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[844. Ea ir in :enes nt in of n the ours ;rrifi° ande l by he ,orrni .Lifber sus- t e ft li if dis c re 6 f, tire' gi ° 5, 16/ . 411LIAIVIEN TARA' DIV ISI (Pr o " 14 c Votes and Proceedings of the nowt Of Commons.) stal'xit 4. 4, 0 , It AI L.W A Y S. ht opt Report o f S e i cc: Committee considered ; R esolu -48,;,°f Committ ee read. First Resolution, " *. 'That in each "rebills are no peuding to authorise the construction de revs ws of Railwa3, competing with one another, such : OOk ti i ,respectivelv refrrred to one Committee," read a „ 4, e• Debat e ar i s i ng ; !Motion made, and Question (ltd. Mit the Debate be now adjourned:" The House .miNottrry—AYES, 3. • ' \krn,s, by' 7.ELLERS. Sibthorp, Colonel fa cet Ro Hodgson, Hinde • MAJORITY-NOES, 200. SUPPLY. MR. S. CRAWFORD'S MOTION. MAJORITY, AGAINST-,87: Ittletwleirtt 'MINORITY, FOR-8. , Regiraid J. , P. 8 Wawn, John Twizell 1. 13 1,, i nmernt Williams, William tte,,nstooe, Howard p h :u l n, John TELL,ERS. Se rid g e, CaWain Crawford, S•harman oldeld, Jorh . ua Bowring, Dr. , :, . . (IN THE COAIAIITTEE.) Inede and Question proposed," That a number of e . " 4 11 not e 100,•,•95 Men (exclusive of the t`,,top,%l:\'''Yed, the x . .rei ' r l it c orial , Pessessions . of the East India '' cl eci ` - 'inninissioned and Non•commissioned Officersin ;uo maintained, for 'he Service of the United Kingdom kth:`,,ltilritain and Ireland, from the lit day of April, 1544, 'Q''lst put March 1845 :"—Whereupon Motion made, ;Nat:tiaitt, That. a number of Land Forces, not ex . '4IC :"'"' 29 5 Alen (exclusive of the M'n employed in the lioll,erld P ossessions of the East India Company), Commis ilibil,tl,l:l N on-commissioned Officers included, be. main the Serv;ce of the United Kingdom of Great 4'114,11141 Ireland, from the Ist day of April, 1644, to the March, 16.45 :" The Committee divided t t erie,na), MINORITY—AYES, 12. Scholdeld, Joshua )1 41 ' 1 4 , Reginald J. Thornely, Thomas Cr ki pt9., Josei,h Trelawny, John S. D ui , 'M. William S. Warm, John Twizell - 121 12 , - "b e .' 4l be t Thomas F 1,1 , 14 4419, Howard TELLERS. 1 John • - isms, William slit, Archibald • &wring, Dr. AIAjOIIITY-NOES, 114. dv Pe NsfoN Sociurr.--The'' Sixteenth '• - tg at th al Meeting of this Society was held on Mon .; tae ef e • London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, for the tLiklasi e tra nsacting the usual annual business, and electing ngrs upon the 1- Richard Taylor, Esq., in the 4 h it ,_ " 4 th e 'ePort stated that the Committee, having consi k cit ed. a dvantages of. the enrolment of the Societv , .had the o nsiderabl e time to the revision of the "rules , to h‘4 l l aniZ t tt enforniable to the requirements of the Act of k* ~t, N. although rospects of the Society. were -encou l''t4t t y t ,: eilttt ° the annual subscriptions, they had been moreaed . t,lanced by an increase in life subscriptions, a n „,uo Society had fully met all demands, and also 1,* e 7) , . to its funded sock. The total receipts of the 1 ;" 352 /. 9s , and the disbursements 1 , 185 /. 6 5.• 7 d. , I' tot a l bal ance in fvour of the Society of 168 L 2 s. s d . kllg funded property now amounted to 3,5051., pro ' la Echot to the amount of 109/. 17s. 7d., 1,1001. of tilled, on funded in the last three years. The Report tle Nu d, to'the great loss the Society had sustained in it ; ° f his ROyal Highness the Ditke.of Sussex, and , warm etifogiurn - to his memory.. The. anniver -111 Ars., ller was also glanced at., andivhi'cl produced to the charity the net 1 4 „,. kI the l argest amoun t ev er collected on any similar t ,The Report was unanimously adopted. Richard (Treasurer),. Mr. .1. Hodson (Secretary, whose ettoo I ncreased from 251. to 42/.), and Mr. T. Billing ~.tressft ii/ T were re-eleeted: The numbers polled for the ..,,oandidates were as follow :—William Walker, n,_" ll ,liaM Davis, 2,156 ; Robert Sizeland, 2,113 ; ,oter n . Vle, 1,884 Jane Geldart, 1,728 ; and. Ann °tT, of " )88 . There were twenty-two candidates. The .t.tleajensioners now on the funds is fifty. After the `,Chei li ehusinessAVas transacted, thanks were voted to t. r gee okt raa n , and the meeting was dissolved.' :,? - 10s , e --.51 „,"AT10N TO THE PUBLIC AT RAILWAY . ." 4 14 1 ,.. the magistrates of the Croydon division held a Il l ' ' e ,..,_ t lng on Saturday, at the Town-hall, for the pur ki-41jet-mlng applications for wine and spirit licenses. All „l i ses were teinnvcd, and there - were six new appli t„,''.late '„ u e of which was from Mr. W. Coulstock, for a Iroti 7, new house situn;cd near the Brighton Railway o t ,,(lre te „;'royden. The application was supported char 14`tliiael° 11 tt, and opposed by Mr. Child and Mr. Rs tltkit,,, l. 4 f the oth er innkeepers and licensed victuallers of l ent e d 4,Mr. Drummond, in support of the application, : p ta th ij'i•lree t• petitions, One from the applicant ; another d t l i Ftere of the Brighton Railway; in which they ttil db, a Rels opinion that if the house. were licensed it tf Jneans of affording great accommodation to the tt: l akig,,, l3 g at this sution ; and a third from a number at 'all e ,„ - , 4 "`es, and other persons who had come to the er --" ~,wishing to have accommodation and refreshment tf „ l hatVtOCk'S house, were ver much disappointed to `'ailp v gad not got a license. 'Mr. Drummond, in support eXecl tit'ation, addressed the bench at some length, and tei laar tb7'.‘ Inasmuch as the house in question being situated th e l'. lo da t l t a tation of the railway, would be - a very great ac &fel n ic lise to the public, the magistrates ought to grant gr eth ,'loh4 d a 'ld he trusted they would do so. Messrs.. Child nude that opposed the grant of the license; upon the th e 'e :Wa s no other inn was required in Croydon, and that Pubii e 'ready plentrof accommodation forall•c.lasses of t e ' Li on of. They also said it was well known that. the di tilet•iold traffic from the road to : the railway h . ad ti le Leta; and, diminished the business of the licensed *, 's te n in fact. that .of almost evory other trade in 4_ 1 41 b' 411 d they sail that, under these circumstances, it 048,'1-e gnat injustice still further'tO diminish • their r th .„•tr .D irer fresh licenses. It was also argued that egli j.t-e l's of I t n h g e railway incould not have Any means of 44 -, oem ;i thla s :t il l!. t. th uelii e i l ic :ol o is r e question would be an accoiTh. 1141,ueCtors ~bettet not, and that their h petitio ‘ n .es .ou w g e h re t m a . .i iti t l hi; h i e na l g va is n tr t a s t o e f s t t he ernsel district than Possibly could be. Mr. Child also presented a k tli j L „ . . from the officer, of the East India College at Addis- Z 43. 4 against the license. The magistrates, Messrs. Reid i ik ti c. ,.. re L r n,gton, and Sir H. Bridges, after a short delibera ..,,;usM the license. All the other applications were Beady refu se d . • Se t 2 l :_ Augusta Fitzclarence_, sister to the Earl of mew' , to be united to Comte Bolide, a Swedish Noble ,of l ar go fortune and very ancient family.— Court Jdurnal. 'l6l' ot , ',, i) , E ".—illonday, as Samuel Poole, in the ern .a,''e_ssrs, B arrow an d C o ., wine merchants, Tooley, 4 er .,” 'driving a chaise-cart over Westminster-bridge, 41 - itni7 sn ddenly took fright. In endeavouring to arrest Oth, Who 1" el off was jammed between the shaft of his own .)riN,fat?‘another.vehicle. When extricated the poor bijnin ' t state of insensibility. He was conveyed to ev er t( ' j h ter Hospital, where, on examination, it Was dis- Oisi oi the had sustained the fracture of five ribs, so t ir Punctured his lungs. Slight hopes are en re'. til , , A rti c:B ultimate recovery. Hen is ELtCTION. .COMMITTEE.—On 1\ londay 4 t „ .l ;'ltq:.q . Committee of Elections. met. in, Committee-room, 4. ;',LM • ''' ) E l‘lemberB to try the merits of the petition pre hAttnit t his case; Templaininn• of the, election of Mr, Collett Mt e b,,„ er for the aluwe:bonrlgh. :The following were the selected IV Beckett, W. 0. Stanley, Mr. p t . -4 4; 114 tt,a4,sMr. Currie, 'Mr. ' Cripps, and • Mr. Ward. The It toe ev Panel will meet •to-ttay,and elect a Chairman to tiNd, p t „the Committee, and,on Wednesday will proceed NL.III,- the merits of the question which they have to counsel for the petitioner, Major Beresford , is Ir. "sor ; for the sitting Member, Mr, Anitin.and Mr. Ser- S xii ra n o am. • t t f, 4 t, REwAnD.—Mr. William Beale, of East -14 Yea t s, t, Portsmouth, now his 76th year, after fifty tkA 84 pe revenue service al di COMEnisSiOned boatman, has 01 - ea I ;.... lll nuated on a pension *I 55/. per annum. lie was ;tate,t.{)re.h',-Pi houseg the above period to .the .ti ori watch "boat, and had the enviable se tllrough his intrepid spirit, of saving from drown -016,4'1 flftY and sixty of his fellow-creatures. There is ,k ,, _hn e - e lPiece of service performed by this brave veteran kit t - tow i ; . 1 %7 4 r 11 1 mention, and is still fresh in the memory "of on. About thirty-two years since, a detach- Rh stail o `"tors were embarking from the Point for a fo -1.1-by - B „ n t and had with them a quantity of Ammunitio n, tpellnaiti e ' fl io accident, one of the barrels containing the 114 1 1 -exploth,d, and killed eight or ten men on the ef who teas standing by, perceiving ; several ether Ca_4,ein r , , Powder in close proximity to, the .ekplosion, and. q.p 5 44e . additional dreadful sacrifice of human . life tip the ignition, dauntlessly, ran the risk of losing his an ,th!liVes cif others., and without an instant's be• n ito '_ , without assistance, rolled the remainder of the h e ,, cl fo r , t , l _ le ,sea, while, all hearts were beatingwith appre et Di . -ie lives of themselves and the safety of the ad- Pert, flit b - q Y. • • . . „ , • . , ;114f 3 ; tr a i, e , La Y in calling out .the. T ensioners for a few li kt t ittle' n g has solely - been - caused by -the arrangements k t iNtA n l a g and arming them not having been completed. iile rm e- "A49 1 1 of the year is unsuited for the purpose; 414 ; t 444. for there Were" very urgent necessity, we see no just ' •', ,Th e t x.Posing our veterans to the :severity of the cli eipt?ttn4iin, an a month or two more, there will be better .„..1•for refreshing their recollection of the soldier's of t i :"tout detriment to their health. In the organisa- Pensioners We see the first step to*ards establish unt i x i'r 7 o force — a sort of national guard--So long re -La • t ons country, where the jealousy "of a' standing Vth a ,g te at, that people blind their eyes to the glaring 111 without th ir liberty would not be t aonth' an army e _ N u tlirer e q „. 8 purchase. IVe ask these jealous men, have 4 aC t the - e -asY, on the breaking out of local disturbances, h,•,. th e t ee clyll nnilit nJ ere called out by the civil power ? When Power of itself quelled any riots on a large ` e l'. the lnail ses-ef striaeh Qf.oe re-a6e, actual or threat , atie L i for i i e i T Y men m alous of the Military are the first eir It tells volumes in favour of the officers e ?; aitt7ir the. army, that on all oa..AsiOns they act with sli ght... l' in aid of the public, though, in England, too 14/it 'd by the public.—Naral and ;Military Gazette. 4 1. F tt k i l EXTENSIVE SEIZURES AND CUSTOM sws---EXTRAORDDURY SALE OF GOVERNMENT a,4l:cticizl courso of a few days, a very extensive sal e I.) Y u,Nres of Property under confiscation, called Govern ftit„4o ofa ct ' .. ,_rising from the numerous and large seizures !itin t, by gnu of the Excise - , of illicit spirits, &c., from for 4tstwalte T aggling transactions and Custom-house frauds, 1444,,c_it:t......oltes,1?1,,ndorEdxer of the. Commissioners of her Ma " artiele 9 - • •se In consequence of the great ep er nar nei sto be disposed of, the sale will Occupy nine ap par tn le , t. 3 7 %thre e for the Excise, and six for the Customs t ana: l, h utue flie property consists of merchandise, wearing p etin T t ld furniture, &c., amounting to some thou w°o, art' -vf'iue' including cabinet chairs, carpets, ~f fee , and tat, value, flowers, buffalos and elephants' horns, porcelain, cotton, tallow, spermaceti, tive, yis t,e B : ther.s, tea-caddies, pearls, pianofortes, Eau de 4.4 v lett Irish whisky, gal es, ei o 'n's, nee, rum, sao shawls, tea, tamarinds, I,'lnicr (4 ill* ~ wheat flour, wines, ' window prtains,.l,3oo - Ivn 102 Cases of foreign and . mixed l';'sr ee ole „. s, leaf tobacco, cheroots, copper stills,: &c. L o atlas large collection of stores lies ix the Queen's . Th rs " , St. K at t ,'!e .Cirtom-house-, at the Excise, and the *tre e Sow te rn .. .as, and Commercial Docks. one a,l,rnu\Vestern - Railway are now having of whi jor . an electric telegraph on Bain's principle, I,74T2l29lsl"lazillam;velil.-.tnrirzian-had:tto)oecrn-caTsaeihr,xtryat.ipes at Nine Elms, and tb,,-, eci - `;' ) the "u c miles off, the earth between - mOnt i k th t gal.anic circuit. •If this succeeds it is in the telegraph:on to Porte • TOE STIN,LONDON, :WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 6, 1844. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, March 5. ROYAL ASSENT. Their Lordships met to—tiy at Four o'Clock, for the purpose of giving the Royal Assent to several Bills :---The Commis sioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Buceleugh, and the Earl of Slniftesbury. The following are the gillswhich received the Royal As sent, the Horse Racing Bill. the Officers at Sea Bill, the Me tropolitan Improvtment Bill, and Sang's Naturalization Bill. Their Lordships then adjourned during pleasure. Their Lordships re-assembled at Five o'clock. • THE ,CASE OF SAMUEL GRAY. The LORD CHANCELLOR preented a petition from a person of the name of Samuel Gray, who stated that he had been tried four times for the offence of shooting at persons in Ireland, and that. on the last occasion ln••was convicted. An objection had been raised, he said, to the peremptory chal lenge which he had claimed. 'I hat question came on for dis cu,sion before tie Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland, and the decision was against him. Pe wished very much to appeal to their Lordships House against that. decision. He was, how ever, destiny e of funds necessary for the purpose, and prayed their Lordships to provide him with funds. He (the Lord Chancellor) feared that their Lordships had no means of doing that. CORN-LAWS. The Earl of YARBOROU presented petitions from Lincolnshire against any alteration in the corn-laws. Lord BROWNLOW presented 52 petitions from places in Yorkshire to the same Affect.. The Earl of DE VON presented several petitions to the same effect, but the designations of the petitioners were not heard in the gallery. PRESBYTERIAN MARRIAGES. The Marquis of NORMANBY wished to put a question to his Noble Friend on the NI oolsack asth respect to Presbyterian marriages. He wished to ask his Noble and Learned Friend whether it was intended to re-appoint the Committee of last session on this subject? Lord LYNDHURST said that the law Lords in that House were divided in opinion upon a case which had come before the House. As soon as they had come to a decision, he would move for the re-appointincrit of the CoMmittee. WISH. LAND TENURE COMMISSION. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE wished to put some questions to his Noble Friend opj osite at the head of the Irish Land Tenure Commission, which he did not think would re quire that he should make any motion on the subject. There was already prevalent in Ireland, and to a great extent in Eng land also, an opinion that the sufferings of the Irish were owing to the exorbitant rents exacted by the landlords. The appoint ment of the Commission was calculated to aggravate the error; for the Commissioners stated that although they had no power to adjudicate between landlords and tenants yet they would receive any information with respect to particular cases which could illustrate the whole subject. Ile believed that most pernicious notions lied been encouraged by the appointment of the Commission, and by the conduct of the Commissioners so far. Every man of sense must know that if the land lords were to give up all claim to rent, and the tenants in possession were to have the land in fee, there would be no diminution of the general misery, and no increase of the national wealth. The Com mission had nu power to alter the law of real property, and it was, therefore, a mockery and delusion of the people. It had kept up and propagated the notion that the landlords exacted exorbitant rents, and gave rise to innumerable newspaper para graphs of a most pernicious tendency. For instance, a para graph went round the papers that a Noble Friend of his had lowered his rents ten per cent ; but, a fortnight afterwards the papers said that they were sorry to learn that the statement was untrue. Why were they sorry? They ought rather to be glad that there was no occasion to lower the rents.—( Hear. ) The cry about fixity of tenure had been the cause, or was supposed to be the cause, of the appointment of the Commission. The greatest objection he had to the Landlord and Tenant Commission was that it was pleaded in bar of all other measures for the improvement of Ireland. There never was a better opportunity than the present for the Imperial Parliament to torn its attention to Ireland with the view of affording employ rient to the great' mass of the population. Never was there a reszient at which the Government could raise money with more advantage than at the present time. The questions he had to put were firstly, whether the Commission contempleted an alteration of the law which would affect leases and covenants entered into previous to the, issuing of the Commission ; secondly, whether they had prepared any report as to the proportion di - era:to the value of land. And thirdly, whether they proposed to report the whole evidence taken before the Commission. The Earl of DEVON said their Lordships would see that it would be impossible for him to give an answer to the first two questions of the Noble Marquis. After stating the course the Commission had taken with respect to their inquiry, the Noble Earl said it was their intention to report the whole of the evidence taken before the Commission. He could only answer that the whole of the cases inquired into would be reported. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE said that it was some what satisfactory to know that the cases upon which the re port would be founded would be reported also. An inquiry into the tenure of land in Ireland, was really an inquiry into the condition of the peasants; for there were very few labourers who were not paid in part by the letting of land on a principle analogous to that of the allotment system in this country. He again asked was it intended to make any alteration in existing covenants between landlords and tenants? The Earl of DEVON-1 must decline to answer so delicate a. question. MAGISTRATES IN IRELAND. The Marquis of NORM AN BY moved for a return of the number and the riames:of the Stipendiary Magistrates appointed in Ireland since'the Ist of January, 18-11.—Ordered. Their Lordships adjourned at a Quarter-past Six o'Clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 5. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'Clock. ROYAL ASSENT. Mr. Pulman, the Deputy Usher of the Black Rod, appeared a\ the table, and summoned the Commons to the House of Lords, to hear the royal assent given 'coramission to several Bills which ha , l been agreed to by both Houses of Parliament, for which see Lords' report. The Yarmouth and Norwich Railway Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. The second'readlng of the Epsom and South Western Rail way Bill was postponed. COLCHESTER AND IPSWICH RAILWAY. Sir WM. It EAT lICOT E, in presenting a petition from an. Robert Harland with respect to the course pursued by the Committee on the Standing Orders in regard to this Bill, wished to have the opinion of the House as to the course that he had pursued with reference to this measure,'as Chairman of the Committee. in that character he had refusedd to hear the soli citor for some of the par ties, on the ground ahe was not a Parliamentary agent. Sir GEORGE GREY thought that the decision that had been come to by the Committee was a correct one, but, at the same time, he considered that it would be better that the peti tion should lie on the table, in order that it might be ascertained what the practice was. Lord G. SOMERSET considered that the only party that should be excluded was a paid barrister, but that any other agent, whether Parliamentary or not, was included in the Standing Order. Mr. STRUTT thought if the Committee had power to ex clude counsel they had power also to exclude solicitors. He was, however, willing that the matter should be adjourned to consider the subject thoroughly. For his own part he thought that the word " agent" meant " Parlia mentar y a g ent. Mr. GREENE consilered that Parliamentary agents could only be heard before the Standing Orders' Committee. Mr. AGLION BY said that when he sat on Committees on private Bills, they always considered that the word " agent" signified " Parliamentary agent." Mr. STRUTT said that he had been referred to as having allowed a solicitor, not a Parliamentary agent, to appear for parties in the Committee .on the Lancaster and Carlisle Rail way Bill. •Be could only say, that if such was the fact, it had occurred without his knowledge. The SPEAKER said he agreed with the opinion expressed by the Hon. Member for Derby. When he (the Speaker) held the office of Chairman of the Standing Orders' Committee, persons not being Parliamentary agents were not allowed to tppear before Committees of that House for other parties. He eat decidedly of opinion that Parliamentary agents were the only persone ad nitted by the Standing Orders to appear before Committees of that House. ESTCOURT fully concurred in the opinion expressed by the Speaker. After a few words from Lord G. SOMERSET, The SPEAKER said that the agents were responsible to the House for the fees ; under those circumstances no person ought to be before the House, except through a Parliamentary agent. SECOND READINGS. The Leeds and Bradford Railway, the Guildford Junction Railway, and the Furness Railway Bills were read a second time. ATHLONE, ELECTION. The following Gentlemen were Emorn as Members for try ing the petition agPinst the return for the Borough of Ath lone :—The Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, Hon. W. 0. Stan ley, Mr. H. Beckett, Mr. Wm. Lockhart, Mr. W. Grippe, Mr. H. G. Ward, and Mr. J. W S. Pakington. RAILAYS. Mr. •MUNTZ presented a petition from Birmingham, in favour of a fair competition in the conveyance of goods on railways. PETITIONS. Dr. BOWRING presented a petition agreed on at a public meeting in Liverpool, which the Hon. Member stated, but for the desire of having it speedily presented, would have been signed by '20,000 persons. It stated the petitioners' satisfac tion at the intention expressed by her Majesty, to redress the grievances of the people, and they hoped the House would respond to her gracious intention. They com plained of the imperfect state of the representation of the country, ant of the powers assumed by that House in taxing the people, notwithstanding that im perfect condition of the representation. They requested the House not to put military power into the hands of the Go vernment, to maintain a state of things in Ireland that would be intolerable in England. They complained of the manner in which money was voted away in that House, and of the in tolerable wrong that such a multitude should be obliged to pay such sums, while they were not concerned, directly or indirectly, with the representation ; and they prayed that no more public money should be granted until their grevances were redressed. Mr. WILSON PATTEN presented a petition from Preston against the monopoly in the conveyance of goods on railways. Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented a petition from Kettering, signed by 597 of its inhabitants, complaining that taxation took away from the working man a large portion of his weekly earnings. They alleged that taxation without representation was tyranny, and they prayed that before voting away the public money the House would proceed to redress the people's grievances ; also a petition from the wood-sawyers and masons of Aberdeen to the same effect. SUPPLY OF WATER TO THE METROPOLIS. Mr. EWART presented a petition from the inhabitants of Lambeth, complaining of the conduct of the Lambeth Waterworks Company in not supplying pure water, and praying for inquiry. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN SCOTLAND. Mr. WALLACE presented a petition from an individual named Black, complaining of the manner in which justice was administered in the Small Debts Court of the county of Stirling. We understood the Hon. Gentleman to say that it was his intention on some future occasion to call the attention of the Houst to the subject of the AW petition. The Hos. GENTLEMAN then presented a petition praying for an alteration in e corn laws T the corn laws TOBACCO DUTIES. Mr. T. DUNCOM RE presented eighteen petitions from the borough of Finsti.ury praying for an alteration in the duties on tobacco. NEW POOR-LAW. The Harr. MEMBER then presented petitions from Man chester and from Gravesend? praying that those places might be exempted from the operation of the new poor.law. Mr. MILNER GIBSON presented a petition from Man chester, in favour of Lord Ashley's motion for a Select Com mittee to consider the subject of medical relief for the poor. RAILWAY COMMITTEE. Mr. GLADSTONE moved the nomination of the Select Conintittee en -.Classification of Railway Bills, in conformity with the fifth ttegiiitiOn on Railways ;,--Mr.-Bingbarn Daring, Sir Charles Lemon, Mr. Rice, Mr: Aelind, - "and Sir - John Walsh. NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. MILNER GIBSON, in the absence of Mr. Ricardo, postponed the motion of which that Non. Gentleman had given notice for to-night, on the subject of commercial treaties, till this day fortnight. Mr. HUTT postponed for a fortnight the motion of which he had given notice, on the subject of colonial corn. Mr. ESCOTT gave notice that, on Thursday next, he should call the attention of the House to the subject of the fees which were still demanded in criminal courts of justice. POOR-LAWS (IRELAND). Sir D. NORREYS postponed his motion respecting the operation of the poor-laws in Ireland till after Easter. ESTABLISHED CHURCH OF IRELAND. Mr. WARD gave notice that on as early a day as possible after Easter he would move for a Committee of the whole House to inquire into the present state of the temporalities of the Irish Church.—( Hear. ) INTRODUCTION HE OF WASIATIC LABOURERS INTO T INDIES. Sir A. L. HAY gave notice that he would, on Thursday, put a question to the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Co lonies to know whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to afford greater facilities for the introduction of Chinese and other Asiatic labourers into the West Indies ? DUTIES ON MANUFACTURES. Mr. EWART gave notice that on Thursday week he would move for a repeal of the duties which press upon ma nufactures ; and also those which tend to encourage smuggling. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. Mr. WILLIAMS rose to move, " That no motion, if op posed, shall be brought on and discussed in this House after midnight." The Hon. Member said it was not his intention to interfere with those long party discussions which so often occupied the time of the House to a very late and unseasonable hour. He wished to confine his metier, simply to the practical business of the House, and he thought it must beevident to every Hon. Alernber who had been in t he habit of paying at tention to that subject, that the bringing f o rward of impor tant questions at a very late hour of the night was not only mo st inconvenient, but highly detrimental to public in terest.—( Hear, hear.) The general system of acting public business was in many respects most objectionable, and important alterations ought to be made —and, in fact, must be made, before the business could be conducted in a manner beneficial to the country. On re ferring to the proceedings of last session, he found that the House had sat 119 nights. During those 119 nights the House sat 1051 hours after midnight, being nearly one hour after mid night for each sitting. He had often seen, for want of some regulation of this kind, business of the greatest possible im portance forced upon the consideration of the House at one or two o'clock in the morning, sometimes even later ; he had seen, in defiance of every remonstrance, measures brought forward at those hours which affected most materially the rights, the liber ties, the lives, and the property of th e p eo p le of this country. He had also seen, in defiance of all remonstrance, millions of the public money voted away without any consideration what ever, as to the existence of any necessity for such amounts to the public interest of the country. At these unseasonable hours he had seen gentlemen coming in to vote on important questions affecting the lives, properties and liberties of the people, from their balls, their theatres, their operas, and their parties, and voting without any knowledge whatever as to whe ther those measures were good or bad, with regard to the interests of the country. Such a state of things ought to be corrected, and there was no other means of doing so than limiting the hours of business to something like reasonableness. He had no objection to the debates between the two great parties in that House—one anxious to obtain power, and the other anxious to keep it—being continued, as he had often witnessed, till twilight peeped through the windows of the House, and Members returned home, from What they call their duties, by the light of the rising sun. But he did object to public business being carried on at these hours. Nature intended that Hon. Members, instead of wasting their strength in that House, should refresh themselves by sleep. The Right Hon. Baronet opposite smiled.—(Lairghter. ) He was quite ready to bear his testimony to the Right Hon. Baronet's attendance in that House, as well as that of the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government. They were to be found in their places at the earliest and latest hours, and they certainly displayed an amount of physical strength that often astonished him —( Hear, and laughter.) But he thought a little more attention to their health and comfort, would be an advantage. They might, at present, be able to attend to their duties, but a time might come when their strength would fail them ; and when these late hours would tell on their strength, and the duration of their lives. If the good of the country were consulted in these late hours, they might be tolerated, but the reverse was the fact. Laws were passed when Hon. Members were fast asleep, or in such a state of drowsiness that they hardly knew what they were about. The intention of the Reform Bill was, that instead of Hon. Members coming down at midnight, they should come there in a state of perfect sobriety. When he saw the time of the House consumed in passing Acts to explain and amend other Acts of Parliament, which if Hon. Members had not enacted at those unseasonable hours, such a state of things would never have taken place, he must say that it was discreditable to the House. By keeping those unseasonable hours, when they ought to be asleep, they passed laws which were neither understood by Hon. Members themselves, nor by the judges who were to administer them. There was no country in Europe which adopted such an unreasonable course of proceeding ; and yet, notwithstanding their late hours, many of the grievances of the country were not redressed. Let them look at the state of matters which Ireland presented. Now what were the complaints and what were the grievances of the people of Ireland ? The Hon. Member for Cork, the re presentative of all Ireland, had often stated in that Pouse that one of the great grievances of Ireland was, that the same law was not applied to that country which was applied to England; he thought the laws for Ireland and England ought to be pre cisely the same.—(Hear, hear.) If they c onsulted in that House the wants and w ishes of the people, one-third of the time of the House would be saved.—(Hear, hear.) He had no doubt that during the present session, one-fourth of the time of that House would be consumed upon two questions—the grievances of Ireland, and the corn-laws. It must be apparent to every one that the grievances of Ire land must be redressed, or that country woul become a curse instead of a blessing to England.—( Hear, hear.) It was evi • dent, also, that the corn-laws must be put an end to. Why, then, he would ask, were not some measures adopted in order to settle those two questions? The people called upon them loudly to do so ; and if they resisted that appeal, the worst results might be expected. He believed that if these two questions were settled that one-fourth of the time of the House would be saved. He' advised Minis ters also to ..spaaures they intended to proceed with at an early period of the session ' anu , te ‘ d them to discontinue the prac tice of bringing on Bills which were never • intended to be proceeded with. It must be apparent to every member that much of the time of the House had been consumed by discussing Bills that never were intended to be passed into a law. Since he had had a seat in:that House, from four to five months of the session had been wasted upon all manner of ille debates—(Load cheers from the Ministerial side of the House)—upon questions in which the public took no interest. In the session of 1840, gentlemen on the other side of the House consumed nearly the whole of that session in the most idle, and, as regarded the public interest, the most worthless motions—not worthless to them, because their object was to get hold of place, power, and pelf. No doubt the gentlemen who sat behind the Treasury Bench had, as well as those who sat or, that Bench, derived consi derable advantage from the change, but that change had produced no advantage to the people of this coun try. How had the time of the House been consumed dur ing the last session? Parliament had met on the 3d of Fe bruary, and during the months of February, Marcm onth h, April of and May they ha d p assed 26 Bills ; during the June they had passed 10 Bills; and during the month of July 20 Bills, while in the three first weeks of the month of August, during which alone the House had sat, forty-four Bills had been sent up to the other House. Was that a proper mode of conducting basiness ? No one could defend that system. The House of Lords would, while the present party was in power, pass any Bills which they might think proper to send up, but under the late Government a certain legal Lord had thrown bundles upon bundles of Bills under the table, upon the plea that they had been sent up at too late a period of the session to have proper consideration given to them. He hoped that the state ment which be had made would satisfy the majority of con e th House—( A laugh)—that it would be greatly ducive to the health of the Members, and to the interests of the country, that they should legislate for the people during hours when their mental faculties were in a proper state of activity and clearness, and not when they were muddled. — ( A laugh.) The lion. Member concluded by proposing the motion of which he had given notice. Mr. BROTHERTON seconded the motion. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could hardly persuade himself that the Honourable Gentleman was in earnest in making such a proposition to the House. He gave the Hon. Gentleman every credit for his anxiety with regard to the health of the Members of the House, but it was not so much the discussing of matters at a late hour of the night which was prejudicial to their health, but the being obliged to hear long speeches at early and late hours. — (Cheers.) When Hon. Gentlemen got up upon all subjects and treated them with dissertations on the corn-laws and Ireland, it produced a degree of lassitude which was most injurious.—(Loud cheers and laughter.) When the earlier portion of the night was occupied in discussing useless subjects, it rendered it necessary for them to sit up late to forward the public busi ness. Unless they sat up late for the purpose, they would have no opportunity of doing any business at all. The Hon. Gentleman complained of the inattention and haste with which they discussed public measures, and he said that while they passed twenty-six Bills only in the first part of the session, they passed a considerable number of Bills at the end. But Hon. Gentlemen who took up the time of the House in discussing useless subjects were that cause of this. The dis cussion of many Bills was frequently put off at the request of Hon. Gentlemen themselves, who wishedto consult their constituents. It would be found that those debates, which occupied the time of the House after twelve o'clock, were those which were begun before that hour. There might be occasions where great public interests required that public measures should be introduced and discussed at any hour, how ever late, and be thought that the House would act in the manner most conducive to the public interests, by not con senting to a specific resolution of this kind. He had no fear of their health being injured so long as they had the Hon. Gen tleman opposite amongst them (Mr. Brotherton), who watched over the early hours of the House with so much amenity and consideration.--(Cheers.) So long as he might remain a Member of this House he was sure they would not waste their time or their constitutions in the way so dreaded by the Hon. Member for Coventry.—( Hear, hear. ) Mr. BROTHERTON rose, and there was general cheering from all sides if the House. The Hon. Gentleman said he should trouble the House only with a word or two. The Hon. Member for Coventry had seen the very poor success which had attended his ( Mr. Brotherton s) efforts on this subject, and had kindly come forward with his powerful aid, and he trusted that he would have a larger minority to support him than he had hitherto been able to command. He did think that if the proposal of his Honourable Friend were carried it would be found exceedingly useful, and that if they adjourned re gularly at early ho urs the y would materially facili tate the business of the House, and do no injury to the public interests. The remarks which had fallen from the Right Honourable Gentleman the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, brought to his mind an anecdote of Queen Eliza beth. That good Queen had, on one occasion, sent down a message to her faithful Commons, admonishing them not to consume so much time in long speeches and useless mo tions.—(Loud cheers and laughter.) If the right good Queen of the present day were to send down a similar message to that House—(Loud cheers)—no one would deny its appro priateness, and, for his own part, he sheuld be the first to join in a vote of thanks to her Majesty for her most gracious communication.—(Loud cheers.) He was sure there were many speeches delivered in that House that might be For ru his have own wlost part, nothing h e had se l t d h o e m y nevertroub heardtroubled t of.—(Cheers. he usefully curtailed, and many motions brought forward that th e y made Hear, hear)— any long and he was not aware that he had ever 11ouse with motions—( ) speeches—(Cheers)—and in supporting the seemed f present motion, he did so because he thought it ought to be carried, though Hon. Members had the remedy in their own g hands if they chose to adopt it. Hon. Members in that House thoseth ei r nces t o r s but ancestors ouse the o y ftentalked t of the o r wisdom of that always did their work by daylight. He had a sug gestion to make, which he thought might b e usefully acted upon.s It was that the House should not sit after twelve e'clock el eighty Members were present. Whilst he threw out this sug gestion, he considered it perfectly' , aseless to attterupt to carry it out as the House was then constituted. He would therefore only support the resolution of his Hon. Friend (Mr. Williams), though of course he knew too well from past experience that, excellent as the proposition would be in practice, the House would not sanction it. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the motion .... Against it ..... Majority against the motion ..... —l3O METROPOLITAN POLICE. Mr. TUFNELL rose to move for a Select Committee to in quire into the cost of the Metropolitan Police Force, and the manner in which the sums levied as police rates are assessed on the different parishes within the Metropolitan Police District. In moving for this Committee , he thought it right to state that he had no intention of calling for an inquiry into the conduct of the New Police. The House knew that accusations of neglect had gone forth against the body, and at its first establishment the force did not give satisfaction. The Right Honourable Baronet, when introducing the Police Bill, had said that little or no increase of [expense would arise t o each district from the formation of the police force, but that life and property would receive additional security from it. 1 1 .0 would show, in many places, there had been no additional security to life and pro perty, while the rate had been eioubled. He thought he was justified in saying that the new yolice had given no security to property.—( Hear, hear.) When a change was made from a local to a central one, the House was bound to protect local rights. The Bill had been passed undsrr the pretence that no addi tional burdens would be imposed upon the parishes. The Right Hon. Baronet had stated so, the P.M had been proposed oil that condition, and on that condition opposition had been avoided, and yet year after year these burdens had been in creased. The parishioners did complain of the adoption of the central system • but the complaint was that the express stipula tion upon which the Bill had been passed had been violated, and that the rates had been nearly doubled. The rates pressed most heavily not upon the rich, lout upon the poorer class of rate-payers. He held in his hand a report of Mr. Harvey, the Commissioner of City polio s, who stated that while the City police cost only 761. per head, the Marylebone police cost 120/. per head. This was a state. of things which required a remedy. Before he concluded, he would refer to the in equality of the assessments of thu .different parishes. By the Act of 1836, the poor-rate had been assessed at the net value, but this was rendered useless, because it was not made com pulsory to adopt that mode of valitation. If the Right Hon. Gentleman read the report, he would soon perceive what gross inequalities existed with regard to the assessraents. He found in many parishes that the burdens were most severe. He thought, therefore, there was ground for the motion which he made. He had no intention of finding fault with the Com missioners of Police. What he desired co see was, the stipu lations of the Police Bill, when it was carried, brought into effect. On that occasion the author of the Bill (Sir R. Peel) said that ultimately no ii acreased burden would be thrown upon the parishes. He I (Mr. Tufnell) thought the Government ought to be able to maintain an efficient police force without such heavy expenses, and without danger either to the peace of the country, or the liberty of the subject. Mr. MANNERS SU f TON said it would not be his duty to trouble the House at any, lengt h with his reasons for op posing this motion. Before, ha wever, he followed the Hon. Gentleman through the remarks he had made, he wished to express the satisfaction he felt, that he did not, by his motion, mean to cast any imputation upon the efficiency or the conduct of the police: force itself. "With regard, then, to the motion of the Hon. Gentleman. The first part of it referred to the cost of the police force. He (Mr. Sutton) was sure he must be perfectly aware that an annual return of the expenses of the police force was printed and laid upon the table of that House, and which contained the whole of the information he professed 'co seek. He could not therefore ground his motion on the ignorance of the House upon this portion of his subject ; and he did not attempt to support it by any charge or accusation against the police. But had he done so he (Mr. Sutton) should have been perfectly prepared to meet him, and to prove any such charges to be without foundation. For this purpose he should have found great aid in the Report of the Committee which sat in 1834, on the Metropolitan Force, and which reported in the most fa vourable terms of it. They stated that subsequently to the passing of that Act the cost of watching the borough was doubled. But the Hon. Member must remember that the whole principle of the Police Act was based on this, that the borough was watched beyond the mere limits of it. The number of policemen might and would be increased at any moment on application to the Commissioners. The Hon. Gentleman had stated that the metropolitan police, before the passing of the Police Act, were an efficient body. He admitted that that was the case, but he utterly denied that they would be so now if the present system was not adopted. With regard to the question of assessment, that subject had not escaped the attention of the Committees, and he believed it formed no ground for acc eding n to the motion. He submitted to the House that there was, i fact, no gpund whatever assenting to the motion. Mr. BROTHERTON thought it very hard that thicountry should be taxed for the support of the metropolitan police. After a few words from. Mr. TUFNELL, the motion was negatived, without a divis ion. o in tl g and." The LORD ADVOCA TE obtained leofavpeoptuoloulasripnagrisihnesa, Lord ASHLEY said b e re j oiced to state that her Ma j est y 's a ß n i I d l h ‘ t e o e f r a c e! I t i i t n a g t e o t f the d w i ssjpolicrniiknhge parishes or n d i POOR. vsicd Government had expressed to him their intention of not op posing his motion, which stood on the paper, and he should now, therefore, content himself merely by moving for a Select Committee "to inquire into the mode of administering medical relief to the sick poor." —Agreed to. Mr. S. O'BRIEN moved for " a return of the number of unions in England and Wales in which no chaplains had been appointed on the Ist day of January last, and the number of inmates in such unions at thatPPLY. period."—Ordered. SU Sir G. CLERK brought up the report:of the Committee of Supply, which was received. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Seven o'Clock. TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MARcit 5. Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold levees, at St. James's Palace, oa the following days, at two o'clock : Wednesday, 13th instant ; Wednesday, 20th instant. REGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED AT THE QUEEN'S LEVEES, AT ST. JAMES'S PALACE. The noblemen and gentlemen who propose to attend her Majesty's levees, at St. James's Palace, are requested to bring with them two cards, with their names thereon written, one to be lett wicn Q , een's Pare in etteuth....o tho rreseuce chamber, and the other to be delivered to the Lord in Waiting, who will announce the name to her Majesty. Those gentlemen who are to be presented are hereby in formed, it is absolutely necessary that their names, with the name of the nobleman or gentleman who is to present them (not the Lord in Waiting), should be sent to the Lord Cham berlain's-office before twelve o'clock, on the Monday previous to each Levee, in order that they may be submitted for the Queen's approbation ; it being her Majesty's command that no presentation shall hereafter be made at the Levees, but in conformity with the above regulations ; and further, that no person shall be admitted, on any pretence whatever, who has not been so presented. It is particularly requested that gentlemen who are to be presented at the levees will have their names 'dtstinetly . written upon the card to be delivered to the Lord in Waiting, in order that there may be no mistake in announcing them to the Queen. The State apartments will not be open for the reception of company coming to Court, until half-past one o'clock. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MAncie 5. Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold a Draw ing-room, at St. James's Palace, on Monday, the 25th instant, at two o'clock. N.B.—The Knights of the several Orders are to appear in their Collars, it being a Collar-day. REGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED AT THE QUEEN'S DRAW- ING-ROOM] The ladies, who purpose attending her Majesty's Drawing rooms, are requested to briug with them two cards, with their names legibly written thereon, one to be left with the Queen's Page in attendance in the Presence-chamber and the other to be delivered to the Lord in Waiting, who will announce the nametoher ladies Majesty. And those who are to be presented are hereby in formed, it is absolutely necessary that their names, together with the names of the ladies who are to present them, should be sent in to the Lord Chamberlain's-office before twelve o'clock on Friday, the 22d instant, in order that they ma y be submitted for the Queen's approbation; it being her Majesty's command that no presentation shall take place unless t he name of the lady presenting, together with that of the lad y to be presented, shall appear on the card to be delivered, correspond ing with the names sent in to the Lord Chamberlain's -office. FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 5. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Henry Robert Plaw, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at Dantzic, to be her Majesty's Consul-General in Prussia, to reside at Dantzic. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Francis Coleman Macgregor, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul in the city and district of Canton, in the province of Kvrangtung. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint George Balfour, Esq. to be her Majesty's Consul in the city and district of Shanghai, in the province of Keangsoo. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Robert Thom, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul in the city and district of Ningpo, in the province of Che-ke arig. The Queen has also been graciously ple:ased to appoint Henry George Cuper, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul in Denmark, and for the Oresound, to reside in Elsinore. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul at Bagdad. WHITEHALL, MARCH 2. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. William Milligan, M.A., to the church and parish of Cameron, in the presbytery of St. Andrew, and County of Fife, vacant by the deith of the Rev. Andrew Brown, late minister thereof. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Lanarkshire. John Dalrymple, Esq., jun., to be Deputy Lieutenant. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. HENRY SOUTHGATE, auctioneer , Fleet-street, City. WILLIAM LAW WOOD, export ironmonger, Bishops gate-street Within, City. A BNKRUPTS. NATHAN BLAKE, linen-draper, Edgeware-road, to sur render, March 18, at two , and Ap ril 19, at half- p ast one, at the C ourt of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin lane, Cornhill ' • Pain and Hatherly , G re a t Marl bor o ugh -street. CHARLES MOORE MOTTRAM, warehouseman, Fri day-street, Cheapside, March 18, and April 19, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official as signee, Basinghall-street ; Sale and Worthington, Manchester; Reed and Shaw, Friday-street, Cheapside. WILLIAM CHEESMAN, JOHN HODSON, and WIL LIAM OLIVER, CHEESMAN, Brighton, chinamen, March 18, and April 19, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane, Cornhill ; Cattlin, Ely-place, Holborn. WILLIAM ROBERT HAWKES, brewer, Brighton, March 12, at twelve, and April 12, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee ; Rickards and Wal ker, Lincoln's Inn-fields. EDMUND TUCK, silversmith, Haymarket, March 19 and April 18, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry Chambers ; New Bridge-street. JOHN HUGGINS, poulterer, Vernon-place, Bagnigge wells-road, March 19 and April 16, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch lane, Lombard-street ; Lovell, South-square, Gray's Inn. JAMES I ARVER, ironmonger, Daventry, Northampton shire, March 21, at one, and April 16, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry ; Addis and Guy, Great Queen -street, Westminster. CHARLES JOSEPH RIDDEY, innkeeper, Little Crea, ton, Northamptonshire, March 13, at half-past two, and April 17, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson official assignee, Basinghall.street; Weller, King's J road, Bedford row ; Fell, Northampton. CHARLES COVCHMAN, builder, Edward-square, Ken sington, March 14, at twelve, and April 16, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Basinghall. street ; Atkinson, Carey-street. JAMES JOSEPH, clerk, Peter's-hill, Paul's-wharf, City, March 12, at half-past eleven, and April 17, at twelve, at the Court of Bankrupt 3 y . Lackington, official assignee, Coleman street-buildings; s t re et-buildings ; Lane, Argyll-street, Regent-street. HENRY TAYLOR, victualler, Bilston, Staffordshire, March 12, and April 12, at one, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Manby and Hawkesford, Wolverhampton. JOHN CHUMP, corn-dealer, Stanway, Gloucestershire, March 19, and April 16, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol ; Dix, Bristol ; Bell, Bedford-row, ',cation. NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY. G. Smith, Newton-heath, Lancashire. E. Gregory, plumber, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. P. Lucas, commission agent, Congleton, Cheshire. H. Hosker, beer retailer, Liverpool. B. Griffiths, coach trimmer, Brewer-street, Pimlico. J. Edwards, Liscard, Cheshire. J. C. Bennett, Mansfield-street, Shoreditch. H. Pimm, plumber, Barking Church. yard, City. J. Urne, tailor, Union-street, Middlesex-hospital. T. March, china warehouseman, Derby-street, King's-cross. W. Colbeck, clothier, Batley, Yorkshire. W. Pyrah, stone mason, Bradford, Yorkshire. W. Chapman, baker, Bedford. J. E. Oliver, organist, Queen's-row, Bayswater. T. Tillotson, stone mason, Bradford, Yorkshire. C. Manning, tailor, Southmolton, Devonshire. J. Quarrel], clerk, Napier-street, New North-road, Hoxton. E. M. Shaw, Salford, Lancashire. .1. Drake, green grocer, Star-street, Paddington. J. Gerard, tallow chandler, Frome Selwood, Somersetahire. S. Story, Arundel-street, Haymarket. J. Harrison, farmer, Feliskirk, Yorkshire. T. Bryan, cooper, Liverpool. W. Watson, professor of music, Dean-street, Soho. W. Hole, Maida-hill West, Paddington. P. Potter, Leominster, Herefordshire. J. Gear, professor of music, Howland-street, Fitzroy-square. E. W. FeFrar, boarding-house keeper, Mare-street, Hackney. J. M'Larty, beer retailer, Ratcliffe-highway. J. Gaunt, auctioneer, Pudsey, Yorkshire. R. Roffey, bricklayer, Deptford, Kent. J. C. S. Kelly, livery-stable-keeper, Wardrobe-place, City. R. Aylen, baker, Landport, Southampton. H. Smith, carpenter, Farlington, Southampton. E. J. Bradshaw, miniature painter, Wolverhampton. J. Whipps, sen., coal merchant, Haggerstone, Shoreditch. W. Eggleston, flour dealer, Manchester. J. Shaw, fancy manufacturer, Highburton, Yorkshire. T. Johnston, draper, Hadley, Shropshire. N. B. Smith, carpenter, New Millman-street, Gray's Inn-lane. B. Kaye, woollen draper, Halifax. J. Young, blacksmith, Calverley, Yorkshire. J. Shepherd, boot and shoemaker, Huddersfield. W. Dobson, flour dealer, Leeds. J. Scott, labourer, Halifax. W. Ratcliffe, police-officer, Birkenhead, Cheshire. J. Addey, oiner, Selby, Yorkshire. L. W. Williams, eating-house-keeper, Brydges-street, Covent- garden. A. Liddelow, butcher, Seymour-place, Camden-town. R. Spensley, innkeeper, Barningham, Yorkshire. I. Price, undertaker, Stepney-green, Stepney. W. Walker, basket maker, Oldham, Yorkshire. J. Bendall, tailor, Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square. J. Fryer, tobacconist, Cock-hill, Ratcliff. T. Minehew, carpenter, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. T. Scott, carpenter, Bishop's Cleeve, Gloucestershire. J. Slade, carpenter, Bexley-heath, Kent. J. Seel, joiner, Walton, Lancashire. H. G. Huxtord, gas fitter Broadway, Ludgate-hill. W. Richardson, builder, Liverpool. W. Dickenson, baker, Nottingham. J. Ahrenfeld, commission agent, Well-street, Cripplegate. R. Tennant, beerseiler, Ward-street, Lambeth-walk. H. Haslip, cutler, High Holborn. J. Bowling, plumber, Beaumont-street, St. Marylebone. T. Cheshire, cabinet maker, Dunstable, Bedfordshire. W. Marriott, jun., hat manufacturer, St. Andrew's-road, New Kent-road. J. L. Blanchard, commission agent, Great Trinity-lane, City. G. Beesley, gardener, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. W. Roberts, farmer, Wickwar, Gloucestershire. T. Hughes, farmer, Newland, Gloucestershire. W. Andley, carter, Liverpool. W Charlton, carpenter, Dorchester-place, New North-road. J. Roebuck, farmer, Kirkburton, Yorkshire. G. Hewitt, cowkeeper, Sheffield. J. Axe, boatman, Mexborough, Yorkshire. J. Haywood, clothier, Shepley, Yorkshire. E. Weatherstone, plumber, Cheltenham. W. Griffiths, grocer, Saithaelwyd, Flintshire. J. Stammers, licensed victualler, Totnea, Devonshire. D. Pollitt, dyer, Pendleton, Lancashire. T. Bate, land agent, Neath, Glamorganshire. R. Wigg, plumber, Redenhall, Norfolk. M. Carter, doctor in medicine, Reading, Berkshire. A. Bonser, victualler, Rempstone, Nottinghamshire. J. Scales, land steward, Battle, Sussex. J. 0. Webb, accountant, Greenwich. J. Slark, Cowley Peachey, Middlesex. R. Smith, clerk, Seckford-street, Clerkenwell. H. Knight, Maidstone, Kent. T. Ives, blacksmith, Wokingham, Wiltshire. G. Eastwood, coin dealer, Fore-street, Cripplegate. J. Brown, tailor, Clifton-street, Finsbury. D. Robinson, wharfinger, Sneinton, Nottinghamshire. T. Chatwin, brazier, Aston, Warwickshire. T. Cooper, piano-forte key maker, Chapman-st., Islington. E. Brown, Paradise-street, Lambeth. T. Clinch, beer retailer, Albert's-place, City-road. W. Collender, painter, Edward-street, Limehouse. J. M'Larty, effilatcretilbeßr , ea *highway. .e. Rusher, coffee-house keeper, Leather-lane, Holborn. T. F. Church, plumber. Rochester, Kent. J. Jones, dairyman, Devonshire-street, Queen-square. J. Young, Panton-square, Haymarket. J. Stuchfield, harness maker, John-street North, Marylebone J. Butt, farmer, Harescombe, Gloucestershire. T. Hollis, master mariner, West Cowes, Isle of Wight. G. Pacey, plumber, Kettering, Northamptonshire. T. Hitchman, licensed victualler, Kidlington, Oxfordshire. W. Cooper, boot maker, Camden-passage, Islington. W. Chadwick, worsted spinner, Bradford, Yorkshire. SECOND NOTICES. R. Henson, dealer in fancy ornaments, Bedford-street, Strand, March 11, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Tur quand, official assignee. C. Coltson, wine-merchant, Grosvenor-place, Kennington, March 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee. W. N. B. Harman, Windsor-terrace, Dover-road, March 11, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee. H. Marklew, Oxford-street, March 31, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee. Z. Radcliffe, wheelwright, Bramley, Yorkshire, March 9, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee. J. Sellers, wire maker, Horton, Yorkshire, March 9, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee. J. Elston, music seller, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, March 18, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittlestone, official assignee. B. Naylor, Manchester, March 9, at the Manchester Dis trict Court. Fraser, official'assignee: J. Hargreaves, shoemaker, Blackburn, Lancashire, March 11, at the Manchester District Court. Stanway, official as- signee. W. H. Jones, master mariner, Tranmere, Chester, March 9, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. F. B. Courtenay, bookseller, Great Marlborough-stree' March 26, at half-past one—J. Andrew, licensed victualler, Guildford-street East, Wilmington-square, March 26, at half past twelve—P. Altmann and J. G. Christ, foreign merchants, Mark-lace, City, March 26, at half-past eleven—W. Read, engraver, King-street, Covent-garden, March 26, at twelve —T. Maggs, upholsterer, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire; March 28, at eleven—W. Keep, tailor, Northumberland-street:Strand, March 28, at eleven—C. Sharpe and W. D. Clarke, uphol sterers, Berner's-street, Marylebone, March 28, at twelve—E. Mackintosh, army accoutrement maker, Haymarket, March 28, at twelve—J. G. West, grocer, Wandsworth, March-27, at two —J. Willis, ale merchant, Osborne-street, Whitechapel, March 27, at one—R7 Kennett, upholsterer, New Bond street, March 27, at half-past two. In the Country. e e l e d adr s se p hD i n District catt Court—W. Bradford, loeuv er tn 7 wa Yorkshire, hke,reL teweedis4 Marchcolo Districtn 2 i 6 a l , t ameA ll cLC eN tlo a s i l eoeer e a i Teeuv d r t nr w l de l e: d ee e h e nsthv l e a a'ep u s s nan b 2 tp ßaiit i tirnael District . it merchant, u :eHa pT ht g tehwt o e y ud h e n nsL , . : e t e L Y G At eyod a nr i s nck Districtss bhA Districtoi ir r ae o r, u ccA g h h io2aa , CrBrc;h—ua Lincolnshire, rt2tGe7le: .e ateleven, l at the Walker, el tonh ll r s ia r cNti pco the be2crNfia7o litter, New castle-upon-Tyne eeiwearr hosier, Hull, March 27, at eleven, at the Court—J. t Crowther, corn miller, Huddersfield, eleven, at the Leeds District Court—T. Eyre, Newcastle upon-Tyne District Court—H. Featherstonhaugh, coal fitter, Bishop Wearmouth, Durham, March 26, at eleven, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court—C. B. Buchanan and W. Cunningham, merchants, Liverpool, March 27, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court—T. Bomford, hay dealer, Cheltenham, March 26, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court —P. James, coal merchant, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, March 27, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court—R. Beas ley, worsted spinner, Gaddesby, Leicestershire, March 29, at one, at the Birmingham District Court—M. Hadley, chemist, Walsall, Staffordshire, March 29, at one, at the Birmingham District Court—H. Fullford, draper, Birmingham, March 27, at one, at the Birmingham District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned. C. Killick and J. Sadd, paper stainers, Blackman-street, Borough, March 26—T. W. Vine, carpenter, Peerless-row, City-road, March 28—F. B. Courtenay, bookseller, Great Marlborough-street, March 28—A. Westmore, joiner, West Derby, Lancashire, March 28—E. Charles, brick maker, Radipole, Dorsetshire, March 27—G. W. Hyde, dyer, Not tingham, March 28—W. Read, engraver , King - stree t, Co vent-garden, March 26—R. Greenhow, iron master, Wrex ham, Denbighshire, March 26—J. Sewell, victualler, Charles street, Paddington, March 26—H. Congreve, patent medicine dealer, Peckham, March 26—J. Lawrence, spirit merchant, Birmingham, March 26—J. Pierce, licensed victualler, Dean street, Soho, March 26—J. Smalley, corn miller, Chorley, Lancashire, March 26—J. Why, laceman, Holborn-hill, March 26— IL Lay bourn, ship broker, Hartlepool, Durham, March 26—E. Munn, corn chandler, Stanhope-terrace, Hyde-park, March 26—C. Duffield, grocer, Bath, March 26—W. Kearse, tailor, Belgrave-place, Walworth-road, March 26. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. G. Blarsetti and G. Jones, preserved provision agents— R. Saunders and W. Benning, law booksellers, Fleet-street— J. Esterford and .1. Nunn, boot makers, Greenwich—T. Goodill and J. B. Stain, farmers, Clipstone-lodge, North laim ns fa p x t , o yo h r i k r s e h — ir T e_ . G B . e ... a n rd d m F o . r ß e o a b n in d son ß. lin A e l n o . o dr re a , per ba s k i e n rs e , zh H am a; Northumberland —S. Matthews and R. Noblet, cork manufac turers, Liverpool—H. Fox and J. Grice, ship brokers, Liver pool—W. Shnttleworth, J. Ingham, J. Fielden, and W. Verity, manufacturers, Bradford, Yorkshire (so far as regards J. Ingham)—T. De La Rue C. Button, and W. De L a Rue, wholesale stationers , Bunhill-row (so far as regards C. Button) —R. H. Taylor and R. Sergeant, linen drapers, Birmingham —W. Harris and R. Jennison, linen daapers, Mull—J. Brown and C. Sears, sheep dealers, Roydon, Essex-11.1. Buckpitt and a W nd ilt D sh . ire—j Morr ' is C , g h r a o p c m ers an , Barker, coal merchants , Preston , Lan cashire—J. Smith and H. R. Lumley, advertising agents, Southampton-street, Strand—J. Hunt, H. Hunt, and D. Hunt, coal merchants, Bristol (so far as regards J. Hunt)— ' T. S. Richards and W. L. Wood, export ironmongers, Bi shopsgate-street Within—H. West and A. Rawbon, lace ma nufacturers, Bristol—J. and L. Bland, farmers, Sulley, Gla morganshire—J. Mills, E. Braley, and T. Longman, gimp ma nufacturers, Castle Donington, Leicestershire. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. PETER SINCL AIR, auctioneer, Edinburgh, March 9, at twelve, and March 30, at two, at the Royal Exchange Coffee house, Edinburgh. THE LATE LORD WALLACE.—We learn from good authority that his late Lordship left, by his will, all his property to the Hon. Colonel James Hope, of the Cold stream Guards, and his son; with the remainder to the Hon. Charles Hope. M.P., one of the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital. The above honourable gentlemen are sons of the late, and brothers of the present Earl of Hopetoun, and nephews of the late Lady Wallace.—New castle Chronicle. Zati ti . 4 ARISTOCRATIC MORALITY - (From the-Cork Southern-lleporter.)_. From the rather unenviable notoriety which all the parties in a case- tried in the Court of Common Pleas, London, on Tuesday last have obtained, the report of it which we have transferred to our columns, will doubt less be read by many who have heard the statements which for some time past have been put forward on one side with stern pertinacity, and met on the other with indignant denial. And before we advert more parti cularly to the object with which we make this reference, it is right that we should express our full and entire concurrence in the arguments of the Learned Counsel for the defence, in the verdict which was returned, and in the approbation with which it was received by a crowded Court. Since the occasion when the noble defendant, then Lord Brudenell, in command of the 15th hussars m this garrison, brought Captain Wathen to a Court Martial, on charges of alleged breaches of military discipline, which he was afterwards unable to substantiate, and which recoiled upon himself with no very satisfactory conclusions, he has been anything but a public favourite. Subsequent to that occurrence the command of the 15th was given to Lieutenant-Colonel Badcock, and his Lord ship was transferred to the 11th Hussars, which he at present commands, and which we must also do him the justice of admitting is considered to be at present in as effective and creditable a state as any other cavalry regiment in the service. In his new command the Earl of Cardigan had serious misunder standings with the officers of his regiment, and the cir cumstances having been brought under public notice, their details tended still further to confirm the opi nion which prevailed as to his public conduct while in a high and responsible position, and to excite, to say the least of it, a very strong prejudice against him in the public mind. Of this his Lordship's Counsel seemed quite aware, and the Learned Solicitor- General took occasion to refer to it in his argument, and to urge upon the jury that the "unpopularity" of the noble defendant was in some measure relied upon at the other side to create a prejudice against him in this case. With this matter we have, however, nothieg to do ; the jury acted, as it appears to us, with correct discrimina tion, and in accordance with the evidence before them. But it is in reference to the morale of the transaction that we purpose offering some observations. What a picture does it not present of the shameless profligacy which prevails among that order to which the title " higher classes" is supposed exclusively to belong ? It is only from such revelations as those which have just taken place that we obtain an insight into the " social system," which rules and regulates the aris tocratic world. But we almost forget that we speak of our rulers—those hereditary legislators who be long to that class which forms the second estate of the Constitution—the Supreme Legislative Council of the Empire. On the faults and follies of such personages we must not look with too censorious an eye. They are sheltered by that dignity within which the ken of a " vile democracy" must not presume to penetrate ; and among their own circle they lose no caste by the notoriety of their vices. DUELLING. Mr. Turner having asked whether Ministers intended to introduce any measure for the prevention of duelling, Sir Robert Peel stated his reasons for thinking that alterations of the law would not correct the evil, but that her Majesty's Government had, during the recess, availed themselves of an opportunity of exercising their influence and authority in discouraging the, practice as for as they could. He then referred to the 'case of the late Colonel Fawcett — The officer who lost his life was a man of grea military reputation, and had distinguished himself in the service of his country; he was unfortunately killed in a duel; and when his widow applied for that pension to which she would have been entitled had he lost his life in any other way than by the hand of his adversary, her Majesty's Government felt themselves compelled to refuse to grant the pension. With respect to the sur vivor, as that officer did not come forward after a lapse , of time sufficient to allow public feeling to subside, and meet the charge upon a fair trial, he was superseded. The widow of the deceased officer having been refused the pension, and the survivor superseded, he thought her Majesty's Government had sufficiently evinced their willingness to exercise their legitimate power and in fluence against the practice of duelling." We see in this instance the eminent prudence of Sir Robert Peel, and how in the safest way he avails him self of an opportunity of exercising the influence and au thority of the Government for the discouragement of duelling, by Butting off a widow's pension. If the punishment may seem in this case not to fall exactly on the right person, yet it is to be remarked that it falls on one who is unable to complain, or to be trou blesome, which is a great point in these matters. Who so good to begin with as a sufferer for duelling as a widow ? She had lost her husband by tho bad practice, and let her lose her bread too, adds Sir Robert Peel. Fill up the cup of her affliction, so short of its measure, and add pecuniary distress to the sorrows of the bereaved. And the Prime Minister proclaims with pride that he had, during the recess, at his leisure, seized this opportunity of exercising the influence and autho rity of Government in discouraging duelling ? Why, more cold-blooded, more barbarous than the practice itself, is this punishment of it in the person of the suf ferer the most to be pitied. And who imposes this cruel penalty? Sir Robert Peel, who has, we believe, fough? ,a duel, and who, we all know, has shown great eagerness to fight when ever occasion has offered, and who has sent several challenges. At the head of the military administration, too, is the Duke of Wellington, who went out with Lord Winchil sea, and who must have agreed in the resolution of the taking away Mrs. Fawcett's pension. Another member of the Government, Sir H. Har dinge, is always ready to have recourse to the pistol ; and there was the Irish Attorney-General the other day, with his soul in arms and eager for the fray, whose explanation of the provocation which caused him to send a challenge was received with loud cheers by the men who cut off the widow's pension because her unfortunate husband had obeyed the same impulses. Lord Cardigan wounded a brother officer in a duel ; he was tried for it in the House of Lords, acquitted of the notorious facts upon a quibble, complimented by the Chief Justice acting as Lord Steward, and cheered by the House of Legislators. But yet it is excellent to take away the pension of a widow whose husband has fallen in a duel. Had he re fused the challenge, he would have been disgraced in the service, and deprived of his commission; having been killed, according to the so-called lawsy honour, his widow is to be deprived of her pittance.,t Suppose that such men as Lord Cardigan and the Irish Attorney-General had been removed from their respective appointments for the offence of sending challenges, - would not this have been a more effective and just mode of exercising the influence and authority of the Government for the represssion of duelling, than taking away the widow's pension ? But these gentle men would not be quiet sufferers, and the widow was a safer victim—so unresisting, indeed, that, her punish ment would not have been known but for the boast of the great man who inflicted it, and who prided himself on having exercised his influence and authority so rigo rously on this bruised reed. For our own parts, we cannot but think that punish ment should fall rather, on the parties in this offence than on the greatest sufferers by it ; and we do not agree with Sir Robert Peel that the powers of the law could not be brought to bear on the practice. The law aims too high ; the criminal penalty will not be enforced ; but one of a more moderate nature would carry public feel ing with it. In France there is a civil remedy. A widow, a son, or daughter, may proceed for damages against the duellist who has deprived them of their supporter ; and this has been found to check duelling very materially amongst the people who were most addicted to it. A life insurance is veid by death in a duel •, but if there were the remedy of damages for killing the prop of a family, the aim of a duellist would be very consi berably influenced by the consideration that, in levelling his pistol at his antagonist's head or heart, he was also making a sad hole in his own pocket. If a man, before he sent a challenge, had to consider the cost of killing his adversary, it would be a wonder ful cooler to the animosities;' and of all the bonds of peace devisable for angry men Ike - most practically effective would be binding up 'the pocket of one in a common interest with the body of 'the other, for folks who have no hearts in their breasts have one in their pockets, and many who would make up their minds to bloodshed would shudder at the thought of bleeding for it in their own purses. The law, as it is, gives damages to a man who has suffered bodily injury from another ; but, if the injury ends in death, the family, who have lost their supporter, have no redress but the barren one of vengeance in a criminal process ; and what is required for the discou ragement of duelling is to extend the remedy of a civil proceeding for damages to the sufferers by the death of a husband or kinsman in a dueL—Examiner. REGIMEN:" Long habits, either of practice or pursuit, are never suddenly changed with safety ; and after the atas vergens especially, the hitinan body does not freely admit of changes. Sudden repletions and depletions are equally injurious. Those who have been long accustomed to a generous diet of flesh-meats and wine, will not bear a sud: den change to a low diet; and, on the other hand, those who have lived long on water and , vegetable.% very soon suffer from one more nutritious.. Still, where the original fault lies in . the too great indulgence of the former of these extremes, we cannot reasonably hope to remove its consequences but by amending it—keeping in mind at the same time, what will not bend must not be broken.—Dr. Hume Weatherhecid 'oh Met: . MAPLE WOOD.—It having been the practice in taking the dimensions of maple-wood, for the purpose of charging the duty thereon, to admeasure the same singlY , notwithstanding the plank s or slabs may be under twenty one feet in length, on account of the- unusually large inter stices which would be occasioned-by the irregular forms of the plank, provided the same were piled for ad measurement in bulk; under the provisions of the 29th section of the Act sth and 6th Victoria, cap. 47, and -the Board of Customs being of opinion that maple-wood, in common with all other woods charged with duty, ,by ;measurement, should, with re ference to the Act above adverted to, be measured in bulk, have ordered that the.proper officers ,dO govern themselves accordingly. . TUE Loss OT THE .rALBERFELDT.—A petition to the Corporation of London hai been trepred by the Captain and Ur. Bush, the civil engineer, who were on board the Elberfeldt just before she went dOwn, on 'rlilirsday, the 22d of February, about 50 miles east of the North Foreland light house, praying that the Court of Common ' Council will bestow some remuneration upon Captain Mays, commander of the Charlotte; of Antwerp, and, his crew, by whom the greater part of the crew of the former vessel were saved. The captain and crew of the Charlotte bebaved with extraordi nary spirit and skill upon, the occasion, and it is,belleved that the Corporation will testify their adinirstion of such conduct in a manner the roost ellbAtAntiai - ' •••• •' ••-•••• • - I 1,6.4 """" - %... RETIRED JUDGES, The two most "notoriouTcases on this list -are these - - - of Mr. Moneypenny and Sir Archibald Ciaipheil. We know not on what pretext the former retiftd; but our Contemporary, the- Scotsman, aptly keulatimr -I1 " It was certainly not , mental deed? ;:fer `hatlS • r eight years after he foiind hiinself unfit for thè lalrtirs of the bench, he wrotea,pamphletin-fairourrofthurpk, Extension, which manifests all the , -dexterity , : acumen of a lawyer?' • Sir Archibald Campbell was attacked with trona. venient disorder.. in ,his eyes-Some.tWentr*ears de, and Sir R. Peel, .who Ives -at that,"p,ipii4 R.. 0 , 7 ; 50 3 .83 " • e ' cretary, allowed'hith to retire -on peasiea per annum. Notwithstanding this": unhappy firmity, which incapacitated him from por i ng over • dull law papers, Sir Archibald is understood a capital shot, and no one, ' to. look,pori for a moment imagine that his pension hack '0 15 4: granted on the sore of blindness. Whatever - may, have been the pretext, we have heard the permission to Sir Archibald Campbell to retire, defended asi-a truly economical act on thepart pf the Torygairettri;—, ment of 1824—0 n the ground that, however serious m. matter it might be to pay the ex judge's pension,. it, has, after all, cost the country less than the expense of reversing his decisions would have amounted to. - - As an illustration of the sort of person Or; Arehi-1' bald Campbell is, we may relate an anecdote " 11 # dil well-knovtil in Glasgow. A public dinner- ,of-i4o • • friends of the Fine Arts took place a few .inantbo sge , in this city, and to Sir Archibald was assigned task of proposing the memory of Sir -Diva Wilkie. Those who have heard the BarMset -of Succouth speak are well aware that at no .time is his eloquence of the most enlivening ,description,:bnt, on this particular evening, lie was even more `than usually prosy. The audience endured the intllcAtio o for a considerable time, with a patience which: .did them the utmost credit, but, at length, as it began to appear probable that the . Speech' wo uld endure:ti,ll midnight, a shuffling of feet and other marks of lm.. patience commenced. On, however; went • Sir Archibald, regardless of every reasonable hint of this description ; but, by and by, the storm increased to such a height that he was obliged to Come to a. . premature conclusion. On resuming his seat, Sir Archibald, with the most unruffled self-complacency beaming on his countenance ' turned to a gentle man sitting near him, and said, " Well, I halo no idea that Wilkie was so unpopular r never occurred to the poor man that -another name„ not that of Wilkie, was at fault. After this, how-• ever much we may blame -the Tories for placing' Sir Archibald Campbell on the bench, we can scarcely , think them far wrong in getting" rid of him. as speedily as possible. It is, nevertheless, als g iaceftil to find such a vast sum of the public money recklessly spent on super annuated allowances ; and we thank IW. Wallace for bringing the subject under the notice of the country.. Glasgow Argus. ~. .., :'~ A GENUINE SCENE WITH ABER- NETHY. About a year and a half before the death of Mr. Aber nethy, a big fellow, clerk in a brewer's establishment, went to consult that eminent man, when the following conversation took place between them:— ' The patient, who had a very crazy frame, but a sound understanding, said, upon entering the parlour, add see ing a little old-looking man, with the knees of his breeches loose, "I want to speak to Dr. Abernethy." " Doctor! lam no doctor. What brings you here?' " I came for advice, to be sure. You don't think I came to ask you how you do ?" " Hah!" (muttered Mr. Abernethy, evidently pleased with meeting ,a congenial customer.) "s o ; I hope not. But there's no use in your coming to me for advice. You won't take it." " Yes, I will." - " be d— if you do." " I'll be d— if I don't." " What trade are you? A butcher, or a publican, or a costermonger?" " Not a bit of it. You're all wrong., I'm a brewer's clerk." " What they call a broad cooper." _ " No. lam a collecting clerk." "Worse and worse.!. Nothing can satisfy fellows of your kind. You drink beer till you burst., Show me your tongue." The patient immediately obeyed the command - by lolling a large yellow furry tongue ever his chin." " Bad," said Mr. Abernethy, "very bad. You Were drunk last night?" " No, I wasn't." " So much the worse, for the state of your tongue must then proceed from—habitual_drinking. You are always drunk, and you don't know it. You drink what you fellows call heavy wet ??, " No, I don't ; I drink ale because I wish to serve my employers." "To serve your employers! Then you pay.for= what you drink?" " No, I don't; I happen to be in one of the first 'Louses Lonilon." . • - , " Then if you stay much longer With them they will be one of the last, Here (pulling some Of his specific pills out of a drawer) , take one or these every other night, and diminish your draughtt .of ale fiom gallons to .half-pints. But you won't remember what 1. jay . to e y y ru , • Yes, I will." • ' •-•--- " No, you won't; you have no memory: 7 . 7 • " Yes, I have as good a Memory as,you; I'll get.off a hundred lines in Milian's r Paradise Lost' with you any day." , Ay, Pandemonium! - You are always *earning of the devil and all his angels. Isn't that it " No, it is'nt it; but Lofton feel a pahititta,on of the heart and a headache,without baying been a bit lumpy." "Nonsense! How can a- fellow .who lives. upon ale have either head or heart? You have stomach and guts enough?' , • s • " Really, Sir, I get eery depressed;particalarly when I can't get in the debts of the house. It's' always cold morning with me then." . , " Well, I advise you to take the pills, 'and take exer cise, and have mercy upon your employ* aid yourself. Good morning." - • , As the patient was walking out of the `room, .Mr. Abernethy said " Stay. Where are youdoing business?" " Over the water." "-Well ! Take a cab." " Why so ? You just sai4 exercise is good for me." " Yes ; but betweea this lila your -place of business, there are twenty public-houses, and I am greatly afraid of the shortness of your money:' , " When shall I call again Z' • •, 1 " Do as I tell you, and I need never. see your Awe more." ' ' • • " I'll come if I don't improve, but I trust we sba.o never meet againat this side of the grave,''' • "If ever we do, I hope you'll repeat the hundred lines from Milton. I'll be satisfied with that instead of a fee. There (ringing the bell and whistling% - that'll do- but give me another. call."—Sunday . . LONDON MARKETS AND bTKAIK•DoA/S. — (FrOY II " Martin Chuzzlewit.")--" Many and:many a pleasant stroll they had in Covent-garden market : smilAng up the perfume of the fruits and flowers, wondering at the , magnificence of the pine-apples- and melons; catching glimpses down side avenues of rows and rows of old women, seated on inverted baekets shelling peas ; looking unutterable things at the fat bundles of asparagus with which the dainty shops were forti fied as With a breastwork; and; ,at :the herbalists' doors, gratefully inhaling scents as of 'veal-stuffing yet' uncooked, dreamily mixed up with capsicum!,--brown paper, seeds ; even with, hints of lusty snails and fine young . may leeches. Many and many a pleasant stroll , they had among the poultry-markets, where ducks and fowls, with necks un naturally long, lay.stretched out in pairs, .ready for cook ing ; where there were speckled eggs in mossy baskets ; white . country sausages beyond impeachment by survivin cat or dog, or horse or donkey ; new cheeses to a n y wild extent ; live birds in coops and cages, .looking much too big to be natural, in consequence of those receptacles being much too little ; rabbits, alive and dead, innumerable. Many a pleasant stroll they had among the cool, refreshing, silvery fish-stalls, with a kind of moonlight effect about their stock in trade, excepting always for the ruddy . lobsters. Many a pleasant stroll among the waggon-loads of fragrant hay, beneath which dogs and tired wagoners lay fast asleep, oblivious of. the pieman and. the. public-house. But never half so good a stroll, as down among the steam-boats on a bright morning. There they lay, alongside of each, other ; hard and fast for ever, to all appearance, btit designing to get out somehow, and quite confident of doing it; and in that faith shoals of passengers and heaps of higgage were pro ceeding hurriedly on board. Little steamboats dashed up and down the stream incessantly. .Tiers upon tiers of ves sels, scores of masts, labyrinths of tackle, idlesaile, splashing oars, gliding row -boats, lumbering barges.; sunken piles. with ugly !lodgings for the water-rat within their mud-dis coloured nooks ; church steeples, warehouses, house-roofs, arches, bridges, men and women, children, - casks, cranes, boxes, horses, coaches, idlers, and hard-labourers ; there talky were, all jumbled up together; any summer morning, far beyond Tom's posier of separation. In the midst of all this turmoil, there was an incessant roar from every packet's funnel, which quite expressed and carried out the upper moit emotion of the scene. They all appeared to be per spiring and' bothering themselves, exactly as their pas sengers did ; they never left off fretting and chafing, in their own hoarse manner, once ; but were always panting out, without any stops, Come along do make haste I'm very nervous come along oh good gracious we shall never get there how late you are do make h. to I'm of ,directly come along Even when they had left off and lad got safely out into the current, on this smallist provocation 'they began again ; for the bravest packet of theta all, being stopped by some entanglement in the river, would' inimediately begin to fume and pant afresh, 'Oh here's . a stoppage what's the matter do go on there a hurry it's done oaf purpose did You ever 'oh myagoedness'.• do go on there I!..and, so, in a state of mind bordering on distraction, -would be last seen drifting slowly through the mist. into the summer light be yond, that made it red." "ROYAL BENEVOLENCE,"-4 paragraph which has just appeared in some of the daily papers under the above heading,stating that her Majesty has been graciously pleased to command that. the whole of the iinconsumed wine at the Royal table at Windsor Castle should be given wider proper regulations to the sick poor of Windsor and Eton, is totally .without foundation. The whole of the ttnconsumed wine at the Royal table, which is - of the most choice description, is regal srlY tion, and conveyed back - to -the cellar, then carefully corked up and kept in readiness for the -renewing consura t P probably again placed on the Itoyal table. Tho nustat.cm originated' with respect to the refuse e the table ,after dinner the ateward's room, which is left in the decanters st o ag to the p es and upper ser wine bei n g allQwed c :ities men, and one and' supper ;. wants in the proportion n ner°f' two This refase wine, on the whole pint to each c h . w as formerly the perquisites of the n ow given away to the poor on pro - waiters or o b r O p tt i l , W ge e O s ni r , to the De p uty -Comptroller of Der application being, ma deh er iNesty'e Household. t.; •.‘ ri _ uti.ca l~v~-~ . SCE.• Of :art by, eat' tab eur 3CO r isonk Ece. ebb? De. or of man Hon• ow' yes" t in f the WO,