The Sun. — London, England, 1847-11-25 00:00:00

BANK RETURNS. k leroin the London Gazette of Tuesday.) Au A.ecount, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth "Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank l(otes, or the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales. in Circulation daring the Week ending Satur day, the 13th day of Nov., 1847:- Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. A.bingdon Bank, Abingdon-Knapp and. C 0..,. - Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and 03. 8,306 Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jemmitt and Pomfret 9,520 Aiylshani Bank, Aylsham_R. and E. Copeman 5,545 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Rickford and Hunt Baldock Bank and eta Mock and Biggleswade Bank, Baldock - -Wells, Hcgg, and Lindsell ... 27,250 Barnstaple Ban l .4 ' Barnstaple-Drake and Co 13,979 Basingstoke end Odiha xi. Bank, Basingstoke- Cole, Seymour, and Co. Bedford Bank, Bedford-T. Barnard 'Medford and Bedfordshire Bank, Bedford- Trapr, Flalehead, and Co. Bevvdley Bank, Bewdley-Nichols, Baker, and Crane 13,594 Bieester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester-Tubb, Wootten, and Co 18,531 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Attwoods, Spooner, and Co 20,836 Birmingham mid Warwickshire Bank, Birming harn-Lee; is, Moilliett, and Co 13,260 Elandtordiiank, Blandford-Bastard and Oak 5,448 Bostrai r sank, Boston-Garfit and Co 71,647 Bos'ora Bank', Boston-Gee and Co 13,704 Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater-E. &J. Sealey 8,179 7 .4riatol Bank, Bristol-Miles, Harford, and Ca 33,120 Broseley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley-Messrs. Pritchard 20,931 Buckingham Bank, Buckingham - Bartlett, Parrott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Market Bank, Bury-Oakes, Bevan, and Co 70,857 PainEury Bank, Banbury-Gillett and Tawney 26,510 Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Messrs. Cobb 43,530 Bath City Bank, Bath-Moger and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard-Bassett and Grant Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Taylor and Lloyds . Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-H. and A. Harris Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 65,567 Bridport Bank, Bridport-S. and W. E. Gundry 21,378 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. Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock and Sons Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge-Messrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and Co Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen-..Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey-Messrs. La Coste Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round, Green, and Co. Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester -Mills, Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little and Wood cock City Bank, Exeter-Milford and Co 16,690 Craven Bank, Settle-Birkbecks and Co. Christchurch Bank, Christchurch-Tice, Welsh, and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff-Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Runk, Chepstow-Bromage, Snead, and Co. ..., 6,798 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 26,234 Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Hughes, Locke, and Co Diss Bank, Diss-Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank, Doncaster-Leatham, Tew, and Co. Doncaster Basalt and Retford Bank, Doncaster- Cook and Co. Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington-Backhouse, &Co 60,573 Devonport Bank, Devonport-Hodge and Nor man Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester-Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard-Robins, Foster, and Co. East Riding Bank, Beverley-Bower, Hutton, and Co. . i 2,483 Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford-Walforci, and Co 38.502 Zxeter Bank, Exeter-Sanders and Co 24,414 Xakenham Bank, Fakenham-Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co. I Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon-Barnes and Medley 2,321 'arnham Bank, Farnham-Messrs. Knight 12,607 Faversham Bank, Faversham-Hilton and Co. 4,948 Godalming Bank, Godalming-Mellersh and Keen Grantham Ra..ok G l 'antba l ll-KarcPr4imY l JB!'.l7 2-t9,0 Hastings Old Bank, Hastings-S m ith, Hilder, and Co. 23,510 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. P:untingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don-Rust and Veasey Harwich Bank, Harwich-Cox, Cobbold, and Co 5,109 Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead- Smith, and Whittingstall .. .• 17,410 Honiton. Bank, Honiton-Flood and Co. Hertfordshire, Hi tch en Bank, Hi tchen -Sharp les and Co. Hereford, Ross, and Archenfieldlank, and Ross 29,317 and Archenfield Bank, Hereford-Morg an , Hoskins, a n d C o ,06 2 Ipswich B an k , I pswich-Bacon and Co. 0 1 Ipswich an d N eedham Market Bank, Suffolk, 18 ' -36 Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich- Alexanders and Co. Kentish B an k , M a i dstone-Mercer, Randall, 68,892 and Mercer Rington and Rad nors hi re Bank, Kington-J 11,485 Davies and Co Knighton Bank Knighton-j. Davi 6680 es and Co 24,76 - 4 Kna resborough Old Bank and Ri Pon Old Bank, - Knaresb orough-Terry and Co Kendal Bank, Ke ndal-Wakefield, Crewdson, 19,259 .... Ketterhig.)3ank, ng , ..-__Gotch and Sons 6,731 Lane End SStaforda ff ord Staffordshire Bank, Lane End-C Harvey and Son 5,420 Leeds Bank. ett . Leeds Dnion Bank, Leeds-W.Willi and ......... ;;;;, 48 ' 672 anis and Co. Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and 30 ' 485 Congleton Bank,Leek-Fowler, Gann t, and Co. Leicester Bank, Leicester-Pagets and Kirby 26,785 Lewes Old Bank, Lewes-Molineux and Co 32,385 4 4chfield Bank, Lichfield-Palmer and Green., 16,858 Lincoln Bank, Lincoln-Smith and Co 93,534 Llandovery Bank and Llandilo Bank Llando very-David Jones and Co. Loughborough Bank, Loughborough-Middle tons and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington-C. and S. St Barba Lynn ... a . ... ...... Regis and _Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis -Gurneys and C 0..... Lynn Regis and Norfolk .13;;;;fr e , . • 39,917 Massey and Co. ..... Macclesfield Bank, MaCc-1e5.fie.1a....13r.00..k1h;;;i 13'786 and Co e Manningtree Bank, Man nin,gtree-Nunn and Co 10'596 6 Marlborough B an k, M ar lb orough and Wilts '839 Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl kniough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, 'and Hungerfordßank,Marlborough--Tanner and Pinckney 10,765 Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank, Marlborough-Ward, Merriman, and Hillier 8,247 l klerionethshire Bank, Dolgelly-Jones and Williams Miners' Bank, Truro-Willyams and Co 16,403 Mo nmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial _Bank, Ab ergavenny-Baileys and Co 28,561 4101 atnouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon B ank aOd C bepstow Bank, Ch e p s t ow Old B an k , -Koss and Herefordshire Bank,. Monmouth monmrontn.age and Snead 13,752 0 %shire Newport Old Bank, Newport flaiiTa,nas and Sons Nag 7,746 ''Newark_ and Hutton 27,123 k and Sl.eaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark and Co . Ba n k , ark_ and Peacock, Newbury ii an .- k " , . ............................. 48 "135 Newmarket Bank, N uu'v ew Y m - ar i3 k u et n - ny E a a n t t Sloc u oc a k mond, and Son Norfolk and Suffolc . ii;. n k . D• .......... .... • Dyson ................. ' 133-Taylor and Norwich Crown Harm . .... 2,904 Hud50n5................. J and...... Norwich and Norfolk Bank, . ................. • 3 8,480 net's and Co ..................... . . Nottingham and iliottinghamshirell;;;l.: . Not tingham-Hart, Fellows, and Co .. Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton-CraddC ....... C 0.................................................. Naval Bank, Plymouth-Harris, Mudge,. an d ' ,in C 0.,. New Serum Bank, Sarum-Hetley, Everett, an d 19,420 6,415 29,028 33,02 23,751 21,284 . 2L358 2,978 0,145 0,580 6,224 2,540 65,892 CO Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Smith and Co 29,677 Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os weetrv—Croxon and Co 10,172 Oxford Bank, Oxford—J. and R. Morrell 10,785 Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, and Thompson... 25,828 Old Bank Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge-- Beaching and Sons,.,, Oxfordshire Witney Bask Witney—William, Clinch, and Co 5,908 9,750 Average Ariaoant L'ease's Old Bank, hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 46,613 Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co 10,007 Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—Moms. Yorke Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson, White, and Simpson 10,159 Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest--J. and W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven and Co Reading Bank, Reading—idmonus and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co Richmond Bank, Richmond—Stapleton and Co Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood—Ledgard and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches ter—Day and Nicholson Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son Rye Bank, Rve—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co Rei g ate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and Co Ross (Ad Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard and Allaw ay Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron 31,546 Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Co Scarborough Old Bank, f3carborongh—Woodall and Co Shrewsbury and Markel,Drayton Bank, Shrews bury—Adams, Adan.s, and Co Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Roche, Eytons, and Co Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Son Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddison and Son Southwell Bank, Suuthwell—Wylde and Co St. Alban's Bank. St. Alban's—J. S. Story Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and King Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherly and Fall Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 6,325 Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge -Itufford, Wragg, and Ce Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 13,613 Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley, and Co. Stourbridge Old 13an1;, Stourbridge—Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib- 2”26 25,212 2,713 1,794 3,262 1,587 5,594 son and Stuart 1,733 Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock 22,847 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and Co 11,350 Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns ford and Barne 13,057 Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland Tring Bank and Cheshana Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co. Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co. Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Wells and Co. Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. 25,296 Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox, Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield—Leatharn, Tew, and Co Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester 8,418 8,916 , —Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth —Elliott and Pearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, . . 6,896 3,293 Wirkesworth—Arkwright and CO. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. Wiveliscorcbe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W • Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good ricke and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender, and Co. Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley and Turner Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Foster and Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster— Everett and Co. Wrexham Bank, Wrexham—J. and S. Kenrick Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Haleswortk aThi l ou "M i r': to IY, STE lll" tia, a b i Trai Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten York Bank. York—Swann. Clough, and Co 4,032 41,310 3,533 20,192 3,905 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal . . Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford Bit ton District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehavea Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield .. Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington . . . 30,600 Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry 22,42 Coventry - Union Banking Company, Coventry 11,31 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham 99,170 Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle 25,580 Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 16,962 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 18,704 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com- ' - pany, Darlington - ' - 14,978 East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester /28,775 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 11,691 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 32,969 Hull Banking Company, Hull Halifax and H u dd ers fi e ld Union Banking Com- 24,973 pany, Halifax • 28,329 Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,490 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford lB 545 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough .. Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester . 75,436 Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 48,659 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 23,752 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 56,992 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-str ee t , London 327,644 North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 45,130 Northamptonshire Union Bank, i / , i it o l. r e th oym am : p on t ry o i n : .. (,),,8( 7 2. 4 14 , (,)i 5 8 60 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton 23,898 North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 41,573 Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei cester..... ..... ................... . ............. .... 47,720 Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth... 1,810 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 33,387 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston. Banking Com pany, Stamford. Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port 257,135 Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall ... Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com pany, Stourbridge .................. . Sheffield and Hallanashire Banking Company, Sheffield .... ..... Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking Company, SE ollioid Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond .. ...... Storey and Thomas's Banking Company, Shaftesbury Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield ... Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Coin pany, Wolverhampton 30,810 Wwhalicteefihoalvdenandj,B,ianrtnAlteocy kUnßioannkßianngk, Company,Wakefield 12,314 Whitehaven _ . ............................. 28,235 Warwick and Le:.) ............ Banking Company WLetiesatanralt:f.in:Ertinsotognlia;:ii. .. aial ... . gouth W...nles..D..;;;t: 29,828 Wilts and Dorset ii .............. .... o-rn..p..a.n";,...5.:11.15bui; 4790;210756 onaßa king Com West Riding dersfield .... pany, Hud ' Whitchureh and Ell Z;;; ....... • - ................... 23,580 Whitchurch . ..... ere Banking Conapany, Worcester City and dou .... r;i y - w e :ai ............... 2,673 Worcester... . ............... York Union Banking Coman;,. . i.0.t1.t ................. York City and County Banking Com ............ 69 ' 733 s Le triV s o l) f a.n. Yorkshire B p an . k p in E g A C N omea ß n e y gi , 10:0 2 9 9 think Returns- Stamps and Taxes, November 20, 1847. 8,435 44,517 8,789 30,600 50,036 9,730 7,557 9,250 876 2,315 3,699 C,550 1,973 6,2:37 THURSDAY _EVENING, NOVEMBER 25, 1847. 8,471 CRIMINAL INFORMATION.—BROCKMAN, M.P., V. RIODALE. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he applied for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against a person of the name of John Rigdale for the publication of a disgusting libel reflecting on the character of plaintiff, who was a gentleman of the highest respectability, and for many years had held the office of Recorder for Hythe and Folkstone. He also represented these boroughs in Parliament. Up to the last election he had lived in respectability and repute in the neighbourhood, when, being a candidate to represent the borough, he was shocked and horrified to hear that there was in current circulation among the electors a report of the most disgusting and distressing nature. The matters alleged to have been committed were said to have taken place ten years ago. The prosecutor commenced an active inquiry for the purpose of tracing to their source these malicious slanders, and he was enabled, by the affidavits of several gentlemen, which he should produce, to trace them to a person of tho - ame of Rigdale, who carried on the business of a farrier, and was formerly a tenant of Mr. Brockman. He, therefore, came to the Court on the present occasion, solemnly pledging himself before their Lordships, upon oath, against the correctness of the charges made against him.—Rule granted. BISHOP OF MANCHESTER THE QUEEN ON THE PROSE- 8,997 18,698 21,689 5,043 7,175 4,79 7,096 1,253 2,339 7,902 8,384 4, 1 7 ,642 CUTION OF REV. JAMES LEE V. GUTTERIDGE. Mr. Gutteridge, the defendant in this case, showed cause in person why the rule for a criminal informa tion which had been made against him, for a libel on the Rey. Dr. Lee, the Bishop elect of Manchester, should not be made abolute. Mr. Gutteridge adverted minutely to the affidavits put in on behalf of the prosecutor, aid said ho avowed the authorship of the various circulars which contained the charges against the prosecutor, and was ready to take all the responsibility which could morally and le gaily belong to them.—Rule made absolute. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 24, (Sittings in Banco.) EX PARTE DUNN. Mr. PAST-MET rose, on the part of Richard Dunn, now a prisoner in the Queen's Prison, to apply on affidavits for a writ of habeas corpus, in order that he might be discharged out of custody, on the ground that the war rant of commitment which would be returned to the writ was illegal. The prisoner was in custody under two warrants; and on the s ffidavits sent to him by his client, with only one of which should he think it neces sary to trouble their Lordships, it appeared that the first warrant set out that " the defendant having been this day convicted of wilful and corrupt perjury, ho be com mitted to the Quen's Prison, there to remain until dis charged by due course of law." That was clearly a bad warrant, as the term of imprisonment was not distinctly stated. lie would now proceed to the second warrant. This warrant stated that at a sittcng at nisi prius held at Guildhall, in London, on Saturday, the 10th of February, 1847, before Lord Denman, Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, the defendant "having this day been convicted of wilful and corrupt perjury, it is considered and ordered by me, the said Justice, that he, the said Richard Dunn, for the said wilful and corrupt perjury, be imprisoned for the space of 18 calendar months, to b e com p u t e d f rom t h e d ay on which he shall be first imprisoned ; and that he, the said Richard Dunn, do give security to keep the peace, and to be of good behaviour to all her Majesty's subjects, and especially to Miss Angela Burdett Coutts, for the space of two years, the said two years to commence and be computed from the end and expiration of the said 18 calendar months, the said Richard Dunn to give security himself in 100/, with two sureties of 501. each, and that be be further imprisoned until such securities be given, and that the said Richard Dunn bo committed to the keeper of the Queen's Prison, to be kept in exe- cution on this judgment." So that under this judgment, t a free pardon were granted to him from the Crown, and he could not get bail, he would still be compelled to remain all the time in prison. Mr. Justice Ma.cLE—ls the judgment erroneous ? Mr. PASI[LEY submitted that it was more than that— it was an unlawful sentence. He could not find any authority in the books which gave power on a conviction for perjury to sentence a man to find sureties to keep the peace, any more than on a conviction for forgery. He quoted the case "In re Henry Reynolds," and another, 1 Dowling and Lowndes, Rep., p. 846, where two persons were committed under the Night Poaching Act, and ordered to find sureties " not to offend again for the space of one year next following," which was held a bad commitment, as too general, and the prisoners were discharged. Mr. Justice MAI:ILE—There was a case " O'Connell v. the Queen," in which the plaintiff in error was sen tenced to be imprisoned for a further term to keep the peace, be having been convicted of conspiracy, and no one advanced this point at all, It seemed remarkable that it was not taken if it could have been. The pri sonar was not entitled to make this application under the statute of Charles, for he was imprisoned for an offence which was not bailable. He had also another clear remedy, which was, that if he was under the sentence of a Court which had done anything erroneous, he might remove it by writ of error. The case quoted was one of a summary conviction of justices, where the re medy by writ of error did not lie ; it was therefore not in point. PASULEY —His Lordship's view would take away the remedy of a writ habeas corpus wherever there was not a summary conviction. Mr. Justice MAux.E—Yes. Mr. PABULEY submitted that the Court of Queen's Bench had passed a judgment unknown to the law. Mr_ J us ti ce M AULS — Then it is an erroneous . habeas corpus. tiow can a single judge review the judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench? Mr. PASTILEY would not further press the application after that intimation. Mr. Justice MAULS—On this view Mr. O'Connell, and the gentlemen convicted with him might hare appealed to a judge at chambers in Ireland, who might differ with the other judges as to his conviction (and there were one or two who did), and he would then upset the judgment. Mr. PASHLEY—It was, however, satisfactory for his client to know that he could review this erroneous judg ment in error, and sinco the case of " O'Connell v. the Queen," he could have bail in error whilst that ji.dgment was being reviewed. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, it was perfectly clear that the applicant's remedy was by writ of error. There was nothing in this case to show that that re in(dy was not open to him. Any other course would lead to consequences which could not be anticipated. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS , NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOV. 20, 1847. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagions Diseases Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... ••• Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ••• ••• ..• ... Diseases of th e H eart and 8100d -vessels ... 293 30 Diseases of t h e S tomach, Liver, and other Org ans , of Digestion... - ..•86 Diseases of the Kidn'e)s, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. 13 "• 13 Diseases of the J o i nts , B ones, and Muscles ••. 13 Diseases of th e Ski n, &c. Old Age, or Natural Decay ... •.. ... 40 Deaths b "' 2 y Violence, Privation, or Intemperance ... 24 Causes not specified ... ... 4 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ronulatlon Enumerated, 1841, West Districts... 301,326 North Districts.. 376,396 Central Districts 374,759 East Districts ... 393,247 South Districts .. 502,483 _---. Totals... ..... 1,9 48,211 Males . ... Females ... --- ... 344 89 32 Average weekly Deaths Deaths, 1842-6. in the Five Autumns. Week. 146 ..• 180 184 ... 167 195 ... 305 232 •••• 262 288 ... 279 ... 1,046 ... 1,086 ... 544 ... 542 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. lat the present moment due to him." The Gallant Admiral. ROUSE OF COMMONS, Nov. 24. is thus placed in the same position as every other person who has claims for p ens i ons upon th e P or t uguese The SPEAKER took the Chai r a t F our o ' c l oc k. A number of Members were sworn in, amongst Government; he has not, therefore, abused the in whom were Sir Denham Norreys and Sir William fluence which his present position has given him. I Clay. do not hesitate to sa y th a t I s h ou ld regret as a pu bli c ADMISSION OF JEWS INTO PARLIAMENT. calamity the occurrence of anything upon the part Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition signed by of the Gallant Admiral which should interrupt the a large number of the clergy of Yorkshire, aga i nst great service which he is now rendering to the the admissibility of Jews into Parliament. Also country by the performance of his duties at the post similar petitions from Llandaff, Liverpool, and to which he has been sent by the Government Rochester. of this country.—(H ear , h ear .) Th e serv i ces Mr. GOULBURN presented a petition from the which he is there rendering are of great value, and Vice-Chancellor, Masters, and scholars of Cambridge will, I doubt not, he of great serviee to the country. against the admission of Jews i n t o P ar li amen t. SUPPRESSION OF THE SLAVE TRADE. Mr. HUME gave noti ce th a t h e wou ld to-morrow Petitions to the same effect were presented from [n Leicester by Lord C. MANNE RS an d f rom C ong l e t on eve for returns o f th e num b er o f h er M a j es t y ' s by Mr. JACKSON. ships employ e d by thi s country on t h e coast o f Lord J. RUSSELL presented a petition from the Africa for the suppression of the slave trade ; English Presbyterians, of Chest er , agree d t o a t a mee t- also the numb er o f s hi ps emp l oye d b y F rance an d ing recently held at Stockport, which stated that the the United States for the same purpose, in conformity petitioners objected to the laws which prevented with the treaties entered into with this country for Jews from taking their seats in this House, and the suppression of the slave trade. praying them to remove this la s t b arr i er o f i n t o l erance , NE W ZEAL AND. and admit those members of th e J ew i s h persuas i on Mr. GLADSTONE w i s h e d to k now w h et h er i t with the Christian, when th e y were e l ecte d b y Was the intenti on o f th e G overnmen t t o l ay on t h e the free choice of the people.—(L ou d c h eers ) table of the H ouse th e answer o f t h e G overnor o f New Zealand t o th e di spa t c h w ith re f erence to was t e Mr. CARDWELL presented a p e titi on f rom Liver pool, against, and Dr. BOWRING one in favour of lands in that cou n t r y ? their admission. • , • Sir GEORGE GREY sa id th a t th e corres p on d ence TRANSPORTATION TO NEW SOUTH which had taken place upon that subject would be • WALES shortly laid upon the table, and he believed it would Mr. EWART presented a petition from places in comprise the answer t o th e di spa t c h a ll u d e d t o by th e New South Wales, praying that transports might Right Hon. Gentlem an . not be sent out to the colo n y, an d i n li eu th ereo f LIBRARY COMMITTEE. to submit such offenders to se con d ary pun i s h men t. On the motion o f ,Si r R. INGLIS, th e Libr a ry THE BANK OF ENGLAND. Committee was re-appointed. The CHANCELLOR X of the ECHEQU Qeveral of the sessional orders having been ER"" dis posed of, e Presented copies of the corresp on d ence w ith th e B an k The SPEAKER EAKER called upon Mr. Heywood, who relative to the recommendation of the Government to sat at the bar, to bring up the report on the Address. enlarge its discount. BANK CHARTER. Mr. HUME wished to know from the Right HOD, Lord G. BENTINCK wished to know whether Gentleman, whether the papers s h owe d th e s t a t e o f th ek was the intenti on o f th e G overnmen t t o g i ve a fit till circumstances which to the H ouse o f th e Ban on the day on which th e l e tt er o f t h e Government induced her M a j es t y t o au th or i se h er Ministers was issued, namely, the amount of notes, bullion, to advise the Governors of the Bank of England to balances, and deposits ? infringe the Bank Charter Act of 1844. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER re- The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER plied that the papers simply that had been put to hi m , th a t h e was rea dy an d Lord, himself, and the G overnor and the Deputy passedcon ta i b n e e t d w betweenc opiese of th the said that he s t a t e d l as t n i g ht, i n answer t o a ques ti on correspondence which had Noble prepared to make that statement then ; but, in ac- Governor of the Ba n k o f E ng l an d on t h e su b- cordance with the app aren t w i s h o f th e H ouse , h e ject. The letter of the Government was stated that he would do so on Tuesday. Having issued on the morning of the 25th of made that statement, although he was prepared now October. A statement of the condition of the Bank to state the intentions of the Government, he thought of England on the 23d, the preceding Saturday, had it would be hardly fair towards the House to make it now.--(Hear, hear.) It was not usua l to i ntroduce already app eare d i n the Gazette, and a copy of it might be moved for by any Hon. Gentleman. subjects of such importance upon the bringing Mr. HUME said the Right Hon. Gentleman must up of the report on the address. He thought be aware th a t th e G azette cou ld not b e l ooked upon as it would be more cons i stent with the general giving offici a l i n f ormat i on to t h e H ouse. Wh at t h e intentions of th e H ouse that he should not make the stat emen t now, b ut reserve it till Tuesday. House requi re d was a statement o f t h e operat i ons o f the Bill for two or th ree mon th s p rev i ous t o th e l e tt er He had laid on t h e ta b le of the House that day the of the Noble Lord and the Right Hon. Gentleman, correspondence that had taken place; that would be THE CRISIS—RAILWAYS. printed and ready for Members before he made his Mr. J. MACGREGOR presented two petitions statement. from the Chamber of Commerce and merchants of REPORT ON THE ADDRESS. Glasgow. The first related to the monetary crisis, On the motion that the report on the address be the other prayed that the time for completing the brought up, railways already authorised might be extended. Mr. OSBORNE, before that report was brought THE POOR-LAW COMMISSION. up, wished to make a few observations upon several Mr. BANKES wished to know from the Noble parts of her Majesty's Speech. When he considered Lord who had been appointed to the office of Presis the paralysed state of the commerce of the country, dent of the Poor-law Commission, and who was re- the state of Ireland, and the relations of the country sponsible for the operations of the Commission up to abroad, he felt bound to call the attention of the House to some o f th e t o pi cs i n h er M a j es ty' s speec h. the time of suc h a p po i n t men t. Lord J. RUSSELL replied that no appoint- Although the Chancellor of the Exchequer ment had yet been made to the office of had stated that he would bring the subject President of the Poer law Commission. When it of the currency before the House on Tuesday, he was made, he would state the fact to the House. An must be permitted to say that he did not think the order of Council was issued making the Commis- embarrassments in trade were of a merely local cha sioners under the former Act responsible for the ad- racter. He could not feel satisfied until the basis of ministration of the laws. trade was put upon a more sure foundation than it THE MURDERS IN IRELAND AND THE was at present. He would give no opinion with PRIESTS. respect to the Bank c h ar t er, b ut t hi s h e wou ld say, that he thought the Gov ernmen t h a d acted wisely Mr. HARRISON w i s h e d to k now f rom the Right sending this matter befor e a Committee.—(Hear, Hon. Gentleman the. Secretary for Ireland if any hear.) He thought the Act of 1844 had steps had been taken by the Government to bring undergone unnecessary odium. Only three banks of to trial two priests, mentioned in the debate of last issue had failed during the late monetary pressure. With reference to that part o f h er M a j esty ' s speec h night, as h av i ng d enounce d M a j or M a h on from relative to the ci v il war i n S w it zer l an d , h e deprecated the altar, and w h o h a d, th e r e f ore part i c i pated in any interference on th e p ar t o f thi s country, thinking his murder ; and whether similar steps had that the example they had had with respect to Portu been taken against a priest who gave evidence at gal was quite sufficient to induce them not to inter an inquest that he had denounced the man on whom fere. But if any interference did take place, he trusted be it was held, and who was shot a f ew h ours a f ter ? the rights and lib e rti es o f th e peop l e wou l d not sacrificed for the sake ev e n o f th e bl ess i ngs o f peace. Sir W. SOMERVILLE—I h ave t o sta t e t h at no steps have yet been taken by th e G overnment on lie came next t o th e paragrap h w hi c h stated that the subject. her Majesty looks w ith con fid ence to t h e conti nuance of peace on the c on ti nen t o f E urope. N ow Mr. P. O'CONNOR wish e d t o k now w h e th er any steps had been taken to b r i ng t o j us ti ce t h e t h ree there was only one ma n i n th a t H ouse w h o thoroughly underst oo d f ore i gn a ff a i rs, an d t h at was persons, against whom a verdi c t o f w ilf u l mur d er had been returned for having been concerned in a the Noble Lord the Foreign Secretary himself, but he murder, in I.B34—(L aug ht er )— v i z ., M a j or F orrest, must be blessed with a superab un d ance o f nerve w h o Archdeacon Ryder, and M r . B agne ll I' could look with confidence to th e con ti nuance o f Sir W. SOMERVILLE—Perh a p s th e H on , peace in Europe, when it was r emem b ere d th at S pa i n, Member will have the kind ness t o g i ve no ti ce o f t h e Switzerland, an d F rance were i n a very exc i ted state i3uestiete indeed, and any spark i n one o f t h ose countr i es might "Mr. ANSTEY wished to know whether Mr. peace ortlie ;serf& tie would not dwell long upon Stephen had resigned the U n d er -S ecre t arys hi p of the this branch of hi s su bj ec t , b ecause, i n the course of Colonial-office, and if so, who was his successor ? the session, it would be his duty to call the attention Lord J. RUSSELL sa id M r. S tep h en was at pre- of the Hous e t o th e i ncomp l ete and disgraceful state sent the Under-Secreta r y f or t h e C o l on i es. He had of our national d e f ences , an d t h en h e should have claimed leave of absence f or a s t ate d per i od on ac- another opportunity o f rever ti ng to t hi s part of the pe count of ill health, which had been granted to him. s Bc h. He did not know that the p are - Mr. Merivale was the Under -Assistant Secretary of graph relating to the treaty with the Equador State to the Colonies durin g hi s a b sence. was of very gr ea t i mpor t ance, b ut of all the serious PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. humbugs that had e ver b een perpetrated in this Mr. EWART gave noti ce t h at on Thursday he country the attempt t o p u t d own t h e s l ave trade was should bring forward his motion recommending the the greatest. These attempts, instead of suppressing repeal of the punishment of death ; and that on Friday he the traffic i n s l aves , h a d a dd e d to i ts horrors, and he should ask the Governm ent a question, with respect hoped some Honourable Gentleman better to the Bank Charter Act, whether he intended to give acquainted with the matter than himself the Bank the power of increasing its issues beyond would take an early opportunity of placing this the prescribed basis in the Bank Charter Act. queition before the House in a way that would put PUBLIC DEPARTMENTS —I RELAND. it up on it s t rue mer i ts.—(Hear, hear.) lie now came Mr. Jr. O'CONNELL gave notice that it was hi s to the most diffic u lt p or ti on o f t h e speech, namely, the intention to more for a ret urn of various üblic de partments p and offices whi c h had been transferred portions which relat e d t o I re l an d ; an d here he must express his regret that the debate last night had not from Ireland to England s i nce the Union, and the b een con d ucted w i th more calmness. He hoped, how expenditure of these sever a l d epartments and offices ever, that the warning of the Right Hon. Gentleman for the last three years. He also gave notice that on the Secretary for Ireland would not be lost sight of, Friday he would present a petition from the Roman COURTS. for ev er y i n di screet wor d uttered in that House Catholic archbishops and bish ops i n Ireland. with regard to Ir e l an d was pro d uct i ve o f the most direful con sequences i n th e s i ster ki ng- The CHTAHNECECLOLUONRTY of th e EXCHE QUER dom. The Catholic clergy of Ireland was a great stated, in reply to Mr. Bankes, that the jud ges o f body, and, like all great bodies, it was comp ose d : these courts were at .presents paid- byfee% but that of two cl a s ses . / Me majority of them, no 'doubt; their salaries were fi xed. , _ . . were good - men, while there might be wicked and FEES IN COURTS OF LAW AND EQUITY. designing men amongst them; but still the body, as Mr. ROMILLY gave notice of his intention to a w hole, ought not to be denounced for the errors move upon an early day for the appointment of a of the minority. He deeply regretted that an Select Committee to inquire into the fees of the Honourable Member last ni g ht h a d f e l t it necessary Courts of Law and Equity. to animadvert with some degree of severity upon THE CASE OF CAPTAIN NORRIS. a recent speech of a venerable Archdeacon of the Ca- Mr. N. MAHER gave n o ti ce that he would, to- tholic Church. F ar b e it f rom hi m t o d e f en d t h at morrow, move for copies of th e correspondence which speech, but they mi g ht t a k e i n t o cons id era ti on t h at had taken place between th e L ord Lieutenant of Ire- the reverend gentl em an who deli ve r e d it was o f a land and the Roman Catholi c c l ergy with respect to most excitable temperament. (Hear, b ear , an d certain attacks made by Capt a i n N orr i s, of the Board laughter.) He (Mr. Osborne) knew hi m we ll , of Works, upon the characte r o f t h e Roman Catholic and he could assure th e H ouse th a t h e was a very g oo d man . F o r s ome ti me past the clergy of that country. STATE OF THE REVENUE. reverend gentleman had been suffering from ill Mr. HUME gave notice o f hi s i ntention to move, health, and that, no doubt, render e d hi m t h e more upon an ear ly day, , for th e appointment of a Select excitable. The Sunday, howev er , prev i ous to the delivery of the speech, h e p reac h e d a sermon, Committee to inquire into th e present state of the denouncing in the strongest t erms th e cr i mes and revenue, with a view of asc er t a i n i ng how far the outrages which were occurri ng i n th e di strict. He system o f t axa ti on m i g ht b e a l tered, and the present establishments reduced. Also, reverend gentleman to men ti on t hi s circumstance, had thought it nothing but common j ustice to the morrow ask the Chancellor of the Exchequ e r whether and he hoped in future h e wou ld b e dealt with more it was his i n t en ti o n to bring i n any measure to modify or alter the E xc i se laws. leniently. The next sen t ence i n t h e Speech related to DISTRICT CORONERS' BILL. the poor-law, and he could state from his Mr. G. BERKELEY gave notice that he would, own knowledge that it had proved highly successful; but he regretted, nevertheless, to upon an early day, move for leave to bring in a Bill state that its success had been tl' to amend the District Coroners' Bill. read y p er il l e d by PRIVATE BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. a circular which had latterly been issued by the Mr. LABOUCHERE gave notice that he would Secretary of State, requiring the funds in the hands to-morrow, at the ti me of private business, move for of the guardi ans t o b e pa i d i nto the hands of a Select Co mm i ttee to consider whether any and the civil paym as t er i n D u bli n. It had not what impro vements could be made in the mode of only perilled the law, but the peace of conductin g th e pr i vate business of the House. many parts of the coun t ry, an d he trusted in ARREARS OF ADMIRAL NAPIER'S PEN- future such proceedings would not be resorted to.— SION - . (Hear, hear.) H er M a j esty then went on t o state Lord INGESTRE wished to know whether there that she had heard with satisfaction that the landed was any foundation for the report that Admiral Na- p r oprietors of Ireland had taken a d vantage of the pier had u se d t h e influence of his position for the means placed at their disposal for improvin their purpose of obt a i n i ng the arrears of salary due to him est a t es . H e cou l d answer for it the landed g • epropne b y the Portuguese Government. tors had been prepared to avail themselves of the Mr. W ARD , in answer to the Noble Lord, said, I means alluded to, but he regretted to say Government am much indebted to the Noble Lord for putting had shown a tardiness in giving them the means. that question to me at this early period of the meeting The Speech of the Queen went on to say that " in of Parliament. I am happy to say that lam in a subordination had led to an organized resistance to condition to lay before the House the most convincing legal rights." He would, in speaking on this part, proof of the utter groundlessness of such report. forget that he was an Irish landlord, and that he had That proof shall consist in papers above all suspicion, received much annoyance in fulfilling its functions. from the character of the gentleman from whom they He should approach the discussion of the -subject in came, and the means which be possessed of a scer t a i n . a large spirit, overlooking these temporary inton ing the real facts of the case. Sir Hamilton Seymour veniences. The Hon. Member for Kilkenny rather has addressed a letter upon the subject to the First taunted him with having gone over to Ireland with Lord of the Treasury, with permission to make u se o f good intenti ons , but that he had abused them. the docume n t. The letter is as follows : He would not say how much of his income "My Lord,--As reports to the prejudice of the he had forgone, and now he would also have to forgo Gallant Admiral Sir C. Napier have been inserted in his rents for years to come. In Ireland the state of some of the English newspapers, I am induced t o society w as b ase d u pon the potato crop; it trouble your Lordship w ith the following stateme n t. was the money as well as t he f o o d of Upon the arriv a l o f t h e Gallant Admiral at Lisbon, the country ; but had the Government proved the Finance Ministe r expresse d hi s regret t h at he was equal to the occasion—had they come forward with unable to pay hi m t h e arrears of his pension due to great measures and not tinkered, the country might ave been placed on a better footing; but now it ap efforthim, adding at the same time that he should make an n Peered to him that little was to be done save recon to do so as soon as possible. The answer of strutting society in Ireland de novo. The Government Sir C. Napier was to this effect : ' That he had that 1 1 1 ,, p ° of Ireland was in safe hands, and therefore it appeared to wish to be paid before his cornolnion s and th .;i r c. Napier • - I Lin) that it was urigenerous to taunt Lordelarenili, % i t }, ~._._.'3 take Li, ..: ~,(.., v, ith tht. 4,.-2.t.' instituting the delivery of leetura upon Rgriculture, iJo , . ..lua?s nit' that four montin' ' , n-'on oui °l c e )f r 1 , 11 , 1) , d i t ; Idin, and Although lectore,; might not do much good in the /,,, ! .u:,': - . hiql duf• h% , . presen t state ut _Leland, still theee were counties hi this amount only has been received. ' He further i acquaints me th a t t wo months havin which the delivery of l ec t ures and the em pa d since that g_ re - _ - h c przt payment wa s ma d e, th irteen months payments are ployment of agriculturi s t s would do mu good.—(Hear, hear.) The outrages which had taken place in the five counties were not, in his opinion, of agrarianan character. When men, and women, and children, were driven from their homes into bogs and drains, he was justified in this expression of opinion. They were the result of the proceedings adopted by parties who were determined at all hazards to obtain possession of the land. Before he could agree to a Coercion Bill—to the suspending of the ordi nary laws—he must first see what measures the Government intended to adopt to improve the order of things.—(Hear, hear.) Though not disposed to strength e n th e hands: of the Govern ment, and he admitted he had a high opinion of the abilities of the Lord Lieutenant; yet, looking at the present state of society in Ireland, he could not rush to a conclusion that coercion would do well for Ireland. It might, however, be a matter of grave doubt whether or not a more stringent law should not be carried out in the counties referred to. Coercion would be but a palliative measure, and he believed that a Bill repecting tenant right would not go to the root of the evil, for its seat was deep.---(Hear, hear.) As long, however, as men were ill-housed, ill-clothed, and worse paid for their labour, they might depend upon it that there would be no safety for life or property. They must devise means to raise the condition of the agricultural labourer; he did not, however, object to such a Bill, whether for England or Ireland. lie would support any well devised measure which would put the relations of landlords and tenants upon a more satisfactory foot ing. Looking over the programme of her Majesty's beech, he regretted to find that a Bill which would eventually do great service was unnoticed —namely, a measure to facilitate the sale of encumbered estates.—(Hear, hear.) Unless they could free land from the shackles which now op pressed it, they would do little benefit to Ireland. He therefore besought the Government to propose a large and comprehensive measure of this kind. The land must be improved by such means, per figs ant nefas. Though he did net desire to increase the power of the Irish Church, he thought that the arrange ment of the land in congregational, instead of territorial portions, would pave the way to an improved state of ? things in Ireland. He urged them at once to put the legislation for Ireland on a sound footing, or they would have to go on in the same vicious circle from year to year. With reference to what had fallen from the Hon. Member for Kilkenny, he thought it was unworthy of him to listen to vague reports; and he trusted that he (Mr. Osborne) would not long bear the character of an absentee landlord. Lord G. BENTINCK protested against the doc trine laid down by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that no debate should take place on the report to the address. He considered it as most remarkable, that neither the Noble Lord nor the Chan cellor of the Exchequer should have thought it worth their while to state the reasons which had induced them to give permission to the Bank to break the law, and to propose a new usury-law, raising the rate of interest and levying new taxes on the trading community of the most odious nature. Why did they fix on the 25th of October, neither sooner nor later, to give this relief to the community ? He did not regret that last ,night the subject of Irish distress took precedence of the not less distress with which England was now inflicted, and im patient as the nation was to know the inten tion of the Ministers with respect to banking measures, he was sure they would not regret that the first attention had been paid to Irish distress. But both would be disappointed if this de bate should be brought to a conclusion without eliciting from the Ministry a declaration of their inten tions with regard to the Bank Charter Act. Last year his Right Hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exche quer had been urged by deputations from the mer chants of England and Scotland, and also by himself and his friends in that House, to relax the restrictions under which the Bank was placed by that Act ; but his Right Honourable Friend had re plied that the worst was passed.—(Cheers.) The House would recollect that at a later period in September a deputation waited upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer from Newcastle, who foresaw that increased difficulties would come upon the commerce of the country, and they applied to the Right Hon. Gentleman to remove the Bank restrictions. What was the answer of that Right Hon. Gentleman ? He said that he could not be expected to guard against the emergencies of over-trading, and ever-speculation; and that there was no undue pressure in the money market as regarded houses of good credit. Why, good God ! this was at a time when Exchequer-bills were at 255. discount—when there were doubts as to whether the Bank would be able to continue its payments, and when, at all events, among the houses of bad credit was to be reckoned the Treasury, whose Exchequer bills went down to 40s. discount. On the 22d of Oc tober another deputation waited upon the Right Hon. Gentleman, from Liverpool, and as they were leaving his room, it was said that he gave them no hope. Time went on, and suddenly, upon the 23d of October, a deputation of bankers and others of the city of rn n • the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tam worth also came to town. He did not know whether he acted as amicuB curie in the matter—suddenly the Government began to relent; at the same time Mr. Pease, late a Member of this House, came up from Northumberland and paid a visit to the Noble Lord at the head of the Colonial Department, and the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Northumberland. Sir G. GREY—Not to me. Lord G. BENTINCK—That showed how neces sary it was that the House should be made acquainted with the whole facts of the case. Such, however, was the nature of the reports prevalent at the time. The Government at length listened to the cry which came in an appropriate moment from Northumber land and Durham. They were informed that the Northumberland and Durham Bank was upon the point of stoppage, and unless the restrictions were taken off from the Bank of England there would not be a collier in these counties who, upon the following Saturday, would receive his weekly wages, and a significant hint was given of the value of keeping the colliers in full employment. (Hear, hear) It was quite unnecessary for the House to know the reasons which had induced the Government to post pone the removal of the restrictions to the late period they did.—(Hear, hear.) Precedence had been allowed to the discussion of thelrish question, in order to allow of the question of the - currency being brought forward upon a subsequent occasion. No compromise had been made upon the subject. There never was so gloomy a speech made by any Sovereign as that which they were called upon to consider now.—(Hear, hear.) It had been stated by Honour able Members that 161,000,000/. had been expended in railways since 1841. Where Hon. Members got their information from he could not tell ; but were they to be told after such statements that the country would be brought to ruin by the expenditure of 1 2,000,0001. a year? It was not the high price of corn, but the effects of free trade that took the gold out of this country. In former times they could pay upwards of 300,000 soldiers and marines, but now they were told they could not pay a few thousand railway labourers without bringing England to bankruptcy.---(Hear, hear.) They had lately heard the speeches of the Kings of Belgium and Holland, both of whom congratulated their countries on their recovery from all their difficulties. The French Minister, it was true, dwelt upon the large sums which had been expended in the country, but he did not talk of the country being reduced to a state of bankruptcy by that depression. On the contrary, he congratulated his hearers upon the ge neral prosperity of the country. Look where they would, they found nothing but increasing prosperity on the continent. Prussia was gradually progress ing, so was Bavaria. In both places trade had increased to a great extent. The same might be said of Russia, and thither the famine extended itself too. It was supposed, indeed, that it had so affected the country that the Emperor would never be able to go to war again, and yet within the last few months he had been able to make large exportations of bul lion. What was it then that had prevented this country from recovering from the effects of the famine ? But it had recovered from the famine, and now it was suffering from causes that did not exist in the countries he had named, and he would tell the House what those causes were. The countries he had named protectrd their own manufactories— their own agriculturists—their own shipping—and gave them a decided preference over foreigners, Here, however, they had pursued a different po licy, and the misery they were now suffer ing was the result of free trade.—(Hear, hear.) For eight years the stock of cotton had never been so low as it was in Manchester and Liverpool at the present moment. As many starved for cotton as for corn. What a spectacle this city presented from this ! The great importing city—the seat of staple trade was now in a deplorable state. The reason of all this was our restricted monetary system —the Bank Charter Act. It caused cotton to be sold 41. less per bag than formerly —sugar six shillings or eight shillings less per cwt,, in Cuba or Brazil, and tea less than it cost the ex porters in Canton. These were the results of free trade doctrines.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") In the presence of cotton merchants and millowners, he said that the prepared fabrics they manufactured were sold by them at less than their original cost. Would this bring back the golden image worshipped by the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir R. Peel) ? Surely lhe countries he had mention- ieszead of throwing away their revenves, as v.fs had done, turned than' to el-eat advantage. A —erica, for iin etence, had not followed vur ruieee3 example. More than two-thirds of the revenue of the United States is raised out of the rroduce of British in- BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males Females ... 616 640 Total ... ... 1,256 - A MINISTER APPREHENDED AS A DESERTER,-- Yesterday, the minister who officiated in the forenoon in Greenhead quoad sacra Church, Canning-street, Calton, was, immediately after the conclusion of the service, apprehended as a deserter by two aerjeants of the 71st Regiment, at present stationed in this city, assisted by a criminal officer of the Calton district. A great deal of excitement was caused by this somewhat untoward event, and his reverence was marched to the guard-room, where he is at present in confinement, awaiting an investiga tion. Ilis sable robes presented a striking contrast to the gaudy attire of his companions in arms, and attracted an immense crowd of onlookers. The preacher, who is a private in the 71st Regiment, stationed here, absented himself from the barracks only on Monday last. He took up his quarters with a highly respectable lady in Charlotte -street, under the assumed name of the Rev. Mr. Bertram. How he got an introduction to the Esta blished Presbytery, so as to get admittance into Green head Church, where he preached yesterday morning, we are unable to state. The real name of the party is Thomas Watkins. His father, we are informed, is a minister of the Gospel in the neighbourhood of London. Our hero was educated to the ministry. but, previous to his being licensed, he enlisted in a regiment bound to the West Indies, the name of which we have not ascertained. He was, however, transferred to the 71st Regiment, from which he deserted when in Barbadoes, but was after wards recaptured. He was absent from his regiment then as many months as he has been days now. - He was not, however, idle, but had joined a native regiment, and had.been promoted to the rank of colour sergeant. He at times also acted as chaplain, havinz an itching, it appears, for the profession which in an evil hour he forsook. The Rev. Mr. Bertram is rather an enticing young man, sad a very pleasing speaker. Under this assumed name he is said to have produced a favourable impression on the fair portion of the audience.—Nolth British Mail. THE HERRING TRADE AT STETTIN.—The curers office e b p u to ; a : g a s e s e nd north of the Moray Firth have agreed, at a meeting hod in Wick- on TllGntlay „ , !,.pt the plan of doing eg o t f_ the t h o t' 6 'l e b e::41113:0 scheme. ,nvi paid 8 a l s i l rt e pe d jt a nd r'uceu t h r o u g h uxi 9 t fi o r 1)7 r confided to his care —Ros.s-shzre Advertiser. lehnta,(4o'e:l t'thende'fi.t.. fish he" .FEZ SUN, LONDON, LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 24. (Sittings in Banco.) dustry. The United States have drained us of our gold to provide for the Mexican war. Her Majesty, while alluding to Switzerland, was wise and politic to abstain from allusion to Mexico. The United States had said that Lord Palmerston must be silent if they chose to annex Mexico and Canada, because England depended on them for cotton and sugar. We had sacrificed India, and given to America that monopoly of the cotton mar ket, which she had used so well that the cotton mer chants of Liverpool had, last year, lost to America 2,000,000/. at least. If the stoppage of our manu factures was owing to a deficient crop, how came it that it did not operate on the manufactures of the United States ? While our cotton manufactures bad decreased the cotton manufactures in the United States had increased during the last year 10 per cent. 'They present an increase of ten per cent. in their manufactures, notwithstanding they are suffering from the dearth of cotton also. While the Govern ment was passing the Bank Charter Acts to saturate the country with gold, as the Hon. Member for Liver pool had informed the House last session, other coun tries es ere enlarging their currency. Neither France, Bavaria, or Russia were pursuing the same destruc tive policy as this country, which was now, on the one hand, restricting its currency, and, upon the other hand, enlarging its commerce. The consequence was, that England, which, a few years since, was the pride of the world, now presented a spectacle of bank ruptcy, ruin, and shame, at which the finger of scorn was pointed by every civilised nation, from the United States to the walls of Canton.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord then proceeded to say—When your merchants come to you, and your manufacturers pray of you that you will relax your monetary restrictions, and enable those who have cotton and sugar and woollen manufactures, and those who have tea, to have money lent to them at a reasonable rate of interest, you, her Majesty's Ministers, draw back and refuse to set the Bank of England at liberty till you find you are on the brink of the precipice itself, and that any farther delay would precipitate you into the gulf of irremediabl e ruin. Then, indeed, you come forward, but instead of doing as great Ministers had done in former times—in stead of imitating the example of Mr. Pitt, who, in the year 1793, when he found the commerce and trade of the country in a similar position, came forward, and ad vanced 5,000,0001. sterling, at 41. 163. per cent. interest, although the Government had borrowed, it is said, at more—you declared that you will become mewl; leaders, and set your own rate of interest. Well remember her Majesty's Ministers last year , when I proposed a measure by which the industry of Ireland would have been stimulated, saying that the Govern ment could not become money-lenders. What are they now ?—(Hear, hear.) Are they not money-cliangers ---• usurers? Are they not interposing to make money dear? Are they not raising it to a price which they know the English merchant must pay, or perish? Never have I heard of any country or of any Govern ment in the world, before the present one, that proposed to wring money out of the necessities of the If people" .--.- (Hear, hear.) We are told by the Divine law that thou lendest money to the poor thou shalt not be to hire an usurer." But her Majesty's Government have t urned usurers, and fatal hare been the effects throughout totheo country. The money- lender by profession Wits ready to follow the example sot him by the Government, and he who before would have been ashamed to ask $ per cent. for his money did not scruple to take 10. Mortgages were raised from 34 to 5 per cent., whil e ig Scotland those made at 6 per cent. were raised w 6. In short, the whole country was taxed by a usury howl it was taxed to the amount of per cent., a charge fat heavier than if you were to impose an income - tax of 10 er cent. Any gentleman has only to look at th e p ro-- per cent. Any gentleman has only to 100 k t the pro perty and income-tax returns, and he will see—u s ; suming the whole land of the country to be mortgageL" for only one third of its value, and that I bed is far below what the land of the whole empir: is mortgaged for—that an increased charge of interes_ of 11 per cent. is equal to a new tax on the land. of England, Scotland, and Ireland, of 12,000,0001 aiyear. But that is not all. I have hitherto been speakin of the landed property of the country ; 13,11_ there are the trading and the industrial classe s of country ; these are taxed even to a hi her i ther degree this usurious interest. By this additional rate of .t per cent. interest I will venture to say t h a t a tax levied upon those who are in debt and o bliged to bor r ow ' money on interest to no less an amount than 25,000,0004 a-year. Well, then, the Government having been score b conies to the exacting of this high usurious rate of inte rest, are we to be told that it is not convenient thatth time of the House should be taken up on the secondin night of the session to consider what were the circu stances which led the First Lord of the Treasury tut' the Chancellor of the Exchequer to advise the net; only to lend money at that high usurious rate ? Good God ! what are we to believe ? Are we to suppose t the Noble Lord the First Lord of the Treasurt and the Chancellor of the Excheq btrat taken Shylock into their confidence, and could they have only been considering how the yes exact the largest earns of money out o f the noses" ins cities of this suffering country ? One wo uld imsgle_. that they had adopted the language of Sir Giles 0! r_ reach, v;ho, addressing Jack Marra' , says,—" Here is plan—all men must be sellers and I the only purchaser One would imagine that the original authors of the Bank. Charter Act and the monied interest were determ ined to have the whole trade, commerce, and property o f the country at their disposal. Lord Bacon, I think , has said, that usury would soon bring all the treasure of the country into a few hands.—(Hear, hear.) His word s are,—" Money is to the users of it a certainty, and t° the borrowers of it an uncertainty, and the end must soots fceorunt laughter.)htre y l , an s d h e a rid l l h er e r o o effect m p e e r i t y n o f, t o allat lhl be that all, or the greater part of the money o f tilt! mortgagedm" - -< e a , a t I u r e e a s r , is h pte to trans' o r t p , r ea andrnsy.., e t h t b h e o s e x e and the interests of all those whose moneys are embark." ed in trade, into the hands of the money-changer. It 18 , in fact, a total transference of the property and money of one portion of the community into the hands of anotherpor don of that community. And are we, on such a prope o e„ sition as this, to sit down in silence and hear no word._ explanation from her Majesty's Ministers a s to the grounds upon which they so long upheld thi s in j urious Bank Charter Act; and why, when they were at last reduced to the necessity of relaxing it , they, in doing so, incited the Bank of England to exact such an amount of usurious interest as never before was known to have been received in the course of the last century and ts quarter?—(Hear, hear.) I will not enter anew upon the affairs of Ireland, further than to say that her Ma jesty's Ministers must make themselves responsible for the peace of Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) I shall postp postpone they may produce tr , / my remarks upon any measures I see them before the House. I trust her Majesty * Ministers will not present another spectacle of a Govern- Ministers will turning out one set of men, a nd then goveninghh country by the principle in a resistance to which t e obtained office.—(Hear, hear.) I hope, at all evenl y whatever may be the measure, it will not be a Curfew Act, to shut men up in their houses at n i g ht, in orderw operate as a remedy to mid-day murder.—(Hear, hear' ) But whilst lam quite prepared, on due cause ieolUg shown, to support the Government, I shall wait till measure is proposed, and reserve to my self the right it . ? giving it my support in proportio n as 1 may think suited to the occasion. I will not trouble the House by adverting to the foreign policy of her Majesty's Govern ment; they, I suppose, have maintained a prudent re serve in abstaining from any observation in the Speech in regard to their foreign policy,—on the subject of their policy in respect to Italy they are altogether silent; but her Majesty has been graciously pleased to say that she' has obtained a slave treaty from the republic of the Equator. I must say her Majesty's Ministers would have shown more tact if they bad been silent on that subject altogether.—(llear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman who seconded the Address said that there was another link of the chain knocked off the limbs of the negro. Why, Sir, I want to know how many thousands of new links her Majesty's Ministers have added to those chains - which tortured the negroes by the admission of slave grown sugar ?—(Hear, hear.) I shall be curious to learn, on official authority, what the estimated amount of the increase of the slave trade may be. We do seer statements in a certain paper, which is supposed some times to receive information from head-quarters, that the slave trade has increased fivefold, and that the capital embarked in it has also greatly increased. It is notorious that slave-grown sugar has risen greatly in price ; and it is notorioas also, that the price of a slave in Cuba and in the Brazils has advanced from 300 to 500 dollars at least. But I shall be curious to learn to what extent the slave trade has increased. If we are sure that more links are added to the chains of the negro, and that more slaves aro transported to the western hemisphere, sure also are we, by the labour we take out of them, that no low number will suffice to count up the thousands of lashes by which that labour is extracted from them. As her Majesty, on proroguing the last Parliament, congratulated it upon its having given her subjects cheap sugar, she might in her gracious Speech on opening the present Parliament have uttered one word of pity for the thousands who had been reduced to beggary by that measure. Whe n we see that Government was obliged to send out instruc tions to watch the export of rice from the East Indies for fear the Mauritius should become another Ireland, and the 93,000 imported Coolies, who were left without employment and without wages, should also be destitute of food,—when we know that Lord Grey has authorised the Government bank to issue notes, and to advance 9 1 - per ton on 50,000 tons of sugar, in order that the Coolies in that colony may be kept alive—when we 500 the Noble Lord, with all his high currency notions at home, is compelled to issue ten shilling asstgnats in the Mauritius,—when we see all these things, I think We are entitled to require that we should hear, if not fro= her Majesty herself, at least from her Ministers, some explanation of the course which the Government has determined on adopting with respect to the Mauritius and the West Indies. Though her Majesty congratu lated the country upon its having cheap sugar, I think there are now few persons so obtuse as not to understand that that measure has been one of the main causes of the distress which afflicts the country by producing th e failure of the sugar planters in the West Indies, the Mauritius, and the East Indies, by ruining the suga r merchants, by breaking up other mercantile house s connected with that trade, and—as a necessary consequence—by causing the bills of manufacturers to be returned to Manchester. What is the position of Manchester at the present moment ? The rates levied for the support of the poor in that city are more then double what they were at any former period.—(H ear ' perio ho , r.) S u e()f This t things has wt caused by the no turn of tit6hononred bills of corn and sugar merchants, given in payment ior goods. It is true, that during the last ten or eh von mouthsthere has been an inciew in the u:tation of manufactures to the Untied S4 l Lt" to the extent of some 7,000 packages ; but the expo rts* - tiOnS to the Canada; the West Indies, and the resit 6,560 0,175 9,742 2,655 2,908 34,725 54,590 9.98 '4,213 0,213 0,476 1,475 10,072 10,971 6,221 42,041 9,276 3,523 8,755 9,72. I i