The Sun. — London, England, 1847-12-07 00:00:00

Q btrto Xbitton SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clocl. LATEST PRICES OF SHARES. IN . BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM PANIES' STOCK. From the Official List, PUBLISHED EVERT =MAY AND FRIDAY EVENIN6. LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7. JOINT-STOCK BANES. Dividend Amount Naive of Company. i per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ~.......................D.... £ s. d. £ s. d. Australasia .. .. .. •• •• 40 0 0 40 0 0 i 'Britsh North American Si. per sent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 - Ceylon - ommercial of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 - :Iolonlal.• ••••••••••• 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Gloucestershire 151 cent. I - - - lonian ........ •••• • • j 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Loneln and Westmlnstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 23 Ditto • - - 13 0 0 - London Joint-Stock ... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14 Provincial of Ireland- 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 42 Itltto, New. ••• . • ... 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 - %ittional of Ireland .. 51. per cent. SO 0 0 22 10 0 - .1::at. l'rovncial of Eng. j 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 - Ditto, New.. ...... 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 - • 'South Australia •••• • . j - - 22 10 0 - - Tnion of Australia • ... 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Ditto •• - .... ••• • • • - - 2 10 0 - anion of L0nd0n..... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 10X, Madrid .•• • • - 40 0 0 10 0 0 - CA.N.A.Z.B. 4 Names et to Dividend N ame , o f ~..,4 Dividend Companies. 2 3 per Price. Companies. per Price. cc Annum. -= Annum. vi - - - £ £ Ashtn& Oldh 97 31.55. pet 70 Macclesfield. 100 - 15 Barnsley,. • •1160 121. 1 180 Neath ••• • • • 100 201. 340 Srknk&Abrgllso 51. 85 Oxford.. •• • • 100 20/. 200 Birmingham; 35 41. 56 Peak Forest. 78 3/,. 40 Coventry „..1100 25/. - ttegent's ••• • 33 11. 4s. 18 ji Derby .- • • ..;100 61. 63 Rochdale ..• • 85 41. 54 Ella vre&Chsll33 41. 54 Somrset Coal 150 71. 10.. 130 Ere .oash - • •1100 321. - Do.LkFdSt 12 61. p. c. - 1 4 :andJunetn , 100 51. 80 Stffrd &Wore 140, 281. 275 GrandSurreyllool - 30 Shrewsbury.. 125 !1 151. - stecared Unionl 100, Si. 10s. 213 4 Btourbrldge .. 145 ' 201. 205 I3vantham • • 1501 121. - Severn andl \ fiLenut & A.vu 39, 7s. 6d. 5>4 Wye Rail. j 26 11.8 s. 30 1Le,,..15& Livrp 100 341. 505 Warwick&l . , 'Leicester .... 140 101., I 75 Birming. 3 00 Si. 65 Letcstr &Nth 83 4/. 36 Warwick3g , Loughhorogh 142 701. 1 530 Napton..3 ' - 46 Monmouthsh 100 81. - Worcstr &l 78 1 21. 41% Mntgernryshi 100 51. - Birming. Meltnslvehry; 100 101. - Wilts & Brks 671 11 . 10 INSITEA.NCE COMPANIES. Name of Company. Dividend per Amount of Share. Paid. Annum. Albion .............. Alliance Brit. and For. Ditt i Marine.•• •• •• Atlas . . British Commercial .. Clerici,Med. Gen. Life C3unty • • • • • Cr0wn.............. liaale. •. Eng.k Scot. Law .... Europeaa Life • • . ... Family Endowmot Soc. Freemasons' .. • • • . G;oIJe oinardian Imperial Firs • • • • • • • • Imperial Life • • . • . • • . Indemnity Marine Law Fire •• L.OV I. ite • • • • • • • • Legal and General Life i..;:nclon Fire •••• • • • • London Skip •.•• • • • - Med. I nvll4 & Gen. Life Xational Imast Fund • • atloil al Lite • • • • Palladium Lite ..... Pell 'an Price'Aix •• •• etector Life • • • • •• • Provident Lite, • • • • • . • . Mock Life.. . . 'loyal Exchange :Inn Fire • . • ........ bitte Life ..... Universal Vi..ltcria Life 81. 101_ 6 per cent. 61. per cent, 138. 6d. pr oh. 7s. per share 51. per cent. X a. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 .51. per cent. 1 5% per cent. ' 4/. & bs. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 12 per cent. 4 0 0 20 0 0 Z 11. 4. 50 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 0 5 6 8 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 2 12 6 All paid. 4• 0 0 3 0 0 Stock. 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 1100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 36 10 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 5 13 1 2 10 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 15 0 0 2 0 0 2 10 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 Price. 100 0 • 17 b% 13N, 20% 120 404 214 14% 11. six. & bs 11. is. /. per ct. W. per cent. Si. per cent. M. per cent. 3/. p. et. & bs, 51. pwr cent. 11. 55. 45. 51. per cent. 61. 103. U. 6s. 10141. pr cnt. 8 I 0 0 4 0 0 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of 1 Paid. Price. Annum. Share. 1 £ s. d. 1 £ s. d Bank of Scotland British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 200 Calcdoni ATI Bank City of Glasgow Bank Clydesdale Bank ••• • • • 61. per cent. 20 0 0 [ 10 0 0 12110 s Commercial Bank •• • • 71. per cent. 500 0 0 'lOO 0 0 160 Eastern Bank .. ... •• • 61, per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 1014 FAllnh.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 51 I9s Exahangellnk of Soot 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 51 Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 I 7 0 0 / 1 3!:, National Bank"... .• . 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 1 3 ' i t,, NO rth of Scotland Bank 71. per cent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 6 North British Bank •• - 50 () 0 10 0 0 6 1 4 /loyal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 I 146 Union Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 87 Western Bank -.• Aber teen Fi'e and Life 121. per cent. 12 '0 0 2 0 0 815.6 d. B. Accord. Life and Fire - 20 0 0 011 0 I 9s. British Guarrntee Ins. - 10 0 0 1 0 0 12s. Caledonian Fire Insur. IN. per cent.,loo 0 0 10 0 0 22% Church of Eint.and Ina. - 50 0 0 2 0 0 , 2 Cite of Glasgow Life.. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 , 2/. 8s PAliilitirgli Life Incur. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 12 11) 0 , 18 East of Sc , tland Life.. - 10 0 0 015 0 12s. Eng. /5c Scot, Law Life St. pe • cent. 1 50 0 0 217 6 2 N D , erculvs Insurance Co. 1 7i. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 I 12 Incur. Co. of Scothl4 1 Si. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1 8 Life Assoc. of Scot!and I 51. per cant. 10 0 0 1 0 0111 6s Mercantile Life - 10 0 0 () 10 0 1 Bs. National Fire and Life .5/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 ' 245. North British Insur 534 1. pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 23 North & West of Scot. - 110 0 0 10 0 1/. Is Scottish Life and , :uar. - 20 0 0 0 11 0 •S Scot. M aA. and Gen. Life 51. per cent. I 1 0 0 015 0 13s. Cl Scottish Union Insrne4. 6il. pr cent. , 20 0 0 1 0 0 , I/. 35 13' an 'aid ',ire ...... . 5/. per cent. 150 0 0 4 5 0 1 9 United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 , 1 0 0 1 12s. DOCIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. -- - £ s. d. £ i. d. i'ommercial •• .. ••.• • 41. per cent. Stock. - 70 Fast and West India 1 61. pr cent. . Stock. - 118 East Counry ..... - i - I andon . . ..............Si. pr cent. Stock. - 97 Ditto Bonds.. •••• - 41. per cent. - - - St. Katharine •• -• • - 5 per cent. Stock. - - Ditto Bonds ll4l. pr cent. - - I - Row hampton • • - WATER-WORKS . Dividend 1 Amount Name of Company. per 1 of Paid. Price, Annum. 1 Share. , X s. d. X s. d. Blrrnin ;haul .•••• • • • . 18s. i 25 0 0 25 0 0 - kart London IIS. 1100 0 0 - 170 - .rand Junction .. ••.• 1 2L 104. ! 11 13 4 - 82 ent ••••••.••. • • • • • • I at. 1 100 0 0 - - New Itivr Lmin ardge , 21. 10s. I - - 5 5 VALI:Allan _ 101 West Middlesex . . . 5/.lss.prcnt. fia 12 9 _ 118 COURSE OF EXCLIANG.-(rills DAY.) Amster !dm .. .. .. .... 12 7 Gibraltar... .. DIC.o, at sight 7Littirdiun .... • ... • • 12 734 tiirma . - 26 25 'intl,' crp ••....•• • • • • • 26 20 Milan.. • • . • liamburgh .... • • M.B. 14 "' - . Paris, 3 (lays' sigh t.. • • 2.5 65 Ditto, .. • ...... Marieilles .... • • ...... 26 10 •• 26 20 Frankfort on Maine.... 124 Naples ...... ••.... • • Palermo, per 0z...... . 1 Lisbon.... • • .... • • • • • • Rio Jaueiro • • ..... • • • Buenos Ayres .. ••.. • • New York, 2l days' eight Philadelphia .... • • .... Yetetshurgh, Sit. I.hta • •••••••• • • • • • • Yiennt, effec. ft° • • • • • • Trieite. ditto.... • • .... Madrid Cadiz .. ..... ........ 364 7 6 10 21 10 22 4614 4851 lUrcolonn . • • • ........ .Vt Vi11e........ ..... 39N 119 511 i • 51 1 4 43 Ni PRICKS OF urtmoN, PER OZ. Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9 Now Dollars • • .... 0 4 9?.i PortMgal Gold Coin •• 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 Silver in bare . 0 4 1118 MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Dec. 7.) St7GAR.—To-day there was no increase in the home or export demand for raw Supt., but holders for the most part refused to submit to any further reduction, and offered only a limited quantity for sale. A fair business was concluded in West India, chiefly for refining purposes but holders were compelled to accept the low rates pre viously current. The quantity sold amounted to 670 hhds, and including 145 hhds 2 trcs of Barbadoes at public sale, a small part only of which sold at steady prices —via., fine yellow at 42a 6d to 455, good 40i 6d to 425, and middling 38s 6d to 395 6d per cwt. RFFINED.—To-day refined goods were less in request for home consumption, and prices declined to 51s 6d to 52s for brown grocery, and 52s 6d to 53s for standard lump., upon which terms few sales were made. The market is in a dull state for bonded crushed Sugar, and 303 to 30s 6d is the value of first sort. Max RITIUS . -Thi s a f ternoon M aur i t i us S ugar was operated in with caution, and 4,822 bags, 240 casks at public sale went 6d under' former rates, excepting supe rior 'y e ll ow sorts which realised the full value. Pri- . vately there, was little business concluded. INDIA.--.Th. . EAST position shown to d is afternoon there was not muchliis- auetio o business privately in Madras Sugar, 1,092 bags at at , n 9 were all sold at the former value, fine damp br own 28s to 2iis 6d. For El s 6d to 30s, gcod 295, and ordinary e i ngal the . demand was limiter!, and 1,650 gs were only u part disposed of, at barely the formers urrency. FoREIGN. —Not wi thsta for nd i n; ) the low an d unremune rating rates that prevail S u u w g e a i r l , su s p ti i Lh d ol w d ri i s i are desirous to sell, and the ma.rel:wgn sill descriptions. Although afurthertreids has been submitted to, yet there is liittcPcmp°totVemPeernets‘i.nt the demand for exportation, private transaellt9 2,500 bags of white Siam at yellow Havannah 245, and a 2 c l a s r cargo ;of ses(lo:ll:ri'lOtnhoxsenebs*Pe:ol:etginvil'ave, the price of which has not transpired, ma de by the home trade have been, to a limited extent on 1) , and the demand has been trifling from our refiners workin" under bond. A floating cargo of 400 c h ests of w hite Bahia was tak en for an out at 235. At aucton 1,759 bskts of Java were only_ in part sold. Mobasslis. —Although 1% est India can be obtained at further reduced rates, yet few purchases have been made, and 15 s to 18s is the vaiuo of common to fine quality. The stock of East India Treacle is is . on th for e i nc rease, and there are few buyers, still 1 asked the best. COFFEE.--This afternoon at public sale 1,602 bags Costa Rica Coffee were sold , b ut at a reduction on for mer rates of is per cwt. 695 bags and 15 casks of Plantation Ceylon blacks and triage 15s to 305 6d, damaged 15s to 31, fine fine ordinary sound colory 455; Native Ceylon is wanted, and buyers are compelled to pay 34s 6d to 35s for good ordinary by private treaty. Tae.-To-day there was no improvement in the de wand for Tea, although holders were disposed to make ( . THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY __EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1847. a concession in prices. At the public sales the biddings were very languid for both Black and Green. The quantity offered amounted to 14,056 packages, of which 8,540 passed, and 3,300 sold, including 1,000 with all faults. CoQgou fetched about the former value, but for Green prices declined Id to lid. SPIRITS.—To-dav all kinds of Rum were offered upon lower terms ; still few buyers were to be met with, we quote proof Leewards at is 7d to Is Bd, East India is 6d to Is 7d, and Mauritius Is sid to Is 6d per gallon proof strength. RlCE.—This afternoon the market had a dull ap pearance for all kinds of East India Rice, and prices were further depressed; at public sale 2,193 bags Ceylon were only in part disposed of at a reduction on former rates of 6d to is per cwt. SPICES.—The market for Pimento has been in an in active state since this day week, there is a material in crease in the supply. and a fall in the value of id to id per lb. took place. The parcels offered at auction were only partly sold, amounting to 700 bags. Of Black Pepper, the small parcels disposed of privately were at prices in favour of buyers; and of 2,665 bags of Sumatra submitted to auction a part only sold at easier rates. For Mace the market is in an inactive state, and prices are drooping as the stock is on the increase. There are further arrivals of Nutmegs, and on the part of shippers or the home trade little desire has been shown to do business, prices are on the decline Cloves are not much required. The supply of Cassia Lignea is extrsmely limited, prices are still on the advance. For Ginger the market is in a quiet state, and prices tend downwards, notwithstanding the falling off in the supply, and the quantity to arrive being small. At public sale 41 casks 128 barrels Jamaica were only in part sold. SALTPETRE.—To-day the demand for Rough was not so active ; still 1,340 bags of Calcutta at auction were all sold at full rates, and fetched 32s to 33s 6d for good strong grey 4i per cent refraction, and one lot 33s per cwt. TALLOW.—The demand has been active on the spot from both the town and country trade, holders mani fested firmness and obtained 44s 9d to 45s 3d for fine new P. Y. C. For forward delivery many contracts were concluded at 43s 9d to 44s up to the close of the year, and at 44s 3d to 44s 6d for spring months. Home made met with a ready sale at 47s to 48s net cash, and there is yet but a moderate supply. Of other kinds of Tallow, although the quantity brought to market was large, yet full rates were obtained and a good demand L was experienced. At public sale 563 casks of Taganrog were chiefly disposed of. OlLs.—Although reduced rates have been accepted for Linseed Oil, yet the home trade operated with caution, whereas few purcases were made by exporters, and 22s 9d to 23s is the value on the spot. For forward delivery the operations are upon a small scale only. The crushers continue freely at work, notwithstanding the continued fall is prices. Rapseed Oil is only in limited request, but as the supply is small buyers are compelled to pay 38s for pale, and 37s for brown. Cocoa Nut is little required. For Palm there has been only a limited demand, although further reduced prices are accepted. For Olive lower prices having been accepted, occasioned buyers to operate with more freedom, and many parcels sold. There is no im provement to notice in the demand for Fish Oils, and holders are still willing sellers. Cod has been sparingly dealt in. In Southern the purchases made have been of little moment by exporters or the home trade. All kinds of Seal are dull of sale. For Sperm the demand, however, has been good, but in the value there is little improvement to make known. Lard Oil is in fair request. JAMAICA SOUTH MIDLAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.) An extraordinary general meeting of the above company was held this day at the London Tavern, for the purpose of enabling the directors to lay before the proprietors an agreement entered into for an amalgamation with the Jamaica Railway Company. Wm. Harwood, Esq., in the chair. The agreement was to the effect that the companies should amalga mate, upon five per cent. being guaranteed to the shareholders in :the South Midland Jamaica by the Jamaica Company. The CHAIRMAN said the terms had received the ap proval of the directors. Mr. OWEN said the state of Jamaica did not war rant the company taking any steps to make the line. He was sure it would never pay, for the island at the present moment was in a state of insolvency. Mr. PULLEN coincided with Mr. OA en, and after a long desultory conversation, it was resolved to ad journ the meeting until the 6th January next, to enable the directors and shareholders to co-operate for the total dissolution of the company. THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) Whereas at the last election for the borough of Mont gomery. Hugh Cholmondely, Esq., commonly calied the Honourable Hugh Chohnondely, was returned a Member to serve in Parliament for the said borough, and David Pugh, Esq., was also returned a 'Mem ber to serve in Parliament for the same borough : And whereas a petition, complaining of the undue eke ' tion and return of the said Hugh ChArnondely for the said borough, bath been presented to the House of Com mons, and whereas the said House bath been informed, by a declaration in ssriting subscribed by the said Hugh Cholmondely, and delivered to me, that it is not his int( ntion to defend his said election anti return : row I do hereby give notice thereof, in pur suance of the direction of an Act of Parliament, passed in the eighth year of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to amend the law for the trial of controverted elections of Members to serve in Parliament." Given under my hand this 7th day of December, 1847. C. S. LEPEVRE, FOREIGN OFFICE, Nov. 27. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Samuel George Bonham, Esq., to be her Majesty-'s Ple nipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China. WHITEHALL, DEC. 6. The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend Joh❑ Hampden Gurney, M.A. to the district rectory of Saint Mary, in Saint Marylebone, in the county of Middlesex, and diocese of London, void by the death of Thomas Frognal Dihdin. DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 7. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Thomas William Clinton Murdoch, Charles Alexander Wood, and Frederic Rogers, Esq , to be Commissioners for superintending the sale and the settlement of waste lands of the Crown in the British colonies, and the conveyance of emigrants thither. WHITEHALL, Nov. 23. The Right Hon. Sir Thomas Wilde, lint., Lord Chief Juotice o: her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas at West minster, has appointed Richard Capern, of Ilolbeach, in Lincolnshire, Gent., to be one of the Perpetual Com mi•sioners for taking the acknowledgments of deeds to he executed by married women, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines and recoveries and for the sub stitution of inure simple modes of assurance, in and for the parts of Holland, in the county of Lincoln. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. Thomas Sartain, jun., cattle dealer, Bradford, Wilts. BAN KiturTc tEs SUPERSEDED. Sarah Chalener, milliner, Charles-street, Westbourne terrice, Middlesex. Charles Lowe Swainson anti John Birchwood, manu facturers, Manchester. David Pearson, engine manufacturer, Lipton, Staf fordshire. BANKRUPTS. James Sebastian Yeats, stockbroker, Bank-chambers, Lothbury, to surrender Dec. 15 and Jan. 18, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee; Shearman and Slater, Great Tower-street. Francis Adamson, merchant, Bond-court, Walbrook, Dec. 18, at one, and Jan. 22, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street; Messrs. Linklater, Leadenhall-street. Thomas Edward Buckland, licensed victualler, Poplar, Dec. 13, at half-past twelve, and Jan. 28, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry Chambers; Flavell, Bedford-row. Charles Skingley, commission agent, Maldon, Essex, December 17, at eleven, and January 14, at half past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Bromley an d Ald r id ge , S out h- square , Gray's inn ; Sperling and Barris, Halstead, Essex. George Tattersall, saddler, Davis-street, Berkeley square, December 16, at half past twelve, and January 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, offi cial assignee, Aldermanbnry ; Hook, Coleman-street. Nathaniel Batho, machine maker, Manchester, Dec. 18, and Jan. 6, at eleven, at the District Court, Man chester. Hobson, official- assignee, G e or ge - s tre e t, Man cheater ; Reed, Langford, and Marsden, Friday-street, London ; Sale, Worthington and Shipman, Manchester. Gerald Plunket Tunney, draper, Burslem, Stafford shire, Dec. 20, and Jan. 17, at eleven, at the Manches ter District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manches ter ; Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester ; Reed, Langford, and Marsden, Cheapside, London. John Richard Gamble, electric telegraph manufac turor, Exchange-buildings, Dec. 16, at twelve, and Jan. 15, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street; Lawrence and Flews, Old Jewry-chambers. Douglas Pitt Gamble, electric telegraph manufacturer, Exchange-buildings, Dec. 14, at half-past two, and Jan. 18, at half past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard street; Lawrance and Plows, Old Jewry-chambers. Thomas Oldaker, hop merchant, High. street. South wark, Dec. 21 and Jan. 18, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's- P l ane, Old Jewry; Hand Chancery-lane. n act: t London ; ‘tii ;eel assignee,vwie eleven e a t t t n he Liverpool; c i h v r ti p t Liverpool; Liverpoo l,povDistrict. e DrTceocko. Court. don ; Mason, Liverpool. e 6 : tall one, w s ain L l a tnj z Laz arus 21, ; horse a.tel d e e v a e l n e , r, at Ox th fo e r c d- o s u tr r e t f , 16a Johnt one, Barrett an d , Jan. street; Lofty, Putit'etr, 'rt'ealpirtiffimetela;,l Basisaiegknferiea,:raosaidog:Dae.lel-. L9w:tem:lwslija,nnaeget-,s thetßing-street, CourtatiiCh rhoeooakfp.aei Sambrook -court, u e rt la Cheapside. Bank ruptcy. Follett, official patead-strect, Basinghall street; De roe George Kiallmark, music sellaecre St. Pancras, Nov. 16, at half-past eleven' at twelve, at the Court of .Bankruptey n ! jan. 1 9, ; Sandys et.°Mcial assignee, Coleman-street-buildings and Pear son, Gray's Inn-square.. William Owen, druggist, Barmouth, Merionethshire, and Jan. 13 , at eleven, at.the Live r p oo l Dis tpr iecet. 17 Court. Sweeting and Co., Southampton-buildings, London; Jones, Dolgelly; Evans and Son, Liverpool. Walter Foyer, hatter, Newcastle upon-Tyne, Dec. 16, at half- past one, and Jan. 25, at one, at the Newcastle upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Hoyle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Crosby and Compton, Church-court, Old Jewry. John Forster, banker, Hartburn, Northumberland, Dee. 16, at haif-past ten, and Jan. 20, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Lawrence, Crowdy, and Bowlby, Old Fish-street. Doctor's-Commons, Lon don ; Griffith and Crighton, Newcastle-upon Tyne. William Mountford, tailor, Darlington, Durham, Dec. 16, at half-past eleven, and Jan. 21, at twelve, at the Newcastle upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Mewburn, Darlington; Harle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Robert Newboult. draper, East Retford, Nottingham. Thomas Barnes, Figgures, corn dealer, Blockley, Worcestershire. Charles Wade, miller, Willsbridge, Gloucestershire. John Power, draper, Bristol. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) DOUSE OF LORDS. The Earl of SHAFTESBURT took his seat on the Woolsack (in the absence of the Lord Chancellor) shortly after Five o'clock. IRISH EX VEND ITLTRE. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE laid on the table returns of the Irish expenditure for the year 1846. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SrEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. JEWISH DISABILITIES. Mr. B. CABBELL presented a petition, signed by the inhabitants of Marylebone, against the admission of Jews into the Legislature. RAJA OF SATTARA. Mr. HUME presented two petitions praying far inquiry into the charges made against the character of the Raja of Sattara. MALDON ELECTION. The SPEAKER informed the House that in the matter of the petition complaining , of an undue re turn for Maldon no recognizances had been entered into, but the sum of 1,0001. had been placed in the Bank of England, to meet any expense that might be incurred. CHELTENHAM ELECTION. The RIGIIT HON. GENTLEMAN also informed the House, that the recognizances entered into upon the petition complaining of an undue election for Chel tenham were unobjectionable. LAW OF VENUE IN IRELAND. Sir J..WALSH, seeing the Attorney-General in his place, wished to repeat the question he put to him yesterday, as to what was the present state of the law in Ireland in cases of change of venue. He was anxious to know whe ther it differed from the law in that respect in this country ? The ATTORNEY GENERAL said that the law in both countries was the same, and the venue could be changed upon application to the Court of Queen's Bench, either in civil or criminal cases, where it could be shown that a fair trial could not be had at the place where the venue was originally tried. NOTICE OF MOTION. Mr. HUME gave notice, that after the recess he should move for a Select Committee to inquire into the causes of recent shipwrecks, and to report the same to the House. SUGAR DUTIES. Mr. ROPE gave notice, that on a future day he should move fur a Select Committee to inquire into the operation of the Sugar Duties Bill of 1844. TIII; ARMY. Mr. HUME moved the renewal of an order for certain returns relating to the army. BIBLE MONOPOLY. The I'm MEMBER also moved for the continuation of returns respecting the Bible monopoly in Scot land, with a view to the abolition of the same mono poly in this country. ELECTION PETITIONS. Petitions were presented, complaining of undue returns for the following places :—Athlone, Sligo, Aylesbury, Carlisle, Newbury, North Staffordshire, Dublin, Harwich, llythe, Andover, Horsham, and Lincoln. CULTIVATION OF COTTON IN INDIA. Mr BRIGHT gave notice that, after the recess, he should move the appointment of a Select Com mittee to inquire into the progress of th growth of cotton in India. THE BRAZILS. Mr. WILSON, seeing the Noble Lord the Secre tary for the Colonies in his place, wished to put a question to him of which he had given notice. fie was informed by the last arrivals from Rio de Ja neiro, it had been ascertained that the Brazilian Government had recently issued a decree by which they imposed a duty of one-third extra upo❑ all ships and their cargoes, which might enter the Brazalian empire after the Ist of July next, from those countries which did not place Brazalian ships entering the ports of those countries upon a footing of the most favoured nations. He understood this decree wonld apply to all ships sailing from this country. _ _ Lord PALMERSTONj said he had received a Brazalian newspaper within the last few days, con taining a decree that had been issued by the Brazilian Government, and which was to the effect stated by the Hon. Member. The decree would also apply to all nations that did not, on and after the Ist of July next, extend to Brazilian vessels all the privileges they had hitherto enjoyed. FREIGHTS. Mr. BROTIIERTON moved for a return of the freights paid by the Goverument on donations of food from America, for the relief of the poor of Ireland and Scotland, iu the course of the present year; dstin guishing--1, the ports of shipment ; 2, the ports of delivery ; 3, the names of the ships; 4, the individual co nmittee to whom each parcel of food was consigned; 5, an account of the freight on each parcel.--(The return to comprehend the deliveries at both British and Irish ports.) MINISTERS' MONEY. Mr. E. B. ROCHE presented a petition from two parishes in Cork praying for the abolition of minis ters' money. lIIELAND.—REPEAL OF THE UNION. Sir GEORGE GREY rose to make an applica tion to the lion. Member for Nottingham (Mr. Feurgus O'Connor), with respect to the follow ing motion, which stood first on the paper of this evening :—" For a Select Committee, to in quire and report on the means by which the dissolu tion of the Parliament of I►•eland was effected ; on the effects of that measure upon Ireland and upon the labourers in husbandry and operatives in manufac tures in England ; and on the probable consequences of continuing the Legislative Union between both countries." The Government and the Lord-Lieute nant agreed in opinion that as early a decision as was consistent with the importance of the sub ject, and: with fair discussion, should be come to with respect to the Bill which the Government had proposed with the view of repressing crime in Ireland ; and as the progress of that measure might he retarded by the motion of the lion. Gentlemen, he wished to point out to him the expediency of withdrawing his motion in order that the debate might proceed at once.—(llear, hear.) The lion. Gentlemen would have ample opportunities of bring. ing it forward in a later, though early, period of the present session. It was most important, with a view to the protection of life and property, that no delay should take place in passing the measure into a law. Mr. F. O'CONNOR said the Right lion. Baronet had placed him in a most unfair and disagreeable position by the request which he had made. He knew the popularity of the Government measure and the unpopularity of his proposition, and wished therefore, to get it postponed. Now he (Mr. F. O'Connor) considered that his motion should precede the passing of the Bill, and consequently, in his opi nion, he should not lay himself open, by persisting in his motion as it stood, to a charge of bringing it forward for the mere purpose of originating a fac tious opposition to the Bill. He repelled the charge, and said he could not comply with the request of the Right Honourable Baronet. [The Honour able Gentleman having resumed his seat fur a moment, immediately rose again, on being called upon by the Speaker, and proceeded, after apo logising for tie hoarseness of his voice from a severe cold, to bring forward his motion.] lie said he could not shrink from bringing forward his pro position, notwithstanding the ungracious position in which he was placed. lie wished to state to the House that he had adopted the very words of the motion brought forward by Mr. O'Connell in 1834, and which he had himself supported in the preceding year. He thought when they were considering the question of coercion, that they should be informed of the condition of Ireland antecedent to the Union, and during the last 47 years. He should, however, carry on the discussion in a different strain to that in which it was carried on in 1834 ; he should not dwell on the differences between the Saxon and the Celt, because he for one had no wish tocast dis respect upon the " Saxon gentlemen ;" he recol lected further that 3,500,000 of the people of Eng land had petitioned in favour of the repeal of the Uniou. He put it on higher grounds, and would ask, if Ireland had become part of the English empire by conquest, what statute of limitations there was to prevent her from re-conquering herself. Was it not remarkable that Ireland, though topir:11:::ne bound 1 ? )y t l i i e e s w ,h it o h ui E d, n t g ra la c n e d :th sh e ou t l i d tle hav o e f ? C row n a sofE. nigrlealiaadndanfdrotmhe o i t i h is er: r ia st tio i n n s eti o: uti t o he n a worldsrttaehtetredgrrow r until the time it merged into the English Crown, from the time of Edgar, in 964, when the charter was signed at Gloucester, until 1542, during the reign of Henry VIII., showing that during that time both nations were Catholic, and that the differences between the two countries had arisen chiefly out of religious differences. He should then go on to the commencement of the French Revolution, thence to 1800, the period of the Union, and then down to the present time. Every single revolution in Ireland was brought about by Eng lish Protestants against the Irish people ; there never was what could he termed a Catholic revolution. If he was enabled to prove these things from history, in such a manner as to defy contradiction, ha should then have made out a strong case for relieving the Catholic people of Ireland from the odium cast upon them, that they had been always the disaffected parties. With respect to the character of Edgar, which was the first ground of title set up by the English to Ireland they were told by Leland, who was to be considered as by no means an unfavour able historian for the English people, that " that charter was susceptible of considerable doubts." The next title set up arose in the period when Strongbow went over to Ireland, and succeeded in conquering a great part of the province of Lein ster. Henry King of England was induced by the successes of Strongbow to take the title of King of Ireland. The title which King Henry took with him was a bull of 1 .3 & pe Adrian the Fourth, an Englishman, who granted him the govern tnent on condition that he should spread the Catholic faith, and that he should make the Catholic people attend more to the rites and duties of the Church ; he then bestowed the throne upon him, on condition , that he was to receive in return Peter-pence, or a penny from each house. In the year 1172, all the Barons and Nobles tendered their submission ;to Henry. Shortly after he was obliged to leave his Irish dominions. When King John was twelve years of age he was sen t over t o Waterford to receive the submission of all the barons and nobles within his dominions. So imperious was the conduct of this young king, that the day after he left the nobles who had made their submission imme diately took up arms against him. During the seventh, eighth, and ninth centuries Ireland was prolific in commissioning missionaries to pro pagate the Catholic faith over the whole of Europe. Until the ruthless days of Cromwell and the days of th e rebel King William, whom they sent over to Ireland, not a single conquest hnd been made, and it could be proved that even every foot of ground which the English gained in the wars theywere obliged to surrender as soon as they were com pelled to withdraw their forces. The next title set up was in the time of Richard 11., in the year 1695, who went over to Ireland with 4,000 men at arms and 30,000 footmen, and received the submission of all the nobles and barons of the country. In 1699 Richard again invaded Ireland, and they were told that he remained revelling in Dublin for many months, till at length news reached that the Duke of Lan caster had landed in England, and he was compelled at once to return to his native country, without ac complishing anything in Ireland. The next claim to the sovereignty of Ireland was made in the reign of Henry VIII., who went over to that country with a large force, but like his predecessors achieved nothing. Therefore, none of the revolutions that had taken place could be put down to the religion of one cow:try or the other, and from that period up to the Union Ireland had been the subject of aggression from England. Before he sat down he would show that Ireland had never had an effective Parliament to govern her, and such being the case he would ask whether it would not have been better, instead of abrogating the Par liament altogether, as was done at the time of the Union, something had been done to render it more effective ? The Honourable and Learned Member then went on to endeavour to show, that from the earliest time down to the present _every attempt had been made by the English Government to impoverish the people of Ireland, and corrupt her Parliament, and observed That the Irish people, finding that they were deceived by their leaders—finding that they were being made the dupes of their public men—determined to esta blish the Irish Society, of whose existence the Government was aware from its very birth, and whose members they knew, but still they did not cause them to be arrested. They preferred rather to fer ment the rebellion, in order that they might he revenged upon those who had refused to assist them at the time of the revolt of the British American colonies. At this time the Irish Catholic people began to look for aid to the French Catle.plic people, and it was natural that they should do so ; but the French revolution intervened, and their hopes of succour in that quarter were frustrated. Again, the Government wanted the assistance of the Irish people, and in order to gain that assistance they had recourse to the cry of Parliamentary Reform. A hollow cry it was. It was the cry of Earl Grey, it was the cry of Charle, James Fox, but only to assist them into place, and when they safely got there away went Parliamentary Reform, then the cry was understood to mean merely that a Qoverntnent commissioner could not he allowed to have a seat in that house.—(Hear, and laughter.) The pt ople of Ireland, therefore, instead of getting a fair representation in Parliament, had :he celebrated Convention Act given to them, and from that period up the union history conld not point to anything equal in importance to that. Now what was the history of the rebellion of 1798 ?—who could relate it ? Ireland had given this country orators, financiers, statesmen, warriors, dramatists, and poets, but England had taken care that she should not pro duce histor:ans. Whn had fought the battles of this country ? Irish generals and Irish soldiers ; and yet, so far back as the memory of man could go, this country had refused Ireland her just and legitimate rights. Eventually the Irish Parliament was annihi lated; and what, let him ask, was the consequence of the annihilation ? From 1780 up to 1800 the exports and imps. is had increased to an enormous extent, and the country was in a comparatively flourishing condition. In 1780 Ireland did not owe a fraction, but in 1800 she was in debt to this country 14,000,000. He would not dwell upon the means by which the Union was brought about, although he had ample authorities to enable him to do so. Suffice it to say that it was cosummated by vilest corruption; that the terms were dictated by England while Ireland was in a defenceless state, with her energies shackled by debt, famine, and disease ; and from that time to the present the terms of the union had been continually violated by the British Parliament. The in crease of national debt from 1801 until 1810, was cansed by England, in order to keep France away, by our fleets, from Ireland, for it was supposed that that country wished to obtain posses sion of it. Aed how had they accomplished the utter degradation of Ireland ? They gave every man a peerage or 15,0001. who obtained the election of persons in Ireland favourable to the views of England, and those who had peerages and accomplished the work received the 15,000/. Lord Castlereagh gave them but 100 Members, though the population was 5,000,000 at the time, whilst England with but 9,000,000 obtained 503. Was this, he asked, a fair re presentation of the country ? The result had been that a hostile aristocracy had been created, who, hav ing no sympathy with the country, cared not to see her prosper. The oppression of the Catholics had also added to the misery of the country. They gave absentee landlords the power of evicting their tenants when their arrears were more than two shilling s . After creating such an aristoctacy as he had described—after twenty-three years of coercion —after resisting emancipation for forty years, were they astonished that Ireland pre sented the deplorable spectacle she did ? It was ina possible now to shackle the Irish mind. An Act was passed . which exempted grass land from the payment of tithes, so that the Protestant land land—the great opponent of the Catholic Church, and ho might say of their own— who had 4,000 acres of grass land, paid no tithes, whilst the Catholic widow, who had gathered tnanure from the road to grow a few pota toes on her acre of land, paid them. (Hear, hear.) These, he contended. were damnatory facts ag a i ns t t h e l eg i s l a ti on which had been adopted towards Irelaad by England before and since the Union. He was tried in Ireland in 1832, for resisting the payment of tithes. --- (Laughter.) He denied, however, that he was "an artful, designing demagogue." If he were, n h e e v h e a r redn,oetilviiedng to gain by it. It was his boast, and he was p rou d to proc l a i m it, th a t h e h a d a farthing or eaten a meal for the services which he had rendered to his country. Ile had conducted more contested elections than many men, but ne hever expected or to:ik any pay, though as a barrister he was entitled to large fees. He would now come to the question of emigration, and if there was ever a disgrace to any set of men it was to seduce people, able to obtain a living in their own countries to leave it, in search of labour and the means of existence. The curse of this country had been that in the exact proportion in which liberty increased so had corruption increased, because the Government knew they were able to buy off the noisy demagogues of the country. H e would now deal with the free trade question as it would affect the question of repeal. He had the greatest respect for the leader of that party (Mr. Cobden). lle (Mr. O'Connor) was opposed to him until he once met him, when he saw so much beneficence in his face, that he was determined from that time to oppose him no more. Labour was the source of wealth, and ought to be protected, and it was all moonshine to talk about Exchequer bills, Bank Charter Acts, the financial condition of the country, or any measure to make money cheap, while the foundation of all was neglected.—(Hear.) He would now come to the question of a separate parliament for the two countries. When the Irish Members came to that House, now it must be ad mitted by all that they had no power. Then with respect to the lands in Ireland, he asserted that from that year, 1793, to the present moment, they had been cultivated according to the science of politics, and not the science of agriculture. In that I I ouse the Members were operated upon by the voices of their constituents outside but such was not the case in Ireland. If Ireland were properly represented in that House there would be no necessity for the Government coming down for a Coercion Bill one year and a loan of money another. Another subject of great complaint in Ireland was, and most justly so, that the whole staff in Ireland down to the present time had been almost without exception Protestants. There was one circumstance which had wicened the breach between Englishmen and Irishmen, that was the exchange of militias. The people of Jreland, many of them at least, had been rifled of their lands and estates, and it was not to be wondered at that the descendants of those unfortunate people should still cling to a hope that the property which they had been unrightfully deprived Had Napoleon instead of Wellington won at Waterloo, many of England's estates might have been confiscated, and he asked the House whether, had such been the case, the p-eple of this country would have remained satisfied till they had recovered what they had lost. Well, it was just in this way that the people of Ire land had been deprived of their rights and lands, and he called upon the house to look at the present state of the continent of Europe, at the pre sent state of America, and then to tell him whethei it was safe to disregard the cries of Ireland for a redress of grievances ? Well, then, let him have this Committee, let them see at once whether Irish agriculture could not be restored to a state of prosperity, so as to be en abled to supply Eng . and with food without her having recourse to foreign granaries. He had been called an infidel—he had been denounced as a revolutionist ; but in his own conscience he felt that no man was doing more to sow the seeds of peace and good-will amongst all classes of society than himself.::His every hour was directed to that subject, and in order that he might not be misrepresented in future he would tell the House and the country that he was for the alter, the throne, and the cottage, but he wished the alter to be the footstool of God and not the couch of man ; the throne based upon the affections of the people, and not on the lust of the aristocracy, and the cottage the castle of the freeman, instead of the she:e.—(Hear, and cheers.) Sir GEORGE GREY rose, and was (LEFT SPEAKING.) LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dec. 6. (Sittings in Banco.) itEmP V. GRATES. In this case Mr. Sergeant Ryles and Mr. Hugh Hill were counsel for the plaintiff; Mr. Phinn represented the defendant. This was another action against a provisional com mitteeman. The plaintiff, ➢ir. N. J. Kemp, for a con siderable length of time had been the secretary of the Midland Grand Junction Railway Company; and the defendant, Mr. C. Twialeton Graves, who is a captain in the navy, acted as one of the directors of that company. The action was brought to recover 1251., the amount of salary due to the plaintiff At a general meeting of the promoters of the scheme, on the 23d of October, 1845, they resolved themselves into a provisional committee, when, among other things, they appointed the pleintiff the secretary, at a salary of 3501. per annum. There was a meeting on the 29th of the same month, at which the defendant was present, which confirmed the minutes of the meeting on the 23d, at which meeting the defendant was not present. At a meeting on the 16th of April the secretary's salary was reduced to 300/. The plaintiff's father and brother were members of the provisional committee ; he himself interested himself i❑ getting up the company, and continued to act as secre tary up to the 31st of March in the present year. The defendant attended almost the whole of the meetings of the provisional committee, and on one occasion signed, with two others of the committeemen, a cheque upon the bankers of the company for 86/. 10s., for a quarter's salary due to the plaintiff. It was resolved at one of the earliest meetings to prepare a deed of indemnity from the secretary, solicitors, engineers, and promoters of the company, to keep harmless the members of the provi sional committee against the expenses incident to the formation of the company ; that resolution appeared never to have been acted upon, and it was passed before the offi'mrs named in it had been appointed. The de posits of the shareholders never exceeded 200/. Mr. PHINN, for the defendant, said, the question for the jury was, whether there was any promise, as laid in the declaration, to pay the plaintiff, on request, his salary. Captain Grave, the defendant, felt very keenly the hardness of the plaintiff's selecting him from the committee as the person to be sued, and leaving the defendant to the poor expedient of a remedy over against his brother directors. He submitted that the resolution respecting the indemnity deed, though it was never acted upon, went to show that the plaintiff's demand was founded in bad faith and a violation or agreement between the parties, and that the plaintiff looked, not to the individual members of the provisioned committee, one of whom was his father and another Ins brother, but to the deposits of the company for remit neretion for his services. The'LORD CHIEF JUSTICE told the jury, the simile Tiestion for them to decide was, upon what terms did the plaintiff perform his services as secretary for which he claimed to be remunerated. They would have to consider the construction to be put upon the resolution I), , sed at an early stage of the company's existence, by bleb the secretary, solicitors, and engineers of the company were to indemnify the members of the pro- Tisional committee. This resolution had been passed heron, any of those officers had been appointed. Did that resolution mean that the provisional directors were to be indemnified only up to the time when it was adopted by them ? or did it go forward prospectively to affect those members who should afterwards act us pro visional committeemen ? The jury would have to con sider whether, by the terms of this resolution, the plain tiff was to be employed upon the personal responsibility of the directors, or was to indemnify them, or whether it had any other meaning which entitled the plaintiff to call for payment. The jury found for the defendant. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Yesterday Mr. H. Hugh O'Donnell Clayton, a young gentleman lately an offker in the army, and residing in B iry•street, St. James's, was brought before Mr. Jar dilly, charged with sending threatening letters to Mr. Gilbert East. • Mr. Williams, a solicitor, of the firm of Cox and Williams, produced several letters, and, handing them up to the bench, stated his belief that they were in the handwriting of the defendant. They were understood to convey a threat that the writer would assassinate Mr. G. East or his son unless some request preferred by him were forthwith granted. Mr. Williams had formed his judgment upon the writing by means of comparison. The defendant said nothing to the charge. No further particulars of the matter transpired in Court. His WORMIP remanded the defendant for further examination. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mr. BINGIIASI yesterday proceeded to give judgment in the case of Sir G. Berkeley v. Attenborough, which was argued before him last week. He said the points in tl►e case were of too great nicety to be settled at quarter sessions; they ought to be decided by a higher court. He would give every facility for taking the case to the courts at Westminster; but ho certainly did not see that the quarter sessions were in a position to give a much better decision than he had given, and there was this reason—that it was probable the decision of the quarter sessions would be appealed against. There was no dispute about the facts; so the best way would be to state a general issue, and let the superior courts of law decide the question. Mr. Attenborough said he hoped he sto: d before the Court without any impeachment of character fur having contested the point. Mr. BINGHAM said, certainly. lie was only an in nocent recipient of the goods, and he was perfectly justified in trying what was the effect of an Act of Par liament. The plaintiff's solicitor applied for the restoration of other property not included in the summons. Mr. Attenborough would readily give up that pro perty also. It was not a question of pounds, shillings, and pence with him. It was a question as to the proper construction of an Act of Parliament. Mr. Attenbo rough also denied that the plate had on it the family arms of Sir G. Berkeley. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday James Shaw Foster, a middle-aged man in apparently very bad health, was placed at the bar before Mr. Hammill, charged with obtaining money by ialse and fraudulent pretence from tradesmen transmitting and receiving goods by the Eastern Counties Railway. William Fearn, clerk in the grain department at the goods station, in Brick-lane, Spitalfields, stated that it was the duty of the prisoner, who was a clerk in the same department, and had been in the company's service several years, to make out from the invoices duricate co, tes of tickets for grain sent by-the carmen for deli very to houses in town, and that in consequence of it having been discovered by accident that fraudulent overcharges were being committed an investigation was set on foot, when it was established that the prisoner had been implicated in such transactions, and he was thereupon given into custody. J ibis Bolton, clerk to Messrs. Noble, the seedsmen in Fleet-street, proved that on the 19th of last month their house received by one of the company's trains 11-1 quar ters of,peas from the country, for the freightage of whichq3i. Ild. was charged in a bill he produced, and Bs. for the cartage. The bill and goods were delivered by a man named King, the carter employed, to whom the money was paid, and who receipted the ticket. Mr. Fearn proved that the ticket in question was in the prisoner's handwriting, and, producing a book in which the proper amount was entered, deposed that Messrs. Noble had been greatly overcharged, and that the prisoner had only paid to him the correct value of the freightage and delivery. Sergeant Price, who took the accused into custody, stated, that upon so doing he told him it was all a mis take, committed in the hurry of business, and that he should be able, when before the magistrate, to prove that it was so; but ~- ; ;;Upon being called upon for his defence, the prisoner . . did not offer any, and was ordered to be brought up again for the completion of the evidence. Mr. LlAmmtm. consented to accept bail if the prisonrr could find it, but he was unable to do so, and he was therefore removed in the van, a direction being placed on the commitment that his health should be looked to by the surgeon of the gaol. IVESTMINSTER. Henry Laurence, a young man about twenty years of age, was charged with plundering his father, Mr. John Laurence, a fishmonger, at 2, Motcombe-street, Bel grave-square, to a considerable extent. The prisoner has for a series of years been in the Yesterday Thomas Lewis, the master of the Robust, was summoned for refusing to deliver up possession of the certificate of register of that vessel. Mr. Edward Jenkins stated that he was one of the registered owners of the Robust, which belonged to a society called the True Britons, at Aberystwith, in Wales ; that he and the other two trustees, being de sirous to remove the defendant from the command of the vessel, had applied to him for the register, but he refused to deliver it up, and still remained on board. On the p irt of the defendant, it was contended that the majority of the society to which the vessel belonged wished him to remain in command, and that the com plainant and the other two registered owners had a sinister object in view in attempting to get possession of the certificate of register and turning the defendant out of the vessel. Do2uments were also put in to show that the society to which the ship belonged were desirous that the defendant should still remain as master, and also to show that the complainant, not having obeyed some of the rules by which the society was guided, had, therefore, no authority to act in the disposition of its affairs. On the other hand, it was submitted that the com plainant had a right to the register, being one of the three individuals to whom it was granted. After a considerable discussion on the point, 'rho Magistrate decided that the complainant was en titled to the register, but that, under the peculiar circum stances of the case, if the defendant refused to deliver up the possession of the document he should mitigate the penalty from 1001. to 101. The defendant, by the advice of his solicitor, refused to give up the register, and the latter fine was inflicted, which was immediately paid, and the parties withdrew. Two men, named Capton and Hands, were brought up for re-examination, charged with stealing a watch from Thomas Plume, a shipwright. It appeared that a few nights since, as the complainant was walking home, accompanied by another man, the two prisoners rushed against them, and in a moment Hands drew a watch out of the pocket of the former, and both prisoners run away. They were, however, soon afterwards taken into custody, and when Hands was in gaol he sent for a man named Fitzgerald, in formed him that the complainant's watch was at his house, and begged him to go and get it from his wife and throw it into the Thames, in order that it might not be produced as evidence against him. Fitzgerald acceded to a part of the request ; he obtained the watch, but, instead a throwing it into the river, he took it forthwith to the owner, and offered to deliver it up if he consented not to appear against the prisoner. The com plainant, however, refused to adopt such a suggestion, and a policeman being present, Fitzgerald was taken into custody himself, but the magistrate, on being ap prised of the real facts of the case, and that the latter person had no hand in the robbery, and was ignorant that he was acting contrary to law, ordered him to be discharged, and committed the other two prisoners for RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, Disc. 6. STOCK Exclia.xon.—The sales are—Great Western, Quar ers, 2 1 ,4 p.— Ditto, 17L Shares, 1% p.—North Staffordshire, 6s. 3d. dis. LI VERPOOL, Dic. 6. STOCK EXCIiANGE.—The following were the transactions this day :—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 31/. Shares, 57ii c. dis.—Ditto (late C. and B.), 17 1 4 —Eastern Counties, 16% Glasgow and Dumfries, 7 1 4—Great Wes tern, Quarters, 2% p.—Hudderbaeld Canal and Railway, 1 3 / 4 dis.— Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, '4 p.—Ditto, Halves (late L. and B.), 11 dis.—London and North-Wes tern, 155 1 4—Ditto, Quarters (A. and B.), 4L/ c. p.—Ditto, Quarters (C), 4% c. p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin colnshire, Eighths, 2 3 / 4 dis.—Ditto, Preference, % p.—Mid land, Halves, OA dis.—North Staffordshire, i 4 dis.—North Union (A), 208—Preston and Wyre, 34 3 / 4 c.—Shrewsbury and Chester (late N. W. M.), 1 p.—Ditto, New, % p.— Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 5 1 / a dis.—Ditto, Preference, 3as. 9d. p.—South-Eastern and Dover, 31 1 / 2 — Ditto, New, No. 2, 5 dis.—Ditto, Consul, No. 3, 4 3 / 4 die.— Ditto, No. 4,1% dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N.E. Purch ), I'% p. MANCHESTER, DEC. 6. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire Junction, 5% dis.—Dublin and Dro gheda, 32 dis.—Ditto, Thirds, 10 3 4—East Anglian, New Preference (6 per cent.), par—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Halves (H. and S.), 9 tbs.—Ditto, Preston and Wyre, 34% n. —Ditto Halves (B), 7-16—London, Manchester, and Bir mingham, Quarters (A), p.—Ditto (C), 4% c. p.— Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference, 3-16 p. —North Staffordshire, % s —North Union (B), 5-16—Oldham Alliance, 1% dia.—South_Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 11-16. YORK, Dec. 4. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Great Northern, 41. [Os. 6d.—Nlanchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 19s. 6d.—North British, Quarters, 4N—Ditto, Extension, 135.-- York, Newcastle, and Berwick, No. 2 data New Berwicks), 12/. 18s. Od. c. EDINBURGH, Ds c 4. STOCK ExcuANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, New, 1/. 7.4—Dundee and Northern Jun Lion, 295. 6d.—Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, Quarters, ss.—Great Northern, 4/. 13s. —North British, Halves, 121. 10s.—Ditto, Quarters, 41. 17s. Ditto, New, 13s. 6d.—Ditto, Thirds, 21. Bs. GLASGOW, Dec. 4. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The fluctuations in the market this week have been very trifling, the tendency being generally in favour of a steady rise. Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr have advanced to 1041. 12s. 6d.; North British, to 781. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, to 95; Caledonian, 36% ; and all rather firm at these quotations. Scottish Centrals are re covering from the influence of the late unexpected call of 51. per share, and now stand at 314 p., rather buyers. A good business has been done in Manchester and Southampton, Great Northern, and North British Thirds. Bank Stocks are still heavy, and there have been but few transactions in exchange companies. OPENING OF THE CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.--It is stated that arrangements are in progress to open this line from Bcattock to Edinburgh on the 20th December, which t, ill complete the through communication between this city to London, via Carlisle. We believe that the branch to Glasgow will be opened for public traffic at the same time.—Railway Times. REMARKALE EFFE C T OF TEE ELECTRIC FLUID. —Ai a matter of interest in a scientific point of view, it may be mentioned that the wires of the electric tele graph have been sometimes thrown out of order during a thunderstorm. On one occasion, Morse's telegraph inscribed a mass of symbols on paper by the action of atmospheric electricity alone. The lightning sent its own message, and recorded its own results ! Many philoso phers are already engaged in speculations on the pro babl etr,cts which a net work of electric telegraphs may have on thunderstorms.—Medical Gazette. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Dec. 6. THE IRISH PRIESTHOOD. (Continued from our Third Edition of last night.) The Marquis of LANSDOWNE admitted that in many chapels devoted to the worship of God the priests had uttered language most outrageous, most inflammatory, and most contrary to Chris tian morality. They had attracted the most serious attention of the Lord-Lieutenant, who had been in communication with his law advisers, but he could not state what steps had been or might be adopted in consequence. He had caused inquiries to be made, but as yet not one information had been sworn. The matter was a most difficult one, but the Noble Earl was exercising his best discretion to bring the perpetrators of such out rages (for outrages they were) (Hear, hear) — to justice. The law already provided a remedy— to excite persons to violate the law was a misde meanour at common law, but in Ireland an Act was passed some years ago making it a felony to excite persons to outrage, and punishing with death those inciting others to the commission of murder, and enforced in Ireland, these acts would be the means of procuring the conviction of offenders. An apprehension had gone forth that the Acts in ques tion (9 and 10 Geo. IV.) did not apply to Ireland, but they specifically did, and he would take upon himself to say, that they would be enforced in Ireland wherever possible. The Lord-Lieutenant would use every exertion to procure the requisite information, and would enforce the penalties of the law in every case in which prosecution should lead to conviction. —(leos-, hear.) The Noble Lord had asked whe ther it was intended to seek for more powers than were contained in the Bill then before the other House of Parliament ? He (the Marquis of Lans downe) was not prepared at that moment to say that any extra powers would be asked for; but this he could most undoubtedly say, that the mo ment it should appear that the milder mea sures were insufficient, that moment her Majesty's advisers would come again to the House and ask Parliament for snore effectual measures, and he thought that their application would not have less force from the fact of their having in the first in stance tried the mildest expedient which was pos sible under the circumstances. lie could not con clude Niithout expressing his pleasure, that while the Noble Lord had found it necessary to condemn the language of certain Members of the Roman Catholic priesthood, he had at the same time borne testimony to the general Christian demeanour and exemplary conduct of that body. As far as his experience went he could fully corroborate the Noble Lord. He had during a period of unexampled suffering seen the Roman catholic clergy perform their duty in the most noble, pious, and disinterested manner; and if it were necessary to visit some of the order with punishment, it became the more necessary to honour the untiring, zealous, and Christian exertion of the great majority.—(Hear, hear.) The Earl of M A LAIESBURY said, that from one s e e n o d t m of e o I t ; s o s g f l a i s o ul ig t o o at i t o h n e aotthtehre crimes there which ebhutwoenr were B ev u e t ry ev d en ay thbiesingiodciogmomatiitotoed w i a n s the e sister d c o b u y n t t ry e bh . horror evinced at seei n g such crimes encouraged y hear.) Ile regretted that ministers n r e ste s r t Noble s ri of N; , ;. l e G a n r ° t q d s measures(hl bad e a n r o i t . g i \Wit h the re m sp a ee n t y h t o o pe t h o e f language alleged 'to have . been used in chapels, he thought it might be possible to get at proof of its utterance, seeing that it must have been spoken in hearing of hundreds of persons. Lord STANLEY said, that although there were portions of the statement of the Noble Marquis to which he had listened with some satisfaction, an indi cating on his part, and, no doubt, on the part or 010 Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, a determination, as fat as possible, to grapple with the great evil so forcibly brought under their Lordships' notice by his Noble Friend ; yet he had, at the same time, to regret the indefinite and indistinct character of the answer given by the Noble Marquis. The questions put to the Noble Marquis were plain, distinct, definite questions. They brought before their Lordships in the strongest colours, yet colours not stronger than the occasion warranted and rendered necessary, cases in which it was quite clear that either at public meetings, or in the awful form of denunciations from the altar of God, there had been put forth on the part of some of the Roman Catholic clergy, of some individual mein ' hers of that clergy—far be it from him to attribute , such atrocities to the body in general—incentives to murder, -which, in general, had been immediately followed up by the execution of the sentence. Under these circumstances, it was not too much for his ' Noble Friend to ask the Government whether the facts stated had been communicated to the Lord ; Lieutenant of Ireland; if so, whether the Lord- Lieutenant had referred them to the law officers of the Crown ; if so, whether it was the opinion of those officers that the law, as it stood, was strong enough to meet these cases; and if such was not the opinion of those officers, whether it was the intention of the Government to seek to amend and strengthen the law ?—(Hear, hear.) He must say, that though no notice of these questions hai been taken by his Noble Friend, he was surprised to find that the Noble Marquis was not able to state whether or no these facts had been reported to the Lord Lieutenant. ("Hear, hear," from Lord Lansdowne.) 010 then he was to understand that they had been cow inunicated to Lord Clarendon. This, however, af forded no answer to the main question, which West whether the cases had been submitted to the law officers of the Crown in Ireland, and whether, in their judgment, the facts warranted the prosecution of the offending parties?—(Hear, hear.) To this q uestion, as he understood, the Noble Marquis was not able, without communication with the Lord-Lieuten ant, to answer. Such being the fact, he hoped that his Noble Friend would not allow the case to rest as it stood, but would, after the lapse of another week, re" new his questions distinctly with reference to thes e particular cases, as thus :—Was it or was it not tru e, a that in the year 1836 a Roman Catholic priest wro te to a landed proprietor in Ireland, in the most lauda tory terms of his charity, his benevolence, his warn' heart, his labours of love for the surrounding poPele tion ? Was it or was it not true that, in August, 1847, that same priest from the altar of God denounced that same landed proprietor as an absentee, a tyrant+ and an oppressor ? Was it or was it not true, that this same priest denounced this same landlord es worse than Cromwell, and asked " Does this m an y et live ? "—(Hear, hear.) Was it or was it not true that in corning out of chapel, after that denunciation, a respectable person who had heard it pronounced said, "This man must be immortal if, after this anethema he survives" ?—(Hear, hear.) Was it or was it not true that within forty-eight hours after this denunciation, that landlord, a most humane, praiseworthy man in every respect—a ma n belove by all his neighbours, was cut off by t h e hand of 511 assassin ?—(Hear, hear.) If these things were true, then his Noble Friend had a right to ask whether they had been referred to the law offi ce rs of the crown in Ireland--whether, in the opinion of those officer!, that priest was legally, as, if the facts were as ststeci he was morally, in the sight of God and man , guilty ?t, the blood of the murdered Major Mahon—whether, i f such was their opinion, it was intended by the G o : vernment to prosecute the man who had desecrated the altar of God by fulminating from it an incentive to murder—or whether, if such was flat their opinion, it was intended so to amend and strengthen the law. as to enable it t o reac h these atrocious cases r —(Hear, hear.) The Noble Marquis had, so the gratified him by reciting various laws already on the statute-book, which applied to such offences; but then i n the came the further questions, how far was it power of Government to enforce these laws, a nd 11 far was it considered expedient to do so? Ile h a himself had the honour, or perhaps rather the mis fortune, to act for a considerable time as Secretary for Ireland, and was quite aware of the difficulty of ob• taining effectual evidence in such cases, of the diffi" culty of prosecuting with any hope of success a Roman Catholic priest, before a jury composed in many instances of the lower class of Roman Catholics, whose prejudices would range them on the side- of their own minister—(Hear)—but he still thought they had a full right to know whether it was the design of Government to attempt, at least, to effect lt prosecution of such offenders, because, however lamentable, on the one hand, the failure of a prosecu tion, yet, on the other hand, its failure inconsequence of the misconduct of a jury would go far to enlighten the Parliament and people of this country as to the real nature of the difficulties and the extent of the remedy to be applied.—(Hear, hear.) Whatever the obstacles in the way, he regarded it as the clear duty of Government to run the risk of an un-• just acquittal, rather than have it to he supposed that in these and similar cases the Government were powerless, or that, whatever the provisions pf the statute-book, they were a dead letter, and that there was practical impunity for offences of th is de scription.—(Hear, hear.) He must reiterate the hope that his Noble Friend would repeat his questions after the lapse of an interval sufficient to enable the . Noble Marquis to communicate with t he Government in ireland.—(Hear, hear.) Lord CAMPBE LL' said that his experience as a law officer of the Crown told him, what the Noble Lord's experience as a late Minister of the Cr own. might also have t o ld him, that to answer such ques tions as those now proposed, under such circumstan ces, would be in the highest degree indiscreet, th e Ip. judicial to the course of ju,tice.—(llear.) 41V1 officers of the Crown must have sufficient t ime allowed them for fulfilling to the best of their judg: ment the onerous duties imposed upon them, ..tr must not, because they did not act with the rapi o al_vi: desired by irresponsible parties, be branded as 72_ plices in the crimes it was their task to punisna (Hear.) To the question, whether the existing 1 s' ca ld were sufficient to meet such cases as these, he There distinctly reply, abundantly sufficient. could be no doubt that any incitement to c.onicimte! a felony rendered the party putting forth the in such, ment accessory before the fact, and liable as . in Ireland as in England, to the same punisn, w , in with the actual perpetrator of the offence ; arm the case of murder, to undergo with the actual In c a r r . ; derer the punishment of death.—(Hear, b r an Whether the incitement emanated from the plat.° of a public meeting, or from the pulpit, the !ego , " liability was, of course, the same. Could it. a l l shown that from the pulpit or t he altar a priest 11 t! said, "A.0r13 is as bad as C romwell —does he y e t live ?" or words to that effect, this would be inat_iel. festly strong evidence befor e a j ury that the el. _ nunciation was an incentive to the dagger ofotiti_,g u assassin. —(Hear, hear.) The existing law , he Wca repeat, was quite strong enough to reach such and he had e very confidence that t he Lord-Lieutenthas; of Ireland wquld not hesitate or delay to carry law into execution. pre T se h n e te E d ar in l ofthHeAeßarDlieWr IpCalritEorfeftehrereedvteoniangpe, tit! ther plaining of the bulls denouncing the Queen an Protestant subjects as malignant heret ics, and ur. gbo that they involved denunciations most fatal w peace of the country. Lor d ' Lord BROUGHAM observed, that as the 4ed Lieutenant of Ireland professed himself sOhe with the law as it stood, their Lordship s, until inadequacy of the law could be proved, could her: y . desire to force a more stringent law upon the Liu vernment. rts Earl GREY said, that according to all the reP ethe received, juries in Ireland did not shrink froono nu erformance of their duties. As long as that ed to be the case, her Majesty's Government 'o9"er. be indefensible, if they asked for extraordinary potir. to set aside the administration of the existing T A , Her Majesty's Government shrunk from no resP_ P b o bility; but nothing would be more rash or unadvis:..... than that they should pass opinion 3 as to What fe; or what were not speeches inciting to crime. I! , To where the intention was most misc hievous, it ~1.4 often happened, even in this country, that NZ t grounds tor conviction were wantin Ralf-Pas ! Se / Their Lordships adjourned at o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Des 6. TT T, CRIME AND OUTRAGE (IRELAND) 131.1"—,i Mr. J. O'CONNELL (in continuation) proceede‘. to say that he earnestly implored the House t° come forward in a grac , ous spirit and assist ha with another grant of money, in order that theZ might provide against coming evils. With reec", honour to themselves the present Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland and the present Chief Secretary had ma Ireland strong representation to the Government on this sv , e f of the water to furnish funds to check the spread 0, disease. Those representations had been by the report of the Board of Health; and what h 3, been the answer of the Government in this country They stated that they regretted to learn that fever had not diminished, but they had no power under the,. laws for making issues for that purpose after the 1 " of October. Why, then, did they not come to this House to ask for powers to furnish means, instead of seeking a Bill of coercion ?—(Hear, hear) 9 1 1 the subject of the poor-law, he would o nly 11( support/ one word more—viz., that by throwing upon Ire land the support of her own poor, all classes were suffering alike—the landlord and the farmer-- the shopkeeper and the artizan—in short, every ell: was partaking of the impoverishment under vilLc. the country laboured. Many of the better co" • 0 :co vi Ay- - -