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TIRE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING at the rate-paying clause of the Reform Act might be and the last y ear they had obtained Acts which empowered a them to raise 2,000,0 001 . more , and this money was to be bolished. raised in shares. There was then the additional power to TRAVELLING ON SUNDAYS. raise 1,700,0001. on loan, making something more than Lord BROOKE preeeeted a petition from Kenilworth, 10,000,000/. In addition to this, they had leased the praying that a clause which had been inserted in a rail Bristol and Gloucester use, with a capital of 2,1;00,000/., and way Bill, which would run through that tcwn, giving the Leeds and Bradford, the capital of which was 1,000,000/., the directors power to stop travelling on the line on so that the whole capital was not more than 14,000,000/. Sunday, might be expunged. Mr. ELLICE—Then there was the Northern line. REGENT'S CANAL (PADDINGTON AND Mr. HUDSON—That is a property entirely and perfectly LIMEHOUSE RAILWAY BRANCH). distinct. The capital then was something like 14,000,0e01 , Mr. ALDAM moved that the debate on the second and it should be recollected that when any company leased reading of this Bill be resumed, for the purpose of a line they did not undertake to find the capital; they moving that the second reading be deferred for a tort- only en g aged to carry on the line when the capital was raised. It would be very unwise in Government to night. 0 . interfere with the raising of their capital. When they had Mr. WARBURTON wished to know from the G, imposed all the necessary limits they might well leave the vernment what was intended to be done with this Bill. raising of the money to the discretion of the companies. As lie had received information on which he believed he to putting on any direction for raising the money, he thought might rely, that the Commissioners of Woods and it would be quite futile, for the directors were obliged to act Forests had advised her Majesty not to give her according to the state of the money market. Sometimes they consent to the Bill as it stood at the present mo- raised ;it in one way, sometimes in another, and it was a matter ment. From this ho inferred that the Bill was not to well known that in the early stages of railway enterprise the be assented to if it interfered, in any way, with the pri- directors had frequently put themselves into positions of great racy of Regent's Park. Those who had built villas anxiety and peril, and yet had they not done so the works would in the park had done so on the understanding that have been stopped and the public would have lost the benefit... their property would trot be interfered with, and it was When the late President of the Board of . Trade brought in his most unfair that they should be subject to annoyance, Bill two or three years since the question . of loans was mo st . fully and fairly discussed, and the conclusion was that the M end obliged to spend money from year to year for the ferent companies were to be confined to the terms of their Acts. purpose of protecting their property from aggression. He took an early opportunity of providing for the debts of Lord MORPETH said that it had been intimated to him every company with which he was connected. With refe that the promoters of the Bill were anxious to propose so me modification of their scheme in ord er t o sa ti s fy th e objections rence to the subject of the execution of the railways , he begged to say that the House need be under no apprehension of their opponents, and under these circumstances he was not upon that subject, for in all his experience he never unwilling to grant them the delay which they sought found the calls more readily and freely paid up. for. He could only deal with the Bill in the shape inwhich it was submitted to hi re . than they now were. He had made calls to the amount of three millions within the last three months, and he never saw Sir BENJAMIN HALL was anxious to know what was them paid up so readily as they were, even to the present the definite intention of her Majesty's Government with re- week. The duty of the House was to take care spec to this Bill. He represented a great number of the that the public were protected, and that the lessees of the around through which the railway ran, and to shareholders were remunerated for the outlay of their capital, whom the faith'of the Crown had been pledged, that the pri- and having done that, the House might depend upon it that racy of their dwellings should be respected. the less they interfered in the management of rail- Sir ROBERT INGLIS said, no matter what modification ways the better it would be for the undertakings, was proposed, it would not meet the objection which was urged or the public, and for the House itself. With respect against the Bill. He would desire that her Majesty's Govern- Ito the guarantee fund, he would say that it was ment would at once declare that they were not prepared to necessary for the railway companies to have the power to assent to the Bill. borrow money under a guarantee fund. In the year 1841, Mr. HYME said he was very much surprised that the the greatest difficulty existed to get the public to invest their Noble Lord did not at once negative the Bill. The Corn- money even if under the guarantee of six per cent. missioners of Woods and Forests had spent 2,000/. France was quite ready to find employment, and give good or 3,000/. in beautifying the parks, which money was guarantee for the capital of this country, and he therefore very properly expended, and a railway would perfectly destroy warned the House not to be too ready to interfere with the pri the villas which were erected in the neighbourhood of the vete enterprise of England. Park. The nobility would not wish to ride out. having a rail- After a few words of explanation from Mr. ELLICE, way about 40 feet off from them, the noise of which would be Sir R. H. INGLIS said he understood the object of the reso most disagreeable. The House should recollect that the faith lotion was to revive the same jurisdiction of the Board of Trade of the Crown was distinctly pledged that their privacy should that it possessed two years ago in reference to railway matters. be respected. He hoped the Noble Lord would not postpone He, therefore, saw no objection to the proposition. His object the consideration of the measure, but at once reject it in rising had mainly been to bear his testimony to the efficiency Lord MORPETH said that he did not wish to use any de- of the labours of the former board, which had been he thought ception upon the matter. He could not advise that her Ma- unfairly underrated. jesty's consent should be given to the Bill under its present Lord JOHN RUSSELL had no objection to the motion, circumstances. But the promoters of the Bill had some and thought considerable benefit might arise from the arrange scheme on foot by which they hoped to satisfy the objections ment proposed. The inquiries would, no doubt, be much of the opponents. They only asked a fortnight, and he con- assisted by the repiirts of the Commissioners, but sidered it would be rather hard to refuse it to them. it must not be supposed that the results would so- Dr. BOWRING quite agreed with the Noble Lord, that it persede the labours of the Committees. It would would be an ungracious thing to reject the Bill. A fortnight be for the latter to take the inquiries forwhat they thought was but a reasonable delay, and he did not see why the House them worth and act accordingly. He supported the motion, should refuse to giant it. und, r the impression that no delay would be imposed, in conse- The second reading of the Bill was then adjourned for a quence, on the railway Bills of the present session. fortnight. The motion was then agreed to. PRIVATE BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. COMMITTEE ON THE LAW OF SET [LENIENT Mr. HUME moved for a Select Committee, to continue AND POOR REMOVAL. the inquiry into the private business of the House, the expenses Mr. BANKES postponed his motion on the report of this attending the obtaining of all Private Bills, including all the Committee, as the report had not yet been printed, till that • expenses of the opponents as well as the promoters of Bills, day week. The Honourable Member said he would give no and the taxing of expenses thereto. The Committee to con- tice on the same day, of his intention to call the attention of gist of Mr. Hume, Lord Granville Somerset, Sir George the House to a case which hail been submitted to the law Grey, Sir James Graham, Mr. Strutt, Mr. Cardwell, Mr. office: aof the Crown affecting the construction of a clause in Greene, Mr. Gibson Craig, Sir William Clay, Sir William the Act. Heathcote, Mr. Estcourt, Mr. Loch, Mr. Home Drummond, Captain Jones, and Lord Cour'enay. 'The object which he had in view in making the present motion, was to save time, money, and facilitate business in regard to these Bills. Dr. BOW Ii IN G seconded the motion. Sir WALTER JAMES wished to know if the retrospective operation of Bills already passed would be inquired into. Many of these enactments were quite contradictory in their provision.. In the town which he represented there were several local Bills which clashed with each other. Mr. HUME replied that cases of this kind had been already provii'ed for. In cases where a new Bill was sought for any locality it was arranged that a general Bill should be passed to repeal all previous enactments, and thus get rid of every thing of a contradictory character. The motion was then agreed to. LOAN TO IRELAND. Mr. ROEBUCK wished to ask a question. He had under. stood from the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, that the 15,000,000 for the relief of Ireland was to pass the House p tri posse with the Irish poor laws. He desired now to know how the grant of that sum had been settled. Sir GEORGE seREY was understood to say that a Bill must bet reught in on the subject. Mr. POULETT SCltter E was proceeding to make a statement to the House, when he was called to order. RAILWAY BILLS. Mr. ELLICE proceeded to move that all Railway Bills in the present session be referred to the Railway Commissioners, for their report to this House, upon the following points, pre viously to such Bills being considered in Committees of this House:—That every report so to be made upon each Bill should state the amount of the capital proposed to be raised, and of the loans proposed to be authorised by the Bill ; and if, under the provisions of such Bill, any powers were to be g ven to any company already incorporated, of raising further capital or loans, or of making alterations, branches, or extensions of their existing lines, or of purchasing or leasing any other lines made or to be made, or of subscribing to the capital, or guaranteeing the capital of, or amalgamating with, other companies ; such report should also state the powers ranted by any former Act or Acts to such companies already incorporated for any of the above purposes, and of the manner in which, and extent to which, such powers had been exercised ; and the report should further state the opinion of the Commissioners thereon, and also their opinion as to any special provisions with which it might in any case be expedient to accompany the grant of any powers for any of the above men • tioned purposes. That every such report bs:i eferred to the Com mittee of this House appointed to consider 11,e Bill to which the same may relate. He found that the North-Western Corn; any had raised 11.000,0001. of money, and they had power to raise 16,000,0001 by way of loan, making 27,000,000/. of a total sum for ths railway. The Great Western Company had raised 4,e00,0e0/. of capital, and they had power to raise 4,500,000. more by way of loan, which, with the other ern powerments in their Act, for the purpose of entering into guarantee leases, would enable them to raise upwards of 30,000,000/ He found that the Eastern Counties' Railway Company had a capital of 4,200,000!. , and powers to raise 3,400,0001., and they a'so had in addition other powers of raising money. The fourth company to which he would refer was that of the Manchester and Leeds, where they had 2,000,0001. of capital, and a power to raise 1,800,0001. more, but with additional powers' the sum to which they might extend reached some 10,000,000 e He thought th a t the s e circumstances ought to be reported to the House, together with the respective cases in which the several powers were to be exercised. There were cases were the capital stock of the company was in 100/. shares, and yet the interest paid was upon 150'.—(Hear, hear.) He thought that it was necessary that the capital, together with the loans proposed to be raised should be stated, and that the House should be put in full possession of all the circumstances before the Bills were read a third time, as well as all the powers which each company sought of making grants to other corn prnies, together with all amalgamations, loans, leases, and other engagements into which they proposed to enter. There was one company which proposed to raise a capital of 5,000,000'. in addition to that which they already possessed. There were set eral other companies who were acting in the same way ; and he wished to draw the attention of the House to the number of these Bills now lying on the table, with a view to impose some restriction upon them. He might take as an instance of the extensive powers sought by the old companies, that of the Cheltenham and Oxford Railway, which was er-ornotad by that enormous company the Great Western. They proposed to raise a capital of 1,000,0001., with the poser to raise a loan of 330,0 )0/., giving a guarantee of five per cent. to their original subscribers. It would be advisable to inquire what amount of funds were at the disposal of the Great Western Company, over and above the means required for the fulfilment of their present engage ments. There was also the Eastern Union Railway and several others of a like nature. Then there was the Shef field, Rotherham, and Doncaster Railway, the subscription deed of which was signed by three solicitors, two engineers, and twelve directors, who had subscribed together 192,000 ~ while the public subscribed only the sum of 30,000/. The Bill proposed to give authority to the promoters to sell this railway to five different companies, or to any person or persons who might be willing to purchase it. There were as many various conflicting propositions for borrow ing money as the House could very well imagine, and it appeared to him that it would be desirable that each dill should be inves tigated by the Railway Commissioners previous to coming before a Commit tee of that House. Then with respect to amalgamating there were as many different pri nc ipl es o f amalgamation and powers of leas i ng as of borrowing, while there was a very dans. ;serous practice in existence to creating fictitiou s capitals. That was another question which required to be examined into, and he thought it ought to be ascertained whether the public had to pay interest upon this fictitious capital as well ai upon the cost of construction. There was one case which would illustrate what he was contending far. 'The new North-Western Company had several Bills for branches and exteusions, in which the directors had pledged the capital of the company for that purpose. In such a case it was desirable to inquire how far such a proceeding was in agreement with the standing orders, which required that no pledge ef the company's credit should take place , beyerel ti e actual capital; raised. He would offer no opinion on the case, but thought such a matter ought to be referred to the Railway Commissioners. Some better system should be brought into operation than the one which at present prevailed. He would not trouble the House further on this subject, but he must say that, in the committee on which he was engaged himself last year, they declined to assert the supe r osity of one gauge over another. They left that question to the Board of Trade, although there were witnesses there to have occupied them for two or three days. He himself was the more inclined to do this, kno ing that parties promoting a railway had expended 150,000/. before a Com mittee of the House of Commons, and had afterwards the mor tification of losing their Bill before the House of Lords, the effect of which would be, that these matters would be referred to the House, or decided by an authority responsible to the House. On the motion being put, Mr. HUDSON said he meant not to take the least objec tion to the I r p sition made by the lion Member, nor would he enter into t h e d e t a il s w hi c h t h e H onoura bl e Member had laid before the House ; but he would make one or two observations on points noticed in the speech of the lion. Gentleman ; and, first, as to the capital i i r e zl7 n er t l h i e netaithperailwayof p r oj ec t s o f thi s y ear . H e sa id th a t l as t He at thatti me roen prop ( sett railways amounted to 300,000,0001. wined t h at the capital of the lines which would be sanctioned by Government. would not execs d 100.000, 0 00/. avid in that he was quite r i g h t, for Parliament had not s anctioned lines t o a l a m er ti amountun than 90,000,000/. He was not of opinion th at. ao sss t asio n the p ro j ec t s p asse d wo uld involve any large had particularly bring no extraordinary pressure „,`,ll money, erel would preside,rnon referred market. k t o w t o . The Right Hon. Gentleman and had be ma de he would companies, over which he had the honour but as it he been aware that these charges were to be t ad t os_t a reply t that have come provided with the necessary etbese hbeabregleies.vedit.hbaet h ß e ig s h h t ou l l i d o b n e a G b e le n , ti o e ti L a n d h Was, the capital of the Aidland Company amounted to something , like 30,000,000/. • A notice of dissent was here made by Mr. Ellice. M r . HUDSON . was quite willing to give the Right lion. Gentleman full credit for the candour and fairness with b j which he intended to bring the matter eforetheHrousere,bdutot he had underatoodthat mse rtion to be made, an d w asepa say that the capital was nothing li ke that sum. The w h ole amount of the original capital of the Midland Co mpany was 5,000,000/. In 1645 they had obtained Acts which empowe red them to raise 2,000,000/. more. That would ma ke 7,000,00 0, PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. Mr. EWART gave notice that he would on the 9th March move the abolition of the punishment of death. DIRECT TAXATION. The HON. MEMBER also ;are notice that on the same day he would call the attention of the Iluuse to the expedieuey of direct taxation. out without an Act of Parhamunt ? L - id ild be ible to Lord JOHN RUSSELL said it wou_ imposs. carry it out without an Act of Parliament. So soon as he received the report of the Commission, he should ask for leave to introduce a Bill upon the subject. THE FRANCHISE. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said he was in a difficulty as to the course he should take with reference to the notice ho had on the paper. He did nut know what was the intention of the House or the Government in reference to it. He Un derstood the Government had no objection to his introducing the Bill, but there were some gentlemen opposite might. Now, if Government could give him permission to intro.tuce the Bill upon the understanding that they approved of the principle, but did not pledge themselves to the details, he would postpone the discussion till the second reading . If, however, Government did not object to the Bill now, because they would have an op portunity a strangling it hereafter, he mu.t go at once into the matter. etßhitlal doing Lord J. RUSSELL sa id , if t h e H on. G ent l eman mere l y wished before so. I the Howe, certainlys oue ,he should offer no to objection hiseshould ill ln was,t a h a is he lay in h g ad it s o ta n ted th , e m tit e la r l e e ly ; offer but if an th o e bj" B t proposed to repeal that clause of the Reform Bill which had reference to the day on which taxes should be paid to secure a vote, without proposing any new provisions 'or other condi tions, he thought it right to state at once that he was opposed to the spirit of such a Bill. If they wished to have the Bill discussed now, he thought it right to state to him at the out set, that he should oppose a decided negative to the Bill. Sir DE LACY E VANS said as he had consented to second the motion of the Hon. Gentleman, he begged to suggest to him, that he should simply move for leave to introduce the Bill, and defer the discussion un; it a future day. Mr. DUNCOMBE said he was perfectly aware that the Noble Lord was opposed to such a Bill as the one he now sought to introduce. It however, contained but one clause, and its object simply was to repeal that portion of the Reform Bill which made the payment of rates imperative by a certain day to receive the registration of a vote. It was entitled " a Bill to repeal so much of an Act passed in the reign of William the Fourth, intituled, ' an Act to amend the representation of the people in England and Wales,' as makes the right to registration in cities and boroughs conditional on the payment of poor's rates and assessed taxes." As, however, deferring the Bill would only lead two discussions, he thought it better to have the discussion then and to fight it out at once.—(Hear.) There fore he would state as shortly as possible the grounds on which he sought leave to introduce the Biil. It provided for re moving one of the greatest blots iu the Reform Bill—a blot complained of by the whole electoral body whether in cities or in boroughs, and was one which he sincerely believed deserved the most sorious consideration of the Government and of the House. The chief objection to the clause was that it was un constitutional In principle, vexatious in its operation. and that it opened the door to all manner of bribery and farouriti•in. He should prove that it was unconstitutional from the worth of the Noble Lord himself, in speaking of the operation of the Reform Bill. The substance of the Noble Lord's opinion on that occasion was that no man should be taxed until he had a voice in the making of the laws which imposed those taxes upon him. The Reform Bill, he contended, had not answered the expectations which had been formed of it; it even had not answered the expectations of the Noble Lord himself. At the time that Bill was passed, the Noble Lord stated that the metropol is, hevointendedrst to call into electoral existence half a million of new \ number to 6 4 0,3 t h o at s he would give 100,030 to the English counties, had been the Illretzotp?ohs, 32,341 rated householders, 40,000 . to Ireland, and a considerable making nearly 500,000. But what In Marylebone, in 1841, there were ; register, showing a grea r t s,b there were only 11,765 on the householders were 112,954, hdifference.t In Finsbury the rated register. In the Tower Hamlet there were only 32,550 on the 13,000 on the register ; and ins Greenwichthere were 64,b96, but only ' 3,610 on the register. In Greenvich 11,536, but only many of the houses were Dy ing." Certainly this wa: not intended by the Reform Bill. The Honourable Gentleman was here interrupted by the entrance of Sir Augustus Clifford, the Usher of the Black Rod, who summoned the House to hear the Royal assent given to several Bills, a list of which will be found in our Lords' report.] On the return of the Speaker, Mr. DUN COMBE went on to state that he could not be lieve that anything so vexatious as this was intended by the Reform Bill. Gentlemen connected with counties did not feel this, as the clause only pressed in cities and boroughs. Parties living in those places were open to considerable oppression from the neglect of overseers and others. This was no new complaint. It had been the subject of complaint ever since the passing of the Reform Act. The Hon. Member then read an article which appeared, in the Times—which showed some of the evils of the system. It was never th , intention of the Reform Act that such abuse should occur. Why should they make a difference between county and city rates? This question should be made an open one, in order to leave it the more fully to the operation of public opinion. It was only a question of the reform more or less, and therefore he begged to move for leave to bring in the Bill. Lord JOHN RUSSELL—I stated to my Hon. Friend at the commencement of the discussion that if it was his desire to lay his Bill upon the table of the House, without any discus sion at the present time, that I should not be averse to such a course, but that I could not promise him my support upon a future occasion. But my Honourable Friend, has thought it better to have the discussion now, unless I should promise him the support of the Government on the second reading of the Bill. My Honourable Friend has not entirely comprehended what was the ancient law. He has read para graphs from newspapers to the effect that this was an entirely new principle, introduced by the Reform Act, no person thought of paying rates to be allowed the privilege of voting. He was mistaken. The state took the security they thought necessary; and so in regard to borough. where there was a common law right of voting, and where there were no particular charters to restrict the right, it was vested in householders, but with this qualifica tion, that they should be householders paying scot and lot. The meaning of this was, that they should pay the poor rates. So it has been interpreted by the courts of justice. Therefore, with regard to country voters, there was a security, anti in burghs it was held that they should not be chance lodgers, but persons keeping a house and capable of paying the poor t ates, which certified and assured to the State that they were per •ms worthy to be intrusted with the right to vote ; therefore the principle is not a new one introduced by the Reform Act. Whatever the Reform Act might do to change the ancient con stitution of the country, the principle that occupiers should pay some of the rates due by them, was an ancient principle trans ferred into the provisions of the Reform Act. My Hon. Friend said that the Reform Act did not extend the franchise so Yen extensively as I calculated. Tine calculations which I formed were made on a very wide basis, and I could not expect that they would turn out with a critical accuracy. But I do think that the lion. Gentleman himself has proved that a very great extension of the franchise has been effected by the Reform Act. Lambeth has the powers of returning Members of Parliament; so has Finsbury; so has the Tower Hamlets. The Hon. Gentleman has stated that 45,00 t) person• in thee new metropolitan burghs possfised the right of voting Manchester, Leeds; and Birniingbam had now — obtained the power of sending Members to Parliament; so had Bath, and RAILWAYS. a number of other places, not on the scot and lot principle, Lord GEORGE BEN FINCK gave notice of his intention but on a IW. house qualification, and a test similar to move to-morrow fur certain returns which would form a to that of the scot and lot principle, which meant basis on which he meant to found certain observations in re- the payment of poor rates. According to my own spect to the figures and statements of the Chancellor of the Ex- belief, when you do intrust the franchise to persons chequer last night, viz., a return of all the sums of money ex- of property, you are more likely to have a better than with a pended by certain English lines of railway previous to the year universal suffrage. I own, I think, that if you take away the 1845, including the South Western, the South Eastern, and obligation to pay rates and taxes, you would be running a risk the Midland Companies ' • and a return of all the sums expended of int rusting the francbise to persons not worthy of it. And 1 by the railways of Great Britain and Ireland on carriages, locos thank we have improved upon the practice of scot and lot. I motives, anti waggons, made up in triennial periods previous to cannot, therefore, consider that the Bill is in point a good one, the years 1841, 1844, and 1847 respectively. and it would be a great innovation on the Constitution of this COPPER ORE. country, that persons, not in the possession of any property, Mr. SPOON ER said that in the absence of his Hon. Col- should be intrusted with the right of voting. I shall, therefore. league, he should move that the petition presented by him the oppose the introduction of this Bill. othr evening be printed with the votes. , Mr. GISBORNE said he should support the Bill. He JAMALSA. I thought the occupancy of a House quite enough, and saw no Mr. HUME begged to ask a question whether any mea- ' reasonable grounds to deprive a man of a vote because he had sure hail been adopted to put an end to the disputes between not paid his rates on a particular day. He should, therefore, the House of Assembly and the Judge of the Supreme Court, : supp wt. the introduction of the Bill. by which the public business had been suspended for one year. 1 Sir DE LACY EVANS w as in favour of the Bill. The Mr. HAWES said that he was aware that such interruption real q estion they had to consider was, did the rate-paying had taken place, but means had been taken to reconcile the , clauses operate in the way originally estimated. He sub differences, and he had great pleasure in stating that public, mitted that they did not. They were no test of the solvency business would at the earliest period be resumed- ; of the parties ' as he could prove from several instances which NUMBER OF DEATHS, IRELAND. ' hod happened in the city of Westminster. In the parish of St. Mr. S. O'BRIEN postponed the motion of which he had ' George's no less than 339 persons had been disfranchised by given notice, respecting the return of the number of deaths these clauses ; yet these parties resided in St. James's-square. which had taken place in Ireland from starvation since the Ist i Belgrave-square, and Great George-street. Was it to be said of November, 1846 that these were insolvent persons ? Now it was a remarkable Mr. P. SCROPE had heard that the workhouses of Ireland fact that not one of these had been disfranchised for the noes were already completely filled with inmates, he saw that a pro- payment of the poor-rates, but because they had not paid the vision was made in the Poor-law (Ireland) Bill of the Ist and Government taxes. lie trusted that the House would allow 2nd Vic., for the purpose of extending the means of acconamo. , the Bill to be read a first time, and that in a future stage the dation for the people by either enlarging thebuildings or hiring question might be fully discussed. Ile asked the House to do others. He wished to know whether it was the intention of so when they considered that in the metropolitan boroughs the Government to lay upon the table of the House any returns there were not more than 50,000 qualified electors, while at respecting the workhouses in Ireland and their number of in • , least 100,000 occupiers were deprived of votes by the operation mates. of these elauses.—(llear, hear.) Sir G. GREY—In a few days a series of p.pers will be laid I Mr. P. HOWARD could not agree to the principles of on the table of the House, which will contain the corres- the Bill sought to be introduced by the lion. Member for pondence with the Board of Guardians, as well as the steps Finsbury. If they gave up the rate-paying qualification, he which have been taken is consequence. a ,uld met see how they could stop short of universal suffrage. DRAINAGE OF LANDS. , It was the duty of every man to pay the poor-rates and Govern- Mr. BAILLIE wished to know whether it was the inten- ! ment taxes, and therefore he thought the provisions in the lion of her Majesty's Government to introduce any measure for i Reform Bill should be maintained. He would give his de the improvement of the Drainage Act of last session, or whe- tided negative to the present motion. ther they intended to introduce any new Bill that might alter , Mr. HUME agreed with the last Hon. Member, that every the principle of that Act. man ought to pay his ra es and taxes, but there were ether Sir G. GREY said that a new Bill had been prepared for means of inducing him to do so than by the provisions of this the amendment of the Act fir the drainage of last session, I Bill. He regretted to hear the intimation of the Noble Lord though he could not go to the length of saying that the new at the head of the Government to oppose the Bill. The Noble Bill would alter the principle of the Act of last year. Lord, when he introduced the Reform Bill, said he believed Mr. HUME wished to ask whether it was the intention of that it would be the means of giving satisfaction to the country. Her Majesty's Government to introduce any measure to enable This had not been the case. The Reform Bill had not given the proprietors of entailed estates to dispuse of part of their satisfaction to the people of this country. They were property for the improvement of the rest of it, or w h et h er it generally against the Bill in its present shape, and especially was intended to burden the country with the expense. against these clauses. Why, at the present time, there were Sir G. GREY said that his. reply to the question of the but 12 males in every 100 who had a vote. The Noble Lord Hon. Member for Inverness would have intimated that there would also recollect that his prophecy about the Reform Bill was to be no change in the principle of the measure, but he had failed. He stated in introducing the Reform Bill, that might add that it was the intention of the Government to if it came into operation there would not be a borough with apply to Parliament for no more than the sanction of part of less than 300 voters. At the present moment there were 35 the 2,000,000/. grahiet last year unto the Drainage Act. boroughs which had less than this number. Some of them, in Mr. BOUVERIE wished to know whether the Govern- fact, had as few electors as 150. He trusted the Noble Lord merit had any objection to lay the correspondence respecting I would take these matters into his consideration, and withdraw Scotland on the table, as well as that which concerned Ireland. • his opposition to the Bill. Sir G. GREY—None at all, it would be inclu led. Sir B. HALL thought that the repeal of the ratepaying Mr. COLLETT wished to ask whether there was any truth clauses was absolutely necessary. In many of the principal in the statement that the Government were about to establish boroughs these clauses were most oppressive. He knew from a bishopric in Manchester, and whether the Noble Lord would experience that a great number of most respectable persons give any information on the subject? had been disfranchised by the non-payment of rates. He Lord JOHN RUSSELL thought the best way of giving trusted that the Bill would he allowed to proceed, and that if information on this subject, was to lay a copy of thecommission its provisions were not agreed to, that at least a longer time issued by her Majesty for the founding of the new bishoprics, should be allowed than at present for the payment of rates on the table. This he had done a week ago, and it had been Mr. D'EYNCOURT was in favour of the present Bill ordered to be printed, and schen it was in the hands of the Hon. The statement of the Noble Lord had proved that the Re- Member, he would find that it was intended to found a form Bill had c ome f ar s h or t o f hi s or i gina l ca l cu l a ti on w h en bishopric in :Manchester, as well as three other bishoprics. he introduced the Bill. The Noble Lord had referred to the From the present state of the Episcopal revenue, it would not scot and lot voters before the passing of the Reform Bill, and be necessary to add any new charge to the country for the sup said that the R e f orm Bill carr i e d out i n anot h er f orm t h e port of these bishoprics. He might add, that it was not the in- principle of th e p rev i ous qua lifi cat i on. H e cou ld not agree non of her Majesty to summon the new bishops to sit in Par- with that proposition, as the Government taxes had nothing liament, but they woual take their turn, as any casualty among whatever to do with the right of scot and lot voters. If there was anything unconstitutional in the Reform Bill it was taking he bishops eceasioned a vacancy. Mr ROEBUCK asked if the arrangement would be carried away the scot and lot qualification that formerly existed; and 114 if the Noble Lord would introduce a measure to restore that nubfication, he (Mr. D'Eyncourt) would support it. qt He thought that under the present system there were cases which required some alteration of the law, and therefore he wished that his Noble Friend would either give them this Bill, or take the matter into his own consideration. Captain PECHELL thought that any person holding a house, for which he paid 101., ought to have a voice in the representation of the borough to which he belonged. The majority of the people of this country were very much dis satisfied with the present system as framed under the Reform Bill, and thoug:,t that considering the present pressure of the country, and the quiet state of the people, it was most extra ordinary that the Noble Lord refused to allow this Bill to come to a first readit K. He could only say that having been intrusted with a petition from his constituents, asking them to repeal these hateful clauses of the Reform Bill, he felt bound to support the measure. Mr. WA KLE Y trusted that a division would take place at once, and if it were to oceupy another night, when the same arguments only could be used, it would be a was to of the public time. The Noble Lord had, in his opinion, fails d in shewing that the measure of the Hon. Member for Finsbury was an unjust one. Although the Noble Lord had spoken earnestly—more otlhot earnestly oa,,t,fi oehtnei ohpn t a h t a pr n Temn u he s ae u dn a Nt l sh — ho:b h t ul e e ml d t Le l i nbo d rew n d o e t appear rem excluded seemedad et otpofora dvocateoorin c be b a yt actuated the improper eeg ip principle- firm g i i registration. nsle: lation, and then they told him that he should be deprived of that which every free man oug h t to h ave—a right to vote in the representation of his borough. Under the present cir cumstancesd ar some rit tyrant avote of were e s r t e e n a L u , en w c h ed o entirely by their many landlord,who ha or forced them to vote Inconsistently with his opinions. He thought the present system was merely a trick to rob the poor man of what the law pretended to give him, namely, a 10/. franchise. He called upon the Government to show to the satisfaction of the public and of the House, why the borough voter should be deprived of the pri vilege enjoyed by the county voter. He was surprised at the silence which prevailed on the Treasury bench, and he called on them to show any good and valid reason why the Bill should I not he granted. Sir G. GREY said that the Hon. Member who had just spoken had complained of the silence which existed on the Treasury bench; but he (Sir G. Grev) thought that any fur ther explanation on their part was rendered unnecessary by t h e statement of the Noble Lord. The Hon. Member had also said, that the arguments adduced against the Bill were of no weight. There were many of those arguments which west beyond the Bill; but he differed from the Hon. Member when he said they had no weight. The argument of t h e Honourable Gentleman the Member far Finsbury, did not entirely go the length of universal suffrage, but it certainly went on to an indefinite extension of the franchise. It was quite clear that the Bill would fail to satisfy the expec tations of a large class of the people of this country, but it was not a proper mode to speak of the Bill, to say that it had disap pointed the expectations of the country. His Noble Friend, when the Reform Bill was passed, gave it as his opinion, that it would be better to adhere to the old constitutional maxim, of the payment of rates, as included in the scot and lot principle. It had been pointed out that there were many abuses which existed under this system by candidates paying the rates of voters a few days before the ,election, but there would be considerably more difficulty in adjusting the measure of the Hon. Member, and it was for that reason that he, as a Member of the Government did not support it. Sir C. NAPIER was very glad that the Hon. Member for Finsbury had succeeded in unsealing the mouths of some of the Members of the Government, and he (Sir C. Napier) would be very glad to hear the opinions of the Hon. Members for Lambeth and the Tower Hamlets en this subject. He had always understood that thi, clause was for the purpose of mak ing the people pay up their rates and taxes, but it had evidently failed in that object. He thought that the franchise ought to be more extended, and therefore he should support the Bill. Ms WILLIAMS did not think the scot and lot system bad rated at little above 5/. ; so that all, with the exception of ever answered its purpose. The Noble Lord, in initOducirig women, were entitled to have a vote according to the avowed the Reform Bill. had allowed a very large number of the voters objects of the Refcrm Bill. Only 45,000 votes had been added of this country to vote without any qualification at all. He to the metropolis. This was the result fifteen years after the alluded to the freemen and burgesses. He had always been one passing of the Reform Bill. In fact, the constituency was di- of the Noble Lord's best supporters ; and were it not for the minishing instead of increasing. In Westminster there good deeds he had done in former days, he believed he should were 23,295 rated householders, but only 13,860 voters ; not now support him. He believed that about 3,101 of his showing that Westminst. r was in a worse state than own constituents were honest men. although they might not he at the time Sir Francis Burdett was elected in 1807, when able to pay rates.—( Laughter.) And yet a qualification was 18,000 voted. A similar result had taken place in Southwark. required from the others, who were not more honest men. In Liverpool the number of rated householders was 44,924, Lord G. BENTINCK said that the Hon. Member who had but only 14,970 were voters. In the City of London the con- just sat down had charged his Noble Friend with a backward stituency had been greatly reduced since the passing of the movement. Now he thought that all the Members of the House Reform Bill, which was mainly to be attributed to this rate- who remembered 1831 and 1832, should support the resolution paying clause. In fourteen parishes in the City of London, of his Noble Friend. the overseers would not put any man on the register unless he Mr. B. ESCOTT was inclined to support the motion of his claimed to be rated ; so that the parties had all the technicali- Hon. Friend, because it would prevent that wholesale system ties of the law put in force against thorn. The decision of the of bribery, which exhibited itself in a donation of coals and Common Pleas in the great Stockport case, was another rea- candles. son why they should abrogate this clause. Eight rates were After a few words from Colonel WOOD, made in that town in the course of a year, and it was con- The House divided, when there appeared, tended that a voter ought to make eight different claims to re- For the motion for introducing the Bill ceive his vote; and Chief Justice Tindal, in deciding on the Against it ...... ........ 58 matter, said, " it was like keeping a vote by continual claim- Ma_jority against the introduction —2o SPEEDY TRIAL AND PUNISH bIENT OF JUVE NILE OFFENDERS. Sir JOHN PACKINGTON, in introducing a Bill for the more Speedy trial and Punishment of Juvenile Offenders, said that the want of a system of education seemed to him to be the great cause of crime; and, therefore, he thought that an extended system of national education ought to be enforced, in order to prevent the growing evil. An attempt had been made by the present Government to remedy this evil, and he (Sir J. Packington ) would tender his heartfelt thanks to the Noble Lord, or the Right Hon. Baronet opposite, if he could in any way put a period to the present defective system. He would limit himself to the second branch of the subject, viz. the trial and punishment of juvenile offenders, and not withstanding the value which he set on the trial by jury, he believed he could show the reasonableness of doing away with it in the ease now before him, and tne judiciousness of adept. ing summary convictions in the place of it. He would take one instance to show the folly of retaining the trial by jury. The circumstance occurred in the county of Worcester. A boy was committed on the 13th November for stealing twepence, and was not tried until the first week in January, and thus suffered seven weeks imprisonment. There was another case of a little girl, who had been committed for stealing a quart of milk. In the petition submitted the other night to the House of Lords by Lord Brougham, it was stated that out of 50,0410 prisoners committed, fully 5,1)00 were prisoners under fourteen years of age, and, from his own expe rience in the county of Somerset, he could state that more than one sixth of those committed were under 16 years of age. Such was the extent of the number of the , juvenile offenders. He would now turn to a very high autho rity. In the report of the inspectors of prisons it was stated that there was an evident necessity for an alteration of the law with regard to juvenile prisoners. In 1844 a Commit tee was appointed, of which the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth was the Chairman, and one of the subjects for the consideration of that Committee was criminal prosecutions, and in the report which they made to the House they stated hat there was a peat need for the establishment of some tribunal for the summary trial of young prisoners, and he trusted the Right Hon. Baronet still entertained the same opinions as he did at that time. The authority to which he would turn, was one to which he attached great importance, and which, he trusted, that her Majesty's Ministers would concur with him in giving it the great weight, which he believed it possessed. That was the opinion of Sir Edward Ryan, who, at the time he expressed it, was Chief Justice of India, and he had Sir Edward Ryan's permission for using his name in saying that he still retained the impression that it was absolutely ne cessary for some change being made in the process of examining and convicting juvenile offenders; and he thought that the doing away of the trial by jury would be cheaply purchased by the advantages to be obtained by the summary conviction of young offenders. The Hon. Member then read a series of extracts from the report of the Criminal Commissioners in 1837, all tending to show the wisdom of giving some authority to the magistrates for the conviction and punishment of prisoners of tender years, charged with trivial offences. He need not say that, from the eminent position and character of the persons teem whom this report emanated, that it was worthy of the utmost attention. The magistrates were, indeed, at present placed under the most cruel embarrassment, for while some of them did not 'qesitate to send the young offenders brought before them to prison for the crimes of which they were clearly guilty, others, who were of more doubtful minds, felt themselves obliged to send young offenders to another place fir trial, and in one instance the judge, before whom one of these offenders was tried had sentenced a prisoner, after conviction, to one 'tour's imprisonment. He held in his hand a report which - tad been prepared by Mr. NI. Hill for the Law Amendment Society, and which was founded on the returns made front the town of Birmingham, which went to the same effect. It hao been suggested that young off. nderi should be tried by small juries at petty sessions, in the event of their doing away with he trials at general sessions. To this he could he no party, or he believed that the benefit to be derived from it, saving the contamination of a prison, would be entirely lost by that plan. He would propose that a power should be given to two magistrates to decide upon all cases of offenders who had com mitted felony while under fifteen years of age. and who were committed for offences under forty shillings, and to adjudicate them to six months' imprisonment. He proposed to give to the parties so convicted the right of appeal to the general quarter sessions. Further than that in all cases of difficulty he would give to the magis trates the power of sending any offender for trial at sessions. Such was the outline of the plan which he proposed to adopt, hut he was aware that it was open to objection, but he trusted to be allowed to bring in his Bill and that he should have the assistance of the Govern ment in carrying it out ; for he felt assured, that if this change in our criminal law were carried out through the aid of the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Home De partment, no Minister who had ever held the office now filled by him could have been the means of promoting a greater benefit than he would confer upon his country. With thanks tor the attention which he had enjoyed from the House, he• would move for leave to bring in the Bill, and that it be read a first time. Sir G. GREY felt grateful for the attention which had been bestowed upon this very important subject, and though he would not commit himself to the principle of the Bill, be was quite ready to accede to its being brought in and read a first time. He was fully impressed with the importance of the subject, and the Hon. Member might be assured that it would receive the best attention of the Government. Mr. HUME wished I.he Hon. Gentleman to consider whe ther the punishment of juveniles could not be obviated by some improved system of education. He did not join in the opinion the Hon. Gentleman had expressed that great improve ments had taken place in the present system of education. For his part he could not discover where the improvement, had taken place, and he regretted, and believed the country joined him in that regret, that Government had not brought forward an extensive system of national education. Government was alone to blame for the present anomalies of the law. It was monstrous to punish a boy or a girl with several months' im prisonment for stealing an article scarcely of the value of 2d. They claimed to be a civilised country ; but he would venture to say, that in a country they were pleased to styl e as b ar b arous, he meant China, there was no such abominabl e sy s t em . but with re gar d to i ts other provisions, D said educati on was net sufficient to re- Mr. SHAW did n h o e t a a g g r r e e e e d w w it i h th that part of th e Bill w hi c h O r ll i ls d y°; hewould suggest that Government, at the Something more was requ i re d to prevent juvenile related negce t sorlgyi T. nt. p eee p , ‘mr y e aa a . public expense, should build a number of penitentiaries in dif ferent parts of the country, where juvenile offenders should be keptmixe mixed distinct u p from with th e other offenders. bad ,alid th A e consequence e p i r u e e s n a enet was,the goodjuve juvenile offenders never were reclaimed. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. CHARITABLE BEQUESTS. Lord JOHN MANNERS moved for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the law relating to the disposition of property for pious and charit a b le trusts. The chief provisions of the Bill would be compr ised in a claus e requiring that all will s t h ree months before the death o f t h e testator, and a clause providing that all landed property bequeath e d f or t h e same purposes should be converted into funded p roperty. R.H. INGLIS said the Bill was very similar to one the Noble Lord had unsuccessfull y b rought forward on a be bequeathin g signed property for charitable or piou s purposes should former occasion, but the improvements she Noble Lord had int , oduced into the present one though not inconsiderable, were not sufficient to mitigate his objection to the Bill. He should, however, not divide the House upon the present occa sion, but leave the measure to be fully and amply discussed on the second reading.__ ie sr.. Sir GEORGE GREY expressed his approbation of the but he was bound to add that he did hot think the alterations ma not think they were sufficiently extensive. He would, however, reserve his objections for the second reading. Mr. COLLE l'T wished to know whether the Noble Loid had intended that the fact of the will not being sigtled three months previous to the death of the testator sho uld invalidate the will generally ? Lord JOHN AIANNERS said that the will would be in validated only as regarded the bequests for charitable purposes. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. CHARGES AGAINSTH OFFICERS IN THE WOOL WIC ARSE. Mr. DUNCOMBE, in moving for a copy of the evidence taken before the Court of Inquiry, instituted in the month of April, 1845, by the Board of Ordnance, at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. to investigate charges preferred by Daniel Toner against William Jones, depaty storekeeper; together with a cot •of the charges and the report thereon. Also, a copy of the charges preferred, and the evidence given against Daniel Toner, late a labourer in the Royal Arsenal, Wool wich, by Mr. Reed, a clerk in the Storekeepers' de partment, before Lora Bloomfield, Colonel Bloney, and Mr. Chatham, in 1g45, with their report thereon; — said that he was compelled by the difficulty which intervened between the application for copies of papers from the Arsenal of Woolwich, and the production of them, to bring the matter thus publicly before the country. Daniel Toner stated that, in consequence of his having thus brought charges against his superior officers, he had been prosecuted, while those charged had been advanced. He (Mr. Duncombe) would feel it ne cessary to call for those papers, before he took another step on the subject. Colonel ANSON said that if his Hon. Friend, the Member for Finsbury, had taken the trouble to look at the report which was furnished, and which he (Colonel Anson) requested the Hon. Member for Finsbury to examine; if he had looked at the statement, the House might have been spared the in fliction of these details.—(Hear, hear.) There had not, and he would appeal to the Hon. Member for Finsbury himself, appeared one word on the subject of convict labour. He had no objection to give the evidence taken before the court of inquiry in April last with respec t to the char g es o p t r h e e fe r r e re vid db e y nce T , o g n i e v r en a aga g i ai ns n t st TJoonneser; by b Reed, he did not thinkut with respect to the that the production of such voluminous evidence would tend to any advantageous result. Mr. HUAIE did not know whether the first papers were necessary for the investigation, but, as pilfering was admitted, he would ask, how was the public property to be protected, unless a check was given to those practices? He did not think that any one who exposed this system should be subjected to punishment, and he hoped the House would grEnt the docu ments, and that they would be the means of having an inquiry instituted into the mode in which the whole department was conducted. Mr. BOLDER() detailed the circumstances of the inter view he had with Toner, and was of opinion that, from the course then pursued, no injustice had been done to him. With regard to the subsequent proceedings, and his dismissal, he could offer no opinion. Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE replied. The gallery was then cleared for a division, but as there were only thirty-one Members present the House adjourned at a quarter to Eleven o'clock. PARLIAMEN TARY BUSINESS. (From the Vo es and Proceedincs of the House of commons.) MONDAY, FIB 22. The following Railway Bills were presented, read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time : Caledonian r Extension of Motherwell Branch of Clydes dale Junction Railway to Auchinheath Mineral Field, with Branches to the Wiabaw and Coltnese Railway, Canderside, and Hamilton)—" to enable the Caledonian Railway Corn pans , to make an Extension of the Motherwell Branch i)f the Clydesdale Junction Railway to Auchinheath Mineral Field, with Branches therefrom." Caledonian (Branches from the Clydesdale Junction to the Douglas and Lesmahagow Mineral Fields, and to Strath avon)—" to enable the Caledonian Railway Company to make Branches from the Clydesdale Junction Railway to the Dow2las and Lesmahagew Mineral Fields, and to Strathavon.', Caledonian (Purchase or Lease of Wishaw and Coltness Railway)—" to effectuate the sale of the Wishaw and Colt ness Railway to the Caledonian Railway Company." Wilsontown, Morningside, and Coltness (Branches to Ben har Coalworks and Edinburgh and Glasgow Turnpike Road) —" to enable the Wilsontown, Morningside, and Coltness Railway Company to make Branch Railways to the Benhar Coalworks." Strathtay and Breadalbane Extension—" to enable the Strathisty and Breadalbane Railway Company to extend their Line to the Dunkeld Branch of the Scottish Midland Junction Railway." Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction (Deviations be tween Duntocher Limeworks and Bowling, &c.)—" to enable the Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway Com pany to make certain Deviations and Branches." Herne Bay and Canterbury Junction—" for making a Railway from Herne Bay to a Junction with the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway, to be called The Herne Bay and Canterbury Junc ion Railway.'" Taw Vale Railway and Dock (Deviations and Bideford and South Molton Branches)—" for making a deviation in the Line of the Taw Vale Railway, for making Branches there from to the towns of Bideford and South Molton, for enlarg ing the Dock, and for amending the Acts relating thereto." Colchtster, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead (Exten.- sion to Melford, Lavenham. and Clare)—" to enable the Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead Railway Company to make an Extension of their Railway from Sud bury to Melford, Lavenham, and Clare, in the county of Suffolk." Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead (Exten sion from Lavenham to Bury St. Edmund's)—" to enable the Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead Railway Company to make an Extension Railway from Lavenham to Bury St. Edmund's, in the county of Suffolk." Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's (Extension to East Dere ham and to Aylsham)—" to enable the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway Company to make an Extension of their Railway from Norwich, to join the intended Railway from Dereham to Wells, with a Branch from such Extension to Aylsham, in the county of Norfolk." Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead (Stour Navigation Purchase)—" for enabling the Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead Railway Company to pur chase certain Shares in the River Stour Navigation." Aylsham and North Walsham—" to enable the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway Company to make a Rail way from Aylsham to North Walsham, both in the county of Norfolk." Eastern Union and Hadleigh Junction (Sale to the Eastern Union Railway Company)—" for authorising the sale of the Eastern Union and Hadleigh Junction Railway to the Eastern Union Railway Company." Dublin and Drogheda (Purchase of Navan Branch, &c.)— " to authorise the purchase, by the Dublin and Drogheda Railway Company, of the Navan Branch of the Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway, and to authorise the Dublin and Drogheda, the Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway, with a Branch from Drogheda to Navan, the Ulster, and the Dun dalk and Enniskillen Railway Companies, or any of them, to amalgamate with one another." Guildford Extension, and Portsmouth and Fareham—" for enabling the London and South-Western Railway Company. to make Extensions of the Guildford Extension and Ports mouth and Fareham Railway near Portsmouth, and a Devi ation in the authorised Line thereof, near Godalming." Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's (Branch from Ipswich to Wood'oridge)—" to amend the Acts relating to the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway Company, and to enable the Company to construct a Railway from the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway near Ipswich to Woodbridge." Newry and Enniskillen—. to alter and amend the Newry and Enniskillen Railway Act, 1845." Great Western (Amendment and Extensions)—" for mak ing Branch Railways from the Great Western Railway to Henley and to Radstock ; to wid en cer t a i n p or ti ons o f the Great Western Railway; to enable the Great Western Rail way Company to purchase or amalgamate with the Bir mingham, Wolverhampton ' and Dudley Railway, and to purchase the Wycombe and Great Western and Uxbridge Railways, and for other purposes." Cork, Blackrock, and Passage—" to authorise an Exten sion of the Cork, Blackrock, and Passage Railway to Monks town, and to amend the Act relating thereto." Cork and Bandon Railway Act—" to authorise an alters. tion in the Line of the Cork and Bandon Railway, and an Extension thereof into the city of Cork, and to amend the Act relating to the said Railway." Newmarket and Chesterford (Extension to Bury St. Ed mund's, with a Branch to Ely)—" to enable the Newmarket and Chesterford Railway Company to extend their Line of Railway to Bury St. Edmund's, with a Branch to the city of Ely. " Royston and Hitchin (Extension from Royston to Cam bridge, &c.—" to enable the Royston and Hitchin Railway Company to extend their Line of Railway from Roysti n to Cambridge." Royston :and Hitchin (Sale or Lease)—" to enable the Royston and Hitchin Railway Company to lease or sell their Line, and to authorise the said Company to enter into con tracts and complete arrangements with the Great Northern 'Railway Company." East Lothian Central—" for making a Railway from the North British Railway at East Linton to Ormiston, to be called' The Rest Lothian Central Railway." Darrin Llynvi, and Porth Cawl and Llynvi Valley Rail ways Amalgamation. Shrewsbury and Chester. The following Railway Bills were read a second time, corn mitted, and referred to the Committee of Selection : 'Caledonian (Branches to Canobie, &c.). Caledonian (Lease of part of Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway). Caledonian (Branch across Clyde and Glasgow Station). Wishaw and Coltness (Branches to Auchinheath Mineral Field and Canderside). Great Northern ( Branch to King's Lynn). Ayrshire and Galloway (Smithstown to Dalmellington). Lynn and Ely (Lynn and V. ormegay Navigation). Lynn and Ely (Deviation and Lynn Docks). Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Deviations. Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford (Extension to Taff Vale Railway). Northern Counties Union Deviation. Sheffield, Rotherham, and Doncaster Junction (blasbrough to Doncaster). Portadown and Dungannon. STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE. The following Resolutions were reported from the above Committee : 1. That in the case of the Sowerby Bridge Improvement and Waterworks petition, the standing orders ought not to be dispensed with. 2. That in the case of the Great Northern Railway (De viations between London and Grantham) petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill. 3. That in the case of the Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton Railway (Leith and Granton Junction, Sze.) petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the par ties be permitted to proceed with their Bill. 4. Tfiat in the case of the London and North-Western Railway (Birmingham and Lichfield Line, &c.) petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the par • ties be permitted to proceed with their Bill, on the insertion of a Clause restraining them from taking any part of pro perties numbered 2 a and 3 a, in the parish of St. Michael, in the Book of Reference, and not correspondingly numbered on the Plan; and also any part of properties numbered 2 a and 3 a ont I '4 Plan, and not correspondingly described in the Book of Reference; and also restraining them from altering the level of a public carriage Road, No. 163, is the parish of Sutton Coldfiuld :—And that the Committee on the Bill do examine, in the first place, how far such order has been com plied with; and do report the same to the House on the re port of the Bill. Second, third, and fourth resolutions agreed to.—Report to lie on the table. NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE. The following Railway Bills are appointed to be read a second time on Friday, Feb. 26 : London and South •Western. York and North Midland ( East Riding Canals Purchase). York and North Midland (Knottinglev Branch). York and North Midland (Harrogate Branch, Boroughbridge, and Knaresbcrough Extension). York and Newcastle s Pelaw Tyne Dock, &c., Branches). York and Newcastle and Newcastle and Berwick Atnalga mation. PETITIONS ‘pisi PRIVATE BILLS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. (Room 22, before Mr. Examiner Slant.) UNOPPOSED LIST. In the following unopposed cases the customary formal proofs were completed : Leeds and Thirsk Railway (for sopplying water to Leeds and the neighbourhood, and selling same to the Corporation of Leeds, and the Leeds Waterworks Company). York and Newcastle Railway (Wearmoutii Dock Enlarge ment). York and Newcastle Railway (Hartlepool Dock and Rail. way, and Great North of England, Clarence and Hartlepool Junction Railway, Lease and Purchase Act). York and Newcastle, Newcastle and Berwick, and North British Railways Amalgamation. Axholme Railway (from the Leeds and Selby Railway to Gainsborough, with Branches). Manchester Corporation Waterworks (with power to pur chase tile Manchester and Salford Waterworks Company). Manclester Corporation Waterworks (with power to sell to the Manchester and Salford Waterworks Company). Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railways (Station at Sheffield, and Branch to the Sheffield Canal). Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Society. Great North of India Railway Company. Shropshire Union Railways and Canal (Shrewsbury to Worcester). Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway (No. 1— Extension and Amendment). OPPOSZD CASE. Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct Railway (Railway from Kil marnock to Ayr, with Branch to the Harbour of Ayr). This opposed case was part heard, and adjourned till to• morrow. (Room 23, before Mr. Examiner MAT.) UNOPPOSED LIST. In the following unopposed cases, the customary formal proofs were completed : Direct London and Portsmouth, Brighton and Chichestq,, and London, B r i g ht on , and South Coast, and London asd South- W es t ern R a il wa y Companies Acta WaterfordAmendment. a ii and nl e for Limerickpnrc Purchase a o i lfw Lands,a3, ( D ev furtheriationsin R i L g i h n t e s , Ea and Es. Privilege s as t o allowing Interest and giving Security and Amendments). . tension Edinburghrant n I Railwa3n.a dANmoartlghaemr Dunfermline Waterworks (for the better s ipp 31•'n g t h e town of Dunfermline, and places adjacent thereto , with oalinn. and . G Edinburgh, Leith, and Water). = Tranmere Docks. „., DEATH OF G ENERAL IJARROCII or GOUROCK.-- L' ht Company. tern Gas Light We have to record the death of General Duncan .arroch of City of York, Freemen's Strays or Common Pastures Re Gourock, which occurred at his mansion en Tuesday last, ulations. the 16th inst. The General entered the army in March, g Stockport Manorial Tolls and Bridges. I T v h e e a ßritish Commercial Insurance Company. 1792, having heen appointed ensign in the 41st regiment at Lytham Improvement. the age of sixteen; he became lieutenant in 1794, captain in Bristol Building and Improvement Act Am en d men t. the 104th by p urc h ase i n 1794, and major also by pu rc h ase i n OPPOSED CASE. ,i,rtt regiment in the same year. In 1800 he was appointed Manchester and Southampton Railway (Line from South ut.-coionel. In 1810 he was promoted to the colonelcy, ampton to Cheltenham, to join the Midland Railway, with and in 18,2 was placed on the staff of North America as connecting lines, to join the proposed London, Oxford, and brigadier -general. In 1813 he was appointed major. general, iu 1825 lieut.-general, a n d general in November, 1841. Cheltenham Railway, the Great Western Railway, and the - l'3;\ Art V FEBRUARY 24, 1847. BasirThg — Vrce --- anc Sali v and Bishopstoke, and Salisbury Branches of the London and South-Westera Railway, with power to purchase the Andover Canal, with power to the Midland Railway Company and the London and South- Western Railway Company to subscribe towards, or to take or use the undertakirg). This adjourned opposed case occupied the rest of the day, hut only three allegations were sustained, and they were not of any great importance. They chiefly bad reference to slight inaccuracies in the plans and sections. Several me morials were withdrawn. The case was further adjourned. STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE. The Standing Orders Committee met yesterdayat the usual hour, for the dispatch of public business. The following decisions were announced during the course of the day : THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILII. AY (PORTOBELLO BRANCH.) Standing orders complied with. BLANDFORD AND BRUTON RAILWAY. Parties allowed to proceed. THORNE AND CROOLE MOORS DRAINAGE AND IMPROVEMENT BILL. Standing orders complied with. GREAT NORTHERN (HORNCASTLE BRANCH). Parties allowed :o proceed with the Bill. TAW VALE RAILWAY. Alloxe•t to proceed. KING'S NORTON, (NORTHFIELD) RAILWAY. Standing orders complied with. The Committee then adjourned. .I.4AW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb. 23. (Before the LORID CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury.) DAWSON v. TROUT. Mr. Martin and Mr. Willes were tor the plaintiff, and Mr. Hunifrey and Mr. Hoggins for the defendant. This action was brought to recover a sum of nearly 500/., for printing and advertising done by the piaintiff, who is an advertising agent, for which the defendant was alleged to be liable, in his capacity of promoter and provisional com mitteeman of the projected Direct London and Hastings Railway Company. On 'he part of the defendant, it was alleged that the so licitor to the company, Mr. Potter, had given to him, on condition of his becoming a member of the provisional com mittee, an indemnity against all liabilities, which circum stance was proved in evidence. It also appeared that the original order for the insertion of the advertisements had been given to the plaintiff by Mr. Potter, the solicitor to the company, previous to the time o f th e defendans connexion with the company; and there was no evidence MI show that the terms of the order had been subsequently altered. The plaintiff, in reply, stated that the indemnity had been, withdrawn in consequence of a dispute which bad arisen be tween Mr. Potter and the defendant, the former not being satisfied with the conduct of the defendant. The Loup CHIEF — BARON, in summing up, said that, in his opinion, the solicitor had not the power to annul the in demnity given to the defendant by him during the time that the liability which had commenced when he first became connected with the company was continued. At least he could not annul his agreement without placing the defen dant in the same position as he was prior to his connexion wit h the company. With respect to the defendant's liability, in dependent of the indemnity he did not think that he was liable for the present claim, as the order was given by Potter, the solicitor to the company, prior to the name of the de fendant appearing as a provisional committeeman of the railway. _ _ The'jury, after a brief consultation, returned a verdict for the defendant. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. The February adjourned session for the county commenced yesterday morning, at the Court Hquse, Clerkenwell-green, before the Assistant-Judge and a bench of magistrates. The Learned ASSISTANT-JUDGE, in charging the grand jury, said, in allusion to the means resorted to for the re formation of juvenile offenders, that he had visited Park hurst prison since the last sessions, and there he found the system quite unsuited to the end, in his opinion. The disci pline did not treat children as children and adopt the system of rewards to childish capacities. At Parkhurst there was plenty of work plenty of books, but no play, and the old adage was but too true, that " All work and no play makes Jack a bad boy." It was not enough to tell those poor chil dren they would by good behaviour in prison probably be come respectable men .in their old age, they should, as the reward of good conduct, enjoy some privileges which they could understand as children, and even a game of cricket might not be too great a luxury for stimulating them. At present a child of ten years old, for stealing a penny-worth, must be sent to the same prison, and subject to the same discipline, as the hardened felon of 40 or 50. But perhaps the greatest evil of the existing system was throwing the respensi!dlity of supporting those children upon the State. When the child was convicted, the father was released from all expense on his account; but, in his (the Assistant Juc ge's) opinion. the chilli's parish should be made responsible for his support, while the parochial authorities should have the same power to compel the parent to pay back the amount thus expended as they had to make him pay for the support of his family under the ordinary cases of desertion or otherwise. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. William Mali', the master of the vessel called the City of Rotterdam, appeared before .the Lord Mayor upon an information filed against him for having ne glected to take on board a certain number of apprentices. - Mr. Swainsun, from the office of the solicitors to the Admiralty, attended for the prosecution, and stated that the defendant was charged with having violated the 7th and Bth Vic., cap. 112, sec 37, which was entitled, " An Act to amend and consolidate the laws relating to mer chant seamen, and for keeping a register of seamen." The vessel of which defendant was masts, belonged to a .00mpany to which several other vessels belonged, acme of which went on voyages without having any appren tices on board at all, to the great injury of the service, in which it was indispensably necessary to keep up a constant supply of able and efficient seamen. The pro secution was instituted at the instance of the officer of the Registrar-General of Seamen, and the penalty for each infringement was 13/ , which could, at the discre tion of the magistrate, be reduced to one-third of the amount. The defendant pleaded guilty. Mr. Swainson said, that as the object of the Lords of the Admiralty was to press the observance of so neces sary an act for the support of the sea service, and as the defendant and others who had been also chargeable with neglect of the kind, had readily expressed their determi nation in future to carry out the provisions of the Act, he would be satisfied with the mitigated penalty and costs. At the same time, he trusted that the prose cutor of the case would render any future representa tion of the kind unnecessary. The Loan MAYOR said it must be obvious to every experienced man, that the infringement of so important an Act was calculated to do serious mischief by relaxing the vigour of a service to which England owed so much. As the solicitor to the Admiralty had expressed a wish that the penalty should be reduced, the sentence upon Captain Watts was that he should pay the fine of 101. and ss. costs. His Lordship at the same time intimated that if any other cases were brought forward and proved, the full penalty should in every instance be niflicted. • The Captain returned thanks for the indulgence, and paid the fine and costs. A woman named Sarah Scott was brought up charged with having committed a robbery in the shop of Mr. Hall, the extensive linendraper in Bishopsgate-street Without. This was the fifty second robbery committed upon the prosecutor. The woman had gone info the shop to pur chase a small quantity of ribbon, and she contrived to hide two pieces under her shawl. The prosecutor's un fortunate experience enabled him to judge the moment one of his shopmen spoke to him, that the prisoner Lad some of his property concealed about her, and he seized and took it from her himself. The prisoner was committt d for trial. The prosecutor has been more than once the victim of some of the persons employed n his premises. At the last session of the Central Criminal Court a young man named John Boraston, who was behind the counter. and who stole a large quantity of silk end kid skin gloves, pleaded Guilty; and since that thee Mr. Hall discovered that a trunk belonging to the prisoner was detained at a coffee shop at which the fellow lodged, for a score, and he went from tne Mansion House for the purpose of examining it, on the belief that it was filled with his goods. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Edward Crawshaw, a gentleman of military appearance residing in St. Alban's-place, appeared in answer to a sum mons charging him with committing an assault upon Mr. Adam Clarke, post-office-keeper, 132, Jermyn-street. Complainant stated that, about three o'clock on Monday afternoon, the defendant came into his shop for the purpose of posting three letters. Whilst the young lady in the shop was giving him c h ange, a dog ran into . par lour, and began to worry a cat. He took up an umbrella and drove the animal out of the room. The defendant then took a cane which he had in his hand, and began to belabour him (the complainant) most unmercifully across the shoulders. He eventually got away, and ran into the parlour. The complainant would not press the case if defendant would make an apology in the public court, and give a sove reign to the distressed Irish. Defendant, in a contemptuous manner, said he should not make an apology to such a man. Mr. BINGHAM said it was a case that ought to be sent to the Quarter Sessions, but as it would cause additional trouble to complainant, he would fine defendant 51. The defendant, as he was leaving the court, threatened the complainant, when Mr. Bingham called him back, and be sides the fine of 51. called upon him to enter into his own re cognizances of 1001., and two sureties of 1001. each, to keep the peace for six months. SHORT-TIME IN THE FACTORIES OF GLASGOW.— We are informed that during the present week a number of the power-loom factory employers of Glasgow and subutbi have put their workmen upon short time—some of them working only during day-light. This, we believe, is occa sioned by dullness of trade, and is a matter of no little con cern to those engaged in this descriptim of business. We are also authorised to state that manufacturing business gene rally in Glasgow is in a more depressed state than it has been for several years previous. —Glasgow Post. IMPORTANT TO THE HERRING TRADE.—We are now given to understand that Lord Palmerston has succeeded in inducing the Russian Government to remove the discrimi nating duty in favour of Swedish and Norwegian herrings, but that hitherto the Belgian Government remains inflexible, and will make no concession whetever in the tariff tle.t favours the Dutch. The differentia' duty in favour of Datcl.- cured herrings in Belgium is rot less than 16 francs p:r barrel, which is to all intents and pirposes an entire prohibi tion of the import of British cured fish.—Rosshire Advertiser. THERMOGENIC DRAWING.— . scientific friend has favoured us with the following irgenious mode of trans ferring the forms of natural objects (r the patterns on ribbons to paper :—Saturate common wriing paper with porter, coffee mixed with sugar and creari, or a solution of achill. then place the objects whose form it to be transferred on the prepared paper and expose them •it) the action of the sun's rays or those of a common fire. Various other solutions may be used for the same purpose, as bichromate of potash, yellow chromate of potash, &c. When figured satin ribbons are saturated with such solutions, end exposed to the sun's ray's, the raised patterns are giver in b?autiful relief in a lighter tint of the sante colour as the ground. The prin ciple is capable of a very extendet application.—Lirerpot,l Journal. t MARKET NEWS.--(YESTERDAY.) nAy reuxunfiTis. SMITHFIELD.—AIeadow Hay, 215 s to 3/ 15s ; Clover ditto, 31 5s to 41 16s ; and Straw, 1/ 10s to 11 14s per load. A good supply, and a heavy demand. CumnnitLAND.—Aleadow Hay, 9 / 5s to 41 ; Clover ditto. 3/ 5A to 4/ 14s; and Straw. 11 lOs to 1115 s per load. Supply moderate, and trade firm. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 Ss to 31168; Clover ditto, 3/ fis to 5/; and Straw. 11 lOs to 11 14s per load. Trade dull, at the above quotations. (From the London New Price Current of February 2 3 ) SUGAR. —To-day the quantity of East India and Metal tins Sugar submitted to public competition being very large , and exceeding the wants of the refiners and grocers, whilst the brewers and distillers ope ra t e d w i t h caut i on , a fall in the value of all descriptions took pl ace , an d me rchants were tree sellers, on account o f th e many arr i va l s. Of West India Muscovado the quantity on s h ow b e i ng s till small, mer chants were enabled generallyto obtain the rates that exists ( ' last Friday. REFINED. —TO- day Refined Goods we re extensively dealt in by the home trade ; a nd a s li g h t i mprovent i n p r ices took place. Bonded Crushed Sugar is in excellent request. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon three parcels of Mauritius Sugae, amounting to 10,587 bags and 505 casks, were sub mitted to public competition, and consisted chiefly of the better qualities of yellow and grey ; merchants were willing sellers, but submitting to a reduction on the rates on Friday of 6,l.per cwt. occasioned the demand to be good, and nearly the whole was actually sold. EAST INDI A. —This afternoon the public sales of Bengal, Sugar omE,isted of 3,941 bags 9 cases : nearly the whole sol o s but ar prices 6cl per cwt. under those of Friday. SALIPETILF.—AII descriptions of rough have been in ex' cellent request for home consumption and exportation; the rates paid are fully (Anal to those of this day week, and holders manifest firmness: the stock being still much less than it was last season. FOREIGN.—There has been a brisker demand for nearly all descriptions of Foreign Sugar for home consumption, blit holders have been sellers at previous rates, on account of the large arrival that may be shortly expected. CoFFxs:.—This afternoon there was no public sale of 80 kind of Coffee. Privately native Ceylon was sought af . ..ter: but homers insisting upon higher r a t es opera t e d again" business. Fine Plantation is much wanted, and prices are on the adrance. TEA. —The quantity imported here during the past Weak amounted to 30,000 pkgs, and during that time duty was paid upon the large amount of 569,919 pounds. Black heg been in excellent request for actual consumption, and sorts are fully as high as last .quoted. The low and raja sorts of Green are attracting attention on account of the low rates that prevail. In the better qualities a good deal has been done, but not at higher rates. RICE.- For Bengal the market has assumed a quiet aP: pearance, and the rates accepted are rather under those that existed previously. Madras has been operated in with caution at 20s to 21s privately. Of cleaned Java, 171 We at auction fetched 25s for fine white. SPICES.—A much better demand has prevailed for all do scriptions of Cassia Lignea, and prices advanced 2s per cwt. Ginger is wanted, and the rates paid have been fully equal t ° those previously current. Black Pepper is not to . 10 obtained upon lower terms. Whit e me t w ith ready purchasers, and prices are still rising. The supply of Pimento is uncommonly small, and prices are rising. Cinnamon of infe r i or an d coarse qua lit y i s offered rather under the rates of the last quarterly sales ; still fear purchases have been made. Cloves cannot be quoted higher , but the operations are upon a larger scale privately. Natemegs have been largely dealt in by the home trade, and til purchases made by exporters are upon a larger scale. Ma ce , is much wanted, and fetches stiff rates. Hors.—The purchases made have been to a small extel only, but factors are unwilling to re d uce th e i r prices, all supply the market moderately. SPlRlTS.—Although there are sellers of Leeward Isla° Rum upon rather lower terms, still the purchases made /la!! been trifling. Calcutta is little wanted, and prices are on toy decline. The high rates that exist for Jamaica are operatig materially against business. Dem erara i s no t muc h w ant Holders of all descriptions of Brandy have been more lir, (lined to realise, but they submitting to rather loft rates occasioned the home demand to be good, and fair quantity has been taken for exportation. Ger l e4 has been in request, common shipping sort at 2s to 2s Bd, and fine for hone consumption at 33 2d to 314d1 gallon proof strength. Corn Spi r it s d u ll o f sa l e a t 11° Gin 103 31 for 22 per cent. under p roo f, an d 10 3 9d f or 17 Pe r, 9 cent. under. Oths.—For Cocoa Nut late prices are sustained, the supPg being small, but exporters and th e h ome t ra d e opera te WI.. caution, and 45s is the value of l ow t o fi ne qua li ty; there it however, a large consumption going on. In Rape Seed n extensive purchases have been made, and prices are 5 .7. on the rise. For Olive th e d eman d h as b een ex te°Bl for home consumption, and a fair quantity is taken foe exportation. A considerable increase has taken place in s : r demand for Linseed Oil, and p r i ces h ave r i sen 9d t o is cwt. Although the market is well supplied, a large denr en prevailed from th e ho me t ra d e , an d exporters h ave ta many parcels, chiefly for America. In Lard Oil 4/13 ha a limited busine ss h as b een transacted ; prices are on , t decline. The arrivals of Cod Oil continue upon a large scale; and of other descriptions a fair quantity has been receir o f since this day week ; w h ereas t h e deliveries do not fall l e d any kind. Cod has b e e n i n excellent request Seal is chiefly by the home trad e , an d t h e supply at market is ani Of Southern the supply has increased considerably °f qualities; but merch an t s su b m it te d to a reduction on form rates. lie d TALLOW. —For R u s s i an a muc h b e t ter d eman d preva iled on the spot; but no a d vance i n p r i ces o f conseq uence occurred, although the stock is much less than it was I °': year. Home made has been in excellent req th e uest but having a plentif u l su pply th ere are sellers at 49s ou 50s nett cash. on NI; 6 WIFE FOR. Tom THUMB.—There was born at f . 91 Wallace-street, Wallacetown, on Thursday last, a beati t t4 ' female child, 13 oz. weight, 7 inches round the chest, 0,1 1% inch. —Ayr Advertiser. - Dir INQUESTS ON CONVI CTS AT WOOLVITr..'I, : ,.. o f Saturday inquests were h e ld a t W oo l w i ch on the b°"`" three more of the convicts wh o h a d died, and in each cam " ; - verdict of death from nat ura l causes were returned. weal of the deceased had been in a bad state of health when s i ti to Woolwich, and Mr. Bossey, the surge on, sa id h e thong 9 ' it highly important to let it g o f or th to the world thaw, cause of the large mortality at Woolwich arose from Go ment having made the Royal Arsenal the convict Inan,,_ itece ,v tA depot, from both home and foreign establishments. a large draught of these unfortunate sick beings aT in , from Bermuda, which would account for the mortality f so large, as all the aged and infirm were sent to Woolvri?d2:t be restored to health or die. The labour they performe d vi. "' comparatively light. THE POWDER MAGAZINE AT KETHAM -- A re ktg is in very current circulation, that th e Ordnance autd e L l :-., purpose removing the powder from the magazines at .14 4 ham Point, to what are called the temporary depots the lines. We should be sorry to create any unn alarm, but the subject is of so much importance to the feel bitants, that it would be a great dereliction of duty o n part if we did not inform them generally of the fact , the necessary steps may be taken to prevent, if possible_ob7 exposure of their lives and property to a casualty eauch u l s u t h , dreaded. The effect of the explosion at KinterburY l l,. fresh in the recollection of most of our readers. On trroted. casion only forty barrels exploded, while we are 105iy there are no fewer than 18,000 barrels in the stores to n ot b a m,with the estimated contents of I,6oo,ooolbs.—De twnr Telegraph. lte d An act of outrageous villany has been commi on the Hamburg and Berlin Railway. Some sailors fre ra ,,ba former place, who imagined their means of subsistence t r lio, affected by the railroad, took up the rails not far from 13 Lce, for the distance of a few yards, .some few evenings ;; l i t ir shortly before the expected passage of the train frotn_ n - u " burg. Fortunately the conductor, seeing something w i S i p about the lights at the station which he was approacu' t io stopped the train and entered the house, where he foe i nd station-keeper lying on the floor, bound and gaggee',. the thereupon proceeded to examine the line, when he rtn!.,el o re discovery, which happily prevented a fearful disaster. v".O happy to say that the parties by whom this atrocity " posed to have been committed, are in custody. th e SALMON FISRINGS.—For the l as t t en day- 0 salmon fishings in the North have not been so productiv e at the same period of last year. The fishermen aseriblm to the snow-water that continues pourin g i n to our I.l a and which the proud salmon have no relish to , t he consequently prefer sojourning for a short time rot. mighty ocean. A gentleman in London, who ^ the on the 15th instant, says that the same cause ° no tch above has hitherto prevented any supply f rom the 'OO rivers, and up to that date only fou r t een sa l mon arr ive d that quarter. The following is the number of salmon is v ... upon our principal northern station s , s i nce t h e I s t instill 7; Lochness and its tributaries. from 50 to 60; the Bea ° , l !,:ess the Conon cruive fishings, 7 ; Ch anon l y P o i nt and adr—our stations, 110; the Shin, 2—being almost close since thccind. mencement. Very little as yet has been done on the r o ws newly -invented ionef vented horn and Spey. However, the fishermen are still sall l os. of a good fishing throughout the rest of the season. -- '" shire Advertiser. (ADVERTISEMENT. j —DEAFNESS AND DEFF. O II: VISION RELIEVED, No. 39, ALBESMARLE-STREET, ricos p oi —Sent into the country free by post.—Newly i O / 1 11. acoustic tubes, for relief of extreme deafness, and _ er , Inserted n the ear cannot be perceived by the nearest obset :or they are entirely di ff erent from all others, and are the smallest e l 0 hug instruments constructed —measuring only a quarter of au in i stelr their widest part; they may be securely adjusted In the ear , per• served. an removed therefrom with as great ease and facility 6 'sons are enabled to join in general conversation, and to heat distinctly In a place of worship, &C., and what should be thickeningchearingsinginga uscause o ot r irnud c oi o enice l ap it ta ei c sns ti o_t o th n aeenv o ede f arrb wil id i sth c e h sceebirr i t a iiprute n isl; ia n. n .ou y biev i i n sun s t ts edo n .c c e :4 o : ;or iorto considered, a natural expansion of the Cavity of the ear IS P r t " ,or• spectacle lenses are placed before i iriPe nedi !, el ;,, tte a llii epli , either by day or candlelight, that mist and dullness Ne10‘,"... -- before the eyes is at once removed, every object becomes c lear asse distinct, so that the most sued defective sight beeomes bi 'ntatt brilliant, and is brought to its youthful, natural, and origi na l lad Also the most powerful achromatic telescopes, opera 8% 5 7_, are microscopes. Caution — Messrs . s. and B. Solomon , •Pt ic l a is not in any way connected with a person of the same main, oss' immediate neighbourhood. nor in any part of the country l e ' r igari ** mistakes, be cautious, and observe—only to be had at 39, Al Street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel. O ' [ADVERTISEMENT.]—THE BILE INFALLIS-- vr CV .010110 By HOLLOWAY'S PaLs.—Many Who suffer from Bile are wiri o ing of it; they complain of si c k h ea d ac h es, a d erange ment es; at orifP at the stomach, loss of appetite, l owness o f sp i r its, Want et _df; feet, hands, and face swelling, a nd k now no t th a t those eYof'at note the imperfect action of the liver, and if n ot remedied pea , to dropsy. Holloway's Pills will al w ays be found to„cy . pa" upon the liver and stomach, and carry off the redilow.„ so. Tho „ moms, and thereby immediately restore the patient to a Me di ' ment of health. The Blue Pill is a mercurial and destru_ely a t tee' " clue, which no one should take.—Sold by all Druggists. " lessor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. BIRTHS. _.,. On Monday, the 22d inst., at Walsall, Staffordshire , 301 " u.v... French, of a son. eeS 14 ' On the 4th inst., at Osielt, In Austrian Galicia, the Beron mond de Lariss, of a daughter. ele On the 10th inst., at Brussels, the lady of Chevalier d° ' (nee Marques Lisbon), of a daughter. lts the 17th inst., in Upper Seymour-street, the lady 0. n r * Dunsford, of a son. 'ling ClAl tp#l On the 18th inst., at Walton-place, the wife of Lim.-- Esq , of a daughter. t o 6 neth llo, On the 20th inst., at Chester-square, Mrs. Charles daughter. ___---------- MARRIED. bona* n Cor- - t. On the 16th inst., at Clifton Church, Robert Wrarre eosin Esq , of Bordeaux, to Katherine. daughter of the late LA, Kerstemen, of the 16th Foot. DIES. word On the 14th ult., at Government House, St. Christ wher% wo rd Thornton Cunningham, Esq., Lieutenant-Governor of tb e Islands, aged 3G. , On the 17th inst., at Eton, Sir John Cecil CotterelL ag e hodary On the 17th Inst., the Bev. Edwr,rd Scuth Thurlo vt, rn Norwich, and Rector of l an lo b u ur gh y t i o o n- x l o t7: Esq., aged 28. ~r,t CaTTOW. On the 20th inst., 'n Condait - street, the Bev. It•• - lteilland, near Bristol, aged 72 l E in e g n cb f , the Rife D • 11. • On the 19th inst., at iPILCI. 112 i Longen: Printed and Published by MITIUDO Y 011 54 1. °l O N p re cni °. o$ ~tran.,:, Printer. A t The Sun Nu. 112. Strand. in of tbe Savoy. In the County of ALlitlesex, WEIL) bruary 14, 1147. , / L z i rtt. kth 1 gcs tri Pri