The Sun. — London, England, 1844-03-23 00:00:00

Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., H A T S W OR T H; OR, THE ROMANCE OF A WEEK. • Edited by R. PLUMER WARD, Esq. Author of ".Tremaine," "De Vera," &c. " Every one will react ' Chatsworth,' for it is a work so novel in 114 design, so excellent in its general execution, as to be certain to make an impression upon the public mind."—C our t Journal. ' Henry Colbarn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Published This Day, Bvo., 4s. sewed. AN INQUIRY into the CURRENCY PRIN CIPLE; the Connection of Currency with Prices, and the Elpediency of a Separation of Issue from Banking. By THOMAS TOOKE, Esq., F.R.S. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman; Of whom may be had, by the same Author, 3 vols., Bvo., 21. Bs., A HISTORY of PRICES from 1792 to the present time. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. .THli EVENING there will be NO PERFORMANCE, it having been deemed essential to have a Night Rehearsal of the Opera of THE FAVOR[ FE, in order to afford M. DUPREZ every oppor tunity of sustaining the high reputation he has obtained in the Cha racter of FERDIN A ND. MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 25, Will be performed Donizettl's celebrated Opera, entitled THE FAVORITE. Balthazar, Mr. Berrani ; Ferdinand, M. Duprez ; Leonora, Miss Romer. After which, Win be repeated Albert's celebrated Ballet of THE BEAUTY OF GHENT. Marquis de San Lucar, M. Albert ; Benedict, M. Ploguet Vestris; Beatrix, Mdlle. Fleury ; Agnes, Mdlle. Clara Webs ; Julia, Madame Petit Stephan ; Diana, Mdlle. O'Bryan. xes 75., Second Price 3s. fxi. ; Upper Circles of Boxes is., :cond Price 3s. ; Pit 3s, Second Price 2s.- Middle Gallery Is., Leond Price Is.; Upper Gallery ls., Second P rice 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER. LESSEE. THIS EVENING, MARCH 23, Will be repeated Shakspeare's Comedy of The TAMING OF THE SHREW. Pecrwcio. Mr. Webster; Grumio, Mr. Buckstoite ; Katherina, Mrs. Nisbett After the Comedy, Mr. JOHN PARRY will give his Operatic Scene, " Norma." To conclude with JOSEPHINF. Orehestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery, 23.; Upper Gallery, Is. Half-price—Boxes, Pit, us.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Doors opened at Halt-past Six, and the Performances commence at Seven. 'fiokets 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. fel. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, MARCH 23, Will be performed an English version of OTHELLO. Othello, Mr. Allen ; Elmiro, Mr. Weiss; Roderigo, Mr. Gardner; lago, Mr. Burdini; Desdemona, Madame Eugenia Garcia ;-Emilia, Mi-s H onner._ To which will be added GONE TO TEXAS, in which Mr. and Mrs. Keely will perform. To conclude with a New Grand Ballet entitled LEOLA; or, the Mayday Bride. Patrick. Mr. Chicheley; Phelira, Mr. Gilbert ; Rhona, Miss Charleton ; Leola, Miss Bailin. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, MARCH M. • Will be performed a Me , o-drama, called HENRIETTE, THE FORSAKEN. Principal Characters by Messrs. Lyon. 0. Smith, Maynard, . Forman, and Wright, Mrs. Yates, Mi ss W oo l gar, an d Miss Chaplin. To be followed by ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA MARRIED AND SETTLED. Antony, NIL Wright; Cleopatra, Miss Woolgar. To conclude with, by permission of Charles Dickens, Esq., THE CHRISTMAS CAROL. Principal Characters—Messrs. O. Smith, Wright, Lyon, Maynard, Forman, Miss Woolgar. Mrs. F. Mathews, Miss Chaplin, and Miss Lee. Boxes. 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Second price at Nine. Doors open at Half -past Six, commence at Seven o'Clock. DAYIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE EVENIG, THE Will be performedTHlS a New Dra N ma, MARCH entitled THE LAST SHIL. LING, supported by all the Company. After which, a Favourite Interlude. To conclude with ABELARD .AND HELOISE, revived with New Scenery and Dresses. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. °lce, from Eleven to Four. THE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, MARCH 23. - THERMOMETER, Lowest, 45 ; Highest, 47 ; Noon, 47. BARO3IETER, 29.65.-IW:fp, N.N.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. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TIII3 DAY. Morning .. 19 minutes after 4 I Evening .. 34 minutes aster 4, ;te • 't 4. 4•1111.111 1 .1 1 1 k. , 11 vt• 4; 7 sa r e .„l,_oo o3oo, • 'T . Niesi SECOND EDITION. tordiTS :71M LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1844. In the House of Lords the Royal Assent was given to the Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Annuities Reduc tion Bills. No other business was transacted, and the House adjourned at an early hour. - In the Commons. Mr. O'CoNNELL presented several petitions from Ireland, complaining of the mal-ad ministration of justice in that country, and praying fora repeal of the union. - In answer to a question from Dr. BOWEING, Sir ROBERT PEEL said, according to accounts received from British authorities in China, many sailors and passengers had been put to death on the Island of Formosa. Sir H. POTTING ER had made a repre sentation to the Court of Pekin on this subject, and the EMPEROR had exhibited as great a desire to do justice as had ever been exhibited by a civilised State. He had disgraced all the parties concerned, and had also sent them to be tried, in order that condign punishment might be inflicted on them for such a breach of national intercourse. This, he thought, was all that could be required. Several petitions were presented against the amend ment in the Factories Bill made by Lord ASHLEY. A brief discussion took place between Colonel Fox, Sir J. GRAHAM, and Lord HENNIKER, relative to the incendiary fires in Suffolk, and it was dis tressing to learn from all the speakers that the crime of arson in that county is committed every day and night, and not one of the incendiaries had been dis- Overed. Lord HENNIKER, who represents the county, said it was matter of wonder when there were no fires in that district. In answer to a question from Mr. GILL relative to the detention of Capt. BREWSTER, of the 76th Regi ment, under arrest for eight months, without any charge being made against him, Sir H. HARDINGE said Captain BREWSTER had violated military disci pline by accepting a challenge from a young and in • eecperienced officer. He objected to produce any papers on the subject, but at the same time statedthat, with this exception, there was no imputation against that officer. The'House then went into Committee on the Fac tories Bill, and on the 2d clause being read, Lord ASHLEY said he would postpone the amendment of which he had given notice on this clause, and take the opinion of the Committee on the Bth clause. Mr. EGEILTON moved that the persons employed in silk manufactories should be exempted from the ope ration of the Bill. •• Sir JAMES GRAHAM objected to the amendment, and pointed out the modification which he intended in reference to that portion of the manufacturing trade of the country. Mr. LABOITCHERE and Mr. GRIMSDITCH con curred in the measures proposed by Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and believed they would be satisfactory. The first seven clauses having been agreed to, Lord ASHLEY, on the Bth clause being read, moved that from the Ist of October next until the Ist of October, 1846, the hours of labour for females and children hall be eleven. The Noble Lord, in a long speech, urged the necessity and humanity of such a measure, and - trusted that the Committee would not reverse a decision which had been made on a previous evening. Sir JAMES GRAHAM opposed the amendment, and, after a lengthened discussion, the Committee divided, when the amendment was carried by a majority of three. A. division then took place on the question that " ten hours" be inserted in the clause instead of "twelve," which was rejected by a majority of seven. The House then resumed, and adjourned at a Quarter to Two o'Clock. The discussion on the Factories Bill was resumed last night in the House of Commons. On the Bth clause being proposed, Lord ASHLEY rose to move as an amendment " that the word ten' be substituted for the word twelve; and in the event of this amend ment being carried, to add a proviso to the effect that the restriction of the hours of labour to ten in the day shall only take effect on the Ist of October, 1846; and that from the Ist of October next until the Ist of October, 1846, the hours of labour for females and young persons shall be eleven." To this just and humane amendment Sir JAMES GRAHAM, speaking the sense of Government, offered the most strenuous opposition. "He was so deeply impressed," observed the Right Hon. Baronet, " with the magnitude of the interests involved in the principle then under discussion, that he felt he could not yield one point on the present occasion. All was dust in the balance to him, compared with the sense of duty which controlled him. He was quite satisfied our mann. facturing and commercial prosperity was at stake, and with this prosperity the House might depend that the peace, happiness, and future welfare of the country or y4ere connected." These are big words, but they r ivhil l ekintltth , put forth for the purpose of frighten . riolOgesnbers into an acquiescence in the views „ f „ oes Sir JAMES GRAHAM really believe that our, OK ercial prosperity is at stake" because twopOo6lllt - re, ours out of the twelve are proposed (ICl),4 l ted rom the labour of helpless women and our national interests demand that we turn a cgirear tothe sacred interests of htunanity, and r. task beyond their strength those who, even if Lord t ASHLEY'S amendment take effect, will have quite as much work on their hands as they can get through without perilling their health, and cutting off at least twenty years from their short term of life ? It is impossible that the Right Hon. Baronet can se riously believe any such nonsense ; but the Govern ment happens just now to be in a " fix," con sequently every species of artifice and sophistry, no matter how preposterous, must be resorted to to get them out of it. The question—though we grant that it is not without its difficulties—seems to our limited understanding to be one between the claims of humanity on the one hand, and the claims of the breeches-pocket on the other. The two parties in terested are the poor, toil-worn, defenceless opera tives, and the rich, calculating, influential manufac turers. - As a matter of discreet policy Ministers have thrown the weight of their influence into the scale of the latter, with a view, no doubt, to reconcile them to the bold stand they have latelybeen compelled to make in favour of the agricultural monopolists. But this sop to Cerberus—this adroit throwing out of a Tub to the Whale, will not avail them ; for the free-traders can see through their manceuvre, and will continue to re • gard them with just as much wholesome distrust as ever. If Sir JAMES GRAHAM be as anxious as he pretends to be, to maintain our " commercial pros perity," and shudders at the bare possibility of its being jeopardised, why does he not follow the sagacious advice of our COBDENS, BRIGHTS, BRO.. THERTONS, and the majority of our leading manufac turers, and at once advocate a total repeal of the ac cursed corn-laws ? lie may rely on it that those gen tlemen best know their own interests, and what is the surest means of benefiting our national com merce,' and he may safely adopt their counsels. Instead, however, of acting in this enlightened spirit, he hopes to throw dust into the eyes of the manufacturers, and conciliate their good opi nion, by opposing the small boon to poverty and helplessness, of a Ten Hours' Factory Bill ! That the poorer classes must work, and work hard too, if they desire to benefit themselves and families, we are quite willing to admit; it is the neces sity of their condition, and no human power can render it otherwise ; but there is a differ ence between their working hard, and working beyond their strength, early and late, from sun-rise to sunset, through the long summer's day, and the chilling gloom of winter, cut off from all chance of leisure and enjoyment, deprived of all opportunity of strengthening and informing their minds, and with no hope ,of escape but in the grave ! Sir JAMES GRAHAM will never make us believe that this state of things—which humanity shrinks from with loath ing—is indispensable to our " commercial prospe rity." But the_Right Hon. Baronet is not the only Minister who has been guilty of egregious cant on this occasion. Sir ROBERT PEEL is an offender to quite as great an extent. But our readers shall judge for themselves. On the discussion on Lord WORSLEY'S Bill for the Inclosure of Commons, our consistent Premier thus expressed himself:—" The House had a perfect right to set the considerations of health, innocent recreation, and moral improvement, against the mere considerations of pecuniary gain. And if they could prove to him that by the in closure •of these lands far a certain period of time, there would be a demand for labour, and ultimately a permanent increase of produce, that would not be so conclusive a consideration with him as the question whether it would not interfere with the healthful amusements and recreations of the people. It would be very unwise to apply a rigid principle of political economy, and to say that, by in closing these commons, a greater quantity of vegetable rood would be produced." This was taking a generous, lofty, and comprehensive view of the ques tion, for it was directly opposing to the interests of the rich the claims of the poor, and justly sneering a t that "rigid principle of political economy," which regarded nothing but the breeches-pocket ! But now mark the manner in which the Right Honourable Baronet expressed himself on the first dis cussion of Lord ASHLEY'S Ten Hours' Bill!—" What would be the effect of these restrictions proposed '33r the Noble Lord ? There were almost 300 working days in the year. Five days in the week the labour was to be two hours less than at present ; 250 of the 300 days the labour was to be reduced by two hours, or 500 hours in the course of the year. Now, only think of .the cotton mills and woollen factories being idle for seven weeks in the year—seven weeks less labour than was at present per formed !". Here is minute, peddling calculation With . a vengeance ! But with what grace or con sistency does it come from the lips of a man who, but a week before, had advised the House not to be influenced by "too rigid a principle of political economy," and who had expressly stated that "the mere considerations of pecuniary gain" ought never to outweigh those greater considerations, "the health, innocent recreations, and moral improvement of the poor ?" In the one instance Sir ROBERT PEEL adopts the lofty, magnanimous, humane side of the question ; in the other, he takes the mere vulgar pounds-shil lings-and-pence view of it, and shows himself to be as nice, petty, and scrupulous a calculator as a Jew usurer. Yet the two questions, though differing in form, are precisely the same in essence. The poor are equally interested in both, yet the Premier can heave a sentimental sigh for the sufferings of the labourer, while he has not a word to say in favour of the factory children ! Nay, as if this flagrant one-sidedness was not in itself sufficiently dis graceful, he actually urges the " seven weeks'" lost labour in the year, as a conclusive reason why women and children should still be compelled to work unremittingly beyond their strength ! Gracious Heaven, " seven weeks' lost labour," set off against the health—the happiness— the moral and religious culture of thousands of our over-tasked operatives! Was there ever a more barefaced insult offered to justice, common-sense, and humanity ? Madrid papers of the 15th have been received, but bring no news of importance. A letter from Cartha gena states that a deputation from the insurgents had waited on General RONCALT, to propose terms of ca pitulation, but it does not mention the result. The Gazette publishes an order of the Minister of War, addressed to the Captain-General of the sth district, dated Aranjuez, March 13, in which he commends his conduct in putting to death four of his prisoners at Lugo. The Three per Cents. were done at 33i- for cash, and at 34i at 60days; and the Five per Cents. at 22i- for cash, and 231 at 60 days. The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with the controversy between the clergy and the University. Nearly all of them blame the former. The France, however, is an exception, and calls upon the Church to be moderate and firm, and they will triumph. It would appear, however, that the bishops need no such advice ; they have set the law at defiance, and t treat with m oc k ery t h e so l emn op i n i on expressed b y the Chamber orn the following on the ques ti on l as t T ues d ay ; f or on the the Bi s h o p o f V ALENCE wro t e a letter day Abbe COMBALOT even in stronger terms of praise and sympathy than that condemned by the Chamber. The letter is a great curiosity, and runs thus :—" Your defeat, My dear Abbe COMBALOT, is a victory in the eyes of Catholic and religions France. The cause which you have maintained will thereby advance and increase. It will ennoble the iron bars which are to immure you in a prison for fifteen days. " Cum iniquis reputatus est." (He was numbered with the wicked.) You will not, therefore, regret that you have one trait of resemblance with our divine model." On this strange production the Constitu tionnel thus remarks :—" The souls of those insur gent devotees are not turned to the point of honour ; chastisement alone affects them, and puts an obstacle to their outbreaks, and if some one goes farther and deserves prison, he is likened to JESUS CHRIST him self. Suppose that all French citizens, following each his passions, his interests, should imitate the example which the heads of the clergy give them; suppose they study the penal code, in order to take it to the letter as the rule of their conduct towards the State, in order to advance boldly in their under takings to the extreme limit where punishment begins, what anarchy, what universal demoralisa tion would there be !" The very boys at school are rising up against these ecclesiastics. "In consequence of dievolt," says the Patrie, " which took place this ' day at the College Stanislaus, no less than sixty pupils have been expelled. It appears that these boys during the night attempted to throw out of a second floor one of the professors, who had given them offence." All the Professors of that College are clergymen. These papers publish a telegraphic dispatch from Cologne, announcing the death of BERNADOTTE, King of Sweden ; and, in announcing the accession of his son to the throne, declare their opinion that, though OSCAR may reign, the CZAR will govern." The Commerce states that near three hundred non commissioned officers and privates of the 70th Re giment of the Line have been dragged to Algeria, in consequence of the mysterious affair which bas lately occurred in the Paris garrison. THE BOURSE-THURSDAY, MARCH 21. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five perCents.esdiv 122 20 .• 122 50 122 20 .. 122 50 Four-and-a-Half 110 50 110 50 .. 110 50 .• 110 50 FourperCents.exdiv 105 50 .. 105 50 .. 101 50 .. 105 50 Three per Cents.• .• . 83 15 .. 83 20 .• 83 .. 83 20 Bank of France.. • 3190 • • 3190 ..3185 ..3185 Laiiltte Bank, 5,000 f. Sharessllo ..5110 ..5110 ..5110 Belgian Bank ........ 660 .. 662 50 .. 660 .. 662 50 Belgian Fives, 105/ • • 1051 • • 1051 .. 1051 1840......... 1084 .. 1081 • . 1084 .. 1081 1842 • • 1091 • • 1091 • • 109/ • • 1094 Spanish Passive .•.••.• • • • •61 .. 64 .. 64 .. 64 Threes New Deferred ..... 14f .. 141 Portuguese Five per Cents.. .471 • • 47}, • . 351 •• 351 .. 14f •• 14f •• .471_ •• _471 Neapolitan ••.•• :. • .. 102 65 .. 102 - 65 .. 102165 . • 102-65 Roman RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R.B L.B. Rouen Rouen to Havre• •••• • •• 687.50 . 691 25 .. 687 50 .. 691 25 Orleans. _ 902 50 .. 907 50 902 50 .. 907 50 Strasburg to:Bale .... 249 75 • • 260 .. 248 75 • • 260 Avignon to Marseilles...... 775 • • 775 • • 775 .. 775 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. Versailles, R.B. 387 50 .. 387 60 • . 387 50 .. 387 50 L. 8.. •.. • 180 .. 180 .. 177 50 • . 177 80 Rotten 925 . 930 .. 925 .. 930 Rouen to Havre. Orleans . . Strasburg to 8a1e•... Avignon to Marseilles.. • • 775 25 .. 776 25 775 .. 775 LATER FROM THE UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL, Minn 22. We have to-day received by the ship Sea, Captain Edwards, New York papers of the Ist and 2d inst. The ship Sea sailed on the 2d in company with the pacicet ship Oxford (now telegraphed off the port), the Victoria for London, and the Oneida for Havre, The papers by this arrival are filled with details of the sad acci dent which happened on board the Princeton, of which they contain some further particulars, but they are not of interest. The rate of exchange wag 109 to 1084, tending downwards. The fierce debate upon the notice -of motion to put an end to the joint occupation of the Oregon territory was not brought to a con. elusion. The advocates of the desperate resolution had given up all hopes that it would be passed. The House of Representatives, after cancelling on the 28th their twenty.fifth rule, which recorded the refusal of the House to receive any abolition petitions or notices, by a strange act of in consistency reinstated the said rule on the roll of the House on the day following. This small step towards liberal action is thus quickly retraced. The Oxford- has just arrived. She left New York on the 3d (Sunday), but brings papers of the 2d only. THE WILLS FORGERIES MANSION-HOUSE.-(THIS DAY. William Henry Barber, Joshua Fletcher, Thomas Grfftin. Georgiana• Dorey, and William Saunders, were brought up to-day before the Lord Mayor, the first four for final exami r ation, on the charge of the extensive wills forgeries upon which they have been so often remanded; and the last charged, for the first' time, with complicity in the alleged forgeries. The Lord Mayor entered the court at eleven o'clock, and immediately took his seat on the bench. The prisoners were brought in by the officer Forrester, at half-past eleven o'clock. Mr. Clarkson appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Parry for Barber; Mr. Humphries for Fletcher; Mr. Byard, from the office of Mr. Flower, for Mrs. Dorey ; and a clerk, from the Office of Mr. Harmer, of Bristol, for Saunders. Shortly after the entrance of the prisoners, Mr. Clarkson said that Mrs. Saunders had been appre hended, but the state of her health was such as to prevent her being able to commence her journey to London, and as it was aisolutely necessary that the depositions should be read over, not only to Saunders, her husband, who was present, but also to herself, as she also was charged with being an accomplice, he wished to know from any professional gentle man who might be in attendance for the prisoners, whether they had any objection to a remand till Friday next, when Mrs. Saunders should be present, and the depositions could be read over to her and her husband at the same time. His object was to prevent the unnecessary waste of time which reading the depositions now, and a second time on the produc tion in court of Mrs. Saunders, would involve. Mr. Humphries had no objection on the part of his client to adopt the course suggested. Mr. Harmer's clerk neither had any objection to a remand till Friday next, or any other day his Lordship might think fit to oppoint. But he took occasion to complain of the wretched place in which his client (Saunders) was confined. It was a small, filthy cell, in which the only seat was a small stool. The LORD ➢f&von. said that he believed the prisoner being confined in that place was in consequence of his desire to be kept separate from the others, and that there was no other place where he could be detained. He would, however, look to the matter. Saunders, the prisoner, raid that he complained of the matter to the visiting magistrate, and that the latter had entered the complaint on the books. Mr. Byard, for Mrs. Dorey, stated he did not object to the adoption of Mr. Clarkson's suggestion of a remand. . Mr. Parry did not object either; but he regretted that certain parties were not there before his Lordship to-day, because he would then be able to elicit, more clearly than he could lay before his Lordship by a mere statement of facts, that which he considered of very great im portance to Mr. Barber's position, in reference to this inquiry. His Lordship was aware that, when Griffin was apprehended, a -written statement was taken frbm him, which was afterwards submitted to his Lordship.. If he (Mr. Parry) were not mi3informed, and he hadreason to know that he was not, the prosecution had got a statement from Mrs. Dorey and Mr. Saunders, in Which the latter most soleMnly declared his belief of Mr. Barber's entire freedom from any guilty participation in those frauds, as far as he (Saunders) knew. What he (Mr. Parry) now complained of was that the prosecution published the statements made to them when it suited their purpose of blackening Mr. Barber's character to do so, but that they exhibited no desire to bring forward any such statement as that of Saunders, who, as far as his know ledge went, acquitted Mr. Barber of any guilty participation in the forgeries. The LORD MAYOR here interrupted the Learned Gentle man, and observed that all his present remarks would appear in the public papers before the trial could take place ; and he begged him to remember that the parties were not on their trial before him. Mr. Clarkson said that Mr. Parry's statements were en. tirely without foundation. Mr. Parry (with much warmth}-They are not without foundation ; and I can prove what I state tole the fact. Mr. Freshfield, for the prosecution, said that Griffin's statement was made in open Court, and that the statement of Mrs. Dorey affected his (Mr. Freshfield's) case, which was not before his Lordship, and therefore it was not read; but that statement did not remove his impression of Mr. Barber's guilt. All he (Mr. Freshfield) knew from the officer who had apprehended Saunders was, that the latter declined making any statement whatever. His LORDSHIP then fixed Saturday next, at eleven o'clock, as the next day of hearing. QUEEN-SQUARB.-(THIS DAY.) Edward Wyatt, a young man, was charged by Richard Ricketts with creating a disturbance in a temperance hall in Lower George-street, Chelsea, and with violently assaulting the complainant, who is a member of the society. He was fined 55., which was paid. UNION HALL.-(THIS DAY.) Another attempt was made by a young female, named Caroline Hillman, to commit suicide this morning, and she was brought before Mr. Cottingham on the charge. Police-constable, 48 M, stated, that at two o'clock that morning, while on duty on Blackfriars'-bridge, his attention was called to the prisoner, whom he observed lingering about the Surrey side of the bridge. Believing she meditated self destruction, he watched the prisoner for some time, and saw her run down the steps leading to the water; upon which he instantly followed, and was just in time to prevent her from precipitating herself into the river. She had divested herself of her bonnet and shawl, which she left on the steps. When taken to the station-house it turned out that she was an unfortunate woman, and had left her lodging in the Waterloo-road at ten o'clock the same night to go to the Victoria Theatre. The defendant said that she had been drinking and that she was unconscious of what she did. On promising to abstain from liquor in future, she was placed in the care of her friends. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) SWINDON STEEPLE-CHASES.-FRIDAY. Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 soy-8. each, 10 ft , and only 5 if declared ; 100 sous. added. Mr. King's Vanguard, 12st (Oliver) 1 Mr. Vevers's Charity, lOst 10lb _ 2 — Mr. Elmore's Lottery, list; Mr. Anderson's King Cole, lOst 101 b ; Mr. Tilbury's Culverthorpe, lOst 101 b ; and Mr. Killard's Chance, 7st 81b, also started, but were not placed. Won by half a length, after one of the finest races ever seen. A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added, I Ist 71b each, &c., was won by Mr. Baker's Old Glory (Owner), beat ing Mr. ones's Dick Turpin, Mr. Holtham's Monarch, and Mr. Baden's Locomotive, by three lengths. MANCHESTER BETTING.—FRIDAY. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 6 to 1 agslHooton 7 to 1 agst Arcanus 7 to 1 agst Mosque 8 to 1 agst Father Mathew 10 to 1 agst Poussin CHESTE 10 to 1 agst Dawson's lot 10 to 1 agst Pagan—taken 11 to 1 agst Pharoah 17 to 1 agst Jamie Forest 22 to 1 agst Tacita 25 to 1 agst Merry Andrew DEI 20 to 1 agst Running Rein 28 to 1 agst lonian 30 to 1 agst Leander The rest :It CUP. 30 to 1 agst Sir Robert—t. 30 to 1 agst Vakeel—t. 30 to 1 agst Scalteen 35 to 1 agst llooton 30 to 1 agst Everton—t. 40 to 1 agst Sister to Grey Momus colt—t. 40 to 1 agst Vat colt. as before. Mr. Barry for an iron brid • istol7Lite of the present bridge WESMIN STER4-BRIDG E --- 4. beautiful a ha li s g b h e t e a n n p d u gr bli a s c h e e f d a . colntsctorugneseture, design by and at least fourteen feet consequence of for i this new elliptical arches, is of lower than that now in 'use. structure is proposed in con and unsatisfactory state of the foundation t le of ulisa l f i e existing bridge, as well as to improve the te navi gation of the river and facilitate traffic by lowering the way. It is said that an iron bridge of this descrip e tion could be constructed for less than double the amount that would be required to repair and render secure the present unseemly structure. The cost has been estimated at 185,0001., including the expenses for erecting a temporary wooden bridge; and it is understood that this sum might be raised for the most part,. if not wholly, upon the security of the income from the property belonging to the Bridge Com mission. THE ACCIDENT ON THE DOVER RAILWAY.—The man who was so frightfully injured on the Dover line at Folkestone, last Wednesday, expired last night. His injuries were such as to preclude all hope of recovery. TIT E SUN', LONDON, SATrrt 11A P.V_PN'T 140 0 _ MARCH' §rt s 1644, MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) _,..._ COVENT-GARDEN. The supplies of both fruit and vegetables were on the whole extensive, yet the general demand was steady at but little variation from last week's quotations. French Beans, 2s to 3s . ; Oranges, Cs to 14s ; and Lemons, 6s to 12s per 100. Walnuts, lOs to 15s ; Spanish Nuts, 16s ; Barcelona ditto, 21s to 255; and Brazil ditto, 15s per bushel ; Cob Nuts, 60s to 65s ; and Filberts, 60s to 68s per 1001bs. ; Almonds, 6s ; and Chesnuts, 12s to 25s per peck ; Forced Potatoes, 6d to is ; Hot-house Grapes, 4s to 7s ; Pine Apples, 6sto 8s ; and Foreign Grapes, 6d to 10d perlb ; Pome granates, 3s to.6s; Forced Rhubarb, 8d to ls 6d ; Radishes, 8d to Is per dozen heads; Lettuces, is to is 9d per score; Mushrooms, 8d to is 3d per pottle.. • 'zi , SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vubitt eptitton, " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. On Tuesday afternoon the Ring of the French, accom panied by General Gourgaud, Colonel Dumas, and two or derly officers, ♦isited St. Cloud, but returned to the Tuileries to dinner. The Moniteur Parisien states that Lieutenant-General Count Pajol has been for the last two days in an alarming state from the consequence of the fall which he experienced some time since on leaving the Tuileries. Another paper says he expired on Thursday. The Courrier Francais mentions a rumour that M. de Sal vandy is to be appointed Ambassador at St. Petersburgh or Constantinople. The Sieck states that the Committee of the Chamber of Deputies on the Budget has had the conversion of the Five per Cents under its consideration, and that in the report which it will submit to the Chamber it will not only main tain the right of the State to make the change, if considered desirable; but will point out, in a marked manner, the ad vantage of the measure, and recommend to the Ministry to take it into consideration without delay. A letter from Beyrout, dated Feb. 17, in the Courrier Francais, says :—" The Albanian troops commanded by Abbas-Aga having entered the Lebanon, some of them met at Onadi-el-Delab two fanners and a woman with a child in her arms. They killed one of the men, and quartered the child. The other man escaped, and it is not known what is become of the woman. On a complaint of this outrage being laid before the Pacha of Beyrout, he observed—' There is no great harm done—it is only a trifle 1' " In execution of the rules for granting gratifications to such drivers of fiacres, cabriolets, and other public carriages in Paris, as have shown the greatest honesty, the Prefect of Police has just awarded this mark of approbation to several drivers. The property which these men have restored to their owners, who left it in their carriages, during the year, amounts to 22,719 f. 30c. in cash and bills, besides a great number of valuable articles. The Manheint Journal states that the Russian army in the Caucasus has recently experienced many reverses, arising principally from the improved state of discipline amongst the hardy mountaineers who are defending them selves against the invaders. It appears that several Poles, of military experience, have succeeded in joining the Circai sians, and giving to them the aid of their tactics. LAW AND POLICE. The Assizes at Cambridge were opened;on Thursday, by Lord Abinger. There were only seven common jury cases, and a calendar of fifty prisoners. At the Assizes at. Exeter a man, named Walter Smith, was indicted for a burglary in the house of Captain Hare, at Stonehouse. The evidence against him being only that of an accomplice, and unconfirmed, he was acquitted. For the same reason, he was acquitted on four other charges. At the same Assizes two men, named Denham and Crocker, were indicted for sacrilege, in having broken open the church of Exminster, and stolen two surplices, the gold fringe from the pulpit-cushion, and other articles. The surplices were cut up in order to make shirts, and the gold fringe brought for sale to the house of a Jew. When Denham was asked by the Learned Judge if he wished to say anything to the jury, he replied " Yes ;" and forthwith commenced addressing them, which he did with great effect, pointing out ix a forcible and almost oratorical manner, the points in the evidence which made in his favour, whilst he recapitulated the story he had before told the policeman. Crocker said nothing. The jury acquitted Denham, . and found Crocker guilty ; sentence was deferred. - Mrs. Mary Keene, a widow, about fifty years of age, the landlady of the Lord Kendal publie-house, Cambridge-street, Edgeware-road, was brought before Mr. Long, at Marvle bone, upon a charge of stealing, from a Paddington omnibus, in which she was a casual passenger yesterday morning, a piece of Irish linen. On missing the parcel, the conductor went after the prisoner, and found it in her possession, when she apologised, and begged that nothing would be said about it. At the station-house she alleged that she had been making purchases, and mistook the parcel taken for her own. She was remanded. bail being refused. A court-martial has been ordered by the Lords of the Ad miralty to assemble at Portsmouth, for the trial of the en gineer of the Prometheus, on charges of neglect of duty, whereby the boilers of that vessel were damaged and the machinery deranged. George Gunun, the young man who was some days ago brought up on suspicion of having been concerned in the rob bery of the City of Boulogne steam-vessel belonging to the Commercial Steam-packet Company, was put to the bar of the Mansion-house, in the custody of Daniel Forrester, for re-examination. He was again remanded. James Stokes, a man having all the appearance of a steady servant, was charged at the Guildhall with having systema tically plundered his employers of various kinds of paper, Messrs. Weadon, Smith, and Co., wholesale stationers, in Paternoster-row. He had enjoyed their confidence for the last fifteen years. He was committed for trial. COVRT-FASICXONABLE. In consequence of the several deaths in the higher circles of society, the ball at Almack's, which was to commence the season on Monday next is, by general approbation, postponed until after Easter. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch had a dinner party on Friday, which was attended by the French Ambassador and the Countess de St. Aulaire, the Russian and other • Foreign Ministers, and'their ladies, Sir H. and Lady Emily H ar di nge , Lord and Lady Marsham, Lord and Lady Emlyn, Lord John Manners, Baron Gersdorff, Capt. and Mrs. Cust, Mr. and Mrs. Rice Trevor, Capt. Hood, R.N., Captain Duncombe, &c. The family will leave Montague House on the 27th inst. for Boughton Hall, Northamptonshire. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and the Ladies So merset are expected to arrive at Beaufort House, Arlington street, on Wednesday next, from Badminton, for the season. The Earl and Countess of Wilton are expected to leave Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray, on Wednesday next, on a visit •to the Duke of Rutland, •at Belvoir Castle, during Croxton Park Races, which commence on the 28th inst. The Noble Duke's party will close the hunting season in Leicestershire. The Right Hon. Selina Viscountess Milton, accompanied by her daughter, the Hon. Miss Fitzwilliam, returned to Aidwarke Hall, near Rotherham, on Monday. General the Hon. Sir Alexander Duff and Lady and Miss Duff left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, yesterday, for their new mansion, at Rutland-gate, which the Gallant General has just engaged for the season. The Marquis of Westminster, who has been slightly indis • posed at Eaton Hall, has recovered. ATISCEZZAVEOUS. The Presbyterian marriage question is causing great ex• citement :n the north of Ireland, and meetings are in pro gress all over that part of the country. At a meeting held at Londonderry on Wednesday, the Mayor in the chair, the speakers denounced the insolent and oppressive encroach ments of the State Church, and the system of base deception , p rac ti se d against the Presbyterian s s i nce t h e un f ortunate a lli anc e between Prelacy and Presbyterianism, announced at far at Hillsborough for the promotion of the turning out the Whi gs , the We Orangehflanm find from or from a Return made t o t h e H ouse of Commons, u for the last year, of offences committed against the Fac tories Act, that the total number of convictions in the four districts of Messrs. L. Horner, T. Howell, Saunders, and Stuart, amounted to about 192. The offences were princi pally the over-working of children or th e em pl o y men t o f children ileht, & c . F rom a summary ap pendedars that the total n um b er o f convictions under the provisions of the Factory A c t f rom to under tiiia a n ge e , turn and i a t t a night, .1834 to 1843, both inclusive, amounted to 3,401, being an average of 340 a-vear ; that the g ross tota l amount of penal. ties inflicted for - the said offences during the above decade was 6,895/. ; and the total amount of costs 2,123/. By the annual report of Professor Moseley, Inspector of the Greenwich Hospital Schools, and addressed to the Lords of the Admiralty, it appears that the number of boys in the Upper and Nautical Schools, is at present 379, who are taught geography, • arithmetic, algebra, geometry; trigono metry, and other brinches of n au ti ca l k nowledge. The number o f , astrenomica observations made by the pupils during the •pat half -year, amounts to between 10,000 and 14,000. During the whole of the week a very considerable sale, under the orders of the Commissioners of Customs, has been proceeded with at"the Commercial Sale-rooms, Mincing-lane, of property which has come into the possession of the Cus tom-house by forfeiture from attempt to evade the duties. There were aiove 1,00 lots, the produce from which will be above 15,000/. • THE FACTORIES BILL. (FROld AN OPERATIVE CORRESPONDENT.) The debate on the Factories Bill has excited universal attention, relating to interests as varied as powerful, im portant alike to the high Minister and humble operative, and concerning the cause of humanity and the commerce of England. The House of Commons, feeling the vast importance of their decision, gave the subject due consideration and regard, but, unfortunately, failed: in perceiving that humanity and commerce may go hand in hand, and, fearing to en danger the one, hardly dared to assist the other. Three times did they "resolve and re-resolve," and at last remain uncertain and undecided, regardless of the expectations awaiting their decision, and the various emotions the debate had called forth. What hopes and fears have alternately cheered and depressed the hearts of the poor and suffering during the diseussion of this, to them, all-important subject. The majority of Monday brought joy and thanksgiving to expectant thou sands; who hailed the decision of the House as the certain triumph of their fondest hopes—all ignorant of the power of that House to change its decisions in five days—nay, even in as many minutes The Govern ment, with perseverance worthy of a better cause, refused to believe themselves defeated by a ma jority of nine, and brought the subject again under con sideration, till last night's division took the victory from their opponents, but without awarding the triumph to them selves—once again must doubt, and uncertainty be the por tion of the poor, and their condition will now be even worse than before; pain and sorrow are evils in themselves, but how much is thei r bitterness augmented by first inspiring hope and promising relief, and then dashing the cup of joy from their lips, and leaving them to toil and suffering, with the added pangs of " hope deferred." Five days have elapsed since the House decided in favour of "justice and hu manity." In that time the news has been spread far and wide through the m anufacturing districts, cheer ing the desolate and diffusing universal satisfaction through all classes. Will the Government, in the face of popular feeling, use their influence in turning the poor man's joy to mourning? Will they only employ the power vested in their hands, in compelling the wearied child and suffering woman, to pursue their hard laborious tasks two hours after the toils and trials of the day have rendered rest necessary both to mind and body? Will they do this? We know they will. They have proved, by their untiring opposition, that their will is not wanting in the cause of oppression ; that they can is another question. The struggle will be renewed on Monday, and let the House then show itself superior to the 'Ministry alike in power and inclination to do good. The general feeling was with Lord Ashley, when he commenced the subject, by appealing to the judgments and hearts of his hearers—that feeling was with him when the Ministry sus tained their first defeat—and that feeling will be with him, and with the thousands depending on his motion, when next Monday shall decide the contest. When the depression which now weighs down the spirits of the suffering shall give way to certainty and joy —all the doubt and apprehension they now entertain shall be forgotten, on that " holiday for broken hearts," and the Government will be compelled to own that even the power of office, and the force of perseverance, must give way before the dictates of " justice and humanity." limited suite, is ex His Majesty th e Ki ng o f t h e B e l g i a ns, attended by a on Tuesday or W e d nesday next, on a vis i t t o h e r M a jesty, and is expected to remain ( w ith t h e except i on o f a short visit to Clare mont)^`'''.---ted to arrive at Buckingham Palace, via Ostend, during the contemplated short Absence of his Royal Highness Pr*. Albert in OtIZDAny. NEMO:ATE AND znanzanxikia.. We had a very sluggish demand at but little variation in prices :—Fowls, from is 6d to 4s; Chickens, is 3d to 2s 3d; Ducks, is to 2s 3d; Geese, 4s to 6s; Pigeons, 4d to 10d ; Turkeys, 4s to 9s; Rabbits, 6d to is 6d; Hares, is 6d tci 2s 8d; Partridges, is to 2s; Pheasants, 2s 6d to 4s; Wild Ducks, is 6d to 2s; Teal, 9d to is 6d; Widgeons, is to 2s ; Snipes, 6d to Is ; Woodcocks, 2s to 3s 3d; Plovers, 4d to 6d, each; and Larks, is 3d to is 6d. per dozen. For the primest Mutton the demand was steady at full prices. All other kinds of Meat were a very dull sale :—Beef, from 2s 2d to 3s 4d ; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 10d ; Lamb, 4s 8d to 5s 10d; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 8d; and Pork, 2s 6d to 4s 2d per 81bs, by the carcase. NEWPORT. There was avery sluggish inquiry, and prices were not sup ported. Beef from 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 10d ; Lamb, 5s 2d to 6s; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 10d; and Pork 2s 6d to 4s 4d per Blbs. BILLINGSGATE. The supplies of Fish were good, yet the demand was tolerably steady, at our quotations. Turbots, 68 to 18s; Cod-fish, 2s 3d to 8s; Brill, 6d to 2s; Hallibut, 4s to 8s; Haddocks, 2d to 6d ; Lobsters, 8d to 3s 3d ; Whitings, Id to 3d ; ; Crabs, fid to 2s 8d ; Scates, 10d to 3s ; Gurnets, 6d to Is ; Plaice, 3d to 9d each ; Soles, 6d to 3s 3d per pair ; Eels, 4d to 8d per lb; Flounders, is to Is 3d per dozen; Oysters, 12s to 50s per bushel ; Red Herrings, lOs to 40s per barrel ; Mackerel, 3d to 8d each. VZIFIXTECII4LPEZ. Although the supplies were by no means large the trade ruled inactive on the following terms :—Beef from 2s 4d to 3s 4d; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 8d ; Lamb, 4s 8d to 5s 10d ; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 8d ; and Pork, 2s 6d to 4s 2d per Etlbs. HIINGERFORD. Notwithstanding the supplies of most articles were com paratively small, the general demand was in a very sluggish state, and prices had a downward tendency. BREAD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are from 8d to 9d; of Household 6d to lid per 41b loaf. HIDE MAItKET. Raw Hides, at per stone of 141bs—Best steers, and heifers, 5s Gd to 5s 10d; middling hides, 4s 10d to 5s 4d ; inferior do, 4s 4d. to 4s Bd. Sheep and Calf Skins, at per skin—Market calf, 6s 6d to Bs6d ; long woolled sheep, 4s 6d to 6s; short do, 3s to 4s 6d ; lamb skins, is 3d to is 6d; and shearlings, 4d Bd. each. HATMARZETS. SMITIIFIELD.-6719;Meadow Hay, 2/ lOs to Si; use ful ditto, 31 3s to 31 lOs ; fine Upland ditto, 31 12s to 3/ 16s ; Clover Hav, 315 s to 51; Oat Straw, 11 Gs to 11 8s ; Wheat. Straw, 11 8s to 11 lOs per load. Supply good, and trade very dull. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ to 3/10s ; useful ditto, 31 12s to 3/ 15s; fine Upland ditto, 31 16s to 41; Clover Hay, 313 s to 4/ 15s; Oat Straw, 117 s to 1/10s; Wheat Straw, 1/ lOs to 11 12s per load. Alimited supply and a steady demand. WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 31, 5s ; useful ditto, 3/ 6s to 3/ lOs ; fine Upland ditto, 3/ 12s to 3l 17s ; Clover Hay, 31 5s to 5/ 5s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 6s to 11 88 ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ lOs per load. Trade throughout dull, at barely late rates. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.-FRIDAY. There is a thin attendance of buyers at this day's market, consequently not much business passing, and we note a re. duction in the value of Wheat and Barley of Is. per quarter from this day se'nnight. Oats and Shelling are in moderate request, on much the same terms as last week, but Beans are a trifle lower. Per qr. of 601 b. to the bushel. OLD. NEW. Wheat, Stiffelk, Essex, and Kent ..... .... Red —to 58 53 to 1'.6 Ditto ditto White... 62 56 W Norfolk Red 56 48 54 Ditto ditto ..... .... White 5 4 52 56 Lincolnshire and Cambri dge.... Red 56 48 53 Ditto ditto White... .-. 58 52 55 • Yorkshire Red— 56 47 53 Ditto ditto White... 58 50 54 Fore igh....... Red 54 58 Ditto ditto ....... ..... White 56 60 Per quarter imperial. Balch Norfolk and Suffolk ........... ..... — 36 32 33 Yorkshire and Lincolnshire ..—......„ 35 32 80 Grinding ............ ..... ..... **ewe ...... •••••••••• - - Foreign — 34 SO 32 30 32 Per qr. cf 631 b. to the bushel. Deans, Small Ens ...».»....»....... 00000000 31 35 32 33 Ticks 00000 ....... .......... ..... 31 34 32 33 Foreign. Oats, Potato ai.d Pols d _ .... .....g. !dea1ing......... 10.1. to Ild., Fercign —d to—d. pet Stow. S QiiillIgemptee«•••••••••••• ••••••••••••••••••• • 21s. to 25:. per Lead. DI tit 40.. fine 44c. per R ipested.... LLOYD'S. SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MARCH 23.—N.N.W., light breeze, and cloudy. DEAL, MArtex 22.—A.M., Wind W.S.W., fresh breeze ; ra.r., Wind S.W., moderate.—Arrd. Elizabeth, Law, Mauri tius;. Unity, Agnew, Demerara. OFF TILE START, MARCH 20.—Brig Eliza, of Kincardine. OFF MARGATE, MARCH 21.—Richards, Chambers, Buenos Ayres ; James, Tvnes, Trinidad and Bermuda. PcurrsmouTH, - MARCH 22.—Wind W.N.W. to W.S.W.— Spectator Robinson, Shields for Bordeaux and Mauritius. OFF KINGSBRIDGE, MARCH 22.—Meg Merrilres, Thomas, .Mauritius, sailed Dec: 12, Cape of Good Hope January SoirritAmrrox, Mutat 21.—Sid. Montrose, steamer, Gibraltar. PLYMOUTH, MARC!! 22.—Wind S.W.—Sld. her Majesty's ship Fort, Portsmouth. And. Fox, Fox, Cadiz. • FALMOUTH, MARCH 22.-Wi n d S.W., moderate breeze.— Arrd.-San Jose, Gonsalves, Lisbon for Hamburgh, assisted in with damage to hull, bowsprit, &c., having been in contact with a schooner, 19th inst . ., lat. 43, lon. 8, when seven of the crew of the San Jose quitted her, leaving only the master and two men on board. Off port, Clutha, Duncan, Moul mein. CARDIFF; MARCH 21.-Sld. Mary and Harriet, Quebec. STANGATE CREEK, MARCH 22.—A vessel bottom up, and coppered, apparently of 300 tons, was passed 10th inst., in lat. 42, lon.-15, by the Pera, arrived here. BRIXHAM, KutcH 21.—The Nereid, Wayman, from Shields to Malta, which was driven ashore 17th inst. at Elbury, has been got off, after throwing part of her cargo overboard, and brought in here very leaky. NEWPORT, 3LutcH 21.- 7 Sld. Julia, Calcutta; alga% St. Thomas's.' LIVERPOOL, MARCH -22. —Wind variable and light.— Arrd. Sea, New York (2d inst.) ; Buckingham, Penhallow, Mobile. Ski. Jersey . Lass, Rio; Walter Scott, Jamaica.— Off, Oxford, New York; Letitia Hevn, New Orleans; Wood.stock, Kingston ; and Matthew Pearce, CLYDE, MAncu 20.—S1d. Echo, Trinidad; Acadian, Hali fax ; Zebulon, Newfoundland. DUBLIN, MARCH 20.—SId. Recovery, St. John's, New Brunswick. SHIELDS, MARC!! 21.—Sid. Emma, Aden ; British Hero, Montreal ; Lord Gambier, Davis' Straits. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 22.—Sid. Chronometer and Star of the West, Coast of Africa. DUMFRIES, MARCH 20.—Sid. Francis and Diana, St John's, New Brunswick. LEITH, MARCH 20.—S1d. Fleetwood, Mauritius. PAtaxxox, MARC!! 21.—The vessel wrecked proved to be (by a register picked up) the Fortune, Barns, of Cork. FALMOUTH, MARCH 21.—The Fortune, Barron, from Shields to Malta, put to sea on the night of 10th inst., during a hazy gale at W.S.W. OSTEND, MARCH 19.—The Esperance, from Seaham to St. Jean de Luz, put in here, 13t11 inst., leaky, has discharged, and is repairing. QUILLEBOEUF, MARCH 17.—The Ami Catharine, ashore on the Tot Bank, has been got off, after lightening. RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PARLIA• MENT. FRIDAY, MARCH 22, Eastern Union Railway—Read a second time and committed, and referred to the Committee of Selection. Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway and Tyne Bridge Bill—Read a second time and committed, and referred to the Committee of Selection. Pontop and South Shields Railway Bill—Read a second time and committed, and referred to the Committee of Se lection. North Wales Mineral Railway—Report from Select Com mittee on Standing Orders (21st March) read ; Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Mainwaring and Mr. Bagot. North Wales Mineral Railway Bill—" For making a Rail way from the river Dee, in the county of Chester, to Wrex ham, in the county of Denbigh, with a Branch Railway from Wrexham to the Mineral Fields in the township of Brymbo, in the parish of Wrexham, to be called ' The North Wales Mineral Railway;' " presented and read a first time. Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton Railway Bill—Read a second time and committed, and referred to the Committee of Selection. Whitehaven and Maryport Railway—Petition for addi tional provision reported. Instruetion to the Committee on the Bill—That they have power to make provision Therein, pursuant to the prayer of the said petition. Leeds and Selby Railway Purchase (No. 2) Bill—Petition of the Hull and Selby Railway Committee against; referred to the Committee on the Bill ; Counsel ordered. South-Eastern Railway Bill—Read a second time andeom , nutted, and referred to the Committee of Selection. THE MAESTRO.—The Maestro, of which the first number has just reached us, is a new weekly musical periodi cal, started for the purpose of emulating the numerous musi cal journals of Paris, on which " such artists as Berlioz, Fetis, Theodor 6 Labarre, &c. are employed." It will offer "at the same moment a teacher to the student, and a critic to the artist." The number contains a great mass of musical intelli gence, some well written musical criticism, and the com mencement of an art novel, called " the New Soprano." The supplement to the number will secure it a wide circulation, as it consists of a ballad, " Brighter days will soon appear," the music of which is by the Russian harpist, Nicholas de Witte, and a new quadrille by Musard on th emes f rom P ers i an i' s " Fantasma." The work is well got up ; the music especi ally is admirably printed. NEW REGULATION IN GRANTING SUMMONSES. — Yesterday (Friday) Mr. Hall, the Chief Magistrate at Bow ' street, issued an order that all complaints for a summons which shall in future be made at the police-court, should be sworn on oath by the partie s . Thi s i s in accordance with the opinion of Mi.. Justice Patteson, lately expressed' in the Court of Queen's Bench. Up to the present time the sum monses have been granted on the mere statements of the parties. DEPUTATION TO THE ITOME-OFFlCE.—Yesterday a deputation of manufacturers extensively engaged i n the cotton trade, consisting of Messrs. Thomas Ashton of Hyde, Henry Ashton of Turton, John Whittaker and George Hi , rinbottom of Ashton-under - Lyne , William Taylor of Preston, James Burton and Joseph Ainsworth of Bolton, James Pilkington and Robert Hopwood of Blackburn, had an audience with Sir James Graham, Bart., on the factory question. Rossini, who, since his return to Bologna, is per fectly recovered in health; has of late been assiduously employed in rehearsing the music which is shortly to be performed by the pupils of the Lyceum in that city, and also composed a Cantata, which has recently been executed at Turin, on the occasion of the celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of Tasso's birth day. The Cantata was received with loud acclamations from the audience, and encored three times. THE COURT —THE EASTER HOLID.A.YS.—Ii was at one time expected that, in consequence of the prevalence of the measles in the towns of Windsor and Eaton, her Majesty would re main at Buckingham Palace, and not proceed to Windsor Castle to spend the Easter holidays. We understand, however, that ar. rangements have been made for the Court to leave town about Wednesday or Thursday (the 3d or 4th proximo) for Windsor Castle, and that her Majesty will return to Buckingham Palace about the 15th or 10th. MONE Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was without alteration; sales 2,500 bales.—There was a good inquiry for French Railway Shares, but the heavier Stocks were in dull demand. Chester and Holyhead, 6 ; Edinburgh and Glas gow, 65 ; Eastern Counties, 11 2 ; Grand Junction, 232 ; Great Western, 112 ; Birmingham, 237 ; Manchester and Binning. ham, 47* ; Paris and Lyons, 2/. 15s. 6d. ; Ditto and Orleans, 341 i ; Ditto and Rotten, 364 ; South-Eastern, 35i ;*. Ditto New, 36;1.. The result of the discussion on the Factory Bill in the House of Commons has been a topic of very general conver sation in the City this morning, but the opinions are most conflicting upon the policy of the ten hours' plan being car ried out. The accounts received from the United States to-day, aer considered to be so far satisfactory, and it is announced that the war party, as respects the Oregon question, has been defeated. Our new Minister at the Court of Washington, appears to have won golden opinions from the people, and very strong hopes were entertained that the difficul ties of the question would be got over. 'There was a great solicitude entertained in the United States relative to the future condition of the Cotton Markets. It is said that an immense quantity of the staple was about to be forwarded to Europe, and that the bold attempt to keep back supplies had most signally failed. The quotations at New York were principally nominal. There are some later accounts this morning from the Cape of Good Hope, namely to the 9th January_ There is no in formation from Natal of consequence. It is mentioned that coal had been discovered. The attention of the Government was directed to the improvement of the lands, a subject that had not of late years had much consideration. The revenue of the colony is represented as being in a more prosperous state than it had been. This is the last day for permitting dissents to be entered against the plan for the reduction of the Three-and-a-Half per Cents., but up to the present hour the books, at the Bank of England, have but nine or ten names, and said to be for small amounts. It will be some time before those holders in distant parts will send in their adhesion or otherwise to the plan. At present the amount of the objectors' stock is kept secret. With respect to the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. of 1818, it is said that the assents are very general as far as hone holders are concerned. This is the version of the affair curt: t in the Market. The Commissioners did not buy to-day. Consols for Money are firm, at 98a, and for the Account at the same rate. A bargain has been made in the Three per Cents. of 1751, at 96g. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents, have been steady at 102/ a. India Stock at an improvement to• 294, but Bank Stock has fallen from 2,00/ to 1991. The premium upon Exchequer Bills has also dropped a trifle. Business has been slack in the Foreign funds to-day. Spanish Bonds have remained at about 25h ; the Threes at 35g, Mexican Deferred at 15h t0 . 15i, Russian at 117, Dutch Five per Cents. at 1011 to 102, and Colombian ex Venezuelan at 14a. The Railway Share Market is pretty firm, Birmingham and Derby have risen to 37 discount, the Thirds to 21, the Edinburgh and Glasgow to 14/ premium, the London and Brighton to 5i discount ;but in the other lines the alterations have been slight. Brazil Imperial Mines are at 13 dis. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 9 8%% New 3% per Cent. Annuities 10234% South Sea Stock 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 96% Bank Stock for Account Consols for Account 98% India Stock Exchequer Bills, I %d. 154 d 1,0001. bOOI. Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Columbian Bonds. 14% „Mexican Bonds, ism. 5 per Cent. .... ........ ..... Ditto Deferred Stock. 15 % 14 Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent ll'7 Spanish Bonds Five per Cent 1840 — Ditto for the Account Ditto Three per Cent. Ditto for the Account. Dutch 21r% per Cents 57%14 Dutch 5 per Cents lOl% 102 101% PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. PAID. Pan SHARE Birmingham and Derby........... 100 Ditto Thirds Ditto Eighths Chester and Holyhead Eastern Counties Ditto New Registered 81. 6s. Bd. Ditto Perpetual 5 per cent lts. 4d.... % Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 64% Great Western Ditto % Shares Harrowgate and Kriatosboro' ... 3 Lancaster and Carlisle 5 .... ..... '7%% ... to London and Brighton 5O 44% ..... to London and Birmingham. Stock .. Ditto % Shares 2 2B %.% ... to Di , ' , N -- Thirds. ditto New _ airds 2 - to London and Croydon (Trunk)... 13 3 4 Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 Midland Counties lOO Ditto % Shares North British 2% Newcastle and Darlington Junet. 18 Northern and Eastern Ditto %% Share 12% ..„.. 1 - 6%% ... to North Midland Ditto Thirds 2l . 13s. 4d "0% to Paris and Orleans .......„ ......... . !II Paris and Rouen Rouen and Havre. South Eastern and Dover Ditto Scrip 25 36%% ... to Yosic and North Midland Ditto New Shares Ditto Scarboro' Branch .... ..... 2% ...... 20%%... to PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, MARCH 21. 3 per Cent. Consols 9B`" Thrr free and a Half Stock Ditto Reduced lOll4 Ditto New, Is3o . . .... 3% per Cent. Debentures 93% Bank Stock 19.:, ". Grand Canal Debt. 6 per Cent B- G. LAST PRICES OF SHARES. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Dublin and K. Road Drogheda 55 Hibernian Bank 25 29% City of Dublin Steam Company British and Irish Steam Company ... 50 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 22.—Our market has been quiet to-day with no improvement in prices. The sales are :—Bolton and Preston, 30i; Manchester and Bir .mingham, 47k ; Norwich and Brandon, 7 ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 3 4 and 4 ; Manchester Assurance, 10i. RAILWAY RETURNS. We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums received on the principal Railways of Great Britain for the week ending on the day of the month prefixed to each. The return includes the money received for passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer , chandise : en eek W ded Name of Railway. Total s. d. Mar. 16 Arbroath and Forfar lO5 8 11 16 Birmingham and Derby Junction 1,204 5 6 15 Birmingham and Gloucester 2,067 1 3 Brandling Junction 15 Chester and Birkenhead 19 Dublin and Kingstown 17 Dundee and Arbroath 16 Durham and Sunderland 320 7 11 634 15 10 204 0 4 470 7 8 16 Edinburgh and Glasgow 1,984 18 4 17 Eastern Counties and North Eastern 3,232 11 0 16 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr 1,211 2 0 16 Glasgoiv and Greenock 623 19 8 16 Grand Junction 6,335 18 7 16 Great North of England 1,334 15 7 17 Great Western Liverpool and Manchester - 16 London and Birmingham 21 London and Blackwall 6lB 16 5 16 London and Brighton 19 London and Croydon 21 London and Greenwich 704 6 2 17 London and South Western ....... 14 Manchester, Bolton and Bury 727 19 1 16 Manchester and Birmingham 2,672 0 10 16 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc 5,246 2 0 16 Midland Counties 16 Newcastle and Carlisle 1,215 4 1 17 Newcastle and North Shields 2BB 0 9 16 North Midland 15 North Union and Bolton and Preston 1,113 11 3 12 Paris and Orleans 3,894 13 3 • 18 .Paris and Rouen 3,596 0 0 16 Preston and Wyre 221 17 0 16 Sheffield. and Manchester 464 1 1 _ 21 South Eastern 2,661 14 6 16 Tall' Vale 17 Ulster 547 14 5 16 York and North Midland PARLIAMEN TAR ,Y D I, (Prom the Votes and Proceedings of , ° the House FRIDAY, MARCH 22. FACTORIES BILL.—(IN THE CORINIITTEE').O. Eighth Clause (No young person or female adult to li be t o) pined in a Factory in any one day more than - 1 .7: 12 1t b e —Motion made, and Question propose d. " That tbe i ,v i. .s t t ia filled with twelve' :"—Afterwardi proposed , " "50 blank be fi!led with ten' :"—Question put, " That tb be filled with' twelve ':" The Committee divided:' MINORITY—AYES, MI • bs 11 0 d A'Court rapt Forster, Matthew Nicholl Rift..f. Allix, John Peter Fox, S. Lane O'Fer.,l ll, Arbuthnot,Gibson, T. M. Ord, ”. • ker J.. WO A rkwrig ht, Geot ge Gisborne, Thomas P•sr-- ' J o hn • Bailey, Joseph Gladstone, W. E. Pattent Ra o Bailey, Joseph, jun. Gordon. - Captain Peel, Si r ' athse Baillie, Colonel H. Goulburn , Henry Peel. '' ° (:l IL Balfour, J. M. Graham, Sir J. nines, d,OOl, Baring, Hon. W. B Hale, Robert B. Pollock. 3 " o el Baring, F. T. Hamilton, Wm. J. Powell, 11r Barrington, Viscount Hardlnge, Sir H. Pringle, ." ono* Barron, Sir H. ~ Hastie, A. Protheroe, _kir g. Bell, M. " Hay, Sir A. L. Reid, Sir PI; , Bentinck, Lord G. Hayter, W. G.Rica rd o, I SptSIS . on. Blackburue, J. I. Heathcote, Sir W. Bons. I' _ 4 , CO' Blakemore, R. Herbert, Sidney Rushbroost _r, Boldero, H. G. Hinde, J. H. W ISS CII, Ci , t Bot field, Beriah Hodgson, Frederick Sanderseq; 1::, Bowes, J. Hodgson, Richard Scarlett 2..; . Bright, John . Holmes, W. A'Court Scott, Ro be P. Bruce, Lord E. Hope, Charles Seyinourr ,r. Bruges, W. M. L. Hope, G. W. ShePPO ° ' 0 a Buck, L. W. Houldsworth, T. Smith, I', _ o , Buller, E. Howard, P. H. Smythe frovij, Buller, Sir J. Yarde Hussey, Thomas somerse t, , r. It Cardwell, Edward Hut W. s ot heroni; _ r d Carnegie, Captain Irving, John Stanley, I.era te" -- Cartwright, W. R. Jermyn, Earl Stanley, _, J. Castlereagh, Viscount Johnstone, A. Stuart , lie Charteris, Hon F. Johnstone, Hope Stuart, .. . Childers, J. W. Jolliffe, Sir W. Stuart, Chute Willism L W Jones, Captain Strutt. %. S P Clay, Sir W. Knatchbull, Sir E. Suttoll ej , l4° Clayton, Rice R. a1 ...:1 Knightley, Sir C. Tan ... Clerk, Sir George Labouchere, H. 'Ferment, 1 . , Cockburn, Sir G. Langston, J. H. The/4 09 0 7, Colebrooke, Sir T. Lascelles, W. S. Tnoll2P°llolw Collett, W. Bickford Leader, J. T. Thorne''. ~..,.. Corry, Henry Lemon, Sir C. Thorilhilltuii. Craig, W. Gibson Lennox, Lord A. Tollenzachep. Cripps, W. Lincoln,' Earl of Trelawnp_ i t. f i , Currie, Raikes Lockhart, William Trench, t ' Darner Damer Colonel Lyon, George Villiers, Cr. - A Darby, George Lygon, General Vivian. Jon" ottn Oivett, E. ddillgt A Mackenzie, Thontas Wa „ Dodd, George Mackenzie, W. F. Wall, Clf'sohe Douglas, Sir C. E. M‘Neill, Duncan Walsh, bi l 'il. Douro, Marquis of March, Earl of Warburtet. Dugdale, W. S. Marjoribaziks, S. Ward. i t yero Duncan, Viscount Marshall, NV. Wencher.. 1 0 Duncan, George Marsham, Viscount Wilbrahei 7 . Duncannon, Lord Martin, C. W. Williams , 9 Egerton, W. T. Masterman, Jebn Winolorsi,, Eliot, Lord Maunsell, T. P. Wood, L' - w el .l l Escott, Bichkam Meynell, Captain col ../ w Woolly --„„ r , i Estcourt, T. G. B. Alildmay, 1 - 1 St. J. WrightPlolo o Evans, William . Mitcalfe, Henry NVindbtr ~.. Fielden, W. Mitchell, T. A. Yorke. %I, Filmer, Sir E. Morgan, Octavius Young i t i g o si. t. Fitzmaurice, W." Morrison, James Ta m Flower, Sir James Mundy, E. Miller Freezen - i r e etr . Follett, Sir W. W. Neeld, Joseph Baling, .' • MAJORITY—NOES, 186. O. Acland, Sir T. D. Ellice. E. Martl o l w. S. Acland, T. D. Ellis, Wynn Miles, r• ~,..., Adare. Lord Ewart, William Miles. ° I TO • Ric. I Adderley, C. B. Farnham, E. B. Mina, 5.. ' Aglionby, H. A. Feilden, J. Mordatint. a • Ds 11 " Ainsworth, Peter Fellowes, Edward 14; TisrNee: 0 ,vwi r :ii r dri i e s iyer : ;vs. ._..1..00,10. 1 70. ,L r u5 it Aldan', William Ferrand, W. B. Muntz, . Antrobus, Edmund It itzroy, Lord C. Archdall. Captain Fox, C. RI Arundel, Lord French, F. Bankes, George Fuller. A. E. Bannerman, A. Gardner, J. D. wzrierh„ - D, / n'C nn e "' - )L' Baskerville, T. B. M. Gill, Thomas ..... 0 ~ . Beckett, 'William Gore, M. O'Conne.n co Beresford, Major Gore, W. Ormsby Ossulst°,, n 'lT. • Berkeley, Captain Gore, Robert packe, l'.' , Bernal, Ralph Glanzer, T. C. Paget , ,* - J. ,- Blacksione, W. Gregory, W. a ... • g ton• rakut . Blake, M. J. . Grey, Sir G. Palmer, 11,,, Borthwick, Peter Grimsditch, 'Thomas Pallnerr t o, ~ Bradshaw, James Grogan, Edward Pallne ti ,,, J.1..'40 Bramston, 'l'. W. Grosvenor , Lord R. PluriaWs? Broattley,Henry, Guest, J. Pluteral . yoco o Brocklehurst, J. Raiford, Henry Polhill, .... Browne, W. Hall, Sir B. Pollillq,lllllo 1 Buller, C. Hanmer, Sir John Pracu , rbia J. Busfeild, W. Harcourt, G. G. Puf iod ost . b o Butler, Colonel Hardy, John ßa hleighs Butler, P. S. Hatton, Capt. Villiers Ras -hal*. 1 , Carew, R. S. Hawes, B. Be" in .-- Cavendish, Hon. C. Heatbcoat, J. ReptO n t Cavendish, Hon. G. Heathco:e G. J. Bieha l /t l 'iirk°' Cayley, E. S. Henley, J. W. Ross ' --- J I' ' lip . Chapman, B. Hervey, Lord A. Busse 4 ? : 1)..pg Cnetwode, Sir John Hindley, Char - Ryder. ~,.. Cochrane, Alex. Hollond, Rased S a nde rs. _. id; J. Colborne, W. Ridley Hornby, John soboletit r oln Collett, John Horsman, Edward Shaf.,„ Colquhoun, John C. Howard. C. G. W. Sibto e 'rAbel_i Colvile, C. R. Howard, Lord smith, , A.ev'Ags Copeland, Alderman Howard, E G. smith.". CP:, Cowper, Hon W. tinwick, Lord Stand's/4"e ". O. Crawford, W. S. Humphery, J. Stanta n ' Sir n. Curteis, H. B. Mg' s, Sir R. Stalintt Jobe 0, Dalrymple, Captain James, Sir Walter Stewa rt' l4 Davies, I). A. S Jocelyn, Viscount StricklsOilair Dawnay, W. H. Johnstone, Sir John Taylor, J. ai') Denison, W. J. Kemble, Henry TaY10 r ...,.. he , ' Denison. E. B. Knight, H. G. Tollein." . lin J oe D'Eyncourt, T. C. Knight, F. Winn Tow 1 0, ~,, T. Dickinson, F. H. Law, Hon. C. E. Town e •d i g,. '" C,'lsr-eli, Benjamin Lawson, Andrew Troubati, ~4/ Dougla , , Sir H. Lefroy, Anthony Tufne ~rd W ,110..- Duff; J. D. S. Leveson , Lord Vane. -.'-.110..- Duff; James Lindsay, H. waki .r el• - x Duke, Sir James Macaulay, T. B. Vit_., 2l _, k „ —) J. S . Duncombe, T. S. M'Geachy, F. A. wa,"l, M ig ' idi jo i Dundas, Admiral Macnarnara, W. I,Vill . r , Du Pre, C. G. Mahon, Lord Wilshl Easthope, Sir John Mainwaring,:T. yorket _..;/00 Eaton, Richard J. Mangles, R. - D. Isr,,pi - Ebrington. Viscount Manners, Lord J. /utile'' , ';, -- 1. Egerton, SirP. Martin, John , Broth er° ' ,/,' Question put, " That the blank be filled wi th The Committee divided : MINORITY—AYES, 181. Aetand, Sir T. D. Ellis , Wy nn Miles, 0, -- f 4 • . J, 'l' Acland, T. D. Farnham, it am, E. B. milnello, Sir Adore. Lord Heiden, J. l' f°l4 ,l I i • r Ili Fellewes, Edward 1 1 0 ° r n - t i z : Oi r 'ep,sP" Adderley, C. B. Aglionby, H. A. Ferrand, W. B. Ainsworth, Peter Fitzroy, Lord C. Nap! ILIA Antrobus, Edmund Fox, Charles Richud ve" d irate, .ii Arundel, Lord French, F. New ved or liankes, George Fuller, A. E. Neal'' , 4 .i..- Bannerman, A. Gardner, J. 1). O'Br ien A, .J . . Baskerville, T. B. M Gill, Thos. O'Cc ma e ll, ta Beckett, William Gore, Montague O'C n 1, W - Ossuistol, Beresfote, Major' Gore, W. 11. 0. p s ~, wsl .- e" - p as et t es r .r_ml . I,;* Berkeley, Captain Gore, Robert Bernal, IL Granger, T. C. Blackstone, W. S. Gregory, W. H. Pakl°_,..." it. vir Blake, Peter` Grey,pAnsgss...„, i , h. ran, Borthwick, Grimsditch, Thomas La, • - ;, e n tre, 'on Bradshaw, James Grogan, Edward Bramston, T. W. Grosvenor, Lord R. . Breadley, Henry Guest, Sir John p o lling 7„ 'T. Brocklehurst, J. iiallord, H. . Browne, W. Hall, Sir B. praed , pbll4 l J Buller, C. Harmer, Sir John Pg °e/ ttilrs , '„j Busfeild, William Harcourt, G. G. ROO •• ft, pi . Bash iel6 o o, 1 Butler, Colonel ' Hardy, John n nclie l neoeed Butler, P. S. Hatton, Captain V. —e .-- .0.- Kell's, $ 1 Carew, Hon. 11. S. Hawes, B. Cavendish, Hon. C. Heathcoat, Johis Rich i x.11.,,if l 0114:h"vro4d2fir: ei., ireaos Cavendish, G. H. Heathcote, G. J. Rosso . J, "- Russe l4 o A Cayley, E. S. Henley, J. Warner Act, inti.lo, Chapman, B. Hervey, Lord A. Ry - m - job s Chetwode, Sir John Hindley. Charles Sandfsrekl4i;' Cochrane, A. Holland, Robert sebo d ign 5haw....7 Colborne, N. R. W. Hamby, John gititbo•ifttl,A Collett, John Horsman, E. smith, i, Aoi ri l o ?' Colquhoun, J. C. Howard, C. W. G. smith,:•Or Colvile, C. Robert Howard, Lord stalid iJ nY.2o, . Copeland, W. Howard, E. G. c atom Do Cowper, Hon. W. F ilowick, Viscount .-ts goer D o ,s Crawford, W. S. Humpliery, J. stsut s t irt, 0 50 v. Curteis, H. B. Inglis, Sir R. H. St tr e r c kisni , Dalrymple, Captain James, Sir W. C. n• S lor, 'la .110 Davies, D. A. S. Jocelyn, Viscount AL„,a l i or , J. elp:, Dawnay, Hon. W. Johnstone, Sir John „.,'lVi en saSb e dOr Denison, W. J. Kemble, Henry 4 .." - ' o linet JOtl', Denison, E. Zeckett Knight, Henry Gaily '.° n et& Ot Tow , D'Eyncourt, c.rr. Knight, F. W. Troubrkilgod Dickinson, F. H. Law, Hen. C. E. van 's, -/ 4 1 1 ',1 D'lsraeli, Benjamin Lawson, Andrew .11.04 Douglas, Sir H. Lefroy, Anthony : a kleyr 0, Douglas, J. D. Leveson, Lord "Ayers wt . W J i g Dutt; James Lindsay, H. H. w a vnt„ ..; Duke, Sir James Macaulay, T. IL VA gO" v " Duncombe, T. S. 1 1 / 4 PGoachy, F. A. t ..ri s fterg , o. S. in• Dundas,:Admital Macnamara, W. yorlit , Du Pre, George Mahon, Viscount 1 0 ' Easthope Sir John Mainwaring T. ,its i o jod o Eaton. R. Ebrington, J. Viscount Mann g Maners,lLordles, IL 0. J. m tbe ftleYll;p, Egerton, Sir P. G. Marton, George Br° Ellice, E. Miles, P. W. S. } o , ::: La — n N e OESs l y 8 : ; : ice::1 1 1 .4, 11 : 4 AAAA ie . rr i it i C kbi ax.w o m i t, ri Arbuthnot, In t , e h C . a p p t e . t E .e MAJO RITY—NOES, A j Gii. F .oloo o ii :burr ! dbd l :s e e.boto t teurin t :nr , i ien S ,:,H, i A r : i trno.w.A M. Pa r v vr:yWaw.g. ..prip:Bl7:fijoitFisenii:eo;ll:ojrhit:,l...4l° Bailey,A c h d a Jose I o W E st t C e : i p a l H D I i p i : e t a u : oi ng i ur h n gn Barrington,Ba i i 1 1 l e ie, Co I o t v i e h l c 0 u . a s a l r ib o t n ir s BB B ee a nl r it i , ng, W. a pub PI It (111 1 411:: : : : : : :: j r4.(::'::es 4::::111:11::::: , Fii 0c, 14 e g F M. H al e . nt H H as al t e i: Hay, Sir A. Buller,B: roi Bari ng, edc keebrocusLk, ri F or,nii .. M atthew rej: T ,. T. y . Hamilton, W. J. L„',.„ - eberol *ps' I , I A . B . lagdon ~,.:::ngle,_-Fs. , Blakemore, R GE jr : d . : G r a g l e . H in d ,, J. Hon.Si W. c 11 : 1111 " f lio cu:i1 ;:1 111".° 1 1 : Ct r it : . *C.:.°1.11. Brugesß! I o ri t I g i h e t l , d , , JW l e l h. e n r H i a . hL. tiincle, J H s •- - cs eetl. ob ett if. Hodgson 114 scotti o : r . $ 1 1; 0 90 0 Bowes, J. Castlereagh, . 7cualrrtndi Buck, rg. eei L leat e : Buller, wE.isvivit. .11:1 1-1 11-11 : 11 e!v io : i l'e u P l .ge d t :e : s UsC w : ' . : Te h o o 'W ir a hh t r il ' en h i' m e , 0 A) piee T T . °ld' stst ro ini :o,_ t illpir ; i e l t elPard b roi l7 o l.:_ j ::::: . E.hC,antain Howard, P. H. so Thne - ra o f :d '7' Hutt, W. nth so ni 07 - _, Sobo rd villi r Cartwright, W. R. nn " , Ea rl Stuart' art. Virio. Cockburn, o n h hc a i uk l r d tb t e ers i s wn , 1 , J Hon. . .F, Johnstone, Ales. * S L iii G. L iL l l,,, n ittaln a ci g:o t e c shi rt h r it:l, : enj u y: l , l TJ , S. S . i i n ; C. E E. ,r s u a 0 0 r ol di 1 i j. $ , Jones, T. str i a te °. 1107;4 Corry, Colebrook,, el Clay ton,i Clerk, r: o sir ok 11W c , Sir ß* T . _Ccor.alliegt,t,SDWivro.on. Gibson Labouehere, H. Tenet' f• .0.1 .1.11.-lenry Leader, W. S. n l e ly f o oor T . i bei o g e :, , a, P- a tto ° bson D ' l:ti l l i i nt r i r )Ps i e e' r , , I:lot . m ilc i e s fl i rr r o nhi"i e; fo,. Lemon, Sir C. LLeeenknhoexa.LowrdillA.bus ,ri. i • e llen: a c . o h ..4.. -- lof 10 ~Enl4l, • P TO' h 0 , 0 10 Lyall. George Ea Villiothj, A Lygon, Hon. Geo. viriso! ,r00r.,,d Dawson Mackenzie, Thomas vvoldr,ollorlw Darby, George Divest. E. Mackenzie, W. F. wail, •-str ! w ail M.Neill, Duncan • w a ish, 8 0, 4 ' Dodd, George March, Earl of Iva:bolo. Li'', C- Douglas, Sir C. Marjoribanks, S. w A rd.. ..IoP Douro, Marquis of Marshall,llW. t Welielgo.iir. Dugdale, W. S. Abraham, Visel'u n- WOO° , l'• Wl' Duncan, Lord Martin, John WilliatO ion, . Duncan, George Martin, C. IC • WI d, Duncannon, Lord Masterman, John woods - ., - 00 0e ' ; Egerton W. T. Maunsell, T. P. NVo l ' d ' t on, ffeiolf Eliot, Lind Meynell, H. g wright i o, ~,,_ ~ Escott, Bickham Mildmay,-St. John wyatill 0 0. a.• Estcourt, T. 0. B. Mitcalfe, Henry yorlo , 010 , Evans, W. Mitchell, T. A. young' .„ Ewart, W. Morgan, Oct avit i s T ot.lo - 0 1 - een, . . Morriso Fil ild mer, Sir W Edmund Mundy, Ed. n, Jame% Millar Fo rmal* Fitzmaurice, W. Neeld, Joseph s A fini , TO Flower, Sir James Nicholl, J. _..............._ ie r LORD ASHLEY'S AMENDIVII‘ - 13II4D" f c 'll THE FACTORY the I.lo ole :Dje C/ oe MINCRESTiIt, MARCII 21.---The deci s ion of ~_ o nly . 1 ,.., 10,„11 mons on this subject on Monday last bons ''t'h'echiklfice"ter 0;; conversation here among all classes. Ev en t , t bat! A erhoy streets, at their play, are telling their piarao e ,, t hey P`:1 0, 01: 0 0 or brother that is only to work ten bours,osne%„ooo4 0 many of their older relatives do, that it la t 7",,,ch S o 4 11' 4 4 ately. No measure in modern times has ereatec_e;lo to here ; and, what is still more remarkable, ther e: the ! c o" 00 or no ill-feeling created in any quarter. _ ..,hico o3 . if. j ell seem to regard it with a degree of indifferenct! "of tip a , f a, have been anticipated, considering the and the scr io t io o L. which the struggle has been carried on, and _t nc . ; de a ..d1 9 ,,;00 has at times characterised the agitation on boT4;ust, itot.o,, tion. No one appears to regret the decision, theyB4!",re ~ every one by surprise. As to the operatives, r orth witP; 0e;.,1 about it, and understand that it will be adoPte"___ing, 10:api i The Short-Time Committees meet every 4 . 7" the ir rae' t - es th ;0 ceiving congratulations from all quarters. At t heir 010 _d u . d night, the leading article of the Times of yeste rL ' f it o o lo o s excited loud and enthusiastic bursts of. applau se' T he . 1 .!: 0 1_ j, embody the sentiments of the entire riteet!n: . he e ditS p s e 'y the meeting were carried by acclamation. ' which h l -W - . . or ill. Times newspaper, for the splendid article whl",.. ne d ig' , and which would outlive the occasion which ha d ,''' Times. A THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Although emigration has very much subsided in very distant parts of the globe—for instance, in Australia and in New Zealand—we opine this does not apply to those regions more highly favoured by nature, and not at such a fearful distance from England ; for instance, the Cape of Good Hope. Our advertising columns hold out great promise to those who would pay this healthy spot a visit ; but let us glean only from authority. It should seem Mr. George Robins has become possessor of A LITTLE KINGDOM, that is, so far as applies to its extent ; and we learn that it is in tended to have a christening, to redeem it from its ill ' favoured name. It is called Slabberts Poort ; now, to our minds, " GEORGE ROBINS'S T ERRITORY " w ill b e a . more refreshing term. But let us see what he proposes in order to enlist a little army of Scotch, and English, and Irish agriculturists, into his little kingdom—we will repeat his own "sayirws and doings.' "All those who propose to emigrate will do well to enlist under the banners of a good landlord, in a genial, healthy climate, and with prospects of independence, nowhere else So cheering and so certain. Mr. George Robins's territory consists of LAND. It is not far fcontiguous to the Ind L is A sea. It is to be divided into farms suitable to the views rt oo several oACß p E or S ts? of the rich, the industrious, and the poorer class of society, of from 200 to 2,000 acres each. He requires no rent, for twelve months ; he then proposes to let it for sixpence an acre only for three years, and at a shilling an acre for as many years after as may be required. Here is temptation not to be resisted. A man whose capital extends to 1,000/ cannot fail to realise an independence at a railway pace ; and 4002 or 5001 is sufficient to hold out great encouragement. There is no time now for delay. This Spring—that is in June—Scotland, Eng land, and Ireland should furnish their quota of honest, jolly agriculturists, who will have great encouragement from Mr. Robins, if their credentials be satisfactory." ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETING, LEEDS.—A great meet ing of the opponents of the corn.law was held at Leeds on Wed. nesday last, principally to hear Mr. Fox. The great reputation of that gentleman, together with the interest which the abolition of the corn-laws excites in Leeds, collected a great concourse of people. Something must be allowed, too, for the political feelings of the O'Connor Chartists, who are numerous at Leeds, and many of whom attended the meeting to show their hostility to the League. Mr. J. G. Marshall was in the chair, surrounded by the principal manufacturers of Leeds, and the members of the corpora. tion. Several ladies also honoured the meeting by their presence. The chairman opened the business, and Mr. Flint followed him with a short speech. Mr. Fox then addressed the meeting at con. siderable length, with his accustomed ability, eliciting from the auditors a full weed of applause. On his resuming his seat, Mr. Smith, of Sheffield, attempted to speak ; but he was opposed by the Chartists who were in the room, and a scene of great uproar, which lasted for some time, ensued. Mr. Kidd, described as a Chartist lecturer, made himself conspicuous in the tumult, and peace and order were only restored by the chairman causing Mr. Kidd to be ejected. The remainder of the proceedings were carried peaceably to a close. Mr. Smith concluded his speech, and, on his motion, the meeting voted its thanks to Mr. Fox by acclamation. It se parated after giving hearty cheers for the League, and cheers as hearty for the chairman. -- 117 01 T., I' I . !itZ know' •