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THE AFFAIRS of NE W ZEALAND No. I. COPY OF A DISPATCH FROM LORD STANLEY TO - _ GOVERNOR FITZROY. Downing-street, August 13, 1844. Sir,—ln my dispatch, No. 27, of the 30th ult., I en closed to you the report and proceedings of the Com mittee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the state of New Zealand, and into the proceedings of the New Zealand Company. On reference to the pro ceedings, you will perceive that the Committee were far from unanimous in their opinions, and that some of the most important of their decisions, including one upon the selection between two sets of resolutions, as the basis of their report, were sustained by very narrow majorities. Nevertheless, I cannot but apprehend that this report, carrying with it, as it must be admitted to do, the au thority of a Committee of the House of Commons, may add to the difficulties of your position, less indeed by the ..practical measures which it recommends than by the principles which it lays down, and on which it proceeds ; principles which I know to be opposed to your own views, and which, if you were to attempt to carry them into practice, would, I fear, lead to most unhappy con sequences. t ihe report, you will observe, proceeds upon the as sumption that " the uncivilised inhabitants of any coun try have but a qualified dominion over it, or a right of occupancy, and that until they establish amongst them selves a settled form of government, and subjugate the ground to their own uses by the cultivation of it, they cannot grant to any individuals, not of their own tribe, any portion of it, for the simple reason that they have not themselves any individual property in it;" and the Committee add, " that if the view which they have than taken of the right of the Crown to the whole of the un occupied soil of New Zealand, and of the nullity of all private purchases of land from the natives, be a correct one, and if this were also the view of the then Secretary of State at the time that the arrangement with the New Zealand Company was concluded, it follows, as a matter of course, that by that arrangement it must have been intended to give to the Company a claim, binding in good faith, upon the estate of the Crown to the number of acres awarded to them by Mr. Pennington, and that this claim could not in any way be affected by the cha racter of those supposed purchases from the natives, which it was the very object of the whole arrangement to set aside as altogether null and invalid." lam not sure that, were the question one of mere theory, I should be prepared to subscribe unhesitatingly, and without reserve, to the fundamental assumption of the Committee, and I am sure that it would require considerable qualification as applicable to the aborigines of New Zealand. There are many gradations of " un civilized inhabitants," and practically, according to their state of civilisation, must be the extent of rights which they can he allowed to claim, whenever the terri tory on which they reside is occupied by civilised com munities. And it cannot be denied that, among " unci vilised nations," the New Zealanders hold a vary high place, certainly far above the inhabitants of the other Australian colonies. The aborigines of New Holland generally are broken into feeble and perfectly savage migratory tribes, roaming over boundless extents of country, subsisting from day to day on the:precarious produce of the chase, wholly ignorant of or averse to the cultivation of the so], with no principles of civil government, or recog eition of private property, and little, it' any know ledge of the simplest forms of religion, or even of the exist.?nce of a Supreme Being. It is impossible to admit, on the part of a population thus situate, any rights in the soil which should be permitted to inter fere with the subjugation by Europeans of the vast wil derness over which they are aeittered ; and all that can be required by justice, sanctioned by policy, or re cam:lended by humanity, is to endeavour, as civilisa tion an 1 cultivation extend, to embrace the ab ,rigines within their pale, to diffuse religious knowledge riming them, to induce them, if postible, to adopt more settled moles of providing for their subsistence, and to uffard them the means of doing so, if so disposed, by an adequate reservation of lands within the limits of eulivation. But the position of the N.w Z-aland. r:s of the Northern Island, at the time of its occu pation by Great Britain, was the r, verse of all this. Comparatively speal;ina, their territory was not of vast ease nt, though unquestionatly far more than s.uffic'ent, ineler any ci, cumstences, for the actual populatiein. Their m ale, though nut their sole, subsistence, was derived from agriculture, rude inked, but continuous; rights of pro perty. as between trlla3 and trite., and of individuals of each tribe t.!s• se, were recognised and well under stood ; they had been for many years in intercourse with English traders and wilt Christian missionaries ; many of them had adopted Christianity ; many were acteetinted with the English language end with letters, and at this moment a Mao, i Gaze I is published in New Zealand, an i widely circulate:l among them. I cannot think that it would h. either iust or practica ble to apply the same rule with regard to the occupation of land, to classes of aborigines so widely differing from each other. ' ' But, whatever may be the right theory, it is indis• putable that in practice a distinction has been drawn by the Acts of the Britibh Go% erntnent. Up to 1839 this country re..ognized the chiefs of New Zealand as the heads of an independent community; and when in that year the unauthorised settlement of the country had rendered necessary the interposition of some higher authority, the Marquis of iNormanby, then Secretary of State, expressed his concurrence in the view taken by a Committee of the House of Commons in 183 G, " that the increase of national wealth and pow,r, promised by the acquisition of New Zealand, would be a meat adevate compensation for the injury which must be inflicted on the kingdom itself,, by em barking in a measure essentially , unjust, and but too e;-rtainly fraught with calamity to a numerous and in offnsive people, whose title to the soil, and to the so vereignty of New Zealand, was indisputable, and had so!emnly been recognised by the British Govern ment." lie repeated, on the part of the Govern ment, the acknowledgment of New Zealand, " as a sovereign and independent state, so far, at least, as it was possible- to make that acknowledgment in favour of a people composed of numerous dispersed and petty tribes, who possessed a few political relations to each other, and were incompetent to act, or even to de liberate, in concert ; but that the admission of their rights, thus qualified, was binding on the faith of the British' s Crown;" and ho also " disclaimed, on the part of the Queen, for herself and for her subjects, every pre tension to seize on the islands, or to govern them as a part of the dominion of Great Britain, unless the free and intelligent consent of the natives, expressed according to their established usages, should be first obtained;" and, acting on this view, the British Government directed their agent to accept from the chiefs the grant of sove reignty on conditions which were subsequently embo died in an instrument bearing date the 6th of February. 1840. By the second article of this instrument, which was officially promulgated and laid before Parliament, " lirr Majesty the Queen of England confirms and gua rantees to the chiefs and tribes of New Zealand, and to the respective families and individuals thereof, the full, exclusive, and undisturbed possession of their lands and estates, forests, fisheries, and other properties which they may collectively or individually possess, so long as it is their wish and desire to retain the same in their posses sion. But the chiefs of the united tribes, and the indi vidual chiefs, yield to her Majesty the exclusive right of pre-eruption over such lands as the proprietors thereof may be disposed to alienate, at such prices as may be agte ed upon between the respective proprietors and per sons appointed by her Majesty to treat with them on that behalf." Personally, neither you nor I are interested in now considering whether this policy were wise or unwise. Before the present Government assumed any responsi bility for the affair.; of New Zealand, not only had these steps been taken, and obtained the sanction of Parlia ment, but an officer had been appointed to administer the Government ; laws had been passed by a local legisla ture for regulating titles to land ; Commissiouers had been sent out for the settlement of those titles, subject to enactments previously passed, and guided by instruc tions issued by my predecessor. Nor does it seem to me that such an inquiry is useful for any practical pur pos", in reference to the future. What you and I have to do is to administer the affairs of the colony in re ference to a state of things which we find, but did not create, and to feelings and expectations founded, not upon what might have been a right theory of coloniza tion, but upon declarations and concessions made in the name of the Sovereign of England. You will observe, indeed, that the Committee admit that " erroneous as they believe the policy hitherto pur sued to have been, they are sensible of the great diffi culty which may now he experienced in changing it; and bearing in mind the great distance of these islands, and the consequent impossibility of knowing what may be the state of affairs there when any instructions that may be sent oat shall reach the Governor, they are not pre pared to recommend that lie should be peremptorily or dered to assert the rights of the Crown as they believe them to exist; all they advise is, that lie should have clearly explained to him what those rights are, and the principles on which they rest, and should be directed to adopt such measures as he may consider best calculated to meet the difficulties of the case, and to establish the title of the Crown to all unoccupied land as soon as this can be safely accomplished." The Committee state elsewhere, "We have observed that the terms of the treaty are ambiguous, and, in the sense in which they ha ve b een understiyal, have been highly inconvenient; in this we refer principally to the stilaul4tions it perty in land: the with respect . to the right of pro. information which hat been laid be fore its shows that these stipulations, and the subsequent proceeding s of th e firmly established in Governor,th founded upon them, have w'aich they had then t 7 minds of the natives notions tit very recently entertain of their havingbeen taught to proprietary title of great value to land not a the fact, that your measures must occupied:i s n tl; c e framed in reference I cannot overlook founded on interpre le the existence of such no n ti u o ,:stions of law and treaty hitheresa admitted by . the au armed entertained by a au thorities at home and on the spot of people, high-spirited, warlike, and well in British justice, and whom r i a t e Is por.a,nt, by a conciliatory curse, to bring most m- Into more c lose connexion with, and mere comp l ete subjection to British authority. P e ex !tint to which native rights to lind might b e a d, n i tt ,, ( l !is yogi may remember. matt er of fret',qnent and anxiius discus iion between its previous to your de parture from England ; and you are aware that, fling the information necessary for the purpose not to be with in my reach in this country, r constantly refined to the New kwaland Company to define authoritatively here so oliffi milt and important a question. On the one hand, to restriei: those rights to lands actually occupied for culti vation appeared to me wholly irreconcileable with the large words of the treaty of Waitangi, "lands and es tates, forests, fish , .ries, and other properties isinch t hey may coil , ctively or individually Possess ," and ofwhl which, " the full, exclusive , , and undisturbed possession" is elereby "confirmed and guaranteed to them." The chi:u of the Crown to all " unoccupied" land, to the ex- i.. - . ~ -'v.;... ~ . elusion of the natives, appeared to me not less at variance with the directions of the Marquis of Normanby to Cap tain Hobson, " to obtain by fair and equal contract with the natives the cession to the Crown of such waste lands as may be progressively required for the occupation of settlers," and to apply the proceeds of the " re-sales of the first purchases' to the provision of funds necessary for future similar acquisitions. It must be remembered, that these directions had not only been promulgated, but acted upon in the colony at an early period after the sovereignty had been assumed. Lastly: it appears to me inconsistent with the practice of these tribes, who, after cultivating, and, of course, ex hausting, a given/spot far a series of years, desert it for another within the limits of the recognised property of the tribe. _ _ _ appropriate funds specially for this purpose ; nor can I hold out the expectation of a large increase to your mili tary force. On this subject we had full explanations previous to your departure. There is no army in the world which is called upon to perform such severe duties as ours in time of peace ; every addition to the colonial service renders necessary a corresponding increase in the force at home, in order to maintain a sys tem of reliefs, which is absolutely necessary to the comfort of the men and discipline of the ser vice ; and there is nothing which has so per nicious an effect upon that discipline, as the system ne cessarily resorted to in the colonies, of breaking up the military force into small detachments stationed at remote points for the protection of scattered settlements, and affording scanty opportunities for supervision by superior officers. I conceive that the character of the settlements in New Zealand renders it peculiarly neces sary to guard against this evil, and the military force at your disposal must not only continue limited in amount, but must also be kept as much as possible concentrated, and only applied in extreme emergencies. If, indeed, it had been my duty to instruct you to act upon the principle laid down by the majority of the Committee, of considering all unoccupied lands as vested in the Crown, and of confining the native tribes to such portions as they are actually enjoying and occupying. I should have felt that a very large increase of both mili tary and naval force was requisite, and should have looked forward with apprehension to the results of the alienation and hostility which such a measure would en gender between the two races; but I rejoice to see that the Committee abstain from recommending that you should act on the principle which they lay down, and, for my own part, I cannot take on myself the responsi bility of preslribing to you a course which , I belie ve, would be neither consistent with justice, good faith, hu manity, or policy. I discussed with you personally the subject of the establishment of a militia, adverted to in the 14th re solution, or of an armed police force on the footing of the Irish constabulary ; and directed your attention to a short dispatch of Lord J. Russell in 1840, suggesting this subject for the consideration of the local Legisla ture, and promising further instructions upon it. It does not appear that such instructions were subse quently transmitted, nor have the Legislature, so far as I am aware, directed their attention to the subject. It was brought to your notice by my dispatch of the 11th of March, 1844, and Ido not doubt but that on the receipt of that dispatch you will have acted on the instructions conveyed in it, if you had not antici pated them. I entirely concur in the wish expressed by the Committee in their 16th resolution, that the natives should, as far as possible, be employed in the civil service of the Government, and I need not re mind you of your own avowed determination to en deavour to act upon this principle, and gradually to in corporate them into European society ; conferring on their chiefs such petty marks of distinction, and such degree of authority as they might be trusted to exercise, and employing the natives generally in the duties of messengers, police, and other subordinate situations, im plying, however, a certain amount of confidence. Whe ther it would be possible or safe to embody natives as a military force, either mixed with the settlers, or as a native corps, officered by Europeans, as suggested by the Committee in their 15th resolution, is a question in volving very important considerations, and requiring much more local knowledge than I am possessed of to form a correct judgment. The only remaining resolution of the Committee upon which it appears to me necessary that I should ad dress you is the 17th, which recommends, " that efforts should be made gradually to wean the natives from their ancient customs, and to induce them to adopt those of civilised life, upon the principle recommended by Cap tain Grey in his report on the mode of introducing civi lisation amongst the natives of Australia." Knowing, as I do, the deep interest which von take in all that rt lates to the welfare of the natives of New Zea land, it would be, I feel, superfluous on my part to press upon your attention the importance of the subject of this resolution. On the other hand, I had no doubt that on your ar rival in New Zealand, you would find that there were considerable tracts of country to which no tribe could establish a bona fide title ; and still more extensive dis tricts to which, by personal communication with the chiefs, you would obtain a title on easy terms and by amicable arrangements. I had thus, in some measure, anticipated the wish of the Committee, but I cannot go with them in directing you " forthwith to establish the title of the Crown to all unoccupied land," except, in deed, under the extensive qualification of the following words of the report, " as soon as this can be safely ac complished." On this fundamental point depends the whole of the ar rangement with the New Zealand Company, to which I must now advert; and in reference to which I do not think that the report of the Committee renders it necessary that I should in any way modify the instructions wh ich you have already received. I do not think it would answer any useful purpose to discuss the terms of the original agreement with the Company. I retain my fixed opinion, that that agreement was based upon the assumption that the Company had obtained by purchase from the natives a much larger tract of land, of which they consented to receive a portion by grant from the Crown. The Committee have recorded their opinion, " That the New Zealand Company has a right to expect to be put in possession, by the Government, with the least possible delay, of the number of acres awarded to it by Mr. Pennington • that the Company has this right as against the estate Of the Crown, without reference to the validity or otherwise of its supposed purchases from the natives, all claims derived from which have been sur rendered ; adding, that the Company, in selecting the land to be granted by the Crown within the defined limits, cannot claim the grant of any land not vested in the Crown." On this subject I have only to advert to the letter from my Under-Secretary to the Governor of the Com pany, of the 10th of January, 1843, in which I made an offer, rejected by them on the 24th January, to in struct the Governor " to make to them a conditional grant, subject to prior titles, to be established as by law provided, not only of such portion of the Wellington settlement as is in the actual occupation of settlers under them, but also cif all parts not in the occupation or pos sessian of others ; the extent of such grant, of course, not to exceed that to which they are entitled under Mr. Pennington's award ;" awl to the subsequent letter from Mr, Hope to Mr. Somes, of the Ist of February, 1843, and to my instructions to yourself, which I had reason to believe, when they were issued, were acceptable to the Company. Those instructions authorised you, in sub stance, to make grants to the Company, and to their settlers, of land to be selected by themselves, within the districts specified in the arrangement with Lord John Russell, so far as the Crown had power to make such grants—that is, subject to the condition that such lands were vested in the Crown, and that no other parties could establish a valid claim to them. Tnis direction was repeated in my dispatch to you of the 26th of June, and appears to me practically to fulfil the intentions of the Committee, as embodied in their 4th and sth resolutions ; for while they assert the right of the Company as against the estate of the Crown, they as distinctly negative the right to select any land not vested in the Crown. The question then ultimately re solves itself into the inquiry, whether any particular lanas be so vested ; and I see no mode of settling this question but by the conditional grant, which you are already instru ted to make, giving to the Company and its settlers the benefit of a prima fire title ; but not de barring other parties from s ubstantiating by law a prior title. You have already been instructed further to use your influence in obtaining for actual settlers, on fair and reasona,We terms, the possession of lands on which t hey may have effected improvements, even though an adverse title should be substantiated; and to these instructions I have nothing to add, nor does the Committee, I thiLlc. suggest any practical solution of the difficulty. lam not with out hopes that before the report of the Committee reaches you, you may have been enabled, in pursuance of the in structions which you have already receive], to place this question on a satisfactory footing. You will carefully consider the suggestion thrown out by the Committee in their seventh resolution, of rai.yit , g a revenue, and at the same time of checking an inor dinate accumulation of waste land in the hands of indi viduals, by imposing a tax (subject to the conditi , ns and exemptions there specified) of 2J. per acre, or aoy other sum, upon all lands in the colony. You will ob serve, that from this tax it is proposed, by the eighth and ninth resolutions, to exempt the lands of the New Zealand Company " so long as they shall continue to sell not less than 1-25th of the land granted to them annually, anti to expend a fixed proportion of the pro ceeds in emigration," and also lands actually occupied and enjoyed by the natives, as " reserves set apart and held for their benefit." It is, of course, intended that the tax should apply to all lands claimed as the property of native tribes, and not in actual cultivation; and I presume it is contemplated that the non-payment of the tax shall be followed by confiscation of a portion of the lands equivalent to the amount of the tax unpaid. I think it will be very difficult to apply the principle to the remoter tribes, which are only partially subject to our authority; and with respect to all, its application would require the greatest caution. I wish, therefore, to leave you an uneettered discretion on this point, though, if it can be peaceably effected, it would appear to suggest an easy mode of obtaining a large amount of disposable land in commutation or redemption of. the tax upon the remainder. The Committee (page 11 of their report) lay great, and, as it seems to me, very just stress upon the adop tion of a good system of native reserves. I agree with them in opinion that the natives should be encouraged as far as possible to settle upon land reserved for them, in terspersed with the lands of European settlers, rather than in large and detached blocks, wholly isolated ; but this is an object which can be only gradually accomplished, and which you must induce the natives to adopt of their own accord, and to which you cannot drive them by force. I understand, indeed, that the local Government has already acted upon this plan. and also anticipated the suggestion of the Committee to lease to Europeans, if they can be induced to take them, portions of' the land reserved for the benefit of the aborigines, which they may not require for their immediate occupation. With regard to the reserves within the Company's territory, the Committee express an opinion by their 10th reso lution, " that these reserves ought not to be included in calculating the amount of land due to the Company;" but Ido not find this subject adverted to in the report, nor any reason assigned for the conclusion at which the Committee appear to have arrived. You will perceive that the Committee, by their 11th resolution, advert to the confusion and mischief which has been stated by the witnesses to have arisen from the non-settlement of the land claims, and recommend that measures should be adopted for " granting legal titles with the least possible delay to the actual occupants of land, except under special circumstances of abuse." It is probably not necessary that I should now recal to your recollection the importance which, in our discus sions before you left this country, I attached to an early settlement of land claims generally. I trust that before this can reach you, the titles of all who may have been able to substantiate their claims according to the provi sions of the Land Claims' Ordinance, will have been fully confirmed, and the necessary title deeds been issued to them. The resolution of the Committee, however, ap pears to point to cases of occupation by parties without legal claims. It is difficult, without fuller information than I possess as to the number of persons so occupying, the history of the means by which that occupation was acquired, and the extent of it, to give you any precise instructions on the subject. I can only, therefore, state generally my wish that such persons should be dealt with in the spirit recommended by the Committee, in as far as it is practi cable to do so consistently with the provisions of the Im perial Land Sales Act, 5 and 6 Viet., c. 36. You will not fail to observe an opinion strongly ex pressed by the Committee, " That the prohibition to all private persons to purchase laud from the natives ought to be strictly enforced, except that land which may have been purchased by natives they should be at liberty to sell again, provided the transaction be sanctioned by the Protector." There can be no doubt of the necessity of imposing such restrictions on the sale of land as should preclude the possibility of the Government being outbid in its negotiations with the natives by private settlers ; but you appear to entertain an cpinion that a mode might be devised by which parties might be allowed to purchase directly from the natives, the purchaser paying to the Government on each sale such an amount as would be fully equivalent to the ordinary difference be tween the price paid to the natives and that at which land is sold by Government. Until I shall have learnt whether you have taken any and what steps in this di rection, I abstain from doing more than calling your at tention to the opinion of the Committee. Before I quit this subject,l must add that with everydesire to maintain for the natives all their just rights, I cannot but think that some of those by wilt m they hare been advised have formed, and encouraged them to form, ex. aggerated notions of the value of land, and have sanc tioned claims for compensation which certainly appear extravagant. I have not received accounts of any cir utristances of this kind subsequent to your arrival in the colony ; and I am sure that you would feel it your duty to disc:,urage any exorbitant or unreasonable den - mils upon the settlers, by whose presence and exertions it must be remembered the present high value has been given to the possession of land, which, before the arrival of Europeans, bore a very inconsiderable morey value. It would, I think, be easy to show, that while it is our boicalen duty to protect the natives against aggression, it would not tend to their real advantage to encourage t s hrr to exp ec t i nor di nate payments for their land, while uoi i a system muAt have the effect of, beckire•the spread of European immigration, on which, if properly cot.- trolled and regulated, the prosperity of New Zealand, as a Britishith regard to poss,sssim must l mainly dep, nd. With on by the 13th militaryresolution, and naval prot ec ti, n , t ouc h e d already, as you are the au are, Board of Admir a lty had antler s my dir e ct ions , sanc tioned the contin ue d presence' ot. adverting to the calls whi c h are matte for vessel of war ; but, in every direction, and to the enormous expense x ma;ntaining, them, I cannot hold o u t t o you ethirnexpec tationof that her Majesty's Government will have it in their power to recede to the rec )minentlation of the Committee, that an arm , d steamer should be constantly at your disposal, unless Parliament shall be willing to The Committee, in referring to the report of Captain Grey, evidently can do so only with reference to the adoption of the general principle upon which he pro poses that his system should rest ; the details of his plan are obviously unsuited to the character and habits of the natives of New Zealand, differing as they do most widely from those of the aborigines of the continent of Australia. names of qualified persons had been omitted from the special jury book ; but it was possible that a bye ' explanation might have passed between his Lord ship an 1 the Learned Attorney-General for Ireland, that had escaped us all. In the hope of finding such explanation, we therefore turned to the authorised report of the Noble and Learned Lord's argument pre. pared by Mr. David Leahy, one of the counsel in the case, and published by Mr. Butterworth, the eminent law bookseller, on the 12th of October last—a consider able time after the judgment had been delivered. We call this an authorised report, because Mr. Leahy states in his preface that he was in communication with the Lord Chief Justice upon the subject of his publica tion, and he was even favoured with the Noble and Learned Lord's private notes upon the case, which he prints at the end of the speech to the extent of no less than 20 pages. Now, in the speech, and the annexed private notes, we find the omitted names uniformly enumerated at sixty, without any expression of doubt, any explanation, or any correction of the number. "If I am asked," says Lord Denman, in the concluding pa ragraph of his private notes (p. 67), " how many omis sions and interpolations will suffice to vitiate a return, I might perhaps decline the question as irrelevant, because the number actually omitted is at all events so considerable, as . to disturb the identity of the return. But I would decline to answer it for another reason, the impossibility of tracing the operation of the faulty proceeding. The truth may be, that the whole jury of twelve would have come out of th e re j e cted sixty." Here, then, we think,. there is conclusive evidence that Lord Denman did not correct his error in the course of his speech, for he would scarcely permit what (upon the hypothesis that he did) he must have known to be false, to be printed as with his au thority, a month after the speech was delivered. That Lord Denman did correct, with his charac teristic candour, one very important error, we re member ; and we find the correction noticed in Mr. Leahy's authorised report. " I understand," said the Noble and Learned Lord, " that the whole list of jurors for the county of the city of Dublin consists of 717 ; it is also mentioned by Mr. Justice Burton in his judgment. Now the special jury list out of that must be a very small and inconsiderable propor tion of it (viz. of 717), and the omission of sixty names out of such a proportion of the Sheriff's jury list as remained for special juries is enough to affect any panel. I am not sure whether I am stating correctly the number of the whole book or not." " The Attorney-General for Ireland—As your Lordship has appealed to me, I would say that the special jury list contained the names of seven hun dred and odd." " Lord Denman—l am much obliged for the correction," &c.—(See Mr. Leahy's Report, page 17-18.) We cannot help thinking that this is the cor rection which our kind monitm c infounds with another equally important correction, which the Noble and Learned Lord ought t. , ) have made, hut which, unfortu• nately, he does not appear to have made. The difficulties with which the governors of the other Australian colonies have to contend in inducing the na ives to adopt a settled life, to resort to cultivation of the soil, and to engage in the occupation of Europeans, do not exist with you ; and the rewards which he holds out to settlers for the permanent employment of natives in th&r service, and other leading features of his scheme, are obviously wholly inapplicable to New Zealand. The principle upon which Captain Grey proceeds, viz. that of bringing, as speedily as possibly, the aboriginal inhabitants of the country under similar laws with the Queen's native-born subjects, and into habits of civilised life, is one to which, as you are well aware, I fully assent, and which no one has more warmly at heart than yourself. I am quite sensible that, in endeavouring to eff,•ct these objects, it may be necessary to temper the strict application of the penalties of British law with much discretion and forbearance. Under certain circum stances, indeed, I am afraid it may be inevitable to con sider, before interfering with native customs, which are in themselves objectionable, how far the means of coer cion at your disposal may render it prudent for you to take steps for that purpose, which, in case no resistance was to be apprehended, you would not hesitate to adopt. Difficult, however, as the task may be, I trust that your endeavours to effect it will be unremitting ; and I cannot but hope that., by firm and judicious conduct, by inspiring a respect for the rights which are guaranteed, and a dread of committing the offences which are prohibited by British law, at the same time you convince their minds of its justice, by making them feel that in their persons and properties they enjoy full protection, you may gradually wean the native tribes from their savage habits, render them submissive to British law, and in corporate them in the community of British subjects.— I have, &c., STANLEY. In a second dispatch Lord Stanley inclosed to Gover nor Fitzroy copies of correspondence with the Admiralty respecting the furnishing a steam-vessel for the New Zealand service. The average cost of such a steamer as that required, of the class of the Volcano, is stated to be about 5,0001. a year; the expense of the Volcano being, in the year 1841, 9,0011. ; in 1842, 5,1571.; and in 1843, 4,5871. In the first of these years:the vessel was completely refitted. PROPERT Y AND INCOME-TAX. 3n Friday next the Premier will propose, the continu ance of the property and income tax, as he is pleased to intimate thus early, "fora further limited period." What that limitation is to be, whether two years or seven , or the term of our natural lives, he leaves us still to con jecture. What taxes he may at the s ame time p ro pose to remit, is a matter for the present equally inscrutable to human eye. A week longer is left for toe respective patrons of cotton, and corn, and tea, and sugar, and paper, and windows, to weary Heaven and Sir Robert Peel with their cries of deliverance for their several articles. For a week longer the tariff will be mt lted down to the consistency of siy.culative or contingent matter in the secret chambers of Whitehall. Once recast, once chrystallized into a financial exposition, vain will be prayer, deprecation. and argument. It will then receive the adamantine obduracy of its maker ; and no consolation will be left for those who happen to be then disappointed but the reflection that all thing; pass away and so must ultimately Sir Robert Peel. As we have not given ourselve s in a ver y head strong way to any one application of th is nature, and can b ear swuirtshe• equanimity e ni P m r i e t m y Premier's absolute He l a re fusali we can afford to lives by his income tax. It is the Club of the Conservattve Hercules. Others have a thousand resources, many of them rather indifferent; he has one, and that fairly effectual for the nonce at least. Others insinuate a tax here and a tax there, wherever an opening offers; Sir Robert does his work with one knock-down blow. " A strong pull," and, we fear, " a long pull," is his motto. Unless he is blessed with some unforeseen opportunity of ehanging his line, he must pass for a man of one idea, viz , id. in the pound. He will be computed as an additional pressure of 3 per cent. on human industry. As he de serves a better fate, and a more honourable name, so we heartily- desire he may repent of the tax before his official exit. For his own sake we should be sorry that he shonld go down to posterity with that rough append age. Nothing is so intolerable as any approach to a per sonal impost. Vespasian procured for himself thereby an unseemly association of ideas. A poll tax and Wat Tyler cleave to the memory of Richard the Secona's advisers. Peter's penny helped to put out the Pope. Ship money and benevolences contributed much to the ruin of Charles I. The duty on hair-powder revolution ised the dress, the manners, the mind, and almost the Constitution of England, and is an everlasting type of Mr. Pitt's necessities. We could almost predict an equal perpetuity of fame to Sir Robert Peel's income-tax. How many xamples in practice will he furnish to future Cookers and Walkingbames : How often will the Les Pelil perplex the student in British antiquities I how many thousand times will the schoolboy confound an in come its the Three per Cents., and three per cent. on the income 1 His confusion will be worse confounded when deo this m Whigf or em metal, r on regime, th e puzzled s o i nth e s t k al i , n a fl n in d t th P e ee d l imti wantonly inu,,n he further ohtl f ho u ate r te t rdhweeiN with ehhn r et e uh a eep d ue s anot t dpt h rlei a ert t i will arrive at some strange conclusions to the pre judice of Peel or of the Whigs, as the case may happen to be. Sir Robert, who yields to no man i n hise3"ppe eye for future contingencies, has doubtless foreseen all this; and is not a little anxious to set himself quite right with pos terity. To do this, he must SORTI or late resign the in come-tax. It is one horn of his dilemma. - The other is how to do without it. The extent of this difficulty may be perceived by casting of eve over the return of the public income and expenditure just laid before Parliament. In that imporaTit summary the in come-tax is expressed by the very respectable figure of 5.191,596/. With it, there is an excess of income over expenditure of 3,356,1051. Without it', a deficiency of nn pe of this tax was, that 1,835,4911.; in round numbers t wo m illi ons. wh i c h i. such j very ch n. Now,improvement The priprinciple on l the good old days of Lord under its temporary shelter, a thriving young plantation of smaller taxes was to grow up to such vigour end di mensions as to dispense with their unsightly protector. They are two millions a year off yet. Such is the exist ing embarrassment which the public importunity has aggravated, and threatens to aggravate still more. On all sides arises a clamour for reduction ; commerce, manu facture, enjoyment, and life itself, demand fgosh ease ment. Yet every thousand surrendered, is another thou. sand added to that two millions which the still laggard revenue must pull up before it overtakes the runaway expenditure. Gladly would we see the cotton-tax or the window-tax removed, but the former reduction alone would make the deficiency in our permanent arrange ments nearer three millions than two. If we once begin with lopping off the lesser taxes, on the strength of that, temporary and fictitious excess presented by the pro perty and income-tax, we may as well give up all thought of its entire abandonment, and resolve it into its temporary and its constant part, its mortal and im mortal nature. Tax wealth, and frank industry—lay your permanent burden on permanent property, but deal lightly with the precarious labours of trades and professions, and the Minister will have no need to meet Parliament every year with apologies for national con fiscation. Meanwhile a document has been ushered into the world, with a degree of coyness and backwardness quite inexplicable, which seems to throw some light on the Premier's intentions. Unless he has put it out merely in defence of what he has already done, or in a certain exuberance of arithmetical production, merely because it is his nature to develop in tabular forms, it means a further modification of the tariff. In a blue book of considerable bulk we have a comparison of imports and duties before and after the establishment of the new tariff.—The genius of minuteness and subdi vision never showed to better advantage. Eight sche dules give this comparison on articles now producing respectively less than 100/. a-year each, from 100/. to 500 L, and so on till we come to two schedules containing the more important items of revenue from 50,000/. to 100,0001. each, and 100,000 L upwards. The commo dities under each schedule are further divided into raw materials of manufacture, partially manufactured, wholly manufactured, articles of food, and miscellaneous. To this is prefixed a summary of the produce to the revenue, which our readers will find entire in another column. The first subdivision shows the amount of the direct relief which manufacture has received from the new tariff by the reduced duty on its raw materials, viz., about 800,0004 a year, the amount of the materials them selves having considerably increased. The second has much the same aspect, showing about 400,300!., repre senting more than that amount of annual aid to those processes which work up and finish partially manufac tured articles. The third shows that, under reduced duties, the import of wholly manufactured articles has so increased as to return the same amount of revenue. The fourth exhibits this still more strikingly in the case of articles of food, comforts, and luxuries. Notwithstand ing the- serious, and we suppose it must be added alarm ing, reduction of duties on these items, the revenue upon them has increased more than 1,400.000/. a-y, an The total !Isla's the revenue a gainer by the new tariff, and the kingdom consequently 8 (seiner by the vastly in creased importation. It is evident that a comparison of the produce to the re.. entie is the (lily possible method within the reach of Government fer itelicating the cum perative quantities imported, money being 0:e only common treasure of the twelve or fifteen hundr d various articles specified in this return. In a day or two we may perhaps gather resolution to plunge into this vast and most miscellaneous store At present we car only sirgle oat one giant less or sacrifice, as pr ople may (house to take it. By the reduction of the duties on timber the revenue has lost about 800,000/. a year ; when it is evident that through the generel improvement, of trade we should have had an immense increase under that head, bat for this sweeping reduction.— Times. ----- GREENLAND.—The Greenlanders, who are not very tender with regard to the weather, have this year bad to endure a winter much mole rigorous than ordinary, the cord I aving often been 58 degrees below the freez ing point. The inhabitants of these desolate countries have besides been so tormented by famine, that they have been reduced to eat their old gam( rit;, ff-rmed of skins of beasts. To heighten their dit-treEs, a contagious malady has broken out among them, which has carried off many persons.—Commerce. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10 1845. LATEST PRICES OF SHARES N RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. From the Official List, PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7. RAILWAYS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Slare. • X s. d. A; s. d. Aberdeen •••• • • • •• • • - - 2 0 0 2% Birmingham & Gloster 31. 55. perch. 100 0 0 100 0 0 130% Ditto, New, iss .71 dis. 15s. 25 0 0 17 10 0 323 Brighton,Lews,&Hast. - 50 0 0 50 0 7% Bristol and Exeter •• • • 2/.165. per sh.. 100 0 0 70 0 0 79 Ditto and Gloucester - 50 0 d 30 0 0 55 Caledonian •••.• • • • • • - 50 0 0 5 0 0 7% Cambridge and Lincohi • - 25 0 0 110 0 3% Chatham & Prtsmouth - 20 0 0 1 0 0 Chester and Holyhead % - 50 0 0 50 0 7% Chichester & Brighton - - 50 0 5 Churnet Valley .• ••• • • - 20 e 0 2 0 0 8 Cornwall •••••• • • • • - - - 3 0 0 5% Direct Northern.. •• • • - 50 0 0 210 0 2% Direct Norwich ... •• • - 20 0 0 1 0 0 1% Dias, Beccles, & Yrmth - 25 0 0 110 0 1 34 Dublin & Belfast June. - 50 0 0 210 0 5% Ditto and Galway • • - - 2 10 0 2% Eastern Counties ... • • 6s. per sh. 25 0 0 25 0 0 Si% Do., Perpetual, No.l 51. per ct. 613 4 313 4 1 pm. Ditto, ditto, No. 2. • • - - 0134 %l pm. Eastern Union - 50 0 0 10 0 0 Edinburgh & Glasgow 21. Is. p. sh. 50 0 0 50 0 0 643% Ditto, Quarter Shares I Is. 3d. p. sh. 12 10 0 12 10 0 16% Ely and Bedford .•• • • - 25 0 0 10 0 2 34 Grand Connection •• • • - 50 0 0 210 0 Grand Junction -•• • • 10/. per ct. 100 0 0 100 0 0 2243( Ditto, Half Shares lOl. per ct. 50 0 0 50 0 0 112% Ditto, Quarter Shares 101. per ct. 25 0 0 25 0 0 Gt. Southern &Western - 50 0 0 5 0 0 11% Great North of England 31.55. 100 0 0 100 0 0 168 Ditto, New.• •••• • • • - 40 0 0 5 0 0 33 Great Western Ditto, Half Shares • • 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 10030 Ditto, Fifths.. -•• • • 71. percent. 20 0 0 20 0 0 4034 Guilford Junction. •• • • - 50 0 0 35 0 0 Harwich .. • • ..... .• • • - 20 0 0 1 0 0 2 Hull and Selby .••• • • • 5/. ss. pr ct. 50 0 0 50 0 0 74 Ditto, Quarter Shares - 12 10 0 12 10 0 17% Kendal & Windermere - - 25 0 0 1 10 0 :.ancaster and Carlisle - 50 0 0 15 0 0 29 Leeds and Bradford. - 50 0 0 5 0 0 18% Liverpool & Manchestr 10/. per et. 100 0 0 100 0 0 Ditto, Half Shares • . 10/. per ct. 50 0 0 50 0 0 Ditto, Quarter Shares 101. per ct. 25 0 0 25 0 0 London & Birmingham 101. per ct. - Stock. 239 Ditto, New Thirds lOl. per ct. 32 0 0 2 0 0 44% Ditto, New % Shares 101. per cc. lf , 0 0 2 0 0 30 _ondon and Blackwall - 16 13 4 - 8 London and Brighton.. 1/. ss. per sh. 50 0 0 50 0 0 55% DI:to, Loan Notes .• 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 13% Londm. nnd Greenwich - 12 15 4 - 11% Ditto, Pref. or Priv . • 5/. percent. is 7 2 - 243 London a. dS. Western .1. 55. per sit. 41 610 - 883' 4 Do., New Cons. sths - 40 0 0 6 0 0 2634 Ditto, New . . - 50 0 0 2 10 0 12% :ondon and Croydon 10s. per sh. 13 15 9 - 1836 Ditto, Guarntd. sp. c. - 9 0 0 4 0 0 4% London and Y0rk..... - 50 0 0 2 10 0 6% Lynn and Ely - 25 0 0 1 5 0 4% Manchester and Leeds 41.75, (4. p. s. 100 0 0 70 0 0 140 Ditto, Half Shares Dit o, Quarter Shares 4s. 25 0 0 2 0 0 14% Ditto, Sixteenths .• . - 6 5 0 1 5 0 5% Manchestr & Birming. 2/. per share 40 0 0 40 0 64 Ditto, Quarter Shares - 10 0 0 2 0 0 11 Midland ....... ••• • • • 4/. 4s. per sh, - ' Stock. 139 Ditto, Fifths .•• • • - - - 2 0 0 3 3% Ditto, Bi-rn. & Derby 2/.135. per sh, - Stock. 943{ 2 Newcastle & Berwick - 25 0 0 1 10 0 16 New cstic & Dar!. J unc. Cs. 25 0 0 24 0 0 74 North British .••• • • • • - - 7 10 0 13% N N E, :D o , r r rti t :s h t. :flo e: , h i Qi i iat,aniht, Quarter r d Diße E i rrr a ease s nht t d e : o r .r n ne. 5.. . 21. 5s . “) 0 0 45 0 0 62 Ditto, Scrip, iss. 5/. d. 15s. 50 0 0 25 0 0 46 - 12 10 0 12 10 0 17 North Kent ... • - - 2 15 0 3% - 20 0 0 8 0 0 15% Ditto, New - 10 0 0 1 0 0 4 - 50 0 0 2 10 0 2 Preston and Wyre - - - 50 0 0 50 0 0 Itichnind &W. E June. - 20 0 0 1 0 0 3% Rugby . - - 1 0 4 !8 Ditto, 2d Pref., 1842 - 25 0 0 25 0 0 Sheffield and Lincoln . • - 25 0 0 1 5 0 1% Sheffield & Manchestr 51. per cent. 100 0 0 82 10 0 Ditto, Quarter Shares - 25 0 0 8 0 0 13 Shrws.,Wolv.,Dud.,Bir - 50 0 0 210 0 5 3i 'outh Devon ... ••• • • • - 20 0 0 10 0 0 16 !4 South-Eastern & 1)ovr 11. Is. 33 2 4 - 48% Ditto, New iss.lB/.dis - 50 0 0 4 0 0 22 South Wales .... . - - 2 10 0 8% Stevenson's Prtsmouth - - 2 10 0 2% Thames and Medway.. - 19 5 8 -9% Trent Valley ••••• • • • . - 20 0 0 2 0 0 13% Yarmouth & Norwich - 20 0 0 20 0 0 29 Ditto, New - 20 0 0 8 0 0 16% York & North Midland 101. per ct. 50 0 0 50 0 0 106 Ditto, Half Shares • • 101. per ct. 25 0 0 25 0 0 54 Do., Scarbro' Branch - - 20 0 0 44% Ditto, Selby Scrip - - - 20 0 0 70% Ditto, Extension .... - 125 0 0 15 0 13 Boulogne and Amiens. - (20 0 0 2 0 0, 5% Gt. Northern of France - 120 0 0 40 0 5F,,, Orleans and Vierzon .. 0 0 0 Orleans & Bourdeaux ____ Paris and Lyons...-. Ly0n5...... - 1 22 2 00 0 000 000 2 0 2 2 0 0 000 11% Orleans Paris and Strasbourg.. - i2O 0 0 20 0 3 Paris and Orleans..... - 20 0 0 20 0 0 44% Paris and Rouen ...... 2/. 20 0 0 20 0 0 43 It nen and Havre .... - 20 0 01 12 0 0 303 JOINT—STOCK BANKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. £ s. d. X s. d. Australasia .....• Si. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 453( Britsh North American 61. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 45 Commercial of London Si. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 Colonial .• • • ..... 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 27X London Joint-Stock ... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14 1 ,! Metropolitan Provincial of Ireland.. Si. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 44% Ditto, New.. Si. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 National of Ireland .. 1 Si. per cent. 50 0 0 17 10 0 16 Nat. Provncial of Eng. 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 37 Ditto, New.-- 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 Union of Australia.... 25 0 0 25 0 0 27 Union of London.. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 12% INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ s. d. £ s. d. Albion • ..... 31. 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 74 Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 19% Ditto Marine. 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 5 0 0 63% Atlas . 13s. 6d. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 10% British Commercial .. 7s. per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 7 Clericl, Med. & G en. Life , l. per cent. 100 0 0 210 1 6% County ••• • • • 3/. 100 0 0 10 0 0 C rown ............ .. / 6 9s. and 1. ss. bs. 40 0 0 5 0 0 10 Eagle ...... ...... •• • . Gs. 50 0 0 5 0 0 5% Economic Life . ..... • • ElV o r s. e b t s " 1000 0 0 250 0 0 Eng.& Scot. Law Lite- 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2b European Life ••••• • • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 2 1 ; Freemasons' ..• •••• • •• hl. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 Globe 6/. per cent. Stock. 142 Guardian Imperial Fire ...... • • 12/. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 195 Imperial Life ••• • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 16 Indemnity Marine •• • • 1/. sh. & be. 100 0 0 513 1 30 Law Life • • Legal and General Life 50 0 0 2 0 0 5% London Fire .••.• • • • . 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 16 Loudon Ship • •••••• 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 16 Marine ••••••• • • • • • • • /.percent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 Med. Invlid & Gen. Life 50 0 0 2 0 0 3 National Loan Fund • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2% National Life. Palladium Life... •- . • Phcenix 3/. p. ct. & be. Protector Life.... -• • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 Provident Life ... •.• • . 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24 Rock Life...... Royal % Exchange 5/. per cent. Stock. 192 Sun Fire . Ditto Life ..... ..... 1/. Os. Universal Life ..... • . 10% /. pr cut. 100 0 0 6 5 0 16 DOCKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of I Paid. Price. Annum. Share. X s. d. :X o. d. Commercial ......... 3/. per cent. Stock. East and West India — . 15% /. pr cent. Stock. 142 East Country ....... 1/. per sh. 100 0 0 21 London ...... ..... .. .4 y t l. pr cent. Stock. 11 7% St. Katharine ........ i 5 per cent. Stock. 118 Southampton •••• • • • • 4/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 WATER-WORKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of I Paid. Price. Annum. Share. s, d. East L0nd0n.......... SI. 100 0 0 230 Grand Junction ...... 3/. 46 13 4 I 90 Kent .. ...... 2/. 10s. 100 0 0 65 Vauxhall ............5i. per cent. 100 0 0 60 West Middlesex ...... 4/. 16s. pr ct. 63 12 9 126 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES • Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. X s. d. £ s. d. Bank of Scotland ..... 61. per cent. 100 0 0 172% Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. 100 0 0 168% British Linen Company 8/* per cent. 100 0 0 226 Commercial Bank .. • • 61. per cent. 100 0 0 1673 National 8ank...... 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 15% Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr cent. 50 0 0 97 Western Bank • ... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 76 North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 7 Clydesdale Bank. ..... 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 14% Eastern Bank •••• • • • • 3/. per cent. 15 0 0 11% Caledonian Bank ••. • • 61. per cent. 210 0 3Y Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 51. per cent. 50 0 7%29 City of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. 815 0 13% Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1 Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14% Insur. Co. of Scotlnd.. 5/. per cent 10 0 0 All paid. 10 North British Insur. • • 9/. per cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 24% Caledonian Fire Insur. 10/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 25 Edinburgh Life Insur. 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 18% Edin. & Glasg. Railway 4 1 / 9 /. percent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 65 % Ditto, 1 4 Shares .• • • 41./ 2 /. percent. 12 10 0 All paid. 16v A Edin., Leith, & Grantn 20 0 0 20 0 0 15 Glasgw & AyTshir Rail. 4%1. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 66 Glasgw & Greenck Rail. 2/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 12 1 ,i Glsgw & Garnkirk Rail. 5/. per cent. if, 0 0 All paid. 28 Dundee & Arbroth Rail. 5/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. I 32 CANALS. 1 ,; .i Dividend! Names of 1 ce, Dividend p . , Names of ~.. .. per I Price. Companies. 5 per Price. Companies. 5 . , 7. ' Annum. 7 <I . imurn. ' X • X Aslitn & 014111 97 5/.55. p c 72 Monmoutlish i lo . 81. 160 Ashby-d-la-Z 113 4/. 70 Mingoinrysh 1100 `l. ',B Darnsle,y •• .. 160 121. ; 180 Macclesfield. 100 - 15 liasingstoke..!loo - h Neath .. .• • • 100 211. 26 13fs.nk&Abrg,130 M. $. Nottingham . 150 12/. 260 Cronnbrd .... !1013 P./. 164 Peak Forest. 78 31. 40 Dudley .•• . • • 1100 4/. 80 Regent's .. . • 33 1/. 25 Derby ...... 1,100 8/. 103 Rochdale ... •8, 4/. 5 F:llsinre&Chs 133, 4/. 02 Shropshire • • 125 8/. 120 Erewash ... 1100, 321. 410 Somrset Coal' 150 71.105. 123 Forth & Clytt 100, 4/. los Do. Lk Fd St 12 6/. p. c. 11 GrandJunctu 100 'U. 157 Stffrd &Wore 140 28/. 480 Grand Unioro.oo. 11.:0s. 24 Shrewsbury.. 12 . 15/. 230 Glamorgnsli .:172 1 t%l. 210 Stourbridge .. 145 201. 360 Glstr&l3rkly 00, - 8 Strtird on Av 19 1/. 10s. 30 Grantham . • 150 ; 121. 185 'Severn and Huddersfield. 57' - 20 Wy e R a il . 26 11. Bs. 30 Kennt & Arai 39' 7s. Gd. 10. T rnt & 311 50 30/. 465 Lancaster... { 47; 1/. 10. 40 sey, y, sh. Leeds& Livrp , . PO ; 34/. G 23 Thams &Med 19 - 10 Leicester .... 140; 10/. 139 Worcstr &} 78 41. 50 Leicstr & 'Still 8:3 4/. 70 Bin n i ng . Loughborogh 142 , 70/. 1050 Wilts & larks 67 11. 4s. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY. GLOBE.—Her Majesty's Ministers are evidently de• sirous of being considered unusually liberal and resolute on the subject of Irish education. They have chosen the medium of the Royal Speech to recommend to the " fa vourable consideration" of Parliament " the policy of improving and extending the opportunities for academi cal education in Ireland." It has not escaped the attention of the public that this is the only measure so distin guished. Mr. Gladstone, if we may venture to guess at the meaning of his very elaborate circumlocution of the other evening, has been scared from his seat in the Cabinet only by what is here foreshadowed. He, we may suppose, has looked upon the reality, in all its grim di mensions ; and is perhaps the only man, not in the Mi nistry, who knows what is coming. We do not forget his modest averment as to the very limited ex tent of his knowledge ; but he " protesteth overmuch." It is already rumoured, with an air of some proba bility, that the " improving" means the complete throw ing open of Trinity College to Catholics OR the same footing as Protestants, and an increase of the grant to the College of Nlaynooth. The " extending," it is said, is to be effected by the establishment of two more col leges, unfettered by any anti-Catholic restrictions ' • one in the north and the other in the south of the island. But whatever may be the form of the scheme, it is as sumed on all hands that its effect will be the extension of some real educational advantages to the Catholic po pulation of Ireland—some further advance towards the obliteration of the religious distinctions which have hitherto been the bane of Irish prosperity. And, in this point of view, we have no doubt that a large majority in this country will be prepared to concur in the measure. There is, however, one portion of the scheme, be it what it may, concerning which we must confess the in dulgence of some slight curiosity. That the present Ministry should adopt any principles, however incon sistent with their past professions, or push them to any extent that may be deemed expedient for the service of present purposes, can surprise no one. But there are difficulties not to be evaded by the most consummate pliancy of principle—obstacles which mere moral lubricity cannot wriggle through. How does Sir Robert Peel intend to provide for the expense of the contemplated improvement and extension ? Has he, at length, mace up Isis mind to the necessity of appropriating to secular purposes a portion of the sinecure revenues of the Irish Church Establishment ?—or are the people of Great Britain to be asked to pay the expense out of the income-tax ? It is possible that Sir Robert Peel may have discovered some third source more eligible for his purpose than either of those we have mentioned. Un objectionable as is the end he seeks, he may so exert his financial ability as to make the means equally so. It is possible—and he will have our best is ishes in making the attempt ; but we strongly doubt his success. STANDARD.—It has been represented to us by a friend—one of those whose corrections are so kindly intended, that they are always receives! by us with gra titude, even were it not an honour to be noticed by them —that we have been guilty of an injustice to the Lord Chief Justice of England, in saying that he ought not to have lost a day in rectifying, in his place in Parliiment, the mistake made by him as to the number of the names omitted in the spe. cial jury book, upon occasion of the trial of Mr. O'Connell and his fellow-convicts. " I am sure," says our kind monitor, " that though Lord Denman made this mistake in the courac of his speech in the House of Lords—he made it with an expression of doubt ; and when set right by the Attorney-G. neral for Ireland, corrected it, hut in oceeded to argue that number did not affect the principle, in which his Lord•hip was wrong." Now, the spirit in which we have always spoken of Lord Denman int:st have greatly belie:l our feeling t 'wards his Lordship, if it does not acq-iit us of any hostile feeling towards a judge, whom we believe to be as this and as upright a magistrate as ever occupied the scat that he fills ; and it will be remembered that in the particular case we were careful to suggest what was and is our sincere belief, that he erred only through haste and care lessness. It was therefore with an anxious wish to find our monitor right and ourselves wrong„ that we resorted to the only means of ascertaining tiapsotr, t h s s Lordship truth up on th e p o i n t. O u r o w n recollection of Lord i certainly Denman' s a p e; e h, con fi rme d as i t was by a ll th e news paper reports to r p s s p i o s r te te d d up tl o te n o t p h i e n r i , a ; e n t tthhaatt, sixty LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb. 8. (Sittings at Nisi Prius.) :Before the LORD CHIEF BARON and a Common Jury.) DVDONNELL V. TYLER. This was an action to recover damages for an assault. The offence was alleged to have been committed in August last, on the premises of Mr. Abraham Tyler, builder, in King's-road—the defendant being his son. The evidence went to sh. , w that the plaintiff, a week after quitting the employment of Mr. Tyler, called at the counting-house, and demanded a shilling, which he said was owing to him. The defen dant refused the demand, on the ground that nothing was due ; and, on his desiring the plaintiff to go away, the latter said " he'd be d—d if he would, and that it would take a better man than the defendant to put him out." On this the defendant pushed him out of the office in such a manner that he fell on the ground, and received bodily injury. This it was which constituted the alleged assault. The defence rested on the statement that the plaintiff was intoxicated at the time, and that his language and behaviour were such as to justify the conduct pursued towardshim. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, one farthing. On the trial of the above case the LORD CHIEF BARON, in addressing the jury, made the following remarks:— "I cannot help expressing my regret at the existence of the law in its present form, and happy should I be to see the day when juries shall have an Ppnortunity of ar riving at a conclusion on the evidence solely. As the law is now administered, there can be no doubt that the plaintiff has a considerable advantage. Those of you who have been here on former occasions must be aware that he is the first heard and the last heard. I make these remarks because I think it is to be regretted that juries are left in the dark on certain mat ters, for fear of a reply. It would be very much better it the whole truth were brought out on alt occasions, so that we might judge of the entire case, instead of hear ing a part of it and guessing the remainder." SHERIFFS' COURT, Feb.B. (Sittiogs at Guildhall.) THE LAST ST. LEGER.-NEWHALL r. WARD. In this c ase the plaintiff. Thomas Newhall, sought to recover the sum of 20/. from the defendant, James Ward, being the balance of a bet on Foig-a-•ballagh, the winner of the last St. Leger. Mr Huddlestone appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Russell Gurney for the detendant. Mr. HUDDLESTONE stated that the debt arose out of the following circumstances :—There was a p nom of the name ..f Beate who owed the plaint IT 20/. The d - fendant being ind bled to Beate in ;he ;ike sue, the latter tedi. ioual entered into an at raegenent ith the plaintiff; by which he itere , d that the debt • f iVard doe to Beate should be tr,nsferr,d to h in. the t lain fF: Now, the only km-wledge that the Vaintiff had of money o.ting by the defendant to Beat.e neieg ,he effect of a bet, was in cons; pence of some words in the old t drawn by Beate on the defendant to pay the 201. to the plaintiff; and which was to the effect to request him " to pay the balance of 20/. on the Leger." The question the jury woulli have to decide was as to the 1 gality of the debt; and whether the plaintiff had any knowledge that the debt arose out of any gambling transaction: and, if he were aware of that circumstance, whetter, at the same time, he was cognisant that the bet was to that amount as to render it illegal. It was true that the law had rendered all bets above la it egal, But the amount owing by the defendant might be the amount of a num ber of small debts under 101. Thus there might have been a variety of bets.). 7 to 3, or of 5 to 2, the whol of - which would amount to 201., and they were, therefore. not illegal. The jury must be satisfied before they re turned a verdict for the defendant that the plaintiff had unequivocal notice that the money owing was the effect of a bet which rendered the debt illegal. If that fact was not proved, then his client was entitled to a verdict. Mr. Beate and another witness were then examined for the plaintiff, and some letters were put in. Mr. GURNEY, for the defendant, saidL-It would be for the jury to form their opinion upon the evidence pro. duced, and he thought that the impression in their mini must be that the plaintiff was aware of the debt being a betting transaction. The jury, after half an hour's consultation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff, 201. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Feb. 8. THE HIPPODROME RACE COURSE. Mr. Commissioner POLLOCK held a court on Friday, at Reading, when Jacob Connop, the lessee of the Hip podrome Race-ground, appeared for hearing. Mr. Woodruffe opposed on the part of Mr. Reuben Laurence, a builder, and Mr. Cooke supported the ap plication. The opposition was direc!ed to the inc,,rrect state ments made in the schedule, and after an examination of some length, Mr. Commissioner POLLOCK held that a very different document must be presented before the case could be heard. The case was ordered to be adjourned to the next circuit. A question then arose whether the insolve& could not be liberated on bail. The judgment debts were between 3,0001. ane. 4,0001, and according to the usual practice of the Court the double amount would be require-I. Mr. CooKE asked whether the Court would not accept bail for 1,000 ? Mr. WOODRUFFE resisted the application. Mr. Commissioner PoLLocx thiaiglit that bail could 1 e accepted ft , r 3,000 L, and 11 ta.„,oucir:4l the ca- e !Air , I.leXt circuit. Some intimation was given that the insolvent would be removed to a London prison, and his case heard in tcwn. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, OLD CI )URT. (Before Baron PARKE and Justice WILLIAMS.) Tna LEICESTERSHIRE BANK ROBIIERY.—Upon the application of Mr. BALL/mina and Mr. CLARKSON, the trial of Richard Elliott an omnibus driver, and Richard Vincent, a cigar-dealer, was post poned until the next session. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS said that Elliott must remain in gaol until next session, and Vincent must renew the bail he had entered into before the magistrate.—The case was ordered to stand over. POLICE INTELLIGEN( E. (SA ruizi)A Y.) BOIV-STRAET. A tall young man, who gave the name of Edward Smith, but who refused to give his address, was placed at the bar before Mr. Twyford, charged with having stolen a nimbi-r of books from the library of the Uni versity College. in Gi wer , street. Mr. James Goiicly, the house steward, stated that on Monday and Wednesday last there were missed from the general library of the College the three bitiks produced, of which circumstance he gyve information to the police. and from some circumstances that had subsequently transpired, there was reason to su'pect that the prisoner had stolen them. W•tness did not know the prisoner, but recollected seeing him in the library on Thurvay last, when " Wilson's French and English Dictionary," and "Grant's Outlines of Comp.ir the Anatomy," were stolen. All the pupils had access to the library, and when a book was required by any one of them, the prac tice was to write thr , title on a slip of paper, and then to present it to the librarian, by whom he was furnished with the volume he required. All the cases containing the books were kept locked. Mr. W. J. Chapman, the librarian, stated that, having seen the prisoner in the library, his impression wa, he was one of the students of the college, but since his apprehension he had discovered such was not the case. He missed the works above named when he was locking up the book cases,' from the table of the library, on Monday, but was not certain whether he saw the pri soner there on that day. On Wednesday, on which day he recollected the prisoner conversing with him in a very familiar manner, he also missed a book from the library table. In answer to questions from the prisoner, the witness said that strangers could easily gain admis .ion to the library of the college, and had opportunities of taking away books unnoticed by any of the officers of the institution. Mr. Nock, a bookseller in Tottenham•court-road, stated that be had seen the prisoner on several occasions; that he bought the dictionary of him on Monday last for 10s., believing it to be his own, and, though a portion of the fly-leaf was torn off, he thought that the prisoner had perhaps written his name there and torn it off before he offered it for sale, as was the usual practice with stu dents when they offered books for sale. On the last occasion he had a suspicion of the prisoner's honesty, and gave information to the police, by whom he was taken into custody. _ _ The Inipector stated he thought it his duty to inform the Court that the last witness had afforded every assist ance to the police to enable them to make the necessary inquiries. The prisoner, who declined saying anything in his de fence, was re , nanded fur a we, k. LAMBETIL Henry Smith and Henry Foulks, omnibus drivers, were charged with wanton and furious driving on the night of Sunday, the 261 h of last month Mr. - HENRY. after hearing a number of witnesses pro and con, convict, d Foulks in the penalty of 40s. and costs, and Smith in a similar amount. He also expressed his determination to repr.ss and put down the shameful irregularities at present and for some time practised in this pin of the Metropolis, by which the public are put to very consider Ale inconvenience. HA SMITH. _ Cha , les Mot a polire•co. st,t•l•• of the T divi sion, was brought. up ta u • final ex;anination bet re Mr. G. Clive, on a charge of having stolen three bushels of oats, the property u Mr. 2 . ray, the P:lce Rec: iver General, and William .luckson. a r, , sp- eudde florist and gardener, in Earle-str et, liensitigts.n, was elt.rged with Riceiving the same, kno,ing them t }lnv, been stolen. Mr. Chartnick, the harriy.ler. with Mr. Jeanin g , soli citor, of Notting-hill, attend( d for the prisoner Jackson. John Ho:zun deiniz. , ed thut he was a sergeant of the metr-p Titan T 25 ( hi Tuesday morning laAt he wAched at the station-house, in Gore-I +t e, Kposing-- ton-gore, and ahont six o'clock saw the pris tier Jackson drive into the front ya.A.I with his cart to fcteh dung. The prisoner nut came out o! - * the hnu t s v wAl i a sac k up::n his shoulder, and Jackson helped him to put it into the cart. Mott brought the sale out of the forat e room. They then pia three harrows or four fu 1 of due upon the sack, which contakeel three bushels (.f corn, and then went away together to the Band :Jul Fl-wers public-house, at the corner of Gore lan , ; and after remaining there üb,ut ten minutes came out again. Witness then went up to them, and ordered the prisoner Mott to the station-house. While speaking to Mott, the prisoner Jacks al jumped into the cart. and drove off at a trot, and witness had to follow hint 150 rt.& bernre he stopped. Witness then said to Jackson, ”Ycu have somethinn. besides dung in your cart—you've got some corn." Jackson appeared surnrised, and said—" What —corn," when witness told him he must go to the station-house. The prisoner Mott said they were some oats which he had given Jackson in exchang e for bran. The sack was marked " Grainger." At the station house Jackson begged witness and Sergeant Ea stland not to press the charge against htm, or it mould by the ruin of him. Mr. Charnock, in answer to the charge, said he fa c ad not nothing to deny, but only to state the sim p le which were, that the doctor attending th e horse havit g ordered that it should have bran mash , the pri-oner Mott, had applied to the prisoner Jackson tor him tO bring him some bran from the miller from whom he (Jackson) had his, and, in return, Mott had giver' his client the oats in exchange. Several gentlemen who had known Jackson for twenty years and upwards then came forward, but 3/?. CLrvE said he should feel it his duty to send the case before a jury. Mr. Charnoek then-applied for the prisoners to b . i? admitted to bail, to .hich Mr. Clive assented, and bail was Then entered into for Mott, him-elf in 501., and tW sureties in 251. each; and Jackson, himself in 100/., and two sureties in 501. each, to appear at the next sersion, of the Central Criminal Court. DUTCH AND HAMBURGH Sr. PETERSBURGH, J. 21.—Yesterday his Meie s `.. the Emperor had a grand review of the whole garriso.n, and of the troops in cantonments in the neigh bourhood His linperial Majesty has confided to Lieut,-Ge ne . l % Ludinsky the civil teinainistration of the Caucasis provinces. Notwithstanding the vigilance of the Custom.hoilse_ officers, a great deal of smuggling is carried on betweeen, Finland and Russia, partieulurly in colonial p roduccia'v because the duties are so low in Sweden, and e3Peg, by m ans of the steam-boats. It is pro bable ttiatt,c Government may be induced, by these cont inual frau to abolish the very great commercial privilege Fa Finland, and to subject it to the regulations e xisting I Russia. has been HANOVER, JAN. 31.—His Majesty the King the pleased to give a private audience to his E xc ellency ri d Count Von Siekendorff, Ambassador Extraordinary a of Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the • Prussia at this Court, who has returned from a n' n :u f% HANOVER. FEB. I.—The Crown Prince has b e en h e .b fering fur some time from a disorder in his eyes, vi I f ( er assumes an inflammai;ery character, hut is ROY So bie happily recovered that his Royal Highness has b' en om ° the to ride out in his carriage. The Prince, to wh greatest c ire is said obe recommended , is visited ever .r/ day by his R" al Father. BREMEN, JAN. 3L—We learn that Hollard c inc.ssions to th. Zollverein, whi. h will exceed those; It us:: Is, effi.ring to place th . iv; of tie. Zoliv er l i ieh n equility with 'h.is.• under D •teb colour, t ca ll. lien w ei the coniigtinient to to des of tit, proiletei .e., of tier Many. Ship: beionCiftea i h.. Z live- :in an.. to pay a du , v pro lo init. in the milene e which is to he red in Hlland. n r the THE HAGUE, FEB. 6. The Second Chamber - re , States General neti to-day, at half-last two o'eln k ' t ole some its laLours after the adjournment. After .00. es, preliminary btisiness, it received six Royal In es ;i,la will roll accompanying so tnisey erojeets l,w, with the: ir e:4, tottery memorials:-Ist. On , he iax on oxen. • se rest. and sheep, for the benefit of the agriculturel in V 2. On the draaing up of deeds relative to c ivil al o f aciiiins in foreign countries. 3. On the colleeti' (vial tax. s. 4. For regulating and compf , deg the 'Pea funds intended to carry into effect the law en lt the rency. 5. Relative to the militia, and seniee army. 6. On expropriation for the public. benefit. o pal, All th..-se documents having been already Pr e t e old , were iir 'erel to he distributed among the M e mbe - we re tete ther with the budge , for 1846 and 1847, % , l'i ch to di‘tributed in the sitting of 2Sth Dee., 18 44, reterr the sections. n iri 4is The projects of and the explsna'orY r - d the fill above 116 column of the official .li:tired an sit tiphanioits, and are n..t yet coneluil, f THE HAGUE, FEB 7.—The Staid 4 Couratt .° oc e, 0r0,, t , of day publishes the loug.expereed royal app ereing his Excelleney J J. lt.a.hasson to thel 3 L il ieS Governor-G:11e, f the Ouch possessieris an d , c ,t he in the East Indies, ordering at the same time that exercise his functions as Minister PleniPotentitihis Brussels till that post shall otherwise be filled up' resolution is dated the sth inst. prO p te AMSTERDAM, FEB. B.—The lictedelsb/ed has,% s tat! letter from Batavia, of the 25th 844, "b lotion that dreadful ravages have been Oct.," sed by inuit", --1 too. the north of China, and in the environs 'lO.O Thousands and thousands of the inhabitants Th e perished, and the damage done is inca eJ r 59 cu hi Mandarins do their utmost to conceal the pa the fearing that if they came to the knowlerige peror, they might be made responsible for the gi vi r_ o es of the dikes. What we hear from private Pe[ l , 01) 0 dreadful. Yet all these are trifling compared "Ihese has occurred on th.• shore of the Yellow Sea' „hide r ': provinces are partly inundated, and the VP - 10 0 " amounting to sixteen or seventeen millions, 101 tl ol ies , all they possessed. The survivors, with their l i ptic e are dispersed over China as beggars. The big of rice is an additional cause of distress. SPORTING INTELLIGEMO' EPSOM RACES, 1845. Gir Nominations for the Surrey Cup. „r s , -, Phlegon, 5 yrs—Akbar, 4 yrs—Wee Pct, S o y' l rs -- Francis, 3 yrs—f by Laurel, out of Christina' v rss Co-roct C:•rt1; 3 yrs—Vol •au vent, 4 yrs—P i akcltY'l' A : 4 yr,4-1- by Short Anchnr, our or L'ui t ,' Ay 3 yrs—nowt-I.n, 4 rs—l.o;hario, yrs—a by (Deka], out of Miss Whip, 3 yrs—Minotaur, 6 yrr r Moustache, 4 yrs—Croton 4 yrs—Scalte ent fa the Semiseria, 5 yrs—Connaught Ranger, 3 Y rs s yrs. Mathew, 4 yrs—Cataract, 5 yrs—Agricultu re, CHESTER, 1845. T ar 1 s DAY. MatA, 200, h ft, Cup Co FRI ur,e—Mr. Williar o ,l Tar, to • on!, 6 yrs, 9st. 11. - st Mr. Langshaw's I3ritiii' yr-, Bst-6 to 4 on extempore. TT~NG. - COU ,eO COCKNEY UNION AND BRISTOL MEF.TING, , 0 5 % . ( 4 AND 6.—The Netheravon Open Cup (8 ( 145 404, 0 e r 1.3‘ Mr. Miller's" My Lord : the Conso•ation ' the Dc-be (I s) w, re v , on by Mr. Palmer's Peed ,ra a ction ;t o leigh Stakes (8 dogs) by Mr. Pike's Perfv, jefi li d Elliot d Stakes by Mr. Miller's Brenda ; t " k e rn es ll .4 ll e ; Stakes (8 (log.) be Mr. Fowle's Fly ; th e T . l- 14 5 ' Stakes by Mr. Miller's Br, nda, and the '-'° Stakes, by Mr. Miler's Brenda. , OW min ,- ro e A*o s : 11AWARDEN MEETING, FEB. 6.--The L .. " . f lif.. -1 ,(4) (8 dogs) was won by Mr. Ashton's . Larry ; r'ci; clop wGrth's Adrian ran up. The Queensferry Sti ll ff i oc e ' r e te were won b -- Mr. Edwa , d's Myrtle • Mr. L' i .:,.0 e Mayfly ran up. ihe Flinr-hire Stakes ( 8 "°' ~ 5. A won by Mr. Welsh's Wild Rose. FEB: ••3;'d SANDBACII (CHESHIRE) OPEN MEETIN G' ,„ di sc e l , The Pottery Stakes of 18 sous. (8 dogs) W'3ste'''/o' by Mr. Edlletton's Scythian and Mr. Brindl e Y ; leg 40 1 The aydesdale Club third Gereral Ale' . o Po t t l e menced on the 4th and sth, and would have 1)6' 00 ef to , on the 6th. The frost, however o , ca used a div!l b e en r prizes after the first cu , ses for eac h stake to' 9' HUNTING APPOINVINETS'hriage ,gto Haydon hds., Wed., Patipool ; Sat., t'ul )(° ',10 ,0 ' Mr. Vinnicombe's harm., Thurs., Ashley T ej-1 - i' 9i. ti' Whitby harrs , Thurs., Hinderwell.- 10 i• we Mr. Theohald's stag-hds., Tues., Detteing- s i+c st Carlton-11 Fr i., Sir J. Cop, 's hds., Wed., Silchester Dials ; s he(' Green-10. Fri ., GreAt Craven hds., Wed., Tiedwin Briekkiln; e ° , ore ford ; Sat., Donning - ton Castle-1 0 i Surrey stag-hds., 'rues., Kennel ; Sat., - . BO ° 11 ~ i gt trWe' (Dorking). Hambledon hds., Wed., Basing Park ; - 1.- " 5 ; Hall-10f. P riori' N. F. H.. Tues., Denny Lodge ; Thurs., t he Ol d Sat., Holbury Farm. ~.T hi lton FL H., Tues., Bramdean Common ; Thurs.,i.a. Fn', House ; Sat., Five Lanes ; Holybourne"; °u se ; Colonel Wyndhaw's hds Stoke i ~ 0 1# ~ Wed., Bury Hill. . 5 g ,v.? Witnesham harrs., Thurs., Stonhain Botta ° ' jelt l denham-14. A Darg' South Berks hds., T Ald -h ; W e ' .. " Tues., vvort Oeee° Green ; Fri., The•de-10 . 2. sat., Cheltenham stag hds., Wed., Beckford Inn ; Turnpike-11i I---------------' - Th i er ;,..lo ll ; LENGTH OF IRON ROAD IN AMEBICicsO - yow nine thousand three hundred seventy-eig' Neu) miles of railroads in the United States'-- Herald. hts . tbe Pie EII ft T I:1 S e On the 7th inst., in Belgrave-square, her Grace .ilef• oftb ° of Montrose, of a son and heir. ~.c i v 4). _.,. On the 3d inst. at the Rectory Horse, the l'c w iti s'',., fZe‘ Edward Bowlby, ' Rector of Thurrock, Esox, oS o f Ow On the 4th inst., at Bognor, Sussex, the 13 57 ( Isl."' Edward Woodhouse, of a daughter. f rs „ W. 13° do On the sth inst., at South Hackney, N. -- ~ rf- - ()f a son. Air s Georg- On the 6th inst., at Dagenham, Essex, . pees Grov e queray, of a daughter . w of fr , Ca the 6th inst., Mrs. William Camberwell, of a daughter. the i . t h• of t he On the 7th ihst.,_ at Chapel-plat Q, e 's,i' i ghte r ' C. Lixon, A. of Brightwell, Berks, 01 a - 1 the li, ,A. H. .ti i . 1'; // . caniberiVoetitige- On the 6th inst., at St. Giles's Churee p i, ebec ee, :t f Rev. William Edwards, Brighton, to " Skov) )seq. , ye,,t' daughter of the late Edward Cormsck, E n. e ( li , g r . IL , 1- 1 ,-. 'tt On the 4th inst., at St. Giles's CtipPle4, l e i thter 01 ' Fore street, to Mrs Mary Ann Willson, "" Edwards. Basinphall-street. ~clt' his r aw gd 3ric ,' " 10 On Saturday, the Bth in i s i t . . b ; at esidenee, l'sesdisatg-e.:1(1 street, C,vent•ard?n, Mr. Franklin, Itt Adyertisetred oi 88, many years editor of the " 3iornMeri tonne ii , known and mach respected by the geet` e kla s of ; hard '"- ee t the newsp.zper world. Mr. It e 1,10 0 On the 6th inst., at Brompton, . in the e 6 "' eil lov aged t;5, upwards of 40 years clerk . the be the late Mr. Cedell, i f the strand. go*, ire 011 the 4th inst., at. Ewharst. SasseX, wife of Thomas Dews, Esq.. aged 712. _- janet t hg w to' ts ' Ott the th inst., at Park-road, Hoilowaj , 1 ...01 , Mr. Samuel Parlour. On the 7th inst., at Chipping ed. Esq., aged 81. 'Mrs- Gmelbre.q. D ce On tilt" 6th inst.. Northtstrcet, _ v. o w, . se - , Jo (11, the 6i h it at., at Brixton. S. ClaP haw-il ei On the 6th inst.. at Bedford -place, 11, P q.' 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