear.) In looking back, in order to mark out their best course for the future, he might observe that the principle of action adopted by the Directors at an early period of the existence of the establishment, had been found to be good and well adapted to all circumstances. As an illustration, he might remark that money seasons, like the natural seasons, had their changes, sudden and vio lent. In seasons of abundance of money, they had always avoided hearkening to any temptation to lock up their funds, and the consequence had been, that in seasons of scarcity and adversity, they had had it in their power to do that which was not only sound in the principles of banking, but also gratifying in a humane point of view, namely, to help their friends when occasion required it. He might add that notwithstanding the variations of the seasons through which they had passed —seasons of scarcity as well as of plenty, they never- had had, up to the present time, occasion to re-discount any one of the bills which they had in their possession.(llear, hear.) The profits of the bank had been under the present direction freely and liberally appropriated to the use of the Proprietors in the shape of divi dends and otherwise. In illustration of that, he would mention that the reserve fund had been annually increased, and was now becoming a distinct re servoir of security for seasons of need. They had paid in dividends to the shareholders, during the ten years past, upwards of 300,0001. So far for the past. In look ing to the future, the present was a most important pe riod as regarded joint-stock banks. This year would occur a break in the charter of the Bank of England, which had been renewed in 1833. In the speech from the throne, at the opening of the present session of Parliament, they had been reminded that there would be an opening for the consideration and regulation of the laws which govern the Bank of England and the joint-stock banks of the country. There were two matters which they had pressed upon the considera tion of the Government. The first was the right irse parable from a banking establishment created by law, and upheld as their establishment now was, by the interest, power, and voice of so great a proportion of the community—the right of accepting bills under a shorter date than six months. In the original charter of the Bank of England, in 1708, there was a clause prohibiting all banks, having more than six partners, from borrowing, owing, or taking up money on bills payable on demand, or at a less period than six months. That clause was aimed at certain speculative companies, which at that period resorted to the issue of notes under their common seal. It never could have been aimed against the exercise of banking privileges by country banks, drawing, as he might say, upon their London agents. He believed the fact was, there was not a country bank in existence at the time acting under impressions of this kind ; their bank had drawn bills of exchange ; and in consequence they were followed from Court to Court, until in 1837 judgment was given against their exercise of the privilege by the reason of the clause in the charter of 1708, to which he had referred. Accordingly, they had desisted from any further practice of that branch of banking. That restriction was unjust to the innumerable members of the commercial community. It was un just to foreign and colonial banks, to joint-stock banks throughout the country, and to those in London. The country was deeply interested in the question, but he only touched upon it then as it would, in the course of the revision which the banking laws of the country were to be subjected to this session, be fully considered elsewhere. Joint-stock banks ought not to be deprived of the common privileges of banking establish ments. They could all remember that the failure of the bank of Pole and Co. in 1825 broughton the panic of 1826. The 'other subject which the Directors had urged upon the Government was that of suing and being sued in the names of the establishment. A Committee representing the joint-stock banking companies of the country lately had an interview with Sir R. Peel and the Chancellor of the Exchequer; previous to which they had trans mitted a letter containing detailed views on those points, and he was happy to be able to tell them that the interview was very satisfactory as far as it went. In 1834, when they had pressed those matters before on the attention of Government, there was no argument used against them, but a promise had been given to certain parties that those privileges should not be granted. From Sir R. Peel's words they were led to infer that theirs was held to be a perfectly fair one, and the Right Hon. Baronet stated that he had purposely abstained from giving any promises to any parties, in order that the claims from all quarters on this important question might he fully considered and justly settled at the proper time. He (the Chairman) had then no doubt in concluding that they would obtain those privileges, and when the bank had worked so well and successfully hitherto, he thought he was not too san • guine in saying that, with an increase of its facilities of action, would come an increase of its prosperity. They had cooled their enemies and warmed their friends in the contest in which they had hitherto been engaged, and he had every hope of a continuation of prosperity to the establishment.—(Hear, hear.) The SECRETARY then read the following Report : " The Directors have the pleasure of presenting to the Shareholders their Tenth Annual Report. " The net profits of the past year, after defraying all the current expenses, paying the income-tax, and making provision for all bad and doubtful debts, amount to 51,6961. ss. 7d. Out of these profits the Directors paid last September a dividend at the rate of six per cent. per annum, for the half-year ending the 30th June, and they now declare a dividend at the same rate for the half-year ending the 31st of December. After the payment of these dividends, amounting together to 48,000/., there will remain from the profits of the year, a surplus of 3,696/. 58. 7d., which, added to the reserved fund, makes the present amount 66,822/. 16s. sd. " Throughout the whole of last year money was exceedingly abundant, and consequently cheap. But, although a low value of money affects most severely those banks which have the largest paid-up capital, and which have been so managed as to retain the full com mand of their funds, yet the Directors did not suffer the desire of obtaining a higher rate of interest to betray them into advances upon doubtful or inconverti ble securities. " As the Speech from the Throne has called the atten tion of Parliament to the state of the law with regard to the privileges of the Bank of England and to other banking establishments,' the Directors have co-operated with the representatives of other joint-stock banks in bringing under the consideration of the Government the defects of the laws relating to Banking Companies, which they feel confident the Legislature will not refuse to remedy. " The three Directors who go out by rotation this year are Frederick Burmester, Esq., Henry Harvey, Esq., and Patrick Maxwell Stewart, Esq., M.P., who being eligible, offer themselves for re-election. PROFIT AND LOSS. 4 per cent. loan of 1832-33 Sicca Rs. 106 to 1061. Do. of 1835 , 36 Co.'s Rs. 991 to par. 5 Do. of 1841-42 Do. Rs. 1101 to 111 The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'Clock. Lord DUNCAN presented a petition from Bath against certain clauses in the Great Western Railway Bill, on the ground that they were oppressive and uncalled for. Mr. TROTTER brought in the Croydon Railway Improvement Bill. Sir W. HEATIICOTE brought up the Report of the Committee on the Eastern Counties Railway Bill. Mr. PRINGLE presented a petition from Selkirk against any alteration in the corn-laws. Lord CLIVE presented petitions from Lancashire against the union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor. DUTY ON TOBACCO. Lord SANDON presented a petition, signed by between seven and eight thousand persons, consumers of tobacco in Liverpool, praying for a reduction in the duty on tobacco ; also, a petition from the grocers and dealers in tobacco in Liverpool, praying that the duty on tobacco might be reduced to one shilling per pound. UNIVERSITIES IN SCOTLAND. Sir G. CLERK presented a petition from the ministers and elders of the University of St. Andrew's, in Scotland, praying the House to give no sanction to any attempt to sever the connexion between the Scotch Universities and the State. EXCHANGE—On England has exhibited little change, and may now be quoted at Is. 1 lid. to Is, 11 id, for 6 months, transactions having taken place for the mail at the latter rate, though Is. Hid. was yesterday the highest; for 30 days' bills Is. 10 1 Ad. to Is. With On Calcutta 11.14-0 to 102 at 80 days' sight; on Madras par; and on China Rs. 217 for 100 doll. BANKS.—The shares Of the Bombay Bank are at 42 per cent. premium, and those of the Bank of Western India at 30 per cent. PRICE OF BULLlON.—Sovereigns, each—Rs. 11 to Rs. 11.3 as. Bank notes, per X.—Rs. 10-12-0 to Rs. 11. METALS.—A moderate inquiry has existed throughout the month for most descriptions of copper. Sheathing, Raised Bottoms, and South American, are unaltered in value, but braziers has advanced about Ir. per cwt. Tile has been sold at Rs. 51—i to i rupee below our last quotation; and nails are also a shade lower than before. Corrox MewurecruftEs.—The demand for low qualities of Grey Madapolams and Jacconets, which has been for some time past so brisk, has since our last issue considerably slackened, and prices are rather lower. There have been sales of Grey Sheetings and Domestics, but at unremunerating prices; and the market for these fabrics has been extremely dull for the season—the Arab mer chants, who commonly form the chief purchasers, having, for the reason we before mentioned, been compelled to keep out of the market. For White Jacconets the prices offered are 2 annas per piece lower than last month, and the business done in them has been small. Gold and bleached Long-cloths have been in fine de mand at previous rates; while red and cord ends are less inquired for, and have suffered a slight decline. A better demand has sprung up for Grey Long-cloths, and prices, though still far from remunerating, have somewhat improved. Yiaivs.—There has been little inquiry for any description of Twist, and the prices of most numbers, both of Mull and Water, have slightly declined. For Orange Yarn last month's rates are still obtainable, and the same may be observed of Turkey red. Mute TWIST.—No. 30 3,0001b5... at 7 annas per lb. 40 6,000!b5.. at 8 do. WATER TWIST.—No. 20 6,21101bs .. at 7 do. 18 to 22 12,9001b5... at 7 do. COLOURED Tw 1ST — No. 30 to 50 3,0001b5. English dye... Rs. 1 11 0 per lb. 40 1,2001b5. Turkey red 1 14 0 do. 2,4001b5. German dye 1 9 6 do. We have also been apprised of a sale of 120Ibs. of Linen Thread, at 12 annas per lb. WOOLLENS —Large supplies have recently arrived, and the market is over-stocked ; so that with the exception of a few fine cloths intended for European consumption, it is impossible to effect sales unless at rates that will leave a loss to shippers. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool, yesterday, was very quiet, without any change in prices. Saks, 2,500 bales, viz., 500 Surat at 3id. to 5d., 100 Bahia at 64d., 200 West India at 6id., and the rest American, at 54d. to 64d., and 100. for Orleans, the best cotton of the year.—A large busi ness was done in Railway Shares, and the market was good, especially for French. Birmingham and Gloucester were 774 ; Eastern Counties, 104 ; Grand Junction, 226 ; Great Western Half, 70 ; Birmingham Thirds, 40 ; Brighton Loan Notes, 114 ; South Western, 784 ; Manchester and Birming ham, 424 ; Paris and Lyons,2l. 14s. 6d. ;and South Eastern, New, 358. There are accounts from Buenos Ayres to-day to the 6th of January, being about a week later than the advices previ ously received. The Legislature had been opened, and the President stated that he had demanded satisfaction for the alleged insult that had been offered to the State by M. Purvis, but no doubt appeared to exist that the affair would be adjusted. There are advices from the Brazils this morning to the 29th of December. The Exchange comes over lower, namely, 24-i to 25. The announcement made last night by the Chancellor of the Exchequer that he will propose a resolu tion in Committee of Supply, for the reduction of the interest upon the Three-and-a-half per Cent. Annuities has been a subject of consideration to-day. This has not taken the monied interests by surprise. The Consol market has advanced upon the information, and in the doomed, Stocks, scarcely an alteration worth notice has occurred. Con sols for Money and Account have advanced to 984. The Go vernment broker bought 20,0001. Consols at 984, and since then the price has been 984. Exchequer Bills have advanced to 73; India Bonds are at 88 90; and India Stock at 280. A very considerable amount of business has been trans acted in the Foreign Market to-day, and prices are firm. Spanish Five per Cents. have been quoted at 25i ; the Three per Cents. at 358 ; Dutch at 56 ; Brizilian at 804 ; Peruvian at 30 ; and Brazilian at 801. The Share Market is firm. The latest prices will be found annexed. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Hier Cent. Consols. Annuities 9BM% New 3% per Cent. Annuities 102% India Bonds,l,ooo Ditto under 1,000 OO 88 South Sea Stock Bank Stock for Account Consols for Account India Stock Exchequer Bills, 130. I%d 1,0001. Ditto Small ...... 74 pm. FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 37ly Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent — Ditto Deferred 4 9 34 Columbian Bonds. Mexican Bonds, 147, 5 per Cent. ...,.. 31% 35 Ditto Deferred Stock 14!4 14 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents. 3O Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent IEI4O 25 Ditto for the Account Ditto Passive Bonds. 6L Ditto Deferred Ditto Three per Cent. A Ditto for the Account `,2% Dutch 2% per Cents ss i / 7 2 ( A" 56 Ditto for the Account 55% Dutch 5 per Cents. 10 13 ,474 New Loan 1837, 5 per Cents. 101 % 12 PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE Birmingham and Derby lOO . DR' o Eighths Birmingham and Gloucester Bristol and Exeter 7O 69% to Eastern Counties Ditto New 25 12%% ... to 13 Ditto Extension l3s. 4d % to Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 60 _ ._ to Ditto -% Shares - 12% - Great VVesteni Ditto k Shares Fi Ditto Fifths l2 lO% ...... to Harwich (Braithwaite) Ditto (Lo: ke) 23¢ London and Brighton 5O 43% to 41% London and Blackwall London and Birmingham. Stock London and Greenwich London and South Western 41% London and Croydon (Trunk)... 133 Midland Counties Ditto % Shares Norwich and Brandon Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 18 Northern and Eastern Ditto 34 Share. 123 Ditto Scrip Morth Midland Ditto Shares 4O . 45 Ditto Thirds 2l'. 13s. 4d '29% ...... to Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Rouen and Havre. South Eastern and Dover 5O 36 1 / 4 35 1 / 4 to 36% Ditto Scrip York and North Midland Ditto Scarboro' Branch 2% 20%% ... to MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 6.—There is no material alteration to notice in the market to-day, except that Manchester and Birmingham have advanced about 205., in consequence of the report of the meeting being considered favourable. The sales are :—Eastern Counties, 104 ; ditto, Registered, 12i ; Manchester and Birmingham, 43 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 70i ; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 10 1-16. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) TIATIVLARIEETS. _ SMITIIFIELD.—Coarso Meadow Hay, 2/ lOs to 3/ ; use ful ditto, 3/ 3s to 3/ lOs ; fine Upland ditto, 31 12s to 3/ 16s; Clover Hay, 3/ to 51; Oat Straw, 1/6s to 1/ 8s; Wheat Straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 10s per load. Supply but limited, and trade very dull. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3l to 3/ lOs ; useful ditto, 3/ 12s to 3/ 15s ; fine Upland ditto, 3/ 163 to 41 ; Clover Hay, 315 s to 4/ 15s ; Oat Straw, 1176 to 1/ 10s ; Wheat Straw, 11 lOs to 1/ 12s per load. A moderate upply, and a steady demand. WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 2/ lOs to 3/ ; useful ditto, 3/ 3s to 3/ 10s ; fine Upland ditto, 31 12s to 3/ 16s ; Clover Hay, 313 s to 515 s ; Oat Straw, I/ 6s to 1/ 8s ; Wheat Straw, 1/8s to 11 lOs per load. Both Hay and Straw moved off slowly, at the above quotations. _ _ MEAT MARKETS. _ _ SOUTHALL, MARCH 6.—We had only a moderate supply of fat stock on offer to-day. The demand was throughout steady at, in some instances, advanced quotations :—Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s ; Mutton, 2s 8d to 4s 6d ; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; and Pork, 2s 8d to 4s par 81bs, to sink the offal. Supply— Beasts, 40 ; Sheep, 1,000 ; Calves, 60 ; Pigs, 50. The whole of the supply found buyers. ROMFORD, MARC!! 6.—Beasts and Sheep sold readily, at an advance of 2d per 81bs. Other kinds of stock were un altered in value. Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s; Mutton, 2s 6d to 4s 6d ; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; and Pork, 2s 6d to 3s 10d per 81bs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 26s ; quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 20s ; and Mulch Cows with their small Calf, 161 to 18l lOs each. Dr. Payment of the dividend on the 10th X. s. d. September,' 1843, at the rate of six per cent. per annum, for the half year ending the 30th June 24,000 0 0 Payment of the dividend now declared at the rate of six per cent. per annum, for the half•year ending the 31st De cember, 1843 Balance of unappropriated profits 66,822 16 5 HAILSHAM, MARCH 6.—We had but a moderate supply of fat stock on sale to day, while the demand was active, at somewhat imoved rates :—Beef, from 3s to 4s 2d ; M u tton, 3s to 4s 8d ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; and Pork, 2s 8d to 3s 6d per Ribs. ARUNDEL, MARCH s.—Prime Beasts and Sheep sold freely at full prices, but otherwise the trade ruled inactive : Beef, from 3s to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 8d ; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; and Pork, 3s to 3s 6d per 81bs. CHICHESTER, MARCH 6.—There was rather a scanty supply of stock brought forward this morning; while the demand was steady on the following terms :—Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 8d; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 4d ; and Pork, 2s 8d to 3s 4d per 81bs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 28s ; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 20s ; and Milch Cows, with their small Calf, 161 to 18110 s. each. £114,822 16 5 £. s. d. Cr. Balance of unappropriated profits, on the 31st December, 1842 Net profits of the year 1843, after de fraying the total expense of manage ment, paying the income-tax, and making provision for all bad and doubtful debts 51,696 5 7 MILLBANK PRISON.—An inquest was held yester day, at the Millbank Prison (late the Penitentiary), before Mr. Higgs, on James Shillitoe, aged 19, a prisoner under sen tence of transportation for ten years. Mr. John Richard Grove, the governor, said that the deceased was admitted on the 7th of June, 1842, from the Warrior hulk. He had been convicted at Chelmsford on the 7th of March, in the same year, of burglary, and sentenced to transportation for ten years. Dr. Italy, the physician, said that the deceased made the first complaint of illness on the 23d of last month. He was found to be suffering from diarrlicea, and on the 27th, being feverish and much worse, he was removed into the in firmary. On the 29th he was attacked with inflammation of the throat, and on Monday last died. A post mortem ex amination was made to ascertain the cruse of death, and the appearances proved the deceased to have died from inflam mation and ulceration of the throat, inflammation of both lungs, and ulceration of the bowels. A juror remarked that the case was the same as all other inquests held in that prison, and it was clear that deceased had died from the general complaint—diarrhoea. Another juror inquired whether the prison was so damp and unhealthy as it was reported to be? and the Governor replied that the prison was not damp, and, as an engineer, he could say, that no place was better drained. He denied that the mortality was great, and stated, that the number of deaths and of the sick, was much lower in amount than in any regiment in the service. In fact, he might say, that the invalids and deaths in the army were double what they were in the prison. A juror said he had always heard that the prison was very damp, even the room in which they were then sitting. He himself was of opinion that the prison was damp and unhealthy, and that the atmosphere and earth were affected by the tides. The Governor said that the building was several feet above high-water mark, and was not damp from the cause assigned. The prison contained, upon an average, 1,300 souls, and the mortality was but three per cut. The jury returned a ver dict of " Natural death." £114,822 16 5 THE SUN LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 7. 1844 The thanks of the Company having been voted to the Chairman, Directors, and Managers respectively, The CHAIRMAN acknowledged the compliment. The three Directors mentioned in the Report as going out of office were then re-elected, and the meeting sepa rated. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—We are happy to hear Lord Devon express himself with so much confidence as he did last night, that the Commission, of which lie is at the head, would be able to point out the beneficial alterations in the law affecting the relations of landlord and tenant in Ireland. The speech of Lord Devon tended to correct mistakes as to the character of the Commission ; and, at the same time, to vindicate to th e C omm i ss i oners the unquestionable right to entertain and report representa tions of individual grievances arising out of the present law and practice affecting the occupation of land. Nevertheless, we repeat, we are of opinion that there is this inconvenience in the inquiry —that it tenth to rivet the minds of the Irish people on that one subject exclusively, on which they are only too much addicted to brood already with angry feelings, and to nourish expectations (if disappointed, engendering in creased resentment) of something to be done by Govern ment which shall render the land all-sufficient to ,the people. Now, in the first place, it is impossi ble that a people so exclusively dependent on raising the rudest food directly from the soil for their daily wants—a people so destitute of all other employment and capital—so destitute even of agricultural capital, and so little advanced in agricultural skill—it is impossible that a people thus situated, and thus habituated, can be suddenly raised by any agency confined to modifying the mere occupa tion of the soil. The curse of the people is that their whole dependence is on that mere occupation ;—that labourers' wages, as well as farmers' profits, have no source but the soil—and are paid in little other currency (when they are paid in that) but permission to grow potatoes. This state of things cannot at once be altered by any measures solely relating to occupation of the land. The " monster-evil" is the insufficiency of the land as a sole resource. And let it not be said that the exportation of produce deprives the people of subsis tence. Ireland exports people as well as produce, in very great numbers to the sister country. The same paying-power which attracts Irish produce, attracts Irish labour likewise. The problem to be solved is not the finding of means to stop either export—but the finding of means to create a counter- attraction of English capital towards Ireland. The moment a current of this kind should begin to set in (and we hold that it is the duty of the Government to accelerate that moment), it would be found that Irish produce would begin to find nearer markets—agricultural production a new stimulus—labour new resources in arts and manufac tures. We have declared our opinion that Government ought to favour the flow of capital towards Ireland, and take the initiative in these works which tend more than any other to render available and acces sible the natural resources of such a country. We hold that Government should set the example of con fidence in investing in Ireland our surplus wealth. Where is that example to come from, if it comes not from public authority ? Ireland is not in that condition to which ordinary chrematistics apply. A moral impulse must be given, which money calcu lations, at the first start, may not appear to justify. The misfortune of Ireland is, that it is not far enough off— that its "aboriginal inhabitants" are not savages—that the mane ignotum pro magnifico cannot be brought to operate on the speculative mind in its favour. We have seen calculation set at defiance—millions sunk—thou sands self-expatriated—provided the venture were wild enough. But enterprise at our own doors is, in Ireland, scared by a hon in the path. It would seem that confi dence in new fields can only be raised not inversely, but directly as the square of the distance. STANDARD.—In the House of Lords last night the Marquis of Clanricarde interrogated the Earl of Devon very closely as to the special objects of the inquiry pro secuted by the Land Tenure Commission, and as to the progress made in the investigation. The Earl of Devon replied by an explanation which ought, in our opinion, to be satisfactory, because it indicates that the Commission does not limit its researches to any special objects, and that, having exhausted no department of investigation, it cannot be said to have made any definite progress, extensive as is the number of facts accumulated. Now this, in our judgment, de scribes precisely the course which ought to be taken by men to whom is confided so grave a duty as that as signed to the Land Tenure Commissioners. It is true, as Lord Clanricarde complains, that there are many ignorant persons who, having assumed that some prompt remedy for the social state of Ireland is available, and that the Commis sioners are appointed merely to find this charm, feel very impatient at the delay of their Report. They can be, at least they ought to be, the most ignorant only who give way to such impatience; and if, as the Noble Marquis suggests, some newspapers are to blame for having encouraged the notion of a remedy for the social evils of Ireland, at once effectual and easily available, we claim not to belong to the number of the culpable. When the Commission was proposed we distinctly stated that it never could find the imaginary remedy that was to set all right in a day or in a year, though we gratefully ad mitted that the labours of the Committee could do much owards creating such a remedy. The case, in fact, appeared to us, and still appears, precisely that symbolised in .7E.op's fable of the farmer and his sons. The farmer on his death-bed assured his sons and successors in his fields, that a pot of gold was hidden somewhere on the farm; the young men, as the ct labours of the Land story tells, turned up carefully with the spade every field of their patrimony: they found no pot of gold, but they found the worth of many pots of gold in the increased produce of the soil, conse iqs oldand familiar, uent upon theirbut i tdescribes toilsome soexactly ear c h. the The story good effect which we anticipate from the Land Tenure Commission, and exhibits also so well the neces sity for the investigation being complete, patient, and slow p i a n ble o , rd th er at to lve produce t forbearth o remi good n e borrowing coming orro fw permanent ng a page ua t oconclusions, whichvait ef is o g e from rhe JEsop. If we expect aa Tenure Commission, it is because we trust that its aim goes beyond any temporary object, and because we be lieve that the result of its investigation will be, not to add to the pharmacopoeia of political nostrums, but to demonstrate that there is no specific remedy for the social state of Ireland, any more than there ever has been for the social state of any country ; consequently, that if the patient is to be cured, quackery must be abandoned, and regimen, and above all rest, resorted to, for the moans of recovery, This view of the matter must, no doubt, as much disappoint and dis concert the empirics of Parliament and of the news papers, craving something for the day, as the Bath quacks were disappointed and disconcerted by the simple plan of Mr. Simpkin B—. This view is, however, the true one. Rest, without any other application, would do nearly everything for Ireland, and without rest from political agitation, all the remedial measures that can be tried to the end of time will do nothing. This is a truth, which we would press earnestly upon such noblemen as Lord Clanricarde, who, if they are not themselves the destroyers of their country's rest, at least encourage and protect those destroyers. CCLESTASTICAL COURTS BILL.—LOrd Lyndhurst, the Lord High Chancellor of England, has introduced into the Upper House of Parliament a Bill entitled, "An Act to consolidate the jurisdiction and improve the practice of the Ecclesiastical Courts of England and Wales, and for other wise altering and amending the law in certain matters eccle siastical." It consists of as many as 101 clauses, and appears to be founded on the Report of the Ecclesiastical Commission. By the provisions of thie Bill, all peculiar jurisdictions are abolished, and merged in the respective archdeaconries and dioceses. The Archidiaconal Courts (with the exception of Cornwall, Leicester, Nottingham, and Suffolk) are deprived of the power to rant probates or administrations and mar riage licenses. The diocesan Courts, however, are allowed to retain their full powers, it being optional with the judge, or either of the parties to the suit, to send to the Court of Arches. Licenses are abolished, and compensation is pro vided for loss of emoluments, &c. Acting deputies are all to become principals, and to be paid by salaries, to be fixed by the judges of the respective Courts, out of a fee fund, to which all fees, &c., are to be carried. The amount of salary is subject to the approbation of the Lords of her Majesty's Treasury. The Act is not to extend to tithes within the City of London. THE STEAM NA-yr.—We read that a new War Steamer has just been laid down at Portsmouth, to be called " the Scourge." Really, the " Christian" names given, to these vessels are worthy of an enlightened age. " The Beelzebub," " the In. fernal," " the Styx," " the Acheron," " the Firebrand," and " the Scourgc," form as cheerful a collection as could be wished for. We can only suggest, as an improvement, that the Blue and White unifirm of the Steam Navy be changed to Black, turned up with Brimstone —Punch. _ _ . GREAT FOOT-RACE FOR 2001.—The great foot race for 1001. aside, between Jenkinson, the London Stag, and John Smith, the Regent-street Pet, came off yesterday at Sutton. The distance chosen was a quarter of a mile, and as both men have acquired great celebrity as runncrs, and very heavy sums depended upon the result, there was a large assemblage of sporting men present to witness the race. The betting opened at six to four on Smith, but as the time of starting approached the odds increased to 2 to 1, and no takers. Preliminaries having been arranged, at half-past three o'clock the men were in readiness, and on the signal being given went off. The Stag took the lead at a great pace, his opponent lying close up for the first three hundred yards, at the end of which the men were abreast of each other. The struggle for the lead was first-rate, when, amidst the cheers of his friends, the Stag dashed away from his opponent, maintained the lead, and won by four yards. ROBBERY AT CHATHAM DOCK-YARD. — Thomas Fox, one of the apprentices at hor Majesty's dock-yard at Chatham, and a pupil of the dock-yard school, was brought before the bench of county magistrates sitting at Rochester, on Monday, charged with having stolen from the school a quantity of mathematical instruments, the property of her Majesty. James M'Ganahan deposed—l am the school master of the dock-yard school, appointed by the Lords Com missioners of the Admirality. I have 144 youths under tui tion, and to 129 of them I have entrusted mathematical instruments for use—the property of her Majesty. I pro cured them from the storekeeper. I never allowed any one to take the instruments from the school. Some had instru ments of their own. In consequence of information I re ceived about the 21st of February last, I made a search and discovered that some of the instruments were missing. The prisoner has been a pupil since May last. Henry Pemble is a pupil, and had a pair of compasses and a drawing pen, the property of the Queen. Henry Pemble examined—ls an apprentice in the Dockyard. I missed my box of instru ments from underneath my desk on the 20th of February. There were a pair of compasses and a drawing pen in it belonging to the Queen ; and a wooden mould, two pen holders, and some steel pens, my own property. Do not know whether Fox was at school that day. Elizabeth Cliff deposed that the prisoner pledged the box of instruments produced by the constab!e at hor husband's shop at Chatham, on the 22d of February, for Is. 6d. Pemble identified the box and instruments produced as those lost by hint. Three similar cases were fully made out against the prisoner, who was remanded till Wednesday, to give the dockyard authori ties time to substantiate a fifth case. The value of the in struments stolen from the school amounts to upwards of :tyeu pound:. CORN-LAWS. Mr. PLUINIPTRE presented ninety-one petitions from Canterbury and other places, complaining of the proceedings of the Anti-Corn-law League, and pray ing that no alteration might be made in the corn-laws. Sir H. DOUGLAS presented petitions against the Birkenhead Dock Bill. MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE BILL. The second reading of this Bill I;as postponed for a fortnight. ATHLONT ELECTION COMMITTEE. _ _ Mr. PAKINGTON appeared - at the bar, and said, he had been directed by the Committee appointed to try the merits of the petition against the return for Athlone, to state, that a material witness, named Mark Quin, was unable to attend to give evidence before the Committee, in consequence of 'his being at present imprisoned for debt, and his evidence could not be obtained without the intervention of that House. The Committee therefore prayed the House to take such steps as they might think fit to secure the attendance of the said Mark Quin before the Committee. The Honourable Member then moved that Mr. Speaker do issue his warrant for the attendance of the witness, which was agreed to. NOTICES OF MOTION.—BUENOS AYRES. Mr. EIVART gave notice that, instead of his question to the First Lord of the Treasury, of which he had given notice, he should on the motion for going into Committee of Supply, bring under the consideration of the House the subject of our com mercial relations with Buenos Ayres, and the subject of the unhappy war at present existing between Buenos Ayres and Monte Video. REDUCTION OF THE THREE-AND-A HALF PER CENT. ANNUITIES. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notice that he would, on Friday next, in a Committee of the whole House, move a resolution for the reduc- tion of the interest on the Three-and• a-Half per Cent Annuities. Mr. BLEWITT wished to call the attention of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for the Home Department to a fact of great importance to Chancery suitors. He was informed that the whole of the books belonging to the Accountant-Ge neral's office were kept in a building which was not fireproof. He thought this was a matter which de manded serious consideration. Sir J. GRAHAM stated (as we understood) that orders had been given that no fires should be lit in the building in question, and he begged to remind the Hon. Gentleman that ample provision had been made for the safe custody of these books in the new Houses of Parliament. COUNTY CORONERS' BILL. The House went into Committee on the County Coroners' Bill, and clauses 1 to 16 were agreed to, with a few verbal alterations, and without discussion. Clauses 17, 18, and 19, were then agreed to without discussion. On the reading of the 20th clause, which proposed :hat coroners should receive Is. per mile for travel ing expenses, Mr. C. BERKELY moved the omission of the clause. Mr. WILLIAMS supported the amendment of the :on. Member for Cheltenham. Mr. MACLEAN and Sir GEORGE STRICK LAND supported the clause. The House divided, when the numbers were— For the clause 93 Fur the amendment Majority Clauses 21 and 22 were agreed to without dis cussion. The remaining clauses were agreed to, and the the House resumed. The Masters and Servants' Bill was read a se cond time, and also the Teachers of Schools (Ire land) Bill. Sir J. GRAHAM, on the part of Sir Denham Norreys, moved for a copy of a Report of W. J. Han cock, Esq., Assistant Poor-law Commisioner, upon the late election of a poor-law guardian for the ward of St. Andrew's, in the city of Dublin, which was or dered. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter to Seven. ATHLONE ELECTION COM MITTEE (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Mr. TALBOT replied. After which the room was cleared. On the room being re-opened. The CnAuntAli declared that the Committee had come to the following resolution :—That as it appears that the sum monses for the witnesses were not issued until Thursday, 29th February, and the money to pay their expenses was not transmitted until the Ist March, it is the opinion of the Committee that due diligence has not been used, and there fore it cannot agree to the adjournment required. Mr. TALBOT in relation to the case of Mark Quin, now in Roscommon gaol, suggested that the Chairman should move in the House for the attendance of Mark Quin on the Com mittee. _ _ The CHAIRMAN thought the fact of his being in gaol ought to be proved. Mr. HAMILTON, M.P. for Dublin, stated that on Friday he received a petition from Mr. Moss, stating that Quin was in custody, that he was an important witness in this case, and praying the House to request his attendance. He had mentioned the subject to the Speaker, who had told him that the more usual way was for the Chairman of the Committee to request the attendance of the witness. He understood from the Speaker that he had had a previous ap plication made to him on the subject. The CHAIRMAN said that still there was no proof that Quin was in gaol. Mr. TALBOT put in the service of the Speaker's warrant on Mark Quin, in Roscommon gaol, on the Ist of March. Mr. AUSTIN—That was in time, and the only man they have served in time is the man they knew could not come. The CHAIRMAN thought that evidence was sufficient to authorise him to move the House on the subject. It being now only eighteen minutes to four the Committee determined that the Counsel need not commence the opening of his case, and adjourned. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, March 6 REGISTRAR'S OFFICE. Mr. STEER, in the course of the morning, complained of the manner in which he had been treated last night at the Registrar's office. He applied there about five minutes before six o'clock to see the papers 9f the business at the Court for the day, and he was told by a person who swept out the office, and who had on a leathern apron, that he could not see them till six o'clock. He pressed upon the person, it being so near six o'clock, to allow him to see them, but he would not do so. He (Mr. Steer) supposed that he had not the papers in his possession. The Lou CHANCELLOR, after communicating with the Registrar, requested Mr. Steer not to say anything further on the subject at present, as he understood that Mr. Pym, the person who made out the papers, but who was not then pre sent, had a very good answer to the charge. Mr. STEER trusted the Court would allow him to conclude the statement he was making, as the cream of the subject was yet to come.—(Laughter.) The individual in the leathern apron, when the cabalistic hour of six arrived, put his hand into his waistcoat pocket, fetched out the papers for the business of the Court for to-day, and stuck them up in the passage to the Registrar's office. Now, he thought, to say the least of it, this was a most uncourteous proceeding on the part of one of the officers of the Registrar's office. The LORD CHANCELLOR thought that the officer might have been a little more courteous, but he understood that the matter could be explained. Who the officer was he did not know. Mr. STEER said that he knew as little of the officer as his Lordship, but the description he had given of him would enable his Lordship to discoveFwyo he was. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that Mr. Steer had certainly given a very picturesque account of the officer.—(Laughter.) The matter had at least relieved the seriousness of the usual proceedings of the Court.—(Renewed laughter.) Mr. LEIGH felt bound, in justice to 11r. Pym, to state that he had often allowed him to see the papers before six o'clock. It perhaps may not be generally known that the papers of the business of the Courts are put up in the passage to the Registrar's office, from six to seven o'clock every evening, for the purpose of inspection by the members of the legal pro fession and the public; but so short a period, it must be apparent to every one, is infinitely too limited for the con venience of the profession, in consequence of the increase of the members of the Court, and the more speedy dispatch of business. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.) The market continues in the same quiet and inanimate state as during the last fortnight. The demand, both for goods and yarn is limited ; but stocks being gene rally low, there is little or no change in prices, except in printing cloth, which had been relatively higher than other descriptions of goods, and which has declined 3d. to 41d. per piece from the highest point. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MARCH 4.—There has been a change in the market t o -d a y f or th e worse ; goods have been less inquired after ; buyers have been fewer, and the prices offered unremunerating to the ma nufacturer. The wool market has also been dull ; there is not the same eagerness to purchase as formerly, and the fear of a further advance is much abated. Prices, however, may be quoted as firm. Balance of unappropriated profits brought down . Mr. WALKER moved the adoption of the Report, and took occasion to compliment the Directors on their able management of the Company's affairs. Mr. MAUDSLEY seconded the motion. ----- Mr. WIBHAW wished to know from the Chairman, first, what was the increased value of the reserved fund, considering the increase that had taken place in the public securities ?—next, whether all the branches of the establishment were paying? and lastly, whether, in urging their claims to the privileges mentioned by the Chairman, it would be well to strengthen the hands of the Directors by a petition. to the Legislature on the subject, signed by the Share holders? . _ The CHAIRMAN, in reply to the first question, said, that the reserved fund had not been kept distinct and separate from the other capital of the Company, but was along with it and other large amounts, well and securely in vested. In reply to the second question, he had to state that the establishment had five branches, each of which returned a profit to the establishment—(gear, hear) — and lastly, as to the suggestion of the lion. Proprietor, if they were not satisfied with the change to be made by the Government in the banking code, of which they had not then a knowledge, they would avail themselves of the aid of the Proprietors. The question of the adoption of the Report was then put from the Chair andcarried. GRAND WEEKLY ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE MEETING AT COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE The usual weekly meeting of the members of the Anti-Corn-law League, was held at Covent-garden Theatre last evening. The doors were opened at half-past six o'clock, and the theatre was crowded in every part within ten minutes afterwards. At seven o'clock, Dr. Bowring, M.P.; W. J. Fox, Esq. ; J. T. Leader, Esq., M.P. ; J. Bright, Esq., M.P., ac companied by many of the influential friends of free trade entered the theatre, and were greeted with loud applause. They were immediately followed by the Lion. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., who, on making his appearance, was loudly cheered. Among those present we observed Thomas Milner Gibson, Esq., M.P. ; Sir Valentine Blake, Bart., M.P.; P. A. Taylor, Esq.; T. A. Shaw, Esq. ; W. A. Wilkinson, Esq. ; Samuel Lucas, Esq.; John Ashton Yates, Esq.; Cornelius Nicholson, Esq., of Kendal ; Cole, Esq.; Joseph Ivimey, Esq.; Joseph Fenwick, Esq.; Robert Clarke, Esq.; Colonel Tucker; Thomas Carr, Esq., Frome; Henry L. Keati ng , E sq . ; H enry W h i te, Esq.; P. A. Taylor, junior, Esq.; Cowden Clark, Esq. ; Samuel Harrison, Esq. ; E. J. Salisbury, Esq., Thame ; Richard Andrews, Esq., Southampton; John Tigar, Esq., Beverley; Norman Wilkinson, Esq.; Butterworth, Esq., Rochdale; W. E. Hut chinson, Esq., Leicester; W. Stevenson, Esq. ; Dr. Maschet; W. Roberts, Esq., Rochdale; S. 1). Brad ford, Esq., Manchester; R. G. Welford, Esq.; Arthur Pattison, Esq. ; William Lockett, Esq., Manchester ; James Brotherton, Esq., Manchester ; Robert P. Collier, Esq. ; James Chadwick, Esq., Eccles ; Richard Warre Cole, Esq. ; T. Cordingley, Esq.; C. 0. Boyse, Esq. ; Henry Russell, Esq. ; Captain Dawson ; Henry Lancaster, Esq.; Henry Edward Erle, Esq. ; John Jones, Esq. ; F. H. Toone, Esq.; Adam Smith, Esq. ; W. Ibbotson, Esq., Sheffield ; W. A. Thom son, Esq., Buffalo ; W. Hannay, Esq.; J. P. Bur nard, Esq. ; W. E. Hutchinson, Esq., Leicester ; Rev. John Pyer, Devonport ; John M'Leod, Esq. ; J. N. Collins, Esq. ; W. A. Thomson, Esq.; J. Cox, Esq.; James Banner, Esq. ; E. Patterson, Esq.; R. L. Tweedale, Esq.; Martin Thackeray, Esq.; Henry Lloyd Morgan, Esq. ; Thomas Hubback, Esq. In consequence of the absence of George Wilson, Esq., the Chairman of the League, who, it appeared, was attending a League meeting in the Free-trade Hall, Manchester, the Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P. for Wolverhampton, took the chair amidst the acclamations of all assembled. The Secretary then read the minutes of the last meeting. On the motion of John. Bright, Esq., M.P., se conded by John Temple Leader, Esq., M.P., the minutes were confirmed. The CHAIRMAN then came forward and said that as Mr. Wilson, the Chairman of their conspiracy— (Cheers and laughter)—was unable to attend that evening, he (Mr. Villiers) had in consequence con sented to become a criminal in his place.—(Cheers and laughter.) He was hippy to inform them that it was not for the purpose of being innocent—(A. laugh) —er of being idle—(Cheers)—that the Chairman of the League was absent on the present occasion that evening.—(Cheers.) On the contrary, he was assist ing at a meeting, attended by many spirited brother conspirators of theirs in the country—(Cheers)---men who had no fear of Dukes before their eyes—(Loud cheers)—and who believed that they should be want ing in the respect which they owed to themselves so long as they should abstain from pressing for the re real of a law which provided for the luxuries of great men out of the necessaries of poor men.— (Loud cheers.) The Chairman of the League was that night presiding over a meeting in Manchester, which was being held in the great hall which had been built in that town for the express purpose of this conspiracy.—(Cheers.) The men of Lancashire had been in the habit of meeting in that hall for the express purpose of endeavouring to make trade free and bread abundant—(Cheers)—for ' the same purpose for which those present met in that theatre—(Loud cheers)—and that was to give effect to those principles which the first Minister of the Crown had propounded to the country when he had been first admitted to office.—(Cheers.) Their ob ject was to give encouragement and credit to that sound system of household philosophy which Sir R. Peel had propounded when he first assumed office. The substance of what Sir Robert Peel had stated on that occasion was, if he recollected right, that when people had occasion to purchase what they wanted they should not give more than was necessary; but that when they had to dispose of the products of their industry they should not be forced to take less than they could get.—(Cheers.) If he was not mistaken that was the principle which Sir Robert Peel, in an unguarded moment, perhaps, had propounded. It would scarcely be believed in times to come that so simple a proposition should have given rise to so much controversy—(Cheers)--that it should not, im mediately on its announcement, have been received with implicit credit throughout the kingdom; but he was afraid that, if history were fairly written, it would appear that that which had of late years agi tated the whole frame of British society, and had al most exclusively engaged the attention of the British Legislature, had been the great difference of opinion which existed on the subject of this very simple matter.—(Cheers.) Doubts had been expressed as to the words of Sir Robert Peel. Difficulties had been raised in the way of the adoption of the princi ple, and such was the importance attached to the subject, that, two days ago, the organ of the Govern ment, in discussing the proposition, had come to the conclusion, that if Sir R. Peel had ever given utter ance to such a principle, he did not mean it.—(Cheers.) The disclosure of that principle had brought upon Sir Robert Peel the charge of treachery to his friends, and it had sown the seeds of discord in the Conserva tive camp.—(Cheers.) It had occasioned the Anti- League agitation, and an Hon. Baronet, one of the supporters of the present system, had, the other day, declared that, in order to expose this fraudulent theory, it was necessary that they should speak out. —(Cheers and laughter.) At a county meeting held in Hertfordshire the other day, a Noble Lord had stated that it was for the purpose of suppressing this pestilent fallacy, that he had come to St. Alban's.— (Cheers and laughter.) These Anti-League meetings were held for the express purpose of putting down this pestilent doctrine ; and the Tory papers congratu lated the country because the Duke of Richmond took the chair in his own house every day.—(Cheers and laughter)—and the Duke of Buckingham took his seat opposite him.—(Renewed cheering and laugh ter.) Such was the account, and the only one they could get, of the chief occupations of the Richmonds and the Buckinghams ; and if such was the case, how little chivalrous—how excessively ludicrous— was the position which the British nobility chose to assume in the present age ? —(Cheers and laughter.) It was, however, less ludi crous to insist upon the assertion of these principles than to submit to the enforcement of them.—(Cheers.) It would be found that the friends of free trade were not idle.—(Cheers.) They would profit by the con fessions and take advantage of the course which their antagonists had thought proper to pursue.—(Cheers.) Those antagonists had at length announced what course they meant to pursue. They had spoken out, and had said what they meant to do, which, while they entrusted the defence of the cause solely to the hands of Sir Robert Peel had never been done.— (Cheers.) As long as Sir Robert Peel was entrusted with their defence, no man living could tell the exact grounds upon which they rested their case. The League were accused of wishing to destroy the Church, to destroy the Constitution ; but no one ex actly understood what were the charges brought against the League, or what were the grounds on which the corn-laws were defended.—(Cheers.) There was a remarkable degree of mystery on the subject.—(Laughter.) The landowners, however, had now repudiated Sir Robert Peel's help, they had taken their case into their own hands—they were their own counsel—they had become clients to them selves—(A laugh)—and they could not have much worse clients.—(Cheers and laughter.) The League, however, would derive considerable advantage from the attacks made upon it by these parties. It re minded him of an anecdote which had been re lated by Swift. An author had written a pamphlet for the purpose of attracting the at tention of the public to certain principles which he considered to be of paramount importance. The pamphlet, however, attracted no attention ; and he wrote another pamphlet, in answer to himself, in which he heaped on himself, as author of the first pamphlet, all kinds of abuse, imputing to himself all sorts of vile motives, and the commission of every horrible crime that could be imagined.—(Laughter.) People who read this last pamphlet began, naturally to inquire what it could have been that the man could have written to subject himself to such serious charges as those which had been brought against him —(A laugh)—and, according to the story told by Swift, the town soon became divided between the enemies of the author and the friends of his work.,- (A laugh.) He had, however, succeeded in his ob ject—he had effectually attracted the attention of the public to his book. Every body wished to see what he had really said, in order to ascertain whether he had been rightly charged with the atrocious offences which he had imputed to himself.—(Loud laughter.) Much the :same sort of good service were the oppo nents of the League doing for them at the present moment.—(Cheers.) They charged the League with all sorts of things. The League was wanting to at tract attention. It was most important to attract the attention of the public to what thay did, and to what they said. There were thousands of respectable persons who were above want themselves—who had no thought of the wants of others—who had not con sidered the subject. What they wanted was to awaken the attention of these persons to the subject. If their attention was once properly awakened—if persons of this description in every town, city, and county in the kingdom, were once made fully aware of the true state of the case—that all this controversy —that all this hubbub—was occasioned by the fact, that certain of the industrious classes were- desirous of selling their wares where they could get the most money for them, and buying their food where they could purchase it at the least cost, while certain dealers in food endeavoured to maintain a monopoly, and to force the industrious classes to purchase it at dear rates—(Cheers)—if public attention were once fully awakened to such a state of things, could it be imagined that they could be long suffered to exist?—(Cheers.) Now the opponents of the League were awakening public attention to the subject. They were charging the League with all sorts of offences, and heaping upon its members all sorts of abuse. The attention of the whole country would be fully awakened, and they would soon come to a con clusion upon that question.—(Cheers.) The real question was, should the people be permitted to get food when they could purchase it, or should they be prevented from doing so by those who possessed a monopoly of supplying f•od, and who were desirous of keeping food deary—(Cheers.) They were deeply indebted to their opponents for taking the bold course which they were adopting.—(Cheers.) It was impos sible to exaggerate the advantage which must accrue to the cause of free trade from the conduct of its op ponents. They were now coming out in their true colours—they had thrown off the mask —(Cheers)—and they no longer pretended that their object was the improvement of agriculture. The agricultural societies were now avowedly, what perhaps they had always been intended to be, mere political clubs.—(Cheers.) It was now admitted that all the supporters of the protective system had' to do was take care of themselves.—(Cheers.) He had seen it suggested at one of their meetings, that the present was the moment for collecting money among the agriculturists to combat the power of the League. He had met with a report of a meeting held in the county of Surrey, in which the objects and views of the opponents of the League were brought forward in a specific form. Their purposes were all distinctly defined, and as that meeting had been held since they had last assembled in that theatre, he would beg to call their attention to a speech made by a gentleman named Drummond at that meeting. Mr. Drummond was a gentleman of great ability and had declared in a manner which could not be mistaken what were the objects of the Noble Lords, the Win. Gentlemen, and the Reverend Clergy, who:attended those:meetings, and formed the staple of the attendance at them.—(Cheers.) The speech began loyally—landlords were always loyal when things went right.—(A laugh.) The com mencement of his speech was a speculation as to what was necessary to support the Throne. He began by stating the things upon which the Throne could not rely. There was no reliance to be placed by the Throne upon manufactures—(A laugh)—or rail roads—(A laugh)—or stocks—(A laugh)--or funds —(A laugh)—but all that the Throne could really rely on were horses—(Loud laughter)--cattle— (Loud laughter)—sheep—(Continued laughter) —and pigs. —(Roars of laughter.) Mr. Drummond made no mention of any other quadrupeds.—(Shouts of laughter.) After stating the course which was to be pursued as regarded the business part of the meeting, Mr. Drummond stated to them the purpose for which those county meetings were assembled. He begged to say that there could be no doubt but that it was for the interest of them all that corn should be dear.—(Hear, hear.) They knew that it was their great interest to make corn dear, and the question to consider, and for which they were assembled, really was, how best they might make corn dear.—(Cheers.) " The only doubt with me," said Mr. Drummond, "is, if the present course is the most effective one for that purpose. If the result of the meeting will be to make corn dear, it shall have my ' unqualified support; but if it will not have the effect, I will propose an amendment, which I have in my pocket."—(Cheers.) That was very important, be cause it showed what was the real purpose of those meetings, over which the Dukes of Richmond and of Buckingham presided. He hoped that the public, when they read the accounts of meetings of a similar nature, would bear in mind the candid statement of Mr. Drummond, as to the object ofsuch assemblages.— (Cheers.) When they considered the confession that was thus made by the opponents of free trade in this man ner—when the monopolists thus openly ack,nowledged the objects which they had in view, it could be no longer matter of astonishment that foreigners residing at a distance, who read accounts of such proceedings as these, should indulge in doubts as to the sincerity of that zeal which had been manifested by this coun try for the propagation of the Gospel among the heathens—(Cheers)—and for the amelioration of the condition of the working classes in other countries who were held in a state of slavery.—(Cheers.) Could they wonder at foreigners accusing theth of hypocrisy, when they found they paid so little regard to the precepts of the Gospel, or to the interests of the working classes, in their own country, as to occupy their whole time in devising measures to make food dear in order to swell their own incomes at the expense of their poorer fellow-countrymen ? It was only this day that he had read, in a foreign newspaper, a reproach to this country upon the sub ject, both of their seeking to Christianise savages and emancipate slaves, that he could not help thinking was just. They say these people are daily in the habit of knowing what is the policy pursued by this country at home, and that throug h that policy the _ . _ .. __ working classes were daily and hourly swelling the bills of mortality in consequence of the want of the necessaries of life. In conclusion, he begged to apologise for having made the few observations he had done.—(Cries of "No, no," and " Go on.") The meeting would be addressed that evening by Dr. Bowring, Mr. Leader, Mr. Collier, and Mr. Fox.— (Cheers.) He begged now to introduce Dr. Bow- ring to the meeting. Dr. BOWRING, on coming forward to address the vast assemblage, was most rapturously received. He said that if it were possible that in defending the great cause that brought them together that evening there could come over them any feelings of wavering or discouragement, the encouraging appearance of a meeting like the present would drive all thoughts of despondency away (Loud cheers.) They were over and over again taunted with their failures, and yet week after week encouraging and enthusiastic multitudes came together in that place to declare that they never failed who strove in a good cause. " When the heart and the mind, And the voice of mankind Unite in communion, Oh who shall resist that proud union ?" (Cheers.) His Hon. Friend, who had just spoken, had stated that they had reason to congratulate one another that their adversaries were at last appear ing on the field. The war of words and strife of argument had commenced.—(Cheers.) They had hitherto been combating with shadows. They now had something like substance to grapple with. He rejoiced in that. He felt delighted that the pressure of necessity had forced their adversaries into the field of combat, and that they were now standing face to face in the sunshine of truth.—(Cheers.) Who they e a n y o .reallypp r. could doubt where the victories of truth wou ld be P— t(lCinhietyers of .) telling rejoiced r tha op t po ntheyen opponents w had h a a g t a again meant.—(Cheers.) The word " protection" was again and again brought forward, i a , s was the phr ase . " independent of fore i g n nations! They „did no t. object to one man protecting himself, or being rode= - pendent, if he pleased, of the other commodities . of the globe; but what they wanted was, that he should not protect them according to his interpretation of protection.—(Cheers.) Let him be as independent as he would—let him go, if he pleased, to the Austra-• tto• If tilt°. :-- L r, I eR ~. ~~ya. . ,~ '~, 94%