The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-24 00:00:00

CHANCELLORSHIP OF CAMBRIDGE.

JOSEPH CLAYTON, EXPRESS NEWS-
PAPER AGENT, 320, STRAND, takes this opportunity of
Informing those Country News-Agents who receive extra copies of
"THE SUN" Newspaper, in his Envelopes, of the lid, 24th, and
28th of February, that they are sent free of charge, requesting the
favour of their being placed on the tables of the Reading Rooms,
Institutions, snd Hotels in their towns ; the object being to make
known to the SUPPORTERS of Earl FOWLS the hour at which
the special trains start on the North-Western and Eastern Counties
Railways. For these particulars see the advertisements issued by
Earl Fowls's Committee in " THE SUN " cf this and following
days.
The LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN" will contain the CLOSE
Of the POLL EACH DAY during the ELECTION at CAMBRIDGE.
Postage Stamps enclosed to J. Clayton will insure a copy of the
Latest Edition of " THE SUN" being posted the same evening, re-
ceivable the next day in any part of England.

JOSEPH CLAYTON avails himself of this opportunity of inform-
ing Country Booksellers, News-Agents, and Postmasters, that he
continues to supply the Morning Papers by the First Trains on every
Line of Railway out of London, and the Latest Editions of the Even-
ing Papers by Post.

Booksellers and New: paper Agents in Reading, Bath, Bristol,
Bridgewater, Taunton, Exeter, and throughout the West of England,
requiring London Morning Papers, should make immediate applica-
tion to JOSEPH CLAYTON, the Great Western Railway Express
Newspaper Agent, The dispatches the Morning Newspapers to the
West of England by the Six o'clock, ♦.m., Railway Train, from
Paddington, preceding the Morning Mail, or any (tiler mode of con-
veyance, by many hours.

Chambers of Commerce, Reading Rooms, Public Institutions, and
Hotels supplied with the London Daily and Weekly Papers with re-
gularity, and on the Lowest Terms.

Advertisements received and promptly inserted in all the London
and Co =try Nevrspapers, Magazines, and other Periodicals.
Express Newspaper and Advertising Agency Offices, 320, Strand,

21.1 February, 1847.

70 THE 3IESIBER3 OF THE SENATE OF TILE UNIVERSITY

OF CAMBRIDGE.

GENTLEMEN,
_HAVING received from the Master and Resident
Members at dm, College, of which I have the honour to be a
member, a requisition to allow myself to be proposed as a CANDI-
DATE for the office of CHANCE LLOR of tile UNIVERSITY, ac-
eompasied by the information that other highly respected and influ-
ential members of the University hail expressed a similar wish, I
take the liberty of announcing to you that it is my intention, in
compliance with those expressions of favour, to offer myself as a can-
didate for the Chancellorship, vacant by the lamented death of the
Duke of Northumberland. Although I cannot hope to flll that high
office with such advantage to the University as accrued from the
presidency of our late valued and respected. Chancellor, I may ven-
ture to assure you that no one will feel more anxious than myself to
Support the interests of the Ualversity, or to promote the welfare of
the Church, for the maintenance of which the University of Cam-
bridge forme so prominent a source.

I request the raveur of your vote and support on the day lixod by
Vie University to supply the present vacancy.
I have the honour to b', Gent!emu, your faithful servant,
Walcot, Feb. 15, 1847. I'OWIS.
The COMMITTEE': for souducting the ELECTION of Lord
70WIS SITS DAILY at the BRITISH HOTEL, Cookepur-street,
to which place auy conmunfeations may be forwarded.

CAMBRIDGE CHANCELLORSHIP.
CLARE HALL, FEB. 22, 1847.
The Master of Clare Hall his sent to the Committee appointed for
promoting the election of Prince Albert, the following letter, of
Which the Committee for promoting the election of the Earl Pelvis
May make what use they think proper :—" The Master of Clare
Hall, considering from the answer of Princo Albert to the address of
many members of the Senate, to allow himself to he proposed for
election into the vacant office of Chancellor, that he has declined to
do so, and that the proposing his Royal Highness as a candidate is
putting the members of the Senate into a most delicate and painful
situation, by exciting a contest, requests that his name may be
Withdrawn from the names upon the Committee."
Committee-room, British Hotel, Cockspur-street, Feb. 22, 1847.

CAMBRIDGE CHANCELLORSHIP.
The unexpected determination announced in the daily papers
of Monday, allot signed by Dr. Whewell, has rendered a contested
election for the Chancellorship of the University of Cambridge In-
•vitable, notwithstanding the distinct refusal of his Royal Highness
Prince Albert to allow himself to he nominated. The election will
commence at Ten o'clock on Turasnar NEXT, the 25th instant; and
it is arranged that the poll is to last from Ten A.M. to Fire
on Thursday and Friday, and for a short time early en Saturday
morning.

The Earl of Powle's Committee have taken every means which
time would permit to acme thcility for all members of the Senate,
wherever resident, to reach the University; and information will
be obtained at all railway stations, and at the coach-ottlces in the
principal towns throughout the kingdom.

Al a MEETING of Members of the Senate of
the tlniveriity or Cambridge, held at the British Hotel,
Coelispur-street, on Wednesday, the 17th inst.,

The Earl NELSON In the Chair,
It was unanimously resclved :
Proposed by the VICE CH•NCELLOR of ENGLAND, St. .70611'5 College,

seconded by A. J. It. HOPE, Esq., M.P., Trinity College,
1. That it is very desirable that the Chancellor of the University
of Cambridge should have been educated at the University, in order
that he may be acquainted with its interests and privileges, and that
he should be a member of the Legislature, in order that he may watch
over and maintain them in Parliament.
Proposed by W. F. PoLLocit, Esq., Trinity College, seconded by G. 1.
VsNABLEs, Esq., Jesus College,
2. That in the opinion of this meetiag the Earl of Powis, from
the Independence of his position, and his steady support of the in-
terests of the Church and the University, is eminently qualified to
All this high and Important office.
Proposed by It. T. Amerman, Esq., St. Peter's, seconded by F. N.

DICSINION, Esq., M.P., Trinity College,
3. That this meeting will use every effort to promote the election of
the Earl of Yowls.

LONDON COM3IITTRIL
Earl NELSON, Chairman, Trinity College.
His Grace the Duke of Buccleush, K.G., St. John's College.
The Marquis of Granby, M.P., Trinity College.
The Earl Brownlow, Trinity College.
The Earl of Winchilsea, Christ College.
Lord d. Manners, M. l'., Trinity College.
Tim Rev. Viscount Ilereferd, Downing College.
Viscount Somerton, 11. P., Trinity College.
Viscount Newport, M.P.. Trinity College.
The Eight Hcn. the Vice-Chancellor of lingland, St. John's
College.
The Right Hon. the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Trinity
College.
The lion. R. H. Clive, M.P., St. John's College.
Hon. Richard Cavendish, Trinity College.
The Hon. Mr. Justice Tolleson, King's Celloge.
Hon. Mr. Justice Cresswell, Emanuel College.
The Rev. J. Griffith, D.D., late Fellow of Emanuel College,
Canon of Rochester.
The Rev. W. H. Mill, D.D., late Fellow of Trini'y College.
Rev. C. Wordsworth, late Fellow of Trinity College, Canon of
Westminster.
Thomas Watson, Esq., M.D., late Fellow of St. John's College
The Venerable Archdeacon 13rymor, Trinity College.
J. P. Allix, Esq., M.P., Emanuel College.
G. Bankes, Esq., 11. P., Trinity Hall.
F. H. Dickinson, F:sq., M.P., Trinity College.
W. Entwisls, Esq., M.P., Trinity College.
R. Hodgson, Esq., M.P., Trinity College.
A. J. B. Hope, Esq., 3.1.1•., Trinity College.
A. Stafford O'Brien, FPI., M.P., Trinity College.
James Parker, Esq., Q.C., Trinity College.
John Cowling, Esq., late Fellow of St. John's College.
W. F. Pollock, Req., Trinity College.
Bartholomew Frere, Esq., Trinity College.
Rev. R. C. Trench, Trinity College.
W. Stirling, Esq., Trinity College.
R. P. Amphlett, E.sq., late Fellow of St. Peter's College.
Kenneth Macaulay, Req., Jesus College.
The Rev. J. W. Blakesley, late Fellow of Trinity College.
G. A. F. Bentiuck, Esq., Trinity College.
Colin Blackburn, Req., Trinity College.
Rev. W. 11. Boteson, Bursar of fit. John's College.
F. N. Micklethwalt, Esq., Jesus College.
W. Selwyn, Esq., Q.C., late Fellow of Trinity College.
C. J. Selwyn, F.sq., Trinity College.
G. S. Venables, Esq., late Fellow of Jesus College.
W. Vixen!, Esq., Trinity College.
Rev. G. H. Hodson, Fellow of Trinity College.
Rev. W. J. Kennedy, St. John's.
T. Bates, Fellow of Jesus College.
Eev. H. Hs.rriaon, Trinity College.
W. Forsyth, late Fellow of Trinity College.
J. F. Pownall, Trinity College.
George Druce, Fellow of St. Peter's College.
W. Botelere, Fellow of St. Peter's College.
R. W. S. Lutwidge, Esq., St. John's College.
X. Pryer, Esq., Trinity College.
F. Beckett Denison, Esq., Trinity College.
E. IL Bunbury, Esq., late Fellow of Trinity College.
H. J. Hodgson, Esq., Fellow of Trinity College.
H. G. Maitland, Esq., Fellow of Trinity College.
B. Gray, Esq., Fellow of Trinity College.
E. W. Gibbs, Esq., Fellow of Trinity College.
C. Sargent, Esq., Fellow of Trinity College.
Rev. C. Blick, Fellow of St. John's College.
Rev. T. K. Arnold, late Fellow of Trinity College.
(With power to add to their number.)
H. MANSFIELD, Fellow of Trinity College, Hon. See.
N. n. —A Committee for conducting Lord Powis's election Is lilac,
sitting at Cambridge

CAMBRIDGE.—At a Meeting of the Members
of the Senate, held in the Combination Room of it. John's
College, Cambridge, this afternoon,
The MASTER of ST. JOHN'S in the Chair,
After a letter from Lord Powla, in reply to one from the Master of
St. John's, written after the meeting of the Heads of Houses, held
on Monday last, had been read to the meeting,
It was resolved unanimously,—That the best thanks of this
Meeting are due to Lord Powis for his ready acquiescence in the wish
that he should become a candidate far the office of Chancellor of this
Vnlyersity, and that this meeting pledgee Itself to use its utmost
efforts to promote his slectlen.
Feb.19,1%47.

THE COMMITTEE for CONDUCTING the
ELECTION of the EARL OF POWIS to the Chancellorship
of the University of Cambridge beg to snbt the following STATE-
'WENT to the Members of the Senate:—
When by the lamented death of the late Chancellor it became
Cesestl7 to consider the appointment of a successor, it was deemed :1 need.
desirable to bring forward such a candidate as might be supposed
be most acceptable to the general body of the Senate, and to repre-
sent the opinions of the majority of its members.
The interest which the Earl of Powis had uniformly displayed in all
that concerns the University, and the acquaintance which by hie
education and subsequent connexion with It he had maintained with
our academic instltutlons—the independence of his character and
position—the zeal and energy which he has exhibited in forwarding
the interests of the Church, and his able and effectual support of her
claims, naturally directed the attention of many members of the Uni-
versity to this nobleman, and steps were immediately taken to obtain
his Lordship's consent to be put in noraination for the high office of
Chancellor.

The Earl of Powis at ence acceded to the request, and the favour-
able manner in which his Lordship's name has been received assures
this committee that the same considerations which led to the first in-
vitation to Lord Fowls will secure the warm and hearty support of
all who feel how important it Is to the University that their Chancel-
lor should possess those qualities for which the Earl of Powis is le
eminently distinguished.

The ELECTION will take plase in the Senate Hone*, on Thule-
DAT, Feb. 25, at Ten o'clock a.m.

The Committee trust that the non-resident members of the Senate
will be prepared to give their votes for Lord Fowls, in ease of an
opposition.

- Arrangements will be made for the accommodation and convey.
once of nen-reeldent ♦oters.

The Committee sit daily, at Mr. Elliott Smith's Rooms, Trinity.
street.

Communications may he addressed to the Rev. R. Williams, of
King's College; or to the Rev. F. France, Honorary Secretary.
Signed in Liehalf •f the Committee,
R. TATHAM, Chairman.

Committee-rooms of llie Earl of Pow's,
Trinity-street, Cambridge, Feb. 19, 1847.

CHANCELLORSHIP of the
of CAMRIDGE.
The Committee for CONDUCTING the El
of PO'WIS beg to give notice, that, in add'
Trains, BPRCIAL TRAINS will rim as follows

UNIVERSITY

[SECTION Of the Earl
itien to the ordinar♦

To Clasoziocc

Thursday,

Friday. Saturday.

From
reditc Easterhn Counties -Railway,
Sho - _

Weal-
-11 13 A.1,4:1
From London and North -
isat 845 a.m.'
ern Railway Station at Elli-sW 1
N.B. The post-once"
from Kendal, Lancaster, Preston, hTrain
Liverpool, Warrington,Mane4ant' r,---"t t*kr'
port, Crewe, Whitmore, Sdafrord.eWSole'er -r-1
hampton, Walsall, Eirmingbana, Coven-
try, stop at Illisworth to join thel
try, &c.,
Special Train to Cambridge.
FROM CAMBRIDGE.
To London - • i3O P.m.
To Blisworth - - - - 7 0 p.m.
N.B. Both the Sight Mails, viz., 8%
and 9 P.M. Trains, will stop at Bliswerth
to meet the Special Train ; thus accom-
modating the whole of the NorthernCoun.l
ties, via Derby, and via Birmingham.

8 45 A.m.

8 45 A.M.

11 13 A.M.

4 30 P.M.
7 or.(.

4 30 P.M.

both
The Special Train between Blisworth and Cambridge will call
ways at Wanstead, Oundle, Thrapstone, Higham Ferret's, Welling-
borough, and Northampton.
Arrangements have been made to insure conveyances to and from
Sta2'l6r,l, Btu Y. and Newmarket; and also to communicate with all
Railways leaAling to the metropolis or to Cambridge.
N.B. The Poll will be open from Eight to Nine F.M. on Thursday
and Friday, in addition to the hours already announced.
British Hotel, Cockspur-street, London, Feb. 23, 1847.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public,
are respectfully informed, that THIS EVENING, Peb. 23, will be
performed Donizetti's celebrated Opera of
FAVORITA.
Fernando, Signer Gardoni ; Alfonso XI., Signor Superrhi ; Baldas-
san, Signor Bouche ; Leonora, Mdlle. Sanehloli; Ines, Mdlle. Nascio.
r After which, a new and original grand Ballet, in five tableaus, by
M. Paul Taglioni, entitled
CORALIA; ou, LE CHEVALIER INCOVSTANT.
Coralia, 31dlle. C. Rosati (her second appearance) ; the Knight Ilul-
debrand, M. Paul Taglioni ; Squire, M. Gouriet; Bertha, Mdlle.
Petit; Page, 3ldlle. Honore ; Duke, M. Gosselin ; Fralsondln, M.
Venefta ; Fisherman, M. di Matta.
DANCES.—Second Tableau—Scene Danqante dos Caprices, by
le.Rosatl.
Third Tableau—Pm de la Nymphe des Eau of de Ses CompagneS,
)3, Mdlle. Rosati and the Corps de Ballet.
Fourth Tableau—Pas do la Rosiere. by 3fdlle. Taglioni ; Pas de
Deux, by 3f. P. Taglioni and 31dllo. Rosati; Deutche Rhein, Valse
des Pages et des Demoiselles d'flonneur, by the Corps do Ballet.
Fifth Tableau—Ballabile des Halbardiers, by 31dlle. C. Baucourt,
Aldine. P, Stephan, Mdlles. Honore, Cassan, Thevenot, Bertin,
lithenne, L'Amoureux, and the Corps de Ballet ; Pas de l'lncon-
stance, by Mdlle. Rosati, Mdme. P. Stephan, and M. Taglioni.
The Opera to commence at Half-past Seven for Eight o'clock.

UNDER THE SANCTION OF HER MOST GRACIOUS MA-
JESTY THE QUEEN.
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
EXTRA NIGHT.
For the Benefit of the Fund for the Relief of the Distressed Irish
and Scotch.
The Queen has been pleased to sanction a performance at the
above Theatre, in aid of the Fund for the Relief of the Distressed
Irish and Scotch, and has been pleased to approve of THURSDAY
EVENING next. Feb. 2.5. A favourite Opera and Ballet will bo
announced to-marrow.

PATRONS.
Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
Ilia Royal Highness the PRINCE ALBERT.
Her Majesty QUEEN ADELAIDE.
tier Royal Highness the DUCHESS of KENT.
His Royal Highness the DUKE of CAMBRIDGE.
Her Royal Highness the DUCHESS of CAMBRIDGE.
Her Royal Highness the DUCHESS of GLOUCESTBR.
His Excellency the LORD-LIEUTENANT of IRELAND.
The Lady Anne Becket
The Lady Charlotte Guest
The Lady Lawley
The Lady Montefiore
The Lord John Russell
The Lord Campbell
The Lord Ernest Bruce
The Lordßobert Grosvenor
The Lord Beaumont
The Lord Marcus Hill
The Lord Sadys
The Lord Camoys
The Lord Norreys
The Lord Walsingham
The Lord Saye and Sele
The Lord Rossmore.
Sir John Guest, Bart., H.P.
Sir John Lowther,Bart., M.P.
Sir Henry Webb, Bart.
Sir Henry Meux,
Sir George Wombwell, Bart.
Sir Archibald Macdonald, Bart,
Sir Henry Bold Hoghton, Bart.
Sir John Shaw, Bart.
Gen. Sir Andrew Barnard, G.C.B.
Sir Moses 3fontefiore, Bart.
Sir William Clay, Bart., M.P.
Mrs. Packs Reading.
Mrs. Hubert de Burgh
Mrs. hfountjoy- Martin
Mrs. John Sanford
Mrs. Dodd
The Right lion. Henry Labouchere
The Hon. Capt. James Macdonald
Henry Broadwood, Esq., M.P.
C. W. Packe, Esq.
C. Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P.
IL Broadley, Esq., M.P.
George Dodd, Esq., M.P.
T. S. Duncombe, Esq., M.P.
Hubert De Burgh, Esq.
Captain W. Lyon
Captain Mountjoy Martin.
John Sanford, Esq.
The Viscount Milton Robert Parnther, Esq.
The Viscount Jocelyn 11. Brereton Trelawny, Esq.
The Lady Ernest Bruse lA. Grant, Esq.
The following ladles have most obligingly consented to act as a
Committee for Superintending the Arrangements:—
The Marchioness of Ailesbury.
The Marchioness of Clanricarde.
The Viscountess Palmerston.

Her Grace the Duchess of

mond
Her Grace the Duchess of Marl-
borough
Her Grace the Duchess of Suthe rl

land
Her Grate the Duchess of Leinstei
Her Grace the Duchets of Mon•

trose
Her Grace the Duchess of Hamil•

His Grace the Duke of Richmond,'

K.G.
Ms Grace the Duke of Leinster
Tits Grace the Duke of Montrose
The Marchioness of Lansdowne
The Marchioness of Allesbury
The Marchioness of Clanricarde
The Marquis of Lansdowne, K.G.
The Marquis of Ailesbury, K.T.
The Marquis of Clanricarde
The Marquis of Sl!go
The Marquis of Granby
The Marquis of Donegal
The Countess of Carlisle
The Countess of Jersey
The Countess of Tankerville
The Countess Delawarr
The Cr -lie,- sf Clarend,

Jountess of _den
The Countess of Eglinton
The Earl T)elawarr
The Earl of Eglinton
The Earl of Ducie
The Viscountess Palmerston
The Viscountess Dillon
The Viscountess Jocelyn
The Yiscount Palmerston, G.C.B,
The Viscount Itorpeth
The Viscount Castlereagh
The Viscount Dillon
The Viscount Chelsea
The Viscount Barrington
The Viscount Villiers
The Viscount Acheson

At a Meeting of the Committee at her Majesty's Theatre, this 19th
day of February:—

PRESENT.
The MARCHIONESS of AMESBURY.
The MARCHIONESS of CLARICARDE.
The VISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON.
RESOLVED :
L—That the nsost strenuous efforts be made by the Committee to
farther the objects of the Charity.
ll.—That the prices of Boxes be fixed as follow :
Grand Tier - Six Guine s Two Pair - Three Guineas
Pit Tier - - Five Ditto Three Pair - Two Ditto
One Pair - - Four Ditto ! Stalls - - - One Guinea

Until Tuesday next, after which the prices to be increased.
That the unanimous thanks of the committee he voted to Mr.
Lumley for having generously devoted the theatre to this charitable
object, and -for having undertaken to defray the whole of the pay-
ments and expenses of every kind, in order to leave the whole of the
receipts to be appropriated to the benefit of the charity.

IV. That application be made to the public journals to publish the
arrangements, and these resolutions, gratuitously for the benefit of
the charity.

(Signed) MARIE ELIZABETH AMESBURY,
HARRIET CLANRICARDE,
E. PALNIERSTON.

TREATRE ROYAL, DRIJRT-LANE.
THIS lITENING
_

Will be perfei med the new Grand Opera, entitled MATILDA OF
HUNGARY. Count Magnus, Mr. Borrani; Podiebrad, Mr. Harri•
eon ; Mathias, Mr. Weiss ; Matilda, Miss Romer; Lillis, Mies
It. Isaacs.

After which the new Ballet, called THE PRETTY SICILIAN.
Count Amede. 31. Croce ; Roselle, 3idile. Baderna.

TI lEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
L nder the 2 itanagement of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee.
EVENING

Will be perfu med a new and original Comedy, called THE
SCHOOL FOR SCHEMING. Principal characters by Messrs. Far-
ren, Stuart, Hue kstone, Howe, Selby, lirindal, Mrs. Glover, Mrs.
Flumby, Mrs. Y arnold, Miss Fortescue, Miss Bennett, Miss Rey-
nolds, &c.

During the e• veiling the Band will perform the Overture, " Lac
des Fees," "P 1 antagenet," " Ross," and Helen" Polkas ;
by Lanner ; Ga lop, by Strauss ; and the " American Polka."

To conclude the Original~ Grand Fairy
called the INVISIBLE PRINCE ; or, the Island of Tranquil
Delights. Principal characters by Mr. James Bland, Miss P. Horton,
Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Miss Reynolds, and Miss Julia Bennett.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
Under the patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert, and other
Member t of the Royal Family.—Mr. BATTY's Fox-Hounds meet
every Evening at Half-past Six, during, the week.
THIS EVENING
Will be psribrmed THE ROYAL FOX-HUNT; or, Life's Course
of Men an d Steeds.
Entire change of the SCENES of the CIRCLE, by the double
Company 4,f Foreign Artistes.
To cone tads with a new Farce, entitled DRAWN FO2 THE
MILITIA.
Box-offlce, .opon from eleven till fvs o'elock.—Doors open at six
au i b)mmasn.:e at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W.
Broadfbot.

STAMP' AND TAX OFFICE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY.
Under the I's', tronage of the Honourable Board of Commissioners to
inse.re a awn payable at the death of a Member.
INSTITUTED 1839.
Capital, 2,4001.
The Committee have had It intimated to them, that the advan-
tages of this flourishing Society are not generally known, they
therefore avi themseives of this mode to invite all who are eligible,
viz., holding any appointment ander the Honourable Commissioners
of z-tamps ant I Taxes, to partake of its benefits.
The Entre:ace Fee Is very moderate, and regulated by scale, as to
age and capital, while the annual payment is only It.
Those joining the Society previous to April sth, 1547, will date
their entr &nee from April, 1846, the amount being paid in advance.
The present payment at the death of a member who has sub-
scribed from the commencement is 601., and after next April, 801.
For forms of application, and further particulars apply to,
,ALEXANDEIt ROY, Secretary.
Stamp-Ofllee, London, Feb. 1847.

COMPLETION OF MISS BT RNET'S DIARY.

THE CONCLUDIN6VOLUMES (6 and 7),
or the

D'ARBLAY DIARY AND LETTERS,
Ara now ready,
Purchasers of the first five volumes are recommended imme-
diaLely to order the completion of their sets, to prevent disap-
pointment.

Emu Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.
Orders received by all Booksellers.

NEW :NOVEL, BY THE AUTHOR OF " SUi.AN HOPLEY."
Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
Tim STORY OF LILLY DAWSON,
By Mrs. CRONE.
Authoress of " Susan IIopley," &c.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE RA:...NOM."
New ready, in 3 vols., post Bvo.,
KIRKHOLME PRIORY;
or, Modern Heroism.
By the Author of " The Ransom."
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street."

RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE.
31[ESSRS. LAMOND and Co., RAILWAY
SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends
Ind the Public for their continued support and patronage, and
to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, Stc.,
&ake place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the
Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place,
favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully
requested to be addressed.
All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day
nrevic.tis to their being offered ; and advices of results will be
forwaAled by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds imme-
diately disposed of according to instructions.
Off ces. Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street. London.

T, ty, WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, FEBRUARY 24.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 29; Highest, 40 ; Noon, 35.

BAROMETER, 30 24.—WIND 8., fine.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Horning .. .53 minutes after 8. I Evening .. 37 minutes sftsr 9.

ROYAL ITALIAN OP l• RA, COVENT GAR • EN,
Established for the purpose of rendering a more perfect performance
of the Lyric Drama than has hitherto been attained in this country.
Under the Direct on and Management of Mr. BEALE.
The Nobi ity Gentry, and Patrons of Music, are respectfully in-
ormed that the Royal Italian Opera will open the first week In April.
It Is proposed to produce, In the course of the -eason, some of the
established works of Ciniarosa, Mozart, Rossini, Meyerbeer, and others
of the mere modern Italian School, including Operas by Betlini, Dont-
Morcadantc, and Verdi, on a scale of the utmost perfection la
every fiecartinent ; to which intent the inana. ement has assemb'ed a
Company embracing the greatest and most varied +alent in Europe.
rttnu SOPRANL—Madame Grist and Madame Persiani (her
first appearance in London for three years), Madame Itoncotit and
Mdlle. StelTanonl (of the Theatre La Scala, in Milan, her first ap•
pearance in this couutry).
CONTRALTI.—Signora Alboni (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan,
and of the Imperial 'theatre ha Vienne., her Anat appearance tn:thls
country), and letedetnoiselle Corbett.

r Mario, Signor Salvator Laois (of the Imperial
heatre of St. Petersburgh, his first appearance in this country),
Signer Tulli (of the Theatre San Carlo, in Naples, his first appear-
ance in this country), and Signor Salvi (ot the Theatre La Scala, in
Milan, and of the Imperial Theatres in Vienna and St. retersburgh,
his first appearance on the Italian stage in England).
PR EMI BASSI BA RlTONl—Signor Tamburini and Signor Giorgio
Itonconl.

PRIMI BASSI PROFONDI—Signior Marini (of the Theatres San
Cario, Naples, La Scala, Milan, and the Imperial Theatre, Vienna,
his first appearance in this country), Signor Angelo Alba (of the
Theatre Royal, Madrid, his first appearance in this country), and
Signor Polonini (of the Imperial Theatre, Vienna, hli first appear-
ance in this country.)

PRIME BASSI &,MICI —Signor Pietro Ley (of the Theatra Royal
Madrid, his first appearance in this country), and Signor Agostino
Rovere (of the Theatres Royal, Naples, Milan, Vienna, and St. re-
tersburgh, his first appearance in this country).
Seconde Donne—Madame Antoiaetta Mollidori (of the Theatre La
Scala, in Milan), Mademoiselle Arnalla Llnari, Mademoiselle Luigina
Bellini.

geconde Tenore—Signor Enunanuele Slano (of the Theatre San
Carlo In Naples).

Director of the Music, Composer, and Conductor—Mr. Costa.
A powerful and numerous CHORUS of chosen and experienced
Singers will complete the Vocal Department. Chorus Master—
Signor Bonconsiglio. Prompter—Signor Monterasi.
The ORCHESTRA, formed of Artistes possessing the highest
executive powers, will comprise among its members Eighty distin-
guished professors. The Military Band of the Coldstream Guards
will be under the (Breeden of Mr. Godfrey.
An ORGAN, of extensive compass, has been expressly erected
In the theatre by Messrs. Flight and Son. Organist—Mr. T. Novelle.
The BALLET, of a brilliant and costly character, will close the
performance of the evening, and no Divertissement will be suffered
between the eats of the Opera. The Director has the pleasure to
announce that he has concluded an engagement with Mademoiselle
Fanny Elssler ; and, during the season, the following eminent
Danseuses will appear : —Premieres Danseuse—Mademoiselle Dumi-
latre (ef the Grand Opera, Paris), and Mademoiselle Plunkett (of
the Grand Opera, }'arts), Mademoiselle Benin (of the Imperial
Theatre, Vienna, her first appearance in this country), Mademoiselle
Neodot (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid), Mademoiselle Marietta
Baderna (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan), and Mademoiselle Fuoco
(of the Academie Royale de Paris). Monsieur Petipa (of the Grand
Opera, Paris), Monsieur Gontie (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid),
Monsieur Ferdinand° Croce, Monsieur Delferier (of the Grand
Opera, Paris), and Monsieur Auguste Mabllle (of the Grand Opera,
Paris). Maitres des Ballets—Monsieur Albert (of the Grand Opera,
Paris), and Monsieur Bias's (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan).
Leader of the Ballet—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Regisseur de la Dense
Mr. O'Bryan. Composer—Signor Alessandro Curmi (of the San
Oarlo Theatre, Naples).
THE THEATRE.—To render the Interior at once commodious,
elegant, and comfortable, it has been entirely reconstructed and
decorated, under the immediate direction and after designs of Y.
Albano, Esq., C.E., with every attention directed to Its proper
ventilation. The Decorations have been executed by Mr. Ponsonby.
The Management has happily secured the artistic skill of Signori
Ferri and Verardi (of the Theatre Italien, in Paris), to embellish
the ceiling and to prepare a New Drop Scene. The approaches
to the Theatre will be found improved, by a carriage way being
formed immediately under the Portico in Bow-street, whereby parties
can leave or enter their carriages without exposure to the weather ;
and by increased facilities for ingress and egress. The Refreshment
Room will be under the superintendence of Mr. J. G. Watson.
Tickets, Stalls, and Boxes, for the night or season, to he obtained
at the Box Of Bow-street ; and at Messrs. Cramer, Beale, and
Co.'s, 201, Regent-street.

THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM.
Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley.
THIS EVENING

Will be produced the Original Farce, called THE WIGWAM.
Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews, Oxberry, Keeley; Miss Arden,
Miss Turner, Miss Foster, and 3liss Mary Keeley.
After which will be produced a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled
THE ENCHANTED FOREST. In which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will
appear, supported by t'e whole talent of the Company.
To conc:ude with a new Comic Drama, called X. 500 REWARD.
Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Meadows, Emery, 11. Butler, Miss
Valera, and Mice Forager.

SECOND EDITION.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1847.

prison inspectors and in the Legislative Chambers at
Westminster. We would fain believe that those
voices, enforced by the supplications and representa-
tions of the Press, are on the eve of being allayed by
the unanimous decision of Parliament, In the Lords
' the matter has received the generous assistance
of Lord BROUGHAM, In the Commons the inter-
cessions of the ex-Chancellor are being emulated by
the Hon. Baronet the Member for Droitwich. It
was with peculiar pleasure we observed the course
taken by Sir Jour{ PAKINGTON, in moving for leave
to bring in a Bill for the more speedy trial and punish-
ment of juvenile offenders. As was inevitable in the
present enlightenment of the Legislature upon the
grievances arising from the protracted abeyance in
which the matter has been hitherto lying, leave was
readily granted. The entire question of reform
in relation to this prolific class of criminals will
naturally come, therefore, before Parliament out of
the discussions upon the proposed measure of Sir J.
PAKINGTON. In the absence of any comprehensive
scheme of education, it is consolatory at the least to
behold something like preparation for the lopping off
of one of the most baneful branches of ignorance.
That the indiscriminate imprisonment of young
children, pending their trial at the criminal courts, is
productive of a scarcely calculable amount of injury,
has been long evident, and (what is more) long
acknowledged. The transition from a childish pecca-
dillo to a deliberate larceny is thereby characterised
by an awful rapidity. An unnatural stimulus is
given to the villanous propensities which might
otherwise have been weeded out in their innocuous
blossomings, but which are from vicious companion-
ship prematurely forced to bear the fruits of sys-
tematic sin. What the Hon. Baronet the Member
for Droitwich instanced, in the case of a little girl of
scarcely twelve years being confined amidst all " the con-
tamination of the female side of the prison," during a
considerable interval previous to her trial, might be
instanced a hundred fold from the pages of the
Prison Inspectors, as well as from the domestic
narrations of the suburban rookeries. From that
malign abandonment of the tender offspring of the
ill-informed, their ductile intellects are tutored to
crime before the power of discrimination between
right and wrong has assumed a place in their intel-
lects. Before they are in any measure capable of
judging matters which have baffled stronger intellects
than theirs, even when matured by age and cultiva-
tion, these children are seduced into the perpetual com-
mission of offences against the law, and in. defiance of
the principles that regulate social decency and national
morality.

" Eheu me miserum ! Cum mihi paveo,
Tun Phormio me excruciat animi."

"Alas !" they might exclaim almost in the language
of TERENCE, " when I have most reason to be troubled
for myself, my natural protector, the Legislature,
plunges me into irreparable misery." It remains for
that Legislature to redeem its own character as
the natural protector of the poverty-stricken
and despised, by reclaiming the children whom it is
even now transforming into the antagonists of its au-
thority. We cannot cause the dead generations of
what were once juvenile offenders to live again, and
to live in sobriety and happiness, instead of villany
and opprobrium ; but we may, if we list, prevent the
similar ignomy and similar wretchedness of similar
generations. The finger of the law can stay that
wheel of crime ; we look for its interposition.

the Opposition journals were the crgans of the English
Embassy :--
"Let the Ministerial journals remember this—that there
are not in France any organs of foreign powers, any minis-
ters of foreign powers, but the journals and the men who in
1840 sang out a shameful recantation—but the apologists of
the massacres of Gallicia, the men of Ghent and their sup-
porters."

The KING of the BELGIANS was to arrive in Paris on
Monday. His visit is stated to be at the urgent request
of the KING of the FRENCH.

Count WALSKY, the French Minister to the Brazils,
who, in conjunction with Lord HOWDEN, is to conduct
the negotiations for the pacification of La Plata, is to
sail from Toulon on the 10th March.

It is said that M. HEBERT, the Procureur-General, is
to succeed M. MARTIN (du Nord) as Alini,ter of Jus-
tice.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Mon-
day at 781. 55c. ; the Five per Cents., 1181. 65c. ; the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2701. ; Rouen, 872 f. 50c. ;
Havre, 682 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 631 f. 25c. ; Avignon,
8401.; Vierzon, 585 f. ; Bordeatts, 542 f. 50c. ; Boulogne,
415 f. ; Basle, 2101.; Dieppe, 3161. 2.5 c. ; Paris and Strasburg,
4681. 73c.; Tours and Nantes, 468 f. 75c.; Paris and Lyons,
4951. ; Lyons and Avignon, 4821. 50c.; Bordeaux and
Cette, 450 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEBRUARY 23.
Boulogne and Amiens, l 4 4—Central of France (Orleans and
Vierzon), 13—Dutch Rhenish, 414—East Indian, 1.4 —Namur and
Liege, 3%—Northern of France, 12N-1 aris and Rouen, 33? i.

IMPERJAL PARLIAMENT.

There are few subjects more worthy of the serious
and attentive consideration of the Senate than that
to which Mr. HUME last night directed the notice of
the House of Commons. The enormous expenses
that have ever attended the passing of private Bills
through either House have proved a bar to the intro-
duction of many measures of great utility, by which
small Itcalities, or the estates of individuals, might
be materially benefited ; in fact, it has hitherto
acted as a prohibition to all but the very wealthy,
and the comparatively poor have been prac-
tically excluded from a participation in the
advantages to be derived from legislative inter-
ference in their behalf. The same may be said of any-
thing where the outlay, or the money to be raised or
expended, does not exceed a few thousand pounds ;
fur, although the value of the proposed measure may
be obvious to the meanest capacity—although it may
be wholly unopposed, or even anxiously desired and
petitioned for by every one whose interests are in
any the slightest degree interfered with or affected
thereby—still there must be at the very least 5001.
and more, probably double that sum, wasted in legal
and Parliamentary expenses before it can receive the
necessary sanction or authorization. This is a crying
grievance, and one which we trust will be removed
during the present session. Much good has un-
doubtedly been effected by such of the recommenda-
tions of the Special Committee of last year as have
already been adopted and acted on. Under the old
system witnesses were-frequently detained from their
homes and families, and from their ordinary occupa-
tions, for several weeks, at serious inconvenience to
themselves, and at an expense of several hundred
pounds per diem to the promoters, while the stand-
ing orders were being proved ; while, by the recent
regulations, the matter i 3 disposed of in two or three
days at the farthest. But much still remains to be
done. 'Why might not the evidence of witnesses as
to
disputes,merely
formalbetaken by a
respectingmatters,fvi
a which there are
no affidavits, sworn before
duly authorised commissioners, in like manner as
that now adopted in Chancery proceedings, leaving it
optional with the Examiners, if they thought proper
Sc) to do, and if it was required by either
party, to demand that such witnesses should
attend in proprui person& By this means, to
which we can perceive no reasonable grounds
of objection, vast expenses would be saved.
Why should there not be a fixed table of fees, whether
of counsel, solicitors, or Parliamentary agents, by
which the amount should be regulated, and a proper
mode of taxation adopted ? The fees of the Houses
should also be materially reduced, and we doubt not
that by a judicious reform the expenses of obtaining
private Bills may be reduced to a mere fraction of
what they at present amount to.
In no other country but our own are such extra-
ordinary and extravagant expenses tolerated; in almost
any other an enactment can be obtained for fewer
shillings than it will cost pounds in England. Why
should this be so? What benefit to the country is to
be derived from a perseverance in the antiquated
system ? Why must thousands, and hundreds of
thousands, be uselessly wasted in every year ? Is
any necessary precaution against rash or inconside-
rate legislation omitted in other countries, where that
legislation can so much more cheaply be obtained?
We believe that such is not the case ; but if any
danger should appear to the Committee during the
progress of their investigation, we have no doubt that
adequate means will be taken to guard against them.
We are happy to find that the Committee who have
been appointed to conduct the inquiry consist of able
and practical men of business, well acquainted with
all the details of Parliamentary business; and we
anticipate many useful reforms and beneficial altera
tions from the result of their labours.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock, but it was
nearly a quarter past Twelve before a sufficient number of
Hon. Members attended to constitute a House.
Papers from the Poor-law Commissioners were presented.
SECOND READINGS.
The following Bills were read a second time, and ordered
to be committed :
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway (Wisbech to
Sutton Bridge, &c.)
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway (Branch to
Wisbech Harbour and Wisbech Harbour Imptuvement).
Eastern Counties Railway (Hertford to Hitchin).
Eastern Union and Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Rail-
ways Amalgamation.
East Lancashire Railway (Southport Branch and Preston
Extension).
East Lancashire Railway (Burnley Connecting Line).
East Lancashire Railway (Deviations and Rawtenstall Coal
Branch).
East Lancashire Railway (Bury to Manchester).
Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Burntisland Pier, &c.)
Great Northern Railway (Hertford, Hatfield, and Sr. Alban's
Branch).
Great Northern Railway (Deviations between Grantham
and York).
Great Northern Railway (Deviations between Peterborough,
Boston, and Doncaster).
Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, and
Goole Railway (Partial Alteration of Levels, &c.)
Direct London and Portsmouth Amendment, and a great
number of Railway Bills were brought in, and read a first
time.

Mr. LABOUCHERE moved the third reading of this Bi.
Mr. S. O'BRIEN wished to know whether there were not
some districts in Ireland in which the people were receiving
only Bd. per day from the Board of Public Works in that
country ?
Sir R. INGLIS wished to ask the Right lion. the Se-
cretary for Ireland whether it was the intention of the Go-
vernment to press any temporary Bills for Ireland before the
whole of the Government measures were brought under the
consideration of the House ?
Mr. LABOUCHERE said that it was the intention of the
Government to proceed with the Indemnity Bill and Labour-
ing Poor Bill as quickly as possible. In answer to the Hon.
Member for Limerick, he begged to say that he did not
thir.k there was any foundation for the rumour, and he would
add that in no instance had the cost of the management of
the Board of Works exceeded ten per cent. on the whole
outlay of the Government, inclusive of the implements of
labour provided for the people.
Mr. SHAW said, that it was understood that the two
Bills referred to by the Right Hon. Gentleman the Secretary
for Ireland should be proceeded with first. Ile believed that
a great deal of unjust obloquy had been cast upon the Board
of Work& He would suggest to the Government the im-
propriety of throwing at once out of employment all those
persons who had been employed on public works.
Sir G. GREY said, that precautions had been taken to
avoid the evil consequences alluded to by the Hon. Member
for the University of Dublin (Mr. Shaw).
Dlr. HENLEY thought it would be satisfactory to the
House if it were furnished with a monthly stweinentof the
expenditure in Ireland and the expenses of the supervision.
tle
Mr. LABOUCHERE would not, on the part of
Go-
vernment, object to furnish such returns.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD hoped the Right Hon. the Secretary
for Ireland would undertake to see that sufficient wages were
given to the people employed on the public work
Mr. LABOUCHERE said that the chief portion of the
Work was done by what was called task work, and the money
paid to the people so employed was nearer I. per day than
Bd. per day, as stated by the Hon. Member for Limerick.
Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL said that the present system of
task work was inapplicable to the people of Ireland, in con-
!sequence of their having becomeso weak from want of nourish-
ing food. He thought that day work would be better for the
•
people.
The Bill was then read a third time.
LANDED PROPERTY (IRELAND) ADVANCES BILL.
Mr. GREENE brought up the report on this Bill.
TREATMENT OF CO.Ni VICTS (WOOLWICH).
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved for copies of the correspond.,
ence between the Government and the officers in charge of
the convicts at Woolwich respecting ;he charges he had
made against the conduct of that establishment. He begged
to call the attention of the House to the proceedings which had
recently ln•ld at Woolwich,
taken place ut c-roner's
on tL ,;; two conviit, l'he proceeding:, were most
singular. The coroner had departed from his proper duties,
and the accused (Dr. Bossey) had been the only witness in

Madrid papers of the 16th have been received.
The Gaceta contains the official announcement of the
appointments of General OAAA to the Ministry of War,
and of Senor Omvart to the Ministry of Marine. On
the 15th the heroic defender of Saragossa, Don JosE
PaLarox, died suddenly at Madrid. It will be in the re-
membrance of our readers, that Senor ISTURITZ and his col-
leagues were base enough to deprive this old veteran of
the command of the household troops, lest the sight of this
scourge of the French should excite unpleasant remi-
niscences in the minds of the followers of the Duke Dt
tiONTPENSIER.

The health of General NARVAEZ is said to be in a
declining state.

LIGHT DUES.
Sir J. JOHNSTONE presented a petition from Scarbo-
rough against the light dues.
ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL.
An HOPI. MEMBER presented petitions from Suffolk, Leices-
ter, Kent, Surrey, and other places, against this Bill.
Petitions to the same effect were presented by Sir R. 11.
Inglis, Mr. Plumptre, Lord Brooke, and Mr. Greene.
NATIONAL RATE.
Mr. PACKE presesented a petition from Worcester (as we
understood), praying that the poor might be maintained by
a national rate.

LAW OF SETTLEMENT.
Captain PECHELL presented a petition from Brighton
complaining of the law of settlement.

- POOR REMOVAL BILL.
An H0...c. MEmnan presented a petition against the
Poor Removal Bill of last session.
Mr. BRIGIII. presented a petition from some place in Dur-
ham against the Poor Removal Bill.

ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL.
Sir JOHN DUCKWORTH presented a petition against
the Catholic Relief Bill, signed by upwards of a thousand
persons.

REFORM BILL.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented two petitions, agreed to at
a public meeting in Leeds—one for the repeal of the rate-
paying clauses, and the other for the alteration or amend-
ment in the Reform Bill itself.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM presented a petition from Fording-
bridge against the Poor Removal Bill.
RAILWAYS IN IRELAND.
Colonel VERNER presented a petition from the county of
Wexford, praying the House to pass measures for the pur-
pose of promoting railways in Ireland.
POOR-LAW IN IRELAND.
Mr. NEWDEGATE presented a.petition praying for an
efficient poor-law for Ireland.
GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.
Mr. FORBES presented a petition in favour of the Great
North of England Railway Bill.
CASE OF ROBERT LANGSLOW, ESQ.
Mr. ESCOTT moved that the petition of Robert Langslow,
Esq., late judge of the District Court of Colombo, No. 1
South, in the Island of Ceylon, be printed with the Votes.—
Agreed to.
CURING-lIOUSES IN IRELAND.
Colonel CONNOLLY moved for a return of the cost of the
Government curing-Douses at Killibegs, Behnullet, and
Roundstone ; the quantity of salt imported at each station ;
the cost of the salt per ton, how much salt sold, and the price
received per hundred; the quantity consumed in curing fish;
the quantity of fish purchased at every station, distinguish-
ing each kind; the price paid to the fishermen per thousand
for herrings, and per dozen for cod, ling, ha•tdock and other
round fish, and the price received for any fish sold ; the
nett profit or lima at each station, up to the 28th day of
February, 1847.
Mr. LABOUCEIERE trusted that the Hon. and Gallant
Member would defer pressing his motion at that time. (The
Right lion. Gentleman was proceeding, when it was inti-
mated (as we understood) that Colonel Connolly had with-
drawn his motion).
FILE-CUTI'ERS OF WARRINGTON.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved that the petition of the file-
cutters and tradesmen of Warrington (presented 23d Feb.)
be printed with the Votes.—Agreed to.
TARIFF RETURNS.
Mr. NEWDEGATE moved for returns of alteration in the
tariffs cf foreign states since the Ist January, 1846,
with the alterations made in the terms and con-
ditions on which raw produce goods or merchandise
wereimported or exported into or from such foreign states ;
of the exports in manufactured cottons, woollens, silks
leather, hardware, pottery, and glass, specifying the coun-
tries or states into which they had been exported in the
years 1844, 1845, and 1846 respectively; of the number
of cotton, woollen, and silk mills, working short time,
or that had stopped working on the Ist March,lB44, 1815,1846,
and 1847 respectively; of the corn, grain, flour, and meal
measnred in quarters of corn, and of the quantities of the fol-
lowing kinds of provisions, namely, butter, cheese, biscuit,
and cured or fresh meat, which had been imported into this
kingdom in the years 1843, 1844, 1845, and 1846 respec-
tively; of the foreign states which had altogether prohi-
bited or imposed additional duties on the exportation of corn,
grain, flour, meal, potatoes, or other provisions, stating the
amount of such increasel duties, and the date on which they
were imposed, in the years 1844, 1845, 1846, and 1847 respec-
tively.—Agreed to.
THE CONSTABULARY IN ENGLAND AND WALES.
Mr. FREWEN moved for a return showing the number
of police-constables in each county, or division of a county,
in England and Wales, under the Act 2 and 3 Vic., c. 93,
distinguishing each class or denomination ; including, also, a
return of the number of police-constables stationed in each
petty sessions district in said counties, with the name and
population of said district, and the amount paid to the county
police rate by each district; together with an account, in
detail, of the several items of expenditure for the year 1846.
—Agreed to.
PRESENTMENT SESSIONS IN KINSALE.
Mr. WATSON mewed for copies of the correspondence
which had taken place between the committee of the town
of Kinsale, the Board of Works, the Treasury, and the Secre-
tary for Ireland, on the subject of certain reproductive_ works
presented at the sessions held for the barony of Kinsale, on
the sth day of October last, under the Labour-rate Act.—
Agreed to.

MILITARY KNIGIITSAOF WINDSOR.
Mr. BOND CABBELL moved that the petition of the
Military Knights of Windsor on the royal foundation in
Windsor Castle, relative to and for the inquiry, and the le-
gislative redress required in their case (presented 23d Feb.),
be printed with the Votes.—Agreed to.
WAYS AND MEANS.
Mr. GREENE brought up the report of the Committee on
Ways and Means.

LABOURING POOR (IRELAND) BILL.

According to El Tiempo, one of the directors of the
Bank of San Fernando left Madrid for Bayonne on the
15th, to procure funds, in order to meet the continued
run on the Bank.

MADRID BoLse, FEB. 16.—The Three per Cents.
closed at 32 paper; Five per Cents., 20i cash, 201 paper;
Coupons, 18 cash, 19 paper; Debt without Interest, 611
paper.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.
The Constitutionnel, in commenting upon the Nor-
manby-Guizot affair, denies emphatically that the
Marquis of NORMANDY had ever given it any informa-
tion, as had been falsely asserted by the I'resse. Speak.
ing of M. GUIZOT, it says that it has b.en clearly
tL:aoustratrd to Li P whi*: of Daripe h, ti ;lot
spoken the truth. The article concludes with the fol-
lowing retort to the taunts of the Ministerialists, that

the cause. lie wished also to know why the annual report
of the establishment at Woolwich was not laid upon the table
of the House prior to this time.
Sir G. GREY had not yet received the annual report
from Woolwich. The day after the discussion on the subject
of the treatment of the convicts at Woolwich, he sent a letter
to Mr. Capper, and also a copy of one of the morning
journalscontaining an account of the statements made by the
Hon. Member for Finsbury, and had received a report from
that gentleman in reply to his letter, which was then on the
table of the House. As to C,e remarks which the Hon.
Member had made upon the proceedings at the late inquest,
held by Mr. Carter, the coroner for Kent, he was not in pos-
session of any of the facts of the case, the only information he
had received being from the ordinary channels of infOrmation
UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD'AND CAMBRIDGE.
In answer to a question put by Lord J. MANNERS,
Mr. CHRISTIE said it was his intention to postpone his
motion relative to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
until after Easter.

ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL.
On the order of the day being moved for the second read •
ing of this Bill,
Mr. WATSON presented a petition, signed by several
thousands of Catholics in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in
favour of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill.
111 r. SPOONER presented a petition from the Birming-
ham Church of England Lay Association against the Bill;
also a petition from the Churchwardens of St. James's
Church, Birmingham, to the same effect. They believed the
Bill totally uncalled for, and of a highly dangerous cha-
racter.

Mr. WATSON said he had introduced the Bill without
explaining its provisions, and he would therefore wish to
give an outline of the objects of the Bill on the present occa-
sions The principle on which he sought to support the Bill
was, that no man should be liable to penal laws for the pro-
fession of his religious faith. The history of penal enact-
ments was exceedingly curious, when they considered
the circumstances under which they had origi-
nated. They bad had their commencement with the
Reformation of Henry VIII. A few were passed in
the reign of Edward VI.; but the reign of Queen Eliza-
beth was the most prolific of those laws. A great
number were also passed in the reigns of James 11.
and Charles 11. Up to the Revolution of 1688, not
a reign passed without witnessing the enactment
of penal laws to protect what was called the Protestant•
faith. In iS29 a great improvement, however, took place in
the passing of the Catholic Emancipation Act; still even
that measure did not repeal many of the penal statutes
which were left as protective measures fur the Estab-
lished Church. In 1844 the subject was further
considered, and about one hundred different penal
enactments, principally against Roman Catholics, were
repealed. That was a great step in the right direction, and
he felt much indebted to the Right Hon. Baronet, the late
Prime Minister, for the assistance which he rendered on
that occasion in the abrogation of those laws. With-
out further preface, he (Mr. Watson) would now
proceed to explain the provisions of the present
Bill. Not long ago a full inquiry was made into all the penal
statutes relating to Roman Catholics which then existed.
The inquiry was conducted by Mr. Edward Ryan and several
other eminent lawyers, unconnected with politics, and in the
report which they had made to the House, they recom-
mended the repeal of all these penal enactments.—(Hear. )
The first Act he wished to repeal by the pre-ent Bill was the
Ist Elizabeth, cap. 1, which provided for the supremacy of
the King, and contained clauses ordering severe punishment
to all those who did not recognise his authority. The first
offence was fine and imprisonment; the second oflence banish-
ment; and the third offence death. The penal pro-
visions of this law were repealed in 1844, but
the power remained to punish the offence as a misdemeanour,
and rendering the party offending liable to be proceeded
against by information. But it was said this law was neces-
sary for the maintenance of the supremacy of the Crown.
This subject, however, was hilly discussed in 1844, when
Lord Lyndhurst completely established the fact that the su-
premacy of the Crown depended on the common law alone. The
most eminent law authorities corroborated this view of the
matter. Sir Matthew Hale and other great judges had so
laid it down, that the supremacy of the King was the com-
mon law of the realm. It so, what was the object in passing
the law now under consideration ? It was passed in order to
operate against the Raman Catholics,and was directed against
the recognition of the authority of the Pope; for any
Roman Catholic who admitted the authority of the Pope
was guilty of an infraction of this Act of Parliament. The
Commissioners who had made the inquiry into these penal
laws had unanimously decided that this state ought to be
repealed. The next law to which he would refer
was that regarding bulls. He proposed that this
Act should be repealed, as he could not see what
danger there could arise from the importation of these bulls.
He also proposed to repeal the Uniformity Ac', and several
other Acts of a similar character, that had relation to reli-
gious worship. These Acts were the 25th Charles 11., 30th
Charles 11., 7th and Bth William 111., 31st George 111., and
the two first clauses of 10th George IV. The latter
had relation to religious processions, •and while he had
objections to great religious processions, like those on the
Continent, taking place, he could not see why any proces-
sional ceremony of the Roman Cat holies, respecting burial
or any such rite, should be disallowed.

(LEFT SITTING.)

CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
The Lord Chancellor sat in his Court in the Old Hall,
Lincoln's Inn to-day.
TAB ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH CO3IPANY V. NOTT AND GAMBLE.
The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment to-day in this
case, in which the arguments were concluded on Friday last.
Our readers will recollect that the case came before his
Lordship upon an appeal motion from the decision of the
Vice-Chancellor of England, directing the plaintiffs, the
Electric Telegraph Company, to bring an action to try the
validity of their patents, and ordering a motion which they
had made for an injunction to restrain the defendants from
-pirating their patents, to stand over until the Action had
been tried. His Lordship, in giving judgment, said that
the great importance of the matter to the parties concerned,
and the interesting nature of the invention to the public, had
led him to pause before he pronounced his judgment. He
had frequently hal occasion to express his opinion as to the
course the Court ought to pursue in cases in which applica-
tions were made to its equitable jurisdiction, by way of in-
junction, where that injunction was in aid and protection of
a legal right. Upon those occasions his Lordship had said
that where the Court was applied to to protect a legal right,
if there was a doubt as to the validity of that right, it be-
came the Court to be extremely cautious in administering
its equitable jurisdiction; because if an injunction was
improperly granted, more mischief would he effected than by
delaying to grant it. It had been said that in stating this
he had carried the principles of the Court much further than
they had ever been carried before. Looking to the autho-
rities, the contrary wa, the fact; and it would be found that
he had not carried them so far as. Lord Eldon and other Chan-
cellors had done. The question with his Lordship was, were
the rights of the plaintiff so free irons all legal doubt as to
justify him in interfering, by way of injunction, without the
legal right being tried at law ? Looking at the
facts that had been brought before him, and look-
ing also to the affidavits that had been made by
various scientific persons, his Lordship was of opinion that
the Vice Chancellor of England had come to a right judg-
ment in ordering the plaintiffs to bring an action at law to
try the legal validity of their patent. His Lordship, there-
fore, ordered the judgment of the Court below to be affirmed
with costs.
THE HUNGERFORD MARKET COMPANY V. THE CHARING•CROSS•
BRIDGE COMPANY.
This case came before his Lordship upon appeal from the
decision of his Honour the Vice-Chancellor of England,
directing a motion which the plaintiff bad made for an in-
junction to stand over,and ordering theni to bring an action at
law upon a covenant in a lease granted of the Hungerferd
Market Company to the Charing-cross Bridge Company for
certain property, forming part of the market, for the pur-
pose of approaches to their bridge. By the covenant in
that lease the Hungerford Market Company contended they
were entitled, at all times, to have free access and egress
across the bridge for all steam-boat passengers to the float,
which the Hungerford Market Company had erected in the
Hirer, at the east side the first tower of the bridge from
the market. The Charing-cross Bridge Company de-
nied the indiscriminate right of ingress and egress
claimed by the plaintiffs, contending that the Market
Company were bound to show clearly to them,
by the adoption of sonic course or other, that
the persons who desired to cross the bridge were, in reality,
steam-boat passengers. The market company asserted that
it was impossible for them to adopt any such course, and
under these circumstances the bridge company refused to
allow parties to cross the bridge without the usual payment,
and stopped up all access to the stairs below the bridge to
the float erected las the plaintiffs. The adoption of this
course being considered by the Hungerford Market Com-
pany to be utterly unwarrantable, and calculated to injure
their receipts from steam-boat proprietors, they filed their
Bill, and applied to his Honour the Vice-Chancellor
of England, for an injunction to restrain the Charing-
cross Bridge from hindering persons from cross-
ing the bridge to the float. On the motion coming
on before the Vice-Chancellor of England, his Honour, with
cut bearing the counsel for the Charing-cross Bridge Com-
pany, ordered the motion to stand over, and directed the
Hungerford Market Company to bring an action upon the
covenant in the lease, which they contended gave them, and
all steam-boat passengers, free ingress and egree across the
bridge to the float. From that order the present appeal was
brought, by which it was sought to discharge that order
and obtain an injunction to prevent any further obstruction
across the bridge to steam-boat passengers by the bridge
company. ,
Mr. BETHELL, with whom was Mr. Giffari, on behalf of
the appellants, the Hungerford Market Company, 'after stat-
ing at some length the facts of the case, contended that his
clients were entitled to the interference of the Court by way
of injunction, to prevent the defendants, by their unwarrant-
able course of conduct, from injuring the property of the
Market Company. T e bringing of an action at law would
be productive of vexatious delayand expense, which was
the object of the Charing-cross Bridge Company, who had
already kept the plaintiffs for nearly two years out of their
lust rights. The Learned Counsel also submitted, that even

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considerable further length into the affidavits, but since he
had commenced his motion, an affidavit had been put into
his hand, made that day by Mr. Lawrence, one of the officers
of the Bridge Company, in which he stated that the Board,
on Thursday the 11th of February, had come to a resolution,
in the hopes that the Hungerford Market Company would
adopt some course to identity all persons embarking on board
the steam-boats, that the hoards should be removed, and free
access given from the float across the bridge to the market,
for persons disembarking from steam-boats, without the pay-
ment of tolls. The affidavit of Mr. Lawrence further stated,
that the hoards would be removed immediately thatgates had
been erected. His Lordship would, therefore, see that the ques-
tion between them had been of late considerably curtailed.
The question now was, whether the Hungerford Market
Company were bound to identify persons going fr the
market to be steam-boat passengers. That wouldom be the
only issue to be tried.
The LORD CHANCELLOR suggested whether, that as both
parties seemed to have come so near to an agreement with
each other, it would not be better to let the motion stand over
for a week, in order to see if some arrangement could not be '
come to.

Mr. RETHELL said he should be happy to adopt any sug-
gestion of the Court.
Mr. RoLT considered the question now to be, whether the
Bridge Company having agreed to give a right of passage to
certain individuals, were bound to give the same right to the
whole of the public; he thought the Bridge Company ought
to adopt some course by which parties embarking on board
steam boats could be identified.

The LOAD CHANCELLOR did not see how it was possible for
the Market Company to do so. '
Mr. RoLT considered it. easy eridngh by parties taking
tickets for the steam boat heron they wept on the bridge. It
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thought it would be extremely hard upon the Bridge Con'
pany if, as had been suggested before the Vice-Chae°
cellor, they were to put back their toll-gates one-
third of the bridge, especially when it was recollected
that the bridge company had paid to the market company
no less a sam than 6,U00/. for the right to place the toll-bars
where they now were.
The Lonn CHANCELLOR said that the mat ter was now re-
duced to a very small comps., and such being the case, he
would ask whether it would nut be better for all parties that
the matter should stand over for a few days, to see if some
arrangement could not be come to, instead of calling upon
the Court for an adverse judgment.
After some further discussion, the motion was ordered to
stand over to Wednesday next.

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