The Sun. — London, England, 1850-05-29 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, May 23. Their Lordships met at, Five o'cloc1:. PETITIONS. The Bishop of LONDON presented a petition from several of the clergy in . favour of his Bill, for taki ng away the appellate jurisdiction of the Privy Council in ecolesiastica,l affairs on matters of doctrine. He had postponed the second reading of the Bill in consequence of the absence of the President of the Council. The Bishop of OXFORD presented several petitions from certain of the clergy to the same effect; also a petition against the Mzrriage Act Amendment Bill. Lord BROUGHAM presented some petitions in favour of the County Courts Extension Bill. L•ird WHARNCLIFFE presented several petitions from the West Riding of Yorkshire in favour cf the compromise on the fotory queztion proposed by Lord Ashley. The - Earl of HADDINGTON presented a petition in avonr of additional accommodation being afforded to the MB:ant-surgeons in the navy. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY presented a peti tion from the Lord Mayor and core :ration of Dublin against the abolition of the oCice OF Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and pve nonce of his intention of moving cer tain resolutions on the subjec.. deprecatory of such abo lition. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. Earl GREY,in;o;Seiuence of the absence of the President of the Council, postponed the second reading of the Periinmentary Voters (Ireland) Bill, which stood for Thursday ti> Tuesday, and gave notice that he should on Thursday move the second reading of the Australian Colonies Bill. Lord MON TEAGLE urged the necessity of postpon ing the second reading of the Australian Colonies Bill to a longer period, and be hoped if any additional papers had been received f, em Auetra'irs, they would be laid before their Lordships before moving the second reading of the Bill. Earl GREY was anxious to meet the wishes of- the House, but they were arriving at that period of the session when there was clays a great accumulation of busi ness. The Australian Colonies Bill had been before both Houses of Parliament for a considerable time, and the papers had been in the hands of their Lordships before the Whitsuntide recess, and he thought it would be de trimental to public business to postpone the second read ing of thQ Bill. Lord MONTE.&GLE considered that if the second reading of the Australian Colonies Bill were taken on Thursday, parties desirous of petitioning ogainst the Bill would be taken by surprise. Lord BEAU:I:T.ONT thenght that no cam ha./ been made out for the postponement of tile. second reading of the Bill. Lord STANLEY thought it ..val =attar of vgret that the sccondielliNg- of ?lut Bili 111;1 b'cn dela7cd to long. He would rtiggi:s; that decond reading of the Bill postpaned to Frli.a.sy, which might give an op portuni:y to preFent the petition. The Noble Lord availe himself of that opportunity to give notice that on Friday se'anig'ot. ahould their Lordships' at tention to Vie pitrlirs of GreQce. Lord MONTE AG LE explained that there were per sons lately arrived feorn th, colonies who wished to pre sent a p , ,niun on tho suject. He did net intend to divide a l : ititt tho se rid reading of the Bill, but he thou. ht tinity 01171.; to be afforded ta those partir; o ho n[,a,-(1 :. , 4ainst the Bill if they wished. Eixl (3412:7 na objctien to postpone the second reirlin- till Friday. MASTERS IN CHAN:7EIIY JURISDICTION 1:11 - 2 - , The report on thit! Bill v, , :s brought up with amend meat;, a ai !ha Bill vfls ordered to be read a third time on Moud:vr. FEE.Ii (CD:AMON PLEAS) BILL. Lord ELAIJLIONT moved that this Bill be read a second time. Af er a fnw ol%ervations from Lord REDESDALE and Lord MOI:TA':II.E, Lord LA.NGDAL7, exprelsed himself in favour of the abolition of all I . ,eg. lie thought that justice ought to be administered without any expense to the suitors. and that all rersous employed in tho administration of justice should be p'aY. by the Sate. Lard STANLEY thought that Bills of this nature should not Le briught in ex!,:ept under the sanction of the Government. Earl GREY hzd been introdneod in cansi-Tionel of the neornmendation ot a Committee of the ottior Howe (1 Parliament, and that it was sup prted by tha Goy•lnment. He thought tho question ot salary to thoso nfficers coulrl ho tnaoh better dealt with by the Troasui— I than Parli—rlent 2 Afer a few words from Lard LANGDALE, the Bill was read a second time, and their Lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 28. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four u'Cioek. MIND READINGS. The New North Rite! Bill was read a third time and pass d. The following Bills as amended were cmtidered and agreed to:— Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway. Eritern Union ltailwny. StourbrHge Union itatns. PETITIONS. Mr.LOCKIIA.B.T presented petitions from places in Scotland against the Altrriage Bill. Mr. FAGAN also presented petitions to a similar efr , ct. Mr. FEE WEN presented a petition from Brighton praying the House to pass same measure against the employment of boys to draw cart; on turnpike roads. Sir H. I-lALFOTW presented a petition from Leices tershire cmnplainiag of agricultural distress, and of un• equal taxation. Mr. FAGAN presented a petition from Cork in fa vour of the Bill for the reform of the Irish Prerogative Court. Mr. MUNTZ presented a petition frcm benevolent societies at Birmingham against the proposed Savings' Bank Bill. Mr. OSBORNE present - el a petition from the city of London against the Extramural Interments Bill; also petitions from several places in Ireland against the Established Church in Ireland. Mr. KERSHAW presented a petition against the Extramural Interments Bill from certain congregations in London. Lord tUDLEY STUART presented a petition to the same effect. Mr. J. B. SMITH presented a petition from Stirling in favour of the Teu Hours' Bill. Mr. CARDWELL presented petitions from Liver pool against the Savings' Banks Bill and Stamp A ct. Mr. COWAN presented a petition from Portobello against the Marriages Bill. Mr. BEOTHERTON presented petitions against the Savings' Banks Bill and against church-rates. Mr. TATTON EGEItTON presented a petition against the Savings' Bank .Bili. Mr. WILD presented petitions from the ratepayers of London, and the parishes of Chelsea and Erompton, for alteration in Vie Metropolitan Interments Bill; also a petition from the miners of Chorley for an inspection of collieries. Mr. P. SCROPE presented a petition from the synod of Armagh cornpleining of the unsatisfactory state of the poor-law iii Ireland. Mr. S. CRAWFOITD presented a petition from the depositors of the Rockdale Savings' Blink, praying the Howie to adopt such ineesures as would prevent the oc currence of similar frauds. Mr. GROGAN presented a petition against the Public Health Bill now Wore the Ilouse. Mr. T. DUNCOM32 nreserecel a petition from Fins bury in favour of the Ten Hours Bill. Mr. HUME presented a petition from certain inhabi tants of the colony of British Guiana, agreed to at a public meeting held at Georgetown on the 15th day of April, 1850, praying for the abolition of the court of Ilicy and the corahined court, and for the introduction ) 0 t • 'representative constitution, comprising an elective •,,: I; , i - N,9 a house of a ssem bly, w i t h an e l ec tive fran -,4 .ecure a full, free, and popular representation. e n riesca -l e I.ONVTH OF COTTON IN INDIA. 6 ' 44. A M1.. , a ItIGUT postponed his motion r e sp ec ting the d!,4l l,o l'eth of cotton in India until the 18th of J une . snrAPPOINTMENTS IN ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS eef Sir BEEJAMIN HALL wished to ask the Secretary for , * =Me Departme h n e t a question which had reference eccleasiesetical courts of the . ,tb ' utitution of the ) 1 ' kill as well as to some returns which he moved for Silt , end which were ordered ri, kill ibe - ,early part of the — 4 1',..-zby the House. Lie was informed that a young lady— aor e e a o r l a o n _ c _ e , .) 1' ~ ,rr , and a laugh)—who, g phras phraseology, ; , k riesr, in newspap er /night be termed a young lady of intereystin and prepossessing manners, had the honour holding the office of registrar in one of the ecclesiastical courts. n e understood she had held the a ppointment eve. mince she was five years o f age—(Herr)—and, without mean ing any dispara g ement to the young lady, he wish e d t o know whether it was true that a female held the een ce in question. He wished to know whe t h er there were any more female officials. Sir G. GREY said he was totally uninformed on the subject. He had never k nown that there was one fe male official connected with the Ecclesiastical Courts. SNIITHFIELI) MARKET. In answer to a question from Mr. MACKINNON, Mr. C. LEWIS said that ethe report on the state of Smithfield Market would be in the hands of Members .; 46' almost immediately. REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH. In answer to Mr. B. OSBORNE, Lord ASHLEY said that the report of the I3 h 3 u a r r s d day of Health wou ld b e i n the h an d s o f M e mbers by T or Friday. ADJOURNMENT FOR THE DERBY DAY. Major BERESFORD moved that the Houso at its rising adjourn till Thursday next. Mr. S. CRAWFORD had always opposed this mo tion on former occasions; but as he perceived that there was no business set down for the day, he should not divide the House, but content himself with protesting against the adjournment.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HUME was in the same position, but as ho per ceived he was in a minority he should be content to take a holiday.—(L.lnghter.) Mr. SLANEY hoped that his Hon. Friend would al ways be in the minority on this occasion. The motion was then carried. Mr. W. PATTEN moved that the Committees should have leave to sit, although the House should arljuurn or( r to - morrow.—Agree'l to. COMPOSITION OF ASSESSED TAXES. In reply to a question from Mr. M ITC BELL, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER a•4l it was the intention of the Government to renew tho Act which expires in April, 1851, enabling parties to com pound for their assessed taxes. THE LORD CHANCELLOR. Mr. W. FATTEN said it appeared by the public prints that there was likEly to ba a vacancy in the (Alice of Lord Chancellor, and . had to ask the Noble Lord (Lord John Russell) whether in filling up that vacancy the Government would render the office subject to any decision of the Committee on Salaries as regarded the salary, and whether any stipulation would be made ' as to the separation of the judicial and political tune- Lions of the Lord Chancellor. Mr. BOUVERIE said before the question was an swered he had to state that being the Chairman of the Committee on Fees he was instructed to ask the Noble Lord whether, in the event of a vacancy in the Great Seal it wuuld bo a distinct understanding with regard to the officers whose appointments were in the hands of the Great Seal, that those appointments would be made on the express condition that the tenure and existence of those offices should be subject to the review and exami nation of Parliament ? Lord JOHN RUSSELL said be had to state with very great regret that the Lord Chancellor bad found the state of his health to be such as to render him unable to continue the performance of those duties which he had discharged with so much advantage to the couutry.—(Hear, hear.) He (Lord John Russell) had to state, therefore, that so soon as the Lord Chancellor shall have given judgment in the vari ous causes which he had heard he would feel himself compelled to resign the Great Se a l. I n filli ng u p t h at office he (Lord J. Russell) considered that any person taking the Great Seal would take it subject to any regulation made by Parliament upon the report et the Committee of which the Hon. Gentleman was chairman. He would state, in answer to the question of the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Bouverie), the Chairman of the Committee oa Fees, that with respect to uny officers appointed by the Lord Chancellor, in the event of the Lord Chancellor resigning, that such appointments would be subject to the examination of Parliament. With respect to the question of the separation of the judicial and the political fuuetions of the Lerd Chancellor, that was a subject which had engaged the attention of her Majes ty's Government, and it was one of great difficulty. Ho (Lord John Russell) had no doubt that the object was very desirable, and he trusted the Government would be able to propose a measure to Parliament on this subject which would be satisfactory to the House; but, consider ing the nature of the office of Lord Chancellor how much it was identified with the politi c al history and with the political administration of this country, he should ho very loth to introduce any measure ou the subject without the fullest and most serious consideration of that House.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HUME asked the Noble Lord if the refiring pen sion of 5,0001. a year incident to the office of Lord Cnan celler would be continued? Lord .30IIN RUSSELL replied that the person ae cepting the Great Seal would take it subject to the decision of Parliament as to the amount cf pension. Without stating that the pension would eon enue at 5,000 L, its present amount, he (Lord John Rus bell) must say he :should feel it his duty to resist any reduction of that pension to such an !anoint, as that the highest talent could not be secured by Parliament to fill the office of Lord Chancellor. LANDLORD AND TENANT BILL. Mr. BRIGHT wished to know when the second read ing of the Landlerd and Tenant (Ireland) Bill would come on. Lord J. RUSSELL replied that the Bill wag still un der th© consideration cf the Government, but he believed the sernnd reading svoul.! be taken in the course of the preleht session, though he was not sanguine as to its paTting through Committee before the termination of the sestina. LIEUTENANT-GOVEII.NOR OF L&BILA.N. Mr. C. LUSHING TON wi,:bed to know, whether the Lieutenant-Governor of Lahunn, Sir William Napier, ho ~ lcoinistererl the all/(irs of the colony, had been siis,pcnl;,(l, cad whether the duties ( f his office hod fallen e. d:aughrsznan and a surveyor. Mr. HA WES said it was quite true that the Deutenant- Governor hal been suspended from his office. The whole circumstances of the ease were undo r the coo sideration of the Government; and be thought it would be the heiglit cf injuqice, eitbe: expressly or impliedly, to give any opinion on tne sub ject until the investigation of the Government was closed. It wa.i not true that the administration of justice in that island had been suspended in consequence of Sir William Napier having been removed froba his office. Mr. LUSHINGTON observed that he should repeat the question at the expiration of a moderstl time. SECEMITY FOIL ADVANCES (IRELAND) BILL. Iu leply to Mr. / 4 1()NSELL Lr,rd J. RUSSELL said he would proceed ttis Bill lid early ta pc -ibie. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1850. wards repaid by the colonies. By the middle of 1849, a further sum of 100,0001. ha I been expended; and there had since been expended a similar sum of 100,000/. ; the whole of which money had been repaid, or would be, repaid by the colonies. The Coinmissioners bat also expended for New South Wales a sum of 43,7001., which had been received from various private contributions. He wished to discuss that question with perfect candour, and he certainly .thought that it was not one in which Hon. Members on one side of the House could have an interest distinct from Hon. Members on the other side. His simple object was to guard against the assumption that the Go vernment could do much more in the matter than they were at present doing. He had always thought that it the Government had taken the entire system Df emigra tion under their immediate management they would have diminished, instead of having increirw!, the num ber of ens'grants. He found that emigration had already taken place from this country to an enormous extent. During the ton years preceding 1847 there had emi gratsd from these islands to the United States and to the British possessions in North America not less than 700,000 persona ; and during the three years ending in 1849 Oere ha 1 ens grated to the same countries not less than 750,000; making altogether iu the thirteen years an emi gratinn of nearly 1,500,000 persons to North America 'slot e. A large stream of emigition had at the same time been going on to our Australian colonies, although the expense of the passage had of course rendered the number of emigrants much smaller to those colonies thae to Canada or to the United States. The whole population of Australia and New Zealand might be taken at 330,000 persons, and he found that there had emi grated to those colonies, since the Ist of January, 1848, not less than 56,000 persons, or very nearly 16 per cent. of the entire population. There was one subject which had been frequently mentioned in that House, and on which he had some kxptanvions to offer. It seemed to be the opinion of some Hon. Gentlemen that Ireland had net had her fair share in the transmission of emigrants to the Australian colonies. Ile believed, however, he could show that Ireland had not been treated with any peculiar unfairness in that matter. He found that the popula tion of the three kingdoms taken centesimally was as follows :—Eogland had a little more than 59, Scotland a little more than 9, and Ireland had 30. Now the actual number of emigrants sent from the three king doms had been as follows:—From England 25,332, from Scotland 4,343, and from Ireland 12,486. The result of that statement w .s that the number of emigrants from Ireland had only been 400 less than it should have been If the proprtions between her emigrants and her popu lation, as compared with the rest of the United King. dom, had been strietly observed... In conclusion he had to state that her Majesty's Ministers were as anxious as the lion. Member for East Sornersetshire himself to promote, as far as they shouli find practicable, the ob. Oct tvLiett the Hon. Member had in view; but as he be lieved that the aloption of the motion of the Hon. Gen tleman would.give rise to exaggerated expectations he should urge him not to press taut motion. If the Hon. Gentleman should not accede to that suggestion he should relw tantly feel it hie duty to move " the previous quer,- ion" by way of amendment. But he hoped the lion. Gentleman would not render it necessary for hiui to pursue Oat caws!. The amendment was then put and negatived; a•:(1 the previous . questionitaving been sleeved by Mr. liAWES, belonged when he found it. It was certainly not an honest transaction on his part, as he could have in formed some of the workmen of his finding, when it would have been instantly restored to the owner. But such did not make it a felony,'and it would Le for th , . jury to decide. _ _ The jury consulted for a few minutes, when they returned a verdict of Acquittal. Mr. MONSELL said — it would ba much better if the Irish emigrants were to start front their own ports, in stead of first coming to Plymouth. He wished the Hon. Member for East Somersetshire had lett out the word 4eveatia. W►►y should all the emigrants be sent to that colony? Seeing the disaster which must bo anti eipved on recount of the shortness of the cotton crop, ha wondered the policy of encouraging emigration to the o`►looy of Port Neel, where cotton grew so well, had riot struck Hon. Members more fo:cibly. His principal object in rising, however, was to draw the attention of the House to the absolute necessity of promoting, by every possible means, the emigration of females from the Irish workhouses. The House would hardly telieve the real state of the cake. In the workhouse of the Cork Uoioa there were at the present moment 563 males and 954 females between the ages of 15 and 40, who had been there for more than a year, and everyone who knew anything about Ireland was well aware that when they had remained in the workhorse more than a year the probability was that they would spend the rest of their lives there. In Thurlee workhouse there were 247 males aad 618 females, between 15 and 40, who had been there for more than a year; in Kanturk workhouse 362 males and 829 females, and in Galway workhouse 530 males and 740 females. Taking the whole of Ireland there wore 10,118 males and 18,429 females who had been more than a year in the various work housas. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. LAMB E TH. EXTENSIVE AND INGENIOUS ROBBERY OF THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.—Last even ing, as Mr. Elliot, the sitting magistrate, was about to leave the bench, Mr. William Edward Eicke, a young man of gentlemanly appearance, was brought up in custody of Mr. Field, the inspector of the de tective force, and Bent, an active officer, and placed at the felons' bar on a charge of stealing a debenture bond, of the value of 2,0001., from the treasurer's effice, at the terminus of the London and South- Western rt ,ilway, the property of the company. Mr. L. C ennbie, from the office of Messrs. Bircham and Dalrymple, solicitors to the company, with Mr. Alfred Morgan, the company's treasurer, attended far the prosecution ; and Mr. Games ap peared on behalf of the prisoner. From the opening of Mr. Crumble, it appeared thet an error or deficiency of 2,0001. having been dis covered in the booke of the company, an investigation of the accounts was instituted, which resulted in the discovery that the prisoner, who was a clerk in the office of Mr: Morgan, the treasurer, had, on the 25th January, 1849, issued a debenture bond for the amount of the deficiency, and the instru ment having got into different hands, the company were paying the interest on it as though the money had been advanced to them in the ordinary way. Upon this discovery having been made, Mr. Field, of the detective force, and Bent, an intel ligent officer employed by the company, were en geged to apprehend the prisoner, and they, after much trouble and a great deal of maneeuvring, succeeded in taking him into custody at a chemical manufactory which he had established at Battersea-fields, and to conduct which, it appeared, he had given up his situa tion under the rail way company. Mr. Alfred Morgan was then called into the wit ness-box, and having been sworn, said—l am trea surer to the London and South-Western Railway Company. The prisoner was in the service of that company. He had charge of the debentures granted by the company, for the purpose of being registered, and it was also his duty to take a receipt for each de benture-bond that passed through his hands. The de benture- bonds were never finally sealed, until they were actually wanted, and they were then given to the prisoner, whose duty it was to register them and re ceive a receipt for them from the parties receiving them. I remember an application having been made to the company for debentures to the amount of 4,0001. by Mr. Dickinson, of May-fair, in January, 1849. The application was for one debenture of 2,0001. and two of 1,0001. each. There was no other appli cation fJr debentures by Mr. Dickinson during that month. In the book kept by the prisoner there was an entry of a debenture• for 2,0001. transferred from Mn Dickinson to another person under the date of the 11th March, 1849. The debenture is described in that entry as No. 3(37, dated 25th of January, 1849. Tee number of the debenture for 2,0001. granted Mr. Dickinson, is No. 366, and is dated 25th of January, 1849. There is no entry of cash having been paid for the debenture for 2,0001., No. 367,. and Mr. Dickinson, it has been proved, has only paid for one debenture of 2,0001, No. 266, and two others of 1,0001. each. The ,book in which the cash entries for the debenture bonds should have been "made is pro duced, and no entry can be found of any cash having been paid in reference to the 'debenture for 2,0001. No. 367. I find that an entry of two sums for 2,0001. each, and two for 1,0001., had been made, but in one of the former there was an erasure. In the debenture ledger there appear entries of two deben tures for 2,000/, and two for 1,0001. each, by which Mr. Dickinson is made to appear to have ordered de• bentures for 6,0001. from the company, instead of 4,0001., while in the cash receipt book only 4,000/. appears as received. The debenture No. 367, ap peared to. have been transferred to three different parties, and was at present in the possession of Mr. Wilkinson, of Clapham. All the entries of the tran'fers, except the last, were in the handwriting of the prisoner. From all the circumstances, I believe the debenture for 2,0001, No. 367, has been stolen from the office of the company; and that the money had not been advanced for it, nor had there been any authority given_ for taking it away. The grounds for• charging the prisoner with the offence of stealing the debenture is, that at all events there is a fraud shown by the entries to have been committed by him in keeping the accounts, and entering the money as having been paid when. it was not. An Hon. MEMBER hero moved that the House be counted, and there being only 35 Members present, the House adjourned st ten minutes past Eight o'el,,ck till Thursday. UNIVERSI IT REFORM . . Mr. GLADSTONE ackf.d Lord John Russell when it was proposed to proceed with the adjourned debate on the motion for the appointment of a commission to in quire into the management of the Universities? Lord JOHN RUSSELL said it was • net a Government measure, and ho could not undertake to say when the adjourned debate would be proceeded with, but •ahenever it was resumed he should move an amendment that it should be adjourned for three months. OCCUPATION OF THE NEW HOUSE. Sir GEORGE WIEY said he understood the new House, owing to the favourable change in the weather, would be ready for occupation on Thursday next, and if convenient for Hon. Members, he would propose that they should have a morning sitting in the new House on that day at twelve o'clock. Sime anxiety had been ex pressed with respect to the progress of the Irish Elec tion. Bill, and no doubt that Bill might be taken at the merning sitting.—(Hear, hear.) It was intended to meet in the old House again at five o'clock. Is was then agreed that the House at its rising tel jeure until Thursday, at twelve o'clock. EMIGRATION OF PAUPER CHILDREN. Mr. W. MILES presented sereral petitions from various parts of the country in favour of a plan for the emigration of pauper children. The Honourable Gentleman, after presenting the petition, thee proceeded to move, " That it is expedient that the Go eernment, with the consent and assistance of the boards of guardians throughout England and Wales, should take immediate steps to forward the emigration of orphan girls, inmates of the several workhouses, and capable of entering service, to Australia as apprentices." It urns of the utmost importance to the country, circum scribed as England was, to have a free outlet for its super abundant population, and what outlet could they find better than a colony which, by the fertility of it; soil and the congeniadty of its climate, rendered it peculiarly adapted to the energies and constitution of English men? Parliament should, therefore, encourage as much as possible the introduction of capital into the colony of New South Wales, while next to that it ought to facilitate the transfer of domestic servants from this country to the colonies. The emigrative capitalist, with a familv, experienced no greater inconvenience when he reached the colony than the difficulty of procuring do mestic servants, and it was the knowledge of that incon venience which bad induced him to bring forward the present motion. He wished, it to be understood that all the arguments which he should have to bring for ward might be applicable to New South Wales, and without going to times gone by for reports, 'he would wish the Members to refer to docu ments which had been long before the House. If they would refer to the returns from the Aix magisterial divisions of Sydney red from Port Philip, they would find the great request in which female servants were in these oistricts. That was the general complaint in nll those districts, and the question was, whether England was in the position to provide for the colonies; and be thought that if the House would also peruse the domestic returns relating to this t'his', they would find that there were abundance of materials. He found that there were as many as 173 boys and girls in the twelve workhouses in the county which he represented who were capable of entering service. and the boards of guardians entirely approved of the proposition for their removal to the colonies.. The number of these young persons was rapidly increasing, and the cost of their sup port and education entailed a very large sum upon the country. Soon aft?: the formation of the poor-law unions his attention was very much directed to one union,containing a population of 56,000 persons and three workhouses, in which were located the ab'e bodied, the aged, and the young; and on examining the pauper school, he was astonished at finding such a large number of children, many of whom were orphans and without protectors or friends. Inconsequence of the ex pense of maintaining three workhouses the inmates were transferred to one large establishment, where the children, up to the age of 15, were kept apart from the elder paupers, not being allowed to enter the general ward. After that time they were occasionally employed in the women's ward; but he was sorry to say, from the description of persons with wbom they then as sociated, they frequently became contaminated. At the age of sixteen they were considered able-bodied, and could leave the house at any time, on giving twenty-four hours' notice; and ho could mention nume rous instances of the demoralisation and crime which resulted from these orphan girls being suddenly cast upon the world. It had been stated that a general disinclination existed in the colonies, particularly in Australia, to the reception of pauper labour; and in that respect he thought they' were right, because so far as able-bodied men and women were concerned, they were neither efficient labourers nor servants; but with respect to childr en t h e case was far different , and he would en deavour to show the result of their industrial training, because on thattitrraincionog depended their usefulness to the Em ig c r o a lo tio ni n st c s. ommissione p r e s r l a u n p d i n e p l r u o a p l e l y r 1 y a - s m a a h e l r t e 3 el a report made to the I n d that the children brought earn their tnsreesalivelihood rotuhgehte z u i p st b in y g th e e l i r r e p um ar s e t n a r t h e h ee i h n y t cp e o el labourl ro i o g no e i ne a ss t believed o t ta h f l e a t s w y t h htl e w en s o nd a U e co l br d 2 p a r g o e v e w h more oha ve desirable. ot emigrantsadthe adv atnhtann es of the education given to children in the workhouse:. Since the period at which that report was written, other evi dence had been given confirmatory of what he had stated. He referred to the evidence of those gentle men who had been sent out, he believed, by a com mittee of the Privy Council, under the authority of the Poor-law Board, as commissioners to de termine as to the education of the echooleca s t ers ; and as to the efficiency _of the of the five cora schools. When he stated the name of gr. luffn e 1 as cue sure the House would receive with mi'El°ners' lie ivas • h e might have given. Mr. Tuff defeience any opinion e o l r l kh stated ou s e a h r e a a t l t ? e t ; the'. s a a t t f h req g uen ls t p r r e e m se a n r t k a o v f er v y is: u to p r e s rio to r w schools appearance to the bey; I I- and altogether of in 00 stunted in growth, less healthy I was long puzzled to an inferior physical develoPalcn t • . l t a h t e ter fo a r r m e er co a n; looking and well-grown, ht leler account for this difference, as b the very similar • but I am now persua i r v e d e t thatrn t n it I work to the w a nt o f appropriate industrial for the boys. t eof is owingot is In general there is no difficulty i n finding abundant suitable empl o y men t f or th e girls ; and thotpda a con siderable part of it, 'such as sewing, is sedentary, the female constitution. accuse to suffer far less from con fueement than the other .sex, and in washing, scour' BOROUGH OF FINSBURY. The following communication has been made by Mr. T. S. Duncombe, M.P., to Mr. 11. Griffiths, the chairman of the committee appointed to remonstrate with the Hon. Member on his absence from his Par liamentary duties : "5, Palace Chambers, St. James's, May 28, 1850. " Sir,--I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, calling my most partiCular and serious attention to a copy of some resolutions agreed to at certain pri vate meetings of a few of my constituents, over which you had the honour to preside, at the Kent Hotel, Brownlow-street, Holborn, and requesting me to explain the reasons of my absence from my Parliamentary duties. "I confess that until the receipt of your favour I did not suppose that there could have teen found in the well irEamed and ext•snsive borough of Finsbury any person ignorant of the fact that severe and dangerous illness has been the sole cease of my absence from Parliament, to the duties of which it has ever been my pride during the twenty-three years that I have bad the honour of a seat in the House of Commons, to air(' an independent and most unremitting atten:ion, avid during which period my attendance, I am most thankful to say, has never re ceived a week's interruption until I was overwhelmed by my recent painful and protracted illness. _ _ However, I sea happy to inform you• that improved and improving health enables me now to resume my Parliamentary duties; and also tha , , having from the commencement of my connexim with Finsbury, pledged m y self over anti over again to my constituents that so long as it pleased God that health and strength should remain to me, and so long as it should please Finsbury to stand by me, I should stand by Finsbury,' I adhere t that pledge. And further, I beg to inform you that, being asurtid as I am that the great majority of my constituents do not consider a passing illness, contracted in their service, as sufficient ground for a withdrawal of their confidence, I shall, when the present Parliament has passel away, give to those on whose behalf you ad dress me an opportunity of recording their votes against me—as soma of them have done before. "In the mean time, I beg to assure you that should the opinions of my medical attendants and tray ovrn an ticipations of returning health be doomed to disappoint ment, I shall not la quire any appeal from any portion of those who have five times honoured me by returning me to Parliament, as to the course which my own honour, as well as their interests, will demand at my hands. " I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, " THOMAS S. DUNCOMBE. H. Griffith's, Esq., Chairman of the Kent Hotel Committ, e, Brow nlow • street.", SURREY SESSIONS, May 28. (Before Tuomas PUCKLF, Esq., and a full Bench of Magistrates.) A DISAPPOINTED WEDDING -FINDINGS NOT ALWAYS KEEPING& Charles Bass, 19, was indicted for stealing at Rich mond a sovereign, three half sovereigns, and other moneys, the property of Mich , ,el M'Donald. The prosecutor stated that he was a gardener at Richmond, and employed on the same estate with the prisoner. On the morning of the 17th of April, at the rear of a public-house where they had been drink ing, he dropped his money from his waistcoat pocket. He made inquiries about it, but could gain no tidings until a late hour in the evening, when he met the prisoner, who bragged about finding the cash, but re fused to give it up. Knowing that it was his money he called in a police-constable and gave him into custody, when it was ascertained that he had spent all the money in purchasing a ring and providing things for his wedding with a young woman. A police-constable of the V division stated that he took the prisoner into custody, and ascertained from him that he had found some money in the place where the prosecutor dropped it. From information he received he went to the house of a female named Tyler, where he found a new dress, some white rib bon, and a gold ring, which the latter told him had been given to her by the prisoner, who was about to marry her. Mary Ann Tyler, a respectable•looking young woman, stated that she resided at Barnes, and had kept company with the prisoner for five years. Oa the; afternoon of the 17th of April he came to her house and wished her to go with him to the parish, clerk, and put up the banns of marriage. They went. out for that purpose, and on their way to the clerk's house the prisoner purchased their wedding-ring, and after wards a new dress and some white ribbon. Being too late fur publishing the banns they parted company, and witness took home with her the articles they had purchased. When the policeman came she handed everything to him. In cross•examination by Mr. CHAIZNOCK, the pri soner's counsel, witness stated that she had been much disappointed, as she was to have been married to the prisoner three weeks ago. She hoped the ring would not be taken away from them, as it would spoil their happiness.—(Laughter.) What ho purchased amounted to 303., and as he had always plenty of mo ney she thought it was his own. She did rot know that he found it. Mr. CIIARNOCK, for the prisoner, said he could not deny that his client found the money in the place stated by the prosecutor, but according to the vulgar error acted upon by uneducated persons who were unacquainted with the laws of the country, be had foolishly appropriated it to his own use, at the same time not knowing to whom it belonged. The Learned Counsel quoted several cases, and referred to Baron Parke's decision on a similar occasion, whsr&in the party was acquitted. The prisoner had suffered six weeks' imprisonment, which, he believed, would be a sufficient caution to him as to his future conduct. The CITAIRMAN, in summing up, said the question was, whether the prisoner kneW to whom the money In his cross-examination by Mr. Games, Mr. Mor gan said that the prisoner bad been in the service of the company for four or five years, and that up to the time of his leaving, about five months ego, bad con ducted himself to the satisfaction of the company. Was not aware that his friends were of - the highest respectability, and all he knew of him was his !mi nus habits ; and was not aware that up to the present charge there had been the slightest imputation on his character. Mr. Crumble, addressing the Magistrate, said that as the prisoner bad only just before been apprehended, he (Mr. Crombie) had not had time to procure the attendance of Mr. Wilkinson, the holder of the stolen bond, or the other witnesses whose testimony would be required to complete the charge against the priso ner ; and therefore he had to request the remand of the accused for a few days, to give time for the at tendance of the witnesses that would be required. Mr. Games replied that he felt it quite useless to contend against a remand, but he at the same time hoped his Worship would admit his respectable client to bail in such an amount as would ensure his attend ance on a future day, particularly as it would require a lengthened remand to enable him (Mr. Games) to get up such a defence as, he doubted not, would wholly free the accused from the charge and accu sation. Mr. ELLnyrr said the lowest amount of bail he could thick uf accepting was two sureties in 1,0001. each, and the prisoner himself in 2,0001., and remanded the prisoner for n' week. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. WEST CORNWALL. A special meeting cf the proprietors of the above company was held yesterday, at the King's Arms Tavern, Falacc-yard, fir the purpose of considering the draft of a Bill now before Parliament, for authorising a deviation of a branch line of the railway and for other purposes. Captain Moorsom was in the chair. The advertisement convening the meeting having been read by the secretary, the solicitor (Mr. Ed wards) was about to lay before the shareholders the draft of the Bill, when Mr. Hier, objected to any further progress in the business for which the meeting had been convened, until the shareholders received some explanations re specting certain rumours which had obtained circula tion, and which afTected the credit of the company. It had been publicly reported, and was in many in fluential quarters, as he understood, believed, that some negotiations or correspondence had been entered into, or taken place, which amounted to something like a compromise between the chairman of the com pany and Mr. Mowatt, the defendant in an action brought by the company, and by which correspond ence or arrangement the hearing of the trial had been postponed, to the great injury of the company. The matter had excited great surprise in Cornwall and amongst a very large . class of shareholders, and although scarcely anything could induce him to be. lieve that the reports which he heard were strictly correct, he felt, in common with other gentlemen, that it was of the highest importance, both for the character of the chairman and the interests of the company, that a full explanation should be given. 'Mr. IlAitatsols said he should have asked the same question it' he had not felt it would be affectation in him, who had been a member of a committee of in vestigation on the subject-matter of the trial referred to. In that character he knew the chairman had, without the concurrence of his colleagues, entered into a correspondence which led to the postponement of the trial. On this matter the chairman had acted without authorisy, and was bound to explain. A long and angry discussion took place, in which Mr. Hill, Mr. Harrison, 'Mr. Flight, Mr. Wheeler, Mr. Vigurs, and other gentlemen pressed on Captain Moorsom the necessity of giving an ample explana tion of the facts charged in reference to the post ' ponement of the trial. On the other hand, Captain Moorsoin denied 'the competency of the present meeting to deal with the matter, questioned the pro priety of discussing the point, and excepted to the manner in which the speakers had approached the subject. Ultimately Mr. Vigurs stated that he thought there was a letter on the books of the com pany from Messrs. Tilscii and Squance, the solicitors for the plaintiffs in the company, which if read to the meeting would render any further explanation unnecessary. Several directors denied any knowledge of the letter referred to. At the suggestion of Mr. VIGURS the hoard retired for ten minute , ' to consider the letter referred to. When V,e board returned, it was considered expe dient to adjourn the meeting, without further discus sion, to the .sth c•f* June. A copy of the letter was said to be in the room. The meeting then adjourned. YOE K, N EWCASTI.E, AN I) BERWICK. YORK, TUE:::I3OA.Y.—Aa extraordinary meeting of the shareholders was held to-day at the De Grey Rooms, at which Mr. George Leeman, th e c h a i rman of the company, presided, when the res o l u ti ons pro posed by the directors in reference to the Great North ing, bed-making, &c., there is always much of that sort of work most conducive to health." Mr. Brown stated :—" The girls usually sew and knit, fse• qiiently do house work, and more rarely bake, wash, and cut out linen." Mr. Bowyer stated : " The industrial training of the girls is better provided for, as the making and mending of the clothing and linen of the house afford them a constant and appropriate oc cupation. They are always employed for two hours of the afternoon in knitting and sewing, and become in some places accomplished needlewosnen. They always make their own beds, sweep and wash their own floors, and generally also those of a great part of the workhouse. They help to serve the dinner for the house, and the elder girls assist in the kitchen and wait upon the mas ter and matron, preparatory to being placed in service. In some of the larger and best-regulated workhouses they even possess a separate laundry." Mr. Ruddock gave similar evidence. Having shown that the industrial and moral training of the workhouse girls was well looked to up to a certain period of life, be should now call the attention of the House to the return moved for in 1848 by the late lamented President of the Poor-law Board. Though that return was not so complete as one that had been made since, it eves sufficiently full to enable them to make a subdivision of the workhouse girls into three classes—those under three years of age—those between three and seven—sod those between seven and sixteen. It was impossible, honorer, for the public to understand from this subdivi sion the number of girls who quitted the workhouse to compete with other children for labour. Last autumn he had issued circulars in the county which he represented to the different union workhouses for information on this point, and he had aseertaned that in the 12 workhouses the number of boys and girls capable of entering ser vice was no less than 273. le had likewise inquired of the different boards of guardians whether they would contribute not only to the outfit of the children, and to send them to the port of embarkation, but also to the expenses of the voyage. The answers which he had re ceived from the 12 unions were decidedly in the affirma tive, and to the effect that the guardians would consent to do so if the Government came forward with some as sistance. They had also assured him, from the know ledge they pessessed of the different parishes, that they would have no difficulty in carrying on emigra tion on such terms. Early in the session of 1849 he hal an interview with the Under-Secretary of the (Monies and the President of then Poor-law Board on . the suhjsct, and he believed that both of those Honourable Members concurred in much of what he had awed, and objected only on the question of exeense. Is that session the Hon. Member for Decor had moved fir a return similar to that moved for by the NO ['resident of the Poor-law Board. He wished to direct the attention of the House to that ro turn, to show the number of workhouse children capable of sezwice. According to that return the number of children in the workhouses each year was 56.323. Of these the number of boys capable of entering service was 4,579; of girls, 3,694 total, 8,273. The number of male orphans enable of service WA9 1,578 ; female, 1,171 — tot d, 2,749: about one-third of the children capable of cot ?ring service. He theueht there were other classes of children who might be benefited by emigrating, and they were--children of widows who were not in the workhouse; children of widows who were in the work• house; children of widowers who were not in the work he's e; children of widowers who were in the workhouse. These, he thought, wite consent of their parents, might migrate with advantnee. It was his intention last session to hey, called re tention to this subject, but he did not regret the 61, y that had occurred, as the returns sines made showed the interest token by Earl Grey on this sulij.ce Ind; el it was a subject which had been teleen up by the Government, arid was more a ques tion, at tht ire than of his. Its his dispatch of the 26th June, 1813, t Sir C. Fitzroy, E irl grey expressed his csncurrence is the report of the Commissioners, end di rected him to take measures to give street to their recom mendations with regard .to workhouse children, and for pinning them in a respectable position in the colony. In one of their letters the Commissioners of Colonial Emi gration gave it as their opinion that the emigration of these.childrea was for the interest of the colony, and of the greatest hdiefit to the girls, but that they were un willing to node; ake it on a large scale until suffieient preparation was made is the colony for their proper em ployment end dietributi on The Emigration Committee having been reques'ed to report as to the prospect of placing thecae emigrants in eligib:e situations, stated in answer that finale emigrants from the English work houses would be accept able to the colonists, and that in tee Sydney districts suitable situations might be readily obtained for 800 of them. The Hon. Member for Norteetnptonshire proposed to include Ireland in the present motion, but he ought to recollect that if he suc ceeded in extending the motion to Irish workhouse orphans, a contribution of Si. per head would have tr be made towards the expense of their passage. In answer to the request of Earl Grey it was stated that two distriLts of the colony vi ere willing to take 1,400 of these children as apprentices that very year. Raving this concurrence of the Legislature of Sydney, he should hke to suggest whether it would not be better at once to commence a system which, if carried out, would lead to greeter demand for boy as vs ell as girl emigrants from the workhouses of this country. It would be of the greatest use to the colonists of New South Wales if they could &dein apprentices on whose services they could rely. The convict boys who tied been sent to Western Aus tralia had, from their industrial training, been most use ful to the colony. Two years ago the Noble Lord the Member fur Bath made a motion for sending out a cer tain number of ragged school boys, but that emigration hail not turned out so well as that to Western Australia, for the boys, released from restraint, conducted them selves ill in the colony.-- [Lord ASHLEY—No, no.] Atall events they did not turn out so well as the colonists could expect. In the early part of 1848 advances to the extent of 300,000/. were authorised fur the purposes of emigration, scented by debentures on the Crown lauds. Between that period and the Ist of June last the colony had repaid to the British Government 180,000/. of that stem. Acting on the suggestion of Earl Grey, that pa rishes should, in the first instance, pay the expenses of outfit and Si. per head towards the expense of the voyage, he would propose that the colonial funds should pay the rest cf the expense. He asked fcr no grant. The whole sum required from the colonists to carry out the emigration would not exceed 7,0001. From what he knew of the wishes of the generality of parishes in England, he had no doubt they would consent to such terms. The be nefits of such an emigration would be incalculable to the colonists and to the children themselves. He felt convinced that his proposal only wanted the fiat of the GovernMent to be carried into effect, and that it would be but the prelude to a further emigration, which would entail blessings, not only on New South Wales, but also on other of onr colonies.— (Hear.) He begged to move " That it is expedient that the Government, with the consent and assistance of the board of guardians throughout England and Wales, should take immediate steps to forward the emigration of orphan girls, inmates of the several workhouses, and capable of entering ser vice, to Australia, as apprentices." Mr. STAFFORD rose to move his amendment to substitute the words " United Kingdom" for the words " England and Wales" in the motion. He did not pro pose the amendment in any. spirit of hostility to the motion, hut he thought that any aid granted for emi gration ought to include Ireland as well as other parts of the United Kingdom. There had never been such offsets made by any nation for the purpose of emigration as those which had been made of late years by the people of Ireland. In corroboration of this statement he might rs.fer Hon. Gentlemen to the tenth report of the Emigration Commissioners, from which 'it ap peared that for three yearn the emigration from Ireland could not be taken at less than 601,448 persons. The emigration, indeed, for the last three years exceeded the annual increase of the population to an extent which, if continued, would diminish the population in eight years by a million. In the Poor-law Act of last ses sion clauses were introduced expressly referring to emi gration, but they had been almost inoperative. In a letter which he had received from an able administrator of the poor-law in Ireland—the clerk of the union with a ten loan dr o o f f e tb t h e ue d ty — hh t : h dd e oan w d Iv r y ! t rr e te r ics oe s id t v a ef t od e r d s that with e rwe , l o sl i jo ehc /. t , h a t eot was n p ai e sg r r ie tni n on t ne . 5001.—(Bear, hear.) The writer went on further to sta'e that the difference between the 51. 10s., which it bad cost to send out 91 persons to the colonies, and that which their de'eation at home would cost their respec tive unions, was 81. lOs ; the estimated charge of each being about 14/. He ale° gave it as his opinion that the subject of emigration was a matter which ought to be taken up by the Government, as it was a question which merited a great degree of attention. — The writer did not want tho Government to give a sum of money; but if they gave a gparantoe the money neces sary for the purposes of em i grat i on m i g h t b e ra i se d b y way of loan. The new arrangements which had been entered into with respect to an amended Poor-law Bill with emigration clauses, did not yet begin to act together so as to enable them to come to any decided conclusion on the subject. Bat after their best endeavours to carry those clauses into effect, they found that they could not be satisfactorily carried out as ye E t. nai T gr h a e ti H en on a . n M d e lj en a b n e d r that a great inc rease h a d herereferredCommissioners t w a h r i e o p h o r s t ta o t f ed the taken place in the number of Irish orphan girls to Aus tralia in the year 1848, and strongly. recommend e d t h e e n c ouragement of such a system of emigration. Under all the circumstances of the case, he thought his Hon. Friend could not be astonished at the anxiety felt about, and the attention paid to, that matter in Ireland. There was, in fact, no subject of a secular nature which at theco es country generally c of Malaita orphan emi gration.—(Dear.) mo m moment the exc s i n te n d je s t o much attention in thi s There had been an attack made oa the conduct of somo of the Irish girls; now, in the same report to which he had before referred, he had found it stated that the conduct of .the Irish female orphans ha I been good, both on board and on their landing; teat they had given entire satisfaction its every respect, with the exception that they were uninstructed as domestic servants. Now he hoped it would in future be taken into consideration the importance of improving the sys• tern of instruction in the Irish workhouse:, by teaching the h female orphans the duties of domestic servants. There were soc i et i es i n our co l on i es under t h e names o f S George, St. Patrick, and St. Andrew, for the pro tection of the interests cf the respective inhabitants of the three kingdoms, and they had strongly therecom emmeingdreudtien,as e enci c T uly r n a l grn eent of a sound system of for the benefit of the mother smutty and the colonies themselves. 11e then referred to the case of the female emigrants by the ship Earl Grey, from Belfast, against whom serious charges of misconduct had been made. Now ho only thought it fair to the board of guardians of the union from which those girls had been sent to state, that, upon an examination into the facts of thaecase, it had been found that two-thirds of the number of those on board the ship in question were not obnoxious to the imputation which attached to the others. It was impossible to exercise such a degree of control and care into the investigation of the characters of those se lected for emigration as to prevent some irregularities from occurring on such a long voyage. But a whole class ought not to be condemeed because one-third of the crew of one vessel hnd been mixonducted.—(Hoar.) Ho wished the Hon. Member for Merylebone (Sir B. hail) was then in his place, in order that he might hear of the conduct of some parties who had been sent out from a place nearer home. 'rho person who had written the account to which he would then refer had stated " that he could not fled words enough to tell all the trouble which he bad on the voyage with those women, or rather fiends in human share, who had been sent out from the Marylebone workhouse." The lengnage they were said to use was of the most disgusting kind, and they had succeeded in inciting the sailors to mutiny. The Hon. Member here referred to the reports of various parties respecting the good conduct of Irish female orphan emigrants proceeding out by several other ships, all of which concurred in bearing fevourahle testimony to their behaviour on their voyage to South Australis, and on their arrival. If they taught these Irish female orphans how to discharge the duties of domestic servants better in their workhouses, there would be no difficulty in finding good situations for them in Australia.—(Hear, hear.) The encouragement of such emigration would be of service not only to Ireland bat to the colonies. The Hon. Member here read an extract from a colo nial local paper, descriptive of the character of the labourers, artisans, tradesmen, and respectable emi grants generally, requisite in the colony, or likely to suc ceed. Amongst the daises therein specified every encon ragement was held out to good domestic servants. it bad been said that the colonies were not satisfied with those who bad been sent out from the ragged schools, but that was not sustained by the fact, and he knew his Noble Friend the Member for Bath (Lord Ashley) would bo able to defend the character of those whose prospects he had been so active in forwarding. It was also a source of sincere congratulation to his Noble Friend and those who had co-operated with him iu as si-ting the operatives who had been obliged to leave Fiance at the time of the revolution to emigrate, that the conduct of those persons bad been highly satisfec tory, and their presence of great value in the colonies to which they had been sent. It was the importance which attached to that eahject which had led him to wish to extend the proposition beyond England, and to include the workhouses of Ireland also in its operation; and that the whole empire should be embraced in considering that reat question of emigration.---(liar, hear.) He was desirous, whether or not the Government opposed or egrcei either to his amendment or the original motion of his Honourable Friend the Member for Somerset shire, that that House, which professed to be the ex ponent of the puha° opinion of this country, should express its serstiments, without reference to party die cussien, on oee of the nest important social questions which occupied the public mind of this country.—(Hear, !oar.) lle deeply regretted that the better classes did not. take a greater interest in the question of emigration than they did. It was true they were not war Ong in their contribution of funds to encourage and promote the emigration of their purer fellow•ceuntryinea. But he trusted the time was coming when the better classes would commeece a suet me of emigration among them selves. It did net seem to him an imp sAble thing, and he hoped the suggeeti.,n would not make Hon. Members still-, or a matter unworthy of the dignity of some of nue infant princes, that they should go forth to found a distinct empire in a dittont part of the world—an emeire won, not by the sword, but the higher acts of prat' and noel thus establish a mere glorietie dominion than ever the. Home c f Hanover had lost.—(11, hoar.) It suns highly Sati,f.cto - y to him to sec Oat there were various societies plandng the principles of Chrietianity and aitith institutions at the ehntipodee, as he could observe by a reference to the report of the Society for I'rntuo'ing Christian Knowledge. Tne H mourable Member a!so f rood to and read extracts l'real correspora!elee which lied taken place between some clereyteen sent out by the society alluded :o, and Lail Grey, relative to the want of Spiritual as well as assistance which prevailed in a qua rantine station on the coast of Canada, in consequence of the numbers of Irish emigrants arriving, and the preaa hence of a severe epidemic.. He did not think the an swer which the Noble Earl at the head of the Colonial offiec had given to the application made to him in conse qui nee of the mortality caused by the epiden.dc amongst the missionaries was such as been-no his position. All the ports of America hed expressed their conviotion that the, Government should exercise some superintendence over the system of emigration. 'l'he gentlemen at the head of the pour-law department had acknowledged the &faculty of an amendment of the law of settlement, diffi culties which were so great that he could not promise any proposition for regulating that law during the present session; now that tieing the case, was it not an addi tional inducement to that Honourable and Learned Gen tleman to give the question of emigration fuller consi deration? Ho was glad that that important question was now attracting the attention which it deserved. There was hardly a paper which one could tike up that did not contain some proceedings of societies establisliel for the protection and eneouragement of emigrants.— (Hear, bear.) The Honourable Member for Wilt shire's proposition f ir the Catsterbury tenlernent had been very successful, and was deserving cf every encou- - rsgement. Iq fact, it was attracting the attention of the better clasres to a considerable extent. A meeting had been called at . a few hour.' notice, at Cambridge, a short time since, to explain .the objects of that settle ment, and the views of the society promoting it, which had been most numerously attended by a large body not only of the undergraduates of that university, but by its professore, and others who were anxious to learn in telligence of an interesting colony, and what were the prospects which might await emigrants of a better order. He thought there was a tendency throughout the country amongst the better classes to emigrate, and if it were carried int ) ofFec', no doubt it would be a great blessing to their humbler fellow•country men who went out to the colonies. The old system in the management of our colonies had been that in deve loping their resources we should r en d e r th e m in dependent of the rest of the world ; and it was wonderful how nearly Ohs little island had succeeded in realising that idea. But in thee year 1846 that idea had been abandoned, and we had adopted the principle of having recourse to the cheapest markets. He should not then discuss the me rits of that principle; but he would remind those Hon. Members who maintained it, that this country' was not less bound at present than she had formerly been to promote to the utmost possible extent the interest both" of the colonists and of the people of the mother country, by a wise and enlarged system of emigration. In his opinion, emigration ought to be treated altogether apart from the colonial question, because whatever system of colonial government might be adopted it was manifestly for the advantage of the inhabitants of every portion of this great empire that its prolactiva powers should be spread over the most profitable fields for their employ ment. He hoped her Majesty's Government would show that they were not indifferent to the great, the paramount, and the pressing importance of that question. Ile be lieved that emigration was at pretwit a fireside—a house hold question in the :United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and he trusted that her Majesty's Govern ment would treat it in a manner befitting the rulers of a great and noble empire. The Hon. Member concluded by moving the substitution cf the words " United King dom," for the words " England and Wales," in the motion of the Hots. Member for East Somersetshire. Mr. HAWES said he was ready to admit the great importance of the question which had been brought under the notice of the House by the Hon. Member for East Somersetshire. Ho should further say chat ho bee lieved the best re eilts would have followed if the ques tion had long ago attracted the attention which it had received of late years. But in attempting to carry out the most benevolent views upon the subject, there were certain limits which it would be impossible to pass. In considering such a motion as that of the Hon. Member for East Sumersetsbire, it was manifest that they should take into account the capabilities of the colonies to re ceive any peculiar class of emigrants. Some years ago a crying evil had no doubt prevailed in New South Wales, inasmuch as there had bean a disproportion in the number of the two sexes there, which had led to the most frightful disorders. But that evil had since been removed, and at present no great inequality of that kited existed. The Honourable Gentleman who had just sat down had alluded to the emigration of Irish orphans, under the superintendence of the land and Emigration Commissioners. Now, he egreed with the Hon. Gentleman that that had been as far as it went a suc cessful emigration. But he believed he could show that if the emigration had been carried on to a much greater extent, the benevolent object of its promoters would have been defeated. It was clear that the supply of fe male emigrants to Sydney, to Melbourne, and to Ade laide, had been quite equal to the demand. In the tenth report of the Emigration Commissioners a very striking statement was to be found upon that subject. The Hon. Gentleman who had last addressed the House had al luded to three supplies of female orphan emigrants, of which sn account was to bo found in that report. By the first of those-supplies 219 females had been landed in Australia, and a benevolent committee, having been appointed to watch over their interests on their arrival rotee t o i o f n t the t c h o o rn s in the colony, situations had been found for all of them, with a single exception. The next supply con sisted of 195 females, of whom 151 only bad at once their labour been among them who been hired. But of the members of the third supply not lees than 57 had remained unengagel after a lapse decided h 4 emigrants, who neces. younge: begun mutes gt s , e ng s iV ower e hnp e ish k ci yh:t l dot t hdbaniepmteptnietaei formedrs e hd d e f mt r tl o a af m notdrt t h l report f i to e ohsree ve s in t acge colony was had arrived last had been disposed of to a less desirable s e h la o s w s n o f f o e r m t h pl e o s y e e r r y s i , c a e n s d o that sexily possessed more skill and experience. He had sent lur oneto state your t that n o e o y, f , e t h m e ala authorities emig rall t th a er had urged on the Secretary for the Colonies the ex pediency. of reducing the number by one half. He did not mention those facts for the purpose of discourag ing female emigratien, but he wished to show that they were dealing with a kind of emigration which required great care and consideration. ~They were also bound to take into account the state of th e funds in the hands of the Emigration Commissioners for the promotion of that object. The funds over which the Secretary for the Colonies had the chief control were funds which lie held in the nature of a trust, and which he was bound to administer, in some pilule° with the provisions of the Act of Parliament, and the general regulations laid down by the colonalts, who were the best judges of the class of emigrants which they themselves required. The Secretary of State could not select the emigrants from any particular body or from any particular pal tcf the country. He was sorry to say that the funds of the Emigration Commissioners were not in so flourishing a condition as might have been interred from the Speech of the Hon. Gentlemen the Member for East Semerscishire; and at the present moment there was but a very trifling balance in the hands of those Commissioners for the .emigration of the ensuing year. Its the year 1848 the Commissioners had expended a sum of 100,0001. in th© promotion of emigration, tha CM haying beensdvanced by the : Treasury, and at . er- :,. • of England Purchase Sheres were unanim als4 proved anu o s f r , after proposedsom some by considerable.;fr.. H. s discuss'°sop, to amendmentmP „Ist substitute January, the words " Ist of July, 18 55," fo r „or curred in by the chairman tors. The resolutions were as follows North 1. That the first 81. per share'paid on the Graft' Mitt "aiirnmatnheir,m7ththreespoalurttioonf, twheaui,;oo, of England Railway Purchase Shares obeli, L ,„ O - 0. Ist of July next, take the ordinary dividend Of the - pany. re• 2. That the call of 2/. per share last made shall be ; It dueed to 1/. per share, payable on the Ist and that any shareholder who shall have paid sot s is of 2/. per share shall be entitled, on demand 11„itht,irpof weeks after the passing into an Act of there.P' before Parliament, to repayment of 1/. per 5h.,,, 3. That the sum of 71. 13s. 4d., which Wil l , ":; 11 ,htli main to be paid to make up 161. 13s. 4d. per 5Pa . ,".', 1 0 be called by the instalments; and at the intro's" c e o o per sh' f jo,, hereinafter mentioned-that is to say, ii. the Ist July, 1852; 11. 10s. per share on the l' t is st 1853; 1/. 10i. per share on the Ist JanuarY, sac and the remaining 31. 13=. 40. per fiber() istof times between the Ist of January, 18 54, nod the.thiol‘ May, 1856, as the directors may from tim e to lin3" proper. p Orl it° 4. That the amount from time to time phi 0 per' said shares beyond the first 81. per share shall lir'l4'l.por petually guaranteed to it interest at the r a t e °Ff so 9 cent. per annum, with an option to the holder coo 0 share, or divided share, to relinquish such °OOO ordinary and to take thenctf )rward in respect, there dividend of the company. „ MO ° . 5. That after payment by any shareholder v- a ss/ pursuance or in advance of calls) of 51. per sba ce "00 6 share then held by him, beyond , the first 8/. P e i n to every such share shall be divided and converteub.o"lol share of 8 1 ., or into stock to that amount: t"ltees _ fin as orclinray dividend of the 'cornpany ard ia`* -I. ,id. share ot 17/., on which 5/. will then'have bee,lll7oslo' 6. That any bolder of any such share of 1 71. vi t , - ilisr e ' at any time pay, in addition to the 51. paid on se c „,";ae' and the calls, if any, which may have then hee c i jo rell, respect of such share, the further sum of 21. Per F OIL way of advance, shall be entitled to requite t t li h a e ls u i p to divide such 171 share into two shares of value of 81. 13s. 4d. and 81. 65..8d. respectieo or° which last-naentioned share the said sum of 21 P er cer tifr shall be deemed to have been paid, and separate t cares shall be given for such two shares. oft 7. That the 8/. 6s. Bd. per ,hare, which ceil i ,, re 4l. f ir m be called after payment of the sum of la I ° 9. the / share of 251., shall not (eicrpt as hereinafter rae"";011,1 he called up, if the amount can be borrowed or is i st er mortgage, which the company shall use their " t h ai , ° ll v ° , l ertions to effect ; but if such a mount "/ to r) ; have been so borrowed on the. Ist day 1856, such sum of 81 s 6i. Bd. shall be call ed de ( times and by such instalments as the director'lto termine, with a view to the payment of the b' '' t Vt" the money due to the shareholders ' in the G "- of England Railway. ti o 8. That the directors bn em owercd, if n tba think fir, to alter or omit all or an of the efa u , s ' l e; Bill now before Parliament, promoted by th e :fe l % relating to the said Great North of Esglay. c 105.4 Pa; chase Shares, and to insert therein 00' o t -V i i or clans( s for the better carrying into effect 3be ret ° t of the resolutions of this meeting in reference ores 9. That any huller, either of extension or of North of England Railway Purchase Share, " h t „ , a 1/1 DOW paid. or may hereafter pay up , any Of b' S fl ite° l2r 001 0 00 8 full, shall be at liberty to have the ' same consolidstel into stock, the holder of see h , P lc 3. , f shares still retaining his guarantee as at:two:3lo sr d At the conclusion of the proceedings , A r. , c ord iti° asked if Mr. Hudson had paid the 50,0001 e '- to arrangement ? icc d ' rece Mr. LEEMA.N said that 40,600 Z. had beep ,ore and that the remaining 10,000!" be s "'' would be received very shortly. _ob Mr.[HoLLoN proposed a vote of thanks to yo 0e trap, which was seconded by Mr. SCOTT, '01.14 and carried with loud applause. The meeting then terminated. 10 . THE COUNTRY MAlt 05 iti IPSWICH, MAY 28. It 0 5 i; 1)" The market was fairly supplied with wheat. 0 free sale ; prices were ab.ut the same as last vt ce chance sample of barley and beans on sale. o ° o i t : s FIER QUARTER. rs ll t vw Wheat, red Ditto, white . 42s to 46s Oats ................. y ea , to o; o c Barley, malting C(I Ditto, grinding Beans .. . AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING 31fA4 Wheat 713 quarters at 2 4 4 1 : 00 1 A Barley Beans Peas ........... HULL, MAY 28. tes Messrs. Taylor and Bright's Circular sol t oria re tt during the past week have 'been more importan t 14 1 but some portion has not come on the markets e g e s y 0 so corsumers. Owing to the Whitsun holidays bu fs liotric t irio' l much suspended in many of the manufacturing t fot o$ consequently we have had a lack of buyers, 11 41) : e aer, $ , actions. Those which have taken place wer ° terms against the holders. At to-day's market we get' ~e t l derate supply of wheat from the farmers, who '"" t ;lsot expecting more money a n d very unw illi ng se llers' by l o p prices, and those rates had to be submitted t°, Dot „ Foreign was not much dealt in, but the market w s- re i 5 $ Though transactions are far from extensive, yet the p tioo. o ee feeling far all kinds of spring corn, and each descc i rtiel',o o , buyers at about Is below ur highest quo t a tions., e i g no; market is only dull, but cakes, both English and,,,' ° cok e daily demand at fully last week's currency. Par bones are each dearer. The following are the present prices of grain 8. 8. , 81. 2i Wheat, English, red 38 to 40 Peas white nil./ 5 1 ' / " Do. white ...... Danteic and Igo- Linseed, Black S e 3 5 / nigsberg 44 46'Do. Petersburg', ~"1 : SS,'" Pomeranian and Do. Riga& Arc hl36 Ilamburgh 37 40 Do. Konigsbe r g '- •''' Os 61 Danish, Holstein, & Friesland 32 36 I L ins. cakes, gull 61 Russian and Odessa 30 36D0. fine foreign 10s t t5°J . 1 61 ° Oats, English Do. Danish—. ... .. 41 0 ° Do. Friesland. l2 16 Rape cakes— . Do. Russ. & Odessa 12 14 Tares, English '' .. .'l ° lo l 'S Barley, malting 2O 23 1 D0. foreign ............ to 1 0)5 0 Do. grinding l7 Guano ........... / 11 e 1 ' Beans 2l 24'Boees d 0... °'" l 1 ' .. tr a It Da. foreignßye mea .......... dg e s 00 CORK, MAY 27.—Flour—First 12s 6d l to 1 33 f i i . i r s be ir t seconds, 1156 d to 12s 6d ; households los tolls; sssciseod per cwt. Oatmeal lOs 6d to I Is; Indian meal 7s 9d t° 604 94 meal, 108 to lOs 6 , 1 per cwt. Indian corn 1455 to 40 0 ;. ,00 0,. Bran 4/15s 04 to 51 per ton. Hay—Farmers 32,3t4),y!.1.1j; 38s; dealers 40s to 45s Od; average 42s per ton. S t ; to er,i 20s Od to 255 Od; average 21s; dealers 00,s 6l average 005 Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten Il i on coP,O household loaf 5d to 5Ad per 41b. FresilL'od. 149 , 9d per lb. Eggs-3s 74 to 3s 84 per Ingo.' oast r Newport 14s; Lydney 15s; Landore 145 ; c 0s pe 0 Culm 13s per ton. Tallow 40s Od „400. 4(l d t Whisky, 25 0. p., 5s 94 per imperial, A r l es' ; 1 ,,r —Beef 4d to 4d; mutton 5d to er ' e sg° 4 ds 3 'll 5:1; pork 3-i"-,d to Od ; bacon 6d to 7d ; i a6d to 70 3 ;,, lb. Hops 131 Os per cwt. Bangor slates 31 tr dl; ett e ll ton. Bark—Barbary 71 5 s to 8/ss; Valonia 1 , 4; pe!,„; 71 ha; Spanish 91 per ton. Fleece Wool 105 to i l 6s to 1 0 / ; Hemp 32/tooo/ per ton. Fish— Scotch herrin 9 gs ° , to eto / o p ditto 20:540'22s per barrel ; Newfoundland / 9 es' l , ten. Timber—Memel, 85s per ton ; deals, 62.5 ;, ; 10 to / second quality, 16s per 100. Hides—Mar ke o salted 15s to 21s per cwt ; calf skins 2i d , t 6d; ,10 14 Potatoes, white 9d to 12d ; Minions 14d to Peruvian, 111 10s; Ichaboe, 91 per ton ; Ist 19s per barrel. A ro 59, 10 1' e , h 1 EADVERTISEMENT.i—Persons ted - 00 0 0 9 ,1 Scorbutic Humours, or Diseases of the Skin , of t ,if 'may's Ointment and Pills. Scurvy, Ring'%varl t i.isiro: cutaneous disorders, are engendered by the ' — h •coor t ime A o blood, and the only sure means to eradicates u c- ,,0 0 _, - r iov a it to undergo a course of Holloway's Pills, at th,., (3 „, e s r d "g hi t plying externally his invaluable Ointment. `i.,""proll'iot by these wonderfull medicines are daily atteste"'„'tbe°"eqo,o3 astonishing efficacy in purifying the blood, They are ti os,;( constitution, and re-establishing health. I “ e c i i _sO tt if° e certain in the cure of cancerous sores, ulcerate u jhal, e i v .d ii , glandular swellings, and persons so afflicted bl a fldbYf i str r diate recourse to these excellent. medicines.--0, 03) . (I .# gists, and at Professor Holloway's E s tablishm ent, P 1 London. t ' D o o t , DIAMONDS MADE FROM CLIABC"iit b e ca l o cil' prezt, the eminent French chemist, declares - b . g s q covered the mode of producing diamonds at ti,orie,mog lizing carbon ; and he displays, at the Sqrbict so d iad d ~b sized diamond as the proof. He declare s the oro,j as last autumn he had succeeded in produci i rg o l oo lf but in such minute particles as to be visib% poooo,_DA,ri the microscope. Your solar lenses of imlue l l o rbe ll ri by the tremendous galvanic p il e of the it vet Or c eii been the means of producing the resii iio r 0 8 0 0,0 u. M. Despretz holds himself ready to disPinoaci I'o o o ment whenever it may be required. The d2a bio i , tof f 0, 0 4 is of the quality known in the East as t'!ecelt1000117 one single specimen of which was sold byrr111,01:"/ lute Duke of York for the enormous su m of oil ° 8LR711.9. tV or On the Nth inst., at S! - . Mar 's-road, Cal l°l3-11: lOW' of J. T. Cooper, F.H.A.S. y , ~,,13t1, , i ' On the 26th inst., at Worthing, Mrs. B. vj es 43.-' On the 2 ;th inst., at Elm-field, 11Pre r 1 jl3 mi n c2.----"---- 0 . : li t the a 2 v 6 o t r h y ins t ij 1 a- L udy ° fl' : e . ytte l" afi li 0 f On the Francis t . li ß i i n r a s t h ., a 'O l i a n nF t , ti At s l ci l jn e . a - Apmlljae James's -Pace, 11 a 6 0 0 0 BAER-MD. Jobn' ter , 0, On the 21st inst., at Donnington, SaloPv n cheli,lo Samuel Brooks, Esq., Whalley-house, Anne, eldest d u a gtiter of John Jones, E s q 4 il " Esq 07.11SPOP' 6 ° gr Al brigbton. IT 0 1 1 JB. O On the 25th inst., at St. Pancra s Church, ..-- Esq., of Hampstead-road, to Harriett Jackson, Oc.olocll, ter of J. Boulting, Esq., of Adelaide-roa d ' .j.,.....!11...11----''''llll' 2 ;l t e h nry i-n L t alo a u t ch C e ph r l e i F b I IP Right OOn the I t l h o e n . - L , n eo' ill gri Al' 0 , On the 22d inst., the Per. James Speate , AO rector of Elmsett, Suffolk. , d 6S• . On the 22d inst ,at Ha M'eldleseX• °g` 30IY , yes, I widow of D l •11 the late George Ti:ompson, Esq. r 1 tio n istO . Thad On the 9 4th ' - inst. at Portland-square, i" , ..Tba. Porter, agedurst, .i-ra_c • .se:i:_ 74, the ' talented authoress ,oi • P r Warsaw," &c. 291 , On the 25th inst., in Upper Berkeley-street, ar ;ro gil• garet, the wife of E. Borton, &q. . -, 7 ,, r asbtl rl On the 2 ith inst., in Brunswick -place, ii - f,e , l'' aged 24, Slrah May, wife of J. Skinner,..Esq....,ieheac> On the 26th inst., at Mile-end, NVuj / p i late of her Majesty's Customs, aged Henry 73. ____-------- 4 111 0, London Printed and Published I; re-119„%ce„ in 1 " 1 0 0 0 No. 112 ,:.'.:aryl, Printer, at 71. t. Sax vi, ottil 4 •47'and, in 4.;)f, and, of the Sat") 7•• bilitNeaoi, Wednesday, May-29, 1850. Ot itre a • P a kitt, 8c,,„ ` l lre !lack 1 1A itt , tl, l e Se( 44 P ktiz tt tt ttiet 411 ), 4. th iB thq, th, Derso