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and prudence, and to sow discontent and disaffection for the future ? He wished that they should admit corn on the same grounds from Australasia as from Canada. The Hon. Gentle man then read extracts from the dispatches of the Governor of Van Diemen's Land to show the beneficial results which would accrue to the inhabitants of Australia. That gentleman had formerly been a Member of that House for 'Warwick, his large property connected him with the great agricultural inte rest of that county, and if he were at all interested, it would be on the opposite side. He was delighted at having the oppor tunity of holding up some proof of the disinterestedness of that excellent Governor. He objected to the duty now charged open colonial produce, because it was stated some years ago by the Right Hon. Baronet to be the maximum. The Right Hen. Gentleman he believed had not disapproved of his opi nions on this subject. He knew very well that his real oppo nents were gentlemen who sat below the gangway on the other side. He would undertake to prove that the Hon. Member for Northumberland never adopted his own views on agricultural - protection. He also objected to this discrimi nating duty, because it intimated to the people of Australia and to the world that the former were less deserving of the favour of the Government than their brother colonists. He would contend for it, that if the agricultural produce of that colony were permitted to come into England, it would give an impetus to British manufacture, and increase employment; and thus the idle labouring population would not be thrown back upon the country for parochial relief. He declared when he looked at the returns as to the state of the population in these realms, and the obstruction that was offered to every description of improvement in Ireland, all this affected him to a degree that he could not express. —( Hear, hear.) He would ask, why not give to Australia the same advantage that was given to the United States? There could be no disguising the fact that this state of things had induced smuggling to a great extent along the coast; and would this country, then, persevere in holding a state of law that would encourage such a practice? Would this country continue laws that would encourage the produce of America, and de preciate that of Australia? Surely not. This, then, was his case ; and all he asked for was, the same protection to corn brought from Australia, as that given to the corn brought from Canada. He asked it not only as an act of justice, but as an act of prudence and good government.—( Hear, hear.) One word more, and he had done. He heard the Right Hors. Ba ronet at the head of her Majesty's Government, upon the in troduction of an important measure lately, speak of a small but dark cloud that appeared in the western horizon. He did not mean to say that the Right Hon. Baronet was then actuated by any feeling of fear ; but, again, he would say that this Go vetnment ought to give the people of Australia equal rights and privileges with all her Majesty's subjects. Sir W. JAMES said he would occupy the attention of the House but for a few minutes. He supported this measure not only in compliance with the wishes of his constituents, but also because he conceived it was one which was in accordance with the general policy of her Majesty's present Government.— ( Hear, hear.) His Hon. Friend who had proposed the mea sure might have gone into the, question of the corn-laws and the colonial government, but he ( Sir W. James) conceived he had acted more wisely and prudently by not doing so. Sir G. CLERK said he felt that he laboured under great disadvantages in attempting to reply to the eloquent speech of his Learned Friend opposite ; but he could not permit the measure he had proposed to go to a vote without stating why it was that he ( Sir G. Clerk) intended to negative it. He conceived he (Mr. H.) had greatly exaggerated ,the benefits which he said would follow frcm the adoption of the measure. He ( Sir G. Clerk) did not think that any of these advantages would follow it. The great trade upon which Australia de pended was its wool trade. As for its trade in corn, it would be impossible that it could have the accounts of the state of the agriculture of this country, in any one year, in sufficient time to be of any benefit to it in its trade in corn. He knew perfectly well that he would be asked this question— ', Why, then, if you suppose that no great quantity of wheat is likely to be brought from these colonies, do you offer any ob jection to this motion ?" Now, although the Hon. Gentleman had attempted to throw some ridicule on the settlement of the corn-laws which took place in ISO., he (Sir G. Clerk) still remained of opinion that it was very unwise constantly to be tampering with the laws relating to that article, in the produc tion of which so great a portion of the capital of this country waa invested. He would call to the recollection of the House the statement which was made by his Noble Friend the Secre tary for the Colonies, when he submitted the Canada Corn Bill to the consideration of Parliament in 1643. He stated then distinctly that the measure had been brought firward in con sequence of declarations which had been made—which, al though not binding on the Legislature, had been acted upon by the Colonial Legislature. If the Hon. Gentleman would look to the returns which had been laid on the table of the House of the quantity of wheat flour which had been brought from Ca nada in the lest year into this country, he would find that the amount was very small. The Hon. Gentleman must re member that if the existing Canada Corn Bill was an anomaly, the present motion would only introduce a fresh anomaly into the leg, - slation of this country. He ( Sir G. Clerk) had stated that the South Australian colonies would derive no advantage from the mo tion if it were carried, as those colonies did not at the present moment raise sufficient corn to support the people of that country. It appeared that during the last three years 46,000 quarters of wheat had been imported into the South Austra- ' lien colonies from Valparaiso, and a considerable quantity from Calcutta. Now, it was perfectly clear that if this motion were adopted it would cause an outlet for the corn of South Ame rica, through which it would come to this country. Under these circumstances, looking to the small amount of corn raised in the South Australian colonies, even including Van Diemen's Land, he did not think that the Hon. Gentleman had made out such a case as ought to induce the House to tamper with and alter the existing corn law of this country. As far as price was considered he apprehended that the very small quan tity of corn that came from South Australia would not effect the price of corn in this country. But they knew perfectly well from experience what panics had been created in this country by the alterations which have already been made by the Government, not only as regarded the trade in corn, but as regarded also the trade in many other articles the produce of this country. He knew perfectly well that if they were to make the proposed alteration a great deal of alarm would be created. amongst the agriculturists of this country. It would do much more harm to this country than any benefit it might confer on the South Australian colonies. He knew that to tamper with the corn-laws at the present moment would so far shake the confidence of the farmers of this country, as to be productive of much greater injury, not only to them, but to the community at large, than any benefit which the Hon. Gentleman expected would be conferred upon the colonies. For these reason, he should oppose the motion. Mr. I.A.BOUCHERE would occupy a very small portion of the time of the House in stating the reasons which induced him to support the motion which his Hon. Friend had brought for. ward with so much ability and judgment. He had opposed the measure of her Majesty's Government with regard to the im • portation of Canadian corn, and subsequent reflection had not induced him to regret the part he had taken with respect to that measure. He thought then, and he thought now, that it was rot desirable in a greater degree than already existed to raise up a protected interest with regard to corn in the British colonies. He had objected to the measure because he thought that a protected interest would form an obstacle to the altera tions in the general corn-law of England, which he thought ought to be made, and which he believed would be made. This was one of the reasons which had induced him to object to the Canada Corn Bill. He staled at that time what he felt now, that it was impossible to keep together a vast colonial empire except on the principles of equal treatment and justice. He felt if such a Bill as the Canada Bill were to be passed, that it would only be justice if they should require it to extend such a measure to the other colonies. 'The Right Hon. Gentleman had argued this question in a very singu'ar manner. First of all, he dealt _with the justice of the case, and the necessity of dealing, in an equal manner, with the various British colonies. He said that it would be quite impossible, if the motion were agreed to, that any core would be sent to this country from Australia. That, to a certain degree, met the question of justice. He was then obliged to find some reason for refusing this boon, which was so trifling. He said that, trifling as it was, it would alarm the great agricultural interest in this country. Now he (Mr. Labouchere) thought a worse compliment never could be paid by a Minister than this. In the first place, he said that no man of common sense and intelligence could look into thi..iubject and have the smallest apprehension that any quantity of corn would be sent to this country ; and then he said that, notwith standing this, the agricultural portion of the community would take great alarm at a measure like this. The agriculturists haul been alarmed at the Canada Corn Bill, believing it to be a means of introducing American eorn to this country ; but he (Mr. Labouchere) eould not conceive the most timid agricul turist in England fearing that corn would come over half the surface of the earth to this conntry. He (Mr. Labouchere) concurred with the Right Hon. Gentleman that it was not wise to be always tampering with commercial laws of this descrip tion. Changes produced a want of confidence ; but still he thought no one engaged in the corn trade, and still less those who were engaged in the cultivation of corn, could believe that this measure would produce any sensible change in their interest. One great objeetion which he had to the present corn law was that it could raver last. It was utterly impossible that it could last. The reasons upon which he supported this motion were of the simplest kind. He did not profess to believe that any advantage would accrue to the colonies in consequence of it. But on the other hand it must be remembered that that which was trifling to grant might yet be much to refuse. When the British colonies came forward and asked to be put on the same footing with regard to these duties as Canada, he thought that if they were not able to give a better answer to them than the answer which had been given by the Right Hon. Gentleman, the request ought to be granted. With these views he should certainly give his support to the motion of his Hon. Friend. Captain BOLTS thought that the present measure was quite consistent with the Canada Corn-bill, and he could not un derstand how these gentlemen on his side of the House who supported the one, could oppose the present motion.—( Hear, hear.) If there was a distinction to he made at all, he was of opinion that it should be made in favour of Australia; for the population of Australia was British, without any foreign admixture ; and they had a most affectionate regard for the mother -country. Besides no smuggling could take place from Australia. But the reverse of this was the case with Canada ; there the p o p u l a ti on was compose d o f i n di ans, A mer i cans , an d French, as well a s E ng li s h. Th ere were re b e lli on s th e re which had cost this country lir se sums to /1 oppress. They cared littl e whether they would be under the American stripes or the U n i on Jack ;an d there were the greatest facilities for smuggling from America. He could not understand, there fore, why there should fin. be any favour of Canasta. preference shown in people hop f ed the House would not act so un justly towards the amngsto them.—( and wait till a spirit of discontent arose Hear, hear.) read an extract of a letter whi t ich a . i — he ( had received fro i m ie a wmouerld chant in the city who traded exclusively with Australia. The Hon. and Gallant Gentleman then read the extract to the effect, that this country need not fear any great competition from Australia, for that it cou ld not sendtothi s than 20,0' 0 quarters of wheat for several though only 3s. 3d. there, would be vastly increased and thPri t c h e a ' great freight which would be charged. He was from opinionthe - that the worst policy they could pursue was not to o a f d mil corn With theypeet to the mother free of all duty.—( Hear, hear.) country, and the colonies, he thought ought to be con sidered as one large country, and that equal j i u t stice should be most done to all.—( Hear, hear.) He was sure to show a preference fur one colonwya3mothree unwise policy another, and he was persuaded that if they made the Amer icanthan colonies an integral portion of the kingdom they would still remain British colonies instead of the United States of Ame rica. All he should say in conclusion was this, that if they acted so unjustly towards Australia they would break a link in the chain which bound that colony to the mother country. Mr. M. GIBSON said, that the Hon. and Gallant Gen tleman who had just sat down propounded sound views re spectin • • g the motion which had been submitted to them; and knowing how much the Honourable and Gallant Gentleman was looked up to by the agriculturists of Suffolk, and how much weight they gave to his opinion, he trusted that his views would tend to remove the alarm entertained by the agriculturists respecting his motion.—( Hear, hear.) He was afraid the Right Hon. Gentleman (the Vice-President of the Board of Trade) was premature in opposing the motion, and he hoped, notwithstanding his opposition. arter the speeches they had hears from the other s ide, the First 31iniiter of the Crown would give his assent to the preposition of his Hon Friend.—( Hear, bear.) Nor would that be an unusual course, for when his Hon. Friend the Member for Lambeth brought Ikwwer4 e gettein motion, the flight Hon. Gentleman (the Vit*.PrAutiaetit of the Board of Trade) was tao precipitate in giving o pz:gatiats I for his negative was afterwards re ;timed by the Right Hon. Gentleman (Sir R. Peel), and the measure of his Hon. Friend was carried through the House. T The Right Hon. Gentleman also showed symptoms of the most decided distress.—( Hear, hear, and a laugh.) He made use of most extraordinary arguments. He did not know whether they were official arguments taken from that pigeon hole in the Board of Trade to which the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton alluded, but they were arguments which would not answer in the present state of society. If some persons felt apprehensive as to the effect of this measure upon the agriculturists, that was not to affect the Legislature. They in that House were Rot to submit their legislation to the ignoront apprehensions cf these persons.—(Hear, hear. ) He heard the Right Honourable Gentleman (Sir Robert Peel) say, that if he were satisfied in his own mind of a measure being good, and for the benefit of the country, he would not be deterred by unfounded apprehensions from take the consequences, and passing the measure, and that was the right course.--( Hear, hear.) One of the symptoms of distress to which he alluded in the speech of the Might Hon. Gentleman (Sir G. Clerk): was when he said that this motion was not large enough—(Laughter)—that there was no general principle involved, and that was the reason the measure ought not to be adopted.—( Laughter.) That certainly was hardly a fair objection against a motion which was supported by those who were in favour of letting in corn from all their colonies, and even from foreign parts. He admitted there was some force in the argument of the Right Hon. Gentleman the late Presi dent of the Board of Trade, that if this motion were passed they were g iving a partnership in monopoly to the colonies, which would render the application of the principle of free-trade more difficult. But he thought that the advantages of the measure would counterbalance such a result. He thought it would be a step towards the accomplishment of that which they had in view—a more unrestricted corn trade. It was most unjust to wards the inhabitants of Australia that they should exclude their produce from the best—he might say—the only market they had. Besides, if they d d not allow the inhabitants of Australia to sell what they produced, how could they expect to have it in their ewer to buy what was produced in this country.? What, then, became of the argument that the colonies would be their best customers ?—( Hear, hear.) He would call upon the House not to persevere in such a course of injustice.—( Hear.) Mr. DARBY said that the Honourable Gentleman who had just sat down misrepresented what the Hon. Gentleman (the Vice-President of the Board of Trade) had stated. The Canada Corn Bill was brought forward on specific grounds, and when that measure was brought forward it was stated that the other colonies were not to expect that their corn should be imported on the same conditions that Canada corn was im ported, because the cases were different. If, as was stated, only 20,001 quarters could be imported from Australia, then, he thought, this was a much-a-do-about-nothing affair. He hoped the Right Hon. Gentleman at the head of the Govern ment would not assent to the present proposition. If they tampered in this way with the capital employed in agriculture, persons would not invest any more capital in it, and, if that took place, the public would be the sufferers. Great improve ments had lately taken place in agriculture, but by tampering with the corr.-laws they induced persons to withdraw capital from agriculture. He believed they would have a worse and more irregular supply than if they permitted those laws to re main. Comparing the price of iron and the produce of the various trades in the country with the price of corn, he did not see what right the lion. Gentleman had to bring forward a motion tending to shake the confidence of the agri culturists.—( Ironical cheers.) It was easy enough to cry " Hear, hear," when the interests of agricul ture were brought forward; but whenever the subject was corks, or shoes, or straw-plait, then Honourable Gentlemen opposite got up and alleged some specific grounds in favour of those articles. He recollected that the Honourable Member for Finsbury, who had such a universal idea of the people at large—(loud laughter)—gave the most strenuous op position when the House was discussing the reduction on shoes. Honourable Gentlemen were ready enough to claim exemption when articles in which they were interested were under dis cussion, but when the subject of the agricultural interest was brought forward, they never showed any specific claims.— ( Hear, hear. ) Mr. F. BARING must take an objection to one point of the Hon. Gentleman's speech, namely, what he had said in reference to those who hail created the panic en the introduc tion of the Canada Corn Bill; for he thought the Hon. Gen tleman himself had made so good an alarmist speech—had rung the tocsin as effectually to the agriculturists on this occa sion, as Hon. Gentleman on his side of the House could have possibly done.—( Hear, hear.) He considered it a question of justice to one of their colonies--(Hear)—for they were bound to deal with them on a principle of equality. He (Mr. Baring) had voted against the Canada Corn Bill, but having once admitted the principle, they could not refuse to act upon it in all their colonies.—( Hear, hear.) It was said by Ilonourable Gentlemen opposite that the present motion was not sufficiently comprehensive—that was rather a strange sort of argument, coming from the quarter it did. The answer to it was this : Australia sought for this concession ; she was entitled to it, because she was in the same condition with respect to England that Canada was. Again, it was said to be a very small boon. Yes, but Australia did not think it too small to receive. Australia asked the favour most respectfully and most earnestly, and he could not see upon what principle Hon. Gentlemen opposite, who were generally so anxious to protect their own colonies, even at the expense of the British public, could oppose the present motion. The argument, as to the smallness of the benefit which would be conferred on the people of this country, must have been imported from the north—one of the new arguments drawn from the late Treasury edition of them.—(A laugh.) But it was said by the Hon. Member for Sussex, and indeed by the Right Hon. Gentleman the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, that this was a settled question, for that, at the time the Canada Corn Bill was passed, special care was taken by the Government to declare that Canada alone should receive this privilege. This, truly, must be satis factory to the peol le of Australia. It was saying to them, We cannot deny the justice of your claim, but the injustice will not be for a year or two, but perpetual, because we have said that Canada alone should be equitably dealt with.— (Cheers.) It was also said that it would be inconvenient to pass the measure, and that it would unsettle and disturb the public mind. Why, the same argument might have been re sorted to on the Canada Corn It certainly was quite true that it was sometimes found convenient to do justice to a powerful and important colony, and inconvenient to act in the same way to a weak and unimportant one.—(Hear, hear.) import of Canadian wheat during the last year than (luring some 1 years previous. Some persons who objected to the introduction of American wool had exhibited an obstinate rejection of the prin ciple of friendly interchange between country and countryt under the supposition that all that which did not tend to a presen and immediate advantage was an injury to our national inte rests. Ile wished the Government to take some means of allaying this alarm, for he thought that it was not right, how ever great or important the agricultural interest might be, that on every proposition for improvement in commercial policy, the members of the landed interest should come down to that House and oppose it on the ground of its being detrimental to their welfare. He thought that such a power as this should not be intrusted to that interest, for it had shown by its con duct that it was unable to view any great question of econo mical or geographical science aright. There had been groat alarm some time back on the proposal to reduce the duty on American lard, and yet, by the reduction of that duty, the revenue had been largely increased. The duty on American lard had last year been 200,000/., in consequence of the re duction of the duty from Ss. to 2s. per cwt., and yet no person in this country could say that he had received one farthing less for his lard. No doubt it would be a very comfortable doctrine if the juste milieu system could be adopted, and duties could be remitted without any injury to the home producer. If the tar-stick of the custom-house officer could be intro duced into a firkin of butter, and render it unfit for home consumption—if when Canadian or foreign corn was imported it could be imbued with anything that could render it unfit for human food, there would not be the slightest objection on the part of Gentlemen opposite to its introduction. But what they wanted was that wheat might be introduced for the bread-eater from every part of the world on the most ad vantageous terms. In a discussion in another place, the other night, on the union of the sees of Bangor and St. Asaph, a Noble Lord bad stated as a reason for enlarging the establishment of Bishops that the population was increasing at the rate of 1,000 a day. He would use the very same argument, and would ask the House to provide a table for this increase of 1,000 a day. He imputed no dishonourable motives to the gentlemen of the agricultural interest, but he wished that that interest would stand forth in the power of its native strength—that it would trust to no unworthy support, but that it would lay aside its crutches, throw off its bandages, and rely solely upon its own resources. It would not be filled with such an unnecessary alarm and come down to the House to contest such matters of small importance as that of the introduction of wheat evidently was to the landed interest of this country. He thought with his lion. Friends the Members for Manchester and Hull, that this was not a case in which the opi nions of the country were to be led by the influence of a man on this side of the House or that. He rejoiced to see that there was a breaking down of parties, and that the people of England were fast coming to the conclusion that there was a unity of interest in all parties of the community, and that no one, whether agricultural or commercial, was to be sacrificed to the other—that all were to be taken into the same common consideration. For these reasons he was glad that the question bad been brought forward, and he should most readily vote for ' the motion of the Hon. Member for Gateshead. Mr. S. O'BRIEN thought it would have been better if the Hon. Member for Durham had confined himself to the simple question before the House, instead of widely entering into the whole question of agricultural protection. Protection was not confined to the agricultural classes ; for, if he remembered aright, some years ago, the importers of cottcn had called upon the Minister of the day, and expressed their apprehension that their trade would be greatly injured in consequence of foreign competition, if some degree of protection were not afrirded them. Their application was, however, wisely resisted, and the result proved that their apprehensions were groundless, and they now stood in a position, as respected their commercial prospects, which proved the wisdom of that Minister. He (Mr. S. O'Brien) was ever opposed to the total, the immediate, and the unconditional surrender of protection to agriculture, and he thought that the Hon. Member who had brought for ward this motion, and the Hon. Members who had supported it, it had altogether lost sight of the complicated interests which were involved in the settlement of the ques tion.—( Hear.) How did the Australians themselves consider. this matter? They stated in a return laid before that House, that the agriculture of the country was comparatively nothing, but they affirmed that the pastoral interest was with them all in all. For free trade, or no trade, in agriculture they eared not ; but they prayed that the pastoral character of their colony might not be interfered with, as in that trade consisted all their wealth and all their prosperity. If they entered on this question at all, he thought it better that they should take it as a whole, but that was perhaps too late now. He thought they had no right to take this question piecemeal, and he should therefore support the Government in opposition to the motion of the Hon. Member. Mr. WARD thought the Right Hon. Baronet had great reason to congratulate himself on the clearness of the argu ments used by the Hon. Members who generally supported him. The Hon. Member who had spoken last thought that they should not take the question piecemeal—that they should at once enter on the whole question. This was neither more nor less than the Peebleshire argument—( Loud laughter)—of voting agai• st the trivial grant, and conceding the round sum at last.—( Continued laughter.) So the Hon. Member for Northampton thought, that instead of doing justice to Australia in detail, they should, in the Peebleshire fashion, take the whole question of the colonies at once into consideration. The Hon. Member for the West Riding of Yorkshire was afraid, that if they conceded this motion it would stimulate Canada to make still larger demands upon this country. The time must shortly come when the agricultural, like the cotton trade, would cease to tremble for its own interest, and when it would merge those individual interests in the general desire to add to the prosperity of the community. Sir R. PEEL said that the argument o of the Hon. Gentle man who had last addressed thHouse was nut in any gre'.t degree calculated to induce Hon. Members on that (the Mi nisterial) side of the House to vote for this motion, Hon. Gen tlemen on that side had stated, on the occasion of passing the Canada Corn Bill, that no American corn would be introduced into this country through that colony. Other Hon. Members had invited votes by affirming that corn would be imported in this manner, and the Hon. Gentleman in addressing the House had expressed his satisfaction that an immense importation of corn would take place from America, smuggled into Canada, and transhipped into this country. Mr. WARD explained. The Right Hon. Baronet was en tircly misquoting him. He had not stated so. Sir R. PEEL.—It certainly was his own intention to vote in opposition to this motion. There were two other proposi tions on the subject of free trade in corn, which would come before the House in the course of the session. One was a pro posal for the total repeal of the duty on corn, and the other proposition would be discussed in a fortnight, on the motion of the Noble Lord the Member for London. His motion was to this effect, that the present corn-law tended to check improve. menta in agriculture, anti to impose an unreasonable restraint upon farm speculation, and that the House should take the law into its consideration with the view to arrangements which would be found beneficial to all classes of her Majesty's sub. jects. They were to have a discussion on the policy of alter ing the existing statute, and another on the propriety of making liberal arrangements, with the view of benefiting all classes of her Majesty's subjects. These two proposals were to be set before the House; but not satisfied with the proposal of the Hon. Member for Wolver hampton, and of the Noble Lord the Member for Lond n, here they had another brought forward by the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Gateshead, the effect of which was to admit the produce of one part of the colonies to the same privileges which Canada possessed. The Canada Bill was passed in 1825, and he would just ask the House to refer for a moment to the circumstances under which that measure was passed. The maximum of the duty was fixed at a sum which was con sidered commensurate with the resources of the colony, and the circumstances of the mother country. He thought that if Gentlemen would dispassionately look over all the debates that had occurred upon this question of Canadian preference— An Hose. MEMBER—I did not say so. . . But justi - ce was justice for all that; and the vironk the/ was not the less because they inflicted it where it would be pa tiently borne.—( freer, hear.) He thought, sooner or later, justice would be done, and was glad to see two or three Hon. Gentlemen on the other side of the House give expression to opinions highly favourable to a just and equitable settlement of this question. It was also argued that a romise had been made to the agriculturists that to Canada alone the favour should . be extended. But who made that promise ?—( Hear, hear.) An objection had been raised, and with great force, against the Canada Corn Bill, that it would induce smuggling, and that foreign corn—American corn--would be surreptitiously introduced. This argument did not at all apply to Australia—( Hear, hear)—there they were sure that they would have fair dealing, and nothing else. But Canada had other argumeuts in favour, which Australia had not; they were urged with great force by the Members of the Government at the time. Canada was the neighbour of a great and restless power.—( Hear, hear.) Canasta had been put in a state of rebellion against teis country—it was a power ful colony, and would sot. as the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite then said, be trifled with. Well, he (Mr. Baring) did not deprecate this sort of argument, but did it follow that a loyal, true, and peaceable people, should be treated unjustly and be deprived of privileges because they were not sufficiently strong and turbulent to extort them?—( Cheers.) Mr. STUART WORTLEY agreed with many of the arguments that had been used by the Hon. Gentleman who made this motion, and thought it would have been better for the people of this country if the corn-laws had never existed. —( Hear, h-ar.) He would be the last to oppose a measure of justice to Australia, but he thought the circumstances of Cadada and Australia were widely different. He knew this fact, that it was only two years since the experiment of introducing Chilian wheat was made, but this was under the foreign duty. There was only the further carriage from Cape Horn, and he did not think that this would materially injure the agricultural interest ; and he did not think, therefore, that there should be any exception taken to the introduction of such corn into this country. This trade could not exist to any great extent. But, supposing this benefit was to be extended to any material extent, what would the Canadians say to us? They would say that we had given them what we conceived to be a benefit, and the [louse had deprived them of all advantage. For his part, whether with respect to the importance of this question, or to the interests of the agricultural interests in this country, there could be no objection to admit Australian corn. The Australian subjects had at least been peaceable subjects, and he did not see why they should not enjoy the same advan tage as that possessed by the Canadians. Ile thought that this argument went to the whole case, and though the Austra lian colonists were not precisely in the same position, yet on account of the superior benefits which they possessed in some respects, he should feel compelled to vote against the motion. Mr. BRIGHT said that the Hon. Member who had just sat down had concluded his speech by saying that, however re luctantly, he was compelled, from his view of the question, to rote against the motion of the Hon. Member for Gate s head (Mr. Hutt). Whenever that Hon. Member rose, he (Mr. Bright) was always at a loss to understand from his speeches on which side he thought upon the question before the House. There was an amiable partiality to both sides in the whole of that lion. Gentleman's speeches, but there never was any dif ficulty in ascertaining en which side he intended to vote. He was afraid, in this speech of his upon the corn-laws, that there would be but small consolation for the Hon. Member for Northamptonshire and the great party of the agricultural interest which he represented. The Hon. Member invariably expressed his great regard for infant colonies, and yet he showed the ex tent of that interest, by wishing to interfere with their trade in corn, and yet the corn-laws exist for all. In the speech of his [lon. Friend the Member for Manchester, a very apt dis tinction had been drawn with respect to the peculiar principles advanced by the Vice-President of the Board of Trade. In that speech the text had been supplied, and the Hen. Member for Sussex (Mr. Darby) had taken upon himself the duty of commenting upon that text ; and all he could say of that speech was, that the commentator was worthy of the text. They who were cotton spinners, and many who were interested in the iron trade, it had been said in the speech of the Vice-President, to whom he had alluded, were only anxious - .to reduce the price of wheat when the price of their materials was high. Now, it was not a question of price at all with him, or the friends with whom he acted. And they were not more anxious to reduce the price of cotton and of iron, when the price of wheat was low, than when it was high. All they asked on the part of the Anti-Corn-law League, and of the country was, that they might obtain a return for the exertions of their honest industry. The lion. Member for Sussex had been most anxious to pre serve the interests of the agricultural class in that county, but he (Mr. Bright) thought it was highly unjust that the interests of any one class of men should be upheld at the expense of the whole body of the people. It had been the custom in that House, in the speeches made by Gentlemen opposite, on the proposition of any one of these changee, to in variably bring forward the dangerous effect on the agricultural mind. Now, it appeared to him that this agricultural mind was a very obscure and intangible sort of an affair. He remarked that some few years since the agricultural mind had been very greatly distressed on the introductiou of a certain substance from India called catch, for the purpose of dyeing. The agricultural mindi fer h e, a i d wi b t e h o i n u t dreadfully hesale frightened ufit s bark, rk, a thatalthough its ghthe fact rights shouldatwas b a e s that th e hi g h price of bark had been in een no way redu , 7ed. A pretty broad hint had been given to th ose connec t e d wit h ' Indian affairs, that if they i n t er f ere d w i s h t h e sale o f bark, a 'pretty sharp l oo k- out would b e kept on th eir proceedings ru to whenever the chart er o f t h e E ast mlnedmiabeCreotrtphaani wshhoeuuldthceomtnetducetiorne-consideresl. He re cwuoitoulr a a i t i reduced rate was talked o f in 182` , , that th e a° gf g he ri e e n vo d u r s ea l ( o l s fu2l a y u d d is w tr h e e s nsedlaswtityhearcetrhteaintotvaalgaubeolaifiPPreh fenthsieondsutoyf o upon that article was p ropose d , t h at the agricult o n n rai mind had anticipated little less than ruin, and yet notwithstanding all these apprehensions, and these fears, he believed the pri ce of wool had not been affected to any sensible extent to 1 British farmer. At the latter end of 1842, great alarm htaltrt been excited by the alteration in the tariff, through which cattle was to be introduced to this country from abroad. Cattle had been introduced to some extent, to the very ffreat alarm of the agricultural mind ; and yet he believed that, notwith standing this affection of the agricultural mind, the farmers of this country realisf , l a fair price for several months past. When the introduction of Canadian wheat was talked of, a great panic had been excited among the agriculturists of this country, and yet the return showed that there had been n o greater , Sir R. PEEL said that ho was not aware under what circum stances the Honourable Member had denied his authority, but it was quite clear, from the facts which the Hon. Member him self had stated, that the condition of the Canadian colonies re quired arrangements of a different character from those of our other colonies. He did not think it would be wise to take the ease of a single colony. It ought to be the duty of the Legislature to take into consideration the circumstances of all the colonies, and not to make Canada an exception, or to point out a colony in another portion of the globe, as exempted or wronged. He believed the evil of the proposition of the Hon. Member for Gateshead would outweigh the good. If the claim of Australia was founded in justice, it ought to weigh with them ; but he contended that the case of Australia was not identical with that of Canada, and he was, therefore, unwilling to extend the provisions of the Canadian Bill of 1443 to that colony.—( Hear, hear.) Lord HOWICK said he never heard the Right Honourable Baronet at the head of her Majesty's Government make a speech in which he had failed so much. It was evident that a very painful task had been imposed upon him.—( Hear.) No one who had listened to that speech could entertain a doubt of the justice of the motion of the Hon. Member for Gateshead (Mr. Hutt). The Right Hon. Baronet had endea voured to get up a laugh at the terms of the resolution, and said there was no use in their discussing the present motion, as the subject of the corn-laws was shortly to be discussed. It was true they were going to discuss the corn-laws, but it was also well known how the House would go on that question whenever it was brought forward. From the existing Parlia ment, no material alteration in the corn-laws was to be ex pected. How, then, in justice could they refuse to accede to the motion before the House ? It was said by the Right Honourable Baronet that the cases of Australia and Canada were not precisely the same, and he endeavoured to show a difference. But he (Lord Howick) wished to know if Aus tralia was leas an integral part of the. British empire than Canada, and if it was so, as he contended it was, then was it not enti led to the same privileges? The only difference that he knew between Australia and Canada,was that in Canada there was an opportunity for smuggling into this country foreign grain as colonial produce, which could not be the case with Australia. While Canada could get American corn and introduce it at 3s. per quarter, Australia was not in a position to do anything of the kind, for the nearest place that any grain could be got from was Chili. This would require a long and expensive voyage, and the freights would be so great that they might rest perfectly assured that foreign corn could not be introduced through that channel. It was clear from this that the agricultural interest need not be afraid.— (Hear, hear, and cheers.) It was completely secure as far as danger from that quarter was concerned. With regard to Ca nada, there was no such security, as it was clear that a consi derable portion of American corn crossed into Canada, as flour without duty, and admitted into this country at Canadian rates.—( Hear.) In comparing Australia with Canada every argument told in favour of the former and against the latter. He wished to know whether the Right Hon. Baronet opposed the assimilation of the duties in these two cases, from a fear that the alteration would lead to the importation of tozr much corn, and alarm his agricultural friends? Or did he refuse it because the boon was so small to the colonies that it would be of little service to them, though it excited no fear amongst these same agricultural friends ? On either view of the question he did not think the Right Hon. Baronet was Justified in opposing the motion. The importance to the colonies of being allowed to send even a small amount of grain was very great, and the opportunity of doing so ought not by any means to be refused. It had been ob jected to the motion by the Right Hon. Baronet, that it did not include all the colonies, but he ( Lord Howick) thought his Hon. Friend (Mr. Hutt) had acted very wisely in the course which ho had pursued. He had brought forward one crying case of injustice, in order to have it remedied. If this were remedied, he was no doubt prepared to go further, and to extend his consideration to all other parts.—( Hear, hear.) But if the Right lion. Baronet was dissatisfied with the limited measure of his lion. Friend, let him (Sir R. Peel) in troduce a measure to include all the British possessions, and he would not oppose it.—(" Hear, hear," anti cheers.) But the real truth had not been stated respecting this question by the Right lion. Gentleman the Member for Ports mouth ( Mr. Baring), when he said that the Go vernment acted with regard to Canada as they had acted elsewhere, they refused to a sense of justice what they conceded to intimidation.—( Loud cheers.) Their policy in other quarters had been to lead parties to expect concessions results, led from threats and menaces, instead of from justice and reason. which could be safely This destroyed the grace of concession, and was a policy llt , h, instead of producing moderation and legiti matecontinually to further and increased demands. A just and ly im i p m a r r s t u ia e l d by those alone was power. t He did hope the House would be careful not to excite all the British colonies by all itonduet of the vtr o n w ra i e n i f t such a p o li c y t o preva il. Th e when it was remem b ered tbet wi the it would xnore to be denoun ce d here that she was indebted nothing to England for the cons THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1845. cessions which had been made to her, and probably induce other colonies to follow her example of demanding instead of entreating concessions from the English Government. Mr. NE WDEG ATE added his testimony to the truth of the statement of the lion. Member for Sheffield, that the corn trade of Canada had been extended since the passing of the Canada Corn Bill, and told the Government that if they interded to deal fairly with their own measure they would look to the manner in which corn had been introduced into Canada from America. After a few words from Mr. PLUMPTRE, Mr. HUTT shortly replied. He had no hopes, he said, of succeeding that evening, but the time was not far distant when Government would be compelled to carry it by the threat and intimidation of the colonies. The House then divided, when there appeared--_ For the motion ••• 93 Against it Majority against it Cnlonel WOOD then withdrew tke motion which be in tended to bring forward that night. POST-OFFICE: AIMS 7.5. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE posponed his motion relating to Post-office abuses till that day fortnight. He then presented a petition, of such large dimensions as to create great laughter throughout the House, from Mr. Wallace and several other petitioners, against the pr csent railway legislation, the amalgama. tion of great lines, and against railway monopoly, and stated that he would found a motion on it at some future period. He also moved that it should be printed with the votes. Petition laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Lord DALMENY moved, according to notice, for a Bill to explain the 6th and 7th of Victoria, chap. 3, intituled an Act to exempt from county, borough, parochial, and other rates, land and buildings occupied by scientific or literary societies. The motion was agreed to. Mr. GROGAN obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend the laws relating to coroners, and the expenses of inquests in Ireland. Mr. CARDWELL got leave to bring in certain amendments to the A nnuil Indemnity Bill. Mr. S. HERBERT obtained leave to bring in a Bill re• lating to Military Savings' Banks. The House then adjourned, at a Quarter-past Eleven. COURT OF EXCISE—THURSDAY. (name the Hon. Captain PERCY, J. HARRIaON, Esq., and J. C. HERRIES, Erq.) Samuel Brandon, proprietor of the cigar divan, 163, Strand, was charged on three informations with retailing wines, spirituous liquors, and beer without license. . Henry Taylor, an officer of Excise, stated that on the Bth of March last, he went to the premises of defendant, known as the " Strand Cigar Divan," at the corner of Strand-lane, and having purchased cigars, entered into conversation with the defendant. He said he expected a friend to meet him there to play at billiards, but as he had not arrived he would go and meet him. Witness then left the shop, but shortly afterwards returned, and some further conversation took place. He played at billiards, and some time afterwards ordered a bottle of lemonade, but upon his remarking that it was very cold drinking, defendant said that he could have a bottle of ale, and that he (defendant) " would call it lemonade." The bottle of ale was brought from a chest in the room, and served up to him. He was afterwards supplied with wine, brandy and water, &c. The defendant's son mixed the brandy an water. The other articles were brought by defendant himself. lie was charged 3s. for the wine, beer, ac., and 4d. for a cigar. He then left the shop. The defendant said that on the night in question he had been drinking rather freely, as was his usual custom ; he kept a bottle of spirits and a bottle of wine up stairs for his own use, and that having mixed a glass of spirits for his own use, he had presented his glass, out of feelings of humanity, to the witness, as he complained of the inconvenience under which he laboured through the public-houses being closed. To the best of his be. lief, the officer had taken out his cigar case and filled it with the best cigars, which accounted for the charge of 3s. For the spirits he made no charge whatever. The nfficer was recalled—The statement of defendant scarcely contained one word of truth. Never carried a cigar case in his life, consequently could not have had one Mild. The defendant partook of the spirits and water on his (witness's) invitation. An • other person was present, who ordered sherry and water. As wit. neat was about going away defendant said it was very convenient to keep these things in the house, as many friends called upon him when they could not get them elsewhere. The defendant said he kept the spirits in his room upstairs for his own convenience, it not being prudent to send the servant into the cellar at all times ; and ridiculed the assertion that he should call ale " lemonade." Such an idea was too absurd to be for a moment entertained. At the same time he would put it to the Court that, as he had been convicted on a former occasion, was it at all likely he should be guilty of such an offence again, having be fore suffered for it severely ? The Cotner was of opinion that the charge had been fully sot. tained. The Hon. Capt. PRIICY, in giving judgment, said that it appeared the defendant would take no warning from a former conviction. They would now try the effect of a heavier penalty, and the judg. ment of the Court was, that he be fined—for the sale of wine, 201. ; for spirits, 201.; and for beer, 10/.—in all, the mitigated penalties of 501. William Cope, of No. 41, Keppel-street, Russell•square, whole. sale wine and spirit dealer, was charged with retailing spirits with. out license. Mr. Robert Dawson, an officer, proved being served with a bottle of spirits at the shop or warehouse of defendant. It was pale brandy, for which he paid 6•. 6d. It was served by defendant himself. The defendant said that he had been frequently asked to retail spirits, but had invariably refused, and called a witness to prove that such had been his practice. Mr. Brown, supervisor, said a detection of a similar description had been made on the premises of defendant on a former occasion, when he was cautioned by the officers. The Court fined him in the penalty of let Louis Meunier, of the Prince of Wales Hotel, Leicester-place, Leicester.square, was convicted in the penalty of 21. 25., for selling spirits in premises adjoining his own. It appeared that a commu nication had formerly existed between them, but it had for some tivne been cut off, by order of the magistrates. He promised to confine his trade to one house for the future. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Yesterday John Ell, the under-warehouseman, at Messrs. Mag nay, stationers, College-hill, was re-examined before Sir P. Laurie, charged with stealing six reams of paper on the 18th of April. Henry Corduroy, a carman, wai also charged with stealing, and John Dodge, a bookbinder in the City-road, was charged with re ceiving the same. Mr. Oldknow attended on behalf of Dodge, Mr. Wontner for Corduroy, and Mr. Humphreys for Ell. Mr. Clarkson (with Mr. Holder) conducted the prosecution. The evidence previously given traced the six reams of paper to have been carried In Messrs. Magnays' waggon to the Stationery_ office, near Buckingham Palace, and to have been left at a Parcels Delivery Company's receiving.house in the Waterloo-road, ad dressed to Dodge. Mr. Clarkson now called Mr. Hogg, the landlord of a public. house in York-street, Westminster, to corroborate the policeman's statement that Ell came to Westminster In a cab to meet Corduroy at his house on the 18th of April. They had been in the habit of using his house many years, and sometimes went together into the parlour. Mr. Dickina, the examiner of paper at her Majesty's Stationery. ofUce, deposed that he saw the paper delivered on the 18th of April. He signed thedelive6 , -note and gave it back to the car. man. He identi fi ed his signature to the note delivered by the carman at Sir W. Magnay's, and produced the counterpart. This completed the evidence on the first charge. A second charge was preferred against Ell and Dodge. Mr. Magnay identified seven reams of blue S.ouble foolscap, three reams of which he found at Dodge's house, and four reams which Dodge told him he had sent away to be ruled for account.books. Dodge said he bought this paper of Ell, and had received part of it the day before (the 17th of April). Mr. Humphreys noticed, that all that was said about Ell was in his absence, and therefore was not evidence against him. Mr. Magnay said he found the paper at the ruler's. Dodge told trim he gate 10s. a ream for this sort of paper, which was worth a guinea. Yarrington, of Compton-street, the ruler, proved that he sent for the paper to Dodge's house, basing received a note from him to do so. He also received written instructions from Dodge as to the manner of ruling. William Ryan, in the service of the Parcels' Delivery Com pany, proved by his book the delivery of some vareels at Dodge's, on the 17th of April. From a memorandum in that book he saw it came from the booking house, No. 23, in the S division, which meant the house in the Waterloo.road. Alexander Geddes, from the booking-house in the Waterloo. road, identified Ell as theperson who brought the packages. Mr. Magnay identified some other paper found on Dodge's pre, mises, which he admitted he had purchased of Ell. Sir P. LAURIE committed the prisoners for trial on these charges. The third charge was against Ell, for stealing, and against Alfred Dutton, of Union-court, Old Broad street, for receiving. Mr. Dutton carries on business as an account•book maker. Michael Haydon, a City policeman, stated that he went with Inspector Toihunter and Mr. Magna) , to execute a search warrant, on the 21st of April. Dutton was not at home, and ctayed out all night. Mr. Magnay and witness stayed at the house all night ; Dutton came home at nine o'clock in the morning, and said he was aware he was wanted, and thought the best way was to come forward and speak the truth. He had purchased all the paper, bound and unbound, in the place, from Ell. He had some misgiving that something was wrong,.and told Ell so, but Ell said it was all right, and to assure him of that, the paper should come in future in Messrs. Magnay's cart ; it was perquisites from the Stationery-office, and if Dutton did not like to have a .pound put Into his poket, there were hundreds who would. No invoices were found, but there were memorandums of payments to Ell. Mr. Magnay confirmed the officer's statement. Sir P. LAURIE inquired the value of the paper seized. Mr. Magnay said about 45/. The books and paper were packed in cases as if in a hurry for removal. Mr. Humphreys maintained that his client was not in the least touched by any evidence given in this case. What Dutton said about Ell was not, in law, evidence against him. Mr. Wakelin, for Dutton, said he had acted like an honest man throughout. He surrendered ; he told all he knew; he admitted he bought the paper of Ell ; but he had uniformly denied that he knew the paper was stolen. Where was Hall, the carman, who was apprehended and let out on bail? Mr. Holder, the solicitor for the prosecution, said he was lying dangerously ill, or he should have called him. Mr. Clarkson admitted his case was weak, and if he were pressed by the other side he must ask for a remand over the next sessions. He hoped, however, his witness would be able to at tend there. Sir P. ',LURIE said there could be no moral doubt of the guilt of the receiver, and he should send him to trial. Com mitting Ell on this case was of little importance, as he was corn. naltted on others. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the rota and Proceedings of the Hone of Commentr.) THURSDAY, MAT 8. GRAIN AND FLOUR (tUSTRALASIA). Motion made, and Question put, " That this House do resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House, for the purpose of con sidering :the following Resolution : That It is expedient to permit Grain and Flour, the produce of Australasia, to be imported Into the United Kingdom on payment of the same amount of Duty as to now levied on Grain and Flour the produce of Canada." The House divided : MINORITY-AYES, 93. Aglionby, H. A. Ellis,Wynn Muntz, Cl. I'. Ainsworth, Peter Escott, itickliam Murray, klexander Aldam, William Etwall, Ralph O'Connell, M.. 1. Archbold, Robert ETallS, William Osborne, Ralph Bathe, Si alter Ewart, William Paget, Colonel Bannerman, A. Forster, Matthew Parker, John Barclay, David Gibson, Milner. _ Peellell, Captain Baring, F. T. Granger, T. C. Pollington, Viscount Barnard, E. G. Grey, Sir George Pulsford, Robert Berkeley, Captain Grosvenor, Lord It Redington, T. N. Berkeley, H. Y. Guest, Sir J. Ricardo, J. L. Bernal, Ralph Hamner, Sir J. Rice, E. It. B ouverie, E. P. 1 Bright, John 1 1 1 a n ze i s ,,,d , , Itezjamin Ross, D. R. Roue, Captain ; Brocklehurst, J. Howick, Viscount Scott, Robert Brotherton, J. Plumphery, Alderman Smith, Benjamin Buller, Charles JIIMVS, William Smith, J. A. • Bust - vita William de via, John Stansfleld, W. B. C. Cavendish, C. C. Labouchere, Henry Stanton, W.M. Cavendish, G. H. Lambton, H. Tanered, H. NV. Chapman, Benjamin Langston, J. 11. Tanen, Henry . Collett, Joint Laseelles, Hon. W. S. Vivian, J. H. Craig, W. G. Leveson, Lord Wilkley, T. Dahneny, Lord Liddell, H. T. Warburton, Henry Dalrymple; Captain Mangles, R. D. Ward, IL G. Dashwood, G. H. Marjoribanka, S. Wllshere, W. Dermistoun, John Martin, John Wood, Charles Divett, Edward Martin, T. B. Wrightson, W. B. Duncan, George Maul., Fox Yorke, H. R. Duncombe, T. Mitchell, T. A. TELLERS. Dnudas, Admiral Morris, David Hutt, William Ebrington, Viscount Morison, Genexal James, Sir Walter MAJORITY-NOES, 147. Adana, Sir T. D. Eaton, R. J. M'Neill, Duncan Acland, T D. Egerton, W. T. Manners, Lord C. S. Adderley, C. B. Egerton,t Sir P. March, Earl. Alford, Viscount Emlyn, Viscount Masterman, John Allix, J. P. Eellowcs, Edward 3leynell, Captain Antrobus, Edmund Fitzmaurice, W. Mordaunt, Sir J. Arbuthnott, H. Fitzroy, Henry Newdegate, C. N. Arkwrlght, George Flower, Sir J. Nichol', John Austen, Colonel Forties, William Norreys, Lord Ilagge, Williatn Forman, T. S. O'llrlen,'A. S. Bailey, Joseph Fremantle, Sir T. Packe, C. W. ilaillie, 11. J. Fuller, A. E. Palmer, Robert Baird, William Gardner, John Dunn Peel, Sir R. Bgeson, Thomas Gasket', J. M. Peel, Jonathan Beckett, William thymic, Sir S. Plum ptre, J.:P.I Bell, Matthew Godson, Richard Freed, W. T. Blackburne, J. I. Gordon, Captain Posey, Philip Bolder°, H. 0,,: Gore, Niontagne Itendleshatn4Lord Bowles, Admiral Gore, W. R. 0. 'lepton, G. W. J. Brewton, T. W. Goulburn, H. Rolleston, Colonel Broadley, H. Graham, Sir .T. Round, C. G. Bruce, Lord E. Greenall, Peter Round, John Brava, W. 11. Greene, Thomas Ruslibrooks, Col. Buck, L. W. Grlinston, Viscount Sanderson, Richard Cardwell, Edward Hale, It. B. • Smith, Abel Carew, W. H. I'. Hamilton, J H. Smith, T. It. C. Charteris, Francis Harcourt, G. 0.• Somerset, Lord G. Chetwode, Sir J. Harris, Captain Sotheron, T. H. Christopher, R. A. Ilayes, Sir Edmund Spry, Sir S. I'. ('hate, W. L. W. Hottlicote, G. J. Stanley, Edward Clayton, R. R. lieneage, G. H. Stunt, 11. C. Clerk, Sir G. Ileneage, Edward Sutton, H. M. Clifton, J. T. Henley, J. W. Tunnent,.T. E. Clive, Robert 11. Herbert, Sidney Thesiger, Sir F. Colvile, C. It. Hope, Charles Thornhill, George Coote, Sir C. H. 'lope, G. W. Tower, ChriStopher Copela , td, Alderman Hornby, John .Trollope, - Sir J. Corry, Henry Hotham, Lord Trotter, John Courtenay, Lord Ingestrie, Viscount Tumor, Christopher Crippe, William Jermyn, Earl Tyrrell, Sir J. T. Darner, Colonel Jocelyn, Viscount Villiers, Viscount' Darby, George Johnstone, hope Vivian, J. Ennis Davies, David A. S. Jollitle, Sir W. Vyvi an, Sir It. Ltawnay, W. 11. Jones, Ch.daln Wood, colonel T. Deedes, William Lawson, Andrew Wortley, Jain. S. Denison, E. B. Lennox, Lord A. Wortley, John S. Douglas, Sir C. Lincoln, Earl Yorke, E. T. Du Pre, C. G. Lowther, Colonel. TELLERS. East, James B. Lygon, General 'Young, Jelin . _ _ Eastnor, Viscount 3i.i;en'elly, F. A. Baring, Henry COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen visited the Queen Dowager yesterday after noon, at Marlborough House. Her Majesty was attended by the Marchioness of Douro, Lady in Waiting, and Lord Charles Wellesley (Clerk Marshal), Equerry in Waiting. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Albert and the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden visited the Botanical Gardens in the Regent's Park, on I Vednesday. Her Majesty honoured the Italian Opera with her presence last evening. Her Majesty was accompanied by his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen and was attended by the Marchioness of Douro, Lady Caroline Somers Cocks, lion. Miss Devereux, Viscount Sydney, lion. Captain Duncombe, and Lord Charles Wellesley. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess' of Cambridge, a n d the Hereditary Grand Du ke and Grand Duchess of Meeklen burgh eSvtiracyl at z Marlborough visited he r ae o s t u y s the e. Queen Dowag er , on w The Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden visited the Duchess of Cambridge, on Wednesday, at Cambridge House. Her Royal Highness honoured the Duchess of Sutherland with a visit, on Wednesday, at Stafford House. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg!' Strelitz honoured the Marquis and Mar chioness of Aylesbury wi th th eir company at dinner yester day, at their residence i n Grosv enor - square, iisSe n reneli I'e highness l'ne td ss tll 'r a visit irie of Leiningen honoured Sir Robert l and Lady yesterday, at their resi dence in Whitehall Gardens. The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton had a select party at dinner yesterday, at their residence in Pertman-square, to Mr. M-Neill had an int erv iew with the Chancellor of the o m f ee S t a( h ie e n r . Royal H i ghness the G ran d D uc h ess Stephanie Exchequer on the subject of Irish joint-stock Banks on Wednesday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Bishop of Fredericton had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colonial -office. The Governor of - the Bank of Ireland had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of New South Wales. Dispatches were sent off on Wednesday, from the Colonial-office, for the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and for the Go vernor of Hong-Kong. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxea, and Mr. Freshileld, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Wednesday. Mr. Dean, Ch a i rman o f th e Cus toms, had an interview yesterday- with the Right lion. Gentleman. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarenze had a dinner party on Mon day, at his residence in St. J am es's palace. The company included his Royal Highness Prince George, his Royal High his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar , Lord ness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg!' Strelitz, Forester, Lord Redesdale, Lord Foley, Lord Cantilupe, Cap tain Macdonald, and Mr. Wombwell. The Dowager Duchess of Cleveland had a dinner party on Wednesday, at her residence in Seamore-place. The com pany included Lord and Lady Mulgrave, Lord Northwick, Lord 11. Vane, the Light lion. Dr. Lushington, and Miss Carr, Lady Farquhar, Mr. H. and Miss Farquhar, Sir Henry and Lady Lushington, Mr. and Mrs. Milbank, Mrs. Cotterell, Mr. Standish, and Mr. Edmonds. Her Grace had afterwards an evening party. Mr. Rutherford, 11. P., and Mrs. Rutherford, left Farrance's Hotel on Wednesday, for Edinburgh. - -- - SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CHESTER RACES—WEDNESDAT, CONCLUDED. THE CUP. LATEST PARTICULARS. The late hour at which the race came off prevented our ob taining the particulars of the running in time to forward them with the re su lt. Th e s t ar t took place in a heavy shower, at a qu ar t er - past four, S em i se ria taking the lead at a great pace, Queen of th e T yne, Trueboy, an d seve ral others; Sorella, follow e d b y B ea t r ice, Strathspey, Ould Ireland, Fitzallen (both of whom lost start), and St. Lawrence bring up the rear. Fitzallen was not long in joining the first ruck, which in other respects remained as it commenced to the Ship-yard turn i n t h e secon d rou nd; here Semiseria was beaten ; Beatri ce res i gne d i mme diately after, and the lead was left jointly possession of Fitzallen and Queen of t h e Tyne, Intrepid wa i t i ng on them, w ith Ould Ireland, Milton, St. Lawrence, and T rue b oy i n th e ir wake. Queen of Tyne save way at the b o tt om o f t h e cou rse, and Intrepid going up, took the lead from Fitzallen half a mile from home, increased it as he went, and won easily by three lengths. Fitzallen was beaten at the Castle Pole and fell back, and in his retreat swerred against St. Lawrence who was then following Mil ton, forced him out of his stride, and, no doubt, lost him a length or two; nevertheless he caught Milton inside the dis tance, and beat him easily for second place. Fitzallen was a bad fourth, and e veryt hin g e l se beaten off. Cataract, who was evidently lame before starting, never showed in the race. In the evening Mr. Gully objected to the winner, on the ground that he is thorough bred, and the stakes arc withheld. DENBY. 2 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Idas 5 to I agst John Day's lot 10 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Weatherbit 12 to 1 agst Mr. Port lot 14 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Pam 20 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Pantasa 33 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Old England 33 to 1 agst Mr. A. W. Hill's frenmaster 40 to I agst Mr. A. W. hill's The Libel 40 to 1 agst Mr. Coleman's Young Eclipse 40 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's Doleful TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. Only half-a•dozen members present, and not a bet laid. THE FUGITIVE FROM ETON.—Master E. P. Fletcher, the young gentleman who ran away from Eton, has, at length, been heard of at Ross, in Herefordshire. An old nurse of the family it seems lived in that town, and to her he made his way, after arriving at Bristol by the night.train from Slough. His clothes were sent for from the dames three or four days ago, and it is not expected that he will geturn to Eton, BOTV-STREET. On Wednesday a young man, dressed in the extreme of fashion, who gave his name as Louis Legardc, but who has been known under the different appellations of Romereno and Boissonarde, under which last he was a short time since brought up for forging the name of the Comte de Jarnac, for the purpose of obtaining Opera tickets, was placed before Mr. Twyford, charged with felony at the house of Mr. Rodman, 95, Strand. It appeared that the prisoner, who represented himself as highly connected in Paris, and also with several respectable mercantile houses in the City, took lodgings at Mr. Bodman's house, and con. tinued to reside there for some time unsuspected, until a silver cream-jug, a valuable opera-glass, and other articles suddenly disappeared. Suspicion fell upon the prisoner, and these suspicions were increased upon Mr. Alfred Ormonde, the popular lecturer, wh• had been lodging in the house, applying for some trunks that had been left in the care of Mr. Bodman. The trunks were found emptied of their valuable contents, and as they hid been placed in a room adjoining the one occupied by the prisoner, he was Immediately given in charge for the robbery. As no part of the property was found about him he was discharged ; but officer Pocock, of the detective force, feeling certain he was on the right scent, watched the movements of the prisoner, and dodged him to the shop of Mr. Walsh, pawnbroker, in the Strand. Upon inquiry it was found that a part of the pro perty lost by Mr. Ormonde had been pledged at different times by the prisoner at that establishment. The Frenchman finding him self in danger took to his heels forthwith, but the officer, "more swift of foot, outran his purpose," and haring secured his prey, placed him before Mr. Twyford. Mr. TWTFOILD was on the point of committing the prisoner for trial at the ensuing session of the Criminal Court, when Mr. Ormonde stated it would be quite impossible for him to attend, as he was engaged to lecture the whole of next week at the Town-hall, Birmingham. Under these circumstances the prisoner was remanded for a fortnight. ----- THE WINE TRADE.—We understand that Mr. Dixon, the chairman of the \Vine and Spirit Association of Liver pool, who made application in January to the Lords of the Trea sury on behalf of the trade for an increase in the allowances for the natural wastage of wines in bond, and also again in the begin. ping of last month, for a revision of the order, and a still greater increase in the allowances on the different sized casks In the bonded warehouses or vaults of extra security at the outports, to both of which representations their Lordships returned a favourable reply, after consideration of the reports and opinions of the revenue officers on the matter, has recently made a further application to their Lordships, praying that the wines which were delivered in the interim between the date of the first and that of the second order, may have the benefit of the increased allowances sanctioned by the latter order; in other words, treating such wines retro. spectively, in a manner somewhat similar to the recent Treasury order with respect to the return of the sanctioned Allowance on duty paid sugar In bond. Their Lordships have rejected the application, as being contrary to the principle and established prac tice observed in cases of the kind, and have directed that the in. creased allowance is to take place from the date of the latter ostler sanctioning the same. We understand also that a memorial has been made to the Lords of the Treasury by a numbs rof wine merchants its one of the great cities in the west of Englsind, we be. here Exeter, letting forth that neither of the two orders issued provides any allowance for casks under a certain size ; that Sicilian or Marsala wine, of which so large a quantity is now imported and consumed in this country, is generally brought in very small casks; and praying that the order may be further amended, so a, s to in. elude casks of the size alluded to. The memorial is at present under the consideration of their Lordships, and from the spirit and inten. Lion of the former orders on the matter, it is not improbatile that the request will be conceded. SOUTHWARK LITERARY INSTITUTION.-Mr. I{enry Smith (from America) gave his first vocal entertainment on Monday evening, in presence of a highly-respectabie. and delighted audience. The following pieces m ere rapturously encored:—" The Old Arm Chair," " The Dream of the Reveller," " The Ship on Fire," " The Gambler's Wife," and " I'm Afloat." Mr. Smith an nounced, that from the flattering manner of his reception„ he would again have the pleasure of appearing befo ,cet the ladies and gentlemen ofSouthwark. THE DUKE OF RICHMOND AND THE REPEAL OF THE AUCTION DUTIES. The Duke of Richmond must have determined to do what has been oftener talked of •then done—to sacrifice himself on the altar of the agricultural interest. His speech against the repeal of the auction duties is a clear case of self-immolation. A man who pleads a cause, both hopeless and contemptible, on grounds that are mire to be scouted by everybody of common sense and informatien, must be acting from some unrevealed motive. It is well fur the Duke that he is above the imputation of a cross—of a hired defeat ; but he must be victimising either himself or his party, aed we have no alternative but to choose between Quixotism and treachery. His Grace's leading argument against the repeal of these duties was, that the tenant-farmer had been already exempted from them, and therefore, that others should not be exempted ; that the duties, in fact, should be retained, because the tenant-farmer had no longer a selfish interest i t their repeal. The alleged fact in this argument is a gross misstatement ; the avowed principle is as gross an injustice and absurdity. The tenant-farmer is not exempted snore than others. The amount of sales by auction exempt el from duty in the year 1840 was 36,511,4091., while the only item in which the tenant-farmer is particularly concerned, viz , "sales of cattle, live or dead stock, corn stock, or un manufactured produce of land, whilst they continue on the land," is 2,891, 1121, that is, not one twelfth of the whole. But with the addition of wools, coppices, &c., and every other admissible item, the special exemptions of the agriculturists are not a tenth of the whole. As for the principle of the above argument, it must speak for itself. lie. ry special ex en ption is a legitimate reason against the continuance of a tax, not for it. If the agriculturists first get themselves Out of the serape, and then, on that ground, do their best to keep others in it, we shall take good care for the future how we give them a special exemption. We shall find it necessary, for our own sakes, to leave them interested in the re • moral of the general burdens. this Grace then draws up the case of the agriculturists in the following ingenious form:— " If the Noble Lord had asked the question of the farmers of the country, many of them would say, Give us an entire repeal of the malt-tax.' But if they asked for that the Go vernment said, How can we make up for so large a defi ciency ?' lf, again, the farmers asked to be relieved of a portion of the county-rafe, it was asked what would be the use of 200,0001. or 300,0001. spread over all the counties of England ? Thus, in one case they were told they asked too much, and in the other that what they asked would be of no use at all." And why are not both answers quite legitimate? If a hundred of his Grace's agricultural friends in smock frocks came to his door and asked for a fat ox, he would very probably reply that he could not spare it from his own purposes. If they immediately lowered their demand to a barndoor fowl, the most obvious reply would be —what use was that to a hundred hungry men? When the noble patron of the Agricultural Pro tection Society next attempts a dilemma, he must re member not to carry his horns quite so wide apart. The ehject of his onslaught escapes between them. His Grace proceeds— " They wanted justice to be done them ; on what principle was the landed interest of the country required to p'y for the apprehension of every prisoner, for his maintenance in prison, and for the prosecution ? " It is unnecessary to answer the question on what prin ciple the landed interest does this ? because it does not do this, or anything like it. The county-rates do this ; and the rates are not merely on land, but on all real property, of which land is only just about half. But we cannot stop. The Duke plunges on : " The Government paid half the expenses of the assizes and the sessions ; but why should the counties pay anything to wards the assizes? The county had no control whatever of this expenditure." The county no control whatever ! Why, who are the authorities that send prisoners to the assizes ? If the county had not a special interest i❑ keeping down the expense of the assizes, it would transfer to them the work of the sessions. The county can control this ex penditure by reducing the committals, not to speak of certain influences which the aristocracy are supposed to possess over the moral condition of the country. It Government were to undertake the whole cost of the assizes it would be obliged, in self-defence, to take with it the whole responsibility of committals. What would then become of the " great unpaid ?" The next sentence solicits our attention : " The land was very properly made to support a clergyman in every parish ; but why was it forced to supply a chaplain in every workhouse and gaol ? Why should the expense be thrown exclusively on the land ? " Properly or improperly, the land does neither. Only a small portion of the land is liable to a rent charge in lieu of tithes, which the tenant-farmer merely pays to the resident clergyman, instead of the perhaps non-resi dent landowner. With much more justice may it be said that the land is made to support a landlord. It, too, there happens to be no ancient endowment, what becomes of the Duke's universal burden ? As fur the land being forced to supply a chaplain in every work house and goal, we can only repeat that all real property does this. The expense is not thrown exclusively, but only half, on the laud. This error is persisted in to the last. " The land had also to bear the whole expense of maintaining the wives and children of those confined in prison, and of men transported." We never before heard that the land possessed a monopoly of crime, and that towns did not contribute their quota of prisoners and convicts, whoso wives and children they have occa sionally to maintain. Houses, quarries, mines, iron works, fisheries, canals, railways, and a thousand other forms of property divide with agriculture the supply of crime, and the expense of its consequences. And when it is remembered that more than half the inmates in many of our gaols are there for offences against the Game-laws and the Poor-laws, and have been sent there with the ultimate intention of keeping down wages, and keeping up game, it is not unreasonable that the land owner shoul•1 contribute rather handsomely to the ex pensive expedient. The Duke, however, in the heat of his noble argument is not content with fighting against the butelen of crime, he demands for land the profit on convictions:— " If a criminal who had any property was transported, whom did that property go to? It did not go towards the county-rate, but to the Crown. When reeognizances were estreated, they also went to the Crown. Was it fair that one should bear all the loss, and the other take all the profit?" We must confess that for once the Duke has the better of us. Ho is right here. Certainly there ought to be a county ledger of the profit and loss on criminal causes; with the prison and assize charges on one pace, and per contra the felon's pigs, and chairs, and crockery. Now and then a convict does not " cut up so ill." Justice ought to be assimilated to the habits of a mercantile country. But there is an important item we are astonished to find omitted in his Grace's list of agricul tural grievances. When a man is hung, whatever charges " the land" has been at on account of his con finement and trial, his clothes all go to Jack Ketch. This is monstrously unfair. The " tenant-farmers," who have been at all the loss, have an undoubted right to the profit, viz , the wretch's smock frock and boots. One is tempted onwards. " There was not a session that did not throw some additional expense on the land, because the Chancellor of the Exchequer did not care how much the county-rate was burdened." The Chancel lor of the Exchequer, of course, has no sympathy with rate-payers. If the opportunity offered, he would not hesitate to sell all the landowners and tenant-farmers in the country to the Turks, and apply the proceeds towards the redemption of the national debt. But what additional expense has been thrown on the land this session ? To continue. " He wished the Conso lidated Fund was charged with 15 or 20 per cent. of the poor-rate ; the counties would still have enough to pay to make them look after the expenditure, and by the Government bearing part of it justice would be done." In the present state of the poor law, if Government paid 15 or 20 per cent. of the ex pense, the only result would be, that the Duke of Rich mond would send 15 or 20 per cent, more of his labourers, their wivee, and children, to the union workhouse, and screw down wages 15 or 20 per cent. lower. If this answered, he would soon begin to ask 50 per cent. from Government, that he might send 50 per cent. more to the union, and get his labourers at 3s. 6d. a week instead of 7s. We are forced to deny ourselves a few general remarks we had intended on this unique piece of ducal eloquence. The running commentary must suffice. This, however, we will say :—we never yet read anything so uniformly, so compactly, so com pendiously erroneous. His Grace has never once stumbled on common sense or veracity. Nut a principle, not a sentiment, not a fact ie within sight of truth or propriety. The speaker flounders along through the mud of his argument without finding one stepping stone, one bit of terra firma. It reminds us of a story we have heard of a distinguished vocalist, remarkable for the painful accuracy of his ear. He was at a public dinner, where a ccnceited amateur volunteered a song. As soon as it was over the professional gentleman gave vent to his agonised feelings in a complimentary address. " Sir," said he, " I thank you. You have given me a greater treat than I ever enjoyed or expected to enjoy. You went through that song without being once in tune. Every note was wrong."—Times. 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Newly-invented Spectacles, Telescopes, Opera Glasses, Microscopes, &c. 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On Wednesday afternoon, a respectably-dressed man, having the appearance of a mechanic, was observed by the police chalking, in large letters, on the pavement between the fountains in Trafalgar•square, the words " Napoleon for ever ! " Upon being desired to desist, he positively refused, and they imme diately proceeded to take him into custody, when lie broke from their grasp, and threw himself into one of the reservoirs. The water was, however, too shallow to drown him, and the police having drawn him out, he was carried on a stretcher to the Gard. • ner's-laae sta4on, Hr is 11%196ed to be insane. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. THURSDAY, MAY 8. The Irish Great Western Railway (Dublin to Galway) Bill was presented and read a first time. Standing Orders Cominittee,—Resotions reported 1. " That, in the case of the Midland Railway Branchei petition, the Standing Orders ought not to be dispe nsed with." 2. " That, in the case of the Bermondsey- Improvement (No. 2) petition, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill." 3. " That, in the vase of the Kingst o wn and Bray Rei l ".' petition, the Standing Orders ought not to be dispensed with." 4. "That, in the case of the Taw Vale Railway petition for leave to present a petition for a Bill, the Sessional Order ought to be dispensed with :—.lhat the parties be permitted to proceed with their petition accordingly." : ..,. e" 5. "'That, in the case of the Whitehaven ,and nap Junction Railway petition, the Standing Orders Ought to he t dispensed with:—That the parties be permitt od to proceet with their Bill." 6. " That, in the case of the Skerries Harbour• petition, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed With :—That the Pal' ties be permitted to proceed with their Bill." 7. " That, in the case of the Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston Railway petition, the Standing Orders ou g ht DOI to be dispensed with." Second, fourth, fifth, and sixth resolutions agtved, t")* Report to lie on the table. Whitehaven and Furness Railway,—Report from Committee on Standing Orders read; Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Stanley, Mr. Irton, and Mr. Matthias At t wood. Great Western Railway (Ireland) (Dublin, Mulling ert and Athlone),—Petition for reported, and Bill ordered to bei brought in by Viscount Palmerston, Mr. Tuite, and Mr. Barry Baldwin. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway OVolrerhamPt°°_ Line),—Report from Select Committee on Standing Or d t ere read; Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Dugclele , r. Newdegate, and Mr. Spooner. Birmingham and Gloucester (Worcester Deviation) rg way,—Report from Select Committee on. StandiPs read; Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Dug dalet Newdegate, and Mr. Spooner. t n- Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (Gloucester Ext., sions, Stoke Branch, and Midland Railways Junction). Mr. Lefroy, port from Select Committee on Standing Orders read; ordered to be brought in by Mr. Dugdal Mr. Newd e g 4 - and Mr. Spooner. V"' (W NOTICES GIVEN AT TILE PRIVATE BILL -d), London oini tand n Croydontteeon project, Railway Monday, llvay (Chatham and GFe v e w ' r e ; - r —Select London and Croydon Railway (Chatha3nflaY to 2' C 6 h a il t h;T2' '' Select Committee on project, Monday, May 26, e tie.'4l e ct London and Croydon Railway (Enlargem ent)," Committee on project, Monday, May 26, at twelve. London and Croydon Railway (Orpington Branch), " lect Committee on project, Monday, May 26 , at twelv e ' d , sn it London and Croydon Railway (Maidstone, Ashil f ,: f 26, Tonbridge),—Select Committee on project, Mo nda y' "`-' at twelve. London and Greenwich Railway,—ComMittee ' II 13. Monday, ay 26, at welve. East De M reham and t Norwich Railway,—Select C OmMittfe on project, Monday, May 26, at half after twelve., mittee Coventry, Bedworth, and Nuneaton Itailvray, - ' 4 ' m on Bill, Tuesday, May 27, at one. 1 11 . B- Erewash Valley Railway,—Committee on . • May 27, at one. t We an"- Railway,—Select Committee on p ro j e c : day, May 28 at one. in ttee Southport , and Euxton Junction Railway , --Comm ittee Bill, Monday, May 26, at one. ;IvraCr* . North Union and Ribble Navigation Bran ch Committee on Bill, Tuesday, May 27, at twelve. B ows,' Birkenhead, Manchester, and 'Cheshire Junct i ,l (No. 2),—Committee on petition, Monday, M o aY Thurs' , Southampton and Dorchester Railwayi_Reprtt ' - day, May 15. biester and Holyhead Railway,—RePo , May 15. B a jliveYr .. Tot d t c e i o n r ne h a a ad i n l dg a k n io d rh ka sh r d r a i zei‘ l o ci a n t3 - R, s t al r is e l ~e v t a y E ; t co s n n s 13111, ttee on. Monday, May 26, at half after twelve. - Bra nch) , Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway ( (;•t: l ' l6, f( ; ) e . r . ,,: t l l:3 t r e s e ri l c v i e l i , —Select Committee on project, Monday:Na y Brighton, Lewes, and Ilastings Railway —Committee on Bill, Monday, May 26, at twel, e 'p o mniitt ee London, Chatham, and North Kent Railway, . on Bill, Monday, May 26, at twelve. Id' n. Rye and Tenterden Railway,—Committee 0n y day , May 26, at twelve. - Lnn and Dereham Railway,--Committee on 1311 ' NOW, day, May 26, at half after twelve. CATASTItO PHE AT YAR of the _--------.—...r.'""'''' . 310Crii; ~.., uir Yaßmourn more police and the boatmen in the vicinity of the ect ic L en e of . , MAT 7. —Notwithstanding every effort on . in true ~,:h,htilsicisn a co m ,w , iadit e kh n ea t tt : t : l h ai e three are all that rem believed bodies have yet been discovered, and it is prettl,7.e _,,, the persons from the surrounding districts In every th ing en . large number of persons. the scene of gno,ohdiadiela3ul been visited f y..o eted the r:, Every one looks forward with th e utmost anXletY t° w oo. cteehadtinblsiyofisthekuTozn:Cuouuthnic,i,lgtoe-muorbreow;taftoodr until the dee ro• no to ult eri°rP i i n s g :enerolly stated that Nelson, the clown, cced lt IWO' let the un deePti sf. innocent cause of this sad catastrophe, has been " fl hioll be remain yet undisceolorr;•ll t f a c on c o, ; k e b d sood b pi y /yo t l aju i consequ e ncesonigoutitith a nguis h , i ,lairer , left aodf Yarmouth o f h o u c et , foolis h had ds e t xrishiugi irbheit.triedo n ts i n r e : dne: t r al , The C i rcus closed on the issued after the in hibits acciden-rchati, W. Cook, the proprietor, an address to the alleging that circumstance as the cause of his sudden ron-. 1111. - - . SOUTH SEA FISHERY. r p Isla ° Bright Planet (whaler), May 30, off Treaso.a ;0 5° - clean; Serin , rapatam, from Sydney , 20 th ult., sl'ontbs; barrels of oil, lat. 1 N., lon. 160 E., out s ixteel l f °' Margaret Courtenay, with 1,100 barrels, Ju i r 2 ;" •At il C . lon. 160 E.; Woodlark, Smith, with ; 00 bartelso 29, off New Georgia. • „,, ---._ _ 'eye!' • i D rs ; THE ATRAPILATORY, OR LIQUID 14A -it ors, 0114 the only dye that really enswers for all cola ~ os spit does not require re doing, but as the hair gr0..01, tint never fades or acquires that unnatural red or Po w lth tb e common to all other dyes. Ross and Sae Fai'd ~ 0 i ; greatest confidence, recommend the above ?olio for fallible, if done at their establishment ; au. ~ s fri er !ii gentlemen requiring it, are requested to b,n n .:bich /fi n ( or servant with them to see how it is use° , c hoic e - to enable them to do it afterwards without tr surrey 0 failure. Several private apartments devot e e b lithlo e o , the above purpose, and some of their eets c ore having used it, the effect produced ca bensitit.,° str ict e ll . They think it necessary to add, that by of l dye, O n ? g to the instructions given with each bottle of t 0 0 0 11 wit b°ll • bor rous persons have succeeded equally we go D' s 0, to them. Address Ross and Sons, 119 and 1- i;erfl Ad* gate-street, the celebrated Perruqopip:n._.:rteetete:::oo, Hair-cutters, and Hair-ders. N.B. Parties ob . their jEw o . vi s T co re ß s i b , l i e L n t c w es A , whateversTLu._ tihebediste"e'. an d ° a if scribers to this asylum, which is situate In of t he 11 „, of amongst the best of the benevolent institutions u d e ,tucta ,en hi% community, having for its object the suPPorr sad %Or' children utterly parentless and destitute, bad jantenti°n".r• ” irrii,:iidntoofetfrheectf,anatds,wbiyiliVisißchmtl:::: charitable - st. .12 0° ..ele ° ' was well attended, nearly seven huKndinregti'ltPerL;":„lbDei."CAP9nt,l.„d' amongst whom were Ow Barons Itothschild,..w4otert h C . I , '" General Caulfield, Sheriff Sidney, Alderman I'l l ih Dona° eleepeel. nearly all the higher class of the Hebrew he ld,lletiwi Of - ;,,,,1i, great room, and in which Almack's balls ar e o inO' i n olh i ' illuminated for the occasion, Jullien's ban d w ere pllT c oll' s" ,, i i Refreshments on an elegant and liberal scale vi t ,th tr ied - apartments, and the best arrangements Ined6;;l, alVi Ca o ,ll.o' ‘ .. Dancing was commenced at half.past nine o' c ' doh ati ° with great spirit for many hours. The liot °f : ;tea the scriptions to the funds' was stated to be /3001,1• eert fens.o4-'tirA A ROYAL BON AlOT.—When the '4'llor ~e" Royal Academy, the fountains in Tr falgar.o4o3 , 0 bell'f o d 11 0 to an unnatural elevation of 33 feet. 3 On iICT ) t i b 4 3 je t .• ill n what she thought of them, she merely rePli et La....../ 41"c 'ln sc, idea absurdity could be carried to such 3 hetir,oof**--;1003L' FESTIVAL OF THE SONS OF TO E , , the %%if Il l : t; cordance with the usual custom, yeatertlal b e ' n ' its bl r, sve ct i of this charity, Divine service was performed , c ) i n n the elo r i e riv ii Paul's Cathedral. The service was perforrleur.na Alb e to rkf t ' , was crowded by fashionably dressed lathe" r l ' oo ting a ' t o D i g , at three o'clock. Ilis Royal Highness wa1.,,40, se, Arie"or well is h : p h o e f % Lo y o r n e d the n , uniform or the Fusili"r uu h "osh o P °` opt" er ribbon. The Archbishop of Canterbury' A rr o f fit. A . ta rt i ;eit Lord Mayor, severe? i o sh f orheof ALlJicehrmficeldn' 13Illent!6 cr 11.' 111 6, , 0 „ pre i t O, with the Clergy of the Chapter, were ho le c hoir. 1 ,04' i ,tlf commenced with an anthem sung by the w.„ c ipal of ,,p gd I :bee l was preached by the Rev. Dr. Jeff, the Fr" - o f 1 1.- al" 0, lege. Ilis text was taken from the Ist el"Prorean atio ti ' C i r l , lo of Paul to the Corinthians. After the "r heD i ' Vr :Ile ' ' 4 - • was sung ; the blessing was pronounced pi _ t sis, tile c f 0.. and a collection having been mtole at the d ° ' 11%, ~ Itr,l lie' departed. DENnmusn IR E.— OnlVednestaffenSbiigth'l;folite:°l:ol: was re.elected to represent the comity 0 to lift' , o ft P ron ° tion, though the Hon. Baronet via 3 obligeuthe „ p ea. e j 00 0 vere reproofs from a free trader for opPosi nk t t he f e rrec t 7oce t 40' I: ir w r , s B , rforowmffirwalgvriyentinlteulr‘i!t for betraYing . t i.6 05e ,!.. 11 :c e ynne for supportil, Cller"d"-pssil°lo' jil' had betrayed them as farmers, robbed them,idarole Oth er loti tte stilted them as Protestants. Though c°n _ h duct. no t pI C° was expressed with the Hon. Baronet's eo . ,, Arit ote n _,, i je date was proposed, and he is sent back to .. 1 1 ,,,tki11, to r o d • h in s' r enta who no longer place implicit fait ..., e nle' r OPP ° Lord John Russell has kindly c"04,6,04 _ -Its ....don at the anniversary dinner of the FArrwa oi lor 3 h li clitf' and Lying.i n Charity, on the 4th of JO!' o f SO 0 00 0 01 TIP: remains of the late Eareyolois,ll:oo, Warrington, which were removed from Or . 0 1tott ''' were interred in the family mausoleum at ...'...,. edW n e ' a" two miles from Dunham Massey, on "yell , d, S t°c' g /3-riagg,* p ar k•r° . A* r° On the 7th inst., at Crescent Long e ' boll, Vtill Mrs. D. W. Lucas, of a son. s cin gr he e 'l lo4 off er" - i p,- 11fAltICIE-1).,. ornofbeth is.treett Fr O an n ci t s h , e ot ? a th d: i t n u s g t i ., at Encombeterrace, by On the Sth inst., at Saint Gcorger'io 00,14011'. V rt the Rev. Mr. Kemp, Mr. John Murra,,_,. up per P , IZ° fle only daughter of Mr. John Meadows 0 ' " I to , o lee 0 C detl i Pimlico. Durham Stamp, Esq., On the 7th inst., at St. y the t to 'fie' letipr- Louise Hequet, of Boulogne-sur 'ART' r oti , . ~0 „ , _D o f' the 6th inst., at St. John ',_,. WoUl,c,"_;,„ioOD Alleyne Riggs Barker, M.A., cshra!tolswan, t° 'D IV' Gibijsoltliot.l3dr 11ret- scl‘ il l Marianna, second daughter nofectth°e"ll3te ill ru mister, Esq. 540 sre• Qi nio el ,burr i r e, ' ar" -00 rre, On the Ist inst., Miss of henatni On the Ist inst., at Ffrwdgre , Vai l i ;ell e 4e te — Church, Esq , aged 74. e nt 11°u-ivo:n .did On the 9th of March, at Govern 11 vsri.,,,t( of Bengal, eldest son of G. 1 , ,n ~. , Crs s ' near Calcutta, John Edwarde.s l.ya!itil: m.ll ,to tavn i3(ll M. P. bec tl ' On the 13th of March last, at A er f3T, ~ lie Daliin, Esq. witless ,robeti, On the 26th silt., at Cork, Jan: l ,e? ) . ro es. il'''' j o b On the Ist inst., at Milton-on -II d .e i/.S„,erthy, the wife of Lieutenant Larilner Penn.)._ ' o ar 1 ft On the 401 inst., at Walker C?ttage, Tudor, Esq., Lieutenant Royal ... OP VO. 1( filltD° ;scut/0 Yo. 112, Strand, Printer, at _ ~. st'roi' London : ----. Printed and I-u—blishod N , , r: ii s- „ inot,,,,cee, COO Strand, in the Precinct of the bLiddlegaz, Fridays May 9, 1643' VMP