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goners, on the understanding that they would be treated as prisoners of • war. A great num ber of this party consisted, he understood, of principal officers, and numbering about 40 , were pl aced aboard a small brig in the bay of Lisbon, for the pur pose of being transported to Africa, but many of them were too unwell or too sick to undergo the e he l c yi age, and a representation! was made to v by the captain and the surgeon to the Government. From the moment the conduct of these persons was made known in Lisbon, great interest was excited, and her Majesty's chargé d'affaires, G. Seymour, ar rived immediately after the resignation of Lord who Howard, as well as the representat ives of t h e French and of the Belgians, who acted separately, made similar representations , a nd he (the M arquis of Lans downe) hoped that these representations would not be without avail, and that they would be sent to a more unexceptionable place than Africa. He was in a condition to state that that was the case k but he entertained a confident belief that the destination of the ships had been altered, and that their prisoners would be sent to .a place less fatal to their health, and more consonant with their position. H e hisd been informed that in no instance had anything like adequate punishment been irflicted, and he argued, therefore, that the sentence would be re versed, which would be a source of great satisfaction to her Majesty's Government, wbo bad sent a force to Oporto and the Bay of Lisbon—but their object in sending that force had been in no way to interfere in the contest, but to afford protection to British enterprise. It would be a satisfaction to that force, if they were also enabled to give a refutation to such persons as were in *lnger of their life and it would be, above all, their duty to give protection to the Queen, if she would require it,. as long as the contest lasts. Maintaining the character which it now holds of a civil war, it could not be the inclination of her Majesty's Government actively to interfere, nor was there, under any existing treaty, a justification for . their so doing, but circumstances might assume a different character, and it Dom Miguel, or a party acting for him, should appear, a new state of things would arise, which would revive former treaties. Such a course might strengthen the Portuguese Govern ment, and tend to allay the existing dissensions. It must be the earnest wish of this country to see peace established in that country, at present so much disturbed. The Earl of ABERDEEN said that he was not quite satisfied with the course to be pursued by her Majesty's Government. It must be the desire of every person, as much as possible, to mitigate the calamities attendant upon a war, and therefore it was perfectly praiseworthy and necessary that all persuasions should be used to produce a humane and merciful conduct on the part of these persons. But if the Noble Marquis had made up his mind to make an official representation from the Government of this country to the Government of Portugal on the subject. Ile (the Earl f Aberdeen) begged - to differ from him. As far as private solicitation and perst a ion, and personal influence could be employed there could be no ob jection • but if once, in a contest of th's descrip tion, the Government should officially interfere with the course the Portuguese Government might think proper to adopt, it was to establish a precedent exceedingly dangerous, and to the prin ciple of which he had a great objection. It might be stated to the credit of the Portuguese Govern ment, that in the various disturbances which had taken place of late years in that country, there had been very little cruelty exercised, and there was very little appearance of a sanguinary disposition in any parties. That furnished a vary strong contrast to the people of the neighbcuring nation, where they had seen acts of vengeance and bloodshed committed on all sides. An other reason why the Government should be particularly cautious at present in any interference of that description was—be knew not how it had arisen—but the belief was strong and general in Portugal, that the cause of the insurrection possessed the good wishes of her Ma jesty's Government. He could not believe that to be the case, but he believed it to be indisputable that the persuasion of the gsneralike of Ithe;peop'e in Portugal was such, and therefore it was incumbent upon her Majesty's Government to be very cautious in any act that . might lead to confirm that opinion. The Government undertaking to protect the lives and property of British subjects, and the personal safety of the sovereign was a legitimate course ; but he submitted that the naval force in the Tagus, was more than sufficient for that purpose. That force was overwhelming, and he did not know the cause of it, but from the feeling regarding it which pre vailed in Portugal, it seemed to strengthen the belief which he had referred to. Several years the Government of this country had taken an active part to place the present Queen on the throne of Portugal, and having done so, ho thought they would be justified in supporting the Government with that moral force which would at least convey the impres'sion that they disapproved of the insurrection, instead of appearing to countenance it. One party of the insurgents were against the monarchy, and in favour of the republic, and the other were supporters of des potic power. He thought the presence of the large fleet at present in the Tagus gave countenance to the insurrection, whereas it might be made to operate otherwise aria in favour of the gieen's Government. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE replied that the anxious wish of her Majesty's Government was to main tain the Queen on the throne, and he know not of any act that gave evidence to the contrary. lie defied any one to point out a single instance wherein they had countenanced the insurrec tion. The Noble Earl must be aware that it would occasion the grea'est dissatisfaction if it were known that the Government supported one side in preference to another. Undeubtedly rumours such as those referred to may have circulated, but they were false rumours. It was not, however, on the Queen's side alone that such rumours prevailed, but on the other side, it had been surmised that the leaning of this Government was in favour of the Government of the Queen of Portugal. He did not wish to pronounce an opinion on the dis sensions that at present prevailed in that country, but this he was bound to say, that there had been no instructions to the admiral, to the Mini, ter. or to the Envoy sent to that country, that had not for their object the preservation' of a perfect impartiality, and in any advice re spectfully tendered to the Portuguese Government the object had been to conform strictly to these' in structions, and such friendly councils could only have been given with the view of proving that the English Government would rot in the slightest degree, tither directly or indirectly, lend its support or influence to the insurgent s . It had been thought expedient that (und, r circumstances such es those which existed in Portugal) a squad ron superior to that which any other power would be likely to send, should be placed in the Tagus, for the preseryation of the interests of England; but the officer who had been appointed to the command was not only one of the most able in her Ma jesty's service, but one remarkable for jtclment, dis cretion, and the ca-e with which he carried out his i tstructions. Ile believed that that eflicer would pro serve a strict impartiality, and he believed that he had not in any the slightest degree deviated from the matter of his instructions, or that,. anything he had done wieild militste against that which was the anx;ous wish of le r Majesty's government, namely, noninterference with the civil contest in that country. He trusted that that contest would be brought to a speedy termination, ant without any necessity ter the fait rreution of this come try. England would only interfere in one case, and he hoped that that important exception would not arise. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH did not consider the mea , ure a very constitutional one, by which the Queen of Portugal had commenced this civil war.— (Laughter.) Her Majesty's course of pri ceeding tsas this. She imprisoned the out-going Knistry—(Laugh ter) — and reinstated the old ones. The n aly constituted Government La - I violated every principle of personal liberty to a greater degree than had been known under the worst of despotisms. All representation to the Government of Portugal was a mere farce if they had nothing to support it, if, instead of asking that Govern ment to releake the unfortunate sufft rers on the coast of Africa, they had given instructions to Admiral Parker to demand it ; if it were to be understood that in the event of these representations not being attended to, that Sir Williana Parker would leave the Tagus, he had not the slightest doubt but that they would receive im mediate attention.—(clear,, hear.) So far from the British squadron having been in any way instru mental in the support of the insurrection in Portugal, there was no question whatever in his mind that, but for the presence of the squadron on the coast of Portugal, the Queen would have met Dom Miguel in London, and that the victorious troops would have marched as they had done before, from Oporto to Lisbon.—(Hear.) CRIMINAL LAW—JUVENILE OFFENDERS. Lord BROUGHAM did not intend to take any part in this very irregular conversation, and he was glad that it was at last brought to a close, but this much he might say, that he quite agreed with the concluding obst rvatten of his Noble Friend who had just sat down, that the pre sence of the squadron, so far from having encouraged the 'insurrection, had been the main means of keeping the Queen of Portugal upon the throne. He would now beg to present the very important petition from Liver pool of which ho had given notice. It was not usual to give notice of the presentation of petitions but he had taken this somewhat unusual course, and had -given notice, because he wished to exprass his opinions on that very important subject.—(Hear, hear.) He esteemed it a high honour to present this petition, which was signed by the Mayor of Liverpool, by Mr. Rushton, the official magistrate, and nineteen other ma gistrates. He should feel it his duty to bring the beads of . _ this long and very important do cumen t b e f ore t h e house, not perhaps in the chosen terms or the ap t phraseology of the document it se lf, b u t as we ll as h e was able to do it. He had taken the pains to make himself acquainted with the subject on which it treated, not only by reading the communications of the Government, but of also a variety other ii papers which bore on the subject of this petition ; reports emeant the report of the spectors—the Prison In- societies whose atten mti on to those benevolent and useful had hem. turned to the impor tant subject of thetcGriemninal law, sot only in this country, but also in France Ind Holland, and wherever this matter had been examaui)nt, report from Mr. Hill, the It workinen°7ler of Birmingham, He had also received a ::.ecetie criminal law bad whose experience in the impossibl e isenother report been very great. He had i t a l l v s a Ci s g than theunderrate from Mr. Tidd Taylor. the structur ee the importance of it. It was no le ss of the criminal law, and its optratioti on lie would now go over the heads criminal . lie important subject, so far as they bore on the petition before him. The petitioners s p o k e magistrates administering he law as practical men—as over a population of 300,000 persons—as the tribunal before whom offenders were tried, and they came before their Lordships as the last tribunal—the last resource —to unbosom their difficulties, to prefer their com plaints, and to warm them of the conseque nce of ne gloating to remedy the evils which they disclosed. The THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNINCT, FEBRUARY l9, 1847. results of their experience were these: That in a popu lation of 300,000 persons there had been committed and tried, during the last seven years 2 51,000 persons !—ln the course of seven years ! Of these persons, no less than one-tenth, or 5,500 odd, had been offenders under seventeen years of age; and that of those, not less than one-fifth—(he meant of the whole 51,000, not of juvenile offenders)—no less than one-fifth or 10,000 upwards had been committed during those seven years five times on an average. Consequently, with respect to those offenders, the immediate, the inevitable result was, that those off en der s had been punished four times after their first conviction, so undoubtedly efficacious had been the punishment which their laws had inflicted.—(Hear, hear.) Those magis trates went further. They had made investigations which he thought was of incalculable value, and be trusted he might be permitted to tender them the thanks of their Lordships for them. They had examined four teen cases taken perfectly indiscriminately, out of that number of juvenile offenders —(he wished to direct par ticular attention to those offenders, because he wished to reform the discipline with respect to them—not to trust to punishment, but trust to reforming them, and because after offenders became a certain age, and became hardened in wickedness, that reformatory principle ceased to possess the principle of amendment to the same extent ; he therefore looked to the younger offenders, and he wished to direct attention to the state ments put forward in the petition—statements, which he was merely embodying in his own mind. They selected, as he had said fourteen juvenile offenders at random, and carefully examined their circumstances. He should give only two or three instances out of the fourteen, hut he should observe that, the whole of the fourteen had been appre hended on the average fifteen tittles each. Earl FITZ WILLIAM—There were not 51,000 per sons convicted ; that number only represented the coin- mitmen ts. Lord BROUGHAM—Certainly he had not said Otherwise, but they had all been frequently discharged without beingeommitted to trial. They had been committed on an average, nine times each, during that period of sevens ears. He would single out three persons in or der to show the good effects of the prison discipline. The first case was that of a boy twelve years of age ,• be could neither read or write; be was first apprehended in September, 1838, and for the last time in January, 1842. In three years he was apprehended sixteen times, and he was committed for trial nine times. His sen tences were for various terms of imprisonment in the common gaol, and he was convicted no less than three of those eight times in three years and a half, and ended by being transported for ten years. The se cond case he would bring under the consideration cf the House, was the case of a boy aged ten years. He had been fourteen times apprehended, and eleven times con victed. The third case was that of a boy only nine years old, who, in the space of two years, was appre hended sixteen times, and convicted four times, and ended by being transported for seven years. He hid long been engaged in the study and adininistration of laws ; he was, however, bound to open his ears to the voice of wisdom, and not to shut his . eyes to such a fearful state of things as this. What were the expenses of this state of things? Why, the expense of convicting these 14 individuals, amounted to 8891. In consequence of the admirable arrangements of the magistrates of Liver pool, they were enabled to convict at much less cost than I in most other places, but even with their good arrange ' ments the cost of those convictions amounted to 8891. Was it not time then seriously to inquire into this state of juvenile crime. Were the Government dealing rightly with human beings, even according to their knowledge of human nature, in always appealing to the fears of the prisoners rather than to their hopes, their feelings, their capacities, and their wishes. He would call atten tion to the prayer of the petition, and request their Lordships to appoint a searching inquiry into the subject. The present state of the law was to take a criminal, place him in the prison and convict him, and when convicted he was either imprisoned or transported —that was the only alternative. He was no friend to transportation. It was neither economical to the country, nor justifiable to the colonies where the convict was sent. His principal objection to that species of punishment was, that it was not suffi ciently appalling; it did not terrify the persons about to commit crime. All the persons who knew anything about the feelings of prisoners, concurred in saying that imprisonment had far mote horrors for them than trans portation. Then again look at the cost of this punish ment ; 4000 persons were sent out every year from this country to the penal settlements, the cost of which was half a million a-year ; the expense of keeping the same number ,of persons in prisons in this country, for two years, would be only 300,0001. The system of trans portation was therefore inefficient to the end, and ex pensive in its machinery. Their lordships should take care that if they could not deter others from com mitting crime, they should at least take care that tile prisoners did not come out of prison worse than when they went in. The total number of convic tions in each year were 100,000 ; of this number, 96,000 retnahed in prisons at home. Did not imprisonment actually make these persons worse ? Did not they, in 99 cases out of 100. come out of privet: infinitely more demoralised than when they entered ? And what was the poor convicts to do when they earn: out ? Was not their character gone ? their family attachments gone ? Were they not debased in their own eyes, and disgraced in the c 3 es of their friends, upon whom their own dis grac:: was reflected ? They carried with them, wherever they went, the sail effects of the, bad system of punishment. Was it then to be wondered at they should again go on to pursue a coures of crime? Short imprisonments he denounced on the authority of Mr. Pitt Taylor, and numerous other authorities, as highly improper. The criminal thought but little of the punishment, it was but a few days, they thought only of passing the tune the best way they could, and made no tlforts to improve their mural condition. What, then, could be done to make purisliment reformatory, and to prevent these persons at the end of their sentence from falling into tha same course of evil which had brought them there? lie was proud to say that there were establishments calculated to produce that end near Hamburgh, and in the depart ment of the Loire, at Metteray. • lie would call the attention of the house to the mode of proceedings at Metteray. The establishment was opened in the year 1839, since which period 521 persons bad been received. No person was admitted but male convicts under sixteen years of age. The establishment was conducted by one m - ster and two assistants, called brethren, chosen to that situation by the convicts from among themselves, the fear of being sent back to prison was over the prisoner as a check to their bad conduct. The inmates were educated in agri cultural and other pursuits. What .was the result of this system? Of 521 persons admitted, 17 had died, 12 were sent back to prison, 144 had been placed in various situations, and 128 were still remaining in the establish ment. Ile did not envy France its Algeirian colony, its Spanish marriages, or the glories of Na coleon and Turenne, but he did envy- them their model establishments, and he hoped that soon this country would join in laudable rivalry with them in the establishment of.those institutions. He would not enter further into details, but p7O-ced to a report which was made by the Rev. John Clay, - the chaplain of the Preston prison. The Rev. Gentleman stated that there were in that prison 1,050 prisoners, 562 of whom were utterly unable to real, and 226 who could write a little. Now, just let their Lordships look to the clll ets of that ignorance. There were 514 of then who did not know the names of the months, 527 slid not know the Queen's name, and 490 of them were unable to understand the plainest wordi ad tressed to them, end did not know what the words virtue and vice meant ; 62 of them could not count one. hundred, 242 could read and write a little ; and of the whole thousand there were only twenty who had received anything like an education. Those who were able to read a little had read all those wild, detestable and disgusting productions which issued from the press of this country, such as histories of bandits. highway men, murderers, thieves, and every species of disgusting crime, with which the press of this country and of Faris was polluted. All th, so persons hail perused such in famous productions as these, and made him (Lord Brougham) almost think that the ability to read was a Curse to them rather than a blessing. The proportion of persons convicted to the population of North Lanca shire was as one to eleven hundred, but in South Lan cashire it was as one to five hundred. He maintained that they could not go on as they did at present. Times had changed since the days of Sir Richard Ark wright. The manufacturing population then numbered only a few thousands, but now it amounted to 800,000. and when any portion of this large population was out of work, they had no provision made fur a bad day, and the cons equence was, that they fell into criminal courses. That was a rea,on why their Lordship's should interfere to reform the criminal law, that these persons should escape the evil nalluencee to which they were now sub jected. It was with these iews that he brought the subject before them, and if they agreed with him, and should think that the time was come to app ly in good earnest to amend the administration of the law, - -not only as regards the law itself, but the prison discipline also, they would be prepared for a pro position, that he intended to submit to them shortly for the appointment of a Select Cemmittee to investigate the whole subject. The Duke of RICHMOND concurred with his Noble Friend, that their thanks were- due to the magistrates who had called their attention to this subject, and to the Noble Lord who had presented this petition. No thing could be of more importance than the subject of criminal law, and he also believed that prison discipine, under a judicious system might do much to effect a re form in juvenile offenders. They might at present send a child of about nine years of age to prison, and keep him there for six weeks or two months before trial, and if convicted, the county magistrates, did not know what to do with him. If they stamped on his brow the word felon, they precluded him ever after obtaining employment. He should like to know whether in the es tablishment at Metteray, which had been referred to, they had been taken as they came, _or had been selected. The prestige of this country was greatly against giving ( mployment to any one who had been once convicted of a crime, and any one so situated had no chance ever of emploiment. He knew an instance of this, where a man who had been sentenced to be transported and was afterwards sent to Pentonville prison, in con sequence of his good conduct there, he was, after some time, liberated. lie subsequently obtained employment . - from a railway company, and, his good conduct in his situation, obtained promotion; but some busybody made acomp:aint to- the directors, and informed them that he had been a convicted felon. lie was, therefore, dismissed from his situation, and was now starving. If, therefore, they sent a boy to Parkhurst prison, and afterwards got him a situation, they might get them selves into a serape, from such cause as that to which he w t o h u e l would mov eesu t wouldf Gr an r:oty referred. He should be very glad if his Noble 3 ti ' ly i . n a to dv t a b n e Friend thought t s a u s b e j o e u e s t country. 9taosthhee _ - Earl GREY agreed with the Noble Lord who just ad- dressed the House, that the subject was one of very great importance, and they would be satisfied to know, from two papers which he had just laid upon the table, that the subject had not escaped the atten tion of her Ma jesty's Government. They would find in them that the views which had been so :ably put forward by the Noble Lord were concurred in by the Government, and that they intended to bring forward a measure bearing especially upon juvenile offenders. Accordingly a Bill would be brought in for the purpose of effecting a reform in the criminal law, which all seemed to admit was so much wanted. The great difficulty which attended the present system, and which prevented them from attaining such results as in France was, that the boys, if sent out of prison, must necessarily be par doned. Lord BROUGHAM observed that they were sent back to prison if they misconducted themselves. Earl GREY—Exactly so. If they misconducted themselves in France they were sent back to prison, but in this country there was no power of that kind—they had no other resource but to turn them out. That was a great difficulty, which at present existed, and to remedy which the Bill pro posed was intended. Further, their Lordships would ob serve, from the minutes of council on the subject of education, it was proposed to establish a penal school in London, to which were to be sent, not only juvenile offenders, but vagrants also. The whole subject also of transportation had been under consideration, and in deed, he might say, that the measure proposed had extended as far almost as the abolition of that punish ment. The Bill of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Home Secretary, which was laid on the table, would fully explain the system, and the details which it gave of those transports who had been sent to Norfolk Island, were such as would make their Lordships shudder. He thought it right to make these observations in conse quence of what had fallen from the Noble and Learned Lord with respect to the reformation of the criminal law. The subject should continue to have the most serious attention of the Government. Lord BROUGHAM explained, that by the Ist and 2d of Victoria, the - institutions alluded to by the Noble Earl were constituted in the way mentioned by him. Captain Maconochie who deserved much praise for his exertions, proposed that the nature of the punishment should not be by time, but by the conduct of the pri soner, that ho should receive marks for good conduct, and that, after obtainirig a certain number, he should be set at liberty. Mr. Hill's plan was not so efficient, but yet it was a very , good one. Atter the conviction of a juvenile offender (Mr. Hill is the Recorder of Nor wich) he sent for the parents, guardians, or master of the boy, sand alter having obtained a pledge that they would watch over his future conduct, he set him tree, after the imposition of a fine, or merely an admonition. He had adopted this plan for four or five years, with wonderful effect, as they had seldom been brought before him again, as appeared to have been the case at Liverpool. Of course he (Mr. Hill) could not tell whether or not they had gone elsewhere and committed like offences. The subject then dropped. DISTRESS IN IRELAND. Earl GREY laid a dispatch on the table from the Government of Nova Scotia, stating that the Assembly had voted 1,0001. for the relief of the destitute poor in Ireland and in the Highlands of Scotland. He (Earl Grey) was sure their Lordships would rejoice at this proof of the interest manifested by that Assembly in the welfare of their fellow-subjects at home.--(Hear, hear.) rise the Sale of the raisley and Renfrew Railway to the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway Comp any, and the Improvement of the said Railway by the !fatter Company." East of Fife (Markinch Deviation)—" to enable the East of Fife Railway Company to deviate a portion of their - Main Line, and to improve the junction thereof with the Edin burgh and Northern Railway, near Markinch." Dublin and Drogheda (Branch from Navan to Kells)—" to enable the Dublin and Drogheda Railway Company to make a Railway from the Navan Branch of the Dublin ana Belfast Junction Railway, in the county of Meath, to the town of Kells, in the same county.'' Dublin and Belfast Junction and Navan Branch—." to authorise the sale to the Dublin and Drogheda Railway Com pany of the Navan Branch of the Dublin and Belfast J unc tion Railway, and to enable the Dublin and Drogheda, the Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway Company with a Branch from Drogheda to Navan, the 'Ulster and the. Dun dalk and Enniskillen Railway Companies, or any of them, to amalgamate with cne another." Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley (No. 2) Branches—" to enable the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley Railway Company to construct Branch Railways to Stourbridge, to Dudley, and other places, and for other purposes." The following Railway Bills were read a second time, corn matted, and referred to the Committee of Selection : Leeds and Thirak (LeedE, Durham, and Ne wcas tl e Exten. sion, &c.). Leeds and Thirsk (Deviation of Main Line in Crimple Valley, tic.). Leeds and Thirsk (Knaresborough and Boroughbridge Branch). Leeds and Thirsk (Eaglescliff and Stillingtcn Extension). Leeds and Thirsk (Harrogate and Pateley Branch, &c.). Leeds and Thirsk (Branch from Melmerby to North&ller ton, &c.). Exeter and Exmouth. Midland Great Western of Ireland (Extension from Athlone to Galway). NOTICES GIVEN AT TIIE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE. The following Railway Bills are appointed to be read a second time : MONDAY, FEB. 22. Caledonian (Branches to Canobie, &c.). • Caledonian (Lease of part of Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway). Caledonian (Branch across Clyde and Glasgow Station). TUESDAY, FEB. 23. South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole(Penistone, &c., and Purchase of Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, and Goole Railway, Dun Navigation, and Dearne and Dove Canal ). WEDNESDAY, FEB. 24. Edinburgh and Northern (Burntislaud Pier, &c.). Great Northern (Hertford, Hatfield, and St. Aiban's Branch), Great Northern (Deviations between Grantham and York). Great Northern (Deviations between Peterborough, Boston, and Doncaster). East Lancashire (Southport Branch and Preston Extension) East Lancashire (Burnley Connecting Line). East Lancashire (Deviations and Rawtenstall Coal Branch). East Lancashire (Bury to Manchester). PETITIONS ON PRIVATE BILLS. HOUSE OF COMM ONS. (Room 22, before Mr. Examiner SMITH.) UNOPPOSED LIST. The cases numbered from 321 to 339 inclusive in the general list were disposed of to-day by Mr. Smith. The standing orders were complied with in each case. They were as follows : Caledonian Railway (Purchase or lease of Wishaw and Coltness Railway). Wilsontown ' Morningside, and Coltness Railway (Branches to Benham Coal Works). Caledonian and Dumhartonshire Junction Railway (Devi ations, &c.) Stratlitay and Breadalbane Extension Railway. Glasgow and Shotts'-road Act Amendment. 'Thorne and Crowle Moor Drainage and Improvement. Colchester and Stour Valley, Sudbury and Halstead Rail way (Purchase of Stour Valley Navigation). Dublin and Drogheda Railway (Amendment of Acts and Purchase of Navan Branch Railway). Southwark Improvement. Ross, Cromarty, and Nairne District Road Act. Aberdeen Improvements. Worcester Improvements. Shrewsbury and Chester Railway (New Branches). East Lothian Central Railway. Cork and Bandon Act, 1845 (Amendment of and Devia tion). Cork; Blackrock, and Passage Amendment Act. There were no opposed cases in Mr. Smith's list to-day. (Room 23, before Mr. Examiner Mix.) OPPOSED CASE. EDINBURGH AND NORTHERN. Mr. May was engaged the whole of the day in hearing the allegations in this opposed case. Several of them were sus tained, but the inquiry had not terminated when the exami• ner rose. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROUSE OF LORDS, Feb. 18. The House sat today to hear appeals. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lerd Brougham, and the Earl of Hardwicke. SIR DAVID BAIRD, BART., V. BAIRD AND OTHERS. The arguments in this appeal from the decision of the Court of Sesgsion in Scotland, occupied their Lordships the whole morning, and appear likely to take up the time of the House for several days. The case is totally devoid of any interest except to the parties concerned, the question being, whether, under a deed of entail, executed by Sir J o h n B a i r d, of Newbyth, in August, 1737, the heir in pOssession of the property, the present appellant, Sir David Baird, was effcc tually restrained from selling or alienating the lands included in the entail. The Court of Session decided that he was, and from that decision the present appeal was brought. The Lord-Advocate, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, and Mr. James Anderson, were counsel for the appellant; and Mr. James Stuart Wortley and Mr. Bolt appeared in support of the judgment of the Court below. SHERIFFS' COURT, Feb. 18. (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BUaCHELL.) ROBINSON V. HOLMES, M.P. This was an inquiry which was set down for hearing on the last Court-day, and stood first on the list to-day. Mr. Thomas appeared for the plaintiff, but the cause was struck. The defendant is known as the " whipper-in "of the House of Commons. The nature of the case did not trangpire, but it was understood to have reference to some political sub ject; there were a great number of letters to be read. IIIOCKWOOD V. CIIALLENOR. The plaintiff is an auctioneer and house-agent, near Port man-square, and the defendant is the proprietor of some houses in Elm-tree-road, Grove-end-road. The action was brought to recover the sum of 31. 3s. 6d. for work and labour. The defendant pleaded payment of 1/. 12s. 6d., and denied his liability as to the remainder. Mr. Titomns appeared for the plaintiff, and called wit nesses, from whose evidence it appearel that the defendant offered to give up his house, called' Elm Lodge," which was to be divided into two parts, and let on lease, the leases to be prepared at the expense of the lessees. The plaintiff was employed to make out inventories of the fixtures. There was also some repairs done under the direction of the plain tiff, and the present charge was 11. lls. 6d. for the schedule, and 1/. 12s. for the work done, which were fair and reason able charges._ For the defendant it was contended that the schedule was to be taken as part of the lease, and ought to have been ob tained at the expense of the lessee. 1/. 12s. was proved to be paid to plaintiff's clerk, but the money was afterwards sent back. It was urged that this was a vexatious - action, as the 1/. Ils. Gd. coull have been recovered in the County Court. ' Mr. THOMAS, in reply, contended that the unfairness was on the part of the defendant to entrap plaintiff to receive a smaller sum than due by paying a clerk who was not aware of tne facts, but the money .had been sent back as soon as the circumstance became known to defendant. The plaintiff was in such a case fully justified in bringiug an action, but if lie recover less than 405., he would be liable to pay double costs. The UNDER-SHEZIFF said that the leases could not be prepared with a schedul e , if the landlord did not furnish it. If the IL 12s. 6d. had been paid, and more was due, and the money was returned, then it ought not to be considered as a payment. If the defendant had had a bill for 31. 3s 6d., and then sent 11.125. and a receipt ready, written as for an account delivered, it was taking such an advantage that it went against him. -. The jury immediately gave a verdict for the full amount claimed. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. FOSTER V. IRELAND. Sir,—ln this case the plaintiff brought his action to recover the sum of 101/. 10s., for his services as an architect and surveyor, in and about his superintending the building of some houses at Walworth for the de • fendant; to which the defendant pleaded a sett off to the amount of 681. 2s. 6d. for goods sold and delivered, and a tender of 151. before the action was commenced, and also pail that 15/. into Court. The jury gave a verdict for the defendant, and not as was stated, for the plaintiff Yours, very obediently, EDWARD GOVETT, Defendant's Attorney. 7, Red Lion-square, Feb. 18, 1847. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. TUE ROBBERY AT SAVORY'S CORNHILL.—A young man, who stated his name to be William Jones, but who is known by the police as Billy Jones, was brought be fore Aldermttn Gibbs, in the custody of George Trew (City policeman 26), charged upon suspicion of having been concerned in the robbery of Mr. Savory's shop in December last, on which occasion watches of the value of 1,0001. were stolen by some very expert thieves. Joseph Bassett, clerk to Mr. T. Cox Savory and Co., of No. 54, Cornhill, said at about eight o'clock on the 15th of February, I came-to work. At about twenty five minutes past nine o'clock I bad to go out for a few minutes, and I came cut leaving everything safe in the shop, and locking the door after me, and taking the key. I remained away about five or six minutes at the fur thest, and upon my return I found the door open, and that the whole of the property which had been left safe on the,counter had disappeared. Alderman GIBBS—You had nobody in the shop with you ? Witness—Nobody whatever. Alderman Gains—And at what do you estimate the value of the watches ? Witness—At 1000/. Trew (policeman 26) —I have been engaged since the robbery toklk place in endeavouring to trace the goods and the thieves, and I apprehended that prisoner in con sequence of information which I received, that two men, one of whom answered to the description of the pri soner exactly, had, on th e morn i ng o f th e robbery, hired a cab suddenly in the neighbourhood, deposited a heavy bag in it, and gone off to Bethnal Green. I have two witnesses here, one of whom has been with me un tha look-out for some days. William Pius, cabman, No. 2,116, stated, that at about half-past nine o'olock on Wednesday, the 15th D. cern bet., as he was on his stand, opposite to Iron monger's Hall door, a man came out from the neighbourhood of Trinity-square with a black bag under his arm, and stepping into the cab, desired him to drive to the Bird Cage public-house, Bethnal-green. Another man came from Billiter-square, and got upon the box, and witness's companion drove. There were then three on the box, and one inside with the black bag, in which there appeared to be a weight. When the cab arrived at Tysoe-street, Brick-lane, the outside passengers got off the box and disappeared, and witness's fellow servant then drove off to Bethnal-green, where, when they arrived at, the Bird Cage public-house, the inside fare got out to look about for his companion, who had lef, the cab at Tyson-street, and who presently came up and paid witness two shillings for his fare, after which both walked away together in the direction. of Pollard street. Witness could swear that the prisoner was the man who got into the cab with the black bag. The prisoner—My friends will, I have no doubt, bring an action for false imprisonment for this business. . Alderman Gssins—Do you wish to ask the witness any question. Prisoner—l have . only to say that it is all false. My wife was near her confinement at the time, and I was engaged on her business. Trew said, the cabman, Pitt, before they went to look for the prisoner, stated that the man who had the bag, wore the collar of his coat, which was much worked on the concealed aide, up about his ears, and described him in so accurate a manner, that there could be no mistake about him. The prisoner's collar was then exhibited. It appeared to be as it had been described. The prisoner—Why every man's collar is worked now, I assure you, my Lord it is all false. Joseph Cooper said he drove the cab on the seat of which his fellow-servant, Pitts,- and the companion .of the inside party, who had the black bag, sat. As soon as they got to the Bird Cage public house, the person inside got out, leaving the bag inside, and toll witness and his fellow-servant to go into the house and have a drop of something. They al so accordingly, and the party. who get down at Tysore-street soon afterwards arrived, and, tapping witness's comrade on the head, put two shillings into his hard. Alderman GIBBS—Do you know the prisoner as one of the two persons who hired the cab ? Witness—l cannot swear to the person who had the bag, but I can swear to him who sat on the box. I cannot swear to the prisoner as being one of them. '1 he prisoner—l do assure you, Sir, that lam not at all acquainted with it I have not been out of my own place these three months from night till morning, for my wife has been in her confinement. Alderman GIBBS—She cannot have been in her con finement for three months, The prisoner —Well, I am entirely innocent. This will upset my wife; I assure you, my Lord. Alderman GIBBS—Have you got any one here as to your character ? The prisoner made no answer. Trew—He was tried at the Old Bliley. Alderman Gums—For what offence ? Trew—For burglary. He was acquitted. The trial took place when the juryman died. I had been after him myself about five or six years ago for what they call " starring the glaze," breaking a window to gee - property out. 'Prisoner—l am innocent of this here, at any rate. The prisoner was then remanded. BO _W-STREET. Two men, named Thomas and Wrig ht, were placed at the bar before Mr. Henry, c h arged with breaking into the house of Mr. Hayes, of 22, R usse l l-square, and stealing therefrom a quantity of property of the value of 601. Thomas was further charged with wounding Policeman E 99 by a heavy blow with a life-preserver. Policeman E 55, said, that at about a quarter-past four o'clock that morning, being on duty in Keppel-street, Rus sell-square, he found the garden- gate of No. 24, Russell square, open. He waited till E 99 came up, and then en tered with him. As soon as they got inside they heard a noise of feet in the next garden, and proceeded to climb over the wall. As they got on the top of the wall they saw the prisoner Thomas, crouching down at the toot of it, but as 99 was about to get down, Thomas rose and gave bins a violent blow with something which he held in his hand The constable fell back, stunned, but after a. momeut recovered himself and proceeded. They then went on in pursuit of Thomas, who had crossed the wall at the opposite side of the garden, and being guided by the noise of his footsteps they crossed six walls, and then arrived at the garden of No. 2, Upper Bedford-place. They had seen two men crossing the wall and getting in there, .but they then lost sight of them. Supposing that they had gone down into an area in that garden, they paused and sprung their rattles. In the course of a few minutes they were joined by another constable, E 51, and with him they descended into the area. There' were there two cellars, in one of which Wright was concealed, and in the other Thomas. Upon Thomas he found a tea spoon, a sugar tongs, and a large clasp knife. He afterwards found in te garden they had passed through, a pair of silver caudlesticki, one of which was broken, and a gold watch. Policeman E 99, who, being very faint from loss of blood, was allowed to sit down, corroborated this stetement. Policeman, E 51, went to the cellars where they had beer, taken, and found the numerous articles of plate. &c. In the cellar where Thomas was hid several skeleton keys were found by policeman, E 110. Thomas Smith, servant to Mr. Hayes, Russell-square, se cured the doors, &c., last night, and on being roused by the police, found that an entry had been effected by the back parlour window. The property having been identified as belonging to Air. Hayes, .. Mr. HENRY committed tbem far trial Wright for the bur glary, and Thomas on b ot h c h arges. , Air. Palmer, a gentleman living in Bussell-square, said, that so impressed was lie with the energy and courage of the police in this matter, that he came down to the court this morning, sacrificing important business in order that he might state his opinion and that of his neighbour. Any one who knew the locality would understand what difficulties they had to meet, and how bravely they had overcome them. Mr. Hrsrav said he fully agreed with sir. Palmer, and he wished the inspector to report the two constables, E 99 and 55, as cpecially meritorious. 111 ARLBIWOUGH-STRF2ET. Henry Jones, alias Williams,' was brought before Mr. Hardwick, charged with going to the residence of Captain Patton, .R.N. No. 6, Dean-street, P ar k-l ane, w i t h a false message, for the purpose of committing a felony. Joseph Higgins, butler to Capt. Patton, stated that on Wed nesday, about seven o'clock, the prisoner came to his master's residence, and said, that lie was sent from Air. Bi r d' s , boot maker, xford-street, for a pair of boots, which were to be stretched. Witness was in the act of going up stairs to his master with the message, when he looked over the bannisters, and saw the prisoner take two great coats off the pegs, and was in the act of tying them up in a hand kerchief; when witness darted upon him, and held him till a policeman was sent for, into whose custody he was at once consigned. The prisoner, in defence, said, that he was sent to the house by some person whose name he did not feel inclined to disclose. Inspector Whall said, that the prisoner was committed from this court on the 17th of January, for stealing an umbrella from the residence of Sir Thomas Wilde. If the prisoner was remanded for a few days. he had several other charges which could be proved against him. Mr. HARDWICK remanded him for a week. C l aroine Williams, a well-dressed female, was brought up on a charge of creating a disturbance at the residence of Mr. Morse, No. 83, New Bond street. Mrs. Matilda Morse said, that on Wednesday even• ing the defendant came to her house with a letter addressed to Lord Frankfort (who lodged in the house), and said that she wished to wait for an answer. Witness told her that there was no occasion for her doing so, as his Lordship would not assist her. The defendant, instead of going away quietly, threw herself down in the passage, and began screaming in such a fearful manner as to quickly cause a mob to assemble. The defendant still persisting in her extraor dinary conduct, witness sent for a policeman, and gave her in charge. The defendant, in tears, said, that she went to the house by the express desire of Lord Frankfort, who had known her for many years. She was in great.. trouble, and took the note to his Lordship to inform him how she was situated, as he had told her repeatedly to call upon him whenever she was in distress. She was subject to fits, and denied throwing herself down in the hall. Mr. HARDWICK, after remons'rating upon the impropriety of her conduct, and in consideration of her being locked up all right, discharged her. WORSHIP-STREE7. WednesdayMr.BlionGllTON resumedbhe adjourned investi gation into the conduct of police-constable Charles Andrew Amos, of the H divi,ion ' who stood charged with h aving grossly assaulted, and unlawfully taken into custody, a young woman natned,Ellen Bolton, on the night of the 10th Inst., under circumstances which were stated in our paper a few days since. Mr. Medlicott, the superintendent of the division, was present to watch and report upon the case, and Mr. Heritage was retained for the defence. The evidence given upon the former occasion having been read over by Mr. Vine, the chief clerk, the complainant, Ellen Bolton, and her witness, Jane Reeves, were subjected to a severe cross-examination by the defendant's solicitor, and fully corrobated each other in the main facts of their previous statement; but, upon being further questioned differed most materially upon several essential particulars, of too indelicate a nature to be distinctly detailed, and which carried the assault to a much greater and more gross extent than had been before sworn to. The witness Reeve added that upon the officer being balked in his designs upon Bolton, he used towards her the most insulting language, and not only ordered her off, but rushed her along by the back with great violence, until she threatened to report his previous misconduct at .the police-station, when he at once took her into custody. The witness followed the con stable and Bolton to the door of the station, with the intention of giving ev id ence i n favour o f the com plainant, but was prevented doing so by Amos, who told her she was not wanted there; and, although she next morning requested the officer on duty there to take care of Bolton, who was subject to fits, she was not admitted to see her. Bolton herself also stated, that she felt so touch hurt at the insults to which she had been subjected, that she was in tears all the way to the station-house, on her arrival at which she communicated to the inspector on duty the fact of her having been ill-treated, but was prevented making a full dis closure of the particulars from the precipitancy with which the charge was taken, and she was locked up in the cells. Sergeant Coleman, the acting inspector at the time, was then called and stated, that on Bolton being brought to the station she was certainly not crying, as she had stated,• nor did she bear the appearance of having previously done so; and that although she complained to him that the policemau had offered her money to accompany him down the court, she said nothing of the gross acts of indecency alleged to have taken place, although she had ample opportunity of doing so. The sergeant added (as indeed the women them selves had acknowledged), that both the complainant and her friend were common prostitutes, and lodged at the house of a man named Sheen, which was the resort of the lowest characters in the district. Mr. Heritage addressed the Magistrate at great length on behalf of his client, who had instructed- him to deny in the most decisive manner everything that was alleged against him, and to whom a conviction on such a charge would be little short of destruction ; and after pointing out the dis crepancies which appeared in the statement of the two women, said that he was necessarily precluded by the very nature of the case from oaring any direct evidence to rebut their testimony, but should call numerous witnesses he had in attendance, who would give as strong a refutation of it as the circumstances would admit of. The Learned Gentleman then called— Police-constable Galavin, 73 11, who stated, that while going the round of his section, at half-past twelve on the night in question; he came upon the defendant's beat in Well-street, Mile-end, and saw him desiring the two women Bolton and Reeve, who were using most disgusting language in a loud tone of voice, to go away quietly. Witness also desired them to go home, and Reeve persuaded Bolton to do so, but they still kept repeating the same filthy exs pressions through the length of several stress, and witness left Amos and them together, A mos telling him that he should be obliged to lock them up. "they were going on so." The women were surroun d e d b y a l arge crowd of persons, whom their conduct had collected, but whose pre sence did not stop their disgusting language. Witness was not present at the commencement of the transaction, and could not, of course, speak as to what Might previously have taken place. Green, o l H, also deposed to the utterance of this language by the women, and to his own interference and telling them, as they were making a great disturbance, that if they had any complaint to make-they should go away quietly and lodge it at the station-house. Mary Webb and Martha Walbank, two married women living in Anne's -court, Well-Street, the scene of the alleged outrage upon the person of the complainant, stated, that they were both up on the night referred to till long after the time at which the offence was stated to have been committed by the constable, and that they heard no cries for assistance whatever, or struggle, or noise of any description, and that if there had been they must have heard it, as the court only contained four • houses, was very quiet, and was not a thoroughfare. Richard Graves, a tradesman at the corner of the court, gave precisely the same testimony as to no screanis or remonstrance having been uttered at the time spoken to, and, as his shop was not closed till a quarter past one o'clock, had any woman been so ill-treated, she had an opportunity of procuring assistance or complaining, and no one did so. Mrs. Elizabeth Hodge, the wife of a pewterer, also stated that while a male customer was making some purchases at her shop in Old Montague-street s about the time in question, the man was most grossly insulted by two women outside, although he had never seen_ them before, and who uttered such foul language towards him that it was impossible fur her to repeat it. Mr. Wellesley Medlicott, the superintendent, Inspector Ellis, Sergeant Teakle, and Alderman, the gaoler, were then called as witnesses to character, and a ll described the de fendant as an exceedingly well-conducted, promising, and pains -taking young man, who was very anxious to perform his duty correctly, and who had kept his beat, which was the resort of prostitutes of the lowest order, more peaceable than it had ever previously been. Alderman had know him before he entered theforce, when he was in business for himself, and both he and his friends were respectable. He was also a married man, with one child, and his wife was the daughter of a tradesman in the neighbourhood. Mr. Heritage said he could calla number of other witnesses to the same effect, but considered it useless to do so. Mr. BROUGHTON said that this wasundoubtedly a question of much importance, both as regarded the administration of justice, the conduct of the police force in general, in which, if the charge mere established, it must go a great way to shake the public confidence, as bad been justly stated else where, and the defendant himself, who, if the statement of the women were true, had heed - guilty, if of anything, of an attempted violation, followed by gross perjury, for which any judge who tried him must sentence him to transportation • for the moral status of th e women offered no extenuation of the offence; and a case was upon the books in which two soldiers had been tried and executed at Exeter for a rape upon a prostitute. The Learned Magistrate then went care fully through all the facts_ of the case, and the evidence bear- ing upon them on both sides, and after commenting upon the important discrepancies in the woman's evidence, and the improbability that an officer should attempt such an offence in full uniform, by which he could be so easily identified, and with the knowledge that the other woman was close at hand, and that he might be momentarily detected by one of his superiors while going their rounds, concluded by saying, •• If the evidence of these two women had been consistent in its chief particulars, or corroborated by other impartial testi mony, I should certainly have felt it my duty to send the defendant for trial for perjury, when, good though the cha racter may be that he has hitherto borne, I have no hesita tion in saying that it would have very little weight in the sentence; but, after taking every pains that I possibly could in sifting and investigating this matter in all its bearings, I must express it as my opinion that the evidence of the women, with such manifest contradictions, is not such as any jury or magistrate can safely depend upon, and under those circumstances I shall order the defendant to be dis which was not over till a l ate h our, excited great chTarhgeed case", interest, and the court was most inconveniently crowded during the whole proceedings. LAMBETH. Wednesday Mary Ann Brooke, an exceedingly good-look ing woman, was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott on charge of robbing her master, Mr. Denny, a surgeon in the London-road, and presenting the property to a person in.the Queen's Bench prison, who repre'ients himself as a Lieute nant in the Royal Horse Guards Blue. It appeared that the day heft:it e Mr. Denny received a let ter from a person confined for debt in the Queen's Bench prison, who represents himself as a Lieutenant P—, of the Royal Horse Guards Blue, stating that some time before he had met his servant (the prisoner) 'at the table of a MT. B—, a fellow-prisoner, and that she subsequently visited him very frequently in his own room; that during these visits the prisoner had presented him (Lieutenant P—) with various articles which she represented to be her own pro perty, but he (Lieutenant P—), suspecting now that they wei7e the prop.ertfofMr. Denny, and that the prisoner had properly ptissessed herself of them, was willing to give them -p.pf This appeared all right and proper, but the rem/ming part of the letter went clearly to sbofv that the prisoner bad become more intimately•acquainted withOt her debtors than Lieut. P— fancied, and that theletter forwarded to her master had been written more from a fee:ing of jealousy than compunctious visitatiops about the property being dishonestly conic by. ;On receipt (if the letter, how ever, Mr... Denny • proceeded to the Qiieen:fi Bench prison, ant in the room of Lieut. fouud two carpets, a fot,tmar, a china basket, and other articles, which he recognised, and which were at onc4 delivered up to him. He then returned home, and accused the prisoner of stealing these articles, when she replied that she bad merely lent them to the gentleman in whose rooms they 'had been found, acd be then gave her into the custody of an officer. Her boxes and the drawers which she used were examined, and they were found to contain several articles of property belonging to Mr. Denny. Police-constable John Payne, 156 L, deposed that he bad been called in to take the prisoner into custody on the pre ceding evening, and on his telling her what it was for, she replied that she had, lent the things to Mr. P--, who was it t lie Queen's Bench prison. She also said she was sorry for whit she had done, but Mr. P— wished her to take her master's property. She said she should not do so, but would lend him two or threeathings, which he was to return. The prisoner offered a similar defence, and was remanded to a future day, when the case will undergo the most search ing investigation.. THE LATL EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—After making the ap plication to this court on Tuesday evening, the parents of the lad who had been detained at the Railway Hotel, Nine Elms, by Mrs. Boys, proceeded there, as directed by the magistrate, for the purpose of possessing themselves of their youthful ton, and arrived just in time to accomplish their object. It seems that at the very moment the parties had been making aPPli cation at this court, the father of the other two lads wb° l3l ,, Mrs. Boys had with h er , arr i ve d a t th e R a il way Hotel, and not at all relishing the then condition of the lady at whose charge they had been confided, at once removed them trolls her care. Finding herself freed from this encumbrance, M rs ' Boys sent for a cab, and expressed ber intention of at , once leaving the hotel ; and had it not been for the fact of thl ignorance of her youthful companion as lo what he sho uld pay the waiters of the establishment, she would have. suc ceeded in carrying him off. She was seated in the cab , a jewel-case and several small boxes, containing, it was usj,,', considerable property, beside her, an d see d y t o s tart; her " dear Frederick," as she call e d hi m , was l e ft to se tt ] s id the bill. He did so, and left the h o t e l t o as k w h a t he 5i10.% pay the waiters? She r e pli e d fi ve s hilli ngs, an d this 111 the youth offered,. but it was r e fused. He , returned to w' cab to inform the lady of th e c i rcums t ance , an d the latte r , directed him to give them ten shillin gs , or even 11., so tbt o . theY might get away ; but before he had time to settle th . : matter, his parents came up, and by threats and menta l ' succeeded in getting him away. Dirs. Boys, in the ir terim, and upon seeing the parents of the lad come up, w; rested the cabman to drive on, and she was driven in No. 870 towards town, but whither no person at the hotel aware of. KAFIR WAR. The NOBLE EARL also laid papers on the table on this subject. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. There being only twenty-seven Members present al four o'clock, the House was adjourned. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commonse WEDNESDAY, FEB. 17. FACTORIES BILL. Order read for resuming adjourned Debate upon Amend- ment proposed to be made to Question (10th Feb.) " That the Bill 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 ; Motion made, and Question put, " That the Debate be now adjourned." The House divided MINORITY—AYES, 7. Roebuck, J. A. Trelawiiy, J. S. Wall, C. B. Bouverie, E. P. Dennistoun, J. Duncan, Lord Leader, J. T. TELLERS. Escott, Bickham Bright, John MAJORITY-NOES. 282. Question put, " That the word ' now' stand part of the Question." The House divided:— MAJORITY—AYES, 195. Acland, T. D. Entwisle, IV. Mostyn, E. M. Acton, Colonel Etwall, Ralph Monts, G. F. Aglionby, H. A. Evans, Sir. lie Lacy Napier, Sir Charles Ainsworth, Peter Farnham, E. B. Neeld, Joseph Aldam, William Ferrand, W. B. Neeld, John Aida, J. P. Finch, G. Newdagate, N. Arundel, Earl of Fitzroy, Lord C. Newport, Viset. Baillie, H. J. Fleetwood, fir I'. Norreys,:Sir D. Bank., George Frewen, C. 11. O'Brien, A. Stafford Baring, Thomas Gardner, J . D. O'Brien, C. Barnard, Edward G. Gaskell, J. M. O'Brien, W. S. Baskerville, T. Gladstone, J. N. O'Connell, D., Jun. Itateson, T. Godson ' It. O'Connell, M. J. Beckett, W. Gooch, E. S. O'Connell, John Bentyow, John Gore, W. 0. Owen, Sir John Bennet, P. Gore, ltobert I'aeke, C. W. Bentinek, Lord G. Goring, C. Paget, Colonel Bentinek, Lord IL Granby, Marquis of Paget, Lord A. Beresiord, Major Granger, T. C. Pa kington, Sir J. ( . _ Berkeley, Grantley Grey, - Sir G. Palmer, Robert Bernal, Ralph Grimsditch, Thomas Palmer, G. ; ; :,,,i Bernard, Viscount Grogan, E. Pigot, Sir R. Blackburns, J. I. Grosvenor, Lord R. Illimptre, J. P. Blackstone, W. S. Grosvenbr, Earl* ', Plumrldge, Captain Bodkin, W. H. Hatibid, Sir Henry Polhill, F. Boldero, H. G. Hall, Mir Benjamin Powlett. Lord W. Borthwick, I'. Hall, Colonel Prime, Richard Bramston, T. W Hamilton, G. A. Pusey, P. Brow!ley, Henry Harcourt, G. G. Rendlesham, Lord Brocklehurst, John Harris, Captain Repton, G. W. Brooke, Lord Hatton, Captain V. Richards, Richard Browne, W. Heathcoat, John Rushout, Captain liruen, Colonel Ileatheote, G. J. Russell, Lord J. Buck, L. W. Henley, J. W. Russell, J. D. Buller, Charles Hervey, Lord A. Rutherford. A. Banbury, T. Hilayard, n B. Sandon, Viscount -....- . .... , _ .. .. Butler, P. S. 11111, Lord E. Scrope, G. Y. Cayley, E. S. Hindley, C. Seymer, Henry Ker Chandos, Marquis of Hodgson, R. Shaw, F. Chichester, Lord J. Holland, Robert Sheridan, R. B. Choimeley, Sir J. Hope, A. Shirley, E. J. Christie, W. D. Hornby, John Sibthorp, Colonel Christopher, R. Howard, C. W.G. Spooner, Richard Churchill, Lord A. S. Howard, P. H. Staunton, Sir G. Clayton, It. R. Hudson, G. Stuart, Lcrd J. Codrington, Sir W. liumphery, Ald. - Stuart, J. Cole, 11. A. Hurst, E. H. Strickland, Sir G. Collett, John Hussey, Thomas Taylor, E. Courtcnay, Lord IngestreVisct. Taylor, J. A. Cowper, W. F. Hutt, William Tollemache, J. Crawford, W. S. Inglis, Sir IL Trevor, J. B. Curteis, 11. B. Johnstone, Sir J. Troubridge, Sir E. Denison, E. B. . Kelly, James Tutnell, ii. D'Eyncourt, C. T. Kemble, Henry Vane, Lord 11. Dickinson, F. IL Lainbton, H. Verner, Sir W. Disraeli, B. Lawless, Cecil Vyse, R. 11. It. H. Douglas, Sir H. Layard, Captain Vyvyan, Sir it. R. Douglas, J. S. Lafroy, Anthony Waddington, II 8 .._ Duneombe, T. LennO3i, Lord G. H. Wakle3c Thomas Duneombe, A. • Liddell, H. T. Walker, Richard Duneembe, 0. 31.'Cartliy, Alex. Wawn, J. T. Dundas, David 3langles, It. D. Williams, W. Du Pre, C. G. Manners, Lord J. Yorke, Henry R. Easthope, Sir J. Miles; William .. - Ebrlugtoii Lord Mines, R. llonekton TELLERS. Egerton, gir P. • Morgan, 0; Flelden, John Ellis, Wynn Morris,l_David ; Drotherton, Joseph MINORITY-NOES, 87. . . • Anson, Colonel Goulbuni Henry Oswald, Alexander Baine, Walter Graham, Sir James Oswald, J. Barkly, Henry Gregory, W.ll. Parker, John Baring, F. T. Hamilton, Lord C. Patten, J. W. Bouveric, E. P. Mane, Archibald Pattison, James Bewring, Dr. Hawes, Benj. " Peel, Sir Robert Bright, John Heneage, G. IL W. Pendarves, Edward Brown, W. Herbert, Sydney Philips, Mark Bruges, W. H. Houldsworth, T. Protheroe, E. Cardwell, Edward Labouchcre, Henry Romilly, Jobn • Cavendish, G. H. Langston, J. H Russell, .Lord E. Clay, Sir W. Lascelles, W. S. Scott, Robert Clerk Sir G. Leader, J. T. Seymour, Lord Colobrooke, Sir T. Le Marchant, Sir D. Smith, A. Craig., W. G. Lemon, Sir C. Stanstleld, W. It. C. Crlpps, William • Lincoln, Earl of Stuart, V..•.::: Daltneny, Lord Lindsay, Captain Strutt, Edward Dawson, T. V. Lockhart, A. B. Sutton, Henry Denison, J. E. Lockhart, W. Thesiger, Sir F. Douglas, Sir C. E. Maitland, Thomas Thornely, T. Duncan, Viscount Marshall, William Trclawny, J. S. Duncan, George 31arsland, Henry Villiers, Viscount Eg.rton, W. T. Martin, J. Wall, C. B. Escott, Bickham Matheson, James ' Warburton, 11. Evans, William 31 aule, Fox Ward, H. G. Ferguson, Col. Mitchell, T. A. Wood, Colonel T. Flower, Sir James Mure, Colonel Wrightson, W. B. Forbes, William Neville, R. TELLY-10. Forster, Mathew Northland, Viscount Roebuck, J. A. Gibson, Thomas M. Ogle, S. C. Dennlatottn, J. Mr. Villiers paired with Mr. Halsey on the Factory Bill—Mr. V. against, Mr. 11. for, PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. From the Votes and Proceenincs of the House of Commons. WEDXESDAY, FEB. 17. The following Railway Bills were presented, read a 'first bile, and ordered to be read a second time:— Great Northern (Purchase of Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston and Eastern Junction, &c.)—" to 'enable the Great Northern Railway Company to take a Lease 'of or to pur chase the East Lincolnshire Railway, the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway, and the Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston and Eastern Junction Railways." Great Northern (Extension to Leeds and Wakefield, Devi ation of Methley Branch of Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway)—" to enable the Great Northern Railway Company to make a Railway from the Methley Branch of the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway to Leeds and Wakefield, n ith certain Branch Railways therefrom, all i n the West Riding of the county of York." Great Northern (Branches to Sleaford)--" to enable the Great Northern Railway Conipany . to make a Branch of their Railway from the main Line of their Railway, in the pariah of Hougham, in Lincolnshire, to or near Sleaford, and thence t o join the Great Northern iailway, in the parish of Gosberton, in the same county." St. Helen's Canal and Railway (Warrington and Black brook Branches, &c.)—" to enable the St. Helen's Canal and Railway Company to make Branch Railways to Warrington and to Blackbrook, and to make certain alterations in their Railway, and also to take a Lease of the Rainford Branch of the Landon and North-Western Railway. Cornwall—" to authorise an alteration of the Line of the Cornwall Railway, and to amend the Act relating thereto, and for other purposes." Eastern Counties (Ilford to Tilbury Fort and Southend, with a Uranch from Vaoge to Battle Bridge)—" to enable the Eastern C'unties Railway Company to make a Railway from the Eastern Counties Railway, at or near the Forest Gate Station, to Southend, with Branches." Oldham Alliance—" for making certain Lines of Railway in the county of Lancaster, to be called 'the Oldham Alli ance Railway." Chester and Holyhead (Extensions at Chester and Holy head, &c.)—" to enable the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company to make certain Extensions of, and Alterations in, the Line of the Chester and Holyhead Railway, and for other pur Paisley and Renfrew (Sale and Improvement)---" to autho- , NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. P OBESSIOUTH, FEB. 16.—The Dragcn steam-vessel, 1,270 tow, and 560-horse power, commanded, pro tem., by Captain Ramsay, of the Terrible, came into Barbour this afternoon from Cork, whither she bad conveyed a cargo of meal from the river. The Dragon was nearly lost in a gale off the coast of Ireland. She broke the entablature of one of her engines this morning, and has done herself other damages since she #as been in commission—only two months. She has now come in to coal. We mentioned some months since that the new armament ordered for the walls of Portsmouth and its dependencies, including the works on both sides of the harbour and ap proaches, consisted of 330 guns of heavy chlibre. They are in course of being mounted, and comprise the following pieces:— NIMBUS. DESCRIP/lON. WEIGHT EACH. 2 13 inch mortars ... 5 tons 1 quarter 32 8-inch shell or shot . . 65 cwt. 15 8-inch ditto ... he cwt. 36 8-inch howitzers. 4- 56-pounders ... ... 97 cwt. 89 32-pounders ... ... st; cwt. 58 24-pounders ... ... 50 cwt. 75 24-pounders ... ... 20 cwt. 5 24-pounders, carronadcs. 14 18-pounders ... 42 cwt. 330. In addition to the above a strong battery will be erected on the site of the 53 houses in course of demolition on the south side ot Broad-street, " Point." — Theßelleisle troop ship, Captain J. Kingcome, sailed to day for Gibraltar with the 56th Regiment. {o accounts have been received f'rom the Sphynx to-day up to three o'clock, but the state of the wind and weather, blowing fresh from S.W., with thick haze and rain, forbids any hope of getting her off these sp r i ngs w i t h out a change, and that very soon, as the tides " tak e o ff" aga i n after to • morrow. 5 P.m.—The Ryde packet has just arrived, with Mr. Biddle combe, R.N., Master of the St. Vincent, who bears dispatches from Captain Austen to the Commander-in -Chief. By the packet we learn that the Sphynx is still safe, with her bow to the sea, as before; but the weather continues unfit for boats to go oil' to the vessel. Yesterday Captain Austell and Mr. Biddlecombe went on board, when it was scarcely pos• . Bible for the surf-boat to live; the boat was unable to land for hours after, when the tide receded. There is no chance of an improvement during the present high tides, as it wohlit 16. —The C p o o c s k si a b t l r e ic w e ei l g i l c it t , ua s l u l c in h g be impracticable to move the Sphynx through the surf. She must, therefore, wait more moderate weather, during as stramnas which interval Captain Austen, •no doubt, will continue his chinery, Sze. 'Wodwich yesterday morning, with boilers for for the poorer inhabitants of Ireland. She is to call at Sheerness to take 11l a quantity of boilers at that port for the same purpose and same destination. ardulus duty The Benbow, 72 guns, converted into a depot for a part of in po a r W k t:ifi l : o v l u l e c ‘t r the Woolwich division of Royal Marines, was moved to the station formerly occupied by the Het); to-day, the high tides in removing being favourable. The Terrible steam-frigate, Captain Ramsay, is- to be taken out of the dock to-morrow, and will then be taken into the basin. The Mastiff surveying vessel, Captain Becher, is to be taken into the dockevious when the Terrible is taken ou t, t o exa mine her bottom p the surveying service in the ensuing season. p r oceeding on Th e Lightning steam-vessel, Mast er C ommander Pettey, r to is to proceed to Deptford to-mor row t o t ow t h e K ite steam vessel to Woolwich, to be fitted with h er boilers. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, FEB. 18.—Wind'at noon S.W. by S., fresh gale, and squally. DEAL, FEB. 17.—Wind W. to W.S.W., strong, and squally.—Arrd. Alfred, Adair, China; Fennella, Hay, ditt o; Stad Zurickzee, Ochtm an ; Batavia ; lnvernee, Sedgwi c k Calcutta; Henry Woolley , Windas, ditto; John Fleming, Hamlyn, Madras; Ayrshire, Brown, Bombay; Falcon, Daw son, Mauritius; Lord Petre, Middleton, ditto; Cleopatra, DPEachem. Demerara. Arrd. from the river Statira, Jamaica ; Elizabeth, ditto. The William and Sally, Swan sea to Hull, got on the Goodwin Sands this morning, but was assisted off with damage and leaky. BIDEFORD, FEB. 16.—Thu Isabella, from Scilly, arrived here to-day, leaky and strained, and was run on the Hard. MILFORD, FEB 16.—The Mary Roberts has been raised and taken into Dole Roads a complete wreck. PETERHEAD, FEB. 11.—The Angelina, from Fraserburg to London, has put in here in a sinking state, having struck on a rock, off Buchanese Light. HULL, Fen. 17.—The George, Lockwood, Hartlepool to Bordeaux, arrived here to-day, with damage to bows, hawing been in contact with a loaded barque off Flamborough Head, 14th inst., with loss of foremast and bowsprit. CORK, Fan. 15.—Wind N. W., strong.—Arrd. Mayflower Longman, Callao, put back to Malabar from Mobile. Sld. Belvidere, New York. LIMERICK, FEB. 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Peru, Carey, Demerara ; George, Davis,ew York ; Geneva , ditto. ARRRDEEN, Fes. 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Mungo Park, Thomson, Callao. Ledmona, steamer, Thomas; Lady Lilford, Scott, Bombay. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 17.—The Juno, Copenhagen to Galati, was abandoned in a sinking state yesterday off the Eddy stone, and has since driven on shore at Muthicombe, bilged. TARBACII, FEB. 17.—The cargo of the Emilie will be nearly all recovered; the vess6 has gone to pieces. Part of the wreck of an old vessel, apparently a sloop of about GO tons, has washed on shore near tbe Sker Point. The Jane Tudor, from Baltirao e, on shore near Ormshead, does not aprear to have sustained mach damage during the night. RELATING TO THE HAWARDINE CASTLE, OF BELFAST. A dispatch has been received at Lloyd's from the Ad miralty, announcing that Captain Falcon. of her Majesty's mail steamer Pigmy, had picked up, on the 13th instant, off the Salties, the crew of the Haward ine Castle, .of Belfast, bound for the United States, which had sunk a bout three hours previous, in consequence of leaks. The boat and crew were landed at Belfast. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH ON THE MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY.—We are glad to learn that the work men in the employ of the Electric Telegraph Company are busily engaged in laying the wires along the whole extent of this line, from the Victoria station, Hunt's Bank, to Norman ton. We believe application has been made by the Tele graph Company's agent to the Committee of the Manchester Exchange, for permission to make some part of the Exchange itself the Manchester terminus of the electric telegraph ; and we cannot entertain a doubt that the Exchange Com. niittee will at once accede to the request, looking at the great importance of early intelligence in the very centre of coin. mercial information and communication—the Exchange. Several of the upper rooms in the present building would be rendily made applicable to telegraphic purposes. —Manchester Griardian. WESTMINSTER. Captain G. Losack attended at this court to prefer a cote' i plaint against a cab-driver for conduct of the most ruffian! description. The proprietor of 2,813 had been summoned le produce the licensed drive r o f th e ca b, which he did; ,b ut the latter having stated th a t h e h a d b een su dd en ly W eo i, ill, and had employed what is generally termed "a hack on the night the o ff ence Vas committed, who had driven the , gentleman, Willi am St ace y, th e man so emp l oyed, an d , was in attendance, was ordered to stand forward, a nd t he licensed driver put into the witness-b ox t o p rove t h a t P . had entrusted the cab to his care. Captain Losack, of the Ist West India Regiment, state d that a little before twelv e o'cl oc k on th e n i g h t o f the' n.b instant he hired the defendant's cab at the Haymart Theatre, and ordered' hin, to drive to Shaftesbury-ten," Pimlico. On arriving at Ki ng - s t ree t, W estm i nster , tbo2 l ; fendant suddenly stopped at a public-house, and, Witf oo brutal oath declared he would not move another inch 10 ' a ; the gentleman gave him something to drink. ComplainS„, observed that he appeared to have had enough, and told h l _ l- . if he did not go on, he would lodge a complaint against 10 ,„ 1 ", Defendant, after using two or three more oaths, and expre's ing his determination " to give the gentleman a O rli , 'd slammed the cab-door with great viol ence an d moun6 e t the box again He then drove int o G rea t George-stret g a . where he caused the wheel of th e ca b t o come in n' st , tact with a atone, put for the protection of a latnr,,P°4 and which caused the cab to jerk considerably. On reacm` e d the park gates he refused to drive th roug h th em , an d 0 1 ' 0 down Princes-street. Complainant told him that- be ".011 going the wrong way, when defend an t o b serve d, " Oh, 1, be d—d, I know the way better tha n y ou d o ," and then P ,,0 h, ceeded towards Westminster Abbey, w h ere h e seddens;& turned off in the direction of the b r id ge . ComPlgitist several times put his head out of the wi n d ow , and told e ro to stop, and each time that he did so defendant struck 111 _, over the hat, and said, "If you don't get in I'll cat your c o head off." On arriving at Bridge-str ee t, a person to w. complainant complainant called stopped the cab, and th en t wo or for other cabmen came up, and asked def en d an t w h a t w3n matter, when he informed the bystanders that a fellow P oio got into his cab with a woman, and that she would not o out of it, nor would the fellow p a y - th e f are —l s . 6d. T o o t persons then stepped out of the crowd, and i n q u i re d wh , defendant was hired? to which he replied in the nega" a and addtd, "As soon as I get this wom an ou t, I'll take ...n up." The cab was at this time in the middle of the rT"., with the snow ancic-deep, when com pl a i nan t, w h o 1 05 1 , 0 1 companied by his wife, handed her out, and although he;l 3 o not ridden a mile took the advice of some gentleinea.,be came up, and paid the driver the ei g ht een p ence w/ 10 .'" demanded. wi th The defendant, in answer to the cha rge , sa id, " I weat „of, the cab to the stand and th ere some gentlemen gs_vw're• something to drink. • I seppose I must have taken Oust 1 tleman (Captain Losack) up, b u t I d on 't remem ber 1 1 , think half of what he has s a id i s f a l se , b u t I was tiPS''' know." Mr. BRODERIV observed, that of all the cases that ifse ever come within the experience of a magistrate, to' a id one of the most ruffianly. All the answer, if answer it nco no . be termed, made to it was, th a t th e d e f en d an t was In cated ; but that was no justification, for if it was to o°,. f a el so, no person would for a m o ment b e sa f e . He shoal: bs that he but ill discharged his d u ty t o the public.: ad neglected to mark his sense of the ser i es of cffences 11 ' 1 /.10 committed—namely, demanding con s iderably more thsT,bis fare—his extremely abusive and off ens ive conduct—sth wanton assault upon the gentleman. As ; a punislur r e : ra , this case, and as a warning to others, he should, fort tection of the community, commit defendant for six r to hard labour in the House of Correction. RDA Y ' ) MARKET NE WS.—( YE S TE Smyruvlatn.-11Ieadow Hay, 2/ 8s to 3/ 163 • CIOVO a l i n t s t d ° : 31 5s to 41 16s ; and St raw , 11 1 06 to u 2 14 s Pet A full average supply, and a heavy demand. CUMBERLA,ND.—MeaIIOW Hay, 21 8s to 41 i - Clover /60_1 31 5s to 41 I4s; and Straw, 11 12 s to 1/153 per 10 1 ' Supply tolerably good, and trade firm. t el \%HITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay; 2/ 5 s t o 3/ 15s; v fi .,/ ditto, 3/ 53 to 5l; and Straw, 11 10s to 11 14s per 1 . 44 ' Trade very dull, at the above quotations. NEIATGATE AND IMADENNALL. We had a moderate supply of eac h ki n d o f Meat on rt; and which moved off slowly, as follows :—Beef, from 2 s 6d 1, 3s 8d ; Mutton, 3s 6d. to 4s 4d ; Veal, 4s to ss; and ro" 3s 6d to 4s 101 per Blbs by the carcase. MEAT DIARZETS. . fot SOUTHALL, FEB. 17.—We had rather a slow inqul r t,, each kind of fat stock, yet we can not i ce no material all'a ation in prices. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 2d; Mutton, Si n ; to 5s ; Veal, 4s to 4s 10d ; and P or k, 3 5 8d t o 4s 6d Per 8 I ROMFORD, FEB. 17.—A1l ki n d s o f s t oc k mo ved off al co l c i at barely last week's quot a ti ons . B ee f, f rom 3 5 to 48. 1 Mutton, 3s 8d to ss; Veal, 4s to 4s 10d ; and Pork, 35 4(1 to 4s 6cl per Blbs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 29s ; qua rte4 a ll store Pigs, 16s to 195 ; and Mulch Cows, with their 0133 Calf, 161 to 181 each. HAIIZHAM, FEB. 17.—Prime Beasts and SheeP2.--- steadily, at full prices, otherwise the demand ruled heiVi;to Beef from 3s 4d to .4s 4d ; Mutton, 3s 10d to 5s 2d; Vea l ' 4s 8d; and Pork, 4s to 4s 6d p er 81bs. afutft o ARUNDEL, FEB. 16.—Beef, from 3 s 6d t o 4 s 6d ; p et 4 and 4d to 58 2d; Veal, 4s to 48 8d • Pork, 45 to 4 3 81bs. A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand. , hers CHICHESTER, FEB. 17. We had a slug g i s h deman d gd to-day, yet prices were mostly supported : —Beef, from to 4s 6d ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 5s '2d ; Veal, 4s to 4s 8 d; 2gs' Pork 4s to 4s 6d per 81b s . S uc kli ug C a l ves , 18e to quarter-o!d Store Pigs, 16s to 19s; and Mikh Coils ICI their small Calf, 16l to 181 each. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH COES„ f For the Week ended Feb. 18, 1847, ma d e up from the Return , Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and r per Imperial Quarter. rEA I I WHEAT. I HARLEY.' OATS. I I RTE. BEANE. l e , PRICE .• 171 s 7d 51s 10d 323 8d 56s 8d 1 53s 10d s"' The Duties on Foreign Grain are now suspended. CO RI T [ADVERTISEMENT.] —TEAS AT W HOLESAL E .2 hui e No. 2, BUCRL ERSBURY , C HEAPSIDE .—F am iIi es vv, consumption is large, and s t u dy economy, w ill d; considerable advantage at this establishment. 011 0 Lie form price is affixed, by which the purch aser of a pound can obtain it on the same terms as the trade- q. Black Tea 2s. Bd., 35., 3s. 4d, 3 s. 8d 457. 4s. 4c1., Green 3s. 4d., 3 s . Bd. , 45. , 4s. 4d. , , 55. 9 , 65., 7 s' Coffee. 9d., lOd., Is., I s . 2d., Is. 4(1., is. 8(1.9 18 L 0 4. 0 One pound sent fre e t o any part o f town. Orders "o t the country forw ar d e d t h e same d ay; an d when 15 quantity is for 61b. weight (tea only), the carrieg paid to any p ar t o f E ng l an d . -MA NSEL L and Co.o wholesale tea dealers, 2, Bucklersbury, Cheapside. The THE MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 17 ke g, Oriental Company's steam-ship Madrid, Captain We e o l ik t which was to have sailed this day with the Penins Ti t and Mediterranean mails, has been ordered by Governiniew to remain here until further notice to await any extra_ue'r, patches they may have to send. The West India mails 7, 0 dispatched by the Royal mail packet Clyde, Capt. Sy In° 11 at three P.m. She has forty-seven passengers. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England hat! General Meeting yesterday, at their office, in Whitehs° pit; co. FADVERTISEMENT.J—THE EARL OF ALDBORO rIOO AND HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—An astounding care by this miraeulog; medicine, after every other means had failed. See extract from k Lordship's letter, dated " Villa Messina, Leghorn, Feb. 21, ISt Professor Holloway—Sir : I beg to acquaint you th a t your pills 10Pa effected a cure of a disorder in my liver and st omac h all the fil°4 eminent of the faculty, at home and a ll over t h e continent, ha d no been able to elect; nay, not even the waters of Carlsbad or O vr o r rienhad. (Signed) ALnaortounn." These w on d er ful PM V cure any disease of the liver or stomach.—Sold (also Itellol o l,l Ointment) at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, by all medicine vendors throughout the civilised world. BIRTHS. ~,11, On the 10th inst., the w if e o f J o h n Potter, Esq. solicitor, v‘ '"- of a son. On the 12th inst., at Gre e n w i c h, th e w i fe of F. L. Wallace, ofa son. On the 14th inst., at Porchester-terrace, the wife of sago° 4P. Bourdillon, Esq , of a daughter. " Ainott , "J On the 14th inst., at Ch e lt en h am , th e w if e o f th e Rev. S. . of a son. , lady ark On the 14th inst., at Canonbury- square , I s lington, the . 4- ' Guzdalla, Esq , ofa son. f Rop el4 On t•e 14th inst., in Orchard-street, Chichester, the lady ° Henry, Esq., of a daughter. ,_ ck intosbt On the 15th inst., in Albemarle-street, Mrs. R. J. A.° of On a son. " A very the 15th inst., at Tooting-common, the lady of P. W.• Esq., of a son. Bq., isle On the 15th inst., at Hastings, the lady of W. D. Knipe, Esq C sth Dragocn Guards, of a daughter. -.1,1 Artb Ur On. the 16th inst., at Hyde- park-gardens, the Hon. --• Kinnaird, of a son. On the 16th inst., in Itussell•square, Mrs. G. Clowes, olet. MARRIED. iinclas On the 7th of October, at Meerut, in the East Indi es, Bo n' , Helena Angelo, fourth daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel John ',,'„ go bie, of the 3d Regiment Bengal Cavalry, to Captain John A bercr"— of the I tengal Boric Artillery. ________----- „. late On the 21st ult., at Nice, Ltrtitia Sarah, only daught er of t he Major-Oeneral Hobert Sewell. late .1 05cPb , On the 2:th ult., at Tottenham, Sarah, relict of t he IlutTant, aged 73. erig ef On the 6th inst., at Leamington, Andrew Murray, EEL” Sh Aberdeenshire ,„, y° tUlgelit On the 15th inst., at Pelham-place, Brompton, Bin .-- daughter of the late W. Webb, Esq., aged 36. Rag LL•P• f On the 16th inst., Ratn, J. DaubenY, -- -," wife o. j a nign, On the 16th inst., Union-place, Lambeth-road , Willi ilii Sawter, Esq. apical 00 On the 16th inst., at Gloucester-road, Hyde - pa rk-1 r _.... fant son of Edward Morris, Esq --___...-----_____ -:---- _..0 02. Lon.!•,n: Printed taid Published by I‘IIJUDO YOUNG. of t e ,,„ r iset Strand, I'rinter, at The Sun Office, N 0.112, strand , i n „, tb , 2 ,,,,,,. 4 " -- re. of the Savoy, in the County of lifticilese2c, xl .s. `" ° ' bruary 19, 1847, of ar Dr IF • 0 e: 11