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London, England, 1847-05-04 00:00:00

CONSERVATION OF THE THAMES.

Mr. MASTERMAN brought in a Bill to provide for
;he ccnservation of the River Thames, and fur the regu-

lation, management, and improvement thereof.
DUBLIN CORPORATION IMPROVEMENT BILL.
Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL moved the second reading
of the Dublin Corporation Improvement Bill.
Mr. GROGAN presented a petition, signed by 25,000
persons, against the Bill, and
Mr. LABOUCHERE presented a petition, signed by
30,000 persons, in its favour.
Mr. GROGAN then rose to move that the Bill be
read a second time that day six months. He believed
that the great mess of the inhabitants of Dublin
were against giving such powers as were pro-
posed to be given to the Corporation by this Bill.
He objected to conveying the powers conferred by this
Bill on any corporation wh :lever; and he considered that
if it became law, it would create great dissatisfaction.
He considered that the corporation in seeking the
powers set. forth in the Bill did not represent the feel-
ings of the respectable portion of the ratepayers. After
some further remarks tne Hon. Gentleman concluded by
proposing hit motion.
Mr. GREGORY seconded the motion.
Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL considered
i hat it wasquite
qu
impossible for the House to hear, this evening, the
whole of the arguments in favour of the Bill and against
it ; but he thought that a sufficient :ease had been made
out for the House to go into Committee on the Bill,
which he considered would confer much advantage on
the City. No doubt, faults might he found with the
management of some of the words; but the division of the
six wards in the north side of the town was not done
for the purpose stated by the Hon. Member. Ile
doubted much whether the reconstitution of the whole of
the wards would satisfy the parties whose case the Hon.
Gentleman had advocated. Speaking of valuation he
did not think an estimate of the whole case could be
formed without taking the population into consideration.
He appealed to the Conservative Gentlemen on the op-
posite side of the House, whether it would not be better
to give this liberal corporation some real business to do,
instead of having any inducement of unduly applying a
proportion of their time to other purposes.
Mr. GREGORY said that he should have hoped,
after the evidence that had been laid on the table, and
the partiality that had been exhibited by tae Corpora-
tion, the Right Hon. the Secretary for Ireland would
have hesitated before he gave this Bill his support.
With respect to this subject, he would take leave to al
lode to an episode. On a Sunday morning, on the walls
of Dublin, was seen the following Orange bill. (The
Hon. Member here produced the document in question,
which was headed " Popish Ascendency," and concluded
by a denunciation of the "Popish corporation.") That
created naturally a disgust in the mind of every liberal-
minded man. But what was the fact? Why, this
proclamation was printed by the printer of Conciliation-
hall, and was stuck by the bill-sticker of Conciliation—
(Hear, and laughter)—and that was done fur the bam-
boozlement of the Secretary for Ireland. The Hon.
Member here produced another placard, offering
five pound reward for the name of the party who
had circulated the former placard.—(Renewed laughter.)
He trusted that tricks of this sort would meet with
their proper reward from the llonourable English land
Irish Gentlemen who occupied seats in that House.
If the Corporation could show that they had properly
appropriated the funds committed to their care, they
might show cause to the and ask for further
powers. But instead of disposing of their funds for the
improvement of the condition of the city, they had acted
precisely the reverse.
Mr. LABOUCHERE said that, considering the im-
portance of a Bill which excited so much discussion in
the principal city of Ireland, he trusted the House he
would be allowed to address a few observations
upon the subject. The Honourable Member who had
first spoken had expressed his dislike of all
corporations in Ireland, and the Hon. Member for Dub-
lin in other words expressed the same opinion. But
however respectable the individuals who held that
opinion, he begged leave to express his total dissent
from them. He could not conceive why Ireland
should be deprived of a right which was acceded
to the larger cities of England and Scotland. He did
not wish to pronounce any unqualified panygeric upon
the Corporation of Dublin, for he considered that
that body had evinced a too exclusive political
bearing, and he regretted deeply to see a body
which should furnish an example to the rest of
Ireland actuated by a narrow and sectarian spirit.
some time ago the Hon. Members on the other side of
the House greatly supported a Bill giving much
larger powers to the corporation of Belfast ;
and he now called on them, inasmuch as they
had agreed to that Bill to agree to the second reading
of the present. He at least could not refuse his_s_aenecnttai
to the second reading of a Bill supported as it had
by
numerous and highly respectable petitioners. be
lieved that the time was at hand
obliged to give, not only the m
w-lialwens to Ireland,wuld but
also the benefit of England's
iedxsscatelilneenndt
einrisetsituntfto,n,sp.
ivi e,
Mr. SHAW,
divide," objected to trisesetacbmoend
mreoasdt ingroosfpetehtnebßleill.
in-
great proportion .
habitants of Dublin, without refeßre.nllce
Ttoherelpigoiokno or
f
Bill.
merchants, the
religions, were. the9pposedbatonkers,
Leinster, the principal
eo3sisting
of Roman Catholicq
Chamber of Cerc ,
thereforel,Paa p°Pa.Prt°)--
Presbyterians, and. He was
wneorte, the prim. "
nents of the Bill. e
oppositionist.
Mr. SHELL said he would not detain the House more
than a few minutes. The Bill had been petitioned for
by 9,000 inhabitants of Dubl representithe lng propertynte-
to
the amount of 220,000/. At presentlocal i
rests of Dublin were very badly attended to,
and a Bill like the present was absolutely required.
Now, the corporation of Dublin, so long as the law
stood as it was, should be held us the representatives of
the city of Dublin. They were bound by principle to
vest the corporation of Dublin with the same powers as
those of the corporations of this country. Glasgow,
Chestea, and several other places had all such, powt rs a;
the promoters of t.hislßill asked how then could they with
any justice, withhold from Dublin, with a franchise of
101,
the powers given to this country, with a franchise
of 5 He remembered the last words of the Rightcise
Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth, ‘ that he
would extend to Ireland the same civil, religious and
municipal rights as England."—(Hear.) ,
The Earl of LINCOLN (amid loud cries of "Di-
vide") said he would not trouble the How e
but for the last observation of the Right Hon.
Gentleman who had just down, and the observations
of the Gentleman who had
it preceded him, in reference
to the late Prime Mini,ter. denied that by the pre-
sent Bill the law would be assimilated in Ireland to that
of this country.
fl fle ,a fe words of explanation from Mr. T. M.

1-.)% BRefit'NE said the powers contained
in this Bill were pos,,essed by nearly every corporation in
England, and there was no just reason why they should
not be applied to Ireland. The people of Ireland were

looihing forward to the passing of this Bill with Iv.
good deal of interest, and if the House refused to adopt
it they would only afford another proof of the•
justice of the complaint 'wide by the opponents of the
union, namely that there was one law for England and.
another for Ireland.
Th,, House then divided, when there appeared—
les
For the second reading .................... .
Against it ..................................... 120
Majority against the second reading
(LEFT SITTING

LATEST PRICES OF SHARES,
t 421 BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COAI-
PANIES" STOCK.
From Cie Gfticial List,
PUBLISHED EVERY TUEADAY AND FRIDAY EVEITIIitt
LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 4.

JOINT-STOCIC 231INI!!:
Dividend Amount
Faict 1 l'sca
Name of Company. per of
Annum. Share. 1,.........-
-----
sustralasia •••••• • • • • 40 30
70.
sfo
ilritshNorth American 51. per cent. 50
0 0 0
:.'oininercial of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 ° ',. f?olonial .. .... • .... .. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 , ~..-
Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 v I ....-
I ondon Joint-Stock .• • 61. per cent. 50 00100 : I •
Metropolitan - 25 0 0 710 1 44
Provincial of Ireland.. 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0
___
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Ditto, Ne.• •• • .... SI. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0
National ofw Ireland .. Si. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0
sat. Provneial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 °
Ditto, New......... 51. per cent. 20 0 0 0 0
rUnion 01 Australia •. • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 0 -
.Union of London. •• .. Si. per cent. I 5120222....1___________.
CANALS.
I , 1 .; Dividend Vine.
Names of t.', per
Companies. , ,c,, ' per 1 ',rice. Companies. Ann d tun
.
7 Annum. ho .rte--' ----------
111
Nshtnfc Oldhl 9715/.55. 1) el 70 Monmouthsh 100 101.
Ashby-d-la-Zlll3 4/. 1.- Mntgomrysh 100 51. .....
Barnsley • • • 'l6O, 121. ; 180 M V---/. acclesheld. 100 340
Basingstoke...lloo - - Neath ...... 100
.....
Ilrkiik&Abrgllsol 51. 85 Nottingham. 150 12/. 40
rn Oxoford..• • 100 141. - Peak Forest. 78 311.. 54
Dudley.• • ...11001 4/. - Regent's ••• • 33 11;7'
Derby • • ... 1100 6/. 63 Rochdale ..• •85 '
at -.-
Ellsmre&Chs 133; 4/. 55 Shropshire • . 125 81. 130
Erewash . -1100' 321. - Somrset Coal 150 71.105.
......,
Forth & Clyd i 100 4/. - Do.LkFd St 12 61. P. c" 275
GrandJunctn'loo 6/. 75 Stffrd&Worc 140 28/.
Grand Union 1001 11. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 15/' 305
Glamorgnsh .11721 13%1. - Stourbridge.. 145 20/.
....,
(41str&Brkly,100' - - Strtfrdon Av 79 11. 10S.
.....
Grantham • • 1511, 121. - Severn and
26 IL 86.
fluddersfleld.l 57; - - Wye Rail.
Kennt & Avn! 39 7s. 6d. 5 Trnt &Mr-1 50 301. .....-
Lancaster .• • j 47; 1/. 10s. - sey •• • • .--
Leeds& Livrp 100 341. 520 Thams&Med 19 - 41
Leicester .... i 1 401 101. 75 Worcstr & 78 21.
Leicstr &Nthj 83, 41. 36 Birming.3 IL'
11
Loughboroghll4Z 701. 530 Wilts & Brks 67

INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount raid. I Fe°.
Name Of COmpany• per of
Annum. Share.
____________ _„........•
•E s. d. X s. d. „4
Albion .. •• •• •• -•• • • 31. 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 ,-_
Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 0
015 1 0 -7
Ditto ......61.• • 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 0 -.54
Atlas • •
British Commercial •• 7s. share 50 0 0 50 0 -
C perlericl,Med.&Gen.Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 0 22
:.,'ounty ••••••• • • • •• • • 31. 100 0010 00
00
Crown• • • • • • • • • • • • • • 125.
Eagle .. • ... ...... •• • • 6s. 5500
00 0
55 0 0° :5 %
Eng. & Scot. Law •• .. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0
European Life .• • ... 55F per cent. 20 0 0 All paid.
Freemasons' .• •• • - Si. per cent. 20 o*o 3 0 ° 00
Globe
Guardian •.•••• • • •• •• 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10
_ 229
imperial Fire •• • • .... 6/. and bonus 500 0 0 50 0 u
Imperial Life •••• •• • • 12s. 100 0010 0
!. 0 15......
indemnity Marine.. - 11. sit. & bs. 100 0 0 513 , ......
La LiM• .••••• • • • •• 1/. as. 100 0 0 10 0 o 2 0
.egal and General Life - 50 0w 0 15
;.ninon Fire •••• • • •• 10s. 25 0012 10 0 15
0 0
andon Ship •.••• • • • 10s. 25 0012 10 0 ......
tilarine.. ••• •• ...... 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 •15 0 2,4
Med. Invlid&Gen.Life 4!4/. per et. 50 0 0 2 '
National Lean Fund• • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210
,(;
.....
National Life• •• • • .... 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 2
5 0 0 0 416 01
l'alladium Life• • .•.... 51. per cent. 50 0 0
'hcenix ••.. • ..... •• • . 3/. p. ct. & bs. - -
A 0 11• 3f.
)rotector Life.• • • ... 5/. par cent. 20 0 0 1 - ... ...-
'rovidetit Lifb•• ••• • .. 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 o 4%
lock Life• •••••• • • • • • 4s. 50 0 0100 --
toyal Exchange .• • ... 5/. per cent. Stock. --
Son Fire ••••••• • • .• . 61. 10s. -
---
Ditto Life 11. Os. -" --
Universal Life ....... 1014 /. pr ent 100 ± ' -- °6 51___-------
csIZ,ZCV'
LIST or SCOTTISU CONZPILNIES
Dividend Amount , ilia
Name of Company. per of raid.
Annum. Share. ..,.-.....
-_-_- ------
------- -----
X s.
Bank of Scotland • • ... 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 lo
- 151
Royal Ilank of Scotland 61. per cent. 100 0
200
British Linen Company 81. per cent. - 100 0 0
160
Commercial Bank •• •• 6/. per cent. - 100 0 0
National Bank • ..... - 61. per cent. - 10 0 0 131.136
Union Bank of Scotland 7% /. pr sent. - 50 0 0 9.03ij
Western Bank •.• • • ... 6/. per cent. - 50 0 0 8.•76
North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 10 o 0 lvier cent. - 5o o 7%
Clydesdale Bank •• • ... N. p
Eastern Bank.• •• - -5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 11"4.
Caledonian Bank ••••• 7%1. pr cent. -
Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cert. - 5 0
City of Glasgow Bank . 51. per cent.
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0
liereules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 1001 0 0 1201010000 00000
26421.:11.:25:
Insur. Co. of Scetind.. Si. per cent. I 10 0
north British Incur.. • 0/21. pr cent '2OO 0 0 10 0 0 27
0 All paid. 0 X
Caledonian Fire insur. 101. per cent..lloo 0 0 10 0 0 22%
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 'lOO 0 0 12 10 0 18
Edin. & Glasg,. Railway 1/.los. per s. 50 0 0 50
aid. 0 0 717
1
Ditto, 14 Shares.... 7s. 6d. p. s. 12 10 0 All p
Edin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0090 0 0 20%
Glasgtv & Ayrshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 61St
Glasgw & Greenek Rail. 2/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 18
'llsov&Garnkirk Rail. 5/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 395(1
Dundee & Arbroth Rail. 6/. per cent. '25 0 0 All paid. 37
Standard LifeAssnrnee•l 51. per cent. 150001 2 10 0 9+
WATER-WORKS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. ' per of ; raid. Frio*
Annum. Share. I
- ---- ----"
£ a. d. i
90 -
-
-.East London.. •••• • • • . 81. 100 00 I -
Grand Junction ••• • .. 3/. 105. 41 13 4 -
Kent ••••• • • • • • .... •• 31. 100 0 0
Vauxhall .••••• • • • • •• 100 0 0 -...-
125
West Middlesex . . 51.106•Pre,11.--------,
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DOCICS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per I of raw. Price.
Share.
1 -- ------- ........-...
..----
1 X s. d. X s. d.
Commercial • - -.
East and West India , 6!. pr cent. Stock. -
East Country •• .1 1/. per sh. 100 0 0 105
I ondon ••• • • • ....... ' 5/. pr cent. Stock. -
Si. Katharine •• • • .... , 5 per cent. Stock. - -
0 30
Southampton - ....... 121. per cent. 50 0 0 , 50 0

COURSE OF EXCH,
Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 8
Ditto, at sight • • .... 12 5
Rotterdam ...... 2U. 12 8%
Antwerp. . 26 30
ilamburgh —MB. 13 14
Altona• • .. • • • • •• ••
Paris, 3 days' sight .. 25 90
Ditto, 3 months.. .... 26 25
Marseilles •• •. • • ...... 26 31
BOUHCAUX ....... 26 30
Frankfort on Mains..._ 123
retersburgh,
Berliu •• .• •• •• •• •• •• ••
Vienna, effec.flo• ••• 10 14
Trieste, ditto.• •• •••• •• 10 14
Madrid •• • • •• • • 47
Cadiz •• • : •• .• 47

LNGE.-(TUTS DAY
Gibraltar..
Leghorn •• •• •• • • 30 80
26 35
Genoa •• ••
Milan •••••—•••••••••

Venice . ...... . • • .. .. • • ,
Naples .. ••• . • • JU
Palermo, per oz . . 1
R.l9k

Lisbon .. • • • • • • • • • .

Itio Janeiro •-• • • ... • • 26K
Bahia .. • • • • •
Buenos Ayres

is'ewiork, 21 days' sight
Philadelphia • •
PRICES OF BULLION, PER OR
Foreign Gold in bars.. X 3 17 9

Barcelona • • • • • • • • • • • •

Ne; Dollars .... ••-5 41 i%
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons 0 0 0
Silver in bars ...... •. 0 0 0

Seville.. •............. _

OPENING OP THE EPSOM RAlLWAT.—Yesterday
the branch line of the London and Brighton Coast Railway to
Epsom was completed, and will be opened on Monday nest
to the public. This direct railway to Epsom is within ten
minutes' waik of the course. _

A DISTINGUISHED CHARACTER.—" The most Cll'
rious incident," says the Union Monarchique, "that occurred
at the meeting of the officers of the National Guard in the
galleries of the Louvre, was that of beholding a chief of
battalion, dressed in his grand uniform, and whose breast
was covered with twelve decorations—five crosses, four cra-
chats, and three collars ! Pending the two hours during
which the officers waited in the grand gallery, that officer
was constantly surrounded by a crowd anxiously inquiring
in what kingdoms, in what battles, and for what exploits b
had gained more orders than ever figured on the breast of
Turenne or Massena? The enigma was soon solved. The
name of 'M. Alexandre Dumas having been uttered, curt-
-O:Hy ceased, and made room for raillery.
TYPHUS FEVER IN FLANDERS.—Intelligence from
Gulleghem announces that typhus fever is prevailing in that
part of Flanders in a very malignant form. Eight or ten
persons were attacked daily. Out of 3,612
of them inhabitants, 4
the
are labouring under the disease, and 316 were at
point of death.—Medical Gazette.

IMPERIAL
OF P ARL
S I
MAMENT.
HOUSE LORD, ay 3.
The Earl of EGLINTON presented a petition from
the Earl of Sutherland, praying to be put on the roll of
Scotch Peers.
LAWS OF LANDLORD AND TENANT.
The Marquis of WESTMEATH then rose, pursuant
to notice, to move the adoption of the following motion
---" That the existing laws of landlord and tenant
in Ireland are not calculated to regulate equitably
the duties, reciprocal obligations, and interests
of the parties in those relations in that country, and,
under actual circumstances, require immediate revision
and amendment ; and that the imposition of increased
burdens and new responsibilities on land render such
revision and amendment urgent and indispensable." It
was not his intention to bring forward a Bill embodying
his sentiments, but he hoped to be able to bring forward
facts with respect to the existing condition of landlords
and tenants, which would induce the Government, who
were the proper parties, to take the matter into their own
hands and to bring it forward in accordance with his
recommendations. In 1824 before he had the honour
of a seat in that House, he gave evidence before their
Lordships' House on this subject, in which he pointed
out the treatment which landlords received at the hands
of tenants, owing to the state of the law which
regulated their relations.—(Here many Noble Lords
relapsed into inattention, and the buzz broke out t
with renewed force.) It was excessively difficu.l
the!
to deal with so important a matter, and he boiled
Lordships would give him their attention. e tate°.
also, that the state of the law prevented proprietors frog!
properly managing estates, and that unless they frog!
altered the time would come when the country wouln
.
the?
sink into a deplorable condition; and he thought,
fore, that the sentiments of one who had predicted in!
state of things which had actually occurred, iv.er,:
entitled to some weight. During the time the late
Ad
ministration held office he introduced a Bill for tn°
purpose of improving those laws, and which would ha
!!
prevented that dependence of tenants upon the Pri-
prietors of the land, which had since led to so grest.i 3
drain upon the resources of this country, but be (.1 a
not succeed in his object. The Noble Marquis Olen rt?_
an extract from the letters of Mr. Forster.,
..10!
Times' commissioner, whose letters he characterisea re'
ably written and as honestly intended to give the maple

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