The Sun. — London, England, 1851-02-20 00:00:00

rtirte V2Zittton SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Cloch. TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING. Six o'cLocic. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 10 to 1 agst Sir John 10 to l agst Abd-el-Kader 10 to 1 agst Maria Day 11 to 1 agst Rat-trap 12 to 1 agst Vain Hope 12 to 1 agst Peter Simple TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STASES. liCren on Grecian CHESTER CUP. No change in the betting. DERBY. 6 to 1 agst Grecian 6 to 1 agst Prime Minister 12 to 1 agst Mountain Sylph colt 40 to 1 azst Confessor PUBLIC WOOL SALES. (THIS EVENING.) At the auction of last evening Australian brought Is. 31 to is Bid. for clean sheep's, Is. 4id. to Is. 84d. for lamb's, and for scoured samples of the latter, Is. 2d. to le. I lid. Van Diemen's Land sold at 11. ad. to Is. 7d. for clean sheep's, and at Is. 4id. to ls. 10d. for lamb's. Port Philip brought Is. 34d. to Is. 7A-d. for sheep's, Is. 51 to Is. 10d. for scoured, and Is. Sid. to ls. Bid. for lamb's. Cape went at 7d. to Is. 3id. for sheep's, and at ls. lid. to Is. 3d. for scoured. Importers are still giving support to the market by withdrawing various parcels. At this evening's sale 1,915 bales have been put ap, all Colonial Australian has realised Is. ld. to Is. 7d. for clean/to second Sheep's, and Is. Sid. for Lamb's. Port Philip has been sold at is. Sid. to le. Bd. for clean Sheep's, is. ad. to Is. 7id. for Lamb's clean, Is. 7id. to ls. Ili. for scoured Lamb's, and Is. 4d. to ls. 10d. for other scoured. Van Dieman's Land has been taken at Is. 4d. to ls. 7d. for clean Sheep's, Is. sid. to 2s. for Lambs, and 'ls. 6id. to Is. 7id. for scoured. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woo: sack at Five o'clock. Tae Earl of BANDON presented several petitions against Papal aggression from places in the county of Cork. The Bishop of CHICHESTER presented several pe titions against Papal aggression. Lord BEAUMONT presented a petition from an in dividual named Brewer, who was a resident in Canada, and who complained that letters directed to him bad been intercepted in their passage through the Post-office. Tho Earl of POWIS presented several petitions com plaining of gricuttural distress. COUNTY COURTS BILL Lord BROUGHAM explained that the Bill which he would present to-morrow was for an extension of the County Court jurisdiction. THE VICE-CHANCELLORSHIP. The NOBLE and LEARNED LORD wished to ask his Noble and Learned Friend on the Woolsack. whether it was intended to appoint a new Vice• Chancellor in the room of Vice-Chancellor Wigram. He admitted that when the appointment of two additional Vice-Chancellors was proposed he had supported that portion of the measure which prohibited the re-appoint ment of the third Vice-Chancellor on the occasion of a vacancy', but since that time the business in the Court of Chancery had greatly increased in consequence • e the immense development which had taken place in the rail way system; and he therefore hoped that an Act would be brought in, authorising the appointment of a third Vice-Chaticeller. The LORD CHANCELLOR said the subject had occupied the anxious attention of the Government. In the course of next week a Bill for regulating the Court of Chancery would be presented to Parliament, and the Government hal been anxious not to fill up the vacancy until the decision of Parliament should have been taken on the Bill; but he admitted the necessity of having for the present further judicial assistance in the Court of Chancery. The business had accumulate] in consequence of the facilities recently given for bringing cases quickly to a hearing. Since Michaelmas last no less than 500 cases had been put down for hearing, and he thought that the Government would find it advisable to introduce a Bill authorising the appointment of a third Vice Chancellor without waiting for the larger measure. Lord CRAM WORTH entirely confirmed all that had fallen from his Noble and Learned Friend, and wished to impress upon their Lordships the absolute necessity of appointing a third Vice-Chancellor with the least poss:ole delay. The Noble Lord proceeded to describe the course of proceeding in the Court of Chancery in various classed of cases, in order to prove the necessity of the immediate appointment of a new Vice-Chan seller. He had been urged to sit evenings as well as mornings, but he had neither mental or physical strength to do it. Lord STANLEY thought that the measure for th© appointment of a new Vice-Chancellor, which appeared urgently necessary, should boy kept distinct from the other and ILrger measure% Ile wished to know whe ther the latter measure would bf , introduced into this or into the other House of Parliament. He thought it should tin introduced into this House rather than into the House of Coniroons. The LORD CHANCELLOR was not at the present moment prep,red to reply to the cpiestion. Lord BROUGHAU was well E. titistif.cl with the expla nations he had klicited from his Noble and Learned Friend. PETITIONS. Earl GREY presented petitions in favour of the Mar riage Bill from Wigan, Manchester, Perth, Shields, and several other places. Also several against Papal aggression. 4\lso petitions in favour of copyhold en franchisement; and a petition from Monmouth in favour of a rep•al of the window-tax. MARRIAGE BILL. The Earl of ST. GERMANS gave notice that be should on Monday move for a return of the number of peWions which Mel been presented for and against the Marriage Bill. Their Lordsips then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Thy SPZAKER took the C Jair shortly before Four o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. BARROW took the oaths and his seat for South Nottinghamshire. UTTOXETER ROAD BILL. This BiR Teas read a second time. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY (No. 3) BILL. On the motion of Mr. B. DENISON that this Bill be read a second time. Lord GALWAY said that he had received a nume rously signed petition from his constituents (the electors of East Retford) praying that the Bill should not pass. It should be recollected that this Bill had been previously before the House and had been twice rejected. The ob ject of the Bill was to make a deeiatiou trom the loop line of the Great Northern Railway. By the deviation which was proposed by the Bill the route to Gainsborough would be from the Great Northern line about sixteen miles, whereas, by the present route, it we: only nine miles. The Com mittee of the Houle had almost unanimously rejected the Bill, and when on another occasion it was put before the House it was lost by a large majority. Th ere was no i ,ubt that this was an attempt to impose upon the ouse a Bill which had received a universal condemna tion of the Legislature. He had received but little no tice of the second reading of this Bill, or he could have said mere respecting it. He should therefore move that this Bill be read this day six months. Mr. B. DENISON complained of the Noble Lord's o bj ect i on t o the Bill, on the ground that he had not re ceived a sufficient notice of the second reading of the Bill. It was true that the Noble Lord had, in 1848, persuaded the House to reject the Bill, but it should be recollected that the Noble Lord had not, nor had any of his relations, the slightest interest in the land which would be affected by this Bill. The line which was intended to be carried out would go through a flat piece of country, and cross the Sheffield, Manchester, and Li nco l nshire line, so as to sevo a great inconvenience, to the public. and he trusted, therefore, that the House would not again subject the population of that district to the ex pense of fresh litigation, to the delay of a great con venience, and to the disadvantages of a commercial competition. Mr. MONCIETON MILNES said that the line had been concocted for a certain purpose, and if the Hon. Member for West Yorkshire, who was chairman of the Great Northern, w he ou fi ld only carry out what he had pro mised to do wh en ' he oir rs i t i assumed the position which he at present held, :lbnues)hwould have no objection to the passipnrgomofiethe: h t ad ecould assure him, that unless the which of the Great Northern were fulfilled been held out by the Possibly arise ot to t f he company. that Great companies were defended b and w h en private gentlemen came iynotof c PositionssP a r o l f i a p m u e w n e t r , andgreat influence, the only means with the House of Commons._u feart urbing them lay hoar.) Feeling such to be the case, and knowing that of this Bill would be instrumental in promoting t r h ei c e iV °ll fit of the district through which the line vi a , iiteadeedne to pass, he should vote fur the Noble Lord's amendment. The Housa then divided, when there appeared-- For the second reading .. 46 Aga i nst it ••• ..• 102 Majority lig airst it •••-•56 The Bill was accordingly thrown out. ROYSTON AND HITCHEN RAILWAY. On the motion for the second reading of this Bill, Mr. GOULBURN informed the House that the Bill had already been once or twice rejected by the House and by a Committee up-stairs. There was no necessity whatever for the line which was proposed to be sanctioned, inasmuch as a line from RoSston to Ilitchin was now in the conrse of construction and would be opened to the public before the Ist of next June. Theembraced by the Bill would seriously inj ure St. P s gr e ' ll ir and other colleges, as \ the promoters contempl ated erecting a station in the wentre of the town of Cambridge and as both the line and that station were wholly uncalled for . he should - move that the Bill be read a second time this day six L. nOonths. `~_ Mr. B. DENISON wcnld not occupy the time o f th e Icusi by di scuss i ng the merits of the Bill, sae it WitB t*,* 71 . 'l4 N' THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEIN RUAR neither the wish nor the intention of the Great Northern Railway to make the line. It was, however, their wish to see a communication established between Cam bridge and Hitchin, and this Bill was only brought forward to force on the Eastern Counties to the completion of their line, which they undertook to make three years ago, but until notice was given of this Bill, they did not attempt to put a spade in the ground. He would not put the House to the trouble of dividing. The motion for the second reading was therefore ne gatived without a division, and the amendment agreed to. SUPPLY OF WATER TO THE METROPOLIS. Sir G. GREY moved that it be an instruction to the Committee of Selection not to fix the sitting of the com mittees on any Bill connected with the supply of water to the metropolis, or to any part thereof, till at least one week after the Easter recess. The Right Hon. Gentleman had observed that the Government had considered the recommendations of the Board of Health with regard to a better supply of water to the metropolis, and they had prepared a Bill—ho would not say founded on the scheme of the Board, but which, if it received the sanc tion of the House, would render it extremely desirable that no new Bills on the subject should go before the Committee until this one was laid before the House. He therefore proposed, as the fairest course which could be adopted under the circumstances, that these Bills should be deferred until after Easter. Mr. V. SMITH hoped the Right Hon. Gentleman would name an earlier period, as Easter would fall very late this year, and the companies who had introduced Bills would be delayed in carrying cut their, improve ments for a better supply of water if those Bills could not be proceeded with at an early day. In reply to Mr. W. PATTEN, Sir G. GREY said the Bill was in preparation, and he expected to lay it on the table of the House before Easter. The Government were of opinion, with the Board of Health, that it would be inexpedient and un desirable that the supply of water to the metropolis should be made the subject of competition. PETITIONS. Sir J. YOUNG presented several petitions, from places in Ireland against Papal aggression. Mr. W. PATTEN presented petitions from Lancashire to the same effect. A great number of petitions were presented against the window-tax. Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a number of petitions against Papal aggression. Colonel CHATTERTON presented petitions from various places in the county of Cork', to the same effect. Petitions against the paper duty were presented by Mr. Cowan, from Ulverstone; by Mr. Ellis, from Lei cester; by Mr. Staney, from Dover; by Mr. Osborne, from Brentford; by Mr. Ewart, from Dumfries; by Mr. H. Berkeley, from the proprietors of Felix Farley's Journal; by Mr. Lushington, from Devonshire. Petitions against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill were presented from the counties Monaghan and Antrim by Mr. S. Crawford; from Youghal by Mr. Fagan; from county of Dublin by Mr. Reynolds; and from several places in Ireland by Lord Naas. . Lord RENDELSHAM presented a petition from a place in Norfolk praying for the establishment of county financial boards. Mr. STANLEY presented a petition praying the House to pass some measure for the relief of agricul tural distress. Mr. BOOKER presented addresses from several places in Ireland complaining of agricultural distress. Mr. M'CULLAGH presented a petition from Airdrie, in Berwickshire, and from several other places, both in Scotland and Ireland, praying that the Roman Catholic disabilities may not be increased, even if they are continued. Mr. Alderman Sidney, Mr. Tufnell, and Sir William Abdy, presented petitions for the total and uncondi tional abolition of the window-tax. Mr. HUME presented petitions from the seamen of Sunderland and Great Yarmouth, complaining of the effects wrought by the New Merchant Seamen's Act. They stated that it had in truth reduced them to servi tude • they had no alternative but t o a ppl y f or t h e b enef i t of the poor-laws, for they felt that the law had done nothing more nor less than place them in the position of slaves. Mr. HUME presented petitions from Hull, Mold, and other places, complaining of`the monopoly enjoyed in the printing of Bibles. Mr. TENNENT and Mr. WELD presented several pe titions against the continuance of the income-tax. Mr. MORGAN JOHN O'CONNELL presented several petitions from Kerry praying that the Irish Church might not be injured by the measures cf the Government. Mr. M. GIBSON presented petitions from Manchester, and several other places, praying that the stamp and advertisement duties might be remitted, and complain ing, especially on the part of one individual, of the Act of the 6th and 7th William IV., that she had been very much injured by it. NOTICES OF MOTION. Lord NAAS gave notice that this day fortnight he should move for a Committee of the whole House to in quire into the law affecting the levying of duties on home made spirits in bond. Colonel SIBTHORP gave notice that if a Bill should be brought in for a renewal of the income-tax he should move an exemption in favour of officers in the army and navy and of tenant farmers. Mr. WILLIAMS gave notice that this day fortnight ho should submit to the House the motion of which he had given notice on the first night of the session, namely, that no portion of the public money should be inter cepted on its way to the Treasury, nor should any be expended without the sanction of Parliament. Mr. lIUME gave notice, that should the House agree to the income-tax, he would move an amendment limit ing its duration to one year, to admit of an inquiry being instituted into the inequality of the tax, and the injus tice of levying the same rate on the terminable as on perpetual annuities, and on flectuating means as upon permanent property. Mr. AN.STEY gave notice thet this day fortnight he would move a resolution on the subject of the allegation contained in a petition which was presented 014 the 14th inst., by the Hon. Member for Montrose, from ,Rungo Bapojec, the agent of the grand guardian of the infant Raja of Sattara, complaining of a denial of justice before her Majesty's Court of Privy Council. PROPERTY AND INCOME-TAX. Mr. MACGREGOR gave notice of his intention to move iu the Committer; of Ways and Means, as an amendment to any resolution or resolutions for impos ing a duty or duties on property or income, that rates of duty not exce e di ng t h e following rates and proportions, shell be levied, viz.:— Upon the annual value of all property enumerated in the Act 5 and 6:Victoria, cap. 35, under Schedule A, and upon all the annual dividends or profits of all property shares or investments enumerated under schedule C in the said Act, and upon the annual profits or gains aris ing or accruing to any person residing in Great Britain, from any kind of property whatever, whether situate in Great Britain or elsewhere, there shall be charged yearly— A. For all such incomes exceeding the annual value of 501. and not exceeding 1001., for every 20. thereof above 50/. the sum of 21d.; exceeding 1001. and not ex ceeding 1501., for every 20s. thereof the sum of 2id., and for every 20s. above 100/. the sum of 2.4 d. additional; exceeding 1504 and not exceeding 2004, for every 20s. thereof the sum of scl„ and for every 203. above 150/. the sum of 2Ad. additional; execedin„, ,, 200/. and not ex ceeding 3001., for every 20s. thereof the sum of 7id., and for every 203. exceeding 200/. the sum of 20. additional. For all such incomes exceeding 3001., tor every 203. thereof the film of 10d. LB. Upon the annual value of all such properties in respect to the occupation thereof, as they are enumerated in schedule B, 506 Victoria, for every 20s. of the annual rental exceeding 751. and not exceeding 1501., the sum of ld.; and for every 20s. of annual rental exceeding 150/. and upwards the sum of 2d. C. Upon all annual profits or gains arising or accru ing to persons residing in Great Britain from any pro fession, trade, employment, or vocation, whether the same be respectively carried on in Great Britain or else where; and upon every public office or employment of profit, and upon every pension, annuity, and stipend payable by her Majesty or out of the revenue of the United Kingdom, except annuities charged as enu merated under Schedule C of the Act 5 and 6 Vic., chapter 35, there shall be charged as follows, viz.:- For all profits, gains or income, exceeding the annual value of 75/. and not exceeding 150/., for every 20s. thereof above 751. the sum of lid.; exceeding 1501. and not exceeding 2004, for every 20s. thereof the sum of 2id.; and for every 20s. above 1501. the sum of lid. additional; exceeding 200/. and not exceed ing 3001, for every 20s. the sum of 5d.; and for every 20s. above 2001. the slim of ld. additional; ex ceeding 300/. per annum,:for every 20s. the sum of sd. Mr. WODEHOUSE gave notice of his intention to move for certain returns connected with the le►ying and assessment of the property-tax. Mr. MITCHELL gave notice that this day fortnight be should move the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the constitution of the Board of Customs. EXTRAMURAL INTERMENTS ACT. Sir DE LACY EVANS asked the First Commissioner of Woods when the Board of Health would be enabled to commence giving effect to the Act of last session, for the discontinuance of intramural interment. Lord SEYMOUR said the Board of Health had lost no time in taking all the preparatory steps which were ne cessary before the Act could be brought into operation, but there were provisions in the Act which required con siderable deliberation as to the arrangements which should be made under them. He hoped, however, before long the Act would be brought into operation. DUTY ON CARRIAGES. In reply to an HON. MEMBER, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated it vies not his intention to propose any alteration of the duty on carriages. SUPREMACY OF THE CROWN. Mr. JOHN STUART asked Lord John Russell, whether any of the law officers of the Crown, for Eng lund or Scotland or Ireland, had given any opinion to the effect th at , i n order to the vindication of the supre macy of th e C rown against the aggression of the Pope of Rome, it was necessary or expedient that the enattment of penalties and disabilities against the P.rotestant Bishop h s of te Scotch Episcopa Church sh ou ld he submitted for the sanction of Parlia- l ment. Whether, in case any such opinion had been given, there was an opinion b e f ore the y objectio n to l ay a copy of such Lord J. Government to RUSS House. LL said it wa s usua ll y the practice of ask the opinion of the law officers of the Crown as to the state of the law when any occasion arose for doing so, but it was not the practice to ask their opinion with regard to measures which the Government might think it necessary to bring be fore the House. He had to s t ate in reply to the Ron. and Learned Member's -question that the Government had not consulted the law officers of the Crown on the subject to which he referred. NATIONAL GALLERY. Mr. CHARTERIS asked the First Lord of the Treasury whether it was the intention of the Go►ern ment to take any steps in the present session of Par liament with reference to the National Gallery, either as regarded that portion of the building at present occupied by the Royal Academy, or with respect to the enlarge ment of the building itself? Lord J. RUSSELL replied that it was the intention of the Government to make certain proposals with re gard to the National Gallery, but he was not in a po sition to state at present the nature of them. EXTENSION OF COUNTY COURTS TO SCOTLAND. Mr. HUME asked the Secretary of State whether there was any intention of bringing in a Bill to extend to Scotland the County Courts for the easy and speedy recovery of debts under 501.? Mr. FOX MAULE replied that the existing laws in Scotland for the recovery of small debts worked very satisfactorily, and no complaints having been made with respect to it, the Government had no intention to in troduce any Bill to extend the County Courts Act to Scotland. NEW CLIANCERY ACT. Mr. KEOGH asked the Attorney General for Ire land if any general rules had been framed in pursuance of the Chancery Act of last session, and if not, what had caused the delay, and whether there was any nu nhood that they would be soon published? Mr. EATCkIELL said he had sent to Ireland for in- formation on the subject of the Chancery Act of last session, and as soon as he rec(ived a reply, he would have no hesitatio❑ in conve3ing it to the House. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. EAST INDIAN. The annual meeting of this company was held yester day, at the office, Old Broad-street ; Mr. J. Baxendale in the cFair. The SOCRETARY then read the report. The CaAIRMAN, on moving the adoption of the report, said that since it had bee❑ circulated they had received a most satisfactory report from their engineer, Mr. Turnbull, with regard to the works. It went into con siderable detail, was of great length, and contained a great deal of information; but he (the Chairman) could not give them a short account of it, the document would lie at the office for the inspection of the shareholders. From what he had read of it, he considered that it was very satisfactory, so far as the works were concerned. He had known the engineer for many years, and he was satisfied they could place the fullest reliance on any re port they may receive from him. Mr. FRANKLIN complained that some of the items in the accounts were not correctly stated. The CHAIRMAN said it was impossible for accounts to be more correct. They were carefully audited, and the directors could not spend a single penny without the consent and authority of the East India Company. Ir they were to go beyond the limit of exp:.nditure allowed by the East India Company, the directors would have to pay the money out of their owu pockets. ' A long conversation ensued v. ith regard to one of the items in the balance-sheet for 60,442/, stated to be for current expanses, and eventually it was agreed that current payments would have been more correct, with the addition fur rails, chairs, and other materials for the railway. The report was then adopted, the dividend was de clared, and the retiring directors, Messrs. J. Baxendale, J. Cattley, and A. Nairae, were re-elected, as was also the retiring atditor, Baron Goldsmid. On the motion for confirming the forfeiture of certain shares being put, Mr. ADAMS said, he believed that many of those share s belonged to parsons who had died in India, and in con sequence of the necessity and difficulty of obtaining pro bates in England the public in India were very much dissatisfied, asd until that feeling subsided it was not likely that persons in India would hold shares in the company. He hoped the subject would receive the at tention of the directors. The CHAIM - UN said,that so far as ho knew the di rectors would be most anxious to meet the question in a proper manner, and deal with every case according to its merits. After some further observations the resolution con firming the forfeiture of certain shares was carried. The proceedings concluded with votes of thanks to the chairman and erectors, and also to the auditors. NORTHERN AND EASTERN. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday, at the Bishopsgate station; Mr. Paterson in the chair. Mr. BOURNE, the secretary, then read the report. The CHAIRMIN having moved the adoption of the report, _ _ Mr. DAVIS wished to know whether the proposed ar rangement between the Eastern Counties Company and the Eastern Union and Norfolk Railway Companies would affect the interehts of the Northern and Eastern proprietors. The Ciliunmix did not think it was a question for the meeting to go into. The resolutions passed at the late meeting of the Eastern Counties Company would not affect them. The security the Northern and Eastern Company held was of the most undoubted character, and entirely secured them. Mr. KENNARD, a director, said he agreed with the Chairman that their property was as secure as any rail-, way property could possibly be, but he considered the course pursued last week by the Eastern Counties meet ing in reference to the proposed agreement between the three companies to have been most prejudicial to the interests of the Eastern Counties Company, surrounded as it was by rivals. It had the Great Northern on the western side, the Eastern Union on the eastern, and now also the Great Northern to flank them on the north side, and the latter company were working over to Dereham, which was within 17 miles of Norwich. He thought the appointment of a committee at the Eastern Counties meeting, under all the circumstances, a most unfortunate event. He was perfectly satisfied the Norfolk Company would, if left to themselves, effect a union with the Great Northern 'Company. He thought it too bad that small shareholders, some of whom had been possessed of their shares but for a short time, should be allowed by the great bcdy of the proprietors to take a prominent port in the proceedings of the Eastern Counties Com pany, and sway the decisions of a proprietary possessed of property to the amount of so many millions.—(Ht ar,) Mr. ROUTII did not quite agree with the views of Mr. Kennard, although he was in favour of a working agree ment for conducting the tragic of the three companies. After some fut:lher discussion the report was adopted, and the dividends' of 5 per cent. and 6 per cent. per annum on the guaranteed stocks were declared. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the Chairman and directors. A WOMAN KILLED BY TIER HUSBAND. BATES, WEDN E SDAY.—A very melancholy occurrence took place in this'city last evening, which has caused a great deal of excitement. It appears that about eight o'clock a carpenter, named Joseph Clark, living at 5, Lampard's-buildings, returned home from his work at Brislington, near Bristol. A violent quarrel and fight ensued between Clark and his wife. Thy other lodgers in the house heard blows struck, but unfortunately the y did not interfere until Clark was heard calling out to a Mrs. Langley for assistance. Mrs. Largley's husband, accompanied by another man, named Wilcox, then ran up stairs, and upon entering Clark's room they found him in a sitting posture against the wall, supporting his wife, and :shaking her, apparently for the purpose of bringing her to a state of coesciousness. The room was in great contusion, and the person of the woman presented marks of great violence. Clark, on see ing Langley and Wilcox, immediately exclaimed "I am afraid I have done a bad job!" and when they removed the unfortunate woman from him she gave a convulsive gasp and immediately expired. On the floor was found a stick broken into three pieces, and clotted with blood. Surgical aid was immediately procured, but, of course, was of no avail. Clark, who appeared deeply affected by his position, was given at once into the custody of the police, and conveyed to the central station, followed by a laige crowd, so speedily had the melancholy,occurrence gained currency. This morning the prisoner was brought before the magistrates at the Guildhall, and charged with the wilful murder of his wife. He is a respectable looking man, and, on being placed at the bar, appeared greatly dejected. Mr. M. Harris, solicitor, watched the proceedings on his behalf. The only wttnestuexamined was police-constable 35, who deposedc—l was last-night, about a quarter-past 8 o'clock, called to No. 5, Lambard's-buildings. I went up into the middle room, where I saw a woman in a sitting position on the floor, supported by two men and a woman, washing blood from her face. Mr. Hunt, a surgeon, was also there, and ho said the woman was dead. I asked him where the man was that did it, and he pointed towards the prisoner Clark, who was standing by. I charged the prisoner with killing his wife, and he said I atn the cause of her death. He said I first pushed her doivn (pointing to the foot of the bed, where there was a large pool of blood), I then helped her up, and set her on the ledge of the window. I after wards beat her with a stick. I asked where is the stick? He pointed to the floor, where I found a stick broken iu three or four pieces, on one of which was a quantity of hair wciand round it, and blood. I then found a woman's tap thrust into the fire grate. There was no fire in the grate. There was a quantity of hair in the cap. The prisoner said, that was there before I came home, and the hair on the floor was there when I came home. I took4he prisoner into custody, and con veyed him to the poliqestation. The prisoner was then remanded for a week. The case is rendered more melancholy by the fact that the prisoner has three children, the eldest only nine years old. INSTITUTIONOF CIVIL ENGINEERS. On Feb. 11 and 18, Cubitt, Esq., President, in the chair, the discussion on Mr. A. V. Newton's paper, "An Inquiry into the nature of Patent Law Protection, with a view to the better apprec i a ti o n and security of the Rights of Inventor's" was renewed, and was continued throughout both evenings. An appendix to the p a per was read, in which it was submitted, that if the conclusions drawn from the paper were correct, the spirit of the existing patent law, con sidering the Act of James I. as such, should remain in tact; in which case any amelioration would be re muAstndreftehratsaulllelsyu of amelioration of the re stricted to matters of detail; patents, and must That the patent laws, as at present interpreted and administered, werb based upon the spirit of justice; patent laws, to be judicious and beneficial to inventors, suggestions in no way touch upon the validity of patents when t s h a e on g s r f a o u r ti t u h g e granted. In the discussion, the s ubject was first examined legally, and whilst it was admitted, that the present patent laws were capable of improvement, it was urged that the question should be very carefully argued, under all possible contingencies, and the bearings of every position be well considered, before any innovations were introduced, as the most disastrous consequences would result from any proceeding which increased the number of useless patents, and interfered with the manufacturers. It was argued that there was no analogy between the copywright of a book, a picture, or a design, and the protection granted for an invention; and that, therefore, they could not be submitted to the same rules. The existing facilities for offering opposition to the demands for patents were considered to be productive of benefit, for many applications bad been successfully con tested, which, it they had been granted, would have ma terially 'interfered with the public interest. The present high cost of patents was deemed injudi cious, as having, among .other objectionable effects, the tendency to induce the introduction of several distinct inventions under the same title, in order to save expense; and thus the system almost offered a premium for liti gation. The mere registration of inventions was then conten ded for, in order to reduce the cost and the tediousness of the present system. To this it was r e plied, that it was sufficiently difficult now, for a patent agent to advise a client as to the novelty of an invention, but that if registration alone would suffice, it would become impossible for any m an , devoting his whole time to reeding, to make himself acquainted with all that he should know, in order to perform the duty of protecting his client's interest. As to the cost of patents, it was urged that cheap patents would render necessary cheap law, to defend the rights of inventors; as all profitable patents were cos- Min to be infringed. It was contended, that the fact of so large a p er (mime of the patents applied for, never having reached the last stage, could not be attributed to the expense. of the di&rent stages, so much 2s to the present searching inquiry with them, having shown, that they really pos sessed no intrinsic merit, and that it was only common sense to abandon them. It was as.:,erted, that there was always more available capital at command, for working patents, than there were good and useful inventions to be brought into general use. Their registration was again ob jected to, on the ground, that in drawing up the specification, the advocate frequently brought prominently forward some important feature of an invention which had not been considered of any moment by the author, and whose interest would probably have materially suffered if that point had been neglected. The appointment of a registrar, or board to revise specifications, was objected to, as a moat destructive measure, and it was asserted that juries very rarely de cided contrary to the justice and common tense of a case. That the finding of a jury bad scarcely ever been reversed in a court of law; whilst the ruling of judges bad been almittcd by themselves to be erroneous. The examination into patent questions by a jury composed of men engaged in pursuits analogous to the subject of invention, wuuld be dangerous, as bringing self interest to bear egainst probity. With respect to the practical operation of patents on mechanical improvements, it was shown, that several important inventions bad never been made the subjects of patents at all, and that they had remained unused for terms of years before the public had appreciated them. The planing machine and the key grove engine were examples of this position. With respect to the assumed number of useless patents, it was asserted that there was no instance of any ma chine whose perfection bad been hindered by the diffi culty of bringing into accordance numerous patents taken for the several component parts of the machine. Every successive patent might be for a progressive step necessary tor the eventual combination of a perfect ma chine. This was demonstrated by recent cases of litiga tion on patents cases. It was proposed, that the time for which a patent was granted might be limited, subject to renewal in the case of really meritorious inventions. A graduated scale of prices ttppeared to be generally approved, as it would enable the ingenious, poor in ventor, to obtain the due reward for the exercise of his talents, without his resigning to the capitalist the greater portion of the profit. Although ne definite result was arrived at, the general opinion appeared to be, that the present cost of patents might be considerably reduced; the forms of proceeding much simplified; and, by rendering compulsory the depositing of the specification at the time of applying for the patent, effective protection would be affbrded to in• ventors, and the dreaded increase of useless patents would be effectually restrained. The meeting was then adjourned until Tuesday, February 25th, when the tullowing paper will be read:— " Description of the Royal Border Bridge, erected over the River Tweed, on the line of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway," by Mr. G. B. Bruce M. Inst., C.E. , GERMANY. The following message has been communicated by the King of Hanover's Government to the Diet of that kingdom : " The conduct of his Majesty Government with re spect to the affairs of Germany has been guided by those general principles of justice which the Government ascertained by a conscientious examination of the facts of the case. The sudden and various events (Weck selfalle) have made such an examination difficult in the extreme. But the conviction to which we always re turned remained unaltered—viz , that the law and the constitution of Germany exist according to the contents of the fundamental principles and the constitutional re solutions of the Germanic Confederation; that this law excludes exceptional laws which have been repealed in a constitutional manner, and that it includes the fulfilment of promises constitutionally made and given. The Ger manic Confederation, though it indissoluble character was recognised by fundamental laws, was, in consequence of the events of 1848 and 1849, deprived of the organ of its joint volition (Gesant•willen). The suspensions of the functions of such an organ exerted a most lamentable influence. "To supply the want thus created, the Government sent a Royal Commissioner to the Pieper Assembly of the Confederation which was convened on the 10th of May. 1850, and to the Federal Assembly which met on the 2d of September of the same year. But when the Government was summoned to take part in the Federal Assembly, its consent was tacked to the solemn assurance that it was not the object of that Assembly to return to the old condition and the old forms, but that its object was to re-model the Confederation according to the ne cessities of the time, and in the meanwhile to guarantee the superintendence over the common affairs cf the German countries, so as to assert their dignity and im portance in the system of European States, and to pro tect their interests according to the fundamental lame of the Confederation. This wee the state of affairs when the present Cabinet assumed the government of Hano ver. That Cabinet agreed with its possessors as to the views which it ought to take of the existing law; but the affairs of Germany presented, nevertheless, the most embarrassing difficulties. " A neighbouring country (Hesse) exhibited the la mentable spectacle of a rupture between the Sovereign and his subjects. The intervention of' the Federal Power was opposed by a third party (Prussia), and fur the purpose of protecting its own interests and rights this third party occupied the country without the con sent of its Sovereign. The Hanoverian Government had been summoned to assist in an armed intervention. "In the north, another Federal province (Holstein) and its Sovereign were engaged in actual warfare. That country, after an enormous sacrifice of blood and trea sure, pined for peace and repose. A peace had been concluded between the Sovereign and the German Go vernments, wad this peace protected the rights of Ger many. But still the combat was continued. In this case, too, the Hanoverian Government was asked to take part in an armed intervention for the purpose of disarming a population which had fought and combated under the same banner with the soldiers of Hanover. " The part which, under these circumstances', the Ha noverian Government was compelled to take in the in terest of Germany and its own interest, was clear be yond the possibility of a doubt. Peace was to be pre served at any risk; the most active co-operation was wanted to restore an acknowledged state of public law to Germany. It was necessary to reconcile, but not to pit against one another, the confl . cting elements in the neighbouring states, to protect the rights of Germany without prolonging a resultless and bloedy war, and, as much as possible, to protect Hanover itself from new burdens. " The military power of Hanover cannot give that country so much importance as a consistent and equit able foreign and domestic policy is sure to do. And in this equitable policy the Government has been supported by the resolution of the Diet of the 16th January, 1850, which directs it to prccure a Constitution of Germany by means of the development of the existing law. Nor need the Government repent of the course which it has taken. Relying on similar sentiments in its mightier allies, even at times when the rights of the Confederation seemed for the moment to be misunderstood, the Hanoverian Government, assured and confident of the justness of its cause, stood unmoved amidst the warlike preparations which convulsed the major part of Germany, and the expense of a mobili zation of its armed force was thus spared to the country. The consequence has been that the Govern ment has had the extreme gratification to witness the es tablishment of amicable relations In the pluce of me nacing dissensions, and of a scission between the north and south of Germany. The danger of a war, with all iii fatal consequenoes, has been removed, and the two great Powers are now united in the endeavours to remodel Germany by means of a revision of the existing Fe deral Constitution. The fidelity of Hanover to the existing Federal Law, and the pacific .attitude of the north-west of Germany, have materially as sisted in obtaining these favourable results. The Hanoverian Government has, moreover, readily sent its plenipotentiaries to the Conferences, which were opened for the durpose of revising. the Constitu tion. The instructions of that plenipotentiary contain a distinct expression of the solicitude (eigene Sorge) of the Government fir the fulfilment of the Constitutional promises (Verfassungs Zusagen) which it has given. Deeply imbued with respect for the existing law, the Government has positively refused to recognize any exceptional resolutions (Ausnahnis-Besehlusse) which, according to its opinion, ought to be foreign to the legislation of the Confederation. It has not lent itself to any intervention in any neighbouring State, and al:hough its attempts at a reconciliation of the con flicting interests have been void of success, the Hano verian Government still continues, and proposes to con tinue, to exert its influence for the above purpose. Re cognizing the obligations of a treaty of peace and the injunctions of the Federal law, the Government has taken part in the transactions of the Fe deral Assembly respecting the affairs of another Federal province (Holstein). And while it assented to the resolution of the Federal Assembly, by which this question too was committed to the two great Powers the Hanoverian Government advocated the protection of the rights of Germany according to the Federal resolu tions of the 17th of September, 1846. The Government hopes that the Diet will fully understand and appreciate its conduct in the questions to which it has referred. " VON MUNCHAUBEN, LINDEMANN, ROBBING, JACOBI TH. MAYER, VON, HAMMERSTEIN. " Hanover, Feb. 15." --- The immense lump of Welsh coal (weighing be tween three and four tons), mentioned a fortnight since as being expected to arrive for the forthcoming Exhibition, was on Thursday disembarked from a collier brig in the Pool, and conveyed safely to the wharf of Messrs. Jones, Sells, and Co., Bankside, Southwark, and is an object of much cu riosity to numerous visitors. POLIC.E INTELLIGENCE. MANSION HOUSE. William S. S. Heal:, a clerk in ihe banking-house of Messrs. Cuuliffe and Co., of Lombard-street, was brought before Alderman William Hunter, upon the charge of having embezzled a bill of exchange for 1501, the pro perty of his employers. Mr. Roger Cunliffe, clerk in the banking-house, said it was the duty of the prisoner to enter all bills and moneys received by him. There was a bill for 150/. upon Messrs. Smith and Co., which was overdue, and not accounted for in the bealu; but it would be necessary so have a witness who was at present in the country to establish the charge. The prisoner was remanded for a week. THAMES. Rosins Herbett, a gocd-lcoking young married wo man, 26 years of described as of 2, T urner ' s -build ings, St. George'age, s, was charged with ill ega l ly pawning biz blouses, which had keen entrusted to her tvr making 20, 1851. up by a poor woman named Elizsbelh Mercer, of 10, Stone-street, Commercial -road. The prisoner is the same person who a few months since was charged with a similar offence, and whose statement as a distressed needlewoman so excited the sympathies of the humane that upwards of 401. were forwarded fur her, of which she received a considerable portion; but it having been subsequently shown that the off- , nce with which she w as then charged was not the first of the kind of which she had been guilty, the magistrates, conceiving that to ad vance her any more would be a bonus on crime, publicly announced not only that they would not receive any more sums ou her account, but would devote the residue in hand to tho funds for the general poor, unless the bone- volent donors chose to reclaim their respective advances. In the case of yesterday, the prosecutrix stated that she had employed the prisoner to make up linen blouses at 6d. to 7d. each, receiving herself Is. profit on every dozen. About three weeks since the prisoner had six blouses to make up, the valise of which might be about 4s. 6d. each. Complainant's husband dying, and she herself being very ill, she sent frequently for the articles, being apprehensive that the delay would lose her her own employment. On Friday last the prisoner absconded from her lodgings. Yesterday she was met by the prosecutrix in Rosemary-lane, who, as she re• fused to give any account of the property, rave her in charge to Smith, 415 K. Prosecutrix had• known the prisoner since March last. Mr. YARDLEY—I, not this the same Rosina Herbert who was hero a sh , rt time since, and on whose behalf such considerable sums were advanced by a benevolent public? Witness—The same, sir. Mr. YARDLEY—And yet, knowing what has since oc curred, you have employed her? The prisoner (who pretended to be much affected at her positim), complained that the constable hail pulled her about, and taunted her with what had formerly taken place. Smith denied the truth of this statement, and said he did not know who she was until she was taken to the statien•house. Mr. YARDLEY—I am not at all inclined to credit any assertion of hers. It is clear that she pawned six blouses, value 4s. Gil. each, and I shall commit her on the pre sent evidence, but she will be brought up again on Monday, so as to allow the officers time to trace the property. REPEAL OF THE WINDO W TAX. Last evening a special meeting of the delegates of the various metropolitan parishes took place at the Court house, Marylebone, for the purpose of considering the declaration of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in re ference to the window-tax and the attempted Imposition of a house•tax. The most extraordinary excitement appeared to pre vail. Long before the hour appointed for bolding the meeting the doors of the Court-house were besieged, and every part of the spacious building, as well as the gallery, was in a abort period densely crowded by a de termined tired enthusiastic auditory. Amon.' the Members of Parliament present were— Lord 1 „lean, Sir B. Hall, Mr. Wakley, Mr. J. Williams, Mr. Mowatt, Mr. J. Bell, Sir De Lacy Evans, Mr. C. Lushington, &c. Mr. J. NICHOLAY, of Marylebone, the chairman of the metropolitan delegates, having been called to the chair, observed that there were delegates assembled, not only on the window-tax, but with regard to the sewers commission; but 'the latter gentlemen, feeling the vast importance of the subject of the window-tax, had at once adjourned their meeting. Although they had been called together at a few hours' notice, the present as sembly indicated the feeling which the statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer had made upon the metropolis.—(Hear, hear.) That assembly was, in fact a council of war; and they meant to show the Chan cellor of the Exchequer that they meant war, and no mistake.—(Cheers.) What they bad assembled for was to consider the Chancellor of the Exchequer's budget. —(Groans, hisses, and cries of " We'll make him budge-it.") It was such a budget as had raised the in dignation of all classes of the community—from one end of the kingdom to the other.—(Hear, hear.) The time had come when they must call things by their proper names, and he pronounced the budget of the Chancellor of the Exchequer the greatest insult and the greatest piece of humbug that was ever attempted to be perpe trated upon the people.—(Cheers.) It was neither more nor less than a downright swindle—(Loud cheers)—and entitled the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the cogno men of " Thimblerigger-General " to her .Mujesty.— (Hear, hear.) The game was in the hands of the peo ple of the metropolis. The position of the Ministry was so tottering that the metropolitan Members could turn the balance.—(Tremendous cheering.) The game was in their hands, and, to speak in plain English, they would not suffer themselves to be humbugged.—(Hear.) They had not only been taken in by the Chanceller of the Exchequer, but done for.—r Lord DuacaN—" Not yet."] —(Tremendous cheering.) It depended entirely upon themselves, and so far from accepting a house-tax as a boon, they wore determined to fling it back in his face with the contempt it deserved.—(Loud cheers ) Lord DUNCAN, on presenting himself, was loudly cheered. Ile was delighted to see such an assembly of delegates from all parts of the metropolis to express their indignation and disgust at the recent proposal of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the house of Com mons. The Government was pledged to reform and retrenchment; and if they departed from those princi ples, the time had come when the people would tell them they were no longer worthy of support.—(Cheers.) lie (the Noble Lord) was not going to mince tee matter. A more disgraceful insult to the people was never proposed by any Chancellor of the Exchequer. Instead of according with the feeling of the people of England that the window-tax should be totally repealed, he had proposed what he called a house. tax.—(Shame.) Let them not be deceived in tho matter. It wes nothing of the kind; it was only the old window-tax back again.— (Hear, and Shame.) He called upon them not to be de luded by names.—(Bear.) It was a complete humbug.— (Cheers.) He repeated the word " humbug."—(Renewed cheering.) The people had been deluded on this subject before, in 1834 and 1841, and they hod borne it because they were a patient and quiet people.—(Hear, hear.) But the thre had come when they must uplift their voices and show that they were patient no longer.— (Hear, hear.) Not only were the people insulted by this speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but it now appeared that great care mast be taken that no ex pression should be conveyed to the House of Commons which was at all distasteful to the Chancellor. He had on the previous night presented a petition which he (Lord Duncan) had received from his constituents at Bath, stating that they viewed the Budget with surprise and regret.—(Hear, hear.) He was called to order by the Speaker, and was told that the people o f E ng l and had no right to express surprise and regret at any thing done in the House of Commons.—(Shame, shame.) The Noble Lord at great length denounced the Budget, and declared that whatever might be the result, he would w i t h hi s colleagues prevent the Gover nment f rom carry ing out other measures if they would not.give the uncon ditional repeal of this tax. He called upon the metro polis to speak out upon this insult on their understand ing, and the sooner they spoke the better.—(Tre mendous cheering.) Mr. HEALEY, of St. Pancras, urged that the dele gates who were the ratepoyers should express their opinion first, and the members afterwards. —(Hear.) Mr. GEORGE, churchwarden of Sr. Ann's, Soho, moved the first resolution. The Government had not only broken faith with the nation, but the proposal of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was a delusion and a swindle.—(Hear, hear.) He morea— `• That the imposition of a house-tax as proposed by the Government i s not only unequal, unjust, but ob noxious and unnecessary, and this Inee:iug pledges itself to oppose it in every l ega l manner , an d never to remain satisfied till they have obtained the uncondi tional repeal of the window -tax; and in the event of the Government persevering in their measure in opposition to general opinion, the various Members of Parliament be requested to give such obstruction to the Ministers as will show that they no longer possess the confidence of the Government."—(Tremendous cheering ) Mr. GxESIL, churchwarden of St. James's, seconded the resolution, and however unpalatable it might be to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, he hoped he would read in the morning the public expression of opinion that his proposal was unequal, unjust, unholy, and un- Christian.—(Loud cheering.) Mr. MlTcrtEae, of Oxford-street, said, so far from this house-tax being a benefit, it would be a positive augmentation of the window-tax.—(" Hear, hear," and " Shame.") He paid now, far 48 windows, 1.51.16 e. 10d. per year, and if he paid 9d. in the pound fur property tax return, it would cost him 161. I Is. 64.--(.e Shame !e) The resolution was carried unanimously amid loud applause. Mr. T. M. NELSON, of St. James's, moved the second resolution— " That the Members for the metropolitan boroughs and counties be requested to o p pose the income-tax, or any other tax, until the Ministers consent to the total repeal of the window-tax, an d no substitution of any other tax in its place; and that a copy of this resolution be transmitted to all the metropolitan Members."— (Cheers.) The Chancellor of the Exchequer had thrown down the challenge, and this was their answer to it.— (Cheers.) The Ministerial whippers-in were already crying out that the Govern ment was i n d anger, an d that if the Ministers were beaten ou the property-tax they would have a Tory Government.—(Cries of " We can't have a worse.") Let them not heed that cry, but call on their Members to pursue the course laid down by the resolution.—(Cheers.) The resolution baying been seconded, Sir B. HALL, amid loud cheers, explained the course he had already pursued with respect to being determined to divide the House on the house-tax. lie viewed the proposal as the roost delusive that over emanated from any Chancellor of the Exchequer, and could answer for himself and Noble Colleague, who was unavoidably ab sent, that they would both vote against the income-tax. —(Tremendous cheering for several minutes.) The Hon. B aronet called upon t h e me t ro p o l is to back up their Members, whether the Government had to resign or not, and sa t d own am id protracted cheering. Lord DUNCAN pledged himself to be by the side of the Hon. Baronet in his vote on the income-tax unless the window-tax was at once repealed.—(Cheers.) Mr. TOULMIN S3irrn denounced the proposal of the Chancellor of the Exchequer as having for its basis fraud and confiscation. Mr.WAItLEY, M.P., was also received with tremendous cheering. Ile had hardly recovered the surprise and indignation with which ho heard the gross insult to the feelin g and the intelligence of the metropolis cont a ined in the Ch anc ellor's speech.—(Hear.) Notwithstanding the misty atmosphere of the House of Co mmons , h e cou ld not but perceive the smile of satisfaction which pervaded the countenance of some Members—not among the supporters of the Government, but the enemies of the Government;—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman gave a humorous description of the political suicide which the Chancellor of the Exchequer had committed, and declared that, even at the risk cf . turning QUt the BREACH OF PRIVILEGE. (LEFT SPEAKING.) LONDON CITY APPRENTICES. Sir James Duke, Ur., in the course of a very eloquen, speech, nn the occasion of a public testimonial to John Robert Taylor, Esq., made some most pertinent remarks npon the value of aapprenticeship in the city of London. It will be seen that our noble forefathers thought simi larly, even so far back tic the time of Charles I. The extract is from Whitfield's Memoirs, and is not unworthy of notice:— "A curious account of the mode of apprenticing at this me is given in a letter from Mr. Howell to his father. Our two younger brothers which you sent hither are disposed of; my brother, Dr. Howell (afterwards Bishop of Bristol), hath placed the elder of the two with Mr. Hawes, a mercer, in Cheapside, and he took much pains in it ; and I had placed my brother Ned with Mr. Bar rington, a silkman in the same street, but afterwards, from some inconveniences, I removed him to one Mr. Smith, at the Flower-de-lute, in Lombard-street, a mercer also; their masters are both of them very well to pass, and of good repute; I think it will prove some ad vantage to them hereafter, to be both of one trade; because, when they aro cut of their time, they may join stocks together; so that I hope, sir, they are well placed as any two youths in London; but you must not use to send them such large tokens in money, for that may corrupt them. When I went to bind my brother Ned appren tice in Drapers' Hall, casting my eyes upon the chim ney-piece of the great room, I might spie a picture of an ancient gentleman, and underneath Thomas Howel; I ask'd the clerk about him, and he told me that he had been a Spanish merchant in Henry the Eight's time, and coming home rich, and dying a bachelor, he gave that hall to the Company of Drapers, with other things, so that he is accounted one of their chiefest benefactors. I told the clerk that one of the sons of Thomas Howel came now thither to be bound, he answered, that if he be a right Howel he may have, when he is free, three hundred pounds to help him to set up, and pay no interest for five years. It may be hereafter we may make use of this. He told me also that any maid that can prove her farther to be a true Howel, may come and demand fifty pounds towards her portion of the said hall. Because Mr. Hawes, of Cheapside, is lately dead, I have removed by brother Griffith to the Hen and Chickens in Paternoster-row, to Mr. Taylor's, as gentile a shop as any in the city, but I gave a piece of plate of twenty nobles price to his wife." There is some curious analogy in the above, inasmuch that Mr. Taylor followed up the observations of Sir James. The city apprentices of the present day will read the following with no great love of the " good old times:"— "In the year 1582, the luxury of the times having greatly prevailed among people of all degrees, in their apparel, partifmlarly by apprentices, the Lord Mayor and Common. Council enacted, 'that no apprentice whatsoever should presume, 1. To wear any apparel but what he receives from his mas ter. 2. To wear no hat, nor anything but a woollen cap, without any silk in or about the same. 3. To wear neither ruffles, cuffs, loose collars, nor anything than a ruff at the collar, and that only of a yard and a half long. 4. To wear no doublets but what are made of canvas, fustian, sackcloth, English leather, or woollen, without any gold, :giver, or silk trimming. 5. To wear no other coloured cloth, or kersey, in hose or stockings, than white, blue, or russet. 6. To wear no ot h er b reec h es but what s h a ll , be of the same stuffs as the doublets, and neither stitched, laced, or bordered. 7. To wear no other than a plain upper coat, of cloth or leather., without pinking, stitching, edging, or silk about it. To wear no other surtout than a cloth gown .3r cloak, lined or faced with cloth, cotton, or baize, with, a fixed round collar, without stiching, gnardi ng, lace, or silk. 9. To wear no pumps, slippe' ts, or sheer, but of English leather withc at being pinked, edged, or stitched; nor girdles, nor ;arters, other than of crewel, woollen, thread, or leath Er, without being garnished. 10. To wear no savor, 3, dagger, or other weapon but a knife; nor a ring, jewel of gold nor silver, nor silk in any part of his a pparel, on pain of being punished at the dis cretii in of the master for the first offence; to be pub lickl y whipped at the hall of his company for a second offer ce; and to serve six months longer than speci fied i u his indentures for a third offence. And it was forth er enacted, " That no apprentice should frequent or go to any dan c i ng , f enc i ng, or musical schools; nor keep any chest, press, or other place for keeping of ap parel or goods, but in, his master's house, under the penalti 'es aforesaid." Sec% was the stat-e of " apprenticeship" in the year 1582. DEATH OF LIEUT.-COLONEL W. H. DAVIES, UN ATTACHEI —Li'Jut.- Colonel Davies, who died on the 11th inst., aged 175 yearB, entered the army in 1799. In 1806 he served wit h the 47th Regiment in South America. After wards he s erved in the Peninsula, and was present at the sieges of C. Wiz, T arragona, and Tarifa. On the 31st Decem ber, 1811, h e com mended three companies of his regiment, the 47th, o A the memorable occasion when the French in great force atten.li )ted to storm the town ; but were driven back great loss both of men and artillery. The late Lieut..t.4/10itel Da vies had been in the half-pay list since 1830. Sir J. WILLOUGHBY called the attention of the Noble Lerd the Member for Bath (Lord Duncan) to certain expressions which the public journals had re ported him to have used at a public meeting. It ap peared that the Noble Lord had said the people had no right to express their regret at anything done in the House of Commons. Lord DUNCAN bore testimony to the wonderful ac curacy with which the proceedings of the House of Commons and public meetings were reported, but stated he had been misrepresented by the public journals in the present instance. What he mid was this—that he had been called to order by the Speaker, and told that the people of England had no right to express their surprise or regret in any matter under debate in the House of Commons, which only reached them through the reports in the public journals, which were not authorised by the House. LAW OF PARTNERSHIP. toMr. SLANEY rose to mov e for a Select Committee to consider the law of partnership, and a proposed limi tion of liability, with a view to encourage useful en terprise and the additional employment of labour. He considered that the law which he now proposed to amcud was a great check to the industry and energy of the working men of the country. Now he would direct his attention to the way in which the lower classes w( re affected by the several Bills which bad been passed on that subject. In other countries such an evil as this would have been productive of the most serious effects; and by the policy which they had adopted the contrast between the condition of the peasants of other countries and those of this. In this country the great est amount of capital bad been accumulated which had ever been gathered together in the world before, and yet they derived no benefit from it. Ile was connected with an interest which had suffered more than any other. The interest from which he derived his humble income was the landed interest, but all his hopes had been disappointed, and the measures from w hien he had anticipated relief had produced no benefit. From the returns of a society with which he was connected, and which extended to twenty-six counties, he found that the working daises were in a far worse condition than they had been for some years parts. That society had offered a reward for any proof of the redundancy of the population in these coun ties, but no one had appeared to claim that reward.— (Hear, hear.) His Right Hon. Friend below him (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) could go into the City and borrow money at 2 per cent., to any amauni, while the working community were obliged to borrow at the rate of 60s. for the 1001, Thei Bank and any of the other great discount houses could do the same, and he asked under the circumstances whether some alteration ought not to be made in order to increase the welfare of the lower classes, and under capital more available for the general benefit. And yet just at this time they found men were out of employment —men only half employed, and men able bodied and ready to work emigrating to distant parts of the world. He did not state this as a cause of bitter complaint, but as a cause why they should inquire into the subject. The agricultural party was peculiarly interested in this question, for the more they held the working men of this country to buy cheese, drink malt, and wear wool, the more they would benefit themselves. At present capital was confined to a few hands, it was, in fact, monopolised by a number of speculators, who, in stead of applying it to the employment of home labour operated with it, abroad, and much of the evil— for an evil it was, and a great one too —was created and fostered by the cobwebs of the law. For instance, a man with a small estate could not raise money upon its security without going through an expensive process of law, and the consequence was he had to pay 4 per cent., where he should only pay 3 per cent. The second action of the law which restricted the application of capital to works capable of largely employing labour, such as water-works, bridges, and gas-works, was found in expensive obstacles which Parliament threw in the way of such works. Now, instead of having an especial Bill for every scheme of that sort, why could they not pass a general Act similar to the Commons Inclosuro Act, and get rid of all this difficulty. Ministry, he should take the samo course as the Hon. Baronet, Sir B. Hall, had proposed,—(Che ers. Mr. MoWATT, M.P., said the fall or the maintenance of the Governm e nt was in the bands of t he metropolis, and declared his intention of supporting the fame views a 3 the HOD. Member who had preceded bim. Mr. Jour' WILLIAMS, M.P., made a similar declara tion, and the resolution was carried. Mr. SANDERS, of St. Martin's, moved the th anks ers of the meeting to Lord Duncan and the other Mernb present; which was sccund , ad by Mr. FaasEß, cburchci warden of St. Pancras, and carried nem. con., am id loud applause. Lord DUNCAN and Sir B. HALL responded; an d the latter said h e h a d r e c e ived so many letters from 11uire i p sartl) ! of the kingdom on the subject that he shou ld req. s secretaries to answer them.—(Cheers and laughter.) This showed the feeling of the country —(Cbeers.) , o . Mr. Savage, of St. Giles'; Mr. Horne, of St. Luke Mr. Humph r i es , o f St. Andrew's, Hulboru , and °lg delegates, spoke ; end thanks having been p assed Ch to t airman, this most enthusiastic meeting separated. _ - - -- SEABORNE 11 SAILS. ost -onto p [N signifies that the mails are sent from the General - by the night—and M by the morning—dispatch. When made up in PLACES. GeneralPost-otiee London. From what port dis patched. whop due. ~...-----. America (by Brit. pkt.) N February 28.. •• America (by U.S. pkt.) N February 21 • • America (by US. pk t.) M March 8 • • • • Atr,ca ( West coast).- N 14th of the month Alexandria* ........ N 19th & 30th of mo. Belgium .. .. • • N Daily •• • • ' • Brazil •• • .. 11 9th of the month Buenos Ayrce .. .. 319th of the month California(viaChagres) 31 17th of month Cape of Good llope N 14th of month Constantinople* .. • • N 7th 17th 27th of mo Central America .. 31 2d & 17th of rnon. Channel Isles • • .. N Mon., Wed., SG Fri. Chili .. M 17th of the month France 31 & N Twice daily .. • • Greece* .. .. • • N 7th 17th 27 th of mo llamburgh N Tuesday & Friday Holland .. • • .. M Wednes. & Satur. Honduras . N 17th of the mouth Ireland .. • • M& N Twice daily .. • • India (via Southamp.) M 20th of the month India (via Marseilles) N 7th Sf. 24th ofmonth, Mediterranean (via Southampton) •• M 20th of the month Mediterranean (via Marseilles) .. Mexico LiverPo° l ' • Liverpool .• Southarapt. Plymouth Dover •• ()over •• SouthaMP t • SouthamPt. SouthamPt• h• • Dover • • • 111 London Lfoyerl)BS°SPuutnttde 11'1111aanui limn it PPP ::tt• • • ;outhatupt . Holyhead •• so o u y t e h r anipt: 3::) Feb. 26 . march Fe b. 22 March . Feb. 2° Feb. A. Feb. 2 1 Feb. 2 v blare! , 3 Feb. 3° Fe 3° Ttl• b T„ A h ' Feb. Feb. l a t. Toe', of M0N. 1.11 Feb.., 1 2° ,0 iwier•-• Feb' 21 2 !Or el' Feb' 3° isouthamPt• N 7th& 24th ofmonth 2d of tho month.. Dover • • SoUtiISIIIP t • SOUtha ni P t. 1 power g a teb 6 3for c h n it Marc Feb. 20 Madeira .. 9 th of the month Naples* • .. .: .N 7 s, tli 3 ,l o 7 t t h h o ,l f 9 in F o fmo Dover tla o , n 27 th th .. •. l _ . eb. / I N sth 15th 25th • ie . 22 Papal States* .. .. N sth 150125th efmo Dover .• Feb. 96 reninsular .. • • .. 31 7th 17th 27th of am SouthaniPt• t, eb 20 Peru .. .. .. .. M 17th of the month SouthaniPt• '. - , BD. 22 Tuscany* .. .. .. N sth 15th 25th of mo Dover • ' Feb. 2 0 West Indies .. .. M 17th of the month SouthanW.• West Indies (except I if °lls Havanna & Nassau) M2d of the month .. ! S.:AlWA'''. et. 0 0,1 li , 0 * The mails to those countries thus marke d (*) are French packs via Marseilles. 3falta• THE COUNTRY MARKE T " w I ..IVERPOOL, FEB. 18.—At this morning's market thereht to Tuesday pt the I n a n s t e . s t d F e r s e c n r c i p h t i ll o o n u s r t a air attendance of town and country dealers, wh? b l i ces 0 1 a moderate extent of fresh ls of heat at We A r ea' metarc d ea le Per s ee ' L c . A io IS rican flour was in moderate request at a decline ef '''' d oat per barrel. Oats must be quoted id per 451bs lower , Is and meal was di ffi cult to move at late rates. Barley', sus, de peas without change in value or demand. There is s ,g bo ught mand for Indian corn, and the bestyellow could 33(4 I". - under 30s 3d to 30s 6d per 4801bs. y soarks t LIMBS, Fax. 18.— The arrivals of grain for to-dsf s oces; were moderate. Wheat met a slew demand at Fridays P_ oa th very slow sale, al....A,tne. barley same as on Friday, and there was no variation 10 Aon e shellings, or b Y, in any article. beans ; but, on the whole, very little busi ness" „ deli 'Atli 111,0 pt• NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, Fxa. 18.- 1 cedes of wheat from the growers, and good supplies bot,r. , little wise and from abroad, the trade ruled exceedingly u li . .; 0 0 0 on n usin a ess was done, and prices must be quoted th e I : n floor and S ot turday. Barley if anything the turn cheaper. 1. beasts about ninetyle of her articles no cha NEWCASTLE CATTLE ..- 1g....5 0 ..,(1 heaci than MARKET , last na r k re market. I • Quality. go r m .. trade very active at improved prices. Number 0, sheep Beasts' 760 ; sheep, more than last Tuesday ; trade brisk , and all sold. ot te,. -- • 6d to 60 per lb. ~ , were is EDINbURGH MEAL MARKET, FEB. 18.•-•-• T Per- 0 0801 i, 3,600. Beef, 4s 6d to 55 6d per OW; the m e meal market to-day 13 sacks oatmeal, each weight 1; b en d a i t i m p er ial, which, sold thus:-6 at 1/ 7s _, O l a otbS• 1 7 s Od; average price of the whole 1/ 7s V ,, ' ' w hereof Oat straw, 3 4 sacks flobr, which sold at 28s. 10 sacks pot-liar sold thus :--1 at 24s Od, and 3 at 21s Od. as• 18•: : EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKO, t r io WO , . wheat ditto, Ia 6d to 7s 6d ; barley ditto, 5 5 6d to Hay, lo4 DALKEIT ....There riere„dy lOdfromto 7 i s s O p d er to st B o s ne o . d per kem le of 16 0 e 06 , H MEAL MARKET, FEB. 17. bags oatmeal at this day's market, for vrhich there r s o arket" demand. There was no bade rneal or pot -barley Ist , t hird. In oatmeal there was no change Y qualities from 3d to A Third Ed per bag dearer. on the top, Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs . First Seed'''. 5 ° (1 cl 2 5 imperial Od 25s 6 Od 265 061 ---e Barleymeal, per ditto ... ... Od --' l3 oOd ... _..1 ~. _ s Od -- „.., Yeasetnealg Od ...-- Od .....11 Liu Flour .. ... *** *** —** s u Od • •• • gOa Od ....... Pot barley ... ... ••• -•• ... —s Od ''''' second arm 5 0 1 RedWlii white hwehaetat 0160ss 6d d d t t o o 1080ss 9tlod 0 1)°5 4 °cl-- 2 1 d ; c u rt 1 0 0 Barrels. n Oct -- d 195 Barley Od 2t to re d 3 ; 13 19 0 Bere - 131 Oats O barrels white wheat; 7s 9d to 8s 3d - Os OA: er c et 175 Pigs 28s Quantity sold at the Highest Prices: -- so 00' 87 pigs. y ; k:•'" Quantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold last Wee i .0; 5 2 8 ' Wheat, 167. Barley, 672. Oats, :- - i,374. . •g - ' 9 ba d rle °C)oBbeuu;; . PRICES OF BUTTER. CANT. cuitANNCI• 811 First quality ........ 1 Second quality •.... 710 .......... Third quality B os Third quality •—• . 0 69 Fourth quality 4 75 Fifth quality Sixth quality 66s Sixth quality ........ 8 ~!..... Return of C a t t l e so ld f orte week ending Feb. 111/' Pigs, 1,319. Sh ee p, 344. Cows, gd; 13s CORK ' .---1 4 1our—First lls 6d to 12 s 6d ; euthntre.A. '7, to 9 seconds, 10s 6d to lls 6d; households 93 to 10s Od; ; 0 0 ' per cwt. Oatmeal 10, to 106 6d; Indian meal 76 6d to 8; 00 p er meal. lOs to lOs 6d per cwt. Indian corn 71 $ 6 Od t° ' . *t erse ton. Bran 92s 6d t o 95s per ton. Hay—Farmers 286 to 41h est osi 368; dealers 44s to 50s Od; average 455 per ton. Stotungs 04 22s Od to 33s Od; average 28s; dealers 3460 to d to Od average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Whesten loaf 51 10d 1° household loaf 41c1 to 5d 41b. Fresh butte r ' cosle I2d per lb. Eggs-4s per dot !. 6d to 48 8d per he n .r oh C l/1111' Newport 16s Od; Lydney 17s; Landore 14s ; Pe a „. elst: 1 3s 6d per ton. T a ll o w 378 od t o 38s p`" ARP Whisky, 25 0 5 • p., s9d per .. 1 lb. —Beef 4d to 6d ; mutton 5d to 7d; 7,j Pet' 5d 5d ; pork 4d to Od ; bacon 7d to 8d ; sausalL es to 3 15 e ris' Hops 61 lOs to 0/0s per cwt. Bangor slates 3/2s w on ,. fralic. , ton. Bark—Barbary 71 Os to 8/0s; Valonia Olt U.' et Otori 61 Os ; Spanish 0/ per ton. Fleece wool 148 tom P o ; row to Hem 2 Hemp 31 to 34l per ton. Fish—Scotch herrings " 6 1 11 10° r; ditto, 24s to 006 per barrel ; Newfoundland, 10/ to . / 40 ton. Timber—Memel, 80s per ton; red pine. 3 i no 'fba es l, ditto, 21 15s per ton; deals, 12s to 15s per h" „Of ; Market 226 to 328; salted 23s to 325 per cwt; 0100: 30 to 30 per lb. Potatoes, white 7d to 10c to 911" hid to 13d. Guano— Peruvian, 11110 s ; Ichaboe. o' per ton. Tar—Archangel, 19s per barrel. - • CORK, FEz. 17. Canfield illoor7u A t j e 4 s.. Bate Bowicke and Co. '8 West Hartley l4s 6d ;Russell's Batten • 156 Wylam gd LE etetno bl lA3.l7odEiTu.e—u:hicskiTedanni .... ... . : 6 6 5 , ;1 13s 6d Hartlepool ..... na Wall'q End, &c ••••.. ' . 15 6 ;,1 ....... 55 Brown 3s v Lawson Riddell ..... .. .. 4 •Ad !aide Tees ........ „5 bd &c. 14s 6d South Kenos .... •• • 9 3d e ..... Main Lambton Lambton p • ..*. rnarose Bell 163 3d Backhouse .......... 9-4 I_3raddyll - West Hartlepoo ... I so n o ••• k a e r i e " t : 34. 168 bd! Ships s t 16s 9GlWhit worth C i m ul en n o t t h coquetry_ they reject DA NG ER OF ---- COQUETZIr• -- W °n3 : eli e m y erl s e i hm l vf o e eu n a ni n dc t° b ° :: ed r e° . ; , re and et w an h d o t l h ov ey e them . repent ; gifted man will seldom ask a W take j this step too hastily. i d high: tbef [ADVERTISEMENT.] avS noilosc Legg , toot Mice. nt A nd Pills an Excellent for Old Wounds , Sor e t oo le e Scrofula.-111r. Remedy Turne r, ding e tion from a dreadful sore leg, the diseased part exte°,„tie foot to the knee, and causing a severe 'Or ie l; Os tried every available remedy without being alb3l which spread over the whole surface of tbe .for O en • to he- e d using the least good whatever to it. At len gt h r le et 0f of Pensburst, suffered for &cos tbe Holloway's Ointment and Pills, and, to the 19 1 ° 11" his lelf was IT self and others who had seen the dreadful sta te Ave these fine medicines e ff ected a sound cure istiabliovio's —Sold by all druggists , and at p ro f e ssor De' - lishment, 244, Strand, Linden. BIRTHS. r Al fr" F A SOX. ,I,„ vele C" , On the 14th inst , at CanterburY, '"- I st jobielleo a, Lochee, Esq., M.D. . On the 18th inst., at Hamilton-terrace, --• the wife of T. C. Renshaw Esq. 10 4 OF A,DA IJ G FIT IC B. ~,, uldir On the 15th inst., at Marlborough-road, 0" " AO lady the Lady Tullamore. 0 6 the On the 15th inst., at the rectory, Souldrop, Bede, of the Rev. Adolphus Hamilton. tbir.cl son On the 15th inst., at St. James's Paddington, .Edwi.ll'sbetbr of Thomas B R Wiliams, Esq., Of Holloway, to 0 1 ,f t or second daughter Williams, Esq., to Mary, youngest daulgi.hsgteroofiWre9tu°ll terrace; and at the eLa ue, same time, John, youn.- - _, Tbotow La Rue, E sq. Georg e Wilson n the Ifi,•h inst., at Trinity Church, Marylebone, —cod ( :v Ilson Adam, Esq., of Edinburgh, to Elizabetyloo aughter of the late J. Rothwell, Esq., of Darley Da Bolton, Lancashire. Or DIED , ' 0 1, 1 st son of C ..srple: On the 10th inst., aged 42, at the Castle-boos_e4,ol9 Stafford, after a few days' illness, Horace William 1 0 !',i,',. ott Esq.. 8.C.L., of Caius College, Cambridge, and Wrist. the Oxford circuit. • b C °l3l. On the 13th inst., in the Royal Arsenal, Viroolwto t,. o r d. mander Joseph Soady, Royal Navy, Superintendent 01 nance Shipping, aged 62. ' San dfOr dt On the 16th inst., at Paris, the Hon• Mrs. Will s , n cl. wife of W. R. Wills Sandford, Esq., of Castlerea, I gl• On the 16th inst., at Mitcham, J. Moore, Egg:, agedvett On the 17th inst., Mr. T. Thorpe, of Henrietta -5 pet Covent•gnrden, aged 59. pa niar i. On the 17th inst., at Upper Berkeley-street, •- t square, Mrs. Lucy Lowe, aged 9`. On the 17th inst., at Albany-street, Regent's-park, 14618°' At Upper Clapton, James Mlanne t ' , Esq•, o Judith. relict of the late Mr. C. Buer of Munstr-s tre et. .. 0 f t he Ordo Alic Department, Tower. .----------------- London:N Strand,ud.a i 1 o .I : 1 2 P e a, in n., Strand,nTt t h e he d u rps a drneadcyi Printer,nr cFutebbol; February a r y h ta e ht d e 7 , b 2s y l.o : lostr U sa, in ß; c, 0 0 1r C i I. iu ^ -14 G I ' 1 °i, the:osll°°.ti i )li U .~ u C rT 4 1! N 1 bop, e