The Sun. — London, England, 1844-03-18 00:00:00

frbirti ambition SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. TATTERSALL'S.-THIS EVENING. QUARTER TO SLY O'CLOCK. CHESTER CUP. 8 to 1 agst Pagan 15 to 1 agst Pharaoh 17 to 1 agst Cattonite 18 to 1 agst Sir Robert 25 to 1 agst Red Deer 25 to 1 agst Tacita. ' 25 to 1 agst The Prior 30 to 1 agst Celeste DERBY. to 1 agst Rattan—taken 7 to 1 agst Ugly Buck—taken 16 to 1 agst Orlando 20 to 1 agst Leander 20 to 1 agst Cockamaroo 27 to 1 agst Running Rein 40 to 1 agst Loadstone 40 to 1 agst King of the Gipsies 40 to 1 agst Grey Momus colt—taken the costs of ejecting the "gallant, gay Lothario ;" who might then take up his residence at Madame Lodon's establishment, uninterrupted by the necessity of tak ing his turn in residence, as one of the canons of Peterborough, and undistracted by the duties of the cure of souls at Barnack. There is really something appalling in the way in which the ,Bishop of Peterborough explained what he could unques tionably do, under the circumstances of this pain ful case. He could procure from the Archbishop a permission for him to be non-resident ! That which would be refused to a poor rector, except for a limited period, and then only under circumstances of extreme necessity, might be obtained for an habitual profligate, as the most ready way of getting rid of him, and of his scandal ! A curate, to whom he would have to pay less than a tithe of his income, would do all the duty; the rector might then vary, at pleasure, the scenes and the subjects of his guilty amours. The revenues of the Church which he had disgraced, and of the ministers he had dishonoured, will supply the means ! had hoped as a matter of principle that a little additional notice would have been given to the holders of the stock. The Bill would not receive the Royal assent:until Tuesday' and the time for giving notice would expire on Saturday. This would ope rate as no practical grievance, he admitted, because it would not be for the interest of any of the holders to give the notice, but still he thought that on princi ple a longer period should have been allowed. He cordially supported the measure. The Earl of RIPON was glad to find that the Noble Lords objections were confined to the de tails of the measure, with regard to the notice of the transaction, it had been a limited one ; he admitted that it might have been advisable to have given a more extended notice bat when they dealt with large questions it was important that the transaction should be closed at as early a period as possible, and as no essential injury to the parties interested could ensue he must confess that 'as a matter of principle he did not feel that the Government were called upon to give longer notice. His Noble Friend had alluded to the guarantee. He did not object to the principle, that it was in general inconvenient for a Government to tie itself up in this manner for a series of years ; but it must be granted, that in this case the holders of the stock were entitled to some bonus. They had received no bonus by any increase to their capital, and when it was considered that there were 81,000 holders of this stoek, whose income did not exceed 101. a year, as they had no bonus in their capital, it seemed but fair and reasonable that theyshouldhavesuch a bonus as that which was granted to them by this mea sure. In respect to what his Noble Friend (Lord Monteagle) had said touching the diminution of the change of the public debt, that statement was, no doubt, an accurate one, and afforded a strong proof of the high cha racter and credit of this country. In the year 1829 he had himself called the atten tion of their Lordships' House to that subject. Between the year 1815, when that charge was at its highest, and the year he had just referred to, the diminution of this charge had not been less than 4,000,0001., representing a capital of 120,000,0001. Since that period other reductions had taken place; and, making allowance for the 20,000,0001. required to carry into effect the measure for the abolition of slavery, the reduction in the charge for the funded and unfunded debt was considerably more than 4,000,0001. annually. This showed most clearly and satisfactorily, that while they scrupulously respected good faith, they were enabled from time to time, to get rid of some portion of their debt. Lord MONTEAGLE wished to add one word to what had fallen from him, and give his raced of praise to that part of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's plan which went to equalise the payments of the dividends. This was not called for out of doors, nor had it any necessary connexion with the plan itself ; but having regard to the currency, and the engagements of the country, he looked upon it as a measure fraught with the highest advantage to all classes of the country. The two Bills for the reduction of the two classes of Three-and a-Half per Centum Annuities were then read a second time. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. STANDARD.—The debate on Lord Ashley's Bill will be resumed to-night. Whatever the re sult of the present discussion, we regard the im mediate result as comparatively indifferent, because the question of the fate of the ten hours' restric tion is merely a matter of time—earlier or later the restriction will be adopted. Nine years ago we said of the clauses respecting the illegitimate chil dren in the New Poor-law, and of the univer sal application of the workhouse test, that they must be given up ; and we have lived to see them both abandoned. With equal certainty do we predict that the ten hours' restriction must be adopted sooner or later, and we found our prediction upon the same grounds—the total absence of sound argument in favour of prolonged labour, and the repugnance of the universal feeling to such cruelty. The present' Parliament may give this cruelty a little longer lease, but that is all ; it may make, as in the case of the cruel clauses of the New Poor-law, a temporary addition to the sum of human misery ; but the addition can be but temporary, and finite. The sentence has gone forth—the tyranny of prolonged labour is doomed. Cant—the cant of political eco nomy—which so long protected it, is dead and gone, and the arguments which it has been attempted to substi tute for cant give way to the gentlest breath of reason. Mr. Bright says that an abridgement of the hours of labour will reduce wages, and that it will also raise prices. How can it do both? We believe, indeed, that it will do both, but in a very different sense from what Mr. Bright threatens ; we believe that it will reduce daily wages and greatly augment annual wages, by giving constant employment in stead of monthly gushes to be followed by half-yearly gluts; we believe that it will raise prices, by restoring the character in the market of British fabrics—for paste, starch, gypsum, and devil's dust, will not be the resources of a steady trade, such as a short time Bill must ne cessarily enforce ; and so confident are we in this respect, that we believe that nothing but a short time Bill can save the manufacturers of this country from early destruction ; but we shall not go further until we hear, what we have not yet heard, a plausible argument against Lord Ashley's motion. By the way, we omitted to notice on Saturday the finest thing that has occurred in Parliament for many years — Quaker Bright's attack upon Lord Ashley, and Lord Ashley's reply. Nature seems to have moulded the two men, in form as well as in mind, to represent the extremes of the species ; within a species no contrast was ever so strikingly complete. The Quaker accused the nobleman of having acted with generosity and courtesy towards a wretch who had proved himself unworthy of credit; and then, upon the evidence of this his rotten witness, he made a charge of subornation. Lord Ashley was compelled to plead guilty to the charge of generosity and cour tesy (they who know the Noble Lord best know that he is overwhelmed with such sins), but showed that he had never suborned the informer or used his evidence. Thus the account stands—Quaker Bright is innocent of generosity or courtesy, but he know ingly uses the testimony of a corrupt witness. Of generosity and courtesy to an unworthy person Lord Ashley stands convicted; but of using, or intending to use, the fellow's testimony, the Noble Lord is as guiltless as the reader of these lines. GLOBE.—The Standard doubts whether any existing law, ecclesiastical or civil, will reach the case, the recent self-exposure of which has conferred unenviable notoriety on the Rev. Herbert Marsh. We should have expected that this would have ex cited unqualified regret in a journal which pro fesses superior zeal for the stability and efficiency of flag National Church—results which depend, to a very. considerable extent, on the reputation of its clergy in the estimation of the laity. This, however, is not the case. Our Contemporary remarks :—" We regret that the Church cannot be relieved of the nil.. worthy Rector of Barnack ; but we own that our re gret is somewhat alleviated by the consideration that the escape of that unworthy person spares the Bishop of Peterborough a fine of 1,0001., and it might be 2,000/." That the Church cannot be relieved of the unworthy Rector of Barnack, is a subj ect of regret. But how much more deep would he the sorrow, because so much more would be the calamity, if the Church Discipline Act took a wider range, and instead of limiting the in terference of the Bishop to offences committed within two years, extended his episcopal powers over licen tious and profligate conduct in clergymen, belonging to his diocese, to four or five years ! This would be truly afflictive to the Bishops, and entitle them to commiseration from all who love and venerate the order ! We are not convinced by the reasoning of our Contemporary of the fact which he labours to establish that the pecuniary cost to the Bishop, in prosecuting, and thus condignly, punishing, a flagrantly immoral clergyman, would be a more serious infliction on the Pre late's purse, than to permit such a scandal to con tinu' fastened on the Church itself. The sons of Tai " made themselves vile." Their father—invested, es High Priest, with the power of putting the pro fligates out of the priesthood, which they had pol luted and disgraced—suffered himself to be influenced . by parental affection, and merely expostulated, when the strong arm of authority ought to have arrested them, and punished their debaucheries. Need the consequences be told ? It is bad enough that the son of a Bishop, who was therefore placed in possession of one of the richest benefices in the kingdom, the patronage of which pertained to the see of Peterborough, which his father held, with the addi tion of a canonry in his father's Cathedral church, should thus debase himself and disgrace his order. Elevated as he was in ecclesiastical station, and enriched with worldly wealth, we say it is bad enough for it to be made public, that de plorable depravity has been the habitual course of a Church dignitary's life. But that his es cape from punishment should be regarded rather as matter for congratulation than regret, and this solely on such considerations as those stated by the Standard, is not merely matter of surprise, but— aside from all party distinctions—we unfeignedly say, of surprise and sorrow. While the matter re mained concealed, the' offence was limited in its results to the individual. To his own conscience, and to the _solemn responsibilities of another state • of being, the guilty individual was alone ac countable. But when proclaimed abroad, as his ,on conduct has b een , th e Ch urc h t o which lie b . .s 1 gs becomes subjected to the obloquy of offences against morality ; and, if she fail to roll away the reproach, and to wash her hands from the iniquity by thrusting the offenders from her altars, the effect of such connivance, indifference, or even inability, by defect in her laws, to reach a case so fraught with scandal, cannot fail to be most injurious e 6 her character, if not perilous to her safety as a national institution. Ths Standard asks—" is it politic thus to impose a penalty upon the Bishop's vigilance, and to make it thus his in terest to connive at the offences of those whom he is appointed to superintend?" We think the penalties arises out of the responsibilities which every Bishop assumes when invested with the episco ptte. If he be not vigilant, but dilatory in the dis charge of his duties—if instead of enforcing the disci pline of the Church against any immoral clergyman whose delinquencies may be brought before him, he be " thankful" for any loophole of escape from the impera tive obligation, and claim credit for having evinced a " backwardness" to interfere—if, in fact, from any merely personal considerations, he " connive at the s er seees of those whom he is appointed to superin tend"—we think he becomes "a partaker of their evil deeds." A Bishop's want of vigilance will give a tacit encouragement to vice. He will thus not only draw down upon his own head a fearful weight of punishment; he will expose the Church, of which he is required to be a light and a defence, to the dangers which result from laxity of morals and impurity of life in those who are appointed to the office of the ministry within her •• pale. Talk of the hardship of exposing a Bishop, with a revenue of several thousands a year, and a large extent of patronage, to the " penalty" of an occasional pecuniary outlay, in the shape of costs, fbr prosecuting and punishing a grossly immoral clergy- man ! Wilt the Standard ascertain the " pe nalt y " to which a Bishop exposes himself for screening such a clergyman from punishment? Besides, if a Bishop present an individual who is utterly unfit for his ()Tice, ought there not to be a " penalty " for having done so ? As the rectory of Barnack is a preferment in the Bishop's gift, if the Bishop's predecessor, by virtue of his right, presented an unfit person to the living; his successor ought to be content with having the presentation for the penalty" of getting rid of the nuisance. A half-year's stipend would more tbazi cover (THIS EVENING.). HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships met at Five o'Clock. The Bishop of BANGOR presented several peti tions against the union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor. IRELAND. The Earl of FITZWILLIAM said, he t had to pre sent to their Lordships a petition signed by the Chair man on behalf of what he understood to have been a very large meeting of the inhabitants of Glasgow, praying their Lordships to take into their consideration the points to which they alluded in in the course of that petition. They founded their right of addressing their Lordships on the state of that country, which they said exhibited a great number of features indicative of the bad policy which had been pursued with respect to that country. They urged that that policy was calculated to excite the utmost contempted for the existing laws and institutions and a grow ing hatred of all connection with Great Britain. They concluded the petition with one remarkable pro position on which he would say a few words. They stated that one principal grievance of which Ireland com plained was the Established Church, which was not only intolerant and exclusive in spirit and character, but op posed to the conviction of a great body of the people, that it was used as a tool of political fac tion, and subversive of general tranquillity. That such an establishment (and this was the important part of their proportion) did not admit of being amended, and that it must to obtain the pacification of Ireland be wholly abolished. Now, his opinion of this section of the petition was entirely different from that of the petitioners ; he was by no means of opinion that the Chnrch of England ought to be abo lished in Ireland, on the contrary, he thought the Church of England in Ireland ought to be made more efficient fur the only true purposes for which it might exist. He believed that England and the English Legislature had been guilty of a great crime in depriving the great mass of the people of Ireland of the means of spiritual instruction and worship. It had been a great crime in the English Legislature, that they had proscribed the Catholic priesthood, and deprived them of the means of properly celebrating religious service in that country. (LEFT SPEAKING.) THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1844, have been devoted to Roman Catholic schools, hi stitutions, or charities. The number of meetings in each year, for the last five years, held by the Commis sioners; also, the names of the Commissioners present at each meeting. The total number of Commissioners, their names and occupations. Return of all communica tions between the Commissioners and the Rev. Mr. Birmingham, of Ballysaxe ; also his answer to the same respecting a legacy left to endow a school at said place. Copy of that part of the will of the per- • son.who left said legacy, as far as relates to said be quest. Amount of all costs incurred in all case since 1830. Names and particulars of cases, when pro ceedings commenced, what progress made, and when terminated. Amount of the principal moneys in dis pute, and costs deducted in each case.—Ordered. VICTORIA PARK. In answer to a question from Sir W. CLAY as to the progress made in the arrapgements for the forma tion of the Victoria Park, The Earl of LINCOLN said that the whole of the ground intended to be included in the park was not yet in the possession of the Government. The site of the park would occupy 262 acres : of these 179 were in the hands of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and the remaining 83, which belonged ;to six proprietors, remained unpurchased, because the Commissioners were of opinion that the price demanded was an extravagant one. The usual steps, however, would be taken to ascer tain the value by a jury. They did not think it ad, visable to commence the formation of the park till the entire of the land was in their hands. It would be in their possession before autumn, when the neces sary steps would be taken. In reply to a question from Sir V. BLAKE, who was quite inaudible in the gallery, Sir J. GRAHAM regretted that the Hon. Baronet had not given him some notice of the ques tion. He understood the document which the Hon. Baronet had read to have reference to that portion of the poor-law which caused the removal of poor Irish who had made settlements in parishes in Everybody must admit that if they limited to ten hours the labour of women and children, they must also limit to ten hours the labour of the men. He did not think there was any difference of opinion upon this point. He was sure the Noble Lord had the most humane feel ing in endeavouring to restrict the hours of labour in factories to ten hours. Would it not, however, be well to look to the arguments of the labourers themselves ? They stated that limiting the hours of labour would tend ,to increase wages, that they would get more wages for less toil. He admitted that no person would suffer much if they were in the state they were in at the close of the war in 1641, when they had no foreign competi tors, but it was different when they had to compete with the whole civilised world. When they con sidered the short period in which a manufacturing interest might be raised, and when it might be raised in any country to which they chose to give such a premium as the diminution of the manufacturing ca pital of the country, he was inclined to agree in opinion with those who said that they run a very great risk The amount of cotton manufactured at the close of the year by this country was 60.000 lbs, ; the amount ma; nufactured by France, in 1840, was 130,000,000 lbs The manufacturers who were examined in 1833 and 1834 held different opinions with regard to the limita tion of labour. 1 hey stand that the immediate effeect would be a rise •in puice. Mr. Ash worth was examined, and stated that the rise in price would add to the profit of the foreign manu facturer, but not to that of the home one. It was in vain to suppose that if they limited the hours of labour, foreign countries would follow their ex ample. They had abolished slavery and the slave trade, and yet the country that had the freest institutions in the world had retained both. So it would be in the present instance, if they lessened the number of hours of labour for the manufacturers. Foreign countries would be the only parties that would benefit by it. The large number of 343,000 ersons supported by manuthctures in Lancashire alone, showed what a source of employment was opened there for the agricultural population. It appeared from the reports of the Poor-law Commissioners, that in one year the number of those who migrated into the district under the superintendence of one of the Commissioners amounted to 10,0000. That was in the year 1825. 'lt was said that if they put down the present system there would be much less vice. He thought that in a much larger preportion there would be less virtue. It must be so if they di minished the number of those who were raised above the necessity of supporting themselves by daily labour, if by introducing distress among the various manufacturing counties, they diminished the number of those who lived in affluence, and supported a number of domestics. Holt would they maintain their superiority, if they altered their system ? They had New Zealand, Western and Southern Australia, making fresh demands upon them. How were their commercial greatness and the vast expenditure which these distant possessions occasioned to be sustained, except by maintaining a ma nufacturidg prosperity. The declared value of their exports of woven fabrics amounted in 1840 to upwards of 21,000,000/. sterling. Was it not by theemployment which this afforded that they were enabled to support their large popnlation, and to bear the burden of the public taxes. If they discouraged manufactures, other countries would adopt means to attain their super-eminence in the civilized world. If they lost their compara tive greatness how would their neighbours treat ? If France, in the course of thirty years, could mul tiply six or seven fold the amount of the exported fabrics, would they not be bearded in their own ports by the superior navy of that country ? Contracts had been- entered into and leases had been taken, and the Government ought to take care that the steps they took would not place the persons who had en tered into these contracts and leases in a disadvantageous position. He (Mr. W.) had his eyes fully open to the alternative to which the Noble Lord (Howick) had said they would ultimately be reduced, of not merely having a Ten Hours' Bill, but in every manufacturing town and district local boards of trade to make arrangements be tween masters and men. England to Ireland, where they had no settlement, and complaining of such a state of things. All he could inform the Hon. Baronet on the subject at pre sent was, that it would be taken into conside.ation under the proposed New Poor-law Bill. Sir WALTER JAMES asked the Hon. Baronet whether he had taken pains to authenticate the state ment which he had read to the House. Sir V. BLAKE said he had received his informa tion from a gentleman of the greatest respectability, whom he had known for several years. FACTORIES BILL—COMMITTEE—AD JOURNED DEBATE. On the motion that the Order of the Day for going into Committee upon this Bill be read, Lord HOWICK presented two petitions from places in Yorkshire (as we understood) against the Bill. The Order of the Day having been then read, The House went into Committee; Mr. GREEN in the Chair. On Lord ASHLEY'S amendment being read, Mr. WARBURTON said the question was one which involved the interests of the whole of the manufacturing interests. It had been stated to de putations which had waited upon the Government that they intended to adhere to the printed Bill in its main provisions, that Bill having been cir culated for a long time through the whole of the manufacturing districts ; and the deputations quitted the Right Hon. Gentleman (Sir J. Graham), with a firm belief that the Government meant firmly to resist the application for a ten hours Bill. He trusted that the Government would strictly adhere to the assurance that this was not to be an open ques tion. Not that he considered the Government Bill objectionable, for it violated to a certain degree the principles which he advocated ; but of two evils he was prepared to accept the last. In addressing himself to this question he certainly felt considerable difficulty. He hardly knew how to deal with the arguments of the Noble Lord who had introduced the amendment. If he were to address to the conclusion to what his arguments tend, it involved no less than suspending the whole of the labour per formed by women and children in this country. If on the contrary, he were to addres himself' merely to the verbal amendment, that was a question which they might argue upon its own merits ; but he did not see how he was to avoid addressing himself as well to the Noble Lord's premises as to his conclusions, —(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord, in a considerable part of his speech, inferred the greater security of the labour of the manufacturing classes from the greater productiveness of that labour. Now, it was unquestionable that the labour of the operative classes had been of late years in a marvellous degree productive, but they were not to infer, the severity of labour to which the improvement of machinery had been applied, from increased productiveness Upon that ground they might argue that the labour of a man who was a slave, or one who followed the plough, was more severe than the one who scratched the ground. There eould be no doubt that the closeness of rooms and the exhalations that took place in factories was most detrimental to health ; but it must be remembered that inconveniences, dangers, and difficulties were incidental to all sorts of arts and manufactures, It was not, however, upon this they were to arrive at any conclusion. There could be no doubt that serious physical consequences had arisen to young females and children in factories, but it must be recollected that they wou d be subject to similar inconveniences in other walks life.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lo r d more particularly alluded to the opinion on this subject of medical men taken in 1839, that might be all very well, but if he would refer to the opinion given by the medical actuary upon the evidence collected in 1835. He alluded to Dr. Mitchell, he would find a very dif ferent statement made. That Learned Gentleman stated that he saw no grounds for warranting the sup position that factory labour in any material degree dif fered from its eflects on human frame to any other kind of labour, &c., facts that all the investigations that had taken place showed that alike the laudatory and condem natory assertions that had been mad e were alik e u nfounded. Among other allegations of the Noble Lord was one, amongst others, that the health of the females was most l so be o e t n e met et medicalby seriously injured by this species of employment ; hut tue testimony of Dr. gentlemen, mem bers of the Commission of 1833-34. Evidence wns given before that Committee that the allegation was this stehhealld s and h , altogether without foundation. They really must not take it for granted, that the condition of the persons employed in fectories was so desperate as the Noble Lord would have them to believe. They had agents employed by the Government, Commissioners of the Poor-law and Sub- Commissioners, making inquiries most deeply and anxiously into all these matters. Under such advice and agency, at a period beginning with the year 1833, grea t e xertions were officially made to induce the sur ' plus agricultural population, for whom work could not be found in their own districts to migrate to where the demand for labour was greater and the remuneration for it far higher. These Commissioners, in their first Report, stated the rate of wages i n th e manu facturing districts for a family including three or four members, as at least double what a family of the same description could earn in the agr i cu ltural counties. Well, a migration took place, in the first year he had referred to, to a very considerable extent. Dr. Kay, had described in his- report the result of such emigration both to the parishes from which it took place, and to the emigrants and their families, as of the most happy and beneficial character. The same they went on for a series of three or four years till the year 1837, which had been marked as the commencement of that stagnation of trade and bitter distress of which the House and the country had had but too strong evidence. The Hon. Gentleman then referred to a statement made by Sir H. Vering, which showed that the condition of the manufacturing labourers were far better than that of the agricultural labourers. Some of the latter, who went to Wolverhampton and other places, obtained three times more wages than they did at home ; and their improved condition induced others to follow their example. The Hon. Gen , tleman referred to a statement made by the Hon. Mem ber for Durham, which showed that the average weekly earnings of families who emigrated under the superin dence of the Poor-law Commissioners themselves, w ere 395. 4d. in 1836 ; 345. id. in the following year, and 395. 4id. in the year after. These fats proved that the condition of the manufacturing labourer war flu better than that of the agricultural labourers. The Noble Lord opposite had referred to the moral con dition of the manufacturing classes. Now he (Mr. War burton) thought that, considering how those people were congregated together, the state of morality among th em was not inferior to other classes similarly situated ; and he thought if the same inquiry and s ame tests were ap plied to th e hi g h e r classes as were in the case of the manufacturing classes, they would not find the for mer so vastly superior in a moral point of view. Now the improvidence and extravagance attributed in this case was not by any means peculiar to those who congregated in factories ; they extended equally to th e handloom weavers. The Rev. Mr. Brian, speaking of the Spitalfields weavers, observed that from the dome s ti c habits of th e pe o ple, and from their manufactures being carried on entirely in their own homes, it might be expected that they would present a perfect example to other classes ; but, on the contrary, from the variable nature of the demand, depending, as it did, on finetustions in the state of commerce, and in the caprices of fashion, the greatest improvidence and extra vagant) prevailed among the iuhab . 'tants of the coats.. in that part of London in which silk manutteture was carried on. Let them not suppose, thorAore, that extravagance and profligacy belonged exclusively to factories. The Report respecting the hand-loom weavers spoke of the insalubrity of the dwellings in the parish of St. John's.. If they were to deal with this evil at all, they must deal with it universally—it would be necssary to lay the axe to the root of the tree. Were they prepared, upon such premises as those ad vanced by the Noble Lord, to arrive at the same conclu; sion as the Noble Lord ? Were they prepared, upon such arguments, to agree to a monification of the rules an d regulations respecting labour, which now prevailed in this country ? From the arguments which had been advanced by the Noble Lord, he (Mr. Warburton) was not prepared to agree to this. Nobody could dispute what the result of the exaendment of the Noble Lord if carried would ber (LEFT SPEAKING.) SLAVERY IN AMERICA. Lord DENMAN rose to bring under the con sideration of their Lordships a subject which ap peared to him to be of immense interest and importance. A few nights ago, his Noble and Learned Friend (Lord Brougham) had stated to their Lordships the fact, that in the state of Louisiana, in the United States, a capital conviction had been obtained against a person for promoting the escape of a slave. When this subject was brought under the notice of his Noble and Learned Friend, it was gene rally believed that the sentence would not be carried into effect. It was thought that the law having once been declared, denouncing the heaviest punishment against persons who should at tempt to rescue a slave, that the punishment in the particular case to which he had alluded would not be carried into effect. Unfortunately since that time a do cument had reached this country, bearing the marks of authenticity, from which it appeared that on the 25th April a fellow-creature would undergo the sentence of death for having promoted the escape of a slave. Now nobody could be more sensible than he was of the duty which was enforced on all States of laying down rules for regulating the conduct of its depen dents, and he was aware how very jealous every State must be if any interference were to be at tempted by other powers with respect to the execution of the law such State had enacted. This country was remarkable as being one of the first to modify the sanguinary system of punishments which prevailed, and Mr. Livingstone drew up i code of laws for this purpose, which had been adopted in several countries on the continent, and the result showed that this modification tended to diminish crime. He did not introduce this question as an individual one, but merely in the abstract, with the view of seeing how far the punish ment in this case was proportioned to the crime. He was aware that many persons were of opinion, that by giving expression to any sentiment of this kind, they were likely to increase the irritation which existed at the other side of the Atlantic, and render more• difficult the carrying out of the negotiations between this country and America for the suppression of the slave-trade ; but from all that he had been able to learn he consi dered that by the expression of those sentiments it was possible that some benefit might arise from it, and it was impossible for any injury to be produced. Indeed, he felt assured that in no civilised state could any individual be found who would be in duced to carry such a law into effect after such an expression of feeling. His object in bringing for ward this measure was the hope that the expression of the opinion of that House would meet the eyes of those who had the power to mitigate this sentence, and that while they carried out all the other laws of the country, they still would never allow this man to be put to death, for, by so doing, they would he throwing , back the cause of civilization, humanity, and Christianity, for centuries. He felt perfectly aware that it was not for the constituted and re sponsible authorities of this country to interfere in this matter ; still he thought that the expression of public opinion in this matter would be likely to pre vent the perpetration of this sentence. THREE-AND-A-HALF PER CENT. ANNUI- TIES BILL. The Earl of RIPON, in rising to propose the se cond reading of the Three-and-a-Half per Cent. An nuities (1818) Bill, said he would detain their Lord ships but a very short time. The object which they had in view was to reduce the interest upon those annuities from three-and-a-half to three per cent. He congratulated the House on the fact that the state of the actual resources of the country enabled them to make this important change, and give the public the benefit of this great saving, without add ing to the permanent debt of the country. Lord BROUGHAM said that the operation tes tified to all Europe the solidity of the resources of this country and its untouched credit, a reputa tion which they owed to their having religiously abstained on this side of the Atlantic—that was, the European English had abstained from doing anything that might have a tendency, or the shadow of a tendency, to impeach the right of the creditor to be paid by his debtor. Instead of affecting this reduction of interest, by giving a bonus, by which the capital of the public creditor would be increased, there had been a careful avoiding of making any in crease to the capital of the debt.—(Hear, hear.) Lord IIONTEAGLE said the change was a very important one, and if he differed with the mode in which it had been carried into effect, it was as to details only. With the general mode in which the proposal had been carried out he entirely concurred. The measure was one of unexampled magnitude, af fecting an immense mass of capital, yet there had not been the slightest alarm caused by it, although there were no less than 81,000 holders of stock whose dividends were under 101. This was to be attributed to the great confidence they had in the resources of the country and the good faith of the Government. The Noble Earl had stated, that the arrangement was the more satisfactory, because it was not made by any undue tampering with the credit or currency of the country. It was effected on sound and ' rational principles. If they had a large' surplus revenue with which they could effect the reduction, the operation could not be considered unjust, when there was a great reduction in the interest of money throughout the country. It was not a question of choice, but of para mount duty. The great reduction of interest on money was not altogether an unmixed bene fit. Therefore, when the general body of public suffered inconvenience from the lowering of interest they ought to be relieved from paying more than the reduced rate. The lowering of the value of money tended to increase speculation in the same ratio, and this had, on former occasions, been attended with great public inconvenience and mischief. There were some evils from which they were some what protected: at present. Formerly the low rate of interest induced people to invest their capital in all kinds of foreign securities. But he believed the experience of what had happened within the last ten years tended very much to guard against the re currence of that evil. If they looked to what occurred in the old and the new world in that period would prove the importance of maintaining public credit. If the American States had main tained their credit, their territory would afford to us the best market for our products, and the advantage would be reciprocal. In 1824 there was a great abundance of money, which followed from the same causes that induced his Noble Friend to reduce the interest in 1822. That was followed by the subsequent over speculation and calamity of 18 25 and 1826 tenden c y to su.ch He e xag b g el e i r e a v t e e d d t h s p a e t i n h l a e t r i e n n N , v a s and s t t h il e l re a be some danger of it in our recently opened trade with China. He by no means attributed the measures i o n f al satisfactory s t f o ac tthoeryr eduction manner, and d l h B e 22 h , o whichd that was effected,aseenrt reduction, which effected a s av i ng o f 1,200,000/a would enable the Government t o t a k e o ff the income , tax, at the time promised. He thought the Govern ment deserved thanks for the reductions which they had effected in the customs' duties, and he hoped they• would take an opportunity of showing the advantages the country had derived by those measures. The re duction which had taken place since the peace in the actual burthen of the national debt was far beyond what had been foreseen by those writers who declared the burthen could not be reduced. A further reduction of four . millions in the nomi nal amount of the debt would occur within a period of sixteen years, which many of their Lord ships might expect to live to see.—(Hear, hear.) The great blessings of peace had enabled us greatly to al leviate the actual annual pressure of the debt without injustice or inconvenience to any one, and considerable progress had been made in dimi nishing the nominal amount of the capital debt. If they calculated the value of the capital required at two per cent. they would get at the actual amount of reduction which would be made in the capital of the National Debt. The success of the experiment proved the credit of this country to an infinitely greater extent than if they had kept up an im mense amount of taxation for the purpose of of keeping up a sinking fund. If they had kept up a sinking fund of 5,000,000/. or 6,000,0001. a year, they could not have operated such au amount of reduction with the same certainty. He HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. Mr. BUSFEILD presented eleven petitions from places in Yorkshire, in favour of the Leeds and Brad ford Railway Bill. On the motion of Mr. R. HODGSON, the Mem bers for Berwick were added to the Committee on the North British Railway Bill. The Northern and Eastern Railway Extension Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be com mitted. _ _ _ On the motion of Sir H. DOUGLAS, the Liver pool Fire Prevention Bill was read a second time. Mr. HAWES moved the second, reading of the New British Iron Company. Sir C. DOUGLAS hoped the Hon. Gentleman would postpone the second reading of this Bill for a few days. After a short discussion, the Bill was read a second time. The Globe Insurance Company Bill was read a second time. LOCAL COURTS. Colonel POWELL presented a petition from Wales in favour of the establishment of local courts. CORN-LAWS. Sir A. LEITH HAY presented a petition in favour of the corn-laws, and particularly against the sliding scale. TOBACCO DUTIES. Mr. M. GIBSON presented two petitions from the tobacco consumers of Manchester against the high duties on tobacco. COAL DUTIES. Mr. S. WORTLEY presented petitions from the West Riding of Yorkshire, praying for the repeal of the export duties on coal. THE SUFFRAGE. Mr. WILLIAM S presented a petition from lled. dington, Northamptonshire, praying for a redress o grievances, and an extension of the suffrage. PRISONS IN SCOTLAND. Sir GEORGE CLERK presented a petition from the Corporation of Musselburgh, praying for an amendment of the law relating to prison discipline in Scotlund. REFORM.—THE RATE-PAYING CLAUSES. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from Islington, praying for the repeal of the rate-paying clauses in the Reform Act. The HoN. MEMBER presented a petition from the Tower Hamlets to the same effect. MERCHANT SEAMAN'S FUND. Mr. HUME presented a petition from Montrose in favour of the Merchant Seamen's Fund Bill. The llon. Member moved that the petition be referred to the Select Committee on the Bill.—Ordered. CORONERS' FEES. Mr. BANKES gave notice that he would to-morrow move for returns of the amount of fees paid to coroners' in England and Wales in the years 1830, 31, 32, and 1840, 41, 42. JURISPRUDENCE IN SCOTLAND. Mr. WALLACE gave notice that instead of the motion for a Committee to inquire into the state of jurisprudence in Scotland, he would to-morrow move for the appointment of a Royal Commission. IRELAND—THE ARMY. Sir G. CLERK laid on the table numerous returns relating to the cost of the Commissariat, and the number of men and officers recently employed in Ireland, in consequence of the repeal agitation, In answer to a question from Mr. F. FRENCH, Sir JAMES GRAHAM said, that Mr. Mathews had been appointed a provincial auditor of poor-law accounts, with a salary of 5001. a year. The ap pointment had been made under the last Act, the provisions of which it was the intention of the Go vernment to carry into effect. Sir H. W. BARRON moved, according to notice, for returns made into the office of the Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests since 1830, specifying name of testator or donor, particular diocese or court. Number of bills filed, or actions or other suits instituted, in any Court, in each year, specifying the time of filing bills or com mencingmcuotuednt to of co m n o c n lu ey sio r n e , al o is r ed s , e a tt n l d ed th b e y actions. Number and particulars of cases prosecuted taxed e'P n s costs e o r ; expenses deducted. Number of cases where the Commissioners have interfered, and recovered or ad ministered any funds or property without cost, with the amount and expenses. Amount of sums voted by Parliament, in aid of the Board of Charity,• since 1830. Number and names of the counsel for the board in each case, and amount of fees paid to counsel in each case and every year. Number of cases in which suits instituted have not been prosecuted to a final decision or termination. Number of cases in which the Board of Donations now administer the funds; compensation by way of agency. Sums in progress of recovery. Sums in each case recovered and the expenses, compar tively. Sums now invested in the names of the Commissioners, and specifications of annuities and charities now under the consideration of the board. Specification of the number and particulars of the charitable donation and -bequests which appear to THE LATE STORM AT SEA. We subjoin some particulars of the shipwrecks caused by the storm last week, in addition to those published under the head " Lloyd's Shipping." The Caroline of Liverpool, a packet ship, commanded by Captain C. Jackson, was totally lost in Cardigan Bay, near Pwellhelli, in Carnarvonshire, on Tuesday af ternoon last, and it is painful to state that it was at tended with considerable loss of life. The ship had a cargo on board valued at 25,000/., and insurance was ef fected on the vessel and cargo at Lloyd's and elsewhere to the extent of 18,000/. She was a hat was termed a Quebecer, havir.g been built at Quebec in the year 1641, and was nearly 600 tons burthen. • The information is derived from letters received in the course of Thursday and Friday at Lloyd's. They are as follows : PWELLELELLI, MARCH 13.—For the last eight-and forty hours we have had terrible gales of wind, with heavy showers of sleet and rain. At about twelve o'clock a large three-masted ship was observed to bring to an anchor at the entrance of Studwell Road. In about an hour she broke adrift, and was instantly carried over the rocks with great violence on the westernmost of the Studwell islands. The moment she struck, the whole of the masts fell over the sides, and in the course of an hour the ship broke asuader in several parts, and not a vestige was to be seen. The gale not abating, it was dangerous to launch a boat from the beach, and it is sad:y feared that the chief portion of the crew were drowned. She was named the Caroline, belonging to Liverpool, bound to Africa, with a valuable cargo. Another letter, dated March 14, confirms nearly the whole of the above. It adds, " that eleven of the crew saved themselves by taking to the ship's boats, but the remainder, thirteen in number, perished. No portion of the cargo has been washed on shore. Near Milford Haven, on Tuesday morning, a large French smuggling schooner, was totally wreeked on the rocks about half-a-mile from the harbour, and most of the unfortunate fellows on board met with a dreadful fate. The vessel, which was laden with several hundred tubs of brandy, &c., was, it is supposed, being run ashore by the crew, they taking advantage of the tempestuous state of the weather, in order to run their boats, but she unluckily struck on the rocks (sunken) and immediately went down, carrying with her seven persons, who were drowned. The remainder of the crew, four in number, saved themselves by being washed ashore on the bottom of a small boat. The name of the vessel cannot be as certained, and, what appears strange, the survivors re fuse to give the slightest information. Her loss, with the cargo, is estimated at 6,0004 The remainder of the losses along the coast and at sea since Sunday last, at which time the storm com menced, are, we regret to state, of a most extensive cha racter. They are as follows : Off Staithes, on Sunday night, at about ten o'clock, a large heavily-laden brig (name unknown) suddenly cap sized and disappeared in deep water. The crew went with her (supposed to be nine or ten in number), and perished. The vessel had a white streak painted over her bulwarks, but no other mark could be observed. The sloop Ann Jenny, of Faversham, was totally lost during the gale of the 28th ult., with all hands, consist ing of seven seamen, most of whom are married men, and have left large families. On Sunday morning the brig Symmetry, belonging to Sunderland, was lost be tween that port and Whitby, in consequence of coming in collision with another vessel which was on her voyage from London, and which happily saved the crew. The vessel had a cargo of coals aboard, and her loss is com puted at 2,500/. At Whitby, on Wednesday night, a brig foundered, about four miles distant, to the east of the harbour, with all on board. At Ramsay, in th' Isle of Man, a vessel is sunk in the bay, about three miles off the land, sup posed to have been•run down in the course of Monday night ; no tidings obtained of her crew. At Newport, in Monmouthshire, two vessels were lost on the same night. These were the sloop Dispatch (Baker, master), and the schooner Matilda (Tanford, master), of the same port. These wrecks are sunk at the entrance of the River Usk. One of the seamen of the former was drowned. Accounts were on Thursday last received from Con stantinople, dated Feb. 19, containing the melancholy loss of a Turkish brig in the Gulf of Saros during the heavy gales. The captain and six of his crew were saved ; but the remainder on board, consisting of thirty four passengers, many of whoin were females, and six seamen, were drowned. . _ _ Information has been received at Lloyd's from Capt. Dixon, belonging to the Alpha, of Sunderland, of the total loss of a brig, with all hands. Captain Dixon re ports as follows:—On Saturday last, about half-past one o'clock p.m., whilst proceeding from Sunderland to Gravesend, and when bearing about five miles W.S.W., his attention was suddenly called to a vessel, which im mediately sank with all hands. The wind at that time was blowing tempestuously, and the vessel was some distance ahead of the Alpha; Captain Dixon, however, could distinctly see that her topsails were flying as if the sheets had been broken with the fury of the gale. He sailed as fast as be possibly could to get to her ; whilst so doing he saw her turn completely over, and the cr ew , by some means , go t upon the broadside. At this time Captain Dixon had got within seven or eight yards of her, but he was not fully aware, until he saw her turn over, that she needed assistance, therefore the lines were not ready. Five or six minutes only elapsed from the vessel turning over till she went down. On the side seven persons could be seen, and a hen the ship sunk one man struck out, and was seen struggling violently for life ; it is supposed that he perished with the rest of the crew. The name of the wreck is unknown, but she was laden with coal, and some of the crew of the Alpha state that she bad Scarborough on her stern. CRIM. CON. AND SUlClDE.—Yesterday Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Chequers, Providence-row, Finsbury, on the body of W. H. Freeman, aged twenty-four, employed by Mr. Woodruffe, corndealer, of Worship -street. It appeared in evidence that, eight months since, deceased received injury to the head through having been capsized from one of his master's carts, and that, from that period, he suffered much from constant soporific tendency. How ever, on Monday night last, accompanied by a young widow s who responded to his amatory advances, he attended a raffle at a public-house, and next morning returned to his work somewhat more animated than he had latterly been. At one o'clock he went, as it was thought, to his dinner, but not returning at his usual hour, his young master went to see whether he was in the stable or not. Finding the key not in the door, he entered by another inlet, and found the deceased suspended by theneck from a harness peg by means of a halter. His young master directly cut him down, and sent for Dr. Davi es , w h o t h oug h he tried to restore life, be lieved that deceased had been dead full a quarter of an hour. Soon after deceased's death a letter, full of reproaches, ad dressed to him, arrived from a married woman, with whom he had held criminal correspondence, and in which she in veighed against his ineonstaneyand his connection with her the widow.—Verdict, " Temporary imiagity." STATE OF TRADE FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, MARCH 15.—We are enabled again this week to report an active demand for nearly all descriptions of foreign wool, and recent rates are firmly maintained. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, MARCH 15.—Sales of combing wool, during the present week; have been limited, prices remaining nominally the same as last week. The consumption is undiminished, and is expected to continue large. There is a fair dethand for clothing wools of low and middling qualities, at very firm prices. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, 11.1ARCH25.—The market continues in all respects the same as reported in our last, no improvement in demand, and prices nominal. YORK WooL MARKET, MARCH 14.—We have had a fair supply of warehoused wools to this day's market, but a small comparative amount of business done, incon sequence of an apprehension by the manufacturers that present prices will not he maintained. First-class fleeces realised from 15s. to 15s. 6d. ; locks and cots from 10s. to I2s. per stone. There will be no more York wool markets until the new clip day. LEEDS.—The demand fair single-milled tweeds of low qualities has not been quite so brisk as of late, but better qualities have been more in demand, and good shades suitable for the spring trade have been taken very freely. Low cloths are still in request, particularly in common dyed blacks. Middle qualities of cloths have also gone off rather better this week, but there is no improvement in the demand for fine goods, the prices of which con tinue stationary. There has not been many of the larger buyers in the maket during the week, and busi ness in consequence has been dull in the warehouses. BRADFORD, TICURSDAY.—The piece market continues tolerably brisk, and no accumulation in the manufac turers' hands, which encourages them to seek full prices. The continued advances on cotton warps have made a very serious difference in the cost of a piece, exclusive of the increased price, of worsted weft. Yarns are consi dered hardly as brisk as a few weeks past; the present prices hold no inducement to purchase for distant deli very. The stocks continue low, and prices firm. There is no material alteration in the wool trade; the market is well stocked with most kinds, and, if any change in prices, a shade in favour of the buyers. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY.—We are still very dull and heavy for all kinds of cloth, except a certain descip tion of shirtings, which for the last fdw days have been readily sold at a small advance on India and China ac count. Printing cloth is again lower, and dull at the decline. Twist is without any change in value, but there is no life in. the trade, as neither the German or Russian houses have commenced their spring purchases. The demand for the Bradford market is still very good.— Leeds Mercury. THE EXCLUSIVE WORKHOUSE. (From Punch.) So admirably has the New Poor-law operated in the prevention of pauperism, and-so satisfactory has been its influence on the poor themselves, in alleviating their sufferings, endearing them to their benefactors, the rich, and diffusing among them a spirit of subordination and content, that Government, w% understand, is meditating an extension of its principle for the benefit of the younger sons, ruined spendthrifts, and portionless daughters of the superior classes. Exclusive Workhouses are to be provided as places of refuge for the destitute aristocracy. Arrangements strictly corresponding to those of the union workhouse, but modified in accordance with the quality of the inmates, will regulate these establish ments. The diet will be as simple as a refined palate can bear, and limited rigidly to that quantity which will just suffice for the maintenance of genteel existence. The dress of both sexes will be plain and respectable, such as a gentleman or lady would be rather ashamed to be seen in, and no superfluous comforts, amusements, or accommodations will be allowed. In fine, the Exclusive Workhouse will be divested of all inducements which might tempt a person of fashionable ideas to wish to enter it. For breakfast, plain bread and butter at. discretion will be allowed, with tea or coffee and sugar; but no eggs, ham, tongue, anchovies, chocolate, or any other more palatable articles of food. This meal will take place at nine precisely. Dinner, which will be served at three, will consist of a plain joint, roast or boiled, with bread, potatoes, and the ordinary garden vegetables; neither soup, nor fish, nor game of any description, even when sent as presents, allowed to be dressed. The joint to be followed by a plain tart or pudding of the fruit in season. The repast to cen elude with bread and cheese, which latter is to be a good common Stilton or Cheshire, exclusive of all Gruyere, Parmesan, or Neufchatel. No omelettes, macaroni, or any fi 'reign or made dishes to be permitted. Sherry to be allowed during dinner, and port afterwards, and table ale or porter to those who wish for them. Every gentleman at dinner to be limited to two glasses of sherry, and every lady to one. After dinner the gentle men to have three glasses of port a piece, and the ladies two ; and each individual to be entitled to a captain's biscuit : no other dessert. The above to be the only wines suffered in the workhouse, and all persons con victed of smuggling in hock. champagne, burgundy, or any other description of liquors than those provided, to be punished by solitary confinement. 'l'ea. same as breakfast, at seven. No other meal. The dress of the gentlemen is to consist of a blue coat, with plain cloth buttons, black waistcoat, and pepper and•salt kerseyniere trousers, with Wellington boots, not of patent leather. No gentleman to wear mous taches. Ladies dresses to be of good Mousseline-de- Nine, of a simple and uniform pattern, cotton stockings, without open work, and black morocco shoes, unsan dalled. No lady to be adorned with any trinket beyond her wedding-ring; and no gentleman to appear with a watch-guard or an eye-glass. Husbands and wives to be compelled to live together ; but the separation of parent from child to be strictly enforced. Gentlemen are to be expressly interdicted from the use of snuff and cigars ; and no lady to be indulged with smelling-salts or vinaigrettes, except by medical order. The ladies also will be forbidden to wear or carry bouquets. All novels, newspapers, magazines, and works of fietion to be excluded. No billiards to be permitted. Any lady caught waltzing to be punished. The employment of the ladies to consist in fancy or ornamental needle-work ; in making copies of paintings and drawings; the sale of the articles manufactured to be applied to the support of the establishment. The gentlemen to be employed in penmanship, as the drawing up of official documents, and the like. Those capable of literary exertion to be allowed to write articles, and compose poetry and jokes, also saleable, on behalf of the establishment, to the proprietors of Punch and others. Ladies or gentlemen refusing to work to be confined to their own apartments. Each person to have a bed room and sitting-room, but no more. Plain brown Windsor soap and water to be the sole adjuncts to the toilet, to the exclusion of all Circassian cream, Kalydor, Rondeletia, and all other pomades and perfumes. The children to be kept in a separate part of the establishment, and to be instructed, under the auspices of competent persons, in literature, the sciences, morality, music and dancing. Further particulars will transpire when the Bill for the purpose intended is brought before Parliament, which will be shortly. THE WILL FORGERIES. We are informed, upon what we consider good authority, that William Sanders, of Bristol, fish monger, whose name has been so much mentioned in the will forgeries cases, and whose wife is supposed to be the notorious Emma Slack, was apprehended at Edinburgh on Friday last by John Forrester, the able and zealous police-officer of the Mansion-house. The ingenuity and activity used on behalf of the prosecution, in tracing and obtaining a clue to the locus in quo of Sanders, appears, from what we have heard, to have been most extraordinary. All was done in the quiet silent way by the wide-awake officer. The offence of which Sanders is considered to be guilty consists in his having personated Thomas Hunt, the assumed grandson of one Mary Hunt, and obtained a sum of stock and dividends amounting to about 2,0001. The true Mary Hunt was a widow, who died at Bath in the year 1806, without children, leaving a will, which was proved in the Prerogative Court in 1807, by her executors, who, not being acquainted with the affairs of the deceased, omitted to claim the stock in question. The stock, and the interest upon it, were consequently trans ferred to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt in the year 1842. About that time, Joshuah Fletcher, who has been charged with partici pation in the will forgeries exposed before the Lord Mayor, heard of the transfer, and the consequence was, that, in June of that year, a will was produced at Doctors' Commons, purporting to have been made by Mrs. aunt, in favour of Thomas Hunt, a grand son of Mary Hunt. The alleged grandson took lodgings in Tottenham-court-road, for a few weeks, pretending to be the mate of a ship, and absconded immediately after he had succeeded in obtaining the stock and dividends. _ clue the circumstances which guided the prosecutors to Sanders were ascertained is not known to the public, but we are informed that it was known to them within a week after the development of Miss Slack's case, that the assumed Emma Slack was Lydia Sanders, the wife of the man now in custody, and Sanders himself was the assumed Thomas Hunt. Since that period, the most diligent search has been made for man and wife ; and we understand that John Forrester has pursued them throughout the south of England, to Guernsey, France, and at last to Scotland, where, after having been absent about three weeks, he at length effected the apprehension of Sanders, who was concealed there under a feigned name. It is said that a principal circumstance leading to the knowledge of the guilt of Sanders and his wife was the discovery of a gown in the possession of a daughter of Sanders, which had been purchased by Mrs. ;Sanders with part of the money which was fraudulently obtained by the pretended Emma Slack in April, 1843. Mrs. Sanders is the sister of Mrs. Dorey. It will be recollected that Mrs. Dorey took the lodging for her in the neighbourhood of Totten ham-court-road, at the time Barber and Fletcher were negotiating the " Slack business" at the Bank. It is believed that Emma Slack, alias Lydia Sanders, will shortly appear in propria persona before the Lord Mayor. - - - - --- Liverpool now 'possesses an astronomical observa tory worthy of its commercial greatness, and one which, from the excellence of its instruments, will be able to ascer tain the true time daily, with so much accuracy as to enable the captains of merchant-vessels to regulate their chrono meters exactly, and thus to avoid those errors of time which are often so fatal at sea. Vdry shortly the instant at noon will be shown ,at Liverpool, a. 5 at Greenwich, by the falling 9f a ball at tlas obstaatorY. THE CURRENCY. reports the Manchester Guardian.) a ko The as to the intention of Ministers to re ye , some important changes in the currency, roused the country bankers to an unwonted derfeto. activity. We learn from the London newspapers, wade meeting of gentlemen engaged in that business, stah e id.o legated from different parts of the kingdom, was bat Herbert's Hotel, Palace-yard, London, on ThursdaY; :of the presence of reporters being interdicted, the-obiee,o the proceedings did not transpire. We learn, too, 41. ; the Eastern Counties' Herald, a Hull paper, of T iltlrs h - e n ei, last, that a memorial to Sir Robert Peel on this 31 - 1 , / , '''„ - i it appear to hs t , was agreed upon at a meeting of bankers held at -1- 4 on Saturday last, and is understood to have been siglito by all the private bankers and joint-stock banks 4 0 county of York. In this memorial the Yorkshire 0 , 7 say : A r uia " We cannot too strongly dwell on the evils an which which would be entailed on the farmers by mil c— r os or suppression of the local circulation. It would &Pod them of that necessary assistance which the ctble banks have at all times so liberally afforded, to them to pay their rents, and other engagements, state the produce of their farms could be realised ; and 11 ‘,,c is of things would thus be produced, the inevitable r l— cor of which would be to retard, in a great degree, °Or by ments in agriculture." ed This is precisely the argument which was 116 , 0 0- similar parties in reference to the suppression 0' that pound notes. The country bankers were period quite sure that, without the a' to ol such notes, people could not obtain their married accommodation ; business Gould not be c e ..fe rs on in the agricultural districts ; and the , f retts would be nearl all ruined. Well.!. the smal l ;,-;stet were suppressed; and, notwithstanding these 1, 0 -- predictions, the sun shone, the rain fell, and the , P4 t it somehow contrived to carry on their business ju e ,s" 0 no such direful calamity had befallen them. i i „ r doubt, they will be able to do if their rents show" ote s, pen to be paid in nice clean Bank of England wllholt instead of the dirty and greasy scraps of pa per oi o circulate through the country under the dri er of local notes. As to the uno illiegness of bankers ts..t;ass accommodation except in their own notes , it la thy laughable piece of absurdity that we ever heard of. o 'o doubt, bankers, if such there are, whose cafital,clite of their notes, will find it difficult to gra nt sower elation to farmers or any other parties ; and th e r ths such parties close their establishments the b e tter A° o r public. There is abundance of capital ready ployment in banking, or any other pursuit that oft ' t to yield a profit ; and we are sure that farrners_fi p and responsibility will have no more diffictllV. curing the accommodation they requir e, in Itrets.°l England notes, than the merchants and manufact.7o, Lancashire have now. To suppose that me n of no' • sibility can npw procure accommodation in llt r toe because the bankers lend only their own notesl.L'oftbst timate the prudence and judgment of the banker!, j a st• county at a much lower rate than we belle t°; e •til t j The memorial further says :—" We are sflaelo, many writers on the currency advocate a sinPe.deristiv" issue ; but we confidently press on your cons 4 . 0 01 the value and importance of our practical exPet!datt directly opposed to their opinions, being conriaa the introduction of any system which would P " o f 0,, whole issues of this country . under the power. t er governing body would be prejudicial to the best to Isi of the kingdom." • 0 0 ; We would beg to suggest to these gentlemen,"llo, so much in favour of their " practical experif t ;o % d o one at least of the " writers on the currency, ,lest vocate a single bank of issue, has an experience as extensive as any of them can boast oft 4 - g not only in a London bank, but in one of l o p provincial banking establishments in the king f pt t f o Samuel Jones Loyd has acquired an a mount .° ,jec tical knowledge which, combined with g reat ''' i i s ier s attainments, peculiarly fits him for the due c e er t4 tion of this important subject. In one point, c be Mr. Loyd differs from the Yorkshire banke,./Ilier no private interest to warp his judgment. i t:304 0 0 firm, nor any of the bankers with whom tu,.`,.'refor,„ol said to compete, issue notes ; and he has t`; ; Ad 4 ) . temptation to view the question in any other op in its bearing on the interests of the public. RACE WITH A STEAM - - hee° l l ors ( 0 On Friday, the Bth instant, the Meerza o pe t y) the East India College, Haileybury, met wi t ' s pea , we , most frightful accidents, and providential esieqeerea it has ever been our fate to record. Th .. e ii . l i o g ': l7 o l tet coming from Ware to Hertford, and on a— a to - 00 site the union workhouse, he deternliaed f o r o f the town through the back street, an_ b ° Olt purpose he went down Mead-lane and ,P boot," the railway. The Meerza had proceeded Woe; the distance between the Mead-lane gate 11 ,,, Il it eev o fi' entrance to the railway terminus, when the 'Am, fe bt do train left,the station. The Meerza's horse' offtoel rited animal, immediately became . fel t i4 wheeled round, and dashed back Pl i () li n Lr P ,hte!, pace, literally racing with. the train ; antl u ; An t i? at the gate he had just passed through , l'A animal cleared it at a bound, and aliga7,oo:o fore feet on the very edge of the line of, t he y the very instant that the train arrived a' o i e Pi e ? Fortunately, the horse did not obtain a aef, 0 1 , the-soil of the edge and bank of the railway 1 107 f Pi and the horse's feet slipping back, he 19 3 " . .f e 0 A bank, and the train rolled by, within a fr_ h terj o gle i Meerza's head, as he lay under the 1148-#0 struggling horse—whose I.gs had b e come t freP;oc" in the fencing—unable to disengage his feet stirrups. After the train had passed, th e it e ,e ll te ll ceeded with difficulty in extricating. hints° o il! °Of unpleasant position, as the horse continued - W oe th° o oo with great violence; but we are happy sustained no greater injury than a fesv_i the effect of which he has nearly recov er ' . Reformer. 115' il rpfr REWARD OF FIFTY PO o tS, One of the most atrocious and diabolical pekoe/ ful fire-raising that ever disgraced a coun t /be 3 7,1 at Greenbank, in the parish of Pettinain, o fl ii of Monday se'ennight. Greenbank is 3 eng 'O l the estate of Carmichael, occupied by y o , 0 tho s vote the name of Girdwood, and it apPeaj.ceediotl morning in question, about four, the nita‘Lh", ot P a t '4 and was alarmed by the smell of fire. '',. - .cl 107 1 1 master, and, on going out, they asee rta „;ce 3 ,4 01) 44 0 offices were on fire. With the as sis ' — ut 3 , ‘ ",fir, 4 1 neighbours, the fire was got under, b d th e after a byre, and six cows, a barn g 0in 3 0 0, 5 1. were entirely consumed. The po, ( " ; „'ee 10 714tdf been literally roasted to death, and tn e- ,00 10 "00; sented the appearance of an unctious s n 001 1 , We could not have believed that a wr e _„ tc ho V o dl cruel was to be found in this quarter, "i n th r- s o fire to a house containing cattle tied urn, ; v io o/ 0 / /0 thus leaving them no possibility of ell - 00$ h ieS seems to have been the case. `i re u° ,00 41 ;11 1 , 0 1 circumstance better fitted to engage the right-thinking person than the heavy 105 5 . 5 `„ . tinoco occupant of this farm. Acting upon this rle w fti r ec, benevolent persons have set a subscription 13 ° . Ir s to t e # purpose!of aiding the unfortunate young ° B o o r i ° o also eleven or twelve stacks standing in o pt; s lge l park about a mile and a half from Grf u dicie l l i l r e, r jel stacks were the property of differ ent le fur two of them—one in each row—were. sewejobtooll is with a design to destroy the whole. The cs liaei 1 0 0 .0 to frost, and the morning was beautifuhY boefireie tunately only the two set on fire we , : to po off er,-,0 ground, without communicating a srr,,, belo 1,0 t° around. Fifty pounds as a rewar d " t wit s elh ia , any person who will give information. is la the convicton of the incendiary, y et , t ,terf• feared the thing will remain a 01 Y" ~iev Chronicle. f Of rk i e if pill t 0 DISSENTERS' CRAPEL Committee to which the House of Lords , ( I - be en / 00,4e referred the several petitions that 11 3: iot o 0 ;. ear s A i lif their Lordships, " praying that the ere v i i i . e " ic: o co ters' Chapels Bill may be extended t o '; at f o b b iy bo ` tel' the following Peers, who met on SaturdaPod the first time, to appoint a ChairtnaPL,:..- nil /co v e-4, duties delegated by the House to theqsot, Canterbury, Lord Chancellor, Lord Fr el . o f s°'§ocice a ritl lington, Marquis of Lansdowne, Marq u e l i,ondlpf d ,el Fortescue, Earl of Ripon, Bishops o' Lord Plunket, Lora Brougam, Lord 13 71 0 0teoe Lord Cottenhaue Lord Langdale, Lor d 4 0/ Campbell. 9 11 '0 416 BIRTHS. P- - yea On the sth inst., the lady of John 1)• Culham, Oxfordshire, of a daughter.... Ws' le On the 9th inst., at Boulogne -sur -xer ' of a daughter. „ t ee On the 13th list., at Newton St. life ,e- it e l ite • cusj the Rev. Edward Holland. of a daug_, f e , On the 13th inst., at Weatbourne-W- Wife tIP Henry Walker, of a daughter. refe e t%,, ° oo On the 14th inst., at Christchu rc cr Gonicor'" Gloucestershire, the ady of the Rev. 4 .'"Geos e- On the 15th inst., in Portugal-stree'',abor. ll 1,4* wife of William Manson, Esq., of 3 " u ' .. d el e ee-,e, • MARRapiirolialn 01 0, ho t 41 0 1 1 '; On the 9th inst., at St. Vincent , Foill ef,V i se Esq., late Captain in the Army , r _G e n7 s ,l 4 daughter of J. P. Ross, Esq., j oes , st er On the 9th inst., at the c h urch of bell e . / el. .10' Henry H. Grif fi n, of Lincoln'sslhneodyrjA..,o_ dr. if y e Ellen, widow of the late W. street, Glasgow. Rent, Mr. of 11 eO lc si e On the 13th inst., at Tenterden, t Hythe, to Sarah Weston, eldest ae C beetl i ri 13 , irch, of tbe above place. , On the 14th inst., at St. Lutte'e shire, James Dyce Nicol, Esq., Il A rd K, o o' to Katherine, second daughter of u re sci o r Manchester. Trali t4 - 1 ;11 4 e 159' On the 14th just., at St. John s, „... e to Car' of O r Esq., of Gloucester-crescen t, „ o daughter of A. J. Kempe, Esq., -v.' 410" pie t he 'FP' o f 4 On the sth inst., at Croydon, ' 0 0 ton, brewer, &c., aged 47. Eaele iB $l. • On board the Hibern ia, Mr. John vi deo, 00 e t Captain Eveleigh, R.N. 3 ,1 0 ete,, he ll , J. On the 30th of December, 0u,.. i , a t 0 l'lic" 1 0 '43 Baughan, of her lajesty's stearn;ll,e_,. P /. 4, 1 On the 10th inst., at Bath, th 0.• of B o u n e t k h l e an l d 2 , tahndinKste.ls, haatll,EHtoenrts:cleotne,eil‘eyfeyieico4f7l:l; eldest son of Sir Montague John Cho ii iee t it C ° Hall. On the 12th inst., Ann, wife ot ober of OBaruteehe_tle3rrthacien,stT.,otattenGhraniave,seangdeldi,Ja.: cove:toe vci e Esq., of Greenwich Hospital. 84th ye a r ' On the 14th inst., in Ins of the Park, near Manchester. .„ str • ° ee n t James 13radlel, ..-Oroo, them On the 15th inst.,.o ,tpheortitiatnhdi.Tita.c, Portland -place. r. John Thorn" of cor eee ti o, l9, gUrli o ieref e ai d n pd a ,r n e d cpi nFr Printer,. dr4s Marc h IPI Laft/71htidOcrilia1:eliept,x,ri mon Strand, m Bn t tt h r btelorifs,ll,taketdel.;...4_levoS;ro