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LONDON. TUESDAY, FEI3IIII ARY 23, 1847

The House of Lords met at Five.
The Brewing from Sugar Bill was read a third time
and passed.
The third reading of the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill
was, after a shore discussion, adjourned till to-morrow,
(this day), after which their Lord4iips adjourned.

At ten minutes to six o'clock, the House of Commons

resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Means.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then rose
to wake the financial statement fur the year, and
claimed the indu!gence of the House while he
made the statement, which he would make as short as
was consistent with clearness. It was many years since a
Chancellor of the Exchequer had to repert such heavy
demands upon the, Exchequer, but those demands were
occasioned by the dearth of food, which was a visitation
of PROVIDENCE. Thousands of starving persons in Ire-
land appealed to this country fur sympathy and assis-

tance, and that he could not refuse. Never, however
had the finances of the country being so able to
bear these demands. For the first time there

had been no deficiency bill, and the produce of
the revenue had been sufficient to defray the expenses
of the State. In the Customs, the produce of every
article for the last nine months, had, with the exception
of articles on which duties had been reduced,
exceeded the estimate. In the Excise, with

the exception -of soap, tha same had taken

place. By the return of the revenue ending 13th
February last, he found an increase of nearly half a mil.
lion. But it was not to be expected that such a
state of things would continue, an-I after the unexampled
prosperity of the last two 3 ears he thought they were on
the vcrge of a check. He, however, saw no symptoms
of a revulsion, but he merely feared a check, for he

thought commercial matters were on a sound basis, and
he considered that the measures fur regulating the
currency, which, had been passed two years since by Sir
R PEEL, had tended to prevent such a revulsion, by
placing the currency on a sounder basis, and by inducing
investments in works at home instead of in Mississippi
stock or Pennsylvanian Bonds. He thought, therefore,
that no revulsion would follow, but still the high price
of food would tell in the diminution of comforts and the
diminution of the consumption of articles of luxury.
which were subject to Excise duties. The whole pro-
duce of Customs and Excise for the last year was
34,500,0701.; of this 5.530,000/. was contributed
by articles of food, 21,781,0001. of drink, and by
tobacco, 4,336,0004; milking 31,653,0001. out of
34,500,0701. This must have diminished in con-
sequence of the diminution of employment in
the manufacturing districts. On the 9th of January,
there wore working full time 25,845 persons; short time,
11,851 ; and without work, in consequence of the stop-
page of mills, 1,690. On the oth February, there were
working full time 22,949 persons ; short time, 15,862 ;
and out of work, 2,613. The drain of bullion on the
Bank had not been so great as might have been ex-
pected. The amount of bullion was only 1,200,0004
less than it was this time twelve months. The late
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had calculated upon
a surplus of 776,0001., the actual surplus was 2,846,000/
including 304,0004 paid as duty on the import of
foreign sugar. He now would state what the probable
income of the year, from sth April, 1846, to sth April,
1847, would be. Last year the duties on corn produced
793,000/. He could not calculate upon such an amount,
still he calculated on some revenue from this source.
There had been an increase on the importation of butter,
cheese, and silk last year, consequent upon the reduction
of duty, and he calculated that this increase would con-
tinue, and he assumed that the probable revenue from
Customs during the next year would be 20,000,0001.
During -the present quarter the increase of Customs
duties had been 204,0001. Up to January
the amount of Excise duties had been
13,988,0001, and he reckoned for the ensuing year
an inert. a no of 13,700,000/. The increase on the Excise
from the beginning of the quarter had been 106,0004,
and in Ireland, extending to January, there had
been an increase. He anticipated from Stamps
a revenue of 7,500;000/, from Taxes 4,270,000/.
from Property-tax 5,390,000/, from the Post-
office 845,000/., from; Crown Lsnds, 120,0001.
from miscellaneous sources of revenue 427,0001.; making
a total of ordinary revenue of 52,065,000/. The ex-
penses
u of the interest of the debt and the Consolidated
would be 2,679
Fund would be 30,735,0001.; for the army, 6,840,0741.;
The Navy vote would be 7,561,0001. ; the Ordnance vote
,1271, being an increase of 135,568/ over
as in the case of ?heearitaa great portion of which was due,
the vote of last , •
Y,toto a deferred vote of last year.
The residue was owing increase of I,2oo;men
and to putting the ports kill':
Ireland,
The
Bvotest9 fof,ooroelLandT.hwould
miscellaneous votes, exclusive of
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be 3,750,000/, being an increase of 397
in-
crease Was owing to the expenses of the poor_hm, aud

the prosecution of prisoners, and another portion to the
increase of printing and stationery for the Houses of
Parliament. The whole of the estimates would amount
to 20,851,0771., making the whole ordinary expenditure
51,576,0001. He had purposely omitted in his statement
any allusion to grants for the relief of distress in
Ireland; and he would now state what he thought would
*be required for the distress to be advanced by the
Treasury; for:whatever the burden, it would ultimately
be thrown upon the landlords of Ireland ; hitherto they
had paid nothing, save indeed 393,0001. of poor-rates.
It was not easy to state precisely what the expenditure
required would be. In four weeks of November the ex-
penditure had been 383,0001., in December 742,000 L, in
January 772,0001. The persons relieved in October were
150,000, in November 285,000, in January 440,000, and
in February 571,000. Up to 20th February there had
been issued by the Exchequer to Ireland 2,400,0001.,
2,000,000/,;had been issued to the Board of Works. The
expenditure for the future he expected would not fall
below a million a month. lie expected to effect, however
a saving by administer ing relief through the medium of
the soup kitchens. He expected that many labout era
would be taken from the public works by the
working of the Bill for the Improvement of Lands,
but to work that Bill, it should be remembered that ad•
vances were to be made by the Treasury. It would be
necessary that relief should continue at least until the
next harvest, and for some short period after the
harvest, advances would be necessary. Taking all
these circumstances into consideration, he could
not estimate the advances to be made to Ireland under
8,000,0001., which, including the 2,000,000/. advanced
since August, would amount to 10,000,000/. Now, if
the 16,000,0001. proposed by the Noble Lord had been
advanced to railroads, he did not think it would be
possible to have lessened one farthing of this 10,000,000/,
and therefore he was rejoiced to see the majority by
which that measure had been rejected. Under these
circumstances, it was manifest he must, of necessity,
go into the market to borrow. The question was,
whether he should borrow the whole or only a pert ;
by following the latter course, he would considerably
reduce the balance in the Exchequer, from which source
the advances had hitherto been made. This was a course
he was for many reasons unwilling to adopt, and he there-
fore: thought it more advisable to burrow the whole
rather than put any further pressure on the Bank of
England, or incapacitate the Government from making
advances to the landed proprietors of England and
Scotland. Besides, the prospects of the next her-
vest were uncertain. Hitherto we had been living
mainly upon the produce in other countries of the har.
vest of 1845. There had been entered for home con-
sumption 5,388,000 quarters of foreign corn, and he
was confident that up to the harvest of 1847
we should have an abundance; but by that
time the produce of 1845 and 1846 would be
exhausted, and we should be dependent upon the pro-
duce of the harvest of 1847. The large surplus in the
Exchequer had alone hitherto enabled them to make
the necessary advances, and he felt that it
would be most imprudent to lessen that surplus
more than was absolutely necessary. Therefore
the wiser course was to borrow the money. It would
not be a permanent debt, because a considerable portion
was to be repaid out of the property of Ireland.—(A
laugh.) The next question was, whether the loan ought
to be accompanied by increased taxation. He was unwilling
to add this amount tothe debt without takingmeans forits
extinction, but he thought that during the present year
it would be imprudent to attempt any change in taxa-
tion. The present year was an exception to all others.
If we had a good harvest there would be no necessity for
further advances, if it should be bad it would be
necessary to make a further demand on the
country for the assistance of Ireland, and there-
fore he thought it better to postpone the question
of the imposition of additional taxation. Besides, next
year it would be necessary to deal with the Income-tax,
and it would be unwise to attempt to prejudge in what
manner Parliament—a new Parliament perhaps—might
chose to Leal with the Income-tax, he therefore thought it
best to leave the whole question open till next session. He
calculated on a surplus of 489,0001. of ordinary revenue
over expenditure. He calculated he could borrow
the 8,000,0001. at three and half per cent.,
the interest of which would be 280,0004 but
then, he calculated he should have to raise the
interest of Exchequer-bills. The interest at present
was lid. a day, and he proposed to raise it to 2d.,
which would amount to 142,000/. ; giving an in-
crease of interest of 422,0001.; making the total ordinary
expenditure 51,998,000/. ; leaving a surplus of 67,0001.
From Chinese money she next year he should receive
450,0001., but against this he must place an extraordinary
expenditure of 185,000/. to cover the excess of naval ex-
penditure of the year ending sth April last. The total of
income, therefore, would be 52,515,000 L ; the total of
expenditure 52,183,0001., leaving a surplus. of 332,000/
This, he adm.tted, was not a satisfactory statement of
income and expenditure, but he had stated the reason
why he thought it not advisable to make permanent
provision for the liquidation of the loan during the pre-
sent year ; but the country must be prepared next year;
should the necessity arise fir an increase of its burdens,
to bring the revenue up to the level of the expenditure.
It was evident that he could ill spare any revenue this
year, and this must be an answer to them who proposed
a remission of duties on various articles. He had been
asked if he intended to propose any annual duties instead
of the sugar duties. It was not his intention to do so during
this session, as in the course of next year, at all events,
they must reconsider the Income-tax. He regrett-d
exceedingly this interruption to the course of com•
mercial policy, which had been pursued during the last
four years. It was true he bad opposed the Income-tax,
but it had entirely changed its character when it bad
been made the means of introducing those changes in
our commercial policy which had.been introduced by the
Right Hon. Gentleman opposite ; as a proof of which
he would mention the quantities of various articles of
food entered for home consumption during the years fol-
lowing 1813. Of coffee, there was entered for home
consumption, in the year 1813, 30,000,000 lbs.
1844, 31,391,000 lbs.; 1845, 34,318,000 lbs. ; 1846,
36,781,000 lbs. Of butter, in 1843, there was entered
for home consumption, 148,000 cwt. ; in 1844, 180,000
cwt. ; in 1845, 240,0 )0 cwt. ; and in 1846, 255,000 cwt.
Of cheese, the quantity entered for home consumption in
1843, was 166,000 cwt. ; 1844, 211,000 cwt. ; 1845,
258,000 cwt. ; 1846, 327,000 cwt.; and yet he bad
not heard that the farmers of Cheshire had been ruined.
Of currants, in 1843, there was imported, 234,000 cwt.;
1814,.235,000 cwt. ; 1845, 309,000 cwt. ; 1846, 359,000
cwt. Of sugar ; 1843, 4,037,000 cwt; 1844, 4,139,000
cwt. ; 1845, 4,880,000 cwt. ; 1846, 5,231,000. On all
these articles the duties had been detreased. On tea it
had remained the same, et the quantity entered for
home consumption had increased ; in 1843, it had been
40,300,000 lbs. ; 1844, 41,369,000 lbs. ; 1845, 44,183,000
lbs. ; 1846, 46,728,000 lbs. He felt it his duty
to bear this testimony to the success of the policy of the
Right Hon. Gentleman. He concluded by proposing
pro forma a grant of 8,000,000/. out of the consolidated
fund. The Right lion. Gentleman sat down amidst
loud cheering.

Mr. HUME objected to, voting these grants to Ireland
until they were assured that the Poor-law Bill would
pass. He was also disappointed at finding that the
commercial policy of the Right Hon. Gentleman
opposite was not carried out, by devoting the
surplus revenue to carrying out that policy,
and by providing for the extraordinary ex-
penditure of Ireland by extraordinary means.
lie was surprised to hear what the Right Honourable
Gentleman said about not extending taxation. There
might be no necessity for taxing England, but let Ireland
be taxed as England was. He would extend equality to
Ireland in everything, in taxation as well as the rest.
He reminded them that next year they would have to
raise the Incorne•tax to 10 per cent.

Mr. WILLIAMS considered the statement of the Right
Hon. Member most unsatisfactory. He objected to the
large increase in the navy, army, and ordnance estimates
With regard to the loan, he would much prefer seeing
the Government giving a higher rate of interest and
borrowing at par, to borrowing below par at a lower rate
of interest.

Mr. ROEBUCK said that, looking to the manner in
which the "Irish party" bad banded themselves toge-
ther against the introduction of an efficient poor-law in
Ireland, he trusted that the Houses would not consent
to any loan of 10,000,000/. for Ireland until they had
obtained security that the property of Ireland should
maintain the poor of Ireland. It was the duty of the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER to impose an income-
tax upon Ireland, and be- would himself propose the
extension of the property-tax to Ireland.

Lord JOIIN RUSSELL said it would be neither wise nor
just in the present circumstances of Ireland, to impose
the Income-tax on that country. Ho defendtd the esti-
mates brought forward by the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER, and stated that they dad been prepared with
the greatest regard to economy. The Noble Lord, on
resuming his seat was loudly cheered.

The House was subsequently addressed by Lord G.
BENTINCK, Mr. SHAW, Mr. GOULBUBN, Mr. VERNON
SMITH, and several other Honourable Members.

The resolution Was then agreed to, anti the House re-
sumed.

Several Bills were advanced a stage, and the House
adjourned at Half-past Twelve o'clock.

Eight millions to be granted for the relicf of Ire-
land is the paramount feature in the financial state-
ment of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of
the Exchequer. Considering the embarrassments
consequent upon the appalling destitution in Ireland
and in various districts of Scotland, taking into
account the vast addition of expense resulting from
that destitution, the extraordinary deficiency of pro-
visions, not only in the United Kingdoms, hut in
France, Germany, and Poland, and the diminution of
wages in our manufactories, the speech of Sir CHARLES
WOOD is singularly satisfactory. Although the Right
Hon. Baronet requested the lenient consideration of
the House, because of the indisposition from which
he was a sufferer, and because, likewise, of the almost
unprecedented demands which it was his duty to
make upon the Legislature, there was little reason
for either apology or indulgence. Possibly
the statement delivered upon the Budget last
evening may be regarded as the most lucid
speech yet uttered in the House of Commons
by Sir CHARLES WOOD. In the arrangement of his
materials, in the enunciation of the different amounts
constituting the national revenue, and the numerous
charges (usual and unusual) upon the Exchequer,
the Right Honourable Gentleman evinced very re-
markable capacity, and reduced these complicated
calculations to the comprehension of the most medi-
ocre understanding. In so much was the lucidity of
Sir CHARLES WOOD manifest, as to have elicited the
cordial commendation of Mr. GOULBURN and the re-
peatedan
to enterplauseof upon
any synopsis the Membersosis
generally. It were un-
necessary or
analysis of
the particular financial statement submitted to Par.
liament by the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; it were
unnecessary, from the elaboration of the Parliamen-
tary reports and Parliamentary summary, and es-
pecially unnecessary because the gist of that state-
ment may be expressed in the compass of a few syl-
lables.

Contrary to the expectations of the multitude the
estimates made by Sir CHARLES WooD, as to the
balance of our national accounts on the close of the
year ending sth of April, 1848, are propitious and
consolatory. Notwithstanding the remarkable abate-
ment of our manufacturing industry, in consequence
of the scarcity of food both at home and on the con-
tinent; notwithstanding the certain injury which
must result to the revenue from the diminished con-
sumption and the enormous drain of 10,000,0001. for
the assistance of Ireland, it is calculated by the
Right Hon. Baronet that there will still remain a
surplus of 332,0001. over and above the total expen-
ditures. As compared with the surplus of the year
ending sth April, 1847—a splendid surplus, reach-
ing no less a sum than 9,ooo,oool.—that anticipated
for the forthcoming twelve months is insignificant
enough. But, bearing in recollection the lamentable
condition of Ireland and of the northern portions of
Great Britain, the circumstance of there being any
surplus whatever is matter for earnest gratulation.
What is particularly remarkable in the Budget for
1847 is the fact of there being no additional
taxation. Under existing calamities this is an unex-
pected and thrice-welcome announcement. Taking
the entire surplus for the ensuing year at 489,0001.,
it is proposed to burden the community by borrow-
ing no less an amount than 8,000,0001. for the relief of
Ireland. Borrowed at three and a half per cent., the
interest upon these 8,000,0001. will amount to 280,0001.,
and the inevitable consequence of this loan must be the
advance of interest upon Exchequer-bills from lid. to
21. per diem, making an additional sum of
142,0001. Upon the proposed debt of 8,000,0001. the
entire interest for the year will be 422,0001., which,
subtracted from the expected excess upon the balance-
sheet, would reduce the surplus upon the financialyear to
67,0001. Now, the residue of the Chinese silver, con-
sisting of 450,0001., will, on the abstraction of
185,0001. for our increased naval expenditure, raise
the surplus for the sth April, 1848, from 67,0001. to
not less than 332,0001.—an amount beyond the most
sanguine expectations of the most. hopeful observer.
It will therefore have devolved upon the empire to
sustain the terrible visitation at present scourging
the sister island, to the enormous extent of
10,000,0001., of which 2,000,000/. have been ad-
vanced and distributed. In this balancing of the boun-
ties and the economy of the nation the Government
has displayed a sagacity proportioned to its courage
in dealing with so many enormous difficulties. If
the Ministry are in no manner prepared to diminish
the taxes still imposed upon the people by precipi-
tating the extension of the principles of free trade,
they cannot at least be regarded as imitalores ser-
vant pecus in respect to the increase of taxation for
the payment of the interest upon a loan of actually
10,000,0001. It is insinuated that the landlords of
Ireland will exhibit no readiness to repay even a
moiety of this magnificent assistance, that they will
grudge the restitution of even 4,000,0001. out of
the eight which still remain to be advanced.
The insinuation gained some colouring of probability
from the merriment expressed by the Hon. Gen-
tlemen of the House of Commons on the allusion to
that repayment uttered by the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. Whatever may be the actual sentiments
of the landlords of Ireland on this point, we can
assure them as one of- the Voices of the People, that
the nation will never submit to such a sublime act of
swindling,
its supposing they had the temerity to at-
tempt perpetration. England is evincing a noble
—agenerosity proportioned both to the
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present troubles ; but let it never be forgotten by
those who would impose upon her generosity and
batten upon her benevolence, that her security is the
rigour of her determinatien.

The attention of the House of Commons was last
night directed by Mr. E. ELLICE to the extraordi-
nary destitution unfortunately existing in the
Western Highlands of Scotland. No time could more
properly have been selected by the Hon. Member for
that purpose than that immediately preceding the
financial statement of the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, when the extraordinary exertions of the Go-
vernment on behalf of the Irish people, and the mode
of providing for the gigantic outlay thereby rendered
necessary, was about to be detailed by the Minister
whose especial duty it was to provide the necessary
funds and to regulate the income and expenditure of
the country. The primary cause of the distress in
both Ireland and part of Scotland is the same ; we
have in both countries a large and crowded popula-
tion, whose usual and accustomed article of food, that
constituting, if not the sole, by far the largest portion
of their ordinary diet, has been destroyed, and swept
away by the mysterious visitation of PEOTIDENCE.
In both cases, we find the crops, on which the fami-
lies of the poor cottiers were fed, decaying and rot-
ting in the earth, so as not to be worth the
trouble and expenditure of digging them from
the soil, and the visitation borne with extraordinary
patience and resignation by the unhappy .sufferers,
who, on the total failure of their own resources, were
driven to seek from others that maintenance with
which they were unable to supply themselves or
families ; but here the comparison ends, for in Scot-
land we find the landed proprietors, or at least the
great majority, availing themselves of every means to
provide for the poor of their respective estates, casting
themselves into the breach with a noble devotion,
and resolving that, so long as any means were left to
them, so long as by any sacrifices on their own
part they could be enabled to do so, they would
continue to afford that support and maintenance
This generous, humane, and Christian conduct is
worthy of something more than the praise that
cannot be withheld from it. The Highland land-
owners have set their own shoulders to the wheel—.
they have relied on their own exertions, and have
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many, very many, landlords have actt.'d in a manner
beyond all praise, and have entitled thentoelves to the
marked thanks of She community at largel awl better

still to the proud consciousness of having performed
the arduous duties imposed upon them, but such, un-
fortunately, cannot be said of the general body.
Whatever may have been the exciting cause, whether
the debts and encumbrances affecting their properties,
that cramped their energies, and fettered and re-
strained their action, the Irish people were suffered
to fall into a state of suffering and destitution hap-
pily unknown in Scotland to anything like the same
extent, until the cry of affliction and distress re-
verberated on the air throughout the length and
breadth of unhappy. and afflicted Ireland—and this
notwithstanding the extraordinary power afforded to
her people by the Labour•rate Act, and the vast
sums drawn by means thereof from the national Ex-
chequer for the relief and mitigation of the distress in
that country.

We do not desire to be understood as deprecating
the aid that has been already afforded, or is about to
be given to Ireland. We do not regret that the sum of
ten millions should be advanced to ward off, as far
as possible, all future mortality, and to provide for
the wants of her people. We do not object to the prin-
ciple that the calamity should be considered a national
one, and a moiety of the expenditure should be borne
by the State and defrayed from the national purse.
But, if from similar causes great burdens have fallen
on the proprietors in the distressed districts of Scot-
land, we think that a like rule should be observed, that
the calamity should in like manner be considered a
national one, and that a portion of the expenditure
should be defrayed by the State. It is not because
the Scotch proprietors have well and nobly dis-
charged their duty, that they should be deserted by
the Executive ; on the contrary, it is for that very
reason that every possible aid should be afforded and
the greatest assistance rendered. A just precedent
has been afforded by what has taken place in the
cases of the Irish landlords who apldied for present-
ments under Mr. LABOUCHERE'S letter, and for
whom the time of repayment was extended to
twenty-two years, in place of ten; as it was justly
considered that they should not be placed in a worse
footing than those who hung back, and did not exhibit
the same promptitude on behalf of their dependents
and neighbours. Had the Scotch landlords been
negligent or exhibited less self-devotion, they would
have been aided by public loans and grants, having
acted in a more correct and proper manner, that
aid should not be withheld from them, and the con-
templated measures for Ireland should be extended to
all parts of the United Kingdom visited with similar
affliction, and where the people are suffering under
a deprivation of their accustomed food or means of

We have received news from Oporto to the 13th.
Since the death of MACDONNELL the Miguelites have
everywhere joined the Septembristas. Count DAS
ANTAS had marched from Oporto to attack CASAL, and
another division of the insurgents, under Baron FERNOS
had marched in the direction of Barca d'Alva, and
CJESAR VASCONCELLES, at the head of 2,500 men, was at
Pennafiel, prepared to dispute the passage of
the Douro with SALDANEA. This force had
been joined by 800 Miguelites under BERNARDINO.
The remains of MACDONNELL'S band have joined DA
ANTAS. MENDEZ LEITE, a Septernbrista officer, at the
head of 300 insurgents, had surprised SALDANEA'S depot
of arms at Averro (which is within the lines occupied by
SALDANIIA'S army, and only eight miles from: his head-
quarters), and had captured 230 stand of arms, a quan-
tity of ammunition, a considerable sum of money, and
several prisoners. Among the latter is the son of SAL-
DANHA'S military secretary. The insurrection was
spreading in Algave, and Faro has been fortified by the
insurgents.
Madrid journals of the 15th have arrived.

General him had resigned his office of Minister of
War in consequence of the refusal of his colleagues to
permit him to exercise the authority of Generalis,imo.
General JOSE CONCHA will, it is said, succeed him.
MADRID BOLSA, FEB. 15.—The Throe per Cents. were
done at 32; the Four per Cents., 20%; the Five per Cents,
20%; the Cuupons, at 18%; and the Passives, at

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
The trial of the National for publishing a libel re-
flecting on the KING took place on Saturday, and ended
in the acquittal of the National. The libel was con-
tained in lin article commenting on the removal of the
French Consul from the,Mauritius, and it concluded by
declaring that the KING alone directed the whole policy
of the state. This libel the counsel for the Nationai
justified, and quoted from the speeches of successive
Ministers for the purpose of proving the direct and per-
sonal interference of the KING in various affairs of st•ite,
stigmatising such interference as unconstitutional. The
jury, after deliberating a quarter of an hour, brought in a
verdict of acquittal. This is the severest blow that the
system has yet received, and is tantamount to a censure ,
on the KING.

The Presse continues its personal attacks upon Lord
NORMANDY. It is now confessed that M. GUIZOT in-
tended by what he said in the Chamber to offer a per-
sonal insult to the British Ambassador. The fact is,
M. GUIZOT is endeavouring to play the same game that
be played as French Ambassador in London in 1840, to
intrigue with English parties or rather partizans for a
change of Ministry,so as to secure eitherafaineant Foreign
Secretary, whom ho can bamboozle, or a worse than
faineant, who will aid him in carrying his project of
securing Orleans domination on the Continent and in
the Mediterranean. This intrigue, however, will not
succeed, and the fact that any English Minister held
office as the nominee of GUIZOT, or of Louis PHILIPPE,
would be alone sufficient to secure his downfal.

M. MARTIN (du Nord) has resigned his Ministry of
Justice, on account of the precarious state of his health,
It is reported M.M. LACAVE-LAPLAGNE and CUNIN-
GRIDAINE were also about to leave the Cabinet.

CABRERA'S brother-in-law, General PoLc., has escaped
from Avignon.
The French steam-frigate Caraibe has been eriven on
shore in Senegal. Twenty seamen and boys perished
among the breakers.
The KING of the BELGIANS is expected in Paris.
The Echo Agricolc states that the price of flour in
the Paris market on Saturday still maintained itself be-
tween 100 and 105 francs per sack of 157 kilogrammes,
according to its quality. The transactions in wheat
were ♦ery limited, but large quantities of foreign rye
were purchased for the consumption of the interior of
France, and particularly the department of the Allier,
where that grain had completely failed. The Courrier
d'z Bas Rhin announces that prosecutions had been in-
stituted againt 17 individuals accused of having had re-
course to fraudulent means in order to cause a rise in
the prico of provisions.
The Moniteur states that the trial of the works of
art of the Havre and Rouen railroad, by the moving
weight, was proceeding satisfactorily. The viaducts of
Barentin and Malannay had withstood it with complete
success. The Council-General of the Roads and
Bridges had at last approved of the plan proposed by the
Norther❑ Company for the construction of the Creil
and Si.. Quentin Railroad between Creil and Noyon
The line is definitively to pass through Pont St. Maxence
Ribecourt, Compiagne, Thourotte, Ourscamp, and
Noyon. _ _

The Three per Cents. were done in the Passage de
I'Opera, on Sunday, at 78f. 45c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEBRITAXY 22.
Dutch Rhenish, 4—Louvain 41 la Sambre, 13„—Novern of
France, 12% —Orleans and Bordeaux, 7%.

THE COURT.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with
the royal children, are expected to arrive at Bucking-
ham Palace at half-past four o'clock this afternoon from
Claremont.

THE LOAN OF EIGHT MILLIONS.
The following notice has been sent to the Governor and
Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England :
" Treasury Chambers, Feb. 23, 1847.
" Gentlemen,—l beg to inform you,+ and to request
that you will make it known in the usual manner, that
Lord John Russell and I shall be ready to see any gen-
tlemen who may be desirous of contracting for a loan of
Eight Millions for the service of the present year, on
Thursday next, the 25th instant, at one o'clock, in order
to fix the conditions of the loan, and manner of the
bidding ; and I hope it will be convenient to you, or one
of you, to meet those gentlemen here at that hour.—l have
the honour to be, gentlemen, your most obedient servant,
(Signed) " CHARLES WOOD."
" To the Governor and Deputy-Governor
of the Bank of England."

INTEREST ON EXCHEQUER-BILLS,
Exchequer. bill Office, 2, Whitehall-place, Feb. 23, 1847.
The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury have
determined that the New Exchequer-bills, to be dared 16th
March, 1847, charged on aids and supplies, shall bear an in-
terest of Twopence per Centum per Diem, instead of One penny
halfpenny, as stated in the adverti,ements from this office,
dated 16th February, 1847: And also, the Exchequer-bills
dated in the month of June, 1846, charged on aids and sup-
plies, which are now outstanding, shall ou and after the said
16th March, 1847, bear an interest of Twopence per Centum
per Diem•

MR. COCHRANE AND THE ELEC

TORS OF WESTMINSTER.

In The Sun of Saturday, Feb. 13, the following
letter from a correspondent was inserted :

COCHRANE AND TFIE ELECTORS OF WESI

MINSTER.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE BUN.

Sir,—As an elector of Westminster allow me to ask,
whether the Mr. Charles Cochrane, who now so ostentatiously
parades his pretensions to represent Westminster, is the same
person as one Senor Juan de Vega, who some few years back
published a journal of a tour through great Britain and Ire-
'land, and who then paraded a series of adventures in various
towns ond places at which modesty and decency felt ashamed,
and whose public avowal signally proved the want of good
taste and common propriety in the writer.
If they be one and the same person, the electors of Weat-
7minster ought to know it. If not, Mr. Cochrane cannot too
;soon disown the ider.tity.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
St. James's, Feb. It. ALPHA.
[We cannot answer this query. Doubtless Mr. Cochrane
Sun.]

On Monday, Feb. 15th, appeared a letter from
another correspondent, as follows:

WESTMINSTER ELECTION.
TO TILE EDITOR OF TILE SUN.

Sir,—A correspondent in your excellently-conducted
journal asks, " Who is Mr. Cochrane, the present candidate
for the representation of 'Westminster?" "Is he the same
Mr. Cochrane who, some years since, traveled through the
country as a Spanish minstrel ?"' "Is he the party who
published a descriptive account of his wanderings through
Bent and Sussex ?" These questions require a straight-
forward answer, since it must not be borne, it must not be
i tolerated, that tho large and influential city of Westminster
shall be represented by a person who, in the di guise of a
'travelling musician, succeeded, in many instances, alas!
too many instances, in insinuating himself into private fa-
milies, and, afterwards exposed the flirtation of sundry misses,
souse in their teens, and others approaching that question-
able age when ladies begin to think they are forgotten by
the sterner portion pf the sex. I do not state that Mr.
Cochrane is the man who thus acted; I do not aver that be
is the individual who published sundry amours in his book,
which he pretended took place at Canterbury, Dover, Has-
tings, and Brighton; I can scarcely believe that a man who
could betray the confidence of any female, after having been
fed and pampered to satiety by her friends, and supplied with
money, believing the said individual to be in the condition of
an unfortunate political exile, would dare to affront a highly
respectable and honourable constituency with his presence.
But, Sir, you say—" Perhaps Mr. Cochrane will inform the
• electors whether he is the person I have thus hastily alludes
' to." My reply is, do not take Mr. Cochrane's word for his in-
nocence. Iknew the wandering minstrel—the poor amiable
young man who had been driven from friends and home, owing to
political disturbances in his own country—l have seen him
often, but not since he gathered silver and gold from
those who pitied his pretended misfortune—from those who
fostered the viper, who felt for and sympathised with him in
his assumed distressed condition, and I might be able to
identify him ; yet, there is a probability of clearing up the
point beyond the passibility of doubt. The minstrel's work
was printed by Mr. Brettel, of Rupert-street, Haymarket ;
and I have reason to know that that gentleman is perfectly
acquainted with the person of Mr. Cochrane, and can, there-
fore, without difficulty, set the matter at rest, and thus ease
the minds of many parties who have promised Mr. Cochrane
their support, but who would at once withdraw it if Mr.
Cochrane can be identified as the wandering minstrel.
Allow me to add, that, for years, Mr. Brettel has taken a
very prominent part in the Westminster election; he is a
Liberal too; and would, no doubt, not only for the credit of
the House of Commons, but for the honour and reputation of
1 Westminster, set the matter at rest.
1 _ I am, Sir, faithfully yours, J. W.

Fleet- street.
On Wednesday, Feb. 17, another corresponden
thus wrote :
MR. COCHRANE AND THE ELECTORS OF
WESTMINSTER.
110 ME EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—ls Mr. Cochrane the same person as "Don Juan de
Vega," or is he not ? If ha be the same person, then the
violated hospitality and outraged kindness shown to him at
Brighton, Canterbury, Dover, and other places, will rise up
in judgment against him, and serve as a warning to the
electors of Westminster not to confide in any such wander-
ing personator. If he be not Juan de Vega, then why not
disown it ? Let Mr. Cochrane beware, if he be the fraudulent
Spanish refugee that Juan de Vega pretended to be, that he
does not meet such an expose as he well deserves, if identical
with that vagabond.—Yours, an Elector, J. C.
Feb. 16, 1847.
On Friday, the 19th, we inserted another letter in
the following words :

MR. COCHRANE AND THE ELECTORS OF WEST.

MINSTER.
TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—My attention has been directed to the inquiries con-
tained in your paper, relative to the identity of Mr. Coch
rane, the present candidate for Westminster, with one JUAN
DE VEGA, who some years back travelled through some parts
of England, professing to be a Spanish refugee, and then
published adventures of a most immoral kind as the account
of his travels. I remember a person calling himself Don
Juan de Vega soliciting charity.in this town, not for himself
only, but for his fellow Spanish refugees. He carne-as a
Spanish peasant ; a large slouched straw bat, and open vest,
a mantilla cloak, breeches, and stockings, formed his dress; he
Professed-to speak no English—French and Spanish being the
only languages he knew. He was of slight figure, and dark
mulatto complexion. He excited much compassion in this
town, where he professed to be a Quaker, and attended the
Friends' Meeting House ; was fed, clothed, and had money
given to him in no small quantity; and yet was afterwards,
by his own published adventures, found to be an imposter,
a hypocrite, and a scoundrel. He endeavoured to sedu,:e
every girl he could come near, and those whom be could not
ruin in person, he sought to lower in character, by imputing
in print the actions of charitable feeling to the prompting:-
of the most unchaste passion. I know, and could identify
the man. Ido not know whether the Juan de Vega, of
Brighton, be the candidate for Westminster. I can hardly
believe that the swarthy Juan de Vega can be the Mr.
Cochrane who appears at meetings of charity, dances with
the daughters of the Goverbor of the Licensed Victuallers'
at their annual balls, and is alternately heard of at the
Crown and Anchor and at Exeter Hall, in company with
Dr. Leifchild and Mr. B. B. Cabbell—l say, I can hardly
believe it, and yet why does he not deny it ? If they be
the same person, I pity the deceived, I despise the deceiver.
But I will come up to London on his first public appearance,
and my own eyes shall, if I be spared to see him, oon-
vince myself. If Juan de Vega be Mr. Cochrane, I will de-
nounce him, and the " Tallow-chandler and Grocer," whom
he so described, and whose hospitality he abu,ed, shall shame
him from the Westminster hustings.—l am, Sir, your obe-
dient servant, D. 11;
Brighton, Feb. 17, 1847.
In The Sun of last night will be found the follow-
advertisement :
"TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF
WESTMINSTER.

" GENTLEMEN,—Some of you will doubtless have seen a
succession of personal attacks on me which have appeared in
The Sun newspaper, and wh!ch evidently have for their ob-
ject to prejudice me in your estimation. After the very
flattering reception which I have met from you at pubic
meetings and in my private interviews with a large propor-
tion of your body, I deem it due to you to state that, acting
under the advice of the most eminent Counsel, I have brought
an action for defamation of character against the proprietors
of The Sun newspaper, when an opportunity will be afforded
to my anonymous assailant to prove, if he can, the charges
he has preferred against me.—l have the honour to be, Gen-
tlemen, your obedient sad grateful servant,
" CHARLES COCHRANE.
" Devonshire-place, Monday, Feb. 22,1847."
This, then, is Mr. COCHRANE'S answer to the in-
quiries of our correspondents—an action for defama-
tion of character ! !

We think it right to lay the whole case fairly be-
fore the public, and the electors of Westminster in
particular, that they may judge for themselves as to
whether a public journalist is not bound to give pub-
licity to letters such as the above, and on such a sub-
ject. If Mr. COCHRANE be not Senor JUAN DE
VEGA—if we have, even by implication, said one word
to his then undeserved disparagement—we are ready and
willing to apologise most amply and most unreservedly,
But if he be Don JUAN DE VEGA, and we put the ques
tion fairly to him, whether he be so,—if he be the
author of a work in two volumes, containing an account
of his adventures, then not one word of recantation,
but many of bitter indignation, shall appear in The
Sun. We challenged inquiry into the identity of
Don JUAN DE VEGA, and the candidate for
the suffrages of the electors of 'Westmin-
ster—we are answered by threats. We laugh
at threats such as these, and we know little of the
electors of Westminster if any candidate can gain
their favour by attempting to put down inquiries into
who or what he is. Let Mr. COCHRANE state a
parentage, a conduct in life, and a character such as
may recommend him to the electors of Westminster;
but let him beware of the reputation which must
always attach to JUAN DE VEGA. Our answer to Mr.
COCHRANE'S threats is a very short query—Are you,
Mr. COCHRANE, the writer of two volumes, detailing
the adventures of JUAN DR VEGA; and are you that
personage ?—Aye or no. Upon your answer our
course depends.

HEALTH OF THE QUEEN OF PRUSSIA.--BERLIN,
Fzn. 16.—Her Majesty the Queen has slept quietly diving
the greater part of the night ; in the morning the cough is
less freqnent, and only a slight excitement of pulse is per-
ceptible.
DESTITUTION OF THE METROPOLIS —Upwards Of
60,000 persons are now,inrnates of the ll,,ndon workh,wes;
60,000 are receiving out door relief; and from 1,400 to 2,000
nightly sheltered iu the refuges for the houseless,

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was firm.
Sales 5,000 bales, including 500 for export, and 500 on
speculation ; 4,500 bales were American, and realised bid to
73%d per lb; 200 Egyptian, 71/id to 9d; and 200 Surat, 4%d
per lb. The market closed rather firmer. Shares had been
rather dull.
The details of the Budget are so fully given and corn'
mented upon in another column of The Sun, that it is un-
necessary to recapitulate them here, and we may merely
remark that they are considered to be quite as favourable as
could, under the circumstances, have been anticipitated, and
that although the Chancellor of the Exchequer has deter-
mined upon an open loan in preference to a tunding of Ex-
chequer-bills, the advantages and demerits of which policy we
have already pointed out under this head, the limitation of
the amount to be raised to eight millions will serve to render
the operation much less onerous. than it would have been,
and more especially if the instalments be judiciously extended
over a given period. To arrange these preliminaries the city
capitalists will meet Lord John Russell and Mr. Wood On
Thursday next, as shown in a communication in smother
part of 'The Sun, which was read in the Stock Exchange this
morning.
The new loan can hardly be expected to come out so well
as the Cana .I.a debentures did, because money is now much
scarcer; and if par should be given for Three-and-a-Half per
Cent., this would hardly correspond with the rates
now current in the market. Capitalists now will be look-
ing probably for about 3% per cent. in the funds,
and of course the loan will come out in pro-
portion. Possibly for every 1001. stock, biddings, varying
from 109 up to 112 may be made, but of course we are now
merely giving the on Bits of the day.
The I\ ew Exchequer-bills to be dated March 16, 1847 are
to be raised to 2d. per diem, as advertised in another
column.
The Stock market is rather unsettled, and prices have re-
ceded about per cent. This is the natural effect of the
nny loan. Consols are 90% % for present transfer,_ LOU
have been 9014 % for the Account to be arranged ex
Thursday, and of which it may puzzle many to predict the
result. Exchequer-bills have risen to 10s. and 14s. prem•
Bank Stock is not higher than 203 to 14.
The Foreign Bonds are quite neglected. Portuguese Four
per Cents. are heavy at 34. The accounts from Lisbon are
not very favourable. Mexican Bonds have receded to 22%
and 21%.
Railway Shares have been rather firm again.
BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock ~. 203% 203 Si
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 90%3i gi 91
30N

three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 90y; •?.2. %
Three per Cent. Annuities, 1726 .. ..
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anna. 92%34%
New Five per Cent. Annuities .. .. ..
Long Annuities, Expire .Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9 9-1 G %34 94
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. 9 5-16 % 2%
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. • • 9% 9%
Consols for Account .. .• .. .. .. se li % 90%
Exchequer Bills. I%d. I%d.
1,0001... .. .... 10 14 pm. 14
Ditto. Small •• .. 15 10 pm. 10.
Ditto, Advertised .... 9 pm. 14
ONE CLOSIN(
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 8 per Cent .. 22 % 21% 22
Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 2234
Portuguese Four per Cent .. .. 34 3434
Dividenda on the above payable in Lend( A.
Belgian Four-and-a-Hall per Cent .. 9434 9434
Dutch Two-and-a-Hall per Cent .. 58%
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 92% % 92%
BUSINESS CLOSLIM
PAID. DONE AT PRICES,
ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen.. .. .. .. .. .. 25 .... 23 %.... .. .. 233(
Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction .. .. .. 2%.... 2% .... .. 2%
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 5 .... 14% % .... •• . 143
firming., Wolver., and Dudley.. 5 .... 10% .......... 1234
Bristol and Exeter . • • . .. 75 .. .. 77 ...... .... 71
Buckinghamshire .. .. .. .. 84s. .... %)(1 p• • ...• 342 2
Cornwall .. .. .. .. .. .. 5 .... .... i
Ditto, Half Shares .. ..
Direct Northern Scrip .. .. .. 234 .... 2% % .... 2g
Eastern Counties .. .. .. .. 20 .... 21%36 .... .... 21
Ditto, York Extension .. .. 4 .... .. •• 4
East Lancashire .. .. • • .. 14 .• .. ...... •• • • --;,
Ditto New .. .. .. .. .. 5 .. • • 7%% .... • • 754
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... 77 ..
Edinburgh and Northern .. .. 18 ...
Ditto, New .. .. . .. .. 2% .... 834..........3
Great Northern (London & York
Regd.) .. .. .. .. .. .. 2% .... 2% 3( .. .. •. • • VI.,
Do., do (Direct Northern Regd.) 3%.... 3% •• • . • J 4„
Great Western .. .. .. .. 83 .... 121 122% .. •• .. 12274
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. .. 50 .... 71 ..
Ditto, New .. .. .. .. 434 ...• 8% %%
, g

i9i
93
122_,

PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.

Ipswich aad Bury St.Edmunds .. 14 ....
3.14
Ditto ditto, and Norwich .. .•
Leeds and Bradford .. .• .. 35 .... 80 .• 80
Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manchester 2734 ..........—
Do., Old Extension (Green) .. 234 .........• ,?,Z
Leeds and Thirsk 2234 .... 193 t ...... .
Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent... 334 ...• •••• • • 834
London and Blackwall .. 161. 13s. 4d. 814 • • .....• ••
Ditto, New, No. 1 .. 4 .... 5 .• •• • •
London, Brighton, and S Coast.. 50 . 55% 56 55% .. 58
Ditto, Guarant. Five per Cent. 9 • • 9%% •• •••• •• 186
London and North-Western..' • .100 ... 18414' 185)4 ....
Ditto, Quarters . .. ••2•••• • • • • • 10i
Ditto ditto, New Shares .. .. 2 .... 1434 •.......••
London and South-Western.• 411. 6s. 10d.• • •• •• --534
Ditto, Scrip• •.. • •• •• 5 ••5%•••• • • • - • • 274
London and York Extension Scrip 234 .... ••••• • •• ,64
Lynn and Dereham •• 15 .... 17 .. •••. • • • •
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. p.....• • • 1
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 134 54 1•• .. 12214
Midland .. ..100 12234 .......• • • b%
Ditto, New .. • • •• 2 •• 6% 514 ••• • •• 123
Midland, Birming. & Gloucest...loo •• • • 32%
Newcastle and Berwick .. 20 .... 323414 •• .• •• 1034
Newmarket and Chesterford •• 10 ...• 105 • 142.
Norfolk ..103 •• • • •••• •• •• 14N
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 10 . 1414 •••• ••• • • • 6%
Ditto, Extension .. • • .. 6 .... 6% ••••• • • •• 1%
Ditto, ditto, Waveney Valley.. 2 .... ••• ..•• •• ••

North British .. 25 .... ...• ••• • • •
16%
Ditto, Half Shares 12% 16% • • .. • • 1%
Ditto, Extension • • • • • • %••••1%"• ' "' • • •• 3%
Ditto, Thirds •• •• •• 1 3%.... ••• • • 8%
North Staffordshire .. •• • • 5 •• •• 8% •••• • • • • 34 s
Preston and Wyre .. • • •• 23 ....
Ditto, Half Shares (A) .. 63{, .... 11
Ditto ditto (II) 13(..••
Reading, Guildford and ,Reigate 5 • • 4% u 4Nt
Scottish Midland . 224 213 i 204
•nirewsbury and Birmingham .. 3 414
Ditto, Class 11 .. • • •. .• 14•••• 1%........., 13/4
Shropshire Union 425. .... % •• .. as
South Eastern and Dover .. • . 33%
Ditto. ew (iss. at 321.) No. 1. 20 ... 23
Prent Valley and Midland June. 425..... 1 p •••• I P
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 l ... 4% ..... • • 44
p
%Veit Riding Union • • • • • • 428. •• . • 1% 13. •• •• • • A
York and Newcastle .. .. 25 ... 36% • ..... 11%
Ditto, New.. .. .. 5 ..... 11% •• . • ..... •
Ditto, Preference .. 4 8% ••••• • • ' •• 87
York and North Midland .. .. 50 .... 86% 87 •••• •• 36%
Ditto, Extension .. 20 .... 36% .• ••••• • ' • 11%
Ditto. Preference • • .. 2 .... 12%.. •••• • • • '
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens 18 .... 14%....••••••
Central of France (Orleans and 13
Vierzon) •• • • •• 10 ..•• 13 ••.•• • • • ••
Dutch Rhenish •• .. 7 .. . . 4%%••• • • • • •
East Indian . .. 59. •••• • • • •
Namur and Liege • • • • 8 •• • • 3 ••••'• •• •• 12%
Northern of France .. 8 .... 12%%•. •• •• •• 3%
Paris and Rouen .. 20 .... 34% .......• • • -
JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 204
.. 25 .... i 15% • • ......
•
MINES. stZ

Union of Australia

Real del Monte, Unregistered .. .... 334 .......• • •

COMMON PLEA S.-(THIS DAY.)
The Court was engaged this morning in trying an issue"
directed from the Court of Chancery, relating to a partnert.
ship transaction. The case was of no public interest WWI
ever.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
THIS DAY. ed
The February adjourned session for the county commenced
this morning, at the Court House, Clerkenwell-green, bef°'
the Assistant-Judge and a bench of magistrates.
.11d
The Learned ASSISTANT-JUDGE, in charging the grad
jury, said, in allusion to the means resorted to for the 1::
formation of juvenile offenders, that he had visited Pa 1.,%
hurst prison since the last sessions, and there be found
system quite unsuited to the end, in his opinion. The diOe.ril-
pline did not treat children as children and adopt the spie,
of rewards to childish capacities. At Parkhurst there VIA
plenty of work and plenty of books, but no play, and the al
adage was but too true, that " All work and no play Mai,
Jack a bad boy." It was not enough to tell those poor
dren they would by good behaviour in prison probably 13e''
come respectable men in their old age, tbei
should, as the reward of good conduct, enil
some privileges which they could understand as children, ell„
even a game of cricket might not be too great a luxury ,°:
stimulating them. At present a child of ten years old, lob
stealing a penny-worth, must be sent to the same pris°l3/
and subject to the same discipline, as the hardened felor of
40 or 50. But perhaps the greatest evil of the exist/
system was throwing the responsibility of supporting 00
children upon the State. When the child was convicted, tl.l°
father was released from all expense on his account; but; 11 I,a
his (the Assistant Judge's) opinion, the child's parish sliskt?l,
be made responsible for his support, while the parocil
authorities should have the same power to compel the pal i,
to pay back the amount thus expended as they had to nail
him pay for the support of his family under the ordinary case
of desertion or otherwise.

MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY-)
Edward Crawshaw, a gentleamaenaroefdmin weiliatnasryrto a a
appearance'vin
rne,osiod3hcighairngitg St., him
mbawnih committing scplace an assault upon Jur., appeared
Adam Clarke, post-office-keeper, 132, Jermyn-street.
Complainant stated that, about three o'clock yesterdill
afternoon, the defendant came into hie shop for the purpol
of posting three letters. Whilst the young lady in the bop
was giving him change, a dog ran into complainant's VI 'd
lour, and began to wormy a cat. He took up an umbrella an
drove the animal out of the room. The defendant then fedi
a cane which he had in his hand, and began to belabour 2,1;
(the complainant) most unmercifully across the shoulder'
11 eventually got away, and ran into the parlour.
The complainant would not press the case if defentleen!
would make an apology in the public court, and give $
reign to the distressed Irish.
Defendant, in a contemptuous manner, said he should 04
make an apology to such a man.
lIINGHAm said it was a case that ought to be sentutfs
the Quarter Sessions, but as it would cause additional trolly
_ _

to complainant, he would fine defendant 51.
The defendant, as he was leaving the court, threatened be.
complainant, when Mr. Bingham called him back, and
sides the fine of 51. called upon him to enter into his oval
cognizances of 1001., and two sureties of 100/. each, to keer •
the peace for six months.

BIRTHS. .., ~
On Monday, the 22d inst., at Walsall, Staffordshire, o.r
Gore
French, of a son. ~. g
On the 4th inst., at Osiek, In Austrian Galicia, the Barone.-
mond de Lariss, of a daughter.
On the 10:11 inst., at Brussels, the lady of Chevalier de Setlge"
(nee Iklatques Lisboa), of a daughter. gar"
On the 17th inst., in Upper Seymeur-street, the lady of Dr.
Dunsford, of a son.
On the 18th inst., at Walton-place, the wife of Enailitus Clart°°'
Esq , of a daughter. e' of A
"'"On the 20th inst., at Chester-square, Mrs. Charles Behan
daughter.
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MARRIED. Corbonell,
On the 16th inst., at Clifton Church, Robert Warren ant'
Esq , of Bordeaux, to Katherine. daughter of the late Lielt'en
ColontlKersteman, of the 16th Foot.

DIED- males
On the 14th ult., at Government House, St. Christoriber% _eward
Thornton Cunningham, Esq., Lieutenant-Governor of the
Islands, aged 36.
On the 17th Inst., at Eton, Sir John Geere Cetterell, sgedts nidary of
On the 17111 inst., the Rev. Edward South Thurlovr, Fr C
Norwich and Rector of Houghton-le-Spring.Ner.
On the, 19th inst., at Banbury, Oxon, Ellen, the wife of
E sq., aged 23.
On the 20th inst., 'n Conduit-street, the Rev.
Redland, near Bristol. aged 7 Richard Carroty, o f
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or the Savoy. in the County of Middlesea.
Tue4ldah
bruary 23, 1841.

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