The Sun. — London, England, 1850-06-04 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD-MARKET. The report of the Commissioners appointed to make inquiries relating to SmitbfrAd-market, and the marklats bad city of Londim kr the sale of meat, bave just made their report. The markets inquired into were Smithfield, Newgate, Leadenhall, and Far ringdon markets—the meat markets for live and dead stock used in the consumption of London. The report commences with what may be called an historical and topographical notice of Smithfield-market—the steady l ied rapid increase of business within its area, together with the extensions that have taken place from time to time. From this part of the re p or t i t appears that Stowe, writing in 1698, estimated the annual sales of cattle in Smithfield at 70,000 ; sheep and lambs, 540,000; calves, 200,000; hogs and pigs, 252,000. A return from the City Chamberlain, appended to, a re port of the House of Commons in 1849, gave the num• bers sold in 1848 as follows :--,Cattle, 236,975 ; sheep and lambs, 1,417,010. The supply has been con stantly increasing between these two periods, except with regard to sheep, which it appears are now, owing to the facilities afforded by railways and steamboats, more frequently sent to London ready slaughtered, and consigned for sale to Newgate-market, which is now as much or more overcrowded than Smithfield. The attempts to enlar ge th e mar k e t, i n o rd e r to ren der it more ad a pt e d t o th e i mmense i ncrease o f business enumerated in the foregoing returns, date from 1833, since which time seven small patches have been added to the original area, amounting to not quite two acres in all, and extending Smithfield market to 6 acres and 15 poles. After adverting to the convenience afforded for the transaction of business, by the proximity of the market to the Post-office, the Bank of England, and the great public establishments, tbey say— On the other band, the position of the market in the centre of a dense population, surrounded by streets, and in the very focus of trade and traffic, constitutes its pro minent disadvantage. It is this peculiarity of its posi tion which renders the enlargement of its area. expensive and difficult, which confines its approaches, and obstructs its thoroughfares ; and produces the various incon veniences inseparable from the 'periodical congregation of a large number of cattle in the most frequented parts of an immense city. • The next market described is Newgate-street, where the business, arising from the cause already adverted to, has of late years increased with unprece dented rapidity—the average annual value of the nieat sold there being estimated at nearly four mil lions, sterling, while so inconvenient is the access to the market, that it has only the carriage entrance, by Warwick-lane, which is so narrow that two carts 'cannot pass each other. Leadenhall-market is stated to be in a declining state, the business done there having diminished one half within the last twenty years ; and Farringdon market is described as being almost altogether suite nanted. The Commissioners then go on to say— Having given this description of the existing state o Smithfield-market, and of the markets for the sale o ' meat within the City, we proceed to examioe the pray ticii clues ions more immediately proposed for our con. sideration. The Markets Committee of the corporation of Lon;ion, ig considering the means of improving Smithfield, came to the conclusion that the present accommodation of the Market, both as to its thoroughfares and its area, is in sufficient. We may add that they came to the same con clusion with respect to Newgate •market. They pro pose to remedy the inadequacy of the two markets, by a plan involving extensive cnanges, which they communi cated to tut; aid as to which they explained their views, both orally and in writing, without any reserve, and in Lbe f dlest detail. The following are the principal outlines of the plan:— It is pr,posed to ralin only one acre of the existing site ,of Salichfield, and to form a new market, both for the 'tate 'of live stock and of meat, together with space for lairs for the cattle, by cleating en area of Hi aeres lyiulr west of the present market, and extending on its boundary line from Smithfield-bars, in a north-west direction, through Greenhill - s-repts to near Cow Cross-strf(r, and in a line with that s•re't westward till it intersects the new street in continuation of Farringdon-street, Om* which it runs sonthwar.l to Field-lane, near Holborn, re turning from this paint eastward to the King-street-en trance of the present market, of which it takes in the western corner. In addition to this area there would be a certain space appropriated to alaughter-hon3es. The projected market would provide room fir tying 5,000 cattle, and also for 36,000 .heep: 500 calves, and 1,000 pigs. The ap proaches and thoroughfares would be far more spacious and commodious than rhoie leading to the existing mar. ket, and there would be lairage for 1,000 bullocks and 5,000 sheep. - In order to effect this great improvement and enlarge ment of the existing markets, the Markets Committee propose that the City should mike a considerable 'pe cuniary sacrifice, and that additional charges in the shape of.tolls should be levied on the animals sold: The excess of revenue over expenditure for Smithfield -mark e t in tha year ending 31st of December, 1848, was 4,6411. 9s. 10i.; the similar excess fir Newgate-market was 3,0341. Ils. 5d , making together a clear incense of 7.6761. Is. 3d., which the corporation of London received in that year from these two markets._ The gross revenue from Smithfield-market in the same year was 8,02219 a. 10:1. The Markets Committee estimate that this amount would be increased by changes in the rates of tolls to 20,6271.135. 4d. per annum. It is supposed that the whole of this sum, together with the whole of the im proved rents t) be derived from the new meat market, should be appropriated to defraying the expenses of the new market. These expenses aro estimated as fol lows: Live cattle market to be provided for by a loan extinguishable by annual payments in thirty years ... ..• Dead meat market and buildings, to be pro vided for by the rent of the houses and the charge for shops, stallage, tolls, &c. Slaughter-houses ... £245,000 ... 177,000 ... 45,000 --- Total proposed expenditue ... ... £467,000 Connected with this impro vemen t is the plan of a new communication from Lang-lane to Holborn, at an addi tioaal cost of 60,0001. This sugeestien, however; is only incidental to the improvements of the market. It is further proposed that, the area of Smithfield , market, which, according to this plan would be aban doned, consisting of five acres, should be appropriated far the creation of baths and wash houses, and fur the accommodation of the hay-market, leaving an open space opposite St. Birtholomee's Hospital and next the entrance from Long-lane. I; is also proposed to pro vide model lodging-houses adjoining for the accommoda tion of those who would be displaced by the alteration. The plea which we have described has b-en conceived in a liberal said comprehensive spirit, and it has been prspaeel with a !s.n , :ere view of removing all the evils in Scnitlsfiekl-market which are not inseparable from a situ ition within the City. It •ippears also to us, so far as we ere competent judges up in such a (nerter, to be fsamed with much practical skill and ingenuity in its sits- ot i s arraseserneet. It propo s e s ent i re l y to change the Neweate-re irket, and also, with the exception of one acre. to chaego the site of Smithfield-markett substan tially, therefore, it provider two new markers. The N e t area of the two existing markets is 6 sores 3 roods. The area of the proposed rna-ket, including both the live stock and the meat market, as well as a prevision for" liiirage, is 124 acres 1e alditien to thie the plan contemplates the eree•ion of public slaughterhouses on • an adjoining site. The entire outlay f. , r these purpos , s would amount to 467,0.00/e and the City would be re •quired to appropriate 8,0221. 9s led. of their net re- . venue, besides raising an alditional sum by tolls. There is no doubt that the plan which the Markets Committee have, deliberately, tied after a careful consi . deretion of all the circumstances of the case, proposed, . would effect a great improvement, as compared with the • existing market, and if the changes which they rscona thend were adopted, a decided amelioration in the ap proaches to both markets, in the accommodation for the sale both of the animals and the dead market, and in the general facilities fe• traffic, would be effected. Ac "dingllyeYeess aif the on l y alternatives which presented their them;retto uswere the r etent i on of the markets in sites, and i the adep t i on o f the pies) recom m - mended by the ar ssti Committe e , hesi tate to advise the eheic e of the latterw.e s A h g eu re l e d in n g o hew avar, with the Markets Committee in their conclusion, . that the existing sites of hoth m rn a'r .ets are . quite inade yefreepures our con crete, we think that a third alte . sideration , namely, the expediencayttiohli3tsengaging the market for live stock_ from the lie 4 8 , and of recnov urhoo of the thickly inhabited paiis of the metro lux i t to asi nation in the suburbs.• _ 'Practical question ' • - Prodeeding; therefote, from the asatunption that the existing site is to be abandoned,. the . ' which We -now have to consider is, whether the plan re commended by the Markets Committee shall be adopted,' • or whether the market far l ive e t )n k shaft be removed outskirts of the metro poli s. to some convenient site in the proposed on behalf of of th e City have considered the plan it. .e disposition to view in afavourable City with every d n o t hesitate to recommend it for light, and we shout hve satisfied ourselves that such a adoption if we could have with the public interests; but after course was consistent II having examined it car..tu y with the utmost care, and weighed it in all its bearings , nsu rmountable objections. we have come to the Conclusion that it is subject to 1 These objections may be briefly summed up under the heads of— . 1, The s it ua ti on o f th e p ro j e cted market. 2. Its estimated expense. 3. Its want o f capacity for. future enlargement. "Upon each of th ese h ea d s we w ill ma k e a few ob3er vations;—, 1. Although the proposed plan multiplies and widens the approaches to the cattle-market, and enlarges its area, it does not provide a space which appears to us really adequate for its purpose. It will be considerably larger than the existing market, but still, in our opinion, not sufficiently large ; moreover, the standing place for calves and pigs will be upon a terrace forming the roofs of the lairs; while the lairs themselves would, on ac count of the difference of 'level, Probably be imperfectly lighted and ventilated. The latter arrangements, though indicating ingenuity and practical resource on the part of the arehitect, prove that in Cruising this portion or I • his plan be was cramped by want of spi es ,. The provision for lairase, thnneh in itself very de . sirable, would produce the effect of kei a l arge number of cattle and sheep (amountine. if the;ira were fully occupied, to 1 000 C3'tb . end 5 000 sheep) stallsd clo-e to the crowded thote.eghf tres of the City arid the adjoining habita.ione The ons for ; provis. , siaughter 'louses would likewise fix the permanent and moat con aiderelele extabliehaients fort slanelvering in a similsr r' \ -1' L''' eiciattaft 1 sad it it to be observed that the. City s eems _i "s - r ' -..'• AM Wits - with -JO • little "favour upon , Ile ir-slaugfit er , , ) , ',r, . t \ _ . • i t x.l-1 ~. a s `" With regard to the inconvenience sustained by driviog cattle through the streets from the market, it will be obviated by closing the gates of the market at an early hour, and by regulations to promote the early de parture of the cattle, and to prevent their quitting the market after ten o'clock in the morning, unt►l the even ing, as well as by providing well-regulated and well ventilated slaughter-bouses contiguous to the live and dead meat market:, and so placed as to be subject to easy regulation and supervision.! We concur with the Markets Committee in thinking chat rebtric:iona upon driving animals through the streets within certain hours of the day z.hould be imposed by a general enactment; but the tletailed regulations fur this purpose would depend upon the other regulations of the market, and, therefore, rtfor to many circumstances which it is impossible for us to anticipate. In concluding our report we think it right to state that, although we believe our recomtnenchtions for the removal of trit4 Smithfield cattle market to be impers- . tively demanded by considerations of public convenience. we are not unmindful of .the lase of custom which this measure would err ad upon certain classes of retail dealers esidwnt in tie t.eiglibourhood. Is is with sincere regret that we recommend any change which would be attended ..ten with partial and temporary loss of track to certain individuals ; but such local diminutions of mercantile pecfi t are the necessary, though undesigned, cons( vences f all ex sting improvements, which alter existing traffic yid communication. %S e will add that the' removal of Vie cattle market from Smithfield is, in our jadgmenr, likely upon the whole, ultimately, to enhance rather than lower the value of property in that part of the City, inasmuch as its existence in tnat position operates as a discouragement to the residence of persona whose hilli ness is not immediately connected with the market and its frequenters. All which we humbly certify to your Majesty. (Signed) GEORGE CORNEWALL LEWIS (L 8.) HENRY VERNEY (L 9.) WILLIAM MILES (LS RICHARD OWEN (L EL) FREDERICK I3YNG 9.) Whitehall, 20th May, 1850. PROTEST OF THE COttl'Olicl LION MEMBERS. The two members of the Corporation of the city of London, on the commibsions, namely, Sir James Duke, M.P., and Mr. John Wood, have protested against the report, and their protest is appended to that document. Acknowledging the impartiality and ability of the re port, while they dissent from the conclusions, they point out that no plan has been proposed by the report, and proceed in this fashion— `• The report leaving the position of the site wholly un defined, excepting indeed it is said, that it would be de sirable to remove it to a site detached from the central position of the metropolis, and that several eligible sites may be found on the northern suburb of the town. It t a i mark o ust o l el : tse,iewbohrenreein mind, h owever , t h at t h e f urt h er t h e iremovedth has e ro e m x i thee tex i s t ed central liptoesriitets7 theof tghreeeroteer will be the disarrangement and dislocation of the pre consunitetrlsng sent commercial relations, and the greater will be the direct and , wintdilirfiPrcett or r s l s In' which th e public, as good on will contain over astbe that the acres, upon to provide." market proposed by the Corpora- Asse • e ropolts ever; Corpora tion • owfitthhethmis in that and it 1 u advise l s i a ta l l t a n d e op r et adoption rien oprardtoicuubilaer,thaes s c p o a n ce . no w co ed , the thirt een coat e d m e, c e n t e t a d tepee:on, ac b e 4r i t t offe rs netted to ap ace, rs accommodetion for these terms:— With re more cattle than hay. nected with the trade, al likelsugtgested, by parties con for sale, while the area proYpoaseadn?' time to be brought market is nearly double the exteont be t. used for the market area, and it is capable of much gr e atero the present if necessary, at any time hereafter ; it ma kes extension for lighting and well-ventilating the lairs, provision I The principal objection to the plan proposed ea app es to be f o unded upon the expenditur e r equ i red to ca rry t into execution •, but we have reason t o believe thatthii cor poration of London, having a due regard to the wet.e fare of the citizens and the public at large, are well , aware of the reoessity of making sacrifices to prevent so extreme an experiment being made, and so serious a derangement of commercial connexions as would be pro duced by the removal of Smithfield-market; an opinion confirmed by the fict, that the corporation have expended large sums in the improvement 4 f Smithfield -mark, t, from time to time, at the wants of the public have ren dered these improvements necessary. The plan proposes that the corporation shall advance the mo ne y w hi c h this great ,improve meta will demand, in the belie. that it will obviate the existing evils, at the same time it will prevent diet serious injury to the pro prrty of a large pertioe of the citizens and the general trad e of the City, which cannot iiid to be conoequent 410% ihe removal of the aterl+A. houses within the precincts of the City, that it absolutely prohibits the use of any place as a slaughter-house which was not used as such before the passing of the Act (11th and 12th Victoria, c. 168, sec 94). The objections stated to the texisting Smithfield-mar ket, so far as they relate to its central position, would equally to the proposed market. No improvements in the internal disposition of the market could, in our opinion, obviate the fundamental objection inseparable from its situation in the heart of the City, within a quarter of a mile of St. Paul's, and clos. to some of the main street comrouniestions 4.f the metropolis. 2. If the expense e4tunated for the new market were necessary for accomplishing the object, it might be jus tified by the great public convenience which it would produce. A large portion, however, of the expense which it is proposed to incur arises exclusively from the great value of the land intended for the site. In order to obtain the additional area of more than eleven acres, it would be necessary to clear away a large mass of buildings, and although the houses which it is proposed to demolish are, generally, of a mean description, yet the ground upon which they etend mart be purchase .I at a high price. We fully appreciate the liberality which hes induced a public body, acting on behalf of the cor poration, to propose a plan involving so large a sacrifice of the revenue of tee City; but it is our duty in estimat ing this plan, and in comparing it with any other more economical modes of attaining the same end, to look upon the corporation as trustees fir their fellow-citizens, and not to concur in advising any expenditure of the City revenue s which appears to us necessary. 3. In adopting a plan calculated fur permanence we must look not only to the prsent, but to the future want of the metropolis. In the year 1725, the total number of cattle sold in a year in Smithfield was, as we have seen, 73,691; and of sheep, 555,620. In 1828, about a century afterwards, the number of cattle sold in Smith field was 155,714; and of sheep and lambs, 1,412,030. In 1849, the numbers had risen to cattle, 236,975; sheep, 1,417,010. Assuming that the population of Loudon will continue to increase during the next century at a rate not alto gether dissimilar to that at which it has increased dur ing the last fifty years, and also assuming that the con sumption of live animals will continue to bear a similar proportion to the population, it follows that successive enlargements of the great cattle market of the metro polis will become necessary, as, indeed, they have already been found necessary in the case of Smithfield. Now the plan which is prdpoaed offers no facilities for such enlargements, and they could only be ma in at great coat and by the demolition of budding.. If it should be said that the necessity of enlarging the market might be ob viated by establishing subsidiary markets elsewhere, it maybe answered, that the constant tenor of the evidence points to the superior convenience of one , central cattle 'market, and that, therefore, it would, be an improvident arranoment to esteblish, at a great expense, a market which affords no facilities for enlargement. PLAN. Looking to the reasons 'whin we have just stated, we itre of opinion that it would be advisable to remove the - market fur live stock from its present site—not t o so me other site immeJiately, adjoining—but to a site detached from the central portion of the metropolis. We believe, from evidence which we have received, that several eli gible sites for such a market may be found on the nor thern suburb of the town. We abstain from indicating any particular site; but we briefly enumerate the condi tions which, in , our judgment. it ought to fulfil. We think that its area, including all the adjuncts for which it may be expedient-that provision should be made, ought to be such as would afford room for a live stock market; tor , an adequate pro - vision for lairag.; for slaughter houses accessible to the public; and tor stalls in which dead meat may be conveniently sold. It should also be so situated as to be approachable by the principal lines of railway; and the character of its neighbourhood ought to be such as to afford facilities for successive enlarge ments. If this transfer were made, we would recommend that the cost of providing a site for such market, of making the necessary constructions, and of , maintaining the whole in repair, be defrayed by the corporation of Lon don: That for which purpose the tolls of the market be levied by the corporation on their own account, .and that the/ be empowered to borrow th6 . sums of money necessary for effecting these purposes. We think like• wise that the government of the market should be vested in the corporation. In snider to make the changes which we have thus re- Comineoded, new legislation would be r. qiiieite; and we assume thet_the legislative measure for carrying them into effect wo u ld, if our suggestions should be adopters, be prepared under the superintendence of the executive gove-nment. With respect to Netvgatesmarket, we concur with the Markets Committe in considering it inadequate for its purpose, and we approv4 of their proposal 1.4 r abandon ing its present site. We likewise suggest, that in case it should be d , termined to - retain wholesale markets for dead meat witbin.the City, a new market for the sere of meat be provided by the corporation, either oda part of ti.e site of Smithfield-market, or in smile other con venient place within the limits of the City. If the plan for forming a new cattle market recom mended by us should be adopted, a power of making regulations and by-laws fur the government of the market would be invested in the corporation of London. In exercising this power they would have to consider on what days of the week, and on what hours of those days, the market could most conveniently be held. ,At present the principal market is held at a very early hour on Monday morning, which necessitates the driving of the cattle and sheep trom their lairs in the suburbs to Smithfield during the night of Sunday. Moreover, although there is another market held on Friday, the attendance on that day is inconsiderable. If the site of the tharkkt should be changed, a different arrangement of the times for holding the market ought to be adopted for obviating these inconveniencies. If the new market were situated on the outskirts of the town, with a convenient access to the principal railways, the live stock would reach it without material incorvenience to the public. But in order that they should be distributed from the market among the differ ent private slaughter-houses throughout the town, it would be necessary that they should be driven through the streets. Oa this subject the . Markets Committee propose the followiyg regulations, with respect to their projected market:— THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 4, 1850. For the reasons now adduced, the objections do not appear to us to prevail ag ainst the prop ose d pl an , w hil st the evid4nce in support of it appears to us strong and conclusive. dress of thi s House dur ing the sessionof 1849, re. specting the Hudson's B.ty Company? Lord J. RUSSELL, was understood to reply in the affirmative. First—No public thoroughfares and f mtways are to be permitted within the market, by which the whole area is devoted uninterruptedly to the purposes of the market, and the thoroughfares and footways adjacent rendered free from danger and annoyance by the market traffic. MURDERS IN ARMAGH. Mr. NAPIER asked the Hon. Secretary for Ireland, whether the Executive Government had directed any proceedings to be talc:•n in reference to the coroner of the county of Armagh. in consequence of the publication of the letter in the Times of 3Jth May, to which his name was attached as the writer thereof ? Sir G. GREY replied in the nezttive. OATHS BILL. Mr. NE , VDEGATE wished to ask the Noble Lord when he intended to proceed with the Bill relating to the oath of abjuration ? Lord J. RUSSELL said he did not intend to proceed with it either this or next week. ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION BILL. Mr. HORSMAN would be glad if the Noble Lord would fix a day for going into Committee on the Eccle siastical Commission Bill. Lord J. RUSSELL said he proposed to take it on Friday, the 28. h instant. EDUCATION BILL. The Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY, seeing the Hon. Member for Oluham in his place, wished to usk him a question with respect to the Education Bill which now stands on the order of the day for Wednes day. An erroneous opinion prevailed that it was not the intention of the lion. Member to proceed with the Bill, and it would, therefore, be a convenience to the Home if the Hon. Member would stile what course he intended to pursue. Mr. W. J. FOX said it was certainly his intention to proceed with the Bill, and he wished the debate on it to be resumed next Wednesday. He certainly should persevere with the Bill as long as the House would allow him to do so. Second—The market is intended to be enclosed, and therefore capable of being shut up at any hour as may be f )und requisite to regulate the passing of cattle through the public streets. Third—The different parts of the market are to be commodiously arranged, the cattle being in one part, the sheep in another, the pigs and calves in a third, and all seen at one view. Fourth—The dead meat market, now cramped in the small space occupied by Newgate market, and being the cause of the obstructions in the great thoroughfare of N*-wgate-street, will be placed close to the live meat market, in a locality where it may be enlarged to any ne cessary extent. Fifth—Slaughter-housess capable of proper and easy control and inspection, and also of extension, if ces sary, will be in the immediate vicinity (as they should be) of the live and dead meat markets, whereby the three kinds of business will be carried on less expen sively, and the streets less encumbered with cattle and carts passing and repasaing through the same. Sixth—Great improvement in the adjoining ap proaches will be effected, as well as a new line of com munication made both eastward and westward. Seventh—A regulation toll is proposed, which will ef fectually oblige buyer and seller to close their transac tions at an early hour, leaving the streets free from in terruption during the hours of general business. • EVICTIONS IN IRELAND. Mr. POULETT SCROPE wished to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether he bad yet taken the opinion of the law officers of the Crown as to the al leged illegality and criminal character, at common law, of wholesaleolesrarices, or depopulation, as now larg e ly carried on in I re l an d? an d , if not, whether the Govern ment intended to recommend to Parliament any measure for the purpose of checking such practices, which inflict the Mosp fearful sufferings on numbers of her Majesty's subjeCts, and. appear to provoke the retaliatory perpe tration of agrarian crime ? Lord J. RUSSELL said no case had been laid before the Government upon which they could ask the opinion - of the law' officers of the Crown. With regard to the last question, hew must say that it was of so large a cha racter, that it pas impossible for him to answer it. No doubt it was of the utmost importance that measures should be devised for improving the condition of the people of Ire'and, but what these measures should be was a question for the consideration of the House. It was to him a matter of regret that the Hon. Member, with the view of a s k ing a quest i on, should have placed ' a no tice on the paper, the tenor of which seemed indirectly to justify agrarian outrages.—(Cheers.) Mr. P. SCROPE, in answer to this imputation, begged to tell the Noble Lord that if he would give him the opportunity he would prove the fact.—(Hear, hear.) DRAINAGE. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER wished to state that it was not his intention to proceed with , the Drainage and Improvement of Land Bill to-night. At the same time he did not know when it was probable that he should be able to take that Bill. He propas.d to take a morning sitting on Thursday for the purpese of discussing the ,Bill. An HoN. MEMBER asked if they were to sit in the New House on Thursday? —(Laughter.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was un derstood to reply in the affirmative. • CHURCH-R A.TES. In reply to a question from Mr. C. LUSHINGTON, Mr. TRELA.VVNEY said be stood in a peculiar posi tion with respect to his motion relative to church -rates. Everybody knew that the Disseniers in this country took a very deep interest in this question, particularly since the recent decision in the Court of Exchequer, and he was de.irous to have an early day for the discus.. sion of the Bi;l. MERCANTILE MARINE BILLS. Mr. MOEFA Cr asked the Noble Lord at the head of the Government whether he meant t) prove d with the Mercantile Marine Bills on Thursday next, which stood for discussion oe that (la ) ? Lord JOHN RUSSELL slid be intended to procee d with them on the 20 , h of June. THE MORNING SITTING. Mr. I)ISRAELI suggest-d to the Chancellor of the Exchs quer that it would be inconvenient to have a morning sitting on Thursday. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he bad no objection to a morning sitting on such a day as would be most convenient to the House. He would, therefore say, Friday next at twelve o'clock, instead of Thursday. CONDITION OF EMIGRANTS ON SHIP-BOARD. A meeting was held yesterday in St. Martin's Hall, Long-acre, for the purpose of improving the condi tion of emigrants, and for their protection on the voyage to the British colonies south of the line. The Earl of Harrowby took the chair at two o'clock. On the platform were the Bishop of Norwich, Lord Lyttelton, Mr. Napier, M.P., Mr. A. Stafford,, M.P., Mr. Mill, the Rev. Mr. M'Kenzie, the Rev. Mr. An derson, and numerous ether gentlemen and clergy men. The proceedings were opened with prayer by the Rev Mr. M'Kenzie, vicar of the parish. The Earl Of HARROWBY then addressed the meet ing. He said that the people of this country, to which had been imparted the privilege of as it were founding new worlds, had been content hitherto with merely, populating, neglecting to Christianise those new countries. Too much stress had been laid upon the mere commercial statistics of exports and imports, but at length the attention of the Govern ment had been called to the necessity of providing . something more than the mere' means of transit for the great stream of emigrants. Much, however, was still left for individual exertion and it was he thought, well in s om e res p ec t s th a t it was so. In alluding to what had already been done in this cause, he thought much was due to the efforts of the Rev. Mr. Childs, of Plymouth, who was almost alone in the work, until the Society for the Propagation Of the - Gospel had turned its attention to the subject. - The object of the meeting to-day was not only to furnish spiritual aid to the einigrants, but also to furnish them with employment while in in that particular condition in which their minds Were, by a consideration of their helpless and unem ployed state, most fitted to receive good impressions and acquire good habits. Such objects as these, ac ceptable to all men, must be doubly acceptable to all true members of the Church • and he' was sure that they would be heartily responded to by all true lovers of their country. The Bishop of NORWICH moved the first resolution—. " That, as the welfare of a colony depends to a great extent upon the religious and moral character of its earlier settlers, every effort should be made to improve and elevate the condition of emigrants from this country." He congratulated the meeting upon the recognition of the principle which was contained in this resolution. Up to this time the colonies of this country, instead of carrying with them the beautiful and humane spirit of the Gospel, had often been the corruptors of the simple savages among whom they had penetrated. Let them look to the West Indies, - and there they would see colonies formed out of two • distinct races, the emigrant and the negro, torn from his own land to be transferred to a life of toil, which, however, was not blessed with any of those Christian and religious acquisitions which it was the duty of those Christian colonists to have imparted to them. ' Other colonies had been formed out of classes_ which were deemed too vicious to be kept in this country. It was, then, the duty of every man who had the in terests of his .religion and his country at heart to be ready to come forward to improve the condition of the emigrant, and, as he considered that this resolutiOn was one step towards the .attainment of this object, it was with great pleasure that he proposed it. Mr: NAPIER, M.P., seconded the resolution which was carried .unanimously. Mr. ARTHUR MILLS, in the absence of the Bishop of Oxford, moved the second resolution— " That it is highly desirable that every body of emi grants, especially of such as are about to proceed on long voyages, should be accompanied by a chaplain, or lay-teacher, to superint en d th e re li g i ous service, and to set on f)ot classes for the instruction of adults and children." Hs observed that the interest which he took in this subject was the result of his own personal experi ence of the ill-effects of desultory emigration of un educated persons, who had had no provision made for their proper management on their passage and on their arrival. believed it impossible for persons, who lived in an old civilized country, to appreciate the extreme miseries which were undergone by those who were landed in a new country. Government measures were, to a certain extent, unable to accom plish their objects, and it was a great stimulus in the consideration that so large a field was open to private efforts. The Hon. Gentleman concluded his remarks by reading extracts from the diaries of several gentle- . men who had gone out as schoolmasters on board emigrant ships. Lord LYTTELTON briefly seconded the resolution, because be believed the duty of a country to its emi grants and of a church to its folloviers bore a very close analogy to the parental relation of father and child. He thought that the present movement was a most admirable one, and it,was with the greatest con diality that he gave it his support. Mr. BYRNE supported the resolution, and insisted upon the necessity of forming a committee to impress upon the Government the necessity of some penal enactment to restrain the immorality of officers of emigrant ships, and of -there being a clergyman and schoolmaster on hoard each ship, at the expense of the colony to which the emigrants were proceeding. IL considered that sufficient encouragement was not given by the Government to the emigration of clergymen, who he considered were decidedly the best class of emigrants. The resolution was then put and carried. Mr. STArroan, M.P., proposed the next resolution— ' " That, with a view to the improvement of the habit', moral and industrial, of the emigrants, it is expedient tnat each ship should be furnished with a suitable library of books and maps. as well as with tools and materials for maraud employment." He consi lered that the objects of this - resolution were of the highest importance, and thus would reach the emigrant on board ship at that moment when the sorrow natural to a man leaving his native country must be greatly increased by the feelings of forced idleness which would beset him at this moment. He did not wish to allude to politics, but since a certain new idea had taken its ground in 1846, and by which our colonies were thrown open to the world, it became necessary that whatever their opinions might be on the old or new idea, that we should be doubly anxious to fortify our colonies, that either they might be ready to start fair with us in a new race of glory, or be able to withstand the storm of calamity which might speedily fall upon them. The duty of every man vies - to give these emigrants leave ever to remember with gratitude the old coun try, England, and to teach their children to pray fur its welfare, not as a country from which they were alto gether separated, but with which they still retained some tie. The Rev. Mr. CHILD seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. The following resolution was then proposed by the Rev. Mr. HENDERSON " That the committee of the Society for the Propaga tion of the Gospel, firmed' during the past year to raise a fund fur providing the means of religious instruction for the emigrants, having already sent out no fewer than 25 chaplains and lay instructors, is entitled to our sup.. pert; and that all aontributions towards the funher ance of the designs contemplated in the firegoing resolutions he confided to that committee." After which the meeting separated, having passed a rote of thanks to the Chairman. DARING BURGLART.-Ori Tnursilay, between the hours of one and two A.M., a most daring outrage was c'om • mitred in the dwelling-house of Mrs. Christiana Waters, in the parish of Stanford Rivers, in this county. It appears that at the hour above named Mr. Charles Clarke, brother to Mrs. Waters, and residing with her, was awakened by hear ing some person in his bedroom; on asking who was there he received no reply, and on attempting to get out of bed he saw a man standing in the room in the act of pointing a gun at him, at the same time saying, " If you don't lie still I will blow your brains oat." The fellow almost imme diately fired, severely wounding Mr. Clarke in the left ar'n and face, the shot tearing away a large portion of the flesh on the upper part of the arm. Notwithstanding this, Mr. Clarke courageously grappled with the ruffian, and held him till.the arrival of his two nephews, who slept in another part of the house and had been aroused by the report of the gun. The robber proved to be a young mall named William Green, a loose character from Ongar, who" was convicted of felony at the quarter sessions in January last, and sentenced, to three months' imprisonment. The gun urd by Green .was the property of Mr. Clarke, and had been placed in one of the lower 'roorni through which the fellow passed on big way tipsairs. Whe l prisoner was stfortly after given into the custody' 'of i'S'apernitindent Flood, by whom he was taken" before IX - rigl.4, and, Mr. Clarke being unable' to, Wes agiiiiaiit • be. was re. Dasuclul t 9 EPPiDB eitia4y4e4-acklpffoid.Chithticte. : biting burial in towns, say within 15 miles of St. Paul's in London, and some relative distance in other towns. (Hear.) He gave credit to the Government fir the prin ciple ot the measure, but he must object t • must ef the details; and he would take the present opportunity of stating that there was one man who had been treated most infamously in connexion with this matter—a man who had devoted 15 years of his life and much of his Property to the promotion of the object aimed at in the Bill --he meant Mr. Walker.—(Hear, hear.) Another individual, Mr. Chad eick, got the while credit, while Mr. Welke-, the original pioneer on this question, was coolly thrown overheard.—(flear, hear.) 11, would say, however, that if they were to have a commission at ell, he did not see a min better fitted to serve upon it than Mr. Walker; but he (Mr. Osborne) was fortified in the view he took of the Bill by the fact that that gentleman regarded it as in many respects a very objectionable measure.—(Hear.) His opinion was, that they were doing more to prejudice the cause of sanitary reform in the eyes of the people than if they had brought in no Bill at all on the subject.—(Haar.) Sir DE L. EVANS coinplaieed that the Bill was going into C .mmittee when no oppiet rnity had been given them to discuss its principle. I. was only on Friday that several important amendments had been made known to the !louse, and as yet no time had been given to their constituents to express any opinions regarding them. Sir B. HALL said, the metropolitan Members had been told by the Right Hon. Gentleman (Sir G. Grey) that if they voted for the Bill going before a Select Coin• mittee they would perhaps throw over the Bill tor the session, and thus postpone for another year the great principle they were all so desirous to carry out; but would that be the fault of the metropolitan 'Members? The Bill was mentioned in the Speech from the Tnrone, was brought in on the 15th of April, and read a second time on the 22d of April, and now it was proposed to go into Committee on the 3d of June. Were any of the. Members of that House to blame for the delay which had thus taken place ?—(tlear, hear.) He would tell the Noble Lord why the Bill was not referred to a Select Committee. It was because it would have been neees .sary to place en the Committee a great number of the metropolitan Members, and there were not two out cf the sixteen who sat for the metropolis who would have agreed to a measure of this kind.—(Hear, hear.) It was a measure that went, in fact, to abolish the whole ' of the local self-government that now distinguished the metropolitan pariehes, so far as burial-places were con cerned.—(Bear, hear.) There were two persons in the metropolis of whom the inhabitants entertained great suspicions, and these were the Bishop of London, as regarded ecclesiastical matters, aid Mr. Chadwick, as regarded sanitary measures.—(Hear, heir.) Through the one they were in danger of having fixed upon them .ees in perpetuity to pay the clergy, and the other was establishing a board, of which he was the prime mover, and of which perhaps he would hereafter be the head. —(Hear, hear.) He would not now go into the details of the Bill. It was his intention to support the, pro posal for sending it before a Select Committee, and when the time came for considering tbe details he hoped that both as regarded the payment of fees in perpetuity, and the board, they would'be rejected by a majority of that House.—(Hear.) Mr. MASI'ERMAN regretted that he felt himself compelled to oppose the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir G. Grey), but, as his belief was that the Bill would oe bet ter considered by a Select Committee than by a Commit tee of the whole House, he had made up his mind to vote for the metier ) ot the Hon. Member for Botirein. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE (who was received with chi ers from all parts of the House, this being the first appear ante of the lion. Gentleman since his indisposition) said he was sorry he had not much voice to oppose the Bill, but he felt bound to say that with the exception of one single clause, tnat relating to the intramural burial of the dead, involving a principle which they were all unxieus to see carried out, there was nothing in the Bill to which he could give his sanction. There was not beyond that clause, if indeed such a clause really ex isted, one proposition in the Bill that deserved the sup port of the House.—(Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Baronet (Sir G. Grey) teld them that they would merely lose time by sending the Bill to a Select Committee ; but he thought, on th c utrary, that it would be a means of saving time. If it were sent to a Committee impartially cho , en, and one that would listen fairly and attentively to all the arguments that would b%. urged upon their consideration, he fur one would abide by the decision of the Committee, and give no further trouble to the House on the subject of the Bill.—(Hear, hear.) Some gentle.nen attached great importance to the sub jet t of Sunday Post-office etbeer, and that House was led into a hasty vote tu agreeing to address the Crown on the subject. Now, the petitions which had been presented on that question were the result of as great an amount of imposition as ever had been practised, and he was satisfied that the public generally' were opposed to the course which the House had taken.—(Hear, bear.) But how different was the Case with ref , rence to the petitions that had been presented on the subject of the present Bill by those representing the tnetropoli-? Where was the metropolitan Member who had stood up in his place in favour of the Bill ? Not one, he believed, would titan(' up and advocate any measure so wild and contrary to the opinions of the pe Isle of the metropolis. The Noble Lord (Lord J. Russell) would probably be for the Bill, the whole Bill. and nothing but the Bill; but the Common Council of the city of London had resolved to petition that House, praying that the City might be exempted from the ope ration of the Bill.—(Hear, hear.) One of the results of this measure would be, that it would become a model Bill for the whole country, and when it passel country gentlemen would be urged to submit to it because the metropolis had done so.—(Hear, hear.) Let them, therefore, take warning in time. lie would not now go into the details of the Bill, but hoped that the House would consent to its being remitted to a Select Com mittee. When the public heard that Government re fused to refer it to a Committee, they would at once conclude that there was some good jobbing and sonic, nice patronage to be obtained by the Bile—(blear, bear.) Mr. D'EYNCOURT regretted that Government should oppose the Bill going before a Select Committee. He highly apptoved the object of ihe Bill, but disap proved the mode in which it was proposed to carry it out. He thought parishes should take the duty laid down in the Bill upon themselves; it would be more in accordance with the spirit of our institutions, and opposed to the centralising course so much pursued by the Govern ment. The amendments in the Bill having only been made known on Friday, he bad not yet had an oppor tunity of learning the opinions of his constituents re garding them.—(Hear.) Lord J. RUSSELL rejoiced to sea his Hon. Friend the !!ember for Finsbury (Mr. Duncowbe) again in his place—(Hear, hear)—though he certainly found himself under the necessity of not concurring with his Hoe. Friend in the conclusions to which he had c on the present occasion. The question before them really was, whether it was desirable to refer the Bill tor preventing intramural interments to a Select Committee. His Hon. Friend said that if they did so they would have Mfore them a number of witnesses, all of whom would have plans to propose, and suggestions to make, and objections to urge, and data after all those plans, and suggestions, and objections had lot en made they would have to be fully considered by the Commiitee. if so, then they might consider themselves fortunate if some time at the end of July that Committee shout i miike a report. The more likely r.sulr, however, would e that the Committee would report that they ha f found it impossible to come to a decision, but that they hoped they would be allowed to sit again next session. —(Hear, heir.) Then, with respect to the Bill, he would not enter into its defence, for he hal not heard one reason urged why the House was not able to give its considers tiou to the clauses of the Bill as well as a Select Com mittee.—(Hear.) If the House found that the Board ot Health had by some clauses more powers theta were ab ?olutely necessary to carry into effect what all considered necessary, let those clauses be alterel or removed from the Bill. If, on the contrary, it was found that those clauses were necessary, they could be pissed either with out any alteration, or with such alteration as might be required.—(Hear, hear.) His Right Hoe. Friend (Sir G. Grey) had proposed some new clauses ; but he thought it hard that, because they had listened to de putations and adopted recommendations which they had made, the House should, on that account, be asked not to go into Committee On the Bill.—(Hear.) Mr Alderman SIDNEY sled, the Corporation of London was unanimous in condemning the centralizing clauses of the Bill. They felt a considerable amount of gratitude to Government for undertaking the measure, but if they were asked whether they would undergo the present evils of intramural interments, or the evils that would spring frone the Bill, their answer was, that they would prefer taking the chance of •undergoing the risk.' personal to themselves of throwing out the Bill.—(Hear, hear.) There were clauses in it which, as a municipality, they never could bo expected to agree to. As a corpo ration, they had always laid claim to the merit of mana ging their own affairs well, and they knew as well what belonged to their social condition as any committee or board whatever, whether sitting tat Gwydyr-house or Somerset-house. —(Hear, hear.) A Bill had already been prepared which prohibited the burial of the dead less than five miles from the metropolis, and it proposed to do this without any charges being made upon the public except those that were made for the decent Inter ment of the deal. Then why should not a measure of that kind be passed, instead of oiae embracing the cen tralizing powers conferred by the Bill now before the House? Ho could assure the House that the most deter , mined opposition would be given to the measure by the city of London.—(Hear, hear.) Sir R. PEEL thought the argument of the Hon. Gentleman who bad just sp , ken was one which rather showed the impolicy than a therwiati of sending the Bill to a Select Committee. The question of centraliz ition was no doubt a very important one. There were cer tain duties exercised by parochial authorities in the city of London which it was proposed by the Bill should be taken into the hands of Government; but surely that was a question so important that it ought to be decided by the whole !louse.—(Hear, bear.) He had every re spect for the Corporation of the city of London; but at the same time there were points of local management on which some persons ventured to take a different opinion from them.—(A laugh ) Take, for exanuele, the ques tion of the removal of Smithfield markee—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) Speaking generally, the Corporstien of the city of London must be presumed best qealitiel to judge of local affairs; yet that was a point on which many persons v enture d to ta k eh differesit opinion f. oin them.—(Hear, hear.) The Bill before the House had been reed a second time, and the question now was, whether they should go into Committee or send it befits a Select Committee up stairs. It the Bill was sent t a Select Committee every body must admit that it would be ono of the most extraordinary case s et t xtramord inter- - went ever heard of—(Great la d ugh p tz e )uhe thought it would be better is to laughter)—dud tlieretere rather within than without the walls of that House.—(Laughter.) Mr. HUME took great. blame to himself fir not having sooner read the Bill, as he would have most eee tainly opposed the second reading. lie regarded it so a te most extraordinary measure, and as tending gr es at it, premete the ,centralzing deeigns the-Gs?". ( 7-ee• and, ther e f ore , h e wou ld give it his mostedecideJ sition. of t he Lord R. GROSVENOR d e f e nded the princ i p le rese al Bill, in favour of which it had been his lot ce,,_ , P in the petitions, notwithstanding what had fallea' % eei b-2r llenourable Member for Finsbury. The Het i ' re pstecl asked if there was any metropolitan Member P_ t h a t, to detend tae whole of the Bill. He would not s3 i, e its hut he was prepared to say that he would OPl c i e ° ,ols being sent to a Select Committee. He had pre.ostil .bat mewing called to consider the Bill, and tb Set, mo bile much was said against giving meeting lied ternainatisl rather ahruetlYt to the Or es. clergy and to the sextons, there was no strong . „ bt t bie sion against the principle of the Bill . lie the:fo ciot el measure affected most particularly the workit i e ro ots of the metropolis, and that it would greatli,P o a eich their benefit, though there were clauses in it `.) he was not prepared to give his support—(' l ' 4 f t; tende d Mr. WAKLEY said he and his colleague hsu l a rgo e sere e at great inconvenience, at the r. qte sr. of lh T i number of their con.tituents. to oppose the 131 4 1 e, bat believed the principle of the Bill to be unassa"; ogle W er d ( L o rd in common with the whole metropolis they 60nipensation to the detail.; of the measure. The Noble Lo r ia l,,blit R. Grosvenor) had spoken in favour of the pr_ir sc i o jited he shrank from entering upon the details, a nd o r OP; that they could not be supported by principle Lord 8. ment.—(Hear, hear.) He thought the No ble ib that the head of the G overnment h a d not acted w ths re' courtesy which he oug ht t o h ave d o ne toward s ol d be pr, , s , ntarive s 0 1 th e m illi ons o f peop l e who me iroP r eff eted by th is measure. T he w h o l e o f the , s ere titan representatives, with one eXCeP ti ! " ,,,stsVe tl i' against the measure. Under these circa,'" aore alobl , o, be re. it was not too much to ask the (Lord J. Russell) to consent that the Bill shoul d oho' terred to a Select Committee All the paroobl ld 00 t be rides asked was that such a Bill as this sb °ll 'Sty, $ 5 , forced upon them. Private speculation, ilige°,ll; enterprise would set such works theni.operation azittioritiel he confidently beSeved, entitle parochial a to the ratitude ot the . teaestse Sir \V. CLAY said, that public a•though he objeo h veral of the provisions of the Bill, yet he baciil to t'74 ; any sufficient r e a son why it should be referred boci lect Committee. On the contrary, that a e tc been urged convinced him that the proper -lac the Bill could be discussed was the II)05 , itself. ool Mr. WYLD said, the question at issue n a c ut the parochial authorities were capable of coastsisot ,this rneesure, or whether a board of va ira ter B ' s ! should supersede them—[Here the Hoe. .3 1v111 , interrupt. d by loud and incessant cries of pre which mad e it i mposs ibl e f or him to roce ed?'" fore moved th e e, t h e d e b ate be adjouPrned. „ "b i t e ; Mr. BRIGHT protested against the nl°"'„ - a ttic s c) matters of this kind were managed at tha t ' „, c o o hour of the evening. (A quarter past se , e vy, It was in the recollection of the House that °l n - ,. oli li t e e f .Members were speaking about the same b°-- al 1 ",;l question of Post office transmission on the Sand re pt' t were actually, hooted down by Gentlemen w ho going to their dinner to discussing a question owe importance.—(Cries of "Divide, divide.") 'l,lfe°s weirs that at the lower benches of the House "`",, - fi e t who several several members of her Majesty's G-overn ai- g00v . 3 whet her oot il appeared ready to vote for the Bill, bad, rather than hear its merits discussed. Il iec tC': certainly vote for th e B i ll being referred to S r ; wittee; but he must protest against the irate r d of th e that lion. Members were offering at this P er lafelBb et t l evening to the ob servat i ons wh i c h other 11°13'ase,''a5-n 0 , 13 felt it their duty to make.—(Cries of " Q- 1 , 5 7 the " Divide.") Th e N o bl e L , rd at tee , 1a °' e mb er 'eminent ought to r e b u k e t h ose i nsu b o rdinate erg ) for their unseemly con d uct. —(Ch eers an d Wigh t d Mr. OSBORNE would ask his Hon. Fr iel3 e oa Weld) to a ithdraw hi s mot i on f or au a djourns B a th e lieving. a; he did, th a t i f t h ey were now to divid e main qeesteon they w ou ld get a ma j or ity. ( ff ' Mr. FITZROY t h oug h t the lion. Gvrit-'Msa bet' Wylo) had to th an k hi mse lf f or t h e i n t e rruPl 3 o goo / experienced. by n o t h aving con fi ne d hi mse lf to t ' taut) bets, e t. e House. Ise ° f Ly e Sir DE LACY EVANS cons id ere d the rebti a„ 0, Hon. Gentlem an to have been pe r f ec ly undeservv:o4 hoped for the sake of the respectebility ne d , e dt e c e rsi° ll their proceeding s , th a t hi s H on. F r i en d w ould v his motion for an adjournment of the debate. ;a d ot Lord D. sTuAn also advised his Hon. Frs to withdraw his motion. It the House eves 13° , 4 - s oo' a temper to discus.; a question o f such e f t; would be better to postpone it to arlot" er oe. tunity, when Hon. Gentlemen would be P. rev be listen with p a ti ence to t h e arguments t h a t migh t dressed to them. for , Lord J. RUSSELL did not t hi n k the roe°, r p r e scribed by th e H on . M em b er for M anc hester i e ° o4 ls venting the noise arising from conve rs a tion in thloooerif would be effectual. There mi g ht b e on e or tw °) ,,,uoto , belonging t o th e Government sitting at the Thies 0 , the House who m i g ht h ave j o i ne d i n the Or e l° the general i m p a ti ence , b ut h e (L or d J. lin ss e pttr e lieved that if th ose Hon. Memb e rs had her e , li° l/ '• silent and compl ete ly d um b t h e i mpat i ence of / ' - g reO rd would have been manifested to almost quite 5 t q fb tb .degiee.—(La ug ht er .) H e had not per ceive , tiep ce ha I been on thi s Bill any extraordinary “ P rojele", eviuced, or what was more than usual when a pa isP h o was expect e d a t th at part i cular hour o f t he B :bet k pri (Gear, hear.) I t was not fur him to sa y reason could be.—(Hear, hear, and a laugh.) „k a division was expecte d , whatever might :'e; question, between half-past seven and eigh" bof tt there certainly was a sort o f imp itience show „ t io dt Members which was not usual at any other the ev en i ng. Af ter this explanation, he hop ed t e c he Gentleman (Mr. W y ld) would go on with his tog 1. 0 ; When the q ues ti on un d er discussion was con eer- o ld rf i" interment of the d ; ad o f th e me t ropo lis, it vi° itl.l° ll be creditable, a t t h at h our o f t h e even i n g, t° . the debate, e at ty of Sir B. HALL d ec l are d th a t , d ur i ng the twee d pe he had bee n a M em b er o f that House , he b tl ,by t b r witnessed more impatience than had been sboviail House that night. It would be much better vvbf, o tti r i Lions of this import ance were to be discussed, t" should always be brought forward after dinner. tia After a few words from Mr. LACY, the .- adjourning the debate was withdrawn, an d gol d Mr. WYLD p rocee d e d s h ort l y to addres s the diea s io He said that the principle of the Bill Was not bich on the second reading. In a communication ' g o t th e , had with tee cretary of the Home DePa rgrii ,„ eel ci t Right Hon. Gentleman begged him to pestr p ro .- itfe e 'id) position be might have to the Bill till the Corn r. lo,o was upon that distinct understanding that hr C: e li et fr , s t absteiued from offering his oppoietton to the Pt it roe stage. He now objected to the because ee measure 051 to establish a Government board of commission d 130 it was a fact th a t a ll G overnment comm i ss ions" 05 and entirely f ai l e d. B ut i n t hi s i nstanc e thereo rein' t e hit i f i necessity for commi ss i oners — as t h e perochial was already in exist e nce. Il e s h ou ld vote for the Bill to a Select Committee. r etie' The House then divided, when there apPe a- 5 7 For Mr. Lacy's amendment '" Against it is Majority • • Be tas` The House then went into Committee, M l ' s ter m Clause Ceair • eee , tail a rta Clause which ena c t e d th a t L on don, o ld Southwark, a nd th e p l aces i n the EChedlllo 9° ' -- the metropelit m district, was agreed to. Ge ne On clause 2 being read, which enacts tha t r' , fo r Board of Health to . xe cute t h e A ct b e app°i nt Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said he must prouounc e f , eie mation of thi s b ear d to b e a j ob, the expense ° 5 l e - 1 e would be thr own upon t h e people b y a ddition 0 0 • 8 10; tions on account of poor -rates. He compla ine r ' eri a te il lie not having been talented him for pre! ariug " the amendments, of w hi c h h e h a d given n°t a - at e ll a g re es Bull was only repr i nte d on Friday last; it wae" disadv an t age , t h erefore, that he now proceetw -e e tror o f discussion o f th e su bj ect. Th e w h o l e of the T ie city p d tan parishes, th e w h o l e county o f Middlesex' . 0 1 London, and the whole of the counties o , s _f o rop ea t Surrey, objected to an i n t er fe ren ce by u° 0 01 .0 09 hoard, and to have their powers of local g tro polto Wren from theta. He must say th a t the m e of a ' districts had no confid ence in t h e a d m inistrs t o to te n reta e board that might b e const i tute d by the 0 eolto• They wanted t o j o b away t h e pr i v il ege of t be t ir, e y li r de to burying their dead where and with svhe ta , f t erv r "e If this amend men t were carr i e d h e wool" ao , sl ' te r , move a clause to prevent the powers of Psr b ueog is tries for a r rang i ng to b ury t h e i r own d e ad iee fereel with. to - f a 00 8 bow Mr, HUME said, no one was more O a be 9 et cid n oel funerals properly conducted than he was, e y r ce i be prepared to °Svc to the Board of Health ovissOto to coerce parishes that refused to remove th e abet 00.11 that were complained of; but he was satis"' ece ige parish with which he was connected would r. 5 Bill, tio indignation the propositions embodied iu thl d dos wished to know what would be the expense fin V pl ot f of the Commission? 0 0 0 o Sir G. GREY said, the Commission vv i ° ,ll b y.h. co a during the continuance of the Board of fle a b l eo gei o left Parliament, and in 1854 the subject might .8 tag sidered. With respect to the arraegeo3o3' d ,pcb to the parishes themselves, if they refus .. e e d•P ar y; those arrangements an application to the ( t a pe ce ,5 0 5,0 fur a mandamus to compel them might . and r be two or three years might be lost in litigatio . 6 1 ,0 burl . r could be done in the meantime as to the Age as• d o , dead in those parishes ?—(llear, hear.) A at . 99 _,/ each parish to have a separate burial groullemore!;feir tance from the metropolis. [An H OB ' 00 , bu tt , " Nor] The Honourable Gentleman said lo ge!! SI rishes were to be left to make voluntary B r i t. , e ) t .b o what security could there be they would anaB_!_orit Eta' e s to P r ' y in P was necessary, then, to take some steps of , e 5 which disgraced this country—ihe only . co s u _f the ° j ut rope so disgraced—of mingling the remain () hear ) :s r° , with the habiations of the living.- 1 - 18al to the P i sli 6 suppose the objections he had mentionedo,itn o_ „00 chatl system did not exist, would the pron e a ase e le u t ae Hon. Gentleman meet the exiaencies of the t bat th e who were conversant with the subject nr t but ohia' I " t3 worst burial grounds were not the pu privet-. grounds, and if those were stitOtyor:era, parochial grounds be a sufficient substitu_ll.,: v 0 a s hear.) As to the original clauses of the i i i vere Ot o r e p. t.O had been male, and the Comsnit tee vo goy. bee competent Co deal with the obj Own of t o f tlemun at they would have been if it S e a , ,0. • • • I &all aSS amended by the insertion of -additiona After a few words from Mr.'.'. DuNcoetne, t it W I it GREY in explanation, 0 103 t hat. Mr. M. GIBSON said, that if he were t t .0000 . t 100 ee tral body WIN desirable, still,it did 12° s t i ould e lle/ should be app , int.d by the Crown and but e' no represei tetive principlee-a corporate tes, aut not the public expenditure and rai-iog of ra r ro t Pr sponsible t . the reteesyers.—(Hear, hear.) 13 8 ctple could ntbe th fended. •eear Sage. ge 0 00 a Mr. MACIiaNNON *'boot s ' le • brought in s Bill baying , : down„ 1/T it ,. .ao;.111-;01,11, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 3. The SPEAKER took the Chair a tew minutes before Four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed:— Cardiff Waterworks. Eastern Union Railway. Garstang and Heiring Syke Turnpike Road. Heronsyke ani Egmont Bridge Turnpike Road. Midland Gre At Western Railway of Ireland. Montrose Harbour. Norwich Waterworks South Wales Railway (Capital). The following Bills as amended were considered and agreed to:— Croydon and Reigate Turnpike Road. Snaith and Cowick, Union of the Townships, &c. Tewkesbury Severn Bridge and Roads. Tyne Navigation. Wolverhampton Waterworks Act (Amendment and Ex tension of Works). Sir W. JOLLIFFE moved that it be an instruction to the Committee on Group 24 of Private Bills, that in tha event of their deciding that the r aids included in the Surrey and Sussex Turnpike Road Bill should terminate at Foxley Hatch, instead of Godsrone, they have power (if they shall think fir) to amend the Godstone and Highgate Turnpike Road Bill, by including therein the road between Godstone and Fuxley Heidi, which now forms part of the roads included in the Surrey and Sussex Turnpike Trust. After a few words from Mr. W. PATTEN, the motion was agreed to. PETITIONS. Mr. FRE WEN presented a petition from Sussex pray• ing for the repeal of the malt tax ; also a petition from the trustees of the Rye Savings Bank against the clause in the Government Bill empowering the Government to appoint trustees. savings banks. Mr. DUNCAN presented a petition from Dundee praying for certain alterations in the Saving• Banks Bill. Mr. W. J. FOX presented petitions from Bermondsey, South Shieldi , , and other places, in favour of a system of secular education. . The Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY presented a petition against the Metropolitan Interments Bill. Mr. H. BERKELEY presented a petition to the same effect. Mr. KERSHAW presented a similar petition. Sir J. TROLLOPE presented a petition tom a place in Lincolnshire, praying that the Savings Banks Bill might be referred to a Select Committee. Colonel THOMPSON presented four petitions from Lambeth in favour of the Metropolitan Interments Bill. Sir J.WALMSLEY presented a petition from Bol ton against the Summary Jurisdiction Bill. Mr. J. O'BRIEN presented a petition from Limerick against the attorneys' certificate duty. Mr.• LOCKE KING presented a petition from Cain , berwell in favour of the Marriage Bill. Mr. C. LUSHINUTON presented a petition from Westminster against the Metropolitan Interments Bill; also a petition from Westminster praying for a revisal ot• the law relating to lunacy. Mr• CLAY presented a petition from the Hull Stock Exchange praying for a repeal of the stamp duty on ►he transfer of railway and other shares in joint-stock companies. Mr• LASCELLES presented a ..petition from the Corporation of Ripon against the Burgess Bill. Sir. WILLIAM MOLESWORTH presented a peti tion praying for en expansive Interments Bill, and against the Government measure. Mr• MACGREGOR presented two petitions from places in Scotland against the Marriage Bill. Sir W. CLAY presented a petition from the parish 'of St. John's, Wapping, praying for certain alterations in rho Government Interments Bill. Mr. GROGAN presented a petition from the North Dublin Union against the Medical Charities Bill; also a petition from Dublin against the Stamp Act. • Sir G. GREY presented two petitions, one from Marylebone and the otber from Lambeth, in favour of the Interment Bill. Lord J. — MANNERS presented a petition agreed to at a public meeting 4.f factory labourer, at Manchester in favour of a Ten Hours Bill. The Noble Lord also pre sented petitions to the same effect from delegates from the manufacturing towns of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and from factory workers at Bingley and Heyworth in Lancashire. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON presented a petition from the wine merchants of London complaining of the unequal and unfair operation of the import duties on wine. Mr. MILNER * GIBSQN t resented ;a petition from the Newspaper-Stamp Commissioners, complaining of the infractions of the stamp-laws by the lower class of news papers, and praying for an inquiry into the subject, with the view to a revel of the law or to make it respected. Lord HARRY VANE presented a petition from Stockton-upon-Tees against certain clauses in the Savings Banks Bill. Lord DUDLEY STUART presented a petition, signed by 237 ratepayers and other inhabitants of St. Pancras, against the Metropolitan Interment Bill ; also petitions from Marylebone and Paddington to the same eif. cr. Mr. THOMAS DUNCO,MBE presented a petition from a Vac's inaudible in the gallery. complaining that nothing had been done fur the ♦entilation or security of mines by the House. Mr. A'lderman HUMPHERY presented a petition from Bermondsey against the Interments Bill; also from a congregation of Nonconformists in Southwark in favour of the Marriage Bill. Lord JOHN RUSSELL presented a petition from Mr. David Salomons in favour of the Jewish Relief Bill. Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition from the parish of St. Mary, Paddington, against certain clauses in the Interments Bill. Sir DE LACY EVANS presented a petition from the parish of St. Martin, Westsninith , r, to the same effect. Mr. WYLD presented similar petitions from St. Pan cras and Clerkenwell. • Sir T. D. ACLAND presented several petitions from Exeter, and other places in Devonshire, against the Savings Bank Bill. NOTICES OF MOTION.—THE ROYAL ACADEMY. Colonel RAWDON Rave notice , that on the 6th of June he should tt,IE the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, what was the result of the inquiry which had been instituted respecting ,the pictures in the National Gallery, and whether any communication had been made to the Royal Academy respecting a change of building, and also whether there would be a supple. mental vote in the next estimates with reference to this object. POST-OFFICE. Mr. ANSTEY gave notice that tomorrow he should ask the Home Secretary whether it was true that the regular order of getting up appointments its the Post- Office had been departed from in the ease of the chief clerk to the money-order office. THE LONDON GAZETTE. Mr. HUME moved for a return of the total amount paid for printing and publishing the London Gazette in each of the years 1846, 1847, 1848, and 1849, exclusive of stamps and paper, distinguishing the number of Sheets composed, and whether the wot k was done by contract or otherwise, and by whom done, with the average price paid for each sheet, and , the expense for publishing. Also a balance-sheet for each of these four years, showing the profit or loss in each year oh the London Gazette; also, if profit, stating to whom paid or disposed of; if loss, stating from what funds supplied. Similar return for the Edinburgh Ga zette, for the same period: and, similar returns, yearly , tor the Dublin Gazette, from the period when the pa-, tentre was paid a commuted allowance; also accounts t f ' the Government establishment of the' Royal Hospital for seamen at Greenwich, in the year 1849, stating the se veral officers in the military department and in the civil branch; the number of pensionsre, and establishment; the number of superannuated officers, and the total ex pense in the yea r: an d , of the moneys expen d e d upon repairing and ext en di ng farm-houses, 84c., in that year. exhibiting the sa me k ind of account in d eta il f or 1849 as the Return N o . 1 12, of 1840, exLibite d f or t h e year 1839.--Agreed to. RAJA BROOKE. Mr. HUME wished to ask the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, whether the letter which appeared in the Times newspaper, relative to the proceedings 0 , Raja Brooke, w as a fa i r copy of the l et t er w hi c h bad been received, and whether the Noble Lord had insti tuted any inquiries relative to the transaction alluded to? Lord J. RUSSELL replied that the subject was con sidered by the Government when the papers were laid before them. Those pap ers had since been laid on the table of th e H ouse. POST-OFFICE LABOUR ON SUNDAYS. Mr. HUME wished to know whether her Majesty's Government wou l d have any o bj ec tion to allo w a C om• mittee t o b e appointed to consider t h e pro j ect on which the Hous e had agreed on Thursday night , to present an address to he r Majesty. He had received several com munications from c o mmercial parties, stating that if th e mails were suspende d on S un days, serious cons equences would follow, of which few in the House had any idea. —(gear, hear.) Lord J. RU SSELL sa id h e could not s t a t e at pre sent, whether the Government was prepared to consent to the appointment of a Committee on the subject. FREE TRADE Mr. DISRAELI gave no te that to-morrow b e would present a petition from Lancashire signed by 15,000 persons, landowners, manufacturers, farmers, artiz ins, and labourers, praying for a more equitable legislation wit h respect to home labour and produce.—(Bear,) .„ BOARD OF HEALTH. -e6 Mr. . OSBORNE wished to know why the report o f the B oar d of Health which was l a id upon the table of the House the other day bad not been distributed among M embers?. the Sir G. GREY was unable to state why copies of the report had not been furnished to Members. Lord,..:, ASHLEY said the distribution of the repo r t " a " been delayed in coneequence of an accident hap.. pening to one of the stone tables of the lithographer. 1 a t THE STATE OF THE SERPENTINE. give any ea --1-r- S. OSBORNE wished to• put another question with reference to that report. A great many of the in habitants of Kensington had made strong complaints of seat making p lana knowingt io re l ativewh ether t o the the est at o of the un pool, Pleasant smell emitted from the river, or rather known as the Serpentine, and he was desirous of Lord Government tha tewoautiedr? SEYMOUR said he had lately bad an inter view with a deputation on the subj..ct, and be was at pre of might be diminished. inquiries as to how the nuisance complained ......... ...„.. HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY. Mr. GLADSTONE asked the Under-Secretary for the Col on i es whether her Ma j esty ' s G overnment s(re prep are d to lay on the table (.)f the . House an ac count of 41241 !Animus they had WPM . ; in parsusaee of the iicti, METROPOLITAN INTERMENTS BILL. Mr. VAIiLEY presented a petition from 690 of the inhabitants of Islington against the Interments Bill. Mr. C. PEARSON presente I a petition from Lam beth, praying that that Bill might not pass without alteration. Mr. COBDEN presented a petition from the parish of St. Bride's, London, against the Bill. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented similar petitions against the Bill from Poplar, the vestry of St. Luke's, and other places in the metropolis.. Mr. LACY presented a petition from Mr. George Lewis Ansell, clerk to the London Cemetery Company, against the Bill. Mr. W/ Lll presented a petition from Mile-end to the same effect. On the motion that the House go into Committee on this Bill, Mr. LACY moved that the Bill be referred to a Select Committee. He felt that as a Member from a distant constituency he required some excuse fir interfering in the question.—(bear.) But the Bill involved such great injustice —such a waste of money, and he felt so strongly on the subject that he could not refrain from making this motion. There were so many amendments to be proposed, he did not think it was possible that the Bill could get through Committee, and he thought the best course would be to refer it to a Select Com mittee. Lord DUDLEY STUART seconded the motion. The Bill affected the interests and pockets of a large class of the inhabit oats of the metropolis ; and he could not deny that a Bill on this subject was greatly wanted, but not such a Bill as this, which was contrary to the principles of political economy and constitutional freedom. Was it necessary that a Bill of this description should tax the people of the metropolis without their consent ? for that was really the object of the Bill. Toe distinguishing feature of it was to empower the board to put its hand into the pockets of the people, and to employ the money so raised in what way they thought proper. The most unusual powers were entrusted to the board. They were to appoint a whole ermy of paid officials, including, besides the mem bers of the board, clerks, assistant-clerks, wardens, sextons, and grave-diggers, who might amount to hundreds and perhaps to thousands. They had the power also of stating what graveyards and ce meteries should be clost-d up, and elm new ones should be opened, and also in what way the funerals should be conducted. But the power to which he most bjected was that which allowed them to fix e het fees should be paid for burials. The House ought t look at the measure, he thought, with the greatest jealousy, and ho would suggest that the best mode of proceeding was ro refer it to a Select Committee. Why, he would ask, was the principle t f the Bill not to be carried out by parochial authorities ? They would be much better able to do so than a Government .board, judging from the reckless mismanagement which had characterised the effice of Woods acid Forests in regard to Crown lands.—(Hear, bear.) Government boards were quite as apt to be extravagant, quite as apt to be actuated by favour, as a parochial board, and he fir one could not consent to this viola tion of the principles of the Constitution. Again, the Bill interfere.i with the course of trade. It proposed to establish the rates at which funerals should be furniehee, which was a direct violation of the principles of political economy. Before those principles should be departed from an overwhelming necessity must be shown for the step. He did not think that necessity existed in this case, but if it did the onus probandi rested with the Govern ment. In the absence of that proof no area sure of this sort ought to be adopted ; the trade ought to be left to the ordinary opera tions of supply and demand. But it was said undertakers had been extravagant in their charges. Well so they might, but was the undertaker the only tradesman who made extravagant charges? [lad they not had extravagant tailors, extravagant butchers, and extravagant grocers? and if it was right to interfere with the trade of the undertaker, why not apply th e same i nterference to those other branches of industry? The Bill was objectionable, moreover, on the ground of the excessive compensation which it proposed to give thelparties whose vested rights were likely to be disturbed by it; and the more he examined the Bill the more was he satisfied that it was a measure which ought not to be hur riedly passed, but postponed till a fteure period in order that it might be considered by a Select Committee. He thought if the 'Bill was referred to a Select Cona• mittee every purpose would be answered, and that the best results would ensue. Sir G. GREY opposed the motion for referring the Bill to a Select Committee. When the Bill went into a Committee of the whole House, he should be prepared to discuss its details and to remedy many of the evils complained of. The amendment proposed would have the effect of postponing the Bill for another session, which he believed would be productive of the worst effects. Mr. LUSIIINGTON was understood to state that he should support the amendment. He protested against the provisions of this Bill, which contemplated the burial of some Christians in one part of the cemetery, and others in another, instead of allowing them to moulder in the same dust side by side. Mr. B. OSBORNE said it was not his intention to at tack the principle of this; Bill, for that was laudable and proper. No one could read the report of the Com mittee, of which the Hon. Member for Lymington (Mr. Mackinnon) was chiirman, or the report of the Sanitary Commission, wvhcut seeing that the comfort, the well being, the morals, and, what et as of greater importance, the health—(A laugh)—of the people were at stake. The Hon. Member for Bodmin had moved for a Sel. et Committee on the Bill, and he would certainly give that motion his support. The great object of the measure was to ups. t the whole of our parochial system, as re. garded burials, and to entrust most despotic powers to the Board of Health, ell Dissenters being excluded from the management of the proposed cemeteries while a power of taxation to the extent of about 300001 would be conferred upen the Board. The Government would, have done wiser Jf, instead .of a Bill of . 73 clauses like t h e _ projent,. , ihey . had introduced a general Act prohi.. 'maw Qi) 0.14 B2CWILC.4I OW* ,b) 4 . 1" , Jam, 4 11 , pari. Bow mull clusi it of ther(