The Sun. — London, England, 1847-06-29 00:00:00

BANK RETURNS- From the London Gazette of Tuesday.) An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria., o.:ap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes, of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 12th day of June, 1847:- Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. abingdon Bank, Abingdon-Knapp and Co 24,842 Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and Co 15,948 Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jemmitt and Pomfret 9,879 Aylshara bank, Aylsham-R. and E. Copeman 5,476 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Rickford and Hunt 39,773 Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bazk, I3aldock-Wells, Hogg, and Lmdsell... 32,196 Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple-Drake and Co 13,481 Basingstoke and Odihassi Bank, Basingstoke- Cole, Seymour, and Co. Bedford Bank, Bedford-P. Barnard Bedford and Bedfordshire Bank, Bedford- Halfhead, and Co. Bewdley Bank, Bewdley-Nichols, Baker, and 14,503 Crane Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester-Tubb, Wootten, and Co 25,356 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Attwoods, Spooner, and Co 23,487 Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming ham---Lewis, Moilliett, and Co 17,431 Bland ford Bank, Blandford-Bastard and Oak . 8,315 Boston Bank, Boston-Garfit and Co ............. 65,671 Boston Bank, Boston-Gee and Co ............... 11,842 Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater-E. &J. Sealey 9,668 Bristol Bank, Bristol-Miles, Harford, and Co. 33,041 Broseley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley-Messrs. Pritchard 21,130 Buckingham Bank, Buckingham -Bartett, Parrott, and Co. . 24,741 Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Market Bank, Bury-Oakes, Bevan, and Co Banbury Bank, Banbury-Gillett and Tawney. 39,145 Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Messrs. Cobb... 53,638 Bath City Bank, Bath-Moger and Son 2,757 Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard-Bassett and Grant 35,765 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-H and A. Harris 12,930 Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 67,055 Bridport Bank, Bridport-S. and W. E. Gundry 21,851 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington- Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- J. Worlledge and Co Bromsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsgrove-Rufford, Biggs, and Co. 16,365 Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock and . 20,347 Sons Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge-Messrs. Forsters d . 47,907 Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-H a mmond an 28,104 Co. ..................... Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen -Morris and 21,882 Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey-Messrs. La Coste Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round, Green, and Co. Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester -Mills, Bawtree, and Co 39,745 Cornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy and Co. 43,098 Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little and Wood cock City Bank, Exeter-Milford and Co 19,635 Craven Bank, Settle-Birkbecks and Co. Christchurch Bank, Christchurch-Tice, Welsh, and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff-Towgood and Co 6,779 Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmcuth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow-Bromage, Snead, and Co. Derby Bank, Derby-Messrs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby-Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby-Crompton, Newton, and Co 25,114 Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Hughes, Locke and Co 18,3 70 Dies Ban k,i Diss-Oakes, Fincham, and Co 10,598 Doncaster Bank, Doncaster-Leatham, Tew, and Co. Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster - Cook and Co. Dover Union Bank, Dover-Latham, and Co - Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington-Backhouse, and Co 82,779 Devonport Bank, Devonport-Hodge and Nor man 3,260 19,396 - 11,452 Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster, and Co. :06,472 East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hutton, and Co. Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford—Walford. and Co. Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co. Warringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes and Medley Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and Keen ...: 41,680 48,420 49,747 30,785 20,982 8,286 13,321 5,358 Grantham-Bank, Grantham—Kewney and King Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon... Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0.... Bindings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Haider, and Co. 5,537 18,350 12.955 26,053 Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hertfordshire Bank and Ware Bank, Ware— S. Adams and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull —Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veasey Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead— Smith, and Whittingstall Houiton Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co. Hertfordshire, Hitchen Bank, Hitchen—Sharples and Co. 17,655 16,040 19,192 54,070 5,793 22,831 13,674 37,519 Ilereford, Ross, and Archonfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford—Morgan, Hoskins, and Co 22,809 20,461 Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, lladleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Atextai&Ts and CO. Kentish_ Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, 73,267 and Mercer 31.ing,rton and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J Davies and Co Kuighton Bank Knighton—J. Davies and Co. 7,2i0 Knoxesborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Koaresborough—Terry and Co Kendl. ll Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, and Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering—Gotch and Sons Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C Harvey and Son Leeds Bank. Leeds—Beckett and Co 53,857 Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—W.Williams, Brown, and Ca. Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and Congleton Bank,Leek—Fowler,Gaunt, and Co. 404 Leicester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby 25.514 Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co 36,816 Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green 17,093 Lincuinl Bank, Lincoln—Smith Sand Co 92,555 Ll 9, ndovery Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando very—David Jones and Co. Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle tuna and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St. Barbe Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurneys and Co. 38,569 Iynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Massey and Co. :Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brookleharst 42,975 8,240 33,727 and Co 3tanningtree Bank, Manningtree—Nunn and Co 6,362 Die rlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckney 13,236 Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank, MMarlborough—Ward, Merriman, and Hillier 10,368 Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and 10,135 Williams Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co 16,429 Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bulk, Abergavenny—Baileys and Co 27,970 Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth --Bromage and Snead 15,399 310n.monthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport V. William s and Sons - 7,201 Newark- Bauk,Kgewark—Godfreys and Hutton 26,166 and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Newark' Bank, Newark—Handley, Peacock, Newbury—Bunny bury - Bunny and Slocock. 33,065 and ........ ......... Newbury:B auk, Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham. mond, and Son Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, piss —Taylor and , Dyson 3,091 Irorwich Crown Bank, Norwich — Har ve y s and Hudsons ... . 43,226 lioraich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur ney a and Co Nottiu i ffiara and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tinghtun—Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddcock and Co ... 5,195 naval B ink, Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and 21,853 New Sam u Bank, Sarum —Healey, Everett, and C 0................................. 13,189 Nottingham: Bank, Nottingham—Smith and Co. 27,282 eavestry 13ank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os vvestr-v—Croxon and Co 15,856 O xf, 'ma Bank, Oxford—J. and 111. Morrell 13,314 Oxfc rd Old Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, an d Th0mp50n........... 33/77 Old B, v.n.k Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge 's Cld Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge vui, and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge— Beech. and Sons 8,235 3,239 THE SUN LONDON, TUESDAY EVEXING, JUNE 29, 1847. ♦venge Amount. Oxfordshire Witney Bank Witney—Williams, Clinch, and Co 9,392 Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 45,551 Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co 11,143 Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—MAs.3rs. Yorke Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson, White, and Simpson 11,559 Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and i Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven and Co Reading Bank, Reading—igmonas and Co 37,496 Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co 35,211 Richmond Bank,Richmond—Stapleton and Co 6,212 Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood—Ledgard and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co 4,635 Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches ter—Day and Nicholson Romsey and Hampshire Bank, Romsey—Foot ner and Son • Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons... 14,010 Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son 13,442 Rye Bank, Rye—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co 17,410 Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and Co .. 13,670 Ross 6ld Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard and Allaway 4,375 Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Co 17,145 Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall and Co 22,295 Shrewsbury and Market Drayton Bank, Shrews bury—Adams, Adams, and Co 7,725 Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons, and Co Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Son 3,142 Southampton Town and County Bank, South , ampton—Maddison and Son Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co. St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's—J. S. Story 2,064 Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie 20,421 Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and 8,227 8,58 King Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp -5,065 ton—Atherly and Fall Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moor e 6,715 Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge —Raiford, Wragg, and Co 16,930 Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 11,446 Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley, and Co. Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. 25,399 St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib son and Stuart 2,233 Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock 24,885 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gil, Rundle, and Co 12,076 Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns ford and Barne Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland 10,126 Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S 9,300 9,073 20,096 14,66 54,345 28,42 9,716 Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co 14,272 Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co. 22,305 Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Wells and Co. 10,226 Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Kelynge, Greenway, avid Co 27,198 Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox, Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and Co 45,527 Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co 13,650 Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Baak, Winchester —Wickham and Co 4,653 Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe--P. and W. Hancock ... . 6,737 Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good ricke and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender, and Co. 12,330 Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 75,762 Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley and Turner Whitby Bank, Whitby—Frankland and Wil kinson Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Foster and Sons 19,505 Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster Everett and Co. Wrexham Bank, Wrexham—J. and S. Kenrick 1,791 Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton — Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birkbeck, and Co. _ _ _ 4,5825 Yarmouth, 'Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and C 0... 10,694 Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten ... 7,284 York Bank. York—Swann. Clouzh, and C 0.... 41,625 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 48,500 Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford ... ..„ Burton, Utt, - ,xeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield : Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 16,342 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 25,297 18,350 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 19,322 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 145,755 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 16,839 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 33,129 Hull Banking Company, Hull . 27,860 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 12,762 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax 40,597 Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,044 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 20,133 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 26,855 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 4,007 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster . 56,874 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 50,190 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Leeds and West Riding Banking Company, 33,792 - - - Leeds Leeds Commercial Banking Company, Leeds Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 8,250 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 24,057 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 72,630 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 55,134 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 77,445 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 54,110 Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei cester Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 3,204 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 36,326 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford. 53,128 Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang- - , port - 307,311 Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall ... 4,5440 Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com sh p;n itie y effii , ae s lad t n o d urb ß r o, idge Sheffield and r llalki.mshir© Banking Company, 55,590 Company, she tr ia ham Joint- Stock Banking 22,186 Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, 50,523 Richmond.. . Stockton and .13;;Ii' a 48,970 Com pany, Stockton m County Banking ...Company, Storey and Thomas's Banking 10,528 Shaftesbury .............. Sheffielduaanndking Company,Retferd Bank, i s phsew t eh i4 ... . 913 Suffolk Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Bankin g .. 6, - „,,: pany, Wolverhampton B a ruiley Union Bank, Wak e fi e ld Wakefield and 12,238 Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, _ Whitehaven Warwick and Letouir.gton Banking Company, Leamington West of Englanc-1 atL•d South Wales District Bauk.l3n3t0l Average Amount Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 63,947 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch Worcester City and County Banking Company, Worcester , .. 7,132 York Union Banking Company, York 67,898 York City and County Banking Company, York $6,164 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds P. DEaANS, Registrar of Bank Returns. stamps and Taxes, June 19, 1847. 5,630 UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JuN5 25.—1 n a convocation held this day, the following gentlemen were admitted ad eundem:— T. Chevallier, 8.D., Catherine Hall, Cambridge. J. Challis, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge. John C. Adams, M.A., St. John's College, Cambridge. H. Moseley . , M.A., St. John's College, Cambridge. R. Dawes, M.A., Downing College, Cambridge. H. Penneck, M.A., St. Peter's College, Cambridge. J. Gildersdale, M.A., Catherine Hall, Cambridge. F. Myers, Clare Hall, Cambridge. G. Blake, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. W. Hogan, M.A., Trinity College, Dublin. E. I. Ireland, M.A., Trinity College, Dublin. In the same convocation permission was given to Charles Reade, Esq., of Magdalen College, to commute the degree of M.A. to that of B.C.L. In a congregation held at the same time the following degrees were conferred : DOCTOR IN CIVIL LAW. Charles Lempriere, Fellow of St. John's College. BACHELORS IN DIVINITY. Charles John Crawford, Wadham. Lewis Gilbertson, Fellow of Jesus. THE INSTALLATION. CAMBRIDGE, JUNE 26.—The following distinguished persons have at this present moment accepted invitations to be present at the installation of Prince Albert; they will, during their stay, reside in the colleges set against their names. Trinity Lodge—The Queen, Chancellor, and suitel Chevalier Bunsen and Lady; Belgian Ambassador and Lady; Marquis and Lady Northampton, Lord and Lady Monteagle, Bishop of London. Trinity College—Prince Waldemar of Prussia, Bishops of Gloucester and Bristol, St. David's , and Norwich; Earl Nelson, Lord Lyttelton, Lord Ernest Bruce, Sir Harry Smith, the Dean of Canterbury, Sir J. Johnstone, Sir E. F. Buxton, Right Hon. H. Goulburn, M.P., Mr. J. Shaw Lefevre, Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord William Russell. St. Peter's College—Bishop of Tasmania. Magdalen College—Bishop of Oxford, Sir Robert and Lady Peel. Corpus Christi College—Viscount Palmerston. St. John's College—Duke of Buccleuch, Vice-Chan cellor of England, Hon. C. E. Law, M.P., Right Hon. W. Yates Peel. Christ's College—Duke of St. Alban's, Marquis of Bute. Trinity Hall—The Attorney-General. Catharine Hall—The Duke of Wellington, Lord John Russell. King's College—General and Lady Thackeray. Queen's College—The Earl of Hardwicke. Pembroke College—Sir T. G. Cullum. Caius College Lodge—The Bishop of Durham and Lady, the Hon. and Rev. H. Pakenham, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin; Sir E. H., Lady, and Miss Alderson, Vice Chancellor of Oxford and lady. Sidney Sussex College—Lord De Lisle. Downing College—Hon. Monckton Milnes, M.P. Bull Hotel—Lord and Lady Waldegrave, Sir J. Low. ther, Sir John Eustace, Lord Godolphin. The Bishop! of Lincoln and Ely are also expected. STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE. I HOUSE OF LORDS.—(YESTERDAY.) The Earl of SHAFTESBURY declared that the follow ing Bills had complied with the Standing Orders : Great Northern Railway (Deviations between Grantham and York). Eastern LTnion Railway (Branch from Manningtree to Harwich). Caledonian Railway (Edinburgh Station, and Branches to Granton, and to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Rail way). The following petition was not allowed:— ABERDEEN RAILWAY (BRECHIN BRANCH DEVIATION). The petition (presented to the House on the 24th of June), praying to be heard by counsel against the Bill, was referred to the Committee to inquire whether the petitioners should be heard. IRELAND. THE RELIEF. MEASURES. DUBLIN, JUNE 26.—1 t appears that fever and dysen tery are much less prevalent in those districts where meal and rice, properly cooked, are given out as ra tions ; but unfortunately a most unreasonable prejudice exists in many places against cooked food, and forcible opposition has been given in some places to those com mittees who have adopted the system. The Govern ment, however, have most properly determined to carry it out in all cases, as well on account of the health of the people themselves as to prevent petty frauds in the administration of out-door relief, as none but the really destitute would be likely po apply for food in a cooked state. The relief commissioners have just issued a cir cular containing directions to that effect. THE DISTRESS —ORANGE PROCESSIONS. Mr. H. G. Johnston, grand master of the Orangemen of the county of Monaghas, has issued an address, ear nestly admonishing them to abandon their usual proces sions on the approaching Jtly anniversary, on account of the deplorable condition of the country, and the spread of fever among the populttion. The address of Mr Johnston, which is excellent in tone and sentiment, con tains the following passage which shows how deeply even the Protestant popnlaton of Ulster have suffered from the present visitation:—. " At this hour of tribulaticn, I would deem any outward display unseemly, indiscreet, and ill-timed. It would be unseemly to behold a political flag, even though one of our own loved colour, waving oTer a famine-stricken land, where hundreds are dying of starvation, where fever racks the brain, and the grave-yards are teeming with the early dead. It would be indiscreet to hear the sounds oF joy and of musical instruments, and political exultation in a land whose people are existing upon public charity' and it would be ill-timed to see a procession marching in review past the soup-kitchens to which our poor country men are obliged to resort for sustenance. There is scarce one amongst you that has not some dear friend to mourn after. There is not one among you that does not less or more feel the pressure of the present times—that does not look forward with deep apprehension to the future. We have all just now enough to do in the dis charge of duties which are and should be totally distinct from politics or party, in every relation of life—as land lord, as tenant, as cess-payer, as relief committee-men, &c.—we should all pull together for the regeneration of this land, and I therefore deem any outward display at the present, to say the least of it, ill timed. But there is another cogent reason which I would lay before your consideration. The spread of fever is rapid, and contagion exists almost every where. It would be, there fore, highly injurious and very dangerous to assemble together large masses of people amongst whom one per son infected, though at the time unconscious of the in fection, may spread the malady amongst hundreds, by which we may lose the very best and most useful mem bers of our s(,ciety; and so impressed am I with the force of this reason, that I have postponed the calling of our usual county meeting until the times present a more cheering aspect." DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAXENT.—The Evening Post says—" We have reason to believe that Parliament will not be dissolved until after the 30th of July, and that the elections will take place after the assizes." ARRIVAL OF TIIE LORD•LIEUTENANT.—MS Excel lency the Earl of Clarendon is to as rive in Dublin on next Saturday, the 3d July. His Excellency has ap pointed the Hon. Gerald Ponsonby, as assistant private secretary. REDUCTION IN THE PRICES OF FOOD. The provincial papers generally announce a fall in the corn and provision markets, owing to the large foreign arrivals, the fine prospects of the harvest, and the increasing supplies of fish and vegetables in many places. The Cork Reporter of Thursday contains the following gratifying paragraph :—" Our market was most abundantly supplied this morning with fish of all descriptions in season, amongst which were turbot, hake, plaice, sole, lobsters, crayfish, and salmon, the fine spring fish of which was selling for 6d. per pound. It must be gratifying to the citizens to learn that the price of almost all descriptions of food is fast coming down, and it is expected by the time harvest has set in everything will find its former level in price." THE TENANT RIGHT. Mr. Sharman Crawford has forwarded the following communication to the Secretary of the County of Cork Tenant League : " London, June 18, 1847. " Sir—l did not receive your letter and petition till the day after that on which the fate of the Tenant Bill was for the present decided. The public pa pers will announce to you that this Bill was re jected on its second reading by the power of a Go• vernment and landlord majority. This defeat, how ever, will not, I trust, be devoid of utility. The people of Ireland have been deluded by the expectation that a Government Bill would have been brought forward for the protection of the tenant class, in securing to them the value of labour and capital expended. I hope they will now be satisfied that they have nothing of this kind to expect from Lord John Russell's Government. The excuse for throwing out the Bill was the late period of the session--this was the excuse—but the real cause was, that the Bill was too honest in its details to meet with support. lam glad to find that an effort has com menced in your county to give effect to the public voice on this great question.—l have the honour to remain, Sir, your obedient servant, "WTI. SHARMAN CRAWFORD. " Wm. H. Trenwith, Esq. " P.S.—I shall present the petition the first oppor tunity." IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, June 28. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at Five o'clock. Messengers from the Commons brought up several Bills, which were read a first time. CLERGY OFFENCES BILL. This Bill went through Committee pro forma, to enable the Bishop of London to introduce several amended clauses. PRIVATE BILLS AND BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. Lord BROUGHAM, in rising to bring before the House the motion of which he had given notice, said he felt that he was not premature in introducing the subject to this House. It was well known to their Lordships that latterly the private business of the House had increased to an enormous amount, and in order to facilitate the progress of that business it was indispensa bly necessary that some change should be made in the mode of conducting it. After referring to those who held the office of receivers and " friars," and to the alterations which had been made in their duties from time to time, he proceeded to say that although these offices had become almost obsolete from being delegated to others, persons had been appointed to fill them even at the commencement of the present session. Twenty years ago he introduced a measure into the other House of Parliament for the purpose of simplifying the private business of that House, and great good arose from it; but as the private business of their Lordships had now in creased to an almost incredible extent, he thought their Lordships would agree with him, that some further alterations were now necessary. In the courts of law the proceedings were not taken without chart and compass, and the chances of misdecision and corruption were more guarded against than:in the decisions of the House of Parliament. The amounts recovered in them did not generally relate to large sums of money, but to exceedingly small sums. For instance, when he attended the Spring Assizes of Lancaster in 1827, he found that out of two hundred cases tried there in fourteen days the average amounts recovered did not exceed 131. 15s. These courts, nevertheless, tried cases of the utmost im portance to the great mass of the people; they pre vented whole neighbourhoods from being de stroyed ;by the rapacity of powerful or tyrannical individuals ; they prevented the poor from be ing wronged without an appeal to a jury of their countrymen, and prevented an innocent man, charged with crime, from being punished from motives of revenge—in fact, the entrance of evil through any chink or cranny was far more guarded against in the courts of law than in the proceedings of their Lordships' House. Why had their Lordships confidence in the judges of the land? Why, because their Lordships knew that they possessed great professional skill; because they were far removed from the common affairs and strifes of life, and even abstained from taking a part in the political proceedings of the nation. Why, then, should not their Lordships trust them with the power of adju dicating in certain matters connected with the private business of their Lordships' House, and bearing directly upon the sacred rights of private property?—(Hear.) It was a course which had long been recommended by Committees of their Lordships' House, and he confessed he could see no reason why such Bills as those which relate to canals, railways, and roads, should not be re ferred to a tribunal of this sort. The very constitution of the other House of Parliament precluded it from always acting with the strict impartiality of judges; or rather, he should say, its Committees from always acting with the impartiality of judges, who had placed between them and the suitors a brazen wall of incor ruptibility. The Members of the House of Commons could not help being influenced by their constituents upon questions relating to local Bills; and if it were only upon that ground alone, private business ought to be removed from their jurisdiction. Nothing could by possibility prevent a member of a Private Committee of the House seeing his constituency. He represented them, and they had it in their power to give him advice and information which might influence his decision upon matters which ought to be dealt with according to the evidence and testimony which might be brought before him in the usual formal manner. Again, Members of the other House of Parliament might bring about parti cular results by mutual arrangements. For instance, the llember for Yorkshire might be appointed to consider a Bill connected with Cornwall, and the Member for Cornwall might, on the other hand, be selected to ad judicate on the Bill relating to Yorkshire. The two Hon. Members, therefore, were those placed in a po sition to influence the decision of each other, and by means of a mutual understanding between two, the views and wishes of the circumstances of Yorkshire and Cornwall were carried into effect. Referring, however, these private Bills to judges, appointed by the Crown for that especial purpose, would ob viate all these objections ; and what reason was there why that course should not be adopted. The few Members of the House of Commons who formed the private Committees, had to adjudicate upon the evidence of witnesses, and the statement of counsel, without themselves being learned in the law. The various counsel, therefore, who appeared before them, often found no difficulty in misleading them upon points of law ; and very often their decisions, if not opposed to reason and common sense, were en tirely at variance with the justice and equity of the case upon which they had to adjudicate. All this required to be carefully and fully considered ; he, however, did not then intend to propose any remedy. The great proportion of Private Bills consisted of Rail way Bills. There were 400 before them last year, and nearly 300 during the present session, and as the country had not yet " been covered with a net work of railways," they might look forward to a considerable number of new Bills in the ensuing session; for instance, the existing companies would seek powers to sketch out branches, to connect them with other lines in all directions; but he wished an improved supervision to be exer cised over all Private Bills, and not exclusively over railway Bills, because the same imperfect system was pursued with respect to all. What he complained of was that a Railway Committee was not responsible for its actions. Cases had occurred in which Bills had been passed by Noble Lords or Hon. Members who, although members of the Committee, had absented themselves until the Committee came to the vote. He did not wish, however, to exclude legal gentlemen from blame in those proceedings, as many of them took ten briefs in as many Committees (Hear, hear)—so that it was quite impossible that one barrister could discharge his duty properly even to one company. Sir William Follett, for instance, fre quently received briefs when the parties knew that he could not attend, and he was only retained because the other side might not receive his services ; but where a counsel received an enormous fee for the express purpose of securing his attendance, and did not attend, such an act met with his entire disapproval.—(Hear, hear.) He did not believe that this was done when it was stated to him, and he did not believe it now. Then again persons intimately connected with railways were, in all directions, seeking to get into Parliament, as appeared from the number of advertisements which appeared in the newspapers from gentlemen connected with railways, and those railway men would, when they got into Parliament, lose sight of the interests of the public in their anxiety to promote their own interests, their closely serried ranks would be invulnerable against the voice of the public, the grossest jobs would continue to be perpetrated, and in everything connected with railways they would follow their leaders like sheep. The conferences with the other House, the mode of sending Bills to and receiving them from the other House, and many other minor details of the business ?f the House, required amendment. He had felt - it his duty to bring the subject before the House, and he begged in conclusion, to move that a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the mode of conducting the private business of the House, and for the purpose of suggesting a remedy. Lord REDESDALE did not object to the appoint. ment of the Committee, but he considered that, at that late period of the session, and from the great demand for the Noble Lord's time on other Committees no good could arise from its appointment.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord was not correct in stating that Com• mittees in that or the other House of Parliament were appointed by arrangements amongst the Members, as they invariably consisted of Members who had no in terest in the Bills which they were called upon to investigate. He feared, however, that the plan of the Noble Lord would not remedy the present sys tem. lie was ready, however, to admit that evils had grown up in the mode of adjudicating private Bills, but he considered that the best mode of remedying them would be by revising the standing orders of their Lordship's House.—(Hear.) The recommenda tions to the Committee appointed to consider the desira bility of suspending the further progress of railway Bills this session advised that Committee to consider the ex pediency of revising these orders. He confessed that he could not agree in all the decisions arrived at by that Committee, but he doubted much whether a better tribunal could be devised. It should not, bethought, go forth to the public that they had no confidence in the Committees of their Lordship's House. The Duke of RICHMOND advised the Noble Lord to withdraw his motion, as it could lead to no practical result during this present session. At the same time, he was prepared to admit that the standing orders were defective in many respects, and :that they required re modelling, which, he conceived, could be done early in the ensuing session. The Nlarquis of LANSDOWNE agreed with the suggestions of the Noble Duke and Noble Lord that the Noble and Learned Lord should withdraw his motion. Inconveniences had, no doubt, arisen in the mode of legislating upon Railway Bills, and their attention should be directed as to the best mode in which they could be remedied. In saying this, however, he wished to pay a deserved tribute to the ommittees of Selection, who had performed their duties in the most satisfactory manner. No doubt the review of the standing orders referred to would remedy the defects in their legislation with respect to private Bills, of which the Noble and Learned Lord had complained, the new railway board was, in his estimation, a great step in this direc tion. During the short time it had been established, no less than 70 or 80 reports on the financial condition of the companies had been presented to Parliament; and many inspections of lines had taken place. The question of whether a new tribunal (independent of Parliament, whose decision should not be final), should be appointed for the purpose of dealing with Railway Bills, would re ceive the attention of th e Government, but by careful watching, he apprehended that evils might be avoided. Lord BROUGHAM said, after what had been said by Noble Lords, he would withdraw his motion. The motion was accordingly withdrawn. LEITH HARBOUR AND DOCKS BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. IRISH CONSTABULARY. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented returns on this subject. BISHOPRIC OF MANCHESTER BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed, STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, JUNE 25.—We have to notice a general improvement in the demand for foreign wools this week. The arrivals of the new clip being now pretty extensive, transactions have been more freely entered into, and at an advance in prices concur rent with that which, so far, has ruled at the German fairs. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, JUNE 25.—The de mand for combing and clothing wool during the present week has not been large. Prices have been about the same as last week. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, JUNE 25.—We have a limited demand, but what sales are made are at the full rates of the two previous weeks, our stocks being low, particularly in bags; nor do we thin!i: they are likely to be much increased soon, as the grower is indisposed to sell the new wool at prices proportionate to what is ruling in these markets. YORK. WOOL MARKET, JUNE 24.—The show of wool at this day's market was large, and the buyers were also numerous, but the trade continues dull, and several lots are left unsold, though rather lower prices have been submitted to. The f•Mowing are the nearest q uotations: —Super hog, 13s. to 13s. Gd. ; hog and ewe, I ls. Gd. to 61. ; ewe, 10s. Gd. to I Is. ; locks and cast, Bs. to 9s. per stone. HULL WOOL MARKET, JUNE 22.—There was a fair quantity of wool shown, with a small attendance of buyers, the parcels went off rather heavy at last week's prices, and there was a small part left unsold. BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—There was no im provement in the demand for wool. Prices are very firm. This was partly induced by the accounts from London of the sales of colonial wool. 'There is an in creased demand for yarns, and, if anything, a shade of improvement in prices. The spinners are now busy. There was a good attendance of merchants, both conti nental and home, and a great number of pieces were bought for the autumn trade. The purchases for America are not so extensive at present ; in some par ticular lots an increase of price was obtained. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING. Throughout the entire week, and especially since Tuesday, there have been considerable inquiries for most descriptions of grey cloth, and an immense business might have been done if manufacturers would have consented to what may be called late prices. Generally, however, manufacturers have been firm, and few, if any sales made, except at a small advance. There seems now to be no doubt but that a good business will be done in the coming week, at an established advance on all descriptions of printing. cloth—domestics and shirtings. The print trade is by no means brisk, but the Greeks and Americans are purchasing to a fair extent. We notice with much pleasure a steady improvement among the dyers, who have for a long time past been miserably dull. The grey fustian trade is very much depressed ; some goods are selling at a lower figure than when cotton was at the lovvest point some eighteen months since. The silk weavers are not so well employed as could be desired, still with the price of the raw material being very low, the manufacturers need not be apprehensive of a decline in the value of their stocks, and this no doubt imparts considerable confidence tee, the trade. In yarns rather more is doing, and generally at slightly improved rates. To the Mediterranean a fair business is doing, as also to the East and to China ; on the whole business may be regarded as decidedly better. NOTTINGHAM.—The cotton hosiery trade has im proved. This change for the better is not, however, very perceptible at present. In several villages the greater part of the stockingers are out of work, and in some cues are set to level hills and such like labour. The fancy bobbin net tradecontinues in a despairing condition, not only in this country, but also in France and Germany, as machine lace is not now held in the estimation it has been. The prices offered for nets are in many instances ruinous, so as to prevent all speculation, and leave the machine owner no alternative but to decline making. The cotton warp lace trade is in a deplorable state, and some of the smaller houses are turning their attention to bobbin-net. The silk warp branch is rather better than the cotton, and seems likely to continue so.—Nottinyhanz Review. LEICESTER.—There is a tendency towards an im provement in the demand for goods, and sonic hosiers have partially set on their hands again. Several buyers have visited our market, but their purchases have been T h u h t e r small b at e t e n p r m e s o e r n e t , d o a i n n g d i m n a y de r n N s vit a h t a tn s u l c ig h ht ca r u ed ti u o c n : tion in price; the spinners still work short time, and complain of not being able to purchase wools to meet the prices yarns are selling for. But little is doing in wools, and will not be until our fair, fixed for the 30th instant, is over.—Leicester Journal. ROYAL MARINE SERVICE BILL. This Bill passed through Committee. PASSENGERS ACT AMENDMENT BILL. This Bill also pusacd through Committee. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE• OF G'OMMONS, June 28. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. Papers relating to the Unclaimed Prize Money of Chelsea Hospital were presented. REPORTS. The followingßeports were brought up and received:— Leeds and Thirsk (Leeds, Durham, and Newcastle Extension, &c.); Leeh's Estate ; Hodgson Hinde's Estate ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Rail way (Supply of Surplus Water to Manchester, Salford, and Stockport); Sutton Harbour Improvement ; York and Newcastle Railway (Main Line Improvement, &c.) SECOND READINGS. The following Bills were read a second time:—Bowes' Estate; Sir Henry Willoughby Rooke's Estate. THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time:—Direct London and Portsmouth, Brighton and Chichester, London, Brighton, and South Coast, and London and South-Western Railways; Horne's (Ferguson's) Estate; Kingston-upon-Hull Dock Company ; Liverpool Fire and Life Insurance Company ; Long's Estate ; Poyntz field Estate ; Surrey and K en t C omm i ss i on o f Sewers ; Tuustall Paving, Lighting, Cleansing, Watching, Im provement and Market ; Wakefield Gas ; Wyndham's Estate. REPORTS. The following reports were considered and agreed to: —Bingley Improvement; South Devon Railway Ex tension and Amendment; Wolverhampton General Cemetery. SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY. On the motion of Sir J. Y. BULLER (in the absence of Mr. Tuffnell), this Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. PAISLEY, BARRHEAD, AND HURLET RAILWAY. The order of the day for the third reading of this Bill was discharged. MALT TAX. An HoN. MEMBER presented a petition, signed by 600 persons, praying for the repeal of the malt-tax. - LORI S' AMENDMENTS. The Lords' Amendments to the following Bills were considered and agreed to :—London and South-Western Railway (Widening, &c.); Southampton and Dochester Railway (New Forest Deviation and Branches); South ampton and Dorchester Railway (Weymouth Branch); Herne Bay and Canterbury Junction Railway; Eastern Counties Railway (Maldon, Witham, and Braintree Railway Purchase); Norfolk Railway (Yarmouth Ex tension, &c.); Norfolk Railway (Branch from Wymond ham to the Norwich Extension of the Ipswich and Bury Saint Edmund's Railway, and the proposed Thetford and Reedham Railway, near Diss); Great Western Railway (Branch to join the West London Railway Widening and Enlargementof West London Railway, and Branches to Hammersmith, and to join the London and South- Western Railway, near Lambeth) ; Swansea Valley Railway; Dundee and Perth Railway (Alteration and Extension, and Inchture, Polgavie, and Inchmichael Branches). GREAT SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. JOHN OtRIEN presented petitions from the city of Limerick, and the towns of Bruff and Kilmarnock, in favour of the loan to the Great South-Western Rail way Company. IRISH RAILWAYS. An HON. MEMBER presented three petitions from Londonderry and Athlone in favour of the grant to Irish railways. GRANTS FOR EDUCATION. Mr. BARCLAY presented a petition signed by 1,100 Roman Catholics, praying that they maybe allowed to participate in the grants for education. HEALTH OF TOWNS' BILL. Captain PECHELL presented a petition from Brighton, numerously signed by the medical men of that town in favour of this Bill. They stated that the establishment of boards of health would materially add to the importance and utility of their profession. MEDICAL REGITRATION BILL. Mr. WATSON presented a petition from physicians n Maldon in favour of the Bill. EDUCATION. The HON. MEMBER also presented a petition signed by the clergy and many of the laymen of Thornton in favour of Roman Catholics participating in the educa tional grant. Mr. HUTT presented a petition to the same effect from a place in Durham. DANISH CLAIMS. The HON. MEMBER also presented a petitio❑ signed by a number of merchants interested in the Danish claims, praying the House to take those claims into con sideration. INSOLVENT BILL. The HON. MEMBER also presented a petition from two persons, who stated that they were interested in some proceedings in the Court of Chancery of Ireland, against the assignees of an insolvent debtor, which had been pending for some years, and praying that the new Insolvent Bill might not pass into a law, or it would materially affect their rights. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Mr. HUTT presented a petition, signed by a number of the colonists of South Australia, complaining that the Government had alienated the " Royalties " con nected with the colony. The Hon. Member said that the petition was one of considerable importance, and that it was a matter for regret that a petition which had come so many miles across the ocean should attract no more attention than an ordinary petition. The petition was then laid on the table. CHINA. Sir G. STAUNTON gave notice that, on the motion for going into a Committee of Supply on the China estimates, he should call the attention of the [louse to the services of Mr. Thom at Ning-Po, and suggest that some reward should be given to his family for the services which he had rendered to his country. PORTUGAL. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from Aberdeen, praying the House to address her Majesty to prevent any interference of this country in the affairs of Portugal. Mr. HUME presented a petition agreed on at a public meeting at the institution in John-street to the same effect, but stating further, that the Government in 1832 had refused to aid the cause of the oppressed Poles, that they were ever ready to aid " Kings;" that the Queen of Portugal bad forfeited any right to the protection of the British from her un constitutional conduct, and that her Majesty ought to dismiss her present advisers, who had induced her to consent to the perpetration of so barbarous an act to wards the people of Portugal as the sending of a British fleet amongst them.—(Laughter, and hear, hear.) The Lords' Amendments to the following Bills were agree to:—Lowestoft Railway and Harbour (Alteration near Reedham); Great Southern and Western Railway Extension (Portarlington to Tullamore); Dublin and Drogheda (Branch from Navan to Dells); Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston Direct Railway; Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston Direct, and Glasgow, Southern Terminal Railways Amalgamation; Macduff Harbour, HYLTON'S ESTATE BILL. Mr. GREENE moved that the examiners of petitions should have leave to sit and proceed on Hylton's Estate Bill on Tuesday, the 29th day of this instant June. Motion agreed to. MORTALITY ON BOARD EMIGRANT SHIPS. Lord J. MANNERS wished to know whether the Government were aware of the great mortality which had taken place on board some of the emigrant ships between Ireland and Canada? Mr. HA WES was sorry to have to state that the Government had received several communications from the Governor and authorities of Canada, informing them of the state of things; but every step had been taken by the Government to mitigate as much as possible the dis tressing results of such a state of things. BRITISH PRODUCE. Mr. HASTIE moved, That there be annually laid before this House, a return, made out in parallel columns, showing the principal articles of British produce and manufacture exported from the United Kingdom, with the duties on such articles in the principal foreign countries to which they are exported, expressed in foreign monies, weights, and measures. Similar return, with the foreign monies, weights, and measures converted into English ditto, that the differences in the duties on the same articles in different countries may be exhibited at a glance.—Motion agreed to. CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL. In answer to a question put by Mr. HUME, Sir G. GREY said that a Bill was prepared on this subject by the Lord Chancellor, and would he thought be brought down to this House in a few days. COURTS OF REVIEW AND BANKRUPTCY. In answer to a question put by Mr. HUME, The SOLICITOR-GENERAL replied that the Court of Review was to be abolished, and the business transferred to the Court of Bankruptcy. The circuits were also to be abolished ; and he considered that the alteration would have the effect of producing a consider able saving to the country. With respect to the report alluded to by the Hon. Member, every information ne cessary to a correct appreciation of the question would be afforded the House when the Bill was laid before it. MEDICAL OFFICERS OF UNIONS. Mr. FERRAND gave notice that he would to-morrow put a question to the Government with respect to a statement made by the Hon. and Learned Member for Bath, with respect to the allowances made to medical union officers by the Poor-law Commissioners. NAVIGATION LAWS. In answer co — ; question of Lord G. BENTINCK relative to certain returns laid before the Hous e , The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that he had no opportunity of testing the accuracy of the returns, because no notice had been given of the Question, and he could not, therefore, speak with that confidence which he would otherwise have been able to d o . He had ordered the returns of corn imported since the suspension of the navigation laws, and the Customs had furnished them. Ho would again apply t o th e Customs to - morrow to ascertain if th returns were cor rect, and report their answer to the N o bl e L or d . BOARD OF TRADE. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE wished to put a question to the Noble Lord at the head of the Government—Was it his intention, if Mr. Nl`Gregor were returned for Glasgow, to continue him in the office of Secretary of the Board of Trade? Lord J. RUSSELL said that Mr. M'Gregor, in noti fying his intention to stand for Glasgow, had stated to to him that, in the event of his being returned as a Member, it was his intention to resign the situation which he then held. RAILWAYS (IRELAND, No. 2) BILL. Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved the order of the day for the second reading of the above Bill. Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH would ask, whether it Was just to risk the increase of taxation, in order to THE CHURCH. The following preferments and appointments have re cently taken place:— ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE. The Rev. Septimus Henry Lee Warner, B.A. (1843), to the vicarage of St. Mary Bredin, Canterbury. The Rev. W. C. Fearon, M.A. (B.A. 1834), to the vicarage of Hunstanton, Norfolk. Patron the Bishop of Ely. The Rev. Richard Allen, B.A. (1845), to the Gray's Inn-road district of St. Pancras. Patron, Rev. T. Dale. The Rev. E. Gretton, B.D. (B.A. 1826), to the rec tory of St. Mary, Stamford. Patron, Marquis of Exeter. TRINITY COLLEGE. The Queen has appointed the Rev. A. F. Phipps (Hon. A.M. 1831) to be Chaplain in ordinary to her Majesty. The Rev. James Bedingfield, B.A. (1831), to be Do mestic Chaplain to Lord Henniker. The Rev. George Curteis Luxford, M.A. (B.A. 1834), to the rectory of Middleton, Sussex. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. QUEEN'S COLLEGE. The Rev. Georgc Cornelius Gorham, B.D. (B.A. 1809), to the vicarage of Bramford Speke, Devon. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The Rev. Edward Mercer, B.A. (1847), to the curacy of Trinity, Wakefield, Yorkshire. The Rev. Cater Chamberlain, B.A. (1845), to the curacy of Rotherham, Yorkshire. ST. PETER'S COLLEGE. The Rev. E. T. Alder, B.A. (1822), to the curacy of St. Mary, Bungay, Suffolk. The Rev. Christopher Greenaide, B.A. (1841), to the British Chaplaincy at Moscow. CLARE HALL. The Rev. G. H. Bowers, rector of Covent•garden, London, to be Dean of Manchester, vice the late Hon. and Very Rev. Dr. Herbert. The Rev. J. Bowes Bruce, B.A. (1842), to the chap laincy of her Majesty's ship Vengeance. CATHARINE HALL. The Rev. George Ross Lewin, M.A. (13. A. 1831), to the chaplaincy of her Majesty's ship Victory. The Rev. Charles Peers, M.A. (B.A. 1834), to the curacy of Somersham Stipendiary, Suffolk. SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. The Rev. Robert Cooke, B.A. (1845), to the curacy of Brenzett, Kent. The Rev. Thomas Nunn, B.A. (1825), to the assistant curacy of Goudhurst, Kent. The Rev. F. Forsyth Thomson, B.A. (1846), to the curacy of Betshanger, Kent. THE TITHE COMMISSIONERS' REPORT. The following is the annual report of the Tithe Com missioners for England and Wales to her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Act 6 and 7 Wm. IV., c. 71:— Tithe Commission-office, May 22, 1847. Sir,—lt is our duty to report to you the progress of the commutation of tithes in England and Wales, to the close of the year 1816. We have received notices that voluntary proceedings have commenced in 9,627 tithe districts, of these notices four were received during the year 1846. We have received 7,044 agreements, and confirmed 6,749, of these 13 have been received and 45 confirmed during the year 1846. 6,072 notices for making awards have been issued, of which 583 were issued during the year 1846. We have received 4,470 drafts of compulsory awards, and afinrd m c se o cia n 2 9 fi h r 2a m 6v2 e e d ; b ae3en,Bnd7 ofconfirmed, ese these, during 554 havete year been 18 r e 4 e 6 e . ived, We have received 9,565 570 have l46 been apportionments, received, and con firmed 602 confirmed, during th e , year 1846. In 10,627 tithe districts, as will be seen from the above statement, the rent-charges to be hereafter paid, have been finally established by confirmed agreements or con firmed awards. We have in our possessions agreements and drafts of awards as yet unconfirmed, which will include 887 addi tional tithe districts, and make a total, when completed, of 11,514 districts in which the tithes will have been commuted. We have to repeat the assurances which we have happily been able to give in all our former reports, that the processes of commutation are going on, on the whole, tranquilly and satisfactorily. We have adverted, in three former reports, to the state of the law under what is called Lord Tenterden's Act. We have to express our deep regret that the law re mains as uncertain as ever. While this uncertainty con tinues, it is impossible to adjudicate with any justice to the parties in very many cases which await our decision, and in which proceedings are necessarily suspended. After our preliminary adjudications some litigation in the superior courts and some cases of contested and pro tracted apportionments will assuredly follow. We have repeatedly explained and lamented the very serious delays which must thus result from the continued post ponement of any rule, either legislative or judicial, which we can apply to these cases. (Signed) T. WENTWORTH BULLER. RICHARD JONES. To the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart. CRICKET. KENT v. SUSSEX. The annual match between these old opponents was opened at Brighton on Thursday, and, according to the reigning custom, was not brought to a conclusion until the latter part of the third day. This infringement on the third day is loudly complained of in most quarters, and the cause is attributed to the late hour at which all the great matches are commenced. The final score stood thus: — KENT. Martin, b Dean 7 W. Pilch, not out 27 C. Whittaker, Esq. , c and b Dean Adams, c Picknell, b Ma den l2 W. Mynn, Esq., c Box, b Wisden , 2 Martingell, b Hodson 32 N. Felix, Esq., b Dean ll3 Pilch, c Dean, b Wisden A. Mynn, Esq., b Wisden 2 Dorrinton, b Dean ... 0 Ilißyer, s Box, b Dean ... 1 Byes, 7 ; wide, 5 ...... 12 259 ,SUSSEX. 11. Curties, Esq., b Mynn 3 run out 6 Hodson, run out ..... 28 c and b Hillyer Dean, c Hillyer, b Mynn l2 c Martingell,bHillyer 4 E. Napper, Esq., c Whittaker, b Hillyer Box, c Dorrinton, b Mynn W. .Napper, Esq., c Felix b Mynn Bushby, c Mynn, b Hillyer 4 not out Hammond, b Mynn Picknell, b Mynn ........ Wisden, not out l7 c Martin, b Hillyer... 28 King, Esq., c W. Pilch, b Hillyer 3 c Hillyer, b Adams... 10 Byes, 3; wide, 3 ........ „ 6 Byes, 4; wide, 1... 5 lIARYLEDONE CLUB, WIT; DAKIN AND LILLY.. WHITE, V. GENTLEMEN OF Ruony.--This match was played at Lord's, and won by the club on the first hands by 19 runs, give Irish railways an opportunity of borrowing money at el instead of 6or 7 per cent. It was s lid that rail- way s would be a good "thing for Ireland, so they would be, but why s l7 touid loans of money be granted to Ireland if not to England also ? After the signal defeat which the measure had sustained on a previous occasion, who would have thought that such a measure as the present would have been pro posed by her Majesty's Government. The present popu lation of this country were suffering from the effect of the measures which had been passed to avert famine in Ireland. and was it fair, was it just to lay an additional burden upon the people for the construction of railways in Ire land? If assistance were to be granted to Irish railway companies, why was it not to be granted to the distressed artisans and manufacturers of this country ? The master manufacturers were fully prepared to offer more valuable security for such ad- N a ' a n n d e t e h s e tyh couldana n any alsof ri s e h m ß p l a o i y l w a a u y o u C s o ) d m e p r a a n h y l y c l a o r u g l d p r o p o o r see amount of labour. But it might be said that there wer e some special reasons for proposing this grant. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had said that he should not re quire the whole of the 8,000,0001. which be had, borrowed for the purpose for which it was obtai ned, and therefore he appeared to think it his duty to spend the money in some way, good, bad, or indifferent. It would be better to let the 620,0001. of surplus loan find lean we,' into the pockets of the English people, ng it to fructify there rather than squander and waste it upon Irish railway companies, thereby doing no good to any person or company whatever. Entertaining these opinions, he felt it to be his duty to move that this Bill be read a second time that day six months. Mr. WILLIAMS thought that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had done sufficient mischief already d wiuri thout ng the nine months he had been in offic e incurring fresh risks and courting fresh dangers. He had already reduced the balances in the Exchequer from the sum of 9,000,0001. to 5,450,00/., and had added 8,000,000/. to the national debt of this country. The railways which it was proposed to assist had not made out a case to warrant such assistance being rendered to them. The state of the money market was not such as to afford the expenditure of so large a sum of money as was proposed by this Bill. The Bank of En g lsnd and the commerce of this country was just emerging from a most dangerous crisis, and this measure would only have the effect of bringing about the same disas trous state of things ; and why was all this danger to be run for the sake of assisting or speculating in some 11111 railways ? Believing the measure to be wrong in P' n. ciple and injurious, he should give it all the opposition in his power. Lord J. RUSSELL had before stated that the Pr e. posed measure was not at variance with the cour se , usually adopted by the Government. The Governlnee,u had felt it their duty to oppose the plan of the N ow° Lord opposite on two grounds, one of which was , that there was before the House the Wore; of an immense expenditure for Ireland, on' the Government thought it unwise at that time to pledge the House to the expenditure of 16,000,0001. of money Another reason was that the measure would not have afforded th e then, req uisiteand t reliefsill d fiodr, thatt the peopleof Ireland. Hethought calculated to afford such relief as was then rweeqrueirall The Government had, however, admitted that railways and other public works, were the le g itimate objects of public assistance. There was nothing either in the arguments used by the Govern; ment, or the decision of the House upon that plea , wh ie was to preclude the House for ever from sna king ad - vances to any Railway. The Hou se had sane. tion invariably the application of large sums !?! public money to the promotion of public works; the Bell before the House was therefore in perfect accordance with the practice of the House. And, Sir (continued t p e N o o s b e l , e a L s othrde),Hitoins.ammemisahpoprrefhoerncsioovnenotfrtyhis plan we purpose to advance money at the rate of three-and -a" half per cent., therely asking an unusually low rat!: The rate we propose to ask is that which is usually aske s a __ say five per cent., and I therefore conclude that so.lee to stir from that being at variance with the genselirPaPl°psesrinct-11350; sanctioned by the House, it is in perfect accordce with sanctioned be the general principle which has been fou nd to work _ neficially for both parties. But, Sir, I must admit w 7. are on this occasion going beyond the usual amount otot advances for these purposes, and that, i n fact—and not as the Hon. Member for Southwark has put it--the On f question at issue is, shall we or shall we not adxc°l3.lis plan which requires a larger advance th an the Ee, quer Loan Commissioners would he abl e to advance they had only such a sum of money as that which" cording to the usual course of events w ould come inle their hands. For this purpose I must admit that far necessary to make out a case of exception. But s° from having any difficulty in making ou t this case of exception, I should only fatigue the House we and to go over again the abundant proofs that Ireland °f the state of Ireland do form an excep tion to OIL . e , those normal rules by which we are usually guided. Hon. Baronet the Member for S outhwark told us to look to the public works in Eng land and to the in and manufactures of this coun tr y . But is there anY r e : sem bl a nce between the state of Engla nd and that of Ireland?—(Hear.) You must lo ok at the condition of of Ireland, such as it has been made by a long course legislation and government. You must looleto the state of the people—to the many millions living in the most wretched habitations—on the lowest and cheapest de scription of food—and without that share of the neces• series, still less of the comforts, of life usually enjoyed by the English labourer.—(Hear.) I must confess, looking Back to the history, the example and condition of other cities, that legislation and government have an influence on the condition of the people, not for some te n or twenty ears, but for centuries. It you look to the pres ent cone y dition of the people of Tuscany, you will see there re: mains a proof of that vigorous republic which once ruled at Florence. If you look to the condition of Flanders, you will still see traces of the just and mild govern; loo f , went of the house of Burgundy ; and if you on will to the condition of the territory of Valencia, y observe traces of the cultivation of its Moorish gover nors. In many parts of Europe in which I ha" tra c i Yelled the condition of the people has been influences by the Government, not of the moment, but by rulers by governments Which had long since passed away.-- (Hear.) And Ireland, Sir, is no exception to this rule. If you go back centuries—if you look to what legislattion. was a century ago, you will find the great majori y All her people debarred from all office in the atate--from those distinctions at the bar or any other profession_ which talent could aspire. You will find them so des barred from the enjoyment of land that in man"s any relation who might turn out a villain could actually. dispossess them. If, in addition to this, you find that the whole course of legislation has b een to degrade a_aue the should them, then I think no one will wonder that 70 should now find millions of her people living in e lowest condition of human life, and thrown into utter destitution by the failure of a single crop.—: (Hear, hear.) I thisik it woul d be a narrow, st? ards unjust, and an unfair view o f our duty tow Ireland, if we merely regard ed what bad been done for the last ten or twenty year s, and then laid down the general principle, so complacently laid down by tae Hon. Baronet the Member for Southwark, that as England depended on her own resources, so ought Ire' land, and that we ought not to help Ireland unless we, also assisted England. But , Si r, if we bad governed Ireland as we have governed England, can there be any doubt that Ireland would have been now capable of doing ( f o o t, : le h Ba e 2 4 9 s ,h e et l h f ara wia a t el ttwieosfanroettanrl tardy yt w e j c lue a sg l t l ii ed upon selea,ti lovnh,i ci t th o i s d c a n o n o f , t o i r tnh h es er. Afe - - cift years, place the Irish in a position to work out their own prospects, and to attain anything like that state Of comfort and wellbeing in which we have the happin ess of seeing the English people generally placed. In Ire" land we have had insecurity, the absence of capital con sequent on that insecurity, and crime arising fro!' general causes, with which it is your business to de' It will not do for you merely to find fault with tn e e outrages committed from time to time, and to attribntue them entirely to the indocility . and opefea sgal t of the people. I say there is here more . reason why you should do something n3erds The Noble Lord then went on to say the lan 0. owners of Ireland had, in his opinion, very justly be e .1. moor called upon to pay a large burden in supporting ea of that country. Under all these circumstances, it 1 :7; ) , in his opinion, the duty of the Government to Itssig it e all means in their power the people of Ireland. ",his respect to the railways proposed to be assisted by measure, it had been clearly ascertained s uch very competent persons that they svere f the as would amply remunerate the outlay t hat went calculated proposed capital. lie thought, therefore, d b e takingnail assing this Bill, the House wo r tl 2„ o o d o a f s to oep afford ff n u od t r.hde Measuresgmh t e dd immediate a r t e e c t r i he o al n ide to w ards o at w l or a st r an d da s yt tbheee J o e . pe a countrl7,l,o, it was now the duty of the House to consider sin' f ore vide measures calculated to raise and promote the l t l iro , permanent condition and welfare of the people roes's land, too long delayed by unjust and improper l i ' es srlt time The Hon. Baronet the Member for Son"",. t his had entirely perverted the argument used , agai rls " r ot measure with respect to the fund out of which the grant was to be made. His Right Hon. Friend's argn was an answer to the objection of those who woula_e''of " How are you to make provision for this sum o a 600,0001. ?" His Right Hon. Friend's answ er 1 %00 complete one, for he says, " I have no difficulty ° that this, for there is already a provision made for pre . amount in the expenditure of the curren t year 0 5 0 e for vision which will admit of the laying ou t of 600, well be 0 this purpose." It is not that this sum might As in spent because there is a provision for it , but becaUtirr,, is an advantageous and useful mode of expend" (Hear.) It had been shown in this and ill T b r e in r e e f debates that this is a most useful object, and ie t he fore he was of opinion that they ought toteP.Fewea money to this purpose. The Honourable ;che, who spoke last referred to the balance in thee c ' os a n quer being reduced from 9,000,0001. to 5,000,0000 E April, argument against this measure. In the month ', r od 1846, the balance in the Exchequer was 6,500,00601._ of in 1847 it was 5,459,00 a, beirg about a sum a 1,040,0001. less than in the former year. leaveßn tio:titeof financier, who looks at this question fairly, its consideration the great calamity which has ()cc , _ i r ieet t —(Hear, hear.) Or, that this House has been obliged —(Hear, to advance a large sum of money to relieve the 0 15 ' _ u s which existed ?—(Hear, hear.) No one would,schaergrovi joer their financial calculations in the same mode, not there had been a great calamity like this; .rw eril i e e who had been anything of an observe r of financial 10- would do so, perhaps, except the Hon. 'Membetear the ventry—(Hear, hear)—or would have assumedad be e n results should be the same, although the facts had n'e o so different. In conclusion, he had but to say the _ to thought as a general policy which the House ougle_Le si adopt with respect to Ireland, it would be acting.Wro good deal of injustice towards that country if it 0 , 1 . consent to the second reading of this Bill.--al ea e r ' a i t the 'Mr. ROEBUCK thought that the Noble Lor"„ e a to head of the Government should begreatly ebng lated withc Peopl Gove to as tiou Lear of thl of tl ~ i