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imposts formerly levied upon raw cotton, amounting an-
nually to 700,0001., by the abolition of the duties upon
wool, by the permanent establishment of free trade.
In gratitude, if not in mere feirness—as the barter-
ing of one advantage for another— he would require
those sacrifices from the manufacturers. But Lord •
JOHN RUSSELL assumed a loftier ground ; he utterly
denied that sacrifices of any description would
result from the operation of the sateme then
under consideration ; or, if any sacrifice were
inevitable, it would be a sacrifice from
the operatives themselves. The previous ex-
penses of that department of commerce would remain
altogether unaffected,eand the only difference conse-
quent upon the new arrangement would be fair ten
or eleven hours' wages for ten or eleven hours' work,
instead of as heretofore, twelve hours' wages for
twelve hours' work. That would necessarily be the only
difference in the disbursements of the manufacturers.
Providing, again, it be remonstrated that it appears
a cruelty instead of a kindness to compel the female
and infant labourers to receive a lesser amount of
payment for a larger amount of leisure, the Premier
justly observed that the working classes themselves
" are willing to run the risk 1" That is conclusive
logic. In considering the immediate effect which
would be consequent upon this enactment, Lord JOHN
calculated that there might reasonably be a lesser
wear and tear of the machinery, and a lesser con-
sumption of oil, coal, tallow, and other articles in the
factories, from the smalleramount of the time occupied
in work. With all deference, we conceive that the
Noble Lord's calculation was nullified by a subsequent
estimate in his speech, for supposing that the operatives
are employed more continuously and uninterruptedly
throughout the twelvemonth—that they are em-
ployed on the average ten hours per diem from the
Ist of January to the 31st of December, instead of
being doomed, as under the existing system, to inter-
mittent paroxysms of drudgery and idleness, toiling
one week twelve hours per diem, and another aban-
doned to the Mother of Sin and the beer shop by the
total stoppage of the mills—supposing this salutary
change be accomplished by 111 r. FIELDEN'S measure
(as it will inevitably be accomplished), the amount of
labour on the termination of the year will be the
same, the wear and tear of the machinery will be the
same, the consumption of oil, coal, tallow, gas,
and other articles required in the factories
will be 5o far equivalent to the former ex-
penditure, as to present no perceptible difference.
We cannot perceive, indeed, in this great scheme of
Charity, indications of anything calculated to be in-
jurious either to the manufacturers or to the opera-
tives; we cannot but believe that it must, in the
"long run," be mutually advantageous, while, at the
same time, it will purge the land of an incalculable
wickedness and effectually counteract a social poison.

Notwithstanding the impressive warnings that have
so constantly been given, both in and out of the
Legislature, the same unaccountable apathy appears
to continue in Ireland as to the preparation
of the soil for the ensuing harvest. The fields
still remain uncultivated ; the occupations of
husbandry are almost wholly suspended, while time
that cannot be recalled—every moment of which is
now of the greatest importance—is passing away.
It cannot be that labourers are not to
be procured. Although 708,000 are at this
moment actually engaged on the public works,
they have only been so occupied because they were
unable to obtain adequate employment for the sui-
port of their families from private sources—and a
full opportunity has been afforded to every indivi-
dual requiring men for the cultivation of his land to
obtain them, on making application for that purpose
to the superintendents of the works, who would,
thereupon, assign a sufficient number, and it
the persons specified refused to work in
the manner indicated, they would forthwith
be discharged from the public works, and com-
pelled to find employment as they best could from
private sources. It is puerile, therefore, to say that
a sufficiency of labour could not be obtained. We
fear that the true cause for this culpable negligence
is, the idea that has unfortunately been too prevalent,
that the Government would not only supply seed
sufficient for the lands, hut that they • would
also send the labourers from the public work,.
on the lands of the small proprietors and tenant•
farmers,' and that thus they would be brought into
tillage without either trouble or expense to the occu-
pants. There was nothing of greater consequence
than that their minds should be disabused of this
impression, that they should know the full extent
the assistance that can be afforded to them by any
possibility. The manly and decided manner in which
the Premier spoke out during the past week, in which
he so positively stated that nothing v ould be done by
the Government fur the cultivation of the soil,
must have this effect when it has been
generally known throughout the country. The
landlords are now fully warned : they know what
must await them if there is a perseverance in the
grievous error. The withdrawal or diminution of
the potato crop will occasion a necessity for a con- •
siderable increase in the quantity of grain, and yet
there will be a lamenteble deficiency on the average
of ordinary years. Let not the proprietors suppose
that England would again step forward as
she has dare on the present occasion. Ot
course she wculd not, under any circum.
stances, suffer the people, whatever might be
their faults, to perish by wholesale. They should be
relieved, but the cost of that relief would be levied
from the properties of these by whose default it was
rendered necessary. An efficient poor-law will be in
force ; let them beware how they multiply the claim-
ants on the fund. Able-bodied labourers will be en-
titled to out-door relief, and must be provided for,
either in industry or idleness, and the employ.
ment which is now optional will in a brief
period become compulsory. What might fairly
be regarded as a national calamity, when
occasioned by the visitation of PROVIDENCE, will
be looked on in a very different light, when its origin
may be traced to the negligence of a particular alas .
And this country would no longer sanction the appli-
cation of its finances (the amount of the taxation
levied on the industry of its artizans as a relief fund)
until the entire means of the defaulters were ex-
hausted.

We do not offer these observations from any feel-
ing of hostility to the Irish landlords, but as a means
of awakening them from their trance before it is
too late. It is not to reproach them for the errors
or mistakes of former times or bygone years, or to
create a public feeling against them, but because
there.is as yet the opportunity of retrieving' thou'
position. The golden moment has not yet gone by.
"There is a light cloud on the moon,
'l' is passing, and will pass full soon i"
and if that period be taken due advantage of, all will
let he well ; otherwise, we shudder at the contem-
plation of the misery and suffering that must
be the result. The landlords are placed
in the vanguard, they must sustain the first
brunt of the encounter, but all other classes
in Ireland are deeply interested in averting so
fearful a calamity. The Roman Catholic clergy pos-
sess extraordinary power and influence over the minds
of the people. Surely there never was a time when
that influence could be more legitimately exercised.
If the proprietors set their own shoulders to the
wheel, and are aided by the clergy in their several
districts, there will be little danger. The relief com-
mittees also should exert themselves. Twenty per
cent. of the labourers will be discharged
from the public works on Saturday next ;
a new sphere of employment should be pro-
vided, and what could be more proper than
that which will provide for the maintenance of
the people during the coming year? However be-
neficial the measures may be which tend to the ulti-
mate regeneration of Ireland, the present one is of
paramount importance, and cannot with impunity
be further postponed or delayed.

Under the head of Nfival Intelligence from Ports-
mouth the following- paragraph was published in a
morning jmper of yesterday
"Preparation was trade this morning fur inflicting the
punishment awarded by the court-martial upon John Savage,
A. 8., deserter from the St. Vincent, but an Admiralty order
came to hand just in time to stop that portion of the sen-
tence frOm being inflicted. The imprisonment and forfeit of
all pay will be put in force at once."
The circumstances of the trial were these :—The
prisoner, an able seaman of her MAJESTY'S ship St.
Vincent, was absent from his duty on the 6th List. ;
tbe 540.-igorninii he was found concealed on board

a schooner lying in Portsmouth harbour. Charged as
a deserter before a court-martial; which assembhd last
wick to try him, the prisoner made no defence.
Ile received, however, a good character from Captain
MILNE and the master-at arms of the St. Vincent.
The Court passed the following sentence :—" The
prisoner to receive Jiffy lashes on his bare back with a
cat-o'•nine tills on board- the St. Vincent; to forfeit
all pay due for his services ; and to be imprisoned in
WinchestLr gaol for twelve calendar months with hard
labour." We rejoice that the Admiralty saved the man
from corporal infliction. We hail this fact as a guarantee
that, when Admiral DUNDAS and his official colleagues
wisely admonished the House of Commons, during
the debate which ensued on fir. Iluma's motion for
returns of corporal punishment on board her MA-
JESTY'S ships, not to suffer officers to be influenced,
in punishing or pardoning offences, by the fear of
annual lists being laid upon the tables of the Legis-
lature; but, on the contrary, to give them distinctly
to understand that, for the proper discharge
of their duties, they were alone amenable to
the Board of Admiralty—they were intent,
as far as in them lay, on consulting the feelings
of the public, consistently with the mainte-
nance of discipline in the service. We have, in the
case before us at once an- earnest of their sincerity
and humanity. Next to the desirableness of abolish•
ing the cat-o'-nine tails, so soon as we shall have
succeeded, by improved methods of organization, in
manning our ships with a superior class of men, is
that of a just discrimination in the use of this instru-
ment of torture and degradation. We certainly
do not desire to reflect upon the officers forming the
court-martial which decided upon the above sentence.
There were amongst them men of ability, experience,
and distinction in the service; and we are not of
those who, when men have performed a painful duty
to the best of their judgment, and because their sen-
tence does not happen to accord with our own
views, rush to the conclusion that they
are less benevolent than other people. But
we consider they would have exercised a sounder
discretion had they confined their sentence within
the limits to which it has been reduced by the Ad-
miralty. Desertion is a serious offence, but it may
become much aggravated according to circumstances.
If the offence were largely on the increase, presenting
difficulties in the way of keeping up the requisite
complements of men—if it were committed on
foreign stations, or in periods of actual war, in such
cases, so long as the power of corporal infliction
remains vested in the officers, it might be exercised in
the least objeeticinable manner ; but we hold that,
if at all, the lash should be reserved for the worst of
criminals. Amongst this class the able seaman in
question could not be classed ; for both his captain
and the muster•at-arms commended his character:
The sentence he will undergo is sufficiently severe
for his offence, which he committed in a hsrbour
where there could, or ought to, be no difficulty' in
supplying his place on board the St. Vincent. We
highly approve of the course pursued by the Admi-
ralty, and we hope that the sound discrimination
which they herein evinced will not be .witiroUtaitE
due effect upon all future courts-martial.

A letter from Cairo, of the 16th uit., states that
the corn crops of Egypt for the present year are of
the most promising appearance. In some parts of
Lower Egypt the ear is beginning to form, and the
harvest will be got in by the end of the next month.
Or the last year's harvest there still remains in,_tglyA
about 600,000 ardebs (1,032,000 hectolitres) of corn
of every species fit for exportation, which makes the
total amount of grain for this purpose, from the
harvest of 184 G; 1,200,000 ardebs. A great number
of ve:.sels had lately arrived in the port of Alex-
andria, and among them seventeen or eighteen
French, taking in cargoes fur Marseilles. The charge
for freight had fallen.

We have received a letter from Pisa, of the 7th, in
which it is stated that a political demonstration took
place in that town on the occasion of the arrival of
the Archduke FERDINAND of Este, brother of the
Emperor of AUSTRIA, who, during the events of
Gallicia last year was civil and military governor of
that province. In the course of the day numerous
groups assembled before the palace which he inhabits,
in order to give him a charioari at the moment of his
appearance in public. The authorities called out the
gendarmerie and dispersed the crowd. But at mid-
' aight a loud detonation was heard, which caused a
great sensation in the town. The people had succeeded
in placing a petard under the very roof of the palace,
and had set lire to it. The commotion caused by the
,xplosi,)n was very great, and broke the windo,vs of
,he palace and the neighbouring houses. Great agi-
tation i.revails at Pisa. Every day writings contain-
ing allusions and gross invectives against the Aus-
trians are stuck up in the streets. The police is on
the look out i'or the guilty parties, and it is stated
that it has already made some arrests. The Grand
Duke of TUSCANY has just decided that the regular
army shall be increased.
A letter from Nice states that great agitation pre-
vails atnong,t the peasantry of Lombardy owing to
the dearness of provisions, and that disturbances
were apprehended. Two regiments had arrived in
the neighbourhood of Milan, and others were on their
march.

Madrid papers of the 11th have arrived.
s
In answer to questions put to them in the Cortes,
the Ministers declared that, notwithstanding the high
price of provisions and the scarcity of corn, they
could
d of g
not
take upon,
Theon'helves to prohibit the ex-
portationtiet is, that immense ex-
portations of grain have recently taken place from
Santander to France, and as MuNoz, CHRISTINA'S
husband, is, it is said, engaged in the speculation, of
course no attempt wid be made to prevent this ex-
portation.
The Political Chief of Saragossa has been removed.
The Eco del Cotnercio states that the accounts
relative to the Carlist movements are becoming every
day more alarming. It was said that many workmen
had left Berga to join the movement. In the town
of Almanza, province of Soria, on the 7th bands of
Carlists paraded the streets in defiance of the authorities.
The Alarchioness of LoULH has left Madrid for
Portugal.
MADRID BOLSA, MARCH 11.—Tbe Three per Cents.
were done at 301 fur cash ; the Five per Cents. at
191 ; the Debt, without interest, at 54 ; and the
Coupons at 17.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.

The ilioniteur cgntains a royal ordonnance, grant-
ing an extraordinary credit of four millions of francs
to the Minister of the Interior, for advances in aid of
public works'in the communes.
The Education Bill, %%hid' was to have been pre-
sented to tin Chambers on Mon*lay, has been post-
poned for a month. There has been a large export
if specie during last week for corn payments; yet,
notwithstanding the continued import of grain, the
price continues to rise. In the Paris Halle, on Mon-
day, there was a further rise on wheat of 3f. 20c. the
100 kilogrammes.
It is said that M. GUIZOT is by no means pleased
with the last dispatches received from Constantinople.
The French Ambassador stands alone there in his
support of ConErrit, the Greek Minister, and is com-
pletely isolated, as the representatives !of England,
Austria, and Russia, afford an united and powerful
support to the SULTAN. France, however, it would
seem, has an eye to territorial acquisition in the
Meditterranean at the expense of Turkey—she is
desirous of possessing
Tunis.
A letter from Toulon of the 12th says—

"The Prince de Joinville was expected here on the even-
isg N the loth, and the troops of the garrison had received
orders to be ready to receive him, but intelligence soon
arrived that his. Royal Highness had stopped at Marseilles,
and that he in:ended entering Toulon incognito. The.
Prince arrived here yesterday at a late hour, and after stop-
ping for a few tninutes.at the hotel of the maritime prefect,
went on board the Souverain, in which be intends hoisting
his flag. I'o-day the Prince went to pay a visit to the In.,
faute Don Henry, at the hotel of the Croix d'Or. The four
vessels under the orders of the Prince have taken in their pro-
visions, and have received orders to be ready to weigh
anchor at a moment's notice. It is believed that they are
to proceed to Tunis, but nothing is as yet known with cer-
tainty. The squadron, which at present consists of the Sou.
verain (three-decker), the Ocean (three-decker), the Inflex-
ible, of 90 guns, and the Jupiter, of 80, is' expected to leave
the port before the 90th. The Friedland (three-decker)-and
the Jena, 90 guns, have also been ordered round from Brest.
The day before yesterday Don Henry gave a grand dinner,
to which the chief maritime, municipal, 'and military au-
thoritie3 were invited."

The Phare de Bayonzie has a paragraph which
states that Spain has given leave to the French Go-
verment to establish coal depots and military hos-

pitals at Port Mahon. This announcement is not
credited in Paris, but it is no doubt put forward as
a feeler.

• Accounts from Algiers state that Marshal BUGEAUD
is confined-to his bid by illness.

Serious food riots have occurred in the Western
Departments.
Several regiments have been ordered to
.march to
the frontiers of Spain, to be ready in the event of a
Carlist outbreak.
The Three per Cents. closed at 77f. 70c.; the Five per
Cents., 115 f. 45c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2521. 50c.;
Rouen, 846 f. 25c.; Havre, 666t1 25e. ' • Great Northern, 605 f.;
Avignon, 785 f. ; Vierzon, 557 f. 50e. ; Bordeaux, 50.5 f. ;
Troyes and Montereau, 295 f. ; Basle, 201 f. 25c. ; Dieppe,
330 r. ; Paris and Strashurg 442 t. 50e. ; Nantes, 4361. 25c.;
Paris and Lyons, 455 f ; Lyons and: Avignon, 460 f.; Cette,
450 f. ; Spanish Three per Cents., 311%.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Mnacu 17.
Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 117, Great Indian
Peninsular, %--Luxembourg, 1% —Namur and Liege, 4% —Northern
of France, 12%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 6;Q—Paris and Lyons, 6)
"LSanthre and Meuse, 6%.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The Cotton Market at Liverpool was dull yesterday, and
prices are now 1 per lb. lower than in January. Sales,
3,000 bales, including 2,200 American, at 64d. to 7d. Shares
had been very fiat again.
There are no later accounts in the City to-day from foreign
parts, except the usual continental mails; and from Paris
the report of the Money Market is not very satisfactory.
This morning one of the most important meetings that has
been held in the Bank court-room fur many years past took
place (a full report of which will be Mund in another part
of The Sun).
The Stock market has been very flat again this morning,
with scarcely any one venturing to enter into business,
because of the uncertainty as to the course which
the Bank of England might think proper to
adopt. Consols have realised BSI/8 % for Money,
and the same fur time. The Consols Scrip is to 1 discount.
Exchequer-bills have been par to 3s. premium. East India
Stock is worth 247.

The Foreign Investments have been very dull. Spanish
Three per Cents. have been quoted 34, and Dutch Two- and-
a-Halt per Cents. 57i to 58.
Shares have been neglected.
_

The Bank of England directors have just broken up, and
there is no notice issued for an advance in .the rate of in,
terest.'
BRIT:SII FUNDS.

ONE

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.)
The House sat to-day to beer appeals. The Peers pre-
sent were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, and Lord
Campbell.

DAELETT AND OTHERS V. THE STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON

RAIL .WA Y COMPANY.

The arguments in this part-heard appeal from the decision
of the Vice-Chancellor of England, which were commenced
on Tuesday, were resumed to-day, Mr. Smythe followin g Mr.
Bethell on behalf of the respondents, the Stockton and Dar-
lington Railway Company. The appellants are directors and
shareholders of the Joint-Stoek County of Durham Coal
Company. For the transit of coals sent by them by the
Stockton and Darlington Railway, and by the Clarence Rail-
way (of which the respondents are directors and share-
holders) to Port Clarence for exportation, the respondents
claimed payment at the rate of 21/td. per ton per mile, under
provision of their Acts of Parliament. The appellants were
unwilling to pay more than %el. per ton per mile. This dispute
between the parties begt.n in 1836, and it was agreed between
them that the ar.pellatits should continue to pay the former
charge, under protest, and without prejudice to their right to
recover the excess, in the event of their succeeding in an
action, which they were to bring, to try whether the former
or latter sum was the proper Parliamentary charge. A special
verdict was found in that action, and, upon the discussion on
it, in the Court of Common Pleas, it was decided that the sum
of 1/2d. per ton per mile for transit of the appellants' coals
was the proper charge under the Acts for construction of the
said railway s. The respondents brought a writ of error on
that judgment in the Court of Exchequer Chamber, and
failing in obtaining a reversal there, they brought their
writ of error in this House, the result of which was an
affirmance of thej udgment of the Court of Common Pleas.
Pending the proceedings at law, and before the last writ of
error was brought, the appellants filed their bill in Chancery.
stating the proceedings at law, and that notwithstanding the
judgment there in favour of the appellants, the respondents
refund to refund the excess of the sums paid by the appel-
lants beyond the %d. per ton per mile. The respondents
put in their answer, and alleged that of the sum before
claimed by them for tonnage %d. was for haulage of the
coals, and other services rendered by them to the appellants
in the transit of their coals. Several orders were made in
the cause by the Vice• Chancellor, in pursuance of which the
sums constituting the excess between the established Parlia-
mentary charge, and the charge of W. were paid, first into
a bank, and part afterwards into court, and vested in the
public funds to abide the decree. By the decree made in the
cause, after this House gave judgment on the writ of error,
the Vice-Chancellor ordered all sums paid by the appellants
to be paid back, under reduction not only of the id. per ton,
for the transit, but another id. per ton for haulage of•the
coals; and his Honour also ordered the appellants to pay the
respondents their costs in the cause, on the ground that the
suit was not necessary, and the filing of the bill was prema-
ture, inasmuch as all matters in dispute would have been
decided by the action if the appellants had waited for the
final judgment in it. _

Mr: Stuart and Mr. Faber were heard on Tuesday for the
appellant, and Mr. Bethell for the respondents.
(The arguments had not concluded when our Afternoon
Edition went to press.)

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before the Vice-CneNcELLon. of ENGLAND.)
JOY V. BIRCH.

The arguments in this case, which have already occupied
the Court several days, were resumed this morning. The
case, which has been many years in this Court, came before
his Honour upon further directions, and the,sole question for
decision was, whether the purchaser of a certain estate could
be compelled under the agreement to pay interest on such
portions of the fund as had not been paid at the time he en-
tered into possession. A gentleman named Birch, so long
ago as the year 1812, contracted for the purchase of the estate
in question, called the East and West Wrethain Estate, si-
tuated in Norfolk, being partly leasehold and partly freehold
property, for a sum of 95,0004 The estate was at that time
charged with several mortgages, and it was arranged be-
tween the parties that the purchaser should be permitted to
dispose of certain portions of the purchase-money in clearing
off the incumbrances, which part of the agreement was even-
tually carried into effect. . It was further agreed that Mr.
Birch, upon entering, should be entitled to the rents and
profits from the preceding Michaelmas; that the conveyances
and assurances should be prepared as speedily as possible,
and that the interest on the residue of the purchase-money
should not commence until Lady-day then next; and by a
subsidiary agreement it was provided that if the instruments
were not executed by that time, then that the interest
should commence from the time of the execution thereof:
Owing to the embarraseed 'state of" the property, and the
claims of iccumbrancers, it had been found impossible to
complete the contract, and a bill was accordingly filed for
specific performance, which came on for hearing in the year
1830, When a decree was made by his Honour directing the
performance of the former agreement, as stated by the later
one. Against this decree an appeal was entered, but the
Lord Chaneellor ailiftned the judgment of his Honour. The
matter was then curried to the House of Lords, where, after
argument, their Lordships affirmed substantially the decision
of tile Lord Chancellor. Since.that time, the purchaser had
continued in pOisession of the estate, and had received the
rents and profits ; and the question now was, whether he
was bound to pay interest on a sum of about 9,000/., which
was the residue of the fund.

(The arguments had not concluded when our Afternoon
Edition weut to press.)

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
,William Clayton, a boy of about sixteen years of age, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Hall, charged with obtaining
money under false pretences.
It appeared that the prisoner had been errand-boy to Mr.
Nind, paper-hanger, Fleet-street, and was discharged about
a week ago, and that he had since called upon several of Mr.
Nind's customers and had received money due to him. Mr.
Nind had authorised the prisoner to receive moneys for him
while in his service.

The prisoner's defence was, that Mr. Nind owed him some
money for wages, and had refused to pay him. He got the
money which he knew to be due to Mr. -Nind for the purpose
of paying himself.
Mr. Nind said, that when the prisoner called at his shop
to demand the arrear due to him, he was told that if his aunt
(with whom he lived, having no parents) would call for it,
it would be laid to her.

As Mr. Ni.nd suspected that some pawnbrokers duplicates,
which were tound on the prisoner, retorted to property which
he had missed while the prisoner was in his service, and as

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Mr. lIALL was anxious that his relations should be in•
formed of his situation (of which they were as yet ignorant),
and should be caked upon to attend, the worthy magistrate
remaLdeti the prisoLer to Monday.

WORSHIP-STREET.--(THIS DAY.

Police-sergeant No. 2 N, stated that a man named John
Finith had attempted self-Lsti uction by cutting his throat
with a knife he had conceded about his person, in one of
the cells of th, Robert-street police-station, where he was
-oon afterwards found in a state of insensibility. :Messrs.
Ilawdter and CJward, surgeons, were at once sent for, and
on their arrival they directed his immediate removal to St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, where, on inquiry this morning re•
specting him, it was stated that he was alive, but was not
expected long to survive. He had been taken into custody
for robbing his fellow-workmen of their tools.

SOUTHWARK.-(THIS DAY.)
_Henry Potter was charged with stealing a piece of printed
calico from the shop of Mr. Reece, linen-araper, Blackfriars-
road. _ _ _ _

Prosecutor said, about six o'clock last evening the print
dress was hanging on a line inside the doorway, and about
ten minutes afterwards the prisoner was brought into the
shop by a deaf and dumb man, with the article in his possession.
The latter person gave his evidence through the medium of
his fingers, by which it appeared that as he was passing the
complainant's shop he saw the prboner enter the door, snatch
the print off the line, and run away with it. He pursued
him and brought him back to the shop, when he was given
into the custody of a policeman.
The prisoner was committed.

BANK OF EINGLANI)—(THIS DAY.)
A special general court of the governor, directors, and
proprietors et the Bank of England was held this day,
within the Court-room, for the purpose of docile! ing the divi-
dend fur the halt-year ending the 27th of February last.
At twelve o'clock precisely' the Governor, Mr. Heath, the
Deputy-Governor, Mr. Rubinson, and several directors en-
tered the room. There was a very full attendance of the
proprietary.
The minutes of the last court having been read and
confirmed,
The GOVERNOR proceeded to address the proprietors. He
said—Geutlemen, according to the form prescribed by this
court, it is my duty to acquaint you that this is one of the
half-yearly general courts appointed by the bye-laws for the
purpose of considering a, dividend ; and I have farther
to acquaint you that the directors, having con-
sidered the state of the banking accounts, are
of opinion, that a dividend may be made, if
the Court think fit to agree to it, of 81 per cent. interest,
payable on the sth of April next, without any deduction.
You may wish to know some particulars with respect to the
rest, and I have therefore to inform you that on the 28th
February, 1846,
The rest was .. . £3,689,430
On the 31st August 3,839,753
On the 27th February, 1847
making an increase on the half-year of 59,4691., or an in-
crease to be added to the rest on the whole year of 209,7921
A Peorom•roit wished to know whether there was a con-
tinued and further increase till the 6th of March ?
The GOVERNOR said they were dealing with the question
of the 27th February, on which their proceedings were based,
and could not therefore affect the period referred to by the
lion. Proprietor.
Mr. I,Evr asked what was to be the bonus? They had
been led at the last meeting to expect a large increase on
this year, and he thought they had a right to expect it. If
any thing serious were to happen at this time which should
derange the affairs of the Bank, the proprietors would require
to subscribe to make up any deficiency, and he considered
it therefore a hard case that in a season of prosperity the
proprietors should not have a corresponding benefit. He
trusted that the implied promise made to the proprietors on
the last occasion would be redeemed.
The GOVERNOR explained that what he had stated to the
propri-,tors on the last occasion was, that the Governor and
the Court of Directors would have much pleasure in meeting
the views of the proprietors, when they thought that could
with propriety and with a due regard to other interests be
done, as this was probably the last time when he should
have the honour to appear before them as Governor, he
should have been proud and happy to propose an increased
dividend ; but he thought the proprietors would see that
there were peculiar circumstances abroad at that moment
which rendered caution and prudence more than ever neces-
sary on the part of the directors.
Mr. Panne: DE WistTox was sorry to find that so small a
dividend was declared as 31. 10s. per cent. lie did not wish
to impugn the conduct of the direetorB, as he thought they
had done their duty by the proprietors, more especially the
gentleman who had just addressed them. As respected
him, ho had during the period of his govereorship
devoted the greater part of his time and attention to the fur-
therance of their interests; and they had reason, therefore, to
feelobliged to that gentleman. With respect to the profits on
this halfyear, he mild show that they would amply justify
an increased dividend to the proprietors ; for deducting the
rest of October 10,1 t4l, from the rest of February 1847, he found
that they had realised no less a sum titan 506,0621., which
would give them very nearly four per cent. Under these circum -
stances, he did not see that they should not have four per
cent. He, as an old banker, well know, and was fully con-
vinced, that 4,000,000/. was as much as could be required for
working this establishment, with a profit to those connected
with it. Ile should therefore propose as an amendment, that,
the dividend, instead of being 31. 10s. should be 41.
per cent. The Bank had now an amount to
work upon of rather more than 24,000,000/. which
they might turn to account. They had also the interest
of 3 per cent, on 11,000,000/. of loans to Government. If
they made 4 per cent. on their twenty-four millions, and 3
per cent. on their eleven millions, they would return in the
year 1,290,000/. He thought that the proprietors ought to
derive some present advantage from this prosperous state of
things instead of leaving all to their executors. He consi-
dered that they owed a debt of gratitude to Sir Robert Peel

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