The Sun.
London, England, 1836-02-16 00:00:00

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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1836.

variety of rumours (unfounded of course) respecting
the Carlow affair, in order to cheer the drooping spirits
of their party. We have no doubt, however, that the
plan originally proposed, of appointing a Select Com-
mittee, to inquire into the matter, will be adhered to.

The Carlow affair, which comes on for discussion
to-night in the House of Commons, is one by no
means likely—whatever they themselves may give out
to the contrary—to redound to the credit of the Tories
for as they appear, with the single exception of the
driver of the Dilly, to have ahandoncd the idea of
charging Mr. O'CONNELL with personal cupidity,
nothing remains but that they accuse him of an attempt
to tamper with the purity of election. And truly, an
imputation of this sort coining from the Torics:, cannot
but impress the country with a high idea of their dis-
interestedness and sincerity. They themselves have
never interfered with election matters. Not they ; they
have never bribed, or bullied ; never spent a million of sub-
scription monies to return their own adherents to Parlia-
ment ; never figured at Ipswich, or conferred notoriety on
Warwick- ;-=-1-io, so far from distinguishing themselves
by any little electioneering eccentricities of this sort,
the Tories have always been remarkable for their strict
adherence to the letter of the Constitution ; conse-
quently from no one party can a charge against Mr.
O'CoNNELL of endeavouring to return a Member by
undue means, come with such exquisite propriety.
Nevertheless, evil tongues will wag, base slander will
have her say, and it would not surprise us—knowing,
as we do, the innate propensity of human nature to
calumniate the most immaculate characters—if the
people were to charge the Tories with being actuated
in their present attack on the Hon. and Learned
Men:ber for Dublin, by no nobler motive than invete-
anal malignity. Nay, it would not even
rate per:
surprise us, were the people to charge them
still further, with
the rankest hypocrisy in af-
fecting to be horror:-struck by the Carlow affair,
when they themselves, in is very affair, are sinners
of a far blacker and deeper die. For what was the
tendency of Mr. MAHER'S evidence !'efore the
Bribery Committee last Session ? Why this, tita:
thousands of Catholic families in the County of Car-
low, whose only crime was their independent spirit,
were driven from their homes, o make way for pliant
and obsequious Protestant voters ! In the discussion
that comes on to-night, we hope this fact will not be
lost sight of.

Our subscribers, in various parts ()kite country, have
written to us on the subject of Mr. D. W. HARVEY'S
Railway motion in the House of... Commons, on Friday
last. Some express surprise that, as yet, we have
taken no notice of this motion ; and others are impa-
tient to know how far we approve of the Hon. Gentle-
man's scheme for the appointment of a Select Com-
mittee to watch over, and report upon, all Bills for
carrying lines of railway within seven miles of the Me-
tropolis. Our readers, we believe, will readily admit that
an omission is of the least importance, 'when, in the opi
nion of public journalists at least, the interests of the
country arenotendangered. Remonstrances ought not to
be delayed, because after a aiven time, and in the event of
certain circumstances taking place, they become use-
less ; but the season for congratulation will bear post-
ponement ; nor is it without reason that the compli-
ments of the most tardy are often the most acceptable.
If, therefore, amid a press of important Parliamentary
matter, we have suffered Mr. D. W. HARVEY'S mo-
tion on Railways to pass without comment of any kind,
our apology must be sought for in the fact, that Par-
liament decided, as we had hoped it would, upon this
question. Had the House of Commons adopted the
motion—or even evinced a disposition to do so—we
Should at once have denounced it as fraught with
danger to the country.
And here we may as well confess that we are strongly
Opposed to the principle of delegating excessive powers
to a section of either House of Parliament. We are
for no secret tribunals hedged in by privileges. We
want n 6 Committees Of Public Seely. The people
have some redress in cases of the invasion of their fiber-
ties by a separate branch of the Legislature but the-
question is very different when their rights are tam-
pered with by small Sections of the Legislative body—
screened from public view by the nature of their deli-
berations, protected by the ample shield of Parlia-
mentary privileges, and ever ready to avail themselves
of such privileges, when the objects of just censure or
merited exposure. Besides, we object to putting men
into situations, in which the means of corruption, skil-
fully employed, may endanger the liberties of any por-
tion of the people. Bribery may be practiced in such
a variety of ways—a corrupt influence may be exer-
cised so very indirectly, and yet so effectually, when the
number to be gained over is exceedingly limited—that
we would hesitate for a long time before admitting that
powers which belong to the British Parliament should
be entrusted to the exercise of any twelve or fourteen
individuals, protected by the privileges, and yet
screened from the public responsibility, of the second
and third branches of the legislative body—namely,
popular' opinion.
With respect to the question of a Committee to
watch over metropolitan Railway Bills, we agree in
opinion with the Right Hon. the Member for Tam-
worth. We would extend no protection to London
which we would deny to Liverpool, Birmingham,
Manchester, Edinburgh, or Dublin. The metropolis
is quite as well able to protect itself as the great pro-
vincial towns of the United Kingdom are separately
to protect themselves. We are for no local privileges—
no rights of sanctuary against the claims of national
commerce.

Let it not be presumed however that we approve
of every scheme which is set on foot for carrying on
Railway projects, because we condemn the-plan of
leaving them to be approved of or rejected by a select
Committee of the House of Commons. On the con-
trary, many of them are mere bubbles, the bursting of
which will involve hundreds of persons in absolute
ruin. Of this description are most of the opposition
lines of road—most of the plans for superseding lines
already sanctioned by the Legislature, or in a state of
considerable forwardness. In the same condemned
list may be included lines for extremely short distances,
incapable of further :extension—such as Railways
from towns adjacent to the sea coast, to the
beach or common landing place. But instances of
this nature must be as obvious to the whole
House of Commons as to a dozen or more of its
members ; whereas the risks of undue influence are
but as one to thirty. Where speculation is carried
on to such an immense extent, it is morally impos-
sible that some of the projects should not fail ; but
the only effectual remedy for such evils must be sought
for in the prudence of the share-holders. There is
no good which we enjoy which may not, by the per-
version of its uses, become an evil ; but are we to in-
fer from this, that it ought to be dispensed with al-
together ?
The first care of Parliament should be to give every
encouragement to the great lines for connecting the
extremities of the kingdom with the metropolis ; the
next to encourage the formation of such lines as will
connect the trading and manufacturing districts.
Thus, next to the Great Northern and Western lines
of road, we should recommend to the notice of the
House of Commons the plan for carrying a road , be-
tween the great commercial and manufacturing towns
of Manchester and Leeds. Such projects as this
we regard as vitally important to the trade of the
country ; and besides, when finished, it will form
a link in a chain which will connect the Irish
sea with the German ocean. At the same time,
in the construction of the most necessary lines of
road, care should be taken to watch over, and protect
to the utmost, the property of individuals. The wel-
fare of the country can never be promoted by acts of
private wrong ; the body politic must suffer in the
injury sustained by the least of its members. It will
therefore form an important part of the duty of Parlia-
ment to restrain the random projects of mere specula-
tors ; to see that when two lines of road promise equal
advantages, preference be given to that which is least
likely to depopulate small towns already built, or even
to involve the humblest innkeeper in ruin. With this
view it might be proper to select the sites of many of
the present turnpike roads for time construction of rail-
ways—many of them being of sufficient wideness to
admit of a Railway on either side without impairing
their present utility. All this, however, can be done
without the appointment of a select Committee to watch
.
over and report upon Railway projects—without the
establishment of a supreme junta, with powers adequate
to the abrogation of the first principles of social justice.

In the House of Commons last night, Mr. Po u-
LETT SC ROPE moved for, and obtained, leave to bring
in a Bill for the relief and employment of the desti-
tute poor in Ireland. This is the second motion which
has been made on this subject since the opening of
the present Session of Parliament ; nor does it appear
from the Order Book, that they include a reference to
half the Bills in preparation for the removal of Irish
distress. Good intentions must always command re-
spect, but tivey Are not necessarily followed by wL
acts. Pritenee vvoultl suavest that gentlemen who
deeply sympathise with the sufferings endured by the
destitute poor in Ireland, would rather unite with the
Government in preparing a measure applicable to
the whole country, than in loading the table of
the House of Commons with crude ill-digested
schemes, in most of which the head is led captive
by the kindlier feelings of the heart, " In the

Since the above was written, we have learned that
the Tories were all yesterday busy in propagating a

VIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1856.

multitude of councils there *is safety ;" but confu.
sion inevitably follows a multitude of legislative enact-
ments. We are very far from desiring to have it in-
ferred that Sir R. MUSGRAVE and Mr. POULETT
SCROPE have been actuated by other than the purest
motives, and the most philanthropic sentiments, i►►
making their respective motions on the subject of Irish
distress. On the contrary, we consider that the views
of both gentlemen entitle them to the gratitude of the
people of Ireland, as well as to the respect of every
right-minded man in this country. What we object to
is the unnecessary introduction of Bills, which must
give way to the measure which ,the 'Govern-
ment is preparing upon the same subject. What
Ireland wants is a Poor Law—a single legislative Act
—not a dozen of conflicting statutes. The Govern-
ment has given the strongest assurance of its deter-
initiation to ameliorate the condition cf the Irish poor,

by a law which will be brought forward as soon as the
Commissioners have made their Report. No*, one law
is quite enough on the subject; and therefore we
should recommend to those gentlemen whose Bills are
about to be laid before Parliament, to wait till the
Ministerial Bill is ready, and then see if they cannot
engraft upon it all those sounder portions of their
Bills, which the Law Officers of the Crown shall have
overlooked or omitted. If the Government fear to act
in the absence of further evidence on the subject of
Irish distress, lest that by so acting a greater injury
might be done to the country, we cannot perceive
what rational grounds there can be for precipitancy on
the part of individuals with far more limited means of
information.

-The Reform of the Irish Corporations is perhaps
the most important of the many important questions
which are to come under the consideration of Parlia-
ment during the present Session. It is not merely the
destruction of the enormous abuses with which these
Corporations Abound, that imparts to the subject an
intense interest. No one—not even the most out-
rageous of the Tories—either pretends to deny the
existence of the abuses, or has the face to stand up for
their continuance. So hopeless indeed do the leaders
of that perverse faction consider the preservation of
these their favourite fortresses, that they have offered
to raze them to the ground rather than run the risk of
having them occupied by those who would render them
a national benefit.

This however is a compromise which cannot be ac-
cepted. Were Ireland to consent to the abolition of
her Municiial institutions, she would seal her own de-
gradation, and justly forfeit both the sympathy and the
respect of the whole world. No—lreland must now
stand upon the point of honour. She must maintain
at whatever hazard, her right to participate on equal
terms, in the blessings of the British Constitution. Hav-
ing been incorporated with the British empire—form-
ing as she does,—or at least as she has been told she does
_part and parcel of the empire, she must repel with
disdain the insulting imputation which has been
thrown upon her by SIR ROBERT Peel that she
is not fit to stand by the side of England and
Scotland—that her sons, though worthy to fight the
battles of freedom, are unworthy to exercise the privi-
leges
of freemen. Ireland, we repeat, cannot submit
to this assumption of superiority over her, by those who
have solemnly recognized her as an equal. It is true
this equality has never yet been acknowledged but in
words and parchments. We look in vain, through the
history of the period which has elapsed since Ireland
was united to Great Britain, for a solitary instance, in
the treatment of Ireland, in which her interests have
been considered identical with those of England and
Scotland. The moment is, however, now at hand,
when, by the decision of the Municipal Corporation
question, not this or that Tory Lord Lieutenant or
Secretary, but the British Legislature must, before the
world, either practically acknowledge, or practically
repudiate, the principle that Irish and English inte-
rests are inseparably interwoven with each other.

The whole of the Paris papers of Sunday have been
received. In the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday
no explanation took place on the subject of the Mi-
nistry. "It is necessary (says the Journal des
Debats) that the king should know whether it is the
will of the Chamber to satisfy the pretensions raised
by the retirement of the Cabinet by a compromise, by
a coalition, or if it does not rather return to the road
which the majorities have followed for these five years,
no matter with what men, provided they are 'found
upright and sincere.'.
According to the linpartial, the Ministerial inter-
regnum may be protracted for all the week, in conse-
quence of a new intrigue, the parties to which have an
interest in putting off' the denou?ment.
The Temps and the Courrier Francais are likewise
of opinion that there may be considerable delay.
M. MOLE again waited on the KING on Saturday
evening : this is all .that is known of the progress of
the Ministerial crisis.

THE SUN EXPRESSES.

(COPY.)
Gentlemen,--I
zin
dirDuectbeln dibCy ahsite
sl, Stuar'day, Feb..
Excellency,
the Lord
Lieutenant, to return you his best thanks for the celerity with
which the proceedings in Parliament have reached him, through
the Express of The Sun Newspaper.
" I am, Gentlemen, your obedient tumble servant,
" FRANK SHERIDAN.
" To Messrs., Johnston, Eden Quay."'

Ad-
dress, (which we
Through the exertions of the Messrs. Johnston, of Eden-
quay, we have been put in possesssion (per Limerick day
coach) of an express and second edition of The Sun, contain-
ing, in addition to the King's Speech, the debates on the Ad-
evening ; by which means we are enabled to effect more
publish) up to nine o'clock on Thursday
than any journal published out of the metropolis has ever before
accomplished.—Leinster Express.
" THE SUN" NEWSPAPER. —On Friday morning last at 11
o'clock,
an Express Edition of this paper arrived at the News-
room in this town, containing an account of the debate in the
House of Commons up to seven o'clock on Thursday evening,
which otherwise would not have reached this town till 12
o'clock on the next day.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.
The Parliamentary campaign is at length opened. On
Thursday afternoon his Majesty went in State from St. James's
Palace, opened Parliament in person, and delivered his Royal
speech, or rather that of his Ministers, which we received ex-
press before eight o'clock the following morning, a distance of
nearly two hundred miles, performed in about sixteen hours,
by the agent of The Sun evening London paper—an hour
after we had it in type, and before ten it was printed and dis-
tributed to most of our readers and subscribers—an earnest.of
the expedition we promise them upon all similar occasions, and
should the Session be lengthened out, many scarcely less im-
portant may be anticipated. A second Express from The Sun
Office reached Manchester at half-past ten o'clock last night.
—Bolton Chronicle.

" THE SUN" EXPRESS.-Though too late to be of any use
to us in our last publication, we have to acknowledge the re-
ceipt on Friday forenoon, about eleven o'clock, of an express
edition of The Sun newspaper, containing the debates on the
address, in ten columns, down to a late period of the previous
evening. We hope that these exertions will continue to com-
mand an increased amount of patronage.—Nottingham Review.
On Friday morning last, about ten o'clock, we received an
express edition of The Sun newspaper, containing ten columns
of the debates of the previous evening, in both Houses of
Parliament. The almost incredible efforts made by the con-
ductors of this paper, to forward the earliest information into
the country, will no doubt be fully appreciated by our provin-
cial politicians.---Nottingham Journal.
" TuE St.TN."—Ou Thursday forenoon we were favoured,
per Mr: Wiley, with 'an Express Edition of The Sun, contain-
ing the King's Speech on the Opening of Parliament, by ten
o'clock ; and soon after two with a later edition, containing the
speeches of the movers and seconders of the Address in both
Houses of Parliament, given at great length, and with a cor-
rectness we have not seen surpassed in newspaper reporting.
The speech of our worthy Member, Mr. Parker, is evidently
given verbatim. Such extraordinary exertions, we trust, will
meet with corresponding support from the public.—Sheifield
Iris.

" TIIR SUN" EXPRESL—We have again to tender our thanks
to Mr. Young, the enterprising proprietor of The Sun, for his
praiseworthy exertions in forwarding, by express, copies of The
Sun with the King's Speech. Our best thanks are also due
to Messrs. Rutherglen and Co., and Mr. W. R. M'Phun,
agents for The Sun, for their promptitude in supplying us with
copies of the paper. The Express reached Glasgow about
20 minutes to 11 A.M., and thus anticipated the mail about
three hours and a half.---Glasgow Evening Post.
EXTRAORDINARY DISPATCH.—We cannot suffer the oppor-
tunity to pass without making the expression of our thanks
as well as astonishment at the speed with which Mr. Murdo
Young, the spirited proprietor of The Sun newspaper, for-
warded to us, through the medium of Mr. Wiley of Sheffield,
a copy of the King's Speech. This important document reached
us at ten o'clock on Friday forenoon: and we were enabled to
publish a second edition, containing his Majesty's Address,
considerably before the arrival of the mails from the south. A
second express reached us at three o'clock in the afternoon,
and we were enabled also to publish a third edition, containing
the debate on the Address up to nearly eight o'clock on the
previous evening. The extraordinary dispatch in transmitting
this intelligence is entitled to the highest praise, and has af-
forded the highest gratification.—Doncaster Gazette.
Tun SUN EXPRESS.—Notwithstanding the fall of snow we
received The Sun Express report at four o'clock in the after-
noon of Friday, comprising the whole of the Debate on the
Address and Amendment, and the result of it in the house
of Lords ; and, with the exception of Lord Palmerston's and
Mr. O'Connell's speeches, and Mr. Shaw's observations, the
entire of the debate upon both in the House of Commons.
This—when we consider the quantity of matter reported, the
state of the roads which might have deterred from, rather
than retarded, the attempt to express in a given time, and the
time in which that Express was performed—was extraordinary
and deserving of all praise. We have had many opportuni-
ties of witnessing and giving testimony to the exertions of the
conductors of The Sun, in transmitting, by express, impor-
tant Parliamentary proceedings ; and, it is a testimonial of
credit most justly due to them, that they communicate their
Express Reports to their provincial contemporaries, and to
those in Scotland and Ireland, without reference to the poli-
tical opinions of any of them. This is a degree of fairness
and impartiality, which we are pleased to have it in our power
to acknowledge.—West Riding Herald.
We are indebted to the spirited proprietors of The Sun for
a very early copy of his Majesty's Speech. That speech was
delivered, as our readers know, on Thursday afternoon, and at
ten o'clock on Friday night, copies of The Sun, containing
that document, reached Carlisle, anticipating the mail nearly
seven hours. Immediately after the arrival of The Sun, ex-
presses were promptly dispatched to Glasgow and Edinburgh.
However we may differ in politics with The Sun, it is only
fair that we should give them credit for their vigilant exer-
tions, and we may here state that at a numerous party, held the
s me evening, an unanimous vote of thanks was awarded to the
Editor of that paper, for his efforts to ensure early intelligence
to the readers of newspapers throughout the empire.—Carlisle
Patriot.

By delaying last week's impression for a post, we were
enabled to avail ourselves of the Express Edition of The Sun,
and give to our readers a full account of the opening of the
Session of Parliament by the King in person, a copy of the
Royal Speech, and a great part of the debate on the Address.
—Carnarvon Herald.

- -
THE SUN EXPRESS.—We are indebted to the proprietors
of the The Sun Paper for an Express Edition of that Paper,
which reached us at two o'clock on Friday, above nineteen
hours before we should have received it in the regular course
by the mail, containing the conclusion of the deates in the
House of Lords on the Address, and the proceedings in the
House of Commons up to a late hour, which occupied ten
closely printed columns. This is decidedly the best paper for
early intelligence.—Derby Reporter.
THE SUN EXPRESS.—In our hurry of tu;iness last Fri-
day, we omitted noticing the very great exertions of the Pro-
prietor of The. Sun newspaper in disseminating the IC ing's
Speech, &c., with the opening of Parliament, on the previous
evening (Thursday), the papers having been received by horse
express, by way of Newark, 011erton, and Worksop, by ten
o'clock on Friday morning, with the King's Speech : and a
little after two on the same day, by a chaise and four, an ex-
press and later edition arrived, with the debates to the close in
the Lords, and five extra columns (to the Second Edition) of
th© debates in the Commous. Such exertions deserve the pa-
tronage of the public, which, we trust, will be amply ex-
tended.—Sheffield Mercury, Feb. 13.
THE SUN EXPRESSES.—The spirited proprietor of The Sun
has renewed his exertions to furnish to the country the most
important of the Parliamentary proceedings some hours earlier
than by the ordinary mail—thus we had the King's Speech
yesterday morning by ten o'clock ; and at half-past two, Mr.
Wiley arrived by Express, with the Second Edition of The
Sun, containing the debates up to about twelve o'clock on
Thursday night.—Sheifield Independent.
By • the exertions of the Proprietors of The Sun, often
exerted in similar cases, and by the polite attention of Mr:
Rutherglen and Mr. M'Phun, their Agents in Glasgow, we
were enabled, in a Second Edition of our last, to give his
Majesty's Speech at the opening of Pa:liament.—Paisley
Advertiser;'Fefr. 13.

There is a report. on the Tuileries of a visit to the
South of -France, which the KING, it is said, will
make at the .beginning of the summer. His MA-
JESTY-will, it is rumoured, go first to Blaye, where he
will embark for Bordeaux in a steam-boat. From Bor-
deaux he will go to Toulouse, and return to Paris by
way of Montpellier, Nismes, Lyons, and Burgundy.
Measures are already taken in anticipation of this
journey. Persons well-informed add, that the depar-
ture of his MAJESTY will be preceded by the procla-
mation of a. general amnesty. So be it.

THE NEW BARONETS.—In addition to the gentle-
men already mentioned as being about to have the dignity of
Baronet conferred upon them, we understand that the following
gentlemen are to be advanced to the same honour :—Lieute-
nant.;Colonel Henry Fairfax, the only sou. of the late Admi-
ral Sir William G. Fairfax, Knight Banneret, Captain of the
flag-ship in the memorable battle of Camperdown ; Sir T.
Brisbane, of Mackerstoun, Roxburghshire ; Sir Henry Be-
thune, of Kilconquhar, Fifeshire ; John Graves Sawter, Esq. ;
Rev. John Barber Mill ; James A. Carnac, Esq., Deputy
Chairman of the Honourable East India Company ; and John
Power, Esq., of Dublin.

EXCLUSIVE DEALING.-The removal of the
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commonly
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vered the last remaining tie which existed between the o
city 4'
Winchester and his Grace of Buckingham. To the members
of the Reform Council we offer our heartfelt congratulations
on the patriotic course they have adopted in dissolving a con-
nection equally disgraceful to the city and odious to its inha-
bitants. since the writing of the above we have been in-
formed, that the tenants or the Duke of Buckingham have re.
ceived strict orders that they are not to deal at the shop of the
public spirited individual who proposed the removal of the
Noble Marquis; and are told that if found transgressing the
command, they will be turned out of their houses. We can-
cor't
t
s ciue ofs
some underling.—Hampshire Independent.
SUDO MI
can-
not suppose that such an order can have emanated from a de-
scendant of the mustPElaitnTtaigi.e_netls,,ebsutetrdaya on
be ther dirty' work
was taken before Mr. kltirlir,g, at the canteen of the Portman_
barracks, on the body of John Wilson, aged 37, a private in
the Ist battalion of Fusilier Guards, who died under the fol-
lowing awful circumstances :—The deceased on Friday morn-
ing last was in the serpant%; room cleaning his dress, it being
his turn to mount guard. While so employed he suddenly fell
back, some soldiers went to his assistance, and the surgeon of
the regiment promptly attended to bleed him, but no human
efforts Mild avail, as the vital spark had fled. The deceased
bad been twelve years in the regiment, and was a very good
soldier, and much respected by hit C9rilrades?--,Vertlict_.Died
by the v;s;;;.:'.-..T. ^f God.
A poor boy of Corscombe, was round dead on Bea-
minster Down last week, having been buried in the snow which
fell during the ;torn) of Tuesday se'nnight. The Taunton
mail was prevented running until I.Priclay, en account of the
great depth of snow.—Sherburne Journal of Thursday.
,
SYMPATHY FOR POACHERS.—The inhabitants
of the village of West Gordon raised, in the course of three or
four days, the sum of 41, 18s. Bd., being the amount of the fine
imposed on Peter Brack, for poaching on the grounds of the
farm of Halliburton.

SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.)
(FROM LLOYD'S.)
DEAL, FEB. 15.—Wind W. S. W.—Arrived and sailed for
the river the Duchess of Northumberland, Jobling. Arrived
from the river and remain in the Downs with the re&t of the
outward-bound the Camden, Rian, for Sydney ; Palmyra,
Keith, for Rio Janeiro ; Rusco Castle, Murray, for Constan-
tinople ; Lais, Thompson, for Demerara ; and Somerset,
Clifford, for Cadiz.
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 15.—Wind W.—Sailed the Toronto,
Griswold, for New York.
PLYMOUTH, FEB. 14. —Wind S. S. W.
FALMOUTH, FEB. 14.—Wind S. S. W., moderate.
DOVER, FEB. 15. —The John, of Belfast, was got hold of
yesterday morning at daylight, and towed towards land till ten
at night, when she sunk in 15 fathoms, five miles off Santigate.
STANOATE CREEK, FEB. 15,—Arrived the Alside, Savoy,
from Marseilles,
COWES, FEB. 15.—Arrived the Pallas, Rayner, Virginia.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 14.---Arrived the Colossus, Wylie,
from Savannah. Off port the Alleghany, —, from Charles-
ton ; and Margaret, —, from St. John's, New Brunswick.
LIMERICK, FEB 13.—Arrived the Ann, Cave, London.
LOWESTOFFE, FEB. 13.—Arrived the Thetis, Hough, from
London to Newcastle, assisted in, leaky, bows stove, &c.
ARRIVAL OF ANOTHER WHALE SHIP.
The following letter has been received at Lloyd's, from their
Agent at Hull, dated Feb. 15 :—" It gives me great pleasure
to inform you of the arrival in the Humber of the Abram,
Captain Hobbs, from Davis' Straits. Captains Wilson and
Couldwy, of the late ships Dordon and Mary Frances, their
surgeons, and most of their crew, landed here la.t evening.
They have been brnught pp by the steam-ship Pegasus from
Leith. They left tho Abram off Drinlington, having a pilot
on board, yesterday afternoon, The Abram drifted down us
With
far as lat, 54. long- 5411 iltgi PICAr Pc 01 the 30th
ult. Paptflig 1111. IPAR .I,eTwick grid landed 4Q hands
the 10th instant, and gilt 41111)1P supply PTovisiqns,
the exception of the cook, who died on the passage, the rest
of the crew are in tolerable health."

The Johns 9f Gloucester, capsized in the -BMcn on the
14th instant.

The Birmingham Journal says, f‘ The Tories are
fretting like gummed velvet at the result of the diyision on the
Address!"

CHANCERY COURT.--(THIS DAY.)

VTR SKINNERS' COMPANY V. THE IRISH SOCIETY.

The LORD CHANCELLOR and Mr. Justice BosallouET sat in
Lincoln's Inn-hall to-day, to hear the further arguments in the
appeal of the Skinners' Company v. the Irish Society. Our
readers will recollect the case was part heard before their
Lordships as Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal.
Mr. Woof) proceeded to address their Lordships, and had
not concluded when we left.

KING'S BENCH-(THIS 1)1Y).

ATTENDANCE OF• ATTOUNEYS

At the sitting of the Court one of the solicitors engaged in
the first case called, was not in attendance, and on his appear-
ance some time afterwards, Lerd Denman reprimanded him in
very strong terms. The absence of the attorney might be the
ruin of his client, and some time or-other he feared he should
be called on to try an action to recover damages against a soli-
citor for neglect of his duty.

SMITH 17. FAM.AR.

Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK (with whom was Mr. Payne)
stated the case. It was an action brought by the Clerk of
Works to recover compensation for having been dismissed
without due notice and proper cause. The connexion between
the plaintiff and defendant commenced in consequence of an
advertisement in the Times newspaper, in the month of July,
1831, for a person capable of surveying, measuring, snd super-
intending builders' work, and in the month of October follow-
ing, the plaintiff agreed to act as Clerk of Works, at a salary
of 1001. a-year. He remained in the defendant's employment,
acting in that capacity, until the month of March following,
when he was suddenly dismissed for refusing to carry a hopper-
head (that part of a water-pipe which is fixed to the top of the
building) up a ladder, which was certainly no part of the duty of a
Clerk of the Works. He had been nearly six months in the defen-
dant's employment,and one quarter's salary, °351., had been paid.
Ile contended that when a yearly servant was dismissed without
notice, he was entitled to at least a quarter's salary. One of the
grounds of defence was, that the plaintiff was not competent,
but the very fact of the defendant having employed Mr. Smith
for nearly six months was a proof that he must have been fully
competent to discharge the duty of Clerk of Works. He
should now call witnesses to prove these facts, and he trusted
the Jury would consider his client entitled to their verdict.
Thomas Want—l am a bricklayer and builder. I have seen
the plaintiff acting as Clerk of Works for the defendant, and
I think him competent.
Cross-examined by Mr. PLAT r.—The brick-work was done
by me of the houses at Chiswick, and I was there two or three
times a week. There is a sort of work called " pockets," which
it hollow brick-work filled with rubbish. I can't say how many
pockets I put in each house, but Mr. Farlar found fault with
them, and they were altered. I do'nt know whether it was
Smith's duty to know of these " pockets," and prevent their
being made. There were pieces of wood inserted in the brick-
work. The tops of some of the door-ways were altered.
There were ten houses altogether to be built. I saw a Mr.
Blower giving directions there—he gave me directions two or
three times.

George Want--I am son to the last witness, and superin_
tended the works. I saw the plaintiff there acting as clerk of
the works, and I think he was competent to discharge the duty.
By Lord DENmAN—I don't think Smith knew any thing of
the " pockets." It was his duty to oversee the works, but he
might have been in another part of the building at the time.
H. Payne, architect and surveyor—There are some situa-
tions in which "pockets" would not be detrimental to building.
Lord DENMAN—Do you mean to say, Mr. Payne, that
where a man contracts to put solid brick work, he is justified
in putting rubbish ? It might as well be said that robbing a
rich man of 101. was no injury to him—it certainly was not ;
but we all know what the person who takes the money ought
to be called.

William Smith—l saw the plaintiff asting as clerk of works.
He gave me directions, and I considered him competent. I
told the defendant that I had seen the plaintiff's children taking
away chips in baskets. That is generally done by persons em-
ployed upon a building. The wood taken away could be of no
service in the building.
William Bright—l am a civil engineer. I have known Mr.
Smith for some months. From the plaintiff's mode of giving
directions, from his sketches, and the general correctness of
his opinions when employed at Fishmongers' Hall, I consider
him perfectly competent to act as clerk of works. He was a
journeyman carpenter at Fishmongers' Hall.
James Vine and some other witnesses were afterwards exa-
mined to the same effect.

Mr. PLATT then addressed the Jury for the defendant. He
would show that the plaintiff had neglected his duty, and had
permitted bad work and rubbish to be put in instead of the
substantial brick-work which his employer bad contracted for.
He should also prove, that besides the quarter's salary of 251.,
a sum of 181. 19s. had been tendered, and he was satisfied the
Jury, after hearing all the facts of the case, would agree with
him that that was all the plaintiff was fairly entitled to.
Witnesses were examined, who proved that the work was
imperfectly done, and that the plaintiff was in fault. One of
them proved tendering 181. 19s. to the plaintiff, and another
deposed, that on the plaintiff refusing to take the hopper-
head up the ladder, the defendant said to him, " Then you
leave my employment directly."
Lord DENMAN thought there must be a verdict for the
plaintiff, as the defendant had overlooked his neglect of duty,
and had dismissed him for not doing what was no part of his
duty:

The Jury found for the plaintiff 61, Is., whiol.,-wlth the
181. 19s. tendered, made a quarter's salary of 25/.

EXCHEQUER COURT.-(THIS DAY.

(Sittings at Nisi Prius, Guildhall, before Lord AIIINGER and
a Special Jury.)
PERROTT AND ANOTHER V. I3RITTEN.

This issue from Chancery, which was part heard yesterday,
occupied the Court the whole of this morning. The plaintiffs
case was not concluded when our Reporter left.

THE FUNDS-(THIS DAI.)

CITY, TWELVE ( CLOCK.
Charleston papers have been received at the North and
South American Coffee-house to Jan. 20. We give the fol-
lowing extracts :
" FROM NASSAU.—The British schooner Anna, Captain
Young, has arrived at this port in ten days from Nassau, and
we have received the Nassau papers to the 6th inclusive. The
Kingston papers received at Nassau state that the conduct of
the apprentkes; in some districts, is orderly, and in others the
reverse. The immigration of labourers and artizans is much
encouraged. A ship which had previously brought out a great
number from Germany had again arrived with 500 mare, go°
hundred and thirty vessels passed the Stirrup Quay, Berry
Island, from Nov. 24 to Dec. 25." A letter from Nassau adds,
that the 180 Texean volunteers who were taken by an English
man of war some time since, having committed piratical sets,
their trial would take place in about eight days.
" FLORIDA.—We learn from Mr. Forrester, passenger in the
Mills, that the Indians were within fifteen miles of S 6, Au-
gustine, which was guarded when he left by only 70 mc., ca-
pable of bearing arms • and that had the LaJiilllS made a de-
scent upon it, there is little;dont.t but they would have suc-
ceeded in their attack. The succour, however, they would
receive of troops and arms would render that place secure."
AvarTINE, JAN. have just been favoured with an
interview of an officer in the army, after the battle gained of
the 31st ult. He states that 200 regulars and 30 volunteers
were engaged, and the attack of the Indians was desperate, A
number of charges were made by our troops before the enemy
gave way, and before they were finally routed. Our troops kept
the ground three hours after the action, Our loss was fifty-six
killed and wounded of the regular; and seven wounded of the
volunteers. The loss of the enemy is supposed to be 100 killed
and wounded."
MOBlLE.—Cotton :—The receipts of this article the present
season have been very light, attributed mainly to the un-
willingness of the planters to enter the market at rates
hitherto current; and the transactions of the week have been
on a limited scale compared to the demand. An anxiety to
purchase is evident, but owing to the small stock offered,
particularly of good fair and good cottons, the sales have
reached only about 5,000 bales. Prices have, however,
advanced."

Our arrivals this morning, are the Calais and Hamburch
mails. We have no ship letters.

FUKA9.

Consols opened this morning at the prices they left off-
-914 } for the Account, and 911 for Money, with little doing;
Exchequer Bills,JB 20; India Bonds, 3 5 ; Bank Stink,
2151- 216 - ; Inditock, 954} 2551. -
In the Foreign market, Spanish Actise Bonds steady, at
the leaving off price of 47i- I ; Portuguese, 834- 4 ; Colum.
bian, 32} 33 ; Mexican, 36i 37 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., 55-A- I-.
By the Hambur' . snail, we have the. Vienna prices :—Me-
talliques, 1024; Bank Shares, 1,3574.. The prices from
Haniburgh—Nletalliques, 10111, Dank Shares, 1,349,
Another of the whale ships, the Abram, from Davis' Strait,
has arrived in the Humber.

HALF-PA ST ONE.
We have no news or reports from any quarter to communi-
cate up to the present time.
Consols have been during the morning stationary at 911
for the Account, and the same for Money ; Exchequer Bills,
18 20 ; India Bonds, 3 5; Bank Stock, 2151 216 ; India
ditto, 254 k 255.
In the Foreign Market there is scarcely a bargain doing—
Spanish Active Bonds 47-; Portuguese, 83,1 • Three per
Cents., 53A- ; Colombian, 341 Mexican, 361- 37; Dutch
Two and a Half per Cents, 54.

THREE 0' CLO CIC.

Consols for the Account, 91i
THE FUNDS.--C
BRlTisti
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red. 92
S per Cent. Cons 914
11, per Cent.
3% per Cent. Red 1001.,
New 31/.4 per Cent 11041 k
4 per Cent. Assented
Dissented
Long Annuities to expire
ILA 1860 l6 7.06
Ott 1850
Jan. 1860
OREIGN
Austrian, 5 per cent
Belgian, 5 per cent
Bekzilian Bonds
Bjenos Ayres, 6 per cent ......
Ceilian 6 per cent ........ • ....... 495
Colombian, 6 per cent....
Ditto, 1533 ................ .
Danis, 3 pei.4:etit,;l.—iti•l•tr: "" I Greek Bonds, 164.5 ce.IAL
Mexican, 5 pf 4
........
Ditto, 6 per ce%., ....... '
reruviuni 19254 opyr colic

LOSING PRICES.
I CUNDS.
Oinniam
India Stock pm
255%
Ditto Bonds ..
South Sea seciii"
11!tto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities 89%
.-X. Bills, 11l 0.... ... lB pin.
Ditto 5011/ lB p 7.1
Ditto :.tau/ lB pm
Bank StNek for Opg —
'aulia Stock for Act.
Conmils for Act.
FUNDS.
1\381404.c Bonds, 5 per cent.
DAtto, New Ditto B3y,
Prussian. 5 per cent
Kussian Bonds. 5 per cent
Ditto, Metallic g•
Spanish. 5 pei• cent
90;9- coPisilinta led ... 47%
01.,, 5 per C4Mt . ..... ... - f. —c,
x liwo I
Crenoh, 3 i..er cent t. —e.
Dutch, 21 per cent 55%
Ditto, 5 per cent.. ....... 103Y4