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DIRECT LONDON AND PORTSMOUTH RAILWAY. n_ T he Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from 'ne promoters of competing railways to the Direct London rd Portsmouth line, and praying to be heard by counsel be fore the Select Committee as a competing line against the rett Lond on an d P or t smou th R a ilw a y Bill. The Noble ta!Ae moved that the petition be referred to the Select Com ittee on the Bill, w hi c h was a g reed to after a short discussion D UBLIN AND GALWAY RAILWAY.—REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE.—PRIVILEGE. Lord BATHURST said he had been directed, as the Chair mu of ; of the Committee appointed to inquire into the charges brought against the Dublin and Galway Railway Company, to call the attention of the House to their report. The Committee had met and considered the petitions which had been referred t ° them, had heard counsel, had examined witnesses in aaPport of the allegations in the said petitions, and had arrived at the opi n ion, that most systematic frauds had been usedo for th e purpose o f o b ta i n i ng th e necessary num b er ' s gnatures to the subscription contract. No pra ter attention had been paid to the letters of al tb"tent. Names had been inserted without the consent of e.parties, an d l etters had been sent to country postmasters. With a req uest t h at t h ey m i g h t b e returne d to L on d on t h roug h ta Post -office. It also appeared that 2.50/. were to be pa d to Perso n on his not bringing certain charges against the Com e:Y, and 500/. more on the Bill passing the Standing Orders' Inmittee. The subscription contract did not amount to nreesfourth s of the estimates. The result of these de liberations had induced the Committee to express entire concurrence in the report of the Committee, and that the reduction in the amount of deposits last session, by the House of Commons, had given a faci ity to frauds like those mentioned i n t h e i r report . U n d er a ll t h ese c i rcumstances , !,;',ey had come to t h e dec i s i on not to i nquire f urt h er i nto t h e mill without further directions from the House. The E ar l o f BESBOROUGH sa id t h e report was a pecu li ar l ir , and he thou g ht it b e tt e r to give a notic e r es p ec tin g it. s e Should t h erefore move to-morrow t h at t h e Bill b e no rurther proceeded with. Lord BROUGHAM said he had no .r to state, that having brought forward a statement with regard to the privileges so the House, that he had seen a statement giving an e xplanation with respect to the report of the newspaper in q u estion, and th a t th e i r L or d s hip s oug ht no t now t o ca ll th e reporter before the House, or proceed against the editor of that newspaper. The Noble Earl opposite would forgive him yr lC , he s a id that he never intimated that he wished to do so. • "QS' had had too much experience on matters of that sort, and be thought it better to leave him (Lord Brougham) as the ag grieved party to proceed at law by means of a criminal Inf ormation, if he wished to adopt that course. No doubt he ,old prosecute ; it was no excuse whatever that the matter occurred in the House of Commons, but he had to state tt at it a PPeared the statement was made and was published in moth r ne wspaper, against which he might proceed, if he pro- roded at all--namely, the Morning Chronicle, as it ‘ , 141 published the ame speech in the same words. e morefore should have proceeded against both, or agains H t neither. But he had seen a statement in both of these papers Purporting to be this—that the same individual Member of the other House who was represents(' to have made this un rt speech, which no person would pretend tc ex anate—that some person was made to say in the ! tr ite paper, that what he was represented to have said was wader an entire misapprehension of the facts—that he was not P r esent in the Select Committee of their Lordships' House, as, tt °t being a member, he could not be, and that he had been r4 ialed by the information which he had received.—( Hear. The sam e individual had stated that the evidence to which he a d referred, h a d no reference to the evidence of Mr. Parkes, b at ,to some other person, which showed that the form a • lion this individual receives' was entirely incorrect, ft ''' . there was no other evidence which was not taken down and t r i e l Ported to their Lordships, but that of Mr. Parkes. Now, he believed, lime individual was stated to have said, and, _ believed, correctly, that he was exceedingly sorry that his language had given pain to any persons, but the e l r "IY pain it had given him was being inducead to speak upon I ' d to bring the matter before their Lordships. Well, but be regrett e d i t, and that being the case he ( Lord Brougham) ~a s wo he was anticipating the decisi,,n of their Lordships t ,nell he suggested that they should rot proceed further with matter.—( Hear, hear). It would then still be open for bra, to prosecute the publishers of the libel, because it was no P ro tection f or ;th em even if th e l a nguage had b een s p o k en 4 P arliament. He could not conceive that the House ot Coin res,holding the doctrine of priv,lege so high. could have allowed aPsech to have passed t nnotived hath; y heard it, but he tostill more surprised at the statement that rise House had al :wed hour a to pass away after reading what appeared in the massee before anything was said about it. He could not is Lfe believe for one moment that the s atement s ,e in the newspapers had the least foundation in b e ‘ t " , namely, that nobody got up to complain of what had i i Z h printed as having been spoken in their presence—that i ,,,dY got up to comlain of the grossest libel that was ever C t u'ished having been spoken in the House of Commons till e in the day, when the party who uttered it voluntarily got 6 1) o explain it away. The House ought to have at once, and i s ",°elteveri they did, on their first meeting, take the matter tIo their serious consideration, and he could not conceive it posetble that they could have acted in the way represented by p rt ewspapers. One of the papers had to-day ventured to blish another libel upon him The Morning Chronicle was ;sod to say this morning that he had rendered a great Lj ri ' l l ee to the public in throwing out the Dublin and l o ,:""Y Bill, which he was supposed to hare done. r had acted unfairly in prejudicing the Bill be „ere acting upon the Committee. Now, there never was h eY t hing more gross, nor more slanderous than this, and n „ e Said it was a most flagrant breach of privilege. He would ii,"ttjhowever, appeal against it, but leave it in their Lord:hips' Ai n ". How could he prejudgo the Bill when he was not a I ,i"nher of the Committee, nor had he ever had any thing to do th t he sz Bill, further than inspiring into certain allegations for St the promoters ; nor, in fact, had it been yet thrown out— ti,t had not been reported on to that etreat by the Committee. shlitc s rPed before he concluded, he might be allowed to say one at u pon the subject of Members of Parliament holding $ i l l's in a railway company, and being allowed to vote for its c s , 18-37, he induced their Lordships to adopt a most i .,„",a•l'Y standing order—namely, that no Peer should have a t ,, s 'ing to do with a Railway Committee who had any con ii:"°4 whatever with the railway in question ; and he trusted e T sar ne rule was carried out in the other House of Parliament. in he Earl of WICKLOW remarked that on the former even. he suggested that it would be necessary to take steps to • t h,.e publisher and reporter of the libel to their Lordships' 4 4 4' ° at a Noble Duke opposed it, on the ground that those yiduals would have to answer questions which might cri ,ge• n w !'e themselves. Now that was the last object he had in e h a • His o bj ect was t o g ive the Noble Lord an opportunity of s a i ii n ging the s u bj ec t f r om one of privilege to one of a cri ital c haracter.—The matter then dropped. L U NCORN AND PRESTON BROOK RAILWAY. - r o s t , or d CA MOYS brought up the report of the Select Com prozed.on this Bill, who had found that the preamble was not Lord St MONTEAGLE would suggest to the House that some beitp,;seharoiunli: be taken on the subject of swearing witnesses of GPs should lway Committees, instead of the present absurd mode witnesses after their testimony was given. i n t 'e Duk e of WELLINGTON said that some measure was L er " "Inplation on the subject. s s i til e rd CAMPBELL said the Commons ought to swear , pi ed es ses bef ore th e i r own Comrdtter •s. Witnesses had there 1 ati ge,4 th emselves to facts wh i c h even un d er t h e sanct i on o f oath they would be most, jealous to revoke. t 0 , 4 -r E NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. Pros e BROUGHAM moved a resolution that an address be pk al ated to her Majesty, praying that she would be graciously bai g h ed t° give directions that the New Houses of Parliament t he rea d y by the beginning of next session. olc s erd WHA RN CLIFFE opposed the motion. It was quite t a i ti r ed that though a temporary accommodation might be ob tog the inco nven i ence o f twin s surrounded by workmen k b a elsturbed b y no i se wou ld more th an coun t er b a l ance an y L nt a s Res whi c h t h e accommo d at i on m i g ht a ff or d. P r i e °r ° C AMPBELL should support the motion of his Noble Postponed Th e fi n i s hi ng o f t h e H ouses o f P ar li ament wou ld b e Tr h '°alid to th e G reek K a l en d s. C'mop e Duke of WELLINGTON begged that their Lordships haratltrecollect th a t t hi s was t h e H ouse o f L or d s an d a l so t h e bes s ,: e r of Parli amen t. Th ere mu s t be a c om m u n icati o n igcvon two Houses, and also care must be taken that no °P en ' enience would arise to her Majesty when coming to Lo and prorogue Parliament. Isc es r d CAMPBELL explained. He did not mean that her t o lt7 should be inconvenienced in the slightest degree. addles SUDELY SUDELY could not concur in the propriety of the sa nos _ • It would materially interfere with the future ar- Vallnts of the New Houses. d re : Earl of WICKLOW wou ld g i ve hi s vote f or t h e ad be of his Noble Friend. If they did not do so, they would Fri 4 that House his tioLusg "Id Persevere i saw n it. HROUGHAIM nothin whatever in the objec een c s wh ich were ra i se d against .his motion. A great deal had ,raid in &oral s reference to the inconvenience which the Law kt ould sustain by the noise of the masons who would be iler g w o ark ,,outsid . e, but they were quite willing to tin lase that risk of that noise ; for he was quite oErpr clamour,_( the noise made inside would drown all t o he 'Lamour.—( A laugh.) If any inconvenience would arise bio)Vlajesty in the opening of Parliament (which God for t' f is sh was quite sure that she would graciously consent to how rarliament by commission for one •ear. There was, finlessever., a most serious question for the House to consider, and t heY adopted the motion it would not be easy to say, th e neweileolay that had . occurred, when they would get into Th r e et l ot o haß u t ses of Parliamut. derla D the C n H o A n.. N co C n E te L n L ts O h ß ad theft put the motion, and Lord BROUGHAM The non-contents have it? Their Lordships then divided, when there appeared— Contents. 16 tA . ii L i .ordStil -e°lln l t a e j n o t r s ity against tine motion 4O —24 PAUPER LUNATICS BILL. HeCit fIaaAidRNCLIFFE moved the second reading of this -sshl ey, it , , although the Bill had emanated from Lord had been brought in under the auspices of the Go ilhronsc' must be considered as a Government Bill. I vatic as. out England there was insufficient accommodation for and e many of the asylums were crowded to excess. Io civilised Ir e of _ ev it? l untry like this, they ought to remove at least o ih epres `n en e , arising from lunatics. That was the object soul c 1 be ßill Sixty out of every hundred of theselunatics to ,erlthred, provided their maladies were attended to curable. He others were those who were considered to be in it y se move the second reading of the Bill. T h h : D pa u s ke d " ease ure, but if thenCl:litsMOND objected to this Bill, because, oa a better Bill. present shape, they would pass a bad y li sent it to a Select Committee they would t! l 'le before them 4.1,ke to hive the Poor-el had a great suspicion of any Bill that ioe House, to tell the m w he ground of humanity. lie should Commissioners brought to the bar of h olues • The _ if they had lunatics in their work horosti,„:.s.notier had no right to have lunatics in their work e n t at: c c as wi r sh ( V he could leave the house at three .iculous. to have them admitted into Za tt e t r e a k e : l . : l 7 , se tl a i , s ;1 1 2 witowulads impossible that they could be cured i te d d to increase . the county-rate to a great Pltierat.asoutlibebeiblieel? it also for the manner in which the ce v!!_rylleelwectheufero sr t e ai d e e d t : He begged that his Noble Friend would The owners of land and not the occu commiettermining that he would not send the Bill ratiltr through thboy a ee. It would be very much amended in a oe Sele ct s a e s 9 1 Cr Committeeem oo rsewr eh : ee p rnet stairs. tiier e a wg re T i rc h eu i i s mt . Bill Hits et4e n were thi bUt an I - ny l e st took place to-morrow, he did not tat I ts they woul,l be called upon to resume their duties. V ,hit old "'"" that it be referred to a Select Committee. that i t CH ANCELLO: said that he would suggest er with, that this Bill should lie proceeds - -edvd 4 :ll 3 ;i te r r U s i. : , : n od I h i m as i far as this second reading was concerned. He ause had passed through the House of Com inistaksa,, which it was necessary to expunge, To e . ) , i jni s :: 4 then prs(eed with it as a new Bill, and read it a first e from the House of Commons was brought up, g th at on arm - n(1.4 , 9 i. was made on the Pauper Lanatics the e ngrossment their Lordships ; which amendment was tlZtiirtiliatrieu4dre_ta'entiiht of the Bill, and requesting that t LlQuid be in)erted is the Bill, sod that the 66th clause should be expunged from the printed Bill, as it did not form part of the Bill when it left the Commons. Lord CAMPBELL did not understand the nature of the amendments, nor did he exactly understand the present posi tion of the Bill in consequence of that message. The Duke of RICHMOND thought that their course was very clear. All they had to do was to send their messenger with the Bill to the House of Commons, and say that their Lordships would expunge the clause as requested. Lord COTTENHAM thought the most regular way would be to send the Bid back to the Lower House as it was, and let the alterations and amendments he made there. The LORD CHANCELLOR did not eoncur with the Noble Lord who had just sat down. In 1836, Mr. Wilkes brought a message from the Commons. requesting that a certain provi sion should be expunged from the Marriage Bill for England, which had been agreed to on the third reading in the Commons. The way in which that message was dealt with was this :—All the proceedings which were already had on the Bill in their Lordships' House were vacated. The provision was expunged. The Bill as amended was then read a first time, and ordered to be printed. Now, the present Bill was in a state precisely analogous, and he conceived that, with such a precedent, their course was very clear. The Earl of DEVON said it was perfectly true that, in the case of the Marriage Act, such a course as Lad been stated by the Noble Lord had been pursued, but it was a course not sup ported by precedent. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that it was done quite in accordance with precedent, for Lord Melbourne, under whose guidance the Bill was, had alluded to two precedents where a similar course had heen adopted, and those were cases in v% hich the messages were brought up by Mr. Wilberforce and Sir George Hill, in 1823. After a few words from Lords COTTEN lIAM and Lord CA me- BELL, Lord WHARNCLIFFE moved that the proceedings on the Bill up to the present stag• be vacated ; that tic amendments be made, and the clause expunged, as requested ; and that the Bill, so amended, be brought in, read a first time, and ordered to be printed.—Agreed to. The Duke of RICHMOND then gave notice that he would move that a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the existint , laws and regulations on th e su bj e ct. Lord 'WHARNCLIFFE said he would take the second read ing of the Bill to-morrow ; and if the Noble Lord persisted in his motion, he would take the sense of the House upon it. A desultory conversation then ensued, after which The Duke of RICHMOND withdrew his motion, and the subject dropped. COMMONS ENCLOSURE BILL. _ Lord STAIN LEY moved the second reading of the Com mons Enclosure Bill, and explained its provisions in detail. He hoped their Lordships would agree to the Bill, and not allow a subject of such importance to be delayed for another sesion. • Lo-d FITZ HARDINGE agreed in the general principles of the Bill, but objected to the 151st clause, and was of opinion that the Bill should be referred to a Select Committee to un• der2'o the requisite alterations. Lord STANLEY replied that the 153 d clause removed what appeared to be objectionable in the 151st. He hoped the Noble Lord wauld allow the Biil to proceed, as an) suggestion he had to make could be considered when tho Bill went into Committee. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday next. MERCI-lANT SEAMEN'S BILL. On the motion of the Earl of HADDINGTON this Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Mon day next. COLLEGES (IRELAND) BILL. This Bill was read a third time and_passed WA STE LANDS (SOUTH AUSTRALIA). The report on this Bid wa• brougiit up, and it was ordered to he read a third time t o -morr o w. The other Bills on the 'able were forwarded a stage, ar.d their Lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 24. The House met at Twelve o'clock. COAL DUTY BILL. On the motion of the Earl of LINCOLN, this Bill was ieed a third time. On the motion that the Bill should pass, Sir JAMES DUKE moved," That it be enacted, that from and after the 31st day of Decemb , r next, there shall be allowed upon the exportation from the port of London, westward of the City boundary on the river Thames at Staines, of coals ex ceeding in quantity in one - oarge, lighter, or other vessel, twenty tons, which shall not have been landed, a drawback of the ful: amount of all the rates or duties which shall have teen paid 11 respect of such coals, subject, however, to such rules and regu lations as may from time to time be made by the mayor, ald,r men, and commons of the City of London, in Common Council assembled, to prevent fraud in respect of such drawback, such rules and regulations to be approved of by the Committee of her Majesty's Privy Council for managing the affairs of trade; ar.d if the master of any vessel, or any coal-weigher, shall in any certificate or otherwise state any circumstance which is not true, for the purpose of enabling the osner of such coal-, or his agent, to obtain any such drawback as aforesaid, or if any lighterman or other person employed to carry such coals to their destina'ion westward of the C:ty boundary on the river Thames at Staines, shall rot deliver the whole quantity of such coals at some place to the westward of the said boundary, every such matter or coal-weigher, lighterrnan, or other person, so offend ing, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding one hundred pounds." Mr. HUME thought that there should be a modification of the duty. Sir G. CLERK said that he could not consent to the in troduction of this clause. He was perfectly ready to admit the fact that the South Sea trade had diminished, yet he was at the same time confident hat the amount of shipping and the number of seamen had increased. Since the introduction of steam navigation, the coasting trade had certainly declined, but yet the business and the prosperity had increased, and there was a larger quantity of sea-borne coal introduced into the port of London than had ever before been carried. The largest portion of this tax, viz., eightpence in the shilling, was mort gaged by the Woods and Forests to pay for the lin' rove merits in the City and putt; and he thought, therefore, that it was incompetent for the House to interfere with this tax. Mr. FORSTER said that on the 4th of this month there were 266 tons of coals in the port, which cost 7s. 6d. a ton ; the freight on this cargo was 7s. 9d. ; and there were other ex penses, to the amount of 2s. ; and this, with the port-dues, brought the cost of coals to 1/. 3s. 6d. a ton to the buyer ; and on the consumer the charge was, of course, proportionably heavy. M. STUART WORTLEY said that his Noble Friend was proposing to continue this tax for seventeen years longer, it having been previouAly continued for only seven years, and was thus placing the coal trade in a worse position than any other trade in London. There could be no doubt if facility were given to parties to bring commodities into the City of Lond,ii, a great portion of those commodities would be brought Hear.) The Earl of LINCOLN opposed the clause upon the prin ciple of justice to the creditor who had lent money.—(llear.) He could not understand how it could be just, having borrowed money for a certain purpose, and under certain conditions, to attempt to reduce the security. He thought it would be much better for the Honourable Member to withdraw the clause now, and in another session to introduce a Bill em bodying the clause. Mr. MASTERMAN could not agree to the clause, as he believed the tax of Bd. a ton on coals was mortgaged to the full extent, and, therefore, that the H tuse hm no right in honour or justice to interfere. Mr. WAR LEY hoped this would be a lesson to the House how it taxed the necessaries of life. This tax hail been fas tened on the public, and when they would get rid of it, Heaven only knew. There was no common-sense or justice in charging one price on coals coming one way, and another price on coals going another.—( Hear, hear.) If there were any common sense .Nlembers present, he knew well which way they would vote.—( Hear, hear. ) Mr. R. PALMER supported the clause. After a few words from Mr. WA Wl`, Mr. 111UNTZ protested against the inequality of the principle of taxing the inland consumption, they were easing the continental consumer in every way. Mr. SPOONER opposed the clause. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when there appeared— For the clause Against it Majority against the clause ... —l3 The clause was consequently loot. On our admission to the gallery ws? found Mr. HURIE moving to strike out the clause that con tinued the penny duty. His objection to the tax was, that it was paid by the poor, who we) e not so much interested in the pro perty it was intended to improve as the proprietors, and that, therefore, they ought to pay the tax. Mr. FORSTER seconded the motion. ?A The Earl of LINCOLN objected to the motion. This was not the imposition of a new tax, bufthe continuance of an old one that was of little or no importance to the consumer. Mr. J. STUART WORTLEY objected to the continuance of the tax ; he thought it highly improper to continue it on the face of the report of the Committee. After some observations from Lord R. Grosvenor, Mr. B Escott, Sir G. Clerk, Mr. Tufnell, and Mr. Wakley, The House divided, when there appeared— For the motion ... Against it Majority against the motion —l7 The motion was consequently lost. Mr. WAKLEY congratulated the Noble Lord ( Lincoln, that he had not made the tax 6d., and the period of its duration fifty, instead of seventeen, years, because he was con vinced that in both cases the House would have adopted it. Mr. HUME thought that measures like the present ought not to be brought forward at the morning sittings. It ap peared to him that the course that had been adopted was a most shameful lr ay of conducting the business of the House. He was determined to divide the House on the question that the Bill do pass. strangers were then ordered to withdraw, but no division took place, and the Bill passed. SMALL DEBTS BILL. The Small Debts (No. 3) Bill was reported, several clauses were added, the Bill was ordered to be engrossed, and read a third time on Monday. CHURCH BUILDING ACT AMENDMENT BILL. The House then went into Committee on the Church Building Act Amendment Bill. Mr. HAWES objected to the Bill. It contained no pro vision whatever for the protection of the laity. It was still more objectionable in another point of view, for it gave power to the Commissioners to appoint the church wardens, which was in effect giving them the power of making church-rates, for, according to the opinion of Lord Chief Justice Tindal, churchwardens had the power to make rates when the inhabitants refused to do so. Under these circumstances, he thought the Bill ought not to proceed : there were already no less than forty-eight Ecclesiastical Bile on the statute book, and 400 orders in Council. The House ought not, there , fore, to add another Bill, but try to consolidate the present Bills. 24 Mr. S. HERBERT said that the arguments of the Hon. Member for Lambeth against this Bill were th• strangest he had ever heard ; because there was a large number of Acts of Parliament in existence, and the law was in an anomalous state, therefore they were not to proceed to amend the state of the law by any act of legislation. With regard to church-rates, nothing had been introduced in the Bill which would at all affect that question. The clauses were agreed to with some amendments, and the report was ordered to be received to-morrow. The Lord,' amendments to the We,tminster Improvement (No. 2) Bill were agreed to. The Lords' amendments to the Bermondsey Improvement Bill were agreed to. CALEDONIAN RAILWAY. The Lords' amendments to this Bill were agreed to. SCOT FISH CENTRAL RAILWAY. The Lords' amendments to this Bill were agreed to. DUNDEE AND PERTH RAILWAY. The Lords' amendments to this Bill were agreed to. ABERDEEN RAILWAY. The Lords' amendments to this Bill were agreed to. GRIMSBY DOCKS. This Bill was read a third time and passed. LIVERPOOL AND BURY (BOLTON AND WIGAN AND LIVERPOOL) RAILWAY. The Lords' amendments to this Bill were agreed to. The South-Eastern Railway (branch to Deal and extension of the South-Eastern, Canterbury, Ramsgate, and Margate Railway) Bill was read a third time and passed. 9n 419 ; R oom that the Bolton and Leib, Kenyon and Leigh Junction, North Union, Liverpool and l'.lanchester and Grind Junction Railway Companies Amalgamation Bill, be read a third time, Mr. WILSON PATTEN moved the amendments of which he had given notice. Air. ESTCOTT doubted the propriety of suspending the standing orders. Mr. PATTEN said that his only object was to prevent the Bill from being thrown out for the session. The amendments were not of a very important charactt r. After a few words from Mr. BROTIIERTON, Mr. DUNCOMBE said he objected to the motion being withdrawn, and he hoped the Committee on Standing Orders would not sanction such a proceeding... It would be better to throw the Bill overboard altogether. • . Dr. NOWRING would have no objection to the • motion. provided it would not have the effect of causing the Bill a y risk ; but it would be a e y serious step to take if it would have the effect of throwing out the Bill altogether. After a few words from Mr. ST EWA RT WORTLEY and Lord G. SOMERSET, the motion was withdrawn, and the third read ing of the Bill ordered to be resumed to-morrow. T SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 28 1845, COMMITTEE-GROUP X. Mr. B. DENISON said he begged to move thAt it be an in struction to the Committee upon Group X of flailw,iy that they have power to &vide the London and York RAilway Bill into two or more Bills, if f,ey think P. Mr. AS TELL said he would wood the motion. Mr. WA RD asked a question of the Chairman of the Com mittee in reference to Shi Meld and Wtkefield being left out in the decision on the preamble of the Bill. Viicount CO U RTENA Y said it wau desirable that he should state the particular circumstances under which the preamble of the 13i11 had been passed by the Committee. In the exercise of their discretion they had left out Sheffield and Wakefield, as there were other parties who hid competing lines to that portion of the London ar.d York that acciuturo:lated these 1 - artics. They (the Committee) did so, on the ground. that having heard the evidence on the one side, it would riot be fair to ductile until evidence was also heard on behalf of those who had competing lines to propose. They considered it was but fair that they should give these parties the chance of being heard, and, accordingly, they thought the best course to pursue was to postpone that portion of the Bill which related to those towns, and come to a decision en the main point. They therefore decided that the preamble of the Bill was proved, omitting Sheffield and Wake field. They ho•aever gave noopinion on the merits of the branches. They purposely avoided doing so. The Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Ward) seemed to object to their deciding only on a part. In doing so the Committee thought it was the best course to pursue under the circumstances. If that was not satisfactory, the only way could be for the House to refer the portion of the Bill omitted to the Committee, so that they might decide on that as well as the other parts of the case. If the House could suggest any course to take in the matter the Committee would be satisfies to follow it out. After a feu• words from Mr. DARBY in explanation, Air. P. M. ST,F.WART said that it was sufficiently evident that the Committee ought to have applied for leave to divide the Bill, and after thus disposing of the branches they might have gone on with the trunk line. The House could knew• nothing of what the Committee had done, but from their own confessions now, and therefore the House was not conirtent to decide o'l what the Committee had yet done. The SPEAKER was supposed to say that they were irre gular, iii that they had no power to strike any portion out of the preamble of the Bill ; but, as the House was in so many cases out of order, he supposed that this must also be passed over.—( Laughter. ) The motion-was agreed to. THE CIRCUITS. The Hon. Mr. VESEY presented petitions from several }laces in Ireland, praying for the equalising of the time of going circuit. MALTESE CURRENCY. Dr. BOWRING begged to inquire into the cause of the omissions of important correspondence in the papers on the Maltese currency? Mr. CA RD WELL said the correspondence would be forth coming. STOCK-IN-TRADE BILL. Sir J. GRAHAM moved the second reading of the Stock. in-Trade 13111. Sir R. INGLIS presented two petitions against this Bill. He hoped the House would not suppose that he was giving any unnecessary trouble in making a few observations upon this Bill, which was one that had been renewed every year for the last five or six years, and had the effect of altering the existing law in reference to the mode of taxing property for the relief of the poor. The ot.ject of the Bill was to suspend the opera tion of the law. He thought it beater that, instead of bring ing in a Bill every year on this subject, they should at. once in troduce a Bill which would effectually decide the question. The general question of rateability should be entered into. He thought that the title of the Bill was very inadequate to ex press the objects of the Bill, as it merely affected the interests of tithe owne.s. Sir J. G ~AH AM was sorry to occupy the House on a matter of so much difficulty. He had paid the utmost atten ton to the case which his !tight Hon. Friend had brought for ward. His Right Hon. Friend had still more confwed this ques tnm, by mixicg with it another equally abstruse and complicated. He z ecoliected some instances in which this question was raised before a judicial authority, and a decision was called for upon the question as to whether stock in trade should be taxed; and that. decision was agai ns t t ax i ng that descridtion of property, and it was after that that an Act of Parliament was deemed ne cessiiry to be passed, protecting stock in trade from being as sessed from one year to another. His Hon. Friend had stated hat the Bill was objectionable, as one that was to he renewed from year to year. 'I hat objection might apply as a g€neral observa ion, but in this p articular it did not ; fur in Let it would not bejust to tax such property. As to the question of his Elm, Friend, namely, whether this animal renewal of this Bid was to be coninued, he (Sir James Graham) had already said that his own opinion was that the whole system of taxa tion would require revision, but with regard to the manner in which the clergy were affected by it, he was not now prepared to say to what extent a srcial remedy was to be al plied in re fetence to the clergy, or that they should be exempted- Lord J. Al Al\ NE ttS said he was glad to hear the Hon. Ba ronet say that the system of rating generally required revision, and that it was likely to be done. The Bill was then read a second time. SLAVE TRADE (BRAZIL) BILL. Upon the motion that the Speaker do leave the chair, and that the House do go into Committee on the Slave 'Trade (Bra zil) Bill, Mr. M. GIBSON said, that from the correspondence that had been laid upon the table of that House, as having passed between this Government and the Government of Brazil on this subject, lie was led to apprehend that there still remained a great deal for the house to be informed on, before the Legis lature agreed to an Act which would, in fact, have the effect of creating hostilities between this country and Brazil. This Bill proposed to give letters of marque to privateers, to detain and search all vessels they may fall in with, which. the captains of them might suspect to he trading in slaves; and the result of that world he to create a great deal of inconvenience and annoyance. There at present existed between this country and Brazil, in regard to the slave trade, a sort of conventional treaty which would now very soon expire ; but before this present Bill should be passed into a law, he did think it would be but wise and prudent for the House to ascertain first whether the Brazilian Government would comply with that treaty. When a Bill similar to this was introduced into the Lords, on a former occasion, the Noble Viscount the Member for Tiverton protested against the Bill in words to which he would now call the attention of the House. The Hen. Member then read an extract from the protest. He understood, when they entered into this treaty, that it should be reciprocal, that British subjects should be tried by British tribunals, and Brazilian subjects by Brazilian tribunals! The treaty to which he referred was the Slave Trade Consoli dation Act. But the slave trade was one in which, he ad mitted, the Executive of Brazil could not Act as it could wish, no more than the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of her Majesty's Government could act independently on the subject of the corn-laws. The interests of the lords of the soil, and the passions of the people, all interfered with the course of the Brazilian Government in putting down the slave trade. They should, therefore, make considerable allowance for the short comings of that Government. He knew of no dispo sition on the part of the Brazilian Government not to put an end to the slave trade, for in August, 1841, the Brazilian M nister made a distinct proposal to put sn end to the slave trade. The negotiation entered into was suddenly broken off by the orders of this Government, and a different course was entered into, involving a line of commercial policy fatal to the best interests of the trade between this country and Br zil. If the Government was prepared to take a hasty and hostile course, he was not prepared to share the responsibility. Let them send out their cruisers and seize the ships of Brazil, and let them conic down next session, and if they could make out a proper case they would get an indemnity ; but do not let them call upon Hon. Members, such as himself, to give their adherence to their measures in a blindfolded manner. The Bill itself before the House was not consistent wi h the dispatches of Lord Aberdeen, which declared that coercion should be carried out against the Brazilian traders to the fullest possible extent. There was one amendment introduced into this BO which was very important—it was, that the tonnage and ships of Brazil which fell into the hands of the cruisers of this coun- try should be appropriated to the benefit of those who seized them. Why, it would be recollected, that in the vote on the Consolidated Fund, there had been 35,0001. voted to reward the men and officers of these very cruisers. Such a Bill, he was sure, would excite the worst feelings in the minds of the people of Brazil against this country. Then with respect to the slaves seized by these cruisers, they were quite as badly treated after they were taken from the slave ships, as they were during the Middle Passage. The Hon. Gentleman here read an extract from a letter to Lord Aberdeen, from the West Indies, showing the evils to which the negroes were subjected after being seized in the slave shill. He should like to know what would England have thought, when it was a slave trading country, to have been treated in the same manner as they had recently treated Erazil. He was sure, from the bench oF bishops downwards, it would have excited a general feeling of indigna tidn. He considered the policy of the Hon. Member fur Hull ( Mr. Hutt), at present, however well intended, was a very impolitic . course. Should that Hon. Gentleman introducea motion next session for a committee of inquiry, he (Air. Gibson) would willingly support him. Before sittiug down, however, he begged the Government to furnish the Howe with Mr. Ellice's dispatches, that they might show the true nature of the pro ceedings in which that Gentleman had been engaged. Brazil said she would not put this duty on British manufactures if we ceased to tax her sugar. He must refuse his assent to the Bill, and would not share in the grave responsibility of sanction ing it. It was their own policy which forced them to carry out the law of 1826 in this hostile spirit. 'I he passions of the Brazilian people would be roused against this country by this line of policy, and supposing they might make the condition of a few slaves a little better, would that counterbalance the dangers which British subjects resident in the Brazils must contiLually incur? How long were the great trading interests of this country to be trifled with, to satisfy small sections of the anti-slavery party? The great majority of the anti-slavery party were averse to any hostile policy on the part of the Govern ment. It was the monopolists of this country who by their influence on the Executive brought about this state of things, and interrupted the amity and good feeling which would be s,roduccive of such beneficial results to Great Britain and Brazil. Sir R. PEEL said he would state to the House, as shortly as he could, what the objects of the Bill were, which had been sent down from the house of Lords, and which he now sub mitted for their consideration. The international engage ments between Brazil and this country would be seen in a re solution on the subject of the slave trade, recited in the Con vention of 1826. By the first article of that Convention it was provided that no subject of Brazil should engage in the African slave trade on any pretence or pretext whatsoever, and that if any such subjects were found carrying it on they should be treated as pirates.. There was, therefore, an international agreement. Subsequently, in the same year, there was a supple mental treaty by which the right of search was mutually esta blished. A mixed Commission was agreed upon to determine the offences. Brazil had the power of terminating the supple mental treaty 16 years from that date, but the original treaty remained in lull force and effect. Accordingly, in 1641, Email gave notice that she wi;hed to ter minate it, and it was terminated accordingly. The Hon. Gentleman had observed that foreign countries did not seem very confident in the good faith of this country re specting her wish to put down the slave trade. No doubt im putations hail been thrown out, but when the sac r ifi ces w hi c h England had made in the cause of the slave were remembered, he thought she might set at defiance all such unworthy sus picions.—( Hear, hear.) The bishops in the other House of Parliament might, or might not, hive iiimeated the con. tinuance of the a trade, tut tat was not the question. The question was—was this country prepared to abandon her former line of policy—was she prepared to retrace her steps, and ren der her former exertions fruitless ? He would not deny that Cie Government had not conic to the resolution of presenting this Bill to Pin - Lament without great deliberation and great regret.—( Hear, In ar. ) Every means had been taken to prevail upon the Brazilian Government to act upon the terms of the convention of 1826, but they were fruitless. The Government hail, then, no alternative but to bring for ward the present measure, and act independently on their part, or allow the slave trade on the coast of Africa to be carried on, as formerly. by Br , zilian subjects. It was the opinion of Sir William Foliett, whose name he could not mention, without exciting a respect . for the memory of that distinguished man, that in case Brazil refused to act upon the treaty of 1841, England was fully justified in exei cisii. g the right of search upon Brazilian vessels. Th at w as a right they hail exercised up to the present time. Then, w.th respect to the production of papers which might be rendered necessary for various purposes connected with the public service, the Hon. Gentleman could not say that he had ever refused to produce th,m, where such a course would pro mote, instead of it jure, the public service. It was necessary, for the prometion of the interests of this country, that this meesure shout] be passed into a law, but if Brazil would enter into a treaty with them, not for the suppression of the slave trade, but into new engagements, for the purpose of giving effect to the original agreement of 1826, they would not proceed with it. But it had been rendered necessary by the conduct of Brazil for a long series of years, • ur:ng which they had implored that country to take me asures other than those of a temporary nature. The Honour. able Gentleman said th.,t tre m acute was imr'erfect. beeause alterations of which he did not approve were made when it, passed through Committee pr ojlsr n ra. These alters tio.!s were not, however, of such a nature as to alter the object, whi.h the Bill had in view in any material degree, and hail refer, nee to the continuance of the mixed Commission for a period of six months. There was another alteration, giving a part of the proceeds of a slave vessel and of its cargo to those who had aided in capturing it. He hot ed, therefore, that he had fully. explained away the charge which had been brought against the Government that the measure was imperfectly constructed, and had been hurriedly introduced. Ile did not think that any good object would be attained by producing the correspondence or the instructions to which the motion referred. Mr. HUTT said, if they passed this Bill, as he had every reason to believe they would, in two Years they would find their trade with Brazil utterly destroyed. The trade between this country and Portugal was of the gri atest importance, and an)thing tending to its injury, as he apprehended this measure would, could not be t'oo much deprecated. Then they should re collect that other countries were anxious to enter into engage ments of a more beneficial nature with Portugal than we could offer. The slave trade was not now carried on as formerly under the Portuguese flag, although in other countries—under the flag of the United states, for instance—it had greatly augmented. But if the Brazilian flag did not afford the same facilities as formerly for carrying on the slave t ra d e , it was too lucrative to be entirely got r id of; so that they would only drive it into other channels offering facilities for carrying it on. Lord PALMERSTON did not concur in the views which were entertained by some of his Hon. Friends with respect to the measure before them. Indeed he could not pursue any other course, as he was the first to suggest the adoption of the course which the Government were now pursuing. The question which the House had to consider was whether the treaty of 1826 was to be ten ;ere(' null and void, or whether they should adopt measures to enable the Crown to carry it into execution. He was of opinion that. if this country entered into treaties with other countries and did not enforce them, when any country became reluctant to carry them rut, that they would bring disgrace upon themselves by their negligence, and want Of national honour. The Govern ment or which he was a Member during the ten years they were in office, used every argument in their power to induce the Government of Brazil to carry out the engagements which they had bound themselves to, but like their successors they had riot succeeded in their object. Every time the question of the slave trade was discussed, that treaty formed a promi nent portion of it. Were they then to be permitted to carry on their traffic in slaves with perfect impunity, and were they not to take those means which the treaty with Brazil placed in their power? In that case he was ready to bear his shsre in any responsibility which might ensue. if the Government had not taken the course with Brazil which they did with re spect to the sugar duties—( Hear, hear)—if they had taken the proper course, they should not have found themselves in the position they now held, and would Lot have occasioned that irritation in Brazil which threatened to put an end to the treaty of 1817. When they asked Brazil to fulfil her engagements they asked no more than they would perform what they had agreed to do by treaty. He was much afrai t, however, that the measure would not put an end to the slave trade, as it would be driven to other portions of the globe, offering facilities for carrying it on. The slave trade of Brazil would be carried on under the flag of France and of the United States. Ile took that opportunity of calling the attention of the Government to the slave trade carried on between Muscat and the Isle of Borneo, in the hope of its receiving their attention during the recess. He did, therefore, hope that her Majesty's Government would make those representations to the French Government, which would induce them to recal that ordinance. Slavery did not exist in the Mauritius, and there was, therefore, an opportu nity of checking the importation of negroes, but it did exist in the Isle of Bourbon, and he was afraid that a means might be afforded for promoting the slave trade in the interior of Africa. He trusted the Government would urge upon the Imaum of Muscat to take all steps for stopping the trade within his domi nions. The Governor of Cuba had sent back the negroes which had been introduced into his island. The negroes in Cuba became forfeited to the Crown. and the consequence was their liberty. The Dutch Governor had purchased these negroes illegally, and he should say that as the Dutch Govern ment had no right to retain British subjects in , bondrge, he hoped, therefore, that the Government would interfere to set them at liberty. Then, again, no progress whatever had been made in giving liberty to the Emancipadoes, and he hoped the Government would insist on the liberation of those men. By national law and by treaty we were entitled to demand it. Those who were to be set at liberty were entitled to the protection of the country, and he was quite sure that if this point was pressed upon the Spanish Government, it would go further than any other. He trusted that the papers of next year would be more satisfactory than those of this year. When tt e Government talked, no men could speak more fairly, but when they came to act he was sorry nothing could be seen, and their acts fell far short of their words. He thought that the return which he had moved for last year might have been ready by this time. Sir It. PEEL said, that in explanation he might assure the Noble Lord, that if he would appoint a time, he would request Mr. Barry, in the Foreign Department, to show him that it was no indisposition or negligence, but a real difficulty in making out the return which prevented its being furnished. Mr. M. GIBSON only wished to explain that it was not competent for the House to make a law which should bind Brazilian subjects. The circumstance of the executive having declured the slave trade to be piracy, did not make it piracy, and therefore they ought to be very careful how they legislated on raise grounds. The House then went into Committee' on the Bill, and on the first clause being proposed, Capt. PECHELL inquired whether the Admiralty had re ceived any account of the gallant conduct of Lieut. Streport, in the capture of a slaver, and of the sufferings of Lieut. Wilson, of the Star, and several of the crew on a raft ? Sir G. COCKBURN replied that as yet they had received no official communication. Mr. HAWES thought the House should be put in posses sion of the negotiations by which the ruptures in the Brazilian colonies had been caused, and which were issued between the two Governments in the final arrangement of the stipulations of the treaty. Sir R. PEEL considered that the production of such papers would tend to irritate rather than cement those differences which ail must deplore ; at the same time that they would not afford any information respecting the policy of the Govern ment, and therefore he must oppose their production". Mr. M. GIBSON thought they were legislating in the dark, and with blinded eyes, unless the correspondence which led to the ruptures firs', and this ill 1 eventually, were freely laid be fore the House. Mr. HAWES considered that the whole difficulties in re spect of legislatin g for the Brazil, and preserving concord in the colony, was the fallacious amid inconsistent course pursued by Government in making a difference between free and slate grown sugar. Lord PALNIERSTON said he had always imagined that the favourable reception of the sugar of Brazil was a sine qua non in the negotiat ions between this and the Brazilian Government. The clause, as well as the second, were then agreed to. On the third clause being put from the chair, Sir THOMAS WILDE said that the Government had no power whatever to make any conduct an act of piracy, unless by the law of nations. The French Government passed a similar concurrent Act. But the Brazilian Government had not taken such a course. It was true they had announced their intention of agreeing to the proposition, but no specific law had been pissed, and the measure, if now carried, would in reality be no more binding than if the Minister of the Crown s uggested an Act to the Sovereign which was not carried out be the force of law. The Executive must always come to the assistance of the Legislature, but, even if such had been the case in Brazil, he should have denied the power of the Bra zilian Government to enter into the treaty with that of England to make the sale of negroes piracy. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that his Hon. and Learned Frit nd was as well aware as he was, that Brazil was peculiarly•circumstanced as regarded the slave treaties. He knew that she had become a party to the slave treaty of 1817, and though Brazil said, that now th e m i xe d commission was at an end, and that the slave-trad e was abolished in her do minions, it was admitted that Brazil had passed no law, ex pressive of au abolition of the slave-trade, but she contended that the fact of her declaring the slave-trade to be piracy, amply sufficed to show that she held the principle that slavery was extinct in her dominions. Now the question was, in what mode this matter should be dealt with. His Honourable and Learned Friend said that the Courts of Admiralty and Vice- Admiralty had no power of dealing with Brazilian slaves as pirates, but with all deference to his Hon. and Learned Friend, he thought he was in this case in error, for if the acknowledged Brazilian thatthe convention the carrying on the African slave trade as piracy, then su re ly th ey were a justified by the article of that convention in de a li ng w i t h th em Governmentthey recognisedhd, by as pirates. Therefore, with regard to the first part of the clause, he ventured to differ from his Hon. and Learned Friend, and he was net prepared to abandon, without very serious consideration, the stipulations contained in the latter part of the clause. Sir T. WILDE would ask how the Executive Government could proceed against the subjects of foreign countries as criminals under circumstances in which they could not proceed against their own.—( Hear, hear.) reti(eyy could indeed pass laws enacting that any aggression by t h e subjects of a foreign nation upon the subjects of England, could be punished as piracy, but they could not so proceed against the subjects of a third nation.—( Hear, hear.) Sir R. PEEL said there were two things to be considered— an offence against the Brazilian subject, and an offence against Brazilian property. He apprehended that in this case the Act applied to the property and not to the subject, and, therefore, he thought the posi tion of the Hon. and Learned Member was confirmed. He would take care that before the third reading of the Bill, the clause s hould undergo further consideration, and in the event of its being found that some alteration was ne cessary, the Committee might rely upon its being made. Mr. M. GIBSON must take the liberty of asking some further explanation as to this Bill. The Right Hon. Baronet had stated that this Bill would not interfere with Brazilian sub jects. Now, how could the Right Hon. Baronet reconcile this with a dispatch which had just been sent out to Brazil by Lord Aberdeen, which stated that all Brazilian subjects found en gaged in the slave-trade were to be treated as pirates? - Sir ROBERT PEEL replied that the treaty of 1826 gave the power to deal both with the person and property of Bra zilians subjects found engaged in the slave-trade, but within the last thirty years the power had only been applied to sub jects, and they did not intend to change that system by the present Captain PECHELL remarked that the treaty of 1826 only gave this country power to deal with property and ships actually engaged in the slave trade ; but by this Bill Govern ment proposed to deal with vessels which were only equipped for the trade, The treaty, moreover, only gave them power to destroy, and not to sell vessels which might be captured while engaged in the slave-trade. Sir R. PEEL said they had exercised the power of seizing vessehe which were only equipped for the slave -trade for the last thirty years, and he could See no objection to their con tinuing to do so. After some fnrther discussion t 1.6 clause was agreed to, as were also 4 and 5. Clauses fi and 7 were agreed to, after a short discussion, as was also clause 8. Mr. MUTT F a d he did not much approve of the measure, as it was one w hich involved a great deal of expense. The other clauses were then agreed to, and the House resumed. REMOVAL OF PAUPERS RILL. The House then went into Committee on the Removal of Paupers Bill. Captain JONES suggested an amendment in the 4th clause, to which Sir J. GRA fl AM.objected, . upon the gtound that the amendment would have the efieiit of repealing the power of removing paupers altogether. The clatbe only gave the power of landi g paupers at the port nearest their native place, and then of being sent on to that place, instead of being lauded at Cork, for instance, which might he the place farthe.4 from their native places. Afte'r a few words from Sir R. FERGUSON, the clause was agreed to. Clau , e 5 was next proposed; and, alter a few words from Mr. G. Palmer, Sir J. Graham, and Jr.A Darby, agreed to. '1 he remaining clauie . s were disposed of and the House re sumed, and the Bill way ordered to be reported to. morrow at twelve o'clock. TAXING MASTERS' COURT OF CHANCERY (IRELAND) BILL. Upon the motion that the House go into Committee upon this Bill, Sir R. FERGUSON wished that it might be an instruction to the Committee that some compensation might be given to certain officers of the COurt of Chancery in Ireland, who would be aggrieved by this Bill. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he would not consent that any such instruction should be given to the Committee. Mr. HAMILTON said he had a petition from certain solicitors in Ireland, who prayed that they might be appointed as taxing masters, they being the most competent persons. He would suggest an amendment to the effect that solicitors of the Court of t✓hancery'of twelve years' standing should be chosen for the office id taxing master. Mr. T. 13. C. :SNI rr tI opposed the amendment.. The effect of the amendment would be to exclude barristers and many attorneys of great taleriti and abilities who did not practice in the Court of Chancery. lie objected to this principle of ex clurion, and . thought it would be unfair in its operation. The clause was then agreed to. The remaining clauses and the preamble were then agreed to, and the House having resumed, the report was brought up. and received. TURNPIKE 7 ROADS (IRELAND) BILL. This Pill passed through Committee—report on Monday. DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE BILL. This Bill also passed through Committee. Report this day. REAL PROPERTY—(No. I.) BILL. 'The House then went into. Committee on this Bill. The Bill went through Committee, and the House resumed. The report was brought up and adopted, and the Bill, as amended, was ordered to be printed. ASSIGNMENT OF TERMS BILL. The House then w en t i n t o Committee on this Bill, the clauses of which were agreed to, the report adopted, and the Bill was ordered to be reed a third time tomorrow. GRANTING OF .LEASES BILL. After a.short conversation between Sir T. Wilde, Mr. M. I. O'Connell, and the Attorney-General, the last of whom cordially supported the measure, this Bill went through Com mittee, • The report of the County Rates Bill was brought up, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. SCOTTISH TURNPIKE TRUSTS BILL. On the motion being put for the committal of this Bill, i was moved that it be committed that day three months. Mr., P. M. STEWART supported the Bill, and declared that the lion. Member had misrepresented its purpose and purport. He was quite sure that this Bill would be looked upon by the people of Scotland as an improvement on the existing law, and, were it not so late at night, he could easily dispose of the arguments of the Hon. Gentleman against it. Mr. FORBES MACKENZIE confessed that he did not agree with the views of the Honourable Member who had just sat down, and intimated his intention of ♦oting against the committal of the Bill. Strangers were then ordered to withraw, and the House divided, when there appeared— For the amendment 42 Against it Majority for the amendment FEES (CRIMINAL COURTS) BILL. Mr. ESCOTT, in moving the committal of this Bill, stated that its object was to prevent a person being, in certain coun ties in England, compelled to purchase his right of pleading. and his right of trial, when charged with a criminal offence, by the payment of exorbitant fees to the officers of the local cri minal courts. They would never get any justice unless they should decide that no person should be inflicted with any fine beyond the damages for the offence. He was at a great loss to know why this Bill should be opposed. This was a mere question of money. These fees formed a con venient way, except to the parties who paid them, of paying money into the pockets of men other wise respectable, but who would not be thoroughly respectable as long as they received those fees. He wished then that this Bill would be allowed to go into Committee. and if any amendments were to be made as to the practical working of it he would be most happy to listen to them. Though the Bill might not be perfect, there was no doubt that it would do a great deal of good, and would create a great admiration for the administration of justice in this country and a love of the laws. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said that they had now arrived at a period of the session, and at an hour of the morning, when it would be necessary to cut this matter short. He had heard the Honourable Member say that the Bill was not necessary ; but it was as necessary as most other measures of superfluous legislation. With regard to parties acquitted, he agreed with his Pon. Friend; but he totally differed from him as to parties found guilty, for he did think this latter class ought to be made to feel the infliction of the law. Lord J. M ANNERS said it was impossible for any Member to understand this, what he would call " hocus p6cus " legis lation. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said that if the House sided with him in staying the further progress of the 8,11, he would give notice that, to-morrow, he would introduce a Bill for the abolition of fees upon pleading and acquittal. Mr. P. BORTH WICK briefly supported the motion. Mr. ESCOTT, at the request of several Hon. Members, then withdrew the Bill. DRAINAGE BILL. The Earl of LINCOLN moved for leave to bring in a Bill for the Improvement of the Sewerage and Drainage of Towns and populous Districts, and for making provision for an ample supply of water, and for otherwise promoting the health and convenience of the inhabitants. He said it was not his intention to press the Bill through the House in the present session, but simply to have it introduced and printed, and placed in lion. Members' hands, so that their best attention might be given to its details during the recess. Leave was then given to introduce the Bill. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Half-past One o'Clock. SOUTH LONDON FLORICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The third show of the flowers, fruits, and culinary vegetables, ex hibited under the auspices of this Society, and for the medals, &c., they distribute, took place on Wednesday in the Surrey Zoological Gardens. The collection of specimens was more than usually good; indeed, it may be placed amongst the best collections ex hibited this year, or in any previous year. A great number of prises were awarded by the judges, who, from the uniform excel. lence of the specimens, had some difficulty in coming to a judg. ment as to which were the best. The pines were very fine; the grapes were also fine. The cucumbers were of their class ad mirable, and the more common products of the garden showed to what excellence horticulture has now arrived. The most entitled to praise among the flowers were the piccotees and the carnations. Mr. G. Edmonds won the gold medal for the former, and Mr. Reeves for the latter. The silver cup for the piccotees was also won by Mr. 0. Edmonds the silver cup for carnations by Mr. J. Edwards. Mr. B. Hawes, M.P.'s, prize of 51. was awarded to Mr. Bruce, and the gold medal for orchidaceous plants to Mr. Ayres. Unfortunately the day was unfavourable to the show. Tents and marquees protected the company from the rain, and great praise is due to Mr. Tyler, the lessee of the grounds, for his excellent arrangements for the accommodation and gratification of the exhibitors and visitors. GOVERNMENT SCHOOL OF DESlGN,—Wednesday the annual meeting, and the distribution of prizes to the successful students took place at the rooms, Somerset House. The rooms were hung with specimens of the students' skill, most of which were performances reflecting great credit on the scholars them selves, as well as on those to whom the direction of their studies has been entrusted. It was announced that the exhibition would be open gratuitously to the public on Thursday (to-day) and on Friday, between the hours of eleven and three. THAMES I)lrTos.—At this very beautiful and sequestered part of the Thames we entered a small, but ad mirably appointed hotel. called the Swan ; among the guests were several noble lords and a noble ex.ambassader of celebrity. Many of the wits and eminent writers of the day had also congre gated there ( Mr. Dickens, Mr. D. Jerrold, Mr. Shearman, &c.) to enjoy the fine air and seclusion of this delightful spot on the very margin of the river, and also the good things of mine host. The fare is varied and excellent, combined with an attention, ele. gance, and comfort not to be surpassed. We noticed too, the lady of Mr. Hanaper, who is a sweetly mannered, finely formed, and pretty young female, worthy to be called " the Flower of Dittos Vale." She would indeed shine in " the Book of Beauty." The liberal and attentive hest well deserves the patronage he seems to be rewarded with. There were also at the inn two youthful ni.tives of the island of Borneo, whose playful manners interested all.— An easy Tour on the Thames, in July, 1845, from Oxford to Richmond. NIKES (WEDNESDAY) —Two fires took place on We 1- nesday. The first broke out shortly after twelve o'clock, in the apartment of Mr. J. Huntley, a lodger In the house of Mr. Spry, baker, 44, Golden-lane, Barbican. The firemen had some difficulty in effecting an entrance into the room, but when they obtained admission they found a pillow and an empty sack and part of the flooring on fire. Mr. Braidwood reports the origin of the fire as " doubtful." The woman Huntley was given in charge to the police by the landlord. Shortly after two o'clock a fire, which was caused by a wash-house flue taking fire and igniting the soot in the parlour chimney, occurred in the bed-roJm of Mr. Lewis Phillips, by which the bed, bedstead, mattress, and furniture were burned, and the room scorched all round very severely,:and considerable damage was done to the other parts of the building. By the exertions of the inmates, strangers, and police, the flames were extinguished without the aid of the engines. FALL OF A HOLIsE.—TIVO PERSONS KILLED.- Between seven and eight on Wednesday morning the inhabitants of the villageof East Stanford were alarmed by a loud crashing noise, which was speediiy followed by the most heart-rending cries of dis tress. It was quickly ascertained that the end house of a row ex. tending from the rear of the churchyard to an open plot of ground Intended for the site of some new buildings, had fallen, and as it was almost certain that several persons must have been within the house at the time it fell, great consternation prevailed. The fallen house was rented by a man named Parker, in the employ of Mr. Joycelin, a maltster. Parker, with his wife and two children, resided on the ground-floor, the upper part of the house, which consisted of two stories, being occupied by a man named Tyke, a brush-maker, with two boys (his sons) and a decrepid man (his father). The brush-maker, with one of his sons, was seen by a neighbour to leave the house at six o'clock on the morning of the accident, going out for the day to sell his brushes. Parker always leaves his home for the malt-house at five o'clock in the morning, and the rest of the inmates, consisting of Parker's wife and children, together with Pyke's son and father, were supposed to be in the house when it fell. A number of per. sons were soon at work clearing away portions of the rubbish, and shortly afterwards the body of the old man was discovered dread fully crushed and quite dead. At a short distance from the re mains of the old man, the body of Pyke's son was dug out, and though much injured the boy was alive, and hopes are entertained of his recovery. A faint cry issuing from the remaining portions of the ruins stimulated the people to fresh exertions, and after a painful suspense of twenty minutes the men succeeded in taking from the ruins Parker's two children perfectly uninjured. The children slept in a kind of press-bedstead, and part of the rafters having fallen in a sloping position across the bed, had sustained the weight of the materials above. A further search discovered the body of the mother. The remains of the unfortunate woman pre sented a horrid spectacle, life being quite extinct. Several houses in the row of which the fallen building formed a part have been lately pulled down, and the house in question had been shored up preparatory to erecting some buildings, which are intended to cross the space left by the demolished houses. PROTEST fRIViLEGE OF PARLIAMENT, JULY 4, 1845. DISSENTIENT- 1. Because this House is now for the first time inter fering to stop by force an action brought against a party for a wrong done to a fellow subject in slanderous words, alleged to have been fihely spoken, and in thus inter rosing its power, under the name of privilege, between the subject and his strict legal right, sought to be made good in a court of law by the course which the law has prescribed. 2. Because, whatever right the House may be supposed to derive from precedent, that is, from former instances in which it has exercised similar powers, there can be no doubt that in former times both - Houses' of Parliament were wont toll° many acts, under the name of asserting their privileges, acts saich, in the present day, and for a long time past, both !louses of Parliament have wholly abstained from doing, and which would now be consi dered by all mankind to be gross and wanton violations of all justice. 3. Becate:e, though the right, however founded, nr however proved, to do such acts as these, or even such !tot; as the present of a far less objectionable kind, wore. admitted, yet it is always a question of expediency and discretkii whether or not this power, even if it be pos. s. ssed by right, shall in any given case be exorcised : and it ever behoves both Houses of Parliament to be most cautious and abstinent in the use of powers like the-c. which are assumed by them over parties charged with offending against themselves, and are used by them in their own case without the intervention of any impartit I and judicial authority. 4 Because it is, in a peculiar manner, the duty 0 1 both !louses to abstain from such acts when they reflect that there is no code of privilege promulgated whereby the people may know against what law they ofrcnd, thrit the law is in each case declared, possibly made for the first time, after the alleged breach of it has been corn mitted, and made in the heat of the strife occasioned by the alleged offence, that the Members of the two Houses always differ among themselves both as to the law and its application, and that they who promulgate it are at once the lawgivers, parties, prosecutors, jurors, judges, and executioners ; while in this instance alone no power of extending mercy to the offender exists in the State. 5. Because it behoves this House in a more peculiar manner to avoid placing itself in so strange and ano malous a position, seeing that as it is the supreme court of justice in the last resort in all cases criminal and civil. so it ought to be most anxious ever to set the example of strictly just, regular, legal procedure, and should most carefully shun all violations of law and justice, and should especially be slow to interfere with pending actions, which may, in their result, come before itself as a high court of appeal. 6. Because the cases in which it is expedient and jus tifiable, from absolute necessity, to interfere with the. rights of individuals and the ordinary course of the law. are of a description .wholly different from the present, being actual obstructions offered to the proceedings of the Houses, and which must be removed without any delay, else th e arm o f P arliament would be paralysed . ; and because no objection could ever be raised to such an exercise of power, and of rightful power, either by the two Houses or by any other tribunal. But constructive contempts like the present are of a wholly different description, and no harm whatever can arise from allowing them to be dealt with by the course of the law as administered in the regular courts of jus tice, those courts to which the Sovereign as well as the meanest of his subjects must always resort for the esta blishment of rights and punishment of wrongs—those courts to which the Houses of Parliament may most safely resort as the abodes of strict justice —courts pure from all taint of corruption, free from all bias of in fluence, uncontrolled by the threats either of regal authority or aristocratic insolence, or popular violence, and to which neither faction nor fear can ever gain access. 7. Because the argument that witnesses must be pro tected from vexatious and costly suits is wholly inappli cable to the case, inasmuch as no one pretends to doubt that they may be prosecuted at the instance either of the Crown or any individual, whether a Member of the House or not; and if so prosecuted never could recover one farthing of their costs, though ever so honourably acquitted. 8. Because no punishment which can be inflicted either by a prosecution or by the House upon a witness for the most ss anton and the falsest slander of an indi vidual, can afford any reparation whatever to the party thus injured, as the House has not by law the power, if petitioned, to give any such compensation. 9. Because the protection of witnesses before the Houses of Parliament never can be regarded as more essential to the public weal than the protection of wit nesses before the courts of civil and criminal judicature ; yet no one pretends to doubt that an action may be brought against any person for slanderous worth falsely spoken by him in giving his evidence before these courts, and though no damages could be recovered if the words were spoken in answer to a question put in the cause, yet it is quite certain that the action must take its course, and that nothing could be done by the court to stop it ; so that the witness must be exposed to ex actly the same vexation and expense which are alleged to form the only ground for interfering to stop the action in the present case. 10. Because the order to prevent a defendant from pleading, or the commitment of the plaintiff for a con s'ructive contempt, never can really stop the action, ‘‘liich may proceed through all its stages whatever be done to the parties; unless, indeed, the greater and un heard-of violence were committ e d o f arresting the judges and their officers, and destroying the record and tearing the proceedings from th e fil e . 11. Because all the arguments drawn from alleged analogies in a court of equity are wholly wide of the question, inasmuch as the granting an injunction to stay actions at law, or to prevent receivers and other officers, or quasi officers, of the court being sued for acts done under its authority, are not granted discretionally, but are matter of strict right ; and inasmuch as such injunctions only prevent the party against whom they issue from obtaining his remedy in one form, reserving it to him in another, nay securing it to him in the court which stays the action ; whereas the present proceeding deprives the party of all remedy whatever, the House having no power or autho rity to grant him redress. 12. Because it is a great aggravation of the mischief so justly complained of, that for the last nine years the other House of Parliament has sold all the papers printed by its authority, allowing a discount to encourage the trade in those publications ,• and that though this House has not as yet engaged in, this branch of business, yet it communicates its prints to the other, which sells them with its own. 13. Because the inexpediency, injustice, and cruelty of exercising the alleged privileges of the House is strongly illustrated by the peculiar circumstances of the present case. A complaint is made by a peer that an action has been brought against a witness. The defen dant is publicly described as a most respectable person, who had served well in the Peninsula ; to the plaintiff is applied the most severe and even coarse expression, while in no court that tried the case could such praise or censure of the character borne by the parties ever be heard for an instant, much less proved in evidence ; and while it is also manifi- st that precisely the same course must have been pirsued had the respecab!* man been the slanderer, and the censured man been the injured party. Under the prejudices excited by such statements, the parties are examined at the bar. The plaintiff is compelled to disclose his case t 3 the defendant. He describes himself as trievously injured, and as severely suffering from the effect of the attack made upon his character by he defendant. He further declares that he was wholly ignorant of the privileges of the house, wholly unconscious of his having acted in breach of them by bringing his suit—a thing the more easily believed when we reflect that the nature of Parliamentary privilege wrs distinctly stated, in de bate, to be wholly unknown to the judges of the land, and only understood by the House itself. Finally, the attorney, who has been seized and imprisoned for fol lowing his client's instructions, declared that he acted under the advice of counsel ; and afterwards informed the House, through a Peer, that he bad received direc tions to discontinue the action ; yet both client and I attorney are imprisoned, the attorney after this com munication was made ; and nothing whatever is done against the counsel who deliberately advised the whole proceeding. 14. Because nothing can be more unlike all the judi cial proceedings to which the present has been compared than the course now iursued, inasmuch as whenever the law has declared that a Court shall not proceed in any case by reason of another jurisdiction being interfered with, a particular mode of preventing this proceeding is provided by the known law ; and in another and im portant particular, the present proceeding is extremely unlike that of injunction, to which it has been likened, for an injunction is commenced to stay proceeding in one Court, in order that justice may be done in another which has possession of the suit ; nor is any one pre vented unless he disobey the order so given ; whereas we issue no order, but at once proceed to to punish the party before he has been guilty of any disobedience, or had any opportunity of doing what we desire he should do, and we punish him on the sole ground of his having broken some privilege unknown to him, and which we admit is understood by nobody but ourselves. 15. Because, finally, it is all along affirmed in the course of these discussions, that whatever privilege we do not in any case exercise, we cease to possess ; whereas there are many privileges most undeniably belonging to us, some which in former times were constantly exer cised —some which we still declare to he ours on the face of our standi ng or d ers — an d none of which have now for a long time past been exercised at all ; and in illustra tion of the varying usage which exists respecting such privileges, it may further be remembered that a very great change has come over this question, even within the last forty years ; as no one can affect to think that either the houses of Parliament or the Courts ofJustice would at this day punish summarily for contempt tiIDSC acts which frequently were thus visited within that pe riod of time, including the very publication for which Sir Francis Burdett was sent to the Tower, and which raised the last great discussion of the privilege question in Parliament, in the Courts of Law, andiltiiuseiaam. WICKLOW. THE LATE MR. BOLTON CLIVE, M.P.—The re mainsgentleman will be removed f or i nterment from Croy. dontoofth ih ef i a s mily vault at Wormsbridge church, near Whitfield, Herefordshire. STATIONERS' AND PAPER• MANUFACTURERS' PRO VIDENT SOCIETY.—The sixth annual meeting of this institution took place on Tuesday evening, at the Gerard's Hall Tavern, City, W. Gaussen, Esq., one of the Vice. Presidents, in the chair. The report of the last year's proceedings was of a highly satisfactory character. The object of this society is, first, to raise a capital of 10,0001., and then grant annuities or give relief to masters and their assistants in the trade who may, from age, infirmity, or needy circumstances, require pecuniary aid. It appears that the capital is already 5,5001. There is also a separate fund progressing to erect an asylum. AT ATTEMPTED SAV INOLiNG NOTTING lIA M. A case of an extraordinary character has just occurred in Nottingham, in an att em pt by a cierpytnan swindle several tradesmen out of goods to a large amount ; but, owing to his former proceedings having been made known in the public prints, happily, in this instance, he has been defeated. Three weeks ago an advertisement appeared in the Nottingham papers, of which the follow ing is a copy : SCHOOL-:COLLEGIATE, CONI3IERCIAL, AND AGRICULTURAL. " A married clergyman of some standing, and of considerable experience as a tutor, has come to reside in Nottingham, for the ?urpose of opening a boarding school for young gentlemen, and has taken the house in Castle-gate, formerly occupied by Dr. Mitchell Davidson, which will be ready for the reception of pupils on the 4th of August. " The plan of education to be adopted will he bated on sttictly religious principles, upon a system as far as possible catecheti cal and explanatory, and will embrace the usual. Greek and Latin classics, the pure and mixed mathematics, and a solid, liberal, and comprehensive course of English literature; so that whatever rank of life the pupil may occupy, it will be the aim of the master that, he possess the character and feelir gs of a scholar, the Christian, and a gentleman. " A course of simple lectures, on a level with the capacities of the pupils, will be given once a fortnight, on some scientific or literary subject-. it having been found by experience that a conversational style of instruction commands the attention, and awakens the energies of the mind without oppres.ing it ; and while it affords an ample opportunity of frequent illustration, accustoms the mind to reason and think for itself—a point of the utmost importance in the education of youth, and far more beneficial than heaps of undigested matter obtained by rote. " I acc;.mplisinnents by eminent masters. "French and drawing taught without extra charge. " The advertiser would he happy to meet with clerical duty in the neighbourhood. "For prospectuses and references, apply to the Principal, at his residence, Castle-gate, Nottingham. " Castle-gate, July IEI, 1845." This advertisement excited much interest in the town and neighbourhood of Nottingham, particularly tinson ; :st the clergy, who felt their order somewhat involved by a gentleman entering the town without announcing hi, lame : aid it is mainly owing to this circumstance that the attempt at wholesale swindling has been successfully irevented. Immediately after the above announcement a gentleman, habited like a clergyman and of polished ad lress, called upon Mr. Jones, upholsterer, Beast market oil, Nottineham), and gave his name as the Rev. Dr. Ber rington ; he stated his - intention of opening a school, and referred to the terms of his ad vertisement, which had appeared on the Fri lay preceding, and expressed a wish to be supplied vith furniture, carpets, &c., fur his house in Castle gate. On Mr. Jones requesting a reference, the name of . 4 Mr. Welehman, 77, Cornhill, London," was given, and to was described as a West India proprietor of great wealth. So frank and prompt were the answers to the ;everal questions put, that Mr. Jones thought all was right ; and believing that proper inquirios must pre viously have been made, or so large a house would not have been let, consented to supply the goods. Men were immediately employed in making and fitting •arpets, setting up beds, and arranging the furniture to render the mansion complete. The articles supplied amounted to 2001. Finding that success had attended his efforts, Dr. Berrington then applied to Mr. Whet mill, wine -merchant, Parliament -street, of whom he order, d sines and porter, which soon ftaind their w..v into the cellar in Castle.-gate. Mr. Hurst, china-dealer, Chapel bar, was also favoured with an order fir china; and Mr. Pa; n ham, bootmaker, Long-row, opened an account for shoes; he china and six pairs of shoes, all being promptly sup plied. Mr. Palethorpe, engraver, speedily got ready a large brass plate, which was placed on the hall door, having had engraved upon it " R ev . D r. B errington ' s Academy." Abarrel of ale and eatables of every de scription followed in rapid succession, and on Saturday morning last Messrs. Astill and lledderl y, ironmongers, Clamber-street, on hearing the oft-repeated tale, and, r took to supply kitchen utensils to the amount of 401. or 50/. ; part of these goods was sent in the same after noon, and the remainder was to go on Monday morning. A speedy end, however, was put to this extraordinary career by a clergyman, who, after anxiously search ing to discover the character of the 4 . married clergy man" about to favour the public with a " plan of educa tion based on strictly religious principles," and a per formance of clerical duties in the neighbourhood, found a newspaper containing a full-length description, in characters not to be misunderstoo 1, of the celebrated Rev. Dr. Berrington ! This paper, the 13 7 ;taess, a Scotch newspaper, being placed on Saturday esti ning in Mr. -Jones's hand, he discovered, to his utter astoaishment and alarm, that his customer was the veritable 1)r. Berrington, who figured at Graveley, in Hertfordshire, in the month of March last, by taking a large house, opening school, giving extensive orders, and obtaining credit for goods to the amount of several hundred pounds. On reading this article, copied from the He, !ford Reformer, on the 29th of March last, Mr. Jones determined to adopt a prompt but a judicious course. Having arranged to call in Castle-gate that afternoon, he instantly sent an excuse, as it was market day, and requested that Dr. Berrington would call upon Mr. Jones at his house, as he wished to speak to him there. In a short time Dr. Berrington was on Beast-market. hill, and in conversation with Mr. Jones. During this interview, which was contrived to be continued three hours, twenty of Mr. Jones's work men were despatched, an 1 they, entering the " large house," completely cleared it of all the articles which had been furnished by their employer. Dr. Berrington, on returning into Castle-gate, foetid out his mistake ; and the news of the discovery getting wind, the house became so besieged, that the occupier quickly left it to the will of his creditors. On that day, for the first time, the lodgings this " gentleman " had taken were disco vered. It appears that three weeks ago he took his two boys—one four, and the other ten years old-----to the house of Mrs. Hawk'ns, Milton -street, where he re mained with them while he made the effort to swindle the tradespeople. On the day he was dizeovered, his wife, in a far ad vanced state of pregnancy, arrived by train from Lon don, and she, as well as the children, was wretchedly attired. On seeng her, the Doctor said he had got the house ready, the wino was decanted, and bouquets of fresh flowers neatly ;arranged upon the tables. New clothes had been ordered for the boys, and every requi site had been furnished for a splendid career. The er posj, however, had, unfortunately for him, but happily for others, ruined his bright prospects, and on the fol lowing day (Sunday), this Rev. Doctor and family set out by train for London. EXPRESS TRAINS ON TIIE LEEDS AND MAN.. CHESTER RAILWAY.—These trains commenced running on Mon day week, the 14th inst., two from Leeds and two from Manches ter daily, at the hours of nine in the morning and six in the evening from each place. On inquiry, we learn that they have maintained their speed (which is not more th an thi rty to thirty.two miles an hour, including stoppages) daily, with but one exception, when, from the overheating of one of the axles of the engine, the train exceeded its time by a quarter of an hour. The time fixed is two hours between Manchester and Leeds, and the trains now regu larly accomplish the distance from four to six minutes within the two hours —Manchester Guardian, A bet, for a considerable sum of money, was taken the other day by a gentleman in town, that he would find a man who would ride one of the horses regularly employed In running the Balfron stage-coach, belonging to Mr. James Stewart, inn. keeper in that village, from Glasgow to Balfron, a distance of 11) miles, in 1 hour and 15 minutes. As might be expected, there were heavy bets depending on the result. The match came off ors Tuesday morning, when Mr. Stewart's chesnut 8 year, old mare was selected, and she was ridden in gallant style, amidst the plau dits of a vast concourse of spectators, who, as usual, had turned out for the occasion, by a young man of the name of John Fergu son, jun., weighing nine stone. They started from the Round. tell, on the Garscube.road, at six a.m., and arrived at Stewatt's Inn, Balfron, in I hour 5; minutes, being 91 minutes within the pre scribed time. This is considered by the gentlemen of the turf as an extraordinary feat, when it is remembered that it was performed on a common, and by no means easy, metal road, arid by a mare regularly employed in the lead of a heavy stage coach, The ani mal, we understand, was perfectly fresh after the journey.—Glae. gob" Journal. SERIOUS OFFENCE ON THE GREAT WEsTEIISI RAILWAT..-- Wednesday's Government Police Gazelle contain• a description of two men, John M'Kenzie and John Stewart, who stand charged with having committed a misdemeanour, in placing a waggon on the line of the Great Western Railway in the neigh. bourhood of Standish, in Gloucestershire, and endangering the lives of divers of her Majesty's subjects, and who having absconded on the 16th instant, warrants have been issued and rewards offered for their apprehension. At the Bryn tfonl Petty Sessions on Weilnesday, a roan named John Jones,of Greenford, was committed for trial, charged with assaulting his wife on the sth inst., who has only just re covered sufficiently to give evidence against him. They quarrelled about her treatment of a child, when Jones struck his wife two blows on the head, one of which caused concussion of the brain and made her insensible, in which state she remained for two days Her life was at the time in great danger. A NOTII ER YOUNG ONE.--A new journal has been started at New York, called Young America. We belles* the principles it advocates are — universal repudiation, mint-julepe. no taxes, and a tarnation thrashing to all the world.—Panch. MANC 11 ESTER.—STATE OF TRADE.—There has been no material change in the demand for goods this week. The mar ket does not exhibit much animation, but is very steady, and price. perfectly Arm. For yarn the demand still outruns the production. and prices, especially of warps and the common counts of water twist, have an upward tendency. There has been a failure, le Liverpool, of a house engaged in the Mexican trade ; the liabilities are understood to amount to about 60,000/., a considerable portion of which is due to parties in this town. It is understood that the failure is owing, in a great measure, to unsuccessful missing spccu latlons.—Mancheater Guardian. THE BATHING IN HYDE PAIR.--A n alteration tookplaceou N s N e ' e r d e p n n c t s i d n az in n t y h d e e hours duri n g The hoursduringwhich duringbathin th gls e per re: milted in the m eloc fiv iz e in to the eig ev h •e tli n ° in e g i . : ck :in the maindermorning fr om seasoneight w b e from nine 00. THE CASE OF AIR. AND MRS. CAUDLE.— At Bow street, on Wednesday, Mr. Francis Caudl e, w h ose loquacious better. to half was committed for a month on Tuesday, attended to beg a mi tigation of the fine, in order that Mrs. Caudle might be released from her present confinement. Mr. Jardine declined to entertain the application. BATTERSEA FAlR.—Greet preparations are being made for a splendid fair, Which will be held in Battersea-fields, on Monday next and the four following days, on a plot of ground. situated between the Red.house Tavern and the Old House-at- Home Tap. All the principal shows connected with the Metropo litan fairs will be present on the occasion, and several equestrian companies have already taken up their quarters, to assist in the amusement of the fair-going folks, who are expected from London. The various steam-boats will start every quarter of an hour, front the several piers, for the purpose of conveying passengers to and fro during the fair. SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT.-OR Mr. Bedford held an inquest at St. George's Hospital on the body of James Conner, aged twenty.cight years. It appeared by the evidence that on Friday last the deceased was empldyed it same new houses now in the course of erection in Eaton.squaie, Pimlico.. Some other workmen were building a platform near the top, beneath which deceased was standing, when a large iron chlabl, about le. inches in length, fell from the platform, and struck deceased upon, the head, cutting clean through the cap. He was immediately picked up, covered with blood and quite insensible, and conveyed to the above hospital in one of Mr. Cubitt's vans. Mr. JohnsoN house-surgeon, said deceased, when admitted, had sustained a lace rated wound, between two and three Inches in lesigth, , on the back part of the head, through which his brains were prottuding, an& adhering to the hair and clothes; a considerable quinfllty of brain appeared to have been lost. Deceased died on the folleWllll day t Verdict, " Accidental death."