The Sun. — London, England, 1836-05-13 00:00:00

N •••„ • SPTZRIT . OF THE PUBLIC'JOURNALSoki The rapidity with which Bills for the avowed pur pose of relieving the distressed . peasantry in Ireland follow upon each other's heels, can hardly keep /pace with. the occasions that daily arise for-the interposition of the Legislature between the people of that country and their landlords. We rarely open an Irish news paper, without seeing harrowing details of the extreme want of the poor, and of the rigorous measures adopted by the landowners for the enforcement of rack rents. Cupidity is not, however, the worst cause of the de population which is taking place in that unhappy country. Religious rancour is the great fountain of that ruin in which the peasantry are engulphed. When to exorbitant exactions are added political spleen and religious bigotry, it were wonderful indeed if the people who are weighed down by these evils, exhi- biteA comfort in their appearance, or contentment in their demeanour. What Englishman, with the heart of a man within his breast, .could read the shocking account of depopulation in a district of the county of Carlow, which' is given in the Dub lin Evening Post received at • this office yesterday, and not exclaim, in the warmth of his indigna- . tier, that peace ought not to be in a country where outrages of this sort can, with imuunity, be perpe trated by landlords and their agents. Such, we are sure, would be the language of an -Englishman who • felt that the soil was . not made by Providence for landlords solely ; and his words he would follow up by acts, were the lauded proprietary of this country so devoid of bowels of compassion as to attempt to ex tort the marrow out of the bones of their tenantry, and when the process of exhaustion was complete, then to turn them adrift upon the world. Yet such is the constant practice of. the landlords of Ireland— of these monsters in human shape, who cry out against the insubordination of the people, whom their own barbarous conduct has driven to despair, and would drive into rebellion, were it not for the in fluence of that Priesthood, which it is the fashion with Tory orators and scribblers to abuse, as if the body were demons, and remonstrate against a Poors' Law as inapplicable to the condition of that country ! Doubtless the persons who reduce the Irish pea sant to starvation, and sweep whole families out of their holdings, without considering or caring how they are to obtain subsiStence, hate the very thought of a legislative enactment by which their rapacity would be checked and their cruelty punished ; but we question if they will, find much sympathy in England when the independent people of this country under stand that scenes such as are described in an extract from a heart-rending letter published by the Rev. James Maher, administrator of the parish of Carlow, in the Dublin Evening Post (inserted in another co lumn), do actually occur in the sister country. Gra cious Heaven ! are we reading of the wretchedness of fellow subjects, and is it in an integral portion of the British empire that these outrages upon humanity are committed by persons who, perhaps, plume themselves on their morality, their fine feelings, and their zeal for the propagation of the word of God—and permitted by the Legislature ? Alas ! the oppressed and the oppressors are subjects of the British Crown—and lrel:and, a country united to us by law, and by a Community of interests stronger and more binding than law, is the theatre of the horrible devastation. Rave we a right to look for peace, prosperity, or allegiance in a country where the law allows the peasantry to be thus tortured—and where those whose immediate interest and duty it is to protect the people, are themselves the torturers? If a persecuting landlord; a griping agent, or a fleecing parson, now and then falls beneath the arm of some victim to his cruel extortion, the public are stunned by the loud wailing of the corrupt and fanatical crew who arrogate to themselves peculiar virtue and godliness ; but to the lamentation and miseries of hundreds of hunted pea sants, ejected from their humble, but to them endeared habitations, and thrown friendless, pennyless, and for lorn upon the highway, with the awful alternative of dying of famine in the ditches, or turning felons and perishing upon the scaffold, these vengeful Tartuffes are (1,...e eado.r., and irtssoiaaado ae fk torpoao. The period is, however, arrived when the Irish peasant most be rescued from the grasp of his perseciaors and the slanders of his canting calumniators. A well-regu lated system of Poors' Law will, in a great measure, cure the evils that have sprung from centuries of mis rule, and made the condition of Ireland a.disgrace and a stumbling block to the British Government. Habits of temperance, economy, and industry will take the place of inebriety and imprudence ; and independence, superseding a slavish subserviency, will mr.ke the Irish peasantry good citizens and good subjects.—Morning Chronicle. The organs of the revolutionary movement have suspended, apparently, all other machinations, and de voted themselves to the one paramount scheme of abusing and vilifying the Upper House of Parliament. We have, as usual, " the people of Ireland" dragged upon the stage, and all sorts of denunciations launched against the Tory Lords, because they refuse to let the liberal and lawful Popish priests of that co'intry govern it in the name (though very far from on behalf) of that people. Th e L or d s are sworn 'at and threatened with extinction, because they insist on " irresponsible" government in Ireland. Now, if ever there was injus tice and falsehood, it is this ; for there is and can be no irresponsible power in Ireland, but that which founds itself on influences and authorities not ac knowledged by the law, nor amenable to the law, and which, in fact, boast that their mode and sphere of ac tion are above, and independent of it. This power is no other than the dominion of the Roman Catholic priesthood, which by impelling men through motives of which human tribunals can take not the slightest cognizance, does, in truth, exercise a supremacy not responsible to the law or the Constitution. The Mu nicipal Reform Bill for Ireland comes on again in the House of Lords this day, when we trust the finishing hand will be given to the good work of emancipating the towns of Ireland from the irresponsible power of the priests, under which they must have groaned, had, the Bill been left uncorrected, and placing them under the control and jurisdiction of the constituted autho rities of the State, which are one and all in their seve ral conditions responsible to the supreme Court of Parliament, and more especially to the representatives of the people. If the Lord Lieutenant or his Secre tary perverts any lawful trust reposed in him to ends inconsistent with those for which the trust was created, the means of redress are open and accessible. The State is all-powerful over its servants. But what re sponsibility can be enforced against those tyrants who are not servants of the State, and whose methods of operating upon the minds of an immense body of the King's subjects cannot be brought under the cognizance either of the civil magistrate or the Legislature? How bring a subtle priest to the bar of fire House of Commons for what he perpetrate: ; under the meal of confession, or from the sanctuary of tha. altar ? No demagogue so audacious, or Whig so dishonest, as to deny that the power of flee priest over the multitude is real ; then let us push_ the point a little bit further, and require . of them t.,, show in w h at s h ape, or to w h at ex tent, it is responsiok. The Lords will, we are sure, be wise enough, and brave enough, to p er si s t i n th e course d Al l ey have adopted, and ter vest power in the hr.nds of par.res who can be punished for the abuse of it, insteail of confiding it to those who cannot. But when we hear the House of Louis insulted, and the arbitrary sway of a hierarchy, or a democracy, each alike domineering and lawless, preferred to that of a constitutional monarchy, of which an upper and here ditary House of Parliament has for eight centuries formed an essential branch, what proofs are brought in corroboration of these licentious calumnies. Is the House of L or d s al w ays in the wrong—we mean when ,j'adged by th e s t an d ar d o f p o pular doctrine ? Look at the Constabulary bill for Ireland, and see what havoc the Peers haee e made in the corruption and profliga c y with ' w hi c h t h e 8.41 as first framed was overflowing. Th e li st o rdi.;pectors meditated by the Whig own friends, Min'"ers, to o 'e provided for amongst their was ,'‘.lginally 42, at 5001. per annum each .inspector. The Lords, in their excessive passion for the !waste. ' o f' public money, have reduced 38 of that 0. corps, and dimie'b ierit the expense •by 19.00 a • Tie, -sub-i nspectors h ave b een reduce ' freq ' ea with a p ecun i ary sav i ng of .. 1,7501:. pyr. .ern. The paymasters have been re duced from '42 to 18, and the expense curtailed by ''t - % _,. 2,4001, per annum. The total yearly saving thus ef fected has been 23,1501., calculated, of course, upon the supposition that under Whig-Radical patronage and economy the highest -salary allowed by law would, in each case, have been given ; and it is to the Oppo sition Peers that this good work must be chiefly attri buted. The inspectors were reduced on a motion by the Opposition Lords. The Duke of Wellington, a keen and searching economist, thought that 10 paymasters might have sufficed, but 18 have been permitted. The Peers have left the Lord-Ututcnant the same powers respecting the numbers of the police which ex isted under the old law, but there was an unconstitu tional and insufferable power prepared for him by the new constabulary measure—namely, that of augment ing at his own will and pleasure the police force to an indefinite amount, and paying them out of the conso lidated fund, and from grand jury assessments. In other words, the Lord-Lieutenant would have had a power of which the Crown has been stripped for about two centuries—viz., that of raising an army of unli mited numbers, under the name of a police, and pro viding for their subsistence in a manner not subject to tine restraints of the Mutiny Bill, or of an annual vote by Parliament. This step towards autocracy the House of Lords—the slandered House of Lords— has rebuked and stopped in limine. The Lords have been further guilty of an offence which will never be pardoned by those practical despots who torment our ears with declamations upon the virtues of democracy. Their Lordships have detected and expunged those insidious and ominous words of the new Act, which had not existed in any former Act of Parliament, whereby the Lord-Lieutenant would have been enabled to trample upon the common law of the land, and to wrench out of the hands of the King's courts of jus tice the power of requiring the police constalilcs to as sist the local magistrates in executing writs . issued by the Judges. The direct tyranny flowing out of this clause was the most dangerous part of the transaction —the treachery of it was the most odious—and the King's patriotic Ministers, when taxed with both, had not a word to say for themselves, either of explanation or denial. The libelled House of Lords have provided ,that no person, being a salaried magistrate under the Act, shall be capable, under the same Act, of holding a second office—a pledge against civil pluralities which had not been thought of by the conscientious Whigs. The Lords have provided such forms of account as ' shall bring the economy of the service under the su-- pervision of the grand juries, and thus protect the counties from the imposition of unnecessary charges— a further precaution altogether superfluous in the judgment of Whigs, where other people's money was in question. Yet, with all these corrections and de cided alterations, the Peers, among whom are more solid statesmen and fewer shallow revolutionists than may be met with in other assemblies, have in no de degree impaired, but much enhanced, the efficacy and value of this important measure. Such are a small proportion of the services—constitutional and popular services—which the House of Lords, the object of so much ruffianly and brutal, but, please God, impotent and unsuccessful clamour, has rendered to the empire in its legislative character within the last few weeks. What have the maligners of that great class of British subjects been doing in the mean time, and how have they employed themselves ? In nothing, or much worse than nothing. In postponing good laws or concocting bad ones—in postponing ,sine die a poor law for the miserable Irish peasantry, or in striving to sharpen an inhuman law for the destruction of the Reformed Church in Ireland—a law which they will never carry—a law, their succes sive defeats on which they will never be able to tor ture into provocativeS of any serious sedition—a law without which they cannot much longer hold their seats as Ministers of the British empire, but which, thanks to the common law and its administrators, they can no longer cram down the throats of the Irish clergy, offering them .no alternative but starvation. The Ministers, it is indisputable, have been more gravelled by the tried efficiency of the Irish Exchequer process in the recovery of tithe (which tithe none can be more anxious to commute on equitable terms than we are), than by any difficulty arising from the come. bination of parties, or the lofty unshaken determina tion of the House of Lords. But the crisis approaches, and we shall soon have ample food for observation and reflection.—. Times. A short time since we endeavoured to impress upon the public attention the great necessity of extreme cau tion, in regard to the numerous Joint-stock Companies now in course of formation. In the discussion which took place on the Budget, our opinions were reiterated by Mr. P. Thomson and Sir Robert Peel, each of whom insisted strongly on the danger of rashly em barking in speculations of a character so absurd and visionary as .are many of those at present before the public. There can be no question of the country hav ing in many instances derived great advantage from Joint-stock Companies ; but many of those at present springing up, ,from their nature and object, can have no other effect than to enable designing individuals to enrich themselves at the expense of the unsuspecting and unwary shareholder. In proportion as Joint stock Companies, for judicious purposes, are advan tageous, so should be the • desire of putting down bubble speculations, which are to be deprecated —not only from the actual mischief which they effect—but also from the hindrance which they cause to undertakings of a beneficial and bona fide character. Fran a registry kept by direction of the Board of Trade, of the proposals for Joint-stock Com panies, published in the London and country newspa pers, it appears that the nominal capital proposed to be raised by subscription amounts to no less a sum than two hundred millions sterling. ' True it is, that it is to be borne in mind, however, that there is an important, difference between the present *speculations and those of 1825, in the former being for the most part directed to domestic objects, while the latter were principally foreign undertakings. This will at least have the effect of securing to the public the advantage of the works which may be accomplished, even if they should prove detrimental to the individual speculators. The spirit of enterprise now abroad also differs essentially from that of 1825, in its emanating from the unusually pros perous state of our commerce. National industry is now impelled onward by a flowing tide and favourable winds, and it only needs the exercise of moderate discrimina tion to secure permanent prosperity. But still, although the speculations which arc now . afloat are confined to objects of a domestic character, the public must ex ceedingly lack the discretion and foresight which it ought to possess, if it dream for a moment that great public disasters would not result from their uncon trouled indulgence. As was judiciously and properly remarked on Friday last by the Right Honourable the President of the Board of Trade, the system of discounting beyond their means adopted by the Joint- Stock Country Banks, and the universal rise of prices during the last eight or twelve months, have generated the speculating mania which now pervades the coun try ; and so long as the first givers of bills are able to meet their engagements, and prices continue to rise, no distress will be felt; but let prices fall, and then not only the parties engaged in the transactions, qut the country, through them, pay the penalty of the present state of things. Now it is morally impossible that the high prices which at present exist can con tinue for any length of time. Their origin is, in a great measure, attributable to a variety of temporary causes ; and it must not also be forgotten that the ac complishment of the undertakings to which we refer, is directly calculated to lower as well as to equalize them. Let the public, therefore, be cautious in what schemes they embark their capital. There are many of those now before the public which are deserving of every support ; but there are many also of a most eminently bubble character, which a century of prosperity would not render profitable. Bali 7 . Two hundred millions of superfluous capital in the country, and all to be em barked in Joint Stock Companies, and to pay a remu nerating profit ! Why, the mere mention of it suggeets the idea of a retreat for the insane.---Morning Ad vertiser. Several of our fishing boats left Hastings for sea on Sunday se'nnight. The storm which came on i., the night dispersed them, some reaching home, others Brighton, and so me Dover. Of one there is no tidings, but from the infor mation received, little doubt remains that she was upset in the gale, and we fear all on board have perished. Her crew con sisted of four men and one boy ; and two cf the fishermen have left large families.—Brighton Gazette. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 13,_1836. KING'S BENCH.-THURSDAY. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT• The Matters of the Petitions and Schedules of the Prisoner, hereinafter named (the same having been filed in the Court) are appointed to be heard, at the Court-house, in Portugal street, Lincoln's Inn-fields on MONDAY, May 16, 1836, at Nine o'Clock in the Forenoon. Lyon, R. R., High Holborn, foreman to an upholsterer. Brasher, T., Marshall-street, Golden-square, sworn appraiser. Kirkby, Crawford. street, Marylehone, butcher. Ballinger, J., llornsey-road, Islington ' carpenter. Tarrant, J.,Great Alie-strect, Whitechapel, pewterer. Slade, W., Hertford-street, Fitzroy-square, bricklayer. Holt, R., Milton-place, Euston-square, St. Pancras, joiner. Flinton, W., Half Moon street, Bishopsgate-street Without, clerk. Brightwen, 1., Church-street, Hackney, veterinary surgeon, Fox, J., Norton Folgate, earthenware-dealer. Pilkington, S., Chandos-street, Covent-garden, porkman. Wilson, W., New-street, Newington, Surrey, bricklayer. On TUESDAY, May 17.—Same Hour and Place. Ellis, G., King's Arms-place, Commercial-road, Ratcliffe, omnibus master. Ray, R., Swan. lane, Rotherhithe, sawyer. Liley, E., Lawrence-street, Chelsea, omnibus conductor. Metz, S., Regent-street, Oxford-street, bill broker. Heslep, J., Crispin-street, Spitalfields, victualler. Stent, J., Calcutta-place, East India-road, Poplar, retailer of beer. Cock, IL, Red Lion-greet, Spitalfields, coal-merchant. Newman, 1., Mason's End, near Gerrard's Cross, Bucks, foreman lime burner. Tomkinson, C., Woking, near Ripley, Surrey, plumber. Iggukien, J., High-street, Cranbrook, Kent, butcher. Adjourned case from the 22d of April , 1836 . Nash, W., Morris's-walk, Bridge-street, Southwark, wool-carder. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUS TOM-HOUSE, MAY 12. The Earl of Liverpool, Lomax, from Ostend ; Emma, Lessingder, Louvain ; Emelia, Marcos, Calais ; Four Sisters, Butterfield, Amsterdam ; London Merchant, Strannack, Rot terdam. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, MAY 12. The Batavier, Dunlop, for Rotterdam ; John Bull, Corbin, Hamburgh ; Barden Bruder, Volckman, Stettin ; Familien, Hosted, Hals and Copenhagen ; Mary Anne and Arabella, Spence, Vera Pazbentral Aminer ; Friendschaft, Danker, Hamburgh ; Esquimaux, Butterwick, Hudson's Bay ; An dromeda, Clarkson, New York ; New Hopewell, Ariker, Rendsburg and Konigsburg; Earl of Liverpool, Lomax, Os tend; Harmony, Taylor, Labrador. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, MAY 12. The Douglas, Hamilton, for Sydney and New South Wales ; Wansbeck, Harrison, Sierra Leone; Dundee Merchant, Fife, Marseilles; Princess Victoria, Carpels, Antwerp ; Imperial, Spencer, St. Petersburg; George, Comfort, Montreal ; Alexander Baring, De St. Croix, Canton and Quebec ; Jane, Gray, St. Lucia; John, Gray, Rio Janeiro; Somlenster, Cocks, Christiania; 'Dart, Wilson, Conigsburg. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, MAY 12. The Inger Mathilda, Thygissens, for the Baltic ; Andreas, Friederkoon, Norway ; l'Aurore, Joseph, Gravelines ; Hoop, Weighland, Workum; Vrow Dewke, Slugs, Workum; Thetis, Lazengen, Lisbon ; Hector, Morrison, Baltic 4 Cowla Maria, Koplir, Rostock ; Christein, Berzel, Elsineur ; Grass hopper, Bellinghurt, South Whale Fishery ; Ruth, Hardy, ditto. ARRIVED AT LIVERPOOL, MAT 11. The Fair Arcadian, from Honduras. ENTERED FOR LOADING, MAY 11. The Italy, for Canton; Hoop, Guyt, Rotterdam; James Mattheson, Singapore. CLEARED OUTWARDS, MAY 12. The Hannah, Clayton, for La Guayra ; St. Leon, West cald, New York; De Jersey, Picold, Jersey; Ganges, M'Dowall, Maranham ; General Harwood, Gowan, Bombay 6 Barton, Barbadoes; Oporto, Martin, Oporto ; Convivial, S Petersburgh. TELEGRAPHED. • Wind at Holyhead, S. W.—Off Holyhead, inward-bound, the Betsey, Hall, from Exeter; Enchantress, from Savannah; Adam Lodge, from Charleston. HARDY V. MATTHEW S. This was an action of trespass for pulling down a wall erected by the plaintiff. Tho defendant 'pleaded that he was possessed of a certain house held under Mr. Bingham, that in that house there was a window, in front of which the plaintiff had erected the wall. That this wall had in terrupted the plaintiff's ancient light,, wherefore the de fendant had removed the obstruction. There were several other pleas, and to all of these the plaintiff had specially replied, but the simple question in the cause was, whether . - the window was an ancient light. Lord DEN3IAN having left the whole question to the Jury, they returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages Is. FILLFUL V. ARMSTRONG. This was an action to recover from the defendant, who kept a school at Cheltenham, the amount of wages due to the plaintiff from the period of his dismissal, which took place on the 10th of February, to what would have. been the end of the year's hiring of his services by the defendant. The plaintiff was a Frenchman, who had been engaged by the defendant as French teacher and drawing master, at a salary .of 601. a year, and when the school broke up for the Christmas holidays the plaintiff went on a visit to France. The 30th of January was fixed for the re-assembling of the ushers, but the plaintiff did not arrive on that day. The following day was Sun day, and on Monday morning the defendant wrote up to his London agent to engage him 'another French teacher and drawing master. Shortly afterwards the plaintiff arrived. The defendant remonstrated with him about not having come at the proper time, and the plaintiff proceeded to his duties, and on Wednesday night he received a note from the defendant, announcing that his engagement was at an end, for that another teacher was coming down. The plaintiff finding he had no choice left, brought the present action. The Jury returned a verdict for the defendant. COMMON PLEAS-THURSDAY. DANCE V. GRATTAN. This was an action arising out of an agreement connected with the Diorama, Regent's Park. The demand consisted of three sums, amounting to 112/. The defendant pleaded nil debit. The defendant had ten shares in the provincial circuit of the Diorama. One thoti - sand francs were ad vanced by the plaintiff upon these shares, two of which were sold to Captain O'Donnell, and the money received by the plaintiff, and pleaded by the defendant as a sot-off to the residue of the demands. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 851. INSOLVENT COURT.-THURSDAY Daniel Palen, described as a bill broker, was opposed by Mr. Cooke, on the part of Mr. Sherwood, an attorney. The insolvent had been twice declared a bankrupt, and had obtained his certificates. The'last bankruptcy was the latter end of 1832, and the previous one, in the year 1816, was not mentioned in the petition. His present debts amounted to 4,153/. For 5471. he had received no con sideration, leaving 3,383/.`for which he had received con sideration. On the other side he claimed credits to the amount of 2,4111., of which 1,875/. he said was owing by a party to whom he had transferred bills of exchange and promissory notes to discount. His business as a bill broker was to receive bills and get them discounted. In that man ner!, he had received various bills, which he had given to the party in question to discount. He had not done so, but tl:e gentleman who had entrusted him with the bills had had to pay them, and he had inserted them as creditors in his schedule. The debt he considered " doubtful." He de clared that he had only received 3001. from the party, and bad given him securities to the amount of the debt he claimed. A minute inquiry into the bills he had received from some public characters was made. They had given the insolvent the bills, but had not received the money, and afterwards paid them. In two instances they were bills 5001. each. The insolvent declaied that he had not re ceived the money from the party who was to discount them. The COURT decided that the " discounting party" must be produced. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS. These sessions commenced on Wednesday before Mr. CONST and a full bench of Magistrates. The calendar contains the names of eighty-three prisoners, of whom six teen are charged with being idle and disorderly, seventeen for riot, eighteen for stealing, and thirty-four (under twenty years of age) for various minor offences. Joseph Cannon and James Maters were indicted for keeping a common gaming house in Pickering-place, St. James's, in October, 1834- The defendants had traversed over from the last sessions, and two other co-defendants, included in the same indictment, did not appear to take their trial. The Jury found a verdict of guilty. POLLICE INTELLIGENCE. THAMES POLICE. FAMILY JARS.--Yesterday Thomas Dale, the mate of a ship, was brought before Mr. BALLANTINE and Mr. CLARKSON, charged with beating his wife Elizabeth, who, the moment she entered the office, and before the officer had time to administer the oath, began with great volubility to relate that she was the most injured of women, and ever since her husband had come into possession of some money, he had been in the habit of ill-using her. The night before last he gave her a black eye while they were in bed !. Mr. BALLANTINE remarked that . it was somewhat ex traordinary the parties should begin fighting in bed, and asked Mrs. Dale if they had not quarrelled at supper time? The Wife—No, Sir ; he has got another hussey he wishes to go out with, and I won't let him. Husband—Oh I Betsy, you can't say so ! Mr. BALLANTIND—I don't want you to tell me too much of your secrets ; but did you not scold him in bed about the hussey, as you call her ? The wife—No, Sir, I did not. If you did but know what a good wife lam to him, you would pity me. He beat me black and blue—here's a state my arms, neck, and face a►e in ! Look at them !—(She here diSplayed her bruises.) The husband, in defence, said that he and his wife bad been at a friend's house on the evening in question, where she grew jealous of a woman much younger than herself, and when he got into bed, she began tearing him to pieces with her nails. Mr. BALLANTINE—You don't appear any the worse for it. It is a very great pity that you can't live on amicable terms, just after fortune has smiled upon you. Husband—You know, Betsy, you went and got my money, and wouldn't let me have it. Mr. BALLANTINX-I hope she will keep it. The women can take better care of money, and spend it better than the men. Wife—Oh, Thomas, you gave me a dose of poison ; you isint it. Husband—You are telling stories, Betsy. I was deter mined you should not take any more of pill of cotii and Morison's pills, and I gave you a dose to do you good. Ellis, the officer, said the defendant had been captain of a ship. He had squandered away considerable property bequeathed him by a relative lately deceased. Mr. BALLANTINE said he believed the parties had some fondness for each other, as the husband called his' wife by her Christian name, and she did the same. He believed that a reconciliation might be effected ; but in the mean time the defendant must find bait to keep the peace, in or der to prevent him fighting with his wife between the sheets and ill-using her as he had done. An affray, we are given to understand, recently tool place at Oxford, between some military officers and the Proc• tors, which has been made the subject of a ser i ous i nvest i ga tion at the Horse Guards. The parish of Rampton, near East Retford, can boast of what few parishes can in the kingdom—namely, that of having a Vicar, the Rev. Richard Barrow, in the 90th year of his age ; his Curate, the Rev. Edmund Wallace, in his 87th year ; and their Clerk, Mr. Robert Brown, in his 82d year ; all enjoying remarkably good health, and every one of them able to read without spectacles. Yesterday morning, between eight and nine o'clock, another of those too frequent accidents which occur to female servants, from standing outside of windows to clean them, oc curred to Maria Jackson, a young woman, 18 years of age, in the service of Mrs. Burglois, in York-street, Bryanston-square. She was standing outside of the. back drawing-room windows, laughing and talking to her fellow-servant, who was engaged in cleaning the insrde, when suddenly the latter pulled the window down, which caught the fingers of Jackson, and from the agony she endured she let go her hold, a nd fell into the back area, a height upwards of 25 feet. Both her legs were fractured in a shocking manner. On Monday, as the daughter of Mr. Curtis, of Peter-street (a girl about 13), was crossing the London -road, opposite Walcot- terrace (several coaches passing at the time), she was knocked down by the leader of the company's coach, which was travelling at its usual pace, and before the coach man could pull up the horses and coach passed quite over her, without doing her the least injury, except a very trifling bruise on her head. The coachman pulled up as quickly as possible. —Bath Journal. DREADFUL FIRE AT SUNDERLAND. --.About four o'clock on Saturday morning last, the ship-building yard of Messrs. Adamson, of Bishopwearmouth Pans, was disco vered to be in flames. It commenced among dry shavings and burned with great fury, extending to a number of fir deals and other wood. We have heard the loss estimated at from 4,0001. to 5,0001. Mr. Taylor had, it is said, upwards of 5.00.0 bushels of malt in his malting, the whole of which was destroyed. We are happy to state that no accident of a very serious nature happened to any person.— Tyne Mercury. EAST INDIA. The Duke of Sussex, Horsman, from China, off Penzance, sailed from Lintin the 14th of January, and St. Helena the 14th of March ; the Windsor, Henning, front Bengal, off Ply mouth, saled from Saugur the 23d of January, Table Bay the 12th of March ; and St. Helena the 24th ; the Duke of Buc cleuch, Martin, from Bengal, off Plymouth, sailed October, Madras the 7th of January, Table Bay the 7th of March ; the Elizabeth, M'Nair, from Bengal, off Cork, sailed from Cal cutta the 20th of December, St. Helena, 26th of February ; the Arethusa, Jane, from Manilla, off Plymouth, sailed 20th November, and the Cape the sth of February. Passengers per Windsor, from Bengal-Mrs. L. Clarge, Dr. Grant (landed at the Cape), Mrs. Dr. Brett, Mrs. Boyd, Mrs. Simpson, Mrs. Kellett, Miss F. Boyd, and Miss J. Boyd, C. Beecher, Esq. Civil Service; J. A. Pringle, Esq., Civil Service - R. H. Tullop, Esq., Civil Service; and Dr. J. Grant (landed at the Cape) ; Major E: Campbell, 3d B. L. C. ; - Boyd, Esq. ; W. Patrick, Esq. ; J. W. Sutherland, Esq. ; R. Speers, Esq. ; A. A. Mackay, Esq. Children-Misses S. L. Clarke, M. L De Brett, A. Boyd, J. Boyd, A. and H. Simpson ; Masters C. Boileau, R. Boileau, J. Crawford, H. Do Brett, H. and A. Simpson, and fourteen servants. From the Cape-Miss E. De Wett, Miss A. De Wett, A. Horak, Esq. ; A. Felirozen, Esq. • Passengers per Boxbournebury, from Bengal (expected)- Hon. Mrs. Lindsay, Mrs. H. Lushington, Mrs. Cu!. Faith ful, Mrs. Captain Fell, Mrs. Blundell, Mrs. W. Bell, Mrs. Low, Miss Halcott, Mrs. Campbell, R. Saunders, Esq., C. S. ; G. W. Trail!, Esq., C. S. ; Captain Blandell, his Majesty's I lth Dragoons ; Capt. Wm. Grant, 27th N. I. ; Lieut. Har per, his Majesty's 9th Regiment ' • Capt. I. H. Low, Miss S. Davidson, Master J. G. Blundell, Miss M. L. Robinson ' Miss E. S. Robinson, Master C. J. G. Robinson, Master Holland, Master H. Hindants, Miss Metcalf, Miss G. Metcalf, Miss L, Lushington, Miss S. Lushington, Miss Millet, Miss H. Mil lett, Miss M. A.. Wilkinson, Miss M. Trail!, Master F. W. Borough, Master D. Farrington, Master H. Farrington, Miss E. Faithful!, Master J. Fell, Miss F. M. Robertson, Miss A. G. Robertson, Master H. Lowe, Misses J. and C. Kennedy, Master T. Kennedy, Masters J. and T. Blair, Master A. Da vidson. Servants-Mrs. Saunders, Mrs. M'Pherson, Mrs. Clarke, Mrs. Logan, Joseph Hewitt, and five native Ayahs. Passengers per Georgiana, from Bengal (expected)-Mrs. Wise and four children, Mrs. Crawford and child, Mr. Havy, Mr. Baird, and Master King. ARRIVALS AT ST. HELENA.-The Fairlie, March 5, from Calcutta, and sailed March 6, for London ; the Paragon, March 5, from the Mauritius, and sailed March 6, for Bristol ; the Georgiana, March 6, for Calcutta and the Mauritius, and sailed March 6, for London ; the Robert Small, March 10, from Calcutta, and sailed March 12, for London ' • the Lise, March 10, from Bourbon, and sailed March 13, for Bordeaux ; the William, March 10, from the Cape, and sailed March 12, for London ; the Lord Hobart, March 10, from the Cape ; the Morley, March 11, from Ceylon and the Cape, and sailed March 12, for London ; the Duke of Bedford, March 11, from Calcutta, and sailed March 12, for London; the Olive Branch, March 11, from the Cape, and: sailed March 13, for London; Gipsey, March 12, from China, sailed March 12, for Liverpool; Herculean, March 12, from China, sailed March 12, for Liverpool; Herald. March 12, from whaling, for New Red ford; the London, March 12, from Calcutta, and sailed for Louden ; the Mary Somerville, March 12, from China, and sailed for Liverpool ; the Wellington, March 15, front Madras, and sailed March 15, for London; the Earl Grey, March 13, from Calcutta, and sailed for London ; the Belhaven' March 13, from China, and sailed March 13, for Liverpool ; the Clif ton, March 13, from Ceylon, for London ; the Arabian, March 12, from China, and sailed for Bristol ; the Herefordshire, from Calcutta, and sailed March 15, for London ; the Edin burgh, from China, and sailed March 17, for London ; the Lady Flora, from Calcutta, and sailed March 18, for Lonon ; the Scaleby Castle, from China, and sailed March 19, for London; the Marquis of Hastings, from Bombay, and sailed March 23, for London. DEPARTURES FROM ST. HELENA.-His Majesty's ship Athol, March 10, for the Cape ; the Maitland, March 12, for England. ARRIVALS IN TABLE BAT (Cape of Good Hope).-The Morley, Feb. -, from Ceylon, and sailed Feb. 28, for Lon don; Upton Castle, from Portsmouth, and sailed Feb. 29, for Bombay ; Childe Harold, from Portsmouth, and sailed March 1, for Bombay ; Herefordshire, Feb. 29, from CalcUtta, and sailed March 5, for London ; Sufferer, Feb. 29, from the Mauritius, and sailed March 7, for Havre ; Henry Bell, March 2,. from the Mauritius, and sailed March 5, for London; Oli ver, March 2, from the Mauritius ; Arab, March 2, from Can ton ; Mary Walker, March 3, from Canton, and sailed March 5, for Cork ; Wellington, March 4, from Madras, and sailed March 4, for London ; St. George, March 5, from Calcutta, and sailed March 9, for Bristol; Sophia, March 5, from Bata via; Eliza, March 6, front Calcutta; Lord Hungerford, March 6, from Calcutta; Exmouth, from Calcutta ; Bolton, from Madras; Malabar, Tucker, from Bombay, off Plymouth, and sailed Jan. 4, and the Cape, March 10. STAYS.—Lady M. W. Montague says :—" One of the highest entertainments in Turkey is having you to their baths. When I was introduced to one, the lady of the house came to undress me—another high compliment to pay to strangers. After she had slipped off my gown, and saw my stays, she was much struck at the sight of them, and called out to the ladies in the bath---' Come hither, and see how cruelly these poor English ladies are used by their husbands ; you need not boast indeed, of the superior liberties allowed you, when they lock you up thus in a box.' " It is about thirty years ago since a Money Bill was sent from the House of Lords to the House of Commons with an alteration in one of the clauses, but so justly tenacious were the Commons of their privileges, that not only the Bill was unanimously rejected, but it wcs literally kicked out of the House Into the lobby by the Members, all of whom were anxi ous to manifest their indignant feeling on the occasion. Jane Champion, the woman for whom Captain Pechell has interested himself so much, has been committed a second time by the Magistrates of Seaford, for one month to bard labour, for refusing to assist in supporting her family. We understand that she refuses to conform to the rules of the prison, or to do any kind of work, and has in consequence been placed in solitary confinement. —Brighton Gazette. Wednesday evening a man named Kelly, on his re m» home from the fair of this town, was waylaid near Rathvilly, in this county, and murdered. The murderers stabbed him in the left breast with a bayonet, which penetrated the heart. On Thursday an inquest was held on the body, when a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown was returned. It is supposed some of the deceased's friends had given evidence at the late assizes against certain parties charged with manslaughter, and for so doing this man was murdered. Carlow Sentinel. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMM N , ilMir 12. The SPEAKHR took the chair at the usual hotie. DUN NAVIGATION. Sir GEORGE STRICKLAND brought up the report of the Committee on the Riser Dun Navigation Bill. SOUTH DURHAM RAILWAY. Mr. LAMBTON presented petitions from the proprie tors of certain coal mines in the counties of Northumber land and Dtuham, against certain clauses in three bills now before the House, viz..—the South Durham Railway, the South Durham Junction Railway, and another. CLYDE NAVIGATION. Dr. BOWRING presented a petition from the Town Council of Renfrew, against the Clyde Navigation Bill. Mr. 14 INDLEY moved the further consideration of the report on the Dukinfield Water Works. HAYLE RAILWAY. • On the motion of Mr. PENDARVES, the Hayle Rail way Bill was read a third time and passed. WAKEFIELD AND SHEFFIELD ROAD. On the motion of Mr. PARKES, the Wakefield and Sheffield Road Bill was read a third time and passed. DUBLIN STEAM NAVIGATION. • Mr. O'CONNELL brought in the Dublin Steam Na vigation Bill, to empower the subscribers to apply a portion of their funds to the purposes of their contracts, which was read a first time. DUBLIN AND DROGHEDA RAILWAY. Mr. CHAPMAN presented a petition from Robert Shaw against the Dublin and Drogheda Railway Bill, pray ing that it might not pass into a law without the compara tive merits of the two competing lines being fully taken into consideration. . Lord W. BENT?NCK moved that the Clyde-Naviga tion Committee have power to send for persons, papers, and records.—Ordered. Mr. HINDLEY presented a petition from Ashton under-Lyne in favour of the Manchester and Salford Junc tion Canal. Mr. S. M'KENZIE presented. three petitions from in dividuals against the Falkirk Junction Railway to join the Railway and Canal. Mr. TRACEY presented a petition from the solicitors and attornies of Tewkesbury, praying that they might be relieved from the annual tax imposed on them by the Stamp Bill. NEWSPAPER DUTIES. Dr. BOWRING presented a petition from Sunderland against the proposed clauses in the Stamp Act, which would impose great restrictions upon the press, which ought to be left free ; further praying that the House would take steps for relieving those persons now in confinement for the attempt to give instruction in a cheap form to their poor fellow countrymen. Also one from St. Matthew, Bethnel green, signed by a great number of weavers, praying that the Factory Bill might not pass into a law. DISSENTERS' GRIEVANCES. Mr. YOUNG presented a petition from the parish of Enfield, praying that the duties on timber and other mate rials used in Dissenters' chapels might be abolished. This petition was signed by a great portion of the Protestants in the parish, both Churchmen and Dissenters. DURHAM DIOCESE. - Mr. LAMBTON presented petitions from Durham, South Shields, in the county of Durham, and another place, praying that none of the funds of the diocese might be ap propriated elsewhere. OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH. Mr. SHAW presented several petitions, praying fot the better observance of the Sabbath, from Dublin and pa rishes in Tyrone. SPIRIT LICENSES. The Hon. and Learned MEMBER also presented a pe tition from Dublin in favour of the Bill for the amendment of the duties on spirit licenses. He was sorry to see no member of his Majesty's Government in his place, as he un derstood there were two clauses omitted in the Bill, one preventing the sale of spirits on Sundays, and the other pre venting grocers selling spirits in their shops. FIRE INSURANCES. Mr. CURTEIS presented a petition from Rye, pray ing for a repeal of the duties on Fire Insurances. • SPIRIT LICENSES. _ _ Captain ALSAGER presented a petition from,the licensed victuallers of Wandsworth, praying for a graduated scale of duties on spirit Licenses. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT. Mr. TURNER presented a petition from Blackburn against imprisonment for debt. SMALL DEBTS BILL. _ Sir ROBERT INGLIS presented a petiticfn ,from the Dean and Chapter of Westminster against the Small Debts Bill, and the Extra-Parochial Places Bill. OMNIBTISSES. Mr. MACKINNON presented a petition from Mary lebone, praying that this House would adopt some course by which omnibusses might be prevented from carrying more than 10 persons inside, and two outside. DISSENTERS' GRIEVANCES. Mr.EWAii presented a petition from the minister and conoTegation of a certain chapel in Liverpool, praying that the drawback upon the duties upon timber used in building churches might be extended g enerally to other religious sects as well as the Established Church. CRIMINAL LAWS. _ The same Hon. MEMBER presented petitions from Youghall and from Evesham, praying for a mitigation of our criminal laws. OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH. Mr. C. BRUCE presented a petition from the minis ters, elders, and congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Forfar, praying that the House would adopt some legis lative measure to enforce the better observance of the Lord's Day. COPYHOLD PROPERTY. Mr. R. SCARLETT presented a petition from Yar mouth, against certain alterations proposed to be made in the laws relating to Copyhold Property. SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS BILL. Mr. A. v R. DOTTIN brought up the Report of the Committee on this Bill. LIVERPOOL DOCKS BILL. Lord SANDON presented a petition from a Trading Association in Liverpool, in favour of this Bill. Mr. EWART presented a petition, signed by many thousand inhabitants of Liverpool, in favour of the Liver pool Dock Bill.—Referred to the Committee. COMMUTATION OF TITHES. Mr. HUME presented a petition from certain occu piers of land, praying that the House would adopt some measure for abolishing tithes by commutation. FLOGGING IN THE ARMY. The HoN. MEMBER also presented a petition from Hayes against corporal punishment in the army. The pe titioners stated, in which the Hon. Member entirely con curred, that the practice tended to demoralise rather than improve the soldiers. PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. The HoN. MEMBER next presented a petition from Wensley Dale, praying that their Honourable House would adopt some measure for abolishing the punishment of death for all crimes except that of wilful murder. The Hon. Member stated that every day proved the necessity of some such enactment being passed. PROTESTANT DISSENTERS. Mr. HUME also presented a petition from Protestant Dissenters in a place in Warwickshire, praying relief from disabilities under which they laboured. ASSESSED TAXES. Mr. HUME presented a petition from Burford against surcharges of assessed taxes. STAFFORD WITNESSES INDEMNITY BILL. On the motion of Mr. DIVETT, the House resolved itself into a Committee on the Stafford Witnesses In demnity Bill. After a few words from Capt. CURTEIS and Mr. DIVETT, the clauses were then severally agreed to, and the House resumed. BRIGHTON RAILWAY. • Captain PECHELL presented a petition from 800 in habitants of Brighton ior the shortest, cheapest, and best line of railway from Brighton to London. BANK DEPOSITS. Mr. HUNIE moved for a return of the average amount of deposits in the Bank of England. By the law as it stood at present, Parliament was entitled to have laid upon the table a return of the deposits every quarter, and he only now wished to have the amount in each period specified in• the return. The motion was then agreed. TITHE ON FISH. Mr. PENDARVES presented a petition from Pen zance, praying that the tithe on fish be abolished. SEE OF DURIIAM. Mr. PEASE presented a petition from a parish in the diocese of Durham, praying that any surplus of Church re venue might be applied to the education of the people in that district. Mr. HUME gave notice that he would to-morrow (this day) present a petition from a public meeting at Calcutta, praying the House to consider the state of the law relating to the trade with India. Mr. WARBURTON presented a petition from Bath, complaining of the sale of quack medicines, and praying for better protection for the licensed practitioners in medicine ; also a similar petition from London. MEDICAL REFORM. Mr. WARBURTON, in reply to Sir G. Sinclair, said that before he could introduce any Bill on medical reform this session the Committee should re-assemble, and consider the evidence again. TAKING THE VOTES. Sir C. BURRELL complained of the inaccuracy and the delay in taking the votes in divisions. His name was often omitted in the printed lists. Me. MIME thought time was rather gained'. than lost; and though mistakes may occur , vet on the whole there was Hume' an improvement in the plan. His (Mr, o) n ame, too, was often omitted. Mr.' WAKLU said the present plan was a hotter one thin ght f9rrner. Colonel glit-MT did not look o n the p r esvnt plan n as an improvement. The subject then dropped. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. Colonel SIDTHORP gave notice of a m otion for to morrow, for a return of the number and names of those per sons recommended for appointments to the magistracy by the town councils, together with the names and numbc►s of those rejected by the Government. JOINT-STOCK. BANKS. Mr. CLAY, in rising to bring forward the subje at of which he had given notice, said—Sir, the motion 1 aar about to submit le the House is as follows :—" That a se c , lact committee be apptsiuted to inquire into the opration of the Act of the 7th George IV. , c. 46, permitting the esta blishment of joint-stock bents, a nd whether it be expedient that to make any, and what, alteratinns in the provisions of Act." Under that Act a system of ;oint-stock banking has grown up already of great magnitude, ly tending its ramifications, and which prooises very short to comprehend every portion of the kingiom and every class of the population within the sphere of its operatiohn; My object is to induce the House to inquire whether t which is daily ex system of joint-stock banking in this country 1 1 ..A.s receivedis the best legal development of which it is susceptibtl! I,tut capable of conferring great benefit on the co mmune e e . may, if ill regulated, give birth to as gre at calamities. we taken all the means within our power to secure the story- One, and to obviate the Other ? I .think not. The hi at who , 1825 must be familiar to every Honourable Gentle man hears me ; the mad excitement, the idle dreams of un bounded prosperity, the wild projects at the commencement of that memorable year, the widespread distress, th e still more widely-spread alarm which attended its clos vil.eli are not, I am sure, forgotten by th is House, and not be, I trust, forgotten by the public. On the egos- bling of Parliament in 18 26 , best his Majesty having called it! attention to the calamities which had sig nalized the periodt then recently elapsed, and to the consideration of the means of obviating the risk of their recurrence, two meed a: ! sures for the accomplishment of that o b j ect were subniitt fi r st by the Government of that day to both Houses. The was for a suppression, at an earl riod, of all notes unde l i 51., issued by private banking establishments, the. Bank e t . England having already discontinued the issue of sue"' notes. On this measure (in m opinion a mos t salutary one) it is not necessary that I should at present commentsof the second was intended to create a sounder sysr n ° banking. In the panic a very great number of cou . n . - try bankers stopped payment -59 commissions o f bank ru ptcy were issued against country banks from October, 1825, to Feb. 1826, and many suspended their PaYr eents whose affairs did not proceed to bankruptcy. An orini °ll in consequence became pavvalent that one of the caves, most operative in producing' the crisis just then overpa° was to be found in the law w. l aicb, by restricting Part ner ' ships consisting of more than six p arsons from issuing notes, and, indeed, as was supposed, (althnugh, as subseq uenty . appeared, erroneously) from carrying pn'the trade of bank ing altogether, greatly enhanced the Difficulty of forty. ing solid establishments for that purpose. To th e relaxation of that law, originally enacted in the Y ear 1708, to confer upon the Bank of England a il l°°°- to poly of the power of issuing notes , it was neeessarY obtain the consent of the Bank, as its re-enactniflnt e 'I. part of the last as of previous bargains with that theCOrgor tion. Accordingly the First Lord of the Treas ur y an q a Chancellor of the Exchequer, the late Lord Liverpool A% Lord Goderich (then Mr. Robinson) , had on the 3d of t u e ; written a letter to the directors urging such consent. '''''' result of the negotiation was, that the Bank consented et° wave its exclusive privileges in that particular , p rovid ! that the banking co-partnerships under the new law wert; not to be established at a less distance than 65 miles fr ° . London, and that every member should be individuallY liable for the whole debts of the firm. In the course o f the session an Act was passed, the . 7th of Geo. IV. c. 46, er bodying these conditions. As a law for the general reef tion of joint-stock banking, this Act was avowedly illaPu',.. feet. The Ministers of that day stated, not that the My was the best that in their opinion could be framed for the purpose ; but that it was the best which the then exis t ll bargain with the Bank of England allowed them to bri ll ? forward ; and most deeply is it to be lamented that ad 4alY tage had not been taken of the renewal of the Ba nk Charter, in 1833, to establish a sound and enduring system of joi nt ' stock banking as far as that object can be accomplished bi. ' the interference of the Legislature , that that opportunitl was lost. Lord Althorp did, indeed, propose conferring ehe r c i i ters of limited liability on such joint - stock ban ks as well,j, issue only Bank of England notes ; but he subseqaee l abandoned that intention, and the only change then mad, in the law relating to those establishments was perlll-: ting them to make their notes payable in London. The la vi ,: regulating the trade of banking by partnerships of nl r i " lows :—They must not be established at a less than six persons in England and Wales are briefly stancel'3' d than sixty-five miles from the metropolis. They may , i ssue ,' notes payable on demand where issued, or in London . ° where issued. They may discount in London bills o f el' shange. They must, before issuing notes, enter at the Sys Office in London the name of the co•partnership, the nal° and residences of the partners, and the name of tw o or Inettl officers of the co-partnership through whom th e y alai s r or be sued. A like return must be made every theYe and also whenever a change takes place in the o fficers , a . members, or the places where notes are to be issu t or e he EXecution on judgments and decrees obtaine d a g ainst officers may be sued out against any memb er oft l e t ip. partnership. This responsibility attaches to persons r e to ing from the Company for three years , as far as relatesdef transactions occurring whilst they were members. ti ll u p these laws a system of Joint Stock Banking has gr°, llll ai r already, as I have said, of vast extent, and day by dor,. de r larging the sphere of its action. By a return to a" ei ha t of this House of the 21st of March last, it apnen, r 4 d, there were atthat date 61 Joint Stock Banks esta""a`licof with their branches at 472 places, and consisting in ,• s hod 15,673 partners or shareholders. Of these 3 were estallo in 1826, 4 in 1827,6 in 1829, 1 in 1830,8 in 1831, 7 i ° „ r to 10 in 1833, 10 in 1834, 8 in 1835, and 4 in this ye" ' et r. the 21st; and since the date of the return 5 have hellos) tered at the Stamp Office (one of them having 24 bra n i n $ and 2,052 partners. More companies I know to I :', e h i c h course of formation, and there are probably °dorsa l ° b ole I have not heard. We have called into existence, we rave introduced into our monetary system an element of tre 00 . dous power. We have taken no precaution to limit or t _ s , trot its . operation. The dangers to which our preset] ; it , tern is exposed arise mainly from these causes, by l i r i r , t he ting an unlimited number of persons to corahine confe r °(I purpose of carrying on the trade of. banking, Yin' e „ s i o esss them an enormous power of creating an extensive "nsibler by rendering all the shareholders individually reSPeercjit, you afford the most dangerous facility in obtaining, ban ks whilst you take not the smallest precaution that sue ) ven ts shall possess capital commensurate with the cngaigiekteat into which the power and facilities you bestow no sta te them to enter.—(Hear, hear.) I can conceive ne that more directly tending to produce that excitement'is ad, overtrading, that apparent prosperity, so pleasant in ca.l e vent—so bitter in its consequences. If there be oners_ of in which Legislative interference with the interco,in a%,t, individuals could be justified equally by reasoning ' n o to perience, beyond all doubt it would be an interferens an d obviate the dangers which an abuse of the nov er _d o ee. facilities of joint-stock banking inevitably tends toproaditio We have made no such attempt. The one solo CO _ lit o f is, that every partner shall be liable to the whole esi extent is his fortune, and those who may deny that any el a t ,f_ ,„ 0 the law is necessary must be prepared to show thateurtoe ' the provision of unlimited liability is sufficient to se that the stability of a system on which it is quite evident od 0 , whole banking of the country is at no distant Per i an ob tined to be conducted. Will that condition enseroeur own servance of the caution essential to stability ? ~. rep ly. experience of almost half a century is a s ufficie , . } 1 .3, 0 11‘ Banking in England has (with the exception o f tti e d 1 of England) been hitherto on no other footing. ~, ,e has remind the House how far from stable that foot! ri7anka oun trs' a • proved ? In 1791 and 1792 one hundred c s i r i e tion , were swept away, there had then been no bank r . c . 1 .0 m ore notes: n . ru r - j tel and there were no small notes ; but was - the es" _ o „ ri trY [ secure during the bank restriction, and whilst the L; „ co 1 bankers had the power of issuing small 1809 to 1819 no less than 174 commissions of hadb.k :gaol were issued against country bankers, and after "6e including returned to cash payments, from 1.819 to 18`2: ;_,.. A. TO the period of the panic, 99 commissions were is ro un cas es these bankruptcies must of course be added the ni'l eroo ts of temporary suspensions of payment and a rai,pr ho to ad with creditors, stopping short of bankrupt rking o f a l O te of cap i t al injury to the community, produced by the c % Y v unsound system of banking, is, first, in the wastes or sti eliv consequent upon the overtrading which it c reates „watt lates ; and, secondly, in the shock to cre 1 i ~i ch the the distrust, and lessened demand for laboure--vitva" biy P r° ' po rt.. duces. How far, then, do's unlimited lialoi ~ t the Stop' extensive failure of banking catablishments.ittev. itv opals t does I t ners of joint-stock banks afford a secur . Not only ping payment of such establishments ? , tends to aug men h afford no such security, but it inevitably obtained by slic e the risk of such occurrences. The c redit , i ital, but to the will be in proportion, not to the paidlupneeyp their engag presumed extent of their. ultimate so ve e 0 rtion to the elle: meets in prosperous times will be in . p i r . p. ~, , t (maw*, arriAree dit so obtained ; but s hould a perm( 1 fund to which the paid up capital would be the only a c ll on the sh'a're. r course could be had. Trot suppose t a attended to, is vis ie in the holders at such a mome would be