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to attend on any of these Committees. It appeared that there was the great number of 250 Members who refused to attend on these Committees, and he thought that if this evil was not remedied by the Government, the House should take the measure into its own hands and provide a remedy itself. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that Hon. Members were mistaken in supposing that there were no means within the power of the House for recti fying this evil, for, in fact, there was ample power in the House at the present moment for compelling the at tendance of Members when elected on a Committee, and also for compelling Members to serve before they had been elected, so that no further powers were necessary. The resolution, after some farther discussion, was agreed to. The 18th resolution, fixing the hour of the meeting of the Committees " not later than twelve o'clock," was put, and, after a brief conversation, agreed to. The 19th resolution, to the effect, " That parties promoting railway projects which have been grouped together by the Classification Committee, shall be per mitted to appear before the Committee on any railway belenging to that group, and to offer evidence either against the Bills immediately under the consideration of the Committee, or in support of their own project." On the resolution being put, Mr. B:iNKES said on this, and the following resolu tions, he should offer a few remarks, and they would have reference to the observations he had made at an earlier period of the evening, when he spoke of the in convenience that would arise from the Members having local knowledge being excluded from the Committees. They had provided by this, and the following resolutions, that, during the progress of the Committee, it should be competent to a new party to come forward and give in formation to it, either on the same Bill, or on a former project, that may, or may not, be connected with the plan proposed. Authority was give nto the Committee to hearken to such further project, and it might adjourn its proceedings, and give time for those others to alter the plan then passing thi ough its stages in the House, the fresh project to come up to the Committee, and pro ceed, pari passu, with the scheme first proposed. But suppose there was no such cther party. and suppose it happened that no other party was prepared to incur the ex pense of carrying on that other project, and that the first project was a bad one ? That was the supposition on which he had ventured to support the proposition originally made, to allow Members having a local knowledge to sit on the Committee, though they had no vote. And when the Hon. Member for Lambeth asked him what was his proposition, he replied, that this was his proposition, that these Members should sit on the Committee, though they had no vote. The Honourable Member for Montrose alluded to these Members having it personal and local interest and bias in the question ; undoubtedly, all such influence ought to be excluded; but local knowledge and local bias were things perfectly distinct from each other, and if they excluded that local knowledge, the result would be that they would have bad plans instead of good ones, and if good ones were proposed there would be a moral certainty of greater expense. It must be borne in mind, that, under existing circumstances, the impression abroad had been, that the tribunal of the Board of Trade hated much greater influence than it had proved really to have. The consequence was, that many of the second projects that had been sup pressed were arising again, and they would have to come before this Committee, which would have to sit twice as long, at twice the expense to the parties, with no means of judging of the real merits of the rival schemes, if the local Members were not allowed to be on the Committee. Members would not attend on that Com mittee when they were not certain in what character they would be received. It must be observed, too, that these Members would probably be engaged on ether Committees, and could not be lounging abo it the Com mittee-rooms where they bad no business, without know ing if they had a chance of being heard. That wes not a position in which Members would place themselves. The Hon, Member for Montrose had been pleased to say that he (Mr. Bankes) had spoken of the interests of' the poor in connexion with this subject ; he begged to assure the Hon. Member that he had cot said any such thing. He had spoken of the interests of the public, which included both rich and poor. He should net have found fault with the Honourable Member's saying that be had spoken on behalf of the inte rests of the poor, if he had not accompanied his statement with something like a sneer—(No, no, from Mr. Hume)—which, from the generally good• ' humoured tone a lopted by the Hon. Member in that House, he believed was not intend( d. But he would tell the Hon. Member something he had just heard be fore he came into the House ; it was a case that had occurred, net in his own county, but in the county ad joining it. A railway was proposed, and the line of it cut across an extensive district on which the poor had a right of pasturage. The question that had been put to him (Mr. Bankes) with respect to this line was this:—Were these poor persons entitled to the same notice as the rich would have, with regard to their rights ? He (Mr. I3ankes) said he humbly conceived they were ; and he hoped they were. But let him tell the Hon. Member for Montrose, that if those Members having local know ledge were excluded, the Hon. Gentleman who had told him this would not have the power to state the case of these poor men before the Committee. It was in particular refe rence to the information that might be so given, that he had made these observations to the House. He was well aware of the great attention that had been bestowed on this subject. and that all these circumstances had been weighed before the House decided as it had decided. But in spite of that decision he maintained his opinion, that Members possessing a local knowledge ought not to be excluded from the Committees ; on the contrary, they ought to be required to attend ; and unless he were ex cluded, as he should be if this resolution were carried into effect, he should feel it his duty to attend the Com mittee in cases of this description. Mr. HUME wished to assure the Hon. Member that the case he alluded to had been c specially- well con sidered. He held in his hand the examination of the Duke of Riehmond, who had taken the lead in establishing the Committee of five, in the House of Lords, as an experiment. The Duke of Richmond was examined as to the working of that Committee, and proved that the dispatch of business by it was as 5 to 15 compared with the former Committees. If the Hon. Member would take the trouble of reading the evidence, he would find that the experiment of limiting the number of the Committee had been attended with corn tlete success. He could tell the Hon. Member that he would not be prevented from attending the Committee ; any Member might attend any Committee, and no Committee, except a secret one, could exclude him In the examination of the Deke of Richmond. his Grace was asked if he thoeght the plan of taking five Members as the Committee, totally un acquainted with the case except from the evidence, had tended to secure a decision free from partiality or bias. 'The Duke's reply stated that it had been found better to form the Committee of Peers having no connexion with the localities, who should act as a jury, deciding only on the evidence brought before them. To the question whether a Peer, not connected with the case itself, but with the locality, if he wished to appear and give local evidence, could tto so, the reply was that he could not, except as a vvitne-s, be allowed to speak, but he might attend, as strangers attended. He (Mr. Hu ne) thought this completely met the case, and he dill beseech the House to allow the cotnplete success that had attended this course to induce them to adopt it, and he believed it would be as succ 'ssful in that House a 3 in the other. Mr. MILES said, in cases where th-re was great ambiguity and contradiction in the evidence brought forward, he should wish the Committee or the Chairman gave the power, before coming to a decision, of calling re them any persons connected with the localities, of practical knowledge of the different lines, and who had no connexion whatever with the different projects, who should be able to give evidence, not taken on oath, on which they could rely. In the reports that had been presented to the House, he had found that, however difficult the question had been, and. notwithstanding there had been a little outcry at first from the defeated party, in competing Bills, the decisions had been regarded as fair and honest decisions, which was pre cisely what they wished to arrive at. Mr. WARD said if Members of the House, not on the Committee, were to attend and give evidence, it would protract the business usque ad nauseam. He did not see what would be the use of the power which the Hon. Member wished to give to the Chairman. It would be the same with the proposition of the Hon. Member for Dorsetshire (Mr. Bankes) ; in every Committee-room there would be Members fighting a local battle, and taking up points of interest to their constituents ; this would be another source of difficulty and delay, and it would be impossible for the House to come to any deci sion. He concurred in the general principle of the plan before theta ; he considered it a great additional step in the right direction. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER quite agreed that difficulties were likely to arise from the at tendance of Gentlemen locally interested. But the diffi culty- he felt did not so much relate to competing lines, as the injury that might ho done to th- property of private individuals of small means, by a railroad being taken in one direction in preferettee to another, in order to suit particular interests, when these parties might be obliged to submit to injury without the power of re sistance. He thought if Members of the House were st liberty to attend and offer themselves as evidence, and furnish statements of facts, it would provide a re medy for a great source of evil. Mr. S. WORTLEY wished to know whether there was any particular right in Peers and Members of Par • ban:lent to give their evidence before these Committees ; be maintained that a Member could not attend as a witness unless he were called by one of the parties, and if he were so called, he stood in precisely the same po sition as any other witness. Mr. HUME—The Chairman can call him. Mr. S. WORTLEY contended that the Chairman had no right to call him ; he could only be called by one of the parties before the Committee. Suppose all parties objected to his evidence being taken ? Therefore, he maintained that the assumption that a Member could attend, was one of very questionable foundation • in fact, he did not think it had any foundation at all. Mr. SHAW said he was last year the Chairman of a Committee, in a case where there were two competing line=. The Hon. Member for B e df or d shire, although heyvas not on that Committee, sat with it ; he was not called by either of the parties, but he was called on by him (Mr. Shaw) as Chairman, he was examined, and gave the Committee very important evidence. He was not called by either party, but his evidence was of great implrtance to all. Mr. JERVIS confessed he saw some difficulty in the course pointed out by the Hon. and Learned Recorder of Dublin. The effect of it would be, that parties pro moting bills would be taken by surprise by the eviecnce brought before the Cumuli tcee, because no petition having been presented on the subject, they would be unprepared to _lnca the evidence they adduced. Sir W. JAMES thought it would be a hardship upon the party who had an interest in any concern, and who had been prevented from appearing before the Commit tee, if a Member of that House, by writing to the Chair man, should be allowed to gratify his wish or pleasure by giving information on the merits of the case. Mr. HUME could only say, that if he were a Chair man or Member of a Committee, to whom application had been made by a Member of that House to give in formation, he, for one, should insist upon his being exa mined. That Member would be subjected to a cross examination by the counsel in the case, and no difficulty would therefore arise. _ _ _ Mr. DAItBY thought that a Member locally ac quainted with the facts brought before a Committee ought to be allowed to take part in the proceedings of that Committee. Sir R. PEEL thought lit very important that there should be some general understanding on this subject. He presumed that no party would appear before any Committee in respect of any matter of private interest, except on the presentation of a petition. The Railway Department of the Board of Trade was expressly pre cluded from making a report on matters of private inte rest. By the recommendation of the Committee of last year, it was provided that the report of the Railway De partment of the B•iard ;of Trade should not be held to prejudice the claims of private persons, the examina tion of which was altogether to be reserved to the Houses of the Legislature. 'The report of the Railway Department of the Board of Trade would, therefore, give them no information on the subject of private rights. He apprehended that questions of private rights must arise on the presentation of petitions, • whether those rights affected Members of Parliament or others. Whether any sort of courtesy was to bo extended to Members of Parliament, was another question; but the common sense view of the question was, that a Member of Parliament, sitting on a Com mittee of the House of Commons, merely ex ercised his functions as a Member of Parliament, and no other. With respect to a Member being examined, he could only say that if such a practice were allowed, Members, under the pretence of being examined, would be continually found making speeches.—(Laughter.) It was quite clear that a Member of Parliament, not being one of the five selected Members, had no more right to interfere with that tribunal than with any other. On the other hand, he did not see anything a hich precluded the Chairman of the Committee, with the consent of the Committee, if a Member stated that he had information to give bearing materially on the public interests, and not affecting matters of private right, from calling that Member as a witness. In the case of private interests, of course a petition must be presented, whether with re spect to the interests of a Member of Parliament or auy other person. Now, supposin4 the case of two com peting lines, between which an understanding had been come to respecting the interests of the public, and a Member of Parliament tendered his evidence with re spect to that fact, of course the Committee would avail themselves of such evidence. After a few words of explanation from Mr. JERVIS, Mr. STUART WORTLEY said he did not think that if this privilege were extended to Members of Par liament, other parties could be prevented chiming simi lar privilege. Take the case of two competing lines—on the close of the investigat on of those two lines, a third and better line came into the field, but could not be brought before Parliament, could they deny to those third parties the privilege of offering evidence in opposi tion to the first two lines? Mr. BOUVERIE suggested that power should be given to Committees to decide V 6 hich party should be at liberty to commence the proceedings before the Cern mittee. Mr. P. BORTHWICK thought that parties locally interested ought to bn examined before that. Committee. Mr. BERNAL said that in five cases out of six Mem bers would wish to attend Committees, not as witnesses, but as the representatives of their constituents. Mr. DARBY explained. Lord JOHN MANNERS thought that it should be left to the discretion of a Committee as to what witnesses should be examined. The resolution was then agreed to. The following resolution was then proposed :—" That in Committees on a Bill or Bills, when such evidence has been given, it shall be within the competency of a Corn; mittee to adjourn their proceedings until the Bill or Bills for such other pro j, et shall be before them, care bein g taken by the Committee of Selection that in all such cases the Bills fur the so opposing projects shall be referred to the Committee by which the first Bill or Bills had been considered." Air. JERVIS suggested that Members of Parliament appearing before the Committee should be placed in the same position as other witnesses. Mr. FLUME thought that, when strangers were or dered to withdraw from a Committee-room, Members of Parliament not on the Committee should be allowed to remain. Mr. SHAW thought it right that the Committee should have all the evidence they thought proper to enable them to come to a correct conclusion, no matter whether that evidence was to be given by a Member of Parliament or other person, After a few words from Mr. S. WORTLEY, Lord G. SOMERSET said he had a strong impres sion that the Committee should have the right of ex amining any'persous, whether they were promoters of Bills or not. He did not think it could be a matter of doubt that the Committee should have all the informa tion they deemed necessary ; and he was also of opinion that a Member of Parliament had no more right than any other person to force himself upon the Committee. He thought the Committee might call him if justice required it.—(Hear.) Mr. W. I'ATTEN said he was prepared to vote furl the resolution, but he thought great care and cautiox was required on the part of the Committee, with regard to adjournments, for he knew cases where advantage was taken of them by the promoters of lines, for the purp. se of procra'tination and delay. Unless great care and caution were taken by the Committee in investi gating the claims of parties. neither the present resolu tions, nor any others, would enable them to get through the regular business of the present session. Mr. GREENE said that he knew there were many objections which might be urged against the present resolution, but it was the least objectionable course that Could be adopted. The resolution was then agreed to. The remaining resolutions were then agreed to, without any discussion. Mr. HUME wished to know from the Noble Lord (Lord G. Somerset) when the other resolutions would be brought forward? Lord G. SOMERSET hoped that he would be pre pared to bring them forward on Friday. NOTICES OF MOTIONS—INDIRECT TAXATION. Mr. EWART gave notice that he would postpone his motion on the subject of indirect taxation till this day week. BURDENS ON LAND. Mr. WARD postponed his motion respecting the burdens on land till this day fortnight. INDIA. Mr. HUME gave notice that he would postpone, till after Eater, his motion for the production of papers relating to the government of India by Lord Ellen borough. ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY. Mr. SII.N.W moved that the petition of Joseph D'Aguilar Satnuda and Samuel Clegg, the inventors and patentees of the atmospheric system of railways, be printed, with the votes.—Agreed to. SLAVE-GROWN SUGAR. Mr. TIIORNELY wished to put a question to the Right llon. Gentleman at the head of the Government. He had been informed that on Sunday, the day before yesterday, an American ship, called the Franconia, arriv4d from New Orleans with sugar from Louisiana, the produce of slave labour, and the captain stated that more was on the way, The question he wished to ask was, whether, as this wai the first importation .of sugar from America, and the predir.:e of slave labour—whether it would 13,3 admitted at the. same duty as sugar from China, Java, and Manilla, which was produced by free labour ? Sir R. PEEL said that the Hon. Gentleman should have given him notice of the question. If he put the question to-morrow he would give the best answer he could. FIELD GARDENS FOR THE POOR. Mr. COWPER said that he thought he had brought this subject before the House during the last session; the period at which it came under consideration prevented it from receiving that consideration which its importance required. His object was t) attempt an extension of the garden system in this country. And seeing that there 16s of late a strong desire on the part of the Legislature to attend to the interests of the poor, he thought it time to bring the present subject under the consideration of the House of Commons. And though it was said that they could not benefit the condition of the poor by direct legislation, he thought that if the wisdom which was collected within the walls of Parliament applied itself to the subject, it would not fail of finding some remedy ; and, at all events, it was to the Legislature that the poor themselves looked, for to no other quarter could they look for rel'ef from their distresses. While the wealthier classes of the country had made great advances, there wa no proportional progression : n the part of the working classes ; and though, in comparison with the working classes in other countries, they were not badly off, yet, looking to their real and absolute condition, no person would contend that it did not require ameliora tion and improvement.—(Hear, hear.) He thought it was in their connexion with land that that improvement wai to be sought—(Hear, hear)—for that connexion was an important ingredient in the well-being of the working classes. In former times, all those who were above the condition of serfs had their cottages with a portion of land attached to them. He did not know that Goldsmith was right when he said— " Ere England's woes began, When every rood maintained its man." But there could be no doubt that the great change which was made in , the sixteenth century brought great disasters upon those who were connected with land, and was the cause of six rebellions in the reign of Edward VI. Since that time a vast number of Inclosure Bills were passed. The system of consolidating farms, and the gradual change which had taken place by givin4 up the system of leases upon life, contributed to take from the poor man the interest which he had previously in the land. There was much to be said about cottage farms, an snuck against it, but with respect to that they had nothing to do. The Bill he proposed now to introduce presided that parties should not occupy more than half an acre, and the probability was that under its provisions the parties would not have more than a quarter of an acre 1n 6 14s opini on , i t was most d es i ra bl e, t h at t h e l a b ourer sAattldhaavne s i o n m cr e c c a o s n e4 nex d i e o s n ir e e itl t i o th e e ult l i a v n a c t l e , because it_(ieari it , In;srs—but what he most considered was, the moral effect that it would prod uce ; i t would affordamusement, it would renovate health, and it would imp rove the mind and faculties of the oocupier s o f cottages, and small portions of land. There was an attempt made by the Bill to force any person to carry out its obj ec t. Th e Bill was nth(); Of SD atd4liar7 character. It proadded, in the first instance, that there should be a public meeting of the inhabitants of the parish, to consider the propriety of adopting the plan. Then officers were to be appointed who were to have certain powers to carry out the object among the labouring classes; and then a provision for the case of inclosure. There could be no doubt that the allotment system would pay itself. A notion seemed to exist, end it would probably be strengthened by the Settlement Bill of the Right Hon. Gentleman, that the parish had nothing to do with the relief of the poor, that it was a union and not a parochial matter. Now, why should not the augmentation of the parish system be taken advantage of, to give assistance to the independent labourer, and to enable him to live more comfortably and securely.—(Hear, hear.) It was not necessary that he should say anything generally in sup port of the allotment system, for experience seemed now to have p aced the merits of that system beyond cavil or doubt. He had never heard any ob jection whatever drawn from practical experience. Nobody is ho had tried the allotment system had ever, he believed, found any harm arising from it, even if no good resulted from its operation; and, he believed, that under proper regulations no complaints would ever be made. The objections made were rather of a theoretical and sp - culative than of a practical character. One ob jection was that it was opposed to sound economic views of labour, that a man should work for himself as well as his master. A satisfactory answer to that would be that the labouring man should be enabled to obtain higher wages, and then he would not need such a re source. Unfortunately, however, the wages of the la beuring classes in the agricultural districts were not sufficient to allow them to live as comfortably as could be desired, and that the system in question was necessary to assist them in obtaining a livelihood. He did not admit, however, in an economic view, that it was undesirable that the labourer :heuld employ his leisure hours in tilling a garden. 'I here was no more profitable way of tilling ground than by a spade, particularly when wielded by a man who was tilling his own ground. The produce of allotment ground must, too, be much greater than that of a round tilled under any other circumstances. If a labouring man chose to employ his leisure hours in this manner, it must be of the utmost advantage, not only to himself, but to the country at large ; what it produced being the means of increasing the whole amount of food in the country. He was not aware that any man had ever become idle under this system during the hours employed in working for his master, in order that he might be more active in labouring for himself. On the contrary, he beleved it had generally been found that the allotment labourers were the most industrious portion of that class. Not only were they , the most moral—not only was their general characttr the best, but they actually exerted more power of sinew in their master's service than la bourers who did not employ their leisure hours in the same manner as themselves. Another objection to the alletrnent system was, that it tended to impede the cir culation of a free system of labour. If this ob jection were valid it did not apply to the allotment of gardens in particular, but to everything that had a tendency to improve the condition of the labour ing man.—('Dear, hear.) It applied to every act of kindness, to every thing, in fact, that made the la bourer's situation more endurable than it was before. If those who made this objection were consistent, they should hold that the labouring man should be driven to leave his parish, through his situation in it being made unendurable. Thoueh it might be very desirable in many cases that labourers should go abroad, or remove to another part of their own country, yet he did not think they would be justified in reusing to afford him those advantages which would render his condition a more endurable one.—(Hear, hear.) It was all very well for a man of capital to leave his country and go elsewhere ; but when a labouring man did so, starvation often stared him and his family in the face. He did not think, that if the main object of the Bill we re approved, there would be anything in the details on account of which it would be rejected by the House; and if adopted, he believed it would confer very great benefit. morally and physically, on the working classes. With these observations he would leave the subject in the hands of the House. and would move that leave be granted to bring in the Bill. Mr.' MILES seconded the motion. Mr. HUME said he approved of the Hon. Member's proposition, if it could be carried out ; but he very much feared that it never could, and therefore there was no use in holding out expectations to the country people that never could be realised. The Hon. Member's proposition was in effect the proposal of an enactment by which the allotment system should be con tinued and encouraged, though that was the very great grievances which was so much complained of in Ireland. At least, he (Mr. Hume) had been led to understand that in Ireland there was nothing that caused so great an outery, or had been looked upon as a greater grievance than this allotment system, However, if gentlemen did wish to let their lands in this way, he did think it would be tery easy to do so without any Act of Parliament. Mr. ESCOTT said he could nut see the necessity of legislative interference upon the question at all, for if landlords were inclined to let their lands in this way, they could do so without any Act of Parliament. His opinion was, that if a poor man got a cottage and a small lot of ground, he would be just as well inclined to make the most of it without any allotment at all. The only means by which to prevent want amongst those classes was to extend the demand for labour. _ Lord J. MANNERS fully concurred in the observa tions of his lion. Friend, and if they should be carried, he did not think the working classes could ever be too grateful for them. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD would not have risen to speak upon this subject, but that he had heard some allusion to his native country. In Ireland much of the agrarian distress that prevailed had been owing to this very system of allotment which then was called the con-acre system, or half-acre, for which it was well known as high as eight guineas an acre was paid. Therefore he would caution the House against being precipitate in legislating upon the sahject. Sir W ALTER JAMES would have no objection to support the motion, provided it were to be subsidiary to wages ; if otherwise it would be found to be a dangerous plan. Mr. ROEBUCK did not rise for the purpose of enter ing upon the details of this prop , mition now ; but he should say his opinion was, that it this bill should pass in its present shape, it would have the effect of altering the whole system by which the labouring classes at pre sent were regulated. Therefore he hoped that when this Bill went into a second reading it would receive the fullest consideration. Sir J. GRAHAM was unwilling to detain the House, bat after the appeal which had been made to him by the Hon. Member for Bath, he thought it necessary to re mind the House that when the Bill was brought in last year he fully expressed his opinions about it. The Bill at that time contained a provision that the poor-rates should bo made security for the rent. To that he did most decidedly object—(Hear)—but that objectionable clause was not introduced in the present measure. He agreed with his Noble Friend the Member for Newark (Lord J. Manners), that if the landlords would come forward voluntarily and give allotments to their labourers, legislative interference would be unnecessary. But in some parts of the country that might be impossible ; and he understood that it was intended to make this 13111 only a permissive measure—and, so far, he was nut prepared to off r it any opposition ; and, subject to that observation, he was not prepared to object to its introduction. He was, however, decidedly of opinion that an acre was too much, and that he should prefer to limit the allotment to half an acre. But, upon the whole, he thought it was generally to the honour of the Hon. Member for Hert ford that he had given great consideration to the sub ject, and the House ought not lightly to refuse per mission to bring in the Bill.—(Hear, hear.) The dis tressed condition of the agricultural labourers was such that it could not have escaped the attention of the House —(Hear, hear)- 7 and any measure ha'ing for its object theimprovement of that condition, demanded their best attention. For his own part he would gladly consent to the motion—(Hear, hear)—and he would give it every attention and assistance, with the hope of some good result.—(Hear, hear.) . . Mr. MANGLES wished to say a word in reply to an observation made bythe Hon Member for Worcestershire, who spoke disparagingly of the allotment system, and said that the sufficiency of labour was all that was wanted for the labourers. But the Hon. Member did not say how that sufficiency was to be obtained. This he (Mr. Mangles) knew, that he lived in a purely agricultural district, and during the winter many labourers were wholly out of employment. With respect to the allot ment system, he had during the recess made many in quiries, and the result was that he could not find one in stance in which it had failed.—(Hear, hear.) He had been informed by one lady, Mrs. Davies Gilbert, that she had during the last eleven years had 400 allotment tenants, and not one of them had ever failed in paying the rent. On a recent occasion he (Mr. Milnes) attended at a meeting in West Surrey, and whilst he and some other gentlemen were discussing this sub ject, an intelligent man, who had for a long time been listening in silence, at length broke in respectfully upon their conversation, and assured them that the system was a good one, for it had made a man of him.—(Hear, and a laugh.) That man afterwards took him to his house and showed him that he had in the course of three or four years risen to a state of comfort from that of a mere labourer hardly able to keep his chin above water. He had a comfortable house, several pigs, and a large clamp of potatoes.—(Hear.) He (Mr. M.) differed from the Right Honourable Gentleman (Sir J. Graham) and thought that an allotment of one acre was by no means too much. He would give his best support to the mea sure of the lion. Member. Mr. P. BORTHWICK expres. - ed his satisfaction at the speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for the Home Department. The Hon. and Learned Member for Bath had told the House to be cautious how they sanctioned a measure which would produce so great a change in the condition of the agri cultural labourers. That was precisely the reason why he supported it, for any change in the condition of that depressed class must be for the better.—(Hear.) Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. Mr. HUME moved fur a return of the title of all private Billq passed during the last session of Parliament, together with the names of Parliamentary agents and solicitors by whom such Bills were solicited and ob tained ; stating, also. the aggregate amount of their bills of charges, under the separate heads for soliciting and passing such Bills through Parliament ; stating, also, how many of such bills have been taxed, and by whom. The HON. MEMBER subsequently withdrew the mo tion, Mr. Cardwell expressing, on behalf of the Govern !Dent, his desire that all fees and expenses connected with the House should be as moderate as poi3sible. The Hon. Member observed that he did not think any pro cess of taxation would remedy the evils the Hon. Member complained of. After a few words from Mr. EscoTT, Mr. AGLIONBY recommended the Hon. Member for Montrose to move at once for a Select Committee to inquire into the oubjeot. Mr. HUME declined to follow the suggestion, imme diately, but on a future occasion he might, perhaps, move for the Committee. The motion was then withdrawn. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter to Twelve. PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES. SUB-COMMITTEE, No. 4.—This Committee re-assembled yesterday in Committee. Room No. 7, in the Cloisters of the House of Commons. Present—Sir William Heathcote, Chairman, Mr. Childers, Mr. F. Mackenzie, Mr. Brotherton and Mr. Evans. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 5, 1845. the deceased at the lower part of his person. Deceased let go his hold, staggered back to his locker, and exclaimed ►►e was stabbed. A surgeon was sent for, and found that the man had been stabbed in the groin, and an artery was severed. The mate of the hulk deposed that he was called to the spot, and took the prisoner into custody ; and from his manner, and what he saw and heard at the time, he had no doubt it was an accident, and that the prisoner, when he made the push, had no intention of stabbing the man as he had done. Mr. Justice ERLE summed up, laying it down as the law of the case, that if by the negligence of the prisoner the de ceased had met with his death, he was guilty of the crime charged against him. The circumstances might mitigate the offence with regard to the punishment, but could not with regard to the nature of the offence. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, but strongly recom mended him to mercy. Sentence was deferred. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. The Court was occupied the whole of the morning in try. ing a case of perjury, which presented no feature' of interest except to the parties concerned. _ _ NEW COURT. Several cases of petty larceny, totally devoid of public in ;west, were disposed of during the morning. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. n C ceh L raN E r‘g. a ß esd K m,,o E . N WELL. 0 J 20 011 5 n . F T / i i i n e n p w ri : i s t t h rio a t s:a u u s l o ti n ng the po p l r ic,e ev - ic eon us et ni a g b h le t in St. John-street-road and created a large crowd. The policeman interfered with him, whereupon the prisoner knocked off his hat ; the officer asked him what he did that for, and the prisoner immediately struck him a violent blow on the head Which knocked him down on the pavement, causing his nose to bleed and breaking his hat.. Police constable, 170 G, came up, and the prisoner was secured. The prisoner denied the whole statement, said there was a crowd, and that the complainant had taken the wrong man. Mr. COMBE sentenced him to seven days' imprisonment in the House of Correction, without the power of releasing him self by the payment of a fine. BO IV-STREET. On Monday, a respectably dressed middle-aged woman, named Elizabeth Ann Absalon, appeared in answer to a summons charging her with having insulted and annoyed Mr. C. J. Fox Bunbury, the son of Sir H. Bunbury, of Mildenhall, Suffolk. The defendant, who was rather a plain-looking woman, had a female child in her arms, and was represented by her solicitor, Mr. Wontner. The transactions out of which the present case arose have lately appeared in The Sun report of an action brought against the complainant by the husband of the defendant, who, it will be recollected, was represented as having originally introduced herself to Mr. Banbury as a "Miss Francis," but afterwards, upon the marriage of that gentleman, appeared as the faithless wife of the injured Mr. Absalon. Mr. Jennings, solicitor, attended for the complainant. Mr. Bunbury deposed that he was walking in the Strand one afternoon last week, when the defendant approached him, and commenced abusing him in the most violent language. He endeavoured to avoid her, and with that view turned into Somerset House, but she followed him closely, and, pointing to a child which she held in her anus, accused him of brutally neglecting to support it. He threatened to give her into custody, but she only became the more vehement, and " dared" him to adopt a course which would be enabling her to show him up to the world. He then called a cab, and was getting into it, when she struck him on the shoulder and tore his coat all up the back. Upon this he went to a police man and thought of giving her in charge, but seeing such a large crowd of persons collecting round him he abstained from doing so, and got into the cab, in which he was driven away. Mr. Bunbury said he had no desire to have the woman punished, but only wished to be spared the annoy ance of another attack of this kind in the streets. In reply to questions put by Mr. Wontner, Mr. Banbury...denied that ho had any knowledge of the defendant being a married woman during the time he was acquainted with her. She gave him to understand that the reverse was the fact. Mr. Ham, objected to the introduction of any matters irrelevant to the present inquiry, as it was no part of his duty, as a magistrate, to judge of any former understand ings between the parties, or of any supposed claims arising therefrom. Mr. Wontner wished to show the provocation which his client had received; from the treatment of the complainant, after such correspondence between them as that which he was prepared to produce. Mr. Hann could not go into that subject, and reminded Mr. Wontner that the law did not sanction violent and abusive conduct in the streets under any pretence. Mr. Jennings said his Worship might probably recollect that with regard to any imaginary " claims" that might be asserted on behalf of the defendant, that matter had been entirely set at rest by the action in the Court of Exchequer, which Mr. Baron Platt denounced as a most disgraceful affair—an opinion in which Mr. Sergeant Jones, who opened the case for the plaintiff, but gave up his brief on being made acquainted with the facts, entirely coincided. Mr. Wontner, however, was not the solicitor on that occasion. Mr. Wontner did not think the wife should be held re sponsible for any steps Mr. Absalon might have taken, in fluenced, as he no doubt had been, by feelings of indignation. He was bound, therefore, to press the claims of his client upon Mr. Bunbury, who was a gentleman of great wealth and rank, whilst she had been reduced to the utmost distress. At the suggestion of the Magistrate the complaint was ultimately withdrawn, on the defendant's promising not to repeat the annoyance. LAMBETH. Monday John Lenney, alias the Cow-boy, a well-known pugilist, and William Tho,ne, were charged with being the second, and the latter the bottle- holder, at a prize fight, which took place at eight o'clock, near the Nun-head Ceme tery, Peckham-rye. Inspector Gifford, of the P division of police, deposed that about a quarter before eight o'clock on that morning in formation was given at the police station-house that a prize fight was about to take place in the vicinity of Peckham rye.. He in consequence ordered the men on duty there to go in search of the combatants, and went himself on horseback, as well as a mounted patrols, on the same errand. Through some misdirection, however, he had not been en abled to fall in with the parties, but one or two of his men had, and took the prisoners, who had been pointed out to them as one of the seconds and bottle holder. A lad who had pointed out the prisoners to the police, de posed that he had been present at a fight which took place about eight o'clock, in a field about a mile from Peckham rye, and saw the prisoners in the ring, the one as second, and the other as bottle-holder. The men were stripped: the fight was for a sovereign (as he was told), and after fighting 26 rounds the man seconded by the prisoner Lenney gave in. Mr. HENRY here inquired if the prisoners were known as pugilists? Shields, the Chief Usher, answered that Lenney was well known as a prize fighter, and had fought some hard battles. Lenney admitted that this was the fact, but said be had left off the practice for some time, and had obtained his living as an ostler at an inn in the Borough. The fact, he said, was, that two youths had had a quarrel on the Saturday night, and had agreed to, see it out on that morning. He (Lenney) was present with the crowd, and the temptation of seconding one of the parties was so great that he could not resist it. Mr. HENRY remarked that the practice of fighting for money was highly improper, and should be put an end to, and ordered the 'prisoners to find bail for their good behaviour. Before the closing of the Court they were admitted to bail in their own recognizances, and discharged. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) The Hibernia, 120, at this port, was commissioned to-day by Captain Richards, C. 8., for the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker, G.C.8., who succeeds to the Mediterranean command. The Vindictive, 50, Captain Seymour, will go out of har. bour in the course of next week. The royal yacht Victoria and Albert has thisweek been taken into dock at Pembroke, and had her rudder altered, which, it is expected, will make her steerage perfect. On her voyage from Plymouth to Milford, which was performed in 13i hours, she beat the Black Eagle two hours and a half, or about per hour; it was blowing fresh all the time, with much sea on ; and what is extraordinary, the yacht steered better when in much motion than in calmer weather. The Rattler was nowhere in comparison with the yacht, but blowing fresh with the wind ahead, she beat the Black Eagle. The great power of the yacht must give her the predominence in speed. Ali the steamers start to-day on a cruise two or three hun dred miles to the westward of Scilly; and they may be ex pected at Portsmouth by Saturday next. The iron steam-frigate which has been building at Bir kenhead, by Mr. Laird, and is now nearly r eady for launch ing, is to have her name altered from Vulcan to Birkenhead, in honour of the place of her nativity. She is of 556-horse power. The Siren, 16, and the Harlequin, 16, have been taken into the basin preparatory to being docked and brought for ward for commission. The Dido, 20, and the Spy, 3, brigantine, at Sheerness, are ordered to be prepared for commission. The Spy's masts and bowsprit were put in on Thursday. The 50-gun frigate, which is ordered by the Admiralty to be built from the drawings of Mr. White, of Cowes, is to be laid down at Deptford Dockyard. The name selected for her is the Arrogant. She is to have an auxiliary screw propeller. All the steam-vessels on the coast of Ireland are entering seamen at their respective stations for the ships fitting for sea. The Lords of the Admiralty, on the entry of ten ship • wright apprentices in Pembroke Dockyard last week, very kindly and properly gave one entry to the best boy of the National School, which has been built on the Admiralty property at Pembroke Dock. In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Rodney, Excellent, Vindictive, Belvidere, Sparrow, Adventure (naval transport), Fearless, Dwarf, Comet, and Echo steamers. At Spithead—Eagle, Fantome, and Nautilus. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. PROMOTIONS. Lieutenants—Henry John Douglas (1840), of the For midable, and Robert A. Stewart (1839), of the Eagle, to the rank of commander. Second Master—Christopher George (1838), acting master of the Tartarus, to the rank of master. APPOIIITMENTS. Captains—Peter Richards,C.B., to the Hibernia; W. B Dobson, to study at the Steam Factory, Woolwich. Commander—James Fitzjames (late of the Clio), for the purpose, of making observations of the needle, to be corn • mander in Sir James Franklin's ship, on his intended voyage to discover a north-west passage. Lieutenants—George Goldfinch, to the Superb •, Charles S. Norman, to the Comus ; C. R. Bamber and G. A. Sey mour, to the Rodney ;- E. F. Rose, to the Flying Fish ; Henry- Bainbridge, to the Rolla; Alfred Kortwright (additional) to the Illustrious, for surveying service; W. S. Saunders, to the Vulture; James Stone (1800), to open a rendezvous at Blackwall and Ratcliffe Highway, for the purpose of entering seamen and hove for the navy; t. H. Beauchamp Proctor, to Command the bwarf. Masters—George Bradley, to the Fox, vice Grant; John Cater, to the Vulture. Surgeons—Alexander Kelroy, to be superintendent of the China convict ship; Colin A. C. Browning, M.D., Superin tendent of the Therese convic t ship; and John Sloan, in charge of the Tory, conv i c t s hi p; G eorge W. Pritchett, to the Vulture; and Alexander Anderson, to the Rolla. Second Master—R. 0. White, to the Rodni.sv• Assistant-Surgeon—Nicholas Lyttleton, to (120 Express. Clerk —G. Knox, to the Rodney, Naval Cadet—C. Dent, to the Rodney. Captain Stephen Fremantle, R.N., is appointed Private Secretary to Sir T. Fremantle, the Secretary for Ireland. An addition has been made this week to the fortification of our ramparts. Four 32-pounders have been added to the King's bastion ; and the elevated part of the bastion Inn; been extended Sufficiently far to make a platform capable of planting thereon three more in the same line, thus forming a battery of nine 32-pounders. It is understood (and the mode in which the work is performed would seem to warrant the belief) that this is only a temporary arrangement; and that works on a much larger scale ou4lms spot will be undertalteu ero long. LATEST PRICES OF SHARES N RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. From the Official List, PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. LONDON, TUESDAY, ➢iARCH 4. RAXLV7AItS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Stare. £ s. d. j £ s. d. Aberdeen •••• • • • •• • • - - 2 0 0 3 Birmingham & Gloster 31. Fs. per sh. 100 0 0 100 0 0 135 Ditto, New, iss. 71 dir. 15s. 25 0 0 17 10 0 32 Brighton,Lews,& Bast. - 50 0 0 5 0 0 531 Bristol and Exeter 21.165. per sh. 100 .1 0 70 0 0 84 Ditto and Gloucester - 50 0 0 30 0 0 1 5931 Caledonian • ..... •• • • - 50 0 0 5 0 0 7% Cambridge and Lincoln - - 25 0 O 110 0 ; 3% Chatham & Prtsmouth - 20 0 0 1 0 0! Chester and Holyhead - 50 0 0 5 0 0 8% Chichester & Bri„,..ton - - 5 0 0 6% Churnet Valley . ..... . - 20 0 0 20 0 6 Cornwall •••••• • • • . • - . - 3 0 0 5 Direct Northern ••• • • - 50 0 0 210 0 2 Direct - 14orwieh ••• • • • - 24 0 0 1 0 0 1% Disc, Beecles, & Yrmth - 25 0 0 110 0 1% Dublin & Belfast Junc. - 50 0 0 210 0 , 5% Ditto mid Galway • • - - 2 10 0 3 Eastern Counties 4s. per sh. 25 0 0 14 16 0 IS Do.,Perpetual, No.l 5/. per et. 613 4 3134 1 1 pm. Ditto, ditto, lio. 2. • • - •-•-- " 013 4 151 pm. Eastern Union . ..... . - 50 0 0 10 0 0 19 Edinburgh & Glasgow 2/. ss. p. sh. 50 0 0 50 0 0 64 Ditto,Quarter Shares I Is. 3d. p. sli. 12 10 0 12 10 0 16 Ely and Bedford .•• • • - 25 0 0 10 0 1% Grand Connection • • - 50 0 0 210 0 Grand Junction .. • • Ditto, Half Shares lOl. per ct. ( 0 0 0 1 50 0 0 112 Ditto, Quarter Shares 10/. per ct. 25 0 0 25 0 0 Gt. Southern &Western - 50 0 0 5 0 0 12 Great North of England 31.155. lOO 0 0 100 0 0 150 Ditto, New.. •••• • • • - 40 0 0 5 0 0 42 Great Western .•• • • Ditto, Half Shares•• 71. percent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 101 Ditto, Fifths..• ••• • • 71. percent. 20 0 0 20 0 0 I 40 Guilford Junction. •• • • - 50 0 0 35 0 0 Harwich .•••••. • • • • • • - 50 0 0 1 0 0 1% Hull and Selby . ..... . IL 58. prct. '0 0 0 50 0 0 87 Ditto, Quarter Shares - 12 10 0 12 10 0 15% Kendal & Windermere - 25 0 0 1 10 0 Lancaster and Carlisle - 50 0 0 15 0 0 34 Leeds and Bradford.. - - 50 0 0 5 0 0 21% Liverpool & Manchestr 1 0 1. per ct. 100 0 0 100 0 0 Ditto, Half Shlres lO/. per ct. 50 0 0 50 0 0 Ditto, Quarter Shares 101. per et. 25 0 0 25 0 0 London & Birmingham 101: per ct. -- Stock. 232 Ditto, New Thirds lOl. per et. 32 0' 0 2 0 0 43 Ditto, New % Shares 101. per et. 25 0 0 2 0 0 293( London and Blackwall - 16 13 4 - 7 31 London and Brighton it. Os. per sh. 80 0 0 50 0 0 64% Ditto, Loa* Notes sl.percent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 13% Londoi..ind Greenwich - 12 15 4 - 10% Ditto, Pref. or Priv. • 51. per cent. 18 .7 2 - 24 31 London apd S. Western 31. ss. per sh. 41 6 10 -- 80 Do., New Cons. Bths - 40 0 0 6 0 0 24 Ditto, New - 50 -0 o'2 10 0 12% london and Croydon 10s. perch. 13 15 9 - 19 Ditto, Guarntd. sp. c. - 9 0 0 4 0 0 514 London and York. •• • • - 50 0 0 2 10 0 7% Lynn and Ely .•• • • • - 25 0 0 210 0 0% Manchester and Leeds 41.75, 6d. p. s. 100 0 0 70 0 0 140 Ditto, Half Shares .. 11.178.6 d. p. s. 50 0 0 30 0 0 64 Dit o, Quarter Shares 4s. 25 0 0 2 0 0 14% Ditto, Sixteenths •• • - 6 5 0 1 5 0 7 Manchestr & Blurting. 21. per share 40 0 0 40 0 68 Ditto, Quarter Shares - 10 0 0 2 0 0 12 Midland .••• • • • ...... 4/. 4s. per sh. - Stock. 128 Ditto, Fifths .••• • • • - - 2 0 9 331 Ditto, 13'.':n. & Derby 21.135. per sh, - Steck. 97 Newcastle & Berwick - 25 0 0 1 10 0 15 Newcstle & Dar'. June. 6s. 25 0 0 ' O 4 0 0 4831 North British - - 10 0 0 16% Northern and Eastern . 21. ss. 50 0 0 45 0 0 6031 Ditto, Scrip, iss.ol.d. 163. 50 0 0 25 0 0 4434 Ditto, Quarter Shares - 12 10 0 12 10 0 16% North Kent - 2 15 0 2% Norwich and Brandon - 20 0 0 10 0 0 16 Ditto, New.. ••.• • • • - 10 0 0 1 0 9 3% Purism nth Direct - 50 0 0 2 10 P 2 Preston and Wyre •• • • - 50 0 0 50 0 0 Riohmnd& W. E June. - 20 0 0 1 0 0 331 - 20 0 0 1 0 0 3% Ditto, 2d Pref., 1844 - 25 0 0 25 0 0 SheMelh and Lincoln - 25 0 0 1 5 0 1% ShetSeld & Manchestr 51. per cent. 100 0 0 82 10 0 Ditto, Quarter Shares - 25 0 0 8 0 0 13 Shrws.,Welv.,Dud.,l4li - 00 0 0 2 10 0 4% South Devon ... • - 50 0 0 10 0 0 165¢ South-Eastern & Dovr 11. Is. 33 2 4 - 4351 Ditto, New iss.32/.dis - 50 0 0 8 0 0 18 South Wales - - 2 10 0 532 Stevenson's Prtsmouth - - 2 10 0 2 14 Thames and Medway - 19 5 8 - 1751 Trent Valley - 20 0 0 2 0 0 26% Yarmouth & Norwich - 20 0 0 20 0 0 26% Ditto, New - 20 0 0 8 0 0 15 York & North Midland 101. per et. 50 0 0 50 0 0 104 Ditto, Half Shares.. 101. per ct. 25 0 0 25 0 0 50 Do., Scarbro' Branch - - 20 0 0 42 Ditto, Selby Scrip .. - - 20 0 0 6534 Ditto, Extension .... - 25 0 0 1 5 0 1534 Boulogne and Amiens. - 20 0 0 2 0 0 12 fit. Northern of France - 20 0 0 4 0 0 6% Orleans and Vierzon • . - 20 0 0 2 0 0 17% Orleans & Bourdeaux - 20 0 0 2 0 0 951 Paris and Lyons - 20 0 0 2 0 0 3' Paris And Strasbourg.. - 20 0 0 2 0 0 3 Paris and Orleans..... - ' 20 0 0 20 0 0 49 Paris and Rouen ...... 21. . 20 0 0 20 0 0 44% R. non and ?Sarre .... - 20 0 0 14 0 0 30% JOINT-STOCIL BANES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. 4 a. d. £ s. d. Australasia •.• • • • .... 8/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 44N BritahNorth American 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 45 Commercial of London 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 21 Colonial 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 14 Londn and Westmlnatr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 27% London Joint-Stock .+ 6L per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14U Metropolitan ..... • ... 25 0 0 710 0 rrosinc.lal of Ireland:. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 45 Ditto, New.. •.••• .. al. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 National of Ireland .. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 17 10 0 16%' Nat. Provuclal of Eng. 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 37% Ditto, New...... •.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 Union of Australia •• • 25 0 0 25 0 0 26X Union of L0nd0n..... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 123 i INSUUANCE COMPANIES. Dividead Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Trice. Annum. Share. £ a. d. X s. d. Albion .. •• • . Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 19% Ditto Marine. ••• • .. 61. per cent, 100 0 0 8 0 41 6% A t l as ... .. .. .. ....... 13s. 6d. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 163 British Commercial - 7a. per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 7 ClericLMed.&Gen.Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 1 6% County •.••••• • • • • • • • 3/. 100 0 0 10 0 0 iSs. and 61.55. ha. 40 0 0 5 0 0 10 Eagle 6s. 50 0 0 5 0 0. 5% p 3 e o r . c b ; : Economic Litb .• • ..... [& leoo 0 0 250 0 0 Eng. & Scot. Law Life.. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2% European Life ••••• • • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20 Freemasons' .. •••• • • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 Globe ••••.••• • • • • • • • • 61. per cent. Stock. - 142 Guardian .••••• • • • • • • 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 8 SOU Imperial Fire •••• • • • • 12/. per cent. 5 00 0 0 50 0 0 195 Imperial Life.. •••• • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 16 Indemnity Marine. •• • IL sh. & hs. 100 0 0 513 1 30 Law life ..•.•• • • • • • • N. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45% Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 5% London Fire . 10s. 24 0 0 12 10 0 16 London Ship Matins 5l. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 Med. Invlid & Gen. Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 3 National Loan Fund.. 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 23& National Lifts 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 934 Palladium Life ..... .•• 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2 Phoenix .... ...... •. • • 3/. p.ct. & be. - - Protector Life• ••• - • . 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 Provident Life... ••• .. 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24 Rock Life .••• • . • . Royal Exchange 5l. per cent Stock. - 188 Sun Fire . - - Ditto Life - - Universal Life • • Name of Company. DOCMS. Dividend Amount per of I Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ e. d. s. d. Stock. Stock. 142 100 0 0 21 Stock. 116% Stock. 109% 50 0 0 , 50 0 0 Commercial •. 2 • iitst and Wert India... East Country • • . London • • St. Katharine • • • • • • • . Southampton • pr cent. 11. per eh. 4%1. pr cent.' 5 per cent. 41. per cent. WATER-WORKS. Dividend I Amount NAM! of Company. per of Paid. Price, Annum. Share. i £ s, d. East London.. Grand Junction •••• • • 1 31. 14613 4 90 Kent .••••• • • • • • • 21. 10s. 100 0 0 , 65 Vauxhall West Mitttllesex ••• • • • 4/. 16s. pr ct. , 63 12 9 127 LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. a. d. a. d. Bank of Scotland Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. 100 0 0 16834 British Linen Company 81* per vent. 100 0 0 226 Commercial Bank •• • • 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 167% National Bank 6l. per cent. 10 0 0 15% Union Bank of Scotland 734/. pr cent. 50 0 0 97 Western Bank North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 7 Clydesdale Bank• •• • 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 14% Eastern Bunk al. per cent. 15 0 0 11% Caledonian Bank • • • • 61. per cent. 2 10 0 3% Bdinb.& Glasgow Bank 51. per cent. 5 0 0 7% City of Glasgow Bank . 51. per cent. 815 0 13% Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1M Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14% Insur. Co. of Scotlnd • • Si. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 10 North British Insur. • • 9/. per cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 24% Caledonian Fire Izmir. 10/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 25 Edinburgh Life Incur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 18% Edin. & Glasg. Railway 4%1. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 6534 Ditto, 14 Shares •• • . 4341. per cent. 12 10 0 All paid. 16% Edin., Leith, & Grantn 20 0 C 20 0 0 15 (Hamm , & Ayrshir Rail. 434 Lper cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 66 Gliuqw& Greenck Rail. 2/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 12 filsgsv & Ganikirk Rail. 5/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 28 Dundee& Arbrothltall. 51. per cent. 125 0 0 All paid. 32 CANALS. Names of t Dividend Names of r; D ividen d Compan i es. per Price. comp w as. ti per Price. Annum. m ASinum. l XI I X .A. slitn & 018111 9715/.55. p c 72 Monmouthsh 101. 81. 160 Ashby-d-la-Z 1131 41. ' 70 Mntgomrysli 100 81. 98 Barnsley •• • • 1601 121. 1 180 Macclesfield. 100! - 15 Basingstoke..,lool - 5 Neath Brknk&Abrg 1501 51. 85 Nottingham Cromford.... 100 181. 164 Peak Forest Dudley...... 100 1 41. 80 Regent's Derby ••.. .. 100 81. 103 Rochdale F.llAmre&Chs,l33l 41. 58 Shropshire • Eyewash .. .1100, 321. 440 Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 123 Forth & Clyd l loo 41. 105 Do.Lk Fd St 12 61. p. c. 11 r2i i Grand Jan 100, 71. 140 Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 480 Grand 1100 1 it. 10s. 25 Shrewsbury l2, I 5/. 230 Gismo .172 14%1. 910 Btourbridge 145 201. 360 Glotr lc lirltiyl 001 - 8 Sinn,' on Av 79 11. 106. 30 Grantham • • 150, 121. 185 Severn and 1 26 11. Bs. 30 Hudderstield. 571 -- 30 Wye Ball. Kennett & Avii 39 7s. 6d. 10 Trnt & Mr./ 50 301. 450 i...meaBter .•• 1 47 1/. 10. 40 say. sh. L ee . ds& Livrp , loo. 341. 610 Thams &Ned 19 - 10 L e t o ., star .... 1 14( 101. 139 Worcstr 81 78 41. 50 Leicati &Ni.ll , 83 U. 70 Binning. I,ouguKkroglrl42, 701. 1050 Pitts 88 Bits 67 11. 48. , MANCHESTER AND BUXTON RAILWAY. Mr.TAnicEs took an objection to the plans of the pro moters of this railway, on the ground that the datum line on the plan did not refer to any fixed point. The datum line on the plan referred to the top water of the Macclesfield Canal: It was also objected that this datum line was not as near to one of the termini of the railway as was required by the standing order, the distance in the present case being be tween two and three miles. Mr. GRAHAME, for the promoters, contended that the top water of a canal was as good a datum level as they could obtain, and that it was sufficiently near to one of the termini, seeing that there was no other prominent point from which they could take the level. Evidence for and against the allegation having been ad. duced, the room was cleared, and, after the Committee had deliberated fur about ten minutes, the parties were called in, and The CHAIRMAN said that the Committee were of opinion that the datum line bad not been taken from a fixed point near one of the termini, and that the standing orders had not, therefore; been complied with. This is a most important objection, and one which is likely to prove fatal to the Bill. LAW INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, March 4. The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, and Lord Campbell. lIAMMERSLEY V. BARON DE BIEL. The further arguments in this part-heard appeal were re sumed to-day. Mr. KELLY proceeded with his arguments, which he was prevented terminating yesterday, in consequence of the-Lord Chancellor having to attend a Cabiiiet Council. The argu ments occupied their Lordships the whole morning. Nothing particular occurred either in the Rolls, or any of the Vice -Chancellors' Courts. SHERIFFS' COURT, March 4. (Before W. BURCIIELL, Esq., and a Common Jury.) STRAY V. DEMPSEY. This was an action to recover costs, brought by Mr. Stray, a shoemaker, residing in Edgeware• road, against Mr. Demp sey, painter and paper-hanger, New-road. It appeared that previous to the month of April, 1844, the defendant owed the plaintiff 3L 18s. 6d. for work done. The debt having stood over for some time, on the 15th of that month a writ was issued at the instance of the plaintiff for recovery of the amount, while, about the middle of the same day, the defen dant, with his attorney, called at Mr. Stray's shop, and ten• dared the 3/. 18s. 6d. in discharge of the account. The money was refused on the plea that a writ had been issued that day, and was in course of service. The real object, therefore, of the present action was the re covery of the costs of the writ, &c., on the ground that the writ had been issued at eleven o'clock on the 15th of April, whereas the tenser was not made till nearly one o'clock. On the other hand it was contended, on behalf of the defendant, that the tender was made in good time on the 15th, and, likewise, that a tender had been made on the 13th, but re fused. The question was, therefore, narrowed into the ascer tainment of the fact, as to whether the money was tendered before or after the issuing of the writ. Several witnesses were called, pro and con, whose evidence was of a very con flicting character. The jury, however, decided the tender of the 13th to be bad, and on the other issue, that of the 15th, gave the plaintiff a verdict for the full amount of costs. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, March 4. (Before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER.) IN RE JOHN BROCKERSIIIN. The insolvent in this case had kept a public-house, called ' the Brown Bear, in Broad-street, Bloomsbury ; and in his examinations by Messrs. Nicholls and Dowse, made some of the most remarkable statements that, perhaps, had ever been made in a court of justice. It appeared that the insolvent had effected an insurance upon his life with the Sun Life and Fire Insurance Company, and subsequently went to a place called Weston-super-Mare, from which place a report was sent to theansurance office that he had been drowned there. In explanati in of this fact he stated, that previous to sell. ing his house-in Broad- street, he had been addicted to habits of intemperance to such a degree, that for many months he had never been sober for one hour together, the result of which was a violent attack of delirium tremens, during which he was quite unconscious of his acts. He went to Weston super-Mare in June last; while there, he went down to the sea-shore to bathe, and left his clothes upon a rock, and while walking into the water, he trod upon some seaweed which caused him to slip, and he fell heavily upon his head, in consequtrice of which, and from the effects of his previous disease, lie lost all consciousness, and his clothes being found by some person upon the shore, led to the report of his death by drowning. For four weeks afterwards, ac cording to his evidence, he had not the slightest recollection of any circumstance which occurred, and at the expiration of that time, when he became sensible of what was passing around him, he found himself strapped devil upon a hard bed in a lunatic asylum in New Orleans. in America. Upon inquiry, he found that he had been con fined in that manner for upwards of three weeks, and so violently was he treated there, that his limbs became com pletely paralysed. As soon as he was liberated from personal restraint, he contrived to make his escape from the asylum, and, after wandering about for some time, he returned in the Great Western steam-vessel to Liverpool, and thence to London, shortly after which he was arrested. When be took his passage from America, he assumed the name of John Bradshaw, which he retained while in London. He had before been an insolvent, and passed through this Court, owing a large sum of money, and many of the papers connected with his cr e ditors had - been destroyed in a tire which took place upon his premises. A number of witnesses having been examined with refe rence to these statements, the Court, with the consent of counsel on both sides, adjourned the case, in order that the insolvent might file a new balance-sheet. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME ClRCUlT—Hertford, Match 4. The business of this assize concluded yesterhy, but the cases disposed of were devoid of interest to the public. In summing up to the jury on Monday, on a charge of felony, in which the evi,tence against the prisoner was very slight., and principally consisted of her own decla rations, and a statement made to the police-constable who took her into custody, Mr. Baron Alderson took occasion to make some observations regarding the prac• tice of officers questioning persons in their custody under charge, which were listened to with great attention, and which are of considerable importance. Ilis LORDSHIP, after remarking_that the general evi dence adduced in support of the charge against the pri soner appeared very far from being conclusive of her guilt, said that evidence had been given in addition, re lative to some statements or expressions alleged to have answer to questions put to her been made byl he hy offi h c e e r r , i a n t the time, or at all events v after she h a d b een ta k en i nto hi s custody.every shortly hortlNyow - he (the Darned . Judge) thought that evidence of this description ought to be regarded with very great suspicion. He did not mean to say that it was any part of the duty of an officer to stop the mouth of a prisoner—on the contrary, if he chose to speak voluntarily, he should hear him ; but, most cer tainly, he ought to hold out no inducement to him to make any statement. An officer had no right to put questions to a prisoner, because the true effect result ing from them could only be ascertained by knowing the exact tones and words of the question, and of the answer; and it would be very hard indeed upon a prisoner, under the tribulation of a charge--perhaps a young and timid person—to give any effect to answers so obtained, unless they were satisfied that they had the exact words of the question and of the answer. It was very easy to put captious and leading questions to a prisoner, and induce him to give answers which might be taken as entirely contrary to their true sense. In open court, the jury had an opportunity of hearing the exact form of every question, and likewise hearing the precise words of the answer ; and also seeing the demeanor of the party who was under examination, and could thus form a good opinion of the value of the testimony that was given ; but even then it very frequently happened that learned counsel put their questions in such a form that the wit ness often gave an answer, the sense of which was totally different to that which he intended should appear, and the Ceurt was often called upon to interpose and give the witness an opportunity of explaining what he really intended to say. This being the case, with how much greater care ought they to look at statements obtained from a prisoner under charge, where even the suppression of a word, or even the very tone in which a question or answer was given, might, in the one view, be strong evidence of guilt, and, in the other, as strong evidence of the innocence of the party accused. He equally objected to the pretended candour of an officer telling a prisoner that he was not bound to say anything—he had no business to do so. If a prisoner, either acting from the consciousness of guilt, or of his own free will, chose to make a statement in connexion with the charge against him, it was the officer's duty to hear it, and detail it afterwards faith fully, upcn his oath; and it was necessary, for the due administration of justice, that this should be the case. The jury, after a very short deliberation, Acquitted the prisoner. The Commission for Essex will be opened to-day, at Chelmsford, at eleven, and both Courts will proceed to business at one o'clock. WESTERN ClRCUlT.—WincheAter, March 1. CIVIL SIDE.---(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.) Only two cases were left for trial this day, the one a special and the other a common jury cause. On the sitting of the court the special jury cause was called on, but as only one special juryman appeared, the counsel engaged in the case consented to try it by a common jury. The case was opened, by which it appeared that the action was to try the right to a small piece of land, forming part (as it was alleged by the plaintiff) of Fremantle-park, near Southampton. At this stage the parties agreed on a compromise, and so the case ended. The other case, an action of ejectment, was than tried, which presented no feature of public interest. The nisi priu4 business being thus'disposed of, the Learned Judge proceeded to try prisoners. No case of importance, however, occurred. - - CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice EntE ) John Holden was indicted for the manslaughter of Benjamin Shaw. Mr. Missing and Mr. Padden prosecuted; the prisoner was undefended. It appeared that the prisoner and the deceased were con victs on board one of the hulks at Portsmouth ; the pri soner having been sentenced at one of the Wiltshire quarter sessions to be transported for ten years for stealing a watch. On the 10th of December a convict, who was called as a witness, stated it was his duty to man the ladders for breakfast, which the convicts did by turns. Having done this he went into his ward, followed by the deceased. The prisoner was there, and was accosted by the deceased, who said, " What! you here again ; why you —, you are always skulking your work." To this the prisoner made some angry reply, and the deceased then went up to him, took him by the collar of his coat with both hands, and shook him. The prisoner offered some resi.tance to this, when the deceased put his hand to the back of his head, and pressed his head down. The signer thou made a violent push at --- 1 % ) DA MARKET NEWS. (YESTA,-EI-- R riaY !mannlsTs. 4 191;,; SMITIIFIELD.-Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 8s to to 5; 0; ful ditto, 4/ 12s to 5/; fine Upland dittot, 3l „„ t o 11 1 0 Clover Hay, 4/ 8s to 5/ 16s ; Oat Straw, 1 1 1 ,", h nick/ Wheat Straw, 1/18s to 21 per load. Trade, Wn': ao i:" ( of Hay, very dull, at (trooping currencies, but tin''' were mostly supported. to 011/ I CUMBERLAND.-Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 1 05 , ~, 0, useful ditto, 4/ 143 to 5/ ; fine Upland ditto, 5,1, 11,," Clover Hay, 4! 8s to 5/ 15s ; Oat Straw , t he' o o Wheat Straw, 11 16s to 2/ per load. Trade, 011 dull, at the above quotations. , As te ii:i WIIITECHAPEL.-Coarse Meadow Hay, 3 ' -- ,,•00, S useful ditto, 41 12s to 41 18s; fine Upland . I sts {i , . 515 s ; Clover Hay, 4/10s to 5/18s ; Oat Straw, W i ve Wheat Straw, 11 18s to 2/ per load. A full a va and a sluggish demand. sill COLONY/1 X . SmAn.-The market fur British Plantation 1. animation, only about 100 hhds having found bil 1M44 vious prices. The public sales have only offered ;d; 244 boxes Bengal (brown and yellow 3luseo/ 0., which was all withdrawn, being held for previ°! ° , 7 oflir;j at which there were no purchasers. , rit2 quan tit wei l j Plantation landed lest week at the East 011005 Docks was 910 hhds 7 tierces GO barrels, an ii WO -.• taken for home consumption 74 hhds 2 tiercett..ereetr The stock in the same places is 7,770 hhds 617 t' t . 0 barrels. • 6 1 Ccit :" COFFEE.-1,680 bales Mocha and 1,174 be los° ~; ... were nearly all taken in at 61s to 63s for mid it ies ! ? Mocha, and 4ls to 45s for fine ord calory Co st 4 s e. for the former previous prices, and for latter 0 21 eheaper. ' t o flit tet ° Rust.-The quantity landed last week at - n ett ,1,4 West India Docks was 62 puns 30 hhds; there po rts , , ,, for home consumption 178 puns 51 hhds, and. ~e 19 ,564 r puns 38 hhds. The stock in the same places ''' A 1,685 hhds. _.;.11 S AY '' 0 Rier:.-1,367 bags Bengal at auction sold 17 - , fslV to Ils Gd for mid to good cold white, whic h 10 ' dearer. r ot+ ; SPICE.S.-602 bags Sumatra Pepper found 130 6- Al ,: gel for mid to ood clear black, being the ext re teve.Nott TALLOW.-P.Y.C. is 39s to 395 6d per cw t on ' Cid' Town 429 per cwt. The stock is 31,271 coltn,, o,‘ TEA.-The prices current are Bohea, Iti t nu ts 's) ord to good ord, 91d to 10d ; Pekoe kind, 2 5 ; 1 1 t af,101 Souchong, good ord to but mid, is to Is 9d; ' 1 , 11 1 .4435, ord to but mid, is 24d to Is 30 ; Ilysoa, goo" ° l d to 0 0 , 2s 8d; Imperial, 2s 7d to 3s 3d; Gunpowder, 35 'i t 0 1 , i and Canton kind, 2s to 2s 9d per lb. Tbe,a t(g s ed t he • London, OR the Ist instant, was 25 5G2 000 1 n 1 1 . , , liveries this year have been 5,155,0001 b. n ortei l o is , DRY SALTERY.-Indigo has been well OP. •Ai t i# and speculative purchaseshave been made Oil fOrebL,o Cochineal has gone off lately wits considerablee'?(- Dyewoods have had a good sale. Gums contin u o , TOBACCO.-This article has been very dull l a 1 f )la l P l I' ' (From the London New Price Cnrrent 0- is .41 SUGAR.-To-day importers of West Indite ofpi', Sugar were selling at prices rather unde r th so r J but the demand was extremely limited, the Pri v , amounting to only 90 hhds and tierces. . g e faiey i REFINED.-TO-day the purchases made in,,,,, e ogb 0 were extremely limited by the home trade, an' t 6lo . 0 1 " 0 11 reduced rates were taken, brown lumps selliog t a id el ~0 and standard lumps at 69s to 70s per cwt. 13( 1 dr ooPi k Sugar met with little attention, and prices are 001 to 31s 3d per cwt accepted for f or ward delicerr. , h , # Maunrrws.-There has been a falling oiln. ,:r CPI for all qualities, and a decline in the valued Dart;lifsl4+ taken place ; the biddings were languid at a 1 4 , 70 of 8,896 bags and 78 caske, the whole however ` l 6 i - 5 ,g 0 7 5 1 64 ,, at and after the sale, fine yellow brought 6 15 t c ,',„ to 51 ,, i' tiling and ood 57s 6d to 60s 6d, middling o' 1 ",00d 0,, 53s to 54s Gd, low to middling grey 53s to '66 , a ' a 4 40 ~ t ' ,•7 57s to 61s, good to fine brown 50s to 535, g lit pe t r'•;i syrupy Ms to 60s, and washed 41s Gd to 6 3s o. A, proportion of brown in the sale was again g in „,, l e is f t , rs EAST INDIA.-This afternoon two Pa' - ‘ , - .. (1 0 .&'; '', Sugar. amounting to 2,282 bags 486 b°" - ' 0 0- 0 . d st 1 1 were submitted to public competition, sold ite_oll,4 whole was taken in; the small part „„/ V i e ) , decline of Is per cwt, low greyish YeP 5 ° 10 6:4 0 0, 0 51s to 52s 6d, middling 53s 6d, damp 48s to 494, 0, i 48s to 50s, brown washed 47s 6d, sound 475 to ig 530 ,0 pr dling grainy damp yellow 56s to 58s, ini d , (l , l e i t i re,. 11 i l l 40s to 50s 6d. Madras was in very buy' , iit.,,r 3,550 bags at public sale were taker, in ano d ow washed brown at 47s to 50s, damp 46s to 54, l ia el litv 53s per cwt. A j s plif 4 0°0 /'OIIF.IGN -Holders of yellow Havannah,",,,6o B .' l i p and will not sell but at fully late rates. goo" '''„ IP - 0 22s 6d, low to middling 19s to 21s, and brow;oted.o,oo per cwt. In white scarcely any business tra n ` ed as f 4 A . held with firmness, and the demand for will t ° to s rbro' ' improving. 400 chests have been sold at .- - d fo. 4 middling white, and at 18s 6d to 19s for good O boo 010 0 at auction 79 cases of I4ahia were taken irl a bite;l o good strong grey at 22s 6d to 235, middlin,„„e`o, 4 0 6d, tine brown 19s, slightly damaged grey 24' far 16s to 18s per cwt. lini ltea c ifi r i MOLASSES.-The demand has been VerY.,i; tlik t e India, and previous rates have been irt.,,i; o t 10'" s r ported, 20s to 24s per cwt is the value. ..'--- ..,,,,,,,,14 sale, and holders are more inclined to sell. ~e d ono' or CuFFEE.-To-day Mocha was only hi liniii.44oo;"4 vately, and 63 bales at auction were taken love' r per cwt for Triage ; the tendency of price s ,. b i lls Bahia 75 bags were taken in at 28s for goo' t lo.a the full worth. 143 bags of Costa Inca sold isti a t stio; 0 ‘ send fetched 43s to 44s for fine ordinary. F A. ag pi was more in demand, and 1,119 bags ' t he 0 0 '0 sale were all sold at full rates for „,sper,Mil fine kinds, but inferior went at a decline of er agr t e ord t•ale coloury fetched 65s Gd to 68s, Ar° °d het fl!a to 565, low ord musty 49s 6d, sound l'e, a- iders 4 " - Pi t ', triage 31s to 4ls 6d, black 108 to 223. it: 460 r . pale Ceylon show more firmness, and rein''' . pos tiP there are not many buyers at that price. ~t 00 / TEA.-Today te market presented a m„ - bile 0 49 1 Tea, and the biddings were languid at tbel ) ; s o_ , , s t poi comprised 2,302 pkgs: the Tea passed tbe, or, r sisted of Assam, a part only of which ((Ann ~ 0 0 4 1 0 4 lower rates: prices ruled unevenly. Congt 01100 0 fetched 5d to 2s 9d per lb. For auction ki i - s fe. . oil packages of tea are declared. The arriv al ,,,Otel ok since this day week, amounting to 62,400 IN' - it 0 9 , SPICES.-To-day Cassia Lignea Was in e se d or joiptf l , and 500 chests at public sale were all disP 4 ',. gr A tf stT, vance on former rates of is to 2s per 0 6 7 0 05)1V' fetched 61s to 625, middling 57s to 583 d ; nt er . , ," 545, ordinary 555, beetle stained 54s 6d, se a ; o f P coso o , bundles 53s to 545, and broken 498; they"6l r id, s r ( f middling sound, which realised 58s tot. i , n e v RCM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.--Lees" .. re OF' . purchased with caution, although there e $ beesl s further reduced terms ; small parcels be„' yei,r 0 i of at Is 10 1 ,4t1 to Is lld per gallon ProT,,, n 0. 7 ,,0 1 ,, $ of Calcutta, and prices have further g"" , 0 „ rod, ,; al to is 10t1 having been taken 0 ' t ber u A e s K6 tificate. Demerara has suffered no fur,. oo " g..7 t 0 t moderate demand at 3s to 3s 3d for al - 9' - 9 0.° ngY A Jamaica has been purchased very sPar t , to 35 , 41 d o :1 1, 1 0 at 3s 2d to 3s sd, 26 to 29 0 P at 3 3 5 ‘ 1 ,-, r lit.,;r , , I O P3s 7d to 4s, fine 31 to 36 ' 7O r 00 Sc, very find and rich 5a 3d t o be e 4,0 45 0,, 0 For Brandy further reduced rates hg v ie st3,lbhd t r, ' Cognac, best brands of the vintage cl, 184°_, 0 0 puns 4s 9d; 1839, hhds 4s Bd, puns 43 D" A t F ero > I e' , puns 4s 6d; 1841, hhds 43 7n, ip , sii iire", 1842, hhds 4s 4d, puns 43 2d; I °' - ',.nod 0' :A t iv.iloO' .100 puns 4s; common 2s 7(1 to 2s 10d; nu- -° gee noy to to 3s 8d; and Bordeaux 2s 65 to 2s 8d Pe r on elt,,,,rstly, is dull of sale. and there are sellers of oon, llll tv ,io9o l F it t ' Is 9d per gallon proof. Superior, tit for nu i ouP, c otlir bette r bit' e ' RICE.-To-day the market wag to P a hole tees Madras Rice, 1,864 bags were submitted the ire,,, e r „1", tien ; buyers were anxious to operate. m an to ‘ 6 o d d 9 rsal e,it ° ,3 posed of at an advance of ''''" A f e ICP'; I I:',IF low middling pinky white Bengal kith' t n i el Oires l s sea damaged first class 9s to 9s 6d, sec' t ) 3l . o o 00 5 o t 0 third class 7s 6d to 8s 6d, sound bold eo ood 01r 0 111 0, 9s to 9s 6d, sea damaged first class third class Bs. Bengal met with' at 9 t s e ' llr o gl i itri ci i ( : 111 0 11 :0 1411 at auction sold at stiff rates; low nil dd 1 00 1 0 6 fetched 103 6d to Ils, middling old but w ao . o o l d , . sea damaged first class 108 6d to 1 14 t. , ' if, 106 Gd, and third class 9s to 9s 6d per ca ihn iteu;ieir SALTPETRE.-To-day there WAS 011ly 3,.., s t 1 1 00 Rough privately, and 545 bags of CalcutSor r la ye, taken in at 27s to 27s 6d for wield ' for P eArillsl.4 cent. refraction. A SP 1 t iotk ' INDIGO.-The market has still a ~.rin fait osii, „ at India. Bengal is in fair request, fetchienc.tb a.f ;0 ty to 3d per lb advance. Madras has In ' ric o ' Se to several purchases have been made at P 0 . . 0 above those of last quarterly - sales tot iii! -------- the rt° e f t 0 - A few days ago, in di paddockwienl waslßs n d i i - s p ee t e r vl c e ,r epda gandgintf gaktleitienPfue.;sortdstcrii:pealloorc:l4ets**4l :11011 in thickness, and was composed of stop of of loft led Roman military station was on the o the e bes,Als' o , town was afterwards extended down ia 7y . of O f is i- t ost s l wall mentioned was . the western bounced 50 '11 0 00 0 t o 0 A rude arch was also discovered ; e n itr ucX„ A stita4 to tance a Roman . copper coin, e . r d i e de b n as tif t b", 0 0 cl:1 0,0 11 W t ration of the invasion, as one aide D ea rly er a galley. A rude iron instrument,.2 tbe lord P. letter S, was aLso found on t he sP _ sips upper bend being brought to an edg e.-- o ff tb ° dm „ a d., BIRTH' - ply oirP" ser , , .I.r On the 2 5 th ult. , in S ussex- g ardens, al' . l ' of William Batty, Esq., of a son. „ _,„ t if ~ IP' On the 25th ult., in Park-square, tuei- ~.. tha t of a son. Redford liw- JOli ° On the 20th ult ,at Leighton , •••• 4 of 4 io Woodman, Esq., of a daughter. re , Oa If tie On the 24th inst., in Golden-8011ln , edfor j, ,) plc son, Esq., of a daughter. Ke t cto:Y ir ': ,„ fte till i , bter. f aill. .ir t E h e e v 2 . 4 E th . l ul t L ., o a e . k t er S e t of On n e •fi Id RectorY,P, s ori• fl. f On the 25th ult., at Shir e ~___o n ola 0 isea On ea t e h n e , e 2 f s a th se u n l . t., in Nod3r'fflYka'ssdtraelieg, ° or vetto o, so the lady of the Rev. W. R. Toiro a u r 'f_ , ' the 1a.7 0, , On the 25th ult., at Coley- p 2, r ort ' $ d Ta ve PO Monck, Esq., of a son. of st E c d : e 3 , Sus s F 4. ' the Of Stoke Newington. On the 26th ult., fa t et hi le,n l a a : lady r ~I. d B.oHn7liein2g6,tEhsTito:amtu. gj h o t h e n r. sim, of co ol! ,s, , park, of a son. 2 , / „Ajtfia-V• . 5, gou ce riti°l l!: o / at tor` Lou is, DI ladeo. I On the 22d of October, , ons tan b ., 1 , o f Gallwcy, Es(i , Royal Artiliery fsti no d gig _ r. J. p 4 the late Archibald' H. Morro, • t ,?_t_,,, es , g 94 , 0 On the 25th ult., at St. Clemene itf.'" 1 v 1.10r. e . , ' to Marianne, daughter of the lat e A Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-field • # tb . Cr' l DIED ' , geiniord t ' at 113 Or 41 at Leas -n . s : 3l , i r s nfor j, fain 10 6 ,fi ti o o, o Hon. William NtiThielli3admlnDetr'sper, Lord rileaS• Sir . 1° sC lP it i , Justice of the Court of coinlP°, s u „_ n _ t ields, rt o f f 40 , of 1 On the Ist inst., in Lincoln 1 i.. -‘, aipsty''s C t,cl P I TO fli r r her a e. ,-. f ht.- O. late one of the Barons of ~ nan d o ht, of the fortii„ Barbarously murdered , ksr e ' ' on t he nigl' un ter , , Juv iti house, Furreedabad, Juanpor, ' se. in di g ° r ide° ° ;ist t or December, Mr. James Belli ears _ re. , h _ leil,, , They seem n b l u t t e f l o l i a • l t.. the e g( l , a n s e t , elpbtoht :i eb si ci) t , t r it il e. :/ ii ; $01 ; 1.0 - 1 LO t' gr. T qf p .wortm , d 69. if / 010 111 A i On the 11th ult., at v , a ' __ ro d, are 1 , o f i' 4 . 1 e. t s o lgu nch ° i f rr a r s d i L n r ile late of Christchurch, Blackfrian _,.,, „ t ido , t ow - , On the 22d ult., at Bath, Mar: to m, tit ws o -c n he t , h E e s 2 q 2 . d , oufltL,uattwMYcolinetp' eSlaiel°r-PsqLu,avre;cll3rorile-P„, fies'i°h"; e:dest daughter of Charles relict of otteth2esltahteuiLt.i.euattencanbGteeraCteohrl;opronlei:lces,npt. trilicy If.ttnrattia%BtobT , e oil,o ß. ~1 1 0 P I al 4 , t opir London : Printed and Published Thie vs 0 0 1 0 G o - No. 112, 112, Strand, Printer st „ yo r, Strand, in the Preeiact of the 0 11 . Middlesex. Wednold* Itaroll 4 ' E 'I 8 % t 1;1 kg: 'lu r Wet, l by Y 4 gent, th'etppllca th •e r o . w 1t e ;,1 44 4 141 ;• r Alt to Titlt Ni x , ti lti 4 ma ,14„4:41,r, 14 f°ll t~,:ttop a d Act a