The Sun. — London, England, 1851-03-01 00:00:00

)Itrb lEitritiort FRANCE. In the National Assembly yesterday, it was moved that the consideration of the proposition of M. Creton for the repeal of the law banishing the Bourbons be postponed to the let June. The motion for adjourn ment was rejected by 340 to 319. Messrs. Placatory, Thiers, Changarnier, and a great portion of the Legitimists rose against the Adjournment, and Messrs. Mole, Leon de Malleville, Berryer, & c., voted f o r it. _ . In the course of an article on the conferences at Dresden, the Journal des Debats has the following on the proposed entry of the Sclavonic and Italian provinces of Austria into the Germanic Confedera tion : "It is reported that the Emperor of Russia is not op posed to the pretensions of Austria; nevertheless, it is certain that he has not yet given his consent to the in corporation of her Sclanovic and Italian provinces, and conviction is felt, that if France and England were to formally thclare that they will not recognise the new Germalic Confederation if it extend itself to these pos sessions, the Emperor Nicholas would unite in this d . e cieration, and would withdraw the engagements which he may have given reason for supposing he would make. In this case, France and England would demand from Austria and Prussia, and propose to Russia a congress on which would devolve the regulation of these affairs. Several members of the conference have had communicated to them, what is called the pro test of France; great importance has been attached to this document, but it has not come up to the general expectation. This protest is contained in a letter from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republi c t o M. de Lacour, the Minister Plenipotentiary at Vienna, and bears the date of the 31st of January. It says : —" If the stipulations of the trea t y of Vienna should receive, without our assent and without the formal consent of the powers who s i gn ed it, such a material alteration as that w hi c h i s i n question, the Government of the Republic will see itself with regret reduc e d t o t h e necess i ty of de igaring that it does not admit the le g itimacy o f th e or der of things resulting from such innovations.' It is positively stated that whatever may arrive, P r in ce d e s o hwnrzenberg will not hesitate. He has great designs on Switzerland whi c h h e i s i mpat i ent to carry i ntd ex ecution, and for which he only waits for the spring. After having regulated the affairs of Switzerland, he promises himself to settle those of Sardinia. For justice shake it must be mentioned, that as far as concerns the qaestion submitted to the conference, Prince de Schwar zenbnrg explained himself frankly to M. de Lacour, who having read to him the dispatch of the 31st of January, conformably to the orders of his Government, re ceived this reply, 6 Our new constitution has established with us for ever unity of Government; all the parts of the Austrian empire form a united ensemble, regulated and administered by one and the same Government. We have therefore only to choose between these two points. Either we must belong to the Confederation with all our possessions, or we must henceforth hold ourselves aloof from the federal system of Germany. I leave it to the wisdom of the French Government to judge what would happen if Austria were to adopt the latter course. Germany would then be at the mercy of Prussia, a power close to and very jealous of France. And what is still more serious, Germany would be delivered up to the fury of revolutionary and dema gogical passions, for Prussia and the other German states are completely undermined by revolutionar y and anti-social doctrines, again s t w hi c h it wou ld be ins pea• Bible to struggle but with the cu-operation of Austria.' This reply was given verbally; but it is faithfully re ported, and M. de Lacour will not contradict it. The Prince, at the same time, expressed his sentiments of eat, em for M. de Lacour, and his respect for the treaties of Vienna, and, as well, his desire to do everything in his power to be agreeable to the French Republic and to its President. But these declarations, made in a tone of the greatest cordiality, do not in any way change the character and real bearing of the reply." The following are the chief items of the weekly Bank account:— Specie in Paris D‘). branches •-• lilt's in portfolio ••• Do. branches ... ••• Bank notes in circulation Do. departments Credit to Treasury Private credit account ... Do. branches ... ... 372,314,003 ... 137,247,973 ... 56.908,730 ... 81,072,714 ... 417.875,000 ... 91,782,200 ... 106,507,888 ... 76,716,216 ... 22,595,270 Gold has increased 4 milli.,ns francs in Paris and 34 millions francs in the departments. The porttolio has undergone little or no variation in Paris, but in the ac count for the departments there is a decline of 2f mil lions. Bank-notes have decreased i❑ circulation 2 mil lions in Paris, and half a million in the departments. The credit to the Treasury shows an increase of 8} millions, a flourishing item, intended probably to aid the liquidaticn, which was threatening to be difficult. MININ G INTELLIGENCE. (From the Mining Journal of this day.) Fluctuations have occurred again this week in the value of dividend mine shares, which, with few excep tions, have been chiefly upwards. Oar dividend list now marks a mine, upon which 104 is paid, at 9001. per share. On the whole, the tone of the market fur this *lass is improved, the late reduction in prices having brought forward buyers. In the progressive mines also a fair business continues to be done; and speculative ones, either old mines remained, or new ground offered for ex ploration, continue to appear rather freely, and an en tieely new feature in the constitution of which is to raise a !Ergo capital by en imme:cliate payment, instead of re quia;ng it as wanted; hut it remains to be proved by time and experience if the new mode of action is not an innovation quite unwarranted by the nature of mining operations. In the Metal market, copper is without alteration. Lead is in good demand, at full rates. British tin is quiet. but firm. In foreign tin, notwithstanding the more favourable accounts from Holland and the news from Java, that the quantity coming forward next year will be about 40,000 slabs leas than was anticipated, the market has been quiet. Tinplates are rather easier, but the demand continues large. In Speller there- is a good trade, at full prices. The Roughtengill Mine (Cumberland) have dilivered to the smelt-works—January produce, 60 tons; and for February, 67 tons 13 cvto. of leaf ore. Also, sold from the min-, S tons 2 evv:s. copper ore, at 14/. 103. per ton. Wheal Mtry Ann sold 90 tons of lead ore, at 204 133. 6d, per ton. A parcel of Sottti Friendship Wheal Anne black tin sold at .50/. pee toe. From Polberro Miner, we ham that the two months' produce is 47 tons of tin; the weather being more open,' the tributors are working better, and a larger produce is expected. The sampling at Cwmystwith Mine is expected to be about 60 tons of lead ore for the month. Tee lodes in Taylor's level east, and also in Kineside edit level, are looking kindly. The 30 fm. level is not so good; the slopes in the 36 fm. level pretty good. The Tywarnhayle and Nancekuke Mine samples 380 tons of ore, with a good reserve for next sampling. At Glllington, the different levels continue produc tive, 45 tons of silver-lead ores were sold on Wednes day, at 171. 103. 6d. per ton. Tee fact of a considerable quantity of tin having been met with in the lode at East Wheal Russell has given great encouragement, and tends much to confirm the . . sangu ine opinions entertained. It is stated that al most all the great copper lodes have made tin on the backs. The late improvements at Wheal Crebor, and the very favourable reports read at the meeting, have caused a considerable demand for shares at advanced prices. Mr. Adam Murray, who has been appointed inspecter of Hennock Mine, has furnished a report, in which he mates his opinion to be, that from the appearances de veloped in the back of the edit level, and also the 10 fm. level, with other circumstances in connexion with the district, particularly that the two rich lead,mines,,Wheal Adams and Exmouth, had not such good indications as lienuock until they reached the 50 or 60 fm. level; this mine will prove productive in depth. Tiae machinery was in excellent order. At Lamherooe Wheal Maria a shaft has been com menced sinking On the ch amp i on l ode, east of the cross course, by two men, who have raised 60 kibbles of fair tin work in tho last fortnight, the lode being 6 feet wide. The other parts of the workings are as last reported. On the B lode 2 fm. remain to be sunk before commenc ing driving in the 10 tin. level, where it is intended again to prove this lode. At Birch Tor and Vitifer, the discovery in the 20 fin. level, west of the old engine-shaft, continues good. The lode is worth more than 301. per fm. The monthly report from the Tyn-y-Worglod Slate Quarry states the works to be progressing most satis factorily; excellent slates are being made even from the surface work. The month's produce had been 22,500 slates, of various sizes. lierodsfoot is now returning 1001. per month profit, and in April a dividend of 103. or 15s. per share may be anticipated. The month:7 following are the divide n d s p a id d ur i ng the Mines. South aii!et Dividend. Amount. . . £lO ... Msry Ann ... : £2,560 North Barret .:: —• 3 ••• 1,536 Wheal Trelswney ... —• * ••• 1,500 Wheal P;.,etii ... "' 2 i •-• 1.300 ••• Wheal Se:on 10 ... 1,200 Levant ... ... 5 ••• 990 Wheal Friendship... ~. 6 800 West Caradon ... ... 2 i :'* 756 South Tolgus ..• ••• 2t .:: 640 Balleswidden 640 609 Lewis 500 Sr. Ives Consols ..• ... 4 ... 500 Providence Mies ... ... i ... 420 The %Vicki() ~- Copper Aline has also declared a half. yearly dividend, at the rate of 20 per cent. per annum. At St. Ives Consols meeting, a dividend of 4/. per share (3761.) was declare], leaving a balance in hand of 107/. 4i. 51. At Ballpswidden, on Tuesday, the accounts presented sowed—Tin sold, 4,14'1. 17s. Gd.; sundries , 55/. C. sd.—To wars for Nor. and Dee., 2,3951. 18s. sd ; coals 181/. 9s. 41; carriage, 81Z 3a.; merchants' bills and duo, 9031. lls.—By dividend of is. 6d. per 1,624 th share, SOU; leaving balance in favour of adventurers, 251. 2a. sd. At a meeting of adventurers in the Ferran St. George United _Mines, at Newport, Isle of Wight, on Wednes day, the accounts for geptsmber and October were passed, 3 1,, ( , wi eg balance of I,lla. 18s. 44. in favour of the mine, which was curled to neat account; and a general westing was agreed to be held OA the 19th of March, to examine the accounts for Nov. and Dec., and to declare a dividend. The ores sold in Jan. (raised in Nov. and Dec.) realized 2,8691. 19s. At a special meeting of adventurers in the United Mines, on Tuesday, Mr. Grylls and Capta'n John Richards attendei as a deputation from Cornwall. The mines, as we have already stated, are now nearly thirty fathoms under water; and it was resolved to en deavour to get in fork with all possible speed. The Lords have agreed to lend a helping hand, by setting to work the Wheal Clifford engine; and the operations will at least be continued until the 10th of May next. We hope their endeavours may meet with deserved success; for, should the cessation of operations take place, nearly 6,000 persons must be thrown out of employ, and it would probably load to the abandonment of the entire district. At the Mineral Court meeting, held at Truro, on Tues day, the accounts were presented, showing—balance last account, 9344 4s. 7d.; labour cost and merchants' bills for December, 5031. 19s. 41; ditto January 3961. 2s. 3d. =1,834/. 6s. 2d. By tin sold (less dues, 151.35. 2d.), 2571. 13s. 3d.; sale of reserved shares, 941. 10s., showing balance rgaiust the mine, 1,4821. 2s. 11d. A call of 3/. per share was made. The report stated that in breaking the lode from the backs of this level they had come down on some good tin work, and expected, on driving in the 20, another good run of ore. At Budnick Consols meeting on Monday, the accounts for four months, ending December, showed costa and merchants' bills, 2,0731. 1 ls. 10d. ; balance from last account, 51/. 16s. 8d ; ores sold (less dues), 1,854/. 15s. 3d.; carriage of ore and sundries, 32/. 2s. 91=1,9384 14s. Bd.; leaving balance against the adventurers of 1341. 17s. 2d. At East Tywarnbayle meeting, the accounts showed— . Balance to end of October, 4/. 2s. 6d.; cost Novem ber and December, 3101. 12s. I Id.; bills and en gine, 1,080/. 13s. to 2951. 9s. 5d.-By call, 7684; leaving balance, 6271. 93. 5d.-The engine shaft is sunk 11 fms. below the edit, and it is expected to sink to the 20, and cut the lode in 10 weeks. In the edit end, driving west, the lode is 4 feet wide, opening tribute ground for the east 7 fathoms, which will work at 7s. in 203. At the Runnaford Coombe meeting, at Woolwich, on Monday, the accounts were examined and passed, show ing-Cost and merchants' bills December, 173/. 63. ; dishonoured bill, 10s. Bd. ; cost and merchants' bill for January, 73/. 6s. ; mining engineer's report, 154_262/. 2s. Bd.-By balance last account 771. 7s. 7d. ; received on calls, 1104 ss. ; ditto sale of shares 34/. 10s.- leaving balance against the mine, 401. Os. Id. It was resolved that a call of ss. per share be made. The agent's report stated that westward a change for the better had taken place, and that as they approached the cross course there would be tin; back, west, in the edit, there was a good bunch of tin; that, eastward, the lode was 3i feet wide, kindly : There was a large cross course in the old workings, where the tinners had large returns. There are four or five lodes in the sett not yet worked. At Wheal Squire meeting, on Monday, the accounts showed-Balance end Nov., 1304 9s. 5d.-Mine cost for Dec. and Jan., 71/. 12s. Bd.; lord's dues, 124 Is. 9d.; Mr. Crotch, bill, 9/. 18s.: leaving balance in favour of adventurers, 361. 17s. Capt. Richards was appointed purser and manager, Mr. G. Vawdry surgeon, and Mr. F. Michell engineer. At Bollowal and Nanpean meeting, the accounts showed-Mine cost for the three months ending Dec., 2941.125. Id.; dues and merchants' bills, 731. 2s. 9.1.; balance against mine last account, 730/. 161. 3d. ---_-1,0981. I ls. Id.-By tin and credits, 289/. 16s. 2d.; call made 15th Nov., 2004: leaving balan ce against aventurers, 608/. 14s. Ild. At Wheal Owles meeting, the accounts showed-By sale of tin ores, 2,210/. 18s. lid.; deductions from tri buters' cost, 2181. 3s. 9J.; received for tin leavings, 136/. 19s. 5d.; subsist receipts, 1171. 15s. 4d.; balance from the last account, 690/. 17s. 7d. - ---- - -4,3741. 155.-Mine colt for three months, 2,2921. 17s. 63.; dues, merchants' bills, and subsist, 1,1411. 6s. 4d.: leaving balanc e i n h an d , 940 1 Is. 2d. At East Bailer meeting, on Tuesday,-the accounts for the four months ending December, showed—Balance from last account, 137/. 14s. l Id.; costs and merchants' bills, 4221. 131. 2d.-6101. Bs. Id.—By calls in October, 5121.; leaving balance against adventurers, 981. Bs. Id. A call of 10s. per share was made. At the Wheal Crebor two monthly meeting, on Mon day, the accounts for December and January showed balance of 314/. 16s. Id. in favour of the mine, and the statement of assets and liabilities a balance of the for mer of 2341. 16v. ld. Reports from the committee of management, Mr. Arthur Dean, Captains James Richards and William Doble were also read. The committee, in their report, refer with pleasure "to the great improvement which has taken place in the state of the mine since the last general meeting, and hope that the favourable results formerly held out are about to be realised. Tile terms of the mineral lease of Lord Devon's property have bee❑ settled; no call is required, for the present, at least; and the natare of the operations is such as to enable much work to be done with a comparatively small outlay." The working cost for the two months, including materials, had been 2211. 13s. 4d., and from commencement of operations, 1,193/. 14s. 2d. The costs for February are estimated at about 1301. The amount realized by the sale of ores bad been 79/. Ils. 11d. At the Coombe Valley Slate Company's meeting, letters were read from Messrs. A. Maleholm (the manager), A. S. Leech, and N. Ennor, recommending that the quarry ought at first to be worked with 50 men, and then at the end of the year see what the quarry had earned, and act accordingly. The manager stated that the works are let under written contracts, at such prices as will be likely to yield a profit of 40 to 50 per cent. upon the outlay. The calls in arrcar amount to 2281.; there are no liabilities, and 221. in the bank, besides a stock of slate ready for sale, worth about 2501. At the Wheal Sophia meeting, held on the mine, the accounts were examined and passed—Showing arrears due, 5081. 65.,; balance last account, 561. 9i. 10d.; calls, 1281.=6921. 15s. 10.1.—8 y costs and merchants' bills, November, 1001. 93. Bd.; ditto, Dec., 511. 17s. 5d.; ar rears, 2841.; due on forfeited shares, 2521. 163., leaving balance in favour of adventurers, 531. 123. 91 It was resolved that, from the favour able report of the mine, and it being now filled with water, that the working be suspended for two months, and all arrears be immediately collected, and all who have not paid within a month be proceeded against; that all liabilities be immediately discharged, and In case money was wanted, a call of ss. per share to be made. The report of Captain Luke, above alluded to, stated that he had cut a rich lode, and raised a few kibbles of stuff, when the water rushed in and overpowered the machinery. The erection of a wheel will cost about 103. per share. At the Now East Crowndale meeting at Plymouth, on Thursday, the accounts were examined and passed, the committee's report adopted, the mine divided into 2,048 shares, and Captain Carpenter appointed manager and purser. The report of the manager stated that he had obtained a grant of a valuable piece of land east of the boundary, by giving up the use of a certain stream, but which water would still be brought on their wheel, after leaving the adit of the United Alines, Tavistock ; he con siders the sett one of the most eligible that has been opened on for years. -At the Pentire Glaze meeting, a report from Captain Jehu Hitchens, who had been appointed to inspect the mine was read, highly favourable to the property, which was further confirmed by the statements Qin° received from Captain linezaone. A call of .ss. per share was made, auditors appointed, and the finance committee re-elected. At the Wheal May meeting, on Thursday, a call of ss. per share was made. From the statement made by the secretary, but 52 new shares were wanting, which would be equal to 130 old certificates. THE ARMY AND NAVY. (From the United Service Gazette of this day.) THE NEW CORPS FOR AFRICA.—The arrangements for the formation of the Gold Coast Corps are not yet complete. The commandant is not yet appointed, and there are not, perhaps, many eligible officers of the rank of major who will accept the appoint ment unless some specific promise of early promo tion is offered. The strength of the regiment will con sist as follows, viz.—one major commandant, at 16s. per diem, with 3s. per diem as command money; 3 captains, I Is. 7d. per diem; 6 lieutenants, at 63. 6d. per diem; 1 assistant surgeon, at 7s. 6d. per diem; 1 serjeant major, at 43. per diem; 3 company serjeants, at Is. 4d. per diem each; 12 serjeants, at Is. per diem each; 12 cor porals, at 10d. each; and 300 privates at ad. per diem each. No ensigns or second lieutenants are to be ap pointed. Making a tetal charge of 6,1541. per annum. GAMBLING AT MALTA.—We hear that a good deal of gambling has been going on in the garrison at Malta, the result of which has been that one or two officers names have been brought in rather an unfavourable light to the notice of his Grace the Commander-ia- Chief, and we are aware that there are one or two offi cers of an Ordnance Corps, also, who have not fared much better. QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT. --0010. nel Freetb, who has succeeded to the office of Quarter master-General to the Forces, is to have an allowance of 31. per day; Lieutenant-Colonel Airey, Assistant Quartermaster-General ; 1/. 7s. 6d. per day; Lieutenant- Colonel Enoch, the Second Assistant, 17s. 6d. per day, with an addition of 1051. per annum for preparing routes,. &c.; these allowances are exc l us i ve of the amountsthey respectively d er i ve as Off i cers on the Half-pay List, and 1004 per ann um en j oye d b y Colonel Freeth as Good Service Pension. MILITARY ScilooLs.—The Board of Ordnance have given orders for the constr uotion . of chapel schools at Portobello Barracks, Dublin_,klullingar, Teniplemore, Birr, Fermoy, Buttevant, and Bel fast. present month contains the at Edinburgh. na T rc h e e o A f Quartermaster aosfterthCerutekshank, half-pay, as Fort- Major Captain m ü ß s r c m e e y s l t o e n r, , as Major of Brigade at Rs9ifithes,Foot, has . succeed ed_ . Cap tain Hong-Kong. Fairtlough, 55th F oo t, as S u p er i n tending Officer of th e Lieutenant Grant, 2d Foot, has succeeded Lieutena nt Limerick District. KILIIIAINIIAM HOSPITAL.-It appears from a state ment made by blr. Fox Maule, the Secretary-at War, in the !l ouse of Commons, on Friday evening the 21st ult., that he had given instruction that after the 31st of March next, no new person should be taken into that establishment without previous communication with the War-office. We understand that it is the intention to remove those man who wish to leave Ireland to Chelsea Hospital at a convenient period, reserving Kilmainbam Hospital for other public purposes. Lieutenant K. ains has b een appo i nte d A cting Pay master, and Lieutenant Mackenzie Acting Adjutant to the depot of the 3rd Buffs. Lieutenant East is Acting Adjutant to the dep ot, of th e 1 5th Foot. Ensign Nicol is A c ti ng Paymas ter, and Lieutenant Storer Acting Adjutant to the depot of the 68th. Lieutenant Mann I and Lieutenant Cunningham are severally Acting Pay master and Acting Adjutant to the depot of the 92d. RACING FIXT MA. Coventry 4 Doncaster Spring Warwick Spring Croxton Park .. Catterick Bridge 3 Epsom Sprin' Newmarket Craven Malton l5 ra Lewes 5 Newmkt. Second Spring 6 Plymouth Spring Liverpool B. (Hoylake) 7 Shrewsbury 8 Edinburgh Ascot Beverley, Hull, &c 4 Hampton Manchester ll Loo (Uolland) l6 Newmarket Carlisle ........ 1 Ludlow Lancaster Worcester In Ripon Brighton 6 Wolverhampton ... 11 Huntingdon l2 Reading SEPTE' Eccles Warwick Lincoln Radcliffe 8 Lichfield 8 Yarmouth Weymouth .. 10 OCTO Monmouth Richmond Chester Yorkshire Union Hunt 8 J NOVE Worcester AQUATICS. ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE (OXFORD) RACES. The scratch four-oared races were rowed on the 20th ult., and were well contested by four boats. FIRST HEAT. Messrs. Hill (stroke), Palmer, Rogers, Sandilands, Reid (cox) ... ... 1 Messrs. Wynne (stroke), Wrangham, Hilliard, Cra ven, Paget (cox) ... 2 This heat was well contested for some distance, when Hill's boat drew gradually away, and won by about two lengths. SECOND HEAT. Messrs. Rawlins (stroke), Hale, Sillifant, Brown low, Biggs (cox) .. ... 1 Messrs. Behrend's (stroke), Bashall, Sellword, Cutter, Gore (cox) ... 2 Mr. Behrend's boat gained a slight lead soon after the start, when Mr. Rawlins's boat picked them up, and, after a severe struggle, succeeded in drawing ahead, notwithstanding a most gallant spurt put on by the other crew; finally won by about a boat's length. FINAL HEAT. Messrs. Rawlins stroke), Hale, Sillifant, Brownlow, Riggs (cox ... ..• ••• ••• ••• . 1 Messrs. Hill (stroke), Palmer, Rogers, Sandilands, Reid (cox) .. ... .. • • ... 2 These boats also made a very spirited race, Hill's boat maintaining the lead to the Cherwell, when the others pulled up, passed :them, and won with !difficulty by a length. MISS LAURA ADDISON. This distinguished young artist is now performing in Edinburgh, with triumphant success. The following critiq le upon her first appearance in that city is from the l)aily Mail : " THEATRE RovAL.—Mr. Murray seems to have now fairly entered upon the grand campaign leading to the finale of his theatrical management; and, if the begin ning afford any true indication of the end, what will the climax be? The accomplished Miss Laura Addison has been honoured with the distinguished position of leader, and great will need to be the genius of thoae who follow, that their lustre and their reputation be not dimmed by the radiance of the guiding star,' even when the curtain falls. This lady made her first appearance in Edinburgh for the last few years on Monday evening, and her reception was as enthusiastic as might satisfy the most sanguine wishes she or her friends could entertain. The play was the tragedy of The Bridal, in which Miss Addison played the part of Evadne. Her exposition of feeling was intensely touch ing. With all the truthfulness reality itself could ex hibit did she pourtray the trust, attachment, and resig nation of captured affection. Mer deportment towards Melantius was true to nature. His frown at first she scorned—his hatred, threats, despised; but, overborne by power and conscious wrong, she melted into meek submission, vowed at his feet to slay the king. and took the fatal dagger from his hand. She did all with an exactitude that defied criticism. The lest scene of all—her release of Melantius from prison, and her expiation —was too great to per mit the spectators to restrain the most vehement marks of approbation. Th - oughout Miss Addison ex hibited genius which The Bridal had not parts to evoke. She was admirably supported by Mr. Glover, of Glas gow, as Melantius, tee brother; and Mr. Powrie, as Amintor, the bridegroom. The Bridal, we observe, is to be repeated to-night. Warm—nay, enthusiastic— though Miss Addison's reception was in Glasgow, and highly though Mr. Glover is esteemed among his fellow citizens as an artist and a gentleman, last night's recep tion and estimation of both exceeded anything that their antecedents warranted us in expecting." We understand that Miss Addison has accepted an engagement, at the Haymarket Theatre, where she will appear on Thursday next iu Sheridan Knowles' play entitled The Wife. INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. On Tuesday, Feb. 25, the paper read was " A De scription of the ' Royal Border Bridge,' erected over the River Tweed, on the li ne o f t h e Y or k, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway," by Mr. G. B. Bruce, M. Inst. C.E.; Wm. Cubitt, Esq., President, in the chair. This . viaduct, the total length. of which was 2,160 feet, and the extreme height 129 feet, consisted of twenty-eight semi-circular arches, each 61 feet 6 inches span; and the whole constructed of stone, with the ex ception of the inner part of the arches, which was of brick laid in cement. It was divided into two parts by a central abutment, which enabled the land arches to be completed, and, along with a temporary timber bridge, to be brought into use for public traffic, before the com pletion of the river arches, which necessarily occupied a considerable period in execution, owing partly to very substantial coffer-dams having been requisite for the river piers, but principally to its having been thought advisable to pile the foundations of most of those piers, as the bed of the river was liable to be scoured away by the rapid stream. The piles, both of the coffer-dams and of the foundations, were mostly of American elm, as it was found that the heads of the Memel piles re quired to be frequently cut off and re-hooped, when driven by Nasmytti's steam pile-driver, which was almost entirely used, both on account of expedition and of eco nomy; for it was proved, that whilst the hand ram only gave one blow in four minutes, the steam pile-driver gave sixty blows in one minute, and that the coat of the former was two shillings per lineal foot, whereas that of the latter was very little more than one shilling per lineal foot. It was also remarked, that the force was more advantageously employed in the case of the steam pile-driver, as, on account of the rem being heavier and the fall less, the piles were not so frequently split. The piers had an ashlar facing, and were filled in with well grouted rubble, having occasional through ciurses of ashlar, and an ashlar tie in the centre of their width from top to bottom. Great care was taken in the pre paration of the mortar and the grout, used in this work, and after a variety of experiments, the plan finally adopted was—in the case of setting lime for ashlar—to grind quicklime dry by itself, in a common mill, and then to mix it with coarse sharp sand, screened out of gravel taken from the bed of the river, in the proportion of three of sand to one of quicklime; this was then put under cover until required. Lime to be used fur grout was also ground dry, and along with it was ground slag from an iron furnace, then gravel from the river was mixed with it without being screened, the proportions being quick lime one—slay three-quarters —and gravel two and a quarter. The mortar when used had absorbed a sufficient quantity of moisture from the atmosphere and the sand, to prevent its being too hot for use, and yet, as it had not being previously mixed with water, and wrought into a paste, it retained its original setting power. This mortar required to be used very soft, and the stones to be well wetted, and as the sand was very coarse, thick joints were necessary, but in a few weeks it set as hard as Roman cement: All the lime used in this work was from the mountain limestone of the Scremerston and Lowich districts of Northumberland. The centres, which were stated to have been of pecu liar construction, were supported entirely from the piers, so as to prevent any accident happening, if the scaffold ing was injured, either by the heavy floods of ice to which the river Tweed is subject in winter, or from the vibration caused by passing trains; as when the idea was first entertained of having a temporary bridge, the intention was merely to add to the contractors' scaffold ing, and to make it serve for both purposes. This in tention was, however, abandoned, and an entirely sepa rate timber bridge was erected, on the east side of the stone bridge, at a cost of 14,3401. The total cost of the " Royal Border Bridge" was 120,0001., and of the whole contract, one mile in length, in which it was comprised, 207,0001., including an em bankment, which had to be made entirely from side cutting, and which contained probably 760,000 cubic yards. Some valuable and interesting experiments and ob servations were given on the velocity and regimen of the river Tweed, and the results compared with the theories generally laid down relative to running waters, by Bunt and Eytelwein; and it appeared, that although both approximated closely to actual experiment, and y in2 id en a t, Boat's formula gave the best result. c i e l erd T s twuoeisblldetaarkeead:_„ t w h h a l; f when ohe meetingwe i m n g o De scription of the mode of working an Inclined Plane of nt paperstlly was b adjourned w il e o r t e f o a r n m n announced Yorkshire Railway," by Captain Laws, R.N., Assoc. 1 in 27i, on the Oldham Branch of the Lancashire and ONDON, SATURDAY _EVENING, MARCH. 1 5 1851. RES FOR 1851. Kipling Coates Northampton . Newcastle-on-Tyne S 2B IL. Newmark. First Spring 21 Abergavenny 24 The Hoo 26 Chester York Spring Bath Epsom Lenham Wye 29 I Bibury S. Lancashire (Newton) 18 Stockbridge Winchester 2O Newcastle rLY. Liverpool Stamfird.... Isley Nottingham Goodwood 1 UST. York Southport Darby Egham 27 :MEER. Leice5ter............. lO Doncaster ... l6 Saudbach ... l6 Bedford 22 or 23 Eglinton Park Manchester Autumn.— 25 Newmarket P.O 3O IBER. AAR; Qrs. Wheat ... 8,98 Barley ;... ... 4,086 Oats ... ..• ••., ... 2)9 Beans— ... ... 7 , 44 Peas ... ... ... 74 Tares... ... ... Wrexham Newmarket S.O l3 Newmarket Houghton 27 :MBER. ~..First week. Inst. C.E.; and "Description of a Turn Table, 42 feet in diatr, e'er, used on the Bristol and Exeter Railway," by Mr. J. J. Macdonnell, M. Inst. C.E. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. WAKEFIELD, FEB. 23.—We have a good supply of barley, but only a moderate one of ether articles. Wheat is held with more firmness to-day, bat our millers not being at all eager buyers, the business is limited at last week's prices. Ihe ordinary qualities of barley meet a slow sale at somewhat lower prices • no change in th e va l ue o f t h e fi nest d escr i pt i ons. Oats and shelling sell in retail at late prices. Beans rather lower. New. 8. 8. 38 to 41 46 50 36 39 42 45 30 - 36 38 42 ... 80 36 Old WHEAT, per qr. 601bs per bushel:— s. Suffolk, Essex, and Kent, red ... —to Ditto, white ... ••• Norfolk and Hunts., red ... Ditto, white ... •• Liacolnshire and Cambridge, red ... Ditto, white ... Yorkshire, red ... Ditto, white ••• ••• Dautzic and Konigsburg, white .. Lowerßaltic and Hamburgh, red... Mediterranean, red ... BARLEY, per quarter of 8 bushels:— Norfolk and Suffolk._ Lincolnshire and Yorkshire •• Scotch ••• ••• ••• • .•• Grinding per 80 stone Foreign ••• ••• ••• —•— BEANS, per quarter of 8 bushels 631 b : Small, fine ... ... 28 9 26 —2i Ticks •••• 26 28 25 27 Foreign ..„ 24 26 OATS, per stone:— Mealiug . Od to 01 9.1 to 101 Feeding ... od to Od 8d to 9] Foreign ... ‘.• Od to Od 8d t o 91 SHELLIN4, per load of 2611 b —— 21 —22 MALT, per load of 6 imperial bushels —— 34 —36 PEAS, per Imperial Quarter Blue and white boilers Grey mid Feed 38 - 42 40 - 44 34 - :?8 22 - 25 23 - 26 23 - 23 20 - 23 II • • VALS. • • Church.—(Hear.) I found that my Right Honourable Friend (Sir J. Graham) entirely coincided with me in this view; and I may mention to the House that this agree ment was arrived at without the least concert or communi cation with each other. Since we parted towards the close of the last session of Parliament I have had no communica tion whatever upon any subject with my Right Hon. Friend. Though living in a distant part of the country, 1 witnessed the excitement which prevailed throughout England on this subject. I thought, however, that the alarm and indigna tion which prevailed so generally were unfounded and irra tional. I certainly felt no alarm myself. I had no inclina tion towards feelings of indignation, but rather towards con tempt.—(Hear, hear.) But when I saw at public meetings persons attending whom I could not have expected to find there, and sentiments expressed which gave me equal sur prise, I became more curious to know what was the opinion of my Right Hon. Friend, and of others with whom I had been in the habit of acting, and for whose opinions I felt great respect. However, it appeared to me that this was not a subject upon which I could with propriety venture to ques tion my Right Hon. Friend, and in point of fact, until the day before the meeting of Parliament, I had not the most dis tant conception of what his opinion was, 1 then found him, to my great satisfaction, in 211 points coinceding with me in the view I entertained. This, I may say, was the case with all those persons with whom I had formerly been connected in official life, and whose opinions I consider entitled to the greatest respect. Until the day before yesterday I was en tirely ignorant of the opinions, with one exception, of my former colleagues, and at this moment I am entirely igno rant of the opinions of some of them on this subject. I wish to state this to show, that whatever that opinion may be, it is not the result of any concert or communication with each other, and that it has been arrived at in a perfectly independent manner.—(Hear, hear ) It is true that the Noble Lord to whom was entrusted the formation of an Ad ministration did propose to us material alterations and moll ficat ions of the Bill to which I am now alluding. and to which we so decidedly objected. No doubt those alterations might have removed some of our objections to the provisions of the measure itself, but it. is obvious that such alterations must have excited great disapprobation and disappointment among all those who represented the popular feeling upon this sub ject, and who were so much excited in hostility to the pro ceedings of the Court of Rome, while at the same time the very remnant of the Bill would have been equally regarded as penal, unjust, and offensive by the great body of her Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects. We therefore felt that it was impossible for us to make ourselves parties to a measure from which we could not anticipate any good, and from which we thought we had reason to apprehend very many and serious evils.—(Hear, hear.) On the failure of the attempt of the Noble Lord to firm an Administration, her Majesty was pleased to send for me, and to request me to undertake that task. My Lords, lam fully aware of my own deficiencies, and however unable I should be at any time, and especially at such a difficult moment as the pre sent, to conduct the affairs of this great empire in such a manner as her Majesty's subjects have a right to expect, nevertheless there were circumstances in the actual condition of the country which might possibly have led me to make the attempt. But, with the knowledge I possessed that a measure of penal legislation had bees introduced into the House of Commons, with the consent of a great majority of the Members of that House, and believing, as had reason to believe, that a majority as large of your Lordships in this House entertained the same views upon the subject,your Lord ships will not be surprised to learn that I humbly entreated her Majesty to permit ins to decline the task which her gracious favour would have imposed upon me. I felt that, in the pre sent state of matters, it would have been perfectly hopeless in me to attempt to enforce those views which I entertained and from which I was determined not to recede, because I felt that I could be no party to any cause which I believed would tend to kindle the flame of religious discord through out the country, and increase the religious animosities and bitterness that unfortunately already prevailed. I entertain a confident opinion that a great change will, at no distant period, take place in the public sentiment—(Hear, hear)— and whether it shall be so or not, I trust your Lordships will give me credit for the sincere convictions—(Hear, hear) —and fur the deep sense of duty under which I acted. I trust your Lordships will believe that nothing would have in duced me to follow the course I adopted had I not been con vinced that I acted according to. the dictates of the soundest principles of wisdom and of justice.— (Hear, hear.) Lord STANLEY—It now becomes my duty to avail my self of this the earliest opportunity with which I have been favoured of explaining to your Lordships the transactions in which I have been engaged, and on which I was precluded from making a statement when I addressed your Lordships on Monday last, from want of the permission of her Majesty. I must commence the statement I am now permitted to make at a period antecedent, though not much, to that to which my Noble Friend beside me referred. A great portion of her Majesty's late advisers having come to the determina tion to. resign their office in the course of Friday last, the Cabinet anticipated the concurrence of those members of the Administraticn who were absent, and, the assent of the Noble Marquis opposite, who was not then in town, having been received, on Saturday morning a formal announcement was made to her Majesty that the whole of her advisers had tendered their resignations; and her Majesty did me the honour of stating to me that, from the position in which I was placed, possessing the confidence of a large portion of those who took part in the proceedings of this and the other House of Parliament, she bad called on me to tender my advice with respect to the course most desirable to be pursued under the circumstances. I took the liberty of re questing to be informed upon what grounds her late advisers had resigned, and I learned from her Majesty that the grounds stated to her for that resignation were the same, in substance, as those which I believe were stated by Lord J. Russell in the other House of Parliament, and by the Noble Marquis opposite in your Lordships' House, that at no very distant period a motion brought forward by Mr. Disraeli with respect to the distress of the agricultural classes was negatived by so small a majority as to lead the Government to the conclusion that they did not possess that continued confidence of the House of Commons which was requisite to the administration of public affairs, when, on the even ing previous to the day on which the intention was formed of resigning, the Government was left in a minority on the motion of Mr Locke King, the majority of votes against them belt - 1z those of their own ordinary supporters, a great portion of the Protectionist party being absent on that occasion. I must stop to express some doubt, a doubt which is not inconsistent with entire respect for the Noble Marquis opposite, and the most entire conviction that the two circumstances re ferred to led ultimately and finally to the up-break and termination of the late Government. 1 must express my opinion, however, that they were not the only grounds, and I may he permitted to express the doubt whether they were the principal cause of the resignation.—(Hear, hear.) I cannot but think that the all-important question adverted to by my Noble Friend, the Noble Earl ( the earl of Aberdeen), in a manner and tone which did the utmost honour to his frankness in the sincere expression of his opinion —( Hear, hear)—l mean that mode of dealing with that utmost difficult question which is commonly known under the name of " the Papal Aggression "—had much to do with the resignation of her im.ajesty's late Go vernment. lam not in the secrets of that Cabinet. lam bound to assume that the Cabinet bad agreed to the measure to be proposed, and that the measure brought for ward was that whir h they intended to support. But I be lieve they saw before them, arising from that question, great difficulties on the one side and on the other—the state of Protestant feeling, on the one hand, which had been kindled by the letter of the Prime Minister, and which tended to drive matters to extremes, and on the other hand the feeling excited in the minds of a large portion of their own supporters, including even some immediate adherents of the Government—a feeling very much in accordance with the views of the Noble Earl (the Earl of Aberdeen) — to the effect that the question was one on which no legis lation was desirable, or ought to be sanctioned. I cannot divest my mind of the strong conviction that that question, and the difficulties which attended it, were in a great degree the cause why the late Cabinet came to the conclu sion that they were not able to carry on the government of the country. That feeling, I think, upon their part must (as we understood the Noble Lord, who was occasionally in audible) have been increased by the financial crotchets of the Chancellor of the Exchequer—(Hear, hear)—although undoubtedly the course which the late Government had taken was not such as to induce me to think that in ordinary circumstances so small a majority as 14 on a motion could be held by them a sufficient reason for resigning—(Hear, hear.) With those two serious difficulties staring them in the face— difficulties putting them in a posi tion in which they must forego their own convictions or forfeit the support of their ordinary adherents, and arising from the universal dissatisfaction produced by the Budget of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, I was not surprised that the occasion should be welcomed for resigning which was presented when they were left in a minority, the majority. consisting of persons of their own opinions. I took the liberty of doubting whether that defeat, with the small ma jority on Mr. Disraeli's motion, were the sole cause for the resignation of the late Cabinet. I ventured to state one or two facts to her Majesty in confirmation of that view. I hold in my:hand a copy of a portion of a letter which, by her Majesty's express command, after the interview with which I was honoured, I wrote to her Majesty for the purpose of placing on record the advice it was my humble duty to tender; and, with her Majesty's permission, I will read from that letter so much of the passages in it as shall tend to ex plain the force of the statement I make to your Lordships : " He adverted to the two occasions specified by your Ma jesty as the grounds of the resignation of your Majesty's servants, and observed with reference to the motion of Mr. Disraeli, that it bad been negatived, and, although by a sma ll majority, the minority were reinforced by a number of votes hostile to the Government on other grounds, and on whose general support Lord Stanley and his friends could not reckon ; and with reference to the majority on Mr. Locke King's motion, he observed" — And when it was stated that time Government had been de feated is consequence of the absence of opponents who, had they been present, would have voted against the measure as a dangerous and mischievous one, and on whose support the Government rested, it is right your Lordships and the coun try should know the fact. Mr. Locke King's motion for an to 54. extensioTh of ex hn te tract Par proceeds to liamentarranchise was carried by 100 es f ay.— " That of the minority of 54, 27 held office, only 10 un official supporters voted with the Government, and no less than 17 of the Protectionist party; who would have been more numerous but for an impression which undoubtedly prevailed that your Majesty's Ministers were not honestly exercising their influence to defeat the motion." I believe that; my friends in the House of Commons believe it ; and if they had found a disposition on time part of the Government to act otherwise they would have given it their generous and disinterested support. After adverting to the peculiar circumstances attending the dissolution of the late Ministry, my first statement to her Majesty was that, after the part I had taken in public after the opinions I had expressed— a ft er t h e expressions I had used—after the sanction I had given, and which, had I been a member of the other House, it certainly would have been impossible for me not to have given to that motion of Mr. Disraeli, respecting the distress among the agricultural classes', to which the attention of Parliament had been called in the Speech from the Throne, it was impossible for me, even had my convictions been less strong than they were, as an honest man, to take office without a full determination to deal with that distress, and endeavour as a Minister to afford effective measures of relief.—(Hear, bear, hear.) I stated, that if I could so far forget my self as to sacrifice my own honest convictions, the loss of honour that would be involved in such a course would make my services worse than useless.—(Hear, hear.) I said I had entertained, and did entertain, the opinion that it was the duty of the Go vernment, if it were impossible to do full justice, at all events to take steps towards mitigating the injustice under which the proprietors and occupiers of land were suffering.--( Hear, hear.) I did not bind myself to any specific measures, though, at the proper time I should not have shrunk from stating the specific measure I should have recommended ; but I did state that I should not take office on any condi tion except that of giving effect to my own conviction of the necessity of legislating for the relief of that class.— (Hear, hear.) I then proceeded to notice the condition of parties in the House i f Commons; and in the present pos ture of public affairs it is not unnecessary that your Lord ships and the country should fully know the position and relations of these parties. First, there is the party of he r Bibiesty'a Government and their adherents, with va- Coleman-strect• buildings; Blake and Poole, Black friari-road. Henry Smith, ironfounder, West Bromwicb, Stafford shire, March 13 and April 10, at twelve, at the Bir mingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Bir mingham; Robinson and Fletcher, Dudley; Woodward, Wednesbury; Knight and Emmet, Birmingham. William Hale, baker, Bishampton, Worcester, March 12 and April 1, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Work man, New, and Prance, Eversham; Reece. Birmingham. Thomas Carter, coal dealer, Stafford, March 10 and April 14, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham; Chal linor, Hanley, Staffordshire; Smith, Birmingham. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from returns made in the week ending Feb. 25, 1850. exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain:— From the British possessions in America 295. Od. per cwt From the Mauritius —d. „ From the East Indies ... 31s. 6d. „ Average price of the two foregoing de scriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as above, and exclusive of duty ... 295. 101 d. „ By authority of Parliament, HENRY RICK N ELL, Clerk of the Grocers' Company. Grocers'-hall, Feb. :28. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Feb. 28. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woo: sack at Five o'ckck. NEW PEER. Lord BROUGHTON (late Sir J. C. Hubhouse) took the oaths and his seat. COUN CY COURTS EXTENSION BILL. Lord BROUGHAM presented several petitions in favour of this Bill. NEW VICE CHANCELLOR'S BILL. On the motion of Lord LANGDALE this Bill was read a third time and passed. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE then rose amid unbroken silence. He said,—My Lords, when on Monday last it was my duty to address a few words to your Lordships I certainly did so in the confident expectation, and I may be permitted to add, so far as I am persenally concerned, in the sincere hope that it was the last occasion upon which I should be required to address you on behalf of those with whom I have been recently connected. Circumstances, however, compel me, from respect to your Lordships, again to address you with regard to matters that have occurred since that time, when I merely stated a fact which it was important f, r your Lordships to be acquainted with, viz., that at that time Lord J. Russell, my Noble Friend recently at the head of the Treasury; was, by command of her Majesty, engaged in an attempt to reconstruct the Administration of which he had been the head. My Lords, when I made that statement to the House Lot d J. Russell was engaged in that duty, and was in communication with a Noble Earl—a highly respected and distinguished Member of this House—and with a Right Hon. Baronet—also a tnost distinguished Member of the other House of Parliament—for the purpose of endeavouring to effect that reconstruction upon a larger basis than before. But I have now to state to your Lordships that before that night had closed this attempt of Lord J. Russell had failed. I will leave it to others to state the grounds upon which that failure took place ; I am anxious only to lay before your Lordships the facts in the order in which they occurred, and t state to you what is the present position of affairs. After the failure that evening of the attempt made by my Noble Friend Lord John Russell to reconstruct the Cabinet, a com munication was made to the Noble Earl (the Earl of Aber deen) to whom I have already alluded, for the purpose of as ceetaining whether he and his Right Hon. Friend (Sir James Graham) were iu a condition to undertake the formation of a Government. That application having failed, and see ing that the Noble Lord opposite (Lord Stanley) had in the conference with which he had been honoured by her Majesty only infor me d h er M a j esty t h at h e was not then, as I stated to your Lordships, prepared to undertake the construction of a Cabinet, her Majesty resolved upon again inviting the Noble Lord to construct an Administra tion, and the Noble Lord did not hesitate in those cir cumstances to make the attempt. Two days passed before the Noble Lord communicated to her Majesty his inability to succeed in that attempt. That communication needed not have been made perhaps till this very morning, from the circumstance of the adjournment of the House to this day. However, the Noble Lord naturally lost no time in commu nicating the fact to her Majesty as soon as he was enabled to do so, and this took place at a late hour yesterday afternoon. I myself this morning, by her Majesty's command, waited upon her Majesty, and I found that it was her natural de sire, in a state of things most novel and almost unprece dented in the annals of this country— after making every effort it was in her power to employ for the construction of a Government composed of those persons best qualified from their position to undertake such a task, and having failed in those efforts—that it was her desire to pause before she took further steps, and to obtain the advice and the opinion in this unforeseen contingency of a Noble and Illustrious Duke, one of the greatest ornaments of this House, one to whom on other occasions her Majesty has referred in moments of difficulty.--(Hear, hear.) That illustrious Duke is not at present in the House. He has been summoned to attend her Majesty, and in these circumstances I can only state my belief that this House will acquiese in the propriety of her Majesty's conduct in proceeding fully to inform herself before she takes further steps in this impor tant and delicate state of matters.—(Cheers.) I will leave it to others to add what they have a full right to do, and what the public may expect, —a full development of the views and motives by which they have been actuated, but I cannot sit down without expressing this, at least, that how ever much I may lament, as I do most sincerely lament, the result of these negotiations, there is at least one consolatory circumstance to me that has attended that result,—it is, that throughout all the differences, throughout all the difficul ties that have presented themselves in these negotiations, those difficulties and differences have in no one respect what • ever turned upon any personal considerations--( Hear, hear. ) —that it was the natural result of honest differences of opinion, connected with important principles, that created a bar in the way of those arrangements, but not a bar that could in the least diminish the personal respect and regard which the parties have hitherto entertained for each other. —(Hear, hear.) From my own knowledge, in reference to that part of the transactions in which I had the honour to take a part, I may be permitted to say thus much as to the manner in which the negotiations throughout were carried on by the Noble Lord opposite, and by the other noble and emi nent persons to whom I -have referred.—(Hear, hear.) I will only, before I sit down, endeavour to impress upon your Lordships, —not speaking upon my own behalf only, or in behalf of those bodies with whom I have been connected, but in behalf of all public men, of whom, unquestionably, great sacrifices of private ease and comfort may at particular times be justly required,—that there is one sacrifice they can never be called upon to make, because it is not only a sacrifice of themselves, but a sacrifice of the honour and dignity of the Crown—l mean that of a prolonged attempt, under any cir cumstances, to carry on the public business of this country without the promise of that amount of support which is in dispensable to all Governments for the purpose of enabling them to maintain the honour of the Crown, and to maintain and promote the efficient carrying on of the public service. Such a state of things, is my opinion, if prolonged, can never fail to be detrimental to the honour of the Crown, in jurious to the best interests of the country, and profitable only to those—not the most respectable class of politicians who, in such circumstances, find a consequence which does not naturally belong to them, and which they would not otherwise possess.—(Hear.) I feel strongly that if public men undertake to perform public duties, they ought to do so with the full prospect of discharging those duties with effect. —(Hear, hear.) I have now endeavoured to put your Lord ships in possession of the facts so far as known to myself. If I have omitted anything, there are parties in this House who will be able to supply the defect; in the meantime I have nothing further to communicate beyond the short statement which I have now had the honour to lay before your Lord ships.— (Hear.) The Earl of ABERDEEN—My Lords, the Noble Mar quis having stated the circumstances under which the fail ure of the negotiations entered into by Lord John Russell for the reconstruction of the Government have failed, it now is incumbent on me to explain to the House the motives for my conduct and the circumstances which led to the decision I thought it my duty to take. On Satur day morning, when the resignation of the Noble Lord and his colleagues took place, I bad the honour of being com manded by her Majesty to attend at the Palace. I did so on the evening of Saturday, and had the honour of an audience of her Majesty, at which I humbly expressed my readiness to co-operate in the reconstruction of a Government upon any conditions which should appear to be consistent with my own convictions and which afforded the prospect of getting public support. I subsequently, in her Majesty's presence, met Lord John Russell and my friend Sir James Graham, and after mutual explanations on the subject, similar to those which I have now stated, we met Lord John Russell on the following day. The Noble Lord communicated to us the basis of agreement on which the Government was to be constructed, and the principal measures he proposed to introduce. I think we received this communication from Lord John Russell be tween four and five o'clock on Saturday, and we should have proceeded at once to consider those propositions, but, having been detained late at the Palace that night, we reserved them for examination till the following day. On Monday, having made the necessary examination, we communicated to Lord John Russell our opinions on the subject. I need not enter into the various measures which were proposed for our adoption. Probably mutual explanations might have led ultimately to an agreement, as our differences were con fined exclusively to a single measure. I felt undoubtedly an invincible repugnance to adopt the measure of penal legisla tion towards the Roman Catholic subjects of this country, by the prohibition of the assumption of ecclesiastical titles, and indeed I objected to any legislation of this kind upon the subject.— (Hear, hear.) lam quite aware that this is not the proper occasion to enter into any full discussion of this subject. I hope that at no distant time we may have an op portunity of considering this question when it comes before us in a regular manner. I shall then be ready to express more folly the views and opinions which I entertain; but I must, at the present moment, state to the House the deep convictions and feelings which induced me to come to such a decision as I have stated, and which led to a result so im portant to the great interests of the country as the failure of the attempt with whi c h th e N o bl e Lord was charged. I felt, then, that this kind of legislation was very ineffective. It is difficult enough, at all times, by force of law to give a criminal character to acts in themselves indifferent, so as to secure the willing obedience of mankind; but when such acts are performed from a sense of duty and religious obliga tion your laws become dead,—conscience and opinion are be yond the sphere of your legislation.—(Hear, hear.) No doubt you may persecute, but we have had fatal ex perience of the effects of such a course. We have for two hundred years tormented, successfully and effectually tormented, the Roman Catholics, but nevertheless we have found that instead of reducing we have only increased the number of our victims.—(Hear, hear.) I thought I saw in this measure a retrograde step towards a system of law which I had hoped was for ever and utterly abolished. I believed that in the late proceedings which had taken place no law had been violated, unless it may have been—and that is doubtful —some one of those barbarous laws the text of which continues to disgrace the statute-book, but which had 'ong been obsolete, and which very recently had been stig matized by the Legislature itself.—(Hear.) But, though I felt persuaded that no violation of law had taken place, I was not the less sensitive to the arrogant tone assumed by the Roman Pontiff and his Cardinal, in the brief of the one and the pastoral letter of the other; and I felt that this might very properly have engaged the notice of her Ala jesty's Government, and even of Parliament. I saw, how ever, no sufficient ground for legislative interference w ith the view of abridging the religious liberty of our Ro man Catholic fellow-subjects, and of impeding the lawful and regular development and recognition of their Episcopal 26 - 28 25 - 27 Qrs. Rapeseed ... Shelling ... ... ... 633 Linseed .. Malt ... ... • • ... Flour ... ... ... EmuEa, FEB. 2 8.—Cattle Market—The supply has been moderate with a quiet demand. 1- annier— Turkeys, 5s 6d to 9s; ducks, 5s 6d per couple ; fowls, 3s to 4s 6d ditto ; galenas, 5s to 5s 6d ditto ; wild ducks 5s ditto ; teal, es 6d iditto; wid geon, 4s 6i ditto ; woodcocks, 6s ditto; snipes, Is 6d each; pigeons, is 9d to 2s per couple; roasters, 4s to 5s 6d each ; hares, 3s ; rabbits, 10d to Is; butter, Is 2d per lb; eggs, 18 to 20 for ls, Corn Exchange—The market has not been very fully attenued, and the ftrmers have been principally oc cupied in speculating . whether Lord Stanley will succeed in forming a Government, and if so, if they have any chance of protection. Wheat is about the same price as last week, 4s 6d to 5s Od per buthel. Foreign wheat has been offered by one or two factors, lout with little business doing. Polish Odessa, 37s to 38s per quarter ' • red French, 40 s per quarter, 60Ibs to the bushel; barley, 259 d to 3s Id per b us h e l ; oats,ls 10d to 2s; fine flour, 27s to 284 per sack of 2Voibs. SCARBOROUGH, FEB. 27.—New wheat 34s Od to Vs Od ; old ditto 42s to 44s per qr. of 40 stones; black oats 8d to 80, white ditto 81c1 to 9d per stone ; malting barley 22s to 245, grinding ditto 21s to 2.:s per qr. of 32 stones; superfine flour 32s to 365, seconds ditto, 24s to 27s per sack of 20 stones. w ETHuun . , F EN . 27.—White wheat 15s 6d to 17s 6d. red ditto 13s Od to 15s Od per load ; barley 2is Od to 28s Od per qr.; beans Its Od t0.14s Od per load ; oats 81c1 to I Oid per stone. RIPON, FEB. 27. —White wheat 5s to 5 s 9d, re d di tto 4s 6d to 5s 6d ; beans, 3s 6d to 4s Od per bushel ; barley 21s to 2tis; oats 16s Od to 215 per qr. NORTHALLERTON, FEB. 26.—Whit e w h eat, 5s Od to 5s 6d, red ditt o 4 1 3d to 4s f l / 4 1; oats I s 10d to 2 s 6d ; b eans , 3s Od to 3s 641; barley 3s (Id to 3s per bushel. KrfauEsßototiGH, FEB 26 . —Wheat 4s 9d to 5s 6d; beans 3s 9d to 4s 3d per bushel ; barley 24s to 283; oats, 17s to 20s per qr. BRISTOL SiIIIAR MARKET, FEL 28.—There has been rather more disposition shown this week to operate in our market, and the transactions since our last, both in West India and Mauritius, have been to a fair extent at about former prices. Refined is still dull. In rum no sales are reported. Bristol Mercury. INVERNESS, FEE. 2 5.—Wheat, per qr, weighing 621 b per bushel, 373 to 38s Od ; ditt o , o ld , we i g hi ng 621 b per bushel, 00s 04 to 003 Od; barley, per quarter, weighing 541 b per bushel, .21s to ON Od; oats, per quarter, weighing 421 h per bushel, 16s Od to 17s Od. Oatmeal, per imperial boll, 15s Od to Os Od ; ditto second, 14s Od to Os Od ; barley meal, lls 8d to' Us Od ; peasemeal, 12s Od to Os Od ; bran, per atone, Os 6d to Oa Od ; first flour, per 2801 b., 33s Od to 353 t d ; second ditto, 261 Od to 28s Od ; oatmeal, best, per stone of 141 b imperial, is 6d to Os Od; ditto second, Is 4d to Os Od; barley meal, Is 2d to Os Od ; peasemeal, is 4d to Os Od; first flour, 2s 4d cash, 2s 8d credit ; second ditto, 2s Od cash, 2s 3d cre dit. Potatoes per stone, 4d to sd; beef, per pound, 4d to 63; veal, 4d to 5d ; mutton, 4d to 6d ; pork, 3d to 4d ; fowls, each, 12dto 15d; chickens, per pair, I2d to 16d ; ducks, each, Od to 03; eggs, per dozen, 6d to 7d ; butter, fresh, per Ib, 9d to Od; ditto, salt, 8d to 10d ; croudie (curds), 2d to 20 ; four-pound loaf, cash, 5d to 6d ; ditto. credit, 50 to 6d; coals, per cwt, 9d ; hay, per stone, 7d to 8.1. OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON RAILWAY. (Continued from our Third Edition of last night.) After some further conversation of a desultory nature, The question of the adoption of the rep )rt was then put and carried by a large majority. Captain BULKELEY demanded a poll, but ultimately withdrew his demand, and entered a protest against the arrangement with the North-Western Company as il legal. The forfeiture of 1,494 shares was then confirmed. Major Tyndale and Mr. • Je.ssel were re-elected d rectors, and Mr. Tamlyn an auditor of the company. Mr. Alderman Tllomrsox moved the following resolu tion : " That it is the opinion of this meeting that it is most essen tial at this particular juncture, for the due protection of the interests and independence of this company, that measures should be forthvilth take.n to secure ten directors to represent the shareholders. of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver hampton Company proper, and who may have time and health to apply themselves to the business of the com pany." Mr. CAPEL seconded the motion, and it was carried unani mously. Mr. Alderman yit9eirsoN moved a vote of thanks to the chairman, which was carried with acclamation ; and His Lc:liftman-having acknowledged the compliment pro ceeded to take leave-, of the company, and concluded by read ing a letter from Mr. Brunel, the engineer, requesting to know what his futurd position with reference to the company should be; and whether he were to continue to remain their engineer. It was resolved that prompt attention should be paid to the subject of the letter, and the meeting separated. EASTERN COUNTIES. Yesterday the shareholders assembled at the London Tavern, to receive the result of the poll on the question of adjournment. Shortly after 4 o'clock, the time appointed, Mr. Glynn, the deputy-chairman, took the chair. Mr. Box, one of the scrutineers, handed in the result of the scrutiny. The CHAiamAN said that before he proceeded to read the document whichliad been handed to him he wished to inform the meeting that there were two gentlemen present who were desirous„ of entering into some explanation- . namely, Mr. Maynard, the solicitor to the company, and Mr. Geach, who demanded the poll; and after hearing their statements and the result of the poll the whole of the busi ness for that day would be concluded. He wished to add, that none of the Nexies in the hands of the directors were used on this occasion.—( Hear, hear.) A legal objection had been taken to some of the proxies, which could he explained by the solicitor. Hocould state that if the directors had chosen to use the proxies placed in their hands they would have carried the day, Mr. MAyNann bong called upon to explain how the proxies stood, said the directors were of opinion that the proxies in their hands, should not be used on that occasion. There was no connexion between the proxies he now alluded to and those in theli hands to be used at the special meet ing. They were quite distinct, and of course the proxies for the special meeting conic' not be used at the ordinary gene ral meeting. A large number of proxies were given to Mr. Geach; there were 'stlsoi proxies sent to the chairman, and also to Mr. Ellis, a inentber of the board. Objections were made to a large nunAeg,of the proxies on technical grounds, which, if sustained; would have caused their rejection. The opinion of counsel ifid been taken as to the great bulk of these proxies, and it was held that they could not be re jected. It appeared the objections taken rested upon the fact that a great number of the shareholders who gave the proxies had neglected to put their residences in addition to their names on them. There were objections to others which could not hold, and it was found that none of the objections could be sustained to any extent. Mr. GEACH thought it right to state that he had not u se d the proxies in his posse ss i o n, although, if used. they would have reversed the present state of the poll. The question of adjournment was put to the meeting the day before, and the chairman declared, on a show of hands, that the motion was negatived ; a poll was then demanded and subsequently with drawn, afterwards another motion to the same effect was put and declared to be carried. In consequence of this he (Mr. , Geach) demanded a po ll , b u t when he went into the room where the votes w ere b e i ng recorded, he found that the large shareholders were taking a different course to that adopt e d by himself; and as thi s was a m atter of opinion rather than of judgment, he did not like to put himself in opposition to the shareholders at large; and he, therefore, made up his mind not to vote on the question. In order to maintain this position he bad fortified himself with legal opinions, showing that he had the power in his hands to have altered the posi tion of the votes of the meeting . .—(Hear , hear. ) The CHAIRMAN then read the result of the poll, from which it appeared there were in favour of the motion for ad journment 173 persons, holding 432, 590 /. of stock , represent ing 6,078 votes. The number of persons against the motion was 83, holding 201,2301. of stock, representing 2,802 votes. There was a majority, therefore, of 9') persons, .231,360/. of stook, and 3,%76 vot e s. The Chairman then said it was his duty to declare that th e m eeting stood adjourned to the 18th of March next. The shareholders then separated. THE LONDON GAZETTE, Feb. 28. BANKRUT 1 S. John Whitehead, John Whitehead jun., and George Wyatt, rectifiers, Princes-street, Lambeth, to sur render, March 11, a t t wo , and April 15, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane ; Michael, Red Licn-equare. Daniel Odell, grocer, Clophill, Bedfordshire, March 11, at one, and April 11, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee; 'Tinder and Eyre, John-street, Bcdtorl-row; Austin, Shefford, Bedfordshire. Thomas Seymour Dickinson and Robert Cooper Dic kinson, warehousemen, Gresham-street, City, March 10, , at two, and April 5, at eleven, at the Court of Bank.. ruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings ; Ashurst and Son, Old Jewry. Mary Aatle, Joseph Thomas Astle, George Astle, and Charles Astle, bookbinders, Coleman-street, City, Mar c h 8, at one, and April 14, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall street ; Gregson and Kewell, Angel-court, Throgcnor ton-street. William Brown, engineer, Brunswick-street, Stara_ ford -street, March 7, at half-past eleven, and April 3, at one, at the Cou►t of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, great rious gradations of opinion among themselves, with _cell differences of opinion, I may go so far as to say, he" tions the various, sections, those diff erences and ""ailace being still further increased by that w hich had takenal o tm_st on a recent occasion, and led to the formation of another party,-viz, the Irish Roman Catholic party; be another the p ar ty with which I had the honour a beingtc 0. nected, numerous, no doubt, yet an undoubted mini i t t y o t . the House of Commons, comprising men of . oa , n_,. fortunately containing hardly more than one indivfid u!,'.! political experience and versed in the transactions on.V.": business. But there is a third party in the Housebet. le°"' i e , bet mons, not indeed in gvey extensive theoint of Lum. mean most important respect to ability anni w atea n experience of a great pertion of its members, 1 late Sir that small part which adhered to the policy of the 0 „ ... , e Robert Peel. I had to look to the composition of _ v"r a of Commons, and particularly to the formation of is () _ d u eet Government as should be able permanently to con an public affairs,-for nothing can be more mischieve 0 s . , a constant changes in the Government, or the accessiso _f ily Ministry one day which has the prospect of being thel).7'4 de removed from office, to the great disturbance of ss publ ic the interests. To proceed with the extract -I lay stre .f o . the words, because they are not unimportant as evinai't ol y whole scope and tenor of the advice w hich I thoug; _ re , duty to offe r , and of which some misconstruction ba . l' be veiled. The Noble Marquis will remember that, sf.ne,°„oo made his statement on lionday, I forebore to noticeetsnrio_Zed expression fell from him to which, had I not been 0 r ev tC ase as I was, I should have adverted ; and, - ,1 to th e of Parliament, I understand a statement was ma nn Russ ell effect that the representation given by Lord Jobn_ ette d to was certainly not intentionally incorrect, but vetet,effeteeee convey an inference which was not justified. The !!` ee d t he which seemed to be conveyed was, that I had abamnrde to t expectation of being able to form a Government. t. i .. , yo ur mean to say that such expressions were used e ; ife",' ela s s ot in the otb es, Lordships will see with what qualification th sn hts• ought to have been accompanied. After leaving as' 1 c he jesty that day, I did not return immediately ing n b t, f o und not reach my own house till seven o'clock, and Il i no ia a note from her Majesty, desiring that I abou.oon!,bit writing the advice I had given. The letter menti s " pa " sse the 00 After stating to your Majesty the p osition o o d, main parties into which the House of Commonosf . „r 151,10 Lord Stanley observed that the policy of the pre9r.,„ or cot nistration had met with the general approval and support to the most distinguished men of the party which actl°,4lll the late Sir R. Peel, and that they had never yet In t . c.:00. defeat from Lord Stanley's political friends; that ve n utshe l l portent member of that party, Sir J. Graham , be 4," f old t i he. i.. 0 4 declared his opinion of the necessity of ' closing to resist the presumed polity of Lord Stanley's fr . .en u t i a 't tis as your Majesty had been pleased to inform 111 ,m... t o 0 0 communication had been made to any one previc7l t our with which your Majesty honoured him, he Te e nt e u i r d ascee gest that in the first instance your Majesty sol e % e woe,' whether it were not possible to strengthen the Ise"le pea or partially to reconstruct it, by a combination wl i _l' oe s of who, not now holding office, concurred in the 01; 0 001, those who do, arid profes:ed , their opinion of th e on e; of union ; that, failing such a combination, a P . !. 12 Lora that third party might be willing to combine _'erestlf Stanley, whose difficulties in such a case woald.ueep t hee diminished; that if it should appear that both auat tepee siderations stood in the way of the arraegements were impracticable, and if ! re4 o e vao e vernment of those whose opinions appeared to pre tiog tli House of Com Mons, Lord Stanley, no t u nder: B 4 ooe would, if honoured with your Majesty's extreme difficulties which he should have to It:defer formal° el O tbs Whir suds the any responsibility, and even the chance of confideneg.word t he of reputation, to that of leaving your MaiestYear?' yo . ,`H ed country without a Government-(Loud cries o t on lc with and he added that he believed an Adminietra-i_et under such circumstances would be more likely, to wa s tbs° support, even from moderate opponents of their. 1 , 1 ... , time to one which should be hastily formed, without gal' , , show the impracticability of a different arrangtoridi fi e st,l e " thing b u t my Though advising that other means should be trt . e e . Ats t ins when called on by my Sovereign I did not in L'l e , e yerr stance hesitate to express m readiness to Pert. to s ee her Majesty.-(Hear, hear.) Jam conscious of otblhins ea honour for theypurpose of atteroPtiegincel of my own conduct and motives. I trust your L ' reuse t° be of opinion that I have shown no undue esigr)opeyout grasp at power.-(Cries of " Hear, hear.") "i ao tiv.e it will give me credit for being actuated bY give me credit for not shrinking from vo ~,,, o , Will personal ambition. I hope, on the other han d, ibiliti which would properly devolve upon Me en e n has bee t the r P u p o u sa e public man in the difficulty to which the Qat the risk of reduced, of tendering nay best services even l o t s.- ( I ' ll failure and the loss of personal reputat ..., wing_ cheers.) I hope I have satisfied your LordshiPs t hat , t o accepted that important duty, I applied ra Y be ir s e t n Odes th. of the accomplishment of the task I bad nderta...l while I did not shrink from encountering the r oo ster al' forming a Government, immense as they In ti . S _ A t o f s011„ I fs• the circumstances, there was no undue Per'"" a Mau" produced by carrying on the attempt to forts S famed we tration.-(Cheers.) On Tuesday her MajestY ta • istrati on 4 , eon ,„ that Lord John Russell had failed to form an 0 ", " w ill Oa .; in conjunction with the pa t which I hope it g er file t/ thought offensive if I call ther Peelite parte': : ted bsd 0 e" curred-and of time pledge that in the reminded me that the occasion I had snt le :P l e t e its e' ecii s; rence, I should not hesitate. I could not hes'. Th ods t. manner to answer ; and from Tuesday Morniegbto bi I's t he ° - • ec t be Ins I earnestly endeavoured to accomP ;eared ill , the position of parties to which I have utmost 01 House of Commons it became a matter of the withou t ssC _ ante, if it were practicable that I could do 6° tion ors/ tieing political consistency, to obtain the co.operilne.piev, bad of those who, generally aCting'en Conser"tffverePncesi o f li 4 yet been separated by the unfortunate di t be frank in e' 1 riots - . fore i g n from the great Conservative art P Y• • wall the be ing that I saw great difficult in dealing . Ascertain affairs of the country; and I y deavoured so - - . 11 wilting to en Id be et ' . ercfs ed ther my Noble Friend above me won , e h e ea eto undertake the duties of that de artment, hic. b 00 00 b with so much credit to himseltpand with so a nt e c o ting Icit : I ),i ltstatesmen themselves, ,a nboi io.or to et) . the county •, • 3 , or, whether he and those who %Te r i' s ,. a ny P.. 00 him, of would remain in that unfortunate position emeeinsl!ng other of two conflicting parties. Y e n tly, W 1 the. b to e im their . . ability, power, and influence, of only '-:- nossiblee formation of a Government, on either side, 01-n05501e (Cheers.) The reply of my Noble Friend wa s ge r eate 13 , es ee r ' language of the most sincere friendsbip-se s o ee - 1 from the Earl of Aberdeen) -each as I have O r •: st soce i tamed for him ; but l ' give eses the 110 ,R l itia • he could not - • d 'n i'" he required. I had conferences • h rious trien s 1 t 'Wog the :ether House of Parlanwitl lutes in obtai rind co-operation of some Parliament. 1 bad de ar dou o kt , Aep erte be most able to carry on the business r L. ," t r co! meats. I sin not at liberty to g Barna U'aillt 1 Neble Friend now ill allow me to say,ieb! never felt anythin g more eon: pl w than the terms in ! .. . P s ale nefpressed his readiness to h e- y the responsibilitY 'aid gibe ste;ing a departmentassume office, elf for which t , . ber.) . e . found him p culisrly well qualified. --sues " to O rly ose folio% • ti following day Mr. Gladstone was expected . , 110 S h e d 0 of f loe n glit it desirable to obtain the co-operation M ao : lie et acted w i th of so able, honest, an d u pright u t : _„, r eer, a with the intermediate party to which 1 " s ' app osten s t„ but •in contradistinction to that party be 113 ' 1 0 0 co nii , u one e m a o c tion for the relief of agricultural distrees. ri nd n e , e t ,, / ing with Mr. Gladstone, I found that ,be c e e istrat7; t o' se sistenrly with his views take part in an Ala": the ''''' II was thus deprived of all extraneous assistance 10_,.. en tire le tion of a Government, and I was compelled to rni, e litis_',. on that party with whom I was immediately ao u .g e r e iv . % connected, and among whom, as I stated before , ";!. bb few if any men posse: sod of sufficient experisne,,, / thir e, of peblic business. I found some, and tbose 11:le"oliece,11..0o, f well qualified to discharge the duties of pub . , ll „e me gic) i ti rom various causes, one from the pressure of e "," el en s'lsd corns, another from an undue depreciation ot °l. e ta, e go - 0 e their o h fiii the situation in which I proposed to place h.,roto tnrevisit, eirunwillingnese to join an Achninistration. ~ of e n t ee fur leading individuals I received that expresswhiag to ws § lingness. Under housesthee circumstances, and e r t he tin° 0 a position of the of Commons, I thouguti fo llow 0 . come for a decision as to w hat course I B boulu i bo d 0 esses ty, e es eteln Tuesday, when I had an audience of her Am , t he e a s y dertaken, by 11 o'clocke • to st.e' e Teste' - ate this morning.. wing. eeoe•- s.ion of the experiment I was engaged in niess , t hose ' ee nt afternoon there met at my house a portion o r r a elis. a d Friends . and those friends in the other Nouse of Pe who had consented to take part if the 69v ee e ens t he a g n o ( n t e on; and the whole state of the case i v r " - ex pres e .ole deliberately considered hy them. An d ', e 00 /I- tf I g v e n n e e n ra l l concurrence of their views, as well ss n i t ; b e e get " s o say, that thouh I was able to present t .eat , „ow a list of the names of gentlemen who were coMP el e•tabli sod el assured majority in the House of Comma trcriet •,, the reputably to 6efn conduct the business of the coon e e i a lly 1- fs ce not lay other re her Majesty a Cabinet, more eesPe't ink sbo House o of Parliament, so strong se to d., to 0 01 set of a most for purposes of majority, a majority unableready to 1 ta sds of opposition, though s together for Cheers./ isb t° ' purposes of government. ---4 •b I l i ' tbs a statement to her M s eeic o n A , ajesty, further, to placer to o refer, because ' misrepresentations bare tal ce 4 • e sty A 6 CO I subject.tba At the first interview with her l g res pect % Ministry difficulties would be very great withivaid be: i 0s under any circumstances, and tneeable tim e a l , ed to the necessity of sitting a very eemmite, veben s or minority in presence of a powerful man or " poss ible, tiro the state of public business it was n° love r ec f.nolf would I venture to advise her Majesty to ,o IP - o pecan a t be to a dissolution of Parliament. I state this , he t tb., that an impression has prevailed that I bad f 1 , 90 0, sig we ot Majesty would give me the power of disson.b"at Ste; b o p t _her Majesty refused.-(Hear, hear.) For ' oa r.) : 00 A I here is not a shadow of foundation.-(He 11 to it i , e ,, ifi- eive II know . my duty to the Sovereign too we' ought pledge in a matter on which no Sovereign he ot her . 10 . , pledge.-( Hear, hear.) lam confident, 0 0 t, to o hie et c that her Mejesty knows too well, and r e pen a fused an {al the mutual obligations which subsist let ba ys r e ce to Ode tional Sov • ereign and constitutional advisers lien 00 the . to me or to any Minister honoured with /a m .net oo tke ordinary power intrusted to a Minister' sta te Ot t to rised on the part of her Majesty distinctly t° , holding ° p - ocl 0 person would be justified . in sang or °l e - re oin ° l - 1, Vs believe that if I had felt it my duty 1'",,; c ollo, - ,., S ite dissolution of Parliament the consent seug",o" would 0 been withheld.-(llear, bear.) But in t" es ence -of which we should have been placed, i n the Pr majority, col, „ditioa eri do „ hostile public business being unadvisable, as it is on cou ld - o f at this time, we came to the conclusion that ive ' b u sibeilv such a state of things carry satisfactorily he bet on before 'di. the country; and it became my duty to lay d go sc he k, jesty the resignation of the trust she had honottreuva o'o„,7th That resignation I gave yesterday evening' e t ;ea tions 'Joe Ihave only to say that, as far as my Co , her Maest have gone, nothin g eed the e " -- rl v g can exc f man tle 1 and graciousness of manner, and more than 0 Ait 01 lam which any communications or advice I might fi" d t hat , to tender to her se, • listened to; And feeher r 1 ajesty have been.„ ith .....a he r• deeely i grateful for the kindness I have met " ea t 0 1 .! - ble of gratitude which only raids to my regret t. . 0 00 8, vices should have been rendered unavailing hYtiaey op e• make of common circumstances. I have no complaint to of I t wi o 1 r , , vi ae by no act of my friends in• the House • t 0 that the late Administration failed.-( Hear, hes . t2 Aj osio , from their own increasing weakness. or fronl,tfegr," besi; which prevailed among their supporters.--(ll,ete to se ;t t s When they did fail, I hope I felt no undue anxie t y ve; eo upon the tiffioes they had held. Entirely- cow - er s ecro7i o the Noble Marquis in his remark, that Whate V a plied might. fairly and reasonably be deinanded frot n ee n eeps t se man he ought, under present circumstances, to I .' . r to On:. to make, yet, as it would be impossible to atteMPt'vritho ',' length of t nn e v osist enb on the business of the country for any the support of a majority in Parliament, I felt relievedit iron; with my duty humbly to request to be ovoidoot, if, I en e ti taking upon me the duties of office which e clerstu - a in any long period, have conducted. (So we II • , he ar r etiy % trey- Noble Lord, who was occasionally very imper.e asi nd t° r the the gallery, in consequence of his turning ro b enc hes as t • himself to the Noble Lords on the Oppositr'n Lord - upper end of the House.] There is one point to wil Min be allowed to refer, in justice totter Majesty and to i. i eh gal Russell. I have already contradicted one report refusalvi' tn d be exceedingly prevalent, with regard to the allege epee in es her Majesty to accede to a dissolution of Parlianti;, ot ipi. event of toy Adylog outh g step. Such *dyke , I ""' ".If= , 44- x 74°' • S° 10 Ilt ,