The Sun. — London, England, 1850-04-20 00:00:00

.W'' b(c; Wt's;,d to 16' arid :goo nvoiel:!„ L). , , nu't. Q St. 11,‘ bey , ;(1109 , A lie' l „be e Gri'ef'" 1 ; 0101 51$ Icss p o ise , we. ° P f ' 6 aro id. 4 A 1 . 19 ;10 i p. n ren rum iweY. s ''o vv 4 ~ f a 91, , 0 0 1: 1 jjeetl/3°) Qt r ne, yeste ,onag e, , t on do , sod "9 up oo. oo Illt ticPS of st rol sitbie O Al' , ) 1 / 4 11, COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.) 6 1 4.*15 111 1 ‘ 0 t..A 01 W 11.4 0 g 43 ° tO el3ol 3; J r 2 , to - u tO 5' Si 63. o P ' 46 1 j - bp s to ';Ibl Is P e of 0 3 1; ty J I to . 1 . 6Ck e" lo 6311 „polio 0 id et so I° to, - dio zed s d to l ot, ib to I foll diO b eeP to • ,4 cia pll 8 ,4 CA rr i ot 11 - t o ,r ,01/5 A lf ' ) , EtP 9iiif4 to t he P oe , si le I i0 II a S C 11. 00 0 .ei ca in tb" (. 0 , P,° Aid ; ,- t O3 O zr , Corn • • - , raisstoners for the average ratings in the union the !Pm" tOwnshipi were divided, cod this fact seemed to . hlve ltduced the judge to direct a verdict for the pluntiff. It appeared, however, thi.st in Doomsday- book Bewley dna pure was e n tered as a joint townsh i p, an d t h a t f i r je last twenty years tie Poor had been tupport , :d by a oint fund, and there was only one inetance during that t!riod in whi c h the four overseers had not acted joititly. sr. Knowles contended on those grounds that the de fendants had jurisdiction ; but, supposing they Lai nen, that the 11th and 12th Vic., which was passed to protect r unic " of 01 4 peace in the execution of their duty, re ieved them from all liability. The COURT granted a rule. OMMON PLEAS-('PHIS DAY•) ins in ) (B efore the LORD CHIEF J USTIC B E. anco. and Justices CRESS , WELL, VVILLIANs, and TALFOURD.) The Court was occupied this morning with the case tofhoter the plaintiff, Guildhall thitesEolreutirichaTelegraph v. Brett - , which was tried at nYs when a verdict was entered plaintiff, with leave to move for a new trial. Air. COCKBURN, in behalf of the defendant, applied fora rule to abet./ cause why a new trial should not be n it ',_tul• The L earnt d C ounse l res t e d his application Fat t e 7 i e t . b y r 'und that there had been no infringement of the defendant, which he contended the jury . 1 1 thei r f i nd i ngs on the separate pleas had affirmed; that . invention of the defendant contained several easel - 1- _9Q novelties, suc h as emp l oy i ng t h e ear th to complete 1 1 . 1 4 e .voltai c e i rcui?, the employment of severa l w i res , , 1 44 the diff erent adaptat i on of d i a l s. ie A ;TORNEY•GENERAL appeared for the Electric h ll. g ra ystory P t h Company. H e en t e red at some length into the 'Paihi .the di scover i es i n vo l ta i c e lectricity, and of ptatton to com mun i ca tio n by telegraph. He con tended that the invention patented by the Electric Tele - Ft ra rt P ? Company was the very first by which electricity been used as a means of effecting reciprocal commu i/jeati°l4 and th a t as suc h no person cou ld take advan ti :, g t e cif the principl e , even th oug h it were carried out by ns or machinery. he Learned Counsel was proceeding with his address When our report left the Court. or . : he models of M essrs . B ret t' s i nve ntion, and of t' e I P I4I apparatus of the Electric Telegraph Company sere exhibit e d i n t h e court. (Sittings at Nisi Prius before Mr. Justice MAULE and Th a'Common Jury.) -e Court was occupied the whole morning with the 'e s " of Din dem. Furz3 v. Edwin, which presented no feature terest. HUMFRIEB V. HUMFRIES. i tu k ti r ' s eool applied for a mandamus requiring the ce this °f Kin stun, in Wales, to return the depositions ( I L ia case. It appeared that the parties were brothers ari sen ", and William), and a family dispute having Sten b etween them, William was arrested at the in 140iiae of George on a charge of attempting to extort t ot sY, but on being carried before a magistrate it was %/,,,,1111eInpted to justify the charge. George, however, hroutre that he went i n d a nger of his life through his to br ot hs conduct, and the mewistrates directed William 11 !o'er into reeognisances to * keep the peace to all her ti s l /esl Ve subject s f or a g i ven t e r m , and to appear at the U t lu ensuing Petty Sessions to answer any charge ""ght be pref e rr e d against him by his brother. oei o n t however, a long way from Newport, his ties (11116 , be was unable to obtain the necessary sure titji and teas therefore detained in custody until the of and the the sessions, when no one appeared against him, p" was accordingly discharged. In the maanwhil.., o rt, suspended from a situation in the Excise at New how' "Y the C omm i ss i oners o f I n l an d Revenue, and th y the depositions to reinst ate him, unless he could produce th e " s Positions taken before the magistrate, to satisfy tel el that he had not been imprisoned on a charge of ti el lie applied to the:magistrates for these deposi : ,S ti but they refused to supply him with copies, and f €1 he been compelled to come to this court Or relief. , Mr. Justi ce I.,OLERIDGE—You may take a rule to (:-•‘,„ emit() '"ule 11 W: accordingly. I DDERMINSTER ELECTION COMMITTEE.— (THIS DAY.) Th e eenaraittee re-assembled this morning at twelve 45 %, 1 eek, the Hon. Mr. Bouverie in the chair. Ze r • SAISIUEL BROOKES, the landlord of the Lion Inn, bered ernlia ster vi as the 11:st witness called. Ile remem )4..- at the last ' election rooms were appropriated to tendc test in his house. Mr. Best was frt quently in at tl,slleet as was also Mr. John Chillingswortb, and %kes' including Mr. Joseph Best, jun., and Mr. Grit ,tirt the cern-dealer Mr. Thomas Chester was the man f or P l °Yed to conduct parties to the room who inquired t ot er. Best. Mr. Best was in and out of the house °lt the nomination and the polling day. Mr. t h e s r ; and his father first applied for the rooms, and l to o !he)* were let. The rooms had been previous y h e ad Pled b y M r. Bailey, the rival candidate, whose friends Plued an oak bough outside the house. He was not 4l it re that there was any meeting of Mr. Best's friends al ways pollin g day. He voted for Mr. Best, and had I 'eeh On the Conservative side. He had lived ID bee ktdde rteinster for 10 years, during which time there had qui n three contested e!ections; the last ono was the most and free f rom no i se an d e xcitement. He meant difiat observation that there was less money spent. le .u . 85 Jane D a il ey, t h e b ar - ma id o f th e l a st witness's ( h it 's °, w ell rememb e r e d th e election. It was part of her too t „ Y t x ° ,l'e'p the books. Mr. Best frequently . went to e otr — ' 40 .4, which was devoted to his patty. -The first 1 t ! f in the books on account of No. 4 occurred on the e e ' n ''' August which was " A luncheon for six." She i e l A tiell tlY saw ' 'Thomas Chester staeding the door of S he ' c i.but she never asked him what he was doing there. The not remember what Mr. Best's colours were. d to th runes were first made on a slate, then tr i ar . ispose l th, e bar ledger , which she produced, and u l timate ly Th, ellt ries found' their way into a final posting-book. ere were severel entries for flys. 4,0"5-examined by Mr. ALEXXNDER—CiIester was he t l e neut lY hanging. about the place, and that was how T i a l ule to b e emp l oye d . The evidence was proceeding when our report left. I C - ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. bathfe Wont effectiv e pieces of the fourth act of the i tto c of I Lombardi havo be( n most ingeniously brougit Ito o ff third act by Mr. Mao, which makes the opera th with ore iciut, and is a decided improvement, as Ql47era m wiously was too long. The celebrated trio • tenor ,volutta trascorere " finishes the opera. The new cabal; Llaficark,e, who has a splendid Lenore . di p ee .ylned with much sweetness and expression, is ex led to make a hit. eINIVtRSITY INTELLIGENCE. DR Az „ CAMBRIDGE, APRIL 19. ttQ L or THE MASTER OF CORPUS CHRISTI COL- eor ia „7"ha Lamb, D.D., thirty-sssenth Master o f 41: 10 4, Christi College, and Dean of Bristol,. expired d Yea r n u f lilf-past twelve o'clock to-day, in the sixty-second atiti -` h i* age. The deceased was a native of Suffulk, dutit^lis admitted of Corpus Culls ge in 1807. He graFellu ed 1 8 fifteenth Wrangler in 1811, and was elected . a of his college in 1813. In 1822 he was unant "2lY elected to succeed 1)r. Douglas in the Maver ilitte'.lln. 11 was created D.D. in 182 7. The Master's 'lad b een o f short durat i on, an d or i g i na t e d in a b4L6tlll ec cold, f rom which no serious result was ant i c ip a t e d, th a e V :48 u fiche fa a ca r l a t p y i . d consumpton, which defied all NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Ase APPOINTMENTS. B ta th nt- Surgeon—James Wade (b) (1844), to e m...,,us.tance troop-ship, at Sheerness. sti lu3lll Proen—Algernon J. Wootten and Philip H. e rl l e ci r e k rs, to the Pisgard flig ship, at Woolwich. Yoe, Campbell, to the Superb, 80, at DBeo - Henry R. Shaw (1844), to the Ocean, i , Are * et Sheerness ;A. 11. Martin, to the in eßinab!e) 1 04, flag-ship, at Devonport. riebiZK 8- Assistant—H. H. Clifno, to the Impreg- W on atsr, - "VICITI APRIL 19.—The Advice and the lift e r ? steam -vessels went down the river yesterday troih n x , c) " to tow the Hercules store and troop-ship to le an ''lortbfleet Hope to the Downs, and she was T e li th e liver this afternoon fur Gibraltar and Malta. `fee s ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—The Intrepid, steam . - bowe'l Lie utenant-Commander John Bertie Cator, is th e b i° a Very a d vance d state, an d th e men cam e into and. 7 4 a rd at thr ee o'clock, A.M. , t o ge t h er s t ea m up &ye 4ry v, h er engines in th e d o ck, and worked them for km " ou rs with gr ea t sa ti s f ac ti on . The labourers ie bb e ° ll victs have been occupied yesterday and to- day t.tiei..ri,stitnorgesabout 100 tons of patent fuel on board, and riu and the Pioneer will have nearly all de take- of every description on board before they „„, u out of dock. The exertions to expedite the ivl i i ) r•Lure of the vessels continue unabated, and the l eave co mmander fully anticipates being able to c e n "voolwich for Greenhithe, cn the 25th inst. Ci CkiC ktilAM l APRIL 19.—The Nankin, 50 gunF., fo in a sv ,. which has been fitting for sea, is to be fitte d r 1 , " 1 1 13 ._ t ° be placed in ordinary. Oft ue Columbine, 16 guns, Captain Hay, was paid e ow. c.ll the 15th inst. into ordinary. Her marines, .. 51 !tin g o f 1 sergeant, 1 corporal, and 6 privates, m he thole.liorwhineagd-quarters at this division the same f detachments of marines . from .. Portthse i7r Joined the head-quarters of this division On ti o .' vi z., 1 drummer and 5 privates from the Bull teai s'il e r 5 privates from the Griffin. Qeeen Hague, leading man of shipwrights, has al so 5 P!rannuated on a p-nsion of 34/. per annum . ; 1 e ima p hl Pvirights on pensions ( f 24/. per year each ; arin , .er 24/. ; 2 sp i nners on 24/ . eac h ; 1 colour cler On 201. ; and 2 labourers on 151. each per year. Otte ti ;141341°) TLIURSDAY EVENING.—A . fire, which at Out e threatened to be of a wry serious nature, t broke thi siliek,, ev ening, about nine o'clock, in the premises o M • An g e l ; a Plumber and glazier, nearly adjoining to the 'Worl ts i, nn• t o Iligh-street. The fire commenced in the fia...._"Ps a the rear of the house, and, owing to the in ftnature of the contents, soon assumed an appear -met of fill ho ,, Peat danger ; but the wind being low, and a plenti aidecitY of water at hand., the exertions ut the firemen, cea satia the members of the University, who worked . : e l.,' , er the' an d with great vigour, soon obtained a ny.ster) masa gi hour and and happily all danger was at an end in t l t e la ss . Inag, ha from its commencement. A good deal o been agleertb_e.ell occasioned, but the extent has not, as yet, 13 je certain 13,atianila nir DROWNING.—Mr. Brothe r t on , o f th e p zmi.;l 1,1 Provincial Bank of England, was found d rowne d 474 1 ill4t. at Newport, Montgomeryshire. COWES, ISLE OF WIGIIT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPOINDENT.) CO WES, Apnu, 19. PUBLIC HEALTH ACT. - Mr. Ranger, one of the superintendent inspectors from the Board of Health, opened his court at the Town-I - mil on Wednesday morning, at 10 o'clock. Mr. Stokes and Dr. Cass, two of the promoters of the petition of the Board, addressed him for some time explaining the defects in our local Act. The books of the commis sioners were put in, and the clerk examined. At two o'clock he made with them a visit of inspection. On Thursday the drainage, the supply of water, and the state of the burial-ground took up the day ; the evening was given to the working classes. 0.3 Fri day, at ten, the books, contracts, &c., of the water company were put in ; then those of the gas company, and the clerks to the companies examined ; and in the afternoon the church-yard and several of the courts &c., were inspected, as also the sewers and trunkirg into tic harbour. To-morrow (Saturday) the subject of the clauses of the present local Act IN ill be gone intc—the number and qualification of the Commissioners to be elected under the Public Health Act will be brought forward; also some new clauses, and matters respecting the gas and water companies, the town bound try, and the claims of the Corporaticn of Newport to jurisdiction over the town of Cowes. Mr. Ranger is fair and impartial in his inquiries, and gives general satisfaction; even the old commis sioners now allow that the present state of things ought no longer to exist, but that the ratE payers should have the power to elect the men who are to rule and tax them, and that the introduction of the Public Health Act into the town would be a general benefit. No gentleman could be better qualified for the office than he is. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY _ EVENING-, APRIL' 20, 1850. men—Dragon steamer, 6 guns, 200 men. Order:el t 3 the stati_n—Supetb, 80 guns, 750 men—Terrible strnmer, 21 guns, 300 men. The reduction, therefore, wilt be cue line-el-bat:lo ship and one steam-frigate, or 121 guns and 1,1:30 officers, seamen, and marines. BELFAST DISTRICT. Major-General Bainbrigge, C.B , cot - rimer:ding the district, has designed a nsw cross Leh, which, if sde•l ted, we understand will not fail to give the infantry soldier more ease arid comfort than he ever can expect to obtain from those now in use. A small pouch is suspended from each belt below the waist, which, although hanging near the hip, does not prevent the soldier Cann going t trough the several motions with the fireleck with ease and rapidity. Another belt passes round the waist, w hich carries a bayonet of an improved and lighter description than that now in the posession of the infantry. The belts are black and glazed; the bayonet is something like a Goorka's knife, or Kooltry, but not quite so broad or thick at the back. CFLEAP MAN-OF-WAR TRANSPORT.—The Het cules, store-ship, Mas er-Commander Fulton, has at lengttt cleared out Item the river, after having been the re about te n we tics, unit ailing from, and loading for, the Meditarra: eat , . 140 e•flicers and thee, composing the crew of the ship, in addition to deck} and men, dockyard lumps and light: re, au:l dockyard steamers, having be.•n en - ploy ed in the Herculean t.ck. It i 3 expected that in the course of an ther fortnight she will le clear of the Channel: she NiII be at Gil, rahar in a'out three weeks from that time, and at Malta in the (tours() c f another fortnight. after stopping a we: k at Gibraltar. Allowing her, then, ten wi tits to tudoed and reload at M►lta, and giving her eight weeks on the ; assage I.3acic to Greenhithe, in cluding stoppages', she will have got through nine months e f the year most industriously. We venture to assert, without har of contradiction, that if the passages of the troops she carried to and from the Mediterranean had been taken in the Peninsular and Oriental steamers, and the stores the Hercules will bring home were pitched overboard in the Mediterranean, the country would be a gainer by many thousands of pounds. COAST GUARD RETIRE3IENTS.— The following officers hate been added to the Coast Guard Retired List: — Lieutenant Charles Shaw (1815), of the Bomahon Station (First Class), at 30/. per annum. Lieutenant Thomas Andrew Gilson (1829), of the Holywell Station (First Class), at 301. per annum. Lieutenant Martin Bennett (1811), of the Gravesend Station (Second Class), at 201. per annum. MISAPPLICATION OF THE NAVY ESTIMATES.—The Admiralty have deemed it necessary to recal the atten tion of the respective departments of the navy to the Treasury minute of 1846, which states that sums voted for works in any particular year, if unext ended, cannot be appropriated for any other purpose after the expira tion of that year_ Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals, John Kinnis, M.D., is about to leave Bombay for England. The Emperor of Austria has conferred, as a mark of his approbation, a " gold medal" upon Captain Duckett, for the German part of his Technological Dictionary. We regret to hear that Vice-Admiral- Curry is dan gerously ill at Devonport. The gallant officer, we be lieve, is now at a very advanced age. He commanded a bomb vessel in the expedition to Egypt. EXPENSE OF THE ARCTIC SIIIPs.—The Admiralty have demanded of the authorities at Woolwich a deta led return of the expenses incurred in fitting the squadron of Captain Austin, C.D., for the Arctic Searching Expedition. STAFF.—Captain Alexander Seton, 74th Highlanders, Assistant Deputy Quartermaster General, Dublin, has proceeded to England on leave of absence. IRELAND. DESTRUCTIVE HAIL-STORM. DUBLIN, FRIDAY MORNING.--This city has just been visited by one of the most destructive hail storms ever remembered here. The whole forenoon, and down to half-past three &clock this afternoon, was beautifully fine. At this hour rain commenced to fall. It was accompanied by thunder and lightning. At four o'clock, a shower of hailstones, fully as large as musket-balls, was propelled with great violence by a storm which sprung up from the north• west. For about fifteen minutes the appearance of the streets was most alarming. Horses, rendered totally unmanageable by the severity of the storm, dashed wildly about—thousands of panes of glass were shattered—chimney pots and slates were driven through the air like chaff, and the choked up sewers caused some of the streets to resemble foaming canals. At the Dublin terminus of the Kingston Railway the extensive carriage-shed was blown down on a range of cottages in Brunswick street; fortunately no person received injury. The skylight at the terminus of this railway was com pletely shattered. The terminus of the Great Southern and Western—the Midland, Great Western, and the Drogheda Railways have suffered severely in their glass roofs. Several poor car-drivers, who lost their hats during the storm, were cut severely by the hail-stones. The book-stalls on the Inns-quay, and in other parts of the city, were desolated in a few minutes. The destruction of window glass in the city is considered to be fully as great as in the me• morable storm of 1839. Fortunately this terrific hail-storm has been very partial. But three milts from the city, in the direction of Kingston, there was not a hail•-stone, and hardly any rain. At the Great Southern Railway, a fireman lost his leg in the con fusion of the train arriving during the hurricane. A great number of trees were blown down in the l'hcenix-park, the College-park, and at the Mansion• house. The show-yard of the Royal Dublin Society W S devastated. The temporary sheds were prostrated, the poultry coops scattered about, and their,ifeathered inhabitants set flying about terror-stricken. Leinster Lawn looked like a field after a battle. A servant of Lord Plunket's was so injured by the fdl of the ,heds as to be obliged to be sent to the hospital. Se veral trees were blown down. A great number of persons sought shelter at John stou's, the silk mercers, in Sackville-street. The whole of these extensive premises are covered in by glass, the smashing of which caused the greatest con sternation, and many ladies fainted with terror from the lightning. At one time a strong smell of fire in creased the alarm, which speedily subsided. The de struction amounted to about 1,000 panes of glass. The Mansion House, th e anc i e nt seat of civic authority, experienced in an unusual degree the seve rity of the hurricane. The two fine old elm trees in the lawn, near the statue, which have stood since the reign of Charles 1., and contributed so much to beautify and ornament the building, were blown down by the violence of the storm, and in the space of a few minutes torn up by the roots and completely riven asunder. The Mansi on H ouse itself rec e i ve d considerable injury, the roof being stripped, and al most all the windows broken. A most extraordinary scene was presented in the Law Library of the Courts, at four o'clock, when the hailstones burst over it. There were sixty or seventy barristers writing in the inside room, which is almost entirely lighted from the roof, when a sud den flash of lightning was succeeded by a shower of hailstones, some as large as grapes. Instantly every pane of glass was shivered, and the frag ments dashed down on the learned heads. The wig proved itself a helmet, but, notwithstanding this pro tection, briefs, books, and bills were instantly deserted. The narrow gallery afforded but little shelter. Some were protected under the old folios, spreading these capacious volumes over them, whilst others wrapped their gowns turban wise round their heads, whilst the h a il pelted in and glass flew about in every direction. But when the storm passed over the destruction was visible, and many a forsaken wig had received the contents of folios of drafts, which were wholly washed out and obliterated. In the course of the evening two patients were ad mitted into Mercers' llospital, who had received in juries in consequence of the storm—one an old woman, whose temple was severely cut by a fall in the street ; and the other a woman, who was crushed by the fall of a ceiling in one of the house s i n th e Lib er ty. Seven elm-trees in the College Park were prostrated, and a part of one was broken o ff. The destruction of glass will amount to several thousand pounds. GLASSNEVIN.—The storm appears to have raged with much greater violence here than it did on the south side of the city. The devastation it has made on the roofs of the conservatories is indescribable ; scarcely a whole pane in some of the houses remain. The roofs of the new range have not suffered nearly so much ; but, altogether, the spectacle is a very me lancholy one at present, and the damage done very extensive. THE MURDER OF MR. O'DoNNELL:—The Clare Journal states that through the exertions of Colonel Vandeleur a clue has been obtained to the murder of Mr. Arthur O'Donnell. The object of the murder is alleged to have been robbery, and that it was effected through a conspiracy, in which the servaut-woman of the ill-fated gentleman was a party. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY. 'BANKRUPTS. William John Alfredl;re, shipbuilder, Deptford -green, to surrender April 27, at h a lf-past one, and M ay 23 at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, offi c i a l assignee, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street Teague, Crown court, Cheapside. Samuel Jacobson Jackson, picture dealer, Richmond buildings, Soho, April 26, at half-past twelve, and May 31, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basitighall-street ; Tayloe, Buoklersbury. George Winter, merchant, Granville-square, Pentouvil!e, April 25, at half- past one, and June 1, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman street ; Jones and Co., Crosby-square. Sarah Pattison, plumber and glazier, Winchester, April 30 and May 31, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee; Allen and Nichol, Queen-street, Cheapside. John Arnett, tobacconist, St. Dunstan's-hill, City, May 2 and June 4, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Ed wards, official assignee, Satnbrook-court, 13asitighall-street, Lawrence, Crowdy, and Bowlby, Old Fish -street. John Stormont, iron manufacturer, Shitfnal, Shropshire, April 29 and May 27, at twelve, at the Bi rm i ng h am Dis trict Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Mot teram, Knight, and Emmet, Birmingham. William Stormont, iron manufacturer, Shiffnal, Shropshire, April 29 and May '27, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Motteram, Knight, and Emmet, Birmingham. James McEvoy, grocer, Hulme, Lancashire, April 30 and RAILWAY RETURNS RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year:— .G W ee k Last Et' ~-. ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. E s:° t t. C.) 2, ----- --- X £ April 13 Aberdeen ...... .... - Amiens and Boulogne. - ............ - 1,487 13 Belfast and Ballymena .........• •• •• 526 558 14 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 928 915 7 Bolton,l3lackburn,Clitheroe, and W. Y. 411 458 14 Bristol and Exeter • • - 7 Caledonian........ - ... .......... - 5,859 5,210 14 Chester and .............. 2 , 371 .... 2,371 1.377 11 Dublin and Drogheda ...... ......... 910 733 16 Dublin and Kingstown .. •••• •• •• 734 753 13 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen ........ 515 528 14 East Anglian.... ••-••••••• • • • • • • • •• 699 666 13 Edinburgh and Glasgow .-.••.. •• •• 3.999 3,810 13 Edinburgh and Perth • • .......... 2,144 1,935 14 Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. 15,182 13,910 14 East Lancashire •• • ................. 2,829 2,678 14 Eastern U • 2,101 1,324 13 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ...... 2,809 2,712 13 Glasgow and Greenock• • • ...... .... 996 923 7 Great Northern and E. L......... ~ 3,233 1,851 13 Great Southern and Western ........ 5,032 3.743 14 Great Western, &c •• 21,580 20,0:8 14 Lancashire and Y0rk5hire............ 11,891 12,343 7 Lancaster and Car1i51e.............. 3,332 2,223 7 Leeds and Thirsk ...............„. 765 235 14 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... 100 110 13 Londonderry and Eniiiskitien .... „.. 161 158 14 London and North Western, &c. ..... 43,707 40,8 ,8 14 London and Blackwall.. 756 631 13 London and Brighton .. ..... ........ 10,253 9,566 14 London and South Western ......... 9,508 9,469 14 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 4,903 3,406 14 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.... 20,988 20,456 14 Midland Great Western (Irish) ...... 1,410 1,367 13 Monklands ... •• • • .................. 734 739 14 North British ••..••• • •• - - ........ 3,100 2,798 13 Paris and Rouen .• • •............... 6,096 5,199 13 Rouen and Havre .................. 2,351 2,668 14 Scottish Central •••• • • • • ............ 1,330 1,054 13 Scottish Midland ••• • • • •........... 400 280 14 Shrewsbury and Chester • • .......... 1,335 1,466 14 Shropshire Union .. •••• . . . ..... .... 438 -- 13 South Eastern and Branches ........ 10,675 9,019 7 South Devon. •••••... •• • • •• •....... I,r 34 1,887 13 Taff Vale ••••.•••••••• • • • • • • • . • • • .. 2,401 2,027 808 870 - Waterford and Limerick............. - - 7 Whitehaven Junction .• •• • •......... 182 157 14 York and Newcastle . •............. 14,496 11,551 14 York and North Midland ........... 7,037 6.697 WEBSTER'S ROYAL RED BOOK FOR APRIL, 1850. We have now before us a new edition of this most useful Court and fashionable register, which is cor rected up to the present month, April, 1850. It con tains, in addition to a comprehensive street guide, a list of the nobility and gentry, arranged alphabeti cally, with their town and country residences, Houses of Lords and Commons, Baronets of the United Kingdom, Crown and Law Officers, Ambassadors, Consuls, Bankers, Army and Navy Agents, Hotels, Clubs, and various other valuable information, the knowledge of which is indispensible alike to the beau monde and to those whom they patronise. It is clearly and neatly prite3, is elegantly got up, and is, in fact, a complete mirror of fashion. LAND-TAX COAIMISSION FOR THE HOLBORN DlS TRlcr.—Yesterday a meeting of the Commissioners of Land• tax for the above-named district, was held at the Sheriffs' Court, Red Lion-square, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. The meeting was numerously attended by Commissioners, James Ilargraves Mann, Esq., presiding. Nothing tran spired, however, worthy of a detailed report, although it was imagined that the sulject of the equalisation ( , f the laud-tax would have been discu,sed by the Commissioners. The chairman said, however, with reference to the matter, that it was not the intention of the commission to enter into the question of the inequality of the tax, until the report of a committee now bitting upon the subject had been made known to them. After the disposal of a few matters of course, the Commissioners adjourned. _ _ - , NLW CHURCH IN MARTLEDONE.—An appeal has been issued for aid in the erection of a new church for the poor in the parish of Blarylebone, who constitute the greater portion of the population. and for whose spiritual requirements the present church accommodation is lament ably insufficient, and indeed totally ineffectual. An influen tial committee has been formed by whom a site has been procured, and upon which it is proposed to erect a church capable of accommodating 1,500 persons, two-thirds to be free to the poor, and the remaining third subject to a very moderate rental. To accomplish their plan the committee calculate upon a sum of 12,000/. as being necessary for the erection and endowment of the church, and they appeal to all who'are blessed with the means to assist them in their pious undertaking—a request in 'which we hope they will not be disappointed. ROFIL ADELAIDE.—The following is copied from the Jersey Times of the 12th inst. :—" Drowned in the Royal Adelaide, on her passage from Cork to London, the 30th March, Anthony Le Ber (Le Bert) Esq., and his family, consisting of his wife and six children, three sons and three daughters, the eldest 16, and the youngest 8, leaving behind one daughter."—London Sun of Monday.—We will thank oar London contemporary to correct this mis-statement. The erroneous announcement in question was made by an other Jersey journal, and given by us in our paper of }riday last as from that journal, not on our own authority. Th• total incorrectness of our local contemporary's announce ment we had the pleasure of explaining in our following pub lication. W e have sins enough of our own to answer for without being burthened by those of other people. BULLS AND CLIARIDES.—A bull—which must by no means be past over in the recapitulation of the family of wit and humour—a bull is exactly the counterpart of a wit ticism : for as wit discovers real relations that are not appa rent, bulls admit apparent relations that are not real. The pleasure arising from bulls ; roceeds from our surprise at suddenly discovering two things to be dissimilar in which a resemblance might have been suspected. The same doctrine will apply to wit and bulls in action.. Practical wit discovers connexion or relation between actions, in which duller under standings discover none; and practical bulls originate from an apparent relation between two actions which more correct understandings immediately perceive to have none at all. In the late rebellion in Ireland, the rebels, who had conceived a high degree of indignation against some great banker, passed a resolution that they would burn his notes;—which they accordingly did, with great assiduity; forgetting, that in burning his notes they were destroying his debts, and that for every note which went into the flames, a correspondent value went into the banker's pocket. A gentleman. in speak ing of a nobleman's wife, of great rank and fortune, lamented very much that she had no children. A medical gentleman who was present observed, that to have no children was a great misfortune, but he thought he had remarked it was hereditary in some families. Take any instance of this branch of the ridiculous, and you will always find an apparent rela tion of ideas leading to a complete inconsistency. I shall say nothing of charades. and such sort of unpardonable trumpery : if charades are made at all, they should be made without benefit of clergy, the offender should instantly be hurried off to execution, and be cut off in the middle of his dulness, without being allowed to explain to the executioner why his first is like his second, or what is the resemblance between his fourth and his ninth.— Sydney Smith. POWER OF lIIBIT.—Habit uniformly and con stantly strengthens all our active exertions : whatever we do often, we become more and more apt to do. A snuff-taker begins with a pinch off snuff per day, and ends with a pound or two every month. Swearing begins in anger; it ends by mingling itself with ordinary conversation. Such-like instances are of too common notoriety to need that they be adduced ; but, as 1 before observed, at the very time that the tendency to do the thing is every day increasing, the pleasure resulting from it is, by the blunted sensibility of the bodily organ, diminished ; and the desire is irresistible, though the gratification is nothing. There is rather an entertaining example of this in Fielding's " Life of Jonathan Wild," in that scene where he is represented as playing at cards with the Count, a professed gambler. " Such," says Mr. Fielding, " was the power of habit over the minds of these illustrious persons, that Mr. Wild could not keep his hands out of the Count's Lockets, though he knew they were empty; nor could the Count abstain from palming a card, though he was well aware Mr. Wild had no money to pay him.—Sydney Smith. i ORSEWMPP ING EXTRAORDINARY. — One fine sun shiny day last week the gay promenaders and humble pas sengers in the crowded. and fashionable Buchanan-street, Glasgow, were unexpectedly treated to a spectacle rather rich of its kind, and more common to the free citizens of the " tar west," on the free soil of the United States, than the staid and sober scents usually witnessed on the thorough fares of the city of Glasgow. It would appear that a certain hon. citizen had conceived, whether on veritable grounds or other wise is net averred, that another gentleman was on too friendly terms with his wife. Of course this was an " offence" for which no " gentleman" could condescend to seek redress in any ordinary . way, or through the constituted tribunals, and hence the injured husband resolved to obtain satisfaction in the only way his righteous indignation and his honour could permit him to adopt. Armed, therefore, with th a t poten t instrument of chastisement, a good horsewhip, he sallied forth in quest of his cowardly toe, and, as fortune in would have it, caug ht him the thronged thoroughfare above referred to. The sequal is soon told. All the pity and compassion of the incensed " gentleman" forsook his breast ; his blond boiled in iris veins, and having summoned to his aid a sufficient quantum of manly courage, he then and there proceeded to inflict that amount of corporeal punish moat which, as he conceived , the object ofwere his . resentment so justly merited. The number of stripes inflicted ere not exactly noted. It may suffice to state, that the unfortunate offender considered them enough, as he instantly retreated, and took refuge in a shop, whose op en door invited him to an asylum within its graceful precincts.— Glasgow Chi oiacle. S , z .. 1 1 4: 4Z7::gliiittaq I cf.j. FRANCE. A letter from Angers, announces the arrival there of the President of the Republic. Immediately on his arrival there the list of the dead was, at his request, given to him. lie passed the whole of this morning in visiting the hospital where the wounded are taken care of. He was accompanied by the Minister of War and the general officer commanding the de partment of the Maine and Loire. Several of the survivors are in a state which leaves little hope of their recovery. The orderly officers of the President have also visited the private houses where the wounded took refuge. The greatest attention•+ are paid to the unfortunate survivors. The inhabitants of the town, as well as the wounded sol diers, `peak of him with the utmost affection. Toe funeral service was performed in the Church of Angers ; the orderly c 'Beers, the civil and military authorities, and an immense population filled the church and its approaches. The following letter from Lieutenant. Colonel Simonet, of the 11th Light Infantry, giving an ac• count of the catastrophe at Angers, has been pub- lished : Before entering the Faubourg of Angers, an de-camp of General Diaz r came to me with an ord;r to enter the town by the suspension-hric'ge, and to draw up my men on the Place de l'Attn'ti nic, whtre he proposed t review them. I had scarctly re sumed my march by column in sections, when the weather, which had been before very fine, sud denly changed to a pea. ct tempest; a furious wind and pouring rain. It was then half-past eleven. It was under these gloomy auspices that I entered on the fatal bridge, after having stopped the band, and broke the re gulatity of the step, as is usual in such cases. The wind was so high that the floor of the bridge rose and fell from it so much that I had difficulty in keeping my seat on my horse. Scarcely had the section of the advanced guard, the pioneers, and the grtater part of the band reached the opposite bank tf the river, when suddenly a horrible crash was heard, and the floor of the bridge gave way under our feet. With the exception of the bead of the column, and the two rear sections, all the rest of the battalion followed the move ment of the floor of the bridge, and fell into the water. Ah, mon Ger what a spectacle! Never was there a more heartrending one. My poor mare turned over, left me in the water, and then, suddenly rising, nearly crushed me. I rose, and endeavoured to catch her, but Captain Desmarest, my Adjutant-Major, who was marching behind me, and to whom I owe my lire at this moment, seized me by the arm, drew me forcibly to the left side of the bridge (the water was then up to my armpits), then, assisted by some soldiers, I was lifted into a small beat, when one of the inhabi tants, an old soldier, received me in his arms in a faii,t kg state. From thence I got into a washerwoman's boat, and then gained the shor.. I was saved, but too earnestly occupied with the fate of my children, my friends, and my comrades, to think of accepting the as sistance which was eagerly offered me by the inhabitants and tl.e officers of the garrison." GERMAN Y. The widow of the celebrated Marshal Blucher died at Berlin on the 16th at a very advanced age. SCHLES WIG-HOLSTEIN. General Willisen has just issued the following order of the day to the Holsthin troops : " Soldiers! A portion of your late officers and teachers are about to have you. It is a great loss for us— a painful separation; but sooner or later it must have oc curred, if ever w e were to be independent, and that we aro determined to be. The loss was expected, and does not fir d us unprepared. We must find the means of supplying the deficency among ourselves, and we shall find it. As I cannot for a moment lose my confidence in you when I look into your couragt oas ey es, so you should and must place confidence in me' and the officers that still remain with you. Our strength will be undi minished, if your determination and mine remain the same. Ile only is forsaken who abandons himself. We murt stand all the firmer on our own footing, exert ourselves so much the more, and hold so much the closer t9gether. Obey your new officers from w hatever quarter you may revive them; they will, I am certain, so much the more joyfully and a etluusly redouble their exertions —in that lies our whole strength. Let the army of Schleswig-Holstein, even when thrown on its own re sourcev, be a model of devotion to the cause, and strict obedience, and the destiny of our fatherland is assured. this I expect from you. " Our whole love and gratitude follow those who are leaving us—show it them in every manner. A bond so contracted can le broken by force but never wholly dissolved; the feeling towards individuals remains the Amite. " V. %VILLISEN, Commander-in-Chief. "Kiel, April 15." MINING INTELLIGENCE. (From the Mining Journal of this day.) Although the share market has not been so animated this week, still, upon the whole, an average amount of nosiness appears to have been transacted in our own ,nines, while in foreign mining shares there has been au unusual briskness, and an active inquiry is being kept up. Trelawny, IJeignston Down, Bedford United, and Mary Ann shares have been much inquired for, and , ransactions in each trken place. Shares in the following mines have changed Lands ,ince our last:—Devon Great Console, Treviskey and Barrier, Treleigh, Mary Ann, Trelawny, South Tulgus, Buller, Trehane, Levant. Ilerudsfuot, Gustavus, eendarves, Stilly Park, Tincroft, Trelyon, East Tamar, Bedford LILA ed, South Tamar, Wellington Mines, West Wheal Fiancee, Ileignston Down, Cwm Dile, Wheal Langford, Wheal Trevillc, &o. We find that the mines in tha far vie,t are generally iri a satisfactory state, and a considerable number ot .hares have changed hands during the last fortnight. West Wheal Treasury and Alfred Consols have been ;ouch in demand, and buyers have paid an advance. Transactions inWheel Reeth have taken place at our,quo• tations, and an advance is talked of; the profits for the ast two months are estimated at upwards of 1,0001. In Penzance Consols a large amount of business has Leers done at firm prices. Wheal Hal shares have been in quired of er, and Spearna Consols is said never to have :leen in ao prosperous a state as at present. At the meeting of Stray Park, Cumborne Vean, and Wheal Frances Mines, the statements of accounts for Jan. and Feb. showed a profit of 6051. fur the two months, which, added to the La!ance from last account, Allowed a dividend of 5001., being 103. per share, carry• mg to credit of next account 4941. 12s. Bd.—an excess wer last account of 3051. The agent's report represents be mines in a progressively improving position, esti nating, from present prospects, that the next sampling vill amount to 600 tons. At 13edford United Mines meeting, the account of ex penditure and receipts was presented, showing a balance rf 1,2281. 123. 7d. in favour c f the mine. A dividend of 1,000/. was declared, amounting to 53. per share. At the Penzance Consols account for January and February, the first dividend, being 2s. 6 , 1. per tit are, was declared, after payment of which a credit of 1631. Bs. ld. vas carried to the next account. The report from the mine is very favourable. At the W heal Golden Consols meeting the accounts presented showed balance in favour of adventurers of 304/. 103., and the report read represented the mine iu a very satisfactory condition. At Wheal Tremayne account, held yesterday, a divi dend of 512/. was declared for February and Marcb, being 10s. per share, leaving a balance of 4441. 18s. 2d. to credit ot next accouLt. The agent's report of the mine was highly gratifying. At the Levant bi-monthly meeting, a dividend of 51. per share was declared. _ _ _ At the Condurrow two-monthly account, a dividend of 21. per share was declare]. The ores sold amounted to 2 0041. 12s. ld., and a balance of 2091. 18.. 9.'. was carried to next account, after payment of the dividend, amounting to 5121. At the ilergnston Down meeting, a call of 2i. 6d. per share was deemed necessary. By the statement of ac• counts, we find a balance uf 3561. 16s. Bd. in favour of the adventurers; but on account of payments and re ceipts before the next account (June 11), there will be a balance of 2391. Bs. 4d. against the mine, to meet which the call is made. At the adjourned meeting of the South Wheal Josiah adventurers the balance-sheet presented 711. ss. I Id., in favour cf the company, giving credit for ar t.( ars of calls. The liabilities are made up to the end of March, when a credit of 51. 3s. 10d. appears. A call of 10s. per share was made. The prospects of the mine are represented as much improved. At a meeting of the original shareholders in North Buller, a call of 7s. Gd. per share was made, and the offi cial agents of the mine appointed. At a meeting of adventurers in Tywarnhayle and Nanceleuke, held on Tuesday, the accounts, for Jan. and Fab. last, were examined and passed, showing balance against edventurers of 1,2611. 7e. 9d. At W heal Sophia meeting, a balance of 291. was found in favour of the company, and a call of ss. per share was made. At Herodefoot meeting the accounts exhibited a profit of 5491. 135. 7d. on the last five months' working. The present position of the mine is very gratifying, showint that a profit of 2001. per month can be realised. In Foreign Mines, there has been considerable anima tion during the week. The Santiago Mines are repre sented as having materially improved, and a very valu able discovery made—the shares, cons( quently, have been in great demand, and several transactions at un advanced price been made. St. John eel Rey, Cubre, United Mexican, and Imperial Brezilian, have be. en in request. Copier, Australian, Barossa Range, Linares, and National Brimilians, have also been done. The National Brazilian advices are to the 16th Feb., and the prospects continue as cheering as last reported, and the general indications highly favourable. The re turns from Cocaces, from the sth to 14th Feb. is, mks. 5 3 4 7, -and Cuiba from 28th Jan. to 16th Feb., mks. 3 3 6 16 - =mkt , . 8 7 2 23. THE ARMY AND NAVY. (From the United Service Gazette of this day.) REDUCTION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN NAVAL FORCES. —ln adoition to the ships mentioned last week as having been ordered home from the Mediterranean, we may include the Dragon, 6, steam-frigate, Captain W. H. [Tall. So that four ship s have been orde red home—one a three-clocker, one a two-decker, and the other two steam-frigates; and only two ships have been ordered to relieve tl.tm, one a twi- 'eelser, al d one a steam frigate, viz.: —Ordered home—Howe, 120 guns, 960 men—Vet . geanee, 84 guns, 750 men—Odin steamer, 12 gun!, 270 May 28, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, , official assignee, Manchester; Sutton, Manchester. Elizabeth Hart and Mar Lin Hart, drapers, Nortivwich, Cheshire, May 7 and June 4, at eleven, at the Liverpool Dis trict Court. Morgan, officisl assignee, Liverpool; Tyrer, Liverpool. Charles Yea's, baker; Ufrculme, Devonshire, April 30 and May 29, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Herna man, official assignee, Exeter; Tuner, Exeter. James Bird, grocer, Cwmavon, Glamorganshire, April 30 and May 28, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court. Acra man, official assignee, Bristol ; Smith, Bristol. Thomas Whitmore Alport, ironmonger, Bristol, May. 4 and June 1, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol; Abbot. Bristol. William Wilson Thompson, butcher, Goole, Yorkshire, May 2 and May 23, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds; Wilson, Goole ; Naylor, Leeds William Rawson, seed merchant, Market Rasen, colnshire, May 15, and 29, at 11.1 f-past twelve, at the Leeds District Court. Carrick, official assignee, Hull ; Rhodes, Market Rasen ; Stamp, Hull. Joseph Holroyd, cotton and worsted dyer, Dalton, York shire, May 2 and 23, at eleven, at the Leeds District. Court. Freeman, official assigm e, Leeds; Edwards, Halifax; Bond I nd Barwick, Leeds. PRICE OF SUGAR. 'clie average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted front returns made in the week ending April 17, exclu- ive c.f Cust in Duties pa'd cr pitable_thereon on the importathn thereof into Great Britain : • From the British possessions in America 2is. lid. per cwt. From the Mauritius ... 245. lid. ~ From the East Indies ... 26& 90. - „ Average price of the three foregoing de scriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as above, and exclusive of duty ... 2's. ~ By authority of Parl ament, HEstey BICKNELL, Clerk of the Grocers' Company. Grocers'-hall, April 19. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.' From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Conansons ) FRIDAY, APRIL 19. AUSTRALIAN COLONIES GOVERNMENT BILL. (IN THE COMMITTEE.) Sixth Cause (Legislative Councils may be established in Van Diemen's Land and South Australia) : Amendment proposed, page 4, line 26, to leave out from the word " Chat" to the word " and," 1. 39, in order to insert the words "there shall be established in the Colonies of Van Diemen's Land and South Australia respectively a Legislative Council and a House of Assembly :" Question put, " That the words it shall be lawful for' stand part of the Clause." The Com mittee divided:— MAJORITY—AYES, 216. Abdy, Sir T. N. Ferguson, Sir R. O'Connell, Maurice Adair, it. Shafto Fitzpatrick. J W. O'Connell, M. J. Alcock, Thomas Foley, John 11. Ogle, S. C. ' ' Anderson, Arthur Fordyce, A. D. Ord, William " Anson, Colonel Forster, M. Paget, Lord A. . Anson, Viscount Fortescue, J. W. Paget, Lord C. Ansley, Thomas C. Fox, W. J. Paget, Lord G. Armstrong, Sir A. Freestun, Colonel Palmerston, Viscount Armstrong, R. B. Glyn, G. C. Parker, John Arundel, Earl of Goddard,A.L. • • Patten, J. W. Bagshaw, John, Grace, 0. D. Peellell, Sir G. Baines, M. T. - Graham, Sir James Peto, Samuel M. Baring. Sir F. Greene, Thomas Pigott, Francis Barnard, E. G. Grey, Sir George Pilkington, James Bass, Thomas , Grey, Ralph W. Pinney, William Berkeley, Admital Grosvenor, Lord R. Flowden, W. Li. Berkeley, Henry F. Grosvenor, Earl Power, Dr. Birch, Sir T. Guest, Sir J. Power, Nicholas Blackall, S. W. Ilailyburton, Lord J. Price, Sir It Blake, M. J. Harmer, Sir John Posey, Philip Bouverie, E. P. liardcastle, J. A. Rawdon, Colonel Boyle, Colonel Harris, Richard Ricardo, J. L. Brand, Thomas Hestia,. Alexander -, Ricardo, Osman:, 41.. Brocklehurst, John Oath% Archibald Rice, E. R. _ Brockman, E. D. Michell, John , Rich, Henry Brotherton, J. Hawes, B. Robartes, T. J. Brown, W.. Hayter, W. G. Romilly, Sir John Browne, R. D. Headlam, Thomas Rumbold, C. E. Busfelld, W. Ileathcoat, John Russell, Lord John Buxton, Sir E. Heneage, Edward Russell, Edvi and S. Carter, John B. Heywood, James Russell, F. C. H. Caulleild, J. M. Heyworth, Lawrence" Rutherford, A. Cavendish, C. C. Hobhouse, Sir John Scrope, G. P. Cavendish, G. IL HobhouSe, T. B. Scully, Francis Cavendish, W. G. Hodges, T. L. Seymour, Lord Cayley, Edward S. Ilollond, Robert Shell, R. L. Clay, James Howard, Lord E. Sheridan, It. B. Clay, Sir W. Howard, C.W. Smith, J. A. Clements, Charles Howard, E. G. Smith, M. Tucker Clifford, H. M. Howard, P. H. Smythe, George Cockburn, Alex. Hughes, W. B. Somers, J. P. Coke, E. K. Hutt, William Somerville, Sir W. Colebrooke, Sir T. Jervis, Sir John Spearman, 11. J. Collins, W. Keogh, William Stanton, W. H. Colvile, C. R. Kershaw, James Staunton, Sir G. Corbally, M. E. King, P. J. Stuart, Lord J. Cowan, Charles Labouchere, Ilenry Talbot, C. it. Cowper, W. F. Langston, J. H. Talbot, J. H. Craig, Sir W. G. Lascelles, W. S. Tattered, H. W. Crowder, R. B. Lemon, Sir C. Tenison, E. K. Cartels, H. M. Leonard, T. B. Thicknesse, Ralph Da!rymple, Captain Lewis, George C. Thompson, Colonel Dawson, T. V. Locke, Joseph Thornely, T. D'Eyncourt, C. T. Loveden,:Pry•se Tollemache, F. J. Divett, Edward Mackie, John Ton neley, John Douglas, Sir . C. M'Cullagh, W. T. Townshend, Captain Douro, Marquis of M'Taggart, Sir J. Torben, 11.1 Duff, G. S. Mangles, R. D. Verney, Sir*ll. Duff, James Mastennan, John Villiers, Chides Duke, Sir James Matheson, James Vivian, J. H. Duncan, Viscount • Matheson, Co/onel Wall, C. B. Dundas, Admiral Maule, Fox Walmsley, Sir J. DundaS, Sir David Melgund, Viscount Watkins, Colonel Ebrington, Lord Milner, W. M. Wellesley, Lord C. Egerton,:Sir P. Mines, It. M. Willcox, Brodie Ellice, Edward Mitchell, T. A. Wilson, James Ellice, F., jun. Morgan, 11. K. Wilson ' Matthew Ellis, John Morison, Sir W. Wood, Sir Charles Elliot, J. E. Morris, David Wood, W. P. Evans, John Mostyn, E. ' Wyvill, M. Evans, William Mulgrave, Earl Fagan, NVilliam Mundy, William Fergus, John Munta, G. F. Ferguson, Col. Norreys, Lord TELLERS. Hill, Lord Itaretts Bellew, B. M. MINORITY-NOES. 150. Adair, Hugh E. East, Sir J. Manners, Lord C. Alexander, N. Edwards, Henry Manners, Lord G. Arelidall, Captain Estcourt, J. B. B. Manners, Lord J. Arkwright, George Evelyn, W. J. Marsh..ll, J. G. Bagge, W. Farnham, E. Miles, I'. W. K. Bagot, William Farrer, James Barllie, 11. J. Fellowes, E. Mons el 1 . William Baldock, E. H. Fil►ner, Sir E. Mowatt, Francis Baldwin, Barry Floyer, John Naas, Lord Bankes, G. Forbes, Win. Napier, Joseph Beckett, W. Fox, S. L. Newport, Viscount Bennet, P. Gaskell, J. M. O'Brien, Sir Lucius Beresiord, William Gibson, Thomas M. Palmer, Robert Bernard, Viscount Gooch, E. S. Palmer, Roundel' Best, John Gordon, Admiral Pee' Frederick • . Blackstone, W. S. Granby, Marquis of Portal, Melville Blair, Stephen Greenall, G. Prime, Richard Blakemore, It. Greene, John Reid. Colonel .._ ... ___ . Bolder°, 11. G. Grogan, Edward Repton, G. W. J. Booth, Sir R. G. Guernsey, Lorl Roebuck, J A. • _ . Bright, John Gwyn, Bowel Sandars, George Broadley, 11. Hale, It. B. Sandars, Joseph Brooke, Lord Plalsey, T. P. Scholefield, William Bruce, C. L. C. Hamilton, GM. Scott, F. Buller, Sir J. Y. Hamilton, Lord C. Seymer, H. K. Cabbell, B. B. Yards, Captain Shutt°, R. D. Campbell, W. Heald, James Sibthorp, Colonel Carew, W. I'. Mayes, Sir E. Simeon, John Christesher, R.. A. Ileivei, Lord A. Smith, IL V. Christy, Samuel Iliidyard, R. C. Smith, John B. Clive, 11. B. Bill, Lord E. Somerset, Captain Cobbold, John C. Hodgson, W. N. Stafford, A. Cobden, R. _ . Hothatn, Lord Stanford, J. F. Cocks, '1 homas S. Hudson, George Stanley, E. H. Codrington, Sir W. Humphery, Ald. Stephenson, Robert Cole, 11. A. Jerilyn, Earl Stuart, Lord D. Compton, H. C. Jocelyn, Viscount Stuart, H. Conolly, Thomas Jones, Captain Thompson, Ald. Cubitt, William Law, Hon. E. C. Trevor, G. R. Decries, W. Lawless, Cecil Tyrell, Sir J. Denison, J. E. Lennox, Lor 1 A. Verner, Sir W. Devereux,lJ. T. Lewisham, Viscount Tyse, H. Disraeli, B. Lindsay, Colonel Walpole, Spencer Dod, J. W. Long, W. Walsh, Sir J. B. Dodd, G. ' Lowther, Colonel Wawn, J. T. Duncan, George Lushingion, Charles Westhead, J. F. Duncombe, 0. Mackenzie, W. F. Williams, John Duncuft, John WNeill, Duncan Wyld, James . . Dundas, G. Meagher, Thomas TELLEIII. Dunne, Colonel Mahon, Lord Molesworth, Sir W. Du Pre, C. G. Mandeville, Viscount Adderley, C. B. Same Clause, Amendment proposed, line 34, to leave out the words " such number of the Members of each Council so to be established as is equal to :"—Question put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Clause." The Committee divided : MAJORITY-AYES, 159. MINORITY—NOES, 27. Adderley, C. B. Kershaw, James Sebolefleld, W. Best, John King, P..J. Seymer, henry Kee Buller, Sir J. Y. Lawless, Cecil Stanley, E. H. Carew, W. IL Pole Manners, Lord G. Stuart, Lord Dudley Cocks, T. S. Molesw•orth, Sir W. Thompson, Colonel Duncan, George Newport, Viset. Williams, John Dundas, George O'Connell, Maurice Fagan, \V. O'Connell, M. J. TELLERS. Fellowes, E. Pilkington, James Anstey, T. C. Fox, W. J. Roebuck, J. A. Wellesley, Sir J. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, April 19. Their Lordships assembled at Five o'Clock. SMOKE PROHIBITION BILL. On the in tion of Lord REDESDALE this Bill was read a second time. SCHOOL DISTRICTS CONTRIBUTION BILL. ...... _ On the motion of the Diarquis of LANSDOWNE, this Bill was 'lliad a second time. PETITIONS. The Marquis cf LANSDOWNE presented several petitions in favour of the extension of education, and also a petition from some place in the north of Ireland, in favour of tenant-right. Lord MONTEAGLE presented a petition against Sunday labour in the Post-office; also from certain proprietors in Ireland against any further legislation on the fisheries; and a petition from some Dissenting con gregation against church-rates. IRISH POOR-LAW. The Marquis of WESTMEATH presented a petition from the board of guardians of Currick-on - Shannon, complaining of the administration of the Poor-law in Ireland. He had himself been the victim of improper persecution on the part of the administrators of the poor-law in Ireland. His agent, Mr. Hickey, had last year stated before a Comsnittee.of their Lordships the persecution to which be (the Mar quis of Westmeath) had been subjected; but as he (the Noble Marquis) had nut be en in his place in Parliament for two years, he had not seen that evidence until a few days since. He had always paid his poor rates, but in 1847 a demand was made fur rates upon his agent, which he thought unjust ; that demand he resisted. The Commissioners refused relief. and they issued a distriugas against his property fur 914 for rate god costs, the amount originally demanded having been 331. He applied to the Court of Common Pleas to stop these vexatious proceedings, but the Chief Justice of that Court, blinded as to the true state of affairs, declared that it was a very fit case to be pro ceeded with, as against a person who had refused to pay his rates ; and he had been vexatiously levied upon for costs and expenses, because Mr. Twiselton had been mis led by statements made to him by his subordinates. All the waste of money and all the injustice which had been committed in Ireland was chargeable upon the original authors of the Poor-law, who had proposed that law un der pressure. It was in the west el Ireland that the pressure of this Poor-law was particularly felt. The measure bad been pressed upon Parliament by the peo ple of England and Scotland, who loaded the tables of the Houses of Parliament complaining of the immi gration of Irish paupers, and therefore it was for the benefit of England and Scotland that this burden was in flicted upon Irish proprietors. Irish able-bodied la bourers now came to England and Scotland, and left their wives and children chargeable to the Irish union, and God only knew what was to become of their. He blamed the Government for not having hal a prowr valuation made as a La3is for rating. The Goverima k cilt was also to blame for not adopting meaaut es to prt vent the cuuuty cess-payer from not being call e d upon to pay his county cess a second time—this was like poor-rates-- a question of taxation, and therefore he had a right to allude to it. A receiver of county cess in a c oun ty in Ireland had gone off with 10,0001. of cess money in his possession, and the unfortunr.te cuss -layer had been called upon to pay his cess over again, which w:tts must ihtolerable. It was inexcusaLle on the part of the Go vernment to sutler such a state of affairs to continue. In speaking this he meant to cast no reflection on the Lurd-Litutenant, who Le believed had dune his duty conscientiously, hut he did complain, and the Petitioners complained, of the conduct of the vice-guar dians, who Lad administered the funds t f the Irish unions most wastefully and extravagantly. The petit tioneis also complained that the vice-guardians had not taken proper securities from their officers for the peiformance of their duties, and that they had enter d into extravagant, usele:tp, and was:eful contracts. The peti , ioners were prt pired to substantiate all the charges nia'e in this petition, and he should therefore move that the peti!ion be rt ferret! to a ;Select Committee ti inves tigate and report ul on all the alegations therein con tained. The Earl of MO UN TC ASHELL seconded the motion, There was a great dither ence as to the mode in which the poor-laws were iuire,duced into England, and the reoee in which they were introduced iota Ireland. Whoa they were introeuced into England, in the time of Queen Elie .both, it was in a time of prosperity, and a, the y were introduced gra tersely no itic,uivei ierree was fe t from thorn, there being but little distress at the time. But as regarded Ireland, it was intruducee at a 1 eriod when the greatest misery prevail, d, when the country was overrun with paupers, and it had consequently bsen productive of the worst cons quenees. Ireland had long been a peer country, but she had never been reduced so low as she had been by the late measures of theGovernraeut. The value of the land had been depreciated, and, to com plete the cup of misery for Ireland, an Act had been passed to compel the landed proprietors of Ireland to sell their land under these unfavourable circumstances. If things lung continue in the state they were now in, the fee simple of Ireland would soon be required to be sold to ply the accumulated arrears of rates. Ile trusted, therefore, the Committee required would bo appointed. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said the question be fore the House was one referring simply to the appoint ment of poor-law guardians in a certain union in Ireland, and not, as would be interred from the speeches of the Noble Marquis and the Noble Earl, as to the propriety of withdrawing the present poor-law from Ireland, and the repeal of all the Acts which of late }ears had been passed for the benefit of chat country—(Hear, hear.) In re gard to the question submitted to the House, he was not prepared to state that, with regard to the expenditure e f the guardians and vice•guardians of the unions referred to beethe Noble Marquis, there were not instances of great profusion, but that was DO fault of the law, the evil arose out of the difficulty iu finding proper parties to administer the law. In considering the charges against the vice-guardians, however, it was necessary to consi der what was the system of administration pursued by the guardians previous to their appointment. Why the mode of their administering the law was so bad the general voice of the country was for the appointment of vice-guardians. So deficient had been the guardians in stbeeeischarge of their AtiViese that the montractoes had refused to allow provisions on their credit, and with the evils created by the misconduct of the guardians in that respect the vice-guardians had still to contend. He would never attempt to shield from the censure he merited the man who would betray his trust, in the manner which the Noble Marquis had stated; and he believed the gentleman implicated was himself taking steps to have the charges against him fully investigated into. That he learned from a communication ho had received from Ireland the other day. To show that the vice guardians had not been so deficient in their duty as the Noble Marquis would have the House believe in the union alluded to, he might state, that under the ex tended poor-law the namber in that union receiving out-door relief in 1948, was 19,651, while in 1840, being the year the vice-guardians came into office, the number receiving outdoor relief had been diminished to 8,560. Besides, when the vice-guardians came into office the accommodation in the workhouse only contained 860, but in November last, when they went out of office, there was accommodation for 1,810 individuals, while the number receiving outdoor mild had been reduced to 778. That showed that the vice-guardians of that union bad not altogether neglected their duty, and as he did not believe that such an inquiry into their con duct as that moved for would be productive of any good results, he must object to the appointment of any Par liamentary Committee on the subject, more especially as those guardians against whom the charges were alleged, bad all gone out of office. Lord STANLEY said the Noble Marquis seemed to treat the matter in a singularly light manner. Ho said there might have been some instances of profusion on the part of those guardians, and seine thiugs to find fault with in respect of their conduct, but nothing so glaring as to call for Parliamentary inquiry. But could any one read the allegations cf those petitio, era and say that they ought to be treated in such a trifling manner? The ratepayers had no control over these officials, and ii was therefore the duty of their Lordships to inquire into their grievances. Captain Wynne had also, con • trary to the remonstrance of the relieving officer, placed on the relief lists a woman of a notoriously bad charac ter, with whom he (Captain Wynne) had cohabited. That was, no doubt, a serious charge to be brought for ward against au officer of the Government, but it was (-tiered to be substantiated on oath, and the Noble Marquis ought not to have passed it over in that light and trivial way. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE observed, that he attached the greatest impettarica to it. Lord STANLEY continued to ray that ho did not mean unecessarily to throw any eunsuie on the vie. - guardians of 'unions, but from a 1 aper laid on their Lordships' table, it appeared that during their term of out of 35 unions, the liability had inert a.ed from 111,6211. to 223,7441., in additir n to which, they re ceived out of the rate in aid 164 5321. That was the economical working of the union uneer the manage ment of vice-guardians. They had added to the former liabilities 100 per cent. in addition to 150 per cent. which they had received from the rate in aid. Now if the Poor-law Commissioners were good for anything, it was principally tor the appointments made by them to carry out the law. It was said that Mr. Robinson was a needy man, but here was a public officer who ran a bill tor his own purpose with the contractor of the workhouse, and left without paying it. That was not a case of profusion, but of gross misconduct. Contracts for milk, fuel, &c., were stated in the petition to be grossly mismanaged; the straw in the paupers' beds was allowed to remain in them for seven months, the clothing was all rotten; and that owing to the misconduct of the officers appointed by the Com missioners. He believed that such conduct deserved the severest public reprobation, and it was no answer to the charge to say that they e ere no longer in office. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said, the only ob stacle he sew to appointing a Committee was, that these parties were no longer in office; hut if any charge cf corrupt conduct was made, he should be the last man to oppose any obstacle. He was there fore prepared to re consider his decision, and withdraw his opposition to the appointment of a Committee. After a few words in explanation from Lord STAN LEY and the Marquis of W ESTMEATU, the Committee was agreed to. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 19. LANDLORD AND TENANT (IRELAND) BILL. In answer to Mr. S. CRAWFOIID, Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that he could not at present state when the second reading of this Bill would bo gone on with. On Monday there was the Australian Colonies Bill ; on Thursday next the Stamp Duties Bill, and in the en suing week he meAnt to take the Ecclesiastical Commis sion and the Committee of Supply. LOSS OF THE ROYAL ADELAIDE. In answer to a question from Mr. F. FRENCH, Mr LABOUCHERE said that he had no reason for saying that the Royal Adelaide was anything but a well built ship—he did not think that the accident was owing to any want of skill in the cap'ain. AUSTRALIAN COLONIES GOVERNMENT BILL. The House then went into Committee on this Bill, Clauses 3,4, and 5 were agreed to without discussion. On clause 6 being proposed, Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTII moved, in line 26, to omit all the words a fter the word " That," down t o the word "and," in line 39, for the purpose of inserting these words, " t here shall be established in the colonies of Van Diemen:3 Land and south Australia respec tively a Legislative Council and a House of Assembly." If this amendment were agreed to he should proceed to propose other amendments by which th ese t wo c h am b ers w ould to made e l ective. It was admitted that the form o f government at present existing in the colonies ought to to changed, while it was equally as true that the farm he proposed was the best in theory; but the Govern , ment . , bad urged certain s p ec i a l reasons w h y i t cou ld not b e applied to Victoria and New South Wales, and he should, therefore, confine himself to a consideration of those specially. It was said that the colonists were quite satis fied with one chamber, and it would, therefore, be an arbitrary and unjust proceeding to force two upon them. Now, in the case of the two colonies mentioned i n this amendment, that objection did not apply, for the colonists themselves were favour able to the principle of two chambers. Within the last few days most important information had arrived in ais country, in a letter from Sir William Denison, the Governor of Vun Diemen's Land. In that dispatch Sir William Denison expressed his decided cue demnation of that part of the Government Bill which they were now discussing. With regard to the principle of a second chamber, Sir W. Denison said he doubted very much whether the evidence in possession of the Go vernment was sufficient to prove that the people of ew i South Wales were willing to adopt such a change n the form of their existing government.—(Hear, Kerr.) The Ilou:e had no evidence that the people of /New South Wales wished to alter their institutions in that.par ticular. Sir W. Denison also said he would submit that the welfare of three colonies now about to be culled into political existence must be allowe d to outweigh the indifference of the inhabitants of New South %Valve. Could anything be more unwise than to start tho se three colonies with bad institutions simply because New South Wales was indifferent to reform in the change f its government? Sir W. Denison was of . opinion that a body constituted like the proposed single chamber, finding itself in possession of power, it w as not ut all probable that they ould originate or carry out changes wh i c h wo uld in Effect diminish its power. The lion. Gentleman then proceeded to read a letter from Sir 11. Young, the Governor of South Australia, which be argued proved that Sir Henry Young, and indeed all the colonists of South Aus- tralia, were opposed to tLe Government scheme. He must remind the Committee that their Bill had been postponed from last session, in order to give time for iuformstion to reach this country, and now the Bill ought not to be proceeded without the most valid reasons being shows for the assent of the colonists. If there were any grounds fur believing that they did assent they had been studiously concealed The working of a single chamber had Ikea tried in Nutt. South Wales for seven years, and he did not think with much success. The system of New South Wales was in direct violation of one of the fundamental principles of the constitution, which declared that none could be tixel without the consent of the majority of their representa tives. The amount of expenditure per head on the popula tion of our colonies depended entirely on the form of their local Governments, and the expenditure was greater or less precisely ss the Colunial-3ffice had more or less to do with them. It was greater when the Cole inal-office had more, end lass when it had least to do with the guv ernmeet of the colonies. The average rate per head, w hen the Colonial-( Ilite exercised it, I ineers to up point nominees, was higher than vi hen the celeeists post essi . d represent u th e institution s i n which t e had LW nominee'. Is was said by the Government, that as the principle of app .intieg numb ees Lad been se.t'ed with regard to New South Walt s it c ught to be considered as settled with respect to all the Australian colunier, so closely were they connected together. But there appeared to be gat misapprehension on this subj. et, and he sup posed that many in tl re'. House thought the Atisna liuu co i on i.. B were as closely connected te gether as the cum ties of Diglatil That, however, was not the ea-e. Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, was eOO miles from Sydney, and the capital of Western Australia was diseLet, 1,700 miles from Sydney, or further than Constantinople was distant from London. Such an argument, therefore, was utterly absurd on the present occasion. One of the arguments most relied upon in favour of the Bill was that it contained a provision which allowed the colonies, from time to time, to amend their institutions and the Noble Lord at the head of the Government had ex pressed his surprise that any on his side of the House should eppose a Bill which was the very. embodiment of liberal principles. More stress had, however, been laid upon this argument than the circumstances justified. This provision would only add to instead of diminishing the despotic power of the Colonial-office, and he need not point to its recent blunders in Ceylon, New South Wales, and New Zealand, to prove that it was unworthy of these additional powers. Another argument against this theory used by Hon. Members who opposed it was that the colonies themselves were nufit to receive the double chamber, and he called upon those lion. Members to prove it. Was it in smallness:of the population, or in their ignorance, that they deaerved this unfitness? If it wore in the former, he would just point to the example of America, were the principle prevailed in many states whose population, at its origin, amounted to scarcely a third of that of these colonies, and the re sult had been to add to the influence of the American Republic, and to increase the number of its inhabitants. He would ask the Committee why they refused to give to the Australian colonies the same political institutions which experience and theory had proved to be suitable to Anglo- Saxon communities located in the back woods of North Americs? When an English subject set foot in our American colonies be lost no political immunity which he enjoyed in the mother country; but when he entered any of our Australian colonies he relinquished many of the liberties and privileges, the enjoyment of which was guaranteed to him in the land of his birth. The Noble Lord (J. Russell) proposed a chamber consisting of 24 members, 16 of which should be elected by the people in the colony, and eight of them should be nominated by the Colonial-effice, who should sit in the same chamber. He would ask, was it likely that the Colonial-office could select out of the materials ex isting in those colonies right Members who would be better fitted to sit in the Legislature than than those who had been elected by the people in the colonise? lie (Sir W. Molesworth) thought they would find the greatest difficulty in that. With these observations he would leave his amendments in U. hands of the House. Mr. E. DENISON said he had hitherto supported the Government measure contrary to his own and the gene• ral prepossessions of the House in favour of two cham bers, having waived his own judgment in the belief that the reasons adduced by the Government in favour of their scheme rendered it an exceptional case. Those reasons were that it was unfair to interfere with the form of institutions with which the colony itself, referring to New South Wales, was satisfied, and that the House did not possess sufficient information to guide it in the course of policy they ought to adopt if they departed from the existing form. Since that there had been several no tices given on the subject of the federative principle, but in the papers which had been laid before the us. Lord Grey had stated that the federative principle would he inoperative, and for the present time must to put out of consideration. The management of the waste lands, however, was to be vested in an ass, mbly constituted on the federative principle. Was it intended, then, that no action should take place on the subject of the waste lands, a question on which the colonists felt the deepest interest, but respecting which under this Bill there was nothing to be done whatever. The Honourable Gentle man who had last spoken had callel attention to the dispatches received from the colonies on the subject, but he could not have seen the diet' sech which had been placed in the hands of Hon. Members that reorr.ing, or he would have referred to it, for it was infinitely more favourable to his purpose than all that bad yet ap peared before the House on the subject. It must have been an aceicental omission on his part, and it was to supply that accidental omission that he (Mr. Denison) nose. They Lad, then, not only a dispatch of Sir H. Young, but also a body et' resolutions passed by the Legislative Council of South Australia on Saturday, the 15th of December, 1849. Those resolutions declared that the Legislature should consist a a Governor and two, chambers, the upper cista,ber composed of n.ein hers nominated by the Crown, and for life. The Gover nor in his dispatch qualified those resolutions, slid stated that he did not concur in their recommendation of ap pointment by the Crown fur life ; and he proposed another plan. But the important point for the House to consider was, that the South Australian Legislative Council had pronounced in favour of two chambers.. The Noble Lord told them it was of importance to con sider the sentiments of the colonists in the matter. Here, then, on the question of two chambers, they had got the opinions of the three Governors presiding in the Australian colonies—viz., Sir C. Fitzroy, who was the Governor of New South Wales, including Victoria; the Governor of Van Diemen's Land; and next, the Go vernor of South Australia, Sir 11. Young—all stating that it would be ext client and an improi ement to have two chambers. And besides those, they had from the only ono of those colonies from which it had yet come in an authentic shape a declaration of opinion in favour of the two chambers. ID addition, they had the opinion of the Legislative Council of South Australia on the sub ject of the management of the waste lands, that no ge neral system ot regulation would be applicable to all the Australian provinces, and that the establishment of a general assembly ou the federative principle was moat inexpedieet, because of the great dissimilarity of pur suits and interests existing in the several provinces. To proceed further, then, with the present Bill as it now stood would be a mere waste of time. He thought it impossible, with the information they had now got, to force upon the colony of New South Wales a legislature consisting of one chamber. Ile, at all events, would be no party to such an act of injustice, and if he Lad but one Member to support him he would give his moat strenuous opposition to the measure. Lord J. RUSSELL said if his Hon. Friend had at tended to the circumstances he would not have made the statement which he had. He had done so on the ground that the people of South Australia had come to a resolu tion that there ought to be two chambers, and that that was favourable to the proposition of the Hon. Member for Southwark (Sir NV. iNfolesworth). Now what had happened was this. With the exception of New South Walev, there was not in any of those colonies any repre sentative assembly whatever. Those which now existed were legislative councils nominated by the Governor; they were, according to the phraseology cf the Hon. Member for Southwark, the mere nominees of the Colo nial-office. At all events, however improper that phrase was, they derived all their authority from the Colonial Government, under the approval of her Majesty. Such a legislative council in South Australia had come to cer tain resolutions that the Legislature should consist of the Governor and two Chambora. So far, that approved of the plan of the Hoe. Member for Southwark ; but proceeding further in those resolutions they found that the second chamber should be elective, with the exception of certain ex officio members' namely, the Colonial Secretary, the Advocate-Geners i s the Colonial Treasurer, the Collector of Customs, the Surveyor-General, and the Commissioner of Police, wh o . were to have seats in the representative challebo!, w a n n o ! the upper chamber was to be composed of m embers minated by her Majesty for life. Nothing couldhseomuoth. more unlike the proposition of the Hon. Mem ber fur c ated be b r, am and Crown; but the Colonial Legislativ e o %%ark. The Government proposed 000 that part of the members should he o o u f n w ciinh la i ich ro stro s u ea ld n te e that there should be two chambers, other should consist of representatives be entirely nominated by the C nt r a o t w iv n es f o or f t h b f e e, p w oo h p il l e n.a tli nd e 13 ,,, im ni to od rat b ar y Crown. i. t s h t. o ocratie eo nst ß it. u u t . some additional members if bare e peo ple iti:etghlae-t youssunoubiau nooptincolounntoefr. still it might be said, if that wore the i opi n ion of the p th le ey of on l y ou w th is A he u d st i r o alia tion—a House of Lords. peoplelative o f C ouncilsou South bwas Australia,n otthe vvo.phiouiolinadahetlhde a g p en: b r i s ie l meeting, an- ab ad there alto ge th er d en i ed that the Legislative Council represented the opinions of the colony. The opinio n o f the colonies h i d beex pressed in favour ot on e assem bl y , an d a ll hi s sloe. Friend had done was to show that the Legislative Council which had been named by the CroWn did not like to give up their authority, but desired to preserve it all in their own hands. But it was said that the go vernors of the colonies were in favour of two chambers. 'lhat in favour i mightbeurg f ed tw on o the proper o b cc ut a , sion as an argu ment so far as the opinion of the people of the colonies were concerned, there was nothing at present to alter the state of things. Mr. ADDERLEY said the Noble Lord must allow thet the question was bc!.ween a single and a double chamber, and it showed that the Noble Lora was only dealing with the surface, and not the main rinciplse of the question, when be thought that there w iss a diffe rence between the opinions of the Legislative Council of South Australia, and that of the people, on the question of a double chamber. It was no matter whether the colonies spoke out or not, as far as t;he Go. vernment was concerned, for whatever opinio n they expressed, Gentlemen in that Ilouse were met.' by the apocryphsJ information which the Government ihad ever ready in their pockets, as to what tho sentia\ents of ,the colonists were. Now, they were told of a lar,go Meetl4 in which the colonists hal expressed theirs eVniimellgs 1