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brought before the magistrate because they had been I found winding cotton into balls after half-past eight in the evening. The offence was not that they had worked for so many hours a day, but because they had been balling cotton after half-past eight o'clock, and this wasTheln There an age when prostitution was rife upon their streets. was no legislation in that case, but because some poor women, rather than beg, or go upon the streets, chose to wind cotton after half-past eight o'clock weret n h e e x y amp le d brought before the magistrates for their justice _ What audacity. What miserable mockery of .' did they wantan tyranny was this!—(Hear.) .If this Bill- was intended as a benefit to the cotton districts, why . . • stop there? why not extend the boon .to oth ? er N o v p h er y at i i n v operatives why confine their favour to cotton-spinners very head-quarters of the friends of humanity—in Dorset-. shire there was no sign made of raising wages the of the labourer, or of elevating his social condition.—(Cheers.) Why, if the labourer in Dorsetshire got ouly 7s. or Bs. a week—why, in that case, not make the farmer give 10s. a week to that labourer. The principle was the same. If it were 1 right to confer this favour on the manufacturing artisan, I why not extend the same favour to the agricultural labourer? 1 —why not extend their legislation to nurses in hospitals? They worked for some 16 hours a day, and therefore were fit subjects for the friends of humanity. It was right, if the labour in factories was proved to be severe, that they should extend their legislation to those em ployed as nurses in hospitals.—(Hear, hear.) Why not also extend it to washerwomen?—(Dear, and "Question.") That was the question, for he held if they extended protection to a certain class that it was but right to extend it to all classes of her Majesty's subjects.—(Hear, hear.) Washerwomen stood more hours than the labourers in factories; and lie had been informed by a medical gentleman that the greater number of out• patients in the hospitals were women of this class, as from standing long they were afflicted with varicose veins and ulcerated legs. If the system of labour was to be carried out, let it be extended to all classes of labour, and not to one. He was opposed to any interference with labour. It was strange that at a time the evil of the want of employment was so much lamented in Ireland, that they should propose a restriction of the hours of labour. Why, if they were to reduce the hours of work in Ireland one-sixth 88,0001. a year would be withdrawn from being expended in laborer. In Scotland, if they re duced the hours of labour, 430,0001. a year would be withdrawn from being expended in labour. He could not understand why more than a million of money should be ' withdrawn from the operatives of Lancashire.—alear.) The argument was still more strange when uttered by the Noble Lord the Member for Lynn, as he wished to send the money of the State to Ireland for the purpose of employing the poor of that ceuutry ; yet he wished to restrict whatever labour could be procured.— (Hear, hear.) The people of Ireland were not troubled with too much work.—(hear, hear.) They were not bur dened with the many " demon steam-engines," as the Honourable Member for Weymouth (Mr. Bernal) had styled them, but lived as it were in pastoral simplicity, without energy, because they had no regular employment. The cotton trade had not long taken root in this country—it had flourished, and was flourishing; but if they restricted it, it was possible that it might decline, and that the country would suffer from the serious injury which would thereby be done to one of the greatest staple manufactures of the country; for it should be borne in mind that when large quantities of our manufactures were exported, the capital of the working man, embodied in the produce of his labour, was being carried to other markets, and that he was thereby turning it to the best advantage. In return for a reduction of the hours of labour by a legislative enactment, those who sought it had not offered anything tangible—nothing which practical men could accept, and therefore he felt it his duty to oppose the Bill.—( Hear. ) Lord EBIUNGTON was perfectly convinced that the atmosphere inhaled in the mills would render eight hour.' work more pernicious than twelve hours in a better ventilated mill. He would therefore propose amendments which would empower the inspectors to remedy such detects. He would desire that all the inspectors should be medical men.— (Ilean) Sir It. PEEL said that he had waited in vain for some lion. Gentleman, a decided advocate of the measure, to reply to the speech of his Right Hon. Friend. He expected to be in a small minority on the present occasion, and lie was desirous to record, under adverse circumstances, his continued objec tion to all interference with the hours of factory labour. There was a mathematical problem of great difficulty, which was, what would be the point at which a body would rest, if exposed to the attraction of three great bodies? This was called the problem of the three bodiee, aad was one of difficult seltuion. He hoped th e Noble Lord (John Russell) would be able to give a public solu tion of this problem, as lie was at present surrounded by three great both, a ; and it would then be seen whether the question would remain at rest or preponderate one wav or the other.—(Laughter.) Before he concluded he 'had a word to say on a subject not immediately connected with the subject befere the House, and in reference to what had fallen from the Noble Lurd the Member for Lynn. That Noble Lord had assumed in his speech that the result of the relaxation of the prohibitive system on commerce and the reduction of duty had been against the policy of last year, inasmuch as the ex ports of the present year had fallen far below those of the last. Now if the Noble Lord would refer to previous years, when the protective or prohibitive system was in operation, he would find that the fluctuation between former years was much greater than it had been between last year and the present, and that, therefore, the reduction of duties could not be the cause of what lie alleged. The following results would show the truth of this Experience had shown since they commenced the al teration of the protective system, that instead of the exports falling off they had greatly increased. This would he shown by taking the years from 1843 till now ; in 1843 the declared value of the exports of this coun try was 52,271,000/. ; in the year 1843, 58,514,000/. ; in 1844, 58,554,0001.; and in 1845, the declared value was 60,180,000/.—(Loud cries of e hear, hear.") The exports of 1846 were, no doubt, less than the exports of 1845, but former periods, when the prohibition and protective sys tem was in operation would show similar results. In 1836, when protection existed, the declared value of their exports were 53,000,0001. ; in 1837 it was 42,000,000/ , showing a great reduction over the previous vear. Again in 1838 the exports were 53,000,000/. ; in 1830, 51,000,000/. ; in 1840 they were 51,000,0001.; in 1842, 47,000,0001—(Ilcer, haar)—therefore the objection that the reduction of the duties of last year had occasioned the falling off this year in the exports.iwas not sustained, for it appeared the years of the protective systetn exhibited as great vicissitudes as the last two years. But were there not other moans of explaining the falling off ? In 1816, they reduced the duties on many articles of importance, in continuation of the policy which they had begun three years before. Since then they had high prices in provisions not only in this country, but throughout the other nations of Europa And was it not reasonable to believe that the high price of provisions, and the consequent reduction of expenditure in articles of luxury, or of articles that approached that character, combined with the increase in the price of the raw material in an important branch of manufactures, were sufficient, independent of ordi nary circumstances, to account for the reduction of the ex ports of 1846, as compared with 1845?—('cIear, hear.) But, at the same time, could the Noble Lord show him, in the history of the protective system, how, under similar circumstances, as it regarded the price of food, and the distress which prevailed in certain portions of the empire. The revenue was buoyant, contentment pervading the greet mass of the people submissive to the laws existing, and patient resignation everywhere manifested. But he would ask the Noble Lord svhet he would have done under the same cir cumstances ? Would he have repealed the corn law of 1842, or the law of last year?—(Loud cheers.) Would he have done so, when they had the fact before them that during the present year they had imported no less than five million quarters of grain, and . 3 et the average price was 71s. a quarter?—([lean.) And now, to conic to the question, he admitted that it would ba a narrow and restricted view to argue this question on the rules of what was called political economy. The Italians claimed for themeelves a more extended principle of political economy, while the English political economists were only , acquainted with the means of acquiring wealth and distri buting it. He looked at this question as it affected the general interests of the country, and he viewed it with alarm. Why, at this time of comparative prosperity, they were obliged to tax property to the extent of six millions for the purpose of giving food to those who could not get it of themselves, and wh:.t security had they for the continu ance of this relief but the property, the machinery, and the labour of the manufacturer? Other na liens were sharpened by the love of gain, and they were becoming powerful competitors in the markets of the world. It had been said that machinery had been exported in great quantities. They had had a Committee on this sub ject, and the result. they-had come to was, that if they did not encourage the trade in machinery, other countries would take advantage of their ingenuity and make it for themselves. The working man could arrive at Rouen, or other parts of France, in fourteen or fifteen hours. They might go there partly from curiasity, partly Irons the hope of gain, and partly from the conviction that they would be well treated. They could no lorger have that control over English labour that they had at the time when locomotion was not so much facilitated, and when there was a prejudice against any removal from the workman's native land. Now they had no command either over capital or over labour, which at that moment was gre a tl y expended by competition, and yet they proposed now to place a legisla tive restriction on women and children—a restriction which would practically be a general restiction upon adult labour. (Hear, hear.) To a man who was in possession of health and desired to labour, and who feared the day of age, sickness, or distress, they might say that the measure would not affect him, but he (Sir R. Peel) said that, in a practical sense, it was saying to him, that he should not work more than five days in the week.—(Cheers.) If they were to cut off two hours a day, that would constitute twelve hours in the week. With the facilities which existed for the egress of labour, capital. and machinery, they were about to place this restriction. If they could con yiece him that there were perspective dangers—if they could convince - him that it was posible that the great manufacturers of linen, woollen, and silk, had taken such root in the soil, that they could not be removed —if they could convince him that it was for the moral and intellectual improvement of the people and their general welfare, he should be almost tempted to yield to their arguments, for he felt fully as much as they them selves felt that the welfare of the country depended upon an improvement of the condition and an elevation of the feelings of that class of society. He did not think that they were safe without it. They were educating them and giving them an intellectual improvement, and unless they also increased their comforts it would be a source of danger to themselves. The Hon. Member for Salford had made a speech most honourable to him, and he was in • fluenced by a feeling with which he (Sir R. Peel) in some de - Free coincided. If he were asked, as he had been, whether fourte e et was proper for y oung women an d c hild ren under the age cf y p ears to work so long? h e s h ou ld say no. H e was quite of opinion that eight hours was quite suffi cien t l a b our ter that class. Was it, however, not a question of compari son between the amount of labour and th e re d uct i on o f wages, and consequently their comforts and e n j o y men t s ? H e d i d not deny that looked ewould he advantages in a m ora l po i nt o f view if they upon ethe question only u p on th at po i nt. But it would b e by a decrease i n th e com f orts would of the operatives. It be an a noma l y to l eg i slate if man w they could say that a was to work on Live days in Six; the week and be p a id for and er even eeta if endeavour y ave d u k r l succeed in doing so, the master s obstairvtohueidold amount in consequence of the competiti on to Of produce in the shortened time. be more ii j arious to the physical not that the women and children than the proper Strength . of being given to perform a certain amount of labour? Nartzei it not be more healthy for these women and children to perform eleven hours' work in eleven hours than to be compelled to perform clever' that work i n ten? Let them consider it as they would, he should still say this redaction of wages was nothing more nor less th an in come-tax.—(Hear.) It was so, for what else could they make of it? and if they were to impose this restriction on the labour of an adult man, they would just be laying upon him an income-tax to that extent.—(Cheers, and counter chcers..) gEw,. SE .manufacturer had 1,500 people employed iirlns 41alt engaged in the process of the manufacture,. 1 "e. for the conduct of the business, by t. , c, ' of the hours of labour they would, 4 e. , „.. .*, _ .1,,,,. . ,-;,e of those persons earned sixty poulids a , ._, ~..„ ki a s THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 4, 1847. year, just deprive them of one-sixth of their income, and they would lay upon them a tax, not of 21. 18s. 7d., but to the whole amount of the ten pounds which they lost through this restriction, and take from them not 3 per cent. but 10 or 12 per cent. of all that they obtained. He would read to them the opinion of a very high authority on this subject, and the opinion which that authority expressed was pregnant with truth. In the passage before him, it was s t a t e d t h at t h e wor ki ng classes, i n a tuna of prosperity participated in the benefits en joyed by their employers, but not to the same extent as they suffered from deprivations in the times of adversity, so that it was absolutely necessary for them to realise some surplus, for in the time of adversity it was sure to be all absorbed. And this effect would be wrought by the endeavour to repress wages through ill-advised legis lation. By this means, also, they would deprive them of the mortal ity of laying by the 51. or 10/. which had so often proved the foundation of the futare fortune and independence of the family, as had been most ably and most admirably pat by the Hon. Member for Salford. And what an advantage was it for the father of a family to call his children around him and say that now his strength was exhausted, and they must labour for him. This he knew was the case with hundreds in Lancashire, for he himself could name at least ten individuals whom he could remember when a boy as earning 255. a week, all of whom were at least worth 10.`,0001. each. But where would be the opportunity of obtaining these advantages, if this paralyzing measure were to be passed? In the present opportunities for the extradition of labour, would not any in telligent workman take a third class train to Dover, and take his skill, his industry, aye, and his English character too, to some place where there would be no restriction on his earn ings? He would take the evidence of two families, one of which consisted of nine individuals with 18s. a week, and the other of seven:individuals with 9s. a week. In the first family after paying 10s. 6d. for bread, and 3s. 6d.: for their other necessaries, there was 4s. 6d. left for sugar, tea, clothing, and other necessaries. In the second there was only ss. 6d. for bread; there was left not five shillings, but ninepence for clothing, medical attendance, and all the other casual ex penses of a family. The Right Honourable Baronet then cited the evidence of the Rev. Mr. Huxstable and other gen tlemen who had made inquiry as to the possibility of a labourer, with five or six children, living on ten shillings a week, and who had received no satisfactory answer. He concluded by declaring, that he attached the highest im portance to the elevation of the working classes, and he voted against going into Committee on this question, not because he wanted a permanent fund for the purpose of taxation, but because he believed that the Bill would interfere with the comforts of the people; because he believed that it would endanger the great resources of the country ; because he believed that it would cripple their energies and dissipate the national wealth; and feeling, as he did, special obligations to the working classes of this country—believing, as he did, that this restriction would not be for their interest, he reconciled himself to promote by his vote their welfare, although he might offend them in doing so.—(Cheers.) The gallery was then cleared for a division, when there appeared— For the amendment lOO For the original motion Majority 90 The House then adjourned ( without going into Commi tee) at a few minutes after Six o'clock. PAR LIAMEN TARN BUSINESS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons. TUESDAY, MARC* 2. The following Railway Bills were presented, read a firsl time, and ordered to be read a second time : Edinburgh and Bathgate (Deviation and Amendment)— " to enable the Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway Company to extend their Barracks Branch, to deviate a portion cf their main line, and for other purposes." Edinburgh and Glasgow—" to authorise the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company to hold Stock in or to pur chase or lease the Edinburgh and Bathgate, the Stirling and Dunfermline, and the Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monklands Junction Railways, and for other purposes." Edinburgh and Perth—" for making a Railway from North Quecnsferrv, by Inverkeithing and Kinross to the Scottish Central Railway at Moncrietf llill, with Branches; to he called The Edinburgh and Perth Railway.' " Wexford and Valencia (Killarney to Valencia)—" for making a Railway from the town of Killarney, in the county of Kern-, to the Harbour of Valencia, in the same county, to be called "The 'Wexford and Valencia Railway.' " Great Northern ( Deviations between Peterborough, Boston, and Gainsborough)—" to enable the Great Northern Rail way Company to make certain alterations in the Line of their Railway, as already authorised between Peterborough, Boston, and Gainsborough." Great Northern (Deviations near Doncaster)—" to enable the Great Northern Railway Company to divert the Line of their Railway, as already authorised between Gainsborough and Doncaster." Great Southern and Western Extension (Portarlington to Tuilamore)—" to enable the Great Southern and Western Railway Company to make a Railway from Portarlington to Tullamore." The following Railway Bills were read a second time, com. mitted, and referred to the Committee of Selection : Dublin and Drogheda (Purchase of Navan Branch, &c.) Great Western (Amendments and Extensions). Newmarket and Chesterford. Cork and Bandon. Cork, Blackrock, and Passage. The undernamed Bills were presented, read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time : Inverness Municipal and Police, &c.—" for extending the M inicipal Boundaries of the burgh of Inverness; establish ing a general system of Police therein; lighting and cleans ing the Streets; improving and maintaining, and, if neces sary, rebuilding the Bridges over the river Ness, and making Accesses thereto; providing Public Markets and Bleaching Greens ; regulating the Bridge Tolls, Petty and Market Customs, and for other purposes relating to the said Burgh.' Inverness harbour and Navigation Improvement—" for deepening, enlarging, improving, and maintaining the Port and Harbour of Inverness, and the Navigation of the river Ness, and the Quays and Piers and other Works connected therewith; for regulating the Anchorage and Shore Dues of the said Port and Harbour, and for other purposes relating thereto." NOTICES GIVEN AT TIIE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE. The following Railway Bill is appointed to be read a second time:— MONDAY, mAncit 8. Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead (Lease to the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway Company). PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Coinrnow., TUESDAY, MARCH 2. CHURCHES (SCOTLAND). Motion made, and Question put, " That a Select Com mittee br: appointed to inquire whether, and in what part of Scotland, and under what circumstances, large numbers of her Majesty's subjects have been deprived of the means of religious worship by the refusal of certain proprietors to grant them sites fur the erection of Churches. The House divided : MAJORITY-AYES, 89. Aldam, William Evans, William O'Brien, C. Arundel, Earl of Fielden, John O'Connell, D., jun. Caine, Walter Forster, Mathew O'Connell, M. J. Bannerman, A. Fox, C. It. O'Connell,'John Barclay, David Gibson, Thomas M. Oswald, Alexander Baring, F. T. Gore, Robert Palmerston, Viscount Barnard, E. G. Grey, Sir G. Parker, John Bernal, Ralph Hall, Sir Benjamin Plumptre, J. P. Blake, M. J. thistle, Archibald Plumridgc, Captain Brotherton, Joseph Hawes, Benj. Bice E. R. Brown, W. Hay, Sir A. L. Russell, Lord J. Bromic, W. liindley, C. RutherturdlA. Browiirigg, J. S. Ilobhouse, Sir J: Smith, J. A. Buller, Charles 'toward, C . W.G. Somerville, Sir W. Buller, Edward Howard, P. 11. Stansfield, W. It. C. Chaplin, W. J. Humpliery, Ald. Stanton, W. 11. Christie, W. D. Hutt, William Stuart, Lcrd J. Clay, Sir W. James, William Stuart, V. Colebrook+), Sir T. Lahouchcre, Henry Strutt, Edward Collett, John Lambton, 11. Tancred, H. W. Craig, W. G. Macaulay, I'. B. Thornely, T. Deitnistoun, J. M'Clintock, W. B. Trelawny, J. S. D'Eyncourt, C. T. M'Taggart, Sir J. Tufnell, H. Dickinson, F. If. Mangles, It. I). Villiers, Charles 1)ufl, James Manic, Fox Ward, H. G. Duncan, George Mitchell, T. A. Wawn, J. T. Dundas, F. Monahan, J. 11. Yorke, Henry R. Dundas, David 3lorpeth, Viscount Ellice, Edward Morison, General TELLERS. Ellice, E., jun. Mure, Colonel Bouverie, E. P. Escott, Biekhaaa Napier, Sir Charles Ewart, William MINORITY—NOES, 61. Acland, T. D. Du Pre, C. G. Mundy, E. M. Ainsworth, Peter Fellowes, E. Munts, G. F. Antrobus, Edmund Finch, G. Newdegate, N. Arkwriglit,;G. Fuller, A. E. O'Brien, A. Stafford Austen, Colonel Godson, R. Polhill, Frederick Baillie, W. Goulburn, Henry Rashleigli, W. Bankes, George Graham, Sir James Sandon, Viscount Barrington, Viscount Halsey, T. P. Scott, Robert Beckett, W. Hamilton, W. J. Scott, Francis Bentinck, Lord G. Herbert, Sydney Spooner, Richard Berestord, Major Hildyard, T. B. Sheppard, T. Bowles. Admiral Hinde, J. 11. Stanley, E. Broadley, Henry Hodgson, It. Taylor, E. Campbell, Sir H. Hope, Sir J. Thompson, Alderman Cardwell, Edward Hudson, G. Tollemache, J. Clerk Sir G. Jermyn, Earl Vyse, R. 11. 11. H. Clive, Vise. Lawson, Andrew Walsh, Sir J. B. Cripps, William IWNeill, Duncan Wodehouse, E. Disraeli, 11. March, Earl of TELLERS. Douglas, Sir C. E. Marsland, Henry Wortley, J. S. Duckworth, Sir J. Martin, C. W. Inglis, Sir It. PETITIONS ON PRIVATE BILLS. HOUSE. OF COMMONS. (Room 22, before Mr. Examiner SMITH.) OPPOSED CASES. Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Improvement of the Ferry between Ferry Port-on-Craig and the North Shore of the River Tay. In this opposed case it was decided that tha standing order had been complied with. South Metropolitan Waterworks. This opposed case occupied the remainder of the day. Adjourned till to-morrow. FREE CHURCH SITES.—Mr. Matheson, ALT., was prevented from voting, as he had intended, in favour of Mr. Bouverie's motion on Tuesday night, from having been accidentally detained in returning from the coun try until too late for the division. 'IRE TuAwns TUNNEL.—Tuesday, at one o'clock, a general assembly of proprietors of the Thames Tunnel Company was held at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Black friars, to receive the annual report, &c.; Mr. B. Hawes, sen., occupied the chair, and he expressed his regret that the state of the company's affairs was not very favourable. This arose from the want of patronage on the part of the British public. The board of directors hoped to sell the tunnel to some railway company, but they had, as yet, failed. The tunnel is in a sound condition and the most perfect order. The only water that entered it was from the land springs, which they had not yet been able to overcome. Mr. Blun dell, the secretary, read the statement of the receipts and expenditure ending December 31, which showed a balance in hand of 6241. 103. 6d. Among the expenses was a sum of 1,6511. 17s. 7d., paid to the Lan Commissioners. An oh jecti )n was raised to the payment of the income-tax, it being remark :d that the company derived no profit from the concerti, when the chairman said that the objection should be made to the Commissioners. Mr. B. Hawes, jun., M.P., and Mr. Brown were re-elected directors; and Mr. Valpy, in the room of the late Mr. Buckle. 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X s. d Bank of Scotland ... • • 61. per cent. 100 0 176 34 Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. 100 0 155 British Linen Company Cl. par cent. 100 0 210 Commercial Bank .. • • 6/. per cent. 100 0 166 National Bank 6l. per cent. 10 0 131.18 s Union Bank of Scotland 7341. pr cent. 50 0 91 tVestern Bank ...• •• • • 6/. per cent. 50 0 83 Norther Scotland Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 7 3ti Clydesdale Bank ••• • • • 61. per cent. 10 0 13 Eastern Bank.. ••• • • • 51. per cent. 10 0 12 Caledonian Bank ••.• • 7 34 1 . pr cent. 2 1 0 Al. 9s Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 6/. per cert. 5 0 6/. 17s City of Glasgow Bank . Si. per cent. 10 0 12% Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 245. Od Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. ,100 0 0 10 0 14 Incur. Co. of Scetlnd • • 51. per cent. 10 0 0 All aid. 9N North British Insur. • • 5 341. pr cent. ;200 0 0 10 0 0 27 Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent., 100 0 0 10 0 0 22% Edinburgh Life Insur. 6/. per cant. 100 0 0 12 10 0 18 Edin. & Glasg. Railway 11.10 s. perc. 50 0 0 50 0 0 79 Shares 7B. 6d. p. s. 12 10 0 All paid. 18N Edin., Leith, SD Grantn 20 0 0 20 0 0 21 Glaszw &Ayrshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 6J54 Glasor &Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 1634 ...11s;w8c. Garnkirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 39 jt, Dundee & Arbroth Rail. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 37 Standard LifeAssarnce.l bl. per cent. 50 0 0 210 0 9 Name of Company. DOCKS. Dividend I Amount pet 1 of Annum. i Share. Paid. Price. A s. d. \ A s. d. Commercial . - East and West India 6l. pr cent. Stock. East Country I 3ndon . . 9 t.Katharine ........ 5 per cent.' Stock. Southampton • • ...... 41. per cent. 50 0 0 1 50 ; 0 VI A TER-IVORIES. Dividend rime of Company. per Annum. Amount i of i Paid. Share. East L0nd0n.......... 81. Grand Junction ...... 31. 10s. Kent................ 2/. 10s. Vauxhall ............ 5/. per oent. West Middlesex . . . Si. 10s.pr cnt., 8. d. 100 0 0 41 13 4 100 0 0 100 0 0 63 12 9 Price. FRACAS at MULLINGAR ASSIZES. (From the Dublin Evening Mail.) On Friday a most extraordinary scene occurred in our court-house. Shortly after Mr. Justice Crampton had taken his seat upon the bench, the Hon. W. Paken ham, foreman of the grand jury, entered the court and stated that Mr. Cooke, of Cookesborough, had called Sir Richard Levinge a liar, and other opprobrious name•. The judge ordered the attendance of Mr. Cooke and Sir Richard into court, and upon their appearing, they were ordered to enter into recognisance, each in the sum of 10001., to keep the peace. The origin of the quarrel was as follows :—On Thurs day last, a meeting of the grand jury, and the chair man of the different relief committees of the union of Mullingar, was held, and the question as to townlands being under discussion, Mr. Cooke objected to being compelled to support the paupers which properly be longed to other estates, and he went on to charge Sir Richard Levinge with having in the first instance ejected a number of tenants who had now squatted on his (Mr. Cooke's) property with others. who had been similarly treated by Mr. Gibbons, of Bnllynagall. No observation at that time was made by Sir Richard Levinge. On the following day, however, on the meeting of the grand jury, Sir Richard Levinge called their atten tion to the statement made by Mr. Cooke on the day previous, and assured that gentleman that, on inquiries made yesterday, he ascertained there was not one of his tenants on the townland alluded to who could have squatted on Mr. Cooke's property, inasmuch as, for forty years, he (Sir R. Levinge) had not ejected more than two or three tenants. Mr. Cooke in reply, at tempted to deviate from his former charge, and wished it to appear as if he bad merely been exemplifying his argument ; but he was at once reminded that his charge was precise and personal, affecting Sir R. Le- 1 Tinge and Mr. Gibbons. Mr. Cooke again denied that the fact was so, but the grand jury unanimously as serted the contrary, in which Sir Richard Levinge joined. This led at once to a personal altercation, in the course of which Mr. Cooke used the term liar, as applied to Sir Richard Levinge, and announced at the time his readiness to meet him or any other gentle• man present, at a minutes' notice. The circumstances as above stated, having been reported to the judge, the parties were ordered into court. Sir Richard Levinge immediately complied, but Mr. Cooke having refused to enter into any recognisances, was committed to the cus tody of the sheriff, and conveyed to the county gaol. At a subsequent period he was brought back to the court-house, and allowed to remain out on his parol until next day. His determination, however continued un changed, and Mr. Justice Crampton then committed him to Mullingar gaol, where he is to remain until the next assiz2s. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY of SILVER PLATE, GOLD WATCHES, &c., AT NORWICH. A very extensive robbery was effected on Sunday evening, between six and seven o'clock, at the shop of Mr. Cooper, a silversmith, in London•street, at the corner opposite Mr. Barnard's, and on the alarm being made at the station-house, the superintendent of the police (Mr. Yarington) and seve ral of the men attended. It was soon discovered that about fifty gold watches, which were safe in the shop on Saturday night at six o'clock, had disappeared, and that a great deal more very valuable property had been placed behind the counter ready to be carried off. The amount of the goods lost was variously reported, but after a strict investigation, assisted by the magistrates, it seemed to have been from 1,500/ to 2,0001., and with this the thieves had got clear off; leaving no trace of which way they had gone. Nobody ap. pears to have seen any one either going to, or coming from the premises, and the private door leading from Cockey lane, by which they must have entered, did not present any ' marks of being forced, or the lock having been picked. Every possible exertion appears to have been made to detect the robbery, but without any known effect. Telegraphic mes sages were sent in all nossible directions of the robbery, with descriptions of the stolen property. The robbery must have been committed between six and seven o'clock, for one of the young Mr. Cooper's, with a friend, appears to have been into the shop about six o'clock that evening, and his brother gave the alarm of the robbery soon atter seven. A long private investigation took place on Monday before the Mayor and a full bench of magistrates, when one of the Cooper's and one of the men were examined at very great length, but of the nature of the investigation we know nothing. Nobody is in custody.—Bury Herald. THE AUSTRIAN LOAN.—VIENNA, FEB. 20.—1 am enabled to give you positive information that the new loan, so long talked of; was contracted for yesterday by the usual firms. It is a five per cent. metallic stock, and the price agreed on is 104, the contractors to have a jouissance of six months' interest. Report says that the amount is forty mil lions of florins, and that the contractors are to have the option of taking a similar amount at the same price six months hence. — Chronicle. _ _ _ We arG. happy to announce that the health of Viscount Torrington has much improved, indeed that it is nearly quite repored. LA.VF INTELLIGENCE. ARCHES' COURT, March 2. • (Before Sir H. JENNER FUST.) THE COUNTESS DYSART v. EARL DYSART. This was an appeal from a decision of the Consistorial Court of London in a suit for the restitution of conjugal rights, brought by the Earl Dysart against the Countess Dysart, in which the Countess had been directed to return to cohabitation. _ _ Sir H. JIENNER FUST proceeded today to deliver the judg ment of the Court. It appeared that the marr i age t oo k pl ace in 1819, and during a period of eighteen years the parties had not lived together for periods of more than three years, at various intervals. With whom was the fault? On the patt of the Countess it was alleged that she could not live with her husband but at the hazard of her life; and on his part it was urged that the wife should comform to the habits of her husband. The difficulty i n thi s case , as i n others, was, the application of the general law. In " Evans and Evans," Ist Haggard, it was said that if reasonable apprehension existed of danger of life or limb, there was ground for a divorce. In " Oliver v. Oliver," it was held that everything, in legal construction, was sufficient which tended to bodily harm. Whatever might have been the origin of the quarrel, there was enough to satisfy the Court that wilful violence was used upon the wife, from which she had an undoubted right to be protected. In " Harris v. Harris" the Court said that there must be something which rendered cohabitation unsafe, or likely to be attended with injury to the party. By these principl es th e C ourt must b e governed in the application of the law to this particular case. If there had been actual cruelty er reasonable apprehension from the conduct of the party, that was sufficient to entitle the other party to the protection of the Court from a recur rence of the violence or that conduct whi c h t en d e d t o pro duce bodily injury, and it was not necessary that the wife's conduct should be altogether free f r o m blame. What was the state and condition of these parties at the time of the marriage? The Earl and Countess were first cousins, being the children of two sisters. The father of the Earl was possessed of large estates, which were entailed on the son, the present Earl, who, during during his father's life, was entirely dependent upon him. The marriage was directly contrary to the express Wish es an d op i n i ons o f t h e father, and he refused to make any allowance. His son in for 3,0001, during the joint r, and secured an annuity consequence ofi nlt,oll,oool. to purchased o f hishhimself eilff and e sho a uh n li4s fht annuity hsu ry ive him. The e e consi deration was 110,000/. This income was amply sufficient to i enable him to live in comfort and respectability. It bad been said that the habits and .tastes of Lord Dysart were known to his wife before marriage to have been peculiar and eccentric, and that she ought to have made up her mind to conform to his wishes. But there was no reason to suppose that those habits were to be carried to such an extent as to deprive her of the comforts of life. She could not have supposed that that degree of economy would have been practised which would deprive her of that to which she had been accustomed. There was no reason to believe that she was anxious for mare than was suitable to the fortune of her husband, or that she was inclined to indulge in what had been called the pleasures of a London life. There was no reason to believe that the marriage was not one of mutual affec tion ; and there was nothing to reflect on the conduct of the wife in expecting that she should be maintained in decency and comfort, according to his income. It was on the birth of a son that the first circumstance oc curred which appeared to have given offence to the Earl. He then acted on the impression that the conduct of his wife showed indifference towards him. After that he was in the constant 'habit of swearing at and abusing her. She was deprived of all authority in the house; he was keeper of the stores; he gave them out as he thought proper, and directed what supplies were to bt furnished to his wife of articles of necessary consumption. She had no fish, no poultry, and a joint of meat was only oc casionally dressed. He allowed her but one candle a night. There was scarcely any fire in the drawing-room, and the house and furniture were unfit for a lady. One witness said she had known the Countess tremble at the sound of his fee; on the stairs. It as there not, then, that degree of discomfit which might have rendered it extremely dis3greeabh for Lady Dysart to have cohabited under such circumstances? Not that she was justified in leaving the house, but there was grievous ground of complaint. It might have beet, productive of inconvenience, it might have injured her feelings, end to a certain degree affected her health ; but still this was all to be borne. There were other circumstances, however, of a more serious cha racter. His Lordship was heard abusing Lady Dysart, and on the door being opened she was found in a fainting fit, and said she bad received a kick from her husband. On another occasion she was heard screaming out murder, and on another he was seen pushing her out of the dressing-room. This wa: the history of the parties up to 1827. From 1827 to 1834, there was no residence together. In 1834 there was cohabi tation for a few days in Hyde Park-gardens. In 1536 she returned to the residence of her husband, and the same general system of degradation and insult was charged to hav e been practised towards her. On the 23d January there wa, no doubt there was an act of legal violence. Upon the whole. therefore, notwithstanding the respect to which the opinioi, of the Judge of the Court below was entitled, and which hao induced him to give longer time to the consideration of thi: case, he must reverse the sentence of the Court below, and pronounce for the separation of the parties. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. _ (Before the LORD CHIEF &ism and Mr. Justice COLTMAN.) Dr. Cronin, who stands charged with the manslaughter of Sarah Ellen Collyer, and whose case, as it appeared on the coroner's inquest, excited considerable interest, applied by his counsel, Mr. Clarkson, this morning for a postponement of his trial till next session, which was conceded by the Court. Dr. Cronin was admitted to bail on Saturday last by Mr. Baron Parke. Jeremiah Hayes, described in the calendar as a labourer, aged 26, was put to the bar under an indictment for feloni• ously and indecently assaulting Mary Finn, a child under ten years of age, on the Ist of February last. The details were of such a nature as be Unfit for publica tion. The object of the prisoner was clearly of the most beastly and criminal description, but nature interposed be fore it was fully accomplished. The. verdict of the jury found the prisoner guilty only of an indecent assault, and he was sentenced to 18 months' im prisonment and hard labour. POLICE INTELLIGENC'. BOW-STREET. Major Bartholomew Beniowski, the celebrated Polish Re fugee, and teacher of phrenotypics, was placed at the bar before Mr. Henry, charged with comtnitting a violent asmult on Mr. David Urquhart, at the Freemason's Tavern, whirg at the meeting held there last evening —on the subject of Polish affairs. Mr. Anstey, barrister, appeared for the complainant, and Mr. Wolf, as attorney for the defendant. The complainant said, that having attended the meeting with a friend, be was going away at about half-past five o'clock, when the prisoner, who was till then unknown to him, met him in the vestibule, and asked him to speak with him for a moment. He (complainant) asked him what his name was, i and m e dy followed him, the at el g " B u e p n o i n o ws him, and would i , he turned away and went towards the entrance. Th e prisonerm have seized him by the throat, but that he bowed his _head so as to meet defendant's grasp with the lower part of his face. The prisoner having thus caught him with both hands, gave him a " wrench ' by which his face was severely lacerated, and the skin torn from his lips, cheeks, a nd lower part of his face by pressure. He bled profusely knowledge t of the prisoner, i me.He had but no knewdoubt the defendant's d b e y fe r n e d p a u n ta tis intenion was to seize him by the th roat. H e had no personal tion. No blows were struck on either side. Mr. Urquhart, in cross-examination by Mr. Wolf, ad mitted that some years ago he had said of the defendant that he was a spy. lie had also said, in a pamphlet which was published in 1840, that Major Beniowski was a Polish Jew, who had been employed by Russia to foment insurrections in central Asia, and that he was at that moment acting as a spy in London, and organising the Chartist disturbances for the purposes of Russia. He had made this statement, be lieving it to be true, and still believed it to be true. The Rev. J. Hamilton Grey and James Hays, complain ant's servant, corroborated his statement. The Major, being called upon for his defence, said that he could not deny any part of what had been stated against him ' though he had something to add. Abo u t s i x years ago his attention was called to a pamphlet written by Mr. Urquhart, in which that gentleman attacked him as a Spy of the Emperor Nicholas. He bad a very great respect for Mr. Urquhart, and he was only sorry that so good a man should be so misled, and should injure his own cause by maligning one of its advocates. He (Beniowski) had endeavoured to find Mr. Urquhart for the purpoe of having an explanation with him, and convincing him that he was wrong, b u t h a d failed. At one time he (Beniowski) designed to bring an action for libel against him, but was prevented by his poverty. Having seen the complainant by accident at the meeting last night, it occurred to him that he would speak to him. and have such an explanation as he had long desired. When he was contemptuously repulsed by Mr. Urquhart he was much annoyed, and followed the complainant, intending to detain him and press the conversation. He laid his hand on Mr. Urquhart's shoulder, and that gentleman turned round and made a blow at him with a stick, which he carried in his hand. Then he committed the assault described, and he was glad when he was taken into custody, that he had an oppor- tunity of confronting him. He could not but regret the as sault, which he knew was not justifiable under any circum stances. Mr. HENRY committed the prisoner for trial, admitting him to bail in his own recognisances of 401, and two sureties in 201. each. CLERKEN WELL. Jam Loyd was charged with assaulting 'a person whose name was unknown, with the intention of robbing bim. The constable stated that this morning, shout two o'clock, he heard cries of " Murder " and " Police " in the direction of Sadler's Wells Theatre, and, on reaching the spot, he found the prisoner holding an old gentleman by the throat, and endeavouring to strangle him. The prisoner was given in charge, but the old gentleman slunk off as she was being taken to the station-house. The prisoner, in her defence, said the gentleman she was accused of assaulting was a gentleman of the highest re spectability; that she knew him well, and had bean drinking all day with him at a tavern in the City-road, where he left his gold watch and other articles cf jewellery as security for a quantity of wine which he had drunk himself and given away to others. On sending to make inquiries as to the truth of the last statement, it was found that a valuable gold watch, a dia mond ring, and several trinkets, had been left at the public house under the circumstances described. Mr. COmBE said he should require more information about this matter before he parted with the prisoner. This re spectable old gentleman might be a thief for all he knew. The prisoner was remanded to Friday. REPORTED LOSS OF THE ALBION SOUTHAMPTON TH ADER.—Great anxiety has been felt in Southampton at the non-arrival of the trader, well known in Southampton as the " old" Albion, Williamson, master, which left London with a full cargo for this port, on Thursday, the 4th ult. She was last seen off Dungeness on Sunday, the 7th, and from the arrival of vessels which were in company with her at that time within a few days afterwards, and no intelligence what ever having since been received of her, it is conjectured that she must have gone down in the hurricane that precoded the great snow-storm on the 7th ult. ' and that all hands have un happily perished. A small vessel (one of the well boats) be. longing to Hamble is missing under similar circumstances,— Hampshire Advertiser. DRAINAGE.—From a return just issued by order of Parliament it appears that, in England, there have been 48 applications made for advances, amounting to 211,8431., of public money, under the Act of last session, c. 101; and from Scotland 168 applications, the sums applied for amounting to 803,8041. From Ireland there have been 28 applications, for a sum total of 39,1711.; of which three have been sanctioned, to the amount of 9,1411. This last statement is dated 16th ult. DREADFUL ACCIDENT IN THE STRAND—Tuesday night, shortly before eleven o'clock, a youth, named Watkins, while crossing the carriage way of the Strand, opposite Ex eter Hall, was run over by an omnibus proceeding towards Uharing• cross. The poor fellow was Ricked up in an insensi bl , state, when it was found that injuries of the most fright• ful description had been sustained. BANK RETURNS. (From the London Gazette.) Aa Account, pursuant to the Acs seventh and eighth 7ietoria, !zip. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes, of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in Circulation daring the Week ending Satur day, the 20th day of Feb., 1847 : Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Abingdon Bark, Abingdon—Knapp and Co 24,970 Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and Co 15.136 Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt and Poinfret 9,706 Aylshain Bank, Aylsham—R. and E. Copeman 5,097 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Bickford and Hunt 42,261 _ . _ Baldock Bank and Baklock and Biggleswade Baldock—Wells, c.nd Lindsell... 34.144 Barnitaple Bank, Barnstaple—Dzake and Co. 12,780 Basingstoke and Odihaffr. Bank, Basingstoke— Cole, Seymour, and Ballot d Bank, Bedford—T. Barnard Bedford and Bedfordshire Bank, Bedford— 'Prapp, Halfhead, and Co. &valley Bank, Bewdley—Nichols, Baker, and Crane l3icester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester—Tubb, Wootten, and Co 25,984 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Attwoeds, Spooner, and Co 23,222 Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming ham— Lewis, Moilliett, and Co 16,475 (Landlord Bank, Blandford—Bastard and Oak lluNton Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co 64,681 Boston Bank, Boston—Gee and Co 17,382 Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater—E. &J. Sealey 9,170 Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Harford, and Co. 38.233 Broseley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley—Messrs. Pritchard 22,946 Buck int;ham Bank, Buckingham—Bartlett, l'arrott, and Co. &try and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Market Bank, Bury—Oakes, Bevan, and Co. 75,578 Banbury Bank, Banbury—Gillett and Tawney. 41,507 Banbury Old Bank, Banbury—Messrs. Cobb 47,437 Bath City Bank, Bath—Moger and Son . 4,345 Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard—Bassett and Grant 36,203 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—H and A. llarris Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co, 61,852 ilridport Bank, Bridport—S. and W. E. Gundry 22,742 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington— Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds— J. Worlledge and Co. . • f3romsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsgrove—Rufford, Biggs, and Co. Jambridge Bank, Cambridge—Mortlock and Sons Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge—Messrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and Co. Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey—Messrs. La Coste Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round, Green, and Co. Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester —Mills, Bawtree, and Co .!ornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little and Wood cock 8,272 32,745 11,763 16,292 21,743 49,500 30,075 22,350 3,325 21,819 45,674 43,777 lity Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle—Birkbecks and Co. Thristchurch Bank, Christchurch—Tice, Welsh, and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff-_Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmc uth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co. Derby- Bank, Derby—Messrs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby—Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Hughes, Locke, and Co Diss Bank, Diss —Oakes, Fiucham, and Co Doncaster Bank, Doncaster—Leatham, Tew, and Co Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster— Cook and Co. Dover Union Bank, Dover—Latham, and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse, and Co Devonport Bank, Devonport—Hodge and Nor- 9,603 19,705 72,090 man Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester-Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard-Robins, Foster, and Co. 109,597 East Riding Bank, Beverley-Bower, Hutton, and Co. Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford-Walford, and Co 62,385 Exeter Bank, Exeter-Sanders and Co 33,311 rakenham Bank, Fakenbs.m-G urneys , Birk bock, and C 0.21,419 Varringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon-Barnes and Medley 8,674 Farnham Bank, Farnham-Messrs. Knight 13,286 Faversham Bank, Faversham-Hilton and Co 6,423 Godalming Bank, Godalming-Mellersh and Keen 6,787 Grantham Bank, Grantham-Kewney and King 17,807 Guildford Bank, Guildford-Messrs. Hayden... 12,154 _Grantham Bank, Grantbam-Hardy and C 0.... 25,919 Hastings Old Bank, Hastings-Smith, Hilder, and Co. 33,235 Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford- Matthews and Co. Hertfordshire Bank and Ware Bank, Ware- S. Adams and Co. Mill Bank and Kingston-upon -Hull Bank, Hull -Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don-Rust and Veasey Harwich Bank, Harwich-Cox, Cobbold, and Co 5,787 Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead- Smith, and Whittingstall Iloniton Bank, Honiton-Flood and Co. 15,665 Hertfordshire, Hitchen Bank, Hitchen-Sharples and Co. 38,128 !lereforcl , Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford-Morgan, Hoskins, and Co 24,048 Ipswich Bank, Ipswich-Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree 2nd Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich- Alexanders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone-Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington-J Davies and Co 23,317 Knighton Bank, Knighton-J.^Davies and Co 5,491 Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Kna:esborough-Terry and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal-Wakefield, Crewdson, and Co. 44,370 Kettering Bank, Kettering-Gotch and Sons 8,685 Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End-C llarv:y and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds-Beckett and Co 51,756 Leeds Union Bank, Leeds-W.Williains, Brown, and Ca, 34,964 fieek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and Congleton Bank,Leek-Fowler,Gaunt, and Co. 580 Leicester Bank, Leicester-Pagets and Kirby 28,759 Lewes Old Bank, Lewes-Molineux and Co 39,520 f4iohSeld Bank, Lichfield-Palmer and Green 18,501 Lincoln Bank, Lincoln-Smith and Co . 82,536 141:.ndovery Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando very-David J ones an d C o. :4oughborough Bank, Loughborough-Middle tons and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington-C. and S. St Barba Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis -Gurneys and Co. 40,620 Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis- Massey and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield-Brocklehurst and Co 11,814 Wanningtree Bank,Manningtree-Nunn and Co. 6,898 Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough-Tanner and Pinckney 44,964 Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank, Marlborough-Ward, Merriman, and Hillier 10,860 Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly-Jones and Williams 7,412 Miners' Bank, Truro-Willyains and Co 16,866 Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Aber,gavenny-Baileys and Co 25,628 Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth -Broinage and Snead 15,784 Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport -W. Williams and Sons. 9 .021 Newark Bank, Newark-Godfreys and Hutton 27,774 Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Newark-Handley, Peacock, and Co Newbury Bank, Newbury-Bunny and Slocock 35,160 Newmarket Bank, Newmarket-Eaton, Ham mond, and So n Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Diss-Taylor and 2,680 Dyson Noirnoleshrownßank, Bank, Norwi N. - O H r a w r ie ve h y: Gu an r and r 45,03 Lrwich and Norfolk 7,365 , neys and Co 69,145 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham—Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddcock and Co 5,178 Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and Co • New Si rum Bank, Sarum—Hetley, Everett, and 8,186 Co Nottingham Bank, Nottingham— and — R S . vi mi o t r h re a l n l d Co 27,936 Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os 13,515 (1)) xx vi ff(o oi dd t r 2r 3. 3 — JO , n f oso a r xd a —f d o r C jd. o 14,082 _Robinson, P arsons , and Thompson... Old Bank Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells :01d Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge— Beeehing and Sons , ..... ............. 10,336 Average Am:unt Oxfordshire Witney Bat.k Witney—Williams, Clinch, and Co 10,990 Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 46,796 Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co 10,805 Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—Messrs. Yorke Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson, White, and Simpson Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverford west—J. and W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven and Co Reading Bank, Reading—iimonas and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co Richmond Bank, Richmond—Stapleton and Co Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood—Ledgard and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches ter—Day and Nicholson Romsey and Hampshire Bank, Romsey—Foot ner and Son Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son Rye Bank, Rye—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co Reigate and barking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and Co , Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard and Allaway Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Co. Scarb rough Old Bank,' Scarborough—Woodall aria Co Shrewsbury and Market Drayton Bank, Shrews bury—Adams, Adan.s, and Co Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury-- Rocke, Eytons, and Co. . • •• Sittingbourne tind Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Son Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddienti and Son Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's—J. S. Story Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and King Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherly and Fall Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore Stourbridge Banc, Stourbridge —Rufford, Wragg, and Co Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley, and Co. . Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. St. Alban's and Hertz Bank, St. Alban's—Gib son and Stuart Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and Co Thorn bury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns ford and Barne Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, smith, and Co. Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Wells and Co. Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— lielynge, Greenway, and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox, Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and Co Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Baak, Winchester —Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co. . 34,276 Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good ricke and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender, and Co. 12,615 Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 84,788 Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley and Turner 11,170 Whitby Bank, Whitby—Frankland and Wil kinson Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Foster and Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster— Everett and Co. Wrexham Bank, Wrexham—J. and S. Kenrick 2,242 Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birkbeck, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 10,285 Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. an d J . Batten York Bank. York—Swann, Clough, and Co 45,218 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 44,698 Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford .... Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield . , 9,710 Cumberland Union Banking Comp an y, W or k- I 9,639 11,588 12,439 2,656 37,154 42.169 6,231 11,617 4,480 10,489 15,921 12473 21,837 13,809 4,007 45,531 18,635 24,134 7,775 42,649 3,428 17,344 13,247 2,877 22,639 16,695 13,508 30,977 17,037 23,291 2,277 28,228 12,270 11,485 11,484 12,366 10,053 1!,521 25,206 11,634 27,277 40,794 14,481 21,577 16,900 _ _ ington . Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 14,031 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 19,437 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley 37,513 Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 18,694 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington 25,832 East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 151,259 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 35,834 Hull Banking Company, Hull 28,235 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 13,943 Halifax and lluddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax 41,455 Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,413 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 22,336 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 25,765 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 4,270 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 62,9 09 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 49,685 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Leeds and West Riding Banking Company, Leeds Leeds Commercial Banking Company, Leeds Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 27,176 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 76,927 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, 410 9,485 London ................................. . ........... 416,"45 North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham ..... 60,798 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton.. 75,724 Northamptonshire Banking Company, N0rth ampt0n............................................. 23,679 North and South Wales Bank, Liverp001....... 52,438 Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei cester Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth... 3,420 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 35,908 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford 53,127 Stuckey's Bankin g Company, B r i s t o l Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port 344,360 Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and llaliamshiro Banking Company, Sheffield 23,727 Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking Company, SholliOd Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond... .. Stockton and Durham County Banking Com pany, 5t0ckt0n...,... Storey and Thomas's Banking Company, Shaftesbury Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield ... Suffolk Banking Company, Ipswich Wolverhampton a. i.l.Staffordshire Banking Com pany, Wolverhamp ton 31,978 Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 13 875 Whitehaven Joint •Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven Warwick and Leunitt.gton Banking Company, Leamington West of Englane and South Wales District Bank,Bristol. .... 81,691 9,596 763 3,025 2,660 6,865 8,358 12,721 37,753 28,285 19,075 9,889 12,152 57,922 82,336 10,378 Mama AmouNt Wilts and Dorset Banking Companl, Salisbury 73, 973 West Riding Union Banking Cnnpany, Hud dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitehurch Worcester City and County Banking Company, Worcester.... , .................. York Union Banking Company, Y0rk............ 69,851 York City and County Banking Company, York ,034 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds ........... 1 9 120 971 P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns. Stamps and Taxes, Feb. 27, 1847. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, MARCH 3.—Wind N.E., fresh breeze, and daub': Conk, FEB. 28.—Wind E.—Sld. Glen lyon, New Orleans. DuxLIN, MARCH I.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Fear Not, Cuba, BriOget, New York. ' SLIGO, MancH I.—Wind E.—Sld. Captain, St. Thomas; Dembrest, New York. States; OFF DOVER, MARCH 2.—Levant, Faulk, United Bethel, Card, Virginia. HULL, MARCH 2.—The Lartilia, frim Hamburg, 11113 cargo damaged, having sprung a leak on the 28th ult. DROGHEDA, FE*. 27.—The Atalanta, of London, Liverposa to Isle of Skye, has put in to-day in a sinking sta te ' gill must discharge. Aura e SHIELDS, Maaicit 2.—Wind N.E., moderate.—Sl d. Eliza, and Jane, Pamboc u , A mer i ca . SRL DEAL, MARCH 2.—Wind N. t o N.N.E. mo derate. -- Belle Alliance, Adelaide, S ou th A us t ra li a; 'Windsor, 81ad7,," Lanarkshire. Valparaiso ; Ve n ili a , R io J a neiro; St. r° l e Barb:idoes ; Monmouth, New Orleans; Kate, Virginia. s SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 2.—Wind E.—Sld. Fear" i e Orleans; Dee steamer, West Indies. „ e _ for NEWPORT, MARCH 2.—Wind N. E.—Sld. Havannah. . _ _,. __. _____ 01. LIVERPOOL, MARCII 2.—Wind N.E., moderate.---_,.. Laurel, Callao; Lady B asse tt, A n ti gua; Acheever, II avan c n o i lO: Sarah, New Orleans ; St e ph en , Wh i t ne y, New York; - nist, ditto. CLYDE, MARCH 1.- Wind N.E.—Arrd. Atalanta , O CA' r„ g e g i; Demerara; Miss of Clyde s d a l e , F erguson , St. John 's ' Brunswick. Sld. Actaeon, New York ; Sultan, ditto. MARKET NEWS.—(YESTERDA Y) CORN-EXCHANGE. hrO d Very limited supplies of English Wheat have come to of for our market since •`donday, and the show of sarriPl7,ol that article to-day was small. Although the attendan',o buyers was scanty, the demand for all description; Fe' steady, and previous rates were well supported. o r reign Wheat we were scantily suppli e d. For home eon s oft i tion very little was doing, but a few thousand querte rs ess taken for France at extreme prices. The Barley tradso excessively dull, at barely the late depression in vah!,..• t orti was an excessively dull inquiry, and prices were 0 100 lower. The influx of Foreign O a t s b e i ng l arger , vizi 400, quarters, the Oat trade was dull, on some w h a t easier ' Beans, Peas, and Flour without alteration. 8,835 6,255 6,493 rlotr' Oats I 3 300 2,910 Vs' " asd 1 I 1,950 1 17,850 I 20 '"' Malt, 3,010 on. VITHITECHAPEL. nener olll We had a full average supply of Meat on sale. frols speaking the demand was steady, at late rates. Be e " 500 2s 8d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 4d ; Veal, 4s 2d to and Pork, 3s 8d to 4s 10d per 81bs. by the carcass. English ...... 1ri5h......... Foreign ...... Wbeat. 940 qrs. 9,468 3,700 5,889 6,318 ARRIVALS. IBarley. 1,650 qrs. THE COAST OF AFRICA. o r The following is an extract of a letter front' spondent : s4l. "Ascension, Jan. 22 : lop the " The yra steam-slp, Captain Youn, we n " ted io River Bon H ny d on the 29th o oo f Oct C ober last. S he attol 0 0 0 go up the day previous, but grounded inside the ba r est sand bank for four hours. She was got off altara bosl4 exertions by throwing the aftermost 68-pounder o also a 321 b. carronade, and almost the whole of h e t i ; 0 10 1 : m water ; however, the Hydra was taken u p the rivet c ol R. lowing day by one of the captains of a erchant* T 0 p1; anchor, trading for palm oil. Captain Young W e L O ,5O: inquire into the merchant captains' complaints sir",„ King of the Bonny; but they could not substantis;.fic . r; for it appeared that the King told them on the ir • bel % that lie could get no palm oil for trade, owing to "100 at war with the King of the Calebar River. 'I . he captains had subsequently supplied him with pow . :Z r getir l and muskets on tick, but as hi s memory was rath er t rd' - they thought a little music from the Hydra's 68-Pebie would refreshen it. She proceeded from the Bonn) . 171:0 0 } where she fell in with the Acteon, Captain blanla she found herself in for another squabble with theo4ooo the Bimbia, he having been reported to the eom,..n i t h.. committing, or having committed a breach of P".,01 cordingly the Acteon, in company with the Hydra sn, steam-sloop, Commander Lauds, proceeded to nieers er f t ' Bimbia, calling at Fernando P o for a pilot. Captai n sbe the Governor of Fernando Po, offered to pilot her. vi at rived on the 18th November, and took up a P° eiti° •oo oll ; range of her shells, when it was found out that the 1 oft tion was false; in fact, the Baptist missionaries havvinold' settlement at the , entrance of the river, and t his the last place for slavers. h 111. _lteoug " Whilst up the Bonny it was discovered, a.— ve g kings on both sides of the river did not sell slave* J o t he murdered all prisoners in cold blood, roasted, and s ri, 111 , 4 and one of the kings assured an officer that a littlecf tf l plenty of salt and pepper, was very nice. So ° i n ane e ,:e suppression of slavery, to say nothing of the ar: fle be loss of so many valuable lives and those who s c s:j o ro rendered unfit for further service. There were Dor i brought down to the beach at Palma, near the ig, t eraprii to be shipped into the two vessels captured tO 1213 0 by the Hydra. Not having enough Prc'v h - Vg ave s I dea l took t t - ut e ckcot hte an hea d d o ll o 4 the arrival of other vessels, they the beach, murdered them all, poles. Provisions were very scarce en the as be brought trom a great distance inland. o den " From the Bimbia, the Hydra procee ded to r en , _ s Princess Island, and arrived at Ascension on the MOT''' . the 26th December. Sir C G or " The Devastation, with th e broad pendant of t tham ; the Acteon, 26, Captai n M anse ll ; S ea l ar k, c r Gooch, were then here. The Devastatio n , w i t h Siert! tham, and Acteon, left Ascension the s ame day abse: Leone and the West Coast. The Sealark left this plan„agb' a week since, with dispatches for Si r C. H0than 3, .. 131 :0 10 out by the Haddington, a large merchant-steamer, Innder China, and the Grappler, steam-vessel, Lieut. Coinui— itysaght. " Captain Hutton took command of the resent rexasl', sion last Monday, so that Captain Morrell at pr in , o __ a supernumerary, until we hear from the comet e, t Grappler leaves this place also to-day, for Sierra 1, ‘""*" meet the commodore. • ts i hosPI • 0 " The Sealark left her captain behind at the to 0 island of Ash gerously ill from repeated attacks of epilepsYr in expected to die hourly. ; 00 r" " The turtle are rising very fast, which Pron— erb season. " The Eurydice, 26, Captain Anson, touch ed 'Or li° . g 10 way to the Wand Cape. ' " The erer, 14, Commander Somraerw lle ' , er , 0 a her second lieutenant and ten m e n f r om coast Is/ t he to her commander sending his pinnace twice 01 ) e s ce Pongos. The lieutenant stated that himself and D u. ifis were completely exhausted f ro m th e i r first trip fr 0 0. 4, " A vessel is expected in a b ou t a fortnigl e d lrewors commodore, with orders for the Hydra to Pr ne t Ae She will probably be in England about the fill' May." REGISTRY of BIRTHS and DB ll.fr DURING THE WEEK ENDING FEB' 47 ° ,4 )' Deaths registered in the week. Births registered in fr ig Males 520 Males ... '‘. Females ... 524 Females IP Total ... 1,044 Total ••• ige eP s , SERIOUS FlRE.—Monday afternoon, - -t „,cl hours of two and three, the utmost excitemen t 70'4 0 0 was created in the immediate vicinity of Battlei o consequence of the sudden outbreak of a fire in,„ t l er L tllif Fever Hospital, situate in St. Pancras-road, P ",,t r eiffirot The flames first showed themselves by shooting if s ban`:,oo roof of the nurse-ward, at the northern end of t" bent, From the strong hold the fire had then obtained, 1.,006A, quite clear that the inm a t es wou ld b e una ble to 5 ' t hs .Le and the first thing sought to be accomp li s hed 105 m .d e l moval of the patients from the burning building'.ooLO as the intelligence was communicated to theme ibeyaeo may be formed of the state of consternation. oe 1.!; 0 0 thrown into. Owing, however, to th e precau ti ,,: A l bert by the heads of the Instit u ti on , not one of t' t " of be was hurt in being rem ove d, an d f rom th e 0c oohs' having been well wrapped up, it i s t o be hoped s e will not ultimately receive any injury. As 00 1 3r eid.riiir formation was received at the fire- s t a ti o ns, Mr. t he elf the superintendent, and Mr. Colf, the foreman of d e enr e or trice, started to the scene with six or seven brie.. Con ic & and were followed by others of the parish, an e c t i v l" the Per ile r e ton with the West of England one. aol ieo iO O however, hat the first engine arrived, the ' l .,d oP i k mounting most fearfully. and it was the Sl e w def , that the entire range of premises was doonl e ", vigo r° , otY tion. The firemen, however, set to work most tbei r e and carrying the hose to the top of the builditf e 'd to $ 54 tamed full power over the fire, and were ena" bat ~0 0 , vent the conflagration from travelling furtherja i ed, ;004 were unable to get the flames entirely extingli n e t 01 0 0 the roof of the nurses' ward, between 20 and 3 v otett se tl was burned off, the ceilings below damaged _ A bY by b the beds and other furniture severely injury'. otf removal. vet ct Err— ptil i [ADVERTISEMENT...I EXTRAORDINARY isl ; LIVER AND STOMACH COMPLAINTS BY HOLLOWAY'S ;;: r y . lt of a letter, dated 30, Princes-street, Glasgow, Fe, b , ll l disen°o°P wb ,A, " Professor Holloway—Slr, I have I aken your pills '°' liver and stomach, from which I had long sufferea• „ vc atin"e" menced the use of them I was in a most wretched , n e " n olic" e sl o ;, rest?_,. humanly speaking, they have saved my life. I had 'Ted t ° D e lo medical men to no purpose. lam now perfectly to the surprise of all who witnessed the state to +du c t . (7. 1 110 l reduced by a disease affecting the liver and stotlit:o,4 " ettauLEs WILSON." Sold by all Druggists, an d St loways Establishment, 244, Strand, London. I - - „ ' --.,....7. -......-- 90 ------"-----.-' BIRTHS. On the 25th tilt., at Balham, the wife of Mr. C l e f 0 • of a son. of D avid ler On the 26th ult., at Bromley, Middlesex, the Wire nings, Esq., of a daughter. rd , P4' . cv On the 26th ult., at Blackheath, the wife o f E. D. - sif° dal/. Of a son. itOrt On the 27th ult., the wife of Charles Preston , Esq' - colle of a daughter. On the 27th ult., Mrs. Warren De la Rue, of a son. ooo° On the 28th ult., at Greenwich, the wi fe of T. F. x" ~ lt• On the 28th E., of a dahter. f th e Pel. ug ult., at the Rectory, Barnes, the w ife o of ,10 0 E Copleston, fa s Adi On th e 17th o u1t., 0 me at Over Compton, Dorset, -- I Goodden, Esq., of a son. Esq' MAIZRIED. Le 131$nc' On the 25th ult., at St. Pancr as Church, Charles ..,6 of Lincoln's Inn-fields, to Mrs Stacy, o f Tavistock-stieerto con. o ` d On the 25th ult., at St. Peter's Church, Leeds, ThS,, see Esq., of Atherstone, Warwic kshire, to Catherine Co daughter of 31r. Sayer, of Leeds. DIED or tb e Ste On the 25th ult., at Charlwood , Surrey, Martha, rel ict Of O r ' James Mitchell, Esq., aged 80. as W ife On the 26th ult., at Hillfield House, Devon, George Hold' tch, aged 71. Bourn e ' d 91. On the 27th ult ., at the Retreat, Kentish-town, Mr. ~. ~._ a ge On the 27th ult., at Camden-town, William Sarjeant'..7a oeol,' On the 27th ult., Mary, wife of Hugh Smith, '`, Hempsted, Ilerts, aged *9. Lucre , „ aarg ar/ On the 28th tilt., at Tottenham-terrace, TottelaLtno, u 7 OO , se Lydia Hogg, aged 22. the wife of James Samuel C..- daughter ot the Ettrick Shepherd On the 28th tilt., at the Grove, *Blackheath, Charle' Edmund' tile 141.. infant child of Richard Twilling, jun., Esq. David Jennings, On the 28th ult . Mary, infant daughter of ife °f of Bromley, Middlesex. On the 28th alt., in South Audle Henry Hake Seward, Esq., aged 67 -----••••••="- y.street, ICatherine, the If _..... g o Lon4on: Printed and Published by ArCIRDO YOTTNG. of . 14° An ct Strand, Printer, As The Sun Yo. 112. StrkraL in the 17 1 . 4 0 0 of the Savoy, to the County of Middlesex, Tlturadarr 4, 1847, An ire The * the bb.l which tb t t lb . 44 1 '4 kale, b Mthic sktt ot Ao 4 04 e , Pe4 t . reti to t to kk , th H.—uuto t th tift A,:, trt ll4 o l l Sp at wiy or Vittch eittl'orm Aan t lace: -4 larg l b% Al rilry ITT andi Ap t I N t 6 T H the'446l2, ~~