The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 164 e,

upon the sugar question. They have committed an
error, but an honourable and even admirable error.

Returns were last night directed by the House of
Commons of the number of cases in which corporal
punishment had been inflicted in the army in the
years 1845 and 1846, to the end of July ; the names
of the persons so punished; the number of lashes to
which the offenders were sentenced, and the number
actually inflicted. These returns are all undoubtedly
valuable, as affording correct and certain in-
formation on a point upon which the public
feeling has been fully awakened, and respecting which
the nation will no longer consent to remain in igno-
rance ; but their practical value has been sadly
diminished by the unaccountable refusal to afford the
further information demanded, and by which the re
sults of the horrid practice would be fully developed.
The more important of these returns so
refused, we conceive to be the 2d, 7th, Bth,
and 10th viz., the regiments, the place of
station, and the time of the punishment; how soon
after the punishment the man was able to return to
his duty, and at what place he was then quartered ;
whether death had followed within twelve months of
the flogging, and the date of such death; and copies of
the surgeons' minutes of all such punishments, and
any subsequent observations on their con-
sequences. We do not think that it im-
plies any want of confidence in the good in-
tentions of the Government or of the military
authorities that this information should be demanded
on the part of the people. They form an integral
part of the legislature of the country, and are entitled,
through their representatives, to refuse their sanction
to any new enactment. The system of flogging in
the army must receive the sanction of Parliament in
each and every year, as the House has ever most
properly refused to give its assent to the Mutiny Act for
any longer period; and are we now to be told that we are,
blindfolded, to pass laws that affect the happiness, the
welfare of tens of thousands of our fellow-subjects,
that we believe to be unnecessary and unjust, pro-
ductive of the most injurious and demoralizing con-
sequences, because the demand for information would
imply a want of confidence in any man or body of
men ? If this be the case, away with the farce of
free discussion : of what service can it be if we
are not correctly informed of the premises from which
we are to draw our conclusions, the data upon which
we are to found our arguments? A state of darkness
and ignorance as to public matters may be the most
convenient for a despotic government, but it is not
by such means that a free or reasoning people are
to be ruled. We doubt not that it is the wish and
intention of the illustrious Duke at the head
of the army, that every possible care should
be taken that flogging, so far as it still
ia unhappily retained in the service, should be
a simple infliction of punishment, leading to no future
consequences, nor to any permanent injury to the
health of the !individuals upon whom it is inflicted,
But have not the public a right to know that the steps
taken, the precautions adopted, are sufficient for that
purpose ? Are they not entitled to the fullest evi-
dence that the Commander-in-Chief may not be
misled by prejudiced persons, and the truth kept back
from his knowledge ? There must be something
essentially wrong in a system that will not bear the
light, that shrouds itself in darkness and mystery—
that which is based on truth and justice demands no
concealment, fears no investigation ; the more fully it
is canvassed and discussed, the more universally will
it be approved of and assented to. Were it not for
the publicity given to the circumstances attendant or
the death of poor WHITE, it would still be supposed
that his premature end was not in the slightest
degree occasioned, or even hastened, by the brutal
flagellation to which he was subjected; were it not
for the full investigation into the causes of his death,
and the able statements and opinions thereby elicited,
the public would still be ignorant of the great fact
that death in its most horrible and terrific form
has been constantly inflicted in our army for
a trifling breach of military regulations, in-
volving no moral guilt on the part of the
unhappy sufferer; the good old system would
still have gone on, and hundreds of lashes would
still continue to be inflicted, without any of the pre•
cautions now required being even dreamt of. The
great nmelioration that has taken place is wholly
owing to the publicity given to that transaction. The
wise, the just caution of the Rev. Mr. TRIMMER, tht
praiseworthy and honourable manner in which
he • acted on that occasion, has probably saved
the lives of, has certainly prevented the most
fearful suffering, the most horrible torture, from
being inflicted on hundreds of our fellow-creatures,
of our brother Britons. He has had the happiness of
producing a result within a few short weeks for which
philanthropists might have laboured zealously during
their entire lives, and the attainment of which would
be looked upon as a sufficient reward for a life
of labour. It has been alleged as a reason
for refusing the name of the regiments its
which such abominable cruelties have been perpe-
trated, that if they were particularised invidiou,
comparisons might be made—it might lead persons to
entertain very unfavourable opinions of particular
officers. And why should they not do so ? believing
as we do, that it is in the worst-managed regiments,-
in those governed in an ill-judged and injudicious
manner, that such punishments are the most fre-
quent, that the officer who cannot maintain
the efficiency and preserve the discipline of those
placed under his command without the constant use
of the cat, is unfit for the service, and that those who
succeed in so doing, without any, or a comparatively
small amount of punishment, thereby afford the
strongest evidence of their fitness for command.
We think it due to such officers that the
facts should be fully known to the public
that honour may be given where honour is
due, and that not merely to the officer but also to
the soldier. Would it not be a prouder boast to such a
man that he had served in a regiment whose conduct
had been so meritorious, so irreproachable, that for
twenty years not one of its members had been de-
graded by the lash, than that he had participated in
any—the most glorious and triumphant—
victory ? A bad and ill conducted man
might by accident have participated in
the latter, but it must be a man of
approved merit who can boast of the for-
mer. Is there any one who would not gladly
get such a man into his service, when in the fulness
of time he had obtained his discharge, and was look-
ing for that employment _which the inadequacy of
his pension, the niggardliness of his country, com-
pels him to seek ? Such a publication is due to the
deserving soldier, end it is but just that he
should receive it; it would raise him above
a host of competitors for employment,
and would give him at once character, honour, and
consequently food. If there was any reason to
justify or excuse the commanding officer of a flogging
regiment, any peculiar or extraordinary necessity
that compelled him to adopt such a course, there
would be numerous friends and advocates ready to
step forward in his behalf. But, above all, the
publicity given would act as the strongest
check to the system. A cruel man may think
little of torturing those whose destinies are com-
mitted to his charge, but he will reflect before
he wantonly incurs the odium which will be the
almost certain result of the abuse of the power en-
trusted to him. For these reasons we think that the
particularisation of the regiments and the quantity of
punishment inflicted in each should, above all, have
been insisted on.

The other returns would, to a certain extent, have
shown the consequences of the system. If the public
have been unduly deprived of the services of
any man for an unreasonable time, if the injuries in
one case are much more serious than in another,
the causes which lead thereto should be investigated
and known. If the proportion of deaths within a
limited time after the infliction of corporal punish-
ment amongst those subjected thereto should greatly
exceed that of those who have not been so punished,
it would be a fair presumption that the excess
was caused by the flogging, and afford an ad-
ditional reason for its discontinuance. The sub-
sequent observations of the surgeons on the
consequences thereof would be peculiarly valuable,
and we cannot conceive by what process of reason-
ing it can be contended that such observations of an
officer on duty, as to what he observed in the per-
formance of that duty, to his commanding officer,
can be considered as confidential communications.

We sincerely hope that if the lash is not abolished
by next session, that the demand for these returns,
which must be of the greatest benefit, may be
reiterated and acquiesced in.

Malta papers of the 4th have been received. The
Malta Times of that date declares that nothing could
have been more kind than the reception of MEuEmEr
ALT by the SULTAN, thus directly contradicting the
accounts which some of the Paris papers had copied
from another of the Malta journals.

IBRAHIM PACRA arrived at Malta in the steam-
frigate Avenger on the 2d. He was received with a
salute from Fort Angelo, and another salute was
fired on the following morning when he lanckd, ac-
companied by Admiral Sir Lucius CURTIS. On
landing he was received by Colonel BALNEEVIF, the
acting Governor and his staff, and a guard of honour
of the 42d Royal Highlanders. When his Highness
arrived at the Governor's house, there was another
guard of honour from the 88th regiment to receive
him. Ile left the same evening for Alexandria.
The following is an extract from a letter, dated
Constantinople, July 27, which appears in some of
these papers :
"Yesterday Sir S. Canning, the English Ambassador,
quitted this capital in the liecla steamer for Trieste, and
thence to London by Parts. Some days before his depar-
rure his Excellency had an interview with the Pacha of
Egypt. In the conversation, which was rather long, the
Viceroy expressed to the Ambassador how grateful he was
both towards the people and the Queen of Great Britain fur
the reception given to Ibrahim Pacha. Speaking of the trans-
port of the India mail across Egypt, the Pacha declared that
he perfectly well understood all the advantages which must
result to his country from the establishment of a good and
sure passage across the Isthmus of Suez; but he added that
this means of communication ought not to be a question of
andspeculation, and therefore he himself should un-
not entrust it to any company what-
e‘'lovelerntral:ll'ee rßc the leifaorvloirk'
isde
departure Sir S. Canning presented to the
Porte an energetic note on the testimony of Christians in
the Turkish courts of justice. The present system, the note
says, is a continual source of perjuries, for the Christian,
knowing that his testimony cannot be received, buys over a
Alussulman, and gets him to•swear what he wants. Alen
ire found at Constantinople who live by selling their oaths,
doing this openly, and disposing of their services to the first
comer. The note concludes by the observation that such a
state of things, if not remedied, may influence the relations
of the Porte with Foreign Powers, in case circtunqances
should again occur analogous to those of the affair of Sir
Lawrence Jones. Mr. Wellesley, son of Lord Cowley, is to
ill the functions of British Minister during Sir Stratford
Canning's absence, or until a new Ambassador is named.
On the 24th Sir Stratford Canning received a dispatch from
he new English Ministry, offering to maintain him in his
post, but he had already decided on returning to England."

Intelligence has been received from Lima, to the
effect that the Peruvian Government has abolished the
right hitherto conceded to foreign Consuls in cases of
dispute between the subjects of their respective nations
and natives, of calling the parties before them, and,
endeavouring by conciliation to prevent the neces-
sity of their going before the tribunals of the country
They are now merely to be allowed to give their as-
sistance to their fellow-subjects when the cases are
before the tribunals.

The Foreign Consuls at Lima have formally pro-
teited against this abolition.

On the evening of the 6th instant there were nu-
merous assemblages of the people at Cologne. The
citizens, however, had formed themselves into a
guard, and they succeeded in maintaining the public
tranquillity. A deputation, appointed by the respect-
able inhabitants, met on the 7th, to investigate the
circumstances attending the riots of the 4th, and to
draw up an address to the KING on the subject.
The King of PRUSSIA arrived at Vraemgnoarth on
the 3d August, and immediately proceeded to pay a
visit to Prince METTERNICII. The Ministers DE CA-
NITZ and D'UII'DEN, Count SOLINS, and Count DE
FLAIIAUT, are also at Vraemgnoarth.
Letters from Kid (Rolstein), of the 6th August,
state that, notwithstanding the urgent representations
of the Royal Commissioner, the States refused to pro-
ceed to the consideration of any business so long as
the question of the succession remained in its present
state. Before they separated they resolved, by a
majority of 45 to 1, to appeal to the German Diet
on the subject of the succession.
The King of DENMARK embarked from Copenhagen
on the 3,1, on baard the steam war schooner, ilecla,
for Flensburgh, in the Duchy of Schleswig..

Madrid papers of the 7th have been received. The
,lirce men who were arrested on the charge of assas-
sinating the Catalonian Deputy, Senor PEUPERA, at-
-6C ..pto3 t. their escape whilst proceeding under
-scort from Juneda to the prison of Lerida. They
were fired on by the escort, and mortally wounded.
There now remains in the hands of the police only a
woman, who acted as their agent and spy.
There is no political news whatever in any of these
papers.

MADRID I3OLSA, AUG. 7—The Three per Cents. were done
at 34 cash. The Five per Cents. are said to be 22% buyers ;
Four per Cents., 2 ; Passive Debt, 6%; ; and Coupons, 2014
buyers,.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.

M. GuizoT and M. S kLVANDY have both returned
to Paris and resumed the performance of their offi-
cial duties.

The new Chamber of Deputies will meet on Sun-
day next, at two o'clock, and begin their pre-
paratory sittings. At these preparatory sit•
tings the oldest Deputy present officiate 3 as
President. The father of the present Chamber is
M. DUPONT (de l'Eure), but he will not be
present at the sittings. M. CLEMENT, the next in
seniority, will decline to officiate, in order to retain
the office of Questor, and M. SAPET, the third oldest
member of the Chamber, will be the Provisional
President. The four junior Deputies, viz., the Mar-
quis DE GEIC LIE, the Marquis DE CASTEL-
LANE, M. ITALI.EZ CLAPAREDE, and M. SAGLTO,
will officiate as secretaries. The Chamber
will on Tuesday divide itself by ballot
into nine Committees, in order to verify the qualifica-
tions of the Deputies, and to decide upon all disputed
elections. The verification of the qualifications being
finished, and the disputed returns being settled, the
Chamber will proceed to elect the President, the four
Vice-Presidents, the Secretaries, and the two Questors
for the session. Several Deputies have already
arrived in Paris.

The National makes the Conservative majority by
the last elections 89, without adding 12 Deputies who
ore considered doubtful, but who tne Natiolull thinks
will join the victorious party.

PAnrs, Atm. 12.—Three per Cents., 83f. 65e.; Five per
Cents., 122 f. Sc.; Spanish Three per Cents. 36 ; Spanish Do-
mestic, 321. Railroads.—Orleans, 1,268 f. 75c. ; Rouen, 958 f.
75c.; Havre,69sf. ; Vierzon, 622 f. 50c.; Bouh,gre, 465 E ;
Bordeaux, 557 f. 50c. ; Northern, 706 f. 25c. ; Strasburg,
495 f.; Tours and Nantes, 505 f. ; Lyons, 5171. 50c.; Avignon
(Definitives), 495 E ; Bordeaux (Definitives), 485 f.

BUSINESS ON IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUGUST 13.

Boulogne and Amiens, 124 - Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette
(Mackenzie), I?:—Ditto (Espelete). I ti—Dutch Rhenish, 6-East
Indian, --Jamaica South Midland Junction, 14—Luxembourg,
Ik,-sTorthern of France Constituted.l2%—Paris and Lyons Con-
stituted, 5%

ERRATUM.—In our leading article of yesterday re-
specting the progress of free-trade principles in the United
states, we inadvertently observed that " the Tariff Bill was
tlis t .2,
aced
his4o house,
mr.
William uwko
iel
Park-road, Hawkins
passed by a majority of one through the Chamber of Re-
presentatives;" it should have been through " the S' note."
picED—(n
Upper he
Holloway,3th n
)
Ebbs, of Nos. 14 and 15, Great St. Thomas Apostle, City.
'TESTIMONIAL TO MR. L. JON meetingES.—A of sub-
scribers to the proposed testimonial to Mr. L. June. was
held yesterday at the Mansion House to determine on the.
application of the funds raised fur that purpose. The Lord
Mayor having taken the chair, the report of the sub-
committee appointed to consider the subject was read, and
the following proposals were therein stated to be the result
of their deliberation. That'a bust of Mr. Jones be made,
and placed in the Royal Exchange; that a medal be struck
to e immemorate the event, and Mr. Jones's services ; and
that a scholarship of the value of 30/. per annum be Jimmied
bearing his name. A discussion arose on the motion for the
adoption of the report. Sir Peter Laurie objected. strongly
to a bust, and would agree to nothing but a full-length por-
trait—to the other proposals he entertained no objection.
Mr. Alderman Moon, on the other hand, was so persuaded
of tim superior efficacy of sculpture in handing down
a man's merits to pos,eritv, that,.so far from deem-
ing a bust sufficient,
his 'own opinion was in favour
of a statue, although he would not oppose the recom-
mendation contained in the report. An
gentleman, by
.way of insuring unanimity, suggested the carrying out of
'oath proposals. In the end, no gentleman supporting the
laws of Sir Peter Laurie, the motion for the adoption of
the report was carried, with that gentleman's single dissent.
ft was stated that the cost of the bust was estimated at 2001.,
of the medals at about the same, and the scholarship at
1,000/. The amount sub,,cribed would not cover those ex-
pense,,, but there was little doubt of the sum being speedily
realised.
St. Martin's Church having undergone the necessary
cleansing and reparation in the interior, will be re-opened for
Divine service on Sunday next.
CAUTION TO TRADESSIEN.—FoncEn.BILLS.—A Polish
Jew, name unknown, has lately been obtaining a quantity of
goods
from various tradesmen at the Last cud, by means of
hills of exchange which have turned out to be forgeries. Mr.
Calisper, No. 88, Aldgate, is a recent sufferer. The Jtw
lately resided in Plymouth, is 28 years of age, 5 feet 10
inches high, red hair and whiskers, ruddy complexion, and
had a paralytic stroke lately, which injured one of his eyes.
INCREASE OF ATTORNEYS,-173 persons have given
the required notices of their intention to be admitted as at-
torneys of the Court of Queen's Bench next Michaelmas
Term. The average number of attorneys who are annually
admitted to practise in the courts of law at 'Westminster el-
ated* GOO.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The Cotton market at Liverpool was dull yesterday, but
no change to notice in prices, although the buyers have a
considerable choice of samples. The sales were about 4,000
bales, all to the trade.

There. are many points in the Annual Report of the Com-
mittee of the General Shipowners Society which are worth
notice and comment, as occasion may serve. That the
shipping interests are liable to burdens and restrictions
injurious to the whole bony, is an established fact. Thus
they are crippled in the exercise of that skill and industry so
lcrgely possessed by them, and rendered less able to enter
into a competition with the foreign shipowners. The
Committee call upon the shipping classes of Great
Britain to co-operate together, and obtain a removal
of those restrictions of a heavily disqualifying
nature: and certainly the best tours:, in the opinion of most
persons in the City connected with shipping, is, that all par-
ties interested should lend a hand to obtain justice. But there
can be little doubt the Ministers will take up this matter at
the earliest convenience. And as Mr. G. F. Young antici-
pates that for one or two years, at least, the shipping interest
of this country will have a full tide of prosperity in conse-
quence of the inc•-eased demand fur freight, by reason of the
Corn and Sugar Bills, there is amst ample time for the ship-
owners of this country to lay before Ministers their present
grievances, and for Lord John Russell to frame remedial
measures.

There are not any late Colonial arrivals announced in the
City this morning.
We have the tbllowing return of the number of emigrants
arrived at Quebec up to the 25th July last :
Cabin. Steerage.
From England 653
From Ireland
From Scotland 0 0
From German• 0 0

Total
Previously reported

12 1,511
321 23,252

Total...
To same period last year

Increase in 1845 — 4,172
Comparative statement of Arrivals and Tonnage at this

Port :

_
Vessels, Tonnage,
27th July, 1815 •• • 904 334,149
•.• 00000
27th July, 1846 747 273,473

Less this year
There have been some further sales of Consols for Money
and the Account this morning, by which the price for the
former have been reduced 95%, and the latter to 953/4. Busi-
ness in all the tunds has been animated this morning. The
Reduced Three per Cents. have been sold at 96%; the New
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. at 97s ; India Bonds at
250 ; Exchequer-bills at Bs. to 9s. premium ; and India Bonds
at 16s. premium. Bank Stock is quoted at 208 to 209.
In the Portuguese Bonds there was an improvement this
morning to 44, but the quotation has just dropped 1 per cent.
There have been continuous sales of this stock upon Dutch
account, the reason why is not accurately known. The
Converted Three per Cents. are at:46. Spanish Three per
Cents. remain at 36%. Mexican Stock is dull at 23%; and
the Dutch Two-and-a half per Cents. at S:OA.
In the Railway Shares and Scrips not much is passing to-
day. Prices are pretty stationary, except for the London
and Birmingham, which reached 230 early to-day, but are
now at 229.
BRITISH FUNDS.

CLOSINC
PRICES,
209
961 i
95%

ONE
O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock .. 208 209
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 961/4
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 95
New Three-and-a•Quarter.per Cent. Auras. 07 1.4
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, Is6o .. 10 7-16 %
Ditto. 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. 1014
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 1-16
India Stock . .. 258
India Bonds, 1,0001. .. .. 16
Ditto, under 1,000/. .. 22
South Sea Stock .. .. • • • • • •
Ditto Old Annuities 95%
Ditto, New Annuities 94%
Consols for Account • • • • .. 95,4
Exchequer Bills. 1 ayd. 1 ty d.
1,000/. 9 12 8 12 9 pm. 9
500/. 9 12 8 12 9 pin. 9
Ditto, Small .•.. 912 812 9 pin. 9
ONE CLOSIN
O'CLOCK. PRICES
89%
83%
3 N
23%

10%
104
10 1-10
258

22 p

9M4
94%
95%

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, New, 1843 ..
Equador Bonds ..
Mexican Bonds, Old, 5 per Cent
Portuguese Four per Cent
Ditto, for the Account ..
Ditto, 3 per Cent ..
WARN
e4panish Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Passive Bonds .. • • • • 514
Ditto, Three per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-halt per Cent .. 59%
Ditto, 4 Der Cent. Certificates .. 94%
BUSINESS CLOSING
PAID. DONE AT
PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen.. .. 15 83 8........ 8
Amber., Notting., Boston, and

.. 23h
.. 43% 43•

.. .. .. 113 q

PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.

113►4
25%
5 >8

Eastern Junction 2%.... I%Y. •••• • • • •
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 ....
Bristol and Exeter .. .. 75 .... ........ . 87
Buckinghamshire 425. % di5....... % dls.
Caledonian .. 20 .... 15%
Cambridge and Oxford .. 1%..'..
Chester and Holyhead 27% ••••• • .. • • 26,,,
Churnet and Blythe .. .. 2 .... .......... 1%
Direct Northern .. .... 1%
Eastern Counties 141. 1b5..... 23% • • . • • • 23%
Do. l'erpet., 5 per Cent. No. I. 61. 13s. 4d. • . •• ..
Ditto, ditto, .. .. ...No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. .......... p
Ditto, York Extension 105..... 21 ........

East Lincolnshire 1 4 :
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. 50 .... 73% ......., 7315,
Ditto s Shares •10 .... • is
Ditto New IA Shares.. 12% 17%. 17%
Edinburgh and Northern 10 ...; 91A
Edinburgh and re. th .• • , , 3 .. 3
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester ..
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) •25 .... 281,4 2814
Great North of England . ..100 ....235 230
Ditto, New .. .. 15 ... • ... ' 5014
Ditto, New .. . 13.6 • • 19 .. • • 18%
Great-Western .. 85 • ...155
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 10 .• .. 24 ..........24
Ditto, Fifths .. 20 .... 31 •• • .... 34
Lancaster and Carlisle 43 .......... 66
Ditto New 5 .......... 12
Leeds inlet Bradford .. • • .. 26 • • 69%
Leeds and Carlisle ..........
Leicester :mu indlOrd 2.25..... dis dis.
Leicester, Taniwortli. &e. 425. •• .. % di5..... %dl
Live:T.. :Bauch., & Newc. Junct. 2t .... 2IA . 24
Loudon an I tirmingliam . ..100 ....230 229 ..• 228
Ditto, Quarters *. •
Ditto, Fittlis 2 .... 26 ....
Loudon and Blackwall 16/. 13s. 4d. 8% • •. • • 8;4
London and Brighton 50 • • . G 5 ..... •••
London and Croydon .. .. 13/. lbs tid.•• .... •• •
Ditto, Guarant, Five per Cent. 9 .... 10
London and Greenwich .. 121. 15s. 42. 9 .
Loudon and South-Western —4l/. 68. 10,1•• • 75 ••••• • •• ••
Ditto, New „ .„ .. 17%.... 27% 26-X
London and York .. • • • •
London, Salisbury, and Yeovil .., 2% ••
31anchester and Leeds .. .. 82 •• .. ..........
Ditto, Fifths 3 •• 11% •• ••• • • •
Ditto Extension .. 425. •• 3 13• ••. ••
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 - • •
Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) • • 5 •• •• 15Y: •• ....... •
Ditto, Quarter Shares (It .. 5 .... 159 „„ „
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) .. 1 .• 10 %.... . . . .
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .... 1 p „ „
Midland .. —lOO 139 140%,•.•.-
Ditto, New .. 24 •• .. 37% ........
Newcastle and Darlington Juliet. 25 •
Ditto, New
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 15 .• ........
Norfolk • • .. •• 20 •• • • 277/9 %• •
Ditto, Extension .• .. 2 .... ......
North British .. .. 25 .• 39>4 •• •.

15 1,4
151/4
101,13
1 p
140 e
37

2S
27'11
2
39X,

1414
4
P
54
1 dis
19

Ditto, Ilalt Shares .. 814 •• ........
Ditto, Carlishe Extension .. 11A ....
North Staffordshire 425. •• • • p
Oxford,Woreest.,& Wolverlimptn. 12q .... 8
Portsmouth I ,iruct •• 314 •• • • •• .•
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 4'2s. •• • • 1 dis
Scottish Central .. . 12 .... 19
Seottish Midland .. 10 .... 7
I,hrewsbury and Birmingham .. 31g 3 3
Shropshire Union .. 425..... die .74 die

.Midignd 425. .... 31 5,6
South Eastern and Dovor 33% .... 41%► ........
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RAILWAY COMMITTEES

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
There were no Railway Committees this day in their
Lordships' House.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
CO! AND WA.T.7371.7"0.11,D.
GROUP LXXII.
The Committee to whom this Bill is referred consists of
the Hon. E. Yorke (chairman), Colonel Thomas Wood, Sir
L'. Le Marchaut, Mr. A. Smith, and Mr. Brown.
Counsel for the promoters, Mr. Sergeant Murphy, Mr.
Talbot, Q.C., Mr. Hope, Mr. Poneonby, and Mr. Welsh.
On the petition cf the scripholders and shareholders of the
Cork and Waterford, Mr. Sergeant Wranghani and Mr.
Murphy, Q.C., appeared for those parties.
Mr. Sergeant WRANGIIAM stated to the Committee that the
ground of opposition on the part of h is clien ts had been removed
by a satisfactory explanation from the promoters of the
scheme. It appeared that at a meeting of the proprietors
there had been 52,000 scrip shares polled, although origin-
a:ly there were only 40,000 shares allotted by the Company.
This increase was accounted for by the fact of an amalgama-
tion which had taken place with the Cork and Youghal
Railway Company, who held more than the surplus number
of shares in the Cork and Waterford Railway, by virtue
of the agreement made for the carrying out the said amal-
gamation. The petitioners, therefore, withdrew all opposition.
Petitions against the Bill of Cooper Penzose, Esq, Alex.
Deantry, Esq., and other proprietors of land on the line,•were
called upon, but no parties appeared on their behalf. The
Committee then proceeded to the formal evidence (the Bill
having passed the House of Lords).

Mr. T:ualoT, QC., then opened the case on behalf of the pro-
moters; he stated that the line would commence near St.
Patrick's-bridge, in the city of Cork, terminating at Water-
ford, and would accommodate, amongst others, the towns or
places of Cork, Cove, New Glanmire, Glanmire, Cloyne, Car-
rigtohill, Middleton, Fermoy, Glanworth, Mitchelstown,
Rathcormac, Castle Martyr, Killeagh, Youghal, Lismore,
Cappoquin, Tallow, Dungarvan, Stradbally, Kilmacthomas,
Bontnahon, Tramore, and Waterford, embracing a popula-
tion of 200,000 souls, exclusive of the agricultural districts.
The line of railway would unite two of the largest cities in
the south of Ireland—Cork and Waterford—and would also
be the medium of direct communication with all the harbours
along the south coast, securing by its junction with the
Waterford and Kilkeuny and Waterford and Limerick lines,
now in progress of construction, an important connexion
with the counties of Kilkenny, Tipperary, Limerick,
and the midland counties generally; while, by its
junction with the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow,
and Dublin Railway (which had received the
sanction of Parliament in the present session), and by means
of the South Wales Railway, it will afford the most certain
and rapid communication between the south of Ireland and
Lon don, the diet once being 55 miles shorter than by the Dublin
and Holyhead route. The proposed line would also, by means
of the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway,
complete a coast communication between Dublin and Cork.
The line also embraced the valuable mineral districts of the
south of Ireland, more particularly those of Stradbally and
Bonmahon ; the importance of which might be understood
by considering the amount of annual increase in the produce
of copper ore from the Knockmahon mines since 1836. Not-
.withstanding the great impediment which want of com-
munication opposes to the full development of its resources,
in 1836 there were raised 3,588 tons, value 33,1661.,
and 1844 upwards of 10,000, value 75,0001., and
which affords employment to from 1,600 to 2,000 people.
A direct and rapid communication will also be opened between
this district and Cove, the great naval arsenal of Ireland,
to the obvious advantage of the Government of the country.
There is no competing scheme. The support of all the large
landowners is aflbrded to the undertaking. The Bill has passed
the House of Lords, having received the unanimous assent
of the Committee, after a minute and lengthened investigation.
The districts traversed by the proposed line would be bene-
fited by a better and cheaper conveyance for grain, cattle,
and other articles of export, as well as for coal, timber, and
iron, and the numerous articles of import. The internal
communication for lime, sand, salt, seaweed, and other
articles, would also be materially benefited. The fishing
interest would also partake of the advantages of the line.
By means of the branch to Fermoy, communication would
be oper:ed with the northern parts of the county of Cork, and
the great military depot of the south of Ireland,
which contained accommodation for 14 field-officers,
169 officers, and 2,816 non-commissioned officers and
privates, with stabling for upwards of 150 horses. The
length of the main line was 78 miles 8 chains. The
Fermoy branch was 18 miles, and the branch to Tramore 1
mile 16j, chains. The Bill had passed the House of Lords,
and the principal landowners upon the line had petitioned
in favour of the scheme. Having stated these facts, he
would pro.:eed to call evidence as briefly as possible.
Several witnesses were then called who gave general evi-
dence in favour of the line.

Mr. Beatnish, C.E., engineer to the line, stated that the
steepest gradient was 1 in 70, that there were several
curves of 20 chains radius, a tunnel of the length of 1,470
yards proposed to be made through a favourable strata, and
the total estimate for the construction of the line was
1,500,000/., which was ample.
_

The CHAIRMAN then declared that the preamble of the
Bill was proved.
The several clauses were then agreed to, and the Bill was
ordered to be reported.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

(THiS DAY.)

HOU:JE OF COMMONS.

The SPICA/LEX took the chair at Twelve o'clock.
The Lords' ameniments en the following Bills were
agreed to
Brighouse Severing, Drainage, and Lighting.
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway (Oldham Branch).
Norfolk Estuary.
WexforA Harbour Improvement.
CORPORAL PUNISHNIENT.
Dr. BOWRING presented a petition from Manchester,
pra}ing the total abolition of fl Tging in the army and navy.
SMALL DEBTS BILL.

Mr. JOHN PARKER presented a petition from Bury
St. Edmund's, praying that the Small Debts Bill might pass
this session.

REDUCTION OF DUTIES.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented several petitions for a
repeal of the malt tax and the reduction of the duties on tea.
CHANNEL ISLANDS.
Dr. BOWRING wished to inquire whether the Commis-
sion for the inquiry into the state of the criminal law in the
Channel Islands, could be extended to the municipal and civil
law ?

Sir G. GREY said that after much inquiry and consider-
ation it had been deemed better to await the result of the first
inquiry before they entered on the second, as the one might
very much interfere with the other. It was decided, there-
fore, to receive the report of the first Commission, but after
that it was fully intended to extend the inquiry to the other
branches of the Channel Islands law.

WEXFORD AND WATERFORD RAILWAY.
The Bill for this line was read a third time and passed.
ECCLESIASTICAL PECULIARS.
. _

Mr. NEWDEGATE rose to complain of an order in Council
which had been made for the abolition of peculiars on the recom-
mendation of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. A Bill on this
subject had been introduced early in this session, but it was subse-
quently decided that it should not be proceeded with without
notice. He was therefore exceedingly surprised to learn after-
wards, that, in consequence of this recommendation, an order
in council had appeared in the Gazette, abolishing these pecu.
Lars. He had thus himself been deprived of property which
had been vested in his family since the reign of Edward HI.,
and had been deprived of rights of his parish church, on which
he had spent several thousands in enlarging and improving it.
He would defy any one to assert that either he, or any of the
preceding heads of his family, had been guilty of any impropriety
in the exercise of those rights, and wished to ask whether there
was any intention to carry this determination of the Council
into full effect ?

Sir GEORGE GREY said that the Hon. Gentleman
was mistaken in supposing that this order would have the effect
of transferring these peculiars from the present proprietors
to the jurisdiction of the superiors of the several dioceses, but
not of abolishing them, though that consequence might also
follow. By the 6th and 7th Victoria, chap. 10 the power was
given to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to make this change.
'their powers were not so extensive under this Act, as those
which succeeding Bills had conferred, and would not, as a Bill
would, deprive the owner of anything more than the spiritual
jurisdiction.
In reply to a question from Mr. HENLEY, who stated
that his Bon. Friend had an impression that he was deprived
of the pecuniary value, as well as of the spiritual jurisdiction,
Sir GEORGE GREY aid, that the powers of the Com-
missioners, or of the Council, only extended to the spiritual
jurisdiction, and only affected the pecuniary privilege, so far as
the one was involved in the other.