The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-17 00:00:00

of whom W ry hea D a close, and the been I only w sident her dull COtton was in moderat the pa Mr. M dr. G. R. ra Mr. Glass, C Ir. John Heas _ Mr_ G. W. Put tain Thomas Bel John Bottomle, Richard L. dr. Green- Villiam Wag: Mr. Wils Mr. A. Fer- American ship 2 49 53, lon. 9 30 Mexico and S 111 to mportance. Domin Cam peachy at. ion in St. o make th C. bad been s pressed ,re republican es and Monte Vid e to hand, and of the English and French war between the two lepub de considerable progress in ac al, and the result, no dc rs of Rivera Business at each a had establis orted by strong de e banks of 146 vessels I _ 16th of December there w Monte Video, and 57 at Buenos Ayres. Exchange Video was 46d. COMMERCE OF Rio de Janeiro papers give ongressionai sl Boston d condition of the branch connected with :he unfavourable result, and the small re- eived from shipments on that account, t olutiona rovinces of San 'Paulo and M s have now settled tranq Execativ t thoroughly reviveu fered . to be tb, step to a • s, and that is the gradual decrease of z statistical data e 1838. The quanti im that date, luantity o B of that i i exchan z an increas potation of the day rate on GUADALOUPE ,troplie which redu The people financial at had been as low as 646, the principal facts, are 1 Martinique, February I ashes, I was going to- open pr Dn 'tinned w rifled on th al de Moges pro snfferino inhabi is f r Guada sent by the Go He stat ie only magistrates and Ur barren, I,t J. C. Davillie I,ooof ; Emile Pereire, 500 f; J , n very he Dour, we learn t Regiment Madras Native Infantr which made us acquainted with the total de Anpat city of the Antilles. Our Gov'- wo minutes I several surgeo spatch , .m a large cone( person who has arrived at Fort Royal ye f a rom rs, ed island is an old retir ed captain, aged 72 aped as by a miracle. He was buried in the "vir e remained for more than an hour. after tk shock, fires ..4s that, at the moment. - at, and consumed much tha t it h hiadde s pared. In this d ; such of the al calamity nany were s as were able made their esetw., ---- No calculation can yet be -.timated one alive with the building 1e number of the killed ; I of the population. Among the killed are two distinguished advoca ffier, the tes, M. ne de Grand Pre and M. Card ose ; M. Gre ne; two notaries, the wife and seven children of Captain au des Ilets of the Sappeurs, and Superintendent of ges and Roads at Point-a-Pitre ; M. Deville, sen., for y member of the Colonial Council ; MM. Margan and rgement ; and M. Noirtin and his family, co mposed of • has one of M. Foignet, Procureu r du Rol, :gs broken ; and M. Farinolo, Counsellor of the Cour ,Jyale, has a contusion of the thigh so severe as to create apprehension that it is fractured. of Guadaloupe who e persons ter of the town, ..has • . t-,....4. at of the Jed at the hese two are W....41•G111,11 %MG 11..1,0. • _ thin ed most, and it is said that the elite or tut; perished. We are told that, at LI quake,_ upwards of 200 people were arerou ie mor Americain, to witness the drawing o nly four men were Kilt A of Marine? guar wretches took leaded by essel, and none escaped ie detachment of the is 3 at Point-a-Pitr antage --groes, led on by a man of si nce appeared was an error, and that th ;rs w ere an sailors; some say American , ' captain, all of whom hold of some ship. I have just learned the return of the Gamer, v l4 ' rnor is on the point of sending off to France , at Point-a-Pitre, the steam -frigate entirely evacuated, and no one of authorit Isions and she had brn•"-`' Rye been found t money ounded Qt numb, rrested and confined :0 receive eceivea ? THE BRAZILS a elaborate review o d in comp ar 18-12 ren in their ny own ~creased violence for n to baste ere was no vertica itably thrown town our ned that our xperienced u abitants ,ear of some great wring islands etters from nor and ,easures for the relief .Pitre. The admiral De, followed by the •., They tookwi.th ants oi iend mo milar suppls a from S Gisborn ie colon The acc favourable. C sting demand' one period to Wailratna. it a sent, the sharp contest G. 0.8., in the Pr been )rn t elefen of his t £1.300 ; Rid £1,300; Hill £1,300 £1,300: Fran iill, ±; d Charles i Hill servic in thei mped, and two of tl Ling w Oad been imported i district, and carried c Thes ;nting the Int awk raised to cleave av Plymout skull of one of the only deterred by a musket being pom ess was restored ight Hon. Viscon lorie G Court of Ciin n annuity of tim e ward Hil 3, by t e hiPti ction of Coolies on the whole ver Live stoc es to supply ained that h the natives which tt I with fatal con, a the Taran at him by a s. and the Channel of ti grave. The site c rery one fled from nce, the o evacu- deplore the loss of Point-a-Pit tle ; and although a num remain standing, and no Feb. 9 I of th , up tt immediate ) places together, and dollars nu resent the flames are and when e whole of the town, stalment 'e not ten houses inha- the Emp( lisaster. I s. The on ,dst I the Cour 1 —l-.;.,1„, M glad to 1 vt ry quar- which t soon be t rneys- I. 5a.: Brother, 1 Tengoa ,l 14 1 ,• 7 - ,saris ent of t J feet wt co- , far less risk of accident than by an h. As an illustration of the eff ect of M r. c. I ing only the double line, we may state ly 2 tons :n is rea to 1 ton less than 8 tons 7 cwt in is only 3 tons 17 cwl Taking, however, the bits to the blush, however ci th a weigt , 500 f he rivers i about January I W/1.11 lou , -- . an China, ha a principle th less than on, c strain on i" ,-- t 0 a I of two tons at On the jib chain is no Olasgow Constitutional esteem ald Fla Five guineas p column at Shrewsb of lighting the top of Its per annum to the ten gu John Hill Tton, Esq kic'hard:Eg legacy of £2,000 kvvlaeat Oxen c Cows This sun farm pr horses ; the former is attri failure of this crop t decrease of horses settler. THE Go months ago, ceeded on he with him uired the 1 in Ame —ln t The inic ained w I fOr b IIPMA f the mall know i overboard I'll pn ,o to the • of one of o St. Thom an from St..K r) had heard of the circun a in the ry that h I—Lord Stanley pi hich will :ockport s of his family p ry one of t n your r - I Law L right honor cnt in thg vi stood he did not claim any mer t to those - I 2.90 ti' .. being landed at Basse ing his o ned to Tnor would be landed, and a boat w After the boat had qui' land him at Basseter s the yc . Afte it being contrary to his orders governor told the youn 6 , Basseterre he would throw :ster that if he did not itleman still last the ,overnor se some dlftic n succeeded in isyin Pd into the boat. Tb I one of the oars, and N tor repeated his reques fused compliance, offering to lar ngster reused to do. I that creat efforts ht . some altercation, the reference to educati that subscriptions r county merr )0 from t ) be demar terest wa county member 1 the' to the count ,d, and which v Those persons should have told him .1 raised for two schools at least. That at the head of one ►ist the proper name—the name of the governor then threatenec One of the men then saic you try to throe throat." (Lang but on putting ou He then landed, hoisted his sail, He (Sir C thought that i t to sea to him it was highly necess Hear, hear account GALLANT CAPTURE OF _ sloop, commander T. N. Eden, appears to be in her cruises against pirates and slavers A SLAVEE letter brot A ais por frica. The Persian w s off Whydah, in the t hen early in the morning for which no in- recalled There were also annual subscrip ,ere was a seventh, but that belonged (Hear.) Did he show these things ectly satisfied with what had been done? of the kind ; but he did state them, because he -Lind to repel, and with the utmost indignation, those ccusations which the honourable member for Stockport so boldly brought against him. But was it to be per . hon ber, in ignorance of the facts, in on, should venture to make charges mr, hear.) And it did surprise him At to that debate, and he only ,e for the statements he had been that large bodies of persons had, thought to it as an cm. ~..„..%mate the hon. member for Stockport figure he displayed that night, and the impression ..__ I •I, Aa nnalr.rt, Ana thAt ary to c —The Persian, 16, which his statement naa mauu un --ry fortunate should have made this the ground of their congratulation ,er gallant and approbation, that the member for Stockport " had rrated in a evinced then, as he , had ever evinced, .... eA a stern regard to in5.1.•;.1 .1.•;.1 a men nf the hnn_ mem_ or justice, cted evidence ber's "stern _regard ;Cheers.) Was thi 7th of 1 large suspicious-looking vessel was descries aL aumic u ..- tance. The master of the Persian, Mr. Birdwood (of Ply mouth), who was in command of two boats with a crew of six men in each, immediately pushed towards her, and finding she was desirous to avoid communication, Mr. Biro' wood, although with so small ~ determined t- ' L.JVIV •so a. hon. member's notion of fairness, justice, or Christianity, to choose a time to attack an individual when a debate was at its conclusion, and thus to take his chance of the subject of his attack having an opportunity of replying to charges that were not true? (Cheers.) If such were the honoura ble member's notions of "stern justice," he trusted with a force her, and after a four-hour's chase—tugging at the oars un- such justice he should not come into contact.. der a broiling sun—the Persian's boats got alongside. The He trusted he had now said enough at least to vindicatt vessel in the mean time used every effort to escape . As the himself from the mistakes—for he was yet bound to suppose boats advanced, she endeavoured to retard them by using the the hon. member for Stockpoit had acted on erroneous in - - . . -L.. 1....... ~.In.a formation—which had been put forth against him. It was, - -nerd against the honoura l— begged it to be he was inclined to make a stout resist haracteristic mettle, the boats'_crews, nowever, member for Stockport, and therefore h I in a few ieir opponents were treblein kets, cutlasses and pistols, drove themselves in possessio rut the 1 She had mounted two long canister shot, and had a comp(( J soon after aed his sloop, his brother officers and ship's be prisoners were pt, whatsoever i Alihat he id armet rch were loaded I dic '36 men. Mr. OH i not mean tc dah, and their valuable prize was sent into Si( adjudication. There is no doubt Mr. Birdwood' conduct will not escape the attention M the admiralt Standard. ncu 15 ARRIVAL OE THE CHINEs. - Her Majesty's ship Blonde, Captain Sir rived at Portsmouth on Friday last from China, ..ed Sycee -,-- amount of 3,000,000 of nu,. Ihe Blonde is the third ship tha , ..„,,,,ht to this county board Sycee I ruination to say Wgett a freight of this de Majesty's Treasury treasure brought ov J. W. Cooper, c red the whole o s bounds. (Re; iment the next d Hate direction in the WE dilodge ty, the member ir, so ney og Stoc4, I on this amount to robbrd to that ex by the s rain in silver brought by the the Mint on Frida: 1:11 payable under the . late treaty if the ra ror of China rly tried 1 sort to Ir. (ia ty of Arts manag J is f iintba tleroan's int Association .ted as little at hallsiin London, but when t of mleeting it did not hire 6, on his country ow, and established wished to show by proof was that his labours were not, as - man. They asserted, in a worse situation in point of education and corn -, 94,g fort than the labourers of any other part of England. He ' labourers were in a better condition in any other parts of the country. He had heard that —gees, and he hoped they would continue, were paid He only intended to show It situation which the hon. member I in other portions of the country 't had declared them to be ILLEGALITY OF THE LEAGUE (From the Speech of Mr. Bankes, M.P.) The g overnment were no doubt aware that the Anti-Corn - ;r they had not absolutely set the law at de n-, that it required a very nice discri 1. or no they had already overstepped The league were to try a large expe- The hon. member for Stockport would 's speech—he was announced for his t lion of the show, and the house voured with a small portion of his .) It was his duty to direct ;on or the government to that body, which undoubt •' -• nassessed considerable power—at least egged to ask the hon. one question—where was all this Imo ague said they had £50,000 this year, and 000 next. The average would be £75,000, exchequer ought to have hie eye -me tax. ( Laughter.) If money. He b, pay tt tax on this sum then the public at —ent. (Laughter.) As be found ations in reference to his amendment so much 825 by the Chancellor of .the ExCliequer thar them, be should prefe- rnderstood the con giving them to any saying _that no man Of this country Ln association of :(opiate iney to carry out their special objects with any is than that of unqualified disapprobation. The arable baronet who followed condemned the prin- Liversive of government. "If that were so there n end of all deliberations of that house; if that ........ . doctrine were to prevail, it roust follow that the subjects of h this country, if they should imagine themselves to be labour ing under any grievance of that or any other sort, might re sort to unconstitutional measures for their redress, and hich Parliament would not he authorized to check until those grievances were redressed. He ma intained that if for ...ade a uille, at a moment Parliament recognized such a doctrine it would of the models abdicate its legislative functions altogether. If they ad mitted the present measures , they must e xpect t h at they he would be used for the removal of other grievances; and to ....ag over a any remonstrance the answer would be, that the subjects of J ib, and tied by a ,_ tne country, and not the legislature , were the proper judges pulley on the nose of what those remedies should be. That, however, was not oed to the upper part his reading of the law. He conceived Parliament to be the course, being attached sole constitutional judge, and if Parliament thought these th of the jib, by which laws ought to be continued, those who found themselves ag ''.et, the greatest to grieved must not resort to unconstitutional measures to re- That which, dress them. The people might meet and petition Parlia cetY an,, ", ment, and the Parliament would take their petition into con "'''" sideration, but it would abandon its duty if it allowed any --.n to act independently of Parliament, and only vIBEIL MI the oppos n benches inquired —Sir Robert PE member for Sunderland liad cheered his re : association, and the cheer probably inferred t had been censured by parliament, it had ul (" Hear, hear," from Lord Howick.) )ut it would be his duty to refer to ich had not succeeded. In 1778 the was formed, and when it was formed ention of observation as any other of Mon chose f nietv s head a person who istory, Lord George Gor s was observed by Mr. (afterwards on, for his blameless life, his not having mixed :„. 1..;„ n met in" large body had outgrown its places res, but. met in the open air, body, not on( ould leave the I create ntatfon of a_ pett. or parliament. the trial that of Commons was )f the memLe Louse alive ; i ers felt indeed, dence or common sense Bankes si end had spokeq is " that stupid 3 not the Anti- ag the same course ? Were they es, intending to bring their peti ne the house; and would they not c theatre, to give still greater pub- Now, he submitted to the for their considera to day some new expedients of a fit subje and excitement profoundly desired and endeavOured t the theatre Was to be hired to ascertain if it would answer that object. (Hear, hear.) Until the excitement was got up, the hon. member for Wolverhampton did not intend to bring forward the pestion of the corn laws, and, at present, he (Mr. Bankes) no feeling in unison with the Anti -5.c, in the metropolis or throughout the (Hear, hear.) At least there was very little in his opinion. He submitted to his right hon. frLnds and the house, whether that was a matter which did not interest them. Ministers had not the power of knowing the enormous amount of evil and mischief which was produced and at tempted to be produced by the emissaries of the Anti-Corn law League. He had no fears personally_of any attack upon believed that there v Cor his interest in the county of Dorset, although, if the hon. member for Stockport could, as he had stated, affect public opinion, there was no seat in that house that could be so easily shaken, for it rested solely upon the force of public opinion. (Hear, bear.) He had never sought nor newer should seek ministerial support; but he looked to the ministry to secure to him peace at home at his fireside, and the comfort and happiness and welfare of the peasantry who lived around him. (Hear, hear.) He trusted the govern ment would devise some means of driving away these novel sort of emissaries—those paid and avowed—(for the hon. member for Stockport had boasted of it the other night)— emissaries and spies. Of these he complained ; and he be seeched the ministry to protect.them as faithful and dutiful subjects of the Crown—he requested it, he begged it, he de manded it. (Loud cheers.) MR. COBDEN AND MR. BANKES (From the , ech of Mr. Bankes on' Tuesday night.) Ile had been asked by the hon. member what he intended to say at the next agricultural dinper at Blandford. If he hesitated to reply at all, it was only on the ground that he had strong reasons for believing that the hon. member for Stockport would be there 1 - himself— (laughter) and his ground for this belief was that the hon. member in his speech said, at the next - " one gricultnral dinner, there would b black sheep in company." (Laughter.) Having told him (Mr. Bankes) what the black sheep would say, he would tell him (Mr. Cobden) his answer. The black sheep promised that when he (Mr. Bankes) was talking of the "agricultural sunshine gilding the church, the palace, and the cottage," to add, " Yes, and the landlord's chimney." To this he, (Mr• Bankes) would rejoin, " Yes, and your factory chim neys, too—(laughter)—your tall, gawkey, ill-looking, un graceful factory chimney, which— " Pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts its head and—lies." (Laughter.) That would be his answer•, and if the hon. member wished to hear more of the speech he was ready to give it. (Cries of "Go on.") It would, at this dinner, be his duty to rise and say—" We have this day been honoured by the company of a distinguished individual, whose health I am about to propose—(laughter),—and I shall have the less difficulty in doing so because the party is no personal friend of mine. (Renewed laughter.) He comes here as the son of a farmer, as he has told us, descended from a long line of Sussex yeomanry, he comes here in sheep's clothing to tell you what he will tell you when his time comes to respond to (Laughter.)the So much for the speech' at the The hon. member for Stockport put antodafostrd." dinner. another question, which it was his duty to return an answer to. He said, " I put you on your defence, and I call on you to prove the benefits which the corn laws have conferred on agriculture ?" His answer was that with respect to the county he represented the benefit 'which had resulted was, that thousands and thousand of acres, which otherwise would never have been cultivated had no protection existed, were brought into cultivation. (Hear, hear.) The labourers who tilled these acres would never Ip•ve found employment—and enclosures and appropriations of waste lands were going on and affording further opportunity for employing labourers, until the time when a check to agriculture had taken place ; and he could further state, if some means were not found to encourage and animate agriculture, and to give life and spirit to the interest, that this source of employment would speedily stop. (Hear, hear.) There was a time when, travelling from his father's house to London, 100 miles of waste land were to be seen. But now if the same ground were gone over not ten miles could be found. What was the reason of this difference ? There was no land formerly less encouraged and more barren than the waste lands in Dorsetshire, Hamp shire, and Sussex, but now villages were springing up and cottages were seen, where all heretofore was desolate heath. The husbandmen were all deriving employment from the soil, and he trusted they would find further employment from this extended system of cultivation. There was one point which he had neglected to set right in his previous statement—it related to the poor law union where his pro perty was situated. He had stated that the union embraced a space of 14 square miles, and included a population of about 16,000 souls, and that in the whole district there was not one able-bodied labourer who received parish relief. Since he had made this statement he had been informed that there were two able-bodied labourers who had parish relief. He had,stated some of the advantages of the enclosure and "" lands;—advantages which the honourable sheffield would check by his present inquiry. r, hear.) cultivation of waste member fo THE NEw TARIFF.—The first importation of Dutch sal- mon this season, under the new tariff, was brought over by the Columbine steamer, from Rotterdam. They are of a very fine quality, weighing from 361 b. to 401 b. each, and at 4acted general notice on Monday in the city. A few hampers of soles were alsio imported, weighing from 61b. to Sib. per pair; some were as heavy as lOro., and particularly firm. A very large quantity of Dutch salmon is expected this season, as the Scotch fish are seldom caught till May. This is a proof of the mildness of the weather in Holland. New po tatoes are very plentiful; several baskets have been brought over.—London Paper. PORTUGUESE TARIFF. —THE BUTTER TRADE.—The fol lowing letter has been addressed by the firm of Morrogh and Walsh, of Lisbon, to their correspondent in Cork Lisbon, Feb. 27, 1843. "My dear Sir,—l have reason to believe that the Portu guese government have at length submitted such proposals to our government that they will be accepted, and that, there fore, we may look for the speedy conclusion of the Tariff Convention. I know that a reduction on Butter from 50 to 30 res was proposed, and that will give your Butter an ad vantage of 20 res over that of Holland and Hatnbro' ; and if this does not give you the exclusive supply, it will certainly tend to diminish the imports of Butter from those places, and more particularly from Holland, on account of the high cost there. " I flatter myself, therefore, that we may very confidently look for an increased business between us ; and, as to Beef and Pork, I furnished Lord Howard de Walden, our Mi nister, with information thereon, and probably—indeed I doubt not—there *ill be a reduction on the actual heavy duty. _ . . _ " A reduction will take place in England in the duty on wines, and this will enable us to ship low priced wines. We could send good white wine which could be afforded to be sold, with profit at Is. 6d. per bottle, and we could also send good and full bodied red wine at a less cost.—Reporler. THE COAL TRADE OF THE NORTH OF ENGLAND.—On Saturday last a meeting, consisting of several hundreds of pitmen, and attended by a band of music from Sheriff-hill, Gateshead, and was held at Scaffold-hill, near Longbenton, within five miles of Newcastle upon-Tyne. Speeches were made by several men of the locality, and by Mr. Cloughan (a Scotch delegate), Mr. Swallow (from Wakefield) and Mr. Brophy (a Chartist lecturer). The condition of the pitmen of the Fyne and the Wear, which is now sorely depressed, was depicted in forcible language ; and one of the speakers (the Wakefield dele g ate) stated that he had been in commu nication with Lord Ashley, who was ready,to support their cause if they would only be true to themsel v e s , an d h a d sen t him one of th e Commissioners Reports, containing statements and pictures that must harrow up the feelings of every man of common humanity. Resolutions were passed in favour or a national union of coal-miners for the protection of their interests; of the repeal of the export duty on coa l ; an d o f th e retention of Lord Ashley's Mines and Collieries Bill unim paired. Thanks were then voted to the noble Lord for his humane and zealous efforts to improve the condition of the people. WONDERS WILL NEVER CEASE ! — While our agricultu rists are eagerly discussing the comparative advantages of particular soils, and studying the theory of manures as pro pounded by Sprengel and Liebig, a countryman of these distinguished professors comes forward to proclaim that their labours are vain ; for, if we are to believe him, he has discovered the art of growing luxuriant crops on the poorest land, and witt out any manure whatsoever ; and the cost of the process is so trifling, that, for the acre of wheat or maize, it does not exceed five-pence sterling ; and for rape, cabbage, &c., amounts to only about half that sum ! At first we were disposed to consider such extraordinary pretensions as an effusion of quackery, and entitled to little or no credit; but our incredulity has been somewhat shaken by numerous and respectable attestations which the author has appended to his pamphlet, and which tend to prove that his method has been practised with success, during the last twelve years, in various parts of Germany and Holland. Thus the certifi cates from Vienna, dated in 1825 and 1830, declares, that Mr. Bickes's process, which would seem to consist in some preparation of the seed, " renders all clanging unnecessary, is applicable to the poorest soils, and to all sorts of plants, and imparts to them a wonderful degree of vegetation and f u l nes s ; ' and they give the results of the experiments in the Imperial Garden of the Château ; from which it appears, that wheat raised from seed sown by Mr. Bickes had larger ears and more grains than that produced from unprepared seed ; that the barley showed ears with four rows and a larger number of grains, while that from unprepared seed had only two rows, and a smaller proportion of grains on each stalk; and the Indian corn exhibited a larger number of much stronger and thicker heads. At Offenbach, in unmanured and light sandy soil, the prepared wheat produced 10-15 stems from a single grain, with larger and fuller ears ' rye and barley presented the same vigorous growth ; and flax had stronger stems, with heavier and more numerous cap. rules. and was of a dark-green colour; while the plants from unprepared seed had become yellow. Potatoes had seldom fewer their ten - shoots from a single tuber, and some as many as twelve, fifteen, and even seventeen strong stems; while the green crops—namely, grass, clover, beet, white c a bb age , savoys, &c.—were equal, if not superior, to those raised in gardens. At Biidingen, again, some plants of the sunflower, treated according to Mr. Bickes's method, grew to the height of ten to eleven feet, with woody stems of eight and a half to nine inches in circumference. Ten or twelve potato plants, of a large yellow sort, called Marburger, yielded each, on the average, thirty good-sized tubers, with stem and branches seven feet long ; and maize, which grew partly singly and partly in rows, had from two to five, and in some instances as many as eight and nine heads. These crops were obtained in the garden of Count Isenburg ; and we are further assured by the certificate, to which are attached the signatures of two urgomastrs, the ourt ardenr, a rand ducal councillor, and other e official perso g nages, e that they were raised in ground but partially dressed, and in the midst of tall weeds! The t r i a l s of th i s me thod in -Holland, ma d e in the summer of 1834, were atten d e d with results not l ess astonishing. Prepar e d w h eat an d r ye, though sown thick, gave from fifty to s ixty, an d even eighty stalks from one grain; and a plant of barley bore eight large ears. Buck wheat rose to four and a half and five feet; flax had four and five stems from one see d ; an d I n di an corn grew from nine to ten feet in height, w i t h f our or fi ve stems, and four to five heads from a single corn. The green crops were equally luxuriant. Red and w hit e c l ove r and lucerne grew three feet high. From two t o b acco p l a nts, 541 seed capsules and 200 large and small leaves were cut ; and a second blossom ing yielded 742 fresh cap su l es , and of larger size ; the seed from he whole weighi ng two h ec t o grams, or upwards of six ounces. At the date of the report (October 30th), these plant were budding ane w; an d all this, if we read the de scription aright, was effected in the shifting sand (Flug sandep of the downs of Holland ! The method of preparing the seed is a sceret.—Cardeners' Chronicle. = mount L'.ach, and N menced on Df Mr. Co( ,everely tried t ber of tt Cooper ca On its at It ever he luxuri in order to e order t arance of evasior a constantly employi Itra at sheepshear undertook to prove y in which the hon established rules of t 1, and better it was im es and gardens rent free, with " It was tine that to a persor districts, or from the environs s would appear to he not of tit( • were the property of these people, and they chose to have a them as they were, and to go down in that state from father Some i his These ' This The lett rf was us , and £ o at the tin he would nc 'he letter wen rf as they like )apers, without from his desire, by one of ) sanction, the tenants of this property A letter had been published in the ienying the The farmers of Dorset _ I caused it to be stuck about those honourable member for Stockport The title of the )uld the 1 to giv r Stockport were c ,letter was offensive, The substance of the tter s it referred to ed by id a farmer idedly the reverse of facts— to be his dut s of the residence though ld be (the writer) consider ' I a tenant of abou acres within two mil of the county r ) state that his 1 neat sold to them at C rice might be at t - id this was not only ate or wap for Stockport, bat with was another char' le r n el The bon. member for St of the c ) his property in .tumn 1 g that t a cons The list I on his estat I wren tt lid not, bowever,followtbe aseierre ; I others in the country. This . it ashore serious charge --(Hear.) . it tru • 0 I have pervert r the sum named by the bon. mem- ardens rent free led and manured without charge, the pro- ugh this arrangement ork but it was conti- ork, when the men were earning double the (Hear.) He had many more state t. which were at the service of the hon. .1 he would not now which he one of a serious cli :kport had not only said were worse paid than an but that they were worse off 1, and education. To these ; and if he bad a difficult) es, that difficulty which might de- lost all their grace when they who bad themselves performed ag been defied by the hon. mem illed on to state what the actual 'hat had .st—not, apprehension entertained of crumentality of the statements of Hear, hear.) In November -t of his estate where art of his pro- he went to live g morning, and from that list 3d to relieve those who needed nd necessaries n the month of January following, in,c, .ent down his spies and informers, tne c►ounug ul L.. labourers and their families was in a bad condition, the fact could only be accounted for by the articles having come from Manchester —(laughter)—the greater por .:-., esc ri...,ti,-IpL, heine of Manchester manufacture. He mended so strongly by to buy in the cheapest market. He bad go - ne to the small trader in his neighbourhood to get sup• plied, thinking it but fair that every one should have a chance of maki g some fair profit.—(Hear.) He wished to place this list in the hands of the hon. member for Stockport; and he should say . no more further than to remark that the number would be found to be many hundreds.—(Cheers.) Now as to that his labourers were the worst educated of any would be, he admitted, the most The persons who furnished ___kport with his information must or concealed the truth, unless they stated o require f d cl►il Vartiamtntarp prorerbings HOUSE OF LORDS.— he LORD CHANCELLOR called the attention of their lord the law rezarding Fersons cornmitZin fluence of insanity. The noble and rable length to the recent -MoND A. to the state rimes under t earned lord re ~.4aughten, commenting on the various circum stances attending it, and contending that it was impossible for the jury to have come to any other conclusion than that' which they had arrived at, although he would have preferred that the case had been heard to an end instead of being stopped, as it had been. With respect to the law itself, it was similar to that which had always prevailed, not only in. England and Scotland, but also in France, Germany, and other, countries, and was in fact the law of humanity. He thought that no alteration of the law either could be or ought to be made, and their lordships, he hoped, would direct their attention to measures of precaution. To a certain extent in this way their lordships might proceed, and within a few days he should lay upon the table a bill for that purpose—a bill which he hoped would be effectual, though he would not assert that it would absolutely prove so when he considered the nature of the disease, and the latent character which was peculiar to it. Such occurrences occasionally had happened, not only in this but in other European countries, and he feared might occur hereafter; but the bill which he should present would, he hoped, be a considerable check upon their repetition. The bill would be ready in two or three days. Lord BROUGHAM said the whole question ought to be whether a man, in killing another, was so insane as not to know right from wrong. Now a man might imagine he was quite right in shooting a particular individual, but that was not the sort of right and wrong alluded to by the law. It was this :—lf a man took all the precautions that a sane man would for the purpose of carrying out his purpose, concealing that purpose till the proper moment came for carrying it into effect, that man must be presumed to know he was doing wrong, because, after all, doing right or wrong meant doing so according to law. Judges should direct juries to ascertain if such persons as 111`Naughten knew whether they were doing wrong according to law; in other words, whether they , were violating the law, for if so they were liable to punish ment, no matter what might be their abstract notions as to the value of the lives they were taking. _ _ _ _ _ trial of Lord COTTENHAM said he quite agreed in the definition of the law as relating to right and wrong laid down by Lord Brougham. Lord CAMPBELL thought the law admitted of no altera tion, and quite agreed in the interpretation of the law laid down by his noble and learned friends. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that the consideration of the Government had been directed to the prevention of such persons as Francis and Oxford, &c., being made public spec tacles ; but there was no necessity for legislating upon the subject, as her Majesty had already the power of confining such persons wherever she might think proper. He would take the earliest opportunity, if their lordships desired it, of summoning the judges to give their lordships their opinions upon the whole question. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY In answer to a question from Mr. MACKINNON, Lord STANLEY said the accounts received from Antigua by the Government were very imperfect, but he feared the news paper accounts were not exaggerated as to the extent of the damage from the recent earthquake. It might become his duty hereafter to call upon the house to aid the colon) with a loan, which was the only shape in which they could afford relief. Mr. FERRAND, in moving for papers containing a list of the guardians, &c., of the Halifax' union, said that the mill erected in the workhouse of the Halifax union, described by Sir James Graham as a hand corn-mill. was, in fact, a rag mill, used for crushing rags collected on the Continent, and impregnated with all manner of diseases. Sir J. GRAHAM said that Mr. Ferrand was sometimes led astray by inaccurate information, and bad originally de scribed this mill as a tread-mill. He had himself, in this in stance, been so far misled as to call the rag-mill a corn-mill, yet, upon the whole, his statements on a former evening were substantially correct, and he should therefore oppose the motion. Mr. C. Woon defended Mr. Clements from the imputa tions thrown out against him by Mr. Ferrand. Mr. WALLACE regretted the refusal of the papers, because he wished to see every complaint made on the part of the poor fully gone into. _ _ _ After some discussion, during part of which strangers were excluded, Mr. Ferrand withdrew his motion. On the motion for going into committee on the Registra tion of Voters Bill, in, reply to a question from Mr. LID DELL, Sirlkstes GRAHAM said that clauses had been prepared with a view to provide against the fraudulent personation of voters. Mr. HUME said that unless more ample practice were given to voters, he anticipated but little benefit from the measure. The house then went into committee On the fifth clause, -- ----- Mr. T. DUNCOMEE moved an amendment with a view to compel overseers to state the grounds of objection to a voter in addition to saying that he was objected to. On a division, the amendment was negatived by a majority of 57 to 47. Mr. TUFNELL moved as an amendment, that when an overseer objected to vote he should be compelled to have notice of such objection given to the party objected to. Sir J. GRAHAM opposed the amendment, which, on a di vision, was negatived by a majority of 91 to 38. On the 11th clause being proposed, Mr. ELPHINSTONE objected to the continuance of the tax paying clauses as necessary to the qualification of a voter. He thought the payment of the taxes should have nothing to do with the exercise of the franchise. He moved the omis sion of the clause. Sir J. GRAHAM could not assent to the abolition of the payment of taxes and rates as a qualification, remembering as he did that at the time the Reform Bill passed it was said that had it not been for the tax-paying, clauses a higher quali fication would have been demanded. The clause now before the committee was an amelioration of the existing law. After a short discussion, in which Mr. BROTHERTON, Mr. HUME, and Mr. EWART took part, the committee divided, and the clause was retained by a majority of 118 to 58. On the clause imposing costs to the amount of 20s. against parties making frivolous claims to vote or frivolous objec tions against a voter, Colonel SIBTHORP moved that the costs be three pounds instead of twenty shillings. After some discussion on this point the committee divided, and the amendment of Colonel Sibthorp was negatived by a majority of 154 to 34. The committee having got through 48 clauses soon after midnight, The CHAIRMAN, on the motion of Mr. BROTHERTON, reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again. Lord 3. RUSSELL moved for leave to bring in a bill for dissolving certain corporations and regulating certain muni cipal corporations in England. The motion was agreed to, and the remaining business being disposed of the house adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY Lord MONTEAGLE moved for a select committee to in quire into the operation of the corn-law of the last session of Parliament in connection with the distress which prevailed throughout the country. The noble lord entered into a variety of arguments in order to show that the distress was mainly attributable to the corn-laws. Ile felt himself called upon to enter into details in order to establish his argument, but these details would be wholly unnecessary if he believed their lordships would grant the committee. The noble lord then recapitulated all the areuments which have been so re peatedly urged against the existing corn laws, and after a speech of two hours and a half duration, left the whole matter to the calm consideration of their lordships. Lord WHARNCLIFFE said that if he were certain that the evils complained of were to be attributed to the corn laws there should be no doubt but their lordships would instantly take steps to repeal them. He did not however believe this to be the case, nor did he believe that the corn law of last session had anything like a fair trial. He should oppose the motion because the bill had only been nine months in opera tion, and a government having the slightest pretensions to stability would not chance its policy with such an insufficient experience of the propriety of its measures. The EARL of CLARENDON said there could be little use in speaking to a starving man of what would be done for him six months hence ; and it could bring little satisfaction to the working classes to find that they had nothing immediately to expect. The house should be on its guard, the power of en durance appeared to be nearly exhausted ; and unless the house entered boldly and resolutely into an inquiry into the whole state of the operative classes, there could be no secu rity for the preservation of the tranquility of the country. lie thought it would give great contentment to the country if their lordships would agree to the appointment of such a committee of inquiry, and hear impartially all the evidence which could be presented to it. He believed the sliding scale was one of the greatest evils which could befal the country. It was almost a matter of necessity that it should be so, for it professed to do that which it was impossible it could effect, namely, something like a stability of price in corn. Lord ASHBURTON attributed much of the distress of the country to the failure of the markets in America. and was glad that there were already symptoms of improvement ma nifesting theinselves. The Ouke of RICHMOND could not agree in the policy of those parties who were for changing the corn-laws every day. He could not agree with those parties who, belonging to the corn-law-league, thought it right to set one class of men against another; but he had sufficient confidence in the ma nufacturing and commercial interests of the country to feel satisfied that they would despise those who sought to lead them astray. Earl FITZWILLIAM was astonished that the noble lord should have felt so strongly the effects of the loss of the American markets, and yet have a disposition to refuse in quiry into the operation of the corn law, to which the loss of those markets was mainly attributable. Their lordships might rely upon it that if they persevered in.the present re strictive system foreign tariffs would become less and less favourable to British commerce and manufactures. The for mer corn law he always maintained must have been altered, and of the present law he would also say that it must be al tered, and in so saying he was the best friend of the British farmer; for he warned him that it was beyond the power of man to secure to him those artificial prices to which he was always_looking forward. bird BROUGH AM praised the calm and statesmanlike man ner in which Lord Monteagle had brought the question before the house, contrasting it with the manner in which the sub ject had been discussed'out of doors. A very considerable step had been made in the progress of free trade, not alone in the corn laws but also in the tariff,• and yet the zealots of free trade instead of thanking Sir Robert Peel for the extra ordinary strides he had made, united with the ultra opponents in abusing the right hon. baronet for the very concessions which some time ago would have been deemed most extraor dinary. The noble and learned lord, after some most severe and unmeasured animadversions on the leaders of the Anti corn-Law League, contended for the necessity of an inquiry which could only be feared by those who were wrong. He denied the statements which had appeared in the papers be longing to the league, to the effect that he had applied to be come the medium of communication between the Anti-Corn- Law League and the House of Lords. It was altogether false—the truth being that he had been applied to for that purpose and had refused. The noble and learned lord then contended, at considerable length, for the propriety of a free trade in corn, asserting that no revenue should be levied upon corn for the purpose of protection, though a duty may be im posed for the purpose of revenue. Earl St. VINCENT thought that the distinction between a duty for protection and a duty for revenue was merely nomi nal, for any duty must operate to a certain extent in the way of protection. The Earl of MOUNTCASHEL did not support the existing corn-law, for it did not give sufficient protection to the agri culturist, and the same motive induced him to oppose the al teration of the tariff. lie could not, however, support the motion of Lord Monteagle, for it did not go into the wbole question ; but he hoped before the session closed, a select committee would be appointed to inquire into the distress existing amongst both agriculturists and manufacturers. Lord MONTEAGLE replied, after which their lordships di vided, when the motion was defeated by a majority of 200 to 78. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY. Sir R. PEEL gave notice of his intention on the 28th of March to move for leave to bring in a bill to complete a sur vey map of the metropolis, on scientific principles. 'Mr. WARD moved for a special committee to inquire whe ther there were any peculiar burdens specially affecting the I interests, o whether there were any peculiar exemp- Lions enjoyed by that interest, and if so to ascertain their nature and extent. He was of opinion that inquiry would show.a case of exemption on the part of the landed interest without parallel in the history of the world. A corn law was per se a bad thing, and could only be justified by very pecu liar circumstances. Mr. BAN KEs moved as an amendment—" That it is ex pedient as a remedy for a state of anxiety, embarrassing end unfair to the agriculturists and injurious to commerce, that the attention of this house be directed to the continued ex istence of associations, which, in matters affecting agricul ture and commerce, pretend to influence the deliberations of the' legislature, and which by their combination and by their proceedings are at'once dangerous to the public peace and inconsistent with the spirit of the constitution." If protec tion were to be removed, it should be removed impartially— the landed interest should not be the only sufferers. The hon. member replied to many of the arguments used by Mr. Cobden on a former evening. Mr. Conn EN regretted th7.lt a great national question should be mixed up with anything like a personal altercation. As for the attacks on the Anti-Corn-Law League, their only effect was to contribute to its extension and to the propaga tion of its opinions. He had on the previous evening at tended a meeting at Southampton, at which there were farm ers who had come forty miles to hear him. Thus, it was that the league was paving the way for the repeal of the corn laws. Mr. W. MARTIN entered into arguments in order to prove that the landlords enjoyed no peculiar exemptions. Mr. W. WILLIAMS contended that by the present system of corn-laws the British public was taxed to the extent of £20,000,000 per annum. Mr. WoDEHOUSE said, that if the corn laws were not de fensible on general grounds they could not be defensible at all. The hon. gentleman entered into calculations showing the different proportions in which land and mills were assessed in the different counties. Mr. B. COCHRANE denounced the Anti-corn-law League us an illegal and seditious body. Mr. M. GIBSON hoped that before the house came to a decision on the motion of Mr. Ward they would come to a decision on the amendment of Mr. Bankes. What did that amendment imply ? A suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, and nothing less. It should, however, be remembered, that there were corn-law as well as anti• corn-law leaguers, id that the one had as much attempted to intimidate the legislature as the other. Those corn-law associations were not content with this, however, but were at the present moment proposing to rob the national creditor, as was clear from a letter purporting to come from the secretary of the Central Agricultural Society, in which it was proposed that the Anti-corn-law League should give up agitation, and join in an attempt to establish an irredeemable paper currency. He would not assent to any improper •mode of propagating his own opinions, nor had the Anti-corn-law League resorted to any but legitimate means for enlightening the public. The motion before the house did not necessarily involve the repeal of the corn-laws, but of the sliding scale. He must say that the alteration of last year was a virtual acknow ledgment, on the part of the landed interest, of its great injustice. Sir It. PEEL did not think the amendment a proper' one to the peculiar motion before the house, and he should, therefore, meet it with a negative. If the Anti-Corn-Law League were deemed an improper association, the existing law should be enforced against it, or the defects, if any ex isted in the present law, should be supplied. It would ill become him, as a minister of the crown, and more particularly as an individual who owed all he possessed to manufactures, to sneer at the manufacturing interests. He could not per ceive any good that was likely to result from such a com mittee as that proposed. Let returns be called for, to show, for instance, what proportion of the probate and legacy duty was contributed by land, and let these be submitted not to a committee, the opinions of whose members were pretty well made up, but to parliament itself. So also of other burdens respecting which there prevailed great difference of opinion. He was prepared to agree to returns which might show what proportion of such burdens were borne by the landed in terest, leaving it to parliament to deal with it as it pleased. He had never argued for protection solely on the ground of 'the peculiar burdens pressing on the land; he had rested it on other grounds, the capital invested in the cultivation of the soil under a long continued system, the danger of sudden disturbance, &c. It was said he had unsettled the minds of the agriculturists by the corn law of last session; but what settlement could result from a protracted inquiry such as the one proposed? The government had consulted what they conceived to be the interests of the country, and though he was the author of the corn law of last session no fear of any imputation of inconsistency or loss of power would re strain him from repealing that law, if the evidence of facts convinced his judgment that it was injurious in its operation. He was, however, by no means satisfied that any change of the present law would be advantageous. Lord Howtcx said that it would be absurd to move for returns which might be made to prove anything on either side_ of the question : The report of a select committee would be a valuable document, even if it were drawn up - by members all from the ministerial side of the house. The ex istence of the anti-corn-law league he thought a great evil, but, in the words of Lord Plunkett, it was " the spawn of their own wrong." Mr. BLACKSTONE said that the letter referred to by Mr. Gibson was not authorised by the Agricultural Society. It was the letter of a Mr. Brown, who bad intruded himself upon them as a secretary. Mr. VILLIERS read other letters from secretaries of other agricultural societies, in which it was suggested that eve n th e supplies should be stopped until an inquiry should take place into the state of the agricultural interests. Under these cir cumstances the hon. member for Dorsetshire had better look at home before he attacked the. anti-corn-law league. Mr. WARD replied; after which the house divided. and Mr. Ward's motion was defeated by a majority of 232 to 133. gesttd how the house was to to avoid the difficulty. Ile quite agreed Sir T. Wilde, he had not so' That no one could be a proper judge of the pt ivilege.s of tile House of Commons. It must itself be the only judge of those privileges. Still pleading to the action would not pre vent the house from taking any other step it thought neces sary; and if they did not plead what would be the result? Judgment would go by default, and the under-sheriff would have to assess the damages with the aid of a jury. Would the lion. member for Worcester, in that case, imprison the under-sheriff and the jury, and also those who were subse quently called on to levy the execution? If the sheriffs re fuse to levy the judges will issue an attachment against them ; and in that case would they call the judges to answer at the bar before them ? The honourable and learned gentleman argued at great length that it was impossible to exclude the jurisdiction df the courts of law, and quoted a variety of pre cedents in which privileges claimed by the house were dis cussed in courts of law. If the latter decided against the privileges of the house (which they had no right beforehand to assume they would do), the only remedy was by a legisla tive enactment. He also contended against the propriety of calling Mr. Howard to the bar, even if they should decide upon telling the o ffi cers of the h ouse: to plead to the action. Lord HOWICK protested against the course they were about to adopt. The whole argument of Sir William Follett amounted to this—that the House of Commons'ought to be and was the only judge of its own privileges, but that they had no earthly power to enforce them—that to enforce them they must trust to the courts of law, although those courts had, according to Sir William Follett's own opinion, decided wrongfully against the privileges of the house in the case of " Stockdale v. Hansard." The house had sufficient power to enforce its privileges, for though its power of commitment was confined to the session, yet the session might be length ened by adjourning instead of proroguing parliament. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said that this action was on the part of Mr. Howard a wanton defiance of the authority of the house, for he questioned the legality of the Speaker's war rant after stating formerly that it was not his intention to do so, and thereby iaving obtained the omission from the Printed Papers Bill of the clause which would have put an end to the actions then existing. He supported the motion of Lord J. Russell, for if the house did not make a stand, there would be no end to these actions. Sir R. INGLIS opposed the proposition of Lord John Russell. After a few words from Mr. HARDY the house divided, and the amendment was negatived by a majority of 157 to 84. The original motion was then agreed to by a majority of 135 to 71. 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TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, &c, The largely increased and most respectable circulation which the Tuesday's Edition of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD has now obtained amongst the mercantile body in Manchester a f fords its proprietors the gratify ing power of urging this, amongst the other undeniable claims which it possesses, upon the favor of that portion of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to bring their advertisements before the notice of buyers in the neighbouring manufacturing districts. In most of the surrounding towns of Lancashire the circulation of the STANDARD is steadily increasing. In Manchester, however, the centre of the manufacturing district, our publication of Tuesday—occurring upon the most im portant market day of the Cotton Trade, w h en its Exchange and Hotels are thronged with country manu facturers, spinners, and calico printers—is firmly es tablished in circulation, and is perused with increased and increasing interest. Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to receive an increased measure of support from the mer chants and brokers of the town generally ; and it affords us great pleasure ,to assure those of our friends amongst those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver tising favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability to do justice to the interests committed to their care. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY The adjourned debate on the question of privilege was re sumed by Lord J. RUSSELL, who referred to what bad been done upon former occasions, in order to show that the house was in these matters surrounded with difficulties. He feared that the course suggested by Sir T, Wilde would be attended with the most serious inconveniences, while on the other hand the course proposed by the Solicitor-General was making the courts of law judges of what were the p r i v il eges of the House o f C ommons . It would at once invest those courts with the'power of curbing and controlling the House of Commons in the exercise of its privileges. The House of Commons was the only check upon the misconduct of the courts of law, and those courts might be very much gratified to find that they had the power of limiting the privileges of the house in return. If the judges went on enlarging their own powers, while curtailing those- of the House of Com mons, the result might be that the latter branch of the legislature would become less beneficial to the country than it was intended that it should be by the constitution. See ing all the difficulties of the case, he should feel disposed to say that they ought not to allow the plaintiff in the action to be entirely free from examination. It would be very absurd to have committed the present plaintiff when acting as a subordinate in opposing the privileges of the house, and yet take no step against him when he proceeded to act as a prin cipal. He would therefore suggest that he should be called to the bar and examined, and if he was proceeding against and in despite of the authority of the house that he should be committed. This wou:d deter others from a similar course of procedure. The noble lord concluded by moving that Thomas Burton Howard should be desired to attend at the bar of the house on Thursday (yesterday.) The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that in theory be quite agreed in the resolutions which had been formerly agreed to by the house. After the former debate it was impossible to doubt that the house was the only judge of its own privi. leges, and from that principle he never would recede; but he still thought it was not becoming of the house to commit attorneys' clerks and sheriffs' officers, and plaintiffs, for seek ing redress for what they conceived to be a wrong done them in the only way which appeared to them to be open. In the former case the privileges of the house were admitted, but damages were given for excess in the execution of their war rant. The object of the plaintiff was, no doubt, to get as much money as he could, and if was called to the bar he would probably provoke the house to commit him, in order to en hance the damages by holding himself up as a martyr to op pression. In the case of " Burdett v. Abbot," the house had not only pleaded but had obtained a verdict ; and yet it had permitted one of its own members to defy its powers so far as to carry the question to the House of Lords. When the former case was decided in favour of Mr. Stockdale, he was of opinion the House of Lords should have been appealed to, that the opinions of all the courts of law should have been exhausted, or that they should have proceeded at once to le gislate. The Court of Chancery had this power of commit tal, though it could not trace that power to its origin ; but this was not the sort of precedent which the House of Com mons should choose to follow. He thought the course the house ought to adopt would be to plead to the action, taking it for granted that the courts of law in Westminster Hall would take cognisance of the privileges of the house as part of the law which they had to administer. He should there fore oppose the motion of Lord J. Russell. Mr. ELPHINSTONE said that great inconvenience might arise if the privileges of the house were permitted to be ques tioned. He suggested the propriety of passing an act autho rising the Speaker to stop actions by injunction, being in each case empowered to issue such injunction by a vote of the house. Mr. BORTHWICK opposed the motion of Lord J. Russ:ell. Sir R. PEEL said he would readily accede to the suggestion of Lord J. Russell for a select committee had he not, on the part of the Government, determined to assume the direct responsibility. He was at first strongly disposed to refuse to plead and to rely upon their privileges, but recollecting that if the action went on the house would be compelled to com mit innocent parties who were merely subordinate functiona ries, he came to a different conclusion. He was the more induced to this by the consideration of the powerful minority opposed to the former course of proceeding, and to the fact that public opinion was against such a stretch of power. He felt deeply that the whole of the privileges claimed in modern time by the House of Commons were essential to the exercise of their functions, and he also feared ; that the courts of law, naturally jealous of their own authority, and closely looking into all the technical bearings of the case, might not take a favourable view of the privileges. According to the consti tution, the house had a controlling power, and if the decision of the Queen's Bench in the case of Stockdale had been al lowed to pass unquestioned by parliament, it would have been a foundation for the complete degradation of the house. Although he would not hesitate to commit the plaintiff in this case to Newgate if it were necessary to do so for the pre d o s t o b e pllatinwtioffu pre servation of their auth or it y , yet under existing circumstances h n e o t d b i d e not v think i t to enter would übpeon a judicious contest t with o at the bar unless they were ready to go through with the pro ceeding by committing him. He thought it would, upon the whole, be better for the house to obtain a clearer definition of the law, and then pass an act which would give them full and unquestioned authority to support their privileges. Mr. WYNN was of opinion, that all modern precede t committed the h ouse t o t h e necessity of pleading in the ns pre sent instance. Mr. ESCOTT supported the proposal of pleading to the ac tion. Sir T. WILDE regretted that the course recommended by Sir 11. Peel did not corresponsl with the sentiments he had expressed. All difficulties might be obviated by a manly assertion of their privileges, of which they were after all but trustees for the benefit of the public. As to passing an act of . Parliament to define their privileges, it was not in the power of mortal to surmise what might be the functions which that house might not be called upon to exercise, nor perhaps was it desirable, on public grounds, that those privi leges should be defined. Eminent as were Lord Denman and Mr. Justice Patteson, they had laid down most startling provisions as regarded the privileges of the house, and if they persevered in their present course they would place the House of Commons subordinate, vot only to the House of Lords, but to the courts of law also, and thus make a serious inroad on the constitution of the country. The precedents relied upon should be rather regarded as so many warnings that a similar course should be avoided hereafter. They were by the proposed course of pleading to the action only postponing the evil after all, and rendering it more difficult to be dealt with when it should arise. He could not admit the unpopu larity of the power claimed by the house to be a legitimate reason for not exercising it,when, in any other point of view, circumstances demanded that it should be exerted. H e op. posed pleading to the action, because, in so doing, they were not following bad precedents, but-making a new precedent which might become seriously injurious to the authority of ParliaMent. The SOLICITOR.GHNERAL said he admitted the import. ance of not taking a false step in the present ease, and he regretted that, notwithstanding all the learning displayed by Ebt 2therpeot itanDarb. FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 17, 1843. Under the circumstances attendant upon our posi tion, with regard to the authorities and the people of China, a feeling of jealousy, if not of active hostility, towards us might well have been anticipated. We had extorted from that people, by force of arms, vast con cessions for our commerce—concessions in the benefit of which it is as yet uncertain how far other nations were to share ; we had inflicted, too, a deadly wound upon their national pride; and we might have safely calculated, therefore, not only upon being met, for a time, in our new relations with them, by every petty annoyance within their reach, but, as well, by th e secret intrigues of the residents of other nations, to embitter and increase existing jealousies, and impede the march of our commercial enterprise in that coup' try. What, then, under such circumstances, was the, imperative d u ty o f every B r i t i s h merc h ant, an d 0 1 every commander of a British mercantile vessel , trading in a Chinese port ? Obviously, it was to exercise every possible circumspection, to use every effort, in the carrying on of their business operation s, to avoid any unpleasant embroilment with the popula tion, and by conciliatory and careful conduct to allay the ill-feeling so naturally existing against thernselYe e and their country. - Yet this, we regret to say, d oes not appear to have been the policy pursued by the re sidents at the port of Canton; and, as the result, w° are advised by the last mail of a serious outbreak by the pop u l a ti on, di recte d exc l us i ve l y aga i nst t h e British . r residents, and attended with the destruction of WI. factory, whil s t t h e property o f every ot h er f ore igne r was protected —a calamity out of which may arise very t serious r esu l ts , an d w hi c h at al l events serve to injury upon British commerce, by retarding the red turn, on the part of the population, to a state of g° ° feeling towards the entire British nation. Whether the tone of reproof, in which the mercantile body in Canton have been addressed on the occas inii ; by Sir H enry P ott i nger, i s fully merited or no t, w e shall not p resume to express an opinion. That o ffic e r goes the ex t reme l engt h of stating that, d ur ing the as entire peri o d o f e i g h teen months, dur i ng which lie. b to been en gage d i n the effort to settle our entang l ei nen with Chi na , t h e merchants trading in the wa ters o f _ it Canton ha ve , b y t h e i r conduct, retarded, rat h e r th' of aided, his success. If such be the case, we k l °" o d no language t oo s t rong to c h aracterise the i r folly r. wickedness. Trusting, however, that no English ill i e n o chant, in C an t on or e l sew h ere, can have been s° ji"tio to every feelin g f or th e h onour and advantage of b country as to ha ve p ursue d t h e course po i nte d at ~ the British plenipotentiary, there does certainly aPP e ave from every i n f ormat i on wh i ch we can gather, to h o f been most unjustifiable proceedings on the p a rt i °f some of them. Opi um smugg li ng , an d srnugg , ' a an every descriptio n o f merc h an di se, h ave b een openly 00, insultingly carri e d on, both at Canton and Wha m ' ) and to an ex t ent w hi c h , h ad even t h e con d u ct °f h riotous crews of the Fort William and other Ships al precipitated a popular commotion, must lb—. c o have dra wn d own a remonstrance f rom the Ch ines e authorities, if not l e d to a secon d rupture between c b eu two countries. I n d ee d, i t i s open ly hinted, that .;es a consummation wou ld not , to some o f the parl ike ii question—th e s p ecu l ators i n tea —h ave been one to be very unwelcome. p ou tonl We trust, f or th e cre di t o f t h e merc hants or 1 - 1 it that such conduct will not be persisted in ; a . 12 0 ot might to so me ex t en t con d uce to the preservo° ..sb a tranquillity in China, if th e owners at home, o f jirit3 ships tr a di ng to Chi nese ports, were to insist tIP° exercise of stri c t regu l at i on over the conduet l f eas ul t :is by whom th e y are nav i gate d . Thi s much, a t - _ .atua hls ; co o certain. If ou r commerce i n Chi n a, howe ver v re to us as a na ti on , cannot b e carr i e d on without h on the part o f t ra d ers to a system o f gross dis° es t? i 1 . t 3 , : ° : ri r o a ris t°g and outr age o f a ll l aw — a system a l m ost amo ting our o p f ira G cy r — eat it B ca r n ita n in no longer equip gerbecofineseitseteannd n consistent w the a armies and es t a bli s h ments f or t h e protection of so flagitious and disgraceful. l e tter We tak e th e f o ll ow i ng ex t rac t from a private dated Hongkong, Dec. 31, 1842: iv erit 9 "The correspondence relative to the Canton riots a wis e," perusal, and will prove that the Plenipotentiary Bete , 80 0, T s he feeling he r e, or r a ther at Macao, among the M ere- they i that the Chinese will break faith. I belie ve they ".i6l' that would, as it would give a grand lift to tea at home; °nriyal ground alone they have set up such a howl. The n°ll-3rirorn of the Imperial Commissioner at Canton is an u g ly io , o stance. However, here at the Government -house nOhipise trust or apprehension of bad faith on the part of the C of L oY is entertained; at the same time, the non•receillt