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Vbirb Ebttton SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock MONEY MARKET--LATEST NEWS, CITY, W.. EDNEeDA.T. Consols opened at 9ot to for this Account, and 90-7, buyers for April ; from which prices they rose to 90i to 91 for this Account, and 91 to 911 for April Account ; then fell gradually to 904 to 4 for this Account, and 901 for April ; finally closing at 90i i for this Account, and 90i to 91 for April. The Government broker bought for the Reduction of the National Debt -2,000 in Three per Cents., 1726 at 90 3,000 1751 5,000 Reduced at 91i ; and for Savings' Banks 4,000 (31. 55.) at 92k. REGISTRY of BIRTHS and DEATHS DURING THE WEEK ENDING FEB. 20. Deaths registered in the week. Births registered in the week. Aisles ... ... ... 655 Males ... ... ... 703 Females ... ... 598 Females ... ... 686 Total ... 1,253 Total ... 1,389 CENTRAL OF SPAIN RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) A meeting of the shareholders in this project was held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate• street, to hear the report of the committee appointed on the 14th December last, to in- Yestiga the affairs of the company. Mr.IIIP.ORGE SEYMOUR, being unanimously called to the chair, proceeded to read the committee's report on the affairs of the company. It stated that a railway from Madrid to the frontiers of Portugal had been proposed early is May, 1845, and a company formed, with a proposed capital of 2,000,0001., in 100,000 shares, 50,000 of these being reserved for Spanish shareholders. In the month of June of the same year an advertisement from the secretary of the c ompa n y ap peared, stating that all the 50,000 English shares bad been and el, and that it was not in the power of the directors to satisfy the applications, which had exceeded the whole amount of shares by four-fifths; and a second advertisement, in the same month, announced that the company had re ceived the royal concession of the Sovereign of Spain on 30th May. Capt. Pilkington, about the end of June, was dispatched to Spain to make the necessary preparations, surveys, &c., for beginning the line. From that time till June, 1846, the shareholders had no communication with the directors ; but in that month an advertisement appeared, stating that they had made arrangements to construct the half of the line to Toledo with Spanish capital. Such was the history of the company as it was known to the shareholders generally. The committee appointed at last meeting, on coming to examine into its affairs, found every impediment thrown in their way ; the directors refused to communicate with them ; they had indeed been allowed access to the minute book and the cash book; but the banker's book and most of the letters, the do cuments, in fact, which would have corroborated or otherwise the result to which the commissioners had come, had been suppressed. But they called the attention of the shareholders to this, that on the 9th of June, 1845, the directors announced that all the shares bad been issued, and that applications for shares had been sent exceeding the number of shares by four. fifths. Yet, what did they find? That the whole number of shares allotted was 27,785, out of .50,000, leaving a balance of 22,215 unaccounted for, retained in the hands of the directors. They found, moreover, that by a minute of the 7th May, 10,000 shares had been reserved for the special committee. The number of shares paid upon by the public was 10,005 ; 4,000 more were put down to Captain Pil kington as paid upon, and 4,405 she res appeared as given away gratis in different lots to different parties, seemingly for ser vices, making the total amount of shares, ranking as paid upon, 18,405. From the absence of the banker's book, the committee could not arrive at any result concerning the finances of the company ; but this appeared from the cash-book, that the whole of the shareholders' money had been expended, ex cept a balance, less than 8001., in the hands of the directors. It appeared that Captain Pilkington alone had had paid to him 20,900/. 3s. 6d., but on what account there was no means of ascertaining from the book; and the Captain himself had refused the committee his accounts, or any assistance to wards understanding this part of the business. The other point to which the committee adverted in their report re rerred to the concession of the line by the Spanish Court. An advertisement appeared in June 1845 from the directors, stating that the roral concession of the company's line had been obtained on the 30th May that year; the fact, how ever, turned out to be, that negotiations for this pur pose continued to be carried on until the Decemb er following, when the royal conce.sion was positively re fused, and refused, as it teemed to tie committee, on perfectly justifiable grou n d s . All th a t h a d b een ob tained previously was, the permission to deposit plans and surveys of the proposed line with the Government, and the promise that if these should appear satisfactory to the Government, the concession of the line would be granted. The committee had had the opinion of several gentlemen as to the worth of that preliminary concession, and especially of a gentleman who had been Minister of the Interior in Spain, and their opinion had always been that that promise was neither definite nor binding—in fact, gave the company nothing. (The Chairman then read several letters sent to the secretary of the company, and read at the board, condemning, in the most positive lan guage, the plans and surveys of Captain Pilkington as being incorrect, imperfect, and unworthy of the company, or of any man of professional compe tency). The Chairman, in remarking upon some parts of the report, said he had little doubt but that the money of the shareholders had been used by the directors in rigging the market; indeed, there were documents which, at least, excited a suspicion of something that could not be done fairly, plainly, and openly. The following two letters, out of many others, were read to the meeting. They were signed by Mr. Harvey, the secretary, and addressed to Cap tain Pilkington " July 28th, 1845. " As to the circumstances of 63 and 62, it is just as I ex pected. We must act accordingly. 41 krows 38, and by what I have heard and seen 38 does not stick at trifles." " 28th July, 1845. " The 34 and 35 informed me by letter yesterday, that 62 is not 59, therefore the (take the first word in 57) could not have been written as you were informed. Mark this. Be 104 and 107 to finish the business of the 53 as soon as possible." The committee's report concluded with expressing their opinion that the directors had injured the shareholders by not issuing all the shares ; by proceeding with the line when they had only about 20,000/. capital ; that they had been lavish in the gift of shares to the number of 8,000 to different parties, and of money to Captain Pilkington without his accounts being rendered; that they had issued false statements and mis-statements, and had been guilty of concealment, by the suppression of the bankers' book and other papers. The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report. The motion was seconded and carried unanimously. Mr. BULL stated that, as Captain Pilkington's legal ad viser, he had recommended him to send in his accounts without crediting for the money received; and they had been sent to the solicitor of the company, and ought to have been at the meeting. The Cumsaux was of opinion that no combination should be formed to prosecute the directors ; some of the share holders intended doing so on their own resources, and the rest could take advantage of the result. There was good ground in the promise made in the prospectus, that unless the line proceeded the whole 21. would be returned. The committee then resigned their appointment, and re ceived the thanks of the meeting. The CHAIRMAN intimated that the papers of the Com mittee might be seen at Messrs. Keatley, Cunliffe, and Co.'s, Chancery- lane. The meeting, after a vote of thanks to the chairman, then adjourned. OUTH WALES RAIL WAY. The fourth half- (THIS DAY.) yearly meeting of the proprietors of this Stat io n y C. Russet was held to-day, at th e G reat Western Railway q„ 1MP., ., in th e c h a i r. ; , The advertisement convening the present meeting, and the minutes of the last meeting, having been read by the Seers tails Thegitasamast said that since their last meeting the subject of the greatest importance which had occupied the attention of the directors,was the arrangement made between the South- Wales Railway and the Great Western Company. He had not thought it right to take any part in that discussion, nor had he thought it proper to take the chair at their last meeting, but he felt that the interests of the company would be sufficiently and amply guarded by those to whom the negotiations were confided. Those negotiations had been now satisfactorily completed upon the terms which they would find stated in the report. It had also been decided by the Great Western Company, that an application should be made to Parliament to enable an interest of 5 per cent. t, be paid upon the paid-up capital for five years, and the agreement at the end of those fire years would secure to them half of the surplus profits in addi tion to that interest. There was also a clause in the Bill which prohibited the payment of interest to shareholders whose calls were in arrear, and that clause had been found so harsh, that with the consent of the Great Western Company, the authority of Parliament would be sought in order to re move it. It was proposed, also, to render assistance to many of the Irish lines, from which their own railway would draw a very considerable amount of traffic, by taking some of their shares; but it would not be necessary to hold those shares longer than the temporary pressure required for its abatement. The report of Mr. Brunel was very favourable and it stated that a very considerable portion of their line PETITIONS ON PRIVATE BILLS. was completed, and the remainder would be finished and HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(THIS DAY.) Open for public traffic in the course of two years. (Room 22, before Mr. Examiner SMITH.) -1%. out in considerable portion of the line was already let uNOPPOSED LIST. contracts, and would speedily be in a s it ua ti on to be co unted as forming a portion of completed lines. He was In the following unopposed cases the customary formal not aware that there were any other circumstances neces- proofs were completed : eery readlace under their attention, and as soon as the report Edinburgh and Northern (St. Andrew's and Newburgh was by the secretary , he would its Harbour, Branch and Road Crossings, Newport Railway The SECRET A ay then read move adoption. peered that the terms of the report, from which it ap- Extension). Ayrshire Roads. way to the Great Western t h e lease of the South Wales Rail- Shipowners' Towing Company. . The proprietors ofth e Company were as follow : Dunfermline and Cupar Court Houses. interest at five per cent. South Wales Railway to receive Per annum onallpaidandalso Terrington Marsh, Division, Allotment, and Inclosure. upon sums advanced in anticipati on to be charged in the cost of construction of calls. Such interest • completed. natruction until the line is W isbech Port and Harbour Act Amendment. Midland Railway (Cheltenham, Warwick, and Leamington "After that period, the Great Western perpetuity a minimum interest atCompany to pay in . Line)—proposed Extension from the Birmingham and Glou per annum upon the share capital interest on expended , the rate of live er cent. besides defray- tester Line of the Midland Railway at Ashchurch, to War wick and Leamington, and Junction with the Oxford, mg all the current loans taken up, not exceeding Worcester, and Wolverhampton Rai!way, with Branches to the sums mentioned above. Cheltenham. "The lease to commence when the line from Gloucester to Midland Railway (Gloucester and Stonehouse Junction).— Yisbgnard and the Newport and Monmouth line _ the Great shall b e P .roposed branch to unite the Birmingham and Gloucester respects the latter) the Great Western hue of the - finished, provided (as Midland Railway at Gloucester with the Bristol their line from Gloucester and Company shall also comp lete to h Gloucester line of the Midland Railway, near the Stone t other OURC station, and alteration Monmouth by the same time, but . no of existing gauge. at the end of five yea rs Sandwich Hay 'One moiety of the burplus probtsen and River Improvement. among the Sout h Nation I 11. a I erctuttl • after the lease commencA is to be divided interest. Tyne Docks. e Life Assurance Society. - Wales shareholders in addition to the guarantee d Enfield and Edmonton "Any partial opening to be worked by the Gr eat . Western , Railway Extension. • the n tere,t charted on - ~rtuSPA Ct. •' Company, and the proceeds applied to - e, L ..11111artiOCL and A -- r I) - s '" : 1r cc'. Rat' w.r ; v (" ' South W ales capital. Inarnuck to Ayr, sitli littatch tt; ' ' 1-3" ''' '''''' l'i.. leased, to . "Arrangements for new lines to be purchased or / This adjourned opposed case • tn . e Ilaruour ut Ayr). to made subject to the consent of the Great Western Coln- It was further adjourned, nined the rest of the day. , lousy, and separately provided for." On the motion that the retiring directors should be re elected, an objection was taken to the name of Mr. Other, and Mr. Thompson proposed in his stead. A long and desul- tory discussion on the merits of the respective gentlemen then ensued, but the amendment was eventually withdrawn. The retiring auditor was also re-elected. Mr. OXLEY then observed, with reference to the report of the deputation appointed to treat with the Liverpool, Man• chester,and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway Company that the terms specified for the amalgamation were fair and equitable to both companies, and considered that they should meet with the approval of the company. He thought that the amalgamation in question, if carried out with prudence and economy, wou ld h ave the effect of making their own line more profitable, and be advantageous to all parties. He would conclude by proposing a resolution, to the effect that the meeting approves of the terms specified, and authorising the directors to conclude the agreement. Mr. PEACOCK seconded the resolution, which was unani mously agreed to. SPECIAL MEETING. The meeting was then made special, to submit to the ap proval of the shareholders a Bill to enable the Northern Counties Union Railway Company to make certain altera tions in their railway in the parishes of Aysgarth and Wensley, in the North Riding of the county of York. An abstract of the clauses was then read by Mr. Baxter, the solicitor;' and a resolution, moved by Mr. Glyn and se conded by Mr. Denyer, approving of the Bill, was then una nimously *greed to. A vote of thanks was given to the chairman and direc tors, and also to the deputation on the amalgamation. The meeting then separated. The report also stated that " Under the terms of the above agreement, it had become necessary to consider, in conjunction with the Great Western Company, how far it would be attended with advantage to their mutual interests that some assistance should be given to carry out the undertakings sanctioned by Parliament in the last session, by contributing to the Vale of Neath, the Llynvi Valley, the Tenby and Saundersfoot, the Cork and Waterford, and the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow and Dublin Railways. " All those measures were of importance to the traffic of the South Wales Railway, and it had been considered by both compani es most d es i ra b le to support them by taking a limited number of tha, and holding them so long as might be necessary to s ecu r eihe accomplishment of their objects, and the guarant ee d ra t e o f i nterest b y t h e G reat Western Com panyiwould consequently extend over any sum which might be found necessary for those shares, or for any difference when they were disposed of, over and above the cost of construct ing the South Wales Railway, as provided for in the original agreement sanctioned by the recent extraordinary meeting. "The purchase of a portion of line in the Swansea Valley partially constructed had been also agreed for, with a view to make an extension of it, as a valuable feeder, to bring the mineral tra ffi c from that district to the South Wales line. The owners of the Swansea Valley line were to receive the sum of 70,0001. in a certain number of South Wales shares, to be created for that purpose, if Parliament should sanction the undertaking as a portion of the South Wales line ; and the shares so to be created for, and to be taken by, the owners of the Swansea Valley line, would, when all the calls should have been made on them, be adequate to pay, not only the agreed purchase money, but to defray the addi tional cost of the portion of the line which was proposed in extension of it to the other works up the same valley, viz., to the Ystalyfera and Yniscedwyn works, and a short branch to join the Cumtwrch Railway." The receipts of the company up to the 31st of December, 1846, were 301,5031. 18s. 9d., and the payments up to the same period, 277,659/. 7s. 3d., leaving a balance of 73,8441. I ls. 6d. The report was then received. The retiring directors on this occasion were—D. A Saun ders Davies, Esq. M.P., David Lewis. Esq., David Morris, Esq. M.P., John H. Vivian, Esq. M.P., but they were re elected without opposition. B. Dobree, Esq. retired from the auditorship, but was re elected. (Room 23, before Mr. Examiner MAY.) UNOPPOSED LIST. _ _ and prejudices of the Roman Catholics. They formed only a minority of her Majesty's subjects, while the Protes tants constituted an immense majority. It was well known that the Jesuits had proselytised great num bers of the Protestants around Stoneyhurst ; and with respect to the tendency of Jesuitical principles, he need only refer the House to an able criticism in Rauke's history by one of the ablest writers of that country—he meant the Right Hon. Member for Edinburgh. He was vibe convinced that if these monastic orders were allowed to exist without any restrictions he need not inform them that it would lead to the greatest inconvenience. He could only say for himself that he should be willing to tolerate every church in existence with the single exception of the Church of Rome.—(Laughter.) But, if the principle of the Hon. and Learned Member were to be conceded, they would have a something like free trade in religion. They had, at present, no religious liberty in Spain, in Austria, n Portugal, or in Rome, and he thought that they, in England, could not fairly be charged with intolerance, until Rome set them the example of religious liberty. Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN, in supporting the Bill said, although the penal statutes were considered obsolete, they produced an impression of the mod unfavourable kind on the minds of those who were liable to be affected by them. Ile trusted that the Roman Catholics of England and Ireland would never rest satisfied until these objectionable laws were repealed. Mr. SPOONER said it had not been his intention to trouble the House, but after the personal remark which the Right Honourable the Paymaster of the Forces had made, he considered that he was justified in claiming the attention of the House. That Right Hon. Gentleman had completely misrepresented the words which he had made use of in the opinions which he held, and the arguments he had adduced, and he would take the liberty of reading from the reports which bad taken place on the Committee to which the Right Hon. the Paymaster of the Forces had referred. He challenged the Right Hon. Gentlemen to prove the asser tion he had made, or substantiate the charge with which he had been stigmatised. He believed the present measure would be another inroad upon the constitution of the country. The Hon. Member for Limerick said that he would not rest till the Chancellor of Ireland and the Lord-Lieutenant of that country were eligible to be chosen from among the Roman Catholics. Only give up those points, and nothing would remain to prevent the annihilation of the monarchy and; the Protestant succession to the Throne. He believed that it was the fearful spread of the Roman Catholic religion which had produced the present disastrous condition of, and called the judgment of Heaven down, upon this coun try.—(Cries of "06, oh.") Mr. MACAULAY said that if he had done:the smallest in justice to the Hon Member by anything he had said, he begged most fully to withdraw it, and to apoligise for the same, but his statement seemed to be fully borne out by the authority to which the Hon. Member had himself referred. The Hon. Member for Birmingham said, upon the occasion alluded to, that he would not divide the House upon the question, but contented himself with protesting against it. After a few words from Mr. SPOONER and Mr.FAcatteav again in reply, Mr. J. O'CONNELL said that he would not enter into the controversial discussion set up by the Hon. idember for Birmingham. It might, be possible that a strong argument might be brought forward for the Catholics. He thought it better to proceed at once to the removal of pains and penal ties, which were admitted by all to be utterly powerless, and which tended only to aggravate the feelings of their Roman Catholic fellow-subjects. It was a stigma to the character of the House to debate for four or five hours the question whether those laws, which were admitted to be inoperative, and which were universally disregarded, should or should not be repealed and struck out of the statute book. Mr. NEWDEGATE thought that those persons who pro fessed the Roman Catholic religion were not at present suffer ing from the operation of any penal statutes or disabilities. If such were the case, he would be one of the first to repeal them, for he hated persecution, and considered that a fair tolerance was due to all classes. He would, however, oppose a mea sure which proposed to remove all the bulwarks of the con stitution, and to re -erect nothing in their place. He opposed the present Bill mainly because it would go to set up alle giance to a foreign potentate in place of that which was due to the Sovereign of these realms. There was another por tion of the Bill for which he could see no reason. He meant that which did away with the oaths at present taken by banisters of the Roman Catholic faith. This was a provision which did not exist in the Bill of last year, and one for which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman who in troduced the Bill had not given any reason. With regard to the outcry about the hardship of the oath of supremacy, he could not see it. The oath at present merely declared that the Pope had no civil or temporal authority in this country, a declaration which he was sure there could be no objection whatever to. If, then, the declaration only maintained a constitutional truth, there was no necessity fur the provision of the Bill before the House. With regard to processions, it had been admitted that they ought not to be allowed in the way in which they took place on the Continent, and that they would, if permitted, be the cause of much disturbance. He confessed he would much rather have the law as it at present stood in this country against such pro cessions, than trust to the Lynch law which the repre sentatives of the people resorted to on the other side of the Atlantic. Further, he thought the toleration of the Jesuits in the country would be most dangerous. They were the enemies of li•- liberty everywhere, and so inimical had they proved themselves to the interests of nations, that in nearly every country in Europe they had, as a religious order, been suppressed. For these reasons he must oppose the second reading of the Bill. In the following unopposed cases the customary formal proofs were completed:— Charing-cross Bridge (heretofore the Hungerford and Lambeth Suspension loot-bridge). York and North Midland Railway (Hull Station and Branches). York and North Midland Railway (Harrogate Branch, Eistension, and Terminus). Newcastle and Berwick Railway (East Coast Line, Blyth, Seaton Sluice, and other Branches). Newcastle and Berwick Railway (Cramlington and Percy Main, and Killingworth and other Branches). Vale of Neath Railway Branches and Amendment. Cambridge, St. Neot's• and Bedford Junction Railway. Blackburn Improvement, Market, &c. Tunstall Paving, Lighting, Cleansing, Watching, Improve ment, and Market. Ayr Harbour Improvement. Rutherglen and Strathbungo Turnpike-road. Swansea Valley Line and Branches. Waterford Turnpike. Dublin Consumers' Gas. Grand Canal Amendment of Acts Railway Amalgamation. OPPOSED CASE. Manchester and Southampton Railway (Line from South ampton to Cheltenham, to join the Midland Railway, with connecting lines, to join the proposed London. Oxford, and Cheltenham Railway, the Great Western Railway, and the Basingstoke and Salisbury and Bishopatoke, and Salisbury Branches of the London and South-Western 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 undertaking.) This opposed case was then resumed. At the close of the inquiry the Examiner decided that the standing orders had not been complied with. Adjourned till to-morrow. IMPERIAL, PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL. Mr. WATSON (in continuation from our Afternoon Edi tion) said—He now came to the clause which respected the safeguards of the regular clergy. But what were these safe guards, or how this Act provided such, he could not con ceive. The Act of Parliament of the 10th George IV., for the gradual suppression of Jesuits and other religious orders, bound by monastery vows, provided that those persons, whether British-born subjects or not, should be pro ceeded against by common law, and if convicted transported for life. He knew, that when the word "Jesuit" was mentioned on the hustings of Birmingham, it frightened all the old ladies of that town into convulsions, but they had had many of the persons connected with mo nastic orders most learned and intelligent, abounding in works of love and charity, diligent searchers into history and philosophy; and if it was said that the Jesuits had done some evil, it must also be admitted that they had done much good. The Legislature had already, in the Acts which had passed the House, removed many of those bigoted and penal enactments, and he now asked the House to finish the good work by repealing all that remained of them. It was argued that those Acts were now obsolete; but that was no argument, or, if one at all, it was in favour of the abrogation of them. He asked their repeal, not as a concession to the Catholics, but as justice to the Protestants, who boasted themselves the friends of toleration and of liberal measures. To them he would appeal on this question, and he hoped, that in support of their principles, they would give their consent to the second reading of this Bill. Sir R. H. INGLIS admitted that the Hon. and Learned Member had claims upon the attention of the House as a sound lawyer, but he thought he could lay no claims to the character of an accurate historian. He asserted that penal laws arose with the Reformation, but he forgot that it was not till long after th a t many of these laws passed. But the Hon. Member was also inconsistent with himself, for, by the terms of the Act of Elizabeth, if the supremacy of the Crown over matters ecclesiastical were based on the common law of the country, the Protestant as well as Catholic subjects of the Crown would be equally liable to punishment. The Hon. and Learned Member was obliged to go back to the early part of the reign of Elizabeth foran instance in which the rigour of this law was pressed against a Catholic subject, and he was very certain that if the Hon. and Learned Member had had a later illustration he would have given it. The Hon. and Learned Member had greatly depreciated the securities which were given to the Established Church in the Act of Emancipation, but, however slightly even he (Sir R. H. Inglis) might view them, they were tendered and accepted as securities, and therefore the Hon. and Learned Member should not have alluded to them in terms so unfitting. He contended that there was no country in Christian Europe into which the Jesuits were admitted without a direct law being passed subjugating them in numbers, resi dences, and objects, to the powers at the time being. The Jesuits had greatly increased in this country since the first inundation of their establish ment at Stoneyhurst, and in Ireland ; and, therefore, he thought that, instead of removing these securities, they should rather strengthen the hands of Government, to enable them to suppress any further extension of their dangerous opinions. The present Bill prohibited any Catholic subject from assum ing the title of Archbishop of Canterbury or Bishop of Lon don, which made it less objectionable than former Bills brought in by the Hon. and Learned Member; but still so much remained in the measure as to render it objectionable. He objected to it on principle—the Church of England was the Established Church of the realm. In Ireland the members of the Protestant Church were prohibited from processions, and it would be most unfair to allow to a hostile church that which was denied to their own Protestant Church. Was the Hon. Member prepared to see the pro cession of the Host through the streets of London ? If such scenes were to be introduced into this country it would be great cause of regret to the passers of • such a measure. The Hon. Member for Cork (Mr. O'Connell) said that he would not allow the procession of the Host to be paraded through the streets of London, it was a subject of too much ve nerat i on . I t was t h en for the House to prevent the public exhibition of this ceremony, and not to leave it to the will of the Catholic priesthood to adopt it if they thought proper. If the present measure were to pass, it would make this country the only one in the world where Jesuits were allowed to carry on their profession without some restraint. He regretted to see that a law prohibiting the in troduction of bulls and rescripts had been already repealed. In no country in the world was any bull of a foreign potentate, as was the Pope, allowed to be introduced without the previous consent of the Government of such country. It was his in tention to support the great cause of Protestantism in the country; and he begged to move that the Bill be read a second time this day six months. Colonel SIBTHORP seconded the amendment. Mr. B. ESCOTT said that the Hon. Member for the Uni versity of Oxford (Sir R. H. Inglis) did not ground his op position to the Bill in the last session upon the necessity of these so-called securities. What was then the real cause of the opposition, and the great cause which the Right Hon. Member was determined to maintain ? What was the use of these pains and penalties ? They brought no mouey into the Exchequer, or into the Church. He believed the only reason they were desired to be kept on the statute-book was to gratify the pride of some persons who were never happy except when they were teazing or aggravating their fellow -creatures. He did not believe that one man in a hundred, out of doors, could be found to standup for a continuance of these pains and penalties. But it had been said that these enactments were securities to the Established Church ; but the Right Hon. Baronet had not shown it to the House how it was that these penalties acted as securities. It had been further said that these were preserved in the great Act of 1829, and ought to be now preserved. He (Mr. B. Ewen) thought that the Emancipa tion Act of 1829 was a great measure of justice, and he looked with pleasure to the good that Act had done, rather than to that which it had left undone. Let the Right Hun. Ba ronet look to the Sovereign who now filled the chair of St. Peter's, who was setting an example to all the other Sove reigns of Europe by his liberal and enlightened principles. He hoped the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, the members of the late Government, and also the Noble Lord the Member for Lynn, who he believed was considerably ahead of his party, and whom he had ne doubt would be a Peel of 1847, would all give their support to the Bill, and be resolved to give no quarter to these penal enactments. Mr. SHAW said the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had stated that these statutes had done no good, and that they had brought no money into the Exchequer. Now he (Mr. Shaw) could not agree with the Hon. and Learned Gentle man in the conclusions he had come to, and he would shortly state the reasons for so thinking. The Bill under consideration had his decided objection, because it unsettled the arrangement come to in 1829. He would not go into the policy or impolicy of the settlement then made, but he would certainly oppose any attempt to disturb it in the manner which the Bill before the House would do. He thought the reservations of the Catholic Emancipation Act should be maintained as the safe-guards of the Established Church.—(Hear.) He would, therefore, support the amendment for the rejection of the BilL—(Hear.) Mr. MACAULAY could not allow the discussion to pass over without expressing his opinion on the merits of the Bill before the House. He confessed he had not heard suffi cient to reject the second reading of the BilL—(Hear. ) The first portion of the Bill provided for the repeal of enactments which at present gave the power of im prisoning and fining every Now who owned th e least allegiance to th e Pope. Now he asked the House would they sanction the principle that any Roman Catholic might be fined or imprisoned for his religious opinions? for that was the real question. He maintained that there was no Roman Catholic who admitted the spiritual authority of the hierarchy of his Church but who was liable to punishment. There was not a priest nor bishop but who, in the essential teaching of his religion, might be proceeded against, and fined and imprisoned. The spiritual authority of the bishops of the Roman Catholic religion was a leading element of the Catholic religion ; so all who acted on that view of the faith were liable to the oppression of these statutes.—( Hear, he ar .) N ow, h e put it to the House whether they would consent to the carrying out of such laws. Would they agree to the justice of the principle, and were they prepared to give it effect? If they would not, and he believed not one of them would, why then retain them on the statute-book ?By the Emancipation Bill the oath of supremacy, as it regarded Roman Catholics, had been altered to another, and yet they retained this penal enact ment about the recognition of the supremacy:of the Crown. Was not this proceeding most absurd and contradictory ? He en tertained similar objections to the existing statute against the importation of bulls. It was admitted that these were perfectly innocent ; for whatever their instructions might be, they could not be carried into effect. The law against them should not therefore be retained. With regard to the other laws referred to, he considered they should also be repealed ; but with respect to processions, however, he could not consent to their celebration. He did not think that decency or public order could allow of these public processions ; nay, he was sure that if such a pro cession as was often seen on the Continent was to pass up Fleet-street or the Strand, there would be every proba bility of some disturbance taking place. He would, there fore, give his consent to a stringent law in regard to such restrictions h processions. t But, w re e gar i d m in p g es J e e d nsueits,thheem. H could not couldsupport not see the any reason why the Franciscan should not be allowed to practice his system of worship the same as any other party. He was against any secret proceedings on the part of the Jesuits, which the present state of the law encouraged, but he would, under proper regulations, as it regarded registration and publicity, give them the same civil and religious privi leges as any other party of Christians. On these grounds he would support the second reading of the Bill.—(Cheers.) Mr. FINCH said that it was in consequence of the great veneration in which the Reformers held the Nicene Church, who originated persecution, that a system of persecution was continued in the Protestant Church. He was quite in favour of a fair system of toleration for all classes. They came then to what was called the rights and cere monies of the Roman Catholic Church, and here he perfectly agreed with what had been said by the Right lion. Gentleman who had just sat down. He thought tiott when an Hon. and Leadttud. Gentleman introduced a Bill After some further conversation, a vote of thanks having been given to the Chairman, the meeting separated. THE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RAIL WAYS.—(THIS DAY.) The usual half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors of the Buckinghamshire Railways (Oxford and Bletchley, and Buckingham and Brackley Junction Companies) was held this afternoon, at the Euston-square Station of the London and North-Western Railway ; Sir Harry Verney, chairman of the board of directors, in the chair. The report stated that the directors had to announce that they had let their works of both the Oxford and Bletchley and Buckingham and Brackley lines on satisfactory terms to Mr. Brassey. The shares of the company, on which 2/. 2s. had been paid, had, in consequence of the proceedings in Parliament last year, necessarily been reduced in registra tion in the proportion of 1 to 2 each registered share. After such reduction was credited with 41. 45., as paid, and including the 2/. call received on the Ist of March, 6/. 4s. per share would thus have been paid on each share of 17/. 10s. each. The directors had determined to confine their southern extension to a line from Claydou to Aylesbury (a distance of ten miles). It was also proposed to extend the line northwards from Brackley to Banbury. A Bill had been introduced into Parliament for power to construct the ex tension lines, and in this Bill would be comprised powers to consolidate the two companies into one. The total receipts np to the present time amounted to 169,359/. 125., and the expenditure to 35,544/. 4s. 6d. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, the report was adopted, and the retiring directors and auditors re-elected. A resolu tion was then passed, placing 300/. at the disposal of the di rectors for providing moral and religious instruction for the men engaged upon the works. This closed the business of the half-yearly meeting. SPECIAL MEETING. The proprietors then resolved themselves into a special meeting for the purpose of considering and approving of the Bill authorising the amalgamation and extensions. The CHAIRMAN stated that the extensions would consi derably enhance the undertaking, inasmuch as one of them would place them in direct communication with the metro polis, through the medium of the proposed London, Oxford, and Cheltenham line, while the other would give them access with the Herefordshire districts. Buck inghamshire was famed for the fattening of Herefordshire cattle, and, of course, a line which gave them a direct com munication with that country, must, of necessity, prove of immense value both to themselves and the districts through which the line would pass. Besides these advantages, the construction of the Bedford line and its extension would open up to them Cambridge and Norwich, and the Norfolk districts. A PROPRIETOR wished to know how it was proposed to raise the capital? The CHAIRMAN replied that all the shares which had been rejected by the proprietors had been taken up by the London and North-Western Company, and that was the means by which the capital would be raised. All the shares were offered to the proprietors in the first instance, but only 3,000 were accepted by them out of 20,000. A PROPRIETOR asked what the capital would be, and the length of the extensions. The CHAIRMAN replied that the capital would be 450,0001. anti the length of each extension about ten miles. The Bill was then approved, and the meeting terminated, with the customany vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. Lord GEORGE BENTINCK supported the second read ing of the Bill, because he had always opposed the disabili ties imposed on the Roman Catholics. If the laws that ex sted were obsolete, and of no practical application, then that was a sufficient reason for their repeal. But he did not think they were so, but that in their operation they exercised still a serious injury over the professors of the Roman Catholic faith. Even so late as 1837 a law suit had been decided before Lord Langdale, which practically took away a large amount of property left to the professors of the Roman Catholic faith. So hard, indeed, was the case, that the Right Hon. Baronet, the late Prime Minister, interfered and had the griev ance in this particular case remedied. But there were many other hardships to which he could call the atten tion of the House. Was it not a hardship that Roman Catholics could not perform the rite of burial with their own clergymen, and according to their own formula ? He would also call their attention to the fact that when the H )n. and Learned Member for Cork (Mr. O'Connell) was Lord Mayor of Dublin he had to put off his robes of office on entering the Roman Catholic church, because the law would not allow him, in his corporate capacity, to wear them wi-thin their precincts. Such was the state of the law, that Father Mathew, notwithstanding all the good he had done, might be banished, and if he returned he could be trans ported for life. These were a few of the hardships which were now proposed to be removed. Sir R. PEEL said that the Bill which stood for the second reading that night, contemplated the rescinding of several clauses in the Act of 1829, and it further proposed to abrogate laws which were now considered obsolete, and so far as this latter part of this measure went, it had his fullest approba tion. The first part of the Bill professed to supply certain omissions in former Acts. The Hon. and Learned Member asserted that there was at present an Act in force, notwithstanding the statistics of 1844 and 1846, enacting that if the Boman Catholic subject wilfully upheld the autho rity of a foreign Prince, would be subject to fine and impri sonment. The Hon. Member for Warwickshire said that malice would require to be proved; but he (Sir R. Peel) imagined that, in the eye of the law, advisedly upholding the ecclesiastical authority of the Pope would be considered malicious upholding of his authority. Now he (Sir Robert Peel) did not consider the principle a proper one which would subject the Roman Catholic in this case to fine and imprisonment.—(Hear, bear.) With regarn to the other portion of the Bill he must express his decided dissent. He must contend for the preservation of the conditions of the Act of 1829. The Hon. Gentleman said he was not prepared to repeal that portion of the Act which refused to the Catholic Prelate the name of any particular fiely. He said, also, that he was quite content that the Roman Catholic should not appear iu public in the distinguishing dress of his particular order. He said that he conceeded so much in accordance with the prejudices of the English Protestant subject. But surely this condition was based on the same compact, and should not be divided from the other condi tions. With regard to the religious orders, he thought t hat some relaxation might be made in this particular—he thought that the extreme punishment m i g h t be avoided ; but he was not prepared to repeal the enactment alto gether. He was bound to say that while he was willing to rectify some clauses in the Bills of 1844 and 1846, he was not prepared to accede to that portion of the measure which had reference to the Act of 1829. He would support the second reading, reserving to himself the right of dissenting from certain portions of the Bill in a future stage. After a few words from Mr. e L adi A n l g V . , in which h e s t ated that he would oppose the second reading. Lord ARUNDEL thanked the Hon. and L earne d M ember for the introduction of t his measure, a n d the Right Hon. the Member for Edinburgh f or h is ab l e support of it. Mr. GOULBURN would vote against the second reading. He would have no hesitation in assenting to a portion of the Mr. WATSON trusted that in Committee he should fully satisfy both the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir R. Peel) and the mßileal,anbruetthneitcaopulrdesennottahcoanpce.ede the propriety of passing th e Right Hon. the Paymaster of the Forces. jiSe t r h e e t r h e e a n p o p o e d a e r r e e d d_ F to withdraw, and the H ouse divided, tze appeared — For t w e h r hn es w original motion lO2 For the amendment Majority in favour of the second reading... —3 TENANT RIGHT BILL. e NORTHERN COUNTIES' RAIL WAY.—(THIS DAY.) The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in this railway wes held to-day at the London Tavern, Bishops gate-street ; Major Beresfoß in the chair. The SECRETARY, having read the advertisement calling the meeting, submitted the report of the directors, from which we make the following extracts:— " At the meeting held last month your directors reported to you fully on the position of the company, and on the pro gress made towards carrying out the resolutions of the first general meeting; they have now to add, that the Deviation Bill then authorised is proceeding in the House of Commons; and your directors look forward with confidence, after the strong expression of the shareholders in its favour, to the sanction of Parliament being given to the measure. "Your directors have made the necessary arrangements for commencing active operations in the spring on the portion of the line from Wath up Wensleydale, and from Tebay to the junction of the main line. Your directors deem it advisable to execute the line from Watt' to Leyburn (which is of easy construction) without delay, that advantage may be taken of the opening of the Leeds and Thirsk line, to secure the traffic from the district of Wensleydale to Leeds and the south, which your directors confidently trust will of itself afford you an early and remunerative return for the outlay. " To commence this part of the undertaking a call on the shareholders will be necessary, which your directors now propose at the rate of 1/. 10s. per share, payable on the 17th of April. "The general Act requires that one-third of the directors should retire by ballot, and the names ballotted out are— W. Beresford, Esq., M.P., IL Pease, Esq., W. R. Collett, Esq., M.P., Christopher Other, Esq., John Whitwell, Esq., J. Middleton, Esq. " Those who retire are, however, eligible, and the board recommend their re-election. " One of the auditors elected at the first meeting having also to retire by rotation, Richard Dutton, Esq., retires, but the Board recommend his re-election. " The deputation appointed at the last meeting to treat with the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway Company have made their report on the subject of the amalgamation, which the Board recommend yonr consideration. " - The balance-sheet of the company shows a balance of cash in hand of 55,5101. is. Bd." The Cu ItcuAN having commented on some of the points referred to in the above report, concluded by moving that it should be received, adopted, and circulated among the sub scribers. If any one had any questions to ask, he would be happy to answer them. A SHAREHOLDER then asked when the:report of the deputa tion appointed at the last meeting to treat with the Liverpwl, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway Company, would be submitted to them? The CHAIRMAN intimated, that if the proprietors pleased, that should be done before the motion for the adoption of the report was put to the meeting, and then proceeded to read the report of the deputation as to the amalgamation. Several other questions having been proposed and satit factorily answered, the motion was then unanimously adopted. Mr. S. CRAWFORD postponed till to-morrow the intro duction of his measure on the subject. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Six o'clock. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, TUESDAY, FEB. 23.—The slight indi cations of improvement in the market, to which we re ferred on Wednesday last, have become rather more manifest and decided during the last few days ; and a better feeli ng h as prevailed upon the exchange to-day than for several weeks past. In prices there is no perceptible change for the better •, but the inqui ries, both for goods and yarn, have been very exten sive ; and in cases where spinners and manufacturers have b een w illi ng to accept t h e l ow rates current last week, they have littl e diff icu l ty in making sales. The drooping and un cer t a i n sta t e o f t h e co tton market, how. ever, still induce s grea t cau ti on on the past of buyers, and exercises an injurious influence upon prices. We are glad to learn that the accounts received this week from the United States, by the packet-ship Oxford, con tinue to be favourable. English manufactures were selling readily, in considerable quantities, and at very satisfactory rates. The mail from Brazil received by the Peterel packet, brings to our merchants a further and considerable amount of bills drawn on American account, for the purchase of coffee and other Brazilian produce. As the exports of coffee to the United States during the last twelve months amounted to no less than 1,500,000 bags—being about 400,000 bags more than in any pre view year—and as these exports must be paid for, in great measure, by bill s on E ng l a nd, remittances of thi s nature are lik e ly to b e l arge for some time to come. ROCHDALE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22. —There has b een a better att en dance of buyers to-day than last Monday, but the business transacted has been very limited. Wool remains firm, at last week's prices. HALIFAX, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20.—We could not observe any change for the better in the piece ball t day, nor does there seem to be any prospect of a speedy improvement. The manufacturers, however continue to run their machinery full time, which, as heavy stocks are accumulating, they will not be able to do should the pt.( sent depression remain unabated much longer. With r , sp et t. yarti, f ,, r low numb- rs the demand is 611 t qUeiltit for Ahirphig, th ,, rtirt)ci. impro.:o; N•rtNin w.thr:ilt alteration. The sales of long wool continue very limited; and the turn of the market is rather in favour of the t this kind he should do it in a morn complete shape than the present Bill presented. It was not consistent that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman sh , .uld consult only the wishes THE SUN, _LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRITARV 24, 1847 buyer. Short wools are somewhat more active, and are a little easier to buy. LEEDS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23.—The busineess done at our cloth halls to day, has been equally trifling with that of last week. We hear, however, that the manufacturers are rather better employed to ord r, and that a brisker demand is anticipated next month in various descriptions of woollens for the United States markets."—Manchester Guardian. UNIVERSITY REFORM. (From the forthcoming Oxford Magatine). "As water, whether it be the dew of heaven or the springs of the earth, doth scatter and lose itself in the ground, ex cept it be collected into some receptacle, where it may by union comfort and sustain itself; and, for that cause, the in dustry of man hath framed and made spring -heads, conduits, cisterns, and pools; which men have accustomed likewise to beautify and adorn with accomplishments of magnificence and state, as well as of use and necessity. So knowledge, whether it descend from divine inspiration or spring from human sense, would soon perish and vanish to oblivion, if it were not preserved in books, traditions, conferences, and places appointed, as Universities, Colleges, and Schools for the receipt and comforting the same." The trusty squire of Don Quixote bad no misgivings what ever, touching his capacity for governing the island, whxl, the all-conquering knight of La Mancha was, in due course, to confer upon him. In this respect worthy Sancho is no bad representative of many hopeful and well-meaning men of these days. They think reform is "as easy as lying" to the liar. The best men are often most open to these delusions. Honest themselves, and desirous of conforming everything to the rule of right, they think, that it is only necessary to show that an evil exists, in order to secure the application of a remedy. Experience, however, has shown how visionary such plea sant expectations are. Wrongs are rarely, perhaps never, redressed by logic. Moral force is not yet so irresistible as amiable enthusiasts would have us hope and believe. If this be so in respect to the reform of glaring and notorious evils, much more is it so with the less obtrusive, but more dan gerous ills which affect the vitality of nations. Injustice and exactions, which press upon the millions, after being long endured and struggled against, are thrown off by convulsive throes and a dangerous crisis. Wrongs which affect the moneyed interests, the commer cial enterprise of wealthy classes, are comparatively short lived. But evils against which the excited passions of the wronged many, or the resentment of a powerful class cannot be pointedly directed, are long-lived. And of this class are the evils of our public schools and universities. Parliament may be reformed, and being re formed, may be argued and coerced into the repeal of a law hateful as the sanction cf a bread tax. University reform— public and grammar-school reform, is quite a different mat ter. Amidst all the talk of " education," the meaning of the word is not yet understood. What education can, and what it cannot do for the moral elevation of a people is by no means strictly defined. It is not yet felt., that the nation cannot live on bread alone, or what is required for its perfect development. It is not fat that both the heart and the brain of the nation require nutriment in order to give vital force to the body politic, and, that the mere husks of educational forms are insufficient. But though there is not a distinct appreciation of what education is, and what it is not, yet the confirmed dis cussion of the subject renders the present time most favourable to a movement fur university reform ; and a well-constituted royal commhsion would be hailed with de light. The public ear is open to any who shall address it in clear tones, with lofty aims, with an appreciation of the diffi culties to be overcome, as well as the glorious object to be attained. The difficulties are neither few nor small. The public mind is but partially enlightened on the subject. A large majority of our legislators view public schools and univer sities, through a false medium. They see the school co university at which their youth was spent through an at mosphere of poetry. To them it is scarcely less than irre verence to think of defect either in the constitution or the working of institutions which, by a mischievous deluiive figure, is personified to them as a mother. Then there is little to be hoped for from within the universities. It is not surprising that with possession, a feeling of absolute, personal, exclusive right should grow up in the minds of the few who have, and the larger number who expect to have, wealth, honours, and social distinctions under this exclusive system. There is also the further disadvantage, that the sense of responsibility, political and religious (using the terms in then largest sense and as almost synonymous), is deadened, if not lust, in men who are associated as a privileged body : so that it has come to be a proverb, that corporations have neither bodies to be kicked, nor souls to be damned. Yet, as we have said, the times are favourable to the great and holy enterprise of making the universities and public schools national institutions in truth and reality, part of the national life, and working to the more perfect develop. ment of the national mind. A great preparatory work has been done, and that uncon sciously. Within a recent period the heriditary, instinctive confidence of the nation in the universities has been broken by painful revelations. The nation has been compelled t, believe, what once it would fain have rejected, as a mon strous libel. The nation has been compelled to accept as a fact, that for years the universities have been the seat of a dangerous, and too successful conspiracy against the faith of which they were supposed to be the bulwarks. Everywhere throughout the land a newly-ordained graduate is received with well-founded distrust; all the while no correcting or opposing influence is seen in operation; and the faithfulness and the power of academical rulers is alike doubted. The conviction has spread that there is not health enough left in the system to throw off the fatal and pervading taint. The public is prepared to hear, and to assent to the declaration, that the leprous house must be taken down. This on purely religious grounds: but the idea of univer sity reform must be both comprehensive and minute. Organic principles must be broadly laid down, and all details be worked out in accordance with them. It cannot be suffered that statutes of founders, which time may have repealed, should sometimes be held to be binding by fellows of societies, and other times at their ca price held to be naught, to the deadening of moral feeling. It cannot be, that instead of a university, we should have a mere collection of classical and mathematical schools, carried on for the advantage of the separate societies which hold these establishments. Professorial chairs cannot remain un tenanted, even by the ghosts of the past. Revealed religion and natural science cannot be for ever banished from Oxford. The universities wait for reform. The intellect and the piety, and the patriotism of the nation say, Reform ! and there must, there will be reform, and perhaps the larger and more complete for being deferred. We can afford to wait. There is a great work to be done, and it cannot be that men will be wanting for the glorious labour. PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDI TUBE. An account of the total amount of the public revenue received into and expended from the Exchequer, and the balances remaining at the close of each year from 1836 to 1846 inclusive, was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on the 19th instant. It appears that in 1836 there was a surplus of income amounting to 2,130,0921., after which year, up to 1843, whet, Sir R. Peel's financial reforms had begun to take effe. t, there was a regular annual deficiency of income, amounting alto gether to the sum of 10,188,6571. Since 1843 there has Seen an equally regular surplus of income, which at present amounts in the gross to the sum of 11,463,3601. ; so that the former deficiency is now completely covered, and a balance left in favour of the Exchequer of 1,274,7031. The total amount of income received into the Exchequei during the past year, 1846, was 53,790,1351 . , and the total expenditure therefrom, 50,943,830/., including 28,077,987/. for the annual charge on the funded and unfunded debt; 2,736,807/. for other charges on the Consolidated Fund ; 16,864,697/. for the army, navy, and ordnance services; and 3,264,339/. for miscellaneous services, leaving a surplus of income amounting to 2,846,308/. In 1845 the excess of in come was 3,817,6421., the receipts having amounted to 53,060,354 L, and the expenditure to 49,242,712/. The gross total estimated amount of the taxes repealed of reduced during the above-mentioned decennial period it 10,042,4141.; the principal items being pepper, sugar, paper spirits, licenses, newspaper stamps, postage, coffee, timber, export duties, Customs duties, Irish spirits, marine in sarances, cotton• wool, coals (export duty), glass, auctions, corn, and provisions, &c. The total amount of the new taxes concurrently imposed, is 7,940,993/., the principal items being the income tax, which alone contributes 5,100,000/., and the increase of 5 per cent. on the Customs and Excise proposed in 1840 by Mr. Baring. The capital of the funded and unfunded debt now attount, to 7 82,918,984/. —viz., 764,608,284/. for the funded, and 18,310,700/. for the unfunded, debt. The balance in the Exchequer at the close of the year (1846) amounted to the sum of 9,131,282/. Such are the interesting particulars which have been gleaned from this return. SUDDEN AND AFFECTING DEATH.—The sudden and affecting death of Mr. Charles Thornton Cunningham, Lieutenant -Governor of St. Christopher's and of the Lee ward Islands, is announced in the West Indian papers which have just arrived. It appears that this gentleman had driven in from the countrylo Basseterre, the seat of Govern ment, in apparently vigorous health and cheerful spirits, to open the newly-elected Houses of Legislature. After trans acting, some business with his private secretary, and dispatching a note to invite some officers in a French ship of war just come into port to luncheon at Government house, he rode down to the mail-office, to meet his let ters, and a box containing a picture of a much-beloved sister, recently deceased in England. He had stated to more than one person, that his earnest desire to possess the picture was not unmixed with fear as to the effect the sight of it might produce upon him. So strongly had this apprehension fastened itself on his mind, that, on the arrival of the box at the Government-house, he sent a servant in quest of a friend who might be with him when the box was opened. Having failed in find ing him, he proceeded to open the box His butler, who was present, reports that he looked at the countenance earnestly, turned pale, whispered a few words to himself, walked hastily up to his own room, was heard almost instantly to fall as he entered it, and his servants following upstairs found him stretched on the floor a corpse. The St. Christo pher's Gazette, as well as many other public and private communications, bear the strongest testimony to the ability, vigour, and high moral character of this gentleman, and to the tenderness and munificence with which at all times, and especially under a recent heavy visitation of Island fever, he had ministered to the wants and sorrows of the negro popula tion. The Houses of Assembly met immediately after his death, and passed an unanimous vote for a funeral at the public expense, to t es tify, as th e y expressed it, at once their respect for his offi c i a l ran k an d the high esteem in which he was held by a ll c l asses o f t h e commun ity. On the next day he was follow e d t o th e grave by all the public authorities, the members of the two llouses, the most distinguished per sons in the colony, and by thousands of grateful and mourn - ing Le groes, to whose welfare he bad largely contributed.esin Mr. Cun n i ng h am assume d the Government of St. K May, 1839, and fell a victim, as his physician states, partly "to the exhausting influence of tropical climatesou the nervous powers," and partly to the intensity of brotherly affection, in the 36th year of his age. MONEY MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris is 10 per mille, which, at the English Mint ,es a p n ri ecexchange of 3/. 175. 0 f 10 1 4 d. per ounce for standard gold, Lt 25.40; and the exchange at Parisondon at short being 25.27 i, it follows that gold is 0.49 per cent. dearer in Pari s than in London. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 431 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17 s . 1014 d. per ounce for standard gold,. gives an exchang e o f 13.8; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.6, it follows that gold is 0.93 per cent. dearer in Hamburgh than in London. The course of exchange at New York on London i s 101 i per cent., and the par cf exchange • • IQ' , T • 1;;T:71.1. , , r! , ; 7! . - ti;. , !Lz,is.st . 1 : hi, .2yew iolh being for bills at 60 days' sight, the interest must be deducted from the above difference. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NaIi7'HERN ClRCUlT.—Carlisie, Feb. 22. The assizes for the county of Cumberland commenced here this morning. Their Lordships sat at ten o'clock. Mr. Baron Alderson presided in the Crown Court, and Mr. Baron Rolfe on the Civil aide. There are nine causes enter( d fur trial. The calendar contains the names of twenty prisoners. Of these one stands charged with murder, four with bur• glary, one with forgery, and one with cutting and wounding. The other offences in the calendar are cases of petty theft. (Before Mr. Baron ALDEnsox.) His Lordship during the day disposed of a large number of the minor cases; which presented no point of public in terest. Francis Wardrop was indicted for stabbing James Wright, at Longtown, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. ➢lr. Fawcett conducted the prosecution ; Mr. James ap peared for the defence. It appeared that on the night when the occurrence took place, which resulted in this indictment, a nephew of the prisoner was at a late hour in the streets of Longtown, and a scuffle arose between him and the prosecutor. While the affray was going on, some one ran to the prisoner's house, and told him of what was taking place. He was just about retiring to bed, having fastened up his house for the night. On hearing the alarm, however, he immediately came down stairs, and ran along the street to the spot where the prose cutor was. He called out, " Where's Wright?" and upon IViight answering, the prisoner said, " Are you a man? I'm prepared for you." Wright said he would have a turn with him; and, after some high words, both squared for the pur pose of fighting. In the first round the prosecutor had the advantage, and the prisoner was knocked down. He ruse up again, and the fight recommenced. Daring the second round the prosecutor received a blow on the left breast, which was accompanied by a sharp pain as if he were wounded. Hi continued the fight, however, and again felt a similar sense. tioti on his side, and, as he turned round, received a similar blow on the back. He gave the alarm that the prisoner had a knife, and some of the bystanders interfering, a fork with out a handle was taken from the prisoner's hand. It was then bent nearly at right angles. On the prosecutor being examined by a surgeon, it was found he had been stabbed with such an instrument on the breast, in the side, and near the spine. Mr. JAMES addressed the jury for the defence, and stated he would call witnesses to show that the fork in question was used by the prisoner for the purpose of fastening his door. He urged that, being suddenly called from his house by the alarm of his nephew' s danger, he had hastily withdrawn this instrument from the latch, and ran to the place where the affray was taking place, when he had joined in the con test without recollecting what he had in his hand. Verdict—Guilty of a common assault. To be imprisoned one week. Elizabeth APBurnie was indicted for having broken into the dwelling house of Francis Lawry, at Maryport, and stolen therein 30 sovereigns and one W. note. Mr. Gregg and Mi. James for the prosecution; Mr. Rum shay for the defence. According to the case for the prosecution, the prisoner and the prosecutor both resided in King-street, in the town of Maryport, within three doors of each other. Mr. Lawry was the master of a vessel called the Ben Brace, a collier, plying from Maryport to Belfast. The prisoner's husband was a sailor on board that vessel. and she herself was frequently in Mr. Lawry's house, and had opportunities of being well ac quainted with the localities. In the course of November last she was in the kitchen at Mr. Lawry's when he handed Mrs. Lawry the money in question belonging to the ship, and she heard Mrs. Lawry direct her daughter (by a former husband, and who resided with them) to take it up stairs and put it in the drawers in her room. In January last Mr. Lawry and his wife both sailed in the Ben Brace on a voyage to Belfast, leaving the house in charge of Miss Mounsey, the only other inmate being a young child about six years of age. On Sun day, the 17th of January, Miss Mounsey went to church at the usual hour. Before going, she went up to the drawer where she bad put the money, for the purpose of getting her prayer-book.- She lifted, up a glove box in which the money was deposited, and by its weight was aware that the money was then in it. In the same drawer was a savings' bank box, containing some money, and that also was safe. On her return from church all seemed to be as she had left it, and she retired to bed about nine o'clock. The following day she had occasion again to go to the Irawer for the purpose of getting some of the savings' bank monev, aud, on applying . the key, she found he lock had been forced off and was lying in the 'hewer. The lid was off the glove box, and the money gone. .-ihe immediately ran into the prisoner's house, crying out hat she was robbed, on which the prisoner Immediately said, " Oh, is it the ship money?" The prisoner returned with Miss Mounse y to the house, and, by her request, went for a policeman. Oa his coining, some discussion took place unong the women who by this time had assembled, at the house, on which the prisoner took the policeman aside, end told him that he had better look after some sus picious characters at Mooney's, a house in the neigh bourhood, where trampers were in the habit of lodging. She :ssigned, however, no reason for her suspicion. The next day she called on Miss Mounsey, and told her she had not been able to sleep all night. iOn the evening of Wednesday, about six o'clock, Miss Mounsey's aunt called upon her and `emained with her till half-past seven, in company with Miss - 3nowden, an acquaintance. While they were sitting together hey heard the latch of the back door lifted, but no olie came in, and after some delay, caused by their feeling same alarm, Miss Mounsey and Miss Snowden went to the door. There was no one there, but on looking out into the yard they saw a small bundle lying near the door, and on exa al Legit they found, wrapped up in some rags and a piece of cheamis leather, twenty-five sovereigns and the missing note. While they were looking over the money a person of the name of Waddington came in and remained a few minutes, and while she was leaving the house a person of the name of Benn came in, the bearer of a message from the prisoner, to inquire if it was true that the money was found, here baying, as it was alleged, been in the interval no means by which she could legitimately become possessed of the knowledge. The further evidence against the prisoner went to show that she had been seen, just about the hour when the money was found, walking backwards and forwards, opposite the pas sage leading to Mr. Lawry's back door; that she had entered the yard, remained there but a few seconds, not sufficient to enable her to enter the house, and then hastily went away. The person, however, who deposed to this fact, stated, that the prisoner had on a light-coloured gown, hut it appeared from other testimony that the gown she had on that evening was of a dark colour. Mr. RAMSHAY addressed the jury for the defence, and called witnesses to show that the fact of the money having been found had transpilvd, and was known to several parties, before the time when the prisoner sent the message by Been. One of these, a person by the name of Hodgson, had in formed her of it, having heard it from some of the persons who had been in ➢lr. Lawry's house. The prisoner was Acquitted. MUNIFICENCE OF THE MILLOCRACY.—" Proud of of my heritage indeed ;I am more—l love it, I reverence it with the fondest affection, and bless the accident that made file a Manchester man. In less than three years the noble ,pirited inhabitants of Manchester—a mere provincial town —have given away, out of their own earnings, upwards of three hundred thousand pounds! Oh! how hard-hearted, selfish, and grasping are the cottonocracy. What ducal country can vie with such a town? Whei ever I may dwell, I shall always look back with the fondest remembrance to illy native town, raised, as it has been, by the gigantic efforts of the sons of toil to the honourable position of the first commercial town in Europe."—From John Easby's :Vents STOCK OF CORN IN DUBLIN.-8o unusually large is the stock of corn at present in the Custom-house Stores in Dublin that no room exists for a further supply, nor can here be any more warehoused there until a new loft in one of the large stores, which is at prerent being erected, shall have been completed. —Pilot. PROVISIONS FROM THE UNITED STATES.—The Oxford and Orphan, from New York, Richard Anderson from Baltimore, Defence and Radius from Charleston, and Larne from New Orleans, which were reported at Liverpool on the 22d inst., bring 8,091 barrels of flour, 8,608 bags and and 36,474 bushels of Indian corn, 2,108 barrels of Indian corn meal, 657 tierces of rice, and 209 boxes of biscuit. 'IMPERIAL PA LIA iIEN T. HOUSE OF LORDS, Feb. 23. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at Five o'clock. DESTITUTE PERSONS (IRELAND) BILL. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved the order of the day for the third reading of the Destitute Persons (Ireland) Bill. Lord BROUGHAM said that he had already stated what he conceived would be the nece,sery consequences of this measure. Among the other objections that might be urged to this measure was, that there were three official bodies con stituted to carry out the details of it. The relief commission was the one to which he wished to call the attention of the House. There was no power given under the provisions of the Act to appoint one of the commissioners a member of the committee. It only said that it should be lawful fer the Lord-Lieutenant to nominate certain parties. It only gave power to the Lord-Lieutenant to specify by a general or special order applicable to the cave of the parties, but it did not make it imperative upon him to say what the number should be. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY complained of the attacks which the Noble and Learned Lord who had jest sat down was in the habit of making against the Irish landlords, for a more kirid-hearted, more just, or more beneficient body of individuals did not exist in the empire. Their gene rosity at the present emergency could not be described, and he would not venture to assert that the assistance they had given had contributed much to alleviate the calamity. If the Noble and Learned Lord was so adverse to persons spending their money abroad, why did he not carry out his wn argument and not spend his money in France.—( Hear, hear.) He repeated that the Irish landlords were a most beneficent class of persons. He admitted that: the want of resident country However, if I orsin Ireland ca i u ish sed imanudeihnrds were of the dep unhappiness reented in in th th a e t wtty d t i h d ey en h n a s d id b er ee t n h , atthtehiresetentnaenetssurwesouldigbhetcohmayee beendissatismfioedre. Hs maturely weighed. By these frequent an i madversions the Irish tenants were taught to look unfavourably upon their landlords. He considered that the Noble Lord should not have undertaken the Government vrithout re-enacting the Arms Registration Act. At the present moment the pea santry were parading the country in large bodies with arms. He was satisfied that they must now extend the poor-law system to Ireland, for the guardians appointed under it were the wisest and best protectors both of poverty and property. He was obliged to the House for their ottention to him on this subject. It was one on which he felt very anxious, and he had felt it his duty to state to the House his opinion that the measure was one calculated to benefit Ireland. Lord BROUGHAM begged leave to set the NoWe Marquis right. The Noble Marquis had totally mistaken him, if he was under the impression that he had meant any attack upon the Irish people, or to run down the Irish, he could assure the Noble marquis that he had no objection to the measure as applied to the Irish in particular. He should have the same objection to the measure if it were applied to the Irish or Scotch. His objection had nothing to do with any national peculiarity ; what he was averse to was the system. He had no doubt that many of the measures adopted were very munificent charities ; but his objection applied to a great public measure. He had no objection to Ireland, although he had not resided there any more than he had ever pursued the diversion of bear hunting on the Con tinent.—( Laughter. ) The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said that, although he was not present, he understoood that the Noble Lord had attacked the Irish landlords. He objected to their habits, of horses, equipages, servants, and wine —(A laugh)—and said that they ought not to indulge in them. The Noble Lord himself could go to France, and do as he pleased in that respect, but there was no necessity for him to run down the Irish proprietors. Lord BROUGHAM could assure the Noble Marquis that he never ran down an Irish proprietor any more than he ever ran down— °'A 4'+'e+'f. , ,rn the 'Ministerial bench —" A ,T. The Mar s qui, of LANSDOWNE here t nvtie sow,- ,01 vu- Lions, but in so low a tone of voice that they did not teach the gallery.) With respect to the amendment that had been sug gested by his /Coble Friend opposite, it was one to which no very seeious objection could be advanced, and he intended to introduce an amendment that would meet the views of the Noble Lord. In reply to an observation of the Noble Lord 14 opposite, he wished to state that he would receive a repor t from the Commissioners , to which he might refuse to' accede. '''' Lerd ELLENBOROUGH said he felt quite satisfied wi th the Noble . Lord's statement that he would introduce an ',,=;, ...e - i amendment. ~.. .., .M The - arquis of 'LANSDOWNE said that there wet* - - certain other amendments which it was intended to introdune• -, The NOBLE MARQUIS .then proceeded to refer to amend ments -: which he proposed to insert in the Bill. . The Marquis of WESTMEATH said the late meeting- of -"- Irish proprietors in Dublin proved that better feelings had been generated among them, and that there was now gretiter• hope than ever for the improvement of Ireland. He regretted that there was no provision in the Bill for the more effectual :--' collection of the poor rates. Lord BEAUMONT said that he desired to take that oppor• "' tunity of 'correcting a mistake which had appeared in a lotte d Mr. Commissioner Otway from Castlebar. He states tha t _ a near connexion of mine, a Noble Lord who does not pogo' a seat in this House Lord Kilmaine, has not paid the greater portion of his rates. He ( Lord Beaumont) had received a letter from that Noble Lord, and he had also a communication with his agent, and they had both assured him that that statement was totally incorrect; that all the rates had been paid, and that no portion of them were unpaid at any time, as they were always paid upon application. $e thought, however, that he might be allowed to remark that he did not wonder that these mistakes should occur from th° incorrect manner in which the collector's rate-books were kept lie acknowledged that the Bill was a necessity of the moment; . .. lint he thought a great disadvantage would arise from the me' thod in which one rate was made to clear another; for that was really what would oecur.—(Hear, hear.) One rate e would not be half collected, before another was struck , . The system of levying the rates in England was much sncre, . complete and rapid than it was in Ireland, in consequence °` y the long notice required. The system, however, was produ" ~ tive of most)njurious effects to those who• did pay their rates while those who did not pay them escaped comp a ratively free' If a retail trade had existed in Ireland, to distribute the t il l ' mense supply of provisions that had arrived in this country* - . three-fourths of the suffering which had prevailed in that counts ' 1 try would have been prevented. He would just observe in /. conclusion, that an extensive system of emigration must be re sorted to, if an improved system of cultivation of the land was to be introduced. In England there were but three labourers to the hundred acres; but in Ireland there were eight; mid until this surplus population was removed, they could not hope to establish the prosperity of Ireland on a permanent footing. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY was about to address the House, when The LORD CHANCELLOR interrupted him, and said that be had received a Commission from her Majesty and the House should stand prorogued during pleasure. ROYAL COMMISSION. The LORD CHANCELLOR then retired, and in a few minutes returned, accompanied by the Earl of Minto and the Earl of Shaftesbury, in their robe, as Lords Commissioners, to give the Royal assent to several Bills. The Usher of the Black Rod then summoned the Com mons, when the Royal assent was given in the usual form to the Buck Wheat Importation Bill, the Brewing from Sugar Bill, the Distillation from Sugar Bill, and the Chelsea Pen sioners' Bill. DESTITUTE PERSONS (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion of the Marquis of Lansdowne this Bill ifs then read a third time and passed. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Feb. 23. COMMITTEE ON THE LAW OF SETTLEMENT AND POOR REMOVAL. Mr. BANKES postponed his motion on the report of tbio Committee, as the report had not yet been printed, till tbst day week. The Honourable Member said he would give no tice on the same day, of his intention to call the attention of the House to a case which had been submitted to the 1& officers of the Crown affecting the construction of a clause the Act. PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. Mr. EW ART gave notice that he would on the 9th March move the abolition of the punishment of death. DIRECT TAXATION. The HoN. AlvanEs also gave notice that on the same dal r he would call the attention of the House to the expediency °f direct taxation. RAILWAYS. Lord GEORGE BEN TINCK gave notice of his intention to move to-morrow for certain returns - which would fortis a basis on which he meant to found certain observations in re' spect to the figures and statements of the Chancellor of the El" chequer last night, viz. a return of all the sums of money ea' pended by certain English lines of railway previous to the raf t 1845, including the South Western, the South Eastern, a n d the Midland Companies; and a return of all the sums e xpen de d by the railways of Great Britain and Ireland on carriages, loc° - motives, and waggons, made up in triennial periods previous t ° the years 1841, 1844, and 1847 respectively. COPPER ORE. Mr. SPOONER said that in the absence of his lion. C ° 2; league, he should move th a t th e p e titi on p resen t e d by hint t he other evening be printed with the votes. JAMAICA. Mr. HUME begged to ask a question whether any sure had been adopted to put an end to the disputes betwea the House of Assembly and the J u d ge o f th e S upre me Cour t ' by which the public business had been suspended for one year' Mr. HA WES said that he was aware that such interruption had taken place, but means had been taken to reconcile th. ° differences, and he had g r eat pl easure i n s t a ti ng that pub business would at the earliest period be resumed. NUMBER OF DEATHS, IRELAND. Mr. S. O'BRIEN postponed the motion of which he be d given notice, respecting the ret urn o f th e n umber of dea ths which had taker, place in Irela n d f rom s t arva tion since the I P of November, 1846 Mr. P. SCROPE had heard that the workhouses of Ireland were already completely filled with inmates, he saw that a Pe°d vision was made in the Poor-law (Ireland) Bill of the Ist S t. 2nd Vic., for the purpose of extendi ng th e means o f acconslau dation for the people by either enlarging the buildings or hiring others. He wished to know wh e th er it was the intention ° the Government to lay upon th e t a bl e o f t h e H ouse any retol3". respecting the workhouses in Ireland and their number of in. mates. Sir G. GREY—In a few days a series of papers will be !Ida on the table of the House, which will contain the cortex' pondence with the Board of Guardians, as well as the ster sshich have been taken iii consequence. DRAINAGE OF LANDS. Mr. BAILLIE wished to know whether it was the inten tionfor of her Majesty's Governme n t t o i n t ro duce any . measure le. the improvement of the Drainage Act of last session, whe ther they intended to introduce any new Bill that might alter the principle of that Act. Sir G. GREY said that a new Bill had been preps!'ed for the amendment of the Act f u r the drainage of last sessio n, though he could not go to th e l eng th o f sa ying that the nor Bill would alter the principle of th e A c t o f l a st year. f Mr. HUME wished to ask wheth er it w a s the intention.? Her Majesty's Gover n me n t t o i n t ro d uce an y measu re to 00 51 1: the proprietors of entailed e s tat es t o di s p ose of part of th e ! t property for the imp r ov e m en t o f th e res t o f it, o r whether I was intended to burden the couutry with the expense. Sir G. GREY said that hi s re l to the question a the Hon. Member for Inverness wo u ld ha ve intimated that there was to be no change in the principle of the measure, but to might add that it was the intention of th e Government f apply to Parliament for no more than the sanction of Part the 2,000,0d0/. granted last year unifier the Drainage Act• Mr. BOUVERIE wished to know wheth e r the Gover n ment had any objection to lay the correspondence respectl Seotland on the table, as well as that whi c h c oncern ed Irelso e Sir G. GREY—None at all, it would be included. t i t Mr. COLLETT wished to ask whether there was any tip„ b in the statement that the Government were about to estabil d a bishopric in illanchestcr, and whether the Noble Lord ria ll give any information on the subject? Lord JOHN RUSSELL thought the best way of inf ,rmatiun on this subject, was to lay a copy of the comma' s.— issued by le r Majesty for the founding of the new bishopric!! on the table. This he had done a week ago, and it bad beea ordered to be printed, and when it was in the hands of the Ile a ; Member, he would find that it was intended to found bishopric in Manchester, as well as three other bishopriee: From the present state of the Episcopal revenue, it would oa k be necessary to add any new charge to the country for the ear port of these bishoprics. He might add, that it was not the Ca tion of her Majesty to summon the new bishops to sit in Pa l ; liament, but they would take their turn, as any casualty etne ll ° the bishops occasioned a vacancy. Mr. ROEBUCK asked if the arrangement would be carria ti out without an Act of Parliament? Lord JOHN RUSSELL said it would be impossible t o carry it out without an Act of Parliament. So soon ea received the report of the Commission, he should ask for lea . " to introduce a Bill upon the subject. THE FRANCHISE. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said he was in a difficulty a s to the course he should take with reference to the notice be had on the paper. He did not know what was the intentioo of the House or the Government in reference to it. He ! II ; derstood the Government had no objection to his introdtrte; the Bill, but there were some gentlemen opposite might. rd°,7 l l if Government could give him permissio n t o i ntro d uce the 0/ t upon the understanding that they approved of the principles b lt did not piedge themselves to the details, he would postpone tiles discussion till the second reading . If, however, Governtoea did not object to the Bill now, because they would have an at: portunity strangling it hereafter, he mu t t go at once into t°' matter. Lord J. RUSSELL said, if the Hon. Gentleman nsere3 wished to bring his Bill before the Hou s e, he should offer no obj ec ti on t o hi s doi n g s o. H e cer t a i n ly show" offer an objection to his laying it on the table but if the Bill was, as he had stated, 'mag i proposed to repeal that clause of the Reform Bill whi c h bee reference to the day on which taxes should be paid to secure a vote, ewes thought t ir h i o t u o t proposingfs such i tc hrright hßt itl a el . itt any new n a e f ewatthey once provisi ons wi o to the h B t tl discussed now, be thought it r i g ht to state to him at the ou t' set, that he should opp ose a d ec id e d negative to the Bill. d s hte th a t t tor h e haveother was o thepc p 0 so Sir DE LACY EVANS said as he had consented to sae!. the motion of the H on . G ent l eman, he begged to sugges t t 0 him, that he sh ou ld s i mp l y move for leave to introduce ". Bill, and defer the discussion until a future day. hat Mr. DUNCOMBE said he wa s perfectly aware the Noble L or d was opposed to such a Bi ll the one he now sought to introduce. It howe v er ' contained but one clause, and its object simply to repeal that portion of the Reform Bill which mad be e tig payment of rates imperative by a certain day to recei ve registration of a vote. It was entitled " a Bill to rejLt` t, much of an Act passed in the reign of William the ruel., k , intituled, an Act to amend the representation of the pe z e i r :n in England and Wales,' as makes the right to registra,borelea cities and boroughs conditional on the payment of poor 0 old and assessed taxes." At, however, deferring the Bill w t h e only lead two discussions, he thought it better to ha.`ft. re ,, discussion then and to fight it out at once.—( Hear.) 'T i e s fore he would state as shortly as possible the grounds on for re he sought leave to introduce the Bill. It provided f a L i i ` et moving one of the greatest blots in the Reform Bill- e T tie :' or complained of by the whole electoral body whether in _ cc ' in boroughs, and was one which he s inc e r e ly believed deser v the the most serious consideration of the Government and of House. The chief objection to the clause was that it wa s ;c o constitutional in princ i ple , vexatious in its operation. lur,;: on „ it opened the door to all ' manner of bribery and favou t_ti ards He should prove that it was unconstitutional from the the of the Noble Lord himself, !n speaking of the operatio? . 0, 0 Reform Bill. The substance of the Noble Lord's oPo l , ad a that occasion was that no man should e,. taxed until h e iL sen voice in the making of the laws which imposed those lazes upon him. The Reform Bill, he contended, had not a ns wered a __ ot the expectations which had been formed of it ; it eve n . h. m e ce l f. answered the expectations of the Noble Lord ni that At the time that Bill was passed, the Noble Lordstatedof new he intended to call into electoral existence half a mi llion b _ co voters; that he would give 100,0 A to the Eng lisconsiderable 60,0(0 to Scotland, 4'1,000 to Ireland, and 2 0. But w hat number to the metropolis, making nearly h ben resu't ? In Marylehone, 32,111 11- , ,z,, , i,cdclers, but there were only i! , h , ra ted 7 ti:r cT,3I difference. In Fnusbt?rs 4 )„,,,, i the ~„ but there viere only rp6 ,„ but 01].., were 64, , r: islet . In the Tower Hamlets there on ly 11,536, boa 13,000 on the register ; and in Greenwich o_ the how were 3,610 on the register. In Greenwich many I isnooloBo4.l:,t7h6esreei7tehree , ti n ""t l'.