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Right Hon. Gentleman, he did not wish to dwell upon his state ment, but had he been in the House, he would have contradicted everything he had said.—(Laughter.) It hart been said that his object was to promote the interest, of the great lines already made, or in progress, but that was not the object of his Bill. The strong lines could take care of th emse l ves . Th e L on d on an d Birmingham ln Of Ireland, the Ulster line, was ten years in dragging its slow thisseh along ; and after all, only 24 m il es had been completed. hue there had been 21,000 passengers against every London and Birmingham line. Ile understood that certain ett Companies had offered better terms than he proposed, if the 13,0000n railway On length the rn anent would lend assistance, but his object was to intersectth G e oe whole • countrywith a system of railways, and not to selec t t r t a h tu e e n be e st p t a h y e hng a n l l i g n t e a s. Now, then, taking into accownt the returns fur forer and American railways, he thought there was was an absolute certainty able to repay the Govern ;that not only would the Irish railways b 'lnent advances, but that they would also realise a considerable ih • profit. H right Hon. Baronet the very 3oin e thought that the . Tamworth was quite sonvinced that the of somestate m , statement in , a gr d e e a b i known,". with respect to the by the . Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the authority 25 He or was 30 quitem en sore per that mile Upon the railways, was altogether the Chancellor of the Exchequer had :not made his statements on the authority of Mr. Brunel, for he (Lord G. Bentinck) saw, from a report of that gentleman, that he could employ upon the Stranmore Railway, a line of seven miles in length, from 700 to 1,000 men. Then the Hon. and Gallant Admiral the Member for. Marylebone . told the House that the Irish labourers were not capable of performing the work en those railways. There was no man Pa the House who had greater respect for the Gallant Admiral than he had, when in his eroper sphere—(Laughter) —and if Com modore Connor ant General Taylor should succeed in ennexing Mexico, and turn their attention to the British West Indies, or if Prince Joinville should think proper to sail up the Thames with an arma ment, as his Highness once threatened to do, there wes no officer in the British navy lie (Lord G. Bentinck) should wish to see in com e mend of the fleet more than the Gallant Ad. 1r l.—(Cheers ) But the moment the Gallant Admiral stepped from the gangway, or got into the dockyard, or even set his foot on shore, he was as much out of his element as a fish out of water.—(Cheers.) c ‘3le understood that the Government empowered the Gallant Admiral to build a steam-ship of war, which he christened the " Sidon," but 'the jolly tars, for reasoes best known to themselves, and which "might he understood by the House, had rechristened her, and called -her "Drunken Charley,"—(Great laughter.) He received a letter *from Thomastown, which informed him that the relief committee was a sinecure, except when the weather was toe bad to permit the labourers to work upon the line.—(Hear, hear). He held :also in his hand a letter from a Major Wandesford, • which stated that the works upon the Kilkenny and Waterford Railway had been stopped for want of funds, and that the strangers who had been employed there were now going about the country i Insisting on obtaining money or food. lie would entreat the House to pay attention to this fact—when railways were carried on the people were employed, a n d qu i e t ness prevailed ; when they ceased, 'riot and disorder was the consequence, and the assistance of the Police and military had to be sought for. The Hon. Member for S Cork bad stated to the House that 25,0'0 souls had already pe rished from the famine, and that two millions would follow from the same cause, and from pestilence, and he therefore entreated that English gentlemen would bear with him whilst h e was en d ea - L venr:ng to prove his case, and show that the measure c' which he proposed was of vital importance, and would em - ploy the people of that country. He had a letter from the secretary of the Midland Western Railway of Ireland. His Hon. Friend the Member for Shrewsbury had disposed of the railways in the north, _ and the Hon. Member for Radnorshire had disposed of the Great Western and Southern, and it was only for him to deal with the Waterford and Limerick and Dublin and Mullingar.—(The Noble • Lord then read the letter, which was to the effect that it was a mis take to assert that the labourers on that line were not taken from the locality through which it passed ; they were not Scotch or . English, and, with a little practice and better food, they would compete with the English and Scotch. The best proof of it was, that during the harvest the labourer's work declined forty per cent., and the engineer was obliged to grant some indulgence that the work might not interfere with saving the harvest. There had been a strike because labourers had been brought in from Ros .. common ; there was employment for 3,200 men a-week, and they could only employ 6,000 additional for the next fifteen months fur the line to Athlone. There was a plan for an ex tension from Athlone to Galway which would bisect Ireland, and if this measure was carried it would ensure the completion of it, in a stead of its being unfinished for years, like the Dublin and Drog - heda and Ulster lines. He wished to call the attention of the Honourable Member for Roscommon, that this line would traverse his county, and unless this measure passed there was no prospect of that county's having a railway for years. There was fish caught on the coast of Galway to the amount of 4,0001b5. per day. •'lle had a return of the quantity of fish carried by the Midland Counties Railway in the last year from Mull, Whitby, and Scar -t borough, and it am:muted to 95,002 tons ; which, at 3d. a pound, or 3s. Gd. a stone, would give the value of 266,000/. ; and much of which, but for the railway, would have been wasted.—(Cries of "Hear, hear.") He had a letter from Mr. Stephenson, the engineer, which was to the effect that the assertion that 25 or 30 men a mile would be sufficient to complete any railway in two or three years was so monstrous that it could not have been statetl by any competent engineer. The Birmingham line occupied four years, and ten to fifteen thousand men. On the Manchester and Leeds Railway, 10,000 men had been employed five years, being 200 men per mile. Much the same had been the case on the North Midland, and other lines. The cost per mile of a line was mainly . spent in local labour, in the proportion of 19 to 16 out of the gross cost.—(Hear.) It was, therefore, entirely contrary to fact to say _ that England was about to be taxed for the benefit of Ire land ; for of the mosey expended, a considerable portion would be paid in this country for locomotives mid carriages ; Mr. Stephen ' son calculated that one third of the °Liras' would be thus spent ; the remaining two-thirds would go to the employ of Irish labour. It had been objected on the other side, that the effect of this Bill would be to withdraw the labourers from the fields, and that there would be no harvest next year. But it had been shown by the reports of tile Poor ! law Commissioners that five times as many labourers were employed on the land in Ireland as in England ; and yet the proportionate pro duce was not near so great.—(Cries of " Divide, divide.") He had new • met all the objections which had been made to the measure, except that of the Hos. Member for Inverness (Mr. Baillie), who said that Scotland asked for ito such loan, though sufferings equal distress. Ile agreed with that lion. Member in admiring the conduct of Scotch 'landlords; but on behalf of Scotland he (Lord George Bentinck) repudiated the Honourable Gentleman's doctrine. Scot . laud had received a promise of an alteration in the Drainage Act to enable the landlords to meet their difficulties; and even tinder the present Act, while English landowners haul borrowed only 250,0001., Scotch landowners had borrowed 850,000/.—(llear, hear.) The Right Hon. Gentleman th e ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer; (Mr. F. Baring) said the principle of the Bill was a novel one. Wh a Committee appointed in 1835, of which Lord :(trltahnoraee maste3r-, of the HoniGentleman opposite at the' time— eTa)r-- (Laughter)--was as a member, recommended a loan for Irish railway's.--6( A Chancellor of the Exchequar had proposed a grant of 5,000 e 0 a 0 r 0 . 1 ) . at it period when commercial credit was at a discount, to be lent, not on such security as was now offered, but on the credit of the property of distressed tradesmen. On a former occasion, when a large loan was proposed by Mr. Pitt, Mr. Fox opposed it on constitutional grounds, as giving too much- power to the Ministry; but when it came to the vote, he said he had not heart or nerve enough to go to a division.— (Cheers.) Accounts from America stated that a design of raising a loan of 23,000,000 dollars had had the effect of raising the velum of the public seeurit'es.—(Laughter.) But they said, because he had stated the other night " that he had summoned his friends," that he was therefore making this a party question. lie had riot summoned his friends, however, until the Prime Minister had told him that they had determined to reject his measure. Nether had he intended any party movement by declaring that he and his friends were ready to undertake the duty of Government. . All he haul meant was that they would never shrink from the re sponsibility which the passing of this Bill might impose upon them. He (Lord George Bentinck) brought forward this measure In no spirit of rivalry to the Government. He only wished it to be auxiliary to their measures, and he trusted they would so use it. If they did not, he warned them that when they could 110 longer give the key of the granary they must expect to be at • tacked with the crowbar and the pickaxe. Let them, adopt, there fore, this measure. If they declined to carry it out as a Govern meat, they might appoint an unpaid Commission to which lila Hon. Friend the Lord Mayor of York would give his gratuitous services '—(Laughter)—and concerning which he would only say, that if they 'would place him at the head of it, he would undertake to carry it out, and to be responsible for its suesess at the risk of impeachment. The Noble Lord, after going into a lengthened statement of the benefits which would accrue to the starving population of Ireland frem the passing of this Bill, prayed the House to do so. That was his only prayer, and one which he should use if it were the last time that he should ever have to address that House er any other Mortal assembly. (The Noble Lord sat down amid loud and pro . longed cheers.) After a few observations from some Hon. Members, Lord JOHN RUSSELL —Although, Sir, I am very unwil trig to detain the House from coming :to a division at this late hour, and although I mean to forbear from attempting to reply 'to the speech of the Noble Lord the MeMber for Lynn, yet my Right Honourable Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer Laving had many of his statements attacked, I think it is re spectful to the House that, before they come to a decision, I should state what is the general view (without going into de tails) which I take of the condition of this country and of Ire land at the present moment, and upon the bearing of the Bill now brought forword.—(Hear.) I will not now go into the finances of the case; but, without stating particulars, I will say generally concur in the view which the Right Honourable Gentleman the Member for Tamworth takes of our financial situation at the present moment. This makes any question of assistance to Ireland extremely serious. But there is another part of the question which refers to our commercial and soeia Position. There was no such failure in England or in Scotland, except in the islands, as would have made this year a year of suf fering or of difficulty to the people of Great Britain ; but, Sir, the great failure of the potato in Ireland has made it necessary, in the opinion of the executive Government of this country, to make a very great effort in order to preserve a large portion of the people of that country from starving. The consequence of that effort has been that, instead of a large importation, as has usually been the ease, of food from Ireland to this country, there has been, in the first place, a much smaller importation, and, in the next place, there is a considerable exportation, which is now going on from this country to Ireland for the purpose of feeding those whose usual food has entirely failed. Their means of procuring that food are fur nished from the Treasury of this country at the rate of 800,000. c or 900,000/. per month ; but the consequence of enabling the people of Ireland in such large numbers to buy the food which goes from this Country and which comes from foreign countries is, that the price of food in this country is very greatly enhanced. Not Only that, the consequence of a high price is beginning to be felt very severely, as it has been felt in former years in the depression of eye manufactures and in the want of those sufficient wages of industry by which th o e . greater part of our population are maintained. It is, in my ,lemoofstthd.esirable not to make that pressure greater thanthpernmon tey can bear, so as to be able safely to assist fellow -sub jects in Ireland.—( Hear, bear.) I think if we were presstwo-üb_. to a very much greater extent than we are now pressing the drain upon the resources of this country, we should find that, without entirely enabling the people of Ireland to escape the dreadful consequences of the present famine, we should he dis abling the people of England and of Scotland from giving them that assistance which I am proud to think they are dis posed to give. With this view, therefore, of our finances, and of our commercial and manufacturing position, I have to con sider how the means of this country can be best disposed of to preserve the greatest number of human creatures from perish. Hear, hear.) That, Sir, appears to me to be a very serious and a very painful, but, at the same time, a true view of the case. I believe that in the last week not less Alban 600,000 individuals have received wages on what are Called the public works in Ireland, representing, pro bably, three millions of people. There are a hundred thou rind more in the workhouses of Ireland, maintained by rates. There are thousands and thousands more who are maintained by private charity in Ireland, and by th e exert i ons at the resident landowners, many of whom have exhibited an admirable example of personal sacrifice on behalf of the poorer classes. I have to consider then, when more than three millions, say three millions and a half, or even more of persons me thus living, whether from advances from the Treasury, Whether from rates collected, or whether from subscriptions *ad charitable donations—l have to consider whether the pro- Position of my Noble Friend is one that tends directly to the removal of that distress. Now, Sir, on that point Ido not think the proposition is effectual in the manner that gen tlemen —some of them representing Ireland here, and other s i n Ireland —b e li eve i t to be. I cannot think'so, because while I see that the monies which are taken from those different sources are all applied or int en d e d to b e applied to the relief of the most distressed persons, of th e most destitute, and of those Most i n wantof is food, I find that the . employment given by railway contracto,rsto th n o a s turally to the best labourers, to the loost able-bodied who are best able to bear the hard ships of that laborious Occup ation. My Noble Friend, course of his speech, tittecroutradiet a statement made by in the the Chancellor of the Excise emp l oy e Limerick and Water ford Railway had declined to my t h the labourers of the was g t f Hon. Friend (the neighbourhood. I believe tIY corrects—that Chancellor of the Exchequer) it amounts to this, net that they carried employ the able-bodied labourers where the railw e av u Vb t° On, but they say, and I have the letter of the sec:eitn! or jabot:: that they do object to employ the worst class What they like to e and the very destitute poor. labourers.—(Thera• are of Noble course the best and most able-bodied Lord then read the letter in question, which was cheered by Dlr. W. R. Collett.) The Hon. Gentleman cheers. I h ay , no doubt from his experience, it is exactly the statement he to make, that they ar e Would expect the railway company ready to employ the able-bodied labourers of the neighbour. hood, but they do object to that general employment of the destitute, which to procure, after all, should be the great ob ject of the Executive in making their advances. In the course Of these discussions th e H on . M e mber for Sunderland made various statements in respect to the employment of labour afforded by railways with which he is concerned. I have re- THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY E.VENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1847 ceived various statements from different quarters, being copies of various reports which have been made public in the railway papers of this House, and from those reports it appears that while the Hon. Gentleman estimated so much for permanent way, so much for land, and so much for the remainder, leaving it to be inferred, and asking indeed in what that rest could be employed except in labour, he seems entirely to have forgotton that very large sums are expended in locomotive engines, and very large sums also for the construction of stations,which stations are in point of fact in a great part ornamental buildings. With respect to the North Midland Railway, one of those lines to which the Honourable Gentleman referred, I find there were expended 190,0001. for locomotive engines, and 260,0001. for the stations. Now, the Honourable Gentleman knows per fectly well, though those sums were expended in labour, that it is not the kind of labour which can be performed by any class of labourers, still less by the class of destitute labourers. —( Hear, hear.) But with regard to the 27,000/. per mile which that line cost, it will be found that, deducting those two items for stations and locomotives, that sum will be re duced by 6,000/. per mile.—( Hear, hear.) Various state ments I have received all concur in one general result, that of the whole of the sums expended in railways, about one-half may be said to be for labour, but then that includes a vast deal of skilled labour, so that on'the is hole but one-fourth, or 25 per cent. is devoted to ordinary purposes.—( Hear, hear.) Now when the question is, as my Noble Friend has just been stating it over and over again, how we are to save millions of Irish people from starving, we are obliged to go into the details, and when we find that of the whole 16,000,000/. to be advanced, only one-fourth of that sum goes to unskilled labour, I say this is not a Bill which goes to the immediate relief of those starv ing people. Every one knows, who is at all acquainted with Ireland— and this is a remarkable circumstance—that, with re spect to skilled labour, such as that of masons, bricklayers, and carpenters, there is no such supply, certainly no super abundant supply of that labour in that country ; that that labour, as compared with other descriptions of labour in Ireland, remains dear—almost, if not quite, as dear as such labour in this country, and that so far from their being in constant want of employment, they are the very class amongst whom combi nations exist in order to obtain high wages from their em ployers.—( Hear, hear.) I heard an instance of this only a very short time ago, in the town of Galway, where, amidst the greatest distress, there happened to he two or three public buildings progressing, and, consequently, when there was work for masons, those masons were holding out for more than 2s. 6d. a day. —(Cheers.) I say, then, if you are applying these large sums for labour, that the word labour is a complete delusion when applied in connexion with distress, because it includes a great deal of skilled labour. I come, therefore, to the conclusion on this general view, that the finances of the eountry being severely pressed by the demand for the relief of those who are famishing in Ireland, that the manufactures and commerce of this country, th a t t h e wages o f i n d ustry in this country likewise, being severely tasked by the present state of Ireland, and by the efforts which are being made by Parliament and by Government to relieve that distress, unless this Bill is one which goes immediately to the relief of destitution, it is not one which this House should adopt.—(Hear, hear.) For the short reasons which I have given —for reasons in which I think the Honourable Member for Sunderland must concur—for the reason that three-fourths of the sum pro. posed to be advanced would not go to the relief of desti tution, I come to the conclusion that it would not be wise in the present circumstances of the country to accede to this Bill. lam not at this hour going to enter—as I might do, were it earlier—into the question whether it is advisable for the Go vernment, under any circumstances, to make grants of money for the promotion of railways. There are questions connected with those matters which would make me differ from some of the opinions that have been urged against the Bill of my Noble. Friend ; but at all events I think that any advances which are made to railways should be made in a different state of the country, and in accordance with those principles on which Governments gen era lly procee d w h en they are making ad vances to public works.—(Hear, hear.) I am far from saying that there are no great public works to which Government might not under particular circumstances make grants of public money. In the fens, as the Noble Lord knows, it has been done with great advantage, and there are now great public works in Ireland which have been undertaken under various Governments, and which have been most useful in their results, and certainly I should be most loth to say that railways would not be most useful to Ireland; but I am only dealing with the prnpositioi before the House. Now, with regard to my Noble Friend's speech, and to the manner in which he has brought forward this Bill, I am far from making any complaint of his bringing a measure before the House which he conscientiously believes will be of great service to Ireland, and which will tend to relieve the misery of that coun try; but the Noble Lord must at the same time see that it was not equally reasonable in him to expect that if the Ministers of the Queen did not take the same view that he did of the utility of this measure, they should adopt a measure of which they dis approve. The Noble Lord might have brought it forward, and have laid it on the table, as a measure to be taken or not by the Government ; but he thought it so important, that the Noble Lord the Member for Newark (Lord J. Manners) de clared his intention of proceeding with the measure, and of eliciting the opinion of Parliament with regard to it. But it is quite impossible for any Government to allo,v the finances of the country to be taken out of their hands to be placed under the direction of the Noble Lord. Therefore, whilst I quite concede that he had the best motive for bringing forward this measure—and though I think he was quite right in saying that if he carries such a measure he would himself 'be - responsible for carrying it into execution—though I think he showed great spirit in expressing that determination—(A laugh) —yet, on:the other hand, I must say, feeling myself responsible for the con duct of affairs in this very important crisis, all I can do is to bring forward those measures which I in my heart believe will tend most to the relief of destitution in Ireland, and to ask Parliament to consent to those measures.—(Cheers.) If I am supported by Parliament I shall then feel courage to go on and to brave all the difficulties with which I am encompassed, but I do hold it would be most injurious to this country to have at this moment any Minister at the head of affairs who may be baffled in any effort he may make, whose opinions are not in accordance with the ruling opinions of the Members of the House of Commons, and whose position is still further embar rassid by having to carry out measures of which he does not approve.—( Cheers.) I must repeat, therefore, that Ido not think I was taking any other than a constitutional course when I intimated to those who I believed were disposed to support the Government that, with respect to the management of the finances of this country in this great crisis, we must have the majority of the House of Commons with us, or we shall not be ' competent to conduct the Government of this country.— (Cheers. ) I think the Noble Lord has had nothing to com plain of. With his convictions I think he was perfectly right in bringing forward this measure, and in his readiness to carry it out if Parliament should consent to it. It is now for the House of Commons to decide whether this measure is that which he has described it to be—the sole measure which is essential for the benefit of Ireland, or whether, on the con trary, the course which we are pursuing is the best calcu lated to promote the welfare of that country, and of the whole empire. (The Noble Lord resumed his seat amidst loud cheering.) Lord GEORGE BENTINCK rote to explain a sentence he had used in reference to a ship which had been built on the plan suggested by the Hon. and Gallant Member for Maryle bone. It was said of a ship when she rolled in the trough of the sea, that she rolled like a drunken man, and his allusion was to that phrase. He was net aware that such an allusion could have the slightest reference to the Hon. and Gallant Gentleman, and nothing could be further from his intention than to apply it to him.—(Hear.) For several minutes the House was in a state of great excitement, during which the cries for division were loud, frequent, and vehe ment The House then divided, when there appeared— For the second reading Against it 332 Majority against the Bill -214 The Bill is consequently lost. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Half-past Three o'clock. ---- ---- ---- - - f SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) BETTING AT MANCHESTER. —'TUESDAY. LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE.-8 to 1 agst Brunette, 12 to ' 1 agst The Roarer (100 to 8 taken)-13 to 1 agst St. Leger -16 to 1 agst Avoca. CHESTER Cur.-22 to 1 agst Medicant (taken freely)- 25 to 1 agst The Lamb (offered)-35 to 1 agst Mickey Free (taken)-50 to 1 agst Emigrant (offered)-1,000 to 20 agst Princess Alice (taken)-1,000 to 18 agst Intrepid (offers to take)-1,000 to 15 agst Inheritress (taken)-1,000 to 15 agst The Conjuror (offers to take). None others named. METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.-14 to 1 agst Lady Sarah (offered). DERBY.-15 to 2 agst Van Tromp (offered)-11 to 1 agst Epirote :(offers to take)-13 to 1 agst Planet (offered)-23 to 1 agst Glentilt (offered)-250 to 10 agst Conyngham (taken)-500 to 5 agst Bedlam (offered). Nothing else named. OAKS.-8 to 1 offered on the field. BRIXWOB.TH STEEPLE CHASE.—TUESDAY. Handicap of 10 sovs. each. Mr. Elmor e ' s Grey Frieze, lOst 101 b ..... .. .....(Butler) 1 Lord Steatlnnore's Walter Gay, lOst 121 b 2 Mr. Wesley's Gayhurst, lOst 41b Seven others started. Won by about two lengths, Gay burst beaten about the same distance. HUNTING APPOINTMENT. Her Majesty's stag hounds meet on Friday at Maidenhead Thicket, at half-past eleven. MRS. GORE'S NEW TALE, " TEMPTATION AND ATONEMENT.".—The simple and affecting pages of this work seem to have made an unusual sensation, and the favour with which they have been received will, it is to be hoped, prove the means of encouraging this popular novelist to another such divergence from her usual course. A story of powerful interest, simply told, is decidedly the only thing likely at the present day to rivet the attention of the public. We do not say that Alm. Gore can write like Defoe or Godwin, but to remind the reader of them is to achieve no small degree of fame. ROBBERY OF 10,000 /. — Notwithstanding the ex pose at the Mansion-house on Saturday concerning the doings of the swell mob in the City, and the caution:the Lord Mayor threw out, a robbery of no less a sum than 10,0001., in Bank of England notes, was yesterday, about one o'clock, effected in the vicinity of the Royal Exchange. A clerk in the service of Strahan, Paul, and Bates, bankers, in the Strand, had been collecting in the course of the morning at several of the City banks, and the last place he called at was Deacon's bank, in Birchin-lane. On leaving he carelessly deposited his leather case, containing the above amount in notes, in his coat-pocket, without a chain or any security being attached to it. It was raining at the time, and, during the confusion that existed in that crowded neighbourhood, some of the expert swell mob gentry managed to extract the case and get clear off. On the clerk discovering his loss he instantly repaired to the Mansion-house, and gave informa tion to the Forresters, who in a short time succeeded in ob taining an accurate list of the notes and their numbers. They are as follows :-1,0001., dated June 13, 1846, No. 48,670; 1,0001., No. 68,787; 1,0001., No. 68,850; 1,000/., No. 70,652; 1,000/., No. 70,665 ; 1,0004 No. 70,666 ; 5001., dated March 12, 1846, No. 51,339 ; 500/., same date, No. 52,276 ; 3001., May 11, 1846, No. 57,107; 200/., March 100846, No. 38,362 ; 2001., same date, No. 39,888; 200/., same date, No. 40,488 100/., May 9, 1846, N 0.84,172 ; 501., Oct. 8, 1846, No. 40,152 50/., same date, No. 43,560 ; 20/, Oct. 5, 1846, No. 83,274 201., No. 83,275 ; 51., Dec. 2, 1846, No. 35,910 ; 51, Jan. 13, 1847, No. 59,650; and Si., No. 94,426. There can be doubt the clerk was watched from place to place. Late last night Messrs. Bush and 'Slams, the solicitors for the Association of Bankers, forwarded by the mails a list of the notes, not only to every town throughout England, but also to the Continent. A reward of 5001. is offered for the restitution of the notes. WINDSOR, TUESDAY EVENING.—The Countess Dowager Lyttelton, who, ever since the Court removed to Buckingham Palace, has been confined with an attack of influenza, is now fast recovering, and her Ladyship is so b e a t b h l e to Wit resum e tu t hee her last dutiesday or at two, Buck i t u li g a h t a s ru h e wmeuacli ebretter since the chan ge w hi c h h as taken place iu the p w a il l l a p ce ro b b e a f b ar ly e the end of the present week. The Earl of Auckland received at dinner on and the H on . Mi sses E den Charles Adam, Colonel Ol a tdufirelluay evening, Vice-Admiral Sir The Chairman of the Excise F i t i v a d a distinguished circle. Earl of Clarendon yesterday, at d an interview with the the offi Trade.ce of the Board of COMPLETION OF MISS BURNEY'S DIARY. Now ready, VOL. VI. and VII. of MADAME D'ARBLAY'S DIARY AND LETTERS, COMPLETING THE WORK. N.B. 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LAMOND a n d C o ., RAILWAY SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends tnd the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the dell of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully , equested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered ; and advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds lame- Mutely disposed of according to instructions. °diem Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle -street. London. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, are respectfully informed, that on SATURDAY EVENING, Feb. 20, will be performed Donizetti's celebrated Opera of LA. FAVORITA. Fernando, Signer Gardoni (his second appearance); Alfonso XI. (King of Castile), Signor Superchi (his second appearance) ; Baldas san, Signor Bouche (his second appearance) ; Leonora, Millie. San chioli , Ines, Mdlle..Nascio (her second appearance). After which a new and original grand Ballet, in five tableaus, by M. Paul Taglioni, entitled Cali - ALIA ; ou, LE CIiEVALIER INCONSTANT. Coralia, 3ldlle. C. Rosati (her second appearance); the Knight liul debrand, M. Paul Taglioni; Squire, M. Gouriet ; Bertha, Mdlle. Petit; Page, Mdlle. Honore ; Duke, M. GosSelin ; Fraisondin, M. Venefra ; Fisherman, M. di Mattia. DANCES. —Second Tableau —Scene Danzante des Caprices, by 3ldlle. Rosati. Third Tableau—Pas de la Nymphe des Eaux et de See Compagnes, by 3ldlles. Rosati, Montfort, Cassan, and the Corps de Ballet. Fourth Tableau—Pas de In Rosiere, by Mdlle. Taglioni (her second appearance) ; Pas de Deux, by M. P. Taglioni and Mdllo. Rosati Deutche Rhein, Valse des Pages et des Demoiselles d'Honneur, by the Corps de Ballet. Fifth Tableau—Pas, be M. d'Or and Mdlle. C. Baucourt ; Bal:abile des Halbardiers, by Mdme. Stephan, Ildlles. Honore, Cassan, The venot, Bertin, Julienne, L'Amoureux, and the Corps de Ballet ; Pas de l'lnconstance, by Wile. Rosati, Mdme. Stephan, and M. Taglioni. Doors °pea at Seven ; the Opera to commence at Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. FIRST NIGHT OF THE NEW OPERA. TO-MORROW EVENING Will be performed the new Grand Opera, entitled MATILDA OF lITJNGART. Count Magnus, Mr. Borrani; Podiebrad, Mr. Harri son ; Mathias, Mr. Weiss ; Matilda, Miss Romer; Ulla, Miss R. Isaacs. After which the new Ballet, callod THE PRETTY SICILIAN. Count Amede, M. Croce; Rosella, Mdlle. Baderna. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. TO-MORROW EVENING Will be performed a new and original Comedy, called THE SCHOOL FOR SCHEMING. Principal characters by Messrs. Far rell, Stuart, Buckstone, Howe, Selby, Brindal, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. Ilumby, Mrs. Yarnold, Miss Fortescuc, Miss Bennett, Miss Rey nolds, &c. During the evening the Band will perform the Overture, "Lac des Fees," " Plantagenet," " Rose," and " Helen" Polkas, &c. To conclude with the Original Grand Fairy Extravaganza, called the INVISIBLE PRINCE ; or, the Island of Tranquil Delights. Principal characters by Mr. James Bland, Miss P. Horton, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Miss Reynolds, and Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. TO-MO "ROW EVENING (THURSDAY) Will be performed a new Comic Drama, called .£5OO REWAXtD. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Meadows, Emery, IL Butler, Miss Viliars, and Miss Forster. After which a new Farce, called THE WIGWAM. Characters by Messrs. Matthews, Oxberry, Keeley, Miss Arden, Miss Turner, Miss Foster, and Miss Mary Keeley. To be followed by the Farce of THE ETON BOY. Captain Popham, Mr. Wigan; Dabster, Mr. Keeley; Miss Fanny Curry, Mili Dickinson. 2, conclude with the Farce of MRS. WHITE. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Mad ame C eleste. This being Ash-Wednesday, no performance. TO-MORROW EVENING Will be performed the celebrated Drama, called THE GREEN BUSHES; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith; Dennis, Mr. Cullenford ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Grinnichre, Mr. Wright ; Madame St. Aubert, Madame Celeste ; Geraldine, 31 . 11 . Yates ; Nelly O'Neil, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. To conclude with the Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet of LA G!SELLE, entitled THE• PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, the Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford, Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Culleniord, Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. TO-MORROW EVENING Will be performed a Grand Opera, swilled ANNE BOLKYN. Henry VIII., Mr. Bodda ; Percy, Mr. Allen ; Rochford, Mr. Wal ton; Smeaton, Miss S. Flower; Harvey, Mr. Wynn; Lady Tana Seymour, Miss Smithson ; Anne Boleyn, Miss Bassano. In the course of the evening Professor HEMMING and his ta lented CHILDREN will go through their wonderful performanceis. Previous to the Pantomime the Band will perform " The Ame rican Polka," introducing " The Railroad Overture." To conclude with the Grand Comic Christmas Pantomimes, en titled The ENCHANTED BEAUTIES of the GOLDEN CASIME ; or, The One-eyed Genf. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon„ Mr. Paulo ; Columbine, Miss Burbidge ; Sprite, Mr. H. Mareiball ; Clown, Mr. Flexmore. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. TO-MORROW EVENING, FOR THE BENEFIT OF M. F, LEMAITRF, Will be performed Eugene Sue's popular Play of LES 3IYST}at ES PARIS. Jaques Ferrand, M. Lemaitre ; Rigolette, 3fUlle. Fouquet. Boxes, 6s. , Pit, 3s. 6d. , Stalls, 35.; Gallery, 28. Doors opene lat half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. Private Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be engaged at Mitchell's Library, 33, Bond-street; and at the Box-office. ETHIOPIAN .ERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. The elebrated THIOPIAN SEENAERS Pell, Ilarngt:on, White, c Stanwood, E and Germon, will have the , honour of reps ;at lug their Inimitable ENTERTAINMENTS, at the above Thee tre, on SATURDAY EVENING, and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Doors open at Eight o'clock, and the Entertainment com mences at Half-past Eight. The Programme will be varied on each occasion. Their hext DAY PERFORMANCE will take :place on Monday Morning, Feb. 22. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, 2s. TUE WEATHER. si.mtitir 717. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 40; Highest, -48 ; Noon, 52, BAROMETER, 29 99.—WIND W., fine spring weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON -BRIDGE THIS DAY.. Morning .. 3 minutes after 3. Evening .. 26 minutes afte r 3 almost amounted to direct satire. As it would he impossible to do justice to the arguments of Sir ROBERT PEEL without extending our commentaries to a length from which we are at present altogether precluded, we shall abstain from entering upon any detailed synopsis of his oration, and content ourselves with referring to the report published elsewhere. Anything more lucid, in arrangement, or more posi tive in deduction, could not well have been desired than the arrangement and the deductions which cha racterise this remarkable speech. The Right Hon. Baronet restricted himself to the examination and negation of the Railway Bill introduced by Lord GEORGE BENTINCK. He expressly evaded the ques tion as to the most advisable measures to be adopted by the Legislature for the moral and physical re demption of Ireland, and, considering the almost idiotic extravagance of the plan then lying upon the table of the House, it would have been equally inap propriate and injudicious to embarrass the immediate subject of debate by plunging into a labyrinth so ex tensive and intricate. There was the political char latan, with his legislative nostrum, tarrying the pleasure of the Commons and waiting, from the de cision of the popular representatives, either for his triumphant installation in office, or for his ig nominious dismissal. Any complication ,of the actual question would have been mal-apropos and unfortunate. Besides which there would have been a mournful incongruity in the asso ciation of the soundest opinions of statesmanship upon the present condition of Ireland with anything so irredeemably silly and preposterous as the Bentinck proposition. Sir ROBERT PEEL, therefore, confined himself to the utterance of his views upon the merits of that proposition. In deliberating upon the propriety of lending the public credit to the extent of 16,000,0001., the ex-Premier very naturally directed the attention of the represen tatives in Parliament to the financial condition and the financial prospects of the country at the moment that extraordinary act of munificence is demanded. The Right Hon. Baronet especially reminded the House of the accumulation of exigencies which have latterly tended to fetter ,the move ments of the Government in regard to the employment and distribution of the national revenues. He recalled to the recollection of his fellow-legislators the coincident increase of drain upon the public purse, and decrease of the probability of maintaining the present flourish ing state of the revenue. With provisions' at an almost unprecedented price, with manufactures in a most 'depressed condition, with cotton nearly at its maximum cost, with the ports of Russia closed against the exportation of grain by an imperial ukase, with a singular elevation of prices in the markets of the United States, with an addition of fully 400,0001. upon our military estimates, and without the smallest reduction in any one of our miscellaneous estimates, Sir ROBERT asks Parlia ment if the country be exactly in the position to in crease its present enormous responsibilities by the addition of not less than sixteen millions. The. Right Hon. Baronet goes further ; he calculates from these considerations, and from the incidental expenditure of somewhere about eleven millions in aid of the suffer ing population of Ireland, that there will be, on the sth of April, 1848, a deficit of not less than seven or eight millions. He then refers to the precarious and de pressed condition of the money market—to the decadence of the Three per Cents. from about par to 91/.—to the recent decrease of five per cent. in the value of funded property—to the circumstance of a particular descrip tion of Exchequer-bills being either at a discount or at not a farthing more than from 4s. to ss. premium, and especially to the ominous and question able state of our foreign relations. Bearing in mind this extraordinary posture of affairs, the ex- Premier treats the notion as little less than positively insane, that Parliament should be expected "to authorise the Government to contract engagements which, sprezd over four years, may amount to the sum of sixteen millions." What is the prin ciple upon which the Right Honourable Baronet arrives at this conclusion ? It is upon the great and immutable principle that public credit is a part of the national property, that public credit is " one of the elements of our financial strength," that it is im possible to pawn so much or so much of public credit without rendering the nation liable to an enormous "risk of loss." " Depend upon it," says Sir R. PEEL, " depend upon it that a very consider able application of the public credit to the encourage ment of commercial enterprize at a time when other great exertions are necessary, entails great public ex pense and engenders the necessity for increased taxa tion." Those are the ripe and solid arguments by which the specious propositions of Lord GEORGE BENTINCX. have been dissipated. Those are the sound and golden materials of thought out of which the Parliamentary reputation of Sir ROBERT PEEL has been constructed, and doubtless they, as well as the inherent absurdity of the railway bubble scheme for the salvation of Ireland, influenced the House of Commons in rejecting that scheme by so magnificent a majority. ffi[ 0 I nc t is e, is n unfortunatelyta ly nd maintained social regulations, incidental o cd r i endu toly t that observed al h t h um e ye a an withoutn i n n e s t t i t t hb u- ee li r a e b a l t e i con t of o b e c e g r traeient greatly o a w b u e r s s e d. which T h e are s n e q e v u e e r n t e h e e l h e a s s s been that, from the earliest times, the ingenuity of man has been constantly called into requisition to provide checks against the perversion of authority, in order that the benefits attendant upon its existence, ra indispensable in some shape or oth er , may not be counterbalanced by evils of greater m agn i tude. For the protection of life and property a of authority is necessarily conferred up on t h e civil force of the State. But the gr ea t er t h e powers with are discretionary entrusted, the wide ng e which gexree arteei greater becomes b e erefscootnhn:eems the a areapprehension w invested,hieh they and the of their bei ng un worthily used ; and hence the utmost vigilanc e i s re quired on the part of the public to guard against any undue encroachment upon their rights and liberties. If we enjoy in this country—as we certainly do—the blessings of freedom beyond what have ever been attained in any other, it is to the zealous vigilance which we have perpetually sustained over the pro ceedings of authorised bodies that we are mainly indebted for their existence and security. The love of liberty and impartial justice is so innate with Englishmen, that notwithstanding these principles have had to be defended in the persons of most un favourable character, they have nevertheless been as keenly upheld by the public as if the injured parties had ranked among the highest and most affluent of the land. Whenever, therefore, the privileges, and espe cially the privilege of personal liberty, which he cherishes beyond all price, appear to be threatened by the conduct of the appointed guardians of justice —no matter whether the encroachment emanates from design, neglect, or incompetency, no matter whether the individual affected in his rights be of high or low degree--the Englishman is always on the alert to re monstrate, and, if necessary, to resist the attempted innovation. The inadequate, and unsatisfactory performance of the duties in the departments of the ma gistracy and police frequently call for severe animadversion. By the merest accident, a female dill repute was saved from being unjustly imprisoned for seven days. She was charged, before Mr. ARNOLD, by a police•constable of the name of Amos, with having obstructed him in his duty by dis orderly conduct. The charge was totally denied ; but she accused the policeman with - ' outrageous indecency towards her, from which she was only rescued by the timely arrival of another female. - 1:o screen himself from the accusation she menaced, he took her into custody and turned accuser against her, as already stated. The magistrate gave credit to the oath of the constable, as opposed to the un corroborated declaration of the defendant, and sen tenced her to seven days' incarceration. Within an hour after, her companion, who had witnessed the assault, arrived at the office, and confirmed the prisoner's statement, whereupon she was at once re leased. Before, however, the discharge took place Mr. ARNOLD examined Sergeant COLEMAN as to whether another female was in company with the defendant on the night she was deprived of her liberty. The sergeant admitted that there was. We do not desire to bear hardly upon Mr. ARNOLD, but recently raised to the bench ; yet it is clear that, before he passed sentence, he should have remanded the pri soner, and given her an opportunity of producing the Madrid papers of the 9th have arrived. Don ENRIQUE has been ordered to await at Barcelona the further orders of the Government. His bride has been sent to a convent, and her brother, the Conde DE CASTELLANE, banished from Madrid. General PAVIA has taken the oath of office as Minister of War, and General ARBIERA is to be the new Minister of Marine. Senor SANTILLAN E will, it is said, retire from the Mi nistry of Finance to make way for Count BRESSON'S "man of all work," Senor MON. MADRID BOMA, FED. 9.—The Three per Cents, were done at 32 for cash ; the Four per Cents., at 201 ; the Five per Cents., at 20i; and the Coupons at 19. • We have received the Paris papers of Monday. It was reported in Paris that a Cabinet Council was to be held on that day to consider a proposal made by the Marquis of NORMLNBY that he should quit Paris. All the papers, with the significant exceptions of the Debuts and the Epoque, comment on the dispatches of Lords NORMANDY and PAL3IERSTON. The Presse is the only one which ventures to justify M. G trizoT, and the only reason it can give for such justification is that it reposes confidence in him. We should imagine from the savage attack made on M. TRIERS to wards the conclusion of the article that the chances of that gentleman'f, return to office are greatly increased. The Constitutionnel gives the folloning resume of the affair:— " Not only are the Governments of France and England divided as to the interpretation of a treaty ; not only does a casus belli appear to exist as to the future, between the two countries; not only have mutual accusations connected with the negotiation of the marriages caused irritation on both sides; but a personal quarrel has arisen between the two Ministries, and between the English Ambassador and our Minister. To causes of dissension are added causes of almost absolute rupture. It is difficult to comprehend what relations can now subsist between Lord Normanby and M. Guizot, and between the two Cabinets of France and England. Beyond the point to which M. Guizot has brought our af fairs, is there anything but war? Who is the author of this last complication? A fortnight ago M. Guizot expressed an intention to reply to the moderation of the English Parlia ment by silence. The Opposition, not for itself, but in order not to add to the embarrassments of the Govern ment, declined speaking. On the following day, how ever, all the Ministerial iournals exclaimed that M. Thiers, challenged by M. Guizot, had not dared to ascend the tribune. 111. Thiers had a right to reply to this impru dent defiance by immediately re-opening the discussion. He did not do so, but still offered to M. Guizot the honourable means of remaining sib nt. It is known with what hauteur M. Guizot rejected this ofier. The dis cussion took place. The speech of M. Thiers, an eloquent exposition of the liberal policy of France, has an excel lent effect. It has been considered by the world as a pa triotic effort to reconcile the two constitutional nations, by softening down the causes of their dissensions, to the great advantage of the two countries, and of liberty. What, how ever, has been done by M. Guizot, the provoker of this discussion? He, the great master of words—he who, according to all his journals, is always so well prepared —he whose great meat is said to be that he is capable of defending from the tribune even a policy in which he has taken no part—behold him throw ing new brands of discord between France and England ! envenoming the quarrel between the two Governments by a personal dispute! Was this the motive of his insisting so strongly upon a revival of a debate which only two days before he was so anxious to extinguish ! Let it be remarked, at the same time, that the isolation of France on the Continent seems to be changing its character. One of the Powers which had kept itself out of the discussion has at last taken part with England ; and it is to be feared that this is not the only one who will do so. It is true that M. Guizot has, as a consolation for the dangers into which his recent mode of defence in the Chamber has brought the nation, the shelter which he finds for himself in the bosom of the ma jority. Yes, he has found one of those majorities which it is so difficult to obtain, whose complaisance can never be worn out, which has not even sufficient resolution to warn a Mi nister by its murmurs of the irreparable faults he commits in the tribune, which is constantly applauding him, which accompanies with its perpetual congratulations a Government which is leading the country to the very brink of an abyss. Our Ministers ought, however, to know that, though thus appearing to be divided, their responsibility is not the less one and entire. What, let us ask, is the re sponsibility of an assembly under similar circumstances? Every one of those who vote to the last for a culpable Ministry excuses himself when he finds the evil at its height, upon the ground of his ignorance of facts and the general confidence with which the Ministry has inspired him. In such matters the adhesion of a majority like that which has approved the unfortunate speech of M. Guizot, is not an attenuation of faults committed ; it is not even an argument." The Constitutionnel is right. The present complica tion is entirely owing to the cacoethes loquendi of M. GUIZOT, who, sinking the statesman in the pedagogue, mistook the Chamber of Deputies for the Sarbonne, and lectured away as was his wont in former years, exhibit ing the same disregard for facts, indulging in the same monomania for self-display, and forgetting that it is not quite so safe to inuendo falsehood against a living am bassador as it is to sneer at the accuracy of a dead his torian. -In the meanwhile the foreign relations of France are getting every day more unsatisfactory. "It is asserted," says the Siecle, " that the Government has received im portant dispatches from Tunis, among which is a note from the Prime Minister of the BEY to our Charg6 d'Af faires, respecting the serious embarrassments into which the BEY is thrown by the conduct of the Porte, and asking France to make a serious and firm declaration in his favour, in accordance with the promises made to him by the Ministry. This note is said to have thrown M. GUIZOT into a state of great agitation." In Switzerland, England has taken a decided part, which cannot but contrast favourably with the mean and equivocating policy which M. GUIZOT is pursuing in that country. The Union Monarchigue says : " We learn from a certain source that the son of Sir Robert Peel, who is ad interim, charged with the direction of the English embassy in Switzerland during the absence of Mr. v e en havingoi: mndr etabchiaektedi Morier, has received instructions from Lord Palmerston to signify to the Vorort his approval of the answer made by the Federal Diet to the collective note of the three Northern Powers. This makes another difference between the Cabi nets of Paris and London, M. Guizot having directed the French legation in Switzerland not to express any sentiments for or against, in this matter. Thus the same policy is still adhered to by the Juste-Milieu." The Moniteur has the following from Oceania : "The Minister of Marine has just received from the Go vernor of the French possessions in Oceania reports to Oct. 5, and which are a continuation of that of June 4, previously received. During that interval hostilities had not been re newed. By means of works of defence executed at Tumavia, our troops being less occupied, held the insurgent Indians in check in the valleys, and prevented them from assuming the offensive. The communications between Papaiti and our different posts were fully assured. Our native allies had made several incursions into the valleys, and brought back upwards of sixty prisoners, amongst whom were four chiefs, and particularly the principal chief who had deserted from reckoned nfgau t i l a cdpto e oroni approaching ictneuhhcbieeni protectorate moral i s ta s il o ra intv i mp ressiona r w le e so r i fsae res istance tal set rnco ea eupa cause whicht would oh liberty. feag pwr pc e was saet T shsee i ftenrselGi more promptly protectorate. The greater number of these prisoners be produced by the presence of the reinforcements demanded promptly when its uselessness was demonstrated. He saw a m b l y s a h advan tage of removing from the minds of the chiefs who had re for the future." These papers, on the authority of intelligence from Germany, contradict the report circulated a few days since, that the Emperor of RUSSIA had prohibited the export of grain from his dominions. The Courrier de Marseilles states, that on Wednesday last, the Greek ship Socrates, bearing the Russian flag, and laden with 5,000 hectolitres of corn, was wrecked on the rocks near the fort Saint Jean, and within 100 yards of the port of Marseilles. The Three per Cents. closed at 77f. 85c. ; the Five per Cents., 1180 60c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,240 f. ; Rouen, 860 f. ; Havre, 670 f. • Great Northern, 6111. 25c. ; Avignon, 825 f.; Vierzon, 570 f: • Bordeaux, 532 f. 50c. ; Troyes and Montereau, 312 f. 50c. ; Basle, 205 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 490 f. Lyons and Avignon, 485 f. ; Cette, 4571. 50c. BUSINESS DO I N: Northern, : 5 ; n c E . : ; r6, Llrost.: Tours and Nantes, 466 f. 25c. ; Paris and Lyons, . IN II LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEBRUARY 16. ntia %—Namur Austrian, 216 Luxembourg, 2;6—Madrid and Vale , _ and Liege, 2 %—Northern of France, 1 A A: s ig A n T on, TI S I 2 E SI. ; Dutch Rhenish, 4h—Great Indian 2s, Pit s il a n ua su b la ro r, a, :i d — M l e t u a s li Q a , n 6s4 an . d F.-o:lEalrGsNeillltesAlaLnWd THE -- .L.RE POST-OFFICE AND THE PARCEL COMPANIES. — Yesterday, by command of 04 Postmaster-general, an order was circulated amongst the " receivers" of post letters and newspapers in the metropolis, to the effect that any of them who are now pledged to take in parcels for the " London Parcel Delivery Company," the " Parcel Mail," or the "Parcel Post," are immediately to give up such con nexion or cease to be "receivers" of letters for the Post office. This order has caused a considerable deal of con sternation among the body of receivers, as many of them, in consequence of the Post •office authorities not having signi fied their disapprobation of the above companies, or that they were in any way acting contrary to law, have unhesi tatingly become receivers of parcels for the above companies. The late Mr. Byng's estate has been valued for probate duty at 400,0004 _ The tide yesterday was higher than on any pre vious occasion since the 31st of December, 1845. witness, who ultimately established her innocence. By neglecting to do this he committed a serious error. Again, Sergeant COLE➢IIN should have been severely reprimanded, for not voluntarily tendering the evidence which the magistrate extorted from him in the latest stage of the case. If this esprit du corps be suffered to prevail with the police with impunity, the greatest injustice will be at times perpetrated against those who, by reason of their poverty and norance combined, are least able to protect them selves. The Commissioners of Police have since pre ferred a charge against Amos for having grossly assaulted the young female. Mr. BROUGHTON has adjourned the case, with the proper observation—that an indictment for perjury, and not a charge for a summary conviction, should have emanated from the Commissioners. As we must have police with ex tensive powers, the only way to protect the public is to make striking examples of those who are found guilty of abusing them. This, however, is a duty which the Police Commissioners seem in no wise disposed to discharge. Yet, until they fulfil it upon every fitting occasion, they will not gain that confi dence from the public which it should be their sole aim to acquire. --401.--- PATENT BILL. An HON. MEMBER presented a petition from Bradford complaining of certain clauses in this Bill. LAW OF SETTLEMENT. Mr. FARNHAM presented a petition from the guardians of the poor of Leicester and Nottingham praying for the abolishment of the law of settlement, and that the support of the poor might be made a national charge. DUTY ON TEA. An Hon. MEMBER presented a petiti on p ray i ng for the abolition of the d u ty on tea. IMF'ORTATION OF GRAIN INTO IRELAND. Sir W. SOMERVILLE presented a petition from the Drogheda Union, praying the House to cause an immediate importation of grain into Ireland. ELECTORAL DISTRICTS. The HoN. BARONET also presented a petition from one of the parishes in that union, complaining of the present mode of rating electoral districts. THE IRISH MEASURES. Mr. PROTHEROE presented a petition from several in fluencial householders in Halifax, expressing alarm lest the measures proposed for the relief of Ireland would increase the taxation on the people of this country; and praying for the abolition of the duty on tea. Mr. B. B. CABBELL moved for a return of the number of persons who had received relief. in the union workhouses in England and Wales from 1844 to 1846, together with the quantity arid amount of out-door relief afforded by them during that period. EJECTMENTS IN IRELAND. Lord DUNCAN said during the ten years he had occupied a seat in that House he had often had to thank the House for the indulgence which it had extended to him on various occasions, and he trusted that that kindness and indulgence would be extended to him whilst he called the attention of the House to a subject cf a personal nature. He was anxious to take the earliest opportunity of vindi cating his character, as a statement had gone abroad that some statements which he made in that House a few evenings ago were brought forward by him for the purpose of casting aspersions on the conduct of a Noble Lord, a Member of the other House of Parliament (Lord Lucan). It had been stated he lied acted with discourtesy in not having intimated to that Noble Lord that he intended to bring forward the statements he did. He trusted that he knew his duty' to that House too well to act with discourtesy to any indi vidual in that House or elsewhere. It had been stated that he had made charges against an individual. Now he begged tc call to the recollection of the House that when his Hon. and G a ll an t F r i en d t h e Member for Marylebone (Sir C. Napier) referred to some statements in a blue book, with respect to certain union workhouses in Ireland, he (Lord Duncan) rose after he sat down, and read the charges con tained in a blue book, which appeared to him (Lord Duncan) to be of a most appalling character. He stated —and lie thought it would be in the recollection of the House that he did so—that he trusted those charges would be speedily denied; but it would be equally within the recolleetion of the House that he made no charge against any individual. He merely read an extract from the blue book, the state ments in which were sanctioned by the . Poor-law Com missioners, by whose assistants they were collected, and were published upon the authority of the Government. He disclaimed having made any charges like those imputed to him. He said this, and he repeated it, that the constitu ency which he represented (Bath) 34 - oald not be satisfied if they were taxed to pay poor-rates for the relief of Ireland, whilst no such tax was levied on those in Ireland who were in a fit condition to pay it. He trusted the statement would yet be denied, that wealthy parties in Ireland refused to pay that tax, which the English people were called upon to pay in lieu of them. No reflections which might be made in that House or elsewhere on his conduct would prevent him from doing what he considered his duty to his constituents and the people of this country. - POLICE. On the motion of Mr. FREWEN the following return was ordered ;—" Return showing the number of police con 'stables in each county, or divisionof a county, in England and Wales, under the Act 2 and 3 Vic., c. 93, distinguishingfeach class or denomination ; including, also, a return of the name and population of every petty sessions district, in the said comaties, the number ofpolice-constables stationed in each district, and the amount paid to the county police rate by each district; together with an account, in detail, of the se veral items of expenditure for the year 1846. SUPPLY. The House, on the motion of Mr. PARKER (in the ab sence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer), resolved itself into a Committee of Supply, and a vote of 18,310,7001. was agreed to for the purpose of meeting outstanding Exchequer bills. The House then resumed, and the report was brought up. Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from the West Riding of Yorkshire in favour of the Ten Hours' Bill, and also a petition from the members of the United Trades' Association for the Protection of Industry, signed by 10,860 names, in favour of the same measure. Mr. DUNCAN presented a petition from the Chamber of Commerce of Dundee against the principle of any interference with factory labour. ADJOURNED DEBATE ON THE FACTORIES' BILL. On the order of the day being read, Sir ANDREW LEITH HAY said, that during the course of a considerable Parliamentary experience his feelings had invariably been the same on the subject of any interference with the manufacturing interests of this country, and he con sidered it his duty on that occasion to state his opinion, not that he had the presumption to consider that his opinion would have any weight in the House, but having it in his power to bring forward the opinions of others which had most probably escaped the attention of this House. The other evening he heard the Noble Lord, the Member for the city of London, state that he considered that the question now had become, not a question of principle, but a question of degree. He did not consider that such was the case; it was still a question of principle, and he thought also, beyond all doubt, that the interference which took place in 1833 was not considered by the House as an interference which at all established that the principle was conceded, and that hereafter it must only be a question of degree. What were the circumstances under which the Act of 1833 was passed? It was well known to many Members of that house that a serious struggle took place in that Parliament, and in that year, between the adverse parties as to whether a Commission of Inquiry on the state of the factories should or should not be established. By the votes of the House the Commission was issued, and upon investigation it was found that in all the factories of Great Britain and Ireland—at least the cotton factories—the average time of labour was twelve hours. Some of them worked sixteen, or perhaps seventeen hours, and others a lesser number. But they considered that twelve hours was not only the average time for labour in those factories, but also a judicious settlement ; and they gave it as their opinion that twelve hours should be the amount of labour sanctioned by Parliament. It appeared to him that it was only an adjustment to generalise the prin ciple, without interfering, or seeing the right to interfere to any extent to diminish the hours of labour. He had heard with great regret the declaration of the Noble Lord that he considered it merely a question of degree. It was the ques tion of degree which they had settled before interfering with the principle, and that in his opinion, and in the opinion of others better informed, would interfere with the manufac turing interests of this country. The first authority he should quote on the subject of the inexpediency of this interference was a name well known in that House —it was Mr. Leonard Homer, one of the principal Commissioners, who gave the in formation on which the Act of 1833 was passed. Mr. Leonard Horner was, in 1837, appointed a Commissioner for the express purpose of giving such information as might settle the question, and an Act of Parliament was passed in the same year which established twelve hours as the proper term for labour in the cotton factories in the United Kingdom. Mr. Leonard Horner was appointed an insp ec t or un d er t hi s Act,having unde his su subse quently charge Scotland, B e lf as t, an d other parts of the north i,lts of Ire land, and also thr ee count i es i n E ng l an d. He England in qouently ; removed andf a t e r from hehad t that been at h districtt einspectorto another fe r some thtime, ph art r w t n r o f t t e h e f r from s e l a e Leeds r t e o wctl hildt n e hn f t o ' n e on c d t i t ea n ds a f t et a rh n et yyn limit te f e t h r f e ree n el c a e ah o ge n ue nr t t h es ! persons over the age of and stating that the reduction of the peri o d o f labourentied with inch the mostfactoriesotton fatal to ten en would consequences, which lvhi bea n t r ti would be classes.wo was prrrhaactticawllays opinionthe e first of frstth that t el by very the working eminent person, who conversant with all the details of the case, and all the circum stances connected with it. He might be told that since then that gentleman had altered his opinion. He could show that it was not a very rapid alteration, for he would give a memorandum from his report in 1845---twelve years after he had been made an inspector of the factories. He (Sir A. L. Hay) had got his opinion in his favour for twelve years, and he would charge those twelve years against their opinion. In his report of the 16th of May, 1845, he gave an account of an experiment made at Preston by reducing the hours of labour to eleven, and the re sult of that experiment did not justify any further legislative restriction of the hours of labour —on the plea that if the hours were shortened the amount of produce was lessened, andthat in a large proportion of the manufacturing towns, if the hours of labour were reduced, the wages would also be reduced. He thought that the experiment would certainly be fraught with danger to the manufacturing interests of the country, and danger not only to the manufacturers, but to the agriculturists also. The manufacturers at that moment, in the part of Scotland to which he belonged —and where the manufacture of cotton was carried on to a great extent, were only • working ten hours a day— but why ? it was from the depression of trade. (LEFT SPEAKING.) FATAL ACCIDENT ON TAE NEWCASTLE-UPON TYNE AND NORTH SHIELDS RAILWAY.—On Sunday even ing, the 14th inst., a young gentleman named Robson, son of Mr. Robson, draper, Dean street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, arrived at the Hswden station just as the train for New castle was leaving, and in making an attempt to enter it fell or slipt, and several of the carriages passed over him. He was taken to Newcastle, but expired before arriving there. Mr. Secretary Redington's office, at his family seat, Kilcornan, county of Galway, was entered on Tuesday night by burglars, who rifled the desks of some silver. - IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) ' HOUSE OF COMMONS. The - SPEAKER took the Chair, but no House was formed until nearly a quarter past Twelve o'clock. SECOND READING. The following Railway Bills were read a second time, and ordered to be committed Exeter and Exmouth Railway Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Leeds, Durham, and Newcastle Extension, &c.) Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Deviation of Main Line in Crimple Valley, &c.) Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Knaresborough and Borough bridge Branch.) Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Eaglecliff and Stillington Extension). Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Harrowgate and Pateley Branch, &c.) Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Branch from Melmerby to Northallerton, &c.) Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland (Extension from Athlone to Galway). Several Bills were brought up and read a first time. TEN HOURS' BILL. Petitions in favour of the Bill were presented by Mr. Ainsworth, from workers in Mr. Ryder's factory, Bolton; from other workers in Bolton and in Huddersfield ; by Mr. , Blackburn, from Warrington ; by an Hon. Member from shopkeepers and others at Warrington ; by Mr. Ferrand, from Bradford ; and from a working man in Manches-: ter, setting forth that he had been engaged for twenty years in weaving cotton, that he was convinced the Bill would expel the heartburnings which had so long existed between the employer and the employed, and that many middle-aged men who had been compelled to leave their work, in consequence of the protracted hours, would return to it if the Bill were passed into a law. He also wished to know from him (Mr. Ferrand) if he could pre sent his petition to the House without his name being made public—(Hear, hear, and laughter) —as if it were mad e p u bli c he considered that he might suffer some injury. Mr. B. B. Cabbell and Mr. Fielden presented a number of petitions to the same effect. , * * 0%11 " _ 44 C'k lIFf7 , *O N eilto 0,& .1104. 4511Plikalk, SECOND EDITION. _ q triellin _ .-ATIL LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 11347, In the Lords the Brewing from Sugar Bill, and the Sugar Distilleries Bill, were respectively read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Friday ; and. the Destitute Persons (Ireland) Bill went through Corn. naittee, The adjourned debate on the second reading of Lord G. BENTINCK'S Irish Railway Bill was resumed! last evening in the House of Commons by Mr. B. OSEOP4TE. The House was subsequently addressed by Captain Layard, Sir J. Walsh, Mr. V. Stewart, Sir 11. W. I:ar ron, Sir R. Peel, and Colonel Connolly. After wtich Lord G. Bentinck replied, when. Lord J. Russell re joined; and on a division taking place, there appeared— For the second reading llB Against it Majority for Ministers —•-- 214 The House adjourned at Half-past Three o'clock. The patriotism and genius of Sir ROBERT 1' ;E7, happily relieved the closing discussion upon Lord GEORGE BENTINCK'S railway proposition from the weariness and frivolity which would have been other wise inevitable. Never were the illusions of' a political charlatan more thoroughly exposed Man were those of the diseased imagination of the repre sentative of Lynn, in the masterly speech deliwei ed by that Right Hon. Baronet. Without descen ding to the enunciation of a single epithet that might be construed as invidious, the ex-Premier overwhe ivied the miserable scheme then under the consideration of Parliament with a deliberation more crushing than the most vehement invective, with an enumeration of facts more forcible than the most impassioned: ,dis play of rhetoric, with a simplicity superic kr to vituperation, and a logical explicitness that TELLERS. Hill, Lord M. Tufnell, H. ._ _..e numbers an nouuce d i n the House last night Were' for the second reading, 11 8—against it, 322; but from the above list, copied from the votes, it appears that 332 Meet" bers voted against the second reading, thus giving th e Ministers a majority of 214 instead of 204.] PAIRS. AGAINST. Pendarves, E. Denison, W. Collett, John Marsland, Henry Villiers, Hon. C. Johnson, General Langton, Colonel FOE. Round, C. Fuller, A. E. Codrington, Sir W. Houldsworth, T. Homby, J. Hampden, Renn Buck, L. W. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. From the Votes and Proceedings of the Rouse of Commons.) TUES, 6. The following R a il w ay DAY Bills were l presented, read a fait time, and ordered to be read a second time : Eastern Union and Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Aural' gamation. Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, And Goole (Partial Alteration of Levels, &c.). Sheffield, Rotherham, and Doncaster Junction (Maibrough to Doncaster). Great Northern (Deviations between Peterborough, Boston, and Doncaster Great .Northern Hertford, Hatfield, and St. Alban's Branch). Great Northern 1/4Deviations between Grantham and York). East Lancashire (Burnley Connecting Line). East Lancashire (Southport Branch and Preston Extension) East Lancashire (Deviations and Rawtenstall Coal Branch). East Lancashire (Bury to Manchester). Edinburgh and Northern (Burntisland Pier, &c.). Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham (Branch to Wisbech harbour and Wisbech Harbour Improvement). Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham (Wisbech to Sutton Bridge, &c ). Eastern Counties (Hertford to Hitchin). Caledonian (Branches to Canobie, &c.). Caledonian (B ranc h across Clyde and Glasgow Station). Caledonian ( Lease of part of Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway). NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE. The following Railway Bills are appointed to be read 0 second time on Monday, Feb. 22 : Great Northern ( Branch to King's Lynn). Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction (Alteration of Line and Branches to Nottingham). Wishaw and Coltness (Branches to Anchinheath Mineral Field and Canderside). Ayrshire and Galloway (Smithstown to Dalmellington). THE LATE FIRE IN THE MANCHESTER LYING"' IN HosinTAL.—On Saturday last, a general special board was held at this institution, when the p ra i seworthy conduct of Joseph Moody, the cat -driver, who gave the alarm, and afterwards was of great assistance during the fire, was brought under the notice of the board, and it was unani— mously resolved—" That this board, highly approving of they humanity and promptitude with which Joseph Moody exerted himself on the late distressing occasion of the fire at the Lying-in Hospital, think it right hereby to record their grateful thanks for his assistance and their cordial approval of his conduct." Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colexua . cffice for the Governors of the West India Colonies. BIRTS. On the 16th In s t., a t N o. 21, Morni H ngton-crescent, Regent's park, Mrs. Edmund Robins, of a daughter. On the 13th inst., at Portland Lodge, Mrs. Sturgis, of a daughter. On the 13th inst., at the Grove, Blackheath, the wife of Richard Twining, jun., Esq., of a son. On the 13th inst., at Lower. Tooting, Surrey, Mrs. Frederic George Persian, of a daughter. On the 14th inst., at Oxford, the wife of the Rev. R. Michell. 8. 9 ' of a son. On the 14th inst., at Hampstead, the wife of David Powell, Egl. , of a son. On the 14th inst., at Ickleford House, near Hitchin, the Hon. Mr Frederick Dudley Ryder, ( , f a son. On the 14th inst., in Guildford-street, Russell-s quar e, Mrs. T• Hayward, of a dau g hter. On the 15th inst., at the Terrace, Upper Clapton, Mr's. Milia' Bird, of twin sons. MARRIED. On the 13th inst., at East Teignmouth, Devon, Dr. Joseph Dick lOUs of St. Heller's, Jersey, to Mary, daughter of Captain Parson, R.N. DIED. On the 13th i ns t . , i n Montagu-square, the Dowager COini tau or Shrewsbury, aged 77. On the 12th inst., Mrs. Maria Medan, of Bri g hton, aged 76. On the 13th inst., at Circus Lodge, Greenwich, Ann, eldest dallth" ter of the lat e St ephen John Maule, Esq., aged 74. On the 13th i nst., at the Colonnade, Albany-road, Yeat-ro ad G. Denham, Esq., ag e d 76 . On the 1511 inst., at Bish o p St ort f ord, Herts, Mr. Thome.sratm ore. On the 15th i nst., Lieutenant Joseph Taylor, late Of n iers - place, Ilyde-p ar k- square, aged 54. London: ---- - ----- Printed and Published by 31URDO YOUNG, of No. 11 1 4 Strand, Printer, at The Sun (Mee, N 0.112, Strand, In the Precinct of the Savoy, In the County of Middlesex, Wed4o/107. re! bruary 17, 1847. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) TUESDAY, FEB. 16. RAILWAYS (IRELAND) BILL. Order read for resuming adjourned Debate on Amendment proposed to be made to Question (12th February), " That the Rill be now read a second time," and which Amendment was to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the Question to add the words " upon this day six months :"--• Question again proposed, " that the word now' stand part of the Question :"—Debate resumed :—Question put. The House divided : MINORITY—AYES, 118. Acton, Colonel Forbes, William Martin, T. B. Allix, J. P. Fox, S. L. Miles, William Bailey, Joseph Gaskell, J. M. Neeld, Joseph Bailey, J., jun. Gooch, E. S. Neeld, John Bankes, George Gore, Montague Newry, Viscount Barron, Sir H. W. Goring, C. NorreysZSir D. Baskerville, T. Granby, Marquis of Northland, Vl3Count Bateson, T. Grattan, Henry O'Brien, C. Bennet, P. Gregory, W. It. O'Brien, W. S. Bentinck, Lord G. Grogan, E. Bentinck, Lord H. Belf or d, Si r H enry O'Co nnell,yoha rn Beard, Viscount Hall, Colonel O'Connell, D., Jan. Osborne, Ralph Blackburne, J. I. Halsey, T. P. • Packe, G. W. Blackstone, W. S. Hamilton, J. H. Pigot, Sir R. Blake, af. J. Hamilton, G. A. Prime, Richard Borthwick, P. Harris, Captain Rushout, Captain Brisco, M. Henley, J. W. Scott, Francis Brooke, Lord lllldystrd, T. B. Seymer, Henry ICer Brooke, Sir A. B. 11111, L or d E . Shirley, E. J. Bruen, Colonel Hodgs on , R. Smlthwith, R. Buller, Sir J. Y. Hudson, G. Smyth, Sir H. Bunbury, T. Hussey, Thomas Stuart4J. Butler,: P. S. Ingestre, Viscount Taylor, E. Chandos, Marquis of Jolllife, Sir W G. 11. Taylor, J. A. Chichester, Lord J. Kelly, James Thompson, Ald anal' Christopher, R. Ker, D. S. Trollope, Sir J. Clayton, R. R. • Kirk,lPeter Tuite, H. M. Clifton, J. T. - Knightley, Sir C. Tyrrell, Sir J. T. . Cole, H. A. Law, C. E. Verner, Sir W. Collett, W. R. Lawless, Cecil I'M, R. IL It. S H. Connolly, Col. Laws on , A n d rew Waddington, H. S . Dick, Q. Lefroy, Anthony Walpole, S. H. Disraeli, B. Lennox, Lord G. H. Walsh, Sir J. Duncombe, A. Leslie, C. P. Wodehouse, E. Duncombe, 0. Liddell, H. T. Worcester, Marquis Du Pre, C. G. Lowther, Sir J. Wyndham, J. H. Entwisle, W. Mackenzie, W. F. Farnham, E. B. Macnamara, Major TELLERS. Ferrand. W. B. M'Carthy, Alex. Beresford. Major Finch, G. Manners, Lord C. Newdegate. N. Fitzgerald, R. A. >fanners, Lord J. MAJORITY—NOES, 332. Acheson, Viscount Evans, William Mare, Colonel Acland, Sir T. Evans, Sir De Lacy Napier, Sir Charlea Acland, T. D. Ewart, William Neville, R. Aglionby, H. A. Fielden, John Norreys, Lord Ainsworth, Peter Ferguson, Col. O'Brien, J. Alden), William Fihner, Sir E. O'Connell, M. ,r. Anson, Colonel Fitzmaurice, W. O'conor, Don Arkwright, George Fitzroy, Henry Ogle, S. C. Arundel, Earl of Fitzr o y, L or d C . Ord, W. Attwood, John Fitzwilliam, G. W. Oswald, J. Austen, Colonel Fleetwood, Sir P. Owen, Sir John Belllie, Colonel Flower, Sir James Paget, Colonel Baillie, H. J, Forster, Mathew Paget, Lord A. Baine, Walter Fox, C. R. Pakington, Sir J. Bannerman, A. French, F. Palmer, Robert_ . ... Barclay, David G ar d ner , J . D. Palmerston, WW I " Barkly, Henry Gibson, Thomas M. Parker, John Baring, Henry Gill, Thomas Pattison, James Baring, F. T. Gladstone, J. N. Peohell, Captain Baring, W. P. Godson, R. Peel, Sir Robert Barnard, Edward G. Gordon, Hon. Capt. Pennant, Colonel Barrington, Viscount Gore, Robert Philips, G. It. Beckett, W. Goulburn Henry - Philipps, Sir R. Bell, John Graham, Sir James Philips, Mark Bellew, R. M. Granger, T. C. Philpotts. John . Benbow, John Gr eene , Th omas Plumridge, Caplan, Berkeley. Craven Grey, Sir G. Polhill, F. Berkeley, Captain Grimsditch, Thomas Ponsouby, C. F. i • Berkeley, H. Grosvenor, Lord A. Power, James Bernal, Ralph G rosvenor, Earl Powlett, Lord W. . Blakemore, R. Guest, Sir J. Price, Sir R. , Bodkin, W. H. Hall, Sir Benjamin Protheroe, E. Bodkin, J. J. Hamilton, W. J. Pulsford, Robert 1 Bouverie, E. P. Harcourt, G. G. Pusey, P. Bowles, Admiral Hastie, Archibald Rawdon, Colonel , Bowring, Dr. Hatton, Captain V. Reid, Sir J. R. Bramston, T. W. Hawes, Benj. Reid, Colonel Bright, John • Hay, Sir A. L. Ricardo, J. L. Brocklehurst, John Hayter, W. G. Rice, E. B. _^ Brotherton, Joseph Heathcoat, John Rich, Henry Brown, W. Heathcote, G. J. Roebuck, J. A. Browne, R. D. Heathcote, Sir W. Romilly, John Brownrigge, J. S. Heneage, G. H. W. Ross, David R.' Bruce, Lord E. Heneage, E. R oun d, J. Bruges, W. H. ' Herbert, Sydney 14 umbold, C. E. Buckley, Edmund liervey, Lord A. -Russell, Lord J. Buller, Charles 'Uncle, J. H. Russell,:LordE. 1 Buller, Edward Hi n dl ey , C. Russell, J. D . Burroughes, H. Hobhouse, Sir J. Rutherford, A. Byn.g, G. S. Hogg, Sir J. W. Ryder, G. D. Cardwell, Edward Holland, Robert Sanderson, R. I 'arew, It. S. Hope, Sir J. Sandon, Viscount Carew, W. H. Pole Hope, A. Scott, Robert Castlereagh, Visc. Hoskins, K. Scrope, G. I'. Cavendish, C. C. Howard, C.W.O. Seymour, Lord Cavendish, G. H. Howard, J. K. Seymour, Sir H. Cayley, E. S. Howard, E. G. Shaw, F. Chaplin, W. J. Howard, P. H. Shell, IL L. Chapman, B. Howard, Henry Sheridan, R. B. Chelsea, Vise. Howard, Sir R. Smith, J. A. Cholmeley, Sir J. Hume, Joseph Smith, Vernon Christie, W. D. Humphery, Ald. Somers, J. P. Chute, W. L. W. Hurst, R. H. Somerset, Lord 0. Clay, Sir W. Hutt, William Somerville, Sir 'W. Clerk Sir G. Inglis, Sir R. Spooner, Richard Colebrook% Sir T. James, William Stanley, W. 0. ~. Collins, William James, Sir W. C. Stansfield, W. R. u• Compton, H. C. Jermyn, Earl Stanton, W. H. Copeland, Ald. Jervis, Sir John Staunton, Sir G. Corbally, M. E. - Johnstone, Sir J. Stewart, John Corry, Henry Kelly, Sir Fitzroy Stuart, Lord J. Courteney, Lord Kemble, Henry Stuart, V. Cowper, W. F. Labouchere, Henry Strickland, Sir G. Craig, W. 0, Lambton, H. Strutt, Edward Crawford, W. S. Langston, J. H Sutton, Henry Cripps, William Lascelles, E. Tancred, H. W. Currie, Raikes Lascelles, W. S. Thesiger, Sir F. Curteis. H. B. Layard, Captain Thornely, T. Dalmeny, Lord Leader, J. T. Tollemache, F. J. Daahwood, G. 11. Le Merchant, Slr D. Tornline, George Dawson, T. V. Lemon, Sir C. Tower, C. Deedes, W. Lincoln, Earl of Towneley, John Denison, J. E. Lindsay, Captain Trelawny, J. S. Denison, E. B. Loch, James Trevor, J. R. Dennistoun, J. Lockhart, A. E. Trotter, John D'Eyncourt, C. T. Lyall, George Troubridge, sir E. Dickinson, F. H. Lygon, General Turner, Edmund Dodd, G. . Macaulay, T. B. Vane, Lord H. Douglas, Sir C. E. Mackinnon, W. Vernon, G. H. Douglas, J. S. M`Donnell, J. M. Villiers, Viscount I kzuro, Marquis of M`Taggart, Sir J. Vivian, J. 11. Duckworth, Sir J. Mah on,• L ord ' Walley, Thomas Dugdale, W. S. Mainwaring, T. Walker, Richard Duke, Sir J. Maitland, Thomas Wall, C. B. Duncan, Lord Mangles, R. D. Warburton, H. Duncan, George Marjoribanks, S. Ward, H. G. Duncombe, T. Marshall, William Watson, W. H. Dundas, Admiral Martin, J. Wawn, J. T. Dundas, F. Martin, C. W. Wellesley, Lord C. Dundas, David Masterman, John White, Henry Easthope, Sir J. Matheson, James Williams, W. Eastnor, Viscount Maule, Fox Wilshere, T. W. Ebrington, Lord Mildmay, H. St. J. Winnington, Sir T. Egerton, W. T. Milton, Viscount Wood, Colonel T. Egerton, Sir P. Mitcalfe, Henry Wortley, J. S. Ellice, Edward Mitchell, T. A. Wrightson, W. B. Ellice, E., jun. Molesworth, Sir W. Wyse, Thomas Ellis, Wynn Morpeth, Viscount Yorke, Henry R. Emlyn, Viscount Morris, David Escott, Bickharn Morison, General Esmonde, Sir T. Mostyn, E. M. Etwall, Ralph Munta, G. F FTIT- us co tit lei ' FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD. LOST or STOLEN, on TUESDAY, the 16th of FEBRUARY instant, in tho neighbourhood of Lombard-street, Loudon, A LIIIATHEIt BANKERS' CASE, containing the under mentioned BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES, viz. : One £l,OOO Note, 13th June, 1346 - - - - No. 68,670 „ 1,010 „ „ „ „ - - - - - 68,787 s, 1 ,000 ~ „ ft ft 68,850 ft 1,000 „ „ „ .9 .. .. . . •• 70,652 „ 1,000 „ „ „ „ 70,665 „ 1,000 „ „ „ 70,666 „ 500 „ 12th March, 1846 51,339 „ 500 „ „ „ „ - - - - - 52,276 , 300 „ I 1 th May, 1846 57,107 '„ 200 „ 10th March, 1846 „ 200 „ „ „ „ 39,888 ~ 200 „ „ „ „ 40,488 „ 100 „ 9th May, 1846 84,172 „ 50 „ Bth October, 1846 ~ 50 ff 10 /1 11 - - - .. „ 20 „ sth October, 1846 „ 20 If ft 91 ft 83,275 „ 5„ 2d December, 1846 - - - - 35,910 „ 5 „ 13th January, 1847 - - 59,650 „ sft tt ft tf 94,426 Payment of which has been stopped at the Bank of England. Whoever will give suell information as may lead to the recovery of the above-described Notes within twenty-one days from this date, shall be entitled to receive the above reward, or a proportionate part thereof for any portion of the Notes so recovered, if post, or upon re c3very and conviction of the offender, if stolen. For further information, apply to Messrs. Bush and Mullens, Solicitors, Mildred's-court, Poultry; or to J. or D. Forrester, Police office, Mansion-house, London. London, Feb. 16, 1847. TIIE NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in p•st Bvo., C L E V EL AND A Tale of the Roman Catholic Church. Richard Bentley, New Burlingt•n-street. %f r t