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Ebttion SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. RAIL\yAy COMMIT FEES (THIS DAY.) DOUSE OF LORDS. A LEDONIAN RAILWAY. • en. Lordships met in Committee to-day at eleven o'clock, Lord Radnor in the chair, when the case of the Cirrd.ISGOW, DUMMIES, AND CARLISLE MINE, was resumed. Mr. Brown, of Greenock Mains, Ayrshire, was examined re specting the amount of m i nera l tra ffi c an d agr icultural produce that might be expected to go along the line. Mr. Girdwood, agent to Lord Eute, near Old Cumnock, Ayr shire, gave evidence similar in effect. Mr. Barclay, manager of the Catrine cotton works, deposed as to the amount of coals used at the manufactories at Catrine, and the amount of traffic to and from Glasgow to the works, which he represe nted to be very cons id era bl e; th e p ar ti cu l ars of this wit ness's evidence have already appeared. to At t his stage of t he procee di ngs t h e C HAIRMAN sa id h e w ished state, on beh a lf of the Comm i ttee, that they were sat i s fi e d t h at the evidence had made out the opening statement of Mr. Andrews respecting the traffic through the route of the line, and also with regard to the necessity of railway communication through that part of the country. iMr. ANDREWS was willing to accede to any arrangement founded n the sugg est i on of the Nohie Chairman, but submitted that a esolution should b e come to embodying the opinion of the Com. rnittee. He was quite willing to abandon his opposition to the Caledonian line, providing the promoters of that line would agree to Bive up their opposition to the project for which he had the ho nour of appearing. ." Mr. Tatear had no objection t o an y o pi n i on th a t the Committee Might express regarding the merits of the line for which his Learned Friend appeared, providing the Caledonian Bill was pissed, Wt , t he protested to being a party to any course that would bind his clients from withholding their opposition to any Bill that the other party might bring before Parliament next session. When the Proper time came they would be prepared to show that the traffic was not sufficient to warrant the construction of two lines, and that the Caledonian was much the best line of the two. Mr. AUSTIN WAS not satisfied with what his Learned Friend had advanced. He was prepared to show that the Glasgow, Dump • nes, and Carlisle line was superior in every respect to the Caledonian line. If he understood their Lordships ;, ri g!t, it was their opinion that the district of country tra .r Carlisle, by D um f r i es and Cumnock, to Kil mar nock, had oin rn ffi c sufficient to warrant the construction of a line of rail way. If so, he considered it should be made by an independent "In PaaY. He did not care a straw for the op i n i on of h i s L earned Friend as to whether or no the traffic of the country Would warrant the formation of such a line as he (Mr. Austin) appeared for. It was the opinion of their Lordships that he wanted, who were placed in their present exalted position to guard the public interests and to adjudicate impar tial' y. Their opinion had been given, and if his Learned Friend !as hot prepared to fall in with that opinion he (Mr. Austin), ' Mo uld their Lordships desire it, was prepared , to go on with the evidence. Th e CHAIRM AN i n ti ma t e d th a t h e th oug h t i t wou l d b e as well for Mr. Austin to go on with his evidence for rebutting the c as e o f th e Caled onian line. After some further conversation, their Lordships retired to deliberate. „ retrOn their r e t urn they intimated that the counsel for the Glasgow ssu • ies, and Carlisle line should go on with that portion of their evidence that bore on the case of the Caledonian line. Mr. William Crawford was next called an d exam i ne d respect i ng the feeling of the inhabitants of the county of Ayr, which he re presented to be universally in favour of the line by Dumfries. ru be. ck ßeid, of Kil marnock, gave evidence about the traffic of Kil mo, which he represented at 600,0001. yearly. A great part of that went southward. l'i to ir t . h Jobst one, manager of the Glasgow and Ayr Railway, deposed the lute few on'eathueGanlaci sgaowlso,as to that Company having guaranteed 4 per ce nt ntuhelif r ri o e w s, n a . nd Carlisle Railway, and to work it in con j unction with Mr. La ur i e, of a place near Dumfries, was examined at some length respecting the cattle traffic which it was presumed would Pass along the line. Mr. Christie, Mr. Miller, and other witnesses, gave evidence as to the superiority of the general traffic of the line compared with ,sirival the C a l e d onian, when the Committee adjourned till eleven othc o ck tomorrow , counsel intimating to their Lordships that they ought it would be possible for them to close their case by to. Morrow evening. The Engineering evidence will be go ne i n t o th e fi rs t thi ng i n th e Incoming. S TANDING ORDERS COMIIITTE Z. The Standing Orders Committee of the House of Lords re.as. sembled this day, the Earl of Shaftesbury in the chair. the he only R a il way Bill called in, prior to our going to p ress , was ZIOND ON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY (HORSHAM BRANCH) HILL, Wh ich passed the Standing Orders. IIICX MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM (ASHTON BRANCH). Passed through Committee, and the 1440TORESTER AND SHEFFIELD JUNC TION (ALTRINCHAIVI BRANCH). HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP A. J . B r „ 4 7t 1 . 3' after twelve o'clock the Chairman (Mr. Lascelles) and Sir hillips entered the Committee-room, and The R t e he, CfIAIRMAN said that he had received a letter from Mr. slating that he WAS confined to his bed. The business of Committee could not proceed with only two members. M ERREWETHER thought the business might proceed with we consent of parties. The CHAIRMAN thought not. A discussion ensued as to what course should now be taken. The Ccrnmittee adjourned, with the understanding that if other members were appointed in the place of Mr. Roche and Mr. t ad Geachy t o - n i ght, the Committee would meet to-morrow at we've o'clock, and proceed to the consideration of the Minster Red Deal line. GROUP NN. THE EPPING RAILWAY. The Committee on the above group were to have met this morning at twelve o'clock, but, in consequence of the absence of three Members, from illness, the Committee did not sit, and it was adjourned till to-morrow. GROUP X. DIRECT NORTHERN PROJECT. Mr. Giles was the first witness called at the sitting of the Com mittee this day—ls an engineer. Is aware that, in consequence of the Cambridge and Lincoln project, the whole of the line south of Lincoln was abandoned, and part of that to the north also, to the extent of about four miles and a half. To Mr. Set geant WRANGHAM—There were two Bills; the first took the whole of the line, and the second took the line, by the old Plan, fr om t h e 1 24t h m il e, at B roxton, on to Li nco l n , wi th in four miles and a half of it. From London to Broxholme the line was W ithin the limit of deviation for a mile and a half, and that was Parallel with another line so far. Mr. Sergeant Wit/INGHAM objected to the plans and sections now put in, inasmuch as they were not those originally deposited, but totally diff, rent ones, and the datum line was also different. The Committee retired to consider the objection, and on their return raid they were of opinion that they did not con. eider the plans and sections now before them the same as those originally put in. But they wished to know if Mr. Sergeant Wrangham contended that those plans and sections Were not the same as those lodged in the Private Bill Office. Mr. Sergeant WRANGRAM said they were, in so far as they affected the differing of the three miles. A long argument followed, after which the Committee retired to consider the objection. On their return, The CHAIRMAN was of opinion that they could not receive evi dence on plans and sections of a line or portions of a line, which had not been deposited at the Private Rill-office ; but that, under the peculiar circumstances of this case, the Committee did not feel called on to exc'ude parole evidence of a general nature as to the desirableness of extending the line from Burton to Lincoln. Mr. Copeland, mill owner, of Lincoln, was then called, and he said he conceived the Direct Northern the best line that could be suggested for that part of the country ; and that it be most desirable to keep up the Fosdyke navigation. Mr. Wilkinson and Mr. Newton, under examination by Mr. "MONTAGUE Small, severally deposed to the obstruction of the Witham which the London and York line would cause. The latter witness also mentioned the circumstance of the banks of the Witham being at one time on fire for a distance of a mile and a half, and of that river having frequently overflowed into the con. tiguous country, both circumstances being attributed to the banks being constructed of peat. After the cross-examination of this witness had concluded, the Committee adjourned. DARTMOUTH ELECTION (FROU OUR CORRESPONDENT.) DARTMOUTH, JULY 2, 1845. The nomination took place here this day. Two candidates Were presented to the electors—Mr. George Moffatt, a Liberal and Free-trader, who was defeated by the late Member, Mr. Su mps, in the contest which took place about six months since, and Mr. Henry Prinsep, a gentleman of Conservative oVnions, and who, it was said, had held office in India, where he had resided many years. The town exhibited at an early hour all that excitement and bustle usual on occasions of the kind. Bands of music Paraded the town, and the colours of the different candidates appeared in the hats and button-holes of their respective sup porters. The hustings were erected in a large open space at the back of the Fish Market, the Conservatives occupying the Western, and the Liberals the eastern wings, at the side of the Mayer. The weather was as bad as bad could be ; relents of rain descended as if to keep the multi tide cool, and prevent over-excitement. At twelve (:)el °ck the committee and friends of Mr. Prinsep arrived, and shortly afterwards the gentlemen who support his °PPoneet, Mr. Moffatt, accompanied with very tasteful ban ners, bearing the mottoes" Moffatt, the Ballot and Extension . . of the Suffrage," " Reform, Civil and Religious Liberty, and the Vote by Ballot," " Moffatt, the Queen's Candidate, Free Trade and No Monopoly," " The People, the Source of all Power," &c. The absence of such paraphernalia among the other party was thus strongly contrasted. The Head Bailiff having by proclamation opened the Court, ARTHU R BAYLY Harms, Esq ,proceeded to read the pre cept and the Bribery Act. Then, addressing the people, he requested they would pay peaceable attention to each candidate their movers and seconders, and hear them without inter ruption. Sir HENRY SEALE, Bart., was received with mingled cheers and hisses on rising to address the burgesses. He said that when he had last the honour of addressing them, he little thought they should again so soon have been commanded to assemble there. lie little thought the Almighty Dispenser of hu man events w ou ld so soon have s h ow n the unc e rtainty of "man life, and made manifest the Scripture say;ug, " In the midst of life we are in death."—(Cheers.) He felt unequal to address them, but never in the least had he shrunk from his duty.—( Cries of " 'tear, hear.") lie therefore, claim their indulgence during the short time he would detain them. During his late stay in London he had requen ly the pleasure of seeing the late Mr. Somes, and he Was bcand to state that he called on him at his (Mr. Somes') tequ" t, when he (Mr. Somes) expressed his honourable in te,n ion of carrying out his pledge of watching to the utmost 1a interest of that borough.—( Loud cheers.) The subject of e conversation was railway communication to Dartmouth, and also the packet question. He (Sir Henry) had pleasure b mentioning this, and paying his respect to the memory of their Member. He must pass, however, from that to the 1141 /10et of the future representation, He would only mention - - one point; in particular, ➢lr. Sorties men ioned hat the choice of representative ought not to be a p , litieal question. He ( Sir H. Seale) hoped they would consider that it was not a matter of preference the being engaged in ships, in the consideration of a representative in Parliament, but what laws that repre sentative would assist, and to what domestic and foreign policy he would lend his support.—( Cheers and hisses. ) He trusted the electors would stand forward on this of another line. —( So may a footman be.) And I know what it is : the local interest of Plymouth is opposed to the real interest of the railway itself and of this town. I assure you, should I be chosen your representative, local interest shall not prevail against you, and I engage myself to carry through a ralway communication between this town and London at the earliest possible oppor tunnity.---( Great confusion and uproar.) Having answered the challenge of my antagonist, I have only now to speak of the cordial manner—(" How about the Alaynooth grant ?" Loud cries of " Maynooth," and great uproar.) Show to morrow, at the poll, that your satisfaction is complete. Gen tlemen, I rely on you to come early to the poll to-morrow, and show my antagonist you approve of those principles which he has called bigoted and narrow. minded, and stigmatised as un worthy your support. I have to ascribe a great deal of the favour shown me to the circumstance of my being a stranger and speaking here for the first time therefore, I have the advan tage of the honourable gentleman. If the day had not been unfavourable, I :should have entered more largely into my principles, but as you are all standing in the wet I will bring, the matter to a close.—( Applause, hisses, and confusion. ) A show of hands was then called for by the Mayor, who after repeating it, the numbers being so even, declared it in favour of Mr. Prinsep. A poll was demanded on behalf of Mr. Moffatt, and each party marshelled their forces at the sound of " the merry fife and drum " from the scene of action to their respective head quarters. occasion fearlessly, and exert th , mselves to maintain those principles for which they had been so fir famed—( Great cheering and hissing). He tru-ted that, in spite of int imida temptation—( Great uproar)—they would assist those old fri, nds of reform, to whom they were indebted that they stood there that day—( Mingled groans and Cheers)--that, above all things, they would assist those who would relieve the burdens of the rople—(Cheers)and watch and guard over civil and religious liberty.— (Enthusiastic cheering). When he last had the honour of addressing them, he took the liberty of offering to their notice Mr. Moffatt ; with how much greater confidence could he now offer that gentleman before them, amongst a great many of whom he, at that time saw, his colours proudly worn. —( Great cheering and uproar.) He was going to state that he saw his colours proudly worn by those who would win an honourable and glorious victory ere to•morrow's sun had sunk beyond yonder hill.—(Cheers.) What he had told them before he could with a good conscience repeat ; he had their interest at heart.—( Cheers, and hisses.) He had the honour of nominating George Moffatt, Esq., as a fit gentleman to represent the borough of Dartmouth in Parliament. — (Mingled cheers and hisses.) Jolts TEAGE, Esq., said Mr. Moffatt came among them at the last contest as a stranger, but with such recommendation of sterling ability—professing strict Liberalism, and, above all, having a heart and conscience to do good to them—that it was with alacrity and without hesitation he came forward to second his nomination.— ( Partial cheers.) Mr. Moffat was no longer a stranger. He was known to them all, and he, for one, could truly say he had risen 150 per cent. in his estimation since that time. He would not take up their time longer.—(" No ! it's hardly worth while," laughter and uproar.) He knew that should they return Mr. Moffatt, in a very short period one and a ll would find the benefits of that election. ASSOCIATION FOR CLEANSING TOWNS.-(THIS DAY.) UNION OF PARISHES IN IRELAND. The NOBLE EARL also laid on the table a Bill relating to the tuai,nt of parishes in Ireland. Ile said he should explain ite objects on the second reading. NEW SOUTH WALES. Lord POLWART presented a petition, signed by the Speaker and by several. of the Members of th Assembly of New South Wales, complaining of the late alterations in the law relating to the :ale of lands. Also a petition signed by 4,400 shareholders and merchants of Sydney and its vicinity, praying the Legislature of this country to make provision for the better security of land in the more remote settlements. - - - GAMING AND WAGER BILL. Lord WHARNCLIFFE moved the second reading of this Bill. He said its object was to put a stop to the pi ta'n actions which had been brought against several persons, some of whom were members of their Lordships' House, and to amend the law relating to the suppression of common gambling-houses, and to amend the law relating to wagers. The present plan, which required that two householders should sign an information before a house in which gambling was suspected to be carried on could be entered would be abolished and placed in the hands of a superintendent of police, who would have to make a statement to the Commissioners to that effect, who a onld use their discretion as to whether the house should be entered or not by the police, and that wherever dice and other implements of garraling were found, they should be taken as a sufficient evidence that gambling was carried on, though the per sons found in the house might not be actually engaged in "play ;" and that billiard-rooms, in which gambling was frequently carried on, should be licensed by the magis trates in the same way as other places of entertainment. With respect to wagers, by the law as it now stood wag ers were recoverable by law except in certain instances. It the bet did not exceed 10/. it was a legal wager, but if it exceeded that. amount it was illegal. The Bill proposed that no bet whatever should be recoverable before any court of law—putting bets entirely out of the protection of the law. In cases where money was lost by cheating, the party guilty of the cheating should be an object of punishment. These were the chief provisions of the Bill. After a few words from Lord Campbell, Lord Brougham, and the Lord Chancellor, The anniversary meeting of this association was held to-day at the Hanover-square Rooms, the Duke of Grafton, in the absence of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, took the chair, supported by the Marquis of Lorne, Mr. Bucking ham, Mr. P. Borthwick, M.P., Mr. Raahleigh, M.P., the Earl of Devon, Lord Ranelagh, Mr. Wakley, M.P., Mr. B. B. Cabbell, the O'Conor Don, Mr. H. L. Keeling, Mr. Wynn Ellis, and several other gentlemen of rank and distinction. On being called to the chair, The Duke of GRAFTON said that he regretted that, on as count of the meeting as well as on his own, the numerous en gagements of his Royal Highness prevented his attendance to day. The same excuse was to be made for Lord Ashley, Lord Winchilsea, and other gentlemen who had promised to attend. Mr. COCHRA NE said that, as an inexperienced speaker, he had to pray the indulgence of the meeting for his inability, and perhaps he might say for his imprudence, in occupying the po sition which he had consented to take. He was prepared to show that, in the first place, the streets could be kept so clean as to prevent the accumulation of any dirt or mud whatever; in the second, that the accomplishing of this desirable object would give employment to at least forty thousand persons; and, thirdly, that this would be done without any expense whatever to its promoters. During the last winter fifty persons had been employed for the purpose of clearing the streets, and the object had been so effectually obtained, that the leading per sons in the great thoroughfares had been ready to bear the whole expense themselves, rather than it should be neglected. He felt that the social comfort of the community, and the hap piness of many thousands were involved, he must persist, in the discharge of the duty which the Committee had im posed. Another experiment had been made this year in the Strand, when seventy individuals had been engaged, and the result had been equally satisfactory. The Government, however, had far outdone them in their efforts for this great public benefit, and it was an established fact that all that unpleasantness which was experienced, and the serious loss which was sustained by the accumulation of dirt in the streets. The Health of Towns Commission had shown how detrimental this accumulation of filth was to the well-being of the community. From caleulatipns which had been made, on the basis that a single man could cleanse one thousand square feet daily. On this basis the large towns of the city occupy at least 40,000 labourers; and if they were to take the w hole, not less than 100,000 persons would find constant employment in promoting the health of the community. From other calculations it appeared that in the metropolitan district, which was of course the worst of all, the average expense to each house for a thorough cleansing of all the streets would be 7s. a-year, or a lid. a-day. In the parish of St. James's the rate was some thing higher, but the cost was so small that it was not only advisable but absolutely incumbent on the inhabitants of this great city. They had had a meeting on the 14th of last month, which was but thinly attended, but through the able reports of the press the attention of the public had been so turned to the subject that on the 25th of that same month an advertisement had appeared in the Morning Post, announcing that the Commissioners of sewers, for the City of London had determined to have every street, and alley, and court, swept—the poor' man's street as well as the rich man's—thoroughly swept and cleansed every day. Such was one of the effects of the efforts which had been made. The great inconvenience of the evil which the Association was desirous to remove was familiar to all vsho knew how much pieces of furniture, and articles of vertu were injured from the dust which was blown into the house, whenever the windows were left open even:for a short time. The passengers in the street, the ladies especially, he was quite sure, would go with him, for he had no doubt that those present had many an unpleasant reminisc , nee of a valuable dress being spoiled by crossing the streets after a shower of rain. The inconveniences within doors were evident, yet, notwithstanding all this, they had serious obstacles to en counter from the authorities, who had more especially the care of the poving of towns. The Sanitory Report of the Parlia mentary Commissioners contained a series of frightful facts, showing that the loss of life incurred by bad ventilation and uncleensed streets absolutely amounted to double the number of those who had been killed by the allied armies at the battle of Waterloo. He was obliged to the audience for the patience with which they had listened to him, but he was quite sure that he had no other object than that which was connected with hu manity when he stated that there were 200,000 individuals constantly requiring employment.—(Hear, hear.) He be lieved that the character of the people mainly depended en the lower classes being fully employed, and if they could by assist ing in the employment of this large number of the people pres ent 40,000 persons, perhaps of the best portion of the lower order of the population from leaving the country. He deeply felt the importance of this subject, but he thought that when a man strongly recommended he ought to be ready to bear any portion of the risk. Now, so firmly was he convinced of the truth of the principles which the Association wished to set forward that he was ready, if the authorities of the parish of St. George would engage to employ one man for every 1,500 yards, that is from 130 to 140 men for six months—he himself was perfectly ready to guarantee the whole of the expense. He concluded by moving a resolution to the effect that the cleaning of the streets and alleys was of consequence to the health of the inhabitants, and must ultimately prove advantageous in a pecuniary view to the public. G. JONES, Esq., seconded the resolution, and said that the object of this association was one of the noblest which could be devised, namely, the employment of the poor. In a free coun try there ought to be no such thing as a workhouse, and espe cially when that workhouse was a bastile. Give employment to the poor, and the workhouse would be raised to the ground or converted into an asylum for aged help lessness and infirmity, where its inmates might enjoy the ad vanta g es of the free air and a healthful residence, instead of those abodes of misery which the workhouses of the present day had become. Mr. P. BORTHWICK moved the second resolution, and stated, in the course of his observations, that the cost of cleansing the city of Edinburgh was about 12,000/., while the gain from the sale of the refuse was 10, 0001 . It wa s a fact, as lament able as it was certain, notwithstanding the almost miraculous wealth which pervaded every town of the country, at least one tenth of the population was in a state of pauperism. This was owing to no indolence or indisposition on the part of these in dividuals to use every exertion to obtain an honest livelihood. The object of this Society, though it begun no higher than the cleansing of the streets, was not less than to reduce the number of 300,000, who were in this state of helplessness by 40,000 individuals, and was inti mately connected with the progress of civilisation and happi ness. He then proposed a resolution to the effect that the cleansing of the public thoroughfare would not only tend to employ the poor, but to the preservation of buildings and works of art, and be beneficial to the housekeeper, the shopkeeper , and the passenger in the streets.—( Cheers.) he Mr. LUKE HANSARD, after a neat speech, seco nded t resolu ion which was adopted unanimously. Mr. J. E. PA NTER moved the third resolution, that it was of great importance to prevent the numerous accidents which occurred from the defective paving and cleansing of the streets of the Metropolis. The resolution was unanimously adopted. In the absence of Lord Ranelagh, it was moved tha by a gentleman whose name we could not learn, it was in the highest degree adviseable that the inde pendent labourer should supersede the helpless pauper. Lord Ranelagh, whose name was associated w ith every cha ritable purpose, had been unable to return in time to take charge, as he desired, of this resolution. He believed it was a remark of Lord Ashley's, who was detained by his duty in a Committee of the House of Commons, who had authorised th him at to say that he was heart and soul with the S leetin g , wealth had its duties as well as its privileges,.and to this he might append another observation, that if poverty had its suf ferings, it had also its rights. Mr. P. GRAHAM seconded the resolution. Mr. B. BOND CABBELL moved the thanks of the Meeting to the Noble Chairman. After the motion had been seconded, it was put by Mr. Cabbell, and carried unanimously. The Duke of GRAFTON returned thanks, and stated the gratification which he had enjoyed in presiding on the occasion, and said that he thought the Society, low as it might seem, was one of great importance. The meeting, which was numerously and most respectably attended, a great number of ladies of rank and position being present, then separated. W. L. HocKrar, Esq., was received with hisses and groans from the opposite party, and with cheers from his own, on standing forward to address the electors. When the din was somewhat hushed, Mr. Hockin said he solicited the same in dulgence for himself—that he should be heard impartially—as had been granted his friend Sir H. Seale. He did not introduce himself to them as a stranger.—(" That's very true.") He had been known to them many years, as professing sentiments which he hoped that day to see established.—( Yells and applause.) In the first place, he was bound to thank the Hon. Baronet for the admission he had made concerning their late Member, for there was an old proverb and a very good one, "Never say any thing of the dead but what is good," and the Hon. Baronet had adopted those words—as the same respect he Mr. Hockin) had paid his father, he (Sir Henry) was willing to pay his departed friend. They had heard the observations of Sir Henry Seale, and observations from him he was willing to believe were entitled to their consideration—( Hear, hear) — but there was an exception to every rule, and, therefore, those which on the present occasion had been made, he should throw overboard and think nothing of.—( Oh, oh, derisive cheers, and great confusion.) Whatever impression they had made on their minds, they had made none on his.—( Groans.) It was very strange Mr. Moffatt should come there so unexpectedly. —(Uproar, in which the conclusion of this sentence was lost.) They would recollect at the last election they (the Tories) were on the western side of the hustings, and they were on the winning side now.—(Cheers from the suporters of Princeps.) His friend, Sir Henry Seale, at that election spoke of Mr. Moffatt as a literary character, but whether he had taken a degree at Oxford or Cambridge they were yet to be told.—( Groans, yells, and hisses.) He would say nothing more of those on the other side, but proposed to them a gentle man distinguished in the governing council of India. He was in that country thirty-five years, and had he stayed there one year more would have been made a general. —( " No, no !" from Mr. Princeps, who, it appears, was in the civil department.) He was, therefore, well calculated for the di.charge of legislative duties in Parliament.—(" No, no," and cheers.) 'lbis name was well respected in London, for his father was one of the oldest Aldermen.—( Laughter and cheers.) There was a trump for them ; and another was, he was on his road to the East India Board, where they would have the benefit of his in fluence.—( Hisses, partial cheers, and disapprobation.) Sir Henry Seale had paid a great compliment to their de parted friend, I`.lr. Somes ; Mr. Moffatt had also had the honesty to observe that he was a very enterprising character.— (Cheers.) It was a very unpleasant day, or he would have said more. He hoped they would not intimidate voters, nor withdraw their custom.—(" Who gave 50/. for a pig?") He begged leave to propose Henry Prinsep, Esq., as a candidate, and solicited for him their support.—(Groans, hisses, and con- The Bill was read a sccond time. (LEFT SITTING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the chair shortly before Four. The Lords' amendments to the Newcastle and Dar lington Railway Bill (Brandling Junction) were agreed to on the motion of Mr. HODSON lIINDE. The Lords' amendments to the Edinburgh and Glas gow Railway were agreed to. The FurCh and Clyde Navigation and Union Canal Bill was read a third time and passed. IRISH GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. On the motion that the Irish Great Western Railway Bill be read a third time, Mr. WARBURTON said he had, on a former occa sion, called the attention of the Government to the fact of the House acting with respect to this measure against the opinion of the Standing Orders Committee; and the First Lord of the Treasury had declared that the House ought to keep a tight rein over this Bill. He had, however, not perceived that any difference had been made with respect to this Bill than to others, the proceedings in which had been regular. Ile had reminded the House of these facts, and in so doing he had only done his duty, and having done that he left the House to do what they thought proper with the Bill. Lord G. SOMERSET was not in the House when ' the Bill was proposed for a second reading, or he should have called the attention of the Ilouse to the cir cumstances connected with the measure. He thought that a very bad precedent had been set with respect to this measure, and one that he hoped the House would not in future follow. Mr. LABOUCHERE was in the House when the Bill was read a second time, but he believed that his worthy friend who moved it, did it in so modest a manner, that no Member, with the exception of himself and the Speaker, know that it had been read a second time. He hoped the circumstances that had attended the progress of this measure would never take place again. The Bill was then read a third tune. Mr. F. FRENCH proposed several clauses, which after some short discussion, were referred to the Standing Or der Committee, and the further proceedings on the Btll were postponed till to- morrow. The Bermondsey Improvement Bill was read a third time and passed. BRIDGE WATER NAVIGATION AND RAIL WAY BILL. fusion.) ROBERT HARRIS, Esq., who seconded the nomination, spoke so low as to be inaudible within a yard or two, in consequence of the great noise at the time prevailing. From the few sen tences we caught we under stood him to declare Mr. Prinsep was a firm and consistent Protestant, though he came forward independent and unfettered by any party. Ail he wished fur was the prosperity of his native town, and if he thought Mr. Moffatt would do more to make them prosperous, he would up- _ hesitatingly give him his support. GEORGE MOFFATT, Esq., on presenting himself to the electors, was received with bursts of hearty cheers from his own side, and partial groaning from his opponents. When both had subsided he thus spoke :—Mr. Mayor and gentleman, the proposer of my honourable opponent, ex rressed great surprise that I should again appear among you. Gentlemen, I believe he did not know the high and sacred spirit which exists among you at this moment in the determi • nation to maintain the principles of the Constitution.—(Cheers and disapprobation.) That was what induced me to come among you, and I believe him and his party to be very ignorant on that point. I can, therefore, well understand his expression of surprise.—( Great cheering.) It p'eased that gentleman's liberality to put the question whether I had taken a degree at Oxford or Cambridge, as though a gentleman cannot receive a liberal education except at Oxford or Cambridge.—( Cheers. ) It was a fine specimen of the bigotry, intolerance, and narrow mindedness of the party to which he belongs.—(Cheers and hisses.) 1 shall now proceed to the more immediate business of the election. I wish to express my unfeigned and sincere regret, in common with our opponents, for the cause which induces us to appear at the present time. I venture to come here at the call of the great party in this town—at the call of that party which unites the mercantile marine and great landed interests of the electors. But, even powerful as your influence is, I should not have responded to your call if I was not per fectly satisfied that I coincide in my opinions with those of my supporters, and that there is not the slightest difference between us.—(Cheers, and great uproar.) On the great questions of domestic policy we are perfectly agreed. The questions of foreign policy are, at present, at tracting hut little public notice ; it is not likely, however, we shall disagree with regard to them. I beg to say, should I be placed in the House of Commons, I shall ever be found voting for economy in the public expenses, though I shall be disposed to vote liberal arid useful grants to our navy. There is our true greatness, and the only means by which we can main tain our power. As the proper means to keep our posi tion in the commercial world, I am an advocate for an extension of the principles of free trade. In that position the more widely we extend our trade with foreign nations the greater will be the advantage to ourselves. You, perhaps, recollect that since I came before you six months ago there has been another division with regard to the corn laws, and it now seems to be a race between Sir Robert Peel and Lord John Russell, who shall be most forward in condemn ing the principles of those laws.—( Applause and disapproba tion. ) Gentlemen, I need scarcely repeat to you that my opinions remain unchanged as to the great questions of domestic policy. In regard to vote by ballot—(Loud cheering)—in regard to an extension of the suffrage, I am as I was before. In regard to the church rates, my opinion is as it was before ; and, in regard to the question now agitating the public mind, I am adver e to any further endowment, out of the public funds, of any sect or denomination whatever.—(lllingled cheers and hisses.) I bel eve my opponent comes foward as a supporter of Sir Robert Pee', and I hoi e will explain to you what his principles are.—( Hear.) He must be a very able man if he does, for I think he will then know rather more than Sir Robert Peel hirntelf.—( Laughter and cheers.) I defy any one t) say what tt ey are from his address. I hope you will give him a patient hearing while he explains the principles on which he comes forward in all the great points in which you are interested. He comes among you as a stranger ; I there fore beg of you to show him due courtesy. I thank you for the attention you have paid me, and I trust we shall be success ful. The Hon. Gentleman concluded amid deafening plaudits. H. PAINSEP, Esq., was well received by his adherents, and with hootings by his opponents. He said—Mr. Mayor, and gentlemen, electors of Dartmouth ; first, let me thank the gentlemen who have introduced me to you on this oc casion, and next let me intreat a patient hearing, while 1 explain the principles on which I am here, and my reasons for coming. I appear before you as a stranger, under great disadvantage. My opponent also is a stranger. He too is only a bird of passage—(Yells and great uproar )—and his cause:of coming is a vacancy in your representa tion ; but gentlemen, if I am a stranger, the disadvantage every day will remove as our acquaintance increases. —(Cheers.) Gentlemen, 1 beg to assure you I should not have come among you at all if any gentleman representing the party and prin ciples I do could have been found among your own neighbours. I heard a deputation had been sent to Mr. Newman Hunt, and I waited to see if he could be induced, by any persuasions of his friends, to come forward. Had he done so, I should have re tired without seeing a single elector.—(" Make haste home again.") My opponent boasts that he was introduced to you, as I have not been, by a large number of friends. Perhaps it is wrong to allude to that topic, that will be tested to-morrow.— (Great cheering.) But my antagonist challenges me to say what are my principles. 1 stated in my address that I came forward on Conservative principles—(Cheers)—and I am ready to explain, as 1 was challenged to-day, what those prin ciples are. There are many here—almost all who hear me—who remember when the aristocracy alone repre sented the people ; but when the Reform Bill passed it intro duced changes in the Constitution. A new spirit came over the Government. Sir Robert Peel, who had heretofore fought in the ranks of Toryism, saw that Parliament could no longer be conducted on those exclusive principles.—( Uproar.) He saw that the commercial and manufacturing interests had obtained a hold on the nation, and that they influenced public opinion to such a degree that, in order to unite all under his standard, he gave them the name of Conservatives. The Hon. Gentleman has stigmatised the principles of the Con servatives as narrow-minded and bigoted ? Are the measures of the Government narrow-minded and bigoted ? Is there not a charge against Sir Robert Peel that his measures are tco iberal ? Who gave relief to trade in the last session ?—(" Lord John Russell.") Was not all raw material relieved of all customs duties? You say these rreasares and principles were those of Lord J. Russell. Then why did not Lord J. Russell carry them out ? Because he was not a practical man, and knew not how t? do it.—(" Wh o o ppo s ed them out of power?'') My rival candidate has a ll u d e d to th e corn-law, and challenged me to give my opinion on that subject. I say, as long as articles of consumption arc subject to duty, a similar duty ought to be laid on corp.—(' We won't h ave an y duties.") Would you like to have foreign corn brought here for sale? What would you say ? I recollect a case of a baker, who went to Calais and sent over the bread, to compete with those in London. Did the bakers like that, to see their bread sold by the side of that from France ? I quite agree with my rival that if we could do without any duties that would be best of all. The business of the nation, however, cannot be carried on without revenues. If one could wipe off the national debt and all revenue, we could take off all duties, in cluding the income-tax.—(Confusion.) The Hon. Gentleman who proposed my antagonist, and whom I hope one day to ca ll my friend, very properly said ther e were two things to consider in the choice of a representative to carry on the affairs of the nation and to look after local interest. I fear not compari son with my antagonist in either point. My life has been spent in administering the law in one of our colonies, of which I was one of the representatives. I must, therefore, be qua lified to judge—(" You are not going to judge us") —of the legislation of this country. Who is est able to forward it ? (" Mr. Moffatt, not you.") One who brings influence to command attention in the House—who understands the way to carry measures which lie has shown elsewhere, and which he hopes to show there.—( Cheers and hisses.) And, gentlemen, with respect to the other ground, the power of supporting the particular interest of the borough. Has my honourable antagonist stated anything he can do which I should not be able also to do ?—( Hear, hear.) He has told you to-day about the rail , / ay and the packets. On that score, too, I can challenge com parison. With respect to railways, I had a large number of shares in the South Devon Railway, and I am also a Director The Lords' amendments to the Bridgewater Navigat'on and Railway Bill were agreed to. WATERFORD AND KILKENNY RAILWAY. The Lords' amendments to the Waterford and Kil kenny Railway were agreed to. The Bristol Parochial Rates (No. 2) Bill was reported. SOUTHAMPTON AND DORCHESTER RAlL- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING JULY 3,_1845 ' The wife—Yes, my Lord ; I am obliged to work for my own bread. lie has left me these five years, and refused me any assistance. We were married in Bath. The Lour) MAYOR then directed that the witnesses to the fir>t marriage should be sent for, and remanded the prisom:r for some days. A girl, scarcely 16 years of age, named Eliza Gr was charged with having robbed her mistress. The case was an extremely distr( ssing one, as the respectable father of the prisoner found it necessary to recomnn nd the prosecution in the hope of saving her from greater misery, likely to arise from the dep-aNity she constantly witnessed amongst her assoc►ates. Mrs. B rem, a widow lady, stated that the prisoner had lived with her upon a former occasion, and acts d with integrity and circinuspection, and, in fact, was a most unexceptionable servant. Lately, however, there was a change. Witness missed two sovereigns which she had placed in the kitchen-drawer, and when she was searching about fin- them, the prisoner asked her whe ther she had lost anything, and, upon being answered in the affirmative, expressed a hope that no suspicion at tached to her, witness replied that there was no suspi cion of the kind. Afterwards, the prisoner mentioned that her father wished to speak to witness, and took the opportunity while they were talking together to step out of the house. The witness subsequently saw the prisoner at the station• house, where she also saw four knives and four forks, which were her property, and had been taken au ay by the prisoner, who also acknow ledged that she had stolen the two sovereigns. mEttopolitan policeman stated that - the poor dis tressed father of the girl charged her at the station house with having robbed her mistress ; and witness went to a house of notorious character, near the New cut, in Lambeth, and found there in a table-drawer the four knives and four forks which had been stolen. Ile also asc• rtained that the wretch( d girl was on the most intimate terms with a lad, aged 16, named Billy Gibbs, one of the most ingenious housebreakers in the county of Surrey, and that she had but just left him. A woman, named Bradshaw, stated that Billy Gibbs lodged at her house, but she did not really know his trade or profession. The prisoner knew Billy, and she called at the house and said that she had procured a place, and that she would not go home that night, but she would sleep with Billy Gibbs that night, and she acted accord ingly. She produced a sovereign, which she said she had got from her father, and she paid witness three shil lings which she owed, and she put down four shillings in liquidation of the back rent of Billy Gibbs, who did not always find it convenient to pay. The LORD MAYOR—Do you know anything about the knives and forks? - Mrs. Bradshaw—She asked me to mind them for her, but I suspected they were got dishonestly and refused to have anything to do with them, and then she took them into Billy Gibbs's room, and I heard them rattle in the drawer, and I informed the police. The policeman—My Lord, this Billy Gibbs is one of the worst characters we are acquainted with, and I should be glad to know whether I am not at libexty to apprehend him in this case. It is evident to us that he has made a thief of this unfortunate girl. The LORD MAYOR said he could not see any ground for apprehending Billy Gibbs in the present case, but as he was a person of such desperate character, he niuq, in all probability, soon fall into the hands of the police. The case of the g►rl at the bar was indeed a melancholy one, and showed how soon depraved society ruined all sense of honesty and shame. He apprehended that the only chance the prisoner had of escaping the extremity of wretchedness was by removal from the country alto gether. She had certainly, for one so very young, shown extraordinary maturity in vice. The prisoner was then committed for trial. BOW-STREET. Yesterday Thomas Hill, who for many years bas filled the situation of messenger in the office of the Secretary of State for the Home Department, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Hall, charged with being drunk and disorderly in St. James's Park, and with assaulting the keepers in their attempting to remove him. James Lott, No. 3 Park-keeper, stated that about half-past five o'clock on Tuesday evening, the prisoner came to the gate of the inclosure opposite St. James's Palace in a state of in toxication, while he was speaking to some young ladies who were then entering the grounds, and, having staggered inside the gate without being observed, he cried out "D— your eyes, you —, what business have you here?" upon which witness desired the children to run away into the inclosure, and seeing that the prisoner was very drunk, he told him to quit the ground, which he refused to do. He then used the most abusive language, and when witness attempted to remove him, he struck him violently on the face and breast with his fist. Another officer having come to his assistance, the prisoner was with much difficulty removed from the inclosure, and in the struggle he attempted to punch witness in the eye with his umbrella, at the same time challenging him to fight for daring to lay hands upon him. Prisoner—l have not done half what the witness has sworn to, but I admit when they laid hold of me in such a manner I did offer resistance, and would do so again. William Goodwin, a gate-keeper, stated that he was in the lodge when the prisoner entered the gate, and hearing the noise, he went and saw him assault the last witness. On attempting to remove him he laid hold of the iron railing with his left hand, insisting to be left in the inclosure, and brandishing the umbrella in his right, he said to the last witness, I'll job your eye out." A number of persons had by this time collected, and the prisoner being forced nut, the gate was shut, and he was conveyed to the station-house. Denis Farrel, another park-keeper, proved that when he came to 'he assistance of the other witnesses the prisoner was very abusive, saying they sh iuld lose their coats in the morning for not allowing him to pass. In answer to the charge the prisoner denied having used the foul language imputed to him, although he admitted having been a little intoxicated, and as a matter of course he did en deavour to offer resistance when the park-keepers laid hold of him in such a rough manner. Mr. HA LL ordered the prisoner to pay a renalty of V., or be sent for twenty-one days to the House of Correction. The prisoner was then removed, and in a short time the money being paid, he was discharged. Tiilliam Wheels, conductor of a Richmond omnibus, ap peared to answer a complaint preferred against him by Mr. George Sexton Woodhouse, No. 3, New Roswell-court, Carey street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, for having, on the 19th of June, in the Strand, made use of abusive and insulting langtage to him, and also with committing an assault upon him. Mr. Charnock appeared for the defendant. On a former day another person was summoned by mistake, and the present defendant, who was then in the body of the Court, presented himself to have the case decided, which was objected to, until process should be served upon him in the usual way, particularly as attempts had been made to practise an im position upon the Court. The complainant, who conducted his own case, stated that on the day in question he agreed with the defendant to take him and two friends from Hampton to London for 2s. each, and on arriving in Leicester-square his friends got out, leaving a female, a gentleman, and himself in the vehicle. On passing along the Strand, near to Somerset House, he offered his fare to the defendant as he wanted to get out, and to his astonish ment he applied a most filthy epithet to him, at the same time asking what he meant by offering such a sum as 25., and upon reminding him that it was the amount for which lie had agreed, he repeated the same disgusting language, threatening to break his barnacles about his face, unless he gave him another shil ling. Witness said he should have no objection to give him the amount he demanded if h e had not used such words in the public streets, and having got on the road he followed the om nibus as it moved away, in order to ascertain the number, when the defendant jumped off the step and struck him a violent blow in the side, which caused him to fall and sprain his ancle. The defendant wished to make it appear that the complainant had behaved indecently to the female in the omnibus, and that he had been appealed to by her for protection, which caused him to abuse the complainant. He denied having struck him. The female, Mrs. Payne, the wife of a tobacconist, was called to substantiate the defence, but her evidence was contradicted by the other passengers in the omnibus. It appeared, also, that the defendant had offered money to compromise the affair. Mr. JARDINE having commented in strong terms on the description of the evidence brought forward by the defendant, said he never knew such gross conduct, not only in his treat ment to the complainant, but also in the manner he had at tempted to make out his case. He had no hesitation in saying that the complainant had satisfactorily proved the charge, and he should, therefore, order the defendant to be cent to hard labour in the House of Correction for two months, and his li cense to be revoked. CONVICTS FOR VAN DIEMAN'S LAND.—WOOL wicti, WEDNESDAY.—The Equestrian, hired convict ship, having taken in stores at Deptford, moved down the river last week, and is now moored opposite the Royal Arsenal, to receive convicts for 1 New South Wales. One hundred and fifty convicts were brought down from Milbank Penitentiary on Friday last, by the Nymph, Woolwich steam packet, and put on board the Equestrian, and one hundred and sixty by the Fairy steam-packet on Saturday. The convict guard consists of a detachment of the I Ith Regiment, from Chatham. The corps being now under orders for New South Wales, a large portion will do duty, on their passage to that dis tant colony, as convict guards. A detachment of the royal artillery, belonging to Captain Turner's company, 6th battalion, embark at the same time in the Equestrian, for a passage to New South Wales, being the first artillerymen ever sent to that colony. The company was relieved on Monday from duty at the Tower, a fortnight before their regular change, for the purpose of facili tating their embarkation ; and the remainder of the company, under the command of Captain Turner, are expected to embark next week, in another vessel, for' the same destination. Govern ment has acted wisely in resolving to strengthen the forces in New South Wales, now a colony of great importance, in conse quence of its vicinity to New Zealand. FRENCH FRUIT.—The General Steam Navigation Company's vessel, James Watt, which arrived at the St. Katha rine's Wharf late on Monday evening, from Havre, had upwards of six hundred baskets of French cherries on board, of excellent quality and in good condition, which were landed and delivered immediately, for the markets of the following morning. It is ex pected that the present week will bring the importation of foreign cherries to a close for the season. PROSECUTIONS FOR CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.—TIIE ASCOT CUP PAT.—Yesterday Mr. Thomas, the secretary to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Dumb Animals, pre ferred a charge against Robett Irons, of the Star public. house, Colnbrook, before the Mayor of Windsor, for having driven a horse in a van, containing fourteen or fifteen per sons, to Ascot races, on the cup day, the horse having a large bleeding wound on the off-shoulder, caused by the collar, besides being lame of one leg, and in a state totally unfit for work. It appeared from the evidence that the poor ani. mal had been driven three times that day from Windsor to the course. The defendant was fined 10s. and 12s. expenses. The next information was against James Maunders, a person in the employ of Joshua Entlersby, a carrier, at Highgate. The defen dant not appearing, the service of the summons was proved, and the case gone into. John Smith, a constable in the employ of the society, proved that the defendant was driving his toaster's van, filled with people, through the park, towards Ascot, and that, when about two miles from Windsor, one of the horses, which was quite exhausted and could proceed no further, was most inhumanly beaten with a heavy carter's whip. Its hind leg, from its rubbing against the pole, was raw to a considerable ex. tent, and it was altogether more fit for the knacker's than to do work. The horse had to be taken out of the van and lel back to Windsor ; and the race party were left to walk through the broiling sun to the heath. The defendant was fined in the full penalty of 2/., and costs 12s. ; and in default he was ordered to be committed to prison and hard labour for fourteen days, and a warrant was made out accordingly. Robert Dilly, the proprietor of a coach, running between Sunning.hill and Windsor, was fined 55., and costs 4s. 6d., for driving a horse that morning with several raw places on its shoulder, just under the collar. The moiety of the fines to which Mr. Thomas was entitled, and the party who had laid the informa ' tions, was handed over to the treasurer of the Windsor Dispensary. SUDDEN GAIN OF WLALTIL—A poor woman, named Caroline Boothby, living in Earl-street, Seven.dials, has ' been discovered to be the rightful owner of very extensive freehold , property, situated in the neighbourhood of Bethnal -green, which she will shortly be put in possession of, the estimated value ikeing 30,0001. khe was tireviously gaining a precarious living by needle. c corlt i anti 'vas at time. unable to pronto food! WAY. The Lords' amendments t(; the Southampton and Dor chester Railway Bill were agreed to. LUNACY. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from Capt. Digby, of the Royal Navy, complaining of being forcibly taken out of his house, and taken to a lunatic asylum, where he was deprived of all communication with his friend 73, and kept in confinement sixteen weeks. The petitioner prayed that, before the Lunacy Bill passed, a Committee might be appointed to inquire into the man ner in which persons were used that were charged with being lunatics. The Hon. Member presented several other petitions from different individuals to the :atne effect. The petitions were ordered to be printed with the votes, the HOP. Member giving notice of his intention to found a motion upon them. The Hon. Member also presented a petition from Dundee, complaining of the new Poor-law Bill fbr Scotland, and especially that no provi sion had been made in it for the able-bodied poor The Hon. Member also presented a petition from Edin burgh, which prayed also that a clause might be added to the Bill, declaring that the able-bodied poor in Scot land were as much entitled to relief as in England. The Hon. Member also presented a similar petition from Aberdeen. MONEY GRANTS TO DISSENTERS. Mr. BRIGHT pres7n-ci a petition from 320 Baptist congregations assembled in Leicester on the 27th June, praying the House to withhold from Dissenting congre gations the P ar li amen t ar y gra nt, better known as the Reyium D onum ; a l so a pet i t i on f rom a gentleman in Cheshir e , comphining that his servant, who had been ordered t o set traps to catc h ra bbi ts, was fined 101., on the prosecution of the Rev. James Mannering. He prayed the House that some alteration might be made in tho game laws, in so far as private property was concerned. MEDICAL BILL—SIIORT TIME BILL. Lord J. RUSSELL presented a petition from the practitioners of London in favour of the Medical Prac titioners Bill ; also a petion from the wool-combers of Bradford, in favour of a short times Bill. __ SPIRIT TRADE IN IRELAND. Mr. ARKWRIG HT presented a petition from whole sale spirit merchants in Ireland, praying for such a modification of the law as would put them on the same footing with the trade in England. FLOUR AND BISCUIT ACT. In answer to a question from Mr. HUTT, as to whe ther a new Flour and Biscuit Act would be introduced this session, before the present one should have expired, Sir G. CLERK said it would be his duty in the pre sent session to introduce such a Bill. SPANISH COLONIAL SUGAR. Mr. LABOUCHERE wished to put a question to the First Lord of the Treasury relative to a dispatch of Lord Aberdeen, on the subject of the admission of Spanish colonial sugar into this country. Sir R. PEEL, having had no notice of the question, was not at that moment prepared to reply to it. BREACH OF PRIVILEGE. Mr. DIVETT then rose, and said that he had to in troduce to the attention of the House a mattar which was considered in the highest degree difficult even by the Right Hon. Baronet opposite, who more than once had stated that great caution was necessary in its consideration and as such it was with extreme reluctance that he was. now compelled to bring the subject before the House. The petition of his honourable friend Mr. Jasper Parrot had been ordered to he printed, and he trusted that the House, after due deliberation, would come to the conclu sion that the parties commencing this action had been guilty of a gross breach of the privilege of the House. LLEFT SPEAKING.' POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. A man named John Baker was charged with having committed bigamy. Ann Twig, of No. 11, Bennet street, Blackfriars-road, stated that the prisoner, and a female who accompanied him, took lodgings in her house, stating that they were married. Witness sus p e cted that they Iv( re not mar ried, and mentioned her suspicions to a friend, who called at St. John's Church, in the Waterloo-road, and actually saw the clergyman perform the ceremony. The name of the female to whom he was united was Ann Gwynne, and she never slept in the house until after the a m f ( t i e h r ) i,.va r d s saw them living ichfeeerein Bennet-street. solemnization took place, about twelve months ago. Sarah Gill, the wile of a skarn-vessel engineer, stated that she went into St. John's Church, and saw the the prisoner) —Were there not between the prisoner ministert s ao e n v eri\d e ( several l enr n n married RobinsonGe r nr r fvo e arm ; i na n n(etf.d t io l l i erl ; S' t church on that day? Witness— I believe there were. Mr. Robinson —And might you not have made a ink take in supposing the prison" to be a bridegroom ? wi tness —Not the least mistak e i n the world. The Lord) MA Yo ll — You are a marr i e d woman ? Wit n ess—l am , my Lord. The LORD MAYon — Then you cou ld not eas il y mis take a bride groo m for an ordi nary person on such an occ asion ? Witness—Certainly not, my Lord. The bridegroom is in rather a different situation from that of other men at the altar.—(Laughter.) The Lour. m A von—Not the least doubt of it. Mr. Robinson—Will you ventu re to swear that h e was married in your presence ? Witness—l will swear it. Mr. Robinson— Will you swear that you saw him put the ring upon the lady's finger ? Wi tness —N o , b ut I saw h i m s t e p fore and as the bridegroom, and go regu larly through the ceremony. It was here stated that the female to whom the pri soner was married on the occasion alluded to, could not be found. Sarah, the first wife of the prisoner, stated that her maiden name was Alwood, and that she had been mar ried to the prisoner thirteen years . . The LORD MAYOR—why was not this case pro ceeded in before ? The wite — Because I was confined by illness. The LORD MAYOR—Has he ceased to support you ? MUNIFICENT 13 QUESTS. ST. BOTOLPII, BISIIOPSGATE. - At a Vestry, holden on Thursday in the parish church, the Rev. Dr. Russell, the Rector, in the chair, the inhabitants were informed that their late respected fellow-parishioner, Mr. Henry Scambler, had bequeathed 2,0001. to the rector and churchwarden, in trust, to pay the interest and dividends yearly to six poor persons, of good life and conversation, to be nominated by the inha bitants, of which communication a suitable record was, on the motion of Mr. Rodgers, seconded by Mr. Deputy Pea cock, ordered to be entered upon the minutes ; and, in addi- tion to the above, the same excellent gentleman has given to the treasurer of the St. Botolph ward schools, in aid of their funds, the sum of 1,0001. TATTERSALL'S.-THIS EVENING Six o'CLocK. LIVERPOOL CUP. 10 to 1 agst ,Winuour 5 to I agst Milton GOODWOOD STAKES. 13 to 1 agst The Libel 17 to 1 agst Pythia 18 to 1 agst Warp 18 to 1 agst 18 to 1 agst Venus 18 to 1 agst Lightning 20 to 1 agst Queen Mab 20 to 1 agst John o'Gaunt 20 to 1 agst Glossy 20 to 1 apt Boaiding- School Miss 22 to 1 agst Rowena 25 to 1 agst Vales 30 to 1 agst Roderick GOODWOOD CUP. 2 to 1 agst Foig-a-ballagh. 6 to 1 agst Ironmaster 5 to 1 agst Weatherbit 7 to 1 agst. Merry Monarch 12 to 1 agst Annandale 20 to 1 agst Panttva IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships assembled at Five o'clock. CORN WALL R .ULWAY. The Earl of St. GERMA INS presented a number of petitions in favour of the Cornwall Railway, which were referred to the Committee on the Bill. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BUN. Sta,—As youf pages ate never refused to the benefit of your readers—as The Sun is i , altted by a large portion of the natives Of the Principality in London—you would tibl,ge one of the number if you would insert the present letter to draw the attention of my countrymen to the fact, that while every denomination of Dritish Christians in this metropolis, except themselves, have for years pos sessed places of worship, where the service has been performed in their own language, they alone, till the end of the year 1843, were not allowed a chapel according to the established religion, with ser vice in their native tongue. And now that they have (through the unremitting exertions of the Earl of Powis) obtained that pti., vilege, it has been observed with astonishment that the poor, little patronage which the chapel in Ely-place affords is all bestowed on the English. Surely there are English chapels enough in London to employ pew-openers and organists without taking the " one ewe lamb" of Wales, and giving it away from the natives. I need only point out how the offices in the Welsh chapel in Ely-place are filled, viz., by those who cannot even answer the native Welsh in that language when they come there to attend divine service. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A NATIVE OF WALES. REPRESENTATION OF ROSS AND CROMARTY.—Refer ring to our notice, in the Third Edition of our Satur turday's paper, to the rumour of an expected vacancy in the representation of Boss and Cromarty, and to the letter from the present Han. Member for these counties, in our paper of Monday, contradicting the report of his having any intention of retiring, and which we there fore cannot doubt is unfounded, we beg to mention that our notice of it was founded on information received from the county and from Edinburgh ; and that we find from the Ross -shire paper of last week, published before the date of our notice, that the rumours alluded to were prevalent there ; and that we know that in Edinburgh it was stated, before our notice appeared, by parties who might be supposed acquainted with the facts, that the worthy and Hon. Baronet we referred to intended forth with publicly addressing the electors as a candidate on the occurrence of a vacancy, either by the retirement of the present Member, or a dissolution. HAYMARKET THEATRE. Morton ' s admirable comedy of A Cure for the Heat t Ache was performed here on Tuesday night to the great delight of a crowded house. There is no theatre in London at which it would be possible to cast this comedy, except at the Haymarket. Farren's Old Rapid is a personation so ad mirable, it defies any approach to imitation ; and the young Rapid of Charles Mathews is as spirited and effervescing as a glass of champagne. Buckstone's Frank Oatland, although not equal to Webster's, is a very worthy piece of acting ; and pretty Julia Bennett is ihe most interesting Jessy Oatland that has appeared on the stage in our remembrance. The comedy is to be repeated to night, and will no doubt attract a crowded house. V • [ADVERTISEMENT.] —DEAFNESS.—No. 39, Albe marle•street, Piccadilly.—lnvisible Voice Conductors, when fixed in the cavity of the ears, are not more uncom fortable nor perceptible than having a small piece of wool in its place. They enable individuals at an ad vanced age, and of forty or fifty years' standing of ex treme deafness, instantly to join in general conversation, and to catch the sound of a distant, low speaker, at church, theatre, &c. They pour the conversation into he ears to such an extent: that in most severe cases deafness cannot be observed. Alio original Ear Cor nets, French, German, and Spanish Artificial Ears, and improved Hearing Trumpets of every description. Many of those instruments have received the approbation of the Royal Society and Royal Institution of Great Bri tain. The Newly Invented Spectacles, immediately they are placed before extremely imperfect vision, it 's brought to its youthful, natural, and original state. Also Achromatic Telescopes, Opera-glasses, Micro scopes, &c.—Caution : Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, s)pticians and Aurists, are not in any way connected with person of the same name in their immediate neigh oourhood, nor in any part of the country. To prevent nistakes, be cautious, and observe—Only to be had at 39. Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel. COWARDLY AND HEARTLESS HOAX.—It has seldom or ever fallen to our lot to notice a more disgraceful trick than was played upon two respectable young females of Colchester, by a swain who has been notorious in several instances during his residence there for having " two strings to his bow." He had, however,contrived to get clear of all these advances under the pre tence that he was a minor, and that his friends would not allow him to change his condition in life. Since then he has attained his majority, and made overtures of love to the two young ladies in question, and an intimacy was formed between him and them (of course without their joint knowledge), which continued up to his leaving the town for London, about three months ago; and a correspondence has been kept up with both of them during his absence, which led them to believe that he fully intended to lead them to the altar of Hymen. A few weeks since they both re ceived letters from him, stating that he was in a position to render them comfortable and happy, and fixed a day for the nuptials to be celebrated at his parish church in London, wishing them to make the necessary preparations with regard to dresses, bridemaids, &c., with whom he requested them to proceed to London, per railway, the day previous to that fixed for the wedding the taking care to name the same train for both parties), when he promised to be in readiness to receive them at the Shoreditch sta tion, and convey them to his residence in King William. street, where he arranged to have a select party of friends to meet them, and accompany him and them to church the next morning. The bait unfortunately took in both instances, and his request was complied with to the very letter; and the two par ties, with their intended bridemaids, arrived in London by the same train, but not in the same carriage. On alighting at Shore. flitch station both parties met, but neither suspecting the business of the other, nothing particular transpired to create any suspicion of the object of either one or the other's visit to the metropolis. But no Mr. It. appearing to receive them, both parties felt not only surprise, but greatly disappointed; but still their object was kept a profound secret, until they resolved to take cabs, and immediately proceed to King William-street, the pretended residence of Mr. R. at which both parties arrived within a few minutes of each other, when to their astonishment, no such person as Mr. R. resided at the house which they had been induced to believe was his residence, from his letters to them. On the contrary, he was not even known in the neighbourhood. The parties felt that they had been most cruelly hoaxed, which led to a disclosure between them, when the infamy of the scoundrel was fully developed. But after consoling them- . _ selves that they had far better be hoaxed than united to one whose wreckless disposition must have rendered them miserable through life, they repaired to an inn, where they sojourned for the night, and returned to Colchester the next day. It is needless to say the heartless fellow has not since been heard of ; but it is to be hoped that, ere long, he will have cause to repent his dastardly conduct in rifling to such a degree with the feelings of respectable females.— Ipswich Express. STATE OF TRADE.—The yarn market continues in the same state as for two or three weeks past. The spinners being nearly all working to order, there is scarcely any business done for immediate delivery ; but exporters are still desirous of making contracts,—in some cases extending to the termination of the shipping season; and prices remain exceedingly firm. In goods there is rather more business doing, and manu facturers, in some cases, are asking a slight advance.— ROCHDALE FLANNEL MAREET.—There has been rather less doing in the flannel market to-day than on the preceding Monday; manufacturers are wanting more money for their pieces, and buyers are not willing to give an advance, which has caused less business to be transacted. The price of wool is rather on the advance, and some sorts are very scarce.—Manchester Guardian. CRICKET.-THE GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND V. THE GENTLEMEN OF KENT.—The - continuation of this match was re sumed yesterday, and until about half-past two o'clock proceeded with as much satisfaction, considering the preceding unpleasantness of the weather and the consequent heaviness of the ground, as could have been anticipated. The bowling, however, refused to tell, and the whole of the " Kent " wickets were not down till the side had scored 333 runs, Mr. Whittaker having made up his score to 55 in the second innings. England then entered upon their second hands, again putting in Mr. Craven and Mr. Haygarth, and at the hour when the rain set in apparently for the night, 43 runs had been scored without even the loss of a wicket or even a chance having been given Ly either batsmen. The play of course was stopped, and at dinner time it was suggested by Mr. Swann, on behalf of the Kent Eleven, that as there was no prospect of the weather clearing up, and consequently no chance of the match being played out that day, it would be as well that it should be drawn. The matter underwent considerable discussion, which was ultimately terminated by Mr. Kynaston, on the part of Eng land, saying that under the pressing circumstances of the case, the propssition of Mr. Swann would be acceded to, although his side felt the utmost confidence as to the result—the more so as the additional rain had made the ground still worse for the bowlers than at any preceding period of the game. It was accordingly agreed that the match should be drawn, without—as the members of the legal profession would say—any prejudice to either party. Bets, therefore, upon the match will also be drawn. FUNERAL OF TIIE HON. CAPT. DE SALIS.—The remains of the late much-lamented Captain the Hon. C. Louis Fane De Salis were removed yesterday morning from the residence of Mr. Woolmer, surgeon, Victoria-road, Pimlico (in whose neigh. bourhood the gallant officer met with the melancholy accident which caused his premature death), for interment, in the family vault at Harlington Church, Middlesex. At nine o'clock the pro. cession was formed to receive the body, and the coffin borne on the shoulders of four privates of the gallant deceased's company se lected for this duty, preceded by the full band of the Scots Fusilier Guards, playing the " Dead March in Saul," and the men of the first battalion, the pall borne by Captains Brendrip, Rumley, Terry, Jones, Francis Seymour, and William Ridley, proceeded to Knightsbridge, where a hearse and mourning coaches awaited its reception, to convey the body to its last resting-place. Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, Colonel Drummond, the Marquis of Douglas, and all the officers of the regiment, by whom the de ceased was held in the highest esteem and respect, swelled the mournful ranks. Captain Rodolph De Salis and Harvey De Salis, Esq., brothers of the deceased, and D. Holmes, Esq., were the chief mourners, and a great number of officers attended the pro cession throughout, among whom were the Hon. William Leices ter, Lord Gerald Fitzgerald, Sir Archibald Macdonald, Bart., J. P. Courtney, Esq., the lion. James Murray, Colonel Walker, Charles Newton, Esq., Ralph Leicester, Esq. The hearse arrived at Harlington Church shortly after one o'clock, when the funeral service was performed by the Rev. L. C. Booth. ROYAL INFIRMARY FOR CHILDREN.—The annual festival of this charity was last night held at the London Tavern, the Earl of Faversham In the chair, who was supported by Mr. P. Borthwick, M.P., Mr. A. K. Barclay, Mr. S. M. Peto, Mr. '1 Grissell, Mr. F. Perkins, &c. The usual loyal and national toasts having been disposed of, the Chairman, in proposing "Prosperity to the Royal Infirmary fcr Children," observed that the building debt of the institution, amounting to 2,0001., had been paid off, and the charity was now proceeding with great vigour. Amongst the subscriptions announced during the evening were—twenty guineas from her Most Gracious Majesty; from the Queen Dowager, ten guineas; the Chairman, ten guineas; Lord Eldon, ten guineas; Barclay, Perkins, and Co., fifty guineas; Mr. P. Borthwick, M.P., ten guineas; Mr. E. Antrobus, Si.P., five guineas; Mr. T. Grissell, five guineas; Mr. S. Si. Peto, five guineas; Mr. F. Perkins, ten guineas; Mr. D. W. Wire, five guineas. The dinner was enlivened by some effective singing, under the generalship of Mr. Hawes (including Mr. Manners, Mr. Keuch, Mr. Bayley, and the young gentlemen choristers of the Chapel Royal and Westminster). A most agreeable evening was spent, the company not breaking up until a late hour. SUDDEN I) EAT II OF A DRUNK A RD.—Yesterday 4rC a h. Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at the Northampton Arms, Lower road, Islington, on the body of ThomasNe'ark in aged Church. u 6 gardener. Deceased lived at a lar g e lodging-house, road, Islington, and Sunday afternoon last he dropped down dead whilst drinking some coffee and eating bread and meat, the first he had eaten for a week, having been drunk during the whole of that period. He was a man that would become a teetotaller for three mouths together, and then break out most intemperately. His sister attributed his death to the combined effects of intoxication and of a wound in the leg, which ne neglected to have dressed when drunk. Verdict—" Natural death." FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE. RAILROAD FROM EXETER To Pismotrrti.—A tunnel is about being formed on the line from Exeter to Plymouth, near Dawlish, and men are engaged excava ting it on either side, who have orders not to fire a blast without communicating with each other. Last Monday, one of the men who was about to blast a cock, imagined that the distance between him and the man opposite to him rendered it unnecessary to give the warning, and he unfortunately set fire to the fuse, and the blast went off with such force that it entered through the mound between him and the man at the opposite side, killing the latter, Id actually carrying away his head, which was found some distance from his body. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, July 2. (Sittings in Banco.) The Court sat this morning for the purpose of delivering ludgrnents in several cases that had stood over for considers— Lion. Of those in which judgment was pronounced the follow— ing were of more direct public interest ! ALLPORT V. NUTT. In this case the plaintiff had declared in debt for 1001. for money had and received to the plaintiff's use, and for 100/. upon an account stated. The defendant, except as to the sum of IL, had pleaded the general issue, and as to that sum pay ment of the amount into Court. He had also pleaded as to the sum of 991., parcel of the moneys in the declaration men tioned, that a certain illegal game called " a lottery" was set up and exposed, to be played by the defendant, at a certain public-house in the City of London, which " illegal game called a lottery" was what in sporting circles is designated a " Derby sweep." The conditions and regulations of this "sweep" were, that the subscribers should net exceed 155 in number, each contributing 11., and paying his subscription to the defendant, who was to be the treasurer; that before the race was run the name of each horse entered for tile Derby should be written on a card, all of which cards were to be placed in a box ; that a like proceeding should take place with the names of the subscribers , a nd that a drawing of names and horses should be made by two dis interested persons. The subscriber who drew the horse placed by the judge as the winner of the race was to be entitled to receive a sum of 100/. out of the money subscribed, from the defendant. The plea further alleged that the plaintiff, before the Derby was run last year, drew Running Rein, the horse which had been placed as winner by the judge, Mr. Clark, whereby the plaintiff, according to the rules and regulations of the said illegal game, became entitled to receive from the defendant the said sum of 1001. The plaintiff demurred to this plea, assigning, along with other causes of demurrer, that the method of determining the right of the plaintiff to the money claimed was not an illegal game or a ,lottery, but a mode of betting by each of the subscribers to a small and legal amount upon a legal horse-race ; and also that the plea amounted to the general issue. The case was argued in Easter Term by Mr. Sergeant Byles in support .f the demurrer, and Mr. Sergeant Channell in support of the plea, when the Court thought the question of such importance as to require further consideration. Judgment was now delivered by Lord Chief-Justice TINDAL, to the effect that in the opi nion of the Court, the statutes against lotteries were not re stricted in application to those lotteries only in which an unfair advantage might be taken. The Court was bound to give effect to clear words of prohibition, and to pronounce this lot tery illegal. The statute of the 10th William 111., c. 17, especially declared all lotteries to be public nuisances; the statute of the 42d George 111., c. 119, declared the lotteries called " little-goes" to be common and public nuisances, and against the law ; and without acting in contravention of the express words of these statutes, the Court could not hold such lotteries as that under consideration to be excepted from the general prohibition. It had been contended that in the case of each subscriber there had been a bet on a lawful race, and that therefore the wager had been lawful. This argument the Court was of opinion could not be sustained, both bec ‘use the plea showed a lottery, and because, admitting a bet, still it was one on which the plaintiff could not answer. The Court was also of opinion that a special plea was necessary to bring the defence properly before the Court. There must therefore be judgment for the defendant. THORPE V. COLEMAN. In this case the declaration in substance stated that the plaintiff had laid a bet of 101. upon the event of the Derby in 1844; the defendant betting 101. that Campanero would win, the plaintiff betting an equal sum that Orlando would win. The defendant pleaded that the bet was illegal, and the plain tiff demurred to the plea. The demurrer was argued on the 10th of June, when Mr. Sergeant Byles, for the plaintiff, con tended that a bet of 10/. upon a leg al horse-race was recover able at law ; and Mr. Sergeant Channell insisted that, although any sum less than 10/. might be so recovered, that amount could not. The Court took time to consider its judgment, which was now pronounced by Lord Chief-Justice TINDAL, to the effect, that as this was a bet for the sum of 10/., the Court, without expressing an opinion on, and certainly without having the intention of expressing any doubt as to the propriety of, the decision of the Court of Exchequer in the case of " Applegarth a. Collyer," 10 Meeson and Welsby, 723, thought that, on looking at the provisions of the second section of the 9th Anne, c. 14, this action could not be maintained. By that section a person who had voluntarily paid a bet of the value of 101., Made upon cer tain games, of which horse-racing was one, was entitled to sue for and recover it back within three months then next: from which the inference was that an action to recover a bet of that value would not lie, if the person losing should refuse to pay it. It was obviously the intention of the Legislature that the loser should not ultimately lose, and that the gainer should not ultimately gain—an intention which would be better effected, and more in accordance with the spirit of the law, which abhors circuity of action, by holding that an action shall not lie against the loser to recover the bet, than by hold ing that it must first be paid, and then be recovered back in an action. It had been said by Mr. Sergeant Byles that this action was not brought to recover the money due on the bet, but to recover damages for the breach of the promise to pay the debt. The argument savoured too much of subtlety. The duty of paying damages for the non-payment of money de pended on the duty of paying the money itself; and if a man was not bound to pay a given sum of money, he was not liable in damages for the neglect to pay it. It was further sug gested, that as the operation of the statutes against gaming was suspended until the end of the then next session of Parlia ment, by the statutes of the 7th of Victoria, c. 3, and the 7th and Bth of Victoria, c. 58, the inference to be drawn from the right of a loser to recover back the value of the bet which he bad voluntarily paid no longer applied. But the Court did not think that the Acts against gaming were suspended by the statutes referred to, except in so far as the recovery of a pecu niary penalty was concerned. If they were suspended, it was for a time only, and that suspension could not confer on any one positive rights which he had not had before. The statutes of Victoria were temporary Acts, passed to remedy a temporary inconvenience; to the remedying that inconve nience they must be confined ; and they must not be permitted to have incidentally the effect of altering the law. There must, therefore, be judgment for the defendant. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF COMMONS, July 2. FIELD GARDENS J3ILL. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD begged to disclaim all personal offence to the Hon. Gentleman. All that he intended to convey by the expression he used was. that the operation of such principles would have the te.9dencY of making the people slaves. Mr. MANGLES perfectly agreed with the Hon. Gen tleman (Mr. Roebuck) in his definition of theory, pro vided always that the theory was a sound one. It was vain and utterly useless to set up the principle of the la bouring population living by wages. The question he would ask was—could wages be got for them? The fact wae, the people could not get wages. It was only a short time ago that he met a labouring man, who had been a considerable time out of work, and was unable to procure any. The Hon. Gentleman would probably tell the poor man to go into the union workhouse. This man may have had too, prob ibly, a wife and children If they laid down the principle that men were to live by labour he would ask how were they to get it ? Was the lion. Gentleman the Member for Bath lookitt out of his parlour window on one of the squares of Lon- - don able to tell how labour could be procured ? No men living by wages alone in his neighbourhood was able to make out a comfortable subsistence. The Hon. and Learned Member had stated that the labourers gene rally kept three pigs in his locality (Guildford)—that was very rare. He would undertake to show the Hon. and Learned Gentleman five men who had raised them selves by allotments to a comfortable condition, whereas not one labourer could be shown who had so raised him self by his wages. He never knew one instance in which allotments had been tried which had been attended with failure. He believed that the system of wages as it at present existed was calculated to lower the cha racter of the labourer in a moral point of view. The man who lived exclusively upon wages was generally a man of narrow mind. Mr. B. ESCOTT said that all the advantages which the Hon. Gentleman extolled were the effect of the allot ment system, and would not be given by this Bill. He had said when the Bill had come to the third reading he would state the grounds on which he would oppose it. The Hon. and Learned Member for Bath had discussed the measure with his usual vigour and force. The Right Hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State had taken up a stronger position against the principles of the Bill than the Hon. and Learned Member for Bath. He would contend that the present measure was a new parochial system for granting relief in land to the labouring popu lation of the country, and if any portion of the labouring population were of opinion that their condition would be improved by this Bill, they would be egregiously mistaken. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said it was the paramount duty of the House to bring all their knowledge to bear on the discussion of the measure, which had been brought forward for the purpose of improving the condition of the labouring classes. It would be proper to consider whether the measure now tendered would conduce to that great end or not, and to deliberate further with respect to what might be called the impression out of doors. He entirely concurred with several of the leading maxims which had been laid down by the Hon. and Learned Member for Bath. lie thought that the labouring classes of the country must depend on labour for subsistence. They must depend on the fruits of their industry to be derived from the capital belonging to others being judiciou,ly employed. It was absurd to think that the industrious classes could derive their sup port from any other source. He would be extremely happy to see the labouring population obtaining an in dependent subsistence from cultivating small districts of land, but such a system was not compatible with their present condition, and to introduce such state would of be th t e o p a e s a s s i a n n i arytei in the h l e r e l l o a w n e d r . o ren a tg s elha ?a d d been represented, reduced the classes lfasts)hs' system measure, to t i h n e t w l7 wages of the labourers, it would, in his opinion, be the most pernicious measure ever introduced. With respect to the efficacy of any measure introduced with the idea of aiding to the wages of the labourer, he had great doubts. lie was bound to observe with great sorrow the statement of the lion. Member for Surrey, that at the present time, in the st•asoa of hay niahi rig, in that county there were agricultural labourers who could not get n went. Sorry us he he was at this state of things, c he l d l iCl l not. believe that such a measure as that before the House 'could afford a remedy, though he admitted that such a plan would b better than no employment at all. As the Bill now stood he had great doubts that it would effect any amount of good. Ile saw, how ever, no danger in the experiment, and therefore he was rot prepared to state, on his own responsibility, that he would oppose the progress of the Bill. Mr. TR ELAWNEY should support the motion of the lion. Member for Bath (Mr. Roebuck), as he maintained that the Bill would have the effect of lowering wages in stead of increasing them, b; cause it would diminish the demand for labour. Believing this to be the case, he should vote against the Bill. Mr. S. V. ORT LEY should support the Bill, as wher ever the system had been triedit had worked well, and the physical as well as the moral condition of the labourers had improved, instead of retrograded. Mr. BRIGHT said be should vote for the motion of the Honourable Member for Bath, as the Bill would place the labourer in a more dependent state than here tofore, and because it would increase the number of pau pers and the mass of suffering and misery extant in the M7l the the ?, el the said rev' for Wed oS• ter o no the cioi AO. nol rdi. air ny c are 011/ 11 0 vie the O.