The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY E LNG, JUNE 8, 1852

cases in the Special and Demurrer Paper,
and give judg-
ment in cases ready for judgment.

BY VIE COURT.

WHITEHALL, JUNE 1.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed James Southern,
of Altrincham, in the county palatine of Che er, Gent.,
to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of
Chancery.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
James Abseil, upholsterer, Cambridge-place, Hackney.
road.

BANKRUPTS.
Alexander Fenton, stationer, Coventry-street, Hay-
market to surrender June 15, and July 20, at eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee;
b Juno 18 and July 9, at
Hussey,James QEal el
ieont-t tort,
re ertioCr
,hDe aepr s e.
ten, at the Nottingham District Court. Bittleston,
official assignee; Smith, Derby; Reece, Birmingham.
Frederick Sutton, furnishing ironmonger, Kingston-
upon-Hull. June 30, and July 21, at twelve, at the Leeds
District Court. Carrick, official assignee, Hull; Cariss
and Cudworth, Leeds.
John Coker, merchant, Cornwall, June 17, at one,
and July 22, at el- yen, at the Exeter District Court.
lICTI3aMaD, official assignee, Exeter; Rooker and Lavers,
Ply mouth.
Edward Sharman, bricklayer, Manchester, Juno 22
and July 14, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Pott,
official assignee, Manchester; Morris, Manchester.
Daniel M'Connell, joiner, Liverpool, June 18 and
July 16, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
Turner, official assignee, Liverpool; Frodsham,Liverpool.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS.
W. W. Motley, butcher, Denbigh-place, Pimlico.
R. Collinson upholsterer, Newman-street, Oxford-street.
W. Udell, cabinet maker, Skinner-street, Bishopegate.
L. Levy, picture dealer, Smith-street, Mile-end-road.
W. Dyer, Custom-house agent, Belle Vire- place, Mile-
end-road.
G. Church, ship caulker, Sherbutt-street, Poplar.
G. Lapham, baker, Lower-marsh, Lambeth.
W. G. Downing, barge builder, Dockhead, Bermondsey.
T. Howard, lime and coal merchant, Noel-street, Islington.
T. Collingridge, watch maker, Alderagate-street.
B. Hoyle, dyer, Pilkington, Lancashire.
J. Peak, dyer, Pilkington, Lancashire.
R. Laver, farmer, Weymouth, Dorsetahire.
J. Atkinson, sloop owner, Kingston-upon-Hull.
R. Gifford, baker, Bath.
J. Rathbone, soap boiler, Hulme, Manchester.
E. Evans, licensed retailer of beer, Salford, Lancashire.
P. Harper, potato agent, Everton, Liverpool.
J. R. Corker, book keeper, Hunslet, Leeds.
W. Smith, retail brewer, Birmingham.
G. M. Cowley, attorney at law, Nottingham.
R. Fox, manager to a farmer, Coningsby, Lincolnshire.
A. S. Jones, grocer, Merthyr Tydfil.
E. Williams, tailor, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire.
J. F. Smith, plumber, Kingston-upon-Hull.
J. D. Haslewood, clerk, Boughton, Kent.
A. Hoggard, ship owner, York.
R. Baker, umbrella furniture manufacturer, Birmingham.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Current, June 8.)
SUGAR.—To-day there was confidence on the part
of importers of West India Sugar, and the rates ob-
tained were fully equal to those of Friday both for
refining and grocery descriptions, there was also a
good business concluded. Operations were 900 hhds,
&c., including at auction 223 hhds Barbadoos,
which realised the full value; fine yellow went at 395,
good middling to good 36s to 38s 6d, middling 34s to
35s 6d, ordinary 32s 6d to 33s 6d; 85 hhds 9 trcs and
115 bags crystalized Demerara went at full terms, good
to fine at 38s to 433 6d, and other sorts 32s to 37s 6d
per cwt.

ter for Cochineal, and declined id to 2d. Of 250 bags
at auction about half sold: Mexican silvers at 3s 2cl to
-33 4d. Honduras low to middling, 33 2d to 3s sd, good
to fine 3s 6d to 3s 8d per lb.
INDIGO.—This afternoon a part only of 60 serons
Guatimala Indigo at auction found buyers at 2s 10d to
43 10d per Ib, being, however, full rates.
SALTPETRE.—To-day the demand was not better for
Saltpetre; still there is no further decline. Of 1,148
bags Calcutta at auction a small part only sold at
24s 6d for 13/ per cent, 64 ditto 26s 6d to 275, and 91
per cent 26s per cwt.
OILS.—A reluctance has been evinced to operate in
Cod, and prices aro lower, ruling at 331 103 to 341
per tun. Southern is wanted, and supply being limited,
there is an advance—fine selling at 35/ to 364 and
other sorts 33/ to 34/ 108. Seal is in much better demand,
and holders have more confidence; they obtain for pale
321 to 321 10s, and other sorts 291 to 311 10s. Sperm is
not cheaper, yet less has been done privately ; and 57
suns at auctirn were only in part disposed of at 871 to
8815 s for good to fine Colonial. Headmatter is worth
901 to 934 rnd is yet scarce. Linseed Oil bas met with
little attention for shipping or home consumption, and
there is a decline 27s to 27s 3d per cwt having
been accepted on the spot. Rape oil less
wanted, and (prices are :not so firm ; brown
selling at 30s to 30s 6d, pale 31s to 31s 6d, and refined
foreign 325. Operations in Cocoa Nut have been small;
Cochin is offered at 33s 6d to 355; Ceylon 32s 6d to 345,
and Sydney 30s to 325. Olive finds a ready sale, and
an advance has been established, Gallipoli realising
441 to 441 103, and other sorts 421 to 431 12s per tan.
Palm is much wanted, and prices are advancing, sales
having been made at 27s to 28s per cwt for good to fine.
Lard Oil is 50s to 52e, and little business is doing.
Tar-Low.—On the spot prices are maintained for
Russian, although operations are limited; fine yellow
Candle is not offered under 37s per cwt. The demand
remains good for delivery in last three months of the
year, and range firm at 37s 9d to 38s. Home melted
met with a slow sale; still prime is not offered under
36s 6d cash. Prices are firm for other sorts of Tallow,
and the parcels at auction were chiefly sold; 270 cks
Australian Beef at 33s to 365, Mutton 36s to 37s 9d;
660 pkgs South American, 323 6d to 36s od for ord to
fine; six chests Belgian 36s 6d to 37s 3d; 45 cks Italian
375; 305 eases East Indiy 34s to 39s 9d.
Pnonsiosts.—Further reduced rates having been sub-
mitted to for Irish Butter occasianed a good demand to
prevail—Carlow, Clonmell, and Kilkenny at 72s to 745,
Cork 70s to 725, and Limerick 78a te 70s per cwt.
In Foreign large purchases have been made, and
prices are rather better—Friezland fine selling at 72s
to 735, suplus and inferior 64s to 68s; Holland, fine 65s
to 675; Kampen and ZNolle 68s to 70s; Bosch 56s to
58s; Groningen 60s to 625; Leer 64s to 665, inferior 50s
to 58s; Kolstein and Kiel, fine 72s to 755. A
more ready sale exists for English at 56s to 78s,
and Fresh at 6s 6d to 9s per &zee. pounds. Bacon
has been in lively demand, and prices are on the advance,
Irish selling at 52s to 56s for sizeable, at 49s for heavy,
and Hamburgh 49s to 525. Middles find a more ready
sale at 44s to 465, and stocks are small. For Bar-
relled Provisions there continues to be a large demand,
and stocks being light there is a further ad-
vance. Irish India Pork selling at 71 lOs per
tierce, prime mess 85s per barrel, Bacon mess 80s, beef
American India 61 per tierce, and Mass. 100. Lard is
rather more in demand, Irish bladdered at 54s to 595,
keg and firkin 50s to 525, Hamburg bladdered 56s to
58s, and American 52s to 545. Hams met a slow sale,
Irish at 46s to 601, and English 60s toto 42
665. Isn, Cheese Gouda
c,oBpesrtaoti4oonas, limited,hßaavuetebreern6dtoB
18s, and 3
and American 34s to
46s per cwt.

MPERIAL PARLIAMENT

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS:

The LORD CHANCELLOR took Ma seat on the Woolsack
at Fivo o'clock.
The Militia Bill was read a first time.
The Kennington Common Improvement Bill was read
a second time.

LONDON NECROPOLIS AND MAUSOLEUM
BILL.

Lord REDESDALE moved the second reading of this
Bill.

The Earl of SHAF TESBURY opposed the Bill, as
being impracticable in its provisions.
The Bishop of LONDON also opposed the Bill.
After a short conversation the Bill was read a second
time.

The LORD CHANCELLOR presented a petition
from certain copyholders in Cumberland against the
Copyhold Enfranchisement Bill.
On the motion of the Marquis of LANSDOWNE,
the Corrupt Practises at Elections Bill was read a second
time, and ordered to be committed on Monday.
On the motion of Lord COLCHESTER the Registra-
tion of Births, Deaths, and Marriages Bill was read a
third time and passed.
On the motion of Lord COLCHESTER the Public
Works Bill was read a second time.
On the motion of the Earl of MINTO the Law of
Evidence (Scotland) Bill passed through Committee.
On the motion of the Earl of HARROWBY the In-
dustrial and Provident Societies Bill was read a second

time.
SURRENDER OF CRIMINALS (CONVENTION

WITH FRANCE) BILL.
The Earl of MALMESBURY moved the second read-
ing of this Bill, which he explained was intended to
place France on a footing of equality with
England with reference to the mutual surrender of
criminals. By the convention of 1843 between
the two countries, this country obtained the right to
claim the surrender of certain criminals who took refuge
in France; while, on the contrary, by the imperfect
state of our law, Franco was not able to claim criminals
who had fi2d hither from that country.
The Earl of ABERDEEN said he was afraid that the
Noble Earl opposite was not sufficiently aware of the
difficulties of the subject which he had taken in hand;
which, indeed, were so great that ever since the
peace of 1815 the two Courts had been in
constant communication for the purpose of concluding
a convention of this sort, and in 1843, for the first time,
he (Lord Aberdeen) had for the first, time concluded a
treaty with Franco for the surrender of criminals
charged with murder, forgery, and frudulent bank-
ruptcy.

(LEFT SPEARING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Lords' amendments to the following Bills were
considered and agreed to:—
London Gas-Light Company (Amendment of Acts, &c.)
(No. 2).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (No. 1).
?onrush Harbour.

The following Bills were read a third time and
passed :
Watson's Hospital (Edinburgh) Estate.
Wirkeworth Mining Customs and Mineral Courts Bill.
South Yorkshire Railway and River Dun Company
(Sale or Lease, &e.)
The following Bil?s were considered and agreed to:—
Cambridge to Ely and other Roads.
Chelsea Wat(rwork3.
NPw River Company (to Improve the Supply of Water,
&e.)

who were designed for the Roman Catholic
priesthood, they had a right to know the system of in-
struction given, and to what section of the Roman Ca-
tholics they professed to belong; for all who had tra-
velled in foreign countries knew there were two descrip-
tions of Catholics—one who taught that the Popo had
no right or authority to interfere with the prerogative of
the Sovereign, the other that a Sovereign had no right
to expect allegiance or obedience from Roman Catho-
lic subjects, unless with the acquiescence of the
Pope, who was a higher power. Now, he
should like to know under which of these classes May-
nooth was to be. placed. He was given to understand
that the rankest intolerance was taught at the College,
which even went so far as to say that heresy ought to be
punished with death. The Honourable Member then
proceeded to complain of the persecution of Roman
Catholics, and stated that he had received a letter from
a person who said he had been denounced from the pul-
pit because he refused to yield to a demand for the
loan or gift of a sum of money to enable a man to obtain
a house on another person's property.—(Cries of
Name-) He was not prepared to subject the writer
to the hand of the assassin.—(" Oh!" from the Irish
Members )
Mr. MAGAN was understood to say that the state-
ment was uutrue.—(Cries of " Order," and " Retract.")
The SPEAKER said, as the Hon. Member had not
given the Lame of the writer, it was not in order for any
other Hon. Member to say the statement was untrue.
The Hon. Member must therefore retract the insinuation.
Mr. MAGAN said be was ready to do so in a Parlia-
mentary sense.—(Laughter,)
Sir W. VERNER concluded by rebutting the accusa-
tion, as to the proposed inquiry being a sham and
delusion, observing that the object of its promoters 'was
to attend to the interests of Protestants, and to see that a
grant given for one purpose was not improperly applied
to another.
Mr. V. SCULLy said it was quite clear that those
who supported the motion were not sincere in their
alleged desire for an inquiry—in fact, they had them-
selves avowed their insincerity. This was merely
dt
a step to the abolishment of Maynooth alto-
gether, which they were prepared to effect
without the slightest inquiry. They wished to have a
kind of inquisition to upset the grant, and that would
lead to the destruction of the College. He agreed in
thinking that the proposal for inquiry was a mere sham,
(af for a
r eoinfrci.
en q
ti
hear.\er
u inry was
heearpnoewstelrys weixshereedisefodr,byittchoeuvldisibtoersh.—ad
e He had no objection to inquiry, bat he
complained that a Select Committee was, as the Noble
Lord (Lordl Johns Russell) had stated, the very
worst tribunal to conduct it. He denied that the people
of England called for inquiry, but even supposing they
did, why should the Hon. Member for North Warwick-
shire not adopt the suggestion, that it should take place
between this and the next session of Parliament, either
by Royal Commission or by the visitors, who had the
power of conducting the strictest investigation upon
suOathn ? He objected to an inquiry of an in-
ltig character, such as that proposed, which
it was notorious was intended as an electioneering clap-
trap. As to the miserable grant itself, he was prepared
to contend that the people of Ireland were entitled to
it on every ground of justice and good faith.
The Church Establishment of Ireland cost this country
directly about 3,000,0001, per annum. There. were
600,000 Protestants in Ireland, so that the religious in-
struction of each Irish Protestant cost 51. a head, while,
by dividing the Maynooth grant among the Roman Ca-
tholic population; he found that each of them received
one penny ; so that each Protestant received just as
much as 1,200 Catholics; the Protestant got 3d. per day
for his religious instruction, while the same sum had to
Bereft each Catholic for three years and a half. The dicre-
Pancy between the numbers of Catholics and Protestants
in Ireland, and the relative value of the endowments of
the two churches, had struck every person who knew
anything of Ireland. Both foreign travellers and the
great statesmen of this country had remarked on this
enemas-,
and rant, in
of it as the great evil of Ire-
land. This grant, in fact, was nothing more than a re-
stitution of the property which had been robbed from
the Roman Catholic Church, and from the Roman
Catholic laity, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth
and under the protectorate of Cromwell, and also
under William 111. The spellings of these monarchs
were the origin of the poverty of the Roman Catholic
Population of Ireland. What Ireland wanted was fair
Play. They merely wanted to bo allowed to enter the
lists, to have a fair start. Why, but the other day, see
what Irish horses, Daniel O'Roure and Barbarian, bad
done—(Laughter)—when they had a fair start. Much
had been asserted about ultramontanism in Ireland, but
he asserted that there was nothing of the sort in Ire-
land. The Honourable Member then proceeded at great
length to detail the history of the penal laws,
tracing their first imposition and their gradual relaxa-
tion, up to the time when the College of Maynooth was
founded. That step had the sanction of many great
names, and it was always considered in the light of a
compact. In 1800 the state of Maynooth was inquired
into by Lord Castlereagh, ono of whose ohief auvisers
was the Protestant Bishop of Meath, formerly a Ro-
man Catholic, and well acquainted with the rites and
practices of the Church, and the advice which he gave
was not to leave the supply of the Roman Catholic priest-
hood in Ireland to foreign colleges, but to do their best
to provide them with education at home. The same
authority deprecated an interference with the college of
Maynooth. This was, however, not the first time that
this agitation had been raised against this establish-
ment, it had been raised before in 1800, and afterwards
in 1826.

W. M. THACKERIY, ESQ., AUTHOR OF
" PANDENNIS,"
The New York Tribune says—" S'y e are glad to help
' ourselves and our readers to a little knowledge of Mr.
ThaOteray, who is expected to visit the United States
this year. Ile was barn in Calcutta in the year 1811,
and is now consequently 41 years old. His father was
a high official of the East India Company, which se-
cured him the entrée of the best society, and a large
income. Our author was born a gentleman.' lie
went to school in England—experieeced all the tyranny
of a brutal master, and the misery of fagging. He left
school for the University of Cambridge, where ho
studied with Kinglake, the author of Eothen'—Eltot
Warburton, who wrote the ' Crescent and the Cross,'
and was lost with the Amazon—and Richard illonckton
Manes. Meanwhi'e the elder Thackeray died, and the
future historian of Vanity Fair' launched himself into
its midst with an annual income of about a thousand
pounds. He lived according to his whims, drew sharp
and clever caricatures, smoked, lounged, feasted upon
books of every kind, and opened the oyster of the world
at leisure. His mother, a woman of great beauty, and
full of talent and tenderness, whose memory is so filially
embalmed in the character of the mother of Arthur
Pendennis,' married again about this time, and the
young man, always the object of the proudest maternal
love, came into possession of his paternal inheritance.
Ho immediately returned from the Continent, where he
had been staying a little time, and took up his residence
in the Temple. Here Thackeray entered himself as a
student of jurisprudence, and in the character of ' War •
rington,' in 'Peadennis,' he has developed the career of
the students, and the varied life of the Temple, in
some of the best passages he has ever written.
Henry Taylor, fhe dramatist, author of Philip Van
Artevelde,' is among the residents of the Temple,
and is mentioned by the German commentator as the
original of a character in Thackeray's romance.
We are at a loss to determine which; for if
Warrington' be so intended, he seems to ns to
lose the point. Warrington' is a man of power
without a career—Taylor a man of talent, who
has certainly achieved a reputation quite equal to his
just claims. However, the Templet not only furnished
our author characters, but also the necessity of drawing
them; for while there, and when scarcely more than
twenty-three years old, the young man had ' fooled
away his property, and was poor. The days of loung-
ing were evidently ending, and he betook himself to
Paris, conceiving, from his facility in sketching, that he
was born for an artist. A brief time among the Parisian
ateliers sufficed to remove this idea. But as his step-
father at this period established a journal in London,
called the Constitutional, the artist naturally became
the Paris correspondent. Thus, like Dickens, he com-
menced his literary career as a journalist. In Paris,
Thackeray met his present wife, an Irish lady of. goad
family, and married her. From this time dates his first
purely literary effort, the Yellowplush after-
wardsPapers,'ui
c
b tendencylished isclearly
as jm Pa
ra ct er i spt
Constitutional absorbed most of his property, of course,
and failed. The son was obliged to return to England,
ea Diary'—in
iicaartye'dn'he whichs
t e p - his
t hee cha-
racteristic
to begin work in earnest for himself."

THE CASE OF EDWARD MURRAY.-ROME, 3.1.4.1 f
31.—Up to the 29th inst. no permission has been granted to
Mr. Moore, her Britannic Majesty's consul at Ancona, to
visit Edward Murray. A special courier arrived at Ancona
by steamer from Trieste on the morning of the 26th, bring-
ing instructions from her Majesty's Government to Mr.
Moore, which had been forwarded by electric telegraph to
the British vice -consul at Trieste. It is inferred he will have
to act energetically.

LORD STANLEY.—The Premier's son, Lord Stan-
ley, has made his first appearance in the House as Foreign
Under-Secretary. In manners and appearance the Noble
Lord has a strong resemblance to Lord Derby, and he culti-
vates, whether intentionally or otherwise, the same style of
speaking. He has a poor and indistinct voice, difficult to be
heard at any considerable distance.—Correspondent of Illan-
chestter Examiner.

On Sunday last, 6th instant, 20 persons renounced
the errors of Popery in the Church of St. Paul's, Bermond-
sey, London.

IMPERIAL PARLIAIIIEN T.

ROUSE OF LORDS, June 7.
BURGUS (SCOTLAND) BILL.
On the motion of the Earl of MINTO, the report on
this Bill, with amendments, was received and agreed to.
The Earl of ELLESMERE presented a petition from
the inhabitants of Manchester on the subject of the
present system of poor-relief, and praying for the in.
troduction of a system of productive labour for paupers.
The petition referred to a subject of great magnitude and
importance, and he wished to call the attention of the
House and the Government to the fact that the desire
expressed in the petition was largely entertained by the
country. He did not wish, however, to be considered us
supporting the views of the petitioners.
Lord MONTEAGLE said the question was very po-
pular with those who only viewed one side of tho sub-
ject. He objected to turning the poor-law unions into a
sort of manufactories, as unjust to the honest, industri-
ous, and self-supporting labourers, who by such a system
would be exposed to unjust competition with persons who
must at any rate be supported. The partial adoption of
the system had depreciated the wages of labour in this
great metropolis to a very great and unnatural extent.
After a few words from the Earl of DONOUGH-
MORE, which were inaudible in the gallery,
The petition was ordered to he on the table.
THE PROPOSED HALIFAX AND QUEBEC
RAILWAY.
_ _ _

surprise the letter refet red to by the Noble Earl, dated
Ist of May, from Mr. Hincks. That gond, men csm-
planted that the deputation had been kept waiting fur
about seven weeks without being able to get any definite
answer on the subject on which they were in attendant's,
and said that it would be impo,sible for them to make
much longer -delay. Mr. Hincks had arrived in this
country on the 15th or 16th of March; he had frequeat
interviews with the head of the Colonial Drperiment
(Sir J. Pakingt n); but Mr. Challoner, the representa-
tive of New Brunswick, had not then arrived, and Mr.
Howes had not yet arrived. Mr. Challoner did not
arrive till about the 15th of April; and on the 20:h
either he or Mr. Hineks had an interview with
Lord Colchester at the Colonial. office. • That Noble
Lorde being newly in office, had not bad his at-
tention previottsly called to the. miner, Between the
20th and 26th he (Lord Derby) received a letter from
Mr. Hineks stating what had passed at the Colonial:
office, and requesting an early interview; and this was
thehmemoraistium he had made for his private secretary,:
—" Give hini an early appointment, the matter is one of
very great importance; but I should wish, if possible,
to see together with Mr. Hincks the representatives on
this matter of New Brunswick and Neva Scotia." He
and Sir J. Pakington saw Mr. Hineks and Mr. Claalloner
on the 30th of April. He then learnt for the first time
that the Legislatures of the different provinces had
passed Bills in favour of this scheme; those Bills had
not been received by the Colonial department, and hed
only beeti in possession of the deputation twenty -fern'
.hours. He also learnt for the first time that the inten-
tion was to deviate very considerably from a line which
it was most desirable should be taken; and the deviation
was to such an extent, that though literally and realty
it was within British territory, it might just as well
hare been on United States territory, for any desirable
purpose that it would fulfil. Sir J. Pakington etated.in
very strong terms, his disappointment at the line vary-
ing so much from that of Major Robinson, and that
that must weigh very materially in any decision
of the Government. He was, therefore, a little sur-
prised, having stated to Mr. Hincks and Mr. Challoner
that the whole subject should be brought immediately
under the consideration of the Government, that' he
himself would explain the papers and communicate
them to his colleagues, and that they would take the'
earliest possible opportunity of signifying their decision
—this having taken place on the 30,1 of April—'ato find
the letter the Noble Earl had adverted to in the papers
dated on the following morning. Ia that letter Mr.
Hincks said—"ln the interview we had yesterday we
were given to understand by his Lordship that be would
examine the various papers on the subject of the rail-
way, and would see us again after the arrival of Mr.
Howes from Nova Scotia, I left his Lordship in the Confi-
dent hope that we should receive an early communication
of the intentions of her Majesty's Government." Such was
certainly his intention; but Mr. Blacks having had an
interview with him at three o'clock on Thursday, the
30th of April, ho could hardly suppose the GoYernment
would be able to give him an intimation of their inten-
tion before the following morning, when that letter was
written.—(Hear, hear.) • He added, tlat from what had
passed in the House of Commons on the same evening,
he felt it his duty to the province, whose interests were
intrusted to his care, to explain frankly to the Govern-
ment that it would be quite impossible for Canada to
Continue any longer a negotiation which had alieady in-
volved her in much trouble, and which would materially
retard other arrangements that might be made for the
construction of the railway. After this, ho would ask
their Lordships candidly on which side was the obstruc-
tion—on the part of the representatives of Canada
or on the , part of the Geiernment. He (Mr. Hineks)
went on to say that he had sot been sent to
England as an humble suitor, and he most respect-
fully requested a final answer by the 15th inst., when,
if the Government were unable, tither from want of
time, or the necessity of consulting Parliament, to come
to a decision by that period, he begged it to be under,
stood 'that Canada withdrew from the preent negotia-
tion, and he should deem it his duty to enter into ar-
rangements which would put it out of the power of the
provinces to negotiate 'on the. present basis. He (Lord
Derby) had every respect for the representatives of Ca-
nada, New Brunswick,- and Nova Scotia; but when a
plan was laid before the Government involving an ex-
penditure of seven millions, which they were asked to
guarantee, it was somewhat too much for a gentleman
to use the terms contained in that letter, and say that
Canada 'would withdraw from an arrangethent from
which it and the British prOvinces were to derive the
greatest benefit.—(Elear, hear.) Though a little sur-
prised at the tone of this letter, he (Lord Derby) bad
not deferred executing 'the promise he had wed° to Mr.
Hincks. He had brought the matter before a Cabinet
Counoil, at Which ht was fully and deliberately
discussed; and it was • with great regret they had
come to the conclusion that it was not to the advan-
vantage of the provinces that they should sanction the
proposed line, inasmuch as it forfeited the very main ad-
Vantages which led them in the first instance to be anxi-
ous for its promotion. That communication was made
to Mr. Hincks about the 16th or 17th of the same mouth.
Sir J. Pakington had considered it the most respectful
course to write his dispatches first to the governors of
the colonies, and then to communicate them to the repre-
sentatives of the colonies in this country. In the mean-
time, on the 13th, he (Lord Derby) had received an ap-
plication from another society, who were desirous of en
grafting a scheme of emigration on the general 'scheme
of the railway known to be in contemplation by the Go-
vernment; and on the 15th be gave an answer, that from
recent'communications great doubts had arisen whether
the negotiations pending between the Government and
the colonial legislatures were likely to lead to the con-
struction of the railway in question; audit appeared that
the colonial deputies had first learned from the secretary
to this society that the plan was not approved by the
Government. As far as personal respect was concerned,
nothing could have been more cordial and attentive than
Sir J. Pakington's treatment of these gentlemen. He
received them at his own house; gave them- invitations
to her Majesty's ball, invited them to dinner, and con-
stantly saw them on the same terms as the Secretary of
State would have received any Ministers accredited from
foreign powers. As to the substance of the negociation,
he would say that the Government bad been most &mil-
ieus to see it carried out; and he had been active' in
pressing it on the late Government. But he thought a
hatter course than giving a guarantee would have been
to make a grant of the waste lands through which the
line passed. Ho meant not to say that the guarantee
would not have been redeemed by the provinces, though
the contribution might have pressed very hard on the
province of New Brunswick. Nevertheless, he had been
quite Willing to leave the construction of the line to the
colonial Legislatures, giving the desired guarantee, pro=
vided it was so constructed as to secure those advantages
which were promised from it. The Noble Earl admitted
that it was a' sine qua non that the line should' be car-
ried through British territory. It was not a slight de-
viation that was now proposed. Bat the great object was
in connection with the scheme of emigration, to have
opened up a large tract of country in New Brunswick
available for emigrants ; but this had been leit sight of.
(Here the Noble Earl described the course of the' line, as
originally proposed, and the deviations, which could
only be understood by reference to a plan.) Major Ro-
binson's line, he observed, had always .been taken ai the
basis of a negotiation ; but the proposed line, instead of
making the circuit of the northern and eastern coast,
made two tight angles, passed by St. John's, and was
carried further to the west. It was true that by this
schema there would be a less length of railway to be
constructed ; but Major Robinson's line would
net involve .a greater distance between Halifax and
Quebec. The line by St. John's might offer greater
commercial advantages, but it abandoned the scheme of
Opening up New Brunswick to emigrants, e The'
St. John's line, for nearly its whole length, ran
within a few miles of the United States territory, and
there 'was no security that it would 'not -pass on the)
United States side of the St. John's. River. Such 'a rail-
way, in an open undefended country,'. would not differ in
the least, in the event of war, from a railway carried'
through the United States territory.—(Hear, hear.) It
tended far more to opea up the United States than the
British territory; and in some parts it was cut off by the
rapid torrent of the St. John's River from communica-
tion with the British territory. Under these circum-
stances the Government did not thiok the project one
which so carried out imperial objects as to justify thein
in giving a guarantee for the proposed expenditure by
the colonial legislatures.—(Hear.) To have undertaken
such a liability without consulting Parliament would
have been highly improper, and he doubted whether Par-
liament would have sanctioned it. However much he
might prefer the plan of granting waste' lands, ho would
not havo hesitated to recommend a guarantee had the
lino been such as to secure those other and more im-
portant objects to which he had referred. Oh these
grounds the Government had thought it their duty to
inform the governors of the provinces that they were-
compelled, with regret, to refuse the guarantee, believing
that the line did not promote really and truly British
objects. The Government had nothing to conceal, and
there_would be no opposition to the production of the
papers.—(Hear, hear.)
• Earl GREY said he had not meant to' bring any charge
against the Government for the abandonment of the
project. After what the Noble Lord' had said, he would
add a few words to the negotiation. Having formerly
had much communication with Mr. Hincks, he bad
always found him frank and straightforward' in all his
dealings; and it was to be regretted thatawo persona
of such weight and station in the province as. Mr.
Hincks and Mr. Challoner should have learned the
decision of the Government from a subordinate officer.
It wart only a short time since the Emigration Commis-
sioners bad thought it necessary to put an advertisement
into the papers, cautioning the public not to listen
schemes put, forth 'shy this person without
adequate
to
ready.
authority ; but be (the Noble.
Earl) wasquite
to admit that the manner in which the decision of the
Government had been communica,theed
reallyt important
to the delegates
had been the result of accident. •
point in the matter, however, was 'that a
thelin e
Britishof railway e
r_
re cornmunicatioshould be establishede.si
in
or Robinson would
espebcytst;he but
cols
nists ter-
ritory.". ' No doubf.the M
have been infinitely preferable
many
r
the railway would hove to be constructed
nists themselves, with the assistance only of the credit,
we
of this country,. it 2 but natural that they should pre—
for the line which offered the greatestd commerciallt
ad-
vantages.—(ar, hear.) It was se, that t would
have swallowed up the whole of the surplus revenue of
the colony; but be thought that, directly and indirectly,
thereturns of the railway would have covered the in-
terest.—(Hear, hear.) On the 20th of February, he
(Earl Grey) had hurriedly written to Lord Elgin, on
the eve of the dsparture of the mail, stating that it
had not been possible' for him 'to consult his col-
leagues, but that,. as far es his own opinion went,
though he greatly preferred Major Robinson's line,
it would be better that the line which the pro-
vinces bad been with such great difficulty brought to
agree to should be made, rather than that there should
bane railway at all.—(Hear.) • The line of the cciloniste
would certainly be more insecure i 4 case Of war; but in

ROUSE OF COMMONS, June 7.
The SPEAKER resumed the Chair at Six o',.:11-ci'•
PETITIONS.
Mr. BROTHERTON presented several petitiongi
Camberwell and other ple.ces against the Militia Bill, pi
Several petitions to the same effect were present?"
other Hon. Members.
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY presented a petition frieln,io:
law society in the metropolis in favour of the ab
of Masters in Chancr flee
Mr. EWART presented a petition from paraf
shire against the grant to Maynooth. -Le shad
Mr. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from -?•11-
in favour of Parliamentary reform. pious
Mr. COBDEN presented a petition from a re et to
society in Yorkshire, praying for an alteration of
law preventing marriage with a deceased wife's oisteri4
Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition from the Ott of
of Down, complaining of the interference hat
the Marquis of Londonderry in the election ter tem,
county, and praying for an r
n " qui y into with
matter, which they considered a direct interference 8.
the_ privileges of the House and the freedom of elects
Also, a petition from Maryport, praying that no Me Bed
be
allowed to sit in the House who had -been ceacer"
as principal or Eqcond in a duel.
INSOLVENCY OF THE POOR LAW COI'
N.
• Lord DUNCAN saidMISSIO that in the City Artiel3 th°
Times of the 31 of June the following paragrap•„. e P
peered:--
"It is a curious fact, illustrative of the Ivey in whih_
the °fficiel business of the GroviTnraerit is sometimes Peri
formed; that a cheque drawn by the Poor-law Board, 901
signed by Sir John Trollops (President), and L.e
Courtenay (Secretary), was dishonoured to-day attr,
Blink of England. Irs anvunt wa-9.1491., and the answu:
given to Messrs. Glya end Co., by whom it was pre
s,,nted, was 'Not sufficient effects?'
He thought that for "the .credit the Poor-law B.oosfe'l
some explanation sh-uld be•given on this subject, a cile
begged to ask the President of the. Board whetherlei
statement in the Times was 'correct?. •
ultf 111
Sir J. TROLLOPS would have no great
explaining the matter to which the I%Thrile todmilffireefertfutlfr:
The circumstance arose from- mere inadverteetaTtZ'o,"
part of 'the accountant cyt‘o tfanactect: the tir',..4
business of theToor-latr Beard. The aedounts Or Wi
nerhaU
auditors would be sent' in very soon, and raa
been voted by the Howe in the courso of the session:
she Grogoso4l Wide In? IMO OTODieltr 9040 I 9