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~ I - I rt trb - ,7 Won SUN 0 FFI CE', Seven o' Clock. RAILWAY -COMMITTEES (THIS DA' 0 HOUSE OF LORDS. aaretrro LEWES, :IND HASTINGS (ASH- WORD EXTENSION) RAILWAY. INIPORTANT DECISION. The Co mm i ttee appo i nte d b y t h e H ouse o f L o rds to inquire into the merits of this Bill met at Room No. 2 of the House of Lords, at eleven o'clock. The members of the Committee are his Royal Highness the Doke of Cambridge, the Marquis of Winchester, the Earl of Det " ( Chairman), the Earl Bathurst, and Lord Churchill. u r,lr. Talbot appeared for the promoters of the Bill, and Mr. -.Buya r d , %./ , against it. The first question that arose was, whether or not the oppo sltt°ll 1 ofr Hildyard could be entertained by the Committee. ' ir • TALBOT argued that it could not. His Learned Friend ti o l * trtd for the Headeorn line, which had been rejected by House of Commons, and he had no locus standi. n ot " CHAsa,mAN observed that in competing lines he could jof e cognise the doctrine that a line thrown out by the House morons should not have liberty to appear again before a larnitteo of the House of Lords. That would be throwing the railway legislation on the House of Commons. ki ... L 'lr• T ALBOT sa id h e did no t mean that. There had been r o j t iiistances, during the present session, in which their "niPs' Committee had heard the opposition of a competing ne after it had been rejected by the House of Commons. , p. aat he said was, that the Headcorn line, for which Mr. Hild rd appeared, was entirely defunct—a skeleton without one s tark of vitality in it. Mr. HILDYARD., on the other side, said he had a perfect tight to' oppose the Bill, because the Brighton, Lewes, and Ilastings line obtained assent to their preamble, both in the 1 4 rds and Commons, on the specific understanding that they riuld not interfere with the Bill proposed. He trusted their 4Fdships would see the utility of entertaining an opposition Alt in itself, and which would have the merit of showing the ,defects as well as the excellencies (if it had any) of the proposed nee, He denied that there was the least breach of faith on the Part of his clients, because the other side took the Bill from their Lordships' House on condition that they would offer no obstruction to a line from Rye. Counsel were proceeding with their arguments, when The' CHAIRMAN ordered the room to be cleared. - Upon our return, after a considerable lapse of time, . The CHAIRMAN said they were unwilling to entertain the opposition of Mr. Hildyard. The line was, no doubt, in a cer tain sense a competing line, but the mere circumstance of I ft m u'ringth'at it w as a c ompeting line would not be sufficient to induce the not inn. Committee to declare that the proposed line should sa fari, ' vewrtikinellielti,ol)lrd'ishßinpssidt.mhee,was anxious as much as possible to the oth g er particularly as the session was now 1 1,oearly to a close ; and if his Learned Friends upon bate no Side would agree to the following resolution, he would would ° , o iection whatever to withdraw his opposition. He would sreaanu.ettihoen resolution for their Lordships, trusting they str u Th a t cti it is the opinion of this Committee, that the con prei" of I coast line from Hastings to Ashford ought not to k h o "„3"_, l ce the making a railroad from Rye to Headcorn, if it ,0,„.r_0 hereafter appear that the public required suet' accom '.atimuo tuThe Le arned Counsel went en to show that i t wou ld not at „,,niterfer e w i th the proposed line, as the reso l ut i on did not oZirin anything. All he desired was, that the construction of ft!ooast line should not impede in any way the construction another line, if Parliament thought it right to sanction the wumstr l'ru„.sction of another. • • TALBOT—I cannot agree to any such resolution. CH rue toodnetAramAx —We are unwilling to sanction any line of which could in any way bind other people. If your ' Hill yard, was, as you say, an independent arid a e ruiw m it 'e, you will, of course, be always at liberty to pro- Understand the gist of your Lordship's rvations, The and shall not further press my objection. CII AIRMAN—Th!r, you withdraw your opposition? T r• HILDY ARD— Y es. Pit,,HAIRMAN declared the PREAMBLE of the BILL ED After itoo e some further observations, some formal evidence was oto respecting the traffic and distance. 8 clan ses were inspected, and the Committee broke up. HOUSE OF COMMONS. %l w , GROUP X. Tat= AND LINCOLNSHIRE LINE. ,_ 4 let n b l e Committee resumed to-day at the accustomed hour. Alr.l ) I's Present, Viscount CourtenayAchairman), Mr. Wall, qtr, ar by , and Mr. Scrope. °4 Si t t,,,,t i szsi Q. C., added a few observations to his address 4 d t amaY in favour of the above scheme, pointing out its SNea to th e t owns o f Retf o rd, Lincoln, and She ffi eld. ge-avant WRANGHAM rose to reply, and was brs ius r geatit WR ANn Hall, in reply, contended that the Bawtry Ray f a ° l the L ondon an d Y or k li ne was a far preferable rail- ‘ aatott:-.!he Wants nf the district, inasmuch as its unity of the .and luld direct course gave it the advantage over the Rani Lincolnshire. line in respect of direct and lateral ic"'itati on t t •tarn e • 4d d Counsel was here interrupted by an intimation A J° 4 l%..ineaker was at prayers, and the Co . manittee _ha:dn . ! mre • l3 lan'fOur till twelve to-snorrow, he will resume h i s as - "Ltitour. '4ll'-tR.SALL'S.—THIS EVENING. Six o'CLocK. • • ' sT. 'LEGER. 3 to 1 - agst Weatherbit 1 to 1 a gs t Mentor 10 to 1 agst Old England 10 t o 1 agst Merry Monarch 1 5 to 1 agst Pantasa 20 to 1 agst The.flaron At six o'clock,-owing to the settling, not three beta had been laid. The rims returned are nominal. • INIPERIA L PAIILIAMENT. (THIS E V ENING.) 'HOUSE OF OF LORDS. The House sat to-day at a quarter before Four. ROYAL ASSENT. t jhe royal assent was given to-day by commission Bill Q following Bills :—The Customs Laws Repeal GeLne Customs Management Bill, the Customs i th e -- / , 4 -4 ':-Regulatioa Bill, the Smuggling Prevention V . 2 ,7; 1118 h Shipping and Navigation Bill, the British 1% Registration Registration Bill, the Customs Duties Bill, the ti es -Pe hausin g of Goods Bill, the Customs Bolin the British Possessions. Abroad Trading Auctio the Isle of Man Trade Bill, the and Legacy Duties. (Ireland) Bill, the Com- DelLat ic9: l Allowances Courts of Law Bill, the Real Pro )6'.rtY Amendment Bill, the Bills of Excliange Bill, the 414"lbodied Militia Bill, the Court of Chancery tirdment Bill, Public Funds Bill, Corn Warehousing , the Lunatics Bill Coals (Port of Londo Bill, the (17, 1 ' in Trade Rating , Bill, the Joint-stock Company's e ' and) Bill, the Westminster Improvement Bill, the )ar Lands (Australia) Bill, the Scotch Poor-law the' t he. Assistant Barristers' (Ireland) Bill, I, i Grand. Jury Presentments (Dublin) Bill, the Dublin tile W ater Bill the Duddeston and Nechell's Improve /tAlt Rill, White's Estate Bill, Ellison's Estate Bill, the f0i1: 4 , 4 40 Vicarage Bill, the Yoker Road Bill, and the ng 'Railwayßills : r nt e Leeds and Bradford, T he gew d unction, istrnaingham and Gloucester, the °Yffnrd, Wor ces t er , an d W o lverhampton, e Lo n d on and South Western, T h e South E astern, L ondonderry and Coleraine, ThOxford and Rugby, e Ere w a,3 h Valley, ,r South W a l es, )1 4t : Monmouth an d H ere f o rd, and 'the Glasgow, hrhead, and Neilston. e Lords Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, filWbarncliffe, and the Earl of Shaftesbury. eir Lordships then adjourned during pleasure. 4e ir Lo- T 4 17 1r rds hip s resume d at Fi ve o'clock. 111 44 1 , Removal of Paupers Bill went through Cam eor tito - C e rough and Watch Rates Bill went through Th e p . GAMING AND WAGERS' BILL. ITeei °ll3ll lluns' amendments to this Bill were read and tl LUNATIC ASYLUM BIL C o (1111 Inons' amendments to S this Bill were then SOit R ord - 1 ,`',.111 EASTERN RAILWAY BILL. -el ect c ''''' 3 )ESDALE brought up the report of the Th e "Itaittee on this Bill. t ioh arqois of CLANRICARDE presented a pe kart lu a glihst the Bill, from a gentleman named n b ithi r s Lri ll• He stated that there were eleven of ott • the subscription-deed of persons, e Is zt ,:"° ll, l was a shareholder in the Kentish rail that t 1 34" to the amount of 570,0001. He thoughtto haeett'PPOrtunity should be given to the petitioner re ree N „ . M 4 Statelnent investigated, and he would, therefore, ~!.that the Bill be re-committed. t htT i t t t ItEDESDALE begged to assure their Lordships 41errecei the petition now under considerat n had been th e to the Committee on Standing Orders, and all 14Q0_0;Intaitjteenents had been there entered into, and that Pr oof out did not think that the petitioners had -oef a ny ease whatever against the Bill. As a g eoti or the f r i volous nature of the objections ms d e, one :` c ag e it wasix alleged to be wrongly described, cause e was affixed to his name instead of 13 44 —ell ' The line which the Committee eon selected p resented no engineering difficulties of any I torr iaen ee ; while the other competing line embraced d li n 2 of great magnitude, and was by no means so goo the Co Under these circumstances he contended that adop`°td.Mniittee were perfectly right in the course they The Marquis of CLANRICARDE said it was mon stro Pr t ° say that this man had only a small piece of „,:rrty which would be effected. That was a prima fan reason why he should be heard, as every poor elslreason to be protected—in fact he had a greater t 0 . ., to the protection of the house than a rich man. should persist in his motion that the bill be re-com -mltted. Lord 14 to urs ---,,_`‘EDESDALE said the Committee took the o p I. ney did for the purpose of preventing a vexatious Position to th 8.11 Th e e 1... orki Marquis of CLANRICARDE then withdrew his th e ' motion, and moved that the evidence taken before n ,„, e. ortun Earlittee on the Bill be printed. of WICKLOW protested against the course l i eed, and cited the case of the Dublin and Gal w ay ektrP to show that such a step ought only to be taken in e L as er t d s For lip` th en di v id e d , when there appeared, the motion 37 For the amendment Majority Tatrrxli'EN Ge re Majority was consequently received. ASTER'S COURT OF CHANCERY tord (IRELANDIL STANLE Y moved the ) thi ß rd reading of this Bill. to P He Earl of WICKLOW. said he had an amendment rPose to the Bill. (LEFT SITTING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at a Quarter to Four o'clock. ROYAL COMMISSION. The Deputy Usher of the Black Rod attended at the bar to summon the House to the House of Lords, to hear the, royal assentgiven by commission to several Bills. The SPEAKER, attended by several of the Members, left the House. On the return of the SPEAKER, he inrormed the House that the Royal Assent had been given to a num ber of private Bills (for which see Lords' report). The following private Bills were road a third time and passed : The Birmingham Blue-coat School, _ _ Sir Robert Keith's Estate, The Severn Estate, The Lutwidge Estate, The Earl of Powis's Estate, The Duke of Bridgwater's Estate, The North Walsham School Estate, Marsh's Estate, Bowes' Estate, Boileau's Divorce Bill, The Winchester College Estate, Sampson's Estate, Marquis of Donegal's Estate, Molyneux's Estate. GRIMSBY DOCKS. The Lords' amendments to this Bill wore brought up and agreed to. THE SHOULDHAM DIVORCE BILL. This Bill was read a second time. RAILWAY FRAUDS.—TIIE LONDON AND YORK LINE. Mr. HAWES rose to present a petition from the Chairman of the Cambridge and Lincoln Railway Com pany, who stated that his attention had been called to the subscription list of the London and York Company, and by the aid of himself and agents he had discovers that the names who had subscribed half a million to the contract deed represented no persons that were living, or whose places of abode were wrongly given. In addition to vi hich were many names of paupers or persons who had no visible means of meeting their en, gagements. The petitioner's inquiries were not yet ended, but the petition expressed that he had no doubt he would be able to discover many more frauds and forgeries in addition to those already set forth. If a Committee of inquiry were appointed, he was prepared to establish these allegations before it. The peti tion contained the names of many parties who, upon inquiry, would be found altogether ia• competent to meet the demands made upon them. As he would have a chance of speaking on the third read ing of the Bill, all he would now do, would be to move that the petition be printed with the votes to morrow. To-morrow it was his intention to make a motion upon it. Mr. B. DENISON said he had been allowed to look over the petition before it was presented, and saw one name attached to the petition, as a party who was repre sented to be incompetent to meet the amount for' which he had subscribed. Now, he knew that gentleman to be a most respectable solicitor, and also that he was compe tent to pay six times the amount he had subscribed for. They might judge from this fact what the petition was worth. _ ..s. An Hose MEMBER inquired the name of the party in question. Mr. B. DENlSON—Michael Thomas Baxter. The SPEAKER asked if it was the intention of the Hon. Member (Mr. Denison)' to object to the printing of the petition. Mr. I)ENISON—Yes, he objected to the printing of it. He should not try to stop the progress of the Bill by objecting to the third reading, neither had he any ob jection to have the petition inquired into, but he wished to allude to this circumstance—a paper headed urgent, dated August. and signed Joseph Crouches, Parliamen tary agent—('Hear, hear, and laugh ter)—(Parliamen tary agents were, to a certain extent, under the control of the House, and surely it was a breach of privilege of a person following such an occupation so to act) — and directed to the postmaster of Reigate (so we under stood), inquiring whether Edward Foster and Mr. Chap man—(Hear, hear)—(who he believed was a director of the Company) resided in that neighbourhood, and asking for information respecting them. It also appeared that such circulars were sent to almost every town in the kingdom, in which it was supposed any person who held shares in the London and York resided. He also understood that persons had been going about Lon don, for the last four-and-twenty hours, making inqui ries respecting the residences and occupations of those who held shares in the Company. He also believed that the petition had been got up for the purpose of stopping the progress of the Bill, and was of a similar charac ter to the objections made with respect to the sections. The promoters of the Bill were taken by surprise by this allegation, and they sent down their surveyors to ascertain if there was any truth in it, when it turned out to be all fudge, 'but not until they had been put to a great deal of trouble 'and expense. He only men tioned this to show what had already been done for the purpose of wearying the time of the Committee and Directors, in order that the London and York Bill might not get the benefit of the resolution which the House had lately passed ; and the present petition, he believed, had been brought forward with precisely the same object. He should certainly, therefore, oppose the motion for having the petition printed. Mr. B. HAWES knew nothing of those who were promoting the line, nor had he had any sort of com munication, either directly or indirectly, with the parties to this petition. It was brought to him by a most respectable man, and it was signed by a gentleman no less respectable, the chairman of the Cambridge and Ely line. He was informed that the petition included the names of persons who represented 658,0001. in the Company who were quite unknown ; 200,000/. was represented by fictitious subscribers ; and 145,000/. by parties wholly irrespon sible. Now, whatever the Honourable Member might say of the conduct of those wholopposed the Bill, he could assure the House that he stated these facts upon the best possible evidence, and he was satisfied in his own mind that they ought to be inquired into. There was one gentleman who was represented to be residing in Finsbury-square, and who had subscribed for 130,0001, but on inquiry no such person could be found. There was another person, who stood for 500,0001, who was receiving alms from the Charter house, and whose name stood on the Parliamentary list as a railway subscriber for 51,000/. He had not the slightest interest directly or indirectly in the line, and it was perfectly immaterial to him whether the House passed it or not, but he thought, nevertheless, they ought to inquire into these abuses. He thought the House ought not to refuse receiving a petition brought forward by respectable parties, and containing allegations of such a character. But lie had done his duty in laying it before the House. He had stated his belief in the respectability of the parties who had signed it, and from the inquiries that had been made by himself he was of opinion that the allegations in the petition ought to receive the attention of the House. Mr. BERNAL said that he knew nothing of the parties connected with the Cambridge and Lincoln Rail way, but he knew quite enough of railways to be aware that all the Care this House could take would not put an end to stock jobbing or gambling speCulations, with the mischiefs which must arise from them. He had no wish to complain of the parties who had signed this petition. lie did not complain of his Hon. Friend—he had no doubt of his sincerity, but he did complain that his Hon. Friend should characterise any refusal of the House to receive this petition as unjust, and as depriving those parties of a 'remedy. Why, they were well aware that there was another tribunal, even if they refused his Hon. Friend's motion. They were not shut out from an after tribunal, and he might ask his Honourable Friend if thcse circumstances were of so novel a character that he must come down to the House on the third read ing like a thunderbolt, to shake the merits of this case. As he had before said there was another tribunal, even if the House refused to consider the motion of his Hon. Friend. Mr. ROEBUCK said that the Hon. Member who had lait spoken had compared the presentation of this petition to a coming down to the House like a thunderbolt, and he thought proper to find fault with his Hon. Friend the Member for Lambeth for presenting it. But; what did the - petition allege ? Why, that a fraud had been prac tised upon the House of Commons. It was not that a fraud had been committed upon the Lincoln and Cam bridge Company, but the assertion was that a fraud had been Committed on the House of Commons. But had they not a precedent of this character ? Some time ago they bad passed a Bill respectidg Ireland. That was taken to the House of Lords ; and, after being subjected to a searching ordeal, they discovered that after that House (the Commons) had performed their duties —du ties performed to no purpose—one half of the list was fraudulent. As the common saying had it, what was sauce for the goose was sauce for the gander, and what was applicable in the north of Ireland should be applicable to 'the north of England. They turned out the Dublin and Galway Bill for a fraud on the House of Commons. The ft and was indeed proved in the House of Lords, and this was proved in the House of Commons. Au HoN. MEMBER—Not proved yet. ROEBUCK--Not proved yet, certainly. Why, it seemed to hint that. the House .by refusing this inquiry got rid of their functions and neutralised their own powers. To the searching inquiries of a Ncble and Learned Lord, in the other House, was the country in debted for the eiscovery that 5 or 6,00,000/. was sub scribed by persons who were almost literally paupers, and now they seemed about to send up a similar ease to the same House—a case, too, involving a fraud on the House of Commons. Mr. WARD was opposed to the London and York, but be had one objection to the motion of his Hon. Friend, arising from the peculiar circumstances of the case. The effect of this motion would, if applied in future, that no Railway Bill would be enabled to pass at the close of the session. He granted that it was discreditable to any Committee of that House to pass over such an error, but the case was very difficult in the Dublin and Galway. The allegation of such an error was made by Mr. Cockurn, the Committee desired to see the share Est, which was not produced, and finally the objection was withdrawn. He trusted that his Hon. Friend would withdraw this motion, for its effect was this. It was known in" the City in the morning that this motion would be made, and the con sequence was, that the shares of the company rose as the other fell. He thought that the House ought to look with suspicion on a motion like this upon the third read ing of any Bill. Mr. DARBY would take that opportunity of saying that the original share list was befere the Committee, and every word of the deed was di. , :eussed and coin• meuted en, and there never was a hint thrown out against the respectability of the persons who had signed the deed. strangers were then ordered' to withdraw. No di vision, however, took place, the motion having, as we understood, been agreed to. After a few words 'from Mr. COLLET, Mr. B. DENNISON then moved that the London and York Railway Bill be read A third time. Mr. HAWES said he wished to say a few words 'on this subject. After what had taken place on the Gal way Bill, and after the allegations contained in the peti tion which had been presented to the House, he thought investigation was highly desirable. It had been stated that the subscription contract of the Lon don and York was unimpeachable, but such was not now the case. Now, it appeared that all the companies had agreed that they would not impeach the contract deeds of one another before the Standing. Orders Committee, so that in fact these deeds might, •for anything the House knew, have been altogether fraudulent ; under such circumstances, it was not at all surprising that these deeds should not have been sooner impeached. Mr. ROEBUCK . said, he woald move that the third reading of this Bill take place upon that day three months. His reasons were numerous—first the Legisla ture had ordained that, as a protection fur the pablic, the Bills should be examined, in the Standing Orders Committee : it was distinctly understood that the contract deed should be of a bona fide character—that was, that these subscriptions and addresses that of the parties should be genuine. If the Standing Orders Com mittee was worth anything, it surely was requisite that a full and searching inquiry should be gone into. The petition before the House alleged a fraud—he did not mean to say that his Hon. Friend opposite (Mr. Dennison) was in any way privy to or cognizant of these frauds, but the question was would the House in the face of this allegation pass the Bill. Why the fraud could not be denied. It was easy for the Honour able (Mr. Dennison) to shake his head, but would he disprove the allegations contained in the petition in Committee. Everybody knew that the proceedings relative to this Standing Orders Committee were carried on in a manner that astounded the whole community. The disclosures came upon them like a thunder clap. They could not go anywhere ' without hearing " railway shares" in everybody's mouth. In fact every man and woman in so ciety talked of railway shares. The present rail way excitement was a monstrous phenomenon. If it were asked why he came at the eleventh hour be would answer, it was only at the eleventh hour the.frauds had been discovered. These frauds had now reached their height, and it was the duty now to stop its growth— should not the House stop the progress of the Bill, when parties were ready to prove that fraud had been com mitted. Mr. HAWES seconded the motion. Mr. WILSON PATTEN said it was really too bad, if, after the Committee had spent eighty days in investigating all matters connected with this rail way, and after an expenditure of 100,0001., parties were now at the eleventh hour allowed to come forward and stop the progress of the Bill. Even suppose the contract deed were fraudulent to the amount of 600,0001., there was still ample capital to carry out the under taking: If the passing of this Bill were postponed, he would never again sit on a Railway Committee. Mr. AGLIONBY know nothing of the merits of the Bill, but he rose to answer one observation of the Hon. Gentleman who just sat down. As to the standing orders—it was an error to suppose that they gave to the public the protection which they were intended to give. One mode of defeating this object was that, when there were two rival companiei for the same line, those com panies agreed mutually not to oppose each other in the Standing Orders Committee, lest both Bills should be lost. The Committee had no means.of preventing frauds, but he hoped that the House would by next session take measuret to prevent the repetition of such frauds as had been detected this session. With respect to the asper sions which had been cast upon some Members of that Heuse, he would pledge himself to the house, that so long as he was in a 'Comtnittee of a judicial character he would have nothing to do with any railthty. He hoped something would be done to prevent the combination of great companies to sacrifice the interests of the public. Mr. WARD said there was one point which the lion: Gentleman had not looked to, that was the large amount of money that was expended upon the northern railway projects, before they came before the Standing Orders The sum expended amongst these —successful and unsuc • cessful—was upwards of 100,000/. Under these cir cumstances it was not frstud upon the public or the House, but to preVent the sacriflcd of so much money.—(Hear, hean) With respect to which his Hon. Friend had said of Members taking shares in railway Companies ; he, for one, was not ashamed • to say that he held such shares—(Hear, hear)—and he thought it was of importance to the pnblic that men of station and responsibility should be so connected with railways. He (Mr. Ward) never felt happier in his life than when he saw any of those great enterprises carried to r successful conclusion. ' Mr. AGLIONBY did not in the slightest degree in ; tend to reflect upon the concinct of any hen. member in that house. Mr. B. DENNISON , said Many observations had been made respecting the compromise which bad been entered _into between the. -parties respecting• the standing orders. That compromise did take place; and he was glad to have the opportunity of explaining the matter to the House. He received himself, in February •or March last, a note from Mr. Lang; of the Board 'of Trade, appointing an interview. In consequence of that note, he went to the Board of Trade, and Mr. Lang proposed to him that , all content before the Standing Orders Committee 'and between the respective parties should be suspended. On the part of the London,, and York Company lie at once agreed to the arrangement, provided all other lines, com peting with the London and York would agree 'to the same terms. The 'agreement was drawn up by the solicitors, and was 'Signed by the respective parties. That agreement was religiously kept by the London and York Company, and he put. it to the House whether it was good taste in the persons who had signed the petition that had been presented that evening, to come to that House and complain .of the London and -York, one of those parties being chairman of an opposing line. After a few words from Mr:R. COLLETT,. strangers were ordered to withdraw, but no division took place. Mr. HAWES, amid the noise which followed; was understood to say 'that he had a particular wish to have the Bill printed. The Bill was then read a third time and passed. Captain PECIIELL presented a petition from a pri vate individual, complaining of the manner in which he had been oppressed by the levy of the property-tax. - Mr. MARK PHILIPS presented a petition from the . . tailors of Manchester,,coniplaining that they were com pelled to work in unhealthy places. ' Mr. GROGAN presented a petition from the inhabi tants of the North Dublin Union praying for certain amendments in the Irish Poor Relief Act. Mr. MACKINNON said he begged to give notice that he would, early in the ensuing session, present a motion against interments in or near large towns. INDIAN CORN. Mr. ESTCOT begged to give notice, that hemould next session move, that all Indian corn imported into all ports of the kingdom, be admitted free of all duty. — (hear, hear.) • ADJOURNMENT OF TIIE ITOUSE. Sir R. PEEL begged to give notice that he would, on to-morrow,' move that the Rouge, at its rising, do ad journ till Friday. COAST OF P.ORTENDIA. Mr, SMYTHE said he would postpone until next ses sion his motioa for a Select Committee to consider the report on the papers laid on the table of the House relative to the claims of her Majesty's subjects, arising out of the measures adopted by the Irish Government in the years 1834 and 1833 on the coast of Portendia. (imer SITTING.) IRELAND. TIIE 813 N, LONDON, HONDA I EVENING, AIrGITST'r4, 1845. LETTER FROM ARCHBISHOP MURRAY TO MR. O'CONNELL. DUBLIN, AUGUST 2.—The Dublin Evening Post n' this afternoon contains the following letter from the Diosi Rev. Dr. Murray, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dub. " TO DANIEL O'CONNELL, ESQ., M.P. " Mountjoy-square, August 1, 1845. " My dear Mr. O'Conneil,—l avail myself of the first possible moment after my return to Dublin to correct a mistake into which you have been unconsciously led by the report (apparently a very inaccurate one) of a speech attributed to Sir James Graham. " The Freeman's Journal, of the 22d ult., states, that at a public meeting on the preceding day, you spoke as follows : _ _ " I find in the Times of Friday last the following dia logue between Lord:Arundel and Sir James Graham: the Earl of Arundel and Surrey asked whether it was the in tention of her Majesty's Government to propose any amend ment in the Charitable Bequests Bill? Sir James Graham replied that the Lord Lieutenant had received represen tations from the Roman Catholic Commissioners of the Board of Bequests,, stating that the duty had devolved upon them of determining who the ecclesiastics were, who, in certain districts, were entitled to the benefit of the bequests left to the clergy of the Church of Rome, and stating:also that it was at variance with the canons of their church, which required that all matters of doc trine and discipline of this nature should be settled by their diocesans alone.' " You are then said to have continued thus " Oh I feel my heart at ease and my mind tranquil. I was accused and assailed and abused for offering my humble opinion that that Bill was uncanonical and in. consistent with the canons of the Catholic Church. They. laughed at me for giving that opinion, poor theo logian us I run ; but humble as my opinion is,- here it is confirmed by those venerable characters themselves, the Most Reverend and always esteemed Dr. Murray, the Most Reverend Dr. Crolly, and the Right Reverend Dr. Denvir. I have their authority that the Bill gave un canonical power to the Catholic prelates.' " Believe me, my dear sir, thati it gives me inexpres sible pain to be obliged:to contradict, before the public, any assertion that you would think it right to make, and that it would ne delightful to me, and to the oil< r prelates in question, to be the medium of commurli eating, were it in our power, that ease and tranquillity of which you sp< ak, to a heart so fervently glowing as yours is with the love of religion. But as, on this occasion, you have been pleased to put my name prominently forward, the painful duty devolves on me of declaring that you have allowed yourself, in this instance, to be led, unintentionally of course, into an error, the publication of which is but too well 'cal' u'ated to cast a grievous, censure upon characters which you would be most unwilling to defame. Permit me, then, most respectfully to assure you, that you have not the authority of the prelates in question to sus tain your assertion. They have never said, or hinted, or thought, that the Bequests Act gave to theM an unca nonical power. The speech, therefore, on which you relied must have been most inaccurately re ported; and the Minister must haVe alluded to objec tions which have been urged by the opponents of the Act—objections which, in the opinion of those prelates,. had no sclidfoun,dAtiusqo,eq 0y044 whirh.they.thought it right hVitig unaer the notice of Government, in the hope that every pretext, how groundless soever, for the repetition of them, would be met by a suitable remedy, and taken away. It would be strange, indeed, if those prelates would denounce: as uncanonical a power which was granted to them for the sole and express purpose of enabling them to preserve inviolate the discipline and usages of our Church in the very case to which the objections allude. In the progress of this Act through Parliament, when there was question of ascertaining who, in a case of doubt, would be the persons entitled, according to the discipline and usages of the Catholic Church, to the benefit of a bequest left to a pa,rticular parish, an implied pledge was, it is understood, given at the request of some Catholic Member of the House, that Catholic bishops, as the authorised expounders of that discipline, shou!d be placed on the Board for the purpose of declaring in what manner this portion of the Act should be carried into effect, so as to be in perfect conformity with the dis cipline and usages of our Church. This has been done, and the object for which it was proposed has been attained. The very first act of those prelates, on entering the Board, was to place on record a decla ration of what, in such cases, the discipline of our Church is, that it may serve as a guide to regulate the decisions of all future Catholic Commissioners — namely, that in every such ease the testimony of a bishop is to be received as conclusive evidence as to who is the rightful pastor of any parish in his diocese. Not only did this declaration, so laid dow n as a rule for the guidance of the Catholic Commissioners, receive, at once, the sanction of the entire board, but a si milar rule was adopted by those members of the board who belong to other religious persuasions for their gui dance also, with regard to the pastors of their respective communions ; so that the Protestant Bishop is thereby recognised to be the judge of who is the authorised rector of a parish ; the Presbyterian authorities who is the authorised minister of a congregation ; and the Catholic bishop who is his authorised parish priest. " By this rule the inviolability of our discipline, as far as regards the present question, is fully recognised. To the strict observance of this rule, all the members of the Board are solemnly pledged, not only by their own recorded declarations, but also by the duty which they owe to their respective religions —a rule rendered thereby as binding upon men who have a character to sustain, as it could be rendered by any sanction of law. " Still, there are some, surprising as it must appear, whose over-sensitive scruples even this ample security has not been sufficient to satisfy. Those scruples, groundless as they are, we have felt it our duty to re spect • and we have never, therefore, concealed our wish that such a legislative explanation should be given as would wholly remove them. " But why has not this been done during the present session ? The reason is obvious. It would be clearly inexpedient to introduce into Parliament without urgent necessity (and no such necessity exists), a new subject for angry debate about Catholic doctrines and discipline, while the deafening outcry against Maynooth and its doc trines was still ringing in the public ear, and spreading the must inflammatory excitement throughout the land. " With respect to the hope expressed in the subse quent part of your speech, ' that the Catholic pre lates will see what course they should now take, and that they will not permit themselves to be committed any longer to the exercise of an uncanonical power.' I hare or ly to repeat .that they have not committed them selves to the exercise of any such power ; and I beg further to assure you that it is their fixed determina tion to persevere, with the blessing of God, so long as the multiplied duties of their station will permit, in that charitable course, on which, at a great sacrifice of time and personal convenience, they have, as members of the Charitable Bequests Board, deliberately entered, with the sole view of serving the poor, and of protecting, if necessary, the interests of our church. " I have the honour to remain, with respectful esteem, my dear Mr. O'Connell, very sincerely yours, • " k 1). MURRAY." RESIGNATION OF MR. LUCAS. Mr. Lucas, the Under Secretary, gave a farewell din ner yesterday to the officers connected with his depart ment. Mr. Lucas remains for three weeks, after which Mr. Pennefather succeeds him as Under Secretary, and Mr. Cane is to take the place of Chief Clerk in the Secretary's office. Mn. O'CorirtELL.—On Thursday evening Mr. O'Con nell arrived at Darrynane Abbey, where he remains for some weeks. He has been joined by his eldest son, Mr. Maurice O'Connell, M.P. RESIGNATION OF A MAGISTRATE. BALLINHASSIG AFFRAY.—The cork Reporter says—" We were aware, a fortnight ago, 'that Mr. Molony had sent in his re signation of the: Commission . of the Peace. We now learn, with regret, that, in compliance with his request, the supersedeas has come down. We understand the cause of Mr: MolnnY's resignation was this:—Feeling horrified at the disastrous affair in his own vicinity, and seeing that the police can, under their 'regulations, act against the people without the orders of a magistrate, while in public opinion the Magistrate may be unjustly implicated in their acts, he determined not, in any form, to be a concurring party to such regulations, or in future to risk being involved innocently in such wholesale slaughter. He therefore threw up the commission." IThe Lord Lieutenant has been pleased to approve of the Marquis of Downshire being appointed Colonel of the South Down Regiment of Militia, in the room of the Marquis of Downshire, deceased. The Lord Lieutenant has been pleased to approve of Lord Edwin Hill being appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the 'South Dewn Regiment of Militia, in the room of the Marquis of Downshire, promoted. CLONNIEL, AUGUST 2.—(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) — THE WEATIIF.II AND QV:U . S.—For the last four or five days we had some very heavy showers; this day is beautifully fine —the weather seems settled—the crops are not in the least injured. A few gardens of wheat in the vicini-y of towns may be lodged ; that is, where the crops are very heavy,'the general appearance is very fine, in fact we never had such crops, though they will be a fortnight or three weeks late. It was most fortunate for the millers and corn-factors, that there was broken weather both in England and Ireland, as otherwise they would barely make what they paid for their corn ; in fact anything to equal the heavy stock at this season of the year in millers' and factors' hands was never known. If we had an early harvest, wheat would be selling here at 15s. per boll of the 20 stone, owing to the, above. This is a great place for corn-merchants. There is at this moment held in this town at the very lowest calculation, thirty-five thousand quarterns wheat. MANUFACTURING AND WOOL MAkKETS. • MANCHESTER TRADE, AUG. 2.—We are gratified to be enabled to state that every branch of business in this dis trict appears healthy. The Yarn Market is still buoyant, and at prices that must satisfy even the most dissatisfied of our spin ners. The Cloth Market was on Thursday very animated, and a heavy business done in domestic cloth and 40-inch shirt ings at advanced rates, and many makers of 40's shirtings are engaged for all they can produce for the next two months, at an advance of 3d. per piece upon the prices current a f e w weeks back. The printers are also better employed, al though this branch of trade is more depressed than any other in the neighbourhood. Another shipper has failed at Liverpool, and his creditors, we are sorry to say, are nearly all Manchester ones. 27-inch 66's may be quoted ss. to ss. gd. ; and 72's, 5 9 . 9d. to 6s. 3d. 40-inch 66's, 81b. 10oz. to 91b. weight, 91. 9d. to 10s. 6d. HALIFAX TRADE, AUG. 2 . —Stuff goods are in general de mand. Wool is on the decline, except the finer qualities, which keep up in price; an d the better quality of N oils have somewhat advanced, being in general demand. LEEDS TRADE, AUG. 2 . —Oar Cloth markets, like the Corn markets, are just now ruled by the state of the weather. The few fine days we had at the latter end of last week caused lively markets both on Saturday and T uesday. The demand was principally for beavers, pilot cloths, heavy tweeds, fancy cloak ing', and shawls, the stocks of which are very light to meet the seaso n, and prices are firm, but without any advance. More buyers have been in the town during the past week, and, in con sequence, business has been pretty good in the warehouses. HUDDERSFIELD TRADE, JULY 29.—The activity of this day's market, and also of the warehouses during the week, has has been on an equal scale of extent to those of the past few weeks. The Wool market is very brisk. LEEDS Woot. TRADE,) Auc.ll.—Foreign.—There has been no apparent change in this branch of business since our last report. Sales to a certain extent have been effected, and recent rates •are firmly supported. English.—We have not much alteration to notice this week. The demand still con tinues steady and prices firm. Low clothing wools are scarce, and very much inquired for. istroaTs OF WOOL.--Entered at Hull for home con sumption during the week ending July 24.—Hamburgh, 1,260,7951 b. ; Konigsbe rg, 1,5431 b. ; Antwerp, 2,6881 b. ; Petersburgh, 100,91611).—Total, 1,365,0421 b. CUSTOMS AND EXCISE. ) , Foreign , . Spirits Rum British We understand that the greatest interest has been made for a private view of Mrs. Gore's forthcomirg novel of 66 The Royal Favourite, public report having pointed out the original of the picture as of German origin. Earl Somers, it is understood, will be the successor of the latesLord Bateman, in the Lord Lieutenancy of Here fordshire. • .610,754 776,734 '24,489,291 4,071,530 134,158 28,694,979 -725,010 371,8001 318,000 30,554 123,847 524,773 312,6411 5,1201 551,540 , 595,945 493,117 183,470 118,649 42,156 3,596,2'12 2,391,669 5,987,921 5,231,1641 1,408,999 6,640,163 2,008,474 166,199 2,174,673 vices improve- ----- ASYLUM FOR FEAIALE ORPHANS, WESTMINSTER aoAo.—Sermons were preached yesterday in the chapel of this Institution in behalf of its funds; that in the morning by the Rev. C. E. Wyle, ia , ndthat up in in the evening by the Re 8.A., morning. preacher, W. Curling, 8.A., joi n t l ecturer of St. w c om r en brought Institution. After the morning service the child ren at present theSa v i asylum, our's Southwark, ret o rned t h when anks six for .young thebenefits re ce i ve d i n t h e in the asylum were assembled in the large room, when testi monials of good conduct, of the most flattering description, were read from the mistresses with whom the young women had been placed after leaving the school, and various sums awarded to them as a mark of the esteem in which they are held by the friends and patrons of the Institution. Mr. M`Lane, the newly-appointed minister from the United States of America to this Court, has arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square. 'This distinguished gentle man was very favourably known here as minister several years ago, and his being selected at the present time will, doubtless, be highly acceptable. His talents as a diplomatist and states man are of the highest order, and have been fully appreciated in his own country, where he has successively filled the office of Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State. COALING OF AGE OF EDWARD STILLINGFLEET CAY • LEY, THE ELDEST SON OF E. S. CAY LEY, EsQ., M.P.—On Wednesday last this event was celebrated with much festivity at Wydale, by nearly 200 of the farm and cottage tenants of the estate in Snainton, Brompton, and Troutsdale, and their wives, partaking of a most plentiful and sumptuous dinner, tea, and supper. The party was kept up with great glee, be tween music, sdancing, and singing, to a very late hour of the evening, or rather morning ; and on Thursday evening the school children of the above villagers were also entertained with tea and a beautiful display of fireworks.— Yorkshire Gazette. Baron •liosio, the eminent sculptor, was on Tues day morning found dead in his bed, to which he had retired the previous night in good health. He was in his 77th year. The deceased was officer of the Legion. of Honour, Knight of St. Michel, and member of the Institute. 'l' he raising of the deposit on projected railways to 10 per cent, is generally looked upon as a wholesome measure, as likely to have the effect of deterring from speculation all who merely intend to make a profit.by the speedy resale of their al lotments—that is to say, all who, in modern parlance, are called "stags." On the other hand, some are of opinion that the measure, in its present form, gives too much power to the promoters of a scheme, by placing in their hands a sum of money twice as large as, that which they would have commanded under the former system. It is suggested by a correspondent, that if the money were to be paid directly into the Court of Chancery, it would be a great improvement to the plan, as the share holders would then be efficiently protected.— Times. pent* Is PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, 1843, 1844, 1845, An Account of the PUBLIC INCOME and EXPENDITURE of the UNITED KINGDOM, in , the years ending the sth day of January 1843, 1844, and 1845 ; distinguishing the actual Payments for the Expenses incurred in the Collection and Management of the Revenue ; for the charges of the Public , Debt (the Terminable Annuities being also valued by Estimate) ; for the Expenses of the Civil Government ; the Allowances to the Royal Family, and to his Majesty the King of the Belgians ; the Establishment of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ; the Expenses of the two Houses of Parliament, and the Civil Departments ; the other Pensions on the Consolidated ,Fund, on the Grois Revenue, and the Civil List. Also, the Payments for the Administration of Justice ; Diplomatic Expanses, and the Payments on account of the Sums voted for the Army, Navy, Ordnance, and Miscellaneous Services. Also, Public Works, Bounties, Post-office, the Quarantine, and Warehousing. Establishments ; and all other Payments not coming under any of theforegoing . Heads. (In continuation of Return, No. 550, of Session 1844), INCOME. Year ending January 5. -----___. ....____,-..-. • . -.,--) 1843. 1 , 1844. 1845. ~.......___..._____....._______...-....,.. •1•X . ' X X - X X 1,262,094 ... ' ... f 1,210,154 ...• ... 1,201,915 978,959 i ... ... 981,906 ... ...I 1,026,067 5,041,773 4,958,223 ... ... 5,241,457 ' , ••• •.• . 4,385 221 , ..• ••• 4,659,638 ... ... .. 4,752,296 . 260,979 ... ... 308,366 ... ... 244,322 - . 1,335,412 ... ... 1,703;721 :.• .... 1,922,791 •' 5,130,271 ... ... t 5,290,406 ... ..; '5,493,959 4,088,957 ... ... 4,407,642 ... ... , 4,524,093 .. : . 768,886 : ... , 697,376 ... ... .684607 • 3,577,224 I ... .... 3,711,227 ... ... 3,952,422 . . • • 26,829,776 -- , 27,928,659 - , ~- 29,040,929 187,921 i ... ~, - 151,6 . 14 ... ... 1 186,243 • 98,112 ! ••• 90.888 ... ... -.' 115;572 ••• 375,464 - 482,942 . ... • ... 411;089 - ' . 1 , 363 , 9 77 :•.: ::: .758,293' ..'. .... ! 1,098,383 ' . I 566,700 ... ... 843,244 ... ... , - 719,489 • 245.080 ... ... . 26.3,949. ...„' '.... : 325;950 . .. 49,566 ... . - .., 27,871 ... ... • • 29,325 - . •,. 591,263 ... ~, 642,338 ... .1: ..,. . 672,797 ' . ' 829,277 . . • ... 893,170 •••• ... 928,747 '• •' 170,834 . . ... k 194,735 ... '... ' 174,373 ' 57,415 ••• •-•• 131,304 ... ... 117,133 -- • ' 594,815 ... ... 599,444 ... '.,,. '• ' 671,801 ' ' 393,050 . ... 355,281 ...... .-.. ' - 439,975 . ..' . - 948,07 Q . ... .. - ' 667,536 ..; .... 928,345 294,836 ... ••• 282,863 ~. .... 305,441 1,014,899 ... ... 1,019,942 ..: ..'. . 1,035;689 . -.. 179,457 ... .., 166,434 ... .,. 167,742. , • , ••• ••• 1,350,402 .. .., 1,069,369 ... - ..;. ' 1,207;751- • 9,311,138 -----. 8,641,222 ' '. • . . 9,535,;55 . .. ... ... 36,140,914 ... ... 36,569,081 - -.:. ''' ' .„' .' • 38;576;684 T-- 1,604,672 ... .... 1,622,557 , . ... - ..; - - 2,163,564 ... ... . 2,143,127 • I ~ ... • ..., , ,- ! 2,178,843 , ' .. . 251,490 ... ... 253,529 ... .., i 192,724 • •. • 984,726 ... ... 987,339 „, „, , 1,003,767 • 680,671 ... ... ' 673,673 ... ... j ' 592,366 - '• :'. 381,215 ••• ••• 391,653 ... ... ' 415,740 '444,215 ... ... ' 388;928 ' *:,.-• ' e ' .r .'. ; , ' '407,945: “ : 180,059 ~. ... "174;756 -' - :..' ' ...' • ' ' ‘176,581 . ' '. 499,171 ... ... ' 441,190 ... ,5573017 • ,i 7 ' 27 80 ,- 7, 1 39,78 3 .. - ------ 7;076 752. ,-- • , ,327 8,0. ; 1,172,842 .-.. ... 1,159,149 ... " ... 1;164,042 1,569,344 ... . . 1,545,281 ... " ... 1,584,910 :• . 205,727 ... ... 200,252 • .L. ..'. 200,458' 388,181 ... ... 370,002 • '',....' '... ' 374, 1 657" - ' . ' . • ~ ; ; • • 442,880 ... ... . 428,904. .. _.. --- • 424,077, ' - . 159 326 ••• • • 151,857 ..; ... 150,732' . . . 296;342 ... ... 289,403 ... " ... 279#616 1. •-. .• 250,768 ... ... 234,220 ... ... 251,376 4,485,410 ••• ••• 582,038 ... ... 5,387,455 ... ~.. 5,329,601 ... ... 1,578,145 ... ... 1,535,216 ... .... 1,705,068 ... ... 368,161 ... ... 409,377 ... ... , 441,583 •.• •.• 825,589 ... .... 256,065 ... ... 394,598 - - ••• ••• ... ;.. 1,315,208 ... ... 385,008 ••• •.• 51,120,040 ... ... ' 56 935 0 09 ... ... ' .58,590,217 ...' ... ' 4,075,119 £55,195,159 - X56,935,022 , , , ,X 58,590,217 EXPENDITURE. Year ending January 5. 1,987,488 617,321 774,489 1,391,810' 1 566,957 572,655, 1,954,445 1,964,465 039,993! 766,493! 147,440 182,867 57,727 363,018 144,754 252,218' 57,270 364,83 2,705,497 2,783,542 1,406,486 561,098 1,967,584 149,437 322,231 '59,1'64 362,120 2,860,536 T Ttl T !4,512,753: • '115,991! 28,672,928 688,084 371,800 308,423 26,317 ioe,ool 510,294 297,977 5,307 580,516 566,438 635,515 178,456 125,708 57,262 3,633,471 2,363,685 5,997,156 5,199,446 1,406,611 6,606,057 1,748,346 162,359 1,910,704 i~ 29,261,012 Malt .. Hops Wine Sugar and Molasses Tea Coffee Tobacco and Snuff Butter Cheese Currants and raisins Corn Cotton wool and sheep's imported Silks Hides and Skins Paper Soap Candles and tallow Coals, sea-borne Glass Bricks, tiles, and slates Timber. Auctions Excise licenses Post-horse duties Miscellaneous of Customs and Excise Total Customs and Excise... STAMPS. Deeds and other instrumentsl Probates and legacies Insurance Marine Fire . Bills of Exchange, bankers' notes Newspapers and advertise- ments Stage coaches ... Receipts Other stamp duties ASSESSED AND LAND TAXES. Land taxes Windows Servants Horses Carriages Dogs Additional 10 per cent . Other assessed taxes Property and Income-tax . Post-office Crown lands Other ordinary revenue and - other resources Money from China, under treaty of August, 1842 Total income Excess of expenditure over income Revenue—Charges of Collection : Civil C Customs Departments lExcise Preventive service, land guard, revenue, police cruisers, and harbour vessels Stamps Assessed taxes Other ordinary revenues Superannuations and other allowances Total revenue Public debt : Interest of permanent debt Terminable annuities Management Interest on Exchequer-bills Total debt Civil government : Civil list—privy purse, salaries of the household and tradesmens' bills The allowances to the several branches of the Royal Family, and to his Royal Highness Leo- Bold Prince of Cobourg (now King' of. the elgians)* .... The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland's establishment The salaries and expenses of the Houses of Par liament (including printing) Civil departments, including superannuation al- lowances Other annuities, pensions and superannuation allowances on the Consolidated Fund and on the gross revenue Pensions, civil list Total civil government Justice : Courts of justice Police and criminal prosecutions Correction Total justice Diplomatic Foreign ministers' salaries and pensions Consuls' salaries and superannuation allowances Disbursements, outfit Total diplomatic Forces :- 1 Effective ; charge Army Non-effective ; charge Total army Navy Non-effective ; charge Total navy Effective ; charge Ordnance... Non-effective ; charge Total ordnance Total forces Army and ordnance, insurrection in Canada Chinaexpedition China and India, army, navy, and ordnance Berl Opium. compensation Bounties, &c., for promoting fisheries; Public works - Payment out of the revenue of Crown lands, for ments and various public services..... Postoffice—charges of collection and other pays Quarantine and warehousing establishments Miscellaneous not classed under the foregoing ha Total expenditure Surplus of income over expenditure 25,869,6'66 3,958,508 135,70 29,954,877 1531,084 129,419,9891 371,800 297,001 26,441 100,646 538,593 277,501! 6,285 1,626,219 559,782' 594,312 703,111 1,782,469 181,186 129,303 70,120 361,4261 3,801,752 2,376,962 6,178,714' 4,467,201, 1,391,018 5,858,219 1,763,365 14,3917 25,300 416,056 1,245,8231 11,2861 405,246 211,561 966,834 130,586 1,760,463 55,501,740 1,433,283 56,935,022 160,947 1,924,312, * No part of this income is at present.paid for the use of King Leopold. The trustees, after discharging nuities and pensions to the servants and establishment of the late Princess Charlotte, repay the balance of to the Eichequer ; the sum so repaid in the last year was 32,000/. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. 1,618,265 1,857,205 :380,609 13,961,245 404,964 11,793 17,762 430,208 227,085 974,804 180,123 1,733,328 55,103,G47 3,486,570 158,590,217 :'i ttu7 , 4i t . ttit":l •";' • k\':` CORONER'S INQUEST. On Saturday an inquest was held before Mr. f 44 'c4 M.P., on the body of Mr. Thomas Everitt, formerly a lecturer on chyunstry at the Middlesex Hospital, and late an inmate of the lunatic asylum at Southall-park, where he died on the morning of Wednesday last. Mr. WAKLEY thought it but right to premise to the jury that no complaint had, up to that moment, been made against any person in reference to the death of the deceased, which was stated to have been the result of an accident. The following witnesses were then sworn and exa mined :—Mr. G. IV. Daniel, surgeon to and one of the proprietors of the institution; Mr. Cooke, resident me dical superintendent ; G. Fountain, one of the attendants having the care of the bath department ; J. Safe, an as-. sistaut ; and T. White, the servant of one of the inmates, who occasionally assisted in attending others. From the evidence of these witnesses, it appeared that the deceased • (who was about 40 years of age, and had been in the institution for about eight months) was af fected with paralysis, and had recently been in so debi . hutted a state as to render occasional ablutions of his entire body recessary. With this view he was put into a bath of about the temperature of 90 between eight and nine o'clock on Saturday morning, the 26th of July and while there received an extensive scald froth a sud den gush of water through the pipe leading from the boiler, and the stop-cock of which (placed in a dark and covered recess at one end of the bath) was omitted to hale been turned after the bath had been prepared. There was some difficulty in at once comprehending how the water from tlris•pipe emild have ceased and re commeneed flowing es it were of its own accord ; it having been - slated that the cock had been turned but and then for the purpose of letting the a ater flow. But it appearil , from, the evidence of Fountain and White, that it frequently ceased flowing for tbur or five minutes, 'and then gushed out, with such violence as sotnetimes,to reach the opposite side of the bath-room. The jury, after .inspecting the body of the deceased proceeded to examine, the bath and the apparatus for supplying it with , hot water, which they pronounced to be defective ; anti requiring alteration. The boiler, placed about 12 feet below the bath,' received a tube at either side, through one of Which descended cold, and through the other ascended hot water, forced up by the operation of steam, to supply the bath. It was also furnished with escape. tubes ; but the. pressure by whielethe water Wheia boiling. was, caused to ascend .not being always eqiial, the flew from the pipe into the bath was likewiee ateimes unequal. The jury were also of opinion that the stop-cock ought to be placed in such a position in the bathroom as to enable the attendant to see at a glance whether 'it was turned on or off. Mr. Daniel stated in his evidence that it had been purposely placed in a recess lest the patients might meddle with it it exposed to view; but to this Mr. Wakley replied that, although no doubt that object was a necessary and useful one, it might be attained by some other means—such, for instance, as a small aperture immediately over the bathe, on the plan of a keyhole. Mr. Daniel concurred in the suggestion, and promised.that an alteration should forthwith be made in order to meet it. - Mr. Wakley also suggested the pro priety of having printed rules for the guidance of the at tendants, who, it appeared, put the deceased into the bath without any orders to . that effect. In fact Mr. Daniel had discontinued giving the deceased hot baths medicinally, because he ..found that they had an injuri ous effect upon He did not order him to be put into a bath, even for the purposes of ablution, on the morning in question. Mr. Cooke made the sure allega tion on his own behalf.; and when the witness Safe (the regular attendant of the deceased) was asked by whose authority he put the deceased into a bath, he said, by the direction of Fountain, but this Fountain positively denied, adding, that he had prepared the bath for ano ther of the inmates, and that he never directed any of the patients to he put into.a bath without instructions to that effect from Mr. Cooke. White was the only per son in the bath-room when the accident occurred. He said he . had been left there by Safe,- to watch the de oeased ; that he lifted him from the bath as speedily as possible on seeing the water rush in, and that the de .ceased did not appear to be severely scalded, and showed no symptonis`tif pain. Some of the water fell upon his (the witnesss) hand, but he experienced no inconve nience from it. ' Mr. Daniel, who had the medical treatment of the de ceased. gave it as his opiaion that, being in a very debili tated state, he could not have survived very long, and that even.a much less shock than that which lie received must hale hastened his death. Who was to blame in not having turned the stop-cock ids nos clearly 'appear. - White was -an irresponsible gent ; Fountain- had the 'superintendence and -pre paring of the bath, and delegated to Safe a portion of Oat duty. Safe, who had been in the es t a bli s h ment puly a few weeks, candidly confessed that he thought the blame rested „with himself and White ; and under these circumstances The jury were of opinion, and returned for their cer ilict—" That the deceased met his death by an accidental scald, while in one of the baths of the establishment, and that the accident was attributable to general defective arrangeteents." • .Tw members of the deceased's family were present. during the investigation, but took no part in it. ADMIRALTY LEVEL—The last levee of naval officers at the Admiralty for the season was held on Friday by the Earl of Haddington, gnd was attended by the following :—Captains Sir John Ross, Creagh, Carter, W. G. Purci,as, J. N. Mott ; Commanders G., Spettigue, J. G. Gordon, .1. C. Gill, N. Robilliard, and Chalouer ; and Licuter.ants John Wilson. James Rawstorne, Foote, and G. B. Payne. Colonel Colby, of the Royal Engineers, also had an interview with the First Lord of the Admiralty on that day. TILE ROYAL. YACHT AND HER TENDER THE FAIRY.--The weather for the past reek at Portsmouth has been so squally. wet, and unfavourable, that her Majesty and Prince Albert have had but few opportunities of making excursions on the water. Friday was a tolerably fine day, and at four F. 31. the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain Lord A. Fitzclarence, went up to Spithead with the Queen and Prince Albert on board, the royal standard flying at the main ; the Monarch, a fine 1,400 ton frigate-built ship, belonging to Mr. Green, lowered her flag and cheered as the yacht passed her, which was graciously acknowledged by her Majesty and Prince Albert bowing in return. The royal yacht was saluted by the Portsmouth garrison guns, and afterwards steered her course for Cowes. The Victoria and Albert arrived at Portsmouth from Corot; on Saturday, and immediately proceeded to take in previsions. water, and fuel. She will leave for Woolwich on Alenday, to prepare for embarking her Majesty and Prince Albert for con veyance to Germany. The Fairy, in the interim, will attend the royal party at Cowes. 'f he Fairy, royal yacht steam tender, Master-Commander Thain, arrived at Portsmouth from Cowes on Friday morning, and was taken into dock to have a new screw attached, which, having been done, she came out of dock on Saturday morning, and proceeded to Cowes in the afternoon. While in dock on Friday numbers of ladies and gentlemen visited her, who very much admired the beautiful little vessel. The Fairy is ordered to proceed from Portsmouth, after the departure of the Court from Osborne, direct for the Rhine, or which river her services will be called in requisition by her Majesty. Mr. Penn, the constructor of the engines of the Fairy, is ordered to accompany her. It was incorrectly stated 'last week that the Fairy had grounded in steering over the shallows going from Cowes to Portsmouth. The fact was, the Fairy had on board a poor fellow for Haslar Hospital, and the Commander being desirous of landing him as close as possible to the hospital, to give him less distance to walk, ran in very near ; her light draft of water permitted her to do so, and put him ashore at Haslar Beach. Her waiting there until the boat returned to her, gave rise to the incorrect report that she was on shore. The Fairy is to receive the King of the Netherlands on Tuesday, and to take his Majesty on a short excursion. IMFILOVEMENTS AND ADDITIONS IN WOOLWICH DOCK. YA RD. —The Admiralty have decided on purchasing the pre mises and gardens on the north side of George-street, Wool wich. The site joins to Sir F. Collier's garden on the west, and runs so far in that direction as the entrance to the town. Their Lordships have ordered a plan of the proposed addition to the establishment to be made, and the names of the proprie tors to be transmitted, to enable their solicitor to negotiate for the property, so as to have possession in the next financial year. It is proposed to erect some residences for the officers on this ground, in lieu of some about to be taken down. It is also intended to build a chapel on this space, to tie added to the dockyard. FIRE ON BOARD THE SOUTHAMPTON FRIGATE AT CHAT stair.—The Southampton, 50 guns, lying in ordinary, about ten o'clock on Saturday morning, was discovered to be on fire. The dockyard fire-bell was sounded, and the Royal Marines were turned out. The sentries along the w harfs of the dock-- yard fired their muskets, and the ship Peictiers her guns, awl every ship's boat at the station was immediately manned a n d proceeded to the frigate. When there the fire was found to be confined to one of the after cabins, and was extinguished. in less than half an hour, mainly owing to the promptitude of the ships' crews, under the guidance of their officers. The fire was occasioned by a man who had been working in the. cabin by the light of a candle, and who, on being called away, by signal on board the Janus, left it. lighted, and the candle falling against the lining set it on fire. It is expected that a Board of Admiralty will pay the annual visit of inspection to Chatham Dockyard on Tuesday next. Commodore Sir Francis Collier, the Superintendent of Wool wich Dockyard, has returned to his official duties from leave of absence. No Captain has yet been appointed to the Excellent, gun nery ship, in the room of Sir Thomas Hastings, appointed Storekeeper of the Ordnance. • Commander Sherringham, and soma of the officers of the c aged a h t Portsmouth Portsmouth about their t Fea Fearless e c s h s a r surveyingts. The Fearless vessel, Lieu tenant Lowe. The crew o f the Fearless will be turned o v er to the Dasher, which v essel will proceed to Portsmouth as soon as she is fitted. a ls .e at en W g The Alfred, 50, Commodore Purvis, has dismantled, and returned all her stores at Portsmouth, and is waiting to be paid off. In consequence of the duties being all performed the men had leave on shore yesterday. The Queen and her Royal Consort will be attended on their visit to Germany by the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Liver pool, the Countess of Gainsborough, the Viscountess Canning. Sir James Clark, Mr. G. E. Anson, and the Equerry-in waiting. It is most gfatifying to learn that preparations on a most magnificent scale are being made by the King of Prussia on the Rhine to gite to our gracious Sovereign a grand recep tion at his two palaces, limb' and Stolzerfels. We under stand that the return of her Majesty to England may be ex pected in about three weeks from the day of her departure. Observer. OVERTURNING OF A SIIIF AND NARROW ESCAPS OF TOE CREW. —On Friday morning the brig Flirt wasgoing down the river with reefed topsails and foresail set, when she . was overtaken in Woolwich reach by a sudden squall of wind and rain from the south-west, and being very light, and with no ballast on board, was blown over on her larboard side, and began to fill. The master of the vessel and his crew got on to the rigging, awl thence to the hull. The brig was fast going down in deep water, and the destruction of all hands appeared inevitable, when the Waterman, No. 11, on her way to Lon-- don, made her way towards the sinking vessel, arid upon comitag alongside hrr keel was visible about two fret above the waver. Mr. Leonard, an inspector of Thames police, and his boat's crew, came up at the same time, and having rescued the. cap-. rain and crew, pat them on board the M'ittermart. A warp was then run out from the steamer, and the Flirt was towed by the • Waterman into shallow water, and she settled down immedi ately afterwards; The Right lion. the SpeaLcr, as is customary on the Saturday preceding the prorogation of Parliament, gave a grand dinner on Saturday last, at his mansion in Eaton-square, to the principal officers of the House of Commons. ''llib .-.i +U y At :4 Si IV k 1...._....= .........5 • . -1.. .- ' ....', :'..:: •: . ., 0 i._.1, - ", /—**) 1 -- .L,. :17 [...........0rzJ PRESENTATION OF PLATE TO BENJAMIN lIAWES, ESQ., M.P. On Saturday last, George Moffatt, Esq., entertained a number of gentlemen at his house in Eaton-square, on the occasion of the presentation of a piece of plate to Benjamin Hawes ' Esq., M.P. A number of the merchants and traders of the City of London being anxious, before the close of the session of Parliament, to mark their sense of the great services conferred upon the commercial interests by the ability, the ex tensive knowledge, and the unwearied attention devoted to them by Mr. Hawes, a subseripton was raised to purchase a piece of plate as an enduring record of their grateful approba tion. The testimonial selected—a massive and very richly wrought salver—bore the following inscription:— '" Presented by certain merchants and traders of various po litical opinions in the City of London to Benjamin Hawes, jun., Esq., M.P., in testimony of their sense of his zealous and vigilant attention in Parliament to the commercial interests of the country, as an acknowledgment of public services, and a tribute to private worth." In proposing Mr. Hawe,'s health, after dinner, Mr. Moffatt observed that this compliment to the Honourable Gentleman originated in the wish of a number of ,the the, body of the city of London to mark their sense of the various services which Mr. Hawes had rendered to the interests with which they were connected. The commercial community of this country had reason to be grateful to Lambeth for selecting such a representative as Mr. Hawes, and, without distinction of party, merchants and traders of London were anxious that the confidence reposed in, him by his constituents should for many future sessions of Parliament give them the advantage of Mr. Hawes's services as a Member , of the Legislature. The gentle men with whom this compliment to Mr.. Hawes had -originated had advisedly refrained from courtidg for it the eclat of a public demonstration, but it would not, he trusted, be there fore the less acceptable to the Hun. Member to whom it was paid. 1,686,735 1,640,602 344,275 ... 14,802,757 253,343 830,008 272,921 19,410 419,519 193,607 969,195 127,941 1,511,360 X 55,195,159 :55,195,159 I • 30,486,721 certain an the annuity Mr. HAWES expressed his very high appreciation of the feeling in which the present meeting had originated, Enter ing into political life, he had necessarily abandoned the active commercial pursuits in which he had been engaged ; but it Was a source of the highest gratification to him that in this new sphere he had been fortunate enough to secure the approbation of the merchants and traders of the city of London. For the mark of that approbation just bestowed upon him he returned his warm thanks. Amongst thosepresent at this very gratifying re-union were George Moffatt, Esq., M.P., Messrs. J. Tra vers, Ha y ward, and Graham (members of the committee), Sir James M'Adam, the Right Hon. R. L. Sheil, M.P., H. Tufnell, Esq., M.P., H. Warburton, Esq. M.P., T. M. Gibson, Esq. , M.P. Forster, Esq., 141. ' P. C. ilindley s ,E7. D , r M.P., O'Con nell,Ate9s;s. Esq., M.P.,. 111 r. Hawes, en. M'Gregor, Parkes, Wilson; &c. ALTERATION IN THE CAMBRIDGE DAY MAIL.— The of the railway has brought a change in the times ofa d e p a rture of the day mail. In s t ea d o f b e i ng dis patched ra h er etofore at half- past eleven i n th e morn i ng, i t i s v opening ad now sent by the quarter before ten o'clock trail!, and the box for letters closes at a quarter after nine. This is, as we think, a c ha n ge greatly for the worse, and we certainly cannot under stand the logic which would persuade us that • when we travel twice as fast as we used to do, we should start two hours sooner on a journey of silty miles. 'The arrival is better timed; we have ow letters now at half -past two. instead of at half-past four. Carnbridpe Chronicle. MINISTERIAL WHITE BAIT DINNER. --Her jetty's Ministers will :partake of their annual white bait din ner, at the Crown and Sceptre, Greenwich; on Wednesday next. The Board of Admiralty has issued orders that mortar-beds are to be laid down in several of our first.class steam sloops for 13. inch mortars.— United Service Gazette,