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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT• HOUSE OF cwiLdolVS, Feb. 24. ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL. Mr. WATSON (in continuation from our AfternoonresEpdeiotitoend of yesterday) said— He now came to the clause which w ere these the safeguards of the regular clergy. But h safe guards, or how this Act provided such,he couldnoftorcothne ceive. The Act of Parliament of the 10th w George IV., gradual suppression of Jesuits an d ethos rel i g i ou s orders, that those persons , bound by monastery vows, provided whether British-born subjects or not,ana shifouldcobnevipareod ceeded against by commonlaw, transported for life. He knew,attihag of Birmingham, it wheßnirmthiewaomrd, " Jesuit " was mentioned on the hn it frightened all the old ladies of on persons tto a onwcnioneteotea with m convulsim o e : but they had had many of th nestle orders most learned and intelligent, abounding in works of love and charity, diligent searchers into history and philosophy ; and if it was said that the Jesuits had done some evil, it must also be admitted that they had done much good. The Legislature had already, in the Acts which had passed the House, removed many of those bigoted and penal enactments, and he now asked the House to finish the good work by repealing all that remained of them. It was argued that those Acts were now obsolete; but that was no argument, or, if one at all, it was in favour of the abrogation of them. He asked their repeal, not as a concession to the Catholics, but as justice to the Protestants, who boasted themselves the friends of toleration and of liberal measures. To them he would appeal on this question, and he hoped, that in support of their principles, they would give their consent to the second reading of this Bill. Sir R. 11. INGLIS admitted that the Hon. and Learned Member had claims upon the attention of the House as a sound lawyer, but he thought he could lay no claims to the character of an accurate historian. He asserted that penal laws arose with the Reformation, but he forgot that it was not till long after that many of these laws passed. But the lion. Member was also inconsistent with himself, for, by the terms of the Act of Elizabeth, if the supremacy of the Crown over matters ecclesiastical were based on the common law of the country, the Protestant as well as Catholic subjects of the Crown would be equally liable to punishment. The Hon. and Learned Member was obliged to go back to the early part of the reign of Elizabeth for an instance in which the rigour of this law was pressed against a Catholic subject, and he was very certain that if the Hon. and Learned Member had had a later illustration he would have given it. The Hon. and Learned Member had 4reatly depreciated the securities which were given to the Established Church in the Act of Emancipation, but, however slightly even he (Sir R. H. Inglis) might view them, they were tendered and accepted as securities, and therefore the Hon. and Learned Member should not have alluded to them in terms so unfitting. He contended that there was no country in Christian Europe into which the Jesuits were admitted without a direct law being passed subjugating them in numbers, resi , dences, and objects, to the powers at the time being. The Jesuits had greatly increased in this country since the first foundation of their establish ment at Stoneyhurst, and in Ireland ; and, therefore, he thought that, instead of removing these securities, they should rather strengthen the hands of Goverment, to enable them to suppress any further extension of their dangerous opinions. The present Bill prohibited any Catholic subject from assum ing the title of Archbishop of Canterbury or Bishop of Lon don, which made it less objectionable than former Bills brought in by the Hon. and Learned Member • but still so much remained in the m e as u r e as t o r ender it Objectionable. He objected to it on principle—the Church of England was the Established Church of the 'realm. In Ireland the members of the Protestant Church were prohibited from processions, and it would be most unfair to allow to a hostile church that which was denied to their own Protestant. Church. Was the Hon. Member prepared to see the pro cessien of the Host through the streets of London ? If such scenes were to be introduced into this country it would be great cause of regret to the passers of such a measure. The lion. Member for Cork (Mr. O'Connell) said that he would not allow the procession of the Host to be paraded through the streets of London, it was a subject of too much veneration. It was then for thei House to prevent the public exhibition of this ceremony, and not to leave it to the will of the Catholic priesthood to adopt it if they thought proper. If the present measure were to pass, it would make this country the only one in the world where Jesuits were allowed to carry on their profession without some restraint. He regretted to see that a law prohibiting the in troduction of bulls and rescripts had been already repealed. In no country in the world was any bull of a foreign potentate, as was the Pope, allowed to be introduced without the previous consent of the Government of such country. It was his in tention to support the great cause of Protestantism in the country; and he begged to move that the Bill be read a second time this day six months. Colonel SIBTHORP seconded the amendment. Mr. B. ESCOTT said that the Hon. Member for the Uni versity of Oxford (Sir R. H. Inglis) did not ground his op position to the Bill in the last session upon the necessity of these so-called securities. What was then the real cause of the opposition, and the great cause which the Right Hon. Member was determined to maintain 1 What was the use of these pains and penalties ? They brought no money into the Exchequer, or into the Church. He believed the only reason they were desired to be kept on the statute-book was to gratify the pride of some persons who were never happy except when they were teazing or aggravating their fellow-creatures. He did notbelieve that one man in a hundred, out of doors, could be found to standup for a continuance of these pains and penalties. But it had been said that these enactments were securities to the Established Church ; but the Right Hon. Baronet had not shown it to the House how it was that these penalties acted as securities. It had been further said that these were preserved in the great Act of 1829, and ought to be now preserved. He (Mr. B. Escott) thought that the Emancipa tion Act of 1829 was a great measure of justice, and he looked with pleasure to the good that Act had done, rather than to that which it had left undone. Let the Right Hon. Ba ronet look to the Sovereign who now tilled the chair of St. Peter's, who was setting an example to all the other Sove reigns of Europe by his liberal and enlightened principles. He hoped the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, the members of the late Government, and also the 'Noble Lord the Member for Lynn, who he believed was considerably ahead of his party, and whom he had no doubt would be a Peel of 1847, would all give their support to the Bill, and be resolved to give no quarter to these penal enactments. Mr. SHAW said the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had stated that these statutes had done no good, and that they had brought no money into the Exchequer. Now he (Mr. Shaw) could not agree with the Hon. and Learned Gentle man in the conclusions he had come to, and be would shortly state the reasons for so thinking. The Bill under consideration had his decided objection, because it unsettled the arrangement come to in 1829. lie 'would not go into the policy or impolicy of the settlement then made, but be would certainly oppose any attempt to ' disturb it in the manner which the Bill before the House would do. He thought the reservations of the Catholic Emancipation Act should be maintained as the safe-guards of the Established Church.—(Hear.) lie would, therefore, support the amendment for the rejection of the Bill.—( Hear.) Mr. MACAULAY could not allow the discussion to pass over without expressing his opinion on the merits of the Bill before the House. He confessed he had not heard suffi cient to reject the second reading of the Bill.—( Hear. ) The first portion of the Bill provided fur the repeal of enactments which at present gave the power of im prlsoning and fining every person who owned the least allegiance to the Pope. Now he asked the House would they sanction the principle that any Roman Catholic might be fined or imprisoned for his religious opinions? for that was the real question. He maintained that there was no Roman Catholic who admitted the spiritual authority of the hierarchy of his Church but who was liable to punishment. There was not a priest nor bishop but who, in the essential teaching of his religion, might be proceeded against, and fined and imprisoned. The spiritual authority of the bishops of the Roman Catholic religion was a leading element of the Catholic religion ; so all who acted on that view of the faith were liable to the oppression of these penal statutes.--(Hear, hear.) Now, he put it to the House whether they would consent to the carrying out of such laws. Would they agree to the justice of' the principle, and were they prepared to give it effect? If they would not, and he believed not one of them would, why then retain them on the statute-book? By the Emancipation Bi:1 the oath of supremacy, as it regarded Roman Catholics, had been altered to another, and yet they retained this penal enact • ment about the recognition Of the supremacy of the Crown. Was not this proceeding most absurd and contradictory ? He en tertained similar objections to the existing statute against the importation of bulls. It was admitted that these were perfectly innocent; for whatever their instructions might be, they could not be carried into effect. The law against them should not therefore be retained. With regard to the other laws referred to, he considered they should also be repealed ; but with respect to prote. sions, however, he could not consent to their celebration. He did not think that decency or public order could allow of these public processions ; nay, he was sure that if such a pro cession as was often seen on the Continent was to pass up Fleet-street or the Strand, there would be every proba bility c . f some disturbance taking place. He would, there fore, give his consent to a stringent law in regard to such processions. But, regarding Jesuits, he could not support the restrictions that were imposed on them. He could not see any reason why the Franciscan should not be allowed to practice his system of worship the same as any other party. He was against any secret proceedings on the part of the Jesuit., which the present state of the law encouraged, but be would, under proper regulations, as it regarded registration and publicity, give them the same civil and religious privi leges as any other party of Chrietiaee. On these grounds be would support the second reading of the Bill.—(Cheers.) Mr. FINCH said that it was in consequence of the great veneration in which the Reformers held the Nicene Church, who originated persecution, that a system of persecution was continued in the Protestant Church. He was quite in favour of a fair system of toleration for all classes. They came then to what was called the rights and cere monies of the Roman Catholic Church, and here he perfectly agreed with what had been said by the Right Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down. He thought that when an Hon. and Learnod Gentleman introduced a Bill f this kind he should do it in a more complete shape than the present Bill presented. It was not consistent that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman sh. uld consult only the wishes and prejudices of the Roman Catholics. They formed only a minority of her Majesty's subjects, while the Protes tants constituted an inunense majority. It was well known that the Jesuits had proselytised great num bers of the Protestants around Stoneyhurst ; and with respect to the tendency of Jesuitical principles, he need only refer the House to an able criticism in Ranke's history by one of the ablest writers of that country—he meant the Right Hon. Member for Edinburgh. He was quite convinced that if these monastic orders were allowed to exist without any restrictions ha need not inform them that it would lead to the greatest inconvenience. He could tolerate 83 Y for himself that he should be willin g t o every church in existence with the single exception of the Ch urch of Rome.-- - (Laughter.) But, if the principle of the Hon. and Learned Member were to be conceded, they would have a something like free trade in religion. ' The bad. at present, no religious n Portugal, or in liberty in Spain, in Austria, ' , home, and he thought that they, in I England, could not fairlytle charged with intolerance, until of religious liberty. Rome set them the exampleßßlE.N, ln n s: i ie r vingthe Bill said, although Mr. SMITH 0' the penal statutes were co obsolete, they produced en impression of the roost unfavourable kind on the minds of those who were liable to be affected by and lie trusted golabjnetionablee tanwdawwoueld Roman Catholics o t f hes E e n that the never rest satisfied until re repilr S efa.ledi'OONEß said it had not been his intention to trouble th e liouce , butta tier the personal remark whi c h the Right Paymaster of the Honourable the he considered that he was justified in claiming the Right nt ' the attention of the House. Gentlemanon. bad completely m i srepres ented the words which he had mach use of in the opinions which he held, and the arguments he bad adduced, and be would take the t li h b e e c rt o y m o m f i r t e te a e di t n o g w f h ro ie m h the reports which had taken place on the. Right H o Hon. the Paymaster of the Forces had referred. He challenged the Right Hon. Gentlemeenatropriovitehtish,ehiaschsehre tion he had made, or substantiat e the charge had bee stigmatised. He the res v ent would be n another inroad upon believed the constitutionp of the sou try. The Hon. Member for Limerick said that he would not rest . till the Chancellor of Ireland and the Lord-Lieutenant of that country were eligible to be chosen from among the Roman Catholics. Onlygive up those points, and nothing would remain to prevent the annihilation of the monarchy and the Protestant succession to the Throne. He believed that it was the fearful spread of the Roman Catholic religion which had produced the present disastrous condition of, and called the judgment of Heaven down, upon this coun try.—(Cries of "Oh, oh.") Mr. MACAULAY said that if he had done'the smallest in justice to the Hon Member by anything h had said, he begged most fully to withdraw it, and to apoligise for the same, but his statement seemed to be fully borne out by the authority to which the Hon. Member had himself referred. The Hon. Member for Birmingham said, upon the occasion alluded to, that he would not divide the House upon the question, but contented himself with protesting against it. After a few words from Mr. SPOONICR, and Mr. MACAU LAY again in reply, Mr. J. O'CONNELL said that he would not enter into the controversial discussion set up by the Hon. Member for Birmingham. It might be possible that a strong argument might be brought forward for the Catholics. He thought it better to proceed at once to the removal of pains and penal ties, which were admitted by all to be utterly powerless, and which tended only to aggravate the feelings of their Roman Catholic fellow-subjects. It was a stigma to the character of the House to debate for four or five hours the question whether those laws, which were admitted to be inoperative, and which were universally disregarded, should or should not be repealed and struck out of the statute book. Mr. NEWDEGATE thought that those persons who pro fessed the Roman Catholic religion were not at present suffer ing from the operation of any penal statutes or disabi.ities. If such were the case, he would be one of the first to repeal them, for he hated persecution, and considered that a fair tolerance Was due to all classes. He would, however, oppose a mea sure which proposed to remove all the bulwarks of the con stitution, and to re-erect nothing in their place. He opposed the present Bill mainly because it would go to set up alle giance to a foreign potentate in place of that which was due to the Sovereign of these realms. There was another por tion of the Bill for which he could see no reason. He meant that which did away with the oaths at present taken by banisters of the Roman Catholic faith. This was a prevision which did not exist in the Bill of last year, and one for which the lion. and Learned Gentleman who in troduced the Bill had net given any reason. With regard to the outcry about the hardship of the oath of supremacy, he could not see it. The oath at present merely declared that the Pope had no civil or temporal authority in this country, a declaration which he was sure there could be no objection whatever to. If, then, the declaration only maintained a constitutional truth, there was no necessity for the provision of the Bill before the House. With regard to processions, it had been admitted that they ought not to be allowed in the way in which they took place on the Continent, and that they would, if permitted, be the cause of much disturbance. He confessed he would much rather have the law as it at present stood in this country against such pre cessions, than trust to the Lynch law which the repre sentatives of the people resorted to on the other side of the Atlantic. Further, he thought the toleration of the Jesuits in the .country would be most dangerous. They were the enemies of liberty everywhere, and so inimical had they proved themselves to the interests of nations, that in nearly every country in Europe they had, as a religious order, been suppressed. For these reasons he must oppose the second reading of the Bill. Lord GEORGE BENTINCK supported the second read ing of the Bill, because he had always opposed the disabili ties imposed on the Roman Catholics. If the laws that ex isted were obsolete, and of no practical application, then that was a sufficient reason for their repeal. But he did not think they were so, but that in their operation they exercised still a serious injury over the professors of the Roman Catholic faith. Even so late as 1837 a law suit had been decided before Lord Langdale, which practically took away a large amount of property left to the professors of the Roman Catholic faith. So hard, indeed, was the case, that the Right Hon. Baronet, the late Prime Minister, interfered and had the griev ance in this particular case remedied. But there were many other hardships to which he could call the atten tion of the House. Was it not a hardship that Roman Catholics could not perform the rite of burial with their own clergymen, and according to their own formula ? He would also call their attention to the fact that when the Hon. and Learned Member for Cork (Mr. O'Connell) was Lord Mayor of Dublin he had to put off his robes of office on entering the Roman Catholic church, because the law would not allow him, in his corporate capacity, to wear them within their precincts. Such was the state of the law, that Father Mathew, notwithstanding all the good he had done, might be banished, and if he returned he could be trans ported for life. These were a few of the hardships which were now proposed to be removed. Sir R. PEEL said that the Bill which stood for the second reading that night, contemplated the rescinding of several clauses in the Act of 1829, and it further proposed to abrogate laws which were now considered obsolete, and so far as this latter part of the measure went, it had his fullest approba tion. The first part of the Bill professed to supply certain omissions in former Acts. The Hon. and Learned Member asserted that there was at present an Act in force, notwithstanding the statistics of 1844 and 1846, enacting that if the Roman Catholic subject wilfully upheld the autho rity of a foreign Prince, hewould be subject to fine and impri sonment. The Hon. Member for Warwickshire said that malice would require to be proved; but be (Sir R. Peel) imagined that, in the eye of the law, advisedly upholding the ecclesiastical authority of the Pope would be considered malicious upholding of his authority. Now he (Sir Robert Peel) did not consider the principle a proper one which would subject the Roman Catholic in this case to tine and imprisonment.—(Hear, hear.) With regard to the other portion of the Bill, he must express his decided dissent. He must contend for the preservation of the conditions of the Act of 1829. The Hon. Gentleman said he was not prepared to repeal that portion of the Act which refused to the Catholic prelate the name of any particular see. He said, also, that he was quite content that the Roman Catholic should not appear in public in the distinguishing dress of his particular order. Ile said that he conceded so ranch in accordance with the prejudices of the English Protestant nub: l ei:l. But auroly this enrulit ;nu wan haßed on the same compact, and should not be divided from the other condi tions. With regard to the religious orders, he thought that some relaxation might be made in this particular—he thought that the extreme punishment of banishment might be avoided ; but he was not prepared to repeal the enactment altogether. He was bound to say that while he was willing to rectify some clauses in the Bills of 1844 and 1846, he was not prepared to accede to that portion of the measure which had reference to the Act of 1820. He would support the second reading, reserving to himself the right of dissenting from certain portions of the Bill in a future stage. After a few words from Mr. LAW, in which he stated that he would oppose the second reading. Lord ARUNDEL thanked the Hon. and Learned Member for the introduction of this measure, and the Right Hon. the Member for Edinburgh for his able support of it. Mr. GOULBURN would vote against the second reading. He would have no hesitation in assenting to a portion of the Bill, but he could not concede the propriety of passing the measure in its present shape. Mr. WATSON trusted that in Committee he should fully satisfy both the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir R. Peel) and the Right Hon. the Paymaster of the Forces. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when there appeared— For the original motion For the amendment Majority in favour of the second reading —3 TENANT RIGHT BILL. _ Mr. S. CRAWFORD postponed till to-morrow (thisday) the introduction of his measure on the subject. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Six o'clock. REGISTRY of BIRTHS and DEATHS DURING THE WEEK ENDING FEB. 20. Deaths registered in the week. Births registered in the week. Males ... ... ... 655 Males ... ... ... 703 Females ... ... 5 1 J Females ... ... 686 Total ... 1,253 Tot al • 1,389 SUDDEN AND AFFECTING DEATIL—The sudden and affecting death of Mr. Charles Thornton Cunningham, Lieutenant-Governor of St. Christopher's and of the Lee ward Islands, is announced in the West Indian papers which have just arrived. It appears that this gentleman had driven in from the country to Basseterre, the seat of Govern ment, in apparently vigorous health and cheerful spirits, to open the newly-elected Houses of Legislature. After trans acting, some business with his private secretary, and dispatching a note to invite some officers in a French ship of war just come into port to luncheon at Government house, he rode down to the mail-office, to meet his let ters, and a box containing a picture of a much-beloved sister, recently deceased in England. He had stated to more than one person, that his earnest desire to possess the picture was not unmixed with fear as to the effect the sight of it might produce upon him. So strongly had this apprehension fastened itself on his mind, that, on the arrival of the box at the Government-house, he sent a servant in quest of a friend who might be with him when the box was opened. Having failed in find ing him, he praceosled to open the,box His butler, who was present, reports that he looked at the countenance earnestly, turned pale, whispered a few words to himself, walked hastily up to his own room, was heard almost instantly to pffia,lll found iri a ,, si s h t G l i e ,,li e z e n s tt t tr e ee : t e ca d hs ew( i i t :In a tnandse floorn , h i a s n s ya e rcvooatr other e t s s re . public,r hefollowingst. and upstairs cphrri vi sat ot private communications, bear the strongest testimony to the ability, vigour, and high moral ch aracter o f t hi s gent l eman, and to the tenderness and munificence with which at all times, and (specially under a recent heavy visitation of Island fever, he Ihad ministered to the wants and sorrows of the negro popula lion. The Houses of Assembly met immediately atter his death, and passed an unanimous vote for a funeral at the public expense, to testify, as they expressed it, at once their respect for hiS official rank and the high esteem in which he was held by all classes of the community. On the next day he was followed to the grave by all the public authorities, the members of the two llouses, the moat distinguished per sons in the colony, and by thousands of grateful and mourn ing negroes, to whose welfare he had largely contributed. Mr. Cunningham assumed the Government of St. Kitts in May, 1839, and fell a victim, as his physician states, partly "to the exhausting influence of tropical climates on the nervous powers," and partly to the intensity of brotherly affection, in the 36th year of his age. MONEY MARKET.—'The premium on gold at Paris is 10 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17 3 . 10 1 4 d. per ounce fur standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.40; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25.27 k, it follows that gold is 0.49 per cent. dearer in Paris than iu London. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 431 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10 1 ,4 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.8; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short ' being 13.6, it follows that gold is 0.93 per cent. dearer in Hamburgh than in London. The course of exchange at New York on London is 1061 per cent., and the par of exchange between England and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is 3.33 per cent. against Eng land. But the quoted exchange at New York being for bills at 60 days' sight, tie interest must be deducted from the above difference. GREECE.—We find the following in a letter from Ancona, of the Bth, published by the Auggurgh Gazette : " The last courier from Greece brought letters which state that a misunderstanding had occurred between M. Mussurus, Ambassador of the Ottoman Porte, and M. Coletti, President of the Council. It is thought that M. Mussurus will be re placed by another ambassador. It appears that the King had himself undertaken to be the guarantee of his Aide-de ' took place shortly Camp, Colonel Karatassos, whose passport for Constantinople IM. Musaurus had refused to sign. At a Court ball, which a afterwards, the King approached M. Alus surusl), Mus surus time to answer.tne'diately king?" and said :—' Is it thus you treat the guarantee of a upon M. Coletti for an withdrew, without giving M. Mus explanation of the King's words, but i dressed a note to the Greek) Ambass ad or Coletti, however, ad or at Constantinople, directing him to inform the Ottora as an "-d i'orte of what had oc curred. THE SUN, LONID►ON, TRURSDAY EVNING, FEBRUARY 25, 1847. STATE OF TRADE. MANCUESTER, TUESDAY, FRB. 23.—The slight indi cations of improvement in the market, to which we re ferred on Wednesday last, have become rather more m tnifest and decided during the last few days ; and a better feeling has prevailed upon the exchange to-day than for several weeks past. In prices there is no perceptible change for the better ; but the inqui ries, both for goods and yarn, have been very exten sive ; and in cases where spinners and manufacturers have been willing to accept the low rates current last week, they have little difficulty in, making sales. The .drooping and uncertain state of the cotton market, how ever, still induces great caution on the part of buyers, and exercises an injurious influence upon prices. We are glad to learn that the accounts received this week from the United States, by the packet-ship Oxford, con tinue to be favourable. English manufactures were selling readily, in considerable quantities, and at very satisfactory rates. The mail from Brazil received by the Peterel packet, brings to our merchants a further and ' considerable amount of bills drawn on American account, for the purchase of coffee and other Brazilian produce. As the exports of coffee to the United States during the last twelve months amounted to no less than 1,500,000 bags—being about 400,000 bags more than in any pre view; year—and as these exports must be paid for, in great mensure, by bills on England, remittances of this nature are likely to be large for some time to come. ROCHDALE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22.—There has been a better attendance of buyers to-day than last Monday, but the business transacted has been very limited. Wool remains firm, at last week's prices. HALIFAX, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20.—We could not observe any change for the better in the piece hall to day, nor does there seem to be any prospect of a speedy improvement. The manufacturers, however continue to run their machinery full time, which, as heavy stocks are accumulating, they will not be able to do should the present depression remain unabated much loner. With respe.ct to yarn, for low numbers the demand is unusually restricted; but for some qualities, for shipping, the demand has rather improved; prices remain without alteration. The sales of long wool continue very limited; and the turn of the market is rather in favour of the buyer. Short wools are somewhat more active, and are a little easier to buy. LEEDS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23.—The business done at our cloth-halls to-day, has been equally trifling with that of last week. We hear, however, that the manufacturers are rather better employed to order, and that a brisker demand is anticipated next month in various descriptions of woollens for the United States markets.—Manchester Guardian. PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPEND' TURE. An account of the total amount of the public revenue received into and expended from the Exchequer, and the balances remaining at the close of each year from 1836 to 1846 inclusive, was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on the 19th instant. It appears that in 1836 there was a surplus of income amounting to 2,130,0921., after which year, up to 1843, when Sir R. Peel's financial reforms had begun to take effet:t, there was a regular annual deficiency of income, amounting alto gether to the sum of 10,188,6571. Since 1843 there has Seen an equally regular surplus of income, which at present amounts in the gross to the sum of 11,463,360/. ; so that the former deficiency is now completely covered, and a balance left in favour of the Exchequer of 1,274,703/. The total amount of income received into the Exchequer during the past year, 1846, was 53,790,138 i., arid the total expenditure therefrom, 50,943,830/., including 28,077,987/. for the annual charge on the funded and unfunded debt; 2,736,8071. for other charges on the Consolidated Fund ; 16,864,697/. for the army, navy, and ordnance services; and 3,264,339/. for miscellaneous services, leaving a surplus of income amounting to 2,846,3081. In 1845 the excess of in come was 3,817,642/., the receipts having amounted to 53,060,3544 and the expenditure to 49,242,7121. The gross total estimated amount of the taxes repealed or reduced during the above-mentioned decennial period is 10,042,414/. ; the principal items being pepper, sugar, paper, spirits, licenses, newspaper stamps, postage, coffee, timber, export duties, Customs duties, Irish spirits, marine in surances, cotton-wool, coals (export duty),'. glass, auctions, corn, and provisions, tic. The total amount of the new taxes concurrently imposed, is 7,940,993/., the principal items being the income- tax, which alone contributes 5,100,0001., and the increase of 5 per cent. on the Customs and Excise proposed in 1840 by Mr. Baring. The capital of the funded and unfunded debt now amounts to 782,918,9841.—viz., 764,608,2841. for the funded, and 18,310,700/. for the unfunded, debt. The balance in the Exchequer at the close of the year (1846) amounted to the sum of 9,131,282/. Such are the interesting particulars which have been gleaned from this return. UNIVERSITY REFORM. (From the forthcoming Oxford 211a9ozine). "As water, whether it be the dew of heaven or the springs of the earth, doth scatter and lose itself in the ground, ex cept it be collected into some receptacle, where it may by union comfort and sustain itself; and, for that cause, the in dustry of man hath framed and made spring -heads, conduits, cisterns, and pools; which men have accustomed likewise to beautify and adorn with accomplishments of magnificence and state, as well as of use and necessity. So knowledge, whether it descend from divine inspiration or spring from human sense, would soon perish and vanish to oblivion, if it were not preserved in books, traditions, conferences, and places appointed, as Universities, Colleges, and Schools for L the receipt and comforting the same." The trusty squire of Don Quixote bad no misgivings what ever, touching his capacity for governing the island, which the all-conquering knight of La Mancha was, in due course, to confer upon him. In this respect worthy Sancho is no bad representative of many hopeful and well-meaning men of these days. They think reform is "as easy as lying" to the liar. The best men are often most open to these delusions. Honest themselves, and desirous of conforming everything to the rule of right, they think, that it is only necessary to show that an evil exists, in order to secure the application of a remedy. Experience, however, has shown how visionary such plea sant expectations are. Wrongs are rarely, perhaps never, redressed by logic. Moral tbrce is not yet so irresistible as amiable enthusiasts would have us hope and believe. If this be so in respect to the reform of glaring and notorious evils, much more is it so with the less obtrusive, but more dan gerous ills which affect the vitality of nations. Injustice and exactions, which press upon the millions, after being long endured and etruggled against, are thrown off by convulsive throes and a dangerous crisis. Wrongs which affect the moneyed interests, the commer cial enterprise of wealthy classes, are comparatively short lived. But evils against which the excited passions of the wronged many, or the resentment of a powerful class cannot be pointedly directed, are long-lived. And of this class are the evils of our public schools and universities. Parliament may be reformed, and being re formed, may be argued and coerced into the repeal of a law hateful as the sanction cf a bread tax. University reform— public and grammar-school reform, is quite a different mat ter. Amidst all the talk of " education," the meaning of the word is not yet understood. What education can, and what it cannot do for the moral elevation of a people is by no means strictly defined. It is not yet felt, that the nation cannot live on bread alone, or what is required for its perfect development. It is not felt that both the heart and the brain of the cation require nutriment in order to give vital force to the body politic, and, that the mere husks of educational forms are insufficient But though there is not a distinct appreciation of what education is, and what it is not, yet the continued dis cussion of the subject renders the present time most favourable to a movement for university reform ; and a well-constituted royal commi:sion would be hailed with de light. The public ear is open to any who shall address it in clear tones, with lofty aims, with an appreciation of the diffi culties to be overcome, as well as the glorious object to be attained. The difficulties aro neither few nor small. The public mind is but partially enlightened on the subject. A large majority of our legislators view public schools and univer sities, through a false medium. They see the school or university at which their youth was spent through an at mosphere of poetry. To them it is scarcely less than irre verence to think of defect either in the constitution or the working of institutions which, by a mischievous delusive figure, is personified to them as a mother. Then there is little to be hoped for from within the universities. It is not surprising that with possession, a feeling of absolute, personal, exclusive right should grow up in the minds of the few who hare, and the larger number who expect to have, wealth, honours, and social distinctions under this exclusive system. There is also the further disadvantage, that the sense of responsibility, political and religious(using the terms in their largest sense and as almost synonymous), is deadened, if not lost, in men who are associated as a privileged body : so that it has come to be a proverb, that corporations have neither bodies to be kicked, nor souls to be damned. Yet, as we have said, the times are favourable to the great and holy enterprise of making the universities and public schoolsth the national' and d ti w tu o t r io k n in s in truth and working to themire preearfleitcyt-, develop ment of siAou greats o ly f . t e vir national preparatory itiiin a rn recentin dwork.has period been the done, herjci t a a n r3 l ., that iinstinctive n a t n n e c t o i v e confidence of the nation in the universities has been broken compelled trebjeeecntedc,omasp by bel i painful hraetv once l n a c t e i o n it s. w o T u f l i d e n fa a i t n i on h a v h e a s mon strous libel. The nation has been compelled to accept as a fact, that for years the universities have been the seat of a dangerous, and too successful conspiracy against the faith of which they were supposed to be the bulwarks. Everywhere throughout the land a newly-ordained graduate is received with well-founded distrust ; all the while no correcting or opposing influence is seen in operation; and the faithfulness and tke power of academical rulers is alike doubted. The conviction has spread that there is not health enough left in the system to throw off the fatal and pervading taint. The public is prepared to hear, and to assent to the declaration, that the leprous house must be taken down. This on purely religious grounds: but the idea'of univer sity reform must be both comprehensive and minute. Organic principles must be broadly laid down, and all details be worked out in accordance with them. It cannot be suffered that statutes of founders, which time may have repealed, should sometimes be held to be binding by fellows of societies, and other times at their Ca price held to be naught, to the deadening of moral feeling, m I t ecraenno collection be , that e a n s s s t i e c a a d l a o of d a n xia i t le e r in s i a t), t i c a l e scli.ols, have a carried t o h n for eseest t a h b e l i a sh d m va e n n t t a s g . e p o r f o t fe h ss e „sri e a p i ar c a h t a e irs so c o a i n et l i t e o s which hold remain un tenanted, even by the ghosts of the past. Revealed religion and natural science cannot be for ever banished from Oxford. The universities wait for reform. The intellect and the piety, and the patriotism of the nation say, Reform ! and there must, there will be reform, and perhaps the larger and more The c r o e m i s p complete te greatftT r being k deferred. to b e dce, a o cannot be that men will be wanting for the glorious labour. We n c d an it afford to wait. PROTIS/ONS FROM TRH UNITED STATES.—The Oxford and Orphan, from New York, Richard Anderson front Baltimore, Defence and Radius from Charleston, and Larne from New Orleans, which were reported at Liverpool on the 22d inst., bring 8,091 barrels of flour, 8,608 bags and and 36,474 bushels of Indian corn, 2,108 barrels of Indian corn meal, 657 tierces of rice, and 200 boxes of biscuit. STOCK OF CORN IN DUBLIN.--So unusually large is the stock of corn at present in the Custom-house Stores is Dublin that no room exists for a further supply, nor can there be any more warehoused there until a new loft in one of the large stores, which is at prereat being erected, shall have bees cocapletad.—Pilot. auD CENTRAL OF SPAIN RAILWAY.* A meeting of the shareholders in this project was held yesterday at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate• street, to hear the report of the committee appointed on the 14th December last, to investigate the affairs of the company. Mr. GEORGE SEYMOUR, being unanimously called to the chair, proceeded to read the committee's report on the affairs of the company. It stated that a railway from Madrid to the frontiers of Portugal had been proposed early in May, 1845. and a company formed, with a proposed capital of 2,000,0004, in 100,000 shares, 50,000 of these being reserved for Spanish shareholders. In the month of Jupe of the same year an advertisement from the secretary of the company ap peared, stating that all the 50,000 English shares had been allotted, and that it was not in the power of the directors to satisfy the applications, which had exceeded the whole amount of shares by four-fifths; and a second advertisement, in the same month, announced that the company had re ceived the royal concession of the Sovereign of Spain on 30th May. Capt. Pilkington, about the end of June, was dispatched to Spain to make the necessary preparations, surveys, &c., for beginning the line. From that time till June, 1846, the shareholders had no communication with the directors; but in that month an advertisement appeared, stating that they had made arrangements to construct the half of the line to Toledo with Spanish capital. Such was the history of the company as it was known to the shareholders generally, The committee appointed at last meeting, on coming to examine into its affairs, found every impediment thrown in their way ; the directors refused to communicate with them ; they had indeed been allowed access to the minute book and the cash book ; but the banker's book and most of the letters, the do cuments, in fact, which would have corroborated or otherwise the result to which the commissioners had come, had been suppressed. But they called the attention of the shareholders to this, that on the 9th of June, 1845, the directors announced that all the shares had been issued, and that applications for shares had been sent exceeding the number of shares by four-fifths. Yet, what did they find? That the whole number of shares allotted was 27,785, out of 50,000, leaving a balance of 22,215 unaccounted for, retained in the hands of the directors. They found, moreover, that by a minute of the 7th May. 10,000 shares had been reserved for the special committee. The number of shares paid upon by the public was 10,005 ; 4,000 more were put down to Captain Pil kington as paid upon, and 4,405 shares appeared as given away gratis in different lots to different parties, seemingly for ser vices, making the total amount of shares, ranking as paid upon, 18,405. From the absence of the banker's book, the committee could not arrive at any result concerning the finances of the company e • but this appeared from the cash-book, that the whole of the s hareholders' money had been expended. ex cept a balance, less than 8001., in the hands of the directors. It appeared that Captain Pilkington alone had had paid to hurl 20,9001. 3s. 6d., but on what account there was no means of ascertaining from the book; and the Captain himself had refused the committee his accounts, or any assistance to wards understanding this part of the business. The other point to which the committee adverted in their report re ferred to the concession of the line by the Spanish Court. An advertisement appeared in June 1845 from the directors, stating that the royal concession of the company's line had been obtained on the 30th May that year; the fact, how ever, turned out to be, that negotiations for this pur pose continued to be carried on until the December following, when the royal concession was positively re "used,, and refused, as it seemed to the committee, on perfectly justifiable grounds. All that had been ob tained previously was, the permission to deposit plans and surveys of the proposed line with the Government, and the promise that if these should appear satisfactory to the Government, the ooncession of the line would be granted. Che committee had had the opinion of several gentlemen as to the worth of that preliminary concession, and especially of a gentleman who had been Minister of . the Interior in Spain, and their opinion had always been that that promise was neither definite nor binding—in fact, . gave the company nothing. (The Chairman then read several letters sent to the secretary of the company, and read at the board, condemning, in the most positive lan guage, the plans and surveys of Captain Pilkington as being incorrect, imperfect, and unworthy of the company, or of any man of professional compe tency). The Chairman, in remarking upon some parts of the report, said he had little doubt but that the money of the shareholders had been used by the directors in rigging the market; indeed, there were documents which, at least, excited a suspicion of something that could not be done fairly, plainly, and openly. The following two letters, out of many others, were read to the meeting. They were signed by Mr. Harvey, the secretary, and addressed to Cap tain Pilkington " July 28th, 1845. "As to the circumstances of 63 and 62, it is just as I ex pected. We must act accordingly. 41 krovvs 38, and by what I have heard and seen 38 does not stick at trifles." "28th July, 1845. " The 34 and 35 informed me by letter yesterday, that 62 is not 59, therefore the (take the first word in 57) could not have been written as -you were informed. Mark this. Be 104 and 107 to finish the business of the 53 as soon as possible." The committee's report concluded with expressing their opinion that the directors had injured the shareholders by not issuing all the shares ; by proceeding with the line when they had only about 20,0001. capital; that they had been lavish in the gift of shares to the number of 8,000 to different parties, and of money to Captain Pilkington without his accounts being rendered ; that they had issued false statements and mis-statements, and had been guilty of concealment, by the suppression Of the bankers' book and other papers. The CitAtamAx moved the adoption of the report. The motion was seconded and carried unanimously. Mr. BULL stated that, as Captain Pilkington's legal ad viser, he had recommended him to send in his accounts without crediting for the money :received, and they had been sent to the solicitor of the company, and ought to have been at the meeting. The CHAIRMAN was of opinion that no combination should be formed to prosecute the directors ; some of the share holders intended doing so on their own resources, and the rest could take advantage of the result. There was good ground in the promise made in the prospectus, that unless the line proceeded the whole 21. would be returned. The committee then resigned their appointment, and re calved the thanks of the meeting. The CHAIRMAN intimated that the papers of the com mittee might be seen at Messrs. Keatley, Cunliffe, and Co.'s, Chancery- lane. The meeting, after a vote of thanks to the chairman, then adjourned. SOUTH WALES RAIL WAY. The fourth half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this company was held yesterday, at the Great Western Railway Station ; C. Russet, Esq,, M.P., in the chair. The advertisement convening the present meeting, and the minutes of the last meeting, having been read by the Secre tarYT.LCH.esaseaoesaid that since their last meeting the subject p th ro a p t e t r he to int t e a r k e e sts tl of the greatest importance which had occupied the attention of the direetors,vras the arrangement made between the South- Wales Railway and the Great Western Company. He had not thought it right to take any part in that discussion, nor be sufficiently and amply guarded by those to whom the m ha e d eti h n e g, negotiations were confided. Those negotiations had been now satisfactorily. completed upon the terms which they would find stated in the report. It had also been decided th bu nn t g h h e t fe it lt by the Great Western Company, that an application should be made to Parliament to enable an interest of 5 per cent. to be paid upon the paid-up capital for five years, and the agreement at the end of those five years would secure to them half of the surplus profits in addi tion to that interest. There was also a clause in the Bill which prohibited the payment of interest to shareholders whose calls were in arrear, and that clause had been found so harsh, that with the consent of the Great Western Company, the authority of Parl iament wo uld be sought in order to re move it. It was proposed, also, to render assistance to many of the Irish lines, from which their own railway would draw a very considerable amount of traffic, by taking some of their shares; but it would not be necessary to hold those shares longer than the temporary pressure required for its abatement. The report of Mr. Brunel was very favourable and it stated that a very considerable portion of their line was completed, and the remainder would be finished and open for public traffic in the course of two years. A considerable portion of the line was already let out in contracts., and would speedily b e i n a situation to' be counted as forming a portion of completed lines. He was not aware that there were any other circumstances neces sary to place under their attention, and as soon as the report was read by the secretary, he would move its adoption. The SECHETA itY then read - the report, from which it ap peared that the terms of the lease of the South esWa I Rail way to the Great Western Company were as follow : "The proprietors of the South Wales Railway to receive interest at five per cent. per annum on all paid calls, and also upon sums advanced in anticipation of calls. Such interest to be charged in the cost of construction until the line is completed. "After that period the Great Western Company to pay in perpetuity a minimum interest at the rate of live per cent. per annum upon the share capital expended, besides defray ing all the current interest on loans taken up, not exceeding the sums mentioned above. "The lease to commence when the line from Gloucester to Fishguard and the Newport and Monmouth line shall be finished, provided (as respects the latter) the Great Western Company shall also complete their line from Gloucester to Monmouth by the same time, but not otherwise. "One moiety of the surplus profits at the end of five years after the lease commences, is to be divided among the South Wales shareholders in addition to the guaranteed interest. " Any partial opening to be worked by the Great Western Company, and the proceeds applied to the interest charged on South Wales capital. "Arrangements for new lines to be purchased or leased, to be made subject to the consent of the Great Western Com pany, and separately provided for." The report also stated that " Under the terms of the above agreement, it had become necessary to consider, in conjunction with the Great Western Company, how far it would be attended with advantage to their mutual interests that some assistance should be given to carry out the undertakings sanctioned by Parliament in the last session, by contributing to the Vale of Leath, the Llynvi Valley, the Tenby and Saundersfoot, the Cork and Waterford, and the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow and Dublin Railways. "All those measures were of importance to the traffic of the South Wales Railway, and it had been considered by both companies most desirable to support them by taking a limited number of shares, and holding them so long as might be necessary to secure the accomplishment of their objects, and the guaranteed rateof interest by the G reat Western Come pany would consequently extend over any sum which might be found necessary for those shares, or for any difference when they were disposed of, over and above the cost of construct ing the South Wales Railway, as provided for in the original agreement sanctioned by the recent extraordinary meeting. "The purchase of a portion of line in the Swansea Vailey partially constructed had been also agreed for, with a view to make an extension of it, as a valuable feeder, to bring the mineral traffic from that district to the South Wales line. The owners of the Swansea Valley line were to receive the suns of 70,000/. in a certain number of South Wales shares. to be created for that purpose, if Parliament should sanction the undertaking as a portion of the South Wales line; and the shares so to be created for, and to be taken by, th e owners of the Swansea Valley line, would, when all the calls should have been made on them, be adequate to pay, not only the agreed purchase money, but to defray the addi tional cost of the portion of the line whic h was p ro p osed in extension of it to the other works up the same valley, viz., to the Ystalyf era an d Y n i sce dwyn works, and a short branch to,loin the Cumtwreh Railway." fhe receipts of the eampany up to the 31st of December, 1846, were 301,503/. 18s. Od., and the payments up to the same period, 277,659/, 7 e . 3d., leaving a balance or 23,8441. 11 s. 6d. The report was then received. The retiring directors on this occasion were—D. A Saun ders Davies, Esq. M.P., David Lewis. Esq ., D avid Morris, Esq. M.P., John H. Vivian, Esq. M.P., but they were re elected without opposition. B. Dobree, Esq. retired from the auditorship, but was re elected. After some further conversation, a vote of thank s h av i ng been given to the Chairman , the meeting separated. THE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RAIL- WAYS. The usual half-yearly general meetinc , of the proprietors of the Buckinghamshire Railways (Oxford and Bletchley, and Buckingham and Brackley Junction Compa ies) was held yesterday afternoon, at the Euston-square Station of the London and North-Western Railway ; Sir Hurry Ver ney, chairman of the board of directors, in the chair. The report stated that the directors had to announce that they had let their works of both the Oxford and Bletchley and Buckingham and Brackley lines on satisfactory terms to Mr. Brassey. The shares of the company, on which 2/. 2s. had been paid, had, is consequence of the proceedings in Parliament last year, necessarily been reduced in registra tion in the proportion of 1 to 2 each registered share. After such reduction was credited with 41. 45., as paid, and including the 2/. call received on the Ist of March, 61. 4s. per share would thus have been paid on each share of 171. 103. each. The directors had determined to confine their southern extension to a line from Claydon to Aylesbury (a distance of ten miles). It was also proposed to extend the lino northwards from Brackley to Banbury. A Bill had been introduced into Parliament for power to construct the ex • tension lines, and in this Bill would be comprised powers to consolidate the two companies into one. The total receipts up to the present time amounted to 169,3591. 125., and the expenditure to 35.544/. 4s. 6(1. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, the report was adopted. and the retiring directors and auditors re-elected. A resolu tion was then passed, placing 3001. at the disposal of the di rectors for providing moral and religious instruction for the men engaged upon the works. This closed the business of the half-yearly meeting. SPECIAL MEETING. The proprietors then resolved themselves into a special meeting for the purpose of considering and approving of the Bill authorising the amalgamation and extensions. The CHAIIniAN stated that the extensions would consi derably enhance the undertaking, inasmuch as one of them would place them in direct communication with the metro polis, through the medium of the proposed London, Oxford, and Cheltenham line, while the other would give them access with the Herefordshire districts. Buck inghamsbire was famed for the fattening of Herefordshire cattle, and, of course, a line which gave them a direct com munication with that country, must, of necessity, prove of immense value both to themselves and the districts through which the line would pass. Besides these advantages, the • construction of the Bedford line and its extension would open up to them Cambridge and Norwich, and the Norfolk districts. A PROPRIETOR wished to know how it was proposed to raise the capital? The CHAIRMAN replied that all the shares which had been rejected by the proprietors had been taken up by the London and North Western Company, and that was the means by which thy capital would be raised. All the shares were offered to the proprietors in the first instance, but only 3,000 were accepted by them out of 20,000. A PIIOPILIETOS asked what the capital would be, and the length of the extensions. The CHAIRMAN replied that the capital would be 450,0001. and the length of each extension about ten miles. The Bill was then approved, and the meeting terminated, with the customary vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. NORTHERN COUNTIES' RAIL WAY. The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in this railway was held yesterday at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street ; Major Beresford in the chair. The SECRETARY, having read the advertisement calling the meeting, submitted the report of the directors, from which we make the following extracts:— "At the meeting held last month your directors reported to you fully on the position of the company, and on the pro gress made towards carrying out the resolutions of the first general meeting; they have now to add, that the Deviation Bill then authorised is proceeding in the House of Commons ; and your directors look forward with confidence, after the strong expression of the shareholders in its favour, to the sanction of Parliament being given to the measure. " Your directors have in:de the necessary arrangements for commencing active operations in the spring on the portion of the line from Wath up Wensleydale, and from Tebay to the junction of the main line. Your directors deem it advisable to exeoute the line from Wath to Leyburn (which is of easy construction) without delay, that advantage may be taken of the opening of the Leeds and Thirsk line, to secure the traffic from the district of Wensleydale to Leeds and the south, which your directors confidently trust will of itself afford you an early and remunerative return for the outlay. " To commence this part of the undertaking a call on the shareholders will be necessary, which your directors now propose at the rate of 1/. 10s. per share, payable on the 17th of April. " The general Act requires that one-third of the directors should retire by ballot, and the names ballotted out are— W. Beresford, Esq., M.P., H. Pease, Esq., W. R Collett, Esq., M.P., Christopher Other, Esq., John Whitwell, Esq., J. Middleton, Esq. " Those who retire are, however, eligible, and the board recommend their re-election. "One of the auditors elected at the first meeting having also to retire by rotation, Richard Dutton, Esq., retires, but the Board recommend his re-election. "The deputation appointed at the last meeting to treat with the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyna Junction Railway Company have made their report on the subject of the amalgamation, which the Board recommend for yonr consideration. " The balance-sheet of the company shows a balance of cash in hand of 55,510/. 7s. Bd." The CHAIRMAN having commented on some of the points referred to in the above report, concluded by moving that it should be received, adopted, and circulated among the sub scribers. If any one had any questions to ask, he would be happy to answer them. A SHAREHOLDER then asked when the report of the deputa tion appointed at the last meeting to treat with the Liverpo Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway Company, would be submitted to them? The CHAIRMAN intimated, that if the proprietors pleased, that should be done before the motion for the adoption of the reliant "'rata put to tho mooting, and then proceeded to read the report of the deputation as to the amalgamation. Several other questions having been proposed and satis factorily answered. the motion was then unanimously adopted. On the motion that the retiring directors should be re elected, an objection was taken to the name of Mr. Other, and Mr. Thompson proposed in his stead. A long and desul• tory discussion on the merits of the respective gentlemen then ensued, but the amendment was eventually withdrawn. The retiring auditor was also re-elected. Mr. OXLEY then obServed, with reference to the report of the deputation appointed to treat with the Liverpool, Man • chester,and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway Company, that the terms specified for the amalgamation were fair and equitable to both comparsies, and considered that they should meet with the approval of the company. He thought that the amalgamation in question, if carried out with prudence and economy, would have the effect of making their own line more profitable, and be advantageous to all parties. He would conclude by proposing a resolution, to the effect that the meeting approves of the terms specified, and authorising the directors to conclude the agreement. Mr. PEACOCK seconded the resolution, which was unani mously agreed to. SPECIAL MEETING. The meeting was then made special, to submit to the ap proval of the shareholders a Bill to enable the Northern Counties Union Railway Company to make certain altera tions in their railway in the parishes of Aysgarth and Wensley, in the North Riding of the county of ork. An abstract of the clauses was then read by Mr. Baxter, the solicitor; and a resolution, moved by Mr. Glyn and se conded by Mr. Denyer, approving of the Bill, was then una nimously agreed to. A vote of thanks was given to the chairman and direc tors, and also to the deputation on the amalgamation. The meeting then separated. PETITIONS ON PRIVATE BILLS. HOUSE OF COMIIONS.—FEB. 24. (Room 22, before Mr. Examiner Salmi) UNOPPOSED LIST. In the following unopposed cases the customary formal proofs were completed:— Edinburgh and Northern (St. Andrew's and .Newburgh Harbour, Branch and Road Crossings, Newport Railway Extension). Ayrshire Roads. Shipowners' Towing Company. Dunfermline and Cupar Court Houses. Terrington Marsh, Division, Allotment, and Inclosure. Runcorn Gas Amendment. Wisbech Port and Harbour Act Amendment. Midland Railway (Cheltenham, Warwick, and Leamington Line)—proposed Extension from the Birmingham and Glou cester Line of the Midland Railway at Ashchurch, to War wick and Leamington. and Junction with the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, with Branches to Cheltenham. Midland Railway (Gloucester and Stonehouv. Junction) — proposed branch to unite the Birmingham and Glouc,!ster line of the Midland Railway at Gloucester with the Bristol and Gloucester line of the Midland Railway, near the Stone house station, and alteration of existing gauge. Sandwich Haven and River Improvement. National Mercantile Life Assurance Society. Tyne Docks. Enfield and Edmonton Railway Extension. OPPOSED C ASE. Kilrnarnock and Ayr Direct Railway (Railway from Kil marnock to Ayr, with Branch to the Harbour of Ayr). This adjourned opposed case occnpied the rest of the day. It was further adjourned. (Room 23, before Mr. Examiner MAY.) UNOPPOSED LI ST. In the following unopposed cases the customary formal proofs were completed : Charing-cross Bridge (heretofore the Hungerford and Lambeth Suspension Foot-bridge). York and North Midland Railway (Hull Station and Branches). York and North Midland Railway (Harrogate Branch, Extension, and Terminus). Newcastle and Berwick Railway (East Coast Line, Blyth, Seaton Sluice, and other Branches). Newcastle and Berwick Railway (Cramlington and Percy Main, and Killingworth and other Branches). Vale of Neath Railway Branches and Amendment. Cambridge, St. Neot's, and Bedford Junction Railway. Blackburn Improvement, Market, &c. Tunstall Paving, Lighting, Cleansing, Watching, Improve ment, and Market. Ayr Harbour Improvement. Rutherglen and Strathbungo Turnpike-road. Swansea Valley Line and Branches. Waterford Turnpike. Dublin Consumers' Gas. Grand Canal Amendment of Acts Railway Amalgamation. OPPOSED CASE. a inlkpltaonnehteoster Cheltenham,an d Soutll att,l: ]joinno n , Railway e l ( a r t - ne ßa fr i o ,,ay S t o u va t ii h tlit i connecting lilies, to join the proposed London.. Orford, rn Railway, with Branches of the London and South-Western power to the power to purchase the Andover Canal Cheltenham Railway, the Great Western Railway, and the , Basingstoke and Salisbury and Bishop,sto,ke, ith Western Railway Company London a n a d n and a Sl u t inquiry h- Th i This opposed thex or use the undertaking.) standing orders had Midland Railway Company and the to A w t a t rd h s e , c o lo r se to of ta th k e e d. not been complied with. Adjourned till to-morrow (this day). a casem in e r was decided thetn thawrsu subscribemtel FUNERAL OF Ma. R OR ERT STEEL.—Yesterday afternoon the remains of this much respected man (who, for upwards of 20 years, a bly fulfilled the office of Secret ar y to the London Daily N ew spaper Compositors Society) were in terred in the churchyard of St. Mary's, Lambeth, in the pre sence of a very numerous and nspectable assemblage of his fellow-workmen, by whom he was universally respected. The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Frederick of Hesse visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday, at Clareuoe House, St. James's. TREASURY WARRANT. (From a Supplement to the London Gazette of Tuesday Whereas by a w4rvant, under the hands of thr. e of , he Commissioners of her Nlnj sty's i reasury, da•ed the 16. h December, 1846, after noticing that, in consequence of a communication opened with the Post-office of Pruisia, it was considered expedient to alter the rates of postage payable on hqtera and newspapers, and other printed papers, conveyed between that country and the United Kingdom via Ha•nburgh, the Netherlands, or Belgium, certain rates of postage were thereby made rayable on letters convey( d between Prussia and the United Kingdom, vid liamburgh, the Netheriands, or Bel gium, according to the weight thereof, and a scale of weight therein mentioned or referred to ; and it was thereby further directed, that British newspai,ers, and such British publications as were allowed to pass by the post as newspapers in the United Kingdom, sent from the United Kingdom to Prussia or to foreign countries, the correspondence of which was or should be trans mitted through Prussia, might be sent by the post at a rate of one halfpenny each : _ _ . Now we, the undersigned, being three of the Commis sioners of her Majesty's Treasury, do, in exercise of the power or authority to us for such purpose reserved or given in and by the said warrant, wholly repeal the said rate of one halfpenny on the transmission by the post of all such British newspapers, and British publications allowed to pass by the post as newspapers in the United Kingdom, as are mentioned in the said warrant ; and do hereby, in exercise of the power or authority in us for such purpose vested in and by an Act of Parliament, male and passed in the third and fourth years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled An Act for the regu lation of the duties of Postage," and of all other powers and authorities enabling us in this behalf, order and direct that British newspapers, and such British pub licatiens as are allowed to pass by the post as newspapers in the United Kingdom, sent by the pest from the United Kingdom via Hamhurgh, the Netherlands, or Belgium, to Prussia or to foreign countries, the correspondence of which is or shall be tratismitted through Prussia (the conveyance from the United Kingdom to Hamburgb, the Netherlands, or Belkium, being by packet boat or private sYp), shall and may be sent free of British postage ; provided always that no British news papers, and British publications, allowed to pass by the post as newspapers in the United Kingdom, shall be con veyed by the post under the regulatiOns of this present warrant, unless the same be sent without a cover, or in a cover open at the sides, nor unless there be no ward or communication printed on the pap• r after its publication, or upon the cover thereof, and no writing or manual mark be upon it, or upon the cover of it, except the name and address of the person to whom sent, nor any paper or thing inclosed in or with the same ; and every such news paper, or British publication allowed to pas , by the post as a newsaaper in the United Kingdom, shall be forwarded under and subj.-ct to such other conditions, regulations, restrictions, and penalties, as by the said A..t ut Parlia ment of the thirei and fourth years of the reign of her present Majesty are directt.d in respect of newspapers and printed papers sent by post. And whereas by the said warrant it was further di rected that printed pamphlets an.l periodical publica tions (not being strictly newspapers, and not bearing British newspaper stamps), printed and posted withinahe United Kingdom, addressed to Prussia, and printed pam phlets and periodical publications (not being entitled to pass as newspapers), printed and posted in Prussia, ad diessed to any pl .ee in the United Kingdom, might be sent by the post via Hainburgh, tie Netherlands, or Belgium, by packet boat or private ship, according to the regulations and rates thereinafter mentioned ; and that the Postmaster-Genersl might cause the postage on the same (if posted in the United Kingdom) to be paid on the same being put into the post-office ; and that in case the same should pass through a foreign country, any foreign postage payable thereon should be charged and paid in addition to the British postage ; and that no such pamphlet or publication should be conveyed by the post, except under the conditions, regulations, restrictions, and penalties therein mentioned or re ferred to : Now we, the undersigned, in exercise of all powers and anthorities enabling us in this behalf, do hereby wholly repeal all the rates of postage by the said recited war rant charged upon, and all the conditions, regulations, restrictions, and penalties in and by the said war rant expressed and contained or re:erred to in re spect of printed pamphlet sent by the post (not be ing strictly a newspaper, and not bearing a British newspaper stamp), printed and posted in the United Kingdom, addressed to Prussia, and upon and in respect to any printed pamphlet (riot being entitled to pass as a newspaper), printer and posted in Prussia, ad dressed to any place in the United Kingdom, sent by the post via Hamburgh, the Netherlands, or Belgium, by packet boat or private ship. And we do hereby direct that in lieu of all rates of post.. age imposed by the said warrant on any such printed pamphlets there shall be charge d and taken on every printed pamphlet (not being strictly a newspaper, and not bearing a British newspaper stamp), printed and posted within the United Kingdom, addressed to Prussia, and on every printed pamphlet (not being en titled to pass as a newspaper) printed and posted in Prussia, addressed to any place in the United Kingdom, senq.by the post via Hamburgh, the Netherlands, or Belgium, by packet boat or private ship, and not ex ceeding half an ounce in weight, an uniform rate of British postage of sixpence. And we further direct, that on every such printed pamphlet, transmitted as is mentioned in this warrant, exceeding half an ounce in weight, there shall be charged and taken progressive and additional rates of . postage, according to the scale of weight and number of rates in the said Act of the third and fourth years of the reign of her present Ma jesty, contained as to letters, estimating and charging each additional rate at the sum which any such printed pamphlet would be charged with under this warrant, if not exceeding half an ounce in weight. And we direct, that as to any such printed pamphlets as hereinbefore mentioned (pamphlet; registered as let ters only excepted, in respect of which all rates of postage payable thereon, whether foreign or British, are to be prepaid), posted in the United Kingdom, addressed to Prussia, and forwarded by packet boat from the United Kingdom via Hamburgh, the Netherlands, or Belgium, and as to any such printed pamphlets :;s herein before is mentioned, posted in the United King. 4 om (except pamphlets registered as letters as aforesaid), addressed and to be forwarded to any foreign country through Prussia, by packet boat or private ship, from the United Kingdom to Hamburgh, the Netherlands, or Belgium, the Postmaster. General may, in his dis cretion, allow the whole of the postage thereof, British or foreign, as the case may be, to be charged to the receiver of the pamphlet, or he may require the whole of such postage to be paid on the same being put into the Post-office, but in no ease shall the sender have the option of paying the British rite and of leaving the foreign postage to be paid in Prussia. Aud we further direct, that as to any such pamphlets as hereinbefore mentioned, posted in the. United King dom, addressed to Prussia, and to be forwarded from the United Kirgdons to Hacaburgh, the Netherlands, or Belgium, by private ship, the Postmaster-General may cause the whole of the postage (British an.l foreign) to be paid on the same being put into the post-office. And we further direct, that nothing. herein contained .shall be deemtd or construed to extend to any print':: periodical publicati: ns (not being - trictly newspapers, and not bearing newspaper stwops), printed ar_d po-ted within the United Kingdom, addressed to Prussia, and printed periodical publications (not being entitled to pass as newspaper), printed and posted in Prussia, addressed to any place in the United Kingdom, and sent by the post between the United Kingdom and Prussia vid Haraburgh, the Netherlands, or Belgium, which are to be charged with the same rates of postage as the same are-uloa. chargeable with under or by virtue of the said recited warrant. And we further direct, that nothing herein con tained shall be deemed or construed to extend to any newspapers or pamphlets passivg by the post be tween the United Kingdom and Prussia vid France, which are to be charged with the same rates of postage as if the said recited warrant and this present warrant had not been signed. And we further direct, that nothing herein con tained shall be deemed or construed to annul. prejudice, ur affect any of the exemptions and privileges granted by the said Act of the third and fourth years of the reign of her present Majesty, .or by an Act, made and passed in the first year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled An Act for the Ma nagement of the Post office," and 111,4 all such exemp tions and privileges shall remain in full twee. And we furtte r direct, that the terms and expressions used in this warrant shall be construed to have the like meaning, in all respects, as they would have had if in serted in the said Act of the third and fourth years of the reign of her present Majesty. And we further direct, that this warrant shall come into operation on the first day of March, 1847. Provided lastly, and we hereby declare and direct, that it shall be lawful for the Commissioners for the time being of her Majesty's Treasury, or any three of them, by warrant under their hands, at any time here after to alter or repeal any of the rates hereby altered, or the regulations hereby made, and to make and esta blish any new or other rates or regulations in lieu there of, and from time to time to appoint at what time the rates that may be payable are to be paid. Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, the 22d day of February, 1847. O'CONOR DON. W. GIBSON CRAIG EBRINGTON. • TWEED SALMON FISITING.—SaImon fishing in the Tweed commences on Monday, and from the large quantities of 'fish seen in the bay, hopes are entertained that the "take," at least at the commencement, will be more than an average one.—Edinburgh Advertiser. A Polish journal gives some details relative to the number of Poles who have emigrated to foreign countries. In 1846 it amounted to 8,180, of whom 4,739 were in France. and 3,449 in England, Belgium, Switzerland, Algeria, &c. Of those in France, 3,770 received aid from the Government, the average allowance being about 301. a month. There are 494 decorated with the military cross of Poland, and 36 with that of the Legion of Honour. The Lumber of emigrants deceased since the commencement of the exile is 755 me!. and 28 women. There are 11 Polish officers in the foreign legion of Algeria, and 17 in the Belgian army, of whom two are generals. The number of persons whose property has been confiscated by the Russian Government amounts to 5,362, and the value of the whole may be calculated at 100,000,000 E IMPORTANCE OF SPACE IN WORKSHOPS. — "Among 104 men (letter-press printers) having less than 500 cubic feet of air to breathe, there were 13 who had spit blood, 13 who were subject to habitual catarrh, and 18 to other diseases, making a total of 44 invalids; of 103 men. who_ had from 500 to 600 cubic feet of air to reathe, had soft blood, 4 were subject to colds, and 23 to other diseases, making to all 32 invalids; while out of 100 men having m. , re thou 600 smplit making o c f ub b i l c oo f d i7t 2 o fr f a o i m r t c o a t h a r r e r a h t , h e a , nd 4 o lB nl a total of 24 invalids." . y fr om had o s t fr e r d e i e from , IRELAND. Dunetts, Fen. 22 —Fsailies p stience are sweep ;fig off th.- ss.p ttisn in ssv , sal of the western and ssuthere Th., rosy, received this, day are still more horrible than any that have yet appeared. In the extent of mortality Sligo now appears to• surpass any other aunty, and it is asserted that the police, finding the deaths from starvation so numerous, ret'eso to send for the coroners, probably b.-cause it would be physically impossible for those functionaries to hold in quests in so many esses and in different lovalities. Ana vet, in this very county et filiso, that local journal, the' Sligo Champion, makes a most startling exposure of an iidatoons system of jobbing on the public works by land d for the employment, it is alleged, of their relations and dependents at high salaries, to the exclusion of the destitute and famishing labourers. The reports from the county of Cork describe the destitution as daily becoming more desolating, extend ing t . the better class of farmers, who, it is stated, after paying their rents, are now consuming the grsin they had reserved for seed, whilst the peasantry, all tho u g h that.eitensive county, are dying by hundreds. The police throughout the country have received in structions to furnish returns of the deaths from starva tion and disease. The number reported, up to the close of the last week, at the Constabulary-office in Pub"' was FIFTY THOUSAND. But there are many deaths tiona want and disease of which the police in the country could have had no knowledge. The actual number of deaths from starvation is probably much larger than the amount reported by the police. INFAMOUS JOBBING ON PUBLIC WORKS. The Sligo Champion contains the following cannot in decency, in conscience, refrain any longer from denouncing the gross and infamous system of job bing going on in this county, with reference to the roan' ner in which the public works have been conducted and managed. We have been silent too long. In the mid st of the calamity which has fallen upon us, we find the I ndlords trieling upon the miseries of the people. rh. Board of Works is humbugged, the government cheated, the poor defrauded. We must speak out; a gigantic swindle is now carried on in the county of Sligo. The poor are not relieved by the vast grants of money kirni s by a liberal ministry, but the sons of MagiStrateSi " grand jurors, of parsons, rich farmers well to do in Oa world, comfortable tradesmen, all these are quartered upon the public. We saw, for instance, two men over seeing seven labourers ; we have inspectors, paymasteras overseers—officials of all ranks and grades in every locality: not selected for their ability, but because they have interest—because they can command the voices Of the landlords of the county. The jobbing that hereto.. fore existed was but a juke, a mere trifle to .what iS now carried on. It exceeds all bounds and all limits. It is monstrous ; we proclaim the tact to the world. We proclaim that here in Sligo—th- very focus of misery-- where famine is the daily guest at the peasant's table--. where pestilence and dea h hold their ghostly revels-- we eroclaim, openly and publicly, that in this doomed locality. a set of men, removed from want th e mselves , . possessed of means and resources beyond the reach Of cheerless penury—are enjoying, and have been from the commencement enjoying, the fat of the spoil. They get, and have been getting for mouths, the lion's share- The poor are neglected, plundered, robbed. In roof instances their miserable stipend of Bd. a day is so Wag withheld tha'; they sink down exhausted by the wayside it'd die government creditors, while the sons of g rand jurors and oi parsons with gosd livings, are drawing this tWo or three pounds a week." REPRESENTATION OF NEW Ross.—The orzjori Jade pendent gives au authorised contradiction to the re' port that the Hon. Captain Gore is about to resign the representation of New Ross. REPEAL ASSOCIATION. The weekly meeting of the assocuitien was held tu'r day. Mr. J. H. l)unne in the chair. Mr. Steele el' gmulated the association that the rumours regardil the state of Mr. O'Conneli's health were extremely e>< aggerated. It was true Mr. O'Connell was slightly W disposed, and he (Mr. Steele) regretted to be obliged-10 say that his illness was in a great degree increased hi the awful state to which the country was reduced. :„SS The rent for the week was announced to be 43/..25.aw RUSSIA. • THE. GRECO-RUSSIAN CHURCH.--" The Emp eror Emp eror Of Russia has recently issued a decree, the object of 4 /b llw. is to prevent proselytism in favour of any other religiunt than the Greco-Russian. The first article declares , IP, * any person abjuring the Greco Russian religion shall placed at the disposal of the ecclesiastical autbori t t f t shall be disinherited by such ef his - relations as Pr° l ° . that religion, shall have all his fortune placed undcrecT: trul, alai shall not be allowed to reside in the district h: which his property is situated. If he returns . witltiA t boSom of the Established Church, these penalties are to cease; but if he does not return within the time fiXecl 'J o the ecclesiastical authorities; he is to be cited beforeo criminal tribunal, which cannot inflict a penalty less 11 ! s that of perpetual detention in a convent, with uneen slo 7, acts of' penitence and contrition. The fourth articl e K b vides that whoever shall deliver discourses, or -Punja bis , a `, o , writings calculated to cause persons who belong t° Greco-Russian Church to abandon their faith, shal l 'a the prerogatives of his rack,, and be. condemn - 0 to from one to two years' imprisonment. If the Salt offence be committed twice, the delinquent is to be 07. destined to the loss of civil rights, and to hard labour; a tertress tor from four to six years;_ if a third tin 2 e , is to be exiled in Siberia, and, in addition to all this, h e is to receive the knout if he belongs to the classes; ject to corporal punishment. Article 5 declares tha t lathers S and Mothers belonging to the G reco -1105 , 4r Church, who shalt cause their children to b e b a ptis ` l l another form of faith, shall be punished with two year"' imprisonment, and shall have their children taken fret°, them, and educated by other m e mb e rs of their family 0 ' the Greco-Russian religion ; and in case there be r relations of that creed, then by persons nominated 'Y.. the Government. Any-person preventing member o another religion from embracing the Greco -Russian ' to be imprisoned for several months.—Gatigna ni. TEN PERSONS DROWNED IN AN i t s OMNIBUS. BRIDPORT, FRIDAY EVENING. — A.Most Inelaneboll t occurrence took place in this town on- ,Tuesday J ae — (a brief account of which appeared in• The Sun , fe w days since). On Tuesday eve n ing last Bowden 's en i c i nibus. which plies bet Ween Bid e f o ri and Torrington' s % designated the '' Safety," drew up opposite the tleeiL 6 ,,./ 0 at six o'clock started for the latt e r town. The vel"a was full of passengers, eleven persons being inside , a n , one on the roof. It had not gone many yards before ° l t of the horses became restive, and after making toe ° Ls three plunges the pole and splinter b r oke asunder f r° the carriage, which instantly we n t down the decliviti:, the quay, end Kith the wh o le of its pas s engers was Pr a eipitated over into the river. The night was dark, a n there was upwards of 20 teet of water, the tide being uP i i There was a terrific shriek from the passengets, but 4 was only Momentary. A woman, who was on the 0 0 fortunately got ashore, and Mr. Michael ChapPle'bui s t glove maker, of Torrington, by a desperate effort, 'ed open the door of the omnibus and swam ashore, assi se by a soldier, who bravely jumped in to his rescue* was the only one of the inside passengers who escar,,7,: the remainder all perished. Grappling " irons were lwe me,fia.tely procured, and every eff'ort made to save so„°, l , 01 them, but 10. in vain; it was nearly two hours bete:„ the omnibus wits brought ashore. When raised on ro w thy: quay the sight w.is trtily ho r rifyin g ; the suffe re were lying in a mass at the iurtherost end froce ,tm ni entrance. It was evident they had struggled e arneS tj f, to escape. The inquest on th e bodi es to o k place y,,es, te p re day, before Mr. tidbit), the borough coroner. •-r„ - A. names were L ive n out as follriws:—Mrs. Fanny Fri e ' ( 6 a tip, aged 40 (left five children) ; Ann Nortns i a A 5, widow), aged 65 ; Mrs. Elizibeth Frie n d s hip, age': f (lett six children) ; Mary A nn F r i en d s hi p (daugbi,e`,) t °. the lag deceased), aged 11 ; Mrs. Ann P age , age" j Mr. John Chappl e , age d 60 (b rot h er o f t h e gen tleol who escaped) ; J o h n Passrnore, aged ~ 30; Miss Eliza Griffey, aged 60 ; an d two other females, names , 1 ,"'; known. The burd e n o f th e evi d ence went to prove r the melancholy affair arose from accident alone, although the driver was ch a r g ed with using drunk, nij a a incapable of taking charge of his horses, the whole proved unfounded. After a lengthened inquiry, le nic e( l lasted several hours, the jury returned the eubjoinl, verdict:—" Accidental death, and the jury stiva b l e recommended an indictment being laid against, to authotities of the town for allies ing the quay Siue' remain in the dangerous state it was." _ - A GRVAT IMPOSTOR. — On Thtiriday last, a of looking young lad, who rejoices in the imposing titl e Or. James Henry Christopher Hunter, was brou g ht beforLd, Sheriff Douglas at Cupar, on a charge of falsehood , L - ro s and wilful imposition—lst,.By having t a k en loduings"isle lady in Kirkaldy, which he occupied fur some days on w e av i n g pretence that he was a commission agent. 2d, With btri imposed on the managers of the Assembly-rooms of git t he by engaging and taking possession of these rooms ot r il false pretence that hP was going to exhibit Gewrot Tom Thumb, the Ethiopian Serenaders of Virginia:, fit. the Indian chief, T ongo M ongoro. 3d, By impOsini °.% Birrell, printer, Ki r k a ld y, and i nducing him to pr/O„,'L i tos hand-hill, and fi ve h undre d admission cards. 4th,e'rebi fishing this bill th roug h t h e town o f Kirkaldy, il inducing the lieges to purchase tickets. And the Assembly-rooms w ere li g ht e d u p, an d I,he P e t s 's/0' partly assembled, by running off in a gig for Burn and failing to pay any of the parties above mention.e°_, be d' was caught at Edinburgh by the very dicer wbo 11 ,' );,„ r st engaged by him to take charge of the receipts of theto Kirkaldy. Re pleaded guilty, and was sentenced t° days' imprisonment.—Edinburgh Advertiser. BIRTHS. ' On the 15th inst., at the Highway, Enfield, the wife of Dr' PO Jameson, of a &tughter. (Dr. All''t t, On the lath inst., at Boulogne-SW.3ler, the lady 0 ....,- of a son. w .,,,ad th e ISF On the 22d inst., at Andover Lodge, New Finehler .— ' of Barclay Greenhill, Esq., of a son. f th e Bel' •If On the 23d inst., at Hillfield, Hampstead, the wife o Dar On in Fox, Rector of Delamere, of a on. the 24th inst., in Hereford-street, s Park-lane, the wif e a 7 e‘el Dawson, Esq., of a son. On the 24th inst., in Westbourne-street, Hyde-park-gartle°°' th e wife of J. Baker, Esq., of a daughter. f 11 ,11aneS On the 24th inst., in Upper Grosvenor-street, the lady 0- S • Weir Hogg, Bart., .M.P., of twni sons. a s 011• On the 24th inst., at Bornser, Mrs. F. Robertson , of MAHRIEDrdo, On the 23d inst., at the Old Church, . Brighton, Waiter „w pf Esq., late 7th Hussars, to Cath,rine Cecilia, yo unger daug u. Charles John Craven, Esq., of Kemp-town, Brighton. lED. -. Grace, On the 19th inst., Elizabeth, D widow of the late Tho m - Esq., ot Prince's Risborough, Bucks n a a 5 3 ., 0:: the 21't inst., in Oxford-terrac'e,John Rawlins, EF ( I. , -- - e r megS. a On the 22d inst., at Barford-bridge, near Dorking, Eliza, Y. -- aughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Carmichael, aged 15. rah. On the 22d inst., in Albion-road, Stoke Ne%.ingten, Mail 'MT oto 011 the 23d inst., S. Brown Esq., of On the 22d hist . In Charterhouse-square, the Rev. Iletcher i e Smith, aged 29. aged 81. On the `2*.d titm, Mr. Hulbert. ofl,,aig-aere aged fiG. '.... of Greed e...bni................................................,02t the 21th hist., Emma daughter of Charl'es ReS.•"—.*'_______ -------------_, To. 112. ''"'-'"- ''11,,,,,... nni:- ~. m N: ,It1)0 Y 0 1,1 4" "4";;,,ret Ithwrnsbury - Ei tlare, ~,,..„.•tge,t , f r: nd. in tu_,:,,T re 'r ' be 5 ,,, v. in tit,. County of Middlesex. T 11121.. bruary 25, 1847. - ''. -; 1 ' . ' 1 1 1 I . 1 i-