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Iround that rabbits were not Will' game, and at the trial his Learned F r i en d (M r . ems, now Mr. Justice Wil hams) produced an illustra ,tionof a Brobdignagian rabbit eating the ears of ripe co' ;11.—(Laughter.) A thousand te , ep;.'e of rabbits wer a killed by the defendant in the drat year, during ' which year it was alleged that damage had been d.,nr b y " rabbits and game," to the amount of 601., and in the second to the value of 45/. The principal dams 2 ge was done by the rabbits, and he (Mr. Chilton) eon - --f Allueu that they were game. Mr. BUTT said they were not game by the 1 and 2 of Will. IV., C. 32 damages sec. 2. As they were not game, the shoul.d , be considerably reduced, and therefore a new trial shrill) d take place. Lord DEN AI/ N said th e C ou rt w ould consider the whole mattrr„ 13 9 333 YAOYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE COMPANY. This , ar,t- h Honda eard case is appointed to be resumed on y, , the second day of term. • BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) rkSittings in B anco , b efore M r. J ust i ce W IGHTNAN ). The Court met at ten o'clock, but no business of im portance was transacted ; and after sitting for a few kinutes the Court adjourned. E XCHEQUER.—( THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) This was the first day of Trinity Term. Their Lord ships sat at two o'clock, and in pursuance of a new arrangement the p e proceeded w ith the business pending in rmi ptory pap er , from which, however, no case of trlY interest was telen. Mr. Baron Parke will be the Ju dge at nisi pritr A this term. COMMOTS- _PLEA S.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings h This be' ing -anco, before the 1...011D CHIEF JUSTICE.) the first day of term, motions were taken, the first 411 which was BAINES v. WARD. of k r -r- Sergeant BYLES moved for a new trial, on an arrest Judgment in this case, on the ground of misdirection I, r t he Judge at the trial. It appeared that an action ha d -, a been brought upon a case of injury, where damages d been given for a default in not properly fencing an are a e.lose , y n a public footway. The circumstances der moose these :—A lady, the mother of three children, dent to see her friend off by the Great Western Rail:- thel'o7, and while waiting for the train they both went to t i a - 9use in the neighbourhood, for refreshment, and on use wa __ y back to the station her companion dropped downe-Muff ; she turned to pick it up, and in doing so fell a number of steps which led to the basement of a and fractured her skull. She died in consequence, an action for damages had been brought, on which the w m -r Y gave a verdict for the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant B) les -vOye, Lt for a new trial on the ground that the declaration "ai not in compliance with the terms of the Act, which required that all the parties interested, up to the grand biter and gran d mother, ought to be state d . In t h e n eat t , pla ce , t h ere had been no evidence to show that t ire had b een any grant of a public right to pass by s footway, and if there were not, no action could Possibly lie. v. B . Justice MULE suggested the case of Walker Mrri ght." broug h t ergeant BYLES said that that was an action m ade at in a case where the casement or footway was ter e ,i °re ' an ar•ea and not it, which materially al -, th e • ' claim 0 circumstances. N ei ther could there be any hoe a the ground of this being an ancient footway, es, j ae eie-ent occurred in an open place in front of a from t e V ictoria -terrace, situate in a pathway leading sold \ e E dgeware-road to the Harrow-road, which was tent; ' „ use d in consequence of the permission of the inap o t • - • I ' Now, although there was a local Act /ault, slng a penalty upon parties not fencing any a sum • n r Open space, yet that did not give fine ~e', e nt g round of action, for the penalty, w hi c h i s a eont, ° ',,five pound s , wou ld g i ve th e reme dy ; and. he th e : I ', l :led, that if t hi s way were a ll owe d by the tenantry, se of it, or misfortune ar i s i ng f rom t h e use o f i t, st ate Sa c d no respo ns ibili t y on th e tenan t i n f ee of th e es 'or 'orcar it was an acknowledged principle, that a rector life, ad even, each of whom was at least a tenant for Yard „, -7 ,1 1 ° right to yield a right of way over a church so t h -I nout the consent of the patron and the bishop ; d e fi at i t here was clearly no liability. There was then per t i) en eY in the Act, which stated that the damages Oe divided among the several persons who might talitacitiled to them ; and there had been a special recomld -411.6 : ti ° 4 by the jury that the learned judge should the ree that th e money was proper l y di v id e d among vaini c ipients w h o were infants. T here was, t h ere f ore , Scr acia l Y a defect i n t h e j u d gment, w hi c h en titl e d th e d e - T h ll t,o a new a dj u di cat i on. _ l3 the , 11, rt iEr JUSTICE said, that it was the opinion of milted ch that sufficient evidence had not been sub - Atte st t° the jury to justify the verdict, and the rule kone acc ordingly b e a ll owe d. With r e spect to the it g bj th e Court h a d no, jurisdiction, but in the event of tlle . , a n g ul timately paid, the plaintiff in the action was 11 10 lertY e ntitled to r ece i ve it, an d if any injury ensued (I .li i ty ttle dY Would be by an application to a Court of Mr. COW V. TIPROSE. trialln ',,ergoant JONES applied for a rule for a new '", 13 case. The plaintiff had been charged by khstracejinant with felony for breaking open a shop and Itirehengi'g articles, in consequence of which he was ap arid diseehci, imprisoned in the station-house for one night, "aseo o , ar ged the next morning by the magistrate, in sh,„ o—nee of . h ad - I, s appearing that the entry into the Th e n effected for the purpose of levying a chs -`rdietTfe P la intiff brought an action, and obtained a ve ri h e i r w as - th at . The ground of application for a new be e eas no ev• s r e venue had bees laid in London, d one ther e had bad been given that anything had Place i n Sure e ' '`' lr the arrest and imprisonment took AL% j us t . before th lee Catssw ELL sa id, th a t as th e allegations th a e prase Magistrat e must have been stated on the tr i al, " was haerc.ord-ing r i e y presentation was erroneous.—The rule refused. uem_g no other b us iness read, the Court ad rned till Monday. y W ORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAT.) xTENstv E ROBBERY BY TWO BnOTIIERS. Henry - ' 4 Charles Farr, were this morning brought be fore, , Mr. Broughton for re-examination, on the charge stealing a cash-box, containing gold, bank notes, and a tturities amounting to upwards of 2301., the property 11 1 , 1 Ur. James Bird, landlord of the Mail Coach Tavern, ' 4n gsland-road. n account of the robbery appeared in The Sun of aturday last' were again remanded, in order that certain e nsed vict ua ll ers, w h o h ave b een pl un d e red in a simi a r anner,m should have the opportunity of appearing gainst the A taII,TRAMES.—(THIS DAY.) powerful-looking woman, named Julia Mann, Z a e s _ charged by Mr. Henry Lemon, lan e dl s o e r r ci yic o e f the she hafAe avern, Rosemary-lane, in whos fAairo.een for some t" , with the following desP'rate 'moult : time ' e.for liquor Sent the prisoner out. When she returned she was the Le rnon stated that yesterday afternoon his wife ar eing fall ~., out tn:inearly let his child which she IN as her : arms. A woman who was .. handing at the bar took it from the prisoner, who im , s a c. lately seized her by her hair and dealt her a violent k im r, w ,, on the head. Witness interfered, when the IT aeveraais't,a;led him with the foulest epithets, struck him ! i gliare s u r;v B , and then proceeded to demolish two l it n ia ß if : gitiit3gillaSS, two bottles of gin, broke a tub contain arid a half if bitters, and finally took up a Thissued.threatened to stab him. in Bi rla "" having been corroborated, inJured t w 1.0 1 ,,,._ T, 'IE inquired if the woman who had . been teg t • as r r esent d ceivincr an answer in take tine iv e .-1 ,anon re „, otit a wa,ruieeted her to be informed that she must tinia h e f a nt against the prisoner, whom in the mean er p„ 8 "old fine 255., the amount of the damage done, T h 'u e onth' s i : Inprionment. ter n° Prisoner, who said nothing in her defence, was to N v i ed, and the Magistrate again directed Mr. Lemon s bone, is'c' b°P the case which he considered a most serious en 'Yringing other witnesses who were said to hare n 4 Present at the transaction, on the occasion of her a ' Peali ng to answer the warrant next week. CLI- -RKENWELL.—(THIS DAY. J steo. am es Cuffe and George Cuffe were charged with . T h inz 40 sovereigns and a .5/. note, the property of From Lloyd. 'r()ra the evidence of a number of witnesses it l ap i I ° l l tred th a t the prisoner James lodged ho called t ll t e h 3 Ls wife. The ouseo Prosecuto withr, prosecutor had in a person w his box 40 sovereigns and a 54 4 0te, and on Sunday, the 2d instant, upon his going to th e box, he found that two of the screws fastening the l i t t aPle had been removed, and the box being still locked, f 2 v as opened, and then he saw that his money was ,1 1 , - "n• The younger prisoner called to see his brother ue day before. The prosecutor gave information ft police. Soon afterwards the elder risoner the lodgings, but being watched close p ly, he 44 traced t o a h ouse near Drury-lane, which was found to be well furnished, and each of the prisoners had a good silver watch upon him, although Previously they were known to have been in rather dis 're_ved circumstances. °Air. REMOLD, the sitting magistrate, ordered the pri !craters to b e remanded until Friday next, in order that her inquiries might be ma de about the disposal of the prosecut or ' s money, F-- aAILNY IRE ON THE ONION AND NORTH-WESTERN A.Y.—Betwee n boorning, when the down l g ge train on the Londn twelve and one o'clock yesterday lila No rth - Western line wa ll a near the Willesden statioon, e . l 2e of the l uggage trucks was discovered to be onxfierre., , L the t ra i n was instantly stopped. Immediate e ‘I,A. us were ma d e to subdue the flames, but without effect, al ,the first truck was speedily on fire from end to end, . Ei nu before the vehicle could be detached from the train speedily others were also on fire. Other assistance, howeyer, Peed ilY arrived, exertions the destruction of and by great property was confined to the three trucks with their contents, all of which wo re to ta lly consumed. The amount of property de stroyed has not) et been ascertained. The a red-hot cinder 1-, • ` is supposed to have been caused by —a ving neen throvim from the engine. 11.1 0 • Tr , rrt, ' N -- -'M . TO THE LATE EARL OF YARBOROUGH. w **--- a'e committee for superintending the erection of . a monument to the memory of the late Earl of I ar f°rough, consists of Commodore the Marquis of Done aeLDit-Y.S., Admiral Sir Graham llamond, Bart., lAdmiral'-"'"., ICY.S., John Beardmore, Esq., R.Y.S., Rear - .o D. Dundas, C. 8., M.P., Lord of the Admiralty, eo• llem. R.Y.S.; Captain Love, 8.N., Hon. Mem. .S .t .• th e Bon. A'Court Holmes, M.P., G. 11. Ward, Blount q ., AI.P., Secretary to the Admiralty, and the Earl of I.aetl Edgeeumbe, Commodore of the Royal Western se t CIO\ Th, lite is t‘ et determined on, hut ~°"'al gentl,usen of the Isle of Wlght have offered r a l _ ev _es or land for that purpose. The subscriptions Yacht at present to about 1,4001. The Royal Western h Club subscribed 501. towards it. RAILWAY RETURNS. RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year : Week ending May 10 15 14 NAME OF RAILWAY. Amiens and Boulogne. •• •••• •••• •••• Arbroath and Forfar •.. • • • ...... Chester and Birkenhead. • • .• ........ Dublin and Dr0gheda............... Dublin and Kingstown • . • .. Dundee and Arbroath . • . Edinburgh and Glasgow • • ..... Eastern Counties and North Eastern•• East Lancashire • • Eastern Union • • • • • • • • • • •• •• • • • • • • • • Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • • • • • • Glasgow and Greenock ••••• • • • • •• • • Gravesend and Rochester • • • • • • • • • • • • Great Southern and Western • • • • • • • • Great Western, &c • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Ipswich and Bury Lancaster and Carlisle . • • • • • • • • • • • • London and North Western, &c. London and Blackwall. • • • . London and Brighton . • • • • • • • • • • • . • London and South Western ••• • • Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc• • Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Maryport and Carlisle • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham .. • . Newcastle and Carlisle Newcastle, Berwick, and North Shields Norfolk.. • • . ..... • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • North British .. • • • • • • • • • • • • Paris and Rouen . • • • • • • • • Preston and Wyre•• •• •• •• •• •• • Rouen and Havra ..•••• Shrewsbury and Chester South Eastern and Branches •• • • • • • • Taff Vak, ..... Ulster . • • • • IVilitehaven Junction .•• •• • • •• • • •• •• York and Newcastle . •• .• •• •• York and North Midland . •. •• • • •• 4 0, 4 . 2,1. -, t -- -- (5.4 XV 262 3,486 8.574 2,717 960 19,651 40,333 1,103 5,771 7,262 8,182 1,710 437 16,341 1,958 459 1,231 5,653 683 7,102 1,284 603 8,4 g 6,559 6,271 .4,944 -REAT THE FIRE ON THE WESTERN RAILWAY. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. 'FRIDAY NlGHT.—Notwithstanding that an immense number of men have been, ever since the fire occurred upon the Great Western Railway, actively engaged in repairing the bridge at Hanwell, they have, up to the present time, half-past eight P.M. Friday, been unable to replace the structure. By one o'clock yesterday morn ing the workmen, under the superintendence of Mr. Brunel, Mr. Seymour Clarke, and Mr. Sanders, had succeeded in forming a temporary viaduct, at least so far as the down line was concerned. To test its safety a heavily-laden goods train was passed over it without an engine, and being found sufficiently strong to bear the weight of that train, which, it should be stated, was con siderably heavier than any ordinary train, it was pro nounced to be perfectly safe. The up line, however, is not yet repaired, but from the rapid progress that is being made, it is fully expected that it will be finished in time for the express train to pass over at eleven o'clock this forenoon (Saturday). An inquiry was yesterday made by the chief officer of the line, to learn if possible how the disaster occurred. The result still leaves the mat ter in doubt, it being considered most extraordinary that the fire should have obtained such a strong hold before discovered. Some idea of the fury of the flames may be formed from the fact of the heat being so intense that eight out of the ten iron girders that were supported by cast iron columns, on which the timber was laid, ex panded to such a degree as to snap asunder principally about the centre. They were also thrown out of the perpendicular, and the stone-work into which they were fastened by molten lead was rent in twain. Some of the parties attribute the act to an incendiary, but the ma jority of the officials are of opinion that it was caused solely by accident'', Lome hot cinders falling from the engine of the train that left the Maidenhead station at 11.15 P.M. yesterday. They are also of opinion that wooden bridges or viaducts ought not to be allowed on the lines, and it is understood that all similar erections will be either replaced by iron or covered with a fire proof substance, so as to guard against a similar casualty. To some parties it may seem very remarkable that so long a time has been spent in repairing the structure; and it is, however, only necessary to state that the bridge, although only twenty-five feet by eighteen, was an ela borate piece of workmanship, and was most peculiarly constructed; it was carried over the Uxbridge-road at a sharp angle, and it then stretched over the cross road. The value of the bridge was considerably more than was at first anticipated. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) THE POTATO BLIGHT. We regret to have to state that the blight has again appeared on the potatoes in the Isle of Wight. The fetal spot was first observed in the gardens round Newport on Thursday morning. This morning (Friday) the dew appeared like a black drop on the leaves of the potatoes at Westmill and in the neighbourhood of Carisbrook. It was in this part it was first observed in 1845, and it was not till nearly a month afterwards that it became general in other parts of England. The severe winter has induced persons to plant a much greater breadth of potatoes this year than they did last; indeed, even last year the grower was a gainer by the blight, it was the consumer was the sufferer. About one-third of the potatoes were spoiled by the blight—say one bushel oat of three. Had there been no blight, the three bushels would have sold for 4s. 6d.; in consequence of the blight, the two bushels sold for Bs. Wind and rain have at length left us, and summer set in in earnest. ELECTION MOVEMENTS. It has been some time doubted whether Mr. Willis Fleming was really serious in putting up for the Isle of Wight. It was thought he would merely sound the elec tors, and then withdraw, but all doubt is now removed. He has stated his determination to go to the poll as the " No-Popery" candidate. Mr. Simeon considers himself safe to win. Some call h' aim a liberal Conservative, others a moderate Whig. He has the landed interest with him, and some of the Liberals; Mr. Fleming the clergy and th© Wesleyans, the Liberals generally standing aloof. SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—Yesterday afternoon one of Combe and Delafield's horses, en draw ing empty barrels from Mr. Collier's, the a ged . Three Com passes, White Hart-street, Drury-lane, fell down the cellar keep; the man below narrowly escaped being crushed to death. After several ineffectual attempts to drag the horse out by ropes, the footpath and roadway was raised, and an inclined plane formed by excavating the earth to some depth, thus enabling the animal to walk out. DETERMINED SUICIDE. —Yesterday afternoon ti determined suicide was committed by a Mr. Jenkins, a surgical instrument maker, about thirty years of age, residing at No. 4, St. Margaret's-terraee, near Rochester row, Westminster. It appears that he had been con fined to bed by illness; his wife had gone to fetch the doctor, leaving him with a female attendant, whom he re quested to leave the room whilst he got out of bed. Some time elapsing, she entered the room, when ho was dis covered lying on the floor, having cut his throat with a razor. A surgeon was sent for, but life was extinct before his arrival. It appeared that he had, before usir.g the razor, stabbed himself in the left side with a pair of scissors. A BENEVOLENT LANDLORD.--Lord Fitzwilliam, in addition to his immense outlay on labour, amounting to several (more than fivo) hundred pounds a month, for a considerable time past, on his Irish estate at Colattin Park, in the county of Wicklow, has purchased and given to every tenant seeds of all descriptions re quired, including oats, barley, turnips, carrots, &c. His Lordship has also supplied the poor with soup of the best description, sending it to all the towns adjacent for distribution every week. SUICIDE FROM DRUNICENNESS.—MT. Bedford held an inquest yesterday, at St. George's Hospital, on the body of Henry Young, aged 50, a gardener, of No. 7, Cumberland-street, Chelsea. It appeared in evidence that the deceased had been for some time past much ad dicted to drinking, and was frequently intoxicated for three or four days together. He got up at five o'clock on Wednesday morning last, and returned in the even ing with a bottle of laudanum in his pocket. He then poured the poison into a cup and drank it. His wife and daughter, who were in the room, rendered imme diate assistance, but the deceased continued in an insen sible state, and died in the hospital the next day. It was stated by the witnesses that he bad made two pre vious attempts on his life. The inquest was adjourned for the evidence of the chemist of whom the deceased purchased the poison, DEruEssioN OF TRADE.—Considering the fewness of manufacturing establishments in this county, it is with deep regret we learn that the Sanquhar Carpet Com pany hare felt constrained to resort to the short time system—that is, limiting the hours of labour daily and weekly, owing to the dull state of this, in common with other branches of trade, at home and abroad. haven wouldfalle at ordi nary times, restriction of in dustr y comparatively light on the long-thriving community Crawick Mill ; but this, as may be naturally supposed, is much aggravated by the continued dearness of all sorts of provisions.—Dunifries Herald. NEW POTATOES.—A fine sample of early potatoes was shown last week at Darlington market, and sold at three shillings per quart, with a lively demand for more, even at this price. The producer was Mr. Thomas Stabler, market gardener, of Naughton-le-Skerne, near Darlington, a place remarkable for its early productive ness, for the salubrity and pleasantness of its climate, and its dry and sheltered situation.—Durham Advertiser. Sir Charles Napier hoisted his flag at Portsmouth, on Thursday, on board the St. Vincent ; he expects to go to sea on Sunday. PORT WINE.—We are informed that the Junta of Oporto have resolved that wines of the Upper Douro of the vintage of 1846 may be brought into Oporto until the 20th of June next. Upon wine of the first quality a duty of 7,200 reis (about 1/. 14s. 2c1.) a pipe is to be paid, and the owner of the wine is to bind himself to export the same to ports in Europe. Upon wine of the second quality the duty is to be 600 reis (about 2s. 10d.), and on wine for home consumption 6,800 reis (about 11. 12s. 10d.) a pipe. The entrance duty paid on wine of the first quality is to be deducted from the export duty. ROYAL MASONIC BENEVOLENT ANNUITY FUND. Yesterday the sixth annual general meeting of members of this charity was held at the Freemasons' Hall, for general business, and the election by ballot of twelve annuitants, from a list of 51 candidates. W. John Savage, Esq., in the chair. The report stated that last year there were 39 annuitants, at a charge of 7201., which seven deaths had reduced to 32. The receipts from all sources were 1,8441. 4s. 10d., which, after ex penditure, left a balance of 9291. Is. 2d., of which bdanc.. the committee had ordered to h,• invested 5001., Adottion :o a funded capital or 5,000/. In future tne fumigation of letters received from on board ships arriving in the United Kingdom with clean bill 3 of health is to be discontinued. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) FRIDAY, MAY 21. POOR-LAWS ADMINISTRATION BILL. Order read for resuming adjourned Debate on Amendment proposed to be made to Question (17th May), "That the Bill be now read a second time ;" and which Amendment was to leave out the word " new," and at the end of the Question to add the words " upon this day six months :" Question put, " That the word ' now stand part of the Question." The House divided : MAJORITY —AYES, 218. Acland, T. D. Forster, Mathew Ord, W. • Adderley, C. B. Fox, C. R . Owen, Sir John Aldam, William French, F. Parke, C. W. Ailix, J. P. Fuller, A. E. Paget, Colonel Anson, Colonel Gib son, T. M. Pakington, Sir J. S. Antrobus, Edmund Gisborne, Thomas Palmer, Robert Bailey, Joseph Gladstone, Captain Parker, John Baillle, Colonel Gore, Robert Patten, J. W. Baine, Walter Graham, Sir James Philips, G. R. Barclay, David Granger, T. C. Plumptre, J. P. Barkly, Henry Greene, Thomas Polhill, F. Baring, F. T. Grey, Sir G. Pow - lett, Lord W. Baring, Thomas Grosvenor, Lord R. Prime, Richard Barrington, Viscount Hale, R. B. Protheroe, Edward Beckett, William lii3Olyburton Lord Pusey, Philip Bell, John H alse y , T. P. Rawdon, Colonel Bellew, R. M. Hamilton, W. J. Repton, G. W. Berkeley, Captain Hamilton, Lord C. Rich, Henry Illackburne, J. I. Slimmer, Sir J. Roebuck, J. A. Bodkin, William 11. Harcourt, G. G. Romilly, John Bodkin, J. J. Hatton, Captain V. Ross, D. R. Botfield, Beriah Hawes, B. Russell, Lord John Bouverie, E. P. Hay, Sir A. Russell, Lord E. Bowles, Admiral Haytcr, W. G. Russell, Lord C. Boyd, John Iteathcoat, John Russell, J. D. Bramston, T. W Ileneage, G. li. W. Rutherfurd, A. Brotherton, Joseph Hervey, Lord A. Saudon, Viscount Brown, W. Hobhouse, Sir J. Scrope, G. P. Bruce, C. L. C. Hogg, Sir J. W. Sumer, Henry Ker Buller, Charles Holland, Robert Seymour, Lord Buller, Edward Hope, Sir J. Seymour, Sir 11. Buller, Sir J. V. Steward, C W.G. Shell, It. L. Banbury, William HowardZE. G. Shelburne, Earl of Burrell, Sir C. Howard, P. H. Sheridan, R. B. Burroughes,:ll. Hudson, G. Smith, It. V. Busfeild, W. Hughes, W. B. Smollett, A. Callaghan, D. Hurst, R. li. Somers, J. F. Carew, It. S. Ingestre, Visct. Somerset, Lord G. Carew, W. P. Inglis, Sir It. Somerville, Sir W. Cavendish, G. 11. Jervis, Sir John Sotheron, T. 11. Chaplin, W. J. Johnstone, Sir J. Stansfield, W. R. C. Chapman, B. Jollitfe, Sir IV G. H. Stanton, W. H. Christie, W. D. Dunbton, 11. Stuart, Lord J. Chute, W. L. W. Lindsay, Colonel Stuart, Henry Clay, Sir W. Legh, G. C. Strickland, Sir G. Clayton, R. It. Le Marchant, Sir D. Strutt, Edward Clerk Sir G. Lemon, Sir C. Sutton, Henry Clive, R. H. LiAdell, Hon. H. T. Talbot, C. R. Colebrook., Sir T. Lindsay, Colonel Tancred, 11. W. Compton, 11. C. Loch, James Thornely, T. Conyngham, Lord A. Lockhart, ,A. E. Tollemache, J. Courtenay, Lord Lockhart, W. Tower, C. Craig, W. G. Macaulay, T. B. Townely, John Currie, It. Mackenzie, W. F. Traill, George Trotter,Turner Edmund John Dawson, T. V. Malnwaring, T. Deedes, W. Martin, C. W. Denison, J. E. Maule, Fox Villiers, Charles Denison, E. B. Miles, William Vivian, J. H. Dennistoun, John Mitcalfe, H. Walsh, Sir J. B. Douglas, J. S. Moffatt, George Warburton, IL Duckworth, Sir J. Monahan, J. 11. Ward, H. G. Duncan, Lord] Morgan, 0. Williams, W. Duncan, George Morpeth, Viscount Wilshere, W. Dundas, Admiral Morris, David Dundas, F. Mostyn, E. M. Wodehouse, li. E. Dundas, Sir David Napier, Sir Charles Charles East, Sir J. It. Neeld, Joseph Wood, Colonel T. Egerton, W. T. Neeld, John Wortley, J. S. Egerton, Sir P. Newry, Viscount Wrightson, W. B. Ellice, Edward Nicholl, J. Wyse, Thomas Evans, William 111vrjoodliligton, Sir T. Norreys, Lord Ewart, William Norreys, Sir D. Fellewes, E. O'Brien, A. Stafford Ferguson, Sir It. Ogle, S. C. TELLERS. Turned, IL 11111, Lord Marcus MINORITY- NOES, 42. Arkwright, George Forester, G. C. Pechell, Captain Bankes, George Frewen, C. H. Perfect, Robert Bentinck, Lord G. Gardner, J. D. Sibthorp, Colonel Bentinek, Lord 11. Hall, Sir Benjamin Spooner, Richard Blackstone, W. S. Henley, J. W. Stanley, E. Broadwood, H. Pildyard, T. B. Stuart, J. Clifton, J. T. Hill, Lord E. Thompson, Alderman Copeland, Alderman Humphery, Ald. Trollepe, Sir J. Crawford, W. S. Knight, F. W. Verner, Sir W. D'Eyncourt, C. T. Law, C. E. Wa.kley, Thomas Disraeli, B. Lowther, Hon. Col. Yorke, E. T. Duke, Sir J. Manners, Lord J. Yorke, Henry R. Duncombe, T. Masterman, John TELLERS. Escott, Ilickham Muntz, G. F. Ferrand, W. B. Floyer, John Newdegatc, C. N. Borthwick, Peter Mr. Trelawny was accidentally absent from the divi sion, and would have voted for the Bill. COURT CIRCULAR. We have authority to announce that the State Apart• ments in Windsor Castle, will be closed from Monday next, the 24th instant, until after Monday, the 7th of June next. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace, and remained to luncheon with her Majesty and Prince Albert. His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday afternoon at a committee meeting of the Commissioners for Promoting and Encouraging the Fine Arts in the re-building the Palace of Westminster. His Royal Highness arrived at the new Palace at a quarter before three o'clock, attended by the Hon. Captain A. H. Gordon. The Commissioners present were the Earl of Aberdeen, Viscount Mahon, Sir Robert H. Inglis, Mr. Wyse, and Mr. Hallam, the Secretary, Mr. Eastlake was also in attendance. The meeting broke up at ten minutes before six o'clock when Prince Albert took his departure. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal took an airing yesterday in an open car riage and four. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Leiningen, honoured the performance of the French plays with their presence yesterday even ing. The Royal Suite consisted of the Viscountess Canning, Hon. Miss Stanley, Marquis of Ormonde, Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Captain the Hon. A. H. Gordon. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager left town yesterday morning in a carriage and four, for her residence, Bushy House, Bushy Park. Her Majesty returned to Marlbo rough House in the afternoon. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, honoured the Nobleman and Gentleman's Catch Club with his company at dinner last evening. The exhibition of the royal pictures, in St. James's Palace, will close this day, but will be resumed on baturday, the 29th instant. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the Foreign office. The Ministers present were Lord John Russell, ' the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Pal merston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Camp bell, the Earl of Clarendon, Viscount Morpeth, and the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay. The Council sat an hour and a half. The Duke of Roxburgh had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial Office. Count de Jarnac, the French Minister, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. The Bishop of Sodor and Man had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at the Foreign Office. Commander Potbury, of her Majesty's ship Growler, had an interview yesterday with Earl Grey at the Colo nial Office. Sir John Pelly had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President) left town on Thursday afternoon for Richmond. SALE OF AN ESTATE IN WOR- CESTERSHIRE. Mr. W. W. Simpson, of London, brought to auction on Tuesday last, the 18th instant, at the Angel Inn, Pershore, au estate situate at Birlingham, in the Vale of Evesham, in this county. The large room was com pletely filled with a most respectable and opulent assem bly, and after an appropriate address from the auctioneer, a very spirited competition ensued, and the estate was knocked down at the sum of 17,0001. to Mr. William Fowler, land agent and surveyor of Birmingham, and the agent on this occasion for Robert Woodward, Esq., of Liverpool, who was the purchaser. To form an ade quate idea of the amount realised, we udd the following description of the property :—lt consists of a farm-house called Birlingham Hall, agricultural buildings, four te nements, and 196 acres of arable meadow and pasture land, tithe rent charge free. The timber to be valued. Also the tithe rent charges of other land commuted at Mt 12s. 3d. per annum. The rent charges and 66 acres o v e t s he t m estate n s te are r for held 21y e u a n r de r the s f r om Lady-day, and d a n y cl , C l h B a 4 p 6 t r t h o o f I,h i g m ah a nl i yc n x i r n .ef g .srpome l c 3 t O yeed a a e rt r et e no s ayn a et re freehold. Mr. Clemens, the a r o , n a tthaereensttaotfe4, 4501. per a under nnum a , ln avdedilteiaovnetothtehpeulbalnidc-ttaox judge, with l6s. ltd. the above parti culars before them, if there be any falling off in the value of landed includespro rtye recent ve fa ll n L t h i s e o rn o o v m e rezeunst securitiesjunetu e, whicha of ten per cent., and also a general derangement of the monied engagements of this country. BANK OF ENGLAND. (From last night's Gazette.) to Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 15th day of May, 1847. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued.. ...• .. 22,967,540 Government debt • • 11,015,100 Other securities .... 2,984.900 Gold coin and bullion 7,486,301 Silver bulliou .. •• •. 1,481,239 £22,967,510 • 22,967,540 MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 20th day of May. 184! BANKING D: X. Proprietors' capital.. 14,553,000 Rest ••.. • . Public deposits (In eluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sax- ings-banks, and Dl - accoants).. 4,319,78 G Dther deposits •• •• .. 8,751,171 Seven day and other b 1118.• •• •• •• •••• 824,017 # 31,907,326 Dated the 20th day of May, 184' bkrllaN T. Government securi ties (including Dead Weight Annuity).. 10,549,108 Other securities .. 16,662,435 Notes 3,793,330 Gold and silver coin • . 902,4.53 £31,967,326 '. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. DEATI' Or PRINCE JEROME BONAPARTE.—Se veraI journals publish the following as a communica tion:—" Prince Jerome Bonaparte, eldest son of the youngest and last surviving brother of the Emperor, of Jerome, ex-King of Westphalia, died lately at Florence, aged 33. This young man had been suffering from a disease of the spine. Dr. Lallemande, who was con sulted when the affection was first discovered, gave some hopes of recovery, if the patient could be allowed to go to Vernet passe Pyrenees) to take the water. The Prince's father, and his uncle, the King of Wurtemberg, hastened to apply to the French Government for the ne cessary permission. This was refused n ithout any rea son being assigned. On receiving this refusal the ques tion occurred, where will stop this blind animosity, this want of judgment in persecuting with so much invete being who bears the name of Napoleon? Thi s ry7uyti every being died in thy, arms of his father and his ()to ther, lamenting that he could no lunger hope to s ee th at country which he loved so much , and was so willing to serve."—Galignani, !-4 qvattion RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OirCOMMONS. GROUP XLVIII. This Committee met to-day at eleven o'clock; Lord Courtenay in th e c h a i r . GLASGOW, anzmur E , AND IVIONILLA.NDS JUNCTION (COWLAIRS, CENTRAL JUNC TION, AND CARMYLE BILANCHES). On the meeting of the Committee, Mr. ANDREWS proceeded to reply for the promoters of the Bill, minutely going over the evidence on both sides. He submitted that no case had been made out for the rejection of the Bill. That a through connexion was required no one could deny; and though several schemes for the purpose had been from time to time proposed, they had all been given up as objectionable, and the present one was brought forward as containing the greatest number of advantages, with the fewest disadvantages. The damage to the Green would be very trifling, while a great sana tory improvement would be effected by the clearing away of the bad property which the construction of the line would necessitate. Th© room was then cleared, and after parties were admitted, The CHAIRMAN announced that the preamble of the Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monklands (Cowlairs Branch) was proved, while the Cowlairs and Central Junction Branch was declared not proved. The Committee then adjourned. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, MAY 21.—We continue to experience a steady demand for sugars; and which, being freely met by importers, a fair business hes been done since our last report at firmer prices.—Bristol Mercury. RAILWAY COMMITTEES, HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(YESTERDAY.) GROUP VI. The Committee met at the usual hour; Mr. Deedes in the chair. WILTS, SOMZRSZT AND 4.733YV10UTH AMENDMENT (NO. XX). The Committee was occupied during the whole of the day in hearing the evidence of witnesses from Shaftesbury and Salisbury, in favour of the proposed lines of the Great Western Railway, of which the Wilts, Somerset and Wey meuth is one portion. The evidence of the witnesses showed no fact of importance, beyond that which has been already reported. Mr. Bide, of Yeovil, was called in order to show that the opinion of the majority of the people of Yeovil was opposed to the scheme of the London and South-Western Company, and in favour of the schemes projected by the Great Western Company. At the conclusion of his evidence the Committee adjourned. GROUP XX. The Select Committee appointed to consider the merits of the Bills comprised in this group re-assembled at the usual hour this morning. THE MIDLAND AND OXFORD, WORCES TER AND WOLVERHAMPTON SCHEMES. The cases for these schemes were closed, but the Committee postponed their decision till after the holidays. GROUP XXVI. The Committee did not meet this day until three o'clock Mr. Blackstone in the chair. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN (13X72- 191INGHAM AND LICHFIELD). DERDYSHIRE, STAFFORDSHIRE, AND WORCESTERSHIRE JUNCTION AND IMAM:3UL S. The Committee decided that the preambles of these Bills were proved. GROUP XXXVI. The Chairman and the other members of the Committee met to-day. EAST LANCASHIRE (SOUTHPORT BRANCH AND PRESTON EXTENSION). Mr. BRANDT having briefly opened the case for the pro moters of the Bill, the following evidence was adduced : Mr. Ascroff, a solicitor, was examined, and stated that be thought a deviation of the line would be injurious. He could not tell whether this line of railway would or would not affect injuriously a considerable portion of Mr. Norris's property, as he did not know the extent of that property. Mr. Manchester, of Preston, examined—Was acquainted with the present station, which was much crowded, and he had no doubt that improved accommodation for traffic was required in the neighbourhood. It would be of great advan tage to the public to have the direct line to Liverpool. Cross-examined by Mr. CALVERT—He thought the con fusion which he spoke of at the present station could not be remedied merely by an increase of its area. Mr. Rintler, an innkeeper, resident three and a half miles from Preston, was examined, and corroborated the testimony of the preceding witnesses, having experienced much incon venience at the present station at Preston. Some further evidence on this point was adduced, when the Committee decided that they had heard enough. Mr. CALVERT addressed the Committee on the part of the opponents of the Bill, and some evidence was adduced in their behalf to prove residential injury. The Committee then adjourned till Monday week. GROUP XXXII I. YORE AND NORTH MIDLAND (HARRO GATE BRANCH. BOROUGHBRIDGE AND XNARESBOROUGH EXTENSION). The Committee to which this line is referred met to-day at twelve o'clock. _ __ Mr. Birkenshaw. the engineer, was called and briefly examined, with a view of correcting one or two errors which bad been adduced accidentally in evidence on the examina tion of Mr. Bourne. Mr. Bmss, on the part of the opposition, having produced and handed in a formal proof of the assents and dissents along the line. ➢ir. BAINES, on the part of the promoters of the Leeds and Thirsk Company, then addressed the Committee in reply upon the evidence. The Committee adjourned shortly after four o'clock. GROUP XLVI. NORTH BRITZSIX RAILWAY (No. I.) Evidence was called on behalf of Mr. Adler to show that the proposed line would affect seriously his property, and that the proposed line would pass through upwards of 200 acres of his ground, over the whole of which water-courses had been constructed at considerable expense, and the benefits of which would be entirely destroyed by making the pro posed line. Mr. TALBOT then addressed the Committee on behalf of the promoters of the Bill. At the conclusion of his address, The Committee intimated that in consequence of one of the Bills, properly speaking opposing this line, having been by mistake referred to Mr. Greene, the Committee would give no decision until the Bill had been brought before them. The Committee accordingly adjourned till after the holidays. GROUP XLVIII. The Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock; Lord Courte nay in the chair. All the other members were present. GLASGOW, AIRDRIE, AND MONKLANDS JUNCTION (COWLAIRS, CENTRAL JUNC TION. AND CARMYLE ER,ANCIIES). The case for the Caledonian Company in opposition to the Bill was then taken. Mr. Collister, C.E., examined, and deposed that he was the resident engineer of the Caledonian Company, now con nected with the Polloc and Govan. The terminus would be at the south side of the river, and the main line would be opened in about November next. The present scheme would cross their main line on the level. There were two lines of rails of the Caledonian at the point of crossing, on which all the traffic would have to go, and consequently there would be considerable danger. In order to make such a crossing at all eligible, they ought to have several lines of rails instead of two; but this they could not have without rebuilding their bridges and making considerable alterations. They had not room for such an alteration at present. The distance from the point of crossing the Caledonian, on the level, to the Central Junction running on to the Polloc and Govan, was but ninety yards, so that a moderately long train would block up both lines, and great danger would be incurred. Mr. Locke, C.E., corroborated the evidence of the pre vious witness. This closed the evidence for the Caledonian Company. Mr. Sergeant MUltrint replied on behalf of that company against the Bill. Ile said the general objections to the scheme had been so well stated by Mr. Austin that he would not refer to them. Ile would confine himself to the inter , section of the Caledonian line, and ho submitted that no case had been made for such an interference. The crossing would take piece on the Caledonian main line on the level, a junction which would be attended with great danger and difficulty. Under the best circum stances, with a united management, such junctions were de cidedly objectionable, but they were much more so when the companies were independent, and when there would be the leading traffic of both companies continually passing and repassing. The Learned Gentleman having amplified on these points, concluded by calling on the Committee to reject the preamble of the Bill. Mr. WHATELEY replied on behalf of Mr. Dixon, iron.. master. The Committee then adjourned till to - morrow, wh en M r. Andrews will reply. PRIVATECOMPANY, LIVERPOOL COMPANY. a!awcompany, BlLLS. yy.). i, COMMITTEE ALIERsO TOOL GAS(GGyCAT JEOSA o s ; Tci p ANy . thousand-pound, The Committee to whom these opposing Bills had been referred met this day, in Room 8, at the usual hour, for the dispatch of public business; Captain Mangles in the chair. which The sought Liverpool power?u Guardian ai' borrow G as o e n o e mp hundred thou s a n d at seven and a half perand undertook to supply gas The old company sought powers to borrow two hundred thousand pounds at ten per cent.,. undertaking, as heretofore, supply gas at 45. 6d. per cubic feet. to After some negotiation between the parties, the Bill of the Guardian Company was . withdrawn, and the Committee passed the Bill of the Liverpool Gas ' at 3s. Bd. per hundred cubic feet. Company. After some conversation with the agents, the Ashton Gas next Mond Bill was postponed till ay week. i b t u e dt being a t a npimprove.cayrcegl parcels oudt goods Sales ianr ino eu a lav r are sr o tt f 3i ael articles, s m . , Offers have Du LACE TRADE.—The appearance of things in been ma the holders have declined reduction in price, . ni.d to sell, except where under the pressure of necessity. The production of nets of all kinds is re uced three-fourths at least, and plain Rpeople are brou tilt into the unemployed wor of a state of much suffering. There is no prospect . material reduction in the and this market tho s e d chiefly b f d i o e o r f l e y a s not o fe f w f prices of fine cotton yarns used in this manufacture.—Not tingham Re+•ieec. —Cur Liverpool 'fur ARAI' SA I 4DS• correspondent ,tates that the S L;.ali sands wouid not leave New Yuri: till the 11th instant. This notice seem necessary, as there are parties now expecting her arrival at that port. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 21. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'clock. LORDS' AMENDMENTS. The Lords' amendment s t o th e following Bills were considered and agreed to:— Claridge's Patent Asphalte Company. Doddington Rectory Division. Scottish Union Insurance Company. REPORTS. The following reports were brought up:— Cleveland-square, St. James's, Westminster, Improve- ment. Mancheser awl Birmingham and North Staffordshire Junction Railway. The reports on the following Bills wore further con sidered and agreed to:— Bridge House Estates Debt. Commercial Gas Light and Coke Company. Dunfermline Waterworks. Glasgow, Dumfries, awl Carlisle Railway, and Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway (No. 1). Imperial Continental Gas Association. Plymouth and Tavistock Road (No. 2). Payne's Patents Assignment. Warrington Gas. Wexford Free Bridge. _ _ York Improvement(Lendal-bridge and approaches). THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed : Birkenhead Commissioners Dock Acts Amendment (Construction of New Docks and Alteration of Cul vert). Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway (Deviations between Duntocher Limeworks and Bow- ling, Ecc.) Dublin, Dundrum, and Rathfarnham Railway (Extension to Stephen's .green). Dublin and Drogheda Railway (Branch from Navan to Dells). _ General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway Branches. Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston Direct, and Glasgow Southern Terminal Railways Amalgamation. Great Western Railway (Branch to join the West London Railway, Widening and Enlargement of West London Railway, and Branches to Hammersmith, and to join the London and South-Western Railway near Lambeth). London Sewage Chemical Manure. Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland (Newcastle, Anniskinnan, and Baltrasna Deviations). Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland (Extension from Athlone to Galway). Newry and Enniskillen Railway. Norfolk Railway (from Thetford to the Lowestoft Rail. way near Reedham, with a Branch to Halesworth). Runcorn Gas. Sheffield Markets. Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks. Swansea Valley Railway. Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway. Westminster Improvements. Windsor, Staines, and South-Western Railway (Staines to Ascot and Wokingham, with Branches). Windsor, Staines, and South-Western Railway (Rich mond to Windsor, &c.) LAW OF MARRIAGE. Lord MAncus HILL appeared at the bar in his official costume as Comptroller of her Majesty's House hold, and upon being called upon by the Speaker, he said that he had, 'in consequence of the desire of the House, presented their address on the subject of the law of marriage to her Majesty, and he had received her commands to return the following answer:— " I hare received your addreis relating to the law of marriage: my consideration shall be given to the subject to which your address refers." CROYDON COMMERCIAL GAS COMPANY AND COKE BILL. Mr. KEMBLE moved that the order for reviving the Committee on the Croydon Commercial Gas and Coke Bill be discharged, and referred to the Committee of Selection.—Agreed REPORTS ON RAILWAY BILLS. Mr. GREENE moved that the reports on railway Bills, which by the standing order of the House ought to be considered upon Thursday, be considered on Friday. the 28th day of this instant May.—Agreed to. BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION, AND BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERHAMPTON, AND DUDLEY RAILWAY AMALGAMATION BILL. Mr. SPOONER moved the third reading of this Bill. Sir CHARLES DOUGLAS asked for apostponement of this Bill for ten days, until they should see what ter mination the legal proceedings at present pending in the Court of Queen's Bench would have. _ _ Mr. RUSSELL said that he trusted the House would not yield to the suggestion of the Honourable Member. If the objection urged was a good and valid one, it ought to have been urged on the bringing up of the report; and after the discussion which had taken place, he did not see that this motion ought to have been made. If the House would resolve not to pass any measure in reference to which legal proceed ings were taken it would be quite easy to defeat any Bill.—(Cries of " Divide, divide.") Sir C. DOUGLAS said that he would not divide the House upon the question. All he desired to do was to call the attention of the House to the fact, which was not disputed by the Hon. Gentleman. He would accordingly withdraw his amendment. The Bill was then read a third time. THE NAVIGATION-LAWS. Mr. CURTEIS presented a petition against any alteration in the navigation-laws. CASE OF MARY DAWSON. Mr. FERRAND presented a petition from a working man of the name of Dawsun, in the neighbourhood of Keighley, in the county of York, complaining of the treatment which his daughter , Mary Dawson , had re ceived from her employer, a Mr. Ellice. The petition alleged that his daughter was a weaver in the factory of Mr. Ellice, where she had a warp in hand which was so bad that she could not weave. From some dis pute which arose on the subject, she left his employment on the 10th of March. In consequence, she was brought before the magistrates at Keighley, but nothing was done with her at the time. She got employment in another mill, where she continued till the 30th April. On that day, without any notice, a constable came and took her to prison. She was taken through the streets to the rail way station, and hurried to Wakefield, where she now lies committed to the House of Correction for a month. He now gave notice that after the holidays he would move that the petition be printed with the votes, with the object of bringing the subject before the House. COMPENSATION TO TENANTS FOR AGRI he would bring forward the measure on Monday, the 31st inst., when he would state to the House the course which he i atended to pursue with respect to the Bill. RAILR( )AD BILLS.—ADJOURNED DEBATE. Mr. HU I,IE moved that the order of the day for the adjourned debate thereupon be discharged. The Com mittee had met, and from the progress which they had made, he the ►uglat it would render unnecessary any further debate upon The subject. The order WaF, aceordinalv discharged. PRISONS BILL. Lord MA.' E 10 , 74 wished to know when the Prisons Bill would be brtzeglAt before the House ? Sir GEO.IE GREY proposed to proceed with the Bill on ThAitsday, the 3d of June. ENCTIMBERE D ESTATES (IRELAND) BILL. Sir F. THESIG -ER asked the Noble Lord when it was proposed to Izroceed with this Bill? L , )rd JOHN RUSSELL said that be had promised the Recorder of Dublin that he would give ample notice before that Bill was proceeded with. He also took that opportunity o f stating that he would proceed with the miscellanecu;i: estimates on Friday next. E'OOE-LAW COMMISSION. Mr. FERI RAND wished to know if the estimates of the Poor-lav P Commission would be taken on that evening. Lord JOH N RUSSELL said that the estimates would not be proceeded with before further progress was made with the Poor -law Administration Bill. I NTERMENT IN TOWNS. Mr. MACK INNON wished to ask the Noble Lord if he intended to proceed with this Bill:during the present session ? Lord MOR FETH said that be saw no prospect of passing the Bill during the present session. Mr. MACKUNTANON would like to know if he saw any prospect of passing the Bill next session ?—(Laughter.) Lord MORPETH said that he was very confident of being able to pass the Bill next session. USE 0 F SUGAR IN DISTILLERIES. Mr. BARK/EX asked the Chancellor of the Exche quer what are. the additional facilities which he intends to give for the use of sugar in distilleries, and whe ther it is his intention to propose during the present session, so *much of the Act of the 6th George IV., c. 80, as forbids all attempt to distil in combina tion with grain, or checks use of sugar in ex isting distilleries, more especially of the 4th clause of that Act, - which prohibits distillation at the same time from sugar and grain; the 45th clause, which requires six days' notice to be given by the distiller of his intention to use sugar; and the 46th clause, which requires an interval of one month between distilling grain and sugar, or sugar and grain separately. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that he had stated on a former occasion that he did not intend to bring forward any measure to prohibit the use of grain in distilleries. He could only give the same answer to the Hon. Gentleman as he gave to the Hon. Gentleman (the Member for Montrose) a few evenings Ago, that he would give every facility, for the use of sugar, that was consistent with the existing laws. The chair man of the Board of Excise had also got instructions to the same effect, and to give every facility for that purpose. He thought that he had a paramount duty to keep up the revenue.—(Cheers.) To the latter part of the ques tion of the Hon. Gentleman he begged to say that he had no intention whatever to repeal any part of the Act which had been passed for legalising the distillation from sugar. With respect to the Hon. Gentleman's ob servation, that one month was necessary before distil lation from grain could be resumed after distillation from grain had been used, he begged to observe that it was quite a mistake; for, in reality only six days' notice was necessary before the work could be resumed. In fact Rowe and Co., of Dublin, and Messrs. Leman, of Rat cliffe Highway, were now working upon that system. He theretore thought that any interference with 04, excise was unnecessary. Captain BARCLAY explained that he did not wish to throw the slightest blame upon the Government, for he did not inculpate them in the least for allowing dis tillation from grain. ACTION OF THE POOR-LAW. Mr. FEHR AND said that a handbill had been eircu• lated in Sheffield, stating that a person named John Darwin, who he understood had formerly been in highly respectable circumstances, had lately died in the work house, and that his body had been cut up into quarters, and sold. It was further stated that the mutilated mem bers had, five weeks afterwards, been taken to St. George's burial ground in a coffin and interred. The question which . he' wished to ask was whether any information re specting the circumstance had been communicated to the Government ? Sir GEORGE GREY said he had never heard of the handbilL till the Hon. Gentleman had given notice of his question. There was no reason for supposing that any such occurrence had happened there, and he did net think that the reports were sufficiently authenticated to warrant further notice of it. • THE PAUPER DISFRANCHISED. Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN asked the Solicitor- General for Ireland whether the fact of having received relief under the Poor-law Act since the registering, dis franchises the voter; and in the event of his reply in the ziegative, to ask whether it be the intention of her Ma jesty's Government to bring in a Bill on this subject during the present session. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL for Ireland said the question involved great difficulty; for Committees on special cases had differed from each other invariably, and came to contradictory conclusions. It appeared that in England, after the passing of the Reform Bill, any person receiving relief within a year of the county registration was not entitled to be registered. But in Ireland the fact of receiving relief did not disfranchise the county voter. The same law affected the burghs. SEDUCTION AND PROSTITUTION BILL. Mr. SPOONER, in reply to a question, said there were only seven names opposed to the Bill. He did not know whether these seven gentlemen were necessarily seven wise men; but he begged distinctly to say that he would proceed with the first reading of the Bill at the earliest opportunity, without consideration of the convenience of those Hon. Gentlemen. ALLEGED FALSE IMPRISONMENT. Mr. FERRAND called the attention of the Right Hon. Gentleman, the Home Secretary, to the case of girl which he had already brought before the House-- the individual in question being illegally, as he could prove, confined in the House of Correction at Wake field. He wished to know whether directions for her release would be given before the recess. Sir G. GREY said—A case had been brought to the Home•office in reference to the matter to which the Hon. Gentleman alluded, but there was nothing to convict the magistrate concerned in ihe matter of anything like illegallity in his conviction in question. RELIEF WORKS (IRELAND). The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER observed that he had, at a former period, moved that 300,000!. should be advanced, by way of loan, on the security of rates in Ireland. He now gave notice that ho intended on Friday to move that the House should agree to ad vance a further sum of 300,0001. for the same object for which the last had been granted—that is, to the relief committees. Lord G. BENTINCK had hoped that when his Right Hon. Friend mentioned that he intended to propose 300,0001. for relief works in Ireland, that he might at the same time have incidentally stated to the House that the Government had a well-founded hope it would be able soon to reduce the enormous expense with which the distribution of relief had been accompanied. The Government had reduced the numbers of those receiving relief from 700,000 to (he thought) 240,000 persons; bin the expenses of the staff still continued.—(Hear.) That expense was at the rate of 17,0001. a week, amounting to about 900,0001. a year, of which a large portion was _ _ charged to the Government, and would of course have to be paid out of the finances of this country. He had hoped that his Right Hon. Friend would have told them _ _ CULTURAL IMPROVEMENTS. Lord INGESTRE presented a petition from the owners and occupiers of land in the county of Stafford, stating that the security of tenure was the exception and not the rule, and praying that the Government would introduce a measure to secure compensation to tenants for their agricultural improvements. NAVIGATION-LAWS. The NOBLE LORD also presented a petition from 4,000 seamen, belonging to ships out of the port of London, expressing their regret that an intention was expressed of interfering with the navigation-laws, which would have the effect of throwing them out of employment, and giving their bread to foreign sailors. They prayed, therefore, that the navigation-laws should not be inter fered with. The Noble Lord moved that the petition be referred to the Navigation Committee. MEDICAL REGISTRATION BILL. Mr. V. SMITH presented a petition from the stir. geons of Shrewsbury in favour of the Medical Registra. tion Bill. ROMAN CATHOLICS. Sir R. 11. INGLIS presented a petitition from a place in Bedfordshire against any further concessions to the Roman Catholics. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE FOR THE that he had reduced the staff in proportion as he had HOLIDAYS. reduced the amount of relief. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said—Sir, as it was under- The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ex stood last night that the debate on the Poor-law Amend- plained. The 300,0001. were not for public works. He had in the month of March proposed that 300,000/. ment Bill would be finished in the course of to-night, I should be advanced as a loan, on the security of the beg now to move that this House, on its rising, shall ad- rates—he did this in order that that mode of relief journ until Friday next. might be substituted for public works. His Noble The motion was agreed to. Friend might be assured that the moment the public THE BANKRUPT AND INSOLVENT LAWS. works cauld be discontinued the expenses of the staff Mr. BOUVERIE wished to ask a question of the employed would be at an end ; and they might at any Right Hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for the time have been prevented, if it could have been proved Home Department. Last session he had charge of a that the resident gentry would take upon themselves Bill which proposed to apply a remedy to some of the the duties performed by the staff, and thus aid the Go serious evils which manypersons in this country wore now vernment. suffering from someof the defects in the bankrupt and insol- Mr. HENLEY wished to know whether there would vent l a ws, but he withdrew the Bill on the understanding be any objection to state how many of the persons re that the Government would introduce a Bill in the course ceiving a portion of the 17,0001. a week might be of this session for a similar purpose. He understood electors ? that such a Bill bad been introduced into the other The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, House of Parliament, and he therefore wished to ask his that be did not quite understand the purport of the Hon. Right Hon. Friend what state the Bill was in, and Gentleman's question. 'Many of the sta were officers whether there was a reasonable prospect that that Bill, sent over from this country. The overseers of works or some other for a similar purpose, could be passed should cease to be employed as soon as the works them into a law during the present session? selves could be discontinued. As to whether that class Sir G. GREY said that since last session this subject of persons were Parliamentary electors or not, he really had been under the consideration of the Lord Chancel- did rr n f ot know—they were persons recommended by the for, and recently the Noble Lord had introduced a to ß b ill th e e ie di c se o o m n m tin 'ttee. T t heir employment must cease with into the House of Lords, which was intended discontinuance of carried e ri p e u d blic works,oras soon as the referred to a Select Committee. He could not express e new system could u into effect. It was no fault . any opinion as to the period when it might be expected of the Government that the persons thus employed in in that House. Ireland had not been discontinued before now. The STOCK-IN-TRADE EXEMPTION BILL. necessity for employing them had been forced upon the Sir R. H. INGLIS said he wished to ask another Government by the extreme difficulty that had been question in relation to another important Bill which experienced in inducing the relief committees to exert stood No. 24 on the orders of the day for that night. It themselves. was the Stock-in-Trade Exemption Bill. He wished to Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN said that he considered know whether the Right Hon. Baronet could not make that the present was a fitting opportunity to complain such arrangement with his colleagues as to allow this that the second question which he asked had not been Bill to come on at such an hour on some day that a answered, he wished to call the attention of her Ma fair discussion might be taken upon it. jesty's Government to that question, and inquire whether Sir GEORGE GREY was not aware that it was in- it was their intention to bring in any tended to offer any opposition to this Bill, but at all subject. Bill upon the events, if they did not get down to the Bill till a late The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said hour, he should postpone it. the Government had determined to take the matter into Sir R. H. INGLIS wished to know what the Right consideration. Hon. Baronet considered a late hour. DISTURBANCES IN PORTUGAL. Sir GEORGE GREY—After twelve o'clock. Mr. HUME wished to ask a question of einsiderabl.• AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS BILL. importance. It was rumoured that her Majesty's Mr. GEORGE BANKES wished to ask the Right Government had so far interfered with the Hon. Gentleman the Vice-Z resident of the Board of affairs of Portugal as . to send out a deputation Trade whether he intended to proceed with this Bill, there to make certain arrrangements under the and if he did, when? superintendence of Colonelffilde. He wished to know Mr. T. M. GIBBON —Not till after the holida y s. what powers or directions were given t o thi s o ffi cer, as Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved that after the Ist of to any interference with the belligerlenths,ada f this tei and whether June orders of the day should have p recedence of u su o c u h ntry a c h ccourse in w vo o l u v l e d d n i o n t a ca a u . s a e r. a danger t no tices of motions upon T hursda y . OFFICE FOR PUBLIC RECORDS. also that the British officers had be en treated with in. M r. M. MILNES wished to know whether anything suit ' and the nation thus sub je N e e t ro e sb d loe t r o degradation. He Lord . - was prepared had been done towards the erection of an office for the w to is l h ay ed u t p o o k n n t o h t e v t w ah h i e e th a e n r th u e a with y Lord RUSSELL tto t p h a i sred saidt subject. ola l3 instructions given reception of the public records ? said that the subject was under the Sir G. GREY that at present the Govern consideration of the Government. knc.w ts hen the Eccle- sou ht for until the r.i er t itle . ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS BILL. ment were not pre y upon the table the papers Mr. E. DENISON nished to p p Lame. They would then siastical Commissioners Bill would be again brought I be placed before the House. before the House? Mr. HUME th en gave notice that immediately after Lord JOH it U - SSELL was Understood to say th a t th e h o lid ays he should bring the subject under the con- N sideration of the House, in vier that no uncertainty might rest upon a matter of set much importance. POOR-LAW ADMINI STRATION ACT. 'On the order of the day for the second reading of this Bin, Mr. BORTHWICK rose, b at was for some time in audible, in consequence or the uproar prevailing in the House. The Hon. Gentkites said, as he had mail* tabled a consistent course sire e the period he had en tered that House, it became liecumbent on him to ex press the opinion he entertetineel, that the Bill was only en amendment of a previous Act, Iviiich embodi e d prin ciples o f t h e most uncons titutined character, and he him, second d t o ti r m e c e o t r h d a thisdavyo sixte t m h a o t t • h t hs.e BTilialesianhoulidstebres,reinadthae felt obliged, the re f or; however painful it might be to tt se course restin ofui r e e n s t en ci t u d e e st b i a n t ne: hadOn not th shown eia,t much iu niotor e th p e re p s the de bate he saw on one bench th a Hon. and LearnerlMem ber for Bath soundly reposing., On a bench behind the chair, at one end of the Miraisiterial bench there lay stretched the Hon. Member at the head of the Ordnance, and at the other end proforiudly'reposecl another Mem ber of the Government ; while the Right Hon. Gen-. tlenisn the Home Secretary sat in the centre, as if to realise the language of the Irish poet— " Since the lovely are sleeping Go sleep thou with them. —(Laughter.) The Hon. and Learned Member for Bath bad attacked the Honourable Member for Knaresborough in a very person al man ner, and had insisted that his opinions or sentiments were entitled to no consideration, but it should be recollected that that Hon. Member represent ed the feelings of the great body of the pe.ople. He was neither a hypocrite nor hunter for popularity, for his clients were not those who returned Members to Par liament, but the poor. It was their opinion that the lion. Member for Knaresborough sought to obtain. "No, let the candied tongue lull absurd pomp, Or crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, Where thrift may follow fawning." These were not those who opposed such a measure as the present. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman the Member for Bath referred at some length to the works of Grotius, Puffendorf, Vattel, and other authorities, And stated that he believed in his conscience that his (Mr. Borthwick's) Hon. Friend the Member for Knares borough did not know whether Grotius lived in the reign of George 111., or during the reign of the Emperor Adrian—(Loud laughter)—which was, in his (Mr. Borthwick's) estimation, a most im proper and uncalled for observation, for one Member of the House to make to another. He knew that the Hon. and Learned Member for Bath was familiar with the 43d of Elizabeth—that he might have got knowledge of Grotius—that he might have read every line of Puffen dorf—and that he bad read the work to which he made so much reference, namely, Mrs. Trollope's novel, " Jessie Phillips ;" but how did these authorities affect the ques tion before the House ? Did it not stand as it did before ? And did not the Hon: Member for Bath stand accused of having spoken on subjects which were not before the House ? The Hon. and Learned Member for Bath told them that the law of El;zabeth was one is fact with the law of 1834, and the Noble Lord at the head of the Government told them that the law of 1834 was simply passed to correct the mischiefs which had occurred in 1795 ; or, as he phrased it, the evils which had prevailed towards the eod of the last century. The Noble Lord had stated that the magistrates had at that period decided • that no difference was to be ma-!e beta een unexpected mi s fortune and deli berate immorality. Now this was plainly unconstitu tioaal, and if that be true it was equally plain that the same proceeding was unconstitutional wherever it might be practise:l ; and if it was unconstitutional, therefore, in the magistrate, it was equally pla'n that it was un constitutional in the authorities at Somerset House. The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to prove from a sup posed case between two labourers, one industrious and the other depraved, in order to show that a magistrate would be placed either iri a position of difficulty or would be compelled to commit great injustice, by committing the steady with 'the unsteady man to the workhouse. The law of Elizabeth took good care not only that the poor should have relief, but that in respect of work being provided, that they should have that with a good and comfortable lodging. The Noble Lord seemed to him to adopt a fallacy which seemed very general, namely, that the description of the Bill of 1844 was a central contreleivei a local adminis tration. Now his objectien to the law was, that it took the unalienable rights of the poor from them, and re moved them from Out of the pale of thti constitution. A man might render himself liable to the law from the moment, from an unforeseen calamity. he had been stripped of hisiretependence. The labourer of England possessed a lower nobility of spirit than the aristocracy of' England—they might say what they liked to the con trary ; but so it Iva's. The Bill before the House did not touch the principle of 1834, which left the power of the Bill in the hands of ills Poor-law Commissioners,he must however admit, thet the machinery introduced into the present BM was a o . t-at improvement upon the former system. When the: Bill went into Committee, ho was determined to move that three should be itiserted instead of five years, for he beli eve d t h at i n t h ree years the country would discover that it was wrong in principle and tyrannous in its operation. Mr. MILES—The Bill was merely for the purpose of changing the nature of the Commission, and be was as tonished, after the speech of the Noble Lord, that such a Bill should be introduced, for it was nothing else but a most elaborate defence of that Commission, both from their own acts, and the charges of Mr. Chadwick, who was secretary to it.--(Hear.) It was his intention, after the assertion made by the Noble Lord last night that he was not particular to the form in which this matter should be regulated, to give him his support upon the second reading of the Bill. The poor had an inalienable right to relief, but if he reasoned by analogy from the law of Elizabeth, he would sec that the able-bodied had only a right to relief in a certain way. They should have a test of destitution still more strong than the one they had ; for he must say that the-present test was slipping little by little from under their fingers. The Noble Lord made another obser'vation that if the power was left with the board of guardians they would act with more severity than the Peor-law Commissioners, and he begged, as far as his knowledge went, to contradict it, for whenever any interference of the board of guardians had taken place, it was always to induce the Commissioners to take a somewhat more merciful view of the particular case submitted to them, than the law seemed to warrant. If the case were referred to the quarter sessions, the poor would be still less likely to receive a lenienteonsidera tion, as the qnarter sessions was a place, in most cases, influenced by party, and made a place of declaiming and debate. Mr. B. ESCOTT sad that he had heard no reason adduced in that Hoe-c to prove the superiority of this new system over the old one, and therefore he should • rote aeainst it. The Noble Lard bad admitted, in his speech of the previous evening, that this Commission was an experiment liable to many grave and serious objec tions. Under the new system, all the officers, down to the pettiest officer iu every union, would be under the control of the Government,. and that was not t h e l east of the very grave object ions which could be urged against it. Had the Hon. Member read the report which the Pieir-law 'Commissioners bad decreed to be laid on the table of the House on the very day on which the de bate upon the second reading of this Bill was first taken, and if he had, would not its contents furnish a very suf ficient reason for not giving his vote in favour of the measure? That report had stated, that in spite of all the distress which existed in the country, the commis sioners had been enabled to keep np their rules and re gulations tolerably well. He thought that the feelings of the commissioners, instead of being those of gratifi cation, ought to be of bitter shame for their past conduct. The only defence which could be brought forward in defence of the introduction of this system, was the absolute incapacity of the 'present system, and the present commissioners. The Noble Lurd was not s man to bring forward this measure without some very strong and cagerit reason of the kind. He defied any Hon. Member to show that the present poor-law had ever been beneficially administered without some partial disregard of the .orders of the commissioners. This, however, did riot help bin] to vote for the new measure until some reason seeisadducid which coultishow him that the new Come issien would be productive of any betterre sults. It was a long time atter the passing of the law of 1834„that the Poor- law Commissioners had the courage to issue rules nod regulations tesprclin, , ,7 the out-door relief to the able-bodied poor. They did not do so till forced by the Right Hon. Gentleman the Home Secretary. They issued one then, restricting the relief of the able bodied poor to the house alone. It was, however, soon found out that this would not act, and they were obliged to issue a second rule, providing that out door relief to the able- bodied, under particular circumstances. From time to time orders of one kind or another have been issued, but in no instance have they been generally acted on. There Were whole unions that have con. ducted the relief of the poor, without any reference whatever to the dicta of t he h commissioners. A great deal had been said about t h e a workhouse test, but he submitted that it had failure. The object of it, it was said, idle w a ss t o distinguish the industrious man from the vaga b o nd ; but bad it done so ? No, but rather its practica l effect was to .' drive the industrious and holiest pauper from the work house from thebeing half starved; of incarceration, and while the idle vagabond went into the House, and filled his belly at the expense of the rate payers. He cared for nothing so long as his stomach was filled. He declared therefore that the boasted test had completely failed ; and so far from the present measure satisfying the just expectations of the country, be was persuaded that it would prove most delusive in its character. The country would not consider it an improvement. He considered that the of acts the Poor law Commissioners were illegal, bi'cause although the Queen, Lords, and Commoes might pass acts bindin on the count r y, he denied h g t at they could delegate to others their power of doing so. Mr. W iet.!_Y said that however bad the pre vious Ponr-lAw Bill trilgl.t have been, be feared the public woad find the pi - esnt one an aggravation of the evil. Under the present peculiar circumstances of the country he thought it was singularly unfortunate that the Government should have placed it sell in this position, but it was still more unfortunate for the People to find no relief from the grievances under which they had been suffering, under the operation of this former law. He h t .ought this the more unfortunate as the Government had commanded the respect and esteem of the House, and of the country, by the intro dUction of the poor-law measure with respect to Ireland. They had certainly earned his esteem for their conduct., and he, therefore, ' the more regretted, i n d eed, it was excee dingly painful to him to complain of the manner in which this Bill h a d been framed. He did expect that some measure of relief would have been introdur , d calculated mitigate the inconvenience under which the people suffered by this law. He w a s wholly disappointed, and therefore his regret was great. He was extremely gratified to find the Noble r~ Last week. 316 3,595 10,832 586 2,471 1,124 1,551 19,621 521 1,128 42,128 1,131 7,412 7,968 8,345 1,927 656 20,107 2,356 884 1,780 1,686 8,170 630 2,771 467 7,630 1,297 1,481