The Sun. — London, England, 1840-03-10 00:00:00

4VENIN 0 EDITI ONvs COURT CIRCULArt. Her Alajesty gave a State Dinner yesterday, at Buckingham Palace, to the Queen Dowager. Her Majesty arrived from marlborough House at the Palace a quarter before eight S'e h'elic, and was received in the Grand Hall, by his Royal High iiiSaxe ess Pri nce Albert, accompanied by the Hereditary 'Prince of Cobourg Gotha, and also by the Hon. Miss Murray, and the Hon. Miss Lister, Maids of Honour in Waiting on the Queen ; the Earl of Errol, Lord Steward, Lord Lilford, Lord to W aiting, and C o l one l W emyss. E querry i n W a i t i ng. R:s Royal Highness Prin c e Albert conducted her Majesty th e Queen Dowager to the State Rooms. thThe di nner party consisted of her Majesty and Prince Albert, e Queen D owager, her Royal Highness the Duchess of K ent, 1 0 Seren e Hi g h ness the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Cobourg B , °t ha, the Duke of Wellington, or th w e Duke and Duchess of itherland, Earl of E rro ll, Ld Steard, Earl of Uxbridge, Lord Chamberlain Countess (,f Uxbridge, and the Ladies Eleanor a an d Constance Paget, Earl Howe, Lord Chamberlain t he Queen D owager ; Vi scount M e lb ourne , L a dy Willi am s ys '!'ell, Lord Ad o l p h us Fi tzc l arence , L a d y B ar h am , L a dy i n l ` ti ng ; France s L a dy Cli nton , L a dy i n W a iti ng on th e Q k ueen Dow ager; Lady Fanny Howard, Lady i n W a i t i ng on Li* Duchess of Kent; Hon. Miss Murray and Hon. Miss Lister, M a id s of Honour in Waiting ; Hon. Miss Mitchell, ... laid of Honour in Waiting on the Queen Dowager; Baroness : N l h zen ; Lord Lilford, Lord in Waiting ; Hon. Charles A. tl Master o f th e H ouse h o ld ; Vi scoun t B or i ng d on, Gen eman of the Bedchamber to Prince Albert ; Colonel Arm ‘i',._it ci ng. Groom in Waiting ; Colonel Wemyss, Equerry in ; Colonel Wylde, Eque rr y, a nd Mr. Seymour, Groom of the Bedchamb er , to Prince Albert ; Baron de Lowenfels, a nd Baron de Groben. The Band of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards was in attendance during dinner. Highne sses Majesty had afterwards an evening party. Their Royal Bllighne sses the Duke and Duahess of Cambridge, and the ancess Augusta of C am b r id ge, atten d e d b y Mi ss K err an d Baron Knesebeck, arrived at ten o'clock, and were received by the Hon. Misses M urra y an d Li ster, an d C o l one l Wemyss. Weippert' s Royal QU a d r ill e B an d atten d e d i n an an t e - room over the Picture Gallery, and perf wined in the course of the light the Rainbow and Coburg Waltzes, composed expressly or the occasion, Le Trio m ph a l e , an d two entire new sets of Quadrill es. 11 _ A mong the company were Monsieur Guizot t h a F renc h Am a d ssador, B aron Bulow, the Prussian Minister, Baron Gers rfft the Sax on Mi n i ster, Mons i eur d e H umme l auer , Austrian Ch arge d'Affaires, M. de Kisseleff, Russsian Charge d'Affaires, Baron Werther, Duke of Richmond, Earl of March, Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Marquis and Mar zhioness of Lansdown e , Lady Louisa Fitzmaurice, Earl of .S_helburn e , M arquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, Lady Pprances Vane, Countess of Erroll, Lady Ida Hay, Countess of urham, Lady M. Lambton, Earl and Countess of Chester- Frances Hon. Miss Forrester, Viscountess Palmerston, Lady F.,raness Cowper, Lord Alfred Paget, Lord Morpeth, Lady ?_eymeur, Right Hon. George S., and Lady Agnes Byng, 1.on• Colonel Cavendi s h, H on . Mi ss C aven di s h, Mr. Cayen -8 tish, , r Ge orge and the Hon. Miss Anson, Hon. Miss Pitt, Hon. Charles Gore, and Mr. George Edward Anson. ... Add resses of C o n gratu l at i on were presente d to hi s R oya l itgliness Prince Albert yesterday at Buckingham Palace by the following Gentlem en : kMr. Croft, Mayor of Richmond, in the County of York, on hcßoy a l H ighness's marriage with her Most Gracious Majesty Queen, from the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Richmond in Council assembled. Also a similar Address of Congratulation from the Mayor, Aldermen. Bur gesses an d Inhabitants of the same Borough in Public Meeting assembled. Sir James Duke, M.P.—from the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Boston. Mr. Anthony Atkinson, Mayor of the Borough of Beverley— from the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Beverley. Major Bell. of Beverley, accompanied by the Hon. Charles L angdale,, M.P.—from the Members of the Reform Associa tion of the Borough of Beverley, and East Riding of the County ° I York. Mr. Foster, Mayor of Cambridge; Mr. Alderman Humfrey, 4 r. Alderman Simpson, and Mr. Francis Gunnirg, Town Clerk of Cambridge—from the Corporation of Cambridge. Th e Marquis of Exeter, K. G.—from the county of Rutland. Mr. Fitzroy—from Lewes. The Mayor of Dover and a Deputation—from Dover. The Mayor of Darby and a Deputation—from Derby. Lord Charles Manners—from Grantham. The Lord Provost of Aberdeen—from Aberdeen. An Address was also presented from Kingston-upon-Hull. His Royal Hi g h ness P r i nce Alb er t was a tt en d e d b y th e fol lowing Oificers of his Household:—Mr. George Edward An ion, Treasurer ; Viscount Boringdon, Gentleman of the Bed chamber ; Colonel W ylde, Equerry ; and Mr. Seymour, Groom of the Bedchamber. , The Lo n d on P res b ytery o f t h e E sta bli s h e d Ch urc h o f Scot attended the Queen's Levee on Friday last, to present an Address to her Majesty ; and were admitted to the honour of kissing hands in the followityr order :—The Rev. P. Lori rer (M o d erator ) , t h e Rev. 'Doctors John Crombie and, j n r a mes R. Brown, the Rev. Messrs. James C. Burns, and Wil e•n, M. Thomp s on (Ministers), with William Hamilton, Geo. `.. W e3r, J. Marshall, W. CampbelL.W. Ramage, R. Ragg, J. t . erguson, A. Gille s pie, jun.,William Maclure, J. Pateson, J. Morris, T. Pickett, J. Morrison, C. Vertue, D. Gray and Duguid, Esqrs. (Elders.) Mr. Benjamin Wood, M.P., was presented to the Queen at t he Levee on Friday, by Sir James Duke, M.P. „.Addresses of Congratulation were presented to her Royal Hi ghness the Duchess of Kent, yesterday , from t he followin g Place s: From the Members of the Reform Association of the I ° o riougn o f B e verley, and East Riding of t he Count y of .1), ori_r, on the nationally - hailed occ asion of his Ro y al Hi g hness the Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg Gotha's union in marriage with her most Gracious and Beloved Majesty the Queen, pre sented by Major Bell, accompanied by the Hon. Charles Lang dale, M.P. , From the Inhabitants of Beverley, agreed to at a general meet mg held on the 24th February, 1840, presented jointly by Mr. Anth on y Atkinson, Mayor of the Borough, and Major Bell, of Beverley. From the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Boston, presented by Sir James Duke, M.P. From the Mayor, Aldermen, Burgesses, and Inhabitants of the Borough of Richmond, in the county of York, in public meeting assembled, presented by Mr. Croft, Mayor of Richmond. From Kingston, presented by the Hon. C. Langdale. From Aberdeen, presented by the Lord Provost of Aberdeen. From Derby, presented by Mr. John Saunders, the Mayor, the Hon. J. Ponsonby, M.P., and Mr. Strutt, M.P. for the Borough (from the Town Council of Derby). From Grantham, presented by L Ord Charles Manners. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent was attended during the presentation of the Addresses by Lady Fanny Ho ward, Lady in Waiting. Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of the Queen. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager visited the Princess Au- ' gusta yesterday at Clarence House, St. James's.. Her Majesty also paid a visit to the Duchess of Glaucester, at Gloucester House. His Royal Highness Prince Albert gave a sitting yesterday to Mr. Bailey, R. A., for the Marriage Medal. Mr. Wynn Ellis, M.P., Mr. Moore, and Mr. Ballance, a deputation on the Silk Trade, had an interview with Mr. La bouchere yesterday at the Board of Trade. Mr. H. Wavmouth, Mr. Thomas Wilson, Mr. Remington Mills, Mr. Sarimel Gale, and Mr. John Wilks, a deputation from the Deputies of the Protestant Dis , enting Congregations in London and the vicinity, had an interview with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home-office. The Lord Mayor and Mr. Grattan had interviews with Vis count Melbourne yesterday in Downing-street. Sir H. M'Leod had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at the Colonial-office. Mr. Blanford, Mr. Knox, Mr. Ponsonby, and Mr. Hillman, ' deputation from the Thames Plate Glass Company, had an int erview w i t h M r . Labouchere yesterday at the Board of T rade. Mr. Lefevre, Sir B. Hall, and Mr. Chadwick, had inter views with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home office. k A SHION ABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lothian, at Warren's Hotel, Regent -street, from Lady Suffield's, Bliekling, Northampton ; Lord Prudhoe, at ditto, from Stanwick Park, Yorkshire Bishop of Bangor, at ditto, from the Palace, Bangor ; Mr. and Mrs. Ellison, at ditto, from , Sudbrook Holm, Lincoln ; Lord Seaton, at Hawkins's Hotel, Dover street, from Lyneham House, Devon ; Sir Alexander Walet, at Lord Brougham's, in Grafton-street, from the Hague ; General Maitland, in Berkeley-square ; Sir George and Lady Pocock, in York-street, Portman nuare ; Sr Edward and Lady Sudden, at Crawley's, York Hotel, Albemarle-street ; Sir Frederick Hamilton, Hart., i n G rea t C um b er l an d-pl ace ; Colonel Sir John Eustace, from Brighton ; Lord Camoys, from Stonor Park, Oxfordshire ; Rear-Admiral Sir James Gordon, K.C.13., from Dublin ; the Marquis of Waterford, at the Cavendish Hotel, from Liverpool ; Major-General Hill, from Leamington ; Sir Charles Burrell, Bart.. M. P., from Sussex ; Captain Ryder Burton, in Park-square ; th e Marquis of Ormond, from Cheltenham ; the Lord Provost of Edinburgh at the Union Hotel, Coekspur street ; the Hon. John Coventry, at Coventry House, Piccadilly : Earl of Dunrowen, from Adare Abbey, near Limerick. DEPARTURES. Count Blucher, for Leamington Spa ; Lord and Lady William Somerset, for Gloucester-row, Weymouth ; Captain and Mrs. Wyndham end family, for Leamington Spa ; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Ramsay, for Bath ; the Hon. and Rev. Dr. Wellesley, from Cavendish square, for Bishop Wearmouth, Durham ; the Hon. John Chet wynd Talbot, from Great George -street, for the Oxford Circuit ; Lady Cooke. for Leamington Spa ; General Sir Henry Campbell, for Richmond Lodge, Surrey ; Major Forster, for Dublin ; the Hon. Mrs. Parker, for War wickshire ; Captain Steele (Marine Artillery), for Paris ; Captain Boteler, R N., for Dover ; Sir Robert, Lady, and Miss Wilmot Horton, for Dover ; the Master of Baliol College, from the Clarendon Hotel, for Oxford Cower- SitV ; Lord Girrington, from Whitehall-yard, for Wycombe Abbey, Bucks ; Colonel Howard, for Weymouth ; Sir Henry and Lady Banbury, from Warren's Hotel, Regent eet, for Oulgelly House, North Wales; the Hon. Miss N.ipiers, from ditto, for ditto ; the Bishop of Exeter and hiss lady, fr o m ditto, for the Palace, Exeter. His Grace the Duke of Wellington dined with h er Mak•sty at Buckingham Palace, yesterday. Lord Hill has a grand dinner on Saturday next at his 'Mansion in Belgrave- square. 'cite Countess tit Jersey's ~;rant' ball, on the 18th instant, is in honour of the debut of the Lady Sarah 'Villiers in the beau monde. Sit Fred e :ick Hamilton se ill give grand dinners in Great Cumberland-place, to-morrow, and on the 20A4 inst. I Lord and Lady Dmorben entertained the Prince and Princess of Capua and. a select party at dinner, on Sunday • evenin g , at Bute House. LORD DURHAM —We regret to learn, from f_elkirt , con ent in well-informed quarters , that his Lordship's health it in a very precar i ous s t a te ; so much so, indeed, as to Mite great eause of uneasiness to his immediate friends. t•;:.‘"Ill e Earl of Cheste.tield arrived at Chesterfield !louse, from Liverpool, on Saturday la't. On Sunday the Earl *nil Countess had a select parte to dinner, when the Duke and puchess of Beaufort, Earl and Countess n; Wilton, Bon. Co , lonel and Mrs. Anson, &e., were among the guests. Count and Countess Zichy have accompanied the Marquis of Hertford to this country. Mr. Spencer and Lady Louisa De Horsey met the Marquis . at Paris, and returned with him to town. The Earl of Devon, with Lord and Lady Courte nay, rime to town early in the past week from Powderham Devon. The Noble Earl intends to visit 1114 estates to Leland in a few weeks, aeeoinpanied by Lord I:31 Lady Coat tenay. The Countess of Burlingto n is recovering from her recent indisposition. LEWES ELECTION. The nomination took place yesterday morning at ten o'clock, on the hustings opposite the County-hall. The usual forms having been gone through, W. C. MABBOTT, Esq., proposed, and Mr. W. THOMP SON (brewer), seconded, the nomination of Viscount Con telupe, who delivered himself of a regular set quantity of the usual Tory talk about Corn-laws and O'Connell, dis cord and disorder, the prostration of the country before the demon of anarchy and revolution, and its consequent fall into weakness and decay ; opposition to demands of popular clamour, and many more such like remarks; and no other candidate being proposed, the Noble Viscount was declared to be duly elected. NEW MOUTH OF THE RIVER VISTULA, NEAR DANTZIC. DANTZIC, Fen. 27.—1 n consequence of the early break ing up of the ice in the V.stula, and the flood occasioned by the late heavy rains, the river was choked up a mile and a half above the city of Dantzic, whence it takes its course to the westward. The left bank of the river is here bounded by a dyke, which protects the fruitful low count:s , behind it; the right bank is, however, without any such artificial protection, because its immediate neigh bourhood consists of unfruitful sand land, and of a road of sand-hills or downs for a distance of several Ger man miles, which separates the river from the sea in such a decided manner that it never appeared pos sible to any one that from that side any danger was to be apprehended from the water in the Vistula. But it hap pened, on the night of the 31st January, when it was ex pected that every moment the water would run over the dykes on the left bank of the river, and produce a most dreadful inundation, that the stream, encumbered with heavy masses of ice, took its course over the right bank, and attained the sand-hills. These being from 40 to 60 feet high, stopped the water, but the current undermined them just at the place where those bills merely consist of loose sand, and are the narrowest. As soon as they gave way, the accumulated mass of water and the heavy ice found their way through this new opening with indescrib able force, and made a broad and deep channel into the sea. To stop this new natural mouth is impossible, and if it could be done, no one would feel inclined to do it. A glance upon the map suffices to give an idea of the great calamities to which the city of Dantzic was continually exposed by the windings of the Vistula to its various mouths, almost every year, by the breaking up of the ice. About thirty years ago the plan was proposed by members of the Government to form exactly the new mouth for the river, which has just been made by a na tural cause. Thus a great expense has been saved, and a great benefit operated at the same time by this occur rence. As regards the influence which this event may have on thf, communication of the town of Dantzic with the Port Fairwater, and also with Poland and the interior of the country, there is not the least ground to apprehend any interruption. The fall of the Vistula from the spot where at present the head stream has left its bed, to the mouth, near Wcnksel Munda, amounts to four feet. The only change which appears at this moment is that the water surface of the branch of the stream which borders Dantzic, " now to be called Old Vistula," falls four feet 'mar Newpaehr, the place where the breach took place. We by no means lose the navigableness of this Old Vistula, which henceforward, as before, will bring the Polish barges and the timber transports to our town. Its depth is likewise sufficient in its whole length, notwith standing the loss of four feet of water, to bear vessels of the s , ime magnitude as before. Neither does the occurrence make any change whatever in the communication of the town with the sea-port. Everything will not only remain in its old say, but our Government, true to its character, sent here immediately, without waiting for our request, one of its chief engi neers ; and, in consequence of the communications made to his Majesty by his Excellency the Chief President Von Scholl, the necessary funds have been assigned to draw the greatest advantage from this occurrence, and prevent damage by any future breaking up of the ice and overflow ing of the dykes, all of which he is instructed to repair end put in order accordingly. A commencement will probably be - made by the separation of the now so called Old Vistula from the point where the new breach took place, by the building of some sluices, in such a man. ner that, with a strong current, the forcible penetration of the wild water and the forming of sand banks can be pre vented, while they will be so disposed that all river barges and small craft can be let through at any time. POLITICAL SUMMARY OF THE MORNING JOURNALS. The Times of this morning observes, in allusion to the Perthshire election :—" It will bo seen that a considerable portion of the non-intrusion interest has been exerted in Perthshire in favour of the Whigs. Are we to conclude from this that non- intrusionism, as illustrated by the actual issue of the election, is really unpopular in that extensive county? By no means: but the truth is, that the character of the Ministry is at such a low ebb among the constituency, that their unlimited professions upon the Church questions have not been trusted."—The Morn ing Post, referring again to the Privilege question, remarks as follows :—" As nothing can be imagined so detestable as mere naked unreasoning tyranny, we are glad, as we stated yesterday, to see the change which has taken place in the House of Commons with respect to the privilege question. We are certainly much better pleased to see the House trying to establish its privileges by legislation than by thrusting the officers of our principal Court of Law into prison. The mere attempt to get out of the course in which it had so unfortunately embarked is, in comparison with the recent proceedings of the House, a good thing."— ' The Morning Chronicle, in a leading article on the subject of the Corn-laws, says :—" The motion on the Corn. laws, of which Mr. Pryme has given notice for to-morrow, is one of those awkward attempts at compromise which are sure neither to please any party nor materially to benefit any party. He proposes to lower the price per quarter at which w heat may be imported duty free, front 735. to 645. ; and to effect this change by annual reductions of 3s. each, in three successive years. Neither the farmer nor the manufacturer, the producer nor the consumer, will be disposed to acquiesce in such an arrangement."—The Morning Advertiser thus speaks of the present tactics of the Opposition :—" Motions for the production of pa pers concerning all possible matters—notices of absurd and frivolous questions to Noble Lords and Right Hon. Gentlemen—demands of useless and voluminous returns-- objections pertinaciously urged in cases of the most trivial, as well as of the most important description—complaints about everything, and tedious orations about nothing ! Such are the weapons of an offensive Opposition !" The Sowerhy Bridge Anti-Corn-law Petitior has received 1,690 signatures. The Halifax Anti-Corn-law Petition has re ceived upwards of 5,600 signatures, and measured upwards of fifty-nine feet in I ,, ngth. The petition to the Commons has been forwarded to C. Wood, Esq., M. P ; and that to the Lords to Earl Fitzwilliam. Anti-Corn-law Petitions have been forwarded to London, this week, for presentation, from the following places in the parish of Halifax :—Barkisland, with 495 signa tures ; Fixby, 71 ; Skircoat, 341 ; Bradshaw, 535 ; Stainland, 610 ; 845 ; Mixenden, 596 ; Wheatley, 465 ; Southowram, 531; Rishworth, 273. On Monday a tide-waiter, named George M'Kinnon, was examined before Mr. Rushton and Mr. Harvey, on a charge of having violated the person of a girl 13 years of age, named Mary Boon. The girl on yesterday week entered the service of the prisoner at Is. 6d. a week wages, to take eare of his three children, who lodged with him in a house in Price's-court, Great Howard street, kept by James Emmett and his wife. On Saturday night, the girl being asleep in bed, and Emmett and his wife out of the house, the prisoner took the opportunity to perpetrate the offence charged against him. The girl instantly left the he use and acquainted her mother, who resides in Vauxhall-road. Mr. Gray, house-surgeon of the North Dispensary, was called in to her, and from his evi dence it appeared no doubt could be entertained of the completion of the crime. When asked what he had to say, the prisoner replied—" I do not know what to say ; but I hope you will be kind enough to take care of my three children, as there is no one to take care of them." He was committed to take his trial at the ensuing Assizes.—Liverpool Chronicle. BLENHEIM, NEAR WOODSTOCK, SUNDAY The Duke of Marlborough, accompanied by his eldest son the Marquis of Blandford, arrived here express last evening from town in consequence of the demise of his Noble Father the late Duke, on Thursday evening. His Grace was staying at the mansion of his mother, now Dowager Duchess, in Park-lane, when he received a letter dated from hence on Thursday, in forming him of the late Duke's dangerous illness ; the next post brought a second, informing him of the Duke's dissolution. The obsequies of his Grace are fixed to take place on Friday next, at the mausoleum of the Churchill family, built by the ce lebrated Duke of Marlborostgh. The late Duke had lived in comparative retirement for some years on a wing of his noble mansion, seldom quitting it except for a short visit to on• of the watering places every year. The present Duke, by his mar riage with a sister of the Earl of Galloway, Ims four children, the Marquis of Blandford, in his 18th year, Lady Louisa Spencer Churchill, and Lords Alfred and Allan Spencer Churchill. Lord Churchill, formerly Lord F. Spencer, bro ther to the late Duke, and his son, the Hon. J. G. Spencer, Lord Galloway, and Lord Charles Churchill will, it is expected, attend the funeral. Lord John Spencer Churchill, will be ab sent, having sailed in command of the Druid frigate for the East India station. The Dowager Duchess of Marlborough is now in town. CHARGE OF PERSONATING A VOTER.—At the Leeds Borough Sessions, held during the present week. a true bill was found against Joseph Pearson for a misdemeanour. It is understood that the charge alleged against the defendant is that he gave false answers to certain questions put to him on tendering a voting paper at the election of a Town Councillor for the South Ward of the Borough of Leeds, in place of the late Mr. Hobert Derham, on Thursday, the 23d of January last. There is also, we believe, a count charging the defendant with having personated one William King, whose name appears on the Burgess Holl for a house in Lee's-yard, Meadow-lane. This prosecution has been instituted by Mr. Eddison, the Town Clerk, who happened to be in the polling booth at the time the occurrence took place. There is little reason to doubt that William King was personated, but from what we know of the circumstances we have great doubt whether Pearson can be convicted of the offence charged in the earlier counts of the indictment. DEATH FRONT FRIGHT.—fiII Saturday an in quest was held before Mr. Baker and a Jury, at the Marquis of Granby public-house, Commercial -road, St. George's, on view of the body of Hancell, a boy, aged four years, whose death was brought on by the sudden fright he sustained upon seeing his father brought home ill. TRICKS OF THE ENEMY. —The Tories are desperate, and are plying all the arts of deception and misrepre sentation, with a degree of unscrupulousness perfectly in keep ing, we admit, with the character of the party, but which must 6.1 the mind of every honest man with disgust. Among other ‘, t r i c ks," parties on behalf of Mr. Home Drummond are in dust: iouslv representii g that the sentiments of their candidate on the Church question are exactly the same as those professed by Mr. Stewart! This falsehood cannot, by this time, mislead any elector who chooses to inform himself on the subject; but wg linow that several pledges to vote for Mr. Drummond were ro L'es of God and 11n obtained on the faith of the untruth, and we have no he sitation insaying 3.t these e f e ro d obligations y i thusstandill fraudulentlya bel: poo in the r ed ekes of w Perthshire Advertiser. a s THICSUN,!1,01•11101C, TUESDAY MARCH 10, 1840. LAW IN TELLIGENCE. ROTISE OF LORDS, MAncr; 9. The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers pre sent were, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of London derry, and Lord Prudhoe. THE ICUNTESS OF DALHOUSIE V. lI`DOSTALL. The arguments in this part heard appeal, were resumed to-day, but not having concluded at four o'clock, the fur ther hearing of the case was postponed till to-morrow (this VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, 131.48er, 9. ARCHER V. SLATER. Mr. K. BRUCE replied to-day, at considerable length, in this case, the facts of which we have already given in detail. His HONOUR postponed giving judgment until he had had ar► opportunity of reading the pleadings. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) The disputes between the Church and the Courts of Law in Scotland have for some time assumed a character which renders the interference of the Legislature a matter of nc ce:,sity. Both pat ties accuse each other of meddling with the question in order to influence elections by fomenting, not by settling, the strife. Any party that does this exhibits as little worldly wisdom as honesty or piety; the gain, not of Perthshire alone, but of all the counties io Scotland, would not counterbalance the evils of unnecessarily involv int! a political party in a dispute so difficult of solution. This certainly is one of the class of questions in which a prudent Government would not interfere till the last moment. But we fear that the collision between the constituted authorities of the Church and the State is such that the absolute overthrow of the Established Church, together with serious disturbance of the public peace, may result from a continued refusal of legislative interference. The parties to the present quarrel are the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland on one side, and the patrons of livings, backed by the most solemn de cision.] of Courts of Law, on the other. Since the reign of Anne, a system of lay patronage has been established in Scotland, quite as absolute, for aught that we can make out, as that which exists in England. (From the Standard ) The public received from Lord John Russell on Friday night an official intimation that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will, after Easter, propose new taxes. We stated at the commencem znt of the Session that Minis ters had come to this determination, and were as usual charged with falsehood by those who never scruple a lie when it seems to serve their present purpose ; the ve rification of our statement has been, however, pronounced by the Ministerial leader in the House of Commons. What the new taxes are to be we have not been as yet in formed officially ; but we believe salt is to be one object of taxation, and beer, it is said, will be another. (From the Courier.) \V e are informed by the Chronicle this morning that a " petition has been sent up to the House of Commons for the immediate and total repeal of the Corn-laws, from the Board of Guardians of the Bolton Union." It adds, that " petitions for this great national object are common enough, but a petition from such a body is a novelty, and one the imitation of which is neither im proper nor unlikely." A novelty indeed ; these worthy and tender-hearted Guardians of the Poor, under the merciful dispensation of the new Poor-laws, already find their office a sinecure, and as there is no poverty to be dealt with in Bolton, they betake themselves to trade in politics. How the poor have bean disposed of does not appear, but it may be presumed the Union poor-house is to let, or at least that the pinch-pauper fare of Somerset house is let alone, or has done its work among the paupers, if doled out there in all its rigour, as becomes the duty of these Bolton Solons-depute. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S-.-YESTEADA Y. THE DERBY. 11 to 1 agst Angelica colt (taken) 14 to 1 agst Theon (taken) 15 to 1 agst Confederate—taken 16 to 1 agst Launcelot 25 to 1 agst Bokhara—taken 25 to 1 agst Gambia 30 to 1 agst Monopa 28 to 1 agst Wardan—taken 40 to 1 agst Ottoman—taken 1000 to 15 agst. Muley Ishmael 1000 to 15 agst Glenorchy THE OAKS. 7 to 2 agst Crucifix—taken 8 to 1 agst Black Bess 9 to 1 agst Lalla Rookh 14 to 1 agst Filly out of Rowton's darn TWO THOUSAND GUINEA STAKES. 2 to 1 agst Lord Orford's Angelica colt 11 to 1 agst Mr. • Wreford's Wardan 11 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Crucifix IMPERIAL PARLIAIVIENT HOUSE OF LORDS,III4Acm 9. Their Lordships met at Five o'Clock. CHURCH EXTENSION. The Bishops of St. ASAPH, SALISBURY, and HERE roRD presented petitions in favour of Church Exten sion, but in no instance were we able to catch the de signations of the petitioners. RATING OF WORKHOUSES. The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petiticn from the inhabitants of the Union of Eastbouii e (Sussex), against the rating of workhouses. The Marquis of NORMANBY having presented a similar petition, The Duke of RICHMOND observed that it was of great importance that a Bill upon the subject should be passed before the sth of April, as by that day the collectors would receive the rates (if not prevented by a Bill), and there would not be much facility in getting the money back from them. The Marquis of NORMANBY believed that a Bill to prevent the rating of Workhouses was brought into the House of Commons on Friday, buthe was not certain. CHURCH PATRONAGE (SCOTLAND.) . . The Duke of RICHMOND Presented a petition from Elgin, approving of the conduct of the Civil Courts against the General Assembly ; and another petition in favour of the Assembly, and against the Civil Courts. He also presented petitions from parishes in the counties of Aberdeen, Inverness, and Forfar, and from the bo rough of Keith, against the existing system of Church patronage. Tho Earl of ABERDEEN presented petitions against intrusion of ministers from the town of Montrose, and from several parishes in the counties of Ross, Fife, and Forfar. CORN-LAWS.—MAYNOOTH COLLEGE. Lord REDESDA LE presented petitions against the alteration of the Corn-laws, and others against the grant to Maynooth College, but whero from we could not hear. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (IRE- LAND). The Marquis of WESTMEATH begged to ask .he Noble Marquis the Secretary for the Home De partment whether the rumour was true that a man who had been recently convicted of a murder, com mitted some years ago in Dublin, and for which his accomplices had been hanged, received a commutation of his sentence ? The Marquis of NORMANBY had not heard of such an occurrance, but would inquire. CHURCH BUILDING'S ACT AMENDMENT CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Sergeant ARAnis.) Yesterday Eliza Burgess, aged 25, a young woman of rather prepossessing appearance. was indicted fur conceal. ing the birth of a child. Mr. DOAN H conducted the prisoner's defence. It appeared in evidence that the prisoner was cook in the service of a lady, named Simmons, who resided in the Edgeware-road, and for some time prior to the sth of January a suspicion was entertained that she was iu the family-way, but she always denied it. On the day in question hrr mistress, in consequence of something which transpired, pressed her upon the subject, and she at length admitted that she had been delivered of an infant, and that. it was dead, and she bad placed it in a iron pot under the dresser, where it was ultimately found. A gentleman named Bloxham was called on behalf of the prisoner, and he stated that she had been in his .service for a considerable time, and had behaved herself remark ably well. He added, that he considered she was of rather weak mind, and he had no doubt that some man had im posed on her. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and at the same time expressed an opinion that the prisoner was an object of commiseration. Mr. Bloxham said that if a lenient sentence were passed epos her, he would take care of her under his own roof, until she could be got into an asylum, arrangements to v%hich effect were in progress. The Court ultimately ordered the judgment to be respited. Janus Poulton, aged 27, was indicted for Lnlawfully endeavouring to dissuade a person, named Jame . ; Coulson, from appearing to give evidence against a person Lamed Fullilove. Mr. DOANE defended the prisoner. The facts of this case have appeared very recently at great length in the police reports. Mr. Doane took a technical objection in the course of the proceedings, which the Court held to be fatal, and the defendant was conse quently acquitted. Two persons, named Pratt and Davis, were convicted of assaults, and sentenced to be imprisoned in the Peni tentiary for two years. NEW COURT. SENTENCES.—Death.—Jas. Dodds, aged 27, who was convicted on Saturday before the COMMON SERGEANT was brought up this morning to receive the awful sentence of death. The ComstoN SERGEANT shortly addressed the convict, and having pointed out the heinous nature of his offence, said it was impossible to say in what manner her Majesty, by the advice of her Privy Council, might dispose of him, but under all circumstances, he found it his bounden duty to pass upon him the last sentence of the law. The Learned Judge then pronounced the sentence of death in the usual form. _ _ _ Captain John Byrom, who pleaded guilty on Saturday of embezzling arid stealing Government stores, the property of her Majesty, while conveying a transport, freighted with convicts to New South Wales, appeared at the bar to re ceive judgment. The COMMON SERGEANT addressing the prisoner, said —ln consequence of the excellent character you have re ceived, the sentence of the Court is that you be imprisoned in the Penitentiary at Milibank for the space of one year, and very well off you may consider yourself. The prisoner bowed and retired from the bar. The following prisoners were sentenced to transportation for the periods set against their respective names, viz.:— For Fifteen Years—John Smith. For Fourteen Years—Stephen Powell, Thos. Watson. For Ten Years—Mary Ann Hart, Henry Smith, Mary Welch, Henry Howe, Henry Griggs, Thomas Newman, Patrick Desmond, W. Jones, Louisa Smith, Thomas Pearce, Richard Thompson, John Wilds, William Sey mour, John Stevens, John Brown, William Handley, 'Wil liam Weston, Amelia Page. For Seven Years—Lewin Caspar, Daniel Ives, George Etherington, Mary King, W. Carter, Wm. Baldwin, W. Minall, Wm. Stone, Wm. Grimwood, Wm. Drake, John Edward Williams, Ann Jones, Wm. Benjamin Hollings head, Charles Belcher, Henry Lumpkin, George Wil liams, John Hart, Thomas Spicer, Henry Rush, Thomas Rush, Henry Waltham, Henry James, Susan Pike, Mar tin Gavan, Margaret Barnes, Thomas Stoneham, John Lefevre, Esther Hawkin, John Brice, Charles Smith, John Jordan, Henry Johnson. Imprisonment:and Hard Labour for Two Years—Wm. Metcalf, J. Cowderoy, J. Smith. A number of others were sentenced to shorter periods of imprisonment, varying from one to fourteen days. In the course of the Sessions twenty-five pleaded guilty, and twenty were acquitted. The Court, at its rising, adjourned to Monday, the 6th of April. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BO W-STREET. Yesterday a man named Charles Langtvorn,lirt the ecr vice of Messrs. Warren and Co., blacking manufacturers, was brought before Mr. Hall on a charge of stealing a quantity of articles, the property of his employers, and Charles Ratcliffe, Daniel Munroe, and John were charged with receiving the same, well knowiag them to have been stolen. Mr. Edmund appeared for the prosecution, and a clerk from the office of Alderman Banner appeared for the prisoners. Mr. Warren said that the first named prisoner had been in his employ fur nearly twelve years ; and, since the cir enmstances connected with the present charge had come to his knowledge, he had discovered that property amount ing to about 10/. a week had been stolen from his premises by the prisoners and their companions, which they con trived to carry away in their pockets on leaving work. The property consisted of Congreve and Lucifer matches, together with treacle, and other articles used in the factory. Richard Brett stated, that in the month of November he saw the prisoner Langworn take a quantity of matches from the warehouse about seven o'clock in the evening. Mr. HALL asked why he did not then mention the cir- I cumstance to one of his employers? Mr. Warren said that this witness was employed as foreman in a particular part of his establishment. Witness did not mention it to any person ; and, in JA nuary, again he saw him take away two parcels of Con greve matches, and, in the course of February, a load of hams being received at the house, on opening it two were missed, one of which he subsequently saw in the Pine Apple public-house, Hungeriord-street, where it was cut up by Ratcliffe, and sold to the other prisoners. Witness could swear that the ham had rolled out of the bzrrel, and he heard Ratcliffe say that he had taken it out of a lark. Witness partook of it with them, and he was half drunk at .the time. Mr. HALL considered that some stronger evidence than that which had been given by the witness, would be te quisite to substantiate the charge. Mr. EDMUND said that he could produce the wife of one of the prisoners. Mr. HALL—You cannot possibly imagine for a moment that any judge or jury would convict on such testimony, nor would any grand jury find the bills, as the evidence brought forward is only that of an accomplice, unsup ported by any other. Mr. ElmoNo said he was prepared with a witness who would prove that the property produced was found on the premises of the prisoner Munroe. Mr. WARREN said that unfortunately he could get no evidence but that of persons connected with the robbery, every one of whom were in his service. The witness further stated that he got four parcels of Congreve matches in October from the prisoner Gillon, which he took to the house of Munroe, for which he (wit ness) was: to receive at the rate of 2s. 6d. a gross. lie had altogether 15s. due to him from the various robberic.s, which was to be paid to him by instalments by Munroc's wife. Mr. EDMUND said that if he was allowed to call the wife of the prisoner &lion to give evidence, he would undertake to say that no charge woad be brought against hire. Mr. 1-14 LL said he did not wish to throw impediments in the way, but he thought the evidence of suer a witness could amount to nothing ; besides the witness, after a lapse of five months, had made statements of a robbery in which he was an accomplice. Mr. Warren said, that if he had 40 thieves in his estal - lishment, he should be obliged to get the evidence of, ore of the party to ensure a conviction. Mr. HALL. observed that such a course might not exactly be legal. Mr. EDMUND applied to have the prisoners remanded for a few days, arid be would, by that time, be able to bring forward evidence. Mr. HALL said he would certainly detain them, as the robbery appeared to have been committed to a considerable extent. The witness, on being re-called, said that be had never received money from Munroe, but front his wife, aid that he had often brought stolen property to him. Mr. HALL—\Vheu did you first make known the rob bery to your employer? Witness—Yesterday my wife called on Mr. Warren, and he promised he would forgive me if I would give evi dence against the others, and I knew, as late zs last Tues day, that Gillon took two parcels of match( s to the back of the premises, and distributed them among the m en . Mr. HALL—What wan - es do you receive ? Witness_ Nineteen shillings a week. Mr. HALL—How long have you been a foreman ? Wit ness—About two years over a certain number of men, but not over the whole establishment Mr. HALL— And you continued for such a length of time to allow such proceedings, without apprising your employers ? Witness— I did not know that it went to such • an extent. Mr. HALL said that there was no use in following up the case any farther for the present, and the prisoners might be again brought up on Thursday next. It is stated by a resident at Melbourne, that the steward of the Prerrier distributed to his labourers the m eans of celebrating with their families the marriage of the Q ueen and Prince Albeit; and that his Lordship has placed 35/. i n the hands of the Vicar in aid of a subscription to relieve the prevalent distri ss there ; also that the Noble Viscount has re cently announced his intention of giving a plot of land for the site of an infant school. UNIVERSITY In TELLIGENCE. OXFORD, MARCH 7,1 - There will be an election at Lin coln College on Saturday, the 28th instant, of three scholars on the foundation of that college. Candidates are required to present their testimonials to the rector on cr before the 24th. The examiners appointed by the trustees of the mathe matical scholarships have given notice that an examination of candidates will be holden, for the purpose of electing a scholar on that foundation, on Tuesday, the 24th instant, at the Clarendon. John Thurston Mott, Esq., having presented the Rev. J. A. Partridge, of Christ Church, to the rectory of Beaconsthorpe, Norfolk, he has been instituted to the same. The Lord Bishop of Lichfield has appointed the Rev. F. E. Paget, student of Christ Church, Rural Dean of the Deanery of Tamvvorth, Staffordshire. The Rev. J. C. Jenkins, of Lincoln College, has been instituted to the vicarage of Ashley St. Leger's, North amptonshire, on the presentation of Mrs. Gaitakell and Mrs. Stenhouse. On the sth instant a meeting of the subscribers to the Oxford Memorial of Cramer, Ridley, and Latimer, was holden in the Council Chamber of this city, when it was resolved that a monumental structure be erected at the northern extremity of St. Mary Magdalen Churchyard, in connection with the rebuilding and enlarging the northern aisle of the church, so as to be capable of containing about the same number of persons as it was proposed to accom modate in a separate building, and that the aisle be called the Martyrs' Aisle. Mr. Harris Smith, of Oriel College, has been elected a Hertford scholar. The examiners have thought fit to notice that Mr. Henry Cotton, of Christ Church, also distinguished himself in the examination. A SWINDLER•—BOULOGNE, MARCH 4.—An Englishman was this day arraigned for obtaining money under false pretences of the Countess Reoterlitz, who was, on the 10th ult., at Calais, on her way to England, on a visit to Prince Albert, but experienced some difficulty in obtaining her pass port. The accused found means to introduce himself to her at Meurice's Hotel, and, representing himself as Lord Alfred Paget, he first of all obtained fifty francs at her hands, saying he could procure the passport at the cost of about 47 francs, ' and afterwards he got 160 francs more. In the end the Countess found she had been duped, and the pretended Lord Paget. was apprehended by the police. On the trial it appeared in evidence that the accused had introduced himself to Lord C. Paget, who commands the Firebrand, and had enjoyed the pleasure of shaking hands with the Noble Lord. To Mr. Barry, of the Albion Hotel, he pronounced himself to be Captain Louis, saying he had to remain at Calais until Lord Paget's carriages came from Ostend. He told other persons he was the Duke of Richrrond. With the money obtained from the Countess it appeared he had paid his bill at Barry's Hotel, amounting to 130 francs. To most of the questions put to him he pleaded the shortness of his memory, and that when he had taken too much wine he was not cognisant of his actions ; and that, at the moment when he said he was Lord Page., he really believed himself to be that person. The Pro cuseur du Roi addressed the Court, reprobating his conduct in strong terms, and he was sentenced to thirteen months' im prisonment, fifty francs fine, and the costs. FIRE IN MANCHILSTEE.—About five o'clock on Thursday morning a fire broke out on the premises of Messrs. Hilton and Bradshaw, callenderers and makers-up, Callender-street, leading from Palace-street to Palace-square. In the whole history of Manchester fires, we scarcely remember of anything so extraordinary ever . having occurred as the fire above-mentioned. Two warehouses are entirely destroyed, and five others are considerably damaged. How to account for the following fact we know not ; but it certainly is a fact that although Air. Rose was at the spot in less than ten minutes after receiving information of the fire, one warehouse was literally burnt to the ground, and another adjoining it was so far enveloped in the flames, that in the course of an hour after wards it was equally prostrate, and without exaggerating the least, not one stone was left upon another which was not thrown down. No doubt the police were on fluty ; and it is not at all to be supposed that any one connected with our present police establishment, and especially the patrol appointed to such an important beat, could be in any way remiss in a matter like this. What renders the affair still more singular, is the fact that one of the warehouses which have been destroyed was empty, and there being nothing combustible about it except the timber used in the building—the floors in the rooms were ail flagged—the wonder is that it should have broken out so suddenly—that, in short, one warehouse should literally be burned to the ground, and another, where there was scarcely anything to burn but brick walls and flags, should be in an almost equal state of destruction while a policeman was going roiled his beat, which, at most, we believe, ought not to occupy him more than half an hour. This is truly a phenomenon for which our philosophy is puzzled to account. The whole esti mated damage is about 7,0001., which, though a great sum, might have been much more. Had the warehouses been well stocked with the goods with which buildings of this description are usually tilted, the damage would have been immense, and the fire might not have been extinguished so readily.—Man• chester Times. GLAMORGANSHIRE ASSIZES,WEDNESDAY.— TriE ATTORNEY GENERAL V. THE BARON SPOLASCO - When the case came on for trial, the defendant moved, through his Counsel Mr. Vaughan Williams and Mr. James, to postpone the trial to the ensuing Assizes, on the ground of the defendant not being able to obtain the attendance of the principal witness for the defence, a Mr. Holbrookc, a copperplate engraver and printer of Dublin, who was the person that engraved and printed the label for the Baron Spolasco's pill-boxes, which label is the subject of the present indictment. It appeared upon the affidavit that a subrcena, with conduct money, had been forwarded to this person so far back as the 26th of February last, but from some unknown cause the witness was not in attendance on the trial ; and that, moreover, the defendant had been put to great inconvenience in preparing for his trial, in consequence of not having an earlier answer to an application which he had forwarded to th e Commissioners of Stamps. The indictment was of great length, consist. ing of about 25 counts, a full copy of which the defendant could not procure in time for his Counsel. Mr. Vaughan Williams most strenuously urged that, upon this and other grounds, the defendant was justly entitled to a postpone ment of his trial. Mr. Wilson, Counsel for the Crown, insisted that the present application came too late, and that as the Government had come fully prepared to try the case, the Crown would be put to very heavy expenses by the postponement of the trial. The Learned Judge considered that it was most requi site for the ends of justice that the defendant should not be taken by surprise, but that lie should be enabled to h ave in Court all the wit n e sses necessary for his defence, and ordered accordingly. THE TYRIA/C—This vessel, which was sunk a few weeks since, off Gravesend, by the Manchester steamer, has at length been weighed. On Friday, at one o'clock, th e weather being very favourable for the operation, which had not been the case for some days, the four-chain lighters which- had been sent from her Majety's dockyard rt Sheerness to raise the ship were put in requisition, and the four chains which h a d b e en carried under the vessel's bottom, were all Wit at low water. Upon the rising of t he tide the lighters were alm os t drawn beneath the water by the heavy strain upon them o duced by the immense weight of the ship and her cargo. Fur some time great fears were entertained that the lighters would sink, but at length the vessel, with a sudden s p rin g , left the c‘ay ' in which she had been embedded. The event was imme diately notified to those on shore by the union-jack being run up to the head of her mainmast, the only one left standi ng . The Tyrian was t aken in tow, with the lighters, th e vessel hanging on their chains, by a , steam-tug, which conveyed her to the shore at Nort hfieet. Ihe operation has been a v ery ex _ pensive one. It is expected that the Tynan will b e got on shore this day, when she will be pumped dry, the leaks stopped, and the bodies of the unf ortunate sutti-rers, five in numb ei , an; the cargo, will be got out. At one time great doubts were en tertained whether the vessel could be raised at all, in conse quence of the great weight of the cargo, and it was in contem plation to blow her up with gunpowder, if the plan of raising her by chain-lighters had not succeeded. THE UNITED SERVICE M USEU M ,- - The ninth anniversary meeting of the members of this institution was belt! on Saturday at the Thatched H ouse Tave rn , St. James's . - street, and was very numerously attended by officers of h o t} services. At two o'clock the Marquis . of Londonderry was un animously called upon to preside. After a short address iron the Noble Chairman, the Secretary read the proceedi ngs of thf last anniversary meeting, and then the abstract o f the ac counts of the institution for the year ending 1839 , from which it appeared that the receipts amounted to I,Sevq. 19s. 3d. , and the expenditure 1,753/. IN. Id., leaving balance in hang of 109/. 9s. 2d. THE INDIA MAIL.—On Friday the India Mail from London passed through Faris. There were thirty-six boxes, containing, besides despatches, 30,000 letters. BILL. The House then went into Committee upon this Bill. The Bishop of LONDON proposed an amendment, which was agreed to, and the Huse resumed. The Marquis of BUTE presented petitions from Scotland against the intrusion of Ministers. CASE OF FROST AND OTHERS. The Marquis of NORMANBY rose to call the attention of the House to a petition from Newport, presented on Friday night in favour of Frost and others, which had led to a communication with that town, and which was stated by the Noble Lord who had presented it to have been signed by 1,500 out of a population of 6,000, among whom were the names of the most respectable inhabitants, and that the four first names were those of four of the most wealthy individuals in the town. This account he had no doubt the Noble Lord had received on what appeared to him good authority, and as he had appeared to attach considerable importance to it, and had an nounced his intention to call the attention of the House to it, with a view to induce it to comply with the prayer of the petitioners, he thought it would not be unneces sarily occupying their Lordship's time to show them the Noble Lord had been misinformed in everything re specting it. With respect to the population it was 12,000, instead of 6,000, as stated by the Noble Lord. Lord TEYN HAM was understood to observe that included the population of the borough, whereas he had spoken of the town only. The Marquis of N ORM AN BY resumed.—Then as to the 1,500 signatures, their Lordships would suppose these were all of male persons, but this was not the case, the majority of them being of women and children, and the names of several members of a family were signed by the same individual ; there was also a considerable number of names evidently in the same handwriting. With respect to the four names at the head of the petition, one of them was that of Ed ward Frost, the uncle of the person convicted, who was himself in confinement for some time on suspicion of being engaged in the same transac tions, but the Government had not preferred any bill against him. Another was that of William Townsend, the father of a person who bad been convicted at the same time with Vincent. With regard to the other two persons to whom the Noble Lord had alluded, as being some of the most wealthy inhabitants of Newport, the one was a small tradesman, and the other was a person who had only been resident two years in the place, and who was now selling off, with the intention of quitting it. He had been informed that hardly any tradesmen of the least respectability in the place was at all aware that such a petition was in the course of circulation. It was true that a petition had been presented in favour of the prisoners, signed by a certain portion of tha re spectable inhabitants of the place, but that was against the extreme penalty of the law being carried into effect, and was signed by those persons, not because they entertained the slightest doubt as to thy• evidenceupon which the prisoners had been convicted, but because, like many highly respectable persons in this country, they entertained a conscientious objection to the extreme penalty of the law being carried ino effect in any case ; but he believed that few or none of those persons who, in the usual accep tation of the term, would be called respectable in the borough of Newport had signed the second petition. As the Noble Lord who pre sented that petition had deemed it of such importance as to take the rather unusual step of giving notice of his intention to draw their Lordships' attention to it after Easter, with a view of interfering with the exer cise of the prerogative of mercy by the Crown, he thought it right to inquire into the circumstances attending the petition, and the result of his inquiries had been such as he had stated to their Lordships. Lord TEYN HAM had never been in the town of Newport—the petition bad been sent to him by parties whom he considered as respectable, and as the Noble Marquis had admitted that the former petition had been most respectably signed, he thought he was justified in assuming that the signatures to the petition he had pre sented were equally respectable. The Duke of BEAUFORT presented a petition from some place in the county of Brecon, in favour of the extension of religious instruction. HORSE RACING BILL. The Duke of RICHMOND moved the third reading of the Horse Racing Bill. The Bill was then read a third time, and passed. After which their Lordships adjourned at twenty minutes before six o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MARCH 9. The SPEAKER took the chair at thousual hour. Mr. MORRISON was introduced by Mr. BANNERMAN and Mr. DENNISTOUN, and took the oaths and his seat for Inverness. Sir C. B. VERE brought in the Eastern Counties Extension Bill, which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time. Mr. MORRISON presented a petition from the Presbytery of Inverness, in favour of non-intrusion. Mr. CRAWFORD brought in the Tower Ward Improvement Bill, which was read a first, and ordered to be read a second time. Mr. ORD brought in the Newcastle-upon-Tyne and North Shields Railway Bill, which was read a first, and ordered to be read a second time. Mr. HAYTER b roug ht u p th e R e po r t of the Com mittee on the Tweeddale Patent Drain Tile and Brick Company, which was ordered to be engrossed. The Report of the Committee on the Marine Insu rance Company's Bill was brought up and ordered to be engrossed. The Greenhill and Eckington Road Bill was read a second time. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE brought in the Clerkenwell Improvement Bill, which was read a first time. Sir C. DOUGLAS moved the second reading of the Birmingham and Warwick Canal Bill. Read a second time, and ordered to be committed. Lord MARCUS HILL presented a peti▪ tion frora Evesham, against the continua nce of the opi▪ um trade with China ; a petition from the Grand Jur y of th e County of Leitrim , praying for an alteration of th e Corn-laws ; and a petition from the same place, for an extension of the elective franchise. Mr. S. BARRY presented petitions from severa l parishes in Cork , in favour of Municipal Reform. Mr. VILLIERS presented petitions from eo'ricul tu Essex, signed b y 1 tural parishes in York,. Lancaster, and Sonlerset p Wc yt h g at f li o ' r a repeal of the present 960 Corn-laws.in habitants, nd from praying a petition from Dudley , for the abolition of Eccle siastical Courts, and the release of John Thorogood. Mr. JAMES STE WART presented a petition from Honiton, for the abolition of the Corn-laws. Mr. W. W I LLIAMS presented three petitions from Monmouth, in favour of Church extension, a petition for the abolition of Church -rates, and the release of John Thorogooti, and one from Pont-y -pool for the abolition of beer houses. Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from a place in Lancashire for the repeal of the Corn-laws. Mr. ALSTON presented a petition from Bishop Stortford, praying that Union Workhouses might he exempted from the payment of parochial rates. Sir G. STRICKLAND presented eleven pe itic.ns from various places in the West Riding of Yorkshire, praying for the repeal of the Corn-laws. Lord ELIOT presented petitions from Cornwall against the Irish Corporation Bill, and against further grants to the College of Maynooth. Lord G. SOMERSET presented a petition from Birmingham against the monopoly granted to railway p roprietors. Mr. BAINES presented petitions from the We - st Riding of Yorkshire, for the abolition of Church rates, and the release of John Thorogood, and the repeal of the Corn-laws. Sir J. Y. i3ULLER presented petitions for religious instruction in the colonies, for Church Extension, and against further grants to the College of Mayncoth. Mr. JAMES sTEUART presented a petition from the Secretary of a \Vorking Man's Association, praying for Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage. Mr. R. PALMER presented a petition from War wickshire, praying for Church Extension. . - An HoN. MEMBER presented a petition from the Poor-law Guardians of the East Riding of Yorkshire, praying for an alteration in the law of bastardy. Mr. M. PHILLIPS presented five petitions from the county of Lancaster, praying for the repeal of the Corn-laws. Mr. VERE presented two petitions against the in ,rusion of Ministers into the Church of Scotland. Sir EDWARD SUGDEN p resen t e d t wo petitions from places in the diocese of Ripon, praying for Church Extension, Mr. HUME presented twelve petitions, from va rious places in Scotland, praying for Extension of the Suffrage and Vote by Ballot. Also a peti tion from King's Lynn, numerously signed both by members of the Established Church and Protestant Dissenters, against any compulsory payments towards the support of religion, and praying the House to adopt measures to put an end to the persecution at present existing on this subject. He begged to state that, in a letter which he had received accompanying the petition, the petitioners had stated that t bey were one and all resolved to pay no more Church-rates. Also a petition from the same place, praying for the to tal and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws. Mr. JONES presented a petition from some place in Scotland against the intrusion of ministers into the Church of Scotland. Admiral ADAM presented several petitions to the same effect. Mr. HOPE presented a petition from some place in Yorkshire against the Popish College of Maynooth.— (A laugh.) Sir W. FOLLETT presented a petition from Pre bendary Dennis, of Exeter, praying for the repeal of the Tithe Commutation Act, and against tile Bill at present before the House for the amendment of that Act. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. An HoN. MEMBER on the Opposition side of the House gave notice that on the bringing up the re port of the Elections Committee, he should move for leave to bring up a clause, subjecting persons giving false evidence before Committees of the House to the pains and penalties of perjury. Capt. PECHELL gave notice that in the Com mittee on the Union Workhouses Bill, he should move a clause exempting hospitals from rates and taxes. . Mr. BRO ; FHERT . ON moved that leave of ab sence be given to Mr. John Jervis to attend the As sizes.—Agreed to. IRISH MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS BILL. Lord MORPETH moved the third reading of the Irish Municipal Corporations Bill. On the question being put, Mr. HOME rose and said he wished to ask the Noble Lord the Secretary for Ireland whether the pro vision relating to the pilotage of the bay of Galway was to be a definitive one, or whether it would be in the power of the Lord Lieutenant to make such alterations in it as might hereafter be found convenient ? Lord MORPETH replied it could be changed, if necessary, on a future occasion. Sir G. SINCLAIR rose to oppose the third read ing of the Bill. He had not of late taken much part in the various debates connected with the state of Ireland. He felt it his duty, however, to come forward on the present occasion, and to oppose _ _ himself to those Hon. Friends around him, with whom he had always had the honour and the happiness to act. He believed that Ireland could never he happy till there was a repeal of the Union carried in it—not of the Union between that country and England, but of the union between it and the Papal See. He was impelled to address the House from a persuasion— confirmed by an ominous prophecy from a high quarter —that the Protestant interests of Ireland, with which those of the empire at large are inseparably allied, were menaced by the greatest danger. He found in that country the Catholics bold, confident and organised, while the Protestant party there were divided and depressed. Each victory achieved by the one party encouraged the prosecution of some new attempt by the other. The potent " screw" of the " six millions" argument was triumphantly wielded by the Roman Catholics now, as the " six members "argument was formerly by some imperious boroughmonger, to wring fresh conces sions from yielding Prime Ministers. And the Roman Catholics seemed justified, by the result of every experiment, in opeiily telling the British legisla ture, " Because we are six millions we are en titled to have whatever we want—to demolish whatever we dislike." The Church Temporalities Bill (as we understood) bad been wrung from fear rather than yielded with good-will—a fear produced by a state of things arising from the culpable negligence of pre ceding Governments, who had not upheld, as they ought to have done, the supremacy of the law ; and the Act, though unwillingly assented to by the Church, was in reality an act of sacrilegious cha racter, which only purchased a hollow and precarious truce, and led Protestants to neglect the defence of their not yet alienated rights, and their not yet confis catt d property. A system of conciliation and compromise never proved beneficial in the long run. In conformity with the wish of the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth, for whose judgment he had the highest respect, he had abstained from forcing the House to a division at any earlier stage of the Bill, and was un willing to deprive the Right Hon. Baronet of the credit of an experiment, of which he not only doubted the success, but questioned the wisdom.—(Hear, hear.) His own opinion, however, remained unmitigated and unchanged ; and though the amendments of the Lords might remove much that was objection able, and his conviction was that by forcing such a Bili on Ireland, the House would be conferring a sword, not establishing a peace—would be erecting a tyranny, not giving a blessing. He believed the mea sure would be received with jealousy and apprehension by the great body of the gentlemen of Ireland, that it would at the same time be received with indifference by nineteen-twentieths of those " millions" for whose be nefit it was pretended to be designed. He should never cease to regret that the Legislature had not exercised the wiser discretion of only abolishing corporations, and thus leaving all parties on a perfect equality, which was all that until lately the Roman Catholics them- selves had required. But he observed with sorrow and surprise that the demands of Catholics were in the ra tio of their power ; that, as they themselves had boasted, they cajoled us when weak, and coerced us when strong. And what was now sought was not an annihilation of abuse, but a transfer of supremecy.—( Hear, hear.) There was an annual, he might say, a perennial argu ment of the Noble Lord opposite—it was, that the Eng lish and the Scotch having obtained Municipal Reform, he thought it ought to be granted to the Irish. He did not see the strength of that argument, because what was the state of Ireland ?—why, three parts of its popu lation were Catholics, and the Protestant Church of the country bad been denounced by the Hon. Member for Dublin in no measured terms. He was determined, by every meansin his power, to express his hostility to the Bill, because he believed its tend enc y to be to stren g the n 1 the hands of the Catholic faction in Ireland, and its de sign to overthrow the venerated Establishment of the Church. It was his firm belief that the state of Pro testant feeling throughout Ireland had never been fairly represented in that House, and that the statement s upon which the Bill was founded were without any foundation. His disappointment at the result of the Roman Catho lic Relief Bill was even greater than that of his Right Hon. Friend the Member for Tamworth. Wh en he was first elected to a seat in that House, in 1811, he annou nced himself the humbl e a d vocate o f the Catholic claims, ani he had renounced all h o p e of personalag grandisement by voting in favour o f t h e motion ofN. r G rat tan, and he had now to exp ress hi s regret that not one of the expectations he h a d en t erta i ne d with regardHe t he working t o e working of that m easure h a d been realised. re garded this M un i c ip a l Bill as anot h er concess i on, on the part of her M a j es t y ' s Government to Papal influence . He believ e d t h ere wou ld be no finality to their concessions, 'What her Majesty's Government said was, , llr e will concede nothing which you will allow us to withhold i but we will withhold nothing that you will insist on our conceding." The leaving office on the part of the Government in last May was cheered with delight by every Protestant—their return to office was hailed with rapture by all the Papists and Precursors in Ireland. He owned it was quite useless to entertain the least expectation of preventing this Bill passing into a law. It would be sent up to the House of Lords, and would receive those amendments that were rejected last year by the House of Commons, but which after making a few wry faces 1 her Majesty's Government were willing to adopt. He 1 bad thought it right not to a:low such a Bill ti,s that EVENING EDITION. , before the House to pass, without entering his pro:. test against it. Her Majesty's Ministers boaved, of the tranquillityof Ireland, but that tranquillity was \ • like their own consistency, only temporary and fleeting It was a Bill which would tend to increase Papal in fluenee—it was a Bill for investing D. O'Connell; Eq.. a Member of that House, with the office of Lord Mayor of Dublin—( Hear, and laughter)—and enabling. him to appoint Irish agitators to similar offices through out the country. He rcgrttted that his Right. Hon. and Hon. Friends around him had thought it necessary to descend from their high ground on this Bill ; they would find that they had not conciliated their opponents, while many of their friends had withdrawn their confi dence from them. By the false step they had taken they would have their feelings hurt by seeing the Lord Mayor of Dublin proceed in procession from the Mansion-house to the Mass-house, and at the banquet which would follow the inauguration they wodd have proposed as a toast, " Success to the Pope, and may lie speedily rule over an entire people of United Irishmen ;" they would have " The glorious, pious, and immortal memory" of the appropriation clause--(Laughter)—and the Sovereign health would be proposed as her prede cessor's, Queen Mary, had been—" The Queen, and may she soon become a nursing mother to the Holy Church"—(Renewed laughter) —and no doubt they would have " the health of Sir R. Pod. Lord Stanley, Sir J. Graham, and the Recorder of Dublin," without whose aid we could not have assembled here." Ac tuated by these feelings, he would move that the Bill be read a third time that day six months, Mr, E. TENNENT seconded the motion. He believed that by a much less expensive m o d e o f proceeding, all the objects proposed by the Bill would be carried into effect, and they would thereby get rid of all the turmoil, vexation, and strife, which it Was cal. culated to produce. A great mistake had been corn. mitted when the English Municipal Bill was before that House, in not sweeping away all the antiquated systems which it embodied, and without which the municipal affairs of the towns and boroughs of England might stiil be properly conducted. He believed that in Belfast, Dublin, Clonrnel, Galway, Sligo, and other towns in Ireland, the municipal affairs were under the management of a local board, and notwithstanding the present Bill, he was satisfied that their affairs would still be conducted by the intervention of the same system. He believed that the Bill would be productive of the worst effects, and as a proof of that he might refer to a statement in one of the Dublin papers. The Hon. Member was about to read the extract when be was in terrupted by 'Ffe SPEAKER, who stated that the Hon. ?Mem ber was out of order in attempting to read a news- paper. Mr. E. TENN ENT said he was quite aware that he would be out of order if he produced a newspaper in the House and read it, but as the part which he had intended to read was only an extract, he submitted he was perfectly in order. Mr. HU 'ME said that if the rule laid down by the Chair was strictly interpreted, it would interfere most materially with discussion in that House. The SPEAKER had always understood the rule to be this that, unless in a case of breach of privilege. a Member was not entitled to read from a nmspaper, but he could make any extracts provided ho did nut read them from the paper itself.. Sir R. PEEL thought they would be drawing the rule too strictly if they laid It down that a newspaper containing certain information could not be read. He would suppose that a paper contained the resolutions of a public meeting t,iimportance ; was it to be said that that was not to be referred to in that House ? He could not see any reason why so strict a course should be adopted. Lord J. RUSSELL said he believed that the rule of the House was as the Speaker had laid it down, and that the reading of newspapers, or of any printed papers not regularly before the House, was not in order. At the same time reference to sucb papers had often been allowed. He believed that was contrary to the strict orders of the House, and yet a deviation from them had often taken place, and might, he believed be lett in a great measure to the discretion of Honourable Members themselves. A Member of the House was at liberty to make those extracts parts of his speech, and he thought that the rules of the House on the subject, should not be too closely followed. Sir R. PEEL said that a correspondence between Mr. Fox and Mr. Forsyth had been published in the newspapers the other day, and he thought it would be right that Hon. Members might read that correspond ence, as being of an important nature, for the purpose of inquiring of the Government whether it had really taken place. _ Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that some years ago an Attorney-General was reading a passage from a speech delivered at a trig'., when it was declared that such a proceeding was contrary to the Orders of the House. But he had asked permission of the House to continue the reading of the extract, and no objection to his doing so was made. Mr. W ARBURToN said he was sure that, within his recollection, extracts from newspapers had been read in the House ; and he had often heard the Hon. and Learned Member for Bandon amuse his side of the I House by passages from the speeches of the Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin. Mr. LAM BTON had seen such a course adopted at least fifty times. Mr. E. TENNENT then proceeded to read an extract from an Irish paper, to show that if the Municipal Corporation Bill were passed, all power would be confined to Roman Catholics in Belfast. He felt it to be his duty, believing this Bill would be most detrimental to the peace and well-being of Ire land, and wholly unsuitable to meet her present wants, to support the amendment that the Bill be read a third time that day six months. Mr. SHAW regretted that his Hon. Friends had proposed such an amendment, but he hoped they would not press it to a division.—(Hear, hear.) If they did so he was certain that the conduct of those who voted against them would be misrepresented. He would glen be placed in a situation of some embarassment , yet he must do that which under all circumstances he thought was most consistent with the course he had hitherto taken, and that would be to vote against them.—( Hear, hear, hear.) He certainly. did not approve of the Bill in its present form, and if the question were whether or not the Bill in its present form should pass into a law, he would not vote for the third reading. But his Hon. Friend did not put his opposition to the Bill upon those amendments for which he (Mr. Shaw) contended, yet he was not prepared to sacrifice substance to form, and the practical question which they had then to decide was whether or not the Bill should be sent to the other House, in order to be amended there. After the declarations which had been made in both Houses of Parliament by the leaders of the Conservative party, he should think it unfair for any person. unless he had dissented from those declarations at the time, to free himself from their implied obligation, especially one who had taken so pro minent a part in these discussions as himself. But he did not wish to rest his support of the course which he meant to take on such narrow ground. And he wag bound to say, that even if he were free from that obligation (which he did not think that he was), still, upon the whole, he thought it better that this Bill should pass, amended, as he believed it would be, than that the Irish Corporations should remain as they were at present. He had heard from the opponents of the Bill no proposition for a substitute. And as Prote3t antism bad been much spoken of on the subject, he would say this, that attached as he was to Protestantism, he did not believe that these Corporations, in their pre sent form, would promote the interests of Protestantism. because they were in the hands of the violent and extreme parties who prejudiced rather than advanced the cause or those interests. Under all these circumstances, if his Hon. Friend persisted in dividing the House be must vote against it. Colonel PE RCEVAL wished to arrest the course of this pernicious measure, and should therefore ' support the amendment. None of these amendments, which even his R;ght Hon. Friend the Recorder of Dublin had considered necessary, had been carried. The Bill would take the government of the corpora ticnr out of the bands of those who were friendly to the connection with England and to the institutions of the country, and put it into the hands of those who desired to overthrow these institutions and to destroy the Eng lish connection. It was true that the Bill would be purified of much of its dross in another place, but no change which it could undergo there would render it a good measure. He was bound, however, as a Member of that House to deal with the Bill as it then was, without looking to any probable alteration elsewhere, and he would therefore vote against the third reading. Colonel MAXWELL would also vote against the third reading. If he had been able to attend when the question was put upon the second reading, he would have voted against it. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw. The House divided, when there appeared— For the motion ...... ...... 182 For the amendment Majority —l4B The Bill was then read a third time. On the motion that the Bill do pass, Mr. PIGOTT moved a clause, providing for the management of the Pipe Water establishment in the City of Cork, to be inserted after Clause 121 of the Bill. The Clause was agreed to, and ordered to be added to the Bill by way of rider. The Bill then passed. PRIVILEGE. Lord J. RUSSELL suggested the second reading of his Printed Papers Bill, the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Ripon (Sir E. Sugden) having intimated that be wished to make a statement, which having been made, perhaps the discussion might be adjourned till Friday, when the Committee would come on. The order of the day for the second reading having been moved, Sir E. SUGDEN said he should be very short, and he wished first to explain that he voted against . the bringing i n o f th e Bill, no t as muc h b ecause b e d isap proved of the Bill itself as because he could not get as assurance that it was intended to put restrictions es .~~~~ ~~