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imperial IJarliamolt. HOUSE OF COMMONS.--AloNnAr. On the motion that the house should resolve its a committee of ways and r ans in order to c the sugar duties. Mr. M. GinsoN moved as an amendmen a will be satisfi rangement of rnanent foreign ualization of t e act of last year the s bet true that tl n a moss parties parct that the trade was sive fluctuations. ' eat question, however £2,300,000 on the 230,000 tons .r, and t :e and n tity of p labour ex India col, of Public inter otection actually exceeded all t ductio but he firmly believed they vv - ould pr If he were wrong in I tition. I the justice of hiscas don asps' selves fro' the las 'L WART sec Mr. JAMES ation of Ind open com, f, he would still tended to the anked the government for t st I although hi to whether the pr could not yet for tern to cultivate their the duties on tates with al sugar would be to patience t seven miles of i another, whi such a proposlti , advocated emanc 0 had or a pparen ton, but who would revive once aior given by the present bill should be given only to such practitioners as submitted le boon ex- to that registration. To all these three leading objects ntemplated he still adhered, and they would all be found in his pre estima,e as sent hill. Tn hi. hill ~f ...a session ne naa proposed tc sed reductions would enable the plan- repeal the act which gave to the members of the College 'vantage. To equalize of Physicians in London the exclusive privilege of 'me an impetus to the tisine as nhvAiriana in th. ,se F Instead of this clause he proposed would exempt the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge from the operation of this bill. These Universities wished to preserve to their graduates in me ke of dicine all their present privileges. Negotiations were in pr..gress, from which it might b e h o p e d th a t an arranee .. meet would be made for acloser union between those Universities and the College of Physicians in London ; and if that were effected, the exempting clause might be truck out at a subsequent stage of the bill. 'With regard Apothecaries' Act, he had come to the conclusion - as not expedient to propose the entire repeal of session was, that Hu pa tnectloll agamst empirical practitioners, and that it repealed existing penalties. His present bill left those penalties unt9uched, and continued to the Apo thecaries' Company the power to levy them if it thought He also , isdemeanour for any person to It a►so repealed so much rty in man," for the hing in the case sugar u should exempt it from the operation of the principles 1 down by Sir R. Peel in his financial statement. If right hon. baronet had applied his free-trade principl. - lie might have come down to the house, and insteac . 4x in order to enablt , ave said that le the incoun hum to n duty on r, her tier that t Sir G. CLERK de of then coat. The tact was, that eau: iored upon its own as possible to reduce pri d in the W klf I been made to securea proper•supply of labour in its ro Indies befor a the planters had to con all the sug Toposition of Sir It. Peel NI Is countr ring the last thir g the pr, priet, r creasin ghtest injury to the colonial pro- '; and it would have the additional advantage of in g Vie consumption to the fullest extent contempla- Ir. VILLIERS It hon. oaronet ment should b ntended that the arzr lung whatever to do wish the untry should s, , ss on What did the country owe them ? Where What did it - ' Where was ffer such an annua Its annual loss to terminat amount to ? only to lose £2 It appeared to him that in re not 3 the Wet India in'terest they 300,000, but were to be saddled with t f the rt signed for I he 11( —namely, to discourage slaver propose to keep up the diet Jav, and Ma free lemur ? to these plat in the c both of which w , cting the gement of slaver Lord 110 WICK would support the motion of the hon for Manchester, up . on the understAr g that its object was to redu, duty on foreign z.ugar tc at the same time that government should avail itself of the present opportunity to reduce the dutie,: paid by all sit- He looked upon the differential duty of 10s. as a enormous tax upon the British consumer—it wa4, in fact, an unfair and unjust spoliation of the British con- sumer tor the benefit of t India ula 1 a cas colonial planter. If t' ....ft. it. um, ' 41111.1 I. would be ready to meet it. Let them establish their de• wand, and the British people would be prepared to pay in the way least onerous to themselves—they would it, but pay it out of the treasury, and not in a manner tiiat i them to pa ) pounds fore ry one pound which protection was a delusion, f.r he felt convinced that the n of s )!es would ultimate free to triumph over slave labour in our colonies. Mr. GLADSTONE admitted that an extra amount of duty f hone ble niembe but although 1 in the abs could be Scare,ty o was of opinion that snb3tantial grounds I in favour of protec n the Vt , n in this case /1 was another enhanced the cost of production—absent,_ and a more important one; and then the ab ilitiun very had so changed circumstances, that during the few years the West India proprietors were losers by their ...ivy were nor, nowever, maintaining a mo nopoly, for they had reduced the amount of the differen tial duty from 275. to 145., thus gradually lessening the So long, lowever, burden to the people of As cowry as their present difficulties continued, the colonial sugar grow(-rs could not compete with the slave-grown sugar if the duties were eoualiv,d. Mr. CARDWEI.L depended Sir G. Clerk from the sar casms of Mr. Villiers, and replied at considerable length to the observations of that gentleman. It was well enough ••-•-• _ to th if it were so, who had authorized the existence of slavery in those islands? And if the supply of sugar had fallen off after the abolition of slavery, who bad caused that abo lition? lie•enact slavery, license the importation of slaves, and give to the West India proprietors the economy of their own advantages to compete with Brazils and Cuba. You would thus put them in the same situation in which they were before you deprived them of their advantages, and when they would gladly repay you the millions which you gave them as a compensation for tlieir slaves. If the house should determine to get rid of these discriminating duties, it would be stimulating slavery with one hand, whilst it was putting it down by our cruisers with the other. If they pursued such a system, they would never get a permanent arrangement of the sugar duties. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was desirous of reserving his observations on the sugar duties until the discussion should come more fully before the house, upon the motion of which Lord John Russell had given notice. He was too unwell to enable him to do so upon that oc casion. Lord SANDON pointed out the gross error into which he contended Mr. Gibson and the other free-trade members bad fallen in their calculAtions of the loss sustained by the British public, in consequence of the differential duty. Mr. Gibson's amendment was negatived by a majority of 211 to 84. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY. Sir R. INGLIS, in moving for the production of certain papers relative to Sierra Leone and the Mauririns, said, that his object was to call the attention of parliament to the case of slaves captured in foreign slave ships and trans ferred by our cruisers to Sierra Leone and other places, where they were adjudicated on by the mixed commission. H e w i s h e d the government to reconsider the proclamation issued with respect to such slaves on the 12th of June last by the governor of Sierra Leone. On that day, on the autliorAy of a despatch from the Colonial-office, the go vernor called on ail liberated negroes, immediately after they had been adjudicated upon, to decide at once whether they would remain in the colony or migrate to the West Indies. Now, it was a perfect mockery to offer such an option to negroes in such a situation, homeless, homeless, and helpless. The liberated slaves were told at the same time that they must provide for themselves, as all allow ance to them would cease, except that of clothing and food, which would be continued to them during their ad judication and up to the time at which an opportunity was offered to them for migrating to the West Indies. This proclamation was found too stringent, as it included children as well as adults; and the governor withheld the application of it from all children under nine years of age, whom he kept at his own expense. lie expected to hear that this was only following out the recommendation of a committee of the House of Commons in 1842, of which be was a member; and that as upwards of 52,000 negroes had been liberated and provided for at Sierra Leone, the question was, whether we should keep them there, at a great expense, or remove them thence, at a profit to them and ourselves, to the West Indies. He asked, in reply. whether there was not at present at Sierra Leone an ex cess of revenue above the expenditure of that colony. Mr. G. W. Hope said the proclamation was in the na ture of a notice to the negroes, but still left in the gover nor a discretion to act as circumstances might seem to require. He would not oppose the production of the papers moved for, but contended that the regulations were framed with a proper consideration for the welfare of the negro. In Sierra Leone labour was scarce, civi lization was at a low ebb, and the disproportion of the sexes was greater than in the West Indies. The emigra tion, therefore, was advantageous to all parties, and every care was taken to ensure the comfort of the emi grants. From accounts received only that morning, it appeared that no Africans had been imported under the bounty system into the Mauritius, and no encouragement therefore could have been given to the slave-trade.—Mr. Aglionby mentioned a report which he had heard,that the Church Missionary Society was much deceived by the agents to whom t h ey had intrusted th e management of their affairs not only in Serra Leone, but also elsewhere. Was Mr. Hope aware that the secretary of that society had be en recent l y engag ed in writing circul ar l etters to the influential constituents of the members cf several boroughs, for the purpose of inducing - them to engage their representatives to oppose the recenarnendation of a committee of that house on New Zealand?—Mr Hope bad not alluded to the church misionaries ill his speech, and would therefore decline to answer Mr. Aglioaby's observations on the subject of Ne-.v Zealand. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Lord SANDON censured Mr. Aglionby for introducing the rec , >nt abolition of slavery • and that that circum irrelevant topics into the deb a t e . H e was g l a d t o l earn stance required that we should give' them an equalization that the missionaries at Sierra Leone had thrown no ob- of duties, or, what was the same, a small protecting duty jection in the way of the migration of the free negroes of —say, of 8s a cwt,—for a limited period. He then pro that colony to the West I n di es , w h ere th e i r b ro th er m i s - cee d ed to examine the plan of Sir R. Peel as a financial sionaries were praying for their arrival, as the best means scheme. On the sugar duties Sir R. Peel anticipated a for providing both for their temporal and their spiritual loss of £1.300,000 to the revenue. Now, he was of °Pin welfare. I ion, that Sir R. Peel might preserve all his income on r- Mr. PI.DMPTRE defended the proceedings of the Church sugar if he would only admit British sugar at 10s.. and fo on Missionary Society and of its lay secretary from the se- reign at 18a., or British sugar at 12s. and foreign at2os. ; for vere censure which had bee n p asse d upon i t b y t h e hon. if he had a le ss d u ty, t h e consume r would have the belle member for Guildford. fit of it, and the consumption of it would thus be largely a After a reply from Sir R. INGLIS, the motion was i increased. He contended that £1,300,000 was not the cell agreed to. whole loss which the revenue would sustain by this plan, ,ding Sir JAMES GRAHAM then moved for leave to bring in and that, unless the consumption increased to the amount eaten- a bill for the better regulation of medical practice through- assumed by Sir 8.. Peel, there would he a loss to the re was, whe- out the United Kingdom. As a proof of his opinion that venue to the amount of £1,800,000. As we were now avily taxed, hasty legislation was inexpedient, he had laid on the ta- taking measures to have a large surplus, it might be as West India ble, at the close of last session, a bill on thi4 subject, with well to consider whether the duties on cheese and butter, "1;s and brandy, might not be reduced without man was ae recess Jam um was tne estannshment of a Council any loss to ti. and - with greater benefit to the d of Health, which would superintend medical and surgical consumer thin sugar. The consequence of Sir Robert - education, and would constitute a board of easy and use- I Peel's plan was, that while it lost to the revenue Ils. a - ful access to the government on sanitory questions of cwt. on sugar, it would leave the great part of that sum e public importance, such as epidemics, fevers, &c. in the shape of a tax upon the consumer. In the Min t The second object was to abolish all monopolies, to secure mittee on the hill it might be discussed, whether they y to all medical practitioners throughout the united king- would take away all protection from the West Indian in r doms a facility of practising throughout those kingdoms, terest by consenting to an equalization of the duties at and to enact that there should be in the possession of all once, or by proceeding gradually in reducing it according such practitioners an equality of attainments, equal attain- to the principles advocated and carried into execution by Lord Granville and Mr. Huskisson. Into that question he would not enter at present; but would bring his ob servations to a close by stating that the present plan gets ; anc he third object was, that there should be a registration which should give notoriety to the n to I I to t examination, 1 the branch of the pro He found in=uperable obj part of t profession es of the parties whc nsKea toe revenue, tor the _ a class which , but a small portion of the population of Great Britain and the West Indies, to such a degree that there was no chance of getting rid of the income-tax at the end of the discrimination made bet to an university educatio n , an d conten d e d that exacnina- I very - - uwisuLu'im or the uouncit. Unconnected with his present position as a minister of the crown, his deliberate judgment was, that the safest plan was for ao- Tema-lent to have the power of nominating the Council ; but having brought forward last session a measure of mixed nomination and election, he adhered to it at pre. sent, leaving it open to future discussion. He reserved, however, to the crown the power of nominating six mem. hers of the Council, who must be practitioners and fef lows. There was no power in the bill of last sear to rt move from the registry persons who had misconducted themselves. He had introduced into the bill a clause which would give power to make that removal. He had also given by his last bill power of licensing in medicine and in surgery to the faculty of physicians and surgeons in Glasgow. He had given that power under a misappre hension, and he therefore withdrew it from his present . bill. These were the principal alt e r a ti ons w hi c h h e h a d t made in the last dhe nn." ..e o► session, and he now committed his present bill to the candid consideration and examina tion of the profession. Mr. WAKLEY had heard Sir J. Graham's exposition of his bill with the greatest satisfaction, and now believed that the alterations which he had introduced into it would meet every objection which bad been urged against his last bill. He hoped that Sir James would not propose the second reading of the bill at an early period. Sir J. GRAHAM had seen with great delight the spirit in which his proposition had been met by Mr. Wakley. It led him to hope that it would be met with the same spirit by the members of the medical profession generally. He promised not to propose the second reading of the bill till after Easter. Leave was then given to bring in the bill, as also ano ther bill, to enable her Majesty to grant new charters to certain Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons. At a later hour, Sir James Graham brought in both these bills, and had them read a first time. He fixed the second reading for the 7th of next April. A motion by Mr. BELLEW, for the production of any correspondence between Lord Lucan and the Lord Chan cellor of Ireland, relative tr• I f-- - I resto- _ ,o his thsmissal from anc. ration to the naagis , racy, and also for a copy of the com mission appointing Lord Lucan lord-lieutenant of the county Mayo, was agreed to, and the house adjourned. weep free labour and shy enonstrated. On these grounds he argued that it was the the necessity for a committee. Considering, therefore, duty of parliament, by a distinct legislative enactment, the feeling that was abroad on this question, he was of for which there was ample precedent, to remove these opinion that the appointment of a committee to inquire difficulties, and to declare how much of the rubrics is re • into this subject would be followed by great practical ad ally hindine. vantage. For instance, he thought that it might teach The Bishop of EXETER, although declining, as a shirt- those who were fond of the pride and vanity of battues, tual lord, to enter into any defence of his conduct, pro- that they had been pursued recently to an unreasonable ceeded to explain at very considerable length the motives extent ; and that they had been productive of much evil upon which he bad acted, and attributed his orders for and mischief to the neighbourhood in which they were the rigid observance of the rubric to the necessity of practised. Adverting to the case of cumulative penalties, establishing uniformity in his diocese. He found a diver- which Mr. Bright had mentioned, he stated that he had sity of practice, and bad prescribed a change only to advised her Majesty to remit them ; and mentioned that, those who were acting in contravention of the liturgy. since that case had been brought under his notice, he had He referred, with some acrimony, to the proceedings at made provision that every conviction for offences against South Molton and at Exeter; and contended that the the Game Laws should be sent up to the Home-office dav statute of Henry VIII. conferred upon the crown no spi- by day as it occurred. The legality of those convictions ritual power or jurisdiction, but only a temporal authority, was then reviewed. He had discovered errors in many of , Iwhich had been usurped by the Pope, and was then right. them ; and there was not one such case in which he had fully restored to the sovereign. He vindicated to the not, with the concurrence of the committing magistrate, -es not he re dee— , ' clergy the possession of all purely spiritual supremacy, advised her Majesty to remit the sentence. With respect ae revenue, Rea • and denied therefore the right of the erolvn to impose to the nomination of the members of the proposed com upon them any change of the rubrics. He then pro- mittee, perhaps Mr. Bright would follow the usual course, ceeded to analyze the petitions which Lord Fortescue had and communicate with him in private on the subject. He presented, explaining his own conduct in reference to could assure him, that every facility which the Govern them, and commenting- unfavourably upon them as he meat could give would be readily offered him to carry out went along ; and concluded by contesting the right of this inquiry in the fullest and most satisfactory manner. parliament to interfere in a matter, jurisdiction upon The motion was agreed to. which rested exclusively with the church, and conjuring their lordships by the unhappy results of their ancestors' HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. experiment in 1641 not to constitute themselves a corn- The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the second reading of . 1 mittee of religion. the Bail in Error Bill, the object of which was to enable .. 6 Ins et - Lord BROUGHAM agreed in every point with the Bishop parties found guilty of misdemeanor, and proceeding sub -- .... ale ore of Exeter, except in so far as the power of parliament was sequently by writ of error, to give bail to appear for efit of e-' concerned. He held that power as paramount in every- judgment should their appeal be unsuccessful. The ob thing ; but he anxiously deprecated its interference in the ject of the b'.ll was, he said, so manifestly just, that it controversy by which the church is divided. H e th oug h t would appear surprising such a state of the law as the the wisest course was, whether what had fallen into present should exist for so long a period as it had done, aree years. I desuetude were trifling or important, not to revive any were it not that people were so apt to go on in a beaten The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER declared his usage which would occasion scandal and dissension. track until some case arose which placed the injustice of readiness to meet the noble lord on the ground of his own The Bishop of EXETER made some further explanati ons , the law in a conspicuous point of view. choice, and to answe r th e o bj ec ti ons w hi c h he had urged and was followed by the Bishop of Norwich, who spok e Lord CAMPBELL said that this bill was verbatim the against the imposition of dis cr iminating duties on sugar. of the determination in his diocese to resist any approach same as he had introduced last year, and which had been The great encouragement which the abolition of those du- of a Roman Catholic tendency. He rejoiced at the p ar t so vehemently opposed by his noble and learned friend ties would give to slavery and the slave-trade, and the the laity had taken, and denied that the clergy were who now brought it in. scenes of desolation e nd h orror w hi c h it would of neces- under any stringent vow to obey the rubric. There were Some amusing sparring ensued between the Lord Chan• sity occasion, was a sufficient reason for making a dietinc- many forms that it enjoined which it would be impossible cellor, Lord Brougham, and Lord Campbell, which, how tion between sugar the produce of free and sugar the pro- to introduce. ever, terminated in the unanimous second reading of the duce of slave labour. It was said that we made no such The Bishop of LONDON entered his solemn protest bill, and the house adjourned. difference between tobacco and cotton the produce of free against this doctrine, and the subject dropped. and tobacco and cotton the produce of slave labour; . but Lord BEAUMONT then, according to the notice he had HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. the reason was this, that th e high pric e o f s u gar created giver,, after stating briefly the particulars of the expedi- Mr. E. B. ROCHE vainly endeavoured to be allowed to an inducement to import fresh slave, into Brazil; and Cuba, tion of Italian refugees feom Corfu, inquired of Lord obtain from Mr. Roebuck some explanation of the language whilst no such inducement was created when labour was Aberdeen if the Government had any reason to beli eve he had indulged in on a former evening, respecting the too, was generally that that enterprise was prompted by foreign emissaries, Irish members who had absented themselves from their • e--- 4it had any knowledge that such a step was contempla. duties in the house. -..a. euebee, en) , measures nact been adopted to pre- The SPEAKER declared it t o b e i rregu l ar to re f er to labour sugar, go v er nmen t was on l y f o ll ow i ng up a pr i nc i - vent it ? what had taken place in former debates, and the bon. pie frequently asserted by parliament, that we ought to Lord ABERDEEN, in reply, called the a tt en ti on o f t h e i r ge n tl eman was compe ll e d to des i st. put down slavery by, w h amsoever i t was con d ucte d . L or d l or d sh i ps to the political excitement which for the last On the motion for the house resolving itself into a John Russell had called this system of duties illusory, two years had prevailed in Italy, and the conspiracies committee of ways and means, o made it a n and had endeavoured to prove it to be so by stating that connected with it, which, for the most part, had their Mr. T. DUNcOMBE moved, that Colonel Maberly, the hie of physiciat we had been obliged to admit into our market Venezuelan I origin, us it w as b e li eve d, no t i n th e l on i an i slands, but P ost Of f ice secretary, be ordered to attend the house, -resent biL sugar, which was sl ave -l a b our sugar ; b u t sure l y t h e no- in London ; and e x pl a i ne d th a t, un d er t h ese circum. br i nging with him the president ' s order-book and the in. of the Apothecarie s ' A c t as ren d ere d it necessary that the ; ble lord had forgotten that Venezuela had abolished both stances, it was considered expedient that the lett ers o f spector's order-book for the year 1842. The hon. mem examiners should he members of any specific guild in the 1 slavery and the slave trade so far back as the year 1822. Mr. Mazzini should be opened. He described the ex . ber said, he had first heard of the opening of his letters city of London. He thought that on the first passing of ' He could not understand the reasons by which Lord John tr, me caution he had used in transmitting to the Austrian through Mr. Mazzini, and this information was subse. his bill two of the examiners should be two apothecaries Russell Caine to the conclusion that the sort of prohibi- government the intelligence derived from the inspecti on quently confirmed by parties connected with the Post of ten years' standing, and that hereaft er th e y s h ou ld b e t i on wh i ch we placed on foreign slave-labour sugar aggra- of those letters; and congratulated himself upon the fact Office, who had voluntarily commun i cate d t h e f act. He licentiates of ten year s ' standing under the act. There I rated the protection which we gave to colonial sugar, nor that not a single person had suffered in consequence of affirmed that his letters had been opened without a war was another alteration to which be attached great impor- follow the calculations by which he made out that the pro- the information thus supplied. With respect to the expe- rant ; and said, that if the house had one particle of in lance. He thought that on their first entrance into the i tection so given to it amounted to 14s. per cwt. Bat on dition from Corfu, he had never had reason to suspect dependent feeling, it would give him the opportunity of medical profession there should be one examination coma 1 the question of protection to the West Indian interest, he that such an enterprise was contemplated, and he believed, proving his charge. mon to all candidates. After having gone through that i was delighted to di scover -th a t th e no bl e l or d was i n the infact, that it was concerted an d execute d w i thin the Mr. DISRAELI said the questi on reso l ve d it se lf i nto one `-.. thought that they sho u ld ma k e c h o i ce of 1 same boat with himself ; for the noble lord had not dis. space of a single week. It was impossible, ther e f ore , th a t of whether we were living under a popular government or "'scion which they would pursue. I guised his opinion that some protection, though he said it he could have had any information to communicate ; and a government of • police. The hon. gentleman in the 'ions to this proposition on the i should be a moderate one, ought to be given to the West even Lord Seaton, who was on the spot, had bee n tak en course of his observations gave utterance to several aspe •-jans attached importance , Indian interest on account of the recent abolition of sla- completely by surprise. He quoted a despatch from this rities against Sfr R. Peel, who, he said, had caught the He conceived that if Lord John Ru sse ll' s p l an no bl eman, d escri bi ng the conduct of the Austrian, Nea- whigs bathing and walked off with their clothes. H e h a d ...n. such an early age wou ld b e inconsistent with the should be adopted, and should be f o llo w ed by a genera l po li tan, an d P ont ifi cal Consuls, when it was known that outbid them in all th e i r own pr i nc i p l es, an d ha d carried ordinary studies of the university. lie had therefore cheapness of sugar, it would be followed very soon after- tse refugees had actually embarked, and their indignation his own party with him in doing so. fixed the age at which physicians should pass their rota- wards by an excessive rise in its price. If there were to that a steamer was not instantly despatched to bring them Sir J. GRAHAM said the day had at length come, and mination at 26. To surgery this. however, did not apply. be thrown into the English mai ket an immense mass of back, as conclusive against the imputation that the expe- he was glad of it, when the rebellion of the hon. member An academical education formed no part of the course sugar produced by foreign slave-labour, it would cause a dition had been undertaken at the suggestion of agents in was open, and that it was now avowed that at whatever required for the practice of surgical science. As far as total abandonment of the land dedicated to the growth of the employ of those governments; and, expressing his side of the house the hon. gentleman might sit he was ' his experience bad gone, there was no reason to expect sugar in some of our West Indian . islands, and a great di- regret that Lord Seaton should not have complied with hereafter to be considered as an opponent of the govern any objection from the College of Surgeons to the clause minution of the cultivation of it in others. If a vacuum their request, p rocee d e d to argue t h at , f rom the absence ment. The motion before the house might be considered that no one should qua lify as a surgeon under 25 years of i n the English market were thus created, it would cause a of any regular force to oppose the landing of the invaders, as a third appeal from the decision of the secret corn age, unless he had previously submitted to examination great rise in the price of the article, to the great loss of it was evident that the Neapolitans had no knowled ge o f mittee. In reply to the observation of Mr. Duncombe, as a licentiate of surgery. No provision in his last bill the very class which the noble lord intended to benefit. or share in the transaction. Nor had the conduct of th a t that his letters had been opened without a warrant, he was made for any examination of practitioners in mid- He also doubted of the effect of the noble lord's proposi- government since belied this belief, for it had remon s t ra . solemnly asserted that no letters whatever were opened wifery. He had introduced a clause into the present bill don as a measure of permanent cheapness to the consu- ted strongly and bitterly against the remissness under without such authority issued from the Home-office, ac for the institution of such an examination, and for placing mer, whereas he had no hesitation in declaring that the favour of which the insurgents hid been able to leave cording to law. His being thus placed personally in col a distinguishing mark on the names of those who passed reduction of the duty proposed by Sir R. Peel would re- Corfu. His lordship, after explaining some further cir- lision with Mr. Duncombe was most painful to himi that examinatio n . A re ques t had been made to him that duce the price of sugar to the consumer not less than lid. cuinstances connected with the persons concerned in the owing to their former intimacy, receded as it been the clause relating to ge n er a l practitio n e rs i n hi s l ast bi ll a lb. The noble lord, however, stated that that reduction expedition, concluded by feelingly and energetically de. by the. intimacy of their prede p cessors, and the many should be withdrawn from the present. He would not of duty would be a loss to the revenue, and endeavoured daring the utter groundlessness of the imputation that he joyous days and convivial nights they had passed loge enter into any observations upon that point until the pro- to captivate the country by stating, that in consequence had contributed in the slightest degree to the fate of those tiler; but knowing him as he thus did, he felt bound to fession had had time to consider the alterations which he of it, there was no chance of getting rid of the income-tax unhappy men. declare that his official experience had made him ac had already proposed. He had intend e d t o o bl iterate the at the end of three years. No one could speak with cer- Lord BEA UmoNT expressed his entire satisfaction at 9uainted with not the slighte s t c i rcums t ance i ncons i stent Apothecaries' Company from the list of medical incorpo. tainty of any effects, commercial, financial, or political, this triumphant vindication ; and their lordships then with the hon. member's loyalty to his sovereign, or to his rations; but he had now departed from that iutention, which might be produced at the end of three years to adjourned. duty as a member of that house. And al hough his own He then referred to a request which had been made to come; but, from the experience which he had of the etas- duty compelled him to silence, yet he remembered their him to withdraw the recent charter granted to the College ticity of this country, he thought that government had a 1 HOUSE OF COMMONS—THURSDAY. former friendship, which an angry expression had no of Surgeons, and to institute a College of General Practi- right to calculate that their expectations on this subject Lord SANDON presented a petition from persons con- power to obliterate. tioners distinct from the College of Surgeons. He was would not be disappointed. Events might defeat their nected with the sugar trade in Liverpool, com e laining of Lord SANDON said that some observations of a noble most anxious to sustain the character of the general prat- arrangements; but it he might look back to the great re- the little time allowed for disposing of their stock on lord seemed to imply that there had been a diffeeence of titioners ; but he doubted whet, er it would be for their ductions of duties which we had made on former occa- hand before the operation of the new duties. They also opinion among the committee themselves with regard to own interest and honour to dissolve the connexion which sions, and might compare the income of the country at the prayed for a reduction of the duty on molasses. the discretion with which the power had been exercised. existed at present between them and the College of Sur- times when the reductions were made with its income Mr. BRIGHT brought forward his motion for the The committee did not consider themselves charged by geons. He was anxious that they should deliberate upon three years afterwards, he would convince the house that apVir.trner.t of a select committee to infinite into th e the house with the investigation of the discretion with the changes which he had proposed that evening, that they the sacrifice made in the first of the three years was always operation of the Game Laws. He proposed that motion, which that power had been exercised. (Emphatical cries should reconsider the request which they had made to compensated by the great improvement visible in the re- because he had observed that a majority of the convic- of " hear, hear," from Lord Howick, Mr. Duncombe, him, to have a separate incorporation for themselves, and venue in the last of them, when the taxes were judiciously tions of petty sessions were tor offences against the Ga me and other hon. members.) He (Lord Sandon) was should discuss among themselves whether they ought not repealed. He proved this position by reference to several Laws. lie had seen that thousands of the poore r classe s making no disclosure ;he was simply repeating what the to remain content to belong to that institution, which had reductions of taxation which had taken place in the last were convicted for such offences ; that ferocious and vio- committee had stated on the subject of the disco.-tion produced the best surgeons and possessed the best mu- twenty years. Was it inconsistent, then, with sound po- lent encounters between gamekeepers and poach e r s , exercised, whether in regard to what were commonly ------ in Europe. Aster statin g 50111 C minor details or ,icy to suppose that what bad occurred formerly would sometimes ending in death, frequently took place; a n d called the criminal warrants, or the political warrants, of . , ~.- —tet e I.;c intentions with re- occur again, and that at the end of three years govern- that the last sentence of the law was passed on many in- the last 22 years; they did not think themselves called ment might be able to leave it to the house to decide wile- dividuala in consequence of the preservation of game in upon to express any opinion on that point. They did not ther it would continue the income-tax or not ? this country. Committees had been appointed to inquire conceive that was the issue thrown into their hands to After one or two other members had spoken, into this subject by the House of Commons in 1816, try. They considered that the charge was a kind of di- Sir R. PEEL was convinced that in their hearts the 1823, and by the House of Lords in 1828; and the last Initial one against a high officer; the question was, yvhe. gentlemen opposite approved the plan proposed by the committee had recommended that the saleof game should ther he had misused his power for purposes which the government, not because they saw that there would be a be legalized, in hope that the poacher might be driven out house could not approve. Upon that point, and that red, small deficiency in the revenue if the income-tax were not of the market by such a measure. That recommendation point only, with regard to the whole 24 years, the corn six mem- passed, but because they thought that the present was a had been agreed to by the Legislature ; but the experi- mittee went into a full investigation, and satisfied them `-' good opportunity for making important relaxations in our I went had failed, as the poacher, being at no expense for selves that they were authorised in coming to the conclu commercial system. Lord John Russell had made an ex- I the breeding and watching of game, was enabled to hnder- sion they had submitted to the house—namely, that cellent speech in favour of Mr. M. Gibson's motion for sell the land e d propriet o r, who had to incur that expense. whatever difference of opinion might arise as to the dis the abolition of protection o n a forme r night, and yet had He should enter into no argument on this subject, nor cretion in each particular case, they bad no charge to told the house, in the same b rea th, h e wou ld n ot vote for should he venture to propose a remedy for the state of make against the bona fide character of the exercise of it, because be thought the West India interest was en- the law of which he complained. He thought, however, the power. The committee felt that they were impart titled to some protection. He wa s glad to have the no- that the House would be better prepared for legislation, if nelled to tag the question of the uprightness of certain ble lord's authority in supp or t o f th a t opinion, although a select committee were appointed to inquire into the sub- high officers of state; and upon that, and that alone, they he did not know how he himself would reconcile it with I ject. He also wished the committee to state in their re- gave their verdict. his declaration that " protection was the bane of agricul- 1 port what damage was done to the productions of the so 1 Sir R. PEEL contended, that, as to the opening of let ture." Mr. Macaulay asked, how we could continue our by the ravages of game ; for if he could credit the letters , ters under wevant, it made no difference whether the prohieition or, slave- g r own sugar , w h en , i n this very which he received from all parts of the country, and some I party Par budget, we took all duty off slave-grown cotton? First of whose letters were opened Were a member of of which he read to the House, that damage wa s no t in- !lenient or the contrary. If they were to answer the all, labour in a cotton-plantation was not unhealthy, considerable. When the labouring classes of England question of the hon. member for Finsbury, there mi g ht whilst labour in a sugar-plantati on was . B ut on th a t di s - were suffer i ng un der an insuffic , ent supply of food, and be no end to the complaints of a similar nature to which tinction he did not place much weight. Next, there was were provented by the landowners from going elsewhere they would thereby expose themselves. He claimed his a wide distinction between the relation of the United to obtain a sufficient supply, they had a right to complain full share of the responsibility of the exercise which Sir States towards us on the one side, and that of Brazil and , that the latter, for the purpose of their own amusement, J. Graham had made of his power, arid he was only ac- Cuba on the other. The two latter had entered into p - I should keep a quantity of game, which prevented them hotted by a sense of duty in declining to establish a pre sitive engagements with us to discontinue the slave-trade ; I from having the benefit of the whole quantity of corn cedent by answering the question as to whether Mr. and he would now proceed to show, that to grant permis- 1 which Might otherwise be raised in this country. An in- Duncornbe's letters had or bad not been opened. Ile sion to Brazil and Cuba would be contrary to the dictates ! telligent farmer from Lincolnshire had told him that he must decline to reciprocate personalities with Mr. D'ls. cla s of humas ocie nity, and would infli c t th e greatest ev il on th a t ' sof negro population of Africa—which considered that any injury which might be d one t o th e rae li, an d h e wou ld on l y express a hope t h at h e f e l t eas i er ty—the i farmers by the repeal of the Corn Laws would be more now that he had rid himself of the bile which had been had the strongest claim on the sympathies of England. than compensated by the benefit which they would derive accumulating for a week. The hon. member had one ad- Into this part of his case the right hon. baronet entered from the total repeal of the Game Laws. Mr. Bright vantage over him, that of leisure to prepare an attack, very successfully, carrying along with him the feelings also showed that the occupiers of allotments in the rural and he would not have referred to him on a former occa and, the cheers of th e h ouse . H e s h owe d t h at a s t rong districts were seriously injured by the incursions of hares I sion but for the friendly pr o fe ss i ons w ith w hich he se- I feeling was raisin g up i n every coun t ry i n E urope, th a t i t and rabbits, which they durst not kill ; and he therefore conded a hostile amendment. He had not the slightest was absolutely necessary to put an immediate end to ala- called upon the ho n . members for Dorsetshire and New- desire to fetter any hon. member's independence, for, very, and to the horrors of the slave.trade on the coast of ark to assist him in seeking for means to prevent for the without resorting to any arts to conciliate supporters, he Africa. II •' contended, that great credit was given to us future the dama g e which was thus inflicted on the toiling believed he understood what ought to be the relations throughout the world for the magnificent sacrifices which and honest labourer. In the course of last session it was i which ought to subsist between a Minister and his usual we had made in the cause, and ha advised the house not said that Sir James Graham had issued a circular to the , supporters. Proud as he was of the confidence he en to affect the moral influence which it had thus obtained, magistrates of England and Wales requesting them to I joyed, he was still ready to risk its forfeiture when acting by assenting to the free importation of slave-grown sugar. mitigate the severity of the ordinary sentences under the I conscientiously for the benefit of the public. If it gave any such assent, it would be said, as it had Game Laws. He was afraid that it had not been produc_ The house then divided, and Mr. Duricombe's motion been said, as it had been said already by Mr. Calhoun, ti ve of good; f or h e saw that in Leicestershire three per- I was defeated by a majority of 188 to 113. that our great experiment had failed, and that we were sons, one of whom was a boy of 11 years of age, had In reply to a question from Lord J. Russell, HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY. trying to disguise its failure by reviving slavery in our co- since been subjected by cumulative penaltie s t o imprison- The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he saw no Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved the resolution respecting lonies in the shape of apprenticed negroes. He warned ment with hard labour for ten months for going out on a i good reason for making any allowance of duty for sugars the sugar duties of which he had given notice, and said them again and again, that if they allowed the sugars of Sunday with a net in search of game; and that in Buck- 1 in the King's warehouse ; but in order to give the trade that in Sir R. Peel's financial scheme two propositions Cuba and Brazil to be imported at the same rate of duty i ng h ams hi re a man w h o h a d a family o f f our c hild ren , one every opportunity of getting rid of their stocks on band, were involved—first that it was desirable to renew the with our own colonial sugar, they would give greater of them an infant, and who had been out of work for ten he would propose to limit the commencement of the new income-tax for a limited peri o d, and, secondly, that the weight to Mr. Calhoun's accusations than they would ever days, had been sentenced by a magistrate, whose name of duties to the 14th of March. use of the surplus to b e o bt a i ne d by t h e i ncome-tax atta i n, i n case the house persisted in its determination to Stone he considered to be a fit emblem of his heart, to Mr. HOGG the n m o ve d the f o llo w i ng resolution : " That should be the relief of the country from certain taxes, admit free-labour sugar and free-labour sugar alone, into and the improvement o f it s commerce . Th e H ouse h ad t h e English market. six weeks' imprisonment for kneeli ng t o un ti e a snare , it i s th e opinion of this house that there ought not to be already consented to renew th e i ncome - tax, an d h ad, L ord P ALMERSTO although the snare was not found, an d th e o ff ence , sup - an y di scr i m i na ti ng d ut i es b e t ween sugars, M uscova d o N admired many parts of the speech posing it to have been proved, was admitted to be his first and clayed, not bring refined, and that any such duty therefore, agreed that, if the alterations proposed by Sir of Sir IL Peel; but could not refrain from calling the at- 1 R. Peel in our rates o f d u ti es s h ou ld appear to b e exped i . tect i on of the house to the fact that it gave no answer offence. He pointed out the demor a li z i ng e ff ec t s o f th e would i n te r f er e w ith th e measure o f equa li sat i on b etween 1 existing Game Laws upon our rural population in con- sugars the produce of the East and West Indies." The ant, it would adopt them as an experiment. The first whatever to the arguments brought forward so irresis- founding the notions of right and wrong in their minds; hon. gentleman contended at great length that sugars, if article on which the duties were to be altered was sugar; tibly by Lord John Russell. He then recapitulated and and showed from the 9th report of C a pt a i n Willi ams , th e classifi e d at a ll, s h ou ld b e c l ass ifi e d not accor di ng to t h e i r and though it was not expr ess ly s t a t e d, i t appeare d as if it enforced several of the arguments used by preceding ' inspector of prisone, that poachers could not b e conv i nce d colou r , but ac c or di ng to t h e i r qua li t i es. I t was, however, ' were the view of the Go vernment t o p l ace t h e taxes on spea k ers in the debate, insisting particularly upon the by any arguments of the chaplains who visited them in impossible to establish discriminating duties fairly in any sugar at present in a condition which was not lightly to shabby manner in which the present government bad gaol, that in following their occupation they were guilty other way ; and therefore it was that he asked the house he altered. The first objection to the plan was, that it given up the right of search to the United States—a mea- of any offence against the moral law. He also went to do away with them altogether. proposed to keep up a distinction, which was illusory and sure which deprived our cruisers of the best means which through the Parliamentary returns of the number of per- Mr. HUME hoped the government would give that con impracticable, between free labour and slave-grown sugar. they possessed for suppressing the slave-trade. Whether sons convicted under the Game Laws, and enumerated sideration which it really , deserved to the motion of the It was illusory, because you already took tobacco, coffee, we compared this measure with the declaration and acts the various cases in which persons were killed in encoun- hon. gentleman, fully concurring, as he did, in everything and cotton as freely from slave countries as from free of the government, or with the arguments which had ters between gamekeepers and poachers, and also t hose in he bad stated. countries. It was impracticable, because, in consequence been advanced in support of it, there was no ground upon which poachers bad been sentenced to transportation and The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER admitted that of your having treaties with some countries to import which the government could stand; and he was of oPi- e ve n death. He dwelt with parti c ular energy on the case there would always be difficulties in the application of their commodities on the terms of the most favoured na. firm that, though the government might beat his noble of the murder of Lord Derby's gamekeeper at Knowsley, differential duties, but contended that colour was not the tions, you bad already been compelled to admit sugar from friend on a division, the decision of the public when the for which one man was hung, and four others were sen- criterion adopted in the schedule on the table. The white Venezuela, which was the produce of slave labour. He debate was read, and especially when the speech of Mr. tenced to death, and were now either its the Penitentiary clayed sugar of Java was taken as the standard below had been informed that that sugar was not the produce of Macaulay was read, would be, that government had sacri or under g oi ng t ransporta ti on f or lif e i n our pena l co l on i es . w hi c h a ll sugars wou ld pay th e l ower duty, and above Venezuela, but of Porto Rico or Su r i nam , an d if it were fi re d b y t hi s measure the interest of the consumer, not so, a successful fraud had been committed on your re- from any real principle of humanity, but solely for the That case had created so much pain and anxiety in his I which they should be subjected to the higher duty. He mind, that he could not rest till he had brought this sub- I believed this standard would operate fairly towards bon' venue. If this had happened in the early part of this purpose of protecting the West India interest—aninterest experiment, was it not likely that acute persons would which, instead of being benefitted, had been paralyzed by understand how any man" could place his amusement, Mr. HAWES contended that it was quite impracticable ject under the attention of Parliament. He could not the East and West India sugars. try still further evasions by sending their sugar to Ve- protection? and which would be most e ff ectually bene. however innocent it might be, in competition with the to maintain such differential duties as the right hon. gen nezuela, whence they could import it to this country as fitted by leaving it to that fair competition, which pro. evils which it entailed upon the country. He did not tleman contemplated. Venezuelan sugar? It was therefore impracticable to I moted and advanced every other interest. anticipate any opposition to his motion, unless it came Sir R. PEEL suggested that the best course would be keep up this distinction ;it could not be carried into On a division, Lord J. Russell's motion was negatived from the hon. member for Glocester, who had published to allow the resolution to pass, and if they could not in effect, and their regulations could not prevent the entry by a majority of 236 to 142. of that slave su gar w hi c h they professed to exclude. He __.,..........._. so curious a pamphlet on the benefit derived from the committee distinctly defi ne w h a t qua li ty o f sugar should then proceeded t o s h ow , t h at another fault of the Game Laws, and on the a d van t ag es accruing from " pun- pay the higher and lower d u ty , then it would be com p e. posed plan was, th a t it ranter aggravated than otherwis e HOUSE OF LORDS.—TuussnAY. ches on the head." In the name of the law , which ought tent t o the hon. member to propose his motion i n terms not to be a snare, but a protection to the poor, he called similar to the present. the protection given to the coloniei. That protections was Lord FoRTEsCcE in prese n ti ng certain petitions from o n th e G overnmen t t o gran t hi m a committee, honestly After some conversation on the amendment was, with applied to both those colonies w hi c h requ i re d i t an d to I the dioce se o f E xe t er , pray i ng a rev i s i on o f th e ru b r i c , and impartially chosen, to i nqu i re i n to the operation of a drawn, arid the resolution was areed to roorma. those which did not, and was now to b e given to 250,000 went into a narrative of the events which have lately at. system which inflicted great mischief, not on one class, gp f— tons of sugar every year, for that was the amount to traded so mu c h attention t o th a t part of the kingdom, but man y c l asses , no t o n one district, but on the univer which Sir It. Peel calcul a t e d t h e consumption would in- end described the universal irritation of feeling which the sal kingdom. LAW _INTELLIGENCE. crease from its present amount of 207,000 tons, in con- commands of the bishop had produced among the people. Sir JAM us GRAHAM had no fault to find with the tone appoint Sir J- sequence of the raduations he now proposed. Now, he Their conviction w a s , th a t th e ob s erv an c e s enjoined had ao r t emper o f any o b serva ti on made by Mr. Bright in the Tile Queen has been pleased to • ~, Parke, (Lord J. Russell) contended, that until that increased tendency to produce an approxi ma tio n to the Church of course of hi s very l ong an d a ble speech. He considered Knt., Sir E. H. Alderson. Knit., Sir I .lh,''• i 3 'er'u.,,,ge , Supply of sugar came into the market, there would be a Rome; and so stron g was thi s impression, that evert M r . B r i g h t to h ave l a id su fficient grounds for the House Knt., the Hon. J. Stuart Wortley , F . . V v y'n' st io " • continual increase in the price of West India sugar; and where the practices objected to were of long standing, the ente r i ng i n t o a f u ll, fair, and dispassionate inquiry into Whateley. Esq., J. Greenwood, Esq., Sir rreathcote, he showed , from a series of calculations, that nu foreign clergy had been compelled to abandon them. The bisho p Bart., E. Denison, Esq., and T. G. B. Estcourt,. Esq., sugar could come into the market to.compete with West in making the orders whi c h h a d provoked this contra- not t o p rec l u d e an y opinions, but to elicit truth, would be P this subject. Such an investigation, if so conducted as Commissioners for inquiring into the expediency of alter- India sugar, until the Price of it bad reached 48s. per versv, had professed t o b e ac ti ng i n the spirit and ac- very po l i ti c at t hi s momen t, inasmuch as no inquiry had ing the circuits of the Judges in England and Wales. cwt. He therefore calculated the protection given to the cording to the letter of the rubrics; and attention being been instituted into the operation of these laws since 1823, M AGISTRATES D. CORONERS. — Mr. Wskley, the co- West Indian colonies by this plan to be not less than 14a. thus directed to them, it had been discovered that the a cwt, This was neither more nor l ess th an a tax on the laxity in their administration bad not been confined to the increase in the number of convictions and comm e it r a t except that by the House of Lords in 1828. Moreov i r u on t e h r e fo m r e h t l r i o d p d o le li s s ex r , w i t s s a o li r o e w ly in a g nn a o c y c e u tb d y p t a h r e ti m es ag i i n A i r h at e e ir s consumer. But it was said that it must be kept up on ac- the clergy, but that even by the bi s h o ps, as in the sere- ment s fo r o ff ences aga i ns t the Game Laws had forced it- cust o dy t o a t ten d before the coroner- It appears however count of the present condition of the West Indies and of mony of confirmation, they wer e not strictly carried out. self on hi s att en ti on d ur i n g the last two years, and was 1 th a t th e magistrates are perfectly justified in their conduct, the abolition of slavery . There was some t ru th i n th a t M uc h t h at t h ey en j oined had, in fact, fallen in'o disuse ; another reason why the operation of those laws should be f or b y t h e H a b e as Corpus Act magistrates ere prohibited observation; and the conviction that there was some but there was no power in the church to alter or amend reviewed, a l e was g l a d to find that Mr. Bright was not i and th e jailo r is prohibited, under a heavy pena.ty, from truth in it had prevented him from voting in favour of them ; the penalties for neglecti ng fully to execute them prepared to off er a remedy for the evils of which he emu- i rem o vi ng a prisoner once committed from the prison to Mr. M. Gibson's resolution on a former evening. He were extremely severe, and th e evil of reviving tboSe parts plained. Neithe r was the Government prepared to sup. 1 whi c h h e was originally committed. The :prisoner can thought the West Indies had a claim on us on account af i which had been obsolete had been already amply de- gest such a remedy ; for if it were, that would supersede • only be removed by Habeas Corpus. 7 to 10 13 to 15 16 25 - 30 - 33 - Mar. 4, 1815 IRELAND. It is stated that the proportion of persons above the agE of fifteen, unmarried, is greater in Ireland than any other state which has furnished returns. The Arabs melt their butter over a slow fire, which ex pels all the watery particles; it will then keep without salt; and the Irish have adopted, with success, a similar mode for exportation to the East Indies. Captain Bagot, son of the Bishop of Oxford, is aP' pointed Comptroller to the Lord Lieutenant of Irelant in the place of C o l one l B ow l es, promoted to the Queen ' s household. Before the Irish Land Commission, Mr. O'Connell explained his idea of " fixity of tenure " to be the grant ing of leases for thirty•one years. Not one of O'Coy nell's tenants at Cahirciveen has a lease of any descrip tion. Mr. O'Connell formally announced, at the Conciliation Hall, yesterday week, that her Majesty is now free to visit Ireland when she chooses, and that she must n ot be annoyed in any way if, in the course of the ensuing sea son, she make her long-promised tour to the west. IRISH TRADE IMPROVED. —The directors of the Cork Steam Ship Company, to meet the increased trade cre ated by their well-arranged steam ships, and to afford every facility to the traders, have determined on building four first-class iron schooners, of the very best descrip tion, provided with subsidiary power, on the principle of the screw-propeller.—Cork Paper. THE STEEL TRADE. —The following significant adver tisement appeared in a Dublin paper last week. Time was when assurance companies refused to insure the !WS of the clergy • the time ha s now come w h en the cut l er s expect to make fortunes by securing the lives of the land lords :—" Threatening Letters.—The nobility and g entry' of Ireland are hereby informed that J. Lamprey, 29r Westmorland -street, has, after much trouble and ex pense, succeeded in making a Ball Proof Coat of Mail, which will be found useful to such gentlemen as may re.. quire them. An early inspection is requested, as J. has orders for those he has completed." • OCCUPATION OF LAND IN IRELAND.—III the elabo rate Report of the Irish Land Commissioners, a table i 5 printed, showing the probable quantity of the improved pasture and bog lands in the several counties of Ireland. By the abstract it appears that the coarse pasture above, 800 feet over s ea l eve l was est i mated. in the provinces o f L?inster, Ulster, Connaught, and Munster, at 2 .037,7 32 acres ; the coarse pasture below 800 feet, including flog bogs, &c., was, in the same provinces, 4,257,480; land improvable for cultivation, 1,425,000 t improvable for pasture 2,330,000; unimprovable, 2,535,000; making a total of 6,290,000. LIBERATION OF O'CONNELL—At the Clare assizes on Wednesday, a man named Brown was indicted for firing a stook of oats belonging to David Conway. The prosecutor in the course of his evidence was examined es follows :—Was not the night of the rejoicing for the libe rator, Mr. O'Connell, and the state martyrs, that your stock of oats was set on fire? Indeed it was. Was not every field in the neighbourhood a blaze that night They were, and all the ditches and mountains, too. (Laughter_) That was a great day for Dan, wasn't for the country and repeal,—(Renewed 31 r‘arden, I suppose ?-"" le you wou a stock of o a t s t o b e li t up i n comme moration-'ouf release from prison ?—lf it was as k e d f reely, I wouldn:C have hindered ever y s t oo k i n my acre and a-half to be to g p ra a a n g 0 0 a blaze that night. (Laughter.) Was there great shout ing and rejoicing all around you ?—Oh, indeed yo u d o n't know but the half of it. (Laughter.) What was the value of the stook consumed ?—About Is. 6d. Did you deduct the price of it from the repeal rent ?—I did not, indeed ; far be it from me, or one of my generation. (Bursts of laughter.) The prisoner was liberated. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S-TEIURSDAY The limited amount of business transacted on the Ches.- ter Cup gave Cataract a decided call of Mr. Jacques's mare, thereby confirming the demonstrations made on Monday last. Beyond this, and an improvement in Yheo man ac Knuck, it was destitute of interest. The Derby betting was equally flat and unimportant, requiring from us nothing more than a return of the average prices. CHESTER CUP. 1 agst the Irish lot. 1 Mr. W. Scott's Cataract 1 Mr. Jaques's Semiseria (taken) 1 Mr. A. Johnstone's The Era 1 Obscurity (taken) 1 Mr. Bell's Winesour 1 Mr. Gully's St. Lawrence (taken) 1 Lord G. Bentinck's Pug 1 Mr. Davis's Yheoman ac Knuck 1 Mr. Irwin's Pride of Kildare Mr. PlunarnAr's Alice Hawthorn (taken and afterwards offered) 66 1 Mr. J. Day's Seaport 1000-15—Mr. J. Day's Portrait (taken) 1000-15 Mr. Standish's Susan (tak and aft'ds offered) 1000-15—Mr. Irwin's Mickey Free (tak and aft'ds off) 1000-10 Mr. Ongley's Mystery Oak and aft'ds off) 1000-10—Mr. Sta n di s h' s Littl e H ampton ( taken an d afterwards offered) 10—Mr. Irwin's Pash (taken and aft'ds offered) THE DERBY. 11 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Alarm (taken) 15 1 Lord Stradbroke's Idas (taken) 15 1 Col. Peel's Cobweb colt (tak & aft'ds offered) 15 1 Col. Anson's Kedger 22 1 Lord Clie-teitield's Newsmonger 28 -- 1 Lord Glasgow's Miss Whip colt 30 1 Mr. A. W. Hill's Ironmaster (all in) 33 1 Mr. St. Paul's Mentor (taken) 33 1 Mr. Mostvn's Pantasa (taken) 33 1 Mr. Irwin's Ciear-the-way (taken) 35 1 Mr. Gully's Old England 40 1 Mr. A. Johnstone's Annandale (taken) 500 even between Idas and the Cobweb colt LATEST BETTING IN MANCHESTER. FRIDAY EVENING. The business done at the room to-day, with the excer . tion of 40 to 1 in ponies each being taken about Fitz -Alley and Clear-the-Way, and 300 to 9 about Mentor, for the Derby, was entirely confined to the Chester Cup, and 1 1 - mited to the following outlay, viz. 12 to 1 to £5O ags C Cataract, 130 to 10 agst Semiseria, 500 to 30 agst Wine' sour, 5 to 1 in ponies agst The Era and Winesour, and al' terwards 7to 1 to the same amount. Semiseria and Cie tartlet were backed for 100 agst The Era and Winesuur• Yesterday, 13 to 1 to £75 was laid agst Cataract, 13 to to £25 agst Semiseria, 20 to 1 to about £l6O agst Wine; s Jur, and 750 to 100 agst The Era and Obscurity, coupled' The following were the closing prices to-day : CHESTER CUP. 7 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's tot (offered) 11 1 Cataract (12 to 1 taken) 12 to 1 -- Seinieria (13 to 1 taken) 15 1 The Er.i 15 1 Obs 'urity 1(i 1 -- Wine3our (taken) 18 1 Strathspey 20 1 25 1 St. Lawrence (offered) 28 1 Celeste 33 1 —iiWOf Kildare (offered) 33 1 Yheomun-ac-Knuck (40 to 1 taken) 35 1 Trueboy 40 1 Old Ireland (offered) 50 1 Sorella (offered) 50 1 Queen of Tyne (offered) 50 1 Alice Hawthorn (offered) 66 1 The Dean (offered) LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE. 5 to 1 on the field (offered) THE REVIVED LYTHAM CHAMPION MEETING, (CONCLUDED.) SATURDAY, Feb. 22. , L 1 It seems that, in co nsequence o f the frost, i t was dees l" . advisable on the above morning to bring the meeting t° termination by dividing all the stakes. Thus we find ij The GREAT LYTHAM DERBY STAKES divide-d betvre e a Mr. Temple's Tom Tough, by Bustard, out of Holly, e e Mr. Lamb's Lune, by Hector, out of Lilly. T Mr . he GREAT CLIFTON C UP divid e d b e t ween - Dickenson's Dart, by Hector, out of Lilly, and IV` Rodgett's Whiskey. by Rockett, out of Whiskey. '6 The TALBOT STAKES divided between Mr. Tb0a , , 9 , 1„ Tip, by Ranter, &c. and Mr. G arne t t ' s Zi ngaro, b y flyer, out of Zorillo. The RIBBLE Cup, for 16 puppies, divided between P. Taylor's Testy and Mr. Machell's Bashful, by San'"' out of Lucy. The FYLDE CUP (16 all-aged dogs), divided betvc r , ~f e Mr. Lamb'a Legacy, M r . H o d gson ' s Gi psy Queen , "' Bake's Scut, and Mr. Peacock's Humpbrey's Clock. '0 The WESTBY STAKES divided between Mr. Robinson Rocket and Mr. Hornby's Hector O'Halloran, &c. 15'c' AINTREE STEEPLE CHASE.—OLD ROAN.—A zteerte Chase of 3 sous. each, with 20 added, for horses that M OO hunted with th e E ar l o f S e f ton ' s h ounds, came 0ff,,,r0 Monday, ju s t b eyon d t h e Old R oan, in Aintree. Tr, was a large co ncourse o f spectators, and but for the r „-0 te ering state of the w ea th er t h ere would most likely P',/ been a much greater number. The return as folio:O • Mr. Anger names Artist .. Mr. Darber names Sankey Mr. Bainbrigge names Lady Grey 3 sill' Three others st ar t e d , b ut were not placed. —Won ea 4 0 Foor RACING.—OD Wednesday, a match for aside, between Maxfield (the " North Star"), of Shef o ' o o and the celebrated Barlow, of Lancashire, came °ff ear Doncaster race-course. The distance was four "' n og the men starting at the four-mile starting -post, r uM l i ev twice round, and ending at the winning-pit. The n dl ting, whi c h was ver y sp i r it e d, was i n favour of Mago4 .0. 1 X6O to £4O. On the signal bei ng g i ven, Barlow ','ef cif with th e l ea d, w hi c h h e k ept f or a short dist3io.cter when Maxfield t oo k it from hi m , b ut i mmed i ate ly n' ft er wards dropped back to his former position. Soon d e pt this Barlow had the race in his ow n h an d s, hi s o pP°'iiog beirw. dead beat by the time he lad reached the st°o4( post the second time round, where he declined fu r io' contest, and Barlow cons( quentl y came i n an ea sy t ot) ncr. The distance was accomphshed in rat her better 0 4 21 minutes, the first titne roui d. from the starting - I; 0 4 to the winning chair, bein performed in 11 miuun f o' the last round in 10 minute s an d a f ew secon d s . se d• field previous to starting stated that he was indisl oe, Soon after this race, a match f or .1:5 as id e, once ronn 04° course, came off between Redmail, of Doncaster. tt er , Strange, of Sheffield, whieh was won easily by t.!:C 13 OF e t , ter °e , - te( !