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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, May 23. Their Lordships met at ETITIONS Five o'clock. P. The Bishop of LONDON presented a petition from several of the clergy in favour of his Bill, for taking away the appellate jurisdiction of the Privy Council in eeclesiasticat affairs on matters of doctrine. He had postponed the second reading of the Bill in consequence of the absence of the President of the Council. The Bishop of OXFORD presented several petitions from certain of the clergy to the same effect; also a petition against the Marriage Act Amendment Bill. Lord BROUGHAM presented some petitions in favour of the County Courts Extension Bill. Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented several petitions from the West Riding. of Yorkshire in favour of the compromise on the factory question proposed by Lord Ashley. The Earl of HADDINGTON presented a petition in avour of additional accommodation being afforded to the assistant-surgeons in the navy. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY presented a peti tion from the Lord Mayor and corporation of Dublin against the abolition of the office of Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and gave notice of his intention of moving cer tain resolutions on the subject deprecatory of such abo lition. ------- BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. Earl GREY, in consequence of the absence of the President of the Council, postponed the second reading of the Parliamentary Voters (Ireland) Bill, which stood for Thursday to Tuesday, and gave notice that he should on Thursday move the second reading of the Australian Colonies Bill. Lord MONTEAGLE urged the necessity of postpon ing the second reading of the Australian Colonies Bill to a longer period, and he hoped if any additional papers had been received from Australia, they would be laid before their Lordships before moving the second reading of the Bill. Earl GREY was anxious to meet the wishes of the House, but they were arriving at that period of the session when there was always a great accumulation of busi ness. The Australian Colonies Bill had been before both Houses of Parliament for a considerable time, and the papers had been in the hands of their Lordships before the Whitsuntide recess, and he thought it would be de trimental to public business to postpone the second read ing of the Bill. Lord MONTEAGLE considered that if the second reading of the Australian Colonies Bill were taken on Thursday, parties desirous of petitioning against the Bill would be taken by surprise. Lord BEAUMONT thought that no case had been made out for the postponement of the second reading of the Bill. Lord STANLEY thought it was matter of regret that the second reading of that Bill bad been delayed so long. He would suggest that the second reading of the Bill should be postponed to Friday, which might give an op portunity to present the petition. The Noble Lord availed himself of that opportunity to give notice that on Friday se'nnight he should draw their Lordships' at tention to the affairs of Greece. Lord MONTEAGLE explained that there were per sons lately arrived from the colonies who wished to pre sent a petition on the subject. He did not intend to divide against the second reading of the Bill, but he thought as opportunity ought to be afforded to those parties to be heard against the Bill if they wished. Earl GREY had no objection to postpone the second reading till Friday. MASTERS IN CHAN:TRY JURISDICTION BILL. The report on this Bill was brought up with amend ments, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time on Monday. FEES (COMMON PLEAS) BILL. Lord BEAUMONT moved that this Bill be read a second time. After a few observations from Lord REDESDALE and Lord MONTEAGLE, - Lord LA.NGDALE expressed himself in favour of the abolition of all fees. He thought that justice ought to be administered without any expense to the suitorz. and that all persons employed in the administration of justice should be paid by the State. Lord STANLEY thought that Bills of this nature should not he brought in except under the sanction of the Government. Earl GREY said this Bill had been introduced in consequence of the recommendation of a Committee of the other House of Parliament, and that it was sup ported by the Government. He thought the question of salary to those officers could be much better dealt with by the Treasury than by Parliament. After a few words from Lord LANGDALE, the Bill was read a second time, and their Lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 28. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'Clock. THIRD READINGS. The New North Road Bill was read a third time and passed. The l'ollowing Bills as amended were considered and agreed to.: — Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway. Eastern UL►ion Railway. Stouibridge Union Rates. PETITIONS. Mr.LOCKIIART presented petitions from places in Scotland against the Marriage Bill. Mr. FAGAN also presented petitions to a similar effect. _ _ _ - Mr. FREWEN presented a petition from Brighton praying the Ilotie to pass some mesiure against the employment of boys to draw carts on turnpike roads. Sir Fl. lIALFORD presented a petition from Leices tershire complaining of agricultural distress, and of un• equal taxation. Mr. FAGAN presented a petition from Cork in fa vour of the Bill for the reform of the Irish Prerogative Court. Mr. MUNTZ presented a petition from benevolent societies at Birmingham against the proposed Savings' Bank Bill. Mr. OSBORNE presented a petition from the city of London against the Extramural Interments Bill; also petitions from several places in Ireland against the Established Church in Ireland. Mr. KERS'LIAW presented a petition against the Extramural Interments Bill from certain congregations in London. Lord DUDLEY STUART presented a petition to the came effect. Mr. J. B. SMITH presented a petition from Stirling in favour of the Ten Hours' Bill. Mr. CARDWELL presented petitions from Liver pool ageinst the Savings' Banks Bill and Stamp Act. Mr. COWAN presented a petition from Portobello against the Marriages Bill. Mr. BROrHERTON presented petitions against the Savings' Banks Bill and against church-rates. Mr. TATTON EGER-120N presented a petition against the Savings' Bank Bill. Mr. WYLD presented petitions from the ratepayers of London, and the parishes of Chelsea and Brompton, for alteration in the Metropolitan Interments Bill; also a petition from the miners of Chorley for an inspection of collieries. Mr. P. SCROPE presented a petition from the synod of Armagh complaining of the unsatisfactory state of the poor-law in Ireland. Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented a petition from the depositors of the Rockdale Savings' Bank, praying the House to adept such measures as would prevent the oc currence of similar frauds. Mr. GROGAN presented a petition against the Public Health Bill now beton) the House. Mr. T. DUNCOM i3E presented a petition from Fins bury in favour of the Ten Hours Bill. Mr. HUME presented a petition from certain inhabi tants of the colony of British Guiana, agreed to at a public meeting held at Geergetown on the 15th day of April, 1850, praying for the abolition of the court of policy and the c anbined court, and far the introduction of a representative constitution, comprising an elective council and a house of assembly, with an elective fran chise to secure a fail, free, and popular representation. GROWTH OF corroN IN INDIA. Mr. BRIGHT postponed his motion respecting the growth of cotto n i n I n di a unt il t h e 18th of June. APPOINTMENTS IN ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS BENJAMIN HALL wished to ask the Secretary for the Home Department a question which had reference to the constitution of the eccleasiastical courts of the country as well as to some returns which he moved for in the early part of w the a session, and which were ordered He by the Hou se . informed that a young lady— (Hear, and a laugh) ile,n newspaper phraseology, might be termed a young lady i o interesting appearance and prepossessing manners, d f the honour holding courts. the office of registrar i n one o f the ecclesiastical He understood she had held the tnttn w en it t he e a v t er m s e in a c n e . ing any dis p ara g ement to the he s he was five years of age—(Hear)—and,ayoung lady, wisheefcllito know whether i t was true that a female held the ce in question. He wished to know whether there were any more female officials. Sir G. GREY said he was totally uninformed on the subject. He had never known that there wa s o nefe male official connected with the Ecclesiastical Courts. SMITHFIELD MARKET. In answer to a question from Mr. MACKINNON, Mr. C. LEWIS said that the report on the st a t e o f Smithfield Market wou ld be in the hands of Members almost immediately. REPORT OF TIIE BOARD OF HEALTH. In answer to Mr. B. OSBORNE, Lord ASHLEY said that the report of the Board of Health would be in the bands of Members by Thursday or Friday. ADJOURNMENT FOR THE DERBY DAY. Major BERESFORD moved that the House at its rising adjourn till Thursday next. Mr. S. CRAWFORD had always opposed this mo• tioa on former occasions, but as he perceived that there was no business set down for the day, he should not divide the House, but content himself with protesting against the adjournment.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HUME was in the same position, but es he per ceived he was in a minority he should be content to take a holiday.—(Laughter.) Mr. SLANEY hoped that his Hon. Friend would al ways be in the minority on this occasion. The motion was then carried. Mr. W. PATTEN moved that the Committees should have leave to sit, although the House should adjourn over to-morrow.—Agreed to. dOMYOSITION OF ASSESSED TAXES. In reply to a question from Mr. mi re HELL, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it IVO3 the intention of the Government to renew the Act which expires in April, 1851, enabling parties to com pound fer their assessed taxes. THE LORD CHANCELLOR. Mr. W. PATTEN said it appeared by the public plots that there was likely to be a vacancy in the office of Lord Chancellor, a 44 be . .. had to ask the Noble Lord (Lord John Russell) whether in filling up that vacancy the Government would render the office subject to any decision of the Committee on Salaries as regarded the salary, and whether any stipulation would be made as to the separation of the judicial and political ti.no tions of the Lord Chancellor. Mr. BOUVERIE said before the question was an swered he had to state that being the Chairman of the Committee on Fees he was instructed to ask the Noble Lord whether, in the event of a vacancy in the Great Seal it would be a distinct understanding with regard to the officers whose appointments were in the bands of the Great Seal, that those appointments would be made on the express condition that the tenure and existence of those offices should be subject to the review and exami nation of Parliament ? Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he had to state with very great regret that the Lord Chancellor bad found the state of his health to be such as to render him unable to continue the performance of those duties which he had discharged with so much advantage to the country.—(Hear, hear.) He (Lord John Russell) had to state, therefore, that so soon as the Lord Chancellor shall have given judgment in the vari ous causes which he had heard he would feel himself compelled to resign the Great Seal. In filling up that office he (Lord J. Russell) considered that any person taking the Great Seal would take it subject to any regulation made by Parliament upon the report of the Committee of which the Hon. Gentleman was chairman. He would state, in answer to the question of the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Bouverie), the Chairmen of the Committee on Fees, that with respect to any officers appointed by the Lord Chancellor, in the event of the Lord Chancellor resigning, that such appointments would be subject to the examination of Parliament. With respect to the question of the separation of the judicial and the political functions of the Lord Chancellor, that was a subject which had engaged the attention of her Majes ty's Government, and it was one of great difficulty. He (Lord John Russell) had no doubt that the object was very desirable, and he trusted the Government would be able to propose a measure to Parliament on this subject which would be satisfactory to the House; but, consider ing the nature of the office of Lord Chancellor, how much it was identified with the political history and with, the political administration of this country, he should be very loth to introduce any measure on the subject without the fullest and most serious consideration of that House.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HUME asked the Noble Lord if the retiring pen sion of 5,0001. a year incident to the office of Lord Chan cellor would be continued? Lord JOHN RUSSELL replied that the person ac cepting the Great 'Seal would take it subject to the decision of Parliament as to the amount of pension. Without stating that the pension would con tinue at 5,0001, its present amount, he (Lord John Rus sell) must say he should feel it his duty to resist any reduction of that pension to such an amount, as that the highest talent could not be secured by Parliament to fill the office of Lord Chancellor. LANDLORD AND TENANT BILL. Mr. BRIGHT wished to know when the second read ing of the Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Bill would come on. Lord J. RUSSELL replied that the Bill was still un der the consideration of the Government, but he believed the second reading would be taken in the course of the present session, though he was not sanguine as to its passing through Committee before the termination of the session. THE SUN, LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF LABUAN. Mr. C. LUSHING TON wished to know, whether the Lieutenant-Governor of Labuan, Sir William Napier, who administered the affairs of the colony, had been suspended, and whether the duties of his office had fallen on a draughtsman and a surveyor. Mr. HA WES said it was quite true that the Lieutenant- Governor bad been suspended from his office. The whole circumstances of the case were under the con sideration of the Government; and he thought it would be the height of injustice, either expressly or impliedly, to give any opinion on the sub ject until the investigation of the Government was closed. It was not true that the administration of justice in that island had been suspended in consequence of Sir William Napier having been removed from his office. Mr. LUSHINGTON observed that he should repeat the question at the expiration of a moderato time. SECURITY FOR ADVANCES (IRELAND) BILL. In reply to Mr. MONSELL Lord J. RUSSELL said ho would proceed with ttis Bill as early as possible. UNIVERSITY REFORM. Mr. GLADSTONE asked Lord John Russell when it was proposed to proceed with the adjourned debate on the motion for the appointment of a commission to in quire into the management of the Universities? Lord JOHN RUSSELL said it was not a Government measure, and he could not undertake to say when the adjourned debate would be proceeded with, but whenever it was resumed he should move an amendment that it should be adjourned for three months. OCCUPATION OF THE NEW HOUSE. Sir GEORGE GREY said he understood the new House, owing to the favourable change in the weather, would be ready for occupation on Thursday next, and if convenient fur Hon. Members, he would propose that they should have a morning sitting in the new House on that day at twelve o'clock. Some anxiety had been ex pressed with respect to the progress of the Irish Elec tions Bill, and no doubt that Bill might be taken at the morning sitting.—(Hear, hear.) It was intended to meet in the old llouse again at five o'clock. It was then agreed that the House at its rising ad journ until Thursday, at twelve o'clock. EMIGRATION OF PAUPER CHILDREN. Mr. W. MILES presented several petitions from various parts of the country in favour of a plan for the emigration of pauper children. The Honourable Gentleman, after presenting the petition, then proceeded to move, " That it is expedient that the Go vernment, with the consent and assistance of the boards of guardians throughout England and Wales, should take immediate steps to forward the emigration of orphan girls, inmates of the several workhouses, and capable of entering service, to Australia as apprentices." It was of the utmost importance to the country, circum scribed as England was, to have a free outlet for its super abundant population, and what outlet could they find better than a colony which, by the fertility cf its soil and the congeniality of its climate, rendered it peculiarly adapted to the energies and constitution of English men? Parliament should, therefore, encourage as much as possible the introduction of capital into the colony of New South Wales, while next to that it ought to facilitate the transfer of domestic servants from this country to the colonies. The emigrative capitalist, with a family, experienced nu greater inconvenience when he reached the colony than the difficulty of procuring do mestic servants, and it was the knowledge of that incon venience which had induced him to bring forward the present motion. He wished it to be understood that all the arguments which he should have to bring for ward might be applicable to New South Wales, and without going to times gone by for reports, he would wish the Members to refer to docu ments which had been long before the House. If they would refer to the returns from the six magisterial divisions of Sydney and from Port Philip, they would find the great request in which female servants were in these districts. That was the general complaint in all those districts, and the question was, whether England was in the position to provide for the colonies; and he thought that if the House would also peruse the domestic returns relating to this class, they would find that there were abundance of materials . He found that there were as many as 173 boys and girls in the twelve workhouses in the county which he represented who were capable of entering service, and the boards of guardians entirely approved of the proposition for their removal to the colonies. The number of these young persons was rapidly increasing, and the cost of their sup port and education entailed a very large sum upon the country. Soon after the formation of the poor-law unions his attention was very much directed to one union, containing a population of 56,000 persona and three workhouses, in which were located the able bodied, the aged, and the young; and on examining the pauper school, he was astonished at finding such a large number of children, many of whom were orphans and without protectors or friends. Inconsequence of the ex pense of maintaining three workhouses the inmates were transferred to one large establishment, where the children, up to the age of 15, were kept apart from the elder paupers, not being allowed to enter the general ward. After that time they were occasionally employed in the women's ward; but he was sorry to say, from the description of persons with whom they then as sociated, they frequently became contaminated. At the age of sixteen they were considered able-bodied, and could leave the house at any time, on giving twenty-four hours' notice; and he could mention nume rous instances of the demoralisation and crime which resulted from these orphan girls being suddenly cast upon the world. It had been stated that a general disinclination existed in the colonies, particularly in Australia, to the reception of pauper labour; and in that respect he thought they were right, because so far as able-bodied men and women were concerned, they were neither efficient labourers nor servants; but with respect to children the case was far different, and ho would en deavour to show.the result of their industrial training, because..e on that training dep e nd e d their usefulness to In colonists. Mr. Cooper, in a report made to the Emigration Commissioners,:said that the children brought up in properly -managed workhouses are more intelligent and equally as able to earn their livelihood by labour as when broughtupbiy their parents, and he believed theyth a t under the p th r e ove c ircumstancesexist more ng desirabl e eem i grants of nt a thanth e colonies persona of the same age who have not had the advantages of the education given to child ren in th workhouses.ofwritten, what he had other the period at which that report weas evi dence had been given confirmatory stated. He referred to the evidence of those gentle men who had been sent out, he believed, by a com mittee of the Privy Council, under the authority a the Poor-law Board, es commissioner s t o de termine as to the education of the schoolmasters, and as to the efficiency of the schools. When he stated the name of Mr. Tuffnell as one of the five com missioners, he was sure the House would receive with deference any opinion he might have given. Mr. Tuff nell stated :—" It is a frequent remark of visitors to workhouse schools that the girls present a very superior ; o, wh th il e e t la h t e te f r o a rm re er co a m re pa h r e a a t l i t v h e y l; in look, and altogether o f laopopkeianrga nand t o w t h e e l .6. b oy ro row s lo ment. I was long puzzled to astuntedinferior in g rowth s l le d s e s ve hea p lthy i as e t r h s e u a t d r e e d a t t m h e a n t t o t f is b o o t w h i n i g s very similar account forlar . this difference, i I a ffer rn enc n e o , w. p In general there is no difficu. y to the want of appropriate i n dus l t t rialwo fi r n k di f n o g r the boys . siderable part of it, such as sew i ng, suitable employment for the girls ;in an i d s sthedoeungtharay,cothne flagrant than the other rseN, and .0 female constitution seems to suffer ifarwl:ssbsinfgro,moceoounr: LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1850. ing, bed-making, &c., there is always much of that sort of work most conducive to health." Mr. Brown stated :—" The girls usually sew and knit, fre quently do house work, and more rarely bake, wash, and cut out linen." Mr. Bowyer stated : " The industrial training of the girls is better provided for, as the making and mending of the clothing and linen of the house afford them a constant and appropriate oc cupation. They are always employed for two hours of the afternoon in knitting and sewing, and become in some places accomplished needlewoasen. They always make their own beds, sweep and wash their own floors, and generally also those of a great part of the workhouse. They help to serve the dinner for the house, and the elder girls assist in the kitchen and wait upon the mas ter and matron, preparatory to being placed in service. In some of the larger and best-regulated workhouses they even possess a separate laundry." Mr. Ruddock gave similar evidence. Having shown that the industrial and moral training of the workhouse girls was well looked to up to a certain period of life, be should now call the attention of the House to the return moved for in 1848 by the late lamented President of the Poor-law Board. Though that return was not so complete as one that had been made since, it was sufficiently full to enable them to make a subdivision of the workhouse girls into three classes—those under three years of age—those between three and seven—and those between seven and sixteen. It was impossible, however, fur the public to understand from this subdivi sion the number of girls who quitted the workhouse to compete with other children for labour. Last autumn he had issued circulars in the county which he represented to the different union workhouses for information on this point, and he had ascertained that in the 12 workhouses the number of boys and girls capable of entering ser vice was no less than 273. He had likewise inquired of the different boards of guardians whether they would contribute not only to the outfit of the children, and to send them to the port of embarkation, but also to the expenses of the voyage. The answers which he had re ceived from the 12 unions were decidedly in the affirma tive, and to the effect that the guardians would consent to do so if the Government came forward with some as sistance. They had also assured him, from the know ledge they possessed of the different parishes,' that they would have no difficulty in carrying on emigra tion on such terms. Early in the session of 1849 he had an interview with the Under-Secretary of the Colonies and the President of the Poor-law Board on the subject, and he believed that both of those Honourable Members concurred in much of what he had stated, and objected only on the question of expense. In that session the Hon. Member for Dover had moved for a return similar to that moved for by the late President of the Poor-law Board. He wished to direct the attention of the House to that re turn, to show the number of workhouse children capable of service. According to that return the number of children in the workhouses each year was 56,323. Of these the number of boys capable of entering service was 4,579; of girls, 3,694 total, 8,273. The number of male orphans capable of service was 1,578 ; female, 1,171 — total, 2,749: about one-third of the children capable of entering service. He thought there were other classes of children who might be benefited by emigrating, and they were—children of widows who were not in the workhouse; children of widows who were in the work house; children of widowers who were not in the work house; children of widowers who were in the workhouse. These, he thought, with consent of their parents, might emigrate with advantage. It was his intention last session to have called attention to this subject, but he did not regret the delay that had occurred, as the returns since made showed the interest taken by Earl Grey on this subject. Indeed it was a subject which had been taken up by the Government, and was more a ques tion of theirs than of his. In his dispatch of the 26th June, 1843, to Sir C. Fitzroy, Earl Grey expressed his concurrence in the report of the Commissioners, and di rected him to take measures to give effect to their recom mendations with regard to workhouse children, and for placing them in a respectable position in the colony. In one of their letters the Commissioners of Colonial Emi gration gave it as their opinion that the emigration of these children was fur the interest of the colony, and of the greatest beuefit to the girls, but that they were un willing to undertake it on a large scald until sufficient preparation was made in the colony for their proper em ployment and distribution. The Emigration Committee having been requested to report as to the prospect of placing these emigrants in eligible situations, stated is answer that female emigrants from the English work houses would be acceptible to the colonists, and that in the Sydney districts suitable situations might be readily obtained for 800 of them. The Hon. Member for Northamptonshire proposed to include Ireland in the present motion, but he ought to recollect that if he suc ceeded in extending the motion to Irish workhouse orphans, a contribution of 51. per head ',Mild have to be made towards the expense of their passage. In answer to the request of Earl Grey it was stated that two districts of the colony were willing to take 1,400 of these children as apprentices that very year. Having the concurrence of the Legislature of Sydney, he should like to suggest whether it would not be better at once to commence a system which, if carried out, would lead to greater demand for boy as well as girl emigrants from the workhouses of this country. It would be of the greatest use to the colonists of New South Wales if they could obtain apprentices on whose services they could rely. The convict boys who had been sent to Western Aus tralia bad, from their industrial training, been most use ful to the colony. Two years ago the Noble Lord the Member for Bath made a motion for sending out a cer tain number of ragged school boys, but that emigration had not turned out so welt as that to Western Australia, for the boys, released from restraint, conducted them selves ill in the colony.— [Lord ASHLEY—No, no.] Atall events they did not turn out so well as the colonists could expect. In the early part of 1848 advances to the extent of 300,000/. were authorised for the purposes of emigration, secured by debentures on the Crown lands. Between that period and the Ist of June last the colony had repaid to the British Government 180,000/. of that sum. Acting on the suggestion of Earl Grey, that pa rishes should, in the first instance, pay the expenses of outfit and 5/. per head towards the expense of the voyage, he would propose that the colonial funds should pay the rest of the expense. He asked fcr no grant. The whole sum required from the colonists to carry out the emigration would not exceed 7,0001. From what he knew of the wishes of the generality of parishes in England, he had no doubt they would consent to such terms. The be nefits of such an emigration would be incalculable to the colonists and to the children themselves. He felt convinced that his proposal only wanted the fiat of the Government to be carried into effect, and that it would be but the prelude to a further emigration, which would entail blessings, not only on New South Wales, but also on other of our colonies.— (Hear.) He begged to move " That it is expedient that the Government, with the consent and assistance of the board of guardians throughout England and Wales, should take immediate steps to forward the emigration of orphan 4irls, inmates of the several workhouses, and capable of catering ser vice, to Australia, as apprentices." Mr. STAFFORD rose to move his amendment to substitute the words " United Kingdom" for the words "England and Wales" in the motion. He did not pro pose the amendment in any spirit of ,hostility to the motion, but he thought that any aid granted for emi gration ought to include Ireland as well as other parts of the United Kingdom. There had never been such - efforts made by any nation for the purpose of emigration as those which had been made of late years by the people of Ireland. In corroboration of this statement he might refer Hon. Gentlemen to the tenth report of the Emigration Commissioners, from Which it ap peared that for three years the emigration from Ireland could not be taken at less than 601,448 persona. The emigration, indeed, for the last three yea,rs exceeded the annual increase of the population to an extent which, if continued, would diminish the population in eight years by a million. In the Poor-law Act of last ses sion clauses were introduced expressly referring to emi gration, but they had been almost inoperative. In a letter which he had received from an able administrator of the poor-law in Ireland—the clerk of the ; union with which he was connected—the writer stated that with respect to em i grat i on t h ey h a d a d ver tised f or a l oan o f 6,000/., at 6 per cent., but had only received a tender of 500/.—(Hear, hear.) The writer went on further to state that the difference between the 5/. 10s., which it had cost to send out 91 persons to the colonies, and that which their detention at home would cost their respec tive unions, was 81. 108 ; the estimated *charge of each being about 14/. Ile also gave it as his opinion that the subject of emigration was a matter which 'ought to be taken up by the Government, as it was a question which merited a great degree of attention. The writer did not want thO Government to giie a sum of money; but if they gave a guarantee the money neces sary for the purposes of emigration might be raised by way of loan. The new 'arrangements which had been entered into with respect to an amended Poor-law Bill with emigration clauses, did not yet begin to act together so as to enable them to come to any decided conclusion on the subject. But after their best endeavours to carry those clauses into effect, they found that they could not be satisfactorily carried out as yet. The Hon. Member here referred to a report of the Emigration and Land Commissioners, which stated that a great increase had taken place in the number of Irish orphan girls to Aus tralia in the year 1848, and strongly recommended the encouragement of such a system of emigration. Under all the circumstances of the case, he thought his lion. Friend could not be astonished at the anxiety felt about, and tho attention paid to, that matter in Ireland. There was, in fact, no subject of a secular nature which a t d the present moment excited so much attention in this country generally as T subject h th e erehabeen an atta c k ma d e on of femal e orp h an emi gration.—(Hear.) the conduct of some of the Irish g irls ; no w , in the same report to which he had before referred, he had found it stated that the conduct of the Irish female orphans had been good, both on board and on their landing; that they had given entire satisfaction in every respect, with the exception that they were uninstructed as domestic servants. Now he hoped it would in future be taken into consideration the importance of improving the sys• tem of instruction in the Irish workhouses, by teaching the female orphans the duties of domestic servants. There were societies in our colonies tinder the names of St. George, St. Patrick, and St. Andrew, for the pro tection of the interests of the respective inhabitants of the three kingdoms, and they had strongly recom mended the encouragement of a sound system of emigration, as equally for the benefit of the mother country and the colonies themselves. He then referred to the case of the female emigrants by the ship .Earl Grey, from Belfast, against whom serious charges of misconduct had been made. Now he only thought it fair to the board of guardians of the union from which those girls had been sent to state, that, upon an examination into the facts of that case, it had been found that two-thirds of the number of those on board the ship in question were not obnoxious to the imputation which attached to the others. It was impossible to exercise such a degree of control and care into the investigation of the characters of those se lected for emigration as to prevent some irregnlaritiee from occurring on such a long voyage. But a whole class ought not to be condemned because one• third of the crew of one vessel had been misconducted.—(Hear.) He wished the Hon. Member for Marylebone (Sir B. Hall) was then in his place, in order that he might hear of the conduct of some parties who had been sent out from a place nearer home. The person who had written the account to which he would then refer had stated " that he could not find words enough to tell all the trouble which he had on the voyage with those women, or rather fiends in human shape, who had been sent out from the Marylebone workhouse." The language they were said to use was of the most disgusting kind, and they had succeeded in inciting the sailors to mutiny. The Hon. Member here referred to the reports of various parties respecting the good conduct of Irish female orphan emigrants proceeding out by several other ships, li all of which concurred in bearing favourable testimony to their behaviour on their voyage to South Australia, and on their arrival. If they taught these Irish female orphans how to di3charge the duties of domestic servants better in their workhouses, there would be no difficulty in finding good situations for them in Australia.—(Hear, hear.) The encouragement of such emigration would be of service not only to Ireland but to the colonies. The Hon. Member here read an extract from a colo nial local paper, descriptive of the character of the labourers, artisans, tradesmen, and respectable emi grants generally, requisite in the colony, or likely to sue , coed. Amongst the classes therein specified every encou ragement was held out to good domestic servants. It bad been said that the colonies were not satisfied with those whe had been sent out from the ragged schools, but that was not sustained by the fact, and he knew his Noble Friend the Member for Bath (Lord Ashley) would be able to defend the character of those whose prospects he had been so active in forwarding. It was also a source of sincere congratulation to his Noble Friend and those who had co-operated with him in as sisting the operatives who had been obliged to leave France at the time of the revolution to emigrate, that the conduct of those persons had been highly satisfac tory, and their presence of great value in the colonies to which they had been sent. It was the importance which attached to that subject which had led him to wish to extend the proposition beyond England, and to include the workhouses of Ireland also in its operation; and that the whole empire should be embraced in considering that great question of emigration.—(Hear, hear.) He was desirous, whether or not the Government opposed or agreed either to his amendment or the original motion of his Honourable Friend the Member for Somerset shire, that that House, which professed to be the ex ponent of the public opinion of this country, should express its sentiments, without reference to party dis cussion, on one of the nost important social questions which occupied the public mind of this country.—(Hear. hear.) He deeply regretted that the better classes did not take a greater interest in the question of emigration than they did. It was true they were not wanting in their contribution of funds to encourage and promote the emigration of their poorer fellow -countrymen. But he trusted the time was coming when the better classes would commence a system of emigration among them selves. It did not seem to him an impossible thing, and he hoped the suggestion would not make Hon. Members mile, or a matter unworthy of the dignity of some of our infant princes, that they should go forth to found a distinct empire in a distant part of the world—an empire won, not by the sword, but the higher acts of peace and civilisation, and thus establish a more glorious dominion than ever the House of Hanover had lost.—(Hear, hear.) It was highly satisfactory to him to see that there were various societies planting the principles of Christianity and British institutions at the Antipodes, as he could observe by a reference to the report of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. The Honourable Member also referred to and read extracts from a correspondence which had taken place between some clergymen sent out by the society alluded to, and Earl Grey, relative to the want of spiritual as well as medical assistance which prevailed in a qua rantine station on the ceast of Canada, in consequence of the numbers of Irish emigrants arriving, and the preva lence of a severe epidemic. He did not think the an swer which the Noble Earl at the head of the Colonial office bad given to the application made to him in conse quence of the mortality caused by the epidemic amongst the missionaries was such as became his position. All the ports of America had expressed their conviction that the Government should exercise some superintendence over the system of emigration. The gentlemen at the head of the poor-law department had acknowledged the difficulty of an amendment of the law of settlement, diffi culties which were so great that he could not promise any proposition for regulating that law during the present session; now that being the case, was it not an addi tional inducement to that Honourable and Learned Gen tleman to give the question of emigration fuller consi deration? He was glad that that important question was now attracting the attention which it deserved. There was hardly a paper which one could take up that did not contain some proceedings of societies established for the protection and encouragement of emigrants.— (Hear, bear.) The Honourable Member for Wilt shire's proposition for the Canterbury settlement had been very successful, and was deserving of every encou ragement. In fact, it was attracting the attention of the better classes to a considerable extent. A meeting had been called at a few hours' notice, at Cambridge, a short time since, to explain the objects of that settle ment, and the views of the society promoting it, which had been most numerously attended by a large body not only of the undergraduates of that university. but by its professors, and others who were anxious to learn in telligence of an interesting colony, and what were the prospects which might await emigrants of a better order. He thought ,there was a tendency throughout the country amongst the better classes to emigrate, and if it were carried into effect, no doubt it would be a great blessing to their humbler fellow-country men who went out to the colonies. The old system in the management of our colonies had been that in deve loping their resources we should render them in dependent of the rest of the world ; and it was wonderful how rearly this little island had succeeded in realising that idea. But in thee year 1846 that idea had been abandoned, and we had adopted the principle of having recourse to the cheapest markets. He should not then discuss the me rits of that principle; but he would remind those Hon. Members who maintained it, that this country was not less bound at present than she had formerly been to promote to the utmost possible extent the interest both of the colonists and of the people of the mother country, by a wise and enlarged system of emigration. In his opinion, emigration ought to be treated altogether apart from the colonial question, because whatever system of colonial government might be adopted it was manifestly for the advantage of the inhabitants of every portion of this great empire that its productive powers should be epresd over the most profitable fields for their employ ment. He hoped her Majesty's Government would show that they were not indifferent to the great, the paramount, and the pressing importance of that question. Be be lieved that emigration was at present a fireside—a house hold question in the :United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and he trusted that her Majesty's Govern ment would treat it in a manner befitting the rulers of a great and noble empire. The Hon. Member concluded by moving the substitution of the words " United King dom," for the words " England and Wales," in the motion of the Hon. Member for East Somersetshire. Mr. HAWES said he was ready to admit the great importance of the question which had been brought under the notice of the House by the Hon. Member for East Somersetshire. He should further say that he be lieved the best results would hare followed if tte ques tion had long ago attracted the attention which it had received of late years. But in attempting to carry out the most benevolent views upon the subject, there were certain limits which it would be impossible to pass. In considering such a motion as that of the Hon. Member for East Sumersetshire, it was manifest that they should take into account the capabilities of the colonies to re ceive any peculiar class of emigrants. Some years ago a crying evil bad no doubt prevailed in New South Wales, inasmuch as there had been a disproportion in the number of the two sexes there, which had led to the most frightful disorders. But that evil had since been removed, and at present no great inequality of that kind existed. The Honourable Gentleman who had just sat down had alluded to the emigration of Irish orphans, under the superintendence of the land and Emigration Commissioners. Now, he agreed with the Hon. Gentleman that that had been as faras it went a suc cessful emigration. But he believed be could show that if the emigration had been carried on to a much greater extent, the benevolent object of its promoters would have been defeated. It was clear that the supply of fe male emigrants to Sydney, to Melbourne, and to Ade laide, had been quite equal to the demand. In the tenth report of the Emigration Commissioners a very striking statement was to be found upon that subject. The Hon. Gentleman who had last addressed the House had al luded to three supplies of female orphan emigrants, of which an account was to be found in that report. By the first of those supplies 219 femeles had been landed in Australia, and a benevolent committee having been appointed to watch over their interests on their arrival in the colony, situations had been found fur all of them, with a single exception. The next supply con sisted of 195 females, of whom 151 only had at once been hired. But of the members of the third supply not less than 57 bad remained unengaged after a lapse of six weeks. It appeared from the report of the com mittee which had been formed for the protection of these young orphans, that the demand for their labour had begun sensibly to diminish, that those among them who had arrived last bad been disposed of to a less desirable class of employers, and that a decided preference was shown for the services of other emigrants, who neces sarily possessed more skill and experience. He had further to state that 1,600 female emigrants having been sent in one year to Sydney, the authorities in that colony had urged on the Secretary for the Colonies the ex pediency of reducing the number by one half. He did not mention those facts for the purpose of discourag ing female e migration, bat he wished to show that they were dealing with a kind of emigration which required great care and consideration. They were also bound to take into account the state of the funds in the hands of the Emigration Commissioners for the promotion of that object. The funds over which the Secretary for the Colonies had the chief control were funds which he held in the nature of a trust, and which he was bound to administer, in com pliance with the provisions of the Act of Parliament, and the general regulations laid down by the colonists, who were the best judges of the class of emigrants which they themselves required. The Secretary of State could not select the emigrants from any particular body or from any particular part ef the country. He was sorry to say that the funds of the Emigration Commissioners were nut in so flourishing a condition as might have been inferred from the speech of the Hon. Gentleman the Member for East Somersetshire; and at the present moment there was but a very trifling balance in the hands of those Commissioners for the emigration of the ensuing year. In the year 1848 the Commissioners had expended a sum of 100,0001. in the promotion of emigration, that 00133 having been advanced by the, Treasury, and af,er. wards repaid by the colonies. By the middle of 1849, a further sum of 100,0004 had been expended; and there had since been expended a similar sum of 100,000/. ; the whole of which money had been repaid, or would be repaid by the colonies. The Commissioners had also expended for New South Wales a sum of 43,7001., which had been received from various private contributions. He wished to discuss that question with perfect candour, and he certainly thought that it was not one in which Hon. Members on one side of the House could have an interest distinct from Hon. Members on the other side. His simple object was to guard against the assumption that the Go vernment could do much more in the matter than they were at present doing. He had always thought that if the Government had taken the entire system of emigra tion under their immediate management they would have diminished, instead of having increased, the num ber of emigrants. He found that emigration had already taken place from this country to an enormous extent. During the ten years preceding 1847 there hail emi grated from these islands to the United States and to the British possessions in North America not less than 700,000 persons ; and during the three years ending in 1849 there had emi grated to the same countries not less than 750,000; making altogether in the thirteen years an emi gration of nearly 1,500,000 persons to North America alone. A large stream of emigation had at the same time been going on to our Australian colonies, although the expense of the passage had of course rendered the number of emigrants much smaller to those colonies than to Canada or to the United States. The whole population of Australia and New Zealand might be taken at 330,000 persons, and he found that there had emi grated to those colonies, since the Ist of January, 1848, not less than 56,000 persons, or very nearly 16 per cent. of the entire population. There was one subject which had been frequently mentioned in that House, and on which he had some explanations to offer. It seemed to be the opinion of some lion. Gentlemen that Ireland had not had her fair share in the transmission of emigrants to the Australian colonies. Ile believed, however, he could show that Ireland had not been treated with any peculiar unfairness in that matter. He found that the popula tion of the three kingdoms taken centesimally was as follows:—England had a little more than 59. Scotland a little more than 9, and Ireland had 30. Now the actual number of emigrants sent from the three king doms had been as follows:—From England 25,392, from Scotland 4,343, and from Ireland 12,486. The result of that statement was that the number of emigrants from Ireland had only been 400 less than it should have been if the proportions between her emigrants and her popu lation, as compared with the rest of the United King dom, had been strictly observed. In conclusion he had to state that her Majesty's Ministers were as anxious as the Hon. Member for East Somersetshire himself to promote, as far as they should find practicable, the ob ject which the Hon. Member had in view; but as he be lieved that the adoption of the motion of the Hon. Gen tleman would give rise to exaggerated expectations he should urge him not to press that motion. If the Hon. Gentleman should not accede to that suggestion he should reluctantly feel it his duty to move " the previous ques tion" by way of amendment. But he hoped the Hon. Gentleman would not render it necessary for him to pursue that course. The amendment was then put and negatived; and the previous question having been moved by Mr. HAWES, Mr. MUNSELL said it would be much better if the Irish emigrants were to start from their own ports, in stead of first coming to Plymouth. He wished the Hon. Member for East Somersetshirc had left out the word Australia. Wily should all the emigrants be sent to that colony? Seeing the disaster which must be anti cipated on account of the shortness of the cotton crop, he wondered the policy of encouraging emigration to the colony of Port Natal, where cotton grew so well, had not struck Hon. Members more forcibly. His principal object in rising, however, was to draw the attention of the House to the absolute necessity of promoting, by every possible means, the emigration of females from the Irish workhouses. The House would hardly believe the real state of the case. In the workhouse of the Cork Union there were at the present moment 563 males and 954 females between the ages of 15 and 40, who had been there for more than a year, and everyone who knew anything about Ireland was well aware that when they had remained in the workhouse more than a year the probability was that they would spend the rest of their lives there. In Thurles workhouse there were 247 males and 648 females, between 15 and 40, who had been there for more than a year; in Kanturk workhouse 362 males and 829 females, and in Galway workhouse 530 males and 740 females. Taking the whole of Ireland there were 10,118 males and 18,429 females who had been more than a year in the various work houses. An HoN. MEMBER here moved that the House be counted, and there being only 35 Members present, the House adjourned at ten minutes past Eight o'clock till Thursday. belonged when he found it. It was certainly not an honest transaction on his part, as he could have in formed some of the workmen of his finding, when it would have been instantly restored to the owner. But such did not make it a felony, and it would be for the jury to decide. The jury consulted for a few minutes, when they returned a verdict of Acquittal. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. LAMBETH. EXTENSIVE AND INGENIOUS ROBBERY OF THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.—Last even ing, as Mr. Elliot, the sitting magistrate, was about to leave the bench, Mr. William Edward Eicke, a young man of gentlemanly appearance, was brought up in custody of Mr. Field, the inspector of the de tective force, and Bent, an active officer, and placed at the felons' bar on a charge of stealing a debenture bond, of the value of 2,0001., from the treasurer's office, at the terminus of the London and South- We'tern Railway, the property of the company. Mr. L. C-ombie, from the office of Messrs. Bircham and Dalrymple, solicitors to the company, with Mr. Alfred Morgan, the company's treasurer, attended for the prosecution ; and Mr. Games ap peared on behalf of the prisoner. From the opening of Mr. Crombie, it appeared that an error or deficiency of 2,0001. having been dis covered in the books of the company, an investigation of the accounts was instituted, which resulted in the discovery that the prisoner, who was a clerk in the office of Mr. Morgan, the treasurer, had, on the 25th January, 1849, issued a debenture bond for the amount of the deficiency, and the instru ment having got into different hands, the company were paying the interest on it as though the money had been advanced to them in the ordinary way. Upon this discovery having been made, Mr. Field, of the detective force, and Bent, an intel ligent officer employed by the company, were en gaged to apprehend the prisoner, and they, after much trouble and a great deal of manoeuvring, succeeded in taking him into custody at a chemical manufactory which he had established at Battersea-fields, and to conduct which, it appeared, he had given up his situa tion under the railway company. Mr. Alfred Morgan was then called into the wit ness-box, and having been sworn, said—l am trea surer to the London and South-Western Railway Company. The prisoner was in the service of that company. He had charge of the debentures granted by the company, for the purpose of being registered, and it was also his duty to take a receipt for each de benture-bond that passed through his hands. The de benture-bonds were never finally sealed until they were actually wanted, and they were then given to th e I prisoner, whose duty it was to register them and re ceive a receipt for them from the parties receiving them. I remember an application having been made •to the company for debentures to the amount of 4,0001. by Mr. Dickinson, of May fair, in January, 1849. The application was for one debenture of 2,0001. and two of 1,0001. each. There was no other appli • cation for debentures by Mr. Dickinson during that month. In the book kept by the prisoner there was an entry of a debenture for 2,0001. transferred from Mr. Dickinson to another person under the date of the 11th March, 1849. The debenture is described in that entry as No. 367, dated 25th of January, 1849. Tne number of the debenture for 2,0001. granted Mr. Dickinson, is No. 366, and is dated 25th 'of January, 1849. There is no entry of cash having ' been paid for the debenture for 2,0001., No. 367, and Mr. Dickinson, it has been proved, has only paid for one debenture of 2,000/., No. 266, and two others of 1,0001. each. The book in which the cash entries for the debenture bonds should have been made is pro duced, and no entry can be found of any cash having been paid in reference to the debenture for 2,0001. No. 367. I find that an entry of two sums for 2,0001. each, and two for 1,0001., had been made, but in one of the former there was an erasure: In the debenture ledger there appear entries of two deben , I turas for 2,0001, and two for 1,0001. each, by which I Mr. Dickinson is made to appear to have ordered de ' bentures for 6,0001. from the company, instead of 4,0001., while in the cash receipt book only 4,0001. appears as received. The debenture No. 367, ap peared to have been transferred to three different parties, and was at present in the possession of Mr. Wilkinson, of Clapham. All the entries of the transfers, except the last, were in the handwriting of the prisoner. From all the circumstances, I believe the debenture for 2,0001., No. 267, has been stolen from the office of the company; and that the . money had not been advanced for it, nor had there been any authority given for taking it away. The grounds for charging the prisoner with the offence of stealing the debenture is, that at all events there is a fraud shown by the entries to have been committed by him in keeping the accounts, and entering the money as having been paid when it was not. In his cross-examination by Mr. Games, Mr. Mor gan said that the prisoner had been in the service of the company for four or five years, and that up to the time of his leaving, about five months ago, had con ducted himself to the satisfaction of the company. Was not aware that his friends were of the highest respectability, and all he knew of 'him was his busi ness habits ; and was not aware that up to the present charge there had been the slightest imputation on his character. Mr. Crombie, addressing the Magistrate, said that as the prisoner bad only just before been appreh en d e d, he (Mr. Crombie) had not had time to procure the attendance of Mr. Wilkinson, the holder of the stolen bond, or the other witnesses whose testimony would be required to complete the charge against the priso ner ; and therefore he had to request the remand of the accused for a few days, to give time for the at tendance of the witnesses that would be required. Mr. Games replied that he felt it quite useless to contend against a remand, but he at the same time hoped his Worship would admit his respectable client to bail in such an amount as would ensure his attend ance on a future day, particularly as it would require a lengthened remand to enable him (Mr. Games) to get up such a defence as, he doubted not, would wholly free the accused from the charge and accu sation. Mr. ELLIOTT said the lowest amount of bail he could thick of accepting was two sureties in 1,0001. each, and the prisoner himself in 2,0001., and remanded the prisoner for a week. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. WEST CORNWALL. A. special meeting of the proprietors of the above company was held yesterday, at the King's Arms Tavern, Palace-yard, fur the purpose of considering the draft of a Bill now before Parliament, for authorising a deviation of a branch line of the railway and for other purposes. Captain Moorsom was in the chair. The advertisement convening the meeting having been read by the secretary, the solicitor (Mr. Ed wards) was about to lay before the shareholders the draft of the Bill, when Mr. HILL objected to any further progress in the business for which the meeting had been convened, until the shareholders received some explanations re specting certain rumours which had obtained circula tion, and which affected the credit of the company. It had been publicly reported, and was in many in fluential quarters, as he understood, believed, that some negotiations or correspondence had been entered into, or taken place, which amounted to something like a compromise between the chairman of the com pany and Mr. Mowatt, the defendant in an action brought by the company, and by which correspond ence or arrangement the hearing of the trial had been postponed, to the great injury of the company. The matter had excited great surprise in Cornwall and amongst a very large class of shareholders, and although scarcely anything could induce him to be lieve that the reports which he heard were strictly correct, he felt, in common with other gentlemen, that it was of the highest importance, both for the character of the chairman and the interests of the company, that a full explanation should be given. Mr. HARRISON said he should have asked the same question if he had not felt it would be affectation in him, who had been a member of a committee of in vestigation on the subject-matter of the trial referred to. In that character he knew the chairman had, without the concurrence of his colleagues, entered into a correspondence which led to the postponement of the trial. On this matter the chairman had acted without authority, and was bound to explain. A long and angry discussion took place, in which Mr. Hill, Mr. Harrison, Mr. Flight, Mr. Wheeler, Mr. Vigurs, and other gentlemen pressed on Captain Moorsom the necessity of giving an ample explana tion of the facts charged in reference to the post ponement of the trial. On the other hand, Captain Moorsom denied the competency of the present meeting to deal with the matter, questioned the pro priety of discussing the point, and excepted to the mariner in which the speakers had approached the subject. Ultimately Mr. Vigurs stated that he thought there was a letter on the hooks of the com pany frotn Messrs. Tilson and Squance, the solicitors fur the plaintiffs in the company, which if read to the meeting would render any further explanation unnecessary. Several directors denied any knowledge of the letter referred to. At the suggestion of Mr. VIGURS the bo retired for ten minutes to consider the letter referred to. When the board returned, it was considered expe dient to adjourn the meeting, wi , bout further di:cus. mon, to the sth cf June. A copy of the letter was iiaid to he in the room. The meeting then adjourned. YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND RERMCK. YORK, TUESDAY.—An extraoriioary itteal..;.; of s h,,,h o ld,, rs w as held to-day at' the De Griiy Rooms, at which Mr. George Leonia; the chairmnli of the company, presided, when the resolutions pro posed by the directors in reference to the Great North BOROUGH OF FINSBURY. The following communication has been made by Mr. T. S. Duncombe, M.P., to Mr. H. Griffiths, the chairman of the committee appointed to remonstrate with the Hon. Member on his absence from his Par liamentary duties : " 5, Palace Chambers, St. James's, May 28, 1850. " Sir,—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, calling my most particular and serious attention to a copy of some resolutions agreed to at certain pri vate meetings of a few of my constituents, over which you had the honour to preside, at the Kent Hotel, Brownlow-street, Holborn, and requesting me to explain the reasons of my absence from my Parliamentary duties. " I confess that until the receipt of your favour I did not suppose that there could have been found in the well informed and extensive borough of Finsbury any person ignorant of the fact that severe and dangerous illness has been the sole cause of my absence from Parliament, to the duties of which it has ever been my pride during the twenty-three years that I have had the honour of a seat in the House of Commons, to give an independent and most unremitting attention, and during which period my attendance, I am most thankful to say, has never re ceived a week's interruption until I was overwhelmed by my recent painful and protracted illness. " However, I air, happy to inform you that improved and improving health enables me now to resume my Parliamentary duties; and also that, having from the commencement of my connexion with . Finsbury, pledged myself over and over again to my constituents that so long as it pleased God that health and strength should remain to me, and so long as it should please Finsbury to stand by me, I should stand by Finsbury,' I adhere to that pledge. And further, I beg to inform you that, being assured as I am that the great majority of my constituents do not consider a passing illness, contracted in their service, as sufficient ground for a withdrawal of their confidence, I shall, when the present Parliament has passed away, give to those on whose behalf you ad dress me au opportunity of recording their votes against me—as some of tkem have done before. "In the mean time. I beg to assure You that should the opinions of my raedical attendants and my own an ticipations of returning health be doomed to disappoint men►, I shall not require any appeal from any portion of those who have five times honoured me by returning me to Parliament, as to the course which my own honour, as well as their interests, will demand at my hands. " I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, Tuosiss S. DIINCOMBE. " H. Griffiths, Esq., Chairman of the Kent Hotel Committee, Brownlow-street.", SURREY SESSIONS, May 28. (Before Tuomas PUCKLE, Esq., and a full Bench of Magistrates.) A DISAPPOINTED WEDDING--FINDINGS NOT ALWAYS KEEPING& Charles Bass, 19, was indicted for stealing at Rich mond a sovereign, three half-sovereigns, and other moneys, the property of Michael M'Donald. The prosecutor stated that he was a gardener at Richmond, and employed on the same estate with the prisoner. On the morning of the 17th of April, at the rear of a public-house where they had been drink ing, he dropped his money from his waistcoat pocket. He made inquiries about it, but could gain no tidings until a late hour in the evening, when he met the prisoner, who bragged about finding the cash, but re fused to give it up. Knowing that it was his money he called in a police-constable and gave him into custody, when it was ascertained that he had spent all the money in purchasing a ring and providing things for his wedding with a young woman. A police-constable of the V division stated that he took the prisoner into custody, and ascertained from him that he had found some money in the place where the prosecutor dropped it. From information he received he went to the house of a female named Tyler, where he found a new dress, some white rib bon, and a gold ring, which the latter told him had been given to her by the prisoner, who was about to marry her. Mary Ann Tyler, a respectable-looking young woman, stated that she resided at Barnes, and had kept company with the prisoner for five years. On the afternoon of the 17th of April he came to her house and wished her to go with him to the parish clerk, and put up the banns of marriage. They went out for that purpose, and on their way to the clerk's house the prisoner purchased their wedding-ring, and after wards a new dress and some white ribbon. Being too late for publishing the banns they parted company, and witness took home with her the articles they had purchased. When the policeman came she handed everything to him. In cross-examination by Mr. CITARNOCK ' the pri soner's counsel, witness stated that she had been much disappointed, as she was to have been married to the prisoner three weeks ago. She hoped the ring would not be taken away from them, as it would spoil their happiness.— ( Laugh ter.) What he purchased amounted to 303., and as he had always plenty of mo ney she thought it was his own. She did not know that he found it. Mr. CHARNOCK, for the prisoner, said he could not deny that his client found the money in the place stated by the prosecutor, but according to the vulgar error acted upon by uneducatee, persons who were unacquainted with the laws of the country. he had foolishly appropriated it to his own u,e, at the same time not knowing to whom it belonged. The Learned Counsel quoted several cases, and referred to Baron Parke's decision on a similar occasion, wherein th e party was acquitted. The prisoner h a d su ff ere d s i x weeks' imprisonment, which , he b e li eve d, world b(:' a sufficient caution to him as to his future conduct. - The CHAIRMAN, in summing up, said the question was, whether the prisoner knew to whom the money 1y it Of England Purchase Shares were nean iii rs. p a roved of, after some considerable disco ss° , o o, I niendment proposed by Mr. H. S. Tb ° ,T o r of substitute the words " Ist of July, 1855; 00 64 January, 18.56," in the 7th resolution, L. curved flileg in by the chairman on the p art of tu' tors. The resolutions were as follov s " -- nrest 1. That the first 8/. per share paid 0 00 l 0 0 of England R a il wa y P urc hase Shares slssioflo3o Ist of July ne x t, t a k e th e ordinary divi desa piny. sba llbil I' l c 2. That the call of 2/. per share last rea de jolfr i ; Weed to 1/. per share, able on the it ;0 0 and that any shareholder pa w y ho shen have of 21. per share shall be entitled, on dema n " ) ,: l l3ju' l weeks after the passin into an Act of before Parliament, to repa g tof IL per sl i - s haij 3. That the sum of 71. 3 13: 11 4d , which gill main to be paid to make up 16L 135.4 d. P er g r oli lle 'd be called by the instalments, and at the ors hereinafter mentioned-that is to say, i h P e , h ; the Ist July, 1852; 11. 10s. per share on l o tp - . 1 1853; 1/. 10::. per share on the Ist ,Tat r O r Po il s and the remaining 31. 13 0 . 4 d. Per sb :d e the A I times tatween the Ist of January' 1854, May, 1856, as the directors may trom time' di ov proper. p er 4. That the amount from time to time P-00 r said shares beyond the first 8/. per shares h a te o f i i t tse l petually guaranteed to it interest at the r h g/ n idet°' cent, per annum, with an option to th e 1 - 0 0 ,1 share, or divided share, to relinquish sue"Literl interest, and to take thenckfirward in reap e c " ( 11 ordinary dividend of the company. (e i°l o4 5. That after payment by any shareboldersoosei pursuance or in advance of calls) of 51. Pe r :i ll per 111 , 0 " share then held by him, beyond the e t ;01'°1111 every such share shall be divided and colO g 04, 0 1 share of 8/., or into stock to that ate° ll6 o o ll ordinray dividend of the company, en d } too rd share of 17L, on which 5/. will then lisee 6. That any holder of any such share ol at any time pay, in addition to the 51. Peid°,,,e la il and the calls, if any, which may hav e thee per respect of such share, the further sum c'f2l'lPetsr°*'' way of advance, shall be entitled to requ'r-,thee to divide such 171 share into two s hare s ' e . ,e l P, t value of 8/. 13s. 4d. and 81. 6s. 81 resP e i tt gili t ;, l4 o which last-mentioned share the said sellsep srsie shall be deemed to have been paid. and cates shall be given for such two shares., w ' l llvj, 7. That the 81. 6s. Bd. per share , whici ' A /1 311 ''' be called after payment of the sum of Iv'„,otSt share of 251., shall not (except as hereinsiTart9 be called up, if the amount can be horror/lf-ora mortgage, which the company shall u se tbei" ens, ",t ertions to effect ; but if such stnetlof st have been so borrowed on the Ist c151,,,,it 1856, such sum of 81 6s. Bd. shall be ell",orsilat times and by such instalments as th e dire:h-e teremine' with a view to the paymen t of th money due to the shareholders in of England Railway. tbPolPjj 8. That the directors be ernpowere,a„' think fit, to alter or omit all or any of t by tb d Bill now before Parliament, promoted relating to the said Great North of Eet - o thst dd or r urchase Shares, and to insert therein any ovo to ef f" th e° clauses for the better carrying r oar s of this meetinc , in of the resolutionsrefer or LA 9. That any holder, either 47f exte nsi°tl eft t( d r North of England Railway Purchase S 11 : 1. 141 0 ;0 full, paid, or may hereafter pay up, so",; f co°' oo shall be at liberty to have the es`r, consolidated into stock, the bolder 0' , - „ ii prOv shares still retaining his guarantee as.eb°,t.' At the conclusion of the proceedieg:.; asked if Mr. Hudson had paid the 50 ' 0A ' s e. - • to arrangement ? beer ), d i Mr. LEEMAN said that 40,0001. ha: 0 and that the remaining 10,000/., would be received very shortly. soo t Mr.lHoLLos proposed a vote of the of man, which was seconded by Mr. SCC"-' and carried with loud applause. The meeting then terminated. THE COUNTRY -- NI „ i fif4 IPSWICH MAT 2 8 ,"„t The market was fairly supplied with i‘",%,";ite er free sale ; prices were about the same as ,4001 chance sample of barley and beans on sal e ' o'oo l PER QUARTER. ~, f Wheat, red Ditto, white 42s to 46: Oats .... . ... Barley, malting Ditto, grinding Beans ........ AVERAGES FOR THE WILEY ENDING * ji % Wheat ...... ......... . 713 quir t" w 0, Barley Oats - Beans, 2 Peas ... -- " HULL, MAY 28 ' striir. Messrs. Taylor and Bright's Circular at iat4 during the past week have been more b i let, ~Pp e o), but some portion has not come on the ma r l[ s low corsumers. Owing to the Whitson holid s l or ist o p much suspended in many of the manta"' o d ll consequently we have had a lack of buYer g ' w er. , V 1 ) actions. Those which have taken plac e r kst ' 4 ,0,0! terms against the holders. As to-day' p' b° i f tarol l derate supply of wheat from the farmers , " e get 111, expecting more money and very unwilling ! to t ,I" e , prices, and those rates had to be sob eii f i g t, s , 7 o * Foreign was not much dealt in, but the In g ' e et"' ,I Though transactions are far from extensi/ e ' e f i d 4 ,05 feeling for all kinds of spring corn, and es 'olAfoil buyers at about Is below t ur highest q uotab. di l ~ market is only dull, but cakes, both English ""fltr daily demand at fully last week's currenaP • ,/ , bones are each dearer. etiO' VI The following are the present prices Of n „ i t ~ /I 8, 8. wh ite •.•'/ 1 i /' Wheat, English, red 38 to 40 Peas, It"' -43 ... g o / e .' I Do. white .... . 4O —44 Do. grei.„1;;I:1" "' /I Dant zic and Ko- Linseed , vi d e : , 1,, nigsberg 44 46 Do. PeterSbiiooB,,,fi Pomeranian and Do. Riga it iorg '' ifii Hamburgh . 37 —4O Do. E Oll4 81 1 ' F 11 Danish, Holstein, & 0 11 .0 keel "'CO ' I Friesland 32 36 Lins. es ~ w i gli ' 4 llOll Russian and Odessa 30 36 Do. fine ', 43 ,. e . iso , ~e 1 Oats, English Do. Danish. Do. Friesland l2 16 Rape cs,a -eg o ilb ",4111 Do. Russ. & Odessa 12 14 Tares, - 0 "' ...''''6 l 7l Barley, malting 2O —23 Do. forele'',`,./ 0 ,1000 Do. grinding l7 19 Guano. .... . '' 'lo6 ,/, I Beans Do. foreign ...... CORK, MAY 27.—Flour—First 12* 6 0 .1 - 6 ,51 , ;, 11 9 seconds, 1156 d to 12s 6d ; households Os tr i ddrol t e /1 0 per cwt. Oatmeal 10s 6d to I Is; Indian rees 64 W o e, meal. 10s to lOs 6d per cwt. Indian corn 1 7 4 gO ds re Po Bran 4/15s od to 5/ per ton. Hay—Fall ° ;,,e. S , A t l° ifij 38s ; dealers 405 to 45s Od; average 42s Per-,', 00 , 10'1 j 0 203 Od to 25s Od; average 21s; deale r- t o 1 1, 0 r Q average 00s Od per ton. .Bread—Wwg - ,01 ) ;,6 '0 household loaf 5d to 50 per 41b. 'JO' nip 9d per lb. Eggs-3s 7d to 3s 8d fer W o ol : Newport 14s; Lydney 15s; Landore, 0 0 00/ i r d Culm 13s per ton. Tallow 40s (41 ,41 , fi'f Whisky, 25 o. p.. 58 9d per iniP e- ois l or 0 —Beef 4d to 40; mutton 5d t° , 1 ,14 °64„ 1 . 1°1 1 0 0 5d ; pork 30 to Oti; bacon 6d to ~,,' sit 0 1 , :i ,0 lb. Hops 131 Os per cwt. Bangor sllt t n,•l*`lo a rli s „,' ton. Bark—Barbary 7153 to 815*; Va r fipot 0r rp 71 sa; Spanish 91per ton. Fleece W° ° ` • r ine. 1 :000 Hemp 32/ to 001 per ton. Fish—Scotch 11 ! r 9 1 ' 4 0, 1 ditto 20s to 22s per barrel ; Newfound r . 11 ri ton. Timber—Memel, 85s per ton,' ety l &lte, o 4 r second quality, 16s per 100. Hides-ntl 44i 0) 1 salted 15s to 211 per cwt ; calf skitta, A to fr Potatoes, white 9d to 12d; Minioni l'au. f i Peruvian, 111 10s; Ichaboe, 91 per t °l " 47 1 1; 195 per barrel. et l/litiV*l . ftliet boo ° 4 1 ! [AnvEnTzsEMENT.]—PersonsB • 5 A Qkilh or - 31 0 Scorbutic Humours, or Diseases of the .t . r e pfl io 01 loway's Ointment and Pills. Scurvy, t ie it e ,, P cot st li , / cutaneous disorders, are engendered bY ,iOO O l l O . blood, and the only sure means to eradical ilis oc o f it, to undergo a course of Holloway's Pill* , S t. ., C pr ° 1, , plying externally his invaluable Ointnlee. to tedt, , f by these wonderful' medicines are daily $ 5, 'tr e y F A astonishing e ffi cacy in purifying the Woo T be, ~, I constitution, and re-establishing health., er stel6l certain in the cure of cancerous sores, e' e c a s ha ll obf i . glandular swellings, and persons so afflict ...-6°,_ r d diate recourse to these excellent medicines' ), gists, and at Professor Holloway's Estab lish / i' f i't, London. .' to DV €.,,,, gCOAdot d / AR DIAMONDS MADE FROM v '''' - j a reS 41i "/AR prezt, the eminent French chemist, dee" - at " 0 0ely rids be 0 0 ' covered the mode of producing diaMo ~ 50t t d i lizing carbon ; and he displays, at 0% 5 0 1 10 q, sized diamond as the proof. He decla r docise o pli, as last autumn he had succeeded in Pro .sable el/ but in anch minute particles as to b! tof i l eat ot r i i, 1 the microscope. Four solar lenses of i f tbe i t °oaf by the tremendous galvanic pile,„ resui s f j ri d i been the means of producing tu- 4isP o oa 0 1 V us. M. Despretz holds himself readfAie aia to cli d if/ ment whenever it may be required. ''' a sp he o ' ll 9 is of the quality known in the East riIIC e lf° one single specimen of which was told by o f tit late Duke of York for the enormota a u pounds. I' , - ; Barb's VW , o t , OF A *olt•_, 0000 t. , , j i 8.1 On the 2Cth inst., at St. Mary's-re ~,41 3, ,i00 ' of J. T. Cooper, F.R.A.S. " A irs A ver Y . or On the 2,th inst., at Worthing, Air s. ..cover On the 2th inst., at Elm-field, ' t iP/':, Joseph Savory. ' ' „,... 0 , ~,, fij i 0 OF A DATIGII.."_eyw, f On the 26th inst , in St. James's . ..o o; l 4o'r" On the 25th inSt., at Hale-place, 1 ,1,• - '' t 4 of Francis T. Bircharn, Esq. -. • • 09 - mABRIED. • '5, 1 10.v pip' On the 21st inst., at Donningtoor o or o f b Samuel Brooks, Esq., Whalley-hou se ' ocp 11'. Anne, eldest daughter of John Jones , ' . ilett rf o il Albrighton. ' 'iclit Peo ° o 3 ' • .ow 0 e On the 25th inst., at St. PancraS . o on, e st Esq., of Hampgead-road, to Harriett , .' o rr, tial" ter of J. Boulting, El., of Adelaide.sr aO. C 12 On the 25th inst., at ObliEsillebuts tt .. ' llllc .. ( e°' 0 gl j Rigbt Hon. Henry .Labouchere. •.. ~,„, e A' g E o l , t i nbett, Sutfolk._._ ~fiAi i l 1). " ' rec oil the .2 . . A inet., the Rev. Jante Fr - t ' a -cl" E' p w , i 3O d r t) :::: r v rt t : h h o 'f e e a f 2 t .2 4 li t 2 e h d ln ii i t:e s th t. G L , ' e a o a t r , g t i t; ( ll ;fZo .e r t i s i t cp , g mtl Auf3 l ; ;: re iscie r se i 3 :r: l3t l ; !: WargAaw," ,j i• pe t, tS` A j ,:. c. : 4, the talented Authoress 9ti the ..:::;tt • in. in Upper Berkeley - s ; r- ,i ) 0 1, gal:et, lit. TV ife or E. Bortffil, E-q. vitro' , ' . ii :11 , 2,th hist., in Brunzwiek-place,!,,„. hot' aged 21, Sarah May, wife of J..Skinner,-•Wiiite' / (121 the ::tiib inst.. at :,lile,enti,,Fian.FY ' >„ , /,. / 4 ' !ate of her NI aj,ly', C09,101[1,4, aged 1 . .L. : ....--- . ", ‘ . o w , i iJ.' ---- ----7—'-----"- .----.-:-- - - ti riundon CP,Fint.4J and Tiallighki 1;7 . Joiti,)' No. JAI, trk ' t'tariei,, PiititE,;-, i. 114t* Sill 4 ~„ t oe !:.!tiv,11 , :!..1: - ). 01i,.. Pirecaiot- ot tbs t.114,;" 0 * , "" 1859. bit ddlera, Wedneadsh 29, May , R p, t„,,0 Oth er 'ne Pack Pur Itt ft' I kit t to e s th 4 r T .e, kei t 10 0 n ' t STEA dPro, u a p VC! x th: not orli ry tslte3 aPpt 411,G' 144 tl • T ' ,tott le a , cm g . , 4 h 1 1 11 ,' c h 3 4lttit;ra ,1 / 7 1