The Sun. — London, England, 1844-02-07 00:00:00

_ -_-. and spelter and sent in limited aickailver tilos been made 0 3f rs. on last 12 cwt. bot.onlo an, at 47 Is. to ) as. per candy dish bar, 48ts as. per cant!) . • wt. sheet, at 5 t 4 rs. 14 alt t ° To. Spelter.-- AS. sen dcne in jaconete. Little bleacted shirt' st. Grol l°° g . Ad several laity uction of 2 to 4 ed and checke d ten fully Ham m request. P e rally unsalesbio .cted. ye during th e ghtly inlPr °red little. Oranr, lf annsebili b Fl t little inquire" Lull throuihPul : e in the Pri me . I cordege , t".: c ee are dillicul` ng the Ivo 1 to US ire ono rof hbd/' ce of Bas. 11. se nt or ha n d ' rupee. P o hoot ve throug— , for Orest 13ri. ee per cO lO being gli°t d, and Veb er ; the tlOO/ for Khoree o nt last none. ions have bee n I is in g°°(.l • rur-- ps during th c e e n consequ en of Comore rce 61.* g ot Canii° t is. _At, Pees per esw_ , , , nce of mon", re still rural' to 99f to 1101 sipse nd Is. We us io rty dale b 0 cent . pretni u thirty Or 0 . ent. Pre lo' ler cent. 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" Aricils" th i° , r , d eertis ihe dot their uF. Ith i IC W 0 if bo d ee Lit 1,:c; 11- ,f e% . - ti the r $ %V bi o ir° ri smithera SUMMARY OF NEWS tND Jttaitc Optittott. " Who rains may read." The Fren c h mail brings no news from Paris or Madrid f the slightest interest. • - An outlihe of .the intelligence brought by the Overland Ilea will be found under the proper head. • Boghs Youssouff Bey, 11.1ilster ofForeign Affairs awl of Commer o ce to Mohammed Ali i , Vicen F y o re f Egypt, died at Alexandria, in the afternoon of the 10th instant, at the age of about 71. He was considered the highest person in Egypt after Mehemet Ali and his family. By the Philadelphia packet, which reached Liverpool on .., - mgday evening, accoun t s h ave b een rece i ved f rom St. L ou i s "r- a - most terrible and distressing steam-boat accident, by W hich 90 or 100 persons had lost their lives. The vessel vrhich plied between Cincinnati and St. Louis struck on a Ilken tree in the water, three miles from St. Louis, and al "Most immediately went to pieces. • L AD POLICE. baker, At Guildh a ll, a m A an W of the name of Davis, a journeyman Was charged with the murder of his wife, by cutting her thr oa t with a razor, on the 11th of December. An in quest had bee n h e ld on th e b o d y , w h en t h e jury, having no suspicion to the contrary, gave a verdict that she committed suicide, being in a state of insanity. The evidence was con fined to fire testimony given by the relatives of the deceased, , w no etnisidered her insane. The sitting Alderman directed ,4.offiee r to .summon other witnesses, and remanded the PntOner till Friday. ease were assessed in the Secondaries' Court in the i7e of Litton v . R owe . Th e d e f en d ant, un d er a misconcep 'n arising out of a transaction about a bill for 181. lls., 7:t . used the plaintiff to be apprehended on a charge of felony, .uro u — h „, f .,, which he was kept in a felon's cell, at the police ,7"col, a whole night. The defendant admitted, by his Z in i 3 e l , that he had done wrong, and the jury gave 501. ''Tages. i t ,.. 4 t nion-Hall Thomas Sparks, formerly shop-keeper to Byfield, pawnbroker, Kennington, was fully committed I Charge of robbing his late employer of 41/, MISCELLANEOUS. The w eat h er here has again suddenly changed from a k een frost to a thaw, accompanied with rain, and the baro- Meter stands very low. T he opening of the South-Eastern line between Folkstone and Dot er was celebrated yesterday by a dinner, given by the utYor and Corporation of Dover to the Chairman and Diree „rB of the C om p an y. Th e w h o l e procee di ngs were o f th e "oPst enthusiastic and gratifying character. An Anti-League meeting was held at Lichfield on the same Mr. Manley, the High Sheriff of Staffordshire, presided, ‘ 4 2theltsual resolutions were adopted. u_, T he nomination of candidates for Devizes took place yes -4 , i n' l ' l :when the show of hands was declared to be in favour 1 3ruges. Mr. Temple demanded a poll, and the election des place this day. Friday, the first of a regular line of Post-office packet- IPs'fOr New South Wales, sailed from Gravesend for Syd pe7. Carrying out all letters which were posted' at the General "t - offiee up, to Thursday evening. lc At Guildhall, on Tuesday, Mr. Alderman Gibbs was una tilltnonsly elected Chairman of the Commission of Sewers for t• ensuing year. „ s ' A select dinn er party, consisting of Noblemen and Gentle- Z en eonnected with the Fox Club, to o k pl ace on S a t u rday, Brooke's. Among those present were Lord Dinorben, the 41 1 0 f Errol, Earl Fortesette, Lord Rowley, Earl Fitzwilliam, the nuncannon Lord John Russell, M.P., Lord Strafford, Ron. C. Pons ' onby, M.P., Lord James Stuart, M.P., and 6 A tion. Fox Ma u l e , M.P. x..,n Anti-Lea gue mee ti ng o f l an d o w ners an d f ar m e rs of th e 01 7,,_lerin Division of Gloucestershire was held at Cirencester Tuesday, and was well attended. 'C / NE Ir AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. In the Liverpool market yesterday, the sales were 13,000 )bins, at previous rates; speculators took 7,000 bales.—Bir .b and French Shares were rather lower, but other stock A"rm. Birmingham and Gloucester, 72.1; Edinburgh eGlasgow, 591 • Birmingham, 244; Brighton, 451 ; llehester and Leeds, 113 ; Paris and Rouen, 32*; South I ttern and Dover, 35g. ,;"e deliver) , of the general correspondence by the i e et l'and Mail, is expected to take place to-morrow; •the roads in France are described as being so bad, that %; 8. t le' B B active exertion will be necessary to accomplish • As far as the mere summary of commercial news . can . j ) 7rQ data for conclusions, we should say that there is a k trd l e et of improvement in the Indian trade, though it will Anti/ thiB year take the developement which some parties • %le:Dated with respect to China. The Consular arrangements teg u i to he progressing steadily, and also the necessary port prov ations ; but it is hoped the other settlements may not 80 unhealthy as Hong-Kong. to u ,:, Funds have n o t recovere d th e d epress i on of yesterday th, for Account have been 97 to 97*, and for Money Ex4 aT ile• The Commissioners have purchased at 97*. - Banker Bills are 675. to 695. premium, being steady. havi otoek is 1921 to 1931, and India Stock, 2771, neither Th e fluctuated to any extent, and being tolerably firm. the ew Three-and-a-Half per Cents. are 102 to 101 i, and Tilßeduced 102 i to 103. Cs 4t Spanish er anish Market is not so gay. For the Five per Threetoe rates have been 241 to 231, and for the -no s o c l „PCents,, 321 to 32 ; Portuguese Converted Mo n 7 -n ave alternated from 474 to Mexican are 35 for thif e land Columbian, 12a to which is an advance. li"veper Cents. bring 1011 to Planlusill eBB in Shares is dull. Birmingham are not higher ramiom and the French lines are quiet. Great nrighton , and the few others dealt in are much the BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From•the Official List.) Bank St oc k 193% 19 12% 93 .y , • . 3 Per Cent. R e d uce d Annuit i es 1d Per Cent. C onso l s. A nnu i t i es 9 7 % 14% ~ 4 per Cent. Red uce d A nnu i t i es )02% 103 b per 34 per Cent. Annuitie s 'lO2 i Ol% '-. o llg Annuities, Expi re sth Jan. MO..— Ditto 31 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. WO. India Stock q Consols for Account Exchequer Bills, Ir. i %d 69 pm. I,WOi. • DL 69 69 pm. lto Small FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. .Columbian Bonds. Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per C ent. .............. . ...... F63i Mexican'Bonds, l B37, 5 per Cent. ; ........... ..... 3.5 Ditto for the Acc oun t 24 3 4% Ditto Deferred Stock . Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent ... 75 Ditto Converted ... 48 Ditto for the Account Spanish Bonds, Five p er C en t Ditto for the Acco un t 2 41% 2 1 % Ditto Three per Cent. Ditto for the Account Dutch 5 per Cents. 10 11434 New Loan 1837, b per Cents. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE . RAILWARE. PAID. PER SHARE. tirrnringham and Gloucester . 70 fstol and Exeter r-astern Counties es lotto in b a u nl vdve rgh st a lehs and Glasgow 5O 25 5.9fq eat. 75 ll2, 12 50 594 ..... to ..ondoo and Brighton y2 t t, l l and Birmingham Stock •••..... 240... ..... to --,! ;o l ra E n i d gh S t o h u o th Western Lon Pato 3i iitlon and Croydon (Trunk)... 13% Nor rwich and Brandon ,vvreastle and Darlington Junct. 15 ',thern and Eastern Pasto 1 4 Shares Orlean s 20 83% to arid iV._ and Rouen ... to ..... ~,? an• Havre. Ditto -1 Eastern and Dover Yo.. Scrip ~5 Nan o d rth N° Arid i l e a h nd al— .... ..... to ~,, New Shares 2O - ..,'"‘"0 Searboro' Branch , -0111) 2% .4 - L 4 SE ()F EXCHANGE. —(YESTERDAY.) bos.47):"latti, ...... CF. 12 6 (Gibraltar .. i lott er ,t light ........ 12 4 Leghorn .... ..... AID— " 4 44 ..... ....2 U. 12 6i Genoa 4 4 ,Z b e!p ... : ....... _ ... .... :25 90 61h3 4 :" . 1( 1 1, ...... M.B. 13 15 Vence ... 47 t,:`a(ia, .............. .14 0 Naples . ..... ..... 39i r%), 3 0 light ... 25 65 Palermo, per oz 1184 rkleinewsouths ... .. ..... 25 85 1 isbon r, l ,tird e ,.._ .......... ... . 25 90 ,Oporto . 52 I ,', kf„.:!I ............. 25 90 Rio Janeiro 23 reteraZrl en Maine ...122 !Bahia ,rli a ," , :u . th, 3 Vs..: „,, 361 /Buenos Ayres 1 ,111 14,. .... .... ... ...... 7 [New York, 21 days sight _ iiiest es 4 , P e. fl. 3M. 955 Philadelphia — „z t i sd .itto... ...... ... 9 56 PRICIts OF BULLION, PER OZ 161kidii .. • •... .............. 364 Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9 4 0 ............ . ..... 36* Portugal Gold Coin.. 317 5 Set .............. .... 36 New Doubloons .....0 0 0 nelpili e .ttil . ............. .36 New Dollars... 04 94 tihi.t.Axcii;............. Silver in Bars... ..... 0 4 11i k:', ll lu, s fi sT ER STOCK EXcHANGE, FEB. 6.—The market :th.e4t4teervf;:eal tne:r 'n,a7nBd considerable business has been transacted, hO l e ° l lnt -i g Prices :—Dublin and Drogheda, 55i ; East th th ~,_les, Registered, 12 5-16 ; Ditto, Perpetual, 29* ; ; Ditto New, One-Eighths, 3* to i ; Man -149, S t i r ) ; (1 „ 4Aeds, Half Shares, 50i ; South Eastern, 35i ; , ' l ' , 3 6i to i ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 14i. ( 1 ., ' .......____ CATHOLIC MEETING. (THIS DAY.) txc 4 1,14,.. LIJSION OF CATHOLICS FROM JURIES...Ne,,,u'Ie rneeting of English Catholics was held this morning, at int tb:'ek, at the Freemasons' Tavern, for the purpose of consider- The h tt editanoalosizie wasthol ler. from 'Nilo' Dr° P r ietY of addr . ssin her Majesty on the subject of t e 110 et ef the L aw m e I f he Crown in Ireland In excluding red .° tiho c cl e , r gj s ur o y on the State Trials in that country. r. ,Or i th before the commencement of the p o 1 1u,, p ePlatforrn weobserved L d Camoys, Lord Stourton, the 7 ' (Carlisle), the Hon. ‘l 4 . . - v . al;s:i....gdale, P. Howard, Esq., M.I . Charles Eyston, Esq., C,, *Periq.et"t''ur, Bart., P. C. Maxwell, Esq., William, Esq., 3 . A. V'lt, ts Eu l-, J. Townley, Esq., W. '4 ' E l ' , E. Jerninaha E a R • Berkeley,Esq.( t ht 314 , F.s . q. J ohn Se ni, 8,0 R. an Geo. Basil ~) 00 , E . Selby, Esq., Geo. Morg , Herring o - Spetcheley) .: IP' Nep ,-;' t he Rev Dr Ma ee, Revds, Sisk, Moore, -.sti --....0tte . a Telford, Browne, la ae, 0., . , Toursel, Coyle, Catholic Noble. en And Gooell, and several other distinguished Rymer, Hunt, 4 At o, ,entlemen. -!,,''' Wir e • ° L ' l''ck, on the motion of Lord Steurton, seconded iir by the ti.,he c..!l,:dae, Lord Camoys was called to the ea c d ia t ,e . requisi. t ' h a i, , , :igh ich `" w a a . .7. then called upon the Secretary to lli r ng I the meeting, Th, ha vn g b, en gtZbY 194 requisitionists, ca hthellari4cat'raity stated, that among the requisitionists appeared .r sti sine, h er eight Peers, and the adhesion of the Earl of Traquai The cii"een eceived. ttlit'es-gillamaN then read a letter from the Earl of Shrewsbury, tee duct lis indignation at the insult offered to the Catholics by 'jatheh,, Or the Government h striking MT the names of all btithre Goyill:rinn_tehne jitiry panel, and: protesting against the conduct ) The Noble 40,11 i ~n , 4,1 the m a __t ud o the Catholies.—(Leud cheers" h i th Entiandnbelit alluded to the lion. Edward Petre, whose absenc: Os e It ingd egre tted, as he was sure that had he bee ePly cint that Reno toett the 10, cessity they were under of calling these i 'gm . Ire- w as a disgrace to the Government that they wore so •ii.s 1 14 . 4 had 4eett t ad already spoken o ut.—(Cheers.) :124 meet th, 'l,oi)ken. , fl i i el d uP to 27th January. 'Hie Seotch Catholics 14..4 rie.......,c.'eenew the, English Catholics were called on to do k il ' itt i no, wa ` ,, ' i ' t . 1_8 ) 1 his was no meeting of tl.e Catholic Insti- I,t, " the nu . 4 rePeal meeting. It was a meeting to protest uy ~... .. . l.lce of the amen[,Gover and to express their sym ' the'lth.tbew insulted Irish Catholicbrethren. Then, with regard t ' t he r t t", list dropr, )i-'red that design and not accident had caused 'Nit r , ". ' n he ta,,,, r r ored it. illed•7-(Cheers.) The conduct of the Govern s% s tu strike of A . e did not deny the legal right of the Govern by this act 47-e(t b eers.) I . t he names, but he denied their moral right to do r ttl its elf, , ' w as a 9 injustice. (Cheers.) The Governmen* front a Goverment to the low level of A. c• ,-. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, 1844. a malicious prosecutor.—(Cheers. ) Could they only hope to ob. fain a conviction by having a jury of Tories, Anti Repeaters, and Protestants. It was an injustice to the jurymen themselves. If they returned a ♦erdict of guilty, the verdict would lose all moral effect ; if they returned a verdict of not guilty, they would be at. tacked by their own party.—(Cheers) He was not surprised at the conduct of the Government. It was what he had expected from them. He had never entertained those expectations of fair-dealing from the Tories, which others had.—(Cheers.) They were un changrd and unchangeable, and there was no hope of justice from them for the Catholics of Ireland.—( Cheers.) When Etnancipa. tion passed, the gratitude of the Catholics was unlimited ; but the moment they proclaimed that Protestant ascendancy was to be the basis of the Government, that moment of course they lost the con fidence of the Catholics, and justly lost it.—(Cheers.) The dccla. ration made in Parliament by one of her Majesty's Ministers, that conciliation had gone to its utmost limits, Was not likely to conci liate the Catholics of Ireland. Her Majesty declared in her answer to the address of the Dublin Corporation, that the just demands of her people would be listened to. Yes, they knew to whom they were, and ought to be grateful—to him who sttuggled for them when it was thought Emanci. pation was unattainable.—(Loud cheers.) Yes, they ought to be grateful to the Catholics of Ireland, and they ought to be grateful, above all, to Daniel O'Connell.—(Loud cheers and .vaving of hats.) The Chairman then read an cx ract from the Dublin Review, in answer to a publication which called him a gross and clumsy deceiver : " For forty years has this ' gross, clumsy, open, impudent de ceiver ' been living among them, mingling in their festivities, pre ... siding at their assemblies, kneeling at their altars; instructing, advising, guiding, impelling, restraining; standing upon an emi nence, with the searching gaze of a mighty empire fixed for ever upon him ; every word and every gesture, every action and every omission recordel and canvassed, In the high courts of law, in the high court of Parliament, in the high court of public opinion, in the high court of the press, the most powerful press in the world, by eloquent men, by learned men, by acute men; by the lower orders of society, by the middle orders, by the upper orders; by artisans, by merchants, by lawyers, by parsons, by proud barons, by mighty kings ; in all these, by all these, has this being been accused and tried. For fiery years has this trial been going on, and the first generation of accusers, and witnesses, and judges has passed away, and left room for another and another ; and, after all this, the conviction is yet to come. His bitterest enemies have borne testi- moo , in his favour; and they who would grind him as wheat, or burn him in a furnace, have admitted and maintained that he is a Sincere man, an honest man, and all—all proclaim that he is a great man. They who know him best, whose interests are chiefly identified with his corruptible virtue, one of the purest hierarchies in the world one of the most labori ous, virtuous, simple-minded priesthood, in the world, and seven millions of the Irish people, have placed in his hands, without a shadow of misgiving, their dearest earthly hopes. Nor have they done so precipitately, blindly. They have tried him long, they have trusted him long, and he has never once betrayed them, and therefore they trust him again. He has the blessing of the Church, he has the prayers of the people, he has the confidence of both. Profane history has no example of this kind." He knew not the individual who composed this passage, but he envied him his eloquence, and the justness of his praise, When there was a hint to endow :he Catholic clergy, the Catholic hier archy repudiated the offer. He, for one, agreed with them in that refusal—(Hear, hear)—and he would use all his exertions in Parlia ment to prevent such an endowment, if it was attempted. This was a meeting of sympathy with the Irish Catholics, and he was glad that their English brethren came forward in such a manner. For him self, he hoped he would be always found at his post.—(Cheers.) Lord STOURTON was called on to propose the first resolution. He said he was almost a jubilarian in the service of his Roman Catholic brethren.—(Cheers.) He saw these who had assisted them one by one decay, but he, though old, was a living witness to refute the calumny that Catholies were not to be bound by their oaths.—(Cheers.) His late excellent friend the Duke of Norfolk would not pass the rail by which he might enter Parliament, and he cast his staff upon the ground rather than enter that place, because he would not take a certain oath, He would not enter it himself, because there was an oath upon it.—(Cheers.) They would not endure to have their privileges abridged in the House of Parliament, because they were Catholics. If they could not vote upon every measure that came before them, he would consider it a dishonour and not an honour, to be a Member of the House of Peers. Such was the opinion of the first Peer of the realm, the late Duke of Norfolk. If he abstained from voting on questions relating to the Established Church, he did so from delicacy, but not in conse .quence of any oath he had taken. He would never submit to be inferior to any other member of the House of Peers. He would, as Lord Grey said, stand by his order. The Chairman, in his able and clear remarks, t• ad anticipated all that he intended to say. He would now proceed to state with pain the consequences of the doctrine that Catholics were not to be believed on their oaths. If it were true that the Catholics were not bound by an oath, then were the foundations of their holy religion de stroyed. It would sap their belief in Christianity itself. Such an opinion might indeed proceed from the temple of reason, but not from the temple of Christianity. He would say, as Mr. Shaw said, with regard to the Bible—Trust not our oaths, or, " to your tents, 0 Israel."—(Cheers.) The Catholic religion was spread over the world, and if it were true that Catholics were not to be lieved on their oaths, then they were perjurers over the whole world. Let Catholics and Protestants quarrel with each other on the point, but let them not weaken the foundations of their corn: anon religion, and their common belief in the sacred volume. Let them call on her Majesty to protect not their, but her and their common Christianity. The Noble Lord concluded amid loud cheers, and proposed the resolution, which was read by the Secretary. The SECRETARY read the resolutit n, which was as follows : "That the abolition of civil distinctions on actmunt of religion, was the avowed object of those who introduced and understood the principle of the Azt for the Emancipation of the Roman Catholics." The Reverend Mr. HARRINGTON then addressed the meeting. He paid a high compliment to the past and prcsent exer tions of Lord Stourton, and expressed his satisfaction at seeing so many assembled on the present occasion. He alluded to the hopes that were entertained at the time the Emancipation Act was passed ; the gates of the Lords and Commons were pre. viously closed, but one man with a strong arm came to them and broke open the portal—that man was Daniel O'Con. nelll—(lmmense cheering, the whole assembly rising en masse.) They were now open, but still there was a barrier; they might be Privy Councillors, or Member s of the House of Commons, but they could not be Jurors. He noticed the conduct of the Irish Attor. ney.General in severe terms; he seemed to have undertaken to teach the young counsel of the Irish bar, " how to shoot"— (Gatighter.)—A Catholic Juryman would have been justified in asking if the Attorney-General's pistol was rrgistered. —Laughter.)—For Trial by Jury, he had done his best to substitute the trial by battle.—( Hear, hear.) He concluded by saying, that if a juryman was not to be believed on his oath, neither was e witness ; it was their duty to come forward unanimously to repel the accusation. He seconded the resolution. The resolution was put from the chair and carried. After several other resolutions were put and carried, the meet ing separated. COMPLETION OF THE SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY TO DOVER. DOTER, FEB. 6. A communication having been received here last week, that the Directors would open this railway to its ter. minus at Dover this day, agreeably to resolutions come to in Common-hall assembled, the inhabitants, with the Mayor and cor poration at their head, got up a grand demonstration in celebration of the event; and, in order to cement the bonds of friendship be tween England, France, and Belgium, invitations were sent to the authorities of Ostend, Calais, and Boulogne, to join them in the festivities. Invitations were also sent to the authorities and other inhabitants of Deal, Folkestone, and the other neighbouring towns, and many of our neighbours on either side of the Channel were in attendance. Yesterday afternoon the Deputy Mayor of Calais, and about a dozen of the leading men of that place, together with the excellent band of the National Guard of Calais, 31 in number, dressed in military uniform, arrived by her Majesty's packet the Beater; and this morning parties of visitors from east, west, north, and south, flocked into our ancient town. The fine band of the Ist or King's Dragoon Guards, stationed at Canterbury, were also present to give eclat to the scene. At 2 o'clock, the inhabitants and visitors began to assemble at the rallying point—the New Bridge—to form themselves in the order of procession ; and at 3, they moved off to the railway ter. minus, the bands of music playing favourite airs. The procession reached the terminus about half past 3 o'clock, when the immense multitude, by this time about 6,000 strong, were arranged on each side of the rails at the temporary station, French and English mingling together in the utmost friendship, while the music struck up merrily to beguile the half hour. According to arrangement, exactly at four o'clock the shrill whistle of the engine was heard, and on the instant the" Mak. spcare" engine and four carriages, with the Chairman and Direc tors, came home to the terminus in gallant style, amid the cheers of the multitude, and under a royal salute from Archclifr Fort. On leaving the carriages the Directors were met by the authori ties, when the Mayor of ,Dover presented Mr. Baxcndale, the Chairman of the Company, with an appropriate address of congratu. lation. Mr. BAXENDALE having returned thanks, the procession, after the respective guests had been added to it, was re-formed, and moved off to the theatre, where a banquet was prepared for the company. At five o'clock about 300 gentlemen sat down to a sumptuous dinner at the theatre, which had been completely stripped of its scenery, machinery, &c., to make room for the banquet, and which was neatly fitted up for the purpose. The pit was floored over, the lower boxes were converted into tables, and galleries were raised on either side of the stage containing dining-tables. .Tho one.shilling gallery was appropriated to the ladies, and it was completely crammed, while the side slips were occupied by the respective bands. At the back of the stage sat the Chairman (the Mayor of Dover). The Directors and other officers of the Company, and other die. tinguished guests, sat near the Chairman. Among those present we noticed Messrs. John Baxendale, W. P. Richards, E. Cardwell, L. Cubitt, R. Davis, G. Hankey, General Hodgson, F. Mills, H. L. Smale, E. Sturt, Captain Tyndale, \V. Cubitt, IP. W. Barlowe, J. I'. ' , carol], J. Whitehead, B. Cubitt, J. Cubitt, S. M. Latham, H. Latham, J. B. Knocker, G. W. Ledger, J. Marsh, E. Knocker, Rev. J. Puckle, M. Rennett, and Wilcox ; a number of the officers of the Ist Dragoons, Colonel R Jone , Major Eyre, Colonel King, Captain Egerton, Captain Charlewood, Lieutenant Merritt, M. Le Gros Divot, Mayor of Calais, and the following authorities of the same place :—M. Le Maine, M. Quillecq, M. 11. Dupent, President of the Chamber of Commerce; M. Gullibert, Comman dant of the National Guard; M. Nehon, principal engineer; M. Vogue, member of the Chamber of Commerce ; M. De Rheims, officer of the National Guard ; M. Derain, member of the Chamber of Commerce; DI. Bauchol, civil engineer; M. Spiers, member of the Agricultural Society, &c. M. Adam, the Mayor of Boulogne, was unavoidably absent through severe illness, but the deputy-mayor and therest of the authorities of that place were present. On the removal of the cloth, the CirstabraN gave " The Queen," " the Queen-Dijeager," " Prince Albert and the Royal Family," " King Louis . " the Archlysliop of Canter bury," all of which toasts were enthusiastically responded to. Mr. E. It. Rice, M.P., for Dover, gave the toast of the even ing —namely, " the Chairman and Directors of the South. Eastern Railway Company," introducing the same by a suitable preface. This toast was received with all the honours it N% as pos. Bible to bestow by the company. Mr. BAXENDALIC returned thanks in a most businesslike man ner, and went into the history of the railway from its commence. merit to its terminus that day at Dover; he adverted to the difficulties with which the Directors and Engineers had had to contend ; he had, however, always considered Dover the highway to continental nations, arid he had never despaired. Mr. Wilcox gave " Mr. Cubitt, the engineer-in-chief.". Mr. CUBITT returned thanks. Mr. LEDGER—" The Secretary and other officers of the South Eastern Railway Company. " Mr. H. LATHAM gare " The Mayor arid authorities of the foreign ports who had honoured them by their presence." The " Healths of the Representatives of Dover," " The Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports," and other toasts, followed, and the evening passed off most enthusiastically. The festivities were kept up till a late heur, assisted by the vocal talents of Mr. Mcody, and the members of the choir from Can terbury. Admiralty, " Th 3 General steam Navigation Company v. Tonkin. The Queen's Advocate and Mr. Platt, Queen's Counsel, were heard for the respondent. Judgment was deferred. The Solicitor-General was heard (ex parte), " Thomas Le Breton r. James Ennis," from Jersey. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived in town yesterday from his residence at Kew. The Secretary at War transacted business yesterday at the Home-office. Sir James Graham and other Cabinet Ministers had inter views with Sir R. Peol yesterday. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office, from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial office, for the Governor of Hong-Kong. TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. ERRATUM in the list of Sheriffs appointed by her Majesty in Council, for the year 1844, published in the Second Sup plement to the Gazette of the 30th of January last. Surrey— For " William Straeham, of A s hurst, Esq., " read " William Strahan, of Ashurst, Esq." FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 3, 1844. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Stephen Binney, as Consul at Halifax, Nova Scotia, for his Majesty the King of_Prussia. WHITEHALL, JAN. 30. The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Fogg. of Dary hulme, in the county of Lancaster, Gent., to be a Master Ex traordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, FEB. 1. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Henry William Litler, of Oldham, in the county of Lancaster, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. HENRY TISOE, carpenter, Hertford, to surrender Feb. 13, at half-past one, and March 15, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Thompson, Field, and Debenham, Salter's-ball; London ; Nicholson and Longmore, Hertford. FRANCIS HILLAM, ale merchant, Cambridge -terrace , Edgeware-road, Feb. 20 and March 26, at eleven, at the Couri of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; pleton, Fenchurch-buildings. NOEL THOMAS SMITH, jun., shipowner, Lime-street, Feb 20, at twelve, and March 19, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Clayton and Cookson, New-square, Lincoln's Inn. THOMAS LANGRIDGE, auctioneer, Tonhridge-wells, Feb. 13, at one, and March 20, at two, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Man- Ling, Craven-street, Strand. THOMAS WHITE, lace dealer, Regent-street, Feb. 13, at half-past eleven, and March 20, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lackington, Coleman-street-buildings, official assignee ; Ashurst, Cheapside. ROBERT HONE, stationer, Hatton-garden, Feb. 15, at half-past one, and March 15, at twelve, at the Court. of Bank ruptcy. Edwards, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry, official as signee ; Cattlin, Ely-place, Holborn. JOHN HA RDLEY miller, Newport, Feb. 15, and March 19, at eleven, at the dourt of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane ; M'Leod and Stenning, London-street, Fenchurch-street. CHARLES SUTTON, grocer, Southampton, Feb. 13, at eleven, and March 15, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Oldershaw, King's Arms-yard, Moorgate-street. MARY OGS TON, watch-maker, Berkeley-square, Feb. 16, at half-past eleven, and March 21, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. graham, official assignee, Coleman-street ; Ashurst, Cheapside. JOSEPH MOORE, draper, Tamworth, Warwickshire, Feb. 16, at one, and March 26, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Ashurst, Cheapside. THOMAS GREGORY, miller, Poulshot, Wiltshire, Feb. 23, at half-past eleven, and March 20, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Kynaston, official assignee, Bristol ; Austie, Devizes. CHARLES REES BY, miller, Stamford, Lincolnshire, Feb. 14, and March 20, at one, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham ; Jackson, Stam ford ; Smith, Birmingham. RICHARD CHAPMAN, innkeeper, Scorton, Yorkshire, Feb. 20, and March 26, at eieven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Close, Furnival's Inn, London ; Hunton, Richmond ; Teale, Leeds. JOHN EWART and GEORGE EWART, auctioneers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Feb. 19, at eleven, and March 21, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-1 yne ; Brooksbank and Farn, Gray's Inn-square, London ; Brown, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. GEORGE WALTON, wine -merchant, Stockton-on-Tees, Feb. 19, and March 18, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. B a k er , o ffi cial assignee, Newcastle-upon- Tyne ; Dimmock and Burbey, Sise-lane, London; Steavenson, London. SAMUEL BILLING TON, tailor, Birkenhead, Cheshire, Feb. 20, at half-past eleven, and March 19, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official assignee, Liver pool ; Minahull, Liverpool ; Vincent and Sherwood, Temple, London. MATTHEW TILDESLEY, timber dealer, Porto Bello, Wolverhampton, Feb. 13, and March 15, at one, at the Bir mingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birming ham; Philips and Bolton, Wolverhampton. NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY. W. Padley, beer seller, Kimberley, Nottinghamshire. R. Ward, Lydney, Gloucestershire. M. Gill, farmer. Rotors, Leicestershire. J. Lobley, cloth dresser, Huddersfield, Yorkshire. J G . . p C ar h u a s p , p g e r l o s, ce s r ton T e r m afa a l s g o a n r , - Hu stre d e d t e , r i sfi va er w , o Y rt o h r . k shire. J. Nott, lace dealer, Hemingford.terrace, Islington. S. Wilson, house agent, Streatham, Surrey. T. Orrisby, glass agent, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. W. Nilson, tailor, St. Margaret's, Leicestershire. W. Claydon, jun., boot maker, Rochford, Essex. J. Pitt, victualler, Liverpool. J. Blunt, Church-street, St. Mary, Newington. G. S. Peacock, master mariner, Turner-street, Commercial. road East. Z. Radcliffe, wheelwright, Braithwell, Yorkshire. G. Edwards, builder, Ipswich. C. Wood, bookbinder, Great Charlotte-street, Blackfriars-road. J. Cowsill, builder, Lymm, Cheshire. J. Marston, sen., watch maker, Castle-street, Leicester-square. T. Haw, woollen salesman, Leeds. T. Sturgess, baker, Great Saffron-hill, St. Andrew's, Holborn. G. Woods, butcher, High-street, Stoke Newington. T. W. T. Prescott, Duke-street, Manchester-square. W. Baird, grocer, Cheltenham. W. Cauty, eelwood.terrace i Old Brompton. H. N. (linden, jun., warehouseman ' Compton-st. , B a ll' s -p on d . H. Hemming, c o a chm an , Birmingham. W. Hemming, coachman, Birmingham. G. Terry, saddler, Maidstone, Kent. C. Brown, mille r , S out h Shi e ld s , D ur h am. J. Young, innke e pe r , Rotherham, Yo r k s hi re . J. M. born Parsons,, bu c b h a e k r e , G Felton, rea t P 0 rtGloucestershire . Portland-street, stre et Cavendish-sq. S. Seabrook, police-officer, Rochford, Essex. M. Bennett, milliner, Albert-street, Pimlico. R. Bacon and R. Wayman, wire workers, Barbican. J. Roberts, butcher. Hartlepool, Durham. T. Swale, surgeon, York. R. Lord, Lindley, Yorkshire. J. Newsome, wool comber, Shipley, Yorkshire. J. Hemsworth, farmer, Micklefield, Yorkshire. B. Sigrist, tin plate worker, Great St. Thomas Apostle, City. J. Bailey' farmer, Cullingworth, Yorkshire. H. G. Cramer, Regent-street, Lambeth. M. H. Russell, plumber, Union-street, Borough. W. Plowright, publican, Pinchboch, Lincolnshire. G. Chidlow, licensed victualler, Wem, Shropshire. G. R. Grove, Oxford. R. Steward, licensed victualler, Wych-street, Drury-lane. J. C. Leppoc, man milliner, Baynes-row, Cold Bath-fields. W. Pass, Jun., colliery everlooker, Sheffield. T. Crane, brewer, Greek-street, Soho. H. Jones, landing-waiter, Robinson's-row, Kingsland-road. W. H. Johnson, pork butcher, Parker's-row, Bermondsey. J. Simpson, tailor, Manchester. J. Wilson, parish overseer, Macclesfield, Cheshire. SECOND NOTICES. W. White, carpenter, Shaftesbury, Dorsetshire, Feb. 12, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee. J. Wilston, vtheelwrignt, Welwyn, Hertfordshire Feb. 12, at eleven, at the Court of B an k ru pt cy . Turquand, o ffi cial assignee. G. Wolley, van guard, Trinity -court, Aldersgate-street, Feb. 11, at half-past eleven, a t th e C ourt of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee. W. Parsons, Tottenham-court-road, Feb. 12, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee. S. Harper, attorney, Putney, Feb. 27, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee. J. Whitfield, grocer, Teoley-street, Borough, Feb. 27, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lackington, officialassignee. J. E. Oliver, organist, Queen's-road, Bayswater, Feb. 28, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee. NV. Hughes, tailor, Cook's-court, Cursitor-street, Chancery lane, Feb. 28, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. John son, o ffi cial assignee. j. R. Smith, silk printer, Merton, Surrey, Feb. 28, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, o ffi cial assignee. R. Burge, cabinet maker, Lamb's Conduit-passage, Red Lion-square, Feb. 12, at eleven, at the Court of B an k ru pt c y. Turquand, official assignee. C. K. Nicholls, clerk, Bride-road, Lambeth, Feb. 10, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee. P. Robinson, commercial traveller, Warrington, Lancashire, Feb. 12, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee. T. Wroe, grocer, Dudley, Worcestershire, Feb. 10, at half past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee. S. Adams, veterinary surgeon, Aston, Warwickshire, Feb. 10, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee. P. M'Elroy, silk dresser, Salford, Lancashire, Feb. 15, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee. H. Smith, silk manufacturers, Steward-street, Spitalfields—T. and J. Crook, linen drapers, Cannon•street-road, St. George's —Chattaway, Ashwin, Russell, and Co., wine merchants, Stratford-upon-Avon (so far as regards J. Russell, jun.—.J. and T. Kidney, draper!, Portsea, Hampshire—H. Rice and C. Cowdery, attorneys-at-law, Newport, Isle sof Wight—G. Thornton, H. Peck, and J. Young, slaters, Hull—E. Blacker. and A. Chamberlain, breviers, Midsomer Norton, Somerset shire—J. A. and H. J. Lee, brick makers, Northfleet, Kent —R. Overton and R. 31arshall, hosiery manufacturers, Lei cester—H. Graves and .1. Warmsley, printsellcrs, Pall-mall— G. W. Umpleby and W. Palmer, woollen drapers, Holborn hill—T. Bogue and T. Turves, drapers, Berwick-upon-Tweed —J. Chap and C. Josset, professors of dancing, Liverpool—l. Owen and J. Titterton, attorneys-at-law, Liverpool—C. Be,. dells and A. Turner, fancy hosiery manufacturers, Leicester— J. S. Ellis and D. Gideon, slopsellers, Union-row, Tower-hill —J. E. H. Kampf and J. H. Hornfeck, tailors, South Al bany-street, Grosvenor-square —W. and J. Sutcliffe, worsted spinners, North I3rierlt'y, Yorkshire—J. S. Holmes and J. G. Hutchinson. ship brokers. Liverpool—J. Strong and T. Hall, Upper Thamzs-street—T. and W. Boyne, tobacco manufac turers, Leeds—G. H. Heron and E. Benham, merchants, Ux bridge—C. L. Mendez and H. Season, merchants, Liverpool and Maranham. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. ROBERT PRATT MtIIRAIR and DAVID JOHN STONE, ship owners, Glasgow, Feb. 9 and March 1, at two, at Mein and Johnstone's, GlaTow. ALEXANDER OPPENHEIM, looking-glass manufac turer, Edinburgh, Feb. 9 and March 1, at two, at the Old Signet •hall, Edinburgh. ROBERT KERR, tanner, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, Feb. 13 and March 2, at one, at K. M`Kinnel's, innkeeper, Thornhill. GEORGE FREDERICK ROBERTSON, merchant, Glasgow, Feb. 13 and March 12, at twelve, at Alelvin's Coffee house, Greenock. JAMES WILSON, baker, Glasgow, Feb. 12 and March 4, at twelve, at Kerrs and Anderson's, Glasgow. COLIN M'ALPINE, ship smith, Glasgow, Feb. 12 and March 4, at two, at the chambers of Monclieffs and Paterson, Glasgow. JAMES HOWIE, horse dealer, Craigie, Feb. 12 and March 4, at twelve, at the George Hotel, Kilmarnock. citing a page or two of the huge dictionary of grievances compiled by the patriots of the last ten or twenty years, the whole of which dictionary must, as he showed, be gone through, according to the terms of Mr. Sharman Crawford's motion, before a shilling could be provided for the public service. It is re markable that Mr. Sharman Crawford, as well as his supporters, Messrs. Hume, Williams, &c., all agreed in very heartily abusing the reformed Parliament, and in placing far above it in the scale of merit the unreformed House of Commons —so faithfully has been verified Sir Robert Peel's prediction, that the time would come when he should have to de fend' the Reform Bill of 1832 against the Reformers themselves. The reproach of persons like Mr. Shar man Crawford, Mr. Hume, Mr. Williams, &c., &c., however proves nothing against the Reform Bill ; it merely shows that there are men so perverse that no thing will content them. The fate of Mr Crawford's motion has been seen—it had 22 supporters. GLOBE.—The pressure upon our columns compels us to allude with great brevity to Mr. O'Connell's address to the jury, which we have, of course, re ported at considerable length. Mr. O'Connell's cha racteristic, as a public speaker, consists in his marked adaptation of the topics and style of his speeches to the position and taste of the persons whom he addresses. This admitted excellence in an orator was especially , prominent throughout the ad dress to which we allude. Without losing sight, fbr one moment, of the position in which he stood, but preserving throughout the entire speech the most marked respect both for the Court arid jury, Mr. O'Connell maintained his legal right to do what he had done in pursuit of the object he sought to secure; and justified that object (the repeal of the legis afire union of the two coun tries), by a historical survey of the imperfect fulfil ment of the engagements entered into with Ireland as the bases of the union. The great merit of O'Con nell's speech in the Dublin Court of Queen's Bench, on Monday, in our view is the complete abandon ment of personal considerations by which it is marked, and the strong case it makes out in vin•• dicatiun of the Repeal Association, on the grounds we have stated. This case it becomes the Govern ment to answer—not by seeking to "put down repeal," by the incarceration of O'Connell and the leaders of the movement; but by applying them selves to the improvement of the country, and by re lieving the great mass of its population fnom the misery which presses upon them. This, and this alone, will "put down" agitation. This would re • concile the people of Ireland to a union which, if properly carried out, would be a source of prosperity, and a bond of civil and social strength to both countries. MPERIAL PARLIAMENT (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at ten minutes before Four o'Clock. Several petitions for private Bills were presented. The Earl of LINCOLN brought up the First Report of the Commissioners for the Improvement of the Metropolis. Air. S. O'BRIEN presented a petition from Donnington, in Northamptonshire, praying for protection to the agricultural interest. Mr. VERNON SMITH presented a petition from the licensed victualler4 of Northampton and Stoney Stratford. praying that the duties :now paid by them for the shops and warehouses in which their stock in trade was stored, might be repealed. NOTICES OF MOTION—SLAVE-TRADE. Lord PALMERSTON said, that in consequence of the unsatisfactory statement recently made in another place on the part o f the Government, with regard to the negotiations between this country and France on the subject of the Slave trade treaty, it was his intention to move on Monday, the 19h, that an humble address he presented to her Majesty representing to her the deep abhorrence with which the people of this coun try regard slavery, and beseeching her Majesty not to coment to any alteration or modification of any of the treaties now in force with foreign countries, which would tend to render more easy the commission of so detestable a crime. EDUCATION. On the motion for the Order of the Day being read, for the House going intoa Committee of Supply, Mr. W YSE said he wished to ask a question of the Right Hon. Gentleman, the Secretary of State for the Home Department. The Right Hon. Gentleman had already de clared that the great ignorance which privailed through out England could only be eradicated by education ; and haling yesterday declared that it was not his in tention to add any clauses to the Factory Bill respecting education, or to propose any measure to Parlia ment on the subject, he begged leave to ask whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to ask, during the pre sent session, for any enlarged grant of money, o r whether he would adopt any other means to extend the benefits of educa tion. Sir J. GRAHAM said that he was not prepared to answer the question of the Right Honourable Gentleman. It was not the intention of her Majesty's Govern ment to ask for any increa'ed grant of money. With regard to the Orders in Council passed on the subject of educa tion, there were some orders en the subject which would be produced if the Right Hon. Gentleman choosed to move for them. thought there was no need for the appointment of such a Committee, as the House was already in pos session of sufficient information on the sub ject. Regarding the second question, he was not aware that there was at present any document which it would be desirable to lay before the House, but the House might rely upon it that if there were any docu ments which it was requisite to lay before Parliament they would be speedily laid before their Lordships. Regarding the renewal of the charter of the Bank of Ireland the Noble Lord must be aware that it depended upon entirely different circumstances from the renewal of the charter of the Bank of England.—(" Hear, hear" from Lord Monteagle.) It was intended that when the charter of the Bank of Ireland was renewed it should be renewed on the same principle as the Bank of England. A return of the assets and liabilities of the Bank of England, as published inthe London Gazette in the years 1842 and 1843, was then moved for. Lord MONTEAGLE wished to know if it were the intention of the Government to institute any inquiry re garding the Irish poor-laws during the present session? The Duke of WELLINGTON said it was the in tention of the Government to institute such an inquiry, but not until the Irish representatives had returned. The Marquis of NORAIANBY presented a petition from the Catholics of Belfast, complaining that Roman Catholics were rejected from the jury appointed at the State trials. He would not, however, for obvious reasons, maly any observati sns on the subject. • The Hoag then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Feb. 6. COMMERCIAL TREATIES. Mr. RICARDO gave notice- of his intention of bringing forward a motion relative to the commercial treaties between this and other countries. LIGHT GOLD. Mr. GISBORNE said he had put a question the other day to the Right Hon. the President of the Board of Trade, on the subject of the light coinage which had found its way back to the Mint, and that gentleman not being then prepared to answer it, had re quested that it might be repeated t.n a future occasion. He would now ask if the Govern ment were in a situation to give any information to the House, whether the gold coin which had been called in had been deteriorated by wear and tear alone, or whether it had been subjected to sweating, or any other illegiti mate process ? Mr. GLADSTON4 on the part of the Government, begged to say that they had no direct and positive means of ascertaining the dates of all the light sove reigns sent in for re-coinage. Sovereigns of all dates had been returned, but the great mass of them were of the reigns of George the Third and the early part of George the Fourth. Respecting the question, of which the lion. Member had been kind enough to give him notice, whether or not the coin returned had been sub jected to the process of sweating or other illegi timate process, he could only say that the Government had no means of ascertaining positively if such were the case or not. As far, however, as a cor rect opinion could be founded, it was believed that the returned coin had not been subjected to such process to any great extent. The coin generally gave evi dence of very great wear, although, of course, in particular cases, illegitimate means of causing deterioration had been resorted to. Mr. GISBORNE then gave notice that he would, that day fortnight, move for a • Select Committee to in quire into the deterioration of the gold coinage, and whether any measures could be adopted for preventing the less arising therefrom from falling unjustly upon the people. Sir H. DOUGLAS begged to ask the Noble Lord, the Member for Dorsetshire, whether he intended to proceed with his motion respecting the affairs of Sinde, on the day stated in the notice paper ? Lord ASHLEY said it was certainly his intention to bring forward his motion on that day. Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN begged to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he could give the House any explanation of the discontinuance of the experiments on the Kingston and Dalkey Atmospheric Railway in Ireland ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the Right Hon. Gentleman was misinformed if he sup posed there had been anything more than a partial dis continuance of the experiments. It was a part of the original agreement that a sufficient portion of the trench which ran along the Kingston Harbour should be covered over, for the accommodation of the public ; the railway was completed without that condition being ful filled ; and it was the process of covering over a certain portion which had caused the suspension. IRISH REGISTRATION. Mr. WYSE begged to ask the Right lion. Gentleman, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, at what period it was his intention to bring forward the Registration Bill for Ireland, and what would be the provisions of the measure? Sir JAMES GRAHAM said he felt great pleasure in answering the first question which the Right Honourable Gentleman had put to him respecting the period at which he should introduce the Bill. It was his intention, on the part of the Government, to move for leave to introduce a Bill to amend the law res pecting the registration of voters in Ireland before the Easter recess. As to the particular provisions of the measure, he hardly thought it could be expected of him that he should then state what those provisions might be. He was not aware, that under similar circumstances, it had been expected of any Government.—(Hear, hear.) THE RAILWAYS COMMITTEE. Mr. WALLACE, seeing the Right Hon. Gentleman the President of the Board of Trade in his place, took that opportunity of informing him that previous to the Right Hon. Gentleman's coming into the House he had given notice that, on the motion for appointing the Com mittee on Railways, he would move a resolution to the effect that no .director or shareholder of any railway company should be a member of that Committee. lie now begged to ask the Right lion. Gentleman if amongst the Members whom he intended to appoint upon that Committee there was any railway director or shareholder? Mr. GLADSTONE said that he was obliged to the Hon. Member for Greenock for having communicated to him the notice he had given, and he had no difficulty in giving him all the information in his power in reply to his concluding question. The gentlemen whom he had named for his Committee were not selected by him, but were nominated at the suggestion of the gentlemen who formed the previous Com mittee. He could say, however, than there were some directors, and at least, as far as his know ledge went, one shareholder in railway companies. The Honourable Member for Reading was Chair man of the Great Western Railway. The Ho nourable Member for Clitheroe was a Director of the South Eastern, and two other of the gentlemen were also railway directors. The two first-named gentlemen were connected with what were called high fare rail ways, and the two last with low fare lines. There was also the Noble Lord the Member for Totnes, who was nominated because, as he was a Member of the late Government, and had been upon the former Com mittee, it was thought right that he should be also upon this. He believed that the Noble Lord was a director of a new railway. He himself (Mr. Gladstone) was a shareholder in a railway company ; but he was not able to give the Honourable Gentleman any f'urther information as to the constitution of the Committee. THE RIGHT OF SEARCH. In answer to a question from Sir C. NAPIER, Sir ROBERT PEEL said that the whole question of the instructions to be given to the comman ders of cruisers for the detection of slave ships, had been referred to a Commission, consisting of Dr. Lush ington and Captain Bayne. With regard to instructions occasioned by negotiations with the United States, he could only say, that they were consistent with the in structions formerly given, but he did not think a due regard to the public service would allow him to give a more explicit answer. Lord PALMERSTON wished to ask whether the Government had come to any understanding, or made any arrangements as to the power which the com manders of our vessels should have of visiting ships for the purpose of ascertaining their nationality ? Sir R. PEEL said the instructions which had been given this year were the same as those which had been issued to the officers of her Majesty's Navy in the first instance. FACTORIES AMEND3IENT BILL. Sir J. GRAHAM rose to introduce a Bill for the better regulation of, and to amend the laws relatin g t o , factories ; and in doing so said that the Bill was similar to the one he had introduced during the last session, which had been founded upon the Report of a Select Committee. His Bill introduced several important alterations and limitations as to ages and hours of labour. As the law now stande, the definition of children was between the ages of nine and thirteen years. He proposed that the specification be somewhat altered, and that the definition of children be fixed between the ages of eight and thir teen. lie proposed that children between the ages of eight and thirteen should not be employed in any one day for a longer period than six hours and a halt; and that they should not 1)4 employed both in the forenoon and the afternoon of the same day. Respecting young persons, the definition in the law, as it stands, was between the ages of thirteen and eighteen years. He did not propose to make any alteration in this definition of ages, but he should pro pose, as to their hours of work, that they should not be employed in any cotton, silk, wool, or flax manufac tory for any portion of the twenty-four hours longer than from half-past five to seven in summer, and from six to eight in winter, thus making thirteen and a half hours of work, with one hour and a half of time for rest. As the law at present stood, all persons above the age of eighteen were considered adults, and of their labour there was no limitation at all. But under the present law many persons were employed as adults who were totally unfit fir the labour. The light Hon. Baronet then read extracts from the report of M r. Horner, as to the periods of work required from persons who were considered adults, and especially from adult females. With the best consideration that lie could give to the reports and evidence which it had been his duty to con sult, he had determined to propose a limitation to the continuous labour of females, satisfied that the uncontrolled exercise of their industry was alike injurious to their health and their morals.—(Hear, hear.) He also proposed to enact a new limitation with respect to the way in which back time was now brought up, and which had led to great infractions of the law. Where the power had been of a double nature (steam-power and water-power), whenever loss of time had accrued, the party so losing it had been made to greatly violate the law in bringing that time up again. lie proposed that no facilities should be given for redeeming this lost power, excepting where the power is water-power only—and to that, also, he should propose a further limitation. Power also was given to the proper authorities to notify to millowners, wherever . and. whenever, in their opinion, -machinery,. might be considered dangerous ; and it; after such nett fication, any accident should occur, it o ° l4 d be COURT CIRCULAR. WiNnsoH, Tt EsloAY.—ller Majesty and his lip val High ness Prince Albert are as well as can be expected. Her Royal Highness the Princess Alice was taken nn airing in the Park to-day. The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday in the Council Chamber. The Lords present were, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell. the Judge of the Prerogative Court, and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall. Mr. Thesiger, Queen's Counsel, and Dr. Addams were heard for the appellant, on an appeal from the nigh Court of DIVIDENDS. H. Molyneux, watch maker, Lombard-street, Feb. 27, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. W. C. Thornton, machine maker, Birstall, Yorkshire, March 2, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—J. M. Knight, grocer, Rugby, Warwickshire, Feb. '29, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court—W. Atherton, flint glass manufacturer, Manchester, Feb. 29, at twelve, at the Man chester District Court—J. Raleigh, T. Goode, and W. Hol.. land, merchants, Manchester, Feb. 28, at twelve, at the Man chester District Court—W. Rabey, leather seller, Redruth, Cornwall, Feb. 29, at one, at the Exeter District Court—J. Gage, carpenter, Delverton. Somersetshire, Feb. 29, at half past twelve, at the Exeter District Court—H. Lane, inn keeper, Derby, Feb. 28, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned. B. Reynolds, silk printer, Mitcham, Surrey, Feb. 27—R. Parker, linen draper, Deptford-row, Rotherhithe, Feb. 27—J. Smith, carpenter, Darenth, Kent, Feb. 27—S. Wesley, baker, Long Buckb y , Northamptonshire, Feb. 27—J. Atkins, tobac conist, Shoreditch, Feb. 29—T. Gore, baker, Broadstairs, Kent, Feb. 28—M. Allen, apothecary, Waltham Holy Cross, Kent, Feb. 27—T. Kimber, farmer, North Cerney, Glouces tershire, Feb. 29—J. Whitley, surgeon, Liverpool, Feb. 29 J. Cornish, painter, Bridport, Dorse'shire, Feb. 28—M. Had ley, chemist, Walsall, Staffordshire, Feb. 27—.1. Lawrence, spirit merchant, Birmingham, March 2—J. Smalley, corn miller, Chorley, Lancashire, Feb. 29—R. Hale, bookseller, Margate, Feb. 27—J. Tregaskes, victualler, Bristol, Feb. 27 C. Dawson, fruiterer, North-row, Covent-garden, Feb. 27—F. Jenkyns and 3. 11. Ilardyman, merchants, Love-lane, East cheap, Feb. 27—T. and W. Withell, ship builders, Padstow, Cornwall, Feb. 27—G. J. Pouchee, stationer, Oxford-street, Feb. 27—C. F. Dewson, victualler, Birmingham, Feb. 27. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. U. Crocker and 11. James, linen drapers, I3ath—W. T. Yale and P. Hannuic, preserved provision manufacturers, Wilson-street, Finsbury. square—J. Cordy and F. Wright, wine merchants, Brighton —T. R. Wilson, W. Wilson, G. Dixon, and J. Wool er, mercers, Stockton, Durham—J. Spencer and E. Wood, contractors, Goswell-street—F. T. Gell and J. Hayes,attorneys, Carlton •ahambers, Regent-street —l3. Blott and G. Perry, butchers, High-street, Shoreditch— R. Russell and J. Lamb, lace dealers, - Oxford-street—W. C. and F. Plant ,hatters. East Retford, Nottinghamshire—J. and ebtrb Xbttion GREAT CATHOLIC MEETING. (THIS DAY.) (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) The Hon. CHARLES LANGDALE moved the second resolution. He should confine himself strictly to the business of the meeting, and carefully abstain from the least word that could be for a mo ment deemed a reflection on the members of the jury then sitting in Dublin. Were lie to do so, he should be guilty of the very in justice of which they had to complain. The resolution he had to propose was the following That the officers of the Crown, in striking off every Catholic from the panel In the trial pending in the Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland, have raised in the Court of Justice itself a well-grounded suspicion of the violation of the Emancipation Act, and have thereby insulted our religion, and en. dangered our rights by an implied imputation upon our fidelity to our oaths.") He then gave a detailed account of the manner in which the panel was drawn up, including the suspicious loss of sixty.three names, and the striking off of the Catholics who hap pened to be left on the list. The circumstances are already well known to the public. The subsequent allegation that they were struck off because they were Repeaters was untrue, as, though some of them were Repealers, none of them had ever taken any active part in the agitation. Three were not on the books of the Association at all, two never attended any repeal meeting, or ex pressed any opinion upon it, and one was adverse to it. These, therefore, were struck off for no reason but that they were Catholics, and the whole body must feel it as an insult. He bad been told, happily, not by a Catholic but a Protestant, that they ought not to interfere at all. They were Irish Catholics, and therefore they, as Englishmen, had nothing to do with them.— (" No, no," and cries of " We've done that long enough.") What would have been their state in England now but for the Catholics of Ireland ?—(lmmense cheering, and three cheers for O'Connell.) He wished he could think they were indebted to the justice of England for their rights; but he had the words of the Minister of the Crown, that it was not a sense of justice but a sense of neces sity; it was granted to the united voice of millions.—(Cheers.) What was the legal disqualification for sitting on a jury ? Being a con victed felon; that was the legal disqualification. What then was the inference? That they were no more to be believed than con. vic'ed felons, And were they tamely to sit down under this imputation.—(" No, no," and cheers.) As far as the press could bear the accounts of the trial, this imputation had been circulated. And one portion of the press had stated that which the Government perhaps did not dare do; the Morning Herald—(Groans)—justified the conduct of the Government; it said It was right, because, had one Catholic been left on the jury, he would have immediately received notice fram his spiritual superior that it was his duty to acquit the traversers.—(" Oh, oh, and shame.") It was not the Crown solicitor who was to be charged with this insult—it was not even the Attorney-General--he charged it directly on the Govern ment by whom be was appointed, as from his previously expressed opinions it was known that he could hardly have acted otherwise. The Rev. Mr. S►SK seconded the resolution. He said that this was not the first time the Irish Attorney-General had struck out the names of Roman Catholics as such from the jury panel. But in fact it was not an uncommon thing in Ireland. It was only a short time ago that a prisoner in the county of Monaghan was actually tried by three succe•sive juries, before a verdict was obtained suitable to the wishes of the protecutors. Was this state of things to last (Cries of " No, no.") He hoped not. The Roman Catholics of Ireland were looked upon in England as beings of an inferior race. Why it was become common in this country to stigmatise the Roman Catholic priests of Ireland as surpliced ruffians.— (Hear, hear.) He was there to proclaim that a more hard-working, moral, or enlightened set of men, did not exist in the world than the Roman Catholic priests of Ireland. It wrs said, in this country, that the people of Ireland would never think of their wrongs if O'Connell did not tell them of them.— (Cheers.) Thank God they had an O'Connell —(Cheers.) He had toiled for forty years in their behalf, and he st as not now to be put down.—(Loud Cheers.) Could any Irishman sit calmly and con. template the bare possibility of O'Connell being immured in a dungeon.—(Load cheers.) No doubt that every effort would yet be made to bri g about such a result. He could not sit down without congratulating the English Catho. lice upon their having come so manfully and spiritedly for. ward to resent the insult which had been cast upon their brethren in Ireland. With these observations he begged to second the resolution. The resolution was then put and carried amidst loud cheers. Mr. P. HOWARD, M.P., rose to propose the next resolution. He said they had seen the great paladium of British liberty assailed thy had seen the sacred right of trial by jury, hallowed as it was by the name of Alfred, violated by the late course taken by her Majesty's Government on the State trials in Ireland. If such a course had been pursued in the metropolis of Ireland, what an awful example would it be to tbedependencies of the British Crown, where of course public opinion was not so powerful as at home. The resolution he had to propose was as follows :—" That the fol. lowing address, founded on these resolutions, be circulated for sig. nature, and presented to her most Gracious Majesty, at an early period, by the Noble Chairman, and such other Catholic Noblemen and Gentlemen as may please to attend."—(Cheers.) The address was to the following effect s—" We, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, professin g the Roman Cat strongly impressed with the impo rtance of the principle sanctione d tic lie religion, and established on the passing of the Emancipation Act, that our religion should no longer be a bar to our full and free enjoyment of those civil rights and privileges of which we had so long been deprived under unjust and erroneous imputations on its tenets, cannot but view with extreme jealousy the late act of the legal advisers of your Majesty's Government in Ireland, a hereby all Roman Catholics were excluded from the jury list. We, therefore, humbly presume, in presenting this, our loyal address, to your Majesty, to protest against this their act, being construed into a precedent for infringing on those rights and privileges which we consider ourselves equally entitled to, and justified to enjoy with any other class of your Majesty's subjects." Mr. ETSTON seconded the resolution, which, with the address, was carried unanimously. Mr. HOWARD moved that the Noble Lord do now leave the chair, and that it be taken by Lord Stourton. Sir E. VATASOUR moved, and Mr. MAXWELL seconded, a reso. lution of thanks to the Chairman ; w h en t h e me eting separated, with three cheers for Daniel O'Connell. E FUNDS—(CLOSING PRICES). BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. C0n5...... 976 Ditto Old Annuities per Cent. Red ..... q. 103 Ditto New Annuities — New 3i per Cent lO2 New per Cent. Ditto BOOL 69 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5ma11..." 69 pm Jan. 1860 Oct. 189 Jan. 1860 FOREIGN FUNDS. Portugnese,b per cent. Ditto, New Ditt0......... Prussian, 5 per cent.... Russian, 5 per cent ""' Ditto Metallic .....» ' Spanish, b per cent...... 24 Ditto, 3 per cent.......... Ditto, Deferred.... ... 13 6 French, 5 per cent. —f. Exchange.......... —f —c. French, 3 per cent. PK 503. Dutch, n per cent. 5.5 k Ditto, 5 per cent.... WI SHARES. Eastern Counties (23 paid)...... Ditto Extension (13s 4d paid) Gravesend, Rochester, and Chatham (2/ 1 p) 21 Great North of England Railway(loo pd) 91 Great Western (7b paid) ... 113 Ditto Fifths (12 paid) Hull and Selby (50 paid) ..• s9i London and Brighton (50 pa d) London and Greenwich Railway (12115 s 4dpd) si London and Guildford Junction ( b paid) hi London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 7 7 Ditto Eighths (15s. paid) ••• 24 London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 167, Ditto Scrip (7i paid) •• • •••••• 13i Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) .... . — Ditto New Shares (30 paid) Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) Norwich and Brandon (2 paid) .... Newcastle and Darlington Junction(ls paid\ Paris and Orleans (20 paid) South Eastern and 'Dover (50 paid) Ditto Scrip (95 paid) ....... A Ltrian, 5 per cent. — BL.)gian, b per cent Beasilian Bonds... trims Ayres6 per cent — Chaim, 6 per cent. Colombian, 6 per cent l2/ Ditto 1824 Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 93 Danish, 3 per rent Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Aleaican, b per cent. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian, 1825,6 per ct. 32f 33* 35 36 SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM TUE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. STANDARD.The proceedings of the Houses. Of Parliament, last night, were various and interest, ing ; but they run to too great a length, and branch into'too great a number of different subjects, to. allow that in the crowded state of our columns we can even enumerate the several topics_ referred to. In the House of Commons Sir James Graham introduced a Bill for the Regulation of Factories. It seems to be a copy .of the Bill . of last session, omitting the eduCation clauses ; the subject of education being, as the Right Hon. the Home Secretary observed; assigned to the generous rivalry of Churchmen and Dis senters, while the Bill will secure time for the children to be educated. We . are .not afraid of . the result of the competition proposed, and we certainly prefer leaving the matter open, to the recognition of any special right to educate on the part of Dissenters. "Laissez faire". and the Church will . do her duty, as has been already proved in this particular case. As to the still remaining provisions of the Bill, it is well to imitate Lord Ashley in withholding our opinions. upon them, until the exact terms of them shall be in the hands of :the public. Mr. Sharman Crawford made. the- motion, in a hng• and not very brilliant, but temperate speech. Sir Robert Peel re plied at some ltngth, and with much pleasantry, re SUPPLY. The Report of the Committee of Supply was brought up and agreed to, and leave was given for the Committee to sit again on Friday next. ESTIMATES, On the motion of Sir G. CLERK copies of the estimates were directed to be laid before the House. REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES. Mr. HUAIE presented a petition from Curer Angus, pray. ing the House to redress the grievances of the people, before voting the supplies, and to grant a full representation to the people. HAWKERS' LICENSES. The How. MEMBER then moved for a return of the number of hawkers licensed in the sears 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, and 1840.—Agreed to. The House then adjourned at a Quarter before Five o'Clock. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Ilfenchester Gazette). Owing to the continued advance in raw materials, spinners and manufacturers are unwilling to sell, except at increased rates, which the buyers, and especially the shipping houses, are ditin. dined to give. The business done has consequently been limited, both in goods and yarn, the sales being generally at the (WI rates of last week. ROCHDALE FDANNEL MARKET, FEB. s.—We have a brisk mar. ket to-day ; the merchants are quite eager to buy, but the manu. facturers stand out for an advance in price, which has considers. bly limited the quantity of business transacted. Those who were willing to accept former prices have no difficulty in meeting with a customer. It is supposed that the upward tendency of wool is the cause of the good demand for flannels. LIMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Feb. 6. CORN-LAWS. Lord REDESDALE presented twenty-nine petitions from different places in Lincolnshire, praying their Lordships to continue to the agricultural interest that smal amount of protection which they yet possessed. The Duke of ROXBURGH said that, although no allusion had been made to the corn-laws in the speech from the throne, yet the Noble Mover of the address had alluded to them in the course of his speech, and on that same evening an announcement had been made in the other house of Parliament that it was not the intention of her Majesty's Government to make any alteration in the corn-laws.—(Hear, hear.) He rose for the purpose of expressing the gratification which he had felt on hear ing that announcement. It would tend more than any thing else to restore stability to that apiculture' interest which was now so sorely depressed, and would enable it to resist those attacks which were so unjustly and so perseverin g ly l eve ll ed against it—it would give fresh courage to those who had recently so nobly stood up in defence of their rights. He felt it to be his duty to take this, the earliest opportunity, of expressing the satisfaction with which he hailed the announcement of the Government on the subject of the corn-laws. BANK CHARTER. Lord MONTEAGLE disclaimed all party motives in bringing forward the subject of which he had given notice. He was aware of the great difficulty in treating of banking affitirs, and while the difficult task of treating of those affairs had devolved upon him in the other House of Parliament, he had received from the members of the present Government such cordial assistance, that he should be guilty of ingratitude were he to discuss this subject with any degree of hasty feeling. At the time his Noble Friend Earl Spencer had brought forward the Bank Charter Renewat Act he had also introduced another Bill on the subject of banking, which had un fortunately not passed into a law. Since that time no very important inewire on the subject had been submitted to Parliament. He agreed that premature discussion was unadvisable, but he also thought that every possible information should be com municated to their Lordships: Their Lordships were already in possession of a vast deal of information on the subject. He by no means recommended the ap pointment of a Select Committee to consider the subject, but if it were the attention of the Government it cer- tainly was advisable that the Committee should be ap pointed as speedily as possible. The first question he had to ask was, whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to institute any inquiry of that description? The next was, in the event of an inquiry of that description being instituted, whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to lay before Parliament any documents showing what negotiations or what communications they had had on the subject with the Bank of England? He would not ask that question. without a word of explanation. Ile thought nothing could go further towards impeding the settle. ment of this question than the production of any papers which had only incidentally helped the Government to arrive at this conclusion. On the other hand, he thought any papers distinctly explanatory of the course intended to be taken by the Government ought, as far as consistent with the public service, t o b e l a id b e f ore Parlia ment. An impression had obtained ground that it was in tended to create a monopoly in banking. This was a most erroneous impression, as nothing of the sort could be intended. He thought the sooner the terms of the pro position agreed to by the Government and the Bank of England were made public,- the more likely was this question soon .to be settled. Ile did not wish to draw from the Noble Duke what that proposition was, but he hoped the Noble Duke would, as soon as convenient, put the public in possession of it. The third question he had to put was, whether the alteration of the law contemplated on the-subject of banking would apply to Ireland as well as England? The Duke of WELLINGTON was willing to give the. Noble Lord all the, information in his power. - The first question was, whether it was the intention of the Government to appoint a Committee on banking. Ile in the power of the Executive to institute a suit and give the damages, by way: of compensation, to the party injured. The regulations regarding children were n o t a t p resent t h e same in silk mills as in cotton and other factories, and he now proposed to bring silk mills under precisely the same regulations in respect to children as other factories. He had mentioned the principal provisions in the Bill, with the exception only of that portion of the Bill . of last session to which attention had been more especially directed. He did not mean to interfere with that por tion of the Bill which prescribes the rules regarding education.—(Hear.) A child from eight to thirteen years old he proposed should not be employed continu ously formore than six hours and a half, and that the other portion of the day should be devoted to education. The Government last year proposed to do something with re spect to the quality of the education given to the chil dren in factories. The enactments throughout the existing law of factory education were, he was afraid, almost illusory, for persons had been employed that were little qualified, indeed, even for du ties so humble as those entrusted to them. Even the stoker of the furnace was occasionally to be found acting the part of schoolmaster ; and there was an undeniable want of every proper facility and appa ratus in the shape of books and other requisites. in fact, the system had been one not of education, but bf mere confinement, leaving the children without illy knowledge or instruction whatever. He (Sir James Graham) was, however, bound to state, that these evils were giving way, under the force of public opinion, to a better state of things, and he indulged the hope that there were now many millowners who were sincerely anxious to supply the means of instruction to those employed by them. The experience of last year, however, had determined him not AO' interfere with the quality of the instruction now offered.—(Hear, hear.) It had been the hope of the Government that a measure providing scriptural teaching, superintended by the vi gilant inspection of officers appointed by the Privy Council on Education, would meet with general con currence. He confessed that that hope, in his mind at least, had vanished. Reliance must now be placed, and it was not a vain reliance, after what they had lately seen, but he confessed that with him it was a confident hope—reliance must be placed on the honest rivalry which had arisen between the Church and the Dissenters, . by whom he trusted great efforts would be made to dif fuse amidst the immense masses of the population sound general knowledge in connexion with scriptural instruc tion. He was quite satisfied that if good schools were established in the manufacturing districts the people would have sufficient discrimination 'to prefer them to bad schools. If the Legislature provided that the children should have sufficient leisure for instruction, he was confi dent that they would be instructed, and instructed in a manner infinitely superior to anything that had yet been witnessed. At all events he was not prepared at pre sent, either directly or indirectly, to interfere with the quality of the instruction to be afforded ; all that he asked the House to do was, to alloW leisure t o th e chil dren, which would secure fo r them, without being over strained by labour, an opportunity of attending the school for at least three hours every day, with the ex ception of Saturday, which was a' half holiday. He would express an earnest hope that the effect of the dif fusion of knowledge, based upon soundprinciples of in. struction and upon religious truth, wou ld have the effect of averting that which, if left unchecked, would be a source of the greatest and most serious national injury —the evil of a dense population living without know ledge, without instruction, and withOttt religion. The Right Hon. Baronet then moved for leave to introduce a Bill to amend the Factory Act. Mr. lIUME said he was surprised that the Govern ment should continue to introduce measures like that which had just been announced. If they interfered with any class in this manner they should interfere with all. • They should not confine themselves to the em ployment of one class at particular times, but they should extend the measure to every branch of manu factures. It would appear as though experience were lost upon those who made these attempts at legislation. Here were parents, children, and manufacturers all in terested in the subject of employment as one affecting the means of subsistence, and yet the Government were attempting to throw every difficulty in the way of its fair exercise. It would be much better if the iovern ment would take into consideration the cause of that anxiety to which reference had been made. It was the want of employment. What was it which pre vented employment ? Bad legislation. Why not remove that instead of attempting to bolster up evils by this patchwork legislation ?. All experience showed that measures of this kind could not succeed, and he was anxious that the Government should look to causes and not attempt to correct the results of bad legislation. They ought not to restrict the employment of children in one manufactory, and leave it unrestricted in another. Education should be made a national object, and they should require that every child should be educated. He greatly deprecated the requiring certificates, considering it extremely objectionable. It was to be provided, too, that in all instances of accident, loss of limb, or injury, an action at law might lie against the proprietor of the factory. Why should not railway companies and other bodies be subjected to the same process . ? He thought that this part of the measure required to be well con., sidered. If there ever was a demand upon the Govern ment, it was that they should provide an efficient mea sure of general education, leaving religion to the different religious sects. But the present measure was one to which he entertained the strongest objection. Mr. STUART WORTLEY said he believed there could be no greater evil than the absorp tion of the bulk of the female population in factory employments. lie deprecated the system of employing persons in factories for so long a period as that contemplated by the Bill. His Right lion. Friend had referred to the authority upon which he founded the measure he was now about to bring in, and said that it was derived from the Inspectors of Factories, but he (Mr. Wortley) wished that his Right lion. Friend bad paid more attention to some suggestions which had been made by those gentlemen. Mr. Saunders, in his last Report: had stated, in language than which nothing could be stronger, that the labour of persons of the age contemplated in the present Bill should in no instance be allowed to exceed eleven hours during the day. Mr. Horner expressed a similar opinion also. He thought with those exceptions that the measure was likely to effect much good, and to improve the operation of the present Act. Mr. HINDLEY felt glad that this Bill had been in troduced, because he thought it would be an improve ment upon the former Act. He perfectly concurred with the Hon. Member who had just sat down, that an alte ration should be made in the number of hours during which it was proposed to require the young persons to labour, and that this subject required the most serious consideration of the House. He should wish the Hon. Member for Montrose, who took a very abstract view of this question, to consider the facts of the matter. He (Mr. Hindley) considered that while the Government allowed certain privileges to the manufacturers, they also should retain the right to themselves of inter fering when a system was • adopted which was likely to produce great physical and moral evils. They heard much of their wealth and of their great pro duction; hut if that vast amount of production was tak ing place at the sacrifice of the health, morals, and in telligence of the people, it might be purchased, like gold, too dearly. They had been told that their interference in this subject would endanger their foreign commerce. This he disproved by showing that, under the present Act, the manufacture of cotton had increased 130 per cent. Public opinion was in favour of the reduction:of the amount of human labour ; he alluded to the exer- tions made by the drapers' assistants, and the persons employed in other occupations, to procure a curtailment of the hours of labour. The drapers of Manchester had ceased to employ their assistants on Saturday after noons. There was a general impression that human la bour had been too much employed in this country; that it had been tasked till human strength sank beneath it. He contended that, with respect to the cotton trade, a shortening of the hours of labour would be attended with advantage in rendering the amount of labour more proportionate to the limited supply of cotton they had this year received from America. He urged on the Government the propriety of taking up this question in a right and determined spirit. It was not for him, as their political opponent (as he generally was), to tell them what to do in order to brii.g the people of England around , them in sup port of their exertions. They had the means of doing so, by showing a determined spirit in support of the in terests of the labouring classes. Lord ASHLEY said the House was well aware how inconvenient it was to discuss the principle of a Bill in its earliest stage.—(Hear, hear.) . He :therefore would not attempt to occupy their attention at that moment, but he could not feel satisfied without rising to express his gratitude to the Government for the advance they had made.—(Hear, hear.) He would not advance his own views and sentiments then, but. simply repeat his thanks to Ministers for the advance now made.— ;Cheers.)—Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. POOR-RATES IN IRELAND. Major MACNAAIARA, on behalf of Mr. F French, moved for a return of dates on which, and the places where, the military or police have been employed in enforcing the collecticn of poor-rates in Ireland, between the Ist day of January, 1843, and the Ist day of January, 1844 ; specifying the number of men em ployed, and the amount collected, on each occasion; and also a return of the date and amount of each rate made in the different poor-law unions in Ireland, under the provisions of the Act 1 and 2 Vic. e. 56, for the more effectual relief of the destitute poor in that country; specifying the amount of each rate remaining uncollected on the Ist day of January, 1844. SELECT COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS. Mr. W. GLADSTONE moved, that the Select Com mittee on Railways should consist of the following gen th men :—Mr. William Gladstone, -Mr. Labonchere, Lord Seymour, Mr. Wilson Patten, Viscount Sandon, Mr, Gishorne, Lord Granville Somerset, Sir John East hope, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Russell, Mr. Patrick Maxwell Stewart, Mr. Green, Mr. Maclean, Mr. 'I homely, and Mr. Cardwell. Mr. WALLACE said, he should now propose the amendment of which he had given notice, and which was to the effect that no person should be on the Com mittee who had a direct interest in any railway. In doing this, ho believed he was bringing under the con sideration of the House, no novel principle, but one which had obtained for a very considerable time — namely, that no Honourable Member would allow his name to remain on a Committee o wh had a direct pecu niary interest in the matter on which that Committee had to sit. Before he went further, he wished to state that what he had advanced last evening in reference to a railway in his own immediate locality was strictly and substantially correct, and that the concession 11111(10 by the Governm ent, on the sub j ect of the railwa y tax, instead of being used, as it ought to have been, to diminish the fares of the third-class-carriages ' had been used b y the directors to enhance their own dividends. lustel4 of reducing fares, they thereaud rtofits, so tha t sir a ' 001 01 ober , ' S. Sr. v~